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For the ninth year in a row, Hope College psychology students have earned regional recognition for excellence in research.
Papers by two teams of students will each receive Regional Research Awards in May from the Midwestern chapter of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology. It is not only the ninth year in a row that Hope students have received the honor, but the third consecutive year that at least two projects from Hope have been recognized.
Senior Kim Boelkins of Ada, senior Megan Kleinheksel of Zeeland and junior Krista Mehari of Grand Rapids have been honored for their paper "The Relationship of Self-Esteem, Parenting Practices and Gender to Externalizing Behaviors Among Latino Adolescents," based on research conducted with Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis and Dr. Patricia Roehling. Junior Nova Hinman of Portage and senior Ross Knoll of Grand Haven have been honored for their paper "Forgiveness Through Altruism: The Emotional and Physiological Impact of Suppression and Reappraisal Responses to a Real-Life Offense," based on research conducted with Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet.
The students will receive their awards during the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, being held in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday-Saturday, May 1-3. The students' papers have earned two of only 21 of the awards being given by the chapter, and were chosen from among 337 entries.
The Psi Chi national honor society was founded in 1929 to encourage, stimulate and maintain excellence in scholarship, and advance the science of psychology. Psi Chi has chapters at more than 1,000 senior colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Since its founding, the honor society has registered more than 500,000 members.
Psi Chi chapters are grouped within six regions: Eastern, Midwestern, RockyMountain, Southeastern, Southwestern and Western. The Midwestern Region includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Hope's chapter of Psi Chi was chartered in 1965.
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Build and customize your own action bot, a figure that you could move around, pose and show up its personality. These freeform action figure are designed and created by toy designer Wayne Losey (KidMechano).
Wayne Losey began his career as a comic book creator and illustrator making character design, visual storytelling and content development. He started his illustrious toy career as designer for Kenner Toys in 1993 and since then, he has been designing and sculpting for more than 20 toy and entertainment brands, ranging from action figure brands like GI Joe: Sigma Six, Spiderman, Batman, and Star Wars to Transmedia interactive properties like Pokemon and Beyblade.
Now Wayne Losey has his own company - Dynamo Development Labs, an IP and concept studio that provide strategic creative solutions for the producers of toys, games and branded entertainmentgames. He started to use his CAD skill and online 3D printing service provider Shapeways, Ponoko and Sculpteo to make his project: ModiBot.
ModiBot is modular, upgradeable, figure kit with highly poseable, snap-fit, ball joint construction. It was started as an exploration into the possibilities of 3d printing construction toys and delivering them on-demand.
ModiBots are a creative framework for creating poseable characters, but it's meant to be built upon like a skeleton," says Losey. "We also want to put the ability to create 'content' into a user's hands. ModiBot is ultimately a tool for that."
Modibots are delivered in small 3D printed body pieces. You can then assemble them to create many different poses with character. The company started with the baseline build system and then added accessories and body styles over time. They has designed a series of tools, accessories such as dinosaur, spider, robot so you can add more impressive poses for your figures. Up to now they have created more than 700 parts.
"3D printing is an extremely sustainable business model. There's no over-purchase of inventory and subsequent mad rush to sell that inventory and invest it back into the next batch," Losey says. "Like many software businesses, it's a constant beta mentality, where it's tweaked until it works."
But Losey faces also some challenge of using 3D printing for production. First of all the surface finish of plastic is not as smooth as injection molded parts. "A lot of people don't like the 'unfinished' quality of the prints, they feel a bit grainy or fuzzy, because its laser-fused bits of nylon," says Losey. Secondly, it takes almost 10 days to get his parts 3D printed via 3D printing service company. For people who are used to walking in and buying something, this is too slow. He thinks this method could only be accepted by niche consumers who are willing to spend time waiting for an unique personalized product.
But still, people loves the project and 3D printed customize action bots. Each 3D printed figure cost about $15~$26 which is almost the same as retail price of massive produced action figures in the market. Losey says their sales are expected to be doubled by end of the February.
(Images credit: Wayne Losey)
Posted in 3D Printing Applications
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314159 wrote at 5/18/2013 5:29:20 PM:
Here's the problem with 3D printing though. You're trying to sell these, but I could remodel them and print them today on my solidoodle. I think the future is selling the STL files to people for them to print, and just putting up with a certain amount of piracy.
Dante Russell wrote at 3/21/2013 4:50:27 PM:
How do I buy some
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[from Chapter Two, section 17 of my book, Biblical Catholic Answers for John Calvin; pp. 145-148 (complete) ]
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Shall we recognise the Apostolic See where we see nothing but horrible apostacy? Shall he be the vicar of Christ who, by his furious efforts in persecuting the Gospel, plainly declares himself to be Antichrist? Shall he be the successor of Peter who goes about with fire and sword demolishing everything that Peter built?. Shall he be the Head of the Church who, after dissevering the Church from Christ, her only true Head, tears and lacerates her members? Rome, indeed, was once the mother of all the churches, but since she began to be the seat of Antichrist she ceased to be what she was.
( [Institutes] IV, 7:24)
And what year did this momentous event take place? Isn't it interesting that Calvin wants to make this sort of definite assertion, while never specifying the date when it supposedly occurred. Rest assured, so Calvin tells us, that Rome (Babylon the Great) has fallen. Yet we know not when. Is that supposed to impress any reasonable person on either side of the sad debate?
To some we seem slanderous and petulant, when we call the Roman Pontiff Antichrist. But those who think so perceive not that they are bringing a charge of intemperance against Paul, after whom we speak, nay, in whose very words we speak. But lest any one object that Paul’s words have a different meaning, and are wrested by us against the Roman Pontiff, I will briefly show that they can only be understood of the Papacy. Paul says that Antichrist would sit in the temple of God (2 Thess. 2:4).
Paul writes about the Antichrist, but never argues that the Church will be completely overtaken by him. He also states in the passage cited above, that he will proclaim “himself to be God":
2 Thessalonians 2:3b-4 [RSV] . . . the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
No pope has ever claimed that. If Calvin thinks otherwise, it is easy enough to document it. But he doesn't. If all "proof" means is bare assertion with no documentation, then anyone could prove anything by simply proclaiming it. In context, all of this seems to occur, too, not long before the Second Coming:
2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming.
As we know, it has been almost 500 years now since the "Reformation" began and here we still are, with probably a good deal more time to go before the end. I see nothing in the Bible about the Antichrist reigning for 500 years. But I see things about three-and-a half and seven years, in the book of Revelation.
Calvin's scenario is refuted on those grounds alone. He appeared (like Luther) to expect a Second Coming very soon, and the destruction of the papacy. He and his followers have been severely disappointed on both scores. The Catholic Church is alive and kicking, now, as it was, then.
In another passage, the Spirit, portraying him in the person of Antiochus, says that his reign would be with great swelling words of vanity (Dan. 7:25). Hence we infer that his tyranny is more over souls than bodies, a tyranny set up in opposition to the spiritual kingdom of Christ.
How does this prove that he is the pope? Calvin merely assumes what he needs to prove, which is not solid argument.
Then his nature is such, that he abolishes not the name either of Christ or the Church, but rather uses the name of Christ as a pretext, and lurks under the name of Church as under a mask. But though all the heresies and schisms which have existed from the beginning belong to the kingdom of Antichrist, yet when Paul foretells that defection will come, he by the description intimates that that seat of abomination will be erected, when a kind of universal defection comes upon the Church, though many members of the Church scattered up and down should continue in the true unity of the faith. But when he adds, that in his own time, the mystery of iniquity, which was afterwards to be openly manifested, had begun to work in secret, we thereby understand that this calamity was neither to be introduced by one man, nor to terminate in one man (see Calv. In 2 Thess. 2:3; Dan. 7:9). Moreover, when the mark by which he distinguishes Antichrist is, that he would rob God of his honour and take it to himself, he gives the leading feature which we ought to follow in searching out Antichrist; especially when pride of this description proceeds to the open devastation of the Church. Seeing then it is certain that the Roman Pontiff has impudently transferred to himself the most peculiar properties of God and Christ, there cannot be a doubt that he is the leader and standard-bearer of an impious and abominable kingdom.
How so? Have popes claimed to be eternal or omniscient or omnipotent or omnipresent or outside of time? Did they claim to have created the world (etc., etc.)? Those are the "most peculiar properties of God and Christ" and so anyone claiming to be God would have to make some allusion to them. They would talk, in other words, as Jesus did. But this has never happened. Thus, Calvin is flailing away, producing empty words that have no content or application to the matter at hand. Calvin has not proven to the slightest degree that the Antichrist will be a pope or collection of popes.
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HTMS Narathiwat arrives at the Sattahip
Two Royal Thai Navy ships that spent 140 days
patrolling waters off Somalia returned to Sattahip last month after an
error-free, and otherwise uneventful, mission.
The HTMS Similan and HTMS Narathiwat arrived at the
Sattahip Naval Base Nov. 28 with much more pomp-and-pageantry than
greeted the navy’s maligned first mission last winter. Unlike the muted
January return of the Similan and HTMS Pattani, last month’s ceremony
was attended by top military officials, including Chief of Defense
Forces Thanasak Patimaprakorn.
Thanasak said the mission would be remembered in
history for the Thai navy’s cooperation with the international task
force working to prevent Somali pirates from operating in the Gulf of
Aden. The mission, he said, showed the world the Thai navy’s talent and
potential and its willingness to participate on the international stage.
The Thai task force deployed 368 men, including a
navy SEAL team and Bell helicopter group. While the Similan, a supply
ship, and the Narathiwat, a battle cruiser, partook in plenty of patrol
missions, they saw little real action.
Navy officials said the ships engaged in 830 ship
escorts, including two Thai fishing boats. The only break from the
routine patrols was one water rescue and just one encounter with actual
In August, the task force thwarted the attempted
hijacking of the MT Namibia II 70 miles off the Yemeni coast. The Thai
Bell helicopter with six crewmen was sent to the Liberian oil tanker,
which was under attack with rocket-propelled grenades. The air forces
drove off the pirates.
The ships just missed another interdiction two days
earlier, when the MV Thor Harmony, a 194-meter bulk carrier operated by
Bangkok’s Thoresen & Co., called for an escort after being frightened by
Somali pirates attacking a nearby oil tanker.
Both navy crewmembers and their families were glad to
be back in Sattahip. Master Sgt. 1st Class Chalerm Noikaew, 32, said the
return was especially thrilling, as it was his first chance to see his
son, who was born while he was away.
Spirits at the ceremony were generally higher across
the board than in January, after the first Somali task force mission was
deemed largely a failure.
That much-ballyhooed first mission managed a dramatic
rescue of 23 crew members of a Thai fishing boat hijacked by Somali
pirates off the coast of Yemen Nov. 3, but failed to free 27 Thai
fishing boat crewmembers hijacked and held hostage since Christmas Eve
2009. They remained hostages until mid-April, three months after first
task force returned home.
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Hey Duncan --
HIV and CSA. Welcome to the club (a long read, but wtf):http://www.malesurvivor.org/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=427314&page=1
PM me any time. At 20+ years, I suppose I'm one of those "long term progressors". imo, though yes, the cycling helps physically and mentally (used to be a runner, one of those who'd cry uncontrollably after a 5K or 10K), it's not a panacea.
My two cents'. Take what you like...or none of it ;-)
Your CD4s are like an alarm system that alerts the CD8 cells (police, essentially) to respond to infection. Normal is 500-1600 or about 40% of your lymphocytes. HIV disables/destroys the alarm system and there's reduced immune response to infection. HIV doesn't care if you're a marathoner or if you sit on your fat bum eating crumpets!
First line of defense is to disable or destroy the HIV "bad guys". Your viral load is an indication of how many bad guys there are. Ideal is "undetectable" which only indicates the limits of the screening system. Current limitation is about 50 copies per cubic mm of blood. A newer assay gets it down to about 5 copies. A more reliable indicator is the CD4%, less subject to short term variations. Breakpoint is about 17%.
Typically, my barometer has been based on how I feel instead of the numbers. But my numbers got really bad, the evidence being the number of infections (fungal, shingles, etc.) and increasing fatigue.
I can't speak for the UK, but the CDC here likes to see HAART (highly active antiretroviral treatment) start at a count of 350 and, at the latest, a CD count of 200. Ugh...I started a protocol this year at 33 and 2.4%. But I'm now undetectable and the CD4 is rising, slowly.
And, y'know Duncan, it's just information to have. If you want someone's unsolicited (probably useless and patronizing) opinion, ask your auntie! (No offense; she's probably a delightful woman). Naturally, if you're not feeling any adverse effects yet, I can understand why you'd be reluctant to start meds. If you're inclined - lol...probably not! - you might want to find out what your HIV genome is and options for treatment when/if the time comes. Mine is a once daily combination therapy and I had only mild, temporary side effects that lasted a few weeks. Trick was to become completely obsessive about sticking to my dosing schedule - hell, after years of working to overcome OCD? wtf? - and not missing even a single one. Repeatedly starting/stopping any treatment, however, is a bad idea. HIV becomes resistant more quickly. Put another way, it's best if you're either in or out. A case where all-or-nothing is actually a GOOD thing.
One inexpensive, clinically-proven alternative is Selenium (200 mcg):http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6623631.stm
I've used it for years, since the study was published, along with the usual multivitamin routine.
Love the Hellraiser puzzle box, btw
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October means apple cider season is here until Christmas, when Tom and Gekee Wickham close down their Cutchogue farm stand for the winter.
But for the next few brisk weeks, workers at Wickham's will be in the barn behind the farmhouse off of Route 25 on Wickhams Creek at 8:00 a.m. every day, making cider from apples and pears. According to farmer Tom Wickham, the best cider is created by just the right mixture of the juices from different types of apples blended with pears.
Wickham prefers a mixture of Gala and Macoun apples.
"We started to plant apples right after World War II," he said his farm, family run by gernerations of Wickhams.
The initial crops were small and provided the raw product for cider sold on the stand before the Wickhams expanded their apple crop considerably in the 1960's. Today, the crop is so plentiful that Wickham is supplying major cider producers like Nassau County's Jericho Cider Mill with apples.
The cider sold exclusively at Wickham's Farm Stand is made with a 110-year-old cider press. Wickham swears by his machinery.
"Vintage equipment that is well maintained and used properly lasts a long time," he said.
The press in Wickham's barn was originally owned by Irwin Billard, a fellow Cutchogue farmer. Billard's Farm was located on the Main Road on land that is now home to the King Kullen Supermarket.
"The house and barn were in the exact spot where the grocery store is now," Wickham said.
When Billard stopped making cider 55 years ago, the Wickhams bought his press and proceeded to dismantle it so the equipment could be relocated to Wickham's potato barn, where it was reassembled piece by piece.
"And we are using it right now," Wickham said.
The cider press is a clever and simple piece of farm equipment that reflects the purity of the beverage it creates. The process is straightforward. The apples and pears are pressed until a liquid is formed. Then the liquid apple juice is either pasteurized or treated with ultra violet light to make sure all bacteria and other contaminants are removed, then it is bottled and sold.
Wickham said he prefers the ultra violet light technique since, unlike the pasteurization process, it does not heat the liquid and alter the flavor of the cider.
Apples were introduced to the North Fork by its early European settlers, who were more interested in making hard cider — a light alcoholic beverage — than they were in eating an apple a day to keep the doctor away. Cider left to its own devices will ferment within a week, so Wickham guarantees his cider for seven days.
Long before our now famous North Fork wineries were drawing crowds to the area, cider was standard fare on many farms where it was a homemade product consumed by the farmers who sometimes made their own presses.
"My brother makes his cider using an automobile jack to create pressure to squeeze the apples," said Richard Wines, discussing cider from Winds Way, his South Jamesport homestead on the bay where he grows his own apples.
Although apple cider production has remained a relatively low-key operation on the North Fork, the delicious beverage plays a large part in the scheme of things out here as the "un-wine" drink of the town.
"It is a mainstay of the fall agritainment season," said Joe Gergela, executive director of the Long Island Farm Bureau, noting the importance of the entertainment aspects of local agricultural operations.
Gergela said that apple cider is a huge draw to the area along with pumpkin picking, corn mazes, haunted houses, and wine tasting — not only at Wickham's but at local suppliers like the Cider Mill on Route 25 in Laurel.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
WWII Special Forces Memorial in Sweden
The OSS NORSO Group memorial in Lien as it is today. PHOTO: Mats Hurtig
The only memorial in Sweden to the memory of a WWII Allied special forces unit has just been refurbished. The background to this unique place is explained in this previous post.
Lien is a tiny place, but look on the map for Krokom, the main town in the municipality, and you will find the area. I reckon that still today, if you ask around in Lien, you will find one or two people who as kids experienced the dramatic day when foreign paratroopers landed. At first they did not know if they were German or Allied soldiers...
PHOTO: Mats Hurtig.
Thank you, Mats Hurtig from Krokom, for contributing these photos!
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RJI to assist in research and development of online and mobile voting tools for Missouri’s military and voters overseas
Mar 2, 2012
‘Media’ doesn’t just mean journalism. So ‘Media of the Future’ doesn’t just refer journalism of the future. This highlights an RJI program that exemplifies that idea.
From Reynolds Journalism Institute
A $740,000 grant from the Department of Defense Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) will provide for the development of online and mobile applications for ballot delivery but will not allow for any form of electronic return of voted ballots in an election. In her application for the grant, Boone County Clerk Wendy Noren proposed to collaborate with researchers from the University of Missouri’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, College of Engineering, and the Truman School of Public Administration to research and develop outreach, education and online systems.
“I am extremely grateful to Dale Musser at the College of Engineering and Keith Politte from the Reynolds Journalism Institute for sharing a vision for this project to provide a permanent solution to the barriers military and overseas voters have always faced”, Noren said. “The University has committed to providing a long term cost-effective solution for local officials that will benefit thousands of our most at-risk voters each federal election.”
Previous studies have found that more than 30 percent of the nation’s military and overseas voters had difficulty voting in the 2008 Presidential Election and, in some cases, did not have their votes counted. The traditional voting methods available at the time required weeks or months for voters to submit applications, receive their ballots and return them. Their ability to vote was further complicated by reliance on foreign mail systems or delivery to inaccessible locations such as submarines. More…
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam may or may not push directly for some kind of move to school vouchers next year on Capital Hill.
But there will almost certainly be legislation to that effect, possibly with State Sen. Brian Kelsey of Germantown leading an effort he has made in several previous legislative sessions.
And Haslam has no intention of backing away from what has been an aggressive political model for continuing to shake up long-held boundaries and assumptions about public education at the state level.
It has been two years since Haslam took office and sponsored legislation removing any cap on the number of charter schools in Tennessee. The state run Achievement School District is about halfway through its first school year of operation.
And later this month the special school district for schools in the bottom 5 percent statewide in terms of student performance will name 10 more Memphis schools it will take over in August.
Haslam met with about 40 leaders and participants of the Memphis Teacher Residency program last week at Union Avenue Baptist Church.
One topic of discussion was whether it is necessary to first fix the problems of poverty that children often bring to school or whether education reform can occur concurrently.
“The reality of your students’ lives is they come to school every day with a whole boatload of problems,” Haslam said. “While you’re up trying to teach algebra or history or whatever, there are a whole lot of other things going on. There are people that say you can’t fix education until you fix poverty.”
Several people in the group said they had been overwhelmed by those kinds of problems.
“I feel like that’s a defeatist attitude,” he said. “We’ve been working on poverty for a long time. I think if we’ll work on education with that same diligence and not ignore the poverty then I think we can make a real difference.”
The changes to public education at the state level are most evident in Memphis, which already has the most charter schools in the state and whose schools compromise both the majority of the state’s bottom five percent in student performance and all but two of the eight schools currently in the Achievement School District.
“How much money follows the child? Who qualifies ...? I think those are a couple of the big questions that we’ll have to answer.”
– Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam
Memphis has the most private schools in the state, and increasingly those private schools are blurring the boundary between public and private education with cross training of public and private school teachers in the county as well as the region developed and hosted by The Martin Institute on the campus of Presbyterian Day School.
The Memphis Catholic Schools system includes Jubilee Schools in parts of the city with the highest poverty rates and with students whose parents ordinarily couldn’t pay tuition. They attend with help from private donors.
During her tenure as superintendent of Catholic Schools, which included the opening of the Jubilee schools, Mary McDonald repeatedly defined the school system as one that was not private in its approach or philosophy.
It was a year ago this month that Haslam formed his task force on vouchers, which are being called “opportunity scholarships.”
The group’s report to Haslam, released Nov. 29, the day before his trip to Memphis, mentions the possibility of permitting public as well as private schools to take voucher or scholarship students across public school district lines or outside a student’s attendance zone or assignment within a district.
The group, which included Kelsey as well as McDonald, who is now a national education consultant, also recommended that private schools should be required to accept the scholarship or voucher as payment in full for tuition – no option to charge additional tuition.
The group did not make a recommendation on whether the state funding backing the vouchers should be the state share of its Basic Education Program funding along with the required local funding match or just the state share.
“How much money follows the child?” Haslam asked. “Who qualifies – is it just low-income kids, low-income kids in poor performing schools – a combination? I think those are a couple of the big questions that we’ll have to answer.”
Haslam said there should be income qualifications and that the move to vouchers shouldn’t be a pilot program but should have a broader application.
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The New England Compounding Center announced the recall on Saturday. The company said in a news release that the move was taken out of an abundance of caution because of the risk of contamination. It says there is no indication that any other products have been contaminated.
The Food and Drug Administration had previously told health professionals not to use any products distributed by the center.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there are now more than 90 confirmed cases of the rare form of fungal meningitis. The outbreak spans nine states and has killed at least seven people.
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18. NPR secures President Clinton interview as Troopergate breaks, but instead of asking if he abused his office, they ask Clinton why the troopers would be disloyal to him (1993).
On December 20, 1993, The Los Angeles Times and The American Spectator broke the story that Arkansas state troopers said then-Gov. Bill Clinton had used them to secure sexual liaisons with women, NPR treated it much differently than Nina Totenberg’s charges against Clarence Thomas. With a Democrat in the hot seat, caution and dismay took over.
On the December 21 All Things Considered, NPR’s Mara Liasson relayed Hillary Clinton calling them “trash for cash.” and “outrageous, terrible stories and attacks on her family.” Anchor Linda Wertheimer asked “What do we know about these troopers? I mean, how believable, how unbelievable are they?” Liasson underlined they were out for money and revenge: “They both acknowledge that they’re interested in writing a book about their story and getting money for it. They’re also represented by Cliff Jackson....one of the president’s bitterest enemies.”
The next night, Liasson and Wertheimer interviewed President Clinton. Instead of asking him if the allegations were true, Wertheimer asked why the troopers would be so disloyal: “We know these men have been aided and advised by people who are political enemies of yours, but we also know that these men worked very closely with you for a long period of time. Why do you think they’re doing this?” Clinton denied he’d abused his office and said “I just don’t think I should say any more about it.” Wertheimer then asked why he made calls to old trooper buddies to keep tabs on the tattlers: “I wonder why you did that?” He declined to answer: “I just don’t want to – don’t want to do anything to prolong this.”
Neither did NPR. Wertheimer changed the subject to how Clinton was at “58 percent in the polls” and had an “up-and-down” first year. “Is this just the nature of trying to govern in the ‘90s or do you think it’s something about you that causes it to happen?” She grew even softer, telling Clinton his election was “a personal milestone for many people of my age,” and she was up in the middle of the night thinking “I wonder if President Clinton wakes up at three o’clock in the morning sometimes and thinks ‘I am the president’?”
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Somers officials have long discussed whether buying Heritage Hills’ water and sewer operation could save money for its customers. Now, a town-commissioned study suggests such a takeover would indeed cut the cost of day-to-day operations.
Still, the consultants’ conclusions, delivered in October and focusing largely on technical matters, have not persuaded Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy, who wants more answers to a host of questions, largely legal and financial.
"I see nothing at this point to convince me there would be any substantial savings to the residents [if the town acquired the utilities]," she told Patch.
The town’s consultants, Woodard & Curran, would likely agree on the need for further study, broader in scope. A national engineering, science, and operations company with an office in White Plains, Woodard & Curran evaluated the physical facilities at Heritage Hills and analyzed financial aspects of the deal. But the report stopped short of estimating some future costs, for instance, or saying whether the plant’s price tag, reportedly $18.2 million, made sense.
Murphy said she planned to seek proposals from other firms that can help fill in such blanks.
Councilman Richard Benedict agreed.
“There are some technical questions raised in there that still have to be answered," he said.
The answers, he said, will impact the town’s financial and legal decision-making.
"You’re going to need a lawyer and a finance guy to come up with a plan," Benedict said.
Except for the extra zeros in its purchase price, the water-and-sewer complex is just another used car you might like to buy. It’s been around some, has a bit of wear and tear and you’ll likely be putting money into it, even as you’re paying off the loan that bought it.
In the case of Heritage Hills, that “used car” was built in stages over the last 30 years, with pieces added as the development grew. It drives more than 360,000 gallons of drinking water each day to some 2,600 homes and a handful of commercial customers. It also carries away to a treatment plant about 280,000 gallons of wastewater, all of it over a network of PVC and asbestos-cement pipes.
Kicking the tires, a prospective buyer worries over what could go wrong and how soon. “We don’t want to get stuck with a lemon,” Benedict told his fellow town board members at a recent meeting. He stressed the importance of the system meeting real-world demands, not simply design specifications.
Assuming a sound physical plant, financing must also be considered, and it’s not always as simple as it might look.
At a quick glance, for example, a town takeover would cut revenue needs of the sewer/water facility by 43 percent, a savings that could seemingly be passed along to customers. In reality, however, that savings, as Woodard & Curran notes, drops to a meager 2.6 percent when the cost of paying off the system’s purchase price—likely financed by a decades-long bond—is factored into the equation.
Moreover, much of the reduction in operating cost results from the sewer/water service’s abrupt freedom, as a government-owned entity, from paying real estate taxes. That amounted last year, the consultants point out, to $728,723 in school taxes; $148,652, county taxes; $64,523, town; and $26,106, fire, or in each case roughly 1 percent of the real estate revenue the jurisdiction collected.
As the questions—legal, technical and financial—continue to grow in complexity, Somers will seek outside help.
"All of the answers have to be addressed by someone sharper-penciled than I," Benedict said.
Murphy does not have a target date for requesting further consultant proposals, but she would "like to get it moving."
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Kim Skovbye Biography
Kim Skovbye is a composer, songwriter and poet. He was born in 1955, and grew up in an artist´s environment in central Copenhagen.
Kim began to play guitar at an early age, he has grown into a multi instrumentalist that plays numerous instruments such as violin, bouzouki, mandolin, flutes, cello, keyboards and the celtic harp, that has become his chosen instrument.
In 1970 Kim began his professional career in the Danish group Utopia, and was an active member of the lively Copenhagen folkmusic environment, they had at the time, performing in the most popular clubs and venues.
In 1971 he formed a trio with the singer and performer Herman, together with the late harmonica virtuoso Egon Ågård. They performed in the walking streets and toured all over Denmark for several years. In 1978 they released the album ”The Road Out”, they broke up shortly after. However, 16 years later, in 1994, they met again and recorded the children’s album ”Circus Millipede”.
In the 80´s Kim travels frequently to Ireland, Wales and Brittany; the old Celtic countries. Here he finds a very vibrant musical tradition, that later has become a never ending source of inspiration. However, Kim does not play Celtic music, he says; ”The Celts are better at that”. He makes music in the Scandinavian tradition, where especially the light and the landscape help form the colour of his compositions.
Back home Kim is involved with drama and children`s theater. Besides this he works as a music and drama teacher. In 1986 he releases his first soloalbum, ”Shadowboxer”, that is a mixture of modern and traditional instruments. Kim also records the Danish rockalbum ” Eje Veje Væk Med Barsebaek”. Profits from this album support the newly established ”Next Stop Nevada” project.
In 1988 Kim was offered several filmprojects and these projects were the beginning of a close relationship with the syntheziser musician Klaus Schønning. The result of their partnership can be heard on the albums ”Scandinavia” and ”Heartland”, where Kim had the possibility of using his skills on a variety of unusual string instruments. Together with Klaus Schønning´s beautiful arrangements a very special musical universe is created. It sound stretches from the Middle Ages up to the visionary music of the present and reaches into the future.
Another two instrumental albums are released the following years, ”Aftermath”, that features the singer Annisette from Savage Rose and ”Wayfarer”, that is solely an acoustic album with two Celtic harps. On this album Kim plays with the German harpplayer Gabrielle Reger.
In 1994 he records the children’s album ”Ask and Riana”, that is a collaboration with Thorstein Thomsen, the author of children´s books. It is a musical drama based on an old Celtic tale, that includes singing, music and dialogue.
In 1998 the fairytale is re-released on CD.
In 1994 Kim begins working with Ida Kleeman. She was the lead singer of the famous Danish band ”Bifrost”.
In 1995 ”Mountains of Fire” is released. It is a single CD in support of children caught in the war in ex-Jugoslavia.
”Heart`s Friend” is the title of their next album, that is released in 1996.
In connection with ”Culture City 1996” in Copenhagen the duo is asked to write a new carneval song, this is presented at a big carneval party at The National Museum of Copenhagen. The title is ”I am
The Carneval” and the song is released on cassette and CD.
The harp is the instrument of fairytales and in 1997 Kim releases the CD ”Here and Back Again”. Being the subtitle of Tolkien`s book The Hobitt, the album is of course inspired by the book with the same title.
The music follows the plot in the book; Bilbo the Hobitt, who reluctantly sets out into the world together with the wizard Gandalf, the company of dwarfs, elves and trolls who all grow with the task.
In 1997, after 15 years of playing with different musical partners. Klaus Schønning, Peter Brander and Skovbye decide to form a trio ”The North”. The trio works together writing, composing, recording and producing. ”The North” begin as a hobby project, all the members were deeply involved in their own careers. After intensive demo recordings the trio is signed by Warner Music in 1998 and in 1999 they release the album ”The North”. The CD contains a number of songs and 3 instrumentals ones. A highlight for the band came soon after, they were chosen to perform at the official opening of the new bridge to Sweden. They played 107m over sea level, while acrobats were swinging in the wires of the bridge. Both the Swedish and Danish royal family took part in the offical opening.
The next couple of months the band held several concerts both in concert halls and in open air. One of the latter in one of the bigger parks in Copenhagen, was recorded and released as the bands second album ”The Fullmoon Concert”, which was a co-operation between Warner Music and The Danish National Radio. The concert was broadcasted live nationwide on The Danish National Radio. The album was released in the Autumn of year 2000.
Besides all the activities with ”The North”, Kim takes time off to record ”Eventide” – Lullabies for all ages. A project where Kim chooses to be in the quiet mood in a new project for a solo harp. It is an idea he has had for many years and it is the first album where he plays on his new special harp with metallic strings. The harp is made specially for him by Camac Harps in France. On this album stillnes and music melt together – a bridge between night and day. A large part of the music is composed in Pilion, Greece with the blue Aegean Sea as his only musical companion. The CD is released in April 2000.
”Songs do not stop
life just goes on
dreams may become clearer
and get wingspan”
With these notes on the cover, the duo Kleeman and Skovbye release the album ”White as Wide”, in 2001. The duo goes against the normal trend and records in Danish. In the months prior to the release Kim writes the music for the dance theater performance ”Blote” by Camilla Stage, insprired by the Nordic mytholygi.The Swedish nyckelharp virtuoso, Olov Johansson, plays with Kim Skovbye at these performances. The partnership is a happy one and Olov Johansson ends up playing on ”White as Wide” adding a refined Scandinavian tone to the music. The album is well received by the press and the radio.
The same year ”Heartland” is re-released, digitally remastered with a new cover, a new tracklisting and a new remix of the song ”Planisphere” featuring the fantastic voice of Cy Nicklin. In the meantime the album has been released in 25 countries, where the interest for Kim`s harpplaying is steadily growing.
Tolkien is in the signs of the times; there is a renewed interest for the album ” There and Back Again” from 1997. In the autumn of 2001 Kim once again enters into the universe of Tolkien and ”The Ring vol. 1” is released in November 2002. The album covers the first half of the trilogy ”Lord Of The Rings” and is a return to Skovbye`s more acoustic side filled with flutes, dulcimers, mandolins, bouzoukies and a variety of harps. Apart from Kim Skovbye himself, Klaus Schønning, Ida Kleeman, Olov Johansson and others appear on this album that receives 5 star reviews in the press.
Referring to his interest in Tolkien, Kim is interviewed by The Danish National radio, where he says: ” Tolkin is with his books the spokesman for the good in all people. It will always win over the dark powers we all possess. He gives us so many parts to play: Elves, Hobitts, Wizards etc. He inspires you to think differently and think big. I am a very happy man, if I in the same way with my music can inspire people and bring a little more magic into their lives”.
In November 2003 ”The Ring vol. 2” is published. At the same time the last film in the trilogy ”The King Returns” has its opening night. Kim is invited to perform at Tivoli’s concert hall where the opening takes place. The illuminated Tivoli gardens twinkle just like a fairy tale as the royal family together with the actors and the director Peter Jackson walk through Tivoli on this first night.
A few days prior to this event Kim could be seen on the national television where he performed for freezing Tolkien fans, some had camped in tents outside for up to a month to be the first to get tickets for the opening night. The show was sent 6 times due to the huge interest from the media. The interest for the music and its story is enormous and Kim is interviewed in the largest daily papers, telling about his visits to the Tolkien family and their accept of his music.
In January 2004 the journalist Erik Kramshøj from Denmarks National Radio makes a series of programmes about Kim and his musical career. Going back to the early seventies where Kim had his musical début at the concert hall of the national radio with his band called Utopia. The concert is played on air in its full length. In the Spring of 2004 an old wish comes true, Kim is asked to write the music for the first Danish produced Omnimax film together with ”The North”. The film is called ”On the Way to Mars”, the opening night is June 2004 at the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen.
The band performs surrounded by planets, moons and stars and receives a standing ovation from the board of directors and the audience. It is a happy reunion of a band that have not performed for 2 years. The film is a success and is on show for over a year. The music is available on www.the-north.dk www.the-north.dk, ”A suite for Mars” duration18 min. and is a ”must” for North fans. 2005 is a year of concerts for Kim. He plays in numerous churches giving moving musical performances based on his Tolkien production. During the year ”The North” perfom with the legendary rock group ”Procul Harum” at a fully packed concert hall.
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Mugen 2 rev. B (SCMG-2100)
The second revision of the Scythe Mugen 2 cooler (SCMG-2100) was released quite a long time ago but we haven’t been able to get a sample to test until now. The box is designed in such a way that your eye focuses on the letter B which denotes the new revision.
The kit includes a new back-plate and screws with nuts.
The heatsink is almost the same as the heatsink of the first revision.
The connecting pieces between the heatsink sections have become wider.
There are no grooves for heat pipes in the cooler’s base. Perhaps they will be implemented in the third revision. The cooler’s sole is ideally finished and flat.
The key innovation of the new Mugen 2 is the Flip Mount Super Back-Plate 2 with support for LGA1156 processors. The Ninja 3 is installed in the same way. You attach the steel fastening plates to the cooler’s base:
If you are installing the cooler on an AMD processor, the fastening plates already have threaded holes. For Intel LGA775, LGA1156 and LGA1366 processors you use the same fastener and insert figured pins into the openings and fix them with nuts.
Now you don’t have to unfasten the default back-plate from the mainboard because the cooler’s back-plate wraps the latter (and the back-plate of the Ninja 3 just lies above the default back-plate).
The cooler is secured with screws on the reverse side of the PCB. It is easier to turn the cooler upside down and put the mainboard on it.
The pressure is high and the steel fastening is absolutely reliable.
The Mugen 2 should be oriented in such a way that its heat pipes ran across the CPU (as in the right photo):
In this position the top temperature of the hottest core of our LGA1366 processor was 3°C lower than when the heat pipes ran along the heat-spreader. Things may be different with AMD processors but we didn’t check this out.
The Scythe Mugen 2 revision B comes at a recommended $60 but its retail price can be as low as $50.
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There’s one gift that’s more valuable than anything bought in a shop; more appreciated by its recipient than anything wrapped in pretty paper; and sure to be remembered for years to come. The best part: giving it won’t require a trip to the store, harm the environment, violate workers’ rights, contribute to the commercialization of our holidays, or clutter the recipient’s home.
What is this fabulous gift? Your time.
This holiday, offer your presence—instead of presents—to friends and family. You can even make it formal by giving the recipient a handmade certificate for specific services, such as the following:
* Provide a free night of babysitting for a friend’s kids
* Help an elderly relative with household chores or repairs
* Spend an afternoon (chatting, having coffee, or walking through the park) with someone special
* Teach someone something you know—like how to cook, do yoga, or speak a foreign language
* Offer your expertise with a task, be it fixing someone’s computer, doing their taxes, or hemming a garment
* Take a niece or nephew on a cultural excursion, such as a trip to a local museum
* Help someone declutter their closet, basement, attic, or garage
* Cook someone a delicious meal, like breakfast-in-bed, an elegant brunch, or a special dinner
* Help with a home improvement project, like painting, tiling, or planting a garden
* Offer to run errands for someone who has trouble getting around
* Take a day off from work, to spend exclusively with your spouse or child (let them pick the day’s activities)
* Offer your creativity—help someone design a web page, redecorate their living room, or put together a scrapbook or slideshow of their favorite photos
If your cup of generosity runneth over, go a step beyond and offer your time to someone you don’t know—by participating in a volunteer project. The possibilities are endless: you can serve meals at a soup kitchen, walk dogs at an animal shelter, build houses for low-income families, mentor inner-city youth, etc. To find out how you can help, contact national nonprofits or community organizations. Alternatively, use an online service like VolunteerMatch.org: input your location and interests, and you’ll receive information on opportunities in your area.
