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\|←Author Index: He\|\|Reginald Heber \|Church of England bishop, now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer.\| Works about Heber - “Heber, Reginald” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910. - “Heber, Reginald” in The American Cyclopædia, 1879. \|Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.\|
The New International Encyclopædia/King, Jonas \|←King, John Edward\|\|The New International Encyclopædia \|Edition of 1905. See also Jonas King on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.\| KING, Jonas (1792-1869). An American missionary. He was born at Hawley, Mass., July 29, 1792, educated at Williams College and Andover Seminary, and engaged in home mission work. To prepare himself for the foreign field he studied Arabic in Paris under De Sacy. From 1822 till 1828 he held the position of professor of Oriental languages in Amherst College, but during the years 1823-25 traveled in the East distributing Bibles and preaching. In 1828 he went to Greece, where his missionary labors at first met with much success. Later he aroused the hostility of the Greek Church, was several times tried on charges of reviling religion and the Church, and even brought in danger of his life. He died at Athens, May 22, 1869. His miscellaneous works in Greek were published at Athens (1859-60). In English he wrote The Oriental Church and the Latin (1865). Consult his life by F. E. H. H. (New York, 1879).
The Enamelist Society 2013 conference will be held in the Newport, Kentucky / Cincinnati, Ohio area. - Pre-conference workshops: July 31-August 2 - Conference: August 3-4 - Post-conference workshops: August 5-7 - Exhibition at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center: July 15 – August 23 - On-line Exhibition entry closed on February 22. - On-line Registration for the conference and workshops is open until July 26, 2013. After July 26, please register in person at the conference. The Conference headquarters site is the Marriott at RiverCenter. The Marriott is a 4-diamond hotel, newly renovated and located on the banks of the Ohio River in Covington, Kentucky. It is close to numerous restaurants, museums, an aquarium, and nightlife. Similar to previous conferences, the morning sessions will be filled with keynote speakers and a general membership meeting. As this conference will highlight the global usage of enamel, Jamie Bennett, will profile his recent international travels as a keynote speaker. The afternoons consist of "breakout" sessions where multiple presentations and/or demonstrations on various technical or marketing topics are held every hour. Evening events include an opening reception for the Exhibitions and auctions. The every popular pin swap begins as attendees arrive and a vendors area will be available throughout the conference to browse and purchase enamel related items and books. In addition, a presenters invitational exhibition and an "Instant Gallery" will be open for public viewing. The Instant Gallery consists of 1 or 2 pieces of enamel work brought by conference attendees. This work may be for sale and may be accompanied by a small photo of the maker in order to facilitate networking between attendees. The Enamelist Society holds a raffle, a silent auction and a live auction during the conference. Donated items include enamels, tools, books and, of course, enamel pieces. Auction proceeds help support the Society mission and grants. A printable version of the Conference Prospectus is available here. Help us advertize the Conference. A printable flyer is available for your use. The14th Biennial International Juried Enamel Exhibition and 10th Juried Student Exhibition will accompany the conference. This year the our Alchemy 2: A Global Vision For Enamel juried exhibitions will be at the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington, Kentucky. Jurors for the exhibition are Susie Ganch, Elizabeth Turrell and Karen Lorene. Three day workshops surround the conference. There are 8 exciting workshops both pre-conference and post-conference from which to choose. The Woodrow W. Carpenter Foundation will host some of the workshops with others at Northern Kentucky University and also at the A. O. Smith Corporation Laboratory. A. O. Smith can accommodate larger scale enameling. The Enamelist Society thanks our sponsors for their genorosity and continued support.
Redirected from Japanese art and architecture Historically, Japan has been subject to sudden invasions of new and alien ideas followed by long periods of minimal contact with the outside world. Over time the Japanese developed the ability to absorb, imitate, and finally assimilate those elements of foreign culture that complemented their aesthetic preferences. The earliest complex art in Japan was produced in the 7th and 8th centuries AD in connection with Buddhism. In the 9th century, as the Japanese began to turn away from China and develop indigenous forms of expression, the secular arts became increasingly important; until the late 15th century, both religious and secular arts flourished. After the Onin War[?] (1467-77) Japan entered a period of political, social, and economic disruption that lasted for nearly a century. In the state that emerged under the leadership of the Tokugawa clan[?], organized religion played a much less important role in people's lives, and the arts that survived were primarily secular. Painting is the preferred artistic expression in Japan, practiced by amateur and professional alike. Until modern times, the Japanese wrote with a brush[?] rather than a pen, and their familiarity with brush techniques has made them particularly sensitive to painterly values. They found sculpture a much less sympathetic medium for artistic expression; most Japanese sculpture is associated with religion, and the medium's use declined with the lessening importance of traditional Buddhism. Japanese ceramics[?] are among the finest in the world and include the earliest known artifacts of their culture. In architecture, Japanese preferences for natural materials and an interaction of interior and exterior space are clearly expressed. Japanese art is characterized by unique polarities. In the ceramics of the prehistoric periods, for example, exuberance was followed by disciplined and refined artistry[?]. Another instance is provided by two 16th-century structures that are poles apart: Katsura Palace[?] is an exercise in simplicity, with an emphasis on natural materials, rough and untrimmed, and an affinity for beauty achieved by accident; Toshogu Mausoleum[?] is a rigidly symmetrical structure replete with brightly colored relief carvings covering every visible surface. Japanese art, valued not only for its simplicity but also for its colorful exuberance, has considerably influenced 19th-century Western painting and 20th-century Western architecture[?]. Jomon people (circa 11,000-circa 300 BC), named for the cord markings that decorated the surfaces of their clay vessels, were nomadic hunter-gatherers. They built simple houses of wood and thatch set into shallow earthen pits to provide warmth from the soil, and crafted pottery storage vessels and clay figurines called dogu[?]. The next wave of immigrants was the Yayoi people, named for the district in Tokyo where remnants of their settlements first were found. These people, arriving in Japan about 350 BC, brought their knowledge of wetland rice cultivation, the manufacture of copper weapons and bronze bells (dotaku[?]), and wheel-thrown, kiln-fired ceramics. Kofun, or Tumulus[?], period (circa AD 250-552), represents a modification of Yayoi culture, attributable either to internal development or external force. In this period diverse groups of people formed political alliances and coalesced into a nation. Typical artifacts are bronze mirrors, symbols of political alliances, and clay sculptures called haniwa, erected outside tombs. Asuka and Nara Art During the Asuka and Nara periods, so named because the seat of Japanese government was located in the Asuka Valley[?] from 552 to 710 and in the city of Nara until 784, the first significant invasion by Asian continental culture took place in Japan. The transmission of Buddhism provided the initial impetus for contacts between Korea, China, and Japan, and the Japanese recognized facets of Chinese culture that could profitably be incorporated into their own: a system for converting ideas and sounds into writing; historiography; complex theories of government, such as an effective bureaucracy; and, most important for the arts, advanced technology, new building techniques, more advanced methods of casting in bronze, and new techniques and mediums for painting. Throughout the 7th and 8th centuries, however, the major focus in contacts between Japan and the Asian continent was the development of Buddhism. Not all scholars agree on the significant dates and the appropriate names to apply to various time periods between 552, the official date of the introduction of Buddhism into Japan, and 784, when the Japanese capital was transferred from Nara. The most common designations are the Suiko period[?], 552-645; the Hakuho period[?], 645-710; and the Tempyo period[?], 710-[784\|84]]. The earliest Buddhist structures still extant in Japan, and the oldest wooden buildings in the Far East are found at the Horyu-ji[?] to the southwest of Nara. First built in the early 7th century as the private temple of Crown Prince Shotoku consists of 41 independent buildings; the most important ones, however, the main worship hall, or Kondo (Golden Hall), and Goju-no-to[?] (Five-story Pagoda[?]), stand in the center of an open area surrounded by a roofed cloister. The Kondo, in the style of Chinese worship[?] halls, is a two-story structure of post-and-beam construction, capped by an irimoya, or hipped-gabled roof of ceramic tiles. Inside the Kondo, on a large rectangular platform, are some of the most important sculptures of the period. The central image is a Shaka Trinity[?] (623), the historical Buddha flanked by two bodhisattvas (Buddhist saints[?]), a sculpture cast in bronze by the sculptor Tori Busshi[?] (flourished early 7th century) in homage to the recently deceased Prince Shotoku. At the four corners of the platform are the Guardian Kings of the Four Directions[?], carved in wood about 650. Also housed at Horyu-ji[?] is the Tamamushi Shrine[?], a wooden replica of a Kondo, which is set on a high wooden base that is decorated with figural paintings executed in a medium of mineral pigments mixed with lacquer. Temple building in the 8th century was focused around the Todai-ji[?] in Nara. Constructed as the headquarters for a network of temples in each of the provinces, the Todai-ji is the most ambitious religious complex erected in the early centuries of Buddhist worship in Japan. Appropriately, the 16.2-m (53-ft) Buddha (completed 752) enshrined in the main hall, or Daibutsuden[?], is a Rushana Buddha[?], the figure that represents the essence of Buddhahood, just as the Todai-ji represented the center for imperially sponsored Buddhism and its dissemination throughout Japan. Only a few fragments of the original statue survive, and the present hall and central Buddha are reconstructions from the Edo period. Clustered around the Daibutsuden on a gently sloping hillside are a number of secondary halls: the Hokkedo[?] (Lotus Sutra Hall), with its principal image, the Fukukenjaku Kannon[?] (the most popular bodhisattva), crafted of dry lacquer (cloth dipped in lacquer and shaped over a wooden armature); the Kaidanin[?] (Ordination Hall) with its magnificent clay statues of the Four Guardian Kings[?]; and the storehouse, called the Shosoin[?]. This last structure is of great importance as an art-historical cache, because in it are stored the utensils that were used in the temple's dedication ceremony in 752, the eye-opening ritual for the Rushana image, as well as government documents and many secular objects owned by the imperial family. In 794 the capital of Japan was officially transferred to Heiankyo[?] (present-day Kyoto), where it remained until 1868. The term Heian period refers to the years between 794 and 1185, the end of the Gempei civil war[?]. The period is further divided into the early Heian and the late Heian, or Fujiwara era[?], the pivotal date being 894, the year imperial embassies to China were officially discontinued. The next period is named after the Fujiwara family[?], then the most powerful in the country, who ruled as regents for the emperor, becoming, in fact, civil dictators. In reaction to the growing wealth and power of organized Buddhism in Nara, the priest Kukai[?] (posthumous name Kobo Daishi[?], 774-835) journeyed to China to study Shingon[?], a more rigorous form of Buddhism, which he introduced into Japan in 806. At the core of Shingon worship are the mandala, diagrams of the spiritual universe; the Kongokai[?], a chart of the myriad worlds of Buddhism; and the Taizokai[?], a pictorial representation of the realms of the Buddhist universe. The temples erected for this new sect were built in the mountains, far away from the court and the laity in the capital. The irregular topography of these sites forced Japanese architects to rethink the problems of temple construction, and in so doing to choose more indigenous elements of design. Cypress-bark roofs replaced those of ceramic tile, wood planks were used instead of earthen floors, and a separate worship area for the laity was added in front of the main sanctuary. The temple that best reflects the spirit of early Heian Shingon temples is the Muro-ji[?] (early 9th century), set deep in a stand of cypress trees on a mountain southeast of Nara. The wooden image of Shaka, the "historic" Buddha (early 9th century), enshrined in a secondary building at the Muro-ji, is typical of the early Heian sculpture, with its ponderous body, covered by thick drapery folds carved in the hompa-shiki[?] (rolling-wave) style, and its austere, withdrawn facial expression. In the Fujiwara period[?], Pure Land Buddhism, which offered easy salvation through belief in Amida[?] (the Buddha of the Western Paradise), became popular. Concurrently, the Kyoto nobility developed a society devoted to elegant aesthetic pursuits. So secure and beautiful was their world that they could not conceive of Paradise as being much different. The Amida hall, blending the secular with the religious, houses one or more Buddha images within a structure resembling the mansions of the nobility. The Ho-o-do (Phoenix Hall, completed 1053) of the Byodoin, a temple in Uji to the southeast of Kyoto, is the exemplar of Fujiwara Amida halls. It consists of a main rectangular structure flanked by two L-shaped wing corridors and a tail corridor, set at the edge of a large artificial pond. Inside, a single golden image of Amida (circa 1053) is installed on a high platform. The Amida sculpture was executed by Jocho[?], who used a new canon of proportions and a new technique (yosegi[?]), in which multiple pieces of wood are carved out like shells and joined from the inside. Applied to the walls of the hall are small relief carvings of celestials, the host believed to have accompanied Amida when he descended from the Western Paradise to gather the souls of believers at the moment of death and transport them in lotus blossoms to Paradise. Raigo[?] (Descent of the Amida Buddha) paintings on the wooden doors of the Ho-o-do are an early example of Yamato-e[?], Japanese-style painting, because they contain representations of the scenery around Kyoto. In the last century of the Heian period, the horizontal, illustrated narrative handscroll, the emaki[?], came to the fore. Dating from about 1130, the illustrated Tale of Genji[?] represents one of the high points of Japanese painting. Written about the year 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Akiko[?], the novel deals with the life and loves of Prince Genji and the world of the Heian court after his death. The 12th-century artists of the emaki version devised A system of pictorial conventions that convey visually the emotional content of each scene. In the second half of the century, a different, more lively style of continuous narrative illustration became popular. The Ban Dainagon Ekotoba[?] (late 12th century, Sakai Tadahiro Collection), a scroll that deals with an intrigue at court, emphasizes figures in active motion depicted in rapidly executed brush strokes and thin but vibrant colors. Kamakura Art In 1180 a civil war broke out between two military clans, the Taira and the Minamoto; five years later the Minamoto emerged victorious and established a de facto seat of government at the seaside village of Kamakura, where it remained until 1333. With the of power from the nobility to the warrior class, the arts had to satisfy a new audience: soldiers, men devoted to the skills of warfare; priests committed to making Buddhism available to illiterate commoners; and conservatives, the nobility and some members of the priesthood who regretted the declining power of the court. Thus, realism, a popularizing trend, and a classical revival characterize the art of the Kamakura period. The Kei school[?] of sculptors, particularly Unkei[?], created a new, more realistic style of sculpture. The two Nio guardian images (1203) in the Great South Gate of the Todai-ji in Nara illustrate Unkei's dynamic suprarealistic style. The images, about 8 m (about 26 ft) tall, were carved of multiple blocks in a period of about three months, a feat indicative of a developed studio system of artisans working under the direction of a master sculptor. Unkei's polychromed wood sculptures (1208, Kofuku-ji[?] Temple, Nara) of two Indian sages, Muchaku[?] and Seshin[?], the legendary founders of the Hosso sect[?], are among the most accomplished realistic works of the period; as rendered by Unkei, they are remarkably individualized and believable images. The Kegon Engi Emaki[?], the illustrated history of the founding of the Kegon sect[?], is an excellent example of the popularizing trend in Kamakura painting. The Kegon sect, one of the most important in the Nara period, fell on hard times during the ascendancy of the Pure Land sects[?]. After the Gempei civil war[?] (1180-85), Priest Myo-e[?] of the Kozanji Temple[?] sought to revive the sect and also to provide a refuge for women widowed by the war. The wives of samurai, even noblewomen, were discouraged from learning more than a syllabary system[?] for transcribing sounds and ideas, and most were incapable of reading texts that employed Chinese ideographs. Thus, the Kegon Engi Emaki[?] combines passages of text, written with a maximum of easily readable syllables, and illustrations that have the dialogue between characters written next to the speakers, a technique comparable to contemporary comic strips. The plot of the emaki, the lives of the two Korean priests who founded the Kegon sect, is swiftly paced and filled with fantastic feats such as a journey to the palace of the Ocean King[?], and a poignant love story. A work in a more conservative vein is the illustrated version of Murasaki Shikibu's diary[?]. Emaki versions of her novel continued to be produced, but the nobility, attuned to the new interest in realism yet nostalgic for past days of wealth and power, revived and illustrated the diary in order to recapture the splendor of the author's times. One of the most beautiful passages illustrates the episode in which Murasaki Shikibu is playfully held prisoner in her room by two young courtiers, while, just outside, moonlight gleams on the mossy banks of a rivulet in the imperial garden. Muromachi Art During the Muromachi period (1338-1573), also called the Ashikaga period, a profound change took place in Japanese culture. The Ashikaga military clan took control of the shogunate and moved its headquarters back to Kyoto, to the Muromachi district[?] of the city. With the return of government to the capital, the popularizing trends of the Kamakura period came to an end, and cultural expression took on a more aristocratic, elitist character. Zen Buddhism, the Ch'an sect[?] traditionally thought to have been founded in China in the 6th century AD, was introduced for a second time into Japan and took root. Because of secular ventures and trading missions to China organized by Zen temples, many Chinese paintings and objects of art were imported into Japan and profoundly influenced Japanese artists working for Zen temples and the shogunate. Not only did these imports change the subject matter of painting, but they also modified the use of color; the bright colors of Yamato-e yielded to the monochromes[?] of painting in the Chinese manner. Typical of early Muromachi painting is the depiction by the priest-painter Kao[?] (active early 15th century) of the legendary monk Kensu[?] (Hsien-tzu in Chinese) at the moment he achieved enlightenment. This type of painting was executed with quick brush strokes and a minimum of detail. Catching a Catfish with a Gourd (early 15th century, Taizo-in[?], Myoshin-ji[?], Kyoto), by the priest-painter Josetsu[?] (active c. 1400), marks a turning point in Muromachi painting. Executed originally for a low-standing screen, it has been remounted as a hanging scroll with inscriptions by contemporary figures above, one of which refers to the painting as being in the "new style." In the foreground a man is depicted on the bank of a stream holding a small gourd and looking at a large slithery catfish. Mist fills the middle ground, and the background mountains appear to be far in the distance. It is generally assumed that the "new style" of the painting, executed about 1413, refers to a more Chinese sense of deep space within the picture plane. The foremost artists of the Muromachi period are the priest-painters Shubun[?] and Sesshu[?]. Shubun, a monk at the Kyoto temple of Shokoku-ji[?], has created in the painting Reading in a Bamboo Grove (1446, Tokyo National Museum[?]) a realistic landscape with deep recession into space. Sesshu, unlike most artists of the period, was able to journey to China and study Chinese painting at its source. The Long Handscroll[?] (Mori Collection, Yamaguchi) is one of Sesshu's most accomplished works, depicting a continuing landscape through the four seasons. Another major development of the period was the tea ceremony and the house in which it was held. The purpose of the ceremony is to spend time with friends who enjoy the arts, to cleanse the mind of the concerns of daily life, and to receive a bowl of tea served in a gracious and tasteful manner. The rustic style of the rural cottage was adopted for the tea house[?], emphasizing such natural materials as bark-covered logs and woven straw. In the Momoyama period[?] (1573-1603), a succession of military leaders, such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, attempted to bring peace and political stability to Japan after an era of almost 100 years of warfare. Oda, a minor chieftain, acquired power sufficient to take de facto control of the government in 1568 and, five years later, to oust the last Ashikaga shogun. Hideyoshi took command after Oda's assassination, but his plans to establish a hereditary shogunate were foiled by Ieyasu, who established the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603. Two new forms of architecture were developed in response to the militaristic climate of the times: the castle, a defensive structure built to house a feudal lord and his soldiers in times of trouble; and the shoin, a reception hall and private study area designed to reflect the relationships of lord and vassal within a feudal society. Himeji Castle[?] (built in its present form 1609), popularly known as White Heron Castle, with its gracefully curving roofs and its complex of three subsidiary towers around the main tenshu (or keep), is one of the most beautiful structures of the Momoyama period. The Ohiroma of Nijo Castle[?] (17th century) in Kyoto is one of the classic examples of the shoin, with its tokonoma (alcove), shoin window (overlooking a carefully landscaped garden), and clearly differentiated areas for the Tokugawa lords and their vassals. The most important school of painting in the Momoyama period was that of the Kano, and the greatest innovation of the period was the formula, developed by Kano Eitoku for the creation of monumental landscapes on the sliding doors enclosing a room. The decoration of the main room facing the garden of the Juko-in[?], a subtemple of Daitoku-ji[?] (a Zen temple in Kyoto), is perhaps the best extant example of Eitoku's work. A massive plum tree and twin pines are depicted on pairs of sliding screens in diagonally opposite corners, their trunks repeating the verticals of the corner posts and their branches extending to left and right, unifying the adjoining panels. Eitoku's screen, Chinese Lions, also in Kyoto, reveals the bold, brightly colored style of painting preferred by the samurai. Hasegawa Tohaku, a contemporary of Eitoku[?], developed a somewhat different and more decorative style for large-scale screen paintings. In his Maple Screen[?], now in the temple of Chishaku-in[?], Kyoto, he placed the trunk of the tree in the center and extended the limbs nearly to the edge of the composition, creating a flatter, less architectonic work than Eitoku, but a visually gorgeous painting. His sixfold screen, Pine Wood[?] (Tokyo National Museum), is a masterly rendering in monochrome ink[?] of a grove of trees enveloped in mist. The Tokugawa shogunate of the Edo period gained undisputed control of the government in 1603 with a commitment to bring peace and economic and political stability to the country; in large measure it was successful. The shogunate survived until 1867, when it was forced to capitulate because of its failure to deal with pressure from Western nations to open the country to foreign trade. One of the dominant themes in the Edo period was the repressive policies of the shogunate and the attempts of artists to escape these strictures. The foremost of these was the closing of the country to foreigners and the accoutrements of their cultures, and the imposition of strict codes of behavior affecting every aspect of life, the clothes one wore, the person one married, and the activities one could or should not pursue. In the early years of the Edo period, however, the full impact of Tokugawa policies had not yet been felt, and some of Japan's finest expressions in architecture and painting were produced: Katsura Palace in Kyoto and the paintings of Sotatsu[?], pioneer of the Rimpa[?] school. Katsura[?], built in imitation of Prince Genji[?]'s palace, contains a cluster of shoin buildings that combine elements of classic Japanese architecture with innovative restatements. The whole complex is surrounded by a beautiful garden with paths for walking. Sotatsu[?] evolved a superb decorative style by re-creating themes from classical literature, using brilliantly colored figures and motifs from the natural world set against gold-leaf backgrounds. One of his finest works is the pair of screens The Waves at Matsushima in the Freer Gallery[?] in Washington, D.C. A century later, Korin reworked Sotatsu's style and created visually gorgeous works uniquely his own. Perhaps his finest are the screen paintings of red and white plum blossoms. The school of art best known in the West is that of the Ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints of the demimonde, the world of the kabuki theater and the brothel district. Ukiyo-e prints began to be produced in the late 17th century, but in 1764 Harunobu produced the first polychrome print. Print designers of the next generation, including Torii Kiyonaga[?] and Utamaro, created elegant and sometimes insightful depictions of courtesans. In the 19th century the dominant figure was Hiroshige, a creator of romantic and somewhat sentimental landscape prints. The odd angles and shapes through which Hiroshige often viewed landscape, and the work of Kiyonaga[?] and Utamaro, with its emphasis on flat planes and strong linear outlines, had a profound impact on such Western artists as Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh. Another school of painting contemporary with Ukiyo-e was Bunjinga[?], a style based on paintings executed by Chinese scholar-painters. Just as Ukiyo-e artists chose to depict figures from life outside the strictures of the Tokugawa shogunate, Bunjin artists turned to Chinese culture. The exemplars of this style are Ike Taiga, Yosa Buson[?], Tanomura Chikuden[?], and Yamamoto Baiitsu[?]. The first response of the Japanese was open-hearted acceptance, and in 1876 the Technological Art School[?] was opened, employing Italian instructors to teach Western methods. The second response was a pendulum swing in the opposite direction spearheaded by Okakura Kakuzo[?] and the American Ernest Fenollosa[?], who encouraged Japanese artists to retain traditional themes and techniques while creating works more in keeping with contemporary taste. Out of these two poles of artistic theory developed Yoga (Western-style painting) and Nihonga[?] (Japanese painting), categories that remain valid to the present day. The need to rebuild Japan after World War II proved a great stimulus to Japanese architects, and contemporary Japanese buildings rank with the finest in the world in terms of technology and formal conception. The best-known Japanese architect is Kenzo Tange, whose National Gymnasiums[?] (1964) for the Tokyo Olympics[?] emphasizing the contrast and blending of pillars and walls, and with sweeping roofs reminiscent of the tomo-e[?] (an ancient whorl-shaped heraldic symbol) are dramatic statements of form and movement.
ISO 16063-31: Methods for the calibration of vibration and shock transducers — Part 31: Testing of transverse vibration sensitivity SDO: ISO: International Organization for Standardization DOD Adopted ANSI Approved Approved This part of ISO 16063 specifies details of the instrumentation and methods to be used for transverse vibration sensitivity testing. It applies to rectilinear velocity and acceleration transducers. The methods and procedures specified in this part of ISO 16063 allow the determination of the sensitivity of a transducer to vibration in the plane perpendicular to its geometric axis of sensitivity (see Annex A). Because the magnitude of this transverse sensitivity can vary with the direction of the applied vibration, the various methods determine the maximum value. Using that value, the ratio of the transverse sensitivity to the sensitivity on the geometric axis of the transducer can be calculated. In addition, the angle at which the maximum transverse sensitivity occurs can be determined. The methods and techniques specified can be applied without re-mounting the transducer away from its mounting surface during the test, thus avoiding significant uncertainties often encountered in methods which require repeated mounting. The different methods specified use a single-axis vibration exciter, a two-axis vibration exciter or a tri-axial vibration exciter. Tri-axial vibration excitation allows the transverse sensitivity and the sensitivity on the geometric axis to be determined simultaneously, thus simulating application conditions where the transducer is exposed to multi-axial vibration. NOTE In accelerometer designs using a bending beam, the transverse sensitivity measured without any vibration acting on the geometric axis of sensitivity of the accelerometer may considerably differ from the transverse sensitivity measured in the presence of a vibration acting on the geometric axis of sensitivity (i.e. when the bending beam is deflected by a vibration to be measured). This part of ISO 16063 is applicable to a frequency range from 1 Hz to 5 kHz and for a dynamic range from 1 m/s2 to 1 000 m/s2 (frequency dependent) and from 1 mm/s to 1 m/s (frequency dependent). Although among all the systems specified it is possible to achieve these ranges, generally each has limitations permitting its use in much smaller ranges. The methods specified are by comparison both to a reference transducer and to a laser interferometer. The methods specified allow an expanded uncertainty of the transverse sensitivity (coverage factor k = 2) of 0,1 % or less to be achieved, if the expanded uncertainty is expressed as a percentage of the sensitivity of the test transducer in its sensitive axis. Buy this Standard Now Or if you answer yes to any of these questions: - Do you purchase more than $3000 in standards per year? - Do you purchase many different kinds of standards? - Do you have multiple employees accessing the same standards? You may save money by purchasing more comprehensive online access. * Required field
How would embedded quotations be used when quoting from passages/sources within an essay? What would be the difference between normal quotations and embedded quotations? Simply change the double quotes in the source text into single quotes to indicate that it is an inner quotation. Otherwise there is no difference. (Note that if you are writing, say, a research paper, you might want to quote the original source of the quote as well in, say, a "works cited" page. That depends on a ton of things though)
The Rap Dictionary defines the verb drop: 3. To play music, or sing a song, could mean for the dj or mixer to add bass behind the singers vocals. Drop the beat. and defines the noun beat: 1. Music which is played in the background. Much of hip-hop has beats played from vinyl records on two turntables, which is rapped over. The instruction to "drop the beat" is from the rapper to the DJ, to start playing a beat or music. Drop probably stems from the physical act of dropping or placing a record on the turntable, or more precisely dropping or placing the needle on the record. The line "Beastie Boys known to let the beat... mmm, drop!" is from their 1998 track, "Intergalactic": Tammy D getting biz on the crop Beastie Boys known to let the beat... mmm, drop When I wrote graffiti my name was Slop If you listen from the 2:27 mark, you can hear a beat under the first line, then no beat at all for the next one, and then a new beat comes in after that. This directly references their own track "The New Style" from their 1986 debut album Licensed To Ill: Spent some bank - I got a high powered jumbo Rolled up a wooly and I watched Colombo Let me clear my throat - Kick it over here baby pop And let all the fly skimmies, feel the beat... mmm, drop Coolin' on the corner on a hot summer day Just me, my posse and M.C.A. From the 3:06 mark, there's a beat under these first two lines, then no beat under the next two, and again a new beat comes in after the instruction. To drop a beat can also have an opposite, negative meaning in "traditional" live band music, where player or a drummer misses or loses the beat, stopping the rhythm.
