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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
*Remarks below*
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke traveled to Milwaukee, Wisc., today and delivered the keynote address to the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, discussing the Obama administration's strategy to spur job creation, promote innovation and energy independence, help businesses succeed, and position America to win the future by out-innovating, out-educating and out-building our global competition.
Earlier in the day, Locke toured Rexnord Industries, a leading manufacturer of process and motion control and water management products with operations and associates worldwide, and highlighted the importance of exports to strengthening the economic recovery. He also hosted a roundtable discussion with local small- and medium-sized businesses to hear directly from them about the challenges they are facing and their ideas to encourage the recovery. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett joined Locke at today's events.
Locke's visit to Milwaukee is part of the White House Business Council's "Winning the Future" outreach effort to local business leaders across the country. He previously addressed the Columbus Chamber of Commerce on February 23, while Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sanchez addressed the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce on March 8.
See Locke's remarks from today's keynote address to the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce
Hello, everybody, it's great to be here today. Thanks to Mayor Tom Barrett, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and the rest of the chambers who are serving as our hosts.
This time last week I wasn't sure I'd be here, on account of the budget situation in Washington. But Congress came together. In the process, they prevented 800,000 Americans from being thrown out of work this week.
That's critical because it would've been the height of irresponsibility to shut down the government at a time when our economy is showing the most strength since the recession hit over two years ago.
National retail sales just had their strongest quarterly gain since 2001.
Manufacturing activity just hit its highest level since 2004.
Finally, the jobs picture is improving. Since February 2010, the U.S. economy has added private sector jobs every single month, with private employment increasing by 1.8 million jobs.
And this past month's increase of more than 200,000 private sector jobs for the second consecutive month represents the largest such bump since April of last year.
But 8.5 percent unemployment in Wisconsin and 8.8 percent unemployment nationally is no reason to celebrate – not with millions of families still struggling to:
- Keep a roof over their head;
- Put food on the table; and
- Pay the college tuition of their children.
That's why helping American businesses grow and create jobs remains a singular priority of the Obama administration.
At his State of the Union address earlier this year, you heard President Obama explain why.
He said the most important contest our nation faces is not between Democrats and Republicans, but between America and countries around the world that are competing like never before for the jobs and industries of the future.
To win that competition, the president said we'd have to:
- Out-educate;
- Out-innovate; and
- Out-build the rest of the world.
So today, I'd like to talk about how we do it – and how the president's economic agenda will support the ambitious economic development efforts already underway in the Milwaukee region.
This city helped teach America how to make and build things. Milwaukee innovators helped develop everything from a more-efficient steam boiler to the snowmobile – and those goods were sold around the world through the teeming port on the west shore of Lake Michigan.
Milwaukee has built on this foundation to become a state-of-the-art manufacturing epicenter and a hub of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Today the Milwaukee region is home to a high-tech industry that is among the Midwest's best, with $2.3 billion in combined payroll from local technology industries. It also ranks among the top five cities in the number of Fortune 500 company headquarters, as a share of the population.
These companies are supported by a thriving research base led by public-private research organizations like the Milwaukee Institute and numerous colleges and universities.
You're also capitalizing on your natural resources. Under the leadership of Senator Herb Kohl, Mayor Barrett and countless local partners, you are working to turn Milwaukee into a world-class water research hub and a thriving regional innovation cluster.
The Milwaukee Water Council estimates that this region already generates $10 billion in revenue from freshwater technologies and products like meters, sensors and filters.
You have recognized the cluster's value, and the Department of Commerce – through its Economic Development Administration – is supporting those efforts with grants to help understand how to create jobs and private investment in this important field.
Milwaukee is also aggressively courting industries of the future, like clean energy.
A few weeks ago, President Obama spoke of the urgency of breaking America's oil addiction and moving towards cleaner, more efficient domestic sources of energy.
In the last two years we've made huge steps toward that goal with:
- ground-breaking fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks;
- historic investments in electric vehicles and the advanced batteries that power them; and
- major new investments in next-generation clean energy sources like wind, solar and biofuels; and a national smart grid that can deliver that energy to homes and businesses across America.
And going forward, President Obama has set an ambitious goal of reducing our foreign oil imports by a third over the next decade.
Wisconsin is helping move us in that direction.
Wisconsin's solar and wind industries are booming, with the number of solar installers in Milwaukee up 250 percent since early 2009. Nearly 90 percent of Wisconsin's wind capacity has come online since mid-2008, which means a lot of great work has been done in a short period of time.
Wisconsin is also leading the way on biofuels. In Madison, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center is figuring out new ways to bring down the costs of making these advanced renewable fuels.
All these efforts will do more than simply change our energy consumption. As we recover from this recession, the shift to clean energy has the potential to create scores of new businesses and new jobs – but only if we seize the opportunity.
Wisconsin, to be sure, is doing its part.
But for all its commitment to innovation, Milwaukee has not been immune from the upheaval in the global economy these last few years.
Jobs have been lost. Factories shut down.
You can point to a lot of reasons why the U.S. economy failed catastrophically in 2008.
But fundamentally, the problem is that America lost sight of our true economic strength:
Innovation. Technology. Scientific progress.
America didn't invest enough or invest effectively in research, education, or infrastructure.
We funneled too much capital and too much talent to speculation instead of innovation.
In fact, a 2009 study found that no advanced industrialized economy had done LESS over the last decade to improve its economic competitiveness than the United States.
The upshot was that national job growth in the 2000s was the lowest of any decade stretching back to the 1940s. That's true even if you stopped measuring BEFORE the recession started.
To rebuild our economy, we can't rely on the same debt-fueled economic schemes that failed catastrophically in 2008.
Instead, we need to build businesses that create long-lasting economic value.
We need businesses like GE Healthcare Technologies pioneering new medical innovations.
We need companies like:
- Marshall and Ilsley Corporation financing entrepreneurs; and
- Businesses like Rockwell Automation developing ideas for breakthrough sustainable energy and integrated systems technologies.
The role of the Obama administration, and of the Commerce Department, is to help increase the odds of these things happening to provide smart incentives, targeted investments and assistance to allow all of you to succeed.
When President Obama says that America needs to win the future, that's a national imperative.
But it won't be achieved with a single national solution.
Instead, it will be hundreds of regions across America, just like this one, charting their own paths.
Here are just four ways the Obama administration is making that path smoother and more successful.
First, investments in critical infrastructure, because Milwaukee businesses need quality roads, bridges, airports and electric grids to efficiently speed their goods and service across the globe.
Early in the administration, we made the largest new investment in America's infrastructure since Eisenhower built the interstate highway system in the 1950s. In Wisconsin alone, the Recovery Act funded:
- 475 different transportation projects worth $670 million;
- The creation or improvement of more than 3,800 miles of Wisconsin roads; and
- Enhancing or replacing 175 bridges statewide.
We made a long-overdue down payment to upgrade old infrastructure, but also to build the infrastructure of the future.
The Recovery Act included funds to help America reach the president's goal of connecting 98 percent of Americans to high-speed Internet by 2015.
It's a goal we need to meet if we want:
- Our kids – no matter where they live – to be able to take online courses from the best universities in the world, or simply courses not available in their high schools and middle schools; and
- Rural businesses to have the same access to global markets as their counterparts in the cities.
In Wisconsin, the Commerce Department has already awarded grants that will enable local Wisconsin organizations to build about 850 miles of new broadband networks in areas where the private sector was either unwilling or unable to invest.
Just as the federal government might fund a highway that enables local entities to build new roads branching off of it, these Commerce department grants are funding the basic high-speed Internet infrastructure that local Internet service providers will tap into to run lines directly into homes or businesses.
So these federal dollars are bringing millions in additional private capital off the sidelines to expand high-speed Internet in Wisconsin.
Our second effort to smooth your path: Research and Development.
The President's 2012 budget would increase the nation's R&D investments as a share of GDP to its highest levels since President Kennedy's administration.
But the president is also taking steps to get our fiscal house in order.
He has called for a 5-year discretionary domestic spending freeze, saving more than $400 billion and reducing that spending to its lowest level as a share of the economy since President Eisenhower sat in the Oval Office.
And I think it's important to contrast the president's vision with the one we saw released by the Republican House Budget Committee last week.
Most of the attention last week was given to cuts to Medicare and Medicaid in the budget committee's proposal, and we'll have plenty of time to debate those.
But what concerns me most as America's Commerce Secretary is what this proposal does to investments in education, infrastructure and research that are critical to America's economic competitiveness.
