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Andrea Fantauzzi has not been out of high school all that long, but the 2013 graduate of Lee's Summit West High School is making a big splash on the big screen.
Fantauzzi is the main character in the independent World War II drama "Adira," produced by Lee's Summit residents Irene Delmonte and Bradley Lincoln.
The film made its debut Feb. 6, but even before then Lincoln and Delmonte were singing praises for the 19-year-old Fantauzzi, a freshman at Oklahoma City College.
"It was really important that she looked the part because in the story she was 13 and it ends when she was 16," Lincoln said of the main character's attributes. "In between those years there's a lot of growth spurts so we wanted to make sure that the actress looked the same and that's where we found Andrea. At first she just looked the part, then we auditioned her and did a screen test."
"She was so versatile and so talented," added Delmonte. "The fact that she was so fresh-faced, we managed to make her look like a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old that's been weathered. She was definitely great."
Fantauzzi, a veteran of several theater hotbeds in and around the Kansas City metropolitan area, said to prepare for the role she studied a 13-year-old Lee's Summit girl's mannerism. The girl, a successful theater actress in her own right, had no clue she was being studied.
"I did a lot of research for a 13-year-old," Fantauzzi said via telephone from Oklahoma City. "There is a 13-year-old girl who lives in Lee's Summit named Ally Banks and we've gotten to know each other pretty well through the Coterie Theatre and the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre. I was her driver and her parents paid me to drive her to and from rehearsals. So, really a lot of the gestures I did as a 13-year-old Adira really came from her. She doesn't know this, but I watched her and how she moved and how she interacted with people.
"That's how I pulled that one off. When it comes to 16-year-old Adira that was a lot easier for me to do, obviously because I'm 19. It was wonderful to play a character with two different ages. It was a wonderful challenge."
Biased as she may be, Fantauzzi's mother Heidi Hagen said she was blown away by her daughter's performance.
"Of course I knew she was in the movie and I knew she was the lead, but really the movie was her," Hagen said. "She was pretty much in it from beginning to end, which completely blew me away."
Fantauzzi, who has two Hallmark short films and a television movie to her credit, was in awe at the reaction "Adira" received at its premiere. She hopes it leads to future roles while she is an undergrad studying acting at Oklahoma City College.
"I enjoyed every minute of it," Fantauzzi said. "Everyone who I talked to loved it. I got to make some connections with some more Kansas City stars and filmmakers, which was wonderful. It was a great night."


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Howell, Nicola (2017) Making payday loans safer: The Australian approach to regulating small and medium sized loans. In Fairweather, Karen, O'Shea, Paul, & Grantham, Ross (Eds.) Credit, Consumers and the Law: After the Global Storm. Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge.
Howell, Nicola (2013) Interest rate caps and price regulation in consumer credit. In Malbon, Justin & Nottage, Luke (Eds.) Consumer Law and Policy in Australia and New Zealand. The Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, pp. 311-336.
Howell, Nicola & Wilson, Therese (2008) The limits of competition : reasserting a role for consumer protection and fair trading regulation in competitive markets. In Parry, Deborah, Nordhausen, Annette, Howells, Geraint, & Twigg-Flesner, Christian (Eds.) The Yearbook of Consumer Law 2009. Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, England.
Howell, Nicola (2007) Preventing consumer credit over-commitment and irresponsible lending in Australia. In Howells, Geraint, Nordhausen, Annette, Parry, Deborah, & Twigg-Flesner, Christian (Eds.) The Yearbook of Consumer Law 2007. Ashgate Publishing Limited, UK, pp. 381-387.
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Howell, Nicola & Mason, Rosalind (2016) Bankruptcy and employment restrictions: The need for a new approach. Personal Insolvency Regulator, 14(2), pp. 8-9.
Howell, Nicola J. (2016) Small amount credit contracts and payday loans: The complementarity of price regulation and responsible lending regulation. Alternative Law Journal, 41(3), pp. 174-178.
Howell, Nicola & Mason, Rosalind F. (2015) Reinforcing stigma or delivering a fresh start: Bankruptcy and future engagement in the workforce. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 38(4), pp. 1529-1574.
Howell, Nicola J. (2015) Revisiting the Australian code of banking practice: Is self-regulation still relevant for improving consumer protection standards? UNSW Law Journal, 38(2), pp. 544-586.
Howell, Nicola (2014) The fresh start goal of the Bankruptcy Act : giving a temporary reprieve or facilitating debtor rehabilitation? QUT Law Review, 14(3), pp. 29-52.
McGill, Denise & Howell, Nicola (2013) Improving the ability of guarantors to make a real choice : lenders' practices in taking third party guarantees. Journal and Banking and Finance Law and Practice, 24(3), pp. 182-202.
McGill, Denise, Corones, Stephen G., & Howell, Nicola (2012) Regulating the cost of small loans : overdue or overkill? Company and Securities Law Journal, 30(3), pp. 149-169.
Howell, Nicola (2009) National consumer credit laws, financial exclusion and interest rate caps : The case for diversity within a centralised framework. Competition and Consumer Law Journal, 17(2), pp. 212-233.
Wilson, Therese, Howell, Nicola, & Sheehan, Genevieve (2009) Protecting the most vulnerable in consumer credit transactions. Journal of Consumer Policy, 32(2), pp. 117-140.
Howell, Nicola (2009) Consumer protection in the banking sector : reviewing the Code of Banking Practice. Precedent, 90, pp. 38-41.
Howell, Nicola (2008) Developing a consumer policy for the 21st century. Alternative Law Journal, 33(2), pp. 80-85.
Howell, Nicola (2006) Catching up with consumer realities: the need for legislation prohibiting unfair terms in consumer contracts. Australian Business Law Review, 34(6), pp. 447-466.
Wilson, Therese & Howell, Nicola (2006) Contemporary consumer law : the role and effectiveness of regulation in consumer protection. Griffith Law Review, 15(2), pp. 239-241.
Howell, Nicola & Wilson, Therese (2005) Access to consumer credit: the problem of financial exclusion in Australia and the current regulatory framework. Macquarie Law Journal, 5(2005), pp. 127-148.
Howell, Nicola (2005) Searching for a national consumer policy reform program? Competition and Consumer Law Journal, 12(3), pp. 294-304.
Howell, Nicola (1995) 'Sexually transmitted debt' : a feminist analysis of laws regulating guarantors and co-borrowers. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 4, pp. 93-109.
Howell, Nicola, Wilson, Therese, & Davidson, James (2008) Interest rate caps : protection or paternalism.
Sheehan, Genevieve, Wilson, Therese, & Howell, Nicola (2008) Coming to grips with credit contracts : steps to protect vulnerable borrowers. Brotherhood of St Laurence and Griffith University Centre for Credit and Consumer Law, Fitzroy, Victoria.
Howell, Nicola (2008) Joint consumer submission to the review of the code of banking practice. (Unpublished)
Howell, Nicola (2016) Submission to review of the Code of Banking Practice and Code Compliance Monitoring Committee. (Unpublished)
Corones, Stephen G., Christensen, Sharon A., & Howell, Nicola (2016) Submission to Australian Consumer Law Review Issues Paper. (Unpublished)
Mason, Rosalind, Howell, Nicola, Matthew, Anne F., & Anderson, Colin (2015) Submission to the Productivity Commission draft report business set-up, transfer and closure. (Unpublished)
Anderson, Colin, Howell, Nicola, & Mason, Rosalind F. (2015) Submission to the Productivity Commission issues paper business set-Up, transfer and closure. (Unpublished)


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ACCURATUM: improved calcium volume scoring using a mesh-based algorithm—a phantom study
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To overcome the limitations of the classical volume scoring method for quantifying coronary calcifications, including accuracy, variability between examinations, and dependency on plaque density and acquisition parameters, a mesh-based volume measurement method has been developed. It was evaluated and compared with the classical volume scoring method for accuracy, i.e., the normalized volume (measured volume/ground-truthed volume), and for variability between examinations (standard deviation of accuracy). A cardiac computed-tomography (CT) phantom containing various cylindrical calcifications was scanned using different tube voltages and reconstruction kernels, at various positions and orientations on the CT table and using different slice thicknesses. Mean accuracy for all plaques was significantly higher (p < 0.0001) for the proposed method (1.220 ± 0.507) than for the classical volume score (1.896 ± 1.095). In contrast to the classical volume score, plaque density (p = 0.84), reconstruction kernel (p = 0.19), and tube voltage (p = 0.27) had no impact on the accuracy of the developed method. In conclusion, the method presented herein is more accurate than classical calcium scoring and is less dependent on tube voltage, reconstruction kernel, and plaque density.


