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HIT WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
MacFarlane, 39, fared better on Facebook, Twitter and blogs, where 13 percent declared him the "best host ever", according to conversations tracked by social media research firm Fizziology.
And MacFarlane didn't win over the online world just because of his wit. Seven percent said he was "the sexiest" host, Fizziology said on Monday.
Many TV critics were equally put off by the song and dance heavy Oscars telecast, which ran to three and 1/2 hours.
"Mr. MacFarlane didn't ruin the show. But the show almost ruined the Oscars," wrote Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times.
Los Angeles TV critic Mary McNamara seemed to agree, calling the Oscar telecast "long, self-indulgent and dull even by the show's time-honored dull-defining standards" despite the valiant efforts of performers Adele and Barbra Streisand and "a surprisingly witty" Daniel Day-Lewis in his Best Actor acceptance speech.
Hank Stuever of the Washington Post said that MacFarlane "did a fairly middle-of-the-road job as host on a fairly middle-of-the-road telecast."
ABC, a unit of Walt Disney, also reported growth to its online and social media platforms, saying that its Oscar.com website had attracted 15.8 million visitors since the Academy Award nominations were announced in early January - a 28 percent increase over 2012.
Last year, when Billy Crystal hosted for the ninth time, some 39.3 million people watched the Oscars ceremony on television.
"Argo," the Iran hostage thriller and box office hit, was the big winner at Sunday's ceremony, taking home Best Picture and two other Oscars.
(Additional reporting by Eric Kelsey and Piya Sinha-roy; editing by Andrew Hay)
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Cooling Center’s Add Weekend Hours In Light Of Incredible Heat
The City’s 15 “cooling centers’’ are up and running – this time with extended Saturday and Sunday hours to help local residents beat the latest heat wave expected to have temperatures above 100 degrees for the next several days.
The stations are set up to provide cold beverages, including water, juices and teas, free of charge and served in air-conditioned comfort to those seeking relief. The juices and teas were donated last week by Eagle Distributing of Shreveport.
The hours of operation are listed below and include Saturday and Sunday.
For more information, call or visit your nearest community center:
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Monkey Tries To Send Text Message on iPhone – Cutest SMS Ever? [VIDEO]
In a clear case of monkey-see-monkey-do, this ape seems desperate to fire off a text message from an iPhone.
Despite his best attempts, he is unable to unlock device. However, with a little human help, he’s in business.
He just types gibberish, from what we can tell. But if, as the saying goes, a bunch of monkeys at a bunch of typewriters could eventually reproduce ‘Hamlet,’ this little guy should be able to send out something coherent within about ten years — providing he maintains his sky-high level of enthusiasm for the task. Check it out below.
[via Best Week Ever]
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Ty!
Both pools will be open June 2 through Aug. 11 and will have trained lifeguards on duty.
Before they are allowed to enter the pool, all children under the age of 18 must be registered with the pool manager by their parent or legal guardian. Pool registration will be held from 1-5 p.m. May 29-June 1 and during regular pool hours beginning June 2.
Fun Forest Pool is an Olympic-size pool, featuring a water slide and diving board. The sprayground offers water fun for children of all ages. The sprayground can be reserved for birthday parties or almost any gathering.
Fun Forest Pool is located at 900 N. Glenwood Blvd and admission is free. Here are the hours of operation:
• Sunday and Monday – closed
• Tuesday-Thursday – 1-6 p.m.
• Friday and Saturday – 1-7 p.m.
• Lap swim is held on Tuesdays and Thursday from 6-8 p.m.
Woldert Swimming Pool is located at 701 W. 32nd Street with free admission. Here are the hours of operation:
• Monday-Thursday – 1-6 p.m.
• Friday – 1-7 p.m.
• Saturday – 1-6 p.m.
• Sunday – closed
Log on to the Parks and Recreation Department for more information at Tyler Parks and Rec.com
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Supreme Court allows Palestinian MK Zoabi to participate in elections
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May be I was wrong but the concept of Y has been taken from this…y_logo.jpg for entry number #360 and then use of this y so on
CH pls wait for my entry LOL
wow almost 2 yrs now
How come ive missed this one? :) its late but ive gotta congratulate you on this one dd.. btw mabuhay is long live.. :D
Aha philippines now I get it. To you in serbian ZIVELI!!! thank's paul, chicago winger...
im pretty sure mabuhay is cheers in tagalog
anyway... i didn't take a part in this contest, but it has been great to watch
Good job to all of you!
and ddd, your design had me since I first saw it.
Congratulations dddesign!
Congrats DDD.;) Good one.
thank you guys really!!! MABUHAY KA! what is that?
CONGRATULATION DDESIGN FOR THE BIG WIN! MABUHAY KA!
Regprint must be kicking himself. Nice design man, congrats on the 5K.
when i first saw dddesigns design i said sh*t...i knew it was over then but i tried ne way
also great contest destiny
nice one dd!!
congrats dddesign!
Good Job! My mom had to translate the Serbian writing , wish I could do it but I can only speak.
Congrats.
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Our friends over at Redmond have surprised us pleasantly with the Bing app for iPhone last year. Today, they’ve launched an iPad version and it looks awesome. It’s the same like the iPhone version only, you know, bigger. It’s a free download from the App Store and comes with all the features of the iPhone version.
The search app, or a decision engine as they call it, really takes advantage of the iPad’s display that comes into play when performing media-rich searches like movies, Bing homepage images, local businesses and so forth. The full list of features plus three more screenshots after the break.
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The WSJ points to a new comScore survey detailing who’s buying iPads. The most interesting piece to note is that iOS still trumps Android with 59% more people being exposed to iOS than Android...
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2013 TONY AWARD® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
The Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS, Sunday, June 9th, 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT time delay).
April
- Larry Kramer to Receive 2013 Isabelle Stevenson Award
- The Huntington Theatre Company of Boston, Massachusetts to Be Honored with the 2013 Regional Theatre Award
- Tony Awards® Announce Recipients of the 2013 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
- 2013 Tony Awards Film Series Announces Line-up of Films
March
- Tony Awards Announce the Recipients of 2013 Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
- The 67th Annual Tony Awards® to Be Broadcast Live from Radio City Music Hall In New York City Sunday, June 9, 2013 on the CBS Television Network
- The Broadway League Announces 2013 “League Educator Apple Awards”
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Asian American Community Services began to form during the
Friday evenings Columbus Chinese Christian Fellowship (CCCF) meetings at the University Baptist Church. Although it was primarily a Bible study
group, this small group began to discuss ways to promote awareness of East
Asian cultures and languages in the Central Ohio
community and Columbus Public Schools. The
group was primarily driven by Dr. Shuh-Chai Lee and two other OSU graduate
students. As a non-citizen employee at
the Ohio Department of Transportation, Dr. Lee had experienced life both before
and after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the 1965 Immigration
Law. Dr. Lee, along with the two other
young Chinese graduate students, used their ecumenical, cosmopolitan and
humanistic values to address a rising need for cultural sensitivity and
integration. assistance of
the Pastor and joined the CCCF Bible studies.
Reverend Chow expanded the CCCF to include Sunday worship services at
the Wesley Foundation near the OSU campus.
The group was still primarily a Bible study group and was rapidly
growing. However, ideas to help the
Asian community within the group began to surface.
Dr. Lee’s first case came in August of 1972 by the name of
Mr. Wong—the 90-year-old father of a close friend. As a WWI veteran who came to the U.S.
in 1916, Mr. Wong had been receiving a pension for 25 years. However, he had no idea he was also eligible
for veterans and welfare benefits nor how to apply for those benefits. After he was evicted from his apartment for
nonpayment of rent, he moved to his five immigrant families for the next three
generations.
After learning about Dr. Lee’s assistance to Mr. Wong and
his family, Chinese students, recent immigrants, aging immigrants and their
children began to come to the CCCF not only for Bible studies but to seek
social services and assistance.
Dr. Lee sought especially to provide services to the elderly
Asian community through a senior lunch program called NICE (now called Lifecare
Alliance). In an effort to teach
cultural awareness and native language to the younger generation, Dr. Lee and
three volunteers (one of whom was his wife, Catherine S.) organized a Chinese
Language class for Elementary School children. Both he and his wife were constantly invited
to speak to students at the Columbus Public Schools on various topics of East
Asian languages, history, geography, and culture. Dr. Lee also met with the Columbus Adult
Readers Association to show cultural and educational films and then discuss the
various topics.
In 1976, almost four years later, Dr. Lee founded Asian
American Community Services as a structure to help serve not only Chinese but
all Asian populations in Central Ohio. The founding members of the Board of Trustees
included Reverend and Dr. Pogue as the President, Mrs. Kawakami as Treasurer,
and Dr. Lee as Executive Secretary and Executive Vice-President. That same year, 1976, the U.S. President
and Congress proclaimed the second week in May as an Asian celebration
week. Two years later, AACS appealed to
other Asian-American groups in Ohio
to organize a celebration of Asian Week at the YMCA.
Despite many set-backs (i.e.
a significant lack of grant funding) in the years following its establishment, Asian
American Community Services has managed to conduct hundreds of cases without
any publicity over the past 32 years of operation. What began as a small, volunteer and
faith-based group has become a thriving nonprofit organization, which is the
only organization that serves all ages and races of the Asian community in Central Ohio.
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I thought that those of you who have gone through dog training should become aware of dog training’s top songs so you can hum them, or sing if you have the voice for it.
Here they are, along with their words.
Wasted Days & Wasted Nights
Wasted days & wasted nights, that I spent in training you,
You still won’t sit,
You still won’t come,
You still won’t stay,
What am I supposed to do?
How Do You Solve A Problem Like My Dog?
(How do you solve a problem like Maria–Sound of Music)
How do you solve a problem like my dog?
How do make him sit and then lie down?
How do you make him stay, And listen to all I say?
The trainer says practice every day.
Oh, how do you solve a problem like my dog?
Oh, how many times must I pay?
Wasted Time (Eagles)
Well baby, there you stand
With your little leash, down in your hand
Oh, my God, you can’t believe it’s happening again
Your dog is gone, and you’re all alone
and it looks like the end.
And you’re back out on the street.
And you’re tryin’ to remember.
How much have you paid?
You don’t know why it fails.
You don’t care much for your trainer’s touch,
And they can’t teach your dog.
You never thought you’d be alone this far down the line
And I know what’s been on your mind
You’re afraid it’s all been wasted time
My Heroes Have Always Been Trainers
I grew up a-dreamin’ of bein’ a trainer and lovin’ the trainers’ ways.
Pursuin’ the life of the dog trainer’s ego,
I charged all that client’s would pay.
I learned all the rules of a modern-day trainer,
Blame owners if I can’t succeed.
Just charge what you can from the owners and leave them
With a dog that they don’t understand.
Trainers are special with their own brand of misery,
From screwin’ the public too long.
You could be broke and your dog way too old,
Before knowin’ you done it all wrong.
Inventin’ new methods, ‘stead of takin’ the heat,
I take all that the clients will pay.
Old worn-out owners, and old worn-out doggies,
And not one has learned how to stay.
My heroes have always been trainers. And they still are, it seems. Gladly they’ll charge you, nothin’ they’ll teach you,
‘Cept their scams and their dog trainin’ schemes.
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Learn from members of the media on how get the word out about your community’s or organization’s event, or your group’s performance!
Who: Denver chapter of Asian American Journalists Association
What: Asian Community Media Training for leaders within the local Asian and Asian communities, as well as performers and leaders within groups and organizations interested in media outreach
Date: ONLINE:
Asians are often under-represented in the mainstream media, unless there’s a story about a tragedy (like currently in Japan), a gang-related crime, or a stereotypical story about model-minority Asian students getting straight A’s. If you’ve ever wondered how to get your community’s news on the air, or reported in the newspapers, here’s your chance to learn from the pros: Professionals who work in television stations and newspapers.
Join members of AAJA Denver, the Association of Asian American Journalists, as we offer an introduction to reaching out and creating relationships with the local media outside your communities.
The Asian Community Media Workshop will be designed to help you get the word out about your community, event or performance.
We’ll help you understand how the media work, how to tell if you have a good story, and how to write a press release that grabs the attention of a reporter, editor or assignment desk. There will be hands-on breakout sessions so you can have your own press releases critiqued in one session, or get help putting together a press release in another. You’ll learn how you need to adjust your approach if you’re contacting TV instead of print media.
AAJA Denver’s Asian Community Media Training will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday,.
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Mid 16th C. Cream Satin Suit and Shoes
May 23, 2010 - I had originally crafted this outfit for my "Laurel" recognition within the Society for Creative Anachronism back in June of 2008, but it took me this long to get some issues worked out and I finally can present the suit as I had intended it.
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When Family Ties and The Cosby Show (and maybe something else? It’s a little foggy now).
TELEVISION VIEWING HAS CHANGED
My parents were the last generation of people who may or may not have had a TV in their house. I’m in the generation that grew up with television — usually just one in the house. The generation(s) since have grown up with more televisions and more channel choices. Today, the entertainment choices have grown beyond “television” (in the strictest sense of the word) and the very existence of television as we once knew it is threatened.
Once, viewers were at the mercy of whatever was showing on the available channels. Some people had more choice because they had cable or satellite. My family couldn’t afford that stuff so our TV grabbed whatever was broadcast through the air. I remember it being someone’s job to adjust the rabbit ears on top of the TV to improve reception when things got fuzzy.
Other technology changed how we view television (and I should also include movies here, too): VCRs and DVDs allow us watch our own entertainment choices when we want. PVRs allow us to delay watching our chosen entertainment (and skip the commercials if we want). Other services (like YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, AppleTV, etc.) are all changing how we are entertained by giving us more choice and more control.
WHAT IS REALLY CHANGING?
Entertainment is not going away. And neither is watching something (i.e. a “television device” — whether it’s a big screen TV or a tablet). But what is really at risk is what we might call “real-time” television. Maybe there’s a better term for it. By “real time” television, I mean sitting down to watch a show from start to finish, including commercials, at the time it is broadcast.
I never watch shows when they are broadcast, and you probably don’t either. I use my PVR almost always, to fast forward through commercials and to watch shows on my time. And the occasions when I happen to watch a show in “real time” (when it is broadcast), I feel impatient and impotent because I can’t fast forward through the commercials. In fact, if I happen to see that a show was on that I wanted to watch, I usually prefer to record it on my PVR and return to it about 20 minutes later just to skip the commercials.
WHY TV PRODUCTION COMPANIES WILL FEEL THE SQUEEZE
Most channels earn their money from commercials. But people are skipping the commercials so the value isn’t there for show providers anymore. To counter this effect, we’re seeing other monetization techniques like product placement or on-screen marketing broadcast in the corner of the screen during a show.
Real time television is at risk. But I think it can be revived. I think people will watch real time television once again.
And I think this is where social media is the answer.
HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN SAVE THE DAY
My wife and I love NASCAR and we PVR the race because we usually fast forward through the pre-race show and the commercials, and because sometimes (depending on when it airs) we might not get to see it right at the very beginning.
The PVR gives us a lot of control, which we love. But there’s a drawback: If a driver does something that I want to tweet about, I don’t… because my tweet will seem almost silly coming a full hour or two after it actually happened. And, Janelle and I both avoid Twitter before and during the race because of our self-imposed PVR-delay. We don’t want to know who won the race if we’re still only at the halfway point in our viewing.
It’s almost enough for me to want to watch a race live. And if I had more friends or followers who were as avid race fans as I am, that might just happen. (But my network of people who are also NASCAR fans isn’t that big so it’s not likely going to happen any time soon).
If that’s the case for me, it’s going to be the case for other people, too — for other shows or sporting events. In fact, the “second screen” phenomenon is a growing industry in itself and I think we’re only seeing the start of it: The second screen — a mobile device or tablet or laptop screen — becomes a way for people to act on what they’re watching. They can research, shop, find news, and interact with others.
TWO SCREENS + SOCIAL PEOPLE = DEEPER ENGAGEMENT
In my opinion, television hasn’t caught up to the second screen phenomenon yet. It’s still broadcasting as a real-time medium in an on-demand world. For TV to survive, it needs to give people a reason to watch real time TV again. We’re seeing the very first elements of that happening — mainly through hashtags or encouraging people to view more online or play social games. But a lot of those efforts encourage participation after a show is complete. Can TV do even more?
Here are some ideas:
- Pose questions for people to answer in a forum or with a hashtag. Instead of just inviting people to talk about the show, give them something to talk about.
- Encourage live commentary/discussion during the show (perhaps on Facebook or some kind of Twitter-like discussion page)
- Get crowd-sourced decisions that will adjust how characters deal with a situation in a show. This could be done either in a live show setting, which would be very awesome, or on a delay until the following week.
- Split a story across multiple screens — sharing the first hour on TV and the last 30 minutes online
- Provide deeper plotlines on multiple screens — sharing the main storyline on the first screen and a secondary but intersecting storyline on the second screen. You could follow the lives and adventures of secondary characters this way, fleshing them out more fully for avid fans.
- Broadcast a post-show talk show (similar to what AMC does with The Talking Dead, a talk show that follows The Walking Dead). Broadcast it online if you don’t want to use up air-time.
- Split a show (perhaps creating a 45 minute show instead of a one-hour show) with actor discussion part way through — answering questions live.
- Drop clues during commercials that people have to watch for, perhaps something that will help them understand the show or interact more fully online.
I’m sure there are more things that could be done. As I write this, I’m seeing some major themes: More intentional splitting of the story (or characters or storylines) across screens. More intentional interaction/involvement required of viewers. Discussion. Dissection. Learning more.
The production companies and channels that create these shows will need to invest more time and effort but the result will be deeper engagement from viewers and the cultivation of a group of people who watch the show in real time.
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Since late-January 2002, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite has employed two non-orthogonal reaction wheels and a set of magnetic torquer bars for attitude control. The change in control method has modified the execution of slews and static pointing, which in turn affects target acquisitions and maintenance of pointing control during science exposures. Motions around two axes are well-controlled, but large maneuvers around the axis controlled by the geomagnetic field can have larger errors and can take longer to complete. Once a slew has settled, however, the positional accuracy is as good as with the previous four wheel control law. For static pointing, the variations are small enough that full spectrograph resolution can be achieved. Routine monitoring of the in-orbit performance of slews and static pointing is providing the data necessary to develop and improve attitude control algorithms and mission planning., 34
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Li-Zhi Fang (1936 - 2012)
Li-Zhi Fang died on Friday the 6th of April 2012.
Fang Li-Zhi, a major voice for human rights and democracy and a pioneering scientist in his native China, continued to advance the field of astrophysics at the UA for more than 20 years before he died last week.
Human rights activist Fang Li-Z.
During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to hard labor in the country. In 1978, upon returning to USTC, Fang became full professor and in 1984, vice president. His books on physics and cosmology and his articles and books on openness and democracy were widely admired.
Owing to his outspoken encouragement and support of the 1986 student movement demanding a more democratic government, he again was dismissed and sent to the Beijing Astronomical Observatory, where he led a theoretical astrophysics group in 1987. Fang remained an outspoken advocate of democratic reforms.
In the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, the Chinese government accused him and his wife as the leaders of the movement and issued a warrant for their arrest. Fang and his wife sought refuge at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, where they remained for 13 months, until the Chinese authorities finally allowed them to leave the country.
During his confinement, Fang continued his scientific research, submitting three papers for publication in international journals.
Less known to the public are Fang's professional contributions to research and teaching. He was one of the founders of modern astrophysics and cosmology in China. While mainly a theoretical physicist, Fang had been instrumental in helping the Chinese astronomical community develop observational astronomy, even after moving to the U.S.
He was one of the main collaborators on the successful Beijing-Arizona-Taipei-Connecticut survey project, one of the longest-running and most influential optical observational astronomical projects using a Chinese-based facility, said Xiaohui Fan, a UA professor of astronomy who collaborated with Fang.