Everywhere I've traveled in the world these last few years, I see our competitors like China and India making unprecedented investments in their people, and in the roads, bridges and electric grids that underpin a modern economy.
Go to China and you'll see them spending 9 percent of their GDP on infrastructure. In Europe, it's about 5 percent. In America, it's 2 percent.
And then you look at a Republican budget that by 2016, would cut the president's proposed education funding by 36 percent.
It cuts the transportation budget by 41 percent.
Meanwhile, it calls for drastic cuts in energy research at a time when our economic competitors are increasing that research.
And the thing is, these drastic cuts won't be used to trim the deficit in the next decade. According to the Congressional Budget Office, most of Republican's proposed spending cuts would go to pay for more tax cuts -- primarily for the wealthy.
It just does not make sense. We can't get to fiscal responsibility by shortchanging the very things that lay the foundation our businesses need to innovate and to create jobs.
Consider that much of President Obama's R&D investments – which the Republicans want to cut – are in areas that are often too risky or expensive for the private sector to take on.
Just since the 1960s, Defense Department and NASA-sponsored research has helped launch or revolutionize:
- The Semiconductor Industry;
- Chip design; and
- The Internet.
So, we've simply got to preserve these critical federal investments that ultimately lead to private sector innovation and jobs.
And tomorrow, you're going to hear President Obama give a major speech on how he plans to balance America's books, while preserving the investments that are so necessary to our global economic competitiveness.
Of course, one of the biggest barriers to American competitiveness and innovation in America is our tax system, and that's the third area the administration is focusing on.
Look at the tax cut package the president signed at the end of last year.
As you're all aware, that package prevented a big tax increase on middle-class families.
But it also had two significant provisions – insisted on by the president – that will directly help Wisconsin companies and their customers.
Take the new expensing benefit, which will allow companies to write off 100 percent of their machinery and equipment purchases made in 2011 – the largest temporary investment incentive for manufacturers in the history of the United States.
The December tax cut package contained a payroll tax cut that will put even more money in the pockets of millions of Wisconsin workers to drive new business at local companies, stores and restaurants.
For a married couple making $75,000, this cut will mean as much as an additional $1,100 over the taxes they paid last year.
Of course, the measures I've described are temporary, and they're temporary because we need to keep one eye on the long-term deficit as we work to kick-start the recovery.
To make sure we're in a better position to create the industries and jobs of the future, we need comprehensive reform of our business tax system.
As the President said in the State of the Union, he wants to work with Congress to get rid of the loopholes, level the playing field and use those savings to lower the corporate tax rate for the first time in 25 years without adding to our deficit.
As the administration takes these steps to create a favorable business environment here in America, we're also working to keep American business competitive all around the world.
Expanding our exports is the fourth and final item I'd like to discuss today.
In a global economy where 95 percent of the world's consumers live outside U.S. borders, you've got to go where the customers are.
The simple fact is that the more American and Wisconsin companies export, the more they produce. The more they produce, the more workers they need. And that means jobs. Good paying jobs here at home.
Consider that exports directly support nearly 10 million U.S. jobs and about 200,000 here in Wisconsin.
And these are good-paying jobs that pay 15 percent more than the typical wage in America, exactly the type of jobs we need a lot more of.
That's why early last year President Obama announced his National Export Initiative, which mobilizes departments throughout the federal government to help double U.S. exports by 2015 and support millions of jobs.
Although the United States overall is a strong exporter, only one percent of our companies export and of those that do, 58 percent only sell to one market. We can and must do better.
The Commerce Department has trade specialists here in Milwaukee and in 77 countries around the world, whose sole job is to find buyers and customers for your Made-in-the-USA goods and services.
And agencies like the Export-Import bank can provide you the working capital to produce the goods you want to sell abroad, or guarantee that your foreign buyer will pay you, so you can sleep at night.
So I hope you'll take advantage of those services.
The Obama administration has been very aggressive in opening up markets for US companies over the last two years, and exports have been a key driver of America's economic recovery.
In 2010, national exports:
- Grew nearly 17 percent;
- Reached the second-highest annual total on record; and
- Contributed to nearly half of all U.S. economic growth.
In Wisconsin, exports of manufactured goods were up 17 percent, to nearly $20 billion.
Now, I know I've mentioned a number of different initiatives. But there's a thread that holds them all together:
They are all designed to empower our businesses to innovate and to hire.
We know government can't solve all the problems facing our country. What we can do is create smart incentives so that businesses in the Milwaukee area – and all around America – can build something special.
That's how we ensure that U.S. companies compete and win in the global economy. And that's what the administration will be focused on like a laser in the year ahead.
Good luck and keep up the great work!


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There have been a fair share of portable video game console conversions over the years, but few tug at our retro-loving heart strings more than this one. Modretro forum member [Mario] constructed a fantastic looking portable Atari 2600 using a Flashback 2 Atari console clone.
He hacked apart the Flashback board to fit inside a small plastic case, then added a 3.5″ LCD screen, as well as some donated controller bits from other portable game systems. A pair of rechargeable batteries were added along with a small amplifier and speaker for sound.
While the Flashback comes with 40 games built in, he really wanted to add a cartridge port, so with the little bit of space he had left in the case, he did just that. When everything was finished, he sprayed on a few coats of retro orange paint and called it a day. Really the only thing that's missing is some nice fake wood veneer and maybe some shag carpet.
Continue reading to see his portable creation in action.


text: Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, having surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth. The rotational period and seasonal cycles of Mars are likewise similar to those of Earth, as is the tilt that produces the seasons.


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This Day in Rock History: October 9
On this day in rock history, Kiss joined a Michigan high school's homecoming festitivies when an assistant coach wrote to say they'd begun winning football games after listening to the band in their locker room. It was also a signature date for future rock stars, as John Lennon, John Entwistle and Jackson Browne were born – though it was over an eight-year span in the '40s.
Sean Ono Lennon also arrived on his dad's birthday, prompting the ex-Beatles star to retire from the music business for a time. Meanwhile, ex-bandmate Paul McCartney took on their hometown McDonald's when he found out that they had put up a portrait of the Fab Four. McCartney, a famous vegetarian, hadn't endorsed their burgers, of course. It took a while, but managers finally removed the image.
Judas Priest continued to modernize their sound, even if the title of the band's fifth album caused no small amount of confusion. In the U.S., this project is known as Hell Bent for Leather; while it's called Killing Machine almost everywhere else. Bruce Springsteen also released the very personal Tunnel of Love.
Watch an exciting recap of many of the day's biggest rock anniversaries above, narrated by our radio host Zach Martin. And learn more about these important events by clicking the links below.
News Anniversaries:
Kiss make a surprise appearance at Cadillac High (1975)
Sean Ono Lennon is born, prompting his father John's retirement (1975)
A Black Sabbath concert at Milwaukee is marred by a riot (1975)
Prince opens for the Rolling Stones (1981)
Strawberry Fields opens at New York's Central Park (1985)
Paul McCartney pushes back against the Liverpool McDonald's (2008)
Album Anniversaries:
Judas Priest, Hell Bent for Leather (1978)
Bruce Springsteen, Tunnel of Love (1987)
John Lennon (1940)
John Entwistle (1944)
Jackson Browne (1948)
John Lennon Albums Ranked Worst to Best


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New York-based Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard is a prolific, profane, and much admired polymath. In addition to paintings, drawings, films, furniture, and objects, he has created a thicket of novels. These exploded accretions of words and ideas, with their fevers of graphic violence, explicit sadomasochistic sex and unexpected poignancy, do not adhere to the conventions of dignified narrative. For Melgaard, the novel is a site where ideas both good and bad can proliferate freely, and where attention follows the upended logic of what actually takes place instead of what ideally should happen. Melgaard steadfastly refuses to locate the frontier between reality and fantasy. "I am more interested in telling a good story than a boring truth," he has said.
Beginning November 9, 2012, Luxembourg & Dayan will open the door to A New Novel by Bjarne Melgaard, an exhibition that coincides with publication of the artist's latest novel, his first ever to be published commercially in English. Working closely with a group of leading designers and craftspeople, Melgaard is transforming the gallery's Upper East Side townhouse into a completely immersive environment that uses his new novel's story – its protagonist's tortured infatuation with a doorman and the willing degradations of a surrounding cast of characters – as a point of departure to plumb further the through-line of his entire practice: an exploration of the ways in which sex and violence dovetail with love and loneliness. Melgaard belongs to a long list of artists in different disciplines and across generations, who have explored the animal state of pain and abjection as a sort of certainty, a reliable signpost in the otherwise uncertain search for existence. For such artists, a profound sense of separateness and isolation is negotiated through art and the process of translating ideas from one medium into another.
