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Time to cut the wire.
Nearly all devices at the moment have some form of wireless technology that supports it, and with smartphones ditching the beloved 3.5 mm jack more wireless headphones have popped up for you to enjoy.
Sure, you can still use the same wired headphones – but the demand for wireless devices is slowly increasing, which is why companies have started developing technologies that will preserve the sound quality even on a wireless signal.
If you’re on the lookout for a new wireless headphone, here’s a rundown at some of our favorites:
Apple AirPods (Starts from 679 AED) – These simple Apple-made wireless earphones deliver a decent listening experience. It’s clearly made for Apple users since pairing AirPods to your device will also automatically pair it with every Apple device that you own under the same ID.
Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless (1,249 AED) – It’s a little on the premium side price-wise, but the Momentum True Wireless produces sound that you won’t hear from other headphones. It retains the classic earbud shape so it’s ‘barely there’ when you’re wearing it.
Samsung Galaxy Buds (359 AED) – The Galaxy Buds is to Samsung devices as the AirPods is to Apple devices – the only difference is that the Galaxy Buds can support nearly an Android device (and technically the iPhone as well). They’re small, easy to use and even charges wirelessly.
Anker Soundcore Liberty 2 Pro (550 AED) – Sound quality has been greatly improved compared to the first version, which is why this wireless headphones from Anker is a decent substitute if you’re looking for a lesser-priced option.
Beats Powerbeats Pro (799 AED) – Bass lovers will definitely enjoy the Powerbeats Pro. Along with water and sweat resistance support, it’s clearly the top choice for fitness buffs who need wireless headphones when working out. It’s powered by the same chip that’s found on the AirPods, so expect the best compatibility when used with an Apple device.
Jabra Elite 65t Earbuds (498 AED) – Design-wise, we’re loving the Elite 65t from Jabra. It combines a perfect balance of sound quality and features, not to mention the incredibly long battery life which made us look past beyond its flaws.
Bang & Olufsen Beoplay E8 (1,299 AED) – It’s more on the luxurious side, but the Beoplay E8 comes with an awesome design and sound that you can expect from the B&O brand.
Bose SoundSport Free (839 AED) – Made for the active user, the SoundSport Free is Bose’s wireless solution to enjoy your tunes while working out. It’s compact and easy to use, where it managed to switch flawlessly between devices when we were using it.
Apple AirPods Pro (999 AED) – The upgraded ‘Pro’ version of the AirPods now supports active noise cancellation, which greatly improves the sound quality of these headphones. It is also sweat- and water-resistant, meaning that it’s the perfect companion at the gym when you want to workout and drown out all the background noise.
Did we miss anything on the list? Tell us your choices in the comments below!
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Status: One section (800D) is signed, the rest unsigned, associated with MD 75.
The old alignment of MD 75 between Union Bridge and New Windsor. The SHA database does not have their names. East of MD 84, part of the old 75 was taken over by 84 itself,
instead of becoming a section of 800. A small stub, MD 800A, branches from this section.
Sections of MD 800: MD 800A: Mill Dale Ln 0.05 mi.; from MD 84 east to road end.MD 800B: S Clear Ridge Rd 0.20 mi.; from MD 75 north to MD 84.MD 800C: (no name) 0.07 mi.; two dead ends in front of St Luke's Lutheran Church. Connected with a driveway, and just west of 800BMD 800D: Watson Ln 1.57 mi.; This is the signed section, and manages to stray a bit from MD 75.MD 800E: 0.03 mi.; from Stem Rd east to road end.
A former piece of MD 8 that runs through a small residential area. Calling it an associated route of MD 8 is a little of a stretch, as it only appears once, not
as a repeated bunch of little suffixed sections all up and down its path.
Edgar Price Rd is a frontage east of 301 to reconnect its former alignment, now cut off by 301, to MD 299. The route description is taken verbatim from the RTDS. CO 333 is
used as the county route designation for Edgar Price Rd. There was probably an intervening county section en route to the Delaware border. Dropped in one of the last actions of the 1970s.
Its southern end parallels US 301 opposite the new weigh station.
MD 806 is our catch-all for old US 15 aligments and connectors. Though it's the portion north of Frederick to Thurmont that's signed, there was also once a piece of 806 south of Frederick. US 15 hadn't been rerouted along part of US 340 yet, so when it was routed along I-270 to the Frederick Freeway, that part north of I-270 became an 806 segment. When it did happen, the entire old US 15, including the new 806, became MD 85.
Sections of MD 806: MD 806A: Catoctin Furnace Rd 3.04 mi.; from US 15 north to southern limits of Thurmont. Runs east of current US 15.MD 806D: 0.29 mi.; north off MD 76. Decommissioned 1978, transferred to Mount St. Mary's College.MD 806E: 0.21 mi.; US 15 at entrance to Mount St. Mary's College. Decommissioned 1978, transferred to Mount St. Mary's College.MD 806I: (no name) 0.53 mi.; from dead end north to Willow Rd. Paralles US 15 to the west.MD 806N: (no name) 0.56 mi.; from Hayward Rd in Frederick north to cul-de-sac. Parallels US 15 to the west, just south of 806I.MD 806O: (no name) 0.04 mi.; from road end north to road end. Intersects Lohr RdMD 806R: Albert Staub Rd, Emmitsburg Rd 1.01 mi.; from MD 550 north to Roddy Creek Rd. Albert Staub Rd added to extend MD 806 to Roddy Creek Rd for a right-angle intersection with US 15. Roddy Creek Rd features a covered bridge.
Though it's not listed as under state maintenance, MD 806 is signed north of Thurmont, even being dual-signed with 550.
MD 807 comprises the old alignments, spurs and stubs of US 220, Bedford Road, north of Cumberland.
Sections of MD 807: MD 807: Bedford Rd 3.52 mi.; from northern limits of Cumberland north to US 220.MD 807A: Naves Cross Rd 0.10 mi.; from MD 144 (Christie Rd) east to end of state maintenance at Mason Rd. This piece has been part of US 220, and before that, MD 395. Though officially now 807A, is signed as MD 144.MD 807B: Bedford Rd 0.38 mi.; from MD 807 north to cul-de-sac.MD 807C: (no name) 0.10 mi.; from US 220 south to cul-de-sac near Centenay United Methodist Church.MD 807D: Pine Ridge Rd 0.23 mi.; from US 200 north to end of state maintenance.MD 807E: Smouses Mill Rd 0.06 mi.; from start of maintenance at Hazen Rd (former MD 48) north to US 220 at MD 807.
MD 808 is the old 27 through Mount Airy. Part of Main Street forms the Frederick-Carroll County boundary through the center of town, though
the SHA data has Main Street as being entirely in Carroll County for inventory purposes.
MD 810 is used for the frontage roads either side of MD 210. It's relatively modern, so there aren't any old alignments of 210, not yet.
The sections of 810 intermingle with the suffixed section of MD 210.
Sections of MD 810: MD 810A: Livingston Rd 0.16 mi.; from entrance of electric substation north to end of state maintenance near MD 210J (service road).MD 810B: Spring Grove Dr 0.04 mi.; from MD 210K (Beech La) east to end of maintenance.MD 810C: Dale La 0.04 mi.; from MD 210K (Beech La) east to end of maintenance.MD 810D: Maple La 0.04 mi.; from MD 210K (Beech La) east to end of maintenance..MD 810E: Pine Dr 0.08 mi.; from start of maintenance south to MD 210K (Beech La).MD 810F: Holly Way 0.10 mi.; from start of maintenance south to end of maintenance at MD 810G.MD 810G: Pine La 0.06 mi.; from start of maintenance at MD 810F east to MD 210.MD 810H: Manning Rd W 0.11 mi.; from start of maintenance south to MD 210.MD 810I: Manning Rd E 0.69 mi.; from MD 210 south to end of maintenance 0.04 miles past MD 228.MD 810J: Livingston Rd 0.10 mi.; from MD 210/MD 373 west to end of maintenance at MD 210S (Biddle Rd).MD 810K: Brian Point Rd 0.10 mi.; from road end west to end of maintenance at MD 210S (Biddle Rd).
MD 812 is a former alignment of MD 213 through Cherry Hill, and MD 280 before that. As on other Cecil County routes, there is plenty of room to bypass mildly developed hamlets like
Cherry Hill with a new alignment.
Although there is an extant section of 813 in Wicomico County (numbered similar to 313), the number was
mostly used for an old piece of MD 276 in Cecil County.
Sections of MD 813: MD 813: (CE) 0.25 mi.; from MD 276 to MD 276. old alignment south of MD 813AMD 813A: Harrisville Rd (CE) 2.09 mi.; from Road End N to MD 273. Despite being dropped in 1979, MD 269 ended here until its demise in 1984.MD 813F: Twiford Rd (WI) 0.12 mi.; from State St south across MD 313 to end of maintenance.
MD 815 is an old alignment of MD 349, bypassed due to a tight bend. Though it's inventoried east-west, MD 815 is signed north-south.
Eastward is signed north, westward is signed as south. The route east of Parsons Road may be one way westbound; it's looks more like a ramp on the map, and all turn movements onto
MD 349 can be done from Parsons Rd.
Became CO 369 according to the RTDS, so that gives us: Old Madison Rd. In the current SHA database, it loops with MD 16 as the old 816 did.
Madison is on the Little Choptank River along MD 16, west of Church Creek (where MD 16 splits with MD 335.)
MD 817 consists of two sections of MD 16-331 through Linchester, south of Preston.
Sections of MD 817: MD 817A: Linchester Rd 0.46 mi.; from MD 16-331 north back to MD 16-331. Connected on the north end by MD 331A.MD 817B: Langrell Rd 0.52 mi.; from MD 318 north to road end 0.13 miles past Seaman Rd.
Route 818 is the old, pre-bypass routing of US 113 through Berlin. The number
probably dates from the time of construction of the new 4-lane US 113 east of
town (late 60s?), relieving the burden of eastern Delmarva north-south traffic
through Berlin.
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A Reflection on Transitional Justice in Guatemala 15 Years After the Peace Agreements
Abstract
This chapter is a reflection of what the wartime prosecutions in Guatemala have achieved in the past fifteen years since the signing of the peace agreements. Through their participation in emblematic wartime cases in Guatemala, victims have infused the justice system with accountability to make it harder for individual prosecutors or judges to dismiss the cases; they have brought resources that have resulted in better investigations, better trials and better evidence and even more protection for the brave prosecutors and judges and they have creatively pushed the boundaries of law to advance criminal law and procedural doctrines in accordance with international legal developments. However, these heroic efforts in important individual cases have yielded few lasting reforms in the judicial system of Guatemala. It is time for Guatemala to acknowledge that it has asked too much from the victims and to consider alternative models for addressing the persistent and endemic problems of transitional justice in the country.
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The author is Professor of Law and Director of the Inter-American Program at the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. I thank the support of my scholarship by my law school Pacific McGeorge School of Law and the research assistance of Erika González, JD 2012. I dedicate this chapter to the many victims and lawyers of the wartime cases in Guatemala for their valour and tenacity, and in particular Jennifer Harbury who over the years has also become a friend.
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Moi has been following the school vending machine issue for awhile. In Government is trying to control the vending machine choices of children, moi wrote:
The goal of this society should be to raise healthy and happy children who will grow into concerned and involved adults who care about their fellow citizens and environment. In order to accomplish this goal, all children must receive a good basic education and in order to achieve that goal, children must arrive at school, ready to learn. Ron Nixon reports in the New York Times article, New Guidelines Planned on School Vending Machines about the attempt to legislate healthier eating habits. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/us/politics/new-rules-planned-on-school-vending-machines.html?_r=1&hpw
There have been studies about the effect of vending machine snacking and childhood obesity.
Katy Waldman wrote the Slate article, Do Vending Machines Affect Student Obesity?
Despite all the recent handwringing (even pearl clutching) over junk food in schools, a study out this month in the quarterly Sociology of Education found no link between student obesity rates and the school-wide sale of candy, chips, or sugary soda. The finding undermines efforts by policy makers to trim kids’ waistlines by banning snacks from the classroom. And it must taste odd to the many doctors and scientists who see vending machines as accessories in the childhood obesity epidemic.
The study followed 19,450 fifth graders of both sexes for four years. At the beginning, 59 percent of the students went to schools that sold “competitive foods”—that is, non-cafeteria fare not reimbursable through federal meal programs. CFs tend to have higher sugar or fat content and lower nutritional value (think the indulgences at the top of the food pyramid, like Coke and Oreos). By the time the students reached eighth grade, 86 percent of them attended schools that sold competitive foods. The researchers, led by Pennsylvania State University’s Jennifer Van Hook, then compared body mass indexes from the 19,450 students, including those who’d spent all four years in junk food-free environments, those who’d left such schools for vending machine-friendly ones, those who’d transferred from vending machine-friendly schools to junk food-free schools, and those who enjoyed access to vending machines for all four years. Regardless of which data sets they contrasted, the researchers were unable to find any sort of connection between obesity and the availability of “unhealthy” snacks in school. In other words, children who could theoretically grab a Snickers bar after class every day for four years were, on average, no heavier than those who couldn’t.
While Van Hook speculated to the New York Times that the findings reflect our tendency to “establish food preferences… early in life,” she also noted in her paper that middle schoolers’ regimented schedules could prevent them from doing much unsupervised eating. (I guess that means that the students didn’t have time to utilize the junk food options they had, which is an issue for another day). In any case, the takeaway is clear. You can’t solve childhood obesity by outlawing vending machines. The obesity epidemic (if it is one) depends on a complex interplay of genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors. Maybe a full-court press of school regulations plus zoning laws that encourage supermarkets to come to poor neighborhoods plus government subsidies for fruits and veggies plus crackdowns on fast food advertising plus fifty other adjustments would begin to make a dent in the problem. (Maybe a saner cultural attitude towards food, weight, and looks in general would also help). http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/01/24/junk_food_in_school_do_vending_machines_make_kids_fat_.html
Long-awaited rules that regulate the fat, salt, sugar, and calories in snacks and vending machine foods sold in schools were finally released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture today.
The rules take effect during the 2014-15 school year. Nutrition advocates have been pressing the USDA to issue the rules this month. Any later, and they wouldn’t have taken effect until the 2015-16 school year.
The new rules are the first update to school snack regulations since the 1970s. The existing rules only limited “foods of minimal nutritional value,” which didn’t keep candy bars, snack cakes, and sugary, vitamin-fortified sports drinks, from being regulated, said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Despite some high hopes for the rules, which come on the heels of strict rules for school lunches, they won’t completely wipe out sodas, chips, or sweets from schools. But they will make a dent.
“Millions of students currently have widespread access to snacks and beverages that are high in sugar, fat, and salt, but limited access to nutritious options such as fruits and vegetables in school stores, snack bars, and vending machines,” said Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project. “With many students consuming up to half of their daily calories at school, these new standards represent the kind of positive change we need to help reduce obesity rates among children and teens.”
Many of the rules are adapted from those that were originally proposed by the agency, which received about 250,000 comments.
What happens if schools don’t comply? Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he hopes schools do, though there aren’t explicit penalties if they don’t, unlike rules for the school lunch and breakfast programs. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rulesforengagement/2013/06/rules_for_school_vending_machines_snacks_unveiled.html?intc=es
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that under USDA’s new ” Smart Snacks in School” nutrition standards, America’s students will be offered healthier food options during the school day.
“Nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our children,” said Secretary Vilsack. “Parents and schools work hard to give our youngsters the opportunity to grow up healthy and strong, and providing healthy options throughout school cafeterias, vending machines, and snack bars will support their great efforts.”
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 requires USDA to establish nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools — beyond the federally-supported meals programs. The “Smart Snacks in School” nutrition standards, to be published this week in the Federal Register, reflect USDA’s thoughtful consideration and response to the nearly 250,000 comments received on the proposal earlier this year.
“Smart Snacks in School” carefully balances science-based nutrition guidelines with practical and flexible solutions to promote healthier eating on campus, drawing on recommendations from the Institute of Medicine and existing voluntary standards already implemented by thousands of schools around the country, as well as healthy food and beverage offerings already available in the marketplace.
Highlights of the “Smart Snacks in School” nutrition standards include:
More of the foods we should encourage. Like the new school meals, the standards require healthier foods, more whole grains, low fat dairy, fruits, vegetables and leaner protein.
Less of the foods we should avoid. Food items are lower in fat, sugar, and sodium and provide more of the nutrients kids need.
Targeted standards. Allowing variation by age group for factors such as portion size and caffeine content.
Flexibility for important traditions. Preserving the ability for parents to send their kids to school with homemade lunches or treats for activities such as birthday parties, holidays, and other celebrations; and allowing schools to continue traditions like fundraisers and bake sales.
Ample time for implementation. Schools and food and beverage companies will have an entire school year to make the necessary changes, and USDA will offer training and technical assistance every step of the way.
Reasonable limitations on when and where the standards apply. Ensuring that standards only affect foods that are sold on school campus during the school day. Foods sold at afterschool sporting events or other activities will not be subject to these requirements.
Flexibility for state and local communities. Allowing significant local and regional autonomy by only establishing minimum requirements for schools. States and schools that have stronger standards than what is being proposed will be able to maintain their own policies.
USDA is focused on improving childhood nutrition and empowering families to make healthier food choices by providing science-based information and advice, while expanding the availability of healthy food.
America’s students now have healthier and more nutritious school meals due to improved nutrition standards implemented as a result of the historic Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
USDA’s MyPlate symbol and the resources at ChooseMyPlate.gov provide quick, easy reference tools for parents, teachers, healthcare professionals and communities.
USDA launched a new $5 million Farm to School grant program in 2012 to increase the amount of healthy, local food in schools.
USDA awarded $5.2 million in grants to provide training and technical assistance for child nutrition foodservice professionals and support stronger school nutrition education programs.
Collectively these policies and actions will help combat child hunger and obesity and improve the health and nutrition of the nation’s children; a top priority for the Obama Administration. The interim final rule announced today is an important component of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative to combat the challenge of childhood obesity.
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The issue of childhood obesity is complicated and there are probably many factors. If a child’s family does not model healthy eating habits, it probably will be difficult to change the food preferences of the child. Our goal as a society should be:
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Hey guys. I have a problem, couple days ago my 98 528i start shaking and after that i got check engine light on. The code is P0303 (cylinder 3 misfire detected) and i just changed my spark plugs last month and i also checked all my coils they are working. And no leak from anywhere. The mechanic said it might be the valve, and it will cost $300 to $500! Didnt sound good to me...How can i fix this problem?
If it is the coils, a /coil F3 in the bestlinks netted the following:
- How to test a BMW ignition coil (1) (2)
I don't consider those threads all that wonderful for testing coils, in and of themselves (other than the basic hints) ... so if the OP comes up with a better procedure, please let us know so all benefit.
Note: The second link though is great for general misfires!
As for the DTC, the OP needs to go here first:
- How to help someone who has an SES but hasn't read the codes yet (1)
I gotta scratch my head and wonder how you know that just from a single code????
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its head gasket! there is a leak on cylinder 3, so it taking coolant and it mixing it with the oil!
Hmmm... cn90 was right. How did he know?
Anyway, we have a ton of links waiting for you once you tell me that ... hope these help.
- Summary advice to provide users who suspect a major engine repair due to overheating (1) (2) (3) (4) & how to test an engine for a blown head gasket, cracked heads, a warped block, stripped head bolt threads, cam seizures, contaminated bearings, coolant hydrolock, or piston, ring, or valve damage (1) (2) & what are the major factors in deciding whether to rebuild the engine, replace the engine, or sell the car (1) & a DIY for replacing the I6 M54 head gasket (1) (2) & replacing the V8 M62TU head gasket (1) & why these engines are so prone to heat-related damage in the first place (1) & welding the crack between cylinder #3 and the water jacket on the exhaust side (1) & what engine swaps are most recommended (1) (2) (3) & where to obtain a new or rebuilt head (1) replacement short block or long block (1) (2) & how to lift & remove the engine (1) & the most recent real-world results from the last 50 people faced with similar blown engine problems from which this advice came from (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50)
You might be better off finding a good used engine. Cylinder 3 problems often come with a cracked head on that cylinder. Some have weilded the head and been OK--but there'e going to be alot of down time here--I would think somewhere around 2500 bucks for the fix--u might find a used engine cheaper in the long run.
If you buy a Bentley repair manual, head gasket jobs aren't that hard to DIY but I recommend finding a machine shop to deck the head before reinstalling it. You can DIY for a couple hundred bucks at the most
If you buy a Bentley repair manual, head gasket jobs aren't that hard to DIY but I recommend finding a machine shop to deck the head before reinstalling it. You can DIY for a couple hundred bucks at the most
Yep.
Same engine (M52) I did in December, cost me a little less than $1000, but I did literally EVERYthing. Vanos seal, CCV, ALL hoses, injector o-rings, and even replaced a couple lifters and chain guides. If your lifters are all good, you won't have that expense, but if you have it all apart, I do recommend doing the VANOS seal, CCV, and every last hose you can reach.
If you buy a Bentley repair manual, head gasket jobs aren't that hard to DIY but I recommend finding a machine shop to deck the head before reinstalling it. You can DIY for a couple hundred bucks at the most
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Since we don't have a generic megathread to use anymore, I thought it'd be ok to bring in a thread for players to basically do a little venting like they did before, if that's all right.
Everyone's had those games where someone or a group of someones make a dumb decision, and it ends up costing the game, or at least costing severely. Post your stress stories of your teammates (Or yourself. Be honest) doing stupid things, saying stupid things, or otherwise just being dumb.
I was just in a game at Hotspot capture points as Hiryuu, and half the team decided to give into tunnel vision bloodlust. Every ship that spawned on the right side of the map bar myself made a proper push, and killed off the enemies occupying the C Point. But instead of then capturing the point, pushing in to B with a flank, and generally assisting the team struggling on the A side (we captured it, but the enemy concentrated their BBs on that side), they instead thoguht it was a brilliant idea to sail right past and around the C point to charge the enemy backline with their sluggish BBs and one Nurnburg. Obviously, we lost that game by an 800 point spread, because while they were chasing (and not catching up to) the enemy CVs, their team was racking up points from owning B and C while their forces collapsed onto the smaller half of my team desperately trying to defend A. They never even got in range to shoot the enemy CVs because they obviously had a brain and moved to the left half of the map.
Just to add insult to injury, the game was a 4CV game, and the enemy Shoukaku had the T5 Cmd. Skill. Because the team on my side of the map was pushing in blindly, both the Shoukaku and Hiryuu focused all of their planes on my side, pretty much preventing me from doing anything since I can't fight four squads of fighters by myself, especially when two are buffed by AS. Got complaints about not helping them, but there was legitimately nothing I could do against those numbers, and I couldn't even play to the other side of the map because it had two Cleveland and an N.C. that my allied Shoukaku kept trying and failing to attack.
A match earlier today of the classic Lemming Run that left 2 other ships and myself on one side of the map. You guys have played this game enough to know how Lemming Runs go. Vast majority of team goes one way, gets put into an abrupt halt by 1-2 ships while the other side with the fewest ships gets rolled. The Lemmings despite all their ships cannot go past the middle, lateral line and they lose 2 ships in the process. The few of us out west are kiting or trying to slow down the bigger enemy force. To my horror, I look and see a Farragut got through a middle run to attack our CV, sinking one. It just spiraled out into a big mess from there and was quite pitiful.
Of significant note on the whole "Strike vs Air Superiority" aspect of CVs, of which I've converted fully into "Strike > Air Superiority," the same match was notable for a 2 CV vs 2 CV affair, Tier VII and VI. Our CVs were Hiryu, Independence, both Fighter Spec. Despite the sheer amount of fighters they had up, I shook my head when the enemy RJ **STILL** sneaked in her entire Strike Air Group that hit our Hiryu real hard. That is the value of good Strike CVs. They still can get the airstrike in with savvy play even against Air Sup CVs.
@Emerald Acid Situation awareness and tunnel vision is a killer, man. Normally with a somewhat evenly distributed team it's hard to get focused down like that by 2 CVs because they'd still have to fly over or near friendly ships to get to your CV. But when the team disposition is screwed up, your CV is in big danger to get overwhelmed like that.
In addition, with all these Kill oriented missions to get to Mikasa, I'm having a lot of trouble getting kills. I'm doing damage, winning my better portion of matches, but I kills for mission progress sucked for me today. And too bad the discounts don't count for Tier IX+ ships. I'd like to get Zao and possibly another ship or two. Especially Queen Flamethrower.
Anyways, just finished a match using Fuso. 4 kills, was #4 scorer for my team. It was looking real bleak, I was on weak side and next thing you know a handful of Cruisers and a Texas was chasing me. Thank goodness Fuso has decent speed to at least somewhat kite and keep me out of TX gun range while whittling down Cruisers.
Anyways, it was looking bad when I finally went down despite a pretty good showing. Disappointed but decided to keep watching. Next thing you know my team somehow made a comeback and started killing the enemy off in quick succession. It was one of those quick turnarounds where someone on the other team was complaining how the hell the they blew such a good lead. Hell, I watched and even I didn't know how the guys made that comeback.
Regardless if it was a win or loss, I got the kills needed to wrap up phase 2 for my quest to get Mikasa. Now working on Freedom: July 9th Argentina Mission, need 40 kills. This may take a while. Won 7/14 matches today, completed 2 phases towards Mikasa. Productive enough, time to call it a day while I'm ahead.
Just when I thought "We need a thread like this", someone already opened it while I was away XD
So, I had this game on Solomon in Isjaslaw, starting north.
By the time I reached the B cap, there was an enemy cruiser coming towards me. Set off my torps, then started shooting at him.
Some hits, 1 fire, pretty average, but then my allied Derzki just decided to get in on the fight, sailing straight into my slow soviet tors, taking the 2 of them that could have hit that cruiser, sinking himself & getting me my first TK'ing
And another game, on Neighbours map, I witnessed our CV sending his fighters straight towards enemy base right at the start. When they spotted the enemy TB squads, I thought "nice anticipation, shoot them down fast"
Nope, the squads passed each other at less than 1 km distance, by the time he ordered his fighters back the enemy CV was already in perfect Alpha Strike position.
Really getting annoyed how the enemy team always seems to be the team with Atlanta/Cleveland/Texas combos, whereas my team gets maybe one Cleveland. I just styled all over the enemy CV's planes, but I couldn't contribute anything against the actual surface ships because of the absurd AA spread everywhere.
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Just edited the OP to give a bit more freedom to the thread. Maybe I should have called it The Salty Spitoon like I originally planned...
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I’ve always loved both Summer and Winter Olympics. Had delusions of running the 800m in the Dave Wottle era. Ah, the folly of youth.
This is the only time I’ll watch weird sports...got up this morning and watched ski jumping. That’ll put hair on your chest.
Great interview on Adam Schefter podcast with Al Michaels last week before SB. The 70's and 80's were a different time, and the Olympics had meaning behind the playing field. I think globalization and political shifts have taken away the intrigue of the Olympics -as well as all the scandals and failures of the host cities. Let's hope that Paris and LA can turn that tide. The last several have been failed ventures by subpar hosts. The Olympics need a captivating, interesting venue, and Korea is just not it, despite the N. Korea element.
You certainly won't get that venue out of the next Winter Olympics. Almost nobody wanted those games, to the point that all three European finalists pulled out. The only two left standing were Almaty, Kazakhstan and Beijing, China, both under authoritarian regimes. Beijing won by default. The Chinese have set aside two sites for those games, with the closest being 100 miles from Beijing.
I don't think having a venue like Paris and LA is the problem with the Olympics. I think the Olympics themselves are the problem. The financial equation doesn't work and the lack of rule enforcement (see Russians are banned...uh except those 160+ that aren't) makes the games a joke. I want to watch and cheer on USA, but I really have a hard time with all the noise in the background.
I enjoy watching the competition. I don't enjoy all the talk, scandals, interviews, even the endless "human interest stories". Unfortunately, that's what sports on TV have become (see ESPN). Somehow, networks have determined that Americans don't want to actually see sports, they just want to hear the stories around sports. So I find myself watching the games less every time around.
I also hate when it's in a time zone where we run across results on the internet hours before NBC shows it. Nothing like spoiling the surprise... Almost makes me want to avoid the internet. Almost.
I enjoy watching the competition. I don't enjoy all the talk, scandals, interviews, even the endless "human interest stories". Unfortunately, that's what sports on TV have become (see ESPN). Somehow, networks have determined that Americans don't want to actually see sports, they just want to hear the stories around sports. So I find myself watching the games less every time around.
I agree. Also the X games sports are a turnoff for me too. I like the old school stuff like curling luge biathlon
I enjoy watching the competition. I don't enjoy all the talk, scandals, interviews, even the endless "human interest stories". Unfortunately, that's what sports on TV have become (see ESPN). Somehow, networks have determined that Americans don't want to actually see sports, they just want to hear the stories around sports. So I find myself watching the games less every time around.
I also hate when it's in a time zone where we run across results on the internet hours before NBC shows it. Nothing like spoiling the surprise... Almost makes me want to avoid the internet. Almost.
Think NBC has given up the fight against the internet. Almost everything is aired live now.
I enjoy watching the competition. I don't enjoy all the talk, scandals, interviews, even the endless "human interest stories". Unfortunately, that's what sports on TV have become (see ESPN). Somehow, networks have determined that Americans don't want to actually see sports, they just want to hear the stories around sports. So I find myself watching the games less every time around.
I agree. Also the X games sports are a turnoff for me too. I like the old school stuff like curling luge biathlon
Totally agree here...I'll add ice dancing to these modern day fake sports.
I've never cared for the summer olympic. I grew up obsessed with the winter. But somewhere in early adult hood all of the x games stuff killed my interest
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I've never cared for the summer olympic. I grew up obsessed with the winter. But somewhere in early adult hood all of the x games stuff killed my interest
Track & Field and boxing are the best. Nothing better. You've never been to a track meet. Very exciting and it's a sport that is under-exposed.
