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Captain Franklin Ellis
The History of Columbia County
Everts & Ensign
Pages 368 to 378
This town, which is the sixth in size and the tenth in population, lies on the eastern border of the county, adjoining the State of Massachusetts, and is the central town of the east line. Its southern line is also the northern line of the old Livingston manor, as it was finally agreed upon between the patroons, Livingston and Van Rensselaer. Its area is 26,399 acres, of which 21,058 acres are returned as improved. Its population in 1860 was 2552; in 1865, 2142; in 1870, 2083; and in 1875, 1879. Its greatest length is from north to south, is six and one-third miles. It is centrally distant east from Hudson about twelve miles. It is centrally distant east from Hudson about twelve and one-half miles.
The surface is generally hilly in its character. Along the eastern border of the town lies the Taghkanic range of mountains, its projecting spurs on the east extending to and beyond the Massachusetts line. At the foot of this range, a fertile valley, some two miles in width, runs nearly across the town. The northern part is made up of broken, irregular hills and narrow valleys. In the west a pleasant little valley extends nearly halfway across the town, and along the southern line a vale of varying width runs till it joins the larger valley at Hillsdale village. The hills are generally rounded in form, and arable to their summits, though a few of them are rocky and of a precipitous character. The highest points of these hills afford many fine and some extensive views.
The principal streams of the town are Green river (a small stream that flows across the northeast corner of the town, derives its name from the peculiar transparent green tinge of its waters, and is noted for the number of trout that frequent it); the small brooks that flow across the east part of the town, and unite to form Roeloff Jansen's Kill; the head-waters of Copake creek, flowing south in the western part of the town, and the rills that form the head-waters of Claverack creek that rise in the northwest part of the town. There are no natural lakes or ponds. The reservoir of the Mellenville manufactories, near the line of Claverack, covers several acres of ground, with a depth of some twenty feet of water.
The town was originally a part of the Van Rensselaer patent, except the eastern part, which formed a portion of the lands claimed by both Massachusetts and New York. March 12, 1793, the State surrendered its claim to all lands actually occupied by settlers. This enabled some of the inhabitants to obtain titles to their farms, but others less fortunate were obliged to take leased lands, with all the odious features of ancient feudalism attached.
The soil is composed of a variety of combinations of slate, gravel, clay, limestone, and loam, and is generally quite productive. The prevailing rocks are slate, shale, and quartz. Iron ore of excellent quality is found in the eastern part of the town, and in some parts the quartz-rock is found to contain gold, silver, and lead. A mineral paint of excellent quality is also found in the vicinity of one of the ore-beds.
This town was settled at a very early day, probably before 1750; the south by immigrants from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and the northern part by Dutch settlers. Among them were families named Showerman, Blackman, Kinyon, Fregers, Everts, and Sharts. Prominent among the early inhabitants were also mention Martin Krum, Elisha Hatch, James Shepard, Jeremiah Shaw, William Orr, Isaac Spalding, Joshua Whitney, Archibald and Robert Lamont, William White, Joseph Morehouse, Jared Winslow, Isaac Hatch, William Tanner, Nathaniel House, M.D., James Bryan, Gaius Stebbins, Abel Brown, John Pixley, John and David Collin, Parla Foster, Refine Latting, Quincy Johnson, Caleb Benton, M.D., Azariah Judson, John Higgins, William Higgins, Benjamin Birdsall, Ambrose L. Jordan, Abraham Overhiser, Henry Loop, Augustus Tremain, Isaac and Silas Downing, John P. Becker, Christopher W. Miller, Harry Truesdell, Samuel Mallery, Oliver Teall, John Tremaine, Elisha Hatch, John Tyler, Charles McKinstry, John Wager, and families named Hill and Bartlett.
It is almost if not quite impossible to learn anything definite about these early settlers. Some of the families have become extinct; some have removed; some have representatives still in town; and a few maintain the line of descent unbroken.
Prominent among the early settlers were John and Avid Collin, brothers, and the children of John Collin, of Milford, Conn. Their grandfather, Paul Collin, married Judith Vallean, and was driven from France by the religious persecutions of the early years of the eighteenth century. Their son John (1st) married Hannah Mervin. He was a sea-captain, and was finally lost at sea in the year 1746. John (2d) settled in the western part of Hillsdale, on what is now known as the Higgins farm, where he lived for a few years, and then removed to the eastern part of the town, on the farm now occupied by his grandson, Hon. John F. Collin. David Collin occupied the place now owned by Rutsen Hunt. John was commissioned as captain by Governor Tryon, and afterwards held a similar commission from Governor George Clinton. He lost one son, Anthony, in the Revolution. He was taken prisoner by Sir Henry Clinton's troops, and died in captivity in December, 1777, aged but seventeen years. David was a lieutenant in the Colonial army during the French war, and participated in an unsuccessful attack upon Fort Ticonderoga. While residing in Amenia, Dutchess county, during the Revolution [page 369], his house was attacked and plundered by a band of robbers, who treated his family with great rudeness and tortured him nearly to death. He died in Hillsdale in 1818, aged eighty-four years. John Collin (2d) was succeeded on the farm by his son John (3d), and he in turn by his son John Francis, who is the present proprietor. He has been a very successful business man, a man prominent in public life, and a man of great influence among his fellows. In 1833 he was elected to the State Legislature, and in 1844 was elected member of Congress. In both of these positions, as well as in all the many minor offices to which he has been called, he acquitted himself with honor and credit. To his kindness we are indebted for invaluable aid in gathering the materials for this work. His brother, Henry A. Collin, was prominent in town affairs, and was five times elected supervisor of Hillsdale. In 1856 he removed to Mount Vernon, Iowa. Hon. John F. Collin has two sons living; John F. lives on the homestead, and Quincy J. is a Methodist Episcopal minister, now engaged in teaching in California, and is also pastor of a Union church there.
Quincy Johnson, a prominent early settler, was a son of William and Jane Johnson, of Bridgewater, Mass., a grandson of Benjamin and Ruth Johnson, of Hingham, Mass., and a great-grandson of Isaac and Abigail Johnson, of the same place. He was descended from either Isaac or Edward Johnson, both of whom came to Massachusetts with Governor Winthrop in 1630, and were prominent men in the Massachusetts colony. He came to Hillsdale with his parents about the close of the last century, and became a prominent citizen of the town. He died in Hillsdale in April, 1878, aged nearly eighty-eighty years. His eldest son, Wesley Johnson, spent several years in Africa, assisting in the work of establishing the Liberia colony. He went out as physician to the governor's family, and was subsequently called upon by unforeseen circumstances to himself discharge the duties of the gubernatorial office. He was once wounded while assisting in repelling an attack of the natives upon the colony. He devoted his time and money to the work of establishing a college there for the intellectual and moral elevation of the people, and by his strenuous exertions so weakened his system that he fell a victim to the malaria of the climate, and had a severe attack of fever. Recovering partially from it, he returned to his American home, hoping to recuperate and be enabled to complete his work in establishing the college; but he failed to realize the expected benefit and rapidly failed, and died in Hillsdale July 1, 1844, aged thirty-one years. He was universally respected for his talents, scholarly attainments, enterprise, and amiability of character. Quincy Johnson still has two sons living in Hillsdale. They are William Leonard and John Quincy Johnson.
Perhaps the most numerous family in the town are the Beckers. The first of the name in Hillsdale was Peter Becker, who married Mary Southard about 1780. Their son, John P. Becker, married Elizabeth Clum. Philip Becker, who now lives in Hillsdale, was one of the children of that union.
Martin Krum, from Germany, settled in Hillsdale about the year 1745; the place was then called Nobletown. He bought eight hundred acres of the Rensselaer manor. The old homestead was the place now occupied by Moses Becker. His sons were John, Martin, Jacob, Henry, Peter, Daniel, and David. David died in early life; John settled in Columbia county, but in after-years moved to Schoharie; Peter went to Ohio. The others remained in Columbia. His daughters were Mrs. Henry Blunt, of Chatham, Mrs. Fite Mesick, of Claverack, and Mrs Peter Mull, of Chatham. The second husband of the last named was John Mesick.
Judge Krum, of St. Louis, is a grandson of Martin, Sr., and a son of Peter. The old homestead became several different farms. The house, built before the Revolution, remained in the family until 1835, the last owner being Martin H. Krum, a grandson, now of Fairville, Wayne Co. A son of the latter si Dr. Josephus Krum, of Seneca Falls, for a long time pastor of the Presbyterian church of that place.
William Jordan was born in North Castle, Westchester Co., in 1751. He was a soldier in the Revolution and served through the war, participating in the battles of White Plains and Stillwater. He married Ruth Ferris, of Horse Neck (now Greenwich Conn.), and came to Hillsdale soon after the close of the war, settling in the west part, on the farm now occupied by his grandson, Abram I. Jordan. He died in 1833. He was a farmer, and being something of a military man, was familiarly known as "Major" Jordan.
Of his children, John settled in Claverack, and in his old age removed to Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y., where he died. William settled near his father in Hillsdale, and died there. Daniel and Benjamin removed to Palmyra, N. Y., and died there a few years since at an advanced age. Abram was educated as a physician, located in Claverack about 1815, and was a few years later married to Catharine Mesick, of that town. He was a skillful and successful physician, and enjoyed an extensive practice through a professional life of nearly forty years, finally retiring from practice in 1852. He was a man of irreproachable character and greatly beloved by the people, who eagerly sought his counsel and assistance even in his old age. He died in 1855, having nearly reached the threescore-and-ten years allotted to man. Of Ambrose L. a full biographical sketch will be found elsewhere. [click here] Allen was educated as a lawyer, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Hudson, where he at once took rank among the first and most promising of his colleagues. He was, however, driven by ill health to abandon the practice of the law, and removed to Plainfield, Ill., in 1848, where he still resides. Rebecca married Adam Van Dusen, of Clifton Springs, N. Y., and removed to that place. She had a large family, and one of her sons, Hon. Ambrose L. Van Dusen, has represented the first Assembly district of Ontario county in the Legislature. She died in September, 1877, aged ninety-six years. Lucy married James Phillips, of Claverack, and died young.
William White, William Schutt, Parla Foster, Eli Rood, James Shepard, John Jones, and Henry Speed were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. All except the first named were living in 1840, and were pensioners of the government. [Page 370] The earliest ministers were Abel Brown, Parla Foster, and Harry Truesdell.
The first merchants were Gaius Stebbins at Murray's Corners, by Parla Foster, at Hillsdale, and by James Bryan, where Dr. H. Cornell now lives.
The first saw-mills and grist-mills were built at a very early date, and their history is lost in oblivion. Among the earliest now known of were a grist-mill where Wheeler's saw-mill now stands; a saw and grist-mill where Philip Becker's saw and planing-mill now stands; a saw and grist-mill about one and a half miles above the Becker mill, on the Roeloff Jansen's Kill; and a mill near Harlemville, where the Richmond Mills now stands. "Spafford's Gazetteer," published in 1813; says that there were then in the town (which included part of the present town of Austerlitz) "eleven grist-mills, ten saw-mills, four fulling-mills, and four carding-machines."
Among the first fulling-mills were three on the Roeloff Jansen's Kill, in the Collin neighborhood. One of the first carding-machines was near the site of the Bailey mill, and another near the present Wheeler mill.
Refine Latting was the first tanner and currier in town. He lived a little west of the village, and also kept an inn. Jared Winslow, probably the first blacksmith, resided, and had a shop, at Green River.
The first and only furnace in town was built by Philip Becker, about 1835. It is a small one, devoted to the making of plow castings and custom work. It is now owned by a Mr Vosburgh.
The first lawyer to settle in Hillsdale was Thomas K. Baker, who came about 1820. He remained a few years, and then removed to western New York. Soon after him came Russell G. Dorr, who remained in the town till his death. Martin H. and Harriet Dorr, of this town, are two of his children.
The first post-office was kept by Refine Latting, and was about a half-mile west of Hillsdale village. It was supplied with mail by means of the Hudson and Hartford stages.
The earliest physicians were Nathaniel House and Caleb Benton.
Another early and widely-known physician was Dr. Abraham Jordan, afterwards of Claverack. He was commissioned a surgeon in Ten Broeck's brigade during the war of 1812-15.
Previous to the settlement by the whites this section was much frequented by the Indians. One family lived here for many years after the whites came in. About 1810 the last remnants of the aborigines, in the person of two of that race who were named Paul and Phoebe, removed to the western part of this State. There was an old trading-post near what is now called Murray's Corners, and an old fort once stood near the old burying-ground near Levi Coon's residence. Three brothers named Overhiser emigrated from Germany to America about 1750. One of them, named Barnett, settled near Stamford, in Dutchess county. His son Abraham married Elizabeth Eighmey, and in 1810 removed with his family to Hillsdale. His children were named Eve, Phranaca, Caspar, George, Conrad, Elizabeth, Abram, Mary, and Barnett. Barnett succeeded his father on the homestead, which is now occupied by his son, Ambrose L. Overhiser. John H. Overhiser, of Hudson, is a son of George Overhiser.
This town was formed as a district March 26, 1782. It had previously been a part of Claverack. It was recognized as a town March 7, 1788. In 1818 a part of Austerlitz was taken off.
Its name is supposed to have been derived from the peculiar conformation of the surface, which is a varied succession of hills and dales. From the orthography given the name in early times, "Hill's Dale," it seems quite possible that it might have been named in honor of some one named Hill, but the other is the generally accepted origin of the title.
From the fact that no records previous to 1847 can be found it is impossible to give any prominence to the early civil history, and the lists of officers are also very imperfect because of it. The following is the most perfect list we have been able to get: | <urn:uuid:7121faca-a183-4dda-87ea-7733d5df2665> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/columbia/hill/hillsdale_ellis.htm | 2014-04-24T19:07:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223206672.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032006-00183-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984199 | 3,718 | [
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Jun 10, 2012 10:30 PM
GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) - A 5-year-old New Mexico boy has died after being pulled from a community pool in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert.
Gilbert police said Sunday that 5-year-old Clayden Hammond was with his older brother and grandmother at the pool when he was found unconscious Saturday.
He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and taken off life support overnight.
It's unclear how the boy drowned in the pool, which was filled with other families.
Clayden, his brother and their parents were visiting the Phoenix area from New Mexico.
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I’ve written in the past about how much I enjoy the work of Dick Moores. So I’m always pleased when Bill Peckmann sends comic art by him, and am excited to post it. Here’s the latest. From Bill:
- It may be a tad too early for summer vacation but it’s never too early for “Walt Disney’s Vacation Parade” comic books, especially if they contain two of the best of Uncle Walt’s comics bull pen! Back in those days, the New York Yankees had Mantle and Maris, the M&M Boys, Disney also had his own M&M Boys, Dick Moores and Paul Murry, also grand slammers!
Here from “Vacation Parade” no. 2 is a 19 pager by Paul Murry, Donald heads the cast and we get to see how Murry handles Scrooge McDuck. The comic book is from 1951, just about the same time Paul was doing his daily comic strip “Buck O’Rue“! | <urn:uuid:ee56c76b-bb4a-451a-84fc-22388546a945> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=3786 | 2014-04-19T12:26:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537186.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00423-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952636 | 228 | [
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O Suilleabhain, Gearoid and Sime, Julie-Ann (2010) Games for learning and learning transfer. In: Critical design and effective tools for e-learning in higher education : theory into practice. IGI Global, pp. 113-126. ISBN 978-1-61520-879-1Full text not available from this repository.
Research findings are at best mixed with regard to the effectiveness of computer and video games in promoting learning transfer or learning, but much of this research makes use of the same unsuccessful methods of classic transfer experiments which offered research subjects limited initial practice in the learning to be transferred. Learning transfer however, like expertise, may need to be based on extended practice, an idea supported by studies of habitual or expert game players and recent non-game related developments in transfer research. Practice however must be joined to a certain kind of game complexity and cognitive or experiential game fidelity before deep learning and instances of significant transfer can be facilitated. Implications of these transfer conditions for the design of games for transfer are discussed as well as the need for research with regard to the various learning processes underlying the game-play behaviour of expert and habitual gamers.
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|Deposited On:||31 Mar 2011 09:57|
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Archive for July 1st, 2012
At this point in time in the narrative of Max Payne 3, much justice has been brought to the streets of Sao Paulo. Earlier this week, Rockstar announced that further justice would be brought on July 3 when the game’s Local Justice downloadable content arrives on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace and then […]
GotGame interviews thatgamecompany to discuss the PSN hit, Journey, and what the publisher is up to now that their PS3 exclusivity has ended.
Today on Gaming Mysteries, I talk about a cancelled Final Fantasy fighting game that was focused on Chocobo’s. Basically, I’m starting off July in the best way possible. Bird fighting.
If you were a kid in the 1980s and were lucky enough to have one of the first home PCs, there’s a good chance you were doing one of three things: making your first descent into porn addiction via America Online or Prodigy, dying of dysentery playing Oregon Trail, or chasing criminal mastermind Carmen Sandiego […]
Ready to see what happens when your favorite MMORPG goes offline and into the realm of IRL? Sony Online Entertainment has announced that registration is open for their twelfth-annual SOE LIVE convention. Industry and fans can delve into the offline worlds of their favorite online games, such as EverQuest I and II, DC Universe Online, […]
Nuketown, one of the most enjoyable maps from Call of Duty: Black Ops, will be making its return to Black Ops 2. The map, which will be redesigned and dubbed ‘Nuketown 2025‘ will feature a futuristic makeover and will be offered as a pre-order bonus for gamers. Gamers seemed to thoroughly enjoy the original map, […]
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released the debut trailer for Guardians of Middle-earth, the upcoming MOBA game that’s slated for a fall release. The video showcases Gandalf, Gollum and Sauron in action with their own distinct abilities. Being developed by Monolith Production, Guardians of Middle-earth will arrive on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, while […] | <urn:uuid:8dd6a7dc-36fa-4f6c-8307-2a67b2d1de89> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://gotgame.com/2012/07/01/ | 2014-04-19T17:10:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537308.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00095-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948275 | 444 | [
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Housing Market Is In Better Shape Than This Time Last Year, But For How Long?
This morning, the new S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices shows that the U.S. National Home Price Index rose 4.4% in the second quarter of 2010, after having fallen 2.8% in the first quarter. This is relatively good news, but will it last?
More recent data from the National Association of Realtors shows existing home sales crashing 27% in July — and this is the high season for home sales. Once winter sets in, we expect the Case-Shiller data to take another hit.
Moreover, 82.3% of mortgage applications are for refinancing rather than new purchases. This isn’t helping draw down the excess housing supply. As we all know, when supply goes up, prices go down.
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Hello MDA members!
In reflecting on the recent increased publicity and subsequent scrutiny by independent parties regarding AND activities, it is very possible we will all be receiving questions and seeing similar publications. Please be sure to read the rebuttal by our national president, as well as the resources the Academy has provided on its corporate sponsorship program and the misinformation contained in the third party report, and keep these comments in mind as you respond professionally and courteously. It is vitally important that Missouri Dietitians provide accurate information while maintaining high levels of sincerity and integrity as we respond.
We must assure the people of Missouri that Registered Dietitians are here to protect and serve the public health. We work with industry and many not-for-profit groups to encourage accuracy and science-based nutrition information and application. Missouri Dietitians are the only group of volunteers in the state whose function is to protect and serve the public’s nutrition health. As an affiliate of AND, we have representation with AND in the body of delegates which scrutinizes and reviews policy and strategic plans. The work of this group of volunteers is transparent and available to the public through the MDA Advocate which can be viewed on our website.
For our hard-working district associations, we have prepared an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved list of talking points for the use of your organization’s members. Before publishing any articles as a group, please forward your article to MDA so we can get AND approval first. We will turn this around as quickly as AND responds to us.
Key talking points for MDA members in response (only) to direct questioning by friends, neighbors, and associates:
1) The recent articles published with concerns about AND corporate sponsorship reflect opinions of the authors. We are thankful to live in a country where everyone has the right to have and verbalize an opinion.
2) We appreciate that these individuals are willing to share their concerns, however the spread of misinformation is what is most damaging to our profession.
3) The Academy does have a corporate sponsorship program that includes collaborations with not-for-profit groups, consumer advocacy groups, and research foundations in addition to industry partners.
4) Registered Dietitians work with all of these groups in an effort to encourage accurate information, consistent messages, and translate science and research to practical lifestyle applications.
5) Missouri Dietetics Association and its members collaborate with other organizations in Missouri to promote good nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
6) The Registered Dietitians who run for the volunteer position of Delegate are screened by MDA, elected by Registered Dietitians, and are passionately representing the interest of Missourians. This includes being verbal and pro-active at the AND level to assure accurate and nutrition-focused policy and strategic planning remain high priorities for the Academy.
7) Please note the comments below taken directly from Ethan Bergman:
“…You will see that the report is a mixture of facts – most of which were obtained from publicly accessible pages on the Academy’s website – and opinion and speculation on the author’s part.
For example, of 67 references at the end of the report, at least 24 (more than one-third) consist of links to the Academy and the Foundation’s websites; the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s website; and research articles published by Academy members. Many of the report’s references are to previous blog postings by the author herself…”.
Remember to respond with understanding and respect to whoever asks questions of you. Missouri Dietitians must remain a calming, resolute voice that reassures Missourians that the Registered Dietitians of the state of Missouri are solely focused to ensure the accurate nutrition facts and transparency in food and health claims to protect and serve public health needs.
Janice A. Rambo, MS, RD, LD, MDA President
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Fleetwood D. Peeples Jr. has now been charged with possessing and promoting the explicit content that spans over decades, police say.
It was reported that the 76-year-old was found fallen over in his unit by a police officer at Uncle Bob's Self Storage in Orlando three weeks ago.
Peeples was taken to hospital needing urgent medical attention.
But on closer inspection, officers found the storage unit contained heaps of child pornographic materials.
Orange County police say they found several pictures of young children who were thought to be between five and 12 years old performing sex acts.
“I think that's absolutely disgusting. That's horrible. That's wrong on many levels.”Erica Peck, neighbour of Fleetwood D. Peeples Jr.
Peeples remains in Orange County Jail on a $12,500 (£7,460) bail.
Neighbours of the son of local legend Fleetwood Peeples Sr, who had a park named after him, were shocked to hear the news.
Erica Peck told WFTV Orlando: “I think that's absolutely disgusting. That's horrible. That's wrong on many levels.
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Allison wants to hire Zane Donovan, a brilliant young particle physicist, to help Stark and Henry research the universe's earliest moments using a Chaotic Inflation Device that can, essentially, re-create the Big Bang. Zane, however, has just been arrested for stealing 3.1 million dollars from the government. As a result, Allison orders Jack to keep Zane in custody until he proves that he can be trusted.
Jack locks up Zane and, at Lupo's suggestion, fits him with a high-tech tracking bracelet that can also deliver mild electrical shocks and activate a restraining field if the prisoner tries to escape. In response, Zane cheerfully makes mischief. He grosses Jack out about Vincent's grilled chicken, flirts with Lupo and hacks the sheriff's office computer from within his jail cell. He pauses in his antics only when, on a trip to Global Dynamics, he's awed by the Chaotic Inflation Device. | <urn:uuid:df44f4cf-a351-40fb-8966-90cc0af5623f> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.geos.tv/index.php/episode?eid=8310 | 2014-04-20T23:27:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609539337.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005219-00127-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946198 | 195 | [
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Lewis Moody has been dropped for England's Calcutta Cup game against Scotland on Saturday. The Leicester flanker, who was withdrawn after just 55 minutes of England's Six Nations defeat to Ireland last month, is replaced at openside flanker by Joe Worsley for the trip to Murrayfield.
Worsley, 32, returns to the starting XV for the first time since suffering knee ligament damage in the opening minute of England's 19-6 defeat to New Zealand in November.
England's manager Martin Johnson has made just one other enforced change to the starting XV, with Louis Deacon replacing the injured Simon Shaw in the second row.
Northampton's versatile forward Courtney Lawes comes onto a reshuffled bench which features a return for the hooker Steve Thompson and a first call-up for the uncapped Leicester scrum-half Ben Youngs. The 20-year-old has replaced Paul Hodgson, who he played against on Saturday in Leicester's 35-19 Guinness Premiership victory over London Irish. Youngs' father, Nick, won six caps for England at scrum-half between 1983 and 1984.
Scotland, coached by the former England boss Andy Robinson, return to Murrayfield on the back of a defeat to Italy in Rome and chasing their first victory of the tournament.
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The aura of seeming effortlessness around Johann Sebastian Bach's craft sometimes obscures that the Baroque was a time of aesthetic extremes. Some of that can be sensed in the contrast between the era's most prominent keyboard instruments: the harpsichord's unavoidable decay, the organ's unflagging sustain. (Tellingly, the piano, mediating between those poles, only gained traction as the era wound down.) On Saturday, at the First Lutheran Church, Luca Guglielmi used Bach's music to navigate those two instruments' divergent interpretive and technical claims.
The concert — presented by the Boston Early Music Festival — was organized as two imaginary recitals, Guglielmi's conception of how Bach might have shown off each instrument. On the harpsichord — each note quickly evaporating, with only the variation in volume between two manuals to work with — Guglielmi alternately avoided or emphasized concurrence to make musical points. In the Suite in C minor (BWV 997, better known today in its version for lute), Guglielmi's playing was all rolls and breaks, notes nudged into the spotlight by being knocked slightly off the beat; the whole undulated like a loose cat's-cradle of melodic lines.
The Andante from the Italian Concerto (BWV 971) had the same cast, but the faster outer movements had more metronomic drive, chords coordinated into raspingly percussive punctuation. That noise turned horizontal in the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (BWV 903), Guglielmi running notes together at a pace that produced a humming, demonic rustle.
Luca Guglielmi, harpsichord and organ
Switching to organ for the second half, Guglielmi adopted some of the same expressive strategies — though not always with the same results. In a Prelude, Trio and Fugue in C major assembled from disparate parts — the Prelude and Fugue from the first and second books of the Well-Tempered Clavier, respectively, the trio from the BWV 529 Trio Sonata — accents were by addition: a slight extra delay before an underlined note, a slight lengthening of the note itself. It created an unsettled, stop-and-go quality, a veneer of hesitancy over the rhythm.
That push and pull continued in the Fantasia in G major (BWV 572) and the first of the four Duetti from the third Clavier-Übung (BWV 802-805), but in the other Duetti, as well as the A minor Prelude and Fugue (BWV 543), Guglielmi created expression not by appending time, but taking away sound: The notes stayed fixed to the rhythmic grid, but the space between them varied. Bach's counterpoint — and momentum — piled up, thrillingly, in strict time. Sometimes the most extreme effect is simple implacability. | <urn:uuid:0db1da7b-be57-4feb-9173-2a88452721f4> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2013/03/10/luca-guglielmi-performing-boston-early-music-festival/y9D2LrdrlyeWUfqmAcogLL/story.html | 2014-04-25T03:23:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223207985.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032007-00191-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941912 | 623 | [
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Author Pen Name: Tracey H. Kitts
CA: What genre(s) do you write? Why do you write the stories that you write?
THK: I write paranormal romance, mainly because that’s what I like to read. I enjoy a variety of topics, but keep coming back to the slightly macabre. I’ve always been fascinated by vampires, werewolves and other creatures of the night. My interests haven’t changed much over the years. When I was little, my mom said I was weird. Now she tells people I’m creative. LOL
CA: When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
THK: I knew I wanted to be a writer even before I knew what the word meant. When I was little, my mom started reading me J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit as a bedtime story. I was hooked. When we were asked in kindergarten what we wanted to be when we grew up, I said a storyteller. The teacher misunderstood and said, “You mean you want to tell lies?” I said, “No, I want to tell stories.” She explained to me, “Ah, so you want to be a writer.”
CA: Who or what was your inspiration for writing?
THK: I literally get inspiration from everything. I might be inspired one day by a song I heard and the next, by watching a storm out my window. It all depends on the mood I’m in and what’s going on in my life. Aside from everyday events, my biggest source of inspiration is mythology.
CA: What is your work schedule like when you're writing?
THK: I’m a slave driver. Once I start something I intend to see it through. If life permits, I’ll write all day when I can. But normally I like to write at least ten pages a day when I’m working on a book. I type very fast, so that isn’t as bad as it might sound. And besides, it isn’t work to me. It’s a privilege. I love to write and even though I may be exhausted at the end of the day, it’s time well spent. I’ve never considered it work. Work is a dirty word I don’t like to use.
CA: Your book is about to be sent into the reader world, what is one word that describes how you feel?
CA: What was your biggest challenge in writing your book(s)?
THK: Finding the time. It’s always difficult to manage everything that needs to be done. But I’m glad to be able to do it.
CA: What do you like to do when you're not writing?
THK: Besides spending time with my family and friends, I love to play video games. I’m also a kickboxer, a bellydancer and I love to garden. LOL
CA: How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?
THK: I’m about to have four published, but I’ve written eight. Five in my series, and three books unrelated to the series. I’m still holding onto a few to give them another polish before I start shopping them around.
As for a favorite, that’s hard. My favorite is always the last book I finishedJ I think I have more fun with each new book I write and hopefully readers enjoy them the same way.
CA: Do you tend to base your characters on real people or are they totally from your imagination?
THK: My characters are all about 90% fiction. They all have some small basis in reality, some more than others. Lilith, the main character in my werewolf hunter series, for example, is based on me.
Marco, my leading werewolf is a combination of about three different men. And Dracula (who comes into the story in book three) is the result of a lifelong fantasy.
CA: Do you have any advice for the aspiring writers out there?
THK: Don’t ever give up on your dream. If you want something badly enough, you can make it happen.
CA: How can a reader contact you or purchase your books?
THK: Readers can contact me through a link on my website at http://www.traceyhkitts.com/.
Information about my books can also be found on my site as well as my publisher’s site:
This is the link to my author page, with all my books listed:
CA: Is there anything you would like to add?
THK: Red will be released in print August 6th! I am so excited. It will still be available as an ebook as well. I’m just thrilled to know readers have supported Red well enough for it to be released in print as well. Thanks to everyone for helping to make this possible!
I also wanted to add that 10% of all my royalties will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Hospital. This goes for every book I will ever write. I believe very strongly in their cause.
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The Endangered Species Of The Marketing World
Brand loyalists, brand evangelists or however you may want to define them, are amongst the most precious people in any brand owners life.
We count their numbers, keep a hawk’s eye on the progress of that number and do everything possible to increase that number and protect it. It is not just a day job, it is a mission.
An arduous mission for sure and the emerging retail scenario is making it even harder. Grey and G2’s Eye on Asia - Retail study reveals that two-thirds of Asian shoppers would rather leave the planning of what categories they want, to after entering the store. Even amongst shoppers who have a list in mind before entering stores, 48% have either no brand or more than one brand in mind.
It seems a little obvious in hindsight. Of course, they are enchanted by the choice and the promise of new things that the retail space offers. No one trip is like the other and there is much to explore and discover. The loyalist is turning into a discoverer.
Here’s the proof; up to 47% of Asian shoppers have “snacks” on their list even before entering stores but what they buy depends on what takes their fancy.
At least in our world, an endangered species is not cause for gloom; unlike the real world. It’s much cause for joy because strengthening that tally just became one-step easier. All it needs is specific and strategic channel strategies.
For example, for markets like Japan and Korea where 67% of a hypermarket/supermarket shopper’s category planning is done after entering the store, the role of communications across a shopper’s Purchase Decision Journey – from invoking a category to brand selection – will need to work harder. However, for markets like India, where 79% of the category planning happens before entering the hypermarket/supermarket, the communications have to focus more on creating brand preferences or encouraging switches in-store.
The dynamics changes for channels, countries and categories. It could be anything from making the consumer feel smart by making a more value driven choice to engaging her by creating novelty. The defining tally only depends on whether we understand and offer what this new loyalist turned discoverer is seeking. Contributed by Shweta Khosla, Regional Planning Director, Grey Hong KongDownload The Endangered Species Of The Marketing World
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'the same woman in every Malick movie ever: passive, child-like and defined by the love for their men.' Not sure if I agree with this statement. Chastain's Mrs. O' Brien in 'The Tree of Life' does not fall under this description. To label her as such would be an injustice. She is an emotionally wrought and complex character. I vaguely see your point about Holly in 'Badlands', but again find the description to be a gross over-simplification of her character. Can't wait to see To The Wonder. But the underwhelming reviews have me feeling slightly ominous.
