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Another great day to share time with Coloradolady and her Vintage Thingies Thursday. Please take time out and give her a visit.
This is a very vintage bear that belongs to my sister. She was given this bear by our parents when she was a little girl. This was back in the mid 1930s. She has kept it sealed up in this jar to help preserve it. I do not know the maker of the bear. It held a special meaning to her and has resulted in her collecting and loving bears. All the following pictures were taken in what she calls her bear room.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Vintage Thingies Thursday
26 comments:
- Postcardy said...
I never saw a bear in a jar before!
I went through a Teddy Bear phase when Teddy bears were popular in the 1980s. I collected a lot of Teddy Bear postcards, but not real Teddy bears. - November 11, 2009 at 7:07 PM
- blushing rose said...
That's an interesting concept, I'd be afraid that he'd 'rot' in there.
She loves TBs tho.
Popover for our TRIPLE GIVEAWAY if you haven't already. Have a lovely eve. TTFN ~Marydon - November 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM
- marian said...
oh WOW she certainly has a verry bad case of BEAR fever lol!!..btw i love her vintage bear in a jar :)))
- November 11, 2009 at 7:53 PM
- Betsy Banks Adams said...
Wow----someone REALLY likes BEARS!!!! What a cute collection. It reminds me of a cabin we once rented --with a bear theme. That one had bears all over the place also...
Cute post, LV.
Betsy - November 11, 2009 at 8:06 PM
- CC said...
Oh My Goodness!!!!! I love them all, from the bear in the jar to the quilt to the wall hangings..they're just wonderful. Happy VTT..have a beautiful day.
- November 11, 2009 at 9:24 PM
- Maureen said...
How special to have a childhood treasure from so long ago. It speaks to a time when "less was more" and truly treasured.
- November 11, 2009 at 10:11 PM
- Coloradolady said...
The vintage bear looks like he wants so fresh air.....our wonderful relative sure loves her bears....Happy VTT!
- November 11, 2009 at 10:20 PM
- ★Carol★ said...
Your sister has a great collection! I particularly like the bear trapped in that jar! And the quilt is really cute too!
Happy VTT!
Carol - November 11, 2009 at 10:27 PM
- Jocelyn said...
Wow what a wonderful bear collection. I wonder if her sealed up bear has straw for stuffing? Happy VTT!
http://justalittlesouthernhospitality.blogspot.com/ - November 11, 2009 at 10:34 PM
- Sunny said...
That's a lot of bears!
A BEARY nice collection in deed.
Sunny :) - November 11, 2009 at 11:35 PM
- rt said...
What a lovely collection!
- November 12, 2009 at 3:12 AM
- P. said...
A lot of nice bears.
- November 12, 2009 at 3:46 AM
- Ulla said...
I can see why this room is called the bear room! I wish she would let the bear in the jar have some fresh air.
- November 12, 2009 at 5:53 AM
- Tussy said...
All the teddy are cute, but not the one in Jar. I just feel suffocate when seeing it. How he can breath?
- November 12, 2009 at 8:31 AM
- Olde Dame Penniwig said...
I love her little old teddy-in-a-jar and the entire bear room!
How sweet that she has kept that bear all these years. He's a sweet-looking little thing.
I really like those lace curtains with the bear design in them. Unique! - November 12, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- Susan said...
I love teddy bears and collected them but this beats me even in when I was at my peak with them. I recognized quite a few.
- November 12, 2009 at 9:04 AM
- Unknown said...
Sweetest post ever! Bears are adorable! That bear in a jar I dont know about! he looks so sad
- November 12, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- Keetha Broyles said...
Your sis's vintage bear is so sweet in his little jar. I love the quilt in the middle of the post too.
- November 12, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- Roslyn said...
Beary nice! it reminds me of an antique bear I haven't ever shown, so thanks for the reminder!
- November 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- concretenprimroses said...
Love the vintage bear. How wonderful that your sister still has it to treasure.
Kathy - November 12, 2009 at 5:06 PM
- jeanne said...
I LOVE the bear room. Especially the one in the jar that started her fun collection. The whole room is just too cute. I know many people that have bear collections. They are just irresistible.
Have a wonderful evening.
Hugs, Jeanne - November 12, 2009 at 5:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Isn't it funny how one little childhood toy is responsible for her love of bears?
The post made me think about how very important it is for children to have toys. Who knows what impression they may make? Here's hoping every little child has a special toy under the tree this year.:) - November 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM
- George said...
Putting the bear in the jar to help preserve it is a great idea. Your sister's bear room is very impressive.
- November 12, 2009 at 9:51 PM
- Old Time Cindy said...
Everyone needs a bear room...:)
Living it up at Lakewood,
Cindy - November 13, 2009 at 5:00 AM
- Ruby said...
The bears are cute especially the quilt on the bed but I truly love the jar itself! I have a thing for containers of all kinds. LOL
- November 13, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- Sarah said...
What a great bear collection. When I was a little girl I collected them as well. :-)
- November 15, 2009 at 12:16 PM


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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Location: 414 West Vermont Street, Indianapolis (Marion County, Indiana)
Installed: 2009 Indiana Historical Bureau, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, IDNR; and Bethel A.M.E. Church
Side One
A.M.E. Church traces its origins to founding of Free African Society in Philadelphia, 1787. Circa 1836, Augustus Turner, a barber, and other black settlers organized this Indianapolis congregation to worship freely and support their community. Trustees bought land 1840 on Georgia Street for first church.
Side Two
Church held black state conventions, aided fugitive slaves, established a school, and recruited for U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. Arson destroyed Georgia Street church in 1864. Land purchased here in 1865. Church completed in 1870; listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1991.
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Samsung Electronics is expected to widen its lead over Apple in global smartphone sales this year with 35 percent growth, helped by a broad product lineup, market researcher Strategy Analytics told Reuters on Friday.
Apple, returning the offensive, could roll out a smaller, cheaper "iPhone Mini" next year to grab market share by targeting demand from users of lower-end smartphones, Strategy Analytics said.
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"We expect Samsung to slightly extend its lead over Apple this year because of its larger multitier product portfolio," Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics, said in an e-mail interview with Reuters.
Global smartphone shipments will jump 27 percent to 875 million shipments this year, slowing from last year's torrid 41 percent pace as growth eased in many key markets such as North America, China, the developed economies of Asia, and Western Europe, Mawston said.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics is forecast to sell 290 million smartphones this year, up from a projected 215 million in 2012, the research firm said. Apple's smartphone sales are projected to reach 180 million this year, up 33 percent from last year, slightly trailing Samsung's 35 percent increase.
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Samsung may launch the Galaxy S IV, a new version of its flagship smartphone, in April, and the Galaxy Note III phablet and a series of other new smartphones over the course of this year, media reports and analysts have said recently.
"Samsung plays in more segments and this should enable it to capture more volume than Apple (assuming Apple does not launch an 'iPhone Mini' this year)," Mawston said.
Brian J. White, a researcher at Topeka Capital Markets, on Wednesday raised the possibility that Apple may launch a smaller and lower-priced iPhone — the iPhone Mini — to further penetrate markets such as China and India.
White said in a report that he believed Apple will launch the next iPhone, the iPhone 5S, in May or June, and offer more options in screen sizes. This would eventually open up the possibility for the iPhone Mini, he said.
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But Mawston said the iPhone Mini was not expected to hit the market until after this year.
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"The iPhone 5 is growing fast and profitably right now, so there is little incentive for Apple to launch an 'iPhone Mini' this year.
"We expect the iPhone Mini to be more likely next year, in 2014 when ... Apple will be forced to discover fresh growth streams," he said.
Samsung Electronics, once a laggard in the smartphone market, has quickly surpassed Apple as the world's largest smartphone maker.
Strong smartphone sales have helped to lift both the company's shares, which hit a record high of 1.584 million won ($1,500) on Thursday, and its earnings, with a record profit expected for a fifth quarter in a row in the latest October-to-December period. The results are expected to be announced early next week.


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Summary: The third part of our interviews series with Richard Stallman covers privacy in communication
In this third part we turn our attention to more political issues. I spoke to Richard Stallman about matters of privacy as he has in-depth knowledge of the facts. Here is the transcript.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz: My next question is more about surveillance because I don't want it to be strictly about software because I know you do have the digital freedom in general and I want you to ask you about advice for trying to avert surveillance in this age where, based on the whistleblowers, we know the NSA is in fact recording vast amounts of information and data about people and also recording all the E-mails. What is your suggestion to people who try to avoid all of that?
