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Fourth Annual Latke Festival
BAM Cafe 12/10, 6:30 p.m.; 30 Lafayette Ave., nr. Ashland Pl.; 718-623-7811
Sure, you love your mother's latkes. But she doesn't have to know about this. At this annual chowdown, some of New York's finest kitchens (including Dough, Kutsher's Tribeca, Norma's, and Balaboosta) shred, season, and fry their best potato pancakes to impress a panel of cooks, food writers, and festivalgoers. And if you really think highly of your family recipe, you can submit it for a chance to compete. Or just head over and fill up on fancy latkes and drinks.
Sixth Annual Menorah Horah! Hanukkah Burlesque
Highline Ballroom 12/9, 8 p.m.; 431 W. 16th St., nr. Ninth Ave.; 212-414-5994
If you're looking for retro glitz and glamour, plus more colors than eight candles could ever hold, Menorah Horah! is the best place to spend a little gelt. Dancers (eight, of course) bring back the vanishing art of erotica in this aesthetic time warp and cultural mash-up with big-time holiday production value.
Hanukkah Family Day
The Jewish Museum 12/9, noon4 p.m.; 1109 Fifth Ave., at 92nd St.; 212-423-3200
For a family affair, head to the Jewish Museum for an afternoon spent making menorahs out of found objects, creating dreidels (you know you'll need them), dancing, and touring their famous collection of Hanukkah lamps. This is a holiday tradition for all ages, artistic proclivities, and intellectual curiosities.
Poppy Seed Players: Judy and the Maccabees
Merkin Concert Hall 12/9, 11 a.m.; 129 W. 67th St., at Broadway; 212-501-3303
With the coming of each Jewish holiday, The Poppy Seed Players offer kid-friendly re-tellings (read: short, with jokes and songs) of the story behind the celebration. Hanukkah is no exception, and promises a story in which Judy is "a feisty young girl" who bucks the menial chores assigned to her and wins the day.
Annual Chanukah Concert
Center for Jewish History 12/9 at 3 p.m.; 15 W. 16th St., nr. Fifth Ave.; 212-463-6040
The CJH's annual Hanukkah concert will feature jazz sax and clarinetist Anat Cohen, the Jazz Journalists Association's Clarinetist of the Year for five years running. It's the first time anyone has earned that honor, and it's even more astounding than the fact that there's a Jazz Journalists Assocation.
Chanukah Lights
Center for Jewish History 12/16 at 11 a.m.; 15 W. 16th St., nr. Fifth Ave.; 212-463-6040
Author Penninah Schram invites families to practice oral-history traditions on the last day of Hanukkah. The program is part of Family Stories at the Center, focusing on genealogy and oral history, and families and participants get to illustrate their memories of the holiday with guidance from Schram's own storytelling. A great way to literally make history.
+ Latkes Hanukkah Celebration
92YTribeca 12/13 at 7 p.m.; 200 Hudson St., nr. Canal St.; 212-601-1000
Beer and fried potatoes go as well together as, well, alcohol and holidays. The pairing is even better when beer expert Dan Moss chooses brews to complement the innovative latkes of chef Russell Moss. A great sampling if you've never tried latkes before, and if you have, it's an even better way to find a new favorite variety.
Sephardic Music Festival
Le Poisson Rouge 12/12 at 9:45 p.m.; 158 Bleecker St., nr. Thompson St.; 212-505-3474
Nothing makes it feel like the Hanukkah season like some old-fashioned Senegalese drumming. For Le Poisson Rouge's 8th Annual Sephardic Music Festival, Zion80 combines Afrobeat and the music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Hasidic New Wave teams up with Yakar Rhythms drum ensemble, and the inventive Mika Karney performs from her newest album, Kol Dodi. Expect dancing. A lot of dancing.
Chanukah on Ice
Wollman Rink 12/10 at 6 p.m.; 59th St., nr. East Dr.; 212-439-6900
The gloom of December can bring down even the most lighthearted of us. Embrace the cold weather by joining Chabad for a night of skating and the lighting of a six-foot-tall menorah carved out of ice. The spectacle wouldn't be complete without the a cappella choir, the Yeshiva Maccabeats, and, of course, complimentary kosher food.
Lighting of the World's Largest Hanukkah Menorah
Grand Army Plaza at Central Park, 12/816, 5:30 p.m.; 59th St. at Fifth Ave.
The city boasts what is said to be the world's biggest menorah, standing at 32 feet and weighing in at 4,000 pounds. Mayor Bloomberg will ride up on a hydraulic platform to light a candle and kick off the holiday.
The Eight Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo
Maxwell's 12/815; 1039 Washington St., at 11th St., Hoboken, New Jersey; 201-653-1703
Original alt-rockers and Hoboken natives Yo La Tengo take to Maxwell's in what has become a holiday tradition. The three-piece band keeps each night's opening band and comedians (why don't more bands do this for the interlude?) a secret, then invites guest musicians onstage to join in their epic sets. Unfortunately, all eight shows are officially sold out. Here's to hoping a loved one bought you a ticket for a Hanukkah present.


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Healthy Minds: The American Psychiatric Association's online resource for mental health information. Here you will find information on many common mental health concerns, including warning signs of mental disorders, treatment options and preventative measures.
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A Livability Index
We're always interested in ways to measure how Special a place is. A website called areavibes.com has a Livability Index that has some interesting assumptions.
First, let's see what it makes of some places most of us agree are Not Particularly Special (by which we mean we wouldn't live there for free and we also wouldn't live there unless we were paid Larry Ellison's stock options).
Here's areavibes on Detroit.
Detroit, MI is "Somewhat Livable." The only "A" grade it received was in cost of living, and that's because the city will pay you to take one of their excess houses so they don't have to pay to tear it down. We can't imagine what kind of city would merit a "Completely Out of the Question." Let's move another to another Perennial of Pwnage: Stockton.
I can see the new Civic Motto over City Hall (if they have any staff capable of hanging banners): Stockton! Four Points More Livable Than Detroit! But they are an important four points, as Stockton is considered "Very Livable."
We now move on toward the Bay Area, but not the Good Part.
When Stockton has finer amenities than you do, and their weather is better too, plus your housing costs are unacceptably high to anyone outside the Bay Area, what's the point of even entering the race? Let's try a better zip code.
Ooooo! Exceptionally Livable! And what's really exceptional is that if we type in an actual zip code, the score went down.
Good luck figuring out why. Finally, we arrive at the pinnacle of Real Bay Area Living.