"He was an inspiration for so many people in so many ways," Fan said, adding that in the late 1990s, Fang and his collaborators published a series of papers using clusters of galaxies, the most massive objects in the universe, as tools to study the fate and evolution of the universe, and to measure parameters such as the mass density of the universe.
In recent years, Fang also moved into the newly developed field of cosmic reionization, studies of the epoch of the universe when the very first generation of stars and galaxies formed.
"He and his students were developing new models and new predictions to the direct observations of cosmic reionization," Fan said. "In that sense, he was active to the very frontier of astrophysics and cosmology until the very last day."
"Professor Fang had been my dear and valuable mentor," said Zheng Cai, one of Fang's graduate students in the UA's physics department. "Since I first came to the UA, he gave me a lot of valuable suggestions on life as well as on academic study. His passing away is tragic, and I'm having a terribly hard time accepting it, but I believe professor Fang rests peacefully among the brightest stars in the universe."
Fang's exile began in 1990, first as a guest professor of the Royal Society at Cambridge, and the following year as Director's Visitor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. In 1992, Fang joined the UA as professor of physics. While in exile, he raised a generation of leaders of astrophysics in China through training of postdocs and graduate students.
During his tenure at the UA, Fang continued to do highly visible research on cosmology and published widely with his students and other colleagues, including in 2011, when he was unwell and in and out of the hospital on several occasions.
In 2010, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his scientific contributions as well as protecting the freedom of scientists around the world. He led cooperative projects on astrophysics with colleagues in China with his name usually redacted.
Being on the forefront of nuclear physics, laser physics, theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, Fang cared deeply about making scientific knowledge accessible not only to the academic community but society at large. He published more than 340 research papers and numerous popular articles and books, including a broadly read Chinese book on cosmology.
He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Science before being forced into exile. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Founding Fellow of the Arizona Arts, Sciences and Technology Academy.
Among his awards are the Chinese National Award of Science and Technology in 1978, the First Award of the Gravity Research Foundation (1985), the 1989 Human Rights Award named for Robert F Kennedy, the 1991 Freedom Award of the International Rescue Committee and the 1996 Nicholson Medal of the American Physical Society.
In addition to numerous invited talks, Fang served on many scientific committees, including the council of the International Center for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Chair of Commission C19 of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and chair of the steering committee of the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network.
Fang has been a leader in many human rights groups, including the International League for Human Rights, Committee of Concerned Scientists, and chair of the APS Committee on International Freedom of Scientists.
Most recently, in spite of his illness, Fang was among the international organizers of the upcoming Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories.
"Professor Fang was one of our most dedicated teachers," said Sumit Mazumdar, head of the UA's department of physics. "On the occasions that I visited him in the hospital, he was most concerned about his course, his students, and whether I was able to find a substitute teacher for his course. His courage came with a great deal of compassion, and we in the physics department will remember him for that as well as for his scholarship."
"Professor Fang was a wonderful person and an astrophysicist with international recognition," said David Arnett, a Regents' Professor at the UA's Steward Observatory. "Few of us can lay claim to as much as he can. He will be missed."
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Simultaneous proceedings.—
If a proceeding for enforcement under ss. 61.524-61.540 is commenced in a court of this state and the court determines that a proceeding to modify the determination is pending in a court of another state having jurisdiction to modify the determination under ss. 61.514-61.523, the enforcing court shall immediately communicate with the modifying court. The proceeding for enforcement continues unless the enforcing court, after consultation with the modifying court, stays or dismisses the proceeding.
History.—s. 5, ch. 2002-65.
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Online retailer Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the latest company to announce it is hiring extra hands for the upcoming holiday season. The Seattle-based firm announced it is hiring 50,000 seasonal workers at its U.S. fulfillment centers.
Amazon currently employs over 20,000 people across its 40 U.S. fulfillment centers.
U.S. retail sales have increased for three months in a row after struggling over the spring. On Monday, the Commerce Department announced that U.S. retail and restaurant sales rose 1.1 percent in September from August while they rose 5.4 percent from the previous year. The Commerce Department also increased its estimate for sales over the summer.
Retail trade association National Retail Federation estimates.
The NRF expects consumers to increase spending 4.1 percent at retailers this holiday season.
Amazon is hiring 50,000 seasonal workers for its fulfillment centers that aim to distribute products quickly to customers. The company has previously declined to detail how many seasonal workers it hired in 2011. Last year, the Wall Street Journal detailed the ballooning of "Amazon towns" during the holiday season as work-hungry people migrate to earn about $12 an hour plus overtime in places like Fenley, Nev.
Target."
Department store Macy's Inc. is hiring about 80,000 seasonal associates at its Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores and operations centers, up 2.5 percent from a year ago.
Last month, Kohl's department store announced plans to add 52,700 season employees this year, up 10 percent from 2011.
The largest employer in the U.S., Walmart, said it will hire more than 50,000 seasonal workers and give current employees the opportunity to work more this holiday season. Some Walmart workers have threatened to strike on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Those workers say they will strike if the company does not respond to their requests for better treatment and the ability to unionize at some stores.
Toy giant Toys "R" Us is hiring 45,000 seasonal workers, up 5,000 from last year.
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Grilled Sweet Potato Salad
Perfect Side Dish for Pork Loin
This sweet potato salad is full of flavor because the sweetness is brought out by the grilling. If you are making Emeril's Orange, Cumin and Cilantro Roasted Pork Loin, serve this side dish with it.
Ingredients
Cooking Directions.
Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, courtesy MSLO, Inc.
Recipe Summary
Main Ingredients: sweet potatoes, lime, cilantro, red onion
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The most highly anticipated gadget of the year is available for pre-order today. Apple begins taking orders for the iPad this morning at its stores and online. The WiFi-only version begins at $499 for 16 gigs of storage and won't actually arrive until April 3. The 3G version costs an extra $130, plus the cost of a monthly contract with AT&T. The 3G iPad won't be available until late April.
Twitter is the latest service to add location-sharing, one of the hottest new technology trends. The site unveiled a new feature that gives users the option of automatically including their location when they tweet.
Users have to turn the tracking tool on for it to work. Many people already mention their location in their messages, so this new service can save them valuable real estate because tweets are limited to 140 characters.
Fujifilm is breaking new ground by becoming the first company to offer a 3-D, point-and-shoot digital camera. The $600 Fine Pix Real 3-D camera also shoots 3-D video. But USA Today's Ed Baig said it's simply too complicated for the average consumer.
"Fuji does deserve some credit here for pushing the technological envelop," Baig said. While he thinks the camera itself looks good, he found the quality of the 3-D images to be a problem.
"They're not great, they're kind of gimmicky," he said. "Now there is some gee-whiz factor to them, but after a while, that wears off."
You can read his full review on USAToday.com.
If you are you looking for a little more burn from your Wii workout, there is a new attachment for the Wii Balance Board that can help you build more muscle. The Wii Push-Up Bar fits on top of the board and lets you do deeper push-ups. It's compatible with the Wii Fit games as well as a few other titles. It goes on sale later this month for $25.
YouTube Adds Captions to Its Videos
TiVo Premier Marries TV and Internet
Google Launches Person Finder
Nintendo Super-Sizes the DSi
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Jae C. Hong/AP Photo, said. he has not been shy about his disinterest in the position. Rubio instead says he wants to focus on advancing policy in the Senate, implying that he’s not particularly interested in answering a lot of questions about dogs, a topic that has consumed both parties in the past week.
“If I were running for vice president, I would have to answer questions about my dog. Both candidates are answering questions about dog these days,” Rubio joked.
Rubio told Garrett that he hopes to introduce an alternative to the DREAM Act this summer and would welcome Romney’s support of the bill once it has been constructed, identifying Romney as the “leader of the Republican Party.”
As his interview wound down, Rubio made a bit of a slip when he talked about his future after his career as a vice president, not a senator.
“Three, four, five, six, seven years from now, if I do a good job as vice president, I’m sorry,” Rubio said as he caught himself. “If I do a good job as a senator instead of a vice president, I’ll have a chance to do all sorts of things, including commissioner of the NFL, which is where the real power is.”
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ABC News’ Michael Falcone and Shushannah Walshe report:.
Outside his home south of Minneapolis on Tuesday, Pawlenty was casually dressed in a white tee shirt and baseball cap. He did not look concerned about whether he will be tapped to be Romney’s running mate. Instead, he seemed more focused on walking his eight-year-old dog, Mazy, and going about his everyday business.
Want a different take on politics? Check out OTUS on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @OTUSNews.
Some political observers have noted that Romney might be able to squash some of the negative headlines about his failure to commit to releasing more than two years of tax returns by naming his vice presidential candidate this week. But in his interview on Tuesday, Pawlenty declined to echo the calls of other prominent Republicans that Romney should release additional years of his returns, saying that two years was “reasonable.”
“That’s basically been the standard for Republican nominees for president,” Pawlenty said.
Pawlenty was unable to recall how many years of tax returns he handed over to the McCain campaign when he was being vetted for vice president in 2008.
“I don’t remember the specific number of years,” Pawlenty told Mitchell. “I know I provided some tax returns going back a number of years, but I don’t know if it was three or five. I don’t think it was probably more than that.”
Pawlenty was circumspect about his own views on who Romney should choose as his Number Two, saying that “geography is one of many factors that a candidate might look.”
He also acknowledged that his Minnesota roots were unlikely to offer much of an electoral boost to Romney if historical voting patterns hold true. The state has not voted for a GOP presidential nominee since 1972.
“It’s the longest unbroken streak of voting for a Democrat of any state in the nation including Vermont Massachusetts, Hawaii and California,” Pawlenty lamented. “I love my state. It’s filled with great people, but it unfortunately has the longest unbroken streak of voting for a Democratic candidate for president of any state in the nation.”
Get more pure politics at ABC News.com/Politics and a lighter take on the news at OTUSNews.com
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The First Lady's New 'Do
Star-Spangled Backlash: Did Beyonce Lip-Sync National Anthem?
The History of Presidential Inaugurations
AFTER: Inauguration 2013
Inauguration 2013: Obamas Attend 2 Balls
Obama's Inaugural Speech: 'Our Time' for Changing Nation
Inaugural Balls: The Celebs, the Glamour, the Music
Inauguration: Freedom Riders, Crowds React to Obama's Speech
Biden Delivers Remarks at Heroes Ball
President Obama Praises Military Families at Inaugural Ball
President, First Lady Dance at Commander-in-Chief Ball
Presidential Inauguration 2013: Celebrating Democracy and People
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Rodney Stokes Tapped to Help Mich. Cities Become More Vibrant
(LANSING, Mich.) -- State officials are encouraging cities across Michigan to work to become more vibrant. And on Thursday, the state announced Rodney Stokes has been appointed as the state's point man to assist cities in this endeavor.
Stokes will serve as Governor Rick Snyder's special adviser for city "placemaking." hHs duties will include working with cities on projects such as ensuring the availability of quality green space and enhancing recreational opportunities.
"Michigan's cities are brimming with unique natural and man-made assets that can be cultivated in ways which attract families and visitors, retain talented workers, encourage investment and enhance our overall quality of life," Snyder said in a statement. "Rodney has the talent and experience to make that happen. His expertise in the areas of natural resources, outdoor recreation, policy development and civic engagement make him well suited to partner with cities in these efforts."
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Affording Accessibility Home ModificationsBy Moakley, Terry; Action Magazine,
Publication Date: March 24, 2006
Article describes loans and grants available to help persons with disabilities finance necessary changes to their homes. Federal programs discussed include (1) the Single Family Direct Loan Program, part of a Housing and Community Facilities Program (HCFP) administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development section, which provides mortgage loans to seniors and persons with disabilities living in rural areas who have a maximum income of 80 percent of the area median income (AMI); (2) the HCFP-administered Rural Housing Repair and Rehabilitation Grants, offering a lifetime maximum grant amount of $7,500, which must be used in conjunction with a Repair and Rehabilitation loan, to a dwelling owner/occupant 62 years old or older with an income below 50 percent of the AMI; (3) The Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME) and the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which distributes funds to cities and counties where local officials decide what programs these monies will support; readers are advised to check with their city or county housing agency to determine availability of funding to eliminate architectural barriers in their apartment or home; and (4) United Spinal Association’s Residential Accessibility Modification Program (R*A*M*P), which, at the time the article was written, provided one-time grants to low income members in good standing; however, these grants are not available as of June 2009 as funding of the program came to an end.
Published by: United Spinal Association (Website:)
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Okay, of U.S. law schools.
But could outsourcing companies be poised to give something back to American law school graduates? Outsourcing companies aren’t ever going to replace the many lost Biglaw jobs that are never coming back, but they could be giving rise to some new opportunities.
At this point, every little bit helps…
As noted in Morning Docket, the New York Times reports that outsourcing companies are hiring U.S.-based lawyers to do work that can not easily be done offshore. The Times cites the example of outsourcing company Pangea3, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in November 2010.
These jobs don’t pay $160,000 a year, mind you:
The American salaries for outsourced work, typically in the $50,000 to $80,000 range, may look meager compared with the six figures that new associates might still hope to draw at a big firm. But outsourcing jobs typically pay better than temp work — and certainly better than no work at all.
And at that salary range, American lawyers start to look a bit more competitive with their offshore counterparts — and more attractive to potential American clients that might not be comfortable sending legal work overseas.
I’ll say right now that $50K to $80K is not a bad salary for certain types of legal work. Doing work that arguably is “barely legal” isn’t the same as being a high-end lawyer; there’s no reason to pay people $160K for this kind of work, and there probably never was. If this is the salary the market is willing to bear for this kind of work, then that’s okay. This is a fine salary for a young professional just starting out.
The only people who don’t want to understand or adjust to that reality are the deans and faculty at your local law school. The problem isn’t young lawyers not being able to make six-figure salaries; the problem is law schools charging people six figures to have the opportunity to do one of these jobs.
In any event, law schools aren’t suddenly going to start charging people a reasonable price for legal education, so law professors are left to say things like this to the New York Times:
Though legal outsourcing companies may not provide the mentoring and diversity of experience of a traditional law firm, they are a career option that law school graduates should not ignore, said Cassandra Burke Robertson, an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University’s school of law.
Right now, she said, most graduating lawyers were “happy when they have a job that pays the bills.”
Let me fix the typos in Professor Robertson’s quote: Right now, most graduating lawyers are happy to have the ability to make minimum loan payments so that law school faculties can continue to pay their bills.
Legal Outsourcing Firms Creating Jobs for American Lawyers [New York Times]
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Hey 2Ls, you might want to pay attention to this one. You’re really going to want to pass the July 2014 Bar Exam, because by February 2015 the exam is going to be new.
Really new. In the biggest change to the bar exam in decades, the February 2015 exam will have a new section: Civil Procedure.
I’ll pause now until the groaning subsides….
Continue reading “There Will Be A New Bar Exam in 2015″
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As some of you may have noticed, I spent yesterday in the San Jose Federal Courthouse, watching (and furiously tweeting) the Apple v. Samsung trial. The trial is on recess today, and I’m back in my
blogger cage bedroom office. I’ve got a rundown of all the excitement, awkwardness and humiliation that can only happen in a highly publicized celebrity murder, err, patent trial.
Click through to see what’s shaking as the trial progresses….
Continue reading “Above the Law Goes to Trial — Dispatch from Apple v. Samsung”
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Konstantin E. Voronin, M.D., Ph.D., received his M.D. in Medicine from 1st Moscow Medical Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Psychiatry from All-Union Research Center on Addiction Russian Federation Ministry of Health and another Ph.D. in Addictionology from State Research Center on Addiction Russian Federation Ministries of Health. Dr. Voronin is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Alcohol dependence and abuse, clinical trials, pharmacogenetic, Naltrexone, Aripirazole, alcoholism treatment
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Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood sets about building a civilian administration for Egypt on Monday that can heal a divisive history of oppression and coax a mistrustful army into relaxing its grip on power. U.S..
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Shafik, a former air force commander and Mubarak's last prime minister, offered his congratulations and said he was willing to serve in Morsy.
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I am not a huge fan of roundups, but this morning, I found that I have a few pretty popular CSS3 posts and decided to put them in a single post which will be updated whenever a new one appears and is worth seeing.
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It's Thursday, let's party!
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Hello and welcome,
I do freelance works. I work in several Adobe Creative Suite programs, including Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver, and can code in AS3 , HTML, CSS , XML, PHP and JavaScript.
Please feel free to contact me with any Flash, web development work you have. I’ll be happy to help you at a competitive rate. if you have any projects, cantact me at mx9580[at]gmail[dot]com
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Download | JavaDocs More... | Source | Forums | Support
Community:
* The ActiveMQ project has had another very busy quarter. William Tam has been added as an ActiveMQ committer.
* The development and user lists continue to stay vibrant.
* The Camel sub project has been approved to become a TLP and is currently setting it's infrastructure to do so.
* A privacy policy page has been added to all the ActiveMQ wikis and websites. 5.2.0
* ActiveMQ-CPP 2.2.2
* ActiveMQ-CPP 2.2.3
* Camel 1.5.0
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Five Things to Start Your Day: Jan. 17
A few facts, figures and tidbits to start your Thursday.
Thursday: Clouds & sun. Midday temps up near 40 but they will fall back into the low 30s by late afternoon. Arctic front will pass through, and winds will increase from the northwest to 15-25mph.
Friday: Morning light snow along the coast/cape/islands---1-3" likely then a cold blast of air. Highs in the mid 20s. Wind chills in the teens.
Saturday: Cloudy morning with a few flurries. Some sun by afternoon. Highs near 40--great day for skiing!
2. NEED COMPUTER TIPS?: Acton Memorial Library "no appointment needed" sessions. Sessions are today at 2 p.m.
3. SUDBURY WOMANS CLUB LUNCHEON:
The Sudbury Womans Club presents Nancy Kelleigh, an attorney-at-law, speaking on "Questions you don't think to ask" today at Sudbury's Goodnow Library's Community Room at noon. Kelleigh practices in the areas of trusts and estates, gift and estate tax planning, estate administration and residential real estate conveyance. The program starts with a light luncheon followed by a brief business meeting before the featured attraction.
4. WHAT TO CELEBRATE TODAY: Today Ne Years resolutions that have already been broken. If you haven't accomplished, broken, or given up your New Year's resolutions, today is your chance to get out from under them.
5. THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1706 — Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston; 1806 — James Madison Randolph, the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, became the first child born in the White House; 1893 — Hawaii'sQueen Liliuokalani was forced to abdicate by a group of planters and businessmen;.
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Invite a friend
Doug Lowe Jazz Group
The Acton Jazz Cafe, 103 Nagog Park, Acton, MA | Get Directions »
$12.50
Doug Lowe Jazz Group performs a unique and soulful blend of classic and original jazz compositions. Doug Lowe - tenor sax, Jane Miller - guitar, Jerry Wilfong - bass, Chris Poudrier - drums.
Please buy advance tickets to the show at for discounts and best seating!
For reservations (not necessary with ticket purchase), or special seating requests, phone 978-263-6161, or email [email protected].
Event Details
More About The Acton Jazz Cafe
The Acton Jazz Cafe
The Acton Jazz Cafe is a unique jazz focused eatery that features artists from all around. An appetizer and dinner menu is available. Open Wednesday through Saturday, 6pm - midnight and Sunday, 4pm - 11pm.
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Last week we highlighted the Ford C-Max Energi Plug-In Hybrid on the blog. This week we will take a look at another model in the Energi family, the Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid.
While the inner workings under the hood may look very similar to the C-Max Energi, in fact they both use the same powertrain, there are some distinct differences in the vehicle itself. The Fusion aims to be the most fuel efficient mid-sized sedan on the market. The C-Max Energi boasts lots of useful cargo space, a higher ride, and makes a great commuter, or around town vehicle. The Fusion, being a mid-sized sedan, will appeal to a different audience, but will keep all of the great energy efficient benefits of the new Energi line of vehicles.
