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Enhanced Water – Alkalinity is IN
By Ray Latif
For many consumers, the word alkaline conjures up that old advertising campaign for Energizer batteries – remember the small mechanical bunny rabbit, batteries attached to its back, marching and pounding away at a bass drum? It kept going and going and going… It was the alkaline content in the batteries that Energizer attributed to the everlasting power of the toy rabbit, and today, some beverage marketers are claiming that alkaline-infused water will help humans keep going and going as well.
Also referred to as "high pH" waters, alkaline waters come under the umbrella of the "Alkaline Diet" movement, one based on the theory that consumption of foods and beverages that have a low acid content – meaning a higher pH level – can neutralize acid in the bloodstream, boost metabolism and help individuals absorb nutrients more effectively.
Alkaline waters are made by adding minerals such as silica, calcium, bicarbonate, magnesium and potassium to purified water, which has an average pH level of 7. The minerals ionize the water by increasing the presence of electrons, which raises its alkalinity and pH level to 8-10. While most alkaline waters are produced in this way, there are some natural sources of high alkaline water often derived from deep underground sources. Additionally, alkaline water is sometimes used interchangeably with the term electrolyzed water. The creation of electrolyzed water involves the addition of a small amount of dissolved sodium chloride to water and then exposing the liquid to low-voltage electric current, reducing its electro-negativity.
Over the past few years, the alkaline water category, which has its roots in home-based water filtration and pH –boosting systems, has taken a small, but significant, foothold among fitness enthusiasts and consumers within the natural channel, particularly in Southern California. The region is an epicenter for new and evolving health and wellness trends, and a key area for beverage incubation and the development of natural beverage categories. Just as it has been the launching pad for high pressure processed (HPP) juices, kombucha, and coconut water, alkaline water companies are leaning on the Los Angeles as a springboard for national expansion.
Yet the alkaline water segment faces a number of challenging issues, the most pressing of which appears to be consumer education. Despite an iPhone world of instantaneous knowledge, communicating the benefits of alkaline waters can be a clunky and confusing task, and manufacturers often rely on extensive narratives about the science behind alkaline waters, many of which have been denounced by doctors and other health experts as spineless and without merit. The concerns beg the question: are alkaline waters a legitimate contender or simply another trendy flash in the pan?
It remains to be seen, but for certain, the category is benefitting from a confluence of continuing health and wellness trends. Arthur Flores, the co-founder and president of L.A. Distributing Co., which specializes in New Age and entrepreneurial beverage brands, said that the emergence of alkaline waters comes as consumers are increasingly seeking greater benefits from bottled water in the form of functionality and flavor, while at the same time growing more sensitive about sugar and caloric content.
"People want [more] in their water now; they don't want plain water," Flores said. "The question is, how close can you get to water without it being just water?"
Indeed, it is a question that has plagued beverage marketers in recent years, and considering the clutter of new low-calorie and functional products, it's easy for consumers to find themselves lost, or worse, disillusioned. Yet in the midst of a deluge of information about new natural trends and products, Flores said that most alkaline waters are quietly benefitting from word of mouth marketing and positive coverage of the category in health and fitness magazines. He noted that the consumers of the drinks are often individuals who are more conscious and knowledgeable about healthier lifestyles and that alkaline water companies are cultivating that demographic as their initial base of influencers.
However, Flores noted that regardless of consumer education, alkaline waters are becoming more competitive among premium water brands from a price standpoint. The perceived sophistication of consuming a trendy water brand, while at a relatively affordable cost, is a powerful draw, Flores said. Alkaline brands are often $0.50-$1 less than their premium water counterparts, and Flores believes that the category will place even greater pressure on brands like Fiji and Evian, both of which have suffered from sluggish sales in recent years.
One of the brands hoping to gain from a shift in premium water sales is AQUAhydrate, which recent underwent an extensive rebranding initiative. In preparation for the changing landscape, the company has refocused its attention away from a narrow set of elite athletes to "a broader swath of active, health-conscious consumers." Now boasting a range of clinical trials that showcase not only the water's high alkalinity, but also its electrolyte and mineral content, AQUAhydrate has adopted the tagline of "Hydrate, Balance, Perform" and plans to utilize its cadre of well-known investors, including Mark Wahlberg, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, and grocery magnate Ron Burkle to promote the product and its benefits.
With a new management team led by former Pabst Blue Ribbon and Fiji Water chief John Cochran, AQUAhydrate's relaunch is beginning at the local level through smaller retailers and a heavy dose of field marketing. While Cochran told BevNET that AQUAhydrate was not ready for nationwide distribution or "monster retailers," he said that the brand is currently distributed throughout major regions of influence including Southern California and New York, and plans to have most of the Midwest covered in the coming weeks. Cochran also stated that AQUAhydrate would attempt to penetrate markets in Florida and Texas over the next few months, possibly around the same time the company launches a new line extension of lightly sweetened, flavored waters.
Similar to the package of benefits promoted by AQUAhydrate, NEO Water offers a trifecta of electrolytes, minerals and alkalinity, but focuses most of its branding efforts on its alkalinity and 9.5 pH level, which, along with Essentia Water and Alkazone (both claiming a 9.5 pH level), is one of the highest in the category. Unlike competitors, however, NEO guarantees its pH level as stable for two years, a unique point of differentiation that NEO founder and CEO Ben Behrouzi said is a clear and fundamental benefit for his company's consumer base.
"There's a lot of alkaline companies out there that claim to have high pH's, but the level is not stable, meaning that they'll bottle at a 9.5 pH, but it won't be 9.5 pH after 30 days." Behrouzi said. "Ours is guaranteed two years 9.5 pH. A lot of the consumers that are buying alkaline water are folks that are at the core of this education and understanding."
Despite claims to promote healthy living and lifestyles, there is an undercurrent of discontent among some in beverage industry who counter that because the alkaline content in most pH waters is infused – as opposed to a natural component of the water – the category has created a culture of inaccuracy and falsehood that will eventually lead to its downfall.
Karim Mashouf is one of the individuals sounding the horn for reform and greater transparency. Mashouf is the founder and CEO of Eternal Beverages, a Northern California-based company that markets a line of naturally high alkaline spring waters derived from sources in New Zealand and the U.S. Mashouf cautions that as consumers become aware that that the majority of products in the segment are artificially infused with alkaline, consumers will begin to shun the category.
"We'll find out that the majority of the category is a gimmick," Mashouf said. "There is a major difference between people that are manufacturing [alkaline water] and a natural alkaline source. For instance, watermelon is naturally alkaline; it has a high pH. It's very different than pumping a bunch of food grade minerals and salts into filtered tap water."
Concerned about the appearance of what he calls the "pH Wars," Mashouf has attempted to disassociate Eternal from the alkaline water category. Moreover, Mashouf believes that because the pH level in food and beverages is inherently variable, alkaline water companies should be wary of including any pH number as part of their labeling – especially since that could raise the ire of government regulators.
