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Boat building & related classes are planned for the last week in November through December. Refer to Class pull-down page.
Normally, ACMC holds classes in the Winter & early Spring -- before on-water activity begin. In the past, ACMC has presented classes & workshops on boat building, navigation, basic electrical systems on small boats, corrosion, knot tying, trips to Alaska & the San Juan Islands, etc.
We are always looking for people (professionals in the maritime trades, teachers, or people who simply want to share their maritime experiences) to LEAD a class, Saturday workshop, etc. For more information, please contact Lyndon Greene 299-9075.
Did you know ACMC occasionally takes field trips to interesting places? Of course, these field trips are related to maritime or marine related activities. There're fun. The are an important part of our education effort. For a list of planned field trips in 2012, go to the pull down screen under Field Trips.
What is a messabout? Well, it is exactly what the word described. You & a host of friends put your small boat in the water & mess about for the day -- normally a Saturday when the winds are light but steady. For the past two years, ACMC has hosted two messabouts during the year. This year, we were the first people to take advantage of the new small boat facilities at the Cap Santa Boat Haven in Anacortes. We put some 11 small boats on the wate hosted a delicious lunch for 23 rowers & sailors. For several years now, we have hosted a messabout at Bowman Bay at our annual summer picnic.
It's a lot of fun. Plus, everyone has an opportunity to get out on the water. We also get to row or sail some really fine small boats. In addition, ACMC has partnered with the Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA - Puget Sound) to sponsor a messabout locally, or some ACMC members visit the TSCA messabouts held throughout the year at different places around Puget Sound, for example, Gig Harbor, Port Townsend, or Seattle.
Of course, we invite you to join us.
This is something new we started at the end of 2011.
If you have a particuliar topic or subject you would like to study in a small group, join a study group. Go to the Study Group pull down buttom for possible ideas. Currently, we have a Study Group planned for this winter. Entitled - Introduction To Small Boats & Traditional Small Craft. You will find more information about this class...time, place, etc., under CLASSES.
This is our way to promote the very special Maritime Book & Map Collection at the Anacortes Library. This is a wonderful collection of books, maps, etc., from a generous donner. Each month (hopefully) we will include a review of a book in this collection. And sometimes, we will review on Our Blog. Again, scroll down to the Book Review button & start reading. In this way, perhaps we can entice you to support this wonderful gift by checking out a book!
REVIEW OF WOODEN BOAT MAGAZINE
This is also something new this year. Wooden Boat magazine and Professional Boat Builder are two magazines who provide invaluable information to the boat owner, builder, sailor, etc. In short, it is required reading. Past issues are a collection item. And, ACMC has access to a full set compliment of Andy Stewart, Jim Taylor, and Erica Picket. We hope you will enjoy it! | <urn:uuid:4812aaeb-f1c0-4b10-8281-9e4d8b7e9da5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.anacortescommunitymaritimecenter.org/education.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934337 | 737 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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This spring almost 7 million Serbians are entitled to vote in presidential, general, provincial and local elections.
Since the renewal of multi-party politics in 1990 power has oscillated between a variety of parties in Serbia and votes have often followed by allegations of frauds and protests.
Twelve years after the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, the scene has changed significantly as parties rise, fall and change their minds. See Balkan Insight's profiles of Serbia's ruling and opposition parties.
Since the first multi-party elections were held in 1990, Serbia has often had acting heads of state, while many of those elected ended their terms before their mandates expired.
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Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter's Square for the announcement, marveling that the cardinals needed to look to “the end of the earth” to find a bishop of Rome.
In choosing a 76-year-old pope, the cardinals clearly decided that they didn't need a vigorous, young pope who would reign for decades but rather a seasoned, popular and humble pastor who would draw followers to the faith. The cardinal electors overcame deep divisions to select the 266th pontiff in a remarkably fast, five-ballot conclave.
Francis asked for prayers for himself, and for retired Pope Benedict XVI, whose surprising resignation paved the way for the conclave that brought the first Jesuit to the papacy. Francis also spoke by phone with Benedict after his election and plans to see him in the coming days, the Vatican said.
“Brothers and sisters, good evening,” Francis said to wild cheers in his first public remarks as pontiff from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica.
“You know that the work of the conclave is to give a bishop to Rome. It seems as if my brother cardinals went to find him from the end of the earth, but here we are. Thank you for the welcome,” he said.
Across the planet, Latin Americans burst into tears and jubilation at news that the region, which counts 40 percent of the world's Catholics, finally had a pope to call its own.
“It's a huge gift for all of Latin America. We waited 20 centuries. It was worth the wait,” said Jose Antonio Cruz, a Franciscan friar at the St. Francis of Assisi church in the colonial Old San Juan district in Puerto Rico.
Bergoglio had reportedly finished second in the 2005 conclave that produced Benedict — who last month became the first pope to resign in 600 years. The speed with which he was elected pope this time around indicates that — even though he is 76 and has slowed down — he still had the trust of cardinals to do the job.
After announcing “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope!” — a cardinal standing on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday revealed the identity of the new pontiff, using his Latin name, and announced he would be called Francis.
The longtime archbishop of Buenos Aires is the son of middle-class Italian immigrants and is known as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires cardinals enjoyed.
He often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital. He considers social outreach, rather than doctrinal battles, to be the essential business of the church.
Catholics are still buzzing over his speech last year accusing fellow church officials of hypocrisy for forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.
In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share of the world's Catholics, Bergoglio has also shown a keen political sensibility as well as the kind of self-effacing humility that fellow cardinals value highly, according to his official biographer, Sergio Rubin.
He showed that humility on Wednesday, saying that before he blessed the crowd he wanted their prayers for him and then he bowed his head amid the silence from the crowd.
“Good night, and have a good rest,” he said before going back into the palace.
In choosing to call himself Francis, the new pope was associating himself with the much-loved Italian saint associated with peace, poverty and simplicity. St. Francis was born to a wealthy family but later renounced his wealth and founded the Franciscan order of friars; he wandered about the countryside preaching to the people in very simple language.
He was so famed for his sanctity that he was canonized just two years after his death in 1226.
Francis will celebrate his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, and will be installed officially as pope on Tuesday, according to the Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
Lombardi, also a Jesuit, said he was particularly stunned by the election given that Jesuits typically shun positions of authority in the church, instead offering their work in service to those in power.
But Lombardi said that in accepting the election, Francis must have felt it “a strong call to service,” an antidote to all those who speculated that the papacy was about a search for power.
Tens of thousands of people who braved cold rain to watch the smokestack atop the Sistine Chapel jumped in joy when white smoke poured out a few minutes past 7 p.m., many shouting “Habemus Papam!” or “We have a pope!” — as the bells of St. Peter's Basilica and churches across Rome pealed.
They cheered again when the doors to the loggia opened, and again when Bergoglio's name was announced.
“I can't explain how happy I am right now,” said Ben Canete, a 32-year-old Filipino, jumping up and down in excitement.
Elected on the fifth ballot, Francis was chosen in one of the fastest conclaves in years, remarkable given there was no clear front-runner going into the vote and that the church had been in turmoil following the upheaval unleashed by Benedict's surprise resignation.
For comparison's sake, Benedict was elected on the fourth ballot in 2005 — but he was the clear front-runner going into the vote. Pope John Paul II was elected on the eighth ballot in 1978 to become the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.
Patrizia Rizzo ran down the main boulevard to the piazza with her two children as soon as she heard the news on the car radio. “I parked the car ... and dashed to the square, she said. ”It's so exciting, as Romans we had to come.”
Bergoglio's legacy as cardinal includes his efforts to repair the reputation of a church that lost many followers by failing to openly challenge Argentina's murderous 1976-83 dictatorship.
Many Argentines remain angry over the church's acknowledged failure to openly confront a regime that was kidnapping and killing thousands of people as it sought to eliminate “subversive elements” in society. It's one reason why more than two-thirds of Argentines describe themselves as Catholic, but fewer than 10 percent regularly attend mass.
Under Bergoglio's leadership, Argentina's bishops issued a collective apology in October 2012 for the church's failures to protect its flock. But the statement blamed the era's violence in roughly equal measure on both the junta and its enemies.
“Bergoglio has been very critical of human rights violations during the dictatorship, but he has always also criticized the leftist guerrillas; he doesn't forget that side,” Rubin said.
Unlike the confusion that reigned during the 2005 conclave, the smoke this time around has been clear: black during the first two rounds of burned ballots, and then a clear white on Wednesday night — thanks to special smoke flares akin to those used in soccer matches or protests that were lit in the chapel ovens.
The Vatican on Wednesday divulged the secret recipe used: potassium perchlorate, anthracene, which is a derivative of coal tar, and sulfur for the black smoke; potassium chlorate, lactose and a pine resin for the white smoke.
The chemicals are contained in five units of a cartridge that is placed inside the stove of the Sistine Chapel. When activated, the five blocks ignite one after another for about a minute apiece, creating the steady stream of smoke that accompanies the natural smoke from the burned ballot papers.
Despite the great plumes of smoke that poured out of the chimney, neither the Sistine frescoes nor the cardinals inside the chapel suffered any smoke damage, Lombardi said.
Reporters Karl Ritter and Daniela Petroff contributed.
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As animal control service study nears end, Humane Society says cuts cannot keep coming
As months of policy and procedural discussions on the future of animal control services in Washtenaw County draw closer to the end of the county’s contract with the Humane Society of Huron Valley, the organization is sending a clear message to county officials.
At the end of a working session of the county Board of Commissioners Thursday night, when commissioners received a preliminary update from the task force on animal control, Mark Heusel, vice president of the Humane Society’s board, made a statement.
Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com
The county has contracted with the Humane Society for 47 years to provide state-mandated services for dogs. At the end of the county’s 2011 contract with the Humane Society for $500,000, county officials re-evaluated their budget and proposed cutting their allocation in half to the organization — but the Humane Society board balked at the low figure.
The two parties worked out a deal for a $415,000 contract to run animal operations for 2012, but the county wanted a better way to evaluate how much it should be paying for the service in the future.
A task force led by the county sheriff was charged with determining the costs of the services provided in the current contract the county has with the Humane Society, while a policy work group led by Commissioner Conan Smith was charged with making a policy recommendation to the county board.
Thursday night, Smith presented three different options to the commissioners to gauge their reactions before final recommendations are made to the board by an October deadline. Present were Commissioners Dan Smith, Alicia Ping, Wesley Prater, Felicia Brabec, Yousef Rabhi and Rob Turner.
The first plan would provide the most minimal services that are required by law:
- Dog and kennel licensing
- Holding unlicensed stray dogs for a period of four business days and licensed stray dogs for seven business days
- Holding dogs, cats or ferrets suspected of rabies for up to 11 calendar days
- Holding dogs involved in cruelty investigations until a judgment is reached
- Euthanizing animals showing symptoms of rabies and at the end of a holding period
- Conducting only the basic, essential animal cruelty investigations
- Medical care to manage only basic symptoms
A second plan, which Conan Smith called “optimal,” would mainly add holding services for cats, as well as the following:
- Door-to-door dog census
- Enforcement of dog and kennel licensing, possibly through the implementation of a future civil infractions ordinance
- A two-week holding period for all animals
- Educational services and follow-ups in cruelty investigations
A third plan would include all of the services of the previous two plans, plus more:
- Cat and exotic pet licensing
- A requirement for a microchip in animals kept as pets
- The holding of all animals until recovered or adopted
Commissioners Ping and Brabec expressed concern about the feasibility of licensing cats, especially in rural areas where farms have many cats running wild on their property.
There were few policy recommendations by the board members present Thursday night, but they asked many clarifying questions.
The Humane Society currently accepts cats and other pets, has no holding limits and provide an educational form of cruelty investigations. Much of the organization’s efforts are made possible even with its decreased budget because of an extensive volunteer program.
Coupled with other in-kind contributions, the county is receiving approximately $1 million worth of free services from the organization, it says
“The HSHV is a good deal,” Turner said.
The Humane Society’s mission and core values have gone above the state-mandated levels of services, making it an award-winning organization with an 85 percent save rate — the highest in the state of Michigan.
County officials have been using Oakland County’s $2.8 million budgeted animal control program as a model. However, the save rate of that shelter is 50 percent, said Jenny Paillon, director of operations for the Humane Society of Huron Valley.
When it comes to the county’s dog licensing program, the purpose is to ensure there is a record of the animal so law enforcement knows if a dog has had its rabies shot as a matter of public health and safety.
County officials state about 11 percent of the dogs in the county currently are licensed, according to metrics used to calculate the amount of dogs per capita.
When county commissioners began discussing impacts of licensing more of the county’s dogs, the talks turned to using the license fees as a revenue stream.
Currently, about 4,000 to 5,000 purchases of a $12 annual dog license and $36 three-year dog license bring in about $52,800 for the county per year. Should enforcement be increased to 18 percent compliance, revenue could be increased to $84,780; an increase to 55 percent compliance would mean revenue of $259,044 — a move Conan Smith said could be a good future funding option for animal control services.
“I would have no problem with increasing compliance, but I am not in favor of adding burdens to pet owners,” Commissioner Dan Smith said.
Countywide dog licensing options were also discussed.
About 65 percent of the stray dogs picked up and housed in the Humane Society come from municipalities that have their own dog license ordinance: Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Township, Pittsfield Township and Superior Township.
The revenue from the licensing programs in those municipalities stays within their local governments, but the county has to foot the bill when dogs from their municipalities wander or are housed during cruelty investigations — something commissioners are adamant about fixing.
The municipalities should have to pay for the animals — at least in part, according to Commissioner Sizemore.
Because of the Humane Society’s award-winning work and cost efficiency through in-kind services, Conan Smith made a strong case for doing away with a request for proposals process for animal control services before the contract with the Humane Society is up Dec. 31.
“The value we receive from the Humane Society for this service is quite extraordinary,” Conan Smith said. “Our best bet is not an RFP, but to do negotiations with the Humane Society.”
Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton cautioned the commissioners Thursday that switching to another agency for animal control would disrupt the continuity of services currently in place. Submitting an RFP as a due diligence measure “makes sense,” Clayton said, but stated time is getting tight.
However, due to the wording of the resolution that created both task forces, Commissioners Prater and Rabhi advised that a request for proposals process should be followed.
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Back when rocks were soft and the world wide web hadn't yet been invented, I worked on a college newspaper that, I was told, followed the same patterns as professional papers. (That is, the skills we learned doing this would transfer.) Between the journalist's story submission and the print copy stood an editor, who reviewed the story -- not just proofreading but assessing whether the research level was right, anything important had been missed, etc.
Today, in the age of instant reporting on the Internet, where a delay of half an hour is significant, what is the role of the editor? Does that job function still exist for online news sites?
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5 Famous Hispanic Basketball Players
Looking for 5 famous Hispanic basketball players? Hispanic basketball players do exist, you just have to know where to look! Hispanic basketball players are a rare find as Hispanics choose to play sports like soccer and baseball more, but the ones we found are impressive enough to make this list. Read on to learn more about these 5 famous Hispanic basketball players.
- Manu Ginobili. Originally hailing from Bahia Blanca, Argentina, Manu Ginobili currently plays for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. At only 32 and a decent six feet, six inches tall, Ginobili plays guard for the Spurs and averages an even more decent 19.4 points per game.
- Eduardo Najera. Eduardo Najera is a forward for the New Jersey Nets basketball team and went to college in Oklahoma. At 235 pounds and six feet, eight inches tall, Najera has been in the pros for a good nine years. He is only the second Mexican-born Hispanic to play in the NBA.
- Carlos Arroyo. A guard for the Miami Heat, Carlos Arroyo was recently promoted to starting guard for the team and franchise. Standing at a mere six feet, two inches tall, Arroyo only averages slightly more than five points per game, but that can be attributed to his failure to start for a number of years. This Hispanic basketball player was born in Puerto Rico, but attended high school and college in America.
- Carlos Delfino. Carlos Delfino is currently both a forward and guard, as the situation dictates, for Milwaukee in the NBA. At only 27 years old, Delfino already has a four-year-old daughter. He was a member of the 2004, gold medal-winning Argentina National Team at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.
- Anderson Varejao. Standing an imposing six feet, eleven inches tall, Anderson Varejao is a forward and center for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. Originally from Santa Teresa, Brazil, he is only 27 years old. Varejao was selected in the 2004 NBA draft by the Orlando Magic in the second round. | <urn:uuid:3f9cd317-08af-4ffa-a625-fac841c1fb52> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mademan.com/mm/5-famous-hispanic-basketball-players.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953736 | 441 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The Fairy Tale on Spending Cuts
“The sequester is coming, the sequester is coming,” cries Chicken Little, speaking of the across-the-board spending reductions set to kick in Friday. As a result, much of the Washington establishment, politicians of both parties, and the media are bracing for the apocalypse.
Henny Penny worries about poisoned meat going uninspected, the air traffic control system shutting down, and schools being forced to close. Meanwhile Turkey Lurkey is afraid that national security is threatened because our military will be gutted. And Foxy Loxy is concerned there will be massive job losses and our economy will crash.
The reality, though, is that most of what we are being told about the sequester is just a fairy tale. Here’s why:
The sequester imposes savage spending cuts
Actually, the sequester doesn’t cut federal spending at all, or rather it cuts it only in the Washington sense of any reduction from projected baseline increases is a cut. In reality, even if the sequester goes through, the federal government will spend more every single year. In fact, in 2023 it will be spending $2.39 trillion more than it does today.
OK, but at least the reductions in projected spending are big, right?
Hardly. This year, the sequester would slow the growth in federal spending by just $85 billion, from an expected, pre-sequester budget of $3.64 trillion — less than a 2.3% reduction. To put that in perspective, the federal government borrows $85 billion every 28 days. In fact, this actually overstates the size of this year’s cuts. Because of ongoing contracts and the Byzantine labyrinth of federal budgeting, only $44 billion of that $85 billion will actually be cut from this year’s budget. The rest will be cut in future years, but attributed to this year’s budget. So, the real reduction in federal spending this year is just 1.2%. If the federal government can’t reduce spending by less than a penny-and-a-half on the dollar without throwing us into the dark ages, something is truly wrong.
But aren’t the cuts larger for domestic discretionary spending?
It is true that the cuts are not spread equally across all types of federal spending. Entitlement programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are generally exempt — Grandma’s Social Security check won’t be cut — meaning that discretionary spending takes a disproportionately larger hit. Still, we are talking about a reduction of less than 9%. That would leave domestic discretionary spending, after adjusting for inflation, at roughly the same level as 2009. You recall 2009, don’t you? The starvation, the mass closure of our schools, the shutdown of the transportation system, the burning cities?
What about defense? Surely, the sequester guts defense
Defense does take the biggest cut under sequester, nearly 13% of planned spending. In fact, defense spending would really be cut, in the sense of actually spending less, over the next two years. Still, it would never fall below the level of spending we had as recently as 2007, a year we managed to survive without al Qaeda wading ashore in Long Beach. Beginning in 2015, defense spending would start rising again, in real terms, and would exceed current levels by 2019. Keeping all this in perspective, over the entire 10-year period covered by the sequester, defense spending would average roughly $100 billion more each year (after adjusting for inflation) than we spent at the height of the cold war.
I’m still worried about the impact on the economy. Some economists believe that the sequester will cost thousands of jobs and throw us into another recession. True or not?
The proposed spending reductions amount to less than 0.03% of our gross domestic product. If our economy can’t survive spending cuts of that size, we truly are Greece. Of course, in the short term, there will be some layoffs and furloughs. This will be hard on some communities that depend heavily on government spending, and even harder on those workers directly affected. However, most of the numbers cited about the numbers of jobs at risk come from industry groups with a vested interest in making the cuts look as bad as possible.
This entire argument buys into the Keynesian conceit that government spending creates jobs over the long term. But the resources necessary to create those jobs have to be extracted from the private economy either through taxes or borrowing. That means the private sector then has fewer resources to invest in job creation. Given that the private sector generally puts those resources to a more productive use, it is likely that government spending destroys more jobs over the long run than it creates.
We can and should have a legitimate debate about the best way to cut spending. But let’s not be distracted by fairy tales about how the sky is falling.
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Updated: Migrants' rescue case remains unresolved
A total of 111 migrants rescued outside Maltese waters remain on board their rescue destroyer the Spanish Admiral Juan de Borbon, which is under Nato command, as the situation remains unresolved.
The migrants, rescued on Sunday morning, were being brought to Malta but Malta refused them entry arguing that since the rescue had taken place close to other countries, they should have been taken there.
The government confirmed this evening there have been no developments since yesterday when Malta asked Nato for explanations.
The migrants were rescued 78 nautical miles away from Tunisia, 88 nautical miles from Lampedusa and 141 nautical miles from Malta.
Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici said yesterday that was only informed of the decision that the migrants were being brought to Malta 18 hours after the rescue and when the Spanish ship was just 40 nautical miles from the island.
Malta asked the Nato command in Naples why the immigrants were being brought here and whether similar requests for disembarkation were submitted to Tunisia and Italy. No replies have as yet been received by the Maltese government.
The Spanish Government said late yesterday that the destroyer never received instructions from Nato to go to any particular country.
It is currently just outside Maltese waters.
According to Spanish media it is awaiting instructions from the alliance for the disembarkation of those rescued.
The migrants were rescued after the engine of the boat they were in failed. A tug boat's crew tried to render assistance but were unable to repair the engine.
Malta's rescue coordination centre issued a notice of ships in distress and assets on site were obliged to assist.
A baby and a pregnant woman were evacuated from the ship and brought to Malta for medical treatment on Wednesday and yesterday. But Army commander Brigadier Martin Xuereb said the warship had medical facilities on board and the migrants are safe.
Dr Mifsud Bonnici said he discussed the issue with his Spanish counterpart and told him that the ship's "unilateral decision was strange".
There has been no communication with Italy.
The minister insisted this was not a stand-off with Spain or Italy but Malta, as a sovereign state demanded respect.
Earlier, media reports quoted a Nato spokesman saying that following Sunday's rescue the Ghanaian, Tunisian and Libyan migrants were on Monday transferred onto the warship in accordance with the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) protocol.
The reports also claimed the warship proceeded to Lampedusa but the Italian authorities refused it entry and directed the vessel to Malta.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a plan to spend over $4.5 million on 68 projects nationwide, which include three sites in Georgia.
The Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, in Albany, will receive about $100,000 in grant funding.
They plan to launch a regional farm-to-school program, which includes nutrition education activities and trips to local farms.
Community Health Works, in Macon, received just under $100,000.
They plan to fight childhood obesity by offering locally grown Peach County produce in school cafeterias at least once a week.
The Carrollton school district was awarded about $30,000.
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Valmont is a dumping ground
(Re: “On the hook,” Ghosts of Valmont Butte series, Feb. 23.) Our family has lived in Valmont since 1915. Our house is the location of the old Grange hall. Boulder has always looked east to Valmont as their dumping ground. When they needed gravel, they dug it here. When they needed a place for a trash transfer station, they converted a beautiful KOA campground for that purpose. Where do you think they intended to build a sewage composting plant and a fire training station? On Valmont Butte, next to our pioneer cemetery. The county also issued a permit to tear down the butte to supply rock and dirt to build the railroad overpass on Foothills Parkway. The latest proposal is to dig up the open space on Valmont to make a swamp to replace a wetland being covered for a bike path on Highway 36.
Boulder always sends representatives to tell us how wonderful these projects will be for our community and, since we don’t get to vote on anything, we will have no part of the decision-making. For years we have had to form groups to fight the destruction of our area and, with the help of the Native Americans and the federal government, we have sometimes succeeded.
Thanks so much for the story on Valmont Butte. I think my blog comments came off as sarcastic, but I am not at all, so don’t read that in. The BW is doing marvelous work here.
This story is off the hook. Circular remediation. Put all the crap bags in a big pile and worry about it later. Later is now.
Boulder’s version of pay it forward?
People can protect themselves with knowledge. Go and stop the madness, only if they know what the madness is.
Paul Tiger/via Internet
Glad to see [the series] back. Can we have more history of the town of Valmont and that area? Thanks!
Chris von Grebe/via Internet
Abortion and circumcision
(Re: “Foreskin follies,” Uncensored, Feb. 16.) Editorials in the Boulder Weekly the last few weeks come out strongly in favor of abortion rights and against male circumcision. Juxtaposed, these positions present an interesting observation: The problem with circumcision is its timing. If it is performed in utero, no problem, as a fetus has no protectable interest and the pregnant woman has no restraints on what she does with her own body. In utero circumcision benefits as well from the argument that if a woman can abort her fetus, surely she can take action far less destructive.
Dear Pamela, I’d rather be circumcised than aborted!
Sincerely, John M. Jacquat/via Internet
Thank you so much for publishing the recent “Foreskin follies” article by Pamela White. I can’t believe that some of our state legislators want to spend our tax dollars on circumcision, which is little more than cosmetic surgery. Our state budget is collapsing, and Medicaid recipients can’t even get all of the medically necessary treatments they need, yet Sen. Foster wants to spend money on circumcision? The bill she drafted would force Medicaid to cover all types of circumcision, even adult circumcision when there’s no medical problem! This would be a ridiculous waste of our money and a disservice to Medicaid recipients.
Craig Garrett/Colorado Springs
It’s illegal even to make a pinprick on a girl’s genitals. Why don’t boys get the same protection? Everyone should be able to decide for themselves whether or not they want parts cut off their genitals. It’s their body.
It’s not like it can’t wait — there are only two countries in the world where more than 50 percent of baby boys are circumcised — the USA and Israel.
Mark Lyndon/via Internet
BEST OF BOULDER SURVEY LAUNCHES Boulder Weekly has launched its annual Best of Boulder survey, and several new categories have been added this year. Voters can participate online at www.boulderweekly.com through March 31.
In response to last year’s reader feedback, the survey now gives local residents a chance to vote for “Best East County Restaurant,” “Best Lyons Restaurant” and “Best Nederland Restaurant.”
In addition, BW has added other new categories, like “Best Gluten-Free Menu,” “Best Food Truck,” “Best Coffee Roaster” and “Best Cocktail.” Everyone who responds to the survey will automatically receive an exclusive invitation to Boulder Weekly’s Best of Boulder Bash. | <urn:uuid:64a24e0a-0f01-4267-a745-a6d7637e9a5d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://npaper-wehaa.com/boulder-weekly/2012/03/01/?article=1534582&output=html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936563 | 990 | 1.546875 | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Low inflation, high jobless rate show euro crisis impact
* Euro zone inflation rate falls to 1.8 percent in February
* Unemployment hits new high of 11.9 percent in January
BRUSSELS, March 1 (Reuters) - Inflation fell in the euro zone in February and joblessness rose to an all-time high, highlighting the impact of the bloc's debt crisis.
Annual inflation in the 17 countries sharing the euro was 1.8 percent in February, the EU's statistics office Eurostat said on Friday, around the ECB's target of below but close to 2 percent, and by more than expected.
January's unemployment rate meanwhile rose to 11.9 percent in the bloc, up from 11.8 in December, with another 201,000 people out of work, Eurostat said separately.
The sombre economic situation will likely weigh on the ECB's Governing Council when it meets on March 7, and while only a minority of economists see any early move to cut the bank's benchmark rate below the current 0.75 percent, consumer prices are no longer an issue.
"Inflation is just not a concern, it is not a reason why policymakers would hesitate to cut interest rates," said Sarah Hewin, head of European research at Standard Chartered.