If you ever get the chance, attend a whole day of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. It runs like clockwork from morning to night, with races running every few minutes. Everything from top level high school teams to colleges and beyond including all age groups from all over the world. I’m pretty sure I saw Usain Bolt run there as a HS phenom from Jamaica. Since Franklin Field was built a million years ago and is hemmed in on Penn’s campus, it retains that old world feeling. It’s like you are watching Chariots of Fire.
I've never cared for the summer olympic. I grew up obsessed with the winter. But somewhere in early adult hood all of the x games stuff killed my interest
Track & Field and boxing are the best. Nothing better. You've never been to a track meet. Very exciting and it's a sport that is under-exposed.
If you ever get the chance, attend a whole day of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. It runs like clockwork from morning to night, with races running every few minutes. Everything from top level high school teams to colleges and beyond including all age groups from all over the world. I’m pretty sure I saw Usain Bolt run there as a HS phenom from Jamaica. Since Franklin Field was built a million years ago and is hemmed in on Penn’s campus, it retains that old world feeling. It’s like you are watching Chariots of Fire.
I will. Have always been a T&F fan, and the Penn Relays have been a top meet since I can remember. Some day...
While I haven't been watching closely, I've been seeing headlines and checking the medal table. Even if my interest isn't all that all high, I still want to see the USA on top. Unfortunately this is swiftly turning into one of the worst Olympics for the US in a long time. The games are halfway over and we have a measly 8 medals. We are tied with Austria for 5th place in total medals. Several US favorites to win or medal in their events haven't reached the podium. Meanwhile, Norway, a Winter Olympic powerhouse for sure, has 19 medals.
To put this into perspective, the US finished the 2014 Olympics with 28 medals, second only to Russia's 29 total medals (and we know how legit that number is). I suppose there's still time to make up some ground, but this Olympics performance is becoming an embarrassment.
Ski jumping, downhill, speed skating, hockey, maybe bobsled. Everything else irritated. And I miss the coverage style of the 70s, when we just got run after run down the mountain without the extraneous human interest crap. I blame gymnastics and figure skating enthusiasts for that nonsense.
Exactly why they had no business being at these Olympics. Sorry if that isn't fair to the clean Russian athletes (if there are any), but what they did 4 years ago wasn't fair to any athlete from any country.
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Diya Aur Baati Hum 28th November 2015 Saturday Episode – Star Plus
Diya Aur Baati Hum 28th November 2015: DABH latest episode is out. So much happened in this latest episode of Dia Aur Bati Hum. So make sure you don’t miss out this Saturday episode written an update. This will help out those who have missed the episode. (check: DABH last episode.)
The episode starts with Sooraj asking Sandhya not to worry. Sandhya says she can’t bear any pain to her family. Sooraj says sometimes it happens and we need to accept it. Sooraj asks her to share her worries too. Sandhya thinks she could, but it’s not the time and rests on his shoulder and says when you are close to me, all my worries fly away. Sandhya tells Satya and says he needs to question Emily as she has doubt on her.
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Satya says let’s reopen the case once again. She calls her phone but gets switched off. Satya says something is wrong and they both call home and they Meenakshi says she went to the clinic with Pari. Satya calls Clinic and comes to know that Doctor is off to abroad for a week. Satya says may be Emily might have thought that you were doubting and she ran away with her kid. (watch: All Episodes of DABH.)
Satya alerts all his officers to catch her and sends her pic to all police stations. Suddenly they see Emily and she says she is the murdered and Satya and Sandhya are shocked as they see both Lokesh and also Emily saying they are the murderers.
Emily tells Sandhya and Satya that she and Mohit used to always fight. So she thought of ending this relationship with him and makes divorce papers. She goes to Komal’s place and sees Mohit and Komal together once again. He says is she spying on him. She says no, she hasn’t come to fight. She says she wants to get rid of this relationship and she gives the divorce papers and asks him to sign them.
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Komal asks Mohit to sign them and he asks her to leave and says he will handle this. As soon as Komal leaves, he asks where to sign and he does not sign it and says I will not give you freedom so easily and she slaps him. He holds her next angrily and she pushes him off. He gets hurt and he again comes at her, she pushes him and he falls in the well. She erases the pathi word from Komal’s message and says I did the crime.
Satya says now everything is clear and but we have two murderers. We must solve this case as early as possible. He asks Emily to leave and asks her not to leave the city until the case is solved. Sandhya asks her to go home and Emily asks her not to say this Pari as she will be in shock. He questions her why did she accept this at last.
She says she knew, Sandhya was doubting her and says she was scared. She leaves. Satya says only one man can solve this case. The one who called us and informed about the accident. Since Komal was not on the spot, who is that one. There are no PCO’s too. They were 15-20 mins away. So we need to find this guy and the real culprit can be caught.
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First-time lawyers before the Supreme Court invariably comment about the close distance between their lectern and the justices’ bench. How close? For Zackery Morazzini, California’s Supervising Deputy Attorney General and the state’s advocate in this morning’s oral argument in Schwarzenegger v. Electronic Merchants Association, this close:
For half an hour, at least six justices appeared to be engaging in their own first-person shooter games, each directing his or her barrel down at Morazzini’s argument that ultra-violent videogames are not protected by the First Amendment. And Morazzini was asking the Court to adopt an unprecedented expansion of its obscenity doctrine beyond its sex-based bounds, putting him so snugly within the justices’ sights that they didn’t even have to take aim to score their fatal shots.
Justice Antonin Scalia pursued Morazzini as if the lawyer had kidnapped the justice’s brother. Like any game that can trace its roots back to Wolfenstein 3D–the father of first-person shooters–Scalia’s pursuit featured increased firepower with every deadly blow. His first line of questions merely exposed the difficulty in cabining the principle behind California’s laws just to video games, setting up Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan each to empty their revolvers: are Grimm’s fairy tales too violent? Comic books? Movies? Rap Music? Bugs Bunny?
From sight unseen leapt Justice Stephen G. Breyer with a flak jacket for Morazzini. If the shooters wanted a line drawn, he’d draw them a line: if the virtual gore is too violent for an 18-year-old, then it’s too violent for all minors, period.
But Breyer’s suggestion came just as Scalia and company were upgrading their weaponry. Kagan stalked Morazzini into a corner, forcing him to admit that juries are responsible for determining what is and isn’t too violent for minors. At this suggestion, Scalia brings out the shotgun: Cold Steel Originalism. With almost caricatured irascibility, Scalia said, “You are asking us to create a — a whole new prohibition which the American people never – never ratified when they ratified the First Amendment.”
At that point, Justice Samuel A. Alito attempted a diversion. “Well,” he said, “I think what Justice Scalia wants to know is what James Madison thought about about video games.” But the two conservative justices will have to save their internecine peppershot over the limits of originalism for the footnotes of this case’s ultimate opinions: pushing through the audience’s laughter–and we all know laughter heals lawyers’ bleeding, bullet-riddled craniums–Scalia insisted, “No, I want to know what James Madison thought about violence.”
Morazzini wasn’t destined to survive this onslaught. Not with Sotomayor pointing a double-barrel point-blank at him, tersely demanding specific dates for specific statutes banning speech. When he had no answer, he might as well have slumped down, lifeless, his skull fragments piercing the wooden bench before him. Instead, Justices Scalia, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Ginsburg spent the remains of Morazzini’s time gleefully smearing themselves in his splattered bits of brain.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts stayed out of the game for nearly all of Morazzini’s argument. But when Paul Smith of Jenner & Block stepped forward to argue against the California statute, the Chief pressed play. Roberts wrote last term’s 8-1 opinion in United States v. Stevens, in which the Court refused to create a First Amendment carve-out for depictions of animal cruelty. The Chief made clear today, however, that a child’s interactive destruction of virtual human life is far more nefarious than videos of real pit bulls mauling the jaws off of real wild hogs.
To make his point, the Chief lodged an entire clip of heavy metal deep into Smith’s argument that there is no American tradition of legally shielding children from violent expression.
Graphic violence. There is a difference. We do not have a tradition in this country of telling children they should watch people actively hitting schoolgirls over the head with a shovel so they’ll beg with mercy, being merciless and decapitating them, shooting people in the leg so they fall down. I’m reading from the district court description: Pour gasoline over them, set them on fire and urinate on them. We do not have a tradition in this country. We protect children from that. We don’t actively expose them to that.
With Scalia, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan sitting in gore-phoriac stupors from the first half-hour, Alito and Breyer grabbed the weapons and ran at Smith. Alito first took another shot at Scalia’s originalism, then moved on, his voice thick with sarcasm, to “clarify” Smith’s position:
And you say there is no problem because 16-year-olds in California never have $50 available to go buy a video game, and because they never have TVs in their room and their parents are always home watching what they — they do with their video games, and the parents — and the video games have features that allow parents to block access to — to block the playing of violent video games, which can’t be overcome by a computer-savvy California 16-year-old, that’s why there is no problem, right?
Breyer then charged ahead, framing the issue not as one of creating a new category of expression unprotected by the First Amendment, but rather as one of traditional First Amendment analysis, in which the restriction on speech must be narrowly tailored to meet a compelling state interest. Breyer’s bayonet caught Smith off-guard and soon Alito and Roberts were stabbing away. Even Sotomayor, now roused, poked at Smith a bit, but her pokes largely served to startle Smith into a tactical concession so that he could return to his stronger defenses.
Ultimately, however, it was Justice Anthony M. Kennedy who lit the match that may, one day, burn this whole damn grindhouse to the ground. The Court’s obscenity jurisprudence, upon which California’s chances live or die, has no place in the First Amendment, however unprotected appeals to the prurient interest may have been in America’s more puritanical past. And Kennedy today took the Court’s first steps towards an outright rejection of its obscenity doctrine since Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas originally warred against its formulation fifty years ago.
The transcript, however, robs Kennedy of his intent so evident to those who watched him on the prowl this morning. For instance, a reader could believe that Kennedy meant to endorse California’s law by repeatedly asking questions such as, “Why shouldn’t violence be treated the same as obscenity?” But these questions were couched in his broader observations that “the Court struggled for many, many years and to some extent is still struggling with obscenity.” These are words of condemnation, not of endorsement. They recognize that Roth‘s edifice has rotted, if it wasn’t rotten from the very start. And if California succeeds in housing its law in a rotten hellhole, so be it: sooner or later, the Court will make ashes of it all.
But Kennedy’s overtures will be left for another year, if any obscenity case ever manages to climb high enough to reach the Court. Today, all that mattered was that more justices killed more of California’s law than they did its challengers.
Indeed, that Morazzini managed to reassemble his skull and its contents for his rebuttal only gave Sotomayor more ammo with which to re-splatter his brains all over the Chief Justice. Said Sotomayor:
So what happens when the character gets maimed, head chopped off and immediately after it happens they spring back to life and they continue their battle. Is that covered by your act? Because they haven’t been maimed and killed forever. Just temporarily.
Just temporarily is right. Until the Court brings obscenity within the First Amendment’s protections, these cases will continue, like zombies and vampires, to rise from the dead, hungry to devour our brains and suck our blood even as we empty them of theirs over and over and over again.
The take-home from this morning’s oral arguments in NASA v. Nelson was simple: when the conservatives don’t buy into the right you’re asserting and your two most likely proponents can’t agree on how to agree with you, then you’re in trouble.
The issue was whether the Ninth Circuit erred in granting 28 employees of the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA, an injunction, based on a right to “informational privacy,” against the government’s use of open-ended questions as well as queries about drug treatment histories on standard background check forms introduced in 2005.
In the early minutes of oral argument it was apparent that both Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were searching for ways to convince their colleagues to uphold the injunction. Problem was, they clashed over strategy.
Sotomayor was the first to interrupt Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal’s argument with a broad, aggressive attack on the government’s policy.
“Could you ask somebody, what’s your genetic makeup, because we don’t want people with a gene that is predisposed to cancer?” Sotomayor inquired. When Katyal tried to duck the question, she cut to the point: “So what you are saying is, there is no limit?”
Before Katyal could wriggle out of reluctantly agreeing with Sotomayor, Ginsburg jumped in. Having served with the boys on the bench much longer than Sotomayor, she thought a narrower approach necessary to win their votes.
“The only thing that’s in contention there is the question about treatment or counseling. Nothing else. So why are we talking about the universe of questions that might be asked?” It was as if Ginsburg was telling Sotomayor to tone it down for fear of losing the Court’s right flank.
But the conservatives weren’t interested in narrowness or broadness. Not yet. They wanted to know a little more about this right of “informational privacy” thing.
Almost two decades ago, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the erstwhile savior of unenumerated privacy rights, famously wrote that “[a]t the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” This morning, however, Kennedy found the JPL employees’ asserted right to informational privacy troublingly “ill-defined or undefined.”
Kennedy’s comment triggered a series of queries to Katyal, who was unwilling, to the frustration of Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel A. Alito, to confirm or deny whether such a right exists.
So leave it up to Chief Justice John G. Roberts to successfully execute the bait and switch. With a friendly voice, he asked if the challenged questions about a history of drug counseling were required for the good of the employee. Katyal squarely answered in the affirmative, as if he was answering his former boss, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who appeared this morning entirely sympathetic to such progressive paternalism. Big mistake.
“Whenever the government comes and says, ‘This is for your own good,’ you have to be a little suspicious,” said Roberts, eliciting reflexive laughter from the entire courtroom.
And with that comment, Scalia was left behind derisively grumbling about substantive due process as Alito and Kennedy joined Roberts in attacking on pragmatic grounds half of the Ninth Circuit’s injunction.
If during Katyal’s argument a consensus emerged against the government’s drug counseling history questions, then Pasadena lawyer Dan Stormer’s argument established a majority’s approval of the similarly enjoined open-ended questions.
Stormer maintained that these questions were inappropriate for low-level employees such as snack bar workers or bus drivers who perform no sensitive activities at JPL.
But what if a snack bar worker “has a big sign on his lawn that says, ‘I hope the space shuttle blows up?’” asked Alito in one of his signature absurd hypotheticals. When Stormer conceded that the government should know that information, Alito shot back. If open-ended questions are forbidden, he asked, then how does the government get at that information?
“Do you have to have a specific question on the form?” wondered Alito. One that, say, specifically asks, “Does this individual have a big sign on his front lawn that says, ‘I hope the space shuttle blows up?’”
Speaking of Ginsburg, this year’s photo will be her first seated in the front row. Given her diminutive height, another question emerges. If her feet don’t touch the ground, will she bring back the Fuller Foot Pillow?
I wrote last night of internet obscenity. Today, the Second Circuit handed down its opinion in Fox v. FCC, declaring unconstitutional the FCC’s indecency policy of fining network television stations for broadcasting fleeting expletives.
The Second Circuit heard this case on remand from the Supreme Court, which last term upheld the FCC’s regulation as a matter of administrative law by a 5-4 vote. The Court refused to address the constitutional question of whether the policy violated the First Amendment – the issue the Second Circuit answered in the affirmative today.
Justice Thomas concurred in last year’s conservative majority, expressing his willingness to strike down the regulation on constitutional grounds even though he did not believe it to be impermissibly arbitrary or capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act. Thomas advocated for overturning precedents that gave less First Amendment protection to broadcast speech than otherwise given to utterances in printed media or cable television. “Red Lion and Pacifica,” he wrote, “were unconvincing when they were issued, and the passage of time has only increased doubt regarding their continued validity.”
Thomas has made a career out of similar separate opinions calling for breaks from incorrect precedents. While commentators may debate the long-term influence of Thomas’s lone cry in McDonald this term to overturn over a century of precedent so to exhume the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, they may find more immediate satisfaction if FCC v. Fox (captioned Fox v. FCC in today’s Second Circuit opinion) gets back to the Court on the constitutional issue.
The Networks argue that the world has changed since Pacifica and the reasons underlying the decision are no longer valid. Indeed, we face a media landscape that would have been almost unrecognizable in 1978. Cable television was still in its infancy. The Internet was a project run out of the Department of Defense with several hundred users. Not only did Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter not exist, but their founders were either still in diapers or not yet conceived. In this environment, broadcast television undoubtedly possessed a “uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans.” Pacifica, 438 U.S. at 748.
The same cannot be said today. The past thirty years has seen an explosion of media sources, and broadcast television has become only one voice in the chorus. Cable television is almost as pervasive as broadcast – almost 87 percent of households subscribe to a cable or satellite service – and most viewers can alternate between broadcast and non-broadcast channels with a click of their remote control. See In re Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in the Market for the Delivery of Video Programming, 24 FCC Rcd. 542, at ¶ 8 (2009). The internet, too, has become omnipresent, offering access to everything from viral videos to feature films and, yes, even broadcast television programs. […]
Moreover, technological changes have given parents the ability to decide which programs they will permit their children to watch. […] In short, there now exists a way to block programs that contain indecent speech in a way that was not possible in 1978. In fact, the existence of technology that allowed for household-by-household blocking of “unwanted” cable channels was one of the principle distinctions between cable television and broadcast media drawn by the Supreme Court in Playboy. The Court explained:
The option to block reduces the likelihood, so concerning to the Court in Pacifica, that traditional First Amendment scrutiny would deprive the Government of all authority to address this sort of problem. The corollary, of course, is that targeted blocking enables the Government to support parental authority without affecting the First Amendment interests of speakers and willing listeners – listeners for whom, if the speech is unpopular or indecent, the privacy of their own homes may be the optimal place of receipt.
We can think of no reason why this rationale for applying strict scrutiny in the case of cable television would not apply with equal force to broadcast television in light of the V-chip technology that is now available.
Nevertheless, Pooler refused to defy Supreme Court precedent and instead struck down the regulation as an impermissibly vague restriction on speech:
We agree with the Networks that the indecency policy is impermissibly vague. The first problem arises in the FCC’s determination as to which words or expressions are patently offensive. For instance, while the FCC concluded that “bullshit” in a “NYPD Blue” episode was patently offensive, it concluded that “dick” and “dickhead” were not. Omnibus Order, 21 F.C.C. Rcd 2664, at ¶¶ 127-128. Other expletives such as “pissed off,” up yours,” “kiss my ass,” and “wiping his ass” were also not found to be patently offensive. Id. at ¶ 197. The Commission argues that its three-factor “patently offensive” test gives broadcasters fair notice of what it will find indecent. However, in each of these cases, the Commission’s reasoning consisted of repetition of one or more of the factors without any discussion of how it applied them. Thus, the word “bullshit” is indecent because it is “vulgar, graphic and explicit” while the words “dickhead” was not indecent because it was “not sufficiently vulgar, explicit, or graphic.” This hardly gives broadcasters notice of how the Commission will apply the factors in the future. […]
[T]he absence of reliable guidance in the FCC’s standards chills a vast amount of protected speech dealing with some of the most important and universal themes in art and literature. Sex and the magnetic power of sexual attraction are surely among the most predominant themes in the study of humanity since the Trojan War. The digestive system and excretion are also important areas of human attention. By prohibiting all “patently offensive” references to sex, sexual organs, and excretion without giving adequate guidance as to what “patently offensive” means, the FCC effectively chills speech, because broadcasters have no way of knowing what the FCC will find offensive. To place any discussion of these vast topics at the broadcaster’s peril has the effect of promoting wide self-censorship of valuable material which should be completely protected under the First Amendment.
What seems certain from last year’s vote is that the Supreme Court, should it grant certiorari in this case, will affirm the Second Circuit’s judgment. If the four liberals–Stevens, Souter, Breyer, and Ginsburg–would have invalidated the policy on administrative law grounds, they would likely strike it down on constitutional grounds as well. And Thomas would surely provide a fifth vote, given his concurrence. Because no other member of the Court’s Fox majority joined Thomas’s concurrence, I question whether Roberts, Scalia, or Alito will side with the dissenters on the constitutional question, though I fall back on conventional wisdom in thinking that Kennedy is up for grabs.
The question now is whether the Court would follow Thomas’s suggestion and remove the constitutional distinctions between broadcast and other mediums, thereby submitting all speech restrictions to strict scrutiny. We don’t know how Sotomayor or Kagan would look towards uprooting precedent, especially one of Kagan’s (assuming she gets confirmed) predecessor’s landmark rulings. Stevens himself intimated in his Fox dissent that “Justice Thomas and I disagree about the continued wisdom of Pacifica,” implying that he would follow the Second Circuit’s void-for-vagueness ruling rather than overturn himself.
The Pacifica decision, however it might fare on reassessment, see ante,at 6 (Thomas, J., concurring), was tightly cabined, and for good reason. In dissent, Justice Brennan observed that the Government should take care before enjoining the broadcast of words or expressions spoken by many “in our land of cultural pluralism.” 438 U. S., at 775. That comment, fitting in the 1970’s, is even more potent today. If the reserved constitutional question reaches this Court, see ante, at 26 (majority opinion), we should be mindful that words unpalatable to some may be “commonplace” for others, “the stuff of everyday conversations.” 438 U. S., at 776 (Brennan, J., dissenting).
My former boss, NPR’s Nina Totenberg, has written a short and sweet story about Marty and Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
On the last day of the Supreme Court term, less than 24 hours after her husband had died, an ashen-faced Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced her opinion for the court in one of the term’s major cases. She was on the bench, she told colleagues, because “Marty would have wanted it this way.”
This piece is not just the work of a reporter, but also of a friend. Nina has been close with the Ginsburgs dating back over three decades to Justice Ginsburg’s days as a pioneering lawyer for gender equality at the ACLU.
My latest–and final–ABA Journal online column from the Court’s 2009-10 term is now live:
Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s first unabashedly straight answer of her confirmation hearings to become a Supreme Court justice came early in her 17 hours of questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. Ninety minutes into Kagan’s interrogation, Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., asked her for her opinion on cameras in the Supreme Court.
“I think it would be a terrific thing to have cameras in the courtroom,” said Kagan (Video). “When you see what happens there, it’s an inspiring sight…It would be a great thing for the court and a great thing for the American people.”
Twenty-four hours earlier, I was sitting inside the court witnessing its final session of the term. Like a dozen times before, I had sat through the night on the pavement outside to be among the few who would catch a glimpse of the inspiring sight to which Kagan, by virtue of her office, had a front row seat all this year.
But on Monday morning, I would have traded all of my own fond memories of new friends made and stories told over the past six months for the whole country to have seen the same moving scenes I saw.
I had been intending to take Professor Ginsburg’s Tax I class this coming fall as a capstone to my legal education. When I went to register and saw that his name was nowhere to be found, I figured he might have just taken the term off from teaching, as tenured titans may do from time to time. Turns out his absence was because of a much more serious reason.
A small anecdote: during my first year at Georgetown, I spotted H. Ross Perot’s name etched into the wall inside the entrance of McDonough Hall, the school’s main law building. I did some asking around to find out why he’d be a GULC benefactor. The answer? The Texas billionaire and former presidential candidate wanted to express his appreciation to Marty Ginsburg, his tax lawyer, for a job well done over the years.
My condolences to Justice Ginsburg and her family. I’ll be sitting shiva as I sit on the sidewalk tonight, convinced that Prof. Ginsburg is out there treating his friends old and new to a heavenly meal.
Like this:
The Court finished its business today for all but the term’s most high profile cases. Today’s decisions featured multiple heated concurrences and dissents, setting the mood for Monday’s decisions on major federalism, Second Amendment, and church-and-state cases, as well as a very long-awaited patent case that may fundamentally affect that field’s landscape.
Decided today were a trio of cases testing whether “honest services” statutes are unconstitutionally vague. Justice Ginsburg, writing for the Court in the lead case, Skilling v. United States, defined the scope of the criminal statute to bribery and kickback schemes rather than simply invalidate it. “Skilling swims against our case law’s current,” she wrote, “which requires us, if we can, to construe, not condemn, Congress’ enactments.”
Justice Scalia, writing for Justices Kennedy and Thomas, dissented on this point, preferring instead to strike down the law instead of “strik[ing] a pose of judicial humility.” Mocking the majority, Scalia finally introduced virtual shouting into his opinions, making explicit in all-caps the tone in which we’ve long implicitly understood his dissents were to be delivered:
Since the honest-services doctrine “had its genesis” in bribery prosecutions, and since several cases and counsel for Skilling referred to bribery and kickback schemes as “core” or “paradigm” or “typical” examples, or “[t]he most obvious form,” of honest-services fraud, ante, at 43–44 (internal quotation marks omitted), and since two cases and counsel for the Government say that they formed the “vast majority,” or “most” or at least “[t]he bulk” of honest-services cases, ante, at 43–44 (internal quotation marks omitted), THEREFORE it must be the case that they are all Congress meant by its reference to the honest-services doctrine.
Ginsburg’s opinion additionally determined that the notoriety of Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron CEO, did not deprive him of a fair trial. On this point, Justice Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justices Stevens and Breyer.
The Court also decided Doe v. Reed today, holding that disclosure requirements for referendum petitions do not generally violate the First Amendment. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for an eight-justice majority, refused to strike down Washington State’s Public Records Act on its face, but left open the question of whether the plaintiffs–men and women who signed a petition supporting a ballot referendum to overturn the State’s recognition of benefits for same-sex domestic partnerships–would prevail by challenging the PRA’s constitutionality as specifically applied to their own experiences.
Justice Alito, in a concurrence, emphasized what he saw as the plaintiffs’ “strong argument” in an as-applied challenge, echoing his United States v. Stevens dissent. As evidence, Alito found that “[t]he widespread harassment and intimidation suffered by supporters of California’s Proposition 8 provides strong support for an as-applied exemption in the present case”–an argument that went down in flames with most of the other justices, most notably Justice Scalia, at oral argument.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stevens and Ginsburg, registered a concurrence on the other side of the ledger from Alito:
courts presented with an as-applied challenge to a regulation authorizing the disclosure of referendum petitions should be deeply skeptical of any assertion that the Constitution, which embraces political transparency, compels States to conceal the identity of persons who seek to participate in lawmaking through a state-created referendum process.
Justice Stevens, writing for himself and Justice Breyer, took a similar stance in opposition to Alito’s prediction:
For an as-applied chal- lenge to a law such as the PRA to succeed, there would have to be a significant threat of harassment directed at those who sign the petition that cannot be mitigated by law enforcement measures. Moreover, the character of the law challenged in a referendum does not, in itself, affect the analysis. Debates about tax policy and regula- tion of private property can become just as heated as debates about domestic partnerships. And as a general matter, it is very difficult to show that by later disclosing the names of petition signatories, individuals will be less willing to sign petitions. Just as we have in the past, I would demand strong evidence before concluding that an indirect and speculative chain of events imposes a sub-stantial burden on speech.
Concurring in the judgment, Justice Scalia continued to press for “political courage,” as he had at oral argument, by rejecting the very notion that “the First Amendment accords a right to anonymity in the performance of an act with governmental effect.” To prove his point, he noted Kentucky’s and Virginia’s early history of viva voce voting, among other examples from American history. In conclusion, he crescendoes:
Plaintiffs raise concerns that the disclosure of petition signatures may lead to threats and intimidation. Of course nothing prevents the people of Washington from keeping petition signatures secret to avoid that—just as nothing prevented the States from moving to the secret ballot. But there is no constitutional basis for this Court to impose that course upon the States—or to insist (as today’s opinion does) that it can only be avoided by the demonstration of a “sufficiently important governmental interest,” ante, at 7 (internal quotation marks omitted). And it may even be a bad idea to keep petition signatures secret. There are laws against threats and intimidation; and harsh criticism, short of unlawful action, is a price our people have traditionally been willing to pay for self- governance. Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed. For my part, I do not look forward to a society which, thanks to the Supreme Court, cam- paigns anonymously (McIntyre) and even exercises the direct democracy of initiative and referendum hidden from public scrutiny and protected from the accountability of criticism. This does not resemble the Home of the Brave.
The Supreme Court today was slated to consider in Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms how nigh the organic alfalfa apocalypse must be to justify a federal district court’s nationwide injunction against the use of an agricultural giant’s genetically modified alfalfa seed.
But the Court this morning proved as resistant to the parties’ arguments as Monsanto’s alfalfa is to Roundup weed-killer. Instead of assessing, as expected, what degree of likelihood of environmental harm must be considered in order for a court to issue an injunction under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), the justices spent the hour snarling at this case as if it were an unwanted weed growing in the Marble Temple.
I’m off to the Court now to be not first for tomorrow morning’s argument in Doe v. Reed—the final argument of the Court’s term and Justice Stevens’s career. Keep your eye on my twitter feed, where I’ll be updating on the line’s progress through the night.
Bob Barnes at the Washington Post has a column today that discusses whether the days of the Court’s religiously-reserved seats are over:
Here’s the kind of question that might violate the rules you learned about proper dinner conversation: Does President Obama’s next Supreme Court nominee need to be a Protestant?
If Justice John Paul Stevens decides to call it a career after he turns 90 next month, the Supreme Court would for the first time in its history be without a justice belonging to America’s largest religious affiliations.
Turns out I’ve violated dinner conversation etiquette several times since I started F1@1F in December.
As I stated on F1@1F’s first day, I believe Obama will nominate Judge Diane Wood to preserve what has now become “the W.A.S.P. seat” when Stevens retires. For this reason (though not only this reason) I disagree with Tom Goldstein’s prediction at SCOTUSBlog that Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be Stevens’s successor.
In fact, Kagan may have time yet before she gets her much-expected nomination to the bench. I think Justice Ginsburg’s successor will be a person of color from a yet-to-be representedethnicgroup. Only when Justice Breyer retires will the President seek to preserve the Jewish seat.
By then, however, Kagan’s window may be closed by age or the President’s party affiliation. And no amount of goodwill Kagan built up among the conservative legal professoriate during her Harvard Law deanship will compel a GOP President to nominate her.
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Since their inception in 2002, Pendulum has had a long-lasting impact on drum and bass, combining a myriad of influences to break down genres and smash up charts around the world. From 'Vault' to 'Propane Nightmares', they have cemented themselves as heavy-hitters of electronic music and we are very excited to experience their explosive sound as part of Funktion Wednesdays!