"We happen to be naturally alkaline, that is something we promote to our consumers, but this is not an 'alkaline water.'" Mashouf said. It's a premium artisanal water. I'm not going to put us in an alkaline category and get into the pH wars, where 'my pH is bigger than your pH,' because that's not a war anybody's going to win. There will always be someone that can manufacture a higher pH. [Companies] are putting out numbers and getting into a marketing scheme… promising a pH level on a label and on the front of a bottle. I don't put a number on my bottle, because you cannot physically control the outcome of pH. It's virtually impossible. And I don't think the FDA is put up with this much longer."
Danny Stepper, the co-founder of brand incubator L.A. Libations, shares a similar opinion. Stepper, whose company represents Evian on the West Coast, wondered about the long-term viability of a health and wellness-focused category filled with what he called "unnatural" waters.
"I do think it's ironic that with the all the other trends of natural going on, there are these more unnatural waters where people are injecting things like electrolytes and other things into them," Stepper said. "Eventually the consumer will probably figure that out, but right now they haven't."


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The Special Investigation Division (SID) has accused Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) of calling former minister of justice Tseng Yung-fu (曾勇夫) and "lobbying" him. The news sent shockwaves through the country and the nation's political world reeled.
Immediately, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) announced his shock and horror at the allegations and the next day he issued a public statement ordering Wang to return immediately from his trip abroad to explain himself.
Shortly after, the Presidential Office called a press conference in which Ma spoke — with rarely heard gravity — about how Taiwan was on a dangerous course, and how that day was "the most shameful day in the development of democracy and the rule of law in Taiwan."
He roundly criticized his Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) colleague Wang, saying: "Each one of us needs to ask ourselves, if this is not lobbying, then what is? If powerful people can lobby and influence the judiciary, how can ordinary people be assured of judicial justice?"
People are incensed when powerful figures try to influence the judiciary. However, the case against Wang is based on inferences made from conversations obtained through surveillance and hasty conclusions. The case will be viewed differently in the political realm than in a legal setting.
If Ma believes Wang's telephone conversations constitute improper lobbying, perhaps he is being hypocritical.
On Nov. 5, 2010, Taipei District Court Judge Chou Chan-chun (周占春) declared former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) not guilty of the charges against him in connection with the second financial reform.
Two days later, Ma — in his capacity as president — openly discussed the case, criticizing the not-guilty verdict in the strongest of terms. He said: "The judiciary should be independent, but it cannot be isolated, neither can it shy away from the reasonable expectations that the public has of it."
On Nov. 9, he held a banquet at the Presidential Office, to which he invited the premier, the vice premier, the legislative speaker, the deputy speaker, the president and vice president of the Judicial Yuan, the secretaries-general of those institutions, the minister of justice and the prosecutor-general. During the dinner he said: "Respecting the law does not equate to ignoring the disappointment and anger the general public feels about the judges that deliver verdicts that fail to meet the reasonable expectations the people have of them. I have heard what people have had to say, and I have taken note."
On that occasion Ma announced that the SID had already decided to appeal the verdict on the second financial reform case.
Then on Nov. 11, the Supreme Court convicted Chen — in a move unprecedented for such a complex and highly contentious case — sending the former president, who had already been detained for a long time, to jail.
Perhaps this is what Ma meant when he talked of meeting the public's reasonable expectations. Shockingly, the court did not announce its verdict in full until a month later.
Is this sequence of events an example of "powerful people" lobbying and influencing the judiciary? Does Ma think that inviting senior members of the judiciary to a dinner and commenting on individual cases could be considered "political guidance"? Were these actions flagrant lobbying of the Supreme Court in order to see his political enemy put behind bars?


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern women's basketball team won big at home Monday evening, defeating Oakwood University 90-49 in Bill Battle Coliseum to move to 2-4 on the season.
With the exception of the first minute of the game, BSC led the entire time. The Lady Ambassadors opened the game with a three-pointer by Courtney White, and the Panthers proceeded to score 19 straight points to pull ahead 19-3 by the 13:01 mark. BSC maintained a comfortable lead for the rest of the game, leading 47-21 at the half and going up by as much as 44, 84-40, with 4:02 left in the game before winning by 41.
Senior Erin Moore led the Panthers with 15 points on 5-6 shooting, followed by senior Alex Adams with 13 points and senior Melanie Short with 11 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. Freshman Amber Cardwell also had 10 points off the bench, and freshman Kelsey Brown led with six assists.
For Oakwood, White led with 13 points and six rebounds, and Christy Harris added 10 points.
BSC shot a season-high .519 (28-54) from the field and was .364 (4-11) from three-point range. The Panthers were .732 (30-41) from the free throw line.
Oakwood shot .267 (16-60) overall, .158 (3-19) from beyond the arc, and .737 (14-19) from the line.
BSC out-rebounded the Ambassadors 44-34 and committed a season-low 16 turnovers to Oakwood's 20.
The Panthers are back in action at home tomorrow night, facing undefeated Auburn-Montgomery at 6 p.m. in Bill Battle Coliseum.


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Just a simple group for all those atheist folks in Oregon.
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Poor Morayo! I'm sorry- I know how you feel... Hang in there my friend.
Well, looks like I'm the only Southern Oregonian here!
Howdy y'all. I'm in Portlandia.
I personally know quite a few atheist in Oregon too... I'm not always sure the various statistics are accurate. I wonder if it has something to do with the wording of the questions they use.
I personally know more than 12 atheists in Oregon.. how is it possible that our group is so small?
@Troy C - Welcome to Oregon!
We may have just met another couple up here in Vancouver. We've had such slow luck finding religion-free families to pal with. We're picking blueberries with them tomorrow. Wish us luck with them. :)
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LCM's Comprehensive Breast Health Center was recently awarded a three-year/full accreditation designation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a program administered by the American College of Surgeons. Accreditation by the NAPBC is only given to a select few centers across the country that have voluntarily committed to provide the highest level of quality breast care, and that undergo a rigorous evaluation process and review of their performance.
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cdunde1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 7 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
I will need a crazy looking football player with a crazed look on his face with some text
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This logo/header will be for a NFL Football fansite that I am creating. The colors of the Steelers are black and gold. The logo and text need to be hard and tough looking to go along with the toughness of the football team.
The logo will be a big, mean, tough, & crazy looking football player wearing gold pants, black cleats, black jersey, black helmet but the helmet is optional because the player may look better without a helmet. The pant, helmet, and jersey will be solid colors with no logos or lettering.
The football player's face is important because it needs to have a crazed and angry looking expression to go along with the site's name.
This football team has 3 other teams in it's division and I think it would be great to incorporate those 3 teams into the logo.
The 3 teams have the following mascots, a bengal cat, a raven bird, and a bulldog. What if the crazed football player was wearing a necklace adorned with the shrunken heads of these 3 mascots?
Another idea was that the crazed football player could be stepping on 2 of the mascots while choking the 3rd?
The text for the logo will be "Steeler Maniacs"
I am open to all creative suggesttions.
