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Jul 8, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – States and territories will receive a total of $390.5 million in federal grants this year to help hospitals and other healthcare facilities improve their capability to cope with emergencies and disasters, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday.
The annual grants are intended to "enhance community resilience by increasing the ability of hospital and healthcare facilities to respond to the medical impacts of any emergency, such as natural disasters, disease outbreaks, or acts of terrorism," HHS officials said in a news release.
The grants go to all 50 states, eight territories, and four metropolitan areas: Chicago, Los Angeles County, New York City, and Washington, DC. For the states, amounts range from almost $32 million for California to $1.1 million for Wyoming. The allocations are based mainly on population.
The grants for healthcare surge capacity and a related grant program for state public health preparedness were launched in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 2001.
Last year's round of hospital preparedness grants was smaller, at $362 million, according to Elleen Kane, a spokeswoman for the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, which administers the program.
But she said last year's funding covered only 9 months instead of a full year, because HHS changed the program calendar to match the states' July-to-June budget cycle. Previously the grants were timed according to the federal budget cycle, based on an October-to-September fiscal year. HHS did not make a public announcement of the grant total last year, she said, commenting, "We were in the throes of H1N1."
Last year there was also a special round of HHS grants totaling $90 million, announced in July, to help healthcare facilities prepare for the fall wave of pandemic flu.
This year's healthcare preparedness funding is slightly below the 2008 amount of $398 million. In 2007 the grants totaled $430 million, and in 2006 the amount was $450 million.
The HHS announcement said the funds are intended to be used to develop or improve interoperable communication systems, systems to track available hospital beds, advance registration of volunteer health professionals, process for hospital evacuations or sheltering in place, processes for facility management, community healthcare partnerships, and hospital participation in statewide or regional training exercises.
An official with Trust for America's Health (TFAH), a nonprofit public health advocacy group based in Washington, DC, told CIDRAP News the group is encouraged that the hospital preparedness program is continuing but regards it as very inadequate for its intended purposes.
Laura Segal, TFAH's director of public affairs, said the program has been important for planning and has helped with some preparedness steps, but commented, "Obviously it's not at a sufficient level to really prepare the hospitals for the kinds of threats we're talking about, from a severe pandemic to things like hurricanes or other sorts of infectious disease outbreaks or bioterrorism."
See also:
Jul 7 HHS announcement with list of grants by jurisdiction
Jun 3, 2008, CIDRAP News story on 2008 hospital preparedness grants
HHS general information about the Hospital Preparedness Program


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SALEM, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police say an 88-year-old western Kentucky woman who was reported missing has been found dead inside a car that went down into a ravine.
Police say the vehicle was discovered Tuesday morning on Kentucky 838 in Livingston County at a location that isn't visible from the road.
The coroner told police that Mildred L. Croft of Salem had medical issues and apparently had a massive heart attack, causing the collision.
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...now delivered with greater efficiency than ever before.
Parking tickets...now delivered with greater efficiency than ever before.
Actually, they've found [sfgate.com] the opposite to be true:
Prior to the new meters, 55 percent of the revenue came from payments drivers used to buy time and 45 percent from fines. After the new meters went in, the amount from payments increased to 70 percent and the amount from fines plummeted to 30 percent.
Parking tickets...now delivered with greater efficiency than ever before.
Actually, they've found [sfgate.com] the opposite to be true:
Prior to the new meters, 55 percent of the revenue came from payments drivers used to buy time and 45 percent from fines. After the new meters went in, the amount from payments increased to 70 percent and the amount from fines plummeted to 30 percent.
The reduction in fines is because "In addition, the new meters have less restrictive time limits, generally allowing drivers to park for four hours or more." So people can actually put enough money in the meters to cover the length of their visit now.
Time limits were only needed as a way to ration parking spaces. By setting the price just high enough to make one or two spaces available on every block at all times, rationing is no longer needed.
San Francisco is a terrible place to have a car. This city has among the highest densities of cars per mile of road of any city anywhere in the world. Having lived there in the early 90s, I can say that my car was much more of a hindrance than a blessing!
San Francisco has great public transportation and stiff density. Walking isn't such a big deal because you don't have to go so far, and buses take you where you don't want to bother walking.
And when you drive, you rarely get to go faster than 20 MPH. You certainly never *average* much more than that. And at that pace, a guy on a bicycle could easily match your progress. The car isn't so much of an advantage.
I see your cars-in-San-Francisco complaint and raise you a cars-in-Seville-Valencia-or-Granada complaint. Imagine a city where half the roads are so narrow that a single car driving down them means people have to step into doorways to let the car go by, where you can drive through an area 4 blocks on a side where there simply is no space for a car to park, and when you do find an area for cars to park they're already two cars deep up on the sidewalks. The difference is: in San Francisco, the driving and p
Having lived there in the early 90s, I can say that my car was much more of a hindrance than a blessing!
I moved here three weeks ago and I'm selling the car I have back home ASAP. You're exactly right: transit is so plentiful and cheap, and walking so easy, that I have absolutely no desire to register, insure, drive, and park a car here. It's way more of a hassle than just taking the BART or Muni to within a block of my destination and walking the rest.
I hadn't been on public transportation in nearly two decades before moving here and was never interested in it, but this has won me over. It's a model of how i
While this is a great idea, in some cases it'll be a race to get an open spot, even worse than now.
They price the parking spaces according to demand in order to make at least one parking space available on every block. [sfpark.org] So there's no need to race to any spots.
So let's play this out - I want to park near a certain store in a popular part of town. My magic box alerts me to two spots two block over on the west side of the street, and one two blocks away on the east side of the street. I head over to the west (two spots, better chance of getting one), but on the way over, some other drivers take the spots. Now my magic box tells me a spot opened up right infront of the store I want to visit, so I race over, just in time to see another driver take the spot. How long
While this is a great idea, in some cases it'll be a race to get an open spot, even worse than now.
So add a feature where you can reserve a spot with your credit card by pre-paying double the normal rate from the moment of reservation to the moment you actually park your car. Take reserved spots off the list and make them clearly visible in real life, like with a blinking red LED on top showing that it's unavailable.
Plenty of people would pay double for a few minutes for the privilege of having a spot waiting for them.
The website isn't that usable. Really slow Google-Maps overlay (at least in Chrome on OSX), and doesn't give enough detail to actually see where the spots are unless an area is all-vacant or all-occupied. Except, the big things like garages are useful.
The mobile app might well be better.
Oh, and since the summary inexplicably didn't link it, SFpark is here [sfpark.org].
the summary inexplicably didn't link it
I'm pretty sure that was done on purpose to prevent slashdotting. Even just a link in the comments managed to take the site down (as of writing).
Will the system be smart enough to only provide info to the two or three closest cars requesting information? I'd hate to see the carnage when a dozen spot-seekers show up simultaneously to claim "their" spot.
I can see the owner of the system making additional income by only showing parking places to the highest bidder, so places would show to the guy who bid $50, but not to the guy who bid $20 until all the higher bidders are off the system.
And then they get all get there and find out some jackass in a blinged out Ford Excessive has parked diagonally across two spaces.
Now we have a new reason for people to be paying attention to something other than the road while they're driving. I'm pretty sure that's just what we needed.
Yes. Neck craning for open spots doesn't currently distract drivers from the road at all
Yes. Neck craning for open spots doesn't currently distract drivers from the road at all
Still gives them a hell of a lot more awareness then having their nose buried in a phone. Not to mention they still have both hands on the controls.
I've had 3 near misses in the last 2 weeks. All of them involved another driver who was on the phone. All of them completely oblivious to my presence until I sounded my horn. Even then only two became aware of my car after that.
It'd be nice to just say "guide me to the closest parking spot" and the phone would just talk directions..
One little detail omitted is that they plan on (and are) raising the meter rates such that it becomes too expensive for some people to park. The goal is to price things such that "there is at least one open spot per block". (I don't know if that means per street-front block, or per 4-sided block.)