I have a proverb in my native tongue saying something like "there is no cat chasing fish for God" which implies that anyone who does anything that may seem beneficial to you, is doing it for themselves. What is the equivalent proverb in English? In the UK there's "You don’t get owt for nowt." (owt = ought = anything/something, and nowt = nought = nothing). Plus, as Wayfaring Stranger comments, There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Not a direct equivalent, but very close meaning as well, like the one of Wayfaring Stranger It is a proverb that means that everything costs something, and anything that appears to be free must be deceptive (grammatically incorrect, it would use anything and not something, but it's idiomatic) I would argue that although there may be expressions that approach the meaning of the expression that you have supplied there is no equivalent in English that is as good. The expression as you have translated it from the original Tunisian is, quite simply, delightful. I would respectfully suggest that you modify it in speech to say, "There's no cat chasing fish for God" or "There's no cat fishing for God" This expression as it stands is a delight for the following reasons: Finally, it is worth pointing out that English is a mongrel of a language that sucks up other language and idiom from all over Europe and the Rest of the World, from the grammatically suspect, "I'm loving it!" to words such as 'shampoo', 'pyjamas' and 'galore' and also including the sentence structure of languages that it has supplanted. So I would implore you, for the sake of this great expression, use it as you have translated it and when quizzed by those who ask you about it, tell them it's an old Tunisian saying. It's likely they will thank you.
Doctors blamed exertion and said there was nothing to worry about. I knew exertion means attempts or try. But here what does that mean by 'blamed exertion'? This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information. See the FAQ for guidance on how to improve it. In this instance exertion means vigorous activity or exercise. The phrase 'blamed exertion' just means that the vigorous activity or exercise is what doctors blamed (perhaps for a fainting spell, for one example).
About the vacation rental. This beautiful apartment on Curacao is located in the residential area of Jan Thiel on the southeast side of the island. In the vicinity of the Curacao apartment you will find the popular Jan Thiel beach where you can comfortably enjoy the sunshine alternating with a refreshing dip in the azure Caribbean Sea. If you prefer to be active then you can also do snorkeling and diving here. For a night out you go to one of the nice restaurants and fun bars that you can find in the neighborhood of this unique apartment Curacao. The lively Willemstad is about 15 minutes from the apartment. There is always something to do in Willemstad so you can spend your day shopping or just enjoy the colorful surroundings. Living room of the vacation rental. The rental apartment on Curacao is divided into a nice living room with comfortable sitting area with television (3 Dutch channels and BVN), DVD player and radio/CD player. The kitchen is fully equipped with all necessary equipment, such as a fridge-freezer, four-burner stove, microwave and coffeemaker. You also have access to internet (WiFi) in the Curacao apartment. Bedrooms of the vacation rental. For a good night's sleep the Curacao apartment has two bedrooms with both two single beds, a closet and air conditioning. That way you're sure you get enough rest for a new day begins. The well-maintained bathroom of the apartment on Curacao has a shower (hot/cold water), a washing area with mirror and a toilet. Outside porch of the vacation rental. On the spacious private terrace you will find a 4-seater dining table where you can relax during the warm evenings on Curacao. This is the perfect place to take a peaceful rest of all the impressions during your vacation on Curacao. Furthermore, this lovely apartment Curacao has a shared laundry and an ironing board and iron. The apartment is equipped with an alarm and a safe for storage of your valuables. And it is possible to park your car behind the electric fence. Nice tip: The owner of the apartment organizes great deep sea fishing boat trips on the beautiful boat Mama Mia. For an all-inclusive and unforgettable adventure, you go for a day out with Ron's Boat Trips.
WORLD HIJAB DAY: BETTER AWARENESS, GREATER UNDERSTANDING, PEACEFUL WORLD I am supporting the movement of World Hijab Day on February 1 2013, though it is a one day event seems it will bring more than just a day benefits to all the women participating. Lately on the main Facebook page of this campaign, stories from Muslim women are being posted and each day the supporters and participants of this campaign increases. The good benefits of this are already happening, the women even the non-Muslims are being united and connected through this. I hope for this to be a success and to be annually active so to bring the peace all over the world through mutual understanding among people despite the differences. Let us stop the oppression and make this world a beautiful peaceful place for us. For better awareness, Greater understanding and Better world I am inviting all women both the Muslims and non-Muslim to participate or volunteer in this movement. Be a participant by wearing a Hijab on Febraury 1st, you can use simple head scarf you have on that day. Be a volunteer by spreading the word about this movement, by blogging about your Hijab experience, sharing us good experience you had with your Muslim friends or your thoughts about Muslim women. We’d love to hear it all from you. Comment below your link showing your support for this campaign. For more information visit: http://worldhijabday.com Don't forget to fill in the volunteer/participant form.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]Sushmita Sen had ambitious plans of diversifying into film production. In fact, the talented actress had decided to make a film on Rani Laxmibai and had approached Salman Khan to star and Shekhar Kapur to direct the film. What happened? "Salman said he'd allot dates after Veer. He didn't want to shoot two period films simultaneously. As for Shekhar, the moment he heard me out, he said that that I was more qualified to direct the film since I had worked too minutely on the script," Sushmita informs me. Sushmita says that if she ever plans to direct a film, it would be on the life of Rani Laxmibai. "We did thorough research on the subject. But I've decided to keep my film production plans on hold for the time being and concentrate on acting completely," she divulges.
Vidyut Jamwal has entered the Tamil films with a bang by leaving a good impression on the minds of the audience through his performance in recently released Billa 2. With his ability to do action sequences on his own and a good looking personality, the actor has managed to get good responses from critics too. The Dimitri, the arms mafia in Billa 2, seems to be very happy to have got an opportunity to share screen space with Ajith Kumar, as he has cherished the experience of working with the Thala. Vidyut Jamwal has claimed that he felt lucky for spending 22 working days with the Tamil actor. He adds that Ajith helped him in many ways and now he believes that the latter is there for him whenever Vidyut finds a difficulty in making a professional decision. However, Vidyut Jamwal is also working with Vijay in forthcoming Thuppakki. While he called Ajith Kumar a humble being, he said that Vijay is the coolest guy whom he has ever known. Meanwhile, despite getting thumbs down from critics, his debut Tamil movie Billa 2 has done rocking business in the first weekend. In Tamil Nadu alone, it has raked in around 19 crore in the opening weekend.
Director SS Rajamouli's recently released movie Eega has carried away the movie buffs across the globe. Inspired by the film, several fans have created cartoons of housefly in different way. The graphical wonder has completed one month at the Box Office, but the hangover of Eega does not seem to be ending here. Now, its effect is extended to Ganesh Chaturthi. Yes! Now, the idols of Ganesh are designed like an Eega (housefly), which has surprised none other than the villain of the film, Sudeep himself. The astonished actor took to his Twitter page to share the picture of one such idol. Besides posting the image of Ganesh, he tweeted, Hahaha....luvd ths specially designed Ganesha....nvrr bfrrrrrr...looks like SSR has changed th look of th lord too (sic)." Ganesh Chaturthi is one of widely celebrated Hindu festivals and makers of idol create idols of the Vinayaka in different design. But this unique design of a housefly is coming as a big surprise. It is sure that this design is going be the biggest highlight of this season. Eega rocks this Ganesh festival. However, the movie Eega has got an overwhelming response not only in India, but also in USA Box Office. It has set a new collection record at the Tollywood Box Office. The film is getting very good response in theatres even after one month after its release. But the makers have kept its collection figures secret.
Norah Jones performed an hour and a half of exquisitely arranged and vocally powerful songs, mostly from her latest album Little Broken Hearts, at Bank of America Pavilion on Sunday night. She started with the strong, clear “Take It Back” and the grooving “Say Goodbye.” A stand-out song was a slowed down version of “She’s 22.” It’s challenging to be dynamic behind keyboards yet watching Norah you feel she’s fully invested in her performance. She’s at ease, focused, calm despite everything going on around her onstage. She’s in command of herself and her musicianship. She’s such a talent playing acoustic and electric guitar, piano and keyboards. The changing drop, doves lighting added an effective chanteuse/ cabaret-vibe that enabled Norah to be intimate with the crowd in a non-club venue. Norah needs not be cutesy or sexy, though she’s naturally gorgeous. She doesn’t need props or quirky stage tricks like Katy Perry. She’s a musician, a performer. She’s got the chops and seeing her perform proves it. Her powerhouse voice, contemplative lyrics and intricate arrangements propel every song and mesmerize the audience. She commented that it was “fun to be here” and that there should be a Boston band called “The Tall Ships.” She also found the mega screens to the side of the stage rather amusing and commented: “It’s really weird being able to watch my own show. Posture.” The Americana songs she added to the set fell a bit flat but also mixed up the sound. I didn’t mind them but didn’t find them terribly catchy or memorable either. The stripped down “Miriam” [and I went to the concert with my close pal Miriam] with a solo Norah at the piano proved fittingly moving and haunting. This led to one of the best, catchiest post-break-up songs ever, “Happy Pills—“with the line: “Ima gonna getcha outta my head.” Norah Jones is an artist whose music I play from end-to-end and over and over again. I dissect the lyrics and my body automatically grooves to the beats. If you get a chance to catch Norah Jones on tour it’s well worth it. purchase at Amazon: Little Broken Hearts
Research in Entrepreneurship Kauffman Research Awards Thirty-one professors from various departments on UC Berkeley's campus have received funding through the Lester Center for their research on entrepreneurship. The Lester Center received this funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City in order to investigate the causes and consequences of entrepreneurship in the United States. Originally led by the late Prof. John Freeman, the Center's Director of Research and Helzel Professor of Entrepreneurship, "The Causes and Consequences of Entrepreneurship in the United States" project supports professors in the Political Science, Sociology, Economics, and City and Regional Planning Departments as well as the Schools of Public Health and Public Policy and Boalt Law School and the Haas School of Business in their research on entrepreneurship. The project is currently headed by Jerome S. Engel, Executive Director of the Lester Center, and David Teece, Director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization. The Kauffman Foundation supports the four-year project with $1.2 million in grant funds. The Lester Center thanks the Kauffman Foundation for this opportunity to engage in basic research leading to the improvement of the entrepreneurial climate in the United States. The following is a list of the projects that are currently funded by the Kauffman grant: - Philip Tetlock: Exploring the Decisions Processes of VC's - James Lincoln: Venture Capital Portfolio Diversification - David Mowery: High-Tech Firm Formation by Women and Minorities - Christopher Ansell: Entrepreneurship and Social Network Leverage - Bronwyn Hall: Entrepreneurial Firms & Patents - Michael Hout: Assessing Ethnic Economies: Effects of Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the US and the UK - Lauren Edelman: Legal Consciousness and Aspirations toward Entrepreneurship - AnnaLee Saxenian: Cross-Border Start-Ups - Susanne Scotchmer: Venture Capital: Choosing the Best Investments - David Teece: The Functions of the Entrepreneur and the Functions of the Executive - Chang-Tai Hsieh: Sources and Barriers of Entrepreneurial Growth - Robert Merges: The Value of Patent Protection for Technology Entrepreneurship - Jesse Fried: Governance Study of Venture-Backed Start-ups - Thomas Rundall: Drivers of Electronic Record Adoption Among Physician Organizations - Jennifer Chatman: Organizational Growth and Cultural Dilution: A Necessarily Inverse Relationship? - John Zysman: Services and Regions: The Algorithmic Revolution, Corporate Strategy, and Regional Growth - Pino Audia: Industrial Agglomerations and Entrepreneurship - Heather Haveman: Founding of American Magazines, 1741-1860 - Waverly Ding: Individual and Organizational Social Capital in the New Biotech Firms - Neil Fligstein: Entrepreneurs and the Development of Securitization in America - Sandra Susan Smith: Explaining Racial & Ethnic Differences in Rates of Ethnic Entrepreneurship - Alice Agogino: Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship in New Product Development: A Longitudinal Study - Ulrike Malmendier: With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship - David I. Levine: Experimental Evidence on the Causal Effect of Cal-OSHA Inspections on Entrepreneurial Ventures - Clair Brown: Serial Entrepreneurs and Venture Performance: Evidence from Venture-Backed Semiconductor Firms - Charlan Nemeth: Connecting the Dots between Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Robb Willer: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Freecycle: An On-Line, Altruistic Community - Brian D. Wright, Stuart J.H. Graham, Ted M. Sichelman: A Comprehensive Patent Litigation Dataset for Empirical Research - Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, Jr.: The Perfromance Effects of Genealogy in Hedge Fund Entrepreneurship Prof. Tetlock is the Mitchell Professor of Leadership at the Haas School. He has also been a Professor of Psychology and of Political Science. He has given the National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of War in 1999. Prof. Tetlock has written nine books and dozens of articles. Prof. Tetlock has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University.Exploring the Decision Processes of Venture Capitalists: Individual Differences in Strategies of Learning from Experience New venture survival is precarious at best, but those enterprises backed by venture capitalists have substantially higher survival rates than those that do not receive such backing. The proposed research will determine whether individual differences in cognitive styles documented among experts in other lines of work can be replicated and extended into a population of venture capitalists. The research should have direct implications for how venture capitalists structure their deliberation process. James Lincoln has been a professor at Haas since 1988. He holds the Warren E. and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership. He has received numerous honors, grants, and awards for his research and scholarship. Prof. Lincoln has a PhD. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Venture Capital Portfolio Diversification This project will be questioning to what degree venture capital firms recognize and exploit opportunities for portfolio diversification via serendipitous leads from existing network contacts and/or strategic management of syndicate investor networks. Are venture capital firms best characterized as rationally-acting portfolio diversifiers or socially-influenced network investors? A more general question to be answered is how much intent is exhibited by organizations in constructing their networks. David C. Mowery Prof. Mowery is the Hasler Professor of New Enterprise Development at Haas as well as the Deputy Director of the Institute for Management, Innovation, and Organization. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prof. Mowery has a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford.High-Technology Firm Formation by Women and Minority Entrepreneurs The "spawning" of new firms by established firms has historically been an important source of regional agglomeration in high-technology industries. This project will consider whether the "spawning" phenomenon of high tech firms in Silicon Valley has played a role in the formation of high-tech start-ups by women and indigenous minority entrepreneurs. What is the role of women or indigenous minority populations in establishing high-technology firms? Christopher Ansell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. He has served as a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology and the section representative of the methods & theory/social networks section of the Social Science History Association. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.Entrepreneurship and Social Network Leverage Prof. Ansell will utilize social network analysis to determine how entrepreneurs identify their most beneficial social contacts and use those contacts to leverage the resources needed for their enterprise. The purpose in developing this network leverage framework is to help identify where in social structure entrepreneurship will emerge and the types of network strategies available to entrepreneurs. Bronwyn H. Hall is Professor of Economics and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. She is also the founder and partner of TSP International, an econometric software firm. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1988.Entrepreneurial Firms and Patents: Entry Deterrence or Entry Assistance Using data available for the biotechnology sector, Dr. Hall and her team will examine opposition proceedings for European Patent Office patents and challenges to the validity of US patents and resulting patent strategies to determine whether the resulting environment makes it difficult for small and new firms to compete in an increasingly international arena. Prof. Hout is a Professor of Sociology and the Chair of the Joint Program in Demography and Sociology. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He has written 3 books, most notably Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, and numerous articles. Prof. Hout has a Ph.D in Sociology from Indiana University.Assessing Ethnic Economics: Effects of Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States & the United Kingdom Both conventional wisdom and previous research suggest that immigrant-run businesses provide an important springboard for recent immigrant arrivals. Some questions that will be examined are: What proportion of self-employed immigrants actually employ their workers? Does a high rate of entrepreneurship among co-ethnics give an immigrant better chances of having and keeping employment? To what extent are ethnic economy effects attributable to (or counteracted by) differences in firm size and unionization between ethnic and mainstream economies? Lauren B. Edelman Prof. Edelman is currently a Professor of Law and Sociology and the Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society at Boalt. She received her J.D. in 1986 from Boalt Law and a Ph.D in Sociology at Stanford in the same year.Legal Consciousness and Aspirations Towards Entrepreneurship Given the complex web of legal regulation that surrounds the establishment and operation of businesses today, legal consciousness- or the meanings that people attach to law and legal rights- may encourage or constrain entrepreneurial activity. This project will study the legal consciousness of high school students and staff and see how those ideas affect educational practices, performance, and behavior. Prof. Saxenian is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems. She has a Ph.D in Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MCP from UC Berkeley.Cross-Border Start-Ups Cross-border start-ups-- firms that originate with activities in more than one economy-- are now a well established phenomenon in US technology industries. It is not uncommon for a start-up to set up headquarters and research in Silicon Valley while simultaneously establishing a development team in China or India. This research will focus on these start-ups to addess the causes and scale of this phenomenon as well as its implications for our understanding of the process of entrepreneurship. Prof. Scotchmer has been a Professor of Economics since 1995, as well as a Professor of Public Policy since 1989. She has been a visitng professor at universities in Paris, Moscow, Florence, Helsinki, and other cities around the world. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley.Venture Capital: Choosing the Best Investments Among the defects of intellectual property as an incentive system is that an innovator must fund the research up front. Since researchers are often liquidity constrained, this is a real impediment. One major way to overcome liquidity constraints and minimize the need for self-finance is venture capital and contract research. This project attempts to understand why VCs fund research in rounds, and how those rounds of funding should be structured. David J. Teece Prof. Teece is the Mitsubishi Bank Professor of International Business and Finance and the Director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at Haas. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.The Functions of the Entrepreneur and the Functions of the Executive Prof. Teece has teamed with Emeritus Prof. James G. March of Stanford University for this project. This project will compare and contrast the functions of the executive and the functions of the entrepreneur. By comparing and contrasting these two functions, they hope to advance the understanding of how leadership, entrepreneurship, and strategic management taken together create value and the dynamic processes by which firms obtain profit and market share. Prof. Hsieh is an Associate Professor of Economics. H e was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in 2004. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley (1998).Sources and Barriers of Entrepreneurial Growth There are two critical questions that will be examined in this project. First, along which dimensions do successful firms grow and less successful firms contract? Second, what are the barriers facing entrepreneurs in the US? Robert P. Merges Prof. Merges is the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology and the Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. He is also currently a Visiting Professor at the UC Davis School of Law. In addition to teaching and research projects, Merges also serves as a special consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and is a member of the Department's Task Force on Intellectual Property.The Value of Patent Protection for Technology Entrepreneurship The research will investigate how patent protection facilitates technology entrepreneurship. This study will shed light on how patent protection facilitates entrepreneurship by examining how the existence and strength of patent protection affects the behavior of partners in an alliance and how it affects the strategy entrepreneurs take in commercializing technological innovations. The study will be an empirical analysis of technology development alliances in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry. Jesse M. Fried After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1992, Jesse Fried worked as an associate at the Boston law firm Sullivan & Worcester practicing tax law and litigation. In 1995 he began a two-year John M. Olin research fellowship at Harvard Law School, and in 1997 he joined the Boalt faculty. He is also the Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and Economy.Governance Study of Venture-Backed Startups This will be a study of California-based entrepreneurial (startup) companies that were financed with venture capital and later acquired by other firms. This project will focus on how conflicts between different classes of shareholders are resolved in venture-backed start-ups. The parties' varying cash flow rights can lead to disagreement about how to govern the start-up, especially when the start-up is neither a complete failure nor an amazing success. The project will try to understand how such conflicts are resolved. Prof. Rundall is the Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Organized Health Systems in the Doctorate Program at the School of Public Health and a tenured professor at UC Berkeley. Since1987 Dr. Rundall has served three terms as Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Prof. Rundall has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University. Drivers of Electronic Medical Record Adoption Among Physician Organizations Electronic medical records (EMRs) have great promise for improving patient safety and the quality of care provided by physician organizations. Innovation and entrepreneurship are key characteristics of the market for health information technology. This research will estimate the percentage of relatively large physician organizations that have adopted EMRs and examine the effects of eight organizational and market-related characteristics on the adoption of EMRs in physician organizations. Prof. Chatman is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business and the faculty director of the Haas School of Business Ph.D. Program. Before joining Haas, she was a faculty member of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management from 1987 to 1993, and she received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Organizational Growth and Cultural Dilution: A Necessarily Inverse Relationship? Managers of young, fast growth organizations, while committed to such growth, often mourn the loss or dilution of their original organizational culture, the one that was in place at their founding and to which they often attribute their success. Prof. Chatman’s research will systematically examine the extent to which organizational growth is associated with culture dilution and the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Prof. Zysman is a professor of political science at UC Berkeley and co-director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. He has written extensively on European and Japanese policy and corporate strategy. He received his B.A at Harvard and his Ph.D. at MIT. Services and Regions: The Algorithmic Revolution, Corporate Strategy, and Regional Growth As functions become digitally automated, there will be potential for emerging growth sectors and ways to organize business structures efficiently. This research will consider implications of the service sector transformation facilitated by information technology tools on competitive dynamics and entrepreneurial options on the one hand and the logic of regional growth and growth strategies on the other hand. Prof. Audia is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Haas School of Business. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Management and Journal Behavior and Education as well as a member of the Academy of Management. He received his MBA from Bocconi University and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Industrial Agglomerations and Entrepreneurship Industrial agglomerations are concentrations in space of firms making similar products. Recent empirical evidence has begun to cast doubt on the idea that agglomerations benefit constituent firms. Prof. Audia’s research will examine whether or not industrial agglomerations have negative effects on entrepreneurship. His research will also examine the potential negative effect of industrial agglomerations on other industries.
Original by Dr Margaret Rowe, 2002 Last revised by the Department of the Environment and Heritage, December 2004 ISBN 0 6425 4820 X Did birds evolve from dinosaurs? Biologists believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs.The earliest evidence of bird-like creatures is found in 150 million year-old fossils. Archaeopteryx was a crow-sized animal with teeth and a tail like a reptile, and feathers like a bird. Figure 1 Archaeopteryx an ancient ancestor of modern birds Birds have evolved along a great variety of pathways, becoming adapted to a wide range of habitats, diets and ways of life. For example, a variety of bill sizes and shapes adapt different birds to eating certain of types of food. Birds' legs and feet vary, suiting birds to perching, walking, running, climbing or swimming. The various wing shapes found among birds are suited to different styles of flight. Gene technology is being used to compare the genetic make-up of groups of birds and to sort out their evolutionary relationships. Sometimes evidence from DNA brings into question the existing views about the relationships of groups of birds to each other. Some of the similarities in appearance are because the birds are adapted to similar surroundings and a similar way of life, and not because they are closely related. For example, many shorebirds have bands of colour across their chest, but may or may not be closely related. How could these bands of colour across the chest help the birds survive? (Hint, read about "Colours, patterns and camouflage" in the section "The feather coat")
American Dream Foreclosed Whether a split level or a McMansion, the American Home has been the very embodiment of the American Dream. Once the mark of achievement, the suburban home was a solid investment, the guarantee of a secure future. Now row after row of identical houses with identical sky high mortgages and identical “For Sale” signs, grace their unkempt suburban lawns. The forlorn For Sale sign beckoning the nonexistent buyer, has become the lawn ornament of our time, as ubiquitous as the Pink flamingo was in the 1950′s.
EVANSVILLE, Ind.--()--Accuride Corporation (NYSE: ACW), a leading supplier of components to the North American commercial vehicle industry, today announced that it will host a conference call and webcast to discuss its financial and operational results for the third quarter of 2012 on Friday, November 2, 2012, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Central Time. Accuride President and Chief Executive Officer Rick Dauch and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Greg Risch will host the one-hour call. Accuride intends to issue a news release detailing the results before the call. Analysts and investors may participate on the live conference call by dialing (877) 261-8992 in the United States, or (847) 619-6548 internationally, and using participant code 33645018. A live webcast of the conference call can be accessed via the Investors section of the Company’s website at www.accuridecorp.com/investors. A replay will be available from November 2, 2012 at 11:30 a.m. to November 9, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time by calling (888) 843-7419 in the United States, or (630) 652-3042 internationally, and using access code 3364 5018. About Accuride Corporation With headquarters in Evansville, Ind., USA, Accuride Corporation is a leading supplier of components to the North American commercial vehicle industry. The company’s products include commercial vehicle wheels, wheel-end components and assemblies, truck body and chassis parts, and other commercial vehicle components. The company’s products are marketed under its brand names, which include Accuride®, Accuride Wheel End SolutionsTM, Gunite®, ImperialTM and BrillionTM. Accuride’s common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ACW. For more information, visit the Company’s website at http://www.accuridecorp.com.
CINCINNATI--()--Daniel T. Poston, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Fifth Third Bancorp will present at the Citi Financial Services Conference in Boston on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at approximately 9:40 AM EST. The webcast may be accessed live and for approximately 14 days after the conference through http://ir.53.com. Presentation slides will be made separately available in a printer-friendly format on the Company’s website. Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Company has $122 billion in assets and operates 18 affiliates with 1,322 full-service Banking Centers, including 105 Bank Mart® locations open seven days a week inside select grocery stores and 2,413 ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia and North Carolina. Fifth Third operates four main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, and Investment Advisors. Fifth Third also has a 33% interest in Vantiv Holding, LLC. Fifth Third is among the largest money managers in the Midwest and, as of December 31, 2012, had $308 billion in assets under care, of which it managed $27 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit organizations. Investor information and press releases can be viewed at www.53.com. Fifth Third's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ® National Global Select Market under the symbol "FITB."
