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The University of Ottawa Press, Canada's oldest French language university press and the only bilingual university press in North America, has just published Prof. María Sierra Córdoba Serrano's work Le Québec traduit en Espagne: analyse sociologique de l'exportation d'une culture périphérique.
The book was selected by the publisher to be showcased at the 2013 ACFAS congress, one of the largest congresses in the Social Sciences and the Humanities in the French-speaking world.
In the book, Prof. Córdoba uses the study of peripheral cultures as a privileged observatory to examine the sociological relations that configure a corpus of literary works between Quebec and Spain (with a focus on Catalonia). In addition to this specific case study, Prof. Córdoba's book sheds light on the different phases of cultural exchanges in general: from the initiation and selection of cultural products, to their international circulation, reception, and re-branding so they fit the logic of the receiving cultures where they are reinserted. It further examines the decisive but non-deterministic role of public institutions in forming translation flows, as well as the part other key international stakeholders (publishers, critics, translators, scouts, etc.) play in facilitating, and sometimes hindering, the international circulation of ideas. Beyond its theoretical interest, the book offers a definite applied dimension, as it critically examines specific public diplomacy policies (particularly the use of translation as a tool for national image-projection abroad), and evaluates their implementation and results.


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A new wine competition that takes a different approach has revealed some fascinating results.
The inaugural Great Northwest Invitational Wine Competition took place the first full week of November at the historic Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Ore. While most wine competitions are open to any winery that chooses to enter any wine it wants, the Great Northwest Invitational Wine Competition took a different twist.
We invited a dozen top wine professionals from Washington, Oregon and Idaho to participate not only by judging the wines, but also nominating them. The process started over the summer, when the wine retailers, wholesalers, restaurateurs and writers submitted the names of wines they wanted to judge. We then sent those nominations to the wineries.
The result was 250 top wines from the Pacific Northwest. The judges then met for two days to taste and evaluate the wines under blind conditions — meaning they did not know the producers or the price of the wines.
The judges were not especially indulgent, awarding just 25 gold medals. But they also were discerning in giving more silver medals (108) than bronzes (90). And they discarded just 10 percent of the wines, far fewer than in a typical wine competition.
This week, we will look at the wines that earned the top awards in the competition, while next week, we will explore the rest of the gold medal winners.
Ask for these wines at your favorite wine merchants or contact the wineries directly.
Best in show/best red: Seven Falls 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon, Wahluke Slope, $15: This broadly distributed wine is made by former Columbia Crest winemaker Doug Gore and is one of the newest members of the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates family. It is sold primarily at restaurants nationwide, though it also is available via the winery website.
Best white wine: Elk Cove Vineyards 2012 Pinot Gris, Willamette Valley, $19: This is the quintessential Northwest Pinot Gris, and it is perhaps the most consistently outstanding example to come out of Oregon, thanks to second-generation winemaker Adam Campbell.
Best rose: Lumos Wine Co. 2012 Chiquita Pinot Noir Rose, Oregon, $20: The grace and beauty of this pink wine will come as no surprise to those familiar with winemaker Dai Crisp's work.
Best dessert wine: Capitello Wines 2011 Dolcino, Oregon, $22: The Gewurztraminer grapes for this dessert wine come from vineyards near Corvallis, Ore., and the Umpqua Valley. Winemaker Ray Walsh left 20 percent residual sugar, making this a delicious post-dinner sipper.
Best Syrah: Avennia 2011 Boushey Vineyard Arnaut Syrah, Yakima Valley, $48: Woodinville winemaker Chris Peterson excels with reds, particularly Syrah. He brought in grapes from famed Boushey Vineyard north of Grandview, Wash., for this superb red.
Best Merlot: Chateau Ste. Michelle 2011 Canoe Ridge Estate Merlot, Horse Heaven Hills, $26: Canoe Ridge Estate is a prized vineyard for head winemaker Bob Bertheau, and it delivered in the cool 2011 vintage.
Best Riesling: Chehalem 2012 Three Vineyard Riesling, Willamette Valley, $22: The father-daughter winemaking team of Harry and Wynne Peterson-Nedry is crafting some of Oregon's finest Rieslings and, according to our judges, some of the best in the Northwest.
Best red blend: Pend d'Oreille Winery 2010 Bistro Rouge, Washington, $14: Longtime Sandpoint, Idaho, winemaker Stephen Meyer has been crafting this delicious and affordable red blend for some time. This example leads with Merlot (40 percent), followed by Cabernet Sauvignon (35 percent), Syrah (17 percent), Malbec (5 percent) and Cabernet Franc.
Best Pinot Noir: Stoller Family Estate 2010 Cathy's Pinot Noir, Dundee Hills, $100: This wine honors Cathy Stoller, co-founder of this winery in the gorgeous Dundee Hills of the northern Willamette Valley, who died in 2011.
Best Chardonnay: Woodward Canyon Winery 2012 Chardonnay, Washington, $44: Winemaker Kevin Mott used grapes from the estate vineyard in the hills of the northern Walla Walla Valley, and he blended them with Chardonnay from Celilo Vineyard on the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge.
Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue run Great Northwest Wine, a news and information company. Learn more about wine at www.greatnorthwestwine.com.


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2010 Motto: Finally!
14 comments:
- Mary said...
Perfect motto! Love it!
- July 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM
- nkp said...
That is perfect. And of course, I would find it here. It's never too late to discover inspiration, especially in the form of words to live by. Thanks Erin!
- July 28, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- Jemm said...
I like it a lot Erin. That is one of the hardest things for me to do. It will be a great reminder.
- July 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- christina said...
What a great quote. And it's so true. I love normal days. :) And I love Katherine Marie. She's such a great source for inspiration. Hope you're having a good week!
- July 28, 2010 at 10:33 AM
- FROM THE RIGHT BANK said...
I love this quote, Erin! It's along the lines of what I've been trying to live by lately too. It was definitely worth waiting for. :)
- July 28, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- paige said...
& all god's people said
love it
love the font too
- July 28, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- Joslyn said...
perfect...i'm pinning this over my desk!
- July 30, 2010 at 2:29 PM
- Couture Carrie said...
Love it!
Great quote I saw on a blog today:
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
- July 31, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Haven and Home said...
Oh that is so true. We must appreciate the simple things!
- August 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- katherine marie said...
YES! It's one of my current favorites too!!!! I can't remember where I found it--- I have an entire journal filled with QUOTES! I think it makes for a lovely family motto. :):) What kind of unique projects do you use your motto for?
- August 1, 2010 at 11:20 PM
- Wild and Precious said...
great motto! thanks for sharing!
im a new reader - love your blog!
Hope you'll check out my current giveaway: www.wild-and-precious.com
- August 3, 2010 at 6:13 PM
- Building a House and Home said...
Your motto is, of course, the perfect sentiment to how I have been feeling this year. Thanks.
- August 5, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- spark! (Ada-Marie) said...
Perfect timing, I really needed that reminder today! I love the motto and thanks for the boost. :)
- August 6, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Great quote! Two that have been resonating with me lately are
"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."
"It's never too late to be who you might have been."