Dr. Richard Stallman: Well, I think it's our duty to avoid that. It's every citizen's duty to stick a finger in Big Brother's eye. Now, the NSA would like us to believe that it's doing the surveillance to protect us Americans from the terrorism, but the US regulatory accuses dissidents of being terrorists. So whenever a government says it's fighting "terrorists" read "dissidents". And when you look at where the danger around the world comes from, to a large extent it comes from the US. The US was behind — or carried out — a war of aggression in Iraq, a war conquest and then an occupation; as a result hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed. The usual figure is definitely an underestimate.
And so, really you gotta ask, who does the world need protecting from? And this is not — not to count — countries which are dictatorships that are propped up by the US, which carry out the worst kinds of atrocities but they are useful allies to the US, so the US protects them, such as Ethiopia and now Honduras. Honduras had a military coup which might have been organised by the US, but in any case it has certainly been given full support by the US since.
So, I just don't think of that argument as valid at all. I don't think that the NSA is on the side of the good people in the world. And so I think that it's perfectly appropriate to do things like using Tor — and using encryption — to interfere with the NSA'a ability find out what you're doing.
And I want to also ask you, what's your advice about the use of mobile phones especially now that we know, at least based on Sprint, that the carriers, at least in the United States and we know here in the UK as well, are in fact collecting data on location of people, the people they phone, perhaps the address books as well. What would you say to people?
I don't have mobile phone.
I know.
And why… it's because mobile phones are Stalin's dream. They are surveillance and tracking devices. They are always sending the location frequently (I think even if you don't make a call), so your whole life is being tracked and of course if you do make a call, the system knows who you call. And now only that, most mobile phones have a universal back door, meaning that the phone company — you or someone else — can forcibly install software changes without asking your permission. This has been used to remotely convert phones into listening devices, and when that is done the phone picks up and transmits all the conversations in the vicinity whether you're making a call or not and transmits it to someone and just pushing the button to switch it off does not necessarily really do that. So I consider this outrageous and I won't have one. If I'm travelling around somewhere and I need to make a call I ask somebody nearby to let me make a call. That way, Big Brother doesn't get information about me.
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The Avalon Theater opened prior to 1950, and closed in the 1980's. The building is currently home to a church.
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The name was changed to the Capri as early as 1967, according to the item in Boxoffice of January 30 that year. I haven't found the opening year, but this Avalon was mentioned in Boxoffice of October 2, 1948, as one of several houses that had recently installed Altec Lansing sound equipment. That might be an indication that it was then under construction.
I remember this being an adult movie theater in the 70s. It sat/sits across the street from the Weingarten shopping center on Lawndale
Al Zarzana owned the Avalon in the 70's when it was adult fare. Rick Uhlhorn was the manager. They tried haveing live striippers in there for a while.
For a while, the Avalon showed real art films. Foreign titles etc. They ran a film of the Bolshoi ballet company. Someone called up and asked if it was a live stage show with the Bolshoi. No, they replied, it was a film. They figured that if they booked the real Bolshoi, tickets would be $750 a seat.
They did have live stage plays briefly. Hal March, of the tv show $64,000 Question was the star of one production. I'm sure it did not make money.
I visited my friend, Rick Uhlhorn, the manager at the Avalon/Capri when it ran adult fare. I'd go in and watch the film as long as I could stand it. They were mind numbinly awful. I could feel brain cells dying by the minute.
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The changing of the guard
Consulting-Specifying Engineer is pleased to welcome eight new members to the editorial advisory board this year.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer has, for years, had an editorial advisory board. Many readers aren't aware that they're the backbone of the print publication, Pure Power, and this website. Each technical article is anonymously reviewed, complimented, critiqued, ripped apart, and otherwise vetted by this team. Each board member also provides invaluable feedback on the industry, keeping the Consulting-Specifying Engineer editorial team and, in turn, its readers on track with the most valuable content.
Board members typically are professional engineers, consultants, industry experts, or all of the above. The mix of backgrounds is pretty interesting—a couple of board members specialize in data center design, a few specialize in HVAC or energy-efficiency systems, some are thoroughly knowledgeable electrical engineers, still others focus only on hospital and health care facilities, and a few are fire protection engineer rock stars. All members have years of experience, making them invaluable assets to their firm and to this board.
This board is made up entirely of volunteers. They're invited to the board and typically retain their "seats" for 3 years, though some do for much longer. (Side note: A retiring board member asked me to see how long he'd been on the board, and write a reference for him. I found issues dating back to 1999—quite a tenure!) During that time, they write articles, present at webcasts, answer questions from the Consulting-Specifying Engineer editorial team, present at conferences and training events, and determine what you, the reader, will find in these pages.
Eventually, there must be a changing of the guard. This year, several new board members replace those who've been on the advisory team for years. Eight new faces have joined the board, many of whom were mentored by the departing advisory board members. This transition has occurred over 6 months, allowing the new members—many of them young up-and-comers—to gain a bit of knowledge from their colleagues and become accustomed to how the Consulting-Specifying Engineer team works.
It's my great pleasure to welcome Peter Alspach, Thomas Brown, Jason Gerke, Danna Jensen, Kenneth Kutsmeda, Michael Mar, Brian Martin, and Randy Schrecengost to the team. With their fresh ideas and insightful input, they'll help make Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Pure Power, and www.csemag.com even better in the months to come.
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A message to all of the pregnant gals out there -- when you go to the birthing class and they tell you to stick your hand in a bowl of ice-cold water to help prepare you for labor pains, you tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine. I am here to tell you that experiencing cold and discomfort for five minutes doesn't help with your labor. Nope, you just had a freezing cold hand one day and insanely painful contractions another day.
When I was pregnant with my daughter, my husband and I went to every baby-preparedness class our hospital offered. Labor and delivery 101, check. Hospital tour, including special late-night arrivals directions, check. Newborn care, featuring swaddling and breastfeeding, check. Infant CPR, check. There were at least four classes we took, not including the Happiest Baby on the Block class we took when my daughter was three weeks old (okay, actually that one was totally worth it and the best $40 we ever spent -- now there's research to prove it).
But, now that my kids are a little older, I wish I would have skipped "how to bathe a baby" and instead found a class that would prepare me for life as the mother of a little boy. So many of his interests are foreign to me and I'm already finding myself out of my league. My daughter's hobbies are easier for me. Having been a girl myself, I'm up-to-speed on the Disney princesses and I know the basic positions in ballet. These things I get. My son's interests, not so much.
Not too long ago, he asked me a pretty basic question about how a car runs. The only answer I could come up with was to point and say "Oh look, a deer!" There was no deer.
Like most two-year-old boys, he's fascinated by all kinds of trucks and construction equipment. But, no matter how many times I read him his little truck book and point to diggers, scrapers, mini loaders and tractors, damned if I can recognize any of them out in the real world. Aside from concrete mixers and car transporters, I'm at a complete loss. Generally, I just call them all bulldozers and hope that there's at least one bulldozer in the mix.
Again, like most two-year-old boys, he loves Thomas the Tank Engine and can push his little cars around those little wooden tracks for a long time. Then, he gets bored or frustrated and breaks up those tracks. That's where I come in, I have to reassemble those tracks. Except I'm terrible at it and can never get the darn thing to connect back into itself. It's a one-way road.
Why don't they offer moms classes that will help prepare them for a life of boys? Classes like: Train Set engineering 101. Introduction to emergency vehicle parts and identification. Advanced cars and trucks...


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Emmanuel Dagher: April 2014 Energy Forecast
A brief point of global stillness occurred in the days that followed the March 20 equinox, which gave us the opportunity to breathe and recharge, in preparation for the hyper-energetic activity the month of April is bringing our way.
The exciting celestial developments during the month of April will create a perfect environment for quantum spiritual expansion to manifest —in our individual lives, and in the collective consciousness.
Some of these celestial occurrences include the lunar eclipse on April 14 and the solar eclipse on April 28. These two alignments alone are motivating rapid change to occur in our consciousness.
A big component of this change will be a profound purification of our mind, body and emotions. This purification will most definitely leave us feeling quite different at the end of the month from how we felt at the beginning of it.
During April, we will also be moving through another celestial alignment known as the Cardinal Grand Cross. This occurs when certain planets align to create a cross-like configuration that often inspires great change to occur.
With all the activity in the heavens right now, the opportunity for great personal and global transformation is amplified many times over.
The Wave of Purification
With April's powerful combination of the celestial developments and the intentions of oneness that our Higher Selves have jointly called forth, a universal purification is fully under way.
