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Grants Program
Since 1983, the Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) has sponsored an annual grant program that offers a variety of awards to scholars, colleges and universities in the United States. The principal purpose of the grant program is to support and encourage the development of research, scholarship, and learning in the field of Turkish Studies in the U.S. All grant applications submitted to the Institute are evaluated by committees comprised of the academic members of the Board of Governors and Associate Members of the ITS. These standing committees present their recommendations to the Board of Governors for approval.
The Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) will offer grants and fellowships in the field of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies to graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, universities, and other educational institutions through its Grants Program for the 2019-2020 academic year. The annual budget for the Grants Program has been significantly expanded and ITS encourages qualified applicants to apply for its grants. For detailed application guidelines and downloadable application forms, please click on the grant category of your choice. Please note the new application guidelines for each grant category.
Please Take Careful Note of Application Procedures:
All applications must be received as a single, complete package by 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time on March 29, 2019. Application packages must be sent via United Parcel Service (UPS) secure courier to:
- Dr. Sinan Ciddi
Institute of Turkish Studies
Georgetown University
3300 Whitehaven St. NW
Suite 3100
Washington DC, 20007
United States
Incomplete and/or late applications WILL NOT be considered.


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Tagged: Red Sox
Sunday March 30, 2008 Dodgers vs Red Sox
March 29, 2008 Los Angeles Coliseum Game
After the Andruw Jones event, we quickly drove to the Los Angeles Coliseum. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find parking and that 100,000 fans would already be there for the Fan Fest. We arrived around 12:40 and were surprised by the fact that we found parking next to the Coliseum. Once there, I was able to get in line with my brother and get some autographs of some old Dodgers that played at the Coliseum. I met people like Carl Erskine, Ron Fairly, Norm Sherry, Wally Moon and others. I took a picture with those 4 guys. When Wally signed my ball I asked him if he could put "Moon shots" He said "Oh ok, sure!" That was cool! After the autograph sessions we walked around and got some food. The Fan fest was packed. I had never been to the Coliseum before so everything was new to me. They didn't open the gates until 4pm. Once inside, we watched how big the stadium was. It was cool. Before the game was about to start, Vin Scully came out. That was the best part of the day. Scully spoke for a few minutes. Then on to the Ballgame. Even though the Dodgers lost, it was awesome watching them play and being part of the 115,300 fans that were there. I think the Dodgers should play at the Coliseum once a year during Spring Training! What do you think ?

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August 21, 2013
Applications, nominations sought for dean of engineering
Kansas State University invites applications and nominations for the position of dean of the College of Engineering. The dean, holder of an endowed chair, is responsible for providing academic, research, outreach, and fiscal leadership to the college. The dean reports directly to April Mason, provost.
The College of Engineering has outstanding facilities, excellent faculty, dedicated students, highly supportive alumni and nationally recognized research centers. K-State is seeking a person who understands the impact of engineering and computing on society, sees the dramatic challenges coming in these technology-based areas, and has the 21st century leadership and innovative thinking skills to empower the faculty, staff, students and alumni to meet these challenges.
The successful candidate will be expected to lead the K-State College of Engineering to fulfill the goals of the State of Kansas University Engineering Initiative Act as well as initiatives in support of the university's goal of being recognized as one of the nation's Top 50 public research universities by 2025.
The university: Kansas State University is located in Manhattan, Kan., a progressive community of 50,000, located in the scenic Flint Hills of northeast Kansas. K-State is designated as a Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive Institution and has been ranked among the top state and private institutions of higher education in Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholars for the last 25 years. Moreover, competitive grants and contracts have more than quadrupled since that date. With an enrollment exceeding 24,000 students — including 4,200 graduate students — K-State is a student-centered research university with the goal of being one of the nation's top ten land-grant institutions. Learn more at www.k-state.edu.
The college: The ABET-accredited College of Engineering will play an integral role in making K-State one of the Top 50 public research universities. Consequently, the college must be led by a dynamic individual whose intellect and disposition are suited to the wide range of academic and professional missions in the college. The college offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctoral degrees in engineering disciplines, construction science and computer science. The college presently has 3,200 undergraduate students in 11 degree programs housed in eight departments, training 450 graduate students with 142 faculty in all ranks. The budget for the College of Engineering for fiscal year 2012 was $56.6 million; the endowment of the college is currently approximately $43 million. Recent years have seen significant increases in competitive research funding and fundraising, and important developments in technology transfer. Learn more at www.engg.ksu.edu.
On May 25, 2011, Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law the University Engineering Initiative Act, or UEIA, which creates an unprecedented opportunity for Kansas State University, University of Kansas and Wichita State University to dramatically increase the number of their engineering graduates. K-State's engineering programs are already stretched beyond capacity, so increases in enrollment will require expansion of resources, including personnel as well as infrastructure.
All three institutions will implement plans to maximize the effectiveness of the state investment from the UEIA, which provides each school with $3.5 million per year for 10 years and also requires a dollar-for-dollar match. The K-State College of Engineering will focus on three key components: build a student pipeline to increase the number of engineering graduates; expand faculty and staff to support the growth of the student body and maintain its student-to-faculty ratio; and facility expansion to accommodate the increased number of students and faculty.
The 10 year UEIA goals to be met by 2023 for the College of Engineering are as follows:
- 3,750 undergraduates
- 586 engineering graduates per year
- $2.5 million in scholarships
- 595 graduate students
- 145 professors and 10 additional instructors
- $50 million in research
- 32 endowed chairs and professorships.
Responsibilities: The dean is the chief administrative officer of the college and is responsible for oversight and direction of teaching, research and outreach, including relations with the external professional community. The dean must be able to articulate a vision for engineering education and exert leadership in the development of both undergraduate and graduate programs. Additionally, the dean must provide leadership in developing collaborative, interdisciplinary research programs within the college, across K-State, and between K-State and other research institutions and industry partners. The dean must lead the effort in fundraising for the college as part of a major campaign, working in partnership with the K-State Foundation. The dean also serves as the college's representative to central administration and is charged with the development and maintenance of close ties with alumni, benefactors, government and industry.
Qualifications: The successful candidate must have national/international recognition as a research scholar with a doctorate in engineering or closely-related field or applied science and have an academic record that merits appointment as a full professor with tenure. In addition, he/she should provide evidence of dynamic leadership, experience in a university system, exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, an ability to work productively with and promote, faculty and students from diverse backgrounds, a commitment to an open and participatory administrative style, and demonstrated success in financial management, and a demonstrated commitment to promoting access and diversity and an understanding of the issues affecting diverse populations.
The ideal candidate will, in addition, have administrative and/or management experience and a demonstrated ability to acquire and align resources to achieve strategic goals. This individual will also possess a commitment to working with the provost, the other deans and the department heads within the college and across the broader university leadership, as well as an understanding of professional engineering and industrial job placements.
