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Survivor tells of Guatemalan massacre at US trial
RIVERSIDE, California (AP) — Peering out of a church where he was taken during a horrifying attack three decades ago, Ramiro Osorio watched armed men take small children from his Guatemalan village and bash them into a tree before tossing their bodies into a well.
He was 5 years old. Osorio and his siblings grabbed onto their mother's legs, but she was seized from them and taken to the well pleading for her life.
"I heard my mom screaming for help and 'Please, don't kill my kids. They don't know nothing. We don't know nothing,'" Osorio told an American jury Friday in the trial of a former Guatemalan soldier charged with lying about the massacre on his U.S. citizenship application. Osorio's parents and six siblings all died in the attack, which virtually wiped out the village.
His chilling testimony came as Jorge Sosa, a former second lieutenant with a special forces unit of the Guatemalan army, is battling to remain an American citizen. If convicted of making false statements and obtaining citizenship unlawfully, Sosa also could face 15 years in prison.
Though Sosa is not on trial for war crimes, the case has brought horrific accounts of Guatemala's 36-year-long civil war to the court in Southern California, where he previously lived.
About 200,000 people were killed during the war that ended in 1996, many by state forces and paramilitary groups. The U.S. government lent support to Guatemalan authorities during the conflict.
More than 160 people were slain in the village of Dos Erres in December 1982. A special forces patrol was sent to the village to recover weapons believed to have been stolen by Guatemalan guerrillas.
No weapons were found in the village, and residents did not resist. But the patrol was ordered to kill everyone there to cover up the rape of women by soldiers, prosecutors said.
Years later, authorities say Sosa failed to disclose his military service or role in the massacre on his application to become an American citizen.
Sosa's attorney, Shashi Kewalramani, has argued that his client's time in the army was no secret to U.S. officials since he told them about it when he applied for asylum after leaving Guatemala in 1985 — information that was held in his immigration file.
Kewalramani has cautioned jurors that Sosa is on trial only for the way he answered questions on his immigration paperwork — not for the atrocities of war.
After his asylum claim was denied, Sosa moved to Canada, where he became a citizen. He got a green card after marrying an American and naturalized in 2008.
Two years later, homeland security officials searched his Moreno Valley home. Sosa, a karate instructor, then headed to Mexico and boarded a flight to Canada. He was arrested and extradited last year to the United States.
In recent years, Guatemala has begun trying the cases of former soldiers accused in the killings at Dos Erres. Five of them have been sentenced to more than 6,000 years in prison, including one who was arrested by U.S. homeland security officials and deported back to Guatemala.
Guatemalan prosecutors say they hope to have Sosa extradited to face charges for the deaths.
Earlier this week, two former soldiers testified that they saw Sosa standing near the well in Dos Erres where they were ordered to bring all the villagers to be killed. When half-dead men screamed from within, Sosa fired a rifle at them and threw in a grenade, one of the soldiers said.
Osorio, who was raised by a soldier and eventually left Guatemala and obtained asylum abroad, recalled for jurors how armed men came one night to the home where he lived in Dos Erres with his parents and six siblings. His father and older brother were sent to the village school; his mother and the rest of the family were sent to the church.
He could hear the men screaming outside. The women started crying. Armed men grabbed women and young girls by the hair and pulled them outside, Osorio recalled.
He could see what they did with young children through the slats of church's wooden walls. One man came inside the church with a message.
"If you know how to pray, pray, because nobody will save you from this," Osorio recalled being told.
After Osorio's mother was taken, he ran to the back of the church where screaming women and children had been held under guard. He fell asleep, crying, under a bench.
When he awoke, only a handful of children were left.


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Tween Tuesday: Popular Books in My Library
When giving reader's advisory to library patrons, I have my go to authors and series that I always suggest. The tweens on the other hand have their go to authors and series. I was thinking about what the tweens ask for compared to what I suggest. Here is my (very unscientific) results of what is popular at my library:
Tween Go To Books:
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Mary Downing Hahn
Carolyn Keene
Peg Kehert
Jeff Kinney
Rick Riordan
My Go To Books:
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows (for younger tweens)
Allie Finkle Series by Meg Cabot
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Catwings by Ursula K. LeGuin
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Herbert's Wormhole by Peter Nelson
Alcatraz Series Brandon Sanderson
Time Warp Trio by John Scieskza (for younger tweens)
Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
Sammy Keyes Mysteries by Wendelin Van Draanen
A lot of my go to books are readalikes for popular series that are usually checked out and I'm looking for something new to interest the tween readers. Others, like Anne, Mrs. Frankweiler, A Wrinkle in Time, and Catwings, are favorites from my childhood.
Sometimes I can sell the tweens on these books, other times it doesn't work as well. But I always give it a try because I love sharing my favorite books!
What books are popular with your tween readers and what books are popular as your suggestions?
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Allie Finkle! I love her. I always recommend The Penderwicks for 6th grade girls. My kids (both at elementary & middle school) have loved The Warriors books. An author who is getting more popular is Dan Poblocki. And Mary downing Hahn is still popular! Also, The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney. I always have a few readers who go through that whole series each year!ReplyDelete
Jana-I forgot about the Warriors! I get asked for those a lot too! And I do give out The Penderwicks-especially for readers looking for a good old fashioned story.ReplyDelete
So interesting. I'm not a librarian or teacher but it's so interesting to hear what teens are into.ReplyDelete
I'm so excited to get into Tom Angleberger's books! Origami Yoda is in my book bag right now. And I tooootally second Jana's comment about The Face on the Milk Carton. That book is AWESOME and my kids still love it today. Thanks for all of the tips!ReplyDelete
Such a wide variety!ReplyDelete
I've noticed a huge circ for the following books/series:
Warriors (I can never get the reading order straight!)
Alex Rider series
Ranger's Apprentice series
Mother Daughter Bookclub
Bone graphic novel series
Baby Mouse series
One of my favorite recommendations for tweens is also by E.L. Konigsburg-The View From Saturday. I recommend The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck to everyone who hasn't read it-tweens, teens, and adults!ReplyDelete
I agree that tweens seem to get hooked on certain series. In addition to the series already mentioned, Guardians of Ga'hoole by Kathryn Lasky are popular with our tween patrons. The Redwall books seem to go out a lot as well. I see an animal theme here.
Thanks for recommending my Sammy Keyes series. Loved the lists!ReplyDelete
Natalie-I agree! I always like seeing what is popular at various libraries.ReplyDelete
Katie-We have The Face on the Milk Carton in YA. I think it checks out a good amount, but would probably do really well if I booktalked it!
Rummanah-Alex Rider and Ranger's Apprentice are popular here too! And how could I forget Bone-probaby because it's so popular it's almost always checked out!
Lupine Librarian-Animal books seem to always be popular with tween readers. And we've had lots of patrons asking for Hugo Cabret because of the movie!
Wendelin-Of course! It's one of my favorites!:)
Shug is NEVER on our shelves. Haddix is getting a second wind. And they always come back to the Horowitz Alex Rider Books. Ranger's Apprentice, anything by Rick Riodan, and now all the George O'Connor gns.ReplyDelete
My ten-year-old son loves the Warrior books, The Percy Jackson books, and the Eragon books. Our biggest difficulty in finding reading material for him is finding those that are age appropriate (because he's not ready for some of the heavier teen reading) but he reads at a ninth grade level. So far the fantasy books have been a hit because they don't get too serious. Any other suggestions for him would be appreciated (I check your tween posts religiously). :) Oh, we also listen to Harry Potter audiobooks repetitively and he likes those but prefers the audio over reading them.ReplyDelete

