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I FINALLY found the new legions (the answer to your question is yes, Chux) last Sunday at the Walmart in my parents' town. Got Evac, Breakdown, Mirage, and Soundwave.
On a side note, I find it interesting that one Walmart (the one here in my town) can have little to no new toys, and get virtually nothing new in for weeks at a time, while another Walmart (the one in my parents' town) has twice the number of toy aisles and has full pegs. Distribution is quite tricky at times.
Anyway, I gotta say the wait for these guys was frustrating, but now that I have them in hand I'm pleased. I was a bit concerned with Evac, as some guys on TFW were having qc issues with theirs, but mine is just fine. Mirage is cool, but being a Sideways repaint, there isn't much surprise there. Breakdown is very nifty. I like his uniqueness, and for a legion he's quite solid. Soundwave is the same as his dotm predecessor, just with a different paintjob and another one of those gummy bear weapons.
I also got deluxe Hot Shot and Breakdown at another Walmart last week. Haven't opened either yet.
The hunt continues for Voyager Starscream and Bulkhead. A friend of mine texted me the other night to inform me that the TRU near him (an hour and a half away from me) had both but were $27 each before tax.
I'm not even sure I should bother looking for Vehicon at this point. From what I'm reading on TFW, people are going nuts for that figure.
I can wait it out..or one of you kind west-coasters could help me out.


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I moved my blog from advogato to murrayc.com, so that I have more control.
I moved my blog from advogato to murrayc.com, so that I have more control.
Munich Blogs
I used the planet code to set up munichblogs.com, with an initial random selection of blog feeds. Hopefully there'll be some gradual natural-selection of the bloggers. I plan to add some subculture blogs too - For instance, I'd like to know about any and all blogs for open source developers in Munich.
Feeds seems to be of variable content, possibly depending on the formats (planet seems to handle any feed format automatically). Some have full text, and some have just the first couple of sentences. Some have links to the images shown on the original blogs, some do not. Maybe planets are test cases for feeds.
planet makes it really easy to do this - so expect a lot more planets to appear.
I've been playing with pyblosxom locally and with my hosted account. It's a while since I did much .cgi, so "premature end of script headers" in the apache error.log was confusing again. Of course it really seems to mean "some of your file permissions are wrong". I don't think I've been aware of suexec before, though it's probably quite common. Dreamhost use suexec, so you'll get that error if the .cgi script is writable by all. It's about time something stopped me from trying to fix permissions problems by giving full access to everything.
pyblosxom is nice and simple - you just put text files in a directory of your choosing, and it uses the date of the file on the filesystem to assign that entry to a date on your blog. Obviously, having to put files in there directly using a ssh session is impractical, so there is a primitive weblog-add.py script that lets you do it over the web, using apache's regular .htaccess user/password thing to restrict access. It's kind of annoying that I have to think of a filename manually, but that's not the end of the world. Also, the page-layout template system seems quite simple, with no embedded code.
I did look a the WordPress online demo, and it looks a lot more user-friendly. But I'd like to avoid maintaining a MySQL database just for my blog. I'm marginally more familiar with python than PHP, so the appearance of PHP in their templates alarms me. Also, I keep hearing about PHP being somehow fundamentally problematic for security, though I don't have the slightest idea of why.
So I am trying to get the pyblosxom xmlrpc interface to work, so I can use friendlier tools to post blog entries. I notice that the xmlrpc plugin needs python 2.2 rather than 2.1 - I think that's what the "NameError: name 'True' is not defined" error is about. So I changed the top of the pyconfig.cgi script from "#!/usr/bin/env python" to "#!/usr/bin/env python2.2". I'm not sure if that is the right way to do it. Also, python 2.2 seems to come with xmlrpclib, but you have to download xmlrpclib and copy it somewhere manually if you are using python 2.1.
It looks like gnome-blog is not quite up to date with recent pyblosxom. When using the "Self-Run Pybloxsom" Blog Type, it tries to access an xmlrpc.cgi script, but there's none in the pyblosxom-0.9.1 tarball. When I try to use the "Self-Run Other" Blog Type with The "BloggerAPI" or "MetaWeblog" Blog Protocols, givint if the URL of my pyblosxom.cgi script, it reports an "internal server error" and I get this in my error.log file.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "pyblosxom.cgi", line 49, in ? p.run() File "/home/murrayc/murrayc.com/blog/pyblosxom-0.9.1/Pyblosxom/pyblosxom.py", line 116, in run self.defaultHandler(config, data) File "/home/murrayc/murrayc.com/blog/pyblosxom-0.9.1/Pyblosxom/pyblosxom.py", line 130, in defaultHandler defaultfunc=blosxom_process_path_info) File "/home/murrayc/murrayc.com/blog/pyblosxom-0.9.1/Pyblosxom/tools.py", line 396, in run_callback return defaultfunc(input) File "/home/murrayc/murrayc.com/blog/pyblosxom-0.9.1/Pyblosxom/pyblosxom.py", line 304, in blosxom_process_path_info data['flavour'] = (form.has_key('flav') and File "/usr/lib/python2.2/cgi.py", line 601, in has_key raise TypeError, "not indexable"But I feel that I've done quite well, and I'm sure somebody will email me with a helpful clue.
Annoying g++ improvement of the day
I know there's bound to be a good reason for the C++ spec to say we can't do this, and I can guess at it, but this gcc 3.4 C++-conformance improvement, pointed out to me by Bryan Forbes, is an irritation. Of course, I don't know the reason exactly because there is still no freely-available copy of the C++ spec online. No, I don't want the C# one instead
Don't mention the war(s)
More documentaries seen at Dok.Fest:
I really like that the directors have often talked briefly after the films.
Long live the interim government
The Dok.Fest Documentary festival is on in Munich this week. It's information rich. So far I've seen
I love smartpointers
Yes, ncm, I am also becoming obsessed with smartpointers. Not only do I think C++ badly needs a standard-approved reference-counting smartpointer, but I'm even beginning to think it should be part of the language syntax, though I might be nuts.
Seeing and believing are both often wrong
The Fog of War is fascinating. Robert McNamara, the Rumsfeld of his day, is remarkably honest and precise about his mistakes and successes, while just following orders. I don't believe that he didn't know about Napalm though.
A running theme is that conflicts are often caused by leaders who obessively believe in false realities. There's a damning recording of a bloodthirsty LBJ outright reversing Kennedy's Vietnam withdrawl plan, because he was so convinced of the Domino theory.
Mobile ranting
Articles like this give me hope. There has been so much buzz about Linux on mobile phones during the past year, with Motorola, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and others planning linux-based phones and investing in the technology. I've worked a lot in this industry, and I've seen the vast savings that can be made by using a common platform. Some companies are killing themselves by locking themselves into obscure software platforms because they want to lock their customers into buying certain hardware. But delivering working products at reasonable prices is a better business strategy. It's not just Motorola that realise this. There's a lot of Chinese and Korean manufacturers who just want to get the job done. Linux lets them offer phones with more functionality. Some day one of these companies will do some usability tests and then really clean their clocks.
An interesting article in last week's Economist shows both that the large handset firms are already outsourcing the complete design and manufacture of some of their handset models to Taiwanese "original design manufacturers" (OSDMs), so they are not afraid of profitable change, and shows that those OSDMs are already taking market share with their own-brand handsets.
Torture is wrong. Now you know.
Rummy says he takes "full responsibility" for the torture at Abu Ghraib but, bizarrely, isn't resigning. Obviously , therefore, he isn't interested in taking responsibility for stopping it, or the torture at Guantanamo.
Some people will become gradually accustomed to each new outrage, but hopefully most U.S. voters can begin to see that something has gone terribly wrong. And this time, it's the voters' responsibility.
Near the end of series 3 now, having caught up with the episodes as they are shown. Since Season 2 the good guys have often resorted to torture as a last resort in desperate circumstances. But in the real world torture happens out of habit, not purpose.
I wonder whether Palmer will still be president in Season 4. At some point they have to acknowledge that the president is not a virtuous black man and that they are at war in Iraq.
Recent versions of Devhelp use gecko instead of gtkhtml, so now it can handle the links in gtkmm's html documentation. For instance, the search feature now works. It's useful.
Platform Bindings
We'll have pygtk in the GNOME Plaform Bindings for 2.7/2.8, That covers GTK+ and libglade, though nobody is claiming mainantership of the extra gnome-python tarball.
Glade 2.6 does good stuff
I noticed that, not only does Glade 2.6 support the new GTK+ 2.4 stuff, such as GtkAlignment padding, but when you create a GtkFrame, it even sets the invisble border, adds the bold label, and adds a child GtkAlignment with left padding. Instant HIGification.