Application process: Inquiries, nominations and applications will be treated confidentially. The search committee will begin reviewing files on Sept. 16 and continue until an appointment is made. To apply please include a letter of interest, a narrative of experiences that address the full set of qualifications, curriculum vitae and contact information for five professional references. The candidate must also supply a narrative describing their philosophy of education, research and outreach, and strategies to implement such a philosophy. Nominations or other inquiries should be directed to our search committee via Mr. Baker. Application materials should be sent as a single PDF file in electronic format to:
Mr. Jerry Baker, president
Baker and Associates LLC
Kansas State University is an equal opportunity employer. Kansas State University actively seeks diversity among its employees. Passage of a pre-employment criminal background check will be required of the final candidate.


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In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. The Canadians had stories like the 1946 Toronto Globe and Mail report of a woman in labor who was refused help by three successive physicians, apparently because of her inability to pay. In Australia, a 1954 letter published in the Sydney Morning Herald sought help for a young woman who had lung disease. She couldn't afford to refill her oxygen tank, and had been forced to ration her intake "to a point where she is on the borderline of death." In Britain, George Bernard Shaw was at a London hospital visiting an eminent physician when an assistant came in to report that a sick man had arrived requesting treatment. "Is he worth it?" the physician asked. It was the normality of the question that shocked Shaw and prompted his scathing and influential 1906 play, "The Doctor's Dilemma." The British health system, he charged, was "a conspiracy to exploit popular credulity and human suffering."
In the United States, our stories are like the one that appeared in the Times before Christmas. Starla Darling, pregnant and due for delivery, had just taken maternity leave from her factory job at Archway & Mother's Cookie Company, in Ashland, Ohio, when she received a letter informing her that the company was going out of business. In three days, the letter said, she and almost three hundred co-workers would be laid off, and would lose their health-insurance coverage. The company was self-insured, so the employees didn't have the option of paying for the insurance themselves—their insurance plan was being terminated.
"When I heard that I was losing my insurance, I was scared," Darling told the Times. Her husband had been laid off from his job, too. "I remember that the bill for my son's delivery in 2005 was about $9,000, and I knew I would never be able to pay that by myself." So she prevailed on her midwife to induce labor while she still had insurance coverage. During labor, Darling began bleeding profusely, and needed a Cesarean section. Mother and baby pulled through. But the insurer denied Darling's claim for coverage. The couple ended up owing more than seventeen thousand dollars.
The stories become unconscionable in any society that purports to serve the needs of ordinary people, and, at some alchemical point, they combine with opportunity and leadership to produce change. Britain reached this point and enacted universal health-care coverage in 1945, Canada in 1966, Australia in 1974. The United States may finally be there now. In 2007, fifty-seven million Americans had difficulty paying their medical bills, up fourteen million from 2003. On average, they had two thousand dollars in medical debt and had been contacted by a collection agency at least once. Because, in part, of underpayment, half of American hospitals operated at a loss in 2007. Today, large numbers of employers are limiting or dropping insurance coverage in order to stay afloat, or simply going under—even hospitals themselves.
Yet wherever the prospect of universal health insurance has been considered, it has been widely attacked as a Bolshevik fantasy—a coercive system to be imposed upon people by benighted socialist master planners. People fear the unintended consequences of drastic change, the blunt force of government. However terrible the system may seem, we all know that it could be worse—especially for those who already have dependable coverage and access to good doctors and hospitals.
Many would-be reformers hold that "true" reform must simply override those fears. They believe that a new system will be far better for most people, and that those who would hang on to the old do so out of either lack of imagination or narrow self-interest. On the left, then, single-payer enthusiasts argue that the only coherent solution is to end private health insurance and replace it with a national insurance program. And, on the right, the free marketeers argue that the only coherent solution is to end public insurance and employer-controlled health benefits so that we can all buy our own coverage and put market forces to work.
Neither side can stand the other. But both reserve special contempt for the pragmatists, who would build around the mess we have. The country has this one chance, the idealist maintains, to sweep away our inhumane, wasteful patchwork system and replace it with something new and more rational. So we should prepare for a bold overhaul, just as every other Western democracy has. True reform requires transformation at a stroke. But is this really the way it has occurred in other countries? The answer is no. And the reality of how health reform has come about elsewhere is both surprising and instructive.
No example is more striking than that of Great Britain, which has the most socialized health system in the industrialized world. Established on July 5, 1948, the National Health Service owns the vast majority of the country's hospitals, blood banks, and ambulance operations, employs most specialist physicians as salaried government workers, and has made medical care available to every resident for free. The system is so thoroughly government-controlled that, across the Atlantic, we imagine it had to have been imposed by fiat, by the coercion of ideological planners bending the system to their will.
But look at the news report in the Times of London on July 6, 1948, headlined "FIRST DAY OF HEALTH SERVICE." You might expect descriptions of bureaucratic shock troops walking into hospitals, insurance-company executives and doctors protesting in the streets, patients standing outside chemist shops worrying about whether they can get their prescriptions filled. Instead, there was only a four-paragraph notice between an item on the King and Queen's return from a holiday in Scotland and one on currency problems in Germany.
The beginning of the new national health service "was taking place smoothly," the report said. No major problems were noted by the 2,751 hospitals involved or by patients arriving to see their family doctors. Ninety per cent of the British Medical Association's members signed up with the program voluntarily—and found that they had a larger and steadier income by doing so. The greatest difficulty, it turned out, was the unexpected pent-up demand for everything from basic dental care to pediatric visits for hundreds of thousands of people who had been going without.
The program proved successful and lasting, historians say, precisely because it was not the result of an ideologue's master plan. Instead, the N.H.S. was a pragmatic outgrowth of circumstances peculiar to Britain immediately after the Second World War. The single most important moment that determined what Britain's health-care system would look like was not any policymaker's meeting in 1945 but the country's declaration of war on Germany, on September 3, 1939.
As tensions between the two countries mounted, Britain's ministers realized that they would have to prepare not only for land and sea combat but also for air attacks on cities on an unprecedented scale. And so, in the days before war was declared, the British government oversaw an immense evacuation; three and a half million people moved out of the cities and into the countryside. The government had to arrange transport and lodging for those in need, along with supervision, food, and schooling for hundreds of thousands of children whose parents had stayed behind to join in the war effort. It also had to insure that medical services were in place—both in the receiving regions, whose populations had exploded, and in the cities, where up to two million war-injured civilians and returning servicemen were anticipated.
As a matter of wartime necessity, the government began a national Emergency Medical Service to supplement the local services. Within a period of months, sometimes weeks, it built or expanded hundreds of hospitals. It conducted a survey of the existing hospitals and discovered that essential services were either missing or severely inadequate—laboratories, X-ray facilities, ambulances, care for fractures and burns and head injuries. The Ministry of Health was forced to upgrade and, ultimately, to operate these services itself.
The war compelled the government to provide free hospital treatment for civilian casualties, as well as for combatants. In London and other cities, the government asked local hospitals to transfer some of the sick to private hospitals in the outer suburbs in order to make room for victims of the war. As a result, the government wound up paying for a large fraction of the private hospitals' costs. Likewise, doctors received government salaries for the portion of their time that was devoted to the new wartime medical service. When the Blitz came, in September, 1940, vast numbers of private hospitals and clinics were destroyed, further increasing the government's share of medical costs. The private hospitals and doctors whose doors were still open had far fewer paying patients and were close to financial ruin.