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Management of AUD will require some permanent changes in your life. These strategies may be combined with other aspects of treatment:
- Identify potential relapse triggers and develop coping strategies for difficult situations that pop up at work or home
- Avoid reaching for a drink when stressed or upset. Learn stress reduction or relaxation techniques. Consider starting a regular exercise program.
- Tell friends and family about your intentions. They can help you with your goals.
- Find ways to socialize without alcohol.
- Avoid going to bars or other places associated with drinking.
- Keep alcohol out of the home or office.
- Make new, nondrinking friends.
- Do fun things that do not involve alcohol.
- Continue attending support groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous.
- Eat a healthful diet.
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Students learn dangers of 'sexting'
Parents have an ongoing battle to keep their kids safe with technology, and that is why one area school took action to teach its students the dangers of sexting.
Platteview Central Junior High School held a sexting seminar Wednesday to get the message across that just because a photo may be deleted; it doesn't mean it is gone.
"When you're dealing with 12-to 14-year-olds, they don't understand the magnitude of one choice," said Principal Darin Johnson.
The speakers of the seminar were direct and honest to the students, saying the conversation between two devices is never private.
-- Video: Students get the startling truth of where their messages can end up
"You take a picture of your privates and that is creating child pornography. It's a felony to possess child pornography, plain and simple," said the speakers.
KETV NewsWatch 7's Rob McCartney offered advice he gave his own kids.
"It's a good rule of thumb, if you don't want to talk about it in front of your folks, you shouldn't put it out there," McCartney said.
The speakers told parents the sound of their child's phone should be an alert to them.
"Be involved. If they have a Facebook page, get a Facebook page. There is no such thing as a right to privacy (for children)," the speakers said.
The speakers also told parents they should know their kids' passwords.
Superintendent Brett Richards said the education process is ongoing, and he will have more assemblies, more advice and more ways parents can keep their kids safe.
"We're embracing technology now and social media, and we want to educate parents and kids on the safest ways to use those," Richards said.


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Abstract: The economic life, customs and importance of 1794 Middletown, Del-aware are interpreted from the accounting ledgers of a general store and a blacksmith shop.
A customers ledger covering the period 1794 to 1801 presents a picture of economic life at the turn of the century in an east-ern U.S. village. The ledger, now in the possession of Mr. H. F. Green, proprietor of St. Augustine's Oldest Store Museum, was found by his mother 75 years ago in Smyrna, Delaware. The first two-thirds of this ledger contains the customers' accounts of 1794 to 1796 for a general store operated by Reynolds and Clark, Merchants. The last third contains the 1799 to 1801 accounts of John Reynolds and Com-pany, a blacksmith shop. John Reynolds, Esq. was an enterprising man; he was an attorney, a partner in the general store, owner of a blacksmith shop, operated a charcoal kiln and was an early banker for many of the local citizens. The ledger contains no direct infor-mation locating the two enterprises but Reynolds was on the tax list of Appoquinimink Hundred (township) which included Middletown. This and transaction references such as "to cash per Middletown day book" place the store in Middletown, Delaware. The location of the blacksmith shop could not be determined but probably was in a nearby but different village from the store because only 19 of the 95 customers of the blacksmith shop were among the 125 customers of the store.
Middletown, Delaware
Middletown is located 22 miles south of Wilmington and approxi-mately 50 miles from Philadelphia. (Fig.1) By 1799 a stage coach line, carrying the mail, made daily runs from Dover through Middle-town and Wilmington to Philadelphia.1 The first U.S. census (1781)
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chris needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 25 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Webpage design and layout, including all design elements and original, fully editable files. Simple and clean is what we want. Web 2.0. It sounds trite, but for inspiration think of companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon, products like Macs, iPods, and iPhones. Design brief and image files are in the .zip file. PASSWORD TO OPEN THE PDFs = p2w3
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one of many you can find online). This
project, and our logos and design brief, are confidential, please do not share
or use them for any purpose other than to enter this contest. Thank you.
PASSWORD TO OPEN THE PDFs = p2w3
Also included in the Zip is a
quickie concept/sketch I did in Photoshop.
If/when you look at that mockup, realize it is a hack I did in 10
minutes and I am not a designer. The
proportions are wrong, the dark color blue is wrong, a lot of things are
wrong. But it might give you some ideas. If
not, just trash it. The only
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you see in the mockup). Also will probably
will use one or two gradients. Rounded
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Michael Tierney, the executive vice president of personal financial services at Troy-based Flagstar Bank, told his team today that he is resigning from the bank effective at the end of the month.
"We've had a good run here. We did a great job of turning the bank around, and it's been a highlight of my career," Tierney told Crain's.
"It's time for me to take a good, long look at what I want to do next. I have some opportunities in front of me. I want to pursue them, but I don't want to pursue them too fast," he said.
Tierney replaced Joseph Campanelli as president and CEO of both the bank and its holding company, Flagstar Bancorp Inc., in October 2012.
Campanelli had been brought in to turn the bank around in September 2009 by its biggest investors, New York-based MatlinPatterson Thrift Investments LP. In February 2011, he hired Tierney to head up Michigan operations and jumpstart Flagstar's commercial lending operations.
Last May, Alessandro DiNello replaced Tierney in the top positions.
"Sandro is a great guy. I couldn't have asked for better people to work with," said Tierney, who is 58. "It's just time to think of what I want to do next."
Tierney spent 28 years at Comerica Bank in a variety of roles.
From 2006-2010 he was president and CEO of Madison Heights-based Peoples State Bank and its holding company, PSB Group Inc. The bank was then beginning to have serious trouble in its commercial loan portfolio and would be shut down by state and federal regulators in February 2011.
But Tierney avoided much of that downward spiral. In March 2010, he resigned from the bank to become president and CEO of Bluewater Bank Group, which was formed to try to buy struggling Citizens First Bank in Port Huron.
But his group lost out to First Michigan Bank of Troy, which used Citizens as a springboard to become one of the fastest-growing banks in the U.S., operating now as Talmer Bank and Trust.
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Mark: Meditations on the Gospel of Mark
Available on backorder
Mark: Meditations on the Gospel of Mark
Adrienne Von Speyr
"These meditations on the Gospel of Mark, with the exception of the second part on the Passion, were given by Adrienne von Speyr between 1945 and 1958 to members of the Community of St. John, which she founded with the renowned theologian, Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar. Adrienne is speaking to young adults who have decided to live the state of the evangelical counsels in a secular profession, as part of a recently established secular institute. Nevertheless this contemplative commentary can be very useful for all who seek to meditate on Holy Scripture.
As always, Adrienne here draws from the abundance of her own contemplation which keeps continually in view the harmonious unity of Christian dogmatic truth; she gives to others what has been offered to her in contemplation, without exegetical notes or any attempt at scholarship. Since she is speaking to novices, the train of thought is simple and practical, yet rich in depth.