A New Novel by Bjarne Melgaard will remain on view through December 22nd. The exhibition is organized by Luxembourg & Dayan associate director Alissa Bennett, and will produce a book featuring a major essay by noted theorist and author Ina Blom. Copies of Melgaard's latest novel – A New Novel, published by H. Aschehoug & Co., Oslo, Norway – will be available at the gallery throughout the run of the exhibition.
For A New Novel by Bjarne Melgaard, each room of the Luxembourg & Dayan townhouse will become a colorful, crammed tableaux occupied by 'dolls' acting out the types of violence that figure centrally in Melgaard's book. More than 150 dolls of different sizes have been made for the show by JoJo Baby, Gabe Bartalos, Colleen Rochette, and Jessica Scott. Occupying a sequence of vignettes that unfold on three floors, these odd figures will wear couture clothing made by Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough of Proenza Schouler in collaboration with Melgaard. The rooms where the dolls appear will be furnished by Melgaard with rugs and layers of patterned wallpaper of his own design, along with furniture created in collaboration with Billy Cotton and upholstered in vintage Ozzie Clark dresses; textiles made by Proenza Schouler; and a jacquard fabric based upon the paintings Melgaard has created for the exhibition. Melgaard also has deployed the dolls for a stop-action animation 'snuff film.'
In this "surrealist garage sale" atmosphere, Melgaard will present new paintings, as well as more than sixty new drawings in which the Pink Panther, Britt Ekland, and Peter Sellers serve as surrogates for characters from both his novel and the larger pantheon of recurring figures in his overall body of work. Among this fantasy cast, for example, is the American porn star Savannah, who committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 24.
The centerpiece of A New Novel by Bjarne Melgaard is a major series of thirteen new paintings – lush, lavishly colored and visually seductive pictures of tigers presented within the tableaux rooms of the house. Their ropey skeins of intense color evoke viscera, offering a beautiful interpretation of the violence depicted in Melgaard's book. Like the cartoon animals depicted elsewhere in his oeuvre, these tigers serve as stand-ins for the artist, charismatic and camouflaged, constantly negotiating between the dual impulses of predation and love. Melgaard began making the tiger paintings while preparing for a major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, and collaborating with Bellevue Survivors, a group of disabled people in recovery from mental or emotional challenges, including political torture. The lawlessness of the mind and its ultimate unsuitability for strict codes, as well as shifting boundaries between reality and fantasy worlds, serve as powerful subtexts for Melgaard's canvases.
A New Novel by Bjarne Melgaard is not intended as a direct correlation to the new novel. Instead, Melgaard's scenes, ideas, and digressions are intended to weave together in a way that defies established norms of narrative and a firm sense of reality in order to bring us closer to reality in all its messy, overlapping, and sometimes sublime chaos.


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The Water McBeer Gallery opened their second ever group show last weekend, Chill Wave U.S.A. featuring outstanding work by Quinn Arneson, Mark Aubert, Mario Ayala, Juan Bocca, Henry Gunderson, Ben Herndon, Lili Ishida, Kid Yellow, Kool Kid Kreyola, Hannah Kirby, Max Marttila, and Alex Ziv.
A good time was had by all and this was by far Water McBeer's most excellent show to date. Here are the photos to prove it.
the line up
Mr. McBeer was stoked
Kool Kid Kreyola and Ben Herndon
Spencer Keeton Cunningham
Quinn Arneson and Max Marttila
Quinn Arneson look out for his upcoming water mcbeer solo show
Quinn Arneson
Hannah Kirby
Alex Ziv co-curator of the Water McBeer
Ben Herndon
Max, Gio, and Alex
Kool kid, Emily, Hannah, and Lili
Max Marttila
Mario Ayala next to his piece
Kool Kid, Alex Ziv, Piotr Rizov, and Mark Aubert
Warren King came all the way from new york and will be showing solo at the Water McBeer next month.
Mark Aubert
Mark Aubert
Juan Bocca
Jeremy Fish flew his private jet back from L.A. just for the show.
Jamie Williams has returned
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For the place in Ohio, see Jerusalem, Ohio.
In 1981 the Israeli parliament (Knesset) ratified The Law of Jerusalem, which annexed East Jerusalem to Israel and declared it Israel's "eternal capital". (See Maps of Jerusalem pre- and post-1967 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/israel_and_palestinians/key_maps/3.stm)) The Israeli annexation has not been generally recognized by the international community; therefore most countries keep their diplomatic missions to Israel in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem. The UN Security Council, in UN Resolution 478[?], declared that the annexation was "null and void and must be rescinded forthwith".
Before Israel's annexation, East Jerusalem had been part of Jordan's territory. In 1988, Jordan withdrew all its claims to West Bank (including Jerusalem). As a result, Israel is the only state that currently lays claim to Jerusalem.
The status of Palestinians in East Jerusalem is an ongoing controversy. The Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem have a 'permanent resident' status, which allows them to move within Israel proper. However should they move out of the country (or into the Palestinian territories), this status will be lost and they won't be able to return. By Israel's Citizenship Law, they are entitled to Israeli citizenship, which they can receive automatically or almost automatically, provided that they do not have any other citizenship. Thus, many Palestinians who would like to hold their Jordanian passports have to retain the status of permanent residents. Some Palestinians decline to accept citizenship since they consider it equivalent to accepting Israel's annexation. Also, Jews immigrating to Israel may retain their original citizenships (American Jews usually do), but non-Jews are denied this right. (This is a controversial topic and needs references.)
Another issue is the status of family members not recorded in the census preceding the Israeli annexation of East Jersualem. They must apply for entry into East Jersualem for family reunification with the Ministry of the Interior. Palestinians complain that such applications have been arbitrarily denied for purposes of limiting the Palestinians population in East Jersualem, while Israeli authorities claim they treat Palestinians fairly. These and other aspects has been a source of criticism from Palestinians and Israeli human rights organizations, such as B'Tselem.
Arab Muslim nations have traditionally regarded Jerusalem as having a special religious / historical status. After the conquest of Jerusalem by Arab armies, parts of the city soon took on a Muslim aspect. In 688 the Caliph Abd al-Malik[?] built the Dome of the Rock; in 728 the cupola over the Aḳṣa mosque was erected, the same being restored in 758-775 by Al-Mahdi[?]. In 831 Al-Ma'mun[?] restored the Dome of the Rock and built the octagonal wall. In 1016 the Dome was partly destroyed by earthquakes; but it was repaired in 1022.
The proposal that Jerusalem should be a city under international administration is still made at times (among others, it is the proposal favoured by the Pope). Most negotiations regarding the future status of Jerusalem have however been based on partition; for example, one scheme would have Israel keep the Jewish quarter and the Western Wall (the "Wailing Wall"), with the rest of the Old City and the Temple Mount being transferred to a new Palestinian state. Most Israelis are opposed to any division of Jerusalem, based on cultural, historic, and religious grounds. Palestinians have argued for an open city, though its feasability has been challenged.
This city has known many wars and various periods of occupation. At one time it was the capital of the Jebusites[?]. Later it came under Jewish control. The Bible records that King David defeated the Jebusites[?] in war and captured the city, making it the capital city of the Kingdom of Judah.
Later, the First Jewish Temple was built in Jerusalem by King Solomon. The Temple became a major cultic center in the region, eventually overcoming other ritual centers such as Shilo and Bethel. By the end of the "First Temple Period", Jerusalem was the sole acting religious shrine in the kingdom and a center of regular pilgrimage. It was at this time that historical records begin to corroborate the biblical history, and the kings of Judah are historically identifiable.
Jerusalem was the capital of the Kingdom of Judah for some 400 years. It had survived (or, as some historians claim, averted) an Assyrian[?] siege in 701 BC, unlike Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom of Israel, which had fallen in 722 BC. However, the city was overcome by the Babylonians in 598 BC[?], who then took the young king Jehoiachin[?] into eternal captivity, together with most of the aristocracy of that time. However, the country rebelled again under Zedekiah, prompting the city's repeated conquest and destruction by Nebuchadrezzar. The temple was burnt, and the city's walls were ruined, thus rendering what remained of the city unprotected.
After several decades of captivity, the Jews returned to Judah and rebuilt the city's walls and the Temple. It has continued to be the capital of Judah, as a province under the Persians, Greek and Romans, with a relatively short period of independence. The Temple complex was upgraded and the Temple itself rebuilt under Herod the Great, however by convention it is considered Second Temple (not Third).
