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While income inequality was a central theme of Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign, what specific ideas, programs and policies does he have, and what can New York City's mayor do that's not circumscribed by political reality?
Bill de Blasio's landslide victory in the New York City mayoral election Nov. 5 signifies a rejection of the plutocratic regime of Michael Bloomberg. Where the outgoing multibillionaire thought the city's skyrocketing rents were a fine thing because they indicated a strong housing market, the Democrat campaigned hard on the theme of "a tale of two cities," one where billionaires are buying newly built penthouses with a view of Central Park for more than $90 million while close to half of its people live in or near poverty.
"It's not divisive to acknowledge the greatest income disparity since the Great Depression," de Blasio told a crowd of labor-union supporters in Brooklyn Nov. 1. In his victory speech election night, he called economic inequality "the defining challenge of our times." He won almost 74 percent of the vote, the biggest margin in a mayoral election since 1985 and the biggest for a non-incumbent since the five boroughs were united in 1898. Many of the city's more liberal politicians, union leaders and activists say they're "thrilled," and call the election a historic turning point after 20 years of Bloomberg and Rudolph Giuliani.
But while income inequality was a central theme of his campaign, how much is he actually going to do about it? What ideas, programs, and policies does he have, and what can he do that's not circumscribed by political reality?
De Blasio is likely to modify one noneconomic aspect of inequality, the Bloomberg administration's "stop and frisk" policy, in which any black teenager or young man was likely to be stopped by police at least once a year. More important, he has the power to do that. He can direct police to stop people only on suspicions more reasonable than a "furtive motion," and he can drop the city's appeal of a court ruling that held the policy racially discriminatory. If the Bloomberg administration's policies were motivated by its racially charged belief that if you didn't keep certain people on a short leash, crime would return to late '80s' levels, de Blasio contends that effective policing and civil liberties aren't incompatible.
Still, he wants to avoid the political fate of David Dinkins, the city's only genuine-Democrat mayor in the last 35 years. Dinkins had the misfortune to govern during the high-violence early '90s, including the year a Bronx social club was firebombed by the doorwoman's ex-boyfriend, killing 87 people and pushing the city's homicide total to an all-time high. A famous 1990 New York Post headline screamed, "DAVE, DO SOMETHING!" (Dinkins worked hard to combat the ongoing violence, but his efforts didn't pay off until 1994 - after Giuliani had defeated him for re-election.)
On economic issues, however, the answer to "what will de Blasio change" may be "not all that much." His platform is more a collection of small initiatives than grand visionary schemes. The best-known one is raising the top tax rate marginally (from 3.88 to 4.41 percent on income over $500,000) to finance universal pre-kindergarten.
His economic initiatives are primarily market incentives and increased job training. On the business side, he says he'd reduce corporate welfare and direct city-funded programs toward small businesses, invest in tech infrastructure, and create "economic development hubs" and "manufacturing 2.0." On the workforce side, he says he'd "create a world-class education, training, and job placement system" concentrating on nursing and skilled and entry-level tech jobs; increase funding for the City University of New York; and link vocational education to occupations projected to grow. He also wants to strengthen the requirements that businesses receiving city funds or subsidies pay a "living wage," provide legal services to help low-income workers challenge wage theft, and enact a local minimum wage higher than the state's.
Deborah Axt, codirector of Make the Road New York, a community organization active in organizing low-wage workers, says the incoming administration should have four economic priorities: 1) raising the minimum wage (now $7.25 an hour, it will go up to $8 in January and $9 in 2016); 2) combating wage theft, which she says is a business model for "whole industries," such as restaurants, nonunion construction, retail and car washes; 3) requiring businesses receiving city funds or subsidies to pay a living wage, at least $11.50; and 4) training young people for more than low-wage occupations and expanding English classes for immigrants.
The city has the power to do much of this, she says. For example, it could require employers receiving funds for repairing damage from Hurricane Sandy to pay a living wage. And while it's legally complex for the city to help unions organize, she says, most employers who resist unions are usually committing some other violation such as cheating workers out of pay or illegally classifying them as "independent contractors" to avoid paying taxes or overtime, and authorities could crack down on them.
The mayor-elect has been "incredibly supportive" of organizing by the city's increasingly militant fast-food, grocery and car-wash workers, says Axt. "I hope he isn't afraid to think big."
"If he concentrates on low-wage workers, he'll get a lot of support," says Ed Ott, former head of the New York City Central Labor Council and now a labor-studies professor at the City University's Murphy Institute.
Yet there are two major obstacles. First, many of de Blasio's ideas, such as raising taxes on the rich and increasing the minimum wage, would have to be approved by the state government, and Albany is difficult turf for that. The state Senate is gerrymandered to have a Republican majority (or more recently, a coalition of Republicans and renegade Democrats), and Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a Bloomberg Democrat, somewhat liberal on social issues but hostile to labor.
The mayor has "limited power and huge problems," says Ott, noting the city was stripped of financial home rule during the 1970s' fiscal crisis. It can raise sales and property taxes somewhat on its own but needs approval from Albany to raise income taxes. The state took power, but "abdicated responsibility," he says, angrily.
The second obstacle is that training people for job skills alone doesn't create jobs where they can get paid for using those skills - not in an economy where the middle-aged unemployed are routinely advised to "dumb your resume down so you look less experienced."
"People need help accessing positions," says Ott, especially in an economy where one-fifth of workers with middle-class skills "don't have jobs," and do freelance, temporary, and contract work. He suggests "some kind of central bank" to connect them to jobs.
In the Great Depression, the federal government created millions of jobs through programs like the Works Progress Administration. In New York City, it built Brooklyn College, LaGuardia Airport and the nation's first public-housing projects. Yet when it was suggested to de Blasio in September that the city needed a new WPA-style program, he answered, "in a perfect world."
Even if the minimum wage were raised to $15 an hour, people would still have a hard time living in New York, as it's almost impossible to find an apartment for less than $1,000/month. The city's "affordability crisis," as de Blasio noted on election night, has been building for more than 30 years. Rising rents accelerated dramatically after 1997, when the state legislature knocked huge loopholes in the city's rent controls, deregulating vacant apartments that cost more than $2,000. Sold as a measure that would affect a handful of rich Manhattanites only, the change drove up rents all over the city (especially as the state failed to enforce the law against illegal overcharges).
By 2011, most New York tenants who didn't get housing subsidies were spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent. Half of the 3 million people in households defined as low-income - less than $34,000 a year for a family of three - spent more than half their income on rent. Last winter, the number of people staying in city homeless shelters exceeded 50,000, the most since the Depression. The number of people on the waiting list for public housing, about the only apartments in the city available for under $700, now tops the 180,000 apartments in the system.
To counter this, de Blasio pledges to "build or preserve nearly 200,000 affordable units." The obstacle here is that the most effective ways the city can preserve and create affordable housing are currently illegal. State law prohibits the city from strengthening its rent controls; de Blasio says he'll lobby for stronger regulations, but the real-estate lobby has invested millions of dollars in Governor Cuomo, the Republican Senate majority and the renegade Democrats who share power with it to block that. And a 1998 federal law, the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, prohibits local governments from building more public housing than they already have.
"It's impossible even if an authority had the capital to build new housing," says Victor Bach, senior housing policy analyst at the Community Service Society. Federal funds for public housing have been cut since the Reagan era; the New York State government "abdicated" in the late '90s, and Bloomberg cut off city operating subsidies in 2003.
Thus, de Blasio's housing policy will likely be limited to a more liberal version of Bloomberg's, using a complicated mix of tax and zoning incentives to piggyback "affordable" units onto luxury development. His main proposal is mandatory "inclusionary zoning": requiring developers who get zoning variances or who benefit from rezoning to include a certain amount of lower-rent housing, usually 20 percent. His platform estimates this will yield more than 50,000 affordable units. He would also invest $1 billion from city pension funds and tax vacant land at the full rate, estimating that these measures would create about 15,000 units.
He also says he would change the formula used by the Bloomberg program to determine what's "affordable." As the present formula is based on the "area median income" for some of the more affluent suburbs as well as the city, it's allowed apartments renting for more than $2,500 to be counted as "affordable" - and thus, created more "affordable" apartments for people making more than $100,000 than it did for people making less than $30,000.
However, inclusionary zoning will be a "hard pill to swallow" in neighborhoods like Bushwick, says Make the Road lead organizer Jose Lopez. The working-class, mostly Latino section of northeast Brooklyn was ravaged by arson and looting in the 1970s, but in the last decade, it's gentrified rapidly. As young artists and hipsters moved in, landlords began harassing lower-income residents to leave, and trendy restaurants and new luxury buildings have followed.
A development proposed for the former Rheingold brewery there would contain 23 percent affordable units, says Lopez - but they're aimed at people making around $48,000, in a neighborhood where the median income is around $35,000. "This means nothing for folks who've been living in Bushwick for a long time," he says. For residents who lived through the bad years, setting aside such a small percentage means "you're asking me to say it's OK to give up 70 percent of my neighborhood."
One thing the city can do, says Bach, would be to stop charging the public-housing authority $100 million a year for police and other services, which would help it clear up its lengthy backlog of repairs. Another would be using revenues from the Battery Park City development in Lower Manhattan to build new housing. When that complex was built in the 1970s, he recalls, part of the deal that let the publicly subsidized development be used for market-rate housing - some apartments there now rent for more than $9,000 a month - was to use any surplus for affordable housing in other areas. Instead, the city diverted that money to general use.
The largest obstacle, says Bach, is the long-term "failure of all levels of government to consider low-income housing development a major priority." It'll be "hard overnight to provide the amount needed." He believes de Blasio is aware of the problems and committed to fixing them; the question is "to what extent can he summon the political will and take the risks to make it real?"
For Ott, the long-term problem is turning around a generation of the ideology that giving more money to the rich is the best way to help the economy. People aren't talking about alternatives, he says. Who remembers that 25 years ago people were discussing commercial rent control as a way to protect small businesses? How many people remember that 40 years ago the City University had free tuition? Instead, he says, you have some Democrats in Washington talking about cutting Social Security.
Given all these strictures, a local elected official who wants to do anything serious about income inequality would probably need the share-the-wealth fervor and Machiavellian law-stretching of a Hugo Chavez or a Huey Long.
Is Bill de Blasio that person? Despite the New York Post running a photo of him next to a hammer and sickle, he's spent a fair amount of time since winning the Democratic primary trying to reassure the city's elite that talking about "the affordability crisis" doesn't make him Che Guevara, ready to line them up at the outfield wall in Yankee Stadium. "It's not class warfare," he told the Association for a Better New York in early October. He certainly didn't scare them off to the point that they didn't give him money. He received more than $750,000 in contributions from the city's main real-estate interests - including Extell, the developer of the aforementioned $90 million penthouse.
"He has to be willing to raise some hell, like a Huey Long," says Ott, "or else be like a Roosevelt who can convince the upper class that it's in their best interests."


