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Well, I hope that this centrally-dictated economic activity works better than the 20th century ones did.
Yeah, it's interesting how much that's true even in the mainly capitalist US. The most significant private-sector research was at quasi-governmental regulated monopolies, like the heydey of Bell Labs. Most research these days ends up being funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, or similar government body. Certainly most fundamental research is: I don't know of any significant physics research that's come out of the private sector since the Bell Labs days.
The problem, however with government-funded basic research is the lack of useful applications. A centrally-funded scientist has no reason -at all- to convert his discovery into an actual invention, so this will generally not happen.
Perhaps an example : in the 20th century cars were invented. The basic principle of the explosive engine, however, had long been demonstrated by "patronized" scientists (scientists working for royalty), and was generally well-known. Actual test explosion-based engines had rotated
Yeah, it's interesting how much that's true even in the mainly capitalist US. The most significant private-sector research was at quasi-governmental regulated monopolies, like the heydey of Bell Labs. Most research these days ends up being funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, or similar government body. Certainly most fundamental research is: I don't know of any significant physics research that's come out of the private sector since the Bell Labs days.
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Science is one thing that if done right under socialism works best.
Cable is another..
A major defect of capitalism is that it will tend to cater to the lowest common denominator. If everyone invests in the idea that science (evolutionary bioengineering, alternative energy development, vaccines, space exploration) is bad, then the whole economy and culture is going to go south pretty quickly. When China owns the factories and the intellectual property, things won't be looking so good.
And if Palin and Huckabee end up bickering over which day should be Jesus Day, all I can say is, good game Ame
Specifically, I'm referring to your argument that "Science is one thing that if done right under socialism works best."
Under capitalism, science is often bent to the needs of the patron/employer/investor.
Under socialism, science is often bent to the political needs of the "people" as interpreted and enforced by the government.
Neither case must necessarily lead to a poor outcome. However, it's naive to think science can be completely unfettered from the society that supports it. All forms of government and economy concentrate power into the hands of a few at the expense of the many. Those few then use that power to shape the actions of others to suit their own needs and beliefs.
Gloss: Lysenko was the director of the Lenin All-Union Institute of Agricultural Sciences, who decreed as a matter of state ideology (among other bizarre rubbish) that desirable traits in plants were not heritable, but instead could only spread through grafts and nongenetic methods. In short, he was a Lamarckian who could ruin a scientist's career, or worse, for daring question the validity of official state science.
Under Lysenko, agricultural science in the USSR was, from the late 1920s until 1964, based on ideology rather than the scientific method, and this led to uncounted misery for Soviet citizens due to massively underperforming or failed crops.
Wikipedia has a decent article about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism [wikipedia.org]
You are conflating the flaws of the early USSR (Stalin mania) with socialism. Socialism is not what that time in the USSR was, and even the Communist Party of the SU acknowledged that the time of Stalin left a lot to be desired.
"Anti-Communism" and McCarthy's idea of being a patriotic citizen of the USA is the other example of ideological hysteria dressed up as keeping society afloat.
Has anyone written about why agriculture was so different from other areas? It seems like an interesting thing to investigate. Was it just because Lysenko was personally powerful? Or because it didn't lend itself to solid, hard-to-fudge experimentation as easily? Or did similar things happen in other areas? My impression is that in physics, math, astronomy, and chemistry, Soviet research was considered top-notch, even by the west.
Agriculture held a special place in USSR governance and economic decision making (grain yields and so on). Gorbachev was helped by his experience in agriculture, among other things, on his way to 1986.
I forgot what I read on it, but it had to do with the USSR not producing enough grain and having to continually import it (with exceptions of course). They tried all sorts of solutions, including non-biological ones such as the farm legal structure and legality of growing crops for private sale. This proble
USSR not producing enough grain and having to continually import it (with exceptions of course).
While there were certainly droughts and other organic factors that affected output, the main reason for lack of grain in the 1930s was Stalin's forceful drive to convert the USSR from a primarily agricultural economy to an industrial one. Through collectivization, grain was gathered from the peasantry and traded abroad for heavy industry. This led to an industrial boom in the cities, at the immense cost of mass starvation in the countryside. Ukraine was a notable victim of this process.
Yes, there is an answer for why communism in the farm fails.
Read the eminent economist and commentator Thomas Sowell's book, "Knowledge and Decisions" for an explanation of why socialism/communism failed in the farms, and why the same reasons it failed there cause it to fail or be continually less efficient than capitalism in every other enterprise.
If you think a publicly-owned anything can do better than a private organization, you have to explain how it will use coercion to do that, because public org's ability to coerce is the only difference between them. Both public and private companies are simply groups of people. People denigrate private orgs for having personal stakes in the outcome, but what turns out to be worse is the indifference of those with no stake in an enterprises outcome such as we find in communal/public organizations.
Ultimately, what Sowell's thesis comes down to is that communal organizations face a distortion of incentive structures. If something breaks on a farm that's owned by the farmer he fixes it. If a machine breaks on a communist farm he expects someone else to fix it--he doesn't own it. He neither profits by fixing it nor loses by not fixing. Thus, the owner has incentive to do what maximizes efficiency. The communal farmer does not, and could actually be punished for trying.
But farming doesn't have a lot of room for error. And if you're drastically inefficient enough people start starving. See China and Mao's "Great Leap Forward" (into starvation apparently) which resulted in the deaths of some 20+ million Chinese.
Agricultural research != farming. GPP was talking about the former, and you jumped in with a rant about the latter
Yeah, I don't really disagree (it's hard to, really) with "Soviet forced collectivization was a mess". But it doesn't answer: why was their agricultural/bio research full of nutty stuff like Lysenkoism, while their physics/math/etc. research is pretty universally considered top-notch? It can't be something simple like "Communism is good for science" or "Communism is bad for science". It could, of course, just be luck of the draw; maybe agricultural research got unlucky with their early prominent scientists
Russia, and Eastern Europe more generally, still produce many top-notch mathematicians (two thirds of the theorems I study are named after Russians) and programmers (just look at the Google code contest finalist lists). I wonder if there's simply a cultural component, and that they simply hold those who do abstract thinking in higher esteem.
Agriculture? What is it? How did it arise? The basis of civilization or so many often say. Forethought, planning, experimentation, settlement versus nomadic hunter gatherers, and on and on. If you subscribe to the idea that agriculture arose in the Mediterranean about 12K yrs ago then it's likely it arose because our dumb ass ancestors stumbled across Polyploidy crops [wikipedia.org]. The Mediterranean then was somewhat different. It may have been a transitory ecotone [wikipedia.org]. There's a theory that the Sahara Desert acted as a gia
ability to coerce is *not* the only difference between a private and a public organization.
First, you disregard any ability by the people to decide anything through socialism, that is.. democracy. so while you may consider the participation of the minority "coercion", such as your paying taxes for a road system, it's not coercion without any feedback loop. so in fact to call it coercion is a bit disingenuous. You could just as easily call it "group decisionmaking". especially under a more ideal democratic system, since we're dreaming up a theoretical situation here.
Secondly, efficiency is not the key element that is important in research. research is, almost by definition, inefficient. it requires an organization to blindly spend money to achieve an unnamed benefit. that will never happen for long under a private enterprise specifically because it is inefficient, and there will always be more efficient and sure ways to generate a return on investment than a capital-holding entity can capitalize on. examples abound in this very discussion.
note that's research, not development. but even development is constrained by apparent market value instead of public good. So, for example, drugs to treat elective illnesses experienced by the rich receive preferential attention from for-profit drug manufacturers (Viagra, hair loss) instead of actual cures for illnesses that may be much more severe but either less widespread or primarily among poor populations. "Inefficient" development could and does still yield better outcomes for public good.
The free market caters to money, not people. "Efficiency" is simply code for "best financial return". But those two concepts are not truly synonymous, and in research, it's not a core value. It's not even a particularly important one. If you want to figure out how to make the Widget X that everyone needs, the free market is good for that IF there is a return on investment in financial terms.
what's good for capital is not always what is best for people. especially when fewer and fewer people hold more and more of the capital, as has been the progression here in america, at least, for the last 50 years.
Secondly, efficiency is not the key element that is important in research. research is, almost by definition, inefficient. it requires an organization to blindly spend money to achieve an unnamed benefit. that will never happen for long under a private enterprise specifically because it is inefficient, and there will always be more efficient and sure ways to generate a return on investment than a capital-holding entity can capitalize on. examples abound in this very discussion.
This summarizes what I see as the flaws in your argument. The key element of research, like many nearly pure economic activities, is return on investment. It is not a "blind" gamble. It does not yield an "unnamed" benefit (at the least, the output is named "research", "science", "knowledge", "progress", etc). There are plenty of private organizations that do some pretty abstract research, for example, SETI Institute or the Santa Fe Institute. Most colleges are private and lists of the top R&D schools te
First, you disregard any ability by the people to decide anything through socialism, that is.. democracy. so while you may consider the participation of the minority "coercion", such as your paying taxes for a road system, it's not coercion without any feedback loop. so in fact to call it coercion is a bit disingenuous. You could just as easily call it "group decisionmaking". especially under a more ideal democratic system, since we're dreaming up a theoretical situation here.
Come to think of it, a private organization can do democracy too. That's usually how professional societies are run, for example. Government is not unique (and many governments are not democracies!) in this respect. And yes, government force is coercion. I consider it rather disingenuous to claim otherwise just because there is a small degree of control through elections.
Russia isn't really socialist anymore.
The SU collapsed and the new Russia is ad capitalistic as it's euro neighbors.
If science is a socialist thing, then it is about the research and the ability to do something, rather than the added complexity of having what you find to be applicable to your sponsor.
I think most innovation occurs without a "sponsor" of the sort you're talking about. That is to say, I think most innovation happens when the source material (the ideas, research, infrastructure, etc.) is cheap or free, as would occur inside an existing organization, but importantly, there also needs to be no imposed mission other than to make money. An enterprise (almost) always wants innovative ideas/applications to fit their current business model, and this means the vast majority of workable innovativ
Well there was that whole 'first man in space' thing.
See also, Yuri Gagarin [wikipedia.org]
I think you are mistaking socialism with a mature and financially stable company.
Bell back in the regulated monopoly days was with out a doubt mature and financially stable. They could do research that might not pay off for 30 years because they knew they would be around in 30 years to benefit from it. They also built infrastructure that would last for decades even if it cost more for that same reason.
IBM still produces a lot of basic science for that same reason. They believe that they will be around for another 100 years. GE, DuPont, and Dow chemical used to and probably still do a lot of basic research for that same reason. They are mature and frankly a lot of their profitability is based on science so they benefit from research.
Even folks like Chrysler back in the 50s got into some pretty wild stuff. Did you know the rocket that launched the first US satellite and the first Mercury sub orbital flight was made by Chrysler?
Intel is probably reaching the level of maturity and long term profitably that they will start doing a lot of long term research.
The problem is that the best research will come from companies that do some kind of manufacturing which the US is doing less and less of.
Take Apple for example. They are not a manufacturing company they are closer to a fashion design house combined with a software developer. Nothing wrong with it but they just don't make stuff. They make pretty packages that they pay other people to fill with stuff Intel and others make. I honestly don't expect anything really ground breaking from them.
Science is one thing that if done right under socialism works best.
Except that science can't be "done right under socialism".
The problem is that under socialism, you get scientist like Dr. Floyd Ferris from "Atlas Shrugged". It's not a black and white switch, and there are lots of gray areas, but under a capitalist system there is a constant drive to turn a discovery into a usable, marketable invention. IOW, you have to actually solve a problem that people are having. A socialist system removes that drive.
A socialist system replaces the drive to convince other sentient
Well, I hope that this centrally-dictated economic activity works better than the 20th century ones did.
It doesn't work when corruption is rampant all the way up to the top, and there is no institutionalized mechanism of repression as there was in USSR (where large scale economic crimes could carry death penalty). Which is the case in today's Russia.
It's not the first time they tout something as a "Russian Silicon Valley", either. There was a project in Siberia, and then there was Dubna. They've actually built some infrastructure in both cases, and both ended up as failures.
The reason is very simple. If you d
The whole country needs some sort of breakthrough,' says Viktor F. Vekselberg, the Russian business oligarch appointed co-director of the project.
The new boss, same as the old boss.
Silicon valley was not a government project. And starting a state run program to create what happened spontaneously elsewhere in an environment where competition and markets prevailed is doomed to failure.
Great way to build a moon rocket or a hydroelectric Dam, and to copy other technology, but hardly the way to spark creativity and new inventions.
It's nothing more that "cargo cult" development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult [wikipedia.org]
... unless they pack it into one giant building and call it an arcology.
I'll rather have that arcology in Cairo.
Humanity has no experience establishing communities that don't have endemic corruption and government mismanagement. If anything that is what is going to sink this project.
Earlier Russian scientific communities were, for all the lip service paid to science, really dedicated to furthering atomic weaponry. There was never a great diversity of scientific exploration going on within them, and Russia thus has no experience with establishing communities that can actually create profitable technologies that will boost the country's economy.
Another way of saying is just that they missed the IT train. But to dismiss their level in aeronautics, space, physics (tokamaks anyone ?) is a bit exaggerated. I think that through this plan they will try to come back on the IT scene and that they have good opportunities for that. We all know about the Russian hackers, it means that they have a wealth of capable and educated people there.
As a programmer living in Russia I can tell you that nobody here believes in this plan. Forget the plan, nobody believes that intentions of this project are other than getting budget funds and sharing them among fellow "companies".
Besides, this is not the first time (4rth, IIRC) the "Silicon Valley" is being built here, so nobody seems to give a crap anymore.
I don't think the venture capitalists will bite.
I'm all for laissez-faire, but rather than building a city based on taking that philosophy to the extreme (in mother Russia, the government PAYS tax to the business), they could pass laws to make the whole country more business friendly. Small business hate red tape because it stifles their growth, large business secretly love red tape because startups cannot navigate around it.
Everybody knows those business friendly cities are merely bait and switch anyways.
I'm all for laissez-faire, but rather than building a city based on taking that philosophy to the extreme (in mother Russia, the government PAYS tax to the business), they could pass laws to make the whole country more business friendly. Small business hate red tape because it stifles their growth, large business secretly love red tape because startups cannot navigate around it.
You know who loves red tape even more than big businesses? Government bureaucrats, who can use it to extort bribes (so that wheels finally start to get turning).
And here's the fun fact: in Russia, today, there are more (depending on who you ask, by anywhere from 1.5x to 3.x) government bureaucrats than there was in the USSR - with a population less than half of the latter.
If the next Google is founded there and their yearly income is measured in billions, do you think Russian regulators will still extol the virtues of tax holidays?
They'd most likely change the tax laws retroactively, send you a huge bill (plus penalties, plus interest, plus interest on the penalties) totalling ten times the entire world's GNP[1], seize the company and then sell it in an open auction with only one bidder who happens to be one of Putin's puppets.
If you're lucky.
Was never built. It grew.
The initial conditions for Silicon Valley's growth arose through dumb luck. There's no reason why you couldn't replicate those conditions with a planned approach. So it could work - but I don't think it will, since this is Russia we're talking about.
putting a group if geeks in one spot and throwing money at it wont work, the Japanese did the same and it failed miserable. You have to have not only bright scientists but people who know how to manage and sell the ideas that are created by these people.
No, not marketers. They will ruin a good idea faster then just throwing money at scientists.
What you need is direction and goals. A person who is capable of evaluating results and pouring the resources into that project or if need by stopping a project
I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds. They're the limiting reagents in the reaction that produces startups, because they're the only ones present when startups get started. Everyone else will move.
Personally, I think there need to realistically be three things, in proper order
These three conspire to attract rich people and nerds as the article states. That SUN (Stanford University Network), HP and Google are directly from Stanford, and that Oracle got it's start as a government project are quite good examples.
Paul Graham also writes [paulgraham.com] that it might actually be possible to buy a Silicon Valley, or something very close to it, by investing a billion dollars or so in a city with the right environment that will be conducive to the growth of startups. Perhaps someone in Russia read Graham's article and decided that they had the kind of political will (which Graham says is so unlikely) to pull it off.
Having a government "plan" a silicon valley is like trying to cook by throwing all the ingredients in a pot, turning on the heat and hoping for the best.
Which after all is a proposition with better chances of succeeding than just standing in the kitchen staring at the ingredients.
(also it worked for the Manhattan project, CERN etc.)
Ask the libertarian if he will house a prisoner, and he will say "NO!"
Ask the libertarian if he will repair his road, and he will say "NO!"
Ask the libertarian if he will give up his medicare, and he will say "NO!"
Ask the libertarian if he would abolish government, and he will say "YES!"
Geeks and nerds like the free range freedoms of the USA not gilded gulags.
I think you've been misled/brainwashed by US propaganda. Geeks and nerds love the gilded gulag of their mom's basement.
Geeks and nerds like the free range freedoms of the USA not gilded gulags.
Then why do they go to grad school? Hell, it would seem that this is precisely running away from capitalism. Why do they accept small government-funded stipends instead of better salaries in industry?
Science incubators and technology districts are usually the buzzwords evocated by politicians and real-estate investors. Hewlett and Packard years ago demonstrated that, to start a succesful company, everything you need are a bright idea [hp.com] and a garage [hp.com]. I still have to meet a politicians with 1/1000 of the genius of these guys.
Dear former Soviet Socialists,
It doesn't work like that. You don't plan things like Silicon Valley, they are just things that happen. Silicon Valley itself is something that nobody should deliberately emulate. The fact that it is the home of many successful tech companies is simply a bizarre freak of nature. Otherwise, it's just a strange congested-but-also-not-dense piece of land. There's nothing inherently technological or successful about it. It's just a patch of land that's not really in the mountains a
It's not a silly idea. Russia is positioning itself as an "energy power", and energy projects need heavy industrial infrastructure. The USSR was good at that.
Fusion would be a good goal. Or thorium reactors. That's a problem that may yield to organized, determined effort and money. The USSR still has a big nuclear program, and resources to draw upon.
This will be another manner, in which government money will be pumped into the pockets of the government officials.
It has been proposed by the government there that in order to 'promote' innovation, the firms, who will be allowed to enter the zone will be selected by government officials. In the zone they will not have to pay taxes I think but the most important aspect of this is that whoever is in the zone will be getting government contracts WITHOUT any competition. So that tells you everything you need to know about what will happen. The firms selected will be the ones close to the government officials selecting them and they will get the contracts for any 'innovations', which in reality will not promote any innovation, except one type of innovation: an easier way to siphon money for the politicians and their friends/relatives/people with the right attitude towards doing business, if you know what I mean.
I have an IT background and a decade of experience working with/for Russian government IT-related agencies.
There're several cities in Russia with strong academic traditions which were the analogue of Silicon Valley during Soviet times (Novosibirsk is the best known of all).
There're cities near Moscow which even have high-tech-production infrastructure (Zelenograd, a "microchip city" of Soviet times) - they are not being used.
What government does is building "Silicon Valley" in a empty field near Moscow - easier to launder money this way.
I'm willing to bet a thousand bucks that there are only three possible outcomes:
1) 90% of funding laundered to offshore banks, 10% is spent on administrative expenses (shiny sport cars for management), project is silently closed and written off;
2) 90% of funding laundered to offshore banks, 10% is spent on administrative expenses (shiny sport cars for management), scape goat it found and publicly spanked (but not too hard), project is closed and written off;
3) 90% of funding laundered to offshore banks, 5% is spent on administrative expenses (shiny sport cars for management), 5% is spent to build a couple of buildings and hire 10 scientific-looking guys. They are made into media stars to show how great new "Silicon Valley" is. Project is declared a huge success. After a year the funding is cut, project is silently closed and written off.
There's no other possible outcome given the amount of corruption in Russia and this government track record.
I can assure you, actual Silicon Valley for most of 90's was exactly what you are describing.
Except with Federal Reserve pumping debt into stock market and real estate "prices" compensated for this, so no one bothered with offshoring. Actual progress happened despite all this money-shuffling game.
It's not about VC and it's not about suburbia.
Russia, unfortunately, doesn't have strong enforcement of the rule of law, and it doesn't acknowledge intellectual property rights.
As much as I think long term software patents are B.S., a much shorter term protection for software and an period of protection aligned with that of other W.T.O. members would go a long way towards opening up Russia to business, and a long way to stopping the "brain drain" their politicians are complaining about. The normalization a
Uh, are they really still trying to be build communist utopias in capitalist Russia? Perhaps I'm missing something but this sounds like a planned city with a state run economy. It's almost the opposite of Silicon Valley. In large part Silicon Valley developed because of the conditions around it that fostered entrepreneurship (e.g. proximity of smart, relatively wealthy kids with lots of spare time at nearby colleges, good research facilities, etc). If Russia finds a location to replicate the conditions
Relax, they do not hope to create a new Silicon Valley. They are not that dumb. Putin, for one, is pretty smart guy and he knows it's not going to work. It's not the first time, you know. There were a host of other so called 'national projects' before this. (Nanotechnology, anyone?) What this really is a way to siphon government money into private pockets of government officials, create some impression of work they do, and boost morale and pride of the general populace as a bonus side effect. It's much easi
A city with the sprawling suburban charm of San Jose with
Where do I sign up?
The "Russian tradition of building secret towns?" Towns like Oak Ridge, TN, or Los Alamos, NM, or Hanford, WA, maybe? Explain again how this project is doomed to fail as a government effort to make a technological leap. On the contrary, our own experience is great success doing this sort of thing. Nor is this an American peculiarity--the Germans very successfully built an entire town at Peenemunde to develop and construct V-2 rockets. In fact, here in America we capitalized on this success by moving its authors, notably Werner von Braun, to Huntsville, AL where we created yet another failed government experiment to land men on the moon...
I'm thinking that people should read a bit less Ayn Rand science fiction and a bit more actual history.
They should have modeled it after Eureka [wikipedia.org], a town made-up almost entirely of geniuses.
'In California, the climate is beautiful and they don't have the ridiculous problems of Russia,' says Andrey Shtorkh, publicist for the new venture, adding that to compete, Russia will form a place apart for scientists. 'They should be isolated from our reality.'"
While I certainly won't disagree that California seems to be isolated from everyone else's reality, I think he has it backwards in that scientists should be isolated. The hell they should! Scientists need to be in society to see what problems it faces and be inspired to find solutions for them. By isolating them, you are effectively removing some of the best stimulus available for them.
Not only that, but the economy is the best way to determine the feasibility of a product. So what they've done here is to guarantee every crack pot scheme ( and face it, fellow scientists, we have a lot of them. Even if they seem AWESOME to us at the time, we do come up with some doosies ) gets an equal shake with a genuine idea.
I don't see this ending well for them, but I hope I'm wrong.
Yes, clearly the human species needs more distance from reality. It's not like ignoring reality created all of our problems so far.
If the whole country needs a breakthrough, I propose it be that russians stop being so scummy and criminalistic.
The power vacuum left the whole country like the wild west.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Day Four of the Bucknell-Penn Alumni Bike Race Across America for Scholarship is seeing Team Bucknell make steady progress through Arizona's mountains and desert — with cooler temperatures and encouragement from U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Today's destination is Kayenta, Ariz., and, after about 150 miles of pedaling, the cycling squad will have completed 666 miles of the 3,050-mile coast-to-coast trek. The goal is to complete the ride in 19 days and raise $1 million each for scholarships for Bucknell and the University of Pennsylvania.
As the three generations of Bucknell alumni report on their Web site, Tuesday's ride was much cooler than the 100-plus-degree temperatures they faced early in the ride.
Refreshingly cooler
"Amazingly, the 92 degree midday sun was refreshingly cooler than the previous day," the team posted. "With camera's flashing and bike brakes screeching, the riders marveled at the surrounding vistas."
"From the arid, cactus-laden deserts, up through mountain forests, and across a massive expanse of cliffs exposing veins of red and gold rock, Arizona provided the Alumni Bike Race team with pleasantly diverse backdrops and an exciting third day," the post added.
No incidents were reported on Day Three, but their Web site noted that updates were sporadic because of the lack of Internet access in remote areas.
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The group, too, received a letter from U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) wishing the riders good luck on their trek.
"I applaud your efforts to help educate the youth of America and wish you continued future success," Obama said, noting, with obvious pleasure, that the riders would pass through 14 states, including his home state, the "great state of Illinois."
Walter McConnell '53, who will turn 76 next month, blogged about reaching the summit of Prescott National Forest and seeing a sign saying the next 12 miles were down hill. "Wow! Winding curves with speeds up to 38 mph. Talk about a thrill and the scenery of colorful mountains across the valley," he wrote.
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MDDCCUA Delegates Provide Governance Support in Nicaragua
August 07, 2007
Washington, DC—As part of their international partnership through World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU), two delegates from the Maryland and District of Columbia Credit Union Association (MDDCCUA) traveled to Nicaragua last month to assist the Central Service Organization of Nicaragua (CSO) in the area of governance. The trip was a follow-up to CSO's visit to Washington, DC, in June.
The lack of regulation and supervision in Nicaragua makes governance a hard problem to tackle. Some Nicaraguan credit unions have struggled with maintaining financial disciplines, and overcoming these problems has been made more difficult by inadequate oversight mechanisms.
John Link, Treasurer of Agriculture Federal Credit Union, and Michael DiGennaro, a member of Federal Reserve Board Federal Credit Union's nominating committee, spent three days visiting credit unions and working with CSO staff in Nicaragua to devise a system that would help credit union boards of directors recruit and nominate qualified candidates.
The group first worked with CSO to provide specific recommendations to credit unions for establishing, implementing and regulating the functions of the nominating committee, including election procedures for volunteers, recruitment and selection of board members and minimum qualification standards, all within the framework of credit union bylaws. The group then presented their findings and recommendations to Nicaraguan credit unions.
Chris McHugh, Chief Financial Officer of CSO, and Juan Altamirano, CEO of CSO, both played important roles in helping the team complete the objectives. They provided background of the Nicaraguan credit union movement and an assessment of the movement's operating conditions. McHugh and Altamirano also shed light on the provisions of Nicaragua's Cooperative Act, which have high quorum requirements and call for a number of pre- assemblies before annual meetings.
Link and DiGennaro gained first-hand experience of the system when they visited two credit unions in Estelí and Sébaco. Credit union staff at both locations explained that volunteers are traditionally nominated from the floor of the annual meetings, and the membership has little information about the candidates to make informed electoral decisions. "The idea of a nominating committee is new in Nicaragua, and, at first, it was somewhat misunderstood," McHugh explained. "What we had to make clear in this process was that the nominating committees aren't so much a filter as they are a means to generate interest among the membership to become volunteers and to enrich the electoral process by providing more information to the membership about the candidates."
Link and DiGennaro presented their findings and suggestions to a group of Nicaraguan credit unions. Link spoke about "first principles" governance with the main message, "Boards govern, managers manage, and members own." In his presentation, he covered credit union history and the evolving roles of volunteers and hired staff. DiGennaro discussed the basic functions of the nominating committee: determining candidate qualification criteria, recruiting, evaluating candidates and presenting candidates to the membership.
"Our Nicaraguan counterparts saw that a nominating committee could help their boards achieve the balanced representation and skill sets necessary for healthy, functional credit union governance without trampling on principles of egalitarianism in the committees' candidate recruitment," DiGennaro said. He indicated that the next step will be for the Nicaraguan credit union system to adapt the concepts they shared into the cultural context of their country.
The MDDCCUA and CSO have been partners through WOCCU's International Partnerships program since 2002. The partnership was developed to promote the exchange of experience, ideas, and knowledge in order to benefit all of the member credit unions and movements involved.
World Council of Credit Unions is the global trade association and development agency for credit unions. World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to empower people through access to high quality and affordable financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the global credit union system before international organizations and works with national governments to improve legislation and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions' financial performance and increase their outreach.
World Council has implemented 300+ technical assistance programs in 89 countries. Worldwide, 68,882 credit unions in 109 countries serve 235 million people. Learn more about World Council's impact around the world at www.woccu.org.