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TV fans rejoice... Monica and Chandler are back together once again!
Courteney Cox gave her Twitter followers a glimpse at her upcoming guest-starring gig on Matthew Perry's NBC sitcom "Go On."
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"My first box husband," she wrote, posting with a photo of her former "Friends" co-star Matthew.
In a second glimpse of Courteney & Matthew's reunion, she posted another photo, writing,"@MatthewPerry: Yayyyyyyyy!#GoOn Yaaaaay!"
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Courteney will appear on the NBC sitcom in April, where she will play a woman who goes on a date with Matthew's character, Ryan.
The actress' "Go On" appearance is in some ways a homage to their former NBC hit series.
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This is supposed to be a review of an imaging device. However, it was appalling to find that the entire assessment of image quality was so tiny that if you blinked, you would miss it!
What we have here then, is a 4-page regurgitation of the press release and product datasheet, garnished with a cursory 4-line sprint through image quality.
This does not deserve to be called a "review" of a product, let alone a "trusted" one. Seriously.....
Erm, okay... you seem a little angry. But I'm probably going to make you angrier here by telling you that you clearly missed the point about this product. Maybe you blinked a little too long. It's not meant for "seriously" anal types who measure the quality of every pixel produced. It's meant to grow the camcorder market towards those who just couldn't give a monkey's about that. All they need to know is - does this thing shoot decent or rubbish video, and under what conditions? This review tells you precisely that. Since there are no manual settings, you can't tweak it as with higher-end devices, so there is no way of adjusting performance. You point, you shoot. Why go into more detail on this aspect, when it is the other features which are more important in this case? I wouldn't even describe it as an imaging device, because its ability to upload straight to YouTube is equally, if not more significant. You would definitely not buy this instead of any "proper" HD camcorder, if you had the money. But for the target, non-specialist market it does the job intended pretty well. It would be better if it was more like 𧵎, though.
I just went to pixmania.com and bought one of these for £89, together with the correct case for £9. Add in the cheapest P&P option and the whole package came to about £106, which is a heck of a good deal compared with the prices quoted in the review.
Maybe Creative are about to bring out a new model or something, but I'm very happy with my purchase.
The review was very good by the way. A friend has one, which I have tried and it is great. However, a mini-tripod is essential, partly to overcome the problem of the USB cable attachment projecting from the bottom of the case and partly to get decent shake-free images.
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Perhaps you are asking yourself: What in the world does the Voynich manuscript have to do with alien astronauts? These pages will explain why we think the text section of the Voynich could constitute a transcription of the extraterrestrial's prophecies. Moreover, there is evidence that the Voynich was, for a while, in the possession of the Rosicrucians who translated and published those prophecies.
The Voynich manuscript is not a mystery of the type that we would normally attempt to solve but it turns out that one of our Rosicrucians, the magician John Dee, was accused of fabricating this book in order to sell it to the Holy Roman Emperor in Prague. As it turns out, recent dating of the manuscript by radiocarbon (to around A.D. 1420, some 150 years before the time of Dee) frees Dee from the accusation of fraud but, as we shall see, he may very well have had the manuscript in his possession at one point.
The Voynich manuscript, now proven to be nearly 600 years old, is known for drawings of many plants that no one can identify and for drawings of naked women, lots of naked women. This manuscript uses an alphabet that no one has ever seen before, is written in an unknown language and employs a code that no one can decipher (and some of the best cryptographers of the 20th century have tried). It is clearly one of the great riddles of the Middle Ages.
Drawings of nude women, however, were not unique to the Voynich in medieval art. We see them here in this painting of Cathars being expelled from the French city of Carcassonne in the year 1209. This occurred toward the beginning of what is known as the Albigensian Crusade to stamp out Catharism. The Cathars were a Christian sect that had disagreements with the dominant Catholic Church of Rome, hence Pope Innocent III created the Crusade to rectify the situation. Curiously, the hair style seen on the Cathars in this medieval painting resembles the hair style worn by some of the women depicted in the Voynich manuscript.
This is a modern photograph of the fortress of Carcassonne. It's the same place that existed in the 13th century. One of those towers is known as "The Tower of Torture." Today, there's a museum there, the Museum of Torture, where you can see the original equipment used by the Catholics to torture the Cathars prior to burning them at the stake. Yes, the Cathars expelled from Carcassonne at the beginning of the Crusade were perhaps the lucky ones. Later, the Cathars were subjected to one outright massacre after another. In the nearby town of Béziers, the Crusade commander was proud to send a victorious report to the Pope, here cited from Wikipedia: "Today your Holiness, twenty thousand heretics were put to the sword, regardless of rank, age, or sex." Perhaps not surprisingly, the Cathars referred to the Catholic Church as the "Church of Satan."
In 1244, the last stronghold of the Cathari, a fortress at Montségur in southwestern France, fell to the Crusaders. The fortress was defended by 100 soldiers and held between 205 and 220 Perfecti (the lay clergy of the Cathari) who refused to fight because they believed it was wrong to kill. The 100 held out against a Crusader army of up to 10,000 strong for nine months before succumbing. The fortress was then dismantled stone by stone (current ruins on the site are of a later date) and the Perfecti were burned alive in a giant bonfire.
Though more than two hundred Perfecti were burned in that fire, for artistic feasibility only a few are depicted in this illustration from a medieval manuscript. Note the sword-carrying Crusaders on the left. In the upper right, note the winding path going up to the fortress. Also take note of the coned tower of Montségur and its balcony for defenders. As depicted in the illustration, the burning did in fact occur in a field at the bottom of the mountain.
This drawing comes from the Voynich manuscript. Note the vertical slopes on the left and the right indicating that this fortress stands on top of a steep mountain. Note the coned tower and the zig-zag line indicating a balcony for defenders. Note the windows (the other drawing shows only the top-level window but view of it is cut off by the mountain). Note the protrusions to the right and left of the tower: the two drawings are likely viewing the fortress from opposite sides of the mountain. Overall, chances are excellent that the Voynich manuscript depicts the fortress of Montségur, from where we can surmise that the manuscript was written by Cathars.
Catharism was a heresy that rejected the sacraments and rituals of Catholicism. They had only one sacrament, called consolamentum, which was a simple ceremony, like a baptism without water, but performed on adults rather than infants. In sharp contrast to the subservient role of women in Catholicism, women played a major role in Catharism, and Wikipedia notes that women were "Perfecti, who were able to administer the sacrament of the consolamentum." The website cathar.info explains in detail how this sacrament was administered, stating "Then followed the act of consoling. The Perfect took the Gospel and placed it on the postulant's head. Other Perfects present placed their right hands on the postulant's head." That is exactly what we see in this Voynich drawing: a Perfecta placing her right hand on the head of the recipient of this sacrament.
The Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars was very successful. The number of people killed by the Crusaders has been estimated to be as high as one million and then an Inquisition was established to finish off any survivors. By the year 1330, Catharism had been totally eradicated across Europe.
