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Bridget Cunningham July 30, 2015
When first introduced, simulation was utilized by just a handful of R&D specialists. Today, a wide community uses simulation to design products, enabling organizations to address complex designs and optimize their workflows. Now, simulation-led design is made even more accessible thanks to several recent developments.Read More
Mark Robins May 19, 2015
In the science and engineering community, models are vital to design and development. But can models be protected by copyright law? Establishing the level of creativity required for copyright protection is relatively easy in comparison to patent law, which requires inventions to be novel and non-obvious. Additionally, copyright law does not require the secrecy measures needed to qualify for trade secret protection. We explore the appeal of using copyright to protect models and the functionality built around them.Read More
Ed Fontes May 7, 2015
What is the relation between the extremely popular band One Direction, quantum mechanics, and cosmology? Stephen Hawking may just have explained this relation in one of his recent talks at the Sydney Opera House. It has to do with the prediction of parallel universes, where we, in an infinite number of worlds, could find worlds that are almost identical to ours but with all possible permutations and differences, much like the 410-page books in The Library of Babel by Borges.Read More
Ajay S S April 23, 2015
Last month, researchers and developers gathered in Chennai, India for the 7th annual Conference on Automotive R&D Trends. Emphasizing the importance of research and development in India's automotive industry, this year's theme was "Towards Strengthening Indian Automotive R&D". At the conference, our Managing Director Vineet Dravid presented a new approach to product development. He was joined by David Neihguk of Mahindra & Mahindra, who discussed the role of COMSOL Multiphysics in optimizing their muffler design.Read More
Fanny Littmarck April 15, 2015
Today marks the release of COMSOL Multiphysics version 5.1. The latest COMSOL software version brings you 20 demo apps and many new features and functionality updates to numerous products. Here's what you can expect after downloading version 5.1.Read More
Bridget Cunningham March 18, 2015
COMSOL Multiphysics was awarded the 2014 NASA Tech Briefs' Readers' Choice Product of the Year, just a month after winning NASA Tech Briefs' Product of the Month in December 2014. Learn more about this award and how it reflects the influence of COMSOL Multiphysics in the future of design engineering.Read More
Caty Fairclough March 17, 2015
Want to share your simulations with the world or simply your own team? After you build an application with the Application Builder in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, you can share your app using a COMSOL Server™ license with anyone from colleagues to customers. Here is your introduction to COMSOL Server™ — what it is, why to use it, and a brief overview of how to get started.Read More
Andrew Griesmer March 2, 2015
Our Video Gallery is home to nearly 150 videos that teach, inform, and maybe even entertain you, by highlighting various elements of COMSOL Multiphysics in tutorials and product introductions. With a recent redesign, we have made it easier for you to find videos relevant to you.Read More
Fanny Littmarck January 22, 2015
Previous work on cloaking for flexural waves in elastic plates presented limitations and near invisibility. Now, a research group in Europe has figured out a new theoretical framework to both overcome the limitations and achieve exact cloaking for flexural waves in Kirchhoff-Love plates. To visualize and test the quality of the cloak, they ran COMSOL Multiphysics simulations.Read More
Andrew Griesmer January 16, 2015
We have created a video tutorial for those of you who are new to the COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software and need an introduction on how to use it. The video tutorial featured in this blog post shows you how to set up and run a simulation using COMSOL Multiphysics.Read More
Pär Persson Mattsson November 13, 2014
The first computer I used was a real performance beast. Equipped with Intel's 486 clocking in at 66 MHz, this machine was ready to take on whatever challenges the future would bring us. Or so I thought. The CPU clock speeds increased and soon passed 500 MHz, 1 GHz, and continued upwards. Around 2005, the top speed of the high-end processors settled around 4 GHz and hasn't increased much since then. Why is that? I'll explain.Read More


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This week, actress Emma Watson announced that she was "taking a break" from her studies at Brown University to work on acting projects. But she's far from the only celebrity who abandoned schoolwork to pursue their entertainment careers.
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Traficant commemorates Youngstown Air Reserve Station upgrade
Traficant commemorated the reception of four extra planes at the base.
Traficant commemorated the reception of four extra planes at the base.
Traficant served in Congress for over 17 years, starting in 1984.
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Jul 30, 2012
Retail banks face challenging times. In addition to global economic pressures and intense competition, in-person visits to branches are down. More and more customers are using other channels for routine transactions and are often encouraged to do so.
As a result, branch employees have fewer face-to-face opportunities to win customer loyalty, build customer relationships, and sell more products and services. This situation makes it even more important for branches to deliver a high-quality customer experience during each interaction, make the most of each opportunity to drive sales, and capture crucial information about customer preferences and habits.
In the past, banks could easily evaluate the quality of customer interactions in their contact centers but lacked the tools to pull together data on similar interactions at the branch. Fortunately, advanced technology enhancements incorporated into branch software solutions can now help fill this gap. These innovative solutions can help banks measure and use the data about customers who visit branches to foster deeper relationships, increase customer satisfaction, and expand wallet share.
Today's organizations must be flexible and adopt new solutions in order to maintain profitability, even as branch traffic decreases and consumer expectations of service continue to rise. By leveraging new technology skillfully, retail banks can gain the opportunity to leap ahead of the competition by cultivating long-lasting, profitable customer relationships through the branch channel.


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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Post Pillages East Village
Now they're pillaging the East Village blogs. They did it to EV Grieve, calling their story on the Bullet Space squat an "exclusive." And now they're using me.
photo EV Grieve
In today's paper, as Grieve alerted me, they get the "scoop" on the war between the Cooper Square Hotel and its neighbors. While I'm happy to see the beleaguered neighbors getting more press coverage, my blog should be mentioned and credited, especially when it is being directly ripped off.
It's inevitable that stories are inadvertently shared. Bloggers often find themselves covering the same material, often unknowingly. Most I know try their best to give credit when it's obviously due.
The Post writers reference the content of my Notes from the Backside posts without crediting me as their source. They wrote:
"One resident, armed with a megaphone, leaned out his window and greeted a patron who strayed out on the patio after it was closed. When that didn't work, he placed the megaphone next to a stereo speaker and shared a crude comedy skit."
This comes directly from my posts here and here--though they get some of the details completely wrong. Gothamist calls the Post article "a shameless jack of original reporting."
Tell the Post our neighborhoods are already being ripped off and co-opted by big business. We're not going to let them do the same thing to our neighborhood blogs.
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Dear Mr. Greene,
Your recent article on the Cooper Square Hotel reminded of a post on the blog Jeremiah's Vanishing New York. In fact, upon further readings, it seems to be the same story, only written earlier by Jeremiah Moss. This awful hotel in our neighborhood is surely due space both in blogs and in the pages of the Post, especially if its patrons keep behaving as they are. But like many of our stores that are fading, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York is a local institution and needs our support. Please give credit where credit is due. I look forward to seeing the correction in print soon.
