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The Berks-Mont News (http://www.berksmontnews.com)
Friday, April 18, 2014
READING — Back by popular demand, "Bill W. And Dr. Bob" — a play about the miraculous and humble beginnings of Alcoholics Anonymous — makes its triumphant return to Berks County at Genesius Theatre for one weekend only. The show runs today at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. The debut of this wonderful play, directed by L J Fecho, was presented to sold-out audiences at Easy Does It Inc. in Leesport in 2011.
"Bill W. And Dr. Bob" tells the story of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, two hopeless drunks whose sometimes stormy friendship, buffeted by their strong desire to recover from their chronic alcoholism, led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935.
Written by Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey, "Bill W. And Dr. Bob" is believed to be the first play to depict the relationship between Wilson and Smith and the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous, a rich, provocative dramatization of what remains one of the most enduring, if unlikely, success stories in American history.
"Bill W. And Dr. Bob" is again directed by Fecho, president of Entourage Entertainment/LetUsEnterTrainYou.com and artistic director of Genesius Theatre in Reading.
Once again, Fecho has brought together a cast of local veteran actors. Dan Smith is back to play Bill Wilson and also Cathy Miller returns as Mrs. Lois Wilson and Diane Smith as Mrs. Anne Smith. New to the cast is Chuck Austin as Dr. Bob Smith. Brandon Kegerize is playing a compilation of male characters including Ebby, Bill Wilson's friend who helps him get sober and also Billy, the third AA Member. Amy Hudak is playing a compilation of female characters including the wife of Billy, who was the third person to join AA.
The scenic design is by L J Fecho and John Bigos, costume design by Cathy Miller, lighting by Spencer Moss Fecho and sound design by Tim Shapiro.
"Bill W. And Dr. Bob" is the compelling and often humorous story of how Wilson, a failed stockbroker, and Smith, a surgeon, met in 1935. Diagnosed as an incurable alcoholic, Wilson determined that what he needed most was fellowship with other alcoholics after previous attempts at recovery failed him. When Wilson's desire to drink overwhelmed him during a trip to Akron, Ohio, he picked out the name of a clergyman at random and asked if he could give him the name of a local alcoholic to talk to. That search led him to Dr. Bob Smith, a respected surgeon who frequently operated while inebriated.
The stockbroker and the surgeon first met in the living room of Akron matron Henrietta Sieberling on May 12, 1935, talked for six hours straight — the first AA meeting — and history was made. On June 10, Dr. Bob took his last drink and drug, and this is taken as the date of the founding of AA.
Genesius Theatre is located at 10th and Walnut streets in Reading. To purchase tickets for "Bill W. And Dr. Bob" with all major credit cards visit the website at www.genesiustheatre.org or call 610-373-9500. All Tickets cost $15 and credit card fees apply. Tickets are also available at the door.
For more information, contact the theater at 610-371-8151. Genesius Theatre is handicap accessible and there is free parking next to the theater (limited spaces available). This production is rated PG (some minor adult language).
About The Authors
Stephen Bergman (co-author) was a doctor on the Harvard Medical faculty for 30 years and, under the pen-name "Samuel Shem," is a playwright and novelist. His plays "Room for One Woman" and "Napoleon's Dinner" were produced Off Off Broadway as The Shem Plays and selected for The Best Short Plays of the Year anthology. Other plays he wrote include "The Life at Ground Zero" (Blackburn Theatre, Gloucester) and "Courtenay's Gym" (The Boston Shakespeare Company, where he was playwright-in-residence for two seasons). His novels include "The House of God" (cited by The Lancet as one of the two most significant medical novels of the 20th century) "Fine" and "Mount Misery." The novels have sold more than two million copies in 50 countries.
Janet Surrey (co-author) is on the faculty and board of the Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy in Newton, Mass. She is a clinical psychologist in private practice and has taught at the Harvard Medical School, Andover Newton Theological School and the Episcopal Divinity School. She is the author of many books and papers in the area of relational psychology, women's psychological development, spirituality, and addiction. She is a Founding Scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center, Wellesley College, and with her husband co-authored the nonfiction book: "We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women."
Presentation of "Bill W. And Dr. Bob"does not imply affiliation with nor approval or endorsement from Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.


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Chris Brown caused a big scare for his public relations folks on Halloween. The 23-year-old singer and his crew dropped by Rihanna's Halloween bash dressed as Taliban-style terrorists.
Rihanna rocked out with her Halloween party in West Hollywood, but Brown and his crew terrorized the event with their costumes.
He posted a picture of himself and crew donning long beards and turbans and wielding guns, including an assault rifle (presumably fake). The caption he tweeted along with the picture read: "Ain't nobody F***ing wit my clique #ohb." [See Instagram image here]
When the incoming criticism began to cloud Twitter, Joyce Hawkins, Brown's mother came to the singer's defense.
"Halloween is just for fun, nothing more than just fun," Hawkins (@mombreezy) tweeted. "Get a life please."
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Money Management
March Financial Fitness Challenge--Make Money by Asking for It/ March 5th, 2012
We've talked a lot in this column about ways to achieve two primary goalspaying off debt and boosting your savings. It's hard to do both at the same time, especially when funds are already tight. Sure, you can find a buck here and a buck there by being rigorous about your routine spending. When you've already tackled all the obvious little things and still don't have as much financial breathing room as you'd like, it's painfully frustrating to look for still more ways to trim your budget. But there's a potential big payoff from one simple behavior we haven't talked about much: You can make a lot of money just by asking for it.
Talk is cheapIt frosts my cupcakes to get offers in the mail for special prices on bundled services when I'm already a customer of the cable or telephone service provider. Why should new clients get all the perks? As it happens, you often can cash in, toojust by speaking up. Collect those mailed offers for a few weeks and make some notes about your current service and the special offers. Now, call the cable or telephone company and make it clear that you have the attractive option of going with another provider; the tempting offers are right in front of you, after all. Point out that you would be happy to forgo the hassle of making a switch, but only if the service provider is willing to make it worth your while. Now be quiet and wait for an offer. If it isn't what you were hoping to hear, say so. "I'm disappointed that you aren't able to do a little better than that. Perhaps I could talk with your supervisor about alternatives?" Again, be quiet and wait for an offer.
First speak upthen be quiet and wait for the offer.You don't have to make a commitment on this call unless you get an offer that's too good to pass up. Make some notes and say you will call back when you've had time to consider the offer. You might get a call with a sweetened offer before you even can make up your mind. Ask for a time commitment and then monitor your next few bills to make sure that the deal you struck is the deal you actually get. And when the deal is about to expire, say in a year or 18 months, call back and start over.
Squeaky wheel gets the greaseWith a few variations you can replay this scenario in other similarly productive ways. For example, call your insurance agent and ask for a review of your coverage. Point out all the benefits you bring to the tableno accidents or citations, no claims, low-mileage driver, the teenage driver in your household gets excellent grades, smoke alarms in all bedroomswhatever accurate information might influence a lower insurance premium. If this gets you nowhere, or not as far as you'd like, remind the agent that you'd like to call a few other providers before you renew your policy. And then follow through and make those other calls. It might produce supporting information for your request to the current insurer, or it could lead you to an even better deal. You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for.
Monitor your bills to make sure that the deal you struck is the deal you get.
It never hurts to askHere are some other ways that speaking up can reward your time:
Ask for a discount at your doctor's or dentist's office. Especially if you are a private patient, it's a smart idea to see if you qualify for any reduced fees.
See if a retailer offers discounts for cash. Some merchants will show they appreciate not having to pay for a credit card transaction by passing that benefit on to you.
Make a haggle play. It might be outside your comfort zone, but the benefits can make haggling feel comfortable in a hurry. For a low-risk opener, all you need to say is, "I was hoping for a better price." As in the cable service example, be quiet and wait for an offer.
Seize the rate. Today's low interest rates may help you qualify for a home loan, even a car loan, refinance. Talk to a credit union lender about your opportunities.
Financial Fitness ChallengeThe people at your credit union are serious about helping you achieve and maintain financial health. They bring you this website and other tools to help you make the most of your financial resources. The Financial Fitness Challenge continues to look at ways you can make better financial habits no matter what condition the economy is in. ST
Susan Tiffany, CCUFC


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Edward R. Boyajian
Edward R. Boyajian, 50, of Samuel Gorton Avenue, died January 5, 2014 at his home. He was the husband of Linda L. (Smith) Boyajian.