The city was ruined yet again when a civil war accompanied by a revolt against Rome in Judea led to the city's repeated sack and ruin, by the hands of Titus at 70 AD. The Second Temple was burnt, and the whole city was ruined. The only remaining part of the Temple was a portion of an external (retaining) wall which became known as the Wailing Wall or Western Wall.
Sixty years later, the Roman emperor Hadrian ordered the city to be resettled, under the name Aelia Capitolina. Jews were forbidden to enter the city, but for a single day of the year, The Ninth of Av (see Hebrew calendar), when they could weep for the destruction of their city at the Temple's only remaining wall. The Byzantine Empire, which came to control the region in after the split of the Roman Empire, cherished the city for its Christian history. However, in accordance with traditions of religious tolerance often found in the ancient East, Jews were allowed into it in the 5th century A.D.
Although the Koran never mentions the name "Jerusalem", Islamic tradition holds it that it was from Jerusalem that Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven to receive the Koran. The city was one of the Arabic empire[?]'s first conquests in 638 AD Sixty years later, the Dome of the Rock was built, a structure in which there lies a stone, from which as tradition says Muhammad rose up. (This is also reputed to be the place Abraham went to to sacrifice his son, Isaac in the Jewish tradition, Ishmael in the Muslim one.) Note that the octagonal and gold-sheeted Dome is not the same thing as the Al-Aqsa mosque beside it, which was built more than three centuries later.
In 1173 Benjamin of Tudela[?] visited Jerusalem. He describes it as a small city full of Jacobites, Armenians, Greeks, and Georgians. Two hundred Jews dwelt in a corner of the city under the Tower of David[?].
In 1219 the walls of the city were taken down by order of the Sultan of Damascus[?]; in 1229, by treaty with Egypt, Jerusalem came into the hands of Frederick II of Germany[?]. In 1239 he began to rebuild the walls; but they were again demolished by Da'ud[?], the emir of Kerak[?].
In 1243 Jerusalem came again into the power of the Christians, and the walls were repaired. The Kharezmian Tatars[?] took the city in 1244; and they in turn were driven out by the Egyptians in 1247. In 1260 the Tatars under Hulaku Khan[?] overran the whole land, and the Jews that were in Jerusalem had to flee to the neighboring villages.
The early Arab period was also one of religious tolerance. However, in early 11th century, the Egyptian Caliph al-Hakim[?] ordered the destruction of all churches and synagogues in Jerusalem. The Crusaders, at the end of the century, captured Jerusalem and massacred the whole Jewish and Muslim population. They made Jerusalem the center of a feudal state, of which the King of Jerusalem was the chief. Neither Jews nor Muslims were allowed into the city during that time. In 1187, Jerusalem is retaken by Salah ad-Din, who permitted worship of all religions.
In 1244, Sultan Malik al-Muattam[?] razed the city walls, rendering it again defenseless and dealing a heavy blow to the city's status. In the middle of the 13th century, Jerusalem was captured by the Egyptian Mameluks[?]. In 1517, it was taken over by the Ottoman Empire and enjoyed a period of renewal under Suleiman[?] - including the rebuilding of magnificient walls of what is now known as the Old City (however, some of the wall foundations are remains of genuine antique walls). The city remained open to all religions, although the empire's faulty management after Suleiman meant slow economical stagnation.
The modern history of Jerusalem began in the mid-nineteenth century, with the decline of the Ottoman Empire. At that time, the city was a backwater, with a population that did not exceed 8,000. Nevertheless, it was, even then, an extremely heterogeneous city because of its significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The population was divided into four major communities--Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Armenian--and the first three of these could be further divided into countless subgroups, based on precise religious affiliation or country of origin. An example of this would be the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which was meticulously partitioned between the Greek Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian, Coptic, and Ethiopian churches. Tensions between the groups ran so deep that the keys to the shrine were kept with a 'neutral' Muslim family for safekeeping.
At that time, the communities were located mainly around their primary shrines. The Muslim community, then the largest, surrounded the Haram ash-Sharif or Temple Mount (northeast), the Christians lived mainly in the vicinity of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (northwest), the Jews lived mostly on the slope above the the Western Wall(southeast), and the Armenians lived near the Zion Gate (southwest). In no way was this division exclusive, however, it did form the basis of the four quarters during the British Mandate period (1917-1948).
Several changes occurred in the mid-nineteenth century, which had long-lasting effects on the city: their implications can be felt today and lie at the root of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict over Jerusalem. The first of these was a trickle of Jewish immigrants, from the Middle East and Eastern Europe, which shifted the balance of population. The first such immigrants were ultra-Orthodox Jews: some were elderly individuals, who came to die in Jerusalem and be buried on the Mount of Olives, others were students, who came with their families to await the coming of the Messiah, and adding new life to the local population. At the same time, European colonial powers also began seeking toeholds in the city, hoping to expand their influence their with the imminent collapse of the Ottoman Empire. This was also an age of Christian religious revival, and many churches sent missionaries to proselytize among the Muslim and especially the Jewish populations, believing that this would speed the Second Coming of Christ. Finally, the combination of European colonialism and religious zeal was expressed in a new scientific interest in the biblical lands in general and Jerusalem in particular. Archeological and other expeditions made some spectacular finds, which increased interest in Jerusalem even more.
By the 1860s, the city, with an area of only 1 square kilometer, was already overcrowded. Seeking new areas to stake their claims, the Russian Orthodox Church began constructing a complex, now known as the Russian Compound, a few hundred meters from Jaffa Gate. The first attempt at residential settlement outside the walls of Jerusalem was begun by Jews, who built a small complex on the hill overlooking Zion Gate, across the Valley of Hinnom. This settlement, known as Mishkenot Shaananim, eventually flourished and set the precedent for other new communities to spring up to the west and north of the Old City. In time, as the communities grew and connected geographically, this became known as the New City.
By the time General Allenby took Jerusalem from the Ottomans in 1917, the new city was a patchwork of neighborhoods and communities, each with a distinct ethnic character. This continued under British rule, as the neighorhoods flourished and the Old City of Jerusalem gradually emerged as little more than an impoverished older neighborhood.
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Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, when a Palestinian-Arab state failed to materialize, and the nascent state of Israel was invaded by Egypt and Jordan, Jerusalem was divided. The Western half became part of the new state of Israel, while the eastern one was annexed by Jordan. Jordan did not allow Jewish access to the Wailing Wall, which distressed Jews throughout the world. However, Christian access was allowed.
East Jerusalem was captured by the Israelis in the Six-Day War of 1967. Under Israel, members of all religions were largely granted access to their holy sites. However, concerns have been raised about several attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, notably a serious fire in 1967 (arson by a delusional Australian tourist) and tunnels opened beneath that mosque, discovered in 1981, 1988 and 1996 [2] (http://www.aqsa.org.uk/flyers/attacks). The status of East Jerusalem remains a highly controversial issue.
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Jerusalem is situated in 31° 46′ 45″ N. lat. and 35° 13′ 25″ E. long., upon the southern spur of a plateau the eastern side of which slopes from 2,460 ft. above sea-level north of the Temple area to 2,130 ft. at the southeastern extremity. The western hill is about 2,500 ft. high and slopes southeast from the Judean plateau.
Jerusalem is surrounded upon all sides by valleys, of which those on the north are less pronounced than those on the other three sides. The principal two valleys start northwest of the present city. The first runs eastward with a slight southerly bend (the present Wadi al-Joz), then, deflecting directly south (formerly known as "Kidron Valley," the modern Wadi Sitti Maryam), divides the Mount of Olives from the city. The second runs directly south on the western side of the city, turns eastward at its southeastern extremity, then runs directly east, and joins the first valley near Bir Ayyub ("Job's Well"). It was called in olden times the "Valley of Hinnom," and is the modern Wadi al-Rababi, which is not to be identified with the first-mentioned valley.
A third valley, commencing in the northwest where is now the Damascus Gate, ran south-southeasterly down to the Pool of Siloam, and divided the lower part into two hills (the lower and the upper cities of Josephus). This is probably the later Tyropœon ("Cheese-makers'") Valley. A fourth valley led from the western hill (near the present Jaffa Gate) over to the Temple area: it is represented in modern Jerusalem by David street. A fifth cut the eastern hill into a northern and a southern part. Later Jerusalem was thus built upon four spurs.