The points for meditation are not primarily for spiritual reading, but an introduction to personal prayer. They are meant only to point out a path, because it is the Holy Spirit who directs contemplative prayer in all liberty. As one reads through this book, he will find in it a kind of synthesis of Adrienne von Speyr's spirituality.
This work will also be very useful to preachers, catechists, pastors, communities and institutes who have understood with Pope Benedict XVI that ""It is time to reaffirm the importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable work.""
Adrienne von Speyr (1902-1967) was a Swiss medical doctor, convert to Catholicism, a mystic, wife and author of over 60 books on spirituality and theology. She collaborated closely with the renowned theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar, her confessor for 27 years, and they co-founded the Community of Saint John. Her numerous writings, published by Ignatius Press, are recognized by leading theologians and writers as a major contribution to the mystical and spiritual writings of the Church. Among her most important works are Book of All Saints, Confession, The World of Prayer, Handmaid of the Lord, and The Passion from Within.
""These concrete and profound meditations have the potential to open the reader's ears to hear the living voice of God's Word resounding in the pages of Mark's Gospel. Adrienne von Speyr does not offer information, or scholarly commentary, but help in prayerfully receiving the presence of Christ himself. In Adrienne's hands, Scripture becomes a school of prayer: she leads us to Mark, Mark leads us to Christ, and Christ leads us to the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit.""
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|The Salt Lake Assembly Hall cruciform layout is complemented by Stars of David circumscribed high above each entrance. These symbolize an LDS perception that they are a re-gathering of Biblical Tribes of Israel.
In order to understand Mitt Romney's love of Israel, money and power, it may help to look into the historical relationship between Jews and Mormons.
Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection {PDF}
Through his associations with ceremonial magic as a young treasure seer, Smith contacted symbols and lore taken directly from Kabbalah. In his prophetic translation of sacred writ, his hermeneutic method was in nature Kabbalistic. With his initiation into Masonry, he entered a tradition born of the Hermetic-Kabbalistic tradition. These associations culminated in Nauvoo, the period of his most important doctrinal and ritual innovations. During these last years, he enjoyed friendship with a European Jew well-versed in the standard Kabbalistic works and possibly possessing in Nauvoo an extraordinary collection of Kabbalistic books and manuscripts. By 1844 Smith not only was cognizant of Kabbalah, but enlisted theosophic concepts taken directly from its principal text in his most important doctrinal sermon, the "King Follett Discourse."
Smith's concepts of God's plurality, his vision of God as anthropos, and his possession by the issue of sacred marriage, all might have been cross-fertilized by this intercourse with Kabbalistic theosophy--an occult relationship climaxing in Nauvoo. This is a complex thesis; its understanding requires exploration of an occult religious tradition spanning more that a millennium of Western history, an investigation that begins naturally with Kabbalah.
Mormons and Jews {PDF}
Over a century before other churches began to rethink traditional Christian (mis-) understandings of Jews and Judaism, LDS leaders not only saw Judaism in a positive light, they even sent a mission to Palestine to bless the land that it might receive the Jewish people back.
The Book of Mormon {PDF}
Joseph Smith in his Book of Mormon had plenty to say about Jews, not all of it favorable, but did speak of the restoration of Israel which could explain much of the Mormon support for the illicit state.
And it came to pass that I, Nephi, spake much unto them concerning these things; yea, I spake unto them concerning the restoration of the Jews in the latter days.
And I did rehearse unto them the words of Isaiah, who spake concerning the restoration of the Jews, or of the house of Israel; and after they were restored they should no more be confounded, neither should they be scattered again.
Zionists and Mormon politicians have a long history of working together and pushing propaganda and myths.
U.S. voters should recall a time when Mormons saved Jewish lives
The best known and most influential Mormons in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s were Senators William King and Elbert Thomas, both Democrats from Utah. Both men were fervent Christian Zionists.
Thomas had visited Jerusalem in 1912. According to his diary, he sat on the Mount of Olives and read from the writings of early Mormon leader Orson Hyde about the Jews: "Consecrate this land for the gathering together of Judah's scattered remnants, for the building up of Jerusalem again after it has been trodden down by the Gentiles so long. Restore the kingdom unto Israel, raise up Jerusalem as its capitol."
King, for his part, was one of the founding members of the American Palestine Committee, an organization set up in the 1930s to rally Christian support for Jewish statehood.
Sen. Thomas developed close ties to Benzion Netanyahu, who in those days was director of the Revisionist Zionists' American division.
Benzion Netanyahu's relationship with one of the most influential Mormons in America in those days is particularly interesting in view of this week's New York Times report about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's previously unknown, longtime personal friendship with Mitt Romney, dating back to their work together at the Boston Consulting Group in the 1970s.
Highlights in Jewish - LDS History
David Ben Gurion: "You know, there are no people in the world who understand the Jews like the Mormons."
Ben Gurion was the first president of Israel when it became a nation in 1948.
Strange Mormon cult practices even has a major fraud denouncing them.
Wiesel to Romney: Tell Mormons to stop baptizing dead Jews
Prominent Holocau$t survivor Elie Wiesel has called on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to "speak to his own church" and ask them to stop performing posthumous proxy baptisms on Jews.
In the practice, known as "baptism for the dead," living people stand in for the deceased to offer that person a chance to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the afterlife, according to an account in the Tribune. Mormons believe it is their moral obligation to do the temple rituals, while those on the other side can choose whether to accept the action or not.
Juvenile Instructor Vol. 27, page 344 Bathsheba W. Smith, born May 3, 1822 , wife of President George A. Smith in her " Recollections of the Prophet Joseph Smith", published in the Juvenile Instructor for June 1,1892 is the following: I heard him say "Peradventure, the Ten Tribes were not on this globe, but a portion of this earth cleaved off with them, went flying into space, and when the earth reels to and fro like a drunken man, and the stars from heaven fall, it would join on again.'"
Journal of Discourses, Volume 7, pages 285-286, by Brigham Young, "It is no more difficult to transfer the Ten Tribes from this earth to another planet, than it is to take the city of Enoch from this earth, or bring Adam and Eve from another planet."
Millennial Star, Volume 28, pages 417-419, Orson Pratt, " The prophet Mormon, the father of Moroni, had been trusted with all sacred records of his forefathers, engraved on metallic plates. New plates were made by Mormon, on which he wrote, from the more ancient books, an abridged history of the nation, incorporating therewith many revelations, prophecies, the Gospel, etc.. These new plates were given to Moroni on which to finish the history. All of the ancient plates Mormon deposited in Cumorah, about three hundred and eighty four years after Christ. When Moroni, about thirty six years after, made the deposit of the book entrusted to him, he was, without a doubt, inspired to select a department of the hill separate from the numerous volumes hid up by his father. The particular place on the hill, where Moroni secreted his book, was revealed by the angel Moroni to the Prophet Joseph Smith, to whom the volume was delivered in September, A.D. 1827. But the grand depository of all of the numerous records of the ancient nations of the western continent was located in another department of the hill, and its contents under the charge of Holy Angels, until the day should come for them to be transferred to the sacred temple of Zion."
