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In the early 1900s, a dispute arose over who controlled Greenland—Norway or Denmark. The case was submitted to the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1933. The court ruled in Denmark’s favor.
After WWII, the United States developed a geopolitical interest in Greenland. In 1946, they offered to buy the country from Denmark for $100 million dollars. Denmark refused to sell though. They did, however, allow the US to reopen Thule Air Base in 1950. From 1951 and 1953, the base was greatly expanded as a part of a NATO Cold War defense strategy. It is still the US Air Forces’ northernmost base, located inside the Arctic Circle.
Though Xerxes did not found the Achaemenid Persian Empire, he ruled it at its greatest size, and made it the global force that it was at the time. His failed invasion of Greece has secured him a legendary place in not just Asian, but also Western culture.
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
—Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
Tritones is a musical interval that spans three whole tones. This interval, the gap between two notes played in succession or simultaneously, was branded Diabolus in Musica or the Devil’s Interval by medieval musicians.
One historian said, on the tritone: “It apparently was the sound used to call up the beast. There is something very sexual about the tritone.In the Middle Ages when people were ignorant and scared, when they heard something like that and felt that reaction in their body they thought ‘uh oh, here come the Devil’.”
The Devil’s Interval came back into vogue under Wagner, of all people, who used it in his operas. Since then, the tritone has been used for everything from ACDC to The Simpson’s theme song.
The first light portrait and first human portrait every taken. From October or November, 1839. It is a self-portrait by Robert Cornelius.
A caricature of Europe right before WWI. For a full explanation of the imagery for each country, click on the image.
Around 300 BCE, the Maya began adopting a hierarchical system of government with rule by nobles and kings. This civilization developed into highly structured kingdoms during the Classic Period, around 200-900 CE. Their society consisted of many independent states, each with a rural farming community and large urban sites built around ceremonial centers. It started to decline around 900 CE when - for reasons which are still debated - the southern Maya abandoned their cities. When the northern Maya were integrated into the Toltec society by 1200 CE, the Maya civilization finally came to a close, although some peripheral centers continued to thrive until the Spanish Conquest in the early sixteenth century. Even today, many in Guatemala and Mexico identify first as Maya and second as their nationality.
Fort Sumter, in Charleston, South Carolina, at the time of the American Civil War.
In 98 AD, the Roman historian Tacitus wrote a detailed description about the Fenni, a people to the north. This is probably the earliest written reference to the Finnish people. According to him, these poor, savage Fennis lived somewhere in the northeast Baltic region — at the time inhabited by many other peoples, and the description also fits the Sami, another group still living near the Arctic Circle today. Given the name’s closeness to the modern Finns, they think it was probably them. Historians can never be certain exactly who Tacitus was referring to, however. Welcome to history class, guys!
In the mid-1950s, Sammy Davis Jr was involved with Kim Novak, who was a valuable star under contract to Columbia Studios.
The head of the studio, Harry Cohn, called one of the mob bosses. He paid the mob to threaten Sammy into ending the affair.
Great Britain finished repaying the United States’ lend-lead aid from World War II in 2006.
August 12, 1944: a band of battle-hardened nurses take a break to get their picture taken in a field close to the front lines in France.
Successor of the unfortunate Pope Formosus, Pope Boniface VI joins the league of forgotten Popes. Very little is known about him, and what is known, he probably wishes we’d forget. Pope for just 15 days, Boniface died from gout. This nasty disease comes from eating too much red meat and other rich foods. This causes a build-up of uric acid (gross) leading to swelled joints and purplish skin. Two years after his death, John IX declared Boniface Vi’s election null and void but he is still included in the official list of Popes.
This is the remarkable Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton. In 1940 she was Natalie Latham, a former debutante and fixture at New York society balls, now 30, twice divorced with two children and still so beautiful that Vogue printed items about her.
All this changed when German U-boats began their devastating attacks on the North Atlantic convoys supplying Britain. Although America had not entered the war, Natalie Latham decided to do something to help, and established Bundles for Britain, which began as little more than a “knitting bee” — albeit one convened by Natalie Latham and some of the grandest dames of the New York social scene. The group quickly expanded to over 1.5 million volunteers, with branches all over the country. Bundles for Britain started shipping over not just clothing but also blankets, children’s cots, ambulances, X-ray machines, hospital beds, oxygen tents, surgical instruments, blood transfusion kits, tinned food and children’s cots. Every item was labelled “From your American friends.”
In Britain, she secured the support of Winston Churchill’s wife, Clementine, and of Janet Murrow, wife of the CBS reporter Ed Murrow, whose live radio broadcasts to America during the Blitz began with the words: “This is London.” When Bundles for Britain held a raffle, Queen Elizabeth donated items, including a piece of shrapnel that had hit Buckingham Palace. King George VI later appointed Natalie Latham an honorary CBE; she was the first non-British woman thus honored.
After her fourth husband’s death in 1951, she arrived in London to promote Common Cause, an anti-communist organization she had founded, and met the third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, MP for Inverness-shire and an ardent anti-communist. They eventually moved to the US, and she died on January 14, 2013.
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H D Evans
Hugh Evans has created stories, conceived books and composed images since childhood. With a wide range of interests and a voracious appetite for information and experiences, the creative ideas couldn’t be kept inside any longer and he determined to write his first novel in 2000. After several pieces written for pleasure, his love of history and fiction resulted in his first published book, “The Amber Room” as H D Evans. Further works are planned in The Amber Room Series and on different subjects. Hugh was born in 1965, graduated Imperial College and lives in the Thames Valley, west of London, England with his family.
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Okay, here we are with part two of where I think Marian Gaborik could be traded to. Before we did the Western Conference teams (see below). This is the Eastern Conference segment.
As a reminder, I'm merely analyzing trade possibilities based off teams' NHL rosters and salary cap space.
Ilya Kovalchuk is in the fold already, and why trade him for Gaborik? Plenty of cap space for Gaborik but apart from Kovalchuk, the cupboard is pretty bare. Ondrej Pavelec is a promising goaltending prospect, and Toby Enstrom has the makings of being a good defenseman, but a team that's basically been rebuilding since entering the league won't give up either of those two. Plus the Wild has (have?) Josh Harding as its potential goalie of the future. No chance Gaborik ends up here.
Things get interesting with the next few teams. The Bruins have been rumored to be wanting to move Phil Kessel for a season or more. Gaborik would have his choice of centers to play with - Marc Savard or Patrice Bergeron, who appears rejuvenated coming back from his concussion. Problem is Boston is already up against the cap after signing Michael Ryder in the offseason. They won't be players in the Gaby market unless the Wild takes back some salary, and surely they can do better than that.
I posted this on Michael Russo's blog a couple days ago but I think it went overlooked and/or ignored. The Sabres' recent history of free agents isn't totally good - losing Daniel Briere and Chris Drury in one offseason. But they gave Jason Pominville and Thomas Vanek some nice contracts. Do they have room for Gaborik? They can. What about sending Maxim Afinogenov - a good player who's been in Lindy Ruff's doghouse for ages - and Tim Connolly to Minnesota? Afinogenov gets a fresh start and Connolly could become one of the Wild's top two centers. Mikko Koivu could center Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Connolly and Afinogenov form the second line.
But there are several problems here. First, Buffalo's willingness to spend on another winger. Second, whether they want to get rid of Connolly. Third, Afinogenov and Connolly are both UFAs and who knows, maybe Afinogenov wants to return to Russia. I think a scenario like this is possible but not likely.
Now we're talking. Justin Williams is out for several months with another leg injury. That creates a spot alongside Eric Staal or Rod Brind'Amour. Trading chips: Tuomo Ruutu, Patrick Eaves? Maybe Matt Cullen, who's 31. If the Hurricanes are battling for a playoff spot or positioning near the trade deadline, maybe they make a move. I'm sure they're still stinging from last year's collapse down the stretch. Keep an eye on Carolina. In fact, if Williams hadn't gotten hurt he could've been the centerpiece of a deal.
Another team that could work. But will they part with Nathan Horton, who's signed through 2013 at a cap hit of $4 million? Even Stephen Weiss is signed through 2013 at $3.1M. If a miracle happens and they're close to the playoffs, they'd have pieces to pull off a deal, but that'd be mortgaging the future for the present and a step backwards. Jay Bouwmeester? Nah. Why trade one problem for another for the Wild? David Booth could be a centerpiece. Small chance Florida will be in it.
I've heard some Minnesota fans wanting Tomas Plekanec. He's good. Also has great chemistry with Alexei Kovalev and Andrei Kostitsyn. Will Montreal want to break up that line? Well, they've got Robert Lang who could fill in easily for Plekanec, and who knows, he could rekindle the magic he had with Kovalev when the two were in Pittsburgh. This one's got possibilities, but I wouldn't be ordering those "Plekanec 14" sweaters just yet, Wild fans.
The Devils already poached one Wild player in Brian Rolston. Will they go after another? Possibly. Zach Parise would have to be involved, but maybe they send Brian Gionta. I think that could work for the Wild as well. Travis Zajac? We'll keep an eye on the Devils.
New York Islanders
They won't be players. They'd have to give up Kyle Okposo (Gopher fans rejoice) but there's no reason to. They're in one of the toughest divisions in the NHL and they need a lot more work than Gaborik will fix. No chance he'll be on Long Island.
New York Rangers
Normally I'd say here's the favorite, but that was in the pre-salary cap era. Maybe, maaaybe, they'd part with Nikolai Zherdev, especially if he's struggling and they're in the thick of a playoff chase, or center Brandon Dubinsky. Chris Drury has a no-trade clause and Scott Gomez has a limited one, but the Rangers don't have the cap space for Gaborik without giving up one of those.
Updated slightly: There's rumors that maybe the Rangers want to move Petr Prucha. He'd fit the Afinogenov mold of desperately needing a change of scenery.
Very little cap space here which immediately puts them behind the 8-ball. Dany Heatley and Mr. Senator Daniel Alfredsson aren't going anywhere, but will they really trade Jason Spezza? Boy, I can't imagine so, at least not for Gaborik. Mike Fisher's a nice player, but who else will play center on that team? I don't think Ottawa will be in the race.
It pains me to say it, but here's a maybe. The untouchables are Mike Richards and probably Jeff Carter. Maybe Daniel Briere, but if it nets them Gaborik? Possibly. Will they tire of Simon Gagne's concussion problems? Would the Wild want to risk it? Scott Hartnell's an option. He'd also bring some toughness to the Wild. I'm not sure if the cap space would work, but Paul Holmgren hasn't been shy about making trades so the Flyers would not surprise me.
I'll try and be clear on this: No, no, no. Granted the Penguins need a winger to play with Sidney Crosby. But unless they're trading Evgeni Malkin (they shouldn't) there's just no way the cap space will work. Often I see, instead of Gaborik for Malkin, Gaborik for Jordan Staal. The reasoning behind this makes absolutely no sense. People say the Penguins won't be able to afford Staal, so trade him for Gaborik. Uh, what? If Gaborik demands even $7.5M from the Penguins, that's still more than what Staal will make. I'll be shocked (as shocked, possibly more so, as I was when the Penguins traded for Hossa last season) if Gaborik ends up a Penguin. You can't do the rent-a-player every year.
Would they trade Radim Vrbata and another player or two for Gaborik? The Lightning's owners seem hell-bent on collecting forwards and the way they're throwing money around, I wouldn't be surprised at anything they do. So let's not count them out, but they'd be a darkhorse.
Except for the Jeff Finger contract, the Maple Leafs have been shedding some serious money as they try to right their horridly wrecked ship. They're really in rebuilding mode and Gaborik won't help them. However, Nik Antropov, Alex Steen or Matt Stajan could be attractive to the Wild. But I don't see Gaborik playing in Canada's capital (note: watch "Canadian Bacon" before you correct me.)
You want to talk about scary lines? Let me give you this. Gaborik-Nicklas Backstrom-Alexander Ovechkin. Yikes. Brooks Laich broke out with 21 goals, including eight on the power play, but apart from those four guys, the Capitals are leaning towards the old side. Except for Alexander Semin, who's almost a Gaborik clone (lots of talent but oft-injured). Would a swap of these two happen? Well, it would surely help the Capitals but not so much the Wild. Not to mention Washington's got an albatross of a contract in Michael Nylander hanging over their heads (he's 35, signed through 2011 at $4.875.) We'll consider the Caps a darkhorse, but a very dark horse.
So did I actually offer anything of value? Probably not. The teams I think would make a move for Gaborik, in no particular order: New Jersey, San Jose, Tampa Bay, Carolina, Buffalo, Los Angeles, Montreal, Philadelphia, and we'll go ahead and include the Rangers.
I will say I do not expect Gaborik to be in a Wild uniform in April. And again, this is analysis based primarily on NHL-caliber players that I think the Wild should look to get in return for Gaborik. One of the other teams could have a super prospect or two that a team might trade if they think Gaborik is that missing link.
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No outside or prior preparation is necessary, other than a general familiarity with current issues. This group is to provide opportunity for strengthening and enhancing public speaking and on-your-feet argument formation.
It is open to anyone in the law school community who is interested in joining or in simply learning more about the society!
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I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS IS BUT I LOVE YOU
i’m literally crying
Boston. Fucking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, “Well, I’ve had it with humanity.”
But I was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness.
But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, “The good outnumber you, and we always will.
because we don’t put up with that bullshit.
they are literally going to get assaulted. and i can’t say i’ll be sorry that it happens.
“Boston is a tough and resilient city, as is it’s citizens”. I’m not entirely sure you wanna fuck with that.
nor do I think you wanna fuck with a very pissed off mob of Bostonians.
They couldn’t get to the Newtown funerals and they sure as hell aren’t getting to the Boston ones!
LION KING BLOOPERS
These are actual bloopers from the cast while they recording, and they were later animated.
HIGH MUFASA ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH
I needed this in my life.
if you don’t want this on your blog, i’m judging you
Kaspars Daugavins being interviewed and Squidward casually walks by
GO RUN ON DUNKIN SON
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Ok, so we really cannot wait until Ashleigh and Evan’s wedding next June! From the moment we received their first email to when we met up the first time a couple of months ago, we knew it was going to be a perfect match and we were delighted when they told us they wanted to do a Love Session with us this Fall. We started at a very special place to them both – where they met – the University of Virginia. We started out around Grounds ending up at one of their favorite haunts on the Corner, the Virginian – where they officially started dating. The staff was awesome and let us have the run of the place.
It was the perfect Fall day with that beautiful warm sunlight washing all over us. A&E (our fabulous couple, not the highbrow TV channel) are absolutely perfect for each other – it’s obvious that they not only love each other, but that they truly like and respect each other. They are one of those “annoying” couples who finish each others sentences, but they are such kind-hearted, genuine warm souls, you can’t help, but be inspired by them – how they live, laugh and love. We had an absolute blast and are so excited to share some of our faves from the day with you.
Want more? Check out the entire portrait gallery. The password is Ashleigh’s last name and is case-sensitive. Enjoy!
The garden where Evan proposed to Ashleigh a few short months ago.
This is their trademark blue steel look.
Congratulations again, you two!! We look forward to sharing a beer over great conversation with you again soon!
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|Holyoke city workers staying busy this spring|
|Written by Kyle Arnoldy|
City workers have been busy the past few weeks dealing with snow and preparing for the spring and summer, reported City Superintendent Mark Brown at the March 5 City Council meeting.
Snow caused the most work as city workers removed it from the streets by the semi-load. Board member Scott Murray commented that he had heard citizens praise the efforts of the city to remove snow. Murray also commended Brown and his crews for their work.
Brown also mentioned that crack filling season is almost here. The city has purchased a semi-load of sealant that should last for the next 2-3 years.
The city has also recently purchased 2,000 gallons of jet fuel in preparation for any jet traffic in the area.
Pool boiler room faces more problems
During the Feb. 19 meeting, Brown had reported that there was a problem with the intake manifold in a boiler at the pool. During last week’s meeting he updated the board members that more problems had been discovered with the boiler. Once the cracked intake manifold had been fixed, the boiler was still not functioning because of a faulty pump. Parts have since been ordered.
While working on the boiler, a roof leak was also discovered in the boiler room. Brown believes the problem most likely occurred during the installation of the boiler. Several holes were made in the ceiling during the installation and all but one were filled.
The boiler warranty does not cover the problem as it was human error that caused the leak.
Wern Air Inc. out of Denver was responsible for installing the boiler. They are also off the hook as far as a warranty because it has been over a year since the installation. Brown plans to reach out to them to see if there is some sort of compromise they could reach where each party partially pays for the repairs.
Reports from city officials
Brown informed the board that he is still waiting to get feedback on the second draft of the layout for the possible animal shelter. Brown had submitted the plans to the state Feb. 4, but has not received word if the changes made to the plans would make the shelter up-to-date with state standards.
He also noted that the pumping station west of town has raised some concerns.
When the fire flow was tested, water pressure on the west side of town dropped substantially. This should not be a problem as long as the fire flow is only used on fires.
Police Chief Doug Bergstrom reported that from Feb. 14-27 there were 50 calls for service, six warnings and one report written up.
He also informed the board that after many weeks of searching for someone to fill the open code enforcement position, someone will more than likely be hired before the month’s end. Three people were interviewed for the position Thursday, Feb. 28. Of the three, only one has moved on to the polygraph and psyche evaluation stage of the hiring process.
City Clerk/treasurer Kathy Olofson informed the board that Scott Szabo has finished the in-house portion of the audit. He will report his findings back to the board toward the end of April.
Olofson also noted that the city has received the annual franchise fee check from Source Gas for $13,064.82 and the third and fourth quarter franchise fee checks from PC Telcom for $3,704.63.
Although the final number has yet to be determined, Olofson stated that she will be sending a grant to the State Historical Fund to redo brickwork at the Heginbotham Library.
Building Restoration Specialties Inc. out of Denver has put in a bid for $92,995. Holyoke would be responsible to match at least 25 percent of the project.
In other business March 5, the city council:
—agreed that it shall be the policy of the City of Holyoke that any new construction and renovation, remodeling or alteration of existing multi-family dwellings and/or motels or hotels be inspected at the owner’s expense pursuant to applicable adopted codes.
—appointed Teresa Mailander to serve a five-year term on the Library Board.
—approved the travel request for officer Larry Drake to attend D.A.R.E. training in Aurora in April.
—agreed to send six city employees to the Flagger Certification Workshop for CDOT certification in Holyoke April 2.
—agreed to type up two duplicate checks to replace misplaced checks at the Holyoke Marketplace from December.
Holyoke Enterprise March 14, 2013
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S.C. Lt. Gov. Ken Ard Indicted, Pleads Guilty, Gets Probation, Resigns, & Is Replaced By Confederate Dress-Up Boy Glenn McConnell
Backstory: “Two-Fer: Ken Ard (R-Questionable Ethics, S.C.) & Robert Cahaly (R-Man-O’-Faith, S.C.),” February 6, 2012
AP sums up the whole story in a single sentence:
In less than six hours, former Lt. Gov. Ken Ard went from a heartbeat away from being South Carolina’s governor to a disgraced convict serving five years of probation for scheming to violate campaign finance laws and spending money donated to his campaign on himself and his family.
But, wait! There’s more. Ever so much more. (more…)
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Histopathological changes and antibody response in rats infected with Fasciola hepatica and treated with triclabendazole*A. PAZ SILVA, R. SANCHEZ-ANDRADE, R. PANADERO FONTAN, P. DIEZ BAOOS, P. MORRONDO PELAYO
Department of Animal Pathology (Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases), Veterinary Faculty, University of Santiago de Compostela, 27071 - Lugo (Spain)Summary
A comparison between infected-untreated rats and infected and triclabendazole treated rats was carried out. Animals were 4 weeks old (80—120 gram). 2 groups of infected rats were utilised: G-1, infected and untreated animals; G-2 infected and treated rats. Excretion of fluke eggs in faeces, antibody response and histopathological changes were assessed to determine the success after a treatment with triclabendazole. There were no eggs observed in flukes in the rats of G-2, and the intensity of liver lessions was less severe, confirming the very high efficacy of this fasciolicide. Antibodies against Fasciola hepatica were detectable as soon as the 2nd week post-infection in the 2 groups of infected rats. The level of antibodies increased up until the 7th week post-infection in the rats of G-1, and reached a plateau till the 21st week post-infection; in the rats of G-2, antibodies incremented until the 4th week post-infection, and decreased from the 15th week post-infection.
HELMINTHOLOGIA, 34, 1: 9 - 13, 1997
Proteocephalus exiguus La Rue, 1911 (Cestoda, P r o t e o c e p h a l i d a e): ultrastructure of the vitelline cellsM. Brunanska
Parasitological Institute SAS, Protifasistickych bojovnikov 5, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak RepublicSummary
The ultrastructure of the vitelline cells is described in the adult cestode Proteocephalus exiguus a parasite of coregonid and salmonid fish. The ovoid mature vitelline cells contain prominent nuclei with electron-dense nucleoli. The cytoplasm of these cells is packed with shell globules and lipid droplets. The granular endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complexes are extensively developed and are evidently engaged in shell globule formation. Three stages of shell globule production were observed. The shell globules of the third developmental stage are of reticulate appearance with an electron-dense nucleus in some of them. After coming into a close contact with the oocyte, the vitelline cells disintegrate. Shell globules release the cell and participate in the formation of the capsule. The ultrastructure of the vitelline cells in P. exiguus is compared with that of related species and with other cestode groups.
HELMINTHOLOGIA, 34, 1: 15 - 22, 1997
Proctoeces maculatus (Digenea: F e l l o d i s t o m i d a e) metacercaria in the gastropod Priotrochus obscurus in Kuwait Bay: occurrence and surface morphologyJ. Abdul-Salam, B. S. Sreelatha, H. M. Ashkanani
Department of Zoology, University of Kuwait, P. O. Box 5969, Safat, State of Kuwait 13060Summary
Unencysted metacercariae of the digenetic trematode Proctoeces maculatus (Loos, 1901) Odhner, 1911 were recorded for the first time from the top shell Priotrochus obscurus (Wood, 1828) (Prosobranchia: T r o c h i d a e) in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf. Of 102 snails examined, 54 (52.9 %) were infected with 1 to 12 (1.7 ± 2.5) metacercariae. Prevalence and intensity of infection were independent of host size. Since only nonovigerous metacercariae were found in the molluscan host, the life cycle in Kuwait Bay conforms with the pattern in tropical waters, where the digenean reaches maturity in fishes. Scanning electron microscopy was used to study the surface morphology of the metacercaria. The tegument was devoid of spines and folded into concentrically arranged furrows and ridges elevated by rounded microvilli. The tegument inside the oral sucker supports small pitted papillae, globules of secretion were visible in the vicinity of the papillae. Tegumental ridges around the oral sucker bear two types of sensory papillae: the more common type displayed a cilium projecting from a prominent collar anchored to the tegument by longitudinal ridges and the less common type was an aciliate, disclike papilla with a smooth surface. Aciliate protuberances were observed on the tegumental ridges immediately posterior to the ventral sucker. The ventral sucker, genital aperture and excretory pore were devoid of sensory papillae.