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Actor, director, and producer Bob Balaban talks about his newly-published book, The Creature From the Seventh Grade, on Overheard with Evan Smith at 12:30 pm Sunday.
Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert at The O2 at 6 pm Sunday celebrates the opera's 25th birthday with an extraordinary one-off concert at the O2 Arena in London.
POV presents Patti Smith: Dream of Life at 9 pm Monday, a documentary that reflects an intimate portrait of the legendary rocker, poet and artist. The film is an impressionistic journal of a multi-faceted artist that underscores her unique place in American culture.
American Masters features Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound at 7 pm Tuesday, a film that displays Baez' may years as a musician, her power as an artist, those who influenced her and those she influenced.
Singer and songwriter, Elle King, perform live in KLRU's historic Studio 6A at 8:30 pm Tuesday on Arts In Context.
On Story presents Creators at 10 pm Tuesday, where Bones creator Hart Hanson and Veronica Mars and Party Down creator Rob Thomas discuss the creation of a successful TV series. Followed by the short films "0507" by Ben and Chris Blaine and "Smile" by Lauren Elmer.
Arts In Context presents Design at 10:30 pm Tuesday and demonstrates how artists focus their talents on designing many of the spaces often taken for granted.
Nature's The Loneliest Animals at 7 pm Wednesday presents the most endangered species on the planet.
NOVA Smartest Machine On Earth at 8 pm Wednesday takes viewers inside an IBM lab where a crack team has been working for nearly three years to perfect a machine that can answer any question and present the exclusive inside story of how the IBM team developed the world's smartest computer from scratch.
Secrets of the Dead The World's Biggest Bomb at 9 pm Wednesday tells the story of the dangerous race that engaged in the beginning of the 1950s between American and Soviet scientists to see who could build and detonate the world's largest bomb.
Austin City Limits at 10 pm Wednesday welcomes the cream of underground rock with The National and Band of Horses.
Kasim Reed, mayor of Atlanta and a rising star in the Democratic Party, talks politics on Overheard with Evan Smith at 7 pm Thursday.
Arts In Context presents Hold My Hand at 7:30 Thursday. The film shares the story of Sharon Marroquin, an Award-winning dancer whose life drastically changed when she was diagnosed with cancer and how she uses her art as an expression of her personal struggle.
On The Mind of a Chef at 8 pm Thursday, savor an entire episode devoted to Soy. David Chang visits tofu and miso factories in Japan, Chef Christina Tosi makes burnt miso apple pie, Laurent Gras takes on tofu, Chang makes his classic corn miso and the Torrisi boys compare making tofu to making mozzarella.
The Daytripper at 8:30 pm Thursday travels to Bay Area Houston.
PBS Arts From Cleveland: Women Who Rock at 9 pm Friday traces the earliest women musicians from the 1920's to the mega stars of today.
How can you grow your best vegetables? Horticulturist Greg Grant shows you how from the ground up on Central Texas Gardener at noon Saturday.
Austin City Limits presents new American acoustic music at 7 pm Saturday with The Civil Wars and Punch Brothers. The Civil Wars will play tunes fro their Grammy-winning album, Barton Hollow. Punch Brothers showcase their latest, Who's Feeling Young Now?
Masterpiece features Sharpe's Challenge at 8 pm Saturday. Sean Bean returns as British soldier-hero Richard Sharpe, a rough diamond who has risen through the ranks of the army on the back of his brave exploits. A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatches from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Sharpe is sent to what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date in "Sharpe's Challenge."