"They could move as early as next week, but there's an element of the ECB wanting to keep its powder dry as we enter an uncertain political situation with Italy and the Cypriot debt question to be resolved."
Economists polled by Reuters expected inflation to fall to 1.9 percent. The reading compared to 2 percent in January.
While the slowing pace of price increases may make it easier for Europeans to buy food and clothing, it is little comfort to the record 19 million people unemployed in the euro zone.
Three years of crisis have driven major euro zone economies, such as Italy and Spain, into a grinding recession, with businesses unable to obtain the financing they need to expand and citizens unable to earn enough to spend with confidence.
SCOPE FOR A RATE CUT
Overall joblessness also masks a large divide, with only 5 percent unemployment in Austria compared with 27 percent in Greece, although Eurostat's data from Athens was from November, the latest available.
"The economic division between the (heavily indebted) southern periphery and the core will not change in 2013," said Commerzbank economist Christoph Weil. "While the economy in the core countries ... should grow again in the first quarter, it will probably still contract in most periphery countries through to the second half of the year," he said.
According to a Reuters poll, only 17 of 75 economists see an ECB rate cut this year, but the European Commission's forecast last week that the euro zone will remain in recession this year could change that view.
Inflation pressures seem to have subsided overall, and the Commission, the 27-nation bloc's executive, forecast the euro zone's yearly inflation rate at 1.8 percent in 2013.
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Budget Transparency at Dartmouth College
On February 4th, 2010 more than 400 people gathered at a candlelight vigil to protest impending layoffs at Dartmouth College. I accompanied several other members of the Student Labor Action Movement to the rally so that we might show our support for Dartmouth’s jeopardized staff and allied students. The experience was especially personal to me because I grew up in Lebanon, New Hampshire, a town adjacent to Hanover where Dartmouth is located; the trek to the area was familiar, as were many faces at the rally.
I unexpectedly ran into Lisa, the mother of a high school friend of mine, who expressed personal concern about the possible repercussions of layoffs. She works at Dartmouth’s medical center, and was worried that her oldest son, also an employee of the university, might be one of the first to be laid off. Later, Nancy Vogele, the priest at the church my family attends, gave a speech about the hardships she has seen in her ministry, and predicted the expansion of these problems should Dartmouth cut the positions of its lowest-paid employees. Any number of positions cut can have disastrous effects on the community. The diversity of speakers at the rally spoke to the broad impact of the university's fiscal crisis: workers, union leaders, community members, students, and faculty all spoke passionately against Dartmouth's impending layoffs. In addition, Dartmouth students garnered 75 faculty signatures on a petition denouncing these cuts.
This activism directly prompted action on the part of the university's administration. Four days after the vigil, President Jim Yong Kim responded to demands with a detailed statement of prospective budget cuts. An initially notable difference between the actions Dartmouth and Harvard have taken with respect to their fiscal crises is the willingness of Dartmouth administrators to sacrifice their own salaries in order to save the jobs of others: President Kim, Vice President Steven Kadish, and Provost Carol Folt have all taken 10% salary cuts, an action which top Harvard administrators have not taken.
Furthermore, the message breaks down Dartmouth's cost-saving measures into several distinct categories and clearly identifies every layoff. Such transparency has thus far not been witnessed in Harvard's communication with the community of students, workers, community members, and faculty affected by its layoffs. For example, compare Dartmouth's correspondence to Harvard's current source of disclosure of the steps it plans to take in closing the rest of its budget deficit, the FAS Planning website. This site makes no mention of recent and ongoing cuts affecting Harvard's workers. Like its peer institutions, Harvard must adopt a new attitude toward transparency and communication with the community it affects in its reactions to the financial crisis. | <urn:uuid:0cc7a93d-1f8d-4921-a715-ffa765b013cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/slam/?q=node/397 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955956 | 530 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Small chemical explosion on the third floor, 590 Comm. Ave., around 8:45 p.m., hazmat team on the way.
Who knew the T was having problems with sightseers and swimmers in the Kenmore busway? Maybe that's why the project is so behind schedule. Saul Blumenthal is perplexed.
Copyright Saul Blumenthal.
UPDATE: Not a bomb, but a dummy used to lock customers inside the bank branch by people protesting the bank's energy policies or something.
POTUS32 had a camera trained on the Citgo Sign at 8:30 p.m. for Earth Hour:
Boston University Police report a man walking on the stairs Blandford Street to Beacon Street was mugged by a couple of Hispanic males. However, he managed to fend them off and they were unable to wrest his backpack from him.
Kat reports she was on a sardine-like C trolley this morning that stopped at Kenmore but didn't let anybody out:
... 10 seconds pass. Doors don't open. A business-suit guy next to me yells to the driver, "BACK DOORS!" 20 seconds pass. The train moves about 10 feet farther up the track, and then stops again. I look to the front of the train and see the doors up there aren't opening either. 30 seconds. More people start screaming "DOORS!" The train then starts up again and moves onto Hynes. Lots of grumbling and "Wait, seriously? Did the train just SKIP Kenmore?" ensue. ...
Technology Review reports that Kenmore Square start-up MTPV (yes, Kenmore, not Kendall) has won $10 million in funding to develop a new way to turn sunlight into energy - by using the light to heat up a special material that gives off light in a particular wavelength, which is then turned into electricity by standard solar cells.
... A conventional solar panel absorbs light from the entire spectrum, but it only converts certain colors efficiently. Much of the energy in the other wavelengths of light goes to waste. As a result, the maximum theoretical efficiency of a conventional solar cell is 30 percent, or 41 percent if the sunlight is first concentrated using a mirror or lens. In a thermal photovoltaic system, light is concentrated onto a material to heat it up. The material is selected so that when it gets hot, it emits light at wavelengths that a solar cell can convert efficiently. As a result, the theoretical maximum efficiency of a thermal photovoltaic system is 85 percent. ...
[T]he male suspect came from behind her and put both arms around her and held her as he attempted to take her phone from her pocket. The victim put her arms down in order to protect her pockets and began to scream. The suspect then fled down Bay State Rd.
Police say they are looking for two men, both described as black males, one wearing a black hoodie and black pants, the other wearing a red winter jacket.
Stephen Baldwin dares the toughest of the tough:
Although Roald Amundsen was the first man to conquer the North Pole, he died regretting that he never managed to complete his circumnavigation of Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. This infamous icebound New England neighborhood proved to be one frozen hell too far even for that brave explorer. Kenmore's giant ice floes, inhospitable tundra and man-eating college students were a frigid challenge the intrepid Norwegian simply could not face. ...
Except the odd snail, turtle or glacier. Beth Adelson reports waiting 40 minutes for a trolley to BU today - and then, when the train got to Kenmore, the conductor announced it was an express train to Packard's Corner.
Jocular Schlemiel reports on a conversation with two desperately lost Christians near Kenmore Square.
Short circuit blamed for brief blaze that left soot marks on one side.
Boston Foodie, late of New Jersey, gives a thumb's up to the pastrami at the Bleacher Bar, that place built into the side of Fenway Park:
Bleacher Bar is now ranking as my favorite Fenway hang out.
You know, the one with all your papers and cassette tapes in it, when you went into the Citizens Bank? Well, sorry, but the police bomb squad blew it up.
A veteran MBTA worker was arrested this morning on charges of skimming money from fare boxes after Red Sox games, the MBTA reports.
Gilberto Carrasquillo, 43, of Dorchester, will be arraigned tomorrow in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of larceny over $250.
The MBTA says Carrasquillo, a senior revenue collection agent in charge of returning post-Sox "drop boxes" to a T vault, was caught in a sting operation last night.
The T sets up these boxes at Fenway and Kenmore stations to expidite fare collection for passengers without cards or tickets after Sox games. Last night, police put marked bills in the fare boxes. When an audit this morning showed all but one of the bills missing, police arrested Carrasquillo.
Carrasquillo has worked for the MBTA for 22 years, the T said in a statement.
Stephen Laniel adds this to a list of T construction and maintenance issues. And as somebody who moved back to Boston because he missed it so much, he gets frustrated:
... It all smells very much like politics: buried deep within the MBTA and the city government, someone has paid someone else off; or the union won't fix something because one of its members is pissed at Grabauskas; or there's a feud going between the Italian wing and the Irish wing of city government. Something. If someone knows the politics, I'm sure that's 99% of the story; I would love to hear it. And I would love for the Globe to dig down to this next level. When a bridge is effectively running at 25% capacity for a few months, I want my local media to explain the root cause, rather than constantly turning to "MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo."
What I want to know is: as someone who loves this city very deeply, what can I do to fix what's broken? I'm not leaving this place. I want to make it better.
E-mail them at and suggest that they try some less annoying ad campaign. Like pop-unders or tele-marketing.
According to witnesses, they observed a male suspect (5'07", light skinned black male wearing a light green shirt, jeans and sneakers) run out of the bar holding a small knife. Witnesses further stated that the suspect appeared to have blood on his hands.
The victim was taken to Brigham and Women's for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Tom Fulry wishes the Sox would forget about gentrifying Boylston Street for a moment and turn their attention to that steaming whale excavation site in the ground that is Kenmore Square:
... At least slap a coat of paint on the old bitch Kenmore Sq and dress her up in her fancy hooker skirt so that the first sight these morons coming to Fenway see isn't akin to Snow White giving herself a brazilian before the Icescapades at Disney.
Alan "Bubba" Daughtry of Dorchester pleaded guilty last week to a string of robberies of bakeries, convenience stores and other small shops last year, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced.
Steve S. gets that real secure feeling when he notices the armed security guard asleep at the Bank of America kiosk - and he explains why, in the end, he decided not to knock over the bank. | <urn:uuid:77995784-124c-45f3-8769-0cae3e521948> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.universalhub.com/taxonomy/term/317?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955257 | 1,595 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Alan Brandt received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from The Cooper Union and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Upon graduation he joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. In 1971 he was on sabbatical at the Imperial College in London, working on intermittent turbulent flows, and from 1987 to 1993 he was Program Manager for the Physical Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Programs at the Office of Naval Research. Upon returning to APL he was re-appointed to the Principal Professional Staff, and currently he also has a joint appointment in the JHU Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. His research includes studies in fluid dynamics, physical oceanography, and environmental sciences, specifically surface and subsurface hydrodynamics, internal waves, turbulence, and issues related to submarine security. Recently he has been working on stratified wakes and the associated low Froude number internal waves, development of an expert system model for sea mine burial, characterization of the effects of episodic events (e.g. storms) on the near surface ocean, and biomimetic propulsion for application to underwater vehicles.
Waves, Fish and Submarines: Thirty Years of Hydrodynamics Research at APL
In the early 1970's, at the outset of a national program to ensure survivability of the US submarine fleet, relatively little was known about the wake signatures generated by submarine motions in the ocean or about the nature of the small-scale ocean processes that influence those signatures. At that time research studies (laboratory and analytic) were initiated to provide a basic understanding of the relevant physical processes. These research studies led to a major ocean field program that continues at the Laboratory to this day. Also ongoing is the basic research effort into wake physics and oceanic processes that have been carried out in the flow channel and tow tank situated in the APL Hydrodynamics Research Laboratory. This facility is a unique national resource focused on emulating the stratified flows that exist in the ocean and atmosphere. The scope of our research effort has grown beyond issues related to submarine security to include a broad range of fundamental studies in the environmental sciences, including efforts ranging from ocean internal waves to mixing in the Chesapeake Bay to underwater propulsion by biomimetic ribbon fins as found on certain fish and eels. The history, motivation, and underlying scientific challenges of our efforts in ocean hydrodynamics will be revealed. | <urn:uuid:84562ba4-c934-41a9-a3da-7d1c102ec74c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium/Archive/Detail?colloqid=20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946858 | 489 | 1.773438 | 2 |
A look at the crimes and capture of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, teenage lovers who murdered 10 people in the 1950s.
A young married couple's photographs of their vacation give police the clues they need to implicate the pair in the murders of two other Ocean City, Maryland vacationers.
Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the unsolved case of an African-American truck driver who was forced to leap to his death from a bridge by Klan members.
With simply their voices and guitars, folk singers are the unplugged artists who tell our collective stories through their songs. Their music conveys universal truths and, in turbulent times, is often a call to action in the form of protest songs. Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and other legendary folk singers have rallied audiences around historic causes such as the Civil Rights, peace and feminist movements. Here are some of the famous folk singers who were revolutionary through their songs.
The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held in 1959, after Walk of Fame recording executives compiled a list of industry leaders who they realized would never get a star on Hollywood Boulevard, but deserved recognition. The group helped found the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and named their award the "Grammy" as a nod to Edison's gramophone. Since then, hundreds of music industry members have received Grammys for their notable accomplishments in the field of music and recording. Here are the many winners of this now-prestigious award. | <urn:uuid:c1feb94a-ac32-4a81-8e75-2eed3e8a9db7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biography.com/people/groups?profile=20871737&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972874 | 322 | 1.8125 | 2 |
A report on Monday showed that home prices were up in July in 49 of the 70 Chinese cities tracked by the government, the most since May last year. Prices fell in nine cities and were unchanged in 12.
While the rebound in prices helps prevent real estate from dragging down the rest of the economy, it also complicates the government’s efforts to stimulate economic growth. “Rising property prices are constraining aggressive policy action from the central bank,” said Zhang Zhiwei, chief China economist at Nomura Holdings Inc. in Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, the US economy may have improved in July. A report on Monday showed that the Chicago Fed National Activity Index increased to –0.13 in July from –0.34 in June. However, the three-month moving average fell to –0.21 from –0.18, suggesting, according to the Chicago Fed, that economic growth was below historical trend.
Japan's economy, though, appears to be slowing. Data from the Cabinet Office on Monday showed that the leading index for June has been revised up to 93.2 from 92.6 but that was still the third consecutive month of decline. The coincident index was revised up to 94.1 from 93.8 but was also down from 95.8 in May. | <urn:uuid:601059c3-3f78-4208-adcd-04491b34234e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://skepticalspeculator.blogspot.com/2012/08/chinas-home-prices-rebound.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985104 | 265 | 1.710938 | 2 |
As first detailed by Adam Zagorin on Battleland two weeks ago, the Justice Department has launched a full criminal probe into the death of the “Ice Man” at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.
The department issued a statement in Attorney General Eric Holder’s name Thursday saying he has accepted U.S. Attorney John Durham’s recommendation “to conduct a full criminal investigation regarding the death in custody of two individuals.” While the statement did not name them, people familiar with the case say the two are the “Ice Man” — Manadel al-Jamadial — and Gul Rahman, who died at a CIA prison in Afghanistan in 2002.
The move is sure to re-ignite partisan battles over the extent and propriety of so-called “harsh” interrogation techniques that U.S. agents used in the wake of 9/11 to try to wring “actionable intelligence” from detainees gathered up from around the world. Democrats have tended to suggest that the interrogators went too far and should be investigated and possibly prosecuted. Republicans maintain the interrogators were fulfilling their responsibility to try to protect the nation from additional terror attacks.
The statement said Holder made his decision following a grand jury probe led by the Republican-appointed Durham. It reviewed “both information and matters that had never previously been examined by the Department.” Durham’s charter “examined primarily whether any unauthorized interrogation techniques were used by CIA interrogators, and if so, whether such techniques could constitute violations of the torture statute or any other applicable statute.” While praising the work of the CIA, Holder added that he felt it necessary that “the Department needed to thoroughly examine the detainee treatment issue.”
The American Civil Liberties Union wasn’t impressed. “While we welcome the announcement that the Justice Department will conduct a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two prisoners in CIA custody, it is difficult to understand the prosecutor’s conclusion that only those two deaths warrant further investigation,” said Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU’s deputy legal director. “For a period of several years, and with the approval of the Bush administration’s most senior officials, the CIA operated an interrogation program that subjected prisoners to unimaginable cruelty and violated both international and domestic law. The narrow investigation that Attorney General Holder announced today is not proportionate to the scale and scope of the wrongdoing.” | <urn:uuid:b83f16d5-5970-4964-b277-07aae7858e99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nation.time.com/2011/06/30/u-s-to-probe-cia-linked-death-of-the-iceman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960326 | 515 | 1.5 | 2 |
Carlisle soccer players Lindsey Kamerick, Valerie Goodhue-Nolte, Ashton Goodhue-Nolte, Taylor Whipple, and Madison Polley (pictured at right with Women’s National Team veteran Julie Foudy) all had an opportunity of a lifetime when they attended the Julie Foudy Leadership Academy in Chicago this summer. What sets it apart from other soccer camps is its world-class staff, including founder and facilitator Julie Foudy (Former Captain of the USA Women’s Soccer Team, National Hall of Fame inductee 2007, Olympic Gold Medalist 1996, 2004, Olympic Silver Medalist 2000, Two=time World Cup Champion 1991 and 1999, 17-year veteran of National Team and star of the film documentaries "The World at Their Feet" and "Dare to Dream"). Other coaches included Lorrie Fair (World Cup Champion 1999, Olympic Silver Medalist, and three-time NCAA Champion at UNC), Jaime Pagliarulo (former Arizona State Asst. Coach, professional player for WUSA San Diego Spirit and US Women’s National Team member), Lindsay Tarpley (Two-time gold medalist US Women’s National Team star and player with the Chicago Red Stars) and several other national players from around the world including Brazil, Mexico and Afganastan.
Another aspect of the camp that sets it apart from the rest is its emphasis on leadership, on and off the field. Every day the girls would do leadership activities and learn how they apply not only to soccer, but also too life. One whole day was commited to community leadership and the importance of giving back to the community. The campers worked with handicapped children, held a soccer camp for underprivileged children and gave a helping hand to the Ronald McDonald House.
The Academy was an amazing experience for all the girls who not only learned soccer skills from the best players in the world but also how to be leaders in life. "Live. Lead. Pass It On!" | <urn:uuid:de0120b3-1855-41cf-90c4-7079e3cc9966> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.carlislesoccer.org/index.php/2009/08/04/carlisle-soccer-players-attend-julie-foudy-camp-in-chicago/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953881 | 412 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Is there any concensus on where abouts on a disk to put your swap?
Is best to make it the last partition, or stick it in the middle
somewhere? Does it really matter? I have two identical machines,
but one seems more sluggish than the other, and the only difference
in the way they were built is that the swap on the slow one is
way at the end of a 72 GB disk. Could this really be an issue?
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Low corporate tax rates reduce revenues but fail to create jobs, according to a new TUC report published today (Saturday).
The TUC report Corporate tax reform and competitiveness, written by chartered accountant and tax specialist Richard Murphy, warns that recent tax reforms and ongoing reductions in the headline corporation tax rate will reduce vital tax revenues without any significant benefit to ordinary taxpayers.
The report cites data from OECD countries to show that the UK enjoys an extremely competitive tax rate. More than 90 per cent of UK businesses pay the small business rate of 20 per cent while the effective corporate tax rate for large companies is currently estimated by PriceWaterhouseCoopers to be 23.2 per cent, far lower than the OECD average of 26.5 per cent.
Previous TUC research has estimated that the effective corporate tax rate is lower than 23.2 per cent and has been falling by 0.5 percentage points a year for the last decade. It is likely that many multinational corporations are now paying a lower rate of corporation tax than UK small businesses, says the TUC.
The report also compares corporate tax and employment growth rates between 1997 and 2010 across OECD countries and finds no strong correlation between low taxes and high employment or GDP growth.
The study suggests that at a time of constrained public finances, the economic benefits are not significant enough to justify tax cuts of the scale that the government has embarked upon, particularly given the UK's already low corporate tax rates. Cutting corporation tax to attempt to stimulate growth is a poor economic strategy, says the TUC.
The report highlights recent changes to tax policy that have encouraged further tax avoidance and the channelling of profits away from the UK.
The last government agreed that in exchange for tougher Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) rules, from April 2009 any dividends paid by foreign subsidiaries to UK parent companies would not be subject to UK tax. But while the tougher CFC rules have not yet made it into law, the new rules on dividend payments have weakened the UK tax base by encouraging companies to move profits out of the UK, says the TUC.
With corporate tax receipts expected to fall as a proportion of the total tax take from April 2012, and the estimated 15,000 job losses across HMRC making it even harder to monitor the flow of profits from the various subsidiaries of multinational companies, growing tax avoidance could undermine the government's deficit reduction targets and put further pressure on spending cuts, the TUC warns.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: 'The government has been seduced by employer calls for more corporate tax cuts. But while everyone wants to pay less tax, from multinational corporations to ordinary taxpayers, the argument that simply cutting corporation tax will fuel jobs and growth does not stand up to scrutiny.
'UK corporate tax rates are already extremely competitive. And while some people, including the Chancellor, have talked about emulating the Irish economy's aggressive low tax policies, its current woes suggest this is not a sustainable economic model.
'Big business has been steadily cutting its effective tax rate every year for the last decade, even though headline rates were fixed for much of this period. Despite pledging to crack down on tax avoidance, recent reforms and huge job losses at HMRC mean that tax dodging opportunities are now greater than ever.
'The more that big businesses and the super rich avoid paying their fair share, the more ordinary taxpayers will have to pick up the tab though tax rises and reduced public services.
'The government must stand up for hard-pressed workers and enforce a fairer tax regime and a fairer and more sustainable approach to securing economic growth.'
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On Tuesday the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari (judicial review) in the case of Forsyth County, North Carolina v. Joyner, which challenged the local government’s opening prayer policy. In this instance, Forsyth County had constructed an ”inclusive” (and thus theoretically constitutionally protected) model where all comers could have a turn, but challengers to the policy noted that the prayers were overwhelmingly Christian, and created a chilling atmosphere towards non-Christian faiths.
On Joyner and Blackmon’s account, the overall atmosphere made them feel distinctly unwelcome and “coerced by [their] government into endorsing a Christian prayer.” Blackmon claimed that she felt compelled to stand and bow her head because of the Chair’s instruction to stand and because of the audience’s response. Joyner offered a similar account, believing that if she had failed to comply, it would have “negatively prejudice[d] consideration of [her] intended petition as a citizen appearing for public comment.” Both characterized the prayer as sectarian, with Blackmon referring to it as including a “one-minute sermon.”
During the period contested in the lawsuit, four-fifths of the prayers referred to “Jesus” in one form or another. The 4th Circuit made very clear that the lack of balance in presented prayers was an important factor in ruling that Forsyth’s policy violated the Establishment Clause.
“…legislative prayer must strive to be nondenominational so long as that is reasonably possible — itshould send a signal of welcome rather than exclusion. Itshould not reject the tenets of other faiths in favor of just one.Infrequent references to specific deities, standing alone, donot suffice to make out a constitutional case. But legislativeprayers that go further — prayers in a particular venue that repeatedly suggest the government has put its weight behinda particular faith — transgress the boundaries of the Establishment Clause. Faith is as deeply important as it is deeply personal, and the government should not appear to suggestthat some faiths have it wrong and others got it right.”
This skirmish over prayer before government meetings is just the latest in a protracted struggle between the ACLU and the more socially conservative-minded Alliance Defense Fund. While the ACLU is generally skeptical of allegedly inclusive sectarian open prayer models, the Alliance Defense Fund believes them to be constitutionally protected, and part of America’s heritage. Responding to this setback, the ADF said that “the standard for prayer policies in the 4th Circuit will be different from the standard held by the rest of the country.”
“No federal court has ruled that prayers cannot be offered before public meetings. The Supreme Court has simply missed an opportunity to clear up the differing opinions among the various circuits about the content of the prayers. This means that, for the time being, the standard for prayer policies in the 4th Circuit will be different from the standard held by the rest of the country. ADF will continue to litigate in favor of the historical standard until the Supreme Court eventually hears a case that will clear up the confusion.”
The Alliance Defense Fund had a lot invested in this case, and other cases like this, as Forsyth was following their blueprint for protected government sectarian prayer. A blueprint partially constructed around two 4th Circuit cases involving public prayers and modern Pagans: Simpson v. Chesterfield County, the case that helped create the so-called “Wiccan-proof” invocation policy, and the Darla Wynne case, in which a Wiccan from South Carolina won a battle against sectarian government prayer. Despite the fact that towns like Greece, New York and Lancaster, California have won lower-court challenges by including a smattering of minority religions in sectarian prayers (aka the “include a Wiccan gambit”), the law isn’t settled on what, if any, formula for sectarian prayer at a government meeting will pass constitutional muster. It can be folly to read too much into a denied certiorari request, but by letting this decision stand, a decision that invokes both Simpson’s and Wynne’s cases, SCOTUS does leave the idea that balance is necessary in a sectarian prayer model on the table.
Eventually, SCOTUS will have to make a stand on these sectarian prayer policies, just as it recently took a stand on the question of “ministerial exception.” A concept that had been invoked several times in the lower courts, but never in our nation’s highest court. When it does, cases that involve Wiccans and other minority faiths will have a major influence on how that decision is made. In the meantime, Americans United, the ACLU, the Alliance Defense Fund, and several other advocacy groups, will try to build up their positions in the lower courts. No doubt several towns and cities who fall under the jurisdiction of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals are currently talking with their lawyers over their prayer policies, and whether they need to include more Wiccans. | <urn:uuid:7e73cb1c-860e-4232-8aa5-e4e0d0d4b5d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wildhunt.org/tag/darla-wynne | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9601 | 1,046 | 1.617188 | 2 |
1968, I think, was the year when the world changed.
Ever since then has it been fashionable to criticise those who are open to criticism but ignore those who are not. Ever since then has it been considered brave by society to attack those who have many enemies. And ever since then do we find this weird alliance between the left and the religious fundamentalists, between those who believe they are questioning authority and those who insist that their authority must not be questioned.
Those two groups are actually very compatible. The left believes that authority must be questioned. Religious fundamentalists (and I don't mean church-going Christians who object to foul language on television) have no problem with that. Religious fundamentalists believe that their authority cannot be questioned because it comes from a god. For all practical purposes, in that religion, the "supreme leader" of Iran is their god.
If authority must be questioned and one authority cannot be questioned, one can easily find a way out: one can question everything else. Backed up by one's own god, one can not only question authority but downright prove it wrong. It's a left-winger's dream.
The Shah was an authority. And his authority could be questioned. He himself allowed it. And despite legends told by left-wingers about their extreme bravery, the Shah did not actually execute or otherwise punish people for having an opinion or for speaking it. The Shah was not a god and never claimed to be. He never claimed for himself the authority to be a god or speak on a god's behalf. He was a human who could err and his enemies took that and the clerics' claims of their own supernatural ultimate authority as proof that the Shah was wrong.
Many left-wingers today claim that the revolution in Iran was a good thing after all and that the communists just failed to take over during it. But that claim is a lie. The communists never even tried to organise the revolution themselves. They just followed Khomeini's lead.
And Khomeini himself was celebrated by the western media. Freedom was brought to Iran under the spiritual leadership of a 79-year old cleric. Every word was written to create the impression that Khomeini was a holy man and guide who would bring freedom and food to oppressed pesants rather than a vicious and brutal criminal from a social class who were seeing their wealth (land titles) distributed to peasants by the Shah and who were afraid of equal rights for women. The revolution, the press told us, happened on the initiative of the people, the wise cleric only added his blessing.
I have said it before, the left owes us a world. It owes us a stable and wealthy Iran.