This review might as well be called "Gavin Burke is an idiot who is incapable of understanding art". Every movie Malick makes is the same, would you go back to Michael Bay you philistine hack.
I have just registered with this website to comment on this. I have not been a great lover of Malick films. Art can be brief; it does not have to hit you over the head repatedly to get its message across. I will go to see this and, but at bit like T_Crowley, an a bit ominous, not due to the review but from past Malick experience. Also, more a comment on the nature of the comments below this review. T_Crowley disagrees with the review and states his case. Bertaut disagrees with the reviewer and descends into the realm of abuse. Clearly you fancy yourself as a film critic Bertaut, judging by some of your other posts. Funny though, when looking at your other "work" here (for I suspect that is what you think you are doing") your praise the same reviewer for Charlie Casanova, yet elsewhere you decry his apparently poor grammar. Does punctuation come into it Bertaut? Surely your comment should have ended with a question mark (or maybe you were trying to be rhetorical, eh?). Would a semicolon have been more suitable between same and world, rather than a comma. Play the ball Bertaut, not the man! Or is that too much a commoner reference for you to get?
Well, I'm a Terrence Malick fan and I loved To The Wonder. Sure, it's not a film for everyone but Malick has always been a niche director. I thought it beautifully captured what it means to be in love. It's certainly a lot more honest than the manufactured love stories that come out of Hollywood.
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The Nat Gas futures market is holding the gains from last Friday's rally and actually adding to them. The spot contract has been hovering either side of the new resistance area of $4.16/mmbtu with no decisive move much above it as of this writing. The cash market is following the futures contract with most cash prices higher so far today. The Georgia Power coal plant shut down has been the main catalyst for the rally since late Thursday evening. In fact even with an upside miss in last week's EIA inventory report the May futures contract was settling into a lower trading range until the coal shutdown hit the media airwaves. It was this event that quickly pushed prices back above the $4/mmbtu level with the market settling well above this resistance level on Friday.
The main sentiment driver is the fact that the Nat Gas market is now exposed to any infrastructure shut downs that could result in an increase in Nat Gas demand… like the Georgia Power coal plant shut down. With total Nat Gas inventories now below the so called normal level as measured by the five year average market participants are likely to react quickly to any unforeseen increase in consumption and/or a loss of supply. The Nat Gas market has moved from an oversupply driven market that has been in play for over a year to a demand driven market as supply and demand are slightly out of balance at the moment.
Another Wall Street company upped their forecast for Nat Gas prices for 2013. Morgan Stanley raised their estimate to $4/mmbtu for the year joining Goldman Sacs who upgraded their view on Friday. In my view the key to how the price of Nat Gas performs going forward will be based more on the demand side of the equation. If the summer cooling season gets an early start and results in above normal level of Nat Gas related cooling demand the price of Nat Gas will remain firm… at least through the first half of the injection season. I think supply will remain at least at last year's level if not a tad higher as rig counts are likely to shift more toward Nat Gas as long as prices remain above the $4/mmbtu level.
This week the EIA will release its inventory on its normal schedule and time... Thursday April 11th at 10:30 AM. This week I am projecting an average withdrawal of 15 BCF from inventory and the last withdrawal of the season. My projection for this week is shown in the following table and is based on a week that experienced a modest level of above normal Nat Gas heating related demand. My projection compares to last year's net injection of 11 BCF and the normal five year net injection for the same week of 15 BCF. Bottom line the inventory deficit will widen this week versus last year as will the deficit compared to the five year average if the actual numbers are in sync with my projections. This week's net withdrawal will be supportive when compared to the historical data.
If the actual EIA data is in line with my projections the year over year deficit will widen to about 751 BCF. The deficit versus the five year average for the same week will come in around 47 BCF. This will be a bullish weekly fundamental snapshot if the actual data is in line with my projection. The early industry projections are coming in a range of -10 BCF to about a 50 BCF net withdrawal with the market consensus still forming.
The oil complex is starting the week in positive territory after a week of strong losses. In fact WTI experienced the largest weekly loss in six months while the Brent/WTI spread narrowed to the lowest level since June of last year. It is much too early to say if the oil complex is in the early stages of a bottoming pattern or just a mild short covering rally.
Last week the macroeconomic data was biased to the bearish side especially the huge miss in the US nonfarm payroll number which showed only 88,000 new jobs created versus an expectation for a gain of about 190,000 jobs. The headline unemployment number dropped to 7.6 percent. The unemployment rate is not very meaningful as the reduction was not a result of new jobs created rather it was due to another significant reduction in the participation rate. People continue to leave the job market and give up looking for a new job.
Over the weekend the latest round of talks between Iran and the West ended with basically no progress with both sides far apart on substance. At the moment there was no announcement by either side as to another round of talks which seems to be the pattern that has happened several times since the talks began years ago. As I suggested in last week's newsletter I did not see any motivation for Iran to give up a whole lot at this time as the West is in the midst of a potentially larger issue with North Korea. The outcome of the talks is a neutral to even slightly bullish outcome for oil prices as it does mean that the sanctions will not be eased anytime soon and the potential for new sanctions may be on the horizon.
I am maintaining my view to cautiously bullish for Nat Gas even as the forecasted weather pattern still appears to be a negative for heating related Nat Gas demand. The shutdown of Georgia Power's coal plant highlights the exposure that currently exists with Nat Gas inventories as slightly below normal levels. From a technical perspective the market has once again broken out to the upside and with a few settlements above the $4 to $4.02 level will certainly result in a test of the next upside resistance level from September of 2011 of around $4.16/mmbtu. Basis the activity on Friday and the evolving fundamental situation I am upgrading my view and bias back to cautiously bullish but with a caution that all should use tight, trailing stops as the situation can change very quickly.
Markets are mostly higher ahead of the US trading session as shown in the I am maintaining my view of the entire complex at neutral across the board but with a cautiously bearish bias as inventories are starting to build and jeopardizing the technical bottoms that have been put in place in the complex over the last several weeks. WTI has now breached its range support level as has Brent and refined products. The complex is now showing signs that the next move could be a continuation to the downside. Markets are mixed as shown in the following table.
Dominick Best regards,
Dominick A. Chirichella
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Check Your Tech Before You Come To Greenbuild
Image credit: screen shot from The Wicker Man
For people coming to Greenbuild and dependent on their electronics, life can be a bit like that bad horror movie where Nicolas Cage is wandering around looking for affordable coverage; it is surprising how far we are behind the US in cost and availability of tech. Canadians pay among the world's highest cellphone rates , and if you don't plan ahead, you are going to get seriously hosed. Our internet rates are awful too.
And don't think there will be free wifi in the bunker of the convention centre (unless there is a special arrangement made)- they charge rates from the last millenium, $ 395 per show. Ashley Katz of USGBC informs me that indeed, special arrangements have been made, and there will be free wifi in the convention centre.
Your American cellphone company probably has a roaming deal with either Bell or Rogers, the two biggest players in the Toronto area. They compete with each other to see who can make us more miserable. They both have fast cellphone networks now that run on GSM, and Bell still supports a CDMA network.
But be sure to sign up for an international phone and data plan before you come to Canada. When I went to Greenbuild in Phoenix I didn't, and it cost me about $300 in voice and data; every time an email came in on my Blackberry I could here the cash register ding. When I went to Chicago last year, I spent $ 30 on a month of American roaming, and didn't worry at all.
Check the plan carefully; there may be limits on data and using an iPhone could get expensive.
There are lots of cafés and lobbies with free wifi, but you really will feel like you are partying like it's 1999.
Canada has switched to chipped cards with a PIN number instead of the magnetic stripe ones needing a signature. But unlike Europe, everyone can still swipe an old fashioned card. There may be a few portable units around that do not take a swipe, but they are rare.
The banks are like the phone companies and will charge you a lot to use an ATM, but the little private machines that are all over the convention centre and in convenience stores are worse, taking as much as $ 2.50 per withdrawal, and then your bank will hit you for the exchange. I find that when I travel in the States I use the credit card for everything that I can, it is just easier.
There are no one dollar bills; we all love our loonies and toonies. You will too, along with the multicoloured money that is easy to tell denominations apart.
A few other points:
Metric vs American
Canada went Metric 35 years ago and people are beginning to get used to it. But if you are driving to Toronto, be careful; I once got a huge ticket for doing sixty MPH in a 60 Km/hr zone because the signs had changed but speedometer on my old Porche 914 hadn't. And our gas is expensive, running about $ 5.00 per US gallon.
Going for a Run
A woman runner coming to Greenbuild asked if there were any parts of town that she should avoid. The convention Centre and most of the hotels are in a vibrant, populous part of a city with a very low crime rate. Guns are controlled and in my entire life I have never met anyone in Canada who owns a handgun. In other words, it is pretty safe here, just about wherever you go downtown. There are parts of town that I would not go running in when it's dark, but they are mostly in the suburbs, or the club district when the bars close.
The best place to run is on the Martin Goodman Trail at the waterfront; go south under the tracks and then under the expressway, get to the water and turn right. Watch out for cyclists.
A lot of guides will point you to the Eaton Centre, the big downtown mall; as malls go, it is pretty good. It was a trend-setter designed by Eberhard Zeidler, who also reworked the front of the Convention Centre. But you will recognize almost all of the stores, and as J Crew fans just found when the first store came to Toronto recently, prices here are a lot higher than in the States, thanks to a higher minimum wage, duties, special labelling requirements and gullible Canadians who don't know any better.
You will have a better time on Queen Street West, which has got a little mall-like near University Avenue, and gets funkier as you go west past Spadina, more design-oriented past Bathurst, and then really trendy as you get past Ossington.
Drinking and Dining
Ossington Avenue just north of Queen has become THE spot, it is hard to keep track. But closer to the Convention Centre, the strip of King Street Between John and Spadina has some good choices. For lunch, take a ten minute walk to St. Lawrence Market for a peameal (Canadian bacon) sandwich.
More Toronto Tips Tomorrow.
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Buildup To Greenbuild: See The Winners of the Toronto Urban Design Awards
Buildup To Greenbuild: Green Buildings From TreeHugger Archives
Buildup to Greenbuild: A Conversation with Paul Raff (Video)
Buildup To Greenbuild: A Waterfront Of Broken Dreams
Buildup to Greenbuild: A New Vision For The Toronto Waterfront
Buildup To Greenbuild: The Green Roofs of Toronto
Building Up To Greenbuild: Bring Your Hardhat And Watch Out For Raining Panes
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There will be no ban on hydraulic fracturing—also called fracking—in Maryland this year.
And not as long as a state commission continues to review the issue in the state, according to Sen. Joan Carter Conway, who chairs the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee.
“How can you ban something that isn’t happening yet?” asked Conway, D-Baltimore City. “No one has a permit to frack. I don’t know why we’d want a ban when no one has a permit.”
Opponents of the process that removes natural gas deposits from shale deposits such as those prevalent in Western Maryland have returned to Annapolis again this year seeking a ban.
Conway chairs the committee where the bills will be heard and represents a major hurdle to bringing the bill to a vote on the Senate floor.
Conway said Tuesday before a hearing on a bill sponsored by Sen. Bobby Zirkin, D-Baltimore, that bills banning fracking are essentially dead on arrival.
Last year, Zirkin sponsored a bill creating an 18-month moratorium on the controversial drilling process. The bill this year permanently bans the process.
A commission appointed to study the issue and make recommendations
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Funeral Notices 10/26/2013
AVERY, ROWLAND J., Morristown, Tenn., formerly of Clarks Summit, today, 2 p.m., First United Methodist Church, Morristown. Calling hours, before service. Contributions: First United Methodist Church Memorial Garden Fund of Morristown.
BALTON, BRUCE ALLEN, Milford, Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m., Dingmans Ferry United Methodist Church.
BARLOW, MABEL A., Union Dale, Friday, Shifler-Parise Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Clifford, by Pastor Lynn Tompkins. Pallbearers: Bruce, Brandon and Dustin Barlow; Lynn and Chase McLaud; and Donald Holdridge, grandsons. Interment, South Gibson Cemetery.
BASTIAN, DAVID J., Scranton, formerly of Bronx, N.Y., today, 11 a.m., Miller Bean Funeral Home Inc., 436 Cedar Ave., Scranton. Interment, Monday at 11:30 a.m., Rosehill Cemetery, Linden, N.J. Condolences: millerbeanfh.com.
BENSON, LUCILLE A., Throop, Friday, Mass, St. Anthony's Church, Throop, by Monsignor Michael Delaney, pastor. Pallbearers: A.J. and Ryan Nosak; Nick, Jason and Jessica Murley; and Jen Bish. Interment, St. John's Cemetery, Throop.
BURGERHOFF, BARBARA, Jessup, today, 11 a.m., Robert E. Decker Funeral Home, 702 River St., Peckville. Interment, Union Cemetery, Peckville. Calling hours, 10 a.m. to service. Contributions: American Cancer Society, 712 S. Keyser Ave., Taylor, PA 18517.
BURTI, CAESAR J. JR., Taylor, Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Jacob Davis Funeral Home, 422 S. Main St., Taylor, by the Rev. Norm Demming, pastor of St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Taylor, and the Rev. Kenneth Seeger, pastor of the Parish of St. Andre Bessette. Visitation, 11:30 a.m. until service.
BUTZNER, MARY CATHARINE "KAY," Lake Junaluska, N.C., formerly of Scranton, today, 11 a.m., Waynesville Chapel of Wells Funeral Home. Calling hours, 10 to 11 a.m., funeral home. Condolences: wellsfuneralhome.com.
DELMONTE, JAMES V., Hughestown, Mass, today 9:30 a.m., St. Joseph Marello Parish, 237 William St., Pittston. Interment, convenience of the family. Calling hours, 8:30 a.m. until Mass, church. Contributions: Mountain View Care Center, 2309 Stafford Ave., Scranton, PA 18505. Arrangements: Peter J. Adonizio Funeral Home, Pittston. Condolences: peterjadon iziofuneralhome.com.
GALLAGHER, WILLIAM J. SR., Watsontown, viewing, today, 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Dale E. Ranck Funeral Service, 125 N. Front St., Milton. Mass, today, 10, St. Joseph Catholic Church, 109 Broadway St., Milton, by the Rev. John D. Hoke. Burial, St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Milton. Contributions: Columbia Montour Home Health and Hospice, 410 Glenn Ave., Suite 200, Bloomsburg, PA 17815; or to St. Joseph Catholic Church, 109 Broadway St., Milton, PA 17847. Condolences: BestLifeTributes.com.
GARRISON, TERRY C., Lemon, Tuesday, 11 a.m., Sheldon-Kukuchka Funeral Home Inc., 73 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock, by the Rev. George Stephens, brother-in-law of Terry. Interment, Sunnyside Cemetery. Calling hours, Monday, 5 to 8 p.m. Contributions: Janet Weis Children's Hospital, 100 N. Academy Ave., Danville, PA 17822. Condolences: sheldonkukuchkafuneralhome.com.
GASTINGER, MADLYN J., Scranton, Mass, today, 10:30 a.m., Nativity of Our Lord Church, 633 Orchard St., Scranton, by the Rev. Michael Bryant, pastor. Interment, private. Visitation, 9:30 to Mass, church. Arrangements: Brian Arthur Strauch Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, 602 Birch St., Scranton. Condolences: strauchfuneralhomes.com. Donations: Project ALS, 801 Riverside Drive Apt 6G, New York, NY 10032 or by calling 212-420-7382; or to Allied Skilled Nursing, 100 Abington Executive Park, Clarks Summit, PA 18411.
GUSTAITIS, LT. ALBINA B., USN retired, Mass, today, 10 a.m., St. Mary's of the Lake Parish, 1872 Dalton Road, Lake Winola. Interment, Cathedral Cemetery, Scranton. Calling hours, 9 to service, church. Memorials: St. Mary's of the Lake Parish or St. Mary of the Lake Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth Mother of God Convent, 215 Wellwood Dr., Tunkhannock, PA 18657. Arrangements: Lawrence E. Young Funeral Home and Cremation Services Inc., 418 S. State St., Clarks Summit. Condolences: law renceeyoungfuneralhome.com.
KEEN, MICHAEL S., Throop, formerly of Philadelphia, Mass, today, 9:30 a.m., Blessed Sacrament Parish, 215 Rebecca St., Throop. Private interment, St. Mary's Cemetery, Cold Springs, N.J. Condolences: [email protected].
KETCHA, MARGARET, Jessup, today, 9 a.m., Louis M. Margotta Funeral Home, 511 Church St., Jessup. Divine Liturgy, 9:30, Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church, Jessup. Interment, Holy Ghost Cemetery, Jessup. Condolences: margottafuneralhomes.com.
LAWN, IRENE M., Mass, today, 10 a.m., Church of Our Lady of the Abingtons, Dalton, by the Rev. Thomas Petro. Arrangements: Anthony P. Litwin Jr. Funeral Homes Inc., Factoryville. Donations: Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10027. Condolences: aplitwinfuneral homes.com.
LOWELL, LINDA SHEA, Monrovia, Md., today, 12:30, St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church, 4103 Prices Distillery Road, Ijamsville, Md. Calling hours, 11:30 a.m. until Mass. Luncheon to follow at St. Ignatius Social Hall. Contributions: Girl Scout Council of Nation's Capital, 2708 Hillside Court, Ijamsville, MD 21754. Condolences: molesworthwilliams.com.
LYDON, FLORENCE, Clarks Summit, formerly of Scranton, today, 1 p.m., Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness Scranton Congregation, 617 Morgan Highway, South Abington Twp. Arrangements: Vanston and James Funeral Home, Scranton. Condolences: van stonandjames.com.
MARR, HENDRICK, Harford, today, 11 a.m., First Congregational U.C.C., Harford. Calling hours, one hour before services, church. Arrangements: Bartron-Myer Funeral Home Inc., Montrose. Contributions: Community Foundation of Susquehanna County, 270 Lake Ave., Montrose, PA 18801, or First Congregational U.C.C., P.O. Box 217, Harford, PA 18823. Condolences: bartronmyer funeralhome.com.
MARSILI, MARYANN, Jessup, Thursday, Harrison Funeral Home, Archbald. Mass, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, by Monsignor Peter Madus. Pallbearers: Kurt and Mike Kushner; John and Chris Marsili; and Joseph Grabowski. Interment, St. Michael's Cemetery, Jessup.
PEARL, MARVIN "PETE," Scranton, Friday, Carlucci-Golden-DeSantis Funeral Home Inc., Dunmore, by Rabbi Dovid Saks. Interment, Dalton Jewish Cemetery. Shiva, family residence, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Contributions: donors favorite charity. Condolences: scrantonjewishfunerals.com.
POTTER, FRANCES M., Thompson, today, 11 a.m., North Jackson United Methodist Church, by the Rev. Leanne Campbell. Private burial, North Jackson Cemetery. Contributions: North Jackson United Methodist Church.
ROBSON, JEAN BUTTS, Kannapolis, N.C., today, 11 a.m., Whitley's Funeral Home Main Chapel, Kannapolis, N.C., by the Rev. Billy Carey and the Rev. Joe Harding. Inurnment, Wednesday, 11 a.m., National Cemetery Columbarium, Salisbury, N.C. Calling hours, today, 10 to 11 a.m. Contributions: Hospice & Palliative Care of Cabarrus County, 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081. Condolences: whitleysfu neralhome.com.
ROONEY, JANE ANN MINIHAN, Scranton, today, Mass, Immaculate Conception Church, Scranton, by the Rev. Patrick McLaughlin, pastor. Interment, Cathedral Cemetery, Scranton.
SHERMAN, ROY JOHN "BUBBA" JR., Scranton, Friday, St. Ann's Basilica, Scranton, by the Rev. Joseph Jones, C.P., rector; and Brother Daniel Turner C.P. Pallbearers: Roy Sherman Sr., father; Cory Maconeghy, Robert, Ray and Rodney Sherman; Michael Jobs and Joseph Schmidt. Interment, private.
SIBIO, ALBERT J., Dunmore, Friday, Mass, Immaculate Conception Church, Scranton, by the Rev. Joseph Sica, the Rev. Joseph Boles, Monsignor Constantine V. Siconolfi, the Very Rev. David P. Cappelloni, V.F., and the Very Rev. Donald J. Williams, V.F. Pallbearers: Joseph D., Jeffrey and Benjamin Tabone; and David Sibio Jr., grandsons; Joseph Sibio, nephew; and Mark Hrebin. Interment, Cathedral Cemetery, Scranton.
STALLONE, JOSEPH J., Old Forge, today, Mass, 10 a.m., St. Mary of the Assumption Church, West Grace at Lawrence streets, Old Forge, by the Rev. August A. Ricciardi, pastor. Go directly to the church. Entombment with military honors, Denison Cemetery Mausoleum, Swoyersville. Arrangments: Victor M. Ferri Funeral Home, Old Forge. Condolences: ferrifuneralhome.com.
THORNTON, JUDITH ANN, Scranton, today, 1 p.m., Green Ridge Assembly of God Church, 825 Green Ridge St., Scranton, by the Rev. David Twiss, pastor. Private interment, St. Catherine's Cemetery, Moscow. Calling hours, today, 11 a.m. to service, church. Arrangements: Kearney Funeral Home Inc., Scranton. Contributions: Sam and Chris Kimmel, Last Frontier Ministries, c/o Green Ridge Assembly of God, 825 Green Ridge St., Scranton, PA 18509. Condolences: kearneyfu neralhome.com.
TOLAND, THE REV. TERRENCE, S.J., a Jesuit priest and former president of St. Joseph's College (now University), Sunday, St. Joseph's University, 2-4 p.m., Manresa Hall, Loyola Center, 261 City Ave., Merion Station, and 7-9 p.m., President's Office, Regis Hall, Lapsley Lane. Mass, Monday, 7 p.m., St. Matthias Church, 128 Bryn Mawr Ave., Bala-Cynwyd. Burial, Tuesday, Jesuit Cemetery, 501 N. Church St., Wernersville, PA 19565.
WAYMAN, HOLDEN SCOTT, Vandling, today, Lawrence A. Gabriel Funeral Home, 74 N. Main St., Carbondale. Services, 9:30 a.m., funeral home, by Pastor Phillip Richardson. Interment, Maplewood Cemetery, Kingsley.
WHITE, DAVID LAWRENCE, Clarks Summit, today, 10 a.m., Lawrence E. Young Funeral Home and Cremation Service Inc., 418 S. State St., Clarks Summit, by the Rev. Brent Stauffer, pastor, Clarks Green United Methodist Church. Interment, Shady Lane Cemetery, Chinchilla. Condolences: lawrenceeyoungfuneralhome.com.
ZIFF, ETHEL M., Clarks Summit, Monday, Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, N.Y., by Rabbi Dovid Saks. Local shiva, today, 8 to 9 p.m., Elan Gardens. Contributions: Elan Gardens, 465 Venard Road, South Abington Twp., PA 18411; or the donor's favorite charity. Arrangements: Carlucci-Golden-DeSantis Funeral Home Inc., 318 E. Drinker St., Dunmore. Condolences: scrantonjewishfunerals.com. | <urn:uuid:9b23a646-da11-4e49-b01e-06cf668836df> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/funeral-notices-10-26-2013-1.1575170 | 2014-04-19T20:12:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537376.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00431-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.805137 | 3,060 | [
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ANTIOCH -- The school district is going solar -- and it hopes to energize student learning in the process.
Antioch Unified trustees agreed last week to a $28.7 million contract with San Jose-based SunPower for the design and installation of solar panels at 20 school sites.
The panels will generate 5.2 megawatts of power and provide shade for kids on the playgrounds of one of the Bay Area's warmest cities. But, what makes Antioch Unified's solar project unusual is that it includes a heavy emphasis on education.
"By tying this all together, there's going to be multiple benefits," said Tim Forrester, associate superintendent of business services.
SunPower plans to create lessons for Antioch's career-theme pathways with the nonprofit organization Project Lead the Way. Plans call for working with engineering and biomedical science academies on three high school campuses, a middle school Gateway to Technology program and at lower levels to show students system design, fabrication, installation, monitoring and deciphering energy generation data.
"The students literally have this learning lab right in front of them they can utilize, be hands-on, and see what they are learning about," said Thor Misko, Project Lead the Way's vice president of development. "It makes lessons relevant and encourages innovation."
On the money end, the startup cost is being covered by a $30 million Qualified Zone Academy Bond, money doled out by the California Department of Education for renewable energy projects, provided the recipient include an educational component.
It required a 10 percent match, which was picked up by Project Lead The Way.
Antioch will repay the bond with cost savings from the panels, which is projected to be done in about 17 years, Forrester said. The district projects it will save a net benefit of $24.5 million over the next 25 years and $39 million in 30 years.
"That has been one of my concerns every time one of these solar projects was brought before us: Does it pencil out?" trustee Claire Smith said Thursday, adding she initially was not in favor of the plan until hearing a detailed presentation. "I feel happy and comfortable with it."
"I think the timing of it was almost perfect," said Bob Redlinger, a senior manager with SunPower.
The financial part of the plan is advantageous to all because bonds have a 1.16 percent interest rate, and the parties were able to snag rebates from the California Solar Initiative.
"We literally got the last bit of incentive before being placed on a waiting list," Redlinger said. "Everything just fell into place in a good way."
Design is expected to be finished later this year, with panel installation work being done in three stages. Work is scheduled to be completed in all but one of the sites by late 2014. Antioch High's timing is "a bit of a wild card" because of its new construction, Redlinger said.
In addition to working with the Linked Learning classes, Antioch Unified will also work with SunPower and programs One Million Lights and the Exploratorium to develop grade-appropriate educational modules to teach all elementary students lessons in solar science and renewable energy and enhance studies of math and science. Those lessons would start in the 2014-15 school year.
"We've been progressively stepping up trying to incorporate (an education component) into our projects," Redlinger said.
Antioch anticipates having about $3 million left over from the state bond, which would go toward making lighting and air conditioning units more energy-efficient, Forrester said.
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I’d like to welcome the newest addition to my family. Weighing in at 10lbs, 3oz, she arrived at 4:16pm on Sunday April 25th. Here’s to many delicious years together, my most treasured possesion [Sorry, Ryder!]
What can’t you do with eggs? I mean, really. They are just so versatile.
Tonight’s ode to eggs is in pizza form. But I don’t really know what constitutes this as ‘pizza’ other than a pizza crust. Otherwise it’s almost like a flat bread egg sandwich or… something. Anyhow, who really cares about a specific definition so long as it looks beautiful and tastes even better. Right? Right. So glad we agree.
In keeping with my recent ‘so easy it’s laughable’ dishes, this one takes 10 minutes and 9 ingredients. If you want to get a little fancier, for lack of a more fitting word, you could make your own dough. I was just feeling like a slacker and the idea of getting flour all over myself, the counters, the floor and perhaps the dog was pretty unappealing to me at this point in my day.
Shall we being?
First, let me tell you what you’ll need.
1 pizza crust [If you live in Ottawa - Glebe Metro sells this bread by a company called Manoucher that is faaaaabulous] 1C Ricotta 1/4CishBasil, rough chopped 2tbsp Sriracha sauce [add more/less depending on how spicy you like it]
2-3 handfuls of your favourite herbs/green. I used tarragon and arugula. I highly recommend the tarragon… it pairs so nicely with eggs.
1/4C Parmesan, fresh grated Goat cheese, enough to crumble over the pizza.
3 Eggs - free run, organic if you’re into that sort of thing.
Preheat oven to 400. [if you have a pizza stone, place it in the oven prior to preheating]
In a small bowl, mix the ricotta, basil and Sriracha sauce until combined. Spread evenly over the pizza crust.
Spread the herbs/greens evenly over the ricotta mixture and crumble goat cheese and parmesan on top.
If you’re confident you won’t break the eggs yolks, break the eggs carefully over the pizza. Otherwise, break eggs, one at a time, into a small bowl and slowly pour one at a time onto the pizza.
Put the pizza in the oven for 5-7 minutes or until the egg whites are just starting to turn opaque. Turn oven off and leave in an additional 5 minutes. If the eggs are still too loose for your liking, let it sit for a few minutes and they will continue cooking.
Yesterday was dreary and miserable. Three/four consecutively rainy/cloudy days in a week is a surefire way to catch a case of the sads. I find I’m more effected by it as I get older. Strange how that works… or maybe it’s just me that’s strange.
Moving right along. I didn’t much feel like doing anything but bumming around in my pyjama suit last night. But I also didn’t exactly feel like eating Kraft Dinner [now don’t get me wrong, I am a girl who can get down with some KD… but sometimes you just need a good dinner, y’know?]. So I opted for a one-pot roasted chicken, potatoes and cauliflower dish. Easy, easy, easy. It’s embarrassingly easy, really. For those who say cooking is hard/time consuming/messy.. try this one on for size. One dish, 10 minutes of prep [if that] and it goes right into the over for about 45-60 minutes.
Roasted Chicken Legs with Fingerling Potatoes and Cauliflower
3-4 chicken legs, skin on Fingerling potatoes [I like the ruby ones with yellow flesh], enough to cover the bottom of your roasting pan 4 cloves crushed garlic 4 sprigs rosemary 3-4 tbsp bacon/duck fat [or if these aren’t handy, butter/olive oil combo will work fine..I suppose] 1 head of cauliflower, cut into slightly-bigger-than-bite-sized florets. Salt/Pepper
Preheat oven to 400.
In a large roasting pan, add your bacon fat, potatoes & crush garlic. Give it a little smoosh with your hands to get everyone well acquainted.
Dry your chicken legs off with a paper towel and rub each leg with a few good pinches of salt/pepper. this will help create a crisp skin. Place the chicken legs on the potatoes and sprinkle everything with the rosemary.
Roast at 400 for about 30-40 minutes. Take it out and give it a good shake every so often to loosen the potatoes form the bottom of the pan.
While everything is roasting, toss the cauliflower with 1tbsp of olive oil and two pinches each of salt and pepper. Around the 30 minute cooking mark, take the chicken/potatoes out and tuck the cauliflower around the top of the roasting pan and in between the chicken legs. Check every 10 minutes or so to make sure the florets aren’t burning.
Take out of the oven after about 50 minutes or when the chicken juices run clear.
I think it’s… dare I say… here for keepsies? Every morning I prepare myself to wake up to a sweater of snow covering the city. It hasn’t happened yet….so let’s go on assuming it’s here [despite my fears of a vengeful mother nature, just waiting to drop 30cm on Ottawa on the off chance that anyone should assume she’s kind and thoughtful lady].
I took one step into the Herb & Spice today, and immediately spied a lovely bunch of bright green, purple tipped asparagus. It looked so inviting I couldn’t help but snatch it up.
And as though she were telepathically reading my mind, Heidi Swanson, of http://www.101cookbooks.com, had a beautiful recipe for Quinoa with Aspparagus and Tabasco Butter. Tabasco butter, you say?! What an odd sounding concoction. I wouldn’t lie to you – it’s FANTASTIC. The vinegar in the hot sauce cuts the richness of the butter and the dijon/lemon just give it the perfect amount of bite. You’d be surprised at how little you taste the hot sauce… but what you can taste meshes so beautifully with the butter. And that’s WITHOUT the addition of pine nuts, quinoa, and blanched asparagus. It’s nutty, crunchy, soft, rich, a little spicy… the perfect dish. And it couldn’t be easier.
It’s great for dinner, lunch or as a side. Its great warm, at room temperature or cold. And it tastes even better the next day.
Is that enough information to pique your interest? Are you already rummaging your cupboards for that quinoa you KNOW is in there somewhere? It’s the right thing to do. Scouts honour.
Quinoa, Pine Nuts and Asparagus with Tabasco Butter I added a little more hot sauce to the butter than the recipe called for. If you have NO tolerance for heat, only add 25 drops.
2C dry quinoa 3C water pinch sea salt
1bunch asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1.5inch pieces
3/4C pine nuts, lightly toasted
Tabasco Butter 1/2C unsalted butter, room temperature 2 tbsp Tabasco or your favourite vinegar based hot sauce 1tbsp Dijon mustard 1tbsp fresh lemon juice pinch sea salt.