We invite you to try to score higher than that, either in the Bay Area, or anywhere else. And we don't want you to think these "grades" are completely pulled out of Mitt Romney's car elevator. Here, for example, is what the housing grade is based on:
Cupertino scores higher than average in every category. Why would they be marked down for better numbers?
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nabbruzzese necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 102 diseños de 44 diseñadores freelance.
Kineo was founded recently to service a large international telco to aide them in devising and executing marketing programs in the digital arena. So far the brand and logo was only mentioned in the occasional pitch PowerPoint presentations but now needs to be formalized.
There are two variations to the brand name, mKineo and just kineo, for both of which the new logo should work. The reason being that this is not completely decided yet and is influenced by many other factors.
In both cases the greek word kineo means to innovate and is made up out of the words kines, which means movement, and neo, which means new. However, in the mKineo case, the "m" is added to emphasise the "marketing" innovation part on which the company specializes.
mKineo or kineo provides strategic digital marketing consulting services to large blue chip corporations around the world, designed to help these companies increase the ROI in an increasingly complex (digital technology) environment.
We create an overarchig strategy that suits all different internal business units and stake holders and then also project manage the implementation and execution of these strategies. However, in contrast to existing agency groups we are not doing this with internal resources but we contract the different project parts out to best of breed providers in the specific fields and only take care of the overall project management to ensure to all project parts fit into the overarching strategy.
For example, the telco in question might engage us to drive more online and retails sales and we would coordinate all parties involved to reach this goal, e.g. companies to build the actual websits, retail consuting companies, media companies purchasing media placements, technology companies providing analytics and ad serving, brand and creative companies coming up with great communication ideas.
- Logo that works both with the word kineo and mKineo
- Potential tag line for both is "marketing innovation"
- In the mKineo case the "m" could be highlighted in a different colour or otherwise different style
- Logo should incorporate the "innovation" idea based on the original meaning of "movement" and "new"
- The current logo (and colors) under http://kineo.com.au is well liked but is lacking a recognizable icon and professional execution
- Logo needs to work both on a black and white background
- All artwork with layers intact in Photoshop format
- Overly fancy designs and icons, keep it simple
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|Falcon on eggs and chick with broken egg fragment beside her.
|Inside the Ringing Chamber at Derby Cathedral
I had an opportunity to go up into Derby on Friday, so I called in to the Cathedral and went up to the ringing chamber to check our equipment. It was lucky I did, as one of our DVD recorders had recently frozen up and stopped recording. Having restarted them, I went through the remaining six-hour chunks of recordings that had been made and found a couple of interesting clips which I thought were worth sharing here.
The first was a lovely change over (dare I say, eggs-change?) between the female and the male, around 7.30am on May 3rd. The low, raking sunlight really highlights the shallow depression, or scrape, that the birds make for their nest, and you can really get a feel for the difference in size between the larger female (falcon) and the much smaller male (known as a tiercel)
The second clip shows a lovely sequence with our adult male arriving with food. You can just hear him calling very faintly in the distance as he flies in with prey. He continues calling from the tower top, and the adult female responds to him. She sounds so much louder because she is incubating four eggs on a nest platform on which our microphone is located, and it picks her up so much more clearly . After a few moments she flies up to take the food item from him, flies briefly around the tower and then returns to a favoured point to start the process of plucking and feeding.
For those wondering about my future involvement with the Peregrine Project, I can only say that the project partners met last week to discuss how we take things forward this season. My former colleagues at Derby Museum are also working on getting permission for me to continue accessing the City Council's VPN (virtual private network) which for the last four years has allowed me to zoom the cameras in and out, listen for activity and remotely restart the equipment or to switch camera feeds. Whether I get new passwords to access that network before the eggs hatch our remains to be seen. It'll be touch and go, I fear.
But rest assured that we'll do all we can to maintain the same level of activity and involvement which brings so many of you in to watch and read about Derby's famous peregrines, or to visit Derby for yourselves. In fact, we hope we can find ways to enhance things in the year ahead. We're always keen to listen to viewers suggestions, too. Just leave us a comment on this blog with your ideas.


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WHEN: Tuesday, December 5: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. | WHERE: The Ice at Canalside
You've seen it on the Olympics, now try it for yourself! The Ice at Canalside has two curling lanes available to reserve during open skate hours*, presented by Catholic Health!
- Cost: $15 per person for one hour (minimum of 4 people, max of 10 people)
- On Tuesdays – Thursdays or Fridays before 4:00 pm, hold your match and receive a complimentary pre and post game water, soda, or Labatt Blue/Blue Light
- Includes: Instructor and all the equipment you will need (stones, grippers & sliders, brushes)
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Hours (hours may vary depending on weather conditions):
- Sunday: 10 am – 8 pm
- Monday: Closed (except 12/26, 1/2, 1/16, & 2/20)
- Tuesday & Wednesday: 3 pm – 7 pm
- Thursday: 11 am – 7 pm
- Friday & Saturday: 10 am – 10 pm
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When coming to the site to play, go to the Canalside Winter Lodge presented by Airbnb to sign in, learn about the game and sign your waiver. To save time, make sure all people in a curling party sign their Assumption of Risk waiver online!
Assumption of Risk: All skaters and curlers at The Ice at Canalside are required to sign an Assumption of Risk waiver before their first visit to The Ice. You can click the link at the bottom of your screen to save time by reading and signing your waiver at home. You will still be required to check in at the Admission Kiosk before entering The Ice.


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Talihina opens District 2A-6 play against Panama tonight for Homecoming
After four weeks, the Talihina Golden Tigers will finally get to play a District 2A-6 contest. The Golden Tigers (4-0, 0-0 in district play), ranked 10th in the Class 2A Poll, will entertain the Panama Razorbacks (0-4, 0-1) at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Doc Robinson Stadium.With the set-up of District 2A-6 having only seven teams, it means that each team has four non-district games on its schedule. It just so happened that Talihina got the luck of getting all four of its non-District 2A-6 contests in the first four weeks of the regular season. Now, the Golden Tigers are ready for the real season to commence."We got our four non-district games out of the way," Talihina Coach Kelly Gravitt said. "We won them all. Now, we need to concentrate on district play from here on. The kids did a great job last week getting a win over Antlers (by a score of 41-6). They're ready to go into district play now."As for the 'Backs, they just keep hoping that each night will provide an end to the losing streak by the end of the fourth quarter."Each week, we're fighting to get that first win," first-year Panama Coach Brandon Ellis said. "It would be sweet to have it come against the defending district champs. We have to continue to work hard, and correct our mistakes. Eventually, we'll correct them all."