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You've just purchased a new piece of commercial real estate. When it comes time to insure it, your insurance agent provides you with a commercial insurance quote in which the building replacement value is much higher than you actually paid for it. Since you invested a lesser amount into it, why would you insure it for more? You only want to be covered for what you actually paid for the piece of property.
Unfortunately, this is a scenario that plays out all too often. The market value of property ends up being far less than what it actually might cost to rebuild the building from the ground up. To understand this fully, it is important to define some key terms:
Market Value – the cost to purchase a property
Replacement Cost – the cost to rebuild a property using today's construction methods and materials
To illustrate, let's say a prospective property owner wants to purchase a building and the cost of the building was $1M dollars. It would stand to reason that the right amount of commercial property insurance would be $1M dollars. However, insurance companies require that a building be insured to replacement value, that is, the cost to rebuild that property from the ground up. Due to today's market environment and rising construction cost, it would cost more to build the exact same building new, than to purchase existing.
Replacement cost is calculated differently by each commercial insurance company, but they all use a program similar to those provided by Marshall & Swift/Boeckh. These programs take into consideration variables such as construction type, square footage of the building, year built, number of stories, story height, intended use of the building, mechanicals, etc. The programs have pre-determined costs associated with each variable. When combined, they work together to determine an accurate cost to replace the building using today's construction methods and materials. As a result, the same building you purchased for $1M dollars, may cost you $2M dollars to insure and the insurance company may require you to insure to the full $2M dollar replacement cost.
However, this is assuming a total loss of the building – i.e., it is completely destroyed. You don't believe that your building would ever be completely destroyed because it is next door to a fire department, it has a sprinkler system, and it will be an office, so the chance of fire is fairly low. Because of that, you don't think you'd ever have to fully replace the building and still want to insure it for $1M dollars.
Admittedly, total losses do not happen often. Because of this, insurance companies have implemented a coinsurance clause to entice property owners to insure their buildings to replacement cost value. The coinsurance clause is displayed in terms of percentages – often 80%, 90%, or 100%. Essentially, insurance companies require your building to be insured up to whatever percentage is shown on the policy. If you do not insure up to that percentage, a coinsurance penalty would apply. If a building is not insured to at least the required coinsurance amount and there is even a partial loss, the amount payable by the insurance company is reduced using the following method.
If the building replacement cost was calculated at $2M, and the coinsurance was 90%, the building must be insured to at least 90% of $2M, $1,800,000. In this case, the building was insured up to $1M dollars, so the loss is adjusted with the following formula:
In this example, if there were a $50,000 dollar claim and a $1,000 dollar deductible, the total payable amount would be $26,778 as determined by the formula below:
Due to the substantial difference a coinsurance clause can make in your claim settlement, it is important to know how much your building is insured for, how the limit shown on your policy was derived, and what provisions in your policy are applicable at the time of a claim. It is important to talk to your agent about these terms and conditions as well as understand what alternatives to insuring to value or replacement cost you may have. While this example is the norm, commercial insurance policies can often be tailor designed to meet the needs of the customer. If you're unsure of your terms, conditions, limits, or options, please feel free to reach out for a policy review to ensure your assets are best protected at the time of a claim.
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K. So, uuuummm...here's the card:
When I saw the trigger below ALL I could think of was those beautiful layers of sweet and yummy caramel. So, after deciding that layering strips of actual caramel on a card probably wouldn't work as well as I would like, I decided to go with some fabulous trims, instead. I found them to be MUCH less sticky and a bit more 'mail friendly', one might say. Just say'n.
The stamp is from the Unity Heartfelt Sentiments set and the trims are from *takes big 'ole breath*...May Arts (sheer, burlap string, silk), The Twinery (twine), Teresa Collins (lace& pleated with tulle), and some unknown company who makes really cute felt flower trim. *Let's breath out.* Yeah..I'm sorry, I don't know who makes that one, but if any of you can source it for me that would rock!
The button, however! (Yes. That is a complete sentence. Because I said it is, that's why.) THE BUTTON, HOWEVER! That is vintage. You see, I rediscovered an absolutely scrumptious vintage jar of vintage buttons on my brown shelf! I had forgotten that I had purchased it and I absolutely LOVE THESE BUTTONS! I had so much fun choosing one for this card. Just say'n.
Yup. That's my vintage brown button jar. Yup. It makes me happy. Yup. It is making you happy right now, too. Yup. Everyone should have one because then everyone would be pretty much happy. Yup. Just say'n.
K. So that's what I have for you in THIS post, so YAY for a Friday full of fun for friends with flair!!!!
OH! And I'm also linking this up to the Less is More Eye Color challenge since my eyes are totally brown (dirt brown, as my lovely Hubbums likes to call them), and so this card is definitely showing off the browns! YAY for dirt brown eyes!!! Yeah....that's it.
K. Bye now. Happy Friday! Don't forget to come back to check out my SSD Feature Friday post. There will be donuts. Just say'n.
Oh...and by now you probably all think I've been eating candy for breakfast again, but I haven't! I just did Jillian's 30 Day Shred this morning for the first time in ages so I feel WICKED good and WAY too awake. K. That's all now. Later!
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LAS VEGAS — For 6-feet-tall, 390-pound comedian Louie Anderson, finding stylish clothes that fit is no laughing matter — which is why he's collaborating on a new line of shirts for the big-and-tall man that he hopes to roll out to retail outlets early next year.
"The journey for me started as a fat kid going to Robert Hall [Clothes] on 8th Street" in downtown St. Paul, Minn., Anderson said, referring to the warehouse-type chain that flourished in the mid-20th century. "Our family was so poor we'd get these vouchers for school clothes from the welfare department. We'd go into the top men's store in town and the guy would yell out: 'Bill, I've got another husky!'"
Anderson, now 59, says he learned at a young age that wardrobe options were limited by his size. "There were three different pants, a shirt and a jacket I could choose from," he recalls. "When all the kids from the projects lined up [at school], all the fat kids were wearing the same clothes because there were only three choices.
"I remember thinking: 'Why can't I have what's on that other rack?' My whole life, when I've gone shopping I've wondered why they didn't make that in my size?"
Then, in March of this year, Anderson's manager introduced him to Will Hoover, a 25-year veteran of the apparel industry, whose CV includes a five-year stint with the Cypress-based Vans action sports brand. And the quest for a more stylish big man's shirt began.
"Our research found that when it came to bigger guys, the clothes seemed like simply an afterthought," Hoover said. "Or like they just took pieces out of their main line and just up-sized them," a practice that doesn't necessarily lead to the best or most flattering fit.
So Hoover, who designed the line along with assistant designer Ana Safazada with creative input from Anderson, was determined not to fall into the cliché of the Hawaiian florals and awning stripes that frequently manifest themselves in the larger man's wardrobe.
They started by raiding Anderson's own closet. The comedian pulled a couple of his favorite shirts, including a 10-year-old black Perry Ellis short-sleeve shirt that he says was the starting point for the fit and feel. "Here's what I love about it," Anderson explained later, holding the Perry Ellis shirt aloft, "I like the way it looks, I like the way it hangs on me, it's got these buttons that are very substantial and it's got two [breast] pockets that just sort of disappear."