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News Roundup: December 28 - March 8
My apologies on another late roundup. I've been busy. It was worth the wait, though, as we've got a huge one this time round, including a few new emulators.
There's a new Macintosh emulator under development! Shoebill currently emulates a Mac II running A/UX (versions 1.x.x through 2.0.0), which was Apple's implementation of Unix some 20+ years ago, although it will eventually support booting Mac OS. It's early days yet, with the 0.0.1 release dropping just last week, but this is the first emulator that supports A/UX and it also emulates the MMU (which other Mac emulators don't, so we could finally have some leaps forward if somebody manages to decouple the MMU code from Shoebill). See this E-Maculation thread for discussion, or head to GitHub for a download link and screenshots. (Thanks WatchSmart!)
Shoebill isn't the only new emulator for us to play with; 8086tiny holds claim to the title of "the world's smallest portable, highly-functional PC emulator." True or not, at 28K (with comments) the source code is at least tiny. It emulates an 8086 CPU plus all standard PC peripherals, and its disk images should mount out of the box in OS X. I haven't had a chance to test it myself yet, but this looks like a great choice for running DOS or early versions of Windows. You can learn more about 8086tiny and download the source code from its official website.
Multi-system emulator BizHawk has been updated to version 1.6.0. This release adds Sega Genesis and CD support and OpenGL video output, and it also fixes some issues with stability, audio throttling, and opening NES games. Check out Sappharad's forum thread for more details and a download link.
WatchSmart pointed out this very cool browser-based Mac Plus emulator, RetroWeb, which comes with a number of built-in games and apps and seems to run at a decent frame rate in most current browsers. You can load your own disk images, too, but that's not really the point here — this is an easy way to reminisce or to show other people what Macs were like 25 years ago without going to the hassle of setting up Mini vMac. (It uses PCE for its core, in case you were wondering.)
Continue reading for more updates, including a full complement of Mac-on-Mac news, a new way to play a classic, progress on a NeXT emulator, and more.
Continuing the Mac-on-Mac emulation theme, PPC Mac emulator SheepShaver has a new build available. There are still issues on both PPC and Intel host machines, and physical CDs aren't currently mounting in the emulator on OS x 10.8 or later (although disk images work fine). Head over to E-Maculation for more details and a download link.
Mini vMac version 3.3.3 is out of beta, with no changes from the build we reported on last time. Compared to 3.2.3, this release offers more efficient drawing (to display) and a raft of new features, fixes, and changes for non-Mac hosts. See here for a detailed breakdown of changes, or shoot over to the Mini vMac website for general details and a download link.
68k Mac emulator Basilisk II has a new build available for download, with performance improvements, a window-full screen toggle, a cursor-grabbing toggle, and support for sparsebundle disk images listed as the changes from previous Intel builds. Get it via the E-Maculation forums.
You can now play Grim Fandango with a mouse. An enterprising modder hacked in a point-and-click interface to ResidualVM that replaces the game's awful tank controls with something way more pleasant and familiar to use. If you haven't played Grim Fandango, you should. It's Double Fine founder Tim Schafer's brilliant final adventure game for LucasArts, which is often held up as one of the best games of all time. We have a discussion thread about the mod and Grim Fandango on our forum, too.
Work continues unabated on Java-based PSP emulator JPCSP. Revision 3461 is the latest build available at the time of writing, with recent changes appearing focused on graphics and error handling. See the JPCSP website for more details.
PPSSPP, the current leading PSP emulator, has also been updated. Version 0.9.7 includes several scheduling and audio fixes, "large improvements" to the software renderer, fixes to some MPEG/video playback issues, symbol map/debugger improvements, and more, while 0.9.7.1 takes care of a drastic slowdown bug in a couple of games. There's still no official Mac build, so you'll have to head over to Karen/AngelXwind's site to download it.
DOSBox frontend Dapplegrey has been updated to version 4.2.4. This release seems to only change default behaviour of the app, rather than add new features of fix bugs. You can see a point-by-point changelog on MacUpdate, and there's more information about the frontend on the Classics For X website.
Open-source x86 virtualisation tool VirtualBox has a new maintenance release (as usual). Version 4.3.8 fixes loads of bugs in GUI, VMM, NAT, ACHI, and other areas. Check the changelog to see if anything catches your eye.
Wine-based Windows wrapper tool CrossOver has been updated to version 13.1.0. This adds support for Quicken 2014, improves some translations, and…that's about it, as far as I can tell. Click here for the announcement post, or shoot over to the CrossOver Mac website for information about the app.
Version 3.9.3 of Atari 2600 emulator Stella has been released. This adds bankswitch schemes BF, BFSC, DF, DFSC, and 4KSC (I presume that means something to someone), updates ROM properties for several ROMs, and fixes a crash bug caused by specifying a bankswitch type that Stella doesn't recognise. Get it from the official Stella site, and don't forget to donate if you like it.
MacFCEU, an NES/Famicom emulator for Classic Mac OS (System 7-9), has been updated to version 0.8a8. Changes include lower system requirements, bug fixes, better audio playback, and more. Get it from the MacFCEU SourceForge page, and see here for a list of recent changes.
MSX emulator openMSX is now at version 0.10.0 — codenamed StillNotOne. It adds cycle-accurate VDP command engine timing, subdirectory support for directory-as-disk, and Neos MA-20 support. This release also includes improvements to the Catapult UI. Check out the release notes for a more detailed rundown of changes and bugfixes, or pop over to the openMSX website for a download link.
The developers of Previous, an emulator for the NeXT computer, have been quietly working on major improvements to the CPU and FPU code. A news update on the emulator's website states that version 0.4 should be out soon, and it's actually partially functional now. We'll keep you posted as things develop further.
FS-UAE, a games and gamepad-focused Amiga emulator, has been updated to version 2.4.0. This adds multi-mouse support, new configuration options, SDL 2.0 support, and a host of improvements to the Launcher. See here for the release notes, or head to the FS-UAE website for more details and download links.
ZX Spectrum emulator Fuse version 126.96.36.199 has been released. This knocks the minimum system requirement up to OS X 10.8, fixes kernel panic and sound loop bugs, restores support for playing emulator recordings, and restores support for competition mode emulator recordings. See here for the full changelog and a link to the download.
There are no new stable releases of Dolphin to report, but the Nintendo Wii and Gamecube emulator has been under heavy development of late — with multiple new dev builds a day. You can get these, as always, from the Dolphin download page.
Multi-system emulator Mednafen has reached version 0.9.33. This is considered an unstable release (they've dropped the WIP nomenclature), but it adds support for a number of cheating systems (like GameShark, Game Genie) on PS1, SNES, NES, and Game Boy, fixes a bunch of issues, and more. There's a fairly detailed list of highlights on the announcement post. No Mac build at this stage, though, and we may not get one now that idyll has stepped down from that role.
Arcade emulator Raine has been updated to version 0.63.4. This release has partial support for OpenGL (see the notes on the release page for details), and it still requires SDL.
Multi-system emulator/frontend OpenEmu has been updated to version 1.0.2. New additions include a filter called pixellate and an option to hide the HUD bar during gameplay. It also has fixes for various crash and opening bugs. Get it from the OpenEmu website, and join the MacScene discussion on our forum.
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New Shoebill!
'cause they are not immediately visible, the changes are:
"Notable improvements over 0.0.1
-A/UX 3.0.0 sorta kinda works
-You no longer need to supply your own kernel; Shoebill can read it directly from the root filesystem.
-Modest speed improvements
-Various random bug fixes
For 0.0.3, I'll try to allow restarting without crashing, and see if I can get 3.0.1 to boot."
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http://emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8288&start=50 -
Awesome! I'll put it in the new roundup, which I actually started three weeks ago and keep not quite finishing then needing to update with new news.


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Over three dozen Canadian senators are calling on the federal and Nova Scotia governments to launch a "fully open, transparent and comprehensive inquiry" into the mass shootings that left 22 people dead in the province in April.
In an open letter published Saturday, 37 senators from across the country said an investigation is urgently needed to better understand what happened and why.
"Nova Scotians and Canadians need to know what happened or did not happen and what might be done to identify and act on the warning signs that might help to prevent such tragedies in the future," the letter reads.
The senators also stressed that any inquiry must use a feminist lens to be able to fully uncover what led to the massacre.
It is not the first time senators have demanded more action from Ottawa and Halifax on the matter.
READ MORE: Groups 'shocked' by minister's approach to inquiry into Nova Scotia mass murder
Senators from Nova Scotia sent two letters in June to federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey asking that a joint, federal-provincial probe be launched into the killings.