Thank you,
- May 28, 2009 at 8:44 AM
You should just bait the post. create a faux story have the other bloggers jump on it and watch the morons at the post take the bait.
- May 28, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
nice idea!
- May 28, 2009 at 8:56 AM
- Bowery Boogie said...
this is a travesty. we will win this fight!
- May 28, 2009 at 9:20 AM
- Ken Mac said...
letter writing campaign is certainly in order
- May 28, 2009 at 9:46 AM
I agree they should credit you, but if the goal is to stop the assholes at the hotel, the Post or any other paper (except the NYT, with Dowd ripping off a blogger) will do a better job of driving the story, not bc they have better reporting, but bc they are a newspaper with a large circulation. The more people that know about this, the more likely the hotel will get bad PR and the more likely the situation will improve. Look at the big picture. Its not about you being first, the ultimate goal is to stop the noise.
- May 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
absolutely, like i said in my post, it's great that this hotel issue is getting wider exposure. and i love being part of a system where smaller voices on the street can help push an issue into the public awareness via newspapers and larger blogs.
it should be a mutually interactive experience.
failing to credit a blogger while using almost word for word the content of that blog, however, is unethical and could be illegal, should a legal predecent be sought.
it also speaks to the power imbalance in this city, where those smaller voices--like the tenants behind the hotel--get silenced by louder, more powerful voices.
- May 28, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Yeah, if you've got a small community of people who've been ripped off by these guys, just go ahead and come up with some elaborate scheme to "bait" him.
Fucking with people is always a blast.
- May 28, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Marie said...
Baiting the Post is an excellent idea.
You say they think, Who reads blogs, anyway.
But who reads the Post, anyway?
- May 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM
You should get the Daily News to write an article about the NY Post's blatant plagiarism.
- May 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- chris flash said...
You all keep refering to that crappy "news"paper by the wrong name. It's actually the New York ComPost!!
- May 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM
The Post should adhere to its journalistic mission statement: finding headless bodies in topless bars.
- May 28, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Great to whoever suggested you get this to the Daily News, they would have a field day with this!
- May 28, 2009 at 6:50 PM
No offense, but I don't count anything found on xxx.blogspot.com to be worth referencing. It's not real journalism.
- May 28, 2009 at 11:38 PM
- Paul said...
It is typical of the low life yellow journalism that the Post practices. Their attitude is one of contempt for those who oppose them. What else would one expect from a racist, right wing rag?
They'll Have to find someone else to publish this yellow rag
- May 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- L'Emmerdeur said...
You should just start stealing their stuff in return, and let them come after you with lawyers.
Copy/paste an article into a post, including pictures, and then post it as your own, with no attribution or links. Target the list of thieves who have done it to you and the other bloggers.
When their lawyers come a-knockin', make a big stink about it to AMNY or the Daily News, and post about it incessantly.
This issue is brewing, and will trigger a major legal precedent soon enough. I can't think of a more appropriate person to enable the creation of blogger IP rights.
- May 29, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- Jill said...
I hope there is a lawyer/reader out there who might want to take this on as a class action plagiarism case or some such lawyerly thing. Where is Ron Kuby or Norman Siegel when you need them?
- May 29, 2009 at 11:18 PM
If you are writing for the accolades and credit, you are not a real writer. You should only be concerned with the quality of your work and whether you get satisfaction from writing it.
I'm sorry, but I find writers who claim "That's my story!" -- whether it's true or not -- to lack class. Writers stealing other writers' ideas has been happening since the creation of the written word. You can't control it. You can only control how you react to it.
- June 2, 2009 at 1:17 AM
- Mark said...
This happened with this story, they took about 1/2 the article from another persons blog and even took the pictures(and claimed as own)
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When a congenital defect or an acquired abnormality prevents the normal production of tears by the lacrimal gland, it results in a condition referred to as keratoconjunctivitis sicca ("dry eye" or KCS). Both eyes are always affected by the condition.
Since it has been observed that some breeds of dogs such as Bulldogs are more prone to developing the condition compared to other breeds, KCS is considered by primarily as an inherited disease. KCS can also occur as a consequence of viral infections, diseases of the immune system, inflammatory conditions, or as a side effect of certain medications. Dogs which have undergone a botched surgery to correct "Cherry Eye" are also predisposed to KCS.
Dogs with KCS often have a greenish, mucoid discharge due to the overproduction of mucus. This is an attempt of the body to provide lubrication to the eyes since there is a lack of or absence of tears. Other symptoms include redness of the conjunctiva and the sclera, structures that surround each eye. If the condition is not given immediate attention, the cornea may eventually become swollen and irritated as evidenced by the appearance of a bluish cast.
If KCS remains untreated, the conjunctiva can suffer from secondary bacterial infections and corneal ulceration may occur due to poor lubrication and the lack of protective mechanisms of the eyes. Pain and irritation may further aggravate the condition. Severe cases often end up in the loss of normal eye functions and consequently blindness if KCS remains to be uncorrected.
An important diagnostic tool for KCS is called the Schirmer Tear Test. A small strip of paper is used to determine the amount of tears which is produced by each eye. The test also includes the evaluation of the integrity of the cornea by application of a dye.
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After spending some time with Dapper on my laptop, last week I wiped it out and installed Etch. Sounds like it's getting close to becoming stable, so I want to get familiar with it. For the few production servers I maintain, there is only one operating system... Debian stable. I like software that does not change. As far as I'm concerned, the release cycles are too short. Anyway, I am going to dedicate myself to learning as much as my brain can contain about the operating system and tonight I found a slide presentation by Lars Wirzenius on packaging. The first thing he suggests familiarizing yourself with is the Debian Policy Manual, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, and the Linux Standard Base. More than a little light reading.
Oh so much to learn, but I'm starting to understand packaging now. There are some things about building that I'm not so sure about. Need to study things like gcc and of course it'd probably be good to get better at using gpg encryption. I've tried a couple times at learning gpg, and made a few mistakes but I'm starting to get a handle on that too.


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There are an abundance of violations of liberty in America and the rate at which violations are being generated is increasing. That's why we need MANY MANY MORE guns.
The guns don't create or maintain the liberty. They allow a new liberty to be built when the old one spoils.
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After playing the beta defiently will be playing a witch doctor me thinks, lots of fun.
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I'm going be playing a melee wizard partner up mostly with a DH.
What do you guys think? My usual play style is not big numbers and is more focused on control, and the more annoying I can be the more fun I think the builds are.