That those rates can go up to $18/hr, coupled with the minimum $50 parking tickets is why some people describe San Francisco as having "a war on cars". There's also the little gem that you can't pre-pay the electronic meters for the next morning--so yeah, it's free from 11PM to 7AM, but you have to be there on the dot of 7AM to beat the ticket-wielding meter maid summoned by the electronic sensor. Makes life a little rough for overnight guests who might like to have some wine with dinner.
Not to mention the scam of "street cleaning", which seems to require clearing the street of cars once a week yet somehow get cleaned at best twice a year. And you guessed it, $50 ticket regardless of whether any street cleaners actually showed up.
So yeah, neat technology. It's practical purpose is to raise money for the city and to provide price supports for off-street parking lots.
Yeah. The article fails to elaborate on the true reason for this system: to raise or lower prices based on demand. I live in San Francisco and I love it. I drive a motorcycle so my parking is cheap. This system is not designed to help the consumer, it's to help the city government. Which is fine but I hate how they are presenting it as a boon to people looking for parking spaces.
They feed us some vision of people 'shopping' for cheaper parking spaces a bit further away, which will never happen. In this city, nobody will pass up a parking spot no matter how much it costs. So this is just a way for the City to squeeze more money out of you during certain times of day.
I still don't know how they can tout the smartphone apps but still have laws on the books making it illegal to use smartphones while you are driving. Are we to bring a 'spotter' with us everywhere we go?
Anyway, the novelty will wear off soon enough, I guess. Maybe one day this technology will be universally built into GPS units or something but for now I don't really see it catching on.
I still don't know how they can tout the smartphone apps but still have laws on the books making it illegal to use smartphones while you are driving. Are we to bring a 'spotter' with us everywhere we go?
Could be, they're intending to make a pile of cash off the tickets that will be written for using those smartphones to find those spaces. How hard is it to have a bike cop around to ticket somebody after they pull into the spot?
SF is a fucking hellhole. If it wasn't for public transit being abhorrently expensive and inconvenient as well, I'm sure there'd be fewer drivers. (BART trains not so much, but that's just to get you into the city so you can spend money...)
There are people who actually need to use their vehicle in the city to go to and from work. It hurts everyone: when you get 15mpg in your "big truck" (needed for carrying equipment and parts) and you end paying more per month for parking than you do fuel - including the 2
That those rates can go up to $18/hr
That's really nasty.... so you can park to go to work, pay your parking $144 for 8 hours....
Your $30/hour wage, is effectively reduced to a $12/hour wage just by parking, before you have even added taxes.
You earn less than $25/hr you might as well just quit your job, because you'll be in the hole for parking at those unconscionable parking rates.
That's really nasty.... so you can park to go to work, pay your parking $144 for 8 hours....
Actually, you probably can't. If it's a meter priced at that rate, it's probably time limited. Stay longer than an hour (or whatever) and you get a ticket.
For all-day parking you'd probably want a garage spot, which you might be able to find for $25. Some jobs also offer parking spaces as part of the benefits package. This is just one of the costs of doing business in a heavy congested city area. You wouldn't drive your own car around Manhattan, either.
How is charging market rates for a scarce commodity a "war"? The price that results in the spaces being almost full but not quite full is exactly the price they should charge! That's rationing via the market, the efficient way to ration: otherwise you ration the communist/NYC way, where you ration by first-come-first-serve and queues (in this case circling cars).
Do you think everything that isn't government-subsidized equals a war being waged?
He didn't say charging the artificially inflated market rates was the war.
That wasn't intentionally against cars, that just naturally came about because all the parking lots are being built into vacant buildings (like the Metreon and surrounding areas) due to the Kaiser family successfully lobbying to get Prop 13 applied to commercial property at the last second before the election that passed it. Then they sell the holding company that owns the parcel rather than the parcel itself, the property never chan
Oh... Don't forget Willie Brown's most ridiculous "gift" to the city: Mission Bay and that ridiculous T-Third rail line.
God forbid he actually put his new light rail line where it'd actually do some good and take people somewhere worth going... like on Geary Street as a replacement for the always-overcrowded and never-ontime 38. Nope, he wanted Mission Bay to be his "legacy" to the city; so we get saddled with a boondoggle of a rail line down third that doesn't go to Candlestick and stops before the Cow P
Circling cars? Where I'm from, we call em land sharks.
And SF needs this money. Right now people living here are going to be paying off hundreds of millions for road repairs due to all the car traffic.
I wish they would extend parking meter hours from 6pm to midnight.
6 hours * 6 days a week * 52 weeks * 8200 spaces * $2.50/hour = only $38M/year. That's not going to pay back the bond measure any time soon.
I've become a firm believer in "paid" parking or "market driven" parking. That is where we get rid of "free" parking and instead directly charge users fees for the parking they utilize. This article adequately explains why: http://www.lamag.com/features/Story.aspx?ID=1568281 [lamag.com].
You can claim the street cleaning thing is a scam, sure I'll agree there that should go away, however, we should not have free parking at all. It is not logical. It only makes sense that the person that utilizes the parking should pay for it. That's how normal things work.
When we have "free" parking, the costs of parking are hidden from the user. This leads to abuse. If you are aware that something is free but obviously costs money to maintain or provide, then by all means as a typical capitalist, you should abuse the hell out of that free service. So now we have grown up with an expectation of "free" parking when that is clearly not the case.
This penalizes us in multiple ways. The strip mall is now twice as large in order to provide a surface level parking lot (the cheapest option). You must now buy a new house or condo with parking due to minimum parking laws (what if I don't need the space?). The city is now designed around cars and not people (we will never get density as long as this is true).
In related studies on traffic, the findings are similar. If we expand lanes on a congested freeway, demand will increase to fill up that lane because the freeway is subsidized. That is, the cost of using the freeway to users appears to be "free" therefore demand increases in order to take advantage of a free resource. The result is for a short period the freeway is not congested, then suddenly it has the same amount of traffic.
"Free" parking creates the problem it tries to cure. Users complain "parking is expensive" so the city gives them free parking, then suddenly everyone uses the parking because it is free and now there is a shortage of parking again. This is like giving people free money. They say "I have no money" so you give them $5 dollars. Then they go spend it. Then they complain they have no money again...
This is like giving people free money. They say "I have no money" so you give them $5 dollars. Then they go spend it. Then they complain they have no money again...
It's the old "Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life" thing.
There's also the little gem that you can't pre-pay the electronic meters for the next morning--so yeah, it's free from 11PM to 7AM, but you have to be there on the dot of 7AM to beat the ticket-wielding meter maid summoned by the electronic sensor.
Now that is retarded. Here in Norway they've managed to do that ever since they went away from physical meters at each parking spot to one machine that prints paper tickets for cash like 20 years ago. That way they don't have to give change either, if it costs 16 NOK to stay until end of parking and you put on a 20 NOK coin then tough shit, you got parking for next morning or for Monday. Pay after end of paid parking and it starts counting from next morning like you'd expect. Oh well...
you could tear down a few blocks and build a parking garage and have tons of parking!
A reserve button to allow the driver 10 minutes to safely navigate to the spot, which must be within a certain distance according to GPS. Otherwise folks will see the available spot and everyone looking for a spot will be heading towards the small number of spots and competing fiercly, possibly resulting in reckless behavior and safety risks.
Better add a red "Reserved" light in front of each spot. When lit, only the person who reserved the spot is allowed to park there until the allowed time for them
Better add a red "Reserved" light in front of each spot.
When lit, only the person who reserved the spot is allowed to park there until the allowed time for them to reach the reserved spot expires -- by way of the parking meter refusing to accept payment except by the party holding the reservation, and an automatic parking ticket being issued to the violator.
And a $1 (or so) charge for reserving a spot and then not parking there, or some douche will walk around the city reserving spots on his smart phone.
Even better, make it so you start paying based on the hourly rate for the space at the moment you've reserved it.
And a $1 (or so) charge for reserving a spot and then not parking there, or some douche will walk around the city reserving spots on his smart phone.
I would say the sensible thing is that you be required to pre-pay for the first hour of parking in order to reserve. Also, your paid up time remaining to park there should start ticking as soon as the reservation is open (not as soon as you park there).