Furey said earlier this month that technicalities were causing delays, but that the governments were "working day and night" to bring an inquiry together.
"There's legalities and technicalities that our legal teams are reviewing and finalizing in the drafting of relevant documents," Furey said on July 2, declining to offer details. "That's what's taking the time."
In their letter Saturday, the senators said not launching the inquiry was fuelling speculation among Canadians.
"That resulting innuendo and gossip puts the public's trust in jeopardy — not only in those who strive their best to protect and serve, but also in those who are responsible for our public safety," they wrote.
The letter was sent to Blair and Furey, as well as federal ministers David Lametti and Maryam Monsef, and Kelly Regan, Nova Scotia's minister responsible for the advisory council on the status of women act.
A spokeswoman for Public Safety Canada, Mary-Liz Power, said in an email Saturday that Blair has been in close contact with Furey on the issue.
"Our governments are working together to ensure that we take all lessons to be learned from this tragedy, and both are considering all possible tools and avenues of investigation," Power said.
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Charley Hoffman thought he was through with Harbour Town Golf Links and the RBC Heritage. Turns out, he just wasn't ready as a younger player to handle one of the PGA Tour's trickiest layouts.
Hoffman missed the cut his first time here in 2006, then didn't do much better the next visit, going 72-80 on the weekend in 2009 and took it off his schedule for good. But Hoffman has found a new appreciation and success at Harbour Town that has him 18 holes away from his third career tour victory.
Hoffman had four birdies his first five holes Saturday to shoot 5-under 66 and take a two-stroke lead at 11 under over U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson.
"I would say I wasn't mature enough to play this golf course," Hoffman said Saturday. "I didn't understand how to play it. I guess I would get frustrated when I hit the fairway and didn't have a shot at the green."
These days, the 36-year-old Hoffman had learned his way around Harbour Town like few others. The renaissance began last year with second-round 65 here that led to an eight-place finish. Hoffman opened play with a 66 Thursday, moved into a three-way tie for the top Friday and took control with his hot start in the third round.
"Yeah, it was definitely the best playing round I've had in a long time," he said.
He'll need to have one more to hold off those chasing him down. Simpson, bidding for his first victory since winning his major at Olympic Club, finished with a bogey-free 65, tying the lowest round of the tournament.
Kevin Streelman shot a 69 and was alone in third at 8 under.
The round started with 91 players making the cut, tying the tour high set in 1981 at the Travelers Championship. Jesper Parnevik moved the cut line Saturday morning to 2 over as he missed a 5-footer to complete his rain-delayed second round and opened the door for 21 players to keep playing.
Brendon de Jonge and Graeme McDowell were tied at 7-under par, four shots off the lead. De Jonge shot a 67, and McDowell had a 68.
The last of Hoffman's two career PGA Tour victories came at the 2010 Deutsche Bank Championship. And early on, he threatened to turn the RBC Heritage into a runaway.
He made a 30-footer for birdie at the first to break from a three-way tie with Kevin Streelman and Steve LeBrun, then followed that by getting up and down from about 30 feet on the par-5 second hole. Hoffman was pin high, 12 feet away on the par-3 fourth to move to 9 under and closed his hot start with another up-and-down birdie — this one from 65 feet — on the par-5 fifth.
Hoffman played steadily the rest of the way to maintain his lead — even though he appeared on the verge of cracking several times.
Hoffman saved par from a front bunker on the par-3 seventh hole, then punched a shot between two trees no more than 5 feet apart to make another par on the eighth hole.
Hoffman chipped to 2 feet for another par on the 11th. He rolled in a 12-foot par putt on the next hole to stay out front during Simpson's charge.
Hoffman's final birdie — on the par-5 15th — gave him the two-stroke edge. He made a testy, 12-footer to save par one last time at the famed lighthouse hole, No. 18.
Simpson started three shots out of the lead, birdied three of his first six holes. Two more birdies on the 10th and 11th holes moved him within two shots of Hoffman. Simpson's 15-foot birdie putt on the 15th — Simpson made birdie on all three of Harbour Town's par 5s — drew him closer still. Simpson's 65 matched the lowest round of the tournament, accomplished Thursday by opening-round leader Brian Davis.
Simpson is eager to break through again with a victory. "I think this year I just haven't gotten in contention enough," he said.
Streelman, tied with Hoffman and rookie LeBrun through 36-holes, had consecutive birdies on the 13th and 14th holes to stay in contention. LeBrun held steady with a 71 and was in a group of eight five strokes behind that included Bill Haas.
"I don't have much to lose," said Streelman, whose first tour win came at the Tampa Bay Championships last month. "I'm going to see what the course can give us."
Hoffman's steady play capped an odd Saturday at Harbour Town that featured an early start time to conclude round two, a super-sized field of competitors and a quick turnaround to get the third round in.
Parnevik was about to putt out on the closing lighthouse hole Friday evening when the horn sounded, stopping all play. Soon after his missed putt Saturday morning, Parnevik joked on Twitter, "Everybody in the field at plus-2, put your envelopes in my locker ..."
One of those was Brandt Snedeker, at No. 5 in the world the highest ranked golfer here and on the verge of missing the weekend after shooting 73-71. Snedeker, who contended for the Masters' title last Sunday, was not spectacular in his bonus round, but did enough with an even-par 71 to hang around Sunday.
One of those who didn't make the tournament's second cut was Parnevik after a 73.
The tournament sent players out in groups of three on the first and 10th tees and that briefly created a backlog — and a scene duplicated at nearly every public course in the country — when the early starters on one side met the late starters on the other. Bo Van Pelt munched on a sandwich as he waited on No. 10 for the final competitors, Nicolas Colsaerts and Casey Wittenberg, to tee off before his group could continue.
DIVOTS: The final round will have 70 players at 2 over par or better — which would've been the number Saturday if not for Parnevik's miss. ... The PGA Tour's records on the cut only go back to 1970, so it's unknown if a tournament before then ever had more than the 91 players at the RBC Heritage make it past a 36-hole cut. ... Former Masters champ Trevor Immelman needed Parnevik's miss to play the third round, then shot a 5-under 66 to move to 3 under. ... James Driscoll had two birdies Saturday and nine for the week, good for a $9,000 donation for One Fund Boston. The Massachusetts native has pledged $1,000 per birdie he makes at the RBC Heritage and the Zurich Classic of New Orleans go to victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. He missed the cut after third-round play.
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CSF Leaks are almost always misdiagnosed as migraines due to CSF Leaks being so unknown by the doctors, not due to it being rare.
Food sensitivities, which are different than food allergies, are the most common cause of migraines that always gets overlooked.
The top problematic foods are:
- Wheat
- Corn
- Eggs
- Chocolate
- Aspartame/AminoSweet, which is a Neural Peptide, a brain chemical.
What few realize is that it can take up to four days to react to a food.
Do you remember what you ate four days ago??
A food journal and and an elimination diet would be helpful to rule out that something you are consuming is causing your migraine.
Food allergies can show up with very unexpected symptoms like migraines, elbow pain or back pain etc. For example allergies to the nightshade plants, that are very common in our diets, mimic the symptoms of Lupus and/or Rheumatoid Arthritis.
A scratch test done that is commonly is looking for an anaphylactic reaction, not a true allergies.
We cleaned up what we ate, drank and got artificial chemicals like Fluoride in toothpaste, chemical based soap, shampoos, cleaning products (Amazing what White Vinegar will clean) out of the house, went with natural organics such as Hemp based soaps and cooking oils. The Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Lupus symptoms went way over time, and did not return. The issue really was Multiple Chemical Sensitivities!
Overlook NOTHING in your environment nor the products you put in or on your body (Hair Coloring or getting a Perm for example). Consider things like air fresheners. Good smelling stuff can be quite toxic just as the reverse might be true.
We are what we absorb.
Also it has been estimated that ten percent of the 30,000,000 suffering from migraine headaches world wide, daily, are actual suffering from CSF Leaks, that is 3,000,000 per day!
While there may be doctors and links to medical information on this site, a lot of the information here has come from a persons own hard won self education due to lack of support of the Medical Establishment. Independently validate for yourself any information from this site with authoritative sources, as you should do with any information found on Internet.