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KFrancis32 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 248 designs submitted by 59 freelance designers.
AdvanceWare Inc. is a software company that develops software for the kitchen and bath manufacturing industry. We develop design, pricing and cut listing software for cabinet makers (1 man shops to large cabinet manufacturers), interior designers, builders, and architects.
Our products include:
Room design (so the customer can visualize the cabinets in a kitchen or bath).
Pricing (so the customer can get a price for the cabinets).
Cut lists (so the manufacturer knows the pieces and parts to cut to create the cabinets).
Cabinet Makers (from 1 man shops to large cabinet manufacturers)
Kitchen and Bath Dealers
Interior Designers
We like the current AW symbol that is the same both up and down. However it is NOT a requirement that it looks just like that. Please show us some creative designs! Either build off of the existing shape of the logo or create something new.
Want the company name also in the logo (see current for example). Can be above, below, beside, etc.
We would like to see logos 2D and 3D. 3D for the website and also 2D for logo branding on company polo/t-shirts.
Color other than the current is fine. Don't go too crazy with the colors as cabinet makers are usually conservative in what they are looking for.
Wood grain in the logo might be cool but is not a requirement.
A bonus would somehow be able to incorporate what we develop into the logo.
Example: Logo + room design, Logo + Pricing, Logo + Cut Lists
So they could be used for software box cover art.
Please no cabinets in the logo. Even though our current primary focus is cabinet manufacturers we plan to expand beyond that market in the future.
We will know the right design when we see it!!!
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Watching a few couples sex tapes at home got me thinking where have all the real amateur porn gone? Once upon a time there used to be plenty of it around and finding it required hardly any effort at all. I just did a quick search for amateur porn and what I found I'd hardly call amateur. It's good to know there's always something to fall back on, it's good to know that I can still get my fix of amateur styled porn when the mood arises and there's no doubt in my mind that I'm able to get it thanks to that link.


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(Too Many) Variations on a Theme
It's great that people blog– I just wish they'd stop saying the same thing.
Through school, students write papers to demonstrate subject knowledge, less so to articulate original thought. Old habits die hard, people start blogging, and in this age of instant worldwide publishing, we end up chewing on a lot of cud.
It's not that people are boring, stupid, or have nothing to say– (though, that's debatable…) Years of response-based writing inclines people to offer reactions than articulate their own, original ideas.
It's much easier to write reactions than create ideas and be wrong. Save nothing of the social anxieties for being wrong, describing new ideas is a hard thing to do.
People tend to follow the path of least resistance and thus the blogosphere saturates itself with commentary. And, since the blogosphere moves with such great velocity, it's near impossible to keep track of everything that's been said.
Unfortunately, all contributions — and I use that term loosely — are indexed and compiled into the same channel. We call it "Google", and the signal-to-noise ratio goes up. Way up.
Responses typically fall into certain categories. (Ask anyone who grades papers or reads hundreds of blogs.) With blogging, there's just more. It seems more people are interested in demonstrating knowledge than contributing new thought.
My theory is that this happens subconsciously. Years of response-based education create this need– it's how we were graded by our superiors and evaluated by our peers. People need to show that they know something.
There's no problem with that, except that this need generates millions of blog posts. In result, we saturate our knowledge space and make it near impossible to wade through.


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January: The Godhead
"We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost" (Articles of Faith 1:1).
The outlines in this unit will help the young men understand the true nature of the members of the Godhead and the roles of each in fulfilling Heavenly Father's plan of salvation. This knowledge will help the young men come to understand better their own divine identity and purpose as sons of God.
To make Duty to God part of the Sunday quorum meeting, you may consider teaching the Duty to God outline below during this unit.
Outlines to choose from this month:
Note to the teacher
Throughout this unit, you may want to remind the young men that the names of Deity are sacred (see D&C 63:61). Encourage them to use these names with reverence and respect.
Consider how you can plan activities that connect with what the youth are learning. A youth activities site is available to assist you. Many of the learning activities in these outlines could also serve as effective Mutual activities. Work with quorum presidencies to select and plan appropriate activities that reinforce what the young men learn on Sunday.
Duty to God
The following sections from the Duty to God book relate to the lessons in this unit:
"Pray and Study the Scriptures," pages 14–15, 38–39, 62–63


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"My Name is Barbra." Well, not my name. That was one of her early albums that catapulted her to legendary status. I didn't realize she was still performing live concerts, but stumbled across that information when I was looking for the lyrics of a song.
My road to see Barbra Streisand in person has been a long one, so please indulge me while I give you some history regarding my own experience.
In 1964 I went with a group of my high school class to New York City. This was a reward for our work in theatre and for being accepted into a select group called Masque and Gavel. I felt honored to have made the cut, but embarrassed in a way because of those who did not. Even for high school students there's a certain amount of politics involved in such things. A very good friend of mine was barred from membership in Masque and Gavel. All of our teachers had the authority to block an individual from this relatively prestigious group. I slipped under the wire, while she did not.
Whichever teacher decided that my friend, whom we shall call Tara, was not worthy of this honor clearly missed the point. Tara went on to win the Tennessee Williams Playwright Award and twice was named Florida's Playwright of the year. I doubt that teacher would admit her error. That's the way life is. None of us who made the cut, at least among my closest friends, understood this oversight. I remember, to this day, waving to Tara from the chartered bus as we drove away to New York. Tears streamed down her cheeks at the realization that she would not be a part of this wonderful opportunity, which she truly deserved.
Our drama teacher was an aged dynamo who had garnered attention from her colleagues as national president of Masque and Gavel. We had an outstanding drama program. She planned this trip for us so that we would come away from The Big Apple with stars in our eyes. We saw many of the tourist sites that have become icons of not only that great city, but of our country. The most exciting events were the theatre we were able to experience firsthand. Coming from a town where the tallest spires were smoke stacks that released black soot into the air we breathed, New York was literally and figuratively a breath of fresh air.
Our teacher and tour guide had planned for us a really exciting time on our respite from the hum-drum of a regular school day. We stayed at the Taft Hotel. Right across the street from our hotel, Barbra Streisand was carving her name into Broadway history as the star in "Funny Girl." She was not all that well known at the time of our trip, so we were treated to "Hello, Dolly" starring Carol Channing, "Oliver," starring Georgia Brown, and "A Case of Libel," starring Van Heflin.
Now, forty-eight years later, I finally got to see Barbra Live, in concert, and what a concert it was. At the United Center in Chicago, which is where hockey teams bang about the ice thrilling enthusiasts of that sport. I'm guessing that Barbra's audience included 20,000 fans, give or take a few.