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sometimes wish that Emerson had been my grandfather or uncle
or something like that. I'm sure that if I had had the
chance to hear his wisdom over and over again while growing
up, some of it would have rubbed off on me and I would have
avoided many of the problems I've gone through.
of those problems have been caused by fear, for I grew up
fearful of many things. The fear is gone, for the most
part, but I certainly can vouch for Emerson's words
here: the storm within endangers us. I can't
count the number of hours and days that I've spent with some
fear in the front of my mind, overwhelming all of the other
things that I've been trying to do. I can't count how
many of my actions have been motivated by a fear of what
would happen if I committed another action, rather than by a
desire to do what I felt should be done.
we were to be given safety always, we would never find
ourselves in positions in which we have to test ourselves,
in which we would have to learn and grow. Danger in
whatever form causes us to make decisions and re-evaluate
our priorities and beliefs. But if our reaction to
danger always is fear, we don't give ourselves the chance to
deal with that danger in a productive way. Instead, we
retreat from confronting it, and we end up losing the chance
to take something from it.
we can calm the storm within ourselves by finding peace and
trusting life and God, danger of whatever sort no longer
holds the power that it once did. Instead of causing
us to feel terror, it will cause us to examine the ways that
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The Cats of Wildcat Hill. Edward Weston and Charis Wilson. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1947. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original cloth. 90 pp.
Illustrated throughout with full-page halftone photographs by Edward Weston of his home five miles south of Carmel, California, and the cats that shared it. The Westons decided to host a "colony" of cats on their two acres, wanting to study their behavior as well as enjoy their company. A few of the images have been included in other books of his work, while others are less well known. An uncommon book.
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A friend in the office was a whiz at it, and offered to stand outside the door and eavesdrop. “You just pretend like you’re taking it,” he said, “and I’ll be out here and I’ll get it all for you, no problem.”
So as Walter Mondale barked out correspondence — “Dear Lyndon: Great seeing you the other day …” “Dear Hubert: Hope this finds you feeling better … ” — Judee furiously doodled into her notebook. She got the friend’s notes, and the next day placed the stack of neatly typed letters on Mondale’s desk. “At my going-away party, we’re all there and Walter says, ‘The first time I met her, she came in here and never even looked at me as she sat there scribbling. I knew she wasn’t taking dictation!’ He knew all along and never said anything.”
She witnessed the turbulent history of ’60s Washington unfold right outside her window. She walked in the procession for JFK’s funeral, and stood at the Lincoln Memorial to listen to Martin Luther King deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech. “I think we’re on the threshold of another exciting time like that. It reminds me of those days,” she says of the current presidential race. It was the excitement of Camelot-era Washington that led to her fascination with power — how it was manifested and cultivated, used and wasted. And how women didn’t seem to have any of it.
LIKE A LOT of people in Philadelphia, Judee von Seldeneck landed here by chance. While in D.C., she got romanced by and engaged to investment banker Clay von Seldeneck, a Philadelphia native; once they were married, they moved here.
After a decade in the epicenter of the tumult of the national political discourse, she found herself bereft. Antsy to not just do something, but really do something, she bought into a small, female-owned firm that placed women in time-share jobs. In 1974 she bought out her partners, took office space in the Western Savings Building at Broad and Chestnut, and changed the firm’s focus to finding full-time jobs for women. “We had a card table and chairs, and we’d sit there and smoke cigarettes and figure out what to do,” she says.
The mid-1970s turned out to be the right time to figure it out, as the federal government — taking its cue in part from the burgeoning feminist movement — began setting aside federal contracts for female- and minority-owned businesses. “She didn’t approach it as a social or civic exercise,” Rimel says of Diversified’s start. “She approached it as a business.”
Eventually that business expanded beyond placing women, and — year by year, through relentless door-knocking and the occasional big break, like landing Fidelity Bank as a client — Judee von Seldeneck combined muscular intellect, Southern sass, a competitive golf game, a girly wardrobe, and a set of brass ones to elbow her way into the circles of the city’s corporate elite. Take, for example, the hunt for the CEO of the Kimmel Center in 2002. The Kimmel search committee — a who’s who of Philly business, culture and philanthropy — wanted a firm specializing in arts execs to make the hire. It invited Diversified to pitch for the gig “as a courtesy to Judee,” Comcast executive vice president David Cohen recalls. Armed with her steel-magnolia grace and citing both her personal commitment to the city and the turning point the Kimmel represented, she dazzled everyone. After she left, committee member Midge Rendell was the first to pipe up: “Anyone change their mind?” Diversified was hired within a week.
But for all her glass-ceiling-shattering, perhaps the most interesting thing about Judee von Seldeneck is how little she seems to think about being a woman in charge of a multinational company. And this may explain why she’s been so successful at it. While she has always understood that there were going to be men who didn’t want a woman anywhere near their businesses, it seems never to have occurred to her that this was an obstacle she couldn’t overcome. Such resilient belief runs through the cabal that Judee calls the “Ya-Yas,” a sisterhood of some of the city’s most powerful women that meets covertly from time to time to drink wine, talk shop, and gossip about local goings-on. In other words, an Old Girls’ Network. And Judee firmly believes the Old Girls have a duty to the Young Girls coming after them. “She keeps her eye out for people she thinks have potential, particularly women,” says Aqua America executive director Melissa Grimm, who in 2006 was placed by Judee as the executive director of the city’s effort to land the Olympics. “She’s accessible to give you advice, and when she gives it, she’s got a certain directness that I think is good in a mentor.” | <urn:uuid:b5a31115-cf6a-4cc3-ab93-a9b89c707555> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phillymag.com/articles/power-the-headhuntress/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970543 | 1,131 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Tuesday 28 April 2009
by: Steve Weissman, truthout
Asked what he thought of Western civilization, the nonviolent Mahatma Gandhi famously replied, "I think it would be a good idea." Unless millions of Americans now demand better, we can say the same of "the rule of law." What a good idea it would have been, but - like the tooth fairy - it will not exist, not when competing priorities get in the way. The balancing - and trimming - is well on its way.
Should a special prosecutor hold Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld accountable for violating the law against torture when they specifically authorized waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and sexual humiliation of detainees? "No one is above the law," President Obama repeatedly tells us. But, prosecuting Bush & Co. would tear the country apart, the Republican chorus chimes in. And it would create a precedent for prosecuting future presidents whose policies we might not like, just as in a banana republic.
Should Congress or a truth commission investigate torture and other war crimes so they will never happen again? Better not, the White House tells us. The country needs to look ahead and not to the past, and the administration needs to focus on fixing the economy and creating a universal health care system.
Should Congress impeach former Deputy Attorney General Jay Bybee, now a federal appeals court judge, for giving his superiors the legal arguments they wanted to justify the torture they had already decided upon? Absolutely not, his defenders insist. Lawyers must feel free to give officials their best legal advice, and officials must feel free to get the legal advice they need.
None of these alternative priorities are trivial. America should never criminalize differences over lawful policies. Obama and his administration should focus on ending the economic crisis and fulfilling his campaign promises. And senior officials should feel free to consult with government lawyers. But all these priorities must remain within legal limits, and none of them justify giving a pass to those who commit criminal acts, no matter how high their office. Either we uphold the rule of law or we make political priorities paramount. We cannot have it both ways, and we should stop pretending that we can.
The stakes here go far beyond whether or not we torture our enemies, our suspected enemies and then our own people, though these are obviously life-and-death concerns. What should scare us even more is whether or not we maintain even the façade of democracy.
In overriding the Geneva Conventions, other treaty obligations and American laws banning torture, the Bush administration explicitly claimed that the president could do whatever he thought necessary to full his constitutional obligation to defend the country. He was the decider in chief, and neither Congress nor the courts could overrule his decision. As Jay Bybee's torture memo put it, "the President enjoys complete discretion in the exercise of his Commander-in-Chief authority and in conducting operations against hostile forces."
Right-wing legal ideologues call this view of sweeping and unchecked presidential power "a strong unified presidency." Those who believe in it would turn our chief executive into an elected monarch, and some proponents would even grant him or her the right to call off elections in time of crisis, real or contrived. Following this grandiose view, President Bush usurped powers that the Constitution does not permit, and his administration used those powers to commit other crimes, from torture to invading Iraq on a pack of lies. Do we prosecute Bush's power grab as a criminal violation of the Constitution? Or, do we accept a crime bordering on treason as just another policy decision with which we may or may not disagree?
Either way, we set a precedent. Prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld and we confirm that every future leader must operate within the rule of law. Give them a pass and their successors will feel free to rule as they will. The choice is clear, if only Americans have the courage to pursue it. My guess is that we do not, and that we will soon come to rue it.
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Here's another thing to worry about at the airport: surgically implanted explosives. Or as the Associated Press bluntly put it: "Terrorists interested in putting bombs inside humans to attack." You can't really think of many more unsettling images than the ones that headline conjures up. The news, announced by the always-under-fire Transportation Security Administration, is that airlines are being warned about the implanted explosives, and more screening procedures may be arriving at airports shortly.
"These measures are designed to be unpredictable, so passengers should not expect to see the same activity at every international airport," said TSA spokesperson Nicholas Kimball (via The Los Angeles Times). "Measures may include interaction with passengers, in addition to the use of other screening methods such as pat-downs and the use of enhanced tools and technologies." Those "enhanced tools" sound like a recipe for even more outrage. | <urn:uuid:7f2afa2d-663b-45a8-8ec0-ad14992d0fb8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/07/another-thing-worry-about-surgically-implanted-explosives/39624/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961694 | 178 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Sixty-one of the 108 people prosecuted under UK hacking laws between 2003 and 2007 were convicted. The number of successful prosecutions under the Computer Misuse Act came in a written parliamentary answer by Claire Ward, junior minister at the Ministry of Justice, in response to a question from Cardiff Lib Dem MP Jennifer …
I have a suspicion that the number of people required to draft, edit, amend, review, vote, and sign-off this law far exceeded the number of prosecutions. It would be great to have a league table of criminal laws listed by number of prosecutions and convictions. We could then set government the goal of excising the 100 least 'popular' laws every year.
All of which probably explains...
...why the US want to extradite McKinnon.
accept Gary McKinnon's plea here
and we can get the figures up a bit
Murder rate is quite low in the UK, about 850 per year
I wonder how long before that got knocked of the statute books with your system in place?
But yes, some stupid laws have to go
How about a bit of comparison, El Reg, with other crimes ?
Rape: ~6% http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more_or_less/8213670.stm
Terrorism: 12% http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8047477.stm
These are *Magistrates* court prosecutions, not a proper court, a magistrate isn't even a judge, and not of sufficient seriousness to use the lapdog extradition treaty which was intended only FOR SERIOUS CRIMES LIKE TERRORISM, not petty magistrates crimes.
"Information showing the number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act in England and Wales from 2003 to 2007 (latest available) is shown in the following table. Data for 2008 will be available towards the end of 2009."
The treaty is broken because it leaves the protection of UK citizens to the Home Secretary and he can't see any votes in it.
and even then at least one was false...
An old colleague got done by his previous employer for supposedly stealing data, when he took the backup drive home as an offsite backup. They knew he'd been doing this as he'd been doing it for years and they authorised it (albeit not written unfortunately). When he said he was fed up and decided to leave they accused him of stealing company data, and he was taken to court. He was told he risked jail unless he pleaded guilty so felt he had to- because having no chance to go to jail and a criminal record is better than having a chance of going to jail and a criminal record or not, even though he'd done nothing wrong. Without evidence his employer had allowed him to use his own house to take the drive to as an offsite backup because they only ever authorised it verbally what could he do? It was their word against his, and they could prove he'd taken the drive home as they got the police involved, whilst he had no proof it was authorised.
If it can happen to one person, I'm sure it can happen to many more. What's the bet out of those 61 a good bunch of them are forced guilty pleas like in this case too?
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Born: July 16, 1925 | Died: May 5, 1982 Primary Instrument: Vibraphone
Cal Tjader crafted one the sleekest and most distinctive sounds in Latin jazz. His cool, shimmering, jazz vibes, gliding fluidly atop fiery, hot Afro-Cuban rhythms, made for a sonic signature that helped introduce the genre into a mainstream audience.
Cal Tjader’s mother was a concert pianist, his father a vaudeville performer. He grew up with them on the road, tap- dancing his way through early childhood. Later, the family settled down in San Mateo on the San Francisco Peninsula, and his father opened a dancing school. After high school and a stint in the Navy, Cal ended up at San Francisco State College, where he first met up with Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.
Tjader graduated in 1950 with a B.A. in education and a minor in music. With Brubeck, Tjader hit the big time and he liked it. The years between 1949 and 1951 were spent with Brubeck. Then, after a short stint as leader of his own group, Cal joined George Shearing’s Quintet as featured vibraphonist and percussionist. While with Shearing Cal made frequent trips to New York and began listening to the Latin New York bands of Tito Puente and Machito.
When Tjader left Shearing, he formed his own group again and began to record prolifically for Fantasy. Between 1954 and 1962, Tjader cut a series of over 20 albums for Fantasy. The list of people who recorded with him during that time is truly impressive. Some are Eddie Palmieri, (on whom he had a major influence) Vince Guaraldi, Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Stan Getz, Al McKibbon, Armando Peraza, Latin percussionist Johnnie Rae, and saxophonist Paul Horn. Many of those albums are still in the Fantasy catalog. He then signed on with Verve in 1963, and continued on a roll.
Tjader’s biggest-selling record was Soul Sauce.” Cal recalls, “I recorded that for MGM/ Verve in 1964. And it’s very strange, in a way, because I first started playing that tune in San Francisco clubs ten years earlier, in 1954. Then ten years later, it’s a hit in New York. You tell me! Willie Bobo played jawbone on that one, and Al McKibbon played congas. It was originally called ‘Guachi Guara’ but we knew that name wouldn’t make it, so we just called it Soul Sauce.”
Tjader re-signed with Fantasy Records in 1970. Some of his varied recordings for Fantasy include a collaborative effort with Charlie Byrd “Tambu,” (’73) and an exciting live performance “Puttin’ It Together.” (’75) His much-acclaimed “Amazonas,” (’75) was produced by Airto, with arrangements from keyboard wizard George Duke.
He signed with Concord Picante in ’79, and his first album for them “La Onda Va Bien,” won a Grammy award in 1979. Concord released “The Best of the Concord Years, 1979- 1982,” in 2004, as a compilation of his last recordings. There are several reviews on this set here at ‘all about jazz.’
Cal Tjader also worked with a great variety of groups and formats, as with Carmen Mcrae, Mary Stallings, Modern Mambo Quintet, and his Quartet, with which he opted for a more straight ahead jazz direction. His recorded output was immense, and many are readily available as his popularity has remained unabated.
Cal Tjader died May 5, 1982.
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Civics Day for Watsonville High School Freshmen
Public Works & Utilities Department
As the City’s largest department, we’re sure the students were amazed when hearing about all services provided to the community by the Public Works and Utilities Department. The department operates and maintains nearly all of the City’s infrastructure while also providing many of the City services that residents use on a daily basis.
They learned that staff in Public Works & Utilities fix the potholes, removes graffiti, sweeps the streets, keeps the water flowing, collects and treats the sewage, repairs street lights, builds nature trails, maintains the fire engines and police cars, plans and builds streets and bridges, and empties the garbage and recycle carts, all while ensuring that the City complies with all regulatory requirements and helping to advance the City’s sustainability goals.
The Engineering Division designs and oversees construction of many of the City’s road and utilities projects, manages the City’s traffic systems and Watsonville Municipal Airport.
The Environmental Education Division operates the Environmental Science Workshop and the Ramsay Park Nature Center and provides classroom education and related field trips to our community schools to teach water conservation, recycling, and watershed management.
Department staff takes great pride in providing services to our community in an efficient and cost-effective manner while also providing excellent customer service.
We hope the students learned a bit about City government and enjoyed hearing about the many City services provided to the entire community and what it takes to run the City.
If you’ll click on the schedule below, you’ll see that City staff was quite busy but more than happy to share a little bit about their own Department. Presentations were given by staff from Public Works & Utilities, Police, Library, Fire, City Council, Community Development, City Manager and Parks & Community Services.
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NHTSA Reports Drug Use Among Fatally Injured Drivers Increased Over the Last Five Years
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Contact: Karen Aldana
Report is First Ever Analysis of Drug Involvement Among Deceased Drivers in Fatal Crashes
In a new report on drug use by drivers involved in America’s fatal crashes, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today reported post-mortem testing results showing an increase in the level of drug involvement among fatally injured drivers over a five-year period from 2005 to 2009.
Drug involvement does not mean the driver was impaired or that drug use was the cause of the crash.
According to data compiled by NHTSA, 63 percent of the 21,798 drivers who were killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2009 were tested for drugs. Of these, 3,952 tested positive for drug involvement, representing 18 percent of the total for that year. The report also showed drug use reported by the states among fatally injured drivers increasing from 13 percent in 2005, to 15 percent in 2006, 16 percent in 2007, and 18 percent in 2008.
The drug data released today was collected by NHTSA as part of its Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and included information collected from the states under three broad categories: whether the driver was tested, the type of test conducted, and the test results. The types of drugs recorded in FARS include narcotics, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, cannabinoids, phencyclidines (PCPs), anabolic steroids, and inhalants. The groups include both illicit drugs, as well as legally prescribed drugs and over-the-counter medicines.
"Every driver on the road has a personal responsibility to operate his or her vehicle with full and uncompromised attention on the driving task," said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland. "Today’s report provides a warning signal that too many Americans are driving after having taken drugs, not realizing the potential for putting themselves and others on the highway at risk."
In announcing today’s drug findings, Administrator Strickland did offer some cautions, including the fact that drug test results are unavailable for a large portion of fatally injured drivers. He noted also that there was a wide variance among states regarding the extent of drug testing conducted.
He added that state drug testing techniques and procedures are evolving and that currently states, as well as jurisdictions within a state, may test for different drugs, use different test types, and/or employ different concentration thresholds for determining whether a test was positive or not.
The NHTSA Administrator added, "The results we are releasing today indicate that drugs were found to be present in post-mortem examinations. Drug involvement does not necessarily imply impairment or indicate that drug use was the cause of the crash." He noted that while many years of real-world observations and empirical evidence have shown a strong relationship between alcohol concentration levels in the blood and impairment and crash correlation, the same evidence is not yet available for drugs.
"While it’s clear that science and state policies regarding drugs and driving are evolving, one fact is indisputable. If you are taking any drugs that might impair your ability to drive safely, then you need to put common sense and caution to the forefront, and give your keys to someone else. It doesn’t matter if its drugs or alcohol, if you’re impaired, don’t drive," Administrator Strickland warned.
The NHTSA Administrator added that NHTSA is continuing to conduct research to better understand the correlation between drug levels and their impact on crashes.
Administrator Strickland also explained that, under NHTSA’s Drug Evaluation and Classification program, the agency has prepared nearly 1,000 instructors and trained more than 6,000 police officers in 46 states to recognize symptoms of driver impairment by drugs other than alcohol.
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Sep. 18, 2010
Dear Joanna Newsom,
We are members of Boycott! – a group of Israeli citizens, Jews and Palestinians, who support the Palestinian call to boycott Israel as means of bringing to an end the murderous, systematic oppression of an entire population, which occurs daily in our name.
The news of your scheduled performance in Israel was a bitter-sweet one: the prospect of being an audience in your performance was exhilarating, but this excitement was intertwined with the knowledge that on the 30th of September, the day of your show in Tel-Aviv, our good friends from the village of Bil'in – only half an hour away from Tel-Aviv – will not be able to come see your show with us. They will not be able to come because Israeli martial-law, which they have been under since 1967, does not allow them to, and a separation wall and road blockades are physically blocking their way.
When you come to perform in Israel, the message you bring with you is a message of “business as usual”, of normalizing a situation in which a group of people, based on their ethnicity, is physically prevented from a chance to work, study, or, indeed, come to your show, because armed soldiers surround their towns and villages. We urge you to reconsider your scheduled performance in Tel-Aviv, which will cross the picket lines of our struggle to bring an end to this.
Four million Palestinians live under brutal Israeli oppression, which renders legal any demolition of a Palestinian house, any imprisonment or abuse of a Palestinian man, woman, or child, any land expropriation, for any period of time, anywhere. Performing in Israel fosters an environment in which all this is normal – it is normal that a few miles east of Tel-Aviv people's houses are raided at night, tear gas canisters and sound grenades are randomly thrown into family houses, and peaceful demonstrators are shot in the stomach whilst their hands are in the air and they scream “don't shoot”.
In order to shake off this facade of normalcy, as part of their struggle to bring an end to their decades-long abuse, the Palestinian people, including more than 170 civil society organizations of Diaspora refugees, citizens of Israel and Palestinians under occupation and siege, placed a call for an international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel. Your performance will not only provide a “business as usual” mask to atrocities but also cross a picket line in the struggle to bring human rights abuses and the occupation to an end.
The “business as usual” facade has always been most crucial in sustaining Israeli policy of Palestinian oppression. In the past few months, artists such as the Pixies, Gorillaz, Claxons, Elvis Costello, and Gil-Scott Heron, who were scheduled to perform in Israel, cancelled their shows as they became aware that an international performance in Tel-Aviv, at this time, is inherently incorporated into sustaining the Israeli systematic and ruthless oppression of the Palestinian people by providing it with the facade of normalcy on which it thrives. Devendra Banhart was also amongst those scheduled to perform in Israel this past summer, and he too cancelled his performance – only 24 hours before he was supposed to go on stage – when he learnt that his name is being used in Israeli political sphere to promote an agenda he did not support (specifically, numerous national news-papers announced that his decision to perform in Israel shows that Israeli policy and actions enjoy his support and hence the support of world public opinion).
In the current social reality in Israel your performance will be inevitably embedded into this discourse: where canceling your performance will strike a grave blow to the wall of silence surrounding Israel's policy and actions, performing in Israel will actively contribute to its construction.
Artists often wish to believe that one's art, one's music, is its own context, and that the act of one playing one's music for people who enjoy it somehow transcends everything else that's happening. However, regardless of how humanistic your personal views are, regardless of how well informed you are, and regardless of how well you will articulate yourself if you choose to bring a verbal message of an end to the occupation and oppression, your performance in Israel will be situated within a political discourse and as such will only have one meaning: “what's happening here is okay."
One of the reasons that Israel responds to pressure of this sort, is that the facade of normalcy – which either an international film festival hosted in Jerusalem or an international performer playing a show in Tel-Aviv, inform – functions as means of obfuscating a reality of ruthless human rights abuses. In 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli leaders contemplated what to do with the newly occupied territories. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lived in the territories occupied by Israel and Israel had to decide what to do with them.
The solution fashioned by Israel was an open-air-prison of sorts in which the Palestinian inhabitants are subjects to the whims of an Israeli military regime: when Israel decides that it wants to build a new settlement in the Occupied Territories, it simply builds it on the agricultural land – the bread and butter – of the Palestinian inhabitants; when it decides that it wants to build a new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, it evicts the Palestinian families to the street; when it decides that it does not want to reroute water from the centre of Israel to new Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories it takes over the Palestinian drinking-wells. For 43 years the people who Israel occupied, remained with no citizenship, no human rights, under military martial-law. Palestinians from the Occupied Territories are not only banned from traveling to Tel-Aviv, they are also restricted in traveling between their villages because some of the roads surrounding their villages are permitted for usage only by Jews.
The Israeli policy of oppression is not restricted merely to the Occupied Territories. Many of the Palestinian-Arab residents of Israel, suffer discrimination akin to that of the segregated American south. There are over 30 Israeli laws and much more governmental and budgetary policies that systematically discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel and design to exclude and dispossess them and their relative Palestinians. There's also, for instance, the organization Lehava, which purpose is to prevent intimate relationships between Jews and Arabs in Israel and now begins a campaign to boycott businesses that employ Arab workers. Last month, an entire Bedouin village – home to 30 families – was demolished by hundreds of police troops who awoke the families in the middle of the night and dragged them out of their houses. The village was destroyed, the authorities claimed, in order to plant a forest. Furthermore, with its compulsory-enrolling to the same oppressing Israeli military, the Israeli society as a whole participates in this oppression.
Not only the silence of the international community, but also its compliance with Israel's normalization efforts, have granted Israel a free hand at treating both the Palestinian-Arab residents of Israel, and those who have been living under martial-law for over four decades, as it see fits, rendering the Palestinian people nothing more than a nuisance.
Following the wave of artists' cancellations this past summer, international music shows have been discussed at length in various media outlets in Israel. When artists choose to perform in Israel their performance is unanimously interpreted by the public as picking a side and standing against the boycott campaign that Israel's policy and actions against Palestinians ought to be changed. Even if your intention is different, your show will ultimately send Israelis a message that everything is okay and nothing needs to be changed behind all the physical and conceptual walls and fences they are maintaining.
Although you might want to choose to situate yourself neither here nor there, and define a space for you music which is independent of the consensus, this space will only be apolitical for you; in its actual realization, this space, at the moment, becomes inevitably political. Many musicians want to say: "I'm just a musician. If there are people in Israel who want to hear my music, I would like to play it for them. How my fans feel about their government is their choice, and how I feel about it is a personal issue that has nothing to do with my job, which is just playing music. I just want to offer them my music and that's all." And if you're an artist or a musician, you might really believe that and feel that way, or want to make it true! But playing or not-playing is a decision you are making within a much bigger life-and-death context that will not be transcended by this.
The Israeli media – obsessively covering the topic of performance-cancellations – asserted that in terms of international relations it puts Israel in a bad light when so many artists cancel or even declare openly their support for the cultural boycott campaign, as in the recent cases of Faithless, Massive Attack, and a joint petition of 150 Irish artists. We know that this pressure works on Israel because, for instance, following the Flotilla incident, which triggered many bands' cancellations, the Israeli government eased its restrictions of the Gaza siege and allowed the delivery of sweets and spices into Gaza (tampons, for instance, are still deemed a security threat by Israel and are not allowed to be delivered into Gaza); it also announced that the ease in restriction is an attempt to diffuse international pressure – the cancellation of international music performances is an inseparable part of this process.
The BDS Call we support demands that Israel comply with International Law and universal principles of human rights. When that happens, we will be able to see your show with our friends from Bil'in. Please, do not play in Israel at this time, do not cross the picket line of this struggle.
On behalf of
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This bulletin shows the latest key labour market statistics for the regions and countries of Great Britain along with statistics for local authorities, travel-to-work areas and parliamentary constituencies.
Data for Northern Ireland are available separately.
Updated this month
Labour Force Survey estimates for the period March to May 2012.
Claimant Count for June 2012.
Annual Population Survey estimates for the periods January 2011 to December 2011 and April 2011 to March 2012.
Also in this release
Workforce Jobs estimates for March 2012.
The employment rate for those aged 16 to 64 for the three months to May 2012 compared to the 3 months to February 2012, showed a few large increases for the regions of the UK, although most movements were small, reflecting the normal sampling volatility of the survey estimates.
The largest increases were for the North West, which increased 1.3 percentage points, London, which increased 0.8 percentage points and the South West, which increased by 0.6 percentage points. For both the North West and South West, these increases appear to be largely driven by low estimates for the three months ending in February 2012, with the overall picture mostly flat over the last year. For London however, it is possible that the increase is part of a pattern of increasing employment rates.
Employment rates remain higher in the East of England, South East and South West than the rest of the UK at 75.0 per cent, 74.8 per cent and 73.5 per cent respectively.
