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[gdal-dev] Using GDAL/OGR/OGDI to read ArcInfo road networks
warmerdam at p...
Tue Oct 16 11:11:52 EDT 2001
Ben Discoe wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> I am trying to figure out how to get some data into GDAL/OGR..
> I am encountering users who use ArcInfo for road networks. I'd like to be
> able to read these roads, with topology intact, into the VTP software, via
> If they export the roads, as arc Shapefiles, then the topology is lost,
> since Shapefiles aren't capable of it.
> So, i think i need to read the Arc coverage directly - which is quite a
> number of small files, with extensions like .adf, .dir, .dat, .nit.
> Looking at the OGR documentation, i believe i need OGDI. So, i downloaded
> the OGDI source and built it.
> Next, i presume i'll need a version of GDAL/OGR with OGDI support turned on.
> You just released a binary (gdal-115a-ntbin.zip) with that feature enabled,
> but it lacks the headers/import library. Do i need to build GDAL myself,
> with OGDI enabled? If so, how?
> Presuming that is resolved, what would the next step be? I read the OGDI
> documentation, but it's not clear how to use it. The files are local; do i
> really need to provide a "gltp://" path just to load a local file?
A few issues:
o The Arc/Info binary translator in OGDI is a commercial adapter from
Global Geomatics - it isn't free. You might want to ensure the pricing
would be acceptable before going too far.
o I can provide import libraries and include files for the last release
quite easily if you want. I ommitted them to trim the download size.
o To build GDAL with OGDI support, you should just need to uncomment and
correct the definition of the three OGDI macros in gdal/nmake.opt.
However, you also need an OGDI distribution built from source to build
and link against.
o Finally, if you did read arc/info vectors through OGDI and/or OGR you
are only going to get the topological connections as an attribute of
some kind. Neither OGR nor OGDI inherently support topological vectors.
I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at p...
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July 3, 2006
With over forty years experience in the construction industry much of it in the Water and Wastewater areas, I have been involved in all aspects of the design, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance of Sewage Collection and Treatment Facilities. I have been involved in the planning and budgeting process relating specifically to improving many wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
Some of my more recent projects include major upgrades to the collection system and treatment plant for the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, a 120-MGD facility, substantial upgrades to the wastewater treatment facility for the town of Adams, Massachusetts, a 10-MGD facility, substantial improvements to the pumping stations and treatment plants in the communities of Mystic, Stonington, and Pawacutuck, Connecticut consisting of multiple pump stations and three treatment plants along the Connecticut shoreline that handle a combined total of 7-MGD, upgrades to multiple pumping stations and a complete overhaul of the 180-MGD Bondi Island WWTP for Springfield, Massachusetts, and the addition of several pumping stations, improvements to existing pumping stations, and installation of new instrumentation and control systems at the 10-MGD wastewater treatment plant for the town of Enfield, Connecticut.
These are a few recent projects in which I have been involved, and I respectfully submit that my background and experience in this area qualifies me to speak to the issues confronting Marco Island with regard to the STRP. Every statement that follows is supportable and verifiable; I will be only too pleased to provide data and backup documentation for all assertions contained herein.
Improving Marco’s wastewater treatment plant and failing infrastructure is necessary regardless of whether the collection system is extended. Although there is some disagreement over this, plant capacity must also be increased to provide for undevloped lots already served by the sewer system, as well as for future development to build-out.
The initial cost analysis to rebuild the treatment plant exceeded $50 million, and ultimately grew to $68 million as the Utility opted for the more expensive MBR technology. Recovering this via the rate structure was not thought to be feasible because sewer rates would have more than doubled and existing users would have rebelled. Other sources of funds had to be found. At that time, it was assumed that septic systems were a health hazard and were polluting our waterways, and the STRP was born of these two parents; the need for additional funds to upgrade our WWTP and the presumption of pollution and health hazards caused by onsite treatment. In fact, the capacity charge portion of the special assessments was designed specifically to fill in the funding shortfall while providing some rationale for rebuilding the plant at the expense of new users. The STRP met with serious opposition, even more so now that the health and pollution claims have been disproved.
It is time to take a new look at funding the needed improvements for the WWTP based upon what we know today, and in light of the recent passage and signing into law of HB-149 it is doubtful that the STRP will remain intact for the entire 7-years as proposed. Therefore, funding for the WWTP must be crafted in a way that does not rely upon the STRP to raise money. Fortunately, this can be done! There is another – and far more equitable – way to rebuild the WWTP without perpetuating the STRP and the stiff opposition accompanying it.
This is a simple plan, one that has already been initiated and needs only to be formalized to stop the contention and put an end to lawsuits once and for all. The plan involves reducing the expenditure to rebuild the treatment plant by doing only what is necessary to correct the problem. In short, it calls for the Marco Island Utility to live within its means.
When the first phase of the Wastewater Treatment Plant construction – the so-called “substantial improvement” phase – is complete this fall, the plant will consist of one new 3.0-MGD MBR train and two existing 1.25-MGD conventional trains for a total plant capacity of 5.5-MGD. Projected cost is less than $30 million, of which $7 million is available from covenants of the 2003 bond issue, and applying grants and impact fees will reduce the amount by up to $8 million more.
There are two ways to pay for these improvements: sell a new revenue bond to fund the improvement and add the bond cost to the rate, or levy a one time assessment to existing users to pay for the new system. The first option will add between $6.00 and $8.00/per month to the sewer rate depending on the application of existing funds, grants and impact fees. The second option would require a one time fee between $1,000 and $1,500 per existing user and although there are significant interest savings to be realized by this method, it may be politically less palatable.
There are other advantages to stopping construction after the initial phase is complete. MBR is more expensive to operate and maintain than conventional treatment. It requires highly skilled and trained operators, and it is technically more difficult to maintain a balance of treatment capacity and low odor emission. In short, MBR is much less forgiving than conventional treatment. Taking this into account a hybrid plant consisting of, (3.0 MGD MBR and 2.5 MGD Conventional), has environmental, safety, and operational advantages over a 100% MBR plant. This hybrid plant will also have significantly lower operating costs which will ultimately be reflected in lower rate increases as energy costs rise. During times when the island is less populated and flows are lower, it may be possible to take the MBR train off line for maintenance and run the conventional trains, thereby producing a substantial savings in operating costs.
Furthermore if the 5.5-MGD capacity is reserved for the areas where it is needed, (the high density area of Collier Boulevard and other commercial areas presently served by the existing sewage collection system), then there will be enough capacity for these users through build out, and well into the foreseeable future. There is no need to sewer the neighborhoods, as the existing septic systems are not posing a public health hazard, causing any pollution of our waterways, and the expansion of the user base is no longer necessary to fund the plant improvements.
We can put an end to the lawsuits, stop digging up our neighborhoods, put Marco Island Utilities on an even keel with renewed infrastructure and a plant that will not be a burden on all of us for between $6.00 and $8.00/month added to the sewer rate. If the existing plan is carried out sewer rates will rise at least twice that amount and the island will experience 7 to 10 years of ongoing construction. As new information becomes available it is prudent to revisit recent decisions in light of that new knowledge, and, if appropriate, make whatever modifications are deemed necessary to improve the overall result of the original decision. As our elected officials you can do no less. | <urn:uuid:2258bd71-6680-4804-9d70-58369f52f03b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://marcoislandblog.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html | 2013-05-22T08:11:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955468 | 1,424 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Customer Reviews for Disney Mickey Easy Go Yo-Yo
Review 1 for Disney Mickey Easy Go Yo-Yo
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Worst party favors ever
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It would be easy to take today’s blockbuster initial public offering by business networking service LinkedIn as a sign that the IPO, the fuel for the tech industry’s wealth-creation engine, is back. But one IPO on the first day won’t tell us that. It’s just as easy to dismiss the rocket-ride to well over double its already-raised offering price as a sign of another bubble. Again, one great IPO’s first day doesn’t mean everybody will party like it’s 1999 (though if it’s “brain-dead” to suspect there’s more than a little froth in Internet investing, take me off life support now).
Still, there are many other lessons we should take away from LinkedIn’s IPO. Here are a few:
* Social networking has arrived as more than a cute phenomenon. LinkedIn may not be Facebook or even Twitter, but it’s serious networking, using people’s social connections to create real value. A lot of people already know this, but for the rest, it’s well past time to stop listening to the Luddites who think Facebook and Twitter are nothing but places to tell people what you ate for lunch.
* At the same time, it’s also apparent that social networking won’t be a winner-take-all business. Yes, a lot of businesses and even professionals use Facebook for business purposes, and will continue to do so. But many more people recognize the value in having separate circles of friends, colleagues, business contacts, and the like. Now, I’d bet that Facebook could be the biggest winner–winner-take-most, if you will. But Mark Zuckerberg clearly won’t own everything social.
* This is the first real sign of whether individual-investor interest in IPOs has returned. It was already apparent that the (literally) marquee names like Facebook, or even Zynga or Groupon, would rock the world when they go public. They’ve got fame, huge and fast-growing revenues, and soaring private valuations already, so using them as a proxy for whether smaller fry would go public was always erroneous. LinkedIn, by contrast, is a much smaller business that’s closer to those of dozens of private Internet companies that to date have been unable to provide their venture investors and entrepreneurial teams exits besides getting acquired. You can be sure that those private Internet companies are using LinkedIn to research potential chief financial officers and arranging meetings with Wall Street investment bankers, if they weren’t already.
* Those shady private-market valuations, which have given Facebook, for one, $65 billion-and-up valuations, suddenly don’t look so crazy after all following the first IPO of an actively traded private company on private exchanges such as Second Market and SharesPost. LinkedIn’s $2.4 billion valuation on those marketplaces, in fact, indicates to some that the supposedly savvy investors trading shares privately vastly underestimated the value of these companies. No doubt LinkedIn’s market cap will be volatile, so it’s unwise to think that Facebook suddenly will be worth multiples of its already breathtaking valuation. But it’s clear that the limited number of shares being traded on these exchanges, as well as the limited amount of information these investors had, didn’t necessarily cause them to overpay. At the same time, it’s unlikely the SEC will back off from scrutinizing whether to regulate them–in fact, it may move even more quickly if this IPO sparks renewed interest in the exchanges.
* LinkedIn’s success proves that Web companies aren’t entirely dependent on advertising for revenues, providing hope that other business models such as subscriptions and paid services are credible alternatives. LinkedIn makes most of its revenues not from advertising but from paid services for recruiters and premium subscriptions.
* Nice guys don’t always finish last. Talk to almost any entrepreneur about LinkedIn cofounder and executive chairman Reid Hoffman, and you’ll get nothing but admiration, and not just because he’s an angel investor in many dozens of their startups as well as a partner in the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. Hoffman seems generous with his time–not least, full disclosure, with me as a reporter since LinkedIn’s earliest days. I remember asking him once, years ago, about the libertarian, government-bashing leanings of some of his more famous colleagues from PayPal, and he sighed and recalled how, as the liberal in the bunch, he kept pushing them to give back to people less fortunate than they. Regardless of your politics, though, isn’t it nice to see that you can become a billionaire without being a jerk?
* For individual investors, the rule for Internet company stocks still should be caveat emptor. That
$8 billion $9 billion valuation likely won’t stay that high in coming weeks or months, not consistently anyway, as the pent-up enthusiasm for Internet IPOs gets spent (at least until Groupon or Zynga or Facebook cranks it up again). For all the success of LinkedIn as a company and as a bellwether for Internet stock issues, it’s still a speculative play, and its share movement may well drive home yet another lesson: Individual investors should never put money they can’t afford to lose into anything their dentist is investing in, their cabbie mentions, or the press is hyperventilating about.
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Tristan H. Cockcroft discusses his midseason hitter rankings and why he's high on Dee Gordon.
Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down the Monday-through-Sunday schedule and offers helpful tips for Week 7 of the fantasy baseball season, noting that the schedule varies greatly in terms of the number of games played by each team.
Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down the schedule and offers helpful tips for Week 1 of the fantasy baseball season, including the initial interleague games.
Tristan H. Cockcroft discusses how lineup positions (and the more or fewer plate appearances that come with it) can affect fantasy values.
Tristan H. Cockcroft has updates on notable position battles this spring and how it could affect fantasy drafts.
Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at 14 players who profile as strong endgame fantasy picks in deep leagues, including Eduardo Nunez and Julio Teheran.
Tristan H. Cockcroft highlights pitchers who met specific criteria in 2012, which can be used to predict strong future performance.
Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at a number of intriguing fantasy options whose spring training performances are worth watching, such as Eric Hosmer and Derek Jeter.
Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at how the Joel Hanrahan trade affects two bullpens; plus, notes on the Nick Swisher deal.
Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at the fantasy implications of the impending R.A. Dickey trade to the Blue Jays, plus deals for Ryan Dempster and Anibal Sanchez.
Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at the fantasy impact of the news Alex Rodriguez needs another hip surgery.
Tristan H. Cockcroft lists his top 75 starting pitchers for next season and previews other potential options for 2013.
Tristan H. Cockcroft ranks his top 50 hitters overall for the 2013 season, as well as providing position rankings for 2013.
Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down the schedule for Week 23 (Sept. 17-23) for the best hitter matchups, two-start pitchers and streaming opportunities.
Tristan H. Cockcroft updates his top 125 hitter rankings and looks at players who have maintained (Hanley Ramirez) or could lose their position versatility (Edwin Encarnacion, Emilio Bonifacio).
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Everyone, meet Molly.
My parents care for abused or neglected English bulldogs (we have 4). It’s a breed with a lot of health problems and expensive vet bills, which results in many sad situations.
Six months ago, we took her in malnourished with chronic sinus and eye infections and a 3rd degree burn down her back. At 5 years old, she had never seen or had any toys and was afraid of grass, having lived her entire life in a concrete pen.
Many surgeries later, she’s happy, has an excessive amount of toys, is in great health, sweet as could be, and ours to keep.
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Kelley, Henry J. (1926-1988)
Papers, 1948-1988, 14.8 cu. ft.
Aerospace engineer, authority on flight optimization. Sc.D. (1958) from New York University; connected with Grumman Aircraft (1948-1963) as a researcher and as assistant chief of the Research Department. Founder of Analytical Mechanics Associates (1963), which worked with NASA on parameterized steering approaches for Apollo mission planning. Professor of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech (Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., Chair), 1978-1988. Awarded the AIAA Guidance and Control Award (1973) and the AIAA Pendray Award (1973). Papers include correspondence, notes, drafts and offprints of publications and research reports.
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Vista was the lowest layer of the atmosphere, filled with normal breathable air: above it was Ilmen, and above that Vaiya. Vista was divided into two parts: The upper part was Fanyamar, the home of clouds, and the lower part was Aiwenórë, the "land" of birds. Vista only lay upon Middle-earth and the seas; it was bounded by the Mountains of Valinor in the West, the Walls of the Sun in the East, and the Walls of the World in the North and South.
The air in Valinor is that of Ilmen which can only sustain the servants of Manwë or those to whom he has granted this ability. Thus the mortal creatures of Middle-earth were bound within the confines of Vista while they lived.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Shaping of Middle-earth, "V. The Ambarkanta: Of the Fashion of the World", pp. 289-290
|Constellations||Anarríma · Durin's Crown · Menelmacar · Remmirath · Soronúmë · Telumendil · Valacirca · Wilwarin|
|Stars||Alcarinquë · Borgil · Carnil · Elemmírë · Helluin · Luinil · Lumbar · Morwinyon · Nénar · Star of Eärendil · Til|
|The Airs||Aiwenórë · Fanyamar · Ilmen · Menel · Vaiya · Veil of Arda · Vista|
|Narsilion||Arien · Moon (Isil, Ithil, Rána) · Sun (Anar, Anor, Vása) · Tilion|
|See Also||Abyss · Arda · Circles of the World · Eä · Timeless Halls · Two Lamps · Two Trees · Void| | <urn:uuid:136e1acc-a76b-44d8-a517-d63c1f9ffea6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Wista | 2013-05-22T08:14:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.803521 | 410 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Moth Diaries
© Media Max Productions
No.6 She stands out from the crowd
“I wasn’t really looking for her. I thought I might find Rebecca in Britain. There’s a lot of great actors in California, but it’s hard to find ones you can believe are in boarding school. A mall, yes. They’d be a great actress, but they just didn’t have that deportment, the way they walk and talk, that suggests they’d fit in at a strict upper-class boarding school.
So I was actually looking for Rebecca there, but they threw in some Ernessas [too]. And Lily Cole was one of them. And I just loved her. The combination of this doll-like beauty with this kind of power that she has -- it’s an unusual combination.” - Mary Harron | <urn:uuid:4bc872e4-0f67-4420-a99c-9cf53f0e3001> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/the-moth-diaries_6.html | 2013-05-22T08:12:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968241 | 187 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
But then, seven-eighths of the way through, the movie starts falling apart — seriously falling apart, to the point where all the good work that's preceded it starts to curdle in our imaginations. Our worst expectations from the movie's title (especially its export title, which I do not intend to mention here) seem about to be fulfilled. That's when Mati Suri does the other thing a movie with a strong sense of identity can do: it allows us to be disappointed, so it can pull the rug out from under us at the very last moment. Whether you find the movie's punchline exhilarating or eye-rollingly stupid is up to you, but it's unlikely to leave you without a strong opinion of some kind.
Mati Suri means "apparently dead". That's the condition a young woman named Abel finds herself in after she attempts to commit suicide. A strange woman named Lisa shows up at Abel's door, claiming to know her fiancé Wisnu very well. In fact, she claims that Wisnu is the father of her yet-unborn child. She has photos of herself together with Wisnu to back her story up. Abel calls Wisnu to confront him; her husband-to-be is about to stammer some sort of explanation when Abel hangs up on him. She then has a complete emotional collapse and swallows an absurd number of sleeping pills. Wisnu is unable to make it home in time to stop her; but fortunately her best friend Charlie finds her before she dies, and gets her to the emergency room.
Charlie is a mild-mannered, bespectacled guy who hides his crush on Abel, since she doesn't seem to see him as anything more than a confidante. Yet as Abel lies in the hospital, barely able to regain consciousness, Charlie steps up and refuses to allow Wisnu anywhere near her. During her recovery, Charlie takes her away to his remote villa, where he hopes she will be able to get well again without any unwanted intrusions from Wisnu.
While she's there, Charlie wants her to work on redesigning the old building. In his absence, he leaves her in the care of an elderly couple who tend to the property. The old man seems a harmless sort, but the old woman has a tendency to appear unexpectedly at the most unnerving moments. It's not exactly the most comfortable environment for Abel's recovery, though it certainly seems better than the hospital. And for the most part, it seems to be the ideal place to forget about Wisnu.
But then the disturbances start.
The first and most obvious disturbance comes from within Abel herself. Since her near-death experience — her mati suri — she has been experiencing blackouts and lapses in memory. Since we see the majority of the film from her standpoint, we are immediately put on guard: everything we see through her eyes may be distorted, or may be a pure hallucination.
Early on, the old woman warns Abel not to be frightened if she should see anything, or if anything should come to her, during the night. Sure enough, at night Abel does get a visitor, who seems at first to be mysterious and ghostly... but it turns out to be the caretakers' teenage daughter Wida, who's come to keep her company in the lonely old house. Wida warns Abel that she shouldn't tell her parents she's staying with her, or Wida could get in trouble. The next morning, though, the old woman denies ever having told Abel to expect anything strange in the night. We immediately wonder if Abel has imagined everything, including her young visitor. Or perhaps Wida is a ghost?
The next disturbance may follow from the first: Abel starts hearing a child's voice in the night, calling her to come play with her. A disembodied voice is terrifying enough... but things get worse when Abel actually sees her. The girl is a pale grey spectre, with white eyes and vomit dribbling from her lips; and the "game" she wants to play involves a seemingly endless supply of sleeping pills that pour out onto the floor. It's always possible that this is a manifestation of Abel's tormented conscience; but then even Wida — the girl we've half-assumed to be a ghost herself — starts seeing the apparition. The house had never been haunted before, claims Wida; this apparition must be something Abel has brought with her. Of course, Wida may also be a figment of Abel's imagination, so who can tell what it all means?
Abel recognizes the ghost girl from a brief moment of consciousness in the hospital: she's a child who also overdosed, and who died retching on the gurney next to her. Suicide is a sin, whispers the girl's voice... It is not enough for you to die only once! These words even issue from the girl's broken doll — that is, when the ghost isn't cramming little yellow pills down its throat. When Abel protests that she's repented of her despair, and that she doesn't want to die again, the girl warns her: if she doesn't want to come with her now, then he will have to come for her later.
I think you can guess who he might be. Even if he comes from Abel's subconscious as well, the encounter is likely to be far from pleasant.
But there's yet another level of disturbance going on here: we get the feeling early on that everything may not be quite what it seems. Not all of Abel's lapses seem to be her own fault. Little reminders of Wisnu and his betrayal keep popping up, even after Charlie and the old couple claim they've destroyed them. We start to suspect that one, or maybe both, of the possible hauntings may be fake... not just our misunderstanding, or Abel's hallucination, but a Gaslight scenario, designed — perhaps by Wisnu, or perhaps even by Charlie — to drive Abel to finish the job she started with the sleeping pills. Certainly the visions Abel has of a cleaver chopping through human body parts suggests that there's a brutal mundanity behind at least part of this supposed haunting. But how could that be, when everyone seems to be so concerned about keeping her alive? Is this, too, a figment of Abel's imagination?
And all along the way, we get flashes of Hitchcock and Clouzot — along with explicit references to The Grudge (name your installment) in particular, and any number of other J-Horror hits to boot (e.g., croaking corpses, hair in the spigot, raven-haired ghost girls in white nighties, and so on)... to say nothing of Jacob's Ladder, a quote from which at first seems like an obvious cop-out, but then goes on to subvert itself beautifully. I also found myself thinking of The Sentinel, which also concerned a woman being punished by the supernatural for her suicide attempt; there are also throwaway references to movies as diverse as Dementia 13, The Sixth Sense, The Others and last year's hit Malaysian film Congkak (these last two in the same scene!). I'm not completely sure how many of these references are intentional, how many are slips on the director's part, and how many are valid only in my twisted imagination; but the end result is a movie you're certain you've seen somewhere before, but which still manages to seem enjoyably different.
That's not to say that everything in Mati Suri works. There are times when the movie's desire to pile twist upon twist upon twist goes a little too far. For instance, we find out (or at least we think we've found out) that one of the characters we've been introduced to is (or seems to be) a ghost. I think you'll have figured out which character it is from my description so far, just as you'll be able to figure it out pretty quickly while watching the movie itself. Quite a bit of what we think we know about this ghost will turn out to be misdirection; and some of this misdirection contradicts itself, which isn't really fair to the viewer. However, the movie laspes into absurdity when we find out how this character actually died.
You see, there is a human villain to the piece. Or at least, according to one interpretation of what we think we see, there is a human villain to the piece; and he's responsible (or appears to be responsible) for all the mayhem that... umm... may or may not be playing out on-screen... (these movies that [may or may not] involve subjective reality are damned hard to describe!). Anyway — when we flash back to the murderer's crime, it goes a little bit like this:
KILLER (standing over body): Oh my God! What have I done!? SOB!... which is just plain silly. The death is subsequently ruled an accident, and the body is buried nearby. But then, according to still more flashbacks, the killer takes a cleaver and reduces the corpse to Salisbury steak. What happened? Did he dig up the body and chop it into bits? He couldn't have done it earlier, since there's no way to make that kind of butchery look like an accident. But what possible reason would he have for doing it later? It just seems to be an attempt to add one more shock to the growing collection... and the attempt is less than successful.
Nevertheless, for most of its length, the movie sustains its twisty narrative well. Rizal Mantovani understands horror films: he's one of the few Indonesian directors to take the genre seriously (OK: relatively seriously, anyway). Mati Suri is Mantovani's first horror film for Maxima Productions; but he is also responsible for the acclaimed Kuntilanak trilogy, which are some more of the best Indonesian horror films of the new era. One of the ghosts that appears in Mati Suri looks like a standard kuntilanak: a ghastly crone in white; there's also a walking corpse that shows up in its traditional pocong wrappings. But (unusually for a Maxima production) these apparitions are used sparingly, and this restraint makes them all the more effective.
It's true that the ghosts' appearances, as usual in a Maxima film and most Indonesian movies in general, are accompanied by ear-shattering BOOMs that grow tiresome after a while; but the ghosts themselves are the most professionally-realized and genuinely scary creatures Maxima has yet featured. Credit for this must go in large part to Mantovani: if you observe them closely, the monster costumes are every bit as cheesy as they are in all the other local productions, even dating back to the seventies. But Mantovani times his shocks and sets up his camera so that the effects look much better than they really are.
Best of all, there's no comic relief in Mati Suri. What's more, Maxima's unlikely scream queen — pop star Dewi Perssik — is nowhere to be found. Instead, the lead role is taken by Nadine Chandrawinata, Miss Indonesia of 2005. Chandrawinata is a little better suited to serious horror than Perssik. Like Callista Flockhart in Jaume Balaguerò's Fragile, her presence is unexpected; but she brings a certain welcome realism to her depiction of a woman dealing with emotional trauma. She's vulnerable, yes, but not in a pliant or shrinking way. There's an edge to Abel's attitude, and she tends to push away the people who want to help her (which in this case might turn out to be a good thing). Chandrawata is much less effective when she's asked to be a helpless screaming victim... but I'm not complaining too much about that, when you consider how often the situation is the other way 'round.
Lack of originality doesn't disturb me very much in a horror film. Why should it? Most horror involves the return of things that won't stay dead, so you could say I've got used to the idea. Love stories are even more repetitive, but you don't get the sort of vitriol directed against them that you do towards horror films. The thing is, many kinds of stories, including horror stories and romances alike, depend on our recognizing certain elements in order for them to be entirely effective. Some of these welcome repetitions may be echoes of our childhoods: what kid ever complains he's heard his favorite bedtime story too often? A lot more of it has to do with the importance of repetition and pattern in our own daily lives. But I also think that clichés on their own can be very useful — they are emotional shorthand for large swaths of human experience that are very, very difficult to communicate in their raw form. In my opinion, a good horror film can give us plenty of stock characters and situations, and still come up with something entertaining and even meaningful. Mati Suri is by no means a terribly original film. Nor is it likely to go down in film history as a horror classic. But it is a deviously entertaining little movie; a twisty ghost story told with the sort of confidence and conviction and trust in its genre that's all too rare in modern Indonesian horror. | <urn:uuid:ff9e4675-63da-4395-9c39-e011f076a256> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.braineater.com/matisuri.html | 2013-05-22T07:54:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970825 | 2,760 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Crime Stoppers and local law enforcement agencies released a list Wednesday of the top 10 most wanted bank robbers in the Houston area.
According to Crime Stoppers, there have been 119 bank robberies in Houston and Harris County from January through the end of August. That's a 35 percent increase from 2011. There were 94 bank robberies in all of last year.
"We've seen a spike or a trend that is alarming and needs to be addressed," said Stephen Morris, special agent in charge for the FBI Houston Division.
The list of the most wanted included the "hoodies and handgun" robbers. Investigators said the pair is responsible for at least eight takeover-style robberies in the Houston area this year.
Police said they also want to track down a man nicknamed the "bearded bandit." He is wanted in connection with four bank robberies.
The only woman on Crime Stoppers' list wears a wig and sunglasses during her crimes. Crime Stoppers said she has committed three bank robberies in the Houston area. Investigators said she robbed one bank twice.
"The victims of these robberies often times aren't just the banks," said Morris. "It's the tellers, it's the individuals that are traumatized, it's the people that are out shopping going about their everyday business."