Even if you don’t offer your time in a specific way, simply being there for your loved ones—instead of being at the mall, the market, or doing a million holiday prep tasks—can make the season infinitely more special. Rather than shopping, spend these December days at home with your family: bake cookies, make cocoa, sing carols, and enjoy some classic holiday books or movies together.
Sure, it’s easy to run to the mall and buy presents for those on your gift list; but all too often, they’re stashed away, quickly forgotten, or surreptitiously returned, donated, or re-gifted. The gift of your time, on the other hand, is priceless—and much more likely to have a positive impact on the recipient’s life.
I’d love to hear your ideas on giving your time this holiday season!
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Did I say ‘start to finish’? After reading through the first few chapters of the manual, it was clear that setup for Choirs would not be a simple affair. It was also clear that reading through the entire manual wouldn’t necessarily give me any better grasp on using the app as a whole. So instead, I decided to take a stepped approach: read a few chapters, get the hang of those techniques, then read a few more.
As previously mentioned, the first thing I had to throw out was the concept of plug-and-play. Once the application is installed, the similarity to other sample libraries ends. In order to really take advantage of this app, a second application is used, namely WordBuilder. WordBuilder is the application that allows the user to specify what text is to be sung, as well as the duration and dynamics of the piece. For those who may not grab the concept, it is easiest to think of WordBuilder as an intermediary app – it sits between your input device (usually a MIDI keyboard controller, sequencing or scoring app) and the Choirs Kompakt player. As note information comes in, WordBuilder maps the appropriate sample to each note, taking into account what syllable you wish to play, the duration, the intended sampleset (is it a Bass or a Tenor singing “Aaaaah”), etc. In a way, it is like a MIDI processing unit, adding additional ‘control’ values to incoming notes, and sending out a more complex signal.
After plowing through the first few WordBuilder chapters, I decided it was time to get Choirs setup with Logic Pro, my sequencer of choice, so I could really put it to the test. The manual for Choirs goes into detail describing the possible configurations, depending on what operating system and sequencing or scoring application you wish to use. In short, there are three basic setup styles: Stand-alone (the most commonly used setup) works in OS X and XP, with any sequencer or keyboard that sends MIDI on a specific port. MIDI loopback connections are required for most of these configurations. The second setup is VST MA (VST Module Architecture) and works under Windows or Mac OS X for users of Cubase SX or Nuendo (versions 2 and 3). Lastly, they offer MFX plug-in support for users of Sonar., For me, I would have to go the standalone route, diving into Logic’s Environment to configure the loopback ports…or would I?
On one of my web surfing expeditions, I recalled seeing a Logic and Choirs template referenced on the East West forum. After some sleuthing, I found it on the FAQ page, and shall link to it here for your future reference. It was a HUGE timesaver and got me up and running with Choirs and Logic Pro in less than 10 minutes. Similar setup assistance is available for Cubase, Sonar, ProTools, Digital Performer and Finale. EWQL Symphonic Choirs Setup FAQ
So after flying through that setup, I fired up the SATB template in WordBuilder, which loads the appropriate Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass presets, loaded four instances of Kompakt in the Logic SATB template, each with its respective multi sample set (more about those in a later installment), and went back to the manual to come to grips with the heart of Choirs: WordBuilder.
WordBuilder consists of two primary components: a text window, where the user specifies the text to be sung, and a duration window, where the user specifies the duration of each syllable. In addition, the user can use one of three types of text input: 1) standard spelling, 2) an easy-to-learn phonetic alphabet, and 3) VOTOX, a phonetic alphabet designed by EW specifically for choirs. I quickly tested out standard spelling and found the results to be less than satisfactory, and since I don’t know the phonetic alphabet, I figured it would be just as easy to learn VOTOX. There’s a handy reference sheet in the manual, so memorizing VOTOX isn’t necessary unless you’re typing a whole lot of text. I quickly ran through some of the included “Latin Phrase” presets – these are VOTOX transcriptions of common Latin phrases used in classical choir contexts. VOTOX yielded a much more convincing and accurate sound, so on to the next step.
Unfortunately, the lyrics for Pie Jesu are not among the Latin Phrase presets, so I would have to craft my own text for my first Opus. My first attempt was rather pathetic, so I wont even bother posting an MP3. The syllables transitioned on the incorrect notes and it sounded like a bad virtual choir kind of singing what I wanted them to…but not very well. It was clear that I was dealing with an amateur choir here, and we would need a lot of practice before we were able to sing the whole piece from start to finish. My skills as engineer and composer would be put to the test, and WordBuilder was going to take some significant wrangling to achieve the desired result.
…to be continued. Next Episode: WordBuilder Unleashed
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The developer of the new World Trade Center unveiled the designs Thursday for three gargantuan skyscrapers at ground zero that would serve as steppingstones to the Freedom Tower and, with it, remake the New York skyline. Each building has a different famous architect--Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, both of London, and Fumihiko Maki of Tokyo--and a distinct design. Known simply as Towers 2, 3 and 4, they would occupy three parcels between Church and Greenwich Streets. Together with the...
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With former senator Rick Santorum suddenly attracting attention in Iowa, it’s time to dig up some of our previous reporting on Santorum.
In 2006, as Santorum campaigned his way to an 18-point loss in his Senate reelection race, the New York Times reported that he…
…distributed a brochure this week as he worked a sweltering round of town hall meetings and Fourth of July parades: “Fifty Things You May Not Know About Rick Santorum.” It is filled with what he called meat and potatoes, like his work to expand colon cancer screenings for Medicare beneficiaries (No. 3), or to secure money for “America’s first ever coal to ultra-clean fuel plant” (No. 2)….
He said he wanted Pennsylvanians to think of him as a political heir to Alfonse M. D’Amato of New York, who was known as Senator Pothole for being acutely attuned to constituent needs.
So … the third-ranking Republican leader in the Senate wanted to be known as a porker, an earmarker, and Senator Pothole.
Santorum had already dismissed limited government in theory. Promoting his book, he told NPR in 2006:
One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right. You know, the left has gone so far left and the right in some respects has gone so far right that they touch each other. They come around in the circle. This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.
He declared himself against individualism, against libertarianism, against “this whole idea of personal autonomy, … this idea that people should be left alone.” And in this 2005 TV interview, you can hear these classic hits: “This is the mantra of the left: I have a right to do what I want to do” and “We have a whole culture that is focused on immediate gratification and the pursuit of happiness … and it is harming America.”
No wonder Jonathan Rauch wrote in 2005 that “America’s Anti-Reagan Isn’t Hillary Clinton. It’s Rick Santorum.” Rauch noted:
In his book he comments, seemingly with a shrug, “Some will reject what I have to say as a kind of ‘Big Government’ conservatism.”
They sure will. A list of the government interventions that Santorum endorses includes national service, promotion of prison ministries, “individual development accounts,” publicly financed trust funds for children, community-investment incentives, strengthened obscenity enforcement, covenant marriage, assorted tax breaks, economic literacy programs in “every school in America” (his italics), and more. Lots more.
With It Takes a Family, Rick Santorum has served notice. The bold new challenge to the Goldwater-Reagan tradition in American politics comes not from the Left, but from the Right.
At least Santorum is right about one thing: sometimes the left and the right meet in the center. In this case the big-spending, intrusive, mommy-AND-daddy-state center. But he’s wrong that we’ve never had a firmly individualist society where people are “left alone, able to do whatever they want to do.”
It’s called America.
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Alfred de Musset lives. Though the French romantic never saw his epic Lorenzaccio presented upon the stage during his lifetime, European audiences are familiar with its dramatized history of 16th-century Florentine politics and Lorenzo de Medici's calculated murder of his distant cousin, the tyrannical Duke Alessandro de Medici. Michael Kahn and playwright John Strand have reimagined the foreign classic and summoned the spirit of de Musset to life with a new English adaptation that simmers with bloody intrigue and pierces with sharp, moral drama.
And with Lorenzaccio, the Shakespeare Theatre introduces two formidable Broadway talents to the local stage: Jeffrey Carlson as the stealthy assassin Lorenzo, and Robert Cuccioli as Alessandro, an unjust Duke who rules with no regard to the will of his countrymen. The republic of Florence has crumbled, and the Medicis, wealthy bankers with powerful allies, have risen to power, backed by the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor. Alessandro led a ruthless monarchy, beckoning young virgins to his lair in the middle of the night. Bedecked in ducal garments and his notorious shirt of armor, Cuccioli swaggers around his stately bedroom like an Italian cowboy, high on his own power. With the city of Florence ruled by such corrupt government, Lorenzo (also known as the reviled Lorenzaccio) aligns himself with the Duke in order to earn his trust as a loyal liege -- only to conspire against his own cousin with preemptive force.
Killing cousins: Carlson and Cuccioli in Lorenzaccio.
Carlson's Lorenzaccio isn't the stiff literary hero proposing that justice is best served bloody, but rather a three-dimensional poet and philosopher who aspired to achieve greatness, a tormented soul that twitches with conviction and rattles with unsettling anguish. His performance is colored by a youthful patriot clinging to sky-high ideals of freedom and infamy, and his posture suggests a forced apathy in the presence of authority. As presented by Carlson, it is a brilliant initiation for Lorenzo's American debut.
Both Carlson and Cuccioli are the gravy on Kahn's production, a muscular tragedy that outlines a turbulent Italy with remarkable efficiency. The air is thick with conspiracy and heavy with the burdened despair of a democracy that is no longer free, but Strand's version captures the essence of de Musset's story without the pages and pages of untidy narrative expected from a messy moral and political play. Ming Cho Lee's widely versatile set is reminiscent of the Italian square, and Kahn masterfully shuffles his players on and off the stage in magnificent regalia designed by Murell Horton.
The palette of rich characters originally drawn by de Musset in 1833 comes teeming with life -- from Ted van Griethuysen's warm portrait of the rational philosopher Philip Strozzi (the patriarch central to Lorenzo's spiritual revelation), to Chandler Vinton as an emphatic Countess Cibo. And Michael Rudko has the right blend of slithery and sanctimonious sentiment for her brother-in-law, the power-hungry Cardinal.
Lorenzaccio has often been described as "unstageable. " But thanks to Strand's lucid interpretation, under the surefooted guidance of Kahn, de Musset's masterpiece is now an accessible, timely work with a heart heavy with betrayal.
While de Musset might be surprised to see his sprawling manuscript adapted for the American stage, Joyce Carol Oates wrote both the play as well as her 2003 novel The Tattooed Girl at the same time. A prolific littérateur nominated thrice for the Pulitzer Prize, Oates has crafted the ambitious story of Alma Busch, an uneducated, ignorant tramp from rural coalmining country who becomes the unlikely assistant to Joshua Siegl, an esteemed and sickly author who has penned a lauded book on the Holocaust. The roles of both teacher and student commingle in a relationship that is as confounding as it is unsettling.
Joshua fails to realize that Alma harbors vile resentment toward her Jewish employer, or that she is so desperate for money she is willing to betray someone she secretly trusts. Anyone who has witnessed the impoverished despair of small Pennsylvania townships -- the coal communities of Ashland, Frackville, Mt. Carmel, Aristes, even Centralia, the abandoned ghost of a town where widespread mine fires rage every day miles beneath the earth's surface -- will instantly profess that too many Alma Busches are raised in these insular pockets of humanity, where outsiders are suspect and locals are hard-pressed to find reasons to trust each other. But in Oates' introspective staged version, too much exposition and artificial dialogue muddles an otherwise startling and important story about the hope for change and possibility of progress.
Still, there are significant contributions to Oates' work, notably director John Vreeke's alluring stage pictures, the kind of theatrical imagery that defines a piece of art at a personal, intimate level. Dan Conway has constructed a striking library set with wide wooden stairs and a towering bookcase, perfectly complemented by lilting melodies from Mark Anduss and oppressive lighting by Colin Bills.
The anti-Semitic dialogue spewed from The Tattooed Girl is uncomfortable and offensive, and probably should come from an actress a bit younger, more seemingly impressionable, and less refined than Michelle Shupe. Still, Shupe presents an impressive -- and convincing -- figure of someone so easily influenced by everyone and everything around her. Michael Russotto imparts a wealth of empathy to his Joshua, aggressively sketching a compelling psychology for the overwhelmed and ailing scholar.
Despite Oates' propensity for drawing complex characters and making light of confusing personal truths, her illogical plotline ultimately cheats her ideas out of a coherent script. The Tattooed Girl often chatters about as a transplanted piece of literature, and while it might make a fantastic, searing novel, it simply doesn't translate into a very exciting play.
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Our Pediatric Neurosurgery Team
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DoctorsOur doctors have completed specialized medical (fellowship) training for operating on a child’s brain, spinal cord or nervous system. They are also board-certified as pediatric neurosurgeons.
|Michael S. B. Edwards, MD
Dr. Edwards is the Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Professor in Pediatric Neurosurgery, and Co-Director of the Center for Children's Brain Tumors. He is also a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a board-certified neurosurgeon and holds a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery and neuro-oncology from the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Neurosurgery. His practice includes a wide range of neurosurgical procedures and treatments, including radiosurgery. Dr. Edwards presently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Radiosurgery and Surgical Neurology.
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Dr. Cheshier is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor of pediatric neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Cheshier is a former recipient of the Van Wagenen fellowship – the most prestigious research award offered to a new neurosurgeon in North America. He was also a Robin and Judith Humphreys Fellow of Paediatric Neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. His main clinical interests are neuro-oncology and epilepsy surgery. His research lab focuses on determining the lineage relationships of brain tumor stem cells and progenitors as well normal central nervous system (CNS) stem cells.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2012
WASHINGTON – Credit unions continue to prove that they offer consumers advantages over banks. According to the latest Bankrate survey, the average monthly fee on noninterest checking accounts offered by a bank rose a record 25 percent. By contrast, credit unions continue to hold the line on checking account fees.
“It’s clear that people today are gravitating toward true value when they’re looking for a financial institution. Credit unions offer that true value,” said Fred Becker, president and CEO of the National Association of Federal Credit Unions (NAFCU).
5 Credit Union Benefits
As consumers ask themselves, “credit union or bank,” they should consider some key credit union benefits:
1. People before profits
At credit unions, members are owners and have a say in how it is operated. In fact, credit unions are governed by a board of directors made up of volunteer members. Members come first, not profits. Instead, credit unions return any "profits” to members in the form of lower fees and better rates.
2. Joining/switching is easy
Find a credit union to join at www.culookup.com. You can apply at a branch or online. Many credit unions have online forms or “switch kits” that make switching a snap. It only takes a few minutes to open a new account and transfer funds. Once your account is established, you can also implement your automatic bill payment options.
3. Low minimum balances and credit union fees
Bankrate reports that the average minimum account balance required of bank customers is $723—up 23 percent over last year—and the average monthly fee has risen 25 percent to $5.48. At most credit unions, you can open an account for as little as $5 and the majority still offer no-fee checking.
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Recent figures show that average rates for credit union classic credit cards are 11.68, as compared with 13.28 at banks. Compare bank rates and credit union rates at www.culookup.com/CompareCURates.
Many credit unions participate in a shared branching network that gives members access to credit union locations in all 50 states. They also offer access to tens of thousands of free ATMs nationwide, including at key 7-Eleven locations.
In addition, deposits in the nation’s federal credit unions are federally insured through the National Credit Union Administration. Credit unions offer a wide range of products, including savings/checking accounts, debit cards, credit cards and auto and mortgage loans, as well as online banking.
The National Association of Federal Credit Unions is the only national organization that focuses exclusively on federal issues affecting credit unions, representing its members before the federal government and the public.
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Clockwise from top left: Richard Perry / The New York Times; Keith Meyers for the New York Times; Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times; Stephen Crowley/The New York Times; Greg Gibson/Associated Press; Associated Press.Clockwise from top left, Representative Anthony Weiner of New York, former Gov. James McGreevey of New Jersey, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York, former Representative Eric J. Massa of New York, President Bill Clinton and former Senator John Ensign of Nevada.
When Rep. Anthony D. Weiner of New York admitted lying at a press conference Monday, Dan Hill, an expert in the role of emotion in consumer behavior, was watching.
The names may change, but the face remains essentially the same.
Politician after politician, in scandal after scandal, faces the cameras with his lips pursed and pulled tight, narrowing them. The chin boss — the fleshy bump above the chin bone — is pushed upward, pulling the lips into an upside-down smile. Add a downward-cast gaze, perhaps a shake of the head, and: Instant Disgraced Pol.
On Monday, Representative Anthony D. Weiner became the latest in a long and unfortunately distinguished line of officials whose faces appeared all over the news wearing an expression that instantly telegraphs powerful-guy-confesses-impropriety.
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York is perhaps the standard-bearer of this parade as he admitted to patronizing high-priced prostitutes.
But President Bill Clinton, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and former Gov. James E. McGreevey of New Jersey, when he announced that he was gay and had carried on an affair with a man, wore it too during their public falls from grace.
Likewise, there were Eric Massa, a former New York congressman who resigned after admitting to an inappropriate exchange with a state aide, and former Senator John Ensign of Nevada, who resigned during an ethics investigation related to his affair with the wife of a former top aide.
To interpret the meaning of that now-familiar face, City Room called upon Dan Hill, the president of Sensory Logic, a market-research firm in Minneapolis that uses facial expressions to quantify emotional response. Read more…
ALBANY — Bill Clinton, who as president signed legislation prohibiting federal recognition of same-sex marriages but has in recent years become a supporter of them, called on Thursday for New York State lawmakers to pass a measure allowing gay couples to wed.
“For more than a century, our Statue of Liberty has welcomed all kinds of people from all over the world yearning to be free,” Mr. Clinton, a resident of Westchester County, said. “In the 21st century, I believe New York’s welcome must include marriage equality.” Read more…
Todd Heisler/The New York Times The ex-president retains his ability to tell a captivating story.
Leave it to Bill Clinton to steal the show — and somehow weave a tale of a steak and a prostitute into a news conference.
On Wednesday morning at Gracie Mansion, Mr. Clinton and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that their respective climate groups, the Clinton Climate Initiative and C40, would merge. Read more…
Photographs by Neil Leifer Former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and their daughter Chelsea, with Steve Tyrell and his fiancée, Karen Pulaski, and others at the Café Carlyle on Thursday.
A call came in to the newsroom on a quiet Christmas Eve day with this little gem:
Seems that the Clintons — that’s the former president, Bill; the current secretary of state, Hillary; and this summer’s Bride of the Century, Chelsea — stopped by the Café Carlyle on Thursday night. They were there to toast Steve Tyrell, the singer who took over when Bobby Short died in 2005. Mr. Tyrell, whom Stephen Holden, a music reviewer for The Times described as “a Burt Bacharach protégé with one foot in New Orleans,” is to be married on Sunday — at the Carlyle, natch — to Karen Pulaski. President Clinton and Chelsea were said to have danced to Mr. Tyrell’s rendition of “The Way You Look Tonight,” from the movie “Father of the Bride,” at Chelsea’s wedding to Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, N.Y., on July 31, according to our tipster.
Mary DiBiase Blaich for The New York Times
Former President Bill Clinton came to a rally in a college gym on Staten Island Friday to lend support to Representative Michael E. McMahon, a Democrat in a largely Republican district who faces a tough fight from the winner of the Republican primary being held Sept. 14.
Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Former President Bill Clinton and President Obama exited Il Mulino, a Greenwich Village restaurant, on Monday.
Updated, 4:24 p.m. | President Obama met former President Bill Clinton for lunch at Il Mulino, a Greenwich Village restaurant at 86 West Third Street, on Monday afternoon after delivering a major address at Federal Hall marking the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and urging Congress to pass stronger financial regulations.
The two men walked out of Il Mulino at 2:20 p.m., after being inside for about an hour and a half.
They smiled and talked during a 15-second photo opportunity, before Mr. Obama got into his limousine. Asked how the lunch went, only Mr. Clinton responded, saying: “It was good. It was Il Mulino, how could it not be?”
What did they have? Read more…
Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art “The Death of Socrates,” 1787, Jacques-Louis David. Though neither a citizen nor alive, Socrates received one vote.
What exactly motivates the write-in voter?
Faced with the decision over whom to pick for the United States presidency, this is the sort of person, after all, who bothers to mail or post a ballot casting a vote for “my cat Ginger,” as one New Yorker did last fall.
Is it disaffection? Puckishness? Sentimentality?
Small insights to such vexing questions can be gleaned by reviewing the final results for the presidential election that have now been compiled by the New York City Board of Elections. Read more…
Amy Sussman/Getty Images The Apollo Theater is featured in a new Zagat’s guide on Harlem.
In an attempt to draw more customers into struggling Upper Manhattan restaurants and go beyond the typical tourist offerings — Sylvia’s, the Lenox Lounge and the Apollo Theater among them — Zagat Survey has published a free neighborhood guide to Harlem and the surrounding areas.
It describes places like Zoma, an Ethiopan restaurant on Frederick Douglass Boulevard; its neighbor, 67 Orange Street, a speakeasy; and Body, a 7,000-square-foot club on 12th Avenue.
Notably, the guide takes an expansive view of Harlem and might have been more accurately called “Spotlight on Upper Manhattan” with listings that go down into the West 90s and far up into Washington Heights. (Admittedly, “Upper Manhattan” doesn’t have the panache that “Harlem” has.) Read more…
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To the Journal editor:
The latest school shooting in Newton, Conn., has once again opened the national debate about gun control. Why do we choose this problem as the focus of our energy?
The cat is already out of the bag. We have exponentially more guns per capita than any other nation. Anyone can and will obtain the weapons needed to shoot any number of people regardless of the laws. The gun control debate simply drives the sale of even more weapons.
So, what are we missing here? A mother sacrificed her life to raise a son with some serious mental health problems.
This is only one of the hundreds of families caring for a potentially dangerous family member. I believe we continue to talk about the guns because the problem of poor mental health care makes us uncomfortable.
The only options such families have are to either abandon their suffering children, siblings, or parents to the street or to a prison system which offers enough punishment to destroy all hopes of a reasonable adaptation to society, but does not offer more than the most rudimentary forms of treatment.
We can and we must improve our assistance to such families. Yes, that means we would have to pay for mental health care with our tax dollars. Oh no, more taxes? Now we are uncomfortable! But wait! We might not have to increase taxes.
We could shift some of the funding for privatized punishment centers to mental health care for seriously ill citizens. That would require a shift from having a "war on" something to developing a program of care for someone. Perhaps we could think of it as an investment in safety and quality of life.
Most people with mental illness are not dangerous, but we do have people with needs for safe containment and focused treatment.
We need to stop pretending that families can and should solve these problems alone.
Dr. Mary Pelton Cooper
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Here are some of the latest features about area people and events.
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Special, November 10, 2010 -- A World War I and II Service Record from the Kenmare area listed the names of 17 men killed in action.
View a copy of that record, with photos.
Posted 9/12/12 (Wed)
Gaining ground . . . The dividing line here between standing wheat
and weeds is a beautiful sight to Ron Jensen, who farms this field
on the south side of the Rockford and Fairbanks township
boundary northeast of Kenmare. Everything above covered by
weeds was underwater last year and earlier this spring following
the wet conditions of 2011, but Jensen said he has gained
at least 60 acres back now that he plans to seed next year.
Overton had nothing to harvest a year ago
because of wet cropland
By Caroline Downs
Two years ago, in 2010, Jerry Overton planted every field he farms northeast of Kenmare. Then he watched as late May and early June rains washed away 30 percent of his crop and transformed cropland into wetlands.
Last year, Overton couldn’t seed a single field. Hundreds of acres were under water and the rest waterlogged.
This year, however, he’s smiling--along with his neighbors--as the 2012 harvest rolls forward.
Overton grows barley, wheat, canola and flax, with 90 percent of his ground planted this year. “We’ve still got a lot of standing water and a lot of wet areas,” he said. “Some of that water and swampy stuff is going to haunt us for a while yet.”
On the other hand, he’s got a product to sell this year. “The barley’s done,” he said. “It yielded well, but not quite as well as expected. We started the wheat [August 16th] with a test weight of 64 pounds and protein at 14.9 percent. That yield should be excellent. And we’ll start the canola after that.”
He has custom combiners working with him during these weeks, instead of sitting on his sprayer to kill weeds like he did in August 2011.
“Ron Jensen and I agreed, we worked harder last year with no crop,” Overton said, describing lessons that came the hard way as fully-loaded sprayers sank and stuck in muddy fields. “We battled water, weather and roads all summer long.”
In fact, Overton and other farmers in the area spent much of the past two summers searching for detours around submerged roads.
He praised the efforts of the Rockford and Fairbanks township boards to make repairs as quickly as possible this year. “They have no money to work with, but they did an excellent job patching up these roads,” he said.
“These conditions were a once-in-a-lifetime event and they stepped forward to take care of it.”
A wet 2011 leads to
success with winter wheat
for Jensen and others
Ron Jensen, who farms in Rockford and Fairbanks townships near Overton, is happy to drive the combine as he pulls a crop off the land he works, especially as he watches the water continue receding this summer.
“Going into planting this year, there was still a lot of water,” he said.
Jensen estimated that he planted about 75 to 80 percent of his fields, finally dried out after two wet summers. He has also gained about 60 acres or so in a field in Fairbanks Township on the border with Rockford, which looks good for next year.
“It’s surprised me how much it has dried up this summer,” Jensen said. “Next year, that quarter may have only 20 acres of water left on it. I’m getting real estate back!”
Jensen planted barley, durum, spring wheat and canola for this growing season. His barley proved to be a good crop, but the quality and yield of his canola was mixed. He’ll be working on the wheat and durum crops next.
Because of conditions in 2010 and 2011, Jensen planted winter wheat for the first time last fall. “It took a disaster to come and force me into it,” he said, adding that friends had encouraged him for years to add the grain to his rotation.
The results surprised him. “I had an excellent winter wheat crop,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like it, the price was good on it, and from what I’ve heard, it was fantastic for everyone.”
Jensen said he was concerned about the open, mild winter of 2011-2012, with little snow cover to protect winter wheat. “But as soon as it warmed up, the crop was up,” he said. He started harvesting those fields July 25th.
110 percent better than
last year for Peterson
David Peterson didn’t mince words as he described 2012 as “...110 percent better than last year.”
The Renville County farmer only planted about 5 percent of his land last year. “This year, we got 90 to 95 percent seeded,” he said. “The difference was pretty dramatic.”
Like Jensen, Peterson tried winter wheat for the first time last fall, with good success on the harvest this summer. He was also happy with his yellow pea and malt barley quality and yield.
“We’re working on canola right now,” he said, with spring wheat to follow.
Peterson, who farms with his son Michael, planted soybeans for the first time, too. They joined a handful of farmers in western Renville County and the Gooseneck of Ward County who have included beans to their rotations in recent years.
“We were going to seed it last year,” he said, adding that he took advice from other soybean growers from the area. “It’s a crop that will be here eventually because the genetics have changed. We like to keep a few new things in our arsenal to make [the rotation] work.”
He said Michael motivated him to try the crop after working for a farmer near Wahpeton who raised sugar beets, corn and soybeans. “He really wanted to plant beans,” Peterson said, laughing. “The next thing he wants to raise is corn, but so far, not on this farm!”
The soybeans have proven to be fairly low-maintenance to this point, according to Peterson. “They’re about two weeks out, maybe longer,” he said. “They’ve podded up nicely and should fill in. Then they’ll be ready. We have high hopes and high expectations.”
Train cars fill, farmers smile
For Carl Zeltinger, general manager of the Italgrani USA North Dakota operations based at Renville Elevator Company in Tolley, the 2012 harvest has been a pleasure. Farmers are coming in with smiles on their faces and trains are getting filled at the elevator.
“A year ago, Renville County only had 15 percent of the crop planted,” he said. “All the farmers are excited to have grain in the grain bins, and we’re happy to get back to our normal grain handling operations.”
Like farmers in the area, Zeltinger was happy with the winter wheat harvest. “It’s almost over and went really well,” he said as he estimated 60- to 80-bushel yields, depending on the fields.
Zeltinger said the majority of the barley crop was making malt quality this year, at 70 percent plumpness and 13.5 percent protein.
“We’re getting going on spring wheat,” he said. “The samples I’ve seen have sure looked nice.”
Canola results from the area has been mixed, according to Zeltinger, with 2000 pounds per acre considered a strong yield. “The yields have been a little lower than what people have expected,” he said. “We’ve seen yields from 1200 to over 2000 pounds. The quality is nice, though.”
He estimated flax harvest would begin in another week, with soybeans, corn and sunflowers to follow. “Soybeans and corn are slowly working their way into the northwest,” he said.
Zeltinger praised the farmers he serves, calling them state-of-the-art as they master new crop types, new equipment and new technologies. “It takes a pretty good mind behind these operations, and the farmers are experts,” he said.
The national news has been dominated this summer by headlines about drought conditions covering much of the United States, with high market prices reflecting those circumstances.
“The markets are pretty decent,” said Zeltinger. “Northern North Dakota probably has the best crop in the U.S. as far as wheat goes, with the rest of the country dried out. We’re fortunate up here to have the crop we do this year.”
“I’ve been on the other side of that,” Overton said, describing his mixed feelings toward commodity prices this year. “The market is good if you have the crop. The market is what it is today because of somebody else’s hardship.”
Jensen agreed with Overton’s observations about the drought’s impact on markets. At the same time, he and other farmers east of Kenmare are still waiting for those last fields to dry out from two years of saturated and submerged conditions in this area.
“It’s farming,” Jensen said. “You roll with what you’re dealt.”
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New and transfer students receive their initial academic advising during orientation. Continuing students meet with a University College advisor, who helps them chart their first few semesters and prepares them to transfer to their degree-granting schools. Students with dual admission will most likely be advised by staff or faculty from their intended schools or programs.
Once students transfer to degree-granting schools, they should meet with their school’s advisors to chart the completion of required courses, discuss post-graduation careers or further educational options, and get help with academic difficulties. Students may be assigned an advisor, but if not, they should ask for one.
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Rémy Baudet (violin), Sayuri Yamagata (violin), Elisabeth Ingenhousz (violin) Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba), Johannes Boer (viola da gamba), Nanneke Schaap (viola da gamba), Ricardo Rodriguez (viola da gamba), Nicholas Milne (viola da gamba), Frank Wakelkamp (viola da gamba)
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A rare treat: no less than 7 CDs with instrumental chamber music by Henry Purcell. In spite of his past and present international fame too little attention has been paid to this part of his oeuvre. This collection offers a great variety: from ‘the Staircase overture’ to voluntaries for organ.
Henry Purcell’s present fame is mainly based on some dramatic works. Dido and Aeneas -, his anthems and numerous songs. In his relatively short life he managed to compose in every genre usual at the time. Well hidden among a vast amount of vocal music lies a relatively small collection of chamber music pieces. Together with Handel Henry Purcell was and is England’s most important baroque composer. He was also an organist and as such left behind remarkable little for his instrument. Pieter-Jan Belder - the keyboard player who also recorded the complete Scarlatti sonatas - combined this with Purcell’s varied music for harpsichord, which includes eight suites. Here (together with) his ensemble Musica Amphion (he) also performs the bulk of Purcell’s chamber music: listen and enjoy.
Click on any of the works listed above for alternative recordings.
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U.S.-Taliban Peace Talks
Revived Afghan peace talks hit their first roadblock on Wednesday, a day after they were announced, as Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his government would not join U.S. talks with the Taliban and would halt negotiations with Washington on a post-2014 troop pact. Full Article
India increases security after Israel, Australia warnings
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said on Tuesday it was increasing security to thwart possible militant strikes in the country days after Israel and Australia issued warnings to its citizens to avoid travelling to Indian cities.
Israel and Australia have issued travel warnings to its citizens based on intelligence inputs on militant strikes.
"We are increasing our level of preparedness to meet any terror threat or terror attack," Palaniappan Chidambaram, the home (Interior) minister told reporters in New Delhi, when asked about the country's security worries.
"Don't present an alarmist picture. We are fully aware of the threats from across the border," Chidambaram said, replying to questions on the foreign intelligence reports.
Australia's Victoria state Premier, John Brumby, cancelled his trip to Mumbai this week after the Australian government issued a travel warning to avoid Mumbai.
Brumby, on a official trip to India, will now stay in Delhi and Bangalore, an Australian High Commission official said in the capital.
Security has been tightened with more checking in shopping malls, government buildings and important landmarks in Maharashtra state and its main city of Mumbai, which goes to state polls in October.
Last week Indian officials said they were in contact with Israel after a television report said Jerusalem had a "pinpoint" intelligence tip-off about Pakistani militants attacking India in the coming weeks.
India is a popular destination for Israeli holidaymakers.
Foreign tourists at two plush hotels and a Jewish centre were among the several targets attacked by 10 gunmen in last November's militant strike on Mumbai, which India blames on Pakistani nationals.
India asked its border forces to increase patrols after intelligence reports said about 300 Pakistan-based militants were trying to sneak into India through the Kashmir border.
Pakistan-based militant groups usually step up efforts to push their members into Indian Kashmir before winter snow blocks the Himalayan mountain passes.
"In case of a terror threat or terror attack our response will be swift and decisive," Chidambaram said on Tuesday.
(Editing by Alistair Scrutton)
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The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, , at sacred-texts.com
isa 24:1Behold, the LORD maketh the (a) earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
(a) This prophecy is as a conclusion of that which has been threatened to the Jews and other nations from the 13th chapter and therefore by the earth he means those lands which were named before.
isa 24:2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the (b) priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
(b) Because this was a name of dignity it was also applied to them who were not of Aaron's family, and so signifies also a man of dignity, as in (Sa2 8:18; Sa2 20:25; Ch1 18:17) and by these words the prophet signifies a horrible confusion, where there will be neither religion, order nor policy, (Hos 4:9).
isa 24:5The earth (c) also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
(c) That is, does not give her fruit for the sin of the people, whom the earth deceived of their nourishment because they deceived God of his honour.
isa 24:6Therefore hath the (d) curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are (e) burned, and few men left.
(d) Written in the law, as in (Lev 26:14; Deu 28:16) thus the prophets used to apply particularly the menaces and promises which are general in the law.
(e) With heat and drought, or else that they were consumed with the fire of God's wrath.
isa 24:10The city of (f) confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter.
(f) Which as it was without order so now should it be brought to desolation and confusion: and this was not only meant of Jerusalem, but of all the other wicked cities.
isa 24:11[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the (g) mirth of the land is gone.
(g) Because they did not use God's benefits correctly their pleasures would fail, and they would fall to mourning.
isa 24:13When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, [there shall be] (h) as the shaking of an olive tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
(h) He comforts the faithful, declaring that in this great desolation the Lord will assemble his Church which will praise his Name, as in (Isa 10:22).
isa 24:14They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from (i) the sea.
(i) From the utmost coasts of the world, where the gospel will be preached as in (Isa 24:16).
isa 24:16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the (k) righteous. But I said, (l) My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
(k) Meaning to God, who will publish his gospel through all the world.
(l) I am consumed with care, considering the affliction of the Church, both by foreign enemies and domestic. Some read, My secret, my secret: that is, it was revealed to the prophet, that the good would be preserved and the wicked destroyed.
isa 24:18And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the (m) windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
(m) Meaning that God's wrath and vengeance would be over and under them, so that they would not escape no more than they did at Noah's flood.
isa 24:21And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall (n) punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
(n) There is no power so high or mighty, but God will visit him with his rods.
isa 24:22And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be (o) visited.
(o) Not with his rods as in (Isa 24:21) but will be comforted.
isa 24:23(p) Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
(p) When God restores his Church, the glory of it will so shine, and his ministers (who are called his ancient men) that the sun and the moon will be dark in comparison to it.
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My question is about the odor that rises when we run water in our bath sink. After a minute or 2 the odor is gone. When I had a plumber here installing a new bathtub I learned that the same smell was in the other pipes too. Pipes were disconnected so I took the opportunity to rinse out the "gook" from that pipe. Plumber said it is an accumulation of drain products that have been used. So, short of pulling out the bath sink pipes, does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can remove that product from the pipes?
We had a similar issue in a tub drain that was draining slow. When we remodeled the bathroom below it, I had them remove the old tub drain pipes on the main floor and put in plastic (in place of the old galvanized). They showed me a cross section of that pipe. It really STUNK...and the opening in the center of the pipe was about the size of a pencil diameter! The rest was just occluded with gunk that was not cleaned out for about 40 years. After that the tub drained fine and no more odd smells when the tap was turned on.
hallo guys,,, I am Garmon... I think Its a P_Trap problem. Does your sink have P_trap? And what are the uses of this bath.??? I means its a small or large...This message has been edited. Last edited by: garmon123,
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September fly-fishing is a mixed bag for me.
The beginning of the month can be difficult fishing on the South Platte River tailwaters I most often frequent.
That doesn't mean you won't get incredible hatches of the tiny trico mayflies in Elevenmile Canyon with the predictable spinner fall that follows it. The down side is the trout seem especially difficult to fool when you drift the same size 22 spent spinner fly pattern over them that worked magnificently just two or three weeks ago.
In South Park the Dream Stream trout get pickier than usual, too, even if you resort to nymphing tactics after they have refused every fly you threw at them during the short-lived trico spinner fall. I ran into two fly-fishers the other day who were scratching their heads about how difficult the fishing had become.
"We were here two weeks ago and the fishing was awesome," one of them said. "We didn't even get a strike today, and nothing has really changed. The flows are the same as they were before. What's with that?"
In addition to this late-August, early-September epidemic of finicky trout, you can almost always plan on a reduction of the water released from both Elevenmile Reservoir and Spinney Mountain Reservoir. That happened around Sept. 1 this year, with close to a 50 percent drop in water volumes released into the Dream Stream and a 40 percent drop in Elevenmile Canyon.
I can usually work around lower water volumes in Elevenmile Canyon, but lower flows in the Dream Stream often disrupt the spawning run of large brown trout that head up the river anytime from now through October. It might also cause some of the resident trout to head downstream into the reservoir.