In a blender, food processer or a hand blender, blend the butter until fluffly. Add the Tabasco, Dijon, lemon juice and salt. Blend until combined. Set aside.
To cook the quinoa:
Rinse the dry quinoa under cool water and add to a pot with the 3 cups of water. Add a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil. Cover and low the heat to a simmer. Cook for 25-30 minutes or until you can see the quinoa get curly.
Blanch the Asparagus
Add the pieces of asparagus to boiling water and cook for one minute until bright green. Strain and put in a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking process.
Put it Together
Add the cooked quinoa, toasted pine nuts, asparagus and 3tbsp [unless you’re shamefull human being like myself and then you’ll use 5-6 tbsp. sigh.] of the butter together. You will have leftover butter to use for something else.
Finish with a dollop of creme fraiche if you have it.
My boyfriend’s birthday was yesterday and, as with any special occasion, I took it as an opportunity to make him something delicious.
He has a few favourite meals that I do for him but this time it was chicken Parmesan. I can’t say I was disappointed with his choice as I was craving something hearty, heavy and full of flavour. And what better than lightly breaded chicken slathered in marinara and fresh mozzarella with baked pasta?? Let me answer for you – there are few things that are better than this meal.
Keep in mind - there are lighter, more elegant versions of this for the concious, health-concerned eater. But my boyfriend is non of the above. Esp not on his birthday. So this is the full out, dripping with cheese and sauce version.
Though it comes together quickly – it does require a little bit of multitasking. You’ll need to have everything ready to go before you start as it goes pretty quick. I suggest you make the marinara beforehand to save yourself some time [and stress]. It keeps well in the fridge for a few days and in the freezer for even longer. Though it may seem a little daunting based on the amount of steps, please know this is an EASY recipe and worth the work.
This is great for two but just as simple for a crowd.
Ally’s Chicken Parm
Pasta + Marinara 2 tbsp butter or olive oil 1 small onion, diced 3-4 cloves of garlic, minced two carrots, peeled chopped finely two large cans of peeled Italian plum tomatoes [San Marzano] 5-6 basil leaves, torn 1 bay leaf
900g pasta of your choice [I use spaghetti or penne]
Place sauce pot over medium/high heat and add the olive oil/butter. Once heated through, add onion. Let it sauteed for a minute or two or until translucent. Add the carrot and saute until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and stir until fragrant being careful not to let it brown or burn.
Place a fine mesh sieve over the pot and, a few at a time, pour the tins of tomatoes into it. Using a fork or whisk, mash and stir the tomatoes until you’re left with just pulp in the sieve. Add the bay leaf and torn basil. At this point, season to taste with salt and pepper.
Bring sauce to a boil and then lower the heat to medium/low and let simmer for an hour, stirring occasionally.
Cook the pasta to al dente according to package instructions. Set aside.
Chicken 2 large boneless, skinless chicken breast [or 4 small] 1C all purpose flour 1tsp each sea salt/pepper 3 eggs, lightly beaten 1C panko bread crumbs 1C fresh grated Parmesan cheese Handful of parsley, finely chopped 1tbsp olive oil 2.5C fresh mozzarella [you can grate it if you’d like but I just slice it thick and put the pieces over the chicken]
Special equipment: meat mallet/tenderizer
Grab two plates and 1 bowl and fill them like so: Plate 1: flour + salt/pepper Bowl: eggs Plate 2:breadcrumbs + Parmesan + parsley
Take one chicken breast and place between two sheets of plastic wrap. Using the meat mallet, pound down the chicken to about ½ inch thick. Do this for all the chicken. If you’re using big breasts [go ahead, get your giggles out now. I’ll wait……….] you can cut it in two before pounding.
For each piece of chicken:
Dredge the chicken in the flour and shake off excess. Dunk into the eggs making sure it’s well lubricated. Press each side of the chicken into the breadcrumb mixture. Place on a wire rack until you’re done with them all.
Add the olive oil to a large saute pan over medium/high heat. If you’re not sure if the pan is hot enough, throw in a few breadcrumbs. If they bubble, it’s ready.
Add two pieces of chicken to the pan and cook for 5-6 minutes on each side until golden and crispy. Set aside.
Putting it all together
Preheat oven to 350.
Add the al dente pasta to a large baking dish and pour a good ladle-full of the marinara over the top. Stir into the pasta.
Place breaded chicken pieces evenly over the pasta. Generously spoon sauce over all the chicken pieces. Cover the saucy chicken in mozzarella.
Bake at 350 until the cheese is bubbly and the pasta around the edges of the dish are crispy.
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Red Faction: Origins
by Del Harvey
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In the year 2125, Alec Mason led the Martian Colonies to freedom in the hit action game Red Faction: Guerrilla. Now, Syfy and THQ are teaming up to continue the saga of conflict on Mars 25 years later in an all-new Original Movie, Red Faction: Origins.
Stargate Universe’s Brian J. Smith stars as Jake Mason, son of revolutionary hero Alec Mason (Terminator 2’s Robert Patrick) and a Red Faction ranger. Fighting to preserve Martian freedom, Jake encounters a powerful new enemy in a dangerous and mysterious group led by the charismatic Adam Hale (Torchwood’s Gareth David-Lloyd) and holding secrets that will rock the Mason clan.
Jake must now battle the relentless regime and somehow reunite a family torn apart by war. Jake Mason embarks on a dangerous quest to bring justice to the vengeful enemies that killed his mother and kidnapped his sister. Jake is the son of Alec Mason, the rebel hero who led the colonies of Mars to freedom.
Red Faction: Origins also stars Battlestar Galactica’s Kate Vernon and The Tudors’ Tamzin Merchant, and will feature music from Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica).
Red Faction: Origins premieres on the Syfy Channel, Saturday, June 4th, 9/8 Central time.
Del Harvey is the founder of Film Monthly, a film teacher, a writer and a film critic in Chicago.
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Ya Jamil / O Beautiful One: A Rumi Poetry Tour
FREE with Exhibition Admission
Join us for this special in-gallery interpretative and interactive tour offered in conjunction with Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture. The interpretative tour will respond to the overarching exhibition themes of divinity in beauty and unity that holds diversity – the common threads of the Islamic arts amid diverse cultures and ideas. Led by Dr. Paula Saffire, a student and teacher of Sufism who has taught courses on Rumi, art, and Islam at Butler University, the tour will pair pieces from the exhibition with selected readings from Rumi (1207-1273 A.D.) and mystic Islamic poetry.
Register by Friday, November 16
Space is limited to 20 people; advance registration required. To register, please call 317-923-1331 ext. 206 by Friday, November 16. Arrive early to explore the exhibition on your own before the tour.
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As of July 2006, I am no longer previewing my fiction on fictionpress, as I am preparing several pieces for publication.
With the start-up of http://www.authorsjourney.com I will no longer be reviewing with this account. All Author's Journey staff will now be using the Author's Journey account for reviewing stories. You can find it athttp://www.fictionpress.com/~wwwauthorsjourneycom
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Most Red Hat and Fedora Linux distributions are configured to use GNOME as the default desktop. If this is the case with your computer, your desktop may look like Figure 5 the first time you login. It is easy to change to the KDE desktop.
To make KDE your default desktop, logout of GNOME if you have already logged into it. Do this by clicking on the Desktop menu item on the application bar at the top of the screen. This opens a drop-down menu and you should click on the Log Out menu item; click on the OK button when the little confirmation window pops up. This will take you back to the login screen shown in Figure 1.
Click on the word Session at the bottom of the Login screen and then choose KDE by clicking on the KDE radio button as shown in Figure 6, and then clicking the OK button. At this point you can begin the normal login process. Enter your account ID and password as described earlier in this chapter.
You will now see another window that asks whether you want to make KDE your default Desktop. The options are “Just For This Session”, and “Make Default”. Clearly, for the purpose of this book, you will want to click on the Make Default button. Your login will continue and you will be logged into the KDE desktop.
Of course if you ultimately decide to try GNOME, you can always switch back to GNOME for a single session, or you can make GNOME the default desktop by using the same procedure described here but by choosing GNOME instead of KDE.
One of the things I really like about Linux is that there are so many choices available and making one choice now does not mean that choice is irrevocable. You will find it more comfortable to experiment with Linux during the rest of this book if you remember that any choice you make can be undone or changed back as easily as it was done in the first place. | <urn:uuid:1e53bc90-5911-4fff-8f4f-9681b5f6fbbc> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.databook.bz/?page_id=194 | 2014-04-17T11:05:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609527423.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005207-00039-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905618 | 388 | [
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Paper Mill Playhouse Welcomes Bea Daggett and Laura Green to Senior Management Team
Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the appointment of Laura Green as the theater's new Production Manager and Bea Daggett, leading the historic theater's development team as Director of External and Strategic Affairs. "We are thrilled to add Bea Daggett and Laura Green to our stellar senior management team," stated Todd Schmidt, Paper Mill Playhouse's Managing Director. "Bea and Laura are experienced professionals that will enhance the work that Paper Mill Playhouse produces onstage and beyond. These appointments will allow the theater to continue to grow and thrive."
Laura Green, a resident of Maplewood, NJ, came to New York in 1988 from Provincetown, MA, after many years of working with and ultimately serving as president of the Board of Directors of the Provincetown Theatre Company. Green served as general manager of Richard Frankel Productions from 1994 until 2008, and chief operating officer when Frankel and Green became partners to create Frankel Green Productions from 2008 until 2013.
Green served as general manager for the Broadway, touring and international productions of Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Sound of Music, The Weir, Swing! (national tour), The Producers, Hairspray, Young Frankenstein, Leap of Faith, Finian's Rainbow, The Norman Conquests and Gypsy staring Patti LuPone. Prior productions include Sarafina!, Lost in Yonkers, Metro, Breaking Legs, and as producer, Ten Percent Revue. Green is a member of the Broadway League and an original member of the League Labor Committee, which provides ongoing labor relations services to the Broadway industry.
"Paper Mill Playhouse has a strong foundation of passionate, knowledgeable, and skilled theater professionals that genuinely care about their community, the world at large, and the enrichment that live theater provides," said Laura Green. "I am proud and honored to have been asked to join and contribute as a part of this team."
Over the past 25 years, Bea Daggett, a resident of Basking Ridge, NJ, has supervised state and national public relations campaigns. As a public relations executive and consultant, Daggett supervised and managed accounts and developed new business opportunities for numerous Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T and Lucent, as well as major state departments such as the Department of Transportation, New Jersey Lottery, and the NJ Division of Travel and Tourism. Most recently Daggett served as executive director the Citizens' Campaign and its "Jersey Call to Service," a statewide movement to replace our culture of self-interest and government waste with a culture of service and savings.
Beyond her professional and political experience, Daggett has served as a devoted public servant, volunteering much of her time to various community and civic organizations. She was first appointed and then elected three times to the Bernards Township Board of Education. She founded the Bernards Education Foundation and spearheaded the Citizens for Better Education campaign.
Daggett also has extensive statewide political experience. In 2009, she assisted in the most successful independent gubernatorial campaign in New Jersey history, serving as a key advisor and campaign strategist for Daggett for Governor. Working in the leadership of a gubernatorial campaign provided special insight and knowledge of New Jersey's political culture.
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So Tim Byrdak picked a bad night to have a bad night. Astros lose 6-4.
*But it wasn't Hunter Pence's fault, as he went 4x5 with 3RBI. It was Pence's first four-hit game since June 17, 2009, and the 9th 4+ hit game of his career.
*It's also the third time this season Pence has knocked in three runs.
*Angel Sanchez got two more hits tonight, extending his hitting streak to six games (and 11 of his last 12 games). Since starting his career in Houston 1x11, he's hitting .390 (16x41).
*Jason Bourgeois went hitless for just the 3rd time in which he's started. He not has two hits in his last 17ABs.
*Reds starting pitcher Travis Wood allowed nine hits - a season/career high. Yet the Astros just couldn't get the runs across (save for what Pence and Johnson contributed). The Astros were 2x14 w/RISP. (Pence and Johnson, of course, getting the two hits).
*Let's look at the Astros' LOBs:
1st inning: 2 (1st and 2nd)
2nd inning: 0
3rd inning: 0
4th inning: 1 (1st)
5th inning: 1 (1st)
6th inning: 1 (3rd)
7th inning: 0
8th inning: 3 (loaded, with one out, nobody scored)
9th inning: 2 (1st and 2nd)
So that's 10 left on base, three with runners in scoring position to end the inning. Pedro Feliz struck out with one out and the bases loaded in the 8th, furthering the question of why he's still on the team.
*Bud Norris had a rough one, going 6IP, 4H/4ER, 5K:3BB, an HBP, and throwing 12 of his 25 first-pitches for strikes.
*Tim Byrdak failed to record an out for the second time this season, though he had not given up an earned run since June 7 (19 appearances).
*Nelson Figueroa had a fine debut, striking out one and throwing eight of his ten pitches for strikes in a perfect inning.
Pitch Count Hero: Berkman (1x4, BB) - 24 pitches in five PAs.
Pitch Count Punk: Bourgeois (0x4) - 9 pithces in four PAs.
Man of the Match: Who else? Hunter Pence
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Touch conditions, crashes, nothing stopped American Katie Compton (Planet Bike) from dominating the Zolder World Cup. Her fourth World Cup win this season hoisted her to the top of the standings. After a quick start, the seven-time and reigning US National Champion was at the front, her usual spot, and putting time into her competitors. Yes she crashed, multiple times like everyone else, but she quickly got back on the bike and moved on. With laps around 9 to 10 minutes each, it wasn’t fast but it was smooth as Compton increased her gap to win with a 53 second-margin after four laps.
“It was very tough today, we all had problems to stay on our bikes in these conditions. I crashed several times but despite a few bruises I am OK. I heard I wasn’t the only one who crashed.” Compton said.
See Photo Gallery
But Compton will not be wearing the white World Cup jersey for long as she will skip the next race, all in preparation for the World Championships.
Behind her the chase was on led by Sanne van Paassen with World Champion Marianne Vos surging up and catching her wheel. The two battled until the fourth and final lap when Vos was able to drop van Paassen to take second place.
Everyone had to battle the tough conditions. The lines were disappearing and changing every lap and with the accumulated snow, it became a single track in some spots on the course. And then there were the steep runups and descents, treacherous with fans lining the barriers waiting for crashes.
Sue Butler (Hudz-Subaru) had to battle more than the conditions. “The first lap everyone was down, it was just a mess, it was just stupid, I’m like ‘really people, you don’t have to shove and push’. I was on my bike and people that were running were shoving me and I’m like ‘come on’.”
And then the pedals would ice up. “I fell a lot and then it was just really hard to get into your pedals because they’d ice up so you’re basically riding on top of your pedals and on that kind of stuff, it doesn’t work because you need to have a smooth pedal stroke and you can’t have a smooth pedal stroke if you’re not clipped in. So, it was pretty disappointing because it was fun but people were just messy. One word: messy.”
Maureen Bruno-Roy (Bob’s Red Mill) also had trouble with the ice forming on her shoes. “The biggest problem is that I couldn’t get my feet into my pedals. You’d get to a section where you want to be pushing, your feet are just slipping and slipping. I found that people were able to catch up to me when I had to slow down. So there were some sections that I said okay I’ll just run some more and it just feels the shoes even more for the next section Unfortunately, that I think was my undoing. I struggled just kicking the pedals the whole time.”
The secret for such conditions for Bruno-Roy was staying smooth. “It’s slippery so you just have to stay in control and you just have to slow down a little. You can’t go aerobically, I don’t think any of us were dying out there because you couldn’t get into that sort of state so I think you had to calm down and keep it very smooth. Again, if you can’t get into your pedals you’re struggling. It was fun to ride, it wasn’t so bad but I wish I didn’t have any trouble with the shoes, the pedals but that’s how it is.”
But through it all, Butler also said that she had fun. “I felt good, it was fun. It was frustrating but it was fun. It was great riding, it was challenging but it was almost stupid, it was humorous. People were all over the place, I was riding that corner and people that were off their bikes were just shoving you. But you know it is what it is, it was a little bit fun.” She finished 19th.
Bruno-Roy finished right behind her in 20th. “I was 16th for a little while, I thought I could move up, I felt fine, I was fairly comfortable riding the snowy stuff.”
Though it was her birthday, it was not a good day for Meredith Miller (CalGiant). After suffering a mechanical which pushed her to last spot early on, she pulled out of the race.
Elite Women (Complete results)
1. Katherine Compton (USA) Planet Bike-Stevens Bikes 0:39:58
2. Marianne Vos (Ned) Nederland Bloeit +00:54
3. Sanne van Paassen (Ned) BrainWash +01:29
4. Daphny van den Brand (Ned) ZZPR.nl +02:10
5. Pavla Havlikova (Cze) APB Cycling Team +02:11
19. Susan Butler (USA) Hudz-Subaru +07:25
20. Maureen Bruno Roy (USA) Bob’s Red Mill p/b Seven Cycles +07:36
-1lap Christine Vardaros (USA) Baboco – Revor Cycling Team
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Everybody knows that scientists have an unconventional sense of humor — and paleontologists and astronomers are known for naming some of their discoveries in a whimsical fashion. But chemists and biochemists are required to stick to a strict set of naming conventions. Nevertheless, sometimes researchers get a little freedom and give a molecule a clever name, based on something about its chemical properties.
Let's take a look at some of the more bizarre and funny names, paying special attention to how the molecules received those names. Some are happy accidents, others are named for noxious smells, and one is named for a researcher's strange obsession with Mira Sorvino. Here are ten weirdly named molecules.
Top image from Ensoul on Deviant Art.
Fucitol is a happy accident bestowed by the forefathers of chemistry nomenclature. The alcohol form of the sugar fucose, fucitol is the obvious choice based on naming conventions, and researchers decided to keep the molecule's systematically determined name.
Dinosaurs + Chemistry = Awesomesauce. This benign structure resembles the wild beasts of Jurassic skies, pterodactyls. Structurally, it's an interesting molecule due to the large amount of strain placed on the molecule due to planar carbon rings.
8. DEAD & DEADCAT
This one has nothing to do with Erwin Schrödinger or his poor cat. Diethyl azodicarboxylate is often written as the acronym DEAD or DEADCAT (DiEthyl AzoDiCArboxylaTe), definitive evidence of the dry humor some resort to in a research laboratory. I blame the daily inhalation of volatile solvents. DEAD is used in the synthesis pathway of the anti-retroviral drug azidothymidine.
Believe it or not, the white crystal 3-methylindole is called by another name due to its putrid smell. Skatole is (naturally) a component of feces and used to attract mosquitoes to study the West Nile Virus. In low concentrations, skatole is sweet smelling and used as an additive in perfume and vanilla ice cream.
6. The NanoPutians
Named after the tiny Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels, Rice University synthesized these humanoid molecules as a chemical education tool. The basic form is shown, but researchers also synthesized alternate heads, bringing the NanoChef, NanoGreenBeret, and NanoScholar into existence.
Thebacon is a semi-synthetic opioid that behaves like hydrocodone. German researchers synthesized thebacon from thebaine, a weaker opioid, in 1924, with the unusual name coming from its English interpretation. Thebacon is currently a controlled substance in the United States.
A retinal protein named for its nimble behavior and their affection for a certain Pokémon. Pikachurin is of some use, garnering the cover of Nature (the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue of academia), and could one day be used as a treatment for the visual condition retinitis pigmentosa. I'm petitioning the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to name a protein holofoil Charizard.
3. Tie Fighter
The Tie Fighter is a supramolecule made by enclosing a buckyball in two zinc naphthalocyanines discs. The creators picked the combination to create an unusually shaped molecule that retains photochemical electron transfer properties without separating.
Spermidine is tactfully named for the smell it produces — you can literally chase off an entire research lab with a couple milligrams. Spermidine is a very common laboratory reagent used in initial protein purification steps, entangling excess DNA in solution. It's also great for practical jokes.
A group of researchers enjoyed Guillermo Del Toro's Mimic enough to name a molecule after Mira Sorvino, the female lead. In their paper detailing the synthesis, Cornell University researchers announced:
We have named compound affectionately in honor of Mira Sorvino, who, as Dr. Susan Tyler in the motion picture Mimic, successfully confronted the ultimate insect challenge.
Interestingly, mirasorvone is a steroid ejaculated by the sunburst diving beetle as a defense mechanism. Some researchers at Cornell really like The Mimic.
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For U of M P & A employees there is an additional (11th) holiday to be used during DEc/ Jan this fiscal year.
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I have not checked in here for some time as I thought it was getting boring, but the last several posts are great quality so I guess I will add you back to my daily bloglist. You deserve it my friend :)
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So far, it’s been an interesting few weeks for digital publishing. Late last month saw the introduction of Flowboard, a digital publishing platform centered around an iPad app.
Now Disney has come out with their (highly simplified) take. Disney Story is a free iPhone app that lets you easily create a storyboard from photos on your iPhone, with accompanying text, which you can then share via email or on Facebook.
The key phrase here is “easily”; Disney couldn’t possibly have made Story any easier to use. The app will even group images by date and location for you (assuming you haven’t turned photo geotagging off). There are no themes or fonts or anything to choose. Just pick which images you want in the story, resize them, maybe add a little text — that’s it, you’re done. What you’ll end up with is a digital booklet that can either be flipped through or viewed as a slideshow. Now you can share your creation via email or Facebook.
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It’s blood, sweat, and brutal truths as the new creative team of Andy Diggle (THUNDERBOLTS) and Roberto De La Torre (IRON MAN) continue their first breathtaking story arc! While the Kingpin secretly builds his power base, Daredevil and Master Izo collide violently over the future of the guild of assassins known as The Hand, and Foggy fears the Matt Murdock he once knew may be gone for good.
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5K!!!! When the running clinic started this was the goal and each week, every single lady strived towards this goal. You did it! The rest of your week has probably been a breeze after your awesome run Monday night. We are so very proud of you!
GOALS. They keep us motivated and give us a sense of accomplishment that builds confidence and character. I hope the goals that you set for yourself for this clinic have been met and you are excited to move forward and tackle more challenges. Begin thinking about the fall and setting your sites on your next goal. What should a goal look like? Use this fun acronym (because I LOVE acronyms!!!!) to find your goals:
S- Be Specific.
Your goal should answer specific questions for you like who, what, and when. Specific goals will keep you focused on what it is you want to accomplish.
M- Make it Measurable.
Having specific markers to meet will keep you motivated and encouraged. Hitting those targets will keep you pushing on to that next level and leave you feeling satisfied.
A- Keep it Attainable.
Not all runners are the same. That is what makes us so awesome! Make sure your goal matches who you are and works within your abilities and parameters. Not sure what is attainable for you? Talk to a run coach (Yay! Me!) or a good friend who can give you an honest evaluation of where your current abilities are.
R- Make it Relevant.
A goal that is important to you may not be as significant to another runner. Each individuals goals should bring them a personal sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. Make your goals RELEVANT to who you are and don’t worry about what other runners think about it. A runner who truly has a passion for the sport is going to encourage you in your goal no matter how different it may look from theirs.
T- Keep it Timely.
Deadlines are very important! Setting goals that don’t have a completion date can push us into a rut and leave us spinning our wheels. Goal races are significant motivators to meeting your goals. If races aren’t your thing, you can still circle dates on the calendar and write down your specific markers. Involve a friend or partner to keep you accountable!!
I am going to let you in on a blog that I follow to satisfy my incredible sweet tooth in a healthy way. You have worked very hard to this point and you deserve a little treat. Check out www.chocolatecoveredkatie.com for some of the MOST INCREDIBLE healthy, but sinful, recipes you have ever seen.
Here is a great one to treat yourself to this hot weekend! Enjoy! Oh, and the peanut butter (make it natural!!) is great for muscle refueling. :) Follow this link:
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Milkshake
We are 5K runners!! Woo Hoo!!! You did great Monday night and made me super proud! By this point, you have run at least one, if not two, 2K runs. They most likely felt like a breeze compared to your accomplishment earlier this week. That is what they are supposed to feel like!! Remember, these are recovery runs and serve a SPECIFIC purpose. Stay on schedule! You are currently running for 5 minutes and walking for 1. Remember to PACE yourself as this new timing might feel challenging! You should be running at a pace comfortable for conversation. A runner’s stitch means you need to look at your pace and your breathing. Assess those things and then move forward. You can do this!!!!!
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Neptune is a single-player modification for Half-Life 2, taking place entirely outside the mother game's universe. Set primarily onboard a mysterious and desolate cruise liner, floating in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Neptune allows the player to slowly unravel the dark and disturbing past of the ship as he/she explores its once-grand rooms, corridors, concert halls, restaurants, bars and maintenance areas. Taking influence from games such as System Shock 2, BioShock, Thief: Deadly Shadows and Silent Hill, Neptune is an atmospheric, narrative-driven, horror-based shooter; an exercise in videogame storytelling and tense level design. It is expected to be released in Q3 2009.
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I configure the Manufacturing Analytics on BI-Apps126.96.36.199.
And source system is EBS R12.
I cann't set the proper value on the source system parameters at DAC.
The name of parameters are $$PEGGING_SRC_TYPE and $$PLAN_SRC_TYPE.
This configuration steps are described at task#188.8.131.52 and 184.108.40.206 on e35272.pdf(Configuration guide)
But these tasks only explained "Edit the value of the parameter $$PEGGING_SRC_TYPE(or PLAN_SRC_TYPE) is MRP for getting MRP plan."
Dose anyone knows that how to setup or find the proper value of these parameters?
$$PEGGING_SRC_TYPE and $$PLAN_SRC_TYPE have to be set "MRP","ASCP" or "ASCPMRP".
These parameters is used for connecting to which informatica workflow folder.
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Most current applications of mastery learning stem from the work of Benjamin S. Bloom (1971, 1976, 1984), who considered how teachers might adapt the most powerful aspects of tutoring and individualized instruction to improve student learning in general education classrooms. Bloom suggested that although students vary widely in their learning rates and modalities, if teachers could provide the necessary time and appropriate learning conditions, nearly all students could reach a high level of achievement.
Bloom observed that teachers' traditional practice was to organize curriculum content into units and then check on students' progress at the end of each unit. These checks on learning progress, he reasoned, would be much more valuable if they were used as part of the teaching and learning process to provide feedback on students' individual learning difficulties and then to prescribe specific remediation activities.
Bloom outlined a strategy to incorporate these feedback and corrective procedures, which he labeled mastery learning (Bloom, 1971). In using this strategy, teachers organize the important concepts and skills they want students to acquire into learning units, each requiring about a week or two of instructional time. Following high-quality initial instruction, teachers administer a formative
assessment (Bloom, Hastings, & Madaus, 1971) that identifies precisely what students have learned well and where they still need additional work. The formative assessment includes explicit, targeted suggestions—termed correctives—about what students must do to correct their learning difficulties and to master the desired learning outcomes.
When students complete their corrective activities (after a class period or two), they take a second, parallel formative assessment that addresses the same learning goals of the unit but includes somewhat different problems, questions, or prompts. The second formative assessment verifies whether the correctives were successful in helping students remedy their individual learning difficulties. It also serves as a powerful motivational tool by offering students a second chance to succeed.
Along with the corrective activities, Bloom recommended that teachers plan enrichment or extension activities for students who demonstrate their proficiency on the first formative assessment. Enrichment activities give these students exciting opportunities to broaden and expand their learning.
Bloom believed that nearly all students, when provided with the more favorable learning conditions of mastery learning, could truly master academic content (Bloom, 1976; Guskey, 1997a). A large body of research has borne him out: When compared with students in traditionally taught classes, students in well-implemented mastery learning classes consistently reach higher levels of achievement and develop greater confidence in their ability to learn and in themselves as learners (Anderson, 1994; Guskey & Pigott, 1988; Kulik, Kulik, & Bangert-Drowns, 1990).
Elements Mastery Learning and Other Interventions Share
The following core elements of mastery learning are evident in many more recently developed instructional models and interventions. Research has consistently linked these elements to highly effective instruction and student learning success (Guskey, 2009; Marzano, 2009; Rosenshine, 2009).
Diagnostic Pre-Assessment with Preteaching
Most mastery learning models stress the importance of administering a quick and targeted pre-assessment to all students before beginning instruction to determine whether they have the prerequisite knowledge and skills for success in the upcoming learning sequence. Some teachers pre-assess students orally by asking them about previous learning experiences or understandings; others use short surveys or quizzes. For students whose preassessment results suggest deficiencies, mastery learning teachers take time to directly teach them the needed concepts and skills. In other words, teachers ensure the conditions for success before instruction begins.
Leyton (1983), a student of Bloom, studied the effects of teaching identified prerequisite skills to entering students. He began by administering a short pre-assessment to all students to measure the knowledge and skills that teachers considered essential for learning success in their high school classes. In half of the classes, teachers used the pre-assessment results to help students identify and then review the prerequisite concepts and skills they did not possess. In the other classes, students began learning new material immediately, but at a slower pace.
After nine weeks of instruction, students in the classes that had reviewed the missing prerequisite concepts and skills were far more likely to have achieved mastery, measured by 80 percent or more correct on a cumulative, summative examination. Because Leyton's study was conducted in only a few subject areas (mathematics and foreign language) and under tightly controlled conditions, these results must be cautiously interpreted. Still, when viewed in light of similar research (Deshler & Schumaker, 1993; Vockell, 1993), the results demonstrate the potential benefit of relatively brief preteaching for students whose prerequisite knowledge and skills are weak or deficient.
Mastery learning's diagnostic assessment is similar to the idea of universal screening in Response to Intervention (RTI) models (Mellard & Johnson, 2008). Most descriptions of RTI stress the importance of initiating the instructional process with a targeted assessment of all students that is quick, inexpensive, and focused on crucial knowledge, skills, and behaviors. This universal screening helps teachers identify students who are at risk of learning difficulties and are likely to require especially close monitoring during the instructional process.
High-Quality, Group-Based Initial Instruction
Every description of mastery learning, as well as other interventions such as Understanding by Design (UbD) and RTI, emphasizes the importance of engaging all students in high-quality, developmentally appropriate, research-based instruction in the general education classroom. UbD (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005) includes a toolbox of instructional approaches for obtaining the desired results from initial instruction. In many RTI models, this is considered the first level of intervention, also called Tier 1 or primary prevention (Fuchs & Fuchs, 2006). Such instruction should be multifaceted; adapted to the context; tied to students' interests and experiences; and differentiated according to the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and background characteristics of students (Astleitner, 2005; Conroy, Sutherland, Snyder, & Marsh, 2008).
Progress Monitoring Through Regular Formative Assessments
Another element of mastery learning that many other interventions share is the use of regular formative assessments to systematically monitor student progress and give students prescriptive feedback (Hattie & Timperley, 2007). These brief classroom assessments measure the most important learning goals from an instructional unit and typically are administered after a week or two of instruction. They reinforce precisely what students were expected to learn, identify what they learned well, and describe what they need to learn better.
Formative assessments vary in form depending on the subject area, the grade level, and the learning outcomes involved. They may be short quizzes, written assignments, oral presentations, skill demonstrations, or performances. In essence, formative assessments are any device teachers use to gather evidence of student learning.
Formative assessments provide the basis of all programs that emphasize assessment "for" learning, as opposed to assessment "of" learning (Stiggins, 2009). Most RTI models refer to this component as
progress monitoring. In many RTI classrooms, progress-monitoring assessments are administered weekly, although they may be more frequent, depending on the subject area and nature of the class.
High-Quality Corrective Instruction
It would be foolish to charge ahead knowing that students have not learned key concepts or skills well. Following formative assessments, therefore, mastery learning teachers provide high-quality corrective instruction designed to remedy whatever learning problems the assessments identified.
High-quality corrective instruction is not the same as "reteaching," which often consists simply of restating the original explanations louder and more slowly. Instead, mastery learning teachers use corrective instruction approaches that accommodate differences in students' learning styles, learning modalities, or types of intelligence (Sternberg, 1994). Some teachers engage students in peer tutoring or cooperative learning groups. Others use paraprofessional instructional aides.