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Clicking for iPhone iOS 4 Release Time
For those who have been living with their head in the sand, then you will be interested to know that today is the day that Apple releases its new iOS 4 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. As you would expect people have been connecting their current iPhones into iTunes and clicking on the update button – this is because no one is certain when the release time is.
A business colleague I know has been sitting in front of his computer all morning – I reckon he has hit update at least 200 times this morning. Some people say that you should just wait for iTunes to update your iPhone automatically – the one problem I have with that is my iTunes is not set to search for an OS update until June 24, it will be too late by then as my iPhone 4 should be here.
The Apple Forums is alive with all sorts of discussions on when the iOS4 will be available, there have even been suggestions that a select few has updated already – but we find this hard to believe.
This clicking the update button is not getting addictive, I must have pressed it ten times while writing this post. Sorry it is not my fault, I have backed up my iPhone 3GS – the button was just begging to be clicked.
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To Our Venerable Brothers, the Archbishops, Bishops and other Ordinaries of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Greetings and Apostolic Blessing.
Last Christmas We received your kind letter, in which once more professing your singular piety, love, and observance toward Us and this See of Peter, you indicate that you are constantly praying that God may aid Our humble person as We labor with the greatest solicitude for all the Churches throughout the world. These extraordinary expressions moved Us to write this encyclical letter to all of you who discharge your pastoral office in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, so that you may understand the love and concern We feel toward you and the faithful committed to your care.
2. Indeed We can scarcely express Our deep sorrow upon learning last December that a great many of your towns were so profoundly shaken by terrible earthquakes that a countless multitude of your peoples were killed by collapsing walls. King Ferdinand II, greatly grieved, has continuously offered support and financial help for the afflicted and prostrate inhabitants of these towns. As soon as the sad news of this great calamity reached Us, We implored God's mercy for these unhappy people and begged Him to heal the tribulations of the earth, whose foundations were so dreadfully shaken.
3. Holy Scripture clearly teaches that these scourges of God are provoked by the sins of men; therefore we exhort that, in fulfilling your ministry, your primary concern may be to turn the faithful committed to your care aside from sin and wrong-doing and to lead them in the paths of virtue, justice, and religion.
4. To Our mutual grief some clergy in your Kingdom, having forgotten their vocation, arouse the indignation of God by their reprehensible manner of life which, of course sets a bad example for the Christian people. For this reason you should strive to obliterate the corruption and abuses which have made their inroads into the conduct of the Clergy; support instead a sound way of life for them in keeping with the discipline of the holy canons. Properly train the younger clergy from their earliest years in piety, holiness, and religious spirit; see that they have a strong foundation in liberal arts, solid learning, and knowledge of the sacred canons.
5. First and foremost, keeping always in mind the precepts of the Apostle, be most careful not to lay hands prematurely on anyone and be extremely cautious in conferring sacred orders. Never, from a misplaced sense of obligation, partisanship, or favor, join to the clergy and promote to ecclesiastical grades and orders those who, not having even minimally the gifts required by the sacred canons, should be totally rejected from sacred ministry. He who does not fear to initiate into sacred orders those who are unworthy inflicts great harm on the Church. Therefore, your first concern is to strictly follow the prescriptions of the sacred canons. Carefully examine and scrutinize each candidate's origin, training, talents, character, and teaching. Ordain only those outstanding individuals who can truly benefit your dioceses. If they earnestly reject all things which are forbidden to clerics and which never become them, they may be an example to the faithful in "word, speech, charity, faith, and chastity."
6. Moreover, examine most intently the conduct, honesty, piety, knowledge, and prudence of those to whom the care and direction of souls is to be committed. Be ever vigilant that pastors fulfill their office zealously, wisely and holily. They should never fail to feed the Christian people entrusted to them by means of preaching the divine word, of administering the sacraments, and of dispensing of the multiple grace of God. They should diligently imbue young people especially and the uneducated with the mysteries and teachings of our divine religion and form them in all piety and virtue. If pastors do not fulfill their duty, religion and public life are damaged, morals are perverted, Christian discipline weakens, the exercise of religious worship declines, and all sorts of vices overwhelm people.
7. Moreover, you must be especially watchful that young people of both sexes be educated in fear of the Lord and His law and that they be trained in moral integrity. Accordingly, diligently inspect both private and public schools; see that your young people are free from all danger and that they receive a sound and completely Catholic education. Stretch, therefore, every fiber of your pastoral zeal to obtain this goal, since you know that the prosperity of the spiritual and civil communities depends greatly on the proper education of the youth. You know also the manifold evils by which, in these iniquitous times, the enemies of God and man attempt to pervert and corrupt the innocence of youth.
8. With similar diligence instruct the faithful in the doctrines of Catholic religion by word and by writing. Defend the people from the contagion of so many diabolic errors. Warn them to stand firm and unmoveable in the profession of our most holy faith and to observe most diligently the laws of God and His holy Church, never allowing themselves to be deceived and led into error by the followers of perverse doctrine. However, unwholesome books emerge everywhere; in them the most skillful fabricators of lies attempt to mislead everyone by corrupt and evil opinions of all sorts and to confuse things human and divine in order to cause the foundations of Christian and civil society to collapse. Strive to avert and repel this deadly pestilence of books from your flock. And, that you may the more easily and readily protect sound doctrine and good morals and close even avenues of approach to error and corruption, do not fail to inspect accurately all books, especially those which treat of philosophy, theology, and sacred matters and also those which deal with canon and civil law.
9. You know that it is also part of your episcopal duty to protect and vindicate at all times the venerable rights of the Church. You must preserve its goods and be concerned for their careful administration. Take the utmost care that pious legacies, especially those with regard to Masses, and other obligations be scrupulously observed and religiously carried out with all fraud and base gain far removed. With skill and prudence, you must provide that all business in your individual episcopal Curias be handled with all fairness, equity, and honesty. Therefore, venerable brothers, take great care that in your episcopal Curias, those men alone be engaged who, approved because of their integrity of life and skill in managing things, can carry out wisely and honestly the tasks delegated by you. And We most strongly ask that you try to judge ecclesiastical cases which belong to your tribunals according to the prescripts of the sacred canons and the force of convention with great care and inquiry. Likewise strive to see that your sentences are properly carried out, and, if there is need, seek the help and assistance of the civil power to this end.
10. Moreover, since Religious men are supplied to bishops to be helpers in the cultivation of the Lord's vineyard, as Benedict XIV, advises,[1] continually exhort them, emulating their founders, to return in a thoroughly religious fashion that which they vowed and to lead their lives according to the prescribed laws and to perform useful work in word, example, and prayer for you and your dioceses.
11. Also, with special concern and charity look after virgins sacred to God. They are the choice part of your flocks, the flower of the ecclesiastical plant, the ornament of spiritual grace. Afford them assistance, so that mindful of their holy vocation by which they have dedicated themselves to God, they may avert their eyes from human things and raise them always to heavenly ones. Then daily advancing from virtue to virtue, they may strive to diffuse the spirit of Christ everywhere. And We especially request that you attempt to carry out exactly what Benedict XIV wisely advised in His Constitution concerning the designation of extraordinary confessors for nuns.[2]
12. Finally, venerable brothers, We greatly desire that you be careful to hold Provincial Councils according to the precepts of the holy canons. For surely, you know that in this way, having consulted among yourselves and weighed everything properly, you may more wisely provide opportune remedies for ills and promote the prosperity of your dioceses; thereafter you will hold diocesan synods, which are mandatory under canonical sanction. In your Kingdom some archbishops lack suffragans, and some bishops do not have their metropolitan present; therefore they cannot hold a provincial council. It will be up to the prudence of these same holy bishops, having duly weighed all circumstances of place, time and situation, to convene with bishops with whom they think it more expedient in the Lord to hold councils of this sort without however any detriment to the rights and privileges enjoyed by any absent bishops and without the slightest change regarding the status of their Churches.
13. We have indicated to you those things which We thought should be indicated to you above all else. We know that you will wish to satisfy Our wishes and admonitions because Ferdinand II, illustrious King of the Two Sicilies, stretches out to you now his helping hand. We are confident that under his leadership, the Church in his kingdom will enjoy all liberty and exercise all its rights, as God and the sanctions of the sacred canons ordain.
14. Meanwhile, We humbly but earnestly pray and beseech Our merciful God to continue to pour more propitiously His richest gifts of goodness upon you. May He bless your pastoral cares, counsels, and labors, so that the faithful entrusted to you may daily and with greater fortitude turn aside from evil and do good. Growing in the knowledge of God and the love of Our Lord Jesus Christ may they walk worthily before God, pleasing Him in all things, and may they be fruitful in all good works. As a guarantee thereof and a clear sign of Our special benevolence to you, receive the apostolic blessing, venerable brothers, which from the bottom of Our heart We lovingly impart to you yourselves and all the clergy of your churches, and to the faithful laity.
Given in Rome at St. Peter's, 20 January 1858, in the 12th year of Our Pontificate.
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The Big Daddy in Storage – Beyond the Shed
More and more people are looking for portable storage containers as a way to store their items outside of their home. These containers are used for everything and anything now and are actually starting to replace sheds. While commercial storage containers were originally designed to help people who needed a temporary extra structure, they are now becoming permanent fixtures in many homes and businesses.
Where Are Portable Storage Containers Used?
You will find these containers absolutely everywhere and anywhere nowadays. However, most commonly, they are used for:
Home owners who are moving home, using them instead of a removals truck.
Home owners who want extra storage space on their own grounds.
Businesses who need storage space.
Construction sites, where they are converted into offices or other rooms.
Farms, where agricultural produce or even animals can be stored in them.
Manufacturing companies where they are used as a warehouse.
The aviation industry, where they can be transformed into hangars where planes can be repaired and stored.
Types of Portable Containers
What the above list shows is that these containers come in a lot of different shapes and sizes. After all, it is probably not suitable to have something capable of storing an airplane inside someone’s garden! There are a number of standard designs, but a lot of portable storage containers can also be custom designed to size. In fact, they can even be purchased in kits and are reasonably easy to set up.
These containers are inevitably made from metal. Because they are also used outside, and were originally designed for the shipping industry where they would have to withstand some of the harshest environmental elements, they are usually made of a reinforced material. Stainless steel, resist rust, and galvanized steel are the most common materials. Because of these materials, they are also fully fire proof. Perhaps most interesting is that they can be used to contain fires. There have been incidences of small fires being covered with a container to stop them from spreading further. Because of their tremendous strength, survivalists have used them in order to create shelters for impending disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, storms, and nuclear war. However, the reality is that these containers will most likely not protect you from a nuclear fallout.
One of the other useful things about these constructions is that they are very efficient in how they use space. They usually don’t require as many beams or posts to support the roof and side panels and structures. Plus, it is now possible to install heating and cooling devices, or other forms of climate control, so they can even be used to store perishable items, or things such as artworks that have to be kept at a steady temperature.
Another benefit is that these containers are very low maintenance and that it is possible to expend their size by simply adding another container to one of its sides and creating a door between the two structures.
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Following are some simple words and phrases useful to a first-time traveler in Ethiopia. The list is by no means exhaustive, nor does it make any attempt at fluency in the language. It is hoped that it will assist an English speaker in communicating basic needs in a polite manner.
Simple Pronunciation guide
a as the ‘a’ in father
e as the ‘e’ in set
I as the ‘I’ in ship
o as the ‘o’ in go
u as the ‘oo’ in boot
gn as the ‘gn’ in compagne (French)
Amharic spellings that follow are phonetic as per the above guide to aid in pronunciation
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Live: Rangpur opt to bowl against Comilla
In the big match of ongoing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) 2017, Rangpur Riders have opted to bowl first after winning the toss against Comilla Victorians at Sher-E-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka.
Rangpur Riders are at the bottom of the points table so this match becomes very crucial to them. If Mashrafe Mortaza and co can win the match then they will fifth spot of the points table of BPL season five.
On the other hand, Comilla Victorians have won their last three matches and they are now on fourth positions of the points table. So they will surely looking for to claim second spot of the points table by winning this match.
Rangpur have included two big names Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum in the playing XI for this big match.
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Why is axis deviation important? It allows to determine the origin of the electrical current of the heart. In this episode, Eric primarily harped on tachycardias above 150bpm. When the heart is beating that quickly, it is difficult to determine regularity and rate, let alone if the there is a P-Wave before every QRS complex. Determining axis deviation can quickly help providers recognize the difference between tachycardias originating in the atria (SVT, A-Fib w/RVR) vs. those that originate in the ventricles (VT). Obviously, with the latter group, our treatments and time usage need to remain more aggressive and vigilant. So where do we start in determining left axis deviation? It is imperative to remember that narrow-complex tachycardia above 150 can still be ventricular in nature; conversely, wide-complex tachycardia above 150 doesn’t necessarily originate in the ventricles.
CRITERIA
If all of the V-Leads are concordant, whether positive or negative, then you have right deviation revealing ventricular origin.
QS Complex in I, II, III (Nothing is upright!); accompanying that will typically be an upward deflection in AVR
Anything in the extreme Right Axis is ventricular.
TREATMENT:
When it comes to VT, aggressive treatment is of the essence.
According to ACLS, Adenosine is your first line drug for any tachycardia above 150; not to contradict the AHA, but if we have already determined that the rhythm in ventricular in origin, why are we wasting our time? Time to switch to Amiodarone. ACLS allots for two round of Amio (300mg/150mg) in cardiac arrest; 150mg IV drip/10 mins for patients that are not in arrest. For refractory VF/VT in the arrested patient consider 1-2G Mag Sulfate IVP. When it comes to electrical therapies, rhythm checks every two minutes during ongoing CPR is imperative; there is a massive emphasis currently on peri/post shock pauses and effective CPR (which is a whole other topic!). To remain effective you must be able to quickly identify these rhythms! Locally, I know that defibrillation and cardioversion are at max joules; remember, we are not advocating for you to use our local standards, but to implement practices within your own policies and guidelines. Simply, vigilance during CPR and rapid defibrillation could potentially convert a ventricular rhythm.
**SOAPBOX MINUTE WITH MIKE**
Don’t be that guy that attempts to cardiovert some in septic shock. Understand the etiology of tachycardia. There are plenty of reasons patients can experience heart rates above 150; not every one of them demands an electrical or chemical treatment. If your nursing home patient smells like a UTI, has a BP of 70/30, and a heart rate of 170…they’re in septic shock. Fix the pressure with fluid boluses and potentially pressors. Don’t jump straight to adenosine whenever you see a fast heart rate.
Fluids should be fairly standard practice for tachycardia of almost any origin: hypovolemia, sepsis, anaphylaxis, etc.
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Differences between Mass-production & Custom
This is a discussion on Differences between Mass-production & Custom within the Defensive Carry Holsters & Carry Options forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Gary, Send me one of your very highest grade(but not fancy) holsters. Right off the shelf...OR...one that has not been made up special. I'll wear ...
Differences between Mass-production & Custom
I posted this as a response on another forum, and I'm addressing it here because the recent "Thumb-break Question" thread here got a bit off topic. The original question on that other forum went something like "All holsters are similar designs and there have been no new innovations in many years, so why would someone buy a custom holster and wait?"
Well, the main reason there have been so few new designs and there are many similarities between custom designs and mass-production is simple: there are only three ways you can wrap a piece of leather around a pistol and call it a holster. You either fold a single piece of leather over the top of the slide and stitch it up the rear (Spark's Summer special, Nelson Professional), wrap a single piece of leather around the trigger-guard and stitch up the front (original Spark's Roadrunner), or sew two pieces of leather together front and rear to form the pouch (any pancake style). Think about it; every single holster on the market is one of these three designs. The differences are in belt attachment methods, and minor design elements.
That said, the primary differences between mass production and small custom shops is the execution; little nuances and attention to detail, and specific features than can be requested. As an example most all of the mass-production firms use an acrylic paint to finish their edges, which wears off in short time leaving an edge almost as rough as if it had not been finished. Most custom makers are using a multi-step saddlemaker's edge technique that is a much more time consuming process but produces an edge that is much smoother and will remain so the life of the holster.
And obviously there is the leather - many mass production firms are using cheaper imported Mexican leather. I don't know of any custom maker that is not using the highest grade leather from the two best US tanneries available.
Most mass produced holsters are pressure molded. The wet holster with dummy gun is placed in a hydraulic press or similar under pressure and formed to the shaped og the gun. This may be the only molding procedure in mass production. This is only the first step in custom rigs, which are then detail-molded by hand with various hand-tools and often-times a real pistol. This detail molding is more than just asthetic; it provides the very snug fit that is usually only associated with the best custom pieces. Most mass produced holsters comne standard with 1 3/4 inch belt slots. With a custom holster you can specify the belt slots be cut to the exact width of your belt for a more stable fit. If your belt and slots are not the same, you are not getting optimum performance from even the best holster.
When it comes to compact versions of full-size guns, most mass production firms merely shorten their existing patterns. While this seems logical in theory at first, it does not take into account the difference in balance/weight distribution of the compacts compared to their full-size counterparts. Most custom holster guys are gun guys and know their way around a real gun. Mass production firms hire cheap unknowledgeable labor and use only dummy guns with non-moving parts. This is evidenced by the number of mass production holsters that I have modified for fellow officers over the years, because leather was depressing the mag-release or deactivating a safety. Design flaws that would have been obvious had a real gun been test-fitted.
As to stitching, in layman's terms, there are several different types of industrial sewing machines on the market which feed the thread and leather in different ways. Most custom shops are using hook-and-awl harness stitchers that were made at in the early 1900s. These old machines can be finicky, are more difficult to operate, maintain, and service than their modern counterparts; but they produce the tightest lock-stitch available with thicker thread, and equal thread on both sides of the work. Most mass production firms use more modern equipment that is easier to service, maintain, and get parts for, and easier to operate and train someone on; which translates better to assembly line work. While they do provide an adequate stitch, these more modern single needle machines often require thinner thread, or thread of two different thicknesses, with lighter thread in the bobbin (bottom) to achieve a tighter stitch.
And there are subtle differences in how something is stitched. Many custom makers will cut a stitch groove in the leather for the stitch to lay in, so it is not sitting on the surface where it can be more easily abraded. This is especially true to a stitch that is exposed on the interior of the holster, such as a sewn on rear belt tunnel or mouthband. Most customer makers wet the back side of the leather prior to stitching, so these exposed interior stitches sink into the leather so they are not resting on the surface where they ca be abraded by the pistol during the draw and re-holstering. Such features are time consuming to say the least, and I have never seen them on a mass produced holster. Corners have to be cut somewhere to speed things up, but I personally will not sacrifice quality for quantity.
many customers that come to me for a holster usually start the converstaion or e-mail with "I'm currently wearing (or considering this model of holster from this maker BUT..." (pick one or more below) :
Can you make a similar one that rides higher or lower?
Can you make it vertical? They only offer FBI cant (or vice-versa)
Can you make it with a thumb-break? They only offer open-top (" ")
Can you make it with 1 1/4 inch slots? They only offer 1 3/4?
Can you make any color i want? they only offer black and tan
Can you make it in horse-hide or an exotic? They only offer cow
As a true custom maker , my answer to all of the above is "Yes".
I hope this explains why someone would go to a small custom shop and bear the wait. I apologize for the lengthy post, and thank those of you that take the time to read it. (the mods are going to restrict me to 100 words or less in the future).
"He who makes things with his hands is a laborer, he who makes things with his hands and his head is a craftsman, he who makes things with his hands, his head, and his heart is an artist." www.garritysgunleather.com
Thanks Mark. I would have to say that about half of my personal leather gear is custom made for many of the reasons listed above. We each chose different weapons because were each different and no one holster fits all people and it is good to hear it from your perspective.
Great post! I would like to add that there is now only one American tannery left in business producing premium holster leather. (I am assuming that you originally posted this while Westan was still in business).
There are literally dozens of small steps omitted by the big shops that have an effect on the finished holster's quality. Mark touched upon a few of them. I'll elaborate on few more:
Glue: Mass produced holsters are often glued with a latex based adhesive. In time, it will lose it's bond, causing the holster to squeak.
Those factories that do use a solvent/phenolic based contact cement like Barge (as ALL the custom shops do - although the brand of glue varies from maker to maker) often only paint the edges enough to hold the parts together while they are being stitched. This allows the parts to subtly shift as the wearer moves, causing an incurable squeaking problem.
Stitching: As Mark pointed out, is often done on high speed needle feed machines, rather than the slower needle-awl machines. The needle feed machines generally use a lighter weight thread and make a stitch that is more prone to unraveling if it is cut. The stitches are also usually finer, which means the holes are closer together, leaving less leather between stitches. This makes for a very weak stitch, but it is much easier for a semi-skilled machine operator to do. (There is one super humongous holster firm who's holsters were known for ripping apart under stress, until they went to a synthetic material instead of leather.)
Molding/boning: I have never seen a factory holster in which the boning showed much attention to detail, or time spent. As a result, the fit just plain sucks when compared to a custom. This is why most factory designs include a thumb-break. It keeps the gun from falling out.
Finish: Most custom shops use some form of acrylic finish process in which the holster is dipped in a liquid that seals the pores of the leather, the stitch holes and the flesh side of the hide. The result is a dry finish that will not make a mess of the customer's clothing and the holster holds it's mold many times longer as the result of this process. By contrast, factory holsters are often simply sprayed with an oil or oil/wax compound and stuck into a bag. The result is an oily mess that will stain clothing (permanently) for weeks and weeks until the excess oil wears off. If an acrylic is used, it is usually merely a surface spray. Some firms still use a lacquer based finish, which is known for checking, cracking and causing the leather's grain surface to crack as well.
Design: This is by far the most critical aspect of holstermaking. It alone determines whether a holster will function properly. As Mark pointed out, there are only a few basic construction methods used, and they LOOK similar from maker to maker, and from factory to factory, and so on. However, only a person who has spent YEARS and YEARS designing, making, testing and wearing holsters can see the subtle differences that are invisible to the average person. However, even a small change in an angle, or proportional distance in a design can make a tremendous difference in how it conceals, how it carries, how it retains, and how it draws. Just because it "looks the same", DOES NOT mean that it will work the same as another similar looking design.
What this all boils down to is that you will get exactly what you pay for. There are no "bargains" in this business. When I was young guy shopping for a helmet back in my motorcyle days, a older gentleman put it to me this way: "Son, go ahead and buy a $10 helmet if you've got a $10 head". The same is true of your concealment system. This is like a parachute, a seatbelt, an airbag - no one in their right mind would EVER hope to actually need to use a holster/handgun to save their lives. However, IF that situation does occur, and you have no other alternative - then your equipment had darn well better work or you might very well end up very dead.
This is why that I (and I'm sure this is true of other established custom holster shops as well) focus on product quality, rather than numbers. I've got to be able to sleep at night, and quite frankly I could not do that if I were turning out most of the concealment systems being commercially marketed today. Rant over. Thank you very much.
Gary, Send me one of your very highest grade(but not fancy) holsters. Right off the shelf...OR...one that has not been made up special. I'll wear it/use it for 6 weeks,then evaluate it on this forum.
After that I will send it back to you.
Howz that ?? ----
P.S. I carry a 3" Kimber(UC CDP II)
Better yet, since I may well be accused of "prepping" a special test holster for you, call Coal Creek Armory (865.966.4545) in Knoxville, TN and order one from them. (They have them in stock and ship 'em all over the country)
If, at the end of 6 weeks you don't find it superior to your "Brand X holsters", I'll make sure that they refund your money in full. (And, FWIW, Coal Creek only stocks my Service Grade stuff)
I will pit my holsters against anyone's - any time, any where, under any (equal) conditions in terms of comfort, concealment, draw characteristics, quality of design & workmanship and overall performance. (Which is why my holsters come with a lifetime guarantee - do your Galco's?)
Hi Folks,
Mark is right - the Thumb-Break thread got way off topic, and I am at fault for that as much as anyone. For that reason, you'll see that I've merged parts of that thread with this one. Thanks!
I've made my living for far too long as a craftsman though not a holster maker or leather worker. One of the frustrating things has been a shift in mentality in our culture from wanting the best to wanting it now, good enough and cheap. Wallly world has hurt us in more ways than one. We will now gladly accept good enough easily if it's instant gratification and the right price point.
I have one recent aquaintance that was living firmly entrenched in this world with his carry hardware. I finally badgered him into a custom rig and despite the wait he can't stop talking about how happy he is with it. Seems all those little things he figured he had to tolerate to carry are gone.
I used to run into the same things when building boats and custom knives. I want it cheap, fast and beautiful drove me out of boats, better for my blood pressure. I also tired of hearing "why should I spend $200 on your knife when I can get a Buck knife for $50 today?" Well, why are you talking to me, bucko, if you don't know the difference. I could attempt to explain the differences in alloy and heat treating. The differences in design and edge geometry not to mention ergonomics but it will be a waste of my time, good bye.
There's a good reason why custom is custom. It takes lots of experience, talent and defies mass production. But all the little details sure add up into a big bonus for me! All my leather is custom and will probably stay there. I've tried factory leather and found it wanting in comparison.
While I've yet to sample Gary's newest wares I have an old clip on IWB of his that's still great. Maybe I'll try one of his newest products with my next gun!
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.
Thank's for the great reading Mark and Gary. That is some good intel and the very reason why ALL my holsters are custom holsters and only from a select few in fact with Gary and Mark being at the helm of those I order from.
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Pattern: Ornaments
Just a quick little pattern because I haven't made one in a while, so it really feels like more of an exercise than anything. I am going to be selling a bunch of my work in an upcoming holiday sale at the art school I attended. I need to get working-20 pieces, framed in less than a month-yikes! With the deary, cold weather I have been deep in hibernation mode and need to snap out of it and get to work!
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Grains
We gathered together. We held hands and thanked God for the food we were about to eat. We dined on pork chops, scalloped potatoes, asparagus, with a dessert of warm peach cobbler and creamy vanilla ice cream. We enjoyed some time together.
No rush, no agenda.
These moments seem few and far between. I told hubs that I want to make sure we do it every Sunday night. A big meal around the table together. We had cleaned up the house all afternoon and then enjoyed that meal without clutter piled up around us.
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A Burger Bash To Remember at NYCWFF
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On a cool crisp autumn evening in Manhattan, an industrial-sized elevator lifted you to the rooftop of pier 92 on the Hudson River, and when those metal doors opened your nostrils were immediately filled by the sweet rich scent of chargrilled meat. But at the 7th annual Burger Bash, one of the best events thrown by Food Network's New York City Wine & Food Festival, the aromas are merely the beginning. What could quite possibly be better than some of the best chefs and restaurateurs New York has to offer battling it out for bragging rights by presenting their best take on the burger and all you can drink Blue Moon beer? And the answer to that question, are the highlights you bit into.
With the warm twinkle of the of the city skyline behind you, the sound of the river eclipsed by a fantastic cover band that filled the night air, and bumping into the event's hosts Pat LaFrieda and Rachael Ray, as well as the likes of Christian Slater, Adam Richman, Mo Rocca, Anne Burrell, and Andrew Zimmern, the stars at Burger Bash were out and in your favor. But it was the burgers that truly shinned brightest.
Ramen burger is not a fad. You know about it because you should. And if you haven't yet experienced Keizo Shimamoto's creation, well, you should as well. The chuck is freshly ground and the shoyu glaze that coats the patty just makes it shine so sweetly. The tightly formed ramen noodle "bun" that's lightly browned on the flat top, holds together even as you bite through it, and loosens up only upon chewing. It's unique and all the more important, it's tasty.
So was Chef Michael Toscano's perfectly cooked slider which came with a sharp hit of caciocavallo cheese, pickled escarole and chopped roasted tomatoes sandwiched between a perfect potato bun which provided such a balanced lightness to the meat it surrounded. Served with tots that would give Napoleon Dynamite good reason not to want to share, the man behind Perla and Montmartre was manning the grill all night to a line of guests that seemed to never disperse.
And then there was Shake Shack. Danny Meyer's ubiquitous chain which so easily can be looked upon as a simple fast food burger, was anything but. Their MeisterShack American cheese burger that was topped with crispy beer marinated shallots and shack sauce served on a potato bun, was the best bite of the night. And the fact that they were serving full burgers, not quarters, not halves, or sliders, enabled you to take lots of them. The sweetness of those crunchy fried shallots that were dusted with salt, managed to extrude even more flavor from the molten cheese and the fantastic meat that we've all come to love. If there was room in your stomach after sampling the thirty burgers that were being showcased, this would be the one you came back to have seconds of. It was really that good.
As for the judges' pick for high honors, Marc Murphy's Lamb-Marc burger made from a spiced ground lamb with a fresh mint chimichurri reigned supreme. And Josh Capon's caramelized onions and bacon jam topped American cheeseburger from Burger and Barrel took the people's choice award and the $2000 prize that came with it.
And with that, it's time for a diet. At least until the next NYCWFF event.
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Top iPhone 5 Security Apps
As more smartphone users access personal information on their device, privacy protection apps are becoming a necessity. With such a great selection apps from the App Store, you should be able to find the perfect protection for your device. Did you know that “29 percent of consumers have considered installing an anti-virus product to protect their phone,” according to the ‘Mobile Security: Monster Mash’ infographic. It also revealed “66 percent of consumers admit they keep a significant amount of personal data on their smartphone.”
If you just bought the latest iPhone 5, you’d probably like to protect both your expensive investment and the personal data stored on it, especially if you are using it for both personal and business use. So, if you use your smartphone to access personal data, such as your bank account and even social media profiles, then here are the top iPhone 5 security apps for you:
One of the most popular security apps for the iPhone is the Find my iPhone app. This free iOS app provides you with a map location of your device, and allows you to display a custom message on the phone’s screen, remotely lock your device and remotely set an alarm sound for two minute at full volume even if your iPhone is set to silent. Find my iPhone app’s most notable option includes letting you erase all data before it gets misused, so you can be certain that your personal files and information remain safe. You can do all of these functions simply by logging into your iCloud.com account.