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Vikings Trade Down Then Draft Kalil
The Vikings traded down from #3 overall to #4 overall with Cleveland and received the Browns 4th, 5th and 7th round picks and then the Vikings chose left tackle Matt Kalil from USC. The Vikings chose Kalil over cornerback Morris Claiborne and receiver Justin Blackmon. Claiborne was picked #6 by Dallas while Blackmon was picked #5 by Jacksonville.
The Vikings have a total of 13 picks in this year's NFL draft, the most of any team.

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Saar Gillai (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of HP's Converged Cloud business, addressed a standing-room-only crowd of partners at the Global Partner Conference. Gillai told partners they have three choices: "Be in denial. Be disrupted, or be the disrupter by embracing cloud solutions from HP." The message has been resonating with partners who like HP's "3 Cs" cloud story: "Choice, Consistency and Confidence."
The first order of business for the thousands of partners selling HP's Converged Infrastructure is to sign up for HP's Cloud Builder program, which gives them a wide range of tools and incentives including market development funds, he said. "It's a no-brainer," said Gillai.
"By 2015 cloud is going to be a $132 billion market growing at a 20 percent compound annual growth rate," he said.


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The Phils announced that they have signed veteran pitcher Rodrigo Lopez to a minor league deal.
Yesterday, the Phils announced that they'd added some pitching depth as they signed veteran starter Rodrigo Lopez to a Minor League deal, while also giving him an invite to Spring Training.
Lopez, who had pitched for the Phils once before, in 2009, before being sent back to the minors by the team when they added future Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez to the ballclub during the summer, last pitched for the Chicago Cubs. He appeared in four games in 2012 for the Cubbies, going 0-1 with a 5.68 ERA and a WHIP of 2.05, as he pitched for 6.1 innings, giving up 8 hits and 6 runs, four of which were earned, as he struck out only two while walking five. When he pitched for the Phils in 2009, he had a record of 3-1 with an ERA of 5.70 with a 1.77 WHIP, as he pitched in seven games, five of which were starts, as he appeared in 30 innings, giving up 42 hits and 24 runs, 19 of which were earned, as he struck out 19 batters while giving up 11 free passes.
During a 11 years career, Lopez had been with the Orioles, the Padres, the Rockies and the Diamondbacks, as well as the Phils and the Cubs, compiling a record of 81-89, with a 4.82 ERA and a WHIP of 1.42. He had appeared in 257 games, 215 of which were starts, as he pitched in 1350 and two-thirds innings, giving up a total of 1506 hits and 789 runs, 742 of which were earned, as he struck out 865 batters, while walking 416.
More than likely, Lopez will start the season with the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, but he should be available if any member of the Phils' starting rotation gets injured during the season.


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"Welcome to The U" Gionni Paul.
With National Signing Day less than a week away, the Miami Hurricanes landed their 14th oral commitment Friday morning when the Lakeland Kathleen High School linebacker announced he was switching his future plans from Arizona State to Miami.
"I just did it this morning," Paul (6-0, 227) told CaneSport.com. "I called, talked to coach [Al] Golden and [Micheal] Barrow. They were so excited. They really made me happy, made me feel good, my parents feel good. It was a big decision. It was the best decision for me and my family.
"It just came down to Auburn, Louisville, Miami and Arizona State. It came down to the people. They're great, down to earth people. I love the way coach Golden conducts himself, his program. He's big on discipline. I love the players. There's nothing bad to say about Miami."
According to Canesport.com, Paul got an in-home visit from coach Al Golden on Thursday evening; Arizona State coaches came in for a visit afterward. But it was Golden & Co. that won out.
"Coach Golden came with Barrow," Paul said. "They told me they want me to come in and run the show. They didn't talk to me like recruiting. They talked to me more like from a life perspective."
Paul, who visited UM last weekend, said UM wants him either at middle linebacker or outside. "I'm shooting for nothing less than to play right away," he said. "My goal is to be Freshman Player of the Year in the ACC."
Paul started at safety as a high school freshman before moving to linebacker. Paul is He's rated the nation's No. 33 outside linebacker prospect by Rivals.com. He finished his senior season with 149 tackles, double digit sacks and four interceptions.


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Telling people how you plan to cook it may make them feel awkward asking for it a different way. When cooking steak, the polite and proper thing for a host to do is ask their guest how they enjoy their steak and cook it that way to the best of their ability. I would not dream of making steaks, spending the money on them and then taking the chance of them being inedible for my guests. I cannot eat well done. I can only eat rare or medium rare. I would feel badly not being able to eat a steak presented to me. Not asking puts both the host and guest in awkward position. The simple thing to do is ask. That avoids any problems.
For a relatively small group, I'd ask guests how they prefer their steak. For a very large group, if I were serving steak, I might make a few medium rare, a few medium and a few medium well and hope the proportions worked out.
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... a building we rolled by ... as we left Cincinnati yesterday.
IN THE COMMENTS: Pogo said:
Classic racist American building.Noting the "Liberty" clue, I interpret the Indian character as a Tea Party protester (of the original Boston Tea Party ilk).
No doubt the tires had smallpox.
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There's always something new happening in the world of whale research.
Anton van Helden, Te Papa's marine mammal specialist, will be fronting Science Express @ Te Papa on Thursday 3 April, at 6.30pm in Espresso on Level 4.
He's going to talk about some of the recent findings from the annual meeting of South Pacific whale researchers (SPWRC) recently held at Auckland University. These researchers use non-lethal methods to study whales – important at a time when some countries, such as Japan, continue to kill whales in the name of science.
He'll also talk about new info on beaked whales (some of the whale species closest to his heart) – including a curious tale of a possible new species of beaked whale from Kiribati.