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I've just done something few people do: been on a visit to Peterborough, entirely of my own free will. Two young railway employees were checking the tickets of those leaving the station.
'Sir?' Click. 'A pleasure!'
'Madam?' Click. 'Pleasure!'
'Sir?' Click. 'A pleasure!'
'Oh, stop eating shit, you little twerp.'
I didn't say that, just thought it. After all, the poor buggers are probably required by some management pillock to lay on this smarm, and this same pillock might well have been kibitzing nearby to make sure no boot went unlicked. I hope he was, and that otherwise these young lads would not thus have abased themselves. What sort of batty 'personal touch' will they think up next? Will they check that our shoe laces are tied, do up our coats, burp babies? (In Marks and Sparks lately, after the inevitable 'thank you for waiting', the check-out staff bid us farewell with the exhortation 'enjoy your goods'. Oh, please.)
My purpose was to buy a jacket, and I went into Gap. Now, Gap are always very concerned with the customer's 'shopping experience', and the kids who work there will not leave you alone to browse unless you make it quite clear from the off that you do not wish to be pestered. Even then, as you are leaving, a manageress will pounce on you.
'Were our staff helpful today for you today, at all for you?' she will ask.
'Yes, they were.'
'Anyone in particular at all today was there, who was most helpful for you today?'
'Oh, I reckon the lad with the shaved scrotum.'
Leave her guessing. I hope I am not depriving kids of commission or anything by being so unhelpful. It's just that this sort of manipulation makes my gorge rise.
I used to like buying clothes. Shoes are just boring affairs that I replace when they disintegrate, but shirts and trousers were always important to me. I've never been wholly comfortable with the body I inhabit, though, and after the age of about forty-five I found that I really could not stand the sight of the middle-aged grump who confronted me in fitting room mirrors. Fitting rooms are rarely adequately lit; one here in Stamford has just a little yellowish strip-light above the mirror and it makes you look as you probably will a couple of days after you are dead. The pleasure of shopping for new duds is much diminished as a result of all this, and self-confidence severely dented. I suppose I could get some therapy for this, but I fear the diagnosis would be 'in fact, it isn't body dysmorphic disorder. You are genuinely misshapen.'
(Incidentally, I wonder what they say to all the unsuccessful applicants for 'Ten Years Younger' and 'How to Look Good Naked'? 'Sorry love, but you really are a dog. Live with it.')
I looked in Marks and Sparks and felt old. I was the youngest man there by quite a wide margin, and Blue Harbour stuff looks OK on plastic mannequins and the tanned and husky blokes whose enlarged photographs are all over the walls, but I'm not such a bloke, or a somatometrically perfect plastic doll, and everything I tried on looked wrong. I inhabit the No Man's Land between medium and large, neither one nor the other, and you have to be tall and slim to wear all this stuff, not short, stocky and barrel-chested. This is a source of much repining to me, but no surgery will correct it, so there you go. I am not overweight, and that's official, but the way clothes hang on me, the casual observer would probably think I was. Actually, the casual observer, by definition, probably wouldn't give me a second thought, but years of self-consciousness create the delusion that everyone is thinking, oh, Christ, look at that bugger, you couldn't bend wire that shape.
Well, after much debate internal I ended up with a Tommy Hilfiger winter jacket from John Lewis for £140, more because I was fed up of looking than for any more positive reason. It is sober navy blue and quite unadorned, not Ali G yellow. Mooching around other shops afterwards I saw jackets indistinguishable from my new purchase at half the price, but sod it, it will serve.
What I wear tends to be loose-fitting and voluminous, as I hide behind clothes rather than use them to draw attention, having nothing to draw attention to. I'm reminded of my grandma. Roominess was her main criterion, both in selecting garments and in appreciating those of others. 'You look to have plenty o' room in it' she'd say approvingly, if one of us kids had some new item of clothing. If we could do a twirl while the garment in question remained stationary, she would commend it the more. I still feel strangled and self-conscious in anything labelled 'slim-fit', and I long for the day when it might become fashionable for men to wear black kimonos.


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Rereleasing Momoi Haruko's Concert from Fanime 2009
Having received a request on Momoi's Facebook page, either from her or her mod, I've gone ahead and made her concert from Fanime 2009 available again.
If you missed it the first time around, be sure to snag it now. Also, it comes with the band Makenai's great opening of it, so fans of Makenai should appreciate this as well. Have fun!
Pics From Pacific Media Expo 2009
Someone should shoot me for taking so long at this. In any event, in the November timeframe I went to a small convention for about a day called Pacific Media Expo to meet up with an old friend who, while being an old friend, I'd never seen in real life. While there, I did what I typically do at a convention, and that's to take a few pictures.
Happy Holidays, From Us to You
It's coming up on the close of another year, and we thought we'd spruce things up a bit here at Dragon's Anime. We hope you'll enjoy the new layout! As we do every year, please accept our wishes of a happy, safe, and warm holiday this year for you, and your loved ones. Happy Holidays everybody, from the staff of Dragon's Anime!
Mayhem's Full Set of Pics for Anime Expo 2009
And finally, I get the last of Mayhem's pics up for Anime Expo 2009. I figure I made the point to myself, and demonstrated to everyone else what could be done with the pics to make them look real good for the first 100. There's no need to do 300 more pics like that unless someone specially requests theirs...and I do take requests.
To get to the pics just click here.
Anime Expo 2009 Masquerade Torrent
Having finally managed to resurrect the Platinum Dragon as an undead Lich (J/K man, heheheh) I once again turn my attention to the final torrent of this season's convention videos, that being the Anime Expo 2009 Masquerade. It was entertaining, but I must admit, nothing stood out in my mind this year, other than the half time show. Either way, it was a fun time.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (xBox 360, 2009)
1984. A relatively unremarkable year, all things considered. Ma Bell was broken up, Michael Jackson provided his own stage lighting when his hair caught on fire during a Pepsi commercial filming, and Ronald Reagan tries his hand at humor with the line, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes," during a radio voice check. Nothing particularly interesting. A legion of little transforming toy robots invaded and forever corrupted my co-writer's consciousness as Transformers debuted. Like I said... small potatoes. And oh yes... A little town on an island on the East Coast got overrun by ghosts, goblins, ghouls, spirits, apparitions, and one really nimble little minx with a flat top... But who you gonna call when something like THAT happens?!
Shadow Complex (xBox Live Arcade, 2009)
There's something that we've lost as gamers in the years since the shift from 2D to 3D based graphics. Sure, you might say, we've gained the more immersive world of the Halo series or Gears of War shooters, or the riveting, beautifully crafted vistas to be found in games like Final Fantasy and Mass Effect. The shift to 3D allowed us to focus on world crafting, on building settings in which the player could lose themselves in as easily as the story itself. Remember how incredible that opening area in Metroid Prime on the Gamecube was? The stunning, pouring rain, the rich, lush vegetation and the ripples of the water as Samus ran around in it? The Metroid series, though, highlights that something that we lost in the transition from 2D to 3D. After all, long before Samus was running around the world of Tallon IV, she was an explorer of the dark, side-scroller tunnels of Zebes – a platformer. For all the advantages of 3D, it just doesn't do platformer style games well, much less the sort of huge-map, backtracking, hunt-and-seek style gaming of games like Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. What does all this have to do with this review's target, Shadow Complex for the xBox Live Arcade? Everything.
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ (TV, 2009)
One of the things that the entertainment industry often draws upon is that of the mob. From Al Capone to The Sopranos, and more episodes of Law & Order than I care to admit to having watched, America has a love affair of sorts with the notion of the mafia. It's not just an American obsession, of course, but we're certainly in the running for being the head of the family, so to speak. It's a popular setting – and thus we come to this week's review, Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~, an exploration into the dark and seedy world of the mob, and what happens when you drag an otherwise normal person into it.
Canaan (TV, 2009)
Synethesia is a classification for a neural phenomenon in which two or more senses are linked. For instance, somebody seeing a tree might hear a particular note or tone in their head at the same time, or when they see a written number they might involuntarily see it as a given color. There's a number of different medically recognized forms of synethesia. So, what does this have to do with Canaan, the series that I'll be taking a look at to day? Well, the titular character, Canaan, is a synesthete. Her particular form of the condition grants her ability to see intent and emotion as an aura of color. And what's any good little girl with the capability to read people like a book just by looking at them to do but become a full-fledged mercenary?
Valkyria Chronicles (TV, 2009)
I think that I've mentioned a few times in a couple of game reviews that I rather enjoy the whole World War II era story world. I'm a big fan of the classic Call of Duty series – which is not to say that CoD4 didn't kick ass and that MC2 won't kick even more. But I've always found there to just be something better about World War I and II than today's conflicts. Valkyria Chronicles is a Strategy RPG game that was released for the Playstation 3 late last year, and earlier this spring it made the jump to an anime format. It's billed as an alternate universe take on World War II – the European portion of it, at least - but of course this being an anime it's not at all as simple as that.