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Are Good People Boring? Now in thinking about this post I am reminded of some debates about World Cup Soccer. I have pointed out that if you have to argue something is not boring then you are already in a lot of trouble. So I don't want to go there. I do think we often find good people less superficially attractive. There are a bunch of reasons for it. One is because we like to sin vicariously. We don't want to do drugs but we like to hear about any excitement generated by them in someone else's life. We don't cheat on our spouse but we want all the details when someone else does. It is an affection for sin. It can rob us of our spiritual joy. That can make us boring people. The other problem is we are scared to look too close at good people. Certainly fiction will dig endlessly into the depths of evil. We love Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet because of their tragic flaws. Hollywood has endless attempts to plumb the depths of drug addiction and sex addiction and whatever else. But what about what makes a good person tick? When you explore goodness humans feel pressured to respond. They feel like you are preaching at them. When you show the source of a character's goodness you issue an implicit demand that everyone pursue that source too. That is the nature of goodness. If we fail to pursue it we are failing as human beings. I was at a hockey banquet last night. There were a couple of inspirational speakers there. I found they suffered from this as well. They had their lives changed by coming into contact with something good. But they refused to explore that good thing in any depth. Why not? Because when you do you are talking about religion. When you do that it demands a response. Often these stories are Christian stories with the God talk removed. Someone suffered terribly and through their faith in Jesus they were able to move from being an angry person to being a joyful person. People hear that and think it it is an incredible story of the human spirit. That the God stuff is just an aside. But it is not off to the side. It is the foundation. Why was this person OK with a life that was very different and in some ways much less than the one he had dreamed of? Because he believes God meant him to be what he is and not what he dreamed. Once he gets that the envy and anger can melt away he can be truly joyful. But if he believed it was just bad luck that took away his dreams then why should he not be angry at life and envious of those who get to live the life he dreamed of? So how could the House writers make Foreman more interesting? Give him a compelling reason to be good. Don't just take away the sin and replace it with nothing. Certainly don't take away the difficulties in life. Good people have challenges. Most of the suffering on the show is self-inflicted so Foreman has none. That is not real. You still suffer. Your suffering just does good. Love does amazing good but it opens us up to suffering. It is not boring. Thinking about it makes me wonder how much contraception has played a role here. Certainly contraception makes marriage boring. The protestant endorsement of contraception is really a big embrace of boredom. God wants to make you fruitful but you can be safe instead. You can have a sterile Christianity where you don't do anything good or bad. God wants our cup to run over and we just want to turn it off. Half full is fine ... and water please because wine is to dangerous!
Who is tired of all the political commercials on TV? They remind me of a quote from Stephen Colbert. "Our identities have become wholly dependent upon rejecting each other. After all, who am I if not, not you?" This quote is funny because it’s true. Listen to the attack ads. And cable news shows. And partisan commentators like Sean Hannity and Michael Moore. They would have us believe that we’re all enemies. We’re all-too-often told that there are only two sides to everything. Democrat vs. Republican. Liberal vs. Conservative. Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice. And the list goes on and on. It’s all about “us” versus “them.” Partisan, polemic rhetoric is destroying civil discourse in our nation. And it seems to get uglier with every election. Thankfully, we have Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to help us out. Their “Rally to Restore Sanity” was an event to say, “Let’s ignore the 20% of Americans who are loud and extremist, and honor the 80% of Americans who hold common values.” So let’s honor the spirit of the 80%! Especially at this time Divisiveness is not new. Apostle Paul was facing major divisiveness in Galacia. That’s the background of Paul’s letter to the Galatians. Basically, there were two “sides” that were fighting against one another: Pagan Greeks and circumcised Jews. And you didn’t cross the tracks…unless it was to kill So, in the Galatians letter, Paul used a baptismal liturgy that the Galatians heard when they were first baptized – as a way to help remind them of their baptism – and their unity in Christ. Paul said: “There is no longer Greek or Jew; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female. For all are one in Christ Jesus.” That was their baptismal liturgy. It would have been radical for the time. He dared to say that Greeks and Jews were united! With this liturgy, Paul reminded the Galatians that the cultural dichotomies, which only served to estrange and divide the community, were annulled. Especially, in that town, it was important to bridges the Greek-Jew divide. All the dichotomies were abolished through their baptism in Christ. Paul declared that all people were already "heirs according to the promise." One people. One future. I envision Paul stressed-out because in his mind, Jesus was going to return at any second. So, the important thing was not the rules and regulations of the law – or the cultural divides. Instead the truly important thing was understanding God’s welcome and love for all people. And, for Paul, he drives this home through their unity in baptism. The good news that Paul shares in Galatia is that God’s propensity to include, transcends humanity’s propensity to exclude. The divisions don’t ultimately matter. God matters. And God has already embraced them – and embraced all people. So, through God, both "sides" already have How might the baptismal liturgy of this text be addressing us? When we watch TV commercials, it seems like our culture is just as divided as Galatia. It seems that we’re all forced to join one of two sides on everything, and then subsequently rally around our common disdain for "the other." Those people. Over there. They would dare to vote for Obama! Or others might say: they would dare to vote for Romney! So what would it mean to live out Paul’s a vision of unity in our town and around our nation over the next few weeks? I think it would mean moving towards unity-in-diversity, but not forcing false uniformity. Our particularities – our differences – will still be present. I will always be a white male. At least, I think so! And you’ll always be whatever you are. And we’ll be different. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be united. We may all vote and live in slightly different ways, but we can still honor our differences and celebrate our commonalities. In Paul’s letter to Galatia, he reminds people that they have oneness in Christ. Baptism obliterates the divisiveness of our differences, and calls us into harmony. In music and in life, different notes are needed to make harmony work. Diversity is required. It’s not the enemy. And we’re certainly not the enemy of one another – despite what we’re told on TV. Unity and civility isn’t an idealist dream. It is possible. I have seen it happen time and time again. At Peace UCC in Saint Louis, I worshiped God with Jews and Christians of all ages as we sought to tear down the walls of separation between us. Jewish singer Rick Recht has led these unifying events all over the nation. Unity works! At a Christian lobbying event in Washington DC, I joined Catholics, Evangelicals, Unitarians, and Progressives as we talked our senators into supporting a minimum wage increase. And it passed. Unity works! At height of the anti-Muslim rhetoric surrounding the Cordoba House (“Mosque at Ground Zero”), Jewish and Christian leaders in Iowa City came together to publically show our support for our Muslim neighbors. It usually takes a lot of time for clergy to release a joint statement. But in this case it was in the newspaper in two days. Unity works! At the National Mall, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert gathered over 200,000 diverse people together to rally to restore sanity – to restore civil discourse in our nation. Plus there were millions of people watching on TV. Unity works! At a time of deep division in Galatia, Apostle Paul helped to bring Greeks and Jews together. Unity works! Unity really is possible. Good and faithful people call us back to it every time we stray too far. So what if instead of bemoaning our differences, we decided to appreciate them. It seems as though it’s the tension, balance, and diversity that makes our nation great. And it’s the thing that makes the Church operate as God intends. We each have our part to play for the common good. Jewish theologian Jonathan Sacks says it like this: "Difference does not diminish; it enlarges. Only when we realize the danger of wishing everyone should be the same…will prevent the clash of civilizations…We will learn to live with diversity once we understand the God-given, world-enhancing dignity of difference." That was Paul’s main message to So, perhaps, the liturgical reminder that Apostle Paul would give us today would be: There is no longer Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, Pro-Life or Pro-Choice – for we are all one in God. We are all one global family. One people. One future. Through Paul and Jesus, we know that God welcomes and loves all people. Through Stewart and Colbert, we know that we can disagree without thinking the other person is Hitler. We can be united right now. In fact, by the grace of God, we already are. From Galacia to our town, the journey of unity moves on! On this day, on Election Day, and on every other day, we are traveling toward unity together. One people. Sunday, October 28, 2012 Sunday, October 14, 2012 Sara Kay and David Weiss are working together to record new hymns that celebrate God's love, justice, and welcome. The album is almost done and will be out soon. Here is a taste of one of the songs, "The Place Where Advent Starts": The Place Where Advent Starts As the darkness stretches over / all the daylight, all our lives In the depths of expectation / where the heart sees, You reside. Dare we beckon to the hunger / fill our frame and feed our soul In this dim-lit struggling world / that our feasting be made full. As we wait with restless longing / for your kin-dom fully come Rise the cries of warring nations / beats the pulse of terror’s drum. “Comfort now, my people, comfort,” / spoke the prophet long ago. “Still my peace comes to this world / midst its bombs, its spears and bows.” As the earth cries out in anguish / less for birth than bitter toil; As the poor, their fortunes falter / as the ill, their spirits spoil. Steel our vision, so that we see / full the depth of broken hearts; For in this place—hungry, hopeless / yes, in this place, advent starts. Hasten now, come quickly to us / ’fore our spirits faint with fear. Be the light in deepest darkness / be the hope that draws us near. In your advent, may we waken / live the life you call us to: Every deed a Christmas manger / ready now to welcome you. Text: David R. Weiss, b. 1959 (text, © 2011 David R. Weiss) Tune: Marty Haugen, b. 1950, JOYOUS LIGHT, (Joyous Light of Heavenly Glory – © GIA Publication) Alternate Tune: BEACH SPRING (The Sacred Harp, Philadelphia, Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service, Lutheran Book of Worship 423 – public domain) Permission is given to photocopy The Place Where Advent Starts for use in worship. Posted by Sara and Brian at 9:14 AM
Are you ready for this #GearsWeekend? The very popular Stay Frosty Team Deathmatch playlist makes a return! There will be no shotguns and players will start with the Hammerburst and Snub. Stay Frosty is live now! If you missed the Hardcore Weekend on days four through six of Gearsmas, now is your chance to earn that ribbon. Don’t forget to post your comments about the Stay Frosty playlist in the comments below or on twitter using the #GearsWeekend hashtag.
Minimum Compensation Guidelines for Priests Approved at 229th and 232nd Conventions of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, and as amended by resolution of the Standing Committee, April 2009 Note: The 235th Convention did not consider new guidelines. The Clergy Compensation Guidelines approved at the 232nd Convention and amended by SC in April 2009 still apply. These guidelines are the minimum requirements for each congregation. There is nothing to prevent congregations from providing compensation and benefits higher than those mandated. Indeed, the Trustees Compensation Committee is aware that in some circumstances, the minimum requirements may not be adequate. Each congregation is urged to review the guidelines in light of their individual circumstances (without going below the mandated requirements). Priest and lay leaders of congregations who are negotiating a compensation package for a newly called priest, or making changes to an existing package, are urged to consult with the Controller’s Office to ensure that the package is calculated in accordance with these guidelines and with all relevant laws and regulations. A functioning Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is available by clicking here, to assist you with your calculations. Cash Stipends Values Equity Replacement When housing is provided Surviving Dependent Housing Payment toward self-employment Tax Liability Maternity and Paternity Leave of Absence Calculation Formula for Total Value of Compensation to be assessed by Church Pension Travel mileage reimbursement Letter of Call Disability Insurance and Compensation Continuation in the Event of Disability Social Security/Self Employment Tax Section A. Mandated Compensation, Benefits and Associated Expenses Pursuant to the following requirements mandated by Diocesan Convention, each congregation within the Diocese of New York shall provide the following compensation with benefits to each priest who works 20 hours or more per week and meets the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criteria for employees (see Treasury Reg. Sec. 31.3401(6)(b)), provided no congregation shall employ any person not eligible to work in the United States. The following requirements are mandated by convention, and apply to all full time priests and priests working 20 hours or more. Annual Stipend The annual stipend shall be no less than those amounts listed on the attached Schedule I. Stipend minimums should be figured proportionately for priests working part time. All priests receiving compensation are to be issued a W2 form for tax purposes. See also Stipend Increases. Housing Congregations shall either (a) provide housing or (b) pay a housing allowance which shall not be less than 50% of the priest's annual stipend. No congregation shall be excused from providing this benefit (i.e., either (a) housing or (b) a housing allowance of not less than 50% of the priest’s annual stipend) because housing is provided to the priest from another source. See Schedule III for computation of church-provided housing, and also Equity Replacement When housing is provided and Surviving Dependent Housing Payment toward self-employment Tax Liability Each congregation shall pay additional compensation to the priest equal to one-half of the amount the employer FICA and Medicare tax would be due on the stipend and housing above. Use the spreadsheets available on the Controller’s office page of the diocesan website to calculate the payment toward the SE tax obligation. Health Benefits Congregations shall pay 100% of the premium costs for adequate medical and dental coverage for their priests and their dependents. The Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) offered through the Episcopal Church Medical Trust are considered adequate medical coverage. (Note: The congregation is not required to contribute more than the HMO rate for medical insurance.) The dental plan offered through the Episcopal Church Medical Trust is considered adequate dental coverage. - Maternity and Paternity Leave of Absence Congregations shall provide their priests, both female and male, with a paid leave of no less than seven weeks upon the birth or adoption of a child. Pension Every cleric receiving compensation must be enrolled in the Church Pension Fund and the congregation must accurately report the compensation and pay the pension assessment. See Schedule III.1 for information about pensionable compensation. VacationCongregations shall give their priests one month, including five Sundays, of paid vacation each year. Vacation time does not accrue, and must be used in the year it is earned. Travel The congregation shall reimburse the priest at the current IRS rate for the reasonable and necessary costs of transportation and travel for required church business, including trips to the seat of the Diocese, after receiving from the priest adequate documentation of such costs. See also Travel mileage reimbursement. Continuing Education Annual time allotted by each congregation to its priests for continuing education shall not be less than ten days, and expenses shall be a distinct budget line, set at a minimum of $500. The benefit is to be used only for continuing education (and is not to be used in pursuit of any other purpose or as additional cash stipend). Time not used in one year is not to be carried over; however, money not used in a given year is to be set aside in a special account, and may be used in future years as needed (up to three years), either for continuing education or to help fund the priest's sabbatical. Any such funds carried forward do not reduce the congregation's obligation to budget $500 in continuing education funds in each and every year. (See also Funds for Continuing Education of Clergy) Moving Expenses All congregations shall pay a specific dollar amount for the moving expenses of newly called priests. The exact amount must be negotiated between the congregation and the priest, and included in the Letter of Call. The Deployment Office of the Diocese is available for advice on this issue. Letter of Call Every congregation that calls a priest must issue a Letter of Call. This letter should articulate the congregation's goals and provide for an annual Mutual Ministry Review. An outline of a Letter of Call and procedures for conducting a Mutual Ministry Review can be obtained from the Deployment Office. Disability Insurance and Compensation Continuation in the Event of Disability. Short-term disability(a) The Church Pension Fund provides short-term (up to 12 months) disability coverage for medically certified disability for all clergy for whom pension assessments are being paid. If a priest is not canonically resident in a diocese of the Episcopal Church, and the Church Pension Fund therefore cannot receive pension assessments for that person, the congregation is required to purchase from Church Life Insurance Corporation the same coverage provided by the Pension Fund for clergy of this Church. (b) In the event a priest has a disabling condition, and if the priest is eligible for short-term disability coverage from the Pension Fund, the congregation is required to maintain full salary and benefits for the first six months of disability. The congregation receives the payment from the short-term disability insurance as a reimbursement of salary expense. (The previous two paragraphs as approved by resolution of the Standing Committee, April 2009.) Long-term disability and disability retirementAs soon as it appears that a disability will be continuous and total, the priest should apply to the Church Pension Fund for a disability retirement. While not obligated to continue compensation and benefits after six months of disability, congregations are urged to make a priest’s transition from active service to disability retirement as smooth as possible.Because disability pensions will not fully replace current income, it is strongly recommended that priests serving congregations consider, as part of their personal financial planning, obtaining long-term disability insurance through an organization such as Church Life. Section B. Other Items Strongly Urged by Convention Stipend Increases An annual review of the priest's total annual compensation is strongly urged. Equity ReplacementWhen housing is provided, each congregation is strongly urged to offer a plan for equity replacement, which is to be no less than 3% of what the cash housing allowance would be. This amount must be matched by the priest, and is invested in a 403b tax deferred annuity. Life Insurance While the life insurance provided to all active clergy enrolled in the Church Pension Fund meets the minimum requirement, each priest and congregation should review the adequacy of this coverage. Surviving Dependent Housing Every congregation is strongly urged to provide short term housing of the dependents of a deceased priest. Sabbatical A sabbatical is strongly urged for all priests since it benefits both them and the congregations they serve. A sabbatical is not vacation time and should not be confused with vacation time. A minimum of 2 weeks of sabbatical for each year of service is recommended so that 3-4 months may be taken at the time of sabbatical. A sabbatical should be within every 7-year period of service with the congregation. During the sabbatical, priests will receive full compensation and benefits, as outlined in Section A. Unused sabbatical time will be forfeited. Schedule I. Cash Stipends (for 2013) Ordained to priesthood less than 3 years $39,400 as of 1/1/2013 Ordained to priesthood more than 3 years but less than 10 years $45,000 as of 1/1/2013 Ordained to priesthood more than 10 years but less than 15 years $45,500 as of 1/1/2013 Ordained to priesthood more than 15 years $51,500 as of 1/1/2013 Schedule II: Travel mileage reimbursement The Diocese uses the guidelines set forth by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for reimbursement of travel mileage by Diocesan employees. 1. Calculation Formula for Total Value of Compensation to be assessed by Church Pension: Note: The following, given for informational purposes, is taken from The Church Pension Fund’s publication A Guide to Your Benefits Now and in the Future. It is available to all clergy and congregations at 1-800-223-6602 or at www.cpg.org. As a basis for the pension assessment, clergy compensation consists of cash salary, Social Security tax reimbursements, utilities, and housing. Cash salary is the stipend paid, including bonuses, one-time cash payments, tuition paid for dependents, severance and any salary reduction used to fund an annuity or other tax-deferred benefit, such as a TSA or 403(b) plan. Social Security tax reimbursement (SECA) is compensation provided to offset self-employment taxes. Utilities are allowances to cover the cost of utility bills, such as fuel, gas, and electricity, or the amount the church pays for utilities on a cleric's behalf. Housing is the allowance clergy receive for this purpose: If housing is provided rent-free, the housing allowance is assumed at 30% of the total of the cash stipend, Social Security reimbursements, and utilities. If both housing and meals are provided free of charge, the housing allowance is assumed at 40% of the total of the cash stipend, Social Security reimbursements, and utilities. If clergy receive a housing allowance, for pension purposes the allowance is assumed at the actual cash allowance or 30% of the total of the cash stipend, Social Security reimbursements, and utilities, whichever is greater. If housing is provided rent-free and clergy receive an additional cash housing allowance or housing equity allowance, for pension purposes the allowance is assumed at 30% of the total of the cash stipend, Social Security reimbursement, and utilities. The total compensation is then calculated to include both the assumed 30% housing allowance and the actual cash housing allowance or housing equity allowance. If clergy receive compensation from more than one church employer, but only one provides housing, compensation from all of qualified employers is assessed for a proportionate share of housing. 2. Social Security/Self Employment Tax: The Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) publishes Publication 517 Social Security and Other Information for Members of the Clergy and Religious Workers. This publication can be obtained at no charge by calling 1-800-TAX-FORM (1-800-829-3676) or www.irs.gov. The following is an excerpt from Publication 517 provided to remind the clergy of the income subject to Self-Employment tax. -- "To figure ... net earnings from self employment, include in gross income: - Salaries and fees for your qualified services, - Offerings you receive for marriages, baptisms, funerals, masses, etc. - The value of meals and lodging provided to you, your spouse, and your dependents for your employer's convenience, and - The fair rental value of a parsonage provided to you (including the cost of utilities that are furnished) and the rental allowance (including an amount for payment of utilities) paid to you. If a church pays any amount toward your income tax or self-employment tax, other than withholding the amount from your stipend, it is income to you. You must include the amount in your gross income and self-employment income." Note: for Social Security purposes, clergy are considered self employed. For income tax purposes, clergy are considered employees and should receive a W-2. (See also Clergy Tax Considerations.) You may use the spreasheet shown in the right hand menu of this page (scroll up) to assist you with your calculations or contact the Controller’s Office. Church Law & Tax Report: Church & Clergy Tax Guide Richard R. Hammer, J.D., LL.M., CPA Christian Ministry Resources PO Box 2600 Big Sandy TX 75755
According to Kevin Swanson, now you are a rotten Christian if you don't let neighbors and strangers rummage though your house. Swanson discusses the issue of hospitality in light of the Christmas season. As expected, much of this is advocated from an intelligence gathering perspective so that ecclesiastical overseers and the like may gather a dossier as to what the individual under surveillance (er I mean being visited) is like away from more formal settings such as work or church. I think some evangelist, pastor, or apologist ought to do a series on the neglected "mind your own business doctrine". Frankly though, if you've had nothing to do with me the remainder of the year, don't bother with me at Christmas time (as well as with funerals and the like) because obviously you are not reaching out in friendship but rather out of some expectation of that I assuage your guilty conscience for treating me like dirt the rest of the time. by Frederick Meekins
Coulomb oscillation of a deuteron in a Ni-Nb-Zr-D glassy alloy with multiple junctionsM. Fukuhara and A. Inoue Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University - Sendai 980-8577, Japan received 28 April 2008; accepted in final form 9 June 2008; published August 2008 published online 23 July 2008 Electric-current-induced voltage oscillation at 600-740 kHz was observed in the current-voltage curves of nanoscopic size tunnel junctions arranged in a low-capacitance, multiple-junction configuration of ((Ni60Nb40)100-xZrx)100-y Dy (x=30, 35, 40 and 45, 9.1 14.8) glassy alloys in the temperature range of 373 K to 6 K. This behavior appeared to be derived from Coulomb oscillation resulting from the tunneling of individual deuteron charging and discharging the vacancy capacitance of Zr-D--D-Zr atomic bond arrays among Zr-tetrahedral clusters, where is the vacancy barrier between clusters. 61.43.Dq - Amorphous semiconductors, metals, and alloys. 73.21.La - Quantum dots. 73.23.Hk - Coulomb blockade; single-electron tunneling. © EPLA 2008
Shed's debut album for 50 Weapons is his 3rd in total. His first "The Traveller" was a collection of tracks recorded over a long period of time. The follow up "Shedding The Past" was the first concept album, produced in one go. In hindsight according to his own words maybe a bit overambitious. Shed was combining all his influences into a melange of genres from Dubstep to Techno, Bass, Ambient and IDM. "The Killer" was produced in March 2012. Aimed to be more homogeneous, the album is first and foremost a true techno love story. The album title has nothing in common with serial killers, war or military. It is simply a bold statement. The album is "the killer!” From the ambient drone of ‘STP3 / The Killer’ to the menacing industrial groove of ‘I Come By Night’ and the head-crushing dubstep infused rhythm of ‘Day After’ Shed takes us back to the dark hinterlands of techno yet pushes his unique sound even further into the future. Elsewhere shards of melody puncture the darkness as on recent single ‘The Praetorian’ or the wonderfully unbalanced ‘Phototype’ and shimmering effervescence of closing track ‘Follow The Leader’. ‘The Killer’ marks a step up for Shed’s production talent and perhaps even, a new benchmark in techno itself. Shed plays fabric on 23rd June. 01. STP3/The Killer 02. Silent Witness 03. I Come By Night 04. Gas Up 05. Day After 07. The Praetorian (Album Mix) 08. Ride On 09. You Got The Look 10. V10MF!/The Filler 11. Follow The Leader
Jose, Prasanth P and Chakrabarti, Dwaipayan and Bagchi, Biman (2005) Anomalous glassy relaxation near the isotropic-nematic phase transition. [Preprint] Dynamical heterogeneity in a system of Gay-Berne ellipsoids near its isotropic-nematic (I-N) transition, and also in an equimolar mixture of Lennard-Jones spheres and Gay-Berne ellipsoids in deeply supercooled regime, is probed by the time evolution of non-Gaussian parameters (NGP). The appearance of a dominant second peak in the rotational NGP near the I-N transition signals the growth of pseudonematic domains. Surprisingly, such a second peak is instead observed in the translational NGP for the glassy binary mixture. Localization of orientational motion near the I-N transition is found to be responsible for the observed anomalous orientational relaxation. \|Department/Centre:\|\|Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit\| \|Date Deposited:\|\|27 Nov 2007\| \|Last Modified:\|\|19 Sep 2010 04:24\| Actions (login required)
Serious games continuum: between games for purpose and experiential environments for purpose Marsh, Tim (2011) Serious games continuum: between games for purpose and experiential environments for purpose. Journal of Entertainment Computing, 2 (2). pp. 61-68. \|PDF (Published Version) - Repository staff only - Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader\| View at Publisher Website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2010.... While many categorizations and definitions have attempted to elucidate the elusive term serious games, we are still some way off formulating an agreed understanding of what serious games are and can be. This article argues that the term serious games challenges our understanding of generally accepted characteristics such as, challenge, play and fun, which are largely associated with and borrowed from video games. It is argued that key to understanding what serious games encapsulate is to look beyond these characteristics. This article proposes a definition and way to frame serious games technologies, applications and environments along a continuum of gaming characteristics or gameness. From those with traditional gaming activities and characteristics (challenge, play, fun, etc.) at one end to those with minimal traditional gaming characteristics at the other end, whose main purpose is to provide experience and emotion to convey meaning. The main advantages of the definition and continuum are to establish a shared understanding and arena for current and emerging serious games, frame and connect currently fragmented groups into a cohesive serious games movement and community and open opportunities for future collaborative research and development. In addition, it helps in identifying characteristics for the design and assessment of serious games. \|Item Type:\|\|Article (Refereed Research - C1)\| \|Keywords:\|\|Serious games, games for learning, simulation, serious games definition\| \|FoR Codes:\|\|08 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing > 080111 Virtual Reality and Related Simulation @ 50%\| 09 ENGINEERING > 0902 Automotive Engineering > 090202 Automotive Engineering Materials @ 50% \|SEO Codes:\|\|89 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES > 8999 Other Information and Communication Services > 899999 Information and Communication Services not elsewhere classified @ 100%\| \|Deposited On:\|\|13 Apr 2012 16:27\| \|Last Modified:\|\|02 May 2013 14:00\| Last 12 Months: 2 Repository Staff Only: item control page
Designing mooring systems for tourist pontoons in coral reef environments Matheson, Michael, Hardy, Tom, and Kapitzke, Ross (2003) Designing mooring systems for tourist pontoons in coral reef environments. Proceedings of the Coasts & Ports Australasian Conference 2003. Coasts & Ports Australasian Conference 2003 , 9-12 September, 2003, Auckland, New Zealand , pp. 1-8. \|PDF (Published Version) - Repository staff only - Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader\| Boating pontoon facilities on the Great Barrier Reef-typically moored in pristine, hand-picked locations-offer tourists a unique opportunity to experience the beauty and diversity of coral reef habitats in relatively safe and comfortable conditions. Designing mooring systems for these installations poses major engineering challenges. Existing mooring design codes do not accommodate the conditions and vessel characteristics involved, and the complex numerical models readily used in other industries are unaffordable and technically ill-suited. This paper presents a modified quasi-static mooring design procedure, which has been purposely developed for floating pontoons in a tropical reef environment. The method described offers a simple, practical and systematic design strategy to a complex problem and serves as a platfonn fur the evolution of more reliable and less conservative solutions. \|Item Type:\|\|Conference Item (Refereed Research Paper - E1)\| \|Keywords:\|\|Great Barrier Reef; tourist pontoons; mooring design; anchors; tropical cyclones\| \|FoR Codes:\|\|09 ENGINEERING > 0911 Maritime Engineering > 091103 Ocean Engineering @ 100%\| \|SEO Codes:\|\|96 ENVIRONMENT > 9603 Climate and Climate Change > 960301 Climate Change Adaptation Measures @ 100%\| \|Deposited On:\|\|10 Jun 2010 09:52\| \|Last Modified:\|\|19 Aug 2011 09:15\| Last 12 Months: 0 Repository Staff Only: item control page
Devlin, Maurice (2009) Theorising "Youth". In: Youth and Community Work in Ireland: Critical Perspectives. Blackhall Publishing, Ireland, pp. 33-56. ISBN 978-1-84218-173-7 Theory is something that is often not highly valued by youth workers and others who work with young people. "I'm not a great one for theory. I prefer to get on with doing the job," is a not uncommon opinion. Such a view is based on a misunderstanding of the nature of theory and of the relationship between theory and practice. Specifically, it reflects the misguided notion that theory is necessarily both abstract and abstruce, something "academic" and impractical. But in fact, as Kurt Lewin once wrote, "there is nothing as practical as a good theory" (Lewin, 1952:346). Theory is essentially concerned with explanation and understanding of why things are the way they are; of why things work the way they do. It is therefore utterly indispensable to good practice, whether the practice in question is car mechanics, brain surgery or youth work. Repository Staff Only: item control page
Reduced-Size microstrip patch antenna for Bluetooth applications Lu, Lu & Coetzee, Jacob (2005) Reduced-Size microstrip patch antenna for Bluetooth applications. Electronics Letters, 41(17), pp. 944-945. A novel reduced-size microstrip rectangular patch antenna for Bluetooth operation is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna operates in the 2400 to 2484 MHz ISM Band. Although an air substrate is introduced, antenna occupies a small volume of 33.3×6.6×0.8 mm3. The gain and the impedance bandwidth of the antenna are predicted using a commercial Finite Element Method software package. The predicted results show good agreement with measured data. Citation countsare sourced monthly fromand citation databases. These databases contain citations from different subsets of available publications and different time periods and thus the citation count from each is usually different. Some works are not in either database and no count is displayed. Scopus includes citations from articles published in 1996 onwards, and Web of Science generally from 1980 onwards. Citations counts from theindexing service can be viewed at the linked Google Scholar™ search. Full-text downloadsdisplays the total number of times this work’s files (e.g., a PDF) have been downloaded from QUT ePrints as well as the number of downloads in the previous 365 days. The count includes downloads for all files if a work has more than one. \|Item Type:\|\|Journal Article\| \|Keywords:\|\|microstrip antenna, patch antenna, bluetooth, air gap\| \|Subjects:\|\|Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > ENGINEERING (090000) > ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING (090600) > Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified (090699)\| \|Divisions:\|\|Current > Schools > School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science\| Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Science & Engineering Faculty \|Copyright Owner:\|\|Copyright 2005 IEEE\| \|Copyright Statement:\|\|This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible\| \|Deposited On:\|\|02 Mar 2012 08:18\| \|Last Modified:\|\|02 Mar 2012 20:21\| Repository Staff Only: item control page
Responding to Changing Student Expectations Coaldrake, Peter (2001) Responding to Changing Student Expectations. Journal of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education, 13(2), pp. 75-92. Citation countsare sourced monthly fromand citation databases. These databases contain citations from different subsets of available publications and different time periods and thus the citation count from each is usually different. Some works are not in either database and no count is displayed. Scopus includes citations from articles published in 1996 onwards, and Web of Science generally from 1980 onwards. Citations counts from theindexing service can be viewed at the linked Google Scholar™ search. \|Item Type:\|\|Journal Article\| \|Additional Information:\|\|For more information, please refer to the journal’s website (see link).\| \|Subjects:\|\|Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > EDUCATION (130000) > SPECIALIST STUDIES IN EDUCATION (130300)\| Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > EDUCATION (130000) \|Divisions:\|\|Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Chancellery\| \|Copyright Owner:\|\|Copyright 2001 OECD\| \|Deposited On:\|\|20 Aug 2007\| \|Last Modified:\|\|15 Jan 2009 17:42\| Repository Staff Only: item control page
Priati, Evita Nur (2009) MAKNA TRADISI RITUAL TANDHAK SETRENBAGI TANDHAK(Studi Pada Acara Padang Bulan Di Padepokan Gunung Ukir Desa Torongrejo Kec. Junrejo Kota Batu). Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang. Download (109Kb) \| Preview ABSTRACT Stone town have quite a lot ommission of artistry even tradition ritual which possible still can in diging and developed and also more is straightened. Particularly again regarding the existence of first tandhak of times rill appear on stone town. From result of dig of Ki Iswandi of Padepokan gunung ukir Ds Torongrejo believed that by first dancer exist in stone is Nyi Srigati,he is one of the Prince soldier or punggawa of Diponegoro in the year 1826 with Mbah Iro with its entourage run away to Central Java go to East Java, because is colonized of VOC. Nyi Srigati give strength, commiseration, authority by padusan ritual take a bath full moon jamas, rice traditional party of kabuli jar water and with resin lamplight of sewu in each its pupils. ceremony of Ritual the walk each month full moon (14 night 15 calendar of Java) because on that when full of full moon considered to be day which is sacral. Along with commutation of time, tradition which have time to lose the reappear in the centre of more modern society. With more dynamic tidiness, this ritual is rebuilt by Ki Iswandi of mount padepokan carve along with all its member which feel have obligation for cultural placentas of ancestor ( preserve ancestor culture) as one of the culture asset which it is true have as proper as for this dilestarikan. Ritual is it is true majored by just for dancer of or woman of tandhak, because in each;every show of dancer of woman which is always considered to be primadona. As for this research internal issue formula shall be as follows: How Process of Ritual Tandhak Setren In Padepokan Mount Carve? and What meaning of Ritual Tandhak Setren [In] Mount padepokan Carve to Tandhak? Intention of this research is to Know process of Ritual Tandhak Setren in Padepokan Mount Carve. Knowing meaning of Ritual Tandhak Setren In Mount padepokan Carve to Tandhak. In this research which become research subyek is member of mount padepokan carve that is : Ki Iswandi as doyen of Padepokan Mount Carve ( Penyetren), Goddess ( Tandhak), Ita ( Tandhak), Hanifah ( Tandhak), Ira ( Tandhak), Bladder ( Tandhak). Technique data collecting is Interview / Interview, Observation, this Dokumentasi.in Research use technique analyse diskriptif qualitative. Theory framework of this research is theory of Interaksionalisme Symbolic of Herbert Blummer. According to H. this Blumer theory tread on at premis that: human being act to something pursuant to meaning exist in " something" that for them. The meaning come or emerge from " social interaction one with others", and. The meaning completed to pass interpretation process at the time of " social interaction process" taking place. And Symbolic Interaksionalisme of George Herbert Ad expressing that society is not static something that " outside there" what always influence and form our x'self, but intrinsically represent a interaction process. Individual not merely owning mind (mind), but also x'self (self) which non a psychological entitas, but a aspect of social process emerging in course of social activity and experience. Result of this research express that this setren ritual to tandhak is to represent Medium grindace bounce, because from setren can influence trust of safeness appearance and x'self from within x'self of tandhak and also strengthen insthink. So that tandhak have never feel gauche to deal with throng. Medium to get magical strength in the form of commiseration science, more fascination, and also in demand to x'self of tandhak. And existence of seriousness stimulasi from all tandhak by assuming that this setren as practice medium process practice and body have interaction to with audience. That is feeling friskier x'self in dancing after following setren ritual. This matter also show professionalism a tandhak in running its profession as tandhak. \|Item Type:\|\|Thesis (Other)\| \|Subjects:\|\|H Social Sciences > HM Sociology\| \|Divisions:\|\|Faculty of Social and Political Science > Department of Sociology\| \|Depositing User:\|\|Anggit Aldila\| \|Date Deposited:\|\|26 Jun 2012 06:42\| \|Last Modified:\|\|26 Jun 2012 06:42\| Actions (login required)
Camerada, Maria Veronica (2011) Assetti e scenari territoriali connessi all'attivazione dei parchi naturali in Italia, con particolare riferimento agli aspetti sociali ed economici. Doctoral Thesis. Research on sustainable models of economic development continues to fuel the historical debate on the relationship between human beings and nature. Politics is the most appropriate context where large scale economic intervention is planned. This article deals with the governance of the environment on three territorial dimensions: international, E.U.-based, and national. It takes into consideration one the most characterizing aspects of environmental protection policies, i.e. the management of conservation areas and nature reserves. By chronicling the development of measures of environmental protection, the objectives, tools and actors of the policies in this field are analyzed. In particular, the study examines the socio-economic aspects linked to the establishment and management of Italian conservation areas and National Parks as instruments for enhancing the Italian natural heritage. I documenti depositati in UnissResearch sono protetti dalle leggi che regolano il diritto d'autore Repository Staff Only: item control page
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Whitewater rafting: the industry, clients and their economic impact on Coffs Harbour, Australia Buultjens, J & Gale, D 2006, 'Whitewater rafting: the industry, clients and their economic impact on Coffs Harbour, Australia', in P Whitelaw (ed.), To the city and beyond: Proceedings of the College of Australian Universities Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Conference, Melbourne, Vic., 6-9 February, Victoria University, Melbourne, Vic. ISBN: 0975058517 This document is currently not available here.