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UC Students to Read Gettysburg Address
Event Celebrates Speech's 150th Anniversary
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Phi Alpha Theta history honor society students to read
Utica, NY (11/18/2013)- One of the most famous speeches in U.S. history - the Gettysburg Address – will be 150 years old on Nov. 19. In honor of this great speech, students from UC's Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (the National History Honor Society) will be reading the Gettysburg address on Tuesday, Nov. 19 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Strebel Student Center's Ellen Knower Clarke Lounge.
Following the reading, Assistant Professor Christopher Fobare will provide commentary and lead a discussion of Lincoln's address, the state of the Union in 1863, and the significance of both the state of the Union and the Gettysburg Address.
The reading and discussion is sponsored by the UC Center for Historical Research and Phi Alpha Theta-Gamma Xi.
The reading is free and open to everyone.
For more information on institutes and centers on campus visit, http://www.utica.edu/academic/institutes/
About Utica College – Utica College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive private institution offering bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls over 4,000 students in 38 undergraduate majors, 29 minors, 20 graduate programs and a number of pre-professional and special programs.


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Taking the Pulse of North America's Waterfowl for More Than 50 Years
Unique Wildlife Stewards In the spring of 1955, the FWS and its
Frederick C. Lincoln, a biologist with the cooperators launched the first coordi-
Biological Survey, forerunner to the nated waterfowl survey of the North
Fish and Wildlife Service, is credited American breeding grounds. From then with being the first to envision the use on, this annual survey effort and its of airplanes as a tool in waterfowl man-results have been instrumental in agement. In 1931 he persuaded the U.S. guiding the North American waterfowl Army to take him and a photographer management program. on a test flight over wintering waterfowl on the Potomac River below From Office to Wilderness Washington, DC. This test proved The life of the pilot-biologist is demand-successful and for the next 20 years, ing. Aerial surveying is one of the most increasingly more aerial surveys were challenging types of flying. Not only conducted. These surveys were pieced does the pilot-biologist fly the aircraft together through arrangements with at reduced speed while skimming the U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, and Army to low-level above terrain; avoiding trees, carry observers, called flyway biologists, hills, towers, other planes, and even the on routine flights to inventory wintering low-flying birds they are there to count; waterfowl in the United States. They they must do this while staying on a were occasionally supplemented by straight line transect, identifying and chartered aircraft and private pilots counting 30 or more species of water-for areas in Canada and Mexico. fowl, ensuring the data are being
recorded by an on-board computer The aerial survey program saw its or audio cassette recorder, and coordingreatest expansion just after World ating the activities of one or more War II when the FWS acquired surplus observers. This multitasking is the military aircraft. Military-trained pilots, normal routine for several hours per day, usually with prior wildlife or conserva-for days and sometimes weeks at a time. tion experience, were hired as flyway Just like point-to-point pilots, survey biologists, now also known as pilot-pilot-biologists must closely monitor
biologists. The combination weather forecasts and carefully plan
of skilled pilot-biolo-fuel loads and weight and balances. gists and an However, pilot-biologists are required availability ofto spend more time understanding aircraft weather forecasts because they often enabled sur-travel to locations where there are no
vey pioneers weather reporting stations. A critical to experiment error in judging weather in these remote
with spring areas may mean a night spent on a counts on water-wilderness lake. Before the day ends, fowl breeding pilot-biologists are also responsible for
grounds in the maintaining and fueling their aircraft north-central U.S. and and coordinating data collection and Canada during the late reporting activities with their observers,
1940s and early '50s. and in some cases ground survey teams. Together, they transcribe, check, and back-up data, as well as decide on the next day's activities. Todd Harless/USFWS
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flying surveys, pilot-biologists are back in the office compiling the results of surveys; writing summary reports for international distribution; procuring equipment and assessing staffing needs for future surveys and waterfowl banding stations; completing individual pilot safety check rides and scheduled maintenance on their planes; and attending species and habitat meetings with FWS personnel, other Federal, State, or international agencies, and nongovernmental organizations and partners.
Education and Training
While the most critical phase of the job is learning to safely fly important missions and many individuals possess the skills necessary to become pilots, all successful candidates must obtain training as wildlife biologists to become part of the waterfowl aerial survey team. All pilot-biologists within the FWS Migratory Bird Program have earned at least a Bachelor's degree in biological sciences or a more specific natural resource discipline. Most have obtained a Master's or PhD in their respective fields. All achieve the minimum of a commercial pilot certificate with instrument flight privileges and at least 500 hours flight time when beginning, but often go on to obtain seaplane and sometimes multi-engine ratings. With the onslaught of new technologies in recent years, pilot-biologists are continually updating their skills as well as maintaining working knowledge in Geographic Information Systems, remote sensing techniques, and statistical design. In addition, tightened security measures have required even greater familiarity with Federal Air Regulations and continued diligence for those pilots operating within congested or restricted airspaces.
Demands, Thrills, and Rewards
The demands placed upon these pilot-biologists are great. The technical aspects of the surveys alone require tremendous skill and concentration coupled with decisiveness and impeccable judgment in handling the aircraft, but the demands go beyond these. The pilots must go where the waterfowl go and be there at the precise times that the waterfowl should be counted. Survey areas are often hundreds of miles from home and family, and survey crews often find themselves out of phone contact and overnighting in makeshift lodging. Personal lives and families take a back seat for days, weeks, and sometimes months as pilot-biologists, aerial observers, and ground crews measure the waterfowl migration, wait out weather, or go from one survey to another. Once home, they still have to compile and analyze data and write scientifically valid reports. Many have the additional responsibilities of being project leaders for Waterfowl Management Field Stations, run banding camps, attend species and habitat joint venture meetings, lend their expertise on a variety of migratory bird issues, and more.
Very few people are willing to take on the challenges posed by this demanding schedule, but those who do cannot imagine doing anything else. There are few jobs that combine so much raw adventure with fascinating technical challenges and frequent opportunities to unravel scientific mysteries. For the most part, the FWS pilot-biologists have found ways to blend the demands of a personally rewarding career with those necessary to be a good spouse or parent.
Rewards are found in safely compiling a quality survey data set and knowing that the numbers generated from surveys of a particular migratory bird will help perpetuate that species or help implement scientific actions that protect it from becoming endangered. There is also satisfaction in knowing that the demanding efforts to band 5,000 ducks in a month or neck band 1,000 geese in a week will help many biologists throughout the waterfowl flyways make informed management decisions in the best interest of the birds.
Safety and Service
Although serving as a pilot-biologist requires taking some risk, every effort is made to ensure the safety of these missions including intense training and strict operating protocols. As a result, the survey pilot-biologists have wracked up an impressive safety record over the years. The migratory bird pilot-biologists that currently conduct spring and summer waterfowl surveys have amassed a combined total of more than 250 years of FWS flight experience and more than 75,000 hours of safe flying, without a fatality. They have done all of this flying low-level in some of the most remote areas of North and Central America as well as some of the highest density flight traffic environs of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Over the span of the past half century, some 25 other FWS pilot-biologists have held the honor and amassed an additional and equallyimpressive number of flight hours and tenure of flight safety.
For 50 years and still counting, the Fish and Wildlife Service pilot-biologists have been our eyes in the sky taking the pulse of North America's waterfowl.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of Migratory Bird Management 4401 North Fairfax Drive, MS 4107 Arlington, Virginia 22203 703/358 1714 http://waterfowlsurveys.fws.gov
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I'm going to take some time to respond to you in the hopes that you'll consider something.
There's a serious problem with saying, "God heals", or "Jesus heals". It's that there's no real way to support those contentions. All you have to support them are stories from the Bible. There isn't one single account outside of the Biblical text that supports God or Jesus actually doing, well, anything, though there are lots (and lots and lots and lots) of claims to that effect. That makes those stories apocryphal at best, dubious, but believed true because most people don't know any better.
But that isn't even the most serious problem. So you have God and Jesus who can do this magical, miraculous healing. So why don't they ever do so in ways that can be clearly attributed to them, instead of in ways which are effectively indistinguishable from chance? Take prayer, for instance. Lost of people pray for their loved ones to heal, and occasionally, they do get better. But more often nothing happens. Sometimes they get worse. But neither getting worse nor getting better happen very often - most often, nothing seems to happen. This is exactly as we would expect from a random distribution (a bell curve), but not from an agent acting to heal those people.
Now, take a doctor. Doctors work to heal a lot of people. So you end up with some people getting worse, some people staying the same, but most people getting better. It represents more of a hockey stick than a bell curve. Not only that, but you can even tell the difference between a good doctor and a mediocre doctor - or a quack - by how those probabilities work out. A quack's results are going to be closer to a bell curve, whereas a mediocre doctor may have a fairly flat distribution or perhaps a rise in the number of people getting better compared to the number who stay the same or get worse. And a good doctor is going to have a higher proportion of people who get better compared to the numbers who stay the same or get worse.
So why is it that doctors have a higher success rate than God and Jesus in the modern day? One would think it would be the exact opposite - as you say later on, it should be trivial for God or Jesus to replace a lost limb. Yet, nobody has ever regrown a severed limb. Instead, we have people (doctors nowadays) replacing the lost limb with an artificial prosthetic; a peg leg or a hook hundreds of years ago, compared to an artificial hand or foot nowadays.
Not only that, but there are actually animals in the real world which are capable of regenerating a lost limb. Starfish can lose their arms and grow them back without a problem; salamanders can lose their tails and limbs and grow them back no problem. Yet chop off a human's hand or foot, and it's gone (unless you're extremely lucky and someone saves it so it can be reattached). For that matter, chop off a single finger or toe, and it's gone too. The difference is in the biology - starfish and salamanders have biological mechanisms which take care of limb regeneration for them. No prayer or divine intervention needed, it happens in every single one unless you actually damage the tissues that actually perform the regeneration.
With humans, it never happens on its own - the healing process simply covers the wound with tissue. If you lose a finger or an arm, it'll eventually cover itself with skin (after scabbing/scarring over), but that's all that ever happens on its own. We've finally progressed to the point where we can reattach severed limbs, provided the limbs were kept cold so that they didn't die, and provided you have a doctor on hand quickly enough to actually do the surgery. And we've been able to perform extremely limited regeneration through medical treatments. Think regenerating a fingertip, and even that's questionable.
Not only that, but it doesn't happen with prayer or faith healing either. No matter how long you pray for someone who's lost a limb, no matter how much faith healing you get, that limb will stay gone. Even you have acknowledged that you haven't managed to make an amputee regrow a missing limb (which is honest, and I respect that).
You say it's a matter of having enough faith. So why is it that nobody has enough faith to perform feats of healing which would be truly miraculous - regrowing completely severed limbs, bringing someone back to life, curing cancer, etc? Why is it that faith healing can only recover ailments which can heal naturally?
What I'm trying to get at is that we should see the same kind of statistical distribution for people who pray to be healed, and people who use faith healing, as we do with doctors. Indeed, it should even be better, since they're calling upon a god with superhuman powers. But we don't see that. We see a statistical distribution that more resembles the bell curve you get from nature, than the hockey stick you get from doctors.
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Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor David Carey said he had one goal in mind when he began to address the borough's 2012 fiscal budget five months ago.
"I was committed to getting the budget as balanced as possible," he said.
That budget, which was presented to the assembly in early May, calls for $71 million in expenditures -- a $2 million drop from the 2011 budget. However, the mayor's budget calls for pulling more than $1 million from the fund balance.
"We started off that no department could add more than what they spent last year," Carey said. "Last year, there were a number of extraordinary expenditures, some of which were for solid waste, some of which were health care. Every budget had to start without any of those extraordinary expenses."
The budget, which will be up for debate and is set for approval during the assembly's June 7 meeting, also calls for a reduction of three full-time positions from general government services and one from the service areas.
"We basically held the line on everything in general government," Carey said. "We didn't anticipate any special expenditures and we reduced the number of employees, which lowered our overall budget."
Carey originally estimated the borough would need to pull out about $1.7 million from the fund balance for the budget. However, a state allocation of revenue sharing for the borough totaling $715,660 dropped that amount to about $1 million.
Carey also said the Legislature has approved a little less than $9 million for the Homer Solid Waste Transfer Site, but the fate of that funding will ultimately be decided by Gov. Sean Parnell. The remainder of the project's funding, which is slated to cost about $12 million, will come from the land trust fund.
"For many new to the assembly, they had never seen money taken from the land trust fund," Carey said. "The land trust fund is particularly unique in that it comes from everywhere in the borough and it should be spent for a borough-wide service. At least from what I have heard from the assembly is that this is a very appropriate use for the land trust fund monies."
Carey provided the assembly with a list of actions they could take to balance the budget, and even turn about $200,000 in surplus, he said. However, Carey was quick to mention the budget he proposed is "conservative" in several aspects.
"Wherever we budgeted, we took the lower number," he said. "Often you don't know expense, but we took a lower number in terms of expenditure so we have conservative budget and so we should, because bids have been coming in very well on projects, we should actually have more revenue than what the budget would say."
Not included in the budget is funding for several non-departmental agencies, including the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council, Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District and the Central Area Rural Transit System.
Assembly member Linda Murphy said she would propose putting funding for those agencies back into the budget because of a "very healthy" fund balance.
"I think that not funding those is not the smart way to handle the budget," she said. "And in the scope of things, we are not talking about a great deal of money."
Murphy said she was encouraged by news of increases in state revenue sharing and possible funding of the Homer transfer station, adding she didn't think the borough is "in as bad of a shape as people like to say that we are."
"I guess I am the eternal optimist -- I just think things are going to work out," she said. "Yes, I would be comfortable taking up to $1 million out of the fund balance. I don't like taking it out to meet operational needs, but if we are looking at things like trying to find some other funding mechanisms for tourism marketing and economic development programs, then I can handle that for this year.
"But, I don't want to see that every year because you can't continue to live off your savings account."
Assembly member Brent Johnson said he was still undecided on his opinion of funding for non-departmental agencies.
"I'm still going to be listening to public comment and hear what the other assembly members have to say before I make up my mind on what I'm going to do," he said.
However, Johnson's view of the budget as a whole is clearer.
"Well, I think the mayor has done a pretty good job of holding the budget down," he said. "Whether I am comfortable with it or not, well we are spending more than we are bringing in even though it is pretty close. I can't say I am real comfortable in a country that's trillions of dollars in debt and I'm just trying to make sure we don't follow suit."
The borough will be forced to either cut more departmental, general government or raise taxes.
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Blue painter's tape affixed to doors may be used as a means of surveillance.A unique surveillance technique is being used by burglars in San Francisco. Police there are warning residents of one neighborhood to be on the lookout for blue painter's tape that thieves are using as a means of surveillance. It is believed burglars place the tape on doorways and that a broken tape will indicate to a potential thief that someone is home. But tape that remains untouched for days could be a sign that the resident is away on vacation.There are no known incidents of this type occurring in Newark, but be vigilant as this crime trend may spread throughout the Bay Area.