By late August, sample pieces of the just-completed Louie's Big n' Easy line were hanging on a rolling rack in the back of the Louie Anderson Theater at the Palace Station Casino in Las Vegas. Although the Las Vegas apparel trade shows were in full swing across town, Anderson debuted his full collection to a press audience of one — in the same theater where he makes audiences laugh five nights a week.
It was the first time Anderson had a chance to see the entire collection, and as he looked through the rack of shirts, a proud smile crossed his face and it seemed for a brief moment as if the professional funny man had left the building, trading places with that husky kid from long-ago St. Paul, Minn., who, at long last, has more than three options.
In the debut collection alone he's got 12 different styles, ranging from informal, short-sleeve shirts to dressier silhouettes that would look right under a blazer in a restaurant or, in Anderson's case, onstage.
The most laid-back of the bunch is a short-sleeve shirt in red and blue color-blocked seersucker that would bring the right dash of panache to the backyard barbecue scene (not surprisingly, it's called Texas Barbecue). The dressiest is a long-sleeve silhouette called Baroque, which has a barely noticeable jacquard pattern weave and comes in a variety of colors, including navy blue, mustard yellow and burgundy.
It's the level of detail that makes the line feel like anything but an afterthought. The vertical red-white-and-blue grosgrain ribbon on the breast pocket of one shirt evokes military badging ("Definitely the kind of shirt I'd wear on my yacht — if I had a yacht," Anderson quips). Others are shot through with contrast taping inside shirt cuffs, batik-print side panels and contrast stitching that arcs from rib cage to hip.
"We've taken a few style cues that you don't usually see in a big man's shirt — like this slimming effect," Hoover says, pointing to the contrast stitching.
Anderson's influences on the look of the line are as subtle as the details. Several of the shirts have a distinct Mid-Century Modern vibe to them because Hoover knew Anderson was a fan of the aesthetic. The line's embroidered logo, a bullhead catfish that appears on shirt cuffs, breast pockets and labels, is a reference to Anderson's fond memories of fishing with his father. Another childhood memory manifests itself in a pocket detail found on many of the shirts.
"When I was a kid and my family would go to the service station to fill up with gas, it was always full service," Anderson says. "And gas station attendants always had these really nice shirts with their names on them and that little pocket for the tire gauge. So I thought it would be cool to have a pen pocket inside that reminded me of the tire gauge pocket."
Initially the line is to be offered in sizes L to 6X. Retail accounts for the proposed spring 2013 debut of Louie's Big n' Easy aren't locked in yet, but the hope is that Anderson's name recognition will make the line appealing not only to men's big-and-tall shops but also to big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target. "Which would be great because I really want everybody to have a chance to get the shirts," Anderson said.
That's also, he says, why it was important for the shirts to retail in the $65 to $79 range. "Everybody who already does a big men's shirt has a certain price range," Anderson said. "Robert Graham has a $300 shirt, and Tommy Bahama has a $150 shirt. I come from a background where $150 is a lot of money for a shirt. When I was growing up you could've bought a car for that."


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The preliminary dates for the 2012 course racing and slalom world and continental championships have been published.
As contracts are not finalized yet for some of the events, these dates and locations remain pending until final confirmation and publishing of the Notice of Race. We hope that these preliminary schedule already gives everybody the opportunity to make plans for the year.
Course Racing:
Worlds: Rio de Janeiro (BRA), 08.-14.10.2012
Asians: Pranburi (THA), 13.-18.03.2012
Europeans: Cagliari (ITA), 25.-30.09.2012 (note: the dates for the KTE France event will move)
North Americans: San Francisco (USA), 17.-22.07.2012
Oceanians: Melbourne (AUS), dates to be confirmed - December
Worlds: Sylt (GER), 26.06.-01.07.2012
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Any condition that results in numbness and tingling in the hand and arm caused by a pinched median nerve in the wrist leads to carpel tunnel syndrome. Irritation of the median nerve in this manner causes tingling and numbness of the thumb, index, and the middle fingers.
Symptoms: people mainly experience hand numbness, sensation of pins and needles in hand, hand pain at night, hand weakness/clumsiness (loss of gripping power) or wrist weakness.
Special test:
1. Phalen sign- tingling in the median nerve distribution is induced by full flexion (or full extension for reverse phalen) of the wrists for up to 60 seconds (this test has 80% specificity).
2. The carpal compression test- this test involves applying firm pressure directly over the carpal tunnel, usually with the thumbs, for up to 30 seconds to reproduce symptoms (this test has specificity of 96%).
All special tests are performed by the physical therapist.
Diagnosis: carpel tunnel syndrome is suspectedly based on symptoms, supported by physical examination signs, and confirmed by nerve conduction testing.
Treatment: mild symptoms usually can be treated with home care.
1. Stop activities that cause numbness and pain. Rest your wrist longer between activities.
2. Ice your wrist for 10 to 15 minutes 1 or 2 times a day along with physiotherapy treatment.
3. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) to relieve pain and reduce swelling.
4. Wear a wrist splint at night. This takes pressure off your median nerve.
The sooner you start treatment, the better your chances of stopping symptoms and preventing long-term damage to the nerve.


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Microsoft Surface runs Windows RT in its purest and most vanilla form. Windows 8 doesn't have the capacity for skinning that we've seen on the likes of Android, although we wouldn't put it past some manufacturers to add their own awful overlays.
If you're not familiar with Windows 8, let us give you a quick synopsis. Windows 8 and Windows 7 are essentially identical, except that the Start menu has been axed in favour of a Start screen, a giant colourfully-tiled HTML 5 overlay, through which everything must be run.
You can drop back to the traditional desktop, but without the Start button, you'll find it extremely limited.
The Start-screen menu is a big jump even for the most experienced Windows user, but it doesn't take long to show its worth, and it's clear after a few hours of use that it's intuitive, beautifully designed and solidly built.
The big tiles, which push information such as new emails and news headlines to you, are super touch-friendly, which is perfect for tablets such as Surface, and can be moved around to create a custom mix not only of apps, but also pin contacts, books, movies and more.
The only criticism of the Start screen is Windows 8's appearance of 'my first PC', and power users are the most likely to bemoan its introduction.
The same back end is present, but to access it one must use the search charms from the right-hand corner.
Of course, there are already hacks and workarounds to restore Windows 8 to its normal state, but for touchscreen devices like Surface, this would be a disaster.
A common misconception is that the traditional desktop isn't available in Windows RT, but that's not true; it's accessed via the desktop tile on the Start screen, but its relevance is severely diminished.
As Windows RT can't run traditional programs you need to use the old style Windows Explorer less, but it's still on hand for browsing file systems, USB sticks, organising folders and more.
The 'charm' bar to the right also includes search and share buttons and these are threaded through every part of the OS, from files to settings, to the information held within apps.
Another triumph is the on-screen keyboard, which is large, sensitive and easy to use. It's not as smart as some third-party keyboards on Android, but we typed with two hands quickly and accurately and the extra inch of screen space made it much easier to use than its iOS counterpart.
We had a few problems with the large keyboard panel blocking information we needed, but the icon to show or hide the keyboard is always on hand in the bottom-right corner of the desktop.
As we've already mentioned, performance is a slightly mixed bag. The system is always responsive, with silky smooth transitions and snappy navigation.
However, we found that some apps were slow to load, with lingering splash screens. What's more, 1080p playback was a few frames per second short of perfect.