Introducing the Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid
If you prefer a sedan over crossover models, read on to discover just what makes the Ford Fusion Energi a great choices for the environmentally conscious consumer, while boasting a variety of features that address comfort and convenience. The Fusion Energi comes in two models SE-standard model and the Titanium. I will cover the standard features of the Fusion here, but you can find more information on each model at the Acton Ford website.
Features that come standard on the Fusion are:
Performance/Handling
• 3.3-kW onboard charger
• 88-kW electric traction motor
• All-new 2.0L Atkinson-cycle I-4 engine
• Charge port light ring (SAE J1772 connection, 120- or
240-volt-capable)
• Electric generator motor
• Electric parking brake
• Electric power-assisted steering (EPAS) with
pull-drift compensation and active nibble control
• Electronically controlled continuously variable
transmission (eCVT)
• Lithium-ion battery
• Regenerative Braking System with Anti-Lock Braking
System (ABS)
• Torque Vectoring Control
Comfort/Convenience
• 60/40 split-fold-down rear seat backs
• 120-volt convenience charging cord
• Active park assist
• Adaptive cruise control and forward collision warning
with brake support
• Audio system from Sony® with HD RadioTM and
iTunes® tagging
• Auto high-beam headlamps
• Driver Assist Package
• Forward Sensing System
• Hill start assist
• Lane-Keeping System
– Driver Alert
– Lane-keeping aid
– Lane-keeping alert
• MyFord Mobile smartphone app and website(1)
• Next-generation SmartGauge with EcoGuide
configurable dual LCD instrument clusters with
unique plug-in hybrid driving screens
• SYNC with MyFord Touch
• Voice-activated Navigation System with SiriusXM
Traffic and SiriusXM Travel Link
All of these key features are put together in a comfortable mid-sized sedan that not only saves money at the pump by driving green, but also handles well making driving a pleasure. This sounds pretty good, right? But you may still have some questions.
What is a plug in hybrid?
A plug in hybrid is a vehicle that uses a gasoline engine in conjunction with or independently of an electric motor. The plug in hybrid is charged on a 120 Volt cord or 240v charging station, allowing customers to use electricity to charge the hybrid vehicle’s electric battery. Once the battery power is fully utilized, the batteries may also be recharged through the capture of braking energy under gasoline or electric power.
How long does it take to fully charge the Fusion Energi?
The Fusion Energi allows for 120 and 240 volt charging. A 120-volt convenience cord is standard with the Energi. It takes approximately 7 hours to fully charge at 120 volts. Another option is the 240-volt Home Charging Station. The Station is portable and can be plugged into a 240-volt outlet. A full charge at 240-volts takes about 2.5 hours. This Home Charging Station is offered through a collaboration between Ford and Best Buy.
How long can the Fusion Energi travel strictly on electrical power?
The Energi can travel up to 21 miles in EV (all-electric) mode.
Does the Fusion Energi also run on gas?
Yes. The Energi can operate on the gasoline engine or the electric traction motor. When the lithium-ion battery has been drained, or certain other conditions have been met, the Energi will switch over to hybrid operation using the gasoline engine, working separately, or with the electric motor for optimal fuel efficiency.
Can I charge it at home?
Yes. Ford has partnered with Best Buy to offer the option to install a 240-volt Home Charging Station in your home for the convenience of home charging.
What are the state and federal tax incentives for purchasing a hybrid in Massachusetts?
Some consumers in the US are eligible to receive $3,750 of federal tax credits for buying the Fusion Energi (Nearly $1250 more in credits than the Toyota Prius Plug In). There may be additional tax credits available in the state of Massachusetts. Please check with a qualified accountant for further information. Also, for more information, visit fueleconomy.gov
How does maintenance differ on this vehicle versus another?
Any vehicle operating in hybrid or electric mode will, by it’s very nature, put less wear and tear on the traditional engine parts than with a solely gas powered engine. This can mean less repair costs down the road. From a maintenance standpoint, the Fusion Energi is equipped with an intelligent oil life monitor that monitors engine use, idle time and other factors to determine when maintenance is required. As with many hybrid vehicles, the regenerative braking systems can also equate to longer brake life, depending on driving habits. The electrical motor and lithium-ion batter are very specialized systems that require trained Ford technicians to service them.
How much does the Fusion Energi Cost?
The 2013 Fusion Energi has a starting cost of $38,700 MSRP.
How many miles per gallon does the Fusion Energi get?
The Fusion Energi is rated for 100 combined MPGe (Miles Per Gallon Equivilant), with an average of 108 MPGe city/92 MPGe highway. MPGe is the equivalent measure of gasoline fuel efficiency for electric mode operation.
When will the Fusion Energi be available at Acton Ford?
The 2013 Fusion Energi is available for retail order through Acton Ford now. Stock models will be available shortly. The dealership will also have a demonstrator model available soon for extended test drives. Please contact the Acton Ford for more information.
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Justin Lewis -Anthony at the Three Minute Theologian remembers Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the subject of praying for our friends and enemies and applies it to this GAFCON week. Read it here. [Oops -- this link never wants to work; both FranIAm and I have tried to fix it. So just click on the home site of the Three Minute Theologian, the first link above, and scroll down, and you will find the Bonhoeffer post. ]
Tip of the summer straw hat to Dave Walker at the Church Times Blog via The Episcopal Cafe's The Lead.
3 comments:
Jane- that was brilliant! Oh my.
The first link to the main blog does work, but the second does not.
Here it is, although the post is easily enough found.
Nope, yours was broken too. Weird. I had already fixed that second one before you posted, but it doesn't seem to want to work in permalink form. Thanks though!
I know it might be old hat by now, but I have simplified the permalink to prevent such difficulties in future. Try this.
TVM
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Types of Treatments
Traditional Chinese Medicine
ACUPUNCTURE: Fine, flexible, disposable needles are
inserted into the skin stimulating blood and energy flow while guiding
the body to balance the energy. The insertion is oftentimes not even
felt by the patient. Otherwise, anything from warmth, tingling, a dull
ache, itching, or even a heavy distended feeling can be felt. Any of
these feelings last only seconds, leaving little time to even comprehend
the sensations!
TUINA: Is a deeply relaxing Chinese Medical Massage
that also involves a gentle manipulation of spinal vertabrae, while
the practitioner is simultaneously further diagnosing the patient. This
is a safe type of manipulation done by hand (Chinese medicine is not
a proponent of abrupt snapping or cracking of vertebrae).
HERBS: There are many sophisticated natural herbal
formulas as there are acupuncture points. They can help the body to
heal many types of pathologies, either on their own, or as an adjunct
to a treatment. They go far in speeding up the healing process, but
also in fostering lasting results. Some formulas are so gentle, they
can be used as supplements. Because they more closely resemble food,
they are better absorbed than an isolated, often synthetic vitamin.
MOXIBUSTION: Dried leaves of the mugwort plant, (artemesia),
in various forms are burned and held over certain areas of the body
to warm and stimulate Qi or energy. This method can be especially effective
in treating not only stress, but arthritis, asthma, I.B.S., (Irritable
Bowel Syndrome), aiding digestion, and increasing energy!
CUPPING: This involves placing a heated jar placed
on the skin with gentle suction. It also improves circulation, treating
headache, dizziness, cough, asthma, pain, common cold and asthma.
Contact: Christina Wilson Tel: 303 477 9256 | Email: [email protected]
My Juice Plus site:
Heart of Oneness Center: heartofonenesscenter.com
Meditation Classes & Retreats in Colorado -
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Social Security Disability Adjudication
Project Stages:1. Gather ideas - Completed
2. Select ideas - Completed
3. Council approval - Completed
4. Picking a researcher - Completed
5. Committee consideration - Completed
6. Back to the council - Completed
7. Consideration by the full conference - Current
8. Implementation - Not reached yet (ACUS or the Conference) is working with SSA to study the SSDI and SSI programs and recommend improvements. The study will provide an independent review that analyzes the role of courts in reviewing SSA disability decisions and should consider measures that SSA could take to reduce the number of cases remanded to it by courts. The study will also address significant observed variances among ALJs in decisional outcomes, length of hearings, and application of agency policies and procedures, and it will analyze the benefits of video hearings in the context of reducing agency burden and improving outcomes.
Project Details: The Conference is currently comprehensively studying adjudication in the SSDI and SSI programs and recommend improvements. The study will use empirical methods and will gather and analyze data regarding the programs. The study will particularly address the following issues:
- The impact of SSA’s treating physician rules on the role of courts in reviewing SSA disability decisions. The study should consider should in the course of this study, as resources and time allow, and if agreed upon by SSA, ACUS, and the study’s consultant, Harold J. Krent, Dean and Professor of Law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Related Recommendations
Featured Documents
Project Documents
Committee Meetings & Events
58th Plenary Session
March 12, 2013 Committee Meeting(Committee on Adjudication)
April 8, 2013 Committee Meeting(Committee on Adjudication)
Submit your Comments
The Administrative Conference of the United States frequently seeks public comments on its proposed recommendations, reports, regulations, and other agency matters.
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- Academic Affairs and Provost
- Academic Calendar
- Academic/Degree Programs
- Catalog/University Bulletin
- Schedule of Classes
- Registration Information
- University Libraries
All University Libraries offer reference and research support, interlibrary loan, circulation and course reserve services, document delivery and library and information literacy programs. The libraries utilize and support the latest information technologies to provide state-of-the-art access to instructional and research materials. The libraries provide a range of study environments from silent to interactive and includes a 24-hour facility.
Wayne State University is a comprehensive university with 13 schools and colleges. We offer more than 400 academic programs, including 126 bachelor's degree programs, 139 master's degree programs, 60 doctoral degree programs and 30 certificate, specialist and professional programs.
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This is the text of a speech I gave at a panel Stanford Says No to War hosted called “It’s All About U.S.: Questioning U.S. Militarism”. This speech was given on May 26th, 2010 and is the last speech I gave at Stanford.
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During the Nuremberg Trials, the chief American prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, famously stated: militarily intervened in several parts of the globe, such as in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. And let’s not forget the many democratically-elected leaders America overthrew in places like Chile and Iran. The United States currently occupies two countries – Iraq and Afghanistan – and has a network of over 700 bases across the planet. Thus, the United States is an empire.
One key element of American imperial history is its use of torture, which traces back to America’s treatment of African slaves. Such as analysis of torture, especially in the post-9/11 era, is very uncommon to hear in mainstream political discourse. Therefore, before I proceed, it is important to dispel of the current myths about torture propagated in the mainstream media.
As we are well-aware, the United States has tortured hundreds of detainees suspected of being involved in terrorism. It’s hard not to notice when the former Vice President brags about personally authorizing the use of torture on national television. These acts included water-boarding, physical beatings, stress positions, sleep deprivation, and, in some cases, death. The primary justification is that torture is a necessary tool to extract information from people who might know about impending threats of terrorism. Politicians, both Republican and Democrat, intellectuals, pundits and other thought-leaders argue that America faces a new kind of threat. America is up against extremist, religious fanatics who hate America. Therefore,, an objective look at the facts rips them asunder. First, there is very Abu Zubaydah, stated knew this. and inhumane treatment is a violation of U.S. domestic law and international law. The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment and the Torture Act prohibits the use of torture. There are several international treaties that prohibit the use of torture. Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention Against Torture explicitly prohibit torture and cruel and inhuman treatment. but it is also immoral and one of the many accumulated evils of war.
Given the falsity of official justifications for torture, one question remains. Why does the United States continue to torture people, even though it is ineffective, illegal and immoral? Tortured has historically been used by governments for four main reasons [note: see pg. 4 of this piece].’s boss. [note: see this piece]. The French colonization of Algeria was based on a racist ideology of the French civilizing mission. In the eyes of the French colonial power, their culture was superior and more advanced than the cultures of racially-inferior “others”, in this case, the Algerians. The French saw it was their duty to “civilize” people they viewed as primitive through colonialism. Thus,, housing segregation, the education system, and police brutality committed against people of color. Some of the most recent cases of police brutality were the deaths of 22-year-old Oscar Grant in Oakland and 7-year-old Aiyana Jones in Detroit – both of whom were African-American.
America’s wars against Afghanistan and Iraq serve to maintain American global hegemony and access to key resources, such as oil. Thus, the racist dehumanization of Muslims, Arabs and South Asians is done to justify America’s wars and acts of torture committed primarily against people from countries whose populations are predominantly Muslim and black and brown-skinned, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen. It is not difficult to see witness-bangers.
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UPDATE (5/29/2010): The video of the panel is uploaded on Stanford Says No to War’s YouTube channel. The entire video is split up into 17 parts so click here to see all of them. My speech starts in the middle of Part 3 and ends in the first half of Part 4. I recommend watching the entire video because all of the perspectives and the discussion were excellent.
UPDATE (12/15/2010): Last month, this article was submitted to the Stanford Progressive and made it other websites, such as urukent.info and Information Clearing House. You can see it here, here and here.
Ann Garrison
May 27, 2010 at 7:05 am
Great work, Adam. You’re one of the only people who makes me feel the least bit hopeful about the future.
I read this thinking of the little known ‘School of the Africas,” in the guise of the African Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in D.C., the equivalent of the infamous School of the Americas. See Pambazuka News,.
bradleyheinz
May 27, 2010 at 2:14 am
awesome speech, adam!
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
DAWGBEASTS and the WILDCATS
Justin Houston – The closer we get to Halloween, the more Justin Houston looks like a monster to opposing offenses. Houston finished with 5 total tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, including 2.5 more sacks to push his league-leading total to nine, but he also forced a fumble, recovered another and even broke up a pass. Georgia head coach Mark Richt said "Justin, he was fired up ready to play…you could just see the look in his eyes.”
Washaun Ealey – Georgia ran the ball when it wanted to against Kentucky on Saturday night and Washaun Ealey reached a new career high carrying the ball 28 times on his way to 157 yards. Along the way, Ealey set the school record with five rushing touchdowns.
Sanders Commings – Sanders Commings continues to come on for the DAWGS and he had another standout night on Saturday finishing with 5 total tackles, a fumble recovery and another interception.
Drew Butler – The DAWGS defense got after Kentucky all night in Lexington and that was due in no small part to the efforts of Butler. Georgia’s punter averaged 50.7 yards per kick and forced Kentucky to start in poor field position most of the game.
Brandon Boykin – Two inches was all Brandon Boykin said he would need to hit the seam on the kickoff return team and when his teammates provided it, Boykin did just that. Boykin made good with a 100 yard kickoff return for TD (the 4th kickoff return for TD of his career) against the Wildcats on Saturday night. Boykin now ranks second in Georgia history in career kickoff return yards with 1,482, trailing only Gene Washington who had 1,637 from 1973-76.
Glory, Glory.
Posted by genxdawg at 9:25 PM Labels: Brandon Boykin, DAWGBEAST, Drew Butler, Justin Houston, Sanders Commings, Washaun Ealey
2 comments:
Dont forget about Shawn Williams who punched the onside kick out of bounds. Had he not done that it would have been wildcat ball and a lot of momentum on their side. He deserves A LOT of credit for that heads up play. Its a play that will get over looked by a lot of people but a play I feel was one of the most important in the game. Hats off to him and the coaches for having the players aware. Ive watched a lot of teams across America make mistakes because they werent paying attention. Not the case this time.
Awesome point, Cleve! That is the type of performance we like to point out with the DAWGBEASTS and I thank you for reminding us of S.Williams great play. Just goes to show the type of observant DAWGS fans we like have as readers here at the BEAST. GO DAWGS!
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Winter in the Malone area has something for everyone. With 100 to 150 inches of annual snowfall, and situated at the northern Adirondack foothills, the variety of cold weather activities is endless. The area offers skiing, snowmobiling, hockey, skating, cross-country skiing, ice fishing, dog sled racing and snowshoeing.
The Titus Mountain ski center is just 6 miles south of Malone. Originally called Moon Valley, Titus has evolved into a favorite regional destination. Moon Valley was started by the Johnson family with a T-Bar and tons of local enthusiasm. After evolving into an area with chair lifts, the facility was sold to its present owners. Renamed Titus Mountain for its location, a second, higher slope was opened. Now, the facility refers to these as Upper Mountain and Lower Mountain.
Today at Titus Mountain, you'll find 27 perfectly groomed trails and two lodges loaded with atmosphere. Family-oriented fun and affordability make Titus Mountain appealing from beginner to expert.
Riding the chairlift at Titus Mountain(Photo — Andy Flynn)
An Adirondack Mountain, Titus has a vertical drop of 1,200 feet and 42 trails. Titus Mountain offers a ski school and snowboard lessons. For more information, visit.
Summer around here is referred to by enthusiasts as "Two months of lousy ice fishing!" Seriously, though, ice fishing does have its local devotees. Just about 15 minutes southeast of Malone are the Chateaugay Lakes, where tournaments are often held on the weekends. Sponsored by a local pub, prizes are offered and a hot meal, coffee, and cold refreshments can be had readily. Just 20 minutes south of Malone, Indian Lake offers perch and northern pike beneath its ice. Nearby are two local pubs, the Trailside Inn and Belly's Mountain View Inn, will take care of your refreshment needs.
Dedicated hard-working snowmobile clubs make Adirondack snowmobiling on regularly groomed trails a premier winter pleasure. Franklin Snowmobilers, Inc. operates five trail-groomers on 250 miles of trails. Access to these trails is right on the Malone village line, and they are also accessible from some of Malone's motels.
The area's groomed and maintained snowmobile trails wind through balsam- and spruce-lined forest and affords gorgeous mountain scenery. Along the trails, in small Adirondack hamlets, establishments offer hot food, coffee, hot chocolate, and other refreshments. Entire families take advantage of the wonderful trail systems that connect to Malone.
Is Malone a hockey town? Let's take a look. Starting off in the mid-1970s, hockey devotees skated on a small patch of ice known as the "village pond," and it was called "Club Hockey." These players and supportive parents of future hockey "stars" got together on Malone Recreation Park property and erected a shell in 1974, which houses the present facilities. Today the program, called Malone Minor Hockey, has expanded to about 125 young players, both boys and girls, ages 4 to 18 years. Both boys and girls have benefited from their experience and have attended college due to the Malone Minor Hockey programs. It is not unusual to find scouts at the ice arena.
Malone Minor Hockey hosts regional tournaments every winter in that old arena, and greatly impacts the local economy, filling Malone motels and restaurants. The hockey season extends from early November through late February.
Public skating is available at the State Street Arena. Call ahead for ice time. The phone number is (518) 483-0680. The Club's ice is also shared with the Malone Figure Skating Club.
The Malone Fish and Game Club maintains a fine cross-country ski trail system just outside of Malone on the Webster Road. Ski rentals are available and a caretaker is on staff to help you with your rental and information. The phone number at the Malone Fish and Game club is (518) 483-3227. The Club is located in the Adirondack foothills, and the trails pass by a maintained Fish and Game Club pond, a gentle stream, and a beaver pond.
There are several areas of state land just south of Malone a few miles, where one can strap on their snowshoes and a have a quiet leisurely stroll through silent balsam woods, and along lakes and streams. The Malone area is a winter paradise.
For more information about winter events and attractions, call the Malone Chamber of Commerce at (518) 483-3760 or go online at.
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Come meet over 40 employers at the Mount's 13th annual
Employment Fair on March 27, 2013, in the Kaplan Gym from 1–4
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Looking for a full-time or part-time job, or an internship? Make
sure you attend the 13th annual MSMC Employment Fair on March 27,
2013 in the Kaplan Recreation Center. All students attending the
fair must present Mount ID for admission.
For more information, including tips and Student FAQs, visit the
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MOHAWK - The Mohawk Junior High has elected student council members for the seventh and eighth grade classes.
The students spent a week campaigning, making posters to hang around the school and handing out buttons for their fellow supporters to wear.