In mastery learning classes, corrective activities typically add about 10–20 percent more time to initial learning units (Block, Efthim, & Burns, 1989). For a unit of a week or two in length, for example, corrective instruction might last one or two days. Bloom (1974) argued, however, that intense, individualized assistance offered early in an instructional sequence would drastically reduce the time needed for remediation in later units. Because corrective instruction guarantees that students have the learning prerequisites for subsequent units, initial instruction in later units can proceed more rapidly, allowing teachers to cover just as much material as they would using more traditional methods (Guskey, 2008).
Providing instructional alternatives based on differences in students' learning styles or modalities is the basis of differentiated instruction (Tomlinson, Brimijoin, & Narvaez, 2008). In the RTI model, mastery learning's corrective instruction may be referred to as Tier 2 intervention or secondary prevention (Fuchs & Fuchs, 2006). Like corrective instruction, this intervention usually takes place in the general education classroom but may be directed by another teacher or instructional aide.
Both corrective instruction and Tier 2 intervention emphasize the use of small-group instruction with individualized assistance organized according to the needs and skill level of the students involved. Both also stress that instruction at this level must be qualitatively different from the initial instruction, offering students an alternative approach and additional time to learn.
Second, Parallel Formative Assessments
In mastery learning, assessments are not a one-shot, do-or-die experience; instead, they are part of an ongoing effort to help students learn. So after corrective activities, mastery learning teachers give students a second, parallel formative assessment that helps determine the effectiveness of the corrective instruction and offers students a second chance to demonstrate mastery and experience success. RTI similarly requires frequent assessment of student learning progress to check on the effectiveness of intervention strategies.
Mastery learning teachers make a point of recognizing those students who do well on the initial formative assessments. But they also acknowledge that students who do well on the second formative assessment have learned just as much and deserve the same grades as those who scored well on their first try.
The driver's license examination offers a comparable example. Many individuals do not pass their driver's test on the first attempt. On the second or third try, however, they may reach the same high level of performance as others did on their first. Would it be appropriate to restrict these drivers, for instance, to driving in fair weather only? In inclement weather, should they be required to pull over and park until the weather clears? That would be ridiculous. Because they eventually met the same high performance standards as those who passed on their initial attempt, they receive the same privileges. The same should hold true for students who engage in corrective activities and eventually show that they, too, have learned well.
Enrichment or Extension Activities
Mastery learning teachers also offer effective enrichment activities that provide valuable, challenging, and rewarding learning experiences for learners who have mastered the material and do not need corrective instruction. These activities should enable successful learners to explore in greater depth a range of related topics that keenly interest them but lie beyond the established curriculum. Many teachers draw from activities developed for gifted and talented students when planning enrichment activities, including challenging academic games and exercises, various multimedia projects, and peer tutoring (Whiting, Van Burgh, & Render, 1995). They are also a part of classrooms implementing differentiated instruction (Tomlinson, 2006).
Students engaged in enrichment activities gain valuable learning experiences without necessarily moving ahead in the instructional sequence. This makes it easier for other students who have been doing corrective work (or Tier 2 intervention in an RTI model) to resume their place in the regular instructional sequence when they are done. Otherwise, they would be placed in the impossible situation of having to remedy problems from the past while trying to keep up with the new concepts and skills presented in subsequent units.
The challenge for teachers in implementing enrichment or extension activities is to ensure that these activities engage students in truly valuable learning experiences. Having successful learners simply bide their time, doing more, harder problems or completing busywork while others are engaged in corrective instruction would be highly inappropriate. Enrichment activities must provide these students with opportunities to pursue their interests, extend their understanding, and broaden their learning experiences.
Sustaining and Extending Success
Researchers today generally recognize the value of the core elements of mastery learning. As a result, fewer studies are being conducted on the mastery learning process itself. Instead, researchers are looking for ways to attain even more impressive gains by improving students' learning processes, curriculum and instructional materials, and the home learning environment and support and providing a focus on higher level thinking skills. Work on integrating mastery learning with other innovative strategies appears especially promising (Guskey, 1997b).
As we strive to improve achievement even further, we can continue to learn from the core elements of mastery learning. Attention to these elements will enable educators to make great strides in their efforts to close achievement gaps and help all students achieve excellence.
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Vockell, E. L. (1993). Why schools fail and what we can do about it. Clearing House,
Whiting, B., Van Burgh, J. W., & Render, G. F. (1995, April). Mastery learning in the classroom. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by Design (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
Thomas R. Guskey is professor, Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, College of Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington;
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How much alcohol is too much?
Published: February 11, 2013
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am writing you to ask for some advice. First off, I’m going to be honest: I do drink a lot on the weekends....
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America's jobless rate rose for the first time in 11 months to 8.2 percent in May.
The U.S. also only added 69,000 jobs, the lowest in a year and far fewer than the 150,000 expected.
The latest economic numbers sparked fresh fears for investors, sending the Dow plunging.
The first three months of the year saw slower than estimated growth mainly because governments and consumers spent less, and businesses were a little slower to restock their supplies.
The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits rose to a five-week high last week, and a survey of private companies showed only a modest increase in hiring last month.
Mario Sparciano has been out of work since march.
"I put in so many applications online, in person, and it is like, 'Oh, we just hired somebody,' or it's, 'Well, we found somebody better qualified,'" he said.
The stock market hasn't fared well either. The Dow Jones lost 820 points in May, the worst showing since May 2010.
The debt crisis in Europe also continues to concern investors. Many nations in the European Union are in danger of collapse.
"Today it's not just about what's going on with the U.S. economy and this jobs number; it's that Europe is a basket case," Aaron Task, with Yahoo! Finance, said.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the new government figures "devastating news."
"It seems like we've been moving backwards. We can do so much better in America," Romney said.
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, agreed.
"It's pretty clear that the American people are hurting," he said. "Small businesses continue to avert hiring any additional people and it's clear the policies that we've seen are not working."
In a White House blog, the Obama administration said the problems in the job market were long in the making and won't be solved overnight.
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Public Image Limited
While The Sex Pistols were still squirming in vomit and blood, knifed in a gutter - rotten Johnny Lydon was wiping the blade clean and ready to take on his next adversary: the punk fan.
This reissue of his 1978 PiL debut shows his self-assured loathing for conformity with its one-two punch of lyrical dexterity (four tracks of blatant anti-Catholic blasphemy are followed by an assault on former bandmates and then a decline into banality and the Python-esque pastiche Fodderstompf) and musical ability (gone is punk's DIY racket, replaced by Clash founder Keith Levene's genius guitar and John Wobble's disco dub funk bass).
Future full-lengthers may have cemented PiL's post-punk credentials but the sheer vitriol of First Issue and Lydon's nihilism make this a watershed moment when dance music met hatred, dissonance and irony.
The inclusion here of rare B-side The Cowboy Song and a candid hour-long 1978 BBC interview in which Lydon lashes out at Malcolm McLaren, classic rock n roll and institutions while building the PiL manifesto, makes the reissue a great autopsy into how the first incarnation of punk died.
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|WBC players look to sustain success|
|Written by Admin|
|Friday, 22 March 2013 11:59|
And let's face it, the intensity between the WBC and weekday matinee games in small Florida and Arizona ballparks is a sharp contrast.
But many - like New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano and Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes - are hoping to guard against a letdown. There is, after all, a regular season to play in a few weeks.
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By Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin
Oswald Stender:"She was damaging the
very people that she was obligated to protect."
He testifies the trusteesBy Rick Daysog
never asked her to take over
It's his word against hers.
Bishop Estate trustee Oswald Stender yesterday took the witness stand for the first time in the 3-month-old trial to remove trustee Lokelani Lindsey, rebutting some of the claims Lindsey made during her recent eight days of testimony.
Stender -- who along with trustee Gerard Jervis is seeking Lindsey's ouster for alleged breaches of fiduciary duty and unfitness to serve -- told Circuit Judge Bambi Weil that Lindsey for years has displayed a pattern of irresponsible behavior that has harmed the estate-run Kamehameha Schools.
Lindsey micromanaged the Kapalama Heights campus, called teachers and popular school President Michael Chun "incompetent," and hurt student and faculty morale through her release of a controversial report criticizing students' academic performance, Stender said.
"She was damaging the very people that she was obligated to protect and serve," said Stender, the only Kamehameha graduate on the Bishop Estate board.
Lindsey's attorneys have defended her as a misunderstood educational advocate who faced a bonfire of criticism after she attempted to reform the Kamehameha Schools. They argued that she took a more hands-on approach at the Kapalama Heights campus after she lost faith in Chun's leadership skills.
Lindsey said Chun was unable to complete a strategic plan for the school and that students' learning experience was hurt by Chun's failure to implement an articulated curriculum for kindergarten through 12th grade.
Under questioning by his attorney, Crystal Rose, Stender said that when Lindsey was appointed lead trustee of the estate's educational program by the full board in 1993, she was to have served as a liaison between the school and the board.
But she never was authorized to take over Chun's duties, nor was she given permission to assume any of the responsibilities of her four fellow trustees at the school, Stender said.
The board never asked Lindsey to go to the campus to clean up its programs, said Stender.
"I believed that Kamehameha Schools is the best private school in the state. To say that the school would need cleaning up, I think, was an affront," said Stender, a trustee since 1989.
Stender feels Lindsey unfairly blamed Chun for problems at the Kamehameha Schools, since she had taken away many of his duties. Uncertainty over Chun's authority fueled morale problems among teachers and students, who feared the estate planned to fire him.
Stender also recounted the December 1997 release of Lindsey's controversial educational report that criticized the students' academic performance.
The much-criticized Lindsey report, entitled "An Imperative for Educational Change," said the
longer students stayed at the Kamehameha Schools, the poorer they fared when measured by standardized tests. The study also alleged that more than 30 students in the 1997 graduating class could barely read at grade level.
Stender and Jervis both believe the Lindsey report is inaccurate and was designed to deflect blame from her at the expense of students.
Yesterday, Stender called the release of the report "irresponsible," saying it called attention to a pattern of abusive behavior going back years.
As a result, Stender said that he and Jervis decided to ask Lindsey to step down voluntarily. Her refusal prompted the two trustees to sue for Lindsey's removal.
"I was appalled and horrified that Mrs. Lindsey knowingly released the report," said Stender.
His testimony continues on Tuesday.
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Allreaders.com will pay you 25 cents per new book or movie review, subject to the rules posted on the site. While not an astronomical sum, it is fun and easy work--the reviews we need are short, and you get to choose what you review--you can review books and movies you've already read and seen. A review can be completed in less than 5-8 minutes, and your work can be seen by over 1,000,000 visitors every month.
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Panthers eliminate Demons
Posted By adminknia On @ 8:26 am In Today's Local Sports | Comments Disabled
In volleyball the 3A postseason kicked off, the Washington Demons made the trip over to Mount Pleasant to face a team they have played close this season. It was tight in the opening game with Mount Pleasant winning 25-22, but the Panthers took the next two 25-18 to advance. Demon Head Coach Jeff Spenner says that’s kind of been their experience in matches this year 80821. The Panthers move on and play Williamsburg who beat Clear Creek Amana in three 25-14, 25-14, 25-18. On the other side of the bracket, Centerville beat Fort Madison in three and Fairfield beat Keokuk in four.
Tonight 2A volleyball postseason resumes, with Sigourney taking on Davis County in Eldon. In 1A, IMS goes to Lone Tree to play English Valleys. Winfield-Mount Union takes on New London in New London.
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Young Love Unrequited, The Soundtrack
This is the last gift sponsored by Sandisk slotRadio, so I thought we might actually talk about music. Since John Hughes passed, I’ve been thinking about how much more I enjoy movies when a director is passionate about the soundtrack.
My favorite Hughes scenes are about the music that’s playing in his characters’ lives. Remember Duckie lip-syncing to “Try a little Tenderness?”
Or Ferris Bueller’s “Danke Schoen” cum “Twist and Shout” on the parade float:
And of course, The Breakfast Club dance scene:
Then there are the Hughes songs that knock you flat and replay footage of your bedroom ceiling, circa 1985.
“Don’t You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds
“If You Were Here” by the Thompson Twins
“If You Leave” by OMD
So this present celebrates the music Mr. Hughes brought into our lives. If you win, I’ll send you everything you need for a nostalgic movie night.
The Ringwald holy trinity:
An absurdly large box of Watermelon Flavored Pop Rocks, (Purchased after I ate the packages I bought for you at the corner store. Taste the Explosion!):
And, of course, a Sandisk slotRadio:
It comes with a bunch of songs already, but also gives you the option of picking your own music. Before you load your workout mix, I’d like you to check into these:
Leave a comment below, bonus points if you tell me about your favorite music-related movie scene. Be sure to include your email address in the field provided (so I can reach you if you win) by August 14 at 5 p.m. PST. Just one comment, please — I have to delete duplicates for fairness. Random.org will decide who wins. I’ll contact the lucky via email, and I’ll also tell you who won here.
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Originally Posted by RoninMoto
Since motorcycle manufacturer don't listen to people like us and build a small displacement ADV bike with a large oil reservoir and long maintenance interval, we have limited choice as to which bike can get the job done. (See bmw 1200, KTM 1190 adv, Yamaha super tenere, bla bla bla) Where is the 450 adv?
My next ADV bike will be another 690 or a custom thumper. Think KTM exe frame with rally fairing and a duke 390 motor. 42 hp is enough for me.
Maybe the new 450 adventure bike from (admittedly somewhat obscure) British manufacturer CCM will be your cup of tea then!
130 kg dry, 17 litre tank, BMW powerplant wtih ~40 hp. Supposedly goes into production in May this year. Retails for £7995.
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Describing "Kick-Ass" as his John Hughes movie, by way of "Kill Bill," comic book superstar Mark Millar says the third volume of his smash hit creator-owned series delivers a definitive ending to Dave Lizewski's heroic journey.
Does he die? Millar wouldn't say, but Kick-Ass' remarkable story does come to a close with the release of the final issue of the next volume, which launches on June 5.
Published by Marvel's ICON imprint, Millar told CBR News that "Kick-Ass 3" -- once again showcasing the artwork of living legend and co-creator John Romita, Jr. -- centers around Dave's realization that he no longer needs his Kick-Ass identity for personal life fulfillment. But the world needs Kick-Ass, right? Dave himself is surprised by the answer he finds online.
Millar also confirmed Hit Girl and Red Mist, despite their ambiguous states at the end of "Kick-Ass" 2, play prominent roles in the final volume, revealed that everyone in "Kick-Ass" is either someone he knows or a character from "Star Wars" and the potential for a fifth installment in the "Kick-Ass" saga -- even though this series is definitely its finale.
CBR News: As much as "Kick-Ass" is super-fun and super-violent, it's ultimately a young man's journey, not unlike Joseph Campbell taught us about some sixty years ago in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," isn't it?
Mark Millar: Absolutely. The whole plan, all along, is that "Kick-Ass" was about a guy growing up. This is a John Hughes movie meets "Kill Bill." It's all about a rite of passage. It's about a kid whose mum has died and he's not really that enchanted with the real world. He's become absorbed in this fantasy world of comics but he's taken it to the next level and gets dressed up as these characters.
And "Kick-Ass 3" is the moment where he says, "Hang on. This is a bit weird." He suddenly thinks, "I love doing good and everything, but I've met this girl and real life is becoming all right." He questions, does he really need to be Kick-Ass anymore?
It's an unusual thing, because you've got a natural ending for a story. And it can end a number of ways without giving anything away. But yes, to answer your question, it's very much the end of a journey that we started in 2008. When I had the first issue out in 2008, I knew what the last scene in this was going to be.
Honestly, did you ever expect this kind of response?
It sounds weird, but we've actually only had 20 issues with these characters. That's already generated two movies and we're already talking about the possibility of other stuff. That's crazy, because something like Spider-Man ran for 1,200 or 1,500 issues before getting a movie. We were really lucky that we had a movie after the first arc.
The fact every arc is being turned into a movie is kind of crazy. You can never really take that for granted.
I did have a weird feeling about this one. When I got back the first pages from Johnny in 2007, he was really excited, which is always a good sign. I thought, there is something about this. When I saw the character standing there in his little wet suit and everything, I felt like he already existed. It suddenly felt that we could be onto something. Every so often, you do get lucky like that.
Hit Girl was another one. The minute those pages came back from "Kick-Ass" #3, I was thinking, "Holy shit. We've got something here."
You've teased a little bit about what we'll see in "Kick-Ass 3" -- Dave's working in a comic book store and Mindy's in an asylum -- and now that you've shared the first six pages of the first issue with us, we know a little more. What else can you tell us about the arc?
I like the idea of the opening as the raid on the asylum where Mindy is being held. "Kick-Ass" is always about what would happen in actual life, so I liked the idea that it's like "Mission Impossible." Here is the plan, here are the blueprints, we've got everything we need, we've got all of this amazing equipment from Hit Girl's headquarters -- let's go do this. And they go and the wall is really, really high and they're like, "Well, we're never getting over that wall. That's it." [Laughs] Because if my friends and I were trying to bust someone out of prison, that's exactly what would happen.
"Kick-Ass" is just taking a superhero conceit and then giving it that little twist. The guys are all like, "Oh, yeah. We should totally get her out. But right now, might not be a good time."
And that's the thing that's in the background for the rest of the series, because no one is able to break her out.
It reminds me a bit about the novel and movie "The Commitments," which features an Irish pub band thinking they've become the biggest thing since U2 when really, they're just an Irish pub band.
That's totally right. That's a really great observation. I wrote a scene earlier this morning, which is Kick-Ass standing and looking out the window in his costume, and he's wondering, "Can the world survive without Kick-Ass?" And then he goes online and literally no one has heard of him. The notion that he's the guy that's got the orange helmet. You are obviously the hero of your own story, but you know no one would really give a shit if Kick-Ass ceased to exist.
If I remember correctly, Mindy was going to be the lead of "Kick-Ass." I guess it's obvious, but how important was it to find Dave or have Dave find Kick-Ass and have he and Mindy share this journey?
I wrote two issues back in 2006 or 2007, really early on, where it was Mindy as the lead -- one of those issues subsequently became "Kick-Ass" #6, the one that had all the flashbacks of Mindy being trained -- but it just didn't work. Imagine if "Star Wars" started from Han Solo's perspective. You just can't identify with him -- he's too cool! You needed Luke Skywalker.
Once I had Dave, and I basically wrote Dave as myself, age 16, then Mindy interacted perfectly with him. It just suddenly all gelled together. Every one in "Kick-Ass" is someone from my life or from "Star Wars." [Laughs]
Mindy is based on my oldest daughter -- without the swearing. Believe it or not, I have a very strict no swearing rule in my house. And no killing, as well. [Laughs]
[Laughs] With those guiding principles, your next project should be a parenting handbook. "Mark Millar's Guide to Parenting." That would be an instant best seller.
Your children will turn out just fine even if you master just one of those rules. [Laughs]
But yeah, Dave is me at 16 and Mindy is my oldest daughter at 12. And Big Daddy is me as an adult. I used to do all of those fun things with her when she was younger. I'd take her to the swing parks and we'd do commando exercises like swinging along parallel bars and all that. We'd do these grueling father/daughter kinds of things.
Even girlfriends and those characters are based on people that I have known. I guess that the whole thing is a weird, messed up kind of autobiography. But this final book is Dave's grown up journey. He's about 19 years old and he's realizing this isn't quite what he wants to be doing with the rest of his life. His comics will always be beloved to him, but putting on the mask and getting into fights every night may not be too wise because he doesn't have a super-dense Kryptonian molecular structure, so chances are, he's going to meet quite a bad end.
That's what "Kick-Ass 3" is about.
At the close of "Kick-Ass 2," it was left uncertain if we'd seen the last of Red Mist/Mother Fucker. Does Chris play a role in "Kick-Ass 3?"
Oh, yeah. He actually has quite a big role. It's funny -- he wasn't in it originally, because I was going to kill him off at the end of "Kick-Ass 2." I'll be honest, I think it was the movie that saved him and made us really love that character. We've become so friendly with Chris Mintz-Plasse and the idea of the finale without him seemed absurd. Normally, the movies don't inform what you do in a book because you would drive yourself crazy if you were working like that, but I actually thought, he needs a true ending to his story, too. All the other characters get a proper ending, and I've got a really, really good ending for his character, which I wrote about two weeks ago. And it all makes sense. It all ties up really, really well.
Everybody gets an ending. The book really has three principals: Dave, Mindy and Chris. It would have been a shame to not have him in the third book.
In the last collection, you teased a fifth part to "Kick-Ass," but it sounds like the story comes to an end here. Will we ever see a fifth part beyond the three "Kick-Ass" volumes and "Hit Girl?"
I've had the idea for a while about doing a Big Daddy and Hit Girl five-issue series, exploring Mindy's origin, but I've managed to get quite a bit of it into "Kick-Ass 3." I love doing those flashbacks. Through "Kick-Ass" and "Kick-Ass 2," there were lots of fun little flashbacks with Big Daddy training her. It's actually probably my favorite stuff in the series. And I thought I'd love to write a whole book of him Big Daddy training Hit Girl through those early days with a really young Mindy. In some ways it's awful -- and maybe this is my British sense of humor -- but it really is funny to see a six-year old being forced into these military exercises. I just love writing that stuff. I'm just not sure if I'll do it.
"Kick-Ass 3" is definitely the end of everybody's story, but there is always the potential for that fifth book, and it would definitely, definitely be a prequel.
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SwRI co-sponsored Next-Generation Suborbital Research Conference a success, breaks records
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San Antonio — March 2, 2012 — The 2012 Next-Generation Suborbital Research Conference (NSRC-2012), held Feb. 27–29 in Palo Alto, Calif., set attendance and corporate sponsorship records that show an accelerating interest in the field by researchers, educators and commercial firms. NSRC was jointly organized by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and NASA's Ames Research Center.
"NSRC-2012 was the third annual NSRC conference we've held," said Dr. Alan Stern, the meeting convener and associate vice president of SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division. "We had more than 400 people in attendance this year and 34 funding sponsors. Registrants came from 16 countries on six continents. Additionally, more than 120 oral and almost 20 poster presentations were made.
"Each of these metrics is close to double what NSRC attracted in 2010, demonstrating a steep increase in the potential of these new vehicles and services in the space research and education market," said Stern.
Keynote speakers included Apollo moon landing pioneer and former X-15 suborbital test pilot Neil Armstrong, Virgin Galactic chief pilot David MacKay, Challenger Center for Space Science Education founder Dr. June Scobee Rogers, FAA Associate Administrator Dr. George Nield and NASA Ames Research Center Director Dr. Pete Worden. Some 24 technical sessions and four panels formed the heart of NSRC-2012. The meeting was further supplemented by a NASA Flight Opportunities Program workshop.
Following on the increasing interest in next-generation suborbital vehicles for use in space research and education, NSRC-2013 is already being planned. That conference will take place in Colorado in June 2013.
For more information, contact Joe Fohn, (210) 522-4630, Communications Department, Southwest Research Institute, PO Drawer 28510, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510. | <urn:uuid:3ed3b37e-595e-4fc4-93c2-4efb4db57f4e> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.swri.org/9what/releases/2012/nextgen-suborbital.htm | 2015-07-02T05:20:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095404.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00309-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919547 | 426 | [
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Patrice Chapon trained and worked as a pastry chef and as an ice cream maker (to Queen Elizabeth nonetheless) before finding his true calling as a master chocolatier, which he has been doing for the last twenty years from his workshop in Paris.
A sampling of some of his dark chocolate bars demonstrates his skill. The chocolate is dark but not too bitter. The added elements are not too big or too small and balance the flavors and textures of the chocolate. The Noir Mendiants (mixed nuts) and the Noir aux Éclats de Café (crushed coffee beans) bars get top marks from the CH team. | <urn:uuid:760ad780-e63a-4bf3-afc3-4f0a3f4f0a76> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.coolhunting.com/food-drink/chocolat-chapon | 2015-07-04T11:48:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096706.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00249-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960404 | 128 | [
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Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams took his own life at his Northern California home in August. He was 63.
Few actors were more familiar or successful than Robin Williams. He died Monday at the age of 63. Here’s a glance at some of his remarkable career.
Attackers on a motorbike threw acid in the faces of three teenage girls on their way to school in Afghanistan's western Herat province on Saturday, an official told CNN.
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The maritime sovereignty dispute between China and Japan has derailed discussions about creating a free-trade zone involving the world’s second and third largest economies plus South Korea. Chen Yulu, a People’s Bank of China advisor, broke the news at a meeting of central bankers from the three countries. He said he hoped the suspension of the free trade discussions was temporary. “It will be a big loss for Asia if the process is terminated,” he told the Reuters news agency. Leaders of the three countries have been discussing creating a free-trade zone for some years, certainly through several cycles of ebbing and flowing relations between Tokyo and Beijing. This Bystander expects the free trade talks to survive this latest nadir.
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The South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement comes into force today–as this Bystander feels sure you have noted in your diaries. It is tangental to our brief but worth noting in passing for several reasons. Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo hope to start the sharp end of talks on their own free trade agreement later this year. China is both being dragged and dragging its trade partners before the World Trade Organisation with some regularity. And while the next round of the WTO’s global free trade talks, the Doha round, is proceeding even more glacially than reform in China, free trade agreements are popping up everywhere.
Nearly three score have come into force since January 2008. The total in effect is fast approaching 300 and many more are being talked about. (Trade trivia question: now Mongolia has struck a free trade agreement with Japan, which is the one WTO member left that is not party to any free trade agreement?)
The days when free trade agreements were seen as undermining the multilateral global trading system seem distant memory. Bi- or limited plurilateral regional free trade agreements will shape trade policies for the foreseeable future. They are also more suitable for developing existing cross-border trade flows being created by the needs of global logistics chains. Whether they undermine the big benefit of multilateral agreements, that they increase trade overall by lowering restrictions across the board, is moot. But then the Doha round isn’t doing anything to boost trade overall for as long as it remains stalled.
The most significant of the free trade agreements under discussion for the Asia-Pacific region is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) that the U.S. is taking over. China is on the outside of that at this point. Japan is the swing state. If it joins the TTP, China’s exclusion will be of more consequence than if it does not. Another free trade agreement in the pipeline that has implications for China is one between the EU and India. Meanwhile, Washington and Seoul are putting in place another piece of the new world trade order.
Footnote: The answer is Mauritania.
Free trade agreements (FTAs) are easier said than done. U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged as much when announcing an outline agreement to expand the TransPacific Partnership from four to nine as a basis for a regional FTA. There is much detail to be negotiated. It will take years, not months. Many devils must be confronted.
For one, Obama’s domestic opponents are not going to hand him a political and economic victory with a general election barely a year away. Even in the highly unlikely event a final TTP agreement could be reached quickly, a Republican-dominated House of Representatives could block a vote for Congressional approval before the election. Nor are Republicans likely to allow an agreement containing what Obama called ‘high standards’, code for among others environmental and labor protections and local sustainability rights that are an anathema to many of Obama’s opponents.
All those are the quick and dirty domestic political battles. Japan’s decision to join promises a hundred years war. Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, has risked splitting his party in doing so. He will now need to turn the country’s three most powerful and insular domestic political constituencies, farmers, doctors and the construction industry. Doing so would mean a deep structural change to Japan’s political system. That may be long overdue, but it will not be quick in coming. That alone should not imbue supporters of the expanded TTP FTA with great confidence. Nor should the rapid turnover of recent Japanese prime ministers. Noda is the sixth in five years.
It is already two years since the U.S. applied to join the four-member TTP and started to orchestrate its expansion to nine, including bringing in its two most important treaty partners in the region, South Korea and Japan, as well as regional allies such as Thailand. There have already been nine rounds of TTP expansion negotiations. These are painstaking processes.
The Obama administration’s move was part a a bigger game of FTA chess that it is playing with China for influence in the region. Washington is playing the APEC side of the board while Beijing is playing the ASEAN side. (The side story for those choices is that the Asia-Pacific Economic Community is a group of economies, so can include Taiwan, whereas the Association of South-East Asian Nations comprises countries, so does not. Taipei has expressed interest in joining the TTP FTA, and while Washington has been scrupulously silent on the point, the absence of any outright rejection is being taken in Beijing as unacceptable tacit support.)
Beijing, meanwhile, has been doing what it can to slow up the TTP expansion, and pushing a series of bilateral trade agreement with ASEAN nations and the concepts of regional trade pacts between ASEAN plus three (itself, South Korea and Japan) and ASEAN plus six (adding Australia, New Zealand and India). The U.S. is notable by its absence. Hence Washington’s attempts to involve all the same countries, with the one obvious exception, to much the same purpose but under the aegis of APEC.
This is not necessarily disliked by most Asian countries as it allows them to keep both regional superpowers from being too dominant as they jockey for supremacy. The most extreme example of this is that both China and the U.S. are trying to create trilateral free trade agreements with South Korea and Japan. Two tracks. Double the trouble. And any end game still a long way off.
Amidst all the discussion between Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at their tripartite summit this weekend about how to deal with North Korea, was some significant progress on creating a free trade agreement between the three countries. To the emerging generation of China’s leaders born after the Korean War — and particularly to the next generation of leaders of the Party’s International Department, which is a more important determinant of policy towards North Korea than the Foreign Ministry — that may be of more lasting significance than propping up the ally on whose side China fought against South Korea and the U.S. more than half a century ago.
Lee’s spokesman said the president had “stressed the need to enhance economic cooperation between the three countries and work toward integrating their economies.” The three countries agreed to set up a permanent liaison office in South Korea next year and to pursue a free-trade agreement. This is not a new idea, of course. A lot of work has been done on it at a semi-official level over the past several years and China, Japan and South Korea are already tied closely by trade and investment as well as geographical proximity. The same three leaders discussed a free trade agreement when they met for their summit last year. This year, the language being used to describe their latest discussions seems more purposeful.
There have been some grandiose thoughts about creating an Asian equivalent of the European Union. That is a long way off, perhaps impossibly far off, but the three countries are the region’s three largest economies, collectively accounting for 16% of world GDP, so would be a formidable bloc just by dint of their economic size. Japan and South Korea are already China’s largest trade partners after the U.S. and the E.U., and delivering economic growth is a policy priority for the Party for all the well-rehearsed reasons of self-preservation. That is one reason that Beijing is doing what it can to ease tensions on the peninsula, to preserve stability in the region. Changing the economics of East Asia, and thus the interests of the free-trade participants, could change the politics of the peninsula more rapidly than the diplomats can.
There have been previous attempts to unite the nations of north-east Asia, some more ill-starred than others, of course. Some Japanese officials, and let’s go back no further than the 1980s, envisioned Asia’s economies flying like a skein of geese with their own country the lead bird. Regional economic cooperation has always been easier than political cooperation, as ASEAN attests, though even economic cooperation has been a hard slog for a set of economies of such varying size and stages of political and economic development. But Japan, China and South Korea, already tied closely by trade and investment as well as geographical proximity are talking seriously about creating a free trade pact.
The issue was discussed again this weekend at a meeting of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, new Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama and South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak. It is still a long way from an Asian equivalent of the European Union, as some envision, but as the three countries are the region’s three largest economies, collectively accounting for 16% of world GDP, they would anyway form the core. much as France, Germany and Benelux were the founding kernel of the EU. And in the interim, uniting China, Japan and South Korea under a free trade regime would be a considerable step towards expanding an alternative export market for Asian counties to the U.S. and an engine of global growth if U.S. consumers are going, as seems likely, to have a lengthy period of recovery from their recent excesses.
New Zealand has become the first developed nation to sign a free trade agreement with China.
From the NZ Foreign Ministry:
The free trade agreement aims to reduce barriers to and promote the further expansion of trade in goods, services and investment and will help New Zealand maintain competitiveness in the China market.
From the Xinhua report:
The New Zealand prime minister said the 2008 Olympics is an important opportunity for China to showcase its remarkable progress and new capabilities to the world. “New Zealand plans to send a large team to the Olympics and we hope the Games are a great success.”
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Dori Anne Tydingco Quenga, of Barrigada Heights, died June 23 at age 52.
Mass is being offered at 6 p.m. daily at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Agana Heights.
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The School of Music’s conducting program offers specialized training to a select group of advanced masters and doctoral students to develop skill as conductors for choral or instrumental ensembles at a professional level.
In addition to conducting lessons and mentoring, students take a full sequence of advanced coursework including ensemble literature, programming, music theory, music history, performance practice, choral diction or instrumental techniques, and pedagogy. This tailored course of study provides our students with the depth of knowledge necessary for a professional career as a conductor or a university-level instructor.