The chance to observe first-hand what many of my clients are experiencing in their lives each month is a sacred blessing to me, and one that I honor and pay close attention to.
Often I will notice that the same theme will come up for my clients all around the world (and for me as well). This shows me that what's happening on a micro level is probably also what's happening at the macro level. This is when I start receiving inner guidance to put it all together in a simplified way that can be easily understood.
The theme that keeps coming up right now for many of us, is the theme of lack.
When an undesired feeling or vibration such as lack shows up on the surface of our lives, it's important to not suppress what we are experiencing, but to look closely at it. That way, whatever is going on can be addressed, resolved and purified.
Releasing the Belief in Lack
To begin releasing the lack mentality, we must first understand what lack really is, and where it actually stems from.
In the dictionary, lack is defined as a 1. (Noun) a deficiency or absence of something needed. 2. (Verb) To be without or deficient in.
Through personal experience, I have come to define lack as the side effect of forgetting who we really are.
The idea of lack comes from the mind choosing, on some level, the path of separation from one's Source nature, which is the Spirit. Lack ultimately serves as a "placeholder" the mind has created, as a way of keeping itself feeling comfortable and safe.
Belief in lack was created by the mind and ego during primeval times, as a kind of survival mechanism.
Knowing this, we can understand that when the mind does buy into the illusion of the lack mentality, it IS actually serving a purpose. On some level, it thinks it's keeping the mind safe by warning us that we must work hard to survive.
However, the Spirit will only allow the mind to run the show for a certain amount of time before it steps in. When the Spirit intervenes, the idea of lack starts to feel so uncomfortable to us, that the mind can no longer convince itself that it needs a belief in lack for protection.
The mind is then ready to remember the truth of our nature as abundant Spiritual Beings who have never lacked anything in any way—ever.
So, if we are someone who is feeling the energy of lack making its presence strongly known in our life, let's be willing to make peace with it. Let's also be willing to understand that whatever feeling lack is triggering within us, is simply a confirmation that we are ready to release it.
In addition to many of the spiritual tools and processes many of us know, such as gratitude, meditation, being of service, affirmation, etc., I would like to share a few simple, outside-the-box things we can do to help ensure a smoother purification experience, especially when it comes to releasing a lack mentality.
Assuring a Smooth Purification Experience: Salt Remedies
As many of us know all too well, moving through a period of purification in our lives can feel a bit challenging.
Here are some simple yet effective things we can do to help the experience be smoother and more enjoyable.
Here are some simple yet effective things we can do to help the experience be smoother and more enjoyable.
An ancient remedy that has helped many experience smoother purification
process is to soak in high quality, high mineral content salt for 20 to
30 minutes, 2 to 4 times per week.
Some of the best salts to use are Himalayan pink crystal salt or Dead
Sea salt. Simply add 1 to 2 cups of salt into a lukewarm to warm tub,
and enjoy.
If you do not have the option of taking baths, simply add 1 teaspoon of
salt to a cup of spring water in a spray bottle and shake well. Then
spray the salted water all over your physical and auric bodies. The salt
will instantly remove any unhealthy energetic chords, hooks,
attachments, bonds and connections between you and other people, places
and things.
This is a very powerful remedy! If you are someone who is having a hard
time letting go of unhealthy relationships, salt therapy will certainly
help you.
If you prefer, you can also soak a Selenite crystal in a glass of water
for 24 hours, then spray yourself with the water. This will have a
similar effect to the mineral salt therapy.
After working with this method for a few weeks, you will start to notice
yourself flowing through life a bit more smoothly. An extra bonus is
that you will probably also feel more energetic.
Most unhealthy energy chords, hooks and attachments are formed in the
solar plexus, the area of the body just above the belly. When we purify
these energies, we make room for beautiful new abundant energies to take
their place.
This will help us transition out of the lack mentality more quickly, as
the emotional body starts to become more balanced, no longer feeling
like it's lacking in any way.
Eating Light, Eating Greens
Another thing we can do to help make the purification process easier is to eat light at least one day out of the week.
On this day, it's important to eat food that is alive and full of nutrients. Things like dark leafy green vegetables and other foods have low or no sugars, starches or dairy. These foods allow the body to rest and recharge.
During the rest of the week, it's important to make sure we are at least adding more dark leafy green vegetables into our diet. This will support the body in purifying itself more smoothly.
Taking in More Sunlight
Getting about 5 to 10 minutes of sun, away from the peak hours, will also serve as a great purifier. If you live in a place that doesn't receive much sunlight, make sure you are eating foods that will provide you with an adequate amount of vitamin D. This is a very important part of helping ourselves to purify more gently. With just these few little additions, we can be more fully prepared for these times of great change. We will also feel supported in releasing any fear about these times. We will be able to embrace them, because we know about the powerful expansion taking place.
We are living in the times our ancient ancestors talked about for
thousands of years! It's happening all around us here and now.
So let's take good care and be gentle with ourselves as we move through it all. As with anything new, it takes time to integrate all the changes going on within and all around us.
In all of this, know that you are not alone. I am grateful for the opportunity to share this journey with you.
So let's take good care and be gentle with ourselves as we move through it all. As with anything new, it takes time to integrate all the changes going on within and all around us.
In all of this, know that you are not alone. I am grateful for the opportunity to share this journey with you.
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Miracle in the Meadowlands amid Hurricane Sandy
As the wind howled and rain slanted down amid Hurricane Sandy's fury, Magdelene was born at Meadowlands Medical Center.
Born to Rachel Nijinimbam, 31 years old, an event coordinator, originally from Ghana, with her husband, Mathias Shotolu, 45 years old, a businessman, originally from Nigeria, Magdelene arrived at 1:17 a.m. as the storm raged outside and tides rose. It was a miracle of birth amid one of the worst storms to ever hit the metropolitan area.
Although power outages savaged most of Hudson County, Meadowlands Medical Center – located in Secaucus on the banks of the Hackensack River – maintained power and thus light and warmth thanks to back-up generators.
When the power was lost to the Secaucus area, Dr. Miriam Langer, an experienced and passionate health provider and her staff, worked tirelessly against the winds and the early hours to provide a miracle to a mother, who said she felt blessed and relieved after the whole procedure was over. Now Magdelene will join her two-year-old sister Emma and go back home to Bayonne safely with her parents.
In a press release issued after the event, hospital officials said, "MHMC has gone above and beyond the call of duty to make sure these kinds of miracles happen, even when conditions are at their worst. We made sure that everyone who needs medical attention will be as comfortable as possible with extra bedding and emergency provisions. In addition, we had fully staffed and equipped two Alternate Care Sites in West New York and at the Huber Street Elementary School in Secaucus. These two emergency medical centers were set up as part of our commitment to continue providing miracles."
The release went on to say, "How does MHMC make miracles happen every day? For us, it is simply a combination of professionalism and heart, merging the best doctors with the best equipment, coupled with an incredible maintenance and nursing staff. All miracles need help and Meadowlands delivers everyday, rain or shine."
Hospital updates
Bayonne Medical Center in Bayonne and Christ Hospital in Jersey City are back on full power after several days running on generator power. Both hospitals will resume normal emergency and other services, although hospital officials said that patients who have scheduled elective surgery should check with the hospital before assuming that surgery will take place, said Allyson Miller, spokesperson for the hospital. BMC also may not resume outpatient services right away so patients should also call the hospital to find out the latest information.
Meanwhile Hoboken University Medical Center is still dealing with the aftermath of flooding, but will continue urgent care services for walkup patients at its emergency room from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. until further notice. Those patients who require more substantial treatment such as delivery or surgery will be transferred to Christ Hospital, Bayonne Medical Center, or another area hospital.
For emergency situations, residents should call 9-1-1, but for general questions, they should call the general number to each hospital: Bayonne Medical Center at (201) 858-5000; Hoboken University Hospital at (201) 418-1000; or Christ Hospital at (201) 795-8200.
Memorial blood drive held for Michael Romano
A blood drive in memory of Michael Romano will be held by New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of the New York Blood Center, at St. Henry's Church, located at 77 West 28th St. in Bayonne, on Nov. 9 from 1 to 7 p.m.
Michael was stricken with cancer at the age of 4 ½ and succumbed to the disease in 2006 at age of 11.
Diagnosed with nerve cell cancer, Michael underwent extensive treatment and received more than 250 transfusions of either platelet or red blood cells. He was a former student of Midtown Community School.