While we wouldn't say that the Tegra 3 chip performed appallingly, there's certainly no headroom, and it seems to be the graphics core that struggled most.
Multitasking apps never missed a beat, but it was loading the graphically-intensive apps and movies that showed the biggest strain on the processor.
Even some basic games ran at a noticeably low frame rate, so it seems that Windows RT might need some optimisation.


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Transgender B. Scott BET Lawsuit: TV Personality Seeks $2.5 Million After Being 'Forced' Into Men's Clothes
Editorial note: The Christian Post will describe Scott using the male pronoun of he/his because that is how Scott refers to himself in his legal complaint.
Transgender television personality and style correspondent B. Scott has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the parent company of the BET network, arguing that the television network discriminated against him by forcing him to tone down his feminine look at a pre-awards show in June.
Scott, who was born male but has since pronounced his gender identity to be female, is seeking $2.5 million in damages from BET's parent company, Viacom, for discrimination, wrongful termination and emotional distress.
Scott, who was born Brandon Sessoms, argues in the lawsuit that he was hired by the network in June to be the Style Stage Correspondent for the pre-BET Awards 2013 show "106 and Park Pre-Show" in Los Angeles, Calif. During the first segment of the show, Scott reportedly wore a flowing black tunic and black pants. He claims in the lawsuit that midway through the pre-show he was pulled backstage and told to tone down his feminine look, including "mute the makeup, pull back his hair" and remove the women's heels he was wearing.
"They forced him to change into solely men's clothing, different from the androgynous style he's used to, which he was uncomfortable with," the complaint, filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, reads.
Although Scott did comply with the request and wore a blue blazer, loafers and slacks for the second segment of the pre-show, he claims he was still replaced by host Adrienne Balon. In addition to monetary compensation, Scott is also seeking an apology from the BET network for "humiliation."
"Let's be clear - I'm suing BET and Viacom for a true public apology and to be fairly remunerated for the time lost, humiliation and emotional distress this entire situation has put me through," Scott said in a statement regarding the lawsuit.
Although BET and Viacom have yet to respond to the lawsuit, the BET network did issue an apology in July after Scott discussed the incident on his fashion blog, lovebscott.com. In the July blog post, Scott argued that BET made him feel that "something was wrong with who I am as a person."
At the time, BET said the incident was a "miscommunication," telling the Associated Press in a statement that that network "embraces global diversity in all its forms and seeks to maintain an inclusive workforce and a culture that values all perspectives and backgrounds."
"The incident with B. Scott was a singular one with a series of unfortunate miscommunications from both parties. We regret any unintentional offense to B. Scott and anyone within the LGBT community and we seek to continue embracing all gender expressions," the statement added.
Scott wrote on his blog recently that he had attempted to "come to a resolution" with Viacom and BET for the past few weeks, but after an agreement could not be reached he decided to file a lawsuit. "I have been vehemently trying to come to a resolution with BET and Viacom behind the scenes. After a few weeks of back and forth dialogue with no foreseeable resolution, I have filed a lawsuit," Scott wrote.
In the past year, there have been several lawsuits filed on behalf of the transgender community fighting for acceptance and recognition in society.
One case that gained national headlines was that of Coy Mathis, a transgender 6-year-old who identifies as a female in Fountain, Colorado. Mathis' parents filed a complaint with the state's civil rights division after her school district told her she could not use the female bathroom at school, but rather had to use the faculty bathroom or the gender-neutral bathroom in the nurse's office.
The Mathis family won the lawsuit in June, with the Colorado Civil Rights Division ruling that the school district had created an unnecessary situation in which the child could be subject to ridicule and harassment for using a different bathroom than everyone else.
In July, California lawmakers passed a law which would allow transgender students in grades K-12 to use the public restroom of the gender they identified with, as well as play on the sports teams of the gender they identified with.
In another similar case, Bobby Montoya, a 7-year-old male who identifies as a female, was initially barred from joining Colorado's Girl Scouts organization because she was not born male. Although she was initially turned away from the youth organization, the Girl Scouts of Colorado later released a statement saying Bobby would be allowed to join their ranks.
Lastly, a transgender woman in Boston, Mass. won a $20,000 lawsuit against the city in February after police forced her out of a women's restroom at a homeless shelter in the south area of the city and arrested her for disorderly conduct.


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It seems like just an hour or so ago, I was pointing out the number of NBC Thursday-night comedy stars set to play roles in the Hot Tub Time Machine sequel, what with Chevy Chase on board to return and Adam Scott joining the cast. And then comes another exciting piece of casting for the follow-up. Chevy Chase will be joining his (former) Community co-star Gillian Jacobs, who has been cast as the female lead in the movie.
Deadline reported the news this evening, stating that Jacobs has signed on for the female lead in the Steve Pink-directed Hot Tub Time Machine sequel. She joins Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Chevy Chase and Adam Scott. John Cusack will not be back for the sequel.
Beyond noting that she's the female lead, there's no mention of how Jacobs' character will fit into the story. But - as we mentioned earlier - Rob Corddry revealed in an interview that the sequel would have the group traveling ten years into the future, where they encounter Adam Scott's character, who is Adam's (John Cusack's character) son. Perhaps Jacobs will be Scott's love interest, or the offspring of another character (Corddry's?). Regardless of how she fits in, Jacobs is funny and one more great addition to this cast.
We'll see Jacobs back on Community for Season 5 next season. We'll also see her in Steven Brill's comedy Walk of Shame starring Elizabeth Banks. But those who want to see her being funny before then should be following her Twitter. Jacobs is a Vine enthusiast… to put it mildly…


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Saturday night closures are expected later this year and will be announced in advance. In addition to the daily overnight closings, full weekend closures also will be scheduled during 2014.
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Group your games and apps on Xbox One
Watch the video Group your games and apps on Xbox One. Note This video is available in English only.
Remember pins? You still have them, only now they're a group—one of many groups you can create to make your games and apps easier to find.
To see your pins and other groups, press the Xbox button to open the guide, then go to your games and apps. Groups are front and center.
Make a new group. Or select See all for your full list of games and apps, and to see and manage all groups.
Got a bunch of racing games, or space games? Make a group to keep them in one tidy view:
- In Groups, select Create a group.
- Name your group.
- Then pick the games and apps you want to add. You can add more games whenever you want.
Focus on a group, then press the Menu button on your controller for options such as adding that group to Home, renaming it, moving it within your list of groups, and removing it.
Games and apps can each belong to more than one group.
You can also change the order of items in a group:
- Focus on a game or app.
- Press the Menu button , then choose Move.
- Use your controller's D-pad to move the item to a new spot, then press the A button to plant it.
Want to start fresh? Delete your groups. This will remove any groups you've created, without affecting the games or apps that are in those groups.
Just like your original pins, your Pins group and other groups you make stay with your profile, so you'll see them when you sign in on any Xbox One.
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IBM, NetApp get cozier with NAS gateway
IBM has integrated the NAS gateway it rebrands from NetApp with its virtualization software, SVC, a move that's leaving some analysts scratching their heads.
IBM announced new interoperability between its rebranding of Network Appliance Inc.'s (NetApp) V3000 series network attached storage (NAS) gateway products and its own storage area network (SAN) Volume Controller (SVC), which will allow users to attach the gateways to their SVC-virtualized storage pool.