[The North Pole is] "containing thousands of millions of Israelites."
- W.W. Phelps, "Letter No. 11," Latter-day Saints' Messenger & Advocate, October 1835, v. 2, no. 1, p. 194
One of the most startling of Joseph Smith's "revelations" concerned the moon and its inhabitants. He even took the liberty of describing the moon-dwellers and their dress! He stated: "The inhabitants of the moon are more of a uniform size than the inhabitants of the earth, being about six feet in height. They dress very much like the Quaker style and are quite general in style, or the fashion of dress They live to be very old; coming generally near a thousand years." (From the Journal of Oliver B. Huntington, a devout Mormon contemporary of Joseph Smith. Copy at Utah State Historical Society, Vol. 2, pg. 166. Also found in The Henry E. Huntington Library, Pasadena, California).
Joseph Smith's Receipt of the Plates and the Israelite Feast of Trumpets
Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew (PDF)
Mormons and Freemasonry
Comparisons between Mormons and Jews
Both have been spoken of (seriously and devotedly by members and mockingly by detractors) as a "chosen people."
That's just a start. There's much more if one cares to delve into it.
Does Mitt Romney actually 'believe' all of this Mormon doctrine? Or even some of it? He doesn't talk about it and wants us to think he will be a 'secular' president. A Judaic Mormon president is a scary thought. So is four more years of Obama.


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LOS ANGELES—The Getty has offered to return three objects to the Italian government, and the Italian government has accepted the Getty's offer. Based on public statements of Italian officials, the Getty expects the returns to be effected in the near future. Only one of the objects was the subject of a formal complaint by the Italian government.
In April 2004, at the request of the Italian Government, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California filed a forfeiture complaint against the Getty in the United States District Court. The forfeiture complaint related to an object in the Museum's Antiquities collection, an ancient Greek krater, or jar, believed to have been painted by Asteas. The complaint alleged that the Asteas krater is stolen property belonging to the Republic of Italy solely because it was allegedly illegally excavated and exported from Italy.
Although the Getty believes that it had valid defenses to the claims asserted in the petition, it reached an agreement with the Italian authorities to return the Asteas krater in the interests of settling the litigation and demonstrating the Getty's interest in a productive relationship with Italy. The Getty based its decision to offer to return the other two objects –a bronze Etruscan candelabrum and stone inscription – on its own evaluation of evidence presented by the Italian government.
On September 2, 2005, the Getty agreed to a consent judgment on the forfeiture complaint, in which the court made no finding regarding liability, but acknowledged the Getty's agreement to return the Asteas krater.
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Victory Theatre
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The enormous Victory Theatre opened in 1920 and was one of eight theaters that thrived during the days of vaudeville and silent motion pictures. The Victory Theatre, like many other combination houses, switched to an all-movies format in 1931. It suffered damage by a fire in 1942, but re-opened after renovations and it remained a vibrant movie house until it closed in 1979.
In 1983, Helen Casey, organized the Save The Victory Theatre Inc., a non-profit organization, which was created to help reopen the theater. Despite some great successes at fundraising along the way, little has been done to help rescue the old movie house reopen.
Like Holyoke itself, the Victory Theatre is still struggling to stay alive. The old theater's blade sign was removed in 1986 and the marquee was torn down in 1991. Although it has allowed passersby to better see its scultped facade, it is a sad reminder that the Victory Theatre has yet to emerge from its doldrums.
In September 2008, ownership of the Victory Theatre was handed over by the city to the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, who plan to renovate it as a performing arts center and reopen by the end of 2012. As of April 2016 the MIFA has already raised $22,5000,000 out of the $30,000,000 required for its renovation.
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The photo tours posted by Matt Labros in january show the paintaings to the left and right of the proscenium to be gone — I hope they were simply removed for restoration (I expect that to be the case)
The August 27, 1919, issue of The American Architect published an early announcement about the plans for the Victory Theatre, though it placed the site at Suffolk and Chestnut Streets rather than Suffolk and Walnut:
"HOLYOKE, MASS.—An up-to-date theater, seating 2420 people, which can stage vaudeville, moving pictures, a stock company or legitimate plays, is to be erected by the Victory Theater Co., of which Nathan Goldstein of Springfield, Mass., is president. This company has purchased the lot at the corner of Suffolk and Chestnut Sts. and will erect a $350,000 playhouse from the plans of Mowll & Rand, Unity Bldg., Boston. Mass. The building will also include a number of stores."Later notices in other publications reduced the cost of the project to $250,000, but Mowll & Rand were still listed as the architects.
The current restoration of the Victory Theatre is designed by the Providence, Rhode Island, firm DBVW Architects (Durkee, Brown, Viveiros & Werenfels.) Their web site currently features a rendering of how the completed project will look, plus four current photos of the theater.
Check out my post on the Victory Theatre at After the Final Curtain
Nice to be updated on the Victory Theatre!
This project seems unfortunately to be stalled. In an article on the New England Public Radio website dated April 12,2013,the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA)artistic director Donald Sanders says he thinks MIFA could secure funding, complete renovations, and open the theatre in three years.
That pushes the reopening to 2016.
Several months ago I heard that this project was starting to unravel, unfortunately; but I don't recall what the source of that news was. The people in charge are stalwart types and I hope that they can get back on track.
i walk by here every day on my way back from the gym for the past 2 months here and there i have seen workers going in and there is a dumpster outside. the smell of asbestos when you walk by is unreal even in the winter but i really do hope they are doing good things inside. im afraid its to far gone
I'll be co-hosting a photo workshop at the Victory Theatre in Holyoke, MA on June 27. The last two workshops we held at the theater sold out pretty quickly so if you're interested get your tickets soon. A portion of the proceeds raised will be donated to the theater to help the restoration effort. We've raised over $1,600 so far this year!
For more information and to purchase tickets:
The Victory Theatre: An After the Final Curtain Photography Workshop
According to the February 2016 article, they have now raised 22,500,000 out of the $30,000,000 needed for restoration only leaving about 7.5 million left to raise.
Latest update on the renovation effort:
They now have commitments for approximately $27,000,000 towards the new total cost estimate of $43,000,000. In the 1980's and 1990's, the roof was repaired and asbestos removed.
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Pac-12 Roundup: UCLA linebacker Anthony Barr lifting himself, Bruins to new heights
A look around the Pac-12 Conference Monday morning:
UCLA — All-American linebacker Anthony Barr is point man for Bruins' football rise. His 13.5 sacks included one YouTube favorite of Matt Barkley
Arizona — Downtrodden cornerbacks look improved in fall camp.
Arizona State — Sun Devils head to Camp Tontozona Monday for five days of training in the trees.
USC — Coach Lane Kiffin says quarterback race down to sophomores Max Wittek and Cody Kessler. True freshman Max Browne is No. 3.
California — Quarterbacks Zach Kline and Jared Goff will share first-team snaps in camp, coach Sonny Dykes said Sunday.