Anyone with information about these bank robbers is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS. | <urn:uuid:aefb1d5b-e66c-4123-b45a-539ffe448bb0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.click2houston.com/news/Crime-Stoppers-names-10-most-wanted-bank-robbers/-/1735978/16669310/-/o2ef4n/-/index.html | 2013-05-22T08:33:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97552 | 285 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Farmers endured floods in the spring and drought in the summer. No statewide yield figures are in yet, but Cooperative Extension Service officials told The Jonesboro Sun Monday that farmers are getting a good return, if not setting records.
The rice harvest is complete in the state's northeast, and officials say the crop is turning out well. However, growers had higher costs to pump water due to the lack of summer rain.
The cotton harvest is nearing completion and the harvest of late-growing soybeans is under way.
One challenge growers didn't have to endure this year was Asian soybean rust. The fungus thrives in wet conditions, so the drought helped keep it in check. | <urn:uuid:2bc96a2c-5840-4668-aebd-1534b1a4b00d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.couriernews.com/view/full_story/16249361/article-Farmers-make-out-OK-in-harsh-weather-year- | 2013-05-22T08:22:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968896 | 138 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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FM to tell CMs to cut sales tax on petrol
Amid widespread protests, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will soon write to state chief ministers to consider cut in sales tax on petrol to partly neutralise the impact of the Rs 7.54-per-litre hike in the price of the auto fuel.
"We are awaiting inputs from the Petroleum Ministry. The Finance Minister will be asking the state chief ministers to lower duties," an official said.
Meanwhile, Uttarakhand, Kerala and Delhi have already announced cut in Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol.
Earlier also the Centre had asked states to sacrifice part of the revenue to reduce the burden of price hike on consumers. Several states then had responded to the call and reduced sales tax, or VAT, on petrol in summer last year.
Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) had last week increased the price of petrol by over Rs 7.5 a litre in view of high crude oil prices and rupee depreciation.
The decision evoked sharp reaction from several quarters, including allies of the ruling UPA. In this backdrop, the government has decided not to increase prices of diesel, kerosene and LPG (cooking gas).
"We are not considering hiking prices of diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene. It is out of question right now," said Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy after a meeting with the Mukherjee.
He said no dates have been fixed for the meeting of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) to take a view on freeing of diesel prices.
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|Federal Highway Administration > Publications > Public Roads > Vol. 76 · No. 1 > Unearthing Crow Tribal History|
Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-12-005
Unearthing Crow Tribal History
by Steve Platt and Alan Woodmansey
Archaeological excavations along Montana Highway 78 revealed much about the daily lives of the Crow people of more than a century ago.
For nearly a decade between 1875 and 1884, the Crow Indian Reservation was located on East Rosebud Creek south of present-day Absarokee, MT. Although the tribe moved farther east in 1884, the 9 years of living at Absarokee were times of monumental change for the Crow people.
When the Crow first lived at Absarokee, they relied on locally available, natural resources, moving about their homeland as mobile hunters and gatherers as they had for hundreds of years. By the mid-1880s, however, the bison they hunted were nearly extinct, other game populations were in sharp decline, and the Crow were dependent on imported Federal Government resources for their livelihood.
The launch of a road improvement project for Montana Highway 78, which runs through the Crow Indian Reservation's historic Absarokee site, was the impetus for a major archaeological data recovery investigation by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) in consultation and cooperation with the Crow Tribe. In 2006, MDT had initiated the process to improve the two-lane rural Montana Highway 78 and to bring the narrow roadway up to current design standards.
The origins of this highway and archaeological story go back over a century, before Montana was even a State.
A Tribe in Transition
The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 recognized the Crow Indian Reservation as established in the area south and east of the Yellowstone River and east to the divide between the Bighorn River and Rosebud Creek in southeastern Montana. The first Crow Indian Agency (where U.S. officials met with the Crow and distributed treaty goods to them) was located near the western edge of the reservation at Mission Creek near the present-day city of Livingston.
In 1875, the U.S. Government moved the Crow Indian Agency from Mission Creek east to Absarokee. According to the official record, the new area was better suited to agriculture. The Absarokee agency site is located approximately 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of the present-day Crow Indian Reservation. In 1884, the Crow Indian Agency was moved again by the U.S. Government to its present location along I-90 on the Little Bighorn River.
The Archaeology Project
Knowing the Absarokee area was steeped in Crow tribal history but unsure of what remained, MDT hired Steve Aaberg, a consulting archaeologist from Billings, MT, to conduct test archaeological investigations in the project corridor. Prior to the excavations, Aaberg conducted a geomagnetic investigation of an alfalfa field east of the highway where a historic map suggested the remains of the main agency compound might exist. The investigative team walked an area approximately 0.21 mile (340 meters) by 0.08 mile (140 meters) using handheld devices to record magnetic signals at approximately 3-foot (1-meter) intervals. The magnetic signals indicated places of unnatural soil disturbance, which allowed the team to map possible locations of buried archeological remains.
After this nondestructive geophysical investigation, the team used a geographical plotting software to translate the results into a map. The findings revealed a series of anomalies, indicating the likely presence of artifacts, in a rough horseshoe pattern consistent with a historic map showing the layout of the Crow Indian Agency.
Guided by the geomagnetic work, Aaberg's crew conducted test excavations in late May and early June 2006, which led to the recovery of many agency-associated artifacts. The archaeologists located dumps associated with the main compound of the Crow Indian Agency and Doby Town, an area of adobe brick housing. The dumps were an important discovery because they often include artifacts that paint a picture of people's daily lives when placed in historical context. The archaeologists also located the remains of a hand-stacked stone well, a blacksmith shop, the agent's house, and a sawmill.
The data collected from the test excavations suggested that the site might contain information valuable to understanding history and therefore was determined to be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, FHWA, MDT, the Montana State Historic Preservation Office, and the Crow Tribal Historic Preservation Office developed a memorandum of agreement to mitigate adverse effects to the historic property.
In June 2011, a year in advance of MDT's planned highway reconstruction, Aaberg began a data recovery excavation within the right-of-way limits and on adjacent private land owned by cooperative landowners. FHWA provided partial funding for the work, which lasted 6 weeks and uncovered significant information including thousands of artifacts that reveal glimpses into everyday life of the Crow people more than a century ago.
Excavating Cultural Artifacts
More than a dozen qualified archaeologists and local teachers, who volunteered their time to help with the excavation, recovered thousands of animal bone fragments from the compound's dumps and Doby Town. The fragments tell a lot about the changing Crow diet: how they went from living on bison, antelope, deer, and elk to subsisting on government-provided beef. In addition, pits of chokecherries and wild plums reveal that the Crow people gathered wild fruits as an important dietary staple, and numerous fish bones show that another staple was cutthroat trout.
The artifacts, which were the actual objects used by the Crow people in their everyday lives, form a bridge between the people of the past and those of the present. Crow tribal history from this period is recorded in historic documents and photographs and can now be enhanced with deeper meaning by studying the uncovered Crow material objects.
Additional artifacts recovered illustrate the variety of commercial items imported to the plains including thousands of glass beads, rifle and revolver cartridges and parts, metal arrow points, and various Civil War-era army items that were likely sent as surplus to the Indian agency on the frontier. The excavations also yielded artifacts indicative of commercial goods modified by Crow people to suit their own purposes. Several hide-scraping tools, for example, were found that had been fashioned from bottle glass instead of chert (chipped stone), indicating another impact of trading with an industrial society. In addition to imported goods, an "Iniskim" or "buffalo stone" -- a fragment of fossil baculite that looks like a small stone buffalo -- was recovered from one of the Crow cabins, evidence of continuity of Crow religious practice. Buffalo stones often are found in Plains Indian medicine bundles and personal medicine pouches. An unexpected find was the preserved foundations of the main Crow Indian Agency compound, still intact beneath the plow zone in the field on the east side of Montana Highway 78.
"We were extremely excited when we hit the agency compound wall foundation," says Aaberg. "This field has been plowed for 80 years, yet the foundations remain in place and in remarkably good condition."
Educating Youth on Crow History
Based on the test excavations, MDT partnered in 2009 with Montana's Project Archaeology, a joint effort of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and Montana State University. The purpose of MDT's partnership with Project Archaeology is to develop an archaeological education curriculum for fourth- and fifth-grade Montana students.
Project Archaeology and MDT held several focus groups on the Crow Indian Reservation and, from feedback received at those meetings, decided to create lessons around the themes of food, economy, beadwork, and oral tradition. The curriculum is titled, "Changing Land, Changing Life: Archaeology in the Apsáalooke Homeland." Coauthors are Shane Doyle, a Crow tribal member with a Ph.D. in education from Montana State University, and Crystal Alegria, project coordinator with Project Archaeology. The lessons have been successfully piloted in classrooms in Bozeman, Crow Agency, and Livingston, MT. Once finalized, the curriculum will be available from Project Archaeology at www.projectarchaeology.org.
"This has been an exciting opportunity to involve Native American children with their own past through archaeology," says Alegria. "The project fits nicely with Montana's Indian Education for All mandate established by the Montana legislature. Although the history at Absarokee is not a happy one, federally funded archaeological work at the site has provided an opportunity to examine the material cultural record of this tumultuous time on the high plains of Montana."
Preserving the Site
The Section 106 memorandum of agreement, executed prior to excavation, outlined an archaeological data recovery plan and stipulated the presence of a Crow tribal monitor during excavations. Shawn Danforth, the Crow tribal monitor, assisted with the fieldwork, and a group of tribal elders from Pryor, MT, visited the excavation while it was in progress.
"This agency was a transitional point in the history and culture of the Apsáalooke people, thus making it a critical site for my people," says former Crow Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Dale Old Horn.
Due to the size and significance of the site, MDT has postponed the highway reconstruction project and is working on an alternative design to avoid impacts to as much of the archaeological site as possible.
"The fantastically rich artifact record and archaeologically intact nature of the Crow Indian Agency at Absarokee make this site unique on the Northern Plains," Aaberg says. "The site is of intense interest to the Crow Tribe, archaeologists, and historians alike, for it is a window into a very transformative time in Crow tribal history."
Steve Platt is a staff archaeologist for MDT. Platt was responsible for archaeological work at the Absarokee agency site. He has a B.A. in anthropology and environmental studies from the University of Vermont and an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Montana.
Alan Woodmansey, P.E., is an operations engineer in the FHWA Montana Division Office. Woodmansey is the Federal oversight engineer for the Billings district where the Montana Highway 78 project is located. He has a B.S. in engineering from the United States Military Academy and an M.S. in engineering management from the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity
by Irving Greenberg
Jewish Publications Society of America, 274 pp. $20 paper
The title of Irving Greenberg’s collection of essays—For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity—neatly captures the thrust of the book. Judaism and Christianity must rediscover and affirm one another for the sake of heaven and earth. Each religion is incomplete without the other. Each has been tempted by an excess of otherworldliness (heaven) or this-worldliness (earth), by universalism or tribalism, by the spirit or by the flesh. Judaism and Christianity need one another for balance, criticism, “holy envy,” and a fuller perception of God’s saving purposes. Only in loving partnership can they fulfill their conjoint destinies as God’s strategies for the redemption of the world. These are remarkable assertions for a Jewish thinker raised in, and still in some ways associated with, Orthodox Judaism.
Greenberg’s bold Jewish theological vision grew out of two encounters: with the Holocaust and with radical Christian theologians whose own framework was shattered by the Holocaust. Greenberg’s en-counter with the Holocaust, which began with intense study in the 1960s, led to a profound shaking of his Jewish faith. The son of a noted Orthodox rabbi and a product of the modern Orthodox social and educational system, Greenberg was almost defeated by the Holocaust’s absolute devaluing of life. He did not know how to go on as a Jew until he met such Christians as Roy Eckhardt and Paul van Buren, who modeled for him both radical faith in God and critical fidelity to tradition. Their prophetic judgment on their own tradition’s contribution to the teaching of contempt for Jews showed Greenberg that one can—and must—be both faithful and critical.
Just as these theologians demanded a fundamental reappraisal of Christianity’s evaluation of Judaism, Greenberg, while affirming their program, makes a similar demand on the Jewish side: Jews must rise above their historic fear and dismissal of Christianity and affirm the full spiritual dignity of the Church. This entails more than Jewish tolerance; it requires Jews to affirm that the God of Israel has elected the Church to join gentiles to the people Israel. For Greenberg, this is not a matter of relativism or mere civil pluralism. It is a theological affirmation all the way down. Greenberg’s work in this volume—the distillation of more than three decades of writing and dialogue—lays the conceptual and moral basis for this affirmation.
At bottom, Greenberg’s theology rests on the conviction that the Holocaust was a revelatory event. It revealed God’s presence as an apparent absence. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, neither Judaism nor Christianity can continue with business as usual, lest they betray this new revelation. Faced with the absolute evil of the Nazi attack, first on Jewish life and ultimately on human life per se, Greenberg was tempted to take Richard Rubenstein’s approach and concede that the God of Israel was indeed dead. Instead, Greenberg came to a new understanding based on the biblical concept of covenant and the rabbinic concept of hester panim—God’s hiding His face. In this view, Judaism is fundamentally about a divine-human partnership, a covenant, in which the divine partner increasingly cedes power and responsibility for creation to the human partner. The logic of covenant, progressively unveiled within the biblical process (compare, for example, Exodus with Esther), works toward the greater enfranchisement of the human for the sake of the redemption of creation. God’s increasing withdrawal is not abandonment but empowerment. Greenberg thus provides a radical endorsement of the epoch of maximal withdrawal, of secular modernity, as an emblem of the human maturity required by the God of covenant.
In Greenberg’s view, secular modernity has done much to affirm and enable the human, to free humans for greater, divinely intended autonomy. But it has also exponentially increased the risk of idolatry, the praxis of evil. Secularism was a necessary corrective to religious traditions, both Jewish and Christian, that had discredited themselves through their mutual hatred, their obscurantism, their spiritualist escapism. But the liberating impulse in secularism soon moved beyond a critique of historic religion to a total repudiation of the divine. Modernity became its own god and both Jewry and the gospel became its victims. The idols of modernity—race, nation, the state—tried to kill the people of God, Jewry in the flesh and Christianity in spirit. In the aftermath of an unfathomable tragedy, both Jews and Christians must do what God requires of His covenanted Israel—work with redoubled effort for the affirmation of life.
Christianity and Judaism must both fully embrace the new possibilities within modernity for human liberation and dignity, but they must also chasten modernity so that it remains a means, not an end. Judaism must shed its diffidence toward history and once again engage with the realities of power, statehood, and universal concern for the other. Christianity must shed its supersessionism, triumphalism, and privileged association with power; it must free the gospel of love from the ancient biases and habits that have compromised it. In Judaism, Christianity can find a correction of its sometimes world-despising spirituality. In Christianity, Judaism can reconnect with God’s saving purposes beyond its own garden. Greenberg roots the distinctive moments of Christianity—the messiahhood of Jesus, the resurrection, the great commission—in Judaism’s own soil. If Judaism does not produce messiahs, he insists, then it has failed because it has abandoned hope. For Jews, Jesus is—Greenberg laments the potential for misunderstanding implicit in this charged term—a “failed messiah.” Not false, but failed. But then, God’s purpose often seems to fail in the world, only to be realized in ironic ways. In his failure, Jesus is at his most recognizably Jewish.
All of the essays repeat this same cluster of ideas, developing their im-plications with different emphases and nuances. What are we to make of the project? I must confess to great ambivalence about it. Its boldness and hope are captivating as a religious vision but disturbing as a utopian politics. In Greenberg we find a theologian who calls on Jews to validate the realities of statehood and power—an almost Hobbesian affirmation of what survival requires in a world where Auschwitz is possible—and who also calls Jews and Christians to revise radically their theologies as the first step in the project of perfecting and redeeming the world as partners in covenantal pluralism. The proximity of sober political theology with intoxicated eschatological anticipation is disorienting.
At first, Greenberg sounds a Niebuhr-like note: power and statehood are necessary to secure the conditions under which Jews and others can flourish. But any sense of the obduracy of human sin is lost in the expectation that fully mature, covenantally empowered humans can bring God’s creation to redemptive perfection. Indeed, Greenberg rejects Christianity’s emphasis on the radicality of human sin. Overemphasis on miraculous salvation, on grace, is incompatible with his covenantal model. It is a stage to be outgrown. When Christians are truly ready to validate Judaism, they will take greater responsibility for the repair of this world, engaging side by side with Jews in the human project of bringing the Messiah. Christians are to be partners in what has become the watchword of the modernist Jewish religious project: tikkun olam—“repairing the world.”
Greenberg is not satisfied with the view that Christianity is legitimate only insofar as it resembles Judaism. He goes so far as to affirm God’s incarnation in Christ—not, to be sure, as a plausible tenet of his own (or any other Jew’s) belief, but as a possibility for God. He declines to stipulate, on the basis of God’s covenant with the Jews, what God can or cannot do for the gentiles. And yet prescription cannot be avoided. In Greenberg’s view, Christianity acquires full validity only when it acts in ways that comport with his Jewish sense of the redemptive, world-perfecting task of religion—and, crucially, only when it repudiates its anti-Judaism. Christians are only a covenanted people if they cease to despise the Jews. Christianity is falsified by immorality. How do these judgments square with the radical affirmation that he also seems to propose? The problem, I believe, derives from an unexamined equivocation in his concept of covenant: it refers both to historical events of pact-making and, metaphorically, to divine-human relationships. If covenant is only a metaphor for relationship, then poor behavior may be thought to sabotage the relationship. But if covenant also describes a state- ment of historical fact—as Jews and Christians have been inclined to believe—then poor behavior may make for an angry God, but it does not retroactively annul what happened on Sinai or Pentecost.
Here we come to the deep problem with Greenberg’s project, the problem of truth. Greenberg wishes to endorse pluralism without endorsing relativism. Far from a noncommittal relativism, pluralism is “an absolutism that has come to recognize its own limitations.” There is such a thing as absolute truth, but such truth must recognize itself as absolute only within a particular context. The peaceful coexistence of various absolutisms is pluralism; their self-elected partnership as divinely mandated vehicles for redeeming the world is covenantal pluralism. And covenant, recall, entails the assumption of human finitude, responsibility, and enlightened maturity, the sign of which is epistemic modesty. Is this coherent or is it mere word play? How is a context-dependent absolutism different from a nonabsolute absolutism?
What Greenberg offers is a theology of civility, but it is unclear that any such proposal can escape the relativism it claims to surmount. I would have thought that an ethic of civility alone would suffice. To live by an ethic of civility requires a respectful engagement with the other, whether as fellow person or as fellow citizen. Sometimes this might require the suspension of absolute claims for the sake of peace. Often it requires the commitment to discourse, persuasion, and rational intercourse in which absolute claims are not weakened but opened; one displays one’s humanity as a principled difference. This is a feature of civilized conduct inter homines. The absolute is not de-absolutized; it is held in tension with complex moral and political conditions of conduct. I would think that a strong but nonutopian ethic of civility is preferable to a problematic theology of reconciliation. But perhaps this scants heaven in favor of earth. Or, then again, perhaps Greenberg advances purely earthly goods in the name of heaven. Although his questions are more compelling than his answers, Greenberg deserves our gratitude for the important challenges he puts to us.
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The Varsity Ravens ended their season with a tough fought 51-20 playoff defeat to League Champion CCA. The team and student body was addressed by Athletic Director, Mark Szafnicki as follows:
“Unfortunately, this evening the varsity basketball team lost a tough game against league champion CCA. Basically, they were beaten by a stronger team. However, our boys played well and they played hard. I’m proud of the effort that they put into tonight’s game and the entire season. Please join me in congratulating them for a hard fought, fun and exciting season. There were many positive outcomes this season. They all deserve a lot of credit, as do the athletes on all of our teams. The varsity players have earned dorm rest tomorrow if they want it. With that said, the winter athletic season is not quite over. We will be conducting sign-ups for spring athletics at the end of assembly tomorrow. There is skiing at Holiday Valley and at Kissing Bridge on Friday. The JV basketball team has one more game on Friday as well. Look out for a little bit of fun and a change in the routine on Thursday.”
Now that Thursday has passed, the “little bit of fun” found March Madness making its way into the Gow Center for a little Faculty vs. Student competition. In a stunning upset, the Varsity Ravens, under the direction of Interim Head Coach, Mr. Dan Kelley, deployed a full court press to emasculate the heavily favored Gow Faculty. In his post-game interview, Mr. Kelley stressed the excitement of finding the proper venue to even the score with his colleagues. The Varsity Ravens completed their season with an inspiring victory witnessed by the entire student body!
The basketball program would like to give special thanks to the following seniors for an outstanding season:
Brandon A., Alex P., Tom D., Eric W., Jacob Z.
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Kim Kyung-mook dropped out of school at the age of sixteen and went to Seoul. He made his directing debut in 2004 with (2004). Faceless Things received aspecial mention in the competition for the Dragons and Tigers Award for YoungCinema in Vancouver in 2006. Besides film maker, KIM is also critic and columnist.
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Join us this Saturday at Rye United FC.
We have a coach booked to take players and supporters to the game.
The coach will be arriving at the club Saturday morning at 11.30am leaving at 11.45am.
If you would like to support us in the FA VASE, there are 15 spaces available for supporters.
Cost will be £8.00 per seat.
The coach will leave Rye at 6.30pm aiming to be back at Horley for 8pm
Call Philippa on 07940 580480 if you have any questions.
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Horley had a great win on Saturday 1st September at Kiln Brow in the FA Vase derby game, the determined Horley side came away with a win after taking the game into extra time, looking very comfortable in the final 30 minutes, beating Redhill FC 1 -3 in extra time.
Match report to follow, but you might as well enjoy the photos for now.
On Saturday 15th September we had a comfortable 4-1 win against seaford Town FC. Two goals from Adam Pullin and Karl Parker put us through to the 1st Round where we meet Sussex County 1 side Rye United FC on Saturday 13th October. Rye have been in the top 3 in the Sussex League for the last few seasons so this will be a very stern test.
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Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
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Three years ago, NYPD detective Max Payne's wife and baby were murdered. Max gets himself transferred to the cold case office where he can continue searching for the killer who got away. He's a loner, but two people reach out to him during a fateful week: Alex, his ex-partner who may have found a clue, and BB, the security chief at the pharmaceutical company where Max's wife worked. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up, some as a result of a drug on the street that is highly addictive and, for many who take it, brings hideous hallucinations. When one of the bodies is a woman Payne was the last to see alive, her sister comes looking for him armed to the teeth; Max must move fast. Written by
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Oh, my dreams have sort of come true. Max Payne, on film. I had prayed for months that it wouldn't stink to the high heavens like every other video game adaptation. Thankfully, Max Payne does not stink as a standalone film or adaptation, nor is it anything like the other game adaptations. John Moore's obvious goal in the film was to match the spirit, tone, and grit of the game, and I have to say that he reached it.
While I was disappointed in the lack of action sequences, I think that including even half of the action from the game would have taken away from the realism of the film, as mountains of action sequences work a lot better in a game than they do on film. The film opts for a quieter tone, and a much more thoughtful and introspective approach. I appreciated this a lot, as a fan of the game. By no means is Max Payne just thrown together to make a quick buck. It is well made, and well thought out. I was not disappointed in this aspect.
Mark Wahlberg, thank you for not failing. That would have ruined my year. Wahlberg delivers a quiet, yet subtle and intense performance in the title role as the most "pain" and "pun" inducing detective of all time. While there is a large supporting cast, I really wasn't swayed either way by any of them, besides Chris Bridges, who was actually playing a character for once instead of himself on screen. Mila Kunis as Mona Sax wasn't the best casting in the world, but Mila proves that it wasn't the worst casting either. There isn't as much depth to her in the film as there was in the game.
As an adaptation, the Max Payne film is very different from the game in pretty much every aspect besides the tone and the characterizations. Once again, all I wanted was the tone to be right, and I got what I wanted. Though the noir aspect of the game is somewhat lacking (I missed Max's inner monologue so much), I still found it to be the dark and effective thriller that the game was. A brooding performance from Wahlberg and a matching score only add to the film. Stunning visuals, engineered by the fictional hallucinogenic drug in the film, in addition to the dark cinematography, steal attention away from the fact that the film's editing is subpar.
I have to bring to life the fact that Max Payne is not an action movie at heart. It is a mystery film with some action scenes (and some very well done visual effects). The game may have been a shoot 'em up style game, but I know that you can't do this on film and expect to be taken seriously, which Max Payne should be.
At it's core, Max Payne, despite a lot of changes from the game, remains the dark, story driven thriller that I've loved for a good part of my life. I'm proud of the film as a die hard fan of the game, and respect it for what it is as a film by itself. I'm satisfied, and not disappointed. For those who haven't played the game, Max Payne is an effective mystery film that is driven by the main character and the exposition around him. For those who will inevitably complain about a lack of action sequences, wake up and realize that Moore & company got the tone right, at the expense of necessary cuts.
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As it turns out, we were at Yankee Stadium when Roger Clemens announced that the Bombers "Came and got me out of Texas." And though not everyone--like the entire city of Houston and this guy--will be clamoring to get tickets to the Rocket's debut, undoubtedly there are plenty of baseball fans eager to watch the
overcompensated has-been superstar don the pinstripes one last time. And so, after the jump, our down-and-dirty guide to catching a game at the House that Ruth Built.
Ford's Filling Station in Culver City has made a lot of noise for several reasons. One, it's helmed by Harrison Ford's son Benjamin Ford and in Los Angeles, any venture related to a celebrity is hot for at least two weeks. Two, Ford (Ben, not Harrison) has gone the route of a gastropub, often found in New York and London and other cities with more authentic culture than LA.
The other month we popped in for lunch on a Thursday. Having had some bad luck trying to get dinner reservations, we thought we should at least check to see if we needed a reservation for lunch before arriving. After all, Tinseltown loves to lunch and with the Sony studios nearby, we didn't want to take any chances. Turns out, reservations are recommended for lunch and dinner.
It seemed like such a touching tribute: Serbia was ready to build a statue of Samantha Fox simply because she'd agreed to sing there (and they'd even decided on super-high-quality marble for her breasts).
But when Sam sang in the town of Cacak this week, she stormed off stage when they began a chant about wanting to see her breasts. Sam then ditched a ministerial dinner in her honor, and the ministers have now ditched plans for her memorial statue. Serbian media have taken a bit of fence-sitting attitude, but admitted this:
Local media said the hall she had played in had been only half full and the audience had made it clear they were not there to hear her sing.
Oh well, as far as we know the Rocky statue is still going ahead, so there's still a reason to visit Serbia.
· Sam Fox Statue Scrapped [Ananova]
· Move Over Rocky, Serbia's Got Another Idea [Jaunted]
· Rocky Solution to Serbian Landslides [Jaunted]
Apparently, knowing that a giant statue of Rocky Balboa is already going up in their country is not enough to satisfy the people of Cacak, Serbia. And that's why citizens in the town of Cacak are about to build a life-size statue of nudie model-turned-pop singer Samantha Fox.
Long since forgotten in most of the world, the Serbians of Cacak are so grateful that Sam agreed to sing at a local pop festival that they decided to honor her with a marble sculpture. And they've done enough planning ahead to come up with this insight:
We are also aware that her most famous attributes may require special treatment, so we are planning on using the best quality marble only.
Cacak's decided that Sam Fox is their local hero and they'll be able to see her (and those famous attributes) whenever they stroll through the streets. We dread to think of who's next on the immortalization-in-Serbian-villages list.
· Serbian Town to Erect Life-Size Samantha Fox [Scotsman]
· Rocky Solution to Serbian Landslides [Jaunted]
Just north of New York City, Skydive the Ranch gives New Yorkers and Big Apple visitors the chance to get out and take in some fresh air. Like, a lot of fresh air. Because when the Ranchers take people out, they take 'em to 13,500 feet.
Don't be scared. If Ann Curry and Kristin Davis can do it, so can you. On the first jump, you'll go tandem with an instructor who will help make sure you don't get into any trouble on the way down. That said, you still get to do the fun stuff like pull the rip cord and steer the chute.