Features of this concert included Ms. Streisand, three young Italian singers known as Il Volo, trumpeter Chris Botti, Jason Gould, Barbra's son sired by the famous Elliott Gould, and Rosalind Kind, Barbra's sister. A full orchestra enhanced the music immeasurably.
Anyone who has followed her career knows that she is politically outspoken, and while she did not belabor the point, she got a couple of subtle comments in that reflected her hopes for the outcome of the coming election. One question from the audience asked if her political involvement had hurt her career. She glanced around the arena at the 20,000 people and surmised that she was probably in good shape, career wise.
Barbra opened the concert with "On a Clear Day," which not only referred to one of the musical movies she made, but also set the theme of looking at our past to help us plan our future. It is well known that she plays a central role in putting together any program of which she is a part. This concert was clearly no exception as she was listed as executive producer, writer and star, just to name a few of parts she played.
Ms. Streisand is now 70 years old. It's difficult to say exactly how it felt to be in the same room where she was singing live. Clearly, she is not the ingénue she was at age 18, which she remarked was her age the first time she sang in Chicago. She is, however, masterful at making the most out of a song, hitting notes that should be out of reach and holding tone longer than could be fairly expected. Her power of interpretation, though, is one of the marks of her genius.
There's no way she could possibly sing all of the songs she made her own. The concert would still be in progress if that were the goal. She did hit the high spots, but I think the audience would have stayed with her through whatever she offered.
Il Volo is made up of three young Italian men. As she introduced them, she asked their ages. One was seventeen, another eighteen and the oldest nineteen. Adding them together along with another 16 year old would equal the age of Ms. Streisand. These young men can sing, and have powerful and rich voices, but they lack the nuance of truly sensitive and seasoned performer. This is hardly a criticism, but just a fact that seems obvious given their ages. Their trademark anthem is "O Solo Mio." They sang another Italian song and with Ms. Streisand, sang a sort of antiphonal version of "Smile," but even singing along side their host, they seemed to be in competition with each other. There's a lot to be said for holding back and leaving an audience wanting more. One thing musicians learn is that if there are no quiet spots, the full-voiced loud spots lose impact. Contrast is one of the elements of music that lends a great deal to any musical presentation.
Chris Botti has taken the place of past trumpeters like Al Hirt, Doc Severinson and Chuck Mangione as the premiere player of that vibrant instrument. He mixes just the right amount of jazz improvisation with his treatment of standard moving ballads as he keeps the melody just at the outer sphere of the listener's consciousness. Botti accompanied Ms. Streisand in her presentation of songs from "A Star is Born," including "Lost Inside of You" and "Evergreen."
Jason Gould has kept a low profile and is just starting to eke his way into the world of soloists. His place in this concert tour will undoubtedly help him in his pursuit of that goal. His tender treatment of melody and attention to touching lyrics will surely help him carve out his spot in the entertainment world.
Contrary to what one might expect, having Barbra Streisand as his mother is probably not much help to him. The bar is set really quite high, but I believe he will make his mark. Together, Jason and his mother sang "How Deep is the Ocean." On his own he shared the tune made famous by George Benson, "Masquerade." He really did an excellent job, managing to avoid over singing and over-embellishing, a trap that many current singers fall into.
Streisand's sister, Rolyn Kind, joined her to sing the famous quodlibet that Streisand sang with the great Judy Garland so many years ago. A quodlibet is a musical technique that marries two or more existing melodies that are performed simultaneously. "Happy Days are Here Again" and "Sing Hallelujah, Come On, Get Happy" may not have been the high point of the concert, but Barbra leaned toward honoring some of the greats who influenced her along the way.
Marvin Hamlisch, who passed away just a couple of months ago at age 68 got a tip of the hat for "The Way We Were." She also mentioned his brilliant writing for the musical "A Chorus Line," which garnered an impressive number of awards.
Other tunes that made the concert complete included "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "Nice 'n' Easy," "Here's to Life," "Don't Rain on My Parade," and of course, "People."
Chicago's Christian Choir joined in the finale, "Make Our Garden Grow," from the musical "Candide," for a fitting and moving tribute to Leonard Bernstein as well as to Ms. Streisand's efforts to emphasize the need for us to care for the planet we inhabit.
Actress/ singer/ director/ writer/ composer/ producer/ designer/ author/ photographer/ activist Barbra Streisand is the only artist ever to receive Oscar, Tony Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards, as well as the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors.
A true super-star, she came across as a down to earth and warm person who deeply cares about the environment and her family. She wove these two aspects of her concern into a well designed show that charged her audience with the responsibility of stewardship for our environment for the sake of future generations. She performed with every guest and spent most of the two and half hours in the spotlight, with only a few short breaks. The audience clearly reached the end of the concert with the same enthusiasm apparent at the start of the concert. I would be greatly surprised to learn that a single person left this concert less than thrilled.
I can think of no other performer who has so brilliantly used her voice, her power of interpretation and her genuine care for the causes she supports. She began The Streisand Foundation in 1986 because of her grave concern over nuclear proliferation following the Chernobyl disaster, her awareness of global warming and a deep believe in the civil rights and liberties of all people. Since its inception, the Foundation has supported over 800 nonprofit organizations, awarding nearly 2,300 grants that have helped to strengthen our democracy, alleviate global warming, and advocate for those without a voice. In 2008, women's heart disease became a priority of the Foundation's grantmaking when Ms. Streisand learned that it is the number one killer of women worldwide.
"I believe that we are all connected and that life works only when we are responsible for one another." Barbra Streisand


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At the same time, student-athletes led a number of games and clinics on the fields next to the Cuyler Field and Dwyer Track complex. More than 50 representatives from Yale's varsity teams became a part of the festivities, passing out t-shirts, joining in games, and cooking and serving food to the Youth Day participants and their families. The assistance of student-athletes throughout the event was an integral part of making the day a huge success.
At the conclusion of the sports clinics, kids and their families were invited to a barbeque lunch in Hospitality village, where New Haven Department of Parks and Recreation held the finals of their Punt, Pass and Kick competition. The village also hosted a number of family friendly events, like a bouncy house, a basketball shootout, and informational displays from local police and fire departments, as well as giveaways from local minor league teams.
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Following the Yale game, the bowl hosted a Shoreline football game between North Haven and East Haven.
The beautiful weather was highlighted by the smiles on the faces of all participants. Thanks to the support of the community, Youth Day 2009 continues to thrive.