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Didn't play Battlenet for Diablo II. My friend and I played LAN though. I ran around as a Necromancer to his Amazon. He's merc was the pally while mine was the rogue.
We did fine most of the time as he has a mage-tank and I had a gollum tank and some skeletons to allow us to stay at range. Or I'd just go in swinging with a wand for the hell of it.
This was before I discovered the usefulness of Corpse Explosion. We didn't find that out until the Cow Level. We did that after Act IV but before we tackled Act V (post-expansion) so the Cows just really kicked our ass for the most part. We could barely outrun them, and took forever to drop just one. I was running out of options. He couldn't keep arrowing them forever...so found a body of one we killed and dragged the pack over it and used the only spell left I hadn't really used....Blam....three or four Cows drop. (Whoa!). Blam, Blam, Blam.....all the cows drop. (Dude).
Don't think we'll have a moment like that in Diablo III. One, I doubt there will be a scaling overpowered spell like Corpse Explosion again, and Two, I think we'll know how to play this time around. As oppose to being practically noobs. Too much WoW to be a noob anymore.
|2012-04-26, 05:56
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Anime Snark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 34
Ah... Duriel. The "joy" I had when I first entered his chambers and heard his voice.
"Wait. What?"
Hearing the cries of agony as the game painfully took its time to load. Fortunately I was using a Paladin at that time, so it wasn't too bad. A worse one was when I was LAN-ing with my friends and I was using a Sorceress. My Barbarian-using friend was supposed to enter first to take the hits, but just as he reached the entrance, he suddenly stopped to pick up something.
Alas... inertia was in effect, and as I saw the loading screen, I went, "Fffff-uuuu!" Frantically mashing my health pots hotkeys as Duriel gurgled his rape-voice and sodomised my character.
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Duriel, the horror of (classic) Diablo 2 , at least on normal mode. Afterwards? Summon Blood Golem, cast Iron Maiden = enjoy near immortality before the bug was fixed =/. But yes, I think I died countless times on my sorc when nobody was available (or one didn't want to to open a game named "Act 2 Duriel" and see if someone were interested ). I think a few common sorc strategies were pre-merc addition to firewall or fire-follow-magic his @ss off.
In comparion to Mephisto and Diablo: frost orb, frost orb, frost orb (+ meteor/hydra for a change) ad infinitum and enjoy the ownage .
|2012-04-26, 07:02
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Underweight Food Hoarder
Duriel was the closest thing to Butcher from D2 and hardest boss for my friends and I. Totally did not expect to see him. It was our first play throught, our amazon was playing video games for the first time, sorceress was okay. I was a noob necro and it was terrible because there was -only- Duriel and no dead bodies to make skeles out of. The greater evils weren't hard because we were expecting them. We stashed pots and had armor buffs on. Duriel was just "OH HELL-O THAR BEND OVER PLEASE :3"
We all died x3 I don't recall what voice Duriel had. But he was be forever remembered as the random demon boss that no npc in the game mentioned loves to rear end.
I was playing D1 a few weeks ago and I still think it's more terrifying. It's so damn dark and hard to see where I am going or what's hitting me.
I kind of want to see some ridiculous amount of gore and blood from D3. Like Mephisto's place in Kurast. Insanely dark place with metal ground and walls. A piles of bodies and pools of blood.
|2012-04-26, 07:12
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Anime Snark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 34
^ Rape-voice.
|2012-04-26, 11:37
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Tumble Rumble
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Imagination Land
Age: 32
Memories of him killing me
|2012-04-26, 12:11
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Underweight Food Hoarder
Necro was my fav class of all mmorpg
It made the game 50000% more gorey-er, summoner-fetish friendly and silly with a parade of skeletons and the 'orange juice golem'. Most summoner-esque classes make like 1~3 minions that constantly get upgraded. None of them lets me have like 10 skeletons and a golem.
Only complaint is my minions attacking my bone prison when i'm fighting diablo. WD feels like such a boner kill in comparison, if not already from the hype created from the alpha-stage videos and the actual beta game play.
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|2012-04-26, 15:21
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Senior Member
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Nah, it's not that I'm lagging, it's just causing the game itself to lag, which sucks because after a while the game closes on you and then you can't make or join new games for a while (I never stick around to find out how long). It's especially annoying for baal runs when partner up with the billion of meteor sorcs spamming the minion spawn area.
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Cipla slashes cancer drug prices by 50 percent
Mumbai: Continuing with its principle of providing affordable drugs to India and countries across the globe, and its aggressive strategy of producing generics at comparatively low prices, Cipla has reduced the prices of three anti cancer drugs.
Cipla announced a breakthrough price reduction in Erlotinib (ERLOCIP), Docetaxel (DOCETAX) and Capecitabine (CAPEGARD). These drugs are for the treatment of lung and pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, head and neck cancer, gastric cancer, bladder, colorectal and colon cancers.
There has been a 50 percent price reduction in the case of Capecitabine used in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, metastatic colorectal cancer, metastatic colon cance from $21.88 (Rs1200)-to-$10.91 (Rs600), as well as Docetaxel prescribed for breast cancer, lung cancer (non-small cell and small cell), head and neck cancer, gastric cancer, bladder cancer which is available in three concentrations , 20mg, 80mg and 120 mg. The price for Erlotinib which is prescribed for lung cancer (metastatic non-small cell cancer) has also been reduced. This step comes close on the heels of Cipla reducing the prices of three other anti cancer drug, namely Sorafenib , Gefitinib and Temozolomide in May.
Commenting on this development, Dr Y K Hamied, CMD, Cipla, said that, "Continuing its contribution towards affordable and accessible treatment for patients, Cipla extends the work done in HIV/AIDS and malaria to now include cancer, not only in India but globally."
With a turnover of over $1.4 billion, Cipla serves doctors and patients in over 170 countries. It has earned a name for maintaining one global standard across all its products and services. The company has over 34 manufacturing facilities across India, and manufactures more than 2,000 products in 65 therapeutic categories.
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Binghamton University forum to address race, class, Katrina
Binghamton University will host a forum to discuss how race and class affected the ways in which people were impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Titled "Race, Class and the Politics of Katrina" the forum will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 6, in room 149 of the Science 1 building campus. The forum is free and open to the public.
The discussion will include how neighborhoods in New Orleans, which had predominantly low-income and black residents, were severely impacted by hurricane. Presenters will include Randy McGuire, professor of anthropology, Mark Reisinger, assistant professor of geography, and Nigel Westmaas, sociologist.
The forum will be followed by question and answer period. The event is sponsored by the Binghamton Political Initiative (BPI), a group of politically and socially conscious students and professors.