But there is also good news. Right now is a great time to fish the high country streams. If there is a silver lining at all to this especially dry year, it has to be that the mountain streams opened a month earlier than usual and there is no reason to believe they won't be fishable through September and into October.
Most of what I've learned over the past several decades about fishing the high country is how little I need to carry in the way of tackle. When I first started hiking into the high country streams, I carried a landing net, boot-foot hip waders and a fishing vest loaded with fly boxes, extra tippet and leaders and all the gadgets and gizmos I would need to fish to the most sophisticated spring creek trout.
Now I carry a fly rod, fly reel, a single fly box containing mostly dry flies, one spare 71/2-foot leader tapered to 4X, and a spool each of 4X and 5X tippet. In addition to that hard-core fly-fishing tackle, I also carry some dry fly floatant, hemostats and a nipper.
I still remember that moment of revelation when it occurred to me that most mountain trout are happy enough to take almost any size 16 or size 14 dry fly. A subsurface nymph or wet fly might be required if the water temperature is cold or if I want to catch more or larger trout. But that's it.
My other gear for day trips amounts to a raincoat, some survival gear, wet wading gear for warmer days and lightweight stocking foot Gore-Tex hip waders for the cooler days. In regards to tactics, a stealthy approach to the water coupled with decent, but not necessarily perfect, dry fly presentations is all it takes. The reward is the possibility of brightly colored pre-spawn brook trout, rainbow trout and the ultimate high country treasure -- native cutthroat trout.
And none of this means you can't head back to your favorite tailwater when you hear the blue-winged olive hatch is on or the big brown trout have moved into the Dream Stream.
In fact, the more I think about it the more I realize that the "mixed bag" of September fly-fishing in Colorado may have more to do with an abundance of fishing opportunities.
If the tailwaters are off, you head to the high country. If the hatch is on at your favorite tailwater, you fish it and maybe finish the day out on a high country stream.
It just doesn't get any better.
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By Keturah Gray and Jim Dubreuil
When we were sent out on Monday afternoon to report on the "holdouts" of Hurricane Sandy - those who refused to leave their homes despite New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's mandatory evacuation orders - we expected winds and rain, but thought it was nothing that we couldn't handle.
We had our bottled water, our rain gear, our chips and were ready to tough out the storm with the citizens of Breezy Point, a beach town in Queens on the far end of New York City, and a place where Jim has family.
We were two of the last to arrive over the Marine Parkway Bridge before it closed to the public at 2 p.m. ET, and we joined up pretty quickly with 30-year-old Mary Lepera. She gave us a tour of the neighborhood and explained why she, like so many others, planned to stick out Hurricane Sandy at home: She'd spent her whole life there and wasn't about to abandon her home.
"We're sticking it out," she said. "Even if we have to go up on our roof, we'll do it."
A lot of people kind of felt that they had jumped through hoops for Irene, and this time, they weren't going to do it. And there was just this feeling that the storm was going to be like any other storm that hits the East Coast. It wasn't going to be the Super Storm that had been portrayed - but that's not what happened.
Over the course of the next few hours, though, Breezy Point became a literal lightning rod in the storm, battered by winds, rain and fire. At least 80 homes were destroyed in the beachfront neighborhood and we got caught in the chaos.
The last thing anyone imagines is a fire breaking out. But that's exactly what happened.
Jim DuBreuil: I remember looking out the window around 8:30 at night, and all of a sudden, we just saw this … it seemed like we were in a national forest where you see all those fires with timbers flying around. It was off in the distance and at 8:20 at night, I wasn't thinking this is going to affect us. But as each hour progressed, the storm, the fire was just coming closer and closer and God, you [Keturah Gray] looked at me and said, "We're getting the hell out of here," and I was like, "Yeah, let's go." I got a trash can and we threw in garbage bags and all of our camera equipment in it. The family we were with did the same and we were out the door.
Keturah Gray: I just remember when I first saw that fire thinking we have water on one side of the house, we have a TON of water on the back side of the house, and we have a fire that is inevitably going to get closer because of all of the winds. I was just like, "What do we do? Where do we even begin? Do we take this route or this route?" I was so worried about the people that I knew, because we had been down that beach earlier that afternoon. There were a lot of people in that line of fire, and I just didn't know how they were going to get out.
Jim DuBreuil: I kind of think where we got lucky was the tide started going down. The water was much higher at 8 o'clock and then by 9 o'clock and 10 o'clock it was just easier to get around. Where the water would've been up to our chins, the water was finally at our waist. We put on our backpacks and got our trashcan and headed out of there.
Keturah Gray: I think I was the first one that was like, we need an escape plan, but I also didn't know if I was going to be strong enough to walk through the water.
Jim DuBreuil: Timbers are flying and there's 80 mph winds coming at you as you're going through the waves. You're trying to get through the flood and the fire's behind you and I just remember looking at you and going "don't look back, don't look back."
Keturah Gray: The water was receding, but the fire was becoming stronger. We were walking against the current, which was really hard, and we're carrying a trash can and a lot of other people had babies they were carrying and bags.
Jim DuBreuil: I think it could've been absolutely chaotic and hell on earth at one point, but everyone got together. People were helping each other and going "OK, we're going to get you out." We were moving from one spot to the next. When we got to our first evacuation spot, which was maybe 100 meters away from the first house we were at, I could smell kerosene. They told us there's a gas pump nearby. At that point, the fire has moved and the embers are now coming in to the fire and Keturah looked at me again and was like, "Let's get the out of here." It just seemed the fire was following us. We finally got to a Roman Catholic Church and, for me, that was the moment when I was like, "We're going to be all right. These people are going to be all right and we're going to get out of here."
Keturah Gray: That's when they said nobody can stay. You are leaving this time. And everybody that we were with, for the most part, were happy to hear those words.
Jim DuBreuil: I think it's easy to look at people like this and say, "Gosh, why didn't they heed the warning," but I think these people just love their community so much and they take care of each other, that they just didn't want to leave and they didn't think it was going to be bad and I think they realized that they made a mistake. But again, they could've never predicted a huge fire. The people of Breezy Point will come back and rebuild.Also Read
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1) When to be sure that your database design is perfect?
Your design is never perfect because the business logic and amount of data is always changing. Perfect is difficult to define
I've seen systems that were great on deployment but had poor performance after a few years of data were added. The regrettable trend to treat a database like a black box by some application developers means some databases are deployed with critical tables lacking primary keys or indexes. Perfect to the CIO because they got the application delivered on time and on budget could be a pain in the butt to the developer/ DBA who has to deal with the problems.
Here are some of indicators I would look for which indicate your design is ready to go
a) Extensive use of primary keys, unique keys, foreign keys, indexes, more so on the larger tables ( I only mention this because I've seen commercial products which lack this)
b) Application logic is duplicated as far as is practical in the database with the use of constraints and default values. You cannot capture everything but just knowing that there will always be a value for an entry provides peace of mind.
c) Test, test, test: test from the user perspective on data entry, test from the manager perspective who wants an overview, test from the analyst perspective who wants to see trends
If you find yourself joining 9 large tables which require full table scans in order to find out what work is assigned to a user then maybe you need to reexamine things.
Not everything can be simple but excessive complexity to answer user needs is a hint of trouble to come.
d) do some daydreaming on how the database could and could not be extended. If I need to add a new property to a unit of work how hard is it? Can it be done without table changes? If you are asked to add a new type of work how hard is it. (Work could be a product, a transaction, a case)
e) people and organizations provide hours of work for me. How easy is it to create, edit, de-duplicate and report on them?
f) how many user languages are you supporting? What character sets will be required. If, for example, you intend to support English and Spanish, what happens if the design must be extended to cover French and Italian?
2) Is returning to the data base design to change some issues (like adding new column, delete a column or change data type or add new table or ....) considered as a bad practice or is it normal?
I would say it is normal for an application where the business logic changes frequently or the end user requirements are being added to.
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Northstar, the horse intentionally set on fire near Union City in August, continues to recover from his injuries.
The 6-year-old paint recently underwent his fifth set of skin grafts at the Ohio State University veterinary school in Columbus, Ohio, said his co-owner Jessie Woodworth.
"He's doing well," Woodworth said. "There have been no signs of infection and the first set of skin grafts are already showing signs of growth."
Northstar was soaked in accelerant and set on fire in his pasture in Athens Township on Aug. 25. The horse suffered burns on more than 40 percent of his body.
Police have not yet charged anyone with the crime. The Humane Society of the United States is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible.
"We know police are still investigating this," Woodworth said. "But unless someone talks, I don't know if we'll find out who did this."
Even if someone is convicted of burning Northstar, he or she would probably only have to pay a fine. Animal cruelty is a misdemeanor under Pennsylvania law.
Woodworth said she doesn't know when Northstar will be allowed to come home. He stays at a horse rehabilitation facility in Ohio when he isn't undergoing treatment at Ohio State.
"It's hard not having Northstar home," Woodworth said. "Little Bit, our other horse, really misses him. My husband (Northstar co-owner Bob Woodworth) travels to see him but I can't, I'm still working."
DAVID BRUCE can be reached at 870-1736 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNbruce.
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JOHANNESBURG - Agence France-Presse
New gas discoveries put East Africa on the world’s energy agenda, according to a US study. Planned investments worth tens of billions are even above the gross domestic products of some host countries in the region
Sudanese repair crew work at the Heglig oil facility, after Sudan started pumping oil again from the war-damaged oil field in May. The reserves at East Africa’s coastal region might be 50 percent above those in Saude Arabia. AFP photo
Massive offshore gas discoveries in East Africa are catapulting the region into a major player in the global energy arena, bringing billions in investment that could transform entire economies.
Off the pristine beaches of Africa’s Indian Ocean coast, multinationals have struck gas -- well upon well upon well. Planned investments worth tens of billions exceed the gross domestic products of some host countries, which range from regional power Kenya to impoverished Mozambique.
East Africa’s coastal region, stretching out to Seychelles holds 12.5 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. That’s about 50 percent more than in Saudi Arabia. “The gas discoveries offshore in Mozambique and Tanzania are large and world-class, with potential for more to come, including prospects for an oil leg,” said Duncan Clarke, CEO of oil consulting company Global Pacific.
“These finds will lead to LNG (liquefied natural gas) plants ... and will make the zone akin to the Northwest Shelf in Australia,” which can produce 23 billion cubic meters a year, he told AFP.
Houston-based Anadarko in June announced new finds in northern Mozambique which brought its estimated recoverable resources to up to 1.7 trillion cubic meters.
The company has proposed $15 billion in investments to set up LNG facilities. Mozambique’s GDP last year was $12 billion. Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production in May announced a $1.9-billion deal to buy Cove Energy, whose 8.5-percent stake in the Mozambican fields is currently up for sale.
Two weeks earlier Italy’s ENI, the other large operator in the country’s Rovuma basin, said recent discoveries boosted its recoverable resources up to 1.5 trillion cubic meter.
“It will bring a huge flow of foreign direct investment in the region that would contribute to rapid economic growth in the region,” said Silas Olang, east African coordinator from resources watchdog Revenue Watch Institute. Mozambique expects that within five years, the new industry will account for 13 percent of the economy, already one of the fastest-growing in the world at seven percent last year.
A number of hurdles stand between producers and their potential gas wealth. “There’s very limited infrastructure in place,” said Tim Dodson, vice president for exploration at Norway’s Statoil on the company website.
Statoil and Britain’s BG together have discovered around 453 billion cubic meters in Tanzania.Bad contracts
Mozambique’s Pemba is a good example. The closest city for offshore drillers, it’s 3,000 kilometers north of the capital Maputo. Completely caught off-guard by its mineral wealth, the country also lacks the skilled workforce to set up industries, with only 50 mining graduates a year. Both Mozambique and Tanzania have had to scurry to update petroleum legislation with the new industries. Governments have also come under fire for signing opaque contracts for capital-intensive mega-projects that don’t create many local jobs.
Questions remain how locals will benefit from the multi-billion-dollar industries. While Mozambique is booming, last year its economy created only $400 per person. Corruption is a “big challenge”, said Olang. With production only planned for five years from now, the effect may also take longer than people think, he said.
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Traditional dancing between men and women (i.e. ballroom dancing) is a great way to teach and illustrate Theology of the Body. Such dancing reveals visually with the male and female body what God wants men and women to be as men and women in erotic love.
1) Consent: The man should not try to force the woman to dance with him; he should ask for and have her consent. She shouldn’t have to dance if she doesn’t want to. Of course, it goes both ways; the man shouldn’t have to dance with anyone he doesn’t want to either.
Likewise, a man should not try to force a woman to date him, to be in an exclusive relationship with him, or to marry him. The man must ask her and respect her decision. And no woman should try to force a man into such things either. Love cannot be coerced.
2) Male Initiative: Traditionally, the man should ask the woman to dance. Yes, sometimes women do ask men to dance with them, but it is not the norm. The woman taking the initiative to ask in itself may not necessarily impair the dancing, but it could reflect an underlying predisposition of the man being unable or unwilling to assume proper leadership of the dance (see section on Male Leadership below), which would be a problem.
Likewise, the man should take the initiative to ask the woman out, to ask to be in an exclusive relationship, and to ask her hand in marriage. The man should prove his interest, love, and commitment. If the man doesn’t care enough to ask or can’t even muster up enough courage to ask, then he doesn’t really love her. Cowardice is self-centered and unloving, regardless of whether she says “yes” or “no.” It’s not good if the man is more worried about himself and his pride than about the woman, her well-being, and what he wants to do for her. If a sincere and loving man asks, and the woman says “no” haughtily and cruelly rather than compassionately and gracefully, then the man should realize that he is better off without such a woman, who is unworthy of his love and incapable of loving.
Yes, sometimes women take the initiative to ask men out, but again, it’s not the norm and could cause problems down the road, though not necessarily, for the same reasons as stated above for dance. At the higher and more serious level of marriage, I’ve never heard of a woman asking a man. There’s a reason for that spiritually: the man should lead and prove his love.
3) Male Leadership, Activity, & Responsibility: Once she agrees to dance, the woman follows and the man leads. The man actively chooses what dance moves will be done and where the dance will go on the floor. If both try to lead and neither follow, no dancing really occurs. In fact, in the extreme case, they hurt each other and/or part ways. If the man leads terribly, both suffer. Such leadership thus carries with it very important responsibilities. For example, the man must take pains not to lead the woman in such a way that she (or both of them) runs into other dancers on the dance floor.
Why can’t the woman lead the dance? In theory, I guess she could, but have you ever seen a dance where the woman is leading the man, spinning him, dipping him, holding him in her arms, etc.? Does it work? Does it look good? No, it doesn’t because such a dance is not in accord with the natural qualities of the male and female bodies and character (which I will discuss further in later sections). Such is the reality of dancing; different natures must be taken into account and obeyed.
Likewise, in a marriage, the husband is the natural leader, the head of the household, and thus has important responsibilities, including providing for his wife and children. Dating and courtship should be a process of the man gradually learning how to lead his girlfriend in love and service of her.
It is important to point out that Christian leadership is servant leadership. The greatest in the kingdom are the servants of others, using their power and authority to serve others rather than themselves. A leader who abuses his power and authority, lording it over others, is abhorrent. But contrary to modern thought, authority in and of itself is not evil or oppressive.
I think it is also important to point out that, despite the contrary case in dance perhaps, a good leader knows when to follow and let others take the lead, if only temporarily. A good husband has humility and knowledge of both his own and his wife’s strengths and weaknesses. He knows when to follow his wife’s lead and never dismisses or stifles her strengths. Such a good husband never really surrenders his authority but rather exercises it wisely and prudently.
So in a certain sense the man too is called to surrender, to surrender his self-interest for the sake of love and “surrender” his direct and explicit leadership role. These are the kinds of surrender that men must make if they wish to lead well.
4) Female Obedience, Surrender, & Receptivity: Again, the woman’s role in the dance is to follow. She is supposed to let the man lead her. If she doesn’t, both dancers are going to have problems dancing. This follower role doesn’t make her any less of a partner, dancer, or human being. Following is not a role of lesser dignity in dancing; it is merely different.
When a woman is a good follower of a man in dance, she is surrendering herself, especially her body, to that man. If she follows him obediently in more intimate dancing and dance moves, she surrenders her body, herself, to him even more. The more intimate the body movement the more complete her surrender.
Likewise, once married, the role of the wife is to obediently follow her husband’s lead. Admittedly though, a good husband who will lead lovingly and humbly like I described above can be hard to find these days. A woman would be better off avoiding marriage if she cannot find a man who will love her as Jesus loves the Church, eager to serve her and willing to sacrifice himself and suffer for her sake even unto death, despite her flaws, weaknesses, and imperfections.
Dating and courtship should be a process of the woman gradually learning how to trust, how to surrender herself to her boyfriend. Of course, the man has to gradually earn this trust of his girlfriend through acts of love. And the ultimate physical, emotional, and spiritual surrender and act of trust is the sexual act, which is properly reserved only for marriage because the life-long, total fidelity of marriage is a stable foundation for the total trust necessary in the sexual act.
If the woman refuses to surrender like a female dancer who refuses to be led, or if a woman never learns to surrender like a female dancer who never learns from her male lead’s physical signals what he wants her to do, the relationship will have problems, if not collapse.
Contrary to modern thought, authority and dignity are not equivalent or proportional. The fact that the husband has more authority than the wife does not mean he has any greater dignity as a human being (the same could be said about the authority of the pope and bishops in relation to Catholics and non-Catholics). So when St. Paul says a wife should be subordinate to her husband’s authority, he is not saying women have any lower dignity; he’s merely stating their specific role in the marriage dance.
5) Male Height, Size, & Strength: The male body is naturally taller, bigger, and stronger than the female’s on average. It is the man’s height and strength that makes him the natural leader of the dance, for he is able to easily spin, dip, and hold the woman. She typically cannot do the same with him. If the man is not tall enough, it will be difficult or impossible for him to spin the woman. If he is not strong enough, it will be difficult or impossible for him to dip her, hold her, and do other moves requiring strength. If the man is not tall and strong enough, both suffer.
Likewise, men should put the height, size, and strength of their bodies at the service of women and thus love the women in their lives. A man should open doors, carry things (especially if they are heavy), fix things, and provide other services to women that require strength. This principle is true generally apart from erotic love but finds greater focus and deeper expression in erotic love. A man should use his strength and size to protect his date, girlfriend, or wife from harm, even to the point of sacrificing his bodily health or life for her sake.
Indeed, men should seek to be physically stronger for the sake of serving their girlfriend or wife. Lifting weights should not be motivated by ego (as hard as that is for us to avoid) but rather by a desire to be prepared for loving service to our girlfriends or wives, to strive for ideal masculinity. This kind of striving for strength should continue even after one has gotten married. Sometimes married men or even men in a serious relationship think they don’t have to work at being strong for their girlfriends or wives because they think strength is merely for attracting and getting women rather than also serving the one woman who is yours.
With all this in mind, it is quite natural that women desire and seek out men who are taller, bigger, and stronger than themselves. Just as naturally, men desire and seek out women who are shorter, smaller, and weaker than themselves. Despite the best of intentions, disharmony is more likely to arise where these physical inequalities are the opposite of these natural desires. Physical characteristics of the body naturally have psychological and spiritual consequences.
However, physical strength is not enough; a man in a relationship should have emotional, psychological, and spiritual strength to protect the woman’s emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. Indeed, this kind of protection is even more important than physical protection, so cultivating emotional, psychological,and spiritual strength is more important than lifting weights. A boyfriend or husband should be the protector of the body, mind, and soul of his girlfriend or wife.
6) Mysterious and Unveiled Female Grace, Elegance, & Beauty: The female body is naturally more graceful, elegant, and (in some sense) beautiful than the male body (perhaps I’m biased, being a man, but I don’t think so). When the female body is spun, dipped, and held, the natural grace, elegance, and beauty of the female body shine through. It’s very hard to put these mysterious qualities into words, to articulate this mystery of the female body…. But perhaps a man is in a better position than a woman to delve into this mystery.
It seems as if the male body’s leading movements in dance enhance or unveil the grace, elegance, and beauty of the female body that was hidden or not as manifest in the stillness or unrhythmic movement before the dancing. Sometimes the female body seems like it radiates a graceful, elegant, and beautiful energy and dynamism all its own that the male body merely tries to direct and contain like a nuclear reactor directs and contains enormous atomic energy.
Likewise, I’ve always observed that women seem to become more graceful, elegant, and beautiful when they are dating or in a relationship. Sure, one might say that such women have someone to be more graceful, elegant, and beautiful for, and so they take more pains to be so. Indeed, women should seek to be more graceful, elegant, and beautiful for the sake of their boyfriend or husband. Make-up, skin care, hair care, etc. should not be motivated by vanity (as hard as that is to avoid for some women) but rather by a desire to look one’s best for and thus please and serve one’s boyfriend or husband, to strive for ideal femininity.
But I think this phenomenon goes or should go beyond merely what the woman does in response to having a partner; the man who she is in a relationship with can and should draw out and unveil her grace, elegance, and beauty by means of his relationship with her, by means of his loving service of her.
Sometimes married women or even women in a serious relationship think they don’t have to work at being beautiful for their boyfriends or husbands because they think beauty is merely for attracting and getting men rather than also pleasing and serving the one man who is yours.
Of course, it is true that grace, elegance, and beauty are more than skin deep. It is more important for women to cultivate a spiritual kind of grace, elegance, and beauty that infuses the personality than for women to spend hours in front of a mirror. But the body should not be wholly neglected, for the body is who we are too.
As for marriage specifically, the ultimate unveiling of the feminine by the man happens in the sexual act and the consequent motherhood that follows. The grace, elegance, and beauty of the feminine is nakedly exposed in the marital act. The nurturing love of motherhood from development in the womb to nursing at the uncovered breast also has a mysterious grace, elegance, and beauty to it.
7) Only One Partner: A man can only ballroom dance with one woman at a time. He only has one body with two arms and two legs and can only look in one direction. The human body itself places natural limits on what the man can do in the act of dancing. Same goes for the woman.
Yes, it is possible to dance in groups, but that kind of dancing involves little to no intimacy with other human beings. Either no physical touch is involved or the physical interaction is very limited with regard to intimacy because one’s body and attention is divided between two or more other people.
Likewise, a man can only be in a serious relationship with or married to one woman. Sure, it is perfectly fine to date many people at once, to search for a partner who deserves your exclusive focus and attention. But dating is a means to an end, not an end in itself; it is a means to finding an exclusive partner. Treating dating as if it were merely a recreational activity rather than a search of love will cause harm and pain and make it even harder to obtain a stable, loving relationship or marriage.
Marriage is a “dance” in which the “song” doesn’t end until one partner dies and in which we cannot “switch” partners in the middle of the “song” without hurting ourselves, our partner, and others “on and off the dance floor.”
Just as in dance, the human body itself naturally places limits on erotic love. God designed our bodies in a very specific way sexually. Abnormalities of fallen physical nature aside, the body of each and every physiologically normal man and woman has only one set of sexual organs, of genitalia. Thus only one man and one woman can engage in the sexual act at any one time (any attempts to contradict this is a perversion). This act is the climax and consummation of the marriage and is exclusive by nature. If God had designed the male and/or female body in a sexually different way, then we Christians (Catholics) would have a different Theology of the Body. Monogamy is thus natural and right because of the exclusivity of the sexual act itself.
8 ) Focus on One’s Own Partner: Not only does the body place limits on dancing, but so does the mind. While dancing, a man must focus on his own female partner, her body, and leading her well. If the man’s attention wanders, he, his partner, and their dancing will suffer for it. The same goes for the woman. If she is not focusing on him and his leadership, problems will occur.
Likewise, dates, relationships, and marriages are going to have problems if the man or woman isn’t focusing enough on the other and is getting too distracted by others. Obviously though, erotic relationships should not consume our entire lives. Family and friends deserve our love and attention too.
But ultimately, once one is married, one’s spouse should come first before all other men and women, and one’s actions should demonstrate that. And serious boyfriends and girlfriends that could become our husbands and wives naturally deserve a degree of priority. However, good partners allow their significant others to spend quality time with their family and friends and take the time to steadily incorporate them into their own circle of friends and family.
9) Union & Intimacy: Ultimately, the goal of good dancing is union. If both the leading and following are done well enough, the dancers achieve a unity of mind and movement virtually to the point of becoming one dancing body rather than two. But unless the two dancers are of one mind first, agreeing on whether to dance and on who will lead and follow, and actually agree on such things according to their own natures, there will be no unity of body movement.
This may seem kind of obvious, but for the purposes of Theology of the Body it’s worth pointing out that you can’t really dance with someone while they’re all the way across the room or if you can’t even see them. Too much distance makes dancing impossible or, at the very least, much less intimate and hardly dancing at all.
It does not matter really whether the man and/or woman intend intimacy or not when they dance; intimate dancing creates intimacy between the man and woman. Sure, some dancing moves are inherently more intimate than others. Holding hands, standard practice in traditional dancing, is not quite as intimate as moves where the man is actually holding the woman in his arms or close to his own body, however momentarily. Yet the very fact of the man leading and initiating and of the woman following and surrendering, this reality in itself, is intimacy of some sort. So in this sense, dancing is inherently intimate.
A man should not lead a woman into dancing moves that are too intimate relative to his actual relationship with the woman (one time acquaintance, friend, family member, girlfriend, wife?). And a woman should not surrender her body to dancing moves that are too intimate relative to her relationship with the man (one time acquaintance, friend, family member, boyfriend, husband?). Men and women who are in a serious relationship or married should discipline and guard themselves against too much intimacy when they are dancing with someone other than their boyfriend/girlfriend or spouse.
Likewise, as with dancing, erotic relationships of various levels will succeed if the man and woman are fulfilling their natural roles well and thus achieve unity of belief and action. Dating and relationships should be a process of ascertaining whether such unity is possible and of working to establish such unity where possible. Marriage should be the end goal when one has found and established sufficient unity.
With this fact in mind, it is easy to see that erotic relationships between people of radically different religions, politics, and worldviews generally are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to be truly loving because these differences prevent union. Couples have to be “on the same page” on a lot of important issues to achieve a loving union.
And of course, the obvious and ultimate union of the bodies of man and woman is the sexual act. But this bodily union cannot be loving unless an emotional and spiritual (sacramental) union precedes it. Without this previous kind of union, the physical union will merely bring pain, disharmony, and separation.
Just as with “long distance dancing,” long distance relationships are kind of an oxymoron. You can’t be in an intimate relationship with someone if you aren’t physically present to them on a regular basis (cf. the Eucharist). It is possible for relationships to endure long distance strain only if intimacy and depth to the relationship have already been built up by prior personal interaction. A marriage, if entered into seriously, should be able to withstand a short period of time of long distance (strictly speaking, a marriage should be able to survive anything with God’s grace, except the death of one spouse).
As with dancing intimacy, it doesn’t really matter whether a man and woman intend commitment or intimacy when they have sex or engage in very intimate touching. The very acts in themselves are the language of commitment and intimacy. To speak this bodily language of commitment and intimacy and yet to will and act otherwise is to lie and harm the person of the opposite sex.
Dancing of any and all kinds has always been something of a spiritual exercise, not merely physical. It is not mere motion but rather an expression of the soul. And thus dancing between men and women is naturally going to reflect the sexual spirituality of the dancers, not mere body movement.
Ballroom dancing and the ettiquete surrounding it were developed during an earlier time when the sexual spirituality of the Western world was much more Christian and thus much more grounded in truth. It is no coincidence that as ballroom dancing has declined and been superceded by unchaste grinding and more individualistic and autonomous dancing, true Christian erotic love has also declined. There is a correlation and probably a symbiotic causation involved. A lack of love leads to unloving dancing and vice versa.
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Category:Dips and sauces
In this category you will find recipes for dips and sauces, most are very simple and require very little preparation time.
About dips and sauces
Most of these recipes are good starting points for a vivid imagination. Be bold. Mix and match your favourite flavours to make your own personalised dip. If you do experiment, take a note of the exact quantities that you use so that you can replicate it and make small adjustments in the future.
(A convent recipe from 1870) taken from the wonderful book, Food in England:
The very old form of relish [for beef] was made by nuns in a Yorkshire convent in 1870. Most of the large farms in the north made their own relish to eat with beef.
3/4 oz of cayenne pepper, 2 tablespoonfuls of soy, 3 cloves of garlic, tablespoonful of anchovies (these came in barrels and the scraping of the barrel was used), a few cloves , 3 or 4 shallots, 1 large spoonful of sugar and a quart of vinegar. pound all dry things with the dry sugar, chop and add the onions, etc., put into a leadless glazed demijohn with the vinegar, and cork lightly. This jar was then left at the foot of the stairs for a month, and everyone passing up and down to chapel (twice a day) had to give it a shake.
At the end of the month it was strained off through muslin into the tall glass bottles in the old fashioned cruet stands.
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Let me issue a disclaimer right off. Before I ever typed my first GNU/Linux command in a terminal the Free Software Foundation was fighting the good fight for free software and all the issues surrounding individual freedom and privacy both on and offline. All of us owe it a debt of gratitude for the work is has done and continues to do on behalf of the principles of a free society and free computing. It's commitment to these things is unswerving but one of the down sides of this unremitting focus is the danger of a loss of perspective on certain campaigning issues. This article takes a look back at one in particular. DRM.
Choose the battleground carefully
It would be unfair and an exaggeration to characterize the FSF as a "single issue fanatic" group
It would be unfair and an exaggeration to characterize the FSF as a "single issue fanatic" group. It isn't, but it does needs to be careful that it does not fall prey to the tunnel vision that has led so many others to lose their sense of proportion and lurch into extremes. For the most part it has put it's weight and skills behind campaigns against DRM, the RIAA, patents, proprietary codecs, open source release of Java code, the Linux free BIOS, its compliance lab for licencing queries and trusted computing, and it has got it about right. Sometimes though, its sureness of touch deserts it and in its zeal to protect and promote free software it can be in danger of behaving counter productively.
I am referring to the attack on DRM on the Apple iPhone, part of the FSF's Defective by Design campaign. The FSF suggested that free software supporters should grill the shop staff at the Apple Genius Bar with questions about DRM. Ironically, the iPhone launched on the same day as the GLPv3 (whose DRM provisions left Linus Torvalds so unimpressed, although the GPL debuted six hours before the iPhone. On launch day, in New York and London, activists descended on flagship Apple stores to highlight the nature of DRM. Now, as anyone who has been reading FSM articles in the last six months will know, I dislike DRM and "trusted computing" as much as the next GNU/Linux user. I try not give it house room and the FSF campaign against is fully justified, but tactics are as important as strategy.
I only work here on Saturdays mate, honest
The average Apple store employee, confronted by those tactics would either be unaware of DRM issues or would say "Look, I only work here on Saturdays mate. I'll get the manager". When I ask technical questions in my local Dixons/Currys store here in the UK I am confronted frequently too by blank stares of incomprehension, usually by staff who haven't had their first shave yet. They are salespersons, not "propeller heads".
The sales staff don't make corporate policy. They are trained to sell electronic goods, not to be versed in the evils of proprietary software or hobbled hardware. Haranguing sales staff is to direct justified ire at the wrong target. It is a matter of not only picking the right battle but where and on what terms to fight it too. If I were expressing this in terms of economics I would argue that the issue of DRM should be demand-side driven. In other words, the FSF needs to concentrate more on educating the public. Of course it already does this but we need a lot more of it. If consumers are educated about why DRM is a bad thing for their freedoms and pockets and are given the software tools to make the binary blobs superfluous this may achieve more than flash-mobbing Apple. Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has, for example, initiated a campaign for the adoption of free software PDF readers and there is of course there is Gnash, the free software alternative to Adobe's proprietary Flash Player. That's good.
It seems that the "I want one of those" syndrome is a near irresistible Siren lure for many people who just have to have the latest cool gadget
Apple's shiny things and Microsoft's FUD would not endure any prolonged consumer boycott. However, it seems that the "I want one of those" syndrome is a near irresistible Siren lure for many people who just have to have the latest cool gadget. The FSF have their work cut out. Getting to the consumer is not always easy and at least "targeting" the vendor gets some publicity and it's hardly an original tactic. Activists on everything from the environment, to drugs and animal right campaigners have engaged in direct action, sometimes illegally, but activism needs to cut its cloth to suit. The arguments to pitch GNU/Linux to the average end user are different to those needed to sell it to businesses where the bottom line is cost and profit. Many free software advocates do this very well
It's an uphill struggle
Much of the best work by the FSF is not high profile in terms of public awareness. It is better known amongst the activist and free software communities and we are glad for it but when it ventures into the non-specialist public arena it is apt to be misunderstood by a public to whom its actions can look like pure political activism. It is impossible to know how effective such campaigns actually are but we do know from other groups that businesses are susceptible to pressure when their policies are unpopular with customers and/or shareholders. However those successes tend to be with high-profile things like the environment which engage public emotions in a way that free software, patents and DRM cannot. They should, but it is an uphill struggle to make them relevant, sexy or cool.
Hardware and software vendors are blessed with the Devil's own luck and the FSF is between a rock and a hard place
Hardware and software vendors are blessed with the Devil's own luck: if it looks good, is reasonably priced and works without requiring a Ph.D. in electronics or software engineering it will be good to go. Tell buyers that it is not truly free or will eventually cost them more further down the road in terms of duplicating costs and inter-operability problems and they will probably still buy it. The picketing of public meetings just baffles them or leaves them indifferent. The FSF is between a rock and a hard place.
Never-the-less, the FSF does important work and the occasional error of judgement should not be held against it. In some ways it is a thankless task. It is liable to get it from both ends of the argument--that it is too geeky or too political. Either way, thank heavens it is there doing what it can to protect digital freedoms so let's cut it some slack and give it a fair wind for future battles which are sure to follow.
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Faulty weather predictions for Winter 2010
Remember the long-range forecasts last fall? This winter in the Midwest was supposed to be warmer than usual, because of one of the Pacific currents. I've forgotten if it was supposed to be La Niña or El Niño.
In a blog poll this fall, Prairie Bluestem readers predicted a cold, snowy winter. Their instincts were more accurate than the predictions of meteorologists.
I read this today:
While predictions of a mild winter prevailed in the fall, meteorologist Joe Bastardi of AccuWeather is now predicting that the United States will have the worst winter in 25 years.
Bastardi reports that the last time severely low temperatures were seen all across the country was in January 1985, when below-zero temperatures struck the country from Chicago east to New York and south to Macon, Ga.
Source: "Midwest Sees Near-Record Lows, Snow By The Foot," an MMX/CBS report published January 5, 2010, by CBS2 of Chicago
I remember January of 1985. I had just found out that I was pregnant with Keely, and I was "morning sick" most of the time. My memories of my queasy stomach are much more vivid than my memories of the cold weather. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned: if I keep my mind busy with something else, the cold temperatures will be easier to endure.
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This past weekend we went up to Ipswich, about 12 miles north of Salem, to take a look at some very old houses and a very new wind turbine. There is discussion of installing a turbine on Salem’s Winter Island so we wanted to check out the one in Ipswich, and there are lots of other attractions there: cider doughnuts, beautiful beaches and farms, and the largest collection of First Period houses on the North Shore, perhaps even anywhere in America. Here are some pictures of the largest and most famous one, the John Whipple House, built by 1677, moved to its present location off Route 1A in 1927, and owned and operated by the Ipswich Museum.
I love the very colonial clam-shell paths to the house and around the period “housewife’s garden”, the super-sloping roof and the windows–all of them.
And now for a contrasting view of the future in Ipswich: the wind turbine, located on a large coastal DPW lot well out of the center of town. Though both graceful and green, the turbine is indeed huge; it’s really difficult to see how it could possibly fit on the much smaller lot here in Salem. There are a couple of shots here for perspective, including one across the marsh from the turbine. I did not find it very noisy, however, which seems to be the other major issue with its potential siting.
On our way home (well sort of) we stopped at our favorite place in nearby Essex for friend clams: J.T. Farnhams. You eat your fried clams sitting on picnic tables overlooking the marsh looking back at Ipswich, and the house below, which I always think is going to be claimed by the marsh but never is.
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- Sherrlene Uy
- Quezon City
Teacher - English and Research, Glendale School, Inc. (QC, Phil)
What are the challenges that gifted and creative individuals face at present?
Hi everyone! I am working on a research about the gifted and creative individuals. I'd like to know what are the challenges that the gifted and creative people experience in your country. Share your thoughts please :) Thanks!
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This book is the result of 30 years of studying how wealth is created. Holstein has criss-crossed the globe, from China to America's industrial heartland, to witness how nations, states and localities create innovation and jobs. The Next American Economy: Blueprint for a Real Recovery includes nine case studies of Boston, Pittsburgh, Orlando, San Diego, Corning, N.Y., Austin, the state of North Carolina, Atlanta and Cleveland. Holstein uses those case studies to offer pragmatic insights to governments, businesses, universities and community colleges and others on how to overcome America's economic difficulties and launch a new wave of innovation.
It is rare to find a book about America’s economic future with the right combination of reporting and analysis, historical perspective and future recommendation, emphasis on individual enterprise and awareness of public policy, and — most significant of all — both realistic warnings and practical optimism. It is no surprise that William Holstein, with his long experience in international business reporting, would pull off this combination, but it is impressive to see how well he has done it.
--James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.
The writing is fresh and engaging. Chapters one through nine contain the kind of can-do accounts which have been in short supply for several years, especially since the onset of the Great Recession. Contrary to popular belief, the BRIC nations are not foreordained to surpass the United States. Many American clusters -- companies and regions -- are still world beaters, and William Holstein gives a gripping account of their success as industrial innovators and manufacturing stars. He draws on ground-up experience to suggest a provocative menu of public and corporate policies that would reshape the American economy in a hopeful direction for the 21st century.” —Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.
William Holstein has produced a highly compelling manifesto for the resurgence of the U.S. economy. Going beyond the sterile debates over spending and taxes, and beyond the usual handwringing about political paralysis in Washington, "The Next American Economy" describes some of the great success stories being played out in the country right now and explains how we can build on them to become competitive and produce the high skill, high wage jobs we so desperately need. This book should be required reading for the Obama administration, the Congress, governors and mayors, CEOs and everyone else who cares deeply about the country's future.