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When Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, December 14, inexplicably bent on ending as many lives as possible, he was carrying a Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle and several high-capacity magazines. Sadly, this isn't the first time the country has had to deal with the aftermath of a horrific shooting spree, nor is it the first time we've encountered an AR-15 in this context: only days earlier, it was the weapon of choice for a shooting at an Oregon mall that killed two people. Five months earlier, it was used by James Holmes in an attack that wounded fifty-eight people and killed twelve in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater. And several years before that, a man and his teenage accomplice used a Bushmaster AR-15 to terrorize the Washington, DC, area with a series of random shootings.
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It is not unlawful to sell guns on-line. Like individual sales and gun shows, firearms checks are not required. A glaring loophole in the laws that require background checks.
As for Wal*Mart, the nearest one to us is sixty miles away. However, if I wanted any sort of weapon, there is a guns and ammo shop around the corner from our house.
He has no computer in his shop to do on-line checks. You are required to fill in the Federal Firearms form, which he then mails. But since there is no waiting period for a gun, as long as your cash money or credit is good, you walk out with the gun or ammo.
By the time a firearm check comes back, you could be long gone (assuming you don't live in the village).
And as for firearms on-line, all you need to do is check a search engine for on-line sellers: you would be amazed at the number available. For example:
And check out the shotguns (long barrel guns do not require background checks at all):
Does that include sniper rifles?
A sniper rifle is just a rifle that is very accurate.
Such items as tripods, scopes, &c are not weapons and thus do not require background checks.
Any gun which can be legally purchased without a special license (such as a machine gun) can be purchased on-line, individually, or from the Internet from an individual (such as E-bay or many classified ad gun Websites).
As for your post on Wal*Mart, makes me glad the nearest one is sixty miles away. (On the other hand, our village's gun shop is around the corner from my house, but the owner is scrupulous with the law. However, he makes most of his money going to gun shows as you cannot make a bunch selling guns in a village of 128 people, and at gun shows a background check is not required.)
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Renogram; Kidney scan
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The specific type of scan may vary. This article provides a general overview.
A renal scan is similar to a
You will be asked to lie on the scanner table. The health care provider will place a tight band or blood pressure cuff on your upper arm. This creates pressure and helps your arm veins become bigger. The inner elbow is scrubbed with numbing medicine (antiseptic) and a small amount of
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A renal scan tells your doctor how your kidneys work. It also shows their size, position, and shape. It is may be done if:
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Apple's refusal to enter an agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) that forbids it from signing a deal that "restricts, limits, or impedes the ebook retailer's ability to set, alter, or reduce the retail price of any ebook," is likely to be an attempt to save its iBookstore from being diminished.
The DOJ ruling would stop Apple from being able to deal with publishers using an agency model that allows publishers to set their own prices. In contrast Amazon uses a wholesale pricing scheme, selling their ebooks below cost. As a result of Amazon's strategy, publishers are struggling to charge the full price for printed books. (More below)
It is thought that Apple's lawyers may make a case that the agency model actually increases competition, allowing ebook rivals to take back some of the 90 per cent market share Amazon had amassed.
The US Department of Justice sued Apple and five major book publishers, accusing them of colluding to raise ebook prices. Three publishers have reportedly accepted the DOJ settlement, while Apple and two publishers – MacMillan and Penguin – have refused to negotiate.
The settlement, according to the Wall Street Journal, would tear up the contracts publishers have already signed with Apple, scrap the most-favored nation clause that stopped them selling books more cheaply to Amazon or elsewhere, and impose a "cooling-off period" before they could sign another deal.
The DOJ believes that the waiting period would allow publishers and booksellers to resume a one-to-one relationship, "free of the taint of collusion." However, it is the length of that cooling-off period that Apple takes issue with. The Journal suggests that such a cooling-off period could give Amazon time to sell ebooks at a lower price. A lower price-point, plus the additional 30 per cent surcharge due to Apple, would make the iBookstore less attractive to publishers.
The US Justice department and the European Commission have been investigating Apple and a number of book publishers who are suspected of pushing up ebook prices.


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Release Date: December 26th, 2004
The MAC High Tea Collection is packed full of new products. You'll be able to glam up from head to toe in a sophisticated way. It has a little of something from nail color to mascara and everything in between.
I am a big fan of soft pink colors and this collection has plenty of them. The frosty pinks offer a soft elegant look, but if you want to make a bolder statement for the winter, there are plenty of reds and greens with a bit of gold, silver, and bronze.
I don't always bother investing in nail polish, but I just might have to try the new Eccentrici-tea simply because the name is beyond clever, even for MAC. I can't wait to see what a pink nail polish with green pearl accents will look like.
This collection has a lot to offer, maybe even a little too much. I personally like it when the collection is just a little more focused, but maybe that's just because the big ones end up hurting my wallet too much! Anyhow review to complete product list to pick your favorites.
Brew-Neutral beige
Dainty Cake – Coral with red/orange frost
High Tea – Neutral pink with small pearl particles
Oolong – Musted bronzed-brown with icy silver shimmer
Plink! -Pink with white pearl
Darjeerling—Chocolate brown with red frost
Fine China—Light pink with frost
Nymphette—Sunned golden pink
Tartlette—Coral/pink with frost
Fresh Cream—Light neutral pink
Rosemary & Thyme—Mid-tone olive gold with Shimmer
Angelcake—Pink with red pearl
Buttersilk—Soft, yellow white
Green Tea—Smoked, olive green
Jasmine—Sinfully rich cocoa
Redcoco—Metallic, red pink
Steep—Light neutral pink
Sweet Lust—Pink rose water
Tempting—Olive green
Vanilla—Soft pale peachy-ivory flecked with shimmer
Sweet Tea Eyeshadow Quad—Redcoco, Buttersilk, Green Tea, Sweet Lust
Zoomblack—Deepest darkest black
Porcelain Pink—Pinkish coral with gold sparkle
So Ceylon—Rose bronze with golden bronze sparkle
Duchess—Yellow green with gold pearl
Eccentrici-tea—Pink with green pearl
Enriched Gold—Green gold with red pigment
Little Pink—Pink with silver pigment


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- Dark Chocolate Hershey Syrup! Quickly dot or squiggle a design on dessert plates before putting the dessert on the plate. Sprinkle with a dusting of powder sugar just before serving.
- Scoop single servings of pink and green peppermint ice cream into festive cup cake papers, arrange on a pretty platter and store in the freezer until time to serve. Saves time and mess. You can even use chocolate chips and small candies to make vanilla ice cream balls look like happy snowmen faces! Ice cream and chocolate brownies suddenly look gourmet.