HELMINTHOLOGIA, 34, 1: 23 - 26, 1997
Levels of catecholamines in blood plasma of rabbits naturally infected with Encephalitozoon cuniculiB. Pastorova*, M. Rybos**, V. Elias*, J. Varady*
*Department comparative physiology of UVM, Kosice; **Parasitological Institute of SAS, KosiceSummary
Catecholamines present in blood participate in regulation of a number of physiological mechanisms and at the same time reflect some pathological changes. We used a radioenzymatic method to investigate the catecholamine levels in blood plasma of 24 laboratory rabbits (females, 13 months old, weighing 3.2 ± 0.4 kg) which were examined by the method of radial haemolysis and indirect immunofluorescence for the presence of antibodies to Encephalitozoon cuniculi antigens. The results obtained indicate that encephalitozoonosis decreases significantly the level of catecholamines in blood plasma. From the total number of rabbits investigated, 41.7 % were evaluated as seropositive. The seropositive group of rabbits exhibited a significant (p<0.05) decrease of plasma dopamine levels (by 23.3 %). Concentrations of norepinephrine in blood plasma of rabbits decreased from 26.07 ± 0.780 to 8.42 ± 0.117 which is a significant decrease by 41.9 %. Similar changes were recorded in the levels of plasma epinephrine (p<0.05) in comparison with healthy individuals (decrease by 34.6 %). The results obtained showed that a marked decrease in activity of peripheral adrenergic system occurs in seropositive animals following the infection with Encephalitozoon cuniculi parasite.
HELMINTHOLOGIA, 34, 1: 27 - 33, 1997
On the variability of Dicrocoelium dendriticum (Rudolphi, 1819) in domestic and free-living animals VI. Variability of eggs of D. dendriticum from Slovakia and AlgeriaA. MACKOVA, J. K. MACKO*, M. SPAKULOVA*1
Department of Experimental Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Science, P. J. Safárik University, Manesova 23, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic; *Parasitological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak RepublicSummary
A biometric study of 1130 eggs of D. dendriticum (Rudolphi, 1819), isolated from various domestic and free-living Artiodactyla in Slovakia and from Bos taurus in Algeria, showed their minimo-maximum size ranging between 19—60 x 16—39 µm.The range of 29.9—50.7 µm for length and 19.0— 31.8 µm for width applies to 99 % of eggs. Dicrocoeliid eggs from different hosts overlapped more or less in size, however, eggs of some specimens of D. dendriticum differed in size to the extent that they formed hiatuses among one another. For other dicrocoeliid species, a metric evaluation of eggs from a number of adult specimens from various localities is recommended, especially in case of a species abundant in nature. Such data will contribute to a more objective understanding of the taxonomic significance of egg size in this group of digenetic trematodes.
HELMINTHOLOGIA, 34, 1: 35 - 44, 1997
The Red Data List of helminths parasitizing fishes of the orders Cypriniformes, Siluriformes and Gadiformes in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic
V. BARUŠ, F. MORAVEC*, M. ŠPAKULOVÁ**
Institute of Landscape Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Kvetná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic; *Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branisovska 31, 370 05 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic; **Parasitological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic
A first attempt was made to include helminths, parasitizing fishes of the orders Cypriniformes, Siluriformes and Gadiformes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, in the Red Data List according to the methods and categories published by IUCN (1994). From a total number of 187 helminth species parasitizing cyprinids from Czech and Slovak rivers, strict host specificity was found in 82 monogenean, 8 digenean, 6 cestode and 6 nematode species. Of 16 helminth species parasitizing the wells (Silurus glanis), 2 monogenean, 1 digenean and 2 cestode species were specific compared to only 1 monogenean species out of 14 helminth species of burbot (Lota lota). Analysing the helminth specificity and threat degrees of the definitive hosts, 45 helminth species were recognized as being threatened: 14 of them belong to the category critical, 6 to the category endangered, 10 to the category vulnerable and 15 to the category susceptible. Some methodological problems in preparation of the Red List of parasites are discussed.
HELMINTHOLOGIA, 34, 1: 45 - 52, 1997
Peculiarities of helminthocenosis in the American mink population inhabi-ting a severely polluted river ecosystem (the Svisloch river, Belarus)V. E. SIDOROVICH, E. I. ANISIMOVA
Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Skoriny str., 27, Minsk - 220072, BelarusSummary
A total of 46 mink carcasses were collected at the severely contaminated Svisloch river; 66 carcasses were collected from the unpolluted Drissa and Lovat rivers and processed by the standard helminthological methods. Our results are evidence of the considerable changes of helminthocenoses in conditions of severe contamination of river ecosystems. The main trends of this process are reduction of helminth species diversity and increase in infestation by remaining species. Helminth species whose life cycles were not affected seriously by the reduction of zoocenosis of a polluted river ecosystem tend to survive in it. The increase of infection of these species is probably connected with the decrease of host organism resistance against helminths.
HELMINTHOLOGIA, 34, 1: 53 - 54, 1997
The first record of Drepanidotaenia lanceolata (Bloch, 1782) larva in Arctodiaptomus spinosus (Daday, 1891) D i a p t o m i d a e in YugoslaviaR. RATAJAC, Z. PETROVIC1, P. CAKIC2
Institute of Biology, PMF, Novi Sad; 1Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Belgrade; 2Institute for Biological Research "Sinisa Stankovic", Belgrade
The cercocystis larva of the tapeworm Drepanidotaenia lanceolata was found in Arctodiaptomus spinosus. This cercocystis larva has not been found in an intermediate host in Yugoslavia so far. It is 130—140 µm long, and 100—110 µm wide; has a characteristic appendage at the anterior part and a very long curved tail at the posterior part. The adult tapeworm parasitizes intestines of the birds: Anseriformes, Gaviformes, Podicepediformes, Cyconiiformes and Galliformes.
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Seashell portion of the light set measures aproximately 6 ft long with an additional 6 1/2 feet of cord. Real Seashells.
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The independent merchants that operate 164 RONA stores across Canada have added their voice to the opposition of a Lowe’s takeover.
The dealers have written a letter to Lowe’s CEO Robert Niblock, which was made public Wednesday. In it the dealers write:
“We want to reinforce your view that it may not be a good idea for you to buy RONA, after you appeared to state your doubts about the deal on Monday, while you were announcing your financial results. We respectfully say, ‘No, thank you,’ as we feel that Lowe’s business model is incompatible with the one with which we have individually chosen to engage.”
In addition, the independents reinforce their preference for and loyalty to RONA’s approach to retailing, stating: “We are RONA shareholders. We are RONA’s clients. We are the retailers who sell RONA’s products.”
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Luxury Design Office: Wirtschafts Blatt in Austria. The luxurious design and use of space dynamically create motivation, quality and comfort for office workers. The office space is divided into three areas including the central entrance, administration area, the area of ??editorial and production offices. By adding a meeting room screened off by a glass wall graphics, has its own artistic value and beauty. Using the concept of proper arrangement, making office workers become more focused in their work. If you have an office, maybe you can replicate the design concept of luxury offices in Austria this. Hopefully inspiring you in designing your own office.
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Luxury Design Office: Wirtschafts Blatt in Austria
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Many senior living communities across the country have been battered by recent economic conditions, dealing with factors such as an extended recession, a struggling real estate market, and fluctuating reimbursements, reports U.S. News: Money. Some communities have turned to developing new business models, including expanding services to care for seniors in their own homes.
Necessity is clearly the mother of invention for senior housing operators. The numbers of new living units at high-end CCRCs have been very small for several years. The normal funding mechanism for six-figure CCRC entrance fees has come from people selling their primary residence. With housing values on a five-year skid, older homeowners have either been unable to sell their homes or unwilling to sell at depressed prices.
At the same time, aging seniors are showing less interest in moving into a CCRC so long as they can maintain active lifestyles in their own homes. Meanwhile, government spending curbs have reduced profits at many nursing homes, and threaten its basic business model.
As financial pressures rise on senior living institutions, it’s also clear that tomorrow’s market includes big increases in seniors aging in place in their homes. Surveys show that seniors overwhelmingly prefer to stay in their homes and adjacent communities. And private and government care programs increasingly prefer home-based care as more affordable.
The article lists a couple examples of senior housing and care providers who are developing models to export care services into seniors’ homes. Read the full story here.
Written by Alyssa Gerace
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History of Homopathy
ELCHER, GEORGE E., M. D., of New York city, was born in Greenwich, Conn., on February 7th, 1818. His father and grandfather were both eminent physicians of the old school ; the former died in 1859, after thirty years of extensive practice in New York city. His grandfather, after serving as Surgeon in the revolutionary army during the war, settled in Greenwich, Conn., where he had a very large practice until the time of his death, which occurred in 1824.
After a preparatory course of study at the New York University, Dr. Belcher commenced the study of medicine under Prof. J. M. Smith, M. D., and afterward graduated at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1839. After graduating, he was for several years associated with his father, and acquired a favorable reputation. Hearing occasionally and incidentally of good results from homopathic treatment, he procured a copy of Hahnemann's "Organon," and of Hering's "Jahr," which he read, and then experimented with homopathic remedies. The first few trials were so strikingly successful, as to fix his attention, and settle the course of his future professional life.
In 1844, he married the second daughter of John Harper, Esq., of New York city. Dr. Belcher is a member of the New York Medical Society, of the County, and of the State Homopathic Medical Societies, also of the American Institute of Homopathy. He has made a few contributions to theNorth American Homopathic Medical Journal. He has devoted his life to his profession.
Source : Cleave's Biographical Cyclopędia of Homopathic Physicians and Surgeons By Egbert Cleave
Copyright © Sylvain Cazalet 2002
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Future foods – Robert Hickson:
Will farm livestock become endangered species? Social, economic and environmental drivers are converging to not only look at producing food more efficiently and sustainably, but are also stimulating new ways to produce meat or remove the need for it altogether. Such changes, if successful, could have substantial effects on New Zealand’s agricultural and economic landscapes.
Lab-grown meat has been worked on for a while, and convergence with other technologies is starting. Modern Meadow is aiming to print meat. In vitro production of meat still has a long way to go, technically, economically and socially. There is scepticism that it will become economically viable and sufficiently scaleable. Or even appeal to consumers. But would it really be that different from currently available mechanically extracted meat products , insects or some of the delights whipped up by molecular gastronomists? . . .
A $54,000 grant to St John from Federated Farmers will help the organisation continue its important community work.
Federated Farmers made several grants from their Adverse Events Trust in September 2012, and St John was one of the recipients. The money came from individual farmers, meat company workers and meant and wool companies.
Federated Farmers’ representatives Katie Milne (National Board Member) and John Hartnell (Chairman of the Bee Industry Group) visited the St John Regional Operations Centre to see the work of the ambulance communications centre, as well as have a look at a new ambulance. . .
Contacting Fonterra has been on the to-do list for many New Zealand primary schools since the 2013 school year kicked off – and more than half of the country’s eligible schools have now expressed interest in Fonterra Milk for Schools.
More than 1100 schools, representing about 191,000 kids, have registered their interest in the nationwide programme which will provide free milk to primary-aged children every school day. This is on top of the more than 110 schools already participating in Northland.
Fonterra Group General Manager Global Co-operative Social Responsibility Carly Robinson says the number of schools getting in contact has been growing by the day. . .
Dairy expo braodens view of the industry - Sally Rae:
Question – what’s black and white and red all over? Not necessarily a newspaper.
It could be a cow hide tanned by Southland man Adam Cowie, who established his own business about three years ago after working in a tannery for many years.
Mr Cowie, from Animal Skin Tanning Services Ltd, had skins for sale at the Southern Region Dairy Expo at Clydevale last week.
The event, organised by the Clutha Valley Lions Club, attracted a wide variety of exhibitors, selling everything from tractors and trailers to fertiliser and milking systems, pumps and stockfeed. . .
DairyNZ is encouraging farmers to use the latest Forage Value Index lists to help make decisions on perennial ryegrass cultivars.
The DairyNZ Forage Value Index (FVI) was launched last May as an initiative between DairyNZ and the New Zealand Plant Breeding and Research Association (NZPBRA). The region-specific FVIs utilise seasonal dry matter yields from NZPBRA’s National Forage Variety Trials.
DairyNZ’s Dr Jeremy Bryant says the latest set of FVI lists were released in December. . .
Kirsten Bryant has been returned as the Western North Island Farmer Director on the Board of Beef + Lamb New Zealand.
The Beef + Lamb New Zealand Returning Officer, Warwick Lampp has reported that Kirsten Bryant received 11,503 votes and John McCarthy received 6,149 votes. . .
In less than a week the first regional winners in the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards will be announced, opening new opportunities and career prospects.
National convenor Chris Keeping says it is an exciting time when the winners of the 12 regional competitions become known and a new group of passionate and enthusiastic dairy farmers step forward.
“We had more than 550 entries this year, so our judges are working extremely hard to identify those sharemilkers, equity farmers, farm managers, contract milkers and trainees doing the best with the resources and farm they have available to them. The awards are not about being perfect, they are about making progress.” . . .
With high demand in dry areas edging up the price of supplementary feed, dairy farmers wanting to maintain production into late autumn have got an increasingly cost effective “friend in N”, says Ballance Science Extension Manager Aaron Stafford.
“As a feed source home grown pasture remains your best bang for buck and with supplementary feed prices now averaging $50 a tonne more, farms that are not battling the dry conditions will find N an even more competitive tool for extending autumn lactation and maintaining herd condition.”
Aaron says products like SustaiN Green, which reduces ammonia volatilisation, offer farmers more flexibility to apply nitrogen when it’s needed most or when it suits them better, even if the weather or soil conditions often experienced during autumn are not optimal. . .
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Following the advice of one fellow here in the forum, I think that I should try to explain how a freaking compressor works with a simple language. Hope you find it interesting. I'm not a pro but I think this will give more light on this tricky subject. Let's start...
Let me explain it with my own words. Compressor is a signal processor. You can find it in most recording software as well as rack units. A compressor reduces dynamic range. What does it do?
The compressor tames the highest peaks of your sound wave and allows the signal to be louder. Given that the sound waves are more even, your wave sounds more punchy and tight. overuse of compressor kill dynamics and that's the reason you must be careful and not over compress you tracks.
In these example you can see the track after and before being compressed. What you might notice first is that the weird peaks you fin in the original wave are less pronounced in the compressed track. Also notice that the overall gain (volume) of the new track is almost the same. How does it happen? Well, let's analyze my compressor setting.
That's the point where you signal processor start to work. When the signal surpasses -18.0 dB it starts reducing the volume. How much?
That's the reduction you're applying to the portion for the signal that past your threshold. I'm using a 3 to 1 reduction. It means that if I have 3db going past the threshold I'm gonna end with 1db. Any compression stronger than 20:1 is considered limiting.
Attack & release
To put in easy words that's thow fast or slow your compressor active and deactivate. In this example I've used a fast attack and faster release. You can experiment with these knobs. Depending on the kind of source your compressing, these setting could vary (metal kicks benefit from high attack and some cymbals sound better with slow releases)
It's called hard knee compression when the processor kicks in quickly and soft knee compression when it comes gradually as the signal rises. I've used a soft-knee compression to make it sound more natural.
So you reduced the overall level of your track. Now what? Well, you can apply some Gain to increase the volume until the compressed track matches the uncompressed track.
You can hear both examples in here:
It would be nice of the experts to comment on this subject .
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The property for sale at 465 Brickell Ave Apt 504, Miami, FL in Downtown has a list price of $365,000. This property has 1 bedrooms and 1 bathrooms with an approximate square footage of 597. This property is listed by Jonathan Mann with Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate - Miami Beach Lincoln Building and is being sent to Yahoo! Homes by NRT Florida. 465 Brickell Ave Apt 504 has been listed on Yahoo! Homes for 16 days.
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I’ve been on a rib kick lately. I usually like my ribs simple—seasoned with nothing but a salt, cayenne and black pepper rub, smoked low and slow over post-oak wood. But when I’m trying to make outdoor fare inside, I tend to change my tune. Take my Dr Pepper ribs. These are sticky, spicy and sweet, which is the exact opposite of how I like my barbecue. And yet, I love my Dr Pepper ribs so much that I could eat a whole rack by myself.
Now if you know me well, you are aware that I’m a staunch opponent of sauce on barbecue. And yes, these ribs are wet and messy, so much in fact that if you don’t have a stack of napkins nearby you should probably wear a bib. So what changed my mind and why did I decide to make saucy ribs?
We Texans love to cook with Dr Pepper. I love to use Dr Pepper in my peanut brittle and a Dr Pepper chocolate cake is wonderful as well as it always turns out so moist. But I’d never tried using Dr Pepper with meat and I was curious if it would make that much of a difference.
I’ve tried making meat with my stove-top smoker in the style that I like it, but save for fish and vegetables, the results haven’t been great. So when it comes to oven-baked ribs, I decided to eschew outside authenticity and instead shoot for lots of flavor. Enter the Dr Pepper.
At first I tried making my ribs savory, using the Dr Pepper as only a tenderizer. This was wrong as the ribs were soggy with a strange flavor. It wasn’t, however the Dr Pepper’s fault—it was mine for pretending that the drink was something it wasn’t. So I decided that I would embrace the Dr Pepper’s inherent sweetness and try to compliment that with flavors that balanced it instead of fought it.
I coated the ribs in a smoky, sweet dry rub made with chipotle powder and brown sugar and let them rest for a few hours. I then made a glaze with my chipotle ketchup, Dr Pepper, mustard, vinegar, molasses and allspice. I baked the ribs in a low oven for a little over an hour and then started applying my Dr Pepper glaze. After another hour and a stint under the broiler, the meat was tender and each bite was coated in a sticky glaze both fiery and sweet.
Now because these ribs are messy, you may be tempted to eat these with a knife and a fork. Don’t. A year ago, the family was gathered for Thanksgiving at my grandmother’s farm and her neighbor brought over some ribs. Because we were having a sit-down dinner, I started to eat my ribs with a knife and a fork. “What are you doing?” said my uncle. “You don’t eat ribs with silverware! Use your hands like a Texan.”
You won’t find wet, sticky ribs at a Hill Country barbecue joint, so you could argue ribs such as these aren’t authentically Texan. But that’s just silly. Why? Because there’s nothing more Texan than Dr Pepper, chipotle peppers and eating meat with your hands!
What do you like to make with Dr Pepper?
Dr Pepper ribs
For the rub:
1/4 cup of salt
1/4 cup of black pepper
1/4 cup of brown sugar
4 teaspoons of mustard powder
1/2 teaspoon of cayenne
2 teaspoons of chipotle powder
1/2 teaspoon of allspice
For the glaze:
2 cups of Dr Pepper
1 cup of ketchup
1/2 cup of mustard
1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons of molasses
2-4 teaspoons of chipotle powder
Two racks of St Louis ribs
1/4 cup of Dr Pepper
Coat the ribs with the rub, wrap in plastic and place in the refrigerator for at least four hours.
Heat the oven to 300 degrees and bring the ribs to room temperature.
In a foil-lined large baking or roasting pan, arrange the ribs with the meat side up, pour in 1/4 cup of Dr Pepper, cover pan tightly with foil and place in the oven.
Meanwhile, place all the glaze ingredients in a pan, bring to a boil and then simmer for 20 minutes until thick and syrupy.
After an hour and a half, take the ribs out of the oven and spread some of the glaze on each side of the racks. Place back in the oven, meat side up and cook uncovered for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, take out the ribs and spread more glaze over them and cook for 30 more minutes or until ribs are desired tenderness.
At this point, take the ribs out of the oven, spread more glaze on them and then cook each side under the broiler for four minutes.
Divide and serve!
Notes: You can use my chipotle ketchup instead of regular ketchup for the glaze and I used Dublin Dr Pepper, but you can use regular Dr Pepper, just don't use diet!
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Altadena’s free Concerts in the Park series kicks off its 15th year this Saturday with a little something from the old country: the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Pride Dancers. “The Irish Volunteers” isn’t exactly the snappiest name for a folk-rock band—it doesn’t really sound like a band at all—but a band they are, a four member outfit with a guitar, an accordion, and a tin whistle (and a trombone, at least in the photo at right).
The Concerts in the Park series is organized by the Sheriff’s Support Group of Altadena. As in the past, Amy’s Patio café will be offering gourmet dinners. New this year, however, is booze: the Rotary Club (!) will be selling wine and draft beer for consumption within the amphitheater. Also new this year is El Patron, who will be selling a couple different boxed dinners for $5 a pop.
The whole summer concert series schedule is available here.
The Irish Volunteers and the Irish Pride Dancers
Saturday, July 9, 7 p.m.
568 E. Mount Curve Ave., Altadena
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By Michelle Linzy
Women are not the only ones that understand the value of going to the spa. Men are making the choice to include spa treatment into their lifestyle as well. Here is a list of the most important things men need to know before, during and after their trip to the spa.
1. Underwear selection is up to you – you decide if you want to wear boxers, briefs or go commando during a massage or body treatment. Your professional spa technician will be fine with whatever you choose to do.
2. Shave if you are having a facial – this will help you receive the most from your facialist because he/she will be able to treat any ingrown hairs, razor burn or facial irritations that can occur from the use of an old razor.
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3. Arrive at least 10 minutes early - this will allow time to fill out any registration forms, change and decompress.
4. Turn off any mobile devices – spa treatments are meant to be relaxing but that can immediately change with the piercing sound of a cell phone. It is also rude to disturb others around you that want to experience a relaxing and soothing environment.
5. Shower before your massage – smelling clean and feeling fresh will make the massage experience a very pleasant one for both you and your masseuse.
6. Use your inside voice – the spa experience is a calm and soothing experience for both you and those around you. You are not at a sporting event…no need to shout or speak loudly.
7. Talk to your spa technician – inform them of any concerns you have such as allergies, medications that may be affecting your appearance or physical ailments (pulled muscle, torn ligaments). He or she will then be able to customize your facial, massage or nail treatment.
8. Do not put on body lotion before waxing – it is much easier to remove the strip wax and the experience will also be less painful. Definitely inform your technician if you are using Accutane or Retin-A because it will prevent your skin from being removed along with your hair.
9. Tip your spa technician – it is customary to show appreciation to your spa technician with a 15-20% tip. Your spa technician will also remember you and will make a point to take special care of you at your next appointment.
10. Do not work out after a spa treatment – the purpose of a spa treatment is to put your mind, body and spirit in a relaxed state. The last thing you want to do is go and tense them up again immediately afterwards.
Following these steps will contribute to an unbelievable spa experience. Glen Ivy is ready, willing and able to welcome you to a spa experience you won’t soon forget.
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If you are up for some in depth reading, I suggest you check out this open letter to Barack Obama from Punk-Rock-Patriarch Jello Biafra. It's the sanest thing I've read in some time.
IRAQ – TRY THIS!
The closest thing to a solution I have heard was offered clear back in April 2004 by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (www.oic-ico.org). The OIC is comprised of 57 Islamic countries ranging from West Africa clear over to Southeast Asia. At their annual meeting they found six member nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Yemen and Morocco) willing to pony up enough of their own troops (approx. 150,000) that our troops could have gone home! Who slammed the door on that one? Colin Powell, on the grounds that having the Islamic soldiers under UN command instead of Americans was out of the question.
WHY??!? Wouldn't a neutral force of Muslim peacekeepers make a lot more headway than the disaster we've made? Wouldn't they at least command a lot more respect, resulting in a huge drop in violence? Surely the non-stop carnage and Iracketeering we have spawned is Exhibit A that we need to get over this colonialist illusion that other countries' problems can only be solved by Americans. The OIC's proposal for US withdrawal and peace in Iraq must be revisited immediately, and also considered for Afghanistan.
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Orchestra Iowa’s celebration of Valentine’s Day, “Star-Crossed Lovers,” is yet another successful evening at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids.