Students then gave a speech at the end of the week to the entire student body. Then students were able to vote by secret ballot.
The adviser of the student council is junior high teacher Shelly Coffman.
The winners of the election were Chet Margraf, president; Chelsey Trusty, vice president; Amanda Wildman, secretary; and David Dietrich, treasurer.
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I wanted to update a Nokia E71 to the latest firmware. So I booted a Windows 7 VM, went to the Nokia web site and downloaded the update tool. It took about quarter of an hour to download 33MiB over my crappy ADSL line.
When it finally finished downloading, I installed it and rebooted as it asked me to, then tried to start it using the icon it had installed on the desktop.
It told me there was an update available, and I couldn't use it until I updated. I muttered darkly at this idiocy, but let it update. It spent another quarter of an hour downloading, and only then did it check and tell me that it couldn't proceed because it needed to be run as Administrator.
So I right-clicked on it and used the 'run as Administrator' option, and watched it download itself for the third time. But still it failed, complaining that I had to run it as Administrator.
So I logged out completely and logged in using the Administrator account, and I ran it again. After downloading the entire thing for a fourth time it failed again, still complaining that it has insufficient privileges and needed to be run as the Administrator.
I am stunned — Nokia really ought to be ashamed at this crap.
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Added self extraction for the jar file containing BIM Standard Edition. Execute the jar file and the contents will be extracted to the folder that contains the jar.
New jar URL:? bcEvcV8AjQxAG7uE
By the way does anyone know of a decent file server for my application(must be free of charge)?
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Adam Henrique and P.K. Subban
The Montreal Canadiens took a fifth consecutive game and improved their record to 5-1-0 in the last six games in Newark, by defeating the New Jersey Devils 2-1 at the Prudential Center.
It was the net presence of Tomas Plekanec who made the difference in this sleeper, I mean game. Also, Jarred Tinordi got his first point in the NHL in his first NHL game on Plekanec’s goal. Tinordi took a shot on Johan Hedberg and Plekanec deflected the puck into the net for the Devils. Additionally, someone else got their first.. goal that is, as Colby Armstrong finally potted in his first goal of the season.
In addition to his first NHL point, Tinordi finished the game with a +2 and head coach Michel Therrien trusted him enough to send him out on the ice during the last minutes of the game.
The Habs play their next game Tuesday night at the Bell Centre, at 7:30PM against the Buffalo Sabres.
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I tried out this summery look in preparation for my holiday. Most of the accessories featured are new and I’m really pleased with them.
1. mini box bag £12.99 H&M
2. Mini hair flower H&M
3. Ring £2.50 Primark
4. Pentagram earring $20.00 thechainsoflove.bigcartel.com
5. Evil eye bracelet gift from Greece.
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Prospero’s Europe: Part 1, Too broke to pay for fuel
Illegal logging has surged in Greece as households suffering through three years of recession hoard wood to burn during cold winter days.
Though the body’s metabolism is not conscious, our cellular automata are rational: frostbite, gangrene, and starvation kill our extremities first, and the body lets them die to preserve the core.
They won’t grow back
While for an individual organism this may be grimly rational – after all, one’s toes are not as important as one’s lungs or heart or brain – the realpolitik of letting the extremities expire becomes much less moral when those extremities are not cells but nations, nations comprised of desperate people, as revealed by comparing two articles in the Wall Street Journal (December 28, 2012) (red font), and Wall Street Journal (January 11, 2013) (blue font):
Madrid—Nuria Jarque’s company has maintained water-treatment plants in Spain for 25 years, but lately she is being forced to act like a lender of last resort.
Money is the economy’s platelets, carrying economic nutrients throughout the body. When the platelets run out, the extremities cannot be nourished.
Shaped like coins, and more valuable
Greece and Spain are enduring severe recessions – more like depressions, actually – because they are yoked to an overvalued currency relative to their national productivity, and they have debt obligations (and pension obligations) denominated in a currency they cannot depreciate. If they were truly sovereign nations, able to inflate their currency, they’d devalue current debts in domestic currency and while the creditors (and pensioners and workers) would all suffer, the economy would revive.
Courtesy of AHI
Local governments across the country, facing a steep drop in revenue and largely unable to borrow from banks or financial markets, have been paying Ms. Jarque and other suppliers of goods and services months behind schedule.
When a government cannot honor its obligations, it loses another pillar of its legitimacy.
Ms. Jarque says the delays amount to interest-free loans to fund government operations, and are pushing her company to the brink of bankruptcy.
Slowly the undernourished extremities die. Spain’s fiscal bankruptcy is creating a Spanish economic bankruptcy.
Good King Wenceslas looked out / On the feast of Stephen
When the snow lay round about / Deep and crisp and even
Brightly shone the moon that night / Though the frost was cruel
When a poor man came in sight / Gath’ring winter fuel
– John Mason Neale, 1853
When the money runs out, people who cannot buy essentials forage for them:.
Mr. Gourdomichalis showed the charity the good king showed:
“Bring me flesh and bring me wine / Bring me pine logs hither
Thou and I will see him dine / When we bear him thither.”
Royal charity
That’s the same charity I hope you and I would show:
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Although no one knows why for certain, the Anasazi may have left Mesa Verde (and migrated south, probably becoming Navajo in the process) because after many years of drought, they consumed so much mesquite for firewood.
They left when the economy ran out
When the Venetians arrived in the thirteenth century, Crete was covered with thick cypress forests. A few hundred years ago, Venetian and Ottoman logging for galleon masts had deforested Crete, from which the island’s ecosystem has never fully recovered.
Lepanto, powered by the denuded forests of Crete.
Though many carbon-tons of private-jet fuel are burned into the atmosphere flying the cognoscenti to Davos to preach about global warming, little attention is paid to ecological catastrophe being brought about by man-made causes.
Whose ox is being gored?
As winter temperatures bite, that trend is dealing a serious blow to the environment, as hillsides are denuded of timber and smog from fires clouds the air in Athens and other cities, posing risks to public health.
This smog brought to you by poverty
The number of illegal logging cases jumped in 2012, said forestry groups, while the environment ministry has lodged more than 3,000 lawsuits and seized more than 13,000 tons of illegally cut trees.
Obviously this is a terrible shame, both for Greece’s environment and for these Greek families, but what else can they do?
Such woodcutting was last common in Greece during Germany’s brutal occupation in the 1940s, underscoring how five years of recession and waves of austerity measures have spawned drastic measures.
The Greeks didn’t forget this
This is just a new form of German occupation – economic occupation.
Smog, on some days visible to the naked eye and carrying the distinct smell of burning wood, has prompted local officials in Athens to discuss mitigation strategies, including proposals to restore heating-oil subsidies.
How will they pay for them?
On Christmas Day, Greece’s environment ministry said, particulate in the air over one of Athens’s biggest suburbs, Maroussi, was so bad that it was more than two times the European Union’s acceptable air-pollution standards.
In terms of global warming, soot is the real problem, not carbon dioxide.
Hail our Chinese flag! Pollution in Beijing
After all the decades of effort to control carbon dioxide by creating crooked cap-and-trade markets with perverse consequences, it will be cruelly ironic if we discover that the effort should have been
focused instead on making it possible for people to heat their homes without using charcoal or wood. If so, then Mario Draghi may prove himself history’s biggest polluter.
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Desperation makes us wood-burners
Strike ‘Greek’ – the average poor person will do that. It’s not green to be poor. distant Brussels, his home heated by natural gas, his office air conditioned by electricity, Mario Draghi had no comment.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen
Thousands of companies are shouldering similar burdens as the financial woes of Spanish government bodies ripple across an economy amid its second recession in three years.
By the end of October, regional governments had accumulated bills in 2012 for providers, interest payments and other obligations totaling €13.7 billion ($18.1 billion), more than 1% of Spain’s gross domestic product (GDP), a government report found.
Economists would call a 1% drop in national GDP a severe recession. This may be worse, because the work done creates obligations (e.g. salaries) that go unpaid, resulting in a multiplier effect..
Name your own currency’s price? Not a chance!
At some point, unemployment becomes so chronic employers can simply name their price. When desperate employers they do that, and others do the same, the result is deflation.
Strikes and street protests have erupted over late payments. Pharmacists in Valencia shut down for much of November in an effort to force the regional government to cough up hundreds of millions of euros it owed them. Some were paid late in the month.
This isn’t economic activity
Idle people revolt. That’s what they do.
The eyes of despair
Workers who look after the disabled marched in Madrid this month in part to complain about past-due invoices.
“Money is really, really tight, and the suppliers are having to bear it,” said Angel Saz Carranza, professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona. “It is putting a further brake on economic activity.”
Though Mr. Carranza’s statement is self-evident, someone has to say it. At Europe’s other extremity, Greece, the situation is equally dire:
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November is always such a busy month.... I suppose for all of us ~ Preparing for the holidays and all. This week is an especially busy week for me, but, I wanted to take a little time to stop and say Hello to all of my blogging friends today. I haven't had much to blog about lately. I suppose I've been a little discouraged with all the messes around me lately . Seems I just can't seem to keep things neat and orderly around here these days. This unfinished house gets to me sometimes. Especially when the holidays draw near, and I have company coming. I've been trying to live with the downstairs as it is, and decorate it anyway, even though the walls are unfinished drywall, some aren't walled yet, so you can see insulation everywhere...geez ! I am just going to focus on what I do have, and not worry about the rest. It is what it is. Now, If I can just keep that attitude at all times, I'd be alright.
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hello dear, yup..november is always a busy month for all of us..
yummy soup recipe...
have a lovely weekend..love for you xx
Wow, the soup sounds delish, but 4 cups half and half. I am to chubby to think of making this soup. :(
Yes, it is a busy month and I am sure you how will be lovley...it as is on the blog. I love your posts!
I do mean home, not how <3
my dearest DruAnn.....I too am feeling like you, as I am getting ready for openhouse this Thur~Sat......overwhelmed.....blessed.....and I too have developed the saying this year "it is what it is"......seems to help saying that somehow.......good luck my friend with all you have to do.....I for one am starting to accept it this day and move on.....blessings~Denise
Mmmmmmm.... that soup recipe sounds delicious!! I love potato soup, too, and may just have to give it a try! TFS....
Good luck with your busy November! I hope that you are able to enjoy some of it..... I can certainly understand the stress of it all...I am hoping to slow it all down a bit and not worry so much. Easier said than done, but I'm trying!
Have a happy Monday!
Good morning, and Happy November - your photos are so beautiful! And don't worry about not being able to decorate the whole house - a lot of decorators I've read advise to focus on one room of the house to decorate for the season anyway :) Can't wait to try the soup recipe - I love potato soup!
...Oh dear, don't lose the desire to blog. I'd be lost, I love it here. :o)
...I know how you feel regarding wanting everything to be done and it isn't, it can be overwhelming but it will get done. In due time. It will get done. ;o)
...In the meantime, look at all you have accomplished and revel in it. Decorate for the holidays as if it IS all done, you'd be surprised what guests really do see and DON'T see. Seriously. :o)
...Pour yourself a glass of wine, or whatever blows your barn doors open, and just enjoy. ;o)
...Hoping you have a truly delightful week ahead!
...Blessings :o)
Dru, Life can be overwhelming, especially during this time of the year. I have a new outlook, sewing for shops I don't always get everything finished, their is just so much, so if I get it done, great, if not, well I will be ahead for next year. I have been looking for a great potato soup recipe, yours sounds great. Can't wait to see what you are creating. It always makes my day when I see your blog come up. Enjoy your day. Hugs Vicky
Happy November!~ I know what you mean about messes, I cant seem to keep my studio clean! But you are so fortunate to get to live in such a beautiful home and area, no matter that its not finished yet, you're making it exactly how you want it to be! Take some time to relax and enjoy the beautiful that already surrounds you :)
Hi Dru,
I am a follower and faithful reader of your blog! You're one of my favorites so please don't give up! I know the frustrations of dealing with computer junk along with a studio that looks like a war zone! LOL! It's hard to keep focused! You are such a gifted artist and your delight in the simple and tattered treasures is a joy to see. Even a glimpse of one of your creations is enough to keep me wanting to do my own work!
Sending good cheer and hugs to you! Thank-you for all you do!
Cathy G
Are you gonna make some for all of us to come over and sit a while at the farm? Did you say 6 pm....ok...hey everybody...show up...set me a rocker by the fireplace....love your inspirational blog...it sure is fun way to meet others....Mel's Designs
I truly sense there is a lot of "overwhelmingness" going around these days....for me, I just can't seem to keep up - I haven't crafted in ages, so you think my house would at least be neat and tidy. NOT! And when it's not, I get cranky (o.k...crakier....) - and as for long-term projects - well, let's not even go THERE! Then I think of how quickly the holidays will be upon us and I just want to dig a hole in the ground and burrow under. I think Denise is right - "it is what it is" - and we can either appreciate the beauty in what "it is" or we can just see what's lacking....I'm trying hard for the former....Wishing you a wonderful week ahead my friend....Smiles & Hugs ~ Robin (Your soup looks very similar to my baked potato soup....YUMMY!)
Yummilicious! I'm dyin' to try this soup recipe; thanks for sharing it with us.
Have a wonderful week!
Nice recipe!
mmmmmmmmmm! a lovely way to stay warm on a november day
i love your blog.... when i was a kid i always dream living in a farm, countryside where the place is so relaxing, the scents of herbs etc.
how i wish!.....
you are lucky to be in a lovely place!
keep posting!
feiane
Your soup was fantastic!! I have been looking for a good potato soup recipe and now I have it. I made it last night and everyone loved it!! Thanks for sharing. I was too late in getting to your sale. Looks like you had an awesome response!! Beautiful things. Have a wonderful day!!
~Melissa~
I loved everything about your blog and today's post. I have to try this recipe. Please come follow me on my blogs. I'd love to have you!
Hello! Your soup sounds wonderful and I'll soon give it a go. Ty. I reached where you are a couple years ago. I finally just eased back a bit, got what I could do done, and now I find myself looking forward to all the company and activities. Let Calgon take you away...L
Hi Dru!!
Love these vignettes that you have pictured here...so pretty...love the old basket and all the chippy white..ahhh...love....<3
Very nice photos!
Hi Dru
Everything looks just lovely ! Sometimes It's hard when you feel overwhelmed with the things that need doing....but then you might notice something beautiful and it takes your mind off it ! Have a nice week and keep noticing the beautiful things !!
Gail x
Nice blogg Hugs Karina
hi I'm SImona fom italy...you have a vary nice blog..really!!!!!
all look nice and beauty! gloria
...Hello Dru! *waving* Just stopping in to wish you a most blessed Thanksgiving Day! :o)
That soup looks delish. I wrote down the recipe and am going to give it a whirl.
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I am standing on the sea shore, A ship sails in the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. She is an object of beauty and I stand watching her, Till at last she fades on the horizon and someone at my side says: “She is gone.”
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
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If you spend your life doing what you love, the speed at which the world goes on and changes around you is irrelevant.
Spring has officially sprung. To celebrate, I woke up early this morning and went for a long run on the East side. There really is something powerful about starting your day off before the majority of the city has even opened their eyes.
On the road, my thoughts were flying around, but eventually settled on part of a Cecil Beaton quote on vision that goes something like, “the creatures of the commonplace are the slaves of the ordinary.”
Whether it’s yours or someone else’s, it’s all about buying into the vision.
When Garage Magazine set out to make this short, their intention simply was to observe the phenomenon of fashion bloggers and street style stars. As they started to review the footage, two salient trends became apparent: fashion editors frustrated by the ensuing commotion outside of shows, and the rise of “peacocking” street style stars as a result of the proliferation of blogs. This film examines these themes from both perspectives.
These days my facebook feed is filled with photos of babies. Although I’m incredibly happy for the bulk of those bringing home a new born, I can’t help but feel a little bit selfishly pleased that this is the baby I walked in the door with last week.
If you can’t take the risk, I don’t blame you. I can try to resist, be tame for you. I can show you the sides, numbers and lines…I can’t keep your mind off..
I am standing on the sea shore, A ship sails in the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. She is an object of beauty and I stand watching her, Till at last she fades on the horizon and someone at my side says: “She is gone.”
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I would like to help but I don’t kow how…could you tell me about it? Please write me to e-mail: [email protected] …I’m crying….oh God
This pic makes me cry too.. I also don’t know how to help.. Dunno where this world is heading..
Amor, firmeza, honra, exemplo…analogicamente ao da “Mãe Divina”
Two questions & a rant: Why is this child tethered? Who imagined it was a good idea to use a woman who clearly starves herself as an aesthetic choice as an appropriate ambassador for those who have no choice over their hunger. I appreciate the money and publicity Ms. Jolie brings to the issue. However (this is the rant) the most disturbing thing is the focus on the starving child when what I see are two dangerously undernourished people. I am saddened by the unnecessary conflicts which have resulted in Westerns dying to be thin and Africans who are dying from being too thin.
Angelina Jolie needs to be slim because she also needs a job and its her job to look fabulous.. This time though she has overdone it by mistake perhaps and looks undernourished in recent photos..I am sure she will set it right.. Nevertheless she is the best choice as UN ambassador because I don’t think any celebrity has gone to the extent that she has for bringing global attention to the plight of these Africans dying of hunger..
do u know y angelina jolie is so thin? she believes in the world there are ppl starving and we and her have so much luxury of food….when restaraunts or fast food places have left overs do you know they throw it away??!! ms. jolie doesnt starve herself but she doesnt gorge in food and glorify it. she does it but enough for her to be healthy. its her own personal choice a statement she is making as to say i feel your pain. i come from a life a country where we have everything ppl throw away food and a drop of fresh water is scarce. i eat to live not live to eat.
oh yes, I forgot America is the land where death from starvation is number one cause. Oh wait, no thats OBESITY – top causes of death in America all linked to OBESITY (ie: CVD, Diabetes, etc).. what was I thinking.
I really appreciate the deep concern of Ms Jolie and Mr Pitt towards this grave problem.
I have been in Africa for a considerable period and have seen the plight of children and women there.Our en-devours to share their sorrows has got its limitations and we will have to accept it. Efforts of world community will be like drops in the ocean unless the governments of the respective African countries show their own concern to solve their issue.There is no dirth of natural resources with them . What they lack is vision,proper planning and to see their problems from a humanitarian point of view.May the Almighty give them enough wisdom to give respect to the humanity.
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This little boy stays on my mind all the time. I need to know if she helped him, or if he and other children are tied like this. I want him (seriously). I would go and get him and others like him if I knew where this was, and how to go about it. PLEASE Angelina, or somebody, get ahold of me!!!!! I have to know about this little boy! <3
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va.—Senior guard Calvin Thompson poured in a season-high 24 points and senior forward Mike Phillips continued his scoring assault with 20. But it was not enough to offset the balanced scoring of William & Mary, lead by junior guard Brandon Britt’s game-high 26 points, as the tribe topped Howard University 78-69 on Dec. 6 in a non-conference men's basketball game at the Kaplan Center in Williamsburg, Va.
The Bison (2-8 overall) went toe to toe with the Tribe and played one of their best games of the season. Despite some torrid shooting by William & Mary (63 percent) in the first half, Howard was able to stay within striking distance at 38-30 on the efforts of Phillips, who tallied 12 points.
The Tribe (5-3 overall) was able to keep Howard at bay with scoring from Britt, who knocked in 12 points, and junior forward Kyle Gaillard’s 11 points.
Using its bench advantage and the Bison's foul trouble, William & Mary threatened to put the game away with a mini-spurt that opened a 61-50 lead at the 8:22 mark of the second half. That is when Phillips and Thompson went to work, combining for 14 of their team's 18 points and cutting the deficit to 73-67 with 1:31 on the clock.
But the uphill climb proved to be too much as the Bison missed some easy shots that the Tribe converted into baskets and free throws.