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Dynamo Kiev got back to winning ways in the Champions League after dispatching Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 at the Olympic Stadium on Wednesday night.
The Ukrainians were taken apart 4-1 by Paris Saint Germain on the opening matchday, but there were no signs of such a scoreline repeating itself as they dominated from start to finish.
Oleh Husyey headed the home side into an early advantage ofter only three minutes, before an own goal from Josip Pivaric ended the challenge of te Croatian visitors after barely half an hour.
Only Kiev's profligacy cost them a third goal in the second half, but they nevertheless claimed a vital three points that puts them back into the hunt for qualification from Group A by drawing level with PSG, while Zagreb sink to the bottom of the standings without a single point.
The home side came flying out of the gates and needed only two minutes to take the lead. Ognjen Vukojevic sent a good cross into the hear t of the area, from which Husyev needed no second invitation to head home.
They almost had another goal right from the restart, as Miguel Veloso fed Ideye Brown with a delicious ball into the area, but his header was tipped just over the bar by Ivan Keleva.
Kiev though soon took their foot off the gas after their bright early start, and allowed Zagreb to gain a foothold in the game.
Fatos Beciraj found himself in a great position as he skipped past keeper Oleksander Shovkovski at an angle, but his delivery was just missed by the onrushing Marcelo Brozovic.
But Kiev would soon hit back. Veloso brought the very best out of Keleva with a swerving free kick on the half hour mark, and two minutes later, they would force their second.
Taye Taiwos cross seemed harmless, but an unfortunate intervention from Zagreb defender Pivaric wrongfooted Keleva and nestled into the back of the net.
It could have b een 3-0 two minutes before half time, but Andriy Yarmolenko failed to properly connect with a delivery from Brown in a gilt-edged position right in front of goal.
Shovkovski had his first save to make minutes after the restart, smothering a vicious attempt from substitute Duje Cop, who tested the Kiev keeper again moments later when chasing down his sloppy clearance.
But it proved to be something of an aberration, as the clear superiority of Kiev over the beleaguered visitors endured as the second half wore on.
Another good delivery from Husyev was scuffed by Yarmolenko, before the goalscorer took matters into his own hands with a testing drive that was tipped by Keleva.
The chances continued to fall Kievs way. Veloso blasted just wide, before Brown beat Keleva with a deft chip, only for Tonel to race back and hack clear off the line.
The goalmouth action dried up as the match entered its closing stages, and the hosts played out the la st moments in confidence, knowing that the points were long safe.
Next up for Kiev is a trip to Portugal to face Porto, while Zagreb welcome PSG to the Maksimir stadium. Both matches take place in three weeks.