The employment level for London, at 3.883 million, is a record since current regional figures started in 1992. However, due to increasing population levels, the employment rate is still below the highest on record.
Regional figures for the unemployment rate are quite volatile, which needs to be allowed for when considering the pattern of change over time.
The latest figures showed a decrease of 1.2 percentage points in the unemployment rate for London. Although this may be partially due to the estimate for the three months ending in May 2012 being unusually low, the decrease itself is statistically significant, giving further evidence to suggest that labour market conditions in London have improved recently.
A decrease of 0.8 percentage points in the estimate for the South West may be largely due to sampling variability in the estimates for this region, being partially driven by an unusually high estimate for the three month period ending in February.
Meanwhile the recent general pattern of increases in the unemployment rate for the North West may be levelling off.
The unemployment rate for the North East, at 10.9 per cent, continues to be much higher than the rest of the UK.
The unemployment level for the East Midlands, at 193 thousand, is a record since current regional figures started in 1992. However, the unemployment rate is still well below the highest on recorded.
Changes to the conditions for claiming Lone Parent Income Support are likely to have affected the Claimant Count across the UK, resulting in increases to the count for females in all regions. Meanwhile, the male claimant count for London has shown a much larger decrease than changes seen in other regions of the UK.
The employment rate for people aged from 16 to 64 for the UK was 70.7 per cent for the period March to May 2012.
The region with the highest rate in Great Britain was the East of England at 75.0 per cent, followed by the South East at 74.8 per cent and the South West at 73.5 per cent. The region with the lowest rate was the North East at 66.5 per cent, followed by Wales at 68.1 per cent and London at 68.3 per cent.
The regions with the largest increase in the employment rate on the previous period (December 2011 to February 2012) was the North West with an increase of 1.3 percentage point followed by London with an increase of 0.8 percentage points and the South West with an increase of 0.6 percentage points. The employment rate in Wales and the West Midlands decreased by 0.2 percentage points. The UK rate increased by 0.3 percentage points.
Over the year the region with the largest change in the employment rate was the North East with an increase of 0.7 percentage points. This was followed by the North West with an increase of 0.6 percentage points and East Midlands with a decrease of 0.6 percentage points.
The unemployment rate for people aged 16 and over for the UK was 8.1 per cent for the period March to May 2012.
The region with the highest rate was the North East at 10.9 per cent followed by Yorkshire and The Humber at 9.7 per cent and the North West at 9.5 per cent. The region with the lowest rate was the South West at 5.9 per cent, followed by the South East at 6.3 per cent and the East of England at 6.6 per cent.
The region with the largest decrease in the unemployment rate on the previous period (December 2011 to February 2012) was London at 1.2 percentage points followed by the South West which decreased by 0.8 percentage points. The unemployment rate in Yorkshire and The Humber increased by 0.4 percentage points followed by Wales which increased by 0.2 percentage points. The UK rate decreased by 0.2 percentage points.
Over the year the regions with the largest changes in the unemployment rate were the North East with an increase of 1.2 percentage points, Wales and Yorkshire and The Humber with an increase of 1.1 percentage points.
An interactive chart showing regional unemployment rates over time is available.
Workforce Jobs increased in 10 of the 11 regions of Great Britain between December 2011 and March 2012 with a decrease in the remaining 1 region. The largest increase of 95,000 was in London, whilst the only decrease of 33,000 was in the North West.
The East Midlands had the highest proportion of jobs in the production sector at 13.6 per cent whilst London had the lowest proportion at 3.2 per cent. For the service sector the situation is reversed with London having the highest proportion at 91.2 per cent and the East Midlands the lowest at 78.0 per cent.
The seasonally adjusted claimant count rate for the UK was 4.9 per cent in June 2012 unchanged from May.
The region with the highest rate in Great Britain was the North East at 7.7 per cent, unchanged from the previous month. The next highest rates were in Yorkshire and The Humber at 6.4 per cent and the West Midlands at 6.1 per cent.
The region with the lowest rate was the South East at 3.1 per cent. The next lowest rates were seen in the South West at 3.3 per cent and the East of England at 3.9 per cent.
The Claimant Count across the UK is likely to have been affected by changes to the conditions for claiming Lone Parent Income Support. Since 21 May 2012, some lone parents have been eligible to claim Income Support until their youngest child is 5 years old; previously they had been able to claim this benefit until their youngest child was 7 years old.
This has resulted in some lone parents, whose youngest child was aged between 5 and 7, no longer being eligible to claim Income Support, resulting in some of them likely to be claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (and therefore joining the claimant count) while they look for work.
The effect of this is likely to have been to increase the Claimant Count for females in all regions of the UK.
For most regions the male claimant count has been relatively flat, with some small increases or decreases. London, however, has shown a larger decrease with a fall of 1,100.
For the period April 2011 to March 2012 the highest employment rate in Great Britain was Ribble Valley in Lancashire at 85.9 per cent. The next highest was Suffolk Coastal at 84.2 per cent and Melton in Leicestershire at 82.6 per cent. The lowest rates were Middlesbrough at 56.2 per cent, followed by Birmingham at 57.0 per cent and the London Borough of Newham at 57.1 per cent.
For the period April 2011 to March 2012 the highest unemployment rate in Great Britain was Middlesbrough at 15.6 per cent. The next highest was Kingston upon Hull at 15.5 per cent and Hartlepool at 15.4 per cent. The lowest rate was in the Shetland Islands at 3.4 per cent followed by Ribble Valley at 3.6 per cent and South Hams in Devon, Mid Sussex, Eden and South Lakeland in Cumbria at 3.7 per cent.
In June 2012 the local authority with the lowest claimant count proportion in Great Britain was the Isles of Scilly at 0.3 per cent. This was followed by the City of London, Hart in Hampshire, Mid Sussex and West Dorset at 1.2 per cent. Twelve local authorities had a proportion of 1.3 per cent. It was highest in Kingston upon Hull at 8.2 per cent, followed by Blaenau Gwent and Wolverhampton at 7.9 per cent. A further six local authorities had a proportion of 7.0 per cent or more.
An interactive version of this map showing claimant count proportions by local authority over time is available. This map also shows claimant count proportions for males, females, 18 to 24 year olds and those claiming over 12 months.
In 2010 the highest jobs density in Great Britain was the City of London at 40.37 and the lowest was East Renfrewshire at 0.38. Westminster (3.33), Camden (1.72) and Islington (1.34), all in London were the next highest jobs densities. The highest jobs density outside London was Crawley at 1.26. After East Renfrewshire, the lowest jobs density was Lewisham in London at 0.39, followed by East Dunbartonshire at 0.40.
This Month’s Bulletin
Annual Population Survey (APS) estimates in tables 2, 2(2), 3, 6, 10 and 11 of HI01 to HI11 have been updated to reflect the population estimates published by ONS in June 2011. These differ from those used for Labour Force Survey estimates in the National Labour Market Statistical Bulletin; in table 1 of HI01 to HI11 and table HI00.
Tables 2, 2(2), 3, 6, 10 and 11 of HI01 to HI11 along with LI01 to LI04 (previously tables 12 to 15) have been updated to include the latest APS estimates for January 2011 to December 2011 and April 2011 to March 2012.
Next Month’s Bulletin
Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates in table HI00, table 1 of HI01 to HI11 and X01 to X03 will be updated to reflect the latest population estimates and revised back to the July to September 2009 period. The population estimates in these tables will be in-line with Annual Population survey estimates which were updated in this month’s Statistical Bulletin.
As part of the celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee there were changes to bank holidays in May and June 2012. The late May bank holiday moved into June, and there was an additional day's holiday. The change to the holidays counted as a statistical special event in line with ONS's policy on Special Events.
One indication of the reliability of the key indicators in this bulletin can be obtained by monitoring the size of revisions. These summary measures are available in the Regional Labour Market Sampling Variability spreadsheet (41.5 Kb Excel sheet) available with this bulletin and show the size of revisions over the last five years. The revised data itself may be subject to sampling or other sources of error. The ONS standard presentation is to show five years worth of revisions (i.e. 60 observations for a monthly series, 20 for a quarterly series).
Very few statistical revisions arise as a result of ‘errors’ in the popular sense of the word. All estimates, by definition, are subject to statistical ‘error’ but in this context the word refers to the uncertainty.
Some data in the bulletin are based on statistical samples and, as such, are subject to sampling variability. If many samples were drawn, each would give different results. The ranges shown in the Regional Labour Market Sampling Variability spreadsheet (41.5 Kb Excel sheet) , available with this bulletin, represent ‘95 per cent confidence intervals’. It is expected that in 95 per cent of samples the range would contain the true value.
ONS has recently published commentary, analysis and policy on 'Special Events' which may affect statistical outputs. For full details go to the Special Events page on the ONS website.
Details of the policy governing the release of new data are available by visiting www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/code-of-practice/index.html or from the Media Relations Office email: [email protected]
The United Kingdom Statistics Authority has designated these statistics as National Statistics, in accordance with the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and signifying compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
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When working in archives I always find it interesting to note what kind of paper used and if ink, pencil or typewriter have been used. Thin paper with typewriter writing fascinates me, because the imprint shows so clearly on the back. The backside thus becomes almost like a piece of art.
I now read quite an old copy of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White - a book that inspired Dorothy Sayers and which I read about in Reynolds' biography of her. I am not quite sure how books are printed today, but at least the print leaves the pages smooth. In the book I am now reading the the pages have been properly type set, and the imprint has left deep indents. Even though the paper is quite thin, the print does not show through except when there is half a blank page due to a new chapter. This reverse imprint fills me with expectation of what is coming next. | <urn:uuid:6b7cb10e-2e72-4262-8f84-19da39d52d20> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.historiologicalnotes.org/books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952202 | 184 | 1.84375 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- President Obama made another pitch Saturday for Congress to raise taxes on the richest Americans.
Obama, as he has repeatedly in recent days, urged Congress to enact legislation that would implement the so-called Buffett Rule, a principle calling for those at the very top of the income pyramid to pay at least the same percentage of their income in taxes as those in middle-class families.
In his weekly radio and Internet speech, Obama said it's "not just about fairness," but "is also about growth."
"It's about being able to make the investments we need to strengthen our economy and create jobs," Obama said. "And it's about whether we as a country are willing to pay for those investments.
"In a perfect world, of course, none of us would have to pay any taxes. We'd have no deficits to pay down. And we'd have all the resources we needed to invest in things like schools and roads and a strong military and new sources of energy -- investments that have always bolstered our economy and strengthened the middle class.
"But we live in the real world, with real choices and real consequences. Right now, we've got significant deficits to close. We've got serious investments to make to keep our economy growing. And we can't afford to keep spending more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans who don't need them and didn't even ask for them."
The Democratic president, who is seeking re-election this year, said most Americans support the idea of raising taxes on the wealthiest.
"We just need some Republican politicians to get on board with where the country is," he said.
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Call for a major rethink on inland rail links in Westcountry
A new inland mainline is one of the radical proposals being called for as part of industry demands for a "major rethink" of the Westcountry's fragile rail network.
Flooding in November and December effectively cut off the region for rail passengers, leaving tracks submerged outside Exeter and the coastal branch closed then severely delayed following a massive landslide at Teignmouth.
The Institution of Civil Engineers in the South West (ICE) is seeking an urgent review in the summer, amid concerns that the existing infrastructure is struggling.
It also wants consideration of a plan to roll out the new electrification project south of Bristol, via a new feasibility study.
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Network Rail says it is working to strengthen the resilience of the region's lines, but has ruled out any major projects in the next five years, estimating that funding for a new line avoiding the coast would stretch into the hundreds of millions of pounds.
Trish Johnson, regional director of ICE South West, said the region was disproportionately affected by snow, freezing conditions and flooding.
She added: "There are only two routes into the far South West by road, Flybe is cutting jobs at Exeter airport, and Plymouth airport has been closed, therefore keeping rail networks open is vital.
"The stark reality is that, in times of severe weather conditions, areas of the South West are effectively cut off."
The ICE says that even in good weather, rail journey times across the South West are a source of constant frustration to travellers.
It welcomes plans to create a direct rail link from Reading to Heathrow and expects improvements to Reading station will have a positive impact on journeys to London.
But it argues that plans to bring the new High Speed Two (HS2) route to Bristol are "less promising" for the southern part of the greater South West region.
South West member of ICE Council Richard Fish said he wanted "serious action and investment" to address the very real rail issues".
"Signalling improvements and full dual-line capacity on the Exeter to Waterloo line would create a real main-line alternative to London," he added.
John Baker, Wales and West spokesman for Network Rail, said the problems "west of Bristol" were under discussion with MPs and stakeholders as part of plans to "strengthen resilience", but said: "We have no plans to electrify lines west of Bristol in the next five years.
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Airs Monday, December 24 at 9:00 p.m. What makes a song last? Join host Philip Furia for an enduring body of holiday songs, performed generation after generation by musicians and singers in styles that range from jazz to blues, rock to country. Hear the stories behind the songs, and hear familiar artists singing them. The program shows how the Great American Songbook came into being during the first half of the 20th century through the interplay of the sheet-music publishing industry known as "Tin Pan Alley," the Broadway musical, the emergence of radio in the 1920s, the advent of sound movies, and the creation of a jazz.
Airs Monday, December 24 at 8:00 p.m. An updated version of a public radio tradition hosted by NPR's Susan Stamberg. Master comedian Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of Dickens' holiday classic, with a special performing edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations. Also featuring Mimi Kennedy. From NPR and KCRW. | <urn:uuid:6e3d4962-3b42-4455-a2c8-50e8b826bfe4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://redriverradio.org/term/holiday-special?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960227 | 206 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Revised regulation targets asset management quality
While Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, it obtains access to the internal market by adapting its policies and regulation to meet EU standards. As the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive is to be implemented in EU member states by July next year, a revision of the Swiss regulatory framework, the Collective Investment Schemes Act (CISA), is currently being debated and due to come into effect on 1 January, 2013.
In addition, a new financial services law – mooted for years but never enacted – is also expected to be introduced in the next couple of years, and will affect all financial intermediaries.
According to Daniel Haefele (pictured), chief executive of Zurich-based independent fund distribution provider Acolin Fund Services, the new legislation is set to have a major impact on both traditional and alternative fund managers.
“Alternative asset managers seeking light-touch regulation will choose other domiciles in the future,” he says. “Switzerland will become one of the most stringently-regulated financial centres in the world. The new regime is a clear commitment to the premium quality for which Swiss products are known globally. Under CISA there will be no difference between regulation here and that in European markets like the UK.”
He believes the impact on fund distribution could be substantial. Under the draft legislation, all foreign funds distributed in Switzerland, whether to the public or professional investors, will have to appoint a representative.
It’s still not clear how the new measures will be applied by the Swiss Financial Markets Authority, the industry regulator. “Parliament is expected to pass the act only in June, after which the government and FINMA will publish the Collective Investment Schemes Ordinance,” Haefele says.
“However, the proposed new financial services law to be introduced over the next two years will regulate everybody in the Swiss financial service industry. The majority of asset managers based here will be too small to keep up with the demanding regulation.”
Under the new law, FINMA will require firms to demonstrate “appropriate organisation and adequate capital”. Many independent Swiss asset managers have six employees or fewer, and may have problems meeting the new rules.
Haefele believes the changes will affect Acolin’s revenue streams, if only in the short term, but the impact will likely be mixed. “On one hand it will mean fewer fund managers distributing to Switzerland,” he says. “Those who distribute cross-border into Switzerland with no dedicated sales force may choose to retreat completely. Some fund providers are already doing that today.
“We may lose some smaller clients that can’t afford the cost of regulation, which will likely be between CHF100,000 and CHF150,000 a year. On the other hand, bigger fund management companies may use our services to reduce costs. Our average size of client is therefore likely to increase.”
Seven new asset management companies recently joined the Acolin platform. “We’re at 160 funds right now, and that number is constantly growing,” Haefele says. “We save the fund providers a lot of time, effort and money, which they can invest into their sales activities.”
On top of the regulatory issues, the major distributors are reducing their range of fund providers. “We’re now seeing a move toward guided architecture rather than open architecture,” Haefele says.
“Our distribution management services offer access to distributor platforms, and our sales support opens the doors to potential clients. For a portfolio manager who is serious about the Swiss market, we can still create tremendous business opportunities.”
Daniel Haefele is chief executive of Zurich-based independent fund distribution provider Acolin Fund Services
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Ever since the
planned terrorist attack on our Libyan compound and diplomatic personnel “spontaneous uprising” over a stupid video which none had actually seen, per the administration, there has been much hang wringing and navel gazing over the freedoms enshrined in our 1st Amendment. It’s the usual pattern, where something happens, liberals blame someone for saying something mean, and then start wondering about whether free speech is all that it’s cracked up to be, instead of saying “I disagree with what you’re stating, but, I’ll fight to the death to defend your right to say it”. And here comes Eric Posner at Slate wondering if the US overvalues free speech
The universal response in the United States to the uproar over the anti-Muslim video is that the Muslim world will just have to get used to freedom of expression…….Muslims need to grow a thick skin, the thinking goes, as believers in the West have done over the centuries. Perhaps they will even learn what it means to live in a free society, and adopt something like the First Amendment in their own countries.
But there is another possible response. This is that Americans need to learn that the rest of the world—and not just Muslims—see no sense in the First Amendment. Even other Western nations take a more circumspect position on freedom of expression than we do, realizing that often free speech must yield to other values and the need for order. Our own history suggests that they might have a point.
King George and his governors saw no point in freedom of speech, either. And once that free speech starts being chipped away, where does it stop? What freedoms will next be targeted?
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You see one of the acknowledged problems with freedom is it’s messy. That’s right, people get to make choices you don’t agree with and, even more importantly, get to act on them without your permission.
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. This reduced functionality and the monochromic, or two color, display help to significantly increase the battery life of the device. At an average use rate for a student, the batter life of the Noteslate is over one week, and this can be prolonged significantly if the user uploads notes to their computer frequently. This is because the mini-USB port, with cord included used for the transfer of data between devices also charges the devices battery. The Noteslate excels where both the laptop and notebook fall short, leaving the conscious college student only one real option if they want to truly succeed, the Noteslate. | <urn:uuid:75a628f3-2a31-44ea-ab29-9fbfe237c2ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://computersight.com/hardware/college-ruled-rough-draft-part-five/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938693 | 125 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Iranians rejoice over Obama win
by CORRESPONDENT in Tehran
09 Nov 2008 03:09
No one took to the streets. But emotions seemed to run just as high. Many Iranians -- not just government officials -- followed the campaign religiously. Some here mistakenly believe Obama gets to run the show, unchecked. They think he will be able to call the shots on each of the major issues facing the United States. They think everyone will follow in one voice, perhaps deviating only on a tactic here and there.
Still, Obama is seen in a class by himself.
Faraidoun runs a grocery store in east Tehran and knows just about everyone in the neighborhood. He spends a lot of time chatting and discussing issues with customers, from the astronomical rise in food prices to politics. He has his opinions.
Before the U.S. election, he said Obama will never become president. "They won't let him," he said. "Power is in the hands of whites and Jews in the United States and they won't let a black man in the White House."
Today he says Nov. 4, 2008, was like 2 Khordad 1376 in Iran (May 23, 1997, when Mohammad Khatami was elected president). "It's not what they wanted," he says, "but it happened."
Persian-language media and international websites had a larger audience in Iran in the months leading to the election. Among them, Hamid Reza, who is a member of the Islamic Republic's armed forces. He's quite pleased with the outcome. He and his colleagues followed the election on an English-language website at work. "We kept score minute by minute, state by state," he says. "When Obama hit the 270 mark my colleagues and I screamed with joy."
Why such enthusiasm?
"I think he'll bring about many changes," says Hamid Reza. "But to tell you the truth, my colleagues' support for Obama has a strong emotional component. It's because he's black. Perhaps much of this unprecedented support in Iran for Obama has its roots in race. We are influenced by traditional and religious teachings in our culture. Because of that we feel a deep kinship with 'the innocent.' We deem Obama as an innocent. Most Iranians tend to rally around the oppressed and disadvantaged. Obama has had many disadvantages to overcome."
Nahid is a retired mathematics teacher. To her, Obama's skin color signifies something else. "The fact that a black person couldn't vote in that country just a few decades ago speaks volumes of the American people and is an indication of just how much they've advanced as a nation in that time. Racism is on the wane, democracy is on the rise."
"This was a testament to the American people," she continued. "Yes, he is black. His name and family relations have some connection to Islam. And they voted for him anyway!"
Obama's victory has an economical dimension as well. Its reverberations could be felt in the Great Bazaar of Tabriz (in northwest Iran). Mohammad Ali is a successful merchant trading in silk rugs. He too is excited by Obama's win. "I hope it stimulates the global market," he said. "In the past few weeks, our exports have declined even more than usual."
Though it appears many Iranians were rooting for Obama, John McCain wasn't without his supporters here. Baran is an activist who has been following the campaign closely for the past two years. "If I were American, I too would have voted for Obama," she says. "But I'm Iranian and Obama's foreign policy is most important to me. Obama favors negotiations. But to negotiate on a very high level you have to be well versed in international relations. And that's just the kind of experience he lacks."
She continued: "Senator McCain had the necessary foreign policy experience, but Americans chose someone who could improve their tarnished image in the world."
An Iranian reporter said she believed the conservatives in Iran would have preferred a McCain victory to maintain the status quo, "to keep the two sides at odds with each other, and to use this tension for domestic gain."
But alas, it's Obama who has reached the White House. Even as certain groups were marking the 29th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran with celebrations, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sending a letter of congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama.
An Iranian president congratulating an American President? Perhaps change is really under way.
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A number of supporters and opponents of gay marriage on the right came together on Wednesday in a rare show of unity to slam President Obama’s announcement that he supports marriage rights for all. Here are a few of the most bitter emerging themes.
1) Did You See How Long He Took?
You’d think gay Republican groups would be thrilled with Obama’s announcement, given their vocal support for gay marriage. They weren’t.
“Obviously, it’s a good thing,” GOProud strategist Chris Barron told TPM. But that was where the credit stopped. “It’s unfortunate that the president waited until a day after the Amendment One vote in North Carolina,” he said. “Obviously, it would have made a difference if he would have come out before then and I’m confused as to why we had this entire dance with what the vice president said over the weekend. Why did that have to get walked back? I think the president has been overtly political about this from the very beginning. I’m glad he finally got to the right place on this, i just think it’s unfortunate that it had to happen the way it did.”
That was the generous take. The Log Cabin Republicans, which bills itself as “the nation’s only organization of Republicans who support fairness, freedom, and equality for gay and lesbian Americans” issued a statement excoriating Obama, calling his position “cold comfort” after North Carolina’s gay marriage ban passed by a huge margin. They even suggested he was following Republicans on the issue, since Vice President Dick Cheney endorsed same-sex marriage after leaving office. Mitt Romney, the current nominee, doesn’t even support civil unions.
“That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous,” said R. Clarke Cooper, the group’s executive director. “Log Cabin Republicans appreciate that President Obama has finally come in line with leaders like Vice President Dick Cheney on this issue, but LGBT Americans are right to be angry that this calculated announcement comes too late to be of any use to the people of North Carolina, or any of the other states that have addressed this issue on his watch. This administration has manipulated LGBT families for political gain as much as anybody, and after his campaign’s ridiculous contortions to deny support for marriage equality this week he does not deserve praise for an announcement that comes a day late and a dollar short.”
Richard Grennell, an openly gay Republican who left a job with the Romney campaign after being attacked by social conservatives, told the Boston Globe’s Michael Levenson that Obama is “more concerned with his own political calculations than with actual equal rights.”
2) Follow The Money
The cynical take on President Obama’s marriage is that it was a simple political ploy. Obama’s re-election team includes a number of gay fundraisers and one bundler did note after the announcement that it would make raising money on the president’s behalf much easier. The conservative Free Beacon spun the news this way: “GAY FOR PAY: Obama Reversal On Same Sex Marriage Comes Just Days After Donors Threatened To Withhold Funds.”
“God is the author of marriage, and we will not let an activist politician like Barack Obama who is beholden to gay marriage activists for campaign financing to turn marriage into something political that can be redefined according to presidential whim,” Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, said in a statement.
Ironically, one leading social conservative, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, instantly seized on the Obama news in order to ask for money.
“Now I know you support traditional marriage, but what I really need to know today, is will you fight for it this election? If so, please send a donation of $10 or more to Huck PAC immediately,” a message on his PAC’s website read. “We only support candidates who support traditional marriage and who are pro-life. We’ll make sure Congress and our state legislatures are stacked with conservatives who don’t want our President and the federal government defining marriage for us.”
For conservative pundits and anti-marriage groups, one major theme was that old 2004-era chestnut: The president is trying to destroy your godly heterosexual union.
As a blaring headline on FOX Nation declared: “OBAMA FLIP FLOPS, DECLARES WAR ON MARRIAGE.”
The “war on marriage” portion was eventually edited out, but others were there to pick up the battle standard. “We’ve arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage,” Rush Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday.
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Eel River Township, Hendricks County, Indiana
NW ¼ of the NE ¼ of Sec 34, T17N R2W
Visited September 20, 2007 and March 13, 2008
Back to Cemetery List
Directions: This cemetery is on the south side of CR 800N, east
of SR 75. It is on the current Clements Farm, somewhere around their current
dog pen, which is behind (south) of the house. No stones remain.
This cemetery has been destroyed. According the Clements family, gravestones
were found while plowing the field to the west of the driveway, starting
in the 1960s. There were quite a few, some large and most illegible.
All but one were hauled away with other rocks. There are still a couple
iron posts near the dog pen that may mark the original location. The Clements'
believe that the stones in the field were dumped there and not the actual
The single stack stone top is currently in North Salem at the home of Buddy
Clements. It is for Oliver F. Davidson, son of Daniel N. and Elizabeth
(Davidson) Davidson, who died August 15, 1878, aged 9y 3m 9d (born 5-6-1869).
Daniel Davidson’s biography is in the 1878 Atlas of Hendricks County.
They had one child die in infancy (1862), who could also be buried on the
farm. Another son, William Robert Davidson, has a biography in the 1914 History
of Hendricks County.
Oliver Davidson Stack Top
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authoritarian president of Belarus, took 83% of the vote in March elections. The U.S. and other Western nations declared the election fraudulent and called for a new race. For the next several days, supporters of the opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, who won 6%, took to the streets of Minsk to protest the results. The police cracked down on the demonstrations and arrested dozens, including another presidential candidate, Aleksandr Kazulin.
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Have your credit cards or mortgage payments become characters in your nightmares? Then the city's free financial hotline might help.
All this week, volunteers from financial institutions and universities will be answering calls from 9 AM to 7 PM.
Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz says the "Money Helpline" should quell New Yorkers' economic fears.
MINTZ: I think what this help line is really designed to do is to let people know that they don't have to struggle on their own when they are feeling stressed about their finances.
REPORTER: About 400 volunteers will be manning the phones in both English and Spanish.
They'll be answering questions on debt and credit management as well foreclosure, retirement, and taxes.
More information on the city's Money Helpline" is available by calling 311.
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A new group of students is challenging the college’s current concealed weapons policy with a petition.
Headed by Ian Thomas, student, the group known as the Students for Concealed
Carry on Campus (SCCC) is petitioning to give college students “who have a concealed carry license the right to carry on all public universities in the state of Kansas.”