The Ranch isn't super-close to the city, but its Ulster County location is easy enough to reach even without a car. Adirondack Trailways runs daily service upstate from the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square. (Transportation deets are here.) Your first jump will cost you $189, but after that it's only $165 to go again.
Showing that they're still classy after all these years, the British tabloids have published photos of German Chancellor Angela Merkel changing into her bathing suit during an Italian vacation. Rwoar!
On Monday the Sun first showed what Spiegel calls the "partly exposed buttocks" of the chancellor. What was the caption? "I'm Big in the Bumdestag," a pun on the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament. Britain's Daily Sport followed up with some photos of their own.
The German press and public seem to be united in finding this all tacky in the extreme: a columnist for the Bild, called the Sun "rotten to the core" and claimed that "We will sweep you away at the World Cup ... revenge is sweet, you will weep yet." Some Brits, however, see the extra, er, coverage as a slight positive, a sign that Merkel matters. Roger Boyes, a correspondent for the London Times, went so far as to call it a "perverse compliment."
· Poolside Merkel Photos Anger Germany [Spiegel]
· Unflattering Photo of Merkel Irks Germans [ABC]
· Merkel snaps anger German press [BBC]
YouTube / Japan / Commercials / Celebs / → All Tags
It's a pretty well established fact that Hollywood stars are happy to do commercials in Japan for lots of money, even if they wouldn't do them here. We point you to this one only to show you what you've been missing: Ah-nuld playing mah-jongg and generally flipping out for no discernable reason.
Here's a detailed explanation of why exactly he's flipping out; he excited about some kind of energy drink meant to improve his mah-jongg skills. We just think it's extra funny after the man wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal last week about immigration. He loves all kinds of foreigners, we guess. And their money.
Prince Albert II, Grace Kelly's son, had evidently tired of the race cars, casinos, and rich old people cluttering up his native Monaco. His Serene Highness has just finished a successful trip to the North Pole, setting out from a camp about 60 miles away. It's a safe bet he didn't plan the trip using reviews on the Thorn Tree. The prince took along frozen meals made in superchef Alain Ducasse's kitchen, which sure beats reindeer jerky.
On the other hand, he was no stranger to this cold-weather thing -- he represented Monaco on the Bobsleigh team at the past five Winter Olympics. Albert planned the trip to raise awareness of the dangers of global warming. And also the danger of polar bears eating European royalty.
· Prince of Monaco swaps Med for North Pole [Yahoo]
· Monaco Prince Takes Pole Position [Travel Rants]
· Monaco Albert's North Pole trek [BBC]
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Indian director T. Rajeevnath has been putting out feelers to Paris Hilton to see if she would take the role Mother Teresa in an upcoming bio-pic. She's on a "shortlist" (of unspecified length) after "a computer-generated image showed a close facial match between the hotel heiress and the Albanian-born nun." The contrast between the two is certainly striking.
The choice may also have had something to do with a director-generated notion that mentioning Paris and Mother Teresa in the same sentence would help with publicity and funding. The English-language movie will be shot primarily in India.
Probably the person who would best appreciate this casting is Christopher Hitchens, don't you think?
· Hilton to play Mother Teresa's role [Times of India]
· Indian director hopes to cast Paris Hilton [Breitbart]
TV / Celebs / Sopranos Tour / → All Tags
With the new series of the Sopranos just begun, CNN decided that it was time to visit the tour that will take you to locations used on the HBO show. At four hours and $40, it's a bit of a commitment. You get to check out the pork store, Big Pussy's auto repair shop, as well as the Muffler Man and other places shown in the opening credits. Probably the biggest draw is the Satin Doll strip club, transformed into Tony's Bada Bing on the show. The dancers used in the scenes also work at the Satin Doll, but don't get too exited: they wear bikinis when they're performing in the flesh.
· 'Sopranos' tour showcases hit's sites [CNN]
· On Location Tours [Official site]
· Satin Dolls Owner Interview [Steppin' Out]
Travel Hell / Airplanes / Celebs / → All Tags
Pity poor Naomi Campbell, whose most recent assistant quit while they were both in the middle of flight from London to L.A. last month. Reports a snitch: "Naomi was angry because some dresses didn't get where they were supposed to go, and the assistant yelled that she was quitting." Passengers complained to the stewardess, who was going to get the pilot, when they stopped their screaming match. Then they didn't speak to each other for several hours." Last year an earlier assistant got beat with a BlackBerry, so it sounds like this one got off easy -- she didn't even have to move back to steerage. As for Naomi, in between placing help wanted ads on Craigslist, she's been seen vacationing in Sweden with the Prince of Dubai.
· Campbell loses another assistant [The Superficial]
Celebs / Shopping / Fashion / → All Tags
Victoria "Posh" Beckham has spoken -- if you want some flash clothes, get on a plane and do your shopping internationally: "Clothes from different countries help to put an individual stamp on your style. . . . I was in Japan not long ago, and I went High Street shopping and picked up loads of great clothes." She couldn't quite stop there, though: "It's fantastic because they make everything in tiny sizes." What, did you think she was going to say it was because she could find lots of off-the-rack sexy schoolgirl and nurse outfits there? If you want more advice in this vein, check out British Glamour. | <urn:uuid:cc097b3c-1d93-4134-93b0-229556887c95> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jaunted.com/tag/Celebs | 2013-05-22T08:19:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962544 | 2,265 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Over one hundred and twenty people from the local government, local, national and international NGOs, and communities, convened in Iquitos, Peru from October 2-4, 2007 at a meeting hosted by the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana (IIAP), the Tropical America Katoomba Group (TAKG), the Government of Loreto and the Servicio Holandés de Cooperación al Desarrollo (SNV). The meeting was a space for actors to gather and create a network of people, institutions, and organizations with interest and ongoing work on PES in Peru, opening doors for greater understanding from the institutional side, while underscoring the needs of community actors.
The opening day focused on bringing the latest international knowledge of PES, and introducing participants to the concept of PES with specific information on water, carbon and biodiversity markets. Perspectives of the potential for PES from the private-sector/government and communities were presented. The group divided into parallel sessions on day two to gain specific knowledge related to governmental or community concerns. The community workshop focused on strategies for building community capacity for participation in these markets, and learning about structuring PES agreements from an experienced NGO working with communities in Mexico and experiences with Peruvian communities in PES. The governmental workshop discussed the Peruvian context, the fundamentals of organization and governance related to PES, and the status of the Colombia National plan for PES, which is currently under development. The afternoon was used to highlight the critical issue of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), specifically focusing on identifying governmental and institutional roles and the engagement of local communities.
The final day was as a project clinic where five projects proponents worked directly with experts on topics including quantification of the ecosystem service, governance, community concerns, and investment potentials, defining needed information and ways to move forward. The participating projects included: Ecosystem and Water Resource Conservation in Watersheds in Alto Mayo, Department of San Martin – PEAM and GTZ; REDD & Aguajales in Loreto – WWF Peru and IIAP; Brazil Nuts and REDD Proposals in Madre de Dios – ACCA & ASCART; Conservation Fund for Biodiversity for Agroforestry Use in Madre de Dios – Municipality of Tambopata & CI; Ecosystem Services in Madre de Dios – FONDAM [please see agenda for more information]. The workshop brought to light the operation of the new Katoomba Ecosystem Services Incubator, to forge direct exchanges between projects and experts. (Find out more about the Incubator on the Tropical America Katoomba Group Regional Portal of our website)
The meeting underscored the opportunities and challenges of PES, creating a space for dialogue and interaction between various stakeholders, and showing the large amount of interest and commitment from government institutions, NGOs and communities to further develop and work on PES themes in Peru. This interest is strong for voluntary arrangements in PES, not only in regulatory markets. Participants noted the value of bringing together various government entities with varied roles in environmental work, making key connections and forging a Peruvian network. Improving coordination and clarity among these institutions and developing concrete next actions were noted as benefits of the gathering. Participation in INRENA’s – the National Institute for Natural Resources – PES working group on ecosystem services was broadened to attendees of the meeting. Analyzing legal questions from projects in the clinic enabled project developers and government organizations to understand each others needs better.
From a community and NGO perspective, the meeting built on existing fundamental knowledge of PES and worked to address key questions regarding community involvement in the Peruvian context. Additional needs include – enhancing capacity building, the need for more secure financing structures, and support in quantification of ecosystem services. The importance of furthering and utilizing local technologies and continuing to work to engage communities in indigenous areas will be critical to the success of PES in Peru from the community perspective. | <urn:uuid:0e8105ac-d3dc-4f55-bad7-998809d29d68> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.katoombagroup.org/~katoomba/event_details.php?id=14 | 2013-05-22T08:33:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913825 | 822 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
right about now, you probably have heard of "Home Farming"
It is actually Code for, Were running low on our food sources?
well the last few seasons haven't been farmer Friendly and those storms in the mid west are hammering the food crops. and now with the rising cost of gas you can be sure food costs have gone up to. try this, take your receipt and compare it to last years.
you'll probably notice a major difference in the cost of food..These prices are usually slow and go by unnoticed.
So if you grow your own food or if you "land lord" will allow you to plant a garden, Go for it, seeds are cheap compared to The actual purchases in the store. and you can get starter plants with food stamps as well as the seeds.
I bet you didn't know that you can buy edible plants with you food stamps.
Gee I wonder why the government allows that?.
Lets see how much is Thyme, Rosemary, Sage and a few other herbs in the store?
Grow them you self and there practically free.
How about Pumpkins? Need some for Halloween? Grow them your self and have money for the treats for the kids.
My fiance and I had saved about 200 dollars in veggies alone, we had pumpkins that were free.
ell unless you want to take the package of seeds at 1.59 and then break it down to about 25 seeds then break it down to two pumpkins pumpkins per vine. you may as well as call it Free.
So why not Get off that couch and give it a try, you can also purchase indoor gardening "Grow Houses" But those get spendy but in the long run, they pay them selves off. | <urn:uuid:0e38178a-27b1-4a15-82c9-0dc4b8615cbb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.katu.com/younews/124750134.html?vid=a | 2013-05-22T08:35:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974558 | 362 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Please join the UCLA School of Law’s David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy for the eighth program of its 2012-13 speaker series.
“Proposition 8 and DOMA at the Supreme Court”
A Talk by Matt Coles
Deputy National Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
12:20 - 1:40 p.m.
Room 1314, UCLA School of Law
Please RSVP HERE by Monday, March 11
Matt Coles is the Deputy National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. From 1995 until 2010, he was the Director of the ACLU’s LGBT Project. Matt was counsel in Romer v. Evans, which resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Colorado’s ban on laws protecting LGB people from discrimination, and counsel for amicii in Lawrence v. Texas, which resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down laws against same-sex intimacy. He has argued cases challenging the ban on LGBT people in the military and bans on adoption by gay people and he has tried discrimination cases. Mr. Coles was the primary drafter of California’s law banning sexual orientation discrimination and he wrote the nation’s first domestic partnership law. He is the author of Try This at Home, a do-it-yourself guide to passing LGBT discrimination laws.
This program is cosponsored by The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.
The 2012-13 David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy Speaker Series is made possible by the generous support of the Margaret Levy Fund.
For more information, please contact Catherine Mayorkas, Director of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, at (310) 206-9155 / firstname.lastname@example.org.
DIRECTIONS TO UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW AND PARKING INFORMATION
Parking on the UCLA campus is $11. For the UCLA School of Law, park in Lot 2 or 3 (see map below). To purchase an all-day parking permit, please go to the parking kiosk at the Westholme and Hilgard Avenue entrance to the UCLA campus (to your right as you enter the campus) and ask to park in Lot 2, the parking lot to the south of the parking kiosk.
The School of Law is due north of Lot 2 and the parking kiosk.
Please note that permit parking is often difficult to secure during the day when the campus is in session.
Parking Pay Stations
Short-term parking is also available at self-service pay stations, which allow for parking by specified time periods. For UCLA School of Law, self-service pay stations can be found in Lot 2 or Lot 3 (enter the Lots and follow the arrows to the “pay by space” sections), and at the outdoor parking spots east of the School of Law building.
UCLA School of Law
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The most famous architect to contribute plans was Frank Lloyd Wright , who contributed three sets between 1901 and 1907. Although each displayed Wright's signature style of integrating houses into their natural surroundings, the last plan was exceptionally modern for its time. It was "trimmed to the last ounce of the superfluous" by eliminating the traditional elements of attic, butler's pantry, and back stairway. The plans resulted in the construction of an estimated 30,000 homes, prompting President Theodore Roosevelt to remark that Bok was a man "who changed, for the better, the architecture of an entire nation."
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Tinted Moisturizer -Philosophy - Hope In A Tinted Moisturizer
AsianDiva123 8/13/2011 3:25:00 PM
I got very tanned this summer and all my foundation at home are too light for me. I thought I'd get something darker and not too heavy mainly for the summr. This tinted moisturizer turned out to be perfect for that. I got the tan colour and it matches my skin very well. It's not very light and obviously not for those who want heavy coverage. I wear it on its own or mix it with my other foundation. I also like the pump bottle. It's easy to use and no mess. It evens out my skin tone and covers some blemishes reasonably well (as a tinted moisturizer). This is the first philosophy product I've bought and no disappointments. I may try their other products in the future.
I don't know why this top coat is not getting very good reviews. I absolutely love it. It gives my nail nice seal and dries extremely fast. Will definitely buy again,
Lotions/ Creams -Bliss Labs - Vanilla + bergamot body butter
AsianDiva123 12/20/2010 2:50:00 PM
I love the whole line of body butter by Bliss labs. I live in dry weather and love how moisturizing they are and not greasy. The smell is not too over powering. The tube is easy to use. I wish they were a bit cheaper though.
I thought I'd try this cone free shampoo especially it had a free mail in coupon. To me the free offer was a scam. I followed all the instructions and sent in my receipt. Over 2 months later, I got a post card back saying I needed to send proof of date of purchase. Well I sent you the whole darn receipt with the date on! They didn't send the receipt back to and there was no contact person, phone #. Fine guess I paid $10 for this product. About the product, it dries my hair and leaves build up at the same time. The end of my hair feels dehydrated but my roots feel greasy. The smell is okay (probably the only thing decent about this product). The design of the bottle looks good but not practical. The top is so heavy and it's hard to twist it back on tight (especially when you're in the shower and the hair is all wet). I ended up dropping the top numerous times in the shower. Sorry to say I won't buy this product again.
I love this cream. I took a chance and bought the biggest size (best value). I live in dry and cold weather. I use it every night before I go to bed. It's very rich so you only need a little. It does look greasy when you first put it on but my face looks well moisturized and feels soft in the am. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone with oily skin or people that live in extreme humidity though. I have used CDLM before and I find this one works much better and much easier to apply.Would defintitely buy it again! | <urn:uuid:b61d91bf-b6ad-4e62-80d1-90c9ffe9eab6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.makeupalley.com/product/x_userreviews.asp/page=4/pagesize=15/Brand=/CategoryId=/u=AsianDiva123/ | 2013-05-22T08:02:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967877 | 654 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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In the past I have mentioned that we used Mission tile floors in our house in San Miguel de Allende. I finally found the information and will pass it on to you. We bought them from Mosaicos de Designo in San Luis Potosi. Av. Salvador Nava Martinez 3253. Tel. fax 91 (48) 17 39 29 Elvia C. Barrios De Stevens The card says Restoration for old mosaic floors and materials for construction. These are the concrete-marble dust floors with a design in them - often seen in churches and turn of the 19th century houses. Often they look like oriental rugs embedded in a tile floor. They last for ever and a tile can be made of up to 5 colors. The legend is the Vatican invented them when they were having a mission building boom and couldn't make travertine fast enough. There probably are other companies that make them and if you of know them- pass it on. | <urn:uuid:789ee410-f470-4846-8a00-99d223d39231> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mexconnect.com/cgi-bin/forums/gforum.cgi?post=61529;sb=post_username;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_expandable;page=last;guest=46239754 | 2013-05-22T08:19:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946395 | 210 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Sunday, November 30, 2008
The Sunday Salon
My plan for today was to post a review of Down to a Sunless Sea by Matthias B. Freese - unfortunately, I didn't really like it. The book is a collection of short stories whose main characters are all damaged in some way - physically, emotionally, psychologically. The chapters are almost more character sketches than actual stories - some describe a life, some a brief episode, some are just the ramblings of a single character. About halfway through the book, it started to seem that the stories were depressing simply for the sake of being depressing. I also found the language difficult - I feel like I have a fairly strong grasp of the english language, but I needed a dictionary on several occasions. Perhaps the book was meant for a more erudite reader than I. That's okay with me - unfortunately, this collection was a miss for my reading taste.
Later on this week, I will be posting a review of Perfect on Paper by Maria Murnane for her blog tour - this book will be getting much more glowing comments, I can assure you. I'm also hoping to have an author interview at some point, so watch for that hopefully around the tenth.
My mom, who is an english teacher, gave my a very interesting idea for a question to pose to readers - I'm coming up with my own answer first, and then I will share. She's the kind of english teacher you WISH your kid had!
Also, I'm going to start featuring reviews of books recommended to me by my relatives. (Hopefully. So far, I've only had three of them respond to my request - if you are reading this, and you are related to me, I need some book titles!!) I'm lucky to be part of a family of readers, and thought it would be fun to read and review some of the books THEY consider to be their favorites, so look for some Relative Reads coming in the next few months.
I hope everyone had a safe, relaxing Thanksgiving. We had a bit of a blizzard to drive home through, but arrived safe and sound. Have a good week, everyone! | <urn:uuid:3b26fe3f-eab8-4842-84fa-cc557939906b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.needmoreshelves.blogspot.com/2008/11/sunday-salon_30.html | 2013-05-22T08:18:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98123 | 445 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Thoughts from a 5 year old: He really loves this app - it is so exciting to him to learn about all the undersea creatures. He gets a big kick out of the characters (there are 20 different voices) and the story too. Having each word highlighted as it is narrated is wonderful for him since he is just beginning to read.
Thoughts from a 2 year old: He loves this book too! He finds it hilarious when the bus drives straight into the ocean. He loves to touch the characters and listen to them talk. The videos are his favorite -he will watch them on repeat!
Mom's Take: I have always loved the Magic School Bus series - it was one of my childhood favs. I loved the idea of being able to go to all those places on a bus - not to mention really enjoyed Ms. Frizzle's outfit choices. It is really cool to see the book come to life for my children. I can't wait to see if they come out with more apps from the book series!
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Nomination, Selection and Appointment of Mandate Holders
APPOINTMENTS TO BE MADE AT HRC23 (27 MAY-14 JUNE 2013)
President's letter of transmittal of the report to all delegations
Report of Consultative Group with recommendations to the President of the Council
[click for Secretariat’s NV]
English [PDF] – French [PDF]
[click for Secretariat’s NV: call for candidatures]
English [Word - PDF] – French [Word - PDF]
Deadline expired. Application process is now closed.
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APPOINTMENTS MADE AT THE 22nd SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
APPOINTMENTS MADE AT 18TH TO 21ST SESSIONS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
INFORMATION ABOUT APPOINTMENTS MADE AT THE 7TH TO 7TH SESSIONS IS TO BE FOUND ON THE HRC
MEMBERS OF THE CONSULTATIVE GROUP (CURRENT AND FORMER)
All candidatures and appointments made to date
According to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, Annex, the following general criteria will be of paramount importance while nominating, selecting and appointing mandate-holders:
(b) experience in the field of the mandate;
(e) personal integrity;
Due consideration should be given to gender balance and equitable geographic representation, as well as to an appropriate representation of different legal systems. Eligible candidates are highly qualified individuals who possess established competence, relevant expertise and extensive professional experience in the field of human rights (paras. 39-41).
Technical and objective requirements
In its decision 6/102 of 27 September 2007, the Council approved technical and objective requirements for candidates eligible for special procedures mandate-holders.
1. Qualifications: relevant educational qualifications or equivalent professional experience in the field of human rights; good communication skills in one of the official languages of the United Nations.
2. Relevant expertise: knowledge of international human rights instruments, norms and principles; as well as knowledge of institutional mandates related to the United Nations or other international or regional organizations’ work in the area of human rights; proven work experience in the field of human rights.
3. Established competence: nationally, regionally or internationally recognized competence related to human rights.
4. Flexibility/readiness and availability of time to perform effectively the functions of the mandate and to respond to its requirements, including attending Human Rights Council sessions.
Who can nominate candidates?
Paragraph 42 of Annex to Council resolution 5/1, provides that the following entities may nominate candidates:
(b) Regional Groups operating within the United Nations human rights system,
(c) international organizations or their offices,
(d) non-governmental organizations,
(e) other human rights bodies, and
(f) individual nominations.
Paragraph 22 (a) of Annex to Council resolution 16/21 of 25 March 2011 further provides that national human rights institutions in compliance with the Paris Principles may also nominate candidates.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE, INCLUDING NEW FORM AND MOTIVATION LETTER
Further to paragraph 22 (a) of Annex to Council resolution 16/21 of 25 March 2011 individual candidates and candidates nominated by entities shall submit an application for each specific mandate, together with personal data. A motivation letter, which should be no longer than 600 words, must also be submitted by candidates.
INTERVIEWS OF SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES
Further to paragraph 22 (c) of Annex to Council resolution 16/21 of 25 March 2011 the Consultative Group shall interview shortlisted candidates to ensure equal treatment of all candidates.
The Consultative Group (composition of the Consultative Group), established in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, submits to the President, ‘at least one month before the beginning of the session in which the Council would consider the selection of mandate holders, a list of candidates who possess the highest qualifications for the mandates in question and meet the general criteria and particular requirements'.
List of candidates for the Special Procedures mandate holders
On the basis of the recommendations of the Consultative Group and following broad consultations, in particular through the regional coordinators, the President of the Council will identify an appropriate candidate for each vacancy and presents to member States and observers a list of candidates.
The President shall justify his/her decision if he/she decides not to follow the order of priority proposed by the Consultative Group (paragraph 22 (d) of Annex to Council resolution 16/21 of 25 March 2011).
The appointment of the special procedures mandate-holders will be completed upon the subsequent approval of the Council.
P.S. PUBLIC LIST OF CANDIDATES USED FOR PREVIOUS CYCLE OF APPOINTMENTS CEASED TO EXIST
In accordance with the new application procedure the Office of the High Commissioner shall prepare a public list of candidates who will apply for each specific vacancy (paragraph 22 (b) of Annex to Council resolution 16/21).
The public list of candidates dated 5 May 2011 posted on the Council Extranet, which was used for the previous cycle of appointments made at the seventeenth session of the Council will cease to exist with immediate effect. All candidates should therefore apply by using the new application procedure described above. | <urn:uuid:b59dcba4-56c7-4341-99fc-5c055978f6f2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/Nominations.aspx | 2013-05-22T08:21:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877473 | 1,116 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
OSTI Mission: Advancing science and sustaining technological creativity by making R&D findings available
and useful to Department of Energy (DOE) researchers and the public
Are MARC Records for full-text DOE STI reports available?
Of course! OSTI MARC Records are available at no cost for libraries that seek to enhance their online catalogs with records for full-text DOE scientific and technical reports contained in the Information Bridge. These reports cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, including physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to the DOE mission.
The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) plays an integral role in ensuring transparency and access to the results of the Department of Energy’s scientific efforts – and such transparency and access help assure DOE’s scientific integrity, according to a policy statement recently issued by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.
“In December 2010,” Secretary Chu wrote in a May 11, 2012, memo to DOE employees, “the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House issued a memorandum asking all agencies to establish a scientific integrity policy. In response to this call, I recently signed the Secretarial Policy Statement on Scientific Integrity for the Department of Energy applicable to all DOE Federal employees. This policy builds on the Department’s existing policies and best practices to support a culture of scientific integrity.”
“Science and technology are the foundation of all Department of Energy activities…,” the Secretarial Policy Statement on Scientific Integrity opens. “The Department’s mission relies on objective, reliable, accurate, and accessible scientific and technical information.” And OSTI, which fulfills the agency's responsibilities to collect, preserve and disseminate scientific and technical information emanating from the Department’s research and development activities, contributes to scientific integrity in vital ways.
“DOE will facilitate the free flow of scientific and technological information,” the policy statement provides, “consistent with standards for treatment of classified, sensitive, private, and proprietary information. Transparency and accessibility of scientific and technological information support the continued advancement of a sound science and technology base to help guide and inform the nation’s critical public policy decisions; advance the national, economic and energy security of the U.S.; facilitate the accomplishment of DOE mission objectives; and maximize the public value of such efforts.”
The Secretarial Policy Statement on Scientific Integrity also indicates that, “[c]onsistent with the Administration’s Open Government Initiative, the Department will use its website and the resources of its Office of Scientific and Technical Information to help make its research findings more widely available to the public.”
OSTI provides access to scientific and technical information using web-based searchable databases, offering ever-expanding sources of R&D information to DOE, the research community and the science-attentive public. The databases offer search simplicity as well as advanced capabilities, such as customized alerts, results displayed in relevance ranked order and downloadable search results for a broad array of scientific information related to DOE missions.
OSTI’s DOE collection, Science Accelerator, searches 11 key DOE resources, including the results of DOE’s R&D projects and programs, major R&D accomplishments, DOE patents, and recent research and scientific videos of interest to DOE.
OSTI works with DOE program offices, field offices, national labs, and grantees to acquire the scientific and technical information from departmental R&D. Through OSTI web products, these R&D results are accessed nearly 300 million times annually.
Secretary Chu’s policy statement is posted on the “Scientific Integrity” page of the White House OSTP website.
A mobile application developed and hosted by the Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has been honored by two leading information-technology publications.
Both Information Week and Government Computer News recently published top-10 lists of government mobile applications, and OSTI's mobile app for the Science.gov website that we created and host on behalf of the Science.gov Alliance made both lists. What's more, the Science.gov mobile application was the only interagency mobile app to appear on both of the publications' top-10 lists.
Science.gov, launched in 2002 and now in its fifth generation, is a gateway to U.S. government information and R&D results. With a single query, Science.gov searches more than 50 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information and accesses an index of more than 2,100 scientific websites. Science.gov is a portal to content provided by 17 organizations in 13 federal science agencies, including OSTI's DOE science resources and R&D collections. We introduced Science.gov Mobile in September 2011.
The June 15, 2012, issue of Information Week included a look at federal agencies' newest mobile offerings and named the mobile version of the Science.gov website as one of “10 Handy Mobile Apps from Uncle Sam”.
“On-the-go science buffs,” Information Week reported, “can now access that data trove via a mobile version of the [Science.gov] website or a downloadable Android app. Users can get Wikipedia and EurekAlert [science news] results related to their searches.”
A week later, the June 22, 2012, issue of Government Computer News released its list of “The 10 best federal mobile apps”, and that list likewise featured the Science.gov mobile application. “Billed as a tool to help kids with homework,” Government Computer News said, “[Science.gov Mobile] is actually a surprisingly powerful search engine that checks science data from 13 federal agencies going back to 1990. So if you have a science-related question, there is a good chance that someone in government has asked the same thing at some point, and probably commissioned a study to get the answer. Having access to all that data is a lot better than having it sit unused in some dusty file cabinet. It could probably even be a boon to researchers to keep them from duplicating research, and it will certainly help your kids get an A on their science papers.”
OSTI and the Science.gov Alliance are heartened by Information Week’s and Government Computer News’ write-ups about the Science.gov mobile application, and we certainly hope more and more people will take advantage of the service. Science.gov and its mobile app are major contributions to “open” and “digital” government.
OSTI takes its mission very seriously. We work hard to advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the public. And to accomplish our mission, we do our best to provide an array of web tools and capabilities designed to deliver science information to desktops, tablets and mobile phones everywhere. So it is gratifying to see these tools recognized for their utility, ease of use, and ingenuity.