Don't worry, you didn't miss anything - my synopsis of our second school stop in Houghton, NY can be found at the official Soulforce blog. As for lucky number 3, the Equality Ride bus arrived in Huntsville, AL on Friday night, our visit to Oakwood University not scheduled until Monday. Although we had not notified the school or the local authorities of the timetable for our arrival (except for confirming Monday’s schedule), we received a phone call within a half hour of stepping into the hotel, welcoming us to town. Creepy. Silver lining? Goal of visibility reached! We spent the weekend trying to spread the word about Monday’s events and getting to know the town of Huntsville, including meeting with a several Oakwood students to help us better understand the atmosphere at the school surrounding LGBTQ issues. We learned that Oakwood, a Seventh Day Adventist school and HBCU (Historically Black College or University), has a culture of enforced silence surrounding LGBTQ issues, in which openly gay students are discriminated against and often expelled by the administration. Therefore, there are few openly LGBQ students (each of them sure they were the only one), and no openly transgender students that we met or heard of. When asked if she would again choose to go to Oakwood if she had known beforehand the environment in which she would be placing herself, one lesbian student said “absolutely not!” So why did she stay? Her parents wouldn’t pay for any other school and her credits weren’t transferrable to any other school that would have been any better. If she wanted an education, this was it. On Monday, we boarded the bus and made our way from the hotel to Oakwood, escorted by school police to the only spot where we would be permitted to go: a building on the corner of campus which most of the students we spoke with had never heard of. Not that it would have mattered – our agenda involved one half hour of structured dialogue with selected students and administration, followed by a short catered lunch. With a school population of about 2000 students, we were given access to talk to about 15 of them. The administration stated that it had not received our communications (first send last October) until two weeks ago, and anything more would have been impossible to arrange. When we asked to allow for a longer period of dialogue or make the event open to more students, we were informed that either we accept the terms or not be allowed onto school at all. So we went, and we spoke our piece about a need for safe spaces for LGBTQ students, and shared our stories as best we could. And in a funny turn of events, when the riders were ready to move on after 30 minutes, the students and some administrators pleaded that we continue with our stories. Small, subtle shifts in understanding began to ripple throughout the closed door meeting as we continued talking, a sensation of urgency replacing the skepticism and fear that had marked our arrival. The conversations continued throughout a hurried (and deliciously vegan, rock on SDA!) lunch and then again near the entrance to the school where we set up with signs reading “We are here for you!” Student leaders tweeted and Facebooked their friends to come and meet us, and over the course of the afternoon we spoke with nearly 100 students. Some of them wanted us to know we should try harder to stop being gay, some of them were LGBQ themselves and grateful to meet us (and meet each other!), and many committed to continue this dialogue after we left. No one was sure what would happen next, but the conversation had begun at last. Later, we continued talking with students as we staked out a corner of a local Chili’s restaurant and communed over greasy appetizers smothered in bacon (this is the South, y’all). When we were finally done, we left the restaurant with our stomachs and hearts full. I wonder whether anything will change at Oakwood, a school deeply entrenched in the SDA tradition as well as Southern culture. LGBTQ people are welcome so long as they deny the reality of who they are. Painful , harmful silence will continue to be enforced there, most certainly. Yet those small, subtle shifts we saw in the first closed door meeting grew perceptibly larger throughout the afternoon. I think they will continue to grow. I hope they will. The students of Oakwood deserve to know they are not alone, and that they are loved just as they are. All of them. We all do.
About this Journal The Seton Hall Law Review’s commitment to the advancement of the law through an informed and vigorous academic discourse has spanned four decades. Federal and state judges, prominent academics and practitioners, and more than one thousand young legal minds have contributed to the Law Review since its inception in 1967. In that time, the Seton Hall Law Review has been cited numerous times by the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as in hundreds of federal and state court cases. Building on the diligence and insight of its members and faculty advisors, the Law Review continues to grow in national prominence. The Seton Hall Law Review is an independent, student-edited journal that publishes four issues in each volume, typically amounting to well over one thousand pages per year. It is committed to maintaining a timely publication schedule, creating positive working relationships with authors, and publishing timely, relevant, and noteworthy manuscripts.
“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” Posts Tagged ‘Wisdom’ I have been following my own advice and making time and space to find silence lately, some days five minutes comes easily, and then some days finding myself rushing until the moment I lay down at night only to realize that I never took that time to be silent and still. I have found silence in various places lately. Last week I spent one of my 5 minutes with my nephew after putting him to bed, sitting in the chair in his room sharing the sacred space before a little one goes to sleep just listening to him breathe in and out. This weekend I went on an adventure to Northern Minnesota where silence was woven through the weekend. Snowshoeing as the snow gently fell walking in silence on freshly fallen snow. The sounds of the forest muted by the 10 inches of fresh snow they had gotten a few days before and stillness emanating from every tree and rock. Sitting by a fire in silence with a friend, a glass of wine and no internet, no cell phone reception, watching the waves and listening to the lake. It reminded me that by giving myself silence, by taking the time to soak it all in things sort themselves out, so often I fall into the habit of fixing everything now, going faster, doing bigger, better things- and so often it is in the silence that reminds me that this moment is enough just as it is. And as will almost always happen, when I step into stillness, when I offer myself the time to stop, to get off the hamster wheel I emerge refreshed and ready to reengage, recommitting to my promise to myself to live my life from a more authentic, clear, and centered place. I found this quote upon my return and smiled as I thought about the wisdom of the Lake and all that it had shared with me this weekend. Wash the dust from your soul and heart with wisdom’s water. After sitting, centering, being silent I found that my words were tumbling forth… and this is part of a response to a journal prompt my friend had given me: As I listen to the lake As I listen to the lake it reminds me that it is a big, vast lake, filled with so many individual droplets of water, yet all are integral to the whole… there are water droplets who revel in splashing against the rocks, who love the idea of jumping onto the shore, and other drops of water who prefer to be in the still, depth and center of the lake… there are yet others who want to glide on the top, gently swaying and rocking, and other drops who want to travel a long ways- distance is their goal, and others who long to stay as close to their home as possible… and all ways lead to the beauty, reflect the who of the lake… the lake is all of them and none of them… the lake simply is… this ancient stillness, this watery heartbeat of the waves… in and out… pulled by the moon, warmed by the sun… As I listen to the lake it reminds me that there are so many worlds yet to explore, there is so much left to uncover, unearth… I have only just begun. Indeed, I have been struggling with a few things lately that have taken a toll on my soul, and my healing has been found in this silence. This silence has held me in the midst of so much grace, in so much love, in so much compassion. The silence has helped heal old wounds, it has given me strength to support others as they navigate difficult times, it has given me strength to make brave choices, it has reminded me of my power and my voice and it has reminded me to move with more intention in my life. In the silence I have heard the voice of love remind me that the story is not over yet, there is so much of my life yet to be written. In so many ways I have only just begun. Sitting with silence has brought me so many gifts and I am looking forward to hearing if any of you are experiencing the same… I have been excited about rolling out my new Facebook page, unveiling new writing, opening up three spots in my coaching practice and working on some new blog posts and I was so excited about this being the week that I started doing more on the blog and on Facebook, and instead I have been wiped out by a nasty virus for the past four days. My lips are chapped from breathing through my mouth, my muscles are sore from coughing and everything aches, and I am about as far from Radiant as I can be. It was one for the record books for me, being up for about 4 hours in a 48 hour period where just thinking about moving was an effort. And yet, even in the midst of the pain and discomfort there were many moments of radiance, moments to string together to remind me that it wouldn’t always be this way. Friends and family who would check in, drop off needed items like 7-Up, Orange Juice and more Nyquil, also those who called and reminded me that I am so very loved. Moments that reminded me that sometimes it isn’t me that needs to create radiance, sometimes the radiance is love from another, shared by their giving, and by my receiving. Sometimes radiance is found in rest, in receptivity. I have trained myself to always be the creator, the giver, the bringer, and I forget to find the balance. I have been drawn to quotes and writing about silence lately and I could feel my very cells calling out for it, but I didn’t stop, there was so much to “do”. Sickness tends to bring out vulnerability, and reminds us that we can’t always do it “all by myself”. It reminds us we don’t always have control- sometimes we need to surrender to something larger than ourselves, to remember that the world will continue to spin even if we aren’t there to guide it, sometimes we need to stop and let everything catch up, and if we don’t do it, sometimes our bodies will do it for us. So the past few days I have been silent, drinking in the stillness, my body and soul thirsty for that time, and it has caused me to recommit to my scheduling in silence for myself. To be mindful of my balance, to honor my needs, to recommit to deep listening to my own wisdom. It has reminded me to remember to provide nourishment for all of me, body, soul and spirit on a regular basis. It has reminded me that sometimes a little silence, curling up in grandma’s quilt made with love, eating chicken and rice soup also made with love is all a girl needs to feel radiant again
(Source: miamikkelsen, via loxyclean) PR Comic Con: PRCC 2013 Official Schedule. Have fun! - Plan ahead to don’t miss a thing. Since we are going green, we’re not printing this schedule - you might want to bookmark this page in your cellphones or print it if you choose. Changes will be revised in this post, keep visiting this page to get the latest info. Saturday, May 25 I have to make this soon! Who wants to join me for brunch?
Basketball: Andover runs away from Elk girls 60-34 The Elk River girls hung with the Andover Huskies for a little while but wound up with a 60-34 defeat at home on Tuesday evening. Andover led 21-18 before springing loose some turnovers and scoring the last 12 points of the half for a 33-18 lead, then dominated the second half. “Our conference has a lot of good athletes in it,” said Elk coach Reed Caouette, whose team in 1-7 in the NWSC and 4-2 outside the conference. “We started out doing some good things, but all of a sudden the floodgates opened.” Tommaneka Wallace sank 13 points and Haydin Becker 12 to lead the Huskies (4-5 conference, 7-7 overall). Shelby Gracik led the Elks with 11 points. Victoria Jenson was next with seven. The Elks will play at Park Center on Thursday.
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Ciara Price — Crush of the Day [PICTURES] Playboy magazine’s ‘Miss November’ Ciara Price is a self-described “closet nerd” that has been taking apart computers and putting them back together since the seventh grade. She was the only girl in her computer class and the guys loved that she could keep up with them and speak their language. Ciara is our crush for still being a gorgeous dork all these years later. Imagine if Ciara followed her passion and stuck with computers. What company wouldn’t want her in the IT department? Actually, probably a great many, since male employees would purposely break their computers just to get Ciara over to their desk for a visit. “Yeah, I’m not sure what happened. The monitor said the hard drive needed a ‘manual reboot’ so I kicked the tower as hard as I could. Was that not the right thing to do? The computer is under my desk now. I’m going to stand right over you and watch, you know, so I know what to do next time.”
Graham Westley left the Deepdale dugout to a standing ovation after his new-look Preston team booked their place in the second round of the Capital One Cup with a 2-0 defeat of Huddersfield . Westley endured a troubled time after taking over at Preston last season but saw his side make the perfect start to the new campaign when Jack King headed home after 29 minutes. Nicky Wroe, a summer signing from Shrewsbury, then doubled the lead five minutes before the break to help the League One side into the next round. Westley fielded a starting 11 which featured 10 summer signings, with only goalkeeper Thorsten Stuckmann surviving the close-season cull. And the North End new boys enjoyed a dream start to the season when King's deft header floated past Alex Smithies in the Huddersfield goal after 29 minutes. The striker, signed from Woking in the summer, directing Jeffrey Monakana's brilliant chipped ball inside the far post. Wroe then side-footed Chris Beardsley's low cross into a gaping net five minutes before half-time to double the advantage. Lee Novak would have pulled a goal back for the visitors after the restart had he not been slow to react to Paul Dixon's cross. Seconds later Oscar Gobern's meek effort wasted some fluid build-up play as the npower Championship side failed to make a promising spell count.
Campagnaro hints at Inter move Hugo Campagnaro celebrated his late equaliser against Lazio before appearing to confirm speculation he will leave Napoli for Inter Milan in June. The 32-year-old-defender is out of contract at the end of the season and has been linked with a move to the Nerazzurri repeatedly over the past few months. Both the player and his agent have repeatedly denied an agreement exists but, when asked about the rumours following his goal on Saturday evening, he seemed to indicate the move will happen. “Inter? As long as I am here, I will always give my all, regardless of circumstances,” he told Sky Italia. “I’ll still give 100%, that is a guarantee. “It was a strange game, as we could have won it just as easily as lost. It was important to get a point, especially after going behind. Lazio pinned us back in the first half, but we made up for it in the second.” The goal - Campagnaro’s first of the season - kept Napoli within five points of leaders Juventus and six ahead of third-placed Lazio.
Adam Szalai scored a hat-trick as Mainz blasted past Hoffenheim to make a push up the Bundesliga table. Szalai was on target in the 21st, 46th and 64th minutes to increase his season's goal tally to seven. Mainz jumped to 14 points with the victory while Hoffenheim - who have the worst defensive record in the league with 20 goals conceded - remained on just eight points. Hoffenheim were close to taking the lead after 12 minutes but Joselu could only fire into the side-netting from a tight angle. Mainz forged ahead nine minutes later with Junior Diaz crossing from the left to Szalai, who outjumped Marvin Compper and headed home. The visitors nearly equalised in the 37th minute following a counter-attack, but Joselu redirected Roberto Firmino's cross just wide of the far left post. Mainz doubled their lead just 19 seconds after the restart as defender Jannik Vestergaard could not control a ball and Elkin Soto played forward to Szalai, who beat Hoffenheim goalkeeper Tim Wiese. Hoffenheim had a chance to cut the deficit to 2-1 but Mainz goalkeeper Christian Wetklo fended away Takashi Usami's shot in the 61st minute. Szalai completed his hat-trick in the 64th minute by heading home Nicolai Muller's corner, the first competitive treble of his senior career. Hoffenheim had one final chance in the 88th minute but Wetklo saved a header by Swiss substitute Eren Derdiyok to secure the clean sheet.
The documentation is divided into the following sections: - Getting Started discusses installation and application startup. - Command Reference contains detailed description of each command available for realtime control of the looping. - MIDI Bindings shows how to set up appropriate MIDI bindings for your controller. - MIDI Commands lists all the MIDI-bindable commands with a brief description. - Sync/Tempo describes how the tempo and synchronization parameters allow you to sync your loops to external forces or other loops. - OSC Interface describes the low-level OSC interface to the looping engine.