With three orchestras, three large choirs and two symphonic bands, in addition to numerous smaller performing ensembles, conducting students are assured ample podium time, serving as assistant or apprentice conductors for major performances in some cases. With a professional orchestra, opera company and choirs close at hand in Salt Lake City, students have frequent opportunities to attend local rehearsals and concerts in a musically-rich community.
DMA conducting student Claudia Restrepo...
...has been selected to participate in the Royal Northern College of Music Conducting Workshop this summer in Manchester, England.
The Maestros Hike!
Rob Baldwin and some his DMA conducting students had a nice hike up to Lake Solitude, where they talked about making space for musical interpretation, and then had a nice lunch afterwards at Silver Lake Lodge. See the photos on Facebook, here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152747336854806.1073741832.90370514805&type=1 | <urn:uuid:6ff9fabf-3936-40ca-9dcd-a0af54cc2e95> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://music.utah.edu/areas/conducting/index.php | 2015-07-06T11:20:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098196.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00189-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920014 | 332 | [
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WiBox Dual Port
Wireless Device Server for Wireless Networking
- Enables access to remote devices while minimizing costly cabling
- Provides network mobility for untethered communication
- Industry standard 802.11b/802.11g wireless interface
- Transparent communications - no need to develop special software
- Two DB9 DTE serial ports supporting RS-232, RS-422 or RS-485 communication
- Bulletproof wireless security with IEEE 802.11i-PSK,WPA-PSK, TKIP
- 256-bit AES – end-to-end encryption
- Ethernet or wireless communication
- Features TruPort® Com port control technology
- Product Overview
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Wirelessly Connect, Monitor, Manage and Control Devices Over a Network or the Internet
WiBox® dual port device servers enable you to connect equipment to 802.11b/g wireless networks via serial or Ethernet, quickly and easily. By merging wireless communications and Lantronix device server technology, WiBox simplifies connectivity to devices in applications where mobility is required or cabling is impractical.
Lantronix’s innovative approach to network-enabling devices is transparent to your attached devices and software. You won’t need to change the way you work, and there’s no need to develop special software to take advantage of wireless networking capabilities. The WiBox simply becomes a conduit between you and your device over your network or the Internet.
The flexibility and power of WiBox offers a huge cost-saving potential for a variety of commercial applications. Serial RS- 232/422/485 flexibility, Advanced security, robust data handling capabilities and high serial speeds are all built in. Using a method called serial tunneling, the WiBox encapsulates serial data into packets and transports it over 802.11b/g wireless networks. By connecting two WiBox units via a network, virtual serial connections can be extended across your facility or around the world.
The Com Port Redirector™ software included with your WiBox simplifies your integration process by extending the functionality of your COM port-based Windows® applications. With virtual COM ports mapped to remote device servers on the network, you can replace direct serial connections.
To enable access to a local network or the Internet, the WiBox integrates a fully developed TCP/IP network stack and OS. It even includes a built-in web server, which can be used for configuration or to display operating and troubleshooting information on the attached links to online support.
The DeviceInstaller™ configuration software that’s included simplifies installation and setup. WiBox can be set up locally through its serial port, or remotely over a network using DeviceInstaller Telnet or a web browser. Flash memory provides maintenance-free, non-volatile storage of web pages, and allows future system software upgrades.
In modem emulation mode, WiBox is used to replace dial-up modems. The unit accepts modem AT commands on the serial port, then establishes a network connection to the end device, leveraging wireless mobility and bandwidth to eliminate dedicated modems and phone lines.
If you’re looking for a transparent, cost-effective and scalable means to network-enable your serial devices, look no further than WiBox from Lantronix.
Total Com Port Control with TruPort Technology
Built into the included Com Port Redirector software, TruPort® technology enables Windows-based applications to access and control serial ports on the WiBox as if they were actually local PC serial ports. The application can monitor and set hardware pins on the WiBox serial ports as well as access serial buffers for total Com port control. This allows existing applications to seamlessly transition from controlling local devices to true remote monitoring and control of devices around the world.
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- Serial Port 1: RS-232
- Serial Port 2: RS-232/422/485 software selectable
- Data Rates: 300 to 921,600 bps
- Characters: 7 or 8 data bits
- Parity: Odd, even, none
- Stop Bits: 1 or 2
- Control Signals: RTS, CTS, DSR, DTR, DCD
- Flow Control: XON/XOFF, RTS/CTS ESD
- Protection: 4kv direct per port
- IEEE 802.11i - PSK with AES-CCMP Encryption
- WPA - PSK
- TKIP Encryption
- 128-256 Bit Rijndael AES Encryption, NIST AES FIPS-197 CERT#120
- 64/128-bit WEP
- Interface: WBX2100E - 802.11b/g
- Connector: WBX2100E - Antenna (RP-SMA)
- Standards: WPA, WEP, ARP, UDP/IP, TCP/IP, ICMP, SNMP, AutoIP, DHCP, TFTP, Telnet and HTTP
- 1 RJ45
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- Serial 1
- Serial 2
- CPU: DSTni-EX (enhanced 80186, 88 MHz)
- Memory: 256 Kbytes SRAM, 512 Kbytes flash
- Lantronix DeviceInstaller GUI, Serial login, SNMP, Telnet login, HTTP
- Security: WEP, WPA, TKIP
- Input: 9 - 30 VDC
- Consumption: 2 W max.
- AC adapter included (see ordering information below)
- Operating Temp. Range: -40° to 70°C
- Operating Humidity: 0 to 95%, non-condensing
- Storage Temp. Range: -40° to 85°C
- Material: Metal case with flange mount
- Dimensions (LxWxH): 94 x 72 x 23 mm (3.7 x 2.8 x .9 in)
- Weight: 0.4 kg (0.9 lbs)
- FCC-B, C/UL, CSA, CE, TUV, CTick, Japanese Radio Certification (Type Certification of Specified Radio Equipment)
- Dimensions (LxWxH): 9.5 x 7.2 x 13.97 cm (3.7 x 2.8 x 5.5 in.)
- Weight: 1.5 kg (3.0 lbs)
- Windows® 98/ME/NT/2000/XP-based configuration software, Com Port Redirector software, related utilities, Quick Start Guide.
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I'm writing a book, this is 40 odd pages from it. I hope you like it. Pass it on to your middle aged friends. It's on a pod if you are interested at http://www.sms.ac/GMDirec tory/Details.html?prodid= 17205 Thanks.
Does it? Im glad I'm 14 ;)
I liked this movie a lot, but I have one question: why is the guy naked on nearly every page? I guess it added to the humor. My favorite parts were the page where he was on the scale and it read: "fat bastard," the page where he said goodbye to a 28" waist, and the page where "every time you sneeze, a little furry animal is trying to get out of your nose."
Great work on this thing man. I haven't laughed like that in a while. This is so much better than many of the other flash's that have made the front page. I can't believe it didn't make a daily top 5. I am halfway there, so now I know exactly what I can look forward to in 2026. I'll be waiting for the next installment, should you decide to do one.
Does life really begin at 40? You tell me. It's a good flash, but why are all the images in bitmap format and not drawn in flash? Makes me wonder many things. It's quite stylish and the narrators sound is appealing and its quite funny so thats why I'm giving it a neat 7!
Oh they are bitmap because I'm illustrating it for a book. I think it gives it a raw quality. :o)
It was pretty funny. I, personally, have no experience with being forty, so I wouldn't know if everything you said was true, but it was pretty good. I think that your voice really stressed the point, and added a lot to the experience, though from time to time you were a little hard to understand.
Anyway, the whole thing was pretty good, I'd have to say that the very last line was one of the best.
ITs just hilarious...and so true! You deserve some gardening vouchers for christmas (one thing you missed out)
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[Haskell-cafe] Strings in Haskell
mutjida at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 19:34:06 EST 2007
On 1/23/07, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> Tim Docker wrote:
> > I'm not aware of any ongoing haskell work in finance, other that
> > some private work being done by Alain Cremieux, reported in the HCAR.
> Lennart Augustsson works for Credit Suisse, using a Haskell DSEL to
> generate financial models for execution by clusters running Excel.
> (This I gleaned from him in IRC the other day; apologies to Lennart if I
> misremember the specifics.)
> I believe that Goldman Sachs might be using Haskell, too, but I don't
> know for sure (they have at least one ex-Yale FRP person, at any rate).
> Wall Street has long had a fondness for esoteric technologies (APL,
> Linda, you name it). I'm sure there are more Haskell users lurking
> there somewhere.
I work at Deutsche Bank. I am using Haskell to manage several
databases, using HDBC and HAppS, and do some data mining and (light)
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As I write this, I’m preparing for a two-week trip to South America with my family (packing my bags now). By the time you read this, I hope to be relaxing and enjoying the opportunity to reconnect and recharge.
But first some last words for the year…
It’s hard to believe the South Florida Law Blog is now approaching its one-year anniversary!
When Oppenheim Law unveiled the South Florida Law Blog, not even my own wife, kids, sibling or in-laws would subscribe. When I wrote, it seemed only to be for the invisible search engines that provide little substantive feedback.
But slowly, ever so slowly, YOU started subscribing. Oppenheim Law’s early readers commented frequently, as did our Facebook fans. You all pushed our Florida foreclosure defense team, supported Oppenheim Law and gave me more encouragement than I ever deserved or expected. In fact, it was never me that propelled the blog but the cutting-edge subject matter and helpful content. Now we have thousands of online subscribers and it’s growing every day.
Throughout 2009, Oppenheim Law found ways for families facing Florida foreclosure to stay in their homes, even against the most improbable odds. My recent appointment by the Florida Bar to a committee that addresses Florida foreclosure-related issues is a testament to the collective efforts of Oppenheim Law’s foreclosure defense team. At first, our foreclosure defense attorneys considered ourselves the underdog. But now, with so many other attorneys emulating Oppenheim Law’s tactics, the playing field is becoming a little more balanced.
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The history of haze machines is a bit foggy, but it seems that Reel EFX DF-50 haze machines have been around since Juliet first uttered to Romeo, “Wherefore art thou Romeo? I dost not see thee through yonder haze.”It wasn’t until much later, when the Beatles wrote about their independence vanishing in the haze, that it was brought to the concert stages. But it was Jimi Hendrix who galvanized the industry when he summarized a lighting scene with crisscrossing beams of ACLs using Lee 181 on a haze-filled stage by singing, “Purple haze all in my brain.” In between, the technology has not changed dramatically.
That could all change in the near future. Up until now, control systems have been one-way (unidirectional) commands sent to a machine to control the on/off, duration, and sometimes the intensity of the output and possibly the fan speed. But factor in a two-way (bidirectional) control system and the entire game changes.
Think of the possibilities. Not only can we send commands to a machine but we can also monitor everything about the machine — fluid level, temperature, voltage, current, and more. Then the operator could anticipate problems before they are manifested as a loss of interference medium on stage. Add some fog or haze sensors and now the system becomes a self-regulating environment with operator monitoring and intervention.
The good news is that the technology now exists. By using RDM (E1.20: Remote Device Management Over DMX512 Networks) the two-way communication is accomplished and anything that can be configured on the machine can be done at the console, anything that can be monitored electronically can be reported back to the operator, and anything that can be accessorized can be made to be RDM-enabled. For a fog or haze manufacturer to take a particle sensor and convert it to a fog or haze sensor may not be trivial but it’s as close as it gets.
RDM-enabled fog and haze machines are only starting to find their place in the market. But the first time Coldplay or Radiohead sings about how a tech didn’t have to climb the truss to refill the reservoir in a haze machine because the operator was monitoring the fluid level before the show started, then every manufacturer will rush to add RDM capability to their machines.
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“Deron will not be signing the extension,” Jeff Schwartz told The Record this afternoon. “Based on the new rules it doesn’t make any sense for him to sign the extension. It has nothing to do with how much he likes New Jersey. Because of the rules, he’s going to play the season out and opt out of his deal.”
So much for the dream of Williams loving life on the East Coast and attempting to lure Dwight Howard to the Nets.
Remember when everyone hailed Nets’ owner Mikhail Prokhorov as wise for not over-paying for Carmelo Anthony (the Knicks did) and then swooping in to land Williams? Well, it’s looking like Prokhorov took a big risk and it didn’t pan out. He gave up 2010 1st round draft pick Derrick Favors and two future 1st round draft picks in the deal for Williams. And in return he gets … zip.
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The number of ponies aligned at the start line equal 2,020. All three vehicles are producing individually between 400 and 560 horsepower.
While the BMW M5 and Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG send the power to the rear-wheels, the Porsche Panamera S is an all-wheel drive vehicle.
The Panamera S boasts a twin-turbocharged 4.8-liter V8 with 400 horsepower, clearly the non-favorite here and we wish they would have used the Turbo version and its 550 ponies.
Mercedes-Benz uses a new 5.5-liter V8 biturbo engine instead of the old naturally-aspirated 6.2 liter unit. With the AMG performance package, the E63 outputs 557 horsepower and 590 lb-of torque. The F10 M5 uses a high-revving 4.4-liter (4395cc) turbocharged engine with 560 horsepower from 5,750-7,000 rpm and 502 lb-ft of torque from only 1500rpm.
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Several conservative media figures who have repeatedly spread falsehoods and smears of President Obama are now highlighting a poll analysis to suggest that Obama has polarized approval ratings, and have made the disputed suggestion that Obama himself has caused that polarization.
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Recently, several conservative media figures have cited an April 2 Pew Research Center poll analysis to suggest that a March 9-12 Pew Research poll found that President Obama "has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades." Several of those media figures have also made the disputed suggestion that Obama has caused that polarization. These same media figures have repeatedly spread falsehoods about and smears of Obama and his policies. According to Washington Post Co. blogger Greg Sargent, Michael Dimock, an associate director at the Pew Research Center, stated that it is a misreading of the poll on which the analysis is based to conclude that Obama has "caused this divisiveness." Sargent further reported that "Dimock also said this phenomenon is partly caused by the recent tendency of Republicans to be less charitable towards new Presidents than Dem[ocrat]s have been."
Media figures who cited the Pew poll analysis, and who have a history of misrepresenting Obama and his policies, include:
- On the April 7 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough claimed that the Pew poll analysis "said [Obama] split the country more than any president in modern history." Scarborough later added, "It's more divisive than ever. I think there is a great separation between the personal affection and trust people have for Barack Obama and these policies. You have Joe Biden trying to push these policies -- they would put him in a penitentiary somewhere."
- During the April 6 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs claimed, "Turning to political news, there's hard evidence tonight that President Obama is a more polarizing president than any other over the past four decades."
- In an April 8 Wall Street Journal column, Karl Rove wrote, "Part of Mr. Obama's polarized standing can be attributed to a long-term trend," but asserted that "rather than end or ameliorate that trend, Mr. Obama's actions and rhetoric have accelerated it."
- During the April 9 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly claimed that "the president has polarized Americans. Eighty-eight percent of Democrats approve, but only 27 percent of Republicans like the job he's doing."
Prior to highlighting the Pew poll analysis, Scarborough, Dobbs, Rove, and O'Reilly each misrepresented Obama's positions and those taken by his administration in a way that would arguably polarize people's views of Obama:
- During the March 23 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough falsely claimed that Obama is "trying to pass budgets" that his own "budget director says [are] unsustainable." In fact, asked during a March 20 conference call about the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) projection that deficits would "remain between 4 percent and 6 percent of GDP" from 2012-2019 under Obama's budget, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Peter Orszag said that deficits in the "5 percent of GDP range ... would ultimately not be sustainable" but also said: "I think that what you're going to see, again, under our assumptions, our policies lead to lower deficits than that." Moreover, in a March 20 blog post on the OMB website, Orszag specifically said that "[t]he President's Budget," if enacted, would "put the nation on a sustainable fiscal path."
- During the March 24 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough advanced the myth that Obama was the "most liberal" United States senator.
- During the February 27 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough asserted that nations "are testing Barack Obama in a way ... that they wouldn't have tested Dick Cheney," citing as examples Iran "g[etting] the uranium they need," "North Korea going ahead with this long-range missile launch," and Pakistan "strik[ing] a deal with the Taliban." Scarborough later said, "You've got the situation where you've got hard-liners like George Bush and Dick Cheney out of the office, that's one reason they test him." However, during Cheney's two terms as vice president in the Bush administration, Iran enriched uranium, North Korea tested missiles and reportedly detonated a nuclear bomb, and Pakistan negotiated a cease-fire with tribal leaders that the Bush administration reportedly pointed to in explaining the resurgence of Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
- During the March 6 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough aired a cropped graphic, labeled "Dow Since Election Day," and stated: "[W]e've also been frustrated about the lack of clarity out of the Treasury Department. We've been showing graphics of the Dow Jones just collapsing since Barack Obama's election." In fact, as Media Matters for America has documented, the Dow was on a downward trajectory months before the election, dropping 3,738 points from May 2, 2008, to November 3, 2008.
- During the March 9 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough claimed that Obama has "cho[sen] this time to nationalize health care with a $635 billion down payment." Scarborough's assertion that Obama would "nationalize health care" echoed Sen. John McCain's false characterization of Obama's health care proposal during the 2008 presidential campaign.
- During the February 3 edition of Morning Joe, while attacking the economic recovery package, Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski misrepresented New Deal unemployment figures to argue that government spending does not boost employment. Scarborough cherry-picked unemployment data to claim that unemployment was at "20 percent" in 1938, a conservative tactic used to ignore the downward trend in unemployment that occurred under the New Deal.
- During the March 20 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough declared, "Socialism is hard. ... You want to socialize entire sectors, and you can't even get people to work in the Treasury Department."
- During the February 2 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough claimed of the economic recovery bill: "This is as close to unprecedented of a total, all-out, socialist bill as I've ever seen in my life."
- During the March 4 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough discussed America "moving ... closer to European-style socialism," and claimed, "That's not a right-wing claim, it's the truth."
- During the March 19 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough agreed with the assertion,"We have 535 Hugo Chavezes out on Capitol Hill, and one in the White House."
- On the March 24 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, Dobbs stated that in proposing that Congress enact legislation allowing the federal government to take over failing nonbank financial institutions, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had "made a pitch for even more power, expanded, unprecedented power that would allow the government to virtually shut down failing financial companies, such as AIG." In fact, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) chairman Sheila Bair -- both Bush appointees -- previously stated that the federal government needed and should have such power.
- During the February 17 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, Dobbs falsely claimed, "President Obama sign[ed] a $800 billion stimulus package that we now know will come to about $3 trillion with debt servicing over the next decade," echoing a false claim that the CBO estimated that the full cost of the bill would reach $3.2 trillion by 2019. In fact, more than half of the $3.2 trillion figure comes from the cost of permanently extending more than 20 provisions in the recovery bill, which the bill does not do.
- Echoing a frequent Republican talking point during the February 3 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, Dobbs claimed that in the House-passed economic recovery bill, "There's more than $4 billion for so-called neighbor -- are you ready, neighborhood stabilization activities -- $4 billion, which translates into funding for so-called advocacy groups such as ACORN -- ACORN, the left-wing advocacy group. That organization and its voter-registration drives are under investigation in more than a dozen states." In fact, the recovery bill does not mention ACORN or otherwise single it out for funding; ACORN itself has said that it is ineligible for the funds and has no plans to apply for them. Dobbs repeated the claim during the February 4 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight.
- On the January 20 broadcast of United Stations Radio Networks' The Lou Dobbs Show, Dobbs claimed that Obama's "inaugural celebration from start to finish will cost an estimated $170 million, and that dwarfs the $42 million spent on George Bush's inauguration just four years ago," thereby joining a growing list of media figures who have repeated a false comparison between projections of the cost of Obama's inauguration and estimates of the cost of Bush's 2005 ceremony and surrounding events. The figure given by Dobbs and other media figures for the cost of Bush's last inauguration excludes security, transportation, and other incidental costs to federal, state, and local governments, as Media Matters Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert noted.
- On the April 2 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly asked, "Is President Obama selling out America? That is the subject of this evening's 'Talking Points Memo.' " O'Reilly later added, "Key question: Where does Barack Obama stand? Are the right-wing pundits correct? Is he down with the global-justice jihad?"
- On the March 4 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly misrepresented comments Obama made to characterize Obama as dishonest. O'Reilly aired a clip of Obama stating, "We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review," which O'Reilly falsely characterized as "President Obama pledging last January to end earmarks in federal spending." Later in the show, referring to earmarks included in the omnibus appropriations bill, O'Reilly stated, "But Obama's on record -- we just played the clip -- that he's going to do away with this. And then he takes 9,000 of them and signs it?" In fact, in the January 6 clip O'Reilly played, Obama was referring to his desire to "ban all earmarks" from his "recovery and reinvestment plan," which he specifically distinguished from "the overall budget process."
- During the April 6 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Rove claimed of Obama's trip to Europe: "European leaders must be looking at him saying, 'What the heck is going on?' " because Obama mentioned his predecessor, and that "at times this kind of rhetoric puts him into a place where he seems to be running down the United States of America."
- On the March 26 edition of Hannity, Rove accused Obama of having put forward a "radical budget," that "Obama wanted the country to turn to the issue of green jobs, education, health care, and instead, people are looking at these huge deficits and the huge power grab and the huge spending, and saying, really, what I'm concerned about is taxes, deficit, and spending. And he's succeeded in putting the agenda back on to terms that are -- that are more convenient and comfortable for conservatives, and he's done so through a very radical budget." But in response to such claims, Obama has repeatedly raised the argument that health-care reform is essential to the long-term economic health of the country.
- On the March 1 broadcast of ABC's This Week, Rove echoed House Republicans' distortion of research by White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) chairwoman Christine Romer and her husband in claiming that the GOP's alternative stimulus bill "produced 50 percent more jobs at half the cost" of President Obama's economic recovery plan. Rove claimed: "[T]he House Republicans took their plan and ran it through the Obama chairman of the economic advisers' econometric model -- Romer. And it produced 50 percent more jobs at half the cost, according to the economic model used by the Obama White House." As the blog Think Progress noted, according to the White House, "Romer's view is that the House analysis is absolutely incorrect" and "the plan the President supports would result in substantially greater job creation than the House Republican plan."
- In his February 5 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Rove also echoed the myth that the economic recovery bill directed funds to ACORN, writing of the House-passed economic recovery bill: "And it should not shock Americans that Democratic appropriators would funnel tax dollars to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now."
- During the January 23 broadcast of Hannity, Rove falsely asserted that "[t]he Army Field Manual, for example, prohibits you from using good cop-bad cop in interrogating." Rove made the false claim while discussing Obama's January 22 executive order stating that a detainee in U.S. custody or control "shall not be subjected to any interrogation technique or approach, or any treatment related to interrogation, that is not authorized by and listed in Army Field Manual 2 22.3 (Manual)." In fact, the Army Field Manual explicitly permits good cop-bad cop interrogations under the name of "Mutt and Jeff" interrogations, which involve two interrogators "display[ing] opposing personalities and attitudes toward the source."
From Rove's April 8 Wall Street Journal column:
The Pew Research Center reported last week that President Barack Obama "has the most polarized early job approval of any president" since surveys began tracking this 40 years ago. The gap between Mr. Obama's approval rating among Democrats (88%) and Republicans (27%) is 61 points. This "approval gap" is 10 points bigger than George W. Bush's at this point in his presidency, despite Mr. Bush winning a bitterly contested election.
Part of Mr. Obama's polarized standing can be attributed to a long-term trend. University of Missouri political scientist John Petrocik points out that since 1980, each successive first term president has had more polarized support than his predecessor with the exception of 1989, when George H.W. Bush enjoyed a modest improvement over Ronald Reagan's 1981 standing.
But rather than end or ameliorate that trend, Mr. Obama's actions and rhetoric have accelerated it. His campaign promised post-partisanship, but since taking office Mr. Obama has frozen Republicans out of the deliberative process, and his response to their suggestions has been a brusque dismissal that "I won."
From the April 6 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight:
DOBBS: Turning to political news, there's hard evidence tonight that President Obama is a more polarizing president than any other over the past four decades. Polling data compiled by Pew Research shows a 61-percent gap between Democratic and Republican support for the president. The president has 88-percent support among Democrats; only 27-percent support among Republicans. And our latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows an even larger spread: 65 percent between Democratic and Republican support.
The poll shows 95 percent of Democrats support the president; 30 percent of Republicans support him.
From the April 9 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. Can the Republicans find a leader? And that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo."
Writing in The Wall Street Journal today, Karl Rove points out that President Obama's job-approval rating among independents has dropped nine points in a month to 52 percent. Also, the president has polarized Americans. Eighty-eight percent of Democrats approve, but only 27 percent of Republicans like the job he's doing. That gap is 10 points larger than the one President Bush had coming off the controversial election of 2000.
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Hey guys, how's the family doing :)? I found this Belgie Belgium 25 Centimes coin out of a lot I bought off eBay.
Upon looking up the prices using the Krause Catelog, I realized that there's two types for the date 1922. Mine happens to have a 1 on one of its stars (kinda reminds me of the Spanish Peseta coins). Would it be the 1922/1 Type? Please let me know! I'd appreciate if you'd include a grade :) Thank you SO much guys for helping me out, I truly appreciate it! | <urn:uuid:2853fce7-bc69-4d4f-b2ae-7c0656e9732d> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=111192 | 2015-07-06T17:51:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098685.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00259-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954805 | 117 | [
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5 Healthy Holiday Recipes
This Cheesy Asparagus Soufflé is a healthy side dish that has protein from the vegetables and cheese.
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Recipe of the day
The holidays are around the corner. Temptations to indulge run high during this time with so many unhealthy food options that surround us.
So, is it possible to eat healthy during the holidays? Kelly Jones, a clinic director at Medithin, shares three healthy holiday eating tips. Jones specializes in personal training and healthy eating. Her tips include:
Protein and Water
Don’t go anywhere overly hungry. You are bound to eat everything in sight. Rather, eating a protein snack and drinking some water can prevent this. Your stomach won’t be as hungry, so you’re more likely to limit yourself.
To-Go Side Dishes
Always take with you some side dishes. Whether it be a fruit or granola bar, having your own options is always better that having to eat what’s given to you. This way you are in control of what you are eating, making you less likely to eat anything unnecessary.
Don’t vs. Can’t
Jones says thinking in the mindset of don’t instead of can’t is better. She believes it “focuses on the healthy food choices and creates a positive reinforcement on your choices.” Even thinking about or imagining yourself making the better choice will give you the confidence and support to continue the healthy streak.
That piece of pumpkin pie, big bowl of pasta, and buttery mashed potatoes are high in calories and fat. You’re bound to feel uncomfortable after eating these foods. Learn how to avoid these foods and make healthier choices with some simple healthy eating tips and recipes.
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Last week I had a chance to present at the Aspen Challenge in Denver to a group of high school students that had been selected for a unique opportunity. As teams, they would be challenged to have an impact in their schools and their communities on critical issues, and through the course of a two day conference, they would received the encouragement, skills and inspiration that would set them on their way. I was there for added inspiration, and there is almost nothing I have done that I found more intimidating than trying to inspire a room full of hungry high school students, since my talk was scheduled right before lunch and just after three hours of presentations by some of the most inspiring speakers I’ve ever seen.
So I had no trouble imagining how some of these high school students might feel, being asked to generate something great and not knowing exactly where to begin. So I talked about how I began, and I focused on where I had found that being confused, angry, or afraid had often helped me find my way to do something that mattered to me, and that helped me figure out who I was. It was so meta, as I was in the middle of doing something that I was asking them all to do. And it worked – if not for them, then for me.
As a result of participating in the Aspen Challenge, I was reminded that every potentially great moment starts with a little moment of fear and uncertainty. I feel renewed in my desire to push myself into uncomfortable places, places of uncertainty, and to recognize, as Rilke said, that first we must live the questions, experience everything, and the answers come much later, almost as if by accident. In practical terms, this is a great way to stat the year in a new role, focused 100% on developing creative new partnerships for Acumen. Feel free to watch the talk – it covers my story, Acumen’s work, and our leaderships philosophy, and an exhortation to keep challenging ourselves to do a little more than we think we can, and to find that community that makes it safe to take a risk.
I will have a chance to see what these students do next, what challenges they take on, and which ones successfully pitch their ideas and get to present them at the Aspen Ideas Fest. I have no doubt they will continue to inspire me, in large part by reminding me that it is never too soon (or apparently too late) to take a chance and try to change the world. | <urn:uuid:8c97c9da-4dff-4968-885b-5d6fc89b2a42> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | https://yasminazaidman.wordpress.com/ | 2015-07-06T17:46:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098685.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00259-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988776 | 506 | [
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The story of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong gets exhaustive and penetrating documentary treatment in Alex Gibney's latest.
The disgraced hero at the center of one of the most compelling rise-and-fall narratives in recent years gets exhaustive and penetrating documentary treatment in “The Armstrong Lie.” Focusing primarily on the past four years of Lance Armstrong’s life — from his 2009 post-retirement comeback bid to his recent admission that he had used performance-enhancing drugs, despite vehement denials over the course of his extraordinary career — director Alex Gibney delivers not just a detailed, full-access account of his subject, in all his defiance, hubris and tentative self-reckoning, but also a layered inquiry into the culture of competitiveness, celebrity, moral relativism and hypocrisy that helped enable and sustain his deception. Although unlikely to match the TV audience for Armstrong’s revelatory interview with Oprah Winfrey in January, this authoritative and well-timed Sony Classics release should easily become one of Gibney’s more widely seen efforts.
Gibney began filming Armstrong in 2008 as he prepared to make a splashy return to competitive cycling after having retired three years earlier. But what might have once been a largely admiring, celebratory documentary was derailed by the re-emergence of doping allegations that had persistently plagued the fabled athlete; investigations by federal prosecutors and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency led to his eventual public confession and downfall. The result is a much more critical, sobering and, naturally, fascinating film about a figure who had seemingly overcome the worst kind of adversity and achieved miraculous success on the basis of talent and commitment alone.
Using the Winfrey interview to set the stage, Gibney pulls back to recount Armstrong’s astounding story, from the testicular cancer that left him with a less-than-50% chance of survival in 1996, to the seven consecutive Tour de France victories (1999-2005) that cemented his standing as one of the world’s greatest athletes. One of the key ironies here is that Armstrong’s secret might never have been publicly exposed had he been content to stay retired: It was his second grab at the spotlight that re-energized his critics and angered the numerous cyclists who had themselves been busted for doping, many of them former teammates who had firsthand knowledge of Armstrong’s own use of EPO, testosterone, human growth hormone, cortisone and blood transfusions to boost his performance over the years.
Those who eventually testified against Armstrong (and are interviewed here) include George Hincapie, his best friend and regular cycling domestique, and Frankie Andreu, who along with his wife, Betsy, said they overheard Armstrong disclose his use of performance-enhancing drugs to cancer doctors in 1996, a claim he still denies. Apart from author Dan Coyle, who offers withering assessments of Armstrong’s legacy, Betsy Andreu emerges as the film’s most forceful and outspoken presence, leading the charge against the most famous figure in a sport whose reputation and other participants were irreversibly damaged by his actions.
Another key figure granted significant screentime here is Michele Ferrari, the Italian sports doctor whose obsession with pushing the human body to and beyond its physical limits led him to devise the most advanced and sophisticated performance-enhancing drugs available, using Armstrong as guinea pig and the Tour de France as a regular testing ground. One of the most essential aspects of Gibney’s film — and what distinguishes it from the average primetime interview — is the scientific acuity of his research, explaining how EPO increases endurance by stimulating red-blood cell production, an effect that can also be achieved through the more grisly route of a blood transfusion (which Armstrong and Ferrari also experimented with).
The effect of these details is to expose the surprising degree to which Armstrong was able to calculate his own narrative, belying the against-the-odds inspirationalism that has generally accompanied its telling. “This is not a story about doping; it’s a story about power,” one interviewee shrewdly notes, and “The Armstrong Lie” zeroes in on the cynical realities of a sport where victory falls to those with the best medical and financial resources, and where the lure of sponsorships, massive publicity and millions of dollars in cancer-fighting research can encourage even the head of the Intl. Cycling Union to look the other way. The film also taps into the warped mentality of a professional sport where everyone of consequence is assumed to be doping under a code of collective silence, making it easy enough for a cheater to convince himself he isn’t gaining an unfair advantage so much as staying competitive.