"Our lack of depth has been an issue all season," said Howard Coach Kevin Nickelberry. "There was a stretch where it was a five- to seven-point lead by them and we had chances. But we missed some layups and some open threes and it proved to be pivotal. Moving forward, we have to be able to make those shots if we are going to come out victorious." The Bison starters averaged over 35 minutes.
The game was marked by some unbelievable free throw shooting by both teams. At one point, they combined for 17-for-17 from the charity stripe. And therein was the difference as William and Mary converted on 21-of-24 in the second half while the Bison were just four-of-five.
"One of the things you cannot scout is free throw shooting," said Nickelberry. "They got to the line and they made their free throws. It was a well-played game. Both teams played hard and did a good job of executing, but in the end it came down to free throw shooting attempts. That was the difference in the game."
An area of improvement for the Bison, despite the lack of depth, was in the turnover department. After averaging almost 20 per game in the first eight games, Howard has turned the ball over only 13 times the past two contests, including three in this game, the lowest in five years.
Britt led all scorers with 26 points for the Tribe, while junior forward Tim Rusthoven and sophomore guard Marcus Thornton each had 13 to add to Galliard’s 11.
Thompson grabbed six rebounds to go along with his 24 points. Phillips connected on nine of 16 from the field, sophomore swingman Prince Okoroh contributed 11 and eight rebounds and sophomore guard Simuel Frazier dealt out a season-high eight assists with no turnovers.
Howard will see more action on Dec. 15 in a home game against Liberty.
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Because my stay in Paris was half “work” and half holiday, I got up early the next morning and was dressed by eight o’clock. Everything about my hotel appeared perfect (of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder). I went down to the ground floor, and was directed down into the basement where the hotel dining room was located.
This subterranean room was small and square, the upper half of the walls lined with mirrors so that it was not claustrophobic (this also allowed you to look at the other breakfasters without appearing to do so). Twelve small tables were in the room, the upright dining chairs having loose covers in a pattern of beige checks. The floor was covered with a fitted carpet of very wide stripes - Prussian blue and off-white.
My breakfast consisted of very strong coffee, croissants, Domainde Grignon natural yoghurt (into which I mixed some cherry jam). Free copies of the International edition of The Guardian were available, together with Le Monde and the International Herald Tribune. Black maids hovered in a sort of cubby hole and emerged to clear the tables whenever someone finished, giggling and chatting away in French (superfluous to mention the language, but it still struck me as a novelty).
Above: Business Center - they had spelt “Center” in the American way.
The “master class conference” I had been invited to was located over three big hotels in the centre of the city (different sessions in each), so I went by Metro to the Tuileries station and walked a short distance. I had only signed up to the morning seminars, allowing me the afternoons to do some sight-seeing. The facilities at the conference were excellent, and to my great relief all the transactions were in English. In fact, it was very noticeable how ubiquitous English had become in the French capital - a marked change even on five years ago. At all levels everyone seemed to want to speak English so that eventually I stopped trying to cobble together French sentences and just spoke in English as if I was in London. Another sign of globalisation I suppose (even the hotel business suite had a sign in English, although they had spelt “Center” in the American way).
Above: Anti-Sarkozy poster from the election period.
Supposedly just as important as the formal seminars were the breaks when you could meet people and talk informally. I say supposedly as I have never been much good at networking. The recent French elections were a topic, and a middle-aged German delegate with the jeering accent of Goldfinger (“I expect you to die Mr Bond…”) was gleefully saying that under Sarkozy the French will have to do some work for a change.
“He will tame the trade unions just as Mrs Thatcher did.”
“Mrs Thatcher didn’t tame the trade unions, she destroyed them” I told him.
Above: Parc Monceau - dry cakes in the shape of a shell.
At one o’clock I was back at my hotel, and shortly afterwards Robert Leiper and Charles Frappe arrived. Charles Frappe had agreed to give me a guided tour of various places associated with Proust (I hadn’t been all that keen, but Robert built him up as a great authority on the writer, so I went along with the idea - in any case Charles Frappe seemed to expect me to want a tour, and in the interests of peace I let him take the lead). As most of the sites were in the 8th Arrondissement they were all within a few blocks of my hotel.
We didn’t get off to a good start. When I confessed I hadn’t read all of Remembrance of Things Past but only Swann’s Way and Within A Budding Grove Charles Frappe asked me why I referred to the titles in English. I told him because I had read the books in English translation.
“Then you havn’t read Proust at all” he told me disdainfully, “you’ve read part of a novel by Scott Moncrieff.”
As we walked along the quiet streets I calculated the number of put downs I would tolerate before I started to retaliate.
We went first into the Parc Monceau, which has various Proustian associations. This park was one of the most lovely places I have ever been in (lovely in the sense that I immediately fell in love with it). We sat down on one of the benches on the side of the transitional path, looking across the lawns to a rockery stuck about with lupins and hollyhocks in pale pastel colours (all the tints and shades in the park were from a very muted palette). We were shaded by the trees from the warm sun. A light breeze was blowing - a wind so delicate that I feel justified in calling it a zephyr. The only noise was the far-off sound of a school playground.
Charles Frappe had gone into a nearby patisserie before we entered the park, and he now produced madelaines for us to eat - dry cakes in the shape of a shell. Given the association between Proust and madelaines, this would normally have been a crass touristy thing to have done, but so worked-up in his subject had Charles Frappe become that it somehow seemed the thing to do. By worked-up I mean that he had withdrawn into himself for ten minutes or so before bursting out into a flood of information, delivered in the style of a medium in a séance.
Getting up without warning, Charles Frappe led us out of the park past a dazzling white monument to the composer Gounod. We walked along the streets of the 8th Arrondissement, while he described the great impact Proust has had on twentieth-century world literature. This stiff waspish lecturing was delivered in an affected Loyd Grossman voice that was as irritating as it was impressive.
“I like living in Paris” Charles Frappe said as he led the way. “Magnificent light and noble buildings. And, just as important, noble spaces between the buildings.”
Above: it was a very intimate museum.
A short walk away from the park Charles Frappe took us into the Musee Nissim de Camondo. This was a large private house dating from the belle epoque, built by a Jewish financier to house his incredible collection of eighteenth-century French art and furniture. Charles Frappe told us it would give us a good impression of turn-of-the-century nouveau-riche excess that Proust would have encountered (although he could not confirm whether there was an actual Proust connection with the house).
It was a very intimate museum, packed with objects d’art but also showing the kitchens, and on an upper floor displaying the family’s bed linen and their lavatory arrangements. Each room led into another, circulating around three floors linked by the grand staircase. Very few other visitors were in the museum, although once our way was blocked by a party of burly French boys, listening respectfully to their teacher in a way that no English children would.
The reason so many personal items were on show was because the family had suddenly died out (the last members being arrested by the Germans in the Second World War and transported to the death camps) with the house bequeathed to the state. Both Robert Leiper and Charles Frappe seemed very affected by this family tragedy and compared it to the fate of the Nine-Eleven victims. There was nothing I could say.
Above: formerly the home of Mme Lemaire.
From the Musee Nissim de Camondo we walked through some residential streets.
“Have you noticed how bad Paris smells?” said Robert Leiper. “You’re going down the street and admiring all the beautiful architecture, and suddenly you get some disgusting smell. Then just as suddenly it’s gone.”
We stopped on a corner outside a veterinarian clinic which Charles Frappe announced was formerly the home of Mme Lemaire, the model for Proust’s famous Mme Verderin. It was impossible to relate the glass and plastic façade of the clinic with animated and elegant salon of the Verderins. A reasonably dressed middle-aged man came up and asked us for money - Charles Frappe told him to go away.
Above: a fabulous mille feuille cake.
From the veterinarian clinic we went down onto the Boulevard Haussmann where Charles Frappe took us into another museum (there was no discussion, he just walked in expecting us to follow). What a dismal experience this was. I felt bored out of my mind looking into the endless glass cases. In addition, Charles Frappe had a tendency of reading every exhibit label in full, so that our progress was very slow. At one point I sat down on a bench in a chamber full of grimy Renaissance relief plaques (like petrified talking heads on television screens) feeling I couldn’t go on. Even when we finally emerged from the museum it was only for a few minutes before Charles Frappe led us back into the building saying the museum café would be a good place to have lunch.
The café was a large hall with tables crammed in rows, nearly all of them occupied (by tourists!). The food was of indifferent quality, but fairly cheap. The only thing worth mentioning about the meal was a fabulous mille feuille cake which had obviously just been made. They also gave me a decent cup of tea. Robert and Charles Frappe being on a budget, ordered the cheapest things on the menu. Charles Frappe described how he would go for days subsisting on the canapés and white wine given away free at auction houses and commercial galleries.
For some reason Charles Frappe got on the subject of his sister’s researches into sexual psychology, notably lesbianism. Within a few inches either side of us were tables occupied by elderly American tourists who were clearly uncomfortable at having to listen to the Frappe theories on Sapphic love. To change the subject I asked Charles Frappe how he went about dealing in art.
“Always buy at auctions” he said. “Anyone who buys off a gallery wall pays at least a hundred percent mark-up, probably more, and will have to see a doubling of value before even recouping the original investment. Before you buy you should always see the original - never trust the catalogue illustrations, which make dull things glossy and fuzzy things fine.
“As attributions are not generally reliable, and provenance seldom exists, you must ultimately rely on your own judgement and whether you can convince others the work is genuine - dealers make their cash by showing people how they should look at a piece.
“Estimates are essentially statistical analyses of past auction prices, factoring in attribution, provenance, and size. At auctions lots move at about a hundred an hour so you will have to make very quick decisions. Dealers make their money through waiting for a person to come along who is willing to pay more than they were, so you have to think fast.
“The auction houses charge a twenty percent buyer’s premium and a fifteen percent seller’s commission, so going through them involves a thirty-five percent transaction cost to the
Investor - you have to add this on to your calculations.”
The bill was paid and we left the café. Emerging onto the Boulevard Haussmann again, Charles Frappe was silent while he consulted a map of Paris. Looking up, he gave his final word on the subject of art dealing:
“I am always struck by the huge sums people pay for their houses and the absolute crap they hang on their walls.”
Above: Proust had become a virtual recluse, living in an apartment on the second floor.
Further along the Boulevard Haussmann we stopped outside a bank. Charles Frappe described how in the last years of his life Proust had become a virtual recluse, living in an apartment on the second floor. His room has now been reconstructed in a museum in the Marais area of Paris.
Above: a very modest building.
More walking, and we came to the secondary school Proust attended. Jean-Paul Sartre also went there, as well as other writers. It seemed a very modest building to have produced such a stream of talent.
Above: a tourist trap.
By the Opera we passed the Café de la Paix where Proust used to meet his friends - it’s now a tourist trap.
Above: Boucheron.
Finally to the Place Vendome, Charles Frappe pointing across the road to Boucheron where one of Proust’s characters buys a diamond necklace for his mistress. In a way I had come full circle as we were standing outside the hotel where I had attended the morning’s seminars. I didn’t mention this to Robert Leiper and Charles Frappe, as I wanted to keep them away from the place to avoid running into anyone I knew (I didn’t feel Charles Frappe was the sort of person I could easily explain).
As it happened, Charles Frappe showed no inclination to go into the hotel, although he described its various Proust connections. In return I described how, in the 1990s, a British MP and his wife had gorged themselves into a state of animalistic abandon while guests of the hotel’s Middle Eastern owner (who had fattened them up in the way geese are force-fed, and then butchered them to produce the media fois gras of the cash-for-questions corruption scandal).
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In 2009, Mississippi families were surveyed to see how many children are in afterschool programs, how many are unsupervised after school and how these numbers compare to five years ago. America After 3PM provides the most comprehensive and accurate picture to date of what this nation's youth are doing each day after school. With a sample size of nearly 30,000, the report provides an in-depth view of every state in the nation.
Released in May 2010, Special Report on Summer (PDF | Powerpoint) presents summer specific data from America After 3PM and provides state level data on how many kids are in summer programs, how many would be likely to participate and how strong parent support is for programs. Find all you need to know about America After 3PM Special Report on Summer in your state in the Mississippi Press Release and in the chart below.
America After 3PM Special Report on Summer was sponsored by The Wallace Foundation. All data cited in the report are from the 2009 America After 3PM research, which was sponsored by JCPenney Afterschool.
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"Collective Wisdom"
Part I: A Common Sense Guide for New Faculty and Administrators
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) invests significant amounts of time and money in its new faculty. Candidates are carefully evaluated before hiring and appropriate resources are provided to help each person get started. Promoting career development is in the best interests of both our new faculty and the college. Successful faculty guarantee successful departments, colleges, and universities.
Communication and common sense about the evaluation process for promotion and tenure or promotion and continuing status are important keys to helping our faculty succeed at The University of Arizona. Four primary factors stand out as essential to navigating this process successfully: 1) agreement on the task; 2) knowledge of policy and procedures; 3) appropriate mentoring and feedback; and 4) owning a share in your own success.
Agreement on the Task
CALS is a large, diverse organization with faculty appointments that include varying combinations of teaching, research, and extension activities. The position description is an important element in annual evaluations and is incorporated in the summary of candidate's workload assignment included in the promotion and tenure/continuing status dossier. Each faculty position description reflects the relative responsibilities assigned to teaching, research, extension, and service.
When new faculty are hired, there should be written documentation of expectations. A clear understanding of the task allows all parties to make sure sufficient resources or conditions are available to meet those expectations. How achievement will be defined varies among units and this information should be clearly explained as well.
Occasionally, the direction of the unit or the discipline may change or a person may choose to redirect efforts. If individual faculty responsibilities change, the written position description needs to be revised. Whenever the position description appears at odds with what a faculty member is actually being asked to do, early consultation with all necessary parties is important.
Knowledge of Policy and Procedures
CALS uses university, college, and unit-specific criteria to guide promotion and tenure/continuing status decisions. Criteria and procedural guidelines should be made known right from the start and changes should be communicated on a timely basis. Both unit heads and individual faculty bear a responsibility to know the existing procedures and criteria.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Guidelines and Criteria for Promotion and Tenure/Continuing Status were revised in June 1999 (with a minor modification in February 2001) to highlight the importance of evaluating faculty in the context of their specific position descriptions. The appendix to these guidelines provides examples of the broad range of activities that may be appropriate to various types of faculty appointments in the college. All individual departments/schools and Arizona Cooperative Extension have written criteria as well.
"Collective Wisdom" was developed as an additional internal resource to provide CALS faculty with practical, informal guidance and answers to frequently asked questions about the evaluation process and preparation of the dossier. Information on current university guidelines and online forms can be found on the website for the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs.
Appropriate Mentoring and Feedback
Mentors can be assigned or self-selected. Department heads, school directors, and county extension directors play a major role in mentoring new faculty. The unit head provides direction for an individual faculty member's major commitments and plan of work. Senior members of the department or administrative unit are also a good source of advice about how University of Arizona processes work and can warn junior faculty about potential pitfalls.
Annual performance evaluations are required of all faculty but the evaluations required for tenure- or continuing-eligible faculty were specifically intended to provide an in-depth review and detailed feedback on progress toward tenure or continuing status. Receiving early feedback on potential problems allows faculty time to redirect their efforts prior to the mandatory 6-year review.
Owning a Share in Your Own Success
Beginning with their initial employment in CALS, new faculty should assume a share of the responsibility for their own success in the process. New faculty themselves need to know enough about the process to determine whether they are getting appropriate guidance and assessment. Attending the annual workshops sponsored by the Office of the Provost and utilizing web resources are both excellent ways to become better informed.
While those who have been through the process can provide helpful advice, the "rumor mill" is not always 100 percent accurate. Conditions change and statements may be taken out of context. If at any time new faculty feel concerned that proper actions are not being taken, they should meet with their unit head or the dean to clarify issues so problems can be addressed while they are still manageable.
Conclusion
The future of this college and its individual units will depend upon the success of its faculty. Faculty were selected for their positions because they each were considered the very best candidate for that position. They are well supported in their work. Providing guidance in the promotion and tenure/continuing status process is part of our commitment to ensuring that all our new faculty have an opportunity to succeed.
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Loom is the only technology available in the Dark Age and costs just 50 Gold. Loom is effective during the early game, as it helps protect villagers from an early attack, but decreases in effectiveness as the strength of enemy armies increases. However, it is the cheapest technology in the game, and can be researched almost instantly, so it is usually the first technology a player will research. Additonally, Loom makes villagers far more formidable against wolves. Without Loom, a single villager will lose to any wolf which attacks the villager first.
Loom is free and already researched for the Aztecs as part of their civilisation bonus. Loom combined with Supremacy for the Spanish makes their villagers the strongest in the game.
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The invention of the loom and the ability to weave cloth was an important ancient technology that was quickly recovered during the Dark Ages. Good wool clothes were an important asset that lengthened life expectancy in the Northern European climate. Raising sheep for wool and then making cloth was one of the early important industries of the Middle Ages. - from Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings game manual
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MININPUTS (minimum inputs) GARDENINGInsects and diseases are without doubt the biggest obstacles to successful productive gardening in Texas. Every year, literally millions of dollars worth of our state's garden and commercially-grown fruits and vegetables are lost due to the destructive feeding of insects and the rot and decay caused by diseases.
MANAGING GARDEN PESTS -- THE EASY WAY
(SOMETIMES ERRONEOUSLY CALLED "ORGANIC GARDENING"!)
Jerry Parsons, Roland Roberts, and Larry Stein
Texas Cooperative Extension
If you have been gardening for any length of time, chances are you have experienced serious, if not devastating, losses due to insects and diseases. Garden spots seem to be inhabited with every and any disease known to mankind -- plus a few others! You probably have experienced the feeling that thousands of insects have gathered in your back yard to gorge themselves on your garden vegetables. To make things worse, many insects seem to "come to the seed" -- how else could they know about your emerging bean seedlings and new tomato plants? And if it's not hungry insects, just about the time your garden appears to have a bright and productive future, mildews, rusts, and blights seem to show up overnight to ruin your chances for a good crop of garden-fresh vegetables.
Because of the abundance of insects and diseases, vegetable gardening can best be described as a real challenge. It's primarily a challenge because of our long growing season and relatively mild winter -- the very reasons vegetable gardening is so popular and potentially rewarding . The challenge is real but it can be overcome.
To many gardeners, the obvious way to meet this challenge is to have a good sprayer and the necessary pesticides to control commonly-occurring insects and diseases. Controlling pests with pesticides may indeed become necessary, and pesticides can be highly effective and completely safe if used properly. However, before resorting to pesticides, the first and most effective way to reduce losses caused by insects and diseases is prevention.
Prevention is really nothing more than common sense and sound, sensible gardening practices. Through continuous and methodical use of the following practices, many problems can be greatly reduced, if not completely overcome.
SMART PURCHASING. When purchasing seed and transplants, make absolutely certain you do not take problems home with you. Buy only seed produced for current gardening season that has been treated with fungicides to prevent seed rot and seedling diseases. When selecting transplants, look for those that appear healthy, have good color, and are free of holes in the leaves or spots/lesions on the stems and foliage, which could indicate the presence of insects or diseases.
USE RESISTANT VARIETIES. Always plant resistant, recommended varieties in your garden. Plant breeders have done an excellent job in recent years developing high-yield, top-quality varieties that have resistance to many common diseases. Resistance means slower disease development, allowing resistant plants to produce an acceptable yield before or without losing vigor to disease attack. Unfortunately, developing resistance to insects is much more difficult, but this too will one day be a reality. Check with your local county Extension office or reputable nurseryman for the best varieties to plant in your garden.