—Jeffrey E. Garten, Juan Trippe professor of international trade, finance and business, Yale School of Management, and former undersecretary of commerce for international trade, 1993-1995. New Haven, Conn.
Bill Holstein's extraordinary new book is just what America needs to regain its competitive edge. With brilliant examples, he shows what it takes for America to win in global markets in the 21st century.
—Bill George, professor, Harvard Business School (Boston) and former Chairman & CEO of Medtronic.
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I'm not sure if this is the right SE to ask this question, but it seems more I have a database of files that needs to be encrypted such that multiple people with different passwords/logins to this remote system can access the same files without entering a second set of credentials.
Specifically, I need to be able to support:
- multiple users accessing the 'plaintext' version of a single file that's been encrypted once
- revokation of a single user's rights (if they get fired, etc)
- allow a user who has forgotten their password to get a new password (ie, password resets)
- ideally, allow for remote searching/sorting of such encrypted files while minimizing the ability for an attacker to intercept credentials.
My knowledge of security is theoretical at best; I've done some dongle encodings (well aware that crackers will destroy the security given enough time), but this kind of distributed system is a bit beyond me.
My current idea is:
- have a certificate file that serves to decode the remotely encrypted files. This certificate is encrypted by the user's username/password.
- users log in remotely prior to trying to decrypt the certificate, so if they cannot log in (ie, they are no longer working there, whatever), then they can't get at the certificate. This is extremely weak, since they should be able to decrypt the certificate anyway if they're savvy.
- for remote searching/sorting of these files, do date range presorting of the files. This technique is only valuable because we do not expect more than 5-10 additions to the database per user per day (and even that is ridiculously prolific), so getting entries from the last three days, three weeks, etc, supports our most expected use case. Then decryption/searching/sorting of these files can be done locally.
- for password reassignments, they need to get another encrypted certificate with the new username/password. That means that someone else on the site (the administrator, or whomever) must have access to a plaintext version of the certificate to provide the user with a new certificate, which means that new passwords must be assigned by an administrator. Which I'm OK with.
This approach is bad for a few reasons:
- savvy users can decrypt their old certificate using their credentials and knowledge of the encryption/decryption routine. This is not too big of a deal, because they cannot access remote data anyway, since their logins will fail.
- remote searching/sorting will be painful.
- if everyone on the site loses their password, they lose all their data. I'm tending to think that if customers want this level of security, then they also want this kind of consequence.
So I ask this community — does this approach sound feasible? Is there a package or group of utilities I should be looking at for this (or some other, more improved) approach?
To be clear, this system will store encrypted data remotely, and the user will then access that data. I can make the user client be on any system, but the idea is that it will be a program that we give to the user to access the remote data. The server should never have plaintext data.
So, if the user is on Windows, then they will have a client, a certificate, and login credentials. The certificate would be encrypted with those credentials, so that it can be decrypted and used to read data from this remote system. I cannot change what OS the user will have.
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We have made our way across Ireland from Shannon to Sleahead on the Dingle Peninsula. We are seven days into the Emerald Isle. Here at Sleahead, these dramatic geological formations behind the GT had inspired David Lean to make the film, " RYAN'S DAUGHTER ". On the beach below this point, Irish partisans in the film had caused a merchant vessel to wreck on the treacherous rocks after which they gathered arms and ammunition from that wreckage for their cause.
The " struggle " is never far beneath any historical account or late night pub tirade in Ireland. It is as ever-present and abiding as the rocky coast itself. Rugged is the very history of Ireland itself. Never ending are feelings engendered in conflict and passed down ahead of all other traditions, save the Cross. Fatalistic are these people in their curious blend of resistance to their enemy and their grudging surrender to an inequitable fate. They have dug such holes that we dare not look down upon them lest we tumble in after them. The fall is easier than one might imagine. We come to this and not as strangers.
We are in fact four old boys, sons of the South, making our way through this oddly beautiful land. Today in our wandering through the town of Killarney we saw all of the usual tourist traps, the grizzled old boys just a few steps behind the next pint, a juggling fool looking for coins and a tiny boy playing a discordant tune on an accordion, but with neither hope nor container for money. Sometimes we want to spit on the able young deadbeats who shake us down for fun money, but often those who take our hearts in honest ways give us no way to save them. This is an Irish norm.
By and by we ran into " Mustang Sally's " seen in the second photo. There is a fair representation of an early GT in the sign, but the more recognizable ensign is the "Stars and Bars", that not genuine flag of the Confederacy, the victim of every redneck misappropriation from Klan rallies to stock car racing. We would ignore this, but for the fact that it is clear that this version of the Flag is all they know of our "struggle". In sadder study it becomes clear that they feel a kinship perhaps in rebellion, but mostly to the " Lost Cause ". In many foreign countries, young people use the Confederate Flag as an in-your-face revolt against cultural norms, that is, they hate their parents and use this to make the point. In Ireland, however, it's more the kinship to that " Lost Cause " which makes the link.
Few tablets read as truly as the Irishman's face. During a minor cattle stampede yesterday, we spoke to the cattleman as one of our numbers holds cattle back home. When the cattleman found out that we were not English, but citizens of the southern US, his smile was broad and welcoming. He took time out to talk of his cattle, ask after ours, and tell us all about his trips to the US. Some of the men we meet know a bit of Charleston, the seat of Rebellion, and when we tell them that the Mayor of our town is The Honorable Joseph Patrick Riley, Jr., they smile with a pride there is no mistaking.
This evening, our last in the current digs, we had a large table for the evening meal. For the first time in our visit a lady was playing an upright piano, mostly well known show tunes from a printed music book. After a few pops, you know what our boys so often wish to hear which we may not hear back home. It's that very song, that forbidden one. Your humble correspondent took up the dare and went over to the lady who had never asked for requests. When the request was made, she turned with blazing eyes and asked, " So..you're rebels, are you now ? " to which the only honest answer was " Yes, Ma'am, that we are !"
When you're more than a few sheets to the wind and ever so far from home and a dear old gal plays " DIXIE " on the piano slowly and develops the tune progressively, it's no shame to shed a few tears in land which loves the " Lost Cause " as much if not more the we.
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Students of Archakar Training Schools which were formed by the State government at 6 famous temples in the State, to train candidates from across castes in the archakar profession, have formed an association and decided to demand the government the kind of employment they aspired for.
The first set of students of Archakar Training School at Sri Arunachaleswarar Temple here, became dejected as they could not find employment even after they had successfully completed the one-year course stipulated by the government. “After we have formally completed the course, government suddenly extended the course in to second year, which was not part of the course initially. Though we obliged to this too, classes were held only for first two months of the second year. Now only teachers are getting salary but there is no certainty about our future. Even if there is a legal tangle no one is there to explain to us about the case and its position. So, we have formed an association named ‘Tamil Nadu Government Archakar Training Students Association’ on Saturday,” said Ranganathan, convener of the nascent association. “Our second step would be to convene a formal meeting at the State level and decide the form of action to be taken to get employment,” said V. Vijayakumar, another student of the same school, who hails from Rasipuram.
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Bush 'furious' over Jerusalem blast
Bush, King Abdullah of Jordan meet on Mideast conflict
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush said Thursday he is "furious" over the deaths of five Americans killed in a terrorist bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem but added he still believes peace is possible in the Middle East.
Appearing with Jordan's King Abdullah, Bush said, "I am just as angry as Israel is. I am furious that innocent lives were lost.
"But even though I am mad, I still think peace is possible,"
Bush said the United States is "responding to the murder of Americans. ... We are responding by working with our Arab friends and Israel to track these people down."
Bush said he and Abdullah would discuss both Iraq and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
On the issue of Iraq, Bush said "regime change" continues to be the policy of his administration.
"Saddam Hussein is a man who poisons his own people, who threatens his neighbors, who develops weapons of mass destruction," said Bush. "And I will assure his majesty, like I have in the past, we are looking at all options, the use of all tools. I am a patient man, but I haven't changed my opinion since the last time he was in the oval office."
While not mentioning Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat by name, Bush said he continued to believe that Palestinian leaders can be found who can find the way to peace.
"People keep telling me we have to work with the one person who made this happen for the Palestinians. I don't believe that," said Bush, who has called for a change in the leadership of the Palestinian Authority.
Bush said the first step in the Middle East would be the establishment of a "security force that serves the people" and will fight terror, "not serve the whims of one person."
He said the Palestinians must develop a constitution "so institutions are bigger than any one person."
And he added that it is important for the Palestinian Authority to "account for money in a transparent way" so that donors can be sure money intended to help the Palestinian people reaches them.
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E. Haanel Cassidy Photographs
Series and Sequences
July 19 to October 12, 2003
E. Haanel Cassidy (Canadian, 1903-1980)
Hands and Torso, New York, 1943-44
Chloro bromide prints(20)
©Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of Sylvia Platt 2003
For E. Haanel Cassidy photography proved to be the medium through which he could best articulate his spiritual and aesthetic philosophies. He believed that the photographic image stood as a symbol that transcended the physical world. He adhered partly to the notion espoused by the American visionary Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) that the evocative, expressive subjects of his photographic series were equivalent to heightened emotions. Cassidy also investigated his subjects through series of images, which from his perspective were a "broadening of contact with the universe." The rich tonal prints of his Canadian Farm and the Grain Elevator series emphasize the elements of the subjects' structural organization.
Cassidy's series Hands and Torso is a synthesis of what he felt about photography and is in its purest sense a metaphysical statement. This sequence of twenty conceptually united images culminates with a reclining torso. To the uninitiated the hand gestures are perhaps signs – rhythmic at intervals and luminous in tonal qualities – but they are ultimately enigmatic. The last image in this series, characteristic of his effort to inject "impulses" of the tangible world into his work, represents the unavoidable aspects of life's experiences. Despite the desire to transcend, mankind is still connected to a tangible world.
Eugene Haanel Cassidy was born of Canadian parents in Tokyo, Japan, in 1903. In the late 1930s he operated a studio in Toronto and exhibited in 1938 at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now Art Gallery of Ontario). In 1944 he moved to New York City to work for Condé Nast's House and Garden and Vogue studios. In 1955 he gave up photography and settled in Ananda Cooperative in California in 1969, where he pursued a spiritual life and became the founder of the Ananda Gardens. Cassidy died April 16, 1980.
All photographs are in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, gift of Sylvia Platt, 2003.
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December 7, 2010
Dear Ms. Murphy
I just signed a petition saying:
"More whistleblowing about corporate crimes could have made the foreclosure crisis and economic meltdown less severe. Whistleblowers should never be forced or engouraged to take their concerns to their potentially corrupt bosses first: Those who go directly to the government deserve the strongest rewards and protections allowed by law."
Whistlerblowers are important because they can inform the general public about malpractice. Certain companies may wish to keep this hidden, and thus want to silence whistleblowers. The only legitimate fear a company could have is regarding insider trading or other types on information exploitation. For these reasons, it is important to create laws that protect whistleblowers who seek to protect the general public.
La Jolla, CA
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May one play Draidel with his wife when she is a Nidah? (sources please)
The Debreciner in Shaalos U'Tshuvos Beer Moshe Chelek 3 Siman 123 says that the Minhag is to allow one to play Dreidel with their wife while she is a Niddah. However he recommends making a Heker* - either by each one using their own Draidel or any other type of Heker. If the entire family is playing and they are not sitting next to each other then you can even use the same Draidel.
*Heker = An unusual item that is out of place to serve as a reminder of the changed status (in this case, Niddah)
Should be pretty much the same issue as playing Monopoly or Scrabble or whatnot with your wife. (Unless you argue that the traditional aspect to it makes it less problematic, which I don't particularly hear. Then again I'm not crazy about the whole dreidel thing anyhow, and will refer you to the responsum of Chasam Sofer lamenting that this holiday is "celebrated" by gambling.)
Shulchan Aruch says one should not engage in s'chok or kalut rosh with one's wife when she is in a state of Nidda. Loosely translated as "playfulness" or "lightheadedness."
Contemporary authorities differ on something like playing board games, and may vary from case to case (e.g. playing at a table vs. lying down on the floor); though the interpretation of Shulchan Aruch I heard from Rabbi Yaakov Hopfer of Baltimore is that s'chok and kalut rosh means: behavior that is suggestive or disinhibiting.
The view you'll hear from the yutorah world is that it depends on the norms of gender relationships in your community. If sitting down and playing a board game would only be done as a prelude to more intimate activities, then no it shouldn't be done. If it's no big deal, then it's no big deal.
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Catholic church attracts future priests using Facebook
The Diocese of Charleston in the US state of South Carolina has implemented a comprehensive social media strategy in the hope of attracting young people to the seminary, primarily targeting users of Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.
Led by Rev Jeffrey Kirby, vicar of vocations for the diocese, the aim of the plan is to encourage individuals to join the priesthood by using social media websites and mobile apps to explain what life is like for members of the clergy.
"In light of recent history of the Catholic Church in the United States with scandals, social media allows the church in a unique way to be completely transparent," Mr Kirby said.
The number of priests in the US has dropped by about a third in the past 50 years.
Produced by the BBC's Matt Danzico
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Northwest Airlines -- a look back at its long historyby Martin Moylan, Minnesota Public Radio
For 82 years, Northwest Airlines has been a Minnesota company, Minnesota's airline. With Delta's acquisition of Northwest, though, the airline will fade into history. The combined airline will take the Delta name and its headquarters will be in Atlanta. We may only really appreciate Northwest once it's gone.
St. Paul, Minn. — Among Minnesota companies, few can match Northwest for its longevity or impact on the state's economy and citizens. Northwest is in the same league as a 3M or Cargill.
Of course, Northwest has been often ridiculed by many of its customers and employees. The airline's failings have always been very public, making Northwest a favorite target of comedians -- and the media -- who've lampooned the airline for everything from boozing pilots to a flight that ends up at the wrong airport.
Who can forget Northwest's advice to laid-off employees, in the form of a tip sheet on how to cut living expenses -- rummage through other people's trash.
Northwest apologized for the suggestion. Profusely.
'AN INCREDIBLE ASSET'
Sometimes Northwest has deserved scorn. Sometimes it hasn't. But Northwest has arguably been often under-appreciated, especially by Minnesotans.
Northwest's hub airport in the Twin Cities has given the region an extraordinary level of air service, particularly overseas. Far better than what most other comparably-sized markets in the country enjoy.
Northwest is an extremely valuable asset," said former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson. "It has to be certainly one of our top five."
Former governor Arne Carlson says Northwest's air service has been very important to Minnesota's economy as business has grown more global.
"You can literally leave Minneapolis and be in Asia, be in Europe, via a direct flight. And that's an incredible asset," said Carlson.
In addition to providing an essential service, Northwest has provided tens of thousands of Minnesotans with good-paying jobs.
The airline has been an industry pioneer in the deployment of everything from oxygen masks to radar. And attention, non-smokers, Northwest was the first airline to snuff out smoking on all domestic flights, back in 1988.
From the Twin Cities, Northwest flies to La Crosse and London, Tulsa and Tokyo, Portland and Paris, and some 150 other destinations. All non-stop.
Many travelers have groused about Northwest's fares. But most choose to fly Northwest even when they have cheaper alternatives.
Northwest got started in 1926, when Col. Lewis Brittin founded Northwest Airways with operations based at Speedway flying field, now the site of Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport.
Northwest started out carrying airmail from the Twin Cities to Chicago. The carrier's fleet consisted of two rented, open-cockpit biplanes.
In July 1927, Northwest's first passenger flight took off for Chicago. A one-way ticket cost $40, which would be nearly $500 today. The flight took 12 1/2-hours, including stops in La Crosse, Madison, and Milwaukee.
Back in those days, pilots wore goggles, leather hats and long leather trench coasts. Flying was a true adventure.
"We had no radio. We had nothing," recalled Joe Kimm, one of Northwest's first pilots. "We had an airplane we knew how to fly, and that was it."
Kimm was 18 years old when he started to fly for Northwest in 1930.
"We were on our own. If the weather got bad, we just had to stop where we were and wait until it got better. We would usually fly into a farmer's field, circle it to make sure there wasn't a haystack in the middle of it, and land," said Kimm. "Take our mail and put it on the train. Passengers if we had any, also on the train. And we would sit it out for a day or two till the weather got better and we could get out of there."
TO THE ORIENT
In the summer of 1947, Northwest began service from the Twin Cites to Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai and Manila. Northwest would grow to become a major player in the Pacific. And the airline took on a new name -- Northwest Orient.
The expansion to Asia and launch of transcontinental service marked the start of a golden era for the airline. One that ran from the 1950s to the '70s.
But the airline industry changed radically in the late '70s when it was deregulated. Federal regulators lifted restrictions on routes and pricing, creating an intense battle for customers.
New airlines were born. Old ones died. Many looked to find partners to strengthen themselves.
By 1984, Northwest was the leading U.S. carrier in the Pacific. But Northwest executives felt they had to get bigger. They wanted a stronger domestic route system that could feed passengers to Northwest's Pacific flights.
Steve Rothmeier, Northwest's CEO at the time, said the need to act was urgent.
"The world is changing quickly. The competitive marketplace is dictating a lot of action that, in the past, probably would have been considered rather unusual for Northwest," said Rothmeier at the time.
MERGER NO. 1 DID NOT GO WELL
Rothmeier found a partner right here in the Twin Cities -- Republic Airlines.
At the time, Northwest's $884 million purchase of Republic was the largest merger in airline history. The combination of Northwest and Republic assured the Twin Cities would have extensive air service. Without the merger, neither airline may have survived.
But the merger was hard for employees, passengers and the airline, especially for the first five months or so. The airline ran into a series of operational snafus and employees bickered constantly.
In a video prepared for sales managers, vice president of ground operations Brent Baskfield acknowledged things were going pretty badly.
"Our on-time performance started out very poorly. It was running at 42 percent," said Baskfield. "We've had some real problems with lost bags. We've had problems with unions vs. unions. Unions vs. supervision. Northwest vs. Republic. But maybe worst of all, we've had a serious attitude problem."
Before the merger was a year old, catastrophe struck. In August 1987, a Northwest MD-80 jet crashed in Detroit as it attempted to take off. An eyewitness described the scene.
"Within seconds the flames got bigger, and the plane was on fire, and seconds after that it exploded. Great big explosion. It was airborne, but it was having troubles, and we looked and it was on fire."
It was the worst accident in Northwest's history -- 156 people died in the crash. One child survived.
Still, by the end of the 1980s, Northwest was firmly established as one of the country's big international airlines. And its potential was getting noticed.
THE AL CHECCHI ERA
"Just think what we can do with this company if we start to increase its service levels," said Al Checchi in 1989.
In June of that year, Checchi's investment group acquired Northwest for $3.5 billion and took the airline private.
In an in-house interview, Checchi was very optimistic about Northwest's financial prospects and turning around its historically stormy labor relations.
"It'll be a whole lot more fun for employees. One thing I've learned about the service business and service employees is they want to serve -- they want to make customers happy," Checchi said at the time. "And if you can give customers better service, you'll have employees who are much more excited."
But the next few years weren't very much fun at Northwest.
In both 1990 and 1991 Northwest lost more than $300 million. In 1991, the airline launched an all-out lobbying campaign for state financial assistance and guarantees.
THE STATE STEPS IN TO SAVE THE AIRLINE
With Christmas of 1991 less than two weeks away, a legislative commission approved the final elements of a deal amid heated debate. Supporters hailed the package, But critics decried it as a fraud, a bailout and blackmail.
Ultimately, the deal wasn't enough to shore up the airline's finances. By 1993, Northwest was threatening to file for bankruptcy because of a crippling debt load from the buyout.
Employees gave wage and other concessions, which planted the seeds for more labor unrest. In August and September of 1998, a pilot strike grounded the airline for more than two weeks.
Northwest recovered from the strike. But its fortunes started slipping again in 2000, as the dot.com bubble popped and business travel plunged.
2001 BEGINS A DIFFICULT PERIOD
Then came 9/11. The Sept. 2001 terror attacks sent Northwest and other carriers into a steep nosedive. The demand for air travel fell even more.
Northwest's CEO at that time, Richard Anderson, cut 10,000 jobs, about half them in Minnesota.
"Next to watching the horrific events of Sept. 11 on television, the next most difficult thing for all of us at Northwest is the impact it has on the people's lives at Northwest," said Anderson at the time.
The following years were some of the most difficult in the airline's history. They included billions of dollars in losses, a strike that crushed the mechanics' union, and a bankruptcy filing in 2005.
Northwest used the reorganization process to slash wages and other costs, dump unwanted planes, and otherwise reinvent itself. It emerged from bankruptcy in May 2007.
At the time, CEO Doug Steenland said Northwest Airlines' Twin Cities headquarters and hub were here to stay.
"We sort of re-said our vows. We are blessed to have the opportunity to be an airline in the Twin Cities," said Steenland at the time. "It has a strong economy, and our customers here have been very good to us. We have no intention to do anything here but hopefully be able to grow the hub."
THE DEAL WITH DELTA ENDS AN ERA
By last fall though, with fuel prices soaring, Steenland was talking about the possibility of merging Northwest with another airline. That deal -- with Delta -- was announced in April.
Despite Northwest's turbulent history with its customers and employees, former Gov. Arne Carlson gives the airline high marks.
"Northwest overall has done as good a job as could be done under very, very difficult circumstances," said Carlson. "If somebody said, 'Arnie, we'd love you to be a CEO,' I'll tell you, I'd pay anything not to be a CEO of an airline."
For Delta CEO Richard Anderson, the job is likely to be even more challenging.
Anderson, who used to run Northwest, has to combine his new company with his old one and avoid the pitfalls of the Northwest-Republic merger of two decades ago.
With Delta closing its acquisition of Northwest this week, it is now the world's biggest airline. Northwest's signature red tail will start disappearing from the skies in 2009, as the planes are repainted in Delta's colors.
- All Things Considered, 10/30/2008, 5:50 p.m.
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Orange County - The trademark trial and appeal board for the United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected four trademark applications for the term "CrackBerry," ruling that the trademarks would dilute Research in Motion Ltd.'s "BlackBerry" trademark. The term "CrackBerry" is jokingly used by people to describe their "addictive" BlackBerry smartphones as something they cannot function without.
According to the trademark board's decision passed down on February 27th, Defining Presence Marketing Group had filed four applications to register the "CrackBerry" trademark between December 2006 and May 2007 for different types of goods and services. Specifically, the applications were to use the term in connection with Web-based marketing services, computer services, online chat rooms, and apparel.
Soon after the trademark applications were published for opposition between July and November 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) opposed all four applications on the grounds that use of the "CrackBerry" trademark would cause a likelihood of confusion with the public and also that the trademarks would lead to dilution, which is a weakening of the distinctive quality and reputation behind a trademark.
Defining Presence, which had assigned all four trademarks to Axel Ltd. Co. in September 2007, argued to the TTAB that the registrations should be sustained because the term CrackBerry is simply a parody of BlackBerry and that no likelihood of confusion would exist. However, the administrative trademark judge ruled that RIM's BlackBerry devices were already widely referred to by the term "Crackberry" long before the applicants attempted to register the trademarks, thus further supporting the device-maker's claim that a likelihood of confusion would be created if the term was to be registered as a trademark.
With the exception for the class for apparel, the judge also observed that there was "a close relationship between opposer's registered goods and services and applicant's recited services."
A multinational telecommunications company, Research in Motion is based in Ontario, Canada and designs, manufactures, and markets wireless mobile devices for the global telecommunications market. Its BlackBerry line of smartphone devices was produced in 1999 and are designed to function as personal digital assistants, providing mobile phone services, media capabilities, Internet browsing, gaming, and much more.
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New Welsh wind farm granted consent
Energy Minister Charles Hendry has granted consent to Vattenfall for the Pen Y Cymoedd project, a 299MW wind farm between Neath and Aberdare in South Wales, according to a government press release.
Made up of 76 turbines, it would have the highest generating capacity of any onshore wind farm in England and Wales. The developer predicts that it will generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of up to 206,000 homes a year.
The developer has also pledged to a community benefits package potentially worth more than £55m over the lifetime of the development, including £3m for habitat management and £6,000 a year per megawatt to a Community Trust Fund.
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If 2012 University of Pennsylvania grad Mathew Bernstein does his job right, he thinks his position could be eliminated.
Bernstein, who majored in history and minored in French and in African studies at Penn, is an unpaid intern helping to maintain the Chris Campbell Memorial Field in Khayelitsha, South Africa, a township outside Cape Town. The soccer field was built by CTC Ten, a U.S. foundation in memory of Chris Campbell Jr., Bernstein’s fellow soccer player at Friends Central School in Wynnewood before they moved on to college. Campbell died just as he was to begin his senior season at Franklin & Marshall College.
“Chris’s dad, Chris Campbell Sr., was our varsity soccer coach at Friends,” Bernstein explains. “The Field is a memorial to Chris. He loved kids and soccer; education through sport is the way that his family chose to combine the two in his memory.
“The field was built in South Africa because Chris was planning to go there with the F&M soccer team before he died,” Bernstein says. “They found a perfect site, next to a school where soccer was already being played.”
“Fundraisers in the U.S –- one netting $20,000 in a single day -- paid for building the field, and the interns like me are there to maintain the infrastructure and be the foundation’s eyes and ears on the ground,” he said in a January interview when he was home for the holidays. “(Program) sustainability is the goal. I work for free, but CTC Ten pays my expenses.”
To that end, Bernstein said CTC Ten has partnered with the internationally recognized AMANDLA EduFootball, a South African nonprofit that provides staffing, administration and educational programming to accompany the on-the-field game playing. CTC Ten maintains the field and pays the expenses for two interns each year. Eventually, the goal is for a community member to take over the interns’ roles.
“Everyone in Khayelitsha is obsessed with soccer,” Bernstein says of the community, “so we offer field programs for toddlers –- they’re called waterbugs –- through boys and girls through men only.”
The field program has three goals: to get the residents off the streets, especially during the most crucial evening hours; to provide mentors where none previously existed; and to memorialize Campbell and keep his legacy alive.
“They learn soccer skills,” Bernstein says, “but on match day people have to sign up as a team and are expected to show up as a team.”
“Khayelitsha is a close-knit community, but it is riddled by violence,” Bernstein says. “The people are lively and vibrant, but they have big disease issues -- TB and HIV –- domestic and gang violence. It’s a rough place.”
About 200 participants, though, come out on Friday nights for the crime-prevention league, open to men 16 and older. Held from 8 p.m. to midnight, the program is designed to get these men off the streets during high-crime hours.
“The field staff work to strengthen the players to make them employable,” he adds. “The statistics support the work. It’s our most straight-forward and effective program. The goal is clear and so are the results.”
These Friday night games have an added bonus.
“The fields will be lined with people,” Bernstein says. “We’ve even added a transportation system to help people get out to the Field to play. It’s most successful. The games are intense, but we’ve had very few altercations.”
In another program, boys and girls who come for the soccer are expected to participate in the Life Skills programing provided by AMANDLA to be eligible to play. Life Skills facilitators are 19- to 30-year-olds who were unemployed and are now on stipends. Their facilitation at the Field counts as work experience, and during the day when the kids are in school the facilitators attend workshops about employability and personal development.
“They teach the kids’ training sessions because they’re members of the community who speak their language and know the kids,” Bernstein says. “An example is ‘feelings and emotions’ and the medium is story-telling to build trust.”
Calling it “a cross between a Boys and Girls Club and a school program,” Bernstein says the program is “an oasis for the kids. We call it a safe hub. I can’t tell you how unbelievably vibrant the space is. There’s a mural inspired by the kids, and the kids themselves are the subjects.”
During the kids’ matches, the program uses a “fair-play” football system to track behavioral improvement”, Bernstein explains. “We employ an alternative scoring system that rewards good behavior and reproaches bad behavior tied in with regular scoring.
AMANDLA has been honored with the 2012 Beyond Sport Award for its conflict-resolution efforts and runs programs all over South Africa. Eight to 10 staffers work in Khayelitsha.
Bernstein says the model is to come into a community, get the program run by the community for the community, then replicate it elsewhere.
Bernstein became a CTC Ten intern because of his connection to the Campbells but has had the opportunity to develop NGO and business-start-up experience.
“I’m there to support the development, strategies and implementation of the programs with the goal of working myself out of a job.
“I’ve grown, it’s been tons of fun. I’ve worked hard, but it’s been a spectacular experience.”
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I love Brussels sprouts.
I love them pickled, roasted, steamed or boiled, each one a perfect bite of sultry, cruciferous deliciousness.
But many, many people do not feel the same. These unfortunates likely were tortured as children by having to choke down overcooked, olive green, smelly, mushy orbs that were called Brussels sprouts but really have absolutely nothing in common with Brussels sprouts that are properly cooked.
If you are served a Brussels sprout that has turned the color of a Boy Scout tent, it’s best not to eat it. Just turn away and don’t look back. A well cooked Brussels sprout is bright green and tender, but not soft.
When buying, you want them to be on the small side and the tiny heads should be tightly closed, like mini cabbages but darker green. If you’re going to cook them whole, slice the dried bit off the bottom then poke an X into the stem end with the tip of a sharp knife. The outer leaves cook much more quickly than the inside does. The X allows for more even cooking by providing a path for the heat to get inside.
When preparing them for roasting, after trimming the ends, I cut each sprout in half the long way, through the stem. I throw the halves into a roasting pan, coat them with olive oil and add some salt and pepper, then pop them into a 450 degree oven. Check on them after about 5 minutes, giving them a stir. Depending on their size, cook them another 5 or 10 minutes, stirring as needed, until they’re tender. Roasting really brings out the nuttiness of the sprouts, almost turning them into a whole new vegetable.
In my collection, this recipe for Brussels Sprouts with Maple-Mustard Sauce is a copy of a long ago newspaper clipping. It doesn’t say where the original recipe came from but a few Googles led me to believe it is from a cookbook called “Thanksgiving Dinner” by Anthony Dias Blue and Kathryn K. Blue.
The rich tanginess of the two kinds of mustard and two vinegars, combined with the sweet, earthiness of the maple syrup really compliment the Brussels sprouts. If you don’t want 10 servings, cut the amount of sprouts in half but make the full amount of sauce. It keeps in the refrigerator for quite a while and allows you to make the same recipe again, a couple of weeks later, with half the work already done.
The Blues call for boiling the sprouts, which I very often do. After they're cooked, I cut them in half before I dress them to make for daintier bites and for more surface area to collect that amazing sauce. You also can roast the sprouts and dress them with this sauce. Either way, they’re delicious.
Brussels Sprouts With Maple-Mustard Sauce
Makes 10 servings
4 cups (2 pounds) Brussels sprouts
2½ teaspoons salt (divided)
2 tablespoons white wine or champagne vinegar (I use rice wine vinegar)
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons maple syrup (only the real stuff will do)
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon coarse-grain mustard
½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
½ cup olive oil
Trim the Brussels sprouts by cutting an X in the stalk end and removing any loose or wilted outer leaves. Drop the sprouts into a large pot of rapidly boiling water. Add 2 teaspoons salt and bring the water back to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and drain thoroughly, letting the sprouts cool for a few minutes. (After they’ve cooled a bit, I cut them in half through the stem end.)
Meanwhile, mix the vinegars, syrup, mustards, remaining ½ teaspoon salt, pepper and nutmeg. Whisk thoroughly. Slowly add the oil, a few drops at a time, in a thin, steady stream, as you whisk. The mixture will get thicker and lighter in color as the oil and vinegar emulsify.
Add the Brussels sprouts to the bowl containing the sauce. Toss well to coat each sprout. Serve at room temperature.
Original recipe from “Thanksgiving Dinner” by Anthony Dias Blue and Kathryn K. Blue.
Jill Blanchette works at night at The Day. Share comments or recipes with her at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk is still uber-cool, even 31 years after his death. And he passed that cool along to his son, T.S. Monk, who carries on his father’s legendary name as a jazz drummer and founder of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. As the son opens a new show in Miami, "Monk & Coltrane," we remember the cool that the father passed down. Written by Linnea Crowther. Originally published February 2012.
Thelonious Monk was no ordinary jazzman. A few notable qualities set him apart from the rest – for one, his style. Rings on his fingers, hat and sunglasses on his head, dressed in a dapper suit, he epitomized cool jazz style.
Thelonious Monk, 1947 (Wikimedia Commons/William P. Gottleib)
And it wasn't just his look that was cool. Everything about Monk's performances was jaw-droppingly hip. He pounded heavily at the piano's keys like a little kid who's never had a lesson – but Monk's heavy-handed style brought beauty from the instrument, not dissonance. Critics called him "the elephant on the keyboard," but jazz fans loved his spiky, percussive sounds.
And when he was done crashing his way through another hot solo, Monk didn't fade into the background while his bandmates took their turns. Instead, he would jump up from his piano bench and look on, shuffling his feet to the beat. His enthusiasm made the music all the more infectious.
Thelonious Monk died 31 years ago today, but his recordings and performances are as cool as ever.
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July 27, 2012 10:17 pm
She is “the rose among roses, the woman among women”, and every year, on a hot July night, she stops the traffic in Palermo.
La Santuzza, as she is affectionately called, is not a curvaceous Italian film star. She is an effigy of a 12th-century hermit, Santa Rosalia, the beloved patron saint of Palermo. Legend has it that her relics stopped the spread of plague in the city in 1624. Every year, in remembrance of this miracle, she is the focus of the city’s most lavish celebration, known as Il Festino, when she is borne from the cathedral to the sea on a decorated chariot, surrounded by her adoring public.
Today, Palermo suffers from plagues that go by other names: debt, poverty, corruption and, of course, mafia. La Santuzza is a symbol of hope and civic unity against these modern-day pestilences. She is pulled by volunteers from Addio Pizzo, an anti-mafia charity, and accompanied by dancers, musicians, and members of the city’s immigrant communities.
I join the procession outside Palermo’s Norman cathedral. The crowds are thick, animated, and fluttering with Spanish hand-held fans. For a month now, Palermo has been suffocating in an unusually hot, humid heat, relieved only by the blast of a scalding sirocco wind.
Gianpiero Cammarata, a plain-clothes policeman, smiles and closes his eyes gratefully as I wave my fan in his direction. What does the Festino mean to him? “Mangiare!” he laughs, before going on to tell me about the traditional delicacies sold by street vendors during the Festino. Babbalucci are tiny local snails cooked with oil, parsley and garlic; anguria is thirst-quenching watermelon, while sfincione is a pizza made with caciocavallo, a tangy cheese. You will also find small wagons selling grattatelle: grated ice flavoured with fruit juice and sugar.
Santa Rosalia rolls along on her colossal painted carriage to loud cheers. Austerity has slashed the festival’s budget to a fifth of what it was in the 1990s, so hundreds of people have given their talents free of charge. The ravishing statue of Rosalia, who stands tall, white, serene and unadorned except for a red rose clasped in her hand, was made by Salvatore Rizzuti, professor of sculpture at Palermo’s art school. Even the director of the Festino, Sandro Tranchina, has come back to his hometown from Brazil, where he runs an events company, to work for two months for no pay. Why? “When you are a Palermitan you can never untie yourself from this city. It’s a second job,” he says.
In the Quattro Canti, the ornate square at the heart of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, recently re-elected mayor of Palermo after an absence of 12 years, climbs on to the saint’s chariot, as tradition dictates, and stands at the feet of Rosalia to make the heartfelt cry the city has been waiting for: “Viva Palermo e Santa Rosalia!” The packed square goes wild with delight.
The finale of the evening is on the Foro Italico, where Santa Rosalia comes to rest by the sea and a magnificent fireworks display takes place. But for me, the long procession along Corso Vittorio Emmanuele is the best part of the Festino, because of the pride and tenderness Palermitans express towards their patron saint, and because it is a rare chance to admire the beautiful, if sooty, baroque buildings that line this road.
Tonight, free from the thunder of traffic, Palermo’s buildings seem to exhale and bloom like sensual nocturnal flowers. The wooden shutters of great palazzi open up; yellow light from ceiling chandeliers spills on to the street, and you are given a glimpse into jewel-box rooms with painted ceilings. Shadowy figures crowd the balconies, calling out to their beloved Santuzza, in the darkness. Tiny alleyways shimmer with thousands of white fairy lights and the doors of sumptuous, rotting, 17th-century churches are open late into the night.
Even with 300,000 people packed into Palermo’s historic centre, this deeply seductive but troubled city feels at peace with herself tonight.
Il Festino takes place annually on July 14
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In the series of Landscape Wall, Ni Weihua had presented a stark social class divide in his images by contrasting sharply the the background of luxurious real estate advertissements in Shanghai or others cities in China, in costalcities in particular, and the workers at the bottom rung of the society living and working in Shanghai Officials around China.
Living on fiscal revenue from land consider the real estate developement of state-owned land under the control of the governement a most effective way to the economic growth, political legality,advancement and personal wealth. In this craze for real estate triggered by the officials, to invent catch phrases for advertisements, to create demand for touting real estate have been the priority of real estate developers and advertisers. Of course, those advertiments tend to be a pack of a cleverly designed lies. Pompous and misleading advertisements keep cripping up. To appeal to the passers-by , readers and audiences, great effort has to be made not only on fascinating advertising copywriting but also on images. The striking real estate advertisement, in particular, the billboards in the city streets, have become the material for Ni Weihua’s series of Landscape Wall.
Basically, Ni Weihua packs the billboard and the passers-by in a hurry into one image, wich, of course, need patience. He is selective about the passers-by in the image, who to have is revelant to the ideas he would like to illustrate in the series.