Questions still linger about the degree to which Armstrong was doping, if at all, during his comeback attempt, and the docu devotes considerable time to the fateful 2009 Tour de France, in which he overcame grueling setbacks to achieve a hard-won third-place victory. (He was beaten by Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, who was himself later busted for doping, and who is lightly described here as a younger incarnation of Armstrong himself.) In its second half, the film toggles between a 2009 interview with a still-defensive, cocksure Armstrong and a 2013 sitdown in which he appears suitably chastened and forthright, if not as effusively confessional and apologetic as some may demand. The final passages leave us with the haunting impression that it can be awfully lonely at the top, and even more so at the bottom.
Technical assembly is outstanding. One of the film’s chief pleasures is the ample coverage it affords the act of cycling itself via the scenic and well-edited Tour de France footage, a reminder that this sport, however compromised, remains a remarkable human undertaking. In a personal touch that befits a documentary in which he became more personally invested than usual, Gibney handles the narration duties himself.
Venice Film Review: 'The Armstrong Lie'
Reviewed at Venice Film Festival (noncompeting), Sept. 2, 2013. (Also in Toronto Film Festival — Special Presentations.)
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Directed, written by Alex Gibney. Camera (color), Maryse Alberti; editors, Andy Grieve, Tim Squyres; music, David Kahne; music supervisor, John McCullough; associate producers, Brett Banks, Nicoletta Billi.
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We welcome Cypriot and Mediterranean function enquiries to Beales Hotel – the stunning Buckland Suite with sprung dance floor, stage, and space for well over 200 guests is ideal for your needs, and we are happy to quote for drinks inclusive packages.
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June 26, 2012
Discover 18th-century Williamsburg with 21st-century Technology
Technology now enables Colonial Williamsburg’s guests to access the new mobile map app, Colonial Williamsburg Explorer; obtain an alias for this summer’s newest alternate reality game, “RevQuest: The Lion and the Unicorn”; and meet British colonists as they became Americans on the eve of the American Revolution.
“Technology helps vacation planners better understand all we offer, and makes booking a trip easier,” said Sean Rooks, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of the digital guest experience. “Colonial Williamsburg’s Explorer, our new mobile app, and our new website, which launched on June 19, are both designed to meet and support these goals. The QR codes we are adding to exhibitions at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and the marriage of a texting, digital and onsite learning in our RevQuest alternate reality games reflect changing learning styles and support a more interactive guest experience.”
Explorer App: You Are Here
For guests who get lost in the 18th century or who are simply looking for what’s going on in the Revolutionary City, the new interactive Colonial Williamsburg’s Explorer app leads the way. This free mobile map app is for iPhone, iPad and Android. The interactive guide to the Colonial Williamsburg Resort and The Revolutionary City lists the places guests can explore with their admission ticket. By clicking on the “Sites” button, guests can locate historic sites, historic trades, museums, tickets and information, dining, hotels, shopping, recreation, refreshments, even restrooms, bus stops and parking lots. The “Tours” tab lists self-guided walking tours including the First Visit Tour and the Colonial Trades Tour. On mobile devices, guests click “Locate” to see their current position.
The Explorer app can be downloaded from Google Play at https://play.google.com/ and on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/colonial-williamsburgs-explorer/id517285828?mt=8.
What’s Your Spy Name?
In their mission to save the cause of American liberty, players need a secret name to help protect their real identity. To reveal a spy name for “RevQuest: The Lion and the Unicorn,” players enter their name online, hit submit and their spy name is revealed on the computer screen.
Guests can try it at http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/visit/summer/spy-central.html.
RevQuest: The Lion and the Unicorn
Guests then use this alias to play an all-new online/onsite alternate reality game designed to enhance and expand a visit to the Revolutionary City this summer. Running through Sept. 3, “RevQuest: The Lion and the Unicorn” immerses participants in the world of 18th-century espionage as they race to protect the identity of a crucial patriot spy on the eve of the Battle of Yorktown. Based on actual events and real people, the game challenges Questors as never before to break codes and avoid detection as they navigate their way online and through The Revolutionary City to save the cause of American liberty. During the game, participants use text messaging to send in clues and receive responses that guide them through the mission.
The game begins online where, through a series of graphic art episodes and online puzzles, players are introduced to the Revolutionary people and events that set the stage. If Questors successfully solve the series of four online clues and text in the final answer, they will receive a helpful hint that provides an advantage when playing onsite. Players may begin the game online by visiting: http://research.history.org/lion_and_unicorn/.
The Revolutionary City
In Revolutionary City, guests become a part of the two-day saga as the city comes alive to depict the days, months and years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. Guests choose to follow one of four very different people in the 18th-century capital of Virginia online at http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/visit/summer/the-revolutionary-city.html. Loyalist printer William Hunter opposes American independence. James Monroe, who now is a student at the College of William and Mary, is trying to raise a regiment to fight in the war. Betsy Randolph, the wife of an ardent patriot, discovers the challenges of beginning a family on the eve of the American Revolution. Forced to make personal decisions about their loyalties, these people and many more confront the complicated world of a community on the edge of war. Guests meet these patriots and loyalists, and follow them as the city comes to life with the stories, conflicts and perseverance of the 18th century.
A visit to the Foundation’s new website, http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/summer, starts the guest experience. The website features upcoming summer programs including Live After 5, Fun Zone, Summer Fun packages and July Fourth activities.
The Estelle and Harold Tanner Endowment for Technology in the Historic Area, established by Colonial Williamsburg Senior Trustee Estelle (Nicki) Tanner and her husband Harold of Scarsdale, N.Y., helps provide support for new initiatives such as “RevQuest: The Lion and the Unicorn.”
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is the not-for-profit educational and cultural organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation and presentation of the restored 18th-century Revolutionary capital of Virginia. This town-sized living history museum tells the inspirational stories of our journey to become Americans through programs in the Historic Area and through the award-winning Revolutionary City program. Explore The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and discover the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum featuring the best in British and American decorative arts from 1670 – 1830 and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum home to the nation’s premier collection of American folk art, comprising more than 5,000 folk art objects made during the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Colonial Williamsburg is committed to expanding its thought-provoking programming through education outreach on-site and online. Purchase of Colonial Williamsburg products and services supports the preservation, research and educational programs of the Foundation. Philanthropic support by individuals, corporations, and foundations benefits the educational mission of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Williamsburg is located in Virginia’s Tidewater region, 20 minutes from Newport News, within an hour’s drive of Richmond and Norfolk, and 150 miles south of Washington, D.C. For more information about Colonial Williamsburg, call 1-800-HISTORY or visit Colonial Williamsburg’s website at www.history.org. | <urn:uuid:0151a265-fd4d-457c-84a9-ec96280e2652> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/foundation/press_release/displayPressRelease.cfm?pressReleaseId=2075 | 2015-06-30T14:28:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375093974.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031813-00199-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924475 | 1,417 | [
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My inspiration for writing OTOLI came from several sources: my children’s experiences of bullying, some of my pupils’ social awkwardness and my own feelings of ‘not quite fitting in’ both as a child and now. Writing OTOLI was cathartic, and I hope that will be the same for my readers who have been on the outside, looking in on society! OTOLI was originally created as a novella but following great feedback by a couple of readers critique sites many had commented that they wanted more from the characters so I adjusted the book to the point that it grew to the realms of the novel in terms of it's word count. The revised book in its novel guise was published by UK Independent publisher, Pneuma Springs (released 28th April 2011). I dearly hope the story will encourage more reading amongst the teenage age group, especially the reluctant reader. I also hope that all that read the book will take on it's messages but at the same same enjoy the gripping and entertaining read.
OTOLI also came about as an antidote to books about dysfunctional families. That is not a criticism as most of those books are well-written, well-loved and they satisfy a need for some suffering readers. However, I feel that the young adult market needs to keep exploring new avenues; hence the idea of the paranormal manipulating real life. Please enjoy the reading sample and book video trailer loaded here. | <urn:uuid:ec0517d3-f814-46da-a601-aa6cf5cebb05> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.freado.com/book/story/9650/otoli | 2015-06-30T14:25:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375093974.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031813-00199-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980132 | 294 | [
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Forestville Pioneer Social Club
The Forestville Pioneer Social Club met on April 7 with Ruth Kuehn presiding. Judy Hahn led the Pledge of Allegiance, and the opening prayer was given by Norma Steward. Roll call was answered by 19 members.
The secretary's report was read by Peg Heiden, and a motion to accept was made by Hahn and Jane Penhollow.
Arlene Miller gave the treasurer's report and a motion to accept was made by Enebel Mirando and Gertie Syper.
"Happy Birthday" was sung for the April birthdays of Toni Arcara, Grace Hall and Marge Youngberg.
Sunshine Gal Heiden sent sympathy cards to Vicky Stelmack, Marge Best and the family of Marjorie Hock, and a "thinking of you" card to Norma Youngberg.
Winners of the lunch tickets were Henry Kuzora and Syper. The 50/50 winners were Mirando and Wilma Crowell. The Riles & Woolley award was won by Carol Pierce.
Members were reminded to bring things for the Dollar Table. Also, the United Senior Council meeting is April 10 in Forestville.
It was voted to give an award to a Forestville High School graduate with the third highest grade average.
A thank you letter was read from England for the coupons the group has sent to help out military families.
The refreshment committee for the May 5 meeting will be Theresa Latshaw, Angie Logan, and Mirando.
A motion to adjourn was made by Nancy Wilson.
Share & Care
The Share & Care Senior board met on April 1.
Secretary Margaret Larson read the December minutes, which were approved.
The treasurer's report by Rose Cerrie was approved.
Sue Walsh advised the board that she is resigning from her duties of keeping memorial records for Share & Care due to health problems. She will continue as an honorary inactive member of the board.
The president suggested two dinner parties per year, one in May and one in September. The winter months will be eliminated.
The first dinner party will be held on Saturday, May 24 at St. Joseph's School on Main Street in Fredonia. Details will be worked on. Reservations can be made by calling Rose Cerrie 679-4386 or Phyllis Laurito 679-1060.
No dues will be collected at this time.
Birdie Walczak reported her pinochle group is doing very well and thanked the Beaver Club for the use of the building.
The next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 6.
Sinclairville Senior Citizens
The Sinclairville Senior Citizens met recently in the Sinclairville Firehall dining room for a luncheon and auction. President Margie McIntyre welcomed everyone prior to the fine luncheon. Pastor Philip Shay gave the blessing remembering the many who are standing in need.
Festive table decorations were provided by Linda Parmenter, Diane Shaw, and John and Susan Sipos.
Following the lunch, McIntyre led all in the Lord's Prayer and the pledge of allegiance. A brief business meeting was held. Minutes of the previous meeting were by secretary John Sipos and a financial report was by treasurer Charles Sylvester.
Shaw showed some of the weaving which she had been creating. John Sipos talked about some of his journals, and the old hat presented to him by the group 10 years ago. Susan Sipos talked about the Facebook site which was created for the historical society and showed a notebook of photographs on the Facebook.
Jim Odell was in charge of drawings, and recipients included Susan Sipos, Shaw, Marian Culver, Louisa Smith, Sherry Shay, Bonnie Larkin, John Sipos, Betty Wielgasz, and Beverly Higgs.
Wielgasz is the sunshine chairman in charge of cards for special events. Happy birthday was sung for Shaw who had a birthday during the month. Diman Smith talked about a special project of replacing American flags in the area in which the group may participate
The main event of the day was the annual auction enjoyed by the group. Well-known auctioneer Elaine Palmer-Titus took charge of the auction. The first set of Easter items was shown, and then the competitive bidding began. Odell raised his left hand immediately, followed by a bid by Mrs. Shay who was standing, and the bidding was completed with the item being awarded to high bidder Pastor Shay. Many items were then auctioned, and those in attendance went home with some special treasures. High bidder for the day was Mrs. Wielgasz.
The next luncheon for the group will be held May 13 in the Sinclairville Firehall dining room at noon. All those attending are asked to bring a dish of food to pass and their own table service. Table decorations will be provided. New members are always welcome.
Annual Westfield Senior Citizen's Day Dinner
Thursday, April 24 has been chosen for the annual Westfield Senior Citizen's Day Dinner sponsored by the Westfield Recreation Department. This event will be held at the United Methodist Church on Main Street. Serving will begin at 6:00 p.m. On the menu: Chicken and Biscuits. Entertainment will be provided by the Mountain Railroad Band. A nominal donation of $7 per person is asked at the door to help defray the cost. Reservations are requested. For more information or to make a reservation, telephone 326-4243. Several community groups contribute to the operation of this annual event.
Senior Citizen Breakfast
The Brocton Central School Interact Club is hosting a Senior Citizen Breakfast for all Brocton-Portland area seniors on Saturday, May 3 at 10 a.m. in the school cafeteria. After breakfast, tours of the school will be given. RSVP to Linda Miller at school (792-2173) prior to April 24.
Palm Sunday will start off Holy Week but the 50-Plus Seniors will get a jump start Saturday with its Lenten Trip to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, Broadway Market and lunch at Ilio Di Paolo's. Time permitting we will have a very brief stop at Our Lady of Victory Basilica. Participants are requested to arrive at 9 a.m. in order that the bus can leave promptly at 9:15 a.m. from the L. K. Painter Community Center's front parking lot.
The AARP Defensive Driving Course on Tuesday will be held in the Community Room of the Painter Center. This course is filled. Participants are to park in the rear parking lot and use the back entrance.
Remember to bring a driver's license, AARP Membership Card (for those claiming the discounted cost) and a pen.
The next AARP Defensive Driving Course is Tuesday, June 3 in the Center's Community Room. Cost for the one day class is $20 for those with valid AARP membership cards and $25 for all others. Pre-registration is required and can only be made by calling Joan Byrne at 532-2507. Payment made out to AARP must be made within five days of making telephone registration and sent to Collins Town Hall, attention AARP, P.O. Box 420, Collins, NY 14034. Payment must be by check or money order. Cash is not accepted.
Participants may bring a bag lunch or can order a luncheon made by members of the 50-Plus Senior Program. Lunch must be ordered when making the phone reservation. Cost of lunch is $2.50 per person to be paid in cash the morning of the course. This year courses have been filled quickly so early reservations are recommended. After the June class, AARP courses will be suspended until fall.
Other activities this week are:
Sunday: Pickle Ball is at 1 p.m., in the gymnasium. Park in the back lot and enter through the rear door.
Monday: Indoor walking and exercise is led by Pat Tucker at 9 a.m. in the gymnasium.
Tuesday: Gentle arthritis exercise class will not be held Tuesday due to AARP Driving class.
Wednesday: Indoor walking and exercise will be at 9 a.m. Quilting with Florence is 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Collins Public Library Community Room. Pat Tucker will open Senior Room #1 at 1 p.m. for open crafts and informal euchre. The senior bowling banquet and final game for the spring season will start at noon at K & L Lanes in Gowanda. The luncheon sign up sheet is available at the Lanes.
Thursday: Gentle arthritis exercises is 10 a.m.in the gymnasium.
Friday: Senior programs are canceled in observance of Good Friday.
Pickle Ball is canceled on Easter Sunday and will resume on April 27.
Silver Creek Seniors
The meeting of the Silver Creek Seniors started with the Pledge of Allegiance and singing "God Bless America." Dorothy Miniri said a prayer including the many club members who are ill.
Joan Suski made the motion for the purchase of a new mop and pail. Miniri seconded it and all approved.
Next week, April 15, the club will have an Easter luncheon at noon. The members will bring the fixings for a ham dinner.
Lorrie Newman had some cute jokes and Suski called bingo.
50/50 winners were Janice Snyder, Fred Sikorski and Newman.
Door prize winners were Eleanor Lemiszko and Carl Mohart.
Thoughts and prayers go out to all the club's ill members, including Irene Conny, Bart Adams, Sam Chiappone, Fran Smith, Mary Congdon, Clara Griffin, Corky Patton, and Joyce Snyder. All are missed.
Collins Center Seniors
The motor coach for Tuesday's trip to the Seneca Niagara Casino will depart at 8:30 a.m. from the parking lot behind the stores on Main Street in Gowanda.
A few seats are available for the May 14 trip to "Gooseneck Hill Bird Sanctuary." It is possible to observe over 50 varieties of birds, singing and dancing swans and over 25 rock gardens. A sit down lunch is scheduled at Spragues Maple Farm. The next stop is the Ellicottville Brewing Co. and the last is Watson's Chocolate. Nonmembers are welcome. Payment is due April 21.
"Star Spangled Pops" is May 23. The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus at Kleinhans Music Hall will honor the men and women who have served our country and pay tribute to the American Spirit. Lunch will be at the Pan Am Grill at the Hotel Lafayette and the day ends at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval Park. Nonmembers are welcome. Payment is due April 14
June 5 is the Mystery Tour "Past, Present, and Future" There is no casino included. Step back into the past, see sights of the present from above and learn about the future. This trip is packed with interesting sites.
June 8-10 a trip to Kentucky for "The Thrills of Louisville" includes a backstretch breakfast tour at Churchill Downs, a visit to the Kentucky Derby Museum and a stop at Louisville Sluggers Museum. During an evening aboard the Bell of Louisville includes fine dining and dancing with big band music and entertainment. Before returning home a tour of the Jim Beam distillery is scheduled. Nonmembers are welcome. Payment is due May 1.
On July 9 a trip to "Sonnenberg Gardens" features a tour the 40-room Mansion built in 1887 and its beautiful gardens. Lunch will be at the Holland House where fine food has been served since 1808. The day will end with a wine tasting and relaxing ride home.
On July 23, "A day at the park" is planned. This is a senior day at Darien Lake that includes lunch at Maria Spaghetti House, two shows, refreshments, time at the Lakefront Boardwalk, rides, bingo and an Ice Cream Social at Perry's Ice Cream. When was the last time you circled around a carousel, enjoyed a view from the top of the Ferris Wheel or tasted Cotton Candy? Non members are welcome.
For additional information, contact Irene Pfeifer at 532-4268 or Bridget Farner at 532-9586. Make checks payable to Collins Center Seniors, 13851 Quaker St., Collins, NY 14034
Brocton-Portland Senior Citizens
Brocton-Portland Seniors are planning a trip April 29 to visit a day in the life of the Amish at Clymer and Conewango. The bus departs from the Brocton American Legion at 9:45 a.m. and at 10 a.m. from Fredonia.
The trip includes an Amish wedding dinner, which consists of fresh bread, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, vegetable, dessert of date pudding and two kinds of pie, coffee, tea, your choice of entree: chicken or meat loaf. Each person willing to take a horse and buggy ride around the farm is welcome to do so.
From there the group will travel on to two more attractions. Upon leaving the dinner house, each person attending will receive a loaf of bread to take home.
One stop will be the Valley View Cheese Co., where cheese and Melinda's candies are for sale. The other, Barbara Miller's residence in Conewango Valley, is an opportunity to see how the Amish clan lives. Delicious baked goods are on sale there.
The cost of $59 includes the meal, transportation, and gratuity.
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Walmart is coming to India, along with the whole range of "big box" retailers, thanks to recent legislation.
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Pomegranate molasses and star anise give this Turkish guvec from Allegra McEvedy an authentic, exotic flavour
Method1. Pre-heat the oven to 190C/170C/gas 5.
2. Heat the olive oil in a heavy based saucepan until almost smoking, and season the chicken on both sides with salt and pepper and a splash of oil.
3. Put the thighs in the pan, skin side down, and cook until the skin is nicely browned.
4. Lift them out and then add the onions, garlic, peppers, aubergine, chilli, thyme, cumin and sausage for about 12 minutes or until the vegetables are soft.
5. Add the bulgar and dates, followed by the tomato puree and stir well. Pour in the red wine vinegar, followed by the chicken stock, pomegranate molasses, cinnamon and star anise and bring to the boil.
6. Turn the heat off and nestle the thighs back in so that the flesh is under the liquid but the skin is still sticking out. Put a lid on the pan and put it in the oven for 40 minutes.
7. When you take it out, remove the lid and leave to stand for 5 minutes. Serve with Turkish bread.
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- 50 ml extra virgin olive oil
- 4 large free range chicken thighs
- 1 white onion, sliced
- 2 small garlic cloves
- 1 red pepper, sliced into rings
- 1 small aubergine, diced into 3cm cubes
- 1 green chilli, sliced, with seeds
- handful thyme, tied together with string
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 100 g sujuk, or spiced Turkish sausages, sliced
- 50 g fine bulgar wheat
- 6 dates, stoned and sliced
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 3 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 500 ml chicken stock
- 2 tbsp pomegranate molasses, or tamarind paste
- 1 small cinnamon stick
- 1 star anise
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Details about The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons:
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear statesthanks to a consensus view that use would have a catastrophic impact on humankind, the environment, and the reputation of the user.
The book offers an in-depth analysis of the nuclear policies of the U.S., Russia, China, the UK, France, India, Israel, and Pakistan and assesses the contributions of these states to the rise and persistence of the tradition of nuclear non-use. It examines the influence of the tradition on the behavior of nuclear and non-nuclear states in crises and wars, and explores the tradition's implications for nuclear non-proliferation regimes, deterrence theory, and policy. And it concludes by discussing the future of the tradition in the current global security environment. | <urn:uuid:874b22fe-68b3-4dc8-8252-3c189fae4422> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/the-tradition-of-non-use-of-nuclear-weapons-1st-edition-9780804761321-0804761329 | 2015-07-02T22:55:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095671.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00139-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918648 | 211 | [
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Mother’s Day is almost here and I have a gold leaf fence planter box that is the perfect thing to make and give to mom. Or make one (or a dozen) for yourself! I mean they can’t all be gifts right? The rustic picket fence look of this little planter box was just screaming for a modern touch. So I added some simple gold leaf just to the tips of the pickets. Get the full instructions and see just how easy it is below.
Supplies needed to make your own gold leaf fence planter box:
- Picket Fence Planter Box
- White Craft Paint
- Painter’s Tape
- Krylon Spray Adhesive
- Gold Leaf
- Mod Podge Outdoor Formula
- Paint Brush
- Terra Cotta Pots, Saucers & Plants for the Inside
Paint the picket fence planter box white on the inside and out first. Mine took two coats and I allowed to dry completely between coats. Once your fence planter box is completely dry, cover with painter’s tape as shown below. Be sure to also cover the back of the pickets so the spray adhesive does not get everywhere.
Take your box OUTSIDE and spray those tips with the spray adhesive. This stuff goes everywhere so it is important to do this step outdoors.
Remove the painter’s tape and you are left with a line of adhesive. Do this step fairly quickly so your adhesive does not dry too much.
Carefully remove the gold leaf sheets from the package and apply around the top of the fence planter box. Use the tissue paper sheets provided with the gold leafing to hold and press the leaf into place.
Repeat around the entire planter. Then go back and take a paint brush to the gold leaf. It will fall away as you brush it from any area that did not have adhesive. Continue to brush away all excess. TIP: A piece of duct tape is excellent at cleaning up the leftover leafing that will be all over your work surface. Just use the sticky side to pick up that excess gold leaf.
Once your brushing is complete, your fence planter box will look like a gold crowned rock star. But we need to seal and protect that gold leaf.
This is a planter box after all so it needs to be rugged. I used the outdoor formula of Mod Podge for protecting my gold leafing.
Just use a brush to apply. Do not fret at this stage, the Mod Podge will dry clear and leave your fence planter box looking amazing.
See the finished product looks nice and shiny! Once your Mod Podge is dry, you can add in your choice of pots and plants for gift giving.
Give this fence planter box already full of lively plants or give it with just pots and seeds so mom can plant her own. Either way this gold leaf fence planter box is sure to be the star of any Mother’s Day celebration. If you love it too much to give it, we won’t tell anyone! | <urn:uuid:403f6ca9-0212-4e7b-a597-86086c5db40b> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.craftsunleashed.com/decor-home/fence-planter-box/ | 2015-07-02T21:27:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095671.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00139-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936757 | 634 | [
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Alani with her congregation. Image Credit: YouTube / Vocativ
The 8-year-old daughter of a pastor has been giving hope to some of Brazil's poorest people.
The slums of San Gonzalo on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro are rife with sickness and poverty, yet hope still exists for its people in the form of a young girl, Alani Santos, who many believe to be capable of curing the sick and performing exorcisms despite being only 8 years old.
"A lot of the time I touch people, sometimes I just pray and worship and the person is cured," she says. "It's the part when I pray and God performs miracles, my dad interviews people and they say they've been cured. That's very pleasing to see."
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A New York state judge on Friday approved an $8.5 billion settlement between Bank of America (BOA) [corporate website] and almost two dozen mortgage securities investors, holding that the 2011 agreement was reached in good faith. In a 54-page ruling, New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick found that BNY Mellon, a party in the matter, did not abuse its discretion [NYT report] when entering into the settlement agreement. American International Group (AIG), one of the country's largest insurers and an investor in the securities, objected to the settlement [AP report] due to a lack of adequate recovery, stating that there still remains several appeals that need resolving before the settlement takes effect.
The effort to hold banking giants liable for their roles in mortgage fraud and the ensuing financial crisis has been ongoing. Last October BOA was found liable [JURIST report] by a federal court jury for fraudulently making bad loans and for removing quality checks for those loans. JPMorgan Chase & Co. settled [JURIST report] a case with the DOJ days beforehand in the amount of $13 billion. The effort against BOA itself is also ongoing [JURIST report]. The DOJ filed another suit in August in the US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina for similar fraud amounting to more than $850 million. In January of last year BOA settled a separate claim [JURIST report] brought by Fannie Mae over its lending practices for $10 billion. BOA has elected to settle other claims as well, such as the class-action suit brought [JURIST report] by Merrill Lynch in 2012, with the settlement agreement amounting to $2.43 billion. In all, claims arising from BOA's role in the 2007-2008 financial crisis have already cost the corporation several billion dollars, with more claims and suits still to be adjudicated or settled. | <urn:uuid:293b5591-347e-45bb-890f-b3fb12a4df5d> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/01/new-york-judge-approves-bank-of-america-settlement-over-mortgage-backed-securities.php | 2015-07-05T00:15:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375097038.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031817-00079-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963293 | 389 | [
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Thousands of defenseless, unsuspecting women are raped and brutally beaten each year.
In Louisville, Kentucky, the vicious attack of Salisa Luster, an unassuming, highly educated young professional, placed her among the many thousands attacked annually by predators.
More than 212,000 women over 14 years old nationwide were sexually assaulted in 2006, statistics show, and one in six females in the United States have been sexually assaulted, according to a United Nations report. More than 25 percent of all college aged women say they have been raped.
Luster’s story, though, is more than an account of a brutal beating and rape. It is also about stoic strength; of battling a cold, callous police department seemingly intent on protecting itself from legal liability and the glare of probing media.
But without crucial assistance from Policeabuse.com. For almost a year, however, Luster’s pain and suffering would not have drawn much, if any, attention–like the countless women who suffer in silence without activists to seek justice for them.
Policeabuse.com is a component of the Police Complaint Center, in Washington, D.C. The Center was founded in 1994, by Diop Kamau, a former Hawthorne, California, police sergeant.
Since 1988, when several white officers forced his late father, a retired, 65-year-old Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy, out of his vehicle and beat him unmercifully, Kamau has pursued justice for victims of police abuse, irrespective of race or ethnicity.
In Louisville, the search for justice for Luster began the day after she was raped, on April 30, 2008. Along the way, she has been stymied by gross police negligence, flagrant misconduct, a fistful of errors and a series of transparent untruths.
This horrific combination traumatized Luster and angered and bewildered her family and close friends.
Just as painful for them, Luster’s family and friends say, was the failure of perhaps the most culpable Louisville Metro Police Officer, Rick Woolridge, to arrest, question, detain or label as a person of interest “an unidentified black man”–believed to be the suspect–when Woolridge arrived at the crime scene.
Increasing the pain of family and friends was the alleged indifference of then Chief Robert C. White, a black man, who refused to use his authority to open an
official investigation into Woolridge’s misconduct.
Had Luster been a white woman, critics charge, Woolridge’s policing would, without a doubt, have been aggressive. Luster’s attacker is a light complexioned black man with a goatee.
This alleged indifference, critics maintain, obstructed justice and shielded Woolridge, a white officer, from accountability.
Since Luster’s attack, her mother and chief advocate, Cheryl Ellis, has waged an ongoing campaign to obtain justice for her daughter. Her efforts, Ellis said, have been routinely blocked by Louisville Metro’s chain of command.
Worse still, Ellis told BlackAmericaWeb.com, “all the attorneys I approached to represent Salisa against the Louisville Metro Police Department “offered a variety of excuses, ranging from fear of police retaliation” to the belief that Luster’s case wasn’t “strong enough to prevail in litigation.”
Luster’s nightmare began on the afternoon of April 29, 2008: A maintenance man, employed by East Chase Apartments, owned by Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, arrived to repair the toilet, but, after fixing it, returned hours later.
While Luster slept on a sofa, he used a pass key (only maintenance men and management executives had access to them), to open the apartment’s front door. Undetected, he entered her apartment. After creeping in, he began raping her.
When Luster awoke, the maintenance man, whose green uniform she later remembered, was choking and raping her.
Soon he was hitting her on her head “so hard I could barely think,” she said. Then the rapist, in a bizarre twist, according to Ellis, “used a solution to wash her hair, took several pieces of clothing from her closet, drenched them in water and threw them on the floor.”
The rapist, Ellis told Policeabuse.com, did not leave the apartment after attacking Luster, but stayed through the night. Luster, only semi-conscious after the attack, was beaten so severely that her left eye was shut, both eyes were blackened and blood clots formed in both.
Despite her battered condition, Luster managed to call 911 and say, “there’s a strange man in my apartment; I’m having trouble breathing,” yet the operator who received her plea failed to alert paramedics.
In the morning, when Luster didn’t answer her telephone or report to work, five young colleagues, all women, went to her apartment to see if she “was okay.”
Luster’s car was parked in front of her apartment building, so they believed she had not left it, but was still inside her unit.
Without a key to Luster’s door, they were forced to wait outside.
Officer Woolridge, a 20-year Metro Louisville veteran, was dispatched to the scene and arrived soon after the young women, but would not allow them to go inside with him.
After “less than six minutes inside” Luster’s apartment, according to Ellis, Woolridge left and locked the door behind him, leaving the five young women without access to the apartment.
No one knows what Woolridge said to the suspected rapist, if anything, but Ellis believes the “unidentified black man” told Woolridge that he and Luster had had “a lover’s spat,” which Woolridge officer apparently believed or deemed inconsequential.
Although Luster’s face bore all the earmarks of a brutal beating, Woolridge didn’t call emergency medical assistance. Nor did he file a police report or record any notes regarding his observations, if any. Woolridge would later claim that he “saw no injuries.”
His one single action was to advise another Metro Louisville police officer that he was not needed at the crime scene. After giving that “advice,” Woolridge walked away. Although the women say they begged him to open the apartment door, he turned, walked to his vehicle and drove off.
“He told us Salisa was okay,” said Julie Kraemer, one of the five friends. “We don’t believe that,” one of the young women responded, according to Kraemer.
As Woolridge drove away, one of the young women ran to the apartment manager’s office and said, “I know something is wrong. Please open Salisa’s door, so we can go in and see her.”
When the friends finally got into her apartment, they were horrified by the damage from the beating. One of them cried, another began praying. “We’re here for you, you’re safe now,” a third friend said, as she called 911 for an emergency response. Luster, in a daze, was unable to speak.
“She just stared when we asked what happened and who did his to her,” said Julie Kraemer, one of the five friends, in an interview with BlackAmericaWeb.com.
A detective, Brian Tucker, eventually arrived. He accompanied the paramedics and the friends to the University of Louisville Medical Center’s Trauma Unit. Nurses in the sex crimes section, who photographed Luster, said Woolridge “would have had to be blind not to see her injuries.”