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The Philip Robinson Library is the main campus library and has resources for all subjects except medicine and law.
It was named after Philip Robinson, a bookseller in the city and benefactor to the library, in 1989. £1.6M has been invested in the Philip Robinson Library over the last 2 years including a big refurbishment over the 2012 summer vacation.
During Self Service hours only, for queries about access or lost property, telephone the Reception Desk on 0191 208 7602 (from outside the UK dial +44 191 208 7602).
Philip Robinson Library
Jesmond Road West
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
The Marjorie Robinson Library Rooms is the newest addition to the University Library. Situated a short walk away from the main campus Library, the Marjorie Robinson Library Rooms is a truly digital library offering space to study, think, learn, collaborate and consult.
89 Sandyford Road
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
The Walton Library is the faculty library for Medical Sciences. It serves the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Psychology and Biomedical Sciences as well as the Graduate School and Research Institutes of the Faculty.
It is named after Lord John Walton, former Dean of Medicine at the University and renowned neurologist.
Walton Library
Medical School
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The Law Library is located in Newcastle Law School and provides extensive resources for all those engaged in learning and researching law.
Issue Desk services (e.g. issues, returns, collection of reservations) are available during the times shown above. Self Service is available throughout opening hours.
When the Library is closed, books may be returned to the bookbin located in the Law School's lower ground floor foyer.
When the Law School is closed, Law Library books may be returned to the Philip Robinson Library's external bookbin. Books returned to this bookbin will be returned to the Law Library on the following weekday.
The photocopiers and Eldon and Grey clusters close 15 minutes before the Library closes. Please remember to switch off the monitor of your PC once you have completed your work.
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Newcastle University Library has access to state-of-the-art off-campus storage facilities, meaning we can keep less-used material for much longer than some other academic libraries.
The facilities have just been refurbished and in total provide us with an additional 29 kilometres of storage space, which are currently housing back-runs of journals and books which haven't been consulted for over 5 years (longer in some subject areas).
Members of the library can visit the Research Reserve to consult items by appointment only between the hours of 10am – 2pm (see contact details below). Items can also be requested for collection at a library or delivered electronically.
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The study room is furnished to provide access to the collections housed at the Team valley Research Reserve. As well as study desks for library use, with space for researchers to use laptops.
There is now full wireless access in this area and there are 2 cluster pcs which can be used by anyone with a Campus ID and password.
In addition there is a larger table for map, picture, university archive, current records or archaeological collections study. Please note that archaeological collections may only be accessed by prior arrangement with the curator, Andrew Parkin.
Trolleys of books or journals, or archive boxes, can be brought directly to the desk. For browsing long journal runs, access to the compact shelving can be organised by special arrangement.
Normal daily access is available by appointment only with the Research Reserve Team, Monday – Friday between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. Access outside of these hours can organised given sufficient notice. The team can be contacted by email to email@example.com or by telephone on 0191 208 6986 (at Philip Robinson Library) or 0191 4403606 (at Team Valley).
Dukesway may be accessed via the A1 from either Lobley Hill roundabout, via Kingsway, or Low Fell roundabout, via Retail World. The Research Reserve building is on the corner of Dukesway Court, directly opposite Northumbria Fine Foods which lies between Foster Court and Eighth Avenue along Dukesway.
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SDCC 09: Dynamite Explodes into Multimedia
The Dynamite Entertainment: Adapting Comics to and from Film, Television and Video Games Panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego began with Joe Rybandt discussing the relationship of comics and film, and thanking the fans for Dynmaite's 5th anniversary.
The opening announcement was that starting 2009-2010, Dynamite would be the new home of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Fighting American.
Dynamite's Nick Barrucci said they were honored to house one of Joe and Jack's most revered characters. He then introduced the table. First was Doug Murray, writer of Red Sonja and the just announced Militia book, and soon to be film. Next was Paul Levine- a lawyer who represents the Kirby estate. He said it was Nick's vision and insight into the Kirby work that made the Fighting American property possible. Then was Jeff Katz, of American Original, former Fox Exec, former Booster Gold writer, and the man behind Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash. Then Samuel Shwartz, of WB, and Sony Animation. Bob Title, of State Street Pictures, those behind the Notorious film, who announced he would be teaming up on a yet-to-be-titled Alex Ross project. Marc Guggenheim, creator of Super-Zombies, soon to come in hardcover, and writer behind the upcoming Galactica 1980. There was Javier Grillo-Marxauch of Lost, Boomtown, and Jake 2.0 , and other upcoming Galactica works. Also, producer Rick Alexander, currently developing a feature film version of Com.X title CLA$$WAR with Disney-based Mandeville Films, with Dynamite work to come. Jules Urbach, a special effects guru, was also there, with teases of upcoming works. Amidst all the Hollywood types was a seatless Darick Robertson, artist of The Boys.
Rybandt spoke to Dynamite's origins, with licensed books, like Army of Darkness, which translated to this panel, and like success of Battlestar Galactica, and the influx of creator-owned and company prepared books, like The Boys.
Murray got into Militia, a story about the end of the world. An alien race has exterminated humanity, and the few that survive are still fighting. A film seems fast in the works, with actors involved like Trever Trout. There is a connection, but the comic is coming first, and readers will see it all as soon as it is scheduled by Diamond.
A fan asked what the most important elements are to preserve in each medium- film-to-comic.
Grillo Marxaurch wouldn't develop a project unless it had much to remain intact. There need to be things within to sustain the concept.
Murray talked about the visual emphasis of both mediums. It's harder to translate in a novel, as there lacks a visceral vision to ideas.
Barrucci said that the format influences a lot, things like slapstick in Army of Darkness don't translate in comics.
Here Darick Roberston announced plans to publish his earliest work. It was made during a long summer school session at 16, and fans should expect the Space Beaver Omnibus to come soon. It's the project that taught him to do comics, and its' the foundation of his career. Barrucci teased that there may be a Space Beavers Vs the Boys crossover to come.
Rick Alexander teased at upcoming Dynamite comic Deductible, and its unique spin on an original superhero universe. Christopher J. Albrecht is making his pro comics writing debut on the book, which will be based on his self-published, creator-owned one-shot comic and the screenplay inspired by it that he wrote for Alexander. Barrucci included that as a comic it is great and crisp, and it could translate to a film, but they're working to make it a great comic first.
Here the panel shifted to the State Street Pictures/Alex Ross project. Bob Title met Alex Ross in 1989, at college, when Ross was only 16. Even that early, Title marveled at Ross' discipline. They always stayed in touch, looking for something to work together on. After Notorious, Ross approached Title, to develop an African American character returning from the war, as a vehicle for them both. Title teased that there would be more information to come.
Barrucci talked about the convergence of art and comics. The characterization is so important, so they strive to launch things as a comic first, with the story beats to match the narration. From there, maybe any movies, video games, narration will come naturally after that. Alex is excited, and more information is still to come.