Under this new configuration, according to John Foley, worldwide product marketing manager for the IBM-NetApp alliance, users can attach the gateways to the SVC along with their other servers. The chief advantage of this, Foley said, is that IBM claims the SVC has been certified with 80 different storage boxes on the back end, whereas NetApp has certified its gateways only with IBM and Hitachi Data Systems Inc. (HDS) storage.
"Users can access a massive pool of storage from multiple vendors as if it's a NAS box," Foley said.
But analysts said they're confused by the move, since by definition the NAS gateway already does its own block-level virtualization similar to that of the SVC.
"For existing SVC users, the added connectivity will have some benefit," said Greg Schulz, founder and analyst with the StorageIO Group. "But you still have to manage the NetApp gateway, the SVC gateway and the underlying storage through the SVC. I thought the whole idea of virtualization was reducing complexity."
Schulz said that native NAS virtualization was the only thing the SVC is currently missing. "This is one way to address it," he said. "But I'm not sure it's the best way." Schulz added that in addition to management complexity, this configuration raises concerns about performance.
A more deeply integrated NAS virtualization product, like the one EMC acquired from Rainfinity in August of 2005, would be "a good spot for IBM and NetApp to make some noise, Schulz said.
"Maybe this is a step in that direction," he said. "But layering in NetApp's IP to that extent might start to step on the terms of the partnership."
Relationship deepens, grows trickier
Analysts also pointed out that IBM has so far jealously guarded Fibre Channel (FC) SAN for its own, even in combined deployments -- of which this latest configuration is also an example.
"While there is some overlap in functionality between the gateway from NetApp and the SVC, it is implicit with this announcement that IBM is standing behind its own [product] for block-level virtualization," said Brad Nisbet, program manager, storage systems for IDC.
But the cozier IBM and NetApp get, the more "coopetition" between the two could increase, analysts said.
"There is a very strong possibility that customers will increasingly look to, at least experiment with NetApp's unified storage offerings with both IP and Fibre Channel connectivity," Nisbet added. "In fact, I would not be surprised if this is already happening, and something I'm sure IBM is keeping a close eye on."
And so, the long-standing speculation about an IBM-NetApp merger continues -- this is one example where the two partners remaining separate companies might be hindering their combined products. The partnership is also growing broader by the day. Since IBM and NetApp formed their union in April of last year, IBM has launched more than 100 hardware products, 20 hardware models and 41 software features based on the partnership, according to company officials.
"They keep getting cozier and cozier, and there are always rumblings [about a merge]," Schulz said. "But at the same time, IBM has continued to divest hardware pieces and reinvest in software."
Oracle snaps, FAS3070 also come into the IBM fold
In the same announcement, IBM also declared it is adding NetApp's SnapManager for Oracle, as well as the recently announced FAS3070 array into its product line. FAS3070 will be renamed the N5600 within IBM and will be positioned between IBM's N5500 (NetApp's FAS3050) and N7600 (NetApp's FAS6030) NAS devices, according to IBM.
The swiftness of this new announcement is unprecedented even in the traditionally close IBM-NetApp relationship, analysts noted.
"IBM is accelerating their time to market with the NetApp products -- announcing only nine days after NTAP's [NetApp] announcement of the new FAS3070 and V3070," Nisbet said. "Previous NetApp products were made available by IBM weeks and months after the initial availability by NetApp."


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Incumbent starter Matt Hasselbeck and 2011 first-round pick Jake Locker are rotating first-team quarterback reps evenly at Titans camp. But there are growing indications that the organization is poised to go young. Hasselbeck is entering his age-37 season. Locker was the eighth overall selection in last year's draft, and flashed explosive playmaking ability off the bench in rookie spot appearances.
NFL Network's Mike Lombardi stated on Inside Training Camp Live that he's "learned" Locker is the favorite to start over Hasselbeck. The Titans appear to have decided internally that the power-armed, athletic youngster is ready to start in the NFL after being eased in as a rookie.
Locker, of course, will need to avoid tanking in camp practices and preseason games in order to maintain what is probably still a loose grip on the lead position. But if Locker capitalizes on the promise he displayed as a rookie, Hasselbeck may never play another down as a Titan.


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Prenda Law Showdown Happening Monday: Judge Orders Everyone To Show Up In Court
from the get-yourself-some-popcorn deptOkay... so I was just putting the finishing touches on a blog post about the latest filings from Prenda's Brett Gibbs and his opponent in a series of cases, Morgan Pietz, ahead of the planned hearing on Monday concerning various Prenda Law cases. As in the past, it was full of more attempts by Gibbs/Prenda to tapdance, with more evidence presented by Pietz that Prenda is up to no good (understatement of the year).
And... just as I was getting set to post it, I discover that Judge Otis Wright has had enough of the tap dancing, and has ordered just about everyone to show up in court on Monday for the hearing. And I do mean just about everyone.
John Steele? Yes. Mark Lutz? You bet. Alan Cooper? Oh yeah -- in fact, the judge ordered both Alan Coopers (the one claiming his identity was used by Steele and the one who supposedly "ran" AF Holdings) to show up, to see if there really are two of them. Paul Duffy? Yes. Paul Hansmeier. Yup. Of all the "players" from the latest filings, the only one missing may be "Allan Mooney" or "Alan Mony" or "Alan Moony" depending on which filing you're looking at (more on that below).
I expect that there will now be a flurry of filings with excuses and attempts to get out of appearing. I don't think that's going to work.
And... because I hate to let a perfectly good post go to waste, below is what I had originally written, but which has now been pushed down by this bit of breaking news. Consider everything below some additional background info for the main event coming Monday.
Brett Gibbs, who both is and is not a lawyer working for Prenda Law (depending on which time you ask him), continues his tap dance routine as we get closer to the expected showdown in Judge Otis Wright's courtroom on March 11th, in which sanctions against Gibbs, including the possibility of jail time, will be considered. The latest filing from Gibbs (filed by some lawyers he has hired to help him out), basically attacks nearly every statement in the declaration filed by the opposing lawyer, Morgan Pietz. It's really quite a work of art. First, he tries to get various declarations concerning evidence that Prenda sought to have AT&T identify IP address holders after Judge Wright had already ordered that such discovery stop. Gibbs claims that these declarations are "untimely." Then, pretty much every single statement from Pietz is challenged with a rotating list of claims, including: irrelevant, lacks foundation and/or personal knowledge, hearsay, improper characterization of evidence, assumes facts not in evidence, speculation and argumentative. Basically, nearly every single point that Pietz raises to show improper or questionable conduct by Gibbs and or Prenda should be ignored based on this filing. Given that Judge Wright hasn't exactly been swayed by Gibbs' arguments over the last month or so, I find it unlikely that he's going to be swayed by all of this tap dancing.
Oh, and still no indication of who Alan Cooper is.