Churchill's government intended the program to be temporary. But the war destroyed the status quo for patients, doctors, and hospitals alike. Moreover, the new system proved better than the old. Despite the ravages of war, the health of the population had improved. The medical and social services had reduced infant and adult mortality rates. Even the dental care was better. By the end of 1944, when the wartime medical service began to demobilize, the country's citizens did not want to see it go. The private hospitals didn't, either; they had come to depend on those government payments.
By 1945, when the National Health Service was proposed, it had become evident that a national system of health coverage was not only necessary but also largely already in place—with nationally run hospitals, salaried doctors, and free care for everyone. So, while the ideal of universal coverage was spurred by those horror stories, the particular system that emerged in Britain was not the product of socialist ideology or a deliberate policy process in which all the theoretical options were weighed. It was, instead, an almost conservative creation: a program that built on a tested, practical means of providing adequate health care for everyone, while protecting the existing services that people depended upon every day. No other major country has adopted the British system—not because it didn't work but because other countries came to universalize health care under entirely different circumstances.
In France, in the winter of 1945, President de Gaulle was likewise weighing how to insure that his nation's population had decent health care after the devastation of war. But the system that he inherited upon liberation had no significant public insurance or hospital sector. Seventy-five per cent of the population paid cash for private medical care, and many people had become too destitute to afford heat, let alone medications or hospital visits.
Long before the war, large manufacturers and unions had organized collective insurance funds for their employees, financed through a self-imposed payroll tax, rather than a set premium. This was virtually the only insurance system in place, and it became the scaffolding for French health care. With an almost impossible range of crises on its hands—food shortages, destroyed power plants, a quarter of the population living as refugees—the de Gaulle government had neither the time nor the capacity to create an entirely new health-care system. So it built on what it had, expanding the existing payroll-tax-funded, private insurance system to cover all wage earners, their families, and retirees. The self-employed were added in the nineteen-sixties. And the remainder of uninsured residents were finally included in 2000.
Today, Sécurité Sociale provides payroll-tax-financed insurance to all French residents, primarily through a hundred and forty-four independent, not-for-profit, local insurance funds. The French health-care system has among the highest public-satisfaction levels of any major Western country; and, compared with Americans, the French have a higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality, more physicians, and lower costs. In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked it the best health-care system in the world. (The United States was ranked thirty-seventh.)
Switzerland, because of its wartime neutrality, escaped the damage that drove health-care reform elsewhere. Instead, most of its citizens came to rely on private commercial health-insurance coverage. When problems with coverage gaps and inconsistencies finally led the nation to pass its universal-coverage law, in 1994, it had no experience with public insurance. So the country—you get the picture now—built on what it already had. It required every resident to purchase private health insurance and provided subsidies to limit the cost to no more than about ten per cent of an individual's income.
Every industrialized nation in the world except the United States has a national system that guarantees affordable health care for all its citizens. Nearly all have been popular and successful. But each has taken a drastically different form, and the reason has rarely been ideology. Rather, each country has built on its own history, however imperfect, unusual, and untidy.
Social scientists have a name for this pattern of evolution based on past experience. They call it "path-dependence." In the battles between Betamax and VHS video recorders, Mac and P.C. computers, the QWERTY typewriter keyboard and alternative designs, they found that small, early events played a far more critical role in the market outcome than did the question of which design was better. Paul Krugman received a Nobel Prize in Economics in part for showing that trade patterns and the geographic location of industrial production are also path-dependent. The first firms to get established in a given industry, he pointed out, attract suppliers, skilled labor, specialized financing, and physical infrastructure. This entrenches local advantages that lead other firms producing similar goods to set up business in the same area—even if prices, taxes, and competition are stiffer. "The long shadow cast by history over location is apparent at all scales, from the smallest to the largest—from the cluster of costume jewelry firms in Providence to the concentration of 60 million people in the Northeast Corridor," Krugman wrote in 1991.
With path-dependent processes, the outcome is unpredictable at the start. Small, often random events early in the process are "remembered," continuing to have influence later. And, as you go along, the range of future possibilities gets narrower. It becomes more and more unlikely that you can simply shift from one path to another, even if you are locked in on a path that has a lower payoff than an alternate one.
The political scientist Paul Pierson observed that this sounds a lot like politics, and not just economics. When a social policy entails major setup costs and large numbers of people who must devote time and resources to developing expertise, early choices become difficult to reverse. And if the choices involve what economists call "increasing returns"—where the benefits of a policy increase as more people organize their activities around it—those early decisions become self-reinforcing. America's transportation system developed this way. The century-old decision to base it on gasoline-powered automobiles led to a gigantic manufacturing capacity, along with roads, repair facilities, and fuelling stations that now make it exceedingly difficult to do things differently.
There's a similar explanation for our employment-based health-care system. Like Switzerland, America made it through the war without damage to its domestic infrastructure. Unlike Switzerland, we sent much of our workforce abroad to fight. This led the Roosevelt Administration to impose national wage controls to prevent inflationary increases in labor costs. Employers who wanted to compete for workers could, however, offer commercial health insurance. That spurred our distinctive reliance on private insurance obtained through one's place of employment—a source of troubles (for employers and the unemployed alike) that we've struggled with for six decades.
Some people regard the path-dependence of our policies as evidence of weak leadership; we have, they charge, allowed our choices to be constrained by history and by vested interests. But that's too simple. The reality is that leaders are held responsible for the hazards of change as well as for the benefits. And the history of master-planned transformation isn't exactly inspiring. The familiar horror story is Mao's Great Leap Forward, where the collectivization of farming caused some thirty million deaths from famine. But, to take an example from our own era, consider Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's disastrous reinvention of modern military operations for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, in which he insisted on deploying far fewer ground troops than were needed. Or consider a health-care example: the 2003 prescription-drug program for America's elderly.
This legislation aimed to expand the Medicare insurance program in order to provide drug coverage for some ten million elderly Americans who lacked it, averaging fifteen hundred dollars per person annually. The White House, congressional Republicans, and the pharmaceutical industry opposed providing this coverage through the existing Medicare public-insurance program. Instead, they created an entirely new, market-oriented program that offered the elderly an online choice of competing, partially subsidized commercial drug-insurance plans. It was, in theory, a reasonable approach. But it meant that twenty-five million Americans got new drug plans, and that all sixty thousand retail pharmacies in the United States had to establish contracts and billing systems for those plans.
On January 1, 2006, the program went into effect nationwide. The result was chaos. There had been little realistic consideration of how millions of elderly people with cognitive difficulties, chronic illness, or limited English would manage to select the right plan for themselves. Even the savviest struggled to figure out how to navigate the choices: insurance companies offered 1,429 prescription-drug plans across the country. People arrived at their pharmacy only to discover that they needed an insurance card that hadn't come, or that they hadn't received pre-authorization for their drugs, or had switched to a plan that didn't cover the drugs they took. Tens of thousands were unable to get their prescriptions filled, many for essential drugs like insulin, inhalers, and blood-pressure medications. The result was a public-health crisis in thirty-seven states, which had to provide emergency pharmacy payments for the frail. We will never know how many were harmed, but it is likely that the program killed people.
