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Heavy crude oil to be carried by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline poses no greater risk of a spill than other types of oil, the National Research Council said in a report.
The report disputes arguments made by Keystone opponents that diluted bitumen, a tar-like substance mined in Alberta's oil sands, is more corrosive than conventional crude oil and is more likely to create ruptures and oil spills in pipelines.
"There have been several studies to look at this over the years, but none that have been as credible and comprehensive as the NAS study," said Greg Stringham, vice president of markets and oil sands for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said in a telephone interview from Calgary. "It does provide a very definitive conclusion."
The study may also bolster the case for other pipelines to carry oil derived from Canadian tar sands, he said.
The review of spills "did not find any causes of pipeline failure unique to the transport of diluted bitumen," according to a statement from the council, part of the National Academy of Sciences that advises the U.S. government on science policy.
'Nothing Extraordinary'
"There's nothing extraordinary about pipeline shipments of diluted bitumen to make them more likely than other crude oils to cause releases," Mark Barteau, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Michigan, said in a statement accompanying the report released today. Barteau was the chairman of the committee that wrote the report.
The State Department is reviewing TransCanada Corp.'s application to build the $5.3 billion link between Alberta and Steele City, Nebraska, where the pipeline would link to a project under construction to carry the oil to refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast. A decision is possible later this year.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration, a part of the U.S. Transportation Department, requested the council's report. Congress directed the department to study transporting diluted bitumen in a 2012 pipeline safety law.
"Dilbit" has been transported in the U.S. for 30 years, according to the report. The U.S. has about 55,000 miles (88,500 kilometers) of oil transmission lines. Pipeline spills ranged from 80 to 120 a year from 2002 to 2011, according to the study. Any spill releasing 5 gallons or more is reported.
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Faulty USB chargers recalled by Officeworks
A line of USB chargers sold at Officeworks stores have been recalled after an incident in which the casing around a charger melted after overheating.
The incident, in which no one was injured, occured in Victoria and the device involved was one of 3400 sold nationally.
Approximately 1050 of these were sold in NSW.
NSW Fair Trading Minister Matthew Mason-Cox said the recall has been undertaken voluntarily by Officeworks, who is liaising with Energy Safe Victoria.
"Consumers who have purchased these devices are urged to stop using them immediately and return the goods to Officeworks for a full refund," he said, adding that consumers who are unsure should contact Officeworks.
The recall comes after the tragic death of a woman using an unapproved charging device in April.
Mrs Sheryl Aldeguer was found dead at her home on the NSW central coast with burns to her chest and ears, after she was electrocuted by a faulty USB phone charger purchased in the NSW suburb of Campsie.
Mrs Aldeguer's death triggered targeted inspections at shops and markets across the state.
A total of 17 penalty infringement notice fines were issued as a result.
Mr Mason-Cox said the device responsible for Mrs Aldeguer's death in April was not the same model as the device recalled by Officeworks.
"This warning is doing the right thing by consumers and making safety a priority," he said.
The affected USB chargers were sold in Officeworks stores and online between 19 July 2013 and 2 August 2014.
The product model number is MS10071223.
A spokesperson for Officeworks said the safety of Officeworks' products is an "absolute priority".
"As such, we have voluntarily elected to recall one line of USB wall chargers (model MS10071223). We are currently conducting further testing, however on a precautionary basis we recommend customers return the model in question to their local stores for a full refund. Customer with any concerns can contact 1300 OFFICE (633 423)," she said.
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Novak LoMount Sights have become the standard for carry and duty guns, especially for 1911s. These sights offer low, snag-proof profiles and sturdy steel construction. Guns without Novak or Kimber Cuts will require machining for fit. Guns with Novak or Kimber Cuts will require minor fitting. Complete instructions are included with these sights if they require machining for installation.
Generally, all installations will require machining. Exception will be if the firearm already has Novak sights. However, if installing Extreme Duty sights, some machining may be required even if changing from other Novak sights. Some Kimber, Springfield and H&K pistols have been factory-equipped with Novak sights.