- Serve whole, buttered green beans with a sprinkle of slivered almonds and chopped, dried cranberries (Craisins). It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
- Use whole frozen strawberries and cranberries in chilled drinks instead of ice cubes.
- Like to serve 'sit down' dinner parties? Mix up a mashed potato casserole ahead of time and pipe individual servings on a cookie sheet. They bake quickly and are ready to slide onto plates next to the meat entree'.
- Forget dessert, serve a coffee and cocoa buffet. Brew a great pot of coffee. Put out a couple bottles of flavored syrups, a dish of 'dried' brown sugar*, a shaker of cocoa powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. Serve the unsweetened cream whipped, and in a pretty bowl - it's so much fun to spoon whipped cream into your coffee.
- *Set out a small dish of brown sugar early in the day. As it dries, stir out any lumps. It sprinkles nicely and gives a great flavor to coffee. Dried brown sugar is also great for rolling strawberries that have been dipped in sour cream.
- Your sanity has a price, you don't have to have the perfect recipe if you know where you can find great food you can buy already prepared. Our area bakery and deli departments all have special things that are favorites of mine... party trays, cakes, seafood spreads, dips, salads and cheeses. Always try the samples, and keep a list of things you've tasted and where you found them, so you're prepared to buy a few of those extra treats you need in a pinch.
- MERRY CHRISTMAS! May your hearts and homes be 'filled' with love. Terri
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A few days ago my friend Sandra (author of the blog, "Presépio com Vista para o Canal") came to Zwolle for a visit. The plan was to have a lazy lunch and walk around town a little. Since we were having a spell of nice weather with lots of sun and clear sky, I thought it would be a good idea to sit somewhere nice near the water in the city centre and have a bit of a picnic.
Sandra is always very receptive and enthusiastic about discovering traditions and habits from other parts of the world, so I came up with a little surprise for her. Before leaving the house, I boiled some water and poured it into a thermos flask I brought from Argentina. What surprise did I have in mind? Well, pouring Sandra some mates, of course!
|Pouring "mates" for friends.
|My collection of mate gourds from Argentina.
Because mate is such an important part of our everyday lives back in Argentina, I thought that Sandra would be interested in tasting it and hearing all about it. In order to prepare and pour this infusion you need a bit of equipment: the thermos flask for the hot water, the yerba mate or dry leaves to be brewed, some sugar, the gourd to pour it in (also called mate) and the metal filter straw. You can also add other herbs to the mate or even orange or lemon peel to give it a citrus flavour.
|The raw gourds waiting to be carved and polished to be used to pour mates.
|The metal straws wih filters, used to sip the mates from the gourd.
|My carpincho leather case to transport the mate equipment. Photo by Sandra.
Finally, the moment to open the mysterious leather case arrived. We sat by the canal, I opened the case, took the thermos out -nothing odd there, maybe it was coffee? tea? spirits?- and then out came the tumbler containing the dried leaves of yerba mate and I started preparing the drink. First I took the gourd, filled 3/4 of it with the yerba, then shook it a bit to make the loose powder to go to the surface and avoid them from going through the sieve and drinking them. Then I placed the metal filter straw to one side and I also added a pinch of peppermint leaves to give it more taste. Instead of sugar I normally use sweetener so I added some of that and then poured the hot water. The first mate is always for the cebador (the person pouring it) to make sure it is prepared correctly, so I had the first one and I made sure it was ok. Then, I poured again and passed it to Sandra. What did Sandra think of it?
Well, I am sure that it tasted quite strange to her, probably! Drinking mate is an acquired taste and the first few sips or the first few rounds of mate will definitely taste a bit too strong and probably bitter, We, Argentines, drink it normally from an early age and some of us don't even get to really like it, but because it is usually done socially, we always join in the mate circles while spending time with friends or family.
|Rosario, a friend's daughter, is not yet 3 years old and she already drinks mates as an expert!
I am not sure what Sandra thought of those first sips of mate, but I do know that she was rather impressed with the ritual and the health benefits that yerba mate offers. So, guess what I am giving her for her birthday?
|Packets of different types of yerba mate.
Thank you, Sandra, for posting this article about mate and your visit in your blog and for letting me use your photo of the "magic case"!


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Filed under: Indian Subcontinent | Tags: Air Strikes, Al-Qaeda, Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto, Bhutto Mazaar, Bhuttos, Chair of Pakistna Studies, Charlie Wilson, Fatima Bhutto, Garhi Khuda Bux, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Inter-Services Intelligence, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Karachi, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Mohammad Azam Khan, Mujahedin, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistani President, Pakistani Sovereignty, Pakistani Taliban, Pakistanis, Peshawar Model School, President Pervez Musharraf, President Zardari, Salman Rushdie, Sind, South Waziristan, Sufi Shrine, Taj Mahal, Taliban, Terorism, Terroist, United States, US Drones, Yousuf Raza Gilani
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Source: New Statesman
The old Bhutto mazaar, or graveyard, is in a small town called Garhi Khuda Bux. It is not fair to call it a town; it's a hamlet really, nestled between swaths of fertile agricultural land and small town centres that cater to travelling traders and produce distributors. When I was younger, I used to know we were close to the mazaar as we drove by the old paan wallah. He was a geriatric who sold betel-leaf paans, conical beedi cigarettes and a pack or two of Gold Leaf extra-strong smokes from the table he sat on. The mazaar itself was hundreds of years old and is where the Bhuttos have been buried since they settled in Sind. Wooden pillars, carved with lattice designs, marked the absence of the four walls that would have enclosed the open-air burial site. It was a sombre resting place: four corners of Sind lay open around you, and the dusty smell of the air in Garhi Khuda Bux's desert climate surrounded mourners who came to mark death anniversaries and birthdays.
It's all gone now.
It was torn down by the last member of the family to be buried there, Benazir Bhutto, and rebuilt as a mausoleum. In a country where politics has always orbited around personalities, she was determined that Continue reading


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i dont think ras i will be there at 63 but davon house will be
i dont think ras i will be there at 63 but davon house will be
I hope they trade up to get on of the Aaron Williams or Rasi Dowling in the 2nd...
Get rid of some of the later picks that end up being cut anyways.
maybe offer a third this year and a third next year that way we get two picks this year in the second
Dont give up late round picks because people are going to Fall(due to injury like Cannon & Romeus)
Highly doubt he's there at 63, but it's decently likely that we trade up to snag one.
If not, I don't see any reason one of the corners that have been mentioned around here won't fall into that range. And of course, there's my other guy out of Miami in Van Dyke in later rounds.