The Voynich manuscript, however, has been dated by radiocarbon analysis to between 1404 and 1438. Consequently, it would seem impossible for the Cathars to have written the Voynich because at that time the Cathars no longer existed, at least not anywhere in Europe.
It seems that not all of the Perfecti of Montségur died in 1244. Wikipedia reports that "In the days prior to the fall of the fortress, several Cathars allegedly slipped through the besiegers' lines carrying away a mysterious 'treasure' with them. While the nature and fate of this treasure has never been identified, there has been much speculation as to what it might have consisted of -- from the treasury of the Cathar Church to esoteric books or even the actual Holy Grail."
Where did the Cathars go with their treasure?
The plant drawings in the Voynich manuscript provide the answer. The Voynich has drawings of more than one hundred exotic plants, highly detailed drawings from flower to root, and representing plants that no one in Europe had ever seen before. Realistically, there is only one place on Earth that can produce such an extraordinary diversity of plant life, and that's the tropical rainforests of South America, which we shall call Amazonia. The Cathars went to Amazonia.
At first sight, one might suspect that perhaps the quacks were right, maybe these really are plants from another planet. Almost nothing about this "thing" looks Earth-like.
However, it did not take long to track down this "extraterrestrial."
Lo and behold, we find those green plants in a photograph taken in Amazonia. The stem -- which rests along the riverbed but is stretched out in the Voynich -- cannot be seen behind the front plant but we see it clearly on the back one. A better resolution of this photograph can be pulled up here. One apparent discrepancy would be the white flower we see arising out of a green base to the upper right in the Voynich drawing.
But take a closer look at the front plant in the photograph. In the upper right, same place as the Voynich flower, you will notice a tiny green bud attached to main plant via filaments. Rest assured: chances are high that this tiny green bud will blossom into the white flower we see depicted in the Voynich.
Wikipedia makes a surprising statement: "None of the plants depicted are unambiguously identifiable." Has anyone ever bothered to look at online databases of rainforest plants? The floral eccentricities and fluvial root systems of many of the depicted plants are clearly tropical in nature. These plants grow, or grew, in greater Amazonia.
The main reason there was no major migration from Europe to the Americas during the Middle Ages was because of religious inhibitions, not because medieval ships were incapable of making the journey. (During the same epoch the Polynesians, with the most primitive of boats, managed to populate islands across vast stretches of the Pacific.) But the Cathars had no such inhibitions. Their choices were a) stay in Europe and be burned alive, or b) take their chances on the open seas. Not surprisingly, they chose the latter.
The Voynich has many drawings of naked women bathing in water that is "inexplicably" colored green. But it is not unusual to find green ponds in tropical areas where swamp grass grows horizontally in the water. Look at the girls in this drawing: although the water is only a couple of feet deep, the girls cannot see through it. Note the girl holding a stick; because her arm is stretched out, that is not a support stick but a measuring stick, to measure the depth of the water before advancing. She cannot see the bottom. Now look at the girl up front: she's relaxing, literally floating on her back. The plant growth is so dense that it gives buoyancy to the water, making it easy for her to float on her back. No doubt about it, these girls are wading in a rainforest pond.
The Cathars, however, did not drink the pond water (it was doubtless unhealthy to do so) or wash themselves with it. For that purpose, as Voynich drawings reveal, they built an elaborate network of conduits, funnels, and containers up in the trees to collect rainwater, which they then used for drinking and washing. In the Voynich, drinkable rainwater, in contrast to the green water of the rainforest ponds, is depicted in blue color. Here is one of several drawings where we see the girls washing themselves with the rainwater. Ponds of green water, or blue rainwater flowing down the trees, are depicted on nearly every page of the rainforest section of the Voynich. As good Christians (note the cross in the upper right-hand corner), they thank the Lord for the rain; the Cathars are said to have rejected the Old Testament but fully accepted the New Testament.
Here is the bottom half of the drawing running down the left side of the Voynich page. As you can see, the Cathars not only lived in the trees, they lived high up in the trees. Note the spotted jaguar with crocodilian head representing the two most dangerous predators of the rainforest. Further over to the right (not shown), another predator has entered the green water and a bloodied prey lies dead, floating on the surface of the water, while on the edge of the pond a screeching lamb symbolizes their fear. Snakes (depicted elsewhere in the manuscript) may have also frightened them. Of course, by living high up in trees, especially trees rising up from the inundated floor of the rainforest, they protect themselves from some of the predators. And we cannot fail to notice that these girls think of themselves as "mermaids," almost certainly because they spend half their time wading in the water at the base of the trees and half their time up in the trees; thus, half fish, half human.
The slime of the rainforest ponds sticks to the skin, and here we see the girls lined up to wash it off with clean water from a barrel. As always, rainwater (collected on downflow from the trees on the left side of the drawing) is depicted in blue color, to distinguish it from the green water of the rainforest. Also note more examples of the classic Perfecti hairdo in this drawing.
In the Voynich, the Cathari women of the rainforest are always depicted completely naked with only one exception. When we see them at night, peacefully asleep in their tree hut, under the stars, they are no longer naked. All of sudden, we see them all wrapped up in a blanket. That makes sense. People tend to think of rainforests as a place that is steamy hot around the clock. Not true. Temperatures in the rainforest can drop sharply at night, at times reaching 10 degrees C (50 degrees F) and can feel even colder due to the rainfall. Consequently, the nocturnal blankets are no surprise.
The plant photograph shown above was taken in the Morichal rainforest of Venezuela (northwest Amazonia), a place where we see water at the base of tall trees, similar to what we see depicted in the Voynich. Hence, the medieval Cathars, instead of proceeding up the Amazon River from its basin in Brazil, may have landed on the northern coast of Venezuela, from where they headed inland to the rainforest. Other plants depicted in the Voynich are likely to be freshwater plants from the same region.
The animal that you see depicted at the bottom of this Voynich page is an Amazonian tapir. Do not allow the world's scholars to con you into believing that this animal lived in Europe. It did not.
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A new exhibit in Wynwood might give spectators the impression they have stumbled upon crime scene pictures taken in the aftermath of a case of domestic violence during a family dinner. Some of the arresting photographs depict what appear to be blood splatter stains, while others show shattered china. Instead, the images are part of New York-based artist Alexandra Rowley's solo exhibit, "Process," a suite of large-format photos both abstract and figurative in which she explores ideas of transformation. Rowley's captivating pictures will be on view at the Dina Mitrani Gallery (2620 NW Second Ave., Miami) during this weekend's Second Saturday Art Walk, beginning at 6 p.m. The artist explores the experience of "process" from diverse perspectives, ranging from her body, her studio, her home, her infant child, and our planet. These works convey notions of life's endless cycles of creation, fruition, and destruction, explains Dina Mitrani, the gallery's owner. "Those red stains in some of her pictures are from beets she was cooking, and the broken dishes are family heirlooms she has collected as relics," the dealer says. "Her work is about the process of creating art and creating a life. Her show also includes a poignant sound piece in which she overlaps the carefree laughter of her infant son over the background of President Obama delivering a solemn speech about the need to protect our planet."
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Tougher to Get Tenure - What Do the Teachers Think?
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC's education reporter, Beth Fertig, spoke about how a change in guidelines resulted in far fewer public school teachers being granted tenure this year. Teachers called in with their thoughts.
The criticism was that it didn't matter how effective they were--New York City teachers could simply show up in their classrooms for three years and get tenure--strong lifetime job security--for that alone.
Mayor Bloomberg put pressure on principals to raise standards and withhold tenure unless teachers met them. Indeed, the city's new guidelines have led to a subsequent drop in the tenure rate from 99 percent to 58 percent in the last five years. Most of the teachers were not rejected for tenure outright—the rejection rate remained about the same—but many more were deferred tenure and will have to reapply.