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The Composers' Ensemble at Princeton will present new works by graduate students in the Department of Music at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 11, in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall. A reception will follow the performance.
The concert, titled "The Person Sitting Next to You Will Explain Everything," will include compositions by Newton Armstrong, Brooke Joyce, Andrew Lee, John Supko and Stefan Weisman. The works will range from a piece for four flutes to a laptop electronic composition.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Weisman at (609) 933-6089.
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War and the Constitution
Dear Alibi,
[Re: Opinion, " The Detention of Americans," Dec. 8-14] Abraham Lincoln was great with words. His "political religion" speech, written in 1838, should be read by all Americans. But every American should also know that Lincoln became a tyrant while president: Lincoln suspended habeus corpus [sic], closed opposition newspapers and imprisoned those critical of his policies.
So a better American for Capt. Limkin to have quoted would have been James Madison, the father of the Constitution. Madison was president during the War of 1812, but he refused to stifle dissent with legislation. "If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy," and "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare" are just two appropriate quotes from Madison that apply to today. Show me, in the Constitution, where our rights don't exist in a case of war. The man who helped write it didn't think so.
Finally, a question for Capt. Limkin. If the Kurds in Iraq choose to secede and form their own independent state, would you, Capt. Limkin, suggest Iraq's president invade and occupy them, as Lincoln did to the South?
Gregory Ozimek
Columnist Alex Limkin responds: Thank you for bringing to my attention the quotes of James Madison, which are an excellent addition to this discussion. As for your question, if the Kurds, an ethnic minority that have been persecuted by their more powerful neighbors since medieval times, formed their own state, I would be opposed to any further violence against them. I think if Lincoln were president of Iraq, he would let the Kurds be free, provided they didn't try to enslave their neighbors.
It's the Bomb
[Re: Idiot Box, "Tick Tick Boom," Dec. 15-21] I was shooter/producer in Afghanistan for the "Bomb Patrol" show. After risking your life and working your butt off, it feels good to see the show praised. Out there is was the real deal and all the production folks—before, during and after—did an amazing job to put together a killer show.
Glad you're stoked on it.
David D'Angelo
Denver, Colo.
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Dear Alibi,
[Re: Blog, "Car dealership ditches cool roof," Dec. 7] I've been really bummed about this. I always loved this building; I always smiled when I drove past it. I often fantasized about buying it and turning it into a '50s diner, where the booths are the seats of classic cars. You would have to open the door of the car to get in the booth and when occupied the tail lights would light up. I'm sorry to see this renovation.
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JANESVILLE --- Beverly J. Venable, age 77, of Wisconsin Dells and formerly of Janesville, died on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at St. Clare Hospital, Baraboo.
She was born in Fort Atkinson on Oct. 8, 1935, the daughter of Willard and Esther (Klug) Fleck. Beverly married Kenneth G. Venable, Jr. in St. John Lutheran Church, Janesville on Nov. 28, 1953. She cherished her entire family and loved cooking for her family. She also loved fishing, bingo, gambling, camping, traveling south for the winter and playing cards online.
Beverly is survived by her loving husband, Ken Venable of Wisconsin Dells; 6 children: Debbie (Paul) McCumber of Janesville, Cindy (Gary Selje) Humphrey of Janesville; Kenneth G. Venable, III of Wisconsin Dells, Shelly (Bruce) Thomas of Elkhorn, Joleen Venable of Janesville and Paul Venable of Janesville; 14 grandchildren; 31 great grandchildren; many nieces, nephews, other extended family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Laurie; 2 brothers, Wayne Fleck and Kenneth Fleck; and sister, Barbara Fleck.
A Funeral Service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY with Rev. Bond Haldeman officiating.
Interment will be in Milton Lawns Memorial Park.
A visitation will be held from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m. at SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY.


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Washington Fish & Wildlife Commissioners
1111 Washington St. SE
Olympia, WA98501-1091
Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commissioners
3406 Cherry Ave. NE
Salem, OR97303
RE: Proposals for Enhancing Compliance and Law Enforcement in The Columbia River Commercial Fishery
Dear Washington and Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commissioners,
This letter is authored and endorsed by a group of retired Fish and Wildlife Officers with more than 300 years of experience combined, much of it on the Columbia River enforcing sport and commercial fishing regulations. We are speaking out in this cooperative effort in the hope that we can improve the working conditions and effectiveness of current, thinly spread enforcement officers, promote conservation, and to improve the reporting requirements for the Columbia River commercial fishery. Our proposed regulations will bring urgently needed reforms to reduce the risk of illegal gillnetting and catch reporting on the Columbia River, which affects many ESA-listed salmon and steelhead stocks, but we see no reason why the proposed reforms should not apply to Puget Sound as well.
Since the Columbia River gillnet fishery began, the Fish & Wildlife officials on both sides of the river have relied on gillnet fishermen to report their own catches of salmon and sturgeon using fish transportation slips The procedure assumes that fishermen will list their entire catch on these slips at the time they sell the fish to processors and they will include their total poundage as well as the number of fish caught. The glaring defect in this reporting system is that fishermen may legally possess these food fish on the water without recording their catch at all. Gill-netters have no legal requirement to report a catch until it is either sold to a buyer on the water or transported to a buyer off the river. By contrast, sport fishers must record any retained salmon, steelhead or sturgeon immediately after catching it on a tag purchased with their angling licenses.
This lack of immediate reporting requirement for commercial fishers greatly complicates law enforcement efforts. Illegal fishing must be interdicted at the point of sale, gift or other use, rather than at the time of the catch. Another aspect of the commercial fishing laws, when joined with the lax catch reporting rule, invites a serious conflict of interest. Commercial gill-netters must sell either to a wholesale dealer or to the holder of a Limited Fish Sellers Permit. The problem is that gill-netters themselves may hold both of these types of licenses. With these licenses, they may then sell fish directly to the public.
These licensing and self-reporting rules combine to create a nearly insurmountable law enforcement challenge. No simple record keeping law prevents a gillnet fisherman from retaining unrecorded fish for personal use, from transferring unrecorded fish to friends and neighbors, or from selling unrecorded fish on the black market. Over the years, law enforcement officers have attempted to interdict such practices, but the cases demand many hours of surveillance and tracking. This is due to the fact that there is no reporting rule, as with sport fishers, that would allow officers to check a catch, on the water when made, for proper recording by the fisherman.
To this complicated matrix, add the fact that gillnetting is conducted at night. For law enforcement reasons, sport fishing for sturgeon at night on the Columbia River has been prohibited for more than two decades by both Washington and Oregon. Oregon and Washington restrict angling for salmon at night in many areas of the state. The same standard should apply to the commercial fishery, which is no less difficult to enforce than the sport fisheries, if not more so. As with sport fishing, darkness compounds the enforcement challenges for the gillnet fishery and makes the important work of protecting wild salmon and steelhead stocks from over harvest or poaching even more difficult. Night fishing closures should be universal in the same areas for all users.