If you are the type of user who has a lot of private information, especially important passwords, stored in your iPhone, then you should consider getting mSecure for iOS. Developed by mSeven Software, this application works as your password manager. As the iTunes’ app description puts it, “imagine your phone is lost or stolen, you can have peace of mind knowing that mSecure has safeguarded your web site logins, bank accounts and credit cards thereby protecting your finances, identity and reputation.” mSecure takes pride of its fully-secure 256bit blowfish encryption. Some of its other features include auto-lock, password generator, free backup data sent to your email, and optional self-destruct if the hacker attempts to guess your password. mSecure app is available for $9.99 per download.
Never feel insecure for your iPhone, with Lookout Mobile Security app. You can now locate your device remotely through the web, automatically save its location before running out of battery, and backup all your personal data. This free iOS app also comes with an alarm sound, email notification if your device is jailbroken or connects to unsecured WiFi, and allows you to remotely access it to make a call to any number you specify, even without a sim card.
Some users need a full security, not only of their passwords, but also their day-to-day conversations. Many businesses need a secure voice communication system, especially if it involves top-secret topics. Kryptos offer you a free military-grade 256 bit AES-encrypted app, connected through VoIP for secure calls over 3G, 4G and WiFi. You just need to create a Kryptos ID and install the application. However, in order to use this app, both you and your colleagues must have it installed on your devices.
When you have personal data stored on your iPhone, you have to have rock solid protection such as Dot Lock Secure. Another popular security application, it gives you plenty of options to capture the details of whoever tries to break the security of your iPhone. One of its amazing new features is the email report of break-in attempts. It provides you with a snapshot of the thief and their exact location. This application costs $0.99 in iTunes.
Conclusion
We live in an age where almost all information is available on our smartphones, and that includes our personal data. The apps presented above are some of the best security measures you can add to your device. To ensure you are fully protected, you may also want to know about the ways to identify and prevent iPhone hacking.
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What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?
Our site offers a place for coworkers to discuss workplace issues and ideas. It also has a 'game' that encourages workers to fill out surveys, invite people and add discussions. We need a fun, corporate page that will obviously look like a game, but still be taken seriously.
Each company has their own page where employees can gather to chat and play the game to win a company party, however, each page will use the same template which should start with the basic design here:
http://itszu.com/searchresults.php and use your imagination to include the items below and make it really feel like a game to visitors. No flash, just with the use of graphics, shadowing, etc.
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- Game Feel
- Clean look with strategic use of bright colorsAreas for:
- Survey - short question with 5 possible choices
- Ask your employer box with submit button
- Poll area where they can ask each other questions
- White board area where they can write notes to each other
- Graph with 6 bars which will fill up as employees finish their company surveys
- Graph bar that shows how close they are to finishing the game
- A large area to show discussions about the company that are happening in a different part of the site
- View active discussions and Post a discussion button
- Company name
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Not sure what we don't want besides too much color... will let you know if we think of something.
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Here’s the full schedule of the 2013 San Jose Jazz Festival. Note that a number of the stages have changed locations and there is a new Big Easy Stage featuring New Orleans-style music.
The San Jose Rep Stage will require a separate $10 per day wristband this year except for those with VIP-level passes. In addition, the festival has added a number of Jazz+ shows where some of the top acts will play second performances on more intimate stages. Admission to those shows are $5-$20.
FRIDAY
MAIN STAGE
Plaza de Cesar Chavez
6 pm: Afrolicious
8 pm: Cameo
9:45 pm: Lyrics Born presents Continuum
KAISER PERMANENTE SALSA STAGE
West San Fernando Street at Almaden Avenue
6:30 pm: Josh Jones Ensemble
8:30 pm: Louie Romero’s Mazacote
ADOBE BLACKBIRD TAVERN STAGE
First Street at Paseo de San Antonio
7 pm: Gypsy Allstars (Jazz+ show, $10)
9 pm: The Clifford Brown/Max Roach Project (Jazz+ show, $5)
JAZZ BEYOND STAGE
The Pagoda, Fairmont Hotel
9 pm: Miles Bonny + B Lewis
11 pm: Mark de Clive-Lewis presents Church
GORDON BIERSCH STAGE
33 E. San Fernando St.
6 pm: Pandit Habib Khan
8 pm: Round Midnight
10 pm: The Commanders
SWING STAGE
Theatre on San Pedro Square, 29 N. San Pedro St.
6 pm: swing dance lessons
7 pm: Sons of Jubal
9 pm: swing dance lessons
10 pm: Top Shelf Big Band
SATURDAY
MAIN STAGE
12 noon: Mingo Fishtrap
2 pm: Rebirth Brass Band
4 pm: Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
6 pm: Pink Martini
KAISER PERMANENTE SALSA STAGE
12: 30 pm: Futuro Picante
2:30 pm: Orquesta Saboricua
4:30 pm: Pa’l Bailador
6:30 pm: Edgardo & Candela
8:30 pm: Richardo Lemvo y Makina Loca
YP BLUES STAGE
Lightston Alley between W. Santa Clara and Post streets
12 noon: Legally Blue
3 pm: Murali Coryell
6 pm: Tony Furtado Trio
9 pm: Rebirth Brass Brand
BIG EASY STAGE
Post and S. First streets
1:30 pm: Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88’s
4:30 pm: Zydeco Flames
7:30 pm: Frankey Bey with Anthony Paule
SAN JOSE REP STAGE*
101 Paseo de San Antonio
12 noon: Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio
2 pm: Grace Kelly Quintet
4 pm: Scott Hunter & Scott Amendola
6 pm: Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio
8 pm: Ben Vereen (Jazz+ show, $20)
SILICON VALLEY STAGE
Regency Room, Fairmont Hotel
1 pm: Brian Ho Trio
3 pm: Joel Behrman Quintet
5 pm: Jim Norton and Brilliant Corners Play Bill Evans
7 pm: Primary Colors with Nate Pruitt
ADOBE BLACKBIRD TAVERN STAGE
12 noon: San Jose Jazz High School All Stars
2 pm: Raq Filipina
4 pm: Audiotrópico
6 pm: Laila Smith Quintet
9 pm: Yosvany Terry Quartet (Jazz+ show, $10)
GORDON BIERSCH STAGE
12 noon: San Jose Stage Allstar Big Band
2 pm: Slide Madness
4 pm: Sammy Miller & the Congregation
6 pm: No Bones About It
8 pm: Dara Tucker
10 pm: Bebop
BANK OF THE WEST NEXT GEN STAGE
Patio between Mezcal and Billy Berk’s
E. San Fernando Street between First and Market streets
11 am: Dixie Dominus Traditional Jazz Band
12 noon: Mr. Clifford’s Young Jazz Allstars
1 pm: Midnight River
2 pm: Monterey Jazz Festival High School All-Star Band
3 pm: Monterey Jazz Festival High School Honor Vocal Jazz Ensemble
4 pm: Folson High School Jazz Choir
5 pm: San Jose State Combo
JAZZ BEYOND STAGE
8 pm: Audiotrópico
10:30 pm: Full Crate & Mar
SWING STAGE
11 am: Los Gatos-Saratoga Big Band
1 pm: swing dance lessons
2 pm: Ron Gariffo Orchestra
4 pm: swing dance lessons
5 pm: Millennium Sounds Orchestra
7 pm: NASA Ames Jazz Band
9 pm: Arturo O’Farrill & Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (Jazz+ show, $20)
SUNDAY
MAIN STAGE
12 noon: Yosvany Terry Quartet
2 pm: Preservation Hall Jazz Band
4 pm: Javon Jackson with Les McCann and Dr. Lonnie Smith
6 pm: Dave Koz & Friends
KAISER PERMANENTE SALSA STAGE
12:30 pm: Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco
2:30 pm: Carlos Caro — Vission Latina
4:30 pm: Pellejo Seco
6:30 pm: Wil Campa y Su Gran Union
YP BLUES STAGE
12 noon: Livia Jean Slingerland
3 pm: Paula Harris & the Beasts of Blues
6 pm: Fountain Blues All Stars
BIG EASY STAGE
1:30 pm: Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
4:30 pm: Motordude Zydeco
7:30 pm: The California Honeydrops
SAN JOSE REP STAGE*
1 pm: Le Jazz Hot
3 pm: The Cookers
5 pm: Stacey Kent
7 pm: Preservation Hall Jazz Band
SILICON VALLEY STAGE
3 pm: Touch of Brass Big Band
5 pm: Joe DeRose and Amici
7 pm: Sasha Dobson Duo
ADOBE BLACKBIRD TAVERN STAGE
12 noon: Aaron Lington Quartet Plays the Music of Stevie Wonder
2 pm: Tammy Hall Quintet
4 pm: Derrick Hodge
6 pm: Transcendental Ensemble
9 pm: The Cookers (Jazz+ show, $10)
GORDON BIERSCH STAGE
12 noon: Gordon Biersch Big Band
2 pm: Times 4
4 pm: Natalie Cressman
6 pm: The JurassiC
BANK OF THE WEST NEXT GEN STAGE
11 am: Monta Vista High School Jazz Combo
12 noon: Archbishop Mitty Jazz in the AM
1 pm: Kind of Blue
2 pm: Room 107 Vocal Jazz Ensemble
3 pm: San Jose Jazz High School All Stars
4 pm: Synchronicity
5 pm: VCHS Jazz Combo
SWING STAGE
11 am: Full Spectrum
1:30 pm: swing dance lessons
2:30 pm: Footnotes Big Band
4 pm: swing dance lessons
5 pm: South Bay Big Band Jazz
7 pm: The Lyratones
SPECIAL EVENTS
Club crawl: There will be bands playing free shows on Friday and Saturday nights at the Fairmont Hotel Lounge, the Affinity Lounge at the Hilton Hotel, the Hedley Club at the DeAnza Hotel and the Gallery Lounge at the Hyatt Place Hotel. Groups include such top-flight local acts as Kat Parra, Anton Schwartz, Jessica Johnson and Times 4. Check www.sanjosejazz.org for schedule.
Jazz mass: A San Jose Jazz Festival tradition, a jazz mass will be held at 4:30 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph.
The Latin Jazz Jam with the John Santos Sextet: A free Latin jazz jam on the patio between Mezcal and Billy Berk’s on E. San Fernando Street between First and Market streets. It will be at 10 p.m. Saturday and it’s free.
Big Easy Parade: A classic New Orleans second line parade will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and will go from the Main Stage to the Big Easy Stage.
* — Admission to the San Jose Rep Stage will require a separate $10 wristband per the day except for those with VIP-level passes.
WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton challenged Congress on Thursday to combat fake and misleading news on social media, using a post-election appearance to tackle an issue that gripped her presidential campaign and culminated with a shooting incident Sunday in Northwest Washington.
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Tragedy in Tucson
Are words to blame?
The attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords, a congresswoman from Arizona, has sparked a fiery debate about the dangers of heated political rhetoric
THE motive for the bloodthirsty attack on Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat embarking on her third term in Congress, remains opaque. The suspected gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, appears to be something of a paranoid, right-wing, anti-government conspiracy-theorist. But his politics are hardly coherent: he is interested, according to his MySpace page, in both the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf. But his rampage on Saturday outside a supermarket in Tucson, in which a judge, a nine-year-old child, a congressional aide and three senior citizens were killed, and 14 others, including Mrs Giffords, were injured, is already having a political impact.
Eric Cantor, the number two in the Republican hierarchy in the House of Representatives, said that the coming week's legislative agenda, including the new Republican majority's much-publicised effort to repeal Barack Obama's health-care reforms, would be postponed so that Congress could take stock of the shooting. His boss, John Boehner, the new speaker of the House, tried to defuse any partisan tensions over the tragedy, issuing a statement arguing that an attack on any member of Congress constituted an attack on all of them. But several Democrats, including Dick Durbin, the party's number two in the Senate, have argued that wayward souls might find justification for such appalling acts in the pugnacious rhetoric many politicians use on the campaign trail.
As evidence that the right has gone too far, left-wingers point to a campaign website run by Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008, which at the past election had marked congressional seats she hoped the Republicans could wrest from the Democrats with cross-hair symbols, as if in the sights of a gun. They also cite one of Mrs Palin's gung-ho slogans: “Don't retreat, reload”. Mrs Giffords herself said of Mrs Palin's map last year, “When people do that, they've got to realise there's consequences to that.” Mrs Giffords's father, when asked if her daughter had had any enemies, replied “the whole Tea Party”, referring to the right-wing activists who helped to deliver the Republicans their resounding victory in November's election, and only narrowly failed to unseat Mrs Giffords herself.
Needless to say, both tea-party activists and their inspiration, Mrs Palin, reject the idea that they somehow contributed to the shooting. Mr Loughner, tea-partiers in Tucson say, has no known ties to any local group. What is more, points out the leader of one national network of tea-party outfits, it is not really clear he agreed with their politics. Mrs Palin, meanwhile, issued a statement of sympathy to the victims; a spokeswoman condemned any attempt to tie her to the massacre as “repulsive”. In other words, the debate about whether partisan rancour had anything to do with the shooting is itself becoming rancourous. Left-wing bloggers talk of the atrocity as a wish come true for the tea-party; right-wing bloggers retort that the left is exploiting the death and injury of innocents for political gain.
It is hard to see any resolute action emerging from this shouting match. America's protections for free speech—which Mrs Giffords herself helped remind the world of last week when she read out the first amendment to the constitution during the ceremonies surrounding the seating of the new Congress—preclude any legal limits on violent talk. It is testimony to the strength of America's gun lobby (and another constitutional safeguard) that there has been little talk of any measures to curb gun ownership as a result of the incident. Mrs Palin and a few others may find themselves on the back foot for a few weeks, and may indeed tone down their rhetoric for a spell. But after a spate of hand-wringing, Congress is likely to do little more than strengthen its security arrangements. That will come a little late for Mrs Giffords, who was shot in the head at close range, and remains in critical condition.
Mein Kampf was (and is) an extreme right wing tract, and the Nazis was an extreme rightwing movement.
As for dirigisme and etatism - Right wing elites had no problem with that (go see the Sun King; stabs at it by the Wilhelminian government under Bismark; etc.)
Hitler possibly stated he joined two of the strongest movements into one, nationalism and socialism. The blue print though is still based on Fascism innovated by Mussilini (and yes, a former socialist), as well as taking inspiration from the likes of Georg Ritter von Schönerer.
The nationalism trumped the socialism, the needs for conquest to precedence, industry was to be cultivated (and directed), while labor rights were killed pretty quickly once power was assumed.
With the racism, there was to be a welfare state for the German masses.
As for blue collar qualities, that may have been during the take off in the great depression, especially with the SA, where it was characterized as beefsteak (brown on the outside, red on the inside).
Still doesn't take away from the fact the movements was seen as one of extreme nationalism (even Hindenberg alludede to it); and on reason it got an opportunity to put together a government (Von Papen and Schleiker and others on the right thought they could control hiterl) with other volk parties and work with the Stalhelm.
Otherwise, not unusual for extremists to flip poles so to speak. Hitler may have participated in the Red Bavarian Soviet briefly before being overturned by the Freikorps.
@HobKnob:
Sarah Palin and the Tea Party specifically had Rep. Giffords in their gunsights. They were quite explicit about it, such as when Tea Party candidate hosted a June 6 event promoted with the sentence, "Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly." It is the clear danger of that specific metaphor that plays out here. The message of gun violence couldn't be any clearer than that - until Jared Loughner heeded their clarion call and pulled the trigger of a gun that they aimed.
I expect that all politicians will use strong language as they practice their craft, but politicians must identify when their choice of words and ideas create a clear danger. I agree that Pres. Obama was 100% wrong when he made that knife/gun comment months ago, but everything else on your list of complaints is just feisty political talk.
I am disgusted with the political rhetoric of the USA, and in particular with that of Sarah Palin and her tea party supporters. They have said that they don't see a connection between their campaign slogans and the violent assassination attempt yesterday. They must be blind.
A movement against the violent rhetoric in this country is necessary, or we could degenerate into more violence and chaos.
"Jared Lee Loughner, appears to be something of a paranoid, right-wing, anti-government conspiracy-theorist... But his politics are hardly coherent: he is interested, according to his MySpace page, in both the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf."
There is nothing incoherent in being interested both by the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf: both are totalitarian Left-wing ideological text-books. So he hardly appears a Right-wing nutjob, quite opposite.
Just to remind those who repeat ad nauseum (intently or because of ignorance) that Nazism was an extreme right-wing movement: IT WAS NOT.
National SOCIALIST WORKERS party of Germany aka Nazi was as Left wing as it gets: massive working class grassroot membership; etatism matched only by their first cousins communists; total disregard of human or civil rights - and so on, and so forth.
Read the classic work by Raymond Aron The Opium of the Intellectuals before you start crowing about evil Right.
There is absolutely no evidence that the lefty nutcase looked at some map on Sarah Palin's website and said, "I need to get a gun...". Last year, when Major Nadal shot everyone at Fort Hood shouting "Alahu Akbar" CNN and others were saying not to rush to judgment and that religion might not have played a role. What is going on is the liberals are disgustingly using the tragedy for political purposes. Worse than reprehensible. If we are going to start restrict violent speech, start at the top:
Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
Obama: “Get in Their Faces!”
Obama: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
Obama: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
Obama: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose @ss to kick.“
Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”
Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”
I am very sorry for the victims and hope Gabrielle Giffords fully recovers. The people responsible for a crime are those that carry it out. It's outrageous for anyone to implicate their political opponents in this murder.
I have real problems with the gun culture in the US. But it's a complex and deeply entrenched issue, so my comments on it can wait for another day.
We are now a country full of angry manic-depressed detached poorly educated semi-illiterate nut jobs who have easy access to semi-automatic weapons. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone? Or just plain suicidal? Mrs. Giffords is simultaneously against stricter immigration law and pro gun-rights. In retrospect that's not such a good idea. Maybe this will finally wake up all those pro gun-right politicians who are either on the take from the NRA or just looking for votes from the Republicans, the same guns are can be turned against them!
"We are now a country full of angry manic-depressed detached poorly educated semi-illiterate nut jobs who have easy access to semi-automatic weapons"
No. Actually we only once in a great while have the occasional such nut job, and that's why it's a big news story when a crazy man goes nuts with a gun in this country. How often does it happen? Maybe once a year? Once in ten years if you restrict it to cases where a politician is a target? We have 300 million people in this country, and a roughly equal number of guns. One gun-toting maniac per year works out to about 3 parts per billion. In chemistry, 3 ppb of anything is a barely detectable amount, not "a country full". I don't in any way want to discount the severity of this crime, but in terms of probabilities, we're all going to die of cancer or heart disease.
As to the topic of this article, if we collectively respond to this massacre by toning down the level of venom in our political arguments a bit, that can only be a good thing. There has been way too much demonizing of one group of Americans by another in recent years. It was discouraging to me to see President Bush, who saw an enemy under every foreign rock, replaced by Obama, who seemed to see an enemy in every group of Americans other than his own. Radio loudmouths, preachers, and out-of-work politicians are one thing, and I expect them to go over the top with their rhetoric, but I have never heard a sitting president use such pugilistic language towards his fellow Americans as Mr. Obama does. He can hardly make a speech without including the word "fight". Perhaps we can turn down the demonization a notch while still keeping our arguments passionate.
That said, with Loughner's rampage as a reminder that we really don't want a shooting war with each other, let's also keep in mind that the only person responsible for the recent shooting is the man with his finger on the trigger. Everyone seems to be very quick to grind their personal political axe on the whetstone of this clearly deranged, irrational, and profoundly disturbed individual. Published reports have Loughner saying leftist things to some people and right-wing things to others. From what I can make of his actual words, any connection between his brain and conventional reality is purely coincidental. While everyone is so quick to tell us why he did what he did, what we don't have is him actually telling us. He may never do that, and I expect most people wouldn't believe him if he did.
So, let's tone down the "fight" and "target" rhetoric, because that's a good thing to do in any case, but let's also not blame other people's words for the irrational actions of a crazed killer.
Really, I don't think the political climate in US has much to do with the Arizona shootings. Wackos are guided by voices, not talk radio. However, the tragedy highlights how tasteless hate-speech and weapon metaphors are.
1) When listening to all this noise about Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, keep in mind that they did not pull the trigger, all she did was put the gun sight on the target. Aiming a gun is not the same as murder. However, I think they may reasonably anticipate that the deranged might accept their unequivocal call-to-arms. They simply must accept culpability for their purposeful coordinated efforts to foster this atmosphere - especially when months before one of their targets, Rep. Giffords, gave clear protest of the danger they were inciting.
2) When I think of all the 9-year-old kids around the country who are looking at our practice of politics - the business of the American people - I cannot fathom what they must think of these events. I can only hope that they will now make their young voices heard loud and strong decrying the violent rhetoric of political discourse.
This is just the saddest, most heart-breaking thing to me. I am a woman near Congresswoman Giffords' age and, like her, have worked hard to reduce sexism in the culture, including the problems that lead to violence of this kind. She has done this by taking financial responsibility for herself, by working hard to develop her abilities and by trying to provide leadership in creating a safer and more productive political economy. Please consider:
1. Young men and women are not adults until age 24 or 25 when their brains are fully developed, including capacities for judgment and emotional regulation. The rental car companies have it right.
2. Many people continue to shame boys out of their emotional lives, and do not provide them with the emotional validation and connection with both mothers and fathers that they need to be well-adjusted and able to function well in school, in life and in relationships. They are also often left to fend for themselves in finding education and employment. They (just like girls) need both parents to take an interest in them and to "hold their hand" (literally and metaphorically) as they determine what their natural abilities are, what they are interested in, where the opportunities are, and how to cope with workplace politics.
3. Boys continue to receive the message that they need access to a lot of resources or money to attract a girlfriend/wife. This is not the case with many, many women. Most women with economic autonomy simply want a man who has some means and ability in the economy, but who also has the skills, including the emotional availability, to be a good parent.
Please lets raise our sons to be responsible and productive participants in the political economy and to be compassionate and mentoring fathers.
Karl Rove and his 50%+1 politics brought the ugliness of the Right-wingnuts into the mainstream. The Democrats never did anything of the kind when they wandered off into Left field.
The country has its share, or more, of dangerous nuts. Those who set them off are culpable. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there thinking of taking out a Republican to even the score, and others who think that shooting Giffords was a great idea that ought to be imitated.
An American shoots an American politician in America. The sheriff says that "Arizona has become the Mekka of Hate and vitriol". Is that not terribly offensive to a Moslem? Why should they be drawn into this tragedy? What if someone called a city "New York of racketeers"?
This counry needs to get real. People are getting to fanatic on both sides. This is a horrible tragedy, it is sad and disgraceful up all Americans. People need to settle there differences peacefully not by going on a shooting rampage and killing six people.
I have no idea whether this particular guy was a "nut job", a "cho", but the fact remains that there are a lot of people being swept under the rug by the american system.
And that what this man did was within his rights to do. He'll be punished, but up until the moment of his action... "Ain't that america, home of the free".
The editors, and majority of comments about this incident, seem to imply (or directly state) that america should somehow "weed out" the unbelievers.
Because of the terrorists, we now link all the federal databases, which used to be illegal. Congress only knows what rights we'll have to give up from this incident (my personal bet is the right of assembly, we gave up the posters long ago).
Please tell me, all you people who think this is the correct direction for our country: "let he who is without sin throw the first stone" -- will it be you? Which of the thousands (possibly millions) of laws haven't you broken at some point? (love thy neighbor comes to mind)
We make cotton and leather here, but we can't make shoes or clothes anymore?
We invented semi-conductors but we can't make them here anymore?
We have the best universities in the world but we have to import engineers?
We talk a good game about human rights while letting our own citizens perish so that we can use indonesian, phillipino and chinese slaves.
It seems to me that Caligula (the movie) attempted to show the decadence of the roman empire. America makes banks, movies, facebook, prisons and guns. Looks a lot like Rome to me.
It is too bad for the pc 'world-view' that those unemployed haven't taken the hint and taken a roman bath.
We need to employ everyone who wants to work, and at a level that they can survive on, or this thing ain't working. WE THE PEOPLE.
And we don't need 'living space', we have plenty. Really. The eco front can go pound sand for all I care about the polar bear, or whatever stupid bird, or global warming (apparently cooling).
With 10% of workers unemployed, I have a hard time accepting that we must protect the animals, environment, or workers. If you told the unemployed they had to hand carry nuclear waste they'd get to work on it.
But perhaps, to make right and left happy, we should go ahead and invade poland anyway.
Maybe our dear American friends need some kind of rules to enforce responsibility in the media and to temper incendiary rhetoric.
Those new rules in Hungary have been criticised perhaps too much?
What about a media landscape that profits from distortion and emotional manipulation more than truth and information?
American opinion leaders get more attention and authority with extreme provocation than any sober consideration of the facts.
Is a "free media" that serves only entertain in order to generate maximum ratings, pageviews and profits all better than one under government control?
It's interesting that government propaganda tries to pacify and inspire but hides the shameful truths while the corporate media tries to get people's attention by fomenting irrational fears and inventing absurd conspiracy theories while neglecting the boring tedious wonkish details.
Has any community found a better way to balance these apparently exclusive approaches?
Jared Lee Loughner is ultimately the one responsible for this massacre, yet the frequency of acts like this can be lessened even more by trying to ensure all politicians think twice about the implications of their rhetoric.
Palin's 'call to arms' doesn't sit well with the idea of democracy - regardless of ideology, she should be encouraging supporters to participate in democratic political discourse and not what could be construed as the encouragement of violent participation.
It's still not clear what the exact motive behind this tragedy was. Perhaps there isn't one solitary motive. The killing of a young girl doesn't seem political at all but the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords, a judge and political aide do seem to be.
It's a horrific event and my condolences & sympathies go out to those killed, hurt and the respective families involved, but there is enough evidence within this case to suggest a political motive existed (in part - with Giffords at least).
Given that, it makes sense to encourage Palin et al to produce rhetoric which isn't extremist, so the likelihood of events like this unfolding in the future are even less likely than before.
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An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatchlings to Laying Hens Do you want to raise chickens but don’t know where to begin? Then you need Chick Days , an entertaining photographic guide that chronicles the life journey of three chickens (Amelia, Honey, and Tilda) from newly hatched fluffy butterballs to grown hens laying eggs. Day by day and week by week, you’ll watch these three chickens grow and change, and along the way you’ll learn everything you need to know about chicken behavior, feeding, housing, hygiene, and health care. The witty writing of Jenna Woginrich (author of Made from Scratch ) paired with photography by Mars Vilaubi (who raised the chickens himself, along with his wife and son) will give every chicken-lover the confidence and enthusiasm to raise a flock.
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Mesoscale Discussion 1091
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1114 AM CDT Mon Jun 19 2017
Areas affected...Much of central and eastern Maryland/Virginia
Concerning...Severe potential...Watch likely
Valid 191614Z - 191815Z
Probability of Watch Issuance...95 percent
SUMMARY...Increasing thunderstorm development appears likely during
the next few hours, and may begin impacting the Baltimore/Washington
D.C. metropolitan areas by 2-4 PM EDT.
DISCUSSION...Thunderstorm development is now underway along and
southeast of the Allegheny Mountains, as far south as the eastern
West Virginia panhandle. This appears to coincide with the
southeastern periphery of the stronger mid-latitude latitude
westerlies, which may gradually edge toward the Baltimore/Washington
D.C. metropolitan areas toward the 18-20Z time frame. As the
increasingly weakly capped moist boundary layer continues to
destabilize with additional insolation, this is expected to result
in increasing and intensifying thunderstorm development. In the
presence of 30-40 kt south to southwesterly mean lower/mid
tropospheric flow, heavy precipitation loading and downward momentum
transfer are expected to slowly lead to increasing potential for
downbursts.
Farther to the east and south, into parts of the Carolina piedmont
and Mid Atlantic coastal plain, where mid-level heights remain
fairly high and flow appears a bit weaker, but at least broadly
cyclonic, a general increase in thunderstorm development and
intensity appears probable through late afternoon.
..Kerr/Hart.. 06/19/2017
...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov for graphic product...
ATTN...WFO...PHI...AKQ...LWX...RAH...RNK...
LAT...LON 36957987 37517948 39197779 39547720 39577594 38577558
37067687 36067831 36127965 36957987
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Multitasking is our modern-day nature and pride. Technology is continuously coming up with ways to make it easier to do anything and everything with such ease, and subsequently at the same time. We can finally conquer all we desire each waking day because we have immediate access to the world at our fingertips (and now even our eyeballs: google glass hitting Diane Von Furstenberg’s runway)! False! The readiness to multitask is a curse. To multitask by definition reads, “Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once.” Is this really something we want to do? Do we want to operate the way a computer does? Those machines burn out for crying out loud, and now, operating like them, so do we! When we divide our attention we are not doing one thing well. I find my ability to finish a blog post, get to class early to go over those moves I’ve been dying to perfect, choreograph that piece I’ve dreamt about starting, and pick up choreography swiftly all gets sucked away, minute by minute, to my quietly nagging iPhone that never lurks too far from my side. And worse yet if it isn’t the technology itself, it’s my brain that now almost seems hard-wired to operate on over-drive mode, my mind constantly bobbing from thought to thought comparable to the Internet I have grown to adopt so openly. My attention span and patience to sit with one idea sucks. And why is “turning off” so damn hard? When we dance, we strive for efficiency of movement – the only way we developpé our leg to our ear is if we only use the muscles we need and let the ones that prohibit our wishful concussion a back seat. What is our potential for efficiency if we can streamline our thoughts, and release our “mental” hip flexors? …in the studio and in our lives?
Let’s start in the studio before we take on our lives, shall we?