Emily in Brooklyn, a teacher whose tenure was deferred another year, called in to say that her principal told teachers bluntly that he didn't bother recommending any of them for tenure because the superintendent was not going to approve them.
It's not a vote of confidence for my principal and it makes me less likely to stay in a school where I'm not feeling supported by my administration to achieve tenure. I happen to think that you shouldn't just get tenure after three years just for showing up but I think that the way that the recommendations came down in the middle of the year kind of made it impossible for teachers who wanted to apply for tenure who were kind of scrambling to put together a portfolio, wondering what the test was going to look like this year, a bunch of other things that made it hard to really put your best foot forward to be considered for tenure when we didn't find out about these things until January or February.
Indeed, principals told Fertig they felt pressure from superintendents and the system at large not to grant tenure this year. With tenure, teachers are granted much stronger job security, though they can still be fired for incompetence.
Kate in Brooklyn, called in to say she was upset that the entire tenure process relies upon the opinion of one person, the principal.
The whole tenure process relies on the subjectivity of the principal and that's just not fair, it should be a process where more people are involved, where your lifetime career isn't just based on perhaps the principal not liking you or internal politics.
Fertig noted that, ideally, Bloomberg's system should be less subjective than this, because the teacher would be able to submit a portfolio of student progress, plus a performance review in his or her application for tenure.
Nina, a NYC teacher for four years, called in to say she felt the new guidelines were good, because when she taught in the Bronx she was among bad teachers who were granted tenure after three years.
I have to say it is way too easy for teachers in NYC to get tenure. You only have to show up for three years and you're basically granted it. When I moved on to Westchester I actually got my tenure delayed a year and I had to prove myself and I had to earn it.


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Nov. 13, 2012
Recap | Box Score | Photo Gallery
With the win, Michigan moves to 7-0 in NIT Season Tip-Off home games and 7-5 all-time in the tournament.
Michigan advances to play at Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y., for the first time since the 2008-09 season when it defeated UCLA and lost to Duke in the 2K Sports Classic.
Michigan has won each of its first three games of the season by at least 30 points. It marks the first time in program history that the Wolverines opened the season with three consecutive 30-point victories.
The Wolverines took their largest lead, 33 points, when Tim Hardaway Jr. hit a three-pointer with 5:37 left in the contest. Michigan never trailed in the game.
In the John Beilein era, Michigan improves to 55-4 when scoring 70 or more points.
Michigan held Cleveland State to just 14 points in the first half, the lowest first-half point total for an opponent since Central Connecticut State also scored 14 on Nov. 10, 2006.
U-M held Cleveland State to just 30 percent from the floor (17-of-56), including just 22 percent in the first half (6-of-27).
Michigan held the advantage in points in the paint (40-14), paints off turnovers (15-4), fast-break points (12-0) and bench points (29-10).
For the third consecutive game, the Wolverines gathered more than 40 rebounds, outreboundinged Cleveland State, 45-28. Mitch McGary led the Wolverines with nine rebounds in the win.
Tim Hardaway Jr. connected on three shots from behind the arc in the contest, passing Glen Rice (136) to move into sole possession of ninth place all-time in three-point field goals at Michigan.
Three players scored in double figures in the win. Nik Stauskas scored a career-high 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting, including a 3-for-4 mark from three-point range. Tim Hardaway Jr. led the Wolverines with 17 points on 7-of-12 shooting, while Trey Burke chipped in with 12 points and seven assists.
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Authorities Seek Vandals
The Southern Ohio Crime Stoppers Crime of the Week seeks suspects involved in vandalism. Officials say the suspects who were in a gray car drove onto the 300-block of Golf View Drive in Chillicothe just after 2am on October 2nd and shot a suspected potato gun. As a result, a window from a nearby home was broken.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
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In a statement announcing the suit, BlackBerry did leave the door open for the possibility of a licensing pact. The beleaguered manufacturer could use any source of revenue it can find, considering that it just wrote off more than $3 billion worth of unsold handsets gathering dust in some warehouse.
There actually is some good news for both sides here. Among the notable reviewers of the device, Walt Mossberg said that "the Typo does its job well," although he did chide the company for covering up the iPhone's home button with the case. Mossberg added that BlackBerry addicts he knows (remember, he is no spring chicken) loved the Typo.
Others reviewing the portable QWERTY also complained about losing access to the home button, and some said that Siri kept going off by accident (and if Siri sounds like your Mother-In-Law, it could drive you crazy). While there was a sour note raised by one reviewer about the $99 price, for the most part it seems like the Typo is here to stay.
Will there be copycats? You betcha. And those who are right now gearing up to produce Typo knockoffs will certainly not use the same design for the QWERTY. But as the original, Typo has some advantages. Besides, the Ryan Seacrest connection is surely worth a ton of money. All he needs to do is show it off on American Idol ("Sorry folks, I was just texting Simon") and the orders will come.
Instead of suing Typo, this would be a great time for BlackBerry to embrace the product. What is that saying? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. New BlackBerry CEO John Chen has been talking about monetizing everything at BlackBerry, so why not sit down with Typo and bring in some moola. Every Apple iPhone 5 and Apple iPhone 5s sold is a potential Typo customer. With the right licensing deal, BlackBerry could be making money from a hot handset for the first time in years.
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Launched in Belfast in 1885, the Polly Woodside sailed 1.5 million kilometres around the globe. Located in the heart of Melbourne's South Wharf precinct she is a tangible reminder of Australia's rich maritime history and is one of Melbourne's most iconic attractions.
Visitors can take a guided tour of the ship, including below the decks, view artefacts in the award winning interactive gallery and watch a fascinating short film about life onboard the ship in the theatrette.
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Pondicherry, Sep 13 (UNI) The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) today expressed full support to the striking Jipmer employees.
In a statement here, CPI(ML) state committee member P Sankaran said the party strongly opposed the decision of the union cabinet to grant autonomous status to Jipmer and demanded it be withdrawn.
Stating this was against the peoples wish, Mr Sankaran condemned the political parties here, which were directly or indirectly supporting the autonomous status for Jipmer.
Pointing out levying of fees for various aspects, including registration and consultation in autonomous institutions like AIIMS, New Delhi and P G Institute, Chandigarh, Mr Sankaran said the assurance of the Health Ministry that it would not affect the people as well as the employees in any way could not be accepted.
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Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1171 into law Monday, paving the way for the Town of Marana to enter the wastewater business.
The bill will allow Marana to provide wastewater services to residents by allowing the town to assume ownership of a small wastewater treatment facility located just outside town boundaries. Marana is planning to construct additional facilities to provide improved service and greater capacity for new homes and businesses.
"This is a landmark day in Marana's history," said Mayor Ed Honea. "Owning our wastewater system will enable the town to aggressively pursue economic development opportunities that will benefit the region."
Senator Frank Antenori, R-District 30, said, in March, Marana deserves an opportunity to operate and manage the public sewer utility within its boundaries so that it can stimulate economic development, bring important land use decisions under town control, and make the most beneficial use of all of its available water resources.
The bill requires Marana to assume all Pima County debt associated with public sewers and facilities that are transferred into its operation and control.
In a March editorial, Antenori said SB 1171 creates a spirit of competition in local government.
The bill was sponsored by Antenori along with senators Gail Griffin and Al Melvin and Representatives David Gowan, Peggy Judd, Terri Proud, David Stevens, Ted Vogt and Vic Williams.
The Town of Marana and Pima County signed an intergovernmental agreement in 1979 that gave the county permission to provide sewer service in Marana. The town exercised its legal right to end that contract in 2007.