"Even though he had been diagnosised with cancer since he was four-and-a-half-years-old, he didn't act sick," said his fourth grade teacher Elisha Mele recalled. "He always smiled and did his best when he was in class."
More than 45 kids a day are diagnosed with the same type of cancer from which Michael had died, more than 8,000 kids per year.
While being treated, Michael played baseball for Bayonne Cal Ripken and enjoyed fishing.
The Romano family is asking all eligible donors to give the gift of life at the Nov. 9 drive. A single blood donation can help save the lives of three people and will help maintain your community blood supply this holiday season.
For more information on donations or organizing a donation drive, call (800) 933-2566 or visit nybloodcenter.org.
Senators applaud EPA decision to allow more fuel into N.J.
U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) recently applauded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for helping expedite delivery of fuel to New Jersey. In a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the senators asked that the EPA temporarily ease some biofuel delivery rules at East Coast shipping facilities in order to relieve the fuel shortage in New Jersey caused by Superstorm Sandy, and the EPA granted this request.
Due to damaged fuel terminals in New Jersey, millions of gallons of biofuels are currently unable to reach the state. But with the recent decision by the EPA, fuel can now be transported by train to other facilities on the east coast, such as Baltimore, Maryland, then shipped up to New Jersey.
"We need to get fuel flowing into New Jersey, and the EPA's decision to allow fuel to be rerouted to New Jersey is an important step toward getting our state moving again. The fuel shortage and power outages at gas stations are holding our state back from a full recovery. We will continue working to do everything possible to get our first responders and all New Jerseyans moving again," said the senators.
Last week, the Senators called on President Obama to dispatch supplies of gasoline and fuel, and to ramp up federal efforts to restore power to gas stations and provide federal assistance with the investigation of gas price gouging claims. The Senators also worked with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to expedite the delivery of fuel trucks to New Jersey.
IMTT cleans up after storm
Macquarie Infrastructure Company announced that its operations affected by Hurricane Sandy are returning to normal with power restored as of Nov. 6 to most of its piers and inspections had cleared them to return to operation. No leakage was reported on any of its tanks or pipelines.


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This manual documents the LispWorks COM/Automation API, which provides a toolkit for using Microsoft COM and Automation with Common Lisp.
For details of using OLE and ActiveX controls with the CAPI, see the class
in the
LispWorks CAPI Reference Manual
This preface contains information you need when using the rest of the this manual. It discusses the purpose of this manual, the typographical conventions used, and gives a brief description of the rest of the contents.
The manual assumes that you are familiar with:
Unless otherwise stated, examples given in this document assume that the current package has
on its package-use-list.
Throughout this manual, certain typographical conventions have been adopted to aid readability.
Text which refers to Lisp forms is printed
like this
. Variables and values described in the reference sections are printed
like this
Entries in the reference sections are listed alphabetically and each entry is headed by the symbol name and type, followed by a number of fields providing further details. These fields consist of a subset of the following: "Summary", "Signature", "Superclasses", "Subclasses", "Slots", "Accessors", "Readers", "Compatibility Note", "Description", "Examples", and "See Also".
Entries with a long "Description" section usually have as their first field a short "Summary" providing a quick overview of the purpose of the symbol being described.
The "Signature" section provides details of the arguments taken by the functions and macros and values returned, separated by the
sign. The top level of parentheses is omitted, but parentheses used for destructuring in macros are included explicitly. Optional items in the syntax of macros are denoted using square brackets
[like this]
. Repeated items have an asterisk suffix like this*.
For classes, only direct sub- and superclasses are detailed in the "Subclasses" and "Superclasses" sections of each entry.
Examples show fragments of code and sometimes the results of evaluating them
Finally, the "See also" section provides a reference to other related symbols.
Please let us know if you find any mistakes in the LispWorks documentation, or if you have any suggestions for improvements.
The manual is divided into three sections, relating to COM, Automation and tools respectively. The COM and Automation sections each contain a user guide and a reference chapter.
Using COM introduces the principles behind the LispWorks COM API and describes how to use it to call COM methods and implement COM servers.
COM Reference Entries provides a detailed description of every function, macro, variable and type in the LispWorks COM API.
Using Automation introduces the LispWorks Automation API and describes how to use it to call Automation methods and implement Automation servers.
Automation Reference Entries provides a detailed description of every function, macro, variable and type in the LispWorks Automation API.
Tools describes some tools which are available in the LispWorks IDE to help with debugging applications using COM/Automation.


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Toward A New Arab Economy.
The turmoil in Libya and the Arab world today is a major conundrum. Citizens are upset and are revolting. In Libya, where conditions are worst, Western forces have already sided with civilian rebels in attempting to oust Gaddafi, with little or no exit strategy. Barack Obama, along with the Arab League, NATO, and other international groups, have expressed fervent wishes that the erratic leader step down. Now world leaders are faced with two possibilities in Libya.
Should Gaddafi somehow beat back the rebelling civilians to the point of surrender, we will see a new, perhaps more brutal Gaddafi in power—vested nonetheless, but probably still with immense waves of malice and unrest in his native population, once charged with such sincere revolutionary fever. If he is defeated, as most world powers want, Libya will be faced with a new problem—how a new leader will rule a nation so currently discontented.
The unsatisfactory position of Libya's proletariat is repeated elsewhere, if not to quite the violent extent, but the significant unrest at citizens' own governments is nonetheless strongly persistent elsewhere in the Arab world. Many Arab countries at the present time see popular revolts happening from Tunisia to Egypt, Yemen to Bahrain. In almost all these cases, it is the leader himself who is unpopular, and in almost all these cases, it is the lower and working classes of the respective nations who are starting the opposition. America's rich friends, already benefiting from the rule of the respective leaders, express little need for a change in power, particularly since the revolt is more over the conditions of the working class than over any particular religious or philosophical ideology.
But the problems remain large, and a time for action in the Middle East is obviously upon us. Something must be done to quell the revolts of the working class and to determine how we will leave Libya.
The problem is severe in the Arab world. About a third of all Libyans live below the poverty line. Yemen has almost half its citizens living in poverty, ex-Egypt president Mubarak had been siphoning billions from the populace for years, and the Tunisian revolt—the first such contemporary Arab revolt—was begun by a disgruntled street vendor who set himself on fire to protest unsatisfactory conditions for economic opportunity in his country. And now there has been this tremendous catalyst effect of discontent through populaces. What do we do?
I believe the problem in many of these countries, and in Libya in particular, can be assuaged through reforms made largely within the nations' governments.
This is what we as Westerners must teach them. Libya, in particular, does not have to be a unilaterally wealthy nation, with only those involved in oil commerce possessing such a huge portion of Libya's capital. Ninety-eight percent of Libya's industrial activity comes from oil and gas related activity.
Most, if not all, of the assets from this activity are controlled by the state.
Gaddafi's government has made billions in the oil industry, yet much of this money has been frittered and lost due to waste, corruption, conventional armaments procurement, and Libya's own erratic search to develop weapons of mass destruction. And although Libya boasts one of the highest per capita GDPs in all of Africa, almost 40% of the country is unemployed. The same is true in many other Arab nations. All these countries have a great deal of state control over wealth reserves, yet little system to distribute it.
Libya has extremely strong oil reserves. So do Yemen and Bahrain. Tunisia has a strong industrial sector. They all have excellent financial ties with many nations of the world, and they all currently face major civil unrest, despite having established themselves well as self-secure industrial nations, competing well and in fairness with other nations. This, then, therefore, leads to one stinging question. How can popular unrest be put to sleep in Libya, if not internationally, within the confines of each state itself? They are warring with themselves. And the U.S. needs an exit strategy for Libya.
Economic principles dictate that citizens not receiving compensation from their country, whether in the form of employment, kickbacks, or other revenue, will be dissatisfied. To increase fairness and general satisfaction with living standards in Libya and elsewhere, I believe there needs to be a way to take the billions of dollars in the state government and distribute it to the populace at large.
At the same time, ways to innovate and improve industrial practices must be made to increase employment opportunities. If employment opportunities are not present, the government should pay its citizens a share of the business revenues it controls to compensate for this shortfall. I believe that even a small payment, much like the Social Security or entitlement system in the United States and elsewhere, distributed to those unable to work, would do a great deal toward improving overall citizen satisfaction with the governments and with their standard of living, improving conditions of rebellion and unrest in many nations currently in a state of divided crisis.