The petition could be presented to the Board of Trustees or even members of the Kansas legislature.
Currently, the only persons allowed to bring guns on campus are college police and law enforcement officials. Firearms and other weapons are strictly prohibited in all other cases, with a “no guns” symbol prominent on entrances around campus.
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Les Misérables/Volume 3/Book Third/Chapter 8
It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out."
Lieutenant Theodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made by Theodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris.
Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the bath.
M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find out where he had been.
But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no longer there.
The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon.
"I like this better," said M. Gillenormand.
And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her cart-wheels.
The entrance was a triumphant one.
M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:--
"Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have the portrait!"
In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was suspended from the ribbon.
The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass under his very nose.
"For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste nowadays!"
"Let us see, father," said the old spinster.
The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing but a carefully folded paper.
"From the same to the same," said M. Gillenormand, bursting with laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux."
"Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt.
And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as follows:--
"For my son.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will be worthy of it is a matter of course."
The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a word.
Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to himself:--
"It is the slasher's handwriting."
The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put it back in its case.
At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand picked it up and unfolded the blue paper.
It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. Gillenormand, who read: Le Baron Marius Pontmercy.
The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the middle of the room, and said:--
"Carry those duds away."
A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability.
At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state of things!"
A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was something crushing:--
"Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my compliments. What is the meaning of this?"
Marius reddened slightly and replied:--
"It means that I am the son of my father."
M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:--
"I am your father."
"My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two ingrates, his country and myself."
This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word republic, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from purple, flame-colored.
"Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparte were brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your father comes in that category, I do not know! I am sorry for it, so much the worse, your humble servant!"
In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks.
He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of thunder:--
"Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!"
Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to him.
The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a stone statue walking.
On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof."
And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:--
Marius left the house.
On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter:
"You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, and you will never mention his name to me."
Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as you instead of thou for the next three months.
Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it?
Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin quarter.
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TAVARES - A 12-year-old boy swimming near a marina in the Dead River died Wednesday night after he was attacked by a 10-foot alligator.
Brian Jeffery Griffin of Fruitland Park was pulled under the dark water minutes after two friends screamed for him to get out of the river when they spotted alligators, officials and witnesses said.
Deputies and witnesses saw the alligator surface at least once with the boy in its jaws, but the alligator quickly disappeared across the river in north Lake County about 30 miles northwest of Orlando, the Orlando Sentinel reported for Thursday editions.
The boy was underwater for at least 25 minutes before a Lake County Sheriff's Office helicopter saw him and dropped a buoy to guide deputies, who pulled him up.
"We saw gators all day," said 14-year-old Justin VanGorder, who was swimming with Brian. "Every time we saw them, we would get out of the water."
Justin said he and the other boy saw some alligators and got out of the water, but Brian wouldn't get out.
"We screamed at him to get out, but he wouldn't," Justin said.
The boy was pronounced dead at Leesburg Regional Medical Center at 9:19 p.m., deputies said.
Investigators dimmed the lights around the marina and said they were going to shoot any alligators they could find. The attack was the first alligator fatality in Lake County since the state started keeping records in 1948. It happened as dangerous encounters with alligators are escalating with the end of mating season and the beginning of summer's torrential rain showers.
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Nice shots. I've been interested in trying this approach. Can you outline the basic process for doing this? Thks
What tools do you use? I used Photoshop, which has Adobe RAW built in. My examples will reference these tools, although similar techniques can be used with other programs with similar functionality.
First, you can play around with the saturation levels of different colors to emphasize/deemphasize them. For example, a lady bug in the grass -- desaturate the green (grass), and boost the saturation of orange/red (lady bug) and the bug will pop out in the shot.
Another technique is to "paint" pictures. I posted a couple shots where I did this. the steps are as follows: create a layer over your background shot, select the brush tool, pick a color, paint on it, and set the opacity. For example, to create "pink" cheeks, I painted red splotches where her cheeks are, set the opacity low (e.g., 10%), and it appears like a soft addition of pinkish color. I probably feathered the edges to create a soft blend. | <urn:uuid:144df820-c241-484f-97fb-24d29697578a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=3444.msg94035 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931307 | 236 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Posted 24 January 2010 - 04:54 PM
Typically means that the hard drive on your computer where DVDit is installed (usually C: drive) doesn't have enough free space left for the temporary file needed to burn your DVD which can be as big as 5 GB. In order to burn the DVD, the program does lots of calculations and creates an image file that is burned to the DVD and then discarded (unless you ask to keep your image file, which I usually do to make subsequent copies). You should check how much free space you nave on your drive (can do by going to My Computer and clicking on the drive) and, if necessary delete or move some big files (e.g. temp Internet files) to make room for this temp. file on the drive. Hopefully you can create 10 GB of free space or so to have some breathing room. | <urn:uuid:811a6a79-0c7b-44be-a45d-42c6b3273d99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.support.roxio.com/topic/60696-error-message-for-dvdit-6/page__pid__311409 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962331 | 176 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The dispute over immigration policy is being fought in an Alabama federal court Wednesday.
The state's Republican leaders say they passed the toughest immigration bill in the country to preserve jobs for Alabamians. But critics say the law goes too far, criminalizing all kinds of contact with undocumented residents and putting an extra burden on small business.
A Birmingham federal judge is hearing arguments from a host of litigants — the U.S. Justice Department, civil rights groups and even some churches. They are trying to block Alabama's immigration crackdown from going into effect on Sept. 1.
The uncertainty surrounding the new law has the state's businesses scrambling to prepare. Business owners filled a Montgomery auditorium last week to hear what could soon be required of them.
"Employers should not expect those lawsuits to block the provisions that are most relevant to you," said attorney Ted Hosp, who wants businesses to be ready no matter what the court does.
That means knowing how to fill out an I-9 employment eligibility form, and being able to check all new hires through the federal government's E-Verify system.
"Even if you hire your mother," one lawyer advised, "E-Verify."
"Unfortunately, it is an HR nightmare," said Jay Reed, the president of Associated Builders and Contractors of Alabama and co-chairman of a coalition of business groups putting on the compliance workshops. He said if his members aren't up on the complicated new requirements, it could cost them thousands of dollars in fines.
"It is the most comprehensive and strict piece of immigration legislation that's been passed anywhere in the U.S., and it's right here in Alabama," Reed said.
Coming out of the session, Glen Leuenberger of Auburn, who works in the timber industry, said he's afraid the immigration law will end up driving up costs.
"I think in a down economy, this is just really bad timing, because the last thing we need to do is put more burden on businesses," Leuenberger said.
But Republican state Sen. Bryan Taylor said it isn't an added burden — it's simply state enforcement of what's already on the books.
"Alabama didn't create the law making it illegal to hire undocumented workers," Taylor said. "That's federal law. Alabama just now requires a certain method of compliance."
The immigration bill was part of a Republican legislative agenda called the "Handshake with Alabama." It's aimed at protecting jobs for Alabamians.
"Maybe not at the depressed, low wages that illegal immigrants have been willing to do them," Taylor said, "and that's kind of the point. So there may be an adjustment period where we begin to have to re-evaluate how much we pay for certain jobs."
Even before the law goes into effect, that wage pressure is being felt at A & P Farms in Gallant. Andy Kemp and his wife, Paula, farm about 15 acres, growing fresh fruits and vegetables they sell at seven farmers markets in the Birmingham area.
"It's a mess right now," Andy Kemp said.
Weeds are overtaking their sweet potato crop, and tomato vines are falling to the ground. In July, their two part-time farm workers, who were legal immigrants, left for higher wages at a larger tomato farm.
"It just put us out of business overnight," Kemp said. "Thursday we were farming. Friday we were out of farming. That quick."
They've since let go of five other employees. Paula Kemp said no matter what happens with the law, she doesn't see how they can get back in business.
"The workers are gone," she said. "They may come back. They may not come back. But we can't plan for 2012 in January starting to start seeds and that sort of thing with the hope that we can get farm help."
For a small farm like theirs, she said, paying higher wages is not an option. And at middle age, she added, they can't do the work alone. | <urn:uuid:57ea2a9f-0da5-456b-aa7d-33601fdf4ab5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139900522/ala-businesses-riled-by-states-new-immigration-law | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976063 | 830 | 1.53125 | 2 |
A conservative activist says hippies-turned-boomers are responsible for excessive spending, the mortgage crisis, and recklessness on Wall Street. He tells the story in his film, 'Generation Zero.'
A new film is gaining traction among tea-party followers for suggesting that the collapse of the US financial system has roots dating back 40 years to the Summer of Love.
“Generation Zero,” a film set to premiere in March, examines what producer David Bossie says is a “historic perspective on a generational change” that led to the September 2008 bank collapse. Mr. Bossie says generational narcissism, as represented by the 1969 Woodstock Festival, is responsible for the excessive spending, mortgage crisis, and recklessness on Wall Street.
“The people who were at Woodstock turned into the yuppies of the '80s and the junk bond traders of the '90s and the Wall Street executives of the 2000s,” he says. “They went from Woodstock to driving a Jaguar.”
Quantifying baby boomers as yuppies is a familiar position taken by conservative groups, says Leonard Steinhorn, author of “The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy.”
Mr. Steinhorn says it is common for boomers to become a target, because their generation helped “reverse the social order of the '50s” by creating civil rights for blacks, women, and gays, and by helping address issues such as environmental pollution. | <urn:uuid:d3d78f2e-e40c-4a4f-8278-d030cabec7c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0225/Did-Woodstock-hippies-lead-to-US-financial-collapse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960325 | 313 | 1.796875 | 2 |
"DOOR TO ATLANTIS" -- The Mars Atlantis Alliance
Written By: Dianne Goodman Larson
THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE: We had finally arrived at the infamous vortex. Following the experiment by the Contingent from Atlantis, others had repeatedly worked on it. It is an area that could suddenly become very unfamiliar and become the past, present and future simultaneously. On leaving the Crystal Chamber -- a huge pyramid in the Atlantic Ocean, we travelled through what I would call underwater highways....
One of the many great features of Atlantis is the Great Wall. It is a wall very similar to the Great Wall of China. It runs for several miles dividing the island and is made of megaton granite blocks. It is approximately 45 feet high and was built next to the dome shaped complex containing the time translation device, the three dimensional Star of David. It separated the Atlantean Scientist Priests from another race of beings on its opposite side, I call these beings the "Little People". I have come to believe that they were the nature spirits. I believe that remnants of that wall are often photographed in underwater expeditions and has come to be known as the "Bimini Road".
"Suddenly, I felt something strong permeate the quiet darkness of the room....(I was made to experience one of the ancient mysteries of the Sphinx.) Only a few seconds had gone by when the room started to do the same thing all over again; vibrations moving in waves through space. I felt a presence, and there, suspended in mid-air before me were two of the Ancients -- the Cosmic Elder Brothers. Without warning they had materialized with the most unusual request: "Are you ready to go back to Atlantis?"
After accepting the invitation from the Cosmic Elder Brothers and the Sphinx, who materialized in my home that night, I proceeded to make preparations. I had a lot to think about and little time to work with.
As we approached the island of Bimini beneath us, I saw something that I couldn’t believe, I saw trees, and grass that was so green and lush, the same color green that it was thousands of years ago. I saw spectacular light blue waters - a specific shade of blue that they call Bimini Blue. I knew where I was and it finally began to dawn on me that I was indeed returning to Atlantis, the very island where the Martians performed their technological experiment eons ago. We arrived at two bungalows by the edge of the docks and later left for a tour of Atlantis. I felt and saw Beloved El Morya appear over to my left shoulder and he repeatedly asked me to close my eyes. He was flying along beside the boat with his hands behind his back horizontal to the ocean. I finally agreed to close my eyes and then he asked me to "look through the bottom of the boat". I did and was startled to see that something on the ocean floor suddenly went by, and was sorry I hadn’t listened to him 10 minutes earlier. There were several small pyramids strewned along the ocean floor and further up ahead there were some medium sized pyramids interspersed among the smaller ones. They had a greyish color to them and appeared to be made of granite stone blocks. The next thing I saw was a huge rectangular building and a series of joined buildings of different sizes that were laid out like a tunnel along the ocean floor. One particular complex was built with a sharp turn to the right making the building look like the letter "L". There were a few dome shaped building complexes that were very large structures. Everything was made from solid granite, it seemed and was geometrically precise.
One of the structures that I still can’t get out of my mind was a solid, stone, rectangular pyramid structure. An example of this can be found in Teotihuanaco, Mexico around the Pyramid of the Sun. These structures are multi-tiered, step-like structures in the "City of the Gods", as it is called by the Aztecs, and are also found in Atlantis on the ocean floor. There was a huge emanation of vibrations -- strong radiations of energy which came up through the water from this structure, and broke the surface of the ocean. The last time I looked at the Master of Light, El Morya, he was flying behind the boat in his blue robes and turban without a spaceship and without wings. One of the things that was amazing to see, was a massive crystal ball that appeared to about 6 feet in diameter. There were hand clasping it that were broken off at the elbows and it appeared to have fallen from a statue originally and was now resting on the floor.
Approximately two hours into the trip, I could see a strange phenomenon in the distance. There were two guards standing under the water and standing on either side of a dimensional doorway at the entrance where the dimensions meet. They were guarding an area that we were fast approaching. The stargate itself shimmered like liquid glass. It was a full circular, reflective, entrance and had the colorless qualities of a mirror. It looked like a huge wall of vertical water in the shape of a circle. I couldn’t understand why the captain had aligned his boat with this vertical circle of ripling water and I figured he could see the same thing that I was seeing up ahead because he aligned the boat perfectly with the stargate and entered right through the center of the "Door To Atlantis" with the guards on either side. It was a different level.
A few minutes into the tour another being of light showed me a giant Pyramid with a rectangular doorway or entrance. Beyond the door there was an area with moulton lava and no solid floor to walk on to get to the interior. I had to use a special crystal that they had told me to take with me the night they extended the invitation to me. I used it at the entrance of this pyramid to project beam and create a solid floor. Everything on this different level, what seemed like a fourth dimensional plane beyond and through the stargate, worked very differently from our plane.
WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK: dOOR TO ATLANTIS.
ENTER:- the "Door To Atlantis", a stargate, in the up-coming release which gives detailed accounts of the Ancient Martians of Atlantis, also referred to as "The Contingent". Go back in time through a series of time-travel events, beginning with the appearance of a mysterious Being --"an Ancient"-- who entered a room in New York City in the presence of 15 witnesses and transformed the meeting in progress by creating a doorway -- a rift in Time that opened directly into a granite, dome-shaped building in the Past in Atlantis.
Time Travel -- Most Scientists and researchers doubt interstellar travel because the light barrier is difficult to break, according to M.Kaku. Scientists say that if interstellar space travel were common, then "the Earth would have been colonized by extraterrestrials a long time ago." The trick of course, is to be able to travel faster than the speed of 186,000 miles per second. There are thoughts about how this problem might be overcome that involve bending space-time in such a way that one could fly through the cosmos. They suggest one way is through "warp speed", implying that we can move faster than light through space-time by distorting space-time itself. Another way to distort space-time is by harnessing an enormous amount of energy like that of an entire star, to create a portal or wormhole, connecting two points that used to be separated. Wormholes are holes in the fabric of fourth dimensional space-time that are connected, but which originate at different points in space and at different times. They provide a quick path between two different points in space and time. This is the fourth dimensional equivalent of pinching two pieces of a folded paper together to make contact across the gap. This forms a wormhole through which something could instantaneously travel to a far away place and time. It is not necessary to take hundreds of years in a ship to get to the future. This is something which I used in Alton’s seminar to experience a place he called the "13th Universe" and I experienced as the "future" -- the Fourth Dimension--where things manifest at the "Speed of Thought".
Portals, wormholes and closed time circuits appear to be the main ways that time travel into the past would be possible. Our universe is one of multiple universes. Likewise, each dimension is one of multiple dimensions and half-tones, or semitones or planes. Based on the number of lives you have lived and dimensions or planes you have lived these lives in, then you are likely to find a copy of yourself in each plane as I have. It is like the TV show sliders where a portal or wormhole links two parallel dimensions, and a time traveller can slide, jump, or simply move, if you will from one dimension, universe, or closed time circuit to another.
In the "Primary Technological Experiment" the granite room is surrounded by a collection of advanced technologies. Get the startling description of an electromagnetic device -- two stories high, suspended by lines of invisible force which the contingent called the "Jitter" of Space/Time. Discover as you journey through the author’s experiences, the incidents leading up to the concentric shockwave --The Mother of All Shockwaves-- which expanded out at warp speed, with a blast area like none other seen before or since...
Learn of the Contingent’s second experiment in "Designer Genes" the Genetic Experiment which left a legacy of little known expression in humans through time, from Atlantis to today.
What is the Mars Atlantis Alliance? In a return to Atlantis, learn about the vertical wall of water which leads to the Bimini Triangle, the "Great Wall" of Atlantis, magnicent structures: pyramids, multi-tiered temples, and broken statues on the ocean floor. In the shocking conclusion, get the verbatim "WARNING" -- ANOTHER WARNING, GIVEN FOR OUR civilization by the Ancients in part, as follows: "If a civilization, a people were told it is time to get something up[.....]A civilization that was in danger of...." The details of this recent warning will make your knees quake.
For further information visit her web site at http://www.doortoatlantis.com/ >BR>
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Don A. And Ruth Buchholz Simulation Lab Provides Baylor University Nurses Hands-On Learning Opportunities
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Dallas, Texas (Oct. 24, 2008)- The Baylor family welcomed the "Sim-Family" of high-fidelity patient simulators at the open house and dedication ceremony of the Don A. and Ruth Buchholz Simulation Lab at Baylor University's Louise Herrington School of Nursing on Oct. 15.
"The generosity of more than 70 donors brought this important hands-on learning tool to Baylor University nursing students. To our lead donors, Don and Ruth Buchholz, thank you for lending your name to our simulation lab and for your generous gift," said Baylor Interim President David E. Garland, who also serves as dean of George W. Truett Theological Seminary. "I'm proud that the Baylor family brought the 'Sim-Family' to reality and made this state-of-the art lab possible."
The simulator "manikins" are so realistic that they have pulses and breathe, functions that can be controlled and changed by instructors, thus complicating a simulation. Mother "Noelle" and newborn "Baby Hal" teach students about birthing scenarios and delivery methods. "John Houser," the unit's eight-month-old, and "Sim-NewB," a newborn with an umbilical cord that can be assessed, cut and catheterized, offer students experience with caring for infants.
Baylor nursing students get a sample of working with average adult patients through "Sim-Man" and "Sim-Woman." Relying on their own nursing experiences as inspiration for programming the simulators with "real-life" scenarios, nursing faculty benefit from a lab where they can provide their students a safe environment to practice medical procedures and test their decision-making skills.
"Although Baylor nursing school has an incredible teaching faculty, their words can't describe what it's like to be taking care of a patient," said Ruth Burks, a May 2008 graduate of Baylor's Louise Herrington School of Nursing, who now is a registered nurse at Methodist Dallas Medical Center's Coronary Care/Medical Intensive Care unit. "The Buchholz Simulation Lab is an opportunity for nursing students to understand and experience unexpected situations that will occur in real-life situations. Baylor's nursing program is already great, but it will thrive all the more with this new piece of interactive learning."
Other key donors to the Buchholz Simulation Lab include Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Z. Ornelas of Tyler, Texas; John and Marie Chiles of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. Harris Clark of Dallas; ExxonMobil Foundation; Baylor University Medical Center; John L. and Marilyn Leslie Bedwell of Norman, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Chesnutt of Houston; Anita Collier Jones of Dallas; Bill and Clara Johnston of Midland, Texas; Dr. and Mrs. John B. Ross, V, of Longview, Texas and the Tom A. Harris Fund and the Katie Foundation Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc.
"The Buchholz Simulation Lab is one example of how we are meeting the demands in this changing industry. Through simulation technology, we are helping train the next generation of practitioners so that they are ready when called upon to lead in the field of health care," said Dr. Judy Lott, dean of Baylor's Louise Herrington School of Nursing. "But what we aren't changing is our Christian mission and emphasis on teaching. I am proud of the fine students we are educating at Baylor University, and I am confident that following graduation they will serve as compassionate leaders in the field."
The Don A. and Ruth Buchholz Simulation Lab promotes Baylor 2012 imperatives such as establishing an environment where learning can flourish, attracting and supporting a top-tier student body and providing outstanding academic facilities. The Don A. and Ruth Buchholz Simulation Lab ensures that Baylor students continue a tradition of excellence as they learn, lead and serve in the nursing vocation.
About Baylor Nursing
In 2009, Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing will celebrate 100 years of preparing students to learn, lead and serve in the nursing vocation. The first bachelor of science in nursing degrees were awarded in 1954, establishing the school as one of the oldest baccalaureate nursing programs in the United States. In November 1999, the school was renamed the Louise Herrington School of Nursing after Louise Herrington Ornelas, co-founder of TCA Cable Inc. of Tyler and a 1992 Baylor University Alumna Honoris Causa, who made a significant gift to endow the school. Last year, Baylor graduates had a 96 percent licensure exam pass rate and a 100 percent certification rate,while U.S.News & World Report ranked the master's degree program in nursing among the top 75 programs in the country. Visit www.baylor.edu/nursing for more information. | <urn:uuid:de6ddf25-a839-48f1-826c-557f23554d97> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=53977 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939472 | 1,038 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Lockheed Elementary School
Lockheed Elementary School offers its students a full academic curriculum, as well as a number of different clubs and organizations which they may join; parents can opt their children out of any club or organization offered. In addition, it provides children from kindergarten through fifth grade with opportunities for mentorship and guidance in order to promote character-building and community service. The school also has a Media Center which contains audiovisual equipment, computers and an automated library catalog through which students can find any of the 19,000 items available to borrow.
- Hours: Mon - Fri, 8:15am - 3:15pm; Sat, Sun, closed
- Public/Private: Public
- Grade levels: Pre-K through 5
- Features: Auditorium/stage, Cafeteria, Library
- Extracurricular activities available: Boy Scouts, Student Council, Safety Patrol, Beta Club, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Chorus | <urn:uuid:3fb39120-903e-472d-868e-2229adba0060> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eastcobb.patch.com/listings/lockheed-elementary-school-3de6c258 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945593 | 194 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Venezuela's Chavez Presses 'Alliance' with Russia
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was due in Moscow on Thursday, his second visit within months as Russia increases its ties with the U.S. foe after fighting a war against American-allied Georgia.
The visit takes place as a Russian naval squadron sails to Venezuela, across the Caribbean Sea from the United States, in a pointed response to what the Kremlin portrays as threatening U.S. encroachment near its own borders.
Chavez is to open the two-day visit by meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom he called a "brother" last year, when Putin was president. Both leaders have used criticism of the U.S. to boost their popularity at home and advance foreign policy objectives.
Russia is the latest leg in a tour taking Chavez to a number of nations whose governments are eager to counter U.S. global clout. He stopped briefly in Cuba on his way to China, where he touted agreements to increase oil exports and purchase military jets.
Signaling similar interests in Russia, Chavez said he and President Dmitry Medvedev will observe military exercises when they meet Friday in the southern Orenburg region. The region near Kazakhstan's border is home to oil industry facilities.
In an interview broadcast on Russian television before the visit, Chavez said that Venezuela and Latin America as a whole need "friends like Russia" to help them shed U.S. "domination" and ensure peace.
Putin cultivated close ties with Venezuela in his eight years as president. Russia has signed weapons contracts worth more than US $4.4 billion with Venezuela since 2005 to supply fighter jets, helicopters, and 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles.
It has ramped up cooperation with Caracas further since last month's war with Georgia, which has badly damaged Moscow's already strained ties with the West and particularly the United States.
Hours before the scheduled meeting, A Kremlin official who spoke on customary condition of anonymity said that Russia would grant Venezuela some US $1 billion in credit for the purchase of Russian weaponry in an effort to help Venezuela revamp its military forces.
Russia's deployment of warships to Venezuela for naval maneuvers came after the United States used naval ships to ferry aid to Georgia after the war. Russian authorities sharply criticized their presence and sent a ship to shadow them across the Black Sea.
The naval deployment follows a weeklong visit to Venezuela by a pair of Russian strategic bombers. On his Sunday TV and radio program, Chavez joked that he would be making his international tour aboard the "super-bombers that Medvedev loaned me."
In addition to the existing arms contracts with Russia, Chavez's government is in talks to buy Russian submarines, air defense systems and armored vehicles and more Sukhoi fighter jets.
Chavez has also talked about creating "a new strategic energy alliance" with between the oil-rich nations.
After visiting Venezuela this month, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said five major Russian oil companies are looking to form a consortium to increase Latin American operations and to build a US $6.5 billion refinery to process Venezuelan crude.
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Over our heads, trailing a wake of air
and an enormous shadow as it passed,
the falcon glided to its trainer’s fist
and settled like a loaded weapon there.
Then, while she fed the bird bit after bit
of... what? rabbit? the trainer gave her talk:
These birds, she said, prey on the small and weak,
adding for the children’s benefit
that this, though it seems cruel, is really good
since otherwise the other rabbits, mice,
squirrels, what have you, would run out of space
and die of illness or a lack of food.
I know what she was trying to get across,
and I don’t doubt it would be healthier
if we were more familiar than we are
with how the natural world draws life from loss;
and granted, nothing is more natural
than death incarnate falling from the sky;
and granted, it is better some should die,
however agonizingly, than all.
Still, to teach children this is how things go
is one thing, to insist that it is good
is something else—it is to make a god
of an unsatisfactory status quo,
this vicious circle that the clock hands draw
and quarter, while the serpent bites its tail,
or eats the dust, or strikes at someone’s heel,
or winds up comprehended by a claw.
She launched the bird again. We watched it climb
out of the amphitheatre, headed toward
the darkened spires of a nearby wood,
then bank, then angle toward us one last time. | <urn:uuid:860ffae1-46b9-4fa7-9f7e-e3c6da36a502> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/177730 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956271 | 344 | 1.835938 | 2 |
At a press conference on Capitol Hill, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand demonstrated bipartisan support for her proposal to remove the reporting and prosecution of sexual assault complaints in the military from the chain of command.
The House of Representatives is expected Thursday to vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act—the 37th time the Republican-dominated body has voted to defund, repeal, or otherwise dismantle the law.
Pentagon brass say they’re working on the problem but balk at meaningful changes that would safeguard those claiming assault against their superiors.
As of 2011, 1 in 12 private-sector workers was employed in the restaurant industry. But women, especially women of color, face a variety of struggles in this growing field.
Now that the voters have spoken, what’s going to happen next?
It is often said that a budget is a statement of priorities. It shows what matters to people. Women should matter. Access to safe medical care should matter.
If you’re pregnant and wind up in a Catholic hospital, you could find yourself in more trouble after you’ve seen a doctor than before you walked in the door.
By all accounts, the women’s rights advocates who fought to reauthorize VAWA never made EC a priority.
Both arms of Congress have finally reauthorized a version of VAWA that doesn’t purposefully exclude people on the basis of their ethnicity, immigration status, or sexual orientation.