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Richard D. Childs, 68, of Traer died on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at Allen Hospital in Waterloo from a lengthy illness. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, March 21 at 10:30 AM at Christ Lutheran Church in Gladbrook.
Richard Dennis Childs was born July 15, 1944 to Floyd and Garrnett (Bird) Childs in the family farm house. Richard attended the country school Perry #5 (Stormy point) until the 2nd grade. Richard then attended North Tama school 3rd to 12 grade, and graduated in 1962. Richard was involved in the projector club through high school, spending many hours in the shop class, where he built one of the green barge box wagons. After school and after graduation Richard was very involved in the operation of the family farm. Graduating from school Richard went to work at the local Case Dealership for Lyle Culp. Richard worked for many of the surrounding neighbors. Richard was drafted to Vietnam, was stationed in Panama as a mechanic, for the tanks, jeeps, and trucks. After his two year term, Richard returned to the farm. Spring of 1968 Richard took over the Childs farm and made it his passion of life. In 1969 Richard bought his first combine and began his custom harvesting. Through out the years Richard has spent many hours in the custom work business, from the harvesting, plowing, and mechanics. Richard was married on August 8, 1980 to Lori Ann Meether. They had two sons Jason and Justin. Richard enjoyed involving his two sons in the family farm operation. Richard also visited with friends and neighbors, and was always on the hunt for the best bargain. Richard and his boys love going to salvage yards.
Richard is preceded in death by his parents, Floyd and Garrnett Childs; two sisters, Donna (Knapp) Childs and Gloria (Peters) Childs; and a brother, John Childs.
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Richard is survived by a brother, Tom Childs; a sister Sandra Childs; and two sons, Jason and Justin Childs.
Online condolences may be left for the family by visiting: www.iowacremation.com