About Hanna Somatic Education Thomas Hanna, PhD developed Hanna Somatic Education over the course of two decades of work in the field of Somatic Education. He began as a Feldenkrais practitioner, and developed his own method of Somatic Education after studying neurology at the University of Miami Medical School. It was there that he did research into the muscular ways in which all humans respond to stress reflexes and how these full body reflexes can habituate at the level of the central nervous system, causing muscular pain that contributes to many common conditions. Hanna Somatic Education (also known as Clinical Somatics) is a safe, gentle and common sense approach to eliminating chronic muscle pain for the long term. It is an educational process of muscular retraining - not passive therapy. It is the only sensory motor training method that teaches you to reverse the cause of most chronic muscle pain: SENSORY MOTOR AMNESIA (SMA). Sensory Motor Amnesia is the condition of chronically tight muscles that develops due to accidents, injuries, surgeries, and on-going stress. These muscles have learned to stay so contracted, that no matter what you do - stretching, massaging, or drugging the muscles - they won't relax for the long term. Muscles that have learned to stay contracted must learn to relax. HSE goes to the root of the problem: your brain and nervous system, and its control of muscles and movement. Your brain has simply forgotten how to relax these muscles, so you must retrain the brain to retrain your muscles in order to reverse pain and regain mobility. While most pain relief methods focus on the one specific area of pain (e.g. the neck, hip, shoulder), Hanna Somatics understands that pain in one part of the body is part of a larger pattern of muscular dysfunction. These patterns are reflective of typical responses to stress: In his work with clients, Thomas Hanna observed that Sensory Motor Amnesia and its dysfunctions presented within three specific, full body reflex patterns, which he named the green light reflex, red light reflex, and trauma reflex. The methods and movements of Hanna Somatics teaches the client to change habitual postural adaptations and habits, which eliminates muscle pain while increasing mobility, coordination and balance. The benefits of Hanna Somatic Education include: - Long term pain relief from a host of common conditions - Life long skills that teach you how to regain voluntary control of habitually tight muscles - Greater physical independence and mastery of your movement - Increased flexibility, coordination, stress relief, balance and proprioception - A safe, easy and common sense alternative to drugs, and surgery Hanna Somatics is profoundly effective at relieving the chronic aches and disability commonly associated with such complaints as: - painful joints and muscles - neck, shoulder and back pain - hip, knee and foot pain - repetitive use injuries - poor posture - accident traumas and whiplash - breathing problems - frozen shoulder syndrome WHY SHOULD I TRY HANNA SOMATICS? Hanna Somatics goes to the root of most chronic muscular pain: the brain. Just as the brain can learn positive things like riding a bike or learning to ski, so can it learn negative things, like holding oneself stiff and out of balance. Because the brain controls the muscles, the brain must be involved in teaching the muscles to relax, release and remember how to move again. What sets Hanna Somatics apart from other approaches such as physical therapy, massage therapy, surgery, stretching, acupuncture or drugs?: - The technique of PANDICULATION - the "aha!" moment of Hanna Somatics. Clients learn to reset muscle length at the brain level and regain voluntary control of habitually contracted muscles for pain relief and increased mobility. - Somatics focuses on FULL BODY PATTERNS of muscular contraction, rather than just focusing on one area of pain. Tightness in the center of the body translates to tightness in the periphery (hip, knee, foot, neck). - HSE is ACTIVE, NOT PASSIVE. Physical therapy, massage, trigger point therapy, and other methods, confer temporary pain relief because they are passive. The client is being worked on. Habitually contracted muscles can only release for the long term through active participation by the client. It is your brain that controls your muscles, therefore the best method for long term pain relief is through active improvement of your sensory motor system. - HSE is EDUCATION - clients are taught specific skills that improve self-awareness, and self-monitoring to help them achieve long term pain-free, increased mobility, balance and coordination. Learning Center Resources “After trying many pain-relief techniques, the only lasting solution was from Hanna Somatics and Martha Peterson. After only two sessions I had immediate and extraordinary pain relief. I learned easy techniques that I now use to relax any painful muscles.” - LM - Baltimore, MD “I've had hip and low back problems for the last 10 years. I've been doing your Somatics DVD for a week and am getting great results!” - G.P., California
An etherealgirl's Adventures in Cyberland Saturday, January 08, 2005 meet the flinstones? "In the beginning...Adam walked with dinosaurs" or so says Ken Ham, Australian evangelist who is building a multi-million-dollar Museum of Creation in Kentucky this spring. Reported by James Langston at the news.telegraph online "The centrepiece of the museum is a series of huge model dinosaurs, built by the former head of design at Universal Studios, which are portrayed as existing alongside man, contrary to received scientific opinion that they lived millions of years apart." I kept looking for some indication that this was some kind of a put-on but... um, apparently not..... but wait there's more... read the article... if you dare If anyone had told me that something like this would be possible in the 21st century I would have laughed at them. Somehow I'm having a hard time finding the whole thing funny right now... strange days indeed... :-( Posted by etherealfire :: Post / Read Comments
\|News » Archives\| No. 57 ETSU sweeps Gardner Webb, 7-0 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. (March 27, 2007) - The 57th ranked ETSU men's tennis team picked up their fourth straight victory as they dropped Gardner Webb, 7-0 on Tuesday. With the victory the Bucs improve to 17-4 on the season and are 7-0 in A-Sun action, while Gardner Webb falls to 8-10, 4-3. The Bucs took a 1-0 lead as they swept the doubles. In the No. 1 position, Travis Sandlant (Werribee, Australia) and Alex Ahlgren (Tyreso, Sweden) defeated Evgeny Selesarev and Gabe Veiga, 8-2, while Enrique Olivares (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) and Sebastian Serrano (Cartagena, Colombia) picked up their sixth straight victory as they breezed by Kim Ellis and Taylor Ferrier, 8-2. Predrag Burmazovic ( In singles action, Burmazovic defeated Evgeny Slesarev, 6-4, 5-7, 1-0(11-9) in the No. 1 position, while Olivares cruised past Roberto Vasques, 6-3, 6-2 in the second slot. In the No. 3 position, Serrano defeated Kim Ellis, 6-1, 6-3 as senior Felix Insaurralde ( "The team played extremely well compared to our last match. Our performance was much improved, the attitude was great and the team performed much better. My hope is that we can maintain this level for the rest of the season," said head coach Yaser Zaatini. ETSU will wrap up their regular season with a three match homestand. The Bucs will take on conference foe Mercer on Friday, April 6 at 10 a.m. For all ETSU men's tennis action, visit www.ETSUBucs.com. ETSU 7, ETSU 0 No. 1- Predrag Burmazovic (ETSU) def. Evgeny Slesarev (GWU) 6-4, 5-7, 1-0(11-9) No. 2- Enrique Olivares (ETSU) def. Roberto Vasques (GWU) 6-3, 6-2 No. 3- Sebastian Serrano (ETSU) def. Kim Ellis (GWU) 6-1, 6-3 No. 4- Felix Insaurralde (ETSU) def. Gabe Veiga (GWU) 6-0, 6-0 No. 5- Alex Ahlgren (ETSU) def. Grant Van Rensburg (GWU) 6-0, 6-2 No. 6- Daniel Isaza (ETSU) def. Rafael Altmeyer (GWU) 6-0, 6-2 No. 1- Ahlgren/Sandlant (ETSU) def. Slesarev/Veiga (GWU) 8-2 No. 2- Olivares/Serrano (ETSU) def. Ellis/Ferrier (GWU) 8-2 No. 3- Burmazovic/Isaza (ETSU) def. Van Rensburg/Vasques (GWU) 8-2
Agents arrested Gary Miller, 43, for third offense DWI, reckless operation of a vessel and operating a watercraft while under a driver’s license suspension. According to witnesses, on May 6 at about 7:40 p.m. Miller was travelling downstream at a high rate of speed on the Amite River near French Settlement when he collided with an LDWF patrol vessel. Miller required medical treatment and was released later that same night. The LDWF agent, Sgt. Randy Lanoux, suffered no injuries. Miller’s personal watercraft was badly damaged, while the patrol boat suffered minor damage. On May 11, after LDWF agents received the results of Miller’s blood test that allegedly showed him over the legal alcohol limit, a warrant was obtained for his arrest. Third offense DWI brings up to a $2,000 and one to five years in jail. Reckless operation of a vessel carries up to a $200 fine and up to 90 days in jail. Operating a watercraft while under suspension brings an additional one year suspension of his driving privileges. Agents participating in the investigation were Lt. Will Roberts, Sgt. Todd Lewis, Sgt. Dennis Bueche, Senior Agent Clay Marquez and Senior Agent Hal Bridges. For further information, contact Adam Einck at 225-765-2465 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
Another day, another leaked EU report on Israel 18.01.12 @ 09:39 BRUSSELS - EU countries have again accused Israel of trying to destroy chances for peace with Palestinians by snatching control of East Jerusalem. The December 2011 report by the EU heads of mission in Ramallah - seen by EUobserver - notes that last year saw "a surge in [Israeli] settlement planning" designed to ring fence the city with Jewish-only neighbourhoods. "If current trends continue, the prospect of Jerusalem as the future capital of two states becomes increasingly unlikely and unworkable, undermining a two-state solution ... [Israeli actions] provide fuel to those who want to further radicalise the conflict," it said. It noted that the timing of housing decisions undermined attempts to re-launch the peace process. A decision on the Gilo settlement came "a few days" after leading UN countries urged parties to halt "provocative actions." Another one on the Har Homa and Pisgat Zeev settlements came "just before" Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met after a 16-month hiatus. It anticipates that 2,300 Bedouin will shortly be evicted - some to a waste dump - to make way for more Jewish houses. The Jerusalem paper comes on top of two other damning surveys by European diplomats. An internal report dated 14 December accused Israel of monopolising farm land and water in the Jordan Valley in a bid to drive out native Arabs. Another recent EU paper said it is eroding the civil liberties of Arab-Israeli citizens. The Jerusalem report recommended some sanctions-type measures. It said the European Commission should propose a law "to prevent/discourage [EU] financial transactions in support of settlement activity." It urged the Union to "ensure" Israeli vegetables from farms on occupied land do not get preferential import tariffs. It also said EU countries should "share information on violent settlers ... to assess whether to grant entry into EU member states." The reports have little impact on EU foreign policy, which is subject to veto by pro-Israeli countries such as the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. They also do little to influence Israel. Israel's foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told EUobserver on Wednesday (18 January) the surveys are illegitimate because they are drafted without Israeli input: "I think the best answer to these serial reports is given by EU authorities, who always discuss these reports succinctly and shelve them with their unfeasible recommendations almost as quickly as they are raised." The 21-page Jerusalem survey drew attention to some hard facts of life for the 790,000 Palestinians who live in their Israeli-controlled city. It said Arab quarters suffer from overcrowding, dirty streets and poor sewage facilities. Palestinian children in Israeli-run schools have to use books which are "edited" for "sensitive" content, like Palestinian flags. Ambulances trying to cross Israeli checkpoints with Palestinian patients in urgent condition face "unnecessary and potentially life-threatening delays." During Ramadan, only children and middle-aged or older Palestinians are allowed to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third most holy place in Islam. Meanwhile, Jewish settlers in the Wadi Hilweh district next to the mosque are digging up ancient sites in a way that puts "emphasis on biblical and Jewish-Israeli connotations of the area while neglecting Arab/Mulsim claims of historic-archeological ties."
As one who has been led down to the cells in handcuffs for non-payment of Council Tax – mine for refusing to pay the police precept after our house had been burgled four times and my wife’s car broken into, I can totally empathise with Josephine Rooney, the 69-year-old pensioner who was yesterday imprisoned for three months by South Derbyshire Magistrates for refusing to pay hers. Her story is told in detail in The Daily Mail and elsewhere, noting that, unlike ordinary criminals, who get an automatic fifty percent remission of their sentence, there is no rebate for Council Tax debt and Josephine. Thus, says The Mail, ...at a time when the Government seems to be taking every opportunity to stop sending genuine criminals to jail - and once inside, releasing them as early as possible - she will spend the next three months mixing with drug addicts and murderers after being sent to New Hall prison near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.Of course, Derby City Council deputy leader, Dave Roberts, like any true state apparatchik, disowns the decision. "The council has no wish to send anyone to jail," he says. "Miss Rooney had ample opportunity to pay her council tax, but she has steadfastly refused. Her sentence is the court's decision, not ours." But actually, there was no decision. The Magistrates have no discretion in this matter, so the penalty is automatic. To save taxpayers' money on the courts, they would be better of having "go to jail" machines on the lines of "speak your weight machines" in the foyers of police stations, leaving more time for the Magistrates to release the day's crop of burglars and muggers. But the central point which I addressed when I was last arrested is that this makes a mockery of any idea that we are free men and women. Essentially, you retain your liberty only if you pay your annual license fee to the Town Hall. For me personally, the situation is even worse. With shared ownership of our house, Mrs EU Referendum’s name also appears on the Council Tax bill. But, the apparatchiks who send out the bills, knowing that I am prepared to make a stand over "services" we pay for but don't receive, have now reversed the order of the names, so that hers appears first. It his her, thus, who receives the summons and if I don’t pay the bill, she goes to jail. Jail I can stand but the thought of dealing with Mrs EU Referendum after she has been released…? I want to live, so I pay up. And all this is arranged by the kindly "Customer Services" department of the Council. And that is what really pisses me off, this total perversion of our language, the dishonesty of it all. If I was really a "customer", could my wife be jailed because I did not pay a bill for services I was not receiving? I think not. And what has this got to do with a blog labelled "EU Referendum"? Well, in truth, not a lot, except that it does demonstrate, once again, that the EU is far from being our only problem. When we have brought down the EU, the local Councils must be next.
I am looking to buy my first house by the end of this year hopefully. I need to find a way to find some way to get more money for a down payment. Work only goes so far, keeping caught up with bills n all.. My money tree isn't growing fast enough. When i did my phone interview with my bank for a prequalified loan amount i asked about first time home buyer down assistance n she said i make too much $$. Now I'm sure that's not really the case. What's out there but maybe just not in plain site?
Mike Robles returns to Rivercenter this week with Trixx featuring and Blair Thompson hosting.Voted “One of the Top 10 Latino stand-up comedians in the country” Emmy winner Mike Robles is probably best known as the star and creator of Galavision’s two flagship shows Video Mix and Que Loc. Created by ZventsOPR \| Claim this event 849 E. Commerce St. San Antonio, TX 78205 Hot Tickets More » \|5/27\|\|8:30p\|\|All Stars with Alex Ansel\|
Ulster County, New York: The Architectural History & Guide Sunday, July 8, at 4 pm The Gallery at 199 Main Street, Beacon, NY Sunday Author Series presents author William Rhoads on Sunday, July 8 at 4pm for an exploration of nearly 300 years of Ulster County's evolving architecture with his book Ulster County, New York: The Architectural History & Guide. Rhoads will take the afternoon to tour a time when immigrants, particularly of Dutch and French Huguenot descent, designed and built the core of one of the first European settlements in New York State. Rhoads' sense of architectural heritage, which permeates his book, will take a comprehensive look from 17th-century Dutch limestone houses to Modernist mid-1950s design, the social and cultural history throughout, all the result of Rhoad's lifetime passion for the Hudson Valley region. The Sunday Author Series is an opportunity to hear Hudson River regional authors share the stories behind their books exploring our area's many and varied treasures. Advance registration is encouraged. This program is free and open to the public.
300 mm, ISO 1250, f/5.6, 1/400 sec. 300 mm, ISO 1250, f/9.0, 1/500 sec. … and cropped! I acquired a new lens … a Panasonic Lumix G Vario 100-300 mm F/4.0-5.6 OIS Lens. I decided to get it after finding that most of my opportunities for taking pictures while out walking around the neighborhood required a long lens. With this lens on my Panasonic G3 I have an effective, in 35 mm terms, 600 mm lens. It will take me some time to master it since it is a challenge to balance the shutter, aperture, depth-of-field (DoF), ISO, and focusing when zoomed all the way out to 300 mm (effective 600 mm). You should note in the picture of the bird that I focused on the bird house and that an effective 600 mm focal length was still not enough and I still had to crop the image significantly. I have learned in the short time I have had it that if I shoot in aperture mode that the camera will keep the shutter speed at 1/500 sec or faster. With that fast a speed in addition to the image stabilization system I have not experienced any major problems with motion blur caused by me while hand holding. If I shoot with ISO set to auto with a maximum ISO of 3200 I have found that I can generally shoot hand-held at an aperture of f/9 in bright light without the need to worry about settings. It is only in lower light that I start to have problems and have to open the aperture with concerns about DoF and noise from higher ISOs. Focus is a different issue. The lens focuses quite fast and well on the G3 but it takes a lot of careful holding without a tripod to keep the small focus point where I want it. This is especially a problem in low light when the DoF is quite small. The lens will focus on objects as close as 5 ft., but at that distance the DoF is only about +/- 0.01 ft. and often at even greater distances and smaller apertures it is still only about +/- 4 or 5 ft. Another adjustment that I find to be helpful is changing the way I carry the camera and lens. I find it easier to hold the lens-camera combination by the lens in my left hand. This enables me to bring it up to my eye quickly as well as rotating the lens to zoom quickly after I have grabbed the camera with my right hand and initially focused. In addition, while the lens has no creep now … it is stiff, I expect that it will eventually tend to creep and carrying it by the lens prevents that from happening.
Since KDE 4.0, dolphin has been the default file manager for the KDE desktop. This saw the retirement of konqueror as the default file manager, with that application left to focus on web browsing – in fact, if you use konqueror as a file manager, you are simply using the dolphin “engine” within the konqueror window. Konqueror was a bit of a Swiss Army Knife of tools, and was often criticised for being too complex. However, I really liked it. You could use it as a file manager, document viewer, ftp client, cd ripper, archive browser, file manipulator and a seemingly endless number of other things. The dophin philosophy is: Dolphin is a file manager focusing on usability. When reading the term Usability people often assume that the focus is on newbies and only basic features are offered. This assumption is wrong. Although dolphin is stated as not being newbie focussed, it feels like it is slightly feature starved when compared with konqueror. Given that using konqueror as a file manager is effectively the same as using dolphin, where to from here? …. krusader. Krusader has been around for a long time. I remember using it in the KDE 2.* days. Krusader’s developer’s describe krusader as: .. is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander. It provides all the file management features you could possibly want. Krusader is provided in the standard repositories of a wide range of distributions. I imagine if you are using a distribution that does not include it in its repositories, you will be competent to compile it from source. Krusader is a commander style 2 panel file manager. On opening, it presents you with two panels side by side (which can be split horizontally if that’s your thing) displaying the contents of directories. This layout allows you to drag files and directories between the panels to copy or move them. There is only one way to view files, which is as either a simple list or a detailed list. There is no scope for an “icon” view, which can be a little limiting. This also means that you can’t see previews of files in the file list – although you can preview a file by right clicking on it, or in the preview panel (see below). One cool feature of krusader are the available panels. These can be accessed by clicking on a green arrow at the bottom of each file list panel. This pops up a separate panel that can be used for a number of functions. You can preview a file, view the file’s contents (see screenshot to the right), or show the space used by files and directories in a filelight style layout. This can be very useful for remote file management. Because krusader has the ability to use KIO slaves, you can open remote file systems via ftp, ssh, samba or nfs. You could then sync between a local directory and a remote directory. Say, for example you want to upload new files to your hosted website, you can just open the site via ftp, and then sync between the local store of the website files and the files on your host’s server. Very easy. Krusader has a plethora of tools available. Some of the most common tasks can be performed by hitting the buttons at the bottom of the screen – these are also linked to the function buttons on the keyboard. You can compare two text files with the press of a button. You can mount and unmount disks using the mount manager. You can look inside package files such as .rpm’s or .deb’s. Check out the video below using krusader to find files taking up space in a directory.
"The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place. He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all. Instead of them, he will honor a god of fortresses; a god unknown to his fathers he will honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. He will attack the mightiest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them rulers over many people and will distribute the land at a price. "At the time of the end the king of the South will engage him in battle, and the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots and cavalry and a great fleet of ships. He will invade many countries and sweep through them like a flood. He will also invade the Beautiful Land. Many countries will fall, but Edom, Moab and the leaders of Ammon will be delivered from his hand. He will extend his power over many countries; Egypt will not escape. He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Nubians in submission. But reports from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will set out in a great rage to destroy and annihilate many. He will pitch his royal tents between the seas at the beautiful holy mountain. Yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him. (Daniel 11:36-45 NIV) Let's examine characteristics and identifying features of the future physical Antichrist. Feel free to post your thoughts or studies on this subject. Some have suggested that the "king" who exalts himself in this excerpt from Daniel is actually referring only and literally to the historical figure Antiochus IV Epiphanes. There are some serious problems with this interpretation, even if taken strictly literal (which is supposed method of interpretation here). Matthew 24:15 also says, "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand." KJV It is not historically proven that the Abomination of Desolation has occurred. No such man has done what is prophetically required of him. No historical figure has set himself up in the temple, claimed to be God, and demand worship. Antiochus and others brought standards and other symbols in for worshiping other Gods like Jupiter. D.S. Russell suggests the "king" or later "horn" is Antiochus as well, but also writes that "the human identity of this little horn is evidenced by its possession of human eyes and a mouth that speaks presumptuously." Before we consider problems with that idea, I do recognize that there is also a spirit of Antichrist walking the world today. It is a spirit, as well, that has plagued many and still plagues many. I still contend though that this spirit, not of Christ but of the Devil, will be embodied or incarnated in a man who will serve as the physical anti-Christ who steps upon the Temple Mount and commits the Abomination of Desolation. 1. The historical data presented in Daniel 11: 36-45 are impossible to historically harmonize with Antiochus’ actual life. 2. This person, who exalts himself, will also be a ruler living in the last days themselves, immediately before the Second Coming (See v. 40). The Second Coming has not occurred since Christ has not appeared as He left, nor has He set up His millennial kingdom. 3. He is the same “horn” of Daniel 7:21 and the “ruler who will come” in Daniel 9:26. Traditional historic interpretation, like Chrysostom, Jerome, Theodoret, Leupold, Keil, Archer, Walvoord, suggest this person is a future antichrist. Even amillenialist Jerome stated, “Those of our persuasion believe all these things are spoken prophetically of the Antichrist who is to arise in the end time.” He also said that the Antichrist would be "one of the human race, in whom Satan will wholly take up his residence in bodily form." The physical antichrist, the one in who satan will incarnate himself, will go well beyond anyone in history has ever done before. He will catch the rising tide of Secularism sweeping our globe and use its energy to create a new government. One without religion. Historical leaders who have sought to do similar things have been Antiochus himself, Nero, Domitian, Stalin and Hitler. The reign of the Antichrist will be one which will strive to be free of all religious vestiges. The Jewish Study Bible—JPS TANAKH Translation. © 2004 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Pťer-Contesse, R., & Ellington, J. (1993). A handbook on the Book of Daniel. UBS handbook series; Helps for translators (180). New York: United Bible Societies. Russell, D. S. (2001, c1981). Daniel. The Daily study Bible series (141). Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. Jerome, Daniel, 129. Jerome, Daniel, 77; cf. pp. 81–82.
Rose and Norah were little girls when their little mother died. They both came in from playing in the yard to find their mom dead in the bathroom, an apparent suicide. As the two girls grow up, that day shapes their lives. Rose is a single mother working hard as a house cleaner to raise her son, while... Thanks to a recommendation by my friend, I watched a stunning film this weekend. Set in a Castilian village somewhere in early 1940's rural Spain, this movie has won international acclaim as a masterpiece - labeled one of the greatest Spanish films of the 1970's. On the surface, it is a coming... Filed under: Filed under: dvd, reviews, good and evil, families, movies, murder, films, dying, childhood, Spain, foreign films After seeing it mentioned on one or two best movie lists, I decided to check out this 2005 film although I wondered if I would enjoy its story about a 1980s Brooklyn couple's decision to divorce and the resulting damage to their two sons. I was swayed by the casting of Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney...
Created on Saturday, 09 February 2013 Written by MATT HAMMOND The three-point arc has been very kind to the Tecumseh boys basketball team this season. Bellefontaine’s Matt Gump tries to get a shot up in front of a Tecumseh player during Friday’s game at Bellefontaine. (EXAMINER PHOTO \| MATT HAMMOND) The Arrows came into Friday’s game having shot 334 three-pointers, making a very respectable 39 percent of those attempts. “We have lived and died by the three-pointer this year,” said Tecumseh head coach Roger Culbertson. Tecumseh continued to thrive from three-point range Friday against host Bellefontaine. The Arrows drilled 10 threes en route to a 45-37 victory in a Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail division game. The Arrows are now 17-3 overall and 7-2 in the CBC Kenton Trail. The Chiefs fall to 10-9, 3-6. “You have to give Tecumseh credit,” said BHS coach Henry Stolly. “They shot the ball very well from three-point range. Their shooting was the difference in the game.” Only four of the Arrows’ 14 field goals came from inside the three-point stripe. Tecumseh shot 20 threes and made half of them. Tecumseh hit six long-range baskets in the first half in getting out to a 25-21 halftime lead. “It was really important to get off to a good start,” said Culbertson. “Bellefontaine can put a death grip on you with their defense, so it was nice to come out and hit some shots.” Two more three-pointers at the start of the third quarter put the Arrows up 10 points at 31-21. Bellefontaine then went on its best stretch of the night to climb back into the game. The Chiefs rattled off eight straight points to cut their deficit to three (31-28) with 2:42 remaining in the third period. Tecumseh was able to push its lead to five at the end of the third quarter and a three-pointer by Dalton Davis at the start of the fourth quarter put the Arrows ahead by eight (38-30). Bellefontaine closed to within four points (41-37) with 1:15 remaining, but the Chiefs did not score again. The Chiefs shot just 2-of-10 from the field in the fourth quarter and finished 14-of-37 (38 percent) overall. “We went cold in the fourth quarter,” said Stolly. “They went to a bit of a different defense and that slowed us down. We just couldn’t get over the hump in the second half.” Stolly was hoping to send his four seniors out with a win in their last home game, but it was not meant to be against the hot shooting Arrows. “I was going to be proud of our seniors regardless of the outcome,” said Stolly. “They have led by example all season. They are all quality young men.” Senior center Logan Mitchell led Bellefontaine with 10 points. Sophomore forward Max Oyer had eight points and 12 rebounds and Matt Gump and Jake Kennedy added six points each. “I thought Max played very well on the boards,” said Stolly. “He played with a lot of energy.” Davis led the Arrows with a game-high 14 points. In the junior varsity game, Bellefontaine won 41-26. Daniel Boy led the Chiefs with 23 points. Bellefontaine won the freshman contest 54-22. Jacob Rogan paced Bellefontaine with 24 points. Bellefontaine returns to action Tuesday at Elida. TECUMSEH 45, BELLEFONTAINE 37 TECUMSEH (17-3, 7-2) Wardley 3 0-0 9; Davis 3 5-6 14; McFarland 3 1-2 7; Winans-Berner 3 1-2 10; Quisenberry 1 0-1 2; Clark 1 0-2 3. Totals: 14 7-13 45. BELLEFONTAINE (10-9, 3-6) Gump 2 0-0 6; Oyer 3 2-4 8; Kennedy 2 0-0 6; Tillman 0 2-2 2; Wisner 1 0-0 2; S. Gorham 1 0-0 3; L. Mitchell 5 0-0 10. Totals: 14 4-6 37. Arrows 12 13 10 10 — 45 Chiefs 13 8 9 7 — 37 Three pointers: Tecumseh 10 (Winans-Berner 3, Davis 3, Wardley 3, Clark); Bellefontaine 5 (Gump 2, Kennedy 2, S. Gorham). Rebounds: Bellefontaine 22 (Oyer 12). Assists: Bellefontaine 11 (Tillman 4). Steals: Bellefontaine 9. Turnovers: Tecumseh 11; Bellefontaine 8. Team fouls: Tecumseh 11; Bellefontaine 14.
Sunday, December 04, 2005 Wednesday, October 06, 2004 Burnout 3: Takedown They've done good with this game, making a driving game where crashing is actually fun. Friday, February 13, 2004 Press Coverage of Castaway Entertainment Monday, February 09, 2004 Stanford Conference on Storytelling in Games On Friday I attended a conference at Stanford on Storytelling in Games. Will Wright, the creator/designer of SimCity, giving a lecture on why he hates stories within games. Gamespot also covered the Stanford Conference. Friday, January 23, 2004 More on Breaking In Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 This ought to be interesting... On one hand, I only know of one games studio that has managed to make good on studio licenses -- Akklaim. Almost every other studio has botched it, although EA is doing very well with the Lord of the Rings license. Breaking In, Part II I generally don't like these things, because, having already been in the industry for a while, I don't think they benefit the attendees a whole lot. I think you get a lot more out of just talking to guys already in the industry, who can do a lot more for you than some speakers... but if you need inspiration, or want to network, then I think this can be valuable.
Joined: Wed July 15th, 2009, 01:16 GMT Location: ..right behind the living - just in front of the dead. \|..Obviously, i missed the point with my last post in this thread - by a country mile. i thought i might try and make up for that one... = Here's a few lines from 3 different Bobsongs, and i thought together they said something special ... .. Now I’ve always been the kind of person that doesn’t like to trespass, but - sometimes you just find yourself over the line ..Some things just last longer than you thought they would, And they never, ever explain.. - I’ve been dreamin’ of you, that’s all I do .. I could be dreaming but I keep believing you’re the one I’m livin’ for... And I will always be emotionally yours.'Brownsville Girl' 'Dreamin' of You'
A former Oro Valley restaurateur was released from jail last Wednesday, nearly two weeks after his arrest on federal drug charges. Ollie Shouse, 49, former owner of Torino Ristorante at 10355 N. La Cañada Drive, was arrested June 12 along with five other people in connection with a marijuana trafficking operation, according to federal court documents. On June 25, Shouse posted a $10,000 bond for his release. The court ordered him to check in to a substance abuse treatment facility pending trial. Federal investigators say Shouse and the other suspected traffickers have transported as much as 25 tons of marijuana to the East Coast dating to 2001. Tucson residents Guilio F. Esposito, Michael W. Hamblen, Julia A. Relford and Walter K. Riedesel were also implicated in a federal complaint. Oro Valley resident Ruben P. Contreras was arrested along with the others on June 12. He was released on a $50,000 bond on June 18. According to a federal complaint, suspicion first fell on the group in August 2006 when an unnamed source told Drug Enforcement Agency officials that several loads of cash sent from the East Coast to pay for the marijuana had gone missing. Last October, DEA agents intercepted a $398,375 cash shipment intended for Shouse, according to the complaint. Agents conducting surveillance saw Shouse and the other suspects at a Tucson-area warehouse. According to the complaint, a semi-truck also was seen at the warehouse and later stopped by Arizona Department of Public Safety officers who found 749 pounds of marijuana on board. Esposito was identified as the renter of the warehouse, according to the document. Federal authorities said that when they arrested Shouse he had several “drug ledgers” in his car. Attorneys for Shouse and Contreras did not return phone calls requesting interviews. Trial dates have been scheduled for members of the suspected drug-trafficking ring.
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Dunk Of The Year? D-League Guard Throws Down Over 7-Foot-5 Defender Chris Roberts climbed the ladder to posterize Will Foster There’s been no shortage of highlight-reel dunks in the NBA recently — Kobe Bryant’s turn-back-the-clock flush last month stands out — but few more impressive than what Chris Roberts pulled off in the NBA Development League on Wednesday. The 6-foot-4 guard for the Austin Toros drove the lane and threw down a fierce one-hander over 7-foot-5 Will Foster of Sioux Falls Skyforce. Nothing minor-league about this.