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Make : DODGE | Model : LANCER | Year : 2006 |
Build Dates : 2001-06-29 - 2007-06-14 | ||
NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number : 16V458000 | ||
Date Owner's Notified: 2016-09-14 | Date Received by ODI: 2016-06-23 | Date Added to Database: 2016-06-23 |
Manufacturers Involved: Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. | ||
Manufacturer's Responsible for the Recall: | ||
Manufacturer Campaign Number: SR-16-003 | ||
Component: SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER ARM | ||
Potential Number Of Units Affected : 194674 | ||
Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. "MMNA" is recalling certain model year 2002-2007 Lancer, 2004 Lancer Wagon, 2003-2006 Lancer Evolution, 2003-2006 Outlander and 2007-2013 Outlander V-6 vehicles originally sold in, or ever registered in, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. In the affected vehicles, the front lower control arms may detach due to the front cross member corroding from salt water exposure such as from road salt use. |
A detached front control arm can result in the loss of control of the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash. |
MMNA will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the front cross members. Depending on the level of existing corrosion, either a sealing/anti-corrosion agent will be applied or the front cross member will be replaced with a new one that has a sealing/anti-corrosion agent applied to it. These repairs will be performed free of charge. The recall began January 2017. Owners may contact MMNA customer service at 1-888-648-7820. MMNA's number for this recall is SR-16-003. |
Report Initiator: MFR | V Report | |
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Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 'TTY 1-800-424-9153', or go to www.safercar.gov. |


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[Phillip Torrone] gave us a heads up about a project he and [Limor Fried] along with [Mike Doell] have just wrapped up. Their aptly-named "iCufflinks" softly pulsate with light the same way in which you see many Mac products do.
The cufflinks are made from machined aluminum and have the ubiquitous "power symbol" milled into the face. Inside the cufflinks, you will find a small circuit board and a battery, which powers the device for up to 24 hours. The team reverse-engineered the soft LED pulse found in Mac products in order to deliver the exact same visualization in their cufflinks.
Ignoring for a minute, the name and the inspiration for the product, we think they are pretty darn cool. There's nothing like a set of softly glowing cufflinks to spark conversation at any social gathering.
Like anything else you'll find on Adafruit.com, the cufflinks are completely open source, so you can feel free to tweak and remix the design any way you'd like.
Continue reading to see a video of the cufflinks in action.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25108667 w=470]


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More than 550 objects have been unintentionally left in Canadian medical and surgery patients between 2016 and 2018, and the problem appears to be getting worse.
A new report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information says 553 foreign items — such as sponges and medical instruments — were left behind over that two-year period.
That's a 14-per-cent increase between the most recent data collected 2017-2018 and statistics collected five years earlier.
It's also more than two times the average rate of 12 reporting countries, including Sweden, the Netherlands and Norway, which had the next highest rates.
The information was examined as part of a broad look at how Canada's health-care system compares to other member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Tracy Johnson, CIHI's director of emerging issues, said the data only notes how often the mistakes occurred, but not how or why.
"Often they are smaller things and they may be things like clips or sponges," said Johnson, suggesting the reasons are likely complex and multifaceted.
"Some surgeries are long and complicated and if they have to change people during that surgery because some surgeries last a long time, it may be that things get missed because of that. It may be that they don't have protocols in place — surgical checklists are one of the things that are utilized to try and prevent a number of things happening….
"What we know is patient safety is complicated. People don't go to work to make mistakes but these things happen."
Johnson said several peer countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, do not report on cases where foreign objects are left behind, making comparisons difficult.
And the Canadian statistic is based on data provided by hospitals in only nine provinces.
Still, Johnson said there's clearly work to be done to improve patient safety, noting the average rate of forgotten items was 9.8 incidents per 100,000 surgeries.
That number also varied widely between regions — from a low of 5.7 per 100,000 surgeries in British Columbia to about 15 per 100,000 surgeries in Quebec, said Johnson.
She suggested that variation may have more to do with how thorough one province's counting and recording system might be versus another, rather than apparent deficiencies in care.
The information was examined as part of a broad look at how Canada's health-care system compares to other countries.
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The district of Jamnagar in northwest India is home to the world's largest crude oil refinery. It currently boasts a processing capacity of 1.24 million barrels per day, which corresponds to 1.8 percent of the global refining market. This equates to a daily oil processing capacity of almost 80 Olympic-size swimming pools. Now in its third expansion phase, the Jamnagar complex is being equipped with the ability to generate its own synthesis gas as well as energy through the gasification of petroleum coke. Expansion plans include the integration of a petrochemical complex into the refinery. This step adds value to the production process flow by enabling petrochemical by-products to be captured.
The Linde Engineering Division played a key role in delivering several of the plant technologies required to make this project a success.
World´s largest air separation units
Linde supported the gasification project by delivering five of the world's largest air separation units (ASUs). Experts from Linde Engineering and the refinery operator scaled up various plant component designs to take performance into uncharted territory. Each of the five ASUs is designed for an oxygen (O2) production capacity of over 5,200 tonnes per day. The compressors required to operate the ASUs were modified in close collaboration between equipment suppliers and Linde process engineers. This cooperative effort contributed to a significant improvement in energy efficiency per tonne of oxygen produced. By teaming up with the customer and equipment manufacturers, Linde Engineering managed to optimise the plant configuration to leverage economies of scale and boost energy efficiency.
RECTISOL® acid gas removal units
To treat the synthesis gas generated during the gasification process, Linde also delivered two RECTISOL® acid gas removal units. Services for this part of the project involved licensing, process design, detail engineering and procurement.
The design includes several coil-wound heat exchangers (CWHE), manufactured at Linde's fabrication shops in Schalchen (Germany) and Dalian (China) using proprietary know-how. Again, the different process units required close cooperation between Linde's engineering teams in Germany and India, the customer and the third-party equipment suppliers. In the end, this global partnership successfully realised the largest acid gas removal facility ever constructed.
It is complemented by a highly efficient sulfur recovery unit with four trains capable of recovering 99.98 percent of the sulfur components contained in various off-gas streams. Linde added significant value to the recovery design by combining state-of-the-art licensed sulfur recovery technology with Linde's proprietary burner design based on oxygen enrichment. The tail gas from the sulfur recovery unit is routed back to the Linde RECTISOL® unit using a special patented process step. This eliminated the need for the customer to invest in a separate tail gas treatment unit, which would have been necessary with conventional competitor designs for sulfur recovery.
Gas-fired heaters and pressure swing adsorption units
In addition to the air separation and acid gas removal units, Linde delivered other plant components such as five large gas-fired heaters to superheat high-pressure steam as well as three pressure swing adsorption units to produce the high-purity hydrogen required to operate the refinery. Thanks to its multiple design and manufacturing facilities around the world, Linde was able to cover this extensive scope of delivery.
Perfect teamwork leads to success
On all elements of this project, collaborative teamwork was so successful during the bidding phase that the required components were conceptually designed by the time the customer placed the final order. The success of the Jamnagar project is proof positive of one of Linde's core competencies: The ability to collaborate closely with customers and supply partners to realise even the most complex solutions on time and on spec, regardless of plant location and size.


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Raves for 787 Dreamliner. Will new plane bring fun back to flying?
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which United Airlines flew on Sunday from Houston to Chicago, drew rave reviews from passengers aboard the inaugural flight. But whether the aircraft eventually transforms the experience of the flying public from cramped and joyless to something verging on enjoyable depends entirely on how airlines that order it decide to outfit the plane's interior, say aviation experts.
To be sure, the initial chatter was glowing. Newscasts in Chicago are replaying their video of a ceremonial two-hose wash that greeted the United Airlines aircraft, as well as effusive comments from passengers about bigger windows, larger overhead bins, higher humidity in the cabin, and amenities such as touch-free faucets in the lavatories. The Chicago Tribune headline: "Passengers Love The New Boeing 787 Dreamliner."
Industry analysts are more sober in their assessments, saying United has done less to outfit the Dreamliner than have foreign carriers such as All Nippon Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Air India, and others – a sign that carriers in the US are likely to continue to put passenger comfort down the list behind the need to make money.
"Of course, the PR opportunities for a new aircraft … end in positive reviews. A clean cabin with new seats, first-class service for everyone aboard, and bragging rights all around," says marketing professor Ronald Hill of the Villanova School of Business in Pennsylvania, via e-mail. "However, its ultimate usage is in the hands of airline companies, who have given up, for the most part, competing on quality instead of price. While consumers truly dislike the flying experience and would often prefer a visit to the dentist, we have become addicted to seeking the lowest possible price for our travel."
Overall, the two-aisle plane is much more fuel-efficient and less costly to maintain, while offering a new level of in-cabin comfort for passengers. Most planes are built mostly of metal, but half of the Dreamliner, including the fuselage and wings, is made of strong, light composite materials.