However, in the same case, Pietz has also filed another document presenting evidence that suggests that Alan Cooper may not be the only name that was "faked" as a part of all of these lawsuits:
First, there was Alan Cooper. Mr. Gibbs has no real explanation for the Alan Cooper situation, other than to disclaim responsibility and deflect blame for the apparent fraud, etc., to his supposed "supervising" attorneys at Prenda Law, Inc. Unfortunately for Mr. Gibbs, it is his name on the pleadings and "counsel can no longer avoid the sting of Rule 11 sanctions by operating under the guise of a pure heart and empty head." Smith v. Ricks, 31 F.3d 1478, 1488 (9th Cir. 1994). Hopefully, Mr. Cooper himself can address theses issues at the March 11 hearing.Furthermore, Pietz points out, the "rotating case" of characters that Prenda uses, seems to involve constantly switching roles so they can't be pinned down.
Now, there is also "Allan Mooney" a/k/a "Alan Mooney" a/k/a "Alan Mony." Newly discovered facts suggest that Alan Cooper may not be the only person who has had his identity misappropriated by Prenda in connection with its shell companies. Although some details are still hazy, suffice it to say that undersigned counsel (and many others) would very much like to question the real "Allan Mooney" on the record, under oath. Similarly, there is widespread interest in a subpoena to obtain testimony and records from the Minnesota bank that employs the notary who supposedly notarized Mr. Mooney's signature on legal pleadings filed in other jurisdictions. Then, of course, there is also Anthony "Salt Marsh" Saltmarsh. In short, "Alan Cooper" was not a mistake; there appears to be a pattern.
Another pattern with Prenda is that all of the persons involved constantly change hats; who is acting in what capacity seems to fluctuate to suit whatever the instant legal predicament happens to be. Inconsistencies include:Pietz has even spent the time to put together a graphic in which he tries to map out the various characters at play here.
Mr. Gibbs is counsel of record for AF Holdings, LLC (e.g., C.D. Cal. No. 2:12-cv-5709, ECF No. 1) (7/2/12); Mr. Gibbs is "in house counsel" for AF Holdings (N.D. Cal. No. 3:12-cv-4221, ECF No. 22, p. 2) (1/30/13)3; Mr. Gibbs is not in house counsel to AF Holdings, and has never been anything other than AF Holdings' "independent contract attorney" (ECF No. 49, p. 3) (2/19/13). John Steele is "of counsel" to Prenda (Exhibit D) (4/20/12); John Steele is "not an attorney with any law firm" when questioned by Judge Scriven (Exhibit N, p. 135)(11/27/12); John Steele is back to being "of counsel" to Prenda in the St. Clair County Guava case (Supp'l. Dec. 15 (ECF No. 53)) (2/13/13). AF Holdings copyright assignment is executed by Alan Cooper (e.g., C.D. Cal. No. 2:12-cv-5709, ECF No. 1) (12/20/2011); "Salt Marsh" is the "AF Holdings Owner" (Exhibit R) (7/20/12); AF Holdings is owned by a mystery trust, and never had any other members or employees other than its manager Mark Lutz (ECF No. 52, p. 28) (2/19/13, 11:00 a.m.); AF Holdings is owned by Livewire Holdings, LLC (ECF No. 49, fn. 1) (2/19/13, 6:00 p.m.). Guava, LLC files a petition supposedly verified by client "Alan Mony" (ECF No. 51-1) (11/20/12); Prenda confirms "Alan Mony" is the client's name (Exhibit FF, p. 5) (2/12/13); Prenda files new verification, now spelling the purported client's name as "Alan Mooney" (Exhibit GG) (2/21/13); however, the real name of the "client" (who may or may not have agreed to lend his name to Prenda's efforts) is probably "Allan Mooney" (ECF No. 52, pp. 15–16).
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Your UPS is only as reliable as your grounding system.
Without a properly installed grounding system, your UPS won't function correctly. A grounding system allows circuit protection to clear a ground fault, and provides paths for diverting surge current away from the UPS and for removing undesirable currents from the critical load. So what can you do to ensure your grounding system allows your UPS to do its job?
One of the first steps to getting the grounding system right is knowing whether to design for a separately derived system, which depends on the detailed arrangement of the bypass neutral. The NEC defines a separately derived system as "a premises wiring system whose power is derived from a battery, from a solar photovoltaic system, or from a generator, transformer, or converter windings, and that has no direct electrical connection, including a solidly connected grounded circuit conductor, to supply conductors originating in another system." This discussion will focus on the requirements for such a system.
According to 250.30, you must bond the grounded circuit conductor — usually the neutral — at its source to the equipment safety grounding conductor. The grounding circuit conductor must also be bonded to a local grounding electrode conductor that is connected to the nearest grounded building steelwork, metal water pipe, or other effectively grounded man-made grounding electrode. Consult 250.66 when sizing the grounding electrode conductor for a separately derived system for the derived phase conductors. You must also connect the grounded conductor of the derived system to the grounding electrode.
For multi-module systems, connect the separately derived source to a common grounding electrode conductor sized per 250.66. Make connections at an accessible location, using exothermic welding or irreversible compression connectors listed for the purpose.
A multi-module UPS system fed from a 3-phase, 3-wire, grounded wye supply is a separately derived system because the neutral doesn't connect to the output of the UPS modules. In this case, you should isolate the ground and neutral buses, which are located inside the modules, from each other. But you must bond the neutral bus and ground bus in the system cabinet together and connect them to the local grounding point. Typically, the grounding point is a copper bar mounted on insulators in the electrical room and bonded to the local building steelwork.
Whenever you use a delta-connected supply for a UPS system, you must create an artificial neutral. In such cases, a three-resistor network typically provides a logic reference point for the bypass input. Bond the neutral of the UPS output to the local UPS room ground bus. Some UPS modules come equipped with an input isolation transformer, but these don't influence whether you deem the system to be a separately derived source.
For multiple battery cabinets incorporating battery disconnects, the cabinets are bolted together, forming a single lineup with the UPS. The cabinet grounds are inherently connected to the UPS ground bus via the metal chassis. You must connect the supporting racks of a wet-cell installation to the battery disconnect and to the UPS module ground bus. You should connect the racks directly to the local UPS room ground bus only if required by local electrical codes.
Grounding at data centers.
Thanks to the dot.com explosion, data centers have popped up in large numbers throughout the last few years. And despite the subsequent implosion, the continued demand for data centers at banks, financial institutions, and telecommunications facilities means it's still important to know how to ground them. At such facilities, you must ground the complete UPS system, so you'll need to understand a few terms and concepts first.
The exterior ground ring (EGR) is used for lightning protection — particularly for prefabricated concrete buildings — and consists of a 4/0 AWG bare copper ground wire buried in a trench at least 30 in. below grade, with ½-in. copper ground rods driven at least 10 ft below the trench. Ground wells must be located at the four corners of the building with ground rods spaced in between at 10-, 20-, or 30-ft intervals. This ring should be about 2 ft beyond the building drip line; all underground connections must be exothermically welded. Many designers will choose to use the steel structure of a building instead of the EGR. In that case, the main ground bus (MGB) should connect directly to the building steelwork.
The interior perimeter ground loop consists of a 2 AWG bare copper ground wire connected to the signal reference ground (SRG) at every interior ground bar. Metallic parts entering the protected area must bond to this perimeter ground loop. However, this loop isn't always installed around the perimeter of the computer room when the building has a steel structure.