And I see that Damon Chaplin is also working on Glade 3 now.
New gdm weirdness
I'm trying to use my debian partition full-time, at least until Fedora Core 2 arrives. I've got gnome 2.7 built with jhbuild, but the new version of gdm seems to have changed. it doesn't use scripts from /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ anymore. Apparently I'm supposed to put .desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions/ instead. But when I try to use that session menu entry in gdm, it starts KDE. I know that it's using the correct .desktop file because it complained when I mistyped "/home/bin/jhbuild run gnome-session" in the .desktop file. This is freaky.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
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To the original question, if your dog moves with your leg movement, either stand while running if it is an option or move your legs while on the bucket.
Nate great accomplishments with your dog sounds like you have a very well balanced animal. I haven't ran the Grand but have trained with many that have had success. Of course the dog has to mark the birds, but holding the dog together for several series of shooting poppers over them while keeping their butt on the ground is the key to success. There are many great dogs out there but not all are geared to play the Grand, just the same that not all Grand dogs will become all age qualified. They all are different. From the truck to the holding blind to the line, everything nice and slow. Maintain high standards all around. Use lots of holding blinds, making the dog wait his turn with excitement going in the field. Be the first one in the holding blind and the last to run. Put birds absolutely where the dogs don't want to go. Use wingers with nice arcs on throws, no noise in the field. Start off with singles/multiple stations no gun at the line just sit on the bucket, keep the dogs butt on the ground, and let him find his mark. Later up the standard by shooting a 20 gauge at the line with singles not pointing the gun at the birds just yet, we are still focused on keeping his butt on the ground. Put the bird where he doesn't want to go, run single marks that will build off of each other. Tough control blinds, through old falls and under arcs.
Good training brother
Sorry left one very important thing out. Use natural brush, trees, or clumps as your winger hides. Don't expose gun stations. A winger hide is still very much exposed. Winger hides out in the open are great for weekend HRCH and MH tests but not the Grand.
Y'all need to stop putting price tags on those free jackets, My wife could read this!!
I would prepare for the Grand by doing nothing but OB work in the morning and evening for a couple of weeks about three months before the Grand. Tighten that obedience up drum tight well in advance. Then, bring it to the field, upholding that elevated OB standard.
Your standards have to (obviously) elevate on all fronts. As I said, about 3 months out, I ran lots of singles and doubles to firm up marking/lining and ran lots of factorless cold blinds so I made sure my casting was rock solid. Then, about a 2 months out, start elevating the factors in your set-ups. Almost like drills before taking it to scrimmage.
Hope that I'm making sense....
The individual that was in charge of acquiring, ordering, and approving those jackets decided on that particular style. My 1000 pt jacket has that lovely feature...My 1500 pt jacket does not. I do not think the new ones have "backwards" zippers as HRC has recently changed vendors.


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Posted on 2 Feb 2011 by David Lesmeister.
As of right now, the Michigan State Spartans have signed twenty prospects. They rank #31 in the ESPN recruiting rankings and are considered a team on the cusp of breaking into the Top 25. The only teams ranked ahead of MSU in the Big Ten Conference are the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Of course it is still early and this could all change, but as of now, this MSU recruiting ...


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- Gabriel Whelden, born in England, probably in the late 1500s. He may have been from Nottinghamshire. His first wife's name is unknown. His second wife's name was Margaret. He died in January, 1654. Gabriel and his first wife may have been my tenth great-grandparents.
- Catharine Whelden, born about 1615 in England. The Whelden family was at Plymouth Colony by 1638. On 9 October 1639 at Plymouth, Catharine married Giles Hopkins. They were my ninth great-grandparents.
Gabriel Whelden, b. in England, was in the Plymouth Colony in 1638. The date of his arrival in America and the place of his landing are not known. He probably came from Nottinghamshire. His children were no doubt born in England and were probably by a first wife. When he died in 1654 his wife was Margaret, who, it seems clear, was his second wife and not the mother of his children....Well, that sounds fairly noncommittal, eh?
...Children, order uncertain:
Ralph, probably; m.
Henry, m.
John, m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Folland, Sr.
Catharine, probably; m. Giles Hopkins Oct. 9, 1639.
Ruth, m. Richard Taylor after Oct. 27, 1646.
It doesn't appear that a lot has been written about this line, although my discovery of this twig in my family tree is fresh and my searching has been limited to Google Books and Internet Archive. If anyone knows of additional Whelden research that's been done, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
See also "HOPKINS" in Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs (p. 296+ and particularly p. 297, col. 1: "(II) Giles, son of Stephen Hopkins... "


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Disclaimer: These interviews are not associated with A-M-V.org or its administration. The Lip Flapper needs an extended vacation from taxes and phones. The Lip Flapper is thinking Hawaii.
Welcome to the Lip Flapper! Each week, we delve deep into the community and get a look into both individual members as well as group discussions on various issues that surround our hobby.
Interview Spotlight
This week, we speak with ReggieSmalls, a unique and interesting editor all around, and a member of DZ Studios. Known more recently for Boondock Saints, but also for the enthralling Epic of Griffith.
Q: Thank you for joining me today. Why don't we start off and have you introduce yourself to the audience? Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Well my name is Reggie I'm from Garysburg , NC. I'm 25 years old, I been editing for 3 years
Q: Thanks again for joining me today Reggie. Let me start off and ask what got you involved in editing AMVs?
I started out just being a fan of AMV's and watching old DBZ Linkin Park videos in middle school. Around 2008 I got cool with some youtube editors. At the time I was in the graphics community fucking around with photoshop and shit. So I was making anime backgrounds for my favorite editors. They were not that well known and being rap editors made it worse since the rap/hip hop community on youtube, at least the one I'm apart of, is really small. So we would bullshit around, talk about good ideas for videos, and oddly some people would come and ask me for ideas and shit. One day somebody asked me "how come you don't edit videos with all these ideas?" So I was like fuck it why not? And that's how I got started.
Q: Care to let us know how exactly you set out to work on AMVs? How you get started, how you like to edit and whatnot?
Nothing special I just come up with a random ideas from songs I happen to be listening to or shows I'm watching. After a while I'll keep thinking about the combination until I open Vegas and have my song and source laid out and work it out from their, I rarely plan anything else ahead of time as I'm working on it because I end up changing my mind of the middle of it anyway. Anybody that's seen any of my videos know I make a lot of cuts and that's mainly because I hate the feeling of under editing. Which makes things a bit hard at times since I blow through scenes easily.
Q: Observing from your prior works, you have a very unique style of editing all your own. Works like Boondock Saints and Ground Zero feel like they're rap/hiphop videos and flow extremely well with the unique music. Care to let us know a little bit about how you set out to stylize your video?
I owe my style to a lot of people, I really have to thank my studio, my boy Khameleon808 and close friends in CDVV. My whole thing is when I edit I don't like wasting people's time with a whole lot of build up, that's why I use my best scenes early. As for the way I edit it's nothing special , all I do is vocal internal sync because I'd rather keep up with the flow of the artist, which is where I get the flow in my videos. The flow in my videos is very important to me, so if things are not flowing right I'll keep digging for scenes until I'm happy. It can be a pain in the ass since I love to lyric sync, and trying to keep a good flow going and have lyric sync can be a bitch.
Q: One of your older works (The Epic of Griffith) was nearly a 10 minute AMV that was quite literally (in a literary sense of the word), an epic tale! Care to share how it was to create such a long AMV and yet tell such an interesting story with it?
You know what it was just good timing, around that time I just got into Baba Brinkman and I was listening to a lot of his songs at the time. Around that same time I just got done watching Berserk for the first time. Baba Brinkman's Gilgamesh song seemed to match up so well with Berserk. I kept thinking about doing the video but didn't want to, I knew it was gonna take a lot of planning out and more work that I would want to do, but mainly I was like "who the fuck is gonna sit and watch my shitty 10min video I ain't Beowulf, who's gonna give a shit about this video."But after awhile my friends talked me into it. With the song being as long as it is I just wanted to make sure I kept things moving so people wouldn't get bored watching it. Now as for the video itself I made sure to plan out who was gonna be who this whole video. Griffith as Gilgamesh, Guts as Enkidu and so on and so forth. Took that and ran with it.
Q: Recently, you worked on "The Scientifically Worst MEP of all Time". How was it like setting out to purposefully make a bad AMV?
Fun as hell and you don't even have to try, if your working hard your doing it wrong.
Q: Speaking of AMVs, is there anything we can expect from you in the coming months?