Born in Providence, a son of the late Everett R. and Jean G. (Caprio) Boyajian, he had been a lifelong Warwick resident. Mr. Boyajian was a teamster and longtime member of Local 251. He served his country in the United States Marine Corps and the Rhode Island National Guard. He was a member of the Warwick Knights of Columbus, William Shields Post 43 American Legion and the Wounded Warrior Project.
Besides his wife, he leaves two daughters, Hailey J. Boyajian and Brooke S. Boyajian; a step-daughter, Destiny M. Gioilelli. He was the brother of Joseph A., John L., Thomas M., and Jeanne M. Boyajian all of Warwick.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial on Saturday, January 11, in St. Benedict Church, 135 Beach Avenue, Warwick at 10 a.m. Calling Hours are Friday 4-8 p.m. in the Frank P. Trainor & Sons Funeral Home, 982 Warwick Avenue, Warwick.
In lieu of flowers donations in his memory to the Wounded Warrior Project P.O. Box 758517 Topeka, Kansas 66675 will be appreciated. Condolences visit www.trainorfh.com
rip my friend you will be greatly missed
OMG...Eddy B...so sad....my condolences to the family. I went to school with him. He was a great guy and I'm sure he continued to be so.


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Join Leigh Combs and Dixie Treichel on Fresh Fruit, Thursday, April 7 from 7pm-8pm to hear a special interview with Legendary Singer/Songwriter Janis Ian (whose birthday is April 7).
Happy Birthday Janis!
As a special pledge drive show we will have 2 tickets to her concert with Tom Paxton as a pledge gift.
Also on the show is Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. speaking about the White Privilege Conference.
Janis Ian's career has seen her as an accomplished singer-songwriter, columnist, activist and lecturer. She was fifteen when she wrote the controversial Society's Child that tells the story of a white girl whose bigoted parents forbid her to continue seeing her black boyfriend. Her 1975 hit At Seventeen, an anthem of teenaged angst, would garner her five Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards.1993 she publicly came out as a lesbian with her album Breaking Silence. Besides socio-political themes many of her songs are filled with wit and humor. Her song Married in London is a free download on her website that pokes fun at the gay marriage laws. In 2008 she released her book Society's Child: My Autobiography and a 2 CD set The Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Songs. There is also a DVD of her titled Janis Ian: Live at Grand Center.
Her 2011 tour Together At Last with Tom Paxton brings her to the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN. Grammy Hall Of Fame member and Grammy winner Janis Ian joins Grammy Lifetime Achievement award winner Tom Paxton for a performance at the Fitzgerald Theater on Friday, April 29th at 8:00 p.m. Joining Janis and Tom is guitarist Natalia Zukerman
Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. has provided diversity, privilege and oppression trainings, presentations, keynotes and workshops across the United States. Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr., currently serves as Director of Diversity at The Bush School in Seattle, WA. Prior to his current position, Dr. Moore was the Director on Intercultural Life at Central College in Pella, Iowa.
12th Annual White Privilege Conference WPC: Hosted by Minnesota Justice CollaborativeApril 13-16, 2011, Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Minneapolis
WPC is a conference that examines challenging concepts of privilege and oppression and offers solutions and team building strategies to work toward a more equitable world.
The WPC provides a yearly forum for critical discussions about diversity, multicultural education and leadership, social justice, race/racism, sexual orientation, gender relations, religion and other systems of privilege and oppression.
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Be a grownup. OK?
You know something is wrong between you and him, so do you just pull the trigger, kill this relationship dead and move on?
No, take a moment. Look at what you used to have between the two of you and what you've got now. Make a list of where you two have gone off the rails. Seeing your problems in black and white helps you put things in perspective.
The next question to ask yourself is do you want to put things back on track? If you think with some tweaking, you can get your relationship running smooth, then it's worth doing, isn't it?
You've assessed how you feel, now for the tough stuff. Talk to him about the way you feel and the changes for the worse you've noticed. Even if he's neglecting you, there may be a relationship worth saving.
Guys get wrapped up in their own lives and that makes them dense to everyone around them. They may not be aware they're doing you harm. Also, guys aren't talkers. His turning away from you could be indicative of his fears.
He may be worried things are moving too fast and this is his way of slowing things down, or it could be something outside of your relationship that's sucking up his energy. Either way, get to the bottom of the problem. But if you've tried getting through to him, and you've tried to make changes for the better and it's all failed, then breaking up may be the best way to go.
Hopefully, he'll respond to you pointing out that you two are in trouble, but there's also a chance he's not interested and he doesn't care. Then, whether you like it or not, you've hit the end of the road. If it isn't working for you, then go.
Check your happiness barometer. If the needle is pointing to storm clouds all the time instead of the smiley sunshine face and you can't see a way of swinging it back, then you've got a problem.
Breaking up is never easy and requires thought and strength. It's going to leave a wound, but you'll eventually heal. Here's how to break up with someone:
1. Make a clean break.
OK, you've decided it's over. You want to start fresh and meet someone compatible. This is the real tough bit: actually ending it. It's not going to be fun, but you have to be courageous. You have to actually say the words, "It's over." There can't be any confusion. There's no good way, but some ways are better than others.
2. Be direct about your intentions.
If you want to end the relationship, tell him face to face. No text messages. No post-it notes on the refrigerator for him to find when he comes home to an empty house. No letters from lawyers. (The only exception to this rule is if you suspect he may become violent.)
Don't be ambiguous. I can't stress this enough. Too many women don't want to hurt their man's feelings or try to soften the blow, so they wrap the discussion up in vagaries. They say things like, "Things aren't working out right now, but that doesn't mean I'll always feel that way."
Thus, he walks away thinking he's still got a chance when there isn't one or wondering whether the relationship is really over. The more humane thing is just to say it straight. Don't disguise what you mean.
3. Pick the perfect place to end things.
Choose a place for the breakup where both of you are comfortable and there are no distractions. This may be in your home, but your home can dilute the importance of what you're saying. Your home is a familiar place and the breakup loses significance. It can be seen as just another argument at home.
Instead, take him somewhere quiet you can talk. Steer clear of restaurants, because if it turns into an ugly scene, no one needs to see it. And don't take him to one of his favorite places to do it either, or broadcast it over the public address system during a Yankees game. That's just cruel.
4. Tell him what went wrong.
You guys didn't work, but hopefully he can learn from his mistakes and succeed with someone new. And again, it removes the element of ambiguity. You're leaving him because he never does anything for you, he doesn't pull his weight, he's inconsiderate of your feelings, he's unsupportive of your career, he demeans you in public, etc.
Whatever the reasons, tell him what they are. This isn't so you can be vindictive, but as I've said before, guys aren't mind readers. He may not even be aware of his behavior. Now, this isn't an excuse, but if he isn't aware he should know. You might even ignite an epiphany. He might surprise you and want to change his ways.
Of course, if you catalog his shortcomings, be prepared to receive a list of yours. Don't get angry or defensive, just listen. There may be some valid points in what he's telling you.
5. Be an adult throughout the process.
Don't tell him it's over by introducing him to your new man or having one of your friends or family members tell him. Breaking up is bad enough; it doesn't need an element of revenge.
Also, keep it civil. That's easier said than done, but if you take a methodical and reasoned approach to breaking up with him, it's harder for a war of words to break out. It won't enable you to leave with smiles and hugs, but at least your CD collection won't be thrown out. At the end of the day, you may not leave as friends, but you should be able to bump into each other on the street and be pleasant.
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I would personally err on the side of politeness and let the "asker" reveal the punchline.
Well, don't leave me hanging-how many ducks DOES it take to change a lightbulb??
come on, I will pay for the answer...you can put it on my...BILL!
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The New York Mets have had one iconic player in their history, that being Hall of Famer Tom Seaver.
Should he remain healthy and play out his contract at his current pace, they will have another in David Wright.
When Wright signed his mega-contract he did it with the idea of retiring a Met, just as Mariano Rivera is doing with the Yankees, and Derek Jeter will follow.
"I want to retire with the Mets,'' Wright said. "That's very important to me.''
Wright isn't boastful, but definitely proud of the way he's perceived not only by his teammates and management, but the fans.