When I stumbled into the world of politics and policy after law school I was surprised to see the dearth of women. In particular, there was lack of African American and multiracial women in elected office or even working on the issues that affected women and minorities the most. | <urn:uuid:4d60e82e-a8ea-4286-a663-298e89a94a32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rhrealitycheck.org/topic/law-and-policy/u-s-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961297 | 353 | 1.617188 | 2 |
1. The Tidy Tippist
The keyboard is hidden inside a decorative, washable tablecloth. The electronic is woven into a fabric, which finds itself between layers of water resistant felt as sandwich material. The soft felt surface makes it a pleasure for fingers to tip - a cosy keyboard.
2. The Datahand
This product is aimed for people who get pain in their hands from typing with a traditional keyboard - and that’s a good thing. It’s still looks like a very strange keyboard.
3. The Orbitouch
The orbiTouch creates a keystroke when you slide the two domes into one of their eight respective positions. You type the different characters by sliding the domes to create letters and numbers. The orbiTouch also has an integrated mouse, so moving the domes gives you full mouse and keyboard capability!
The target group for this keyboard is of course people who have limited or no motion in their fingers or hands, and that’s a very good thing - but anyway, it’s a weird keyboard.
4. The Twiddler 2
What do you say about the Twiddler 2? It looks to be quite painful to use, or what do you think? According to the testimonials at their site, it will take you a weekend to learn typing 30 words per minute, so the frogpad wins that round. The Twiddler actually reminds me of those guitar classes I took when I was a young boy.
5. The frogpad
The frogpad is a tiny, tiny keyboard - or it would be more suitable to call it a keypad actually. The manufacturer say that you can get up to 40 words per minute if you practice between 6 to 10 hours with it.
6. Virtual Laser Keyboard
Wow, it’s heating up, don’t you agree? This is more cool than weird though. This laser gadget projects a virtual keyboard on a table or other suitable material, and then interpret your finger movement and pass them on to your PDA or whatever you have it connected to.
7. The SafeType keyboard
Just take a look at this one. Do you understand how to use it? The idea is that your hands and arms shall be in a more relaxed position while working with the SafeType compared to a traditional keyboard.
However, if you have a low tolerance for frustration (and learning to type in a new manner can be frustrating) then your best bet is to stay flat and stick with a keyboard that’s a little more common.
8. Maltron 3D Ergonomic Keyboard
Things are starting to get a bit more weird, ey? Getting used to this keyboard isn’t something you’ll do in 10 minutes or so - it will take a while for sure. But if you have medical problems with your hands, this might be a good choice since it’s a very ergonomic keyboard. It looks very weird though!
9. The wrist keyboard
This one might be useful if you’re in the need to type stuff while doing practical work in tough climates - but if you would wear this keyboard at the office, you might be considered a bit geeky.
10. Roll-up keyboard
This keyboard has the same measurements as a standard 102-key keyboard, but there’s a big difference. You can roll this one up and put it in your pocket.
Fosfor gadgets presents the 10 weirdest keyboards ever. What makes me laugh is that the companies that have designed these wacky looking keyboards have convinced themselves that they actually work and are going to sell well. The regular keyboard will be around forever. It's cheap and easy to use.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
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The Wentz Concert Hall always provides patrons with an amazing concert experience, in part because of the unmatched design of this concert hall. It was designed to give listeners a perfect audio experience. The architecture in Wentz Concert Hall makes every seat feel close to the action, and the motorized sound-absorbing curtains can actually tune the room. It draws comparison to Carnegie Hall for its acoustics.
One of the aims of the construction of Wentz Concert Hall was to provide an intimate place for concert events. It features 13,000 square feet, and the size was carefully picked in order to maintain an intimate feel for events. It is located on the campus of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois and routinely draws patrons from the nearby city of Chicago.
The team that designed the acoustics for the Wentz Concert Hall was the same behind the famed Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park in Chicago. Its reputation means that the Wentz Concert Hall can attract top concert events from the Chicago Symphony to opera soloists. Once you have experienced Wentz Concert Hall, you are sure to come back. | <urn:uuid:688e38c0-2236-4204-a959-845a0b765f16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stubhub.com/wentz-concert-hall-tickets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958898 | 223 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Now thought Atli the King that he had gained a mighty victory, and spake to Gudrun even as mocking her greatly, or as making himself great before her. "Gudrun," saith he, "thus hast thou lost thy brethren, and thy very self hast brought it about."
She answers, "In good liking livest thou, whereas thou thrustest these slayings before me, but mayhappen thou wilt rue it, when thou hast tried what is to come hereafter; and of all I have, the longest-lived matter shall be the memory of thy cruel heart, nor shall it go well with thee whiles I live."
He answered and said, "Let there be peace betwixt us; I will atone for thy brethren with gold and dear-bought things, even as thy heart may wish."
She answers, "Hard for a long while have I been in our dealings together, and now I say, that while Hogni was yet alive thou mightest have brought it to pass; but now mayest thou never atone for my brethren in my heart; yet oft must we women be overborne by the might of you men; and now are all my kindred dead and gone, and thou alone art left to rule over me: wherefore now this is my counsel that we make a great feast; wherein I will hold the funeral of my brother and of thy kindred withal."
In such wise did she make herself soft and kind in words, though far other things forsooth lay thereunder, but he hearkened to her gladly, and trusted in her words, whereas she made herself sweet of speech.
So Gudrun held the funeral feast for her brethren, and King Atli for his men, and exceeding proud and great was this feast.
But Gudrun forgat not her woe, but brooded over it, how she might work some mighty shame against the king; and at nightfall she took to her the sons of King Atli and her as they played about the floor; the younglings waxed heavy of cheer, and asked what she would with them.
"Ask me not," she said; "ye shall die, the twain of you!"
Then they answered, "Thou mayest do with thy children even as thou wilt, nor shall any hinder thee, but shame there is to thee in the doing of this deed."
Yet for all that she cut the throats of them.
Then the king asked where his sons were, and Gudrun answered, "I will tell thee, and gladden thine heart by the telling; lo now, thou didst make a great woe spring up for me in the slaying of my brethren; now hearken and hear my rede and my deed; thou hast lost thy sons, and their heads are become beakers on the board here, and thou thyself hast drunken the blood of them blended with wine; and their hearts I took and roasted them on a spit, and thou hast eaten thereof."
King Atli answered, "Grim art thou in that thou hast murdered thy sons, and given me their flesh to eat, and little space passes betwixt ill deed of thine and ill deed."
Gudrun said, "My heart is set on the doing to thee of as great shame as may be; never shall the measure ill be of full to such a king as thou art."
The king said, "Worser deeds hast thou done than men have to tell of, and great unwisdom is there in such fearful redes; most meet art thou to be burned on bale when thou hast first been smitten to death with stones, for in such wise wouldst thou have what thou hast gone a weary way to seek."
She answered, "Thine own death thou foretellest, but another death is fated for me."
And many other words they spake in their wrath.
Now Hogni had a son left alive, hight Niblung, and great wrath of heart he bare against King Atli; and he did Gudrun to wit that he would avenge his father. And she took his words well, and they fell to counsel together thereover, and she said it would be great goodhap if it might be brought about.
So on a night, when the king had drunken, he gat him in bed, and when he was laid asleep, thither to him came Gudrun and the son of Hogni.
Gudrun took a sword and thrust it through the breast of King Atli, and they both of them set their hands to the deed, both she and the son of Hogni.
Then Atli the king awoke with the wound, and cried out; "No need of binding or salving here!--who art thou who hast done the deed?"
Gudrun says, "Somewhat have I, Gudrun, wrought therein, and somewhat withal the son of Hogni."
Atli said, "Ill it beseemed to thee to do this, though somewhat of wrong was between us; for thou wert wedded to me by the rede of thy kin, and dower paid I for thee; yea, thirty goodly knights, and seemly maidens, and many men besides; and yet wert thou not content, but if thou should rule over the lands King Budli owned: and thy mother-in-law full oft thou lettest sit a-weeping."
Gudrun said, "Many false words hast thou spoken, and of naught I account them; oft, indeed, was I fell of mood, but much didst thou add thereto. Full oft in this thy house did frays befall, and kin fought kin, and friend fought friend, and made themselves big one against the other; better days had I whenas I abode with Sigurd, when we slew kings, and took their wealth to us, but gave peace to whomso would, and the great men laid themselves under our hands, and might we gave to him of them who would have it; then I lost him, and a little thing was it that I should bear a widow's name, but the greatest of griefs that I should come to thee--I who had aforetime the noblest of all kings, while for thee, thou never barest out of the battle aught but the worser lot."
King Atli answered, "Naught true are thy words, nor will this our speech better the lot of either of us, for all is fallen now to naught; but now do to me in seemly wise, and array my dead corpse in noble fashion."
"Yea, that will I," she says, "and let make for thee a goodly grave, and build for thee a worthy abiding place of stone, and wrap thee in fair linen, and care for all that needful is."
So therewithal he died, and she did according to her word: and then they cast fire into the hall.
And when the folk and men of estate awoke amid that dread and trouble, naught would they abide the fire, but smote each the other down, and died in such wise; so there Atli the king, and all his folk, ended their life-days. But Gudrun had no will to live longer after this deed so wrought, but nevertheless her ending day was not yet come upon her.
Now the Volsungs and the Giukings, as folk tell in tale, have been the greatest-hearted and the mightiest of all men, as ye may well behold written in the songs of old time.
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The Japanese motor company, Honda Motor Co. (HMC) has announced to recall over 186,000 car models sold in the Brazil market from 2003 to 2008 following reports of defect in the window switches. This defect can lead to fire, endangering the life of the driver and the accompanists. The firm had also made similar announcement in Japan on January 29 and recalled defected cars from the market.
Honda corporate offices told in a statement, "Under some severe operating conditions, water, rain or other liquid may enter the driver's window and reach the master power window switch, resulting in impaired function of the switch."
It should be recalled that Honda's rival Toyota is also facing the similar problem, suffering a loss over a billion dollars due to recalling some of its models sold in China and US. The recalled models are said to have problem in accelerator pedals which can increase the possibility of accidents.
Toyota's recently released Prius hybrid electric vehicle is also reported to have problem in the breaks. Thus, its recall from the market cannot be ruled out. | <urn:uuid:17259263-fcba-444b-8fb9-e0c0bed07584> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://topnews.net.nz/content/22013-honda-recalls-thousands-cars-brazil | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977458 | 215 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Stuart Parmenter, a Mozilla engineer, has some interesting news about memory usage in Firefox 3 Beta 4:
We’ve made more significant changes to the platform than I can count, including many to reduce our memory footprint. The result has been dramatic, and you can see for yourself by getting a copy of the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 4.
Here’s What We’ve Done:
Reduced Memory fragmentation
Fixed cycles with the Cycle collector
Tuned our caches
Adjusted how we store image data
Hunted down leaks
Our work has paid off.
We’re significantly smaller than previous versions of Firefox and other browsers. You can keep the browser open for much longer using much less memory. Extensions are much less likely to cause leaks. We’ve got automated tools in place to detect leaks that might result from new code. We’re always monitoring and testing to make sure we’re moving in the right direction. All of this has been done while dramatically improving performance.
So this is all very interesting, and you should read the full post for the details of how they did it. But even after just a few days of use, it's clear that Firefox 3 Beta 4 is using tons less memory than FF2. I used to leave FF2 on overnight and the thing would gobble up 300+ MB of RAM easily. I check it from time to time and it's usually in the 60-70 MB RAM range, a huge improvement.
If they can really put this behind them, I'd like to see the same dedication go towards making a high quality FF user experience. The new UI in FF3 is simply horrible, especially on Windows Vista. It shouldn't be this amateurish. | <urn:uuid:e332284a-4d76-45a4-800c-f6cd69169d94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://winsupersite.com/print/blog/supersite-blog-39/news2/firefox-3-memory-usage-137874 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958283 | 360 | 1.648438 | 2 |
If youre a fan of foosball, then the folks at Enventys - a Charlotte-based product development firm - have got a treat for you.
A team of nine employees has created Foolsball, which puts a twist on traditional foosball by incorporating weather elements and other new challenges.
Foosball is a soccer-based game played on a table. Players use handles to maneuver small figures to shoot a hard, plastic ball into one of two goals.
We were like, How can we make a fake version of a real game become more real again? said Jeremy Losaw, a senior engineer at Enventys and Edison Nation.
The Foolsball table was built as part of a game-building competition organized by Red Bull, the energy drink maker. The Enventys team is one of 12 vying for a chance to win a trip to New York City, and a cash prize.
Losaw, 32, is a self-described hacker-geek, or as he says, those who are garage tinkerers and have a propensity to take things apart and see how they work. Losaw used to work for NASCAR, and joined Enventys this past October.
The two companies Losaw now works for are housed under one roof on Elliot Street in Charlotte. Enventys develops products for companies, and Edison Nation pairs independent inventors with retailers and manufacturers looking for outside innovation. Louis Foreman is CEO of both companies.
The teams had 72 hours to design and build their games. They began work last Thursday at 9 p.m., when guidelines were announced.
There werent many rules, but there were size regulations, since the top games will be shipped to New York.
Foolsball features wind, rain, fog and lighting that occur under a plastic dome that tops the turf field. The weather elements are controlled from a kiosk separate from the playing field, allowing for audience interaction.
The most treacherous weather element may be the lightning, made of strobe light flashes on the field and tiny electrical shocks players feel on their hands.
Beside worrying about inclement weather, players also must focus on their balance because the game stands atop a platform that moves up and down like a see-saw.
Foolsball was mostly created from products that the team tinkered with, including the leaf blower that powers the games wind, the sprinkler that creates rain, and computer-printer parts used to build the goalies.
Losaw said the team got off to a rocky start, but eventually found its groove.
Most people went home Friday night, I think. But after that, many of us did a 40-hour day, Losaw said. The team roster also includes: Patrick Bailey, 21; Kevin Dahlquist, 38; Chris Gabriel, 48; Ryan Gorman, 34; Rae McNeil, 24; Carlos Perez, 25; Tom Philpott, 34; Mike Starkey, 27.
Now the engineers and designers behind Foolsball are waiting to see if theyll go to New York. Four of the 12 competing teams will display their games at the World Maker Faire on September 29-30 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, N.Y.
Going to the fair to meet other hacker-geeks and makers, is a pretty good prize in and of itself, said Losaw. | <urn:uuid:d5659f00-ccfc-46f1-87b1-decc82c83d91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/07/25/3405975/fooling-around-with-foosball.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958449 | 695 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Height of Pitcher's Mound Can Strain Shoulders
Major League Baseball study found standard mound
might raise risk of stress injuries
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When campaigns to undertake some action, particularly one which shows contempt for the Constitution, are launched, facts, logic and truth are often necessary casualties for those demanding change. The anti-gun crusade is an excellent example of this attempt to steamroll reality as a means of gaining ground.
Thomas Sowell addresses this issue with his usual approach to common sense and facts. If you are an advocate of gun control and read this article, I suspect that you might change your mind or at least have concern for much of what is passing for wisdom. If these points don’t register with you, then I suspect you are hopeless.
By Thomas Sowell
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders?
Think about all the states, communities within states, as well as foreign countries, that have either tight gun control laws or loose or non-existent gun control laws. With so many variations and so many sources of evidence available, surely there would be some compelling evidence somewhere if tighter gun control laws actually reduced the murder rate.
And if tighter gun control laws don’t actually reduce the murder rate, then why are we being stampeded toward such laws after every shooting that gets media attention?
Have the media outlets that you follow ever even mentioned that some studies have produced evidence that murder rates tend to be higher in places with tight gun control laws?
The dirty little secret is that gun control laws do not actually control guns. They disarm law-abiding citizens, making them more vulnerable to criminals, who remain armed in disregard of such laws.
In England, armed crimes skyrocketed as legal gun ownership almost vanished under increasingly severe gun control laws in the late 20th century. (See the book “Guns and Violence” by Joyce Lee Malcolm). But gun control has become one of those fact-free crusades, based on assumptions, emotions and rhetoric.
What almost no one talks about is that guns are used to defend lives as well as to take lives. In fact, many of the horrific killings that we see in the media were brought to an end when someone else with a gun showed up and put a stop to the slaughter.
The Cato Institute estimates upwards of 100,000 defensive uses of guns per year. Preventing law-abiding citizens from defending themselves can cost far more lives than are lost in the shooting episodes that the media publicize. The lives saved by guns are no less precious, just because the media pay no attention to them.
Many people who have never fired a gun in their lives, and never faced life-threatening dangers, nevertheless feel qualified to impose legal restrictions that can be fatal to others. And politicians eager to “do something” that gets them publicity know that the votes of the ignorant and the gullible are still votes.
Virtually nothing that is being proposed in current gun control legislation is likely to reduce murder rates.
Restricting the magazine capacity available to law-abiding citizens will not restrict the magazine capacity of people who are not law-abiding citizens. Such restrictions just mean that the law-abiding citizen is likely to run out of ammunition first.
Someone would have to be an incredible sharpshooter to fend off three home invaders with just seven shots at moving targets. But seven is the magic number of bullets allowed in a magazine under New York State’s new gun control laws.
People who support such laws seem to blithely assume that they are limiting the damage that can be done by criminals or the mentally ill — as if criminals or mad men care about such laws.
Banning so-called “assault weapons” is a farce, as well as a fraud, because there is no concrete definition of an assault weapon. That is why so many guns have to be specified by name in such bans — and the ones specified to be banned are typically no more dangerous than others that are not specified.
Some people may think that “assault weapons” means automatic weapons. But automatic weapons were banned decades ago. Banning ugly-looking “assault weapons” may have aesthetic benefits, but it does not reduce the dangers to human life in the slightest. You are just as dead when killed by a very plain-looking gun.
One of the dangerous inconsistencies of many, if not most, gun control crusaders is that those who are most zealous to get guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens are often not nearly as concerned about keeping violent criminals behind bars.
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HISTORY OF THE CEDARBURG MUSIC FESTIVAL:
Beginning in 1946 and continuing for 38 years, the Cedarburg Festival of Music was the summer “event” in Cedarburg. The parade would have dozens of Drum and Bugle Corps along with Bands from the area. Then in the evening on the infield of the Fairgrounds the marching competition would take place with several classes of units competing.
For a variety of reasons, the Cedarburg Festival on Music “went dark” in 1984. The Cedarburg Fire Department, who had been the organizer, found it impossible to continue to raise the money to meet the ever growing monetary needs of the Drum Corps. Also, as the availability of School summer band programs decreased, the number of units available became an issue. Also, the major drum corps had formed an alliance that became Drum Corps International. DCI took over the corps touring schedules and with the demand for funds, took Cedarburg off their schedule.
In 2000, the Cedarburg Rotary Club with contacts with the Madison Scouts, Pioneer and Drum Corps Midwest reinvented the Cedarburg Festival of Music. The new name became the Rotary Music Festival and the new location for the competition became Cedarburg High School. The new focus was on strictly Drum and Bugle Corps with Madison Scouts and Pioneer being the mainstays annually. A permanent date [other than this year] became July 3rd with idea that Cedarburg could enjoy several of the corps in the July 4th Parade.
In 2007, Cedarburg High School constructed a new elevated grandstand with a capacity of 2000 great seats. Plus the High School has an adjacent field house that can serve as a rain site. You can be assured that you will at least hear the corps even in case of inclement weather.
This event has become a very successful fundraiser for the Cedarburg-Grafton Rotary Club raising over $300,000 in the first ten years. The Club supports many local needs including scholarships for our high school seniors, support for local charities and Rotary International’s world wide missions. Over the ten years more than 15,000 fans have attended the event. | <urn:uuid:e7aa4f6a-e9f1-4832-9c3e-ae07b5de3e77> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cedarburgmusicfestival.com/index_files/Page497.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971517 | 443 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Chris Comer, the director of science curriculum for the Texas Education Agency, was forced to resign after forwarding a short e-mail message announcing a presentation in Austin by Barbara Forrest. The Austin American-Statesman (2007 Nov 29) reported, "Comer sent the e-mail to several individuals and a few online communities, saying, 'FYI.'" Less than two hours later, Lizzette Reynolds, the TEA's senior adviser on statewide initiatives, complained to Comer's supervisors, writing, "This is highly inappropriate ... I believe this is an offense that calls for termination or, at the very least, reassignment of responsibilities ... it assumes this is a subject that the agency supports."
The e-mail message that Comer forwarded, which was originally sent by NCSE, announced a talk by Barbara Forrest on the history of the "intelligent design" movement and her expert testimony in Kitzmiller v Dover, in which teaching "intelligent design" in the public schools was ruled to be unconstitutional. Forrest is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University and a member of NCSE's board of directors; she also is the coauthor (with Paul R Gross) of Creationism's Trojan Horse (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
The e-mail was then cited in a memorandum recommending Comer's termination, the American-Statesman noted:"They said forwarding the e-mail not only violated a directive for her not to communicate in writing or otherwise with anyone outside the agency regarding an upcoming science curriculum review, [but] 'it directly conflicts with her responsibilities as the Director of Science.' The memo adds, 'Ms Comer's e-mail implies endorsement of the speaker and implies that TEA endorses the speaker's position on a subject on which the agency must remain neutral.'" Other reasons for recommending her termination were listed in addition.
But Comer told the newspaper that she thought that the longstanding political controversy over evolution education in Texas was the main cause of her termination: "None of the other reasons they gave are, in and of themselves, firing offenses," she said. NCSE's executive director Eugenie C Scott suggested that Comer's termination seemed to be a warning to TEA employees. "This just underscores the politicization of science education in Texas," Scott said. "In most states, the department of education takes a leadership role in fostering sound science education. Apparently TEA employees are supposed to be kept in the closet and only let out to do the bidding of the board."
Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network, which advances a mainstream agenda of religious freedom and individual liberties to counter the religious right, also expressed her concern. "It's important to know whether politics and ideology are standing in the way of Texas kids getting a 21st century science education," Miller told the American-Statesman. Alluding to previous battles over the place of evolution in Texas science standards and textbooks, she added, "We've already seen a faction of the State Board of Education try to politicize and censor what our schoolchildren learn. It would be even more alarming if the same thing is now happening inside TEA itself."
The news soon attracted further attention and comment. First to decry Comer's termination was Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which promptly called on the TEA to rehire Comer in a press release dated November 28, 2007. AU's executive director, the Reverend Barry W Lynn, remarked, "It's a sad day when a science expert can lose her job merely for recommending that people hear a speaker defend sound science ... Officials in Texas seem intent on elevating fundamentalist dogma over academic excellence and common sense."
Then, in a report dated November 29, 2007 (available online at http://www.texscience.org/reviews/tea-science-director-resigns.htm), Steven Schafersman of Texas Citizens for Science contended that the real reason that Comer was forced to resign was her defense of the integrity of science education during her long tenure at TEA. Describing Comer as a martyr of science, he added, "But she will not be a victim," predicting that scientists and science teachers in Texas will be "outraged by her treatment by a state agency that is now publicly and officially forgoing accurate and reliable science to serve the ideological and religious biases of a small minority of state public education officials."
Barbara Forrest herself was aghast at the news, telling NCSE, "In my talk, I simply told the truth — about the history of the 'intelligent design' movement, about the complete rejection of its claims by the scientific community, and about the Kitzmiller trial and my involvement in it. Maybe the TEA can't afford to take a position on what constitutes good science education — maybe it must remain neutral on whether or not to lie to students about evolution — but if so, that's just sad."
Bringing the issue to national attention was The New York Times. Ralph Blumenthal reported (2007 Dec 3):
After 27 years as a science teacher and 9 years as the Texas Education Agency's director of science, Christine Castillo Comer said she did not think she had to remain "neutral" about teaching the theory of evolution. But now Ms Comer, 56, of Austin, is out of a job, after forwarding an e-mail message on a talk about evolution and creationism — "a subject on which the agency must remain neutral," according to a dismissal letter last month that accused her of various instances of "misconduct and insubordination" and of siding against creationism and the doctrine that life is the product of "intelligent design".
"I don't see how I took a position by FYI-ing on a lecture like I FYI on global warming or stem-cell research," Comer told Blumenthal. "I send around all kinds of stuff, and I'm not accused of endorsing it." The article added, "But she said that as a career science educator, 'I'm for good science,' and that when it came to teaching evolution, 'I don't think it's any stretch of the imagination where I stand.'"
The following day, the Times expressed concern about Comer's termination on its editorial page, and in Texas, too, newspaper editorials were critical of the TEA. Additionally, the American Institute for Biological Sciences issued a press release on December 6, 2007, expressing outrage at the fact, expressed in the memorandum recommending Comer's termination, that "the TEA requires, as agency policy, neutrality when talking about evolution and creationism." "When it comes to science education, we absolutely cannot remain neutral on evolution. Evolution is the unifying principle of modern biology," asserted Douglas J Futuyma, president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University. "Within biological science, the reality of evolution is not controversial."
And Barbara Forrest herself released a statement through NCSE on December 5, 2007, deploring the situation.
In forcing Chris Comer to resign as Texas Director of Science, the Texas Education Agency has confirmed in a most public, unfortunate way the central point of my Austin presentation, "Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse", the mere announcement of which TEA used as an excuse to terminate her: the "intelligent design" (ID) creationist movement is about politics, religion, and power. ...If anyone had any doubts about how mean-spirited ID politics is, this episode should erase them. ... For the last nine years at the TEA, after twenty-seven years as a science teacher, ... Comer was doing her part, and she got fired for doing it.
The coverage continued, with details emerging about what it was like to work at the TEA. "We were actually told in a meeting in September that if creationism is the party line, we have to abide by it," Comer told the Austin American-Statesman (2007 Dec 6). Over the past year, she related, the TEA began increasingly to scrutinize and constrain the activities of its employees in the curriculum department: "We couldn't go anywhere. We couldn't speak," she said. "They just started wanting everything to be channeled." According to the newspaper, Comer maintained "that her ouster was political and that she felt persecuted for having supported the teaching of evolution in Texas classrooms." A spokesperson for the TEA was quoted by the American-Statesman as responding, "Obviously, there was a concern about the forwarding of that e-mail ... that she was supporting that particular speaker and [how] that could be construed ... as taking a position that could be misinterpreted by some people," and as contending that Comer evinced a lack of professionalism in other ways.
Comer then appeared on NPR's "Science Friday" on December 7, 2007, relating her story to the show's host, Ira Flatow. After receiving the e-mail announcing Forrest's talk, she said, "you know, I had a half minute and I said, gee, this is really interesting. And then, I looked up the credential on my computer, I Googled Barbara Forrest and I said, oh my goodness, this is quite a credential[ed] speaker. And then I thought to myself — you know, I'm telling my biology teachers almost on a weekly basis, teach the curriculum, teach the evolution curriculum because it's part of the state-mandated curriculum. And now, I should be — you know, I should be walking the talk here, and I — there's nothing wrong with this e-mail, of course."
Comer told Flatow that there were previous indications that the TEA was discouraging its employees from taking a stand on evolution. At a meeting during which employees were told that they must be careful about what they say and do, Comer recounted, she mentioned the topic of creationism:" And she said, I'm so glad you brought that up ... because it's important for us to realize that if the company line is that we endorse creationism, then that's what we have to say. I was shocked. I said, my goodness, even the president's ... own science adviser, was not held to that standard. And she said, well, I'm just telling you." Comer was apparently referring to John H Marburger III, Director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, who told The New York Times (2005 Aug 3), "Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology," adding, "intelligent design is not a scientific concept."