Saturday, October 25, 2008 Welcome to our latest edition of Eye on the Paranormal. If you’re a fan of Paranormal State and are completely and truly convinced that everything you see on it is real, then be warned that you’ll read only facts here. This week we will do all of Season 2 in preparation for Issue 8 where a PRS insider tells their story. It had been my original plan to close the Eye after next week. But due to an overwhelming demand I’ve put off closing it for a while, now. On Saturday, November 8, I will take an up close look at Paranormal State’s latest episode entitled “I Am Six” which focuses on an exorcism performed on a young lady. A reader sent me part of the episode, which I have viewed, and there are things that concern me. After that, I will spotlight the first season of “Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal.” I, along with numerous others, have had concerns about how things were presented, along with the endangerment of the children who appeared on the show. The entire series deserves a thorough analysis, which should take a couple of weeks. So that should ensure at least four more editions of the Eye on the Paranormal after this week. Please read the entire blog, as there are two major announcements at the very end. Each week we post questions that we would love PRS (Paranormal Research Society) to answer. But we know they never will. You, my reading audience, are invited to send in questions and we will gladly post them in the following week’s issue. Please send them to my MySpace page email. And please don’t hold your breath waiting for an answer. Here are the questions so far. ~ As a team, how many cases did PRS investigate off-campus prior to the start of the series? ~ How many cases does PRS investigate on a yearly basis, not including those for the TV series? ~ If you do investigate without the cameras rolling, how often do you invite para-celebrities to take part in such investigations? Or are they only there to make an appearance on the show? ~ What kind of training did Ryan Buell receive in demonology, and how was it that he became active with the local archdiocese? ~ What happened to the people who were part of PRS in the pilot episode but mysteriously disappeared from the series? ~ Why doesn’t PRS feature any of the new kids from the campus club on their current season? ~ Why doesn’t Chip Coffey or PRS do any events that we don’t have to pay to see? ~ Everyone knows that the Frank Box is a fake—why did Ryan Buell use it on the show and continue to stand behind the validity of the device? ~ What happened to the “Lady Vampire” episode? Why did A&E pull it from the broadcast schedule? ~ I noticed that Chip Coffey is doing reading via phone and ask that you send in question before speaking with him...very odd. Shouldn't this be a spontaneous reading? ~ Why are Dead Times routinely filmed before midnight? ~ Why did they change the name of the Requiem episode to Boy and the Barn? THE MIND OF A “PARANORMAL STATE” ZOMBIE: Throughout the past week we have kept an “eye” on a particular thread on Paranormal State’s Forum, located in the General Discussion topic area, entitled “The Next Round of Controversy” where there’s a dialogue over the ongoing effort of you know who. It’s simply amazing to read some of the arguments that the zombie faithful presented over there to anyone that might express support for our efforts or dare question Chip and Ryan. Here are eight varied answers to the question, “Aren’t you concerned that Paranormal State is fake?” ~1 No. Because sometimes TV is fake and sometimes it’s real. And sometimes it’s real, and sometimes it’s fake and if I enjoy it then it doesn’t really matter. ~2 What’s the matter? We all get lied to sometimes! ~3 Hey it’s Dead Time someplace in the world. Every hour the clock strikes 3 AM somewhere. ~4 The clocks are all wrong in the people’s houses. They don’t know how to set them. ~5 Those clocks aren’t real they’re all an optical illusion and they don’t exist. ~6 Chip and Ryan just can’t lie -- they’re Chip and Ryan. ~7 The cases are real but the shows are fake so you can’t get mad at what PRS does. ~8 It’s not PRS’s or Ryan’s fault they turn the episodes over to A&E. A&E re-edits them and messes everything up. So folks, as you can see, zombies just aren’t found on the big screen, they’re found looking over at the Paranormal State forums, too! ANALYSIS OF PARANORMAL STATE SEASON 2, EPISODES 21 - 32 We now do an episode-by-episode overview of season 2. As we do, the numerous para-celebrities that make an appearance on the show will be added to the Paranormal Moment of Truth Challenge each week. In this issue, several more names have been added. GOOD VS. EVIL – Episode 21 This case concerns a couple by the name of Henry and Sandy who reside in Washington, Pennsylvania. They claim that over the past several months, weird and mysterious activity has been taking place. Lights and electrical equipment turn on and off at free will. All religious items are thrown around the house uncontrollably. Someone tapped into their bank account. Someone’s been leaving frozen cats and rats in the yard. And Henry hit his head on the headboard of the bed. Now it’s interesting to note that while the PRS team is in the house, that none of these things ever happen. It’s also intriguing that while Ryan is first interviewing the family, it’s clearly nighttime outside, there’s a quick outside shot prior to Dead Time, and the sun is just starting to set. We’re back on the Time Machine again, in Season 2. A new para-celebrity is added to our list – Chad Calek. Chad, a tech expert, who according to Ryan, has some quite interesting techniques for ghost investigating. But throughout the episode all he can do is sit around and yell at the ghosts. Dead Time arrives at 3 AM, right? Wrong! Look at the clock behind Ryan and it reads 12:34. Which in actuality is a good thing because they’re able to do a second Dead Time in the same night. Ryan hears voices but no one else does. Noises in the woods at nighttime, shadows dark at nighttime, gotta be proof of paranormal activity, right? When Psychic/Medium Chip Coffey arrives on the scene he is wearing a leather jacket. He steps through the door and, voila, the leather jacket is gone! Notice the first scene in the basement, Chip is taking a look at his script prior to talking. And if Chip is so frightened while in the basement that he wants to get out, why he would say, “Let’s return at night I bet you some interesting things are going to happen.” Was that in the script? Chip then has to throw around the term Santeria which is never proven in the entire episode, only voodoo activity. Santeria is much different than voodoo. Now that wouldn’t be production notes that Chip is going over in the living room, would it? Then Ryan is interviewing the couple again, no wait, it’s from the day before, and he is asking about things that 24 hours later Chip was bringing up. In addition, note that when Ryan and Chip are talking in the living room the lead in shot is down a long hallway. As the camera draws near suddenly day turns to night. The voodoo doll just happens to be lying in an area where Ryan has to reach in and unerringly finds it. Another para-celebrity is added when Michelle Belanger is called on for advice concerning the voodoo doll. Now why didn’t they ask Eilfie, their ever-trusty occult specialist about voodoo dolls? They are not deep, dark secrets, and information about them is readily accessible to anyone. The second Dead Time is an active time for Chip, Chad, and Ryan. Many things in the basement move! Off camera. Things are seen! Off camera. There’s even a growl. Or is it someone’s stomach? They try to manipulate our emotions by shooting in an eerie style but wait a minute, folks, does the second dead time happen to take place at 3 AM? According to their own computer screens it’s happening between one and two, which means, more than likely they filmed both Dead Times in one night. If there were actually a demon in the house, which there wasn’t, the house blessing that was performed would have done little more than piss it off. And isn’t it interesting that in the final hours of Investigation - Day 3, Ryan is wearing the same shirt that he wore in the beginning of Investigation - Day 1. Two side notes concerning Season 2: Our man Chip Coffey seems to want more of a center stage role than what he played in the first season. We are still in the process of verifying this, our phone calls have yet to be returned, but Henry and Sandy are now experiencing so–called demonic activity at an even more intense level than what they initially reported. FAMILY TIES – Episode 22 This case concerns a family located in Petersburg, Virginia. Parker and Ginny are the parents, and Jimmy is their grown son. Jimmy also happens to be a ghost hunter, although we’re never informed of that during the episode. The claims of the family are that images are seen in the upper floors of a home that is being remodeled. This episode really doesn’t belong in the paranormal field, but under the field of family counseling. It’s clear that there are emotional issues here that are possibly the root cause of the family members seeing what they have seen. Of course this is never suggested because it’s not as tantalizing as events being paranormal. Things to be watching for are: 1) Ryan’s jacket appearing and disappearing. 2) Ryan’s dark shirt suddenly turning into a t-shirt, and back to a dark shirt once again. Psychic/Medium C.J. Sellers shows up and as she wanders through the house we receive such insightful readings from her as: “I see a little girl!” “I see photos!” and, “somebody in this house could have been shot, killed or committed suicide.” Being in a house that’s well over 100 years old you stand a great chance of any of those three types of deaths happening within the law of averages. Notice on Investigation – Day 2 that both Parker and Ryan are wearing the same clothing from the day before. The infamous Dead Time was not done on the night of the second day, but the evening of the first day – look at all the clothing that is being worn. HAUNTED RANCH – Episode 23 This case certainly reminded viewers of the “Shape Shifter” episode from Season 1 and if you watch the two episodes back to back you’ll see very similar elements. A retired military couple, Roger and Janet, down in Hunt, Texas, claim that something mysterious is coming out of the woods and attacking and killing their livestock. It’s interesting to watch Ryan’s sunglasses appear and reappear on his head Why does Janet bring up Indian spirits and something has been disturbed when the PRS team first arrives and this information doesn’t come out until more than 24 hours later? Chip Coffey arrives and as he walks through the house, which, don’t forget, is down in Texas, and he picks up on Native American spirits. Don’t forget, Chip, you are in Texas. Notice as Chip and Ryan summon their courage and decide to enter the woods on their own. Seems like they’re walking towards a camera, which means that a camera crew had to go in the same area before they did. It was not a spontaneous act but a planned act. And Chip’s sixth sense is really on overdrive this evening because he says there’s something in the woods! Eilfie and Katrina go to the library and later when asked what they learned, Eilfie informs the team that Roger had been cutting down cedar trees on the property. I am very familiar with libraries; I spend as much time in them as I can. Unfortunately, I’ve never come across the reference book that lists who cut down what trees on what property! How on earth could anyone learn this at the library? Watch on Investigation – Day 2 as suddenly Ryan’s clothes change back into those he was wearing on Day 1. Dead Time produces little in the way of activity other than a couple of verbal warnings to look for moving objects. But after all the forewarnings, a chair moves! Or as Chip phrases it, “nudging.” A chair does not nudge, but a person nudges a chair. Was it a Freudian slip by Chip? And our dedicated team of investigators re-enacted the scene for us to prove the “paranormal activity.” But the camera is oddly out of focus. It would have been extremely easy for Chip to nudge the chair with his foot. SMOKE & SHADOWS – Episode 24 Dennis and Sarah share a home in Parkville, Maryland. They claim that there is wild poltergeist activity within the home; they even produce photographic evidence of such. Within the entire time the PRS team was in the house we see nothing that matches any of the alleged activity. Somebody better contact the Penn State Department of Engineering and enroll the PRS tech crew there. Incredibly, they make the statement that copper can’t conduct electricity, which is totally untrue. When Chip is doing his initial walk-through it sounds as if Chip is reading a list and not speaking fluidly. Notice during Dead Time that nothing happens outside of where both Chip and Ryan are located and what they alleged to happen are nothing but parlor tricks that were conducted at spiritualist séances back in the early 1900s. LADY VAMPIRE – Episode 25 [unaired] This is probably one of the most controversial episodes and yet most secretive episodes that has been filmed to date. Out of respect for the five-year-old girl, I’m not going to analyze this episode. But I do have two questions. ~1 Why did A&E pull the episode two times from its scheduled Monday night airing? ~2 Why is the PRS forum silent about this episode? HELL’S GATE – Episode 26 In York, Pennsylvania Wes and Jen and their three kids are being terrorized by dark forces. During the first series of interviews Ryan’s shirts change. When Chip Coffey arrives it’s daytime and while he walks around the house you clearly see it’s night. Then when Chip rushes out of the home it’s daylight again. We are introduced to a new device called the Ovilus, which is clearly just one more overpriced [$199.00] gimmick to talk to spirits. Like the phone to the dead. Supposedly, they induce the demon to say “sorry.” Demons don’t have that word within their vocabulary because they can’t conceive of such a concept. In addition, a demon does not need any type of device to talk to someone. If you are in the presence of a demon you will clearly be able to hear its voice. Out of respect for Wes and his family and the trauma that he has gone through, and is still going through, due to the possession, I am not going to over analyze this episode. But suffice it to say, that if you pretend to deal with such things, eventually you will stumble onto the real thing and luckily there was a priest on hand. THE LADDER – Episode 27 We go to Shrewsbury, Massachusetts to meet Sandy, who’s the caretaker of her family’s home, which has a long history of ghostly activity. The family is preparing to sell the home and Sandy is concerned about what will happen to the ghost. Sandy clearly comes across as an emotionally troubled individual. Watch her body language as the PRS team drives up. Also, she repeatedly says, “Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God!” That is often the sign of a troubled person. Additionally, she has an emotional bond with the ghost because the ghost is her man. 3:15 PM they are doing family interviews yet it’s dark in some scenes and light in others. Some of the family members have had frightening encounters with the entity, it’s apparent that there’s more than one entity, but the team never follow up on that. We are led to believe that the family had been in the home since 1965, which is 43 years, and nobody once has ever asked about the property’s history. Sandy’s stories seem to change when it comes to the number and how often she has dreamed of Edwards the ghost. We add to our growing list of para-celebrities who’ve appeared on Paranormal State, Psychic/Mediums Michael and Marti Parry. Listen to what Michael says as he is in Sandy’s childhood bedroom: “When I got to the top of the stairs they told me to go to the first room on the left.” Is he referring to the off camera presence at the top of the stairs? He notes “bangs, knocking, man here…” he must’ve really been under Chip‘s tutelage as his gifts are working full blast. But even more amazing is when he’s talking to Ryan and Sandy. Michael first holds a small notebook in his hands and then suddenly it changes into note cards! From the producers, maybe? Talking points, probably. Which is why he says about Edwards, “he fell off the roof.” When Eilfie goes off to the library to do her investigation she is wearing one outfit but when she arrives to tell Ryan her finding of how Edwards died, she is wearing a different outfit and Ryan is wearing the same outfit from the first day. They knew who Edwards was and how he died on Day 1. They told the Parrys the whole story on the first day. The Parrys just repeated the story on the evening of the first day. This is what is called a Gotcha moment! It gets even worse for the show. You see the interview with Sandy when Ryan asks her how Edwards died from Day 1 and Sandy then tries to act surprised when the Parrys bring it up on the evening of Day 1. When Sandy has the portrait drawn, notice her body language; the portrait and the ghost have become the man that she is in love with in her mind. No attempt by the team is ever shown of verifying who is this Edwards? Dead Time doesn’t take place on Day 3 but probably on the evening of Day 1. Of course there is little that happens that we see directly, notice Heather’s reaction to the noise in the basement and one would have to wonder how does Sandy know where the noise was taking place that Heather heard? THE MESSENGER – Episode 28 In Oregon, Kelli and Riley purchased a home and since they have moved in they have noticed ghosts running around, including one with no head. It tosses things around the kitchen, which is never followed up on. Why does Ryan stop and look at himself in the bathroom mirror? Not just a short passing glance, but a gazing, loving look at his image? When Ryan interviews the couple separately, day changes into night, night into day, and his clothing also changes. Michelle Belanger arrives to supposedly create a vortex of energy, but after many viewings I don’t understand what the heck she is talking about or even doing there. Dead Time #1 doesn’t take place at 3 AM they get an early jump and it goes from 1 AM to 2 AM, not sure when Dead Time #2 takes place but the only thing that comes from that is that Chip and Ryan claim they see an image on the bed. Of course we never do. HIDE & SEEK – Episode 29 Again, in respect to the fact that a child is involved in this case, I will refrain from a thorough analysis. But there are three points that I will note here: ~1 Psychic Kim Russo develops a story concerning an adult male who not only sexually molested a little girl by the name of Abigail, but killed her. There is even an implication that he did this more than once. This was all said and done with no factual basis whatsoever outside of her feeling that people played hide and seek within the house. ~2 EVP experts Mark & Debby Constantino really produced no measurable results in their extensive EVP session. ~3 Ryan’s growing obsession with using the term shadow man or dark man as in reference to the Season 1’s Dark man episode, the Messenger in Season 2, and of course in this episode. THE GLOVE – Episode 30 We meet a young couple, Eric and Lisa, and their three children who live in Daisytown, Pennsylvania. The case concerns the appearance of a male figure within the house that seems threatening to the females there. Joining the cast of intrepid investigators are Chad Calek and Michelle Belanger. Michelle proves that she attended the Chip Coffey School of Obvious Psychic Readings. It’s extremely easy to understand how she came up with what she comes up with, because she’s in the heart of coalmining country. She talks of a strict disciplinarian, alcoholic male figure, which is not a stretch of the imagination. We are quickly introduced to our first piece of fake evidence of a gloved handprint on the wall. Notice how Michelle sells this, as to the way in which she stands against the wall. This is a very uncomfortable, as well as unnatural, stance. She emphasizes that her hands are planted firmly against the wall far lower than the gloved handprint. So you have Michelle playing her part in the con. Chad plays his role as the enthusiastic expert by emphasizing how large the handprint is and how Michelle couldn’t have possibly been responsible for its appearance. So, our intrepid team of inquisitive researchers reenacted the event. If a person places their hand in an oversized glove and grasps something that is cold, such as a can or bottle of beer, soda, or water, holds it for an extended period of time, then presses it firmly against the wall, allowing that area to absorb the cold, then quickly videotape it, you’ll produce the same result. The second piece of fake evidence is a series of broken lights during Dead Time, or so we are told they break. We don’t actually see them. Closely observe Michelle’s head when the glass begins to break -- it’s a reaction of a person who is anticipating the event. Actually it’s only one glass breaking, they replay the same sound twice and just shoot the glass from a different angle. THE FIRE – Episode 31 After repeatedly watching this episode our team decided the best thing to say about this is to say nothing. Because northing happens. It’s simply a repeat of the Vegas episode of Season 1 where you had a murder victim coming to you and nobody even bothers to ask the victim directly three simple words: who killed you? Enough said. FIRST CONTACT – Episode 32 PRS visits the famous Gilliland Ranch in Trout Lake, Washington known for UFO and possible alien as well Sasquatch contact points. Yes, you too can pay several hundred bucks to sit in the dark on plastic chairs out in the middle of the woods and watch things fly around the sky that may or may not be UFO’s at all. Ryan Buell keeps using the term “Paranormal Central.” Do they have angels, demons, poltergeists, and leprechauns floating around? We are told by the owner, James Gilliland, that some high ranking government officials and folks that not only have one, not only two, but three PhD’s have visited the ranch and said that everything there defied explanation. Now of course we couldn’t get any names, not three, two, one, just zero. David Schrader, ghost hunter and Internet radio talk show host on Darkness Radio, claims that things have happened to him at the Gilliland Ranch. Of course there’s no evidence like photos or proof of sightings of aliens or Sasquatch. We keep hearing the phrase “I am not the only one” repeated time after time in this episode. Could this be an upcoming paranormal song in the making? Chad Calek tags along so he can try to intimidate the spacecraft into responding to his commands. Next, we learn that if the unidentified object in the sky is not on the NASA web site then it’s proof that it’s an alien spacecraft. Can anyone say top-secret government satellites? Of course there has to be something sighted in the woods, and as always, nothing is found. A dazed and confused Psychic/Medium Chip Coffey drives up in a car where he is the sole occupant and he has “NO IDEA” where he is at. So how did he get there? Now why not do Dead Time at 3 AM? No wait, they’re more used to doing it at ten or eleven. We learn that alien spacecraft love hearing drums. Or do they assume the occupants of the alien spacecraft respond to drumming noises? Then shouldn’t they be hanging out at parade routes, football games, rock & roll concerts, and strip clubs? If they’re so attracted to the positive activity that was taking place, why didn’t any of them come closer to the participants? So readers, we have come to the end of our journey. Season 1 and 2 are done. OK, now it’s time for the big announcements that I’ve promised. ~ I’ve promised you a Paranormal State insider that was going to tell the truth. Many have said I can’t produce such a person[s] and even PRS has said on their forum that I have been lying. Well, the whole world can hear the insider for themselves this coming Wednesday, October 29 at 10 PM Central time on the Ghost Divas Para-X radio show online. Both the insider and myself will be on the show exposing the whole sad story. ~ Chip Coffey and Ryan Buell will be receiving personal invitations to appear on the show, so they might be able to explain their conduct and the conduct of PRS. In closing, for all those who have been contacting me and talking off the record, I hope you now can see that you’re not alone and that there are others who have been used as well by the hands of other people’s quests for fame and fortune. THE PARANORMAL MOMENT OF TRUTH CHALLENGE Dear Ryan Buell, Chip Coffey, Lorraine Warren, Sandra & Keith Johnson, Dr. Ron Milione, Tony Spera, Shannon & Jeff Sylvia, C.J. Sellers, Chris Moon, Michelle Belanger, Chad Calek, Michael & Marti Parry, Mark & Debby Constantino, Kim Russo, and David Schrader: I have expressed concerns about how you conduct your investigations and the validity of those investigations, where anyone with a clear and discerning eye can see that they are not authentic. I have also witnessed heavy-handed tactics being used against people who question your alleged authority within the paranormal community and dared to raise questions concerning the validity of appearing on the A&E shows, Paranormal State, and Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal. I can no longer sit by in silence. That is why I came up with The Paranormal Moment of Truth Challenge, which will benefit you, your organization, the paranormal field, and a charity that would be assisted from the donation of the prize money. 1 ~ It would silence your critics if you are determined to be telling the truth about all your claims and how they are presented. There can be no one left to challenge your honesty and integrity. 2 ~ It would not only benefit your organization, but it would also help the entire paranormal field. Because if such evidence is true, it will be brought to a much wider audience, which hopefully would fuel additional legitimate investigations. So it’s a win-win situation for everyone. 3 ~ The charity of your choice would have the prize money donated to them. If the truth is being told, that prize money could reach $500,000. So, what is The Paranormal Moment of Truth Challenge? I am sure you’ve heard of the Fox Network program entitled The Moment of Truth. This is where a contestant is hooked up to a lie detector test and asked 50 questions, of which 21 of them are used on the actual show. As long as you tell the truth, you keep on winning money -- up to $500,000. The production company, Lighthearted Entertainment Inc., would jump at an opportunity of doing a show with the two of you. And I will put my personal credibility on the line and appear, as well. For if you visit my Free All Spirits page (www.myspace.com/freeallspirits), you’ll notice that I personally make what some would call outlandish claims concerning my work as a Demonologist/Exorcist/Paranormal Investigator/Caring Spiritual Adviser. If you would like to be "one step closer to the truth" then this is a way to achieve your goal. If interested, please contact me at this email address and I will get the ball rolling as soon as possible. Your friend in spirit, To date, this is the response that I’ve received from them. Why not do the show? Only you, the paranormal field, and a charity of your choice would benefit. INFORMATION REQUEST: If anyone wants to share any information with their experiences involving the PRS, Ryan Buell, Chip Coffey, and any other para-celebrity that has made an appearance on Paranormal State, whether it is good or bad, I would like to read it. Your confidentiality is 100% guaranteed. NOTE: Please feel free to copy and paste this and place it all over the web. And, unlike any of my other blogs, you can even repost this under your own name!
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PHP is much better than you think July 04, 2012 Rants about PHP are everywhere, and they even come from smart guys. When Jeff Atwood wrote yet another rant about PHP, it made me think about the good parts of PHP. The biggest problem of these rants is that they come from people stuck in the old days of PHP. They either don't care or they don't want to admit that PHP actually evolves at a very fast pace, both at the language level but also at the community level. In fact, it evolves much faster than any other language or web platform. It has not always been the case, but the last 5 years have been an amazing journey for PHP. Before talking about the amazing things the PHP community has achieved recently, let's have a look at some interesting numbers: PHP is used by 77.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language is known. WordPress is used by 16.6% of all the websites in the world. If you have a look at the top three CMSes, for the websites that use a monitored content management system: Wordpress is first with 54.3%, Joomla is second with 9.2%, and Drupal is third with 6.8%. Three products written in PHP. PHP must have done something right, no? Now, let me tell you a secret, the PHP "tour de force": Despite the changes over the years, PHP is still the easiest language to learn for non-technical people: it allows anyone to create dynamic websites faster than with any other technologies, it allows anyone to host websites cheaply and without any hassles. PHP is probably not the best designed language in the world, but it lets you get things done, and you can't argue with that. PHP, the Language PHP 5.0 (released in 2004) brought us a very solid object model... wait a minute, I'm talking about something released almost 8 years ago. Fast forward now. The latest PHP release, PHP 5.4, comes with all the bells and whistles you might dream of in a modern web language: yes, PHP supports namespaces; yes, PHP supports closures; yes, PHP supports traits. It took some time, but PHP 5.4 also comes with some nice syntactic sugar that makes the whole experience better than ever: yes, PHP supports to define arrays; yes, PHP supports calling a method on a newly created object ( Foo())->bar()); yes, PHP supports getting an array item from any expression PHP has even learned from its mistakes: are definitely gone. Last, but not the least, PHP even comes with a built-in web server that eases local testing... and it starts in a matter of micro-seconds. Next challenges: How do we "upgrade" all the old tutorials talking about PHP on the web? What is the best way to support the WebSocket technology in a PHP application? PHP, the Ecosystem Having a good language is great, but having a great ecosystem is even better. And the PHP ecosystem has evolved a lot in the last few years. I won't talk too much about this one. Git is everywhere and PHP embraced Git pretty fast. Almost all major PHP libraries, frameworks, and products are now using Git, including PHP itself. Two years ago, I wanted to get rid of my ugly-PEAR-hack I did in symfony 1 to support plugins. I wanted to replace it with something that was able to manage project dependencies, not a global installer like PEAR. Managing dependencies is not an easy task, so I tried to find the best algorithm to manage software dependencies; I had a look at everything: from Perl to Ruby, from Debian to Redhat. Nothing was satisfactory: only homegrown solutions that happen to work... empirically. Then, I stumbled upon ZYpp. That was it. ZYpp uses a SAT solver to manage dependencies. Fast forward. Thanks to the hard work of Nils Adermann and Jordi Boggiano, PHP now has one of the best dependency manager, Composer. Yes, PHP has a better dependency manager than any other languages. And thanks to Git, Composer, and the PHP built-in web server, it has never been easier to download/install/test a PHP project. Want to test Symfony (using PHP 5.4)? $ composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition $ cd framework-standard-edition $ ./app/console server:run Want to test Silex? $ composer.phar create-project fabpot/silex-skeleton $ cd silex-skeleton $ php -S localhost:8888 -t web/ Don't know Composer yet? You should learn about it. Browse Packagist, the main Composer repository: it already has 1900+ packages available and they have been installed more than a million times in less than 3 months. Next challenge: include the Composer installer in the next PHP version? Community collaboration is the most important point of this post; the one I'm the most proud of. We start to see better collaboration between PHP projects, even from the very big ones, the ones you would think are large enough to not care about the others. phpBB, Drupal, eZ Publish, Symfony, and many others (phpDocumentor, PHPUnit, Behat, Zikula, Propel, Doctrine, Midgard, ...) are sharing code. Yes, they are "competitors" but they all understood that cross-pollination was a good thing. And Composer is a good enabler. Next challenge: Convince even more projects to join the trend. Let me say it again: PHP is probably not the best language out there, and I'm the first one to scream about its quirks, but PHP is the best web platform... ever.
I would like to use the Google Voice Recognition / Speech API on my iOS app. Someone have idea how I can do it? It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, see the FAQ.
Edit for the bounty: Bragging is an essential part of any game, including online games. In my web game I want to enable users to brag on Facebook when they win, but I don't want them to be able to forge some post and send via my application, what would allow them to brag without actually winning. They may only publish something via my application if I actually allow them to do (I can only imagine some way to ensure this by using some authenticated server side API). https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed? app_id=123050457758183& link=https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/& picture=http://fbrell.com/f8.jpg& name=Facebook%20Dialogs& caption=Reference%20Documentation& description=Using%20Dialogs%20to%20interact%20with%20users.& redirect_uri=http://www.example.com/response The problem is that I was unable to forge such request for an existing application, like Robot Unicorn Attack : Evolution. Thus, either 1) I don't know how to forge a request to this application and that is still possible and there is no safety or 2) it is possible to prevent client side exploitation of the Facebook's API, and I don't know how to do this on my application. So, for the bounty sake, I will consider a proper answer either 1) some proof that it is always possible to forge a post on behalf of some application, and by that I would require a way to post whatever I want on behalf of Robot Unicorn Attack : Evolution, or 2) a way to prevent users to forge feed posts on behalf of my application, in a way I can no longer do it without having server-side only information.