That is why, with nothing to play for, Wright worked hard to come back from his hamstring and hopes to be in the lineup tonight despite having a jammed thumb.
Wright, who has a Rivera jersey hanging in his locker, did not play Friday after being hit in the head the previous night and jammed his thumb as he fell.
With the baseball eyes of New York fixated on Rivera's retirement and whether Robinson Cano will bolt the Yankees for the last dollar, Wright carries on almost unnoticed.
With the exception being his clubhouse, where Collins is most appreciative.
"I think when David Wright's days are done here, he'll be thought of in that light,'' Collins said. "He'll hold every record there is in this organization. He'll have every offensive record there is.
"And I know one of the things you've heard and mentioned so many times [during the Yankee Stadium ceremony] was Mariano Rivera off the field, how he is in the clubhouse, how he is in real life. This guy is the same way.''
You have two more days to enjoy Wright until next spring.
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Domestic dispute turns deadly in SW Houston
Updated 11:07 am, Sunday, July 6, 2014
A 44-year-old woman was killed in her home in southwest Houston around midnight Sunday.
An argument ensued between the woman and a male living with her in the 500 block of Trafalgar Drive, police said.
The man then allegedly shot her to death, according to police.
The man is in custody and charges are pending, police said. No identities or additional details were available.


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Sometimes, headlines alone can tell a story.
Start with this one from The Times: "Baby boomers may live longer, but their elders were healthier."
And while you're pondering that, check this one out: "Sperm count low among couch potatoes, study finds."
And finally, there's this, well, punch-line headline: "Gov. Christie eats doughnut with Letterman; talks Sandy storm aid."
Yes, boys and girls and boomers, we have met the enemy, and he is us.
Of course, I'm not talking about you, specifically. You may be a bit heavy, but it's nothing to worry about, right? Which makes you a likely voter for New Jersey's round mound of governor. As The Times story explained: "Christie has said he is not bothered by jokes about his weight and maintains he is in good health with cholesterol and blood sugar numbers under control."
Which is a bit like the captain of the Titanic saying that the flooding is under control.
The truth about our health and lifestyles, alas, is more sobering.
For example, researchers from the West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Medical University of South Carolina compared data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; they measured baby boomers (average age 54.1 when they took the survey between 2007 and 2010) and their elders (average age: 54.5 when they took the survey between the 1988 and 1994). Here's what they found:


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Five Levels of Pleasure - Source
I really enjoyed reading Rabbi Weinberg's "Five Levels of Pleasure." I studied in yeshiva but I never encountered this anywhere before. What is the source of these famous "Five Levels"?
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The Sefer HaChinuch (mitzvah 418 - Ahavas Hashem) writes that there nothing in the world - neither wealth (materialism), family (love), honor (right thing), nor dominion (power) - which compares to love of God. Rabbi Weinberg learned from here that these five aspects are pointing to five distinct levels of pleasure - and from this kernel developed his famous class.


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Yes, i do feel pathetic rooting for this organization.
I really hope this happens. At least he had some chemistry with Sanchez. Bring him back and see how it goes. God knows there's nothing else remotely intriguing about this team right now.
If he comes here and actually plays well, then who gives a f*ck what he had to tweet?
The point is, the Jets need a WR and Braylon Edwards was always the best WR we had for Sanchez.
Signing Holmes has turned into a disaster. But Braylon always marched the party line and he always had big plays for Sanchez. Edwards was always the guy they should have brought back.
The only reason why they didn't was because Edwards contract demands were too much. But how was signing Holmes for 50 million ANY better?
Why don't the whiny babies get back on topic and stop lecturing everyone. Ray you have totally turned into a j*rk this year. I used to read your posts and now I have you on ignore. Get back to talking about the game and stop chastising everyone, you sound like a pius arse.
We're Jets fans, pathetic kinda goes with the description.
I hope it happens, but the way this front office has been working things they seem to make more personal decisions than football related decisions.
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RALEIGH, N.C. – David Krejci scored a tiebreaking goal with 1:50 left, and the Boston Bruins beat the Carolina Hurricanes, 5-3, on Monday night.
Zdeno Chara had a goal and two assists, Nathan Horton had a goal and an assist, Tyler Seguin had an empty-net goal and an assist, and Brad Marchand scored a short-handed goal for the Bruins.
The Northeast Division leaders remained unbeaten in regulation and opened the season by earning points in five straight games for the first time since 1990-91.
Eric Staal had a goal and an assist, and he and Jeff Skinner scored 50 seconds apart late in the second period to help the Hurricanes erase a two-goal deficit.
Coyotes 4, Predators 0: At Glendale, Ariz., Chad Johnson earned his first NHL shutout in his Phoenix debut, and the Coyotes beat Nashville.
Johnson, called up from Portland of the AHL last week after Mike Smith was hurt, had 22 saves in a game dominated defensively by a Coyotes team that entered the night allowing an NHL-high 20 goals in five games.
Blue Jackets 2, Stars 1: At Columbus, Ohio, Vinny Prospal scored from a hard angle at 1:22 of the third period, and Sergei Bobrovsky had 24 saves to lead Columbus past Dallas.
It was the Blue Jackets' first victory since opening night in Nashville in a shootout. They had been outscored 16-6 since while mustering only a point in a shootout loss to Detroit in the home opener a week ago.
Oilers 4, Avalanche 1: At Edmonton, Alberta, Devan Dubnyk made 37 saves, and Edmonton scored all of its goals on the power play to defeat Colorado.
Ales Hemsky, Jordan Eberle, Shawn Horcoff and Nail Yakupov, into an empty net, scored on the man advantage for the Oilers.


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The wavelet/JPEG 2000 plug-in, written by Divyanshu Vats, from the 2006 GIMP Google Summer of Code wavelet project, mentored by Simon Budig.
It creates three plug-ins:
jp2: JPEG 2000 support
denoise: A noise removal plug-in
ihalf: Inverse halftoning -- remove halftones from printed images.
It requires the openjpeg library, available at: http://www.openjpeg.org/
I'm not sure what the license is (the code files don't say) but the COPYING file looks pretty free.
plugin segfaults with openjpeg v1.2
The plugin is delivered with it's own copy of the openjpeg.h header.
The structures have changed, and certain things are much larger.
Remove the local openjpeg.h header, add the following to src/main.h:
#ifndef MAX_PATH
#define MAX_PATH
and the plug-in will build and not segfault.
My first rendered image was a bit ugly, but at least it didn't segfault...
The license of this code is unclear to me (COPYING is rather generic, and some of the source files do not contain any reference).
We should try to solve this.
/* Get other parameters from interface */
parameters.numresolution = 6;
rate = 0;
parameters.tcp_rates[0] = rate;
The bug seems to be fixed (image size with zero rate seems to be almost the same size as my lossless test image), but I'm afraid I should have initialized the variable elsewhere, since I forgot almost everything about C...
I also noticed that if I wanted to type the JP2 extension in uppercase, the plugin would crash. So I added:
static const char *extension[] =
{ "pgx", "pnm", "pgm", "ppm", "bmp", "j2k", "jp2", "jpt", "PGX", "PNM", "PGM", "PPM", "BMP", "J2K", "JP2", "JPT" };
Not very proud of this (if someone writes "Jp2", I suppose it will crash, too.
As for the rate statement, I finally wrote:
if (rate < 0 || rate > 100) rate = 0;
But the slider always starts at zero, which proves that the variable is out of bounds every time the program starts.
I retrieved my old C reference manual, mouldy, ill-smelling, dated 1990...
[...later] I read one page of the ill-smelling manual, and I removed my uppercase constants. Just wrote:
if (strnicmp (ext, extension[i], 3) == 0)
instead of
if (strncmp (ext, extension[i], 3) == 0)
Same issue in jp2read. Same remedy. The Linux source should be modified too:
if (strncasecmp (ext, extension[i], 3) == 0)
Another small bug: if you try to save a multi-layer image, the error is not handled and the plugin crashes.
François Collard
1. Much better to remove the length of the comparison completely, e.g. use 'strcasecmp', see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/strcasecmp.html :
if ( strcasecmp(ext, extension[i]) == 0 )
2. If your windows compiler doesn't have strcasecmp, then it probably has stricmp (check your doco), so add this to a header file (which is #included by the module) somewhere:
#ifdef _WIN32
#define strcasecmp(a,b) stricmp((a),(b))
3. Finally, in your list of extensions, you can add "jpeg" - note that this is a 4-letter extension.


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Christian Nursing in the Philippines
Nurses in the United States experience one of the most sophisticated healthcare systems in the world while nurses working in developing countries practice in conditions that are considerably less complex. This course exposes nursing students to some of the unique nursing care situations of a developing country while allowing them to interact with other nursing students in Christian nursing programs.