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I'm setting up an older laptop for my son. We first tried the KDE version of Sabayon which ran a bit slow, so we are now trying the XFCE version instead. The KDE version of Sabayon recognized our wireless network out of the box and offered a UI for configuring it. XFCE runs a lot snappier, but we are having trouble figuring out the best way to configure our wireless network.
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Continuing the conversation Openhome started when BD1 came out. Because BD2 will almost certainly provide more fodder for discussion....
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This thread is for discussing not only general inconsistencies between the books and the movies, but in particular inconsistencies between the movies. Did you notice something different in the houses? Were the props off? How about the story line? Tell us what you saw!
By the way, hair doesn't count. We all know about the hair. Cullen hair will go down in cinematic history as possibly the worst fiasco of the franchise.


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HONOLULU — The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will offer a free 16-week leadership training session July 10 through October 23 to help local organizations discover new ways to improve the lives of older, retired adults and those about to retire. The 16-week leadership training workshop will be conducted by Professor Emeritus Abe Arkoff, instructor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in the UH Mānoa Colleges of Arts and Sciences.
Leadership training is based on Arkoff's life review and enhancement workshop, THE ILLUMINATED LIFE® , winner of the national 2004 MindAlert Award from the American Society on Aging and the MetLife Foundation for innovative and outstanding older adult learning programs. THE ILLUMINATED LIFE® workshop, accompanying guidebook and leader materials provide a comprehensive program designed to help independent older persons reflect on their lives and integrate the learning of a lifetime. Working through 14 "life questions," the workshop's retrospective-proactive orientation helps participants gather insights about their lives in order to consider and create new post-retirement roles for themselves.
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"In addition to benefiting individuals, the workshop is well-suited for use with affinity groups and organizations because it helps develop a group's sense of closeness, support, and community," Arkoff said. "Workshop leaders need to have people-helping skills and a sense of altruism. Ideal leaders include psychologists, social workers, gerontologists, teachers, counselors, and health-care professionals," he added.
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SugarCRM is going mobile in a big way. The company has purchased iEnterprises's iExtensions CRM – a tool that provides access to Lotus Notes contacts on smartphones and tablets – and it has announced new versions of its own software for Android, BlackBerry, and iPad.
Financial terms of the iExtensions deal were not revealed, but SugarCRM's Larry Augustine told The Reg that the acquisition helps SugarCRM expand in a "specific functional" area. Sugar is also getting iEnterprsies CEO John Carini, who will take over as vice president of collaboration products.
Other products also provide offline sync between SugarCRM and mobile, such as the open-source RhoLogic Mobile. But iExtensions is built for Notes and Domino.
With the latest mobile versions of its own software – introduced on Tuesday at SugarCon in San Francisco – SugarCRM has rewritten the SugarCRM 6 reporting and charting engine in HTML5, abandoning Adobe Flash. The company says that this provides a better level of interaction and that the charts are more eye-catching than they were with Flash. But, yes, Apple provided the motivation. "If Flash and run on the iPhone or the iPad, we probably wouldn't have come to this," Augustin told us, referring to the Jobsian edict that Flash is forbidden on Apple phones and tablets.
A year ago, SugarCRM wrote its iPhone and iPad edition with Appcelerator's Titanium platform, and just as the product was delivered, Apple's chief executive made it known code translators like Titanium were not welcome on the iPhone or iPad. SugarCRM chief technology officer and co-founder Clint Oram told us at the time he wasn't terribly thrilled by the turn in events. He wasn't alone. But several months later, Titanium was cleared for use.
Nonetheless, SugarCRM is glad to be on the iPad. Augustin is dismissive of recent statements from Dell and Hewlett-Packard that - rather predictably - argued that the iPad isn't for serious business users. According to Augustin, the iPad 2 is going to be a huge business tool for what he calls mobile business professionals, because the form factor makes the screen readable. He cites recent experience, moving among the IBM faithful during January's annual Lotusphere.
"We were at IBM's Losusphere in January - 8,000 people," Augustin said. "I was amazed at the number of iPads. This was LotusSphere, an older, more enterprise-focused event. This was in Orlando, not Silicon Valley, and we are not talking about social media start up kids. iPads were everywhere."
The iPad is still leading the market while the hardware underpinning Android has not yet fully baked. As for webOS, which runs HP's forthcoming PlayBook, SugarCRM is not yet offering support. "Android devices are very interesting," he said. "When the hardware has caught up to the iPad 2's hardware, it will give Apple a run for its money."
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There was media bias:
Media coverage of President Barack Obama was largely positive in the final week of the presidential campaign, while coverage of Mitt Romney was mostly negative, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
From October 29 to November 5, positive stories about Obama in mainstream media outlets outnumbered negative ones by 10 percentage points, with 29 percent positive, and 19 negative. On the other hand, negative stories about the GOP nominee Mitt Romney outweighed positive stories by 17 points, with 33 percent negative compared to 16 positive.
The report, which analyzed 660 stories from 59 media outlets, also notes the positive media coverage of Obama was higher in the final week than it had been in previous weeks. The tone of coverage about Romney stayed roughly the same.
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Neil Young, Foo Fighters + More Honor Paul McCartney at MusiCares' 2012 Person of the Year Award Ceremony
And the honors just keep coming for Paul McCartney. On Friday (Feb. 10), McCartney was the man of the hour at the annual 2012 MusiCares gala dinner, where the former Beatle was named the Person of the Year at the star-studded ceremony.
Finding superstars to honor McCartney at the event was not hard to do. A wide array of talent came out to support the musical icon, including Neil Young and Crazy Horse, James Taylor, Katy Perry, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, Diana Krall, Coldplay and Foo Fighters.
To get things started, McCartney and his touring band took the stage to rock the Wings-era tune 'Junior's Farm,' a revamped version of the Beatles classic 'Magical Mystery Tour' and a handful of other cuts. The other artists on the lineup covered hits from throughout McCartney's career in the Fab Four up through his most recent solo projects. Songs performed during the show included 'Hey Jude' (by Perry), 'I Saw Her Standing There' (by Young and Crazy Horse), 'We Can Work it Out' (by Coldplay) and 'Blackbird' (by Keys, on the piano).
"For me, obviously it's great to hear these fantastic artists singing my songs," McCartney said while accepting his honor, before thanking everyone who came out to support his special night.
In addition to the music and special appearances, the gala for MusiCares also raised a record-breaking $6.5 million through silent auctions and a quick live auction. Items sold included a red-and-cobalt-blue piano, painted by visual artist Peter Max for Ringo Starr, which fetched $175,000. Monies raised for MusiCares will aid musicians in need of medical care and other support.
This past week also consisted of McCartney receiving a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and the release of his latest musical venture, 'Kisses on the Bottom.' The album features several special songs to the singer, including many of his childhood favorites such as 'Bye Bye Blackbird' and 'It's Only a Paper Moon.' The album also has two brand new tracks — 'Only Our Hearts' and 'My Valentine' — which are rumored to be about his new bride, Nancy Shevell, who stood proudly by her husband's side as he was honored by MusiCares.