For every complete hour you have the spot reserved, but haven't physically shown up, an additional co
In California it is illegal to use a cell phone while driving. Even while stopped at a traffic light. So tell me again how I'm going to use this parking spot locator service? I guess I could pull off the road into an empty parking spot and pull up the app, um, wait... Even if I did this, glancing down at my phone to follow the map to the parking spot would be illegal. Yes, it's a poorly written law. But there it is.
Main feature here is dynamic upward pricing of parking and more efficient dispatch of meter-maids. The rest is window-dressing.
The base fine for the FIRST offense is $20 and $50 for subsequent convictions. With penalty assessments, the fine can be more than triple the base fine amount.
Californian here. Knowing people who have been caught breaking that law, even for the first time with no other offenses, you can expect to pay over $400 for that ticket in San Diego and San Bernardino counties. Just a public service announcement for you potential tourists. So slump in your seat so the cops behind you can't see, cover your phone with your hand like you're scratching your ear so the cops to your left can't see, and keep your mind on the road.
So slump in your seat so the cops behind you can't see, cover your phone with your hand like you're scratching your ear so the cops to your left can't see, and keep your mind on the road.
Or you could get a handsfree bluetooth headset, mount the phone on the dash and comply with the law. Imagine that!
1) Pass law making cell phone use while operating a vehicle illegal.
2) Release mobile app promising to show motorists where to find available parking spots in real time.
4) Profit!
It could easily be used by people who are traveling with more than one person in the vehicle. The fact that there exists an illegal usage for something doesn't mean it shouldn't be available for those who would use it legally. (cf. Sony vs. Universal City, 1984. Since this is a car story I figure I'm obligated to provide a copyright analogy.)
July 13, 2008
Smart Parking Spaces in San Francisco [slashdot.org]
This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24,000 metered parking spaces in the nation's most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which of the spaces are free at any moment. Drivers will be alerted to empty parking places either by displays on street signs, or by looking at maps on screens of their smartphones. They may even be able to pay for parking by cellphone, and add to the parking meter from their phones without returning to the car.
September 28, 2011
IBM Launches Parking Meter Analytics System [slashdot.org]
"It's not just a parking spot, think of it as a 'revenue-producing asset,' says Vinodh Swaminathan, IBM's director of intelligent transportation systems. Working with San Francisco-based startup Streetline, IBM has launched a system designed to help cities ease parking congestion and collect more parking fees. Streetline's remote sensors can determine if a parking space is taken by a car, whether a customer has paid, and how much time is left on the meter. And IBM's business intelligence software parses the data and generates reports and statistics for government managers. Drivers can benefit too: A free mobile phone app can help locate available parking spaces."
This [slashdot.org] looks familiar. Looks like the French beat them to it.
This already exists on big parking lots (f.ex. of malls) in Japan, where you can see on a map where the free places roughly are, and in front of each lane of parking spaces you will have another indicator indicating whether there are any free places in that lane. Very useful!
We have a similar, but not quite as sophisticated (no map) system in many (if not most) malls in Australia. Before you even enter the carpark (American: 'parking ramp'), an electronic sign out the front says how many spots are available. If it's none, then off you go to the next area where parking is available.
Once you enter the carpark, green arrows will guide you to the areas where spots are still available (i.e. you might pass by three rows with a red cross and 0 spots available, then come to the fourth row, where a green arrow will now point down that row, next to the number of spots left in that row). Turning into that row you will see that every spot has either a green or red light above it, indicating whether it's occupied (so you can see at a glance how far down you have to drive, and won't miss spots hiding behind large vehicles etc.)
Best thing since sliced bread IMO, almost completely eliminates the hassle of finding spots on a busy shopping day.
This San Francisco system is even more advanced, because it covers a wider area (not just a single mall or whatever), and has the whole smartphone integration thing going on. Also it operates using magnetics in the pavement, rather than the system in Australia that uses some kind of IR laser or sonar or something that beams down from the space above the parking spot to detect whether something's there (you can confuse it by just standing there if you stand in exactly the right spot).
American: 'parking ramp'
Parking lot, actually.
I misread the title of this article as "Senior networks in SF finds parking spaces". And was like :
Yay, finally someone found some good use for all those seniors strewn about the country. And networking them to. Good job.
Well I guess sensors will work as well, but what will the seniors do?
if one in three cars is looking for a spot, than one of the five cars around me is competing for my spot. So on a typical street, four lanes wide, each and every single "column" of cars has at least one car looking for a spot.
and my phone tells me that there's an open spot 100 metres away. that's about 15 "columns". Good to know that there's a spot open, with 15 competitors between me and it.
this is yet another idea that helps only temporarily -- until enough people use it. then it because worse than no
they've already done that here. but it's 25, not 18. changes absolutely nothing. cars cost way more than the parking. the parking is insignificant. and you're forgetting that the local businesses want the customers in those cars.
you can't take a train when you intend to go places that the train doesn't.
and you can't take a 20 minute drive, and turn it into a two hour trip with six buses.
you can have more parking though. that's easy. welcome to building infrastructure.
interesting though. if you think that 18 is the avenue of the rich, you may want to try working harder. you may find that if you'd actually work the way those of us with 20's do, that maybe you'd have a few 20's too.
Just in time to see someone who ISN'T in the system scoop the space from you.
How reliable will the system be? All the sensors keep working, every parking spot, all the time, five nines? No damage from cutting into the pavement for utility work? Salt will never find its way through cracks and short them out? The maintenance crews will be just as diligent in the low-income parts of town as they are in the high-income parts?
How reliable does it need to be? How does it degrade? At any given moment it seems like maybe 2%-3% of all streetlights are out of commission, let's say the failure rate for sensors is about the same; what happens? What is the failure mode like?
How will drivers react if the system directs them to drive a long way for a parking space that turns out to buried in snow? Or occupied by a motorcycle that didn't trip the sensor?
Is this thing robust, or is it just a fantasy that makes a good demo but becomes useless the first year there isn't enough money for perfect maintenance?
Na, it's as legal as a sting operation.
... an available parking space.
What the article doesn't say is that they're only installing this on metered parking spots. So the app will guide you to a spot where you have to feed $8 an hour into the meter, or whatever ridiculous rate SF is charging today, but won't tell you about the free spot 1/2 a block away. Of course, at the rate SF is installing new meters on previously unmetered streets, there won't be any free spots left in the city in a few years. This is all about raising city revenues.
I wonder what happens if I glue a metal plate to the pavement above the sensor...
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Eighth Countess of Highclere Castle to Visit WilliamsburgGuests can join the countess for afternoon tea at 4 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Colony Room of the Williamsburg Lodge and for an interview-style conversation led by historian Cary Carson at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 10 in the Hennage Auditorium.
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The countess has written a second book about the castle made famous as the setting for PBS' acclaimed television program "Downton Abbey" and will sign copies of "Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey" following the tea. Cost of the interview/conversation at the Hennage is $20. Books will be available for sale at both events.
The subject of the book, Lady Catherine, was an American heiress who moved to England in the 1920s and at the age of 19 married the Earl of Porchester and began to organize the lavish events of the estate through World War II, when the estate was transformed into an American airbase. This is the second book about Highclere Castle by Lady Fiona. Her first, "Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey," covers the life of the 19-year-old illegitimate daughter of banking tycoon Alfred de Rothschild, who married into the Carnarvon family in 1894, bringing her enormous fortune with her. It was her own funds that allowed her husband, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, to make numerous expeditions to Egypt, where he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922.
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Firefighters have brought a suspicious fire that came within 100 metres of homes in Wallan north of Melbourne under control.
The Country Fire Authority (CFA) issued an emergency warning for people living in the area, but it has been downgraded to a watch and act message.
The fast-moving fire broke out near the intersection of Rowes Lane and Old Sydney Road at about 12:30pm and was heading in a northerly direction.
The rural area is close to housing estates and firefighters feared the fire would spread quickly and threaten lives and property.
About 100 firefighters are working on the fire, which has burned five hectares of grass and bushland.