Yea I got at least 3-4 videos I wanna get done this year but my main one is my Hunter x Hunter video that I wanna do with Big K.R.I.T's - Boobie Miles but I don't plan to do it until I get a bigger hard drive to hold that damn show.
Q: You're a member of DZ studios! Care to let us know a little bit about DZ and your experiences with them?
I couldn't be more happy being apart of DZ I gotta thank Reda for putting me on to them. A friend of mine on youtube put me on to Reda and we fucked around on AIM and he would give me editing advice, and what I mean by editing advice is I mean he would shit on my videos and tell me how much I sucked at it. At the time I couldn't even be that mad at the guy because the nigga was right. Plus already knowing he was a good editor I just took it and listened and learned. One day he invited me into a skype call with all the DZ members at the time and a few friends. Off the bat me and Joey (PennyRoyalty) became cool and that was also the same day I got my DZ name ReggieSmalls. Because my name on Youtube is MonkeyKingGhost but to everyone in that call I sounded like Biggie Smalls to them. Being apart of DZ I got to meet some great people who I love talking to, Fall_Child42, macchinainterna, meleechampion, Cannonaire etc.
Q: As a member of the a-m-v.org community, are there things that you think could be improved around here?
Not really I don't really think about it as much, as long as I can shit post every now and then with my nigga Chuck I'm good.
Q: Well thanks for joining me today Reggie. Any advice for future AMVers or AMVers just starting out?
Thanks for having me homie! For people starting out all the advice I have is just focus on the basics.


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Does anyone have some links or projects of jammers that are powered by an arduino?NOTE: Before you come posting on this thread about it being illegal. I know the laws and where I'm from (USA) it is not illegal to use a jammer on your privet property as long as the jammer does not exceed your property line. Go look it up if you think I'm wrong!
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What if it is box, or yew?
What transmits at 100 Hz that
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Warren Haynes Discusses His Grateful Dead Tribute Show and Gov't Mule's Star-Studded New Album, 'Shout!'
Given your love of improvisation, performing with an orchestra must have been a special challenge.
Yes. I'm not used to doing anything quite so structured, but with a symphony that's just the way it is. We were able to utilize the spirit of improvisation in three different ways. There are sections where the symphony will bow out and the electric band will improvise and the symphony comes back in on cue. Sometimes what the symphony is playing is orchestrated but what I'm playing on top of it is complete improvisation.
And the weirdest aspect, which I really love, is sometimes what the symphony is reading was originally improvised by the Grateful Dead, then orchestrated. For instance, the interlude of "Dark Star" that opens the show was arranged by Steven Bernstein based on a 1968 performance of "Dark Star" that I sent him. He took a four- or five-minute excerpt of it and arranged it for the orchestra, so everything they are playing was played by someone in the Grateful Dead as improvisation.
Was it hard to find the right guitar approach for this?
The biggest challenge is to be able to hear the symphony well enough to respond accordingly, because all of my soloing is based on what they're doing. It's made easier by the fact that I'm playing the Wolf, which instantly gives the sound that connects with this music. The owner of the guitar loaned it to me for the tour, and I got the first day of rehearsal in Pittsburgh.
I was hoping I'd be able to play it for a few songs, but as soon as I plugged it in, I knew I wanted to play it all night. I just run it through my 1965 blackface Super Reverb. I borrowed a Mu-Tron [envelope filter] that I run through the effect loop in the guitar and control it the same way Jerry controlled his. Those are really the only two sounds I'm using: guitar straight in and guitar through the Mu-Tron. It just lends itself to that music. It's very inspiring, and it makes me want to play more in that vein than I ever would otherwise.
Let's talk about Shout! which is an unusual new direction for you. Where did you get the idea of having different vocalists record your songs and include it as a bonus disc?
The first three people I thought of were Elvis Costello for "Funny Little Tragedy," Dr. John for "How Could You Stoop So Low" and Toots Hibbert for "Scared to Live." I just heard those voices when I wrote those songs and thought of having them sing a cameo appearance. But that seemed underwhelming and like a lot of trouble to go through to have someone sing a small part of the song. So I started to think bigger.
Didn't the actual process begin with a correspondence with Elvis?
Yeah. I wrote him an email asking for advice about recording the vocals for "Funny Little Tragedy," which I wrote as a tribute to early Eighties British new wave. I had never sung a song that went this far in that direction and I wanted it to have that authentic garage-y sound, and he responded with a really nice, long email with what he used on all of his early albums, being very specific. Then he said, "You should just use something cheap, like a Shure SM58," which I did, and it turned out great. But that planted a seed in my head: "It sure would be cool to hear him sing that song." That seed blossomed into the entire bonus disc.
Very few people would associate you with Elvis Costello. Has he always been a significant influence?
He became a bigger influence over the years. I think he's consistently written amazing songs, which is very impressive and really quite rare. From a compositional standpoint, there's so much that can be learned listening to his work from the beginning to now, and I think it's so important to break new ground and not just keep going back to the same well. That applies to guitar playing, to singing and, probably most of all, to songwriting.


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At the root of the cornucopian worldview lies a brand of technological triumphalism, an unshakeable confidence in technological innovation to solve all social and environmental problems, be it world hunger, climate change, or declining oil reserves. In sustainability discourse, there is a wide spectrum of opinion from the extremes of cornucopian optimism on one side and the doom-and-gloom scenarios that suggest it is already to late to avert a new Dark Age of resource scarcity and chronic conflict. For every generation entering a Dark Age, there were parents who enjoyed a better life, but who somehow failed to pass along their prosperity. No one wants to fail their children in this way. To this extent, biology dictates multi-generational thinking and ethics. Though it might not always be obvious, we are all already the beneficiaries of multi-generational planning. The world-leading American higher education system, for example, depends upon an intergenerational structure and logic—a financial and human investment in the future committed to by multiple generations of Americans going back to the nineteenth century. But conversely, in terms of vulnerability, just as higher education in the United States is neither necessarily permanent nor universal, but a social institution built on an unwritten contract between generations, so the lifestyle benefits of advanced society as we know it will not simply perpetuate themselves without strenuous efforts to place them on a sustainable footing. Our current problem lies in the fact that multi-generational thinking is so little rewarded. Our economic and political systems as they have evolved in the Industrial Age reward a mono-generational mindset driven by short-term profits and election cycles. In the West, for example, there is no significant political philosophy, regulatory system, or body of law that enshrines the idea that we act under obligation to future generations, despite widely-held views that we naturally must. One challenge of sustainability is to channel our natural biological interest in the future into a new ethics and politics based on multi-generational principles. Many indigenous communities in the world, marginalized or destroyed by colonialism and industrialization, have long recognized the importance of sustainability in principles of governance, and provide inspiring models. The Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy, for example, states that all decisions made by its elders should be considered in light of their impact seven generations into the future. To embrace an ethics of sustainability is to accept that our rapid industrialization has placed us in the role of planetary managers, responsible for the health, or ruinous decline, of many of the globe's vital ecosystems. This ethics requires we activate, in the popular sense, both sides of our brain. That is, we must toggle between a rational consideration of our environmental footprint and practical issues surrounding the reinvention of our systems of resource management, and a more humble, intuitive sense of our dependence and embeddness within the web of life. Both reason and emotion come into play. Without emotion, there can be no motivation for change. Likewise, without an intellectual foundation for sustainability, our desire for change will be unfocused and ineffective. We are capable of adapting to a complex world and reversing broad-based ecosystem decline. But to do so will require technical knowledge wedded to an ethical imagination. We need to extend to the natural world the same moral sense we intuitively apply to the social world and our relations with other people. Sustainability ethics thus does not need to be invented from whole cloth. It represents, in some sense, a natural extension of the ethical principles dominant in the progressive political movements of the twentieth century, which emphasized the rights of historically disenfranchized communities, such as women, African-Americans, and the global poor. Just as we have been pressed to speak for dispossessed peoples who lack a political voice, so we must learn the language of the non-human animal and organic world, of "nature," and to speak for it. Not simply for charity's sake, or out of selfless concern, but for our own sake as resource-dependent beings. What distinguishes an ethics of sustainability from general ethical principles is its emphasis on remote responsibilities, that is, our moral obligation to consider the impact of our actions on people and places far removed from us. This distance may be measured in both space and time. First, in spatial terms, we, as consumers in the developed world, are embedded in a global web of commerce, with an ethical responsibility toward those who extract and manufacture the goods we buy, whether it be a polo shirt from Indonesia, or rare metals in our computer extracted from mines in Africa. The economic and media dimensions of our consumer society do not emphasize these connections; in fact, it is in the interests of "consumer confidence" (a major economic index) to downplay the disparities in living standards between the markets of the developed world and the manufacturing countries of the global south (Africa, Asia, Latin America), which serve as the factories of the world. Second, as for sustainability