PROPER SOIL PREPARATION. Proper preparation of your garden soil will significantly help you prevent losses due to insects and disease. Working in liberal amounts organic matter will improve drainage of soils and help sandy soils hold moisture and nutrients. Organic matter increases the number and kind of microorganisms in the soil. Many of these microorganisms compete with disease agents for nourishment. In some cases, the best organic matter is obtained by turning under a green cover crop such as a small grain (wheat, oats, barley, rye) or a legume. When tilling or spading the soil, be on the lookout for grubworms, wireworms, and other soil insects. If found in high numbers application of a recommended soil insecticide prior to planting will prevent serious problems in the future. Summer cultivation will also prove helpful.
ADEQUATE FERTILIZATION. Test your garden soil to determine its pH and the proper amount of fertilizer to apply. Vegetables grown in soils that are too acidic or too alkaline will grow poorly or not at all, making them highly susceptible to problems. The right amount of nutrients in the soil will result in healthy, vigorous plants that are less affected by insects and diseases. However, use of too much fertilizer can result in rank-growing, highly succulent plants, and may encourage insect and disease problems.
CHANGES IN PLANTING TIME. This will often reduce plant damage or keep insect pests separated from susceptible stages of the host plant. Delayed planting until the soil is warm enough for corn and bean seeds to germinate quickly reduces seed maggot damage. Hot caps (milk cartons, paper sacks or similar materials placed over plants) used during the early season not only will preserve heat, but also will protect plants from damaging wind, hail and insects. In some situations a healthy transplant will overcome insect damage more easily than a small plant developing from seed in the field.
MECHANICAL CONTROL METHODS. Mechanical control methods usually are more practical for a small garden than for a large one. They can be used singly or in combination to obtain desired results.
Preventive devices often are easy to use, although their effectiveness varies. Such devices include: (1) paper collars around the stems of plants to prevent cutworm damage; (2) Grow-Web fabric for hot beds and cold frames to prevent insect egg-laying; (3) Grow-Web or mesh covers for small fruit trees, berry bushes, tomatoes and other plants to keep out large insects and birds.
Hand-picking of insects and insect egg masses insures quick and positive control. This method is especially effective with foliage-feeding insects such as bean beetles, potato beetles, hornworms and squash bugs.
There may be times when gardeners can use a fine stream of water under pressure to dislodge insects from plant stems and leaves -- a method often used to control spider mites. This also increases humidity around the leaves which helps bring spider mite infestations under control. The stream of water can physically remove some insects, especially aphids, and when dislodged they fail to return to the plant. Care should be taken to use water pressure only on sturdy plants to avoid plant damage.
Various types of traps are reportedly successful in reducing garden insect numbers. For example: (1) earwigs can be trapped in rolled up newspapers placed in the garden or other locations where these insects gather; (2) slugs and pillbugs can be trapped under boards placed on the ground; (3) a small pan placed flush with the soil and filled with stale beer will attract and kill slugs and snails; and (4) a two-quart container, half-filled with a 10 percent solution of molasses and water will attract and trap grasshoppers and certain beetles.
Blacklight traps are a reasonably good tool for monitoring insect species in a given area, but usually provide little protection for the garden. Light traps attract both harmful and beneficial insects that ordinarily would not be found in the area. These insects may not be caught in the traps, but may remain in the area, and the harmful ones may cause damage later. Also, some species such as wingless insects and those insects only active in the daytime are not caught in the traps. Consequently, the value of blacklight traps in the home garden is questionable. Where blacklights are used, it is recommended that they be placed 50 to 75 feet away from the area which is to be protected.
USE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL METHODS. Generally. biological control can be defined as the direct or indirect use of parasites, predators or pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoans) to hold pest insect populations at low levels to avoid economic losses. Biological control methods fall into three categories: (1) introduction of natural enemies which are not native to the area (these enemies must then establish and perpetuate themselves); (2) enlarging existing populations of natural enemies by collecting, rearing and releasing additional bio-control agents; and (3) conservation of beneficial organisms by such means as the judicious use of pesticides and the maintenance of alternate host insects so parasites and predators can continue to develop.
It is not yet possible to reliably predict how effective the introduction of a given parasite or predator will be. However, certain factors can indicate the potential value of a natural enemy. The effectiveness of a parasite or predator is usually related to: (1) its ability to find a host when host numbers are small; (2) its ability to survive in all places where the host insect lives; (3) its ability to use alternate hosts when primary hosts are in short supply, (4) its high reproductive ability to reproduce rapidly over a short period of time; and (5) its ability to adapt its life cycle with that of the host so that the desirable host stage is available for development.
Many beneficial organisms occur naturally in the garden, but often they are not numerous enough to control a pest before it inflicts severe damage. In fact parasites and predators appear to be most effective when a pest population has stabilized or is relatively low. Their influence on an increasing pest population is usually minimal since any increase in parasite and predator numbers depends on an even greater increase in pest numbers. Pathogens, however, seem to be most effective when pest populations are large. Consequently, the nature of the host insect-natural enemy relationship makes it impossible to have an insect-free garden and at the same time maintain sizable populations of beneficial insects.
Numerous bio-control agents are available. Following is a list of some of the more popular bio-control agents:
- Bacillus thuringiensisThis bacterial insecticide provides effective control of the larvae of several moths and butterflies. The bacterial spores are harmless to warm-blooded animals and beneficial insects. Bacillus thuringeinsis is available in three formulas : "I" for mosquitos and fungus knats, "K" for larvae of moths and butterflies; and San Diago for potato beetles. Some of the brand names of these Bacillus products are:
B.t.i. - Abbott; VectoBac 12AS-II, VectoBac AS
B.t. kurstakiAbbott - Dipel 2X, Dipel 2X WDG, Dipel SG, Dipel ES, Xentari , Dipel ES-NT, Dipel 2X WDG, Dipel 10G
B.t. kurstaki - Sandoz; Javelin WG, Thuricide 48 LV
- Bacillus popilliae - (milky disease bacteria)This bacterial insecticide controls grubs of Japanese beetles in the eastern U.S., and some testing has been done for control of white grubs (Phyllophaga spp. and Cotinis spp.) in Texas. It has not been effective against the principal white grub species in Texas.
- Nosema locustae- is a spore (Protozoan) used to control grasshoppers. The material is sprayed on the plants which grasshoppers ingest. The spores germinate inside the grasshopper, causing death. Control is extremely slow and homeowners may not be satisfied with results. Baits have proven more effective.
- Trichogramma waspAdult wasps are available from several sources. The tiny wasps attack the eggs of more than 200 pest species, including cutworms, armyworms, fruitworms and many moth and butterfly eggs deposited in orchards and field crops. Wasps should be released when the moths are first seen, but a sequence of releases throughout the season is preferable to a single, large release. Results will depend on the timing of the releases, selection of Trichogramma species, and placement of wasps near host egg masses.
- Green lacewings (Chrysopa)Eggs are sometimes available. The larvae, known as aphid lions, prey on many garden pests including aphids, spider mites, leafhoppers, thrips, moth eggs and small larvae. Adult lacewings feed on honeydew, nectar and pollen. Lacewings introduced into the garden must have a readily available supply of food or they will leave.
- Praying MantidEgg cases containing about 200 individual eggs are available from a number of sources. The mantid is a voracious predator. In addition, it is cannibalistic immediately after hatching, so few nymphs survive the first week of life. But the mantid is a poor searcher for food and usually waits for prey to come to it. This greatly influences the kinds of insects it captures and kills. Food preferences include grasshoppers, crickets, bees, wasps and flies.
- Lady beetlesAdult beetles are available from several sources. Aphids are the preferred hosts, but lady beetles will eat mealybugs, spider mites and certain other soft-bodied pests and eggs. They do not, however, kill grubs, caterpillars and other beetles. Lady beetles do feed on small larvae such as green loopers especially the ash gray lady beetle. Unless an ample supply of live aphids or other hosts are available at the release point, lady beetles will disperse and leave the area. In some cases, most of the beetles will leave the area regardless of the availability of food. Lady beetles can be encouraged to remain on a plant by using small meshed screen cages. Remove cages before they devour all of their food supply. In hot dry weather these beetles enter a nonactive (aestivation) state. Feeding and reproduction cease. Little control from lady beetles can be expected during this time.
One source of the above mentioned biological controls is:
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NATURAL INSECTICIDES. Despite all efforts, at times non-insecticidal methods will fail to prevent excessive insect damage in the garden. At such times, the use of insecticides may be the only alternative left to save the crop. Insecticides chosen should have low toxicity for humans and other warm-blooded animals. They should be used only when needed and according to label directions. A better understanding of insecticides will enable you to use these materials more effectively, and to realize that they can be an aid without necessarily harming you or the environment.
When insect damage becomes great enough to warrant emergency measures, a decision must be made whether to use natural insecticides and various homemade botanical sprays or modern synthetic chemicals. However, some synthetic materials are actually less toxic and more efficient than some of the natural insecticides.
"Safe" and "natural" products also have "poisonous" ingredients such as the products listed below:
The bottleneck produced by the cumbersome the maze of bureaucratic gymnastics Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires registrants to perform prevents most safe pesticides from receiving favorable treatment. Now they must go through the long, precarious amendment process.
Following is information about some natural insecticides: cyclonene to increase toxicity and produce longer residual action is used extensively in space sprays, household sprays, crops percent liquid concentrate of nicotine sulfate, which is diluted in water and applied as a spray. Dusts can irritate the skin and are not normally available for garden use. Nicotine is used primarily for piercing-sucking insects such as aphids, whiteflies, leafhoppers and thrips. Nicotine is more effective when applied during warm weather. It degrades quickly, so can be used on many food plants nearing harvest. It is registered for use on a wide range of vegetable and fruit crops. This product is becoming difficult to find.
- percent dust or as a spray. This product is becoming difficult to find.
- residues.
Gardeners have been using a spray mixture containing onions, garlic and pepper mixed together to control insects for many years. Recent scientific research indicates that the use of these materials has given erratic and in many cases ineffective. Garlic is beginning to show some good results. the underside of leaves where mites, whiteflies, aphids and insect eggs occur. If treatments are applied when an infestation first starts, insect numbers can be maintained at lower levels much more easily, and with smaller amounts of chemicals.
- Apply insecticides to all plant surfaces so that mph. Retreatment may be necessary after a rain.
- Apply insecticides only at recommended dosages: increased amounts can be dangerous, cause plant damage and leave harmful residues without improving insect control.
- The length of effective control insure that any residues will be within established tolerances at harvest time.
- Always read and follow mixing and application instructions on the insecticide label for safe and effective insect control.
CROP ROTATION. If your garden has enough space, avoid planting the same vegetables or members of the same vegetable family in the same location for at least two to three years. By rotating vegetables from one location in your garden to another, many soilborne insects and disease problems can be avoided.
Crop grouping for rotation to control soilborne diseases.
PROPER SPACING. Pay close attention to guidelines regarding proper spacing between rows and between plants in the row. Crowded growing conditions result in slow drying and poor air movement, and encourage disease development. Also, if pesticide treatments become necessary, crowded growing conditions make proper application and thorough coverage almost impossible to achieve.
VERTICAL GARDENING. Grow plants upright whenever possible, using cages, trellises, fences, and other types of props. This helps to prevent foliage and fruit from contacting the soil, thereby reducing losses due to soil-related pests. If pesticide use becomes necessary better control with fewer applications is possible with vertically-grown plants. Tomatoes, climbing beans and peas, and several members of the cucurbit family are some of the vegetables well suited to vertical gardening.
WEED CONTROL. Provide early and complete weed control in your garden by mulching, shallow cultivation, or hand removal. Weeds can be a source of inoculum for diseases, and often harbor insects that cause considerable damage by feeding or transmitting diseases. If practical, control weeds in the vicinity of your garden for the same reasons.
GARDEN SANITATION. Garden cleanup is an essential part of insect and disease prevention. During the growing soon, remove any odd-looking, stunted, or sickly plants as soon as possible. Chances are that such plants will never be productive, and may very well be infected with viruses, other diseases, and that will infect healthy plants in your garden. Judicious removal of foliage that appears damaged by diseases or insects will also help prevent spread. Any crop residue destruction practice that reduces the disease agent's ability to reproduce or over season can be included under sanitation. Examples are raking and burning (if not in a restricted area) diseased leaves and disposing of infected fruit. Dig up root knot nematode infected plants and remove as much of the root system as possible from the garden site. Root knot nematodes are harder to kill when protected by root tissue.
Do not pile diseased leaves, fruits and other plant-parts near the garden. Fungi, for instance, often produce thousands of spores in the reproductive process and these spores can be wind- blown great distances. Burn, bury or dispose of diseased plant tissue to prevent dispersal of the disease agent. In most cases, do not put diseased plant parts in a compost pile. This is especially true for nematode-infected plants. Although many disease organisms are destroyed by heat during composting, 100 percent kill is not normally obtained and many people are confused about and consequently do not compost but rather "rot" which does not destroy pathogens. Contaminated compost may spread disease organisms as the compost is being used. Make compost with grass clippings or shrub and tree leaves as the disease organisms on grass and leaves are not likely to affect garden plants.
SUMMER TILLING. If possible and practical, consider leaving part or all of your garden "fallow" or not planted during the summer. Tilling or spading the soil occasionally in the summer will expose nematodes, insects and their eggs to the hot, dry sun and high temperatures, effectively reducing their numbers.
HEAT TREATMENT. Heating small amounts of soil is practical for potting plants and growing seedling transplants. The soil should be moist but not saturated. Heat the soil at 180 F. for approximately 3 hours in a standard oven. Place an average-sized Irish potato in the middle or the soil to act as an indicator. When it is cooked, the soil should be sterile. Microwave ovens can be used for sterilizing small quantities. Using high power, heat the soil for 3 minutes. Do not overheat with either system. Excessive heating releases certain elements in the soil to toxic levels.
A new heating approach that has shown good results in Texas is solarization (soil pasteurization)..
CONTROL ROOT KNOT NEMATODE. No doubt many gardens have become infested by planting contaminated transplants or by bringing in topsoil harboring root knot nematodes. Taking steps to prevent this problem is just as important as implementing steps to control it once it is a problem. Where soils are already infested and a garden is first put into production, nematode levels generally are low. After several years of gardening and growing susceptible plants, nematode populations increase to the point that damage becomes noticeable. Control practices include summer fallowing, rotation, adding organic matter, planting trap crops, removing diseased plants and using resistant varieties. All these control measures are designed to reduce the soil's nematode population.
Benefits of summer fallowing have been discussed. Removing potential hosts and keeping the soil dry also reduces the nematode population as the nematode requires a moist environment for survival. Additional years of fallowing further reduce nematode populations.
Rotating with non-hosts or poor hosts of the root knot nematode is another means of reducing the population. Sweet corn is a poor host and is good to use in a rotation, especially in an area where root knot has done severe damage. Onions, garlic, asparagus and shallots also are poor hosts. Cool-season crops such as cabbage, Irish potatoes, greens (turnips), radishes and broccoli are less likely to suffer yield loss from root knot nematodes. Even though these are susceptible plants, they grow best in cooler temperatures that are not favorable for root knot nematode development.
High soil organic matter alone does not insure root knot nematode control. The higher the organic matter, however, the better the chance that antagonistic organisms will develop. Some soil fungi trap nematodes and use them as a food source. Some organic matter works better than others. Turning under a green manure crop such as small grains or legumes several weeks before planting is the best. Additional nitrogen may be necessary for adequate crop production because decay organisms in the soil use available nitrogen as they break down the green manure crop.
Sometimes people resort to home remedies to control nematodes such as planting marigolds or mixing sugar or lye into the soil. Of these three, only marigolds are effective in controlling nematode populations.
Marigolds secrete toxic compounds of an a-terthienyl type into the soil which kills nematodes but planting a few marigolds around annual plants in infested soil will NOT prevent infection. Marigolds also act as a trap crop. Nematodes enter their roots but are unable to complete their life cycle. Trapped nematodes die without reproducing.
French marigolds, Tagetes patula, are more effective in controlling root knot nematodes than the African marigold, Tagetes erecta, which also is referred to as the American, Big or Aztec marigold. However, the Mari-Mum American marigold will be somewhat effective while beautifying the fall garden site when planted in August. To be effective marigolds must be planted as a solid crop and grown for 90 days to begin secreting the three compounds of an a-terthienyl type to reduce the nematode population.
If marigolds are planted close together, they form a dense canopy which retards weed and grass development. Many weeds and grasses serve as hosts for root knot nematodes. If the weeds are not controlled, marigolds may be unable to suppress the nematode population.
Using marigolds in a manner other than July or August- planted Mari-Mums can invite disaster. For example, planting a few marigolds here and there among tomatoes encourages spider mites. The spider mite is one of the most difficult garden pests to control and can become as serious a problem as the nematodes. Some gardeners claim that spider mites can be controlled by thoroughly spraying infested plants with three tablespoons of liquid sea weed concentrate per gallon of water before populations are extreme. The spray knocks them off and the sea weed supposedly functions as a foliar feed as well.
Remove all nematode-infected plants from the garden as soon as possible after production ceases. Removing the root system eliminates many of the nematodes. To remove as much of the root system as possible, use a shovel rather than just pulling the plant up by the stem.
Root knot resistant vegetable varieties are not plentiful. Fortunately, progress is being made in the development of root knot resistant tomatoes. The best resistance is found in the hybrid varieties are more expensive than open pollinated seed, but the benefits in disease resistance alone are enough to justify buying them.
Diseases caused by root knot nematodes and other organisms can be prevented with non-chemical methods that either avoid the disease or suppress the disease agent. However, maximum control is only assured when using as many of these disease preventive practices as possible.
PROPER WATERING. When you water is much more important than how you apply water in your garden. Water when the soil is relatively dry an inch or two beneath the surface, not when plants wilt. Plants wilt for many reasons -- insects, diseases, excessive fertilization, as well as too much water! If possible, water in the morning to allow the foliage to dry before the onset of cooler nighttime temperatures. Also, avoid working in your garden when the foliage is wet, to help prevent the spread of diseases from one plant to another.
TIMELY HARVEST. Never allow over-mature produce to remain on your plants or nonproductive plants to remain in your garden. Harvest all vegetables as they mature. Pull and discard nonproductive plants, as they can serve as hosts for diseases and as breeding places for insects.
In addition to these guidelines, your "shadow" in the garden on a regular and timely basis is perhaps the best way to prevent insect and disease problems. Be observant and look for the beginning of possible problems. A hand lens may prove especially useful. Look for webbing, egg masses, individual insects, leaves with spots or lesions, and any other signs of insects and diseases. Remove and discard if found. Try to detect and remedy simple problems before they become serious problems. Gardeners should get an insect book to identify the "good" bugs versus the "bad" bugs which should be controlled. Educating yourself about the "good" and "evil" of garden pest control makes gardening even more enjoyable.
MINIMAL INPUTS POTENTIAL FRUIT & NUT CROPS Agarita Agarita has no serious pest or disease problems. Spring frosts can reduce production. Bird predation on the maturing berries can be significant.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Very high.
Blackberry The most limiting factor to blackberry production is soil pH. Production drops off above pH 7.5 with serious plant growth problems at 8.0 and above. Proper pruning after harvest, elimination of weed growth and selective removal of diseased canes will minimize pest problems. Thrips and stink bugs can damage some fruit at harvest. Erect varieties have the best disease resistance.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Moderate to high
Blueberry Blueberries require a strict pH range from 4.5 to 5.2 for optimal growth and minimal nutritional problems. Since these soils are generally limited to East Texas, these plants can be grown in containers which have an amended soil. Good sanitation, complete weed control and proper irrigation and drainage are essential for good production. Salt, particularly sodium, is detrimental. There are some pests, but they usually do not have a significant impact. prompt removal of old canes tends to reduce pest problems.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Moderate to high.
Citrus Cold is naturally the limiting factor to citrus production. Adverse soil pH effects can be overcome with sour orange rootstock. Foot rot is easily precluded by high budding and proper planting in well-drained sites. Virus diseases have been excluded to date in Texas by quarantines against citrus plant materials from other areas. Sucking insects, mites, and scale can limit production.