And we need to save at least a fifth for Cannon. Because I'll be heartbroken if we don't take him.
Davon House, CB, New Mexico State: Once again the 6-1, 200-pound House ran well, bettering his 4.4 Combine
He finished the season with 37 tackles, 21 solo efforts, eight pass breakups, two tackles-for-a-loss, four interceptions with 171 return yards, 94 kickoff return yards and 283 yards of all-purpose yardage. His four interceptions led the team and his 171 interception return yards broke the school record that was set back in 1981.
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the 6-0, 200 pound House had been expected to be among the fastest cornerbacks tested in Indianapolis and elected to run again Friday at his Pro Day, recording times in the 4.32-4.35 second range, according to a source at the scene. House elected not to do any of the other measureable drills Friday. He was run through a positional workout by Chicago Bears' assistant defensive backs/safeties coach Gill Byrd and "did good, caught everything," according to the source. Catching everything isn't a surprise for House. What he might lack is national name recognition
i could care less if house isnt a known entity he had 11 career picks at nmsu he big and fast with great hands he might be the more realistic pick if we dont trade up
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/me cheers and applauds every Home|Garden blogger out there!
So I started 'styling' these images uh roughly 12 hours ago and wow..WOW. My admiration for the time and effort you all put into your craft is nothing short of amazing. I'm sitting here scratching my head thinking, "Wholly cheeseballs, how do they do this day in and day out?"
If I ever get smart enough to attempt creating something, anything really, the first thing I shall make is an award 6ft tall, gold plated, diamond encrusted statue for every single Home|Garden blogger on the grid. And when you click on it, I'll be durrrn sure it gives off glitter particles, blaring trumpets, and a hallelujah chorus singing your official anthem.
I've been humbled, this wasn't easy, it's not even 'pro', and my gawd, the hours went by faster than I could drink up all of the Nexpresso. Caffeine? Nope, that buzz left a long time ago
Speaking of Nexpresso, here's what actually prompted my feeble attempt today:
Ahhh yes, the proverbial showcased feature out of them all, the piece day resistance..(go away, grammar police, its late!)
AphroditeSL released the teaser pics for their latest masterpiece, The Nexpresso, and what ensued was a day long hate/love affair with home deco and landscaping. And you know what? It really was worth the time, truly because the Nexpresso machines are absolutely gorgeous, and yes, it comes with additional espresso-works-of-arts. All made with love.
I'm not sure if Home & Garden blogging is something I have time to do just yet. What I do know is that the content available to us now, versus 5 years ago, is all the more reason to at least try. Okay, so this little corner on the grid has got some potential, after all. Maybe desire isn't the only thing I'll need though..
Maybe I need step back, and see that the door is open, and all I have to do is walk through it.
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AphroditeSL's Nexpresso Luxury Coffee Machine (See the full details @ their official Facebook Page!)
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"a dozen of gourmet original cold and hot cafes: expresso, latte, capypso, mocha, capuccino, café with cream, whipped vegan café, decaf, three mousses café, iced, Irish & Frappuccino; Contains also a dozen of cups on plate with spoon decorative as gift! "
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The Asian American Movement
Daryl Joji Maeda
The Asian American Movement was a social movement for racial justice, most active during the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, which brought together people of various Asian ancestries in the United States who protested against racism and U.S. neo-imperialism, demanded changes in institutions such as colleges and universities, organized workers, and sought to provide social services such as housing, food, and healthcare to poor people. As one of its signal achievements, the Movement created the category "Asian American," (coined by historian and activist Yuji Ichioka), which encompasses the multiple Asian ethnic groups who have migrated to the United States. Its founding principle of coalitional politics emphasizes solidarity among Asians of all ethnicities, multiracial solidarity among Asian Americans as well as with African, Latino, and Native Americans in the United States, and transnational solidarity with peoples around the globe impacted by U.S. militarism.
The movement participated in solidarity work with other Third World peoples in the United States, including the Third World Liberation Front strikes at San Francisco State College and University of California, Berkeley. The Movement fought for housing rights for poor people in the urban cores of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle, and Philadelphia; it created arts collectives, published newspapers and magazines, and protested vigorously against the Vietnam War. It also extended to Honolulu, where activists sought to preserve land rights in rural Hawai'i. It contributed to the larger radical movement for power and justice that critiqued capitalism and neo-imperialism, which flourished during the 1960s and 1970s.
Asian Americans and the Cold War
Madeline Y. Hsu
The global political divides of the Cold War propelled the dismantling of Asian exclusion in ways that provided greater, if conditional, integration for Asian Americans, in a central aspect of the reworking of racial inequality in the United States after World War II. The forging of strategic alliances with Asian nations and peoples in that conflict mandated at least token gestures of greater acceptance and equity, in the form of changes to immigration and citizenship laws that had previously barred Asians as "aliens ineligible to citizenship."1 During the Cold War, shared politics and economic considerations continued to trump racial difference as the United States sought leadership of the "free" capitalist world and competed with Soviet-led communism for the affiliation and cooperation of emerging, postcolonial Third World nations. U.S. courtship of once-scorned peoples required the end of Jim Crow systems of segregation through the repeal of discriminatory laws, although actual practices and institutions proved far more resistant to change. Politically and ideologically, culture and values came to dominate explanations for categories and inequalities once attributed to differences in biological race. Mainstream media and cultural productions celebrated America's newfound embrace of its ethnic populations, even as the liberatory aspirations inflamed by World War II set in motion the civil rights movement and increasingly confrontational mobilizations for greater access and equality.
These contestations transformed the character of America as a multiracial democracy, with Asian Americans advancing more than any other racial group to become widely perceived as a "model minority" by the 1980s with the popularization of a racial trope first articulated during the 1960s. Asian American gains were attained in part through the diminishing of barriers in immigration, employment, residence, education, and miscegenation, but also because their successes affirmed U.S. claims regarding its multiracial democracy and because reforms of immigration law admitted growing numbers of Asians who had been screened for family connections, refugee status, and especially their capacity to contribute economically. The 1965 Immigration Act cemented these preferences for educated and skilled Asian workers, with employers assuming great powers as routes to immigration and permanent status. The United States became the chief beneficiary of "brain drain" from Asian countries. Geometric rates of Asian American population growth since 1965, disproportionately screened through this economic preference system, have sharply reduced the ranks of Asian Americans linked to the exclusion era and set them apart from Latino, black, and Native Americans who remain much more entrenched in the systems of inequality rooted in the era of sanctioned racial segregation.