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Xplico - Internet Traffic Decoder. Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT)
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For example, from a pcap file Xplico extracts each email (POP, IMAP, and SMTP protocols), all HTTP contents, each VoIP call (SIP), FTP, TFTP, and so on. Xplico isnt a network protocol analyzer. Xplico is an open source Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT).
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A scientific study has determined that 2.5 percent of adults are such massive wizards of multitasking that they can simultaneously drive and talk on their cellphones without killing everything you love.
It's unknown how many of these "supertaskers" can, at the same time, keep an eye out for cops, but I hope it's not all of them. I'd love to see a supertasker in court explaining, preferably while finishing off a tough boss fight in Final Fantasy Tactics on the PSP, why the laws of muggle society should not apply to such gifted folk as him.
I have my own observations about cellphone users, all backed up by my rigorous method of controlled experiments. I, as the experimental group, make up numbers while my cat, as the control group, sleeps on the couch. Don't scoff, it's the same method Niels Bohr used both as a participant in the Manhattan Project and as a member of The Manhattan Transfer.
Here's what I came up with:
A full 15 percent of cellphone users can simultaneously talk on the phone, order a latte and piss off an entire room full of cafe patrons. Most also have the ability to ignore the "please don't use cellphones while ordering" sign on the register.
Only 62 percent of people can handle simultaneously being in a movie theater and having their cellphones set to vibrate. Also, 3 percent of theatergoers suffer from a congenital inability to refuse to take a cellphone call no matter where they are.
A week after getting their mobile phones, only 8.9 percent of purchasers can remember whether they opted for the "Family America Full-Coverage Unlimited Data Plan" or the "Unlimited Coverage Full-Data America Family Plan." Three weeks after that, they discover they signed up for whichever one features a $75 fee for "roaming text multiline overage."
Only 12.3 percent of iPhone owners are able to say the phrase "AT&T cellphone coverage" without scowling.
All cellphone users fall into one of two categories: Those who send at least one text message a day, and those who use the phrase "kids these days" at least once a week.
You can make 45 percent of cellphone users want to upgrade their gear by taking the name of their current phone and adding a random letter to the end of the product name.
Fully 18 percent of cellphone users are concerned that using their phone will cause brain tumors. Only 7 percent are concerned that using their phone will lead to a face full of windshield glass.
Nearly 29 percent of consumers base their cellphone purchase on how much the little slide-out keyboard reminds them of their old Transformers toys. Another 4 percent base it on how much the keyboard reminds them of their current Transformers "collectibles."
People holding their earbuds' microphone up to their mouth break down as follows: 84 percent look like an idiot, 9 percent look like a moron, 6 percent look like an idiot dork moron cretin and 1 percent have invisibility powers.
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Does anyone have any experience with Rossi, how reliable are their revolvers, how accurate, are they? because they have a nice price tag on them. At one of the stores I go to they have a .38 for $244.00. which is not a bad price.
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Does anyone have any experience with Rossi, how reliable are their revolvers, how accurate, are they? because they have a nice price tag on them. At one of the stores I go to they have a .38 for $244.00. which is not a bad price.
I have shot but never owned a Rossi and it performed just fine. I would purchase a Revo from a company like Rossi long before a Auto where the action is a bit more complicated. They are not the quality of a S&W, or Colt, they do function. I would probably buy a Rossi over a Taurus if I didn't have a thing for S&W wheelers. Many on forums like this will slam the Rossi just because of it's low cost and they have never even held one so take what you read with a grain of salt.
38spl. In 0ver 20 years I probably have less than 200 rounds through it. I don't care for pocket carry guns and I don't buy them but on occasion, when the need arose, I have carried this little Rossi in my pocket. I think it was under $200 new. It is what it is and I see no reliability concerns but wouldn't shoot +Ps in it.
I can't comment on current production. I've seen/held/shot an old one that wasn't much to write home about. In fact, the cylinder wouldn't really lock into place very well. If you're set on a .38 and price is a concern, I'd choose a Taurus over what I've seen of Rossi.
FWIW--I disagree with NCH on autos, too. You haven't had fun until you've had a revolver lock up on you.
I like and want to get one of their 357 models 461/2 for just a little more money and an extra round. What I have read and felt is DA is very stiff but SA is very nice. Give it a try.
I have a 461 which is there 6 shot 2 inch barrelled .357. Thousands of rounds trhough it trouble free. I am satisfied with it and would buy another of their revolvers. Also, the are owned by Taurus and covered by their lifetime warranty.
My Rossi .357 snub kept jamming so I sold it. Wish I had not, I think it may have been the ammo I was using. But I was young and not that exposed to as many snubbies as I am now. Go with the .357 and carry full bore loads, any extra penetration is good.
I bought my daughter a Rossi 351 with a 2"bbl for her first gun. It shoots fine. Probably only have about 100 rounds through it. I did have to have the trigger pull lightened on it. It was so hard my daughter had a hard time pulling it. Once I did that , it was great for double action, but single action it's a hair trigger. I'm sure it's a fine gun, but when she turns 21, I'm buying her a Smith ( unless she prefers something else).
Wife qualified with her 461 for CCW. She likes shooting it. She prefers +P .38s over the .357 mag loads though. Not as much recoil.
I have the new model 461 made by Taurus . It's been reliable and accurate. I use it as my truck gun.
I've put about 500 rounds through it with no problems at all.
My definition of accurate is a 3 inch hole at 12 yards, using both .38 and .357.
Stock grips are ok and do the job.
The DA trigger pull isn't that nad but not as nice as a SA auto.
The SA pull is pretty light and it's fun to use at the range.
my current EDC is Rossi 461 - 135 grn speer gold dots (short barrel load)
I shoot the 1/2 size B12 target at 25 yards at the range, all in the black most in the 8, 9 10 so I'm happy with it
(I would prefer a S&W 4" k frame...)
I bought a 461 for $150 used as a glove box gun....turned out to be so accurate and reliable,I use it at idpa once in a while....trigger sucked in the beginning,smoothed up w/ use and dry firing....the gun itslef is a bit heavy,but that make shooting the 357's barable.Another buddy has the 4" version and is happy w/ his too.Mine is a newer one made by Taurus,not sure about his.
the new one have the Taurus lifetime thing(I think)so I'd get one as long as it checks out ok.
Hornet--mine was on a Model 19.
I have one, the .357 in four inches.
My only suggestion, don't get the blued. You can tell a quality difference with a smith, but this is good bang for buck.


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I'm available for paid work and limited TFP as long as it adds to my portfolio.
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Tell us about the
content strategy team you work on at FamilySearch.SRA:
We're a team of
nine, and we refer to each other internally as the "Raiders of
the Lost
Archives." One of our engineers made us a poster about that, and
I see
ourselves that way. We travel the world, go into archives and
discover lost
treasures of historic records.
FTM: What parts of the world are
assigned to you?SRA: I cover parts of the United States
and the federal strategy (what we
get from the National Archives and Records Adminstration),
southern South America,
Italy, Portugal and the Adriatic Sea, as well as help with New
Australia and the Pacific Isles.
Do you see distinct
attitudes about old records in different countries?SRA:
Yes. The areas I work
with in Europe tend to be more open and want their records to be
accessible to the world.
Portugal is amazing. It's neat to see
how much they
care about their records and want people to have access. We've been able to
digitize all the Catholic
church records in Portugal because they were held by a government
Italy is the same way about records access. They have a website
called "Portal
your Ancestors" where they're
working with us to publish their civil registration records. They
see it as a
way of giving people back their heritage.
Any particular
country you've fallen in love with?SRA: Half my heritage is from Italy, and
that's my research
specialty. I love Italy. But I fell in
love with Brazil's people, culture and records. And the food is
so good. I
think what put me over the edge in Brazil was the archivist at
the Archdiocese
of São
Paolo who pulled out all the
old church court records. He kept showing me all these cool
cases. He was so
FTM: Share a cool discovery you've made.SRA: We got a lead on these cool civil
ID cards in Brazil. That's
not a record that we have (or any company has, really)
traditionally acquired. They
have tons of information and include pictures. We've found them
all over—mostly
I've seen them in South America. Depending on the country, they go
back to the
late 1800s, early 1900s.