How many times are we at barré and doing the combination with the teacher, except we don’t know what they are going to do? We move our body and play mind-reader with someone we don’t know. How effective is that? Or worse yet, we move our hands when the exercise is ultimately done with our feet, while we also predict what this stranger will do. Or my personal favorite – how often do we stretch our hamstrings, think about the rotation of our inner thighs from the exercise prior, concern ourselves about our weak something-or-other, our PT appointment that we have to run to directly after class, and contemplate our life’s purpose, all while our favorite teacher just gave a tendue combination? Then we arrive in first position with our left hand on the barré and we think, “How the hell does this start?” Maybe if we do one thing, say, listen and absorb the combination only, we will actually get the combo. Then when we have a second later we can devote all our attention to stretching our hamstrings, rather than just hanging over a dead-leg thrown on a barré. It is impossible to stretch effectively while simultaneously learning movement. It is impossible to get to PT while we do tendues. It is stupid to concern ourselves with our next career move while we attempt mastery of our degaggé. Our productiveness in all of these areas significantly improves if we absorb one piece of information at a time.
We are looking at teacher without seeing teacher.
Looking is not enough. Seeing, focusing our undivided attention, brings our level of productivity up another notch. We are capable of digesting a combination after seeing it demonstrated the first time. Why not? It’s just a series of tendues and pliés in a more or less predictable pattern that we’ve practiced for the majority of our lives. The more we see, the quicker we absorb the combination. Then when the teacher does it the second time (for those poor souls who were doing their to-do lists in their head the first time), we add a layer of artistry that takes our dancing to the next level.
Now when I play teacher, I do a similar version of this mental multitasking. I can be teaching and simultaneously distracted with multiple thoughts. “Is that how that next combination starts? Is this musical selection working? Are people comprehending what I intended?” This all takes me away from seeing each one of my dancers more clearly; understanding how they work, what motivates them, what challenges them and why, what their tendencies are, and where their bodies hold tension. Seeing my students allows me to help more on an individualized level. One thought at a time brings forth a more articulate, perceptive, and productive teaching methodology.
And going a step further, when we learn choreography, how much do we see? How much can we focus our attention on what is solely important at that moment to the person leading the room? I can distract myself with thoughts of sequencing when I should take a step back and see that the choreographer isn’t stressing the exactness of steps at all. Their vagueness shouldn’t be a source of frustration but something I can see, and then adopt in my learning style and subsequently my execution, to better suit the purpose before they give that correction. And vice versa, as a choreographer, can we see how dancers learn the movement and guide them to see the integral essence being created? If we distract our mind, there is no way we can possibly juggle this level of thought. If we can’t get to this level of thought, we are missing out on a beautiful layer of depth and therefore, productivity and creativity.
Now if we aren’t already dying to get to this level of efficiency and attention in the studio, we should at least crave it to streamline our lives. Just think about how much time we can earn when we fully devote ourselves to work effectively on one thing at a time. Limit distractions, delineate time to focus solely on one idea to see if it works before bouncing to the next one and not getting one solid thing accomplished. We don’t need our iPhones, Gmail, or Facebook to write that term paper. We can’t research new dance companies holding auditions and talk to our loved ones on the phone. Odds are we yes them absent-mindedly or end up buying shoes off of Gilt instead. It is virtually impossible to walk and text successfully. I typically look like a drunkard. It is more time efficient to stop, send a text, and then continue on walking. Instead I insist on spilling my tea on myself, take about 5 blocks to text 3 words, and nearly break a toe while navigating uneven New York pavement. (Hell, we need those toes!) I can sit in front of the T.V. and eat dinner and then finish everything on my plate, and feel completely unsatisfied; I didn’t taste my meal. How many times do I have to re-read the same paragraph over and over again because I didn’t digest a lick of it? I am too busy jumping thoughts, or paying attention to the cutie who just got on the bus. How many times do I attempt to go to bed, but then keep checking my iPhone when the light goes off just to wake in the morning craving an extra half hour of sleep? And for crying out loud, I don’t need my brain when I do the dishes. Let’s turn off when we can so we can be refreshed when we do need our minds to work for us.
Let’s use technology when we need it and designate time for it, rather than have it cloud our lives at large. We don’t need to respond to that text immediately. Set new standards. Spend time well, doing one thing at a time. If we do one thing only, we feel more satisfaction from completing it whole-heartedly. In turn, we gain some precious time to conquer those dreams that lie in our journals untouched. We gain a deeper level of artistry. We gain beautiful, unadulterated moments with our friends and lovers, granting them the full attention we all deserve. Check out less and stay tuned-in more. Look less and see more. Kill mental and physical multitasking once and for all!!!
I attempted to check my iPhone 18 times while I wrote this.
I have 33 pending drafts of articles saved to my computer that I started to write but never finished.
Back in 2009, I received the opportunity to teach a residency at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School on behalf of Buglisi Dance Theatre and their outreach affiliation with the NYC public schools. I restaged excerpts of Jacqueline Buglisi’s Caravaggio Meets Hopper. Honestly, teaching these students was such a treat for me and I am eager to teach more residencies both on behalf of BDT or Parsons (in due time, hopefully!) and with my own choreography. I was impressed with how well they executed the work when they applied themselves openly to the movement. Congrats dancers!
The engaging challenge for me is to actively reach out and engage each and every student to have them put forth their best effort. One of the most eye opening experiences was to see one young woman in particular have so many “can nots” and personal limitations imposed upon herself, when she truthfully had some of the most potential and mental swiftness of the bunch. She wouldn’t dare push herself, but when myself and dance instructor for the program, Vivian Ullman (bless that woman and the tremendous work which she does!), milked it out of her she was nothing short of remarkable. Gets me thinking so much about how our upbringing and background has such an impact on our perception of ourselves and the possibilities we have available to us. I believe I can thank Malcolm Gladwell for this – reading Outliers now! Perhaps a post about the patterns instilled in most “successful” (gosh whatever that means) dancers to come! So without further ado and any more distracting side-bar remarks, here is intimate video footage of the dancers working, from the studio through to dress rehearsal. Enjoy!
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On compliance
Some doms get off on, really enjoy, training their subs. I don’t. I have nothing against – enjoy, even, working with a woman who’s learning about (her) submission. But training implies a certain level of… resistance… on the part of the submissive. This holds no appeal to me.
If you and I are engaged in dominance and submission together, I don’t want to train you, particularly. I want you to be good. I’m entirely o.k. with your learning. What I have zero patience for is your willfully testing my limits, pushing back. That just holds zero appeal.
If it’s helpful… I want you to interact with me as I always have strived to interact with bosses – and as I always have expected subordinates to interact with me.
If you work for me, I give you responsibilities, tasks. I expect you to uphold your responsibilities, to complete your tasks. I expect that all to be done well.
I might well expect you to have concerns about some or other task I might assign you. Thoughts, opinions, wisdom. Maybe, because you’re closer to the task than I am, you might know that there’s a better way, that there’s something you could suggest that would represent an improvement to my request. I would welcome that suggestion. I wouldn’t welcome your presuming to do it the way you think (the way you think you know?) would represent an improvement, because, well, I might know some things you don’t know. You know?
Maybe I might ask you to do something you’re not comfortable doing, for whatever reason. For the most part, I’m respectful. I appreciate that sometimes, you might not be the right person, say, for a particular task. (One partner of mine is crystal clear that she doesn’t want me to come in her mouth, and that this isn’t negotiable for her, for better or worse. That’s fine with me. I’ll come somewhere else.) If you tell me you’re not the right person for a particular task (or that a particular task isn’t right for you), that’s just fine. I’ll almost certainly respect that.
But….
I don’t want to have to ask twice.
I don’t want to have to justify my request.
I don’t want push back.
If for any reason, what I ask is something with which you’re uncomfortable, something you really don’t want to do, something you don’t think I should ask for, please, please, just tell me this. Tell me clearly, directly, respectfully. And, if at all possible, look for an alternative you can offer. You don’t want me to come in your mouth? Tell me that in a way that respects my desire to come in your mouth, and that offers me a palatable, or even preferable, alternative.
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Bleach(2018)
Bleach is a movie starring Miyavi, Hana Sugisaki, and Sôta Fukushi. Ichigo Kurosaki is a High School student, living in Karakura town. He is able to see ghosts, as well as hollows. Later, he meets up with Rukia Kuchiki, a Death God...
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Correction of previously published press releaseCorrection of previously published press release
Thu, Jun 02, 2016 07:30 CET
The press release published by Resurs Holding AB (publ) at 8.30 am CET on 1 June 2016, “Exercise of Over-allotment in Relation to Resurs and Notice of Stabilization” included incorrect information regarding number of shares exercised under the Over-allotment option and the number of shares re-delivered to the Principal Selling Shareholders.
A correct version of the press release follows. The correction is in italics.
Exercise of Over-allotment in Relation to Resurs and Notice of Stabilization
In connection with the offering of Resurs’s shares and the initial public offering on Nasdaq Stockholm (the “Offering”), the Principal Selling Shareholders granted the Joint Global Coordinators an option to purchase up to 9,739,999 additional shares during 30 days from the first day of trading of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq Stockholm, 29 April 2016, (the “Stabilisation Period”) to cover potential over-allotments in the Offering (the “Over-Allotment Option”). The Managers have exercised the option in respect of 4,816,116 shares.
All stabilization transactions were carried out between 29 April 2016 and 27 May 2016 within a price range of SEK 54.20 to SEK 55.00. The stabilization period has now ended and no further stabilization transactions will be carried out.
Following the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option Cidron Semper Ltd. and Waldakt AB will hold 69,865,318 shares and 57,162,759 shares of the total number of shares in Resurs, respectively, corresponding to an ownership of approximately 34.93 per cent and 28.58 per cent of the total number of shares in Resurs, respectively.
Interval per day
April 29, 2016
SEK 54.25 – 55.00
May 2, 2016
SEK 54.90 – 55.00
May 3, 2016
SEK 54.90 – 55.00
May 4, 2016
SEK 54.95 – 55.00
May 6, 2016
SEK 54.45 – 55.00
May 9, 2016
SEK 54.90 – 55.00
May 10, 2016
SEK 55.00 – 55.00
May 11, 2016
SEK 54.90 – 55.00
May 12, 2016
SEK 54.80 – 55.00
May 13, 2016
SEK 54.20 – 55.00
May 16, 2016
SEK 54.40 – 55.00
May 17, 2016
SEK 54.50 – 55.00
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SEK 54.95 – 55.00
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n/a
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SEK 55.00 – 55.00
May 27, 2016
SEK 54.95 – 55.00
4,923,883 shares in Resurs that Morgan Stanley, acting as stabilization manager on behalf of the Joint Global Coordinators, borrowed from the Principal Selling Shareholders with the purpose of covering the over-allotment in the Offering, have been re-delivered to the Principal Selling Shareholders.
Resurs Holding is required to disclose the information in this press release under the provisions of the
Securities Market Act. The information was submitted for publication on the 2nd of June 2016 at 7.30
am CET.
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30075 housing market
In December 2018 the housing market in 30075 is a balanced market, which means there is a healthy balance of buyers and sellers in the market. The housing market in 30075 is somewhat hot and it is trending up compared to last month, but trending down compared to last year.
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http://member.iftf.org/node/4119#commentsdronesgreen healthThe Future NowHealth Horizons<p>Via <a href=""http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/27/news-from-the-future-drone-pilot-discovers-river-of-meat-blood/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+makezineonline+%28MAKE%29">Make Magazine</a> comes word of an aerial drone that inadvertently happened upon a meat packing plant in Dallas that was polluting a nearby river with pig blood. The disturbing finding points to something we should expect a lot more of, now that drones <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/technology/drones-with-an-eye-on-the-public-cleared-to-fly.html?pagewanted=all">have been approved for public flight</a> - namely, that we'll see citizens groups use unmanned vehicles as a form of citizen policing to monitor for all kinds of environmental health violations.
As reported in <a href="http://www.suasnews.com/2012/01/11389/dallas-meat-packing-plant-investigated-after-drone-images-reveal-pollution/">sUAS News</a>:
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A Dallas sUAS enthusiast testing his camera equiped drone noticed something awry with the images he had taken. Speaking to sUAS News he said.
I was looking at images after the flight that showed a blood red creek and was thinking, could this really be what I think it is? Can you really do that, surely not?
Whatever it is, it was flat out gross. Then comes the question of who do I report this to that can find out what it is and where it is coming from.
Search after search and even some phone calls and I am not finding anything on who to call until I find the Nation Response Center. With their website saying that they are “the sole national point of contact for reporting all oil, chemical, radiological, biological and etiological discharges into the environment, anywhere in the United States and its territories” this sure seems like the correct place to start.
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The finding, which was by chance, reminds me of the concept of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?pagewanted=all">human flesh search engines</a> that have taken off in China, where, in response to crimes, people use social media to identify and shame people who commit crimes.
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Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.
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So what would environmental health drones do? Crowdsource environmental health detective work. Publicize, shame and boycott offenders.
(Thanks to colleagues <a href="http://www.iftf.org/user/41">Sean Ness</a> and <a href="http://www.iftf.org/user/1943">Nic Weidinger</a> for pointing me to the Make article.)</p>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:47:21 +0000Bradley Kreit4119 at http://member.iftf.orgUnderstanding Fitness Desertshttp://member.iftf.org/node/4043
http://member.iftf.org/node/4043#commentsgreen healthhealth datahh2012The Future Nowwell-beingHealth Horizons<p>A couple months ago, <a href="http://www.good.is/post/in-fitness-deserts-working-out-isn-t-as-simple-as-hitting-the-gym/">Good had a great feature</a> about the idea of a fitness desert--essentially, a place where, due to some combination of environmental and social factors, getting out, walking around, and exercising is unusually difficult. As far as I can tell, the piece, by Alex Schmidt, is one of the first to use the term fitness desert--and I'd guess, in part, this is because coming up with any sort of clear definition of one is complex. In theory, the presence or absence of sidewalks, bike paths, parks, and gyms could all contribute to a definition, as could factors like crime rates.
Schmidt notes some of these competing definitions in her article:
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Like food deserts—areas where residents don’t have reliable access to fresh food—fitness deserts pose health challenges to millions of Americans, mostly low-income ones. A full 80 percent of census blocks do not have a park within a half-mile, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released last year. Studies have shown that these disparities exist in cities all over the country, including Chicago, San Francisco and Washington D.C., complicating efforts to fight obesity in poor communities.
David Sloan, a professor of urban planning at the University of Southern California, says the difference in fitness opportunities between affluent and low-income areas are stark. While wealthy West Los Angeles has 70.1 acres of recreation or green space per 1,000 people, low-income South Los Angeles has 1.2 acres per 1,000. Meanwhile, private gyms are much more common in the more affluent areas. The recession has made it even more difficult to rely on public parks for fitness and recreation, as public resources earmarked for those spaces dwindle.
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In other words, there are a couple of key points: We know that areas where it's hard to exercise are bad for health; we also know that actually defining "hard to exercise" is, itself, no easy task at the moment.
But over the next decade, I think we'll have increasingly good tools to define complex and significant determinants of health--like fitness deserts. Already, relatively straightforward services like <a href="http://www.walkscore.com/how-it-works.shtml">walk score</a> offer some insight into how easy or hard it is to navigate a neighborhood--and layering that information with other environmental and social data is pretty feasible. It will, for example, be possible to start to answer questions like how the location of a park, or the presence of a gym, impacts exercise rates.
One of the <a href="http://www.iftf.org/HH2012ResearchAgenda">real opportunities to use information to enhance health</a> over the next decade will be to link these sorts of environmental definitions to health outcomes and behaviors to better understand the kinds of environments that impact health--and to develop some more targeted ways to use the environment to enhance health.
Put differently, despite <a href="http://www.iftf.org/node/3191">long-standing links between health and place</a>, one of the challenges to intervening through the environment is in identifying interventions that genuinely work--a challenge that may dissipate as we develop high-resolution tools to analyze and understand links between place and health.</p>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:58:15 +0000Bradley Kreit4043 at http://member.iftf.orgInvesting in Local Communities to Improve Healthhttp://member.iftf.org/node/3989
http://member.iftf.org/node/3989#commentscontagion healthgreen healthlocalismThe Future NowHealth HorizonsThe New England Journal of Medicine has a <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1103216?query=featured_home">fascinating study</a> examining the effects of a low-income housing program impacted participants' health--the results of which suggest that, at least in many instances, improving the local neighborhoods where people live does far more to improve health than trying to tackle health problems on a case-by-case basis.
The study, led by University of Chicago Law Professor Jens Ludwig, looked at how health outcomes changed over time among people who moved out of high poverty neighborhoods, compared with those who didn't move. <a href="http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/20/change-your-neighborhood-improve-your-health/">Time's Healthland blog</a> concisely summarizes their findings:
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"The results suggest that over the long term, investments in improving neighborhood environments might be an important complement to medical care when it comes to preventing obesity and diabetes," says study author Jens Ludwig, a professor of public policy at University of Chicago
The HUD program, called Moving to Opportunity (MTO), wasn't originally focused on tracking people's health. It was designed to study the effect of the residential milieu on employment, income and education in families with children living in cities with a 40% or greater poverty rate. But Ludwig and his team were curious about how the rise in poverty in the U.S. has also mirrored the increase in obesity and diabetes and wondered, Could neighborhood and social factors influence health outcomes?
The current study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the first to conduct a social experiment that allowed the comparison of such outcomes in families — in this case, low-income single mothers and their children living in public housing — who were randomly assigned to live in different economic environments. Families who volunteered to join MTO entered a lottery, which randomly put them in one of three groups: those who received vouchers to move to a less disadvantaged neighborhood (with a poverty rate of less than 10%), those who got vouchers to live wherever they chose, and those who did not receive any vouchers or additional assistance.
Because of the randomized design of the program, scientists knew they could track and correlate changes in living circumstances to later health outcomes like obesity or diabetes. Most of the families — who were from Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York — were followed for an average of 12 years, during which they answered survey questions about their neighborhood, jobs and health.
Among the 4,498 single moms who volunteered for the program, those who were assigned to move to lower-poverty areas were 19% less likely to have a BMI of 40 or higher, the cutoff for morbid obesity, and 22% less likely to have glucose levels typical of diabetes, compared with those who stayed in public housing.
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In other words, moving from an impoverished to a relatively healthier neighborhood lowered health risks by about one fifth--as effective as many medical interventions. What's also notable is that just providing a housing voucher--helping one family without doing much for the community--doesn't seem to measurably improve health.
Shared environmental and social health problems, in other words, get better through efforts to improve shared local conditions.
Beyond simply pinpointing scales of action--our social structures and environments--their study, at least by implication, opens up a much broader set of opportunities for local communities to act collaboratively to improve their health, such as improving access to parks, grocery stores, and otherwise acting through local communities to improve health that have the potential to be a lot cheaper, and a lot more effective, than a lot of traditional biomedical interventions.
(For a great review of some of the research on the effects of poverty on health, check out this <a href="https://kevishere.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/inequality-health-disparities-obesity/">recent blog post</a> from biological anthropologist Patrick Clarkin.)
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:53:01 +0000Bradley Kreit3989 at http://member.iftf.orgCan I Have a Featherless Chicken and a Side of Healthy Bacon?http://member.iftf.org/node/3534
http://member.iftf.org/node/3534#commentsagriculturegenetic engineeringgeneticsgreen healthThe Future NowFood Futures Lab<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727680.300-altered-animals-creatures-with-bonus-features.html?full=true">The New Scientist</a> has a great round-up of the various efforts geneticists are undertaking to modify farm animals. The story doesn't break any new ground, per se, but it's remarkable for the sheer breadth of ways that genetic engineers are attempting to redesign animals. </p><p>
As the New Scientist describes it:
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[T]he genetic engineering of animals - with the exception of mice - has been a slow, tedious process needing a lot of money and not a little luck. Behind the scenes, though, a quiet revolution has been taking place. Thanks to a set of new tricks and tools, modifying animals is becoming a lot easier and more precise. That is not only going to transform research, it could also transform the meat and eggs you eat and the milk you drink....
At the same time, biologists have developed more efficient ways of adding DNA to cells, by hijacking natural genetic engineers such as viruses, and jumping genes capable of "copying and pasting" themselves. All these advances mean the effort and cost needed to produce GM animals has decreased a hundredfold.
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Here are just a few examples: </p><ul><li><a href="http://www.bio.org/animals/salmonmyths.asp">Salmon</a> that grow faster than their unmodified counterparts </li><li><a href="http://www.uoguelph.ca/enviropig/">Pigs</a> designed to produce less pollution</li><li>A separate species of <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8900-transgenic-pigs-are-rich-in-healthy-fats.html">pig</a> bred to have muscles full of healthier omega-3 fats</li><li><a href="http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v23/n4/abs/nbt1078.html">Cattle</a> designed to be resistant to certain kinds of infections...</li></ul><p> </p>
The list goes on. A lot of the more novel uses of animal genetics, for example, have less to do with altering the animal to produce some sort of medical treatment for people. A group of researchers just found a way to <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=bite-me-new-malaria-proof-mosquito-2010-07-15">develop malaria-proof mosquitos</a> while in the world of farm animals, different researchers are attempting to find was to make pig organs safe to transplant into people.
These last examples--modifying animals to produce some sort of drug, organ or other medical treatments for people--are among the more innovative, and also, I'd guess, the most potentially disruptive to the food system, simply because of the new demands these could place on an already strained food system by diverting grains and land from food to breeding animals for medicine.
Of course, none of these animals have been brought into the food web just yet. The New Scientist echoed a point I've heard before: That these animals are most likely to be brought into the Chinese food system before making their way onto dinner plates in the United States or Europe, for reasons having to do with practical supply chain management questions as well as for reasons having to do with social values.
Which brings me to the last animal I want to mention: A <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/fluorescent-felines-meet-pre-plucked-chickens/6">featherless, pre-plucked chicken</a> that reduces the labor costs of plucking chicken.
The New Scientist included this in its slideshow of transgenic animals--and it was the only image that startled me and made me think: There's something I won't eat. The irony, though, was that it was the only animal in the slideshow that seems to have evolved simply through chance--a while ago, a chicken happened to mutate to not have feathers, and animal breeders are simply trying to figure out how to make the trait more prevalent.
It reminds me of a similar point I made <a href="http://www.iftf.org/node/3091">last year</a> when writing about lab-grown meat: The ultimate success of these animals will, in many ways, ultimately be tied to whether or not these animals seem like safe, healthy things to put into one's body.Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:27:33 +0000Bradley Kreit3534 at http://member.iftf.orgYour Diet--and Your Job--Could Benefit from a Walk in the Parkhttp://member.iftf.org/node/3392
http://member.iftf.org/node/3392#commentsgreen healthpersuasionself-controlThe Future NowHealth HorizonsTrouble resisting a late night dessert or shutting out distractions to finish up a project at work? The blog <a href="http://newvaluestreams.com/wordpress/?p=1133">New Value Streams</a> points to an interesting <a href="http://pps.sagepub.com/content/5/1/43.full.pdf+html">new study</a> suggesting a pretty simple solution to help with either problem: Go for a walk in a park or among some trees. In effect, directed attention--that is, the ability to focus intently and analytically--is a finite mental resource that appears to rely on many of the same mental processes as exerting self-control, that, when it's depleted, can cause us to make poor choices and have trouble focusing. But tuning out--heading out to a park, say, or by taking other mental breaks--we can regain the ability to self-regulate and focus.
The study, by Stephen Kaplan and Marc Berman of the University of Michigan, notes a growing body of research suggesting direct attention and self-regulation tax the same parts of our brains. For example, they note previous research has found that students taking standardized tests consistently score lower when trying to filter out noises and distractions but that these negative effects "only appear during the more difficult forms of information processing and do not worsen performance in general." Similarly, remembering long strings of numbers makes it difficult to "inhibit socially inappropriate responses" in much the same way it makes it difficult to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703478704574612052322122442.html">turn down a slice of cake.</a>
Put differently, as Kaplan and Berman state, "self-regulation tends to put one's intention against one's inclination" and in much the same way that avoiding the cake requires ignoring tempting sites and smells, focusing intently requires ignoring other potentially enticing visual and mental stimuli.
Not surprisingly, taking a break from focusing can help restore attention and self-control. But according to Kaplan and Berman, three strategies seem to do the best at restoring this mechanism: sleep, meditation, and hanging out in natural environments, which they classify under the term Attention Restoration Therapy (ART). Natural environments, they note
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[U]tilize involuntary attention... so as not to interfere with other thoughts... Natural environments, such as parks, gardens, and lakefronts, are able to capture involuntary attention without monopolizing attentional channel capacity... Natural environments are certainly not the only environments capable of attracting involuntary attention without interfering with other thoughts, but do serve as good candidate environments that have been shown to restore directed attention abilities across a wide array of populations and situations....
ART would appear to offer the potential to contribute in a wide variety of contexts. It offers an intervention with no known side effects that can be taken in a wide range of dosages. Initial studies have shown this approach to be elpful in treating a broad range of psychological problems, from information processing limitations, to aggression, to recovering from the disturbing cognitive side effects of cancer.
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Of course, their research doesn't mean that a simple walk through the park can solve our <a href="http://www.iftf.org/node/3217">considerable self-control difficulties.</a> But I do think the next time I'm having trouble concentrating, I'm going to try to take a walk in the park. It sounds like it will do a lot more to help me think than would reading a newspaper or checking out twitter.Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:08:47 +0000Bradley Kreit3392 at http://member.iftf.orgHelping others see the pollution you hearhttp://member.iftf.org/node/3314
http://member.iftf.org/node/3314#commentseco-monitoringenvironmentgreen healthnoise pollutionHealth Horizons<p>As part of our ongoing work examining the intersection of health and citizen-environmental monitoring, we are always on the look out for new products and services that promote this connection.</p>
<p>One story that we have used frequently as a signal is <a href="http://peir.cens.ucla.edu/">PEIR</a>, the Personal Environmental Impact Report project run by UCLA, which allows people to use their mobile phones to explore and share their impact on the environment and how the environment impacts them. Another is Squirrel, from Calit2, a mobile air pollution monitor (read about it <a href="http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1080">here</a>).</p>
<p>But in addition to air pollution, noise pollution is a regular—and disruptive—part of daily life in a city, resulting from traffic to construction to every day chatter (made worse by the prevalence of people talking on their cell phones). Now we have two projects—<a href="http://www.noisetube.net/">NoiseTube</a> and <a href="http://www.lhrnoisemap.org/projectbriefing.html">LHR NoiseMap</a>—that use mobile phones to record and map instances of noise pollution.</p><p><span class="inline inline-center"><img src="http://www.iftf.org/files/images/noisetubelogo.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview " width="184" height="70" /></span></p>
<p>As <a href="http://mobileactive.org/whats-sound-two-tools-track-noise-pollution">described by MobileActive.org</a>:
<blockquote>NoiseTube uses crowd-sourcing to monitor noise pollution. Users with GPS-enabled phones can install a free application that measures the noise level wherever they are. Users tag the recordings with a description of the noise, its source, the time of day, and other criteria, and the data is then mapped onto GoogleEarth; in this way participants can use their phones as noise sensors to automatically share information about their city with other members of the community.</blockquote>
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<p>Based in Paris, NoiseTube's numbers are small—only 112 users spread over 25 cities. The LHR NoiseMap, which uses AudioBoo, an iPhone audio blogging application, to record the sounds of airplanes coming in and out of London’s Heathrow airport and the effect the noise has on the surrounding neighborhoods, has even fewer participants. It is essentially a one-man show. An interview with LHR NoiseMap developer, however, reveals the potential of both of these projects:</p>
<blockquote>“Noise can be measured, you have a microphone on every phone. You can create an audio map, [with a] crowd-sourced, participatory approach using mobiles and mapping open street maps.”</blockquote>
<p>While NoiseTube and LHR NoiseMap are in their infancy, they rely on readily available technology to measure and map noise pollution. If a critical mass of people become regular users in a given location, meaningful amounts of useful information will be generated. Imagine a neighborhood that has complained of noise from the local airport to no avail. Local citizens will now be able to easily and accurately document the problem and, armed with actionable data, hopefully be able to effect change.</p>
<p>I can't resist wrapping up this post with an Artifact from the Future that my colleague, Jason Tester, created for our Green Health Conference in 2008. Our report on the Greening of Health is now available <a href="http://www.iftf.org/node/3191>here.</a> </p>
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Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:04:19 +0000Vivian Distler3314 at http://member.iftf.orgHospital food—not so yucky any morehttp://member.iftf.org/node/3054
http://member.iftf.org/node/3054#commentsfoodgreen healthhospitalsnutritionorganic foodsustainabilityHealth Horizons<p>
Rarely does one hear about tasty—let alone healthy—hospital food. That's about to change at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, located adjacent to Palo Alto, California. Yesterday, the Hospital <a href="http://stanfordhospital.org/farmfresh/news/" target="_blank">announced</a> <span style="color: #000000">the launch of a new inpatient menu that will feature organic, locally grown, sustainable ingredients. The <a href="http://stanfordhospital.org/farmfresh/introducing/" target="_blank">initiative</a> was developed with local chef/restaurateur <a href="http://www.cooleatz.com/about/jesseziffcool.htm" target="_blank">Jesse Cool</a>, who has been a leader in healthy eating and sustainable food practices for decades. (With apologies to chef Cool for a comparison she probably has heard too many times and may not appreciate, when I first moved to Palo Alto from Berkeley, my impression was that Jesse Cool was the <a href="http://www.chezpanisse.com/about/alice-waters/" target="_blank">Alice Waters</a> of the area, and that her landmark restaurant, the <a href="http://www.cooleatz.com/flea-st-cafe/index.html" target="_blank">Flea Street Cafe</a>, was the <a href="http://www.chezpanisse.com/about/chez-panisse/" target="_blank">Chez Panisse</a> of the Peninsula.) </span>
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<span style="color: #000000">Stanford Hospital, in recognizing the vital connection between serving healthy food and</span><span style="color: #000000"> helping "patients heal as quickly as possible," has put itself </span><span style="color: #000000">at the forefront of an emerging trend. The Farm Fresh program </span><span style="color: #000000"></span>
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<span style="color: #000000">Cool, a dedicated advocate of organic food, grown locally with sustainable farming techniques, worked with the hospital's executive chef to develop what might be described as a 200 Mile Diet (a play on the <a href="http://100milediet.org/" target="_blank">100 Mile Diet movement</a>). </span>
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<span style="color: #000000">The ingredients for Stanford Hospital’s Farm Fresh meals will primarily come from growers and producers within a 200-mile radius of Stanford Medical Center, based on seasonal availability. Among the items featured will be vegetables from local farms, olive oil from Napa Valley, strawberries from Watsonville, organic dairy from Petaluma, pasture raised range chickens and grass-fed range beef from Marin and Sonoma, and whole grain bread from a San Francisco bakery. </span>
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Although I have never been to Flea Street Cafe, I have eaten at Jesse Cool's other establishments, and I can vouch for the quality, freshness, and tastiness of her food. So as much as I hope to not be a Stanford Hospital patient again any time soon, if for some reason I do end up there, at least I can look forward to a good meal.