A fan asked Guggenheim and Katz about the crossover of studios and comics. Katz brought up that what Hollywood respects money. So while ideas of respect are nice, it's the finances studios want.
Katz came in with an unmade script of Freddy vs Jason vs Ash, and was looking for ways to get Hollywood guys into comics.
Robertson talked about the comics-to-film relationship, and how receptive Dynamite was when The Boys was canceled at DC, and how fair they are to creators. The better the comics come up, the better the film can be.
When a fan voiced concern that a studio may not make a film extreme enough to suit The Boys, Robertson declared that making a Hollywood friendly film might not be good for the property. If it were hardcore like Grindhouse it might be good, but he doesn't want The Boys to be toned down. It's premature, he insisted, since the project hasn't been cast, or a director found, but he doesn't feel like much has to be changed to the point it's unrecognizable. Robertson is hopeful that by overseeing it there will be more control. It is still too early to know if Simon Pegg (whom the main character's likeness is clearly based on) will be involved, but nothing would make the creators more satisfied.
Barrucci spoke to the jammed clusters of licensed characters on the studios' plates, and how Dynamite will face that challenge. But they need the product first, before the movies or games.
Barrucci told the crowd that they will be doing The Green Hornet, and that it should be out in 2010. Kevin Smith is writing, so he warned that it will "be ready when it's ready."
A fan asked about studio interference in books. Studios have comments, Barrucci stated, and can say whatever, as it's their right.
Barrucci spoke to the torrid affair of Hollywood and comics, and the inevitable ups and downs. As long as the comics stay good unto themselves, success elsewhere can arise.
Before the panel closed, Barrucci encouraged the panelists to tease their upcoming projects, at Dynamite and elsewhere.
Doug Murray is in the middle of a Red Sonja series, and the upcoming Militia. He also mentioned 50 Girls 50 from Image next year.
Jeff Katz told the audience to be on the lookout for American Original announcements to come tomorrow.
Marc Guggenheim is hard at work on Galactica 1980, due in August, and Resurrection from Oni Press.
Javier Grillo-Marxauch is busy executive producing the Day One television series.
Darick Robertson encouraged fans to check out the second trade of The Boys, and again mentioned his adolescent work to come to the mass market, Space Beaver.


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A local copy of wikipedia that you can browse anywhere without incurring bandwidth costs. It's already been done for the iPod (see encyclopodia), but I think we can do better on the Neo. For starters, it has a much nicer screen, and a real UI toolkit to play with, and can run multiple apps simultaneously etc.
--HEx 07:22, 5 May 2007 (CEST)
This is the real problem. A recent bzipped article-only dump of enwiki comes in at 2.1Gb. Encyclopodia's download seems to be about 1.7Gb. It seems likely that even with some optimization, a full copy of wikipedia is going to be over 1Gb. Thus it would seem that a complete copy is probably going to be impractical for most people (assuming they want to store other things on their Neo too), so it would be worth finding out what bits can be discarded with relatively little loss.
On the compression front, lzma would seem to be the way to go. Clearly the input needs to be divided into blocks for random access, but the choice of which articles go into which block I think could affect the compression ratio greatly.
[1] has some interesting benchmarks for wikipedia compression. I still think lzma would be best as it does quite well while not using much CPU and memory (plus it's already in OpenEmbedded).
To save space, we could provide smaller sections of the main Wikipedia (eg Music, Science, Literature) and download anything else on demand. It needs to be clear what's local and remote, however, as data charges can be expensive.
This is a tough one. Despite the fact that MediaWiki's markup format is notoriously underspecified and hard to interpret, it's also widespread and human-readable and space-efficient, and, while a custom markup format could possibly be more space-efficient and easier to parse, the world really doesn't need any more markup formats. Thus I'm tending towards just rendering MediaWiki markup directly on the Neo, which would have the plus of being able to view the source if and when rendering goes horribly awry.
Of the possibilities at the list of parsers, flexbisonparse looks the most promising.
HTML or XML as an intermediate step would be a possibility, and there's sure to be a web browser available, but just dumping the output to a GtkTextView would probably be simpler and more efficient.
Other E-book software
Since there's bound to be other, similar software being developed or ported, it would make sense to see if this could usefully be part of a larger project. (The alternative, "do one thing, do it well", also has some appeal though.)
The Mokopedia Way
This section is about my Mokopedia project.
Why it isn't using Wikitext
Wikitext is horribly difficult to parse - just look at how tables are defined in wikitext and what thousands of possibilities you have! It would be overkill to write another wikitext Interpreter. Xhtml instead is simply parsed and can also be embedded easily in the gtkhtml widget. Another reason: if the wikimedia software changes anything on its wikitext 'specification' the parser has to be changed. Its useless to use something in a program, that is no standart and is likely to change without notice. Wikitext is more lightweight? right.
Why we need SDHC support
Size is only a problem for the english wikipedia. I managed to run the entire german wikipedia UNCOMPRESSED on my Nokia E70 Symbian phone. It had to be uncompressed because the articles were viewed with the Nokia browser from a local Raccoon install with a little Python script to search the articles. For more infos about my optimizations on the mediawiki html dump to get this running see [2] (German) If I compress everything with bzip2 it shrinks to 19% of it's former size but this will not help for an offline version since seeking for a special file in such a big archive will cost an enormous amount of computing power. So the only options are to either pack every file separately or to pack a few files together in chunks of several kB. But this will reduce our compression ratio enormously (~30% compression with bz2) but is unavoidable for fast access.
Conclusion: our only hope is to hope for SDHC support. I verified that the (second largest) german wiki will fit on a 2GB non-SDHC SD-Card with every file compressed separately. With my optimizations the english wikipedia will need 2.8GB so we need 4GB SDHC media for that.


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Cravaack wants climate science teaching funds cut
Some federal funding for education on global warming would be cut under an amendment sponsored by Minnesota U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack.
The freshman congressman successfully attached the language to a science spending bill. It calls for cutting $10 million out of a National Science Foundation program to teach students about climate change.
Cravaack says a report by the Government Accountability Office said the program duplicated other science programs and he called the program a waste of money.
"You've got a school, and then you're giving a teacher an additional amount of money to teach science. Well, they're already teaching science," he said.
While Cravaack says his amendment isn't about whether or not global warming is a human-caused phenomenon, he counts himself among skeptics of that position.
Almost all scientists involved in climate research do believe that human activities are heating the planet.


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To commemorate my tenth article detailing the misadventures of the first-time father, I thought I would offer something that is freely given, but can be worth more than gold—advice. Here are 10 tips to ease the transition from mentally stable, well-rested adult to addled, murmuring parent. Consider these the "what-to-do's" from someone who tried all the "what-not-to-do's" first.