Novak front sights are dovetail. Slide will require milling if not already set up for dovetail front sights. If changing from Millett dual crimp front sights, the holes in the slide will have to be filled or they will show after machining for Novak front.
1911 Colt 70 and 80 series. Will require full milling if handgun does not have Novak sights. If handgun does have Novak sights, will still require a small milling cut in front of the existing rear dovetail for the sight's hinge system. Front blade recommended is .225" height.
Springfield. Same requirements as Colt, above.
Kimber. Milling is not required if handgun has Novak sights. Front blade recommended is .175" height.
Smith & Wesson. Same requirement as Kimber, except front blade recommended is .305" height.
Browning. Will require full milling of slide at front and rear. Front blade recommended is .215" height.


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News Release 13-180
'National Chemistry Week' celebrates sustainable resources
NSF announces more than $49 million in sustainable chemistry, engineering and materials science awards
October 25, 2013
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From waste prevention to energy-efficient design to safer manufacturing processes and substitutes for rare natural resources, sustainability considerations are key to meeting projected global needs and encouraging a safer tomorrow.
It is likely then that National Chemistry Week 2013 would choose a theme of "Energy: Now and Forever! Exploring chemistry and energy with a focus on sustainable resources." This is a good opportunity for the National Science Foundation (NSF) to announce its inaugural awards for the Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering and Materials (SusChEM) initiative that invests $49 million in 101 groups of scientists and engineers.
Started in 2012 as an interdisciplinary initiative, SusChEM focuses on aspects of chemistry, engineering and materials in sustainable research and aims to support the discovery of new science and engineering that will provide humanity with a safe, stable and sustainable supply of chemicals and materials sufficient to meet future global demand. While NSF has historically supported this kind of research, the SusChEM initiative elevates this interest to a high priority.
"NSF is proud to be able to support these investigators who not only propose cutting-edge science but also portray a strong commitment to preparing a diverse STEM workforce dedicated to addressing critical needs in global sustainability," said Jackie Gervay-Hague, director of the Chemistry Division in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. "These are the scientists who will endeavor to make the world a better place for future generations."
SusChEM is a program under the umbrella of NSF-wide Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) that the agency created in 2010 as an initiative to support the discovery of new knowledge to help solve global sustainability issues.
In particular, SEES has promoted an integrated, interdisciplinary approach for sustainability challenges involving social, economic and environmental aspects. SusChEM was created in partial response to the mandate of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which states that NSF should establish a "Green Chemistry Basic Research program" to provide "sustained support" for "research into green and sustainable chemistry which will lead to safe, clean, and economical alternatives to traditional chemical products and practices" as well as green chemistry education and technology transfer. After workshops, webinars and meetings with the scientific community, the SusChEM initiative was born and announced to the community on June 26, 2012, through a "Dear Colleague Letter."
The following is a list of the lead investigators for the SusChEM awards. For more information on these awards, visit the NSF Award Abstracts Database, and enter 'SusChEM' in the "Search Award for" field.
Paul Anastas
Yale University
Largus Angenent
Cornell University
Eray Aydil
University of Minnesota
Jillian Banfield
University of California-Berkeley
Veronica Barone
Central Michigan University
Christopher Bielawski
University of Texas at Austin
Joseph Biernacki
Tennessee Technological University
Janet Bluemel
Texas A&M University
Andrew Bocarsly
Princeton University
Shannon Boettcher
University of Oregon Eugene
Stephen Bradforth
University of Southern California
Christopher Bradley
Mount St. Mary's University, Md.
David Cann
Oregon State University
Burjor Captain
University of Miami
John Caradonna
Trustees of Boston University
Yves Chabal
University of Texas at Dallas
Eugene Chen
Colorado State University
Shaowei Chen
University of California-Santa Cruz
Xi Chen
University of California-Davis
Paul Chirik
Princeton University
Phillip Christopher
University of California-Riverside
Silas Cook
Indiana University
Dennis Curran
University of Pittsburgh
Marcetta Darensbourg
Texas A&M University
Michael Doherty
University of California-Santa Barbara
Guangbin Dong
University of Texas at Austin
John Dorgan
Colorado School of Mines
Marc Edwards
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
William Evans
University of California-Irvine
Matthew Fields
Montana State University
Alison Flatau
University of Maryland College Park
John Gilbertson
Western Washington University
Martin Green
Materials Research Society, Pa.