Originally Posted by Takon Orlani Not making all of them, just the Applejack. And by "quantity of each" I meant how much of each drink should I put in to make one Applejack. And we'll probably get it in a pub. The guy drinking it doesn't like many drinks, but he does like cider and southern comfort, so he said he'd give this a go.
As America heads toward a critical presidential election, “free trade” advocate Robert Reich, who as Bill Clinton’s labor secretary in 1993 fought hard for passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), glumly admitted that the constituency for “free trade” has severely eroded. “I’m still a free trader, although I will tell you . . . there are fewer and fewer of us,” he told MSNBC host Chris Matthews wanly (Hardball, 10/8/07). “It’s a very unpopular position.” Unpopular with the public, but certainly not the media. Leading pundits and editorial writers for corporate media have persisted in counseling Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama that victory will be achieved through embracing precisely this “very unpopular” position—advice consistent with the usual election-year counsel to Democrats to shift to the right (Extra!, 7-8/06). ‘You can’t go there’ The lack of popular support for “free trade” can be traced to its most visible and visceral effects: the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs, the decline of industrial communities and the downward pressure on American wages. Moreover, the devastating economic and social effects of trade pacts have been felt most severely by constituencies among which Obama will need to reverse recent erosions of Democratic support (blue-collar voters and moderate and low-income evangelicals) and increase previously low turnouts (Latinos). In 1999, six years after NAFTA’s ratification, a remarkable 47 percent of the workers certified as having lost their jobs due to the trade deal’s impact were U.S. Latinos (Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and Public Citizen, 8/04), suggesting that a powerful attack on “free trade” would help Obama to activate Latino voters. Obama’s career has been marked by an acute level of ambivalence on trade issues. At one point, Obama served as a community organizer on Chicago’s South Side among workers displaced by corporate outsourcing and U.S. trade policies, and he voiced sharp anti-“free trade” rhetoric in the Democratic primaries, calling for renegotiation of NAFTA and other trade deals. But in late 2007 the New York Times editorial board (12/23/07) was heartened by a speech in New Hampshire in which Obama declared, “Global trade is not going away, technology is not going away, the Internet is not going away.” The Times hailed Obama for “offer[ing] the most resistance to the easy path of blaming imports from foreign countries for the woes of the American middle class.” During the primaries, USA Today (4/9/08) denounced the Democratic candidates’ “willingness to pander on free trade—and their party’s growing willingness to accept the labor movement’s defeatist anti-trade positions.” A Seattle Times editorial (4/3/08) noted that the paper had endorsed Obama, but demanded that he “must state that he will not backtrack on trade.” After sewing up the nomination, Obama quickly declared himself to be a “pro-growth, free-market guy” who “love[s] the market” (CNBC, 6/10/08). He reinforced that image by appointing Jason Furman, director of the pro-“free trade” Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, as his chief economic adviser (New York Times, 6/12/08). A few days later, Obama was quoted in a Fortune interview (7/7/08) saying that the anti-NAFTA rhetoric during the primaries had become “overheated and amplified.” Such comments have delighted journalists like the Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer (6/27/08): NBC foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell (MSNBC, 7/1/08) flatly declared that “the kinds of conditions that he has promised labor he would try to negotiate are really non-starters”—conditions like strong labor and environmental standards—“because once you open up these trade agreements—if you were to reopen NAFTA, for instance—all bets would be off. You can’t go there.” The media case for ‘free trade’ The New York Times’ Roger Lowenstein (6/15/08) offered one of the more comprehensive arguments for why Obama should move to the “center” on corporate globalization. Obama’s stance on trade in the general campaign will be a fundamental test of his political and economic acumen, he argued: According to Political Science 101, candidates run to extremes in primary season and crowd the center in November. A good test will be whether the apparent Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, tries to reclaim a moderate position on trade. Lowenstein flippantly dismissed the anti-“free trade” and anti-NAFTA points advanced in the primary by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as beneath serious consideration: “Given that most economists think NAFTA, and trade deals like it, have been good for the country, their pandering to the opponents of trade was faintly humorous.” Lowenstein chose to ignore a growing chorus of influential economists, including Nobel Prize-winner and former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz, Princeton professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and MIT’s Paul Samuelson, who have begun to challenge a once-solid consensus on “free trade” in the abstract. Lowenstein did point to one member of that chorus of critical economists, Harvard’s Dani Rodrik, but only to buttress his argument, claiming that “even Dani Rodrik . . . who, like Hillary Clinton, favors a time-out on new trade deals, isn’t antitrade.” Rodrik responded vexedly on his blog (6/14/08): I could have tried to explain how meaningless this characterization is: You can be anti-WTO, anti-trade agreements, antifree trade, but anti-trade? I don’t know of a single soul who wants to move the U.S. to autarky. Lowenstein acknowledged that “the supposed consensus [on trade] was never so broad” as it seemed, but he attributed a good portion of the growing dissatisfaction to general economic problems during the Bush years. This resentment against trade agreements is misplaced, he wrote: “Since poorer Americans spend a higher proportion of their incomes on low-wage imports (shoes from China, for instance), trade can also be seen as favoring the less well-off. If only politicians would stop preaching to them otherwise.” Obama had offered a sharp retort to this view on the campaign trail in December (Fortune, 2/4/08): “People don’t want a cheaper T-shirt if they’re losing a job in the process.” Further, Lowenstein portrayed the central core of the “free trade” debate as the lifting of tariffs to create more mutual access to markets. But economist Dean Baker of the Center on Economic and Policy Research maintains (Truthout, 7/7/08) that tariffs are in most cases a trivial factor motivating trade agreements, with investor protections for the outsourcing of U.S. jobs much more central: In most cases, the tariff barriers to imports were already low. The point of these deals was to set up an institutional framework that would facilitate foreign investment in manufacturing in these countries for the purpose of exporting back to the United States. But Lowenstein insisted that the Democrats’ experience in recent presidential elections should teach Obama that an anti-“free trade” stance is a sure loser. “Obama may soften his populism in the fall, given that protectionists of late have not been winners in national elections.” It is difficult to imagine which “protectionists” Lowenstein had in mind among Democratic presidential candidates. Bill Clinton straddled the trade issue in 1992, spouting “free trade” rhetoric yet claiming to stand for worker protections (which wound up relegated to unenforceable “side agreements” in NAFTA). Meanwhile, in 2000, Al Gore had well-established credentials as a corporate globalization advocate through his ardent support of NAFTA and the Permanent Normalization of Trade Relations with China; though Gore narrowly won the popular vote, he lost among non-college-educated voters by 16 percentage points. In 2004, John Kerry jettisoned his early and effective attacks on “Benedict Arnold CEOs” who abandon U.S. workers and communities, and succeeded in losing both the election and non-college educated voters by an even larger 23-point margin (Brookings Institution, 4/08). In the elections of 1996 through 2004—during which time the Democrats were regarded by many citizens as the party enacting globalization—the Republicans maintained control of both houses of Congress. However, in 2006, opposition to trade deals became a central thrust of the campaigns of such Democratic Senate candidates as Sherrod Brown of Ohio, James Webb of Virginia and numerous House candidates. All of the seven new Democratic senators and 30 new House members ran on “fair trade” platforms (Global Trade Watch, 11/08/06). Disbelieving in gravity Nonetheless, media continue to brand opposition to “free trade” as a mystifying extremism, akin to refusing to believe in gravity. It may be hard to match the New York Times editorial page (4/6/08) for its simple-minded recitation of fairy-tale economics: “Trade is good for the economy, providing cheap imports . . . and raising living standards.” This “trade is good” mantra not only conflates trade in general with corporate-friendly “free trade,” it neglects the data—sometimes reported on the Times’ own news and opinion pages—that the vast majority of economic growth under “free trade” is being vacuumed up by what Times columnist Paul Krugman (2/27/06) called a “narrow oligarchy” in the U.S.: “Income at the 99th percentile rose 87 percent; income at the 99.9th percentile rose 181 percent; and income at the 99.99th percentile rose 497 percent.” Times journalist David Cay Johnston reported (11/28/06) that while the average income of the top 5 percent rose by 53 percent from 1979 to 2004, those in the bottom 60 percent actually saw their incomes decrease, earning less than 95 cents in 2004 for every dollar they made in 1979. But connecting such disturbing trends to U.S. trade policies is labeled “posturing,” which is “bad policy and counterproductive” (New York Times, 2/24/08), and nefariously “turning to Karl Rove’s playbook” (New York Times editorial, 4/6/08). Similarly, USA Today (2/29/08) flatly declared in an editorial, “The reality is that NAFTA has relatively little to do with either the overall job losses or jobs gains,” and asserted that it was “cheap pandering” when Obama blamed NAFTA for the loss of 20 percent of Ohio’s manufacturing jobs since the agreement was enacted in 1994. Criticism of NAFTA was portrayed by USA Today as an attempt to “scapegoat Mexico and Canada,” rather than a critique of U.S. corporate and government policies. Especially disturbing to many media outlets was Obama’s denunciation of the proposed Free Trade Agreement with Colombia, based on the extreme violence directed against unionists and other nonviolent dissidents by paramilitary groups often linked to official military and intelligence services. According to Human Rights Watch (4/7/08), some 2,500 unionists have been slain since 1985 (euphemized by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel—4/12/08—as a “history of cracking down” on union activity) and under 100 convictions have taken place (New York Times, 4/14/08). With this backdrop, Obama denounced the proposed FTA in strong terms at a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO (Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire, 4/2/08): “The violence against unions in Colombia would make a mockery of the very labor protections that we have insisted be included in these kinds of agreements.” Obama’s statement provoked a harsh rebuke from a Washington Post editorial (4/8/08), which accused him of “a particularly egregious libel” against the Colombian regime. (See Extra!, 7-8/08.) Even Colombia’s ongoing murders of civilian labor and community leaders have not dimmed the continuing enthusiasm for trade pacts among U.S. opinion-shapers in the major media. The Bush administration’s proposed Free Trade Agreement has gathered the fervent support of more than 70 newspaper editorial pages (Roll Call, 5/8/08), including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune. Pundits vs. the people This consensus among the media elite ignores the growing consensus among voters—centrist, liberal and conservative—that trade deals like NAFTA harm U.S. workers, communities and the nation. A recent Pew Research poll (5/1/08) found that “a 48 percent plurality said that free-trade agreements are a bad thing for the country, compared with 35 percent of the public who call them a good thing.” Respondents said by more than six-to-one that these trade deals result in job losses rather than gains. Notably, the Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics blog (5/1/08) pointed to “a finding that may have implications for the presidential race”: “the negative view of free-trade deals by independents. A majority of independents, or 52 percent, had a negative view of free trade, compared to 50 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of Republicans.” And the Chicago Council on Global Affairs concluded after a study of U.S. voters (4/25/07), “The U.S. public is nearly unanimous in its support of requiring that both labor (93 percent) and environmental standards (91 percent) be included in trade agreements.” Public opinion on the issue clearly transcends party lines and political labels. This should create a conundrum for pundits: If the public is nearly unanimous on supporting trade agreement conditions that NBC’s Mitchell called “non-starters,” how can they advise the Democrats to repudiate such a position in the name of sensible “centrism”? Roger Bybee, a frequent contributor to Extra!, is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer and consultant who often writes about corporate globalization.
STAMFORD, Conn. — The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County received 10,000 requests for turkeys for this Thanksgiving. But as of last week, it had only 1,000. It has made an emergency challenge to the community, requesting donations. “It’s the lowest I have ever seen it,” Kate Lombardo, food bank’s executive director, said of the stock. Lombardo said several factors have led to the shortage in the food bank this November. The economy has had a big impact, with more people in need than in previous years and fewer able to make donations because of the rising costs of food, she said. Another factor is the crazy weather in recent months. With Hurricane Irene and the October nor’easter causing massive blackouts, people have thrown out spoiled food and restocked their own shelves before looking to help others, she said. “People can’t give, and those that can are afraid to,” Lombardo said. “We’re now asking them not only to buy for themselves, but for their neighbors, too.” The issue hits home for Lombardo, who remembers when her family lost their house to foreclosure in the 1960s. A man in the neighborhood came to their door with a box of food, so they could enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving meal. The gesture showed her that her family was still a part of the community and not outcasts because of the sign on their front yard. “Imagine a fire that burnt down your home and your business in one day,” Lombardo said as tears began to fall and she explained how scary it is to be in need. Nagi Osta, owner of Nagi Jewelers in Stamford, is helping the food bank by donating 310 turkeys — 10 for every year it has been open. He will also receive food and monetary donations at his store. He hopes to donate 1,000 turkeys before Thanksgiving. “I feel the more I give, the more I get,” Osta said during a news conference at his store Monday afternoon. The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County provides food to agencies and nonprofit organizations that feed the hungry in Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, Stamford and Wilton. It is located at 461 Glenbrook Road in Stamford.
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Big Blue project closer to startup November 8, 2012 GUCKEEN — With a court case behind it, Fagen Inc. of Granite Falls can move forward with the Big Blue Wind Farm, which involves 18 wind turbines in Faribault County.... No comments posted for this article. Post a Comment News, Blogs & Events Web
Partner Press Releases Oakland, Calif., October 26, 2010 – Leading specialty tea purveyor Numi Organic Tea honors Fair Trade Month through a long-standing commitment to supporting tea growers and workers. The purchase of Fair Trade Certified teas helps Numi provide sustainable livelihoods for tea growers, who can in turn feed their families, send their children to school and have adequate access to healthcare, education and other fundamental needs. New to Numi’s Fair Trade lineup this year, top-selling Gunpowder Green Tea was converted to Fair Trade Certified in 2010. Fourteen of Numi’s organic tea SKUs are now Fair Trade Certified. Dollars that make a difference Since Numi Organic Tea began sourcing Fair Trade Certified teas in 2005, the company has purchased more than 460,000 pounds of Fair Trade Certified tea, contributing more than $165,500 to social premium funds that benefit tea workers around the world. Numi’s sourcing tea’m travels annually to origin to preserve long-standing contracts and direct relationships with their growers, purchasing 100 percent organic teas and ingredients and seeking Fair Trade Certified products whenever possible. Breaking the cycle of poverty Fair Trade helps break the cycle of poverty and hardship directly related to fluctuations of the market. The longtime plight of farmers and workers in tea gardens in nations such as China, India and Sri Lanka has grown with an increased dependence on the global market. When market prices are low, tea plantations must cut costs, which directly affects the health and livelihood of workers. Plantations often end up reducing the quality and availability of their services available to workers, leaving them without adequate access to health care, housing, or in some instances, access to clean food and drinking water. A model of empowerment Fair Trade encourages small-scale farmers to organize themselves into cooperatives that can self-govern the spending of the Fair Trade social premium toward projects that benefit their communities. Workers on larger-scale tea plantations are protected against abuses such as child labor and guaranteed basic human rights such as safe working conditions. Sustainability for people and the planet Through Fair Trade, a guaranteed above-market minimum price promises fair wages for tea growers. For every pound of tea sold, a guaranteed amount of the price is set aside as the Fair Trade premium, which workers vote upon democratically to spend upon a development project that best benefits their community’s needs. The Fair Trade premium has helped provide several important services and projects in tea-growing regions, including infrastructure projects such as street lamps and clean drinking water; health care projects such as mosquito nets, vitamins and on-site healthcare; economic development projects such as microloans and sewing machines; and improvements in education such as new libraries and meals for schoolchildren. In addition, the Fair Trade model encourages conversion to organic production, which helps eliminate the use of pesticides and herbicides and protects the health of farmers, workers, consumers and the Earth. Da Zhang Shan Cooperative Located in a region known for 1,200 years as the “golden triangle” of tea production, Da Zhang Shan tea garden has never used chemical fertilizers or pesticides on its property, making it easy to obtain organic certification in 1997. It was also the first tea cooperative in China to gain Fair Trade Certification in 2001. Da Zhang Shan farmers earn 15 to 20 percent more in tea sales than other families in the area. The Fair Trade premium has enabled Da Zhang Shan farmers to invest in high school and college scholarships, village infrastructure projects and microloan programs. Fair Trade Certified standards for tea farmers and workers Fair Trade teas are grown by either hired labor tea workers on tea estates, or by small-scale farmers organized into a cooperative. Fair Trade Certification standards include (but are not limited to): Hired Labor (Tea Estates): - Wages that meet or exceed legally established minimums. - Absence of forced or child labor. - Freedom of association and organization. - Tea workers decide democratically how to invest the Fair Trade premium money and have the capacity to play an active role in improving their own lives. - Safe working and growing conditions, including protection from exposure to harmful agrochemicals. - Adherence to national and international labor protections, including those established by the International Labor Organization of the UN. - Minimization of the use of synthetic and other off-farm fertilizers and pesticides and gradual replacement with non-synthetic and on-farm fertilizers and biological disease control methods. Small-scale producers (tea garden farming cooperatives): - Environmental stewardship of soil and water resources. - Direct contracts with buyers to establish long-term relationships and stability. - Democratic representation and management via an elected General Assembly. - Farmers decide democratically how to invest the Fair Trade premiums and have the capacity to play an active role in improving their own lives. Numi Organic Tea blends premium organic teas and herbs with only 100 percent real ingredients, allowing Nature to speak for itself. As a pioneering, quadruple-bottom line company (people, planet, product, profit), Numi sources directly from fair labor gardens that guarantee a livable wage and better opportunities for farmers and their families. Numi is a company committed to reducing its impact on the planet through ecologically responsible choices in sourcing, production and recycled and non-GMO origin packaging. www.numitea.com.
ACLU distorts religious freedom in new public school intimidation campaign Alliance Defending Freedom sends letters to SC public schools to debunk misleading advice Monday, September 10, 2012 Attorney sound bite: Matt Sharp “The Constitution should be the only permission slip students need to exercise their freedom of religion,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Matt Sharp. “The ACLU’s ‘Religious Freedom Goes to School’ campaign paints a restrictive picture of the freedoms for students, teachers, and school administrators that the First Amendment protects. School districts in South Carolina should be wary of taking advice about religious freedom from an organization that frequently seeks to give that freedom a backseat to their own social and political agenda.” According to the ACLU’s campaign, public schools should pattern their religious freedom school policies after a single settlement that the ACLU reached in a lawsuit against the Chesterfield County School District. The settlement put an end to various religious activities within the district. But as the Alliance Defending Freedom letter explains, the settlement in that isolated lawsuit “does not accurately represent the current law on First Amendment rights” and “school districts have nothing to fear in permitting the free exercise of these rights.” The letter also notes that the ACLU “has a long history of being on the wrong side of religious liberty.” Despite the ACLU’s claims, the letter explains the freedom religious student groups have to access school facilities and distribute literature on an equal basis with other groups and the freedom of students to lead prayer at school events. The letter also addresses the truth about the religious expression of teachers, coaches, and administrators and the objective use of the Bible and other religious texts at school. “We hope our letter clarifies the true extent of the First Amendment freedoms of students and schools,” added Sharp. “Public schools are supposed to serve as institutions of learning where free speech is protected. They should not be places of indoctrination that are hostile to religion.” Summerville, S.C., attorney P. Brandt Shelbourne, one of nearly 2,200 allied attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, is assisting as local counsel. - Sample of Alliance Defending Freedom letter sent to South Carolina school districts - Sample of ACLU letter sent to South Carolina school districts - South Carolina Education Head Opposes ACLU’s Religious Freedom Campaign (patheos.com) - ACLU Tells Public Schools It’s Monitoring School Prayer Complaints (blogs.wsj.com) - A Back-to-School Fight Over the Right to Classroom Prayer (ideas.time.com) - Too bad, ACLU! The Bible’s back in school (wnd.com) Posted on September 11, 2012, in Church & State and tagged ACLU, Alliance Defending Freedom, American Civil Liberties Union, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Freedom of religion. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Comment.
I’m starting this roundup with a nod to my good friend Duccini at VaultBR, a great Brazilian Fallout community, to my friend Wooz69 with thanks for him letting me use one of his pictures as the image header on this blog, to Ausir and the Fallout encyclopedia The Vault, that seems to be back stronger than ever, and to thank actor, comediant and writer Wes Johnson for allowing me to use his Bethsoft crew pictures on this blog (he worked with John Waters, cool!). Sometime ago i made a few questions to the devs and got some interesting replies, here’s an example from Fred “Fizzbang” Zeleny: -Aren’t you happy that the weekend came and you didn’t come here? I was celebrating Father’s Day with my family. If not for that, I probably would have been in here on the weekend, writing away. -For the new guys on the block, are you ready to hold on for a while and keep your spirits up, and toughen up on the process, or are you ready to chicken out? Absolutely ready to keep going! The writing of the originals is an amazing benchmark to live up to, and I’d hate myself for not giving it my all! - would you prefer to free the city of Paris, in black and white and with a mono classical soundtrack, or free Paris Hilton, in color and 5.1 surround, with Barry White singing? I’d rather spend time with Paris the city – it’s got more wit, is marginally cleaner, and fewer people have been in it. Eheheh that last one is great! Gary “VXXS” Noonan also had time for a few replies: -Aren’t you happy that the weekend came and you didn’t come here [this was after the GI scans were known]? Honestly, the way my weekend went, I would rather enter the Thunderdome with every Fallout3 hater. Sick as a dog, local highway mangled my car thanks to their construction, and my bank account number was stolen and used quite sufficiently. -Why VXSS stopped going to the fansites? Found myself defending myself too much. At that point, I failed to se ethe fun in it. Call it a vacation from forums for me. And now for Erik J. “DoctorSpooky” Caponi: -Why does the minuscule blog post I once made about DoctorSpooky has a lot of views on my blog every single day? It’s a small blurb, nothing important on it, but everyday people go and check it. Why?… I’m a popular guy, what can I say? Actually, I’ve noticed that daily traffic picked up on my site too, and most of the referrals come from yours. Crazy. Someone’s spam spiders out there must love me. Either that, or it’s a rogue AI attempting to contact me through the timestream. Personally, I’m hoping for the latter. I love rogue AIs. It’s sad that so few single rogue AIs exist in this timeline. Now for other questions, a couple for Ben “Specialty Bread” Carnow: 1. Do you prefer playing though the main plot of game (but doing it your own way) or do you prefer all those little side-quests that don’t need to be done? 2. Do you prefer the roleplaying more or the playing game more? In other words, is the character itself more interesting, or is character building (and thus making it statistically unique) more interesting to you? 1. I typically end up avoiding main quests for as long as possible and focus on doing side-quests. I hate being railroaded towards a specific goal, so anything that I can throw in the way of the main plot usually takes focus. 2. I’d definitely say that roleplaying is more important for me. I enjoy building little backstories in my head for my characters as I play, and using that to determine how I approach problems. That being said it really frustrates me if a game won’t let me actually make my character truly unique, I want my character’s statistics to follow their backstory. And let’s get back to Fizzbang again: are you as a ‘gamer’ satisfied with the game you are developing? Do you think its a game you could play for days, weeks, months, years? Will it be epic?Becouse the first two titles are all that. And here I had heard that we were already “too epic.” But yes, obviously I’m working to make a game with which I’ll be satisfied, both as a gamer and as a creator. As a gamer, I might be satisfied by a game I play intensely for a few weeks or months – I find that’s a pretty good duration for the price of most games out there. But as a creator, I’ll only be satisfied by a game I keep shortcutted on my desktop for years – for something I spend years working on, I wouldn’t be satisfied with anything less. Are you frustrated not to be able to brag/explain/defend/tell more about the game and feast with the extatic fans or is the “no game talk” policy a relief to you since it means you don’t have to spend endless hours trying to convince rabid fans that the game will be good I’d really like to write more about the game design decisions behind our choices, mostly because I’m a big game design theory nerd, but it does make for a very clear-cut rule that’s easy to follow (which, as it so happens, is a good guideline for game design, too). And just like I trust the programmers to handle all of the complex ones and zeros, I trust Pete and Gstaff and folks to know their public relations. Plus, as much as I like talking with all sorts of people, there seem to be a few folk who’re more interested in flames than reasoned discussion. And rather than spend time in nasty flames, I’d rather put the time into writing more and better dialogue for the game. And now for Jay “Radhamster” Woodward: What are your honest opinions about the original Fallout 1/2 fanbase (ie the people who played it when it first came out when Iso/TB was in its heyday, as opposed to those who played it with FPP/RT came to power)? When do you consider FPP/RT to have come to power? Was it with Wolfenstein? Doom? Ultima Underworld? System Shock? Marathon? Arena? Quake? My opinion of the Fallout fanbase as a whole is that we are a multicultural group comprised of a diverse population of individuals with a wide range of ludological viewpoints — viewpoints which circumscribe myriad points of contention as well as a few key points of commonality, such as a love of free decisions and meaningful consequences. What are your honest opinions about the direction of most console games, and what kind of gamer they appeal to? Their physical interface devices have different strengths; I think that much is fairly self-evident. Mice are better than joysticks at precise aiming and selection of objects, and joysticks are better than keyboards at analog character movement and vehicle steering. Beyond that, I think drawing broad generalities about console games and console gamers is an exercise in prejudicial fiction. If you were in my shoes (knowing that I’ve played Wasteland, Fountain of Dreams, Fallout 1/2/T, and prefer the late 80′s-mid 90′s non-FPS genres, and am seeing a much-beloved series fall apart before my very eyes), what would you do? I’d consider getting new shoes. Or possibly new eyes. Naughty. Now for Socrates200x: I admit that the Oblivion-style dialoge system sounds like a coffinnail. But I still prefer to stay positive ’till the day I see an actual set of screenshots or better a gameplay video following a ingame conversation before my final vote. Now on a personal note there’s something I have to say at this time. I met a BIS games fan a few years ago on the deceased BIS and Interplay fora that was adamant that the Fallout games should use Real Time with Pause combat only. We were always getting into verbal fights because of that. A couple of years ago when he was already working there, someone started a discussion on the Obsidian Entertainment Forum about Fallout 3 and how combat should be, he popped in and added that one day he would laugh out loud when we eventually found out how the combat would be. Needless to say that it’s time for me to be a sport and congratulate him on his recent laughing, and it’s time for me to forget the old grudges and wish him all the best, he got what he wanted and I have to move on with no hard feelings, he won fair and square.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Due to strange typo when we redid our "About this website" paragraph on the right side of the page, our email address was wrong. It's been corrected. If you tried to send us something and you didn't get a response, please try again. Sorry about that. t/t John B. Posted by Archivist at Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Trip to Honduras Estimated Cost: $1,690 Missionaries: Trevor and Valerie Colby Mission: His Eyes, Tegucigalpa, Honduras Come join us as we travel to Tegucigalpa, Honduras and serve with host missionaries Trevor and Valerie Colby, Directors of His Eyes. We are in need of doctors, nurses, PA's, NP's and other medical professionals willing to travel to different villages to share Christ's love through the treatment of the physical needs of the Honduran people. We are also inviting non-medical participants to join us as well. Non-medical participants can be used in the areas of triage, preventative health teaching and pharmacy stations at all of our medical camps.
Favorite Vacation MomentBranson, MO by neustel March 11, 2008 Masons first fish My most touching vacation moment was just last August when our family traveled to Missouri. My 3 1/2 year old son caught his first fish with the help of his Daddy and Grandpa Frank my dad. The look on my sons face was priceless and will stay with me forever.