FTM: What's different about working for
FamilySearch rather than
Ancestry?SRA: As a nonprofit organization,
FamilySearch has the luxury of
being patient when working with archives, which requires
considerable time to
contact, establish rapport and orchestrate records access
agreements. When it
came to digitizing the civil registrations in Italy, I saw
Ancestry pull out
and FamilySearch win the contract. But it took seven years. But
what really lured
me to FamilySearch was because our scope is so international, not
just those
cultures and countries that may be commercially viable. In just
five years,
I've been to Brazil, Peru, Switzerland, Germany, Italy (twice!),
Portugal and
around the United States.
Do you coordinate
efforts with your counterparts at other genealogy organizations?SRA:
Yes. We try to work
very closely with the three major commercial partners, Ancestry,
Findmypast and
MyHeritage. We try hard to
work together on targeted records collections when
it makes sense. But some of the companies aren't interested in
the areas we are
interested in, and there we go it alone. Like,
FamilySearch places more
emphasis on South America whereas our partners don't. We also work
with growing
numbers of nonprofit genealogical and historical societies and
churches to help
digitally preserve and index records of mutual interest.
What do you learn
when working with all these international records?SRA: I learn a lot about migrations and
the multicultural heritage
of a lot of these countries. There are connections between South
countries like Argentina and several European nations, not just
Spain. For me
personally, this has
expanded my love of
a lot of different cultures. Looking at the records of people
who lived long
ago, I see a commonality. We all have shared experiences:
throughout history
we're all just people trying to live our lives, all over the
We were thrilled when genealogy website Mocavo's
chief scientist, Matt Garner, agreed to be quizzed by Genealogy
Insider columnist Sunny Jane
Morton for the "Five Questions" Q&A in the May/June 2014
Family Tree Magazine (now mailing to subscribers
and coming soon to ShopFamilyTree.com).
Garner has one of the brightest minds in the
genealogy technology field. He leads the team developing "intelligent character recognition" software, which
eventually will be able to "read" handwritten records—making them
(relatively) quickly and easily searchable online.
Journalists typically ask more questions than they think they'll
need, to elicit the most interesting information.
We had a hard time limiting Garner's answers to just five for the magazine, so we're sharing them all here:
You're the chief scientist at Mocavo now. Do you wear
a lab coat, use test tubes or anything like that?
While my title may conjure up images of Bill Nye, or
perhaps a mysterious, maniacal laugh, it simply means that I
oversee the research and development team at Mocavo. We work on
exciting things like electronically detecting and transcribing
handwriting from historical documents, improving the accuracy of
documents read by optical character recognition (OCR) and
generally using technology to both accelerate the pace and the
usability of historical data that is brought online.
What's your lab like?
How did you land in the genealogy industry?
I remember spending full days alone in the Family History Library in
Salt Lake City when I was only 9 years old. Every time I have left
the family history industry, my heart finds its way back. I'm just
as passionate about a document that contains hundreds of names as
I am about, say, a handwritten letter that may only relate to a
single individual. I know that to someone, somewhere, that
document has great value.
I'm also passionate about using technology to solve large-scale
challenges and problems. I've worked in a number of IT-related
positions and have been lucky to be able to find a number of
positions where both my engineering skills and my passion for
family history have aligned. Every time I have left the family
history industry, my heart finds its way back.
What historical writing style just about drives
you—and the computer—crazy?
Interestingly, it's modern handwriting that is
disastrous. The advent of the typewriter (and subsequently the
computer) has lowered the standard of handwriting beyond
recognition and utility. Centuries-old handwriting, with a bit of
practice, is still largely legible by both man and machine.
Some of the bigger challenges surround cases where script is
handwritten on preprinted forms and overlaps printed lines and
text on the forms. It is more difficult to read such documents
accurately than freeform, handwritten letters.
What's the coolest historical document you've ever
seen? OR Do you have a favorite historical font, type of writing,
I'm very fascinated by the RMS Titanic. While
working at FindMyPast in London, I was involved in bringing online
the complete, handwritten passenger lists for her fateful voyage.
Also, I later got to take a look at the original, handwritten
personnel file of Edward Smith, her captain, which was from the
personal collection at the private home of the Commodore of the
present day Cunard White Star line.
In a past job you handled credit card megadata.
What's more fun, Mastercard accounts or genealogical documents?
The last position I held prior to making the jump into
the family history industry was in the Chief Technical Officer
role at a large credit card processing company. I was responsible
for making sure that literally millions of dollars got from point
A to point B on a daily basis and especially, that no
hackers invited themselves into the mix. The security protocols
were stringent and extreme. I was on-call 24/7. The position was
exceptionally stressful and demanding.
I recall once a split-second-long glitch in our system caused a
six-figure sum of our clients' money to disappear into thin air.
Luckily, after some considerable, and painstaking,
around-the-clock effort, we got every penny back to its rightful
I certainly don't miss even an ounce of the day-to-day stress of
that much responsibility. Luckily, all the gray hairs I gained
from that position have since regained their color.
What do you do when you're not at your computer?
I pretty much spend all my spare time entertaining my
twin 3-year-old daughters, which is undoubtedly the highlight of
my day. Other than that, you might run into me at the local home
improvement store. I'm always in the middle of two or three DIY
projects around the house.
You've flipflopped between leading companies and
providing brainpower behind the scenes. What role suits you best?
I've enjoyed my time at each company in the industry
that I've had the privilege of contributing to. Pretty much all of
my roles have been similar—working simultaneously in product
design, software engineering and R&D, in one way or another.
I've also founded two of my own companies in the family history
space. Both were acquired by bigger companies in the industry and
became integrated into their respective products.
Much to my wife's chagrin, I think I really am an entrepreneur at
heart. I prefer small, nimble teams and am always on the lookout
for the next big thing in the industry.
Mocavo features a genealogy search engine, historical records (free to search one collection at a time) and family trees. Want to see how you can find ancestors with Mocavo? Watch Family Tree University's Making the Most of Mocavo video course, available in ShopFamilyTree.com.
It was hard to choose just five of Dick's answers for the magazine, so I'm putting all of them here. You can read even more about Dick's peripatetic life from his RV blog.
Q. How long have you wanted to tour the country in an RV?
A. More or less forever. I don't remember when the idea first occurred to me, although I know it was many years ago. I have traveled extensively for business and for personal vacations most of my life. The "vagabond lifestyle" appeals to me. Now, for the first time, I am a homeless person and am enjoying it.
Q. Are RVs hard to drive?
A. Not really. Physically, motor homes are very easy to drive. They have automatic transmissions, power steering, and power brakes. The physical effort involved is about the same as driving an automobile.
However, the driver does have to remember that the motor home is wider and taller than an automobile and it doesn't stop as quickly. In other words, it doesn't stop on a dime. Anyone driving a motor home soon learns to leave a lot of space between the motor home and the vehicle in front of them. You also have to keep an eye open for low bridges and overpasses.
Q. Where are you most looking forward to visiting in the RV?
A. Anyplace I have never visited before. While I have been fortunate enough to visit many well-known tourist attractions, I have missed hundreds of smaller "gems" and I hope to change that. I want to go to the balloon festival in Albuquerque, the huge airshow in Oshkosh, Wis., and drive the winding road in Deals Gap, NC and Tenn., which is supposedly the most winding road in North America, an attraction for anyone who owns sports cars. It has 318 curves in 11 miles. I hope to drive it in a sports car, not in the motor home. (I tow a car behind the motor home.)