For more than 60 years, OSTI has been a pioneer in open government. Our latest contributions to making scientific and technical information accessible have been recognized in the Department of Energy’s Open Government Plan 2.0
On January 21, 2009, his first full day in office, President Obama signed the Memorandum of Transparency and Open Government, which called for "an unprecedented level of openness in government." Agencies subsequently were directed by the Office of Management and Budget to prepare open government plans that would serve "to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation and collaboration" throughout the Federal Government. DOE's initial Open Government Plan was published in the spring of 2010.
On April 9, 2012, DOE published its Open Government Plan 2.0, with an introduction by Secretary Chu. The new plan focuses on collaboration and lists six new initiatives that DOE has undertaken since the initial plan. One of the featured new initiatives is OSTI's ScienceCinema (see pages 19-20), which we launched in February 2011 and allows users to quickly find videos produced by the DOE National Labs and other DOE research facilities, as well as CERN.
The DOE Open Government Plan 2.0 also includes updates on OSTI’s products and services that were listed in the initial plan. The mentions include Green Energy Portal, ScienceEducation.gov, and our contributions to Data.gov and transparency, including Science Accelerator, data sets, the National Library of Energy concept, Multilingual WorldWideScience.org, and Science.gov.
OSTI is proud that the DOE Open Government Plan 2.0 recognizes several of our ongoing and planned products and services. We are committed to sustaining OSTI's legacy of serving the principles of transparency, participation and collaboration.
Scientific and Technical Information ... see STI defined.
DOE Order 241.1B [194-KB PDF] details the responsibilities of OSTI and other DOE elements for managing scientific and technical information.
The 2012 Department of Energy (DOE) Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP) Working Meeting, Embracing the Future, was held in Augusta, GA., April 18-19. Within the DOE Office of Science, OSTI has the responsibility for coordinating STI activities and for leading a collaborative effort to a distributed STI environment. To that end, OSTI and designated representatives from the Headquarters Programs, Field Offices, National Laboratories, and facility contractors who are STI program stakeholders work together to facilitate access to STI and identify best practices, as well as objectives and goals. Each year our office organizes a meeting of these STI stakeholders. In addition to the two-day STIP Working Meeting, representatives particpated in STIP orientation sessions and DOE Only and DOE Contractor Only meetings.
The 2012 STIP Working Meeting was hosted by Kevin Schmidt, STI manager for Savannah River National Laboratory, and Debbie Caver, Technical Information Officer (TIO) for Savannah River Operations Office. The meeting was attended by STI Managers and reps from DOE laboratories and facilities across the country. Speakers included Dr. Jeffrey Salmon, Deputy Director for Resource Management in the DOE Office of Science; Dr. Walt Warnick, OSTI Director; Mark Martin, OSTI Assistant Director for Program Integration; and Judy Gilmore, OSTI STIP Liaison, as well as STI Managers from across the complex and technical experts from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Savannah River National Laboratory.
Dr. Walt Warnick, Director of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in the Department of Energy Office of Science, embraces the opportunities offered by the web to accelerate the spread of knowledge about science and technology. To this end, he has championed aggressive efforts to capitalize on technological advances to develop and provide state-of-the art products and services for sharing knowledge. Dr. Warnick and his colleagues continuously work to further advance web search technology.
Dr. Warnick is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) "for leadership in the federal scientific information community and for contributions to the conceptualization, development, and implementation of innovative programs that significantly advance access to government information." He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and his Bachelor of Engineering Science from The Johns Hopkins University.
OSTI is the DOE office that collects, preserves, and disseminates DOE-sponsored R&D results that are the outcomes of R&D projects or other funded activities at DOE labs and facilities nationwide and grantees at universities and other institutions. The graph on the left shows the steady increase in submissions by labs and facilities over the past several years. From FY 2010 to FY 2011, DOE labs and facilities increased submissions 20 percent. This includes a 61 percent jump in submission of scientific journal articles. Typically the information is submitted in the form of technical documents, conference papers, articles, multimedia, and software, collectively referred to as scientific and technical information (STI). While STI management is called out in a DOE directive (DOE O 241.1B) with requirements for contracting officers and others, we rely on a collaborative working relationship with STI managers at each DOE field office and national laboratory to ensure cohesive processes for the widely distributed program.
OSTI posts to its website a new DOE Science Showcase each month highlighting R&D results within key DOE databases. See the July Showcase - Nanotechnology, or the June Science Showcase - Fuel Cells. The research documents found here are freely available to the public. These and other science topics are made easily searchable through the many tools and services provided by OSTI as part of its corporate function called out in various legislation, and most recently specified in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which reads: “The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, shall maintain within the Department publicly available collections of scientific and technical information resulting from research, development, demonstration, and commercial applications activities supported by the Department.” OSTI databases offer search simplicity as well as advanced search capabilities such as customized alerts, results displayed in relevance ranked order, and downloadable search results for a broad array of scientific information related to DOE missions. | <urn:uuid:146c14e4-4b40-4ee2-9a66-170077b6c1b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.osti.gov/home/newsletter/Volume-1-Issue-1 | 2013-05-22T08:26:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931807 | 2,751 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Either we're reading too much between the Tweets, or the 25-year-old "Kiss the Girl" singer is sprinkling clues she's having a baby with new fiancé Russell Brand.
It started with her Jan. 1 message: "Let me tell you 2010 is BUMPIN!" Then on Friday, Perry wrote, "Hey @rustyrockets" – Brand's Twitter name – "i heard ur prego-ed." She adds, "I WANT IN AND OUT," a Southern California hamburger chain, before telling Brand, "I love you … (awwwww barf!)."
Bump, prego, cravings, barf? It was all very cryptic, but then it was only a few days ago that Perry made oblique song lyric references on Twitter – before Brand came out and confirmed they were engaged on New Year's Eve. | <urn:uuid:b3720eac-25c4-4250-9d02-6a6e70709ee6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20335901,00.html?xid=popsugar | 2013-05-22T08:20:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970948 | 180 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Politics and Participation in a Networked Society
The popular blog-tracking site technorati.com reports the existance of well over one hundred million blogs. Despite the medium’s ubiquity, the impact of political blogging on politics and civic engagemment has not been systematically examined. In an era of depressed civic engagement, where access...
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The thirteenth and last in a series of images from places I have not posted from yet in an attempt to fill out my TE map as much as possible.
And now we've arrived at the last place I have a photo from that I have not posted from yet: the island state of Hawaii. Obviously the picture quality on this one is rather poor; that's because it was taken with an old LG camera phone way back in 2006, when such things were still a novelty. I somehow had managed to go on a trip to Hawaii without bringing an actual camera, which today seems to me to be a punishable crime, but I was apparently fine with then.
The shot is of Kailua Bay, near where we were staying. These offshore islands - which can be seen here from the air - were a constant sight from the shore.
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Great, Now Models Are Being Photoshopped to Look Bigger
It’s no secret that celebs and models who appear in magazines and advertisements have their likenesses retouched — sometimes heavily. In the past, this retouching seemed to focus on making them look thinner and bustier: flattening the natural curves of stomachs, sharpening jaw lines and turning regular-sized upper arms into sticks. All this sharpening and whittling promoted an ideal body type that was difficult, or even impossible, to achieve.
Now, as former Cosmo editor Leah Hardy wrote back in 2010, the industry standard is changing. Instead of average-sized or thin models being Photoshopped to look even skinnier, already-thin models are being “filled out” in post-production. At first glance, this might seem to be a good thing. Yay! The media is promoting a healthier, more attainable body image for women!
Except it’s not. The women in the photographs are still extremely thin, but the less attractive aesthetic features that accompany that thinness are being erased.
Take these pictures, for example:
The women in them are extremely thin — so much so that their ribs jut out. Most of us wouldn’t look to these pictures as examples of healthy, attainable body types. And yet, with a little bit of Photoshop magic, they’re simply slender, dainty women with elfin features. They’re still just as tiny as they were before, only now they look healthy.
Of the women whose photos appeared on the pages of Cosmo, Hardy wrote, “Thanks to retouching, our readers — and those of Vogue, and Self, and Healthy magazine – never saw the horrible, hungry downside of skinny. That these underweight girls didn’t look glamorous in the flesh.”
The simple solution to this problem seems to be for magazines and advertisers to book a diverse range of models with a variety of body types. But according to Hardy, it isn’t that simple. She wrote that models who were healthy looking at the time of booking frequently showed up to shoots (which were sometimes booked months in advance) looking gaunt and emaciated. She also placed blame on the designers whose clothes were featured in the photo shoots, saying that the sample outfits they sent were “tiny.”
Obviously we have to take Hardy’s testimony with a grain of salt. Anyone who’s ever read Cosmo knows the magazine isn’t exactly known for its body acceptance, and it seems like Hardy’s trying to place blame on everyone but herself. But her testimony does speak to the fact that it’s not just one person, or one feature of the media, that can be held accountable for the proliferation of unhealthy body types. It’s up to everyone to make it stop. | <urn:uuid:d167552c-fafa-430b-a147-c843f6b8b470> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.twirlit.com/2013/01/30/great-now-models-are-being-photoshopped-to-look-bigger/ | 2013-05-23T13:51:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703326861/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112206-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97374 | 604 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
AMERSFOORT, Netherlands — Among the small-but-growing number of suppliers in the European bulk vending industry, Idea Vending B.V. is one of the largest. A distributor of equipment and merchandise, the Netherlands-based Idea services an operating community throughout Western and Eastern Europe. VT recently sat down with the company’s Bram Aartsen for an update on their business and the European bulk vending market.
VT: Could you describe Idea Vending’s business – the countries it services, the types of products it supplies and the machines it sells?
AARTSEN: We were founded about 16 years ago and are now one of the largest European wholesalers for bulk vending supplies in Europe. We’re located in the Netherlands, and from a logistics point of view it’s a good place to be because it’s quite central. Distances from north to south to east fall in a radius of 2,500 kilometers, and we’ve got some good harbor facilities to supply mainland Europe. At the moment, we represent North American companies like Beaver, Oak Leaf and A&A Global Industries. We also carry some products from SportsBlaster.
How would you compare the European bulk vending market to the market in the U.S.? Is the market as large there as it is here?
The market isn’t as large here. Going to the U.S., I’m still surprised at how huge bulk vending is in North America, and for that matter, vending in general. Vending isn’t as well accepted in Europe as it is in the U.S. There is growth in Europe, but it’s not so professionalized or as well-organized as in the U.S.
How is bulk vending advancing in Eastern Europe compared with Western Europe? Are the tastes in products and the types of locations the same?
With more countries joining the European Union, exporting to these countries is made easier. For one thing, it means there is no more border paperwork to be dealt with. So yes, we see far more demand from Eastern European countries. We’re also seeing investors coming into these countries and developing large supermarkets and shopping malls. I’ve seen some and have been really impressed.
There aren’t as many licensed products in Eastern Europe. They don’t have the coinage yet (the euro), so the value of their coins is still quite low. But in 2008 or 2009 we’ll see more countries adopting the euro, such as Poland and the Baltic countries, like Estonia.
So the growth in vending is parallel to the growth in the EU – it opens new territories as they get the euro coinage, which makes it easy for the coin mechs. And borders are slowly disappearing. For example, two years ago Hungary had an import duty on gum of 70% – and now it’s zero.
Because Europe has the euro coin, is there a wider range of merchandise than operators find in the U.S.? What types of products sell for †1 in Europe?
For vending we use the equivalent of 20¢ and 50¢ vends, as well as †1 and †2 vends. The exchange rate today for †1 is $1.32. It starts with regular items like gum, then 2-in. capsules containing licensed items or generic products, such as sticky items or Spongebob products, sold for †1. And there are also some 3- and 4-in. capsules with small plush items or larger licensed products for †2.
Is bulk vending growing in Europe the same way that it grew in the U.S., with operators entering the industry part-time, or are you seeing a lot of full-time operators?
You don’t see huge operators in Europe, because they tend to stay in one country. The typical operator has an average of 250 to 500 machines. Of course, there are people with 10,000 machines, but there aren’t many of them. But very often it’s a full-time business – you don’t see people doing it just on Saturdays.
What can U.S. operators learn from Europe and European operators?
We have a great benefit and that’s the coin. You already see the differences between Canada and the U.S. But there isn’t much to learn. We are in a fortunate position because we have good coinage.
At present time, Europe doesn’t have the NBVA. Is there a plan to start a bulk vending organization in Europe?
In Germany, for instance, there is a kind of national bulk vending association called BWA (Bundesverband Warenautomaten). There is also a section at the ATEI show in London that hosts a concentration of bulk vending operators. But it’s nothing like the experience of the National Bulk Vendors Association show in Las Vegas. | <urn:uuid:d381c499-2c36-4077-8861-9fae95ca804c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vendingtimes.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Article+Archives&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=4D0A6B5CFAF44AE89EAAEE5D87A51515 | 2013-05-23T13:56:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703326861/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112206-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956001 | 1,034 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Republican Mitt Romney failed to win one voting precinct in Youngstown and Austintown, and he captured only two of Boardman’s 47 precincts on his way to a 27.7-percentage-point defeat in Mahoning County.
An analysis by The Vindicator of raw precinct-by-precinct results in the county, a traditional Democratic stronghold, shows Youngstown provided 30.5 percent of President Barack Obama’s 74,346 votes in the county.
In 2008, Obama picked up 79,173 voters in the county. Overall, 128,914 of the county’s 178,270 registered voters cast ballots that year.
With the county’s population decline, there were 170,079 registered voters this year with 119,171 people casting votes in this election.
In the city, Obama, the incumbent Democrat, beat Romney 85.5 percent to 13.8 percent. The rest went to others on the ballot.
Obama won 63.1 percent of the vote in the county on his way to winning Ohio, a key battleground state, and the presidential election.
“We did more with less,” said county Democratic Party Chairman David Betras. “We had less [voters] go to the polls than in 2008, but we had a bigger plurality for the president and a higher voter percentage than in 2008. We did better in a very difficult political climate than four years ago. We focused on the strong Democratic areas of the county and got out the vote.”
Obama was exceptionally popular with voters in Youngstown, winning all 77 of the city’s precincts.
In the city’s 2nd Ward, Precinct H, on the East Side, Obama received 306 votes to 1 for Romney. Richard Duncan, an independent from Aurora who only had his name on the Ohio ballot for president, outperformed Romney in 2-H. Duncan, who received 0.23 of a percent of the statewide vote, received two votes in Youngstown 2-H.
The same precinct in 2008 gave Obama 280 votes compared with two votes for Republican John McCain. Ralph Nader, an independent who received 0.74 of a percent in the 2008 election, matched McCain in Youngstown 2-H with two votes.
In addition to 2-H, there were 12 other voter precincts in Youngstown in which Romney failed to get at least 10 votes.
Some of the results are brutal.
In Youngstown’s 1st Ward, Precinct B on the East Side, Obama beat Romney 451 to 4.
In that same precinct four years ago, Obama beat McCain 436 to 3.
“We took whatever assets we had and poured it into the city,” Betras said.
The Romney beat-downs were all over Youngstown.
He lost to Obama 295 to 3 in the 3rd Ward’s Precinct E on the North Side. Romney lost to Obama 303 to 8 in the 5th Ward’s Precinct M on the West Side, and 342 to 7 in the 6th Ward’s Precinct C on the South Side.
That wasn’t unexpected, said Bill Binning, Youngstown State University political science department chairman emeritus and a former county Republican Party chairman.
When Ronald Reagan ran in 1980 as a Republican in an election he easily won, he received no votes in a few Youngstown precincts, Binning said.
The closest Romney got in Youngstown was in Ward 5, Precinct B in Cornersburg. He got 36 percent of the vote there.
“We can safely say, ‘Youngstown is a Democratic city,’” said Paul Sracic, YSU’s political science department chairman. “Also, Mahoning County is remarkably consistent. The voter percentage for Democrats is about the same. Mahoning County voted the way it always does. Ohio is changing. Hamilton County is turning blue, and south of Mahoning County is turning red. There are changes throughout the state, except in northeast Ohio.”
Also, Romney failed to win a single precinct of the 40 in Austintown and won only 2 of Boardman’s 47 precincts. McCain had the same results in 2008, except there were 3 more precincts in Austintown and 4 more in Boardman four years ago.
“We wanted to keep Boardman kind of close, but I don’t think it was a complete surprise” Romney lost, said county Republican Party Chairman Mark Munroe.
Obama beat Romney by 4,215 in Boardman, 13,065 for Obama to 8,850 for Romney.
Obama swept all precincts in Struthers, Campbell, Coitsville, Jackson, Milton, Lowellville, New Middletown, Washingtonville and Craig Beach [the latter two only have one precinct each].
Obama won 10 of Poland Township’s 16 precincts, and won the township vote 3,977 to 3,734. He won 3 of Sebring’s four precincts, and the village’s vote 911 to 821.
Obama also won two of Poland village’s three precincts and the village by a vote of 806 to 799. In 2008, McCain beat Obama in the village by 22 votes.
“Poland Village and Canfield used to be reliable Republican areas,” Binning said. “Now it looks like it’s only Canfield.”
Canfield Township was good to Romney. He won seven of eight precincts and got 2,855 votes to 2,063 for Obama.
Romney won 7 of 10 precincts in the city of Canfield with Obama winning two and a 235-235 tie in the city’s Precinct 2.
But several of the results from Canfield city were close, and Romney only captured 52.9 percent of the city’s vote, beating Obama 2,456 to 2,167.
“We were hoping to do better in Canfield,” Munroe said.
As McCain did in 2008, Romney won in rural areas of the county with smaller populations than the cities and large suburbs such as Austintown and Boardman.
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"Lots of spinach, lots of rice and lots of cheese in this hearty casserole. Very tasty and hearty main course." — LGUROWITZ
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1 3/4 cups
shredded Swiss cheese
salt and pepper to taste
hot pepper sauce
2 (10 ounce) packages
frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
red bell pepper, chopped
1 (15 ounce) can
white corn, drained
dried bread crumbs, seasoned
This is a good recipe. A great way to jazz up spinach!
This recipe has potential. Things I don't like: 1.) This recipe assumes you are using a particular type of rice. I won't work if you are using quick cook white rice or a longer cook brown or jasmine rice. Maybe it would be more beneficial to list the amount of cooked rice needed rather than give the instructions for cooking the rice. 2.) For a dish with so much butter, I think this dish was a little bland. I think adding a couple of different herbs and a liberal amount of salt and pepper make it a great recipe. 3.) Less butter. The butter isn't necessary. I usually skip it without consequence. The things I do like: 1.) Lots of veggies. I also added sliced fresh mushrooms. I am sure others can be added without taking away from the essence of the casserole. 2.) Spinach and cheese! The combination of ingredients is appealing to me, spinach being key. It is also flexible. The corn, bell peppers, and onions can be substituted with whatever you have (given it is not too overwhelming).
This was delicious! I did need to change it up a little, though. I used cannelini beans in place of the corn, and I always use brown whole grain rice. Also, I didn't have Swiss cheese, so I used mozzerella and a little muenster I had.I topped it with some feta cheese. Extremely flavorful!
I did think that this was lacking a little in the flavor department BUT my 3 year old daughter loved it and kept asking for more (she clearly didnt know the amount of veggies she was consuming.) I would make it again but I would add a lot more seasoning (garlic, etc etc.) Also I made my rice on the stove top but next time I would use my rice cooker. I also subbed the water for chicken broth.
EXCELLENT! JUST EXCELLENT! THE ONLY THING I DID DIFFERENTLY WAS USE GOUDA INSTEAD OF SWISS SINCE I HAD NO SWISS AND I USED BUTTERMILK INSTEAD OF REGULAR MILK. IT WAS CHEESY AND CREAMY.
Good recipe for a change of pace. It cut nicely and re-heated well for lunches. A bit heavy on the cheese... if I make it again I'll cut the cheese in half.
This is not a quick recipe to whip up after work. I used 4 different pans in preparing it! (rice, cooking veggies, cooking butter/flour/milk/cheese, and casserole) Also, the "paste" never thickened, but it worked nonetheless.
Pretty good, but my kids were not really fans.
This is a great base recipe. I think it would be very bland as is. I added extra garlic and salt and a couple tablespoons of fresh rosemary, chopped, into the onion mixture.
I also added cheddar cheese and cream cheese into the cheese mixture.
It was very very good!!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Spinach Veggie Casserole
Serving Size: 1/8 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 8
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 404
** Calories from Fat: 188
These bacony, cheesy chicken breasts make an elegant main course.
This hearty meatless lasagna is layered with cheese, fresh spinach, and sauce.
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My reality is shifting faster than I can tap-dance. Who will I be at the end of this scramble? What IS the plan? I suspect that I am better off knowing less, and trusting more.
I am afraid of the thoughts that I think, and the things that I believe. I am ashamed of my own cowardice, which looks the woman in the mirror in the face, and says, “You can’t think that thought. If you think that thought, you will never be the same, again. If you fully realize that reality, you can never go back.”
And yet, I am being called into the light of reality, and truth. Scratch that. I am being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the glaring light of a really messed up reality. My head longs for the sand, but somehow, it has turned to concrete, and rejects my advances. My eyes are squeezed shut, my ears stopped up by my own fingers, and STILL, I hear the Voice, because it comes from within. “You have always seen these things. It’s time to stop hiding from them.”
I am horrified every time someone tells me how much they respect my honesty, my transparency, my lack of guile. If they only knew. I am only as honest with you as I am with myself, and there are vast tracks of the land of myself into which I have not yet dared to tread.
My prayer is, “Not yet, not so fast!”
The Voice says, “The Telos of all things is At Hand. Because of this, be sober and diligent in prayer.”
And I beg, “Please, please, may I only believe the comfortable things? May I only face the Truth that costs me little to nothing?”
And even as I ask, I know the Truth. The answer is, “No.”
The Truth will cost me Everything. It demands my all, my unswerving loyalty. My head is turned toward the field. My hand is reaching toward the plow. I know that this is a one-way decision. There is no turning back. So, I dance my tap-dance, one step forward, two steps back, weaving side-to-side, and beg the Voice, the Hound, to be patient.
I don’t believe in facts, or objective reality. They don’t independently exist. I am not impressed with your empirical evidence, or what the most recent research shows to be “true.” All this to say, I am neither an Empiricist, nor a Materialist. There are realities that we simply cannot fathom.
I do NOT believe in the scientific method as a valid way to arrive at TRUTH, though it is a very useful way to collect knowledge and information that leads to greater technology. Basically, our manipulation of nature increases our ability to manipulate nature.
Science is useful. It is NOT all-knowing. Yesterday’s big breakthrough is today’s embarrassment. (Trans-fatty acids, anyone?) And yet, over and over, the “facts” are presented to me, via advertisements, articles, well-meaning friends and family, as though they are unchanging and should somehow hold sway over my decisions.
I have never lived this way. I don’t intend to start now. The facts, and what is “scientifically possible” have just never factored into my personal reality. For better or worse, I live by Faith in the Unseen. So far, it’s worked out for me pretty well. If you want to change my mind, or to teach me, don’t bother with a list of statistics, because I will simply stare blankly at you, wondering, “who funded THAT study, and what are they trying to sell me, exactly?”
Research, not so very long ago, showed that women shouldn’t breastfeed.
An empirical, scientific approach to childbirth has us reporting skyrocketing c-section rates, and one of the worst maternal-fetal outcome rates in the developed world.
Studies once showed that smoking is good for your health.
Coffee has been shown to both save your life, and to kill you, depending upon who paid for the research, and whether or not they love coffee.
Frankly, science, or empirical evidence is subject to the will of the observer. I have taken quizzes and surveys in the fairly recent past that are obviously intended to manipulate me into saying what the researcher wants to report as statistically “true.”
A couple of examples, paraphrased from memory:
“Do you think that the UN should come on American soil, and rob us of our Second Amendment Rights?”
“If a man gives a woman an expensive engagement ring, and asks to marry her, in the hopes of having sex with her, is it sex for money?”
I’m not deceived by this rhetoric, and you shouldn’t be, either.
Have you ever noticed that scriptures, no matter what religion you adhere to, are written as stories? This world, and our life in it, is not a grand experiment. It is a love story. I choose to live life in the narrative; I live amongst miracles.
When I was 6 years old, my mother was murdered, in Canada, where I was a citizen. Her murderers produced a “Will,” leaving me to their custody. My American aunt and uncle fought for me, and were awarded “temporary custody.” I never went back to Canada, or those people.
As a child, I dragged one leg, then learned to walk crookedly, and finally, to fake a “normal” walk. My left leg, it turns out, was an inch shorter than the right. Due to forcing myself to walk unnaturally, I had chronic pain in that leg throughout my life. There were days, in college, that I just couldn’t face the walk to classes, and I stayed in my dorm. Eight years ago, a completely crazy-appearing evangelist from Africa prayed for my leg, and it grew. I felt it happen. And I don’t hurt anymore. I hike.
In college, my husband and I set aside conventional wisdom, and started our family our senior year. Our original plan, and the advice we received right and left, was to wait until we finished our educations, and paid off our loans. Today, and 6 kids later, we have never suffered want. We haven’t collected the toys that are advertised on television, but that’s okay, ’cause we don’t have cable, so we don’t know what we’re missing.
I have given birth to 6 children without a single medical intervention. I believe in my body’s ability to do more than even I think it can. My first birth was long, and complicated, and we made decisions that, according to a scientific view, should have guaranteed my death. (I don’t recommend those choices, but I am grateful to be alive.)
Almost 2 years ago, our marriage was in crisis. Today, we are in love, and more importantly, we are best friends, because we believed that we could overcome the statistics, and that WE were worth fighting for.
Today, I believe that I can be whole, and healthy, and strong. I believe that God designed my body to heal, and to overcome challenges. I don’t care what the statistics show. I don’t care that the science claims that my illnesses are chronic and progressive. My experience has taught me that I am growing stronger every day. I have no reason to believe that I will stop healing. I believe that my Creator knows better than the scientists, no matter how well-meaning those scientists may be, and that if I earnestly seek YHWH’s wisdom, it will be given to me, including how to be whole.
Your reality is not my reality, and mine is not yours. But we all want to believe that our truth is The TRUTH. I see this all the time with my children. Two children, in the same place, doing the same thing, at the same time, and having the same conversation, will remember it in two different ways. They are BOTH telling the truth, because our reality is not objective. MOST of what they experience is actually their own thoughts and emotions during the event. They will argue endlessly for their point of view, because to them, it simply IS. Like my children, I would rather die fighting, and believing, than laying down, and settling for someone else’s reality. I have the maturity, however, to realize that mine is not the only reality. Reality is BIG.
Please, don’t bore me with facts. They are too small. The Truth is in the Story.
“You know, she doesn’t shave her legs…”
“What? I just wanted him to know what he’s getting into…”
This conversation happened just after my first official date with the man who became my husband roughly 6 months later. Needless to say, I was mortified.
In a way, I still am. Why is the state of my leg hair of such critical importance?
Because it is. In American culture, female hair is a really big deal. Just stop, for one moment, and think about just how much money and time goes into managing, or removing hair from various parts of the female anatomy. Mind-boggling, isn’t it?
Leg hair, as it turns out, is a big deal to me. A really big deal. God put it on me. Why should I be expected to remove it? But then, those Barbies I played with as a child had long, slender, monochromatic limbs, free from messy little growths. They shone. They were beautiful.
I have long, slender legs. With a good tan, they used to look quite a bit like Barbie legs. Now that I’m in my thirties, I am beginning to notice irritating imperfections, like stretch marks and little purple spider veins.
Wait a minute. Why am I even LOOKING at my legs? Ugh.
Because we all do. I watched a children’s movie tonight with my family, and I was stunned by the number of shots of women’s LEGS, smooth, hairless, slender, toned legs, that were displayed. Did I mention that this was a CHILDREN’s movie? Oh, how effectively my offspring are being indoctrinated.