Christopher Hartley
Miami University, Ohio
Gregory Hillhouse
University of Chicago
Eric Hoek
University of California-Los Angeles
Liangbing Hu
University of Maryland College Park
Frieder Jaekle
Rutgers University Newark
Elizabeth Jarvo
University of California-Irvine
David Jenkins
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Li Jia
University of Akron
Christopher Jones
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Matthew Kanan
Stanford University
Erdogan Kiran
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Brian Korgel
University of Texas at Austin
Robert Lad
University of Maine
Brian Laird
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
Gojko Lalic
University of Washington
M. Tyler Ley
Oklahoma State University
Peter Lovine
University of San Diego
Janet Macdonald
Vanderbilt University
Frederick MacDonnell
University of Texas at Arlington
Jakob Magolan
University of Idaho
E. Neil Marsh
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Mark Mascal
University of California-Davis
Robert Mathers
Pennsylvania State University
Jeanne McHale
Washington State University
Jennifer McIntosh
University of Arizona
Jose Menendez
Arizona State University
Stephen Miller
University of Florida
Liviu Mirica
Washington University
John Montgomery
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Janet Morrow
SUNY at Buffalo
Alexandra Navrotsky
University of California-Davis
Christopher Nomura
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Aaron Odom
Michigan State University
Paul Van Patten
Middle Tennessee State University
Christie Peebles
Colorado State University
Jeanne Pemberton
University of Arizona
Hrvoje Petek
University of Pittsburgh
Jeffrey Pyun
University of Arizona
Anthony Rappe
Colorado State University
Jonathan Rochford
University of Massachusetts Boston
Ashaki Rouff
CUNY Queens College
Chang Ryu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, N.Y.
Daniel Seidel
Rutgers University New Brunswick
Randall Snurr
Northwestern University, Ill.
Ponisseril Somasundaran
Columbia University
Nancy Sottos
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher Stanton
University of Florida
Susanne Striegler
University of Arkansas
Bala Subramaniam
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
Meng Tao
Arizona State University
T. Don Tilley
University of California-Berkeley
Adam Veige
University of Florida
Israel Wachs
Lehigh University, Pa.
Timothy Warren
Georgetown University
Rory Waterman
University of Vermont & State Agricultural College
Robert Waymouth
Stanford University
Steven Wheeler
Texas A&M University Main Campus
Ruqian Wu
University of California-Irvine
Judith Yang
University of Pittsburgh
Yuan Yao
Purdue University
Huiming Yin
Columbia University
Zhanping You
Michigan Technological University
Michael Zdilla
Temple University
Qiming Zhang
University of Texas at Arlington
Yong Zhang
Stevens Institute of Technology
Viktor Zhdankin
University of Minnesota Duluth
Nan Zheng
University of Arkansas
Julie Zilles
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Media Contacts
Ivy F. Kupec, NSF, (703) 292-8796, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2019, its budget is $8.1 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 50,000 competitive proposals for funding and makes about 12,000 new funding awards.