The focus on orchestral renderings of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo And Juliet” worked well, reflecting the always sharp-eyed, always marketable programming of Music Director Timothy Hankewich.
Maestro Hankewich delivered a very tightly played, nuanced evening of music-making. I particularly appreciated his inclusion of Grinnell College professor Eric McIntyre’s “Drive By.” It is a brief, angry fragment of orchestral music, echoing all the violence that drive-by shootings imply. We hear the car coming, and want to duck under our seats as the explosions erupt in the percussion and brass sections of the orchestra. Contemporary orchestral music of quality is hard to come by these days, and the reaching out of Hankewich to a talented young composer is admirable.
The orchestra’s brass section also has a field day in Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.” This well-known music has been with us since 1957, and the composer’s work with young lyricist Steven Sondheim was as good as it has ever gotten for a Broadway musical. I enjoyed the finger-snapping in the orchestra, as well as the full-throated “mambo” from orchestra members. At one point the string sections jump to their feet, and the conductor does a pirouette. This conductor is, thank goodness, a showman. Classical music does not have to put its audience to sleep.
The evening began with Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet,” which is the choice of many a ballet choreographer, including MacMillan, Nureyev, Morris and Ratmansky. It tells the story scene by scene, and the Orchestra presented four of those, including the balcony scene and the death of Tybalt at the hands of Mercutio. The music has always been, since it was first performed in 1938, powerful and dramatic. It digs deep into the young romance of the story and the highly emotional war between the Montagues and the Capulets, as well as the violence that results in the deaths of the young lovers.
The agonizing depths of this play, which first appeared in London in 1595, are explored brilliantly by the composer. And this depth was realized beautifully by Orchestra Iowa.
Prokoviev was trained in St. Petersburg, as was Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky’s version of “Romeo And Juliet” first appeared in 1886. It is rather a quieter version of the story, celebrating romance and the mourning of the death of the lovers. The composition does not go scene by scene, but is an overall expression of the strong feelings that drive Shakespeare’s play.
The performance of this work tested the Paramount’s new acoustics. The welcome renovation allows both conductor and orchestra to reach for soft, subtle effects.
Congratulations to all concerned for a thoughtful evening. Think of the range of centuries represented on the stage, as our culture thrives. Many a community the size of Cedar Rapids has been struggling to sustain an orchestra: ours is doing just fine.
(The concert repeated at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, at West High School in Iowa City.)
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This series is looking like 2008 all over again. The Celtics are close to making their claim for a missed threepeat correct. Kevin Garnett’s injury last year has been widely discussed among Boston players and fans as the only reason the Celtics are not one game away from their third straight title.
I watched this Game 5 and it looked eerily similar to Lakers circa 2007-2008.
The Phoenix Suns eliminated them in successive years because Kobe Bryant was forced to become ultra aggressive and the others stood and watched. In 2008, we saw Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom get roughed up and the Lakers tumbling.
Here we are in 2010 and we are witnessing a disturbing trend again with Kobe taking most of the shots. The Lakers are not very good when they stand and watch Kobe - especially against a frenetic defense which Boston employs.
Boston has held the Lakers to 87.5 points a game over the last two despite Kobe averaging 35.
Critics will start to put the blame on Kobe, but he really tries to stay away from dominating the ball. He was forced to be aggressive because the triangle offense has officially been forced out to 15 to 18 feet away from the basket. Without any teammates to create their own shot in those areas, it falls on Kobe.
This was the Celtic plan and the Lakers have fallen into it. If they are to get out of this jam, Gasol cannot grab 7 offensive rebounds and get only get 3 free-throw attempts. Those opportunities should be putbacks or trips to the free-throw line.
What’s occurred for the Celtics is that Paul Pierce has finally arrived and, as I said before the series, Ron Artest struggles against him. Doc Rivers is now employing Pierce in two-man game scenarios and Artest's big body cannot squeeze over the screens... So Pierce has Gasol, Odom or Andrew Bynum at his mercy.
Throw in now the consistent play of Garnett and the Celtics have somehow regained a second wind while the Lakers look tired.
The one thing that has become pretty obvious is that the Lakers' bench has gone silent. I can argue it’s not their fault. Throughout his career, Phil Jackson has notoriously gone against using his bench the deeper a Finals series goes on. Shannon Brown did not help the cause after Game 4 when he commented that the starters never want to come out of games and Phil rewarded him with no time. I guess you can still send messages to players even though it’s the Finals.
I picked the Celtics to win this series in six games and they have an opportunity to close it out exactly as I said, but this close-out will be the hardest they ever faced because now they are talking about the defending champions on their home court.
Game 6 will be the game of the series because the Lakers are obviously facing elimination, but the Celtics do not want a Game 7 having to deal with the best closer in basketball – Kobe Bryant.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN GAME 6
- The Celtics will continue to run their offense through Paul Pierce and force Gasol, Bynum and Odom to step out and defend their two-man game.
- Look for the Celtics to continue to guard Kobe one on one and not allow him to create opportunities for Gasol, Odom and Derek Fisher.
- The Celtics have established a good rotation off the bench and they will have to give a solid 14-15 minutes as a group to put the Celtics in position to win Game 6.
- The Celtics cannot afford to have 17 turnovers and that responsibility falls to Rajon Rondo, who had 7 in Game 5.
- The Lakers have to find a way to get Gasol better post-up positions. He is catching the ball consistently 12 to 15 feet from the basket.
- Get Artest a look or two early against Pierce, who right now is using all his energy on offense.
- Decide if Bynum can actually play because they could be losing valuable production if Odom can get a rhythm early from starting. Bynum had 1 rebound in Game 5 and no blocks.
- Get some home production from the bench to allow the starters to be able to close the fourth quarter, where they have failed in the last two games.
- The Lakers will not win if they do not have three players with 15 points or more. Kobe cannot and will not beat the Celtics alone.
Game 6 will be the best game of the series and I am excited to see it Tuesday night!
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1. I'm of course happy that Gregg withdrew from Commerce Secretary nomination. Now I hope Obama appoints someone with domain and general competency to manage the large, diverse, quant-heavy bureacracy that is Commerce Dept. President of a large research university or governor of a reasonably large population state would probably be perfect: it's the closest I can think of to managing a department that has Census and NOAA, among others, in it.
2. I'm not wild about Sebilius as HHS head, because I think Obama works to hard to subordinate potential rivals (Clinton, Richardson, Napolitano) in filling these slots, rather than pick the most qualified -although both is preferable to picking poorly qualified buddies like Daschle. As I posted before, I would prefer the Public Health head of a large population state, or an undersecretary or regional director from a recent past administration. Still, Sebelius is a huge improvement on a Daschle or a Gregg -she's actually managed a fairly large bureacracy, and has decent intellectual credentials (JD -harvard, MPA U Kansas, I beleive). Also, in an original star trek kind of symbolism, I like the idea aesthetically of the HHS director coming from something closer to the health and human services sciences. It's not like (to my knowledge) Sebelius was even a health and/or human services policy specialist prior to becoming a governor. Still, I think she meets the threshhold competency minimum -although she's not close to the archetype of the perfect nominee for the job. That's why I suspect subordinated potential rivals is putting the thumb heavily on the Obama scale for her.
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So I've never written a tutorial and I'm no expert sewer, in fact, I'm not very precise so please bear with me. When I saw this mail bag online it was unavailable, from a large retailer, so I thought I could make it and gave it a try. I think I did a good job recreating it.
First, you'll need to cut all your pieces. I'm using a quilting weight red for the front and a heavy weight canvas stripe for my lining and applique and straps which I happened to have on hand.
Two pieces 7.5 by 16.5 inches for the back that wraps around to create the front flap. (This measurement is .5 inches less than mine, as I felt it was a little long). It doesn't show it in this photo, but you should also round your corners on this piece and the front. See later photos. I just used about a 2.5" diameter circle and marked it on the back of the piece and with the front and back together I cut them both at the same time.
Two pieces 7.5 x 9 inches for the front. It doesn't show it in this photo, but you should also round your corners on this piece and the back. See later photos. I just used about a 2.5" diameter circle and marked it on the back of the piece with them together and cut them both at the same time.
Two pieces 4 x 17 inches for the straps (since I've made the bag, my daughter has been wearing the bag, as a backpack, instead of hanging it. So if you anticipate your child doing this, you could make your straps longer as 17" is a little tight for my 5 year old)
Two pieces 2.5 x 22.5 for the sides (I also put interfacing on my quilt weight piece so that the bag would have some stability)
With some steam a seam or iron on interfacing attached cut a heart and the word MAIL, you'll also need some rick-rack and I used two sets of dot hook and loop tape (velcroe)
Now lets make the straps. I made them just as you would make bias tape or quilt binding. Iron them down the center horizontally and then press each side towards the center seam again. Now refold and press once more. Also unfold the end and press in about a half inch and press again so all raw edges are encased. I also hand sewed a hook and tape dot on one edge so that it could be undone to fit on our chairs. This isn't entirely necessary depending on your chairs. Ours are wide and if I hadn't done this, they wouldn't have hung well. Now sew all the way around your straps doing and edge seam.
Time to applique. Lets get one thing straight--I'm in not good at this, so don't judge me! On the back piece, (the larger one) using what will be the front of the fabric find the middle and place your heart right side up and pin in place. Now applique that on with a small zig zag stitch and also applique a key hole. Do the same for the word MAIL on the smaller piece which is the front of the mail bag. This will be at the bottom but leave room for the seam. I put it about 3/4 up from the bottom. Once you've finished your applique, put the two main pieces and the side piece with the lining pieces right sides together. Notice how my corners are rounded now. Now we are ready to put in the rick rack and sew these together.
I marked a line on each side at 9" from the non-heart side. Then starting at that mark start pining in your rick-rack right next to your edge. It shouldn't be peeking out at all. Just leave the tail out at the beginning and the end. Wrap around and pin around the corners as best you can and as you are sewing make sure you keep the rickrack even with the edges of your lining and front fabric and stitch all the way around the pieces with a 1/4" stitch (backstitching at the beginning and end) leaving about a 3-4" opening for turning.
Do the same for the front piece and the side piece again leaving openings for turning. Turn and press all pieces and you should have something like this! You don't need to worry about finishing the holes that you left for turning as they will get closed up when sewing the pieces together.
Next sew the side piece to the front piece that says mail on it. Pin it first so that you make sure it is even and matches up nice. I used an edge stitch here and found it easier to stitch with the side facing me as opposed to the front piece. Sew carefully around the corners to avoid puckering. Pressing it flat with my finger as I sewed it worked well for me.
Next pin the straps to the back piece the longer one, slightly under where the rickrack begins. Make sure they are even with each other and sew them on with a X and a square. Maybe you can do a better job than I did. You can also sew your spouse piece of hook and loop tape on at this point as well which would probably be easier than at the end like I did.
Now sew the back to the side, making sure to pin first so that it all matches up well and is even. Again I found it easier to work with the side facing up on the sewing machine.
For the mail slot I marked about a 3.5-4" line and made a narrow rectangle on the top closer to the back of the bag to make sure the mail would go in the bag and just stitched an tight zig zag applique stitch and started a hole with my seam ripper and then cut carefully within the narrow box I had made.
I used some iron on letters I got at Michaels for her name and simply followed the instructions but you could embroider it on at the beginning before you stitch the lining and front together if you are good at that type of thing as well. I think a magnetic purse clasp would be nice as well for the flap but I didn't have two laying around and I have to make two of these so I for went that. I may add a button to the front flap since that is cheaper and my kids need to practice buttons anyway.
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CUAHSI would like to invite you to join us for the first cyberseminar of the Spring 2013 Series on Friday, March 8, 2013 at 3:00pm ET with a presentation by Jessica Lundquist from the University of Washington. Dr. Lundquist's talk is entitled, "Mountain hydrology as revealed by large networks of inexpensive sensors." The theme for the spring series is "Complementary Methods and Models," with a complete schedule of speakers available on CUAHSI's website.
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2. Once logged in, you will receive a prompt to enter your telephone number (it is not necessary to enter "+1"), whereup the system will call you back automatically to connect you to the audio portion of the meeting. *This does not work if you have a phone extension or are calling outside the US or Canada*
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Lundquist cyberseminar abstract:
Mountains are spatially complex, with variations in microclimate (on the scale of tens of meters) as great as variations in mesoclimate (the scale of tens of kilometers). Snowy mountains are the water towers of the world, providing a source of drinking water for 40% of the population, and their snow is highly sensitive to changes in climate. However, mountains are poorly sampled, and a measurement in any given point is likely not representative of the surrounding terrain. Fortunately, recent advances in sensor technology have made it easier to measure temperature, pressure, and relative humidity at many locations at relatively little cost. Here we discuss how these networks of sensors, combined with modeling and remote sensing, are changing how we think about heterogeneity in weather, snow, and streamflow in mountains and how understanding this spatial variability helps resource management decisions.
Thank you and we look forward to your participation in Friday's cyberseminar!
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Cantor: Obama administration’s actions say, “We want to make it harder to create jobs”
posted at 12:45 pm on August 22, 2011 by Tina Korbe
In a must-read Washington Post op-ed today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor made the connection between the present jobs crisis and the nation’s ongoing debt crisis — and pinned blame for both on President Barack Obama:
[T]he Obama administration’s anti-business, hyper-regulatory, pro-tax agenda has fueled economic uncertainty and sent the message from the administration that “we want to make it harder to create jobs.” There is no other conclusion for policies such as the new Environmental Protection Agency regulations, including the “Transport Rule,” which could eliminate thousands of jobs, or the ozone regulation that would cost upward of $1 trillion and millions of jobs in the construction industry over the next decade. The administration’s new maximum achievable control technology standards for cement are expected to affect nearly 100 cement plants, setting over-the-top requirements resulting in increased costs and possibly thousands of jobs being offshored. There is the president’s silence as the National Labor Relations Board seeks to prevent Boeing from opening a plant in South Carolina that would create thousands of jobs. Such behavior, coupled with the president’s insistence on raising the top tax rate paid by individuals and small businesses, has resulted in a lag in growth that has added to the debt crisis, contributing to our nation’s credit downgrade. …
The debt crisis threatens our long-term future: the ability of our children and their children to have the same opportunities to succeed that this and previous generations enjoyed. Republicans passed a budget this spring, written by Rep. Paul Ryan, that would address our challenges head-on by putting in place common-sense reforms to manage our debt over the short and long term.
Unfortunately, we have found President Obama to be an unwilling partner when it comes to getting America’s fiscal house in order. Since taking office, he has added trillions to the debt, ignored the recommendations of his own fiscal commission and put forth a budget that failed to address the drivers of our debt. Then we had to drag him to the table to make even the modest spending cuts that Standard & Poor’s says don’t go far enough.
Cantor also took aim at the president’s reluctance to reform entitlements in the structural way necessary to ensure solvency and reiterated Republicans’ opposition to any new tax increases, writing that tax hikes would only “exacerbate the jobs crisis for the 14 million Americans out of work.”
As Cantor writes, the president’s class warfare rhetoric belies his purported concern for cooperation and action — and his willingness to raise taxes on even non-millionaire-and-billionaire households, like individuals reporting income of more than $200,000 and families and small businesses with incomes of more than $250,000, hints at the underlying agenda of his administration, which is, quite simply, to grow government.
Cantor does an admirable job of connecting the dots and drawing the distinction between the two ideologies in competition as the federal government attempts to solve the crises we face. In one corner, the president and his administration, out of a misguided paternalism, want the government to provide even what it cannot afford. In the other, Republicans in the House want to move government in the opposite direction — to reduce it so that American wage-earners may keep what they’ve worked for and invest it as they see fit (including in job creation!). Framed in such stark language, it’s difficult not to choose the latter.
For Republicans to enact their government-reducing agenda, though, the American people must deliver an electoral mandate in the Senate and the White House. Reminders, like this op-ed, of just what’s at stake in the next election — the heart of the American Dream, the idea of self-government over and against a secure-sounding (but ever-so-expensive!) wide social safety net — are needed now more than ever. Kudos to Cantor for laying out the Republican agenda early. Let’s hope he and the rest of House leadership repeat it often between now and November 2012.
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Panetta lifts Pentagon ban on women serving in direct combat
posted at 5:11 pm on January 23, 2013 by Allahpundit
Just this morning I was thinking that abortion and gay marriage had gotten a bit stale as fodder for really nasty, bitter culture-war bloodsport. Luckily, Obama and Leon Panetta are here to keep things interesting.
The groundbreaking move recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units. Panetta’s decision gives the military services until January 2016 to seek special exceptions if they believe any positions must remain closed to women…
Panetta’s move expands the Pentagon’s action nearly a year ago to open about 14,500 combat positions to women, nearly all of them in the Army. This decision could open more than 230,000 jobs, many in Army and Marine infantry units, to women.
In recent years the necessities of war propelled women into jobs as medics, military police and intelligence officers that were sometimes attached — but not formally assigned — to units on the front lines.
The AP says Panetta’s order will involve “allowing women to seek the combat positions,” which isn’t remotely the same as ordering women who are already in the service to the front lines. Sounds like the opportunity will be there for women soldiers if and when they want it — although as women serving in the infantry becomes more common, it’s bound to create peer pressure on women troops who don’t necessarily want to go to the front but feel obliged to. Oh well. CNN has more on how this differs from the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” In short, there’s no “special exemption” available to a unit that concludes it can’t/won’t integrate gay troops:
The Army and Marine Corps, especially, will be examining physical standards and gender-neutral accommodations within combat units. Every 90 days, the service chiefs will have to report back on their progress…
[The policy] is a marked difference from the way the military ended the exclusion of gays serving openly, or “don’t ask don’t tell.” In that case, there were no stipulations attached to openly gay service members. There was no staggered approach that integrated openly gay troops into units. It was instead done all at once, across the board.
A senior Defense official explained the Pentagon’s reasoning behind the different approach: “You’re talking about personal choice of behavior vs. physical capability. And they were already in the units. If you take a unit that’s never had women before, that’s quite a culture change.”
Women already serve in combat support roles and have been killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan but this is the first time they’ll be placed intentionally in the line of enemy fire. It was a fait accompli, though. Ever since DADT was repealed, activists had eyed this as the next frontier in equality inside the military. The Pentagon bowed to pressure early last year by allowing women troops to serve in non-combat roles as part of battalions, which put them closer to the front lines. More than one poll has showed majority support for letting women serve in combat, and other allied militaries, like Australia and the IDF, already make some combat roles available to women. The question wasn’t whether this might happen, it’s how broad the new policy would end up being. Volunteers only or mandatory service for all women who are fit to serve on the front lines? Special Ops duties too or are the physical requirements too onerous? Israel has already lowered its standards for female combat troops, although allegedly that has less to do with physical challenges than with women wanting to serve in more tech-heavy roles.
Not all vets support the idea, of course. Here’s a piece written last year by a former infantry officer making the case against women infantry on grounds that close combat will simply prove too brutal for many of them; here’s another by a female officer who warns that long duty in the field is likely to prove too physically grueling. The X factor at the moment is what Chuck Hagel thinks, but I doubt we’ll ever really know: Even if he disagrees with the policy change, there’s no earthly way he didn’t already sign onto it behind closed doors with Obama as a concession to Democrats, who are giddy about the change and lukewarm about his nomination. He’ll rubber-stamp it whether he wants to or not.
Exit question for opponents of the Iraq and/or Afghanistan wars: How excited are you to have a giant new pool of soldiers available to make future wars that much more feasible?
Update: Panetta gets the coveted thumbs up from Kelly Ayotte, whose brand as a hawkish Republican woman senator will provide O with some political cover.
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B.Manley is Sick
posted at 3:43 pm on June 26, 2009 by The Race Card
Before the ink even dried on his Cavaliers contract Shaquille O’Neal reportedly contacted B.Manley and challenged him to a $1000 game of H-O-R-S-E. The crew over at TotalProSports suggested Shaq take things one step further by inviting teammate Lebron James and this kid.
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Article: About.com - Italy Travel
Where to go for treatment spas and thermal pools on the island of Ischia
By Martha Bakerjian, About.com Guide
Ischia, an island in the Bay of Naples, is known for its thermal pools with healing waters and its health spas. The water from the natural hot springs, heated by volcanic action, is believed to be the most radioactive in Europe and is good for a variety of health treatments including rheumatism. The thermal springs have been popular since Greek and Roman times and spas and resorts have been built up around the best ones.
Ischia sees fewer tourists than its neighboring island, Capri, although in summer it's popular with Italians and Germans. The island is a good place for a relaxing vacation, especially in spring and fall. In addition to thermal pools there are beaches, geysers, gardens, ancient ruins, and a castle.
I asked Francesca Di Meglio, whose family comes from Ischia, about Ischia spas and thermal pools and she provided me with this information. She says that all of the thermal pools are helpful, based on her personal experience after three knee surgeries, and that they all help your skin tremendously.
You don't actually need to stay in a fancy hotel to partake of the healing treatments. Yes, some of the hotels, especially the fancy ones, have their own thermal pools and treatment spas but you could simply stay at an affordable hotel and go to the gardens or spas or pay to enter the treatment centers at one of the hotels. Most of them offer this kind of service.
Here are Ischia's top thermal resorts and spas to go to for healing treatments:
- Negombo in Lacco Ameno is Francesca's favorite place for thermal pools. The ten thermal pools are made of concrete and are found in the mountainside, so that they blend in with nature. There is also a beach so you can swim in the sea, too. Negombo is a thermal pool park, and you don't need a reservation. You can just show up, pay the fee and enter. If you want massages or some other personal treatment though, you should call ahead and make a reservation. Negombo website, in Italian.
- Poseidon is the most famous and largest of the thermal parks. It is lovely, set next to the sea where you can swim, and has about 20 pools of different temperatures, some with waterfall or hydro massage. The thermal pools here are typical pools fed by natural hot springs. There are gardens, restaurants, and a bar. It's a little expensive. Poseidon Gardens is on the Bay of Citara, on Ischia's west side.
- Cava Scura, in Sant' Angelo, is probably considered the best healing treatment spa and their thermal pools are thought to be the oldest.
- Aphrodite thermal park in Maronti (near Sant' Angelo) has a great reputation. Aphrodite has eight thermal pools and a beach. Classic treatments, such as mud baths and massage, are available.
- Castiglione is a more economical choice for thermal pools, making it popular with kids and families, so it can be crowded and less relaxing. If you're traveling with kids, Castiglione would be a good choice. The thermal springs here have been known since Roman times. In addition to the nine thermal pools, there are an Olympic-sized pool with sea water and two covered pools.
- Nitrodi in Buonopane (in the comune di Barano) has healing showers and the water is best known for helping with skin ailments.
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"What constitutes great personal style? This is one of the questions I get asked the most. We tend to think that to acheive great personal style someone must have perfect clarity about who they are and what they stand for. I politely disagree. I think conflict about who you are often leads to even greater expression. That is why young people, or the young at heart, are those that inspire or move fashion forward. They are still struggling to find themselves: "Am I a rocker? A footballer? Or a little bit of both?". These contradictions produce the most interesting looks."
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Aaliyah & Damon Dash’s relationship was abruptly cut short when the singer died in a plane crash after shooting her “Rock The Boat” video in the Bahamas. The couple met through his accountant in 2000 and were friends first before becoming an inseparable couple in front of the camera.
Today marks the 11th year anniversary of Aaliyah’s death.
Lat year, on this day, Dash opened up to Billboard about their relationship and her passing:
“My heart was broken. Nothing prepares you for that.’