All the people in his series are passers-by they might be the construction workers. Therefore, occasionally workers in safety caps will be seen in his series. Nevertheless, the irrelevance between the two is most prominent. They are just construction workers. Never can they be the owners of the mansions. This is Ni Wuhua’s purpose, to emphasize stark social disparity and social class divide with the co-existence of mansions and construction workers. Cityzens and migrant workers are not on a equal footing with their background. i Such a sharp contraste between superiority and inferiority brings tension in this series, bringing the irreconcilable conflicts of reality into limelight.
Texte by Gu Zheng.
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Tennessee top target for spammers
Tennessee is among the national leaders when it comes to the most spammed states, according to Symantec's annual look at spamming in U.S. states and territories.
Tennessee ranks No. 5 with a spam rate of 92.1 percent, according to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence Special Report. That means more than 9 of every 10 e-mails sent to Tennessee are spam.
Spam is a serious threat to business productivity. My work and personal e-mail are bombarded daily. Most of the messages that make it to my in-box are legit, but I waste time every day deleting spam that makes it past the filters.
"Spam isn't just a simple annoyance to businesses, but a real threat that can consume resources and put valuable information at risk regardless of location," MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst Paul Wood writes in the report. "From the World Cup to fake PDF Reader updates, even the most intricate scams are now widespread and the sheer size and power of today's botnets are making possible what was once unthinkable."
The most spammed state is Idaho with a 95.2 percent spam rate, followed by Alabama, South Carolina and Indiana, all with rates over 92 percent. The national average is 89.3 percent, according to the MessageLabs study.
Engineering, automotive and construction are the U.S. business sectors most frequently targeted by spammers, with spam rates, respectively, of 94.1 percent, 92.9 percent and 90.5 percent.
The least spammed sectors are business support services, general services and finance, each with spam rates of about 87 percent.
I used to think some of the spam was funny -- like those guys in Nigeria who for years have been trying to give me money -- but now it's just annoying.
Read Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence Special Report here. The report includes tips on how businesses can protect themselves from spam.
Listen to anaylst Paul Wood's podcast on MessageLabs most recent security report here.
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Seventh and eighth graders in the Drama Club at Helen Keller Middle School will perform three performances of this year’s play, A Knighttime Musical, written by Diana Canova and Kathy Weiss.
Ms. Canova is not only a star of stage and screen, but also a writer, director, and teacher at Manhattanville College. Ms. Weiss is the general music instructor at Redding Elementary School.
In addition to directing the Joel Barlow High School fall musical and winter shows for many years, this dynamic duo has directed the John Read Middle School (Redding) play for the past 23 years. Both women continued combining their talents and resources approximately seven to eight years ago when they started to run out of good material appropriate for middle school productions, and decided to write their own musicals that middle school students enjoy showcasing.
Though the general plots of their plays are often taken from beloved fairy tales, their script and music are original, giving a fun and innovative twist to well-known storylines. The plot of A Knighttime Musical is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
The story involves a king who is baffled trying to solve the mystery of why, when his 12 beautiful daughters are safely locked in the castle at bedtime each night, the dancing shoes of the princesses appear to be well-worn, as if they had been dancing through the night. The king promises his kingdom and the hand of a daughter to any man who can solve the midnight mystery but also vows dungeon and death to those men that cannot! Humor and mayhem abound in this lively retelling of a classic.
The directors were able to capitalize on the many talents of this group by incorporating into the production, along with the singing and acting, some additional dancing and instrumental music by the students. Ms. Canova has stated that she is “thrilled to be here” at Helen Keller Middle School and is enjoying working and getting to know Easton students and parents.
High school students Justin Kipp and Anna Sarnelli and others have been assisting the directors with various aspects of the production. Though some costumes and scenery had been previously constructed for a past performance of A Knighttime Musical, a number of new sets were constructed by parent volunteers, including Sonia Bodie, Paul Coppinger, and Heather and Chris Scully. Eighth grade crew members, along with parent and teacher volunteers, have painted the scenery to suit the castle and “pink” theme.
The show’s producers and Helen Keller Middle School teachers Robin Hurta and Eric Dolecki, and parent volunteer coordinator Denise Sherwood have also been tremendously supportive and helpful to the Drama Club and have given many hours to the production.
Note that though this is a Helen Keller Middle School production, performances are being held at Samuel Staples Elementary School in Easton. Concessions and flowers will be available for purchase in the lobby. Tickets are $15 for general admission seats. It is suggested that you pre-order tickets as only a limited number will be available at the door. For tickets, contact Angie DiStefano at email@example.com.
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But seriously we went through a time when ego was getting involved with climbing and people were pulling pins. A person died as a result.
After one has climbed awhile the point becomes one of trying not to set the risks that others feel they have to take. The down side is just too large. Furthermore doing this flies directly in the face of what climbing is.
We do have a responsibility for each other.
Someday we may reach a point where people come to agreement as to how to manage protection.
When that agreement has been fashioned I can see coming a time when carefully chosen routes can be restored to their original condition.
It will be a very exciting rebirth.
But only after the consensus has been solidly put in place.
John, I don't remember the incident you are speaking of. Care to refresh a failing memory?
In any case, I think some of what you are saying refers to a historical situation at the beginning of "clean climbing," when nuts were just coming into use and were simply not up to the task of protecting many situations. Perhaps the push to "climb clean" in those days did influence people to advance into difficult ground with some very blunt tools. But technology has marched on, and the contemporary climber, armed with a rack many times the size of the original stopper and hexentric collections, now enjoys protection possibilities that would have been utterly unimaginable to any previous generation.
As for setting risks others feel obliged to take, that certainly sounds like a bad thing, but I think the realities may be both more subtle and more complicated.
First, although all climbing involves voluntarily encountering risks, there is no agreement on what constitutes acceptable risk. What risks, then, are those we should not be "setting?" If we agree that such and such a situation has an acceptable level of risk and someone gets killed there, have we failed in our responsibility to that person?
An experienced climber was recently killed in a ground fall from the first pitch of Three Pines. I wouldn't be surprised if there might have been a low fixed piton at some point back in the day, now removed. Does that removal now constitute a failure of responsibility?
Or consider this: there is a fixed pin over ceiling on the second pitch of MF. It is in a crack that will take a perfect cam placement. People clip that pin without backing it up and then fall on it. They have no idea how good that pin is. Wouldn't the responsible
thing be to remove that pin---it certainly isn't necessary there---so that leaders would have to place good verifiable protection instead of blindly clipping something they cannot judge?
The problem is that all climbing involves the voluntary renunciation of some of the means at our disposal. It is now possible to put a bolt every ten feet on every climb. There will, over time, be many fatalities that could have been avoided if we had only done this. Are we thus responsible for all these tragedies?
I find the idea that some group of people is responsible for some other group's safety highly problematic. It seems to me to come from, and make perfect sense in, a sport-climbing context, where the creator of the route has a responsibility to bolt it so that it is safe. But in traditional climbing we are dealing with The Creator rather than a creator. Nature has already made the safety decisions by providing or denying opportunities for traditional protection, and no one is "entitled" to any specific level of risk reduction. For example, a poorly protected 5.7 climb may not be doable by climbers whose leading limit is 5.7. Are such leaders "entitled" to more protection? Is it a failure of communal repsonsibility to provide it for them?
A year or so ago, Dick and I removed an extremely dangerous piton from the upper part of the first pitch of Pas de Deux. This pin was regularly clipped, without backup, by almost everyone I ever saw go up there. I can flat out guarantee it wouldn't have held even a short fall. The people clipping that pin were climbing under a dangerous illusion.
We didn't replace the pin. The crack seemed to channel water and we guessed another rusted time bomb would be the result. Moreover, you could get a small cam in there. And furthermore, there was a solid placement for a medium-sized cam a few feet up and left. We thought the combination of opportunities was in keeping with the nature of traditional climbing and was, in reality, a far safer option than the pin had been.
Well, there were a few (not very many) complaints. Some people said they didn't normally carry a cam that small. Others apparently never looked around when the terrible pin was there to see if there might be alternate placements, and still didn't look around after the pin was gone. And so they said the route had been made more dangerous, an astonishing claim really considering how dangerous it had been with the rotten pin.
I have to say these attitudes really took me by surprise. If someone gets to a place where feel they need protection, and they don't have the piece needed for that spot, then either they back off (not at all hard to do at this spot on Pas de Deux), they look around for alternate placements (in this case available), or they decide to make the next part of the climb an exercise in their skill and control with full realization that they have chosen to take this particular risk.
Is someone forcing them to go on? Are they laboring under some kind of unholy social pressure? Are Dick and I responsible if they take a giant whipper, responsible for their decision not to retreat when they didn't have an appropriate piece, responsible when they failed to look for other placements, responsible when they misjudged the difficulties ahead and their own abilities and forged on unprotected? Do climbers have any of their own responsibilities for their choices? Are their mistakes and human failures somehow a consequence of my or Dick's egotism?
I recently had the privilege of climbing with one of our local masters. We were on unknown ground on a new route. He made a bunch of 5.9 and 5.10 moves and got to a spot where he needed a piece he didn't have with him. So he reversed all those moves (without weighting the rope), came back to the ground, got the piece he needed, went back up, placed the piece, made the hardest moves on the route, and continued to the top.
Perhaps a deeper question has to do with what trad climbing is or isn't. Is the current restriction on placing new fixed protection simply a Mohonk Preserve rule, or is there some sense that traditional climbing, as opposed to sport climbing, is about dealing with what nature has provided, rather than modifying nature for our own amusement and edification? Is trad climbing now defined as sport climbing on gear?
Even more to the point, consider the case of fixed protection that cannot be replaced by today's modern gear. Does the current existence of that fixed protection confer some "right," in perpetuity, on future climbers to enjoy the protection that was historically present, or should the climb be allowed to revert to its natural state, waiting until future gear innovations perhaps make it once again "protectable?" Why exactly are we "entitled" to some level of risk reduction just because it was available in the past, especially in view of the fact that the risks in question are utterly voluntary?
Don't get me wrong---I'm not arguing that fixed gear should be removed, nor am I arguing that failing fixed gear should never be replaced. But I am asking whether the assumptions of entitlement that accompany these discussions are inviolable articles of faith in the climbing community, or whether, as I think, they are open to question and interpretation.
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Quick question: So my pet store says to feed my betta fish 4-5 pellets every other day, my betta pellets food says to feed twice a day and then here I have heard once a day everyday....so which one is right? I don't want to overfeed my betta but I don't want to underfeed him neither.
It depends on the size of pellets and your preference. Most people here feed every day and fast one day a week. Some will feed 2-3 pellets in the morning and 2-3 at night.
Personally I feed 4 pellets a day, all spread out throughout the day. Once early in the morning, once near noon, once at 4pmish and once at 8pmish.
Don't just feed your fish when they seem hungry, because they will seem hungry all the time, haha.
The reason people choose to split up feedings is because a betta's stomach is only about the size of their eye. Think about gorging 3 or 4 pellets into that. I find feeding 2 twice a day of average sized pellets (omega one) is a good starting point. Other smaller pellets, like NLS need to be fed more. People choose to fast one day a week to prevent constipation because in nature bettas wouldn't eat daily. You don't need to only feed 50% of the time to prevent it though, so long as you're feeding a good quality protein based pellet.
Part of it really is up to your fish. Mine will show no interest in pellets if he's not hungry, which is unusual for an opportunity feeder.
I feed 2-4 pellets per day, once in the morning before work and once when I get home at night.
If the fish eats them very quickly, don't give them more than 2-3 at a time, to avoid overeating. If they let them float for a while it's okay, but take them out if they ignore them for more than, say, half an hour.
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Superheroes usually do their world-saving work in big cities, but what if they lived lives that were as mundane as the civilians they’re sworn to protect? Photographer Chow Kar Hoo has a creative series of photographs that show well known superheroes living rather ordinary lives in Hong Kong. Batman is seen strolling a night market, Wolverine is found making a living slicing up meat at a butcher shop, and Hellboy is spotted enjoying some late night hot pot.
Foto Marvellini, an art workshop based in Milan, came up with the interesting idea of collecting vintage portraits and transforming them into photos showing the ancestors of Marvel superheroes. Eventually the project, began including characters from DC Comics and Japanese anime as well.
The video recording quality of DSLRs has gotten to the point where you can slap them onto big fancy rigs and use them to film portions of big budget Hollywood movies without anyone noticing any difference. Iron Man was the first superhero in the Marvel universe to make use of the Canon 5D Mark II, and today it was announced that the camera was also used extensively throughout “Captain America: The First Avenger”.
[...] Action scenes in “Captain America: The First Avenger” in which [Second unit DP Jonathan Taylor] used 5D Mark II cameras for POV shots include a car chase and crash, and a high-speed motorcycle pursuit. The small size of the camera enabled Taylor to mount it on the interiors and exteriors of moving vehicles to capture dramatic action shots. The camera’s size also ensured that it was “invisible” to the film cameras shooting the same scene from a distance.
So basically, in certain scenes, a Canon 5D Mark II was actually recording from within the scene itself!
(via Imaging Resource)
It’s a tough job market in New York, and even Spider-Man has difficulty finding job security these days.
In this month’s issues #623 and #624 of Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man comic, Peter Parker loses his job as the photographer for the mayor — former Daily Bugle EIC J. Jonah Jameson.
According to Marvel, Petey has to make a troubling decision between freedom of press or withholding certain information from the media in order to protect a friend, but his decision costs him his job.
Peter Parker has always been a bit of an everyman, often beset with real problems in a real city, on top of the occasional super villain encounter. Parker has had to deal with marital problems, finding freelance gigs, and dealing with the deaths of loved ones.
And now he faces every photog’s worst fear: having a smeared reputation. On top of being able to afford to web-sling through the city, let alone keep an apartment, he now has the daunting task of trying to find a job. Yikes.
This guy just can’t catch a break!
Image credit: Image by Marvel Entertainment and used with permission
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Nor is it just that company. A tax partner in a big accounting firm summed up the dilemma neatly last week: 'I think I have done a good job for my client saving them £10m on their tax bill. Then I find it costs them £100m in reputational damage when it is spread across the news.'
However, it is easy to see why the public is outraged with Starbucks and why as a consequence all sorts of pressure groups and organisations are gunning for it. Corporation tax is paid on profits and it defies popular belief that an organisation operating hundreds of shops in the UK could be unprofitable yet still be so keen to expand. Therefore it must be earning profits and then doing something to make sure they are transferred to a more favourable tax regime overseas - via, for example, payment for the licence to use the Starbucks name. Foreign-owned businesses almost all do this to some degree, but Starbucks has long sought to position itself as socially responsible and a good corporate citizen and that does not fit easily with tax avoidance, however legal.
The company is also guilty of failing to detect how opinion has hardened markedly against such practices. It ought really to have noticed how attacks on individuals have become commonplace.
It should also have seen how the resentment was intruding into the corporate space. Every time a City company threatens to leave because of tax it fuels public outrage - along the lines of 'we bailed then out but they still think they can walk away and leave us in the lurch'.
But this is now a challenge for all companies. The shareholder value philosophy drives companies to maximise returns to shareholders regardless of the effect on other stakeholders. So companies are torn, with shareholders driving them in a direction that most other stakeholders in society find offensive.
Squaring that circle will present even the most accomplished PR professional with a major challenge.
Anthony Hilton is City commentator on London's Evening Standard.
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STAPLETON, Sir Brian (d.1417), of Carlton, Yorks.
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Family and Education
s. and h. of Sir Brian Stapleton (d.v.p. 1391) of Carlton by Elizabeth (1364-21 Dec. 1417), e. da. of William, 1st Lord Aldeburgh (d.1388), of Aldeburgh and Harewood, Yorks. and sis. and coh. of William, 2nd Lord Aldeburgh (d.s.p. 1391). m. Agnes (d. 31 Mar. 1448), da. of Sir John Godard*, 1s. Brian Godard†, 3da. Kntd. by 6 Mar. 1416.1
The most influential figure in this MP’s early life was his grandfather, Sir Brian, a formidable character who had built up the family estates to include the manors of Carlton Wighill, Walkingham, Rufforth, Farlington and Querneby in Yorkshire, and Kentmere in Westmorland. Moreover, in 1380, the earl of Salisbury, whom he had served loyally for years, rewarded him with a gift in perpetuity of the manor of Bamburgh in Lincolnshire and other property in and around Bampton in Westmorland and Carlisle in Cumberland. Sir Brian had distinguished himself during the wars with France, becoming captain and controller of Calais, and also serving on a number of diplomatic missions. On the death of his elder son (another Sir Brian), in 1391, it was therefore natural that he should assume custody of his infant grandson, although he himself lived on for only three more years. The young Brian Stapleton then not only stood as heir to all the above-mentioned estates, but he also expected to succeed eventually to his mother’s impressive holdings. The death without issue of her only brother, the second Lord Aldeburgh, in 1391, had left Elizabeth Stapleton in possession of half the valuable manor of Harewood with its extensive appurtenances in the West Riding, as well as other property in Holderness. She seems to have been an intelligent and interesting woman: from her friends in the Roos family of Ingmanthorpe she received various books, including the Legenda Sanctorum, while her father-in-law left her ornaments and medals dedicated to the cult of the Virgin (but only on the condition that she behaved well after his demise). Brian himself now became a pawn in the game of dynastic diplomacy, and before long his estates, marriage and person were entrusted by Richard II to Sir William le Scrope (the future earl of Wiltshire) and Sir Thomas Percy (later to become earl of Worcester). Having bought out Sir William’s share, Percy made a gift of the boy and his marriage, together with a maintenance allowance of £20 p.a. from the manor of Carlton, to his retainer, Sir Robert Hilton*. The latter’s father had recently married Sir John Godard’s widow, Constance, who was herself a sister-in-law of the late Lord Aldeburgh, so there were strong reasons for pressing the claims of Godard’s daughter, Agnes, as a suitable wife for Brian. She brought him a sizeable estate in the Lincolnshire villages of Conisholme and Cockerington, thus consolidating his position in the county.2
Round about 1397 Elizabeth herself decided to remarry, taking as her second husband the distinguished Westmorland knight, Sir Richard Redmayne*. Already a man of considerable authority, Sir Richard rose to occupy an important position in the north after the Lancastrian coup d’état. He was, naturally enough, anxious to reinforce his growing influence through the acquisition of property; and the birth of children to him and Elizabeth gave him a welcome pretext to further his territorial ambitions by disinheriting Brian in favour of his own offspring. In 1401 he obtained permission from Henry IV for Elizabeth’s share of the Aldeburgh estates to be entailed upon their two sons, thus leaving Brian with nothing more than a reversionary interest in the property. These arrangements were implemented over the next six years while Brian was still a minor. Although he could not gain permanent control of his stepson’s other estates, Sir Richard was at least able to use his connexions at Court to obtain temporary rights of wardship. In August 1403, the King permitted him to occupy the manor of Kentmere, which was then worth at least £46 p.a., rent-free, while paying £70 a year for the rather more productive manor of Carlton. Two years later, moreover, the farm was reduced even further, so that his only obligation was to meet the annual allowance of £20 already assigned to the boy’s guardian, Sir Robert Hilton. There is some reason to believe that Redmayne later regretted the shabby way in which his stepson was treated. In his will of 1425, for example, he settled the two manors of Kereby and Kirkby Overblow upon Brian’s young son and heir as compensation for his lost inheritance, although the grant was none the less made conditional upon his readiness to abandon any title to Harewood or the other Aldeburgh estates. Furthermore, Sir Richard took a keen interest in Brian’s career, hoping, no doubt, to atone for his earlier behaviour by exerting influence on his behalf.3
Sir Richard may well have been instrumental in helping Brian to obtain livery of his patrimony before he actually came of age. His mother retained the manor of Rufforth as dower, but fortunately for Brian only a modest settlement had been made upon her when she married his father, and the rest of the Stapleton estates descended directly to him. In November 1407, the Crown allowed him to enter the property without the necessary formalities; and in the following year he took possession, unopposed, of the Yorkshire holdings of his nephew, John Stapleton (who had died young). Nor do there seem to have been any official objections to plans set forward by Brian’s trustees in 1410 for the endowment of a chantry at Carlton, where prayers were to be said for King Henry and his first wife, Mary de Bohun. At about this time, Brian Stapleton offered securities of £200 in Chancery on behalf of William Dengaine, but otherwise he seems to have played little part in the affairs of friends or neighbours. His only son, Brian, was born at Carlton in November 1413, by which date he may already have been hoping to arrange a marriage for his daughter Elizabeth, then a child of nine. She was eventually betrothed to William Plumpton†, the eldest son of the Yorkshire landowner, Sir Robert Plumpton*, who agreed to settle an estate in Kinoulton, Nottinghamshire, upon the pair. Stapleton himself contracted in January 1416 to pay Sir Robert 360 marks, as well as maintaining the young couple in his own home, although some of their expenses were to be met by the Plumptons. He had by then been knighted, probably while serving with his half-brother, Richard Redmayne, on Henry V’s first expedition to France. During the autumn campaign of 1415, Brian took at least eight prisoners, each of whom subsequently received safe conducts from the King to enable them to negotiate their ransoms. Meanwhile, on 6 Nov. 1415, just two days after the opening of Parliament, Sir Richard Redmayne was elected Speaker for the Commons, probably because of his close connexion with John, duke of Bedford, the custos regni. By the time the next Parliament was summoned for March 1416, Sir Richard was, however, again in office as sheriff of Yorkshire, and thus in a strong position to influence the choice of representatives. Although not himself eligible to stand for Yorkshire, he at least ensured that both Sir Brian and his friend, Sir Robert Plumpton, were returned by the electors. Sir Robert, too, was one of Bedford’s retainers, and despite the fact that evidence of any formal contract between Sir Brian and the duke remains wanting, it seems more than likely that Sir Richard Redmayne had introduced his stepson into the ducal household. Certainly, on being received into the confraternity of St. Albans abbey in October 1417, Bedford’s first request was for prayers on behalf of Sir Brian, who had just been killed in France.4
The main aim of the first 1416 Parliament was to secure adequate funding for another, more permanent invasion of France. Sir Brian was naturally anxious to take part in such a venture, and even before the Commons assembled he had begun setting his affairs in order by appointing a new panel of trustees, headed by his stepfather, Sir Richard, towards whom he bore surprisingly little rancour. Although Henry V did not launch his second major offensive until the following year, Sir Brian seems to have resumed soldiering in earnest almost at once. In May 1416, for example, he sailed with the English fleet which dispersed a large contingent of French warships at the mouth of the Seine; and later references to desertions from his retinue in France suggest that he was on garrison duty at Harfleur or Calais during the following autumn. When the royal army set sail from Southampton in July 1417, Sir Brian and his following of 23 armed men mustered in the retinue of Thomas, earl of Salisbury, under whose command they went on to take the castle of d’Auvillars. Having captured Caen with comparative ease, the English forces set out to invest Alençon, and it was during this march, on 13 Oct., that Sir Brian met his death at the hands of the enemy. His body was sent home for burial at the church of the Dominicans in York.5
Since the young Brian Stapleton was then only four years old, the family again experienced another long minority. The boy became a ward of John, duke of Bedford, whom he was to serve loyally in both England and France. Brian eventually married a daughter of Sir Thomas Rempston II* (who was, in turn, closely connected with the Plumptons), and eventually represented Yorkshire in the Parliaments of 1437 and 1453-4. In addition to Elizabeth, already mentioned above, Sir Brian left two other daughters, one of whom became the wife of Sir William Ingleby. His mother did not long survive him, but his stepfather, Sir Richard Redmayne, lived on until 1425, retaining control of her dower properties in Rufforth, as well as the manor of Harewood, the descent of which he had, of course, previously secured for his own children. Perhaps anticipating his own early death, Sir Brian had made a generous settlement upon his wife, Agnes, who enjoyed a more than comfortable widowhood for the next 31 years.6
Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
It is important not to confuse this MP with his kinsman and namesake, Sir Brian Stapleton of Ingham in Norfolk, who also fought in France during the reign of Henry V (H.E. Chetwynd-Stapylton, Stapletons of Yorks. 104-8).
- 1. Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. 163-5; CP, i. 101-3; Chetwynd-Stapylton, 143; Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. lxiii. 88; C136/85/36; C139/63/18, 130/14.
- 2. Chetwynd-Stapylton, 119-41; C136/85/36; CP, i. 101-2; Clay, 163-5; Cal. Scots. Docs. iv. no. 454; CCR, 1402-5, p. 326; C139/47/5, 130/14.
- 3. CPR, 1399-1401, p. 476; 1401-5, p. 253; 1405-8, pp. 42, 53-54; CCR, 1405-9, p. 302; Yorks. Arch. Jnl. iv. 91-93; xviii. 266.
- 4. CPR, 1405-8, p. 385; 1408-13, p. 289; CCR, 1405-9, p. 302; 1409-13, pp. 112-13; C139/63/18, 134/24; Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. lix. 136; Plumpton Corresp. (Cam. Soc. iv), p. xliv; Cott. Nero DVII, f. 144; DKR, xliv. 579, 586-8.
- 5. Chetwynd-Stapylton, pp. 142-3; Yorks. Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. lxiii. 88; CCR, 1413-19, pp. 321-2; Gesta Hen. V ed. Williams, 267; Coll. Top. et Gen. iv. 76.
- 6. C138/26/27; C139/63/18, 130/14; CPR, 1416-22, p. 331; Yorks. Arch. Jnl. iv. 92-93; xviii. 266; Chetwynd-Stapylton, 143.
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Winston Peters' member's bill to amend the Reserve Bank Act will be voted down at its first reading today but it has helped ignite debate over whether the act's focus on fighting inflation is now damaging the economy.
Mr Peters' bill would mean that rather than primarily focusing on controlling inflation, the Reserve Bank Governor would also have to consider the rate of economic growth, including exports, the value of the dollar, and employment when setting interest rates with the official cash rate (OCR).
United Future's Peter Dunne and Act's John Banks this week said they would vote with National against the bill, but Mr Peters still welcomed the opportunity to debate the issue.
He says the current focus on inflation means the OCR is set far higher that it should be and that is driving the dollar so high the export sector is being devastated.
"We're an export-dependent nation like few others are and therefore your monetary policy should be designed around an acknowledgment of that fact rather than just blind ideology.
"Inflation has not been a problem in this economy in a long time ... you've got to have a far wider range of issues about which the Reserve Bank Governor should be concerned when setting the rate."
But while Mr Dunne dismissed Mr Peters' bill as "populist garbage", the Reserve Bank's current orthodox monetary policy is becoming "a rarity in the global economy" according to Bernard Doyle, a New Zealand-based strategist for Australian broking house JBWere.
"Unfortunately, in a world where the major central banks are breaking all the rules, this is not an advantage," Mr Doyle said.
Labour will support Mr Peters' bill, and finance spokesman David Parker said the US was deliberately devaluing its currency through "quantitative easing" which means increasing the amount of money in circulation.
Other countries, including those using the euro, Britain and the Swiss were doing similar things which devalued their currencies and effectively drove the New Zealand dollar to "levels divorced from the fundamentals of our economy".
But the Reserve Bank Act's focus on inflation meant the bank could do little about it.
"New Zealand faces competitive devaluation abroad and we ignore it at our peril."
Prime Minister John Key this week confirmed National would vote against Mr Peters' bill. He said the Reserve Bank's policy targets agreement had been reviewed recently as required by appointment of the new Governor Graham Wheeler who replaces Alan Bollard this month.
However any changes to the Reserve Bank's focus were "very modest".
"We're comfortable we're on the right track."
Q&A Monetary policy
What is monetary policy?
Regulating economic activity primarily through manipulation of the interest rates via the official cash rate (OCR).
What is the OCR?
The benchmark interest rate set by the Reserve Bank which influences commercial banks' mortgage and other lending and deposit rates.
How does it work?
The Reserve Bank acts as a bank to the commercial banks which are able to borrow or deposit as much money with it as they like at interest rates closely related to the official cash rate.
How does it affect inflation?
Higher interest rates encourage consumers and business to curb borrowing, save more and spend less, reducing demand and reducing upward pressure on prices. Lower interest rates encourage borrowing and spending, increasing demand and driving prices higher.
How does the OCR affect the exchange rate?
When interest rates in New Zealand are higher than those in other countries, our dollar becomes more attractive to international investors who can buy it to benefit from those higher rates of return. Increased demand for the New Zealand dollar pushes it higher relative to other currencies.
Why is our high dollar hurting exporters?
A stronger New Zealand dollar means exporters receive fewer of them for their products. If they raise prices to compensate, demand for their products falls.
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Former Minister Lalith Athulathmudali's 70th birth
anniversary falls tomorrow:
REMEMBERED: A British MP, Cyril Smith, MBE - famous for his
sense of humour - related the following story in an after dinner speech.
"Mrs. Thatcher passed on and knocked on the Gates of Heaven but St.
Peter, after asking for her name, sends her down below. Some four days
later, there is a knock on the Gates of Heaven. St. Peter goes and finds
the devil standing there.
"What do you want?", asked St. Peter.
"Oh", says the Devil, "I have come to seek political asylum".
One might wonder what this fictitious story has got to do with Lalith
Athulathmudali. I would say 'very much'.
As the story seeks to depict, the 'Iron Lady' brooked no opposition
and not many said 'No' to her and got away unscathed. Mr. Athulatmudali
belongs to that few who had the courage to say 'No', and win her
The occasion was the high level bilateral talks in Colombo during
Mrs. Thatcher's visit to Sri Lanka, to declare open the Victoria dam.
As usual, Mrs. Thatcher had been fully briefed on the bilateral
economic issues, particularly by her loyal supporters in the private
sector - in this case the British shipping lobby.
One item on the agenda for discussion was the allocation of a
restricted number of containers by the Central Freight Bureau to British
Mr. Athulathmudali, who was generally several steps ahead of his
opponents, anticipated the questions and was ready with the defence.
Politely but firmly, the British delegation was reminded that just as
many developed countries, including the United Kingdom, developed their
fleets with substantial government financial assistance, a developing
country like Sri Lanka which cannot afford to provide financial
assistance, had to provide cargo assistance to develop a national fleet
and one which would be sympathetic to our export trade.
He also emphasised that the government's economic policy was open but
not free just as in any developed country with a market economy.
Although no increase in cargo allocation for British lines was promised,
Mrs. Thatcher could not help admiring a Sri Lankan Minister who fought
for his country's rights, just as she did on every national issue during
The late Robert Senanayake enjoyed repeating the remarks of a German
ship-owner after an encounter with Mr. Athulathmudali in the ministry
A very powerful delegation from the Ceylon, UK and Continental
Conferences, led by their veteran Chairman, held talks with the Minister
on a proposal to increase freight rates on our exports, as well as to
secure more cargo for their vessels.
Mr. Athulathmudali, the brilliant lawyer he was, listened without
offering a word, causing some discomfort and anxiety to the delegation.
The Chairman of the delegation, however, was emboldened by the
Minister's silence and made a few leading statements which were
factually incorrect. That was all the Minister required to demolish the
Chairman's entire case for the two demands.
The delegation left the conference room poorer than when they walked
in, because the Minister proved the case for a reduction in rates,
rather than an increase.
While the delegation was trooping out of the ministry building, the
leader had asked his German colleague what his perception was of the
discussions. "Operation was successful, but the patient is dead" was his
reply, according to the late Robert Senanayake.
I witnessed Mr. Athulathmudali's compassion, sense of humour, his
remarkable ability to restore order even in the most chaotic situations
and as quickly as changing scenes on a television screen.
One such scenario occurred in Hong Kong at a cocktail party hosted by
the millionaire Thomas Cheung, a well-known friend of Sri Lanka.
The party was held to promote Sri Lanka's 'Flag of Opportunity' ship
registry. The guests were the leading ship owners of Hong Kong and their
A Sri Lankan living in Hong Kong was invited by Mr. Cheung to
introduce the Minister and to make a short speech.
Nervously he walked to the microphone and the only words which
escaped from his mouth were 'ladies and gentlemen'. The deafening
silence which followed lasted a very embarrassing five minutes or so.
Mr. Athulathmudali then grabbed the microphone and said "ladies and
gentlemen, if my friend was asked to introduce a cabaret artist, he
would have described even her full anatomy. But when the poor man was
asked to introduce a politician, quite understandingly he didn't know
where to begin."
When normalcy was restored after a hearty laugh by everybody, the
Minister made such a convincing case for our ship registry that, within
a few months, over 80 ships were registered under the 'Flag of
Opportunity' scheme, which contributed to our invisible earnings, as
well as employment, particularly for our seafarers.
I had the pleasure of accompanying the Minister on several overseas
visits. On each such visit, I returned richer in knowledge gathered from
discussions with the Minister, even though poorer financially. One such
visit was to Buenos Aires to attend the 'Group of 77 Preparatory
Meeting' for UNCTAD VI.
One afternoon the Minister and I went down to the reception desk in
the hotel, to hand over our room keys before leaving for the conference
There was a note for me at the desk, but it was in Spanish. When I
tried to give it to the receptionist for a translation, the multilingual
Minister volunteered and read "This is to confirm our meeting at ten,
signed Barbara - whoever she may be," added the Minister, with a
mischievous smile on his face.
Rather than thank the Minister for his free translation, I sought to
dispel any misgivings by stating that Barbara was a freelance reporter
for UPI who wanted to interview me since I was appointed to be the
spokesman for the 'Group of 77' on shipping at UNCTAD VI to be held in
Belgrade in June that year.
The Minister smiled again and said, "By the way, she has failed to
mention whether it is 10 a.m. or 10 p.m. So if it is 10 a.m. give her a
good cup of Sri Lankan tea (which we always carried to be given as
gifts), but if it is 10 p.m. you will have to settle for Argentinean
At that point I realised that silence was golden.
On yet another occasion, five of us were returning via Zurich and
dead tired after attending UNCTAD meetings which usually ended at 2 a.m.
or 3 a.m. One of my colleagues had several pieces of hand luggage and,
after checking our baggage, he screamed that two bags were missing.
When he started frantically to search for the bags, one of my friends
detected that the Minister was carrying my friend's bags. What a
contrast it was to some protocol conscious Ministers!
Perhaps the most memorable scene was in an aircraft, when the
Minister, Mrs. Athulthmudali, and their six-month-old baby were
travelling back to Colombo from Geneva.
In the early hours around one a.m., a Sri Lankan friend who was
seated by my side, pinched me to show Mr. Athulathmudali feeding his
daughter with a bottle of milk. Neither the Minister nor his unassuming
wife entrusted this to a stewardess who would have gladly obliged.
As an official who had the opportunity of working under Mr.
Athulthmudali, I witnessed at first hand his outstanding performance as
a speaker at international gatherings, his ability to inspire and win
the respect of his officials at all ministerial meetings and his
qualities of a sincere friend enjoyed by all his officials.
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A proposal by Democrats redefining Colorado elections rules to include same-day voter registration and ballots by mail to all voters is on its way to the governor’s desk.
Furious about Democratic-proposed election changes, Colorado Senate Republicans pushed debate past midnight Wednesday arguing against same-day registration and sending ballots by mail to all registered voters before the bill received initial approval.
Colorado Democrats advanced an elections overhaul Thursday that includes mailing ballots to every registered voter and allowing same-day registration — proposed changes that have Republicans nervous about the potential benefit to Democrats.
Colorado election clerks want lawmakers to consider mailing ballots to all registered voters and look at moving the registration deadline closer to elections.
More than a fifth of Colorado voters have already cast their ballots, with slightly more Republicans voting than Democrats.
Monday was the first day Coloradans could vote early and last Monday was when mail-in ballots went out. But there are things to remember when either voting in person or through the mail.
The dust up between Secretary of State Scott Gessler and Colorado’s County Clerks and Recorders may seem like a minor story, but if Colorado lives up to its swing state status, it may become a far bigger national story.
Rep. Diana DeGette took a shot at Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler on Saturday. She says he’s turned Colorado into Ground Zero for voter rights suppression.
Colorado’s Secretary of State is suing the City and County of Denver over mail-in ballots.
Tuesday is Election Day in Denver, and citizens are casting votes in the mayor’s race, as well as City Council races and other city offices.
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- Special Sections
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As Congress considers repealing the Obama administration’s healthcare bill, public discourse has returned to discussions about end-of-life care.
In a Newsweek article, published Sept, 12, 2009, called “The Case for Killing Granny” Editor at Large Evan Thomas shared thoughts about his own mother’s decline, loss of quality of life and finally death from emphysema. But Thomas doesn’t stop there, he makes a case for rationing healthcare for the elderly.
“A significant portion of the savings will have to come from the money we spend on seniors at the end of life because ... that’s where the money is,” writes Thomas.
Thomas’ argument may make dollars and cents when it comes to Medicare $avings, but it is a reminder that those of us who value the sanctity of life must not be silent. Whether one lives or dies is not our decision, and should never be the decision of bureaucrats.
“As President Obama said, most of the uncontrolled growth in federal spending and the deficit comes from Medicare; nothing else comes close,” Thomas continues. “Almost a third of the money spent by Medicare—about $66.8 billion a year—goes to chronically ill patients in the last two years of life.”
Death with dignity for the terminally ill is an emotional and heart-wrenching issue, but the talk of mandatory end-of-life counseling, which some call death panels, is disturbing. In 1999, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of giving a fatal injection to a 52-year-old man who had Lou Gehrig’s disease, but Kevorkian boasted of assisting more than 130 suicides in the 1990s.
I believe that all life has value and fulfills a purpose whose greatness is beyond our feeble understanding. From gray swirls pictured in an ultrasound film to the lone gray-haired soul who spends day-after-day in a hospital bed, with no one to hold their bony hand or sooth their brow with a moist cloth. Those lives are just as valuable as those of us who are actively contributing to society.
When my Granny Cochran was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, she displayed courage and grace that amazed all of us who knew and loved her.
Sylvia Lee Knight Cochran was a woman of considerable size who loved to tell about her birth in 1908. “I was the size of a dinner knife,” she said with a grin and her brown-black eyes flashing. “Mommy and Poppy kept me in a shoe box,” she would continue. And her ample body draped in a sleeveless moo-moo would jiggle, as she gave a hardy laugh.