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COLUMBUS: Ohio motorists will see higher gas prices to start the work week.
The average price for a gallon of regular gas in Ohio was $3.39 in Monday�s survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. That�s 9 cents higher than a week ago.
Experts say prices are continuing to rise because of solid economic recovery in China and the U.S. and other factors.
The national average Monday was $3.35 � about 4 cents higher than a week ago and 6 cents higher than this time last month.
The Ohio average is about the same as a year ago at this time.
The lowest average price in Ohio Monday was about $3.35 in the Toledo and Youngstown areas.
Online: AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report at http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com.


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It was only a matter of time, I guess, before Lana Del Rey's 2011 breakout hit "Video Games" wound up being used in a video game trailer. And so it has come to pass — this trailer for Hitman: Absolution turned up on Eurpoean airwaves last week, and it features Del Rey's song. Also, an out-of-focus naked woman in a shower. Since, you know. Hitman.
Stepping back from the hullabaloo that arose from the last Hitman trailer, this is for the most part good old-fashioned exploitation. Hot woman in shower, Agent 47 killing dudes… maybe he's gonna kill the hot woman in the shower? Or maybe there's something more to it? Oh, I don't know. I do think would be pretty great if they had featured this version, which is actually about video games.
I could be wrong on this, since I haven't seen every single game trailer from the last year, but I believe this is the first time Del Rey's song has actually been used to sell a video game. Good to see that the "downtempo pop song underscoring silent violence" thing hasn't gone completely by the wayside.


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Barnum school not willing to consolidate
The Barnum School Board members did not support continuing talks with the Moose Lake School Board about consolidation at the meeting of the board on Tuesday, February 18.
"I haven't spoken to one person that has been in favor of consolidation," said board member Colleen Fetters. "Moose Lake has nothing to offer us. Why should we put ourselves in that situation?"
"Some think that there could be definite benefits," said board member Paul Coughlin. "It could be possible but there isn't enough support."
"The idea should be looked at down the road," said board member Lenore Skoglund. "It's a good idea for the education of our kids in the area but not at this time."
"Let's keep it in the backs of our minds," said board member Tony Newman.
Pat Poirier, the board chairman, agreed with the statements of the other school board members. "It would give our kids a lot but there is no support," he said. "We're not interested in consolidating at this time."
Board member Michael Line said no to the consolidation proposal.
Building project
The board approved Plan A for additions and remodeling of the high school building, as recommended by architect Kevin Holm of LHB. The board had discussed Plans A and B at a working meeting the week before.
Superintendent Dave Bottem listed the details of the plan, and said the estimated cost is nearly $16 million. The plan includes a $50,000 two-level building near the sports complex, he added.
An outdated boiler in the elementary school needs to be replaced, due to the inability to obtain parts. The plans call for replacement of the boiler and connecting all of the four boilers in the elementary school. The new boiler would also be more energy efficient.
Lighting in the high school would be replaced with energy efficient lighting.
"Kevin (the architect) said that we will actually see a savings in our utilities," said Supt. Bottem.
Lists showing the actual amount of the bond sale were distributed and showed a total of $16,280,000. Those costs include sending information to the Department of Education for the required review and comment, the cost of the bond sale and other costs associated with the project.
Due to existing debt, repayment of the new debt, if the referendum passes, will be reduced in the first four years while the old debt is paid off. The debt for the new school would extend out for 20 years.
Tax impact information shows the tax for the project would be $311 on a $150,000 property. Supt. Bottem explained that number was $6 more than it had been previously.
Ehlers, the financial consulting firm, can provide the exact increase in property value for property owners in the Barnum School District. Information will be provided in a brochure that will be sent to school district residents about where to call to get that information.
Times when the residents can meet with the board to find out information about the project will be listed in the brochures.
The school board will make a final decision in May whether to present the bond referendum to the voters in August.
The board set make-up days for days the school was closed for April 16 and 17, and June 4. The day Gov. Mark Dayton closed all of the schools in the state will not have to be made up, it was said.
The board approved the 2014-15 revised budget.
The board met in a closed session at the end of the meeting to discuss the price for property across from Barnum Elementary. The property owner needs to submit a price before a decision can be made, reported Supt. Bottem.
The next meeting of the Barnum School Board was set for Tuesday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the board room.


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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Tribal sources from Pakistan's northwest said on Saturday a U.S. drone attack had killed a senior al Qaeda commander in the latest blow to the militant Islamist group that has been targeted in many similar attacks.
Abu Zaid was killed in the drone strike on a hideout in Pakistan's North Waziristan, one of the tribal regions near the border with Afghanistan, early on Thursday, the sources said. Zaid had just moved to the hideout a few days ago, they said.
Pakistani security officials based in North Waziristan said they were aware of the death of a senior al Qaeda commander but could not confirm his identity or rank.
Zaid replaced Abu Yahya al-Libi as one of al Qaeda's most powerful figures in June after Libi was killed by a U.S. drone strike. Ten others were also killed in that attack.
Unmanned aerial attacks have crushed al Qaeda's network along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan but have drawn trenchant criticism in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda has been weakened steadily in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the killing of Osama bin Laden in a raid by U.S. special forces on a Pakistani garrison town in May 2011.
(This story corrects to 10 killed in Libi attack, not Zaid strike)
Reporting by Jibran Ahmad; Writing by Randy Fabi; Editing by Paul Tait