Minimal Inputs Potential: High
Fig Closed-eye varieties, along with early harvest, eliminate the souring caused by the dried fruit beetle. Bird predation of maturing fruit can be extensive. Fig leaf rust can cause extensive defoliation in late summer, particularly in humid areas.
Minimal Inputs Potential: High to Very high.
Grape, Muscadine Muscadine grapes prefer acidic soils. There are few pests or diseases that are limiting, although black rot can cause crop damage.
Minimal Inputs Potential: High to Very high.
Grape, Mustang There are no major limiting problems to the production of this Texas native wild grape. Grape leaffolder can cause extensive defoliation in some seasons, but is rarely debilitating to the vine.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Very high.
Grape, Varietal American types are fairly resistant to serious diseases; grape leaffolder can be damaging in some seasons.
Minimal Inputs Potential: High
Guava There are no limiting problems in adapted climates of South Texas.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Very high.
Jujube There are no limiting pest or disease problems of jujube in Texas. Rootsprouts are extensive.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Very high.
Mayhaw Mayhaw is subject to many of the same pests that attack other pome fruits, but none are considered seriously limiting to production. Both quince rust and hawthorne rust can be severe, but removal of alternate, evergreen hosts should reduce the problem.
Minimal Inputs Potential: High to very high.
Mulberry Bird predation of mature fruit and Cercospora leaf spot are the only serious problems affecting mulberry.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Very high.
Pear Fire blight is a major limitation to susceptible varieties so only resistant varieties should be planted. Codling moth can be serious in North Texas, as can various scale insects, in some seasons.
Minimal Inputs potential: High.
Pecan, Native The same problems that affect improved pecan also affect native pecan although native pecan has generally better scab resistance and can obtain some zinc nutrition from the soil. Pecan weevil is probably the most damaging insect, but its cycle generally corresponds well with the alternate bearing tendencies of native pecan trees. There are several weevil free areas in Texas.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Moderate to high.
Persimmon Both native and Japanese persimmons are virtually free of pest and disease problems. Scale insects may pose occasional problems.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Very High.
Pomegranate There are essentially no limiting pests or diseases, although fruit spots can be serious in humid areas. Fruit spitting near maturity occurs because of poor water relations. Plants tolerate alkaline and somewhat saline soils quite well.
Minimal Inputs potential: Very high.
Strawberry A number of foliar diseases affect strawberry plants, but do not normally achieve great significance. Root diseases are avoided by the use of resistant varieties. Fruit rot, particularly gray mold, can be serious, but incidence is reduced by sanitation and wider plant spacing. Various insects, especially strawberry weevil, can become damaging in some seasons, but most are of only minor significance.
Minimal Inputs Potential: Moderate to high.
Each fruit's rating refers only to the relative ease of production using the least amount of inputs - and then only in those areas where the particular plant is adapted.
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Potentially shippable code – continued
In the last post, we discussed how not to meet potentially shippable code. However, we never really addressed the question as to why is the potentially shippable code that important anyways. It is often argued that the relentless focus on getting to potentially shippable code, is what sets Agile apart from other incremental and iterative processes. This is partly correct. Partly, because there are certain values which Agile stands for and if those are not used for the development, you are not really doing Agile.
Potentially shippable code as discussed in the previous post is always just one sprint away from shipping. Why this is important is because:
- It keeps the focus on priorities for the customer. She knows that all she needs to do to get the product to the market is announce a pre-release sprint and she will get it. After the first few sprints are done, the incentive to organize the product backlog to develop the product in a manner where it could be released any time focuses product owner to provide value to the project by prioritizing the items based on importance, ROI and risk.
- The team can think of an iterative and incremental mode of development – with preference to get to overall product structure as soon as possible. In fact is the product backlog has been priorotized well enough, enough value would be got early in the development rather than later, and actually the value added in future sprints could be much less. This provides tremendous ROI for the product owner and again – focuses them on considering priorities on an incremental and iterative level as well.
- It focuses the team to install engineering practices which will help them get to really done. Some of XP practices like refactoring, unit testing and code sharing help the teams really perform extremely as well as at a sustained pace.
- Overall, it provides an opportunity to get feedback and adjustment.
One of the tests of whether teams are doing Scrum in Nokia, include reference to “do you provide potentially shippable code at the end of the sprint?”. I have found focus on potentially shippable code really good way to help provide focus for all concerned on product success.
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Winnie the Pooh is a bear.
You can call him Pooh or Pooh Bear.
Pooh likes to eat honey.
Pooh lives in the Hundred Acre Wood with his friends.
His friends are Piglet, Tigger, Eeyor, Rabbit, Roo, Kanga, Lumpy and Owl.
Rabbit grows lots of carrot and other plants in his garden.
Tigger likes to bounce around on his springy tail.
Sometimes Tigger bounce on Rabbit’s garden.
Kanga is Roo’s mother.
Sometimes Christopher Robin comes to visit them.
Christopher Robin is Pooh’s friend.
Christopher Robin is a smart boy.
I have Winnie the Pooh mug, plate, t-shirt, story books, pencil case, pen, pencils and eraser.
I saw real bears at the Zoo Negara.
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Another Sample for the Green Preset..
Some time you may want to add more Green colors to your photos, here is a LightRoom 2 preset file that i create to do this and you can see the sample shot on the left the Yellow rose without the Green Preset filter and on the right is the same shot after applying the filter..[Click the image to enlarge]
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Helo research targets engine, airframe mods
Financial results for 2009 showed that AgustaWestland (Booth No. 7020) is spending more on research and development than its rival Eurocopter (Booth No. 7010). The latter gives a high profile to its R&D efforts, while the former has consistently been much quieter. Nonetheless, Europe’s leading helicopter manufacturers have joined forces for Clean Sky, a major research project partly funded by the European Commission (EC).
According to 2009 figures reported by AgustaWestland parent company Finmeccanica, the Anglo-Italian helicopter manufacturer spent €328 million ($443 million) on R&D. Meanwhile, Eurocopter parent company EADS reportedly spent exactly half that: €164 million ($221 million) on R&D.
However, Eurocopter CEO Lutz Bertling said in January he expects that figure to increase by 20 percent this year to almost €200 million ($270 million). Part of that amount will bespent on the still-to-be-launched X4 program, a Dauphin replacement in the 9,000- to 11,000-pound category.
This new rotorcraft’s head-to-head competitor will be AgustaWestland’s XX9, a 9,000-pound-class twin. R&D spending of €650 million ($878 million) in the 2010-2012 time frame will be for the XX9, the BellAgusta BA609 tiltrotor and the military AW149. Total AgustaWestland R&D spending for this period is expected to be €750 million ($1 billion).
Clean Sky Project
The Clean Sky joint technology initiative, a ?1.6 billion ($2.2 billion) private-public partnership in European aeronautical research, is focused on innovative helicopter technology, including an electric taildrive, conversion of otherwise-wasted heat to electricity, as well as new diesel engines and rotor heads. All of these should contribute to the ambitious cuts in noise, as well as reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions that European authorities are demanding.
Eurocopter and AgustaWestland are working together on the Green Rotorcraft project, which is one of Clean Sky’s six integrated technology demonstrators. This accounts for 10 percent of a seven-year budget total of ?160 million ($216 million) ending in 2015.
The EC has targeted a noise reduction of 10 EPNdB and a 26-percent reduction in CO2 emissions by turbine-powered helicopters, with 10 percent of that reduction coming from engines alone. This means R&D teams are trying to cut specific fuel consumption (SFC) by 10 percent, and improvements in aerodynamics and aircraft systems should account for the remaining 16 percent. NOX emissions are set to be cut by 65 percent.
For a light helicopter powered by a diesel engine, the expected reduction in CO2 emissions is 40 percent, with the engine’s better SFC accounting for 30 percent. NOX emissions should be cut by 53 percent.
The objectives were determined by taking into account the wider Acare (advisory council for aerospace research in Europe) environmental goals for aviation and keeping in mind what can be realistically achieved within Clean Sky’s time and budget limits. In 2000, Acare set goals for 2020, including a 50-percent cut in CO2 emissions per passenger mile and an 80-percent reduction in NOx emissions. As for perceived noise, the envisaged reduction is to 50 percent of 2000 average levels.
Powering a light helicopter with a diesel engine seems to be more difficult than expected. The goal has already been part of the first call for Green Rotorcraft proposals but came to a dead-end because none of the R&D proposals complied with the permitted budget. However, the Green Rotorcraft consortium has accepted that the beefed-up specifications made it impossible for a bidder to keep within the budget, so it is to relaunch a call for R&D proposals later this year.
This project should eventually materialize into a demonstrator derived from an existing aircraft. The engine maker that the Clean Sky partners select must already have some experience in general aviation and diesel technology, but not necessarily in helicopters. The main challenge is controlling weight.
In addition, the Green Rotorcraft consortium is launching a wide-ranging study on diesel engine integration. One aspect of this is to focus on the entire helicopter architecture, rather than just engine performance.
The company selected to do the R&D work will have to analyze the loads that the engine generates as well as methods for reducing vibration in engine installation. It also will have to perform a thermodynamic analysis of the engine to understand how to cool the engine and the engine bay.
In aircraft systems, the firm entrusted with the diesel project will be expected to optimize electrical, oil and fuel systems for the new powerplant. A Fadec control system is also part of the development.
Further major changes involve the electric taildrive. The plan is to replace the mechanical transmission shaft with an electrical motor, which would allow the tailrotor’s rotation speed to vary across a wide range and would be independent from the main rotor.
The concept is expected to cut both noise and a lower fuel burn. But again the challenge is to achieve the new design without creating weight penalties, and the Green Rotorcraft consortium is calling for a full-size ground demonstrator.
At the same time, finding some use for wasted heat also may improve efficiency. The consortium hopes to gain 1 to 10 kilowatts (1.35 to 13.5 horsepower) and it has two approaches in mind. One is the Peltier-Seebeck thermoelectric effect, through which different metals or semiconductors areconnected and the connections transform differences of temperatures into electrical current. This reversible thermoelectric effect is already implemented in portable refrigerators, for example. One benefit is that there are no moving parts; however, the efficiency of the process still needs to be increased.
The second approach is to use a conventional thermal machine with a fluid loop and a generator. The challenge is to make a robust, simple, light device that can yield higher power. Its heat source would be in the engine bay or the oil system. Temperature differences there are relatively low–100- to 200-degrees C–so the machine could use a Sterling thermodynamic cycle.
The consortium is targeting drag reduction as a result of fuselage and rotor-head improvements. One aspect of this R&D effort concentrates on a light helicopter with a blunt aft-body region and landing skids; perhaps a rotorcraft that looks like a Eurocopter EC135 or EC145.
Drag Reduction
Rotor-head drag usually accounts for 20 to 50 percent of the total drag. A rotor head normally has no fairing and is composed of mechanical parts that rotate and interfere, acting like an airbrake and causing relatively more drag on smaller aircraft.
The company selected to do this work will use a wind tunnel to test new shapes supplied by the Green Rotorcraft consortium. It will have to build a model no longer than two meters (just over six feet), with a simplified fuselage. The model should be modular so that the mast fairing, the landing skids, the rotor hub and hub cap can be replaced easily.
The rotor hub must be realistic in terms of shape and adjustable in both collective and cyclic pitch, but it does not have to be controlled in real time. There also is a requirement to keep the hub fixed or have it rotate. Moreover, it should be possible to tilt the rotor mast about its nominal position both forward and backward by five degrees.
In addition to the basic configuration, the consortium will provide two sets of landing skids, two rotor heads and one or two mast fairings. It also reserves the option to provide spoilers, strakes and vortex generators so their impact on airflow characteristics around the aft body can be studied.
Further R&D work on tiltrotors will focus on drag reduction. The areas of interest are the fuselage/wing junction, the nose, the landing gear sponsons and the empennage.
The selected applicant for this slice of the Green Rotorcraft R&D pie will have to use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to optimize these areas. It will have to take into account possible impact on lift and moments. Such negative impact would have to be avoided or kept to a minimum. Bidding companies are also being asked to create an “optimal design procedure” that could be used in an actual program.
The Green Rotorcraft project also wants to limit efficiency losses from engine installation and so includes a topic called “contribution to the optimization of a heavy engine installation.” Research engineers are going to work on the shape of the air intake and the inlet particle separator. They will endeavor to minimize pressure loss and distortion, as well as workon hot gas ingestion and air intake de-icing.
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“GP7200 engines are saving our customers more than $1 million per aircraft per year – and more than 3,000 metric tonnes of CO2 per year – based on demonstrated performance,” said Mary Ellen Jones, President of the Engine Alliance. “This latest validation of GP7200 fuel efficiency, combined with excellent performance retention and reliability, shows that the Engine Alliance is now delivering an even bigger advantage to our customers.”
The GP7200 engine entered service in 2008, and 32 GP7200-powered A380s are now in service. Current operators include Emirates with 21 aircraft, Air France with six and Korean Air with five. and noise levels are well below current and anticipated future regulations.
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LONDON, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
In its first year under a new name, Publishing & Media Expo provided visitors with an array of expertise from the leading voices in publishing and media. Exhibitors and speakers alike were on hand to share their industry insight and product innovations with an audience which grew by 4% (organiser's statement subject to audit). since last year's show.
Education topics included content as currency, digital sales, digital design, app development and success stories from publishers who have adapted to a changing audience demands. Among the keynote speakers on the programme were Paul Field, associate editor of The Daily Mail and Rupert Knowles from Adobe who spoke about The Daily Mail Plus project, the groundbreaking new app which reportedly maintains the 'newspaper look and feel' with the most up to date app technology on the market.
Jonny Kaldor, MD of Kaldor Group also spoke as part of the keynote programme giving his audience of publishers the inside track on 'how to create a beautiful weekly publication for mobile without killing your art director'; while Adrian Clarke, innovation program director from Microsoft joined Rob Grainger from Stonewash and Ben Greenish from EMAP to discuss the new opportunities Windows 8 provides for publishers.
Launched this year, in association with Digital Shoreditch, was the Digital Innovation Challenge. A challenge designed to give up-and-coming digital companies the chance to pitch publishing solutions directly to the publishing community. The challenges posed were to monetise content and/or to generate stronger communities. It was standing room only during the final pitch with five entrants competing against one another. The judges agreed with the audience vote awarding Platter with the winner's title. Platter is a platform for cooks to share ideas in the simplest format - photos. But unlike Instagram, Platter reveals the creative process behind those pictures. Many of their users reference favourite cookbooks and columns and Platter is using this data to build communities. In doing this, Platter extends the influence of traditional food media beyond print and into digital.
Will Hodson from Platter said, "We were chuffed just at getting the chance to pitch at the Publishing & Media Expo. To win - especially with such an august panel of judges - was amazing. Since the pitch we've had lots of interesting conversations with wide range of different publishers. There is a general sense that food media is ripe for a revolution and our platform can spark it across any number of publications."
In order to manage anticipated high demand for this free educational content, organisers introduced a queue management system where visitors collected vouchers for the sessions they wanted to attend. This system was mirrored in neighbouring Technology for Marketing & Advertising and was hugely successful in both cases.
"We are absolutely delighted with the strength of the content at this year's show and the reception it got from visitors. Having re-branded this year to include 'media' in our name it was vital that we provide content that reflected the move in publishing towards a more multi-channel approach" said Jon Howell, event manager of Publishing & Media Expo.
"The feedback we received from visitors and exhibitors alike was really fantastic and we're already making plans for the 2014 show. It's important that we lead the way in embracing this vibrant and fast moving industry whilst maintaining the strength of the more traditional side of the show."
The stellar line up of exhibitors included Stonewash, Adestra, Adobe Systems Europe, Denmaur Independent Papers Ltd, Pensord, NXTBook Media and Mail Options.
Visitor feedback centred on the fact that Publishing & Media Expo is an essential event to keep up with industry developments, really highlighting the strength of face to face events for learning and inspiration:
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Publishing & Media Expo 2014 will take place on the 25th and 26th of February next year. Further information can be found at.
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Yeah Crayman (Kris) is still around and he has been murdering the bass out there. Will check his roster to see if he is working. I know he is always up for a lenthall's trip. Barra are very quiet. If any are getting them they have been keeping very quiet about it.
There are a couple of other yak fishos around and one of them got a few barry out there on a - gasp - hobie last summer. He posted here about it but I forget his name. The other yak fishos are not yet members here but very good blokes.
Dam is full to its old level (and rising)
I have been a little quiet here lately. Been working on a boat for Robin (allmost done)
There used to be a useable put in very close to the Wongi waterhole at a road causeway. Will get out there in the next week or two to check it out and a possible other option and I will make some equires about that one too. Should save a fair bit of driving over pretty poor roads.
I have the weekend off but can probably swing the friday as well. - one way or another.
Really looking forward to finally meeting you blokes.
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I got my camera back this week. It's so nice to have it again. Now if I could just figure out where I put my 2GB card for it! Grrr...
It's working beautifully, & they cleaned it up nicely. Back to "Factory spec." I snapped a few pictures of the crazy quilt. I actually haven't worked on it much this past week. I am re-reading the "Twilight" series, & can't get my nose out of them any better than the first time I read them!
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The art work on your quilt is stunning! I can sympathize on the winterish weather......it is the 20 cold cycle here, too, but we can't compare to what you are experiencing! Nice to have you and your pictures back!
Fabulous!!
Pretty, pretty, pretty! Love the way you embellish!
The buttons and other large pieces of embellishment are beautiful additions. Lovely!
Very pretty! I love all of the details!
It is fun to see your garden grow.
Very pretty!
It does my heart good to see you working in this idiom!
And I am loving the quilt....
wow it looks great, Glad you got your camera back. Mom has tried reading twilight and she says she can't get into, yet she refuses to give me back the book. Can you explain that to me?
What beautiful embellishments and camera work! I'm a nut for crazy quilts and beading and all kinds of fabric art.
Dawn
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Your piece is beautiful, I love all your ideas, especially the agate and eyeglass.
I love your crazy quilt Deb. your camera seems to be in perfect working order now. You must have been lost without it.
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January 29, 2013 at 11:04 pm
Wow, you really worked quickly on this project. Very nice.
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Deb
January 29, 2013 at 11:04 pm
Wow, you really worked quickly on this project. Very nice.
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I been working on my first idea “What My Friends Like” Facebook app for the past few weeks. It searches all of the facebook friends and shows the most popular movies, music, and books from all of your friends. Facebook doesn’t have that kind of information and I thought it will be useful for users. It was also something small and doable that I could have done myself and release the first version(minimum viable product) in a few weeks. Since I was learning web development, and facebook API I wanted to start with something easy at first.
The first version I just used javascript with the facebook API, I used amazon widget to show the movies, music and books at amazon so that users can buy them if they want to. I get an affiliate fee if they do, that’s one way of monetizing the site. I created the site not to make money but more for getting recognition and “street credit”. If I can create an app by myself that a lot of people use and like then when I do some other idea it will be much easier to get people and investors behind me.
I will add additional features in the next few weeks like moving to php to keep save results and update the users when result change, cache results for instant showing, add more categories, filtering options for friends, mobile version, … There are a lot of things that could be done with the app the question is how much time should I spend on working on it. Should I focus on this app and see how far I can take it, perhaps it could be app that every user has which shows their friends info and its something they can’t live without? Or should I stop once I see that no one is using it and move to other ideas?
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We’ve been wanting to create this video since we ended our road-trip in December. This is the order in which we visited every State, Province, and Territory in Canada and the United States as controlled by YOU, the followers of alexandluke.com.
Enjoy,
alex and luke.
PS: The First Band/Person to create a YouTube video of them covering the song used in this video gets an alexandluke.com prize.
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If youre watching TV for the opening salvos in the coming war on
terrorism, youre watching the wrong screen. The opening shots have
already been fired on the Internet, and you can watch the conflict unfolding
from your computer.