After Grandpa died, Granny gave up her home and made several moves, but ended up in a mobile home in my parent’s side yard. There she kept busy ordering from catalogues: Sears, Lane Bryant and Romans, and then—she mailed back whatever it was she ordered. In fact, my Dad said that she had returned so many things to the mail order companies that they were confused—they didn’t know if she was ordering from them, or they were ordering from her.
As years went by, her childlike spirit endured, and sometimes she confused fact and fiction. Perhaps she wasn’t a pillar of wisdom, teaching us about life, but as she approached the end of her life in 1996, she was an astounding example of God’s provision for dying grace.
“Cancer—I’m just et up with it,” she said to her telephone friend as we sat around her cranked up hospital bed. We listened to her conversation, feeling like eavesdroppers on a telephone party-line—we reacted awkwardly, as if she was already dead.
“You need to move that stuff off the extra bed, cause when people come for my funeral, they may need to sleep in there,” Granny said, as if to let us know that she hadn’t departed yet.
We were amazed, that she was dying with much more courage than she had lived.
“You all need my cream pie recipe,” she said continuing her orders. “I found that little Pillsbury cookbook in the trash when I worked at the Dime store. Bring me my old black pocketbook; the deed to the trailer is in there.”
In life, she taught us to clutch onto the childlike wonder that we all start out with. And in death—she showed us that dying with dignity doesn’t mean assisted suicide or euthanasia.
I would hate to think of her last months cut short, and we would have missed all she had to teach us about facing death. Perhaps that time wasn’t for her at all; but for us. So, when I hear all this talk about dying with self-worth, I can’t help but recall her precious final days and I often think: Dr. Death (Kevorkian), you weren’t needed here—cause Granny died with dignity.
Granny Cochran’s Coconut Cream Pie
1 pint milk 2 Tbl. coconut 1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs 3 Tbl. Flour pinch salt
½ C. sugar 1 Tbl. Butter
Make custard of the milk: heated with butter, flour, egg yolks, sugar and vanilla; also a pinch of salt. Cook until this thickens, remove from fire and add the coconut. Have a pie tin lined with a baked pastry, put in the filling, whip egg whites with 2 tablespoons of sugar, spread over top of pie and sprinkle with coconut. Put in oven (350 degrees) until it becomes a light brown.
(Linda Lawrence is the editorial assistant for the Grant County News. She can be reached at email@example.com.)
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Placer Hills Fire District announces rotating brownouts
Fire district faces budget shortfall
The Placer Hills Fire District will begin rotating brownouts on Dec. 1.
District officials said the situation is the result a $150,000 budget shortfall.
"It affects us because it increases our response times to the citizens of out area who we serve," said Captain Matt McCarthy of the Placer Hills Fire District.
The district consists of three stations. One is volunteer, the other two are staffed. The staffed stations will now serve the community on a rotation. This means the Meadow Vista Station will stay open for a month while the Weimar station is closed, the following month the Meadow Vista Station will close while the Weimar station is open.
"Station 84 is in Meadow Vista and that about a six- to seven-minute response time to Weimar," said McCarthy.
The Placer Hills fire district protects 12,000 people in Applegate, Clipper Gap, Eden Valley, Meadow Vista and Weimar.
People who live and work in the area tell us they are concerned about what this will mean for them.
"I think it's wrong," said Julia McFarland of Weimar.
"It seems absurd that they would even consider doing it," said David Dickerson of Meadow Vista.
Others fear a slowed response time to a fire could translate to a hit to the wallet.
"We just bought a house. I'm concerned that our insurance rates will go up," said Maureen Berreridge of Meadow Vista.
A ballot measure that would have raised local taxes by about $79 a year to make up the fire district's budget shortfall failed in a June election.
Copyright 2012 by KCRA.com All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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That is probably the prime reason that religion evolved. To create a structured theme that all in a group adhere to.
Of course, the job of money itself is to help define and separate. The rich, the poor, the entrepreneurs, the working class, etc. It creates a conflict of interest in the same social groups that are held together by the common bond of religion. Everything is perfect in the world right now, financially, but I can see where this could eventually cause problems. (Note to any religious person reading this: that was a joke.)
And too, some want the common bond of religion to expand out and become the common bond of law, so that those not in the religious group are still forced to pretend they are.
This is all too complex. Being prejudiced and selfish should be much easier.
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This Lanvin evening dress combines the feel of an Eastern European with the fashionable sensibilities of the 1920s. Her couture technique of reversing the embroidery is masterfully executed.Jeanne Lanvin was apprenticed to a milliner and a dressmaker before opening her own millinery shop in 1889. She expanded into dressmaking when her clients began asking for the ensembles in which she adorned her daughter, Marguerite di Pietro (1897-1958). Her style embodied the femininity of youth in a most modern way with meticulous and relatively sparse surface embellishments and robe de style silhouettes, which could be worn by women of all ages. Lanvin's aptitude can be seen through her house's 1920s expansion into fur, lingerie, men's wear, household goods and perfume. She even had the forethought to open her own dye factory which produced the inimitable 'Lanvin blue.' The longevity of the House of Lanvin can be credited to her attentive management and design standards from its inception.
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'Most Expensive Section of Road' in Strongsville to be Fixed
Repairs to Albion will top $600,000
The city has hired a contractor to fix a crumbling section of Albion Road that has kept the street closed since May 2011.
The long-in-coming repair has been delayed for two reasons, officials said:
• It's a complicated piece of engineering that will require 40 pylons to shore up an embankment.
• It's expensive -- about $650,000.
"It's probably the most expensive section of road, per foot, in town," Ward 4 Councilman Scott Maloney said.
The road has been closed at the Albion Woods picnic area, near Valley Parkway, since May 10, 2011, when officials noticed the road had crumbled down a hillside.
It has since deteriorated further, with cracks running almost to the middle of the road.
City Engineer Ken Mikula said an engineering firm has determined the best way to handle the problem is to install 40 pylons to shore up the pavement.
Mikula said the steepness of the slope next to the road, coupled with water runoff, created the erosion problem.
He said this week that he will meet soon with the contractor to determine a timetable for the road work.
Meanwhile, that stretch of road will stay closed, with barricades at Handle Road on the east side and at Valley Parkway on the west.
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There are a lot of great books out there already to introduce Perl to newbies, including the authoritative O'Reilly series.
One interesting spin could be a very low-level/lengthy introduction. Such as a dialogue on the difference between chop and chomp - the Camel book just hits the surface on that one.
And then there's version 6 coming out down the road, which I could also see explaining to newbies (this would be one of the advantages of the "syntactical sugar").
If it does come to be that I write a book, I have been thinking a lot about undertaking such a project. I don't know why - perhaps it's a genetic trait of a technical geek to leave something of him/herself behind for others to read and learn from. I've heard the horror stories - the massive amounts of time put into it and very little payback. But it's something that has fascinated me for a while.
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Thahn Nguyen's family has owned the DC Gas Station for about 15 years. In all of those years welcoming customers, they've also had a share unwelcome visitors.
"About ten years ago my mom did get robbed once and ever since then we exercise our right to open carry," Nguyen said.
Nguyen says the shooting at another convenience store shows how some gas station attendants are willing to fight back.
"it sends a message that we are willing to protect ourselves when push comes to shove, but it's unfortunate that a man had to die for store owners to be able to stand up for that right." Nguyen said.
While most stores have signs prohibiting concealed carry, the DC Gas Station actually welcomes it.
"My brother and I all carry. Normally we open carry," Nguyen said. "Somebody comes in on a bad day and they want to come in and take anything they want, we are always going to defend it. I don't want to hurt anybody or take anybody's lives, when push comes to shove I will defend my safety.
The robbery reminded Nguyen of the dangers of his job and the need to be prepared.
"If it happens down the street it can happen down here anytime," Nguyen said.
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How to get on the employment ladder by Tracey Morewood
Price: $15.00 USD. 66590 words.
Language: English. Published on April 23, 2012. Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Careers / job hunting.
(5.00 from 1 review)
An indepth guide to gaining employment, from your C.V to interview skills. Written by an Employability Tutor who has a proven track record of getting people back into work. Every step you need to take to gain employment and more is within this book. So get reading, and get a job!
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Funcionarios de la Autoridad de Transportación Metropolitana (MTA) del Condado de Los Ángeles el 24 de febrero dijeron que la agencia espera a finales de este año ponerle un fin a un debate de décadas acerca de cómo cerrar la brecha entre la autopista Long Beach (710) y Foothill (210)
Metro anunció que ha completado una larga fase de investigación sobre la congestión del tráfico en las autopistas cercanas y los caminos creados por la brecha, que se extiende desde Alhambra, donde termina la autopista 710, hasta Pasadena. La fase de alcance anterior también reunió datos sobre los patrones de tráfico y el uso de transporte público en el área del proyecto, que fue ampliado en comparación a estudios anteriores.
A finales de 1990, el estado estaba a punto de construir una carretera para cerrar la brecha cuando obtuvo la aprobación federal de Caltrans para un proyecto que luego fue derrotado en última instancia por una demanda, de acuerdo con los funcionarios de Metro.
Frank Quan, el director ejecutivo de Metro para los programas de las carreteras, djio que la agencia está considerando una amplia gama de opciones para aliviar los problemas causados por la brecha, no sólo una nueva carretera elevada. Él dijo que la agencia también está considerando una carretera subterránea, expansión de trenes y de bus, o una opción de doble de carretera y vía de ferrocarril. Quan dijo que mejorar las carreteras existente en la zona hace nada si las otras alternativas no están sobre la mesa.
“Estamos dando un nuevo enfoque, a partir de este con una pizarra limpia, estamos reorganizando el propósito y las necesidades de este proyecto”, dijo Quan.
Metro comenzará su nueva análisis alternativa y la fase de evaluación del medio amiente con dos reuniones de una serie esta semana.
La reunión de hoy, 1 de marzo, será de 6 a 8 pm en Ramona Hall Community Center, ubicada en 4580 N Figueroa St., Los Ángeles 90065.
Otra reunión, con información idéntica, será el sábado, 3 de marzo, y se llevará a cabo de 10 am a mediodía en la Biblioteca Pública del Este de Los Ángeles, ubicada en 4837 E 3rd St., Los Ángeles 90022.
Ambos lugares son accesibles usando transporte público. Niños son bienvenidos en las reuniones, Metro ofrecerá actividades para ellos.
Los residentes que no puedan asistir pueden ver la reunión en la Internet en la página web www.ustream.tv/channel/sr710envstudy.
Para obtener más información visite http://www.metro.net/projects/sr-710-conversations/upcoming-meetings/
When you ask tourists what they want to see when visiting Los Angeles, it’s likely the first sites that come to mind are the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Beverly Hills, Disneyland and other well-known attractions. Two weeks ago, however, teachers from around the country and from abroad had the opportunity to explore and learn a little about the history and development of a place in Los Angeles that is not mentioned in tourist brochures: unincorporated East Los Angeles.
Lea esta nota EN ESPAÑOL: Maestros Conocen la Historia del Este de Los Ángeles
The teachers were part of the Small Schools Network— an organization of educators from different academic areas working with students from diverse ethnic communities—which emphasizes that education is the most effective means to combat “prejudice with compassion, indifference with participation, and myth and misinformation with knowledge.”
The Eastside Heritage Consortium and the Survey of Important Places in East LA (SIP-ELA), as part of an effort to eliminate the negative images of gang violence and blight that have long plagued the area, sponsored the tour.
The tour started off at Animo Jackie Robinson High School, where teachers watched videos on events related to the history of East Los Angeles, particularly during the vibrant and tumultuous 1960’s and 70s. They also listened to a presentation by filmmaker and educator Manuel Huerta, and Laura Dominguez, a historic preservation student at USC, who spoke about the sites included in the tour that they called “a heritage trail of ELA.”
“A tour like this has never been done in East L.A”, said Huerta. “There is a lot of history of activism and resistance that is particular to East L.A. There is also a huge artistic movement that has to do with music, muralism.”
The visit included places such as Laguna Park, which was renamed Ruben Salazar Park in honor of the Latino journalist who was killed by a Sheriff’s tear gas projectile while covering the Chicano Moratorium, an anti-war and civil rights protest on August 29, 1970.
There, they observed a mural painted by Paul Botello, titled “Wall that talks, sings and shouts,” and listened to the explanation of it’s meaning by the artist.
“This mural in particular was inspired by the culture of my community,” said Botello. “I wanted to be able to educate people and share a positive image of a community that sometimes doesn’t have a positive image,” he said of his colorful artwork.
Other sites visited were the Maravilla Handball Court, the oldest court of its type in the County of Los Angeles that still stands, and the former headquarters of Self Help Graphics where Ofelia Esparza delighted audiences with anecdotes about her artwork and the history of the site.
“I’ve been here, but a long time ago, when I was a child,” said Rita Cortez, a religion teacher at Notre Dame High school in San Jose, CA. “I didn’t know anything about the history we have discovered. I think it’s important to the people because it gives them a sense of pride and identity.”
During the trip participants were able to see places such as the Anthony Quinn Library, built in the same place once occupied by the Academy Award winning actor’s home and the historic Golden Gate Theatre. They also visited the Whittier Boulevard Arch, a frequent site in movies and the entrance to a shopping district that years ago was the place for car cruising, and the Eddie Heredia Boxing Club, the gym where former boxing champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Oscar De La Hoya trained as a teenager.
“By doing academic projects, such projects also become agents of change, that is, by promoting life stories, cultural stories, we are doing social work while being part of the community, which is the most important thing,” said Dr. Yves Solis Nicot, academic coordinator of the Prepa Ibero, in Mexico City. “I think that this is also a learning experience we take with us, because it is a way to explain to a teenager in Mexico that it is no longer just important to send money [back to Mexico from the US], but that there is also a cultural link to be maintained that is as important as sending money back.”
The journey that lasted over two hours ended with a visit to the Mercado de Los Angeles, also known as “The Mercadito.” A mix of restaurants, stores and entertainers, the location gave the touring teachers an opportunity to enjoy the taste of Mexican food, as well as a little of the culture and traditions of Mexico still observed in Los Angeles.
“It was once in a lifetime chance to see something, a side of this part of Los Angeles that people don’t see,” said Molly Schen, co-director of the Facing History and Ourselves’ Small Schools Network.” I think people are afraid to go to East Los Angeles, but it’s a culturally vibrant place with a history we need to know.”
To get more information about the East L.A. heritage trail tour, contact Manuel Huerta at email@example.com
An earlier version of this story misspelled Molly Shen’s name.
A 36-year old parent and computer engineer was picked out of a field of 17 candidates to become the newest member of the Montebello Unified School District Board of Education Tuesday afternoon.
Paul Montoya will take over the seat left vacant by the death of board member Marcella Calderon. He will serve until Nov. 2013, at which point he will be required to run for election to serve out the remainder of Calderon’s four year term. Montoya was officially sworn in Wednesday morning. A ceremonial swearing-in will be held Thursday at 7pm in the district board’s meeting chamber.
The school board, saying it would be cost prohibitive to hold an election estimated to cost $150,000, decided to appoint a provisional member to the board.
Had the board members not appointed someone by March 1, an election would have been required, as it was in 1999 when Tom Calderon, the husband of the late Marcella Calderon, left his seat to move on to a position in the State Assembly.
Members of the community have 30 days from the date that a new board member is selected to petition for an election to be held.
At an interview session held this past Saturday, the 17 applicants who went up for the position displayed varying degrees of qualifications and political experience. The pool included former board members, volunteers in the PTA and other parent committees, MUSD employees, and those who have background in the political field or have worked for local politicians.
During his interview, Montoya said he has no “political aspirations.” He attended school in the district, volunteers in the surrounding community, and is the new parent of two young children.
“I have roots in this community, so I want to make sure my children have the best opportunities available to them,” said Montoya, who attended Joseph Gascon Elementary School, Eastmont Intermediate, and Schurr High School.
He feels a board member’s job is to provide oversight, as well as to serve as a bridge between parents and the district. “I think it’s important to have parents on this board that are able to transmit the values of community to the rest of the organization,” he said.
Montoya said he is concerned about students who are interested in school when they are young, but seem to lose motivation as they became teenagers. “It’s sad to see apathy in some of the students… Is it the schools, the teachers? … There are a lot of different things that come into it, but I think that if we provide the structure, the guidelines for them to expand and excel, and to not be limited in their dreams… I think it’s something this district can do effectively,” he said, pointing to the new Applied Technology Center high school which he called a “bold move” that was spearheaded by former board member Marcella Calderon.
While Montoya has not been directly involved in district activities, he says he watched his own parents get involved while he attended schools in the district.
Several of the board members appeared impressed by Montoya, but said they did not know him personally. For Board President Hector Chacon who nominated Montoya, this was a good thing,
“This individual said we’re here to serve, we’re here to advocate for students. I have no political aspiration. I’m just a new parent. I just want to be here to help,” said Chacon, who said during the meeting that he would not vote for a former board member.
Meanwhile, Board Member Gerri Guzman, who cast the only no vote against Montoya’s appointment, said, “I don’t know him, I’m sorry,” only to find out too late that he is the son of Elena Montoya, whom she knows as an actively involved parent.
When it dawned on her, Guzman jokingly said to Montoya’s mother, who was sitting in the audience, “How rare of you not to say anything.”
Board Member David Vela has met Montoya personally in a different context and like Chacon, also cast him as a representative for parents.
“This individual has been involved in the Montebello Unified, East LA area for years, in particular the [Joseph Gascon Elementary School] community,” Vela said. “He has also been a volunteer in the community around Eastmont, so as my day job working for another elected official, I was able to meet this person… I thought at the end of the day it’s a parent that cares about the children.”
Each of the applicants were asked four questions on Saturday: Why they want to serve on the school board, what they think is the mission of the board, what they know about the district, and what they could contribute if they became a member of the board.
Montoya said he felt that even if parents did their best to get involved, their efforts would be “limited as far as how much you can do by yourself,” whereas becoming a member of the school board would allow someone like him to do more.
Montoya also said that through his IT job with the Los Angeles County, he has gained experience as a public servant, witnessing “first hand the value of what we can provide to the community at large.”
It’s contaminated, but they want it. The activists who fought back developers for the creation of the Rio de Los Ángeles State Park and the Los Angeles Historic State Park have their eyes set on a “crown jewel” of the LA River which a developer is currently interested in purchasing.
Read this story IN SPANISH: Activistas Fijan su Mirada en la ‘Joya’ para la Renovación Urbana de Los Ángeles
Anahuak Youth Sports Association and The City Project, long-time members of the Coalition for a State Park at Taylor Yard, and others want the parcel of land, which needs millions of dollars in remediation, to become part of the open space along the Los Angeles River.
It’s called Parcel G2 and is comprised of 44 acres currently owned by Union Pacific Railroad, and is located on the other side of the train tracks immediately adjacent to the Rio de Los Ángeles, not far from the new Sonia Sotomayor high school in Glassell Park.
The site on Kerr Street was a former rail operating facility and the soil and groundwater are contaminated from decades of rail use. The land is part of an ongoing Coastal Conservancy feasibility study for future habitat restoration, water quality remediation, flood hazard mitigation, wetlands restoration, and passive recreation uses, according to The LA River Project.
The developer, however, has entered a purchase option agreement with Union Pacific Railroad, with the intention of developing the land zoned for industrial use, The LA River Project states on their website.
“Given that the site’s severe access constraints and its proximity to the park, the school, and the river would make developing anything other than open space very difficult, some have speculated that they plan to purchase the land, then sell it to the state in order to realize a substantial, unearned profit. This purchase option expires at the end of June 2012,” the website states.
Sean Woods, California State Parks Superintendent for the Los Angeles Sector, sees the parcel as fertile land for urban renewal.
“This piece is now up for sale, its in contention right now. It’s 44 acres known as Parcel G 2 and many of us consider this the crown jewel in the acquisition of the future development of the river,” Woods told a group touring the Rio de Los Angeles Park on Feb. 25.
The parcel would contribute to a 100-acre riverfront park in a community that is park-poor, income poor and disproportionately Latino, according to Robert Garcia, founding director and counsel of The City Project.
Garcia recently submitted a comment on the draft Feasibility Study for the Taylor Yard G2 Parcel on behalf of Anahuak Youth Sports Association and The City Project.
According to Jeanne M. Garcia, public information officer with California Dept. of Toxic Substances Control, the “Feasibility Study is an evaluation of the alternatives for remediating any identified contamination (soil, groundwater, gas soil, etc),” which, when complete, would become “part of the Remedial Action Plan. At that point it would be “subject to notifications and public review and comments,” Garcia told EGP in an e-mail,
However, in his comment submitted Feb. 24, The City Project’s Robert Garcia said the Feasibility Study fails to provide a complete and accurate accounting of the extensive planning process to restore and revitalize the Los Angeles River, or the community’s consistent vision for G 2 for open space and recreation along the Los Angeles River.
“[The] Feasibility Study fails to take into consideration the full impact of the site’s contamination on human health and the environment and the various planning efforts for this important section of the River,” Garcia wrote.
Woods and Garcia admit the odds don’t look good but they, and community members, are not deterred.
“We don’t get involved unless it looks hopeless,” Garcia said, noting they got involved in the fight for Los Angeles Historic State Park when there was only 30-days left in its escrow to a developer. “We don’t start with the question ‘what’s the odds of winning?’ Loosing is not an option.”
“We’re going to put up a fight. The work we’ve done to date, for this to go to industrial development would just be a travesty,” Woods said.
However, remediation of Parcel G2 would cost upwards of $70 million, Woods said.
A current market value analysis taking into account accessing the location and contamination has been completed, and stakeholders and interested agencies are trying to cobble together money, like the Water Quality Bond money, to try to purchase the land, Woods said.
“My hope would be that the railroad would just give the contaminated land to the state and just walk away, take a huge tax break and we’ll figure it out later,” Woods said. Garcia added a land swap could also be a possibility.
The City of Los Angeles is park poor. It has just a little more than 30,000 acres of parks and open space and with a population of almost 4 million people, there is an average of 6.1 acres of parkland for every 1,000 residents, according to The Los Angeles Revitalization Master Plan.
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A monument installed Feb. 27 at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles commemorates Mexican-American U.S. citizens who were deported during the Great Depression era.
Lea esta nota EN ESPAÑOL: Monumento es un Recordatorio de un Capítulo Vergonzoso en la Historia de EE.UU.
The unveiling ceremony on Sunday, attended by civic leaders and elected official, included a formal apology from the State of California and the County of Los Angeles for their roles in the forced “repatriation” to Mexico of about two million Mexicans and Mexican-American citizens between 1929 and 1944.
“We were Americans citizens and there was no reason for us to be driven out of our country,” said Emilia Castaneda, who participated in the ceremony.
“We had to experience many difficulties and hardships to overcome this unjust expulsion,” Castaneda added.
“This mass exodus of our people during the Depression era was indeed a very dark period in our history — as a community — and as a nation,” U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said during the unveiling ceremony.
Solis said the reasons for the mass deportation of 80 years ago sound eerily similar to the rhetoric attacking undocumented immigrants heard today. She called the monument an important reminder:
“Especially now, as the rhetoric surrounding modern-day immigrants has become increasingly demonizing — and hauntingly similar to that of the Depression era. … You know that in tough economic times vulnerable communities are the easiest target for exploitation,” Solis said.
Several speakers noted that the stated purpose of the Mexican Repatriation Program was to ensure jobs for “real Americans.”
Former congressman and LA Plaza Board Chair Esteban Torres gave perhaps some of the most moving remarks during the ceremony. Torres recalled how his father was caught up in a raid while working at a mine in Miami New Mexico and was sent to Mexico. “I never saw him again,” said Torres, who was just six-years-old when his father was deported. He went on to tell the stories of several other family members, who like his father were illegally deported, but never told why.
The event, hosted by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and LA Plaza, included a panel of experts which drew comparisons between the repatriation with current views on immigrants.
“This remembrance has powerful lessons for today in the contemporary context of states and cities that have policies to terrorize the peaceful residents who live in our country,” said Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF.
“This event today is a formal apology from California to all those who were illegally deported and forced to emigrate to Mexico,” said retired Sen. Joseph Dunn, whose legislation, SB 670, was passed in 2005 and resulted in the state offering a formal apology and ordering a monument be made.
Supervisor Gloria Molina stressed the importance of the event as also recognizing a little studied chapter in history.
“Not only are we celebrating the apology by the state but LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes is also bringing to the fore a tragic piece of our history that was swept under the rug and cannot be found in our textbooks,” she said. LA Plaza is located across from Olvera Street, the site of one of the largest raids of the era.
Approximately 1.2 million of the people deported during the Mexican Repatriation program were born in the U.S., had U.S. citizens or legal residents, and not “illegal aliens” as they were labeled.
Francisco Valderrama, a University of California Los Angeles professor and co-author with Raymond Rodriguez of “A Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930’s”, explained the Mexican community was the “scapegoat” of the economic difficulties at the time.
In California alone, about 400,000 U.S. citizens or legal residents of Mexican origin were, as Dunn said passionately, “illegally deported” to Mexico.
The monument has been erected in LA Plaza’s courtyard, and reads: “The state of California presents an apology to these people who were victims of this ‘repatriation’ program for the fundamental violations of their basic freedoms and legal rights committed during the period of illegal deportation and forced migration.”
The Los Angeles Police Commission Tuesday approved a new policy for impounding the vehicles of unlicensed drivers, allowing offenders who have valid identification, car registration and proof of insurance to avoid a mandatory 30-day impound.
Under the policy, which was approved on a 4-1 vote, drivers who are at fault in an accident, or have prior convictions for driving unlicensed, will not qualify for a shortened impound.
Police Chief Charlie Beck, who proposed the policy with the backing of immigrants’ rights groups and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said the policy change was an attempt to eliminate confusion by officers in the field over two conflicting laws regarding when to impound a vehicle and for how long.
The LAPD impounded about 30,000 cars last year. About 85 percent of those were for violations of a state vehicle code that mandates a 30-day impound.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley sent a letter to the commission Tuesday stating that the policy violates state law and would make the city vulnerable to lawsuits.
A Feb. 11 memo by the state Legislative Council, which provides legal advice to state legislators, also questioned its legality.
But a deputy to City Attorney Carmen Trutanich told the commission that the city’s top prosecutor believes the proposed policy change is legal.
Deputy City Attorney Heather Aubrey told the commissioners during a brief exchange on the subject. “Both sections (of the state vehicle code) are discretionary impound statutes. Both are legally available to the department.”
During a news conference following the vote, Beck refuted criticism that the change encourages illegal immigrants to drive on city streets.
“This is not a free pass,” Beck said, adding that all drivers will be cited for infractions whether their vehicles are impounded or not and regardless of how long.
“This is just an attempt to get safer drivers in Los Angeles and an attempt to recognize that this (mandatory 30-day impound) is an extreme hardship on some individuals,” Beck said. “If the people that are suffering those hardships do the right thing, get insurance, they have ID, they don’t cause an accident, then their car will be impounded for less time.”
When asked about Cooley’s letter, Beck responded, “The district attorney is not my attorney.”
Commissioner Alan Skobin cast the lone dissenting vote. Citing a recent AAA study, Skobin said unlicensed drivers are involved in 5 percent of fatal accidents and are nine times more likely to be involved in a hit-and-run than licensed drivers.
“What that means is there’s a strong public safety interest in keeping the vehicles of the unlicensed driver off the streets,” Skobin said.
The commission did tweak Beck’s plan slightly to also ban unlicensed drivers who have existing warrants for traffic violations from being able to get shorter impound times.
The vote was opposed by the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing the department’s more than 9,000 officers.
“The rank-and-file is not happy,” LAPPL President Tyler Izen said.
“They think there are laws on the books that unlicensed drivers should have their cars impounded for 30 days.”
Izen said he doubts the new policy will increase the number of unlicensed drivers who get insurance.
“It remains a public safety issue for us,” he said.
The Police League filed a formal complaint last week with the department’s employee relations administrator, which kept the door open for the union to sue in a bid to block the policy. Izen did not rule out a lawsuit, but said the union’s board of directors would discuss the issue and the union’s options.
The City Council can use its authority to overrule the commission’s actions by a two-thirds majority vote by March 9.
Meanwhile, Beck reiterated his opinion Tuesday that the state should provide an alternate driver’s license to undocumented immigrants that would prove that they have passed physical and written tests to drive.
“I think that makes a lot of sense,” Beck said. “Why wouldn’t we want to ensure that they have personal responsibility when they operate motor vehicles, that they have the right training? That will make the road safer.”
Beck said last week that undocumented immigrants have no incentive to wait for or cooperate with authorities after a car crash, leaving legal citizens with damaged cars and pricey repairs. And no license often means no insurance, a problem in itself, he said.
“We have to deal with reality. Unlicensed drivers are an issue,” Beck said.
Unlicensed immigrant drivers have created what Beck called, “a de facto class of drivers outside of the law.” He said the state’s current policy has not reduced the number of undocumented immigrants driving without licenses, and that it is time to re-examine the issue.
Likewise, LA County Sheriff Lee Baca also said last week that he supports issuing drivers license to undocumented immigrants. In years past he supported a driver’s license with an “I” or something similar to identify its bearer as an undocumented immigrant, and to prevent it from being used to pass through airport security checkpoints.
Immigrant rights groups were opposed to such a license, seeing it as a way to stigmatize the recipient, and as a tool for discrimination.
Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, who is running for City Council, announced plans last week to try again to get a bill passed to create a driver’s license category for undocumented immigrants. Cedillo has introduced similar bills before that were vetoed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
EGP staff writers contributed to this story.
Prior to 1960 all motorists were allowed to apply for a driver’s license and they were given one if they met all the requirements.
This fact allowed police to identify drivers stopped for traffic infractions, found to be driving under the influence or without insurance or without a driver’s license. It also made it possible for those drivers to obtain auto insurance.
This newspaper has repeatedly endorsed the passage of legislation to allow undocumented residents to receive a California driver’s license if they pass all the tests and requirements needed to obtain one. As we have said again and again, it’s in the interest of safety that we believe all California drivers should be licensed.
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and LA County Sheriff Lee Baca among other officials have been frustrated by the fact that many drivers in accidents cannot always be identified, nor have they been able to stop people from driving without a license.
You can’t register a car or force a driver to get adequate insurance if the owner of the vehicle does not have a valid driver’s license. This makes little sense to us, since rather than improving public safety on our roads, the prohibition is actually causing unlicensed drivers out of fear of losing their car to violate more laws, such as fleeing the scene of an accident, event when not at fault.
The issue has been so vilified by those who are either anti- or pro-illegal immigrants, that it has become nearly impossible to discuss the policy without raising outrage.
Given that reality, we applaud those brave officials who have nonetheless dared address reality, and speak in favor of allowing undocumented immigrants to get a driver’s license as a matter of public safety.
An example of why its good to have all drivers licensed and all autos registered occurred on Tuesday night, when during a police pursuit of a driver who failed to stop ensued. Police were able to identify the car’s owner and address because the car was registered. They were able to identify the driver who didn’t own the car and get a name and address from his family. The pursuit ended with no violence whatsoever.
The idea of having two different kinds of licenses so that an undocumented immigrant can’t use it for identity purposes, such as one with “I” to identify someone as an immigrant, is sure to lead to racial or immigrant profiling, which should not be tolerated.
Allowing undocumented, unlicensed drivers who are undocumented to get a California driver’s license is a step toward safer roads, and one we are all for.
One of the fundamental tenets of life is that ‘you can’t get something for nothing.’ It’s a basic rule that everyone learns in kindergarten and most people adhere. It sets the parameters for how we conduct business. Unfortunately, there are always some challenges to this timeless adage, even at the literal expense of others, including neighbors.
Last week, the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) sought a court injunction to prevent a handful of local cities from further pumping groundwater because they have refused to pay their water bills, some for up to 10 consecutive months, and they now owe more than $5.3 million. The consequence of their withholding payment has shifted the financial burden of sustaining the region’s groundwater supply to the remaining paying cities from WRD’s service area that includes 43 cities and nearly 4 million residents. Without WRD maintaining the local groundwater supply, these 43 cities in southeast Los Angeles County would be forced to purchase imported water that is 3-4 times more expensive than groundwater.
One councilman in the City of Downey, Mario Guerra, recently stated publicly that his city will not pay the bills they owe because his city is among those challenging the process by which water rates were set as not purportedly complying with Prop 218. However, in written publications, the California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office has referred to the way Prop 218 applies to water assessments as a gray area. So instead of waiting for a final resolution from the courts, these handful of cities have snubbed case law and taken matters into their own hands by refusing to pay their bills. In fact, Mr. Guerra’s political spin is demanding that all money for which they purchased water dating back to 2006 be returned. Mr. Guerra is demanding something for nothing.
Ironically, the cities of Downey, Cerritos and Signal Hill have continued to collect money from customers in their respective cities despite their calculated decision to withhold payment to WRD for the very same water they use for everyday life. In fact, these cities have even turned off the water on customers for failure to pay their water bills. So should these cities be treated any differently than the way in which they treat their own customers? Moreover, should these cities be allowed to threaten the water supply for nearly 4 million people?
WRD believes these cities should not be treated any differently than anyone else. Consequently, after months of amicable requests to make payment on their respective water bills, WRD exercised its remaining enforcement remedies, as defined in the California Water Code §60339, that allows WRD to file for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against further pumping for any operator delinquent in the payment of a replenishment assessment.
Of course, the cities will still have access to other sources of water and residents will still have flowing faucets. The big difference, however, is that it will be at a significant increase in the cost of water to customers who never stopped paying their fair share, because unlike these handful of cities, their respective customers know that you can’t get something for nothing.
Albert Robles is president of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California Board of Directors.
Ruby Williams, a 78-year-old Aqua Pennsylvania customer, got stuck with a $40,000 water bill because of a serious leak in the pipes under her home in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania. After her situation garnered national media attention, the private company agreed to reduce her bill to a few hundred dollars.
Likewise, the Price family of Stallings, North Carolina recently had their sewage service cut off by Aqua North Carolina despite having paid an overdue bill. The company demanded $1,000 to restore it — hundreds of dollars more than the actual cost to do the work. Again, thanks to bad publicity and public outrage, Aqua backed down.
It’s not just American consumers that feel the pinch as our municipal water systems change from public to private hands — and it’s not just that Aqua America is one bad actor, either. Private interests worldwide increasingly control our water. Too often, customers are getting a raw deal.
Nestlé, Veolia, and Suez Environnement are just a few of the multinational corporations that either provide water services to our homes, bottle our communities’ spring water, or otherwise control the vast amounts of water needed to power our industries. All of us, like Ruby Williams and the Price family, will pay the price — unless we stop allowing them to turn our water into a commodity that they can exploit, and instead force our governments to do their jobs and protect our water resources.
Many economists, market-oriented environmentalists, and think tanks say we should let the market decide when it comes to water provision. They say that the higher the market value of water becomes, the more likely it is that people will use it wisely. That’s a thorny proposition for a public resource that has no substitution and that is essential for human life. As consumers have seen, market forces can create untenable burdens by driving up water rates.
At the most extreme, companies cornering the water market will price out the poor. As the planet’s population (7 billion and counting) and industrial development increases, entire freshwater lakes disappear, groundwater resources are drawn down, and technologies — including chemicals used in fossil fuel extraction — pollute water supplies. It doesn’t take a brilliant economist to recognize that water will become more valuable. That means the companies that control it will become richer.
Nearly 1 billion people worldwide already lack access to clean water and sanitation. Their numbers will increase.
It’s wrong to let the private sector drive water policy. But it’s already beginning to happen. This trend will be on full display in France at the World Water Forum, which begins March 12. Many of the same companies that increasingly control our water will be holding a corporate trade show disguised as a multi-stakeholder forum to create solutions for providing water to the world’s poor. Letting the private sector take the lead on these efforts is like letting the fox guard the henhouse.
After all, as consumers time and time again have experienced, corporations in the water business are accountable primarily to their shareholders, not the people they serve or the localities in which they operate. Conversely, public officials can be voted out if their constituents don’t like the services rendered.
All people deserve access to an adequate supply of clean water. Profits reaped from water services should be reinvested in the local community, not pocketed by shareholders half a world away. It’s in the public interest.
Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food & Water Watch. www.foodandwaterwatch.org Distributed via OtherWords.org.
Cantwell Sacred Heart of Mary High School will make its first-ever appearance in a CIF Southern Section boys basketball championship game Thursday when the Cardinals play top-seeded Pacific Hills for the 4A title at 3 p.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center.
The fourth-seeded Cardinals (28-4) used a third-quarter scoring onslaught that stunned No. 2 Ontario Christian last Friday in their 82-62 4A semifinal victory. Cantwell outscored Ontario Christian, 35-16, turning a 36-35 halftime lead into a 71-51 advantage heading into the fourth quarter.
Jose Estrada led the outburst by scoring 25 of his game-high 50 points in the third, including a stretch in which he scored 15 unanswered points. The 6-2 junior guard, who also had 10 rebounds, is averaging 30 points per game.
The Cardinals also got 13 points from Joe Covarrubias and 11 from Jacob Alaniz, and some stellar defensive play from Francisco Gutierrez in the post. Alaniz ignited Cantwell with two 3-pointers at the outset of the third quarter.
Coach George Zedan also got the Cardinals going with a halftime outburst of his own. “I was really upset in the first half because we weren’t playing smart basketball, so I let them have it,” said the first-year coach who has taken a team that was 2-25 last season to the finals this year. “They really responded.”
Cantwell can ill-afford to play poorly during any stretch of its game with Pacific Hills. The Bruins’ only losses have been to some of the top teams in the state in Long Beach Poly, Bishop Montgomery and Windward. They are led by guards Brandon Taylor and Marcus Jackson.
“They’re a very good team with some very talented players who are being recruited,” Zedan said. “We’re going to be playing on a college-sized court, so it’s going to be a little different, but we’ll be ready for the challenge.”