State control of commerce, while doing much to strengthen the economy of the respective Arab nations themselves, and of those individuals fortunate enough to gain employment within the system, has failed in providing a fully working economic mechanism for the functioning of the entire countries as a whole. Libya and other divided nations in the region must foster economic opportunity in other sectors besides oil both to diversify their wealth portfolios and decrease unemployment, and must also implement a system of benefit to citizens not working so all people living there may enjoy the benefits of the nation's wealth stores. This makes sound sense and is well supported by Sharia law. I believe these reforms will not only lead to greater peace in the Arab world, and Libya in particular, but to a more solid social infrastructure for long term stability and prosperity throughout the region. Something must be done—conditions are not getting any better. Libya and the unstable nations in this region must see a way to achieve economic fairness that maintains the power of the nation and of the people at the same time once this crisis ends. I believe this is an excellent way to do it.
Andrew Weston founded and was the executive director of The Conservation Trust for five years. His first novel, "This Bluer Reality", should be published soon, and he is working hard on his second, "The Home Fire", as we speak. Find him on Twitter @AndrewRWeston


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Timeline Book Instructions
by Charmaine WistadPrintable version
First of all, I purchased a 9X12 artist's sketchbook with approx. 95 pages. Then I decided how I was going to divide the periods of history (more on that below) and I chose a different colored marker to coincide with each period. In my book, I put a 3/4 size page between the regular pages from the Year 1 AD on. The reason for the 3/4 size page is so that you can still see the numbers of the timeline above the page. It gives you extra space for that period if you need it. It is especially nice to have this extra space if you are going to add to the timeline over many years as you pass several times through the same period of history. To make this 3/4 page I just marked the cutting line with a pencil then used my rotary cutter to cut the top 1/4 of the page off.
Image showing the page that has been
trimmed at the top. This page is to be
used as extra space.
Here's the breakdown of the periods:
1 page.....In the Beginning (no dates specified ...because we really don't know)
1 page...The Fall (no dates)
1 page....The Flood (no dates)
1..(2 page spread) .....From the Flood to 3500 BC
17...(2 page spreads ).....Ancient Civilizations 3500 BC to 500 BC (100 years per 2 page spread)
10...(2 pg spreads).....Classical World 500 BC to 500 AD (100 years per 2 pg. spread) * from 1 AD on I added the extra page in the middle. You'll have to add that into your count if you want to do it that way.
9 1/2 ..(2 pg spreads)......Middle Ages 500AD to 1450 AD (100 years per 2 pg spread)
1 3/4...(2 pg. spreads) ..Renaissance and Reformation 1450 AD to 1610 (100 years per 2 pg. spread)
4...(2 pg spreads.).......Exploration and Colonization 1610 to 1750 ( 50 years per 2 pg. spread)
3 1/2..(2 pg. spreads) Industrial Revolution 1750-1914 ( 50 years per 2 pg. spread)
3 ...(2 pg. spreads ) The World Today 1914- 2050 ( 50 years per 2 pg. spread)
Here's what I did for colors:
In the Beginning.....black
The Fall and the Flood.....black
From Flood to 3500 BC......brown
Ancient Civilizations ....green
Classical World .....teal
Middle Ages......purple ( and I added an additional black line for the Dark Ages 500AD- 900AD)
Renaissance and Reformation......orange ( and I added a blue line for the Age of Exploration 1420-1550)
Exploration and Colonization......blue ( and added a purple line for Age of Kings and Queens 1610-1770)
Industrial Revolution .....red
World Today......black
On the pages where I added in a second color line to designate another period...I wrote the name of that period near the line in it's appropriate color.
Our sketchbook contains 95 pages. Even with adding in the extra 3/4 page from 1AD on I still have about 20 blank pages left at the back. So........
If I were going to do this over again , I would start making the 2 pg spreads at 50 year intervals from about 1 AD on and perhaps just skip the extra middle sheet. (If you have enough pages you could also do the entire book (from 3500 BC on) using 50 years per 2 page spread.)
Another possibility would be to use a 3 ring binder and loose pages. That way you could add them in as need be and you would not need the 3/4 pages. You could purchase drawing paper (which is heavier than copier paper) and then cut it to size and hole punch it. This would give you a nice weight paper to work with.
For timeline figures I used pictures I cut out or copied from and old Funk and Wagnall's encyclopedia, made photo copies from books, or I drew them myself. Some are also from a purchased timeline figure set from J & K Schooling. There timeline figures are meant to be put on the wall so they are a little large for a timeline book. However, the author does give permission to photocopy and reduce them in size.
Timeline Book and Plans by Charmaine Wistad
Copyright 2001 Charmaine Wistad
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Continuing my very-delinquent At-Game Recap from Opening Day from Part 1...
Whoops, in my Part 1 recap, I forgot to mention one celebrity sighting, which occurred as I made my way down from the loge to the field level. Near the Dodgers' silent auction tables (on the suite level, near the escalators) was none other than the Penguin, Ron Cey:
This marked the second time I had met Cey in person, and during both times I noticed how Cey was incredibly polite and receptive to fans. Last time, we met under much more sedate circumstances, and he ended up taking time to have a fairly personal and revealing conversation with myself and my father. This time, it had to have been a little more challenging for Cey to remain composed, as he was literally accosted by fan after fan who were trying to get autographs and pictures with the 1970s Dodger legend, shoving paper in front of his face and muscling in to take shots before he even obliged sometimes. Cey, to his credit, maintained his calm and cool despite the encroachments on his time and personal space, and I have to hand it to him for not losing his temper at some of the fans, who were a little aggressive. (I took my picture early on, before he was surrounded--asked permission first--and Cey respectfully complied.)
In fact, aggressiveness ended up being one of the themes of Opening Day, as it seemed like the crowd was a bit more charged and less civil than years prior. A couple of seats in front of us was a very happy gentleman who kept standing up and yelling "Agua!" at the top of his lungs, looking at the rows behind him for validation. It was annoying, and a little ridiculous, but the fan didn't do it during key at-bats, and he wasn't cursing or threatening anyone, so it was weird but cool.
Or maybe not so cool, to someone else. About three innings into the game, security came down the aisle and asked the guy to mellow out; I believe they told him that they had heard he was cursing. This intervention, unsurprisingly, proceeded to piss the guy off; after all, he was indeed being mildly annoying, but he wasn't cursing or making anyone feel uncomfortable (as far as I could tell), so he took umbrage at the cops' allegations. And then he got more vocal, and a little more histrionic. And an inning later, the cops came down, and took him away.
Normally, I'd applaud this sort of amplified security presence; after all, it's Opening Day and a packed crowd, there are plenty of kids around, and if someone who is clearly going out of his way to be seen and heard is bothering other fans and impeding their ability to enjoy the game, then a verbal warning and subsequent consequences seems a reasonable course of action.
But on the flipside, said security was nowhere to be found when a fight broke out a couple of rows behind us. And when a friend of mine went up the aisle to get some more beer, and found cops wiping up red liquid from the ground at the top of the aisle, he realized (and the cop confirmed) that it wasn't a ketchup spill. This violent environment isn't the kind of Opening Day at which I want to spend. I don't want Dodger Stadium to turn into a police state for home games, but maybe there's a better balance to be struck between guys screaming for water and guys throwing punches. At the very least, we can get ushers who are more dilgent and visible in walking up and down the aisles and making sure everyone is keeping civil; it appeared from a cursory glance that ushers had been cut back this season as well (or perhaps they weren't as visible).
But back to the game.
The crowd was still rolling in as the flag was rolling out in the pre-game ceremonies (I took a lot of these pictures, partially as I was trying to capture the fireworks that were launched from the field following each of our nine starters' introductions):
And it's pretty funny that I took the same shot as SoSG regular Josh S., calling attention to the Dodgers' woeful lack of proofreaders (must have been another one of those McCourt divorce-related cutbacks). I mean, seriously. "Lightening"? And "Farenheit"? In the same sentence? As the Dodgers try and educate us on science facts? What a disaster:
Note the lack of a CPK-sponsored strikeout meter, below the right-field scoreboard:
And here's one more shot at the game, as afternoon shadows started to cross the field:
Despite the Dodgers' Opening Day triumph, the highlight of the day for me was the opportunity to meet SoSG regulars Josh S. (and his lovely wife) and Dusty Baker. Josh S. and I said hello before the game began, as the crowds were just starting to file in, so we had a chance to talk a little bit and shoot the bull about our respective experiences playing mid-week hooky. Dusty and I met at the end of the game, which yielded a much shorter conversation. By this time of the game I was pretty buzzed, but I do recall thanking Dusty for his regularity in helping us post the Dodgers' starting lineups in GameThreads.