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Congratulations, you have finally been promoted to Manager! You have recently shown an interest in, and aptitude for, the inner workings and strategy of this wiki, and I think it's time you took the lead on a few more issues. The role of Manager has recently changed slightly: it is now a lead administrator, looking after the team, being a point-of-contact for users and staff, figuring out what works needs to be done, inspiring users to contribute, and leading discussions on policy/strategy. It is not about decision-making, it's about leadership, organisation, and project and resource management - but it's still a step beyond the administrator role. I'd like to see you leading some cleanups, reviewing old templates/infoboxes, cleaning up the project namespace, and inspiring users to do more. Good luck! Gboyers 12:03, 28 October 2010 (BST)
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Regarding this. My policy actually is that in sentences, you should use the short form (GTA San Andreas). Same with article titles (except for the games themselves) and categories. I really hate sentences like on Cheetah: "The Cheetah is a two-door sports car that has appeared in Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories" - these should be changed to use short-form game names. Gboyers 08:56, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
- Makes sense to me (hence I made that edit), but the part of the policy that I was referring to was the following from the consistency policy:
- In articles, the game's name should be shown in full once. After that, an abbreviated version can be used without a colon.
- It was obvious to me that what the original editor was doing (with in GTA San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, (etc)) was using short form for GTA SA due to it already having been mentioned, and long form for LCS due to it not having already been mentioned, and I changed it to all use short form to make it easier to read (like you say). JFletcherTalk (formerly User:Biggest gta fan ever) 09:12, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Sorry I'd forgotten about that - yes that policy is right to an extent. If you mention one game in the first sentence, use the long form. (IE the XYZ is a car in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas). If you need a list, use the short form. If you repeat a game's name, use the short form. I would like the words "Grand Theft Auto" to appear on every page, but I don't want articles to be clogged up with it 30x. Gboyers 09:16, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
- That actually clears up something that I've been thinking about for quite a while (such as the articles like Cheetah, and cases like the edit you linked to). Thanks for that! JFletcherTalk (formerly User:Biggest gta fan ever) 09:21, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I rewrote the consistency policy to be clearer on this, but that needs merging with Grand Theft Wiki:Style Guide at some point. Gboyers 19:41, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Re:Disabling WikiEd toolboxes
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I was wondering what that icon was meant for. - ZS 10:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Staff Roles
Hi, could you please fill out your section of the table at Grand Theft Wiki:Staff/Roles? That page explains the reasons, but we're just trying to assign staff some responsibility and ownership of their own sections, and give you a bit more room to do what you want to do. Thanks - Gboyers 00:37, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
if you own
a PS3 can't you play your old GTA game's on it
Becoming Inspector of the Wiki
I applied to become promoted to Inspector or Administrator of the Grand Theft Wiki. When does the actual "election" take place? Because I would love to become the inspector and help out the wiki! :)
Leaving Wikia Help
Hey man, exactly like you guys, habbo.wikia.com is likely departing Wikia. Is there any chance I can ask how you copied over your content? Btw can you recommend a wikifarm or a host? Thank you! -Imdill3 00:23, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much! lol yeah, the final straw was when Wikia made that 'purchase an ad' thing on the bottom of every article. It makes it look like it's apart of the article. Seems on Runescape Wiki, they're only used for scam/hacking sites and rival wikis O_o. Anyways, thanks again- after this project I will be proudly editing again for GTW. -Imdill3 14:27, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Page renaming
I am interested in getting the page OFLC renamed to Australian Classifacation Board because that is now the official name of Australia's OFLC. How would I go about this? Klltr 08:17, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- Simply use the
{{move}}template so that the staff can move it for you.--spaceeinstein 09:28, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
What's your problem bro? Why are you telling me to grow-up? I didn't even do anything? Grand Theft AJ 04:16, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- I received an e-mail that a page I created the talk for Ultimate Disk in the Dark was deleted and a message with you stating "Grow up kid? Really?" or something along those lines. But I don't recall writing anything that would earn that type of response. Also I can't see what I said because the page was deleted and there is no History. Was this directed at sometihng I had typed or was there another addition to the page that I wasn't informed about via e-mail? Grand Theft AJ 04:46, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Haha, no no, I'm the one who was misunderstood. Thanks for clearing that up, I was just a little confused at first. Grand Theft AJ 05:48, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Wikia has been receiving reports from your wiki that a user has been copying stuff from this wiki and adding them on GTA wiki without attribution could you confirm this--Owen1983 23:29, 27 May 2011 (BST)
wikia has dealt with the user and revoked his admin right I to find his behavior unacceptable failure to supply attribution breaks your policy and fails to recognize your community which is damn right rude---Owen1983 13:31, 28 May 2011 (BST)
Re:Locked Page
Hmm, I could have sworn it was a "view source" page when I tried to click "Edit" last time. Might have misread it. Thanks for pointing that out though. Any particular reason the "edit" buttons are missing? Silver Infernus 15:47, 4 July 2011 (BST)
What the hell
Are you doing reverting me when I'm right? McJeff 17:12, 12 July 2011 (BST)
Hey JFletcher, can you do me a favour and delete Cheap Car Insurance - How to Get Cheaper Car Insurance Quotes. That article is spam and serves no good use to Grand Theft Wiki. I put a spam tag on it ages ago but it still hasn't been deleted.--MrLanceVanceDance 11:17, 19 July 2011 (BST)
Never mind. A-Dust has deleted the article.--MrLanceVanceDance 12:09, 19 July 2011 (BST)
Hello, I notice you have a PS3 and I would like to say that it's cool that you have have one.--Mizu (talk) 18:06, 30 July 2011 (BST)
RE:Monaco Userbox
This userbox is for people who use the Monaco skin to edit on other wikis, as I am sure it is still possible to use the Monaco skin on other wikis.--MrLanceVanceDance 09:56, 14 August 2011 (BST)
Yeah sure. I'll reword the userbox.--MrLanceVanceDance 10:03, 14 August 2011 (BST)
And JFletcher, what exactly is the difference between the Monobook and Monaco skins? Also, what does the Monaco Skin look like, if this wiki uses Monobook.--MrLanceVanceDance 10:08, 14 August 2011 (BST)
Thanks for your explaination and quick answer but exactly are the differences (in appearance) between the Monaco, Monobook and Vector skins .--MrLanceVanceDance 10:25, 14 August 2011 (BST)
Thaks for your explaination and quick answer. That was a good help to my understanding of skins.--MrLanceVanceDance 10:46, 14 August 2011 (BST)
Community split page on Wikia
Hi. In response to your complaints on my talk page about how GTAWikia is trying to "cover up" the move, I restored the actual discussion relating to the move and I wrote the page GTA Wiki:Community split. I realize that for you all on this wiki with your views on GTAWikia as illegitimate this is probably less than adequate, but I think it's a long shot fairer than trying to pretend nothing happened. McJeff 20:00, 3 September 2011 (BST)
Hey JFletcher, I have been noticing that recently, every single time Grand Theft Wiki blocks somebody, they never inform the blocked user that they have been blocked and the reason why. Do you know why?--MrLanceVanceDance 11:45, 14 September 2011 (BST)
RE: Empty Image Pages
Hey JFletcher, you talked to the wrong person about this issue. I wasn't the one who prodded it, it was User:Andreaz1--MrLanceVanceDance 00:52, 9 October 2011 (BST)
Hey, could you please weigh in on this discussion, and also respond to this? Thanks - gboyers talk 06:46, 9 October 2011 (BST)
Delete Please...
Hey JFletcher, I have placed about 40 images in Category:Delete. I was wondering if you could do me a favour and delete them. Thanks.--MrLanceVanceDance 08:41, 11 October 2011 (BST)
Protecting Talk Pages
Hey JFletcher, according to the Grand Theft Wiki: Staff article, Inspectors can protect talk pages. Can you please tell me how to do? Thanks--MrLanceVanceDance (talk) 08:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Anything to do..
Hey. I was just wondering if there was anything I could do to help the wiki. Any big projects? I really wanna be an admin, but I know I've got AGES to go. Again, just any projects?