The Witten Institute for Family Business has studied the factors leading to success or downfall of a family-run enterprise in the course of generations. The result is stunningly clear: The major destroyer of values in family businesses is not owed to economic challenges. It is the quarrels and struggles in the family. The prime motor of conflicts are problems with regard to succession: 90% of all firm owners in Germany wish to have a family-internal solution for succession, but 49% of the enterprises have no succession plan in place. However, family enterprises constantly have to make decisions that refer to questions of succession. Furthermore we revealed that only 27% have a family strategy or a family constitution in place. Family strategy as management system If a family enterprise wants survive for many generations, it is necessary to have an internal frame of orientation and action. In an ideal situation this means that there is an individual system and a set of regulations that formulate the “family will”, which is documented as a “family strategy”. Summarizing our recent research on leading multi-generational Family Businesses in Germany, we developed a set of guidance rules for such a family constitution. The aim is a family internal management system that helps shareholder families to solve internal conflicts, especially in questions of succession, or even to prevent its emergence – and that should pertain for generations. Such a family management ensures that the family is always capable of acting and also talking about critical issues and does so. Furthermore, the business family is motivated to develop a common relatedness to and understanding of joint values with regard to the family-owned enterprise. Finally, family management creates structures that can work against imbalances within the family. Clarify questions of survival Our process model for the development of a family strategy is divided into twelve topics that are based on each other. It deals with all relevant questions about operational leadership and succession in the enterprise, about arrangement and organisation of the shareholder group as well as the management of the entrepreneurial family and their cohesion. An external moderator is to accompany the family in this process. This consultant has to be selected very thoughtfully by the family. The consultant needs to be competent in matters of survival concerning family businesses as well as to have the necessary integrity and sufficient empathy for processes with family dynamics. The steps of the Witten model First of all the business family determines the key parameters that describe their fundamental relation to the enterprise. This means they have to decide, for example, if by all means the family has to be represented in the corporate management, or on conditions the family might be forced to give up the family business. There has to be a clear definition who exactly belongs or will belong to the business family. Furthermore, the values of the family in regard to themselves and to the enterprise have to be defined. Development of shareholder competence It is a very important question whether and under which conditions the members of the shareholder family are operationally active in the future. The family also needs to decide at which level of management family members may enter the enterprise and if the entrance or rise of single family members is dependent on their abilities and competences. The family needs to develop and implement a qualification programme for their successors. Stress test of typical critical events It is a decisive point how a family wants to tackle disputable questions within the family. The procedure for conflict resolutions needs to be formulated clearly. A “stress test” of typical critical events in the life cycle of an entrepreneurial family may reveal additional needs for regulations or provisions. The family also needs to find regulations for communication and information aiming themselves, within the enterprise and towards third parties and should by all means establish an institution of communication and exchange of opinion, for example a family committee, a special advisory board or a family council. Discussions are necessary It is a decisive must that the family explicitly faces all relevant topics and questions. Only in this way the family can internally manage how to deal beforehand with possible crises and reasons for quarrels, and how to acquire the necessary competences for self-management. They will not be successful in managing a crisis if the family has only superficially specified their common values or was satisfied with a “sloppy” constitution. Family management needs to be an effective instrument that even works when the going gets rough. Dr. Tom A. Rüsen is Managing Director of the Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU)
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Alabama PeriodicalsEdit This Page From FamilySearch Wiki Most family history periodicals have reprinted copies of local sources of genealogical value. These may include genealogies, information about local records and archives, queries, census indexes, transcripts of family Bible records, church records, court records, cemetery records, land records, obituaries, and wills. Over 35 periodicals are published in Alabama.A list of Alabama genealogical and historical societies with the titles of their periodicals is on pages 51–54 of Marilyn Davis Barefield’s Researching in Alabama: A Genealogical Guide. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1987. (Family History Library book 976.1 D27b.) This book has a chapter about records that can help you research in the “burned counties.” Maps show the Mississippi Territory in 1800, 1808, 1809, 1812, and 1815 and Alabama Territory in 1818. The book includes information about valuable records collections in various libraries and archives. Major genealogical periodicals for Alabama are: - The Alabama Genealogical Register. 1959–1968. Formerly published by Elizabeth W. Thomas, ed., Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Family History Library book 976.1 B2a.) This periodical is indexed and contains abstracts of marriage, cemetery, probate, and census records. Index to Vol. 1 at FamilySearch Books Online - free. - Alabama Genealogical Society Magazine. 1967–. Published by the Alabama Genealogical Society, c/o Samford University Library, P. O. Box 2296, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, Alabama 35229–0001. (Family History Library book 976.1 B2ag.) Included are abstracts of newspapers and census, marriage, military, court, and cemetery records. It is indexed. Website includes a complete table of contents for issues from 1967-2005. - AlaBenton Genealogical Society Quarterly. 1984–. Published by the AlaBenton Genealogical Society, c/o Anniston-Calhoun County Public Library, P.O. Box 308, Anniston, Alabama 36202. (Family History Library book 976.163 B2a.) This contains abstracts of court, land, cemetery, marriage, and census records for northeastern Alabama counties. Most of the volumes are indexed. - Central Alabama Genealogical Society Quarterly. 1974–. Published by the Central Alabama Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 125, Selma, Alabama 36702–0125. (Family History Library book 976.1 B2c.) They have a surname registration file and a surname index. It includes pedigree charts and queries and abstracts of probate, land, cemetery, military, and marriage records for central Alabama counties. - Deep South Genealogical Quarterly. 1963–. Published by the Mobile Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 6224, Mobile, Alabama 36660-6224. (Family History Library book 976.122 B2d.) This quarterly contains abstracts of census, Bible, military, church, and marriage records. There is a surname index to volumes 1–10 and individual indexes to the subsequent volumes. - Natchez Trace Traveler. 1981–. Published by the Natchez Trace Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 420, Florence, Alabama 35631-0420. (Family History Library book 976.1 D25n.) This publishes abstracts of church, cemetery, court, probate, and marriage records and tax lists of northwest Alabama counties. It includes membership and surname lists, but there is no index for each volume. - Pioneer Trails. 1959–. Published by the Birmingham Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 2432, Birmingham, Alabama 35201. (Family History Library book 976.178 B2p.) Formerly Pioneers. Formerly Birmingham Genealogical Society. This has a cumulative index to 1970 and individual indexes after that. It includes pedigree charts of ancestors and abstracts of census, marriage, and cemetery records. - Settlers of Northeast Alabama. 1962–1980. Published by the Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 674, Gadsden, Alabama 35902. (Family History Library book 976.1 B2s.) This periodical includes abstracts of land grant, Bible, census, cemetery, and marriage records. Most volumes are indexed. - Southeast Alabama Genealogical Society (Quarterly). 1985–1997. Dothan, Alabama: Southeast Alabama Genealogical Society. (Family History Library book 976.1 B2sa.) This source continues under the title Wiregrass Roots (see below). - Tap Roots. 1963–. Published by the Genealogical Society of East Alabama, P.O. Box 2892 Drawer 1351, Opelika, Alabama 36830–2892. (Family History Library book 976.1 B2ta.) Each volume contains an index and abstracts of marriage, census, cemetery, church, family, and Bible records for eastern Alabama counties. - Valley Leaves. 1966–. Published by the Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 1568, Huntsville, Alabama 35807. (Family History Library book 976.19 B2v.) This periodical publishes abstracts of newspapers and death, probate, court, land, military, and census records for the northern counties of Alabama. It is indexed. Website includes a list of articles by county. - Wiregrass Roots. 1997–. Published by the Southeast Alabama Genealogical & Historical Society, P.O. Box 246, Dothan, Alabama 363022–0246. (Family History Library book 976.1 B2sa.) Formerly Southeast Alabama Genealogical Society Quarterly. In addition to queries, this periodical contains abstracts of newspapers and cemetery, marriage, and census records. Some volumes contain an index. The Alabama Historical Society prints a periodical with some useful information to genealogists: - Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society. Digital versions at FamilySearch Books Online and Internet Archive: Vol. 2 (1898), Vol. 3 (1899), Vol. 4 (1904), Vol. 5 (1906). Most of the periodicals listed above have annual indexes in their final issue for the year. For nationwide indexes to many of these and other family history periodicals, see United States Periodicals. The book and microfiche indexes commonly known as "PERSI" are especially useful since they refer to items published in thousands of English and French-Canadian family history periodicals. The sources for the Periodical Source Index are: Periodical Source Index (PERSI). 31+ volumes. Ft. Wayne, Indiana: Allen County Public Library Foundation, 1986-. (Family History Library book 973 D25per 1847–1985; fiche 6016863[set of 40]; book 973 D25per (1986-1997); fiche 6016864[set of 15] (1986–1990).) This source indexes over 1.1 million articles in over 5,000 English-language and French Canadian family history periodicals. For further instructions see the Periodical Source Index Research Guide. Electronic editions of the index are easier to use and more complete: Periodical Source Index CD-ROM. Orem, Utah: Ancestry and the Allen County Public Library Foundation, 1997. (Family History Library compact disc number 61.) This disc does not circulate to Family History Centers. It merges all 31+volumes into one index. Digital version at Ancestry ($). Family History Library Collection Periodicals are listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under: - ALABAMA - PERIODICALS - ALABAMA - GENEALOGY - PERIODICALS - ALABAMA - SOCIETIES - PERIODICALS - ALABAMA, [COUNTY] - PERIODICALS - ALABAMA, [COUNTY] - GENEALOGY - PERIODICALS - ALABAMA, [COUNTY] - HISTORY - PERIODICALS - This page was last modified on 23 August 2012, at 23:57. - This page has been accessed 2,251 times. New to the Research Wiki? In the FamilySearch Research Wiki, you can learn how to do genealogical research or share your knowledge with others.Learn More
Harney County, OregonEdit This Page From FamilySearch Wiki Guide to Harney County Oregon genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records. \|Harney County, Oregon\| Location in the state of Oregon Location of Oregon in the U.S. \|Founded\|\|February 23, 1889\| \|Named for: Gen. William Shelby Harney\| Harney County Courthouse 450 North Buena Vista Avenue Burns, Or 97720 County Clerk has marriage records from 1911, land and probate records from 1889, military records from 1943 and naturalization records. Clerk Circuit Court has divorce and court records. County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Harney County Court House as of July 2008. Harney County Court is structured differently. Check the County Records Inventory link for addresses for location of records (left column). - Record Loss: Historical FactsNamed for Brig. Gen. William S. Harney of U.S. Army, who was involved in "Pig War" and popular in the Pacific Northwest. No parts were taken to create any county. Places / Localities Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices. > Trivia Tidbits Archives and Libraries - 1870, part of Grant County. Entire area that later formed Harney County was not enumerated. - 1880, part of Grant County. Entire area that later formed Harney County was not enumerated. Church History and Records Land and Property Military History and Records Rivers and Waterways Details about the rivers and waterways where farms and settlements are often found along them. >> Rivers and Waterways Many early marriages are listed on the Western States Marriage Index. Societies, Libraries, Museums Family History Centers - The Harney County GenWeb Project, part of The ORGenWeb Project - The USGenWeb Archives Project - The USGenWeb Archives Project (backup site) Harney County Oregon Genealogy References - ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Harney County, Oregon page 572, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002. - ↑ WorldCat 50140092 ▲ FHL Collection Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.] (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002) - This page was last modified on 3 May 2013, at 19:02. - This page has been accessed 1,674 times. New to the Research Wiki? In the FamilySearch Research Wiki, you can learn how to do genealogical research or share your knowledge with others.Learn More
“The Skeptical Environmentalist”: A Conversation with John Tierney and Bjorn Lomborg Published on Jun 19, 2012 by ReasonTV “The thing that blows my mind is that we spend so much money on feeling good,” says author and activist Bjorn Lomborg about “feel-good” environmentalist measures like recycling and wind turbines, “I would like us to do stuff that actually works.” The Reason Foundation hosted a conversation with Lomborg and the New York Times’ John Tierney at the Museum of Sex in New York City, where they discussed how free trade and innovation could help alleviate the suffering of the third world and improve the environment, if only people could be convinced these “unsexy” ideas were of greater benefit than sorting the glass and plastic in their garbage. Lomborg, the author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist” and the subject of the documentary film “Cool It,” is also the founder and director of the Copenhagen Consensus, a Danish think-tank focused on finding the “the best ways for governments and philanthropists to spend aid and development money.” For more Reason coverage of the Copenhagen Consensus go here: http://reason.com/blog/2009/09/04/reasontv-bjorn-lomborg-the-cop About 27 minutes. Produced by Anthony L. Fisher. - “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: A Conversation with John Tierney and Bjorn Lomborg (reason.com) - Environmental summit misguided? (globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com) - “This week saw the announcement of the latest conclusions of the Copenhagen Consensus…” (althouse.blogspot.com) - The Debate: Should we be doing more to combat climate change? (blogs.independent.co.uk) - The problem of priorities (eco-business.com)
Pass down your family history with one of these 16 legacy projects. You've spent years digging up data and stories to breathe life into the grandparents and great-grandparents who've made your existence — and your children's — possible. But what are you doing to ensure your family's legacy will be around after you're gone? Here's something else to ponder: What if a long-ago relative started climbing your family tree, but all his efforts got pitched because he didn't take measures to ensure his opus would outlast him? What are you doing to ensure your family history treasures survive you? Here are 16 ways to leave a legacy. 1. Start scrapbooking. Only your imagination limits the scrapbooks you can create. There's the standard heritage album, but also consider these five themes: • Family reunion scrapbooks • School scrapbooks with yearbook pages and include memorabilia . • Cemetery scrapbooks with grave marker photos, plus death certificates and obituaries. • Immigration and migration scrapbooks with maps, passenger lists, passports and naturalization records. • House scrapbooks with deeds, pictures and information on the people who lived in each house. 2. Assemble an album. Photo albums are a natural legacy project. Just be sure to identify the photos with names, dates and places. 3. Transcribe diaries and letters. Are you one of the lucky genealogists who's inherited an ancestor's diary or letters? Not only do you need to think about preserving them for the future, but you also should consider ways to make them accessible to other family members. 4. Put your family history into words. Try one of these projects: • Family history book • Essays: Compile a collection of essays on topics such as your own experiences or memories of relatives. • Articles: Genealogical society journals and newsletters are good places to publish your research results or tell other researchers about a brick wall you've conquered. • Letters: Whether you mail them or not, compose letters to the youngest members of your family to tell them what life was like when you were growing up. 5. Tombstone rubbings. Your descendants will find rubbings of their ancestors' headstones more intriguing than photos. But remember, if the headstone is cracked or seems unstable, don't attempt to make a rubbing. And always ask the cemetery superintendent or caretaker if rubbings are allowed. 6. Know your needlework heirlooms. If you've inherited a family tree sampler, make sure you're displaying it in archival materials away from sunlight, or storing it in acid-free materials. You also can create your own family tree sampler or quilt using patterns from your local craft store. 7. Write your life story. Let your descendants know all about you with one of these projects: • Journal or diary • Research journal: Keep track of your searches and the results, but also report your joys, frustrations and feelings about the search for your ancestors. • Memoir or autobiography: A memoir focuses on one aspect or part of your life, such as your college years, the 1970s or your military service. An autobiography details your whole life. 8. Get 'em talking on tape. Never leave for a family reunion or relative's house without a tape recorder or video camera. You don't have to plan a formal session. Impromptu talks work just as well. 9. Inventory ancestral artifacts. Now's a good time to create an inventory of your family artifacts, even those in your relatives' possession. Photograph each item and record the following information: • how the item came into the possession of its current owner • the owner's name and address • a description of the item • family stories associated with it • the date it was made or acquired • its provenance—that is, the heirloom's history 10. Display family photos. As you collect photos of your ancestors, frame their faces for a family tree wall display. 11. Electrify your research. Digitally preserving your family history is an easy way to share it with family members who live near and far. Compile scanned photographs and documents along with family stories, and create a family Web site or make a CD-ROM scrapbook. 12. Feast on family food heritage. Gather family recipes to create a book, CD or Web site for your kin who like to cook. Along with each recipe, include a photo of the dish and the cook who's most famous for it 13. Create a family newsletter. Do you send an annual holiday letter summarizing your kids' and spouse's activities for the past year? File each one with your family history research, or keep a notebook of letters that you've written and received from others. 14. Save the dates. Buy a special calendar to record ancestral events, such as births, marriages and deaths. 15. Rerun yesterday's news. Create your own family newspaper—The Thompson Gazette, The Wilson Observer, The O'Reilly Times—and fill it with clippings you've found about your ancestors, including obituaries, news articles, marriage and birth announcements. Publish you paper annually as a holiday tradition. 16. Give the gift of well-being. By writing a family health history, you can help your loved ones stay well while sharing genealogical facts.
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If you wish to go to the current Fangoria site, you may click the top logo, "Home" or "News" links. Or click here. It's Mary Elizabeth Winstead & The Norwegians vs. THE THING. A full trailer for Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s delayed prequel to THE THING (titled THE THING), which attempts to tell the whole tale of the Norwegian camp glimpsed in John Carpenter's classic, has debuted thanks to MSN. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (SCOTT PILGRIM), Joel Edgerton (ANIMAL KINGDOM) and a host of Scandinavian fellows who don't seem terribly prominent, despite it being their base. Joking aside, it looks like it could be a really decent monster movie, but will doubtful reach the quality of either of the previous films. We can hope, however! THE THING hits October 14. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY AND BE THE FIRST TO KNOW ABOUT NEWS, CONTESTS, EVENTS AND MORE! All contents © 2011 Fangoria Entertainment
If you wish to go to the current Fangoria site, you may click the top logo, "Home" or "News" links. Or click here. FANGORIA is giving away four sets of two passes to Chicago’s Terror In The Aisles 4: Undead By Dawn on May 21! This year, the triple feature celebrates the undead with a bill you’re not going to want to miss (including the Midwest premiere of [REC] 2). Read on for the info! Billed as an “International Night of Zombie Films & Guests,” Terror in the Aisles will take place at the windy city’s Portage Theater (4050 N. Milwaukee Ave.) from 7:30 p.m. until well into the night. The festivities include zombie costume contests with the winner receiving $200 worth of prizes given away for “Goriest Zombie”, “Funniest Zombie” and “Sexiest Zombie”. There will also be a short film contest, dealer tables, a zombie make-up station and charity auction. As for the films, the schedule reads: 7:30 p.m. - Trailer Trash, a showcase of 35mm vintage horror trailers. 8:00 p.m. – George A. Romero’s seminal NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (with the “Cemetery Zombie,” Bill Hinzman in person. 10:00 p.m. – The Midwest Premiere of the highly anticipated Spanish sequel, [REC] 2. Midnight – Lucio Fulci’s classic, ZOMBI 2. To win tickets, send your answers to the following two trivia questions in an email with your name, email address, mailing address, phone, and age to Here are the questions: 1) Name at least three of the various titles Fulci’s ZOMBI 2 has been released under. 2) Who was the star and what was the title of the American film the first [REC] was remade into? If you’d like to attend and don’t win tickets, you can order them right here for $10 in advance. They'll $12 at the door, or $8 with a zombie costume. For more info, hit the Terror In The Aisles’ myspace and Facebook. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY AND BE THE FIRST TO KNOW ABOUT NEWS, CONTESTS, EVENTS AND MORE! All contents © 2011 Fangoria Entertainment
Kumbalanga/ Ashgourd pieces: 1 ½ cups Green Chilli: 2 Grated Coconut: 4tbsp Curd: ¼ cup Mustard Seeds: ½ tsp Coconut oil: 3tbsp Curry leaves: few Method Of Preparation In a pan add ash gourd pieces, green chilli, salt and 1 cup water. Keep this on stove. Meanwhile, In a blender add grated coconut and curd and blend it. Keep this aside. In a mortar add mustard seeds and with a pestle powder it coarsely. When ash gourd piece turns translucent and water is dissolved, put in very low flame and add the blended curd-coconut mixture. Stir well and increase the flame a bit and don’t allow it to boil. At this stage add the freshly powdered mustard seeds. Switch off the flame and add fresh coconut oil and curry leaves. Close with a lid for few minutes. Serve hot with rice.
Asifa & Nabeel have been two of the most leading and successful fashion designers in Pakistan fashion universe. They have been working in the fashion market for quite a longer time scale and now they are known as one of the top leading fashion designers that are functioning within the fashion planet. They deal with the clothing collections for both men and women within the categories of haute couture, prêt wear and bridal dresses. They have arrived with many exciting collections such as Eid collection 2012 by Asifa & Nabeel was hugely appreciated by the women. They have even taken part in many fashion shows as well. Freshly, Asifa & Nabeel has launched their most exclusive and fashionable looking formal dresses 2012-2013 for women. This whole collection has been much appreciative because it has been designed in much magnificent manner strokes. The entire formal wear collection has been offered with the title of “Snow Queen”. The whole formal dresses 2012-2013 collection has been covered with the long shirts that have been combined with the feel of churidar pajamas and bridal lehengas. The colors used inside the formal dresses have been extra dazzling vivid and colorful looking for the women. The collection even additional mesmerizing and charming looking because of the placement of blend version of dabka and embroidery strokes. The women can freely make the choice of all such formal dresses on social gatherings and even on wedding happenings as well. In this article we are sharing few of the stunning pictures of Asifa & Nabeel formal dresses 2012-2013 for women. In this collection photo shoot the model has been featured as Nooray while the cinematography has been done by Khawar Riaz. In simple words, this entire formal dresses 2012-2013 by Asifa & Nabeel has been much elegant and traditional looking for the women.
THE EDGY SIDE TO THE TOTALLY UNIQUE MISS NORAH JONES [BITCHBACK]Music I love Miss Jones- even though she nearly had me fired. This was when I was at EMI and the Marketing people under me thought they had “The Deal Of The Century”- almost unlimited spots on all STARTV Channels across the region to advertise her-then new record- and whose name I forget. Think it was the album with “Sunshine.” What had happened- or so I was told- was that Norah’s step-sister Anoushka Shankar had seen all the advertising and had told her that we/EMI/I were trying to “turn you into Britney Spears.” This infuriated Norah, as she doesn’t want to be a “superstar”. She called our worldwide chairman, complained, and I was given 24 hours to stop all advertising for the record in the region – which was not an easy job to do! Not only this, but Norah insisted that all WORLDWIDE advertising for the record be stopped – immediately – all of which, I owe to Anoushka Shankar. Oh, come on Anoushka: IF that’s what you whined about to your far more successful Step-sister, it was petty shit and, perhaps, you should try and bring your own career up a notch. As for Norah, hell, she is far more than being “Snorah” and singing “Come Away With Me.” My then-girlfriend Irina and I went to see her at, I think, Shepherd’s Bush, and I had to leave: The music was porridge and she and I were hungry for something else. Still, having met Norah- and her great backing band- I always knew there was something far more to “Snorah.” She was quirky, she could drink, she was fun and, one night, after a few bottles of wine, she gave me a lecture on how to be a better father. It made me respect her more as a person than I did her as an artist. I still remember us going down to the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong’s Champagne Bar and having her request the resident singer sing “Come Away With Me”. Earlier that evening, I was meant to go backstage at the Convention Centre where she was performing and fawn over her; Instead, I stayed back and got very drunk with some of my racing mates; I could never take all those 12 Steps. “How did we sound tonight?” she asked as I thought I’d be able to make a quick get-away before she returned to the hotel. “Brilliant,” I replied. I need to make amends to her and to so many other people. After what I call those “Every Mistake Imaginable” years with EMI and when Norah Jones was signed to Blue Note- and when I was forced outta a music company in tatters- I lost track of her music. I still kept listening to her work on the OST of the TV series “Nip/Tuck” with Wax Poetic and thought, “Girl, you are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than people think you are.” Then again, Miss Norah calls the shots and can often be something like Marvin Gaye’s stubborn kinda fella- but as a woman. Perhaps that’s what makes her who she is and why she doesn’t crave “stardom”. She just wants to fucking sing- with anyone. Yes, even Keith. Love hurts- but, often, musical greatness comes outta hurt, honesty and torment. I “caught up” with Norah recently- after her appearance in the awful Wong Kar-wai movie “Blueberry Hill”- on the track “Happy Pills” from her record “Little Broken Hearts” and it really fucking hit me: This was a fragile, hurt, tormented, devastated and incredibly bitter and hurt Norah Jones. Many say, it was her “f*** you” song to long-time boyfriend Lee Alexander who played bass in her backing band I met Lee a few times and he was- and probably still is- a good guy. But whoever fucking knows about people? Relationships are like a crap shoot and marriages are forever even after divorces. The video for “Happy Pills”- and produced by Danger Mouse- is, I think, brilliant. Wait and no: It is FUCKING brilliant and musical and emotional catharsis. I want to just hold Miss Norah and say, “Baby, move on. Fuck, Miriam. We have all been had by opportunists at one time or another and we have also shunned good people. It’s a karmic thing. Just speak the truth and unravel the stories in the music and the songs. Musical therapy is the best cure and one gets rid of whatever has been holding you back.” “You know you done me wrong I’m gonna smile when I take your life” David Lynch? Work with this girl. The timing is right and the stars are aligned. Be scared, Miriam, be very scared.
How this blog did in 2010, a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,200 times in 2010. That’s about 22 full 747s. In 2010, there were 225 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 281 posts. There were 724 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 306mb. That’s about 2 pictures per day. The busiest day of the year was November 8th with 169 views. The most popular post that day was OLD COINS MYSTERY. Where did they come from? The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, expat-blog.com, en.wordpress.com, mail.yahoo.com, and mail.live.com. Some visitors came searching, mostly for polynesian girls, kapingamarangi, valli kemp, polynesian girl, and seaplane. Attractions in 2010 These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010. OLD COINS MYSTERY July 2010 CHINA COAL SHIP STRANDED ON DOUGLAS SHOAL April 2010 MAORI WRASSE: KEELUNG FISH MARKET December 2009 SHARK TALK FESTIVAL January 2010 VALLI KEMP LOOK-A-LIKE? February 2010
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Congress targets its retirement benefits--or maybe not “When are members of Congress going to cut their own benefits?!?” That has to be just about the favorite rant on this blog. Well, this month, a bunch of House lawmakers – a half dozen in fact – reminded us that they want to do just that. Or at least give the appearance of wanting to. A whole passel of them—or rather, a panel of them—provided testimony on how their retirement benefits should be cut or restricted, and hyped bills they have proposed that would do those things. They did it at a Jan. 26 hearing on the federal retirement system held by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform federal workforce subcommittee. If you want to take a look at what they had to say, click on any of the lawmakers’ names below to pull up their testimony: Rep. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) Rep. Robert J. Dold (R-Ill.) Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) Rep. Richard B. Nugent (R-Fla.) Rep. Robert T. Schilling (R-Ill.) Some of the lawmakers seem to think their measures are just common sense. But then some may not need a federal retirement, or even a salary. Others, on the other hand, while they want reforms, do want to grandfather long-timers. And one, to make his point from the git-go, has named his bill the Congress is Not a Career Act (H.R. 981). The catch with some of these bills in which members of Congress target themselves is that although the sponsor or sponsors offer to bite the bullet on retirement, they also want the entire federal workforce to bite that bullet, too. The Securing Annuities for Federal Employees (SAFE) Act (H.R.3813), introduced Jan. 24 by Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.), is one of those bills. Luckily, feds can take comfort in the fact that most bills that are introduced in Congress never make it very far. And some of the bills cited above have been around for a while, or are retreads of earlier efforts. A person might even posit that a secondary—or perhaps even primary—motivation behind some of this legislation is its PR value back home. Nonetheless, many who represent the interests of federal employees probably would agree with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who told The Washington Post that he believes that the real GOP agenda behind these bills is to use them as a “portal” into cutting back retirement benefits for the whole federal workforce. So, if you are asking the question, “When are members of Congress are going to cut their own benefits?” Maybe the answer is: “Be careful what you wish for.” Posted by Phil Piemonte on Jan 27, 2012 at 1:42 PM

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