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Clearwire Plans Silicon Valley "Sandbox" WiMax Net 37
CWmike writes "Clearwire is teaming up with Google, Cisco and Intel to build a WiMax network in Silicon Valley for software developers to try out new applications on the 4G mobile broadband technology. The network will cover the three companies' campuses and the region in between them and will span roughly 20 square miles, Clearwire's Ben Wolff said in a keynote address at the CTIA Wireless show. No public access was mentioned, but Clearwire has forecast expanding its commercial WiMax service to the SF Bay Area next year."


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early 15c., "a cheat, a mean ruse," from Old North French trique "trick, deceit, treachery, cheating," from trikier "to deceive, to cheat," variant of Old French trichier, probably from Vulgar Latin *triccare, from Latin tricari "be evasive, shuffle," from tricæ "trifles, nonsense, a tangle of difficulties," of unknown origin.
Meaning "a roguish prank" is recorded from 1580s; sense of "the art of doing something" is first attested 1610s. Meaning "prostitute's client" is first attested 1915; earlier it was U.S. slang for "a robbery" (1865). Trick-or-treat is recorded from 1942.
1590s, from trick (v.). Related: Tricked; tricking. An earlier sense of "to dress, adorn" (c.1500) is perhaps a different word entirely.
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Cirque du Soleil ofrece dosieres de prensa de sus distintos espectáculos e información sobre la empresa.
David Shiner loves to make people laugh but he takes the art of clowning seriously. "In essence the clown is a character who helps us keep in touch with the sacred part of ourselves," he explains. "It's a difficult part to play. At the core of the character is longing and the wish to find meaning in life."
David Shiner, who is best known as a clown, started out as a street mime in Paris and his career really took off in 1984 when was discovered at the renowned circus festival Cirque de Demain. He went on to perform with a succession of well-known companies including the German troupe Circus Roncalli and the Swiss National company Circus Knie. Between circus engagements he toured with Cirque du Soleil veteran René Bazinet performing the two-man show they created.
David's first formal association with Cirque du Soleil came in 1990, when he performed in Nouvelle Expérience, touring for 19 months throughout Canada and the USA and playing for another year in Las Vegas. Thanks to such antics as stepping through, on and over much of the audience and his classic improv-based staging of a mock silent-movie melodrama with four members of the audience, he is probably the best-remembered of Cirque's clowns. The production was filmed for HBO in 1991 and his other television performances include numerous appearances on The Tonight Show.
David made his feature film debut in 1992, playing the part of a clown in Lorenzo's Oil, and the following year he played straight man to Bill Irwin in Sam Shepard's Silent Tongue. He and Irwin then created the two-man, wordless show Fool Moon, featuring music by the Red Clay Ramblers, who had also performed in Silent Tongue. This evening of 'inspired lunacy' ran from 1992 to 1999, including three separate runs on Broadway. Fool Moon won a special Tony Award for Live Theatrical Presentation in 1999, a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, and an Outer Critics Circle Special Achievement Award.
In 2000 David originated the role of the Cat in the Hat, the host and guide of the Broadway stage musical Seussical. With the support of a grant from the Pugh Foundation he went on to develop a show at Seattle's ACT Theatre and later adapted part of that show for his one-man production David Shiner in the Round,
"KOOZA is about human connection and the world of duality, good and bad," says David. "The tone is fun and funny, light and open. The show doesn't take itself too seriously, but it's very much about ideas, too. As it evolves we are exploring concepts such as fear, identity, recognition and power."
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The Indiana Senate amended a bill that would require vaginal ultrasounds for many women seeking abortions. The original bill called for such a procedure, even if doctors don't consider it necessary, both before and after an RU-486 abortion. Now they've cut that down to just one.
A proposed requirement that doctors must try to perform a second ultrasound exam on women after they received abortion-inducing drugs was dropped Monday by the Indiana Senate.
In the bill on abortion pill regulations, doctors still would have to perform an ultrasound exam on the woman before providing the drugs, which opponents say is a step that wrongly interferes in medical decisions between a doctor and patient. The bill also requires doctors to schedule a follow-up visit about two weeks after providing the abortion medication, but the woman is not required to show up.
Senators, in a unanimous voice vote, approved the change in the bill that would force clinics that provide only abortion drugs to have the same facilities and equipment as surgical abortion clinics.
And you might want to turn off your irony meters for this one:
Sen. Ron Alting, R-Lafayette, sponsored the move to drop the second ultrasound and replace it with a requirement that doctors perform "appropriate testing." Alting said that would give doctors the option of performing blood or urine tests on their patients.
"I think that physicians know a little bit more about that particular area than legislators," Alting said.
Seriously? If you really meant that, this whole bill would be dead.


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NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook 72
|NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook
|Dentler Jason
|Packt Publishing
|The ultimate "how-to" reference for NHibernate 3.0
As far as content goes, there is a lot of useful content in this book. The author presents 70 different recipes for activites that range from the basic (i.e. your first class-to-database mappings) to the unusual (i.e. using NHibernate Spatial for solving distance-related problems.) The author offers plenty of good text in most of these, but again-- don't be upset by the placement of the high-level material. It's all there, it's just placed a little differently than what you'd find in most technical books.
The book is easy to read. The text is plain and straight to the point, and the author's writing style is quite readable. The code examples are likewise clean and well-formatted. (By the way, I'd urge you to go to Packt's site to get the source bundle if you buy the book. There's a lot of code referenced, you certainly wouldn't want to type it all by hand if you can get it handed to you.) The book runs a little over 300 pages, and most of the type is generously spaced. This is not a strong theoretical reference, but it is more than adequate as a primer for the vast majority of the tasks you'd want to accomplish with NHibernate.
So who is this book good for? I'd give it high marks for .Net developers who want to use NHibernate, regardless of experience level with the tool. I say that because there are enough use cases presented that there is almost certainly a subset of new material for almost anyone. How about Java Hibernate users? I think it's a decent book for them-- NHibernate is a very close port of the base product, so a Java user can get something out of this book, too. (For that crowd, this would obviously not be a good primary choice, but is worthwhile reading if you already have a Java go-to reference for Hibernate.) For anyone else wanting a good high-level overview of ORM use-- I'd say this book is only of marginal value. This is because the bulk of the explanatory material is presented in the context of 'how to' accomplish some particular task and isn't easily accessible without skipping from recipe to recipe.
By the way, lest you think NHibernate is only for .Net devs, I mostly ran the code samples under MonoDevelop on Ubuntu. This was my first adventure with MonoDevelop (the open source IDE for Mono, which itself is an open source, multi-platform port of .Net.) I was pleasantly surprised by the level of polish in the development environment, it really is a nice environment. Again, if you're a Java developer, I'd consider this book a decent learning supplement but would not recommend it as a primary for Hibernate proper.
You can purchase NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.