Tucker later told Emergency Medical Services personnel that Woolridge claimed that “an unidentified black man told him: “There are no problems, everything is alright.” In September, Tucker also alleged that he interviewed all five friends who accompanied Luster to the hospital the morning after she was attacked. The women, however, flatly deny that Tucker ever interviewed them. | <urn:uuid:0fd5df33-15c0-4624-ab62-a15cb6630fec> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://blackamericaweb.com/2013/09/19/salisas-story-after-brutal-rape-and-police-misconduct-a-continuing-search-for-justice/ | 2015-07-07T03:32:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098987.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00019-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972605 | 1,730 | [
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
It felt good to be back at Full Sail after spending a few days wasting away on my living room couch. Kathy, the Course Director, showed the documentary called Frank and Ollie about two of the nine old men of Disney lore. It is inspiring to see how these two artists inspired and provoked each other to produce work that might not have been as good if they had not supported each other. This sketch is a reminder that the animation disks have to compete with students laptops for attention. I am experimenting to see if I can come up with a way to get my digital sketches to read with a few sepia tones. | <urn:uuid:82396a81-c295-488e-89a5-eaf59530d614> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.analogartistdigitalworld.com/2009/02/2d-animation-class.html | 2015-07-07T02:30:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098987.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00019-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975127 | 132 | [
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Extreme Speed Motorsports Finishes Third and Fourth at Laguna Seca
ALMS - Monterey, CA
But road course gremlins seemed to haunt the two-car team from Florida. At the end of Saturday’s four-hour event, ESM finished in third and fourth in the American Le Mans Series P2 class.
Guy Cosmo, in the No. 01 Tequila Patrón Honda Performance Development (HPD) ARX-03b, started from the fourth position on the grid. Cosmo quickly went to work on the competition and charged his way to the front of the P2 class in less than 20 minutes.
Shortly after taking the class lead, Cosmo cut a right rear Michelin tire.
He pitted, the team replaced the tire and Cosmo returned to the field seven seconds behind the leaders. Shortly after replacing the right rear tire, nearly one hour into the race, the new right rear tire was cut. Cosmo pitted and returned to competition for the second time.
The team inspected the No. 01 machine and determined that debris was lodged inside the wheel well which caused damage to the sidewall of the Michelin tires.
Throughout the race, the No. 01 team also worked to adjust the chassis and camber to ensure additional tires would not suffer the same damage.
At the two hour race, the No. 01 team pitted as scheduled for driver change and full pit stop. Co-driver and ESM team owner Scott Sharp would pilot the black and green racing machine for the final two hours of the race.
Sharp battled the competition and looked to improve upon the team’s third place running position but ran out of time. Sharp crossed the finish line in third place of the P2 class.
Johannes van Overbeek was slated to start and finish the race in the No. 02 Tequila Patrón HPD machine, with Ed Brown driving the middle stint. The gremlins stared early for the No. 02 when the race car would not start on the grid.
In order to get the car started, van Overbeek used the back-up starter and was on his way to join the rest of the racing pack. By the time van Overbeek joined the competition, he was at the end of the field.
Immediately following the green flag, there was the first full course caution of the race. Per the race strategy, van Overbeek pitted for fuel. During his hour and half stint, van Overbeek continued to experience electrical issues, which began on the grid, throughout his stint. He powered through and led the P2 class before turning the race car over to co-driver Ed Brown.
Brown climbed into the No. 02 Tequila Patrón racing machine and experienced the same electrical issues as van Overbeek. Except during Brown’s stint, the electronics in the race car stopped. Brown pitted 30 minutes into his stint and the team quickly decided to take the race car to the garage.
Both ESM crew and Honda HPD engineers inspected the electronics. The team officially retired from the race at 6:14 p.m., as a result of electrical issues. The No. 02 Tequila Patrón HPD was listed in fourth place in the P2 class on official timing sheets.
Over the next few weeks, ESM is slated to log several test days with the HPD machines before the next ALMS race in July.
Next up for the Extreme Speed Motorsports team is the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park on July 6-7.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
John Melhuish Strudwick - 'Thy Music, faintly falling, dies away,
Price Realized £509,250
'Thy Music, faintly falling, dies away,
Thy dear eyes dream that Love will live for aye'
signed with initials and dated 'JMS.1893' (on a cartouche, lower left)
oil on canvas
30½ x 15½ in. (77.5 x 39.4 cm.)
Bought from the artist by William Imrie of Holmstead, Mossley Hill, Liverpool; (+) Christie's, London, 28 June 1907, lot 142 (160 gns. to Gooden and Fox).
London, New Gallery, 1893, no. 106.
Strudwick was born in Clapham, and educated there at St Saviour's Grammar School. Refusing to contemplate a career in business, he studied art at South Kensington and the Royal Academy Schools, but was a singularly unsuccessful student. The only visitor to the Schools who encouraged him was the Scottish artist John Pettie (1839-1893), whose fluent brushwork, typical of the pupils of Robert Scott Lauder at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh, he emulated for a time. A picture illustrating the ballad of 'Auld Robin Gray', exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1873 and sold in these Rooms on 5 November 1993, lot 181, is an interesting record of this early phase.
Strudwick eventually found his feet in the mid 1870s, when he acted as a temporary assistant first to J.R. Spencer Stanhope and then to Burne-Jones. Songs without Words, the picture with which he made his first and only appearance at the Royal Academy in 1876, shows his mature style formed, and it underwent little development from then on. Like so many of the younger 'Aesthetic' painters and Burne-Jones followers, he exhibited at the Dudley Gallery, at the Grosvenor Gallery from its dramatic opening in 1877, and finally at the New Gallery, which inherited the mantle of the Grosvenor in 1888. Despite his inauspicious start, he enjoyed considerable success; as George Bernard Shaw wrote in an article about him in the Art Journal for April 1891, 'there is no such thing in existence as an unsold picture by Strudwick'. Songs without Words was bought by Lord Southesk, a Scottish peer with antiquarian interests. A Golden Thread (1885) was acquired for the Chantrey Bequest as part of the Royal Academy's current campaign to woo the Burne-Jones school; and two wealthy Liverpool collectors, William Imrie and George Holt, became longstanding patrons. Bernard Shaw's article was a further sign of success. Shaw's main thesis is that Strudwick's very incapacity as a student was the making of him as an artist; he quotes Strudwick's comment that 'he could not draw - never could', and interprets this as 'a priceless gift', saving him from the empty virtuosity - 'execution for execution's sake' - which had become so common among young artists, especially those who had spent 'a couple of seasons in Paris'. Shaw also recorded that Strudwick had 'a fine sense of humour', something one would hardly guess from his pictures, and that he had never visited Italy, although critics often complained that his pictures were little more than pastiches of early Italian work.
Strudwick lived all his adult life in Hammersmith or Bedford Park, not far from Burne-Jones and his fellow assistant in Burne-Jones's studio, T.M. Rooke. His daughter Ethel, born in 1880, was to become High Mistress of St Paul's Girls' School, situated locally, in 1927. Strudwick was still contributing to the New Gallery in 1908, when it held its last but one exhibition, but he seems to have ceased painting about this time although he lived on until 1937. His Times obituary described him as 'a beautiful old man... (and) a charming personality, exceedingly kind to young artists'.
The present picture was exhibited at the New Gallery in 1893, three years after The Gentle Music of a Byegone Day, which was sold in these Rooms on 11 June 1993 (lot 130) and is now in the Lloyd Webber Collection. Like that well-known work, it has all the hallmarks of Strudwick's style, or, to put it another way, is a perfect demonstration of Aesthetic values. There is no narrative subject. Instead, mood is established by means of a musical reference, while a beautiful model in exotic draperies provides the pretext for a ravishing visual ensemble. Even the haloed figures in the frieze behind the girl's head seem to have no symbolic significance, being introduced merely for decorative effect and to suggest a vaguely medieval-cum-Renaissance mise-en-scène. Particularly typical of Strudwick is the extreme emphasis on surface pattern and texture. It is as if embroiderers and goldsmiths have been literally at work, bringing every detail to the highest pitch of polished perfection and finesse.
The picture seems to have received little attention in the press, apart from a characteristically hostile review by F.G. Stephens in the Athenaeum. Strudwick's work was anathema to Stephens, and every year he would slate his contributions at the Grosvenor and New Gallery exhibitions. This was no exception.
If press reaction was disappointing, however, the picture could hardly have had a better provenance, or one that suggests a keener apreciation of its qualities. It seems to have been bought direct from Strudwick by William Imrie (1837-1906), a partner in the Liverpool shipping firm of Ismay, Imrie & Co. (the White Star Line), who, as already noted, was one of Strudwick's most important patrons. In fact he was the most important. His posthumous sale at Christie's on 28 June 1907 included no fewer than six Strudwicks, the present picture among them, but there were also others. Witheld for one reason or another were a St Cecilia reproduced in Bernard Shaw's article (which is entirely illustrated with pictures from the Imrie collection), a pair of Angels offered in these Rooms on 5 March 1993 (lot 109), and The Ten Virgins, which Christie's sold in London on 13 June 2001 (lot 12). In view of the small number of pictures that Strudwick painted, this is an astonishing record. Two of the most important Strudwicks in the collection, Evensong (1898) and the large version of Passing Days (1904), were included in the Last Romantics exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 1989 (nos. 46, and 47). Imrie also owned eight works by Evelyn De Morgan, another Burne-Jones follower, together with examples of Burne-Jones himself, D.G. Rossetti, Spencer Stanhope, Leighton, Alma-Tadema and others.
Imrie was one of a group of Liverpool shipowners and merchants who formed comparable collections of pictures at this period. Others were his partner T.H. Ismay (1837-1899), George Holt (1825-1896), whose collection remains intact at Sudley, and F.R. Leyland (died 1892), who patronized Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Whistler and others on such a princely scale and created one of the greatest 'Aesthetic' houses of the day at 49 Prince's Gate in London. As Edward Morris has observed, there was almost certainly a connection between Imrie and Holt, who also owned a Burne-Jones and bought a number of pictures by Strudwick in the 1890s. They lived near one another in Mossley Hill, a suburb of south Liverpool, and must have been acquainted. They were both businessmen of a reclusive type, not too strenuously engaged in commerce or public life, which may help to explain why they responded to the contemplative art of Burne-Jones and his school. On the other hand, we cannot assume that they were inspired by Leyland, despite his dazzling example of patronage in this field, since Leyland's collecting took place in London, and he himself was deeply unpopular in Liverpool. It is true that Imrie's partner, T.H. Ismay, employed Norman Shaw to build his country house, Dawpool, at Thurlaston in Cheshire, and that Shaw was responsible for creating Leyland's great interior in Prince's Gate; but even this link is weakened by the fact that Shaw had an extensive clientele in the Liverpool area.
In recent times, 'Thy Music...' has had two more distinguished owners. The writer and broadcaster Sir Tim Rice owned it in the 1970s, and in 1987 it was acquired by the late P.C. Withers of Reading, a leading authority on Strudwick whose guidance is sorely missed.
The couplet that gives the picture its title is by G.F. Bodley (1827-1907), the emminent Gothic Revival architect who was so closely associated with the later Pre-Raphaelite movement. In fact Bodley supplied the titles not only for 'Thy Music...' but for a second picture that Strudwick exhibited at the New Gallery in 1893, no. 19:
'Let come what may, for that grim Fate decides,
Love rules the day, and Love, enthroned, abides'.
It would be interesting to know which came first, the pictures or the poetic titles, and also to learn more about the relationship between Strudwick and Bodley which, on this evidence, would appear to have been quite close. All we can say at present is that a friendship would fit in with the fact that Bodley worked professionally with both Strudwick's masters, Burne-Jones and Spencer Stanhope. He also owned examples of their work. The early Burne-Jones triptych in the Tate Gallery was his; so was Stanhope's Our Lady of the Water Gate, sold in these Rooms on 15 November 1992, lot 120.
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Newspaper Page Text
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W. P. GEIGER.
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of a wise policy for tho South, at
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frago for tho negroes, for tho benefit
of those who have arrived at such a
degree of material acquisition and
intellectual attainment as to entitle
thom to tho oxorciso of this trust.
But, at tho samo time, we have from
tho first uniformly upheld the doc?
trino that the political control of this
country belongs of right to that race
whose controlling spirit has made it
what it is. Nor have we ever, for ono
moment, entertained the thought
that it was possible for us to have, or
desirable for os to allow, social and
political equality between the races
in the South. And this now brings
us to tho analysis of tho question at
In reviewing the history of man?
kind, we notice three distinct types
of humanity-the Caucasian, to which
we of Europe and America belong;
the Mongolian, inhabiting Asia; and
tho Negro, belonging to Africa.
Now, it matters not how the differ?
ences between these races have been
produced-whether from having a
distinct origin, or from having been
disseminated over different parts of
tho world-thc point is, thal they are
clearly distinct. And it is not tho
less true, that a commingling of them
is against the law of God, for tho de?
generating results of such mixturo
show the truth of the proposition
that tho}' should not be commingled.
lu tho main, eithor of these threo
races is superior to any mixed race.
Tho full-blooded Caucasian, thc
full-blooded Mongolian, and tho full
blooded African, aro eaoh supe?
rior, all things considered, to any
representative of a mixed race.
Tho next poiut we make, is that
each race belongs properly to tho
land assigned to it by tho Creator.
Although "God hath made of one
blood all nations of men thal dwell upon
the face of the earth;" yet, also, He
HATH DETERMINED THE DOUNDS OF
To the Caucasian race ho gave
Europe and America; to the Mongo?
lian, Asia; and to the negro, Africa.
Tropicul Africa is fatal to the white
man. Nor is tho cold climate of tho
temperate zones congenial to tho
negro-he belongs to Africa.
We contend, then, that the sim?
plest way to Bottle this question be?
tween tho races in this country-now
that tho negro has been freed-would
bo to remit him to his God-appointed
habitation. There, in Africa, ho
could show tho highest development
of which ho is capablo; there no ques?
tion of superiority or inferiority
would arise; there, wo%dmit, that ho
wonld be entitled to tho samo rights
of self-government that wc claim for
ourselves hero. Africa for Africans;
j usl as America for white men. This
Wo suggest as an equitable view of tho
But thero aro certain extraneous
considerations which must bo next
modify the solution of tho pro?
blem. Tho considerations referred
to are, first, that we have not tho
means to settle tho question in tho
manner proposed; and tho second is,
that, tho negro -was brought from
Africa and transplanted in this soil;
and an he did not voluntarily come,
we cannot consistently or justly put
bim upon the order of his going.
Ho is hero-4,000,000 of negroes aro
here-and Liberia cannot tetbpt ?ftem
away. They haye become attached
to tho soil. Thoy are fair laborers,
and in that way do. contribute some?
thing to tho country.
Furthermore, they aro here free,
and (hut, with our sovereign ussent.
Looking at tho question in this prac?
tical way, wo have thought, and still
do think, that it is good policy and
just dealing, to give these people a
fair showing-not to seek utterly to
ignore them, but to do what is right
and just and sensible, und to leave the
ultimate solution of the question to the
ethics of Heaven and the logic of events;
taking care, however, in the mean?
time, firmly to uphold tho supremacy
of that race ?o which this country
par excellence belongs, just as Africa
par excellence belongs to tho negro.
But, from tho principles announced
in this article, it will be perceived
that wo denounce tho proposition of
social nud political equality among
tho races at the South, as incon?
sistent with the interests of both
races, as contrary to reason and
experience, and as offensive alike
to Qod and man. On this point,
let us bo clearly understood, for
this is the vital principio that wo
hold-we aro willing to concede to
the freed negroes of thc South all
that may be demanded for them of
Heaven, or claimed, in reason, for
them by tho popular voice of this
land; but wo will never willingly con?
cedo to them tho political coutrol of
tho country. This belongs to the
white man. If tho negro has visions
of social aud political equality, let
him seek to realize them in Africa.
If ho dreams of titles, and honors,
and office, lot him fill up iu Africa
tho measure of his ambition. If ho
dreams of empire, and dominion,
and power, and nil that, let him seek
in Africa the fruition of his fancies.
For him to try this role here, is madly
to sign tho death warrant of his race.
Let him remember that it becomes
him to bo modest ia his pretensions,
lest ho bring upon his people tho
iron hand of a master race, upon
whoso banner Heaven itself has
placed tho emblems of victory and
TUE SHERIFF OF COLEETON DISTRICT
ACCIDENTALLY SnoT RY ONE OF HIS
POSSE.-On tho night of the 3d inst.,
soverul prisoners succeeded in effect?
ing their escape from Charleston
jail. Among the number were a
white man, named Wall, and two
colored men, who wero confined
under charge of murder. These left
for their homes in Gillisonville, and
the Sheriff of Colleton was tele?
graphed immediately to look out for
them. Two of tho United States de?
tectives were also sent down to Gilli?
sonville, and, ou last Wednesday,
the Sheriff organized a posse, and
went in search of Wall aud tho other
escaped prisoners. They were tracked
to Wall's house, and tho posse sur?
rounded it, for tho purpose of pre?
venting their escape. Wall had,
however, succeeded iu obtaiuiug
some inkling of the pursuit, and the
inmates ran from the house toward
the swamp. The Sheriff's posse en?
deavored to overtake them, when one
of the posse, a colored man, who had
been entrusted with a gun, fired at
tho prisoners, but mistook the Sheriff,
who was somewhat in advuuee, for
Wall, and the former functionary re?
ceived a full load of buck-shot, in?
flicting a'severe, but not dangerous
wound. The prisoners made no du
termined resistance, but wero soon
re-arrested and taken to jail. The
shooting of the Sheriff was repre?
sented as eutirely accidental, tho
posse being thrown into some confu?
sion by tho sudden escape of Wall
and his confreres from tho house.
I Charleston Ne tes.
Tho Camden Journal learns that a
respectablo colored minister of Cam?
den, feeling under somo obligation
to a candidato not on tho radical
ticket, determined to cast his vote
for him in the election that has just
closed. Ho supposed ho was a free
man, and had the privilege of voting
as he choue, but was informed "by
the proper authority," that unless ho
abandoned his int?ution and voted
the radical ticket, his meeting house
would be nailed up, and he never
allowed to enter it again.
It is ascertained that tho radical?
have determined not to adjourn
Congress until after tho Southern
States have organized and ratified
the fourteenth amendment to tho
Constitution, and their radical repre?
sentatives admitted. This is with a
view to securing tho Southern elec?
toral votes for Grant.
On the 14th day of Juno, ninety-one
years ago, a resolution adopting the
"Stars and Stripes" as the notional
standard, was passed by the Conti?
To the State.
Tko. first, tko second, and tko tkird
point is to organize your Democratic
Clubs, witk centre at th? village.
Let every precinct in the country have
Democratic Gains In South Carolina.
Tke full returns of tke recent
County elections como in witk great
irregularity, and many of tke returns
received do not skow tke result with
sufficient clearness to enable us to
?make n comparison of tko vote witk
tke vote nt previous elections.
Every District, however, appears to
kavo increased its Democratic or
Conservativo voto, tko change in
somo Districts being startling.
Comparing tke voto at tko County
elections witk tke vote upon tke rati?
fication of tko new Constitution, we
obtain tko following figures:
Darlington, majority for tko Con?
stitution 2,019, radical majority
County cleotions 1,321, Democratic
Laurens, majority for tke Consti?
tution 764, Democratic majority
County elections 544, Democratic
Orangeburg, majority for tko Con?
stitution 1,71)0, radical majority
County elections 1,517, Democratic
Union, majority for Constitution
719, Democratic majority County
elections 1,200, Democratic gain
Spartauburg, majority against Con?
stitution 508, Democratic majority
County elections 1,300, Democratic
Lancaster, majority for Constitu?
tion 88, Democratic majority County
elections 200, Democratic gain 118.
Kerskaw, majority for Constitution
1,077, Democratic majority County
elections 649, Democratic gain 1,726.
Oconee, majority against Constitu?
tion 140, Democratic majority Coun?
ty elections 350, Democratic gain
Tkis is surely encouraging; for it
proves tkat tko white men of tko
?State are beginning to exert tkeir
wkolo strengtk, ns well ns tkat tko
negroes are gradually forsaking tke
Loyal League to vote witk tko con?
Edgefield kas gone for tko radicals
by a large majority.
Greenville bas elected tke D?mo?
cratie ticket by 164 majority. Ma?
jority for tko Constitution 823, De?
mocratic gain 997.
Abbeville bas elected tko Demo?
cratic ticket by 355 majority. Ma?
jority for tko Constitution 1,721,
Democratic gain 2,076.
York kas elected tko Democratic
ticket by 1,650 majority. Majority
for tke Constitution 357, Democratic
Ckestor, as wo understand tko re?
turns, kas elected conservatives by a
majority of 400. Majority for Con?
stitution 769, conservativo gain 1,169.
Commenting on tko above tko
Charleston Nevis says:
This glorious result has boen ac?
complished with an imperfect organi?
zation, and without a perfect concert
of action. In tba low country little
or nothing was done. The people
were daunted by thc negro majori?
ties, and did not work with a will, so
that in moro than ono instance thc
radicals met with no active opposi?
tion. Tko up-country kas skown
wkat can bo accomplished, and it is
not too muck to say tkat witk a
tkorougk organization in every Dis?
trict, and witk earnest working men
in every precinct, tkeve is a chance
of carrying tko State for tko Demo?
cracy in tke Presidential contest.
Tkis, kowever, cannot be done if a
platform bo adopted widely different
from tkat of tko State Democratic
Convention kcld in April last.
SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATIC
HURRAH!-Tke Associated Press elec?
tion returns from tkirty-one Districts
of Sontk Carolina give tke Republi?
cans fifteen nnd tko Democrats sixteen
Districts. Tkis news is almost too
good to be true; but it shows at any
rate tke tendency of politics, even iu
tke States wkick kavo becu recon?
structed by tko radicals at au enor?
mous expense. Even many negroes
begin to sec tho folly of being led to
tko polls iu a body by agents who
care nothing for them except for
tkeir votes.-Newark Journal.
Tho Cincinnati Enquirer utters its,
word of warning thus: "Tko Demo?
cracy of tko United States kave
already nominated Mr. Pendleton.
He istkockoico of four-fifths of tkeir
people. Tboy beliovo tkat tkeir
delegates ut New York will ratify
tkeir ckoice, and if not, tkey will
exact a stern and fearful responsibili
Speaker Colfax kaviug been ap
pealeu to to settle a dispute concern?
ing tke pronunciation of his name,
returned tko following answer: "My
first name is pronounced as if written
Skyler, and tko last as if written
A^ young lady being asked by a
feminino acquaintance wketker ske
kad any original poetry in ker album,
replied: "No; but somo of my friends
have favored me with original spell?
Maryland bas abolisked "tke rod"
in tke colored schools.
THE LATE PBMOCBATIC CONVEN?
TION.-We publish the proceedings
in full of the recent Convention in
Columbia, sud direct t?.o attention of
our readers to the first pago of to?
day's issue for complete information
I as to the action of that body. There
were ten Districts represented, seve?
ral of them by a singlo individual.
The Charleston Mercury and tho Co?
lumbia Phoenix, representing the two
wings of the Democraey in this State,
have both announced, in substance,
thnt the party is uowuuited in policy
and sentiment, although each of
these papers tako a diff?rent view of
the substantial results produced. Wo
are not disposed to utter one word
teuding to bring about division in
our ranks, and will uot, therefore,
comment freely ?ni tho Recent meet?
ing in Columbia. If our friends in
Edgcfield und Charleston are satis?
fied, so are we of the up-couutry.
They are now pledged to sustain tho
party, and wo trust will work earn?
estly and persistently for a Demo?
cratic success in the Presidential eon
test-not merely resolve, but put
into practical execution, such mea?
sures as Rill show forcible, actual re
6istence at tho ballot-box against ;
radicalism. Let us fight tho radicals,
ami keep peco among ourselves.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF TENNESSEE
At the meeting of this party in Con
veution, at Nashville, ou the 9th
instant, it is stated that a "platform
wus adopted, formally allaying the
conservatives of Tennessee, with the
National Democratic party; declaring
the doctrine of secession finally de?
cided by the Mar, but asserting the
just rights of the States. Strong
ground was declared against the re?
construction policy of Congress, and
in favor of thu rightful supremacy of
the white mau in thc control of thc
Government. The greenback policy
was unanimously and enthusiastically
adopted. "-Charleston Mercury.
KEEr HEART.-Tho recent elec?
tions show dearly that tho negro
population is becoming tired of radi?
calism, tho Democrats having carried
about one-half of thc State, while iu
the remaining Districts, tho radical
majorities are much reduced to what
they were in April. The chances,
therefore, for the success of the De?
mocratic party in tho November
struggle is of the healthiest charac?
ter. The negro miud is beginning
to wake from the delusion which be?
clouded it, and reason tells that their
interests run iu parallel lines with the
Democracy. All that the party has
to do is to work with untiring energy
aud zeal.-Newberry Herald.
A NEORO EQUALITY SPEECH.-The
negro equality speech cf Senator
Yates, ou Thursday, is regarded by
many Republicans as a bomb-shell
thrown into their ranks. The key?
note of Yates' speech was full recog?
nition of negro equality, and he de?
clared that it would be useless for
parties to hide their heads in the
sand, supposing themselves coucealed
from the pursuers. Universal negro
suffrage, North und South, was de?
manded at the hands of Congress,
and Congress would have to grant it.
A Texan murderer, who had fallen
into the hands of Judge Lynch,
offered to save trouble by performing
his own execution. Ile thereupon
climbed a tree, made a very edifying
and moral speech to tho crowd, warn?
ing them to profit by his example,
put tho uooso about his ueek, tied
tho end of the rope to a stout limb, I
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.-Wo are in?
formed that Chief Justice Chase, who
was expected to preside at the sum?
mer term of the United States Cir?
cuit Court of this State, will bo pre?
vented, by his business engagements
in Virginia and Maryland, from visit?
ing South Carolina before full.
The Boston Post says: The negro
barber in Louisville, who left au
estate of $100,000, made his money
by never charging moro than five
couts for a shave. Don't some of our
barbers want ?100,000?
MISCEGENATION,-Tho Marion Star
gives au account of tho marriage, in
that village, of a negro mau, aged
twenty-two, to a white woman, of
about the same age, both from Hurry
Grant has something of a match
in Desborough, tho butcher-general
of Cromwell's time, who "knew the
four hoofs of a cleau-goiug nag bet?
ter than all the books of Moses."
Similarly, Grant loves a trotter, and
hates the Jews. Hutched.
INCENDIARISM AT SALISBURY, N. C.
A telegram states that there have
been seven attempts to fire that town
in the last week. There seems to be
a determination on the part of the
fiends to burn tho place.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Pat Higgins, a Savannah Irishman,
shot his wife four times, on Monday,
and then attempted to commit sui?
cide. Cause-whiskey aud jealousy.
Effect-wife dying, mau in jail.
A seutimontal young man thus
feeliugly expresses himself:
"Even as Nature benevolently
guards the roso with thorns, so does
she endow women with pins."
VaJlandigham sajs that he is not
only not "sensitive" about his record
during tho war, but proud of it.
THE REAL SOLDIERS.-Tho Cooper
institute has been secured for the
National Soldiers,' and Sailors' Con?
vention of July 4th, and among the
[distinguished Generals to be present,,
says tho Philadelphia Age, are Mujor
Geueral Wm. B. Franklin, Major*
Geuernl F. P. Blair, Jr. Mujor-Gene
ral Gordon Granger, Major-General |
Tom Ewing, Major-General Hancock
and others of equal eminence. Gen.
Franklin is expected to preside.
General Ewing will head from Ohio
alono 500 genuiuo voterons, and hun?
dreds of real soldiers from all parts
of the land are coming to rally again
for personal rights und tho Union
of tho States. The demonstration
will bc without precedent, aud the
contrast it will exhibit to the sutler's
side-show at Chicago, will do much
to relievo our military and naval ser?
vices from tho odium which that
crowd of place-hunters and bummers
were calculated to cast upon them.
TUB RECENT DISTURBANCE IN
On ANO EBURO.-One of tho negroes
who was shot by tho Deputy Sherill"
of Oraugebnrg District, whilst trying
to rescue prisoners from his custody,
died on Monday, and at the time the
train left that point yesterday, an
elaborate investigation of the circum?
stances was progressing at the in?
quest, which was being held on his
remains by the coroner. Considera?
ble excitement has ensued on the
event, and this was increased by thc
extraordinary efforts which wore
being made by "burnt district"
Randolph to array a hoyt of witness?
es against the officer. Tho result
will probably reach us to-day.
[ Ch ur lesion Cu uri?r.
TUE COTTON CROP OE FAIRFIELD.
Wo aro informed, by one of our citi?
zens, who has made tho inquiry,
that tho crop of 1SG7 and 1808, np
to the 1st of June, may bc estimated
by tho following shipments, viz. :
From Wiunsboro, 5,410 bales; from
Ridgeway, 487; from Alston, 313;
from Blackstock, 1G9; by wagons,
084; on hand, 1G5; total, 7,528 bales.
We may therefore safely set down
the crop of Fairfield at less than
8,000 bales, one-half of which was
sold at 10 to 12c, and the other half
at 1G to 25c, realizing about 8500,
000.- Winnsboro Register.
Chicago has been indulging in
another census, and solemnly declares
its population to number 240,044, au
increase in two years of about 30,000.
A very beautiful Orientini proverb
runs thus: "With time and patienco
the mulberry leaf becomes satin."
Theodoras shot himself with a pistol
presented by Queen Victoria somo
NEW FLOUR. NEW FLOUT.. For sale
June 19 *_F [SHER .V LOWRAX CE.
37IXTUA FAMILY FLOUIt from now
li Wheat bj" David Bookman. There ia
none better. For salo by
June ia ;\ E. STENHOUSE.
THE FINE HAM.
iXUERCES "Lavis, Jr.," diamond brand
JL Hum -a fresh invoice. For salo by
June W :l C. iL BALDWIN k CO.
FRESH CRACKERS, &c,
ESTON BUTTER, Milk, Soda, Ginger
and Soda Crae! ors.
Tabs choice F.utter.
Pure Lard, P. A. Cheese.
With a full assortment of substantials.
For sale bv
Juni- 19 3 * C. H. BALDWIN ?V CO.
New Country Flour,
Fji\ sale low by
" 8WYGEBT A- BENN.
FRESH FAMILY SUPPLIES, a choice
collection, at S WYO E RT ? SENN'S.
TOBACCO! TOBACCO! a large stock of
all grades, very low, at
Juno 10 Imo " SW YOE RT ? SENN'S.
THE CAROLINA HOUSE,
LOCATED on Washington street,
next to brennen & Carroll's, is now
?W under tho solo proprietorship of the
undersigned. Tho best of every thing, in
the wav of WINES. LIQUORS, ALE, SE
(JARS, TOBACCO, etc., kept on hand.
LUNCH every day at ll o'clock. Give
him a call, and test the correctness of the
assertion made above.
Juno 19 RICHARD BARRY.
TITHE subscribers having purchased the
X entire stock of STOVES, TINWARE.
,Vc, of H. H. Bleaso, will continuo tho
business at tho same stand. They hope,
by a strict attention to business, and al?
ways keening on hand a good assortment
of everything in their line, to merit' a con?
tinuance of the patronage so liberally
bestowed on Hie house.
Orders from the country att aided to
.lune J'.? lin F. A. SOUTER & CO.
A Chang' of Business.
FT1HAT I might give my entire attention
JL to JOB WORK, I have sold my stock
Lit Stoves, Tinware, A'c., to Messrs. F. A.
SOUDER .V CO., who will continue tho
business at the same stand.
These gentlemen being entirely worthy
>f public confidence, I recommend them
to the favorable cousidoratiou of all in
?ant of anything in their lino. Being re?
lieved of tho mercantile part of tho busi?
ness, I will devote mv timo entirely to
ROOFING, GUTTERING, PLUMBING,
REPAIRING STOVES. Ap.
Contractors and ali concerned, if you
nant your work well done, under my per?
sonal snpervision, and guaranteed against
wind and water, give me a call, lt moro
convenient to you, address mo through
the post office, aud I will call to seo you at
vim:- own appointment.
Friends in the country wanting Stoves
ir Tinware, can, by sending their, orders
to me, get them tilled on as advantageous
terms, as if they wore present,
HENRY H. BLEASE.
Columbia, S. C., June 10. 11212
Owing to the inclement weather,
last night, the leoture of Col. J. P.