Special considerations apply to raised-floor installations with pedestal-bolted stringer connections. Copper conductors bolted to alternate supporting pedestals constitute the SRG, and you must bond equipment grounds located on the raised floor to the perimeter loop. Be sure to keep grounding straps as short as possible and eliminate loops. You must bond to the SRG junction boxes beneath the raised floor, and PDUs, RPCs, and A/C units. PDUs, ASTS units, and other computer equipment should also be bonded to the nearest interior ground bar using green, insulated 8 AWG grounding wire. Finally, bond UPS cabinets to the nearest interior ground bus, using a green, insulated 2 AWG grounding wire. Installers typically mount the main ground bar (MGB) of a UPS room 24 in. above the finished floor and use zones for best grounding results.
Your UPS will do its job only when it has the right infrastructure to support it. Deciding whether or not your system is separately derived and figuring out how to configure and install the grounding system are determining factors in ensuring the UPS will perform as designed.
Russell is an associate with EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Inc., in Los Angeles.
Sidebar: Getting More From Your UPS
Consider the following guidelines to improve performance of your UPS:
The service entrance ground should be a quality, stable connection to earth with impedance low enough to meet equipment requirements specified by the vendors.
Use a lightning protection system.
Use a two-stage surge arrester scheme (high energy at the service entrance, lower energy in downstream distribution).
Use dedicated feeders and branch circuits, separating noise generators, such as electronic ballast lighting, from noise-sensitive loads.
Use correctly sized equipment-grounding conductors, per 250.122, to reduce ground system impedance.
Locate a separately derived system, such as a PDU isolation transformer, as close to the sensitive load as possible. This minimizes common-mode noise.
Select a low-impedance local grounding electrode, per 250.30, when grounding a separately derived system.
For large data centers with raised floors, install a signal reference grid system (SRG) to create an equipotential ground plane. Connect the SRG to the single-point power distribution unit PDU ground. In the case of multiple PDUs, connect the raised-floor stringer system to each PDU ground. The SRG could be a prefabricated ground grid installed beneath the raised floor, a grid consisting of 2 AWG copper conductors bonded to every other pedestal with special clamp connectors, or bolted stringers bonded to the pedestals.


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The holidays are almost over – a foot soak is in order
We've almost crossed the holiday finish line. No more waiting in lines, fighting crowds or running out at the last minute for more gift wrap. The only thing I plan on doing today is soaking my weary feet. Or getting a massage. Read on


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The data shows one man was released in the Rolling Meadows zip code.
In total, the state corrections department released 1,767 men and women on mandatory supervised release in July, according to records.
Under state law, paroled offenders are still in legal custody of the IDOC, meaning they can be taken back to a correctional center at any time if the state has probable cause or a warrant.
Details about the parolee released in Rolling Meadows zip code 60008 are in the table below.


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In 1712 Nicolaus (I) Bernoulli was also on European travels and he was visiting England. Goldbach met him and also de Moivre in London, and he met Nicolaus (I) Bernoulli again in Oxford. Goldbach was fascinated by mathematics but he did not have much knowledge of the subject. When Bernoulli started to discuss infinite series with Goldbach as they talked in Oxford, Goldbach confessed that he knew nothing about the topic. Bernoulli gave him a loan of a book on the topic by his uncle Jacob Bernoulli but Goldbach found infinite series too difficult at that time, and gave up his attempts to understand Jacob Bernoulli's text.
Goldbach continued his lengthy tour and was in Venice in 1721. Here he met Nicolaus (II) Bernoulli who was also on a tour of European countries. It was at Nicolaus (II) Bernoulli's suggestion that Goldbach began a correspondence with his younger brother Daniel Bernoulli in 1723. The two continued this correspondence for seven years. By 1724 Goldbach was back in his home town of Königsberg and there he met two people who would change his life, namely Georg Bernhard Bilfinger and Jakob Hermann. Bilfinger was a German philosopher, mathematician, and statesman, who had been professor of moral philosophy and mathematics at Tübingen but had just been sacked over a charge of atheism. The charge arose through his association with the philosopher Christian Wolff, who had then helped arrange that Bilfinger should be involved in setting up the Imperial Academy of Sciences (later called the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences) which was to be organised (at Leibniz's suggestion) along the lines of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He was on his way to St Petersburg when he met Goldbach, and Jakob Hermann was also on his way to take part of this new exciting venture.
When he was in Riga in July 1725, Goldbach wrote to L L Blumentrost, the President elect of the proposed new Academy, asking for a position there. After an initial rejection, Goldbach was offered the positions of professor of mathematics and historian at St Petersburg. One may wonder how Goldbach was offered such an important position. In fact his record as a mathematician was by this time rather better than the picture we painted above. We mentioned that Goldbach gave up his attempts to understand infinite series in 1712. However in 1717 he read an article by Leibniz on computing the area of a circle and this led him to look again at the theory of infinite series. Goldbach published Specimen methodi ad summas serierum Ⓣ in Acta eruditorum in 1720. In 1724 he published another paper and earlier he had a couple of other works published. He was, therefore, an established mathematician although it has to be said that his papers do not add a great deal to mathematical knowledge.
Goldbach was recording secretary for the opening ceremony of the Academy which was held on 27 December 1725, and continued to act in this role until January 1728. To understand how Goldbach's life progressed in Russia we need to look briefly at the political events which were taking place there. Peter I the Great ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725. He and his wife Catherine were the driving force behind setting up the Academy and it was set up in St Petersburg because that was the Russian capital at this time. After Peter the Great died, his wife Catherine ruled from St Petersburg from 1725 to 1727. Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov had been an advisor to Peter the Great but had fallen out of favour towards the end of his reign. However, he was close to Catherine and succeeded in having her named empress in 1725. Menshikov was then the effective ruler and on Catherine's death in 1727 he continued to be the ruler becoming regent to Peter II, who was eleven years old when he came to the throne. This lasted only a few months before Peter II turned against Menshikov, and asked the Dolgoruky family to assist him. Menshikov was arrested in September 1727, and sent to Siberia. The Dolgoruky family arranged for a new tutor for the young Peter II to take over from the one appointed by Menshikov. Goldbach was appointed to the position and he moved to Moscow when Peter moved the court there in January 1728. Euler had arrived in St Petersburg on 17 May 1727 and after Goldbach moved to Moscow he began a correspondence with Euler in 1729. This important correspondence, which continued for around 35 years, is discussed below.
Peter II died of smallpox in January 1730 and Anna Ivanovna became empress of Russia. Goldbach was no longer required as a tutor, but he continued to serve Anna. In 1732 Anna moved the court back to St Petersburg and Goldbach returned there and again became active in the Academy as well as being heavily involved with the Russian government. He was appointed as corresponding secretary to the Academy in 1732 and then in 1737 he became one of two people responsible for the administration of the Academy (the other was J D Schuhmacher). Goldbach's problem, however, was that as well as being heavily involved with the administration of the Academy, he was also rising to more responsible roles in the government of Russia. Anna Ivanovna died in 1740, having named Ivan, the son of her niece Anna Leopoldovna, as her successor with his mother as regent. Ivan was only a few weeks old when he became emperor, but in the following year, Elizabeth, the daughter of Emperor Peter I the Great, was able to remove Ivan and his mother and she then ruled Russia for the next 20 years. It is worth noting that the various political moves which replaced one Russian ruler by another always were accompanied by a purge of officials. Goldbach, however, seemed able to continue to hold positions of high influence despite the changes at the top. Goldbach had [1]:-
... a superb command of Latin style and equal fluency in German and French. Goldbach's polished manners and cosmopolitan circle of friends and acquaintances assured his success in an elite society struggling to emulate its western neighbours.In 1740 Goldbach requested that his duties at the Academy be reduced, and when he was appointed to a senior position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he ceased all his work for the Academy. He continued to raise in status with large increases in salary and he received lands. In 1760 he became a privy councillor, and was asked to lay down guidance for the education of royal children. The guidelines Goldbach drew up became the accepted practice for the next 100 years.