Students experience nursing in several different settings in the Philippines, exposing them to both the large urban area of Manila as well as the smaller towns of San Fernando and Dumaguete. Opportunities to live, work and study alongside Philippine nursing students broadens Calvin students' understanding of Philippine culture.
In addition, the close partnership of student to student provides many opportunities to develop an understanding of the expectations and responsibilities of a Philippine nurse and a developing health care system. Experiences occur in Christian hospitals and with Christian nursing programs, challenging the student to consider the role of the Christian nurse in a developing country.
Growth in cultural awareness and ability to interact with those of the Philippine culture is expected. Students travel on the large island of Luzon province as well as on the smaller island of Negros Oriental. This allows students to see the striking contrast between wealth and poverty in Manila and the poverty of those living in the countryside. The beautiful tropical setting provides a backdrop for a culture of gentle people who have experienced major influences of the Spanish and Americans.
The majority of the course involves experiencing nursing in both acute and community nursing settings in company with a Filipino student, with informal lectures and reflective discussions.
Preparation for the course includes two orientation sessions prior to travel as well as preparatory readings.
Student evaluation is based on the pre-trip meetings, a required journal, presentations and participation in course activities.


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They should rename it Potatis.
What? Only one picture? That's it?
It will give it the little gravitational push it needs to crash on Earth in 2145 or so. Thank you China.
It will give it the little gravitational push it needs to crash on Earth in 2145 or so. Thank you China.
That was the plan all along. You didn't know that?
Cue the "the Chinese are way ahead of NASA" posts.
Cue the "the Chinese are way ahead of NASA" posts.
Does my "their control center is a direct knock-off of NASA's" post count? Heh.
It used to be Soviet Russia. Chang'e we can believe in.
Actually Chang'e has been "way ahead of NASA" for an eternity. She lives on the moon with a moonshining jade rabbit FFS.
Cue the "the Chinese are way ahead of NASA" posts.
No, they're not. The problem is that American progress is slower than American decline, which makes how far ahead NASA is mostly irrelevant.
And, unfortunately, we don't have a Hari Seldon.
If we had a Hari Seldon, would anyone listen to him?
Maybe, but they'd definitely ignore Hardin:
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"
Well, in the galactic empire the majority didn't listen to him. Which was actually part of his plan.
NASA is not the only "space agency" in the U.S. federal government, and it isn't even the largest (which would arguably be the National Reconnaissance Office), and the U.S. Air Force also has a separate "Air Force Space Command" which does more than its share of activity in space including the infamous X-37 [wikipedia.org] that appears to be using some of the technology developed for the Space Shuttle.
If you are critical of NASA, that criticism is justified but it is wrong to compare NASA to what the Chinese are doing as N
The real exciting stuff in America is happening with private companies, who are essentially telling the U.S. government to get lost and not get in their way.
This seems like a misreading to me - SpaceX is perfectly happy to do business with the US government, and it's not like they're ignoring federal regulations to do their work. A more accurate statement would be that the US government has told private companies "go ahead, we'll stay out of the way."
SpaceX is not where the action is happening. If you think the only private spaceflight is SpaceX, you simply don't know what is going on.
Check out Armadillo Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, Scaled Composites, Bigelow Aerospace, Blur Origin, and XCor (just to name a few... I know I'm missing a bunch). Even with SpaceX their flight manifest [spacex.com] has a majority of the flights booked for commercial projects that have nothing to do with the federal government.
I guess the saying goes that if it is raining money, you
Quite literally the owners of these private enterprises are telling the government to get out of their way and not mess with their businesses.
True, but let's at least use honest labeling: they're telling one branch of the federal government, specifically the executive branch. With a government as large and bureaucratic as ours it's inevitable that individual vested interests occasionally come to the fore, but it's unfair to slander the entire thing as if it's one monolithic entity (among other problems, ma
Some people at NASA aren't at fault. There is a huge divide going on in NASA right now between those who want to encourage private commercial spaceflight and those who don't. Lori Garver received a cold shoulder when she first visited NASA centers while she was on a "fact finding tour" for the Obama administration.... then she became their boss. I've also heard in those same congressional hearings some very negative things about private spaceflight efforts coming from NASA center chiefs and other promine
SpaceX is perfectly happy to do business with the US government, and it's not like they're ignoring federal regulations to do their work. A more accurate statement would be that the US government has told private companies "go ahead, we'll stay out of the way."
You're interrupting a good ideological rant with facts. Stop that.
governmetn has has given go-ahead to manned asteroid exploration and two-asteroid mission, way beyond what the Chinese will be capable of in 12 years
Le ciel va nous tomber sur la tête!
You know, if that did hit Earth it would be a case of the sky falling.
[whistles] Wow, how much fuel did they put in that thing? It spent around 8 months in lunar orbit, which usually eats up a bit of fuel right there, even without the several orbital changes they did while there. And then it leaves lunar orbit on its way to the Earth-Sun L2 point? I realize that once you get out of LEO the amount of fuel required to get anywhere (at least slowly) goes down exponentially but they must have packed quite a bit of fuel into that thing (I believe it is roughly the size of a walk in closet)
With Weak Stability Boundary theory trajectories you can basically get from a lunar transfer orbit (or either ES or EM L1/2) to anywhere else around without spending any fuel, if you are willing to wait long enough. This pdf presentation [utexas.edu] should give you the idea.
Now, in practice you can't do it with no fuel, but if you are willing to be patient, you can do amazing things with a piddling expenditure of delta-V.
If you compare this image with the Goldstone image of Toutatis by Earth-based radar - see [xinhuanet.com]Figure 1 [nasa.gov] in Hudson et al - you can see that the Earth radar does OK, but actually going there is better. Toutatis's rotation period is 176 hours, so we won't get to see the other side in the flyby.
Note that there are a few craters, but not many (asteroid Itokawa has no craters in Hayabusa images), so as usual something is resurfacing the surface.
Not that I'm a big fan of China, but after the DPRK craziness it makes me feel pretty good about them in comparison. Hooray for countries that aren't totally insane. It's nice to see them doing science with their rocketry. A hearty round of applause for China on this, and that' s a nice picture that the other poster linked too.
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OUTGOING Bendigo councillor James Reade says a large portion of the City of Greater Bendigo's time is wasted on baseless complaints.
Cr Reade, who will not seek re-election when his term expires shortly, agreed with former councillor Wayne Gregson's sentiments over council criticism.
"There's always a vocal minority and unfortunately they consume a large part of council's time and energy," he said.
"The amount of emails and phone calls is frustrating.
"But one of the things I've tried to do is not give too much weight to the negative people and surround myself with positive people."
Cr Reade, elected in 2008 at age 19, said young people should not be dissuaded from getting involved in local politics.
"It's not just around young people, there needs to be more diversity on the council," he said.
"The structure of council needs to change so that it's full time ... it's set up for retired people, not for people in careers."
Cr Reade said people needed to "keep reminding themselves how good we have it" in Bendigo.
"There are always opportunities for people to get involved in local government," he said.
"It's so easy to sit back and criticise, and a lot of people do that, but those people should put their hands up and get involved with solutions.
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Not legally enforceable, which in many ways is a shame. Until money can be made through space travel, it will never "take off"...
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Try taking some of NASA's moon rocks and say that because of the outer space treaty they have no property right claim to them and see how long it's until you're locked up in jail. Nation states can't claim it as their territory, but it's entirely unclear how or if anyone can claim mining rights on an asteroid, or if it's a race to see who can gobble up the asteroid first. "Planting the flag" might be good enough or it might not, depending on how deep pockets you have and how many big governments you can get
Okay, I'm something of a theorist of 'international law'. I'm not a lawyer or anything.
First, my theory on international politics/law: The dealings of nations is a bit like an ancient village, where different nations are 'people' of varying size and ability. There is effectively limited to no 'police', there are no courts, etc...