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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Retrospective Opens at The Belvedere
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, At the Blacksmiths Workshop, 1854. Oil on wood, 58 x 45,5 cm. Private collection.
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 1865) was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period. Whether it was the conquest of the landscape and thus the convincing rendering of closeness or distance, the accurate characterisation of the human face, the detailed and refined description of textures, or the depiction of rural everyday life: his works brilliant, explanatory, moralising, and socially critical influenced a whole generation of artists. Being an advocate of natural observation and plein air painting, as well as a critic of academic painting, Waldmüller was far ahead of his time.
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accommodates the Waldmüller Archive and owns the most comprehensive collections of his works worldwide. In this retrospective, comprising some 120 works, masterpieces from the Belvederes holdings will be complemented by loans from national and international collections. Several paintings that were thought to be lost will be presented to the public for the first time.
Apart from his meticulous bent for observation, Waldmüller is also esteemed for his knowledge of nature, his taste for detail, his treatment of light and his talent as a colorist. A key figure in Austrian painting, who taught for a number of years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and then pursued a career mainly as a portrait artist, Waldmüller was a leading representative of the Biedermeier style. Examples of this influence include his landscapes and scenes of everyday life, celebrating the materialistic values, refinement and elegance of the bourgeoisie of the time, but also his portraits and still lifes. A proponent of realism and exactitude, Waldmüller paints landscapes without any mythological embellishments, dramatization or other ornamentation.
This exhibition traces Waldmüllers entire artistic career, his rigorous realism in the depiction of a society transformed by the upheavals of 1848aristocrats, bourgeoisie and peasants are featured together in these paintingshis modernity and his keen interest in photography (which played a central role in his life work). The exhibition also underscores Waldmüller as a key influence on the Pre-Raphaelite painters in England who, in the middle of the 19th century, favored greater spontaneity in their art and a stronger connection with nature, as well as his impact, in the early 20th century, on the artists of the Secession movement who sought, particularly in Austria and Germany, to react against official art.
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Kaitlyn Boudah has appeared in all 12 games for the Crimson this season and has registered one goal and one assist (photo Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard field hockey team will play its first road game since Sept. 29, when the squad travels to No. 3 Princeton Saturday.
About Harvard
The Crimson (3-9, 1-3 Ivy League) has dropped four straight games after winning at Brown, 1-0, Sept. 29. Nine Harvard players have scored the team's 14 goals this season, including a team-high four from sophomore Noel Painter. Classmate Caitlin Rea has provided four assists this season to rank first on the team. Senior Emma Keller and junior Rachael Rosenfeld have also tallied multiple goals with two apiece. In the cage, Cynthia Tassopoulos has received a majority of the playing time and brings a 3-7 record to Princeton. Tassopoulos has saved .753 percent of shots, while allowing 2.26 goals per game.
Last Time Out
Cornell spoiled the Crimson's chance to move into the top four of the Ivy League standings by beating Harvard, 4-0, Oct. 13. The Crimson outshot Cornell, 9-8, in the second half and gained an equal number of corners, 6-6, throughout the game, but failed to get a shot past Carolyn Horner, the Big Red's goalie. Hannah Balleza and Taylor Standiford led Cornell with two goals each.
D the Key
In each of Harvard's three wins this season the team's defense has been the driving reason for success. The Crimson has produced two shutouts, versus Holy Cross and Brown, while allowing 0.33 goals per game in wins. Harvard boasts a .955 save percentage during victories.
Tassopoulos in the Rankings
Senior co-captain Cynthia Tassopoulos ranks among the nation's best in the three major statistical categories for goalies. Tassopoulos is 16th in saves per game (7.0), 23rd in save percentage (.753), and 46th in goals against average (2.26). The Dallas, Texas, native also ranks third on Harvard's all-time charts with 490 career saves.
About No. 3 Princeton
The Tigers (11-1, 4-0 Ivy League) have shutout three consecutive Ivy League opponents en route to first place in the conference standings. Princeton is riding a four-game winning streak dating back to Sept. 23 when the team suffered its only loss of the year, a 2-0 defeat at the hands of then-No. 2 Syracuse. Senior Kathleen Sharkey, who took last season off to train with the U.S. National Team, is the team's, and nation's, leading scorer with 4.0 points per game. The three-time All-American and 2010 Ivy League Player of the Year also leads the country in goals per game (1.74). In the cage, junior Christina Maida has an 11-1 record with a 1.30 goals against average and .705 save percentage.
All-Time Series
Princeton has won the last 18 meetings between the two schools to pull ahead in the all-time series, 5-33-2. Harvard's last win over the Tigers came in 1993, while the team's last victory in Princeton, N.J., was in 1990. Last season, Princeton dispatched Harvard, 4-1, with the Crimson's lone score coming from Noel Painter on an assist from Rachael Rosenfeld.
Up Next
After Saturday, the Crimson will have three games remaining on its slate. Harvard travels to Dartmouth (Oct. 27) and Vermont (Oct. 28) before returning home Nov. 3 to face Columbia.
Trip to No. 2 Princeton Saturday Up Next for Field Hockey
Kaitlyn Boudah has appeared in all 12 games for the Crimson this season and has registered one goal and one assist (photo Gil Talbot).


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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) at its headquarters Thursday with a series of speakers and panels exploring the past, present and future of the landmark law and the fight against disability discrimination.
"The EEOC is proud of its enforcement efforts under the ADA for the past twenty years, moving forward to fulfill the nation's promise to give all Americans opportunity, dignity and respect in the workplace," said EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien. "The ADA did not erase all of our challenges, but we have learned over the years, as we also celebrate the 45th anniversary of the EEOC's founding this month, that the American workplace has changed for the better."
Organized by EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who was herself instrumental in the development and passage of the ADA and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) prior to coming to the EEOC, the event drew over a hundred people and was webcast on the EEOC's website.
"Work is key to the soul. It's not just about paying the bills. It's about feeling important, about feeling useful. Everyone should be able to work, if they can. But to achieve that for people with disabilities - we really need to change how people think about who they want to hire," Feldblum said.
Under the theme of "Celebrating the ADA: Looking Back, Moving Forward," ten speakers, including EEOC officials and authorities on disability law and practice, along with the complainant in an EEOC disability rights case, explored the "nuts and bolts of EEOC work" as well as the ADAAA which significantly expanded the ADA's scope.
"Our country is stronger and more fair today because the ADA opened the doors of opportunity to millions of people with disabilities who had been effectively locked out of the American dream to which we all aspire," said Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights who spoke at the event.
"Thanks to the ADA, all Americans have benefitted from the talents and contributions of people with disabilities," said Andrew J. Imparato, President and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities, who also spoke. "However, much work remains to be done. Too many people with disabilities are eager to work but still excluded from our workforce. Our workplaces need these individuals in order to flourish."
The agency also presented awards to current and former EEOC Commissioners and staff who played key roles in the passage of the ADA, promulgation of regulations and guidance under the ADA, and enforcement of the ADA. The awardees included:
More information about the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the ADA, including the webcast of the event, is available on the EEOC's website at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/45th/ada20/index.cfm
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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McCracken, Martin, McIvor, R., Treacy, Raymond and Wall, Anthony (2018) A Study of Human Capital Reporting in the United Kingdom. Accounting Forum, 42 (1). pp. 130-141. [Journal article]
Martin, Gary, Connolly, Ciaran and Wall, Anthony (2017) ENHANCING NDPB ACCOUNTABILITY: IMPROVING RELATIONSHIPS WITH UPWARD AND DOWNWARD STAKEHOLDERS. Public Management Review, N/A . pp. 1-23. [Journal article]
McCracken, Martin, McIvor, Ronan and Wall, Anthony (2016) Reporting human capital: illustrating your company's true value. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. 50 pp. [Research report (external)]
Wall, Anthony and Connolly, Ciaran (2015) Implementing IFRSs in the UK devolved administrations. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 29 (2). pp. 198-225. [Journal article]
Connolly, Ciaran and Wall, Anthony (2014) Value Capture: A Valid Means of Funding PPPs? Financial Accountability and Management, 32 (2). pp. 157-178. [Journal article]
Connolly, Ciaran and Wall, Anthony (2013) The Implementation of IFRS in the UK Devolved Administrations. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Edinburgh. 71 pp ISBN 9781904574941 [Book (authored)]
Connolly, Ciaran and Wall, Anthony (2012) Implementing IFRSs in the public sector: caveats from a case in the UK. Public Money & Management, 32 (1). pp. 53-60. [Journal article]
Wall, Anthony (2012) Public-Private Partnerships in the USA: Lessons to be Learned for the United Kingdom (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management). Routledge. 148 pp ISBN 978-0415818797 [Book (authored)]
Wall, Anthony and Connolly, Ciaran (2012) The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Public-Private Partnerships: A UK Perspective. In: Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships: Strategies for Turbulent Times (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management). (Eds: Greve, Carsten and Hodge, Graeme), Routledge, pp. 33-56. ISBN 978-0415539593 [Book section]
Connolly, Ciaran and Wall, Anthony (2011) The global financial crisis and UK PPPs. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 24 (6). pp. 533-542. [Journal article]
Wall, Anthony and Griffiths, Philip (2011) Social Media Use by Enrollment Management. In: Higher Education Administration with Social Media: Including Applications in Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, Alumini Relations and Career Centers (Cutting Edge Technologies in Higher Education). Emerald, pp. 49-67. ISBN 978-0857246516 [Book section]
Fee, Helen, Greenan, Kate and Wall, Anthony (2010) An investigation into secondary school exit standards: Implications for university lecturers. International Journal of Management Education, 8 (2). pp. 43-52. [Journal article]
Connolly, Ciaran, Reeves, Eoin and Wall, Anthony (2009) Isomorphism: An Explanation for the Popularity of Public-Private Partnerships? The Irish Accounting Review, 16 (1). pp. 1-19. [Journal article]
Connolly, Ciaran and Wall, Anthony (2009) Public Private Partnerships in Ireland: Benefits, Problems and Critical Success Factors. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. 166 pp ISBN 978-0-903854-70-2 [Book (authored)]
McIvor, Ronan, Humphreys, Paul, McKittrick, Alan and Wall, Anthony (2009) Performance management and the outsourcing process Lessons from a financial services organisation. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, 29 (10). pp. 1025-1048. [Journal article]
McIvor, Ronan, Humphreys, Paul, Wall, Anthony and McKittrick, Alan (2009) A study of performance measurement in the outsourcing decision. Elsevier. 1 pp ISBN 978-1-85617-680-4 [Book (authored)]
Wall, Anthony and Connolly, Ciaran (2009) The Private Finance Initiative: An Evolving Research Agenda. Public Management Review, 11 (5). pp. 707-724. [Journal article]
Connolly, Ciaran, Martin, Gary and Wall, Anthony (2008) Education, Education, Education: The Third Way and PFI. Public Administration, 86 (4). pp. 951-968. [Journal article]
Wall, Anthony (2007) Government "Demarketing" as Viewed by its Target Audience. Marketing Intelligence and Planning, 25 (2). pp. 123-135. [Journal article]
Brennan, Michael, McGowan, Pauric and Wall, Anthony (2005) Academic entrepreneurship: assessing preferences in nascent entrepreneurs. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 12 (3). pp. 307-322. [Journal article]
Wall, Anthony (2005) The Measurement and Management of Intellectual Capital in the Public Sector: Taking the Lead or Waiting for Direction? Public Management Review, 7 (2). pp. 289-303. [Journal article]
Wall, Anthony and Borland, Gary (2005) The Publication of Local Government Performance Indicators in the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Accounting Review, 12 (2). pp. 75-84. [Journal article]
Hyndman, Noel, McKillop, Donal, Ferguson, Charles and Wall, Anthony (2004) The Financial Accountability of Irish Credit Unions: An Initial Empirical Study. Financial Accountability & Management, 20 (3). pp. 253-279. [Journal article]
Wall, Anthony, Kirk, Robert and Martin, Gary (2003) Intellectual Capital: Measuring the Immeasurable? CIMA Publishing. 112 pp ISBN 978-0750661713 [Book (authored)]
Wall, Anthony and Martin, Gary (2003) Best Value: How Local Authorities in Northern Ireland are Consulting with Stakeholders. Journal of Finance & Management in Public Services, 3 (2). pp. 15-30. [Journal article]
Wall, Anthony and Martin, Gary (2003) The Disclosure of Key Performance Indicators in the Public Sector: How Irish Organizations are Performing. Public Management Review, 5 (4). pp. 491-509. [Journal article]
Kirk, Robert and Wall, Anthony (2002) Intellectual Capital: The Missing Asset. The Irish Accounting Review, 9 (2). pp. 49-72. [Journal article]
Kirk, Robert and Wall, Anthony (2002) The Private Finance Initiative: Has the Accounting Standards Board Reduced theScheme's Value for Money? Public Management Review, 4 (4). pp. 529-547. [Journal article]
Hyndman, Noel, McKillop, Donal, Ferguson, Charlie and Wall, Anthony (2001) Accountability: A Study of Irish Credit Unions. Oak Tree Press. 119 pp ISBN 9781860762345 [Book (authored)]
Kirk, Robert and Wall, Anthony (2001) Substance, Form and PFI Contracts. Public Money and Management, 21 (3). pp. 41-46. [Journal article]
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Coming off an Oscar win for The Fighter and currently shooting one of the biggest films of 2012, Christian Bale has a wide variety of projects to choose from as his follow-up to The Dark Knight Rises. His third (and supposedly final) Batman film wraps shooting this fall and he's eyeing various high-profile projects as his follow up. Variety reports that he's considering Clint Eastwood's remake of A Star Is Born starring Beyonce Knowles, Michael Mann's Gold, the villain role in Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy, Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace, and Darren Aronofsky's Noah. Bale was supposedly set for Zack Snyder's The Last Photograph but he is no longer involved with that project. Variety also doesn't mention the untitled Terrence Malick film Bale reportedly signed on to last week.
According to Variety, Bale won't make his decision until The Dark Knight Rises wraps shooting in November nor is he necessarily the front-runner for any of these movies. It's also worth noting that all these roles play to Bale's dramatic side even though he gave audiences a glimpse at his ability to go beyond grim-and-gritty in The Fighter, and it's easier to get excited about him signing onto a film after that great performance.