“She was intelligent and she caught me. I’m the kind of guy who says things sometimes just to make myself laugh, but she would just catch me making jokes for me. I couldn’t get anything past her. She had a very quick mind and a very kind heart.”
“She was always working and shooting movies. She was always gone for like four months at a time, then come back and be gone for another month. She had to rehearse and I was doing my own thing, so it was really hard for us to get long stretches of time together. When you’re with someone like that you buy into a life of being separate, but again, I couldn’t help my feelings.”
“The energy we created together for people to observe was kind of crazy. We’d be in a room full of people talking to each other and it felt like everyone was listening but it would be just us. It would be like we were the only ones in the room. It was like something was going down in history every time I was with her. Every time I was around her I felt it was the place to be.”
“Our time together meant so much that when we got more time, we felt like that [engagement] would be next. She was one of the best people I ever met. Even with the pain I felt, I would do it all over again.”
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Check Out New Jack White Video Teaser
Jack White has unveiled an exclusive first look at ‘Freedom at 21’ the third video from his universally acclaimed debut album Blunderbuss.
The Hot Press Newsdesk, 13 Jul 2012
Get a sneak peek here before the full-length video premieres on Monday, July 16.
Also, the B-sides to Blunderbuss' first three singles are available digitally from this week. Previously available only on vinyl, ‘Love Interruption’, ’Machine Gun Silhouette’, and ‘Sixteen Saltines’ as well as Jack's cover of U2's ‘Love Is Blindness’ can now be purchased online.
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Little Boy Blue
Based on a vicious real-life murder, Eoin McNamee’s latest crime thriller exposes the seedy underbelly of Northern Ireland.
Anne Sexton, 09 Aug 2011
On a chilly evening in 1961, 19-year-old Pearl Gamble made her way home from a dance at the Orange Lodge in Newry. The next morning her body was found. She had been beaten, strangled and stabbed, her clothes removed.
Circumstantial evidence led the police to Robert McGladdery, who had been dancing with Pearl earlier that evening. Having decided they had found their man, McGladdery was tried, convicted and has the distinction of being the last man hanged in Northern Ireland.
Eoin McNamee’s Orchid Blue uses this real-life case to construct a narrative that is part political and social commentary, part noir crime novel. It is a book that asks questions but refuses to give the reader any easy answers.
Orchid Blue operates in a world of shadows and it is not all clear whether McGladdery was guilty – or not. While McNamee doesn’t exonerate him, there is a strong suggestion that the execution may have been a miscarriage of justice.
“I had to build a fiction around it, but the actual events are all completely faithful to the original,” says McNamee.
While McNamee points to tantalising other answers, he refuses to draw conclusions.
“I wanted to point to the fact that there were ambiguities in the case against McGladdery, that there were other possibilities. It was strong in some places, weak in others – and the police didn’t consider other possibilities.
“I was halfway through the book and I felt I was missing something,” he adds. “I realised I hadn’t read all the way through Judge Curran’s summary to the jury. I went up to Belfast to read through it in the Central Library. I saw as I read through it that I had been very unfair to the man – he was actually correct in his summing up. Then I got to the end and I felt as if someone had put a cold hand down the back of my neck. The last two paragraphs of the summing up undermined McGladdery’s case completely.”
The presiding judge, Lance Curran, is key here and his name will be familiar to fans of McNamee’s last novel Blue Tango. In 1952 Lance Curran’s 19-year-old daughter, Patricia, was stabbed to death. Iain Hay Gordon was charged, found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a mental institution. Within a few years, he was quietly released and told to assume a different name. Nearly 50 years later Gordon took steps to clear his name and was exonerated. This should have made Curran unfit to hear McGladdery’s case, but the politically connected judge asked for it, and the old boys’ network ensured he got it.
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Here are small budget for the Build Captivating Contemporary Home. when it will build a new house, definitely the budget into consideration. but you need not worry about it has been proven that the budget can also be tremendous wake kecul home. The Flinders house is visible in Victoria, Australia. architecture with a contemporary style, designed by architect Ibrahim Sharif. Located in a strip of land on the cliff top overlooking the sea, the site is at the end of Cul de Sac, adjacent to the Flinders Golf Course on two sides. The project explores the idea of a retreat house in connection with the extraordinary idea with tight budgets. view of the interior, the position of house on the site, and a more general sense, how to connect to a notion of “simple architecture” through the use of materials and formal clarity about this is how direfrensikan architecture. interior design, furniture selection, all the interesting details of the house will keep you entertained while you scroll down to have fun. outsiders can see all these ideas in a collection of images on small budget to build Captivating Contemporary Home below.
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SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Padres avoided arbitration with third baseman Chase Headley on Wednesday, agreeing to a one-year, $8.575 million deal with the 2012 Silver Slugger and Gold Glove winner.
Headley, who finished fifth in the National League MVP voting in 2012, was seeking $10.3 million. The Padres offered him $7.075 million when players and clubs exchanged arbitration figures last week.
Headley led the NL with 115 RBIs while earning a salary of $3.475 million last season. He also hit a career-best 31 home runs and was the NL Player of the Month in August and September.
"The process of arbitration is never that easy, and in this case, it's a good raise," said Padres general manager Josh Byrnes. "We're happy it's done. Chase earned his salary."
There had been some initial dialog about trying to work out an extension for Headley, who remains under team control until 2015. For now, though, that's been tabled.
"We couldn't frame it up where it made sense for both sides," Byrnes said.
Pitcher Clayton Richard is now the lone Padres player without a contract for 2013. Richard, who matched his career best in victories with 14 last season, is seeking $5.55 million. The team offered $4.905 million.
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In a word or phrase, what does leadership mean to you? Courage.
Why did you join the program? I joined this program because I want to help make a difference in other people lives. I look forward to learning from these experiences to help guide me in my future decisions.
What have you gained from the program? From my first workshop, I have learned a lot about marketing my assets and how to present myself in front of others. I'm anticipating learning much more.
What is your favorite part of the program? I am looking forward to taking a lot of trips to explore other parts of the country and learning from my peers in the process.
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Tame, friendly with all ages, speaks several words, including puppy sound, caugh, laugh and many more.
Nacho is his name. He knows when to say hello and goodbye.
Nacho is only 3 years old and willing to learn many words and tricks.
My children are outgrown with Nacho and he feels lonely now.
The price includes Nacho's beautiful cage.
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Should you paint?
Have you ever noticed how your mood is transformed when the sky is blue after a series of dull grey days?
The same thing happens when you transform your walls from a color you never liked or never noticed, to the perfect shade.
You will fall in love with your rooms again! Depending on the color, you may feel energized or relaxed, but either way you’ll definitely feel inspired.
However, choosing a color palette you will want to live with in your home is very different than choosing one for a home that’s being decorated to sell. There are many factors involved in marketing and selling your home. The curb appeal of your home plays a big role in the sales process, and it’s one of the things you can have direct control over. You’ll never get another chance to make a first impression of how your home looks from the street. If your home exterior needs new paint, potential buyers might not even get out of their car to come in and look. Putting fresh paint on your home, both on the outside and the inside, is usually the one thing you can do that pays off the fastest. You’ll get more buyers looking, and they’ll like what they see more, translating into a better chance for a quick offer at a higher price.
Try to stick with light, neutral colors. These seem to resonate best with buyers. A fresh coat of light or warm beige on interior walls will freshen up your home and make it more marketable.
Simply put, new paint is usually the most profitable improvement you can make when getting your home ready for sale. So unless your paint is already in like new condition, you probably should paint. Almost anyone can paint a wall if they take their time; and at $20 – $60 a gallon, paint is the cheapest decorating tool.
Test Your Paint Color-Vital Home Staging Tip!
Many people are opening up to color on their walls, even when they are preparing their homes for sale. Do yourself a favor and remember to test the color before investing in all the paint for your home. While the color on the paint chip might look perfect, the actual paint can differ enough to make it necessary to rethink the color and choose another.
Paint chips are printed on paper and while the colors are close to the actual color of the paint, ink and paint are two different mediums. The surface of your walls, the primer you use and the lighting in your home can all cause the paint to vary slightly as well. Even the color of your floors and furnishings has an effect on how the color of your walls is perceived.
Purchase a small test can of each color you are considering using in your home and try it on your walls in the rooms you plan to use it in. Live with it for a few days and study it under different lighting conditions at different times of the day. If you are happy with the color, go ahead and go forward with your paint choices. If not, try something that will work. Now that you have seen the actual paint on the wall, you will know which direction you need to go in choosing another color.
Remember, for the purposes of staging a home for sale, you will probably not want to go too extreme with wall colors, but you do not have to stick with white either. Have a little fun and make your house expressive, but keep things calm and simple. Your goal is to have a home that appeals to as many buyers as possible and to get it sold quickly! If you need help, contact a Sweet Interiors by Candy for a color consultation.
Don’t let wallpaper stand in your way of an inexpensive makeover!
Many of us live in older homes that have layers of wallpaper that have been there for years. The thought of removing it becomes a roadblock because we’re afraid of all the plastering work that will be needed if we take it down.
With proper priming YOU CAN PAINT OVER WALLPAPER!
I admit, this isn’t always the “right” way to do things, but does it really matter if the alternative is living in a depressing space that you hate, or trying to sell a lack luster home?
After priming, a deep caramel color was painted right over the ugly wallpaper that had probably been there for 20 years. New more colorful bedding and a properly proportioned night stand and lamp completed the transformation of this master bedroom.
What’s the worst thing that can happen?
With thousands of colors to choose from, most people opt for “builder beige” or white because they’re overwhelmed and afraid of making the wrong choice. Or worse, they’re afraid of what other people will think.
If you always stick to beige and white, you won’t offend anyone, but you probably won’t have a room that you or anyone else walks into and says, “wow!” Well, you might, but your furniture, accessories and art will have to work that much harder.
With paint companies now offering trial sizes, taking a color ‘out for a test drive’ has never been cheaper. If you hate the look, try again.
Having to repaint a wall is not the end of the world and certainly shouldn’t stand in the way of trying something new.
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It's All Politics, July 12, 2012
Mitt Romney, hearing boos at the NAACP convention, now knows what we go through each week on the podcast. President Obama, facing poor economic news, changes the subject with an assault on Romney and the GOP on taxes. Plus updates on Reps Charlie Rangel (victory), Jesse Jackson Jr. (health), Shelley Berkley (ethics) and Thad McCotter (skadoodle).
Join NPR's Ken Rudin and guest host Brian Naylor for this week's political roundup.
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By Susie Ekberg
Q: Since it’s possible for angels to be incarnated, can demons be as well? And if they can, what exactly are they?
A: No one knows the whole answer to your questions. Angels are necessary to our existence down here on Earth. I’ve had encounters with them on several occasions and have seen the good that they do us. I don’t know about the reality of a pure Angelic Being fully incarnated into human form for an entire life. That would be too great a sacrifice, angels being such a high frequency.
I have, however, most definitely seen a LOT of people who carry angelic energy with them in their energy systems this lifetime. All of the different aspects that make up our lives are our energy system: our spiritual mental and physical energy, the energy of anyone who’s here to help us, anyone we’re connected to, the energy of any other “place” we are familiar with.
I’ve seen Lemurian energy, Atlantean energy, Pleiadian energy, and angelic energy, to name just a few. They all serve different purposes. People can choose to carry those energies just as we choose to carry a wallet, cell phone, or book. They are tools we can use to help us with our Work, and help us get through our days.
Pleiadian energy is powerful and loving; Lemurian energy, healing and brainy; Atlantean, scientific and creative.
Those beings possessed of angelic energy are dedicated to a life of service. They focus on how to bring unity to all people, and can’t understand archaic ideas such as hypocrisy, prejudice, or violence. They can be dreamy, not as focused on earthly perception.
And of course people can carry ALL of those energies at the same time, too. And many more.
People can carry bad energies in their systems, like carrying a sharp knife or loaded pistol with the intent to cause harm.
Why? I can guarantee you they have not lived many lives, and are therefore in the midst of creating their karma. They are still living in the duality mindset (us vs. them), and enjoy wreaking havoc and destruction. They live in Darkness to varying degrees, and I have seen that the Light is just too painful for them, so that their energy’s sole aim is to extinguish Light wherever it may find it.
Are there demons?I don’t know how I feel about the concept of the Devil, Hell, fire and damnation and all of that, because that’s not the way this Universe operates. Everything is dualistic – God vs. the Devil, good vs. evil. There are sides, and the demons side with evil, so we must obliterate them. We demonize our energy, and to quote “The Fifth Element” (best movie EVER!), hate only makes hate grow stronger.
Getting away from that duality, I choose to see lower energy as just that – younger, more inexperienced, less developed energy that needs to grow up.
But just as we deal with toddlers and teens, you can’t just say, “Grow up!” and walk away, doing nothing. That would have catastrophic results! Left to their own devices, most toddlers (and teenagers) will get into all sorts of trouble. It’s fun to break open a pillow and watch the feathers float all over. It’s fun to throw food at each other. It’s fun to write on the walls. It’s fun to take your dad’s car and go for a ride.
The toddlers and teenagers RELY on their parents and other mature adults to give them guidance, love, support, and gentle but firm discipline to teach them how to be in the world. That lower form of energy, in whichever form it takes, MUST learn that there are consequences for our behavior, good and bad.
I think one of the best things we can do for those who choose to carry such demonic energy is to make sure WE are protected from that energy. If we don’t let it in, it can’t hurt or affect us.
That also serves to bounce the hurtful energy back to its originator, so they can feel the full force of their actions. We become like mirrors, reflecting whatever ugliness may be directed at us BACK to where it came from. If someone pushes us, we can say firmly, “NO! You may NOT do that!” instead of running away, or cowering or not saying anything.
In the end it’s our actions and reactions that give us choices. Whether or not there are such things as demons or evil spirits doesn’t matter as long as we are taking care of ourselves and doing what we can to be fully empowered, staying in the Light, and being as loving and kind as possible.
Those other people WILL grow up eventually, I promise you, but in the meantime, it may also be helpful to look at them and their behaviors as you would look at the toddler’s who’s just stepped on your toes then laughed – unacceptable and needing to be taught how to be civil. You can be the angel that demon needs to change everything.
Sometimes you’ll be the angel in the white gown, halo and wings, and sometimes you’ll be the angel in the black leather and black boots, kicking some butt.
That’s something you’ll need to figure out – right action wins every time in the battle between good and evil, in the end knocking out those two terms until there’s only the US, no labels.
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Business Language Learning
From APEC HRDWG Wiki
As part of International Education Week 2010, APEC has expanded on several themes of the seminar on "Language Education: An Essential for a Global Economy," to provide a guide for students and instructors interested in the critical importance of business language for strengthening business relations in a global context. These themes include Business in the 21st Century; Cross Cultural Awareness for 21st Century Business; Language for 21st Century Business; Business Language Learning; and Business Language Policy.
In Business Language Instruction, we learn that different economies use different methodologies by which to teach and learn the subject of business. We find that conflict may arise when these differing methodologies come together in a single classroom.
Another application of advanced communications technologies may be found in the classroom, where traditional textbooks may be supplemented with electronic media such as video clips, as well as live information from Internet newsfeeds, essentially making textbook materials come alive. Students today may not learn history, geography, and science as it was taught a few years ago. They may actually view and experience events via the Internet as if they were present during the moment in which they took place. Video conferencing in the classroom may have other applications, such as providing students access to language teachers in foreign countries and to subject matter experts thousands of miles away, who can appear in the classroom and guest lecture as if they were actually there. These powerful new communications technologies have enhanced business language instruction in schools and universities, as evidenced from the scenario presented below.
- Technology provides web-based content to expand, complement, and supplement textbooks and teacher instruction.
- Online educational materials blend face-to-face learning with digital teaching and curricula.
- Technology such as virtual classroom fosters peer-to-peer and instructor-peer relationship building, collaboration, and social networking.
- When designing lesson plans for international students, educators must consider how cultural values affect the way students respond to specific assignments.
- Technology contributes to a green environment by saving paper and reducing travel.
In the fictional scenario below, teaching and learning methodologies from different economies clash as they are brought together into a single classroom, made possible only by advancements in telecommunications technologies.
A prestigious university located in collectivist Economy A invited a Marketing professor from a renowned university in individualistic Economy B teach a year-long course on the Fundamentals of Marketing to first-year business students. The professor had recently published a book on McBurger, the hamburger chain, and its success in Economy A. The students in Economy A viewed his book as a premier marketing book in the field of international business. Conducted virtually over Internet video stream, the course was the first [Ed Note: for which economy? Using a mix of traditional and technology-mediated instruction is not that new. It may be a stretch to say it was the first time for such a mix.] to integrate traditional methods of teaching with new technologies. The professor would present a traditional lecture from the university's video conferencing room in Economy B and the students in Economy A would view the lecture and participate in discussion as if the professor were in their classroom. Students would submit all assignments and exams to the professor through a "digital drop box," and the professor would return graded materials back to students via this medium. Using advanced technology in the classroom allowed students to learn from a renowned professor while enrolling in a "green course," one in which the professor did not need to travel to the economy and no paper would be used for assignments.
To prepare for the course, the professor chose various marketing, advertising, and strategy cases from around the world. On the first day of class, he presented a case study on Boca Rola, and its advent into Economy C. He gave the students 30 minutes to read the case study, and then encouraged the students to share their views about: (1) Boca Rola’s strategy to enter the market in Economy C, (2) the barriers Boca Rola faced in entering the market, (3) perceptions of foreign products previously unavailable in a particular economy, and (4) consumers' reaction to the new product. He found the students reluctant to share their individual views in the class. Thus, he presented his own views from the perspective of an outsider to Economy C, and shared his views about how Boca Rola’s business culture may be different than the culture of Economy C in which it was operating. At the end of class, the professor gave the students a list of questions about the case study. He asked the students to form small groups of 3-4 students and discuss the answers to the questions. After they discussed the questions, he asked each team to submit a 5-6 page summary of the responses in three days. Additionally, he assigned another case study for the students to read – one that focused on a large multinational company’s entry into the beauty care segment in Economy D for future discussion.
When the professor reviewed the students’ responses to the Boca Rola case study, he discovered that the 20 students had submitted 5 separate sets of case study responses, as required. However, each group provided the same responses to the same questions, with no variation. He knew that this could not be a blatant incidence of cheating. When the next class reconvened, he asked the students why they turned in identical sets of answers. The students looked surprised, believing that they had followed his instructions, but had perhaps misinterpreted them. Finally, one student raised his hand and stated that the class had formed groups of 3-4 students, but that each group tackled one question, and then shared the answers with the other groups. The students believed that it was not time efficient to discuss each question. Rather, they decided that each group would respond to just one question, and then share the response with the other groups, who would do the same. The professor smiled in exasperation, and, frustrated by his inability to engage the students in an open discussion, began discussing the beauty company’s entry into Economy D.
Points to Consider
- How has technology enhanced international educational opportunities for both students and instructors? Other than the examples cited, what other ways can technology facilitate international educational opportunities?
- To what extent did the professor understand the students’ motivation to learn, the context in which they learn, and their willingness to experiment and use different approaches to demonstrate what they can do and what they know?
- Why was the strategy of open classroom discussion widely popular in Economy B and a widely used strategy to introduce opposing views, and to encourage critical thinking?
- To what extent can strategies such as lesson study encourage students in Economy A to demonstrate problem solving skills, critical thinking, and creativity?
- What could the professor do to model how each group could engage in separate discussions to understand the various perceptions about Boca Rola’s strategy to enter the market in Economy C?
- Individualistic cultures are those cultures in which the opinion of the individual is greatly sought after and deeply valued, even though it may differ from the views of the group. These cultures believe that it is a variety of individual opinions that produce the best solutions to problems and that promote success, whether in social relationships or in the workplace.
- Collectivist cultures, on the other hand, value group consensus and harmony. These cultures believe that an environment conducive for business and personal success can only be created when members of the group align in sync with one another. Members of groups will first debate the merits of a question among themselves, and then choose the opinion that they deem most valuable before presenting it to a higher authority.
- The Professor from Economy B was used to receiving individual responses to his case discussion questions, responses that varied greatly from one another. Although not all responses he received were correct, he enjoyed reading the individual opinions present in them before discussing the correct answers with the class during the following lecture. Economy A students were, however, from a collectivist culture and valued sharing their responses with their group first before reaching a consensus on a particular answer choice.
- The professor noticed that, although he had received only one response per question, it was more or less correct, although there was not a way for him to ascertain which of his students had provided the response, how the learning had occurred, and what the viewpoints of those who disagreed might be.
- Teaching Tips for IEW 2010 provided by TESOL
- Teaching Tips for IEW 2009 submitted by teachers throughout the Asia-Pacific region
- Videos from the APEC-RELC International Language Seminar presentation "Creating Prosperity: Using the Internet to Revolutionize Language Learning"
- New paths of communication through:
- Technology providing access to content beyond books
- Video from the APEC-RELC International Language Seminar presentation "Changes in Our Field: Where are We Going?"
- E-Language Learning for Students - a collection of online language learning resources from various APEC members
- Related Tips for Teaching 21st Century Workplace Skills
More content from International Education Week 2010
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- Computerized Accident/Incident Reporting System (CAIRS): A database used to collect and analyze DOE and DOE contractor reports of injuries, illnesses, and other accidents that occur during DOE operations. Contact: Janet Macon
- Daily Occurrence (DO) Reports A daily summary and listing of occurrence reports submitted to DOE. Contact: Glenn Searfoss
- Electrical Safety The Department has undertaken recent and ongoing efforts to improve electrical safety. Contact: Glenn Searfoss
- Operating Experience Summaries HSS publishes the OE Summary to promote safety throughout the DOE complex by exchanging lessons-learned information between DOE facilities. Contact: Ashley Ruocco
- Lessons Learned and Best Practices The DOE Corporate Operating Experience Program facilitates the sharing of performance information, lessons learned, and good practices across the DOE Complex to prevent the recurrence of adverse events. Contact: Sharon Brown
- Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS): The Department of Energy's Occurrence Reporting Program provides timely notification to the DOE complex of events that could adversely affect public or DOE worker health and safety, the environment, national security, DOE's safeguards and security interests, functioning of DOE facilities, or the Department's reputation. Contact: Ashley Ruocco
- The DOE Radiation Exposure Monitoring System (REMS) database is used to report occupational radiation exposures for all monitored DOE employees, contractors, subcontractors, and members of the public. Contact: Nimi Rao
- Safety and Health Alerts, Safety Bulletins Actionable information that has a high potential to impact safety and health at DOE facilities. Contact: Glenn Searfoss
- Safety Basis Information System (SBIS), Contact: Glenn Searfoss
- Suspect/Counterfeit Items and Defective Items (SCI/DI) DOE is committed to ensuring that items and components installed in safety-related or mission-critical applications meet their intended function and operability requirements. The Office of Health, Safety and Security has established a process to identify SCIs or DIs that are deemed safety-significant and broadly applicable to DOE facilities. Contact: Sharon Brown
- Corporate Analysis of DOE Safety Performance: The Office of Health, Safety and Security Office of Analysis develops analysis tools and performance dashboards, and conducts analysis of DOE safety performance corporately and on a variety of specific environment, safety and health topics. Contacts: Phil Wilhelm and Glenn Searfoss.
For additional information regarding this page or feedback on its content, please contact:
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Sources: Pulaski Skyway to close for two years in 2014
The Pulaski Skyway in Jersey City will be closed to New-York bound motorists for two years beginning in 2014 after Super Bowl XLVIII, according to a report by NBC 4 New York. The bridge serves as a major thoroughfare for drivers heading to Manhattan via the Holland Tunnel.