As such, 'international law' depends on the threat or actual use of force. Any given country is free to do what it wants to until other countries can be motivated to do somethin
I think it's simply a case of whomever has the bigger gun gets to keep the asteroid/planet/solar system. It's back to the wild-wild west era. Unless we establish a planetary government to establish and enforce legitimate claims.
Not legally enforceable, which in many ways is a shame. Until money can be made through space travel, it will never "take off"...
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Of course, they could just drop the asteroid on the party complaining
Not legally no, but who cares? At this point their "claim" would easily be enforced by the same gravity well that has stopped everyone else from doing it yet. While its true, if someone else jumped their claim, nobody would likely care to enforce it and step in.... but.... as of right now.... making a symbolic claim is easily every bit as good, if not better, than having it enforced, simply because its harder to actually jump the claim than it is to ignore terrestrial powers..... so legal enforcibility is a
I always kinda figured it would be like old wild west, where the biggest gun gets you as far as the best of laws.
I always kinda figured it would be like old wild west, where the biggest gun gets you as far as the best of laws.
Wild West, hell, that's an accurate description of how global politics work now.
Declare space outside geostationary orbit a zone where private parties are not subject to international law, and let them fight it out. The only way mining will ever turn a profit is if it's automated so there will be no casualties, and it should be fun to watch.
Really? I think the defining characteristic of space is the mind boggling emptiness of it all. Resources are not abundant, as there is a whole lot of nothing between us and anything else.
If outer space really is the land of milk and honey, we'd be mining already. The reason we don't is because it is more expensive to do it "out there" than it is to do it "down here."
abundant compared to on the surface of the planet we call home. many of those iron/nickel asteroids have more of each than has been mined in the entirety of human existence.
abundant compared to on the surface of the planet we call home. many of those iron/nickel asteroids have more of each than has been mined in the entirety of human existence.
Isn't that quite an understatement? Just look at 16 Psyche [wikipedia.org]. I believe that the amount would be sufficient to cover the whole planet with a layer of steel.five meter thick. Can you spell "Trantor"?
Unless they have Space Police out there.
Dang! And Obama just declined to build that Death Star. What a lack of long term thinking!
Manifest Destiny... iiiiinnnnn spaaaaaaaaaace!
Luckily, this time there aren't any natives to genocide.
got proof of that?
This Valentine's day, give your mistress the gift that's out of this world. Claim an asteroid for her...
Absent international treaty or a national law (assuming their competition can be assailed in the court system), anyone with a plan like this will be forced to defend their claims the old fashioned way: by force. Will the beacons have probe-disabling lasers on board? The article doesn't say. But my guess is that the cost of getting a defense system on the rock is the same as the cost of getting mining equipment on it.
A better defense plan is to scan 10 times as many rocks as you normally would and leave b
You won't need space defense for your asteroid claims. If this process is held up by international treaty, you can simply control it that way. Space travel (at least at this time) isn't Firefly. You don't just hop in a grungy cargo ship and go where ever you want. It will be trivially easy for anyone who cares to track a mining ship launch to its destination asteroid. Smuggling space ore will be virtually impossible. When the poached ore is returned to Earth, the people who mined it are held accountab
It will be trivially easy for anyone who cares to track a mining ship launch to its destination asteroid. Smuggling space ore will be virtually impossible.
I don't know, I've heard from a guy in Chelyabinsk that he can smuggle in significant amounts of asteroid ore right under the authorities' noses.
As I read the Outer Space Treaty [state.gov], they would have no legal recourse to usurpers, as long as they weren't actually using the asteroid. The reason is that countries cannot claim property in outer space (Article II), therefore claims recognized by one country need have no weight in another. Now, it is a no-no to interfere with the work of astronauts (Article IX), but this is worded in a very weak and ambiguous fashion, which I think is sure to lead to troubles in the future. Since countries are responsible for
why return it to earth at all? sure some, particularly iron and the like which are actually relatively rare in teh crust, might make it surface side to supplement what we have. but the whole point to keep it up there; mine it in space, refine it space, use it space. avoid the energy sink of sending it down to the surface, at least until we get the space elevators going.
as for treaties...they are only enforced as long as its convenient. already the antarctica treaty has come under scrutiny due to possible oi
It fascinates me how the moment property and industrial extraction are mentioned as an imminent possibility, all the hallowed posturing about peace in space goes flying our the window and one of the first sub-threads is a discussion about whether guns w/bullets will work in space.
If it comes to that then the escalation likely won't stop until eventually asteroids are directed against targets on the Earth.
Space adventurism leads to a different outcome than the ones shown in popular science fantasy (and most
The second is that each of these different types of space junk would require (potentially) different processing techniques,
I've actually looked at some of this.
Property issues: Go by litter rules - they abandoned the materials in space; they're cluttering up the orbitals and thus you're just cleaning up and recycling the trash
Volume: It's tiny in proportion to even a smaller asteroid, yes, but they're already refined materials. That helps. Plus the whole 'clean up the orbitals' thing. You don't actually need that much material to help the ISS or it's replacement on quite a bit.
Different processing techniques: Initially I'd
...water is good for other reasons...
If you had a [near-]monopoly on the ready-to-use water supply in space, or even be one of several competing suppliers, you wouldn't even have to bother stripping the metals from the asteroids.
That would actually make a lot of sense except for the international ownership issues. It would only work if we all got along and shared our resources...
Why bother mining asteroids when there is a bunch of pre-refined materials floating in LEO. Re-refine the materials in Proton boosters, non-functional satellites and such. Stop throwing used up stuff back into the atmosphere to burn up. Build a refinery at the Space Station.
Oh, this.
What I can't fathom is how governments and private industry can't seem to get their heads around an idea that sci-fi book and game writers have been expounding for decades.
I am not sure how this fits in the Outer Space Treaty, and thus what recourse they would have if (say) the Chinese used their beacons as a prospecting tool.
On the other hand, such beacons would probably make good VLBI targets.
People have been camping things in MMOs for years.
The Belt or ASTEX ?
On the one hand, mineral claims have a long history and seem to have worked decently.
On the other hand, how do we prevent an unscrupulous company from doing just enough work to *claim* these asteroids, with no intention of actually following through and mining them. Then, acting as a rent-seeker when another company actually does try to mine the resources?
Many past historical claim systems require active *working* of the staked claim within some time period after initial filing --- e.g. you actually have to be digging some amount of gold out of the ground and bringing it to the government refiner/inspector to maintain the claim. The same type of mechanism could work here to prevent claim trolls --- if you don't return the material to earth, or move the asteroid into a designated earth-centered parking orbit, within 6 months of the claim, it's up for grabs ag
Look, I don't care if you plant a flag or a beacon on some asteroid, if I can actually build a spaceship that can go and grab it and mine it before you do, your shit out of luck. I'll just kick your little beacon off, or move it to something else that has no value. What are you going to do about it?
Send a Space Hitman after you?
You can lay claim to anything you desire but it doesn't mean others will respect your claim. There has to be a consensus on what is needed to make a claim first and even that is blurry and will chance over time.
The main basis of a claim is having the resources and will to defend it and publicly declaring it.
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a postal carrier whose name I can never know
carries in a package bound for your doorstep:
my paired hands
ten digits linked across two palms
tied with the ribbon of wrists
holding in blood and sinew
I mailed them to you
they became yours when they brushed your skin
held your jaw steady for these lips --
which I can't remove
lest I lose the last means to whisper your name –
to first fall into your kiss
swallowed by your hair
they've never felt home affixed to my radius and ulna
since they caressed your humerus, femur, metatarsus
they've longed to be held aside your sternum
cradle your zygomatic bone as you slumber
massage the day's strains from muscles held tight
between scapula and clavicle
if you want to commit a felony
use these hands to stain the evidence
wrap them around the murder weapon
the poisoned tumbler
the rifle stock
the claw hammer
as you leave the scene
and they will suffer imprisonment
so you may walk free and unburdened
if you don't want them,
pass them onto a stranger
so wherever he or she may wander
there's a warm hand on the shoulder
assuring in lonely nights
that someone watches over
come foreclosure, homelessness or widowing
lithe fingertips to soothe weary muscles
a palm in which to place dreams and regrets
when the cancer beats the heart into submission
in the sterility of hospital bedrooms
facing the reaper
every man, woman and child
wants to know they left a final handshake behind
a lasting adieu to the pulse of human history
or give them to a child
so a father figure is never too far
a pair of masculine hands to shoo away boogiemen
applaud even if they miss all the play's lines
cheer on the winning goal
and should war or workplace strife rob them
of a bearded grandfather to play peek-a-boo
with their own children
these hands I give you
to give them
to hold them tight in their grieving
sit silent shiv'ah in the candlelight
wipe tears from unwashed cheeks
these hands are yours
as they've always been
do with them what you will
I hope you keep them in your pack
beneath canteen and Swiss Army knife
folded gently in a journal
and when you find yourself
alone alongside a darkened road
under quiet stars shining as nightlights
for your ease into slumber
I hope you pull them out
feel the warmth I imbued into them
like a pagan incantation
and as crickets wonder from where
the second interloper in their living room
suddenly came from
hold them close like a blanket
let the unselfishness of fingertips
soothe away all your daily aches
let them shelter your weary limbs
keep you warm through the night
the parcel postage finally paid
as you permit me to hold you one last time
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My Hands are in the Mail
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- MusicalAlchemy said...