For more information check the warnings on the CFA website.
Crews have contained two fires on Whitegate Road near the Northern Highway at Glenaroua, which broke out around half-an-hour before the Wallan fire.
They are trying to work out if the fires were deliberately lit.
Operations officer John Leben says anyone who might have seen something suspicious should call the police.
"It's unusual that you get that amount of fire activity, and they're separate fires, all in particularly a linear fashion like that," he said.
"We don't know what the cause of them were at the moment, but we are very interested in seeing any information from the public who might have seen something."


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The History Show Sunday 10 November 2013
Bringing the past to life! Discover how our world was shaped as Myles Dungan and guests explore events ranging from medieval times to the recent past
"He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come."
An extract there from this month's Book Club choice, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque who was a German veteran of World War One.
First published in 1929, this novel tells the story of 19 year old Paul Baumer who enlists in the German Army along with his school friends after being urged on by stirring patriotic speeches by their teacher.
But they discover that the brutal reality of life and death on the French Front during World War One is neither honourable nor patriotic. Instead, their days and nights are filled by constant terror.
At the opening of All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque is keen to point out that:
"This book is intended neither as an accusation or confession, but simply as an attempt to give an account of a generation that was destroyed by the war – even those of us who survived the shelling".
Our guests discussing this book were Carol Hunt, journalist; Denis Staunton, deputy editor of The Irish Times and Declan Power, security analyst and former Irish soldier.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is published by Vintage. Next month, in our book club slot, we'll be doing a round-up of history books that would make good Christmas presents. That's on 8 December.
While we haven't universally embraced wearing the poppy in this country, we generally respect people's right to observe Remembrance Sunday. However, in the 1920s and 1930s here, it was a very different story.
HIstorian, Donal Fallon, wrote a piece for our programme detailing how Remembrance Sunday events in the early years of the Irish Free State were a frequent source of ideological conflict and political violence.
Remembrance Sunday in the 1920s and 1930s
by Donal Fallon
Ten years after rebellion on the streets of the capital, 40,000 Dubliners crowded into the area around the Wellington memorial at the Phoenix Park in 1926. They were marking Armistice Day. Some were members of the British Legion, others were the widows and orphans of men who hadn't returned from the Great War, and there were others still in the crowd.
The Irish Times wrote of this gathering of the park that:
It would be hard, indeed, to estimate the size of the gathering. It did not, however, number less than forty thousand. From an early hour people began to arrive by every kind of vehicle and on foot, and an hour before the ceremony began the wide open space in the Phoenix Park surrounding the Wellington Monument was densely crowded.
Newspaper reports at the time noted that a perfect silence followed the Last Post, and "so deeply impressive it was that when one closed one's eyes to pray one felt alone in the vast acres' of the park." Yet Remembrance Day was not perfectly observed in the city, as some republican elements organised protests around the events, something which had been occurring in the years before 1926, and would escalate in the 1930s, with the IRA organising protests under the auspices of the Anti-Imperialist League. Frank Ryan, an active left-wing republican, believed that the British Legion marchers of the day were drawn mainly from "bank clerks and students of Trinity College", but it was clear on the streets they came from all classes and districts.
The popularity of Armistice Day, or 'Poppy Day', is evident from sales of the remembrance poppy in Dublin in the 1920s. It was claimed by the British Legion that tens of thousands of poppies were sold in the Dublin area in 1924. This was at a time before the British Legion had even opened an office in Dublin, which they did in 1925. It was late October of 1925 when the poppy was formally launched in Ireland, something which led republican women to the creation of the Easter lily in 1926, as an 'alternative' symbol, though the popularity of the Easter Lily never even approached that of the Poppy. In the inaugural year of the symbol, we know from Cumann na mBan's own Annual Reports that only £34 was raised from sales of the lily, pittance when contrasted with the £7,430 evident from the "Annual Report of the Southern Ireland Area of the British Legion", documenting poppy sales.
In the 1930s Republicans organised 'alternative' Remembrance Sunday parades, with the left-wing republican congress calling on maimed, injured and poverty-stricken veterans of the British Army to parade through the city in anti-war defiance. Yet many more Dubliners continued to attend 'official' commemorations of the conflict. Remembrance Sunday remained a battlefield right throughout that decade.
Come Here to Me! Dublin's Other History is a blog run by Donal Fallon together with fellow historians, Sam McGrath and Ciaran Murray.
It's been 100 years since the lyrics of "Danny Boy" were first heard calling from glen to glen. Today, the song can be heard wherever those calling themselves Irish gather in joy or mourning. But is the song actually Irish?
Lorcan Clancy tells the story - with research by Damien Corless.
17 November, 2013 marks sixty years since the evacuation of the Great Blasket Island.
Its oldest living native, Mike Carney who now lives in Springfield, Massachussetts was interviewed by Colette Kinsella for The History Show.
Born on The Great Blasket Island in 1920, Mike was raised under challenging circumstances in that unique Irish-speaking community. He left the island – and its isolation – in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin and eventually in America. The death on the island of his younger brother without a priest or doctor in 1947 set off a chain of events that led to its evacuation. Mike played a pivotal role in the evacuation, personally lobbying Éamon de Valera to relocate the remaining Islanders living in increasingly desperate conditions.
He then joined the millions who emigrated from Ireland to the United States, settling in Springfield, Massachusetts, with other former islanders. While taking advantage of opportunities offered by his adopted country, he never lost his love for the nation of his birth, saying 'it's like loving both parents'.
Mike Carney's recently published book tells the story of his life and his efforts to promote Irish culture in America, to preserve the memory of The Great Blasket, to respect roots left behind and to set down roots in a new land. Written as Mike approached the age of ninety-two, this memoir is probably the last of a long line of books written by Blasket Islanders, including Tomás O'Crohan, Micheál O'Sulleabháin and Peig Sayers, and is the first to follow a Blasket Islander all the way to America. A first-person saga, recounting one man's life but relating the experience of many, it chronicles a lifetime devoted to family, community and legacy. All the while, he seems haunted by the immortal words of O'Crohan: 'The likes of us will not be again.'
From the Great Blasket to America – the Last Memoir by an Islander by Micheal Carney with Gerald Hayes (The Collins Press).
Sixty years ago, the Great Blasket Island was evacuated. Twenty years ago, the Blasket Island Centre was established and its director, Micheal de Mordha joined Myles to talk about the evacuation of the island 60 years ago this month.
Among the items he discussed was a letter sent to Eamonn de Valera in 1947 signed by "The Islanders". The letter appears below.
Source: Director, National Archives
Transcript of above letter:
``We are sending you these few lines because we want you to let us know what you are going to do for us. Please let us know immediately, for winter is coming and if you are not to do something on our behalf we will have to get some place on the mainland. You know well, leader, that there is great privation here that no one could stand with 20 years, only the islanders.''
Michael and his son, Daithi de Mordha have recently published a photographic portrait of the Great Blasket.
This collection of photographs, with bilingual captions, catches the spirit of the island community, from the excitement of discovery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, through the heyday of the 1930s, the decline of the 1940s and the legacy since 1953. These photographs portray the islanders and the people who witnessed their lives, up close and in person. The result is a chronicle of a way of life and kinship, of the life and death of the Great Blasket, evacuated in 1953 but never abandoned.
The Great Blasket – A Photographic Portrait /An Blascaod Mór – Portráid Pictiúr by Dáithí de Mórdha and Micheál de Mórdha is published by The Collins Press.
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Suantraí na hInise/The Island Lullaby:
To commemorate the Blasket Evacuation 17th November 1953
Premiere: Ionad an Bhlascaoid, Dún Chaoin
17 Samhain 2013 ag 7.30 i.n.
Suantraí na hInise/The Island Lullaby is a unique and innovative music/theatre event to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Blasket Evacuation and to celebrate its rich cultural legacy. Comprising of newly composed music, for internationally renowned concertina player Niamh Ní Charra, harpist Noreen O'Donoghue & The Dublin String Ensemble, Suantraí na hInise/The Island Lullaby features archive footage and is directed by the acclaimed composer Colm Ó Foghlú.