Unnamed sources were attributed as saying that the 80-year-old structure is, “massively used, massively worn out.” NBC 4 New York declined to name the sources.
A $1 billion restoration project, which could take several years overall, was to be announced Thursday in Newark. The project that affects New York-bound commuters will last about two years. According to the news report, two of the bridge's four lanes will be “redecked” at a time, but only outbound traffic will be allowed, no matter which lanes are under construction.
Hudson County executive Tom DeGise was quoted as saying the closure would present a "horrible, horrible predicament,” and that there are no good alternatives for work on a bridge that was built with the same truss construction as an interstate highway span that collapsed in Minnesota several years ago, killing several motorists.
Commuters will likely face challenges finding alternate routes.
The work will not begin until after the Super Bowl hubbub is over, since the game will be held nearby in the Meadowlands.
County court hosts free legal workshops for those affected by Sandy
This Superior Court of New Jersey’s Hudson County Vicinage on Jan. 15 at 5:30 p.m. is sponsoring a Court Night to offer free legal workshops on disaster relief for Hudson County residents affected by Hurricane Sandy. The event will be held in the rotunda of the Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Courthouse located at 583 Newark Avenue in Jersey City. The first session, “Navigating the System in the Midst of a Crisis,” will include sessions on FEMA and Insurance appeals, unemployment, domestic violence, workers compensation, landlord and tenant issues, and bankruptcy and foreclosure.
Individual sessions will be conducted by attorneys and court representatives who will be available to answer general questions that residents may have concerning each specific subject matter. Space is limited and a reservation is required. For more information or to reserve a space, contact: CariAnn Gingerelli at (201) 217-5109 or email email@example.com;
A second Court Night focused on Hurricane Sandy is scheduled for May 9.
Crafty Tween Events at the library
Tweens between the ages of 8 to 12 are invited to stop in to create their own Do It Yourself (D.I.Y.) crafts at the Secaucus Public Library and Business Resource Center on Jan. 15 and Feb. 14 anytime between 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. On Jan. 15 tweens can create their own printed t-shirts using sandpaper. The t-shirt designs will be drawn by the tweens with sandpaper. Tweens participating in this craft are required to bring a white cotton t-shirt (long or short). Then on Feb. 14 the library tween can create Valentine’s roses with duct-tape. For additional information, visit http://secaucus.bccls.org or e-mail Lanora Melillo at SPLYouths@gmail.com.
Library hosts youth book clubs
The Secaucus Public Library and Business Resource Center will continue its book clubs for youth starting in February. Interested children are welcome to register at the library. Youth in fourth and fifth grades and mid-level grades can pick up their book after Jan. 18 with their library card. The book clubs are for kids in grades 2 to 3, 4 to 5, and 6 to 8.
The second and third grade book club, “Book Worms,” will begin on Feb. 7 at 6 p.m. followed by the fourth and fifth grade book club, “Book Buddies,” at 7 p.m.
Youth in sixth through eighth grade are welcome to join the Mid-Grade book club that meets Feb. 27 at 4 p.m. All book clubs will meet monthly through May.
Children who are interested in participating in any of the book clubs can register online at: Secaucus.bccls.org or email SPLYouths@gmail.com. Children participating in “Book Worms” will be required to read a book of their choice, while children in “Book Buddies” and “Mid-Grade” will read titles voted on as a whole or selected by the librarian. Book Buddies will be reading “Rules” by Cynthia Lord and Mid-Grade will be reading “Take me to the River” by Will Hobbs.
Ladies’ Auxiliary breakfast fundraiser scheduled
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Secaucus Exempt Firemen’s Association is hosting a Breakfast Fundraiser at Washington Hook and Ladder Firehouse on County Avenue from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10. The funds raised will support retired firemen in the Boonton Home and the organization’s social endeavors. The firefighters from Washington Hook and Ladder do all the cooking. Donations will be accepted such as eggs, pancake mix, Taylor Ham, breakfast sausage, bacon, home fries, bread, butter, milk, cake, cookies, milk, tea, juice, paper goods, etc. To donate items to offset the cost of the breakfast, contact Ex-Chief Raymond Cieciuch at (201) 376-6819. Tickets are $10 for adults; $5 for children and seniors. To purchase tickets, contact President Jane Olsen at (201) 330-9147.
Library offers free crocheting instruction
The Secaucus Public Library offers free crocheting instruction classes for adult beginners that start in January. The classes will be taught by Mary Ellen Aluotto, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on six consecutive Thursdays beginning Jan. 24. Individuals attending the class must bring a crocheting needle and yarn for instruction. Aluotto also facilitates the “Needlework Round Table” that meets at 6:30 p.m. at the library on the second Tuesday of each month.
“In contrast to the crocheting classes, The Needlework Round Table is not an instructional workshop,” said Aluotto. “At the Round Table, anyone working on a project in knitting, crocheting, embroidering, quilting, needlepoint, or any other handwork, is invited to attend and share their projects, ideas and just good conversation. I welcome newcomers.” Registration is required. To register, call (201) 330-2083.
Osprey Cove secures LEED silver certification
Osprey Cove, Hartz Mountain’s luxury residential building at 45 Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus, just received its LEED Silver certification according to a press statement.
The 116-unit development is the latest project in a long list of eco-friendly initiatives that also includes rooftop solar paneling on 13 buildings in Secaucus, and a solar ground array in Hamilton. Osprey Cove is the result of the developer’s efforts to complement the shore of the 13,000 acre Meadowlands estuary preserve to the building by using recycled materials where possible, and featuring an on-site recycling program, motion sensors on all lighting in common hallways and elevators, and energy-efficient appliances in all units.
The ecological recovery of the surrounding Meadowlands was spearheaded by Hartz Mountain Industries, and includes the newly renovated Snipes Park located adjacent to the building, and the waterfront at Laurel Hill Park where residents can enjoy pontoon boat tours and kayaking. Since Hartz began welcoming residents in June 2012, the nine studio, 50 one-bedroom, 50 two-bedroom and seven two bedroom with den apartments, have been rented. Each unit is outfitted with bamboo floors, upgraded stainless steel appliances and special finishes in the kitchens and bathrooms, as well as nine-foot ceilings on the first three floors and 14-foot ceilings on the fourth floor.
PF&G lawyers offer free seminar
The lawyers of Plata Ferrer & Gutierrez LLC are offering a free seminar series on estate planning beginning Thursday, Jan. 17, at Palisades Medical Center at 6:30 p.m. Seminars will focus on estate planning and asset protection planning. The series is structured to educate and bring awareness to the importance of having a proper estate plan in place. Estate plans allow people to name beneficiaries, appoint guardians for minors, plan for those with special needs and much more. The lawyers of PF&G will provide an overview of the federal and state tax systems as well as address planning for incapacity.
To RSVP, email firstname.lastname@example.org or call (201) 875-1001 by Jan. 10.
High Tech National Honor Society donates books to Covenant House
High Tech High School’s National Honor Society sponsored a book drive recently to benefit the nonprofit youth outreach center Covenant House’s Crisis Care in formerly flood-stricken Atlantic City, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, director of High Tech.
“Hurricane Sandy left a great path of destruction in its wake,” said Joan Marie Bellotti, department liaison for High Tech’s Language Arts Department and co-facilitator of the NHS. “Covenant House lost vital educational materials as a result of Sandy.”
The NHS solicited donations of various standardized test review books, biology textbooks, lab manuals, writing aids, and novels from staff and students to replenish the bookshelves at Covenant House in Atlantic City. In all, those donations filled 12 cartons.
David Polito, veteran social studies instructor and co-facilitator of the NHS, kindly took the time to drive down to Atlantic City. He personally handed over the cartons of donated books to the Crisis Care division of Covenant House.
In 1989, the nonprofit Covenant House began its outreach programs in the Garden State, providing basic necessities to homeless youth on the streets of Newark and Atlantic City. Since then, Covenant House has added more services and improved upon the quality of those services with expanded outreach programs in Paterson and Cumberland County. Covenant House has also formed partnerships with schools, organizations, and other agencies to serve all youth in need in New Jersey.
High Tech is a countywide high school based in North Bergen.
Shire 2013 ADHD Scholarship
The Shire ADHD Scholarship includes a $2,000 monetary award and offers a prepaid year of ADHD coaching services. The ADHD coaching services are provided by the Edge Foundation and are intended to assist the scholarship recipient with the transition to higher education. Fifty one-time scholarships will awarded in June 2013. The deadline to apply is March 27.
For information on eligibility requirements, the scholarship application process, and more, visit www.shireadhdscholarship.com.
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Hudson Valley beer guide
"Beer belongs on the dinner table." That's Bill Woodring, president and co-founder of TAP New York, repeating the phrase that has become his mantra during the 30 years he has spent educating people about beer. As he speaks, there is a pint in his hand and he is sitting on a bar stool at one of his favorite haunts: the Golden Rail Ale House in Newburgh, which has one of the best selection of drafts in the Hudson Valley.
Appreciation of craft brews has become something of a movement, and the Hudson Valley has been embracing the trend in a variety of ways. There are bars that offer huge selections with ever-changing draught lines and breweries that keep their doors open to the public. These places have a big bottled selection, but more importantly, they have drafts that make it worth the detour.
Take a look and see what's on tap in the Hudson Valley.
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Little Fish Review - Reel Suave (02may08)
- Category: Movie News and Reviews
- Published on Sunday, 11 May 2008 07:04
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There are very few actors who have reached the versatility of Cate Blanchett. She has provided competition even for her male counterparts who have failed to compete with the roles she has taken. This role is one of her lesser known ones and yet very slow to recognize what she does I with. It is totally outside the roles she has played in the past and even those that have defined her career. It almost feels she is taking a break from most of her tougher roles but then you have to think again. There is a lot of self exploration that has gone into this role as well.
The film gets into the life of a recovering heroin addict who tries to piece back her life together. Tracy Heart played by Cate is a person who wants to change the way she has been living and wants to help her dad to get out of the habit. But then after a four year absence one of her former lovers turns up who was also a heroin addict himself and gives her a ray of hope. His whole look has changed since they last met he wears suits and has a good job. Tracy begins to resurface feelings for this but fails to see the truth in what he does. Tracy works in a video and she wants to save enough money so that she could start her own thing. She begins to question her former lover’s intention after he tells her that he could give her the money if she invested in him. The film takes a severe turn into the world of drugs once again because of the consequences and the lies each character has said and also test the resolve of Tracy.
The film becomes a self defacing allegory to all that Tracy stands for and ends in tragedy. It explores the earnestness one feels towards ones family. It also explores various aspects of human condition as well. Cate Blanchett takes the role and feels like she has got stuck within the demands of it. She is a person who needs to work her way out of it and also take care of what she holds dear. This is what makes this role all the more compelling. Hugo Weaving as the step father is also a revelation created the much needed chaos in the lives of both Tracy and her brother Ray. It is finally a beautiful ensemble peace with a sort of boring ending but what it gives is a careful observation of man’s various addictions.
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God goes, belonging to every riven thing he’s made
sing his being simply by being
the thing it is:
stone and tree and sky,
man who sees and sings and wonders why
God goes. Belonging, to every riven thing he’s made,
means a storm of peace.
Think of the atoms inside the stone.
Think of the man who sits alone
trying to will himself into a stillness where
God goes belonging. To every riven thing he’s made
there is given one shade
shaped exactly to the thing itself:
under the tree a darker tree;
under the man the only man to see
God goes belonging to every riven thing. He’s made
the things that bring him near,
made the mind that makes him go.
A part of what man knows,
apart from what man knows,
God goes belonging to every riven thing he’s made."
Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing
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The Medical Mission Program is such a blessing to the families with children who have no other way to afford medical care. We provide free medicine, medical checkups and routine/minor medical treatment to indigent patients in the area as medical staff and funds are available. Because of his years of involvement with MTTM, Brother Humphrey has been able to obtain medical supplies and, most importantly, to have military physicians come to the campus to perform these medical procedures. This is one of many reasons we need a new multi-purpose building to provide room for a clean sterile area for this service.
Eye ClinicFree eye checkups and cataract removals, in cooperation with the Philippine Cataract Foundation Inc., is provided to indigent patients. We have been able to conduct this humanitarian service, not only in the Angeles City area, but also in different rural areas. This service we provide as funds are available.
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Pan fried halloumi is one of my favourite foods ever. It's crisp, yet gooey...salty, cheesy and delicious.
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is this cheese? it looks delicious!
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I am simply in love with fried halloumi!Cons: Too much fat...
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Sadako Yamamura, the ghost of Ringu. People get terrified by the way she crawling out of telly, but how many of them know the story that makes her what she is today?My Immortal is one of my all time favorite song, and the video makes the song even sadder...
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By Randy York
In the photo above, camera operators strain to find enough space to film Nebraska offensive coordinator Tim Beck after Bo Pelini’s sixth official Signing Day Press Conference Wednesday. It’s another classic example of Nebraska media trying to serve their viewers, listeners and readers. Only in Nebraska will football coaches, including Husker defensive coordinator John Papuchis and recruiting coordinator Ross Els, draw so much attention. Make no mistake. That’s a good thing because even those beyond the diehards want some idea of how recruiting went, so they can join a lunchtime conversation. With that in mind, The N-Sider compresses the presser and offers up some quick hits to document and highlight Nebraska Football Signing Day 2013:
Nebraska’s signing class includes players from 13 states, plus Canada … In the past two years, Nebraska has signed scholarship recruits from 19 different states and Canada … Nathan Gerry is Nebraska’s first scholarship signee from South Dakota since 2003 … Nebraska’s three signees from Ohio – Kevin Gladney from Akron, Greg Hart from Dayton and Courtney Love from Youngstown, give NU seven signees from Ohio in the past three years … NU signed four Texas natives – Dwayne Johnson from Pearland, Chongo Kondolo from Carrollton, Dimarya Mixon from Mesquite and Adam Taylor from Katy, giving the Huskers at least two signees from the Lone Star State in each of the past six years … Nebraska also signed three players from Florida – Boaz Joseph from Weston, Kevin Maurice from Orlando and Ernest Suttles from Tampa … Believe it or not, those three represent the most Florida recruits ever to sign with the Huskers in a single year, giving Husker Nation a preview of what could become more intensified recruiting in the Sunshine State … David Knevel, 6-9 and 300 pounds, is the first Husker signee from Canada since Patrick Kabongo in 1999 … NU signed three California players – Drake Martinez from Laguna Beach, Terrell Newby from West Hills and Johnny Stanton from Santa Margarita, giving the Huskers at least one California signee for 15 straight years … A.J. Natter is the first Wisconsin native to sign with Nebraska since 1997 …and Marcus Newby is only the third Nebraska signee from the state of Maryland since 1990.
You also should know that Josh Banderas is the only Nebraskan in this year’s scholarship class. The Lincoln Southwest senior linebacker is the son of Husker tight end Tom Banderas (1985-86-87) … two 2013 walk-ons are also Husker legacy players – Flower Mound, Texas, offensive lineman Dustin Glaser, the son of Doug Glaser (1987-88-89); and Millard (Neb.) North defensive tackle Steve Graeber, the son of middle guard Ken Graeber (1982-83-84) … “The walk-on program sells itself and is huge for us,” Pelini said, adding that “We get the kids we want” because “a certain type of young men gravitate to our program.”
Wednesday, Papuchis tweeted his thanks to “all of Husker Nation” and cited tradition and fan support as “big reasons” why recruits are drawn to Nebraska. Els went to great lengths to describe how the leadership of Nebraska’s earliest recruits a year ago worked together to influence those who made decisions later. Nebraska wide receivers coach Rich Fisher called the 2012-13 recruiting campaign “the craziest I’ve ever been a part of” and indicated it was so bizarre that he’s thinking of writing a book to describe some of his unique experiences … “It’s insane,” Fisher said, and since The N-Sider knows at least one of those moments of insanity, you might want to stay tuned. In the days and weeks ahead, we can promise there is definitely more to come.
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Fans from Doland, S.D., were waiting for their hometown hero Saturday night.
By Randy York
On Saturday afternoon, Tim Miles was walking down the steps at the Hendricks Training Complex when he “saw this line of dozens of people … all in grey shirts … and then I looked at one of those shirts and it said Doland on it,” Miles said. “I got chills. Honest to God, I got chills, and I get chills again just talking about it. I had no idea they were coming.”
“They” were 56 Doland residents stepping inside a bus and heading to Lincoln, where they would surprise, even stun, their hometown hero. “What was funny is I was sitting with my dad in the hospital, and he was telling me how Doland was bringing a bus down to Lincoln for our last home game (March 6 against Minnesota),” Miles said. “They were calling it a field trip, so they could bring as many kids as possible to visit the campus and see what Nebraska is all about.”
That trip is still planned, but another one preceded it because nearly a third of Doland’s 180 residents didn’t want to wait. So they chartered a bus to see Miles’ team take the floor as a favorite to beat Penn State a second time before the Huskers take on 1 Indiana on the road Wednesday night and then host No. 8 Michigan State Saturday night.
“It was great, just great,” Miles said. “I knew everybody because I coached their children – their boys in Little League baseball and their girls in softball.”
This Fan Remembers Learning How to Spit
Angelia Hiles, 32, will never forget playing softball for Miles as a fifth-grader. “He was a very good coach. He could motivate anyone,” she said. “He had to teach everything because we didn’t know anything. I still remember him teaching all of us how to spit.”
Miles laughs when we ask him about the experience. “I taught the girls how to spit correctly and rated them individually,” he recalled. “That way, we could be productive while we were waiting for their moms to pick ‘em up after practice.”
Hiles verifies the rating system. “We all thought it was a very cool thing to learn,” she said. “How can you not love Tim Miles? He has charisma, and he’s always smiling. We all got on that bus Saturday morning and came home in the snow Sunday morning because he has personality-plus. I’m a team-jumper and a coach-jumper. Wherever Tim goes, I go because he’s so down-to-earth. For all of us who came to Lincoln, he’s still a small-town boy and our hometown hero because whatever he accomplishes never goes to his head.”
Prep Coach Praises Miles’ Aggressiveness
We ask two more bus-riding fans for their take on a fellow Doland native in his first year as Nebraska’s head coach.
“I coached Tim when he was a senior in high school,” said Larry Rahm, a Doland-area farmer who served as an assistant to fulfill an internship. “Tim was one of the most aggressive basketball players I’ve ever seen. He’s very intelligent, very smart. Everything he’s done, he’s done well. And he’ll do good things at Nebraska, too.”
The best thing about Miles “is his smile and his personality,” Raum said. “If you’re around him, you’re going to like him. I’ve been to a couple of football games in Lincoln, but this was my first basketball game. We loved every minute of it. We’re excited to see a small-town kid make it big. I can’t imagine anything much harder than being a head basketball coach in the Big Ten, but he can do it.”
Tough challenges require inspired leaders. “I predict Nebraska will make the NCAA Tournament in the next three or four years,” Rahm said, “and I predict that they will win a game or two in that tournament. I can even see Tim getting Nebraska somewhere in the Final Top 25 rankings. If anyone can take Nebraska to the promised land, Tim can.”
Local Store Manager: Miles Smiles 24/7
Count Lori Remily, the manager of Doland’s local convenience store, among Miles’ most inspired followers. “Tim has a smile on his face 24/7,” she said. “He was a great kid, really laid-back, but would do anything for you. He likes to get things done the way he wants them done, and he appreciates everyone who supports him – from the top to the bottom.”
Saturday was Remily’s first trip in Lincoln. “It was great!” she said. “I mean, we support our hometown hero. They didn’t know we were coming, but they still put us up there on that big TV screen for everyone to see. We were all glad they did that because we’re proud of Tim. He’s always been a great coach, and he’s always been a great recruiter. And he’s doing well and will continue to do a great job at Nebraska.”
The bus that left Doland at 8 a.m. Saturday re-boarded Sunday at 6 a.m. and headed back to South Dakota. Inclement weather on the way back reduced driving speed to 40 miles-per-hour from Sioux Falls on home, making the ride about 2½ hours longer than normal.
This Fan Sees ESPN in Tim Miles’ Future
A few extra hours left the Tim Miles Fan Club undeterred. “I’ve never seen any Division I game before, let alone one in Lincoln,” Hiles said. “It was great. It was a good show. It was amazing. I think Tim’s found his dream destination, and I think he’s going to do amazing things for the Huskers. He’ll do the best he can to get everything out of that program that’s possible … ever.”
Ever is a long time, so I ask Hiles, an operations administrator, if her hometown hero would ever leave Lincoln.
“I think someday we’ll all see a little more of Tim than we see now,” she said. “Someday he’ll retire from coaching, and when he does, I think we’ll be watching him or listening to him on ESPN. Wouldn’t he be great doing something like that?”
Miles indeed would fit the profile of an entertaining psychoanalyst for basketball – at any level. But let’s watch this motivation machine and his tight-knit staff as they create some memories of their own before putting their leader in a studio to discuss someone else’s.
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We coordinated the trip from Doland to Lincoln early last November. After talking about it, we finally decided we were going to do it, so we booked a bus, 25 hotel rooms, 56 game tickets and ordered some matching T-shirts. We had a phenomenal response thank the staff at Nebraska for keeping our trip a secret from Tim the entire time! There was a definite buzz around the town in the days before we left, and it was touch-and-go on our way home. In fact, when we arrived in Doland, the bus was plowing so much snow, it had to be pulled out to the highway by a maintainer. Doland may be small, but we make up for it with huge heart and a passion for our community. When I graduated from Doland High School two years ago, there were only seven kids in my class – six boys and one girl, a foreign exchange student from Sweden. I’m a sophomore at South Dakota State University, but will always keep my ties to Doland. I always come back because of the people. Hubert H. Humphrey, former Vice President of the United States and a Doland High School graduate (Class of 1929), told people all over America that Doland represented the best that was in America because the best that is in America is in its people. He made that statement 40 years ago, and that legacy continues on today. We stand fully behind our alumni and our community, and wherever Coach Tim Miles is, that’s “our” team. We’re thrilled he’s closer to us now and look forward to seeing what he can do and will do with the Huskers men’s basketball team. Scott DesLauriers, Brookings, South Dakota
Thanks for all the support we received from the Nebraska Cornhuskers family! The weekend really reminded us of our hometown of Doland. Tim is not only a great coach, but a great man that comes from a wonderful family. Win or lose, those that play for him, will be better men after playing for Tim. He is the most down-to-earth guy I know. He’s still the small town guy I knew when I was growing up, and yes, he was one of my first softball coaches. I know fame and success will not change who he is! I am honored to know Tim. He couldn’t make Doland any prouder than we are. My family has followed Tim throughout his coaching career. I remember going to camps at Southwest State in Marshall (Minnesota), one of his first coaching stops. Good luck to Tim and the Huskers! We’ll be rooting you on in South Dakota, and always remember that you can do anything you set your mind to do! Danneil Musser (RN), Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The whole trip was amazing, especially the look on Coach Miles’ face when he saw us. Priceless!!! Coach Miles is so enthusiastic, it’s contagious. A person cannot be around him and not feel the energy. Right now that’s what the Cornhuskers are feeling – that good things are about to happen for Nebraska basketball. Nothing is out of reach for that team. As we sat In the stands all we heard around us were fans telling us how excited they were to have Coach Miles as head coach. I’m already looking forward to our next trip to Cornhusker Country. The only thing I missed over the weekend was seeing Tip Miles (Tim’s dad) sitting behind Tim in the stands. Hope he’s feeling better soon. Sherry Board, Dolandite and family friend
Our Doland school slogan is: “We may be small, but we do big things.” We’re proud of our community and our graduates – Hubert H. Humprhey, Governor Harvey Wallman, Olympic medalist Dennis Koslowski and and many others, including a young man who will lead the Huskers to success. Tim Miles is our latest hero and Nebraska gains some new Big Red fans with him. Randy Mason, Doland, South Dakota
We really enjoyed the trip to Lincoln and a tour of the facility. It was great to spend time with Tim and to see him coach. So many people stopped and talked to us at the game. It was nice that people were so interested in our visit and support of Tim. We felt the energy. Darla Knox, Doland, South Dakota
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The Kansas Family Policy Council is trying to rally Hutchinson citizens against the recently approved city ordinance prohibiting firing or evicting people because of their sexual orientation. But the protest petition campaign aimed at forcing a public vote on the ordinance in November doesn't put anything on hold.