Pacific Hills has scored playoff wins against Nipomo, Costa Mesa, St. Bonaventure and Campbell Hall. Besides Ontario Christian, Cantwell has defeated Loma Linda Academy, St. Anthony and Viewpoint.
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Read the original article on Voxy.co.nz here.
A leading US glaciologist has been selected as Professor and Dean of Surveying at the University of Otago. Professor Christina Hulbe is currently Chair of the Geology Department at Portland State University, in Portland, Oregon. She will take up her position at Otago’s National School of Surveying in February 2013.
As a geophysicist who specialises in glaciology, Professor Hulbe’s research involves measuring contemporary changes in glaciers and polar ice sheets and using computer modelling to study the physical processes underlying observed change. Ultimately, this knowledge leads to better projections of future change and better understanding of the past.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne says that she is delighted that Professor Hulbe has accepted the University’s offer of the position of Dean of Surveying.
"Christina Hulbe is a proven academic leader with a strong research and teaching background. As well as being an excellent choice to lead the School of Surveying, she is well-placed to make important contributions to Otago’s polar research, an area in which the University already enjoys national leadership and international recognition for excellence."
After gaining her Bachelor's in Geological Engineering at Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology and Master’s in Geology from Ohio State University, Professor Hulbe earned a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Chicago.
Her publication record includes numerous research articles in peer-reviewed journals and she has long been a leader in her professional community. Such roles include serving as past Vice President of the International Glaciological Society and currently chairing that organisation’s publications committee. She has also served a term as Physical Sciences Editor at the journal Antarctic Science.
Professor Hulbe is greatly looking forward to moving with her family to Dunedin and taking up her leadership role at the School of Surveying.
"Surveying is the academic home for thinking about how to make the right measurement in the right way, and this has always been an important thread in my research. I look forward to what I can learn from my new colleagues in the School," she says.
Professor Hulbe says that she intends to work collaboratively with academic and general staff at the School to carry its traditions forward while also exploring new ways for it to connect across campus and farther afield.
"I believe the discipline of surveying has a lot to offer in a fast-changing world where sustainable development and resilient resource management become more important every day. Collaborative, engaged research is already taking place in the School and I look forward to helping it grow."
She says that both the School of Surveying and the Department she currently leads have something important in common - close connections to the professional side of their respective disciplines.
"This means that we share a particular mindfulness of our students’ career goals and seek to equip our graduates with the skills and knowledge to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing world of work, while also providing them with the benefits of a well-rounded university education. Academics in both disciplines also recognise how important it is to stay well connected with our alumni, so that we can continue to support them and learn from them as well."
She says she looks forward to starting a series of conversations with New Zealand’s professional surveying community about the School, its programmes, and the evolving nature of the profession in the 21st century.
Andrew Stirling, President of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, and Dr Don Grant, Surveyor-General at Land Information NZ, both expressed their appreciation of the opportunity they had to contribute to the University’s selection process for the role and to meet with Professor Hulbe.
They welcomed her appointment and said they look forward to working with her in the future, particularly given the critical role that the School plays for the survey and spatial science professions and the New Zealand survey system.
Professor Hulbe is no stranger to Otago, having greatly enjoyed her spell as a Fulbright senior scholar at the University in 2009.
She says that the University’s commitment to research, teaching, and its role as an agent for positive change in the community all helped to convince her that Otago is an ideal place to begin a new chapter in her academic career.
"Otago’s strong focus on sustainability makes this university the right place to forge connections between academic research and real-world applications and I believe that Surveying has a lot to offer on those themes," she says.
Professor Hulbe says that in advancing her own polar glaciology research, the ability to take part in New Zealand’s growing Antarctic research endeavour is an exciting prospect.
"Both the recently created Antarctic Research Institute and expertise in the School of Surveying will give me great new opportunities to build on my past work and chart new territory. The polar research conducted by faculty and students at Otago is world-class and I look forward to joining that interdisciplinary community."
As someone who holds teaching to be very important, Professor Hulbe says she is looking forward to developing her contributions in this area at Otago.
Her current teaching at Portland State University includes technical courses such as ‘Numerical Modelling of Earth Systems’ alongside interdisciplinary courses aimed at weaving connections among the sciences and the humanities.
"Something I bring to Otago, which I hope will be of service, is a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and teaching, but which is always grounded in disciplinary expertise."
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Antec Skeleton: Space Age or Space Cadet?by Christoph Katzer on October 13, 2008 6:00 PM EST
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At Computex earlier this year, Antec showed us a prototype of the Skeleton. We recently received a sample of the final product. The whole chassis looks different now, which is good. Let's first start with a quick discussion of the case functionality. Who would need or want something like this? Frankly, I don't. I like small and sleek cases, preferably stored under my desk where I don't see or hear the PC. However, this case may be great for people that frequently change motherboard jumpers, and add or reconfigure other items. Some might even like the appearance of the case, which is a highly subjective area; many of us think it looks rather ugly, but as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
If you're mostly interested in the functionality, the outward appearance is rather irrelevant. Form follows function and that is an important part of this chassis. It looks somewhat like a lunar station with its half-moon structure and the large 250mm fan in the top. The front has the usual buttons and jacks: power, IEEE1394 FireWire, two USB ports, an eSATA port, and headset and microphone jacks. On the left side we find the reset button as well as a small status LED embedded in the plastic frame.
All of the cables hang out the back of the case, since there is nowhere to hide them. In the center of the chassis is a mounting plate for a large ATX motherboard, and as we will below you can slide the tray out of the chassis. The back has a thin clear acrylic frame installed that helps provide support for expansion cards (i.e. graphics cards). Below the motherboard in the back is the tray for the power supply. The sides feature a metal plate perforated with hexagonal shapes, and like the motherboard tray the PSU tray is removable. The fan in the top can be turned on and off with a small switch at the back, and a second switch allows you to control the LED lights.
Installing the components is fairly easy. You can slide the whole inside of the frame out the back by removing two screws on each side in the back. The power supply mounts in a small cage that can also slide out off the main frame. You can use a variety of power supplies, with an 80mm fan or 120mm fan, though a model with an 80mm fan would make more sense in this case since there are fewer obstructions to block airflow. After installing the main components, the motherboard easily slides into the frame and you can tighten the screws.
Houston? We have a problem.
Unfortunately, we couldn't install our three NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultras since we could not slide the motherboard tray back into the chassis. As you can see above, the first and last graphics cards collide with the upper part of the chassis. However, if your graphics card does not have a bulge like the 8800 Ultra you will not have this problem. In addition, we were able to slide the motherboard tray into the chasses without the cards and maneuver them into the slots inside of the chassis (though this required more effort than usual). The installation of all the other components went without problem.
Antec delivers a very sturdy case with the Skeleton and it's already available in the U.S. Europe still doesn't have any in stock, and the one shop that lists the Skeleton is asking €340 ($465) for it. The U.S prices are a little more moderate, starting at $140. Whether you find that price acceptable or not is for you to decide. However, there is another issue to consider. An open case like this does not have any EMI protection, which means in the worst case you will have problems with radio and/or TV reception when the system is on, particularly if it's near your stereo/television. Despite that, the case is something new in a market full of normal, dull cases. The exclusivity alone will attract some customers; there are certainly users who frequently swap components or simply like the unique design who will be interested in getting their claws on the Skeleton.
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Go to usyouthsoccer.org. Under the Coaches link click on Small Sided Games.
Those are the official rules for small sided soccer U12 and younger.
Unlimited substitutions at any stoppage. Since they play on such a small
field they added to punt rule so the game wouldn't degenerate into the two
keepers punting the ball back and forth.
Last weekend I attended the President's cup in beautiful Twin Falls
Idaho. The Pres. cup is a tourney for competitive teams that are not
bound for State cup. This is the first time the folks in Twin have ever
hosted a major (for Idaho anyway) tourney. These folks really knocked
themselves out. Games were held on four beautiful, groomed sites
including a brand new eight field soccer complex. Hat's off to the folks
in Twin. They put on a great tournament.
However, a bit of local weirdness crept into the tourney rules. For U11
games only, subs on any stoppage, unlimited reentry. Additionally, if
the keeper kicks or punts the ball from his penalty area to the opposing
penalty area the referee is to award an indirect kick to the opponents
from the center circle. I think these are local rec rules. The vast
majority of U11 teams were from out of town.
Well I worked a couple of these games (they finally found my level) and
the first stop for sub following OS brought a howl from the parents. I
turned to the parents and told them that today U11's could sub on any
stoppage. A parent then asked "Even on offsideS". Yes, even on offside.
I turned to the subbing player and went through exactly the same
exchange with the coach. Injury, corner kicks, drop balls, you name it,
I was a substitution machine!
For both my U11 matches, every time the keeper kicked the ball I was
thinking "please, oh please, oh please" just so I could make the utterly
bizarre call and bring the ball to the center circle for an IDFK. Never
happened. Very disappointing. However, a good friend who coaches a U11
team said it happened to him twice! And both times the ref ignored it.
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Transferring Between Schools Becomes Easier for Students of Military Families
Posted: March 23, 2011
CHARLESTON W.Va. – The West Virginia Board of Education (WVBOE) and other members of the Common Ground: Education and Military Partnership joined acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday as he signed into law House Bill 2550 making West Virginia the 36th member of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
“Our military members make many sacrifices for the freedoms we enjoy. Their children's education shouldn't be one of them,” said acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. “This bill will give military families the flexibility they need to support their children so they can receive a quality education no matter where service may take the family.”
The compact is designed to ease the transition of students into new schools as their parents are transferred from location to location around the country.
“Sometimes as students move around they face problems transferring school records and credits,” said state Board of Education President Priscilla Haden. “The Common Ground Partnership applauds lawmakers for supporting this important piece of legislation.”
The Common Ground Partnership is dedicated to ensuring every military child’s right to a quality education regardless of location or how often the family moves. Students of military families will receive increased supports from the Common Ground Partnership developed with the Department of Defense Joint Services, West Virginia Wing Civil Air Patrol, Operation Military Kids, the West Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers, Inc., the West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) and the WVBOE.
The Interstate Compact applies to the children of active duty members of the uniformed services, including members of the National Guard and Reserve on active duty orders; members or veterans of the uniformed services who are severely injured and medically discharged or retired for a period of one year after medical discharge or retirement; and members of the uniformed services who die on active duty for a period of one year after death.
House Bill 2550 also establishes the West Virginia Commission for Educational Opportunities for Military Children. The Commission is authorized to address future interstate problems and issues as they arise; to create and enforce rules governing the compact’s operation; and to promote training and compliance with the compact’s requirements.
“It is unfortunate that sometimes students from military families are forced to repeat a class or aren’t allowed to graduate because they transferred to a new school,” said West Virginia Parent Teacher Association Vice President Kathy Parker. “Children of military families should not be punished for the choice their parents made to serve our country.”
For more information about the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children or the Common Ground: Education and Military Partnership contact the WVDE Communications Office at 304-558-2699.
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Family Campouts: Summer Owl Prowl
This campout currently has a waiting list! Explore the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary after hours and join us for a night of camping under the stars. Have an early dinner at home and then come with your family, your tent, and a dessert to share. Join us as we explore the habitats of the elusive owls.
We'll learn all about their adaptations, get a close-up view of owl mounts, and call for them on our private nighttime walk. When we return, we'll roast s'mores by the campfire and listen to the story, Owl Moon. In the morning, we'll hunt for owl pellets in the forest and learn what owls eat by dissecting one of the pellets we find. On our return, we will share breakfast together, and create an owl craft while the adults pack up.
Instructions and Directions:
- Suitable for Families with kids 4-14
- A confirmation with a list of equipment to bring will be sent.
- Camp outs will be rescheduled only in the event of extreme weather.
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August 13 – Happy Birthday Fred Stanley
Bucky Dent’s historic home run against the Red Sox that just cleared the Green Monster in Fenway to give the Yankees the lead in the 1978 AL East Divison playoff was not the only dramatic blast hit by a Yankee shortstop in Beantown that season. Slightly over three months earlier, the two teams had met under much different circumstances. It was late June, and instead of being tied for first place, Boston then had a commanding seven game lead over the third place Bombers as the two teams squared off for a Tuesday evening game at Fenway. Billy Martin had not yet lost his job to Bob Lemon and the paranoid Yankee Manager was struggling to keep his drinking, his hatred of Reggie Jackson and his fear of being fired by George Steinbrenner all in check. The Yankees had already been pummeled by Boston the night before, losing the series opener 10-4. Dent had been injured in that game so Martin was starting Fred “The Chicken” Stanley at short in this second of what was a three-game series. Boston had Mike Torrez, the same right-hander Bucky Dent would victimize about 14 weeks later, on the mound.
Martin started Don Gullett. It was just the sixth start of the southpaw’s 1978 season. He had spent the first two months of that year on the DL. Just two weeks later, as Gullett was warming up for another start, he would feel something catch in his left shoulder. Afterwards, when trying to shave in the clubhouse, he would not have enough strength in that pitching arm to lift a razor to his face and would never again throw a baseball in a Major League game.
On that evening in Boston, Gullett did not have his best stuff at the start of the game. In the second inning, the second half of the Red Sox lineup had rallied to score four runs off of him, with three of them coming on a home run by Boston’s ninth-place hitter, Butch Hobson. It looked like another crushing blowout in the making for Martin’s team.
But in the top of the fourth, the Yankee bats came to life and five of the first six hitters reached base safely against Torrez and produced three runs. With Yankees on second and third, Boston Manager, Don Zimmer ordered Torrez to intentionally walk Jim Spencer. That brought up Stanley with the bases loaded and his team trailing by a single digit. He pulled the third pitch of his at bat over the Monster in fair territory for a grand slam. Though they called him “the Chicken,” teammates said he had his chest puffed out like a rooster when he walked back to the dugout after that bases loaded dinger.
Now with a three-run lead, Gullett settled down and pretty much dominated the Boston lineup the rest of the way. Later in the game, Reggie Jackson would add a three-run blast and the Yankees revenged their 10-4 defeat of the night before with a 10-4 victory of their own.
Yankee fans should always remember that even though Dent’s Fenway home run over the Monster off Torrez got a lot more attention, it never would have happened if Stanley had not hit his over that same wall off of that same pitcher, first.
Today’s Pinstripe Birthday celebrant was born in Farnhamville, IA on August 13, 1947. He had to be a superb defensive infielder because he lasted for eight seasons in Pinstripes even though he hit just .223 during his Yankee career. Besides that home run in Fenway, the one other exception to his offensive ineptitude came at another opportune time for New York. Stanley hit .333 for the Yankees during their 1976 ALC series against Kansas City. He now works in the San Franciso Giant front office.
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Before you go ahead with Gate Automation there are a few factors you need to consider before making your purchase. Check that the gate structure is suitable for automation by the following:
- Referring to the documentation of the gate manufacturer
- Structural tests or calculations, if you click on our Risk Assessment For Swing Gates you will find out in more detail
- Check feasibility of correct fixture of mechanical transmission parts and anchoring of automation
There are various risks that you need to be aware of once you have your gate automation:
- The danger zone areas in and around the gate which are ‘risk zones’ to yourself
- Safety conditions in the event of a power failure or any faults
There are many other serious factors needed to be considered and there is a suitable safety guide for all Swing Gate Kits. Click here for the full instructions.
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Jeff Yost, President and CEO, Nebraska Community Foundation
For a long time “experts” have been telling those of us who live on the Great Plains that unless we are located close to an Interstate or near an urban center there’s no hope for the future of our small towns. Sometimes the experts get it wrong. In many small towns across Nebraska, people are learning how to increase prosperity by building on their own assets. And through the work of the Nebraska Community Foundation, local philanthropy is becoming an ever more important asset.
Holt County, with just over 10,000 people, is located in north-central Nebraska. It’s about 100 miles north of Interstate 80 and 200 miles from the state’s major metro areas. It doesn’t have a four-lane highway. It is a place where small businesses, farms and ranches are the norm. Only 10 employers in the region employ more than 20 people.
Five years ago, the Nebraska Community Foundation worked with leaders in Holt County to launch a new economic development office and hire a director. New jobs, business start-ups and expansions followed.
Then in 2010 the program received a three-year grant commitment from NCF’s Rudolph Elis Donor-Advised Fund. The economic development program expanded by adding a business coach. Today, Holt County Economic Development (HCED), an NCF affiliated fund, helps businesses grow and attracts new families to the area. A young professionals group meets regularly; seminars for business succession help retiring owners plan for transition; youth entrepreneurship camps and a “HomeTown Leadership Institute” with 130 graduates, are all part of the mix.
Since 2007, 29 new businesses have been created, 18 have been expanded and 10 have successfully transitioned to new owners, resulting in 239 new or retained jobs. More than 120 families and/or individuals have moved into the county.
This economic progress – tied to philanthropic investment – attracted the attention of NET Television, Nebraska’s public television network. In 2012 Holt County Economic Development was the focus of NET’s program, “Nebraska Philanthropy: Investing in our Future.”
Holt County is a place where small businesses, farms and ranches are the norm. But, as the NET production crew discovered, something unusual is happening in this otherwise typical county of nine small towns and villages: It’s called HomeTown Competitiveness.
HomeTown Competitiveness is not about towns competing against one another. It’s about hometowns competing in a global economy.
“If you think of a business model, the best way to generate more business is to start with the people and the products you already have,” says Jon Schmaderer, the 41-year-old president of Tri-County Bank in Stuart, Nebraska. “It works in the business world. It works in economic development, and it’s worked for us.”
|Holt County Economic Development (HCED) helped pharmacists Amy Krotter and Tyler Laetsch set up shop in Atkinson.|
HomeTown Competitiveness (HTC) links together four key resources that nearly every rural community – no matter how small – already has:
o Leadership – to mobilize communities with a long-term vision for prosperity
o Entrepreneurship – to support innovation and economic growth
o Youth Engagement – to cultivate a sense of belonging and opportunity
o Philanthropy – to provide financial resources for economic development activities
The framework was developed by three nonprofit organizations: The Nebraska Community Foundation, the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship and the Heartland Center for Leadership Development.
“They took time to educate us on the whole process of building community affiliated funds with endowments, and the importance of the intergenerational transfer of wealth,” said Schmaderer.
“But what really changed things was our leadership program. It started in Stuart and Atkinson. It’s amazing how little you know about people who live just a few miles down the road. By the end of the 12- or 18-month process we were feeling pretty good about ourselves. There were a couple of really large projects that we needed each other’s help on. Probably what made everything go a lot better than we expected was that young people, kids who went to high school together, were at the leadership classes from the start. They just energized us,” Schmaderer said.
It wasn’t long before O’Neill, the county seat, joined in, and soon after, the leadership program became a county-wide effort. With the help of the Nebraska Community Foundation the county applied for and received a Building Entrepreneurial Communities grant and a Federal Home Loan Bank JOBS grant.
These successes did not go unnoticed, and thankfully, community-based affiliated funds through the Nebraska Community Foundation were in place to receive the generous response from the community. In addition to small and medium gifts from a broad range of individuals and businesses, several major gifts and bequests have materialized.
By reaching out to alumni, HCED has helped bring back
young families and many have returned on their own.
A $130,000 gift of grain launched the Karen and Paul Seger Family donor-advised fund to benefit the area. An $800,000 estate gift of two sisters, Mary and Martha Linhart, funds scholarships to non-traditional students and students who intend to return to the area. And the $2.3 million donor-advised fund of the late Rudy Elis supports entrepreneurship and people attraction in the area. Its first grant, $87,500 over three years, is matched two-to-one by other local sources and supported the hiring of a business coach to work alongside HCED executive director, Nicole Sedlacek.
Today, Holt County has more than $3.5 million in endowed assets through several NCF affiliated funds. Grants support non-traditional scholarships to improve the skill levels of adults working in the community; high-quality health care for families and seniors; small business development and transition; youth engagement programs that encourage young people to return home; and arts, recreation and public safety to make Holt County a place where young families can thrive.
Duba’s Trailer Customizing is a small family business in Chambers,
but it reaches a national market for its specialized equestrian trailers and campers.
Instead, Holt County follows a proven business model. It works with the people and the assets it already has.
Holt County Economic Development Director Nicole Sedlacek
Each spring Nicole Sedlacek visits every graduating high school class in the county. Each student receives a full-sized, personalized mailbox, with a reminder that they are always welcome home and an invitation to come back.
As so many NCF affiliated fund leaders across Nebraska say, “We don’t give our kids suitcases for graduation anymore!”
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Catholic Officials Seek to Deny School-Aged Girls HPV Vaccine
Think the church can't get any worse? You're wrong! Apparently, Catholic officials in Canada are working hard to stop school-age girls from getting the life-saving HPV vaccine, which helps prevent cervical cancer. The publicly funded (!) school board governing Calgary Catholic schools has declined to give students HPV because they believe it will give girls the green-light to have premarital sex – the horror!
Bishop Frederick Henry jumped on the crazy-train in 2008, when the HPV program was first initiated in Calgary. He, along with five male Catholic cohorts, wrote letters to parents telling them HPV was bad because it would expose their daughters to "counterproductive influences and potential abuse.”
Of course, as Jezebel reminds us, girls can get HPV through rape or sexual abuse (you¹re familiar with that, right Pope Benedict?). We suggest a new motto for the Catholic Church: We hate women and gays with an equal fervor!
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The island of Formentera has unbeatable characteristics for diving. Ibiza and Formentera (the Pitiusa Islands) have surprisingly transparent and colourful waters. Their coasts form one of the few well-preserved corners of the Mediterranean. There is a good reason why the Freus Marine Reserve of Ibiza and Formentera is located here. It is the only natural [...]
Category: Formentera travel guide
Many visitors consider La Mola lighthouse a magical place, and it is described as such by the famous writer Jules Verne in some of his works. La Mola lighthouse, standing on the highest part of the island, has served and still serves as an essential guide for countless sailors sailing its waters and enjoying the [...]
Church of Sant Francesc Xavier The appearance of this church is sober and the thickness of its walls is a reminder of its function as a fortress against invaders. The church was finished in 1738 and it stands in the capital of the island opposite the town hall.
If there is one ideal place for nautical tourism, that place is Formentera. Several factors make the island a navigational centre. First of all, the variety of its 69 kilometres of coastline, enabling one to discover and enjoy very different kinds of scenery in a short space of time. The island’s nautical facilities are in [...]
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A separatist group fighting the Pakistani government for years has deployed a new weapon in its arsenal, police said: child bombers.
Police in the southwestern Balochistan province say they have arrested a group of children as young as 8 that the United Baloch Army has been using to carry out attacks.
"All the children belong to extremely poor and down-trodden families," officer Zubair Mehmood told a crowded news conference Wednesday.
The militant group paid them $25 to $50 to drop off packages carrying bombs with timers, he said.
Police said the militant group used children because they seldom arouse suspicion.
Largest but poorest
For years, militants in Balochistan, a province rich in natural gas, have been fighting for self-rule.
They complain that the government has paid little attention to them and their economic needs.
While it's the largest province in Pakistan, it's the poorest in per capita income.
And for needy families, $25 to $50 (2,450 to 4,900 rupees) can go a long way.
'The children have confessed'
Authorities rounded up 11 children, as young as 8 and no older than 15, during a raid near the provincial capital, Quetta.
Eight adult members of the group fled during the raid.
"The children have confessed to more than a dozen bombings," Mehmood said.
One of the suspects confessed to a Jan. 10 blast that left 11 people dead and 67 wounded.
In the attack, a bomb was left near a busy market.
Some attacks have targeted other populated areas while others have targeted routes used by security forces.
In some cases, the bombs were placed inside trash containers on deserted roads -- possibly as a scare tactic, police say.
Not without precedent
In 2009, Pakistani and U.S. officials alleged that a top Taliban leader in Pakistan was buying and selling children for suicide bombings.
Pakistan's military released a video showing children going through exercises in training for their attacks.
Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud then sold the children to other Taliban officials for $6,000 to $12,000, Pakistani military officials said.
Mehsud was killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike in August 2009.
Since then, there have been other sporadic cases.
In 2011, a 9-year-old girl who says she was kidnapped by militants in Pakistan and told to be a suicide bomber.
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Free Markets, Free People
USA Today brings us a story that should surprise no one. Medicare, the supposed model of a government run health care system, is finding that fewer and fewer doctors are willing to take on new patients under that system. They cite the low payments Medicare offers (or perhaps forces) for patient treatment. Baby boomers just now entering the system are going to find their choice of a doctor restricted.
The numbers break down like this:
• The American Academy of Family Physicians says 13% of respondents didn’t participate in Medicare last year, up from 8% in 2008 and 6% in 2004.
• The American Osteopathic Association says 15% of its members don’t participate in Medicare and 19% don’t accept new Medicare patients. If the cut is not reversed, it says, the numbers will double.
• The American Medical Association says 17% of more than 9,000 doctors surveyed restrict the number of Medicare patients in their practice. Among primary care physicians, the rate is 31%.
Note especially that final group. Primary care physicians are the group of physicians that the newly passed health care reform law depends on to implement its “preventive care” regime.
The reason is rather simple and straight forward – Medicare offers 78% of what private insurance pays in compensation for a doctor’s services. Why doctors are leaving or restricting new Medicare patients is rather easy to understand as well:
“Physicians are saying, ‘I can’t afford to keep losing money,’ ” says Lori Heim, president of the family doctors’ group.
Consequently they cut or drastically restrict the source of the loss. While most doctors are not going to turn away existing Medicare patients, they may not accept new ones and finally, through attrition, close their practice to Medicare patients.
It isn’t rocket science – no good businessman is going to continue to do things in which the net result is a loss of money. And a doctor’s private practice is a business – one which employs a number of people. He or she, like any business person running a small business, cannot afford the losses. So they identify the problem and eliminate it.
As this continues it will put them in a direct confrontation with the federal government. It is anyone’s guess, given the current administration’s choices for wielding power, how that will turn out. But what this rejection of the compensation offered by government is doing is bringing to the fore is one of the underlying conflicts of the new health care law – the premise of the law is that government can control costs (and payments) and thereby make medical care less costly. The doctors are saying, go for it, but I’m not playing.
At some point, government is going to have too address those who make that declaration. We’ll then see how free of a country we really are, won’t we?
Not that I’m particularly upset by this (liberal certainly are), however, it again makes the case that this president should never be judged just by what he says (see below). He should always be judged by what he does and how it all turns out. For instance:
The White House is intervening at the last minute to come to the defense of multinational corporations in the unfolding conference committee negotiations over Wall Street reform.
A measure that had been generally agreed to by both the House and Senate, which would have affirmed the SEC’s authority to allow investors to have proxy access to the corporate decision-making process, was stripped by the Senate in conference committee votes on Wednesday and Thursday. Five sources with knowledge of the situation said the White House pushed for the measure to be stripped at the behest of the Business Roundtable. The sources — congressional aides as well as outside advocates — requested anonymity for fear of White House reprisal.
Tough talk, populist rhetoric (CEO’s get paid too much and we need to rein them in) and when it comes to actually doing so? Yeah, not so tough at all. Like I said, the outcome doesn’t bother me and, after publicly taking corporate CEOs to task, attempting to shame them and cut their pay, someone must have alerted Obama to the fact that they mostly paid the campaign freight during his run for the presidency.
Why do I say that? Well the “Business Roundtable”, which so vociferiously opposed this is a lobby of corporate CEOs. And the White House liason to that lobby is Valerie Jarrett.
The White House is now saying that the provision allowing investors proxy access which would allow them to have a say in CEO salaries was never something they explicitly backed.
“It was not part of our original financial reform proposals, and we have not taken a position explicitly. We have heard from and understand the various concerns on this critical corporate governance issue from multiple stakeholders including business, investors, labor and others. We are confident that the House and Senate conferees will come to a resolution and deliver a consensus view,” said the spokesperson.
Of course that, along with much of what they say, is not true. Huffington Post reminds us of two administration officials who took very explicit positions in support of the provison:
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal Wolin addressed the provision. “The Senate bill will make clear that the SEC has unambiguous authority to issue rules permitting shareholder access to the proxy. We support that proposal. The SEC’s rulemaking process will define the precise parameters of proxy access,” he said. “But the principle is clear: long-term shareholders meeting reasonable ownership thresholds should have the ability to hold board members accountable by proposing alternatives and making their voices heard.”
Valerie Jarrett followed Wolin. “The Senate bill will make it clear that the SEC has unambiguous authority to issue rules permitting shareholders access to the proxy — essential, as I know you guys know,” she said. “We agree that corporate governance means more transparency, more responsibility, more accountability, and once again — I can’t say it too often — we stand firmly with you on that point.”
Any questions? Does this leave you with the impression that the administration never explicitly took a position on that provision? Are you still convinced Obama means what he says, or are you beginning to understand that he’s mostly show and not much “go”?
Oh, and yes, this would be called “crony capitalism” if you were wondering.
Rand Paul managed to raise quite a ruckus by honestly stating his views in response to a loaded (and irrelevant) question. In the process, the left and those who pose an intellectual moderates have seized the opportunity to tee off on libertarianism and the Tea Party movement. Dale capably dismantled one such effort by the New York Times editorial board. Today, a more subtle, concern-trollish effort graces the NYT in a piece from Sam Tanenhaus:
On the surface Mr. Paul’s contradictory statements [i.e. that he dislikes the federal government intrusion into private business affairs, abhors racism, and would have voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- ed. - which aren't necessarily contradictory] might seem another instance of the trouble candidates get into when ideological consistency meets the demands of practical politics. This was the point Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, made when he said, in mild rebuke of Mr. Paul, “I hope he can separate the theoretical and the interesting and the hypothetical questions that college students debate until 2 a.m. from the actual votes we have to cast based on real legislation here.”
But Mr. Paul’s position is complicated. He has emerged as the politician most closely identified with the Tea Party movement. Its adherents are drawn to him because he has come forward as a kind of libertarian originalist, unbending in his anti-government stance. The farther he retreats from ideological purity, the more he resembles other, less attractive politicians.
In this sense, Mr. Paul’s quandary reflects the position of the Tea Partiers, whose antipathy to government, rooted in populist impatience with the major parties, implies a repudiation of politics and its capacity to effect meaningful change.
Although Tanenhaus provides a fairly non-judgmental opinion here, he is also quite clearly trying to imply a racist undertone to the Tea Party movement. At best, he is suggesting that Rand, and thus Tea Partiers, are smugly indifferent to the vagaries of racial prejudice, and all too ready to sacrifice the well-being of those who suffer most from such discrimination on the altar of libertarian purism. While it’s true that libertarians can be just as prone to fits of utopianism as any good Marxist, Tanenhaus’ conjecture relies on at least two fundamental misunderstandings: (1) that adherence to principles of liberty can only be maintained from a standpoint of ideological purity; and (2) that distrust of government intrusion equals “anti-government.”
Taking the second point first, there has been a concerted effort by the left to portray libertarians in general, and Tea Partiers specifically, as some sort of “anti-government” force. Tanenhaus attempts to support this myopic view by equating Rand’s skepticism regarding certain portions of the ’64 Act with an unbending aversion to government in toto. In turn, all those in favor of limited government, and especially those opposed to the unnecessary and unwanted expansion of federal powers witnessed in the past couple of years, are labeled as anti-government ideologues, who mistake the theoretical for the practical. Yet, in truth, the views of libertarians and the Tea Party crowd are not terribly different from those of this nation’s founders in that regard. Distrust of government, after all, was what led to the formation of a constitution that limited its powers and explicitly placed the source of all such power in the hands of the people. That is not an anti-government stance, but a pro-limited-government and pro-liberty view. Tanenhaus’ misapprehension of that fact leads to a portrayal of Rand et al. as some sort of anarchist radicals bent on destroying government. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Turning to Rand’s comments on the ’64 Act, we should all have a problem with government intrusion into our private affairs. A good argument can be made that without such intrusion the invidious racist practices targeted by the ’64 Act would have continued for quite a while, but that is simply an end-justifies-the-means argument that misses the most important reason to be skeptical of such intrusions: once government has such power it rarely, if ever, gives it up, but instead extends its reach into other areas as well. Yes, that is a “slippery slope” argument, but one that in this case is well founded in fact. Indeed, the ’64 Act itself, based on Congress’ Commerce Clause powers, serves as the perfect illustration of why the slippery slope should be minded. Since the end of the Lochner era, and the concurrent expansion of Commerce Clause power, the federal government has arrogated to itself the ability to control almost every level of your business and personal activity, right down to what you may or may not ingest, and how you can can receive health care when you get sick. Again, whether some of these results are “good” is beside the point that the means of obtaining them requires a suppression of liberty and an expansion of centralize government power. For that reason, and that reason alone, Rand is right to question the necessity of certain provisions of the ’64 Act, even if eventually he would have voted in favor of it (and leaving aside the cogent, and certainly correct, arguments that federal government had the requisite power to enact those provisions through the 13th Amendment). And, again, none of that stance make he or anyone who supports him some sort of “anti-government” radical.
In the same way, questioning invasive government powers in defense of liberty does not make one an impractical ideologue. For starters, freedom isn’t just an idea or some sort of construct; government is. Like pure oxygen, it’s rare to find in the natural order of things, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. In contrast, government had to be invented from the ideas of man. Accordingly, it is not ideological to take the view that, as Justice Scalia once noted, individual liberty is the default position and government control over it must be constitutionally and specifically justified, not the other way around. Our very country was founded on this basic principle. Yet, the critics of Rand Paul, libertarians and Tea Partiers get this exactly backwards.
Moreover, just because something is practical, doesn’t warrant an eradication of individual liberty. Perhaps it is true that de facto Jim Crow would have lingered in the absence of those ’64 Act provisions preventing private discrimination. If so, then the practical application of those laws would seem to trump the individual liberty of the racists who tried to perpetuate that era. Yet, can it truly be said that the ’64 Act was responsible for bringing an end to discrimination, or since we know it still exists, its retardation? Isn’t there a much better argument to be made that Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, and all those civil rights activists of the 50′s and 60′s who lent their blood, sweat and tears — and sometimes their very lives — to the cause had a much greater impact than the 88th Congress? In this sense, while the ’64 Act may have been practical in regards to expediency, was it really necessary especially in consideration of the cost to personal freedom? Even if the answer to that last question is a fully justified “Yes” (and maybe it is), raising it does not make one an ideologue impervious to the realities of life. It simply makes one a principled defender of liberty, which one can be without being a mindless utopian.
Looking at this whole issue from a broader perspective, the real problem here is a basic misunderstanding of freedom. One can love liberty and still support government. From a libertarian point of view, government is simply an ordered, less brutal means of securing to ourselves the ability to pursue freedom by donating limited powers to the governing organization. Instead of defending all property with the barrel of a gun, we look to the judicial system. Rather than depend on the will and wherewithal of individuals to defend our society from its enemies, we support a national defense. As opposed to having each and every transaction among people be subject to individual contract, we recognize the ability of legislatures to set certain standards for the conduct of society. We may disagree as to where the limits should be set on each of these governmental powers, but libertarians are fully cognizant of the fact that having some sort of governmental structure is more desirable than having none. And yet, we also unapologetically and jealously guard our freedom, ever mindful that liberty lost is rarely regained without serious strife and deadly consequences.
In short, although we may question authority, we do not seek to abolish it. While we may defend the liberty of even the most odious of individuals, that does not mean we support their anti-social behaviors. Libertarians, and all lovers of freedom, have firm, historical reasons for challenging intrusions into their lives. We do not need to be ideologues to do so, and the practical effects of that suspicion of power has led directly to the greatest expansion of wealth and prosperity for the largest number of people in history. Freedom, at times, may be ugly up close, but it is still the most beautiful thing that has ever existed, bar none. Defense thereof requires an adherence to reality, not flights of fancy.
Take a look at this little blurb from President Obama’s speech in Quincy IL:
We’re not, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy.
Ed latches on to those two highlighted lines to deliver a great rebuttal:
He should have stuck with the TelePrompter. The President doesn’t get to decide when people have “made enough money.” In fact, as the radio host notes, that’s a statist point of view. Furthermore, the responsibility of an entrepreneur isn’t to “grow our economy,” core or otherwise. It’s to grow his own economy. In a properly regulated capitalist system, the natural tension of self-interests create economic growth through innovation and efficient use of capital and resources.
Bingo – well said, old friend.
The bailout of Greece may not work. Spain is teetering on the edge of serious financial doom. The Euro is taking a beating. And the banks of Europe are not looking too healthy overall. Meanwhile, here in the States, unfunded government debt, already expanding at an unprecedented rate, is set to explode. What do all of these things have in common? They are the direct result of expanding the welfare state without any means of actually paying for all of it.
In truth, there is never a way to pay for expanding the welfare state because, while wealth creation isn’t a zero-sum game, the population of wealth-creators is; after all, not just anyone can create electricity, telephones, heart medications, MicroSoft, Wal-Mart, or even pencils without some know-how, sweat and inspiration. If that were possible, then wealth creation could never be retarded, regardless of the impediments. Some wise, noble, and completely selfless individual would always emerge to drive the economy forward. Alas, self-interest trumps all, without which wealth-creation is for the horses.
No matter how ingenious the plan, or divine the motives, the only way for governments to fund the welfare state is to tax the wealth-creators. As even the most Marxist of intellectuals knows, if you want less of something, then tax it. This is why cigarettes are levied against in ridiculous proportions, and why carbon taxes are considered (by some) to be the savior of our planet. Well, taxing wealth-creation works exactly the same way: tax it more, and you will get less of it. Which leads to the inexorable conclusion that, as the governments of the world sink deeper into fiscal crisis, the looters will be coming en masse.