ethics considered in temporal terms, the moral imagination required to understand our remote responsibilities poses an even greater challenge. As we have seen, the landmark United Nations Brundtland Report establishes an ethical contract between the living and those yet to be born. For an industrial civilization founded on the no-limits extraction of natural resources and on maximizing economic growth in the short term, this is actually a profoundly difficult challenge to meet. More than that, the practical ethical dilemmas it poses to us in the present are complex. How, for instance, are we to balance the objectives of economic development in poorer nations—the need to lift the world's "bottom billion" out of poverty—with the responsibility to conserve resources for future generations, while at the same time making the difficult transition from industrialized fossil-fuels to a low-carbon global economy? The issue of fairness with regard to individual nations' carbon emissions reduction mandates is a specific example of how ethical issues can complicate, or even derail, negotiated treaties on environmental sustainability, even when the parties agree on the end goal. In the view of the developing countries of the global south, many of them once subject to colonial regimes of the north, the advanced industrialized countries, such as the United States and Europe, should bear a heavier burden in tackling climate change through self-imposed restraints on carbon consumption. They after all have been, over the last 200 years, the principal beneficiaries of carbon-driven modernization, and thus the source of the bulk of damaging emissions. For them now to require developing nations to curb their own carbon-based modernization for the benefit of the global community reeks of neo-colonial hypocrisy. Developing nations such as India thus speak of common but differentiated responsibilities as the ethical framework from which to justly share the burden of transition to a low-carbon global economy. From the point of view of the rich, industrialized nations, by contrast, whatever the appearance of historical injustice in a carbon treaty, all nations will suffer significant, even ruinous contractions of growth if an aggressive mitigation agreement among all parties is not reached. Some commentators in the West have further argued that the sheer scale and complexity of the climate change problem means it cannot effectively be addressed through a conventional rights-based and environmental justice approach. To this degree at least, the sustainability issue distinguishes itself as different in degree and kind from the landmark social progressive movements of the twentieth century, such as women's emancipation, civil rights, and multiculturalism, to which it has often been compared. Disputes over the complex set of trade-offs between environmental conservation and economic development have dominated environmental policy and treaty discussions at the international level for the last half century, and continue to stymie progress on issues such as climate change, de-forestation, and biofuels. These problems demonstrate that at the core of sustainability ethics lies a classic tragedy of the commons, namely, the intractable problem of persuading individuals, or individual nations, to take specific responsibility for resources that have few or no national boundaries (the atmosphere, the oceans), or which the global economy allows to be extracted from faraway countries, the environmental costs of which are thus "externalized" (food, fossil fuels, etc). How the international community settles the problem of shared accountability for a rapidly depleting global commons, and balances the competing objectives of economic development and environmental sustainability, will to a large extent determine the degree of decline of the planet's natural capital this century. One tragic prospect looms: If there is no international commitment, however patchwork, to protect the global resource commons, then the gains in economic prosperity, poverty alleviation and public health in the developing world so hard won by international agencies over the second half of the twentieth century, will quickly be lost. The precautionary principle is likewise central to sustainability ethics. The margins of uncertainty are large across many fields of the biophysical sciences. Simply put, there is a great deal we do not know about the specific impacts of human activities on the natural resources of land, air and water. In general, however, though we might not have known where the specific thresholds of resilience lie in a given system—say in the sardine population of California's coastal waters—the vulnerability of ecosystems to human resource extraction is a constant lesson of environmental history. A prosperous and vital economic engine, the Californian sardine fishery collapsed suddenly in the 1940s due to overfishing. The precautionary principle underlying sustainability dictates that in the face of high risk or insufficient data, the priority should lie with ecosystem preservation rather than on industrial development and market growth. Sustainability, in instances such as these, is not a sexy concept. It's a hard sell. It is a philsophy of limits in a world governed by dreams of infinite growth and possibility. Sustainability dictates that we are constrained by earth's resources from the society and lifestyle we can have. On the other hand, sustainability is a wonderful, inspiring concept, a quintessentially human idea. The experience of our own limits need not be negative. In fact, what more primitive and real encounter between ourselves and the world than to feel our essential dependence on the biospheric elements that surround us, that embeddedness with the air, the light, the warmth or chill on our skins, and the stuff of earth we eat or buy to propel ourselves over immense distances at speed unimaginable to the vast armies of humanity who came before us. Sustainability studies is driven by an ethics of the future. The word itself, sustainability, points to proofs that can only be projected forward in time. To be sustainable is, by definition, to be attentive to what is to come. So sustainability requires imagination, but sustainability studies is also a profoundly historical mode, committed to reconstruction of the long, non-linear evolutions of our dominant extractivist and instrumentalist views of the natural world, and of the "mind-forg'd manacles" of usage and ideology that continue to limit our ecological understanding and inhibit mainstream acceptance of the sustainability imperative. Sustainability studies thus assumes the complex character of its subject, multi-scalar in time and space, and dynamically agile and adaptive in its modes. Sustainability teaches that the environment is not a sideshow, or a scenic backdrop to our lives. A few more or less species. A beautiful mountain range here or there. Our relation to our natural resources is the key to our survival. That's why it's called "sustainability." It's the grounds of possibility for everything else. 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Prelude Summary
From the Ashes
Saturday, March 25, 1911, was a day of unspeakable tragedy in the history of America. The peace of the halcyon spring afternoon in the area of New York's Washington Square was broken by the screaming sirens of fire engines, and witnesses looked on in horror as the top three floors of a nearby ten-story building were engulfed in flames. The building housed the Triangle Waist Company, a manufacturer of women's blouses. With no other way of escaping the conflagration, scores of employees leaped from the windows, their clothes and hair ablaze. Within minutes, 146 workers died. The victims were almost all young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty-three, and most were recent immigrants, Italians and Russian Jews. The Triangle Fire was more than an isolated tragedy on the landscape of history; it was "part of a larger story woven into the fabric of American life." Consideration of that story is critical in understanding the significance of the incident and its effect on American life today.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, over twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States from Europe. Driven from their homelands by a variety of conditions, including natural disasters, poverty, war, and persecution, they were drawn to the new land in hopes of a better life. By the start of the twentieth century, industrialization had made the United States a world power. A small number of immigrants, including such illustrious personages as John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie, were rewarded for their ingenuity and hard work with unimaginable wealth and success; however, life for most Americans during this time was a harsh struggle for existence. People, native born and immigrant alike, toiled long hours for little pay, often in dangerous and squalid conditions. It was often commonplace for workers to be injured or even killed on the job, and there were no laws or safety nets to protect them.
The Triangle Fire brought this reality to the forefront of American consciousness in a way no other tragedy had ever done, raising profound questions about the nature of both labor and social progress. Individuals, largely unrecognized in subsequent history books, rose up to lead a moral crusade to address these difficult issues. One of these notable leaders was Frances Perkins. A social worker and the leader of an organization devoted to improving working conditions in factories, she personally witnessed the fire and was so shaken by what she had seen that she devoted the rest of her life to making sure such a horror could never happen again. In the 1930s, she became the first woman to hold a cabinet position, serving as Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Chapter 1 Summary
Huddled Masses
Historians divide the story of immigration in America into two periods—old and new. Old immigration began in colonial times and involved mostly Protestants from northern and western European areas, such as Great Britain, Germany, and Scandinavia. The 1880s marked the beginning of new immigration; in contrast to their predecessors, newcomers during this time came mainly from southern and eastern European countries. By 1910, the majority of this new "flood of humanity" was made up of Catholics from Italy and Jews from Russia. Virtually all of the victims of the Triangle Fire were from these two immigrant groups.
Though northern Italy at this time was fairly advanced economically, the southern region of the country was one of the poorest places in Europe. Peasants worked tiny parcels of land which they did not own and lived at the mercy of wealthy landowners; high rents made it impossible for them to get ahead, and high taxes collected in the south were used to benefit those living in the north. The law enforcement and court systems served the rich; if peasants needed redress for wrongs committed against them, they were forced to seek justice or vengeance with their own hands.
To make matters worse, misuse of the environment in this afflicted land leached the nutrients from the soil, causing crops to fail. Malaria was epidemic, and earthquakes and other natural disasters intensified the citizens' suffering. Between 1880 and 1921, as many as 4.5 million people from the south of Italy fled their homes in search of better lives in the United States.