Custume Barracks, Athlone
Saturday 23 November 9.30am-7pm
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Saturday 16 November at the Bedford Tower, Dublin Castle sees the Garda Historical Society hosting a unique event.
We want you to bring along your old Police photos and artefacts of your DMP, RIC and early Garda relatives. We can photograph them, you can tell us a little about your Police relative and you then bring all your stuff home.
There will be the following lectures:
12 noon: Padraig Yeates on 'The Lock Out';
2pm: Dr. Myles Dungan; 'The Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels'
4pm: Prof. Eunan O'Halpin; 'Spying on Ireland - The Intelligence War during WWII.
This is a free event and runs from 10am until 6pm!
Please see https://www.PoliceHistory.com or email firstname.lastname@example.com .
Look for 'garda historical society' on Facebook.
Next week's line up includes an insight into what Dev wrote to Jackie on the assassination of JFK – and how she responded.
Also, on the anniversary of the Irish Citizens Army and the Irish Volunteers, what questions need to be asked about the place of the gun in Irish politics?
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Developing a Simple JMS Example
Pages: 1, 2, 3, 4
Obtaining a JNDI connection
The chat client starts by obtaining a JNDI connection to the JMS messaging server. JNDI is an implementation-independent API for directory and naming systems. A directory service provides JMS clients with access to
ConnectionFactory and
Destinations (topics and queues) objects.
ConnectionFactory and
Destination objects are the only things in JMS that cannot be obtained using the JMS API -- unlike connections, sessions, producers, consumers, and messages, which are manufactured using the JMS API. JNDI provides a convenient, location-transparent, configurable, and portable mechanism for obtaining
ConnectionFactory and
Destination objects, also called JMS administered objects because they are established and configured by a system administrator.
Using JNDI, a JMS client can obtain access to a JMS provider by first looking up a
ConnectionFactory. The
ConnectionFactory is used to create JMS connections, which can then be used for sending and receiving messages.
Destination objects, which represent virtual channels (topics and queues) in JMS, are also obtained via JNDI and are used by the JMS client. The directory service can be configured by the system administrator to provide JMS administered objects so that the JMS clients don't need to use proprietary code to access a JMS provider.
JMS servers will either work with a separate directory service (e.g., LDAP) or provide their own directory service that supports the JNDI API. For more details on JNDI, see the sidebar below, "Understanding JNDI."
The constructor of the
Chat class starts by obtaining a connection to the JNDI naming service used by the JMS server:
Creating a connection to a JNDI naming service requires that a
// Obtain a JNDI connection
Properties env = new Properties( );
// ... specify the JNDI properties specific to the vendor
InitialContext jndi = new InitialContext(env);
javax.naming.InitialContext object be created. An
InitialContext is the starting point for any JNDI lookup -- it's similar in concept to the root of a filesystem. The
InitialContext provides a network connection to the directory service that acts as a root for accessing JMS administered objects. The properties used to create an
InitialContext depend on which JMS directory service you are using. The code used to create a JNDI
InitialContext in BEA's Weblogic naming service, for example, would look something like this:
Properties env = new Properties( );
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "guest");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "guest");
"weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
"t3://localhost:7001");
InitialContext jndi = new InitialContext(env);
When SonicMQ is used in combination with a third party LDAP directory service, the connection properties would be very different. For example, the following shows how a SonicMQ JMS client would use JNDI to access JMS administered objects stored in a LDAP directory server:
Properties env = new Properties( );
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "guest");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "guest");
"com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
"ldap://localhost:389/o=acme.com");
InitialContext jndi = new InitialContext(env);
NOTE: Alternatively, the
InitialContext( ) can be created without properties (no-arg constructor). In this case JNDI will read the vendor-specific JNDI properties from a special file in the classpath named jndi.properties. This eliminates provider-specific code in JMS clients, making them more portable.
The TopicConnectionFactory
Once a JNDI
InitialContext object is instantiated, it can be used to look up the
TopicConnectionFactory in the messaging server's naming service:
TopicConnectionFactory conFactory =
javax.jms.TopicConnectionFactory is used to manufacture connections to a message server. A
TopicConnectionFactory is a type of administered object, which means that its attributes and behavior are configured by the system administrator responsible for the messaging server. The
TopicConnectionFactory is implemented differently by each vendor, so configuration options available to system administrators vary from product to product. A connection factory might, for example, be configured to manufacture connections that use a particular protocol, security scheme, clustering strategy, etc. A system administrator might choose to deploy several different
TopicConnectionFactory objects, each configured with its own JNDI lookup name.
TopicConnectionFactory provides two overloaded versions of the
createTopicConnection( ) method:
package javax.jms;
public interface TopicConnectionFactory extends ConnectionFactory {
public TopicConnection createTopicConnection( )
throws JMSException, JMSSecurityException;
public TopicConnection createTopicConnection(String username,
String password) throws JMSException, JMSSecurityException;
These methods are used to create
TopicConnection objects. The behavior of the no-arg method depends on the JMS provider. Some JMS providers will assume that the JMS client is connecting under anonymous security context, while other providers may assume that the credentials can be obtained from JNDI or the current thread. The second method provides the client with a username-password authentication credential, which can be used to authenticate the connection. In our code, we choose to authenticate the connection explicitly with a username and password.


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By Paul Shrivastava and Ian I. Mitroff
Four years after terrorists attacked New York and Washington, $315 billion in war costs, toppled Afghanistan and Iraq governments, and claims of death or capture of 80 percent of al Qaeda's leadership, one would think we were close to wining the war on terror.
But the London transit system attacks point to one thing: the war on terror is far from over. The fact is we're fighting the wrong war and the real war hasn't even begun.
Most analysts focus on the economic, social, and political aspects, but not terrorism's ecological roots. Eliminating terrorists worsens the conditions that spawned them. The more we win the current war, the more we loose the real struggle. We need to create ecologically sustainable societies.
The FBI defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."
It is too narrow. It focuses on political motivation and violence, but fails to recognize the daily terror experienced through hunger and poverty, economic bondage, social and political lawlessness, and extreme uncertainty and risk. These terrors incite political violence and terrorists see themselves as terror victims. Dehumanized, they become terrorists.
The ecology of terrorism is the scarcity of natural resources and the unequal distribution and control of resources that cause poverty and living condition discontent. This discontent spills over into violence, which, in turn, causes the displacement of more people. The displaced population then becomes the source of demand for nationhood. Religious and ethnic affiliations shape the desire to seek shelter in ethnically defined communities.
The U.S. government has declared Cuba, Iran, Libya, Syria, North Korea, and the Sudan sponsors of international terrorist activities. These states don't lack ecological resources. But their resources are under centralized control and concentrated in the hands of a few.
The autocratic control of land, oil, minerals, and critical natural resources deprives people of livelihoods and fosters social and political unrest and, eventually, violence.
Vicious and long-lasting form of terrorism has occurred in failed nation states such as Somalia, Afghanistan, and Palestinian Territories. All exhibit a common pattern:
The movement of population into concentrated areas causes an extreme overload on ecological resources. Natural resources are depleted, overwhelming the ability of the land to support them, creating poverty, and giving rise to conditions for terrorism.
Natural resource depletion is accelerated by unsustainable practices in agriculture, forestry, and energy use. Violence becomes the dominant means of resource control, forcing natural resources out of the hands of legitimate government and supporting a terrorism infrastructure.
The prolonged lack of basic needs - food, clothing, and shelter - motivates people to violence.
Sustained terrorism requires long-term financing that comes from a dependable natural resource. Drugs, oil, diamonds, and mineral mining become a lucrative source of funds for fueling violence.
Dehumanized conditions are ameliorated by religion. Poverty, coupled with the promise of redemption, leads to the surrender of lives to radical causes. The number is growing. The wait list to become a suicide bomber in Iraq is said to be more than six months.
Understanding the ecological origins of terrorism provides a different perspective on the Bush administration's war on terror. Focused on military victory over terrorists, it is backed by the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the open-ended threat to preemptively invade other terror-sponsoring regions.