I recall when Dusty started doing this on SoSG GTs, around a year or two ago (rather than Orel or I fumbling around trying to add this to each game), I had to pause to realize how incredible it was that the blog had evolved (matured?) to receive input and contributions from the whole SoSG family, not just those of us "on staff."
That experience, along with the contributions and feedback from a number of you, has made my involvement with SoSG so much more rewarding as this blog has evolved. And this is why it was a real thrill to meet both of them at the game, as (like many of you SoSG regulars) the SoSG readers have become so much of the reason why we have kept this blog going, and why we invest time in it in the first place. I'm continually impressed with the SoSG readers' wit, sarcasm, baseball understanding, humor, pop-culture and trivia knowledge, and delicate balance between optimism and pessimism. So thank you for all your readership and comments and emails and puzzle answers and feedback--and get ready for more surprises in store this year.
No matter how badly this Dodgers season ends up.
Oh yeah, and one more thing. I'd comment on how awful the traffic was on the way out, but I fell asleep in the backseat of a car my aunt was driving. (Thanks, Auntie!)


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It's a fine line between a ridiculous action plot that delights the viewer into giddy, insistent acceptance and one that sends the viewer into an arms-crossed state of annoyance. It's all about the return on the investment of credulity: what do you get for meeting this movie halfway (if not more than halfway)? In the case of Face/Off, you get genius casting that makes the picture seem like the star vehicle to end all star vehicles; you also get director John Woo triumphantly wielding Hollywood resources for one of his patented gonzo action ballets. Trust me: it's worth it.
Despite those balletic shootouts, Face/Off seems tonally pitched somewhere between opera and comic book. The obsessive Jean Valjean of the story is FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta). Under Archer's relentless pressure, his covert anti-terrorist team has been relentlessly tracking insane terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). It's more than business for Archer; it's personal. Troy accidentally killed Archer's young son while trying to kill Archer, and Archer won't rest until he has justice. Unfortunately, his obsession-driven absence from home has tainted his life with wife Eve (Joan Allen) and teen daughter Jamie (Dominique "Lolita" Swain). The satisfying supporting cast of FBI agents and goons includes Harve Presnell and John Carroll Lynch (both of Fargo), CCH Pounder (The Shield), Robert Wisdom (The Wire), Jamie Denton (Desperate Housewives), Nick Cassavetes (director of Alpha Dog), Thomas Jane (The Mist), and comedian Margaret Cho, among others.
In the kind of spectacular action sequence you don't see too often outside of a computer these days, Archer captures Troy after chasing his airplane directly into a closed hangar (and it wouldn't be a Woo picture is they didn't have it out with guns as well). The problem: Troy goes into a coma before revealing the deets on his latest terrorist plot: a bomb set to destroy Los Angeles. With the countdown clock ticking, FBI doc Malcolm Walsh (Colm Feore) suggests a radical idea: a face transplant between Archer and Troy, allowing Archer to infiltrate Erewhon Prison and trick Castor's creepy brother Pollux (Alessandro Nivola) into giving up the goods. (Nowhere land Erewhon, introduced by the line "The Geneva Convention is void here. Amnesty International doesn't know we exist" reflects our long-standing fear-desire for Abu Ghraib-style hellholes.)
If you're not already having fun, try not to now, with Cage playing Travolta in a futuristic take-off on White Heat. Still unconvinced? How about after Castor Troy wakes up from his coma and puts on Archer's face? The only thing more fun than Cage playing Travolta is Travolta playing Cage. And put them together in one scene? Forgeddaboutit! Face/Off is one for the career highlight reel, and these guys know it, putting their all into full-bodied performances with dramatic heft and ripe comic touches, whether it's Cage donning a priest's outfit and groping a choir girl, or Travolta (as Cage) blurting to Cage (as Travolta), "Ooo-ee—you're good-looking!"
Travolta's Troy says, "Ah, yes. The eternal battle between good and evil. Saint and sinner. But you're still not having any fun!" Face/Off provides the sort of premise that's just on Woo's level, allowing for clever visual commentary on the nature of identity, personal violation, and, yep, good versus evil. Take the face-off staged on two sides of a mirror unit, with the characters simultaneously pointing guns at each other and their reflections, as well as (on the other side of the mirrors) their own faces. This is your action movie on drugs—any questions?
Woo's extensive storyboards lead to a beautifully and confidently shot and edited action film, with his trademark slo-mo leaps, two-fisting of guns, Mexican standoffs, flowing overcoats, and rustled pigeons, but this particular picture seems to liberate Woo to stranger heights, as in the explosive apartment shootout that places at its center a boy named Adam (David McCurley), watching the mayhem but hearing "Over the Rainbow" on his portable headphones—it's a haunting image of disconnect and tainted youth that only seems more resonant today (and naturally, Adam will meet Eve before the picture is over). Like the whole movie, the scene is excessive, it's audacious, and it's terrific. As Jamie wails during the climactic shootout (leading into a double-climactic speedboat chase), "Will someone please tell me what planet I'm on?!" Yes. You're on Planet Woo.
The astonishing new Blu-Ray special collector's edition of Face/Off (appropriately "mirrored" on DVD) makes the deacde-old film shine like new. The image is razor-sharp; in fact, in the airplane hangar shootout, a stuntman's wires are clearly visible (this seems, though, more a flaw of the source than the transfer). I have absolutely no complaints about the image, and you can't go wrong with a potent 6.1 DTS track. This is a great presentation of a vintage action extravaganza.
Putting the "special" in special edition, Paramount presents all of the bonus features in full HD—it's tremendously satisfying to watch these bonus features in crisp quality instead of downshifting to standard def, as has so often been the case on Blu-Ray. Kudos go to Paramount not only for the picture quality, but a commitment to producing quality extras, starting with two thorough commentary tracks. The first features director John Woo along with writers Mike Werb and Michael Colleary; the second records the writers on their own.
Seven Deleted Scenes (8:26 with "Play All" and optional commentary by Woo, Werb, and Colleary) include "Castor Kills the Janitor" (:36), "Archer Weeps" (1:09), "Childhood Lessons" (1:05), "Hideaway Shootout" (2:03), "Archer vs. Castor Finale" (2:12), "Will Dad Be Dad Again?" (:11) and "Alternate Ending" (1:08). The extended "Hideaway Shootout," preserving Woo's original untrimmed vision, and the creepily ambiguous, Lynchian alternate ending are especially interesting.
The feature-length The Light and the Dark: The Making of Face/Off (1:04:20) includes valuable outtakes and behind-the-scenes B-roll, as well as extensive interviews. Cage and Travolta appear in excellent vintage interviews, and the rest are retrospective chats, with Woo, Werb, Colleary, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, producers Terence Chang and Barrie M. Osborne, first assistant director Arthur Anderson, production designer Neil Spisak, weapons coordinator Robert "Rock" Galotti, special make-up effects man Kevin Yagher, and stunt coordinator Brian Smrz. The doc details the project's development from a science-fiction epic to a Woo picture, as well as Woo's methodology.
Many of the same faces return in "John Woo: A Life in Pictures" (26:03), which gives a personal biography of Woo and a selective look at his film work. Director John Carpenter adds his testimony to that of Woo, Anderson, Chang, Galotti, Yagher, and Smrz. It's a heartfelt tribute to a man with a remarkable history and work ethic. Lastly, we get the Theatrical Trailer (2:07), a very cool and memorable one starting with a specially shot Travolta monologue. It's great to see Face/Off again, and in such style on Blu-Ray in a bona fide Special Collector's Edition.
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Panasonic Viera TC-P55VT30 55" Plasma 1080p 3D HDTV
Oppo BDP-93 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Player
Denon AVR2112CI Integrated Network A/V Surround Receiver
Pioneer SP-BS41-LR Bookshelf Speaker (2)
Pioneer SP-C21 Center Speaker
Pioneer SW-8 Subwoofer


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DALLAS (AP) — The company that makes Twinkies, Wonder bread and Ding Dongs says it's making a final offer to workers to accept cost-cutting before it asks a bankruptcy court to impose the cuts.
Hostess Brands Inc. wants the Teamsters and bakers' unions to accept reduced pension benefits and changes in work rules to lower costs. It wants to outsource some delivery work.
The company said Saturday that if the unions reject the offer, it will push ahead with efforts in bankruptcy court to throw out the unions' collective bargaining agreements. A union official warned that could lead to a strike.