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I took a picture while walking ain Taman Negara, National Park jungle on Penang Island, Malaysia on my way to the Monkey Beach. The jungle was full of life. It had special power and shined so beautifully in the sunlight.
It is a photograph, but I also hand painted over it a little bit with acrylic paint in an almost unperceivable way, but it makes the artwork more complex, powerful, original and unique.
160 x 120 cm, digitally altered photograph on textured pvc, hand painted over with acrylic paint, edition of 12, 2017.
The photograph is sold unframed, but can be framed at additional cost.
The photograph will be published in the book: TJASA IRIS, 8 MONSOONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA, A EUROPEAN UNDER THE TROPICS, PHOTOGRAPHS 2009 - 2017, will be available available at Amazon from end of December on.
For other sizes, please contact the artist. They can also be printed at M and XL size.
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JUNGLE NEAR MONKEY BEACH, (RED), 160 x 120 cm (2016)
Photograph by TJAŠA IRIS
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- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Flowers and plants
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Coffee prices are up about 90% year-to-date.
A drought in Brazil and leaf rust in parts of Central America have helped push prices higher.
And now El Niño is coming.
El Niño is a weather phenomenon that tends to bring dry weather to Asia and Australia, and a lot wetter conditions to South America.
"If El Niño leads to lower output from Indonesia and Vietnam (25% of global coffee production) as seems likely, prices may stay high for longer," writes Caroline Bain at Capital Economics.
That being said El Niño is a "transient event," and prices should weaken as weather conditions normalize.
Meanwhile, inventory of sugar and rice are at "comfortable levels," and dry weather in Southeast Asia and Australia isn't expected to see much of an impact on those commodities, according to Bain.


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The Scottish GENES blog has now ceased publication - for continuing Scottish news please refer to its sister blog, British GENES, at http://britishgenes.blogspot.com. The Scottish GENES posts will remain online as an archive of Scottish genealogical news from 2007-2011. Alba - agus Scottish GENES - gu bràth!
Thanks Chris! I was wondering what was up with that!
Hopefully we won't be offine for too long.......withdrawal symptoms are starting to kick in.....eh..who are you?? Do I know you? lol
Need to get ScotFamTed onto it! lol