The ecological cost of this kind of war is incalculable. The bombing and destruction of natural environments and habitats have worsened ecological conditions. The number of refugees in the Middle East has exploded. The scarcity of natural resources has increased. Oil prices alone have doubled since the Iraq invasion. Meantime, the ability to eke out a living in Afghanistan or Somalia continues to decline.
The resources dedicated to the war on terror and the consequent destruction of the natural environment are a huge burden on American taxpayers. Last month, a Washington think-tank estimated the final cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan war will exceed $700 billion. In comparison, U.S. aid to all developing countries last year was just $78.6 billion.
A more efficient way of controlling terrorism would be to build the ecological capacity of terror-prone regions. The current war serves as a band-aid to ameliorate immediate desperate conditions, but does nothing to build eco-sustainability and the risk is that even larger numbers of people will be swayed by terrorist ideology and activism.
A narrow military response to terrorism is doomed to failure. The war on terror needs to be broadened to include economic and ecological policies that lead to sustainable development. The root cause of terror lay not in the manifest acts of terror, but in the conditions that give rise to them.
As long as the war on terror is being waged as a war on nations, the networks of people, places, and ecologies bound by terror ecosystems remain intact.
And despite nearly four years of punishing military war, the London bombings remind us that they survive.
(Shrivastava is a professor of management at Bucknell University.Mitroff is a professor of business policy and journalism atUniversity of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication.)
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Laser configuration space. More...
Laser configuration space.
The lasercspace driver processes a laser scan to compute the configuration space (`C-space') boundary. That is, it shortens the range of each laser scan such that the resultant scan delimits the obstacle-free portion of the robot's configuration space. This driver is particular useful for writing obstacle avoidance algorithms, since the robot may safely move to any point in the obstacle-free portion of the configuration space.
Note that driver computes the configuration space for a robot of some fixed radius; this radius may be set in the configuration file.
- Compile-time dependencies
- none
- Provides
- laser : output of the C-space scan
- Requires
- laser : raw laser data from which to make C-space scan
- Configuration requests
- Configuration file options
- radius (length)
- Default: 0.5 m
- Radius of robot for which to make C-space scan
- step (integer)
- Default: 1
- Step size for subsampling the scan (saves CPU cycles)
- Example
driver ( name "sicklms200" provides ["laser:0"] port "/dev/ttyS0" ) driver ( name "lasercspace" requires ["laser:0"] # read from laser:0 provides ["laser:1"] # output results on laser:1 radius 0.5 )


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Nowhere is safe anymore!!! So sick of this stuff happening.
Nowhere is safe anymore!!! So sick of this stuff happening.
Just can't imagine this.... WTF is going on...
The picture of the kids in the parking lot, hands on shoulders, walking one by one. So young they have a buddy system. And this happens. Unspeakable.
An extra moment to say God bless the principal and school psychologist that died. They heard bullets and went towards them.
My party is tonight to. Im not in the party mood. Ef it. Im going to pick my kid up now from aftercare. In 5 days, no one is going to care that u werent at the party.
I could be sedated with morphine and Moonshine IVs and I would still see red from this week's from now.
Anywho, The remains were so shocking (remember it was my friends first) that afterwards he came over to my house and drank himself into a stupor.
That pales in comparison to what these investigators are having to go through.
Nothing about the brother saying that.
I have a 4 yr old. I will not view any pictures or videos of this story. I'm sick to my stomach. I cried driving home. I'm sure the other parents know the feelings I have.
The killer cop tells the sgt. what he did, then tells him he is going to kill himself and hangs up. The frantic Sgt. calls the NYS Troopers who respond and find everyone dead. One of those Troopers had to retire because of what he saw, and the Sgt. who answered the phone was never the same.
I never understood why it's ok to put the pictures of grieving parents in the newspapers without their permission. I guess it's one of the freedoms that makes this country great.
I've been reading and refreshing threads on reddit, and other sources (not necessarily news orgnaizations) so this hasn't been officially confirmed.
Initially there were reports of only pistols recovered at the scene, but I beleive that has since changed. My apologies if I freaked anyone out
But it wouldn't shock me if that really happened, regardless its all still heinous...
I should probably stop posting now.


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Military suicides hit record high
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Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year.
The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic. The problem reflects severe strains on military personnel burdened with more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, complicated by anxiety over the prospect of being forced out of a shrinking force.
Pentagon figures obtained Monday by The Associated Press show that the 349 suicides among active-duty troops last year were up from 301 the year before and exceeded the Pentagon's own internal projection of 325. Statistics alone do not explain why troops take their own lives, and the Pentagon's military and civilian leaders have acknowledged that more needs to be done to understand the causes.
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The Sanibel Captiva United Way Campaign Committee announced Wednesday that island residents contributed $319,517 to the 2012-13 United Way campaign, 4 percent more than the campaign goal.
Campaign Committee members include chair Tony Lapi, and committee members Chauncey and Allison Goss, Dick and Debbie Riley, and Tom and Linda Uhler, and Judie Zimomra organized the volunteer effort. The Sanibel-Captiva campaign's leadership givers included 14 Alexis de Tocqueville members who give $10,000 or more annually, and 59 Keel Club members who give $1,000-$9,999 each year.
The combined total of the money raised for the United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades was $8.1 million. All money raised for the United Way supports local agencies and programs.
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Sanibel-Captiva United Way Campaign Committee members, from left, Chauncey Goss, Tom Uhler and Tony Lapi draw attention to the United Way goal on the islands.
"Thank you Sanibel & Captiva residents who have shown how much we care about our neighbors who are in need," said Lapi. "The United Way and its 70 partner agencies will help thousands of people because of the generosity of our islands. The successful campaign directly benefits our islands through the services provided by Sanibel F.I.S.H. and other United Way agencies located in the Sanibel United Way House."
"We are very proud to be part of a caring and generous community," said Cliff Smith, United Way president. "With the very difficult economy, it is amazing that the Sanibel-Captiva campaign raised 4 percent more than their goal of $315,000! A special thank you to Tony Lapi and the campaign committee for their hard work."
The United Way raises funds for human service organizations in the community and promotes partnerships and collaborations among agencies, focusing on issues and solutions that continue to improve lives.
For more information call (239) 433-2000 or visit www.unitedwaylee.org.


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Relay For Life kickoff party set
Updated 9:34 pm, Wednesday, January 9, 2013
A Relay For Life of New Milford kickoff party will be held Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. at Sarah Noble Intermediate School.
A snow date of Jan 18 is set for the party at the Sunny Valley Road school.
The Relay for Life is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.
The party will feature food, music, games and raffles.
This year's Relay For Life will be held June 15-16 at the school.
For more information about Relay or to register a team, visit www.relayforlife.org/newmilfordct or look for the Relay For Life of New Milford on Facebook.


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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awards $194,000 grant for Chicago Collections Consortium online portal
"The University of Chicago Library is pleased to announce its participation in an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project to support the development and implementation of the Chicago Portal. The $194,000 grant was awarded to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees on behalf of the Library, which is leading the project with the Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC). The University of Chicago is a member of the CCC. The fifteen-month grant will fund the development of CCC's major first initiative, a freely accessible, online portal to materials documenting the rich history of Chicago. The portal paves the way for CCC to fulfill its vision of connecting and preserving Chicago-focused collections, and increasing public and scholarly interest in and study of the Chicago region's diverse history and culture." (via The University of Chicago Library News)


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I just finished installing the wheelskins genuine leather steering wheel cover on my 63 VW bug and it looks fantastic. I chose the cover to help give the thin, stock steering wheel a thicker look and feel. Well, I can tell you that it provided both of those benefits plus, it covered the pealing grip. I'm very particular when it comes to my bug but the sand color was a perfect match to the original off-white interior. It's important to follow the directions on the stitch pattern and really give the line a good tug so the cover is nice and snug. The only somewhat challenging parts are around the spokes, but it just takes a little foresight on when you want to start looping the line around the front of the spokes in dummy stitches. It's thankfully easy to correct errors by just unstitching - I ended up not being quite happy on how I'd crisscrossed some of the line around one of the spokes, so I did that spot over again. The install will take the typical person about an hour to do and is well worth it. I would suggest that you use a pair of light gloves as the instructions recommend because I cut my finger while pulling the cord tight. You'd really be hard pressed to tell that the cover isn't OEM unless you really knew what the steering wheel is supposed to look like. As I said before, I am pretty picky on what goes into my vehicles and I would definitely recommend this if your steering wheel needs.