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Taiwan hospital transplants 5 HIV-infected organs
By ANNIE HUANG - Associated Press | AP – 14 mins ago
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — One of Taiwan's best regarded hospitals transplanted organs from an HIV carrier into five patients, a hospital official said Monday, in what appears to be one of the most egregious examples of medical negligence in the island's modern history.
The five are now being treated with anti-AIDS drugs, said the official at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because she is not authorized to deal with the media.
In a posting on its website over the weekend, the hospital said the mistake occurred because a transplant staffer believed he heard the English word "non-reactive" on the donor's standard HIV test, which means negative, while the word "reactive" was actually given.
The hospital added that the information on the test result was given over the telephone and was not double-checked, as required by standard operating procedures.
"We deeply apologize for the mistake," the hospital said.
Shih Chung-liang, a Health Department official, said a department team will look into the mistaken transplants and decide on possible penalties for NTUH. If negligence was found to have caused the blunder, Shih said the hospital may have to suspend its transplant programs for up to a year in addition to unspecified fines.
The donor was a 37-year-old man who fell into a coma on Aug. 24 and his heart, liver, lungs and two kidneys were transplanted to five patients on the same day. The heart transplant was conducted at another hospital, while the four other transplants were conducted at NTUH, according to NTUH.
The donor's mother, who was not identified, told cable news stations that she felt terrible about the transplants and had not been aware of her son's ailment. She said he died after "falling from a high spot," without providing details.
Yao Ke-wu, who heads the health department of Hsinchu city, where the donor resided, decried the NTUH transplants as "appalling negligence."
He said NTUH staffers could have avoided the mistake by asking his department about the donor's medical history in advance, and deplored that such inquiries were not mandatory in Taiwan.
Yao said the five organ receivers will very likely contract HIV, and their anti-AIDS treatment will be further complicated because they also have to take medication to modify rejection of the new organs.
The five recipients are all Taiwanese. NTUH is among about a dozen well-equipped and highly-respected Taiwanese hospitals offering organ transplants.
There are also concerns among the physicians and nurses who conducted the transplants that they too may contract HIV. Medical staffers routinely take protections against bodily fluids during surgeries, but some experts also warned needle and other accidential cuts could still expose them to HIV.
Lee Nan-yao, a physician with the National Chengkung University Hospital, which performed the heart transplant, told the United Daily News that some physicians and nurses who had conducted the transplant "were depressed, and on the verge of panic."


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Route Melbourne to Bangkok.
Aircraft Boeing 777-200.
Class Economy, seat 59B.
Flight time 9hr, 30mins.
Seat width and pitch Seat pitch and width: 34-inch pitch, 18 inches wide.
Seat configuration 3-3-3.
Luggage One carry-on bag up to 7kg plus one personal item. Checked baggage up to 20 kg in economy class.
Comfort As good as you'll get in economy class, despite the garish colour scheme. The generous 34-inch pitch may only be an inch or two than some other airlines' economy seats (and some other Thai aircraft offer only 32 inches), but you do feel the difference - even in a middle seat. My 185cm frame fits in nicely and I can stretch my legs beneath the seat in front. Shorter passengers may bemoan the lack of footrest, but it's a benefit for me as, when folded up, footrests normally dig into my shins. The 777s have high ceilings, big overhead bins and feel spacious, especially at the back of the plane. On my return flight, over night, I sleep most of the way - one of the first times I've ever been able to do so in economy class. The blanket and pillow, both of which feel more substantial than some economy offerings, also help.
Entertainment Good selection of recent and older films, with a reasonable offering of TV shows and a large seatback screen. Unfortunately, my system and those of my neighbours don't work properly - the picture distorts and the sound pops and drops out every 10 seconds, making it almost unwatchable. A reset fails to fix the problem. I choose to watch films I've already seen to make up for the regular gaps in the dialogue. The era of BYO entertainment via tablet computers beckons.
Service The crew have a good reputation but don't quite live up to it on this flight. No one shows up when I press the call button, and my second meal is unceremoniously dumped on my tray table without a word from the attendant (there is only one option for the second meal, so I guess there was no need to ask about choices). Our row has finished our meals well before we're offered something to drink with them.
Food and beverages Meals are served with metal cutlery - a rarity in economy in this era of security paranoia. The chicken curry is perfectly palatable, as are the stir fried prawns with noodles in the second meal serving. The fresh fruits served with the meals are bursting with flavour.
Flight frequency Thai Airways flies to Bangkok twice daily from Melbourne, 12 times a week from Sydney. Economy class return from from Melbourne costs $895 and from Sydney $913.
Online thaiairways.com.au
Tested by Craig Platt, who flew courtesy of the Tourism Authority of Thailand.


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Haskell has no hospital privileges, but received a variance from the state to continue operations when two local physicians offered to provide emergency hospital care for his injured patients. One of those physicians, William T. Bowers II, was declared negligent by the State of Kentucky in January of 2011, and was ordered to cease the practice of obstetrics after the gross mismanagement of a wanted pregnancy resulted in a dead child. Bowers settled a claim with the parents for $250,000. Ohio reprimanded Bowers in October of last year and placed him on two years probation. He is under criminal investigation by the Attorney General's office in Indiana.
"We are deeply concerned that women injured at Haskell's Sharonville abortion mill are being placed in double jeopardy. The care they receive from Haskell's associates at the hospital may not be any better than what they were subjected to at the abortion mill," said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation.
"In light of today's events, we are asking Gov. John Kasich to step in and put an end to Haskell's dangerous abortion business. Ohio laws prevent the operation of abortionists without hospital privileges, and it is time that the variance is revoked and Haskell is held to the same safety standards as other physicians," said Newman. "Pro-life groups like Cincinnati Right to Life and ours have long complained about the dangers of Haskell's dubious emergency arrangements. We hope that a woman will not have to die before Ohio enforces their laws and puts Haskell out of business."
About Operation Rescue® Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation and has become a strong voice for the pro-life movement in America. Operation Rescue is now headquartered in a former abortion clinic that it bought and closed in 2006. From there, Operation Rescue launches its innovative new strategies across the nation, exposing and closing abortion clinics through peaceful, legal means. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to stop abortion and ultimately restore legal personhood to the pre-born in obedience to biblical mandates. Click here to support Operation Rescue.
About Pro-Life NationPro-Life Nation is an initiative of Operation Rescue that offers a goal-oriented strategy to end abortion. For more visit ProLifeNation.org and read our new booklet that details our strategy.


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Huck announced the debut of his new line which goes on sale today at 9PM CET Central European Time. I believe that is a 6 hour difference from eastern time. They would be 6 hours ahead. So 9PM CET = 3 PM EST.
Here is a group shot showing some of the offerings.
Explaining that he is so happy to own these dolls now, he designed an outfit specifically for each doll as opposed to creating a thematic presentation.
News, reviews and photographs of Modern Fashion Dolls including Kingdom Doll, Fashion Royalty, Sybarite, Tonner Doll, Gene Marshall, Barbie and my own experiences as a doll collector.
Sales Tabs
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- Sales: Re-Ment, Furniture,Props, ++
- Sales: Puki Puki, Boneka Clothes, Riley & Ellery Clothes
- Sales: Tonner and Wilde Imagination
- Sales: Books, Sewing Patterns, Magazines
- Sales: Kingdom Doll, Ficon, Other 16"
- Sales: Barbie; Monster High, Hasbro, Mikelman
- Sales: Gene Marshall; Madame Alexander; Mod British Birds
- Sales: Superdoll Sybarite
- Sales: Integrity Toys 12" - 16"
- Sales: Wigs
Huckleberry Jackson's 2012 Line
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I've never heard of these, some are pretty cool looking. Are they 12"?ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, the FR2 dolls are 12".Delete
- MichaelP11/4/12, 11:30 PM
Astonishing! Truly a designer who understands scale, and his tailoring is impeccable! Wow! I clicked on the link, but I guess they sold out.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! The peach number is fabulous!ReplyDelete
- James11/5/12, 11:27 PM
Those are pretty fantastic! My kind of styling. Thanks for posting this!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/6/12, 1:12 PM
They are amazing but cost around 130 - euros... The one for FNO fr2 is just amazingReplyDelete
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It may have been the TEDx talk in Valencia, Spain, by the Great Soul of Hugs that rang the alarm bell at headquarters for big-think conference TED. Or perhaps the free-energy, buzzword-crammed stylings of TEDx speaker Randy Powellin Charlotte, North Carolina, about "vortex-based mathematics."Whatever the final straw, the big brains at TED schooled their rabid audience Friday on the perils of pseudo-science. The ultimate warning: "Presenting bad science on the TEDx stage is grounds for revoking your license."
TED posted a letter to the TEDx community on its blog warning of the pitfalls of bad science. TEDx conferences happen in cities and towns across the world. To date there have been 5,000 events and 21,000 TEDx talks put up online.
While they are based on the well-known TED conference, and would-be TEDx event planners need to apply for a free TEDx license to use the brand, the satellite events aren't organized nor are speakers vetted by TED staffers. That's left up to the individual TEDx organizers. And it is where the process has failed in some cases, says TEDx Director Lara Stein.
"This isn't the first time it's happened, but the community does a pretty good job of policing itself, and most of the time there are amazing events," says Stein. "But we thought it was an important enough issue to respond directly and help the community respond to this better."