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This is a serialization of the new book written by Carl Flowers, owner of Silveus Plantation, the subject of "Groton's Anonymous Mistress." The 300-year-old home is accessed by Kemp Street near the boundary of Groton and Dunstable.
Part 27
By Carl Flowers
Maybe loss of the family farm isn't a problem. Just about anything, including food can be imported from outside of Massachusetts. That could mean more money for the state from gasoline taxes. While endangered species, green building laws and political ambitions threaten the existence of timber harvesting, the greatest problem to the Mistress's domain might be the inheritance tax.
If the old system returns, it will be back with a vengeance. Rates could be as high as fifty-five percent. It would force the separation of the Mistress from her domain. In 1900 James Fitzpatrick only had to deal with his brothers and sisters. If James lived today, he would first have to deal with the tax man, and then his brothers and sisters. Let's not forget that I had to cough up a few bucks to keep the Mistress off the auction block when Esther and Elmer died. If I didn't, the Mistress and her domain would have been a developer's delight and the cry would have gone out, "The farms, the farms, they're disappearing."
It's not surprising the family farm is being replaced by corporate farms. They never have to pay any inheritance tax because they never die. They just grow bigger and bigger while the small family farm shrivels away as they're ruthlessly squeezed out of existence.
The family owned farm is forced into accepting whatever a corporation's wholesale price happens to be because everything is about the corporation's bottom line. In the case of Christmas trees, it's the artificial tree made from petroleum, waiting to contaminate the air when it's burned or the soil when it's buried. Thousands of miles away on another continent, Christmas means nothing to the foreign manufacturer who makes the fake tree.
Living in a house as old as the Mistress, I've often wondered about all the births and deaths the Mistress has seen. Back in the day, there wasn't any 911 number to call. No hospitals existed in Groton until the early nineteen hundreds. The only place for having children was at home. It appears as though some twenty-three children were born in the Mistress over an eighty-six year span that began in 1769 with the birth of Oliver Woods and ended in 1855 with the birth of John B. Fitzpatrick. No children are known to have been born in the Mistress during her first 47 years. The same is true for her last 157 plus years.
Besides births, an additional sixteen children may have grown up in the Mistress, but were born elsewhere. When Samuel Bowers moved into the Mistress in 1724, all seven of his children had been born between 1710 and 1722. The same is true of James Fitzpatrick, Jr.'s daughter. Her father moved into the Mistress in 1877 when she was just a year old, following the death of her mother in Pepperell.
Among the sixteen children who grew up in the Mistress, but who were not born in the Mistress, only one was conceived before marriage. For the period, the average number of pregnancies occurring outside of marriage was around 20 percent. Among the 23 babies born in the Mistress, none appear to have been delivered before marriage. All totaled, 39 youngsters began their early years in the Mistress.
The average age at marriage for males living in the Mistress during the 1769-1855 period was 26, the oldest being 31 and the youngest 21. For females the average age was 25, with the oldest being 28 and the youngest, 20.
After having the first child, women living at the Mistress continued to bear children and nurse them into their early forties. If a woman could survive her childbearing years, it wasn't unusual for her to out live her husband. Isaac and Eliza Woods had the biggest family with nine children. The first five were born in Dunstable and the last four were born at the Mistress. The least number of children a couple at the Mistress had was seven. Seven to nine children was average for the period, and many families had a lot more. Benjamin Franklin, whose picture is on the one hundred dollar bill, was one of seventeen children. In Groton, Robert and Deborah Parker had sixteen. Joseph and Abigail Parker had fourteen, but their grandchildren boosted their progeny to nearly 200 in just two generations.