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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:57:26 +0000Vivian Distler3054 at http://member.iftf.orgAsthma Alerts Through Social Networkshttp://member.iftf.org/node/2763
http://member.iftf.org/node/2763#commentsair pollutiongreen healthHC2020-TransformationHealth HorizonsArizona public health researchers are looking into <a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/291530">updating asthma patients</a> about environmental pollution through Twitter, Facebook and other social networking platforms. Under the proposal, Arizona residents could register with a publicly run program and receive updates about pollution and other environmental triggers for asthma that have been culled from environmental sensors.
State officials say they expect an alert system would cost several hundred thousand dollars to create and could be developed within two years. Though that sounds like an unnecessarily long amount of time to develop an alert system, it sounds like a creative way to deliver timely information to help people plan their days to avoid asthma attacks.
Tue, 05 May 2009 23:23:08 +0000Bradley Kreit2763 at http://member.iftf.orgThe Green Hospitalhttp://member.iftf.org/node/2684
http://member.iftf.org/node/2684#commentsgreen healthHC2020-TransformationsustainabilityHealth HorizonsWe've been looking into <a href="/node/928">Green Health</a> for a while now, so it's nice to see this<a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/03/hospital_rooms_go_green_1.html"> Boston Globe</a> item on an experimental design for the green hospital room. Designed to be both sustainable and cost-effective and pictured below.
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Low flow faucets. Flooring made with renewable materials. Non-toxic items make up the ceiling, bed and walls. There is even a balcony to connect to nature because research shows it can help with healing.
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Anshen + Allen, International Facility Management Association designed the facility. In addition to building the room to be sustainable, they also built additional space to make the room accessible for patient families and friendlier to try to help patients feel better.
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:21:35 +0000Bradley Kreit2684 at http://member.iftf.orgClimate change and public healthhttp://member.iftf.org/node/2341
http://member.iftf.org/node/2341#commentsdiseasegreen healthHC2020-Collapsepublic healthHealth Horizons<p>
This Reuters headline--"<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081007/sc_nm/us_climate_health" target="_blank">Climate change seen aiding spread of deadly diseases</a>"--brought back memories of our Green Health map and conference. In 2003, the World Health Organization published a <a href="http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/cchhsummary/en/" target="_blank">report</a> on climate change as a significant and emerging threat to public health, noting that many important diseases (such as malaria and dengue, as well as malnutrition and diarrhea) are highly sensitive to changing temperatures
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Now, the <a href="http://www.wcs.org/" target="_blank">Wildlife Conservation Society</a> has issued a list of a "deadly dozen" diseases (avian flu, tick-borne babesia, cholera, ebola, parasites, plague, lyme disease, red tides of algal blooms, Rift Valley fever, sleeping sickness, tuberculosis, and yellow fever) that are likely to spread because of climate change. The head of the Society observes,
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"Even minor disturbances can have far reaching consequences on what diseases wild animals might encounter and transmit as climate changes. . . . The term 'climate change' conjures images of melting ice caps and rising sea levels that threaten coastal cities and nations, but <i>just as important is how increasing temperatures and fluctuating precipitation levels will change the distribution of dangerous pathogens</i>."(my emphasis)
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This is an often overlooked ramification of climate change, but one that we are certainly aware is on the horizon.
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0000Vivian Distler2341 at http://member.iftf.orgCitizen Science meets art in San Franciscohttp://member.iftf.org/node/1491
http://member.iftf.org/node/1491#commentscitizen sciencegreen healthmobile healthHealth HorizonsMobile Health Last weekend, an artist-run organization called <a href="http://soex.org/index.html">Southern Exposure</a> (SoEx) held a hands-on workshop in San Francisco that invited people to "[j]oin a team of researchers, artists, and practitioners in a citizen based participatory field study." Participants took part in "collecting, gathering, and analyzing the urban environment in [the city] using a collection of mobile, networked sensors called sensr: citizen science * air quality. The various sensors measure CO (Carbon Monoxide), NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), ozone, sulfur dioxide, moisture, uv, light, decible, and temperature."
[img_assist|nid=979|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=212|height=165]Organizers <a href="http://soex.org/Event/158.html">explained</a> that the data would be downloaded and "discussed in a brainstorm session asking what was discovered, and exploring how we would like to see this information used or changed to make a better city. Ultimately, Common Sense senses our natural environment and empowers collective action through everyday grassroots citizen science across blocks, neighborhoods, cities, and nations."
Common Sense (see image) is a project of workshop leader <a href="http://soex.org/currentexhibitions.html">Vapor</a>.
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Vapor is a survey of new art, architecture and design that takes our declining air quality as the subject matter, medium and metaphor for creative work. Often inspired by forms of activism, the works react to the sources of climate change through the use of technologies – sensors, databases, and communications equipment – that are only recently accessible outside a lab. . . .
Vapor proposes new ways of modeling, testing and finding solutions to the problems of air quality and greenhouse gas emissions. . . .
Many projects in this exhibition have an off-site component so . . . [visitors are encouraged] to stop by the gallery to check out a bicycle as part of Futurefarmers Public Cycle, a Preemptive Media AIR device to measure the CO in the area, or one of Natalie Jeremijenko's Clear Skies mask to monitor the real effects of pollution [they] move through the city.
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For more details about these projects, visit the Vapor <a href="http://soex.org/currentexhibitions.html">website</a>. The exhibit runs through May 3, 2008. I think I might organize a Health Horizons field trip to check it out.
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AJ’s Fine Wines & Liquors in Valrico is home to many different types of beer, wines and liquors. For the past few weeks, every Friday night AJ’s has hosted a free tasting of select wine, beer and spirits from 6-9 p.m. and that will continue on December 5 and 12. Head to the back corner of the store, where there’s a bar and some chairs, and the wine and spirits representatives will greet you and pour you a taste.
On Monday, December 15 there will be a special holiday event. From 6-9 p.m. there will be free engravings on bottles of Gentleman Jack and Woodford Reserve Whiskey that are purchased courtesy of the Jack Daniels family. This engraved bottle makes a perfect gift this holiday season for the whiskey drinker in your life.
“Whomever you get this engraved bottle for can drink the whiskey, and use the bottle as a decoration, or when they purchase a new bottle of whiskey; they can get a funnel and pour the whiskey into their personalized bottle. Either way it’s a memorable item,” said Owner Ajay Jambhekar.
AJ’s carries a very broad variety, and if the store doesn’t have what shoppers are looking for, the owner will order it special for the customer. The products are very high quality for an affordable price.
“There are two things you think about when you taste a drink,” said Jambhekar. “How it tastes in your mouth, and how smooth it is going down. That is what differentiates the good products from the bad.”
AJ’s sells craft beers, gluten free beers, organic beer and wine as well as a variety of IPA’s and stouts. It has a walk-in beer cooler, a self-serve bar and a patio bar.
The shop is located in the Publix-anchored Shoppes at Lithia Plaza located at 3451 Lithia Pinecrest Rd. For more information on the tastings and upcoming events call 654-6488.
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Check out these two sisters with different styles! Whether you're more urban and laid back like Andrea, or feminine and young classic like Dominique, we are sure you will find something you love and can relate to! These fashionista sisters feature insights into upcoming trends and what fashion and design mean for them!
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As a result, we have locked this user out of our forum and have changed their username to dragonfire6.delta.com to make it clear to everyone that it is Delta Air Lines who left those messages, not a random person. We have decided to leave the messages in place as an example of the very thing our members are here to complain about. You can view all the messages left by Delta Air Lines in our forum here.
It provides little comfort to know that instead of responding to our user's complaints, Delta Air Lines has chosen to ridicule the very customers that have been dissatisfied with their service after spending their hard-earned money flying with them.
We extend an open invitation to Delta Air Lines to publicly apologize to our members and to address our members complaints openly and publicly here on our forum with the attention and respect our members deserve.
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Note: You can read another Delta Air Lines employee's response to this incident here.
Delta is doing the same thing on the Elliott.org forum, but it seems as though they are condoning it on that forum because when I brought up the subject I was immediately banned. Itís shameful and reprehensible.
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SHILOH, West Bank —Through eight years of escalating criticism from the world’s most powerful leader, Israeli construction in these sacred, militarily occupied hills never stopped.
Thousands of homes were built. Miles of roadway. Restaurants. Shopping malls. A university.
Here in Shiloh, a tourist center went up, with a welcome video in which the biblical figure Joshua commands the Jewish people to settle the land promised to them by God.
Israeli settlements may be illegal in the eyes of the U.N. Security Council and a major obstacle to Middle East peace in the view of the Obama administration.
But every day they become a more entrenched reality on land that Palestinians say should rightfully belong to them. As the parched beige hilltops fill with red-tiled homes, decades of international efforts to achieve a two-state solution are unraveling.
And global condemnations notwithstanding, the trend is poised to accelerate.
Already, Israel has a right-wing government that boasts it is more supportive of settlement construction than any in the country’s short history. Within weeks, it will also have as an ally a U.S. president, Donald Trump, who has signaled he could make an extraordinary break with decades of U.S. policy and end American objections to the settlements.
The combination has delighted settlers here and across the West Bank who express hope for an unparalleled building boom that would kill off notions of a Palestinian state once and for all.
“If America interferes less, everything will be much easier,” said Shivi Drori, 43, who runs a West Bank winery in a Jewish outpost that the Israeli government considers officially off-limits to building but has tacitly backed. “I’d like to see bigger settlements. Major cities.”
Trump, Drori predicts, will help make that a reality simply by looking the other way.
Israel’s military conquered the West Bank in a matter of days 50 years ago this June in a war against neighboring Arab states. But settling the land has been the work of generations, accomplished hilltop by hilltop as temporary encampments and caravans have given way to suburban-style homes rooted firmly in the bedrock.
All the while, much of the world has opposed the settlements as an illegal infringement on occupied land. U.S. governments — Democratic and Republican alike — have urged Israel to halt the project and allow negotiations to dictate control of land that Palestinians say is vital to the viability of a future state.
Today, about 400,000 Israelis live in approximately 150 settlements scattered across the West Bank. That’s up from fewer than 300,000 when Barack Obama was elected. An additional 200,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as their future capital.
Unable to halt settlement growth, a frustrated Obama administration lashed out late last month with a twin-barreled diplomatic assault.
First, Washington abstained in a U.N. Security Council vote that demanded Israel end all settlement activity — enabling the resolution’s passage. Days later, Secretary of State John F. Kerry delivered an impassioned speech accusing Israel of putting the two-state solution “in serious jeopardy” by building “in the middle of what, by any reasonable definition, would be the future Palestinian state.”
Rather than be chastened by the criticism from the nation that has long been its closest ally, Israel’s government was furious. Settlers, meanwhile, brush it off as an irrelevance.
“There’s no implication,” said Oded Revivi, chief foreign envoy for the Yesha Council, which represents settlers.
Kerry, Revivi said, is fixated on an idea that, because of decades of Palestinian violence and intransigence, can never become reality — two states for two peoples between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Revivi instead has his eyes fixed on the incoming Trump administration, which has signaled it will abandon U.S. attempts at evenhandedness in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and throw its weight squarely behind Israel.
Trump and his advisers “have learned from President Obama’s experience,” Revivi said. “They’re not going to go into a swamp just for the sake of saying they’re in it.”
Revivi, who is also mayor of Efrat, a settlement that is poised to grow from 10,000 to 16,000, has good reason to think so.
Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel, New York bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman, has expressed positions on the settlements that are further to the right even than those of Israel’s hard-line prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Friedman, for instance, has argued in favor of Israeli annexation of the West Bank, long a fringe position in Israeli politics but one gaining currency as the political stars align against the two-state solution.
“Everyone who talks about a Palestinian state today knows it will not happen,” said Naftali Bennett, Israel’s education minister and leader of the right-wing Jewish Home party.
Instead, Bennett argues for unilateral Israeli annexation of “Area C” — the 60 percent of West Bank land where Israeli settlements are concentrated. The vast majority of the West Bank’s 2.5 million Palestinians live in Areas A and B, where Bennett says they should be able to have autonomy but not a state.
“We have to say, ‘This is what we want, and this is what we are going to do,’ ” he said. “You can’t go on saying how the world is wrong, this is ours, and then at the end you forget to kick the ball into the net.”
It’s not clear whether Netanyahu will be willing to go as far as his education minister, an ally at times but a fierce rival at others. Netanyahu is still on record supporting a two-state solution, albeit grudgingly.
But the fact that annexation is being discussed at all shows how far Israeli public sentiment has shifted in the settlers’ direction.
On the fast-shrinking left of Israeli politics, such ideas are regarded as a dangerous overreach that threatens Israel’s core democratic and Jewish identities as the Palestinian population grows.
“As a patriotic Israeli, I think it’s in the crucial interest of the state of Israel to get out of the West Bank,” said Talia Sasson, president of the New Israel Fund. “Otherwise we can’t maintain our basic principles.”
Human rights advocates insist those principles have already been trampled by a decades-long policy designed to maximize land for Jewish settlement and make life as difficult as possible for Palestinians.
Adam Aloni, a researcher for the advocacy group B’Tselem, said Israel had already carried out “de facto annexation” in the West Bank by building a network of roads and other barriers that isolate Palestinians in an archipelago of disconnected towns and cities.
“Israel is creating Palestinian ghettos, islands of land that are doomed to failure without basic resources,” he said.
One such island is the poor, litter-strewn village of Salem, where residents say their water supplies have been choked off by adjacent settlements and their access to farmland severely restricted.
“The settlers tell me, ‘You’re not allowed to be here,’ ” said Shareef Shtyah, a 33-year-old shepherd who’s had to cull his herd of sheep from 400 to 15 because the Israelis bar his access to traditional grazing areas. “I tell them, ‘You’re the ones who aren’t allowed to be here.’ ”
The Obama administration may have been sympathetic to Shtyah’s plight. But Palestinians express disappointment that Obama wasn’t able to help them secure many tangible achievements. And they have few illusions that they will get any support from Trump.
“He has the mentality of blindly supporting Israel,” said Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority’s point person on settlements in the northern West Bank. “It’s not been a promising start.”
As with so many things, it looks just the opposite to the settlers.
In Shiloh, a settler community of 3,200 a few miles down the road from Salem, residents mark the site of what they believe to be an ancient Jewish capital with a newly constructed archaeology museum and visitors center. Tens of thousands of people visit annually, including tourists from the United States.
Freshly built homes and restaurants dot thriving new neighborhoods catering to Israelis seeking to connect with the biblical lands of their ancestors — or maybe to just get a better quality of life at a cut-rate price.
Even the developments that are not entirely legal by Israeli standards, much less international ones, boast finely paved roads, soaring electricity pylons and reliable water supplies — all courtesy of the Israeli government. And at all times, of course, Israeli soldiers stand guard.
Life here is good, residents say, but it will be even better when Trump takes charge.
“It could have been two or three times as much” development had it not been for pressure from the Obama administration, said Eliana Passentin, who raises her eight children atop a ridge with sweeping views from the river to the sea. “People want to come here and build homes and build companies and build schools. We’ve been restricted in expanding our community. Now we’ll have more freedom.”
Ruth Eglash in Shiloh and Sufian Taha in Salem contributed to this report.
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"Separate Kingdoms: Stories" by Valerie Laken
Alan CheuseSpecial to the Tribune
Is a short story collection supposed to have some cohesion, one story relatively related to another in tone and style, if not subject, revealing a focused and intense talent? Or should the stories be wildly disparate, showing off a broad talent? Most of the modern story writers whose work we love and admire tend to be those who work the first way. For Valerie Laken, a Midwesterner by birth and by choice - born in Illinois, studying in Michigan, working now in Wisconsin - the news seems to be that the fine craftsmanship and powerful insight in her first collection of her short stories suggest that she can go either way.
The title story in the collection embodies this brilliant if problematic state in which her fiction seems to reside. An experimental piece of work that gives us the account of a troubled Midwestern family in a split-screen effect - two parallel narratives about the same events running down the page divided by a dotted vertical line - visually emphasizes the malaise of the soul suffered by most of the characters in these stories, and the shift back and forth in the rest of the volume between stories that take place in Russia and stories set in the United States.
The painful awareness of his closed off life turns blind young Anton to early sorrows in the opening tale, "Before Long," one of the Russian stories. Marion, the Midwestern American golfer with the prosthetic leg in "Spectators" suffers that same sort of closing off, from her husband as well as from her peers. In the story titled "Remedies," Nick, as Laken describes him, is the regional sales rep for three restaurant franchises, and suffers from an odd neurological condition. As he tells the doctor after he suffers an automobile accident caused by his intermittent ailment, "...everything around me skips - traffic, road signs, the clouds - everything jerks ahead just a little..."
Which is something like the effect Laken herself creates for the reader when she moves from the United States to Russia in "Family Planning" and "Map of the City." In the former story two American women, committed lovers, arrive in the Russian capitol to choose a child in an adoption case. The city itself seems to reflect their ambiguous states of mind, as they find themselves relieved "that not all the buildings were like the mysterious, gray, Soviet-looking behemoths...many were beautiful old stucco buildings, painted pale yellow and burgundy and pink, with elaborate porticos in front..."
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Your core values are the beliefs your business cherishes most. It states “What we believe.” The values are crucial when problems arise because the <<solution>> must meet your values.
When that obstacle arises, as it inevitably will, this is where your core values shine because your solution must meet your values.
For example, you have to fire one employee for cost purposes and your core values include “Compassion: we treat employees like family.” Then firing an employee without notice, changing the locks, and leaving his stuff on the curb wouldn’t exactly meet your core values. Often times, if you’re trying to figure out how to fix something, you can look at your core values to get ideas.
It is important to implement your core values on every level of your business. The people you hire will face problems, and they should find solutions with the same values as the company. Discussing a potential employee’s core values during an interview can help you determine if that person is a good fit for your business.
You will inevitably experience problems while trying to accomplish your goals, so have your core values ready. This has been the final part: Big Picture Business Part III. Check our Part I and Part II to learn more about big picture business.
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All For Me Grog is an excellent game for recreating books like Treasure Island and movies like Errol Flynn’s Captain Blood. The layout is clean and uses the artwork of Howard Pyle which wonderfully reflects/sets the mood of the game. The book also includes many, very helpful, examples. At thirty-six pages, it is a slim volume, but it packs a lot into its pages.
The game uses a dice pool mechanic for all actions. All rolls that come up even are successes. This allows you to use use a variety of polyhedral dice. Indeed, the author suggests using a variety of ice/jewel colored dice, or even coins or “doubloons” to add some atmosphere to the game. The pool is a combination of the characters attributes, vocations (skills), and embellishments (unique items). The pool has an upper limit which varies based on a character’s current “Salt” - an abstract measure of the character’s physical and mental health. I found this to be a wonderful mechanic to keep the size of the dice pools reasonable and to show that being wounded by a cutlass would slow a person down.
The basic mechanic is simple and solid, and could be used for many other types of cinematic action rpg’s. Where All For Me Grog really shines is in its integration of ship-to-ship actions with character actions. To sum up, ships are basically a type of character. This allows players to go from seeing the white sails of an enemy ship on the horizon, to swinging onto the enemy’s deck and dueling the enemy captain seamlessly. Ship-to-ship battles aren’t separate rules - they are part of the core mechanics where characters can use their skills and abilities to affect the outcome of the naval battle. And this is pretty key if you want to play a cinematic, Hollywood-style, pirate game. That is, the ship-to-ship rules aren’t really meant to stand alone. Rather, they’re there to provide a dramatic prelude to the real action - fighting hand-to-hand on a galleon’s deck.
A couple reservations. First, the game provides a random generator of pirate names, ship names, locations, and treasures. I wish the author had gone just a little bit further to tie these lists together into a scenario/adventure generator. But this is a minor quibble. Second, the game assumes the players are experienced gamers. In particular, the results for non-combat actions are really left up to the players to negotiate. This isn’t a fault, just something that may or may not be your cup of tea - or rather grog.
Overall, a very simple, but flavorful, pirate game that I’d definitely recommend.
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Florilege in Aoyama
Has anyone been to Florilege, a French restaurant in Aoyama? It opened in September 2009 and the chef is the former sous chef at Quintessence. For what it's worth, the restaurant gets a very high score on Tabelog and there is a two month wait to get a table on weekends (I called). According to their website, they only offer a set course for dinner, but it's a fairly reasonable 10,500 yen. http://www.aoyama-florilege.jp/
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Tezpur University Courses
Tezpur University offer various postgraduate, certificate, diploma and doctoral courses. Given below is the list of courses offered by Tezpur UniversitySchool Of Science And Technology
Department of Physics
Department of Chemical Sciences
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Department of Food Processing Technology
School Of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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School Of Humanities & Social Sciences
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Department of Cultural Studies
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Department of Business Administration.
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Diploma in Repairing and Maintenance of Consumer Electronic Equipments
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M Tech in Electronics Design & Technology
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M.Tech. in Information Technology
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M.Tech in Computational Seismology
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M.Sc.in Physics
M.Sc.in Nano science & Technology
M.Sc. in Food Processing Technology
M.Sc in Environmental Science
M.A.in Cultural Studies
MA in English
M.A.in Mass Communication and Journalism
M.A.in Sociology
MBA (Full Time)
Post-Graduate Diploma in Tourism Management
Certificate Course in Entrepreneurship Development
Department of Biotechnology
The Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology came into existence in 1997 with a view to imparting advanced knowledge in the areas of basic and applied science and to evaluate qualified manpower in the arena of Molecular Biotechnology.The department offers two courses
MSc in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Phd in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
The Department has close interaction with some of the reputed Institutes and Universities of the country. Major research areas of the Department are
Bioremediatioin and MEOR
Biochemical assessment of snake venome
Plant tissue culture
Isolatioin and characterization of active compounds of medicinal plants
Cell biology
Transgenic bacteria
Malaria parasite.
The department has good laboratory facilities, Computers, Internet and Library facilities. The Department provides a Research Centre for Petroleum Biotechnology.
Only 20 seats allotted in the department and the admission is being done through Combined Entrance Examination.
Department of Mass Communication and Journalism
The Department of Mass Communication and Journalism was established in the year 2001 to improve the quality of journalism and media education in the entire North-Eastern region.
The department offers courses in Television Journalism and Production, Visual Communication, New Media Technology, Film Studies, Advertising and Public Relations, Development Communication, Communication Research Methods and Applications etc.
The department offers a two-year (four semesters) Master's programme in Mass Communication & Journalism with an intake of 26 students.
The department provides facilities like exclusive computer laboratory, audio-video studio and well equipped library with almost 1000 books relating to the disciplines.
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Villa MQ in Tremelo, Belgium by Office O architects
This spacious villa is situated in Tremelo (BE), on a large terrain surrounded by pines. The house was designed for a couple (with two children) that wanted something “special”.
While in other designs OOA’s approach is very conceptual, here we just let it flow. Taking in account the building regulations, we started sculpting the house around the desired programs, playing with the fundamental architectural elements and principles (form, space,…), taking away the usual references by using curved walls, different ceiling heights, light,…
The flowing lines of the plan unfold across five split-levels. The entrance of the house, which is half a level lower than street level, is reached by way of a slope within a concrete framework in an artificial landscape. Although the programs blend into each other, natural light provides a unique atmosphere at every level: the continuous dispersion of light on the curved walls emphasizes the impalpable framework. The sloping balustrade that consists of parabolic cables intensifies the interweaving of the different spaces. On the next level we find the kitchen, connected to the garden, and the slope towards the living room. An elongated cupola in the sloping ceiling / roof points the way to the highest zone, that of the children’s rooms. On this level, we also find the bathroom as a natural result of all preceding choices.
The space squeezes itself through the taille (the circulation space), accelerates temporarily (the stairs as connections between the levels), only to expand again, enhancing the dramatic effect. The visual language is characterized by emotion and lively agility. The views that are wrenched away from the fixed grid are nonetheless clearly framed and pushed toward the back. This emphasizes the organic forms. The seemingly lifted volume causes a feeling of massive zero gravity. Life unfolds, turned away from the street and oriented towards the gardens. The artificial landscape that is created inside is well defined and flows back to the surrounding lawn.
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The Drexel University Office of Alumni Relations is committed to keeping Drexel graduates connected with the university and each other through a wide array of programs and services. For a staff directory, click here.
The Alumni Relations offices are located in the Paul Peck Alumni Center. For more information on the Peck Center, click here.
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This masterpiece features artwork from the legendary Erol Otus. Erol has created some of the most memorable fantasy images from the classic D&D modules and books. His unique designs have graced The Keep on the Borderlands, Deities and Demigods, Vault of the Drow, and many, many more. In fact, ...
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A new online scorecard helps you keep your representatives accountable for their votes on climate change legislation and lets you reach out to them via Facebook, Twitter, emails, and phone calls.
How does your Senator or Congressman score on important climate change legislation? Now you can find out how they voted on key bills and amendments, and reach out to them with either your kudos or your urging to work for better and longer-lasting climate change legislation.
Climate Scores aims to make the actions of members of Congress on important climate change issues more transparent, and hold them accountable to us, their constituents:
"Our goal is to keep Congress accountable on climate change legislation and to create lasting policies that tackle this pressing issue.
The Climate Scores site lets you select your Congressmen by state, then specify members of the House or Senate, and easily see how they voted on climate change legislation. The site assigns letter grades (A through F) to each one, and makes it easy to send a message to them via Twitter, Facebook, email, or phone call.
"The Climate Scores grading mechanism provides objective information about the most important climate change legislation and the corresponding voting records of all members of the 112th Congress.
The bills and amendments that we believe are relevant to climate change include legislation on fossil fuel, renewable energy, climate change mitigation, subsidies and tax policies, and greenhouse gas regulation.
Each score is calculated by determining the congressman’s pro-environment votes over the total possible votes. Additionally, we tabulated abstain votes as a negative value."
Underneath the score is an overview of their voting record on key bills, as well as a suggested message to send them, either in support of their position or asking them to recognize climate change as a real and pressing issue to be acted upon.
Head over to Climate Scores and see how your representatives score on important bills and amendments that affect our current and future efforts to mitigate climate change in the U.S. Then, use the site to contact them and tell them how you think they're doing on these issues, holding them publicly accountable for their actions.
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Winter Head of School and Honor Roll Lists Announced
George School is pleased to announce the students that were named to the Honor Roll and/or Head of School’s lists for Winter Term of the 2018–19 academic year.
The Head of School’s list recognizes a student’s commitment to excellence in attitude, effort, initiative, and preparation. To be named to the Head of School’s List students must be nominated by at least five teachers.
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"If you are the hosteling type,..."
Israel Hotel Tip by maltschu
If you are the hosteling type, I highly recommened the Petra Hostel It's clean and inexpensive, and is actually the oldest accomidations in Israel (Mark Twain stayed there) Friendly staff, cheap beer, and you cannot beat the view from the roof. I paid, I think $20-25 NIS ($4-5 USD) per night to sleep on the roof. This included a matress and sheets.
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Universal sued for $1.25 million over The Vamps logo
Universal Music is being sued over its use of the fonts Nanami Rounded and Ebisu Bold to make a logo for pop rock combo The Vamps. The major, it is alleged, didn’t have the right licence to legally use the font software it employed when creating the band’s logo.
The copyright law around typefaces and fonts is rather complex, not least because it often requires understanding the difference between typefaces and fonts. But either way, HypeForType reckons that Universal used its font software to create The Vamps’ logo without the right licence. It’s claimed that a designer working for the major did buy a basic licence to use the software, but the mega major didn’t then purchase the premium licence required for using said software on a commercial scale, like when you design a logo.
According to Torrentfreak, HypeForType’s lawsuit, filed in the US, says: “Plaintiff requires a licence upgrade for use of its typeface font software in commercial, for-profit usage including, inter alia, on goods for sale. Upon information and belief, defendant has used and/or caused others to use unauthorised copies of the font software in the creation of The Vamps goods for sale, including, inter alia, clothing, accessories, DVDs and CDs”.
The font seller is looking for damages in excess of $1.25 million and an injunction ordering the major to stop using its font software without licence and to destroy all Vamps merch that includes the offending logo. Which sounds optimistic. Universal is yet to respond.
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"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free...to a time when truth exists, and what is done cannot be undone...From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink--greetings!" - George Orwell, 1984
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Casey Michel Interview
[Yes, I know this guy is as red as a London double-decker bus and he's part of the Clinton-left effort to incite a war with Russia. Unfortunately journalists at publications we really could use some coverage in never interview me, seeing as how us NF "extremists" are their competition. - HAC]
From the perspective of a white
nationalist, how would you assess the first few months of
the Trump presidency?
What you need to understand is
that most of us, including myself, never drank the Trump
kool-aid to begin with. Do not make the mistake of confusing
the chatter of some kids and pretty silly people on Twitter
calling themselves "alt.right" for some kind of serious
movement. "Alt.right" and White nationalism are not the same
thing, not by any means. We supported Trump as the lesser of
two evils in order to save us from a catastrophic Hillary
Clinton presidency, which would have meant the end of
America in any recognizable form.