I can't decide if this is creepy or lovely, but either way it's well written :-)
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- July 23, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- sanguru said...
Your images are strong, passionate, and drown me in emotions. I can imagine the package, her tucking them into her backpack to keep with her as she travels. She is a lucky lady. :heart:
- July 23, 2011 at 2:02 PM
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What the heck does Luck have to do with the Jets, at all? The Jets have never been in any position to draft Luck or anyone like him. At the very least, try to compare Sanchez to a QB they could have had or one drafted 5 instead of 1. God this place sucks these days
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Since then, they've added the likes of Cortland Finnegan, Kendall Langford, Michael Brockers, Janoris Jenkins, etc.
Oh yeah, and they brought in a guy by the name of Jeff Fisher to run the unit. Maybe you've heard of him?
To say that they boast the worst defense in the league is just stupid and shows how misinformed you are on this entire topic.
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I believe Luck will deveop into a great quarterback one day, but let's not go over board (just yet). He went 10/16 for 188 yards and 2 TD's against a not so great Rams defense, during a game one preseason practice. Lets first see how he does against some very good NFL defenses that aren't watered down due to preseason contest. Sanchez put up a very good week 1 during his rookie season follwed by a couple of great postseason performances. Doesn't make him great. Luck is a top prospect, but once again, this was only a preseason game against the Rams...
You have to feel sorry for Ram fans. The combination of that abominable defense with the addition of a moron Offensive Coordinator now destroying what
Offensive hope the had in Bradford leaves them with nothing but the strong prospect of the first pick in the 2013 draft
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Amazing, you're coming to the rescue of a QB for the Colts and absolutely sh1t on your own teams starting QB.
Funny, it's ok for some moron to go on and on about a lousy QB like, oh Tebow, but to back the better QB, the only QB on our roster makes them a fan boy.
What does that make you? Just some guy who would pay to blow Tebow?
If the alternative is to pray 10 times a day for our only.NFL quality qb to fail or be injured so that a completely inadequate single wing fullback with laughable passing ablity can start and lead the Jets to the first pick in the 2013 draft....
Put me down as a "sanchez fanboy"
Better any day than an evangelical Teblower
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Hope this clarifies things. If it doesn't, pound sand Kool-Aid boys.
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I would just like to say one thing: bollocks.
that is all.
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Michael Wilson, former artistic director of Hartford Stage, will direct Cicely Tyson in Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" on Broadway in the spring. The 14-week limited engagement begins previews March 31 and opens April 23 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. Nellie Nugent will produce.
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Wilson staged a production of "Bountiful" (which won an Oscar for Geraldine Page for the film version) at Hartford Stage in 2003, a co-production with Houston's Alley Theatre. Jean Stapleton was announced for the role but could not play the role due to illness. Dee Maaske played Carrie Watts in the Hartford production that also featured Hallie Foote and Devon Abner.
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European Commission
Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN
European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science
Innovation Investment Package
Press conference/Brussels
10 July 2013
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I'm proud to be here today together with Vice President Kroes, to present this innovation investment package, worth more than 22 billion euro over the next seven years.
The initiatives we are presenting today not only strengthen our economy, they are an investment in a better quality of life.
These partnerships will deliver good jobs, and major benefits to society, such as cleaner, greener aircraft; alternatives to fossil fuels; and new treatments to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.
These investments are timely. Europe has maintained a leadership role in global innovation. At the same time, many competitors are investing faster than us, and they are thinking big.
For example, while the EU has the world's first commercial scale advanced bio-refinery for cellulosic biomass, there are reports suggesting that China plans to have 9 such facilities by 2015.
So no-one can rest on their laurels. We need to bolster both public and private spending if we are to stay in, never mind ahead of the game.
To put it more bluntly: without new ideas, Europe is not going to get out of this crisis quickly, if at all.
Without new ideas, our businesses lose their competitive edge, and investors will look elsewhere.
Today's announcement is a perfect demonstration of why the EU budget is a budget for growth.
Overall, a proposed 8 billion euro investment from the next EU research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, will secure 10 billion euro from industry, and 4 billion euro from EU Member States.
That represents a major increase in our level of ambition compared to the current public-private partnerships we have.
The contribution from the EU budget is more than doubled and the commitment from industry has increased even more. This is a vote of confidence in investing in research and innovation in Europe.
This investment will be anchored by five public-private partnerships, called Joint Technology Initiatives.
They will give a boost to European competitiveness in sectors that already provide more than 4 million jobs. Good jobs.
The five Joint Technology Initiatives are:
The package also proposes to extend a public-private partnership to pool research and innovation investments in Air Traffic Management – called SESAR - in support of the Single European Sky.
In addition, the package includes four public-public partnerships between the European Commission and EU Member States focused on:
These partnerships are focused on areas where the market alone has not been able to find a solution quickly, often because the return on investment is not guaranteed.
But solving these challenges will improve our quality of life, reduce the burden on our societies and create markets for exciting new products and services.
President Barroso, myself and other colleagues from the Commission met this morning with some of the CEOs from companies that will participate in the JTIs.
There was broad agreement that we were not doing enough, on the public or private side, to foster innovation.
I for one applaud industry for committing to these initiatives. It is easy to say that you want to innovate, but then complain that the regulatory environment is too harsh, that the right skills don't exist, or that research has become too expensive.
These companies have decided that is not good enough - they are taking a bold step and investing and working with us.
They have also – and this is one of the most interesting things about these partnerships – agreed to invest together with some of their biggest competitors.
That is because they have realised that in this tough global environment, it's sometimes better to work together with a competitor than not to work at all.
Working together will enable us to tackle issues that no one company or country can deal with alone, and that is what is really at the core of what we are presenting here today.
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Hillary Clinton's rumored when she was first lady homosexual lover Donna Shalala had become "Code Pink's" first administrator. The founders now are listed as others but when you are in elected or appointed government offices it's kinda bad to have it known you have your own radical pro communist political organization with your well known friends running it.
Hillary Clinton has her "Code Pink" political organization tagged with, "Women For Peace" but this is only to distort the truth about what "Code Pink" is really about. Hillary Clinton's "Code Pink" may be about "Women For Peace" but the peace is through submission to communism and creating a global communist government.
Below is a copy of what Hillary Clinton's "Code Pink Communist Women" are all about. Below is the political agenda Code Pink practices and the type of political agenda Hillary Clinton practices and will push when she takes up residence as our, "President Of The United States". Barack Obama is pushing this same "Code Pink" agenda right now and Hillary Clinton will follow the same path as Barack Obama..
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- Co-founded by Jodie Evans, pro-Castro radical Medea Benjamin, and two others
- Embraces Marxist and neo-Marxist ideals
- Strongly opposed the Iraq War
- Helped deliver more than $600,000 in cash and medical supplies to the families of the insurgents who were fighting American troops in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004
- Supports Venezuela's Communist dictator, Hugo Chavez.
- Supports the Free Gaza Movement, a pro-Hamas inititiative
- Characterizes Israel as an oppressor nation
- Supported the Egyptian Revolution of 2011
- Is supported by former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn
See also: Jodie Evans Medea Benjamin Free Gaza Movement
Global Exchange United For Peace and Justice
When Code Pink: Women for Peace was launched on November 17, 2002, the organization described itself as a "grassroots peace and social justice movement" whose mission was "to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities." Rejecting "the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence," the nascent group called instead "for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law."