Q. If 1 is someone who wakes up in the morning and decides on a whim where he'll park the RV that night, and 10 is someone who plans out every detail of his itinerary months in advance, what number are you?
A. Probably a 2 or 3. I deliberately do not plan very much. I prefer to be surprised. Occasionally, it backfires, but most of the time it works well.
Q. Have you ever gotten lost in the RV? (While driving it, not inside it.)
A. No. Never. Of course, I do carry four GPSs, a road atlas, a thick book of all campgrounds in the United States, a cell phone, and two two-way radios. It is difficult to be lost.
Q. What do you consider the most essential item for the RV-ing genealogist to possess?
A. Patience. The second most important thing is a good toolkit: pliers, screwdrivers, and things like that. Unlike your home, everything in a motor home shakes when you are driving down the road. The appliances in a motor home suffer a lot more vibration than home appliances will ever encounter. Wires under the dash shake loose, pictures fall off the wall (I had this happen), and other strange things happen. I am almost always performing some minor repair of an unforeseen problem.
Q. If you had to pick, which one of these bumper stickers would you put on your RV?: "This is how I roll" or "Genealogy is TREE-rific!"?
A. Genealogy is TREE-rific!
Q. If you could choose anyone from history as your RV copilot, who would it be?
A. OK, I have to give you two answers: Lewis and Clark. Those two adventurers set off to see things they had never seen before.
I would give honorable mention to several Arctic and Antarctic explorers, except that they spent much of their time in very cold weather. I have already done that. I was born in Maine, lived in northern Vermont, lived in northern New Hampshire, and spent two winters in the Canadian subarctic amongst the Eskimos in in Labrador. I've seen my share of cold weather! Now I am seeking sunshine.


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Bosnian Rainbows, 'Bosnian Rainbows' – Album Review
When Omar Rodriguez-Lopez recently parted ways with prog-rock experimentalists the Mars Volta, fans were understandably baffled. As Volta's guitarist, composer, producer and overall sonic dictator, Lopez already had free reign to create whatever style of nutso music he desired. But the Lopez of 2013 isn't the Lopez of Volta past — the one who obsessively dissected and tinkered with every musical nuance of his expansive songs, the one who blindly led his "bandmates" through isolated overdub sessions (playing to click tracks, herded in and out of the studio like sheep).
The whole point of Bosnian Rainbows, Lopez' new band, is that it isn't Lopez' band at all. Their self-titled debut is lean, balanced, forceful — the sound of a tight-knit unit (Lopez, vocalist Teri Gender Bender, keyboardist Nicci Kasper, drummer Deantoni Parks) founding a democracy based on gothic art-rock. (Lopez is no longer "Little Hitler"; more like "Little Ben Franklin.")
'Bosnian Rainbows' is defined by that sonic equality. Gender Bender is a sultry vampiress: oozing spooky sexuality, conjuring images of a possessed Kate Bush, stretching out her melodies in elongated sighs and breathy whispers. Kasper and Parks form a hypnotic rhythm section, balancing New Wave synth-bass with funky, syncopated drum grooves. Meanwhile, Lopez displays admirable restraint — but no less of his trademark mysticism: His "solo" on the slow-churning 'Worthless' consists of a handful of decaying notes drifting into oblivion — expressing more emotion than a thousand orgiastic squalls.
The songs may be less complex from a technical standpoint, but their unorthodox contortions still startle and provoke: 'Morning Sickness' shifts jarringly from funky pulses to a spook-house half-time crawl; 'Turtle Neck' morphs from a blissful New Wave atmosphere to a volcanic post-punk eruption, complete with one of Lopez' trademark noise-prog seizures. The sound is swathed in the moody, spacious sprawl of the early, early '80s — a time when New Wave and art-rock and post-punk were in full flight, a bizarre, cross-pollinated era in which Robert Fripp could produce a Daryl Hall album. There really isn't a weak track here, and the best (the spastic 'Morning Sickness,' the shape-shifting 'Turtle Neck,' the epic 'Mother, Father, Set Us Free') are nearly transcendent.
Lopez has never made music with such ease and graciousness. And — for the first time ever — he couldn't have made it alone. As 'Bosnian Rainbows' proves, there's an elegant beauty in submission.


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Earlier today, this video surfaced of Anastasia Ashley engaging in the most enthusiastic warm-up routine we've seen in quite some time. It provoked a storm of feelings for us folks at SURFING Magazine, intrigue being one of them. We called Anastasia to get to the — well — bottom of this.
SURFING Magazine: Was the clip pre-meditated?
Anastasia Ashley: It wasn't at all! I didn't put out the video. I just woke up this morning with a bunch of people tweeting and texting me asking about it.
So you knew nothing about it?
No, I didn't know anything until it was online. I tried reaching out to the people who put it up — it's some blog or something — but I still haven't figured out who was behind it. I really have no clue how it went down.
Is that just your normal pre-surf routine?
I always listen to music before I surf. Every contest, that's kind of my warm-up routine. The one thing that the video doesn't show is everything else that I do. I do stretches and other things, you know? I try to get loose and that's just a part of it.
What's the response to the video been like?
At first, I was kind of taken aback by it. But it's all been pretty good for the most part. I definitely don't want people to know me just for that. More than anything, I'm into surfing big waves. I got nominated for an XXL award last year and I'm really excited to keep pursuing that.
Do you do the same warm-up routine before you go surf big waves?
I mean, yeah. Listening to music is a big part of my pre-surf routine. And that's just my way of warming up.
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'We thought it would be fun, and maybe a little tongue in cheek, to buy each other out': On the Merger of Poor Claudia, Octopus, and the Bad Blood That Binds it All
Here's a piece from the Portland Mercury that takes a look at a reading series that in turn created a creative alliance between Poor Claudia and Octopus Books.
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In September, Bad Blood convened at ADX for its 13th reading. Two years into its existence, the poetry series had an established track record of popular events featuring poets from Portland and the country at large.
Bad Blood was launched by local writers Drew Swenhaugen, Zach Schomburg, and Joseph Mains. Longtime friends, Bad Blood brought them together professionally. That night at ADX, they announced a new endeavor: the merging of their various independent enterprises. Poor Claudia, the poetry press that Swenhaugen founded and runs with Marshall Walker Lee, would now handle all chapbook production for Octopus Books, Schomburg's longtime imprint. Mains would take the editorial reins of Octopus magazine, while the Bad Blood series would continue under all of their supervision for events, publicity, and community.
"We thought it would be fun, and maybe a little tongue in cheek, to buy each other out. Because this is so not a moneymaking thing. It's almost the antithesis of that because there's no money involved," said Schomburg recently when I spoke with the three of them. Recounting the path to creating this new entity, they all agree it spawned from an already collective sense of dedication and responsibility.
"Everybody was already helping out in each individual thing," said Mains, who teaches at PCC. "In a funny way, consolidating them allows for a lot less bureaucracy."
"It's a way for us to streamline production and officially be on each other's rosters and share editorial duties," adds Swenhaugen.
It's also Portland-specific. "There are more people here that appreciate small things," says Mains. "This just happens to be a place, for its size, that's receptive to that. In a way, it's a type of consumer-based activism."
Full article here.
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Win-Door Celebrates 15th Anniversary by Honoring Pioneers
November 20, 2009
Meetings & Events
Toronto, Ont–Win-Door North America celebrated its 15th anniversary this week by honoring 45 Industry Pioneers who "helped to build our great Canadian window and door industry," according to show officials. More than 20 honorees were on hand to be recognized at the annual event, which ran from November 17-19 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
|New door products on display included Window City's new vinyl framing system for vinyl, fiberglass and wood swinging doors.