This is the trouble with the lure of the ideal. Over and over in the health-reform debate, one hears serious policy analysts say that the only genuine solution is to replace our health-care system (with a single-payer system, a free-market system, or whatever); anything else is a missed opportunity. But this is a siren song.
Yes, American health care is an appallingly patched-together ship, with rotting timbers, water leaking in, mercenaries on board, and fifteen per cent of the passengers thrown over the rails just to keep it afloat. But hundreds of millions of people depend on it. The system provides more than thirty-five million hospital stays a year, sixty-four million surgical procedures, nine hundred million office visits, three and a half billion prescriptions. It represents a sixth of our economy. There is no dry-docking health care for a few months, or even for an afternoon, while we rebuild it. Grand plans admit no possibility of mistakes or failures, or the chance to learn from them. If we get things wrong, people will die. This doesn't mean that ambitious reform is beyond us. But we have to start with what we have.
That kind of constraint isn't unique to the health-care system. A century ago, the modern phone system was built on a structure that came to be called the P.S.T.N., the Public Switched Telephone Network. This automated system connects our phone calls twenty-four hours a day, and over time it has had to be upgraded. But you can't turn off the phone system and do a reboot. It's too critical to too many. So engineers have had to add on one patch after another.
The P.S.T.N. is probably the shaggiest, most convoluted system around; it contains tens of millions of lines of software code. Given a chance for a do-over, no self-respecting engineer would create anything remotely like it. Yet this jerry-rigged system has provided us with 911 emergency service, voice mail, instant global connectivity, mobile-phone lines, and the transformation from analog to digital communication. It has also been fantastically reliable, designed to have as little as two hours of total downtime every forty years. As a system that can't be turned off, the P.S.T.N. may be the ultimate in path-dependence. But that hasn't prevented dramatic change. The structure may not have undergone revolution; the way it functions has. The P.S.T.N. has made the twenty-first century possible.
So accepting the path-dependent nature of our health-care system—recognizing that we had better build on what we've got—doesn't mean that we have to curtail our ambitions. The overarching goal of health-care reform is to establish a system that has three basic attributes. It should leave no one uncovered—medical debt must disappear as a cause of personal bankruptcy in America. It should no longer be an economic catastrophe for employers. And it should hold doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug and device companies, and insurers collectively responsible for making care better, safer, and less costly.
We cannot swap out our old system for a new one that will accomplish all this. But we can build a new system on the old one. On the start date for our new health-care system—on, say, January 1, 2011—there need be no noticeable change for the vast majority of Americans who have dependable coverage and decent health care. But we can construct a kind of lifeboat alongside it for those who have been left out or dumped out, a rescue program for people like Starla Darling.
In designing this program, we'll inevitably want to build on the institutions we already have. That precept sounds as if it would severely limit our choices. But our health-care system has been a hodgepodge for so long that we actually have experience with all kinds of systems. The truth is that American health care has been more flotilla than ship. Our veterans' health-care system is a program of twelve hundred government-run hospitals and other medical facilities all across the country (just like Britain's). We could open it up to other people. We could give people a chance to join Medicare, our government insurance program (much like Canada's). Or we could provide people with coverage through the benefits program that federal workers already have, a system of private-insurance choices (like Switzerland's).
These are all established programs, each with advantages and disadvantages. The veterans' system has low costs, one of the nation's best information-technology systems for health care, and quality of care that (despite what you've heard) has, in recent years, come to exceed the private sector's on numerous measures. But it has a tightly limited choice of clinicians—you can't go to see any doctor you want, and the nearest facility may be far away from where you live. Medicare allows you to go to almost any private doctor or hospital you like, and has been enormously popular among its beneficiaries, but it costs about a third more per person and has had a hard time getting doctors and hospitals to improve the quality and safety of their care. Federal workers are entitled to a range of subsidized private-insurance choices, but insurance companies have done even less than Medicare to contain costs and most have done little to improve health care (although there are some striking exceptions).
Any of the programs could allow us to offer a starting group of Americans—the uninsured under twenty-five years of age, say—the chance to join within weeks. With time and experience, the programs could be made available to everyone who lacks coverage. The current discussion between the Obama Administration and congressional leaders seems to center on opening up the federal workers' insurance options and Medicare (or the equivalent) this way, with subsidized premiums for those with low incomes. The costs have to be dealt with. The leading proposals would try to hold down health-care spending in various ways (by, for example, requiring better management of patients with expensive chronic diseases); employers would have to pay some additional amount in taxes if they didn't provide health insurance for their employees. There's nothing easy about any of this. But, if we accept it, we'll all have a lifeboat when we need one.
It won't necessarily be clear what the final system will look like. Maybe employers will continue to slough off benefits, and that lifeboat will grow to become the entire system. Or maybe employers will decide to strengthen their benefits programs to attract employees, and American health care will emerge as a mixture of the new and the old. We could have Medicare for retirees, the V.A. for veterans, employer-organized insurance for some workers, federally organized insurance for others. The system will undoubtedly be messier than anything an idealist would devise. But the results would almost certainly be better.
Massachusetts, where I live and work, recently became the first state to adopt a system of universal health coverage for its residents. It didn't organize a government takeover of the state's hospitals or insurance companies, or force people into a new system of state-run clinics. It built on what existed. On July 1, 2007, the state began offering an online choice of four private insurance plans for people without health coverage. The cost is zero for the poor; for the rest, it is limited to no more than about eight per cent of income. The vast majority of families, who had insurance through work, didn't notice a thing when the program was launched. But those who had no coverage had to enroll in a plan or incur a tax penalty.
The results have been remarkable. After a year, 97.4 per cent of Massachusetts residents had coverage, and the remaining gap continues to close. Despite the requirement that individuals buy insurance and that employers either provide coverage or pay a tax, the program has remained extremely popular. Repeated surveys have found that at least two-thirds of the state's residents support the reform.
The Massachusetts plan didn't do anything about medical costs, however, and, with layoffs accelerating, more people require subsidized care than the state predicted. Insurance premiums continue to rise here, just as they do elsewhere in the country. Many residents also complain that eight per cent of their income is too much to pay for health insurance, even though, on average, premiums amount to twice that much. The experience has shown national policymakers that they will have to be serious about reducing costs.
For all that, the majority of state residents would not go back to the old system. I'm among them. For years, about one in ten of my patients—I specialize in cancer surgery—had no insurance. Even though I'd waive my fee, they struggled to pay for their tests, medications, and hospital stay.
I once took care of a nineteen-year-old college student who had maxed out her insurance coverage. She had a treatable but metastatic cancer. But neither she nor her parents could afford the radiation therapy that she required. I made calls to find state programs, charities—anything that could help her—to no avail. She put off the treatment for almost a year because she didn't want to force her parents to take out a second mortgage on their home. But eventually they had to choose between their daughter and their life's savings.