In the past, managers believed conflict among sport and commercial fishers justified night gillnetting. This is no longer a valid argument. The number of fishing days has decreased so dramatically for both sport and commercial fishing that there is ample time for both groups to be on the water during the daylight.
Also, fishing areas are more concentrated now, as are the fish, dispelling the argument that fishers cannot net fish as easily in the daylight. The 2008 Spring Chinook season featured a day light gillnet fishery for the bulk of the season. Quotas were easily met and enforcement officers were able to effectively monitor the fleet throughout the season.
Over the years, concerned citizens have tried to shed light on the conflicts of interest in the reporting rules and the burdens posed by night gillnetting. Unfortunately, the Commissioners and Departments have favored the flawed status quo, even while salmon and steelhead runs continue their perilous declines. They have overlooked the basic conflict inherent in a system that allows individual businessmen, with the most to gain from subverting the system, to have unfettered control over the timing and accuracy of their catch data reporting.
A recent case has exposed the ease with which these rules may be manipulated to understate catch numbers and essentially swindle both States out of the poundage fees and accurate harvest records they are due. After an expensive two year investigation, members of Heuker Bros., Inc. a family owned commercial and wholesale fishing business near Dodson, Oregon plead guilty to falsifying fish catch records on over 50 occasions. They agreed to pay a $150,000 fine but will retain their licenses. They and the remainder of the fleet in Oregon and Washington may continue their gillnet fishing year after year, under the same defective regulations.
Fish catch records are used for more than just calculating poundage fees, but have a vital conservation role. Accurate records are important for monitoring quotas for various groups of fishers on the river and to protect sensitive or ESA-listed fish stocks from over harvest. Mandatory record keeping of bycatch, such as steelhead and sturgeon, is also important to provide an accurate assessment of impacts on non-target species. The Heuker brothers disregard for the resource, coupled with their ease in falsifying records, demonstrate the inadequacy of this self-reporting system.
These commercial fishing rules must be corrected. Even in the current fiscal environment there are simple, inexpensive ways to increase compliance and ease enforcement. Reporting rules must be tightened, the conflicts of interest must be removed, and night fishing must be prohibited.
An improved rule for documentation could state as follows:
Log books showing all catch activity while fishing shall be required. All fish must be recorded upon removing the net from the water and prior to travel or continuation of fishing (unless safety requires otherwise.) In any season where a weekly limit applies, fish must be recorded immediately upon retention by the fisher. All active fishers must carry this log book at all times while in possession of food fish. The log books shall be subject to inspection at any time by any law enforcement officer or employee of the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
A rule prohibiting night gillnetting could state as follows:
Fishing on the main stem of the Columbia River or in SAFE areas is permitted during daylight hours only. No commercial fishing boat registered in Oregon or Washington may travel on the main stem Columbia River during the hours of darkness with fishing gear on board, except that such boats may be in transit to or from fishing areas. Such transit may occur no sooner than one hour prior to official daylight and no later than one hour after official sunset for the area in which the day light fishing season is set. If a fisher is unable to comply with these rules due to circumstances beyond the fishers control, the fisher must immediately advise the United States Coast Guard of the situation on Channel 16.
Additional rules needed include:
For each and every boat engaged in gillnetting on a particular day, fishers shall report their boat identification and license number to a Department of Fish & Wildlife hotline and report their planned fishing location by zone.
Boats engaged in the fishery should have identifying block character numbers on the hull measuring 12 inches in height and of a color contrasting with the hull.
Any undersize fish or other fish not allowed to be kept under law or the season rules shall be handled with care and safely returned to the water immediately, or handled in accordance with rules for the tangle net fishery.
These proposed regulations are long past due, and we believe that serious enforcement problems with the gillnet fishery will continue without your involvement and assistance. We hope you will consider the above regulations for implementation as soon as possible.
Joe Schwab, OSP Fish & Wildlife Sgt, Ret.
CCA Oregon GRC, CRRAC
Jim Tuggle, WDFW Enforcement Sgt., Ret.
CCA Washington GRC, PSA
Ed Wickersham, USFWS Special Agent, Ret., Chair,CCA Washington GRC
Endorsed by:
Tom Ashmore, OSP Fish & Wildlife Major, Ret.
Glenn McDonald, OSP Fish & Wildlife Lt., Ret.
Richard McDonald, Former OSP Fish & Wildlife, USFWS, Ret.
Tim Johnson, OSP Fish & Wildlife, Ret.
Roger Nelson, OSP Fish & Wildlife, Ret.
Mike DeBolt, OSP Fish and Wildlife, Ret.
Glen Smith, OSP Fish & Wildlife Sgt., Ret.
Steve Shaw, OSP Fish & Wildlife Sgt. , Ret.
Phillip Knudsen, USFWS, Resident Agent In Charge, Washington, Ret.
Chuck Kohls, WDFW Enforcement, Captain, Ret.
Ken Jundt, WDFW Enforcement Sgt., Ret.
David Welch, WDFW Enforcement, Ret.
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Wow! Thanks for posting this, Andre. I think the best thing is to eliminate gill netting completely in the lower Columbia, but, short of that, these rules should help endangered stocks to some degree, should they be enacted.
Gill-netters are sacred cows, long over-due for dehorning.
I hear that the night ban is the first step toward the eventual goal of getting all non-selective harvest methods out of the Columbia.
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Kinder Morgan, the largest pipeline operator and third largest energy company in North America, said it might eventually simplify its rather complex gaggle of companies including master limited partnerships.
But that's in the future and in the hands of multiple voting stakeholders, CFO Kimberly A. Dang told an audience gathered at the National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships annual conference, which wraps up this afternoon.
Kinder Morgan is essentially four enterprises in one: Kinder Morgan (KMI), is the general partner and owns stakes in three other names. It pays a 3.8% yield. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), a pipeline MLP, pays a 5.9% yield, in the form of a cash distribution like most MLPs. Kinder Morgan Management (KMR) pays distributions in shares, but still offers tax deferrals. And, following an acquisition, Kinder also controls El Paso Pipeline Partners (EPB), whose yield is 5.7%.
When asked if EPB and KMP could be combined, Dang said,
"We like having the two MLPs out there to accelerate dropdowns." She said that dropdowns — moving assets into the MLP structure — will wrap up next year, and it would have to make "economic sense to combine those two. The independent boards have to decide and limited partners must vote. If the economics don't work and it is not good for everyone, we have no issue running two MLPs. There is not a huge administrative burden in doing that."