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1964: Daytime soap opera A FLAME IN THE WIND debuted on ABC. The stories revolved around the citizens of Haviland. Later known as A TIME FOR US, the show ran until December 16, 1966.
1975: On ANOTHER WORLD, Gil (Dolph Sweet) gave a toast as he, Ada (Constance Ford), Nancy (Danielle Jean Burns), Mac (Douglass Watson), Rachel (Victoria Wyndham) and Jamie (Robert Doran) enjoyed a turkey dinner for Christmas. "To Mac and Rachel and the little one who'll be with us next Christmas," Gil said as he raised his glass. Rachel ended up losing the baby two months later.
1984: ABC aired the final episode of THE EDGE OF NIGHT.
1984: On ANOTHER WORLD, Cass (Stephen Schnetzer), dressed as Krystle Lake, went to Tallboys to spy on Kathleen (Julie Osburn) and Tony the Tuna (George Pentecost).
1988: On GUIDING LIGHT, Reva (Kim Zimmer) and Josh (Robert Newman)wanted answers from Alan.
1992: On THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, Victor (Eric Braeden) and Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott) argued about Ryan and Victoria's marriage.
1995: On EASTENDERS, Pat (Pam St. Clement) had a heart-to-heart talk with a dejected Roy.
2002: HONG KONG soap VIRTUES OF HARMONY aired its final episode.
2008: France's SOUS LE SOLEIL aired its last episode.
2011: On ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Rick (Austin Peck) showed Starr (Kristen Alderson) an edited music video of "Jail Bait."
2011: Singer/actress Kaye Stevens died at age 79. From 1974 to 1979, she played Jeri Clayton on DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Maggie Smith (Violet, DOWNTON ABBEY) - 78
William Bassett (ex-Wolfgang, GENERAL HOSPITAL; ex-Phillip, RITUALS; ex-Pete, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) - 77
Fay Hauser (ex-Salena, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS; ex-Annie, DALLAS) - 64
Terri Garber (Elizabeth, MISS BEHAVE; ex-Iris, AS THE WORLD TURNS; ex-Allison, TEXAS; ex-Victoria, GENERAL HOSPITAL; ex-Suzanne, SANTA BARBARA; ex- Leslie, DYNASTY) - 52
Joe Manganiello (Alcide, TRUE BLOOD) - 36
Aaron Stanford (Seymour, NIKITA) - 36
Bree Williamson (Claire, HAVEN; Vivian, DECEPTION; ex-Jessica, ONE LIFE TO LIVE) - 31
Adam Gregory (Thomas, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL; Ty, 90210) - 25
Thomas Dekker (ex-Adam, THE SECRET CIRCLE; ex-Phillip, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) - 25
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you would like to submit a piece of soap opera history for this daily column, please email it to email@example.com.


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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tim Gunn vs. Stacy and Clinton
It's when I try and choose between What Not to Wear and Tim Gunn's Guide to Style that I run into trouble. I'd say my love of Tim Gunn pretty much equals my love of Stacy, Clinton, and Stacy's wardrobe, but if I were going to go on a makeover show, I think I'd rather be on What Not to Wear. I think. I'm not even sure that's true. See, you get $5000 to spend in NYC on What Not to Wear, but I'm not sure how far that goes in those stores. On the other hand, Tim Gunn's lucky ladies get to pick out ten "essential" items from Macy's, which . . . yeah, doesn't sound that great BUT JUST HOLD ON A SECOND. Tim Gunn then takes the contestant to some designer's studio, where she always ends up getting to KEEP a dress. ALSO. There's this bit in the beginning where they get to go to La Perla and pick out lots of fancy, expensive bras. The downside is, Tim Gunn's lady model friend goes through your underwear drawer and all of TVland sees your granny panties, plus you have to model your new bras while you're trying them on at La Perla.
There are downsides to both shows, I suppose. I mean, it always looks like they throw away the majority of your wardrobe. Even t-shirts! That part always makes me cry a little so then I go to my own closet and pull out my favorite t-shirts to give them long, loving hugs. I'm pretty sure they don't ACTUALLY throw all of your clothes away, probably just the really skanky ones you shouldn't be wearing anyway.
And then! You get your hair cut and styled and they show you how to put on makeup without looking like a tranny clown whore, which is always an important step in any woman's life. Now that I think about it, I'm changing my mind about which show I'd want to be on. Stacy and Clinton are funny and fierce and have that cool (but scary) all-around mirror, but Tim Gunn almost always cries at some point because of how good he made the woman look. Plus also, he gives them better self-esteem and seems like he actually cares about your stupid problems. I don't think Stacy and/or Clinton have ever cried over anyone. Not that I'd turn down either show if someone wanted to submit me for one of them. I would happily parade around in my bra on television if it meant I'd get a shiny new wardrobe.
WINNER: Tim Gunn (duh)
16 comments:
- mysterygirl! said...
But on the last Tim Gunn's Guide to Style that I watched, they announced the woman's new, accurate bra size, which would be a bit embarrassing. They would announce mine and then lead me out of La Perla and into the juniors department at J.C. Penney to get one of those beige triangle bras with the little flower in the middle.
Other than this, I think I might agree. I like the NYC wardrobe aspect of WNTW, but you just know that Stacy London is totally chilly in real life, right? A Tim Gunn hug ftw.
- October 22, 2008 at 1:40 PM
- Jennie! said...
Hee. I totally agree about Stacy. I don't think I could handle her judge-y face when she saw the number of t-shirts in my closet, but Tim Gunn would just pat my hand and say I was precious.
- October 22, 2008 at 1:45 PM
- kat! said...
yeah, i'm on mg! with this one. only it'd probably go in the opposite direction and then jugs would call wanting a photo shoot or something.
(also, and i know you're going to die from shock when i tell you this, but i have never seen any of these shows.)
- October 22, 2008 at 2:10 PM
- Jennie! said...
kat! what do you have against Jugs? Heh.
- October 22, 2008 at 2:20 PM
- Grad School Reject said...
There is some chance this is my favorite comment thread ever.
Also - when Lianne was riding with Tim Gunn on the bicycle built for two? I knew in my heart that if I saw that I would knock Lianne off the bike so that I could pal around with Tim all day.
- October 22, 2008 at 2:35 PM
- heather! anne! said...
Is Jugs a real thing?
- October 22, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- Jennie! said...
GSR, yes! And when stupid Kenley was mean to him? I wanted to punch her in her stupid face.
h!a! I think so. I can't Google it right now because I'm at work and they don't like me to look at boobies here.
- October 22, 2008 at 2:49 PM
- eclectic said...
I don't know who Tim Gunn is, except from reading you guys. I don't watch much TV that doesn't involve the NFL, and I would go with MG to the juniors department if they put me on a show like that. But I swear, if they made you throw away your beloved t-shirts, I would find a way to punch every person involved in the neck!
- October 22, 2008 at 2:50 PM
- Beau said...
Gayest Blog Entry Ever.
- October 22, 2008 at 3:30 PM
- Jennie! said...
Whatever, don't pretend you didn't like it.
- October 22, 2008 at 4:01 PM
- Joe G. said...
FACT: What Not To Wear is a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't enjoy it in an edge of your seat, 'I can't wait to see what happens next and I need to DVR every episode' kind of way, but I do enjoy having it on while I'm doing other things, like filing comics or looking at toys on eBay. And because somethings I think Stacy and Clinton despise each other, and I can't wait to see if they get into a slap fight on the air. (I almost wrote 'fist fight,' but while I could see Stacy throwing a punch, I don't think Clinton would retaliate with a fist - he's definitely an 'open-palm' kind of guy.)
Also, I've learned how to dress a little bit. In the first episode that I ever saw, they redid the wardrobe for a guy! A guy! It was the only time I have ever seen a male 'contestant' on that show, but I learned things from that one episode. And, also, I've learned things from seeing what Clinton wears and realizing that, no, I'm not really ready for powder blue argyle sweater vests. Some day, but not today.
A man has to be extremely confident in his straightness to take part in a discussion about TV makeover shows.
- October 22, 2008 at 4:06 PM
- Joe G. said...
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- October 22, 2008 at 4:06 PM
- Joe G. said...
(I accidentally posted my comment twice. So I deleted the extra one. That's what happened there.)
- October 22, 2008 at 4:07 PM
- Ashley said...
Everybody knows the best part of ANTM is the makeover episode. They should just show marathons and marathons of only those episodes.
- October 22, 2008 at 4:14 PM
- Jennie! said...
Joe, Clinton is a good person to dress like. He's very dapper.
Ashley, they could just show clip shows of the girls being assholes about their hair and I'd be happy.
- October 22, 2008 at 8:28 PM
- Abigail said...
I wish there was a clip show of Jade.
- October 23, 2008 at 12:08 AM