For the past year, I haven't had a single Massachusetts patient who has had to ask how much the necessary tests will cost; not one who has told me he needed to put off his cancer operation until he found a job that provided insurance coverage. And that's a remarkable change: a glimpse of American health care without the routine cruelty.
It will be no utopia. People will still face co-payments and premiums. There may still be agonizing disputes over coverage for non-standard treatments. Whatever the system's contours, we will still find it exasperating, even disappointing. We're not going to get perfection. But we can have transformation—which is to say, a health-care system that works. And there are ways to get there that start from where we are. ♦


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80 gm unsalted butter
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3 tbsp Almond flakes
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Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 180c. In a large mixing bowl, add butter and sugar. Beat till it becomes light and creamy, add in egg, vanilla essence and milk, mix well till it becomes fluffy. In a separate mixing bowl add flour, baking powder, salt, tooty frooty, mix them together nicely. Now add the mixed flour into the wet ingredients, beat till all the ingredients are combined well.


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J. Walter Becker started the IDEAL Commutator Dresser Company of Chicago from his mother's kitchen with the belief that every product should be worth more than its price. Service, he said, is part of the product. Learn more
J. Walter Becker started the IDEAL Commutator Dresser Company of Chicago from his mother's kitchen with the belief that every product should be worth more than its price. Service, he said, is part of the product. Learn more
IDEAL INDUSTRIES introduced its first wire connectors, which would go on to become a cornerstone of the IDEAL INDUSTRIES product line. These connectors were some of the first products IDEAL ever produced for the electrical industry and they represented significant advances in safety, reliability and ease of installation. Learn more
Knowing IDEAL's reputation for quality and durability in the world's harshest environments, Commander Richard Byrd, an American aviator and arctic explorer, requested IDEAL INDUSTRIES fuse pullers for his expedition to the South Pole. Learn more
IDEAL INDUSTRIES became a corporation. This event ensured that IDEAL would continue to carry on after J. Walter Becker concluded his ownership and management of IDEAL. It was a legacy intended to be left for the Family and community of Sycamore. Learn more
IDEAL INDUSTRIES became the leading producer of wire connectors, making the Wire-Nut® a widely recognized trademark. Learn more
IDEAL INDUSTRIES contributed components used in the lunar landing module and made the journey to the moon. IDEAL wire strippers were specifically requested for the mission because of their reputation for quality and precision, even in the most extreme environments. Learn more
Striving to be where tradesmen need them most, the first IDEAL retail order was received. This opened new channels to DIY consumers and brought a whole new level of access to individual professionals everywhere. Learn more
IDEAL INDUSTRIES expanded to Asia and South America with new offices in Shanghai, China in 2002 followed by São Paulo, Brazil in 2003. Learn more
In a move to add to its already comprehensive line of American-made tools, IDEAL INDUSTRIES acquired Pratt-Read, a titan of screwdriver production and one of the oldest companies in America. Pratt-Read was the second of three acquisitions for the IDEAL hand tool platform. Learn more
After a long run as the IDEAL Chairman, Dave Juday retired, handing over leadership responsibilities to IDEAL's current Chairman and CEO, Jim James. Learn more
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays Mitchell on the hit ABC series "Modern Family," was a victim of bullying growing up--a moment in his life that he still remembers to this day.
"I left school in the eighth grade and I went to a different school," he said at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's Respect Awards recently, as reported by E! Online. "It was hard. It was a horrible, horrible experience."
The openly-gay actor also said that lived in fear everyday. "I'm sure a lot of it was rooted in homophobia. I mean, I was an 'artistic,' kid, which was AKA gay. I think a lot of people sensed that I was gay and were terrified of that. I think bullying comes from fear and insecurity."
Ferguson also commented that it wasn't only gay people who were bullied. "I was friends with the more eccentric, granola type kids who got teased, too. But you know what? We're the movers and shakers of the world now."
"Modern Family," which recently won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, was honored by GLSEN at the Respect Awards in Los Angeles. The sitcom features two partners, played by Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet, who are the parents of an adopted child.
"GLSEN is honored to be the first national LGBT organization to recognize ABC's 'Modern Family,' at our Respect Awards - Los Angeles," GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard said in a press release. "As a lesbian mother of two, I am grateful to see a show like 'Modern Family' offer an honest and often hilarious look at family experiences frequently overlooked or ignored in Primetime. From its positive portrayal of gay parents to its handling of school bullying, 'Modern Family' provides an invaluable window into what family life is like for millions of American youth."
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Heartless Letter Sent to the Mother of an Autistic Child [PHOTO/VIDEO]
The unfortunate truth is that there are a few cruel and mean people that are among us. What's worse, is that most of them are ignorant. This is a mixture for the situation the mother of an autistic child is dealing with.


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Somerville group battles teen domestic violence
February 20, 2013
Somerville Journal/Wicked Local Somerville
By Corinne Segal
On the surface, things seem fine. When asked about teen domestic violence, Somerville police and school administrators said they have few reports of such incidents.
But unfortunately, that is in line with victims underreporting a growing problem, according to city
domestic violence assistance advocates.
"We're seeing more teens calling our hotline," said Jessica Brayden, executive director of
RESPOND. RESPOND, which provides counseling and shelter to victims of domestic abuse, has been spreading
awareness of teen domestic violence over the past month. In 2012, RESPOND received 112 calls to
their hotline from teenagers out of almost 2500 total calls, Brayden said.
And she said those numbers are likely low compared to reality. The federal Center for Disease Control reports that one in 11 high school students have been "purposefully hit" by their partner, and but the numbers are probably higher, Brayden said.
"That's a key statistic we're all kind of clinging to," Brayden said. "If one in 10 are reporting, we
have a significantly bigger problem."
Even as teenagers are calling RESPOND, Somerville police have almost never received reports of
teenage dating violence in the last two years, according to Sergeant Richard Lavey, a detective for
the Family Services Unit.
"I can't tell you when I had the last one," he said. "I don't know that we've had any direct
disclosures from children." Lavey does not remember receiving a report from a teenager, he said.
"I just don't know that the people alleging [dating] violence are people of high school age," Lavey
The Somerville Police Department does not track statistics on the frequency of teenage dating
violence because reports are so infrequent, Sergeant John Aufiero said. "We don't really have a lot of reports of it," he said. "That's probably why we don't keep numbers of it."
Brayden said RESPOND has "a very, very good relationship, a longstanding partnership with the Somerville Police Department," but it's not surprising that police receive few reports because teenage dating violence victims often do not report incidents for fear of punishment or social humiliation. She referred to a 2008 study sponsored by Liz Claiborne, Inc. that found 20 percent of 13-14-year-olds reported knowing a peer who has been physically struck by a partner, but only 54 percent of 11-14-year-olds said they would know how to help a friend in that situation.
RESPOND tries to counter that by reaching out to Somerville High School students through presentations and in lunchrooms. Students can sometimes be reluctant to talk, but will often call the hotline for advice after RESPOND visits the school, Brayden said. "Our goal is to let them know that there is a resource there," she said.