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Cool Spaces! The Best New Architecture features some of the 21st century's most provocative and innovative public space architecture in North America. Each hour-long episode is organized around a central building typology theme — such as Performance Spaces or Art Spaces — and profiles three buildings. Kansas City buildings feature prominently this season, both in Performance Spaces (Episode 1) featuring the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and Art Spaces (Episode 3), featuring the Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Binghamton University offers 9/11 lecture series
Binghamton University is sponsoring a four-part lecture series, "The U.S., the World and 9/11." Speakers will address a series of issues, including changes in U.S. foreign policy, U.S. military policy, civil rights and liberties in the United States and abroad, and foreign perceptions of the U.S. as a world power. The series is free and open to the community. All lectures will begin at 7 p.m..
Immanuel Wallerstein will be the first speaker Tuesday, September 9, in Casadesus Hall, to be followed by Herbert Bix Tuesday, October 28; Donald Quataert Tuesday, November 4; and Ali Mazrui Thursday, November 20.
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Roland Gaia SH-01
Following the SH-201, Roland continues its SH-series with the Gaia SH-01. The Gaia is an analog modeling synthesizer that retains the basic traits of previous SH-series synths: hands-on tweaking, user-friendly layout and compact design. You won't find any screens or menus on this synth—so if you're in the market for a hands-on, tactile synthesizer, the Roland Gaia SH-01 is not to be overlooked. There are 64 preset sound patches as well as 64 user patches—a huge improvement over the paltry 32 user patches in the SH-201. Weighing in at less than 10 pounds and able to run on battery power, the Gaia is a compact sound designing tool worthy of stage and studio.
The Gaia SH-01 features three oscillators, each with seven different waveforms (saw, square, pulse, triangle, sine, noise and super saw). Each of the seven waveforms have three variations, so it's almost like having 21 waveforms to choose from…per oscillator! Course tuning, fine tuning, oscillator sync and ring modulation controls, and a two-part (attack/decay) envelope generator complete the oscillator section. The filter section has all your basic controls (cutoff, resonance, a dedicated ADSR envelope generator) but also allows you to choose between low-pass, hi-pass, band-pass, or peaking filters. You can also bypass the filter entirely. The amp section controls the volume of the selected oscillator and has your standard ADSR envelope generator. The Gaia essentially offers three LFOs at your disposal (with controls for rate, tempo sync, delay time) that can be routed to any combination of the oscillator, filter or amp.
What makes the Gaia SH-01 stand out, is that although there is physically one oscillator, one filter, one amp and one LFO, you actually have three of each that are virtually layered over one another. In other words, this synth can sound huge! Many synthesizers have any number of oscillators that mix down before going to the filter and amp, but each Gaia oscillator has its own filter, amp and LFO, allowing for some very interesting patches. Furthermore, there is a dedicated master effects section featuring distortion, fuzz, bit crusher, flanger, phaser, pitch shifter, delay, panning delay, reverb and low boost. Each effect is highly tweak-able and really helps bring its sounds to life.
Of course, Roland has their "D-Beam" sensor for live performance fun (or just showing off to your friends). There is an onboard phrase recorder, arpeggiator, external audio input with various voice-canceling options, V-link support, 37-key keyboard with pitch/mod combo joystick, MIDI In/Out and USB connectivity to store patches to a thumb drive or use the bundled patch editor software. No MIDI-Thru may be an issue for some—the Gaia will need to be last in your daisy chain.
The predecessor to the Gaia SH-01, the SH-201, notoriously felt cheaply made, particularly the keys and the plastic casing. The Gaia is still plastic, but the keys feel much better than the SH-201 and the Gaia feels less "hollow" and more robust than the SH-201.
For well under a thousand USD, you'd be challenged to find a better analog modeling hardware synthesizer. There is so much more to this synth than meets the eye. On top of the fact that you have three oscillator sections, filter sections, amp sections, and LFO sections that all mix down to the master effects section, there is a "Shift" button that allows you to adjust countless other parameters to further expand your synthesizing. Nearly every knob, button and fader has a second function via the "Shift" button. Roland could not fit all the "Shift" functions on the panel, but the manual contains a list of these parameters and they are logically laid out to help keep you planted in the groove of sonic exploration.
In summary, the Gaia SH-01 highly compliments the SH-series name and is more than worthy of carrying the name. Analog purists, forget about "analog vs. digital" and just give this synth a try, it's surprising how good analog modeling can sound when Roland does it right!
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- Polyphony - 64 voices
- Multitimbral - 16 parts (1 VA, 15 PCM)
- Oscillators - Virtual analog synthesizer sound generator, PCM sound generator
- Waveforms - Saw, Square, Pulse/PWM, Triangle, Sine, Noise, Super Saw
- LFO - Waves: Triangle, Sine, Saw, Square, Sample-Hold. Controls: Rate, Fade Time, Pitch Depth, Filter Depth, Amp Depth.
- Modulation - Oscillator Sync, Ring Modulation
- Filter - LPF, HPF, BPF, PKG (-12 dB/-24 dB), Cutoff, Resonance, Key Follow, Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release, Envelope Depth
- Envelope - Amp: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release
- Effects - Distortion, Fuzz, Bit Crash, Flanger, Phaser, Pitch Shifter, Delay, Panning Delay, Reverb, Low Boost
- Vocoder - None
- Sequencer - Phrase Recorder: 8 patches, 1 track
- Arpeggiator - 64 patterns
- Keyboard - 37 keys (velocity sensitive)
- Memory - 64 Preset, 64 User
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Description Alnus maritima is endemic to the United States, and is found naturally in three disjunct populations in Oklahoma, Georgia, and in Maryland and Delaware on the Delmarva Peninsula. In 2002, the three populations were recognized as subspecies and given the names Alnus maritima subsp. oklahomensis, Alnus maritima subsp. georgiensis, and Alnus maritima subsp. maritima, respectively. While some believe that subspecies maritima is the oldest of the three subspecies and that the other two disjunct populations resulted from some form of long distance dispersal, evidence from morphometric and phylogeographic studies indicates that the Oklahoma population (subsp. oklahomensis) is in fact the most ancestral and that the species probably had a wide, continuous distribution across the United States in the past.
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A Washington, DC, airport ticket agent shares some questions he was asked:
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2. A candidate's staffer, wanted to go to Capetown, S.A. While I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information, she interrupted me with, "I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown is in Massachusetts". Without trying to make her look stupid, I calmly explained, "Cape Cod is in Massachusettes, Capetown is in South Africa." Her response--click.
3. A senior Vermont Congressman called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in Orlando. He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to explain that was not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the state. He replied, "Don't lie to me, I looked on the map and Florida is a very thin state!"