Thomas was postponed.
Wo are indebted to Maj. Alexander
for a batch of lato papers from Scot?
land and Australia. These foreigners
are on file in tho Plionix office for
The Phoenix Weekly Leiter Sheet
Prices Current and Market Report
will be issued this (Friday) afternoon.
Those desiring copies, will hand in
their orders ns early as practicable.
Mr. Schneider, whose fouutain
directly opposite tho Phoenix-spouts
forth tho pleasant fluid yclept soda
water, will accept our thanks for a
package of tickets. Call ou him,
thirsty ones, aud cool your palates.
Another pitcher of luger from Mr.
Cleudiuiug, for the delectation of the
"birds." Mr. C. will furnish a
graud preparation to-day-cham?
pagne frappe. Those who are ac?
quainted with tho merits of tho arti?
cle will not require further notice.
A monster turtle will also be served
up at ll o clock for lunch.
Mr. Pollock has been exhibiting a
tine turtle, in front of his establish?
ment, for several days; and to-day
the marine monster is tobe consigned
to the tender mercies of tho cook of
the "PollookHouse," tobe converted
into soup, to gratify the patrons of
that excellent restaurant. Attend
between tho hours of 12 M. and 2
The proprietor of tho Phoenix has
returned from a Northern trip, and
finds that "all is well." ,The political
editor, therefore, turns over the local
column to his hands. The "local"
will now look to matters at home.
The senior will keep his eyes directed
over tho State aud national field, and
note the changes and the points. Let
us to work.
MOVEMENT IN FAVOR OP IMMIGRA?
TION.-We iuvite special attention to
tho proceedings of the meeting in
Richland Fork, on tho above subject.
Wo invest tho matter with great
significauce. This move is a move
iu the right, direction. Let it be
followed up. We want the help of
white men in our need. We want a
body of laborers who will regard the
interests of their employers as akin
to their own. This particular move?
ment is in the bauds of men of in?
telligence, seusc and property. Let
them go ou. The interests of the
whole State are involved iu their en?
terprise. We wish it well from tho
depths of our heart.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The post
office open during the week from 8X
a. m. to 7 p. m. On Sundays, from
-1 to 5 p. m.
Tho Charleston and Western mails
are open for delivery at 4}.? p. m., and
close at 8>? p. m. Charleston night
mail open a. m., close 4}.< p. m.
Northern-Open for delivery at
S's a. m., closes at 2.4.5 p. m.
Greenville-Open for delivery 5)?
p. m., closes at 8?.j p. m.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Special at
tention is called to the following ad?
vertisements, published for the first
time this morning:
E. Stenhouse-New Flour.*
C. H. Baldwin-Ham, Ac.
S wy gert & Senn-New Flonr.
F. A. Souter & Co.-New Firm.
Fisher Sc Lowrance-Now Flour.
H. H. Blease-Chauge of Business
Riehard Barry-Carolina House.
We observe that the good work of
forming Democratic clubs is still
going on, especially in the up-coun?
try. Chester and Anderson are form?
ing their bands. Let the wholo
State, from Charleston to Oconee,
follow the example of Spartanburg,
which bristles with Democratic clubs.
Liberty Hill, Kershaw District, has
its Democratic club, and proposes to
go to work. This is right.
The Sultan of Turkey ordered to
be manufactured in Paris a silver
table, tho price of which will uot be
less thau 3,000,000 of francs.
? At a recent convention held iu
Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday last,
a negro was nominated as indepen?
dent candidate for the State Senate.
Young lady-"Going ' to make a
flower-bed here, Smithers? Why, it'll
quite spoil our croquet-grounds."
Gardener-"Well, that's your pa's
orders, miss. He'll hov' it laid out
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Happy last week of August and happy 30th wedding anniversary to my parents! (Yes, it is today!)
While most of you are preparing for a 3 day weekend, we're hoping to give you some good reading material. This week, we've seen news about Google (surprised?) and IE8, among a few other smaller things. Here we go...
Google Suggest to Change the Search Landscape
We've received confirmation that Google Suggest is becoming the default for searchers. That is, Google will suggest keywords for searchers with a drop-down box. It's actually rather frightening for search engine marketers for a variety of reasons that have been voiced earlier this week. For one, long tail optimization is likely shot (though many of our commenters disagree). Additionally, if your visitors make a misspelling, you're SOL even though you optimized your site for that misspelling. Yeah, I know. It sucks.
Google's Anchor Text Algorithm Changes
SEMs are speculating that Google is reducing emphasis on anchor text for rankings, which is something that many people feel is the "biggest flaw" of the Google algorithm. For those fixated on anchor text rankings, it's about time that you optimize other parts of your site too!
Google PageRank Updates
This week, we also saw some PageRank updates for Google. It's a bit too soon as some forum members observe, but hey, it gives them something to talk about.
Google Runs More Ad Tests
Google is also testing ad placement and is trying something different: ads on the bottom of the SERPs. I'm waiting for the day when Google tests ads on the top, left, right, and bottom of the SERPs. Anyone want to make a mockup screenshot of what that'd look like?
Google AdSense Stops Displaying on Cached Pages
It seems that some people are no longer seeing Google AdSense on cached pages. It's probably a bug, but it's noteworthy all the same because Rae spotted the opposite, almost, when she blogged that Twitter may be cloaking to show AdSense in their cache. Interesting.
Google Analytics to Show AdSense Data
Cool news for many: Google Analytics may start showing Google AdSense data, a welcome change for those who want more integration. After all, Google has integrated AdWords statistics in Analytics since like, forever, and it'd be cool to empower publishers to see similar statistics.
Most SEOs Fear Penalties
We polled the audience and got some results: the majority of SEOs don't like Google penalties. I'm wondering if the minority is apathetic toward optimization or they feel that they are optimizing perfectly (or not at all).
Try Out Google Ad Manager Today
Google Ad Manager is now available to all publishers. It's a pretty nifty tool and something you should look into if you need to manage your website advertisements. If you don't know how to use it, read Barry's detailed explanation.
IE8 Beta 2 Out, but Yahoo Doesn't Care
Is it ironic that on the day IE8 beta 2 rolled out, Yahoo decided to launch a Firefox 3 promotion? I don't know if it was planned, but it certainly is interesting given the potential partnership we once talked about. In any event, IE8 is out and Danny has analyzed the searching features within IE8. Overall, I'm noticing that a lot of people want IE8 to include a download manager and publishers are a bit wary that IE8 will come out of the box with an ad blocking tool. I must say that even though I don't care if people use ad blocking software, this totally bites. People should be able to opt in for this -- it shouldn't be something Microsoft chooses for its users.
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Rush: Ready to Release Vapor Trails Remixed
Firt, a happy birthday to Neil Peart, who was born on September 12, 1952, in Hamilton, Canada.
Rush geeks…I mean, fans…head’s up!
According to rush.com, on October 1st, the newly remixed version of Vapor Trails as well as a 7-disc boxed set of Atlantic studio albums will be released.
Vapor Trails will be available on CD, double LP, and digital download from Atlantic/Rhino.
“Vapor Trails was an album made under difficult and emotional circumstances – sort of like Rush learning how to be Rush again – and as a result, mistakes were made that we have longed to correct.
David Bottrill’s remixes have finally brought some justice and clarity to this deserving body of our work,” says Geddy Lee.
The remixed version of Vapor Trails will also be included in the new 7-disc boxed set Rush: The Studio Albums – 1989-2007.
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Seattle Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik was on KCPQ’s Q It Up Sports program with Aaron Levine on Sunday night and had some interesting things to say, including his take on reports that the club was talking to other teams about a potential trade for ace pitcher Felix Hernandez prior to the trade deadline.
Q-13 provided a partial transcript of the wide-ranging interview (below) or you can watch the first part of the interview by clicking here.
The entire interview is available on the video player on the Q-13 sports website.
Among the other topics are his reaction to Major League Baseball banning the bullpen’s warrior helmet collection, contract talks with top draft pick Dustin Ackley, the future of outfielder Michael Saunders and first baseman Russell Branyan and what the M’s intend to do with newly acquired pitcher Ian Snell.
Here’s a partial transcript of the interview, courtesy of Levine:
Q. How close was this team to a more unexpected blockbuster trade (before the trade deadline)?
A. Not as close as was what was written. And some of that stuff was blown out of proportion, you know and you sit back there and sometimes other clubs fantasize on what they’d like to have. But at the end of the day, if you’re going to give up a very talented player, then you need to get a lot of talent in return, and we never really got that close.
Q. How much of a priority is getting a new deal done with Felix Hernandez?
A. You know, two and a half years is a long time. We’ll see what happens. What we wanted to do this year, our goal was to create an environment where players wanted to stay here. Where someone would be on this ballclub and play for our staff and realize what a great city and place this is and realize we have a chance to win, and we’re going to win. So, as we move forward, we hope the players realize this and then we’ll see where the next day takes us.
Q. Many analysts would say that it’s better to do it sooner than later – avoid possible arbitration and definitely avoid letting him hit the free agent market in a couple years. Do you agree with that?
A. There’s a lot of ways to look at things. But regardless of the side of the coin you’re on, the thing you have to remember is “it takes two to tango.” So, he’s gotta want to stay here, and certainly if we move forward and talks would begin – there’d have to be mutual agreement, of course. But he’s a talented player, we’re happy to have him right now. We’re looking forward to watching him for the next couple years.
Q. So talks haven’t begun yet, based on what you said?
A. Putting me on the spot here, huh? It’s….no, they haven’t.
Q. Doesn’t MLB have enough to worry about than banning warrior helmets from the bullpen?
A. I really do understand MLB’s position on this. Things can get carried away. In our case, it certainly would’ve been controlled. It was an awful lot of fun. They had a great time with it. And it really said something. It brought the group together. But I remember a couple years ago, when the University of Miami got off a plane with army fatigues on – the whole team. And things can get out of hand. The one thing is, they’re not wearing these things, they’re just symbols. But we’re under MLB’s guidelines, so we’ll follow whatever direction they make us.
Q. Is this outfield that you have right now the “outfield of the future?” Gutierrez in center, Michael Saunders in left? What do you see out of Saunders?
A. Yeah, it’s a nice start. I like him. It was a matter of time before Michael was a big league player – we all knew that. We sent our scouts out. He’s a very talented guy. He’s gonna be a fun guy to watch. With Gutierrez in center and Ichiro in right. And then again, we went into this year with Endy in left field, thinking we had the best outfield in baseball. Michael Saunders has added to that.
Q. How about second overall pick Dustin Ackley – he has to be signed by August 17th – is there any movement with him?
A. Talks have begun. Since the very beginning – when I was LA and sat with Scott Boras at a ballgame and we’ve had a couple conversations this past week, so it will intensify as we move forward into this week.
Q. Are you optimistic something’s gonna get done with him?
A. Sure. I mean, I would hope any player would realize the opportunity. It’s a great community. He’s a first-round draft pick. Second pick in the country. Why not come in and play and get your career started.
Q. How quickly can he get up to the big league level?
A. It’s difficult to say because he’s laid off the whole summer. He’s a talented kid. This guy can hit. He’s a nice player, so it should be quicker than most. But each player has his own time frame.
Q. What’s next for Russell Branyan?
A. To finish the next two months. Russell – we hope he realizes this is a place he oughta stay. As we move forward – I talked to his wife two days ago – and Jill loves it here. I think Russell likes it here. I think the relationship we have is great. I think the relationship he has with the staff is terrific. I think when you’re a player, the one thing is, you want to be wanted. You want to be somewhere where you’re comfortable, somewhere where you know you’re an integral part of it. And he is all of those things here.
Q. As the team continues to be in the playoff hunt, how short a leash do you have with some of the younger guys after a performance like Snell last night? He has the stuff, you know it, you’re waiting for it, but how short a leash do you have with these guys?
A. No, he’s gonna get a chance to pitch. We’re gonna go from here to the end of the year with what we have, unless something happens unexpectedly. And Ian’s gonna be fine. He’s a talented guy. I sat in that division with the Milwaukee Brewers and watched Ian Snell and Jack Wilson play against us and again, he’s gonna be a real contributor – both of them – here to this ballclub. | <urn:uuid:27d8e7d8-4471-434c-9e6e-0f0f772299d8> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlesports/2009/08/10/zduriencik-ms-werent-close-to-trading-felix/ | 2015-07-01T05:12:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375094662.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031814-00029-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968347 | 1,481 | [
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The following post is by Oregon BEST:
A unique modeling tool developed at Portland State University with support from Oregon BEST is helping local green roof manufacturer Columbia Green Technologies speed adoption of green roofs to meet legislation aimed at reducing combined sewer overflows during heavy rains and thereby grow the Portland based start-up's national market share.
The new tool is the result of a research project funded by Oregon BEST and led by Graig Spolek, a PSU professor and director of the Green Roof Design and Test Lab. Columbia Green uses the tool when working with civil engineers and architects who need accurate, quantitative data about how much stormwater a green roof in a specific geographical location will both retain and detain.
"This new tool has been very helpful; it's helped us open doors to some of the best engineering and architecture firms in the country," said Elaine Kearney, Technical Director at Columbia Green. "Being able to generate this kind of data bolsters our reputation as being innovative and technologically very forward looking."
Eric Zickler, an associate principal at Aecom, one of largest engineering firms in the world, said his firm uses many different tools to measure performance of their stormwater management infrastructure designs, but the Columbia Green tool stands out.
"Generally the calculators and modeling modules are generic and do not provide a high level of confidence in predicted performance," Zickler said. "The green roof stormwater management tool developed by Columbia Green is specific to green roofs and developed using both theory and empirical data for multiple geographies across varying storm intensities, making it a valuable resource in building our confidence in the stormwater management benefits of green roofs."
The new tool, which can generate data specific to geographic areas and weather patterns, gives Columbia Green a competitive advantage when the company interacts with potential clients.
"The ability to quantify our performance with this degree of accuracy is unique, so it's a significant advantage for us," said Robin Schneider, marketing director at Columbia Green.
This strategic funding exemplifies how Oregon BEST, a state-funded organization that fosters technology-based economic development, helps clean-technology companies collaborate with universities to advance and commercialize products to grow Oregon's green economy.
"It's been very rewarding to see Columbia Green leverage our investment in research and transform that into expanded distribution and sales opportunities," said David Kenney, president and executive director of Oregon BEST.
Green roofs and other green infrastructure approaches are gaining visibility at all levels of government, both in the United States and abroad, as officials try to implement policies to address aging public infrastructure.
Two years ago, Vanessa Keitges, CEO of Columbia Green, was selected to sit on the President's Export Council at the White House.
"We greatly appreciate the Oregon BEST support that allowed us to take advantage of the PSU rain lab and develop a tool that's helping us succeed," Keitges said. "Local cooperation between industries and academia is recognized as a model for innovation to solve global problems."
Oregon BEST is a state agency that nurtures clean technology innovation by transforming new ideas, research, and products into green-collar jobs, greater sustainability, and economic prosperity for Oregon.
The following post is by DJC staff:
Harbor Urban says people are starting to move into the GreenHouse Apartments at 3701 S. Hudson St. in Columbia City. The LEED gold project has one notable feature: irrigated garden plots for each resident on the roof.
Harbor calls it “roof-to-fork urban agriculture.”
There’s also a greenhouse on the roof and a communal space for dining, as well as edible trees and shrubs scattered throughout the property. The rooftop plants absorb rainwater and reduce runoff, and the soil and vegetation help insulate the buildings.
The site is near the Columbia City light rail station and the farmers’ market.
Harbor said half of the units were leased before the building officially opened.
Harbor Urban, LLC is the developer, Exxel Pacific built it and Runberg Architecture Group was the architect. The landscape architect was Hewitt and the structural engineer was CPL. LEED consultant was O’Brien & Co.
Martha Barkman, director of design and construction for Harbor Urban, said, “We spent a lot of time early in the entitlement stages to make sure it was something that would be accepted by and truly fit into the existing community, which is a unique treasure.”
Harbor said GreenHouse is the first new market-rate apartments in Columbia City since 1969.
GreenHouse has 124 units, 20 percent of which are designated affordable under Seattle’s Multi-family Tax Exemption program.
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|Madoff: The Wizard Of Lies |
Public Affairs Luncheon
Thursday, May 12, 2011 Noon until 2:00 p.m.
Event has expired. Registration for this event is no longer available.
The Public Affairs Luncheon Series features speakers who address matters of public interest. The luncheons provide a forum to enable City Bar members to network, socialize, and discuss matters of interest. The luncheons are open to the public.
Luncheon Chair: JEROME R. ROSENBERG
Luncheon Vice-Chair: EMILY CAMPBELL
Committee on Senior Lawyers , James W. Harbison, Jr., Chair
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You didn't get any instructor with you? MLS have some very fine nuances that you need to watch out for.
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every month. We’re very, very active.
X: Do you see certain sectors more prominent in certain places?
PW: I think it’s pretty uniform. You see a little bit more consumer facing e-commerce out of New York sometimes. But everything is incorporating technology in some interesting way. I hate to generalize.
We’re very focused on life sciences and like to that to be about a third of the portfolio, with a preference to devices and diagnostics. All of the markets are fun markets for life sciences.
X: Are there big startup trends that are catching your eye right now?
PW: Everybody is looking at mobile as an opportunity. One of the thigns I really believe is our companies come out of very profound recognition of an unmet need by a consumer or business. We have these “a ha” moments from every one of our CEOs. They don’t start as tech looking for an applications; they always start as a problem that you then find a solution for. It really resonates; some need, some moment where they just had to fix something.
We just did a life sciences deal where the CEO is a software engineer. She took time off to care for her aging parents, and is now leading a life sciences company because of something she was experiencing and witnessing. She completely committed her life to a family of patents around something she experienced as a human being.
X: What’s the focus for Golden Seeds in the next year?
PW: It’s really to leverage the talent of our network to help these companies succeed. That’s the biggest push thematically. We’re really working on doing everything we can to support the companies with our skill set and network.
We’re always seeking to grow our membership; our role is trying to solve the capital issue here. We’re also looking to expand the knowledge institute. We think it’s key for investors to know what they’re doing and have a solid knowledge background. It’s really about perfecting the process and bringing that to bear on the companies. | <urn:uuid:a4ddd874-6b1c-4041-afbe-53bfadca7395> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.xconomy.com/new-york/2012/10/01/golden-seeds-now-260-angels-strong-looks-to-amp-up-investor-education/2/ | 2015-07-07T16:39:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375099755.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031819-00159-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969455 | 454 | [
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Glad your clan is fine
This is a discussion on My son is born within the Bob & Terry's Place forums, part of the The Back Porch category; William Walter Pendergrass was born on June 2nd weighing in at 6lbs 9ozs. Mom and him are doing fine, I'm kinda of shaky I'll try ...
William Walter Pendergrass was born on June 2nd weighing in at 6lbs 9ozs. Mom and him are doing fine, I'm kinda of shaky
I'll try to post a pic later.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Glad your clan is fine
"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.
They are left in full possession of them."
Zacharia Johnson (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,25 June 1778)"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." ~Alexander Hamilton
Is he a member of the NRA yet?
Another shooter enters the world...
"I surrounded 'em"- Alvin York
"They're ain't many troubles that a man can't fix with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six"- Jeff Cooper
Contratulations, Darryl. I'm sure you have been told this before, but this time we mean it: Welcome to the REAL world. The one will 2 o'clock feedings, diapers, etc. You will love it. I'm glad for you.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein
I will never forget the day my son was born. Cherish these times... they go by so fast.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
-- Theodore Roosevelt --
Congrats, the first 2 weeks I did everything as the wife was recovering from a C-section. It was worth it, the bond between my daughter and I is very strong. Roll up your sleeves and get down and do everything you can, you will not regret it. If people want to buy gifts for you.
Lots of bibs and small face cloths
Receiving blankets are useful, kids love to puke!!
powered swing seat
train set (dad has to have fun to!!)
When they decide on which stuffed animal is the "special one" buy several of the same kind so you can wash them and the world will not end if they lose it. TY toys makes nice stuffed animals.
Don't be afraid to spell off each other, having both parents tired is crazy. Make Mom take a few hours nap in a room away from the baby. Mom's cannot turn off their radar when near the kid, being able to get some real sleep helps a lot.
Lot's of people are going to give you advice, some good, some not. Go with your gut and support each other. If Mom thinks their is something wrong with baby they are generally right and get it checked.
Don't be surprised if the crying gets to you (it's meant to) If it gets to much, check the diaper, put kid in crib and go into another room and destress. Everybody is human and has limits, it's normal. If you have family call your Mom, she will love to give advice!!!
P.S. buy your toys right now, soon you will have no free time or money!!! But you will never regret it!
When in doubt smile and enjoy!!!
Congratulations! Are you handing out cigars?
Hey congrats! Your life will never be the same but that's a good thing!!!!
Glad that everyone is doing well. May this young life be a blessing to you and your wife.
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~ Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
I'm a child of the 60's, but I got over it.
'The assailant chooses the time, location and method of attack.
Since they are unlikely to let you know ahead of time when, where and how violent they're going to be, you should always be prepared.' - matiki
conratulations!!!! first baby?
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the Congress is in session."
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More wines at Kapalua, plus lunch from a celebrity chef
The nation’s longest-running wine and food festival is back! Melissa and Olena are on Maui to check it out
Touring the sights of Beaune, including one of Burgundy’s oldest artisanal mustard makers and a wine tasting
Red wine lovers wore red, white wine and sake lovers wore white: Tasting at Kaka’ako Wine Loft And Sake Collection
The UH Manoa Shidler College of Business Alumni Association held a wine tasting fundraiser Thursday night at the Royal Hawaiian.
Get ready for this year’s Hawaii Food and Wine Festival as we unveil the dishes local chefs are creating for the festivities
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I just wanted to thank you for sharing your cookbook! I was looking for a dinner recipe last night and came across your site and am in love with it! I love all the variety of healthy, simple and delicious recipes. I wanted to make so many things at one time, but I would’ve been at the grocery store forever so I’m pacing myself. I ended up making the mushroom lasagna and it was SO flavorful and awesome! I normally don’t cook with yogurt, but after this recipe I’m definitely going to use it more because it’s healthy and the taste is great. I also made the pumpkin cupcakes and those were a moist, delicious treat! Thank you again for getting us foodies excited about great recipes to make for our families!
Hi, Vered! I stumbled onto your site some time ago and have since tried a couple of your recipes with success! Your Lemon Garlic Baked Cod and Creamy Cauliflower Soup recipes worked out well for me. I recently tried out your recipe for Butter and Parmesan Shirataki Noodles and it pleasantly surprised me as I had only previously eaten shirataki noodles reluctantly because of the texture. I would love to see more recipes that use shirataki noodles, if that’s not too much to ask :). Thanks again, and keep it up!
Found your recipe for baked chicken breasts via google. I often buy chicken breasts because they are readily available and inexpensive in my area. But I’ve always struggled with how to cook them without them turning out rubbery or dry (or both). This recipe was a home run. First time I tried I had juicy, tender baked chicken that was nicely spiced. Thank you for a true revelation to a newbie cook.
One word: YUM!!! This was my first time baking chicken on my own and what an easy AND delicious recipe! This will be my go-to recipe whenever I want to bake chicken. So glad I found your baked salmon recipe to try next. Thank you for your awesome blog- it makes eating healthy easy and fun!
I’ve just recently begun a lifestyle of healthy eating and have found many great blogs, and yours is definitely a new favorite. Thanks for taking the time to address questions like these. I appreciate your flexibility and that you don’t subscribe to the confines people really want to put healthy food into (paleo, vegan, whole30, etc). I really like your outlook and I can’t wait to read more.
I have been meaning to make your Butter Chicken Recipe for a while now. I finally got round to making it over the weekend. All i can say is I would happily make this once a week, what a fantastic and easy recipe. Thank you!
I made your cheesy spaghetti squash casserole and it was delicious. I hate to get allrecipes on you but I added chicken, spinach and mushrooms because I needed something really hearty to take to work. The base (your recipe) is excellent. I will use it again and again!
Hooray! Your chicken breast recipe is the best. I have always cooked them at 350 and they are always dry and quite frankly, I would NOT eat them. I made your recipe and they are perfect! Now I love chicken breasts. Thank you for this recipe and keep up the great work!
I have recently come across your blog and just want to say thank you for sharing your recipes (which are also beautifully photographed). I’ve made a few things now which have all turned out well, and tonight I made the butter chicken for my daughters (5 and 7 and quite fussy eaters) which they both loved. You have given my repertoire of meals a much needed boost.
I would like to start off by saying thank you for this site! I find it so hard to find SIMPLE & HEALTHY recipes for the working couple. I’m not that person who always thinks of dinner first thing in day and breakfast and lunch.. haha don’t even ask. So when I found this site I was like YESSSS easy and stuff I usually have on hand. The recipes are also easy to tailor (or already small) for families like mine (It’s just me my Husband and my puppy). Once again Thanks!
You’re the best! Thanks for sharing your recipes and tips. I’m a hardcore foodie and have always found it hard to diet so your blog was god-sent! Your recipes are very easy to follow (I just started cooking) and are always a hit with my family and friends. LOVE this website- I read through all your recipes already and I can’t wait to try out a lot of them!!
I found your website looking for a crustless quiche recipe. It is the only recipe I use now. My husband always complains I never use the same recipe because I am always looking for better ones. Not any more! I love your recipes. I have made so many of your dishes. You are Amazing with a capital A. Thank you so very much.
You are my hero! I absolutely love, love, love your blog. I have struggled with an eating disorder for most of my life. I have been trying desperately to convert my unhealthy obsession with food into a healthy enthusiastic relationship with it. I love to cook and bake, and found at an early age that I have quite a natural knack for it. I have tried all sorts of mimicky, diety, sugar-free, fat free types of food to control my weight, and had finally realized through a lot of research, that those types of foods with all of their unnatural ingredients are terrible for you. I then opted to only put ‘real’ food into my body. I was so ecstatic to run into your blog. It is jam packed full of exactly the kind of recipes I love. Real food, but really healthy. Thank you so much for blessing the internet, and myself with your lovely recipes. I am truly grateful for finding this blog and I just thought I’d let you know.
I just wanted to thank you for your web site and recipes. I looked thru all your recipes and plan on making some of them. I too will have to do a few tweaks on them like changing yogurt to kefir, take out any pork and switch it to seasoned ground beef or turkey, find a substitute for flour. I have been on a low oxalate diet and allergic to a lot of foods and dont have much of a choice for food right now. Your recipes have been sent from heaven to me! I have no imagination in the kitchen, but your recipes do! Hopefully I can make mine as nice as you have made yours! Love your web site too. Nice and clean! Thanks again for your web site and sharing your recipes.. You have made my husband very happy. Hopefully no more “sautéed hamburger meat and peas” for dinner!
It’s healthy and it’s pretty damned tasty. Juicy and flavorful every time I’ve made it. My husband requests this more than anything else I make. I use honey dijon mustard instead of regular dijon, but it’s yummy either way.
–Reddit user lolita_iori, on honey baked chicken recipe
Thank you so much for these recipes! I’ve been trying to find decent vegetarian stuff so I can learn to cook properly. My partner and I are moving in together and have agreed that whoever is home first cooks; however he’s a chef so I want to be able to cook really good food so there’s not too obvious a difference between our standards of dishes… Your recipes have made this a lot easier so thank you!
Just wanted to tell you that I really love your blog, recipes, pictures, philosophy on what is healthy and not (I agree), and thank you for sharing! I have made a few of your recipes so far, and I love the pumpkin brownies, what an amazing recipe! I used King Arthur white whole wheat flour, and I love their Double Dutch Cark cocoa. Never thought I would find healthy brownies. And we are pumpkin addicts, so you can never make us tired of that! Thanks so much!
I found your baked donuts recipe a few weeks ago and it was a hit! When I made it again tonight, it made me wonder, “Who is this cook and blogger?” and I have spent some time on your blog, subscribed, etc. What great ideas!! Your ideas on healthy eating are similar to mine, it seems, so I’m looking forward to trying more of your great recipes for my 3 boys, my dh, and myself. Thanks for putting it out here.
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your blog and the hard work and effort you put into it. I came across your blog just this morning via Babble’s Kitchen – your whole wheat dark chocolate muffins recipe and fell in love with your site, truly a wonderful boost to healthy eating/baking. (Without too much of odd ingredients, hehe). Thanks so much again and keep up the good work.
I love your recipes for two reasons: I am on WW to lose 5 lbs, but more importantly, I want to eat healthy foods, not unhealthy WW foods.
I love this website! Seriously, I made your baked latkes (substituted half sweet-potatoes, you should try it some time!) and it was fantastic. Haven’t tried any of the other recipes yet, but wow, they all look amazing. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your blog, I found so many great recipes! I think I could probably live off eating the eggs baked in avocado, absolutely delicious!
I am so happy to have found your blog – thank you for sharing your recipes. I’ve been trying them one after the other!
Love your recipes Vered both for the ease of preparing them and the fact that they are very health-conscious. Thanks for your excellent work!
Want to add your own testimonial? Email me: vered (at) momgrind.com or use this form:
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MEETING REPORTS and SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS:
This site contains workshop reports for the Mars visible-infrared spectral community, with a focus on surface studies.
Mars Visible/Infrared Spectral Community
Visible-Infrared Spectroscopy of Mars:
DECEMBER 2002 COMMUNITY WORKSHOP REPORT
LABORATORY AND FIELD COMMUNITY DATA SETS
Interpretations of visible-infrared spectral data sets of Mars build a critical foundation for geologic and climatic interpretations, and landing site selection. However, an effective response to the upcoming influx of Mars data will require well-rounded experience in field spectroscopy and strong public spectral libraries. An open community meeting was held to address gaps in those areas.
Field Experience. Researchers need to gain experience in the field, because laboratory studies cannot replicate or uncover all the spectral and instrumentation complexities that are present outside. This significant step is analogous to the critical experience gained through early rover field testing.
Field experience should be supported in order to:
--train interpreters and operators for Mars data and instruments
--test ideas and aid in tying orbital/aircraft views to surface/rover/lander views
--build experience in issues such as detection limits, uncertainties, measurement protocols, calibration, interpretation techniques, atmospheric compensation, and theory.
Public spectral data bases.. These provide a foundation for interpretation of remotely acquired data. The two previous community workshop reports noted a gap in motivating and facilitating the transfer of data into the public domain. A primary roadblock is the complexity of transferring and accessing data within the NASA Planetary Data System. The PDS should implement a user-friendly interface to aid the transfer private laboratory and telescopic spectral data bases, and provide a means for easy access. This will not include field and airborne data bases because they are considerably more complex to manage.
Infrared Spectroscopy of Mars:
June 2002 Community Workshop Report
FROM THE THEORY AND THE LABORATORY TO FIELD OBSERVATIONS
An open community workshop was held at LPI to address the question:
What terrestrial theoretical, laboratory, and field studies are most needed to best support timely interpretations of current and planned visible/infrared spectrometer data sets, in light of the Mars Program goals?
Summary. The two most critical gaps are in coordinated end-to-end field testing and in libraries of spectroscopic data. Three related gaps are in data from terrestrial sites to aid TES and CRISM interpretations, lack of high quality development data to support landers, and delays in funding owing to lack of coordination between R&A proposal dues dates and mission data releases.
contains detailed recommendations.
MEPAG presentation of the workshop recommendations
INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF MARS: WHAT NEXT?
June 1999 Community Workshop Report
Members of the Mars infrared spectral community met to discuss what critical gaps may exist:
1) after the successful completion of planned measurements of Mars; and
2) in research programs to support current and planned data sets.
Summary. Participants concluded that the most critical gap is in very high information content spectra of targeted regions. Experience gained from spectral data sets of Mars and Earth has shown that an unambiguous interpretation requires very high information content. High information content is obtained by measuring with broad spectral range, high spectral resolution, and high signal to noise ratio.
This workshop occurred prior to the selection of the 2005 CRISM.
TERRESTRIAL TESTING / FIELD EXPERIENCE
Information on sites and instruments submitted for the
terrestrial testing discussion at the Dec, 2002 community meeting.
Transfer of spectral data into the public domain:
Supporting documents for transferring laboratory spectral data into the public domain:
1. Carle Pieters
2. Ray Arvidson
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