The Somerville High School administration does not often receive reports of dating violence among students, according to Headmaster John Oteri, and incidents of reported abuse usually involve an abuser who is not a Somerville High School student. "It's very infrequent," he said. Somerville Somerville schools educate students on self-empowerment and how to identify teenage dating violence, and students should feel comfortable coming forward if they need help, according to Oteri.
"I think we've created a system and a culture here where we encourage kids to report," he said. "We have a lot of support services here that kids utilize."
Few legal options
Domestic violence, which includes dating violence, comprises a pattern of control, according to Jenny Efimova, outreach manager for Casa Myrna, a Boston-based group that advocates for domestic abuse victims.
"It's a pattern of behavior within a relationship where one person tries to gain and maintain control over the other," Efimova said.
Abuse from one partner to another can be physical or emotional, and is not the victim's fault, Brayden said.
State laws do not always address the issue of teen dating violence. Not all states include dating relationships in their legal definition of domestic abuse, leaving teenagers less legally protected, according to LoveIsRespect.org.
Minors in Massachusetts cannot legally file a restraining order without the aid of their parent or guardian, leaving teenagers who do not confide in their parents with fewer legal options. Teenagers may not report incidents because they do not want their parents to find out, Lavey said.
[NOTE: JDI offers a clarification: A judge may request that a parent or guardian be present, can decide to appoint someone else to represent a minor in court, or can decide to proceed without notifiying parent or guardian if you appear to be in danger.]
Most laws on teen dating violence relate to education; a 2010 Massachusetts law mandates that public schools create guidelines for addressing teen dating violence. Five states have bills pending in Congress that would improve education on dating violence in public school systems.
A national bill, the Real Education for Healthy Youth Act, outlined a comprehensive federal plan for sexual education in public schools; it died in Congress in 2011. Schools need to educate children on safe sexual practices to prevent violence in the future, according to Toni Troop, director of communications for Jane Doe Inc., a Massachusetts advocacy organization against sexual and domestic violence.
"If we don't talk about healthy [sexuality and healthy relationships], we are never going to be able to prevent domestic and teen dating violence," she said.
Victims of dating violence can anonymously receive counseling and advice on RESPOND's hotline and in their shelter. RESPOND serves any victim unconditionally, including people of all genders and sexual identities; anyone can use their crisis hotline as a resource, including parents, teachers, and police officers, Brayden said. RESPOND's 24-hour crisis hotline number is 617-623-5900.


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From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
(Redirected from Animal ears)
anime and manga terminology that describes characters that possess animal like features. The characters will be predominately human and any real animal characteristics are minimal, unlike kemono characters who possess a large percentage of animal parts in ratio with their human parts. Generally kemonomimi characters have ears and a tail which are animal-like. Often this is just part of their attire and can be removed at will.
Some specific types of kemono are common enough to be known by their own terms:
- Nekomimi / nekomusume - 'cat ears' or 'cat daughter', nekomimis are the best-known.
- Kitsunemimi / kitsunemusume - 'fox ears' or 'fox daughter', the second most common variant after nekomimis.
- Usagimimi / usagimusume - 'rabbit ears' or 'rabbit daughter'.
- Inumimi / inumusume - 'dog ears' or 'dog daughter'.
- Umamimi / umamusume - 'horse ears' or 'horse daughter'.
- Ushimimi / ushimusume - 'cow ears' or 'cow daughter'.
- Nezumimi / nezumusume - 'mouse ears' or 'mouse daughter' .
See also[edit]
Wikipedia links[edit]
- Kemonomimi
- Catgirl (Nekomimi)
- Nekomusume
- "Foxy Lady" manga
- Google image searches for nekomimi, nekomusume, kitsunemimi, kitsunemusume, usagimimi, inumimi, inumusume, and umamusume.
- Nekobooru site searches for nekomimi, kitsunemimi, usagimimi, inumimi, umamimi, and ushimimi.
External links[edit]
- Animal Boyfriend (English-language version of Gijin Kareshi)
|Some of this page is derived from Wikipedia. The original article was at Kemonomimi, but has since been deleted or merged. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WikiFur, the text of Wikipedia is available under CC-BY-SA and the GFDL.


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Pet ban in serial dog abuse
Albany defendant already served jail time; called "monster"
The man who left three pit bull puppies for dead on railroad tracks — then abandoned four more dogs in the back of a U-Haul truck — received a sentence Tuesday of six months in jail as a dog owner branded him a "monster" and a "sociopath."
Anthony Walker, 30, of Albany, who is free after already serving his time, also received five years' probation from Judge Peter Lynch.
That punishment does not fit his heinous crime, according to the owners of Hudson, one of the dogs left on the railroad tracks in Albany. They did not attend Walker's sentencing, but blasted the animal abuser in a victim impact statement read in court.
[Editor's note: Did the punishment fit the crime? Discuss this story in our Dogs blog.]
"We are sorry we could not be there in person, but as Hudson's parents we are afraid of what we might do to this monster," the letter stated.
On July 2, Walker pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated animal cruelty, the state's animal abuse felony known as Buster's Law, for abandoning four pit bulls found Jan. 26 in a U-Haul trailer parked outside the Super 8 Motel at 1579 Central Ave. in Colonie. The dogs — one of which was starving and nearly frozen to death — have since been adopted.
Walker's guilty plea resolved his earlier arrest for abandoning the three baby pit bulls discovered Sept. 8 by workers on the railroad tracks at North Pearl Street, near the Ida J. Yarbrough Homes.
The abandoned dogs — known as "the railroad puppies" — were dehydrated, malnourished, hypoglycemic and suffering from infection when they arrived at the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society shelter in Menands. In addition to Hudson, who now has a prosthetic paw after a hole in his paw made in necessary that it be amputated, they included Pearl, a female who was missing two toes, and Carina, who died of her injuries within 48 hours of being found.
Hudson and Pearl were adopted. Hudson's family informed the court their pet still struggles to walk and needs to be lifted into cars because of his past abuse.
"We are disappointed in the sentence that was given to this person. However, we realize that in order to have stiffer penalties, the animal cruelty laws need to be tougher," the family stated. "We feel that the horrific nature of the crimes that were perpetrated on the railroad puppies and the four U-Haul dogs deserves more than what this individual received. We have no doubt he is a sociopath, will be a repeat offender and probably escalate to something worse."
District Attorney David Soares said the maximum sentence Walker could have faced, if convicted at trial, was two years in jail, about eight months of which he already served.
Once he left jail, Soares said, Walker could have gotten a pet without any issue. Under the plea deal, Walker cannot own a pet for his five years on probation. "That, to us, was a much better outcome," Soares said, joined by Assistant District Attorney Chantelle Cleary, who prosecuted the case. "The idea here is to prevent this person from owning an animal for as long a period of time as we could."
Cleary said the most important thing to take away from the case is that animal cruelty laws need to be made stronger so prosecutors have more options.
Brad Shear, executive director of the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society, who attended the sentencing, said he wished Walker got a stiffer penalty but was pleased Walker has done jail time.