The TEA's commissioner Robert Scott was interviewed by the Dallas Morning News (2007 Dec 9). He denied that Comer was forced to resign just for forwarding the e-mail announcing Forrest's talk, alluding to "other factors" that he was not able to discuss. Asked, "Was her advocacy of evolution over creationism an element in her dismissal?" he replied, "She wasn't advocating for evolution. But she may have given the impression that ...we were taking a position as an agency — not as an individual but as an agency — on a matter." "Why shouldn't the agency advocate the science of evolution? Texas students are required to study it," the reporter asked. Scott replied, "You can be in favor of a science without bashing people's faith, too. I don't know all the facts, but I think that may be the real issue here." He did not explain how Comer's behavior was supposed to constitute faith-bashing.
While on "Science Friday," Comer thanked her supporters, saying, "Science educators and rational minds have really gone to bat and have written letters, made e-mails, and sent phone messages. It's really been an incredible response." More was to come.
The Society for the Study of Evolution released a statement (available on-line at http://www.evolutionsociety.org/download/ComerLtr_RP_JS_DW.pdf) reading, in part:
Professional ethics demands that one not "remain neutral" when science is deliberately misrepresented by creationists. Chris Comer thus acted responsibly and professionally in forwarding the announcement about an educational lecture regarding "Intelligent Design" creationism. In contrast, the administrators who called for her termination and who forced her resignation acted irresponsibly and in direct opposition to the professional standards expected of those who oversee science education. Their comments, quoted above, make it clear that they have sacrificed not only a dedicated public servant but also the facts and the very nature of science to partisan political ideology. It is a sad day for Texas when TEA administrators resort to Stalinist-style purging to suppress the truth about the bankruptcy of arguments.
Similarly, as the Austin American-Statesman (2007 Dec 11) reported, "More than 100 biology faculty members from universities across Texas signed a letter sent Monday to state Education Commissioner Robert Scott saying Texas Education Agency employees should not have to remain neutral on evolution." Daniel Bolnick of the University of Texas, Austin, told the newspaper, "I'm an evolutionary biologist, and I and many others simply feel that good evolution education is key to understanding biology as a whole," and his colleague David Hillis added that the Comer controversy represented "an enormous black eye in terms of our competitiveness and ability to attract researchers and technologies." The letter was signed by biologists from across Texas, at both public and private universities.
Alan I Leshner, the chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, drove the message home, writing in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (2007 Dec 11):
As Texas prepares to reconsider what youngsters statewide should know about science, the forced ouster of science curriculum director Chris Comer of the Texas Education Agency, apparently for standing up for the integrity of science education, stands as both shocking and sad. Even more disturbing, perhaps, is the official explanation for it. ... Should anyone in charge of science curriculum be expected to remain neutral regarding efforts to insert religious viewpoints into science classrooms? The answer is 'no.' ... If today's students are to thrive, education leaders cannot pick and choose which scientific facts they want to accept.
A common theme in the coverage of the Comer controversy is that it foreshadows a likely clash over the place of evolution in the science portion of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), the state science standards that determine both what is taught in Texas's public school science classrooms and the content of the biology textbooks approved for use in the state. The Dallas Morning News (2007 Dec 13) summarized, "The resignation of the state's science curriculum director last month has signaled the beginning of what is shaping up to be a contentious and politically charged revision of the science curriculum, set to begin in earnest in January. ... in disciplinary paperwork [officials at the TEA] stressed that she needed to remain neutral in what was becoming a tense period leading up to the first review of the science curriculum in a decade."
In 2003, there were concerted, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempts to misuse the TEKS to compromise the treatment of evolution in the textbooks then under consideration (see RNCSE 2003 Sep–Dec; 23 [5–6]: 4–7), and it is expected that such attempts will recur — especially since the new president of the board, Don McLeroy, is himself a vocal creationist (see RNCSE 2007 May–Aug 2007; 27 [3–4]: 6–9).
Although creationists in Texas, including McLeroy, have disavowed any intention of trying to include creationism in the TEKS, there are clear signs that they will press to include language attempting to instill scientifically unwarranted doubts about evolution. Mark Ramsey, representing a group styling itself Texans for Better Science Education, was characterized, for example, as wanting "weaknesses in evolution" to be taught. (Ramsey is also associated with the Greater Houston Creation Association, as Texas Citizens for Science reported.) NCSE's executive director Eugenie C Scott told the Dallas Morning News (2007 Dec 13), "It all boils down to the idea that to counter evolution you teach students that evolution is crummy science in the hopes that students will reject it ... It's a way of getting creationism in without the 'C' word."
For her part, Comer told the Morning News, "Any science teacher worth [her] salt that has any background in biology will tell you there is no controversy" over the scientific status of evolution. That, she said, was her approach during her tenure at the TEA, where she frequently responded to questions about evolution education in Texas: "We have teachers afraid to teach it, parents who don't want it taught and parents who do want it taught. It comes from all different angles." She added, "For all the years I was there, I would always say the teaching of evolution is part of our science curriculum. It's not just a good idea; it's the law." But now she is not optimistic about the future of science education in Texas, lamenting, "The way things are being done these days I don't think rational minds have a chance." | <urn:uuid:7ce9498a-46bb-4557-95e9-06219159a737> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ncse.com/book/export/html/5634 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969088 | 3,537 | 1.6875 | 2 |
An injured hiker is resting this morning, less than 24 hours after plunging nearly 100 feet from a trail in Altadena’s Eaton Canyon. According to local fire officials, the hiker, who is approximately 18-years-old, suffered severe chest, hip, femur, and head injuries as a result of the fall. After being located by Pasadena Fire Department firefighters, the hiker was transported by the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Air 5 helicopter to a local hospital in serious condition.
Friday’s incident is not the only mountain rescue to occur at Eaton Canyon this summer. Several other people have been rescued after serious falls in the canyon this past July and June as well.
“During the Summer months, we respond to rescues in Eaton Canyon on an almost weekly basis. It’s important hikers stay on marked trails, bring cell phones, and let others know where they will be”, Lisa Derderian of the Pasadena Fire Department told Crown City News in June, 2012. “It takes a tremendous amount of resources from several jurisdictions to respond to these rescues”, she said.
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The Skinny on Being Skinny
Unhealthy calorie restriction in the running community
Photo by puuikibeach, licensed through the Creative Commons
I’ll admit it: I like to restrict calories.
Well, I don’t “like” to restrict calories; I do it because I want to maintain my ideal racing weight. Too many calories could add pounds, which would hamper my running ability—right? Actually, it just makes me hungry and think about food constantly; I bonk while training and make slow fitness gains with frequent setbacks. I am diligent about packing fuel for training runs, yet almost always fail to consume adequate amounts—a vicious cycle of disordered eating.
Many women, and quite a few men, too, chronically engage in this behavior, believing it will make them faster, leaner and more attractive. Charging uphill, after all, is easier with less weight, while muscle damage is reduced on the trot down the other side. Women who weigh less than 1.9 pounds/inch in height and men who weigh less than 2.1 pounds/inch tend to be better climbers—less likely to feel as though they’re doing a squat workout with a child on their shoulders.
Rationally, I understand that being 5’6” and 120 pounds. is an acceptable weight for a female, but I have intense trepidation of adding just one pound. If I’ve kept my calories to a minimum, I feel svelte and proud. While pro athletes regularly undergo weigh-ins and body-composition evaluation by physicians hired to keep their bodies primed for competition, I have no such data to keep me in line; I have only a scale, nutrition labels and pessimistic thoughts. I have a propensity to compare my physique to other women runners, often ignoring my actual performance in favor of my visual expectations for myself.
What to do about this terrible business of finding our optimal weight for performance without disturbing the body’s wellness? Be aware that trying to decrease weight when you’re already close to optimal size often leads to illness or injury. If you don’t maintain adequate caloric intake to match the stress of training, you’re likely to lose muscle mass. Severe calorie restriction can also lead to malnutrition; symptoms include fatigue, weak muscle contraction, anemia, frequent injuries, brittle bones, sleep disturbances, fertility complications and slow recovery from training.
When a woman under-eats, her menstrual cycle and energy levels can experience drastic, negative consequences. Estrogen production is halted under high levels of bodily stress, putting a woman at increased risk for osteoporosis and injury. In fact, restricted calorie intake is a higher risk factor than low body fat in and of itself; recent studies show that as long as calorie consumption is adequate, women can healthily maintain low body-fat percentages equal to athletic men.
Evaluating body composition—the ratio of fat to muscle—is more valuable than considering weight alone. Exercise often increases our weight, due to muscle development and increased blood volume; fitness levels can change drastically without the scale registering anything. Consuming adequate protein can help you lower body fat while maintaining muscle mass.
Though not every runner experiences the perverse inclination to severely restrict calories, many do. In a culture abundant with excess, it can feel exhilarating to be in control and lauded for your ability to resist. I’m overwhelmed by guilt if I stray from my diet of fiber and sugar-free protein bars. A competitive spirit can easily turn into extremism and self-imposed dogma—the idea that nothing is ever enough. Not enough miles, not enough intensity, not enough races.
This excess can creep up insidiously. Our obsessive behavior, often positively reinforced by an environment that venerates competition, has become a psychological myopia. Perhaps the quick fix is having a professional tell you to eat more; the truth is many of us would like to feel good about eating an occasional cheeseburger or ice cream cone.
Opening conversation about something so stigmatized could help alleviate the prevalence of disordered eating in the running community. Understanding that a few extra pounds could actually promote health and strength, leading to faster times and fewer injuries, will hopefully help eradicate the issue. Constant anxiety is cumbersome; replenishing your body should come naturally, not because of what you did that day, but because if your body is asking for food, it needs it.
I remind myself that indulging in “normal people” food a few times a week will make me a better runner–and less of a pain in the ass to take out to dinner. Instead of sitting rigidly and picking away at pieces of fat, or pretending I’m not hungry enough to eat the entire meal, I breathe and engage in a small inner dialogue: “It’s OK, you are getting stronger and will be happier.” Permit yourself to eat by reminding yourself of why you’re running and racing in the first place: joy. | <urn:uuid:bc91d10c-9ebb-43c5-84ed-dc933a71dede> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://trailrunnermag.com/component/content/article/21-daily-nutrition/548-the-skinny-on-being-skinny | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951599 | 1,034 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Apple obviously writes its own software for the iPhone, but Samsung's phones all run a customized version of Google's open-source Android, and Samsung is so dominant that it could very well split off and start building its own version of Android, just as Amazon did with the Kindle Fire. That would be a huge blow to Google. If the rest of the market can't make money using Android soon, it'll provide a big opening for Microsoft.
Google also has to find a way to limit the influence of wireless carriers on Android. Companies such as AT&T and Verizon are all too happy to load up Android devices with unnecessary crapware and bloatware that ruin the user experience while delaying important software updates.
The animosity between Google and the carriers has gotten so deep that Google's new Nexus 4 flagship device doesn't have an LTE radio; the carriers simply wouldn't cooperate.
That's in stark contrast to the iPhone experience, which is pristine and controlled by Apple from the start. It's a control that irritates power users but offers a sense of support and security to the rest of Apple's millions of customers. There's a happy balance between the two extremes, and Google needs to find it before Android begins to slip away entirely.
These are just five of the many interesting things to look out for in 2013, from the future of TV to the rise of wearable computing. After several years of rapid change, we've all got computers in our pockets. The next few years will be about what we do with them to make our lives better.
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Danny "Dapper Dan" Hogan
Danny "Dapper Dan" Hogan was a charismatic Irish mob boss in St. Paul, Minnesota during Prohibition. Due to his close relationships with the officers of the deeply corrupt St. Paul Police Department, Hogan was able to act as a go between. Known as the "Smiling Peacemaker" to local police officials, Police Chief John "The Big Fellow" O'Connor of Saint Paul allowed criminals and fugitives to operate in the city as long as they checked in with police, paid a small bribe and promised not to kill, kidnap, or rob within city limits.
Around 1909, he permanently settled in Saint Paul, and turned to organizing major crimes from the sanctuary of the city. He became so closely connected to Saint Paul's political machine that the police not only feared him, but actively protected his associates. Hogan was described by the Justice Department as "one of the most resourceful and keenest criminals" in the nation. He acted as an "ambassador" for Chief O'Connor and the visiting mobsters. Hogan himself owned the Green Lantern saloon on Wabasha Street in Saint Paul, which was also an illegal gambling casino, and became a speakeasy during Prohibition. Hogan was involved in planning armed robberies in the towns surrounding the Twin Cities, and also in money laundering in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area.
On December 4, 1928, Hogan got behind the wheel of his Paige coupe and turned on the ignition. A bomb located beneath the floorboards detonated and blew off his right leg. He slipped into a coma at the hospital and died nine hours after the blast. He was given a funeral worthy of Prohibition-era Chicago and was buried in Calvary Cemetery. Hogan's death was especially notable because it was one of the first instances of death by a car bomb. The most likely culprits in his assassination were rival mob figures. Although the murder is still considered unsolved, recently declassified FBI files reveal that the most likely person responsible was Harry Sawyer, Hogan's underboss. According to the FBI files, Sawyer felt that Hogan had cheated him out of his cut from a nearby casino.
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One of Spurlock's favorite sources in his book is the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. After the Center for Science in the Public Interest, PCRM ranks second on his "Acknowledgements" page, and he uses them in both the text and the end notes. He runs an exerpt from a book written by Neal Barnard, the group's founder (p. 93). Barnard also gets a brief appearance in Super Size Me. It's probably safe to say that the group helped out with a good deal of the book's content. See Spurlock's blog here, where he mentions his attendance at PCRM's swanky black-tie fundraising gala.
So what exactly is the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine? They aren't physicans. Less than 5% of the group's membership are actual physicians.
In fact, PCRM is a rather militant animal rights group. Its aim? To end medical research on animals, and to foster public fear of eating cheese and meat with scare campaigns. Through lawsuits, intimidation, and stealth media placement, they're trying to push the vegan lifestyle.
PETA has directed more than $1 million to PCRM over the years. The group has been repeatedly and publicly reprimanded by the American Medical Association for spreading misinformation on the use of animals to test new AIDS treatments. The AMA's president said of PCRM in 1991, "They are neither responsible, nor are they physicians." PCRM has also called for an end to donations to groups like the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association because those groups support testing on animals.
Barnard is a psychiatrist. He has no training in nutrition, diet, or internal medicine. Yet for some reason, Spurlock and others take him seriously when he talks about the health effects of meat and cheese consumption. Barnard has lobbied government agencies to put a "biohazzard" warning label on meat and dairy, and once called cheese "morphine on a cracker." He has said, "there is no room for chicken in a healthy diet." And he's an inductee in the "Animal Rights Hall of Fame."
More disturbing, however, are PCRM's ties to animal rights terrorism. Barnard has engaged in several letter-writing campaigns with a guy named Kevin Kjonaas, who has ties to two animal rights terrorist groups, including the Animal Liberation Front. Kjonaas is now on trial on domestic terrorism charges.
Then there's Jerry Vlasak. Vlasak is a former spokesman for PCRM, and author of several of the group's publications.
Vlasak advocates murdering scientists who use animals for healthcare research. That's not an exaggeration of his position. From the Guardian:
A top adviser to Britain's two most powerful animal rights protest groups caused outrage last night by claiming that the assassination of scientists working in biomedical research would save millions of animals' lives.Blogger Brian O'Connor has assembled a few other choice Vlasak quotes:
To the fury of groups working with animals, Jerry Vlasak, a trauma surgeon and prominent figure in the anti-vivisection movement, told The Observer: 'I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.'
Vlasak, who likens animal experimentation to the Nazis' treatment of the Jews, said he stood by his claim that: 'I don't think you'd have to kill too many [researchers]. I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives. . .
You can listen to audio of Vlasak here. He rather causually (and chillingly) notes that extremist pro-lifers who assassinate abortion doctors "have a good thing going."
You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use." — "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" (Showtime cable network) 4/1/04 "I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics." — "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" (Showtime cable network) 4/1/04 "If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution." — "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" (Showtime cable network) 4/1/04 "I think we do need to embrace direct action and violent tactics as part of our movement … I don’t think we ought to be criticizing someone, whether we’re criticizing [them] because they’re writing letters, or whether we criticize them because they’re burning down fur stores or vivisection labs. I think we need to include everybody in that circle." — Animal Rights 2002 convention 6/27/02 "[The police] are protecting the circus, they are protecting the meat and dairy industry, they are protecting the vivisection industry and I equate them in my own mind on a moral and ethical level with the -- no different than say guards in a Nazi concentration camp." — at a panel called "Coping with Law Enforcement" at the Animal Rights 2003 LA convention 8/2/03 "I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers." — "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" (Showtime cable network) 4/1/04.
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Caring for Your Parents: Senior Companions
ANCHORAGE - Helping an aging parent to stay independent is something many adult children try to do for their elders.
That’s where a program called ”Senior Companions” can help. The federally funded program uses volunteers to help homebound seniors stay active. Pat Weatherby is one of those volunteers who visits five senior ladies on a regular basis.
On a weekday morning Pat greets Helen Strusz at her Midtown apartment. At 93 years old, and with poor vision, Strusz needs help doing a variety of things. Even though an adult daughter lives in town, Strusz values her independence as well as her regular visits from Weatherby,
On this particular day Strusz has asked for help preparing ingredients for a recipe that she’s had difficulty reading. Weatherby has also volunteered to read some hand-written Christmas cards out loud. On another day she may drive Strusz to a doctor’s appointment or to the grocery store.
Weatherby is a senior companion to five ladies in total, all of them homebound seniors who she visits, usually twice a week. Weatherby and “her ladies,” as she calls them, are all active and almost all are anxious to leave their homes for errands or other appointments.
But many senior companions don’t drive, and sometimes the seniors they serve are more interested in simply having company. In that case a “companion” might spend time with the senior, playing cards or other activities that they enjoy.
It doesn’t take much to be a senior companion. You need to be at least 55 years old, enjoy people and, as the program states, have a desire “to be a friend.” The program is always looking for volunteers as well as new clients they can help, and all of their services are completely free.
If you’d like more information you can check out this website: www.akcommunityservices.org.
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Helicopters carried out missile strikes against Islamic militants in Egypt's first airstrikes in the Sinai Peninsula since 1973, as the military said Wednesday it was launching an offensive to "restore control" over the territory following the bloodiest ever militant attacks on the army.
The use of air power marked a sharp escalation in Egypt's fight against Islamic militants who have become increasingly active in the mountainous, desert peninsula bordering Israel and Gaza.
Earlier this week, militants stunned the Egyptian army with a bold, surprise attack in which gunmen killed 16 soldiers, stole armored vehicles and drove into Israel to attempt another attack.
In a statement read out on state TV, the military said it has started a joint military-police ground operation in Sinai, backed by warplanes, to "restore stability and regain control" of the Sinai. It provided little detail.
"The Armed Forces and the Interior Ministry, backed by warplanes, started on Tuesday night implementing a plan to restore stability and security control and to pursue and target the terrorist and armed elements in Sinai," it said. It said initial operations had been successful and that the campaign was continuing.
"We call on the tribes and residents of Sinai to cooperate to regain security control" of Sinai, the statement said.
The Sunday ambush was one of the bloodiest attacks in Sinai in years and the deadliest against Egyptian troops, underlining the growing lawlessness of the territory, where security forces repeatedly have been targeted by militants, some loosely linked with al-Qaida.
In the latest violence, gunmen opened fire late Tuesday night on three security checkpoints around el-Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the borders with Gaza and Israel. One of the attacks was on the checkpoint on the main highway between el-Arish and the town of Rafah on the Israeli border.
The shootings wounded six people, among them a military officer, two soldiers, two policemen and a civilian whose condition is critical, security officials told The Associated Press. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
Helicopters carried out strikes using missiles in retaliation later, security officials said. They did not give further detail.
Bedouin resident Abdel Rahman Abol Malkhous says he saw attack helicopters overhead firing missiles about 30 kilometers (18 1/2 miles) east of El-Arish in the area known as Sheikh Zuwayed near the Rafah border crossing with Gaza.
The security officials said it was the first time the army has fired missiles in Sinai since Egypt's 1973 war with Israel, in which Egypt tried to recapture the then-Israeli held peninsula. Sinai reverted to Egyptian control under Cairo's 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. Israeli forces completed the withdrawal from the peninsula in 1982.
In the Sunday attack, Egypt's military said 35 militants were involved, opening fire with assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades on soldiers at a border checkpoint as they broke their daily fast for the holy month of Ramadan with a sunset meal. | <urn:uuid:21ca80ff-dadb-4b1a-ba9c-722e752ee046> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/aug/08/egypt-airstrikes-target-militants-in-sinai/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960743 | 617 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Research and development
Why America is wrong to fear Asian innovation
“WE MUST re-examine long-held assumptions about the global dominance of…American science and technology.” Those dark words come from Subra Suresh, director of America's National Science Foundation (NSF), an official body. The NSF has just released its biennial report on global investment in science, engineering and technology. It gives warning that America is losing ground fast to Asian rivals, especially China.
The ten largest economies in Asia now spend roughly $400 billion a year on research and development (R&D)—as much as America, and well ahead of Europe's $300 billion. China's investment leapt 28% in a year, propelling it past Japan to become the world's second-biggest spender. “Troubling trends,” declares one of the report's overseers.
Hang on a minute. Merely counting pennies is no way to measure national prowess. Research spending is an input, not an output. Many a clever gizmo produced by well-endowed Japanese corporate labs has turned out to be worthless.
Useful innovation means fresh thinking that creates value. Booz & Co, a consultancy, has found that firms that spend little on R&D do indeed fare poorly by this measure. But those that spend a fortune do not, on average, outperform their more parsimonious peers.
The NSF boffins fret that America's share of global R&D spending is falling. In the decade to 2009, it tumbled from 38% to 31%, whereas Asia's rose from 24% to 35%. But science is not a zero-sum game.
One reason why spending in Asia has risen is that American firms nearly doubled their R&D investments there in the decade to 2008, to $7.5 billion. GE recently announced a $500m expansion of its R&D facilities in China. Such investments give American firms access to a wider pool of brains, many of them fizzing with ideas.
Products developed in or for emerging markets are making their way to developed ones. Coca Cola's Pulpy is now a billion-dollar global brand, but it was first a smash in China. Text4Baby, an American campaign to send medical advice to pregnant mothers via text messages, was inspired by the work of Voxiva, an American firm, in Peru and Rwanda. Foreign innovation may threaten American firms; but it can also make them more competitive. | <urn:uuid:efd7ebe4-466c-490c-bc1e-961c2ec40e16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.economist.com/node/21543170 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950458 | 517 | 1.789063 | 2 |
In "Funky Winkerbean," the long-running comic strip by Tom Batiuk that appears daily in the Star Ledger, Darin has been seeking his birth mother at the same time that Lisa Moore, confronting her terminal cancer, has decided to provide permission for the child she gave up for adoption to contact her. It's been a sad and satisfying story and it unfolds just like today's news.
Legislators in New Jersey are weighing whether to give thousands of accurate birth certificates to their rightful owners, adult adoptees, who now have access only to falsified certificates owing to the fact that when their adoptions were made final, birth certificates bearing their names and those of their birth parents were sealed by the state. The children were issued amended certificates portraying their adoptive parents as their biological ones.
As a consequence, many adoptees have difficulty locating their birth parents and are thus, prevented from knowing potentially life-saving information about their family health histories.
There were, and remain good reasons to shield information but the reasons generally offered--that adoptions will be less likely; abortions will increase; people will be harassed--have not been borne out in states that have opened birth records to adoptees. In most cases, adoptees and their birth mothers -- and birth fathers -- welcome contact.
In the U.K. where, since 1975, adoptees have had access to all of their records, a longitudinal study by social researchers shows that 94% of birth mothers have welcomed contact by their relinquished son or daughter -- a statistic that is mirrored by NJ's DYFS Adoption Registry experience with birth families over the past two decades.
Those birth family members who do not wish to be in contact are free to forgo the opportunity. However, at least vital information (such as medical histories) can be shared with the adoptee who wants it. In any event, there is no good reason to prevent contact that both child and parent may be seeking but are being prevented, by the state, from having, and, certainly not from gaining access to the information that will allow them to act in informed ways about decisions affecting their own health and well-being.
The pending NJ legislation actually gives birth parents something they have lacked since records were sealed: A way to make their wishes regarding contact available to their daughter or son through a contact preference form that they may submit to the State Registrar. In addition, birth parents who have relinquished their child before the current bill is enacted will be able to have their name and address removed from the copy of the birth certificate that is sent to their son or daughter.
While many books, articles and television shows in recent years have focused on the often overwhelming experience of adopted children who as adults find themselves helplessly seeking their biological parents, less has been said about mothers' separation from their infants--as the Winkerbean comic strip does. The NJN program, "Due Process," a segment recently that focused on this issue.
A legacy of shame and guilt surrounding the circumstances that forced young women to surrender their babies has effectively silenced them from sharing the emotional fallout of that loss, until, recently, when Ann Fessler produced "The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v Wade." . This book adds to the evidence around us on so many fronts.
"The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption (Carroll & Graf, May 5, 2007)," by Barbara Bisantz Raymond is also more than worth a read, both as investigative writing and social history, in order to understand what Raymond exposes as the underside to modern adoption, particularly the policy of falsifying adoptees' birth certificates.
It's clear that the weight of that evidence supports access to vital information by adopted persons concerning the event of their birth. How can we fail to provide to birth parents access to the children who seek them, if they wish to be found? How can we condone a practice that denies to children information regarding their true identities? The New Jersey legislature should take immediate action as soon as it reconvenes to end the secrecy and allow adopted children and their birth parents to gain the information they need and want. | <urn:uuid:936aa38e-8476-407a-9920-f409d5e732a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.nj.com/njv_linda_stamato/2007/09/seeking_true_identities_adopte.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972573 | 874 | 1.609375 | 2 |
GATINEAU, Que. - The CRTC says it received 75 complaints in 2012 about Internet service "throttling" by service providers.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission oversees how companies sometimes limit or "throttle" traffic to manage their networks.
From the user's perspective, the practice can cause slower download speeds or jerky video streaming.
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Media Advisory: State Health Commissioner Marks Millionth Call to Smokers Quitline
ALBANY, N.Y. (Jan. 8, 2009) - The New York State Smokers' Quitline rang in the New Year by reaching the milestone of 1 million calls in 2008 from smokers trying to quit. New York State is now one step closer to achieving its goal of 1 million fewer smokers by 2010. State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D., will celebrate the progress in an event on Friday, Jan.9, in Buffalo, where the Quitline staff are located.
The state's Smokers Quitline also assists health professionals. Physicians and healthcare providers can use the Quitline service as a referral for their patients' stop-smoking plans and to enhance recommended and/or prescribed stop-smoking medications.
WHO: State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D., representatives of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the NYS Smokers Quitline and former smokers.
WHAT: Celebrating the milestone of 1 million calls received by the Smokers Quitline from New Yorkers trying to quit.
WHERE: Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Zebro Conference Room, Elm and Carlton streets, Buffalo.
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Fallen Earth - Development Journal
A development journal with Fallen Earth Art Director Chris Deavellar talking about the things that were done to give the game an apocalyptic feel is to be found at Curse.com.