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Zumba Sex Scandal: Former Maine Mayor Named as Alleged Client
(KENNEBUNK, Maine) -- A former mayor of South Portland, Maine, is among the 21 men accused of paying for sex at a Maine Zumba studio run by instructor Alexis Wright, who has been charged with operating a prostitution ring out of her dance studio.
James Soule, 58, served as mayor of the town near the Kennebunk studio in 2008. Soule, who is facing a misdemeanor soliciting charge, has not responded to requests for comment.
In a scathing statement overnight, Mark Strong, the man accused of booking clients at the Pura Vida Studio owned by Wright, 29, lashed out at investigators, accusing the Kennebunk police department of retaliation and unprofessional conduct. Strong has pleaded not guilty to 59 misdemeanor charges.
"I never had sex with [Wright] for money," Strong wrote in a statement. "The charges against me are untrue. I will be vindicated in a jury trial."
Strong, 57, says he met Wright online and soon developed a personal relationship in which he helped her start a "legitimate business."
Police say Strong helped run Wright's alleged side prostitution business and helped video-tape her clients. Prosecutors say they have 100 hours of video evidence.
Strong, an insurance agent, says he's also a private investigator, and that he began investigating Kennebunk police because the department was harassing Wright.
"The Kennebunk police department seized my computer, which contains multiple interviews of witnesses in that investigation," Strong wrote in his statement.
Police have not responded to inquiries about Strong's allegations.
Daniel G. Lilley, the attorney representing Strong, defended his client.
"From what he says, he's a good guy caught up in a bad situation," Lilley said. "I think if you look at the theory that he was delving into their privacy, if that's true and its retaliation, then the answer's yes. If not, then I don't know why they singled him out."
As the scandal unravels, there has been more fallout in the Maine vacation town after the release of a list of some of Wright's more than 100 alleged clients, which reportedly includes a lawyer, a forester and a real estate appraiser.
So far, 21 men have been charged with engaging in prostitution and have been summoned to appear in court. They are among the more than 150 men -- and reportedly one woman -- who are being investigated.
A Maine judge on Tuesday cleared the way for police to release the ages and addresses of the first 21 names on the list. Their ages range from 34 to 65, and most live in Maine, one in New Hampshire and one in Boston.
The 21 men have been summoned to appear in court on Dec. 5. The full list can be seen here.
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I'm writing a book which will include and explain a handful of different memoir page layouts.
Setting the scene
In the book, I want to imbed thumbnails of pages from PDFs generated with the page layouts, which I'm successfully doing with
The top-level document, ''mlayout.tex'', then, includes pages from a series of PDFs, called ''mlayout-a'', ''mlayout-b'', etc.
At the next level, the documents (''mlayout-a.tex'' etc) set the style (a,b,c...) in a couple of lines, and end with
''mlayout-text.tex'' contains the lipsum stuff. I need to illustrate some specific things like
\marginpars that lipsum or blindtext can't do for me, so that's why I use this third-level file.
The problem
This nesting of dependencies seems to demand latexmk; if I change mlayout-text.tex, it will (I hope) enable me simply to reprocess mlayout.tex and thereby regenerate, automatically, all the intermediate PDFs.
The first try, with no modifications to latexmkrc, didn't attempt to produce the intermediate PDFs, so I added a custom dependency to latexmkrc:
add_cus_dep('tex', 'pdf', 0, 'maketex2pdf');
sub maketex2pdf {
system("latexmk -pdf $_[0]");
But, as far as I can tell, it still doesn't detect changes to the lowest-level file (mlayout-text).
What am I doing wrong?
Note: I haven't included an MWE (to save a lot of space and a fair amount of time); if you think the question needs one, please comment and I'll add a custom-made (i.e. small) one.


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The 110 begins life when Cane Creek machines the cups from custom drawn, US made seamless 7075 aluminum tube. Each part has been relieved of excess material, inside and out, to keep the weight to a bare minimum while retaining the strength you'll depend on. These cups house the stainless steel sealed cartridge bearings, both of which use Cane Creek's proprietary split-lip seals to keep the grease in and contaminants out. At the same time, these seals run smoothly against the races with a minimum of drag so your steering feel will be rock solid, yet will respond to the lightest touch on the bars. It's quite possible that dirt and muck will never even reach the bearing seals anyway. The 110 Headset includes low-friction seals on the top bearing cover and on the crown race that effectively seal the cup and bearing contained within.
Another advantageous detail of the 110 is the captured compression ring under the top bearing cover. It facilitates easy assembly and eliminates the possibility of rocking or creaking regardless of the small variations often found in steerer tube diameters. And for lightweight carbon fiber steerer tubes, the extra surface area over other systems ensures a damage free compressive junction. All these technical details aside, you may simply lust for the jewel-like quality of the 110-Series Headset due to its highly polished finish or its rich anodized colors. And that's perfectly fine too.
The Cane Creek 110-Series Tapered ZS44 EC44/40 Headset is designed to mate a fork with a 1-1/8" - 1-1/2" tapered steerer to a straight head tube having a 44mm I.D. on top and bottom. This is what we'd call a traditional (TR) headset as the external cups house the bearings outside the confines of the head tube. It's available in Black and Red.


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FIL Begins Today
While the big league Phillies are winding down their season before beginning postseason play next, 52 of their minor leaguers will be honing their skills in the Florida Instructional League in Clearwater, FL.
Players started working out today at the Carpenter Field Complex. Games will begin on September 26 and end October 15. While the daily workouts will take place at Carpenter Field, the games will be played at Bright House Field. Game times are 1 p.m., except for Saturdays when they begin at 10 a.m. No games will be played on Sundays.
Other teams in the FIL include the Yankees, Pirates, Blue Jays and Tigers.
Coordinators: Mike Compton, field; Gorman Heimueller, pitching; Steve Henderson, hitting; Doug Mansolino, infield.
Staff: Mickey Morandini, manager; Frank Cacciatore, hitting; Carlos Arroyo, pitching; Les Lancaster, pitching; Mark Parent, instructor; Dusty Wathan, instructor and Brett Gross, video rep
Pitchers: Gabriel Arias, Jesse Biddle, James Birmingham, Lisalverto Bonilla, Ranfi Casimiro, Lendy Castillo, Brody Colvin, J. Dygestile-Therrien, Percival Garner, Ken Giles, Steven Inch, Ulises Joaquin, Jay Johnson, Colin Kleven, Ervis Manzanillo, Lino Martinez, Adam Morgan, Hector Neris, Ramon Oviedo, J. C. Ramirez, Yacksel Rios, Braden Shull, Ethan Stewart, Joshua Warner, Austin Wright.
Catchers: Francisco Diaz, Logan Moore, Chase Numata, Cameron Rupp, Robert Stumpo.
Infielders: Cody Ashe, Albert Cartwright, Edgar Dugan, Maikel Franco, Gustavo Gonzalez, Tyler Grene, Cesar Hernandez, Harold Martinez, Roman Quinn, Brock Stassi, Alejandro Villalobos, Mitch Walding.
Outfielders: Aaron Altherr, Zach Collier, Gauntlett Eldemire, Tyson Gillies, Larry Greene, Kyrell Hudson, Jonathan Knight, Brian Pointer, Carlos Tocci, Jiandido Tromp.


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This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration files, "Walnut Grove Japanese-American Historic District," "Walnut Grove Chinese-American Historic District," "Walnut Grove Commercial/Residential Historic District," and "Locke Historic District" (with photographs). It was written by Rita G. Koman, an education consultant. The lesson was edited by the Teaching with Historic Places staff.
TwHP is sponsored, in part, by the Cultural Resources Training Initiative and Parks as Classrooms programs of the National Park Service. This lesson is one in a series that brings the important stories of historic places into the classrooms across the country.
Where it fits into the curriculum
Topics: The lesson could be used in units on immigration or on multiculturalism in America. The lesson also could be used to enhance the study of Asian American history.
Time period: Late 19th century to early 20th century
Relevant United States History Standards for Grades 5-12
Relevant Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
Find your state's social studies and history standards for grades Pre-K-12
Objectives for students
1) To explain the contribution of early Asian immigrants to the development of California's agricultural industries.
2) To identify and describe the obstacles encountered by Asian cultural groups as they struggled to make a living and find a place in American society.
3) To describe life in Walnut Grove and Locke during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
4) To analyze the condition and status of early Asian immigrants using visual evidence.
5) To locate and learn about ethnic enclaves that made contributions to the history of the student's own community.
Materials for studentsThe materials listed below either can be used directly on the computer or can be printed out, photocopied, and distributed to students. The maps and images appear twice: in a low-resolution version with associated questions and alone in a larger, high-resolution version.
1) two maps of California and the Delta region;
2) three readings about the Chinese and Japanese immigrants and their lives in Locke and Walnut Grove;
3) five photographs and a drawing of Locke and Walnut Grove.
Visiting the sites Walnut Grove is located nearly midway between Sacramento and Stockton on California Highway 160. Locke is located one mile north of Walnut Grove. From San Francisco, take Interstate 80 to State Route 12 which intersects with Highway 160. From Sacramento, take Highway 160 south. The historic sections of town can be seen on foot or by car. Only businesses are open to the public. Throughout this area, farmlands growing fruit and vegetables sprawl along the roadsides in all directions. For more information, visit the Web pages of Locke [http://www.locketown.com] and Walnut Grove [http://www.walnutgrove.com].