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Dante lets out his anger, Kiefer meets his end, and Ethan is still on the hook.
As Sam and Molly drive, they see Kiefer's SUV on the side of the road. They drive further and see a person in a ditch. When they eventually find Kiefer, Sam calls for help and Kiefer comes to. He says he was hit by a car, but can't get out the words to say who struck him.
In the hospital, Dante gently questions Kristina until she admits Kiefer is the one who has been beating her all along. He probes further, as Alexis sits by her side and Sonny secretly listens in from behind the curtain. After getting all the details, Dante promises his sister this will never happen again, as Sonny walks in the room. Kristina begs her dad not to let Jason hurt Kiefer. Steve returns to draw another blood panel and get Kristina settled in her room.
At the Haunted Star, Lucky and Jason discuss the possibility of Kiefer being Kristina's attacker. Dante calls Lucky, confirming Kiefer is the guilty one.
Lucky comes to the hospital and talks with Dante about Kristina. Dante says he put out an APB and Lucky knows the Bauers will fight this. Dante says they have to find Kiefer before Jason does, but Lucky has faith in Jason.
Jason meets with Sonny outside Kristina's hospital room and gets caught up on what's going on. Jason assures Sonny Kiefer will pay, but they have to be smart about this. Sonny doesn't understand why Kristina went to such lengths to protect Kiefer.
Warren Bauer meets with Jax about business and then they talk about Kiefer, Kristina and the possibility of Sonny being convicted. Olivia runs up to tell Warren Kiefer was hit by a car and is on his way to the hospital.
Kiefer is brought to the ER as Sam and Molly follow. Steve tells them Kristina was beat up again and is on another floor. Lucky comes to question Kiefer, as his parents walk in. Warren pulls Lucky out of the room yelling at him for questioning his son while he is in this condition. Lucky tells Warren Kristina was attacked again and that Kiefer has been named as her assailant.
In Kristina's hospital room, Alexis assures Kristina she did nothing wrong and that she won't let Sonny hurt Kiefer, as she flashes back to hitting him with her car. As Sonny approaches her door, Kristina tells Alexis she felt comfortable talking to Dante because she feels like he understands. Sonny sees Dante and asks for a minute alone. Molly and Sam come to Kristina's room and try to cheer her up. Alexis tears up looking at her girls and says they will get through this. Alexis leaves and Kristina asks Sam to make sure Jason doesn't hurt anyone. Sam promises to take care of it and leaves. Kristina breaks it to Molly that Kiefer is the one who hit her. Molly is sorry she didn't know and for always defending him. Molly then tells Kristina that Kiefer is in the ER after getting hit by a car.
Sonny and Dante go to the rooftop and Sonny thanks his son for helping Kristina. Dante lashes out at him for being the reason she lied about her attacker in the first place because she was afraid he would kill Kiefer. Dante chastises him for being a bad father to all his kids, but Sonny thinks he's just looking for reasons to hate him because somewhere deep inside he wants him to be his father. Dante retorts he doesn't ever want that. Olivia finds them and Sonny blames her keeping them apart. Olivia storms off and Sonny tells Dante he has 'some mother'. Dante punches Sonny, who says he is his son, but he can only push him so far. Dante yells, "You think I push you too far? You come and get me!"
Steve sees Jason near the elevator and expresses his hope that he won't cause any trouble. He accusingly says Kristina was afraid he was going to kill Kiefer, but Jason tells him he will talk to Kristina himself. After Steve walks away, Sam approaches Jason to ask him not to hurt Ethan. Jason tells her Kristina admitted Kiefer is the one who hit her. Sam asks him where he went when he found out. Jason assures her he didn't go after him and then learns about Kiefer's accident.
Alexis comes down to the ER and finds out that Kiefer has been brought in. His monitors go off and Steve says his spleen has ruptured. Alexis watches as the medical team rushes to try and save him, but ultimately fails, as Kiefer flatlines.
Ethan tries to defend himself to Maya at the mansion in regards to Kristina. He says he won't wait around for someone to believe him and will leave tonight. Skye walks in and says that would be a huge mistake.
Ethan and Skye go to the Haunted Star to wait for Luke who wants his son to stay in town. Ethan explains he was fencing some items at the time of Kristina's latest beating and Luke wants his fence's name so they can use him as a witness. Lucky comes aboard to tell Ethan Kiefer has been named as Kristina's attacker. However, Ethan isn't free and clear yet because Kiefer was hit by a car and his front fender is smashed in.
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Choppy anime
While viewing anime on my new high end rig the video is choppy when the "camera" is moving sideways or up/down. The characters motion is not choppy/laggy at all. This happens with all file types and players. However when I play the same file on my old laptop, this does not happen.
Greatly appreciate any help in regards to this.
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the correct terms your talking about are panning and tilting, panning is horizontal moving scene while tilting is vertical moving scene, most fansubs i download have those choppy or jerky panning and tilting scenes so its not just you, from what i read in the past it has something to do with how fansubbers encode their video that they remove duplicate frames on the entire video to lessen more the filesize, but the disadvantage is that most panning and tilting scenes will have choppy/jerky motions
P.S. but anyway those jerky scenes are just happening on (some) panning and (some) tilting scenes though and not on all video scenes so i come to live with it lol
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It's probably jitter because 24fps (normal anime frame rate; actually 23.976fps) and 60Hz/fps (fixed frame rate of most computer monitors) doesn't match up perfectly.
If you set your screen to a multiple of 24fps (e.g. 24, 48, 72, 96, 120Hz) then it won't be choppy but it will still be juddery.
(You seem to have an nVIDIA graphics card, so you can try make a custom resolution setting in the NVIDIA control panel application. Probably 48Hz will be best if it doesn't allow you to set higher than that.)
Nothing else you can do about it, unless you want to get into motion interpolation.
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Thats fair enough. Any idea why there is non of this taking place on my old laptop (also 60hz screen) during the same scenes and files? I cant help but feel that there is something wrong in my comps settings, drivers, etc thats causing it.
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I've noticed that this also happens while gaming and watching "live" video. Short of re-installing windows is there anything I can/should try?
*Edit* I've also tried viewing the same files under a Linux partition and the problem persists.
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To take for example of MPC-HC tutorial step 2 – "setting up MPC-HC 'Internal Filters'" from the above link, you'll see something under the Transform Filters list in which you can select H264/AVC DXVA. That would need to be unchecked as one way to prevent GPU (DXVA, etc.) acceleration under that player.
Another one is if using ffdshow, some folks were working on something back then that included some DXVA decoder. If it is working and is enabled within the ffdshow video decoder control panel, you would also need to disable that there if should that come up as one of the active external filters when playing a video in MPC-HC.
For the video choppyness though, you should probably try some different video output renderers from the video player settings configuration (within MPC-HC, VLC, etc. ) to see if that would make any difference. ...Video outputs like EVR, madvr, gl. VMR9 was always choppy for me long in the past. If you still can't get anywhere with these players, lachs0r's mplayer2 builds for Windows I found to be a pretty good player alternative.
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Stock MPC-HC is bad, and FFDshow is bad. Just a note for the OP.
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Born July 12, 1931, in Pittsburgh, Pa., she was the second daughter of Charles and Leona Wagner Ketchum. Lola married Walt Watchinski Jr. on Aug. 5, 1950, and was employed at CENTURY 21 Real Estate in Morris for more than 40 years.