The list of pioneers includes founders of some of Canada's largest manufacturers, such as All Weather Windows & Doors, Bonneville Windows & Doors, Novatech Group, Paramount Windows, Peter Kohler Windows & Entrances, Pollard Windows and Starline Windows. Leaders at some of Canada's most prominent suppliers, including vinyl extruders PH Tech and Thermoplast and fiberglass pultruders Inline and Omniglass, were also honored.
As for the show itself, the number of exhibitors remained about the same as recent years. Like the Canadian window and door market, which has held up better than that of the U.S., attendance also appeared to hold fairly steady from last year. The weaker economy did have an impact, however, as Win-Door was somewhat smaller this year, with several exhibitors cutting back on the size of their displays.
|AquaSurTech featured its NuGrain finish, designed to provide a natural wood look and feel to vinyl profiles.
Win-Door maintained its position as a leading showcase for Canadian suppliers, with several highlighting new product offerings. Among the notable introductions was a new fiberglass door line from Tru Tech Doors. The new Harbourcraft line overcomes many limitations associated with fiberglass doors, reported Carlo Ianni, sales manager. Features include wide stiles made with laminated veneer lumber to resist warping and bowing, and skins made with a mold produced using real wood doors to offer a more natural wood look. The company, which offers both slabs and complete systems, is supplying the doors pre-finished to its systems customers.
The steel door manufacturer, which opened a U.S. operation, is not only launching the new line, but is poised to expand further, Ianni reports. At the end of this year, it is combining its Ontario operations into one large plant, bringing everything from steel door stamping operations into final pre-hanging all under one roof.
Window City also featured a new vinyl framing system for swing doors and entry systems. The system, which provides multipoint locking capabilities, enables customers to choose from vinyl, fiberglass and even custom wood doors, as well as ,said the firm's Peter Yuhas.
Other new products of note was the NuGrain finish for vinyl profiles being featured by AquaSurTech OEM. The paint-based applicatin allows the creation of a range of woodgrain looks, according to the company's Michael Braeuel, president. What makes it unique, he added, is that it also provides "the feel of wood and no repetitions of the pattern for a real, natural look."
The event also featured the debut of Geometric Shapes Unlimited, which represents a new strategic alliance between Princess Windows, a vinyl bending operation, and Millcraft Systems, a supplier of wood components for specialty windows. An arch-top window featuring custom grids was attracting particular attention in the booth of the new alliance, according to Geometric Shapes' Diana Baker. "People are saying, 'You can really do that?'" when they see the unit, which combines a vinyl exterior and real wood interior, she reported.
|Fewer equipment suppliers brough machines to this year's Win-Door, but ProLine showed a new CNC unit for fabricating vinyl profiles.
In addition to Canadian suppliers, Win-Door regularly attracts U.S. based exhibitors as well. Three U.S. companies made their first appearance at this year's show, including Franklin Adhesives & Polymers. The company was featuring a new line of adhesives specifically targeted at wood window and door manufacturers, reported the company's Jaye Shroeder. The line includes a new high-performance adhesive for fingerjointing that easily surpasses industry standards, he noted. Also making a Win-Door debut were G-M Wood Products, a manufacturer of wood and composite door jambs, and EDTM Inc., the supplier of glass performance measurement devices for both in-plant and sales use.
Education and Meeting Program
In addition to the show, Win-Door played host to several educational and CWDMA meeting sessions. Jeff Baker, CWDMA's technical consultant, updated attendees on code developments, and noted that work is concluding on Canada national building code for 2010. That new document references the AAMA/WDMA/CSA 101/I.S.2/A440 document, also known as the North American Fenestration Standard, rather than previous CSA A440 standard, he noted. "It's quite different. The old A, B & C ratings will be gone," he said, as the new document takes an approach used in the U.S. with performance grades. The 2010 building code does not go in effect until it is adopted by various provinces, which is likely to start sometime in 2011, Baker predicted. Before that time, CWDMA plans to host a number of webinars to help prepare manufacturers for the changes.
The code update also featured Steve Hopwood of Canada's Energy Star Windows program, who updated attendees on the new criteria set to go in effect in June 2010. As well as ratcheting up the performance levels across the country's four climate zones, the new criteria offer two compliance paths–one based on the Canadian ER system and another on U-factor, he explained. As in the U.S., Canada's Energy Star program will also require IG certification and include one set of performance criteria for doors.
Richard Kelly of TD Bank provided the annual economic forecast as part of the CWDMA general meeting at the show. "We're in the midst of a pretty rapid rebound," he suggested, thanks in part to the stimulus spending of governments around the world. Economic growth will continue next year, but there may be some "pull-back" as the influx of that money slows.
He offered a similar projection for Canadian window and door markets. New housing, which didn't see the same drop as seen in the U.S., has already recovered significantly. "The growth has been much better than expected," he said, but he noted that prices are already rising again, and that is likely to bring some moderation to the market.
On the remodeling and replacement side of the business, government tax credits have done their job in keeping this market fairly healthy in Canada, Kelly said. Unfortunately, he notes, such incentives "pull purchases forward," and there's likely to be some "giveback" in the market when they expire next year.
Among new developments at CWDMA, the organization is beginning work in conjunction with the Canadian Standards Association and the Canadian Energy Star program to create an installer training and certification program. The work is designed to meet the future needs of the Energy Star program there, which is considering adding installation criteria to program requirements.
Next year, Win-Door returns to Toronto, where is scheduled to run from November 16-18. In the meantime, CWDMA will host its annual general meeting next year from June 3-5 at the Pillar & Post in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. More information on both events is availabe at www.cwdma.ca.
Twenty-two of the 42 Pioneer honorees were at Win-Door.


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Pakistans secretary of the Cabinet Division, Abdur Rauf Chaudhry, has said that the government is hopeful that 3G services will be available to the countrys mobile users by the end of 2011, with legislation governing the auction of 3G concessions expected to be soon presented to the government and Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) for discussion and approval. According to TradingMarkets.com, speaking at a seminar organised by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Rauf said that the local manufacturing of 3G handsets remained an important factor, adding that the government would consider recommendations made by the industry. PTA chairman Dr. Mohammed Yaseen meanwhile said that by the end of March 2011 the regulator aims to have set its own plans in motion for moving forward with the 3G sale process, once the overarching policy is approved by the government.
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Dumont's patient shot himself in the head with a rifle. Dumont was stunned, and guilt-ridden.
He says he always asks his depressed patients about suicide, whether they've thought about how they'd do it. But he now regrets not asking this patient specifically whether he had guns in the house.
Suicide prevention researcher Dr. Matthew Miller, at the Harvard School of Public Health, says Dumont sounds like a great doctor. "He was doing everything he could to try to keep this guy from making a suicide attempt, but what he didn't do was the second step, which is make it hard for him to die if he did make an attempt," Miller says.
The second step, Miller says, is asking patients if they have guns in the house or access to guns. If someone tries to commit suicide without using a gun, they probably won't succeed.
"The likelihood of their dying is of an order of magnitude lower," he says. "Instead of there being a 90-plus percent chance of death, there's a greater than 90 percent chance that they'll live."
Miller wants to make it routine for family doctors to ask their patients about guns. One large study found that nearly half of all suicide victims had seen a primary care doctor within a month of killing themselves. So it's important for them to bring up suicide and possible means.
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One Direction Looks to Top Next Week's Billboard 200
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– Taylor Swift will be knocked off of the top spot in the next Billboard 200 when it comes out next week, as One Direction's "Take Me Home" will sell between 525,000 and 575,000 units. Here is how the top 10 looks to fill out next week…
The Building Chart reflects the first four days (Monday through Thursday) of SoundScan's tracking week (which ends Sunday) as reported by six major merchants: iTunes, Trans World Entertainment, Best Buy, Starbucks, Target and Anderson Merchandisers. Billboard estimates that they make up about 85% of all U.S. album sales.
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