Since publication of the ordinance in The Hutchinson News on June 8, it's been the law of the city, City Attorney Paul Brown said.
And City Council member Bob Bush, who proposed the compromise leading to the 3-2 vote to extend limited protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation, said Tuesday that he doesn't think there would even be a petition campaign were it not for the Family Policy Council and its executive director, Robert Noland, lending their leadership, logistical support and an organization framework to the opposition.
"I think they see it as an opportunity to make some noise and get their people motivated," Bush said. "I think people in Hutchinson would have just waited to see how it played out."
When the council adopted the ordinance on June 5, they stopped short of extending broad protection from discrimination in all aspects of employment, housing and public accommodations. The ordinance stopped after offering protection from firing from a job and eviction from a home. It did not address public accommodations and it left transgender people out of the protected class, seemingly taking the public "bathroom" issue out of the debate.
At the time, Brown said he didn't expect many complaints because Kansas is an employ-at-will state and employers don't have to give a reason for firing someone and Kansas is a month-to-month-tenancy state and landlords don't have to give a reason for evicting someone. And Bush urged Hutchinson residents to "wait to see how this plays out and its real impact on the community before jumping to conclusions or rhetoric."
On Monday night, however, the Family Policy Council began a drive to gather the signatures of at least 327 registered Hutchinson voters (25 percent of the number who voted in the last municipal election) on a petition asking the City Council to either repeal the ordinance or put the repeal to a public vote.
Noland and Paul Waggoner, a local opponent, said they decided to pursue the petition after seeking advice from the local Tea Party organization, ministers and three national groups with which the Family Policy Council is affiliated.
In the meantime, even as the petition campaign unfolds, gay men, lesbians and bisexuals will be able to file a complaint with the city's Human Relations Commission if they think they have been fired from their job or evicted from their home because of their sexual orientation.
The city doesn't have a staff person to investigate complaints, and if one does come in the city will probably hire a local attorney to determine whether the complaint has merit, City Manager John Deardoff has said.
Under the city's anti-discrimination ordinance, a city staff member or attorney will attempt to bring the parties together and mediate a resolution of the complaint. If that fails, an investigation of the complaint is conducted and the attorney would determine whether there is probable cause to believe discrimination has occurred. If there is no probable cause, the complaint is dismissed. If there is, another attempt to resolve the complaint through conciliation is made.
If conciliation fails, the case goes before a hearing examiner, who determines findings of fact and conclusions of law and issues an order binding upon both parties. That order is subject to enforcement or review by the District Court. P
This is News? : 6/20/2012
Well, duh, a ordinance gets passed and it goes into effect, was there any question about that? The question for the citizenry is whether this excursion into liberal identity politics has any merit at all. Similar laws were voted down by Nancy Kassebaum and Sheila Frahm in the 90s, by Moran and Tiahrt in 2007, and a Hutch news article in 2007 had Bruce, O'neal and Pauls also saying No when "gay rights" were considered in Topeka. Go to the awakenkansas.com to see more reasons this law is irrational and makes a mockery of justice and equality. -Justanothervoter Report abuse
If only... : 6/20/2012
I wish these people so against it would realize that gay or straight, they still have a heart, mind and feelings of their own. And all they are doing is putting them down for their own benefit. Which in reality is no benefit at all. I can almost bet you GOD would love a kind gay/lesbian over a hateful Christian.
What is this world coming to? People are a disgrace. -Not so hopeful Hutchinson Report abuse
@not so : 6/20/2012
Of course God loves us all. He rejoices when we are loving toward each other. Christian or not we are all His children. What bothers me about all of this is the word "hate". Especially when it is attached to a difference of opinion. This certainly is a difficult time in many communities facing this same decision. Hutchinson is not alone. In fact, Wichita voted to leave it in Topeka's hands. -don't lose hope Report abuse
Civil Rights : 6/20/2012
This is a civil rights issue. Did we put rights for women up to a vote? NO.. Did we put rights for racial minorities up to a vote? NO.. As soon as the politics get out of the way of the civil liberties of LGBT people, the courts will decide on their behalf. It is inevitable, and the communities that resist that fact now will have dark stains on their citizens. As did (and still do) some communities after the 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments were added to our constitution as well as the civil rights act and others.. You have to ask yourself. What side of history would you rather be on? -Liberty for All? Report abuse
Re: Liberty : 6/20/2012
Great post! Thank you for the rational perspective and the reminder that this is essentially an issue of civil rights and rights should never depend upon popular vote. -DM Report abuse
Not all ministers/pastors are in favor of discrimination...some of us choose to love rather than judge. -Don't Speak For Me Report abuse
Wrong Again : 6/20/2012
Both DM and Liberty don't get that this is not a civil rights issue, that is just the mantle that pc liberals wrap all their agenda items under these days. This is NOT an equality issue (under current laws nobody's sexual behavior/preference/whatever is "protected") this is a status and "affirmation" issue. Bad politics, bad law any way you cut it. So lets just cut it out and repeal it! -Legal Eagle Report abuse
EEOC handling bathroom issue : 6/20/2012
Keep in mind the EEOC has already ordered the U.of Arkansas Ft. Smith to allow a man living as a woman who has not yet had surgery to use women's restrooms. The order was issued in spite of the fact that the Univ. has unisex restrooms the individual could use.
Right Again : 6/21/2012
Legal Eagle and others just don't get it. LGBT is not a "behavior" or a "preference". They are born that way. It may be hard for some to understand, but it is a fact. It is no different than a race or a gender. They don't choose to be LGBT. They just are... -Liberty for All? Report abuse
protected classes : 6/23/2012
Are sexual orientations such as pedophilia and bestiality protected too? If not, then aren't the LGBT's that pressured the City Council to impose this ordinance on the community just as guilty of discrimination as they accuse everyone else of being? -Just Wondering Report abuse
compliance requires disclosure : 6/23/2012
As a longtime landlord and business owner (over 30 years) who has never evicted or fired anyone based on their sexual orientation, I would like to thank the City Council for their courage, wisdom, and foresight in enacting the anti-bias ordinance of June 5. Already, I can feel the ordinance suppressing this powerful, inexplicable urge I have to abandon my peaceful, open-minded demeanor and lifelong philosophy of Live and Let Live in favor of a life in the darkness of bigotry and homophobia. Still, there is one glaring problem: how do I know if my tenants or employees fall under the protection of the ordinance? Here's my solution to that gaping loophole, in the form of amendments:
1) All applicants for employment or rental housing shall disclose their sexual orientation at the time of application. This is to prevent accidental firing or eviction of a member of the protected class, as well as preventing a landlord or employer from claiming they were unaware of the evicted or fired person's sexual orientation as a defense against any legal action.
2) All persons residing within the city limits of Hutchinson are hereby required to register their sexual orientation with the City. Landlords and employers may access this database to verify the information provided by applicants, as well as to determine the sexual orientation of their existing tenants and employees who became tenants or employees prior to the adoption of the anti-bias ordinance.
3) Upon registration, all residents shall be issued a sexual orientation-sexual identification card (S0-SIC) that must be carried with them at all times. This is to prevent ordinary heterosexuals from posing as homosexuals in order to obtain benefits and privileges reserved for the protected classes. How does that sound? -Area Landlord Report abuse
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Dog Helps Fill Empty Nest
Stella the Labradoodle is a joyful companion.
Before our student went off to school, she had a chat with a neighbor who mentioned to her how much I was going to miss the daughter, who cracked, "My mom will be fine, she's got Stella!"
Now who is Stella, you might ask? Well none other than a two-year-old Labradoodle, dubbed "happiness rolled up in a rug!" by another neighbor.
Stella is a 60-pound shaggy bundle of love to be sure, and my constant companion these days.
She and I went to the Heurich Dog Park this week in the middle of the day, and sadly there were no other attendees. It reminded me of when my daughter was a toddler and we would drive around to different playgrounds until we found one with other kids and caregivers in it. When we lived in Adams-Morgan, there was only one tot lot, and everyone who had care of the 4-and-under set would be at that playground during that critical pre-lunch, pre-nap time. We had a very active toddler-centric social life with playgroups, etc. Once we moved to Maryland, there was a playground in every neighborhood but no kids, at least during weekday mornings.
That problem solved itself once the child started pre-school and mom went back to work. But standing in the empty dog park on a beautiful fall day with Stella gave me an eerie sense of déjà vu.
Stella came into our lives at the beginning of 2009. Our family had been dogless for about 18 months at that point. We knew that we should get a new dog before the child left for college so they could bond, and we were all having envious random encounters with other people's dogs. Finally we responded to an ad from a breeder in Hagerstown, and next thing you know, we had the cutest bundle of curly headed home with us.
She is truly a joyful addition to our nest, and has unbounded enthusiasm for everything – our cat, the mailman, all the dogs walking by, the squirrels, and all our neighbors. Her favorite place to hang out is at the front door, half in the house and half on the porch. If the door is closed, she sits on the stairs where she can see out the window and keep an eye out on the world. She makes us laugh when she tries to get in on the conversation with her squeaky toy, and greets us enthusiastically when we return home, whether we've been gone 20 minutes or eight hours.
Just imagine how she'll react when the daughter comes home for Thanksgiving. We'll all be enthusiastic for that visit.
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Anonymity is important!
There is good information about P2P at www.planetpeer.de/
, however it's mostly in German. But there is a discussion forum
and a wiki
which are mostly in English.
I have some German pages on P2P
I experiment with anonymity protocols because they are important.
They are not important because I fear others are watching me. You can always ask me, I will tell you the truth. I must do this, as I am a very bad liar.
However I am mathematican. Because of that, I know, that all those ideas of "surveillance, protection and control" are very harmfull. There is a mathematical proof, that, if you ever each the goal, that you can control everything and have every bad move under surveillance, the Internet becomes unusable for ordinary people.
Anonymity protocols hinder that. They not only make it impossible to do surveillance, they also make it impossible for others to control what you say, what you see and what you think.
And more over, it is a known fact, that authenticity can only be reached through anonymity. Else votes for elections would not be held in anonymity. So taking away the anonymity from the Internet would mean to take authenticity from it. Without anonymity, all sources of authentic news on the Net will die out.
This must not happen. Anonymity tools are important for our future!
- I donated money to JAP
- I run a freenet node.
- I now run an I2P node, too.
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All adidas Campaign Debuts “Civilization” by Justice
French electronica duo Justice are celebrating their comeback to the musical stage quite in style as their new single “Civilization” will serve as the soundtrack for the adidas campaign. The single will be released digitally worldwide on the 4th of April 2011 on Ed Banger Records / Because Music, following the launch of the new global “All adidas” campaign created by the band’s frequent collaborator Romain Gavras.
The campaign itself is set to launch March 16 and it is shaping up to become something really special. It is the first time that the company has created a campaign leveraging the adidas Sport Performance, adidas Originals and adidas Sport Style sub-brands, ensuring that it is the most diverse and all-encompassing glimpse into the brand ever. It takes place throughout 2011 in a mix of environments from sport to music and lifestyle to fashion with different elements rolling out over the year. Hence the likes of Lionel Messi, B.o.B, Snoop Dogg, Ed Banger and Derrick Rose and many more were recruited. In order to check out the clips go to adidas’s YouTube-channel. A video rip which combines all the extracts of the song is located below. Enjoy!
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13.06 Baroness Cathy Ashton (cuurently Leader of the Lords) tipped to replace Mandelson in Brussels.
11.49 Margaret Beckett to the Cabinet Office (so someone says in the comments!)
11.41 John McDonell on Sky saying "I'm not into criticising personalities, but Mandelson's a ****" or words to that effect.
11.32 Jeff Rooker (DEFRA Minister in the Lords) is to leave the government.
11.22 Ed Miliband to head up a new department of Energy & Climate Change. Benn to remain at Defra.
11.18 A correspondent emails to suggest that it might be Lord Mandelson of Notting Hill!
11.07 The Labour spin on this reshuffle is that the Tories will be "nervous" about this reshuffle and will be terrified by Mandelson. You've got to laugh, haven't you? Draper was on Sky earlier saying that this spelled the end of the Tory Party and is a masterstroke by the PM. I wonder if the electorate will be as welcoming of the appointment.
10.57 How on earth is Gordon Brown conducting a reshuffle, when he is live on Sky News with the dreadful Michael Winner in Luton?!
10.27 Caroline Flint may go to the Cabinet Office.
10.21 Opps, forgot to say Nick Brown is tipped to be the new Chief Whip.
10.19 Des Browne to leave government of his own volition.
10.17 Looks like my friend Mr McNulty is going to miss out.
10.16 Boulton speculating that Margaret Beckett will replace Mandelson as Britain's European Commissioner. This would mean a by election.
10.15 Geoff Hoon to Transport. Doubt whether he will be very pleased by that.
10.09 Ben Brogan reports that Damian McBride will leave his job as Brown's spokesman. Is he copping it for the Ruth Kelly debacle?
10.05 Jon Cruddas tipped to replace Caroline Flint at Housing - the job he turned down last year.
10.00 Mandelson replaces Hutton at Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform - an eye catching, not to say astonishing move. Has there ever been a politician who has come back to the Cabinet after two resignations?
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A few months ago, I decided to join ioBridge full-time. I will be leading the software development for a whole bunch of commercial products that license our technology. ioBridge will announce a few major developments in the coming weeks that made this transition possible. I am excited for the new challenges and look forward to working with a start-up company.
My first project with ioBridge was building a remote sensor network web interface on top of the Google Maps API. The sensor network allows for the real-time monitoring of tide levels. The project got written up on MIT’s Technology Review blog and the ioBridge Projects blog. You can demo the tide monitoring application at www.TideAlerts.com.
Change is not always easy. I had a great job and got to see all of the United States minus Alaska, Hawaii, and Idaho (yes, Idaho, I have flown all over you but never landed on you…). I got to design, maintain, pen test, and provide training for some of the largest networks in the US for utilities and telecommunications providers over a 10 year period. Yes, you can blame me the next time your call drops.
This also means I saw a lot of hotels and airports. I probably stayed at a Hampton Inn from 30 different states. I can’t tell you how many times I woke up to a USA Today being crammed under my door. For whatever reason on my first trip to a DSL testing company in Manchester, New Hampshire, I saved the room key. I know you are supposed to return them, but maybe in the excitement of it all, I kept it. This tradition continued with my next project in Lincoln, Nebraska and the next and the next. When I got home I would shove the room key in a box. I just dumped it out and could not believe it…Here’s a photo so you can see what I am saying…
I don’t advocate stealing room keys, but this pile is a quick snap shot of 1000′s of trips and projects and experiences. With the new gig, I will travel less and that might be good. I am looking forward to it and might even join a bowling league where I can actually make the games. I will keep you updated on the progress. It’s time to start-up (.com).
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View Full Version : D2 getting worse and worse, can't connect to PC
I've been using my D2 happily for about 2 months now with an 8GB SDHC card, always worked like a charm... until today. I was at the office, using my Mac laptop, wanted to transfer two mp3 files from the laptop to the D2 (done many times before from PC / Mac / Linux, all worked just fine)
I dragged the 2 files over to the D2 (the SDHC card wasn't showing up as a drive this time, but that's happened before, so thought nothing of it).
Disconnected, turned player on. The usual long wait to re-index all songs...
Player is back on, and low and behold all songs are now named Unknown - Unknown - Unknown. What's even worse, is that I can't browse by folders / files anymore either, all directory entries are empty, even though the lists still appear. When I try to play a file, the player turns off.
I had about 1.1 GB of free space on the internal 4GB.
I was using firmware 2.46 quite happily, but figured I might as well take this opportunity to flash 2.50. This went a lot less hassle free than previous firmware updates for some reason. Many blank white screens appeared, but finally got the device turning back on.
Tried reconnecting the device (still to the Mac at work), worked fine, but realized I forgot to change to MSC, so did that. All the files are still on the player just fine, but still can't index anything, attempting to play any file will crash the player, attempting to browse through artists / songs / folders results in the same, a bunch of empty entries.
Came home, tried connecting the player to my PC (again, has always worked fine).
First time: nothing happens at all when I connect the USB cable. player stays black.
player was on hold, so I flicked the hold off.
Second time: USB charging comes on the screen, but no drive available to the OS. (Yes it's set to MSC mode now)
Third, fourth, fifth times: Linux / WinXP no device appears to the OS. I've tried the reset button a few times, but doesn't seem tto help anything...
I was going to re-flash the firmware, but I can't because I'm stuck with a player that crashes when you try to play anything, and can't connect to a PC properly...
wow, sorry for that man. what's the kbps on those MP3 tracks? (not sure if that's causing the problem but every little knowledge giving helps). try connecting to a diff. computer rather then your PC and MAC (your MAC and PC are used to having that plugged in and what not). also try connecting without the SD Card inserted.
My feeling on your initial symptoms is that files that are transferred under MTP mode aren't getting recognized properly after the D2 is switched to MSC mode. At least, that seems to have happened to others since v2.50 came out, and re-copying the files made them recognized again on the next re-index.
You might consider carefully reflashing the firmware (http://www.iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?p=136262#post136262) to v2.46, then see if you can connect and copy files over via MSC mode. Avoid installing the SDHC card until after you've confirmed the D2 firmware is fully updated and looking like an external drive on the computer you connect to.
thanks guys, however, I can't reflash any firmware until I can get it to be recognized by any OS.
I have tried with and without the SD card as well. The MP3's in questions were VBR around 140 kbps average using LAME VBR5 I think, also the player was still on 2.46 in MSC mode when I added those two.
Is there anything like a hard reset I can try? Some magical button combination I don't know about?
i have no idea, i'm having a similar problem
You have any drives that share the same drive letter as the D2? My D2 wasn't recognized because I had some network drives that used a drive letter the D2 wanted. Once I disconnected the network drives, the D2 recognized fine. Once it was recognized, I assigned the D2 a drive letter I would never use, so I wouldn't run into the same problem again.
not really, on windows anyway, on linux that isn't an issue at all as any device just mounts wherever it's connected...
I get the same 'unknown' problem as you when transferring with msc, but restarting the player always fixes it.
no i have no network drives, its really weird
Try turning to those users who happen to have recovery mode drivers for the D2. You can find them right here: http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=14750
so these recovery drivers, will they void the warranty? if so, I might prefer just RMAing my D2...
thanks again everyone.
I've had similar problems with my D2. Had it for about a month. Everything was working fine until I decided to start filling up the 8GB SDHC card that I bought with it. I loaded several CD's worth of music onto the card, which took quite a bit longer to do than it does loading music on the internal memory. When I unplugged the unit from the computer and powered it back on, half the music I just loaded onto it was missing. Plugged it back into the computer, but at this point the computer didn't recognize the SDHC card as an external drive. Unplugged the unit, plugged it back in... this time the folders on the internal memory were gone too. Now it won't do anything. Tried to reflash the firmware, but it didn't work. Had to send it back for a replacement today. Hopefully the next one will be touble-free. Can't say that I'm holding my breath, though. Anyone else having similar problems? Does Cowon know what's going on?
I THINK I FIXED IT!
So D2 wasn't playing any music or indexing any tags, and was not connecting to Windows XP or Linux,
but, I finally got around to bringing the D2 back into the office to give the Mac OSX machine a last chance, and the drive shows up as normal, but I get a warning when I connect it (using 2.50 f/w, set to MSC) saying "Can't read from device (or something) Ignore, Initialize, Eject".
I hit ignore, because at least the device is showing up.
I flashed the 2.46 firmware (from 2.50) and now everything seems completely normal (I'm still at work, only tested on Mac OSX so far mind you).
It would appear the upgrade to 2.50, or 2.50 itself was to blame. ???
Anyway, whohooo! :D
Congratulations! I think you should use 2.5. Try it, in case the d2 broke again, take it to your job AGAIN =P
2.50 does not work with OSX, not properly.
Congratulations on fixing it, but only upgrade to 2.50 if you need flac 1.14 support...
yea, next time I upgrade will be when they finally fix the OGG track number sorting.
I spoke too soon!
Windows XP won't recognize the D2 still! It does seem to be working just fine otherwise though. I haven't tried Linux yet, I'll see when I get home... pfffff anyone want to buy a half way bricked D2 off me?
It's the cable that was the problem! The cable I was using at home under XP and Linux was the cowon supplied mini-USB cable, and it didn't work properly anymore!
My old Cowon supplied G3 mini-USB cable DOES still work, and that was the one I had lying around at the office!
I got bricked trying to upgrade from 3.45b to 3.51b (with bin from 0-folder).[no]
Reading through 15 pages of the old thread ... was interesting. From no hope, to joy (recovery drivers!), to little hope (thread closed and I need to show a video [blink]). I don't know how to post a video, but my D2 really is bricked (look at my postings from 10 March onwards: I'm not an active forum-member, but I don't take my D2 lightly).
[help] If anyone would please PM me the drivers, I would really appreciate it.[help]
Many thanks in advance.[blush]
In case this helps in finding the cause: After installing the bin file from 0-folder, I turned on my D2. It showed update screen, went black. Then I erroneously turned it on again (before reconnecting to my pc for next step). That's when it bricked. [blink]
In case this helps in finding the cause: After installing the bin file from 0-folder, I turned on my D2. It showed update screen, went black. Then I erroneously turned it on again (before reconnecting to my pc for next step). That's when it bricked.
Sorry about your player , although I am not sure if simply switching on the player can cause the player to be bricked. Have you tried to complete the firmware upgrade process? Does the pc no longer detect D2 as a USB device? If the player does not show any loading screen, have you tried pressing Reset and then connecting the player to pc?
Yep. It's blocked.
Connecting to my pc, it is not recognized (it can't read f:drive yet insists disc is full). Pressing M-buttton and connecting to pc, it recognizes New Hardware (but I have no driver). Restarting after using the M-button, I have to use reset (otherwise I can't even restart). When I restart with M-button (without connecting) I can move the line-box with the - and + buttons, but nothing else.
Oddly, it does recognize the SD-card without problem.
So yes, again my plea for help: please someone PM me the recovery driver.
[excited] UPDATE: Problem solved![excited]
Connect to PC without pressing M-button: recognizes Removable disc, but says disc is full. Connect to PC with M-button: find new hardware, enter mythical driver.
Solution (without pressing M-button): writing is not possible, but format *is*. Instruct windows to format the removable drive (the D2, not the SD card). Format successful, begin software upgrade from 0-folder.
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congrats on getting your player up and running.