For the sake of argument, I'll
grant Trump a certain basic sincerity of intention, which is
questionable, but we'll let it pass. Trump's first 100 days
was pretty much as I predicted it would be: he flailed and
he floundered, and eventually the Zionist wing of the
globalist movement as represented by Jared Kushner brought
him more or less under control. He was balked and sabotaged
at every turn by the Deep State and his own party, who are
IMO plotting some kind of quasi-legal coup d'etat in order
to overthrow Trump on 25th Amendment grounds or else
collusion with the Democrats for some bogus impeachment.
Ryan and his droids want to get Mike Pence installed in the
Oval Office, where I gather he is so malleable that he will
simply sign anything Ryan puts in front of him.
Obamacare wasn't repealed
because it is viewed as an entitlement now, and democratic
(small d) politicians never repeal or take away an
entitlement. His attempts to ban the entrance of Muslim
murderers into the country have been blocked by liberal
activist judges. These judges are not personally at any risk
of being butchered by jihadists and who don't give a rat's
ass about their fellow countrymen and women who are. Trump
doesn't have either the balls or the muscle to defy those
judges, and if necessary drag them down off their benches
and beat them senseless to teach them some manners, so he's
going to lose that one as well.
There pretty clearly isn't
going to be any wall, for which he will presumably blame his
fellow Republicans.
He dropped his promise to
prosecute and imprison Bill and Hillary Clinton for their
crimes and their breaches of human decency, which is what
lost me insofar as he ever had me at all.
The two good things he has
accomplished is numero uno, he got this Gorsuch guy
confirmed to SCOTUS, so hopefully the Supreme Court won't
become a total foil for the globalists and a weapon of
outright genocide against White people as opposed to the
creeping variety.
Secondly, he appointed Jeff
Sessions as Attorney General. Sessions is reviving basic
immigration enforcement, in the teeth of repeated attempts
by the liberal judges to stop him, and at least the illegals
are afraid of La Migra once again. At least the
Border Patrol is no longer changing bambinos' diapers and
giving busloads of illegals rides into the interior.
What have white nationalists learned since
Trump's inauguration, either about Republican leadership or
overall support for white nationalist policies?
We have learned not to trust
democratic politicians, because we will be used and then
betrayed at the first convenient moment. The Democrats have
been doing it to the blacks and the Republicans have been
doing it to us for decades, so this is something we should
have known already, but what can I tell you? The purpose of
democracy is to prevent change, and the Trump
presidency is a living illustration of that.
In conversations with other white
nationalists, it seems Trump's first few months - especially
as it pertains to things like bombing Syria, sidelining
Bannon, and falling short in tax/health care reform - have
been disappointing. What's been the most disappointing
aspect of the Trump presidency thus far?
Like I said, with me
personally it was his refusal to indict, prosecute, and
imprison the Clintons, but I repeat that most of us really
didn't expect all that much. It's the babes in the woods of
the alt.right who are sobbing and wringing their hands on
Twitter about how that bad man Donald betrayed them and
crushed their poor little snowflake spirits, and now they
can never love again. For the first time in history, so far
as I am aware, there are Jews actually living in the
White House. Usually they always crept in by the back door
to whisper in the President's ear; now Kushner does it over
the breakfast table. The ascendancy of Jared Kushner merely
formalizes an ancient arrangement; there have been hofjüden
in Europe and in this country for many centuries.
In re Steve Bannon,
will someone please explain to me how a former naval
intelligence officer in the Pentagon who would have been
vetted out the wazoo for Establishment bona fides and a
former Goldman Sachs investment banker gets himself
classified as a White nationalist?
What comes next for American white
nationalists?
Probably nothing, since we
lack both the physical courage and the competence actually
to do anything other than shitpost to the internet.
When Trump goes and the Obamanables return to power, as they
will, they will do so literally with a vengeance.
There will be a massive
left-wing purge from the internet, from American political
and social life, and from the pop culture of anyone and
anything even remotely to the right of center. Anyone who
had anything at all to do with Trump or his election will be
placed before some kind of Nuremberg-style kangaroo court
and burned at the stake, rather like the old auto da fes
of the Inquisition. The public punishment and abasement of
White males whose minds are not under control will become
even more state policy than it already is.
The "mainstream" liberal media
must restore its monopoly of thought
and information, that's priority number one, and all
alternative media such as Breitbart, Infowars, assorted
YouTube channels and websites etc. will be forcibly taken
down. The SPLC is already targeting Andrew Anglin's Daily
Stormer in an attempt to remove the site from the internet.
So far the power structure has
refrained from outright murder in all except a few cases
such as Edgar Steele, Jeff Hughes, Seth Rich and Michael
Hastings. When it's been done it was done subtly, at four in
the morning with no witnesses around, or else behind locked
doors. I am personally of the opinion that this policy will
soon go out the window. We can expect bloodshed. The
so-called "antifas" are carrying guns now. I suspect that if
Trump cannot be removed any other way, the Soros crowd will
simply have him murdered, under circumstances of suitably
credible deniability.
What would you like to see come next for
American white nationalists?
I would like to see The
Struggle That Dare Not Speak Its Name.
How would you assess the quality of the
current crop of white nationalism's most visible leaders?
(Richard Spencer, Jared Taylor, etc.)
I have been accused of "purity
spiraling," in that I believe the White resistance should be
represented by sexually normal, genetically Gentile and
fully Caucasian White men, and a few extraordinary women,
who are equipped with a basic set of fundamental moral
principles. There should be no weird sexual, financial, or
behavioral skeletons in their closets. In this I am rather a
minority view in our community. More specifically than that
I will not comment.
Have you noticed any kind of uptick in
interest in white nationalism since Trump was inaugurated?
Oh, yes, definitely. It began
about a year ago when the election itself was heating up.
The NF is getting a lot more website traffic, although it's
hard to tell if that means anything, and we are getting a
lot more requests for introductory packets. Again, most of
those are looky-loos, which I get, but the interest is
there.
What are your plans moving forward,
especially as it pertains to increasing your audience or the
visibility of the white nationalist movement in the US?
The Northwest Front plans to
secure the existence of our people and a future for White
children.
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Monday, March 27, 2006
"The Last Nine Innings"
How much do you love baseball? I've read a lot of baseball books and sports literature, from Bouton's classic Ball Four, to the business tale Lords of the Realm to Will's Men at Work and biographies from Koufax to Mantle. Charles Euchner's The Last Nine Innings (Sourcebooks) chronicles Game 7 of the 2001 World Series between the Yankees and the Diamondbacks. Innings made me hungry for the beginning of the baseball season, and more.
Euchner examines the game within the game. The cover proclaims 'get inside the game of baseball like never before'. Truer words were never spoken.Innings doesn't replicate any of the previous baseball books I've read, although by way of comparison, it resembles Men at Work most closely.
The author peers into not only at what each player and position does, but also studies their preparation, from offseason physical training by Steve Finley, to the art of pitch framing, to the vagaries of the strike zone. Euchner brings Game 7 to life, inning by inning through interviews with key players (both prominent and less so), managers, and even the umpiring crew.
Not only is Innings well-conceived, it presents a tapestry weaving together history, both of the Diamondbacks but the mighty Yankees, and how each team achieved. Euchner doesn't lack the courage to take on controversy, either, noting the impact of steroids on human performance, and explaining the dichotomy concerning Derek Jeter's fielding performance. He allows the Jeter water carriers air to explain how he makes terrific decisions and memorable plays, but uses the quantititative yardsticks from fielding percentage, to zone ratings, and defensive win shares to help understand why some consider Jeter in the bottom quintile of defensive shortstops.
The Last Nine Innings is far more than another book about baseball players or on baseball. Euchner tells a love story, about how much we care about baseball and why. But moreover, Euchner brings the pursuit of baseball perfection into the reader's consciousness. If you enjoyed Jerry Remy's Watching Baseball, which personalized your baseball experience, then The Last Nine Innings will captivate you, and maybe even 'juice' your personal search for excellence.
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Congressional Leaders, Debbie Smith and Ed Smart Celebrate Forensic DNA and its Impact on the Fight Against Sexual Violence
Members of Congress today came together to celebrate DNA at an event on Capitol Hill. The event, in honor of Forensic DNA Day 2014, was sponsored by RAINN and the National Center for Victims of Crime.
“DNA is the most important tool we have today in prosecuting rapists,” said RAINN’s president and founder, Scott Berkowitz, in thanking the members of Congress who sponsored the Debbie Smith Act. The law, originally passed in 2004, is credited with taking thousands of rapists off the streets. It is up for renewal by Congress this year.
Rape survivor Debbie Smith, after whom the federal law is named, reminded Congressional attendees that every rape kit that has not been tested for DNA represents a real victim who has yet to receive justice. Ed Smart, father of survivor and activist Elizabeth Smart, also spoke and expressed, on behalf of himself and his daughter, gratitude for the work of RAINN and NCVC and support for the expanded use of DNA and high-tech tools to improve public safety.
About RAINN
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization and was named one of "America's 100 Best Charities" by Worth magazine. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE and online.rainn.org) in partnership with more than 1,000 local rape crisis centers across the country and operates the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense. The hotlines have helped more than 1.9 million people since 1994. RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice. For more information about RAINN, please visit rainn.org.
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1. Under the Kansas Child Support Guidelines, where income is imputed to the custodial
parent but the generation of such income would necessitate child care expenses, the
district court may impute such reasonably necessary child care expenses for purposes of
determining support obligations of the noncustodial parent.
Randy M. Barker, of Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation
Services, of Topeka, for appellee.
Before GREENE, P.J., McANANY, J., and BRAZIL, S.J.
GREENE, J.: Ronald Paul appeals the district court's modification of his
child support
obligation, claiming that imputation of estimated child care expenses when imputing income to the
custodial parent is in violation of the Kansas Child Support Guidelines (Guidelines). We affirm.
Factual and Procedural Overview
Ronald (Father) and Lucy Paul (Mother) were divorced in 2000, and Father was ordered
to pay monthly child support of $700. In January 2002, SRS filed on behalf of Mother a motion
to modify child support, claiming a material change of circumstances. The motion indicated that
Mother's part-time employment monthly income had declined to $893 and Father's monthly
income had increased to $3834. The district court modified Father's child support accordingly,
ordering monthly support of $906.
Father then moved for relief from the order, claiming that Mother was "deliberately
unemployed" and that annual income consistent with Mother's prior earnings history and ability
should be imputed to Mother. The district court then modified its prior order, imputing income to
Mother based on full-time employment at her current hourly wage.
Father then moved for reconsideration, claiming that the imputed income was insufficient;
Mother responded with the suggestion that "[i]f we are to assume that [Mother] is capable of
earning a significantly higher income, isn't it also appropriate to assume that she would be faced
with much higher day care costs?" The district court once again modified its prior order,
imputing annual income of $25,000 to Mother, and ordering the parties to submit new worksheets
reflecting this ruling.
When the parties were unable to agree upon "new worksheets," the matter was set for an
evidentiary hearing. Following the hearing, the district court filed its memorandum decision
imputing to Mother an annual income of $25,000 together with monthly estimated child care
expenses of $601, the midpoint between amounts suggested by the parties. The court reasoned
that "[i]t just appears logical to treat the situation where a Court says a party could be earning a
certain amount of money in a way where the expenses normally associated with earning that
money, like child [care] costs, are also calculated into the equation."
Should Child Care Expenses Be Imputed to Custodial Parent When Imputing Income
that
Cannot Be Earned Absent Child Care?
The Guidelines allow "[i]ncome [to] be imputed to the custodial parent in appropriate
circumstances." See Guidelines, Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 128 § II.E.2
(2003
Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 102). However, the Guidelines are silent on imputed child care costs. The
Guidelines state under the heading of work-related child care costs:
"Actual, reasonable, and necessary child care costs incurred to permit employment
or job search
of a parent should be added to the support obligation. The monthly figure is the averaged annual
amount,
including variations for summer. Projected child care expenses should be reduced by the
anticipated tax
credit for child care or child care reimbursement before an amount is entered on the worksheet,
adjusted
using Table 1 in Appendix VIII, page 147.
"The court has the discretion to determine whether proposed or actual child care
costs are
reasonable taking into consideration the income and circumstances of each of the parties."
Guidelines, §
V.D.5 (2003 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 109).
Father argues that the Guidelines are specific in allowing only "[a]ctual,
reasonable, and
necessary child care costs incurred to permit employment or job search of a parent" to be
considered, and that imputation of fictitious child care expenses, which are neither "actual" nor
"incurred," is a deviation from the Guidelines that should not be permitted. Mother argues that
the Guidelines do not expressly prohibit consideration of such expenses and that imputation of
expenses under these circumstances should be considered a permissible deviation from the
Guidelines. We agree.
Although the Guidelines do not specifically address the issue framed by this appeal,
Mother argues that they contemplate consideration of "proposed" as well as "actual" child care
expenses. We agree with Mother that the Guidelines' language does not restrict the court to
consideration of only those child care expenses that are actually incurred, but rather contemplates
consideration of "proposed" child care expenses where circumstances warrant, and requires
discretionary adjustment for reasonableness.
We conclude that the district court did not err in imputing child care expenses that were a
necessary incident to the income imputed to Mother. Where income is imputed to the custodial
parent and the generation of such income would necessitate child care expenses, the court may
impute such reasonably necessary child care expenses for purposes of determining support
obligations of the noncustodial parent. To impute fictitious income without an estimation of the
expenses necessary to its generation would defy common sense and work an injustice to the
custodial parent. Obviously, where child care is not necessary to the income imputed, such costs
may not be considered whether incurred or estimated. See In re Marriage of Scott,
263 Kan.
638, 642, 952 P.2d 1318 (1998). Moreover, the only such expenses appropriate for consideration
are those required for a child or children for which the parent has legal responsibility. See
In re
Marriage of Jones, 23 Kan. App. 2d 858, 861, 936 P.2d 302 (1997).
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It’s a choice to leave or stay in a church that strips women of their power, speaks against immigrants and encourages you to vote for a particular candidate.
It’s a choice to leave or remain in a marriage that you know in your heart is over.
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Hiding from New York's Irish mob, Liam O'Brien is in Ireland working as a bartender in his parents' old village. Hurt once by a man, Aislinn McCafferty is the local ice queen, which the unsuspecting Liam soon learns the hard way.
Accepting a wager from the pub's owner, Liam pursues Aislinn. But neither of them expects this donnybrook of the sexes to turn into an unlikely love...
I am gonna post my lost review here. I read the book back in July, it was supposed to be a guestreview and in September I realized it was lost, but yesterday, I finally found it.
This was so a fun and sweet romance, and I am not just saying that cos it took place in Ireland ;)
The story:
It’s about Liam who is running from the Irish mob back in NY, and now he works as a bartender in a little Irish village. Then there is Aislinn, a sheep farmer who got hurt badly in love and now is just angry. After a little run in with Liam he does something incredibly stupid. With the pub owner and the 3 stooges he makes a bet that he can get her. Let the games begin.
The couple:
Oh oh, man he was stupid. He makes that bet and then falls for her. He realizes that she is sweet under that frown, and he loves who she is with her sheep and Padraig that works at the farm. So he gets this stupid notion that he can win the bet, and keep the girl. Sighs, men! Does he not understand that when she realizes the will leave him bleeding in a ditch? No is the answer and she falls in love with him, and I keep waiting for her to find out and hit him over the head with a whisky bottle. Cos he deserves it if he is such a bloody eejit.
Aislinn has a tongue of her own, she was lied to be a man she loved, and now she feels like everyone is pitying her so she rather angry and people in the village is calling her The McAfftery. But it’s her way of dealing with the hurt, and it’s not like she is some angry woman. No she just gives the three stooges at the pub a tongue lashing now and again, but hey they enjoy it too. It seems she is the only woman to actually talk to them. Other than that she is a nice woman, and I do like her. She has had much to deal with, but she stays strong, too strong actually, and all she wants is to keep those sheep.
My thoughts:
I want these two to be happy but with that lie between them I know that sooner or later all hell will break loose. In the mean time it’s fun to see Liam try, and finally manage to court her. They do have this bantering between them and it’s fun to watch.
A sweet romance, set in a beautiful country. A Yank falling for a sheep farmer, what more is a girl to ask for.
Blodeuedd’s Cover Corner: It looks fun !Reason for reading:wonFinal thoughts. This was a great contemporary romance, fun and romantic, with some great characters in it.
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Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald appreciates he is in precarious position
Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald fully appreciates he is in a precarious position despite his board’s previous show of faith.
Thistle have only taken three points from their opening eight Ladbrokes Premiership games and are only ahead of Kilmarnock, their next opponents, on goals scored.
They had a similar start last year, winning just once in their opening nine matches, and went on to finish in the top six.
But both Kilmarnock and Ross County have dispensed with their managers in recent weeks and Archibald knows he is not safe forever.
“It’s always precarious, that’s the role we are in,” he said. “It’s down to results. Thankfully the board backed me last year and hopefully they will do that again.
“But we are not silly, we know they won’t do that forever. We have got to get results and we go into a run of games where it’s crucial now. We play the teams round about us, three or four massive games.”
Lee McCulloch left his Rugby Park post after the last round of fixtures after only taking charge on a long-term basis in the summer.
“I was really surprised,” Archibald said. “The board had backed Lee to make changes, at the club as a whole and not just on the pitch. I think you’ve got to give him time to do that. They haven’t. I feel for Lee, but I am sure he will be back in.
“He was putting a good structure in there to move the club forward over a long period of time. It’s just the way management is now, sometimes it just comes down to results.”
Meanwhile, Thistle received some bad news after wing-back Christie Elliott had surgery on the ankle he broke against Hearts last month.
“Christie Elliott is going to be out for four to six months because of the fracture, and he had a lot of ligament damage as well,” Archibald said.
“It’s a big blow, he has been one of our most consistent players. We are gutted for him, he is a really good lad as well.
“The nature of the injury and the manner it happened was really horrible. He’s a good pro and he looks after himself so maybe it will be four months rather than six.”
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Disney unveils plan for first animated Marvel film
Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times
The studio behind the animated fantasies "Bambi,""Dumbo" and '"The Lion King" has a new kind of hero tale on the way — a Marvel Comics one. Walt Disney Animation Studios on Thursday announced plans to release "Big Hero 6," an action-comedy inspired by a little-known Japan-set Marvel series about a team of state-sanctioned superheroes.
"Big Hero 6" will be the first partnership between two pedigreed entertainment companies — Mickey Mouse's 90-year-old animation studio and Spider-Man's 74-year-old publisher — since the Walt Disney Co. acquired Marvel in 2009. Directed by Don Hall ("Winnie the Pooh") and due in theaters on Nov. 7, 2014, the movie will center on a boy and his beloved robot companion who join a team of crime fighters in a mythical mashup city called San Fransokyo.
The CG-animated comic book story — and Disney's upcoming fairy tale musical "Frozen" — are part of a continuing creative metamorphosis at the studio, one begun seven years ago with the arrival of Disney Animation President Ed Catmull and Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter.
In the slow-moving world of animation — where a single feature usually takes four years to make and costs upward of $200 million — that shift has begun to yield a string of commercially and critically successful movies in varied styles, such as last year's Oscar-nominated videogame-set adventure "Wreck-It Ralph," ($471 million worldwide box office), 2010's modernized Rapunzel story "Tangled" ($590 million) and the black-and-white short film "Paperman," which won an Oscar this year.
With the release of "Frozen" in November, Jennifer Lee, who shares credit with Chris Buck, will be the first woman to direct a feature at the studio.
"We're trying to build back that Disney name," Lasseter said by phone. "Success breeds autonomy. The more we can be successful, the more they'll keep letting us do what we want to do."
Lasseter and Catmull arrived after Disney acquired their company, Pixar Animation Studios, and installed them as executives — a period when Disney Animation was suffering from an identity crisis. The earnest, hand-drawn fairy tales that had endeared Disney films to generations of audiences had fallen out of favor, and executives' attempts to craft a new Disney fell flat with a string of titles including the 2000 comedy "The Emperor's New Groove," the 2001 science-fiction adventure "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" (2001) and the 2004 western "Home on the Range." Other studios, most prominently Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, were filling that void with more modern takes on family entertainment such as the "Toy Story" and "Shrek" films.
"We had a clear goal to revitalize the studio," Catmull said. "We believed very strongly that they actually had the talent here and all that was missing was the concept of how to use the talent."
The new team instituted management practices that had worked at their pioneering Emeryville, Calif, start-up. They launched a "story trust" of directors who consult on one anothers' projects, rebooted a defunct short film program to spur innovation and eliminated layers of executives a filmmaker needed to hurdle to get to the studio chief.
Perhaps most significantly, they told artists and animators accustomed to a studio-wide culture of avoiding risk that failure was an inevitable part of trying something new.
"Pixar seemed so out of the ordinary that I was a little skeptical that it could be re-created," said "Wreck-It Ralph" director Rich Moore, a "Simpsons" alumnus whom Lasseter and Andrew Millstein, the animation studio's general manager, wooed to Disney in 2008. When Moore accepted an invitation to visit the company's hat-shaped animation building in Burbank, he was surprised by the start-up-like environment. "It felt scrappy.... My brain almost couldn't compute — how can a studio as big and old as Disney have this feeling of freshness and tenacity?"
After the Marvel acquisition, Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Robert A. Iger was encouraging the different divisions of the company to think of ways to make use of Marvel's properties. The cable network Disney XD, for instance, launched a block of shows featuring Spider-Man and the Avengers. Hall, a comic book aficionado, began to dig through Marvel's library, looking for ideas.
"I was looking for something on the obscure side, which would give us more license to make it our own," Hall said.
Hall looked at several properties and ultimately pitched three before Lasseter settled on "Big Hero 6." In the series, created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in 1998, Hall found a story with Disney-friendly elements — a child hero, humor — and a distinctive tone that played well with the animation studio's many Japanophiles, including Lasseter.
"The storytelling aspects are very frenetic, very visceral," Joe Quesada, Marvel's chief creative officer, said of the comic. "It takes tropes of Japanese culture, manga, anime. There are giant dinosaurs that invade a city, big robots, youth fashion, cutesy stuff in the vein of Hello Kitty."
In an earlier era at Disney, ideas for new films came primarily from executives. As with "Big Hero 6," "Frozen" came from a director's pitch; Buck, who directed "Tarzan" at Disney in 1999, first proposed the notion of adapting the Hans Christian Andersen tale "The Snow Queen" to Lasseter in 2008.
"One of the things that was very important to me was to bring back the sincere fairy tale," Lasseter said. "I didn't understand why the previous leaders felt like the modern audience wasn't interested in the sincere fairy tale anymore."
This fairy tale is large in scope, with songs by "The Book of Mormon" composer Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and a nordic setting of fiords and ice castles. The story follows a young girl named Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) as she sets off on a journey to find her sister Elsa (Idina Menzel), who has trapped the kingdom in an endless winter. In April 2012, Buck enlisted Lee, who had joined Disney as a writer on "Wreck-It Ralph," to help shape the project.
One of the signature moves of the Lasseter and Catmull era at Disney has been the creation of the story trust, a group modeled on Pixar's so-called brain trust, where a dozen or so filmmakers gather to screen work for one another and consult on thorny problems of character, structure and tone. Attendees vary but typically include Lasseter, Moore, "Little Mermaid" directors Ron Clements and John Musker, "Tangled" directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard and the studio's other directors.
During story meetings on "Wreck-It Ralph," Lee had distinguished herself as someone with a particularly rare mix of qualities — an assertive perspective as a writer but an ability to listen as well.
"We were all impressed by her voice in the story room," Lasseter said. "It's very important to have this real open, creative room for each movie, where the story team and directors and writers and everybody can discuss and be honest with each other. Her voice in this room was so strong on structure, character development, but very open too. We wanted that strong female voice."
Traditionally, the studio hadn't employed formal writers but let the story instead be shaped by animators — but contemporary movies have more complex storylines, with multiple plotlines and characters. "When you're writing in live action, you have more ownership," Lee said at the studio as she and Buck were in the final weeks of making story changes to "Frozen" last month. "In animation, you have to let the best idea win. You're constantly killing your darlings.
"What I like about doing a fairy tale today is, audiences want something big and meaty. It's not as simple as some of the classics like 'Cinderella.' It's not focusing on princess stories as much as family stories. It's one ordinary girl's struggle to help save the world, with her sister as the main obstacle."
When filmmakers are in the last year of production, they meet with Lasseter weekly — a change from the more insulated chief executives of earlier eras. (Lasseter still serves as chief creative officer at Pixar, consults on Disney's theme parks and occasionally directs his own movie, such as 2011's "Cars 2.")
"We used to have what we called the gates, or gatekeepers," said Buck, who left Disney in 2004 before returning in 2008. "There were all these executives who we had to show our work to before we got to the boss. Now you go straight to John, he gives you his gut reaction and you move on."
Life at the studio hasn't been all Disneyland smiles — last month, as part of a wider restructuring at its corporate parent, the animation studio laid off fewer than 10 people out of a staff of more than 800. Because some were 2-D animators, there was speculation on some animation blogs that the studio was abandoning its commitment to that art form, an idea Millstein dismissed.
"There's natural ebb and flow within an organization like ours," he said. "We have a deep cross-section of artists at our studio — hand-drawn artists, CG artists, software technologists who understand what's gone into our 2-D. We have deep, deep capabilities."
Competition in the animated features world has grown more intense, with more studios in the game — this year, in addition to films from Disney Animation's sister companies, the primarily direct-to-DVD unit DisneyToon Studios ("Planes") and Pixar ("Monsters University"), there are animated features from companies such as Blue Sky Studios ("Epic"), DreamWorks Animation ("The Croods," "Turbo"), Illumination Studios ("Despicable Me 2") and Sony Pictures Animation ("Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2," "The Smurfs 2").
"The playing field for everybody is rising, and it's getting crowded," said Jerry Beck, a cartoon historian and editor of the website Animationscoop.com.
Disney Animation's shorts program, which Lasseter and Catmull relaunched in 2007, has been part of a plan to build a deep bench of artists there. With budgets a fraction of Disney's features, the short films provide a lower-pressure venue for experimentation, both in technology and personnel.
When John Kahrs pitched his idea for "Paperman," a black-and-white, dialogue-less short that relies on both 2-D and 3-D animation, the movie had no obvious commercial value for the studio. But it became a vehicle to develop a new in-house drawing tool called Meander that integrates expressive, hand-drawn animation with CG animation. "Paperman" won an Oscar, Kahrs' producer, Kristina Reed, has gone on to be producer on "Big Hero 6," and Kahrs is working on a new film as well.
"Yeah, I don't know why they did that," Kahrs said of his executives backing the film. "I guess it had something cool and exciting in it, and it made you feel something."
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BYU football: Despite turbulence, exciting times ahead for Cougars
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series reviewing BYU's spring practices and looking ahead to the Cougars' inaugural season as an independent.
PROVO — Somewhere between declaring independence, and actually becoming an independent, BYU's football program underwent a major transformation.
Yes, it's been a turbulent eight months for the Cougars.
Since Sept. 1, when BYU officials announced independent status starting in 2011 and an eight-year broadcasting deal with ESPN, the Cougars have endured:
A dual-quarterback system that resulted in the handing of the keys to the offense to a true freshman.
A 1-4 start, their worst since 1973.
A midseason firing of a coordinator.
A strong finish to a mediocre season, but a heartbreaking, last-second loss to archrival Utah.
A serious shakeup on the coaching staff.
Now that the dust has settled and spring practice has concluded, coach Bronco Mendenhall is happy with the state of his program as BYU dives headlong into a new era of independence this fall.
When spring drills opened in March, Mendenhall characterized the feeling around the program amid myriad changes as "a rebirth." Following the Blue-White game, he said, "it's probably been my favorite spring so far."
After suffering through a humbling 2010 campaign filled with adversity, the Cougars are brimming with confidence and optimism.
"We have enough good players, I think, at every position," said Mendenhall, who enters his seventh season at the helm. "I'm comfortable with the depth. I'm comfortable with the schemes that are in place and the fundamentals we have established and certainly the competitive nature of this team."
Not that it appeared the Cougars were due for an overhaul a year ago. Before posting a 7-6 record in 2010, BYU had gone 43-9 in the previous four seasons. As an independent, Mendenhall knows the Cougars must be even better. With national exposure being one of the main motivations for going independent, BYU can't afford struggles like last season that would render the program irrelevant on the national scene.
"While we've acknowledged that we've been a good program, sometimes good is the enemy of great," Mendenhall said, adding that his staff and players "want to be great."
Sophomore quarterback Jake Heaps, who was thrown into the fire as a true freshman last season, said he and his teammates are eager for the challenge, and opportunity, of playing as an independent.
"We're ecstatic. We can't wait to get this season going. The level of expectation that's put on us as a team, it's just been a lot of fun. We're really excited to get going. This is a really great opportunity for BYU, as a university and for our program, to showcase to the country what we're capable of. We have the talent; it's just a matter of putting it all together. It's going to be exciting."
And it's going to be different, with the dissolution of an 11-year association with the Mountain West Conference.
"We're not playing for a conference championship," Heaps said. "We're playing for a national championship."
Heaps is not predicting that winning a national title is going to happen right away, but he is optimistic.
"I'm really excited to see where this off-season takes us," he said. "I think we definitely have the talent, and potential, to do something special this year."
More balanced, and experienced, offense
With a proven starter at quarterback in Heaps, and returning players at nearly every position, BYU could be poised for a huge season offensively.
"We've really tried to build a strong foundation of play-action stuff," he said. "We want to be able to physically run the football. If we can against the teams we'll be playing now, it will sure help us be better in the pass game. In years past, if you go back and look statistically against these types of teams that we'll play as an independent program, we haven't been as successful. We haven't been able to run the ball as successfully against these teams. In order for us to be a top 10 football program, in this style of a schedule, we've got to run the ball more effectively. So we spent a lot of time focusing on that."