It makes me angry.
Asa was right. When I met my husband, I didn’t shave my legs. My relationship with hair removal has been on-again, off-again. Literally.
At the ripe old age of 12, I started begging for the “right” to shave my legs. It was the way things were, according to the fashion magazines I read, the puckered and plucked women I saw on TV, and the pretty, popular girls in school.
But there were always the women who didn’t. And they fascinated me. How could a woman walk around, especially in a bathing suit, as I saw some do, with clearly visible leg and armpit hair? Where did they get such confidence? Where did they get such a counter-cultural self-image? Were they dirty? Didn’t they notice “everyone” staring?
When I left my hometown, I generally stopped seeing “hairy” women. And, over the years, I noticed that, when I was least confident, I was most groomed. During my most abusive dating relationship, I found myself obsessively concerned with always presenting a perfectly groomed, nearly hairless physique. It gave me pause. My feelings toward my leg and body hair reflected my feelings toward myself. By the time Aaron and I began dating, I had laid down my razor, and promised myself a level of self-acceptance that I was, frankly, incapable of maintaining.
You see, I was raised on Barbie, and 17 magazine. (I begged for them.) I grew up listening to completely sexualizing music. I wanted to see myself as something amazing, but deep down, a picture of myself as a mere sex object reigned.
So, when it was time to get married, I got out the wax. If I wax my legs, I’m not shaving, right? After wax, I tried an old-school, metal coil epilator, those little sandpaper pads that abrade hair off of your body, sugaring, harsh chemicals that burned the hair off, and more. I guess I was pretty worried about not being “enough.” You see, my husband was raised on those same images of femininity, the ones that demand a perfectly sculpted figure, smooth, flawless skin, and dear god, don’t grow hair anywhere but the top of your head, and your eyelashes. For those, absurdly long and thick would be best.
So, for the last 14 years or so, I’ve shaved, waxed, and plucked my way through life. My irritation with the entire concept of hair removal regularly rears its head, and my husband is stuck trying to snuggle up to a very prickly woman, as I let the shaving of my legs slip, again and again.
Recently, my family and I moved back to my hometown. And I am seeing hairy women, again. I see women with leg hair. I see women with armpit hair. I see women who are aging gracefully, with long, thick braids of hair, in their natural colors, shot through with white. I see fit, shapely, happy women, who are unashamed of the way their body was designed to behave.
I stare at them.
I stare at their legs, and try to decide if they’re beautiful, or horrifying. I stare at their armpits, and wonder, if I let mine go, how much would my own armpit hair show? And, would I get terrible body odor?
I stare at these women, and pray they don’t notice. I watch them with a fascination that might make some doubt my sexual orientation.
I don’t want to have sex with these women. I want to be one of them. But I’m afraid of the stares, probably of women like me. Women who are envious. Women whose addiction to a razor feels like a compromise of their true selves. Why should I have to spend hours a week removing the hair God put on my body?
And, what if I stop?
There are two women inside of me. One is an overcomer, who fights her way over and through any obstacle to seize victory and joy, wearing them as a breastplate and crown. The other is a pessimist, a conspiracy theorist, who thinks that the universe and everyone in it is against her. Every day, I carefully choose to feed the Overcomer, and starve the Pessimist.
Some people make the opposite choice, becoming more and more negative over time. Sometimes I wonder if part of starving my pessimist means asking them to knock it off, or leave me alone! Our companions shape us; we adopt their language, and their mannerisms. We become convinced of their worldview.
I’ve eliminated several human black holes from my life. I can’t withstand their energy and faith-sucking abilities. Others are on the block, awaiting the axe, because they JUST DON’T GET IT!
Here’s the deal. Every day, I see, hear, meet people who are AMAZING. They rise above their circumstances. They embrace the blessings that are reserved for those who overcome. They love, they laugh, and they cry. They press on.
And every day, I see blessed, healthy, intelligent people who have EVERYTHING, and still complain. They make me want to tear my ears off so I can’t hear them, to gouge my eyes out so that I can’t read their incessant moaning.
I appears to me that happiness, gratefulness and optimism are reserved for those who have endured.
The most sexually well-adjusted women I know, women who helped me to see my value and beauty, have endured marriages that ended due to their husbands’ infidelity. These women have overcome. I salute them.
I know cancer survivors, and people who live with devastating, chronic illnesses, who push themselves to run races, to climb mountains, and to dance. These friends have overcome. I salute them.
I know couples who have endured seasons of virtual hatred, of dead libidos, of bankruptcy, of extreme illness, and loved on. These couples have overcome. I salute them.
When I was younger, I did job training and oversight for handicapped individuals, and learned that those who fight the hardest for a job appreciate it the most. I worked in an assisted living facility, and learned that grateful people age gracefully, becoming more and more beautiful. Joyful people don’t age. They ripen.
All of these positive people amaze me. I want to be this amazing. And I think I’m on my way. I DEMAND it of myself. Failure is not an option.
I am the ultimate optimist. I’ve seen how bad life can get, so I know how good it really is. I had a teacher in high school once ask me, “Why do you compliment yourself?” to which I replied, “Well, I’m certainly not going to wait around for you to do it!” I had already learned that she was not an optimist. One should never wait around for something positive to come out of someone negative. It’s pointless.
And in case you think I’ve never suffered, think again.
I’ve been abandoned, orphaned, exported, rejected, abused, molested, assaulted, manipulated, and scorned. I’ve been chronically ill, perpetually malnourished, and clinically depressed. I was raised in a graceless, fatalistic religion, and taught that I wouldn’t live past the age of 24, because the Anti-Christ was going to take over the world any day now, and then Jesus would come rapture us all away in the year 2000. I’ve been slandered, and libeled, and misunderstood. I’ve internalized others’ hatred, and made it my own. I’ve pondered the headache relief offered by a bullet to the brain.*
But I choose to remember the positive, and to make it my future:
I’ve been protected, hidden, imported, accepted, hugged, kissed, rewarded, pleasured, and loved. I’ve found the key to my health, and been given the resources and skills to turn it. I was raised in a religion that taught me to read the Bible, and it turns out that all that other crap isn’t even in there. I’ve been praised, rewarded, and unconditionally supported. I’ve had endless opportunities presented to me, because other people saw untapped potential in me that I couldn’t even see in myself. I have overcome, and my life is blessed.
Your life is what you make it. Your challenges are steps to a brighter future. So, don’t whine at me when your legs hurt. At least you can climb!
I am alive, and I wouldn’t change a thing. Every positive thing you ever hear me say is a battle cry. This is me, demanding victory of myself, of my God, and of the Universe. Every setback has given me new growth to attain. To whom much is given, much is required. I figure that if God made me this strong, then She/He must have a really big job for me to do. Here’s to taking on LIFE, and that MORE ABUNDANTLY!
* This is not a current issue, at all. And yes, I promise to make sure my doctor reads this. It won’t be news to her.
Things are never what they seem. People tell you that, but what they fail to mention is that usually, things are better than they seem.
In the moment, it’s so easy to get discouraged. In the moment, it’s almost inevitable that I’ll get overwhelmed.
In the moment, I can only see about 1% of the total picture.
When will I learn to relax, and wait for the other 99% to unfold?
I know that I’d certainly live longer if I did!
So here’s to every challenge I’ve ever faced, and every disappointment I’ve ever mourned. Here’s to every snub, real or imagined. Here’s to the things that make me stronger. And here’s to the God who works them all out for my good.
Good morning, beautiful, messy, hard, vibrant, fulfilling life! What mountains shall we climb, today? And who’s coming with us?
(Note: This post has been modified, via the comments. Sometimes, things are much better than they seem! In my experience, this is USUALLY the case….)
I went to church this morning. Please forgive the jumbled blog post. I’m still recovering.
My family and I arrived an hour late, and then my “things must always be as I expect them to be” son had a near-total breakdown over the fact that our messy crate of McCall notebooks, pens, crayons, and child-amusing toys had disappeared from its former place in the back of the sanctuary.
I can’t blame anyone for removing the eyesore. We had been absent for months.
Going back, even for half a service, was much harder than I anticipated. I was clobbered by anxiety and fear as I combed my hair, and changed out of my Betty Boop, “Naughty Girls get Nice Gifts” t-shirt and short black skirt into jeans and a conservatively cut sweater. The sweater was, for the record, bright orange. I still had my spark, but not my sense of humor, it seems.
The fact is that I am afraid of church ladies.
There, I said it. That being said, I know that even feeling that way is a judgmental attitude on my part. The very label, “church ladies,” hearkens back to a not-nice-at-all SNL skit. And, the fact is that a couple of my dearest friends (women, even!) were there this morning, and they have continued to be my friends, and to maintain those relationships whether or not I show up to the same building that they do on Sunday mornings.
Our pastor hugged me, bright orange sweater and all. He would have hugged me in my Betty Boop T-shirt, I’m pretty sure. I’m also pretty sure that he would have been answering to some church ladies if he had. But, now I’m judging. Again.
I judge people whom I perceive as being judgmental, and this makes me judgmental. And then I judge myself. What a mess I turn out to be!
When we showed up, our pastor was preaching about who the Accuser of the Brethren is, and not being like him. He was encouraging humility, and being willing to get kicked in the teeth when you get down low, and humble yourself. He spoke about how often being a Christian in America seems to be all about accusing others, and how wrong that is. He encouraged us to love unconditionally.
A few people did reach out. I appreciated each one, and then a few of the ladies beat a hasty exit, refusing to even glance in my direction. I expected that, and coming in the first place was an act of humbling myself. This afternoon, my teeth hurt. There’s at least a chance that they each had a pressing engagement, and simply had to leave. But I’m a bit over-sensitive at church, and a smile and a wave on your way out the door doesn’t take any time at all.
The fact is, though, that they probably have no idea what an effort it is for me to show up on Sunday morning. They have no idea that they have the power to hurt me. They’re running to protect themselves. They run because my family’s continued absence has made them feel rejected, judged and scorned. At least, I’d like to believe that. It hurts less than the alternative theories I could manufacture.
I have a long history of making church ladies (and men) VERY uncomfortable.
As a teen whose physical dimensions resembled a Barbie Doll’s, I listened to my pastor rail against young women who tempt men with their bodies, and I learned to walk with my shoulders hunched. I learned to wear baggy clothes until I grew up and away from them.
As a recent college grad, with a degree in Classical Studies and Religion, I learned that “conservative” country churches don’t appreciate women who are educated, and have opinions. Especially about God, or childrearing.
As a young mother, I learned that nursing, even discreetly, at church will create such a maelstrom of gossip and upset amongst the women of a “liberal” church that the pastor will call you and explain that you are a terrifying woman, and you’d better stop hurting his sheep.
And as a new business-woman, who felt called to fight the colossal mess that sexual relationships and marriages in our culture and churches have become by fighting the Madonna-Whore complex with every ounce of my being, I discovered that my pastor is amazing. He’s not threatened by female sexuality, me, or what I do. He floors me.
And church ladies are still church ladies, because the face says, “we support you,” but the actions, and the several complaining calls to said pastor last summer say otherwise. Frankly, I don’t know how to respond. The women who are my friends outside of church are still that, and both their faces, and their actions agree.
“We love you.”
“We support you.”
I believe them. And I know that my pastor wants so desperately to see his whole church that way. He wants to believe that we are all loving, accepting, etc. He is NOT the Accuser of the Brethren. That’s certain. I’ve never met a more accepting, yet call-you-on-your-bullshit man in my life. And he says, “WE support you.” In my limited understanding, he’s the first pastor to really try. (Except for James Reist. Dr. Reist, who baptized our first son, is also amazing.)
I meet women every week, men too, who need someone like that in their lives. I need more people like that in my life. We all need to be loved unconditionally, and told to get our shit together, too. But the Sunday morning mask-fest, where we all pretend to be something we’re not, and complain to the pastor when someone steps out of line, is not the place to bring them.
I know that much of my discomfort at church is because, in a group so small, “several” complaining calls is significant. I know that much of it is because of my history in churches. And I know that maybe, just maybe, I am supposed to humble myself, and let them kick me in the teeth. Half of me wants to climb on stage and demand that they just get the stoning over with. (Except that I’m pretty sure things are split about down the middle, and I’d just be creating a rift so large that the community itself might disintegrate. Or maybe it’s egotism that makes me think that they care enough, either way.) The other half of me wants to run away, so that I don’t have to, once again, be the woman who makes people at church uncomfortable. None of me wants to put on my shiny happy mask, pretend that I enjoyed seeing everyone, and then call to complain to the pastor when I get home.
No, I didn’t enjoy church this morning. Yes, I could tell that my casual, honest comments to a couple of people felt like slaps in the face. The avoidance of others felt like a slap in my own. The whole experience inspired me to don my running shoes. (Of course, Aaron can be VERY persuasive. He got me to church this morning, and if he so chooses, he’ll get me there again, I’m sure.)
Yes, I knew that the friends whom I see away from church, too, were genuinely happy to see me. And my pastor gave me the world’s longest hug. He can feel me pulling back; he sees my family and I slipping away. I don’t know what to tell him. He’s doing all he can, but the entire institution of church in America seems to be at odds with him.
He’s right. Being the Accuser of the Brethren is the American way of Church. And I’m just as guilty as anyone else. I was raised in it, and I don’t know how to get free from it, except to stay away from church. But in doing so, I am judging those I leave behind. I’m deciding that they judge me. I haven’t asked them, either. As soon as the church ladies called the pastor, instead of me, I categorized them as people who don’t really love or accept me, at all. Judge not, that you be not judged? Yeah, I fail at that. Judgment, it seems, is a web, and we’re all caught in its sticky strands.
I need a sign. I need a big, flashing, neon sign over my head, that says, “Please do not feed the AmberDawn.” I’ve been poisoned twice in 12 days. Each glutening costs me a week of my life, so at the moment, I’m losing the majority of my days to pain and weakness. I’m about to file for a divorce from my once-true-love, food.
I love to eat. I love food. Not so very long ago, I categorized myself as a “foodie.” Cookbooks were my favorite reading material. I loved watching the Food network, but only at friends’ houses. I didn’t dare to get cable, because I knew I’d never leave the couch. The food porn would bind me there.
Two short years ago, I spent half of my day in the kitchen, concocting new, healthy recipes. I wrote a blog full of recipes. I was sought out by friends and acquaintances for advice on traditional foods, sources of local produce, dairy and meat. I headed up a group that imported barely-legal raw milk from a neighboring town, in glass, gallon jars. I was civilly disobedient, and opposed to all foods unnatural and unhealthy. I ranted against genetically modified crops, and the evils of the industrial food complex. I fermented my own kombucha, and my own sauerkraut. I ground my own, local wheat, and made beautiful, braided loaves of homemade sourdough bread for Shabbat.
The wonderful, healthy, nourishing food nearly killed me.
The day I finally figured out what was “wrong” with me, I was kneading my last-ever loaf of bread. As I prepared the dough, I felt myself grow weaker, and my head began to pound. I got dizzy, and confused. I called my doctor. I love my doctor. She is also my friend. She listens, and cares. “AmberDawn, you’re celiac….”
I had no idea what that meant. 18 months later, I’m getting an inkling.
Tonight, I’m accepting a new level of truth. I cannot eat your food. I know that you love me. I know that you are careful. I know that fidelity requires eating together, but I must refrain.
I realized, tonight, that this is not a matter of good manners, anymore. I cannot keep affirming my love for others by risking illness for myself. I’m beyond frustration. I’ve conquered self-loathing. I’m ready to love myself and others enough to say, “Please do NOT feed the AmberDawn.”
I deserve to be healthy, just for me, but I’m not making this decision for myself, alone. I am making it for my friends and relatives, who don’t deserve the pain or embarrassment of knowing that they slipped up and poisoned me. I’m making this decision for my children, who deserve to have a functional, loving mother, rather than a zombie.
I’m making this decision for my husband, who is right now doing dishes, while I lie on the couch. His burden is too heavy, tonight. I can tell that he’s frustrated, and more than a little afraid. In my strength, we’ve arranged our whole life to require two fully-engaged partners, who both work to support us, who both parent, who both clean. We’ve made decisions based on my strength, and he’s made space, professionally, for me to pursue my education and career.
I’m lying on the couch, because I can hardly sit up. We both deserve better than this. This problem can and will be prevented. I will no longer eat anything, unless I know that I know that I know that it is safe.
I can’t come to your house for dinner. I won’t share your snacks.
Perhaps I could interest you in a glass of wine? Tonight, I think it’s time to take a little for my stomach, and a decision to be healthy, and to choose true love over empty “manners” is worth drinking to. Cheers.
You have no idea what you have done for me. Your face is still lingering in my memory.
Regal, undeniably sexy, attractive even to me, you sat at my table. Your smile was knowing, your eyes had seen much. I wanted to sit at your feet, and soak up your wisdom.
Your shoulders were held back; your head was held high. You owned the room. Your clothing was subdued, yet spoke of quality, not fads. Your hair was softly curled around your smiling face. You had nothing left to prove.
All around us, young, vibrant girls of 19, and 25, perhaps, buzzed. Their clothing was the latest fashion. Their makeup was flawless. Their figures were without a roll or stretchmark. They looked one another up, then down, comparing. They fretted, smoothed, adjusted to hide each flaw.
And you smiled at me, knowing.
We were something beyond these children.
And your smile at me was an honor.
And you changed me.
You dear woman. I love you. I wish sincerely that I had asked you for your name, for your number. But perhaps I am wrong. You have done your work, here.
And you are not alone. You are joined by others, your fellow sages, who appear to me, silently, confidently, displaying the grace that comes with age and experience. I will never look back. Like you, I will age well, like a fine, red wine. My boldness transformed to richness and complexity.
Like Sophia Loren, and other gracefully aging beauties, you have given me a reason to look forward, not back. I cannot ever be those children, again. But someday, I hope to be one of you. I am eager for that day. The day that I, like you, become regal.
I am angry. This anger burns in me, feels like a lump in my throat, and a tremble in my core. I want to pick up the phone, and make a man cry. I want to make him sob with remorse. But he won’t. Calling him out on his lies will simply confirm his fear and hatred of women. He will wonder how my husband let me get so out of control.
He’s a liar, and a cheat. He’s an abuser, and an enabler. Tonight, I sincerely hate him, and I want to pray Psalms of vengeance at him. But I realize that this one man, this one Pastor, is just one of so very many. My anger at him is misdirected. He is WRONG, and I think he may, in fact, be evil. But he’s just a pawn. He believes his own lies. At least, Dear God in Heaven, I hope that he does, or his Evil is beyond my ability to understand.
In the Messiah’s time, Pastors were called Teachers of the law, or Pharisees. About them, he said:
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. –Matthew 23:4
I’ve never met this man. I do not know his name. It’s better for us both, this way.
I do know that women come to his church, and are bound in strips of legalism that tear their skin, that make them bleed until they are shells. I have watched one, vibrant woman slowly die before my eyes, assisted by her husband, supported by their pastor. I met another woman this past week into whom this pastor had just sunk his talons. Thanks to his influence, she had nearly violated her own restraining order against a dangerous man. I pray to God that I set her free. Please, dear God, don’t ever let her go back to that church!
Psalm 94 says:
20 Can a corrupt throne be allied with you—
one that brings on misery by its decrees?
These men, these pastors. Their teaching is corrupt. And I have watched them make women miserable all of my life!
Dear God! These men are why I can no longer call myself a Christian.
You brood of vipers! I will not identify myself with you! I will not follow your rules! I will NOT BE SILENT WHILE YOU CRUSH WOMEN’S SOULS!
Or in the words of Psalm 94, again:
1 O LORD, the God who avenges,
O God who avenges, shine forth.
2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth;
pay back to the proud what they deserve.
3 How long will the wicked, O LORD,
how long will the wicked be jubilant?
4 They pour out arrogant words;
all the evildoers are full of boasting.
5 They crush your people, O LORD;
they oppress your inheritance.
6 They slay the widow and the alien;
they murder the fatherless.
I do, I must hope and believe that there is a change on the horizon. That the men who beat women down, and bind them in self-hatred and fear for all of their lives will, finally, be exposed for the charlatans they don’t know that they are.
Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.–Psalm 94:15
But I cannot fight this battle by myself. I know that there are others, somewhere, who see this evil. Women who, like me, have seen the rampant infidelity rates among the clergy. Or, perhaps we should discuss the molestation?
Tonight, I’m mad because all of my life, I have watched and listened to Christian clergy support and enable abusive men. I have listened to them accuse and manipulate women into believing that they deserve to be abused, that they are Eve.
We are NOT EVE! We are Chavah! And I know, dear men in religious power, that your power is an addiction, and you’re afraid to let it go. That’s okay. Just keep telling abused women to go back to violent men. Keep lying to women about what scripture teaches, in order to secure your own, superior position in their eyes. Keep abusing that position. Just keep telling young girls that they are stumbling blocks. Make them ashamed of their beautiful curves. Just keep right on cheating on your wives, and convincing them it’s for their own good. I dare you. You have been given plenty of rope, and the noose has been forming for millennia.
I will tell them the truth. And we will rise. And Chavah will be revealed. The image of God was made flesh in TWO parts, male and FEMALE. Your religion is crippled, because you’re missing half of the picture. You’ve abandoned the Breasted one, the All-Sufficient, El Shaddai. She will be reflected. Women will see the image of God in the mirror, once again.
You can peddle your andro-centric view of Divinity for a little while longer, because this war is too big for me to win, alone.
Meanwhile, I wonder if anyone else sees. Even better, I wonder if anyone else is willing to fight. And I wonder, where are the true, courageous, good men, who could stand with us, and put a stop to the lies, once and for all?
Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?—from Psalm 94
Here are some, random, poetic thoughts on all of the things I don’t say.
Prose, you fail me.
Straight words would be too much.
This Truth is too sharp, too quick.
You will cut them.
Poetry, I call to you.
Your curves are luscious.
I long to sink into your softness.
You will comfort.
Death, I defy you.
Chains, you will break.
Fear, I bind you.
Cage, you are empty.
Life, I bring you.
Light, you will shine.
Freedom, I share you.
Path, you are mine.
Slowly, gently, I will undress you
And they will see
God, give me the patience
To savor that which I long to gulp.
I will drink of this cup
slowly, lest it return.
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While a teenager living in Tepia Declan Jalisco Mexico, Ike Tapia's lifelong dream was to be an American citizen and live the life of many opportunities.
"My dream was to have 3 dairies and I have 3 dairies if I sell two and then make one I don't care, I have 3 dairies," Tapia says.
In order to reach his destination here in America at the age of 17 there was many obstacles that, now Business Owner of Tapia Dairy's had to overcome.
"I feel proud, I don't eat for 2 days. I drank water, and I find 10 cents off the floor and I go buy 1 taco and I feel good and the lady gave me more to eat so you can, I cannot tell everything but you can see what I passed thru."
And that paid off for him in 1971 when Tapia became an American Citizen. Although he was born on the other side of the border, he calls this side of the border his home.
"I'm like the couple that gets a divorce, I like my mother and I like my father, what ever happens to United States it hurts my feelings whatever happened to Mexico it hurts my feelings but I see the two hands to. You see the problems in Mexico and US and your in between," Tapia says.
Problems of immigration that have led to many discussions across the Country.
"Right now, everybody knows, what's going on and they have to be, this is country #1 and they have to do #1 job to show the other countries respect and everything." "This stuff that makes the Country go down. I don't care what they figure out and how smart the people are, I'm not a man to smart, but I see a damage in my own business."
Damage including having a shortage on employees for his three dairies.
"They need the people to work and everything keep going, the right way and this country stay and they treat the people the right way."
Now almost 4 decades after completing his dream of living in the US, it's a feeling that he hopes others can one day experience.
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Miami Fans Mistakenly Chant "Let's Go Eat" During Playoff Game
His column today is about columns. Well, it starts off about monument designs and why they stink now. Seriously, who really sees the relative decline of monument esthetics as emblematic of what's wrong with America today? The music used to be better, too, David. Maybe that's the problem? Or maybe you're just wrong?
Whatever. Brooks thinks that monuments suck because Americans have become bad followers. Members of The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street (which Brooks incorrectly stands up as moral equivalents) don't "respect the authoritah" of their betters.
He really does say this.
"Then there is our fervent devotion to equality, to the notion that all people are equal and deserve equal recognition and respect. It’s hard in this frame of mind to define and celebrate greatness, to hold up others who are immeasurably superior to ourselves."
For one thing, we definitely celebrate greatness in this society. We celebrate great fortunes, such as those obtained by the celebrity billionaires who we defer to frequently on issues of politics and the economy. We celebrate great athletes. We celebrate great authors and musicians. Right now, in the back offices of Dag World Headquarters, blogger Donal is probably celebrating some accomplishment from Obscure Sports Quarterly. My own avatar features the greatest performer in professional wrestling of all time. Whoo!
But, no, David Brooks, I do not look to the current Supreme Court, to my congressional representative, to either of my Senators or to the President and think, "that person is immeasurably superior to me, I should do what they say."
This is not because I think I am a special snowflake, even though I do think that. It's also not that I think anything particularly bad about our leaders, be they elected, appointed or in the military. I just find very few of them to be "immeasurably superior to me." They are where they are through a combination of their efforts, abilities, interests and luck.
In my own life, I can try my best to define my interests, hone my abilities and try hard to achieve what I want to achieve. I cannot control my luck any more than the people that David Brooks thinks are "better" can. So long as their is luck in the equation, and nepotism and the opportunities at birth that some of us had and some of us didn't, there is no reason for anyone to genuflect to anyone else as "immeasurably superior."
I like Atrios. He has many more readers than I do. He can even blog for a living whereas Genghis pays me a mere $60,000 a quarter to write here (editors note: this is a lie). But I don't even think he's a better writer than I am. Sorry, Duncan Black! Except that I don't have to apologize because Black doesn't seek my adulation.
"I don’t know if America has a leadership problem; it certainly has a followership problem. Vast majorities of Americans don’t trust their institutions. That’s not mostly because our institutions perform much worse than they did in 1925 and 1955, when they were widely trusted. It’s mostly because more people are cynical and like to pretend that they are better than everything else around them. Vanity has more to do with rising distrust than anything else."
Obviously, I think this is utter nonsense. I think that people have lost faith in their governing institutions because their governing institutions have sold out to large corporate interests, allowed the people rather than the perpetrators to suffer the costs of a collapsing economy and, oh yes, was able to find money to invade Iraq but not to increase Social Security and Medicare benefits. Arrogance and vanity are not the issue here. The criminality and incompetence of the elites has, quite naturally, dimished their authority.
But there goes David Brooks, droning on about statues. Which, oddly enough, are graven images, something that the ultimate authority recognized by Brooks (but not me) seems to take issue with. But, hey, a better man than I am wouldn't joke about such things. | <urn:uuid:3973f376-6d94-4f50-bb6b-f9cb74b72590> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dagblog.com/politics/respect-your-betters-13965 | 2013-05-25T22:07:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973132 | 892 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Screwing up your orders and slinging attitude..
This is the review I wrote on the Wendy's website. Due to the unacceptable a$$-itude the "manager" showed me when I returned and asked her to make things right, I also successfully called the health department and got them inspected. Fortunately for her they didn't catch anything, but I'm sure it ruined her day and she hasn't heard the last from me yet.
When you or your employees JACK UP someone's order, you might want to be NICE and APOLOGETIC when they ask you to make it right.
On that Wednesday, I pulled through and ordered a Number 5 Single with NO cheese. The attendant at the speaker did not hear my order clearly (I feel he wasn't paying attention), so I repeated the order and again said "NO cheese". He repeated back no cheese, and sure enough after getting the order and driving some distance I pulled out the burger and it had cheese on it.