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There was a time when the most confusing thing about fat in the diet was its vocabulary. But once we'd figured out the difference between saturated, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat, one thing seemed clear. Saturated fat was bad and polys and monos were good.
Now there are conflicting views on fat – including recent headlines suggesting that polyunsaturated fat – the fat recommended to prevent heart disease – could actually cause it.
There's also a new book by lawyer David Gillespie maintaining that polyunsaturated vegetable oils make us so cancer-prone that 'every mouthful of vegetable oil you consume takes you one step closer to a deadly (and irreversible) outcome'.
Gillespie's solution to all this? More saturated fat.
This depends on whose science you'd rather believe. The World Cancer Research Fund (no slouch at reviewing hundreds of studies on diet and cancer) has a different take on reducing cancer risk that includes "limit intake of red meat and avoid processed meat, eat at least five serves of vegetables and fruit every day and eat relatively unprocessed grains and/or pulses with every meal." Its advice isn't reflected in Gillespie's "sample day in the life of someone living a seed-oil free, sugar free life" which includes:
Breakfast – untrimmed bacon and egg; morning tea - Anzac biscuit made with dextrose (another name for glucose); lunch: ham, cheese and lettuce sandwiches on Coles Rustic sourdough with butter; afternoon tea: chocolate slice with dextrose; dinner: beef with potatoes broccoli and carrot.
Is it just me or is that a bit light on veg?
I agree with Gillespie's argument that Western diets include too much sugar and processed food high in vegetable fats - it does. I'm also no fan of margarine and cooking oil made with seed oil (give me avocado and olive oil). But it's simplistic to imply that fixing chronic disease is just about cutting out sugar and seed oils and ignoring other issues like the need for more vegetables (and some fruit), more fibre and less sedentary living.
Where Stanton and many others do agree with Gillespie is that diets high in polyunsaturated omega-6 fats can upset our balance of dietary fat. We need a healthy balance of both omega- 6 and omega- 3 fats (from fish and nuts for example) and when it's disrupted the result is low level inflammation in the body that's linked to chronic disease.
This may explain why some research has linked diets high in polyunsaturated omega-6 fats to an increased risk of macular degeneration, says Stanton, although the jury's still out.
So where should we get our fat? If you follow Gillespie, you'll eat more animal food, including lard and dripping. Stanton's personal preference is for nuts, seeds, avocado, fish, olive oil and oats.
Me? I'm inclined to take nutrition advice from respected nutritionists, rather than lawyers.
But rather than looking at isolated fats, Stanton suggests we look at foods.
"Milk, yoghurt and cheese contain saturated fat but the evidence suggests these foods do not increase the risk of heart disease," she says. "The same, sadly, cannot be said for butter where the fat content is high and protective nutrients like calcium are absent. The new Dietary Guidelines still recommend we eat mostly fat-reduced dairy products because they have fewer kilojoules."


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clat the command prompt and get the MS compiler.
set MSVCNT=C:\MSVC2003\VC7 set MSCVER=1300or if you are using the 2005 compiler instead:
set MSVCNT=C:\MSVC2005\VC set MSCVER=1400Of course you may have other install directories; this example uses C:\MSVC2003 for the 2003 tools and C:\MSVC2005 for the 2005 tools. Note the different subdirectories '\VC7' and '\VC'; this is an MS thing, these are the directories where the \bin, \lib, and \include directories are found. (The values 1300 and 1400 were chosen because all MS compilers define the macro _MSC_VER as a float number of the form 'MMmm.mm' where MM is the major version, and mm.mm is the minor version number; in MS VC++ versions 6, 7 and 8 the major versions are 12, 13, and 14 respectively).
jamto build the entire toolkit. Jam will tell you which compiler you are using, and then get to work. To install, define the environment variable
PREFIX to point to the root of the installation and then type
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REM Batch file go2005.bat Run from the command line REM before using jam and the MS 2005 build tools. set MSVCNT=C:\MSVC2005\VC set MSCVER=1400 REM This is a copy of VSVARS32.bat that came with MS VC++ 2005 call VSVARS32_2005 REM Move to my working directory cd C:\WorkingDirectoryand
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DARIEN – The Darien Police Department has responded to three residential burglaries in July.
Two reports have been taken in the 8500 block and the 8700 block of Carriage Greens Drive. The other report was taken in the 1600 block of Darien Club Drive.
The incidents range in times from late morning to early afternoon, and late evening. No residents were home for any of the incidents. Specific information about methods of entry, dates and times are being withheld due to the ongoing police investigation.
The Darien Police Department is encouraging residents to follow good security practices, including making sure doors and windows are locked before leaving, adding timers to interior lights and leaving exterior porch and garage lights on to deter potential criminals.
Darien police also encourage residents to dial 911 if they notice anything suspicious in the neighborhood.


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There's a coldness to the new "Anna Karenina" that has nothing to do with the white stuff piled up along the streets of 19th-century St. Petersburg. It's the chill that comes from a director entranced with his own talent. Joe Wright has made five feature films now, but only the first, 2005's "Pride & Prejudice," felt wholly unstudied and free. The new film staggers under such a weight of self-conscious visual style that the story never connects with a viewer's emotions. Leo Tolstoy's classic novel has been filmed often, but this is the first time it takes place in a snow globe.
It's also the third Wright movie to star Keira Knightley, an actress who has rewarded him before (in "Pride" and 2007's "Atonement") and who does her damnedest to burst through the film's plate-glass remove. It's not her fault she doesn't have the soul of Greta Garbo in the 1935 version of "Anna Karenina" (or an earlier silent adaptation, "Love"). Who does? Knightley's Anna is a beautiful, shallow songbird, married to a stodgy bureaucrat (Jude Law behind priggish spectacles as Karenin) and flitting through the upper-class whirl of late Imperial Russia as though she owned it, which she does.
Anna is worldly and chic, but like her bourgeois literary cousin Emma Bovary, she's naive enough to still believe in romantic love. She resists the seductive come-ons of the young army officer Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) until she doesn't; then she follows her heart to social ostracism, paranoia, and ruin. Wright, though, understands that Tolstoy was writing about more than one woman's passion — that the novelist was painting his country and times on an immense canvas — and that Anna's drama is just the central panel of a vast, teeming triptych.
Actually, Wright goes for a different metaphor. His Big Idea is that Anna and her circle inhabit a world so artificial, so cued to outward appearance and behavior, that it could be a theatrical stage. So it is a theatrical stage, with curtains rising to reveal the characters at breakfast and train journeys in front of patently fake backdrops. The walls of the rooms stretch up into the darkness of the lighting grid; the famous horse race clatters across the boards. When characters go "outside," they mill around with the extras backstage and up in the catwalks.
It's a dazzling gambit, filmed with confidence and craft, and it underscores how everyone in this society is looking at and performing for everyone else. (There's a marvelous shot of Vronsky watching Anna through opera glasses, the lenses glowing with lust.) It also wears out its welcome in about five minutes. Wright fetishizes style at the expense of content — he's on record as saying naturalism is for sissies, more or less — but the studied perfection of his approach in "Anna Karenina" does nothing but call attention to itself. Lars von Trier's "Dogville" (another tale of a woman punished for breaking the rules) unfolded on an even more minimalist stage set, and Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge!" was an orgy of theatrical excess, but those movies are saved by their sheer inability to say uncle. Their craziness is their risk and reward. Wright's great curse is that he's a tasteful revolutionary.
"Anna Karenina" does well by its outward trappings. Tom Stoppard's dialogue snaps and snarls (but rarely bites down), the costumes are to die for, and the film as a whole moves along at a decent clip. The performances are pleasing without springing to full-blooded life: Matthew Macfadyen as Anna's happily hedonistic brother, Kelly Macdonald as his saintly wife, Alicia Vikander (soon to be seen as Queen Caroline of Denmark in "A Royal Affair") as the virginal Kitty, Olivia Williams a frosty Countess Vronskaya. With his doe eyes and peroxide perm, Taylor-Johnson's Vronsky may be too much the preening boy-toy for some viewers, but it's an acceptable interpretation. Anna's infatuation is the teenage crush she never got to have.
And the film does eventually move out into the actual world, underscoring with heavy hand the honesty — the humble reality — of the aristocrat-farmer Levin (Domhnall Gleeson) and his connection to the land. When Kitty leaves St. Petersburg to toil in the fields with the peasants and her new husband, you feel Wright finally relax his grip and let Tolstoy's dreams of utopia shine through.
The rest — well, it's a lavishly produced slog, and it may fool the Motion Picture Academy's craft branches and audiences taken with posh surfaces, but it won't fool anyone hoping for what the novel achieves: a portrait of a society with a doomed woman pinned to its center. Knightley is able to capture many aspects of Anna — her kindness, her superficiality, her perceptiveness — but the tragic dimension eludes her. Maybe she's not yet there as an actress; maybe Wright's smothering visual brilliance won't let her get there. When Anna's "huge and merciless" fate comes rolling along in the final moments, it hits with a sickening force that, ironically, jolts the film to life.
Too late. In the end, Wright's "Anna Karenina" is a celebration of its director's unique gifts and a demonstration of what those gifts can fail to achieve. All great movies are alike, but every unsuccessful one screws up in its own way.Ty Burr can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him
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I get it, still why we self-hating and rather that
Why aren't we uplifting and debating
And making more scholars
And upstanding cats rather than have jail cells packed
We need to show them how to acts rather
Than just how to put on a show and act,
Why don't we care?
Why don't we teach instead of just preaching to the choir?
Why don't we rebuild and show unity
Rather than force and impunity, why...
Asking why we aint prospering
Why we deciding other future
Why we can live without pain
Why every time you turn around another bill comes in the mail
And why we cant talk without hate
Why we vote people in office we know got obvious obstructionist agendas
Why we aint talking about how we feel
Why we dont think before we act
Why were so critical about the trivial
Why people nowadays drop opinions without being full informed
If nothing infuriates me more it's opinionated fact-less people,
Why if I don't know something Okays, but don't spout opinions based on others opinion without informing yourself, is just fact less
Get cha act together, and chat together
Go to your television access or why dont cha watch PBS
With all that Ive been given
Is that the pain that Ive been giving?
Is that what cha call living ..
Why, just tell me why
They got me owing doe to corporate pros
Why you got me like that
I was just trying to get educated
And get a career out of it
Why, just tell me why