Code Pink was founded principally by four radical activists: Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Diane Wilson, and a Wiccan spiritualist calling herself Starhawk. Evans was, and remains, the nominal leader of the organization, which works closely with Ms. Benjamin'sGlobal Exchange and Leslie Cagan's United For Peace and Justice. According to a Capital Research Center report, Code Pink members "subscribe in varying degrees to strands of Marxist, neo-Marxist, and progressive left-wing thought, and their ideas belong to a long and complex history of radical politics going back to the early Bolsheviks." The group views America as an irremediably "racist" and "sexist" society whose political and economic systems, by their very nature, breed war, poverty, and injustice.
According to the Capital Research Center, "Code Pink is the business name for a nonprofit called Environmentalism through Inspiration and Non-Violent Action." The name "Code Pink" was selected to parody the Bush administration's color-coded security alerts regarding terrorist threats—alerts that Code Pink said "were based on fear and were used to justify violence." By contrast, the "Code Pink Alert"—signifying "the color of the roses … the color of the dawn of a new era when cooperation and negotiation prevail over force"—warned that the Bush administration posed "extreme danger to all the values of nurturing, caring, and compassion that women and loving men have held." Proclaiming that "women have been the guardians of life … because the men have busied themselves making war," Code Pink called on "women around the world to rise up and oppose the war in Iraq … to be outrageous for peace."
Code Pink strove, from its earliest days, to portray itself as a politically nonpartisan organization composed not of seasoned activists, but of ordinary peace-loving women with no political ax to grind. In truth, however, the group's founders and leading members had long histories of radical left-wing and pro-socialist activism. For example, a number of Code Pink's prominent figures were previously, in the 1980s, ardent supporters of the Communist Sandinista regime of Nicaragua. Indeed, both Medea Benjamin and Code Pink organizer Kirsten Moller worked in eighties with the Institute for Food and Development Policy, which aided the Sandinistas. Similarly, Code Pink spokeswoman Sand Brim—who told reporters in January 2003 that she was merely an average woman with reservations about war—had likewise tried to help Central American Communists during the eighties. As executive director of the organization Medical Aid, Brim in 1985 flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador to operate on the battle-injured hand of Nidia Diaz, Commander of the Marxist Revolutionary Party that had claimed responsibility for the murders of four U.S. Marines and nine civilians.
Other early and current Code Pink members previously, in the 1990s, helped organize anti-free-trade protests across the globe, targeting large corporations with high-profile campaigns and multi-million-dollar lawsuits. Still others were cutting their radical teeth in the fields of environmentalism and eco-terrorism during the nineties. Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, for one, today sits on the directors' board of the Rainforest Action Network, an anti-capitalist, anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups.
From its inception, Code Pink's principal modus operandi has been street theater. During each of its first 100 days, the organization staged all-day antiwar vigils in front of the White House. Moreover, it initiated a campaign to present pink slips (women's lingerie)—a word play on the paper-variety "pink slips" that are given to employees as notification that their jobs are being terminated—to President Bush and other pro-Iraq War officials. During one Washington, DC demonstration, a group of Code Pink activists, garbed entirely in pink, marched up the Capitol steps, unfurled their anti-war banners, and stripped down to their undergarments, shouting:
"We're putting our bodies on the line ... you congresspeople better get some spine! We say, stand back, don't attack—innocent children in Iraq. We don't want your oil war, peace is what we're calling for!"In August 2003, five months after the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Jodie Evans led a delegation of fifteen Code Pink members to Baghdad, where they met with Iraqi women for the purpose of "creat[ing] the understanding that the people of Iraq are no different than you and me." "We who cherish children," said Evans, "will not consent to their murder ... in a war for oil." Further, Evans praisedthe degree to which Saddam Hussein's (now-fallen) government had provided social services for the Iraqi population, saying: "[T]here was a good education and health care system, food for everyone. That system didn't belong to Saddam, it belonged to the Iraqis, it belonged to years of creating what a civilization needed. If your parents didn't send you to school, they could be put in jail." Said Evans in an August 2003 interview:
"Basically what the Americans did was destroy any form of infrastructure that could have held the country together—like the Iraqis say, to wipe anything that could hold the country together off the map.... There isn't an Iraqi you meet who doesn't feel that they're being disrespected, that this is being done on purpose. It's made them hate the American government, hate it. They just think it's stupid and cruel and mean and thoughtless and everything you can think of.... What's cool about the resistance is that the Iraqis don't back down."In conjunction with Global Exchange and United For Peace and Justice, Code Pink in 2004 helped establish Iraq Occupation Watch (IOW) to monitor potential American abuses—including "possible violations of human rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly"—during the reconstruction of war-torn Iraq. Code Pink's and IOW's common objective was to thin out U.S. forces in Iraq by persuading soldiers to seek discharges and be sent home as conscientious objectors.
On the domestic front, Code Pink endorsed the Civil Liberties Restoration Act of 2004, which was designed to roll back, in the name of protecting civil liberties, vital national-security policies that had been adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Also in 2004, Code Pink was a signatory to a letter urging members of the U.S. Senate to vote against supporting Israel's construction of an anti-terrorist security fence in the West Bank, a barrier that Code Pink has described as an illegal "apartheid wall" that violates the civil and human rights of Palestinians. To view a list of fellow signers, click here.
In late December 2004, Code Pink's Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans participated in a delegation to Iraq that also included representatives of Global Exchange, International Occupation Watch, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Families for Peace. These delegates delivered more than $600,000 in cash and medical supplies (many of which were donated by Middle East Children's Allianceand Operation USA) to the families of the insurgents who were fighting American troops in Fallujah, Iraq. In an article dated January 1, 2005, the online publication Peace and Resistance reported that Rep. Henry Waxman had written a letter addressed to the American ambassador in Amman, Jordan to help facilitate the transport of this aid through Customs.
For much of 2005, Code Pink staged weekly protests outside of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where many wounded U.S. soldiers were being treated. The protesters displayed signs bearing slogans like "Maimed for Lies" (by the Bush administration) and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton." At one of these rallies, Gold Star Families for Peace founder Cindy Sheehan, who began to work closely with Code Pink as her public persona grew, told the five-year old son of Laura Youngblood, whose husband, a United States Navy Corpsman, had recently been killed in Iraq: "Your daddy died for a lie."
In July 2005, Code Pink joined a coalition of individuals and organizations demanding the closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention center and an "immediate independent investigation into the widespread allegations of abuse taking place there." Among the coalition's members were Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem, Not In Our Name, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Culture Project, and United For Peace and Justice.
Also in 2005, Code Pink published a book titled Stop the Next War Now, which included essays by such notables as Medea Benjamin,Phyllis Bennis, Becky Bond, Leslie Cagan, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jodie Evans, Eve Ensler, Randall Forsberg, Kit Gage, Janeane Garofalo,Amy Goodman, Julia Butterfly Hill, Arianna Huffington, Naomi Klein, Barbara Lee, Wangari Maathai, Cynthia McKinney, Nancy Pelosi,Arundhati Roy, Cindy Sheehan, Helen Thomas, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Alice Walker, and Lynn Woolsey.
As the Iraq War continued to rage, Code Pink launched an aggressive Counter-Recruitment campaign aimed at dissuading young men and women from joining the U.S. military. According to the organization, this project represented a way of "standing up to these warmongers and liars" in the Bush administration. To this day, Code Pink continues to maintain:
"Counter-recruitment is a national movement to resist the recruitment of young people into the US military. Counter-recruitment has several components: informing youth of the realities of military service; resisting recruitment through the schools via JROTC and testing; taking action on military sexual trauma; offering career alternatives to the military; vigiling and protesting in front of military recruiting offices; giving support to war resisters and veterans; and building awareness of militarism in our culture."Depicting the financial cost of the Iraq War as a drain on resources that would have been better spent on programs to combat the racism, sexism, poverty, corporate corruption, and environmental degradation that were allegedly decimating domestic life in the United States, Code Pink lamented that: "[M]any of our elders … now must choose whether to buy their prescription drugs, or food. Our children's education is eroded. The air they breathe and the water they drink are polluted. Vast numbers of women and children live in poverty." The threat of distant terrorists, claimed Code Pink, was insignificant when compared to the "real threats" that Americans faced every day: "the illness or ordinary accident that could plunge us into poverty, the violence on our own streets, the corporate corruption that can result in the loss of our jobs, our pensions, our security."