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July 9, 2008 > Accreditation Commission releases report on Ohlone College
The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges has completed its review of Ohlone College's institutional self-study report in conjunction with the findings of the evaluation team that visited Ohlone College this past March. The Commission has acted to issue a Warning and asks Ohlone College to correct deficiencies noted in the evaluation report.As a result of this ruling, the college is required to complete two reports. The first report is due by October 15, 2008, and the second report is due by March 1, 2009. Both reports will be followed by a visit of Commission representatives. The college continues to be accredited during the warning period.Incoming Ohlone President, Dr. Gari Browning stated, "I want to reassure our students, faculty, staff and the community that the accreditation visiting evaluation team gave extremely high marks to Ohlone's academic programs and student services, as well as the general operations of the college. It is very important to note that the visiting team had no recommendations related to the college's student learning programs and services. This is quite unusual and indicates the visiting team's very high assessment of Ohlone's academic programs and student services."The first report to the Commission will address four recommendations related to issues concerning the function of the District's Board of Trustees. These recommendations include the following:"The team recommends that the Board of Trustees ceases involvement in college operations and delegates all non-policy issues and policy implementation at the college level to the president.""The team recommends that the Board of Trustees and college leadership define, publish, adhere to, regularly evaluate, and continuously improve the respective leadership roles and scopes of authority of college constituency groups and governance committees in meaningful, collegial decision-making processes.""The team recommends that the Board of Trustees takes measures to bring all constituent groups together to enable the college to A) Develop a positive and in-depth dialog on decision making roles and responsibilities that will ultimately lead to strengthening student learning and success at the college; and B) Create an environment which ensures greater administrative stability and empowerment at the college.""The team recommends that the Board of Trustees develop a process to implement identified improvements derived from regular self-evaluations."Dr. Browning stated, "The Board is serious about addressing these recommendations in a timely manner. Work began shortly after the accreditation visit in March, and a second special meeting has been scheduled for July 19 to continue required improvements. The complete Evaluation Report has been provided to the Board members."The second report due in March, 2009, will address four recommendations related to college planning and program review, as well as classified staff and management employee evaluation processes. Browning indicated that plans are already underway to address these four recommendations. "The substance of these recommendations involves areas of improvement that are fairly common at community colleges. I am confident that these can be addressed to meet the Commission's expectations."


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Joakim Noah has played in the NBA for six seasons, and he has been heavily involved in two epic triple-overtime games at the United Center.
He even has been on the winning side both times. The Bulls evoked memories of the 2009 three-OT game against Boston by delivering an exhausting 142-134 victory over Brooklyn on Saturday.
The win sent the Bulls to a 3-1 lead in this first-round series, and they can close it out in Game 5 on Monday night at the Barclays Center.
"Overtime games in the playoffs, close games in the playoffs, they're so exciting," Noah said in the locker room. "You can just feel the energy of the crowd. The basketball gods were on our side. Being down (14 with less than three minutes remaining), we just stayed with it, and Nate really took over offensively."
The defining moment in that triple-OT win over Boston was Noah's steal, three-quarter-court dribble and slam dunk over Paul Pierce.
This time the signature was a superhuman effort by Nate Robinson, who almost single-handedly erased the 14-point deficit late in the fourth quarter. Robinson finished with 34 points and scored 23 in the fourth quarter, 1 short of Michael Jordan's franchise playoff record.
Overall in the fourth quarter, Robinson hit 9 of 11 shots from the field. With the Bulls trailing 109-95, Robinson knocked down a 3-pointer, a driving lay-in, a pullup jumper, 3 free throws after drawing a foul on Deron Williams, then another pullup jumper.
Robinson completed the 14-0 run by dishing a pass to Carlos Boozer, who finished a reverse lay-in with 55.4 seconds left to tie the score at 109-109.
"I always think I'm on fire, kind of like the old-school game NBA Jam," Robinson said. "You make a couple in a row, the rim's on fire. You shoot the ball, the ball's on fire.
"I feel like that at times -- all the time. Whenever I'm in the game, I just play with a lot of confidence. You kind of have to lie to yourself and feel like you can't miss."
In the first overtime, Robinson seemed to clinch the win for the Bulls by sinking a 22-foot running bank shot with 1.7 seconds on the clock. But Brooklyn's Joe Johnson answered with a runner in the lane at the buzzer to even things up.
"That's what he does," Noah said of Robinson. "He's done that for us more than a few times this year. He did it on a huge, huge stage."
In the second overtime, neither team scored after Brook Lopez sank a free throw to tie it with 48.7 seconds left.
In the third overtime, Robinson was on the bench after fouling out. Taj Gibson and Luol Deng hit jumpers to put the Bulls up by 5, then Nazr Mohammed clinched the win by rebounding a missed Boozer free throw and laying it in.
"This game is Nate's win," Mohammed said. "He did everything to get us in this position to get us a win."
The Nets did a nice job of keeping up a fast pace and making this a high-scoring game, which suits their style. In Game 3, Brooklyn scored 34 points at halftime. On Saturday, the Nets hit the break with 55.
Williams seemed determined to take over, and he finished with 32 points. But ultimately the Bulls' depth and versatility made a difference.
While Williams played an exhausting 58 minutes, his scoring dropped off late in the game. Kirk Hinrich played 60 minutes for the Bulls, but they could give him a break by shifting Jimmy Butler over to guard Williams. When Noah fouled out, they could turn to Gibson, then bring in Mohammed as needed.
After the Nets built a 14-point lead, former Bulls guard C.J. Watson blew an uncontested dunk, then Reggie Evans and Gerald Wallace each missed a pair of free throws while Robinson was rolling.
"We made a lot of mistakes up 14," Williams said. "It was so long ago, I can't remember what all went on. We had the missed dunk. Missed free throws. I fouled Nate on the 3. We made a lot of mistakes in the fourth quarter."
Added Johnson, "It's not over until the first team wins four games. We've still got a chance. We go back to Brooklyn, try to get some home cooking, get us a win there.
"Don't worry about the series at this point; we've just do whatever it takes to protect home and try to make it back to Chicago."
•Follow Mike's Bulls reports on Twitter @McGrawDHBulls and check out his All Bull blog at dailyherald.com.


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They definitely don't know how to be color blind, around here: the south end of our county votes better than 90% Republican, and the south end is also pure white.
Nor is it pure white by accident: anyone who isn't a white Christian 'conservative' had better not settle there, unless they like replacing windows, repairing flats, and having anything laying around loose on their property vanishing... and those are on the Klan's generous days.
Meanwhile, in central county, the Klan is in retreat: just on Black Friday shopping I saw blacks, a Korean family, Hispanics all over the place, and some Chinese. It felt like I was back in civilization!
"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "
--Jonathan Rauch, Salon Magazine, March 13, 2000
*the number is now forty
Why?Now back to the topic.
Lack of imagination maybe... but as pointed out, I guess it is the same in Australia right? So since you think USAmericans should be able to answer the question, you should be able to answer it as well... no?