Hostess Brands filed for Chapter 11 protection in January, its second trip through bankruptcy court in less than a decade. A trial to decide the fate of the union contracts is scheduled to start Tuesday.
Hostess wants to withdraw from some multi-employer pension plans, although it opened the door Saturday to possibly rejoining a few of the financially strongest plans. New hires would be covered by the same 401(k)-type retirement accounts used by nonunion and management employees.
The company's new CEO, Gregory F. Rayburn, said Hostess wants to cut annual pension contributions from $103 million to $25 million. Hostess also wants to change work rules that sometimes require two trucks instead of one, and to outsource deliveries to small stores.
Ken Hall, general secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters, said the union would reject the company's proposal and make a counteroffer Sunday. He said Hostess had provided only the barest details of how the new pensions program would work, and that employees already accepted big concessions in 2008.
Workers represented by the Teamsters and the bakery and confectionary workers' unions voted in February to authorize a strike, and Hall vowed Saturday that workers would walk off the job if the bankruptcy judge agrees to the company's cuts.
Rayburn said that if workers strike, the company will be forced to shut down and liquidate.
Hostess makes sugary confections familiar to generations of Americans and it bakes Wonder bread, a leading white bread.
Consumers increasingly have been buying other snacks, such as yogurt, and more wheat bread. White bread's popularity has plunged — in 2000, it was eaten in 54 percent of all U.S. homes compared to 36 percent last year, according to consumer-marketing research firm NPD Group.
Rayburn blamed Hostess' problems on high pension and labor costs that led to insufficient investment in the company and new products. Rayburn said he doesn't buy the healthy-diet explanation.
"If that were the case and that was sort of the downfall, there wouldn't be any chocolate companies out there either," he said. "There's a market for Twinkies and Ho Hos and Ding Dongs."
As part of its turnaround plan, Hostess wants to raise at least $400 million from current lenders or new investors or by selling brands. Rayburn said he has talked with a potential buyer of one of its small, regional brands.
Before the company filed for bankruptcy protection, eight top executives got pay raises last year of up to 80 percent. This month, some agreed to take $1 a year until the company comes out of bankruptcy or Dec. 31, whichever comes first, while others gave up their pay raises.


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Petitions to Stop Muslim Immigration Into Western Democracies
For U.S. citizens, ACT! for America has a new petition to stop Syrian Refugees from entering the U.S. It is an open letter to Congress. Read about it here, complete with links to the petition: No Syrian Refugees to the U.S.
Here are things U.S. citizens can do: Three Ways to Tell Your Legislator No Refugees.
Petition to Temporarily Halt Muslim Immigration to the United States.
Here's one for the UK: Stop allowing immigrants into the UK.
Here's one to stop refugees coming into Canada: Refugee Pause.
When you come across more petitions, please email them to me here.
If you want to create your own petition, you are welcome to use the following text:
We have no way of determining which Muslims are Islamic supremacists and which completely reject Sharia law. Islamic supremacists seek to undermine and eventually overthrow democratic countries. Orthodox Islam has a political goal: the domination of Islam over all other religions and governments.
When Muslims move to a country, a certain percentage of them start agitating for special considerations. They start to organize and influence the nation politically in a way that is good for Islam and bad for freedom and equality. When the percentage of the Muslims in a nation's population becomes high enough, freedoms and rights begin to disappear.
Until we have a way of determining who is an Islamic supremacist and who is a heterodox Muslim, no more Muslims should be allowed to immigrate into free countries.
Does this seem extreme? It's not as bad as it might seem. Each country already chooses who can immigrate and who cannot. We are not under any obligation to allow anyone to immigrate who wants to. They do it with our blessing or they don't do it.
So this policy is simply adding to the already-existing filter.
This is not racist. Islam is not a race; it's an ideology. The policy of stopping Muslim immigration is simply acknowledging the reality of the Islamic teachings. If you don't know what Islam teaches, please take the pledge and read the Quran.
There are Muslims who reject the violent and intolerant verses of the Qur'an. But Islam also teaches the principle of "religious deception" (taqiyya) and we have no way of knowing who is sincere and who is deliberately deceiving us.
We should not take the chance, at least until we find some way to discover who genuinely rejects the political goals of Islam and who does not. In the meantime, we should stop all immigration into free countries by Muslims while we can.
Right now it would be impossible to pass this legislation because too few people know even the most basic precepts of Islam. Until a large percentage of our population knows about Islam, we will not be able to politically protect ourselves from the Islamic invasion now underway.
The situation is urgent because at some point Muslims will comprise too large a voting block for politicians to ignore. We must stop immigration soon. The first step is to show political leaders there is widespread support for such a policy. So please sign the petition for your country. And get all your friends to sign it. Post it on Facebook. Do whatever you can to get the word out. Let's get this done.


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" Like so many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child," wrote Charles Dickens. "And his name is David Copperfield."
Of all of Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most closely reflects the events of his own life. The story of an abandoned waif who discovers life and love in an indifferent world, this classic tale of childhood is populated with a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains who number among the author's greatest creations.
"David Copperfield is filled with characters of the most astonishing variety, vividness, and originality," noted Somerset Maugham. "They are not realistic and yet they abound with life. There never were such people as the Micawbers, Pegotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination, but they have so much vigor, they are so consistent, they are presented with so much conviction, that you believe in them. They are extravagant, but not unreal, and when you have once to know them you can never quite forget them." T. S. Eliot agreed: "Dickens excelled in character; in the creation of characters of greater intensity than human beings." And Virginia Woolf concluded: "In David Copperfield, though char-
acters swarm and life flows into every creek and cranny, some common feelings--youth, gaiety, hope--envelops the tumult, brings the scattered parts together, and invests the most perfect of all the Dickens novels with an atmosphere of beauty."
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Top 5 Ways to Connect with Latina Moms
In a nutshell, Latina Moms are unique, as they not only make purchases for themselves, but also for their families. They drive household purchase decisions around mealtimes, entertainment, shopping, and more. This means that every industry —from cars to cookies—can benefit from more insight on this sought-after consumer. It's why Latina Moms have been, currently are, and will continue to be a key target for leading companies.
Our latest project focused on their general attitudes, shopping habits, meal preparation, language choice, and more. Our research included online surveys, in-person ethnographic studies, secondary research, and case studies of successful campaigns that targeted these consumers.
What we found was not only fascinating, but actionable. Here are 5 key insights:
Be Authentic
Latina moms are more likely to be foreign born and unacculturated relative to the overall Hispanic population. They also have strong connections to their cultural heritage. They'll respond positively to authentic, culturally relevant cues and communications in either Spanish or English.
Consider Language
Spanish usage is high when emotions come into play or when communicating with loved ones – with 77% of Hispanic moms speaking Spanish throughout the day. Consider Spanish-language or bilingual communication—whether the benefit is functional or emotional. They will likely appreciate the extra step to connect with them.
Go Digital or Go Home
In 2008, the internet penetration gap between Hispanic and non-Hispanic moms was 20% (74% vs. 94%, respectively). In 2013, that gap closed to just 8%, with 90% of Hispanic moms online. They spend their time online engaged in both functional tasks and personal entertainment. Ensure your communication strategy includes digital touch points—especially mobile—that maintain consistency with the overall brand message.
Sweeten the Deal
Nearly 75% of Hispanic moms use Facebook. The Facebook mobile app is their most recommended app with friends and family. They also love deals and coupons. Make sure your brand has a mobile optimized Facebook profile where you not only build a personal relationship with them, but also offer coupons, discounts, and sweepstakes.
Connect Through Food
Nearly all (94%) Hispanic moms say they prepare healthy meals for their families almost every day. Their perception of healthiness, however, relates to more natural, complete, and culturally connected meals. Explain how your product can help them prepare those kinds of dishes. Actively assuage any guilt they may feel because of convenience elements or offerings.
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Order of Omega
Order of Omega was founded at the University of Miami in 1959 by a group of fraternity men, who felt that the individuals in the Greek community should be recognized for their service to the fraternity system and University. The organization that started at Memphis soon spread to other universities throughout the nation during the following years. In the Spring of 1977, Order of Omega voted to become a co-ed organization. Today, there are over five hundred Order of Omega chapters in the United States and Canada, with approximately ten new chapters being chartered each year.
- Recognize the fraternity men and women who have attained a high standard of leadership in interfraternity activities
- Inspire other Greek members to strive for similar conspicuous attainment
- Unite the Greek community as a whole
- Bring together members of the faculty, alumni, and Greek student members
- Create an atmosphere where ideas and issues can be discussed openly across Greek lines
Order of Omega at Trine:
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This is the first of a special series of posts on the digital history of psychology from members of the PsyBorgs Lab at York University, in Toronto, Canada. The full series of posts can be found here.