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ENSO and Global Temperatures
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ENSO and Global Temperatures
Natural climate patterns that persist for days, months, or even years can affect weather patterns around the world and impact the average global temperature. One such well-known global-scale pattern—the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)—is a natural episodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature (El Niño) and the air pressure of the overlying atmosphere (Southern Oscillation) across the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Over a period of months to a few years, ENSO fluctuates between warmer-than-average ocean surface waters (El Niño) and cooler-than-average ocean surface waters (La Niña) in that region.
With NOAA's Climate Prediction Center ENSO records dating back to 1950, three of the four warmest years on record (2010, 1998, and 2003) are "El Niño years". The year 2011 currently ranks as the warmest "La Niña year" in the 1950–2011 period of record. A La Niña (El Niño) year is defined here as occurring when the first three months of a calendar year are classified under La Niña conditions. With La Niña conditions present through April before transitioning to ENSO-neutral and trending toward warm El Niño conditions, 2012 is on track to potentially break 2011's annual temperature of 0.53°C above average.
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The UC Santa Barbara men's cross country team defeated league-favorite Cal Poly in the annual Lagoon Open on Saturday by a score of 24-31. The league-favorite Gaucho women, however, dropped a narrow 27-30 decision to the Mustang women's team.
UCSB's Juan Paredes finished third overall but first among UCSB-Cal Poly athletes. Paredes time over the 8K course was 24:42.81. Cal Poly's Carl Dargitz was second among collegians at 24:46.56. Gaucho Jeremy Acosta (25:04.56) and Mustang Michael Johnson (25:13.22) were third and fourth respectively. Santa Barbara runners also finished fifth, seventh and eighth for the win.
On the women's side, Cal Poly's Kayleigh Tyerman set a course record in the 5K run at 17:07.28. UCSB's Amanda Moreno, who finished second, also broke the previous course record with a time of 17:16.91. Mustang runners Kelly Barmann (17:52.00) and Vanessa Hancock (18:00.38) were third and fifth respectively. Andrea Jacobs (17:58.82) and Crystal Reed (18:01.72) were fourth and sixth for the Gauchos. Cal Poly's Leann Fogg finished seventh at 18:03.63, while Santa Barbara's Breanne Strenkowski (18:08.35) and Ashley Beechan (18:11.94) were eighth and ninth.
The overall winner in the men's race was former Gaucho Scott Smith. Running unattached, Smith ran a 24:36.00.
Both the UCSB men's and women's teams are off until Saturday, Sept. 18 when they travel to the Riverside Invitational.


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Fox's Bream Makes Third (Failed) Attempt To Smear A San Antonio Non-Discrimination Ordinance
August 27, 2013 4:40 pm ET by Luke Brinker
Fox News host Shannon Bream invited the hate group Family Research Council's (FRC) Peter Sprigg to confirm her baseless belief that a proposed non-discrimination ordinance would ban Christians from holding public office in San Antonio, marking her third failed attempt to smear the measure.
On the August 27 edition of America Live, Bream and Sprigg peddled unfounded right-wing attacks on the proposal - which adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the city's existing non-discrimination ordinance - as an assault on the rights of Christians. Bream opened the segment by echoing critics who claim the ordinance could be "the first step to banning Christian conservatives from holding public office":
BREAM: New developments today with a controversial proposal in San Antonio that critics say could be the first step to banning Christian conservatives from holding public office. The city council proposing an ordinance that disqualifies anyone who has ever, quote, demonstrated a bias against a person based on race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity. That appears to include people who have spoken out against things like gay marriage and in support of traditional marriage.
While Sprigg noted that the ordinance's language pertaining to prior bias or discrimination has been removed, that language nevertheless formed the basis of Bream's assertion that the ordinance "disqualifies anyone who has ever...demonstrated a bias" from city office.
Had Bream been interested in conducting anything more than a softball interview, she might have asked Sprigg about the fact that even right-wing Pastor John Hagee admits that free speech fears are overblown now that the earlier language - which was part of the existing non-discrimination code - has been struck.
More importantly, she might have noted that the ordinance doesn't place new restrictions on what city officials can do or say while in office. As San Antonio City Councilman Diego Bernal explained, the ordinance merely clarifies that the City Council may choose to remove a city official based on that official's professional bias against LGBT people - a discretionary power the City Council already has, even without the ordinance.
Given their histories, it's not surprising that Bream and Sprigg would seek to defeat a simple non-discrimination ordinance with unfounded claims that the rights of conservative Christians are under attack. Bream, for instance, has suggested that businesses should be permitted to discriminate against gay clients simply because they're gay. Meanwhile, Sprigg has endorsed the exporting of gays from the U.S. (a comment he was forced to walk back), called for the reinstatement of laws banning gay sex, and sits on the board of a group that advocates sham "ex-gay" therapy.
Fox News: City Ordinance Protecting LGBT Employees Is "Reverse Discrimination"
Don't Worry, Hate Groups: Fox News Has Not "Gone Gay"
"Purposeful Misinformation": How Right-Wing Media Are Smearing San Antonio's Proposed Anti-Discrimination Ordinance