"I don't think he has any remorse but nobody can give the guy a conscience," Shear told reporters. "Obviously when you see what he did to these dogs, this is a person who didn't have a conscience — and putting him in jail isn't going to give him one."
Outside the courtroom, Walker said he would not talk to reporters on camera — extending his middle finger. Moments later, he walked out of the Albany County Judicial Center telling reporters he was a fall guy.
"They couldn't get the guy they want, so they settled for me," he said.
Walker admitted he owned the dogs in the U-Haul but added: "I didn't leave the dogs in the U-Haul. The dogs were there unattended. That's all."
Walker was irked at initial reports that alleged he nailed dogs to railroad tracks — authorities said that was not the case. Asked about the animals' malnourishment, Walker answered: "I don't have anything to say about it."
Asked why he would plead guilty to a felony if he had no involvement, Walker responded: "These guys don't play fair." Asked if he meant prosecutors, police or the judge, Walker said: "All of the above."
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Told of Walker's comments, Soares said: "I think if you speak to anyone who's charged with animal cruelty it's very seldom that you're going to find someone who actually believes that they did were doing anything that harmed an animal."
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Need help filling out your FAFSA? If so, click here!
How To Apply, Step-By-Step
You must complete and submit a Federal Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to apply for federal student aid and for most state and institutional aid. The quickest way to apply is online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
Follow these steps to apply for Financial Aid. Contact us afterwards if you have any questions. To contact ALC's Financial Aid Office, call (606) 368-6058 or e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
1. Obtain a FSA ID (Personal Identification Number).
- This will act as electronic signatures on the FAFSA. The student obtains a FSA ID at fsaid.ed.gov.
- If you are a dependent student, your parents must also obtain a FSA ID.
2. Complete the FAFSA.
- As soon as possible after October 1st, complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), available online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
- We encourage students and parents to file federal tax returns earlier than they may have in the past. For more about this see below and item #5.
- Consider using IRS Data Retrieval when completing your FAFSA. Beginning in February some students can use the FAFSA's IRS Data Retrieval option to link to the IRS and transfer tax return data to their FAFSA. While this can be an easy way to provide accurate tax information on the FAFSA it is not available to everyone, and students and parents who use it may still be required to submit tax return transcripts to the Alice Lloyd College Financial Aid Office. To use this option it must be at least 2 weeks since you filed your 2015 federal tax return electronically, or at least 6-8 weeks if you filed a paper return. IRS Data Retrieval is not available if a person is married but filed separately or married but filed as head of household, or if an amended tax return was filed, or to those who file Puerto Rican or foreign tax returns.
- For help prior to filing online, see FAFSA on the Web Worksheet.
- Alice Lloyd College's school code is 001951.
- "The Five Minute FAFSA"
3. Receive a Student Aid Report (SAR).
- The SAR will arrive either by email or by U.S. mail. The SAR summarizes the information you provided on the FAFSA, and indicates the Expected Family Contribution (EFC).The EFC is the amount of money your family will be expected to contribute to your education. Note that financial aid offices sometimes change the EFC based on additional information. The EFC is subtracted from the Alice Lloyd College Cost of Attendance (COA) to arrive at your financial need.
- If you have not received the SAR within a few weeks from the date of filing or if you would like to check the status of your FAFSA, you may use any of the following options: go to www.fafsa.ed.gov and select 'Check Status of submitted FAFSA', call 1-800-433-3243 toll-free for an automated response or 319-337-5665 to speak with a person (toll), or for the hearing imparied, call the TTY line at 1-800-730-8913.
4. Review the SAR.
- If any corrections are necessary, go to www.fafsa.ed.gov and select 'Make Corrections to a processed FAFSA'.
5. Schools receive the student's data.
- Once we receive your FAFSA, we will contact you if we need any other forms. DO NOT submit tax documents unless we specifically request them.
- If we request tax documents, be aware that we will need tax return transcripts from the IRS instead of tax returns (IRS 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ). For details on how to obtain these please see "Order a Tax Return or Account Transcript" at www.irs.gov. Be aware that tax return transcripts may be needed even if you use the FAFSA's IRS Data Retrieval option. Other documents such as W-2 forms or Verification Documents may be requested as well.
6. Aid is awarded.
- Beginning in May, the Financial Aid Office will send out award packages.
7. Respond to the award.
- Accept or decline offered aid by signing the award letter.
8. Aid is disbursed.
- After enrollment is verified in August, the Financial Aid Office will begin disbursing funds to students' accounts. Please note that all paperwork requested must be returned to the Financial Aid Office.
Financial Aid is given on an annual basis. A student must reapply each year.


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I have no idea of how to understand this sentence "The more you try to undo it, the more you feel like youre flailing about and calling attention to a situation you wish would just go away. " thanks for your help first !
here is the passage below
Sometimes it can be hard enough to believe that your boyfriends friend is hitting on you, let alone know how to respond. Yes, you do have several options, from playing dumb and ignoring his overtures to remembering that you never said you wanted an exclusive relationship after all. (More on that last option later).
But if your boyfriends friend is persistent, and you have no interest in him, your options narrow considerably. These are the times when your life starts to resemble a scene out of Bridget Joness Diary. Youre being showered with attention from multiple suitors, but its all terribly wrong. The more you try to undo it, the more you feel like youre flailing about and calling attention to a situation you wish would just go away.
Have you seen the mentionned movie? The girl basically screws up when she meets boys (who may or may not be nice, but that's another topic), and the more she tries to be nice or seducive, the worse it gets. That's the kind of situation where the efforts to make up with something wrong you did or said actually worsen the whole thing. Eventually I guess she wishes the earth would open up, but on the contrary she gets all the attention....
The bottom line is: she can't handle the situation properly.


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Maple Theater
4135 W. Maple Road,
Bloomfield Hills,
1 person favorited this theater
This bland, undistinquished triplex was originally opened as the Maple 1-2-3 on March 23, 1977 by Suburban Detroit Theaters. It was acquired by AMC (the cupholders still have the AMC logo on them) in 1992 and by Landmark Theatres in 1998. In the summer of 2012 it was taken over by an independent operator.
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I was there recently; I had not seen a film there since the theater's AMC days. The screening rooms are getting rather shabby. With persistent reports that Landmark's other Detroit-area operation, the Main in Royal Oak, will eventually close, and the apparent physical neglect of this house, one has to wonder what Landmark's long-range plans are for the Detroit market.
A picture can be seen here:
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Photo from 2010 of the Maple Arts Theatre. The complex was in quite good condition on my visit and still retained much of its original 70's décor.
Landmark's lease on this theater will end at the end of January, 2012; a new operator is taking over and will shut down the theater in April to install digital projection, new seating, and new screens.
This now known simply as the Maple Theater; its official website is now: http://www.themapletheater.com/index.php
As of June 6, 2012, only two screens appear to be in operation based on the listings on the theater's website.
An article about the coming changes to the Maple Art Theater: View link
The theater's official official website is now: http://themapletheater.com/
According to a an article that appeared in the October 14, 2012 edition of Crain's Detroit Business, a $1.5 million dollar makeover should be complete by November 1, 2012 (subscription required to view article).