Goldbach did important work in number theory, much of it in correspondence with Euler. He is best remembered for his conjecture, made in 1742 in a letter to Euler (and still an open question), that every even integer greater than 2 can be represented as the sum of two primes. It has been checked by computer for numbers up to at least 4 × 1014. Goldbach also conjectured that every odd number is the sum of three primes. Vinogradov made progress on this second conjecture in 1937. Also in the Euler-Goldbach correspondence, described in [3] (see also [6], [7], [8], [11], [14]) they discuss Fermat numbers, Mersenne numbers, perfect numbers, the representation of natural numbers as a sum of four squares, Waring's problem (which Euler solved before Waring), polynomials representing numerous primes, Fermat's Last Theorem, and the representation of any odd numbers in the form 2n2 + p where p is prime.
The last conjecture was made by Goldbach in a letter written to Euler on 18 November 1752. Euler replied on 16 December, saying he had checked Goldbach's conjecture up to 1000. In a letter of 3 April 1753, Euler reported to Goldbach that he had checked it up to 2500. In fact the conjecture is false. In 1856 Moritz A Stern, a professor of mathematics at Göttingen, found two numbers which could not be written as twice a square plus a prime, namely 5777 and 5993. No other examples of numbers failing to satisfy this conjecture of Goldbach seem to be known. It is interesting to ponder that Goldbach could, with some hard work, have tested this conjecture to 2500 as Euler did. However he did seemed to treat mathematics as a recreation, rather than a one where hard effort should be employed. Again, however, we should note his remarkable mathematical intuition [1]:-
The correspondence with Euler as a whole marks Goldbach as one of the few men of his day who understood the implications of Fermat's new approach to the subject.Although Goldbach published a number of works other than the ones we have mentioned above, it is the insight which he showed in his letters which have proved by far his most important mathematical contribution. We should, however, mention his another two of his papers on infinite series De transformatione serierum Ⓣ (1729) and De terminis generalibus serierum Ⓣ (1732). The first of these introduced a method of transforming one series into another while the sum of the series remains fixed. The second extends the work begun in his 1720 paper mentioned above. He also studied equations and worked out in his correspondence with Euler how to provide a quick test for whether an algebraic equation has a rational root.
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Number of Millionaires Surges in Asia
Despite the slow global economy, the number and wealth of high-net-worth individuals grew 9.2 % in 2012 – led by growth in Asia. The WSJ's Michael Arnold speaks with Simon Ng from RBC Wealth Management about why the number of millionaires is growing so fast in Asia.
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Haitian Renaissance: Youth Paint a New Country
"Everyone expects there to be a new problem daily in Haiti. I can't concentrate on problems each day," said Roseanne Auguste, coordinator of a youth art program in the sprawling, under-resourced Port-au-Prince section of Carrefour-Feuilles. The program is run through the community clinic Association for the Promotion of Family Integrated Health (APROSIFA).
Roseanne swept her hand across hundreds of paintings and drawings waiting to be packed up for an upcoming art show. "And people come and say Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. I hate to hear that. There's so much richness in this country."
Roseanne, who is director of APROSIFA as well as a nurse and community organizer, held up one painting. It featured two hands nurturing a brilliantly colored woman's head; the hands seemed to be helping the woman open her mouth. "They're envisioning all this despite the earthquake," Roseanne said.
"These kids hear about violence every day," Roseanne said. "We have to concentrate on what another country could be. That's what interests me. If we had cultural centers in each shantytown, imagine what we could do. Culture and citizenship… if youth came and talked about this every day, found different ways to express their views on the matters, we could have a different country."
"Other countries want to control us, giving us a little money for elections, a little money for development, while keeping the country as it is. But if we really had the chance to do for ourselves, if we had the means, you'd see what we could do."
APROSIFA's youth art program began in 2009 in a couple of cement-block rooms in the back of the clinic. A few professional artists donated their time to teach. Today, 68 youth from ages 8 to early 20s are painting and sculpting. A few of the youth who began learning two years ago are now teaching the others.
The artwork represents the daily stuff of Haitian life, like forms of labor, scenes inside village huts, vodou imagery, and landscapes. The work also features historical heroes, maps of Haiti, and Escher-like clocks ticking away the country's past.
Why I Have Hope for Haiti
When people ask me, as they do all the time, "Is there any cause for hope in Haiti?" I answer yes.
When the young painters have canvas and paints, the images are bold, the colors brilliant. Often they have only sheets of typing paper and a pencil or a Bic pen. APROSIFA raises money to subsidize the supplies. "We give them string to fish with," Roseanne said.
In late January, APROSIFA sponsored the Haitian Renaissance show at a hotel in downtown Port-au-Prince. On opening night, hundreds of people—journalists, artists, advocates for women, dignitaries, and especially youth from Carrefour-Feuilles—squeezed into several rooms whose walls were covered with art. The theme of the art was the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979 and took effect in 1981. Haiti ratified the convention in 1981 (unlike the U.S., which never has), though it has never been applied. Roseanne had given copies of the document to the young artists and had asked them to express their opinions creatively.
One youth whose work was featured is 22-year-old Islande Henry. She spoke in front of one of her paintings, of two women talking in front of their home, inspired by Article 16 of CEDAW, which protects women and children's rights in family relations. Islande said, "To me, CEDAW is a beautiful thing. It speaks to the restavèk [child slavery] system and how those kids have no rights. It speaks to violence against women, and how women are mistreated in society, and how there are so many things they can't do from serving in Parliament to playing ball.
"Our artwork says, 'No! Women can do anything. Women must have access to everything this society offers.'"
Art and Upheaval:
Artists on the world's front lines.
Islande said, "I have a lot of capacity and I always knew I could paint, but I didn't have any support. You know, sometimes your family can't really step up and help with resources. But I found APROSIFA in 1999. I feel proud as a woman to sit with a canvas, with all my pride, and create paintings. We young artists come with our imagination, our inspiration, our understandings. We can paint anything."
"What I've gotten from APROSIFA, I want to pass along to other youth so this country can have another future." When asked what her hope is, Islande replied, "My hope is that I can be a great painter so the entire world can know my work and can know that Haitians need solidarity, unity, patience, love, and peace. I have a lot of hope for that."
Beverly Bell remembers Magalie Marcelin, a leader of Haiti's movement for women's rights, who was killed during the earthquake.
International aid has increased Haiti's food dependency and undermined its democracy. How can the world help Haiti recover without repeating past mistakes?
In Haiti, sharing communities are proving more shock-proof in the wake of disaster than market-based economies.