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - Coming off a hard-fought loss to third-ranked Cornell and a date with fifth-ranked Princeton looming on Saturday, there may have been a fear that the Yale men's lacrosse team would look past Tuesday's non-league game with Hartford. Michael Karwoski helped make sure it didn't happen. He scored three goals as the Bulldogs topped the Hawks 9-7 on a brisk afternoon at Alumni Stadium.
Gregory Mahony and Matt Gibson each had two goals for Yale, who improved to 4-3 overall with the victory. Matt Fuchs and Brian Douglass also scored. Karwoski, Mahony, Fuchs, Brendan Gibson and Michael Pratt added assists.
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Karwoski's second goal increased the lead to 3-0 early in the second quarter, but the Hawks scored the next two goals to get back into it. Just 21 second after Hartford's second goal, though, Douglass hit the back of the net and Yale had a 4-2 lead at halftime.
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Nice to see Mohit Sharma playing domestic game just next day after the final ODI
Nice to see Mohit Sharma playing domestic game just next day after the final ODI
I'm not really gung-ho about Rishi Dhawan for India, as the team already has Bhuvi Kumar, who's also quite capable with the bat, has a good record across formats (well, not quite in T20, but better than Dhawan in ODs), did well against better quality opposition, and of course, is an Indian team regular. Dhawan's played a lot less, and is only 30 games old, while Bucky had played nearly 50 matches when he got his first India cap in Tests. For an immediate choice, you already have him. Dhawan can wait for a couple of years.
VRV Singh, ironically, was one of those bright young pace finds in Indian cricket, who could barely stay fit. He's a lot fitter now, but let's see him finish an entire season. I saw him in action, and he bowled tight, stump to stump. Looked good. Mohit Sharma, not so tight, but still decent. As for the 'way too slow for international cricket' argument, it's a catch-22 situation when you have no patience for Umesh Yadav, who sprays it around at a high pace, but are still scared of appointing Pankaj Singh as a spearhead just because he's not fast enough.
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Twenty20 used to be boring.
Pankaj Singh is fast enough though.
Bumrah continuing his good debut season with another 5fer
Bumrah seems to be getting wickets on all tracks.
Unorthodox action and bowls deceptively quick IIRC.
Ya saw him a little bit in IPL, looks like a wicket taking bowler. In other news Rishi Dhawan picks up 2 more wickets in second innings, if he keeps up this form he might get selected for NZ tour. I really wish Star could telecast a match in which Himachal is playing so that we could take a look how he is bowling
Saw parts of today's game, and I would prefer Mohit Sharma leading the wickets tally for Haryana to these two slower bowlers (Budhwar and Harshal). Every bowler in this game stuck to the 128-132 km/h bracket. Sandeep Sharma was slower, but moved the ball quite well, and was rewarded with three more scalps. VRV Singh was lucky to get a wicket in the second innings, on a dubious decision. The Haryana batsmen were adventurous towards the end of the session, and kept swinging over point or hooking whenever needed, and were somehow lucky to have fielders a little off position. In case of one hook, unlucky that the ball rammed into the soft outfield and stayed put. Sid Kaul was a bit unlucky to have an easy catch off a very good delivery put down at slip.
All the bowlers were hitting the deck hard, and moving it a little to good effect- no 110K wobblers on display here- except for the odd Sachin Rana delivery. Pity he bowled so little, since he's a better all-rounder than the more famous Joginder Sharma, whose batting has ceased to be relevant.
Mohit Sharma was repeatedly promoted as an India prospect. Way too soon, really. We saw the West Indians hoisting him for big shots, when it wasn't seaming like a typical Lahli track. He needs pace- at least 10K more.
In games we missed, the Mumbai attack made the ball talk, or should I say, run down visiting Vidarbha. Zaheer had taken only two of the ten Vid wickets that fell for 113, giving Mumbai a colossal lead, but kept it tight, and the batsmen had no answer- not even chart-leading Faiz Fazal. Spinner Vishal Dabholkar had a good game, and may keep his impressive season going. I may consider travelling to the ground on the third day to catch some action, but I may see more cricket on the televised match, played competitively, than at the ground, where it's all one-sided.
Sad to see Rajasthan in danger of sinking. Hopefully they can turn it around in the final innings- all of Pankaj, Robin and Menaria need some decent opposition to face if they have to play for India. Baroda, not so sad to see them sink, since they don't have any relevant players now, with both Pathans struggling for form and fitness, and Munaf not running through teams- but Yusuf has taken four wickets with his spin partner (also taking four), and scored a century, on an extreme turner at Moti Bagh Stadium in Baroda (back to their old tricks, eh?), and the team may win massively. MP crushed for 60, in response to Baroda's 100-something.
Weird. That's what I think of struggling A-group team Jharkhand's selection. They had some success with the pace trio of Aaron, Shankar Rao and Ajay Yadav. All three were benched for the game against Gujarat, in Gujarat, where the ball is supposed to turn a lot- so they played two spinners plus Sunny Gupta. Guess what- six of ten Jharkhand wickets were taken by seamers. Now Jharkhand is struggling to take Gujarat wickets, and only one down so far, to Shahbaz Nadeem- the other is a run-out.
One more seamer in good form is Abu Nechim, who's got 17 wickets in five games so far. His team is also in the running for a place in a higher group. Not so good to see Umesh Yadav struggle to take that one wicket in Mumbai. Ishwar Pandey and Pankaj Singh, though, had better games. And, of course, Jalaj Saxena - five matches, 28 wickets. Also chipping in with the bat, without any fifties and hundreds on batting-friendly decks that MP have played on, throughout the season.
By the way, STAR Sports network has been generous to sponsor the Ranji Trophy, so they must be seriously interested in the event. And of course, they are a much bigger entity than Nimbus. They also celebrate mediocrity at times, when they have, among TV shows/segments on certain Indian cricketers, a show/segment called 'Swinging Shami'.
@Daemon - Fast enough for us fans, but not fast enough for the selectors. They seem to want blokes who can bowl at Umesh Yadav's pace, but only end up getting bowlers with Umesh Yadav's economy rate. I'm game for Pankaj Singh opening the bowling, and replacing Zaheer, especially after the South Africa tour. He's very fit, and very consistent, and should have been picked ahead of, at least, a woefully off-form Ishant. In case both Bucky and Shami fail, he'll be the one to call upon. Not an extravagant sprayer of the ball, but not a weakling who needs a wicketkeeper standing up to the stumps. I feel there's some kind of tiff between BCCI and Rajasthan's board, and the players miss out.
@Cevno/nsniks - Strangely, the Ambanis did not give JJB too many chances in the IPL. Not surprising, since franchise owners are too scared to risk domestic talent, young or experienced, even though they offer plenty of opportunities to overseas rookies, like the Ambanis' own Aiden Blizzard and Davey Jacobs. Hopefully the next IPL gives him more time in the middle. Likewise, Rishi Dhawan. I wouldn't mind if he was bowling in the 128-132k range, as long as he can move the ball to good effect, and also has decent batting technique.
Last edited by Arjun; 29-11-2013 at 05:30 AM.
It seems the attack for first test would be Zak/Shami/Bhuvi until or unless Yadav performs exceptionally well in ODI's. Yadav leaking runs and not taking wickets is not a good sign for him
Idk why I overlooked just how stacked TN's batting is (Vijay, Mukund, Badri, DK, Baba...wow). Curious to see how the FTBs(+Pujara) of Saurashtra go on this Chepauk pitch.
Punjab chasing only 135 but I think they'll struggle. Mohit Sharma's bowling really well.
MP 90 (44.4 ov, Anand Rajan 7*, MM Patel 0/0) - Match over | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
Need more such results.A lot better than some of the flat roads where batsmen score heavily but all you get is a draw.
Even the Rohtak wicket is pretty good where Punjab and Haryana are playing.
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Wrong Time No See.
They're extremes though, which isn't great either. Lahli basically seams around for all 4 days while apparently the Baroda game was played on a pitch that was turning day 1.
What do you make of Jalaj Saxena's impressive run in this season? If he's making the ball talk, and not just dropping it on the pitch, he's likely to get an India cap. We've not seen him bowl this season, but the scorecards are impressive.
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