When you order something and say TWICE no cheese, and they repeat back no cheese, and then give you cheese, that is more than being careless, that is messing with people and their food. This location was not convenient to my normal travel route, therefore it wasn't convenient to come back until the following Monday, when I pulled through to the second window and was going to ask for a manager, but first I had to sit there (before even interacting with anyone at the window) for 10 (ten) minutes while 5 (five) different employees milled around, doing whatever, but refusing to look at me or help me. Of course this made me even angrier. Finally a young man opened the window and I asked for his manager, who he got. When the manager, a female African American lady (I have no problem with ethnicity, but I'm just identifying, as she didn't give me her name), heard my issue, she accused me of making it up because I didn't come right back after ordering, which I explained to her why I couldn't. To be fair she DID make me a replacement meal, but the attitude and accusing me of making something up WHEN I SHOWED HER THE RECEIPT is UNACCEPTABLE.
I am VERY angry at being accused of trying to get something for nothing. I have NEVER done that in my life and I RESENT your PIECE OF CRAP manager trying to get out of doing HER JOB and further, the way she is training her WHOLE staff to ignore customers at the window.
I DEMAND a district manager contact me at -redacted- to address her attitude and the careless attitude of her staff as well. I already got my free meal, but I want an apology for the insult to a PAYING customer who will NEVER be back to that location again.
I have spent HUNDREDS of dollars with Wendy's locations this past year and HOW DARE YOU TREAT ME LIKE THAT when I make a simple polite observation about a problem?!
Square burgers, chicken sandwiches and creamy desserts served in a homey setting..
Named after the daughter of amiable founder Dave Thomas, this Ohio-based chain is more inviting than your typical fast-food joint, thanks to comforting touches like carpeted floors, Tiffany-style lamps and plenty of foliage. The signature square burgers are made-to-order; chicken sandwiches are available grilled or fried. Thick fries, meaty chili and stuffed baked potatoes round out a menu that includes a cool, ultra-thick chocolate Frosty.
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Some initial concepting for a group of very smart people.
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I like where this is headed
this is so promising...
looks nice :)
Looks classy and professional.
Looking good, Craig!
@Bill S Kenney it's like a freight-train!
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From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum
Less than 10 hours after last night's MSNBC debate, Clinton joined First Lady Laura Bush and other leaders to discuss bipartisan legislation to ensure the continuation of historic preservation.
As First Lady, Clinton served as the founding chair of Save America Treasures. When the administration changed, First Lady Laura Bush continued the program while also creating Preserve America. Now, both the House and the Senate are working to turn the executive orders into permanent legislation. Clinton said the effort "represents the very best Washington can achieve."
Sen. Pete Domenici was optimistic, saying the bill will go through congress "rather quickly" and challenged the House to a race. Rep. Turner agreed to the race and said if the Senate beat the House, "That would be historic."
Although Clinton made no mention of the debate, co-sponsor Domenici did discuss it. "I watched the debate last night, and I wasn't sure you were going to get here today," the New Mexico Senator said to Clinton, eliciting laughter from the audience. "Because it was all about you, and you were teriffic."
Clinton later responded to the quick turn around. "It may have been a little difficult for me to get here," she said, "but I wouldn't have missed it. I look forward to passing the legislation, getting it to the President's desk, and passing it into law." | <urn:uuid:a4734aef-f696-4d03-8db0-6dbd2bc355d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2007/10/31/4438775-clinton-laura-bush-and-the-debate | 2013-05-25T21:54:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97722 | 290 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The doorbell’s chime announced the arrival of a tall handsome woman.
”It’s been a long time, Aoi.” she said.
Aoi clasped her hands on her mouth. “Setsuna! What are you doing here?!”
”Little business trip, so I decided to drop in to see how my pretty runaway ex is doing.” Setsuna slid into a seat by the counter. “So when will you bring your hot body back to Japan?”
”I’m not going back, I’m… already settled here.” Aoi stole a quick glance at Megumi.
Setsuna smirked. “Got yourself a cute little something, eh?” She leaned in and whispered in Aoi’s ear. “Do you really think she’ll ever be as rowdy in the bedroom as we were?”
Aoi backed away. “That’s none of your business. I broke up with you already, in case you forgot.”
Megumi collected the orders and walked up to Aoi. “Table 5 wants another serving of black tea, and table 7 wants genmaicha.”
”Oh thanks.” Aoi prepared and served the tea as Megumi gathered the ordered sweets.
”So you’re the girlfriend?” asked Setsuna.
”Um, yes.” said Megumi.
”You’re still a virgin, right? You have that innocent air around you.”
”That’s… personal.” Megumi walked away to server her customers. On her way back, Setsuna grabbed her and whispered in her ear.
”Let me tell you a little something about people like me and Aoi. Strange brains ferment sex like pickles. Someone like you will never, ever, be able to satisfy that wild beast in the bedroom like I can.”
Megumi dropped her tray to the floor.
”Megumi, what’s wrong?” Aoi asked as she picked up the tray.
”Hey I gotta go now, my hotel room and number are here. Come see me so we can catch up on old times.” Setsuna said as she handed Aoi a slip of paper.
Aoi slid it in her pocket. “Sure.”
Setsuna winked at Megumi then pulled Aoi in for a kiss, forcing her tongue into Aoi’s mouth before she could react. She gave Aoi’s butt cheeks a squeeze with her hand. “A little goodbye present for your sex-starved body.” She said before quickly leaving for her meeting.
Aoi’s chest pounded as she ran into the bathroom. She washed her mouth and clutched the sink as she bent over, her body hot and aching. She tried not to admit it, but she knew that she craved for sex these past two years. Why, she thought, why does my body have to betray Megumi like this? She slid to the floor, reaching a hand up her skirt.
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This lesson employs bubbles to observe changing wind speeds and directions
Title – Bubbles in the Wind
By – Lindsey Lentz
Primary Subject – Science
Grade Level – 1-2
Concept/Topic – Bubbles and Air
National Science Education Standards
- Chapter 6: Science Content Standards
- Grade Level: K-4
- Content Standard A: Science as Inquiry: As a result of activities in grades K-4, all students should develop abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- 1) Detail: ASK A QUESTION ABOUT OBJECTS, ORGANISMS, AND EVENTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT. This aspect of the standard emphasizes students asking questions that they can answer with scientific knowledge, combined with their own observations. Students should answer their questions by seeking information from reliable sources of scientific information and from their own observations and investigations.
- 2) Detail: USE DATA TO CONSTRUCT A REASONABLE EXPLANATION. This aspect of the standard emphasizes the students’ thinking as they use data to formulate explanations. Even at the earliest grade levels, students should learn what constitutes evidence and judge the merits or strength of the data and information that will be used to make explanations. After students propose an explanation, they will appeal to the knowledge and evidence they obtained to support their explanations. Students should check their explanations against scientific knowledge, experiences, and observations of others.
- 3) Detail: COMMUNICATE INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS. Students should begin developing the abilities to communicate, critique, and analyze their work and the work of other students. This communication might be spoken or drawn as well as written.
- PA- Pennsylvania Academic Standards
- Subject 3: Science and Technology
- Area 3.2: Inquiry and Design
- Grade by: Grade 4
- Standard C.: Recognize and use the elements of scientific inquiry to solve problems.
- Generate questions about objects, organisms and/ or events that can be answered through scientific investigations. .
- Conduct an experiment.
- State a conclusion that is consistent with the information
Specific Objectives: The student will:
- (1) discover what is inside of a bubble.
- (2) define that wind is moving air
- (3) explain verbally how a bubble can show the changing direction and/or speed of the wind.
- For each student:
- 1 plastic cup, 5-6 oz.
- 1 plastic bubble wand
- 1 paper towel
- For the class:
- 1 tub to carry the cups
- Bubble solution made up ahead of time (can be up to one week):
- 8 cups water
- ½ cup liquid dishwashing detergent
- 3 tsp. light corn syrup or glycerin
- Put all ingredients into a bottle and swirls do not shake
- 1) Gather the students onto the rug. Tell them that today they will continue to explore air.
- 2) The teacher will pour some bubble solution into a plastic cup. Then hold up the bubble solution and wand. Ask the students how they might use these two things together.
- 3) Blow a bubble and ask the students what happens to the bubble after it is blown.
Establish: Tell the students that they will be going outside to explore bubbles more. Warn the students not to blow bubbles onto each other. Tell them the boundaries of where the exploring is to take place. Have them line up to go outside. Be sure to take all the needs materials outside with you. Once outside place the materials on the ground and move on to the explore phase.
Explore: Once outside the teacher will ask to students is they can feel the air on their faces or hands. Also the teacher will ask the students to tell where else the air is blowing. The teacher then passes out the wands and bubble solution and allow the students time to make discoveries about the air and bubbles (about 5-10 minutes).
- (1) Once the exploration has occurred the teacher will explain to the students that bubbles are filled with air.
- (2) The teacher will then ask the students if they know the term for air that is blowing (the definition of wind).
- (3) Finally the teacher will tell the students that bubbles show us which way and how fast the air is moving by which way and how fast the bubble goes.(This is a perfect time to review the directions of North, South, East, and West).
Enrich: It was not until the beginning of the 20th (1900-1909) century that bubbles were first sold as toys.
- 1) Have the students explore how a bubble can show if air moves around corners.
- (2) Next, have the students show using their bubbles where the air is moving fast or slow.
- (3) Finally, have the students explore with their bubbles if air moves in a doorway.
- (4) The students will then return all materials back into the tub.
- (1) After the employ phase is complete have the students line back up to go inside. Once inside gather the students back to the rug for evaluation.
- (2) The teacher will ask the students what new terms need to be added to the word bank.
- (3) The teacher will then add the terms bubble and wind to the class word bank along with any other word(s) the students feel should be added.
- (4) The teacher will then ask three questions:
- (1) What is inside of a bubble?
- (2) What is air that is moving or blowing?
- (3) How do bubbles show the changes in air?
- (4) The teacher will record the students’ answers onto the What We Learned chart.
End: The teacher will hang both charts back up on the board and go over all the air related terms that the students have learned so far. The teacher will also review what the students have just explored and learned. Finally, the teacher will answer any student questions that still remain.
- 1) Have the students experiment in groups about what happens to bubbles when they land on different objects or surfaces. Which objects or surfaces make the bubble pop and which do not. Have the students write or draw their answers.
- 2) Have the students write one or two sentences and draw a picture of what they would see or do if they were a bubble blowing in the wind.
- 3) If time allows have the students go to the website:
- 4) FOSS Kit on Air and Weather: Investigation 3: Wind Explorations, Part: 1 Bubbles in the Wind p.8-11 Lawrence Hall of Science, The Regents of the University of California copyright 2002
What Happened to your bubble?
Experiment with your partner, by blowing bubbles onto different surfaces: grass, clothing, your arm, etc. Then write which surfaces popped the bubbles and which did not under the correct categories.
|Did Pop||Didn’t Pop|
What would you do?
Pretend that you are a bubble write two sentences, 1) is about what you would do. 2) The second is about what you would see. Underneath your sentences draw a picture of what you would do or see.
If I were a bubble I would
If I were a bubble I would see
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[Sca-cooks] Preserving peaches
johnnae at mac.com
Tue Aug 25 19:05:35 PDT 2009
Of course the Herball could be looked up and used in this edition
/The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde
of London Master in Chirurgerie/, Imprinted at London : by [Edm.
Bollifant for [Bonham Norton and] Iohn Norton, 1597.
but it's late and it's much easier to just look up, cut and paste from
the 1633 when it's this late.
Since I am still online with the university, I just took a look under
"peach" and "cookery" and came up with
this one recipe from Dawson's 1587 The good husvvifes ievvell.
To make all maner of fruit Tartes.
YOu must boile your fruite, whether it be apple, cherie, peach, damson,
peare, Mulberie, or codling, in faire water, and when they be boyled
inough, put them into a bowle, and bruse them with a ladle, and when
they be cold, straine them, and put in red wine or claret wine, and so
season it with suger, sinamom and ginger.
There are a few more indexed under peach at medievalcookery.com
David Walddon wrote:
> For an earlier take there is always De Honesta.
> These two "recipes" come from the first five books so are not included in
> Martino, etc.
> BK2 #12 De Persico Preserved Fresh Peaches. To keep fresh peaches bringe
> them overnight, remove them from the brine, place in a jar with salt,
> vinegar and savory.
> BK2 #12 De Persico Peaches in Wine. Cut them in pieces and cook, or soften
> them in wine. Serve as a final course following roasted meat.
> On 8/25/09 6:27 PM, "Johnna Holloway" <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:
> I took a look at the 1633 edition of The herball or Generall historie of
> plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London.
> It's the one online so it's easy to use. He lists in Chapter 94 the
> following kinds:
> Jennifer Carlson wrote:
>>> If I were to try using ingredients closer to those of the time period of the
>>> recipe, what varieties of peaches and what wines would be appropriate
>>> In servicio et humilitate,Talana
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On Mar 14, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> While I'm certainly in favor of going back to an ant-based build
> system, another solution to this problem might be hardcoding specific
> plugin versions in maven as stated by Dain.
Yeah ... it is just that something happens once a week at least.
Really tired of broken builds, Eclipse Maven plugin breaking command-
line Maven and vice versa, developer complaints and an unknown number
of people who are discouraged to contribute to Cayenne because they
can't build it. Some time back I posted a list of reasons why we
would want to stay on Maven, but my patience with this technology is
running thin. The voice of reason tells me that we have to stick with
the crap build system we've got (and maybe I'll listen this time),
but sometimes I just can't hold it :-/
Whatever we do, it has to be done on a branch first of course, and
there will be a maven component to it (at least for cayenne cgen+
maven plugin). So this promises to be fun already.
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Technology Showcase: Power Conditioners
May 5, 2009 10:20 AM, By Kent Morris
New solutions offer better control of AC line noise, surges, spikes, and voltage fluctuations.
High-end home-theater systems require extensive power protection. For this, Panamax offers the Max 7500-Pro. The 7500-Pro contains a 720VA isolation transformer designed to deliver proper power to digital displays and their source drivers. It features a mechanically oriented ground-loop isolator, and it is IP-addressable for use in automation systems as well as to provide remote diagnostics capability. Automatic voltage monitoring, voltage regulation, and balanced power round out the performance aspects and complement features such as autodimming meters and DC trigger inputs and outputs. There are 11 outlets: six switched, two high-current, one front-panel, and two continuous.
Phonic brings the rackmounted PPC8000 to the market with an eye toward uncluttered lines. Its front panel is populated with twin pull-out lighting tubes, a dimmer pot and on/off switch, an unswitched outlet, an illuminated power control, and a resettable circuit breaker. For the rear, there are eight AC outlets grouped into four pairs. Conditioning and protection consists of a triple-mode varistor along with RFI and EMI filtering.
PS Audio has introduced what it claims is the world’s first no-setup network-addressable power conditioner: the Power Play 8000. With three zones of control, the product allows control of any connected device from any Internet appliance. The Power Play 8000 does not require a static IP address, and it can respond to any web-enabled device thanks to the industry’s first use of a cloud computing structure. Remote restart is a given via the 10 filtered outlets, in addition to power up/down and status indication. A logical graphical calendar is used to schedule power times, and the built-in autoreboot function means it can monitor the Internet connection and restart the connected modem or router when the connection fails. Spike protection, surge suppression, and over/under voltage control are included, as are common-mode and differential-mode AC cleaning.
The latest power product from Raxxess is the PD-800VM, a rackmounted conditioner with an LED voltage display, a pair of dimmable tube extension lamps, and a front-panel unswitched outlet. It provides an extended 12ft. main lines cable, a front-mounted circuit breaker, spike and surge protection, and RFI/EMI filtering. The rear has unevenly spaced outlets to accommodate various plugs. The entire unit is wrapped in steel with a powder-coated, cold-rolled faceplate.
Richard Gray’s Power Company (RGPC) products highlight its patented parallel-power delivery system with its control over delivered current and elimination of devices between the power source and connected equipment. The RGPC 600 RM Pro is a 2RU product with six outlets on the rear plus a front outlet. It is designed to power a typical midsize home theater and improve its performance. Twin banks of triggered low-voltage outlets allow for power switching, while the included TV Guard extends protection to the coax cable.
Though it’s not as visually appealing as other conditioners in the lineup, the Rotel RLC-900 delivers plenty of power and protection. With a rear panel divided into zones by types of connected component, the RLC-900 can sequentially power a system correctly without the need for elaborate external measures. Considerable thought has been given to appropriate filtering and isolation, making the RLC-900 a contendereven among its more attractive brethren.
Samson Technologies’ PowerBrite PB15 Pro brings cool-touch, long-life LED lamps to the table along with surge protection, peak-voltage-spike clamping, and RFI/EMI filtering. The PB15 also features rear-rack lighting through its built-in and adjustable LED gooseneck lamp. Nine outlets, eight rear and one front, are available up to a maximum of 15 amps.
SurgeX has a solid reputation for power protection, and its SX1115-RT continues the theme by employing the company’s patented Series Mode technologywhich is designed to withstand multiple surges and do so without ground contamination. The SX1115-RT is a 15-amp, 1RU system capable of remote control in larger power distribution schemes. Its switched outlets can be controlled either through low voltage or contact closure, and it can also be interfaced with the SurgeX SEQ sequential controller. Protection includes impendence-tolerant EMI/RFI filtering, Inrush Current Elimination (ICE), and Catastrophic Over/Under Voltage Shutdown (COUVS)out-of-range voltage self-removal.
Tripp Lite’s rackmountable LCR2400 adjusts to varying line-voltage swings to provide a steady supply of useable power. In fact, the LCR2400 can provide 120V from a low of 89V to a high of 147V. As a full 20-amp model, it has the ability to control a midsize system on its own, and it features seven diagnostic LEDs for status indication and a full complement of surge- and spike-protection circuits.
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Luke Sharrett/The New York TimesThe University of Alabama football team met President Obama at the White House on Monday.
After returning from a health care speech near Philadelphia on Monday, President Obama greeted members of the University of Alabama football team, the national champions for the 2009 season.
He joked that his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, a fan of rival Auburn University, wasn’t there because he was hiding in his office. And he declined to don a helmet handed to him, saying it would ruin his hair. He then tossed it to his aide Reggie Love.
Among those in the audience were Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions, both Republicans of Alabama, and the surgeon general, Regina Benjamin.
Mr. Obama also thanked the team for going to an inner-city school in Washington earlier in the day to talk to students about staying in school.
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, two of the strongest Republican critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attack, offered support nonetheless for the nomination of Victoria Nuland, who helped edit the much-disputed talking points about the incident.
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6/06/04 Punta Mona, Costa Rica
Acappella Rapping as performed by Los Chaperone's with dance steps!!!!
Things You've Heard Before.
Refrain: hey, hey, guys, guys, girls, 2 strikes, clean the bus, do you owe me money?
Patrick: don't grope, wash your hands, don't throw food, sit down, be quiet, no free time for you!
Annette: listen up, pay attention, Per and Nick don't mumble, speak up, hold hands, join the circle pronto.
Diana: where are your shoes dude? sunblock, bug stuff, come back James!, hurry up, pack up, get on the bus, and don't call me dude.
Janet: SHHHH..., that's rude, be quiet, don't run, can't have fun, who's there?, lights out, no TV, I'm just doing my job.
All: Hey teens you know we love you.
And here the journal ends....the above was, as you can guess, performed as part of a talent show the last afternoon. I am happy to report that we managed to keep the beat and our dance steps were totally synchronized. As to the rest of the trip I'll continue with the best memory can serve. I can't leave me stranded in Punta Mona.
During the talent show and after, much was made of the students by the staff of PM and our tour guides Zack and Mel. Although I know it is a bolstering up of the young, I feel like a worn out shoe, ready to be discarded. We have been taking turns helping to make dinner. This last day it is our group's turn. Salads were always present at PM. They consisted of an interesting mix of foliage, none of which would be recognizable stateside. Indeed a common ingredient were the leaves of the leaves of a tree that bordered the path down to the beach. There is something made with peppers being assembled and one of the PM cooks makes the mistake of wiping her face with her peppery hand. She starts to cry, almost screaming, they try to wash off the pepper juice with water. Janet, who is a nurse and who is usually taking a nap is roused, she suggests cold water, which already hasn't worked. I remember something and tell them to try a dairy product, any dairy product. Some cream goes on her face and the tears stop.
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Enfield is London's northernmost borough and was created in 1965 when the old Boroughs of Enfield, Southgate and Edmonton were amalgamated. Enfield is bordered by the boroughs of Barnet, Haringey and Waltham Forest.
In the early 19th century the Enfield area was rural and agricultural. Enfield itself was a small Middlesex market town. As London's railway network grew in the 19th and 20th centuries, the land became urbanised and Enfield became a commuting suburb.
Despite its residential character, only one third of the borough's land was built over, the rest remaining either Green Belt or open spaces. There are 15 designated conservation areas in the borough, including Trent Park and Grange Park. Enfield's industry was traditionally located around Enfield Lock on the river Lea. Despite the closure of many local firms during the 1970s, there were still 220 factories in the borough at the end of the 20th century.
Enfield's industrial history in the 20th century has been dominated by arms manufacture. The government built a Royal Small Arms factory at Enfield Lock in 1815, and it became the main manufacturing site for the British Army's infantry weapons, particularly the 'Lee Enfield' rifle.
The early years of the 20th century saw a massive expansion in the factory's capabilities. An improved version of the Lee Enfield was introduced in 1907 and production increased enormously during the First World War. During the Second World War, additions to the Royal Ordnance works included a large munitions factory at Ponders End. Arms manufacturing came to an end in Enfield in 1989. The land was sold off and a large housing estate built on the site.
Places in Enfield
Local government wards:
Bush Hill Park, Edmonton Green, Haselbury, Jubilee, Lower Edmonton, Palmers Green, Upper Edmonton, Chase, Enfield Highway, Enfield Lock, Ponders End, Southbury, Town, Turley Street, Bowes, Cockfosters, Grange, Highlands, Southgate, Southgate Green and Winchmore Hill.
Railway and Tube stations:
Angel Road, Arnos Grove, Brimsdown, Bounds Green, Ponders End, Turkey Street, Enfield Lock, Enfield Chase, Gordon Hill, Enfield Town, Winchmore Hill, Edmonton Green, Cockfosters, Oakwood, Southgate, Hadley Wood, Palmers Green, Silver Street, New Southgate, Grange Park, Crews Hill.
What are these?
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The Maharashtra government is shifting to an electronic office format. This week saw the first inter-department transfer of paperless files. The state government has set a target of January 1, 2013 for all departments to shift to the electronic platform.
The process of shifting to a digital workstation with modules for e-files, e-tour, knowledge management systems, acts, policies, government resolutions and project management systems was begun after the fire that devastated Mantralaya in June. The IT department, chief minister’s secretariat and chief secretary’s office already access paperless files. Early this week, using the e-office digital work station, the minutes of the annual general body meeting of the committee regarding Setu centres in the state were electronically transferred to chief secretary, JK Banthia.
The transfer “has done away with the need for intermediaries like clerks and problems like files not being found,” according to an official who spoke to DNA.
“Physical files will be phased out and files will be electronic,” said state information technology secretary, Rajesh Aggarwal. IT department officials said the deadline of January 1, 2013 can be achieved “to a large extent.”
The National Rural Health Mission’s office was the first in Maharashtra to shift to NIC’s e-office platform. The Governor’s office too has moved to NIC’s platform. District and tehsil level offices will be taken up next. The government is in the process of identifying a couple of directorates in Pune who will work towards transitioning the Sindhudurg district collectorate and zilla parishad and the Nandurbar district collectorate. | <urn:uuid:4c4b7749-f886-4959-9e3f-40041751a2b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/1769123/report-finally-mantralaya-shifts-to-e-file-format | 2013-05-25T22:01:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932804 | 351 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Wal-Mart, the largest seller of DVDs in the United States, will launch its highly-anticipated movie download service later today.
A beta version of the their online video store is expected to begin sometime this morning with at least 3,000 films and TV shows. All major movie studios will participate, although Fox is the only TV network that will be included at launch.
Wal-Mart has a lot of clout when it comes to negotiating wholesale rates and retail prices are expected to be slightly lower than those typically charged by other movie download services.
This will be a download-only service (no rentals) and it'll be compatible with the Windows operating system. You can watch the digital content on a PC or transfer it to any player that uses Microsoft DRM software. (Sorry, folks... that means that once again, we have to tell you that this won't be compatible with iPods. Or Macs, for that matter.)
You won't be able to burn a DVD, either, at least not initially. But we imagine they're working on it.
More details as they become known...
[Popular: George W. Bush's Netflix Queue]
Update: The New York Times offers these additional facts...
Download prices will be $12.88 to $19.88 on the day of the DVD release; older movies will start at $7.50 and TV shows at $1.96 an episode.
Wal-Mart said its prices would be competitive, and a quick scan of a major rival, CinemaNow, suggested the prices would be relatively close. A download of “Superman Returns” cost $14.88 on Walmart.com yesterday versus $14.95 on Cinema Now.
To avoid running afoul of studios, who want to protect their DVD business, Wal-Mart said the price of a digital movie would be comparable to that of the DVD at its stores.
Update: Curiously, as of 6:00 AM this morning, there's still no press release at the Wal-Mart corporate site.
Update: The service is up, or at least it's trying its best. The servers must be overloaded; as of 9:17 AM this morning, we can see the teaser announcements on the front page of the site, as well as on the "movies" page, but when we click through, we get improperly an informally formatted page... screenshot after the jump.
Update: Well, we were able to track down a press release, but it contained little we hadn't already been able to suss out on our own. It does feature this standard-issue quote from Kevin Swint, Wal-Mart's divisional merchandise manager for digital media
"This marks a significant step for Wal-Mart in home video, and enables us to better serve our customers as they begin to complement their DVD purchases with downloading of digital video content."
"With thousands of movie and TV titles now available for download, coupled with the strength of our successful physical DVD business, this is an unprecedented offering of video content, features and capabilities currently unmatched in the market. Also, we're excited to launch a service that has the support of all the major Hollywood studios."
They also confirm the full list of participating studios: Fox, Disney, Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner, along with TV shows from Comedy Central, CW, FOX, FOX Reality, 20th Century Fox Television Classics, Fuel TV, FX, Logo, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., SPEED, The N, VH1, and Warner Bros.
And they talk about their partnership with HP and how their design for the new download service will absolutely knock our socks off.
The press release, of course, contains a link to the service, which as of 10:35 this morning was still not working. Perhaps they should rethink their highly touted relationship with HP. In this 24/7 press cycle, it'll only be a matter of another half hour or so during which the positive coverage will turn unfavorable and everyone will start talking about how the service failed right out of the gate.
We expect another press release within a couple of days talking about how the response to their new service was overwhelming, but that they've now worked the kinks out and would like us all to come back to kick the tires.
Yet another in a continuing series of Updates: Well, this should explain everything: Frank Barnako reports over at MarketWatch that "Walmart.com's new video download service doesn't work for the millions of people who use the Firefox browser."
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The facts in the following case come to me by letter from a young lady who lives in the beautiful cily of San José; she is perfectly unknown to me, and simply signs herself "Aurelia Maria," which may possibly be a fictitious name. But no matter, the poor girl is almost heart-broken by the misfortunes she has undergone, and so confused by the conflicting counsels of misguided friends and insidious enemies, that she does not know what course to pursue in order to extricate herself from the web of difficulties in which she seems almost hopelessly involved. In this dilemma she turns to me for help, and supplicates for my guidance and instruction with a moving eloquence that would touch the heart of a statue. Hear her sad story:
She says that when she was sixteen years old she met and loved, with all the devotion of a passionate nature, a young man from New-Jersey, named Williamson Breckinridge Caruthers, who was some six years her senior. They were engaged, with the free consent of their friends and relatives, and for a time it seemed as if their career was destined to be characterized by an immunity from sorrow beyond the usual lot of humanity. But at last the tide of fortune turned; young Caruthers became infected with small-pox of the most virulent type, and when he recovered from his illness, his face was pitted like a waffle-mould and his comeliness gone forever. Aurelia thought to break off the engagement at first, but pity for her unfortunate lover caused her to postpone the marriage-day for a season, and give him another trial.