During these years, only Jews from Russia came to America in equally great numbers. Although they too were driven from their countries of origin by poverty, the biggest threat to their existence in their homelands was religious hatred. In Russia, anti-Semitism was the official government policy; laws limiting Jewish rights filled a book...
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Chapter 2 Summary
Into the Magic Cauldron
The thrilling welcome seemingly promised to immigrants by Lady Liberty was quickly tempered by the lengthy and fearful rituals of entry. Upon disembarking from their ships, passengers entered a huge reception center on Ellis Island, located at the tip of Manhattan. Ellis Island was "a giant filter designed to admit workers for the nation's growing economy and to reject any who might become a burden on taxpayers." Hopeful immigrants waited in long lines to be examined by a series of doctors; they were then questioned before an inspector to further determine their fitness for acceptance into the new land. Rejection for any reason meant the immigrant's return to Europe at the expense of the steamship company. An immigrant's being rejected often created a painful dilemma for family members who had to decide whether to stay in the new land or accompany their loved one. Happily, most newcomers passed successfully through the system within a day.
New York in the early 1900s was the second-largest city in the world. Its skyline was distinguished by clusters of innovative multistoried buildings dubbed "skyscrapers," and as it grew, the city became a leader in developing and utilizing modern inventions, especially in communication and transportation. A large discrepancy in the distribution of wealth was quickly made evident in society. An upper class of very wealthy families established itself in a row of mansions opposite Central Park; to be fair, it should be said that some of these citizens gave generously to charity. However, this social group also was noted for their lives of decadence and conspicuous consumption. In contrast, the reality of daily living for most new immigrants was quite different.
Most of the Italians and Russian Jews who passed through Ellis Island chose to stay in Manhattan neighborhoods populated by people from their homelands. Italians headed south to Mulberry...
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Chapter 3 Summary
Flesh and Blood So Cheap
Without social nets such as health insurance and social security to rely on, new immigrants had to find work immediately if they were to survive. The Italian newcomers were largely peasants in their home country, and they thus were limited to unskilled jobs when they came to American cities. "Strong and willing," these individuals did the hard work that was generally eschewed by more established citizens, but which was necessary to the growth of the nation's economy. Italians took on low-paying, arduous, and dangerous jobs as dockworkers and construction workers to provide themselves and their families with the basic necessities of life. The skyscrapers and subways that distinguish New York City were built largely by these Italian immigrants. The Russian Jews who came to America, on the other hand, were for the most part skilled artisans in their countries of origin. They found their main source of work in the clothing industry.
Ready-made clothing had existed since the 1700s, but the demand for "off-the-rack" items in standard sizes significantly increased after the Civil War. The invention of the sewing machine and the cutter's knife enabled the industry to grow to meet this demand. By the 1890s, New York became the nation's capital for ready-made clothing.
The actual labor of the clothing industry rested on "the backs of abused workers" in almost every aspect during those early days. Cotton, the basic fiber essential to manufacturing, was grown and harvested in the southern states by miserably paid "whites and blacks, descendants of freed slaves." The raw cotton was then transported to textile mills in New England, where workers, some as young as nine or ten, operated dangerous machinery designed to color the material and make it into thread, and then cloth. From there, the cloth was carried to manufacturers, who hired contractors to cut and sew it into the finished product....
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Chapter 4 Summary
An Overflow of Suffering: The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand
The main goal of trade unions is to improve wages, hours, and working conditions for laborers. The first unions in America appeared in the late 1860s in the steel, coal, and railroad industries. During this time, unions in the garment industry proved impossible to form because the sweatshop system was so fragmented and the workers were so easy to replace. However, with the advent of the "model" factory (where large numbers of laborers toiled together in the same locations), it became feasible to form garment workers' unions.
In 1900, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was established. The union had numerous branches,...
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Chapter 5 Summary
The Third Gate: Fire at the Triangle
One year after the "great uprising," conditions at the garment factories were arguably no better than before. At most shops, employers had broken their agreements with unions and were finding other ways to victimize workers: employees were fined for petty offenses, and experienced craftswomen were forced to teach others what they knew before being dismissed and replaced by the lower-paid individuals they had tutored. In addition, a new worry lay heavily on the minds of employees. As proven by a 1910 disaster at a cotton underwear facility in Newark, New Jersey, the threat of experiencing a catastrophic fire in the workplace was very real.
The science of...
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Chapter 6 Summary
A Stricken Conscience
New Yorkers reacted to the Triangle Fire with shock and grief. Visions of the carnage scarred the psyches of survivors, rescue workers, and the public alike. After the blaze was extinguished, victims' remains were collected at a temporary morgue, dubbed "Misery Lane." There, family members filed through, searching among the charred bodies for loved ones. During the week after the fire, continual funeral processions wound through the streets of the Lower East Side and Little Italy. By April 5, 1911, a final tribute was held for the seven individuals whose unidentified bodies remained unclaimed; four-hundred-thousand mourners turned out to pay their respects.
In the...
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Chapter 7 Summary
The Price of Liberty
Wendell Phillips once said that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," and the events following the Triangle Fire and associated reforms give testimony to this observation. In the 1920s, radical elements which had taken control of unions were convinced that drastic changes were still needed in the workplace. They engineered a joint strike against manufacturers that was so large that it shut down businesses for twenty-six weeks and cost both sides hundreds of millions of dollars. There was nothing noble about this strike; violence was rampant, and both sides enlisted the help of the criminal underworld. When the strike finally ended, gangsters shrewdly retained their contacts...
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STARKVILLE – Mississippi State hopes to hang on to what it has and then add a few more today.
MSU has assembled a strong cast in its 2013 verbal commitment class, but nothing is certain until those prospects start faxing in their national letters of intent today, which is national signing day.
Coach Dan Mullen currently has 22 players committed to his program after athlete Tyre'oune Holmes flipped to Southern Miss on Tuesday. Four of them are already on campus and enrolled in classes. The other 18 prospects are expected to sign, although there's one LOI in particular Mullen will be anxiously looking for.
Chris Jones, a five-star defensive end from Houston, will announce his choice between MSU and Ole Miss this morning at his high school. Jones committed to State back in June, but his recruiting picked up quickly after a strong senior season and his performance in the Under Armour All-America Game last month.
Jones aside, Mullen has assembled a strong group that includes four-star tailback Ashton Shumpert of Itawamba AHS. There have been rumblings of Shumpert considering other options, but he committed to State on Jan. 7 after a thorough recruiting process.
According to 247Sports.com, Shumpert is one of five four-stars committed to MSU. One, defensive back Justin Cox (East Mississippi Community College), is already on campus. The others are receiver Donald Gray (Memphis) and offensive lineman Jake Thomas (Columbus).
Receiver Fred Ross committed on Tuesday night. Ross, a consensus four-star, had been committed to Oklahoma State for almost a year before reconsidering that decision.
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There are a handful of uncommitteds Mullen hopes to reel in today, including cornerbacks Mackensie Alexander and Jahmere Irvin-Sills.
MSU could also wind up with South Panola offensive lineman Deon Mix, who withdrew his commitment Jan. 27 but still has the Bulldogs high on his list.
Another target to watch is Toby Johnson, a defensive tackle from Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College. Johnson has scheduled an MSU visit for Feb. 15 and plans to sign on Feb. 19, according to 247Sports.com.


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After decades of political and public debate, the first act of the first sitting of the newly elected Federal Government on 12 February 2008 was the delivery of an official apology to the Indigenous peoples who were taken from families and communities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in Australia.
The statement by Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister 2007-2010, acknowledged and took responsibility for past government policies and actions.
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What was your personal response to this moment in Australia's political history? Did you find it an emotional experience? Did you agree or disagree with saying sorry? Did it affect you directly?
All I know is that this Sorry fiasco has not brought Australia together. It has divided this land and made people like myself, who used to have tolerant and empathic feelings towards Aboriginals, spitting mad. Rosemary, 2008
The PM's apology expresses my concern, empathy and desire that this will begin some psychological and spiritual healing. Joanne Gardiner, Melbourne, 2008
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Heck there are some on my side of the political spectrum that I will only talk dog training with because I am not conservative enough for their tastes...its all good...after all we came on this board originally to talk dogs...POTUS is a side show
You can can every thing but pork, things like beef, chicken & pheasant - & of course, all the veggies & most fruit in 1 form or another. Potatoes & such go into the root cellar - & melons keeps for sometime underneath the grain - & a ton of squash, a little butter & some brown sugar & you have a feast -
As for the Owebama train of thought - he is only a centist if you consider Lugar, McCain, Dole & company conservative - but my concern is the inability of POTUS, present & past, to attract talent, the folks running things from Clinton on have been a steady parade of incompetents - that includes the GWB administration - when was the last time there was a Secretary of the Treasury that knew squat & the fed has not had a leader since Reagan's guy - the present POTUS tried to use him but did not listen to his recommends so there we are.