I was not aware that without pressing the M button, you were able to atleast see the D2 as a drive(although it was gving you a drive full message), if that was the case I would have suggested you to try to do a format using the Cowon JetShell software. Anyways glad that you figured it out the solution, will come in handy for others.
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“WASHINGTON — In case you thought there was no risk of your taxes going up again, think again. Washington isn’t done with you yet.
Democrats, led by President Barack Obama, want lawmakers to consider a fresh set of tax increases in the next several weeks when they discuss whether to cut spending.
Republicans oppose raising tax rates, especially after they just raised some of them for the first time in two decades in the New Year’s deal that extended most – but not all – of the expiring Bush tax cuts.
But much of what Obama is talking about is raising tax revenue without actually raising tax rates. In Washington-speak, lawmakers will try to collect more tax money by closing tax loopholes, perhaps limiting popular tax deductions and to some degree changing the way citizens pay into the popular Medicare and Social Security programs.
The New Year’s deal raised income tax rates for individuals’ taxable income above $400,000 and family income above $450,000. That’s less than 1 percent of all U.S. taxpayers. The deal is projected to raise about $600 billion over 10 years, not enough to significantly chip away at deficits that still will total more than $6.8 trillion over the same period. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will be looking to trim $2 trillion over 10 years from projected future deficits as part of any deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by the end of February and prevent $109 billion in deep spending cuts from occurring in March.
Democrats say Obama will continue to push for an equal split between revenues and cuts – $1 trillion in new tax revenues and $1 trillion in spending cuts….”
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Wildlife of Austria
We return to the lakes, forests and mountains of wonderful Eastern Austria in spring, at a time when the breeding season is in full swing, and the mountains are in flower, and again in early autumn, with the excitement of passage migrants.
National Parks of Austria Six of the ecologically most valuable regions of Austria have been declared national parks. They cover 2,350 km² or about 3% of the national territory.
From Wild Wonders of Europe:
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A while back I was interviewed by Rhod Sharp for the BBC Radio 5 show “Up All Night”. Tonight at the Berkman conference, I met Rhod in person. He was here for the Beyond Broadcast conference too. We had a nice chat about chatting and about the Blooker and about ibiblio and about “Up All Night”. Great fun to meet a voice I’ve chatted with a couple of times across the ether.
Archive for May 12th, 2006
Charlie Nesson is being introduced by Dan Gillmor. “totally wonderful conference” notes that only vegatarian meals were left when he went down to eat. Berkman will move from a Law Center to a Center for Harvard University as a whole.
Panel IV: Surviving or Thriving: Beta Business Models in the New World
* What are the sustainability and business implications of these emerging models? What are the opportunities for new resources to support public-service media? Do commercial vs noncommercial distinctions map over to these new spaces of engagement? Is there a case for tax-based support or will a new mix of sponsorship, subscription, listener-support and foundation funding evolve?
Panelists include: Mark Cooper (Consumer Federation), Diane Mermigas (Hollywood Reporter), Dan Nova (Highland Capital Partners). Moderator: Patricia Aufderheide (Center for Social Media).
Diane Mermigas. everyone needs to change their orientation she posts her Mermigas on the Media paper New Rules of Play which she says will last about 10 seconds, ha ha, so be ready for change. She is a propertyist on copyright and worrying about fragmentation and tribalism.
Dan Nova (is that his real name?) us a VC and up for web 2.0 but it’s complex. huge markets, attactive biz models, acquisitions are increasing. myspace chart. 50 unique visitors per month. youtube has 6.5 users per month, technorati took a dip in december but now it’s in space!
mark cooper – independent noncommercial video – consumer federation of america. attention vs distribution. but monitarization is the problem. you cannot be a one-way company in a two-way world (cluetrain).
High Order Bit: Second Life
* Second Life is a massively multi-player 3-D world. It is an online world—virtually inhabited, built, and owned by its residents. John Lester from Linden Lab will describe what is Second Life, how it allows for new communities to be built, and he’ll talk about opportunities for collaborative video production.
Speaker: John Lester. To find out how to participate in this virtual world go here.
it’s john’s birthday! this is a what is second life talk. my ? is what is the diff between SL and the old Alpha Worlds? more creation by the user. 3 -d modeling at the client side. everyone can do this, he says. scripting language LSL (aka Linden Scripting Language)
playing wihth my avatar.
3:20PM – 3:30 – High Order Bit: Just a Pretty Face(book)? What College Students Actually Do Online
* Fresh thinking and research about what types of sites and online services college students are using and how their engagement differs by socio-economic background and user attributes.
Speaker: Eszter Hargittai Assistant Professor Northwestern University
She starts with digital divide and proposes a second-level digital divide — the less connected. overall framework is that skill might influence how people use digital media. a bit about socio-economic status. who does all this work to change people’s lives.
differences in web skills was initial reseach including health info, job search and gov docs done in observational studies.
paper and pencil survye from march 2006 on 1300 college students at UIChicago. skills and uses. mostly first years. “the wired generation”
looking at new services. facebook 78% myspace 50% ebay 46.7%
chicago trib 64%
need to see her papers to keep up. not much facebook specific here tho.
background and activity. sig differences – web for fewr than others – basically the ones you’d expect but no measures.
now moved to surveys. higher educated folks have higher skills.
Tom Gerace (Gather.com), Thomas Kriese (Omidyar Network), Brendan Greeley (Radio Open Source), Rhea Mokund (Listenup.org) Moderator: Ethan Zuckerman (Global Voices, Berkman Center).
Ethan telling us that networked computers are all about communications. he talks about the IMP, the first listserv, the first BBS which he says is 1978. USEnet 1979. MUDs 1979. 1982 minitel and the chess program with a chat feature which became used for flirting. 1990 www at cern. 1997 weblogs (?). well i’m no sure of all these dates. 1995 wiki. 2001 wikipedia. why are we suddenly concerned about community (shows powercurve).
gather pitch including value proposition. content creation,. apply editorial oversight and content selection, guide the community engaged in discussion. see question tool.
these computer and community mediated sites are stabbing at understanding social capital theory without having read or considered it as useful. what would happen if before acting on your assumptions independent of theory and research, if you first read and considered the vast existing work on social capital?
video production. listenup.org pitched. supported by archive.org
omidyar network. community self-management. 400$ M. omidyar.net community.
we ended up with only two of us an one moderator. yikes!
3 public broadcasters: David Liroff (WGBH Vice President and Chief Technology Officer), Terry Heaton (President, DONATA™ Communication), Bill Buzenberg (Senior Vice President of News, American Public Media/ Minnesota Public Radio). Moderator: Chris Lydon (Host, Open Source from PRI).
demo of stuff from APM and MPR including their MinniWiki and Gather.com, Public Insight Journalism “on any given story, someone in the audience will always know more then we do” bill kling. database of 18,000 people in their database of experts. MPR writes to interested people on each topic during story development. 2 analysts go thru the responses and give to reporters. economic stories as an example (whose recovery is this?). northwest airlines stories. education achievement gap (includes ranking of responses by participants). future of small towns. what towns are growing which are dying. state budget emulator used by 11,000.
Donata communications. personal media and wkrn-tv (nashville). he tells broadcasters to listen. quotes glenn reyonds from “army of davids” disruption examples kodak and digital models. value props. media is unbundled at the source of creation but also in rebundling for personal consumption. mediated people make their own media. “the deer now have guns” when that happens you get into the ammunition business.
WGBH. the power of connecting online and broadcast radio. stuff about podcasting and about their shows being found on google. wghb.org/forum an extension to the 1830s lectures sponsored by the Lowell Foundation. create a more engaged and active citizenry. cell phones to facilitate a story on native americans. public media org. onm.org
??s nod to craig’s list as the unexpected. business wants risk-free advice. but there is none as yet. is the internet the new public? yes says donata guy.
if the internet is the new public is it all white (asks a white guy) who is engaged and wants the digital divide addressed. feels uneasy that women have yet to be on the panel. a bit about black involvement and inclusion.
tv-ontatio guy. on any given story, someone will know more — but not everyone and not everyone who responds. how does the analyst work? minnesota guy responds about how they use their database.
one to few more likely than many to many or even one to many. broadcasters are just coopting the insurectionists?? donata is not a huge podcasting supporter. local innovation will be the place to work. (low power fm?)
you now relate to the public instead of an audience. so what is the new financial basis? subscription services? a bit about net neutrality. quote of mtv “it’s coming, it’s here, it’s gone”
rebecca mckinnon – digital divide including public media helping provide access to the internet. panelists say yes and cite how they used internet to get divided folks involved (tautology here)
cobert mentioned. flourished on the net. died in the times.
kennedy school guy pitches for literacy and even phones. lots of stats. and the question of what to be done: provide literacy and a giant wireless cloud by gubermint. macaddict magazine talks about translation. finally a ? what policies should and could lead to universal services. donata says that we need to learn more and to fix society. net is a great hope but is not the problem but a possible solution set.
changing revenue models, by shawn of npr, how about openning the database and linking back out instead of harvesting stuff and editting it? minnesota person defends.
michael of dotsub. says that the internet is not just white male americans. most of the net is outside the usa. pitches dotsub as a translation service. missed the ? here if there is one.
what will the future be for someone born literally yesterday? wgbh guy asks. no one knows. we need to engage kids.
Jake welcomes us, the room is completely full, power and wireless at every seat, streaming the conference (see site), second life version as well.
JJB writes in the dead of the night to say that the special .31 release of Lyceum is up for download. “[T]his is a special release for Lyceum, because beyond this point, all future point releases will include upgrade scripts and documentation. Administrators can now feel confident about designing a Lyceum deployment without having to worry about difficult upgrades in the future.”
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IRS Warns Fiscal Cliff Plunge Could Delay Up To 100 Million Tax Filings
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY TOOK OUR MONEY AND THEY'LL GET BACK TO US WHEN THEY WILL RETURN IT TO US.
With fiscal cliff negotiations slowing to a near-halt, the IRS is warning that absent a deal, up to two-thirds of U.S. taxpayers will have to wait next year to file their returns.In a letter to the top House and Senate tax writers from both parties, acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller said that between 80 million and 100 million taxpayers won’t be able to file on time. That’s up from a November estimate, in which he told lawmakers that around 60 million taxpayers might have trouble filing.Most taxpayers wouldn’t be able to file their returns until at least the end of March, Miller said.Miller said the IRS has programmed its computers to assume that Congress will agree to a last-minute patch, as it has in previous years. But if a deal doesn’t come together, Miller said that millions of Americans will have to wait for the IRS to alter its programs.I REPEAT:
“If an AMT patch is not enacted by the end of this year, the IRS would need to make significant programming changes to conform our systems to reflect the expiration of the patch,” Miller wrote.
Many lawmakers have suggested that they could address the AMT in early January if Washington falls off the fiscal cliff. But Miller said that even that scenario creates problems.
“If Congress were to enact a new AMT patch, the time and substantial expense necessary for the IRS to reprogram its systems to reflect expiration of the patch would ultimately be wasted,” he wrote.
THIS MEANS, THEY HAVE YOUR MONEY, AND THEY WILL GET BACK TO YOU ONE WHEN THEY MIGHT BE WILLING TO GIVE IT BACK TO YOU.
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Mumbai: The calls for retirement might have grown louder after Sachin Tendulkar was bowled three times on the trot in the recent Test series against New Zealand, but former India skipper Sourav Ganguly is convinced the senior batsman would respond in a befitting manner.
"It's not the first time he has been bowled. It has happened when he was at his peak. He had then found a way and he is going to do it again. I am sure people's talk (about his retirement) must have hurt him and he will respond to it," Ganguly said here on Friday, after delivering the fourth Dilip Sardesai memorial lecture at the Bombay Gymkhana.
Ganguly was sure that Tendulkar would call it a day when he's on a high like all great players do. "Having played with him for so long, you got to believe he's not over. When he goes he will go on a high like it should be for every player and more so for the great man," said the Bengal stalwart while answering a query before a packed gathering, which included former Test players Ajit Wadekar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Sanjay Manjrekar and Bapu Nadkarni.
Tendulkar was bowled in the three innings he played in the two-Test series against the visiting Kiwis in Hyderabad and Bangalore, triggering a debate whether the champion batsman should retire.
Ganguly noted Tendulkar's advancing age and said the batsman should now concentrate on Test cricket more while utilising the limited overs cricket to get into the groove for the longer version whenever possible. "He has in the past used One-day cricket to stay in focus for Tests. But it's upto him as he knows his game better than others. He's getting on in years, he's 39-40. He can't play all forms of cricket. I feel he should concentrate more on Test cricket," Ganguly said.
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IBON Foundation pays tribute to the achievements, revolutionary spirit and humility of Joan Hinton who passed away on June 8 at age 89.
Ms. Hinton was immensely intelligent, becoming one of the few women physicists involved in the Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic bomb. She was immensely principled, turning to activism after the United States (US) bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Ms. Hinton was among scores of scientists who actively opposed such use by the military of nuclear weapons.
By 1948 she was in China actively participating in the struggle to build Socialism. She made this country her home for the decades to come– witnessing the founding of the People’s Republic, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. “I did not want to spend my life figuring out how to kill people,” she had said in 2002. “I wanted to figure out how to let people have a better life, not a worse life.”
She met and married Sid Engst in China, and they were a part of the Chinese people’s great revolutionary undertaking as translators, editors and agriculturalists on collective farms. Ms. Hinton was a true scientist of the people; among others, she designed and built farm machinery including windmills, milk pasteurizers, silage choppers and combine harvesters.
Their commitment to Socialism was firm even upon the tumultuous changes in China since the mid-1970s and strived against what she called “betrayals of the Socialist cause”. Ms. Hinton died in Beijing, like her husband Sid in 2003.
Ms. Hinton’s life is an inspiring story and IBON Foundation is proud to have published a book about the courageous Joan and Sid in 2009, Silage Choppers and Snake Spirits, as told by Dao-yuan Chou. We are very deeply saddened by her passing and send our sincerest condolences to her family, friends and colleagues.
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From the Factory Archives
(02.Dec.11) IconBuilder 8.5.3 Adds Support for Large Icons in Lion
Announcing the immediate release of IconBuilder 8.5.3 for use with Adobe Photoshop and Mac OS X. This latest update to our professional Photoshop & Fireworks filter for creating icons on the Macintosh, now fully supports large format (1024×1024) ICNS files displayed in Apple’s latest operating system – Lion. Designers & developers running Lion can now save out as well as import these high resolution icon resources seen in Mac OS X 10.7.
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Flipping the North Koreans off
Not many people visit North korea these days but if you are one of the lucky few, more likely than not you will be led through an official guided tour of USS Pueblo – an American Intelligence vessel captured in 1968 – which remains the only American vessel currently in captivity.
The seizure of USS Pueblo is now one of the forgotten episodes of the Cold War. The U.S. claimed it was in the international waters, while the D.P.R.K. insisted that it was in the North Korean waters. Diplomatic and military stand-off that followed was punctuated by a series of photos, films, and letters depicting the crew of the Pueblo enjoying their comfortable captivity.
In reality, however, the crew was being subjected to psychical and psychological abuse. From behind the bars in one of the most isolated places on the planet, the crew nonetheless delivered a master class in political subversion. To undermine the credibility of the letters written home to suggest that they had willingly defected, the crew wrote about the events that never happened. In their press conferences, they used archaic words the Koreans didn’t perfectly understand. Since none of the Koreans knew English well enough to write the confession, the vessel’s commander wrote it himself. They checked the meaning of his words with a dictionary, but failed to catch the pun: “We paean the DPRK. We paean the Korean people. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung”. (“Paean” is homophonic with “pee on”.)
And almost by accident, they came across the idea behind their greatest coup: in two propaganda movies, the crew noticed people giving the finger were not censored. The crew deduced that the North Koreans didn’t know what the finger meant. In the subsequent propaganda photos of the crew, their middle fingers were firmly extended to the cameraman. When the North Koreans questioned, the crew described it as the “Hawaiian good luck sign.” The ruse went on unnoticed until October 1968, when Time magazine explained the mysterious gesture appearing in many photos as one of “obscene derisiveness and contempt.”
This revelation infuriated the North Korean captors, bringing about a period of severe beatings and torture, and the propaganda letters, photos and videos stopped after this. Yet, it would take two more months for the U.S. to offer a perfunctory apology (retracted afterwards) to ensure the release of 82 crewmen. Diplomatic and morale victory hid the bitter reality that the loss of USS Pueblo was a significant blow to the intelligence services. It is now believed that the Soviets urged the North Koreans to seize the ship so that they can reverse engineer US equipment and codebooks.
Time Magazine never responded to the repercussions that followed its very public explanation, which in its entirely is reproduced below. For more photos, check the link here.
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Caldwell told Express Sports: “Since Paul’s loan spell came to an end, I’ve been in regular contact with his agent and I spoke to him just 48 hours ago.
“Paul thoroughly enjoyed being a part of everything we have here at St Mirren and he relished the opportunity to play first team football.
“Right at this moment in time, that’s the big thing for him. He is at an age where he has to be playing and, having had a taste of life in the SPL, he wants more.”
He added: “The current situation is that Newcastle were looking at including him in their squad for this weekend’s game but they expect to have players back from injury next week and are also looking at signing new defenders.
“Should that be the case and we can come to some arrangement with Paul’s agent, then he could be in our squad for the match against Ross County next weekend.
“Failing that, it could be the following weekend, when we play Celtic in the League Cup semi-final, that we could have him back. Danny wants him back and, having spoken to Paul, I know that the lad is desperate to return.”
Caldwell is delighted the Saints have such a good working relationship with Premiership giants Newcastle, aided by the presence of assistant manager Tommy Craig.
He said: “Tommy was at Newcastle for years and is still friends with their reserve coach Willie Donachie, as well as others on Tyneside.
“Apparently, Newcastle are happy Paul returned to St James’s Park a far better player than the one who left, so they can see that the loan arrangement with St Mirren is a win-win situation.
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8 June 2011
Ushahidi and the ICT4Peace Foundation have agreed to jointly develop an enhanced ICT4Peace Crisis Information Management Platform Demonstrator (CIMD), based on Ushahidi’s existing platform and as deployed e.g. in Libya including further upgrades such as the ‘Luanda’ version of the Ushahidi platform and based of specifications provided by ICT4Peace.
The new generation of crowd sourced crisis information management tools have made extraordinary progress in proving valuable information to decision makers in crisis, it is generally recognized, that further developments are needed to provide the necessary tools to validate information through assessing the reliability of the source and the probability of the occurrence. Several stakeholders have different ways of dealing with incoming data relating to a crisis and there is a need for ‘bounded’ crowdsourcing and ‘unbounded’ crowdsourcing. Bounded crowdsourcing entails the reporting of information from vetted sources and for that information to be available only to view by the ‘bound. The proposed ICT4Peace enhanced CIMD tool will feature the updated ‘Luanda’ Ushahidi platform with all its built in features and two key plugins.
The Matrix Analysis plugin as outlined on ICT4peace website and as provided on Ushahidi plugin repository. The plugin will be updated to work with the Luanda version of the platform, which is an enhanced version of the platform with many features.
For instance, multiple groups plugin for several separate “bound” and “non bound”-reporting reporting communities on the same platform. This keeps data centralized while allowing each of the groups to keep reports and messages private until they decide to make them public. This can allow for collaboration of different agencies that have varying levels of comfort with sharing data publicly.
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Involving students in assessment is often the key to engaging them in learning. This workshop will continue to follow Barbara and Scott as they use assessment to encourage their students to improve their performance. Providing opportunities for students to assess their own work and that of their peers will be the focus of this workshop. D
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"Alcatraz and Chinatown"
Chinatown and the Rock - Explore San Francisco's Chinatown with consummate guide and expert Martin Yan and visit Alcatraz at night. Best of the West - Adventures! Rafting the Colorado River in Utah, kayaking, hiking, zip-lining and cliff diving on Kauai and mountain biking in northern Sierra Nevada. Legend of the West - Wavy Gravy. D
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This is one of the tastiest Polish dishes. I make pierogi every month. My kids and my husband like them a lot. For my kids I make pierogi with fruit because of their allergies. For me and my husband I make pierogi ruskie with potatoes, cheese and onion.
Below is the recipe for the dough and an explanation how to make it. The recipe does not contain milk or eggs.
Pierogi with blueberries
This recipe makes pierogi for four. It is almost not possible to tell how many pierogi you will make because it depends on many things: how big the pierogi are, how thick the dough is…
Ingredients for pierogi’s dough:
- 0.5 kg all-purpose flour;
- 1 cup warm water;
- 1/4 teaspoon salt.
- 4 -5 handfuls of blueberries, you can also use other fruit for filling, for example: strawberries, apples, etc.
You will also need:
- big bowl;
- large pastry board or board;
- glass or round cookie cutter;
- big pot or big sauce pan;
- 2 tbsp of oil and 1 tbsp of salt to add to the boiling water;
- sotted spoon.
Rinse and dry the blueberries.
Place the flour into a large bowl, add the salt.
Using your left hand, pour the warm water slowly into the bowl with the flour. At the same time mix the water with the flour using your right hand. The water must be warm, not lukewarm, not cool. The water should be very warm, but not too hot, so you do not burn your hand. The warm water makes your dough more flexible and easier to form and roll out. Each flour is different, so it is difficult to specify how much water you need to use to make your dough perfect. Add more flour if your dough is too sticky, add a little bit more water if your dough seems to be too dry.
When the dough in the bowl starts to resemble a ball and does not stick to your hand, you can transfer the dough onto a large pastry board or a board or a clean countertop. Knead the dough on a floured work surface until the dough is soft, flexible, smooth and no longer sticks to the work surface.
Shape the dough into a ball and place it in a bowl, then cover the bowl with a cotton cloth so the dough does not dry out.
Cut out a small piece of dough. Shape the small piece of dough into a ball, then sprinkle it with flour.
Roll out the dough thinly (about 3 mm) on a lightly floured work surface.
Using a glass or a round cookie cutter cut circles out of the rolled-out dough. The size of the circles is important. Big circles will give us very large pierogi, small circles will give us a lot of small pierogi.
Apply a few blueberries (a teaspoon) on a dough circle, sparkle with sugar.
Press the dough on the edges firmly so pierogi will not open during cooking.
Place the pierogi in rows on a cotton cloth so they do not touch each other.
Use a big saucepan or a big pot because pierogi should be cooked in a large amount of water. Add salt and oil (about 3 table spoons) to the boiling water then place the pierogi in the water.Using a wooden spoon, stir cooking pierogi gently, so they do not stick to the pot’s bottom. Do not cover the pot with a lid. Once the pierogi start floating on the surface, cook them for about 2 -3 minutes more. Cooking time will depend on the size of the dumplings. Using a sotted spoon remove pierogi from the water and place them on the plates.
Serve immediately with sugar. If you are not allergic to milk, you can eat them with sour cream or butter.
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Sustainability of current account for Latin America and Caribbean countries
AbstractThis article examines sustainability of current account for Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Using the usual intertemporal borrowing constraint, we have tested for a long-run relationship between exports and imports plus net transfer payments and net interest payments. In our empirical analysis of the sustainability of current account, cointegration approaches have been used. Empirical results suggest that in the case of Peru, there exists a unique long run or equilibrium relationship among real exports and imports. In the case of Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, cointegration results suggest that these countries' current accounts are not sustainable in the long run.