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"All of you I will put in my heart,'' a clearly affected Meredith said after composing herself following the song and celebration.
Touching tributes
Meredith's sprint through a throng of adoring fans and co-workers, a viral video moment that soon had #goodbyemeredith as one of the top trending topics on Twitter, came after she enjoyed a touching moment with one of her favorite artists, Carole King, who played a song that Matt said Meredith once played 30 times in a row upon graduating from high school. The legendary King then played "You've Got a Friend,'' which was indicative of the feelings of the staff as well as of King herself.
"We are going to miss you,'' King said. "It's been so amazing having you in our lives on a daily basis. Thank you for so many great memories.''
The anchors held hands on the couch before joining King around the piano and singing along.Meredith says last 'good morning' on TODAY
The special send-off episode for Meredith included a message from actor Jack Black. He said he wrote a song for the occasion, then jokingly sang the first line of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind.'' "OK, I didn't write that, but I love you,'' Black said.
Meredith also received special taped messages from NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and late-night host Jay Leno.allDAY: 10 reasons we love Meredith
After being celebrated by a cheering crowd outside with signs lamenting her departure, Meredith was treated to a video montage of her tenure at TODAY while surrounded by her fellow anchors.
Archive video: Meredith recounts career on first day
"From the moment I came here, everybody embraced me and made me feel like I was part of this family,'' she said in the video. "What am I going to miss most? Probably the sense of family."
"I don't think people realize how much pressure was on Meredith in those early days,'' Lauer said. "She made it look easy. She made it look effortless. It was as if she had been here for 10 years.''
The montage showed Meredith's impressive range, illustrating her ability to do everything from celebrity interviews to hard-hitting interviews with President Barack Obama.
"She brings a piece of herself to every interview she does,'' Matt said.
"Behind the scenes Meredith is one of the best girlfriends you could have,'' Ann Curry commented.
"You showed us from day one when you first took over this job that it was all about you being just the way you are,'' Natalie Morales said in tribute.
allDAY: Matt, Ann, Al and Natalie bid emotional farewll to Meredith
The montage also included highlights of some of Meredith's most memorable work on TODAY, including the story of David Goldman, a father who fought to bring back his son from his ex-wife's family in Brazil; Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer, and the saga of Charla Nash, disfigured by a chimpanzee attack.
It also illustrated her first big assignment, the Virginia Tech student shooting. Meredith said a candlelight vigil after the shooting was when she realized the true power of TODAY.
"These kids came up to me and said … 'Can we please hug you?' '' she said. "I realized in that moment the power of this show to really reach people, and to have that ability, I am so honored to have sat with all of you.''
Lighter moments
The montage also highlighted Meredith's zany side, whether it was on a trip to Ireland with Al or dressed up and dancing as Lady Gaga on Halloween. It also referenced her many travels around the world and her love of movies, including championing the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire.''
"I'm going to miss Meredith's sense of spirit and sense of fun,'' Al said. "You can't put a price on it.''
The "Don't Stop Believin' " extravaganza began with Meredith joining co-anchor Matt Lauer at a piano. Clad in an orange T-shirt worn by all the anchors, bearing their first names, a heart symbol and "Meredith,'' Lauer grinned as the Journey song began to play.
Meredith soon was beckoned from the piano and joined Ann Curry, who took her downstairs, where she was surprised by a hug from special guest Abe Vigoda.
She was led outside by a lip-syncing Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb and passed to Al Roker, and then taken by a group of producers and staffers down to the street, where she rejoined Lauer as Fallon appeared with a guitar and the crowd roared and clapped rhythmically. The TODAY staff then broke out a choreographed dance number as an exclamation point, leaving Meredith overwhelmed.
"I adore you,'' Matt told her. "Your sense of humor is what I will remember most. You have made me laugh every single day here, and I thank you for that. The bottom line is this — I have marveled over the fact that with someone who has talent as large as yours, how small your ego is. You have taught us to be great teammates, and that's the gift that I will take away from you.''
"You have changed my life and changed all of these people's lives,'' Al said. "I love you.''
A crying Meredith caught her breath before joking in her usual way: "I don't want to go now.''
She then grew reflective about her time on America's No. 1 morning show.
"I think life is about changing; I guess one door closes and another opens,'' she said. "You are the best. It's such a family and it's really hard to leave a family, so I'm not going to say goodbye at all.''
The lovefest continued into the fourth hour of TODAY, during which Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb continued to sport orange T-shirts saying "Wine Lovers [heart symbol] Meredith'' as part of their weekly "Winesday Wednesday." They reviewed the "Don't Stop Believin' '' tribute as well as a Tuesday-night party in Vieira's honor.
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During her nearly five years at TODAY, viewers have come to know Meredith Vieira as a savvy newswoman with a zany streak. ...
- Meredith's farewell: 'All of you I will put in my heart'
- Thanks, Meredith, for keeping it real — mom-style
- TODAY's favorite Meredith moments
- TODAY lets Meredith know we won't stop believing!
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"It's been a really bittersweet day for us,'' Kathie Lee said.
"It's been a blubberfest, let's be honest,'' Hoda added.
Then Meredith herself came onto the set, bearing glasses of wine for Kathie Lee and Hoda as well as one for herself. She joined the co-hosts for a segment spotlighting the best family beaches in the United States — which is just where Meredith may be putting up her feet sometime soon.
"At 2:30 in the morning tomorrow, you know what she's going to do?" Kathie Lee cracked. "Keep sleeping!"
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He was the odd man out in Kiss, but Ace Frehley came into his own on his solo records. Twenty years since his last release, the original Space Ace returns to earth with Anomaly.
Ace Frehley strides purposefully into a sushi bar in North Hollywood, his bearing every inch the rock star. Dark glasses hide the strange downward cast of his eyes—an inheritance from his Dutch mother—and he sports a black beard that gives him the look of an inscrutable warlord, conferring a gravity and a self-assurance that he never had before, not even in 1977, when Kiss were named the most popular band in America by no less an authority than the Gallup Poll. "That gave me a sense of false confidence," Frehley says of the honor. "For a while I believed that we were better than we were."
At the time of our meeting, Frehley is just weeks from releasing Anomaly, his first solo album in more than 20 years, which will be issued in September on his own Bronx Born Records label. The new songs ripple with authority and radiate a sense of danger that recalls the wanton spirit and fire-breathing heat of his early years with Kiss. The track "Genghis Khan" is a Kashmiri nightmare wrought in guitar exotica, while the instrumental "Fractured Quantum" picks up the frenetic thread Frehley began on his self-titled 1978 solo debut and continued with on his subsequent records. Then there's his indulgent cover of Sweet's "Fox on the Run," which recalls some of a rock band's racier exploits. "Oh, I got my share," Frehley says, when queried about Kiss' body count.