The very day before the wedding was to have taken place, Breckinridge, while absorbed in watching the flight of a balloon, walked into a well and fractured one of his legs, and it had to be taken off above the knee. Again Aurelia was moved to break the engagement, but again love triumphed, and she set the day forward and gave him another chance to reform.
And again misfortune overtook the unhappy youth. He lost one arm by the premature discharge of a Fourth-of-July cannon, and within three months he got the other pulled out by a carding-machine. Aurelia`s heart was almost crushed by these latter calamities. She could not but be deeply grieved to see her lover passing from her by piecemeal, feeling, as she did, that he could not last forever under this disastrous process of reduction, yet knowing of no way to stop its dreadful career, and in her tearful despair she almost regretted, like brokers who hold on and lose, that she had not taken him at first, before he had suffered such an alarming depreciation. Still, her brave soul bore her up, and she resolved to bear with her friend`s unnatural disposition yet a little longer.
Again the wedding-day approached, and again disappointment overshadowed it: Caruthers fell ill with the erysipelas, and lost the use of one of his eyes entirely. The friends and relatives of the bride, considering that she had already put up with more than could reasonably be expected of her, now came forward and insisted that the match should be broken off; but after wavering awhile, Aurelia, with a generous spirit which did her credit, said she had reflected calmly upon the matter, and could not discover that Breckinridge was to blame.
So she extended the time once more, and he broke his other leg.
It was a sad day for the poor girl when she saw the surgeons reverently bearing away the sack whose uses she had learned by previous experience, and her heart told her the bitter truth that some more of her lover was gone. She felt that the field of her affections was growing more and more circumscribed every day, but once more she frowned down her relatives and renewed her betrothal.
Shortly before the time set for the nuptials another disaster occurred. There was but one man scalped by the Owens River Indians last year. That man was Williamson Breckinridge Caruthers, of New-Jersey. He was hurrying home with happiness in his heart, when he lost his hair forever, and in that hour of bitterness he almost cursed the mistaken mercy that had spared his head.
At last Aurelia is in serious perplexity as to what she ought to do. She still loves her Breckinridge, she writes, with true womanly feeling -- she still loves what is left of him -- but her parents are bitterly opposed to the match, because he has no property and is disabled from working, and she has not sufficient means to support both comfortably. "Now, what should she do?" she asks with painful and anxious solicitude.
It is a delicate question; it is one which involves the lifelong happiness of a woman, and that of nearly two thirds of a man, and I feel that it would be assuming too great a responsibility to do more than make a mere suggestion in the case. How would it do to build to him? If Aurelia can afford the expense, let her furnish her mutilated lover with wooden arms and wooden legs, and a glass eye and a wig, and give him another show; give him ninety days, without grace, and if he does not break his neck in the mean time, marry him and take the chances. It does not seem to me that there is much risk, any way, Aurelia, because if he sticks to his infernal propensity for damaging himself every time he sees a good opportunity, his next experiment is bound to finish him, and then you are all right, you know, married or single. If married, the wooden legs and such other valuables as he may possess, revert to the widow, and you see you sustain no actual loss save the cherished fragment of a noble but most unfortunate husband, who honestly strove to do right, but whose extraordinary instincts were against him. Try it, Maria! I have thought the matter over carefully and well, and it is the only chance I see for you. It would have been a happy conceit on the part of Caruthers if he had started with his neck and broken that first; but since he has seen fit to choose a different policy and string himself out as long as possible, I do not think we ought to upbraid him for it if he has enjoyed it. We must do the best we can under the circumstances, and try not to feel exasperated at him. | <urn:uuid:b823ceec-3faa-46e5-bfb1-bb06f7860f2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fairytalescollection.com/MarkTwain/AureliasUnfortunateYoungMan.aspx | 2013-05-25T22:13:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98774 | 1,336 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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HQ 0555716 - CBI eligibility of gold necklaces from the Bahamas; 071788, 555210; Azteca Milling v. United States.
HQ 0555719 - Country of origin determination and GSP or CBI eligibility for surgical towels from Barbados.
HQ 0555724 - Applicability of duty exemption available under HTSUS subheading 9802.00.50 to airbag sensors re-labeled and tested.Alteration; 055053; 058662; 063112; 200136; T.D. 56320(1); 071159; 554996
HQ 0555727 - Duty-free treatment under GSP of sound amplifiers, intermittent windshield wiper governors, and speed control amplifiers. C.S.D. 85-25; Texas Instruments, Inc. v. U.S.
HQ 0555730 - Girls' t-shirts.U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area Agreement; substantial transformation; 35% value-content requirement; 731036; 086229; 555489; 555379; marking; quota
HQ 0555731 - Applicability of partial duty exemption under HTSUS subhead- ing 9802.00.60 to steel test plates. Rolling steel slabs into plates and subjecting them to an "accelerated cooled and direct quench" and other processing (shot blasting, heat treatment) abroad and variously cutting the returned plates into test specimens when returned to the U.S. constitute "further processing."555701
HQ 0555732 - Applicability of partial duty exemption under HTSUS subhead- ing 9802.00.80 to various spiral wound subassemblies and spiral wound gaskets from Mexico.Bending;slitting;forming; further fabrication;compression rings;C.S.D. 90-27; incidental operations;19 CFR 10.16(c);significant processing
HQ 0555734 - Quilted bedspreads created by sewing fabric pieces together with various types of stitches.Assembly; incidental operations; cutting to length; Mast; L'Eggs; substantial transformation
HQ 0555736 - Steel strip subjected to pickling, cold-rolling, and galvanizing operations in Guam. General Note 3(a)(iv), HTSUS; insular possession; substantial transformation; Ferrostaal
HQ 0555740 - Applicability of a partial duty exemption for herbicide; 19 CFR 10.8; 076499; Burstrom; Guardian; Dolliff
HQ 0555744 - Applicability of partial duty exemption under HTSUS subhead- ing 9802.00.50 to bundles of synthetic, man-made, tapered nylon bristles tipped and/or flagged and variously dyed in Mexico to be used in the manufacture of paint brushes. Alterations;multiple operations;Dolliff & Company, Inc (1979);Guardian Industries Corp (1982);C.J. Tower & Sons of Niagara, Inc. (1960);Royal Bead Novelty Co. (1972);555124; T.D. 56462(2);555478;T.D. 70-76(1);USITC publications.
HQ 0555750 - CBERA eligibility of medical products from the Dominican Republic or Costa Rica
HQ 0555751 - Applicability of partial duty exemption under HTSUS subhead- ing 9802.00.60 to golf club heads from Mexico.C.S.D. 84-49; machining;plating;555562;Intelex;reaming;minor operation; 555127;555165;086289
HQ 0555760 - Tariff treatment and country of origin marking requirements applicable to embroidered t-shirts.Alteration; 078245; 555021; 555249; 554371; country of origin; marking; 19 CFR 12.130(c)
HQ 0555763 - Tariff treatment and country of origin marking requirements applicable to double walled pipe sections created by pressing, forming and welding in Mexico.Further fabrication; assembly; substantial transformation; 555532; 055684 ; T.D. 86-15; 087434 modified
HQ 0555765 - Applicability of subheading 9802.00.80, HTSUS, to pillow block assemblies created by forming, fitting, screwing and gluing or riveting.Assembly; 19 CFR 10.16(a)
HQ 0555766 - Fabric from Canada.Coating; cutting; advanced in value; improved in condition; alteration; 554883; assembly; 555499; 554357; 554416; 554577; 067533
HQ 0555772 - Appliance parts created by injection molding compound in Mexico.Alteration; manufacturing process; GSP; double substantial transformation; 055611; 051198; 555149; direct costs
HQ 0555774 - Substantial transformation of Japanese wire by cutting to length and crimping operations performed in the U.S.19 CFR 10.12(e); 19 CFR 10.14(b); 055526; 067824; 723135; 731953; Anheuser-Bush; Timex; Superior Wire; National Juice
HQ 0555778 - VHS cassettes created by duplicating master tapes onto blank magnetic tape rolls and loading the duplicated tape into an empty VHS cassette case. CBERA; substantial transformation; 554230; 067445; 829509; 555379; 554406; 554016
HQ 0555780 - Applicability of subheading 9802.00.80, HTSUS, to disk subsystem storage device; soldering; use of fasteners, connectors, tape and other adhesives; stripping excess paint; use of touch-up paint; inspection; "tweaking"; snapping; plugging; drilling holes; cutting to length; assembly; incidental operations; 061429; 555564
HQ 0555782 - Tariff treatment and country of origin requirements of fabric cut to length and width in Canada. Alteration; 554736; 074389/808702; 555055; 071100; 058960; 19 CFR 12.130(c); advanced in value; improved in condition; Canada
HQ 0555784 - Applicability of subheading 9802.00.80, HTSUS, to gold and pearl bracelets formed by gluing, soldering, insertion; cutting to length. Assembly; incidental operations
HQ 0555785 - Applicability of subheading 9802.00.80, HTSUS, to stator core part of unassembled electric motor; beveling operation on steel lamination components; incidental operation; 19 CFR 10.16(b),(c); 554305; 555216
HQ 0555788 - Applicability of duty exemption under U.S. Note 2(b), subchapter II, Chapter 98, HTSUS, to footwear uppers produced in the Dominican Republic; CSD 89-27(4), 555742, 067823, 555886
HQ 0555798 - Classification and applicability of the duty exemption under subheading 9802.00.80, HTSUSA, to surgical towels; country of origin requirements; 087470; 555565.
HQ 0555801 - Tariff treatment applicable to rings (jewelry) to be imported from the Dominican Republic.Mounting; casting; CBERA; substantial transformation; product of; 554448; U.S. Note 2(b), subchapter II, Chapter 98; eligible article; precious metal; assembly; 19 CFR 10.16(a)
HQ 0555805 - Eligibility for duty-free treatment under U.S. Note 2(b), subchapter II, Chapter 98, HTSUS, of earrings and brooches made in Costa Rica from U.S. materials.
HQ 0555806 - Inflatable plastic bags used to give shape to handbags in retail displays.GRI 5(b); packing material; 731806; advanced in value; improved in condition
HQ 0555809 - Eligibility for duty-free treatment under U.S. Note 2(b), subchapter II, Chapter 98, HTSUS, of pressure sensitive tape manufactured in a Caribbean country from U.S. materials
HQ 0555815 - Powder cheddar cheese spray dried and mixed with salt and emulsifiers in Canada.Advance in value; improve in condition; 054825; alteration; new and commercially different article; 553080; 555519; 060915; 071041; 071207
HQ 0555816 - Applicability of duty exemption under subheading 9802.00.60, HTSUS, to cold finished steel bars; cost of processing abroad; transportation costs
HQ 0555817 - Foreign and domestic scrap metal subjected to a shredding process in the U.S. and then shipped to Mexico for sorting.19 CFR 10.12(e); substantial transformation
HQ 0555818 - U.S. manufactured yarn woven into table linens and yard goods in the United Kingdom.Assembly; 19 CFR 10.16(a); 19 CFR 12.130(e)(1)(iii); C.S.D. 90-38 (555116); 553593
HQ 0555844 - Eligibility of glucose syrup and cellulase enzyme from Canada for a partial duty exemption
HQ 0555846 - GSP eligibility of a programmable remote control transmitter. Eligible article; 085335; 087108
HQ 0555856 - Gas Furnace Ignition Devices. GSP; substantial trans- formation; spark transformer; winding; potting; fitting; printed circuit board assemblies; assembly; Belcrest Linens; C.S.D. 85-25; 555420; 051102; 555727;
HQ 0555857 - Christmas stockings packaged in Mexico; Carr, Superscope
HQ 0555865 - Applicability of duty exemption available under HTSUSA subheading 9802.00.50 to halogen lightbulbs subjected to a bending operation in Mexico; alteration; Guardian v. United States, Dolliff v. United States, U.S. v. Richardson
HQ 0555869 - Eligibility of U.S.-origin connectors for a duty allowance when attached to Japanese wire and incorporated in an electrical harness. Timex | <urn:uuid:cdf1632b-d236-452b-a83d-4d0db24567e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.faqs.org/rulings/ruling1991HQ37.html | 2013-05-25T21:45:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.770351 | 2,266 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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“Oscar” is getting older—this year marks the 82nd awards ceremony for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But movie lovers will have to wait until March 7 to find out whether or not he has, in fact, become wiser.
For the first time since 1944, there will be ten nominees (instead of only five) for the coveted Best Picture Oscar. And, for the first time ever, two of the Best Picture nominees were directed by women (Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and Lone Scherfig’s An Education), and one by a Black man (Lee Daniels’ Precious).
Women, War, and Sex
No woman-directed movie has ever been named Best Picture; only three others have been nominated, out of some 450 nominees: Barbra Streisand’s Prince of Tides in 1992; Jane Campion’s The Piano in 1994; and Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation in 2004. Campion and Coppola were also nominated as Best Director—joining Lina Wertmüller, who in 1977 had become the first female Best Director nominee, for Seven Beauties. Streisand wasn’t nominated as Best Director, and no woman has won in that category, either.
On the other hand, 16 out of 81 Best Pictures have been war movies, one of which was actually an antiwar movie.
What makes a war movie an antiwar movie? Showing that war is horrible and never worth the price, as did 1930’s Best Picture, All Quiet on the Western Front. Opposing that vision are those that show war and slaughter as the ultimate test of manhood. But most have occupied a middle ground: War is a dirty job but somebody has to do it, they declare, which essentially supports the (pro-war) status quo by failing to challenge it.
The Hurt Locker is three times a rarity—a war movie made by a woman, a character-driven action movie, and a woman-directed movie with almost no women in it. Yet it fits into that large middle ground, with its story of three members of a bomb disposal unit in occupied Iraq, a story driven by the intense and moving portrayal by Jeremy Renner as the squad leader hooked on the adrenaline rush of his dangerous business. (“War is a drug,” declares an epigraph from the Chris Hedges book, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning; the film’s title apparently refers to the protagonist’s collection of fuses and detonators he’s removed from live bombs.) With equally nuanced performances by Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty as the other squad members, its tight focus on the three soldiers’ shifting emotions make it one of the most intimate of the genre ever filmed. Yet by positing the three as heroic saviors of the Iraqi people who can’t protect themselves against the evil Iraqi bomb-setting insurgents, The Hurt Locker accepts and approves the occupation of Iraq. It is a strong film; it is a convincing film; but it is not an antiwar film (which could help its Oscar chances).
As the woman director of a young woman’s coming-of-age story, the Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig hasn’t gotten a fraction of the attention Bigelow has for Hurt Locker. An Education is, after all, what women directors do (that is, when they get a chance to direct at all). Set in London and Paris as the stuffy Fifties begin to give way to the exuberant Sixties, it’s the story of a 17-year-old’s first affair, the chance at college she almost sacrifices to it, and the lessons she learns. Unlike both The Hurt Locker and Precious (see below), An Education is chock-full of sharply drawn characters, from the center of the story—the hungry-for-experience Jenny (Carey Mulligan) and David (Peter Sarsgaard), the twice-her-age seducer— radiating outward to her inadequately suspicious parents (Cara Seymour and Alfred Molina), David’s disreputable friends (Dominic Cooper and Rosamund Pike), and Jenny’s teachers (Olivia Williams and the always impressive Emma Thompson). An Education is a near-perfect film, despite the reluctance of most of the characters to think that a 30-something man who takes an intense interest in a 17-year-old is up to no good—but it’s a small film, about a woman at that, and they rarely win Oscars.
Less Likely Still
Precious is an even longer-than-long shot. No movie directed by a Black person has ever been nominated as Best Picture; only a handful of films primarily about Black lives (Sounder, A Soldier’s Story, The Color Purple, and Ray) have been nominated, all of them directed by white men. None of them won, nor did any of those nominees tell a tale as grim as does Precious, the story of an obese, illiterate Black teenager twice impregnated and (CAUTION: SPOILER FOLLOWS) infected with HIV by her own father.
At that, Precious—its full title is Precious, Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire—omits from its catalog of horrors some of the grimmest aspects of Sapphire’s novel, which describes a young woman sexually abused since earliest childhood by both her parents. Unfortunately, the film version also fails to depict convincingly the ultimate victory that the novel’s Precious wins over her circumstances. In the novel, the horrors throw into dramatic relief her slow and patient struggle up from illiteracy; in the film, she suddenly and for no discernible reason “gets it” and can read.
Even more than in The Hurt Locker, the powerful and compelling lead performances—by Gabourey Sidibe as Claireece Precious Jones and standup comic/actor Mo’nique as her battering and rage-filled mother, Mary—carry the film. As in The Hurt Locker, other characters (including those played by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz) seem to exist only as they interact with the central characters. In the end, the film Precious is neither as harrowing nor as uplifting as the book from which it’s derived.
So on March 7, who will hear the magic words, “And the Oscar goes to—”? Will 2010 go down in Academy history as the Year of the Woman? Will it be the Year of the Black movie?
This critic says not yet. Kathryn Bigelow will be outshone by her ex-husband, James Cameron; the Black characters will lose to the blue ones. Alas, this will be yet another Year of White Guy Dances with Natives of Color and Saves Them: Avatar, all the way (except for acting awards, some of which will go to The Hurt Locker, An Education, and Precious as consolation prizes).
Prove me wrong, Academy. Please.
© 2010 Judith Mahoney Pasternak
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Pat Bliss and Felix at Polk Correctional institution, June 5, 2010 Courtesy Pat Bliss.
Behind his round glasses, Felix's face is gaunt but expressive, and his voice contains a note of desperation. He speaks and signs simultaneously, with Pat acting as our mutual translator. Felix explains that his situation has been getting worse. He was removed from a prison where he had a small community of deaf acquaintances and sent to a series of other facilities before landing here. Shortly before the move, he'd seen his daughter, now 30, for the first time since she was six months old—she lives in Florida, but too far away to visit regularly. At Jefferson, he's housed apart from other deaf prisoners and lacks access to sign language interpreters. He lives in fear of offending fellow inmates by inadvertently ignoring them; shortly after arriving here he got into a fight and ended up in solitary.
I ask him about the rape. It happened in December 2010, he says, when two men assaulted him in a shower at the Department of Corrections' Reception and Medical Center in Lake Butler. He reported it and for weeks afterward spent hours each day crouching in terror against his cell door, trying to decipher noises that might announce another would-be assailant. He was later transferred to the Madison Correctional Institution, where he attempted to hang himself with a sheet. The staff put him on suicide watch, Felix says, leaving him naked in a cell for six days. (Suicidal inmates, clarifies a prison official, are clad in a nonflammable, untearable paper "shroud.")
In theory, Felix could file a civil rights lawsuit, but the Clinton-era Prison Litigation Reform Act makes it extraordinarily difficult for individual prisoners to bring a federal case. Class actions in New York and Virginia have resulted in somewhat improved services for deaf prisoners in those states, and there are suits pending against the Illinois corrections department and the federal Bureau of Prisons. A Florida lawsuit aimed at winning deaf inmates access to a device that would let them watch TV was tossed recently after prison officials argued that there were not enough plaintiffs to justify a class action. (In a deposition, an ADA compliance officer for the Department of Corrections admitted she had no idea how many deaf prisoners there were in the system; a DOC spokeswoman later told me that only 74 inmates were receiving services.)
Beyond trying to improve Felix's lot in prison, Pat concedes, few options remain. She's exhausted every angle in his criminal case. In theory, Gov. Rick Scott could grant him a pardon, but Scott, a tea party champion elected in 2010, has generally moved to make the clemency process more arduous. Felix will be eligible for parole in 2024, at age 62, but even then his odds will be abysmal. Only 50 Florida prisoners were paroled last year; in fact, the state eliminated parole for virtually all new convictions in 1995.
A few months after our interview, Felix was moved again, this time to Tomoka Correctional Institution, where there are deaf inmates and some programs available. He's less isolated now but only slightly less fearful. "Many, many times, deaf people raped and beat and no help from the officers," Felix wrote in a letter to McCay Vernon. "Many times I just want to die but have Jesus in heart...Pray every day to help other deaf." | <urn:uuid:8bf3ac24-60da-4ec2-b4d1-4f8af95cc36b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/deaf-prisoners-felix-garcia?page=3 | 2013-05-25T22:07:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982293 | 680 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
- Faayda.com: online invoicing tool for small businesses
Faayda.com (means profit in Hindi language) aims to make life easier for small and medium business operators by providing simple online tools for billing and invoicing customers. It has additional tools like collaboration and Business directory, but online invoicing and payment seem to be the main feature.
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Google Offers App Comes to Android
Google has released an app for its daily deals site Google Offers, making it more convenient for U.S.-based Android users to discover, purchase, and redeem online coupons.
The app offers the same deals as its Google Offers beta Web site; today's deal is $15 for $25 worth of REI outdoor gear. You can purchase the deal through the app and flash your phone to redeem it at the merchant. The app also stores all your offers and alerts you when they're about to expire.
An iOS version will come ... eventually. "iPhone users, stay tuned because Offers is coming soon to the App store," Google said.
Download Google Offers version 1.0 at the Android Market. It requires Android 2.1 and 1.4MB of space.
Last week, Google Offers announced cross-promotion deals with 14 other daily deals sites, and will send an email of offers from partners like Gilt City, Dealfind, DoodleDeals, GolfNow, HomeRun, Juice in the City, kgbdeals, Mamapedia, Plum District, PopSugar Shop, ReachDeals, Active.com Schwaggle, TIPPR, and zozi.
Yesterday, Google faced some heat when its highly anticipated native Gmail app for iOS was launched with numerous problems, forcing the company to withdraw the app.
For more from Sara, follow her on Twitter @sarapyin.
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The male staffers -- excuse us, "experience coordinators" -- at the five-diamond Fairmont's elegant Willow Stream spa are pleased as prickly pear punch when another guy shows up to check out the 44,000-square-foot multilevel pampering place. Willow Stream was recently essayed in the New York Times as one of the West's foremost examples of the new male-friendly resort spa, and the proof is in the upscale handyman details: cool, polished stone borders running through the hallways; trendy Venetian finish on one wall; and dry-stacked Sedona sandstone bricks lining most of the others. Heck, there's even a small TV screen on each of the Lifecycles. Willow Stream is paradise for women, too, but it's the men who love touches like the waterfall-lined stairwell leading down from the negative-edge rooftop pool to the centerpiece hot tub that's warmed by triple cascades of falling water, each set at its own distinct water pressure. More spa power! | <urn:uuid:943c9818-67ca-43ea-a7f4-2606568d52ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/bestof/2005/award/best-spa-for-men-34846/ | 2013-05-25T21:56:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918512 | 213 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
We want to know what you, your school, your business, your family, etc. are doing to support Pink Shirt Anti-Bullying Day on February 25th.
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The Naked Neck, with its eponymous exposed nape, may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but what it lacks in fluffy accoutrements it makes up for with a hear ability to withstand cold weather and illness.
EGG PRODUCTION: Good layer of light-brown, medium-sized eggs.
AS PETS: Very docile
AS MOTHERS: Ca be broody, makes a good mother
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Central Europe
EXOTIC LEVEL: 7
A friendly, nonflighty bird, the Wyandotte also lays stunning eggs. It exhibits a distinctive lacy pattern on its feathers, and it comes in a rainbow of colors. A good Wyanotte will late more than 240 eggs a year.
EGG PRODUCTION: Very good, lays large, light- to rich-brown eggs
AS PETS: Usually docile, sometimes tends toward dominance over other birds
AS MOTHERS: Rarely broody
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Un
Characteristically sideburn-like tufts on each ear and rumpless rears, these birds are most famous for their blue eggs. Sometimes called Easter egg chickens, Araucanas have become easily available largely thanks to Martha Stewart’s much-trumpeted fondness for her own brood.
EGG PRODUCTION: Good layer of green- to blue-colored, medium-size eggs
AS PETS: Calm, good with other types of chickens
AS MOTHERS: Moderately broody
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Chile
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Friday, 10 June 2011 08:00
MISSION — Board members for the Mission Consolidated Independent School District on Tuesday voted to grandfather its current 12-month service employees to keep their paid vacation time and holiday pay.
Anyone hired after June 7, however, will not be eligible for paid vacations or holidays. Additionally, the district is changing their amount of service to the district from 260 days to 244 days. Current employees will remain in the 260-day calendar and also receive 16 days of paid vacation and holidays. MCISD officials said the change was made in an effort to save money. | <urn:uuid:06a0b1c8-b537-4fd2-a77f-d74c52b13bf0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.progresstimes.net/news/local-news.html?start=456 | 2013-05-25T21:46:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981731 | 120 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Gold Ship: bids to follow up his success in the Satsuki Sho (2,000 Guineas)PICTURE: Masakazu Takahashi
Gold Ship heads world's richest Derby in Tokyo
Preview: Japan, Sunday 5.40am BST
Tokyo: Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) (Grade 1) 1m4f, turf, 3yo
THE world's richest Derby takes place in Japan on Sunday when Gold Ship (Naosuke Sugai/Hiroyuki Uchida) bids to follow up his Satsuki Sho (2,000 Guineas) success in the Tokyo Yushun.
The Japanese Derby, worth just over 339 million yen (£2.7m), features the first five home in last month's Guineas over 1m2f at Nakayama, where Gold Ship scoredby two and a half lengths from World Ace (Yasutoshi Ikee/Yuichi Fukuna).
Connections of Satsuki Sho favourite Grandezza (Osame Hirata/Kenichi Ikezoe) will be hoping for better than his fifth place at Nakayama while last year's champion two-year-old Alfredo (Takahisa Tezuka/Yutaka Take) comes here after a good second in the Grade 1 NHK Mile Cup.
Another fancied runner is late-developing Tosen Homareboshi (Yasutoshi Ikee/Craig Williams). | <urn:uuid:d37b2dc7-79e0-48c8-a9a2-c170c7dac29d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/tokyo-japan-gold-ship-heads-worlds-richest-derby/1039817/international/ | 2013-05-25T21:47:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880691 | 300 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Very tall herb, 3-10 feet tall. Stem
winged, that is, it has thin ridges running down the stem as in
the picture below center. Leaves wide lance-shaped or
opposite each other.
Buds (below left) resemble green flowers with 5 "petals," actually bracts. Flower heads in a large branching cluster. Each flower
head with about 10 or fewer yellow, spreading ray flowers around
a nearly spherical, untidy button of greenish yellow disc
in late summer.
Native plant of open areas. Common in Wildwood, especially in the
Great South Meadow.
No other member of this family in Wildwood has the untidy
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Autoblog's new app to help you obsess about the auto industry
Today, Autoblog finally released its iPhone app, bringing together three of the car site's main components (and a new debut) into a central location. The free app provides up-to-the-minute auto industry news from Autoblog, fuel-efficient car news from AutoblogGreen, tech-related vehicle news from Translogic and, for the first time on a mobile device, new car buying data through the "Aol. Best Deals" service. Try using it the next time you visit a dealership.
As the editor-in-chief of AutoblogGreen (yes, I do more than just review board game apps on TUAW, and TUAW and Autoblog are both AOL properties), I can't objectively review this app. Instead, I'll run down the list of features and, since it's free, interested readers can check out the app themselves and share reviews in the comments below.
The highlight here is, of course, having quick and easy access to Autoblog news in a dedicated app. Sure, the iPhone has long been able to access the regular and mobile versions of these sites, but the app formats them in an easy-to-read manner that also offers one-touch access to the sites' picture galleries and videos.