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- Tyler Williams, 2007. "The effects of expectations on perception: experimental design issues and further evidence," Working Papers 07-14, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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Education and health outcomes for social minorities in India: An analysis using SUR model
AbstractThe current study analyzes the health and education outcomes of fifteen year old children in India and investigates the question of inequality of such outcomes for socio-religious categories. To study the effect of health on education, SUR estimation has been undertaken. The comparison of SUR and OLS results shows that SUR estimates have smaller standard errors than the OLS estimates. Of the three categories analyzed in the data, STs have worst outcomes for both education and health and SCs lag behind in the health field. The results have important implications for policy regarding education and health of the socio-religious minorities.
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"Vidya, Veda, and Varna: The influence of religion and caste on education in rural India,"
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- Vani K. Borooah & Sriya Iyer, 2002. "Vidya, Veda, and Varna: The Influence of Religion and Caste on Education in Rural India," ICER Working Papers 32-2002, ICER - International Centre for Economic Research.
- Behrman, Jere R, 1996. "The Impact of Health and Nutrition on Education," World Bank Research Observer, World Bank Group, vol. 11(1), pages 23-37, February.
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"School Participation in Rural India,"
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- Ashwini Deshpande, 2000. "Recasting Economic Inequality," Review of Social Economy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 58(3), pages 381-399.
- Case, Anne & Fertig, Angela & Paxson, Christina, 2005. "The lasting impact of childhood health and circumstance," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 24(2), pages 365-389, March.
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Mary Richardson Kennedy committed suicide at her home on May 17, 2012. When I wrote about how difficult it is for people to acknowledge the dangers of mental illness, both here, and on my personal blog, I was swamped with comments from people who blamed her misery on her divorce — and more specifically, Bobby Kennedy’s supposedly abusive treatment of her. She wasn’t ill, the argument went — until he decided to leave her. As Mary’s sister, Nan Richardson, told Kennedy, “You killed my sister.” His behavior unhinged her.
Now the blame has escalated to an entirely new level. Somehow, a sealed, 60-page court affidavit filed by Bobby Kennedy during his divorce proceedings was unsealed and given to Laurence Leamer, a Kennedy historian. Unless someone in Westchester family court was engaged in illegal smuggling, it isn’t hard to imagine that it was made public with Bobby Kennedy’s blessing. The pile-on was so intense, the level of loathing and blame so harsh, that anyone would want to defend himself. From the excerpts shared, the affidavit describes a grim life with a charismatic woman diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, one of the trickiest conditions to treat. It describes a violent, abusive wife and mother, and a heavy drinker. It is, in short, horrifying.
But consideration of the children seems to be entirely missing in this situation. Not that this should surprise anyone who has been in, or near, a divorce in which the children are used as weapons aimed at the heart of one parent or another. It happens all too often: the husband who isn’t allowed to see his children if he is in a new relationship; the children who are told way too much about who did what to whom and are exposed to a constant barrage against their father or mother. Children have difficulty recovering from being so ill-used; they rarely forgive their parents for it, either, from what I’ve seen and read. Using one’s children to get the upper hand in a divorce is, in short, child abuse.
It is not for anyone to judge whether or not Kennedy’s affidavit is accurate — or a skewed tool used to manipulate the outcome of a rancorous debate. Divorce is no longer the issue, but blame still lingers. Certainly, if the affidavit is accurate, the children saw it all — and worse — and don’t need to be reminded of the toll her illness took on their mother. They surely don’t need to be convinced that their father wasn’t the cause of her suicide. Mental illness was the cause of her suicide, as it is with all suicides, which is why any effort to levy or deflect blame is so misguided and impedes the children’s ability to come to any understanding of the loss of their mother. After Bobby Kennedy’s affidavit was made public, the Richardson family issued a statement that it was “full of vindictive lies,” including the claim that Mary suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder. And it goes on.
The blame game is a dangerous trap. It is never won. It takes prisoners for life. And it escalates until all memory of love is scorched and blows away, ashes to ashes. So it will go with the Kennedy-Richardson disaster. One family against another. There is nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, especially for the children left behind. When the ashes settle, the only thing that’s clear is that we still do not appreciate — or respect — the brutal reality of mental illness.
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Trey Songz’s collaboration with Drake, “The Usual,” surfaced today, and the track is a dramatic and emotional musical exploration of the situation in the Sudan. Just kidding! It’s about sex. Did you expect anything different from the oft-shirtless wonder that is Trey Songz? We sure didn’t. Get in the mood and check Trey’s “Usual” below![wpaudio url="http://idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/trey-songz-drake-usual.mp3" text="Trey Songz feat. Drake - The Usual" dl="0"]
“I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t get a little nasty,” Trey slurs at the opening of the track. No, it honestly wouldn’t be him.
He continues: “I could be more than the usual / Not your regular, tell you what, lemme touch, you’re gonna feel something unusual / I’m not gonna be with the usual.” We’re not sure most girls want to feel something “unusual” in bed, but then again, Trey lists all the places he wants to get busy—”restaurant, cinema, on the hood of the car, counter top, balcony, in the chair, on the beach”—and he never once mentions a bedroom.
We’re grooving to this 70s-sounding jam, with bells and horns blasting through the song (most certainly a sample, though we can’t pick what it is—any leads, folks?) til Drizzy (whom previously worked in the studio with Trey on his track “Successful”) comes out with his verse.
Besides the predictable horny lyrics, we’re still calling this track from Trey’s Passion, Pain & Pleasure a pleasure. How about you?
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Machine learning methods are known to be inefficient when faced with many features that are unnecessary for rule discovery. In coping with this issue, many methods have been proposed for selecting important features. Among them is feature selection that selects a subset of discriminative features or attribute for model building due to its ability to avoid overfitting issue, improve model performance, provide faster and producing reliable model. This paper proposes a new method based on rough set algorithms, which is a rule-based data mining method to select the important features in bioinformatics datasets. Amino acid compositions are used as conditional features for the classification task. However, our results indicate that all amino acid composition features are equally important thus selecting the features are unnecessary. We do confirm the need of having a balance classes in classifying the protein function by demonstrating an increase of more than 15% in accuracy.
Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 2009. ICEEI '09. International Conference on (Volume:01 )
Date of Conference: 5-7 Aug. 2009
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Yesterday I was chatting to a really experienced high school teacher. I asked for his opinion on what makes an excellent student or learner. This is what he said:
"It's not really about what students do inside the classroom. The best students are always the ones that do the most outside the classroom: for example, the ones that go online after a lesson to search for more information, or to look for different ways to understand a topic or solve a problem."
The good news is that if you're reading this blog post, you're already one of these students. You're on the right track!
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Before leaving for their bike trip across the USA on their honeymoon, newlyweds Brett and Edie stopped by our shop to say hi. Brett had his race bike in the car and brought it in for a quick photo session.
He's been racing this stainless steel bike for quite a while now and has a pretty bomb-proof setup.
IF/Rapha sterling silver badge.
He even has a little of the modern day biopace style chainrings made by Rotor, mounted to some SRMpowermeter cranks.
Sweet machine Brett! Thanks for sharing and good luck to both of you on your journey.
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Published by breki on 12 Feb 2012 at 07:47 am
Alexander Ovsov has kindly translated my GroundTruth posts into Romanian. Quoting Alexander:
Our global volunteer project is called “Translation for Education”, located in all-around-the-world, with no headquarters. Its purpose is translating articles dealing with interesting science subjects such as biology, chemistry, geology, medicine, and information technologies in order to assist students and university staff who are not very good at foreign languages and help them become familiarized with relevant scientific news from abroad. Translation from English to small aborigine European (Indo-European) languages, not the big ones.
Thanks, Alexander, and keep up the good work!
Although I haven’t done any GroundTruth work for a long time, a couple of days ago I’ve started migrating (and upgrading) the source code from my local Subversion repository to Mercurial on Bitbucket. The code is in turmoil, but I hope I’ll be able to take some time from other work to clean it up and fix some bugs that have been found by users in the last year. I will also try to incorporate some new stuff that I’ve developed for Maperitive.
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Natalie Portman brought her iPad on set for her latest film by Ivan Reitman. According to IMDb
, the film also stars Ashton Kutcher and Lake Bell. And here's a user written plot, A guy and girl try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it's not long before they learn that they want something more.
Oh... and Apple iPad
, starting at $499 (*need to pursuade Apple to place ad campaign on site).
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IGRA will again be an exhibitor at this event in NYC the weekend of March 9-10. We would like to thank James Ramey and Bud Light in advance for sponsoring the booth space. Additional information on the Expo can be found at www.originalglbtexpo.com.
We are looking for volunteers to help man this booth both days. To save on travel costs, we are looking for people who live in that area and can commute into the city on a daily basis.
Remember that the show is from noon to 6 pm each day. No more 8-hour days manning the booth and standing on a concrete floor! Please contact me if you are interested in volunteering.
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janersm: sexting-inchurch: beautilation: banasmagiccastle: sarcasminc: arigoato: funny text posts arent my Puns like that could get you in give it a Yeah I think the joke might be falling This would probably be a lot funnier if I could read sheet music It’s no one else’s fault that you aren’t that
suojure: malijuanastyles: i was sitting in the bathroom today when like 5 girls walked in and i stopped pooping right away cause i didn’t want them to hear me but then i thought why is taking a shit so bastardized today like why cant i poop in peace in the privacy of my own stall without caring if people listen to the flop flop plop plop sploosh sploosh like damn just sing along to the ploop...
friendlyangryfeminist: the brilliant thing about being a woman is that I’m punished for both trusting and distrusting men! I should magically know which man is going to harm me by having a brief conversation with him. if I trust Bad Men, then, well. I should’ve known. if I don’t trust Nice Men though, I’m an utter bitch who deserves violence. don’t I know most men are good people?
lolzpicx: last week on hell’s kitchen this week on hell’s kitchen next week on hell’s kitchen
Guy: What do girls do at sleepovers?
Me: Pass the Bechdel test.
silencearticulated: How to treat someone when they’re hella thirsty
benjenstark: SANSA, ARYA, RICKON, AND BRAN HAVEN’T SEEN THEIR MOTHER SINCE THE BEGINNING OF GAME OF THRONES HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY
twofingerswhiskey: i wish that there was a service where if one of your online friends was in distress, you could hit a button and deliver a box instantly to them, with a comfy blanket, some favourite DVD’s, a good book, some encouraging messages, and a teddy bear inside.
sigoynerblod: OH MY GOD BABY WEASELS THEYRE SO CUTE AND TINY WHAT THE HECK
Yesterday I was meeting my boyfriend at work, and outside his store there were all these dead bees on the ground with one bee buzzing around overhead. I could only surmise that he was the winner of The Honey Games.
kat-soup: sodamnrelatable: I bet Spiderman left New York City for a day trip and when he came back, he saw the catastrophic aftermath of The Avengers and he was like “I WAS GONE FOR ONE DAY. ONE DAY.” Lmao
tumbledore-: i-choose-fit: fightblr: flaming-scrotum: muggleland: the ceo of abercrombie and fitch has a lot of nerve saying that ugly people shouldn’t wear his clothes when he looks like an albino orc from the lord of the rings fashion Now is the time to reblog this. I’ve been awaiting this picture. Hahaha I can’t help it. The irony. I think the orc looks cuter.
My daughter: *looking at tumblr* Are there feels on this?
Me: You have NO IDEA.
Lettuce in a sandwich Lettuce on a burger Lettuce
Lady Olenna: look everyone's a little bit gay
Tywin: no they fucking aren't
Lady Olenna: well maybe not at Incesterly Rock they're not
fourleafedcolfer: i would like to take a moment to thank nani pelekai for being one of the first disney women to ever look like an actual human being
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The Indian Navy invites applications from unmarried male candidates to join the prestigious Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala, Kerala & become a Permanent Commissioned Officer in 10+2 Cadet (B.Tech.) Entry Scheme Course JUNE 2012. The complete details & eligibility criteria is given below :
Age Limit : 17 to 19 ½ years (i.e. born between 02 Jan 1993 & 01 Jul 1995 both dates inclusive);
Educational Qualification : Senior Secondary Examination (10+2 Pattern) or its equivalent from University/Board with at least 70% aggregate marks in PCM & at least 50% marks in English (either in Class X or Class XII).
Physical Standards :
- Height & Weight: Minimum height- 157 cms with correlated weight as per age.
- Eye Sight: The minimum acceptable vision standard for distant vision 6/6, 6/9 correctable to 6/6, 6/6 with glasses. Should not be color / night blind.
Starting Pay Scale : Rs. 15,600 – 39,100 grade pay Rs. 5,400 plus MSP Rs. 6,000/-
How to Apply : Apply Online at Nausena Bharti website on or before 06th November 2011. After Online Application take two copies of the submitted application form online Application Form. One copy of this Application Form is to be duly signed & send the Application by normal post along with all the important documents to Post Box No. 04, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi – 110 921. The envelope containing the form should be with superscription : ONLINE ROLL NO. __________ APPLICATION FOR 10+2 CADET (B.TECH) ENTRY SCHEME – JUN 2012 COURSE Qualification PCM Percentage ___% .
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Last Tuesday, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly approved the draft Resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary, and Arbitrary Executions. The main aspect of this resolution is that it mentions for the first time gender identity as a characteristic warranting protection from unlawful executions. This resolution comes up for a vote in the Committee every [...]
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Mr Erwin Sperisen, a Swiss and Guatemalan citizen, was arrested yesterday in Geneva for crimes he allegedly committed between 2004 and 2007 in his capacity of Head of Police of Guatemala. The charges relate, in particular, to cases of extra-judicial executions, torture, forced disappearance and rape perpetrated by the police forces under his control. In [...]
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Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers
Winnipeg Free Press: Punish Pavs, MADD says. I suspect next season Pavelec will be more likely seen shooting a commercial for MADD than he will selling cars for the local car dealers.
Winnipeg Sun: Pavelec’s agent should have been up front about DUI. Without knowing who knew what when it is hard to talk in absolutes, but one would have to suspect that Allan Walsh was aware of his client’s legal issues in the Czech Republic.
CBC: Pavelec loses right to drive in Manitoba. Title might be a tad misleading as MPI wouldn’t comment on the specifics of Pavelec’s case and it appears somewhat grey as to the letter of the law.
The Hockey News: The CBA war between owners. Even amongst billionaires there are the haves and have-nots. Not a real surprise that there isn’t a totally unified approach to negotiations.
NHL.com: NHL states desire to settle CBA talks by Sept. 15. Wouldn’t that be a nice birthday present for yours truly.
Comcast New England: Roenick – ‘I’m afraid for the NHL’. J.R. is never one afraid to speak his mind and he lets his feelings be known in this video.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Flyers make offer to Weber; will Nashville match? Gonna be a nervous 7 days between Tennessee and Pennsylvania. Just when you thought the deals couldn’t get any crazier, the Flyers flex some east coast muscle.
1500 ESPN: Modano mulling a comeback, says he’s feeling Minnesota. When he played what many thought was his last game in 2009-10 and put on a Minnesota North Stars jersey while skating around the Xcel Energy Center, their was an electricity in the air. Would an in-shape Modano be of interest to this younger Wild team?
The Seattle Times: How Seattle arena deal stacks up. Interesting read. The NHL is key (although Hansen has said he would look for someone else to own the team) as outlined in the article as follows;
“King County will contribute $80 million toward construction costs, but only if an NHL team is part of the deal. With no NHL team, the county will contribute only $5 million.”
Illegal Procedure: Winnipeg Blue Bombers Papers. If you are a fan of CFL football, check out our other site, which gives you all the latest Bombers news.
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Without a doubt, Despicable Me. Cant wait for the ride to be ready in Florida, and already looking forward to the sequel coming out next year.
- Minions are the greatest thing ever, they’re so cute and funny. I even have two cuddly minions that my boyfriend brought me from Florida last year.
- IT’S SO FLUFFY I’M GONNA DIEEEE! Enough said.
- Steve Carell is brilliant as grew, how he manages to change his voice like that is unbelievable.
- It also has Russel Brand as the crazy scientist dude which is epic.
- It’s just funny and great to watch and it doesn’t only apply to kids.
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About DigCCurr II : Extending an International Digital Curation Curriculum to Doctoral Students and Practitioners
seeks to develop an international,
curriculum and educational network in the management and preservation
of digital materials across their life cycle. If cultural heritage,
science, commerce, health, education, and government sectors are to
have long-term access and re-use of meaningful and authentic digital
resources, graduate education programs must produce PhD-level faculty
in digital curation. This project will prepare future faculty to
perform research and teach in this area, as well as provide summer
institutes for cultural heritage information professionals already
working in this arena.
Each of the DigCCurr II arms below support this initiative. Scroll down or click on the links to learn more.
- The Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellowship Program (CDCDF)
- Digital curation curriculum development for PhD students
- Professional Institutes
- The Digital Curation Exchange (DCE)
- Digital Curation Symposia
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) was awarded a 2008 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant from IMLS, under the category "Programs to Build Institutional Capacity." DigCCurr II: Extending an International Digital Curation Curriculum to Doctoral Students and Practitioners" (2008-2012) builds upon DigCCurr I (2006-09). SILS continues in their partnership with NARA, as well as introducing a new partnership, the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information.
The Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellowship Program (CDCDF) top
- A 20 hr/wk position as a Research Fellow for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project, “DigCCurr II: Extending an International Digital Curation Curriculum to Doctoral Students and Practitioners.”
- A stipend of $19,000 for two years
- In-state tuition and health coverage
- Extensive opportunities to meet key leaders in the Digital Curation research and practice arenas through workshops and symposia to be held at UNC
For more information on Carolina Digital Curation Doctoral Fellowship opportunities, send e-mail to Dr. Helen Tibbo at tibbo (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu, Dr. Cal Lee at callee (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu, or Angela Murillo at amurillo (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu.
Interested applicants may also
direct correspondence to:
DigCCurr II Fellowships
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3360 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill NC 27566-3360
Digital curation curriculum
development for PhD students top
Digital curation curriculum development for PhD students will be an extension of the curriculum developed in the DigCCurr I grant project. This project will enhance the framework, extend the content, seek new delivery streams, and integrate the theory, practice, and world-wide expertise for those seeking to build academic careers.
DigCCurr II sponsors Professional Institutes aimed at assisting digital collection managers in developing their digital curation strategies.
The first Professional Institute, "Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle" was held June 21-26, 2009, with a follow-up session January 6-7, 2010 in Chapel Hill, NC.
The second Professional Institute was held May 16-21 2010. The follow-up Winter Institute and Public Symposium were held January 5-7, 2011.
The third Professional Institute was held May 15-20, 2011. The follow-up Winter Institute and Public Symposium will be held January 4-6, 2012.
A Professional Institute is planned for May 20-25, 2012.
The Digital Curation Exchange
The Digital Curation Exchange website has been developed in response to a growing demand for a central location for digital curation professionals, educators, and students to discuss "all things digital curation." This site will provide space to post and discuss curriculum, presentations, publications, reports, syllabi, video, and more. The DCE site is intended to serve as a growing and evolving platform to support the emerging digital curation profession. It was launched at the DigCCurr 2009 conference and can be accessed at www.digitalcurationexchange.org.
Digital Curation Symposia
DigCCurr II hosts a series of Public Symposia and PhD Symposia to showcase the cutting edge work that is occurring in the digital curation arena. The first Public Symposium took place on January 8, 2010, immediately following the second session of the first Professional Institute. The next Public symposium was held January 7, 2011. The third will be held January 6, 2012.
See the June
17, 2008 press release from IMLS
announcing the 2008 recipients of federal grants from the Laura Bush
21st Century Librarian Program, including DigCCurr II.
This website will be updated as the DigCCurr II project develops. Please check back for updates and current news. Or, if you'd like to receive announcements of DigCCurr II planning and progress reports as they become available, please send an email request to Angela Murillo at amurillo (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Feel All The Wonderful Motion
One afternoon in the summer of 1984 news spread like wildfire among Epcot Center cast members that the ‘Radok Blocks’ were finally fully operational. From one end of the park to the other operations hosts and hostesses quickly changed out of their costumes and rushed towards Universe of Energy in Future World East, converging on the pre-show theater directly inside the building.
Cast members familiar with the eight minute film that had shown there since Epcot’s opening in 1982 were immediately aware that something was off the moment they entered. The entire ninety foot wide screen used for the presentation appeared to be missing, now completely covered over in black. They wouldn’t have long to wonder as once the lights dimmed the mystery quickly dissipated. Like pristine white dominoes falling magically into place, the screen exploded out from the center in perfect synchronization with the film. From one end of the auditorium to the other you could hear audible gasps, all eyes now locked on this wonderous undulating surface.
Months later operators at Universe of Energy would joke about how quickly the room of 580 boisterous guests would brake to dead silence the moment the screen started throbbing to life.
An online fansite dedicated to preserving the Universe of Energy’s history summed it up:
“Saddling it with the term ‘pre-show’ is an injustice, given the connotations that the term carries. The original pre-show for Universe of Energy, the absolutely dazzling "Kinetic Mosaic" …was regarded by many as better than some main shows."
The movie, consisting of five 35 mm films running in unison, hadn’t changed when cast members poured into the building that Summer afternoon in 1984 but the screen very much had. Made up of 100 3½ foot square prism-shaped tiles, these ‘mini-screens’ consisted of two sides of a projection surface and one side non-reflective black. Each segment could show either a black or white surface, or allow one of several combinations with its point facing forward; the full screen capable of more than a billion separate configurations. Synchronized with the film, these tiles rotated independently or in concert with each other by way of individual servo-motors and all were controlled by microprocessors, making this the first time in film history where a computer was used to move elements within a film presentation.
And the effect was breathtaking.
The mastermind behind this remarkable presentation was the Czech film director Emil Radok who, with his brother, presented his landmark film ‘The Magic Lantern’ at the Brussels Expo in 1958, part of an experimental system of combining film projection with live performance. But it was his pre-show presentation at Epcot’s Energy Pavilion that was, ten years before he passed away, his most monumental and astonishing masterwork.
So complex and demanding was the technology behind Radok’s Kinetic Mosaic that each screen element was set to their default white position when Epcot opened and remained that way for two years while Imagineers continued to work the bugs out, not least of which was the unreliability of the 100 separate motors, each with its own precise braking system, required to operate the individual screen elements. So long had this screen lay dormant that when in-the-know guests asked Universe of Energy operators about why it wasn’t working they were met with, “What? The screen moves?”
Radok’s audacious show continued to wow audiences in the coming decade but challenged engineers on an almost daily basis. It was rare to see every block operational with guests often witnessing a row of at least four blocks locked to white when they entered the pavilion.
Two years after Emil passed away in Canada (where he’d been exiled from then socialist Czechoslovakia), Disney accountaneers decided they’d had enough of those un-reliable and costly Radok blocks and plastered them over with stationary screens, figuring a newer hipper generation of Disney guests would respond more favorably to the pop culture antics of Ellen Degeneres in a pure film format.
Disney management was probably correct in assuming that guests who didn't know what they’re missing wouldn't miss it; that ignorance is indeed bliss.
But some of us know better. Some of us enter that pre-show theater at Epcot’s Universe of Energy today and recall how our jaws dropped to the floor every time we saw that giant wall ripple to life. How we stared in wonder as wild fully dimensional images formed out of thin air. How we delighted in the whimsical play of shadow and light over constantly shifting shape and form. How even today this presentation was way ahead of its time.
And so we mourn what future generations will miss by not viewing Emil Radok’s masterpiece, an artist and filmmaker who truly made us, “Feel all the wonderful motion flowing through things far and near.”
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