The most encouraging thing was RMoney's choice of Ryan as a running mate & embracing the plan Ryan had put forth - while all of it may not fly at the least Ryan stepped forward - & contrary to what Buzz may say, much of it is very good . & for a guy who has benefitted from the system in place Buzz's thought pattern is hard to fathom.
Should RMoney be elected we as a country can look forward to 16 years of fairly stable folks in the WH - should be more than enough time to get the country really straight - the MSM won't like it nor will the prog's, but so be it .
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"I do not release happy music," Moshe says flatly. "That's the one thing I won't do."
Thirty-three releases into his run as honcho of the Milled Pavement label, which travels almost exclusively in dark underground hip-hop, it's this guiding lack of light-heartedness that has likely kept the doors open while other underground hip-hop labels have slowly melted away.
"We do not release 'poppy.' That's a never. Never going to happen," he says. "It's mostly because I don't listen to happy, pretty music."
You might find some up-beat dance numbers on the brick.city.media label, founded by Jason Hjort, that merged with Milled Pavement a couple of years back. And you might find a few more rays of sunshine (or at least new-agey stuff) on the digital-only EmBen label Moshe launched last year. But Milled Pavement? You know it when you hear it.
As the music industry fractures, a wild, wild west of releases coming at you in waves, that consistency can be comforting. People are looking for filters, ways of narrowing down what can seem like an infinite firehose of new music, and Milled Pavement is a port in the storm for music fans who like their synths in minor keys and their lyrics ironic and brooding.
Thus, the Goose Bumps series that Milled Pavement releases, which collects like-minded artists from around the globe into massive grab-bags of downtempo beats and ironic observances in multiple languages. Version 4.0 is out this week, collecting 96 artists on 66 tracks over four discs (see our review here).
By Moshe's estimates at least 70 percent of those fans are overseas, as well. "We do lots of stuff in Russia," Moshe says. "I have a huge following in Russia." He speaks of his own work as a DJ/producer, and that fanbase did result in a deal with Russian label 2-99 Records, which has led to more notice for his own label.
"In those countries over there, like Germany, fans of my music have looked to the label because I run it," he says. "Not everything they like is dark and depressing, but most of it is."
Moshe's vision for the label can make him a polarizing figure in town. He has publicly declared he won't perform in Portland again because of what he sees as a lack of professionalism on the part of local clubs. And he expects the artists on his label to be professional in the way they promote their records, even if Milled Pavement isn't yet in the position to offer advances, or even sometimes to front all of the duplication costs.
"Everyone can do promotion," Moshe says. "A-Frame and Mike Clouds, they both have kids so they can't do a European tour like Brzowski and I did, but they'll do a New England tour. Do what you can do. Don't just put a record out and hope people buy it. Do interviews. Do social media. Do something. Don't just put a record out and walk away."
Because of this focus, he says, "I don't think any artist on the label has lost money since we've been really pushing the label . . . We're still an underground label. I kind of say I'm the curator. We're an artist-run label, but I'm the person that makes the decisions. The goal is to become big enough in the world to actually pay people to put out their records."
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Posted December 14, 1999; 10:37 a.m.
The acclaimed British early music ensemble The Binchois Consort will perform music from the High Renaissance at the Princeton University Chapel on Saturday, October 30, at 8 p.m.
The program is centered around the composer Josquin des Prez and will include several works that have not been performed since the sixteenth century. It will also feature the world premiere of a new work written specially for The Binchois Consort by the Princeton composer Carson Kievman.
Admission is free, and open to the general public.
The consort will perform as part of a three-day international conference, " New Directions in Josquin Scholarship ," which is hosted by the Music Department October 29 to 31.
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-- Head of Texas Values, an Austin-based anti-LGBT group
-- Tells gay people that they must "change": "My heart breaks for you if you are currently choosing to live a sinful sexual lifestyle while also trying to convince others that it is also okay to live a sinful lifestyle without making any efforts to change or resist sin and temptation. You can make a decision today to "go and sin no more." It's not too late. It's never too late."
-- Says homosexuality is "dangerous and risky sexual activity that can fiercely jeopardize a person's well-being"
-- Claims marriage equality will lead to people marrying their own stepchildren: "That's what this effort is about, that's what it will continue to be about. And make no mistake about it, if you redefine it and open the definition to where it's not one man-one woman, I don't see how you can limit it in any other way. I just don't. The same type of equality arguments, so to speak, that are being made — the argument [that] it's about people that love each other. How do you have any limitation on that? How do you stop polygamy? How do you stop people that want to do that with their own family members? Their stepchildren? I think there are even laws that suggest that you can't marry someone that is a stepchild. That's not even a blood relation. Those people could love each other, once that stepchild gets older."
-- Opposed an LGBT-inclusive coloring book, saying it is "pushing the homosexual lifestyle" (*note: the book was not even in Texas schools; it was its simple publishing that Saenz found controversial)
-- A major opponent of inclusive Boy Scouts, said the organization made a "tragic decision" when it allowed gay youth
-- Called a federal court decision in favor of marriage equality a "clear attack on morality"
-- Defends so-called "conversion therapy" as valid science


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¡A huevo! ¡Ya recuperé mi cuenta!
Después de ocho años de no poder loguearme a KBrown por fin pude hacerlo tras recuperar mi password.
Chinguen todos a su madre.
¡A huevo! ¡Ya recuperé mi cuenta!
Después de ocho años de no poder loguearme a KBrown por fin pude hacerlo tras recuperar mi password.
Chinguen todos a su madre.
I am back.
My child is born, my contract with El Sitio is over, so it's time to get back into programming funny stuff.
I've been making some tests on the child's sensibility on an external organ called placenta which they loose at the moment of birth.
My theory is that the placenta is a child's sensitive organ used to communicate with the mother's exterior.
The first evidence I have is that whenever I put my hand over the big thing containing a placenta with a child inside the child starts knocking on my hand, this indicates that the child has the means to know my hand's position over the placenta and move towards it.
The second experiment was similar to the first one, but with the lights off. The result was the same: the child knocked on hand.
The third experiment I will be doing is to play with the child moving my hand to different places around the placenta and wait for the child to knock on my hand before any other place. This game will need some practice from both parts but after it's dominated it will prove somehow that the childs can use their placenta to know the position of a hand over it.
For the next two months I will be working for El Sitio so I will not have enough time to read my mail and work on Tolstoi and Lassie.
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By Ben Levisohn
Credit Suisse analysts yesterday came out with a bullish take on Citigroup (C) predicated on fast-growing emerging markets.
The Swiss investment bank's economists expect emerging markets to grow at a 5.2% clip in 2013, up from 4.7% in 2012. And that should translate into better earnings for Citi, especially compared to other U.S.-based banks, which are "predominantly driven by trends in the U.S."
Citi doesn't break down revenue by country, but Credit Suisse's team writes:
We know that [Citi's institutional clients group in] emerging markets in Asia contributed $6 billion in revenues in 2011 (with $3.3 billion derived from Securities & Banking and $2.5 billion derived from Transaction Services). We also know that ICG in Latin America generated $4 billion (with $2.4 billion from Securities & Banking and $1.7 billion from Transaction Services). And ICG in CEEMEA generated $2.7 billion in revenues.
All told, Citi generates more than 40% its $71 billion revenue from emerging markets, with 12 emerging and developed-market countries generating revenues of $1 billion in 2011, Credit Suisse estimates, including Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan and China.
The analysts have a 12-month price target of $48 on the stock, for a potential gain of 28% from its current price of $37.36.
And it's all thanks to emerging markets.


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VC&G Anthology Interview: Nick Newhard on Monolith's Blood (2008)Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Back in 2007, I intended to write an article about the 10th anniversary of Monolith's Blood, one of my personal favorite computer games. Accordingly, I contacted Nick Newhard, the designer and lead programmer of Blood, and arranged for an interview.
For whatever reason, my interview with Newhard didn't take place until April 2008 via email. (That's probably why I shelved the project.) Since it's almost Halloween — and it's the 15th anniversary of Blood this year — I thought I'd share this little gem from my archives. It should be a treat for any Blood fans that might be out there.
I'm presenting this interview a little more sparsely laid-out than I usually do just for the sake of expediency. Some day I will write more about Blood, but until then, I hope this nugget of history will tide you over.