In our current moment, the network has become one of the most prominent metaphors for the social. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is one tool used to evaluate the perceptual and behavioral consequences of interpersonal associations. The language of networks has been important to the history of science, in no small part due to the influence of Bruno Latour and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). In this post, I will outline one digital history method that brings together the insights from both fields.
Social Network Analysis offers powerful techniques for measuring and visualizing relations. Actor-Network Theory is important when considering what counts as an actor as it encourages us to take seriously the agency of the nonhuman. I am particularly interested in what SNA measures might mean in a history of science context where the relations that exist between humans and things are often as constitutive of the resulting knowledge as interpersonal interactions. Bringing together these two approaches allows for what one might call (somewhat tongue-in) Multispecies Network Analysis. This is a form of network analysis that speaks to history of science concerns about the materiality of scientific practice, the role of instruments, and the agency of experimental subjects.
This approach was inspired by an ongoing project on the moral authority of animal models in the history of sexuality. How did the experiments of animal behaviorists shape how sexologists, psychotherapists, and policy-makers understood sexuality during the twentieth century? How did the very observation of animal behaviour change over the long sexual revolution?
Inspired by a post by Miriam Posner (a very helpful guide for getting started with network analysis), I began to assemble the scientists and organisms that interested me into a network. I coded for scientist, organism, and the year the scientist first published a study on that organism. The focus was on the United States from 1910 to 1960. This graph is undirected as it are intended to be read in a reciprocal fashion. It is an image of both different scientists favoring certain organisms in their research and of different species captivating the interest of certain humans. By design, the visualization is ambivalent on the question of who is acting on whom in these encounters.
The most visually striking finding of this analysis is also probably the least surprising. Rats have the most connectivity. Nevertheless, this is a fun graph for historians of psychology as it features many recognizable names of individuals not necessarily associated with either comparative psychology and/or sex research. For example, one can find ecological psychologist Roger Barker, psychometrician Quinn McNemar, psychoanalyst Edward Kempf, humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner, developmental psychologist Jerome Kagan, and historian Julian Jaynes. Often their presence represents their experiences as graduate students. While Maslow's apprenticeship in Harry Harlow's laboratory is fairly well known, some of the other relations are not and may cast new light on interpreting their subsequent careers.
The conclusion to The History of Psychology as Multispecies Network will be posted on October 15th. Come back then to find out what came after this initial visualization.


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"Most returning veterans don't have PTSD or difficulty with anger or aggressiveness, but for the small subset who do, this study helps to identify related risk factors," said Eric Elbogen, PhD, lead author of the study, an assistant professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and a staff psychologist at the VA Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
"The data showed that PTSD symptoms such as flashbacks or avoiding reminders of a trauma were not consistently connected to aggressiveness," said Elbogen. "Instead, we found that post-deployment anger and hostility were associated with PTSD hyperarousal symptoms: sleep problems, being 'on guard,' jumpiness, irritability, and difficulty concentrating."
From interviews with 676 veterans, Elbogen and VA colleagues identified features associated with anger and hostility, which result in increased risk of post-deployment adjustment problems as veterans transition to civilian life.
Veterans who said they had difficulty controlling violent behavior were more likely to report witnessing pre-military family violence, firing a weapon during deployment, being deployed more than 1 year, and experiencing current hyperarousal symptoms. There was an association with a history of traumatic brain injury, but it was not as robust as the relationship to hyperarousal symptoms. Elbogen said, "Our data suggest the effects of traumatic brain injury on anger and hostility are not straightforward."
Veterans with aggressive urges were more likely than others to report hyperarousal symptoms, childhood abuse, a family history of mental illness, and reexperiencing a traumatic event. Difficulty managing anger was associated with being married, having a parent with a criminal history, and avoiding reminders of the trauma, as well as hyperarousal symptoms.
"As we learn more about risk factors and how to manage them, we'll be helping not only the veterans but their families and society at large. Veterans with these adjustment problems should seek help through the VA so we can best serve those who have served our country" Elbogen said.
The study will appear on June 15 at AJP in Advance, the online advance edition of The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP), the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association.
Funding for this study was provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Mental Health.


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Live online video is quickly emerging as an engagement tool for marketers looking to cut through the clutter of communicating with external audiences. Whether the video is used to extend the reach of product launch events, to create engaging descriptions of merchandise for sale or to provide richer forms of customer support, the technology is helping to transform best practices in corporate outreach. Based on a survey of 1,007 executives in Q4 2013, live video within the enterprise can serve as a catalyst for increased productivity and improved corporate brand image, amongst a variety of other attributes.
Wainhouse Research, an independent market research firm that focuses on critical issues in the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market, in partnership with Ustream, has uncovered many key insights in "The Evolving Role of Live Online Video in Corporate Marketing."
Several findings from the latest report include :
- Increased access will drive adoption – Sixty-three percent of live online video users report that the technology is "easier to use and more reliable than in years past"
- Live video will begin to take up more corporate website real estate – Fifty-five percent of organizations plan to expand their use of video on corporate websites in 2014
- Enterprise users will stack technology solutions for maximum impact, using live video as the centerpiece – Survey respondents find that live video is most effective when combined with presentation slides and on-screen data
- Live video is an effective way to generate sales leads and acquire customers – Sales and marketing executives find particular value in live video's ability to socially generate sales leads
- Seeing is believing – Executives that use live online video most frequently have a vastly different worldview when it comes to business communications effectiveness
Feeling inspired yet? Businesses have harnessed live video for a variety of external and internal communications needs. Vooza, a video comic strip about the startup world, recently created a Ustream-inspired video snippet for earnings calls. Check out the video: http://vooza.com/videos/earnings-call/
Ustream founder and CEO, Brad Hunstable and Wainhouse Research senior analyst, Steve Vonder Haar, will be hosting an interactive webinar on July 22, 2014 to further discuss live video trends within the workplace.
Webinar: July 22, 2014, 10 a.m. PDT
Title: "Live video for hiring, firing, and everything in between"
Registration and more information: http://www.ustream.tv/lp/wainhouse3
"Live video is no one-trick pony online," said Steve Vonder Haar, senior analyst with Wainhouse Research. "Looking beyond the popular corporate video stalwarts of employee training and executive presentations, executives are discovering that live online video also can play a central role in more creative corporate messaging for external audiences. As a result, marketing applications for live online video are poised to boost viewership and adoption – fostering even greater awareness of the role that the technology can play in day-to-day business communications."
"Live video is an incredibly powerful medium and even though the uncut, raw nature may be intimidating, the upside cannot be dismissed," said Brad Hunstable, founder and CEO of Ustream. "Thousands of companies rely on our business solutions to meet their growing needs to be more productive and build deeper relationships. Fun videos like the Vooza earnings call only scrape the surface of possibilities — ultimately, Ustream is a socially-fueled way to cut through the clutter and be heard in today's constantly connected society."
The Wainhouse Research report released this week and the July 22 webinar are the third in a series of white papers and webinars tracking the corporate use, deployment and executive perceptions of online video, Business Video Now. The first in the series, "Executive Visions on Video in the Workplace," notes that C-level executives are using the technology at more than triple the rate of associate-level employees, and the second report, "Gauging Viewership Trends in Live Online Video Business Communications," projects live video business communications consumption will nearly triple by 2017.
To download "The Evolving Role of Live Online Video in Corporate Marketing": http://www.ustream.tv/lp/wainhousewp3_web
About Ustream
Ustream is the world's most scalable and social live video platform. Originally created to connect remote military servicemen to significant personal and cultural events, the company has evolved into a socially-fueled vehicle enabling anyone to reach global audiences and share experiences in real-time. Whether it's a press conference, product launch, educational class, or an act of citizen journalism – Ustream's Cloud Platform offers users high-quality streaming capabilities, deep social networking integration, and the scalability to reach millions of viewers concurrently. Our mission is to empower businesses and societies to be more transparent, more productive, and build deeper relationships through the power of video.
Founded in 2007 by John Ham, Brad Hunstable, Gyula Feher, Ustream is located in San Francisco and Budapest. Company customers and partners include Cisco, Sony, Discovery Communications, Georgetown University, and Samsung. Ustream is a privately-owned company. For more information on Ustream, visit Ustream.tv, Twitter.com/Ustream, or Facebook.com/Ustream.
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