The Boeing Co. spent a decade learning what makes the flying public feel good and what types of interior architecture work best, says company spokesman Scott Lefeber. Innovations on board the 787 include LED lighting (which is cheaper, more versatile, and emits less heat), a dramatically lit entry way, bigger storage bins, cleaner air, and larger windows with unique electrochromic shades.
But Richard Aboulafian, vice president of analysis for Teal Group, says the promise of technology can overexcite customers who may feel let down if the travel experience doesn't measure up to the hype.
"It's a good plane, and there is a lot of new technology that is very promising for the long run but [that] in the short run produce all kinds of glitches that reduce the quality of the experience," says Mr. Aboulafian. "New gadgetry has a way of being quirky and idiosyncratic." Moreover, it is up to an airline – not Boeing – whether to stack in 330 seats or only a roomy 225.
So far, United is the only US airline to own a 787, but others have placed orders, including American. Delta reportedly is interested. The economics of competition will help answer the question of how much tickets cost, and will be related to demand, analysts say.
It's important to keep in mind that passenger comfort is only one reason – and arguably not the most important one – for airlines to buy Boeing 787s, says Seth Kaplan, managing partner of Airline Weekly, in an e-mail.
"Primarily, airlines like [the 787s'] operating economics and their range – i.e., able to fly rather long distances rather efficiently. It's long been possible to offer a very comfortable product to all passengers. It's just not easy to make money doing so."
United is trying to juggle passenger amenities versus ticket cost, says company spokesman Rahsaan Johnson.
"We're looking at a number of factors, from how much personal space do customers want versus how much they are willing to pay," he says. For now, United is offering a section aboard the 787 with more legroom that is less expensive, as well as sections with state-of-the-art entertainment possibilities. Talk to the 200 or so people who were on the first flight, he says, and you will hear nary a discouraging word. He offers these two tweets from the inaugural flight:
"It was very classy," tweeted business book author Jeffrey Hayzlett, a "graceful welcome to the aviation world."
"Wheels down Dreamliner!! So awesome," tweeted investing consultant Peter Shankman.
Passengers should not expect to pay more for a United flight on a 787 compared with identical routes on a different United plane, adds Mr. Johnson.


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The following death notices were received on Wednesday.
(Obituary postings are a free service from WBIW News. Send an obituary by fax, 279-8046.)
Otto Glenn Hamer – Mitchell
Otto Glenn Hamer of Mitchell passed away Tuesday morning, August 17th at Westview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at the age of 91. Born in 1919 in Princeton to Otto George and Bessie Hamer, he had been married to Loetta Long since 1940. Otto was retired as a special inspector for the New York Central Railroad, was a member of Elm Grove Baptist Church and Masonic Lodge No. 231 and was a Navy veteran of WWII. He is survived by his wife; one son, Glen Hamer and his wife, Linda; son-in-law, Barry Clark; as well as several grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Barbara Jean Clark; as well as brothers, Charles and Donald Hamer. Funeral services will be held at 1:00PM on Friday, August 20th in the Memorial Chapel of Chastain Funeral Home with burial to follow in Hamer Cemetery. Military honors will be accorded by Cecil C. Martin American Legion Post No. 250 and Marvin Davis Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 9107. Visitation will be from 6:00PM until 8:00PM on Thursday and from 11:00AM until the hour of service on Friday at the funeral home. A memorial service will be held at 7:30PM on Thursday at the Mitchell Masonic Lodge.
Jon Benjamin Wykoff of Bedford
Jon Benjamin Wykoff of Bedford passed away on Tuesday, August 17th at I.U. Medical Center at the age of 66. Born in 1943 in Bedford to Dudley and Avis Wykoff, he had been married to Karen Wykoff since 1989. Jon was a self-employed painter and attended First Christian Church. He is survived by his wife; four daughters, Misty Johnson, Christy Covey, Starr Patterson and Tina Thompson; two sons, Bradley Wykoff and Jeff Wykoff; three brothers, Dudley Wykoff, Robert Wykoff and Roger Wykoff; two sisters, Sue Wykoff and Carole Scroggins; as well as several grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Donald Wykoff and Thomas Wykoff; two sisters, Mary Robbins and Edna Berry as well as one brother. Funeral services will be held at 1:00PM on Friday, August 20th at Ferguson – Lee Funeral Home with burial to follow in Green Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10:00AM until the hour of service on Friday, August 20th.


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Future goggles: Eyes-on with Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses
Google Glass competitors are on their way, and we've seen them at CES 2013.
LAS VEGAS--Cyborgs, meet your gear. The Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses, a wearable Bluetooth/Wi-Fi headpiece with a built-in HD camera and WQVGA floating eyepiece display, are on hand to try out at CES 2013. Previously seen in nonworking prototype form at the end of last year, the M100 Smart Glasses will run on Android and eventually iOS and be available by summer 2013 (fall for iOS, pending app approval).
"It would feel like you're looking at a screen the size of your phone, but the image floats out in space," Vuzix President and Chief Executive Paul Travers said to CNET's Bridget Carey back in November. "It's a virtual image beamed to your eye." As Vuzix explained back then, the M100 Smart Glasses would feature 720p HD video recording onto 8GB of flash storage, built-in GPS and a compass, and an accelerometer. The floating screen situated in the eyepiece has a WQVGA (428x240-pixel) display. As Bridget Carey wrote back in November, "The projected image is described to be similar to holding a smartphone screen 14 inches away from one's eye."
I tried it myself at CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, and watched videos -- a clip of the Pixar movie "The Incredibles," and some demo footage of videos and phone interfaces. Vuzix will be opening up app development via an SDK. The Smart Glasses will run on Android 4.0, but these apps will have to await approval on iOS.
What will these Google Glass competitors be used for? Voice search, perhaps, or for hands-free video recording and unidirectional video chat (you can only show what's in front of you, not your own face). Or, perhaps, true augmented-reality navigation apps. The floating-screen effect worked surprisingly well, but I'd think that using these in any mission-critical space (or, a space where moving vehicles could collide with you) would be a dangerous endeavor.
The M100 Smart Glasses employ technology that will be seen in other Vuzix products, including see-through augmented-reality binoculars. The M100s aren't cheap; they're expected to cost "under $500" if they are on schedule to debut later this year. They're certainly intriguing, though, and the projected video effect works exactly as advertised.


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June 8-9, 2009
The Fairmont Hotel
San Francisco, CA
The genetic scientific community is exploding with new robust tools which explore the connections between genotypes and phenotypes. The falling prices from developing to mature genotyping platforms, result in abundant data to interrogate and analyze. In addition, as more detailed clinical classification of patients is performed, stronger genetic associations of complex diseases are discovered. The new technical developments that enable the association of genes with disease, as well as practical examples of how these techniques are used is the emphasis of Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Second Annual Genotyping Tools: Sequencing to SNPs . . . Strategies to Success. Learn from savvy, seasoned researchers as they share their scientific strategies and success.


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These cookies are oh-so-very yummy! They were an experiment…that turned out fabulous! Let me tell you all about it ;) I found some special dark chocolate cocoa powder…and then there were some peppermint M&M's…mmmm…sound good yet?
Well, I took those two beauties…wrapped them up with some sugar, butter, & eggs…and OH YEAH…these babies emerged out of the oven….mmmmmmmm…yummo!!! And to be honest, I wasn't so sure about the whole special dark cocoa powder (not a fan of dark chocolate AT ALL), but I wanted that really dark chocolate cookie. And you know what, a little tinkering in the kitchen brought me some yummy joy indeed! And without further ado…here are the deets…
♥ Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies ♥
1 cup (2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cubed
1 1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup special dark cocoa powder
2 1/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 bag peppermint M&M's (9.90 oz.)
Preheat oven to 350° F.
Line your baking sheets with parchment paper (this makes for easy clean-up :).
In a large bowl combine the cold cubed butter & sugar. Beat together on medium-high speed until light & fluffy, approximately 2-3 minutes.
Beat in each egg, one at a time. Blend well.
Mix in the dark cocoa powder. Blend well.
Add the flour, salt, and baking powder & blend on a lower speed until just combined (do not over-mix).
Fold in the M&M's gently with a spatula.
Spoon dough onto prepared baking sheets, a few inches apart. Flatten each cookie dough ball with a spatula creating a disc.
Bake 15-18 minutes.
Let cookies cool on sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Store in an airtight container.
Makes 24-36 cookies.
(recipe adapted from Annie Eats)
These would also make pretty neighbor gifts too ;)