Immigration to the United States after 1945
Xiaojian Zhao
Post-1945 immigration to the United States differed fairly dramatically from America's earlier 20th- and 19th-century immigration patterns, most notably in the dramatic rise in numbers of immigrants from Asia. Beginning in the late 19th century, the U.S. government took steps to bar immigration from Asia. The establishment of the national origins quota system in the 1924 Immigration Act narrowed the entryway for eastern and central Europeans, making western Europe the dominant source of immigrants. These policies shaped the racial and ethnic profile of the American population before 1945. Signs of change began to occur during and after World War II. The recruitment of temporary agricultural workers from Mexico led to an influx of Mexicans, and the repeal of Asian exclusion laws opened the door for Asian immigrants. Responding to complex international politics during the Cold War, the United States also formulated a series of refugee policies, admitting refugees from Europe, the western hemisphere, and later Southeast Asia. The movement of people to the United States increased drastically after 1965, when immigration reform ended the national origins quota system. The intricate and intriguing history of U.S. immigration after 1945 thus demonstrates how the United States related to a fast-changing world, its less restrictive immigration policies increasing the fluidity of the American population, with a substantial impact on American identity and domestic policy.
Southeast Asian Americans
Chia Youyee Vang
In geopolitical terms, the Asian sub-region Southeast Asia consists of ten countries that are organized under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Current member nations include Brunei Darussalam, Kingdom of Cambodia, Republic of Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos), Malaysia, Republic of the Union of Myanmar (formerly Burma), Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Kingdom of Thailand, and Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The term Southeast Asian Americans has been shaped largely by the flow of refugees from the American War in Vietnam' however, Americans with origins in Southeast Asia have much more diverse migration and settlement experiences that are intricately tied to the complex histories of colonialism, imperialism, and war from the late 19th through the end of the 20th century. A commonality across Southeast Asian American groups today is that their immigration history resulted primarily from the political and military involvement of the United States in the region, aimed at building the United States as a global power. From Filipinos during the Spanish-American War in 1898 to Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, and Hmong refugees from the American War in Vietnam, military interventions generated migration flows that, once begun, became difficult to stop. Complicating this history is its role in supporting the international humanitarian apparatus by creating the possibility for displaced people to seek refuge in the United States. Additionally, the relationships between the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore are different from those of other SEA countries involved in the Vietnam War. Consequently, today's Southeast Asian Americans are heterogeneous with varying levels of acculturation to U.S. society.


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Patriotic decor brightens up downtown
Area residents and shop owners have come together to add a decorative touch to the downtown area.
Auglaize Street in Wapakoneta has taken on more red, white and blue — to celebrate summer holidays and add a special "welcoming" theme to downtown.
Fern Hill Farmhouse shop owner Jodie Goodwin brought the idea up to the Wapakoneta Antique and Specialty Shops group (WASS) of adding some hand crafted decorations to display downtown to make the downtown shop area look more "cutesy."
"We're just making it cute," Goodwin said. "It draws peoples' eyes in. Every year we hope to add to it and make it better."
WASS started this "Patriotic Pride Project," and local residents and shop owners have taken interest. Now it is a community-wide project, involving members of the Downtown Wapakoneta Partnership (DWP) and local residents. Group members work together to cut out and paint stars, hang red, white and blue bows in the trees and on the poles and decorate with American flags all around downtown Wapakoneta.
"This is a great place to live and work," Goodwin said. "We wanted to make the town look prettier."
She said that this may add a "welcoming" feel to the area.
Goodwin took notice of the red, white and blue flowers planted in the pots in downtown, and she wanted to continue the color scheme and add more decorations to create an inviting feel to downtown and the local shops.
The colored stars were cut out of pieces of plywood, and painted, and are all on display around downtown Wapakoneta, including a special "Party at the Parkway" sign they created near the parkway, where monthly concerts are held.
Ribbons and flag are also hung on the street, and Goodwin said that they plan to add more decorations soon — which will include small stars that are cut out in red and blue Solo cups, and other small handcrafted pieces.
Goodwin said this is a theme that can be continued each year, along with adding more decorative pieces to it.
"This is also election year, so we took the idea and ran with it," Goodwin said. "We plan to leave it up until fall."
To commemorate Memorial Day, Flag Day and the election year, Goodwin said that this theme is very fitting for the season.
The group plans to continue this effort in the other seasons. In the fall, the group plans to create an autumn appearance, and the same goes with Christmas and Valentine's Day.
People who have helped Goodwin on this project are Charlotte Williams, Jack Lambert, Laura Clementz, Landa Tomlinson, Donna Parsons, Lisa Propst, Rex Maxwell, Jason McCulley and Judie and Joe Presar, and the flags were donated by Tonya Horn.
"This is a nice way to get people involved," Goodwin said. "Even if you're not a shop owner, you can still help."


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In our past SSD articles, we've focused a great deal on SSDs targeting the high end enthusiast market. It's no doubt that they're speed demons, but as we all know, in the computer hardware market you pay premiums for things like higher capacity and top end performance.
Today we're going to the opposite end of the spectrum as far as SSDs go. Most of our readers are familiar with the OCZ Technology, a company with beginnings in the DRAM market, but a name now synonymous with power supplies and solid state drives. In the world of solid state drives, OCZ covers the whole spectrum including products targetting the enterprise market and performance enthusiasts. The product we'll be examining is one of their entry level mainstream products, the Synapse Cache solid state drive.
What makes this product interesting is it's paired with a piece of software from NVELO called Dataplex. When combining OCZ's Synapse Cache drive with Dataplex, the idea is that users will get to experience the performance benefits of a pure SSD while enjoying the storage capacity of an existing hard drive. Dataplex monitors a user's behaviour and caches frequently used data on the Synapse SSD so that it's available for quick access.
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While the Synapse Cache drive isn't utilized the same way as a traditional solid state drive, the differences lie primarily on the software side of things. Physically, the Synapse Cache drive looks like any other SSD in OCZ's current lineup. The same two piece metal & plastic enclosure is used across all of OCZ's current generation of SSDs, with only the label differentiating between the different models.
The Synapse Cache drive fits in the 2.5" drive form factor with a 9mm height. There are mounting holes on the bottom and sides of the drive at standard locations. Included in the package is a 3.5" adapter for mounting, should your case not have provision for mounting 2.5" drives.
The bottom of the drive has two stickers. One is an OCZ sticker with drive identifiers, and the other is a license key for the included NVELO Dataplex caching software (more on that later). Standard sized SATA data and power connectors are used for the Synapse Cache drive.