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I'd like to have a sliding transition between different pages of a website.
But unfortunately my knowledge of javascript is more than limited...
Basically what I want the script to do is:
when the user clicks a link, create a new div (e.g. #next-page) at left:100% and load the target there.
when the load is complete, animate the current page (e.g. #cur-page) to left:-100% and #next-page to left:0
when the animation is complete, remove #cur-page and rename #next-page to #cur-page.
Would be awesome if somebody could help me out!
Thank you in advance!


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Stuffed Pork Tenderloin on Grape Tomatoes is impressive but Jacques shows that making this spinach and cheese stuffed roast doesn't have to be complicated. Setting the stage for a dinner to remember is a simple version of an elegant classic, Cream of Leek and Mushroom Soup. Mini Almond Cakes doused in ruby red Raspberry Sauce crown this special party menu.
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What do you mean by "Website Best Practices"?
This section is about ways to facilitate the sharing of information from your website so that your information can appear on our pages with the utmost of ease possible (or, for that matter, any other media site such as ours).
The ideal is to have information easily shared/quoted and copy/pasted to media sites (such as ours) in order to market your site. The transfer of information should be made as easily for both you and the recipient media site and avoid any steps or webpage setups where extra work is necessary from which to get the information. (Note: The real test to this is for you to try to create an article from your webpages to another blank page (for example, a word processor page) to see how many steps are needed to collect information from your pages; then test-try other early music sites to compare.)
Best Practices
- for sections of your site where you would like media organizations such as EarlyMusicNews.org to publish details on its pages, try to have them in a web format where "copy/paste" is possible. Although your website pages may look great with interactive content, such pages will often make copy/paste of text impossible, and, delay any posting of events/materials of your site for marketing purposes on site such as EarlyMusicNews.org. Simply said, sites where the information is easy to "copy/paste" are usually first in line for posting -- if you make it difficult to copy text, then, delays in publishing important details of your events will be slower to make it to media sites such as ours.
- should you like to share information found on your website, adopt a copyright license that favours the sharing of information in a way that still promotes your site. One such license is the "Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) (or later)" -- this license is used by such large groups as the LibreOffice.org – Documents Section, Flickr, the US Whitehouse.gov website, section (some of other sites may be found here). In this case, "attribution" could (for sites such as EarlyMusicNews.org) would be as simple as quoting material on your pages and giving credit back to you in the form of a weblink redirecting the reader back to your site OR by crediting you by name. A redirecting weblink is more favourable as this will expose your site to more visitors and perhaps gain you more concert-audience individuals or increase traffic and "web recognition" of your site.
- if you would like to manage the information on your site in a stricter fashion, have a "Media" section where materials of your group is either copy/paste-able or ready for download with accompanying copyright permissions.
- have an "About" ("About us") section that has a description of your group/organization.
- events should have a clearly indicated date format. The dates should always include not only the day and month but ALSO the year.
- finally, many groups make good use of keeping in touch with their regular ticket holders and media partners (such as EarlyMusicNews.org) by publishing a regular newsletter. The frequency of mailouts varies from group to group: some of the more active groups will mailout as often as twice monthly, but most will mailout a newsletter a few weeks prior to an upcoming event. Newsletters are extremely good communication tools available to music groups. These newsletters could be as simple as a regular email sent to your ticket-holder base and media organizations or as formal as newsletters managed by professional media groups. If you are not publishing a newsletter, you may want to consider looking at this as a possible marketing option.
- Keeping communication lines open: if there is ever any of your group/organization's information posted that you would like removed/corrected, please do approach our site admin or webmaster and request its removal. You will find that in ALL cases, your request will be observed and the material in question will be removed within a reasonable delay of time (usually as soon as the request is received by the admin/webmaster). The email addresses are: firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com
On a personal note, I have found that the majority of individuals/groups/organizations have been more than willing to have their website/webpage content quoted (when used in context) and posted on our pages with redirection to their site. This has added some additional traffic to their site and added more web presence to their effort. The majority view this "sharing of information" good marketing strategy on "getting the word out" of their early music contributions. -- Marc Paré (Editor/Admin)


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Thousands of people will come together on April 20 to form human banners spelling out I ♥ Arctic. Together we will call on our political leaders to protect the Arctic from activities that put this fragile environment at risk, such as oil drilling and industrial fishing.
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What happens in the Arctic affects us all - that's why we are coming together on April 20 to take joint action across the globe!
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MSF's publications are an expression of our belief in the principle of témoignage, or bearing witness, and the belief that we are accountable to those we work for and with. Sharing news about our activities and reflecting on them, offering critiques when necessary, are therefore crucial aspects of our work.
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Icebergs melt during the summer, which decreases the albedo of the ocean surface by creating a darker surface that does not reflect solar radiation as a lighter surface would. This allows the ocean surface to become warmer, which leads to further melting. This is an example of a positive feedback mechanism.
Photo Credit: Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC
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MILTON, Mass. - Mitchell Kates scored a career-high 28 points while falling just short of a triple-double as MIT team picked up a 66-56 win over Curry College in non-conference men's basketball action Tuesday night. Kates added nine rebounds and eight steals, tying Bradley Gampel's single-game program record, to help the Engineers improve to 4-0 on the season.
Kates scored eight of his team's first 14 points over the first 4:20 as Tech raced out to an early 10 point lead. However, a three-point play by Jamal Jackson capped a 12-2 run by the Colonels to tie the game with just under 11 minutes remaining in the first half. The teams battled evenly for the rest of the opening stanza until Kates found Jimmy Burke for a three-ball with 49 seconds left to send the Cardinal and Grey into the break leading 29-26.
Kates had nine more points during a key, 14-4 run that saw MIT's advantage swell to 15 with 9:05 to go. Curry would not get closer than seven the rest of the way as the Engineers held on for their third-straight win.
Noel Hollingsworth added a double-double with 12 points and 10 boards while Burke also chipped in with 12. Tech forced the Colonels into 23 turnovers, converting those into 20 points.
MIT welcomes Suffolk University in its home opener on Saturday, November 28. Tip-off is at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday at Rockwell Cage.