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By the way, you can buy Blood on GOG.com these days for $5.99 (price at present). It runs great in DOSBox on a fast machine — make sure you crank up the in-game display resolution for greatest effect. The game is amazing in 1440×900 VESA mode on a widescreen monitor.
I heartily endorse the thorough and frequent playing of Blood, as it is one of the greatest PC games of all time — in my opinion, at least.
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As Campagnolo sees it, the top honors for aluminum clinchers fall evenly on the shoulders of the Shamal Ultras and the Eurus 2-Way Fit Black Clincher. We see why. With only 60 grams between them, yet around $300, the two share nearly everything. So, if you're more inclined to drop the big change on carbon race wheels, compared to aluminum trainers, the Eurus 2-Ways are right up your alley.
An easily distinguishing aspect of the Eurus is the rear spoke pattern that features seven sets of three parallel-laced aerodynamic spokes The spokes also receive Campagnolo's Spoke Anti-Rotation System, designed to keep the spokes correctly positioned for maximum aerodynamic efficiency and reduced drag. Easily accessible lightweight aluminum nipples further reduce rotational weight, also making adjustments much easier than with internal nipples. The front wheel has 16 spokes, laced radially.
The Eurus 2-Ways are built with a 26mm-deep front rim for optimal handling and a 30mm rear for stability and stiffness-not deep enough to blow you over in a crosswind, but still aerodynamic enough to gain some advantages. Campy also used their Toroidal Milling technology in the rim design, a process that machines out material between the spokes to further reduce the rotational weight of the wheel. Updated this year is Campy's 2-Way rim fit technology. 2-Way Fit creates a tight, seamless interface between the tire bead and rim, so you can use traditional clinchers or tubeless clinchers.
Campagnolo's patented MoMag system (Mounting Magnet) is also applied to the Eurus through a rather ingenious process. Each aluminum nipple is inserted through the valve hole and guided to the point of connection via a magnet, creating a rim without holes on the upper bridge. The advantages to eliminating rim holes are plentiful. To start, maintenance and spoke replacement is quick and relatively simple. The MoMag system can also facilitate greater spoke tension, which gives the wheels increased reactivity and acceleration in real-world applications. No holes in the rim means that the rim is uniform at every point and free from stress points or areas of weakness. The result is greater resistance to fatigue over time, and thus, a longer rim life. Finally, the lack of holes eliminates the need for rim tape, saving grams and making it simple to convert your setup to tubeless.
A wheel is only as good as its hub, and Campagnolo incorporated its venerable G3 hub, named for its three-spoke-grouping hub flange. Essentially, this was designed specifically to increase torsional stiffness, but it also assists in keeping weight at a minimum. And combined with the increase in stiffness, the Eurus has a noticeably quick responsiveness during accelerations.
The Campagnolo Eurus 2-Way Fit Black Clincher tips the scales around 1500 grams and comes with a Campagnolo compatible freehub body and steel-axle quick-release skewers.
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'Fusion in a Beer Can' is talk topic, April 24
Posted April 18, 2001; 03:20 p.m.
"Fusion in a Beer Can" is the title of a talk to be presented by Richard Siemon, head of the fusion energy research program at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in 105 Computer Science Building.
Five years ago, Russian and U.S. scientists initiated a startling collaborative endeavor to meld two fusion approaches, magnetic and inertial, into a single one with the potential for developing a more affordable and practical fusion power plant. Siemon leads the U.S. effort, based on a Los Alamos technology called magnetized target fusion. Part of the hybrid method involves inserting plasma into a metal tube the size of a beer can.
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In only 2 Years.....and some Fans on here said he was JUST a College Coach......
NOW He would have only FIRED Tony First...........It is what it is....
In only 2 Years.....and some Fans on here said he was JUST a College Coach......
NOW He would have only FIRED Tony First...........It is what it is....
Harbaugh is a great coach, but this fact would still remain:
SF Talent >>>>>>>>>> Miami Talent
- Hall of Fame Safety Rod Woodson on Dan Marino playing in today's NFL:
"...the best quarterback I believe is Dan Marino..."
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He wasn't coming here regardless, his whole fam is in Cali and they didn't want to move anyway.
Even if Tony was fired first, Harbaugh still wasn't coming here. His family liked the Bay Area too much. His interest in Miami was a negotiating tactic.
Let's not really fret about this. Even if Ross had fired Sparano and Ireland before he took that flight west, it wouldn't have made a difference. Jim Harbaugh was never going to leave California. The 49ers job was a dream job that allowed him to remain in the same house he lived in as the coach of Stanford.
Ross was right about his gut with Harbaugh, let's hope he was right again with Philbin.
Willis, Crabtree, Davis, gore, goldston, smith, smith, etc vs
long, Tannehill, bush, wake, Starks, soliai.
Have your pick.
Im sorry but i really can NOT stand the 49ers. I do not think you guys know how nasty bay area fans can be downright filthy mean. Trust me this nor cal area is caked with um. I will root for the patriots in the super bowl if i have to and thats bad. Living in the area you either love um or hate um and i HATE UM.
What everyone else has said .... Ditto
I think it was HBO that did a special on sports fans. And the bay area crowd, from OAK to SF were frowned upon. Between the gang bangers and the hood rats, how could any normal fan enjoy a game there. During that special, it was basically stating if your a opposing fan with kids. Don't wear your favorite jersey and don't take the kids with you to those parks.
Wait a second at his round table press conference Ross said he told Jim he thought he wasn't ready for the NFL and he should stay at Standord how was Ross right?
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Dance students to present 'Pleiades'
Posted March 19, 2009; 09:47 a.m.
"Pleiades," a senior thesis concert featuring choreography and performance by certificate students in the Program in Theater and Dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts, will be held at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 27-28, in the Berlind Theatre.
The seven seniors -- Stephanie Chen, Chelsea Kolff, Amy LaViers, Sarah Outhwaite, Julie Rubinger, Jennie Scholick and Elizabeth Schwall -- have elected to do a creative thesis in dance in addition to projects in the departments in which they are majoring.
Drawing on her major in computer science, Chen will present a piece that merges technology and dance. In this solo, wireless accelerometers attached to the dancer interface with a computer that processes data about the dancer's motion and renders graphics based on her efforts. Chen's second piece creates a whimsical world combining illusion and dance through the use of props and careful staging.
As an ecology and evolutionary biology major, Kolff is intrigued by the movement quality of animals. Her trio, "Wave," explores movements seen in nature and the forces of the underwater world. Kolff's inspiration is the animals she researched for her academic thesis, including the bottlenose dolphins she observed during a summer spent at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. She also will present a solo about gaining confidence in a dance.
LaViers will perform a solo she choreographed through the exploration of the body's physical reaction to anger. She will be accompanied by musicians Vince and Dré di Mura, who play a score composed by Vince di Mura based on a traditional Nigerian hymn and jazz improvisation. The final section of the work features dancers with no formal training, demonstrating that movement can be a universal channel for the experience and expression of emotion. LaViers is studying patterns in human movement and dance for her thesis in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Outhwaite, a comparative literature major, has choreographed and will perform in "Signal and Noise," a solo that comes up against the limits of communication over great distances. With music created in remote collaboration with Vince di Mura, from text and sound sent from Cambodia, "Signal and Noise" is a practical experiment in the instantaneous but difficult connection between people far away.
Rubinger, an East Asian studies major, will perform a solo, "Gradient." The piece explores the act of performing with rich, passionate movement that juxtaposes extreme tension with billowy softness. In another piece, "Hotaru," danced to the live music of sophomore John Preston and junior Fletcher Heisler, Rubinger uses six female dancers to portray a startling twist on the typical "loss of innocence theme." Shifting between intimate partnering and solos that identify individuality, the piece attempts to find unity among the group.
Scholick, a comparative literature major, will present two pieces. The first, "For One to See the Other," is a duet choreographed with junior Kelsey Berry that explores the terrain of an unnamed relationship. The second, "Things She Carried," is a solo that explores the idea of nostalgia, memory and time. A series of themes and variations based on popular music, but performed to Princeton professor Paul Lansky's score of the same name, this piece investigates the power of music to give meaning to dance.
Schwall, a history major, will present a group piece, "From the Tumult, Caravan Up." Choreographed to the song, "Hafsól" by Sigur Rós, the piece is a study in unsteadiness, as nine dancers make their way shakily onto stage, only to fall as they attempt to reach higher.
In addition, the seven seniors will present "Vanish," choreographed by Rebecca Lazier, acting head of dance at Princeton, accompanied by music by the internationally acclaimed Brentano String Quartet. "Vanish" is an extravagant and detailed physical kaleidoscope where bodies fly across space and lurch onto each other.