The last major improvement was to look at the buildings as real-world structures, considering their degradation over the years. The artists are taking a lot of time to add in broken bricks and siding, busted walls and floors, and to make these buildings look run down. Adding this kind of detail can be a laborious process, but we can make improve speed and efficiency using a technique called “kit bashing.” In kit bashing, we use pieces of other models repeatedly. In the early stages of improving our structures, each detail is created from scratch, keeping in mind that many of those details will be repurposed later in other structures. Once a few buildings are complete, we repurpose pieces from them to drop into another building. Broken brick walls, destroyed roofs, and decayed siding are some of the different things we'll use between models to save time while creating a great looking building.
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John Barnard looks out across the Vale of Evesham to the Bredon hills, drawing by Mike Barnard
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|Title||John Barnard looks out across the Vale of Evesham to the Bredon hills, drawing by Mike Barnard|
|Notes||Artist's impression drawn by Mike Barnard of a story his father John Barnard used to recall. |
When John finally arrived home after his service during the First World War he was so disoriented that he left Evesham station late at night and turned the wrong way for Badsey, his home, about 3 miles away. He was put in the right direction by someone, and as he walked over the fields and lanes he looked over the Vale of Evesham in the moonlight and vowed never to leave Badsey again.
Unfortunately he had had a hard time during the war. He had been over the top many times, and was in many burial parties “ (the things he saw were nobody's business! Mike Barnard, John's son). Frequently he would wake up screaming, sometimes shouting out pals' names. He relived experiences in his sleep. He would be found sleep walking over the fields, wandering the ground around his home village of Badsey in the middle of the night.
He married in 1926, and gradually these nightmares subsided, but his son Mike can remember them happening during his childhood. In one of the battles he took part in 22,000 were killed - yet John survived - although forever haunted by his experiences.
Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
|Copyright||The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor|
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is interviewed in his office in Lansing, today. / Carlos Osorio/AP Photo
LANSING -- An apparent loophole in a gun bill passed during the Legislature's lame duck session means public schools would not be able to stop licensed gun holders with advanced training from carrying guns on school property in Michigan.
Senate Bill 59 was passed late Thursday by the Republican-controlled Legislature and is on the desk of Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, who is mulling whether to sign or veto it.
The bill was intended to clarify that “open carry” of guns is not permitted on school properties, while allowing people with concealed pistol licenses and advanced training to carry concealed pistols in places where they normally couldn’t, such as schools and public arenas.
But the law also was intended to include opt-out provisions for schools and other protected places that don’t want any guns – concealed or otherwise -- on their premises.
The bill says a private property owner may prohibit an individual from carrying a pistol, concealed or otherwise, on premises listed in Subsection 1. The list in that subsection includes, schools, along with bars, sports arenas and public or private day cares.
But public schools don't have private property owners, so public schools arguably would not be able to use the wording in the legislation to prevent someone with a handgun carry permit and advanced training from carrying a weapon on school property.
Snyder said today the lack of a clear opt-out for schools and other public facilities is among his concerns, spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said.
“I think there’s some concern about the clarity on what would or wouldn’t be permitted with the opt-out, not just with schools but with any public facilities,” Wurfel said.
House Republicans believe public schools and others could still ban concealed weapons under the state trespass law, despite the lack of an explicit opt-out in SB 59, said Ari Adler, a spokesman for House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall.
But Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer said the issue demonstrates that the GOP majority rushed too many bills through too quickly. The Legislature passed 282 bills during lame duck, according to Wurfel.
"It's very clear that the Republicans in their zest for their ideological goals, went so fast that they made a lot of mistakes," Whitmer, D-East Lansing, said today.
"They simply cut out public debate and their legislation lacks because of it. They really made huge errors," she said.
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(1946, Comedy/Musical, color)
The scene is dragging. Hit Curly again!
In a nutshell:
A songwriter and a singer open a nightclub while they fall in love.
Pretty much every scene falls into of three categories:
1) Plot: Half the film relates the story, as follows. Newly graduated from the conservatory of music, Carol Laurence searches for a job as a singer, but finds none. Eventually evicted from her apartment for failure to pay rent, she gives up and seeks employment as a secretary with Mr. Daniel Warren Sr. Her first task is to deliver eviction papers to his wayward son. Said son is Danny Warren Jr., a songwriter in the process of opening a nightclub, two occupations of which Mr. Warren Sr. does not approve.
The provocatively named Moose guards the nightclub door, stationed there specifically to prevent deliverers of eviction notices. The logic of this appears to be: “Even though we know about the eviction, they can’t force us out if we don’t let them deliver the notice.” (This wouldn’t fly nowadays. Would it have worked in 1946? Who knows?) Carol sneaks through the back door with the help of kitchen boys Larry, Curly, and Moe. Danny Warren Jr. sees her and is instantly smitten. He gives her an audition and offers her a job as a singer. She tears up the notice in secret and accepts.
Lots of unrelated stuff happens here, but eventually another of Mr. Warren Sr.’s minions makes it through and serves the notice, referencing the last girl sent to do it. Danny Jr. thinks Carol let the man in, and hurts her feelings. Fortunately, by this time a friend of the family has bullied Mr. Warren Sr. into reconciling with his son; he withdraws the eviction. Curly admits he’s the one who let the server in, and Danny professes his undying love for Carol in song.
2) Antics: The Three Stooges have been hired as kitchen boys in the new nightclub, under the watchful eye of the thick and vengeful Moose. They spend roughly a quarter of the film comically injuring themselves and each other as dishwashers, plumbers, and waiters.
3) Song and Dance: Another quarter or so of the film consists of the nightclub’s various acts, which include: a Jazz musician who urges us not to worry about our mules and later poses the musical question, “Why is your big head so hard?”; a lady singer in regalia so large as to render her completely immobile while she sings the slowest, most depressing songs of the set; and various dance pieces involving thin men in tuxedos twirling around underdressed women.
Larry, Moe, and Curly make up the best part of this movie. Their expertly timed and choreographed routines add life to what would otherwise be a painfully dull and stupid film. The piano bed bit works well, and I liked the scene when they tried to fish a watch out of a drain, but my favorite routine comes near then end, when Moe tries to force roast beef on a customer who would rather eat turkey. The weakest element, by far, is the plot, which is contrived and poorly acted. The revue sections are competent enough, but not all that interesting to me. Cut both these sections out, and you’d be left with a hilarious Stooges short.
In my review of The Three Stooges in Color, I speculated that actual riffing wouldn’t mesh well with a Three Stooges film. I stand by that statement, as far as it goes, but Mike does riff the film proper in this one, and it does work reasonably well, mostly because the Stooges only appear briefly and at odd intervals. During the opening titles, Mike wonders, what exactly is a swing parade? “Is it when playground equipment manufacturers have conventions? Is it when wife-swappers drive a float down Main Street?” When the Stooges appear, peeking around a door with their faces in a row, Mike calls them, “A Mount Rushmore of stupid.” Later, when Moose views the damage they’ve caused and asks, “What are we going to do?” Mike responds, “Hire people who aren’t retarded maniacs.” The Stooges are a treat to watch, and Mike props up the rest of it as best he can. It’s worth a night’s entertainment.
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March 02, 2006
Conventional hydronic radiant floor (HRF) heating systems offer significant comfort and efficiency benefits compared to conventional forced air systems. Comfort is improved by delivering heat low, where the people are, and by eliminating forced air noise. Efficiency is improved by reducing indoor temperatures for equal comfort, reducing heat losses associated with thermal stratification and ductwork, and substitution of an energy-efficient pump for the more energy-intensive blower. However, radiant floors currently carry high installation and component costs. In areas where cooling is required, homes with HRF heating usually also need a forced-air cooling system at an additional cost. Combine these issues with home builder concerns about puncturing the radiant tubing during construction, and it’s easy to understand why HRF systems are relegated to the high-end, custom-home market.
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If you are travelling abroad and taking your anti TNF therapy with you, it's important to make plans to keep it at the correct temperature during the journey and at your destination. You can buy special cool bags and even travel fridges. A useful company to try to purchase these products is MedActiv.
In addition to your anti TNF medication you will require a travel size sharps box. Do discuss this with your Clinical Nurse Specialist or your delivery team.
Ankylosing spondylitis in a foreign language
It may be worthwhile finding out what ankylosing spondylitis and other medical conditions you have are called in the country you are travelling to in case there's an occasion (such as a medical emergency) where you need to let people know you have AS.
Always tell your airline, travel agent or tour operator when you book if you are going to need assistance when you travel.
When you are thinking about booking your holiday don't forget the Give as You Live website. This is a service which allows you to raise money as you shop. Simply go to www.giveasyoulive.com and when you've set up an account you'll be ready to shop! A wide variety of travel companies are involved retailers are involved such as British Airways, Monarch, Thomas Cook, First Choice and Expedia. Each gives a percentage of the purchase price to NASS.
Codeine based medications
Some prescription medications, including codeine based medications, are illegal in some other countries. Check with the embassy or consulate of the countries you are travelling to and find out if any of your medications are illegal there.
Copies of your prescriptions
Carrying copies of your prescriptions in your hand luggage will be important if you are stopped and questioned about the medications you are carrying.
European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)
If you are travelling to Europe, the EH1C card will entitle you to free or low cost healthcare in most countries.
Anti TNF therapy and some other medications may make you more susceptible to food-borne infections which can result in food poisoning and other serious illnesses.
Infections and communicable diseases
These can be more severe in people who are on anti TNF therapy or other medications which affect the immune system. Therefore you may need urgent assessment and treatment, if you have come into contact with someone who has one of these infections. Remember different parts of the world have more risk of certain infectious diseases than others.
Make sure you have sufficient medication to cover the entire period you will be away. It may be an idea to take double the amount you'll need for your trip and put one set in your hand luggage and the other in your checked-in baggage. This way you'll have a back-up if you were to lose some of your drugs during your trip. Always carry your medication in a correctly labelled container as issued by your pharmacist.
Make sure you have comprehensive travel insurance to cover your trip, and carry copies of your insurance documents with you in case of an emergency. Download the list of NASS member recommended insurance providers.
If you need vaccinations for the country or countries you are planning to visit, you'll need to remember to go for them in time to develop immunity to the diseases the vaccinations are for. If you are on anti TNF therapy do be careful about which vaccinations you have, as certain ones are not recommended for people on anti TNF therapy.
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Now therefore so shall you say to my servant David, Thus said the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
Treasury of Scripture
I took thee
1 Samuel 16:11,12 And Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he keeps the sheep...
1 Chronicles 17:7 Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, Thus said the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote...
Psalm 78:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
following [heb] after
2 Samuel 6:21 And David said to Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before your father, and before all his house...
2 Samuel 12:7 And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus said the LORD God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel...
1 Samuel 9:16 To morrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be captain over my people Israel...
1 Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said...
ContextGod's Covenant with David
4And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying, 5Go and tell my servant David, Thus said the LORD, Shall you build me an house for me to dwell in? 6Whereas I have not dwelled in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build you not me an house of cedar? 8Now therefore so shall you say to my servant David, Thus said the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: 9And I was with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies out of your sight, and have made you a great name, like to the name of the great men that are in the earth. 10Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, 11And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the LORD tells you that he will make you an house. 12And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, which shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. 14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. 16And your house and your kingdom shall be established for ever before you: your throne shall be established for ever. 17According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
Parallel VersesAmerican Standard Version
Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over my people, over Israel;
And now thus shalt thou speak to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I took thee out of the pastures from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel:
Darby Bible Translation
And now, thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I took thee from the pasture-grounds, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel;
King James Bible
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
Young's Literal Translation
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By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Dec. 29 -- France's Total SA discovered oil in shallow water near its producing Ofon oil field in southeastern OML 102 off southeastern Nigeria.
The Etisong-1 well went to TD 2,207 m in 70 m of water and tested more than 6,000 b/d of 40° gravity oil from turbiditic reservoirs.
The well is the first step in an exploration and appraisal program designed to demonstrate the feasibility of a new development pole on OML 102 that would combine production from the Etisong main discovery and as yet undrilled surrounding structures.
Total E&P Nigeria operates OML 102 with 40% interest, and Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. has 60%.
Total E&P Nigeria, already a large oil producer in Nigeria, plans to start production from Akpo deepwater oil field on OML 130 in early 2009. The company is undertaking development studies for Egina oil field on the same block. | <urn:uuid:dc9db1b5-4e86-400d-8cc8-52e6cc4965f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ogj.com/articles/2008/12/total-finds-oil-near-ofon-field-off-nigeria._saveArticle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953648 | 199 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Didn't think Paula Bennett could top her claim this week she would still release private information of any beneficiary who challenges her welfare policy after being told she had breached privacy by the Human Rights Commission?
Think again, Paula is so far in denial about child poverty in NZ, she won't even measure how many children are actually in poverty...
Measuring poverty line not a priority - Bennett
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said it was not a priority to measure New Zealand's poverty line.
Ms Bennett said in Parliament there was no need to further investigate findings in the Green Paper that up to 20 per cent of New Zealand children live in poverty.
"There is no official measure of poverty in New Zealand. The actual work to address poverty is perhaps what is most important," she said.
"Children move in and out of poverty on a daily basis," said Ms Bennett
...'children move in and out of poverty on a daily basis' must be one of the most glib comments ever made on the subject. It's not a trip down to the dairy, it's up to 20% of our children hovering in and out of poverty (we aren't sure because we don't measure them).
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By now, many if not most of us have heard about the Wellesley High School graduation speech, the "You're not special" speech that has gone remarkably viral. Since a colleague sent me a link, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.
Teacher David McCullough Jr. told the graduates,
"Contrary to what your U9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you...you're nothing special."
There was more to the speech, of course. He wasn't dissing the graduates; his remarks were much about how we Americans have "come to love accolades more than genuine achievements. We have come to see them as the point." B is the new C. Starting a clinic in Guatemala is more about something to put on a college application than helping Guatemalans. Accolades, he said, should be a byproduct, not the point.
He said to the graduates, "I urge you to do whatever you do for no other reason than you love it and believe in its importance."
I couldn't agree with him more. As I approach fifty, that describes how I've come to see my life and make choices. I love being a mother, a wife, a doctor and a writer. I think they are important. I figure that if I try my best to do a good job at them, everything will fall into place. If I miss out on something because I'm too busy doing these things, it wasn't meant to be mine. This is the leap of faith I am fully willing to take.
But it it a leap of faith my children are ready or willing to take?
I went to Princeton and to Harvard Medical School. I don't think any of my children will go to either (especially since so far nobody wants to be a doctor--I definitely haven't made the job look appealing enough), because they won't get in. Heck, I wouldn't get in to either one if I were applying now. My son was wait-listed at Princeton despite an application that put mine to shame. I'm not sad for him--he has been happier at the College of William and Mary than he would ever have been at Princeton--but the process was a bit of an eye-opener. He was shy a Guatemalan clinic or two.
Each of my children has real strengths and interests; some of them conform better to mainstream ideas of success than others. I want nothing more than to tell them to follow their passions, to not worry about having perfect grades or building impressive resumes, but the harsh reality is that without those grades and resumes certain doors get closed; certain choices no longer exist. And I want my children to have every possible choice.
As a pediatrician working in Boston, I've watched choices drift or be snatched away from so many of my patients growing up in low-income families and neighborhoods. I've watched the separation of the classes get played out and perpetuated in real-life, up-close, heartbreaking ways. This isn't just about giving out giving out fewer trophies and doing less cosseting. This is about--about choices and who gets them and who doesn't.
That's the thing about McCullough's speech: he made it sound simple, but it's not. It's not just a matter of saying, "Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view" when the path to the mountain is clogged with people with the latest climbing gear carrying flags. This isn't something we can just tell our kids. It's something we need to tell ourselves, all of us. Somehow--and I have no idea how--we need to change our culture so that it rewards genuine passion, genuine hard work and genuine achievement instead of accolades.
Maybe we just have to start and hope that others join. Maybe the fact that the speech went viral is a sign that there are some like-minded people out there.
I hope so.
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Catholic Social Services lends its assistance to legal immigrants
Published: Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 7, 2010 at 6:34 p.m.
Imagine living and working in the United States while your children and spouse live in another country. You want them with you, but you can't afford an attorney to help navigate the complex process required to legally bring your family to this country.
For many foreign-born Hendersonville residents, such financial and bureaucratic challenges associated with legal immigration leave them separated from their families.
But Catholic Social Services, an agency sponsored by Catholic Charities USA, gives many immigrants in the area a chance to reunite with their loved ones.
"It is part of my faith to help people," says Lea Terrey, an immigration specialist with Catholic Social Services. "It is gratifying to see families reunited."
Catholic Social Services, a nonprofit and part of the Charlotte diocese, serves 16 counties in Western North Carolina through its main office in Asheville. Staff members also spend time each month in Burnsville, Murphy and Hendersonville. Other branches of Catholic Social Services serve the remainder of the state.
How it started
CSS began in 1948 as a ministry of the diocese of Raleigh. It became part of the Charlotte diocese in 1973.
Today, Terrey assists clients with immigration concerns through a CSS program called Asheville Legal Migration Assistance.
She spends two days each month at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Hendersonville meeting with clients, usually from Mexico, who want to have their family members join them.
She meets with people regardless of religious affiliation.
Not everyone gets help
Those who seek her services must meet minimum financial requirements. Only those who are considered low-income are eligible for assistance. Clients typically must earn less than $30,000 a year to qualify for assistance.
Terrey must also turn away people who have issues outside the scope of her specialty. Those who need help with deportation, work visas, student visas or criminal cases are referred to other agencies or attorneys.
Catholic Social Services also can't help some clients because their circumstances don't meet immigration law requirements.
"They come to us and think because we are the Catholic Church, we can work miracles," she says.
Telling people she can't do that, and giving them an honest assessment of their cases, is important. Some clients might be taken advantage of by people who take their money while making false promises of assistance.
"I don't want you to be wasting your money or be taken for a ride," she tells those she has to turn away.
Terrey and a co-worker provide their services under the guidance of an attorney familiar with immigration issues. The immigration services program at Catholic Social Services is also accredited by the federal Board of Immigration Appeals. The program usually helps between 1,000 and 1,200 people each year.
While Pisgah Legal Services in Hendersonville assists some clients with certain specific immigration issues, the immigration program at Catholic Social Services is the only program in the area that assists low-income people with immigration concerns, Terrey says.
"We are pretty much it," she says. "The immigration process is very complicated. It is complex and detailed."
A mission to follow
Jacquie Crombie, the director of Catholic Social Services in Asheville, says the work of Terrey and others at CSS falls in line with the church's mission of trying to help people who are vulnerable and struggling on the margins of society.
"We try to not turn people away," Crombie says. "The whole mission is to provide services for people who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford an attorney."
The immigration program through CSS has helped 700 people so far this year.
In addition to assistance with immigration issues, the 10 staffers at Catholic Social Services in Asheville also help people with domestic adoption, international adoption, pregnancy support, counseling, marriage counseling and refugee resettlement, among other things.
CSS is supported through donations, the Catholic Church and grants.
Fees for immigration services through CSS are typically much less than a private attorney would charge clients, Terrey says.
Consultations cost $45, while the fee for a client to renew a resident card costs $60. Some cases that involve petitioning for the legal immigration of a family member might cost several hundred dollars.
"People come to us and know we are not going to bleed them for money," Terrey says. "They know they can trust us and they can follow up. Because we are associated with the diocese, they are not going to be taken for a ride."
Terrey says she benefits from her work by seeing the gratitude of the clients she helps. Some of those clients have baked her special desserts or given her boxes of fruit as a thank-you.
"It is interesting to see the kindness of people," she says. "If all of us were like that, this would be a great place to live."
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Government announces 40-hours of work a week for inmates in plan to cut boredom and reoffending.
Up to 1400 inmates will be working 40 hours a week - without pay - by the end of this year as part of a plan to create more "working prisons" in New Zealand.
Prime Minister John Key announced in his first speech to Parliament for the year that the number of prisons with fulltime work programmes would be expanded as part of a drive to cut reoffending.
Inmates at Rolleston Prison had already begun 40-hour weeks in response to a demand for labour for the rebuild of Christchurch.
Corrections Minister Anne Tolley confirmed this initiative would be extended to all prisoners at Rolleston, and also to North Island prisons Tongariro-Rangipo and Auckland Women's Corrections Facility.
"It gives [inmates] a structured day, helps with behaviour and [means] you're not institutionalising them too much before they go back out into the community," said Mrs Tolley.
She said the plan would require significant infrastructure upgrades but all prisoners at the three jails were expected to be working fulltime by the end of this year.
The minister said one of inmates' biggest problems was boredom and many would relish the chance to work - a point that was backed by prison reformers.
Rethinking Crime and Punishment founder Kim Workman said the belief that prisoners were lazy by nature was a myth.
"Most prisoners would enjoy the opportunity to work a 40-hour week - their main complaint about prison is the level of enforced idleness."
Green Party corrections spokesman David Clendon said he supported the initiative in principle, but said Corrections would have to take care not to undermine the private sector. He said the work should be meaningful, skills-based work, and suggested inmates be paid for their labour.
"Often prisoners are released with little or no money which is not helpful in terms of finding accommodation. If a person hasn't got a home or a job, then the $350 they leave prison with is simply not enough."
Asked whether working prisons were a form of cheap labour, Mr Key said: "Not really. There already are work programmes which are ... sometimes controversial because they take work ... off the private sector. But the aim here is to build up that skill base.
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Feeding Your Pet Healthy Food
by Jill Breitner
The most recent pet-food recall has brought a very important subject to our attention. What is actually in our pets' food?
There have been recalls in the past, but none have come close to the seriousness of this past recall, which made many animals very sick and killed more than we may ever know. There is a lot to say on this subject regarding the pet-food industry and the standards -- well, the lack of standards -- for quality control within the industry and the FDA. But I am not going to go into that at the moment; I want to focus on how we can conveniently feed our beloved pets healthy foods without breaking our budget.
It's advertised as the best we can get for our pets. But remember that what you're seeing is big hype courtesy of agribusiness and the multibillion-dollar, unregulated pet-food industry. Since there are no regulations, it is up to us to continue to educate ourselves so that our pets can live happy and healthy lives.
How about homemade pet food? I'm not talking about cooking every night for your pets. Many of us don't have the time to do that for ourselves, let alone our pets. Rest assured, in one session, you can make enough pet food for a whole week or month. By preparing your own pet food, you will know the ingredients and where they came from. And if you are worried about cost, I can assure you that if you are currently feeding a premium pet food, then you will only be paying about $10 more per month for home-prepared food. If that still seems like a lot, think of the money you will be saving on vet bills, as your pets will be healthier than they have ever been!
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I feed my pets a raw diet. I know this can be a daunting idea at first, but it is actually very simple -- and your pets will love it and thrive on it. My German shepherd was suffering from a severe skin condition, and nothing I was doing for her helped until I started her on raw food. That was ten years ago, and she just crossed over at the age of 13. All of my animals love the raw diet. Hopi, a Labrador retriever I recently rescued, carried his food bowl around for the first week he was with me, as if to say, "More, please!"
I was a vegetarian when I started feeding all my pets raw food. At first, it was difficult for me to listen to them crunch on the bones, yet I knew that they were eating the way they naturally would, and this gave me peace of mind. Remember, only feed raw bones because cooked bones become brittle and can splinter and cause potential problems. Feeding home-cooked or raw is easy. After I've prepared it in advance, I just scoop it out of a container in the fridge -- just as convenient as scooping food out of a bag.
Still, you may be wondering, what is so wrong with commercial pet foods? For one thing, they are loaded with fillers, including soy, corn, and wheat, none of which are easily digested by our pets. Our pets' physiology is the same as that of wolves, coyotes, and exotic felines, and these animals don't eat corn, soy, or wheat. It is not good for their systems; hence, the illnesses that have developed over the years of feeding filler commercial pet foods, e.g., skin, thyroid, kidney, and auto-immune-deficiency problems; pancreatitis; and diarrhea. All of these are most likely related to feeding foods that are not compatible with animals' digestive systems. Further, commercial pet foods contain carcinogenic preservatives and ingredients the FDA has not approved for human consumption -- ingredients that have been approved for pets' consumption only because the FDA has too few regulations for pet food.
Don't be fooled by those who say that we shouldn't feed a home-cooked diet to our pets because we don't know the proper required ingredients to put in the food. Clearly by now, you know that what they are putting in the food is not good for pets. Yes, there are key required ingredients that help to meet nutritional needs -- and there is a plethora of information out there to guide you in making a healthy diet for your pets. It's not rocket science. (See the resources below.)
If you are not into doing it yourself, try one of the already-prepared raw-food diets on the market. To keep it even greener, choose a local maker of pet food in your area. For example, very near here, in Grants Pass, is Kristiís All Natural Pet Food, which is sold at some of our local pet stores. And if you still want to stick with commercial pet food, be sure to buy one of the better brands. I have contacted each manufacturer listed in the sidebar about their ingredients and found them to be satisfactory.
Jill Breitner, SheWhisperer, has a degree in Animal Science and has worked as a behavioral specialist/dog whisperer for 30 years. Learn more about Jill at her website.
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There are some 'standard' applications of the adjoint functor
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example, the existence of a free $\tau$-algebra (where
$\tau=$(operations,identities)) on a small set by the AFT,
Stone-Cech compactification by the SAFT, and, if I am not mistaken, the proof that the category of $\tau$-algebras is cocomplete (by using the AFT to establish a left adjoint to the appropriate diagonal functor).
However, I was not able to find any applications of the duals of the AFT and the SAFT, neither in MacLane, nor in the Joy of Cats.
The Joy of Cats contains the following intriguing remark on p. 311:
Since many familiar categories have separators but fail to have coseparators, the dual of the Special Adjoint Functor Theorem is applicable even more often than the theorem itself.
But what are the mentioned application of the dual of the SAFT?
So my questions is: What are the 'standard' applications of the duals of the AFT and the SAFT?
Googling for combinations of phrases like ''adjoint functor theorem'' and ''dual'' is not very useful, so I have tried ''dual of the adjoint functor theorem'' and ''dual of the special adjoint functor theorem.'' This resulted in a total of 7 papers/books, from which I was not able to get a clear answer to the current question. I have also tried in The Wikipedia article on adjoint functors, in nLab's article on the adjoint functor theorems, and in some MO questions, but without success. | <urn:uuid:8a01d0bc-3f9b-4cb9-8289-b7df8ccd1557> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mathoverflow.net/questions/17409?sort=oldest | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931322 | 382 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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19 Mar 05 11:44 PM
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Elcalion, this is an interesting question, and I hope I can justify your confidence in me. Even better if someone else can shed more light, it is certainly confusing!
I take this as meaning that the attack occurred in Jan/Feb 1974
Agreed - Winter of 1974 means Jan and Feb of 1974.
However, Arvedui drowns in March 1975,
This is the confusing part. In Appendix A, The Realms In Exile, The Northern Line - Heirs of Isildur
, his date of death is given as 1974.
Yet Appendix B,The Tale of Years
, says 1975. In Peoples of Middle-earth, the date of Arevedui's death is usually given as 1974; but in one instance, The Heirs of Elendil
(p 195) he has both dates, with 1975 in parentheses. Generally Christopher Tolkien explains any contradictions and points out errors, but I can't find an explanation here.
As for the warning coming in Autumn 1973, and the final blow over a year later, I can see that as reasonable. They could know he was preparing, gathering men and forging weapons way in advance. With continuing attacks and vigorous defense, the process could last a year or more.
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