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George Lee, a Kuwait-based U.S. defense contractor who was reaping millions as America's quagmire in Iraq deepened, sent an e-mail to an Army major who awarded bids in Baghdad, warning her not to visit him.
"None of us want Uncle Sam, or anyone else, looking where they should not be looking," he wrote in one of the trove of messages and intercepted phone calls that exposed the biggest fraud conspiracy from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So far, 22 people have been indicted and $67 million has been recovered in that single scheme, which remains under investigation.
But the little-known agency that uncovered the scam is about to close its doors, even though Lee remains a fugitive and 91 additional criminal investigations into the disappearance of Iraq reconstruction funds remain unsolved.
The mandate and funding of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, which was established in October 2004 and is known as SIGIR, expires in March. It will mark the end of an effort to document and fix the myriad failings of the most ambitious U.S. rebuilding effort since the Marshall Plan. The extent to which U.S. military personnel abused their positions during the war is a part of the legacy of the deeply unpopular conflict that has gone largely unnoticed.
"This is a tiny if disgraceful minority," Stuart W. Bowen, the head of the agency said. "A lot of these cases came to light deep into the reconstruction experience, which by then had been recognized to have fallen short of its goals."
The Kuwait scheme became the agency's landmark case. But SIGIR investigators uncovered scores of other plots that could be turned into thrillers. There were corrupt officers ratted out by spurned wives. Military officials accepted first-class tickets from contractors so they could hide their exploits in bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and Thailand. One soldier mailed stolen cash wrapped in American flags. Another particularly clever attempt to haul stacks of stolen cash to the United States involved stitching them into a Santa Claus costume.
SIGIR's criminal investigations, conducted with help from the FBI, the IRS and other federal agencies, have resulted in 81 convictions, including 47 military personnel. A few defendants are awaiting trial. Authorities have recovered more than $189 million.
Anyone who worked in Iraq during the heyday of reconstruction spending is unlikely to be surprised that many people were tempted to steal. U.S. officials came to see cash as a "weapon system" that could buy goodwill, forge alliances and alienate insurgents. There was loads of it, in bags, boxes and chests. With a widespread perception that oversight was lax, many saw the chance of a lifetime.
"There was so much money to be made at the time," said Daniel F. Willkens, the agency's head of investigations.
Maj. Gloria Davis was among those tempted, according to investigators and court documents. The Army officer met George Lee in Kuwait in 2003, soon after she was assigned to award military contracts for Iraq and he was trying to get a foothold in the rapidly expanding war economy. They became close after she awarded his company a contract for buses in January 2004.
That summer, their relationship grew so cozy that he paid for her spa treatments in Kuwait City and offered her son a job. That fall, after Davis awarded Lee two multimillion-dollar contracts for bottled water maintenance services, he flew her to Thailand, where she opened a bank account into which he soon wired $80,000.
Days after her son started his job in Kuwait, Davis thanked Lee in an e-mail on Jan. 3, 2005, according to Lee's indictment, writing that she appreciated "everything you have done for me and my family," and offering to do her share to "on this end to help the business."
Help she did, putting Lee and his son Justin, a business partner, in touch with other contracting officers amenable to kickbacks. Justin Lee heaped praise on Davis for her help, saying in another e-mail that they wanted her to be "as kept a woman as the princess herself." Among Davis's colleagues, the most audacious, investigators said, was Maj. John L. Cockerham. He became a ringleader among a cadre of contracting officers trained at Fort Sam Houston in Texas who gave preferential treatment to the Lees in exchange for kickbacks.
As the money rolled in, the Lees were enthralled by their booming business. After purchasing a first-class ticket for an officer involved in the scheme, Justin Lee wrote that Col. Kevin Davis "thought he had died and gone to heaven relative to his first first class travel." Lt. Col. Levonda J. Selph, who also accepted a free trip to Thailand, wrote to George Lee that they could discuss business deals over "a glass of champagne," and offered to do "everything I can barring going to jail" to get him more deals.
In 2006, Davis returned to Baghdad for a new deployment, not realizing that federal investigators had been tipped off by a competitor about irregularities in Lee's business practices. After she admitted to agents in December 2006 that $225,000 in an offshore bank account came from bribes, Davis returned to her room and fatally shot herself in the head.
Cockerham was arrested the following year. The former officer pleaded guilty to bribery, money laundering and conspiracy in January 2008, admitting he took more than $9 million in bribes. Davis, the most senior officer convicted in the case, pleaded guilty in April 2010 to accepting illegal gratuities. Selph pleaded guilty to bribery in 2011 and unsuccessfully sought to get the Federal Bureau of Prisons to incarcerate her alongside the former officer's pet chihuahua, Buffy. Justin Lee pleaded guilty to bribery in July. Investigators believe his father remains in Kuwait, along with much of the stolen cash.
Authorities also convicted civilians in notable cases. Robert N. Boorda, a former head of the Baghdad office of the U.S. Institute of Peace, which is funded by Congress, pleaded guilty to wire conspiracy last year after admitting he received a purported $20,000 monthly fee in 2009 from an inflated security contract submitted to his headquarters. Last year, Jill Ann Chapia, a U.S defense contractor, had to give up her job at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan after pleading guilty to lying to federal investigators who determined that she received more than $1.2 million after submitting phony invoices for work she was hired to do in Iraq in 2008.
Some of the open probes may lead to indictments before SIGIR shuts down, officials said. The agency said it is working with lawmakers in the House and Senate in hopes Congress will find the money to preserve its 21-person investigative team for the remainder of this year. If that effort fails, several of the open cases are likely to stall because they are unlikely to become priorities for federal law enforcement agencies.


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Lovely Victorian pub in a pedestrianised alley.
This had no ale, but did have proper Stella. It's a bit food-dominated, with heavy Guiness and oysters promotion, and a large hot buffet area, which sadly makes the whole pub smell of food (and makes it hot and humid). We were goinf to have lunch here, but that, combined with the total lack of a sandwich on the menu put us off. Staff were great though: friendly, helpful, and chatty but not annoying.


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Jojo's Bizarre adventure is a popular manga series written by Hirohiko Araki. JJBA is known to be one of the best selling manga series on the planet. Selling a staggering 95 million Tankōbon (Stand alone books) since it's creation in 1986. It was later turned into a OVA series in 1993 and again in 2000. In 2007 a film was released to Japanese theaters to commemorate the 25th year of publication. It
This is a top-down sorted list of my most favourite racing games on PC, sorted from the most fun regardless of the game quality or general reception:
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Penpals - Tell Me Why [Berserk]
Silver Fins - Waiting So Long [Berserk]
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Lights in Hastings
Published on by Harry Boni (author)
A bright idea to save £400,000 will see thousands of energy-saving bulbs installed in the boroughs street lamps.
Support rallied against plan to scrap morning London train
Published on by Brendan Husebo (author)
Both sides of the local political divide have added clout to a campaign to save a morning commuter service to London being withdrawn.
Brighton i360 tower loses £15m funding
Published on by Hayley Morris (author)
The council have withdrawn their £15m loan for the Marks Barfield i360 tower project.
Police are still searching for young female attacker
Published on by Aakash Nath (author)
A young woman, who attacked a 47-year-old woman in Hastings, has not yet been found by police.
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Google has executed an information coup d'état. From its early days as a noncommercial search engine powered by geeky idealists, it has become the primary force in commercializing our culture. No bit of online content escapes Google's grasp without first being turned into fodder for advertising. Whether it is our emails, our videos or our blogs and books, access is granted only if we accept the presence of targeted advertising. Google has become the commercialized frame through which our culture is accessed, and it is therefore the first advertising company to achieve the status of the cultural paratext.
For literary theorists, the paratext is contrasted with the hypotext. While the latter refers to the content of the author's words, the paratext is everything that surrounds those pages: the cover, the copyright notice, the editor's introduction, the author's bio – all these make up the content that complements the hypotext. The paratext is a part of the overall text, but it plays a unique role in framing the work. When we speak of not judging a book by its cover, for example, we are acknowledging the overwhelming power that the paratext has in influencing our interpretation of the original source material. Understanding the force of the paratext pushes us to consider the consequences for our culture if everything online is surrounded in a frame of advertising.
This is why quibbles over the relevance and usefulness of Google's ads, or whether they are distracting, miss the fundamental point. If advertising becomes the frame of our culture, then all thought is constrained by its horizon. The forces of commercialization need not counter the messages of anti-consumerism if they are able to play the role of the paratext. Simply running advertisements alongside attacks on commercialized culture neutralizes that resistance. All of a sudden it seems unreasonable, impossible or old-fashioned to dream outside Google's ad-frame.
Google is happy to remain an infoparasite, an organization attaching advertising to the creative products of our minds, because there has been little resistance. Unlike traditional advertisers, whose interjection of 30-second spots into the hypotext of culture alienated viewers, Google promotes the illusion that it doesn't change the content: It only provides access. But whether one is rewriting the hypotext or replacing the paratext, the overall effect is the same: Authentic culture, our only hope of escaping consumerism, is appropriated and commercialized.
Today's culture jammers face a formidable challenge. It takes courage to become the early pioneers of the backlash against Google: to be the first to refuse to have our words become hypotext for the advertising frame. That means turning our back on this search engine-turned-info-highwayman by simultaneously undermining its image of omniscience while we hurt its bottom line.
Remove your writings, your images, yourself from Google. Make it known that our cultural productions are not available for commercial exploitation. And while we challenge the assumption that Google is all knowing, let us hit advertisers where it hurts: by clicking on all the ads. With each click we will cost the advertisers money while spreading the most powerful idea of all: that the paratext of ads is about to be ruptured by a movement of jammers taking back their culture.


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PERRY and RELIC Official Re-Watch Thread, November 25th, 2011
This Friday's Re-Watch will be the Season 3 Primier "Exile" followed by "Phoenix".
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Beginning in the 16th century, exploration and colonization by the Spanish greatly influenced the lives of the Puebloan people. Spain established missions throughout the Salinas basin in an attempt to Christianize and bring the roughly 10,000 Indian people living there into Spanish society. These missions were self-sufficient communities that included the Indian village or pueblo, a church, the friars' quarters or convento, fields, hunting and gathering areas, and work areas. Under the mission system, villagers received regimented instruction in Christianity as well as in European social and agricultural practices. But, the mission system did not survive long in the Salinas basin, and by the late 1670s, the inhabitants of this once thriving area were all but gone.


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