Tickets for "Pleiades" are $10 for students and seniors and $15 for general admission. Tickets are available online through University Ticketing or by calling (609) 258-9220 or online through the McCarter box office or by calling (609) 258-2787.


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Belleville woman allegedly stole $850K from nonprofit
Police: 55-year-old used position as administrative secretary to make fraudulent transactions
NEW GLARUS, Wis. - A former Belleville school board member faces six counts of theft for allegedly stealing $850,000 from a New Glarus nonprofit organization, according to a release.
Joyce Ziehli, 55, worked full time for 31 years as the nonprofit's administrative secretary, and over the last 10 years of her employment, from 2003-2013, she used her position to complete hundreds of fraudulent transactions, police said.
In May 2013, New Glarus Home Inc. contacted police to investigate the theft after they discovered it in January 2013, according to the release.
Officials said there's no evidence that any of the money stolen belonged to the actual residents at New Glarus Home Inc.
"As far as we can tell, a lot of the money was being taken from the home and put into her account -- her banking accounts. A lot of it was taken as cash," Sgt. Jeff Sturdevant said. "She was using the money to pay credit cards for some side businesses they had, some personal accounts."
New Glarus Home Inc.'s Executive Director Rick Colby said the organization got suspicious of Ziehli's transactions after switching financial software last year. He said Ziehli was fired by the former director last January after information suggested she may be involved in questionable transfers.
Colby admitted part of the problem was that Ziehli was the only one with access to those accounts.
"We have since changed that and changed up the duties so it is a division of segregation of duties for all of the people here in the financial office in New Glarus," Colby said.
Colby said resident care was not compromised whatsoever by the funds allegedly stolen by Ziehli. New Glarus Home Inc. plans to meet with clients and their families this weekend to fully explain the situation.
"It will not happen on my watch," Colby said.
Ziehli faces six counts of theft in a business setting of more than $10,000, officials said. She will be in court Jan. 13 for an initial appearance.
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Health and Wellness Programs in the Workplace: The Role of Medical Librarians in Displaying the Value of NLM Resources and Services
Authors: Ann Gonzalez, MSI, JD, Sandy Oelschlegel, MLIS, AHIP, Library Director, Associate Professor; Preston Medical Library, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine and UT Health Science Center, Knoxville, TN
Question: To determine the most effective way to partner with employee benefits and occupational health personnel in the industrial sector in order to display the value of National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources and medical library services to industry employees who participate in employee wellness programs.
Setting: Preston Medical Library (PML), located at a 600‐bed academic medical center, has provided the Consumer & Patient Health Information Service (CAPHIS) and outreach to community groups and employees at local businesses for more than twenty years.
Method: An award was funded through the NLM for PML to develop a toolkit for medical libraries to use when reaching out to industry partners. Upon receipt of the funding PML began researching and collecting data on appropriate NIH and NLM resources for the selected industry partner. PML met with the Alcoa wellness contact to ascertain which resources and services would fit their needs.
Main results: Subsequent to meeting with the Alcoa wellness contact the following were developed: a series of newsletter pieces (7), biometric screening‐specific handouts, and "Your Wellness Moment" video files (7). Two health fairs were attended at Alcoa plants. An estimated 33% (n=116) and 44% (n=111) of attendees at the two fairs interacted with the PML booth and took informational material about our Consumer Health Information Service and Medline Plus magazines. Several attendees asked for more information on specific topics. To supplement the newsletter and video material, a LibGuide was created specifically for Alcoa. Another LibGuide, based on this material, was published for all types of businesses. Finally, a toolkit to assist medical libraries in reaching out to industry partners was created.
ALCOA-SPECIFIC SITE: http://preston.libguides.com/alcoa
GENERAL SITE FOR BUSINESS: http://preston.libguides.com/business
TOOLKIT FOR LIBRARIES: http://preston.libguides.com/outreach
Conclusion: We have had the opportunity to make a number of observations over the course of this project that will be useful to other medical libraries. The resources made available through NIH/NLM are viewed as valuable additions to the information currently disseminated by business wellness personnel. Once aware of the resources, those personnel are likely to incorporate use of the NIH/NLM resources into their existing wellness programs. For that reason, there is merit in continuing to support outreach to businesses.
However, several constraints exist which should be considered. In large national or international corporations, approval processes for implementing local or regional changes to wellness programming may require several months. Conditions such as economic constraints or business expansion will take priority and consume company resources that might have been planned for implementing changes or additions to the wellness program. Access to employees for assessment of the outreach, while ideal, is difficult due to work schedules, union rules, and general reluctance of the employees to participate. It is also likely that wellness personnel will be unavailable to participate in wellness outreach during the open enrollment period for insurance, which may vary by company.


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The recipe, as written, is not great. The cookies tasted ok, but they came out hard and crunchy. Now, some people might like cookies that way, but I definitely want a peanut butter cookie to be soft and chewy. Luckily, Alton Brown did a whole episode on how to change properties of your cookies. I found the following modifications to work great: Melt the butter before using (and allow to cool slightly). Switch all purpose flour for bread flour. Use 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar (instead of golden brown) and only 1/2 cup granulated sugar. Instead of 2 eggs, use one whole egg and one egg yolk. Add 2 Tbsp of milk. Try these modifications and you'll get delightfully chewy, very peanut buttery cookies. I've also found about 1/4 of chopped peanuts to be a nice addition.
I used extra chunky Skippy peanut butter and followed the recipe. When I tasted the still warm cookies, they seemed a little cakey, but once cooled they were the perfect ratio of fat to flour; soft, but still chewy. A really good cookie. Will add to my permanent recipe file,
Please, please don't write a review if you have not made the recipe as it is written. If something is deeply wrong with the recipe, don't make it. If you make the recipe as written, please review. If you change the recipe, this is not the correct place to write a review, because the review would be of a totally different cookie.
I thought these turned out great, with just a few slight modifications. Like other reviewers, i decreased the flour slightly (2 1/2 c) and used 1/4 cup crisco in place of 1/4 cup of the butter. Also...i added 1/4 cup canola oil into the mix (prior to adding the dry ingredients). The result was a slightly chewy, but light cookie. Oh, and i also decreased the time a bit....12-13 minutes at 350
I thought this recipe was really good and easy to make. I made peanut butter blossums with it and they were declicious. I did not change the recipe at all.
I just made my first and last batch of these. The texture is fine, but the flavor just isn't there for me. Kind of blah. I used to LOVE peanut butter cookies as a kid. Maybe I got spoiled or unadaptable. I used Skippy Extra Crunchy. Followed the recipe almost exactly, but used slightly less flour per other reviews, and used 1/4 cup crisco in place of 1/4 cup of the butter.
This is my favorite peanut butter cookie resipe, which I make a couple of simple adjustments to bring the texture where I like it. The flour that I use tends to require more moisture, so I reduce the flour by 1/3 cup. I also melt the butter in the microwave and let it cool on the counter before mixing with with the peanut butter. The result is a sandy cookie that's a bit chewy, with the nice mild flavor of peanut. Cardamom has become my favorite cookie spice, and I add 1/4 teaspoon to this recipe to add to their flavor.
The dough turned out very dry so I added a third egg, which added moisture. The dough tasted better uncooked, though. I should have read the reviews before making. I would not say this is the best peanut butter cookie I've ever made.
I followed the recommendations by other readers- I cut the flour to 2 3/4 c, changed the 1 c butter to 3/4 c butter and 1/4 c vegetable shortening, and added 1/4 c molasses and 1 Tbsp honey. This really made the cookie: great flavor and texture. I made a second batch using agave nectar instead of molasses- BIG mistake, taste was very bland. The molasses really brings out the peanut flavor!
Very dry. Next time, I'll use 1/2 the flour and then test a few cookies, to try and get that old-fashioned chewy cookie experience. I've also heard you can just use egg yolks (2 per egg white) for a chewier texture. I did use a gourmet gluten-free flour, so the flour alone may have been the game-changer. And I used a freshly ground peanut butter (didn't read the note about that before going to the store). ;) I corrected the last 2 batches by adding a little oil and honey to moisten and they came out better ~ more peanutty than floury.


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A 20-year-old Tupelo man is facing motor vehicle theft charges after being arrested at this home on Ida Street Tuesday.
Lavoris Clayton, who was out on two previous bonds, is in the Lee County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
In another case, Meaghan Anderson, 20, and Antonio Hoover, 25, are facing armed robbery after being arrested Tuesday.
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