Under former offensive coordinator Robert Anae, the Cougar offense had become stagnant and predictable. Doman plans to put Heaps under center more often and build on the momentum accrued during the second half of the season that saw BYU win six of its final eight games.
"We're still growing; we're still learning. It's been a lot of fun," he said. "I'm very happy with my progress so far. I just want to continue to keep improving and getting better every day. That's something I'm really looking at this off-season and heading into fall camp. The team goes as the quarterback goes, so there's a lot I need to do to get this team ready."
Heaps has plenty of weapons at his disposal. Running backs JJ Di Luigi, Bryan Kariya and Joshua Quezada provide the Cougars with a strong ground game.
"We're going to mix it up and utilize them in the run game and be balanced that way, especially on first down," Doman said. "Then you'll see us do a lot more play-action. Second-and-10, third down, those kinds of things, you'll see us do more of our drop-back pass game that we love to do. But it's got to be more balanced than we've done in the past."
"Our receivers have improved drastically over the past season," Heaps said. "Coach Cahoon has done a fantastic job getting our technique down and getting them thinking about coverages and getting them thinking right. It's going to help us heading into the off-season."
The only real question is at tight end, where the Cougars are looking for players like Devin Mahina, Austin Holt and Marcus Mathews to step up.
The BYU offensive line returns four starters, including left tackle Matt Reynolds, center Terence Brown and left guard Braden Hansen. All three were sidelined during spring drills as they recovered from surgeries, which enabled key backups to gain experience.
"BYU's always been a team where we've had some really good players, but not necessarily known for a lot of depth," Heaps said. "Now we have talent all over the field. We're just excited with our development right now."
Doman, who's in his first season as the play-caller, will be at the controls of the offense.
"We want to be able to run and throw the ball around," Doman said. "If we can combine those components here like BYU used to be able to do in the 1980s and early 1990s, we'll really be hard to stop. But that's an 'if' right now."
2011 schedule
BYU had limited time to put its inaugural independent schedule together. But it features some impressive big-name opponents and a tough opening month.
The Cougars kick off the season at Ole Miss of the Southeastern Conference on Sept. 3, with a trip to Texas of the Big 12 the following week.
Then comes the home-opener, a showdown with archrival Utah, of the Pac-12, followed by a home game against Central Florida, a potential top 25 team.
In terms of scheduling, the Cougars' partnership with ESPN has already paid dividends. ESPN played an instrumental role in setting up the Ole Miss contest and the Oct. 28 game against TCU at Cowboys Stadium.
"ESPN helped us greatly," said athletic director Tom Holmoe. "We had some schools step forward with a willingness to play us."
The Cougars will also play at Mendenhall's alma mater, Oregon State, on Oct. 15. BYU will meet five Western Athletic Conference foes, including Utah State, as well as Idaho State of the Big Sky.
"It's kind of an empowering opportunity and liberation going into independence of controlling our own destiny from the schedule to the future of our program," Mendenhall said.
While the NCAA would have allowed the Cougars to play a 13th game because of their regular-season finale at Hawaii on Dec. 3, Holmoe and Mendenhall decided to play only 12 contests. "When you look at this schedule and you see where we're playing, there's a lot of travel," Holmoe said.
No matter what happens, BYU's foray into independence should be quite a journey.
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What the Trade Deadline Means for Fantasy Baseball
by Eno Sarris //
The trade deadline isn’t until the end of the month, but enterprising contenders are already making the rounds and looking to pick the carcasses of teams less fortunate. Every extra start or at-bat that the contender can get out of the fresh meat is a start or at-bat in their favor, so they might as well get going.
Fantasy owners might take note here and get ahead of the eight ball themselves. The danger in AL- and NL-only leagues is that a fantasy owner’s player gets traded out of their league and creates a hole on their roster. Another danger is that a player moves from a beneficial situation to one less supportive of their skills. Let’s run down the top ten trade targets in the rumors currently and talk a little about where they might land and what that would mean. We’ll handle the pitchers today, and the hitters early next week.
Cliff LeeLee owners in AL-only leagues should be shopping him as hard as they can. Some might even counsel that Lee owners should take whatever they can get, perhaps from a team in the bottom half of the table looking for a home-run shot. Apparently Lee has told his teammates he’s already made his last start for the Mariners (and then he promptly denied it in the media). The worst news is that many of the most-rumored spots for Lee are in the National League. The Mets, Phillies and Cardinals have all been linked to the lefty with the insane strikeout-to-walk ratio (just look at the Bloomberg Sports Fantasy Tools spider graphs and see how pretty his work has been). Lee owners might take heart that the Yankees and Twins have also been included in the rumors. Even though the source might be a little old, Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times said on June 24th that the Mets and Twins were the favorites to land Lee, and that seems to make the most sense. The thing is, the Twins aren’t known for making big trade deadline pickups, as the lede in this MLB.com article about the Orlando Cabrera pickup states. That kind of move seems more up embattled Mets’ GM Omar Minaya’s alley. Keep Lee in an AL-only league at your own peril.
Kevin Millwood
Millwood is actually second-most likely starting pitcher to be traded to Lee. Because of his advanced age (35), rough ERA (5.40), expiring contract, and the Orioles’ record (24-54), if anyone wants him they can probably get him. The thing is, he’s sporting his best strikeout rate since the last time he was in the National League (7.00 K/9) and a walk rate that is right in line with his career number (2.78 BB/9). He’s giving up a few too many home runs (1.69 HR/9), and that’s will happen to a flyball pitcher (42.9% GB% career) in the AL in a tough park for pitchers (1.283 park factor for home runs). Given his nice underlying statistics, and his success in the NL in the past, Millwood is less of a loss for AL-only owners and more of a potential pickup for NL-only owners. He’s not someone to bust your FAAB budget on, but he’s certainly worth some money, especially if he ends up in a park that suppresses home runs like Citi Field (.595 park factor for home runs) or Busch Stadium (.763 park factor for home runs).
Roy OswaltThe sharks circling Houston are a little less rabid despite the obvious state of that carcass, but that’s perhaps justified in the case of Oswalt. He is due $16 million next year and has a $2 million buyout in 2012. That’s a lot of money for a pitcher that is 32 going on 33, never had an elite strikeout rate, and has a body type that some feel doesn’t age well. On the other hand, Oswalt is showing the second-best strikeout rate of his career and is pitching the best he has in about four years. Because of the money, he’s a little less likely to change hands. Even with owner Drayton McLane saying he would eat some of Oswalt’s salary, the only team linked to the pitcher so far has been the Rangers. That’s a bit ironic, considering their financial situation. It’s also worrisome to NL-only Oswalt owners.
Ted Lilly
The Cubs aren’t used to being sellers, but they are 10.5 games out, 11 games under .500, and have a -24 run differential. They don’t look good. Many of their problem players have salaries that are too onerous to trade – no team will want to take on the rest of the Alfonso Soriano or Carlos Zambrano contracts, for example – but then there’s Ted Lilly. We talked about Lilly as a fantasy hold – his velocity is returning, and he’s showing a nice ERA – but his strikeout rate is still lagging, and he’s still an extreme fly ball pitcher. Look at the difference between his xFIP (4.60) (expected Fielding Independent Pitching, a number that strips out batted ball and home run luck to produce a figure on the ERA scale) and ERA (3.12). If the Cubs are smart enough to sell, they’ll get some interest in Lilly, but the trade rumors have been light so far. GM Jim Hendry might give the team as long as he can before selling a piece like Lilly, so fantasy managers should probably take the same approach.
Dan HarenThough the Diamondbacks are obviously cleaning house, the feeling is that the team would have to be ‘overwhelmed’ to trade their ace. First of all, it might be selling low, because despite secondary statistics in line with his career rates (8.90 2010 K/9, 7.71 career K/9; 1.70 2010 BB/9, 1.96 career BB/9; 41% 2010 GB%, 44.1% career GB%), his ERA is not pretty (4.56). Secondly, he only costs about $33.75 million from 2010 until 2012 according to Cot’s Contracts. It wouldn’t make much sense to trade an underpaid ace at a lowpoint in his value. It’s much more likely that the team trades some of its veteran position players.
Fausto CarmonaThe Indians are terrible (31-47), and Carmona is cheap ($11.375 million combined 2010/2011), but it will be interesting to see how much teams will want to pay for his services. He relies very heavily on his sinker-inducing ways (58.6 GB% this year, 60.8% career). When his control eludes him (3.16 BB/9 this year, 3.78 career), he can be terrible. But right now, despite his inability to strike people out (4.73 K/9), he’s doing well enough to elicit interest (3.68 ERA, 1.28 WHIP). On the other hand, named suitors don’t abound (the Mets “aren’t interested‘ according to Joel Sherman), and his fantasy trade value is hard to gauge. Carmona may be one of those players that fantasy managers are happy to have owned when he was going well.
The RelieversThis group may include the most-dealt pitchers on the list, as relievers cost less in both contracts and salary. They also are perceived as difference-makers for contending teams with poor bullpens, rightly or wrongly. Heath Bell tops the list, as his Bloomberg Sports Fantasy Tools spider chart shows. His owners should be slightly nervous, as rookie GM Jed Hoyer is talking about adding offense, and has two ready-made replacements in Mike Adams and Luke Gregerson, but as long as the team is going well, Bell should remain in San Diega.
Kevin Gregg, on the other hand, might change hands if someone wants him. Toronto isn’t going to the postseason, and they also own Jason Frasor and Scott Downs, so teams needing bullpen help will be calling. The thing is, Frasor and Downs have been pitching better and are free agents at the end of the year. They might be preferable to contending teams, and with Gregg’s bloated ERA (4.20) and walk rate (5.40), he could just stay in Toronto.
David Aardsma is struggling (5.33 ERA), and is also cheap (arbitration-eligible for three more years), so he’ll probably stay in town despite the odd rumor. If he does leave, it’s Brandon League that will take over. Octavio Dotel has surpassed expectations and is obviously not in the long-term plans for the Pirates, so his owners should be worried. Suitors are not yet obvious, though, and his perceived value is probably not too high. His owners could shop him to saves-starved teams to be ahead of a possible trade, on the other hand.
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Potential disaster assistance to catfish producers?
As Mid-South catfish acreage drops, how might Congress help the industry?
“Our delegation is trying to provide some sort of feed vouchers in conjunction with the flooding disasters in the Midwest,” says Wayne Branton, Arkansas Catfish Farmer Association president. “That flooding, of course, is also a factor in the rising cost of feed.”
However, Branton says he’s been told any such help won’t come before the November elections.
“It’s just a wait-and-see sort of thing,” he says. “You can’t run a farm on that.”
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln said the Arkansas delegation is well aware of the circumstances plaguing catfish producers.
“We’re desperately working with colleagues from other (catfish-producing) states, particularly Mississippi, to try to find some relief in the emergency disaster supplemental,” she said during a July 24 conference call with journalists. “We’ve been talking to the staff at the Appropriations Committee trying to bring this home to them, to show the severe circumstances our fish farmers and aquaculture are experiencing.”
Producers are “paying more for feed and the number of fingerlings being purchased are drastically down. Producers can’t afford to feed the fingerlings for (the price they’ll receive) at the end of the process.”
Retiring ponds would be “devastating for an industry we’ve carefully and tenderly developed. It’s very productive and a good alternative to row-crops.
“We’ve had some pretty good responses from staff and other members. But the bill isn’t completed so we’ll keep pushing hard.”
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Compound crucial in sea and air
15 July 2010
An international team of researchers has devised a technique to study how ocean-dwelling microbes respond to a compound that signals good foraging patches for fish and mammals, but also contributes to cloud-forming sulfur aerosols. The research offers further insight into the chemical ecology of marine microbes and how they may influence the world's climate.
Phytoplankton, which are at the base of the food web in the world's oceans, produce a lot of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP). However, while it was previously understood that microbes feed on DMSP as a source of carbon and sulfur, the influence of DMSP over microbial behaviour had remained uncertain.
Now, Justin Seymour at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and colleagues at US and Spanish institutions have been able to test the behavioural responses to DMSP of seven different species of marine microbe. They found that six of the species were strongly attracted to it, while one showed no response.
The microfluidic device used to test microbial chemoattraction towards DMSP
The team simulated conditions in the ocean using a lab-based microfluidic device that contains a central channel and two inlets - one for injecting DMSP and one for introducing microbes. By using a camera attached to a microscope under the device, they could record how microbes moved in response to the DMSP.
'We were surprised by how strong and widespread the response to DMSP was,' says Seymour. 'Most of the organisms responded to the patches of DMSP, indicating the importance of DMSP in their ecology.' The team also discovered that two of the microbe species, which typically feed on phytoplankton, may use DMSP as a cue to help find phytoplankton producing DMSP, an idea which challenges previous theories suggesting phytoplankton might release DMSP to deter predators.
'Since DMSP is a good food source, it makes sense that microbes are attracted to it,' says Ronald Kiene who investigates biogeochemical cycling of sulfur at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, US, adding that the work contains some exciting findings. 'It suggests that DMSP will play a role in the three-dimensional distribution of these different organisms as they orient around sources of DMSP,' he comments. 'This will undoubtedly affect how these organisms interact with each other as some can be prey for others.'
Understanding such microbial interactions could be important for elucidating how oceanic microorganisms contribute to the global sulfur cycle and possibly climate since DMSP is also broken down by some microbes to produce dimethyl sulfate (DMS) - a volatile form of sulfur that oxidises readily and is involved in cloud formation.
'It remains to be demonstrated how the microscale structuring of the microbial community will affect the ultimate production of DMS, but this is likely to be important and needs further study,' suggests Kiene.
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I ported DONUT GET! to OUYA with the hope of it being a OUYA launch title. I anticipated that it would at least help bring a bit more attention to DONUT GET!, especially since it didn’t get as much coverage as expected. Fortunately DONUT GET! was listed as one of the 104 OUYA launch titles, and mentioned on sites like Destructoid.
We’ve made our download stats available for DONUT GET! on OUYA. It’s a totally free game — there’s no in-app purchases.
A large problem within the OUYA community is that the company is slowly trickling out the ~60,000 Kickstarter units. For developers it’s a bit unsettling with the low download numbers, and the myriad of other software problems we’re dealing with.
Here’s the vaguish chart the OUYA Team released to appease the backers.
Guessing from the chart, about 20% of the 60,000 backers received units by now. Which amounts to about 12,000 units. With DONUT GET!’s 420 downloads, this amounts to about 3.5% of the total userbase. Is that good? It’s hard to say, but if that rate is extrapolated for all 60,000 users that’d be about 2,100 downloads which isn’t too bad to me. I believe it took us longer to get 2,000 downloads on the Google Play.
What’s Next?
I wanted to port a “lean” version of DONUT GET! to test waters for the marketplace. What was required for development? What was the approval process like? Will anybody even download it?
For this reason, the port was minimal. Essentially the mobile version with mobile specific stuff ripped out (ads, GREE integration, etc.). I made some ‘quick & dirty’ tweaks to UI to make it navigable with an OUYA controller.
The port took about 2 1/2 days. I used the Unity exporter included in their SDK. I don’t actually have an OUYA to test on, but used an Android computer that worked similarly. I wasn’t able to get the OUYA SDK fully working on it though.
I figured if there was enough interest I can go back to the game and add new stages and some form of in-app purchase to see if it generates any revenue. We intend to release our upcoming game, The Crazy Program on OUYA for like a 1.1 release once we get it working with a controller. It’s primarily designed for touch screens.
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Virtual Eye News
Competitors in the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 are being tracked by Virtual Eye from the start in Alicante (October 22nd), through to the finish line in the Hague in June 2018. At 45,000 nautical miles, this is the longest course in the history of the race. As well as our well-known realtime 3D broadcast graphics, we are again also delivering tracking for the browser and via Mobile App for the duration of the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18.
The Virtual Eye Golf team also globe-trotted throughout October, supplying our tracking and graphics at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland, followed by the Italian Open at Olgiata GC, the Andalucia Valderrama Masters in Spain and the WGC-HSBC Champions at Sheshan International GC in Shanghai, China.
Above: With three times more Southern Ocean racing than in previous editions, and stops in 12 iconic cities around the globe, the 2017-18 route looks set to be one of the most memorable yet.
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University officials are looking for solutions in response to a series of falls from campus buildings in Idaho and Washington, mostly at fraternities and involving alcohol.
The falls — five since September — at Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Idaho campuses have alarmed officials, who acknowledge the challenge they face in changing student attitudes on alcohol and minimizing dangerous behavior.
“Obviously, we need to do more with them to help them think through what are the possibilities for accidents,” WSU Dean of Students Melynda Huskey told the Lewiston Tribune.
“This is a challenging age. Young men in their late teens and early 20s are not always the best assessors of personal risk.”
The latest rash of falls began in September when an Idaho student suffered serious injuries after falling from the roof of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Two days later, a WSU student was hospitalized after falling three stories from a window in the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
In early October, a WSU student fell from the third-story balcony of the Buffalo Creek apartments in Pullman, and had to be taken to a Spokane hospital because of the seriousness of his injuries. In what officials called a miracle, another WSU student survived an 11-story plunge from a residence when tree branches broke his fall.
In the most recent episode, a WSU student sustained critical head injuries Sunday when he fell backward off a second-story balcony of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. The 19-year-old had emergency brain surgery and doctors put him in a medically induced coma while he recovers.
Alcohol consumption was a factor in four of the five falls, according to authorities.
Fraternities contacted by the Lewiston Tribune did not immediately respond to calls for comment on measures they are taking to increase safety.
But Huskey said each Greek organization must complete a process called “university-approved housing” before it is allowed to house freshmen.
“We review the basic health- and safety-code materials with those houses and make sure they meet all of the basic standards for safety,” she said.
The latest round of student injuries has motivated city officials to get involved.
Pullman Mayor Glenn Johnson agrees student behavior needs to change, but he also intends to begin discussions with city department heads next week on ways to improve safety.
“It’s something we can take a look at from the building-code standpoint,” Johnson said.
“But again, some of these people have been finding other ways to get out on top of roofs, or putting themselves in harm’s way.”
Injuries to students who fell from buildings have also caused legal issues for universities.
In August, an Idaho judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former University of Idaho student who fell from a frat-house window during an off-campus party and suffered debilitating injuries.
In that case, the university lawyer argued that school officials cannot control what students do on private property and ultimately cannot be held liable for accidents that occur in fraternities.
On the WSU campus, the Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life has been revisiting safety issues with houses, including weekly meetings with their presidents.
And a task force appointed by WSU President Elson Floyd in the wake of a recent student death by alcohol poisoning is taking an in-depth look at university policies.
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Chevrolet Trailblazer continues testing
GM’s upcoming mega-SUV, the Chevrolet Trailblazer, has once again been spotted testing near Baner, in Pune. Though the company seems to have spent some serious effort in camouflaging the SUV, it is easily identifiable as a Trailblazer due to its massive proportions and the distinctive shape.
Though the photographs don’t reveal it, the front of the Trailblazer gets the similar split mesh grille design on the front fascia, which is used in a majority of other Chevrolet cars. The sweptback headlights sit firmly at the edges of the bonnet, while the smooth roofline and sharply raked windscreen try to hide the car’s proportions. In India, the Trailblazer is expected to be offered with a 2.8-litre four-cylinder diesel engine which produces 200bhp and 500Nm of torque. It will be offered in both rear-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive configurations, with a six-speed automatic gearbox.
The Trailblazer is expected to be launched in India in the next couple of months. With a price tag in the range of Rs 32 lakh to Rs 40 lakh, it will compete with other seven-seater SUVs like the Toyota Fortuner, Mitsubishi Pajero Sport and the next-generation Ford Endeavour.
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Barton County, Missouri Biographies-E. S. CASNER
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties,
Missouri, 1889. Published by Goodspeed. Pages 867, 868
E. S. Casner, a breeder of fine horses in Barton County, Mo., was born
in Juniata County, Penn., September 17, 1846, and is a son of Thomas B.
and Sarah (Stees) Casner, who were also Pennsylvanians, their parents
coming from Germany. In 1847 they moved to Ohio, and ten years later
to Indiana, where the father died in 1872, and the mother still lives.
They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was a
Republican in his political views, and during the late war served two
years in the Sixty-fourth Indiana Volunteer infantry, United States Army.
He was a mechanic by trade. E. S. Casner is one of three surviving
members of a family of five children, and in his youth received a common
school education. At the age of seventeen years he began clerking in a
store, which occupation he followed five years, and in 1870 he came to
Jasper County, Mo., and after farming three years, turned his attention
to mercantile pursuits, continuing until 1880, when he began lead mining.
In 1887 he moved to Lamar, and soon after opened a stable of fine
breeding horses, owning three imported Percheron horses and a standard
bred Hambletonian horse, all of them fine animals. In connection with
managing his stable, he is engaged in mining, and all his property has
been acquired by hard work and good management, and has been made since
coming to Missouri, as he then had nothing. His first money was made
by breaking prairie at $2.50 per acre. He is a Republican in his
political views, and while in Jasper County held the office of
councilman one term. January 1, 1873, he was married to Miss Nellie
Gray, a native of New York, by whom he has three sons and one daughter.
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Originally nominated by President Barack Obama in January 2014 to be the Environmental Protection Agency's Assistant Administrator for Environmental Information and CIO, Durkin was left in limbo thanks to Senate disagreements over larger EPA issues. Renee Wynn, a career EPA official, had filled both roles in an acting capacity since July 2013.
Durkin, who was re-nominated by Obama last month, still has not been confirmed for the assistant administrator position, but EPA leaders determined that she could fill the CIO post without confirmation. That move echoes the strategy taken by the Department of Veterans Affairs with Stephen Warren in 2013, and the Defense Department's 2010 decision to restructure its CIO role so that Senate confirmation was no longer required before putting Teri Takai in the job.
GAO to DOD: Abolish unnecessary acquisition requirements
The Defense Department should get rid of unnecessary reviews and information requirements in order to speed up its process for acquiring weapons systems, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
The Pentagon "has not yet identified ways to achieve the right balance by minimizing the time spent on information requirements and reviews that contribute to its inefficient milestone decision process," GAO said.
Former NGA director Long pivots to private sector
Former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Letitia Long has joined the board of directors at UrtheCast Corp., a Vancouver-based firm that has installed two cameras on the International Space Station. Long, the first woman to head a major U.S. intelligence agency, retired from NGA in October after more than four years at the helm. NGA's work with unclassified information allows it to be more transparent than other intelligence agencies, she told FCW in an exit interview.
Lenovo CTO: Superfish spyware confined to consumer notebooks
While the Superfish VisualDiscovery spyware found on some Lenovo PCs has damaged the company's reputation, enterprise customers have been assured the adware was confined to consumer market notebooks, GCN reports.
The company has released an automated removal tool Microsoft, McAfee and Symantec updated their software to automatically disable and remove the spyware. But US-CERT says the systems that came with the software already installed will continue to be vulnerable until corrective actions have been taken.
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Picturesque Plainsboro
Plainsboro Township is a community that has successfully made the transition from a rural farming enclave to a vibrant, diverse community. The township’s thoughtful planning has resulted in a strong economic base, the preservation of over 50 percent of the township’s land as open space, and diverse housing that provide a variety of choices. Plainsboro’s public parks provide for both active and passive recreational pursuits....read more.
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A Revolution of Ideas
Education
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Grant to help beef up security
The district will install 36 color cameras and new locks at some of the buildings.
BOARDMAN — The township police force is so depleted that the number of school buildings in Boardman sometimes outnumbers the police officers charged with protecting them, according to a federal grant proposal.
That is one reason the school system was awarded a $67,000 U.S. Department of Justice grant to add more cameras and new classroom locks to some school buildings. The school district wrote the grant with the help of Boardman police.
The grant stipulates that the district must match the $67,000 award to complete the $134,000 project in the next year, said Wendy Carothers, coordinator of special programs.
“The good news is we spend so much on security anyway, but [this will] free up more funding for the district,” Carothers said.
Boardman High School and Boardman Center Middle School both will receive new locks that lock from the inside without a key and from the outside with a key, according to the grant proposal. The district will install 36 interior and exterior color cameras with digital-video recorders in Glenwood Middle School and the four elementary schools.
New locks are necessary because the current system locks only from the outside, Carothers said. If an intruder entered a building and the school were locked down, finding keys before going outside to lock the door might take too long.
The locks had to be approved by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Carothers said, so a standard bolt lock would not suffice.
Those special locks are more expensive than regular locks. The grant proposal estimates the locks will cost more than $270, not including labor to install them.
“When you have a lockdown, the fact that somebody can come into your classroom doesn’t make sense to me,” Carothers said. “This is going to change that.”
The additional cameras, Carothers said, will shed light on some blind spots in smaller hallways.
In the past, criminals have entered the school building to steal money and computers, and angry parents have stormed directly to classrooms, according to the grant proposal.
But the new locks and cameras, coupled with safety measures the school district took with a similar grant in 2005, should help curb those problems, Carothers said.
In 2005, the district received about $63,000 toward a $126,000 project to install magnetic locks, key-card access and additional cameras in schools.
“We saw such a change, I guess, in discipline and the way kids acted in the halls,” Carothers said of the first grant. “It started a big change in our district. I can’t wait to see what this does.”
The grant requires the locks and cameras to be installed within one year, Carothers said.
The first step for the district is to publicly bid the work, said Jim Massey, director of operations.
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Alum / Stainless Fruit Press - Basket 8 Inch X 7 Inch
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Aluminum / Stainless Steel Fruit Press - Basket 8 inch x 7 inch. Screw press for grapes, soft fruit and cheese making. This press is made with cast aluminum pressing head, handle and cross-member framework. The legs, perforated basket, juice guard and spout are all stainless steel and complete the unit. Suited for pressing grapes and soft fruits allowing the juice to run out free through the spout while containing the fruit (pumice) in the perforated basket. Nylon bags or cheese cloth help contain the fruit or curds also. When used for cheese, it can press curd from up to 2 gallons of milk. The internal draining basket in perforated to allow for release of the whey. The basket is 9 inch round by 8 inch tall. To use, rinse and sanitize, turn the handle counter clockwise to raise the pressing plate, put in the fruit and turn the handle clockwise to press. Rinse with warm water after using. Shipped fully assembled and ready for use. Food grade lubricant has been applied to the screw mechanism for smooth operation and long life.
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Right Thinking from the Left Coast
Addendum: They Are Also Coming For Your Kids
As Alex can tell you, the current rulers of Connecticut might be some of the worst in the country. It’s not just their policies; it is their disgusting determination to leverage the horror of the Sandy Hook massacre into advancing any liberal agenda item they can even remotely connect to it:
Home-schoolers represent the only authentically radical social movement in the United States (Occupy Wall Street was a fashion statement) and so they must be suppressed, as a malevolent committee of leftist academics and union bosses under the direction of Governor Dannel Malloy is preparing to do in Connecticut, using the Sandy Hook massacre as a pretext. The ghouls invariably rush to the podium after every school massacre, issuing their insipid press releases before the bodies have even cooled, and normally they’re after your guns. But the Malloy gang is after your children.
Malloy’s committee on the Newtown shootings is recommending that Connecticut require home-schooling families to present their children to the local authorities periodically for inspection, to see to it that their psychological and social growth is proceeding in the desired direction. For anybody even passingly familiar with contemporary government schools, which are themselves a peerless source of social and emotional dysfunction, this development is bitterly ironic.
Big Education hates home-schooling for obvious reasons. A lot of mainstream liberals dislike it intensely. Partly this is their love of order and uniformity; home-schooling is a perfect example of the much-dreaded spontaneous order. But it’s also because of their perception — an incorrect one — that home-schooled kids are being taught crazy creationism or not taught at all. In fact, home-schooled children massively outperform their public school counterparts by any standard. And home-schooling parents have organized sports, social groups and events so that home-schooled kids have an active social life.
I don’t agree with everything Williamson says in that article. My local public schools are quite good and low on indoctrination. But I will cheer his rousing defense of home-schooling. I’ve worked with a few kids who were home-schooled. It’s true that some were a bit sheltered and awkward and had trouble cutting the apron strings. But that’s also true of some public-schooled kids (like, um, me). It’s also true that the home-schooled kids were well-prepared, hard-working and quickly adapted to university life once they were on their own. One I worked with, who was raised in a religious home-schooling environment, went on to earn four degrees (including one in astrophysics) and is a faculty member at a prestigious university.
There is no evidence, none, that home-schoolers are more likely to have mental problems or become violent. The Sandy Hook shooter was briefly home-schooled but spent most of his time in the public schools. To connect him to the millions of kids thriving in home-schooling is disgraceful and offensive.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 1
In Larry's post-Seinfeld world, everything is nearly perfect. He is wealthy, has a loving wife, a best friend, and also manages to offend everyone around him. But in the series where plays a version of himself, we can see an unflinching, self-deprecating depiction of his life.
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With all due respect, Baker was a "nobody", before injuries. He is a newcomer indeed. And for me, the best one!
He beat Gaudio at the US Open I wasn't following tennis then (because I was 7 ) but I think he got quite a bit of hype for that. It really was his comeback that made him 'famous'. Newcomers are mostly younger players that are newer to pro tennis, otherwise players like Matosevic would be nominated for that award. If you still don't agree, then blame the ATP for making the choices
Klizan, apparently all the fan he gained were true fans but Goffins fans were bandwagoners
i started supporting goffin 2 years ago,though gotta admit the 2 runs at the slams came as a big shock to me i thought del bonis was gonna be the one stepping it up this year but hes been so disapointing
either way klizan has been great as has goffin so it doesnt bother me which one wins
He beat Gaudio at the US Open I wasn't following tennis then (because I was 7 ) but I think he got quite a bit of hype for that. It really was his comeback that made him 'famous'. Newcomers are mostly younger players that are newer to pro tennis, otherwise players like Matosevic would be nominated for that award. If you still don't agree, then blame the ATP for making the choices
Gaudio was capable of losing to the local baker at the US Open. It was an probably upset, but it was far from a big upset.
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