Like most conflicts in the past few years, the current war on terrorism
has its online counterpart in a war between computer hackers. In the coming
months, you can expect to see official web sites graffitied with hostile
political slogans, viruses deployed against businesses in North America
and in the Middle East, security information stolen from private sites
and posted online, and denial-of-service attacks that overload web sites
and crash large sections of the Net. Some of these are already underway,
as in the case of the The Dispatchers, a hacker group that has defaced
an Iranian government web site.
Hackers have long favoured governments as targets for their demonstrations
of technical prowess. Replacing the Pentagon web site with an obscene
photograph and your hacker signature is a great way to prove your knowledge
of network protocols. But the past three years have seen an explosion
in hacktivism -- the marriage of hacking know-how and political
activism.
The first big example of hacktivism was in 1998, when a group sympathetic
to the Zapatista rebels crashed Mexican government web sites by flooding
them with Internet traffic. Since then, hacktivists have launched attacks
on an ever-expanding range of targets. Political party sites from Australia
to the UK have been hacked and defaced during election campaigns. Hacktivists
have even created Hacktivismo software to keep authoritarian
governments from censoring access to the Net.
Most hacktivism focuses on political or social issues, not military conflict.
But you know the line: If we build it, they will come. Hacktivists
built the tools for online protest, and online agitators have come in
droves to fight their wars online. Palestinian hackers have defaced Israeli
sites, and Israelis have defaced Palestinian sites. Chinese hackers have
shut down American sites, and Americans have hacked the Net in China to
provide access to banned web sites. Hacking is part of the contemporary
repertoire of warfare, and the current war on terrorism is not immune.
Within hours of the attacks on the U.S., American hackers started discussing
their plans for online retaliation. One early post to a hacker newsgroup
read I call to ARMS all BROTHERS OF THE CODE to direct all of your
resources, contacts, and allies to focusing on defining the BASTARDS RESPONSIBLE
for the attacks.
The appeal of an online call-to-arms is obvious. We all share the anxiety
of feeling like helpless targets in the face of an as-yet hazy enemy.
That kind of helplessness is particularly galling to hackers, who cherish
a self-help culture in which any individual can fight his own code war
against the target of his choice. The hacker ethic prizes individual self-determination,
solo action, and the power of code over the power of force. Why wait for
NATO action when you can mount your own campaign against all possible
enemies?
For some hackers, the temptation to fight this war themselves is irresistible.
Thankfully, the hacker community is not monolithic. Many hacker groups
have called for online restraint in the face of offline provocation. The
Chaos Computer Club, a German hacker group, has already issued a statement
condemning would-be cyber-warriors.
These hackers recognize that the power and promise of the Internet lies
is its ability to transcend the barriers of geography, race, and hate.
Shutting down web sites flies in the face of values that hackers, like
so many of us, dearly cherish. Values like freedom of speech, the power
of information, and global community.
These are the hackers we can learn from hackers who hold fast
to their commitment to communication in a climate of growing hostility.
The online vigilantes that they condemn are no different than the individuals
who claim to be fighting terrorism by attacking Muslims. They are people
who fear inaction more than wrongdoing. And in their rush to retaliation,
there is little time for separating friends from foes.
That doesnt mean that we or our computers can remain
innocent bystanders. Each of us can install anti-virus programs and network
firewalls that prevent hackers from using our computers or networks to
attack larger targets. Each of us can use the Net, the phone, and snail-mail
to press our views on the governments that will prosecute the anti-terror
campaign.
This is the real cyber-war: a war that will determine whether the Internet
will be a force for communication and understanding, or a new military
front. We can look at the Net through the eyes of hacker vigilantes, as
a way of hurting our enemies. Or we can look at the Net with fresh hope
hope for personal freedom in the face of fear, and hope for global
communication in the face of international conflict.
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Whether you find it or create it, a photographers’ mission is to come back with the picture. That was one of the fundamental principles drummed into my head as young photojournalist and it has served me well in my career. There’s nothing like a little pressure when the client needs a scenic cover shot with [more...]
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AS in made up, but you lay it out like it really is, crazy what will end up especially in light of Soleri's (self-fulfilling?) prophetic quote!
just don't see the genius of our bands. Oh well.
Didn't two bands always used to go to SXSW from ABQ?
not to mention the cool thief in HEAT that had that gnarly huge growth on his elbow. You can see it in the scene in the apartment by the sea with DeNiro. How weird for Michael Mann to put a gnarly knob on Val Kilmer's elbow in a movie then only show it once. I get creeped out thinking about that.
After the awesome work as Doc Holiday in "Tombstone," you know it's true or I curse you to watch on repeat Kevin Costner's "Wyatt Earp."
every movie, though?
and I was blown away.
I just hope there is a giant trove of unpublished shit waiting for us to consume and he wasn't just another lazy successful genius.
has made a lot of things turn upside down. There are people now who are famous for just "leaking" their porn video. Which, by the way, is exactly where plastic surgery bothers me least: Bulbous, distended, red-scarred monstrosities just to make mo money: Now that is honest work.
I wonder if the cell phone company--who seems to only know how to steal from its customers--just keeps all that money.
That's why everyone watches so much TV and stays home.
I like that line from Woody Harrelson's ZOMBIELAND: "Nut up or shut up." I bet someone else said it first but I never noticed before. That movie is good.
Even Devin liked it:
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After exiting the holiday season and getting back to the regular course of your life, you’re likely looking around and thinking: Things could be better. It’s OK. You’re normal.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. About 2.3 million citizens are in prison or jail, according to the Bureau of Justice.
On Sunday, 89.9 KUNM will broadcast a special where family members and inmates from around the country—and New Mexico—call in to speak to their loved ones. The pre-taped program is part of the Thousand Kites project, which collects stories about the prison system, and connects families and inmates.
I wrote about Thousand Kites back in September, when founder Nick Szuberla visited the South Valley and worked with the Media Literacy Project and La Plazita Institute to start an Albuquerque initiative.
“Research has repeatedly shown that inmates who maintain strong connections with their families are less likely to become trapped in the revolving door of the criminal justice system,” says Media Literacy Project Executive Director Andrea Quijada in a news release.
Narratives are still being collected through New Mexico Kites. People can also call in their stories and shoutouts toll free, 24/7.
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so when people can be in a relationship in high school for 8 months and everyone thinks they are great together alot of people dont know the truth, by personal experience i know about someone who had been in a relationship for about that long and he always has pretty long relationships but really his girlfriends dont know him at all, all the girls he cheats on her with ,how do people not notice it……….
I think one of the best feelings in the world is when someone remembers something you said. Whether it was something from yesterday, a week ago, a month ago.. It’s just like, “Wow, you actually listen to me.”
I love those type of friendships that don’t require a lot of effort. We may not see each other as much as we want to or talk as much as we used to, but it doesn’t change the fact that we’re friends no matter what. They can do their own thing and I can do my own thing. What’s important is that whenever we do see each other again, we can pick up right from where we left off without making it awkward. Any friendship that works out like that is a friendship worth having.
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Again, thanks to all the original, unknown-to-us authors of these lolcats (and lolbears and
*Actually, none of us can ever remember suggesting a prologue - it mostly seems to work in the reverse. But the point stands.** (UPDATE) Thanks for the heads-up, Anonymous commenter! This brings up a lesson that is all too easy to learn the hard way: if you lose an author's trust by making silly mistakes, like mixing up your flippered marine mammals, it's very hard to convince them you know what you are talking about on the big stuff. Perhaps our structural note should have read: 'Dear author, it is not clear how your protag shape-shifts from walrus to elephant seal and back again - seemingly at the drop of a bukkit.' For further reading on this subject, I recommend
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Proving once more that LOLcats can be applied to any discipline for epic win. Very funny article guys. (:
I do remember a Goodies episode with a giant pussycat attacking Big Ben.
Too funny. One thing, though- that's an Elephant Seal, not a walrus. :)
@anonymous - Ooo, thank you! Post now updated to reflect this important piece of information
What a lucid post. Thank you! How can I see Part 1?
Great blog, just discovered, thank you!!! (but, accidently???... we generally use accidentally...)
Dear Anonymous 23 July - We're not sure WHAT you're talking about.
*Puts hands in pockets* *Whistles unconcernedly* *Strolls away* *Rounds corner and makes made dash to edit post*
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About
alienspacecentereast´s blog is an extension to the youtube channel alienspacecentereast
I intend to follow many different cases and stories about nearly everything, but it will always be related to life and the mystery about our species in some way. It´s about the meaning of life, what we are and where we are going…
The UFO phenomenon have had my deepest interest since 1981, the year I experienced the very first UFO in my life! Since then, I have crossed many areas related to the UFO phenomenon and I have learned, that the UFO and extraterrestrial alien presence, is always about the deeper meaning of life, what we are and where we are going – it is all related to each other, exactly as everything in the universe are related to each other.
Don´t be irrational
Some says that UFOs do not exist, but what is a UFO? A UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object, and can be everything from a kite, airplane, light phenomenon, stars and planets to real alien crafts. It´s complete irrational to believe we the humans, are the only existence in the hole mighty universe. The earth is not flat anymore and we have to admit, that we cannot reject all UFO videos, just because it does not fit into our scheme of things, based on what we have learned and been told by other people! Be skeptical, not irrational…
Parts of the big picture
A corporate elite are trying to take over the power of this world and exploit it for their own benefit, using us, the ordinary people, as naive bubbles, to accomplish their New World Order (NWO), their “Big Idea”…
9/11 was indeed strange
For the first time in history, three buildings falls straight down symmetrical in nearly free fall speed same day same site. And most of the concrete was pulverized into very fine dust, blown out all over Lower Manhattan, “from river to river”, as the governor of New York George Pataki told CNN onsite, shortly after the catastrophe.
Seek the truth for God sake
Give your self a good position to decide what is false and what might be the truth. It´s not wrong but wise to try find out what is going on in our reality? You get born, you live and you die. Wont you ask the question why..?
You should look into the Hessdalen phenomena. That’s the most proven observations ever. Nobel prize winners has tried to explain it without success.
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Turnovers Are Football October 29, 2012
I have the best readers ever. I’m all “we have to be the worst team EVAR at turnover margin” and some commenter who goes by “vg” is all “hey, I’ll use the magic of mathmatics to find out just how bad we are”.
I’d like to think he (she?) took hours and hours in a dark room, slaving away at the numbers, attaching photos to the walls and running red strings between the connected statistics, John Nash style. But he probably just found a place where he could cut and paste the statistics into a spreadsheet. Which I could have done. If I wasn’t lazy.
Anyway, here is the list he put together. This takes the final Turnover Margin ranking for each team over the last 10 years and ranks each FBS team from best to worst. The shocker – we’re not the worst! We’re THIRD worst. Eat our dust, New Mexico State and Idaho.
Remember, that list is just turnover margin. It reads like a list of “best teams over the last 10 years”, but it’s really not. It’s simply the best teams at taking care of the ball/forcing turnovers. But since turnovers are football, yes, it’s a list of the best teams over the last 10 years.
His list includes the three teams who have reclassified to FBS this year – Texas State, UT-San Antonio, and UMass. Because their statistics are simply from one year, I’ll toss them out and just list the top-12 and bottom-12 out of the 120 FBS programs before this season. Here’s our brethren at the bottom:
109: Army
110: Baylor
111: Washington
112: Western Kentucky
113: Hawaii
114: Tulane
115: SMU
116: Fresno State
117: Marshall
118: Illinois
119: Idaho
120: New Mexico State
I could write about this 1,500 times and still get angry. My heart rate is easily up 35 bmp over normal right now. Three different coaches over 10 years and we’re third from last in all of football at Turnover Margin.
Turnovers are football. Force ‘em, prevent ‘em, and you’ll win and win and win some more. Don’t believe me? Here’s the top 12 teams on vg’s list. Remember, this has nothing to do with passing yards. Or rushing defense. Or third down conversion percentages. This is simply a list of the teams over the last 10 years that force turnovers and don’t give the ball away.
1: Boise State
2: Alabama
3: USC
4: Oklahoma
5: Florida
6: Utah
7: West Virginia
8: Wake Forest
9: TCU
10: Virginia Tech
11: LSU
12: Miss.
That’s honestly all we’re going to care about. We’re going to spend hours and hours on special teams, because the field position the special teams provide is vital to college football success. And then we’re going to spend more hours and hours on taking care of the ball and forcing fumbles. If we have time left to practice some bubble screens, we might try to fit that in. But for the most part, all this coaching staff will care about is field position + turnovers.
I looked up the stats, and this team probably lost 35 games the last 20 years simply because no coach seemed to ever care about turnovers and field position. The coaches who obsess over it – the Chris Petersons, the Nick Sabans, the Bob Stoopseses – are all beloved by their fanbases. I want to be beloved here. So I’m going to emphasize turnovers and field position over everything else.
Especially turnovers. Because turnovers are football.”
Robert – When you are coach in 2021, can we tie your compensation to turnover margin?
Robert, as always, a treat to read.
But while you are no doubt correct in your analysis, maybe the reason all those top teams have fewer TOs is be/se they have better players and better players don’t fumble, throw INTs and drop punts, while crummy players do.
And we have those by the jillions.
Robert,
Good point. I’m gonna have a couple of ‘turnovers’ for breakfast.
I’m not a big fan of Lovie Smith but his philosophy for winning is primarily to win the turnover battle. Da Bears lead the NFL in that department and are six and one.
Maybe Illinois could ask Peanut Tillman to talk to and demostrate the importance of turnovers. There is no better way to turn momentum in a game than to recover a turnover. We’ve certainly witnessed that in most of our games.
What is amazing to me is that we have this atrocious turnover record in spite of having Mikel LeShoure in the backfield for more than 400 carries without a single fumble !! That is almost an entire year of carries for the entire team without a fumble. Imagine where we would rank without #5. (shudders)
I hope I’m not reading a similar article toward the end of the hoops season. “You feel me,” BP3?
Tommy Davis has been removed from punt returns. So his goofball play will not have to be tolerated anymore.
Turnovers are football, no doubt…but Illinois just made some dumb decisions saturday. Hopkins diving for a fair catch was beyond stupid….Don Young’s fumble you can almost forgive since he was just trying to get more yards after contact. Staples play were the actions of an undisciplined idiot…but Indiana made the exact same mistake the next drive except Illinois didnt capitalize.
This is just a flat out awful football team. I think Robert needs a state of the union address and what he thinks needs to be done. Basically, I want NAMES…coaching names.
Cool! Happy to help.
He, and would you take “bored Saturday morning before the game so I hacked together a simple program to grab the data, and rank the teams?” It was totally in a dark room, though.
The interesting part to me, though, is that if we rank by giveaways, we’re only 101st. I guess our Koenning defenses that did a good job of creating turnovers weren’t enough to overcome our other defenses.
After the last game, I also ran some numbers for penalties. The results are, simply put, very surprising.
- Penalties per game – 20th
- Penalty yards per game – 21st
- Penalty first downs per game – 21st
- Penalties per play – 18th
- Penalty yards per penalty – 65th
So, we’re actually pretty good when it comes to penalties, except for the fact that we don’t give up too many small penalties. What I’d love to find is a stat for “shooting ourselves in the foot with a penalty,” where I guarantee we’d be towards the bottom.
“I looked up the stats, and this team probably lost 35 games the last 20 years simply because no coach seemed to ever care about turnovers and field position.”
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I think Tepper cared about field position. His quote was something like “the punt is the most important play in football”: or perhaps it was the punter who was the most important player…. either way, Lou T placed great emphasis on Special Teams.
Turnovers are a great stat, but some of that has to be chicken/egg. In other words, good teams make turnovers, rather than turnovers make good teams.
Not saying that a turnover-obsessed coach isn’t an awesome thing. But that can’t be it, or else we’d see some crap football teams going to bowls simply because they play the safest offense ever conceived. Alabama probably gets a bunch of turnovers because they get tremendous pressure with the front four, and they also guarantee their QB 6 seconds to throw every pass.
So yes, turnovers are football, but football is also turnovers.
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Kid British | KB Mixtape 2012
The Kid British boys have been quiet for a minute now but are gearing up to release some new music. In anticipation of that they’ve just dropped a free mixtape featuring some of their favourite tunes alongside also a few cheeky snippets of tracks from their forthcoming EP. Enjoy!
Tracklist
1. You Against The World – Kid British
2. Only Love – Ben Howard
3. Loft Music – The Weekend
4. One of Those Days – Kid British
5. Murder To Excellence – Jay-Z & Kanye West
6. Are U Mine? – Arctic Monkeys
7. No One Lied – Jack Penate
8. 110% – Jessie Ware
9. Sappho – Tribes
10. Back in the Game – Jamie T
11. Hands on the Wheel – SchoolBoy Q
12. Lonely – Kid British
13. Easy Skanking – Bob Marley
14. Until Monday – Kid British
15. Goldie – ASAP Rocky
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The Minister of Education Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa'i recently disclosed that the Federal Government was considering a request by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) to have the retirement age for primary and secondary school teachers increased from the current 60 years to 65.
The revelation has, understandably, been generating mixed feelings. On the surface, there is no reason why people who still feel, and are, strong and willing to work after the age of 60 should not be allowed to do so, especially given the fact that advances in medical science have enabled people to live healthier and longer these days. Moreover, the vitality of a 60-year old these days is certainly not what it used to be years back. In fact, the clamour by teachers for their retirement age to be increased seems to be in tandem with trends in some Western countries such as Britain where the government has been planning to increase the retirement age of its workers as a way of curtailing the public expenditure from many people retiring into pensions and welfare support. Remarkably, while there has been strong resistance by workers against any increase in the retirement age in such countries, in Nigeria, it is the workers that are clamouring for it.
As well-intentioned as the clamour for it may appear to be, there are strong reasons why the government should re-think the proposal. The first is that the retirement age in any country should be closely tied to the life-expectancy of its people. In this sense, raising the retirement age in say Britain to say 70 years where official life-expectancy for women is 82.6 years and 78.4 years for men, is not likely to be the same as raising the retirement age in Nigeria to 65 years where the official life-expectancy is only 47 years.
The other consideration is the need to open up the labour market to fresh blood and new thinking that often comes with youthfulness. This is especially so given the alarming rate of youth unemployment in the country and the several social problems that this brings in its wake. This argument is made more forceful because in Nigeria - as in many other developing economies - the government is often the largest employer of labour, which means that increasing the age limit blocks the career prospects of younger elements. Additionally, given the propensity of public servants for moonlighting, there is a likelihood that people whose health are already failing at 60, or whose capacity for work has diminished considerably, may continue to hang onto their jobs - just for the salary. In this way, the proposed increase in retirement age becomes counter-productive.
Rather than a blanket increase in the retirement age, there should be more creative ways of maintaining the services of people who have retired but who remain enthusiastic about their jobs and are in good health and demonstrable capacity to deliver. For instance, while raising the retirement age of certain categories of workers such as top military officers may be valid because of their specialist skills and expensive training, for the rank and file, it may be more fruitful to create a 'reserve corps' such that retired soldiers who wish to be on such service could enlist so that when required, they will be mobilised on short notice. In the same vein, for teachers and others in the public service, those who still want to continue working after attaining the official retirement age should be encouraged to explore the contract system of engagement, currently in place in many sectors of the economy.
What appears to be more urgently needed is the need for the government to pay more attention to pre-retirement trainings so that those who are retiring should be adequately prepared for life out of active service, both psychologically and in terms of providing them with new skills. Government should also ensure that retirement benefits are paid promptly, and that workers' pensions are regularly paid as and when due. This will seem to be a more efficient way of dealing with the issue of teachers who have reached official retirement age but still want to continue on the job, rather than a blanket increase in retirement age, which would more likely lead to 'me-tooism' - a too frequent occurrence in Nigeria where workers in other sectors of the economy would also start agitating for their own retirement age to be increased.
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