In July 2006, Code Pink sponsored "Troops Home Fast," a 28-day hunger strike against the Iraq War. This action was conducted as a "rolling fast," where each participant abstained from eating for one day. Among the participants were such luminaries as Cindy Sheehan, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Ed Asner, Willie Nelson, Lynn Woolsey, Maxine Waters, Dennis Kucinich, andCynthia McKinney.
In August 2006, a 12-person delegation of American radicals—including Cindy Sheehan, Tom Hayden, Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans, andJudith LeBlanc—traveled to Jordan to meet with 11 members of the Iraqi parliament. According to Benjamin, the parliamentarians, impressed by the spirit underlying the aforementioned 28-day "fast," had personally invited the delegates.
Upon their arrical In Jordan, the American delegates met with Sheikh Ahmad al-Kubaysi, a Baghdad-based cleric who:
- was likely affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood;
- had previously lauded the "very brave" young men whose admission to "Paradise" was "guaranteed" because they had come "from other Muslim countries" to "protect fellow Muslims"—"the most important form of Jihad"; and
- through his Association for Muslim Studies in Iraq (which explicitly condoned armed "resistance" against U.S. forces), raised some $50 million in aid for the infamous Muqtada al-Sadr and his terrorist forces.
- opposed the new, post-war Iraqi constitution because it guaranteed the establishment of an autonomous region for the Shi'ites;
- condoned armed "resistance" against American forces;
- offered to join the Iraqi "insurgency";
- regularly called upon the United States to disarm itself in the face of terrorism;
- derided "the biased people [who] are trying to … to brand as terrorists the honorable national resistance movements"; and
- demanded the release of all Iraqi prisoners—including a massive number of foreign jihadists and Saddam loyalists—on grounds that all of them were being held "on the basis of suspicions and false reports."
"The common thread among this diverse group of Iraqis and Americans was a desire to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, ensure no permanent bases in Iraq, and secure a U.S. commitment to pay for rebuilding Iraq. Other issues that emerged in two-days of intensive talks include the need to dismantle militias, provide amnesty for prisoners and the various armed groups, compensate victims of the violence, revise the Constitution and preserve the unity of Iraq, and reverse U.S.-imposed de-Baathification and economic policies. We left this historic meeting with a commitment to make sure that the voices of these Iraqi parliamentarians are heard here in the U.S., and we will bring a group of them to the U.S. in the Fall." (Emphasis in original.)In 2006, Code Pink leaders Cindy Sheehan, Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin traveled to Venezuela to meet personally with that country's Communist dictator, Hugo Chavez. After the meeting, Evans reported that Chavez had "called Cindy [Sheehan] 'Mrs. Hope'" Further, Evans said of Chavez: "He was a doll. Generous, open, passionate, excited, stimulated by the requests and happy to be planning with us. He was realistic but willing to stretch." In a similar spirit, Medea Benjamin praised Chavez's policies and stated that "George Bush—and [former Democratic presidential candidate] John Kerry for that matter—could learn a thing or two from Hugo Chavez about winning the hearts and minds of the people."
In December 2007, when Pakistani President (and American ally) Pervez Musharraf was under pressure to step down from power, Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry of Code Pink traveled to Pakistan to help America's enemies increase the pressure on Musharraf. Both were arrested and deported by Pakistani authorities.
In September 2008, a number of Code Pink leaders met personally with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York City. Soon thereafter, Code Pink launched an aggressive pro-Hamas, anti-Israel campaign. That November, Jodie Evans and a Code Pink contingent visited Iran at the personal invitation of Ahmadinejad. Davood Mohammad Niar, head of the U.S. Desk of Iran's Foreign Ministry, escorted the group on a visit the holy city of Qom.
In 2009 Code Pink further escalated the intensity of its international campaign to stop the blockade that Egypt and Israel had imposed on Gaza (to prevent the importation of weaponry) after Hamas's 2006 election as the region's dominant political entity.
In December 2009 Code Pink led an international delegation of anti-Israel leftists to Gaza, where they delivered "tens of thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid" as a gesture of defiance against Israel's blockade. Hamas protected the demonstrators during their two-day stay in Gaza by tightly controlling their movements and contacts, and by having them stay in a Hamas-owned, Five-Star hotel that one demonstrator described as "the nicest hotel I've ever stayed at." Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh addressed the activists in Gaza via cell phone, while other Hamas officials spoke to them in person.
Next, the demonstrators prepared to go to Egypt, to participate in a Hamas-organized "Gaza Freedom March," again to protest Israeli policy. Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin told the media that Hamas "has pledged to ensure our safety" in Egypt. Joining Code Pink on the trip were former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Code Pink's trip to Gaza and Egypt was timed to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel's December 2008 defensive action against Hamas terrorists in Gaza, who had fired some 3,300 rockets into Israel during the preceding few months. Hamas marked the anniversary by launching a number of rockets into Israel while the organization hosted the Code Pink delegation.
Also during the trip, Code Pink endorsed the "Cairo Declaration to End Israeli Apartheid" authored by pro-Hamas leftists who likewise had gathered for the "Gaza Freedom March." The declaration called for a wide-ranging boycott of Israeli economic, travel, academic, and cultural endeavors.
When the Code Pink excursion to Gaza and Egypt was over in early January 2010, the organization's website proudly announced that the delegates had focused "worldwide attention on the [Israeli] siege"; "lifted the spirits of the isolated people of Gaza"; "put the spotlight on the negative role Egypt is playing in maintaining the siege"; "forced the Egyptian government to make a concession by etting 100 delegates into Gaza"; and "signed on to a lawsuit against the Egyptian government for building a wall to block off the tunnels that have become the commercial lifeline for the people in Gaza."
Between 2008 and 2010, Code Pink made nine trips to Egypt in a campaign to undermine the Egyptian government, which was on friendly terms with Israel and was helping to enforce the Israeli blockade against Gaza. Then, when riots erupted in Egypt in late January 2011—ostensibly protesting the autocratic and corrupt regime of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak—Code Pink representativeswere on the ground in Cairo from the very start of the uprising. In early February 2011, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin reportedthat her organization had already raised more than $10,000 for the anti-Mubarak protesters. In an effort to augment that sum, Code Pink issued an emergency appeal for an additional $5,000 to fund "the next big uprising" against the Egyptian government.
On January 10, 2015, Code Pink activists forced their way through a security fence at the McLean, Virginia home of former Vice President Dick Cheney and stormed his front porch, displaying signs that bore slogans like "Wanted: For Torture and War Crimes."
During a January 28, 2015 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on U.S. national security strategy in the face of global challenges, testimony was given by three former Secretaries of State: 91-year-old Henry Kissinger, 94-year-old George P. Shultz, and 77-year-old Madeleine Albright. During the proceedings, a number of Code Pink protesters -- bearing signs that read "Kissinger War Criminal" and "Cambodia" -- rushed up behind the former diplomat at the witness table and tried to arrest him for "war crimes."
On March 1, 2015, Code Pink participated in an anti-Israel protest at the site of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, DC. The demonstration featured a Hezbollah flag flying overhead; chants that "BDS is the best" (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement); chants that "The State of Israel's Got to Go"; a banner bearing a Star of David and the slogan, "The Blood Is On Your Hands"; and a sign likening Israel to the Islamic State terrorist organization.
Consisting of at least 250 chapters in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world, Code Pink is an organizational supporter of the Free Gaza Movement. It is also a member organization of the Abolition 2000, After Downing Street, and United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalitions, and a member of the National Council of Women's Organizations.
Code Pink has received financial support from the Benjamin Fund, Global Exchange, the New Priorities Foundation, the Streisand Foundation, the Threshold Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
Code Pink identifies dozens of left-wing organizations as its "allies." Among these are Adalah-NY, Alternet, CommonDreams, Democracy Now, the Feminist Majority Foundation, Global Exchange, Gold Star Families for Peace, the Huffington Post, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Jewish Voice for Peace, MADRE, Military Families Speak Out, The Nation, the National Priorities Project, the New Priorities Network, the Peace Majority Report, Pacifica.org, the Rainforest Action Network, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation,United For Peace and Justice, Veterans For Peace, Women in Black, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, andZmag.
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