Does that mean that we are in for another Great Depression? Not necessarily. In fact, I predict that no such thing will occur. For starters, we have many institutions in place today that didn’t exist in the 1930′s such as the FDIC, Social Security, Medicare, the IMF, and the World Bank. Some of these things are arguably beneficial in that they smooth out the rough patches that economies inevitably encounter. The U.S. economy, for example, may not have realized the devastation it did if old people, like McQ, could have survived without taxing their families’ resources so much, or the FDIC had been in place to quell bank runs. Maybe. But more importantly, in this day and age our politics and law-making bodies (and those of every democratic society) are dominated by those whose own self-interest is firmly grounded in the ability to buy votes. That ability is highly dependent upon feeding the welfare state, since the vast majority of votes are bought from those who don’t create electricity or heart medications. This is why politicians of all stripes won’t take steps that would decrease the welfare state, because to do so will cost them votes — to the politician who promises more largesse at the expense of whatever hated rival is being villainized at the time. Accordingly, the odds are rather stacked against wealth-creators continuing to employ their skills in service of the very state that punishes them.
Instead of the Great Depression, Part Deux, I would predict that the elites (those, and their friends, who hold the power to dole out goodies for votes) will shuffle the deck just enough to ensure that they stay in favor, while allowing the overall health of the economy to softly fade into oblivion. They are like Dr. Kevorkian administering to capitalism. The ability to create wealth will slowly continue to be arrogated to the governors and “experts,” while the welfare state expands in decrescendo. Eventually, we will be left with something akin to the Ottoman Empire: all power and glory in name only, inside a rotting shell, harkening back to a time so dissimilar as to be unworthy of the title. What’s left will be hopeless, farcical and cruel, and will not have the slightest ability to nurture the welfare state that started it all. Perhaps the “Long Morose” would be a better title.
Irrespective of my gloomy predictions, there simply isn’t any question that, at some point, the beneficiaries of the great welfare state will have to take a bath. Most likely, that day will come when everyone jumps in the tub together. Until that time, prepare for the politically powerful to loot the wealth-creators out of existence in order to pay off the welfare beneficiaries. Eventually the only ones left to take that bath will be the filthy and the unwashed.
I think this captures my feelings about the situation:
“[C]rony capitalism” has as much to do with real capitalism as praying mantises have to do with real prayer.” – Donald J. Boudreaux, Cafe Hayek
Boudreaux is responding to an article by Gerald O’Driscoll a few days ago in which O’Driscoll took on the notion that “crony capitalism” is simply an natural evolution of capitalism. Boudreaux had a slight nit to pick with the author but his characterization of crony capitalism was dead on.
O’Driscoll covers many of the myths that those who want to characterize crony capitalism as a problem only to be found under a capitalist system. In fact it has little to do with capitalism at all. It’s simply cronyism and, once you understand what is being described, it can exist under any system that has a government.
You see, that’s the one ingredient that is necessary for it to exist.
Under a free enterprise system – capitalism – the government’s job is to play referee, that is, enforce legal contracts and prevent/punish fraud. And, there’s a certain amount of regulation necessary to exercise those functions.
But when it gets beyond those parameters, it has a number of effects which have little to do with capitalism or a free market. When government gives up its role as referee in favor of a reciprocal relationship with those it regulates that also benefits those who run government, you have cronyism. Obviously, a capitalist system, then, isn’t the only place it can happen.
And how does this cronyism develop?
Public choice theory has identified the root causes of regulatory failure as the capture of regulators by the industry being regulated. Regulatory agencies begin to identify with the interests of the regulated rather than the public they are charged to protect. In a paper for the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Conference in 2008, economist Willem Buiter described “cognitive capture,” by which regulators become incapable of thinking in terms other than that of the industry. On April 5 of this year, The Wall Street Journal chronicled the revolving door between industry and regulator in “Staffer One Day, Opponent the Next.”
Congressional committees overseeing industries succumb to the allure of campaign contributions, the solicitations of industry lobbyists, and the siren song of experts whose livelihood is beholden to the industry. The interests of industry and government become intertwined and it is regulation that binds those interests together. Business succeeds by getting along with politicians and regulators. And vice-versa through the revolving door.
We call that system not the free-market, but crony capitalism. It owes more to Benito Mussolini than to Adam Smith.
Government also tends to favor those who favor it. And this is one of the many things which came to light in this recent financial bailout:
Crony capitalism ensures the special access of protected firms and industries to capital.
Businesses that stumble in the process of doing what is politically favored are bailed out. That leads to moral hazard and more bailouts in the future. And those losing money may be enabled to hide it by accounting chicanery.
Consider the revolving door at Goldman Sacs. Consider the preponderance of union workers at GM and Chrysler. Go ahead and try to argue there’s no money connection between those who control the government’s purse strings and regulations and those who have benefited.
Donald Beoudreaux gives a great summary that dispels the myth that “crony capitalism” is a version of capitalism or, in fact, has anything whatsoever to do with it:
To the modern American ear, “anarchy” no longer means simply “no ruler”; instead it now means “no law” – true, free-for-all chaos. In vivid contrast, capitalism – real capitalism – is infused with law, most of which is self-enforcing. The manufacturer who pays his suppliers late gets poorer credit terms in the future; the retailer who cheats her customers loses business; the customer who doesn’t pay his bills can no longer buy on credit.
The chief problem with crony capitalism is precisely that it injects significant amounts of lawlessness into the economy, transforming capitalism into something entirely different and dysfunctional. Under crony capitalism, government excuses the politically influential from capitalism’s laws. Thus unleashed from the impartial discipline of the invisible hand, the politically influential become criminals who lie, rape, pillage, and plunder. And that’s true lawlessness and chaos.
So don’t let the enemies of capitalism get away with calling it crony capitalism. It’s cronyism, pure and simple, and it can and does exist with any form of government. And increased regulation isn’t going to change that dynamic or curtail the developed system of cronyism that we now suffer under.
Some of you would no doubt love to be accosted by a bunch of girl scouts plying their wares (you know who you are), but you won’t be subject to such a harrowing experience in Seattle:
Tim Burgess’s move to outlaw “aggressive panhandling” may be an unconstitutional, attention-seeking bully tactic, but at least the Councilmember appears willing to apply the law equally to anyone asking for money on the streets. Even if they just want to sell you a box of thin mints.
The issue, such as it is, arose from a (possibly facetious) email exchange between a Seattle Councilmember and an alleged citizen complaining about what can only described as a channeling of a Mike Myers mock-horror scene:
I was strongly opposed to your panhandling proposal until my experience on the streets of downtown West Seattle yesterday. Now I totally understand where you’re coming from.
Here’s what happened: on the way to the West Seattle Farmer’s Market, I encountered a band of Girl Scouts aggressively promoting cookie sales within spitting distance of a KeyBank ATM where I was withdrawing money. The situation was so extreme that I could actually hear their aggressive, repeated, high-pitched solicitations at the very moment I was entering my PIN. Then as my cash was dispensed and I nervously removed my receipt — trying to stay calm despite this invasion of my constitutional right to not be confronted by my relative class status — I saw two adult women. They were the ringleaders, I assume. They didn’t seem to be doing anything but watching over the whole scene and talking discreetly to each other about god knows what. All in all, a nerve-racking experience.
So there they were, asking for money, repeatedly, despite my lack of interest in what was on offer, all happening well within 15 feet of an ATM. Would this be banned by the your ordinance? I certainly hope so, because there’s a long history of applying laws like this inequitably, almost as an excuse to push poor people out of desirable areas instead of addressing the actual problem.
Thanks for any information you can offer.
My best guess is that this email comes from a rather disgruntled, yet somewhat clever, panhandler. The Councilmember’s response is both appropriate and obviously skeptical, but it does raise an interesting question: if the state is going to exercise it’s police powers judiciously, doesn’t that ensure that we miss out on opportunities that are neither a threat nor an offer of something we don’t really want? After all, what sort of hair-shirted aesthete do you have to be to not want girl scout cookies?
When it comes to local rules and regulations, I’m not one to quibble too much unless such restrictions impinge on fundamental rights. Setting up shop in a public way certainly deserves some treatment of police power since the sidewalks belong to the public. At the same time, if you are just standing around hawking your legal goods, I really don’t understand what it is we need to be protected from. Can it be annoying to walk through a gauntlet of capitalism? Sure. Maybe worse for some than others. But we don’t have any right to be free from annoyance, do we?
I mean, if that were the case, then why should I be bothered by ACORN morons marching up and down the street where I work? Nothing has ever been done about that. Once, I nearly came to blows with some idiot preaching about how we needed a new New Deal while I was trying to enjoy a leisurely stroll in downtown Alexandria, VA. Do I have the right to be free from that annoyance? Not bloody likely.
And the fact of the matter is that I shouldn’t be “free” from those annoyances, anymore than I should expect to be “free” from girl scouts selling cookies on a street corner, or a hippie selling dew rags in a city square. If one of them genuinely threatens my peace, then the appropriate authorities should be able to step in, but how often is that truly the case? That some panhandler was able to point out this hypocrisy in the enforcement of Seattle’s anti-public-space-economy laws (to coin a terrible phrase) only underscores how ridiculous the application of police power (local or otherwise) has become.
The bottom line is that, whether one is selling girl scout cookies or dew rags, why do I need the state’s protection? Keep the public ways clear for the public sure, but let’s not forget that commerce is what truly makes the world go ’round. Without it, that police protection doesn’t get paid for.
[HT: Tom Scott]
The proposed bank regulations, all driven by President Obama’s war on Wall Street, would limit big bank’s trading and size. Obama claims that the nation will never again be held hostage by institutions deemed “too big to fail”.
Well, here’s a clue – the only ones who claimed they were too big to fail and threw all that money at them are the same ones now trying to regulate them into noncompetitiveness. You’d almost think this was part of a plan if you didn’t believe they weren’t smart enough or quick enough to do such a thing. But, as they’ve claimed, they won’t let a crisis go to waste.
In fact, this is another battle in the long class war against the rich. Nothing symbolizes the “rich” like Wall Street. And nothing serves Democrats in trouble better than a populist cause (or at least one they deem to be populist). So while voters continue to send messages to the Democrats via VA, NJ and MA, health care reform implodes and the President’s job approval rating tanks, he’s warring on the institutions which are critical to the economic recovery of the nation.
How freakin’ tone deaf can one be?
Mayor Bloomberg has some immediate local issues that concern him – possible layoffs and the erosion of the tax base. But he also recognizes that handicapping US banks when no such handicaps exist for foreign banks, hurts their long term competitiveness and will therefore have negative long term consequences.
Obama’s proposals would prevent banks or financial institutions that own banks from investing in, owning or sponsoring a hedge fund or private equity fund.
He called for a new cap on the size of banks in relation to the overall financial sector that would take into account not only bank deposits, which are already capped, but also liabilities and other non-deposit funding sources.
The proposed rules also would bar institutions from proprietary trading operations that are for their own profit and unrelated to serving customers
According to sources, Geithner says the proposed regulations “do not necessarily get at the root of the problems and excesses that fueled the recent financial meltdown.”
He’s not alone in that criticism:
Lawrence White, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former regulator, said Obama’s proposals were “a solution to the wrong problem.”
“They have this rhetoric that it was proprietary trading that was the problem,” White said. “That’s wrong.”
Of course the Obama war on Wall Street is certainly having an effect – bank shares have declined as has the dollar against other currencies.
If you don’t get the idea that this is mostly an ideologically driven “war” trying to cash in on populist anger at a time when nothing is going well for the administration, you’re not paying attention. It also points to an “war of choice” based in a very poor understanding of economics and the fact that we’re engaged in a global economy where competitiveness is critical. If these regulations pass and when the recovery falters because banks are hobbled and noncompetitive, I’m sure that somehow the White House will again play the “greed” card out in a effort to hide the effects of their own short-sighted and ideologically driven economic malpractice.
The myth is that without government regulation, the market would certainly do everything it could do to kill or cheat its customers. Of course most of us realize that doing those things is a sure way not to be in business long. But for a significant number of others, that myth is alive an well. A recent example, however, provides a perfect example of the absurdity of that notion. And, I suggest that it should be applied to health care as well.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat it buys for the National School Lunch Program “meets or exceeds standards in commercial products.”
In the past three years, the government has provided the nation’s schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn’t meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC, a USA TODAY investigation found.
McDonald’s, Burger King and Costco, for instance, are far more rigorous in checking for bacteria and dangerous pathogens. They test the ground beef they buy five to 10 times more often than the USDA tests beef made for schools during a typical production day.
And the limits Jack in the Box and other big retailers set for certain bacteria in their burgers are up to 10 times more stringent than what the USDA sets for school beef.
So the burger at Jack in the Box is safer than the mystery meat your child is served at school. Children are served tons of chicken in school each year that KFC won’t touch (KFC doesn’t do “spent hens” but your child does).
Jack in the Box and KFC have to please and answer to customer demands if they want to stay in business. If KFC makes you sick because of bacteria, you and others will most likely vote with your feet and go elsewhere. What is your choice if that happens in a government school?
Now, think health care.
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Can I Develop My Intuition?
The simple answer is yes, you can. You can increase your intuitive
capacity with practice, whether you are a beginner or more advanced.
Remember that you already have intuitive capabilities. Some people are more intuitive than others, but every one has some inherent skill. Think of it as though you were peeling an onion with intuition in the center. You want to remove the layers blocking your intuitive knowledge.
The main requirements for basic intuitive development are (1) intention and (2) attention.
How can intention help?
realizing it, most of us have been saying no to intuition throughout
our lives. If you wish to develop your intuition, it is time to say yes.
A good example of this is Dag Hammarskjold, Head of the Bank of Sweden and Swedish Deputy Foreign Minister. Hammarskjold had achieved success on every level, so was perplexed when he began feeling great inner restlessness and pressure. The pressure disturbed him so much that he changed his diet and routines, then sought medical advice, and finally went for psychological testing, No one could find anything wrong, but the pressure and restlessness didn't go away.
Alone in his apartment one night, Hammarskjold had an intuitive flash. He realized that something was calling him. He did not know what was calling him, replied, "Yes. Yes. Whatever it is, I say, 'Yes!'" Within a short period of time, Hammarskjold went to work at the United Nations where he later became the Secretary General.
Invite intuition into your life as you would a best friend. After you state the intention to develop your intuition, simply go forward with your daily life. But stay alert to intuition's communication and welcome it with a sense of joy.
Remember: intuition is a natural process. You do not have to work hard to discover its gifts.
How can attention help?
like other parts of life, is not isolated. It arises out of feeling and
knowledge and occurs in the context of relationships. In the beginning,
intuition tends to be in the background. As you pay attention to its
presence, no matter how subtle, you bring intuition to the foreground.
To accomplish this, start noticing and integrating intuition. Here are three techniques that will help.
Keep a diary of intuitive impressions, whether they come through dreams, thoughts, sensations, or instantaneous insights.
This allows you to:
- Learn your intuition's favorite ways of communicating with you
- Check your intuition's accuracy
- Assess the value of your responses over time
If you are unsure how to start or have trouble accessing your intuition, begin each entry with gratitude for what you have learned that day regardless of how the learning arrived.
Then, ask what further insights does my intuition have for me? Write down the answers to this question even if they are not logical. Check back on all your entries once a month.
Allow your intuitive experiences to be another way that you learn from the world around you.
Another way to improve your attention skills is to go to nature. Nature often has a calming and centering effect, which helps your access to intuition. For example:
- Ask a question about an issue you are facing. (For example, what is the best way to handle my boss, or how can I bring more balance into my life?)
- Focus on your question and then let it go.
- Take a walk in nature, enjoying your surroundings.
- When you need a rest or more quiet, stop and pick up an object from your surroundings-a stone, a stick, a leaf, whatever is lying there.
- Paying close attention to your object, ask your intuition, "What insights can nature give me about my question?"
You can use this question method in settings other than nature. To do this, focus on your question, then let it go. Then sit in meditation or do anything that calms you. The solution may arise in the process, after you finish, or later in your dreams.
beings like to learn together and share what they are learning. It is
important for you to have at least one family member, friend, or
colleague that you can speak openly with about your intuitive
experiences. This person is your intuition buddy.
Try some of the following activities to bring attention to your intuition and build your capacity to speak about it with others.
- Read the same book or see a movie that has intuition themes and discuss it.
- Share entries from your intuition diary
- Look for jokes with intuitive themes
- Share the inspiration of spiritual themes.
Are there guidelines for further development?
you encounter problems in the beginning, realize that it is natural to
have difficulty distinguishing intuition from emotions, thoughts,
attitudes, and opinions. With practice, you will become more skilled in
separating personality factors from pure intuition. This capacity gives
rise to intuition which is clear, purposeful, efficient, and natural.
Your intuition probably takes different forms. But over time you will come to know your intuition's favorite way to get your attention. You might find it comes in day dreams rather than night dreams. Or you might see clear images after meditation or prayer. Or, if you exercise, you might get flashes of insight into problems you are pondering as you work out.
Remember, if you want to learn about intuition, honor its advice wherever possible.
Remember that intuition works best in the areas of our lives that we love.
is fostered by love. Albert Einstein was a curious child and loved to
explore, often conducting experiments with his imagination. Light
fascinated him and it is said that he frequently 'rode a light beam out
into space' with his imagination. As most people know, Einstein's
creative probing intuited a basic principle of the universe: E=MC2.
Your interests and the people or things you love are a platform for intuition. Scientists have intuition about science; musicians about music; parents about children; healthcare professionals about health. Research shows that intuition is used by those with more experience and confidence in their expertise-the area of their dedication and, usually, the area they love. So start there.
Realize that intuition works best with real problems and situations.
Intuition is real. One of the reasons that it is hard to capture intuition in an experimental setting is that it works best in real situations and with real problems. Although it is good to test intuition's advice when you receive it, it is not good to create an artificial problem or situation in order to test intuition. It is simple: intuition will not provide meaningful input to meaningless tasks. Its nature is too efficient for that.
Assess the intuitive messages you receive.
your intuition has a very hard time communicating with you, it may
"surround" you with messages. But that does not mean you should just
follow it blindly. You still need to evaluate the messages and decide
what makes sense to do.
For example, Rose is considering moving to Colorado, but can't make up her mind. One day she dreams about the Rocky Mountains. Later that morning her phone rings. Rose knows before she picks up the receiver that Nancy, her friend who recently moved to Colorado, is calling.
Rose is even more amazed when the mail brings a brochure for an affordable seminar featuring a teacher she admires that will be held in the Rocky Mountains.
Do all these experiences add up to Rose's intuition ordering her to move to Colorado? The short answer is 'no.' True intuition does not order you, but invites you to consider actions, changes in attitudes, and a host of other things. If Rose values her intuition, she could follow up on all the intuitive input she received about Colorado by going to the seminar and exploring the possibilities of moving to Colorado during that trip.
Rose could conclude that her intuition supported an exploration of the Rocky Mountains, but it is Rose, not her intuition, who will determine if she should move.
Are there any ethical concerns?
It is important to follow ethical guidelines as you develop your intuition.
- Stick to personal use: Focus on your use of intuition for yourself, not for others.
- Observe boundaries: Never give unsolicited intuitive information to others. You wouldn't barge into someone else's house without an invitation, don't use your intuition to 'read' for others without discussing it openly and honestly beforehand.
- Use common sense: Experiment with your intuition within the context of common sense. Don't run out and risk everything, just because you believe intuition tells you to. Even logical conclusions need to be evaluated in the context of your life.
- Question commands: Intuition invites you into a new perspective; intuition doesn't command. Be suspicious if intuition seems to be commanding you rather than suggesting possibilities.
Use intuition not as a magic wand that eliminates the ups and downs of life, but as a gift that can add a rich dimension to your life.
your intuition is mostly a matter of paying attention to it in your
daily life, particularly in the areas you know a lot about and love.
Remember that interpretations of intuition can be incomplete or colored by our perceptions, so use common sense. Ideally, your intuition and your logic will be partners and fully integrated with each other in your approach to life.
Franquemont, S. (1999). You Already Know What to Do.
Rosanoff, N. (1995). Intuition Workout. Asian Publishing. Boulder Creek, CA.
Vaughan, F. (1979). Awakening Intuition, Anchor Press, Doubleday, Garden City, NY. Tarcher/Penguin. NY, NY.
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When I finally caved in and decided to replace my old tube television with a modern high definition set, Decision No. 1 was, what kind? Plasma or LCD? What size?
When I renovated my house about a dozen years ago, I turned a windowless basement into a TV room. After installing bookshelves across the front wall (where the TV would be), the room measured about 12 feet wide by 10 feet deep.
In the interest of saving money (always of interest), I treated the room acoustically with the help of Lew Lipnick, who holds twin jobs as an acoustician and as contrabassoonist for the National Symphony Orchestra.
His good advice was to put up a couple of thousand dollars of acoustic panels to make the room acoustically right – not too lively, not too dead. Then I wouldn’t have to spend a lot on high end equipment and equalizers to compensate for the room’s sonic problems. Covering the walls at ear level and a section of ceiling with RPG BAD Diffsorber panels was a huge improvement.
Back then picking the right size TV was based on a mathematical formula calculated by how far away you would sit. If the screen was too large for the distance, the lines on the screen would be too apparent. But in the age of 1080p resolution, all of that is out the window. Sit as close as you want, there are no lines. And who ever said, “The TV is too big.” So I settled on replacing my 36-inch cathode ray tube TV with a 50-inch set, the largest size that would fit neatly in the existing cabinet. (It’s funny how often cabinets can dictate the size of TV one wants.)
TV’s come in basically two flavors at the moment, LED-LCD and plasma. The LED-LCDs are usually better in bright rooms, for their ability to produce blazingly vivid pictures, but the blacks aren’t as rich as on plasma, and LED-LCDs can be susceptible to blurring when there is a lot of motion onscreen.
I have a windowless room, so I decided to go for a plasma TV, which is also often cheaper for the same size TV. I looked at a lot of TVs, but was swayed by some installers who uniformly said to get a Panasonic 3-D plasma – and not because it was 3-D.
Few of the signals that come into your TV are 1080p, which means a processor has to interpret the lower quality signal then resize it. But the more processing you ask your equipment to do, the bigger the chance you’ll get errors. Those errors show up as checkerboarding, which are those blocks you see when video goes bad, as well as other visual goofs the trade lumps under the heading artifacts. The advantage of 3-D TV’s is that they need to have twice the processing power of a 2-D set. So even your 2-D pictures are likely to look better on a 3-D set.
I wanted to go whole hog on the top-of-the-line Panasonic VT model, which had the highest grade processing and filtering and the screen was flat glass without a frame around it. But since it only came in 55-inches and over, I went with the next line down the GT model, TC-P50GT50, which I bought for $1,500 from Amazon (a price lower than the employee pricing at Panasonic, an employee told me).
But the installation would create as many problems as it solved. For that, drop in next week. In the meantime, did I make the right decision? Go ahead and second guess me in the Comments section. It may help others.
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14 Characteristics of Great Teams: Part 1 of 2
If you read my recent post titled, “Playing to Win” then you know that I’m an avid football fan. And while my favorite team was knocked out of the playoffs, I’m still watching the remaining games with great interest, including the two divisional championship games that were played yesterday. In just under two weeks, this season’s NFL champion will be anointed after winning the Super Bowl.
This got me thinking: what is it that sets great teams apart?
What do the great teams do differently and better than the others?
Whether you have a small business or not, cultivating these traits within your business and employee culture will give you a competitive advantage and put you in a position to gain ground when it comes to sales, customer loyalty and employee engagement. What’s more, it will make your business stronger – more successful not only in the short term but better prepared for the long haul.
So here are my 14 characteristics of great teams for small business success:
1. Great teams study the competition. They scout the players and analyze the play of other teams. They discover the strengths and exceptional players of the other team and they look for weaknesses they can exploit for competitive advantage.
- Do you know who your competitors are? Do you know what they are best at? Do you know what their ‘fans’ love most about them? Do you know where their weaknesses are?
- The answers to these questions can help you develop tactics to improve your own performance to better compete against them. And by analyzing their weaknesses, you can gain not only competitive advantage but you may also be able to identify portions of your shared target markets which they are not serving well. In other words, rather than competing against the competition at their points of strength, become good in areas where they are weak or may overlook completely.
2. Great teams strategize and plan. They spend hours and hours and hours “off the field” creating detailed game plans and even contingency plans for the team to follow on the field.
- Do you have a plan? Do you have a mission and vision statement? Do you have a customer bill of rights? Do all of your employees know the plan, understand your mission and vision, support the promises you make to customers and – most importantly – understand how their role helps to fulfill each? When was the last time you conducted a SWOT analysis?
(SWOT=Strengths, Opportunities, Weaknesses, Threats)
- Do you have a marketing plan, or are you winging it? Do you have specific goals for sales, new customer acquisition, retention, referrals, customer life cycle management and strategies to achieve them?
- Do you have contingency plans for when things go awry, competitors emerge, the market changes or emergencies occur?
3. Great teams work as a team. While players who carry, catch or throw the ball might get more time in the spotlight, they represent only a small fraction of the players on the team, most of whom rarely touch the ball at all. On great teams, those in the spotlight understand that they can only do what they do because of the efforts of their teammates who perform other roles. On great teams, every team member understands their own role and how it contributes to the success of the team as a whole. They know the importance of what they do and they strive, continually, to improve.
- Few businesses of any size can say that all or most of their team members perform at this level; it’s likely that there are few businesses where even a significant portion of their employees perform at this level.
To develop this type of employee culture:
- Make sure that all employees know the game plan: the mission and vision of your company, the promises you make to customers, your business goals and long term objectives.
- Make sure that all employees study the play book: the strategies and tactics that will be employed in order to fulfill the mission and vision of the organization fulfill customer promises and reach goals.
- Every employee must understand how their job works to fulfill the mission and vision of the organization, how it enhances and impacts the customer experience and how what they do impacts the ability of others in the organization to succeed.
- Create a culture where each employee feels equally valuable and needed by the organization. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about money; what I mean is that in many organizations, one or more departments or individuals is made to feel that they are more important than others. Some are driven by the sales department. Some by operations. Some by singularly charismatic, dominant individuals. But for a team to feel and perform like a team, it’s vital to develop a culture where people understand why ‘what they do’ is vital to the organization and one in which no one department or team consciously or subconsciously believes that they are more important than the others.
- Don’t pit people against one another or create power silos. Nip negative behaviors such as hoarding power, information or contacts in the bud. And conversely, make it absolutely safe for people to share information, power, contacts and even customers by behaving with integrity and insisting that all employees do the same.
4. Great teams recruit strategically. They go after the best players for each position; people who are not only great at what they do, but people whose strengths, personality (on and off the field) and abilities complement their style of play, work to fulfill their game plan, enhance and complement the strengths of other players and ultimately will help to generate immediate “wins” but will also help to build the team for the future.
- When hiring, remember that you’re not just looking for superstars, you’re looking for individuals who will fit in well with the employee culture that you have (or the one you want to develop).
- If you want to have a positive workplace, you must hire people who are positively charged. If you want to grow your business, you must hire people who can embrace change, welcome the suggestions and ideas of others and understand the concept of continuous improvement. If you want to deliver exceptional customer experiences, you must hire people who are positive, patient, knowledgeable, good at problem solving, can think on their feet, who don’t take criticism personally and who absolutely live to make the lives of others better.
- Hire for personality and attitude as well as abilities and experience. Make sure that not only your screening and interview processes but also your reference checks include questions which will help you determine whether the individual will be a good fit relative to other employees, whether they will add skills and abilities that you strategically desire, and whether they are individuals who can help you achieve not only short term “wins” but also build for the long term.
5. Great teams are committed to continuous improvement which they achieve by running drills, training, education and good old practice, practice, practice. Never satisfied with “good enough” or how good they were last season or during the last game, great teams constantly analyze their own performance to identify areas where they can improve, and then set out to do so. They work out to stay in shape and to get stronger and faster. They study the game plan. They learn every play in the playbook so that, if called upon, they can do their job to the absolute best of their ability.
- For many businesses, especially small businesses, this is an area which is often shelved for some time in the future when you believe that you will “have time” to develop a plan for improvement. In many businesses, employees are putting in a “good enough” performance because there is no reason or incentive for them to go above and beyond the call of duty. They don’t see a career path and opportunities for strategic development and advancement are not put in front of them. Mentoring and cross-training – practicing new skills -- is non-existent.
- Have you created a climate of continuous improvement, or is “good enough” good enough at your business? Do you incentivize, reward or acknowledge ideas for improving sales, reducing costs, increasing efficiencies and other process improvements? Do you make it safe for people to make suggestions and share ideas relative to their own jobs and to those of others?
- Do you encourage or support continuing education and training? Do you even have a training plan? How about a job mentoring or employee development program?
- How often do you even analyze the ‘play’ of your team to look for areas which can be improved? Do you conduct employee and customer surveys? Do you encourage and facilitate customer or employee feedback in any way? Do you act on ideas and complaints? Do you report results?
6. Great teams take time to reassess and adjust their game plan mid-season or even mid-game, and they do so for many reasons. They may have lost key players due to injury or trades. They may have lost one or more coaches, or even fired them for poor performance. Or what they are doing may simply not be working.
- Part of your planning process should include incremental measurements; points in time when you will step back and analyze whether the tactics you’re employing are working. You (and all the members of your team) must be able willing to make needed adjustments to your game plan. You must be open to change.
- You have to create a culture where managers and employees feel safe; safe to make suggestions and where criticisms are given and taken constructively (rather than personally). It’s not easy to develop this type of climate, and it starts at the top and is a climate to which all of the leaders in your organization should be held accountable.
- This is not a culture you’ll develop by accident; ‘fight or flight’ is human nature when it comes to confrontation and criticism. Creating a culture where it is safe for the people within it to operate, make and receive suggestions and implement needed change is something you’ll only achieve when it’s an authentic part of who you are as the leader of your business and the steps you take strategically to nurture it.
7. Great teams listen to experts on and off the field. Great teams don’t just have one great coach, or even a great coach plus a great offensive and defensive coordinator. Great teams have experts on and off the field and in the booth, people who have a different perspective of things because of where they’re sitting, who can be tapped for advice and insight.
- This may be scary, because top down, dictatorial leadership can seem easier. It gives you the illusion of having control – but it’s not the way to build a great team. To build a great team, all of the leaders and influencers within your business need to feel (and should be) valued and heard.
- To build a great team, you need to tap the advice and insights of people who are watching your game from a different perspective. No man is an island, and great leaders seek out mentors, peers and consultants who can provide them with real time feedback on their own performance as well as that of their team.
The next 7 characteristics of a great team will be published on Thursday, January 26th -it's going to be a great year!
Elizabeth Kraus is the author of 365 Days of Marketing.
If you want to build a business which provides the maximum when it comes to customer and employee satisfaction and loyalty as well as profitability, change the way that you understand and use marketing. 365 Days of Marketing is available on amazon.com or save $5 off the list price when you use the Code USH9VPJG and purchase on my site at 12monthsofmarketing.net.
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The one who is engaged directly (not the leader) should think in a single, simple way, because the goal is to motivate a fire. The writer can separate him or herself from the situation, must think in a long term frame because abstraction is his or her weapon. The theorist always over-estimates the importance of the complex because they are not interested in acting, or creating a force.
The bias against ideology not connected to an actual plan is motivated by a resentment towards an absence of gravity – a detachment from the real, which speaks loudly the truth that you do not need the overcoming, at least not personally. You can go home. So you are not serious, you only write and think.
This is the genuine critique of theory, probably the only non-hypocritical rejoinder to it is to actually become motivated by the same need that grounds your critic, and have that gravity, that absolute, unapologetic demand itself take you over, and control your own thinking – short, and long term.
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CORNER BROOK — Changes to the Corner Brook transit service appear evident.
The findings of the one-year trial to improve the city bus service were released at Monday evening’s public meeting of council. It was accompanied by the results of the public survey which followed.
City staff proposed a list of possible recommendations and suggestions, but a two-bus system service was extended throughout October until a final decision can be made on the future of the system.
According to Steve May, the director of operational services, the key outcomes of the trial period and survey were the NextBus application is not being utilized by the public, but the free application of google maps is.
He said the overall number of riders increased 68,488 in the year to 80,513 during the trial year. However, ridership during a two-bus system as opposed to a four-bus system only reduced from 22 rides per hour from 24 rides per hour — despite the significant increased cost of the extra buses.
The number of riders was low during the evening hours, which was added during the trial period, averaging just seven rides per hour. While Saturday riders were lower than day time hours and higher than evenings — averaging 14 rides per hour.
The results of the cost evaluation was the subsidy per ride is lowest during the day, at $5.80 per ride, and highest during the evenings, at $19.98 per ride.
The possible ways to streamline the transit system as suggested by staff included a two-bus system, year round, and on an hourly schedule as optimized according to the findings of the trial or a one-bus system, year round and on an optimized route. May said another option could be to schedule a bus for the high usage times only.
Staff also recommended a possibility would be to seek independent private-sector proposals for transit services that could work and be affordable in Corner Brook.
It was also suggested to seek the input of the public on the value of having a public transit system and what is deemed a reasonable subsidy for the service.
The reaction around the council chamber was varied, but the consensus was some form of a transit system is needed in Corner Brook.
Coun. Priscilla Boutcher was the most adamant in that requirement. She said times has changed from the years of government grants for such services as transit, but the service is still a necessity.
“With the price of gas and our terrain, and everything, I think we need to downsize in some way to still have some kind of service,” she said.
“We have an aging population, and a lot of these people in the years to come will want some kind of service. They might not need it every hour, but it is worth the effort of looking at it again.”
Coun. Leo Bruce said the nearly $20 subsidy per person to get on the bus in the evenings and the nearly $10 expense per rider Saturdays is too costly.
“I don’t think the taxpayers of Corner Brook can afford to pay those subsidies for a person to get on the bus and take a ride anywhere in the city of Corner Brook,” he said.
He said the results of the trial period and survey were compelling. He encourages entrepreneurs to come forward with proposals to offer some kind of service.
“The city of Corner Brook is a city that needs some kind of a transit service, but not at this cost at these numbers,” he said. “They are extreme. They are too high.”
The statistics from the trial period and survey are available online at www.cornerbrook.com.
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McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh believes the move to more environmentally friendly engines for 2014 is a vital step for Formula 1, despite the increased costs it means for those involved in the sport.
Engine manufacturers are currently locked into development programs for the new 1.6-liter turbocharged V6 power units, with its costs set to be passed on to its customer teams at the start of the new engine formula era. Although that ramp-up of expenses has been the cause of concern from some teams, who have questioned whether or not all squads will be able to afford the estimated $25 million-per-year power train bills, Whitmarsh thinks F1 is plotting the right path.
"We have to be respectful of the fact that, on the one hand, the sport is saying to the engine manufacturers; we want new technologies and we want an entirely new engine – as that means undoubtedly they are having to spend a lot of money to do that," Whitmarsh said. "But that is the challenge. If you introduce rule changes – all for good reasons to make the sport socially relevant and to make the technologies appropriate – there will inevitably be a cost of so doing. And that is something we have to be balanced about and very cautious about.
"If I was one of the teams further down the pitlane, I would like my engines for free and I would like my tires for free – but, at the same time, hopefully the sport benefits from evolution. No sport, and especially no technical sport such as ours, cannot change and not reflect what people perceive."
Whitmarsh believes that if F1 stuck long term to the current V8 engines, it could leave itself open to criticism of being insensitive to environmental concerns.
"If F1 is perceived as a gas-guzzling sport that has no regard to the technologies that are very relevant to automotive companies, then we really promote the wrong image," he said. "F1 should be about efficiency.
"One of the great things about the RRA (Resource Restriction Agreement, limiting F1 team expenses -Ed.) is that it creates a lot of challenge. And rather than just say we want more resource to make the car go quicker, we are now having to ask questions about how we get a bigger bang for the buck, and how we work more efficiently.
"People are talking about the efficient use of resources. No sport should be at liberty to spend almost unlimited amounts of money and resource with no focus on efficiency."
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10 Unusual Color Names You’ve Never Heard Of
Although you may know that the primary colors are red, blue and yellow and that they can’t be made from mixing any colors. But still there are few colors that you’ve never heard of or maybe even seen. Following we have collected few colors. Those, you’ve maybe seen few a times but most probably you don’t know their names even are as follows.
Thanks to Crayola
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People are converging on the usage scenario of using their phones as a camera
But, are they?http://www.isuppli.com/Home-and-Consume ... meras.aspx
All we're really seeing (if we go by this link) is the idea that the simple "110 camera" style market is going away, but the rest of the market remains intact.
This has always
been a volatile marketplace, going way back to the days of the 120 and (most notoriously) the 110 format cameras. Compared to smartphones, these really sucked, but they were great in the role of "the camera you have with you." Since for some consumers, this is their only camera, then the smartphone will win in this market.
But, note that even in this set of projections, total point and shoot volume is only going to suffer modest decline -- not a catastrophic displacement. Maybe that will yet happen, but I doubt it. Smartphone cameras have limits and these limits will chafe a lot of consumers.
This is a little more optimistic as far as smartphones go:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... hotos.html
. . .but even here, the emphasis is on total pictures taken, not as much on devices purchased (which is what will matter in terms of product in the marketplace). And even here, it's conceded that the market won't disappear.
'Consumers who use their mobile phones to take pictures and video were more likely to do so instead of their camera when capturing spontaneous moments, but for important events, single purpose cameras or camcorders are still largely the device of choice.'
In fact, if we go by the first link, it looks like categories like DSLR are rising (perhaps because
people are spending less on P&S now).
If there is a real shift, it is represented by the iPhone 4S, because it is a much better camera, but it is doubtful it will have features like optical zoom and underwater performance that even many non-enthusiast consumers desire.
If you look straight under the middle of the bell shaped curve, you conclude that whatever you pick -- web browsing, picture taking, game playing, that the smart phone is winning. It is eminently suited to picking off a lot of those tasks, as will tablets be in their own way.
But, as consumers don't spend all their lives under the middle of that curve, the convergence is rather muddier than it is when we content ourselves with looking under the middle of the curve. I think this is what the talk was getting at.
For instance, I don't see tablets
, even though they have phones in them, as much of a threat to the digital phone market. Great if it is "all you have" and nice for videoconferencing, but not the platform of choice for even casual picture taking.
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