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What do you propose as a solution to this country's slow drift away from Christianity?
What do you propose as a solution to this country's slow drift away from Christianity?
Matt McKenzie
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." Henry Ford
That is a great question Matt. Adrian Rogers addressed this question some time before he passed. He said the answer was for America's churches to get rid of their relativistic preachers who are avoiding the true Word of God and get back to basic principles of the faith.Keith,
What do you propose as a solution to this country's slow drift away from Christianity?
I would add that churches should give up their tax exempt status and preach the truth without fear of repercussion.
In terms of a biblical response this is a standing promise from God concerning just the issues we are dealing with now:
If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 (ASV)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1 NKJV)... 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4NKJV)
No evolution, no monkey ancestors, no big bang!
I disagree on your initial premise. In my own experience those values are very cross cultural. They are found in Islam, in Buddhism, in Judaism, and even in secular humanism.
With respect to your last point, I would have to say that I cannot envision a God that would be capable of putting together a universe as complex, as interesting, as changing, and miraculous as ours but that would also base salvation on practices of worship.
For me, as a matter of faith, that is inconceivable. I do not "blame" God for my morality -- living my life in a moral fashion is my personal responsibility whether or not a God exists. As Jefferson would say, I am more interested in acts than I am in beliefs. I only consider the latter relevant to the extent that they inform action.
I actually do attend church regularly, but one where the Bible is no more likely to be read than the Koran and neither is read very often. I read the Bible as a child because my mother believed it was impossible to understand western literature and culture without it. I've read it as an adult for that reason and because I respect the efforts that it reflects to explore morality.
I have read at least portions of the Talmud, the Koran, and religious readings from around the world and across time for similar reasons. I believe almost all of them carry insights that are important to all of us and I find more similarities than differences.
But then, I don't care what you call the spirit of life. I don't care if you believe it is the God of Moses, or the tree spirits of the Druids, or even if it all simply comes down to the Big Bang. All of those, in my mind, are legitimate as long as they are bound by a fundamental respect for life and a respect for the moral framework that allows life to thrive. I understand that my beliefs are very different from yours, and possibly even abhorrent. I believe that the strength of our country is that it allows both of us equal freedom of faith.
By the way, I also believe that churches should give up their tax exemption and practice what they preach within the law but without concern for the approval or disapproval of the government. As a board member at my church I suggested this but was voted down by those more concerned by the financial implications (and I was the treasurer).
"One nation, under God...."
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According toThe Pledge of Allegiance A Short History by Dr. John W. Baer, Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist.
Also according to http://wiki.answers.com http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fischer/070502/Q/Did_the_Continental_Congress_open_with_a_prayer & http://www.historywiz.com/continentalcongress.htm
The first Continental Congress opened with a motion to pray this was objected to because the founders weren't sure which clergyman should give this prayer due to their being Episcopalians, Quakers, Anabaptists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists present.
According to John Adams, "Samuel Adams arose and said that he was no bigot, and could hear a Prayer from any gentleman of Piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his Country."
As a result of Sam Adams' intervention, the motion carried and an Episcopalian clergyman, Rev. Jacob Duche', was prevailed upon to open the next morning's session in prayer.
Duche' read Psalm 35 he then read a prayer:
"Be Thou present, O God of Wisdom, and direct the counsel of this Honorable Assembly; enable them to settle all things on the best and surest foundation; that the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that Order, Harmony, and Peace may be effectually restored, and that Truth and Justice, Religion and Piety, prevail and flourish among the people."
Duche' went on to ask God to preserve the delegates' health and vigor of mind, and to grant them "temporal Blessings" and "everlasting Glory in the world to come."
Rev. Duche' closed his prayer this way: "All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Saviour, Amen."
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The question then, I believe, would be who determines what is "the truth".
You see, that is why moral relativism does not work. Truth has to have a foundation; it cannot be based on ones ideas of what truth should/could be...that is idolotry and idolotry will destroy a person.
I will give you biblical evidence of truth...you decide how to deal with it (this by the way is not an exhaustive list but should be suffecient for an answer):Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgement: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
John 17:2 & 3
As thou has given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Psalm 19:9
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Psalm 33:4
For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth.
Psalm 57:10
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
John 8:31b-32
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 17:17
Sanctify them through truth: thy word is truth.
John 18:37 & 38
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
II Thessalonians 2:10-13
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
With regard to John 17:17 (...Thy Word is truth) look closely at the following:
(John1:1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(John 1:14) And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
This says to believers in Christ that He is truth. Our faith in Christ places our faith in truth. This is not an abstract view of religion but a crystalized view of the only mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1 NKJV)... 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4NKJV)
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"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
My point was that Catholics, Anglicans, Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Calvinists, Pentacostals, etc., etc. etc. all read the same book and come up with their own version of "truth". Who is right? Does that make the rest of them wrong?
There are some pretty dangerous folks all over the world from many different religions who feel that their version of the truth is the only way and are unwilling to accept others with different beliefs. Fortunately for us, God blessed us by allowing us to be born in a country founded on individual liberty and religious freedom. Most of the founders of this country were without a doubt religious men and Christians to some degree. The beauty of their creation was that religion and politics are intermingled, while church and government are seperate. I agree with you that the basis of all morality is religious in nature and that the social mores that guide this country are based on Judeo-Christian values. I also believe that there is a direct correlation between many of our current social problems and a decline in the number of people in this country who consider themselves religious and actively attend church.
My wife and I only have one school-age child still at home with us and he has always attended private Christian schools. There are many reasons we made that choice, but I, like Jeff, believe in allowing my children to use thier own minds. In middle school science, he was taught both creation and evolution. Even he could immediately see huge problems with the theories put forth by those who attempt to use scientific methods to prove that the earth is only a few thousand years old. He also has legitimate questions about the big bang theory. I don't think his mind has been "poisoned" by being exposed to either creation or evolution theory, but I feel he would be limited if I did not do my part to see that he got many different points of view. If he choses not to believe in the literal translation of Genesis, I don't think that he will be adversely affected in his relationship with God or his fellow man. The same holds true if he decides that he doesn't believe in evolution. He will still know right from wrong, he will still have the values that he has learned from his parents, his school and his church, and will hopefully grow into a productive member of our society and (the highest honor of all) a "good man". One man's opinion.
I've found that in conversations regarding religion, it is far too easy to offend people I respect, so I think I'll stop here. I'll go back to offending folks about politics, which I don't mind at all. If I can ever make it up to your neck of the woods to train, maybe we can talk about this more.
Matt McKenzie
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