Of course, like most good blogs, part of the experience is participating, and the app offers a really easy way to send in a tip. If you see something great while you're out and about, you can also send Autoblog a picture through the app. Another nifty feature? You can save blog posts to the app for offline reading, kind of like a built-in Instapaper. It's also possible to stream any of the Autoblog podcasts through the app, so if you don't want to fill up your iPhone with downloaded files, now you don't have to.
There are some capabilities from the regular sites missing from the app: not all categories are represented in the "Topics" tab, for example. More important, you can't comment on posts (yet). Also, the app is formatted for the iPhone, and so it displays at 2x on the iPad. That means I wouldn't bother with this app on the iPad; instead I'll keep using Mobile Safari to get my auto industry news.
Sounds good? Check out the free app yourself here.
Today, Autoblog finally released its iPhone app, bringing together three of the car site's main components (and a new debut) into a...
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- Evernote introduces reminders to Mac, iOS apps
- Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014 available, bringing new characters, physics and more
- Agile Partners releases Lick of the Day 2.0
- Google announces new Hangout app to hit iOS today
- Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Update 14.3.4
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Many life stressors stem from relationships. Whether in a dating relationship or married, relationship problems leading to distress may result from difficulties in communication, parenting, sexual intimacy, finances or immaturity. The average age of married enlisted Marines is 28, the youngest of the four military services. Additionally, 40% of Marine Corps spouses are under the age of 25, again the youngest of all military services. Coupling this young age with the demands of a military lifestyle can result in significant challenges for Marine couples. There is a tendency among some supervisors and commanders not to interfere in a unit member's personal life. Experience suggests, however, that relationship problems can quickly interfere with duty performance and personal readiness. Relationship problems have been identified as a significant risk factor associated with suicide in the Marine Corps and can be a major source of stress in a deployed environment. Combat and operational stress reactions have been compounded and sometimes precipitated by relationship difficulties at home.
The Marine Corps takes a proactive stance in supporting healthy marital relationships. Most leaders are keenly aware of how relationships can impact mission readiness. When Marines are confident that their relationships are in good standing and their spouses are supported, they are able to focus on the mission at hand.
For more information on this topic to include definitions, risk factors, why Marines may not seek help, and prevention, please select the general information tab above. If you are looking to solve a specific problem please select one of the specific problem tabs above. Under each specific problem you will find an overview that discusses the specific problem as well as what to look for, what to do, what to avoid, what to expect after taking action, and troubleshooting. | <urn:uuid:8aa719db-70e9-45a9-a1e4-878d45997d7e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usmc-mccs.org/leadersguide/Family/Marital/index.htm | 2013-05-25T22:14:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957555 | 335 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Another severe weather outbreak is possible in the Plains next week.
Cloudy with temperatures steady or falling to near 55F. Winds ESE at 15 to 20 mph. Hourly Details
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avifil32: Update Portuguese (Brazilian) translation
paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 09:35:57 CDT 2010
On 06/23/2010 04:28 PM, Gustavo wrote:
> Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation and changed codification of
> resource file to UTF-8
If you change the encoding to UTF-8 you also need to add a "#pragma
code_page(65001)", otherwise we'll end up with compile warnings like:
Warning: string "Opções de compressão" seems to be UTF-8 but codepage
1252 is in use.
Same is true for your other patches where you change the encoding.
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Las Vegas-based American Water Star Inc. has announced that its three bottling facilities located in Jacksonville, Fla., Magnolia, Miss., and Phoenix have commenced operations this week.
These three facilities will have eight bottling lines in operation during the third quarter of 2004, which the company expects will increase to 10 bottling lines in operation in the fourth quarter of 2004. It also plans to open a bottling facility in Honolulu in early 2005.
The initial three bottling facilities have the ability to produce more than 4,300,000 cases (3,000 truckloads) of beverage monthly. According to a company statement: "We believe that our cost to produce our products will be less in our new production facilities than we experienced in the past We plan to continue to use some co-packing arrangements currently in place to supplement our production needs for certain geographic areas."
"We are very pleased this bottling capacity is now in-house. These plants dramatically reduce our reliance on outside co-packing sources and change our whole approach to the beverage business," stated Roger Mohlman, CEO of American Water Star Inc. "Demographically the bottling facilities can service a tremendous portion of the U.S. population." | <urn:uuid:ed965130-e32d-49eb-bb5f-4a53344b8fe9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wwdmag.com/print/9048 | 2013-05-25T22:09:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706469149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121429-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964315 | 246 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
0100A: Urban Schools in a Diverse Society - 3 credits
Selected significant social, political and economic forces which influence the school as an institution and which in turn are influenced by the school, especially in urban settings that educate students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Includes history and philosophy of education. 10-15 hours of field experiences required. Required for initial certification.
0100C: Observing and Recording Young Children in Classroom Contexts – 3 credits
How to examine children’s behaviors, work, and approaches to learning to inform the development of environments responsive to students’ diverse needs. Major developmental and learning theories are referenced. Case study of an individual child will be completed. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences. Required for initial certification.
0200C: Curriculum in ECE – 3 credits
Critical examination of principles underlying curriculum development and program planning for young children. How to prepare the environment, integrate the day, differentiate instruction for students with varying needs, discipline effectively, and use technology. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences. To be taken with or after student teaching. Required for initial and professional certification.
0300F: Contemporary Problems and Issues in Early Childhood Education – 3 credits
Identification and study of classroom and school problems and issues educators encounter in their teaching. Serves as an introduction to action research and as preparation for the research sequence of courses at the final stage of the program. Required for professional certification. Prerequisites: a minimum of 18 credits or special permission.
0301G: Student Teaching and Seminar in Early Childhood Education I – 3 credits
Full time supervised student teaching for 20 – 50 days in one developmental level of early childhood (as part of 70 days total in student/supervised teaching). Accompanying weekly seminar integrates the teaching experience with course work. Required for those in the initial certification program. Advance approval necessary. To be completed at the end of the program sequence. Corequisite: EDUC 1900G.
0302G: Student Teaching and Seminar in Early Childhood Education II – 3 credits
Full time supervised student teaching for 20 – 50 days in a second developmental level of early childhood (as part of 70 days total in student/supervised teaching). Accompanying weekly seminar integrates the teaching experience with course work. Required for those in the initial certification program. Advance approval necessary. To be completed at the end of the program sequence. Corequisite: EDUC 1900G
0303G: Supervised Teaching and Seminar in Early Childhood Education - 3 credits
Full time supervised supervised teaching may be substituted for either 0301G or 0302G for those who teach full time in their own classroom. Required for those in the initial certification program. Advance approval necessary. To be completed at the end of the program sequence. Corequisite: EDUC 1900G.
0500C: Literacy Acquisition – from Emergent Reading to Fluency - 3 credits
How to support successful literacy learning for students of diverse backgrounds. Participants learn the stages of literacy acquisition and how to assess students’ progress along the literacy learning continuum, provide instruction to meet each student’s developmental stage and needs, organize all the elements of a balanced literacy program. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences.
0502N: Block-Building Workshop – 1 credit
This weekend workshop features hands-on block building experiences. It examines the function of blocks in the classroom and how blocks fit into the early childhood through elementary school program. Issues addressed include the history of block use in the classroom, children’s developmental stages of block building, integrating blocks into the curriculum, fostering content area learning through blocks, using supplementary materials in the block area, supporting dramatic play through block building, and managing to keep child-centered education alive in this era of mandated curricula and high-stakes testing.
0503N: Taking the Lead Workshop – 1 credit
This weekend workshop introduces early childhood teachers to some essential skills and knowledge required of early childhood leaders. Principles of organizational theory, leadership styles, program administration, and staff development are some of the topics explored. Issues are addressed that affect early childhood administrators, explore different types of early childhood programs and their implications for supervision, and examine the requirements to become an early childhood administrator.
0510C (formerly 0600C): Literacy Strategies from Birth to 6th Grade – 3 credits
Applications of a balanced literacy program as it applies to fluent readers. In-depth examination of balanced literacy programs, literacy assessment, reading and writing genres, how to integrate literacy with content area instruction, and how to select appropriate material for learners of diverse abilities and backgrounds. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences.
1800K: Family, Child and School – 3 credits
A study of the contexts for learning that affect teachers, children, and their families. Topics explored include: Multicultural communities and differing family structures, conferencing with parents, children with special needs, indications of child abuse, educators’ legal and ethical responsibilities. Required for initial certification. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences.
1900C: Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood – 3 credits
How language and literacy develops in young children and how to develop a well-balanced literacy program for young children. Special emphasis is placed on learning English as a second language, analyzing children’s literature, the art of storytelling, and effective strategies for learning to read. Required for initial certification. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences.
1900G: Professional Education Seminar - 0 credit
Education in child and drug abuse, fire and safety, and violence prevention as required by New York State. Provides orientation to job-related procedures for New York City schools (fingerprinting, resume, interview, and application preparation). Prepares students for the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations. Required for initial certification.
2000C: First and Second Language and Literacy Acquisition – 3 credits
Current research and applications building on language strengths and connection oral and print literacies.
2100K: Developmental Issues in Early Childhood Education – 3 credits
In-depth study of the developmental progression and the active nature of young children’s learning. Major developmental and learning theories are critically examined and illuminated through students' experiences with children. Implications for program planning and classroom organization are continually drawn. Required for both initial and professional certification.
2101C: Social Studies in the Early Childhood Curriculum – 3 credits
How to develop and carry out experiences that help children inquire about the world, their history, and their backgrounds and integrate their understandings; how to utilize students’ diverse ethno-cultural backgrounds as learning resources. Emphasis placed on the classroom as a democratic learning community. Includes 10-15 of field experiences. Required for initial certification.
2202I: Content Research Seminar in Early Childhood Education - 2 credits
Culminating experience of the graduate education program. Students identify a problem or issue about which to inquire, review the research literature related to that problem, and design a study to carry out in the following semester. Required. Offered only in the fall. By permission only. Prerequisites: Child development courses, 0100C, 0300F, most methods courses.
2300C: Social Studies Inquiry for Pre-K-6 Teachers - 3 credits
Focuses on two state and national social studies learning standards: geography and the history of the United States and New York State. Students experience n inquiry approach to social studies that is designed to increase their content knowledge and model inquiry methods. Students plan learning experiences for children. Includes an instructional technology component. Required for professional certification. Pre-requisite: 2101C.
2700K: Literacy Instruction for Struggling Readers and Writers in Inclusive/Mainstream Classrooms – 3 credits
Learn to assess and intervene to lay the foundations for effective instruction for struggling readers and writers.
2900I: Seminar in Educational Research – 2 credits
Second semester of the research sequence. Students carry out their study designed in the previous semester and learn how to analyze, write about, and present the data collected. Prerequisite: Content Research Seminar 2202I. Offered only in the spring. Required.
3200C: Science Inquiry for Pre-K-6 Teachers - 3 credits
Develops teachers' knowledge of the teaching and learning of science in childhood education. Focuses on three New York State science standards: scientific inquiry, application of scientific concepts and theories, and the historical development of ideas in science and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology. First-hand experiences developing and analyzing knowledge obtained through inquiry. Pre-requisite: 3300C. Required for professional certification.
3300C: How Young Children Learn Science: Implications for Teaching - 3 credits
Workshop designed to deepen understanding of the active, investigative nature of science learning. Participants' own explorations and experiences parallel the child’s inquiring approach. Materials and resources appropriate for the diverse learning needs of young children are examined. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences. Required for initial certification.
3500C: Education in the Early Years: Infants, Toddlers, and “Preschoolers”– 3 credits
How knowledge develops from infancy through the preschool years; with a focus on how to support learners’ growth and development and how to structure appropriate learning environments for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with diverse needs. Theoretical perspectives on learning are explored. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences. Required for initial certification. Prerequisites: 2100K.
4200C: Including Young Children with Special Needs in the Regular Education Classroom
This course provides early childhood educators with a theoretical framework and practical applications for successfully including students with special needs within the general education setting. Information, guidance and resources will be presented to assist teachers in differentiating curriculum, using adaptive technology, assessing students holistically, working with their classroom/administrative school team as well as with children’s home/family/community in situations where a child may require an evaluation and/or additional support services. Special attention will be paid to issues of diversity issues, helping teachers to frame differences in a respectful, non-biased way. Includes 10-15 hours of fieldwork. Required for initial certification.
4300C: Art and Expressive Activities in Early Childhood Education - 3 credits Interpretation and use of creative activities for the young child as s/he explores and develops personal skills and interests in various art media. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences. Required for initial certification.
5700C: Education That Is Multicultural - 3 credits
Analyzes the various components of education in a pluralistic society; provides opportunities for developing curriculum and strategies which reflect respect and dignity for all people; examines students' needs within a humanistic framework; critically examines instructional materials for bias. Includes 10 hours of fieldwork. Optional choice from 1800K for initial certification.
6000C: How Young Children Learn Mathematics: Implications for Teaching - 3 credits
Development of young children’s spatial, numerical, and logical reasoning as the basis for instructional decision-making in mathematics teaching. Teaching materials, developmentally-appropriate investigations, and pedagogical techniques that facilitate children’s different way of constructing ideas, strategies, and models in mathematics will be explored. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences. Required for initial certification
6200C: Mathematics for Pre-K-6 Teachers - 3 credits
Includes mathematics content and pedagogy; focuses on selected topics in number, geometry, algebra and probability for grades 3-5 and 6-8; attention to the NCTM content and process standards and New York State Learning Standards; analysis of students' work; and analysis, design and assessment of mathematics curriculum. Pre-requisite: 6000C. Required for professional certification.
7101N: Building Community in the Classroom - 1 credit
This interactive workshop explores essential teaching strategies for early childhood and childhood (elementary) teachers. Among the topics addressed are how to: discipline in an educative way, manage the classroom environment, arrange the classroom for active learning, develop a coherent flow of the day, and handle transitions from one activity to another. Participants take away from this experience images and techniques for how to create a productive community of learners in their classrooms. Elective.
7300C: Music and Movement for Young Children – 3 credits
Participants in this course learn how to create a program of activities that guide and incorporate young children’s interests and responses to music, rhythms, dramatic play, and spontaneous imaginative experiences. Includes 10-15 hours of field experiences. Required for initial certification.
9602G: Leadership in Early Childhood Education – 3 credits
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Drama in the Sky
"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship."
At one of my recent art shows, a northern snowbird visitor to my booth remarked that Florida seemed "boring" because there were no seasons here. While it's true that we don't experience the beauty of a snowfall or the joy of the first buds on the trees, anyone who has lived in Florida for long will tell you that the seasons are palpable.
Some will say there's "snowbird" and hurricane season. Others might say "hot or gorgeous". Scientists explain that Florida has two seasons: wet and dry. Whatever the lingo, seasons are more than apparent in Florida. For me, I often look to the sky. Winter brings wide expanses of clear blue for days on end, punctuated by cold fronts that blow through, and sometimes bring a smattering of brief storms followed by more clear blue.
Summer, as in the photo above, brings such drama in our skies. I love to take a drive into the Everglades and Big Cypress Preserve and watch such drama unfold. The sky roars and the earth drinks eagerly. Storms replenish our fresh water supplies for another year's dry season in such a magnificent way, with every bit of pomp and circumstance nature can provide.
I just don't think "boring" has never been in Florida's nature vocabulary.
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By Rachel Dodes
Oscar de la Renta on Thursday presented a stunningly expansive collection of 62 looks—yes, that’s nine more looks than last season—a testament to what retailers have been saying all week: the high end customer is back and spending.
Mr. de la Renta is known for his ball gowns. The red carpet luminaries and the ladies of the society circuit who he dresses will have plenty to choose from.
Standouts included a ivory silk faille gown embroidered with green leaves, and a seemingly simple black gown, with an elegant bow on the shoulder. One dress was covered in ivory “swansdown” giving it the appearance of a cloud.
Model Karlie Kloss closed the show in a show-stopping number: a “celadon”—pale green—gown with pink floral embroidery accented with a fluffy pink bolero.
Sarah Jessica Parker, a longtime fan who attended Mr. de la Renta’s party last week for Fashion’s Night Out, was seated in the front row next to Anna Wintour. The lightness of the designer’s gowns, presented to 1950s doo-wop music, made her smile.
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We had a great weekend here. My cousins Karen and Heather came to visit (they just moved to NC from NY) to see little Max. Missed ya Christie, Adam, and Bill!
We had fun playing with Max, going to family pool party and eating yummy food. Max loved being passed around and loved on. We miss them already! Thanks to David's parents to hosting them at their house since we are full up on rooms around here.
Heather is leaving shortly to go teach English in South Korea for a year!
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This is the facebook conversation that has been ensuing on facebook in relation to this post http://its-safer-i-stick-to-my-books.tumblr.com/post/53387829481/god-this-is-bullshit-allow-me-to-say-this-not and it is hilarious.
(the guy talking about spellchecking is cool. He’s saying that to the guy who was calling people who fall in love with assholes weak.)
So, more to come, as more comments come.
Observe- the GREATEST gay man ever, lip syncing to “People” from Funny Girl.
Introducing Travis Brown.
Here’s a few patterns that may help.
^this is a pretty good tutorial as well
I wish you luck!
I am actually Paperman
My Vanellope cosplay at Megacon.
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Friday, January 14, 2011
At Wednesday's Memorialpalooza rally in Tucson, Barack Obama asked our nation to start speaking "in a way that heals, not a way that wounds." Which is excellent advice, even if many people couldn't hear the president over the chanting crowds, t-shirt vendors, and trumpeting vuvuzelas.
But Hope n' Change got the message loud and clear, and we're putting Mr. Obama's advice into practice immediately.
We won't accuse talk show hosts of murder, nor will we accuse politicians of anti-Semitism when they deny false allegations. We will not suggest that heartless doctors saw the feet off diabetics to make money, nor will we threaten bankers with pitchforks. We won't say that police historically act stupidly.
We won't falsely accuse any news network of saying "wouldn't it be fun to kill people we disagree with?" We will not equate military veterans with terrorists. We will not treat the word "Caucasian" as a synonym for "racist." And we will not disparage America or American values overseas.
Thank you, Mr. Obama. You've opened our eyes.
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- Illinoisjoblink.com Links Qualified Workers with Hiring Employers
- Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) Director Jay Rowell will meet with Southern Illinois business leaders to discuss how illinoisjoblink.com can help business recruit and hire qualified workers.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
James Gammell's Yellowstone Expedition Revisited
August 3, 2010
We are part of the Montana bunch of James's offspring. We live in southwest Montana in Gallatin Gateway, near Bozeman, and we operate a ranch on the Yellowstone River north of Yellowstone Park. | <urn:uuid:37523365-c589-487e-b423-1c458654e918> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jamesgammellchronicles.blogspot.jp/2010/08/james-gammells-yellowstone-expedition.html | 2013-06-20T10:57:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711441609/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133721-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.784373 | 63 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Kukla's Korner Hockey
by Paul on 03/26/07 at 03:19 PM ET
As the race for Stanley Cup Playoff spots approaches its dramatic conclusion, the National Hockey League (NHL) has given fans the opportunity to catch all the excitement by offering special pricing on the Center Ice Online package.
For the remainder of the regular season, plus select games from the Stanley Cup Quarterfinal and Semifinal Rounds (all games subject to local blackout), subscribers in the U.S. and Canada are able to watch up to 40 games per week through Center Ice Online on NHL.com. The one-time fee in the U.S. is now $49 and in Canada it is $43.
To purchase the League’s online subscription package, log on to NHL.com or CenterIce.NHL.tv. NHL Center Ice Online is a portable service; once registered from a home location, the service can be accessed remotely through a broadband connection on any computer throughout the U.S. and Canada.
NHL Center Ice is currently available in the U.S. and Canada on the following League cable and satellite distributors: DirecTV, Dish Network, iNDEMAND, Bell Express Vu, Rogers, Cogeco, Access, Eastlink and others.
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For the love of all things vintage, clever, designed, and/or delicious, we celebrate objects and rituals in all their glory!
Sweet leather shoes & bags by ABK
I've always secretly fantasized about making my own leather sandals or shoes...the closest shoe-making I've done so far are some simple fabric slippers and this felt baby slipper. But seeing these handmade leather shoes and bags by Alya B. Kazakevich of ABK makes me want to just make some awesome leather shoes...but most likely it will not ever look as good as these! I'd like to covet one of these beautifully made shoes or bags especially for how incredibly made they are! | <urn:uuid:9c725e16-e4bb-4d9c-a5e9-ce52a20c9a0e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ladiesandgentlemenhome.blogspot.com/2010/11/sweet-leather-shoes-bags-by-abk.html | 2013-06-20T11:19:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711441609/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133721-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954795 | 141 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Check this outMagic at his best
Posted January 25, 2013 - 06:51 PM
Probably many of you already know the channel, but this video is so special... I think it deserves its own topic.
Posted January 25, 2013 - 06:54 PM
KOBE. #VINO. BRYANT.
Posted February 25, 2013 - 01:38 PM
Damn. The Forum was loud as hell compared to Staples.
blue collar fans can't afford the tickets any more.
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Description: Rice, now in Africa, tells of her visits to Casablanca, Dakar, and Freetown on her way to her latest destination. She discusses money matters, and that she had been Camp Kilmer, N.J., before departing the States.
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Full Text: Dear Hun,
I received all of your letters including the card. You know I was so happy to hear from you. Also I had a letter from Mrs. Cuyler & Briscoe. He is a Lt. now and is station [sic] out in Texas.
You have worried about me I know but I am well and happy and we had a safe voyage across the Ocean. We left America Feb. 7 at 6:00 a.m. and arrived here Mar. 10, 1943. I enjoyed the trip very much. We stopped in Casablanca, Fr. Morocco for several days and were given shore leave. We went up town and to the American Red Cross Building for Soldiers. The Red Cross is doing a fine piece of work there. The officers gave a dance for us then. We enjoyed it very much. The city of Casablanca is very beautiful and the people there are friendly. Our next stop was Dakar, Fr. West Africa. We stayed there several days and was [sic] allowed to go ashore. We enjoyed ourselves there also. Then we went from there to Freetown, Br. W. Africa. We went ashore there also. The people in Freetown spoke English and used English money but in the other two towns they spoke French and used French money. We had a good time and enjoyed ourselves very much. Our next stop was our destination.
Now so much for me. How are you and have you been ill? I have worried about you and wondered what you were doing. I am going to increase my allotment in the near future but will let you know definitely when to expect it.
I am glad you started me a bank account. When you go to Florence put some in the Post Office and send some to Miss Mattie to bank for me there. The allotment you are getting now you can live off in the summer. When I wrote you from the states, I was in Camp Kilmer, N.J. only 3 miles from New Brunswick & 16 mi. from Princeton. I wanted to go over to see Mrs. Cuyler but we were restricted to the camp. We stayed there two weeks.
Don't worry about me. I am doing fine. Remember me to every body [sic] and tell your school children hello.
You can send me the paper and get one for yourself. You may see news about us.
I wrote you from Dakar on March 3rd. Did you get it? also my cable gram?
Please write soon. Keep your chin up.
All my love,
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I'm Kristen. I'm a Starship Ranger. I'm 22. I'm a nerd. I'm a fan girl. I'm incredibly forgetful. I love chick flicks and video games, tattoo's and my little ponies, and all kinds of music. I can't even describe how much I love Disney movies. I want nothing more than to live in Hawaii and meet Robin Williams.
Or Penny Arcade Expo Prime ‘11
(if you don’t know what it is then google it) and the wifi is actually working today so I will be trying to live blog what’s happening and in the next post I will be summarizing what I did yesterday! Hopefully pictures and awesomeness will follow.
I already got the headband :D (Well it’s in the mail on the way)
I more specifically Joey’s characters costume, with the silver puffy vest.
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Ki-Seon Choi, Sung-Dae Kang and Hae-Dong Kim Spatiotemporal variability of April rainfall in Korea by western Pacific teleconnection pattern International Journal of Climatology 33
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Dardanelle, is attending the Munich Security Conference this weekend where Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak Saturday.
Cotton, a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, is among some 350 participants from 40 countries taking part in the three-day discussion of global security issues in Munich, Germany.
The program included a panel discussion on Friday evening on how America’s oil and gas boom is changing the geopolitics of energy. Panel participants included the head of Royal Dutch Shell, Russia’s energy minister and the energy commissioner for the European Union.
Biden will deliver a speech on Saturday on the future of the Euro-Atlantic security community. A session on cyber security is also scheduled Saturday.
Biden met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday in Berlin before traveling to Munich.
On Sunday, the conference will have panel discussions on the current crises in Mali and Syria.
The Munich Security Conference was founded in 1963 and has grown into one of the most important annual gatherings for policymakers interested in international security.
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September 26th – October 3rd 2012, D I K T A T will be performing – inside/outside – in Allentown, Washington & New York, meanwhile recording material for a limited edition documentary pocket tape audiozine cassette-only release on STAALTAPE.
We will use the proceedings of this ‘live inside/outside Berlin’ digital album release to cover the costs of the band’s stay in the US: car rental, gasoline, toll, parking tickets, (for me please no) hamburgers, beer, batteries et cetera…
Needless to say that any amount will earn you a cheer; throw in €15 or more, and we’ll send you a copy of the Diktat overseas STAALTAPE release for *free*, as soon as it is available. (Also: in case of more than twenty tape-meriting donations, the cassette will NOT go on sale. It’ll be produced for your ears only …)
The seven tracks on this album were recorded live (inside/outside) in Berlin, Germany, between July 17th and 19th, 2011. Edited by Har$.
IN-sides: Ausland (7/17), Staalplaat (7/18), Sucked Orange (7/19)
OUT-sides: Tempelhof (7/19), Lohmühlenbrücke (7/18), Rütlistraße (7/18), Wachturm (7/18).
Read and see more Diktat outside/inside the Manufactured Normalcy Field
released 10 August 2012
Jean Bordé (double bass), Emmanuel Rébus (dictaphones), Rinus van Alebeek (dictaphones), Harold Schellinx (dictaphones). | <urn:uuid:97c9600e-08ea-408d-b99f-d36177940369> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rinusvanalebeek.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/d-i-k-t-a-t-in-the-new-world-of-love/ | 2013-06-20T10:51:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711441609/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133721-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.833516 | 378 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
If there were anybody who still holds the belief that to write well for the guitar a Spanish surname is the sine qua non, they would probably consider Malcolm Arnold’s Concerto to be an anomaly. As it is, the Concerto is a triumphant demonstration of the versatility of the guitar, and it is not surprising that many guitarists (including myself) consider it to be one of the finest concertos in the repertoire. Very few composers, if any, have exploited the guitar’s chameleon-like characteristics and facility for allusion with such skill – its ability to go from lyricism to drama, from light-hearted joke to serious comment, the fluid personality that allows it to assume innumerable masks.
Instead of drawing from the usual Spanish well (and fishing out the usual trite clichés) Arnold chooses to take jazz as a source (at the very least, an equally valid idiom for the instrument). In fact the second movement could well be titled ‘Blue Scherzo in memorium Django Reinhardt’: seldom has the guitar been given such a wealth of emotion as in the slow sections, and the way in which it is made to hold its own against the brass instruments is a minor prodigy of orchestral mastery. The swift break into an impish and wildly virtuosic scherzo is nothing short of breath-taking. The slow movement looms largest in the memory, as it does in length – taking up about half of the entire work – but there is also much to be found in the other two movements. Arnold uses Greek models as the basis for his harmony and melody; in the first movement, a sonata form, the two main themes are each in a different mode. The mode chosen for the second theme (probably the catchiest tune in a work full of them) is the familiar major scale; rhythmic verve and lyricism here strike a perfect balance. The third movement, a rondo, begins with the main theme presented by the solo guitar; the canonic writing for the instrument is bold indeed. The guitar retains a leading role throughout all the episodes, bringing the concerto to a close with an astonishing glissando.
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