1 – Get a good stroller. There are many unnecessary luxuries and avoidable expenses when it comes to buying things for your baby. Strollers are the exception. Your stroller will be the most important baby-related item you own. Research strollers as thoroughly as you would a car — I recommend buying a consumer's guide — and find the one that fits your lifestyle. Go to a store that has a lot of the mid to top-tier strollers on the floor so you can test drive them (Bye Bye Baby in NJ is one such store). Expect to pay what it would cost to spend one night in a really, really nice hotel. When you consider all the time your baby will spend in her stroller, the expense seems sensible.
2 – Water is the most plentiful natural resource on our planet, and once your baby starts teething, drool will be the most plentiful form of water in your home. If I had to make a movie about parenting it would be called "There Will Be Drool." Our son drools so much that CNN should have a camera shot of his mouth running 24/7 while they broadcast. I cannot offer enough ridiculous hyperbole to prepare you for how much drool will fill your life.
3 – Our pediatrician gave us wonderful advice on our first visit: Have a routine. It was never too early to start trying to get our son to sleep when and where we wanted him to sleep, and eat when and how much we wanted him to eat. Getting a newborn to stick to a routine is like getting a frightened cat to do the cha-cha. It's not easy and it doesn't go exactly as you want, but if you stick with it, before you know it, the cat is doing the Charleston.
4 – Parents talk about crying more than Eskimos talk about snow. You will end more sentences with "crying" than you thought possible: Is he crying? Why is he crying? Did he stop crying? Is that him crying? I think he's going to start crying. Are you crying? It goes on and on. To ameliorate the crying, learn the word "swaddle" and use it. There are many books and classes on swaddling and I recommend you read or take one. Knowing how to swaddle is the most important sanity-keeping trick a parent can employ, narrowly edging out the ability to open a wine bottle with drool-covered hands.
5 – If you are having a baby or have an infant who still gets up at night, here's something you can look forward to – the first time your little one sleeps through the night. It is one of the five or six best things that will ever happen to you. When I think about the first time my son slept through the night, I tilt my head back, stare into the nearest heaven and grin for ten minutes. It is that good. It might take 10 weeks, it might take 100 weeks, but the time will come and it will be wonderful.
6 – You may lead a placid, annoyance-free life now, but I warn you, that will change the second time you have to button those ubiquitous tiny metal snaps on your baby's clothes. The first time you will bemusedly say something like, "Hmm, these little buggers sure are tough to close." But by the second time you will be screaming questions about how a deity who loves us could allow for the existence of such joy-devouring things as these tiny metal buttons
7 – A baby is the paramount of beauty and perfection, with one major design flaw – fingernails. I still haven't figured out why babies are born with these tiny box cutters on each hand. They have no muscle control, they have skin as delicate as silk, and they have a horrific instinct to swipe themselves across the face uncontrollably? For the first three weeks I thought there was a raccoon living in the closet of our nursery that would mercilessly claw at our son's face at night. Whether you clip, file, or chew them off, make sure you keep an eye on your baby's fingernails, before she scratches one of hers out.
8 – Diapers, it's not you, it's me. In an early article I wrote a heartfelt panegyric to diapers. That was before our son starting eating solid foods. Now, let's just say diapers are not the same disposable sanitary product I fell in love with and changing them is no longer a loving act of convenience and pleasantness. I am guilty of giving my heart to something too soon, before I knew what I was really getting into.
9 – My wife and I, as a couple, were not arguers. As new parents, we were Ali-Fraser sans gloves. It is to be expected, because there is no way for the new dad to mentally prepare to find his happy, quiet home invaded by a crying, irrational, uncommunicative creature who is given to unprovoked tantrums…and her baby! Basically, you're both not at your best after Baby #1 – you're scared, you're exhausted, and neither of you knows what to do, but you're sure the other one knows less than you. It takes a while for a happy couple to transition to a happy family, but rest assured, it happens and you laugh about it later, usually with other couples who experienced the same thing. Remember, early on diapers are great and your marriage is stinky, after a few months, the reverse is true.
10 – "Enjoy it, it goes by too fast." You'll hear those seven words again and again, and when those first sleepless weeks feel like years, you won't be able to imagine how time could feel normal, let alone pass so fast you might miss something. Every person with kids of their own who meets your new baby will say something about cherishing these times because they grow up so fast. You will think that maybe this is just something everyone says, but sooner than later, when your newborn is getting closer to being a toddler, and teeth pop up and the crawling starts and he is eating solid foods and one day you walk into his room and that little helpless infant you brought home just yesterday ( it seems) is standing in his crib smiling at you. I now look at pictures of Henry when we were still counting his age in weeks, and I can't believe how much he's changed just when I thought he would stay the same for a little while at least. Everyone says the same thing, and everyone is perfectly right: enjoy it. They grow up way too fast.


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Frame by Frame - Stop Motion Animation in the classroom
24 July 2012
For five Compass partner schools, Term 2 was filled with colourful clays, cardboards, foams and paints. Condell Park Public School, Condell Park High School, Sir Joseph Banks High School, Kogarah Intensive English Centre and Fairfield High School participated in the Compass Stop Motion Animation program facilitated by Jack McGrath, a Sydney College of the Arts lecturer and filmmaker.
The program involves students and their teacher learning the basics of making a short animated film. The program is embedded in schools to help meet the students' curriculum outcomes. It is designed to complement the syllabus and teachers are urged to utilise the program as a tool for teaching their topic area or current teaching program. In addition, the Stop Motion Animation program is an engaging and fun way of building students' creative capacity. As McGrath points out, "Creativity [itself] is an asset and needs to be developed as much as other areas of the curriculum."
Stop motion animation works by shooting a single frame of an object, then moving the object slightly, and then shooting another frame. The objective is to create the illusion of fluid motion so the objects appear to move by themselves. Over the last six to eight weeks students were exposed to the film production process including:
- Pre-production and planning: creation of basic storyboard, script, character model and synopsis. Use of camera angles in the animation medium to make meaning.
- Production: Hands-on experience animating characters and production workflow.
- Post-production and editing: editing, transition and video effects to communicate with the audience. Critical approach to animation texts.
At the end of the program each school will have its own original short animated film using the stop motion technique.
Jack and the Compass team were very impressed with the enthusiasm, creativity and imagination of the students and teachers. "The thing I love most about this program is I can never predict what the students will create. It is like a magic cauldron; you put the right ingredients in (techniques and structure), and you are constantly amazed by what comes out," said McGrath.
In Term 3, Bexley Public School and Kogarah Public School will be delivering the program with Jack McGrath. Students' works will be exhibited at this year's Compass Showcase on the 24th of November.
Visit the Compass photo gallery to see the students in action. Watch the final cut of the animated film. Enjoy!


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JCR Automation, Inc., Fort ne, IN, a supplier of custom cut-to-length machines, automated assembly systems, waterjet-cutting machines and the like, announced plans to relocate and expand its manufacturing and warehouse space. It also plans to add four new employees to its existing staff of 16. Expansion efforts—to the tune of $200,000 for the facility and another $300,000 in new equipment—will support the company's continuous development of its process-product line for the high-speed progressive-die stamping industry, and other end-user industries.
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