In addition to new screens and seating, the revamped cinema will now feature a coffee bar and alcoholic beverage service. A set of (mostly) renovation-related photos can be seen here.
The theater will no longer operated by Landmark; it has a new website (see above) and the company that owns it is known as Cloud Nine Theater Partners LLC.
Here is another article about the renovated theater's reopening.
March 23rd, 1977 grand opening ad in photo section.
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Canton's Plug Ugly's Publick House is named after an obscure band of ruffians used to control election day polling by politicians. They had a brief existence in the 1850s and are rumored to have kidnapped Edgar Allan Poe for political machinations leading to his untimely demise.
An interesting namesake, to be sure. Given that, obviously they should have a pirate-themed rum infusion, right? Of course.
The name is Pirate Juice, a secret blend of seven different rums (and no, my palate isn't sophisticated enough to discern which ones) steeped in a 12-fruit blend. Or so I'm told. Upon visual inspection I could pick out at least six in their large decanter — and there was a lot of fruit in there, to be sure. Once the rum blend is nice and fruited, it's served topped with acai berry puree, a fresh berry mix (blue, rasp, black and straw) and splashes of orange juice and Sprite. Are you thirsty yet?
You should be. Pirate Juice is great. Bartender Corey Valentine is spot on with his pitch concerning the drink: "Cool, refreshing, never too sweet, it's the perfect cocktail anytime." And that pretty much sums it up nicely. You'd think a cocktail with so much fruit involved would be overpoweringly sweet, but Pirate Juice is just plain nice and mellow, with pops and whizzes of tartness from raspberry and a few other of the twelve fruits involved. It's pretty perfect for these hot summer days.
Valentine was also sure to note regarding Pirate Juice, "When we serve one we say ARRRRRRRGH!!!!" Like a pirate. See what they did there? Next time you frequent Plug Ugly's, make absolutely sure they honor this Piratey oath. Their reputation is at stake, people.
How to make Pirate Juice
Seven rum blend, pick any seven of your favorites
Fruit medley, 12-fruit blend, must include blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and strawberry
Acai berry puree
Orange juice
Infuse rum blend for three weeks in glass container until desired fruitiness is achieved. Pour over ice with fresh blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and a slice of strawberry. Top off with acai berry puree, orange juice and Sprite.
Where to get Pirate Juice
Plug Ugly's Publick House
2908 O'Donnell St., Canton
$8; $5 Monday through Friday 4-7 p.m.


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|MartinLogan Dynamo 1000 Subwoofer Preview
|Thursday, 12 November 2009
The Dynamo 1000 is the largest subwoofer in the Dynamo line, and is especially suited for those with larger viewing rooms.
As the name implies, MartinLogan's massive sub has a peak output of a full 1,000 watts, double that of the 500 watt RMS. Designed with efficiency in mind, the Dynamo 1000 uses variable audio tracking power supplies to drive its class AB output stage. MartinLogan says that this not only provides lower distortion and less noise than a traditional class D amp, but that it delivers a true 500 watts of continuous power.
MartinLogan uses what they call an advanced-technology driver in tandem with a 12 inch diaphragm to deliver sound with high clarity and a low amount of distortion. The cone is a poly material that blends with MartinLogan's electrostatic panel and Advanced Thin-Film technologies.
MartinLogan's Dynamo 1000 boasts a far superior low frequency response thanks to their Inverse Mathematical Equalization filter. The IME filter is derived by taking the inverse of the unfiltered driver response, which MartinLogan says is far superior to the high-Q filters found on most subs in the class.
The Dynamo 1000 offers a frequency response from 22Hz up to 200Hz, and offers an LPF with a cutoff ranging from 35Hz to 120Hz. In case of a surround processor that supplies the crossover, the Dynamo's internal filters can be overridden.
While downfiring by default, the Dynamo 1000 subwoofer can be converted into front firing mode without the use of tools. Unlike some other subs in this class, such as the DSW Pro, the Dynamo 1000 comes with 90 degree RCA cords and a speaker grill for use in a front firing configuration.
Martin Logan has also ensured that the Dynamo 1000 offers the option for those that want to go wireless. The built-in receiver makes the Dynamo 1000 compatible with the SWT-1 Wireless Transmitter, making room placement a much simpler process. The Dynamo 1000 is available now from authorized dealers, both on and offline, for $995.
Additional Features: 90/180/0 degree phase switch, low-pass 35Hz - 120Hz
Audio Features: Line Level and Speaker Level Inputs
Approximate Size: 13.6"W x 14.3"D x 15.4"H
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Continuing on from my previous two ramblings let's have a look at two scripts I use with my tinderbox setup. It may not be the best place but I decided to keep these within the tinderbox/scripts folder.
The first script is gencompilerenvfiles which I have expanded a little since my previous post.
So the changes since my previous post are fairly small and obvious - first I added NO_WERROR and WERROR which allows some ports to finish building that only generate warnings. Some ports are setup to treat warnings as errors causing the build to stop. While it can make sense with some ports, others it isn't of concern and only gets annoying that the builds stop and you take 10 minutes to figure out that it's all because of a simple warning.
The next change is the addition of ARCH - when building for the same arch as the base system this is of no concern but some ports have a problem building on an amd64 system when the compiler is generating x86 code. The ARCH definition overcomes that issue.
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The other script I showed previously I called testbuilds.sh. I have expanded this script quite a bit and now call it compileport - while it is now a lot longer than the previous example it's not really more complex. The extra length is from many case and if statements than any real complexity. You can download it below if you want to use it or just read through it.
For the most part you should be able to figure it out based on the comments and help (-h) included within the script. To compile a port we want to know 4 things - sysversion arch compiler and port, sysversion arch and compiler default to current i386/amd64 and gcc/clang and can be left out if you wish to use that combination. That leaves us with specifying the port, giving a minimum of compileport -P <category/portname> to compile against 10-CURRENT.
A few bonus options for sysversion are for preset searches - all current stable and release should be obvious, with releng being a moving target based on system releases. Currently this is set to 9.0 8.3 and 7.4 - being the highest minor release of each major version. Over time this should be updated to include newer releases and drop the less than current releases. So when 9.1 goes beta or RC1 it would be added to the list and after release we can remove 9.0.
If you want to setup default values you can do that through environment variables, which can also be setup in your shell rc files like any other variable. So if you always compile for 9-STABLE you can set OPTBASEVERS to 9-STABLE and it will be used without you having to specify -B 9-STABLE every time. This is where the upper/lower case options come into play. If you have the OPTBASEVERS set to 9-STABLE then compileport -b 8-STABLE will build the port for both 9-STABLE and 8-STABLE but if you use compileport -B 8-STABLE then it will ignore the environment settings and just compile for 8-STABLE. The real advantage to environment settings comes when you want to compile a list of ports. This may be a preset list of all the ports you maintain or you can do something like -
will compile every port you have installed on your system with every tinderbox build you have setup - or -
will compile every port that needs updating against the 9-STABLE builds you have setup. This leads into what I plan to talk about in my next post - using tinderbox to build your own packages.
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