Useful NSF Web Sites:
NSF Home Page: https://www.nsf.gov
NSF News: https://www.nsf.gov/news/
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Science and Engineering Statistics: https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/
Awards Searches: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/


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Tiger Woods is against belly putters February 09 2012
Tiger Woods is against belly putters, he refers to himself as a traditionalist, and that he is opposed to belly putters or any club anchored against a player's body. He stated at a press conference at Pebble Beach; ERIC RISBERG / AP "I've never been a fan. I believe putting is the art of controlling the body and club and swinging the pendulum motion. I believe that's how the game should be played." As I have said earlier the Belly and long putters have become much more popular in the pro ranks, and Keegan Bradley became the first major winner to use one at last year's PGA Championship. Now golf's governing bodies, the USGA and R&A, said last week that they were taking a fresh look on implementing a leaning your body weight on the putter, affords a player an unfair advantage in high wind conditions. Tiger has been speaking with R&A Chief Executive Peter Dawson on the subject for years, particularly on drafting the tricky language that could present challenges to enforcing such a rule. Woods said he has gone back and forth with Dawson on how to tackle the wording, and he offered a logical suggestion; My idea was to have it so that the putter would be equal to or less than the shortest club in your bag, and I think with that, we'd be able to get away from any type of belly or long putter." Of his own game Tiger said; "I feel very at peace, I think it's more fun now than it used to be because now my kids are getting at an age where they want to see daddy on TV. They say, 'daddy, you're going to a golf tournament, are you going to be on TV. And I said, 'Well, I have to play well.' 'Well, daddy, can you please play well?' Asked about his match up with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, in the pro-am format at Pebble Beach, Tiger said; "Romo's playing from the up tees this week, which will be fun. That will be good for us. You guys probably don't know this, but they want to give him a plus-three handicap, which is complete B.S. I mean, he's a scratch. I play scratch every tournament, I'm a scratch. "He's competitive and he's been grinding hard. It's been cool to see. He's been calling me quite a bit, sending me video of his golf swing, What can I do, what can I do?'" Romo aside, it will be interesting to see how the belly putter debate pans out.


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Expert Interview with Dennis Zimmer for NETSCOUT
Infrastructure monitoring can be a tedious and time consuming chore. But if you're not careful, the rest of your to-do list can grow out of control if you focus too much on this task. Still, with just a little help, a big part of your day can be cleared up. That's what Dennis Zimmer, CEO of Opvizor Inc. says.
"I've seen so many avoidable issues and a lot of tuning possibilities that system administrators can't address due to a huge lack of time. Most administrators are jammed with work, so I decided to help them."
That means you can have more time to focus on those other projects you need to get done.
How can people get 60% of their workday back?
Be proactive! We detect VMware misconfigurations and error situations due to a massive centralized rulebase. All of these rules can be seen as situations that happen in a typical customer environment. Based on many studies, the system administrator spends more than 60% of their time optimizing and troubleshooting the infrastructures they are responsible for.
Our company can save most of that time for the administrator by including solutions within the found issue description (as well as script-based mass remediation steps). Not to mention that it always takes a lot of unmonitored time (especially weekends) to act proactively or fix issues that already hurt the environment. We free most of this time up also.
For those who aren't familiar with VMware and/or specific VMware Inc. Products, can you explain what VMware is?
VMware is the market leader in infrastructure virtualization. Virtualization was always about partitioning hardware to serve multiple operating systems and the corresponding applications at the same time, thereby greatly increasing utilization and efficiency. Another benefit is the separation of the hardware from the operating system, making the virtual machine (the system that runs on top of a virtualization technology like VMware) agile so it can be migrated to other datacenters without any service interruption. Virtualization is used in most datacenters that exist today.
What are 5 ways an infrastructure analysis can help a business owner run a more efficient enterprise?
- It can help you focus on optimizing your virtual infrastructure to achieve higher infrastructure performance that results in faster applications.
- You can learn how to make your environment more stable and reliable to consistently comply with your service levels and end-user/customer satisfaction.
- It promotes cost savings by removing wasted resources and freeing up expensive resources.
- It can reduce mean-time-to-resolution when experiencing performance degradation.
- It has the ability to measure optimization efforts and the return on time and investment.
How can predictive analysis and issue prevention play a helpful role in that?
A major goal is always to predict issues before they cause any damage or extent systems before they overload. As we predict many downtimes or performance drops by analyzing configurations, log files and performance data to match them against our own rulebase, the customer can proactively act and avoid many bad situations that can become extremely expensive.
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On Sunday night the Vancouver Canucks played host to the Anaheim Ducks at Rogers Arena in Vancouver. Rock n Roll royalty was in attendance as Gene Simmons, his wife Shannon Tweed had front row seats. Jannik Hansen, typically the one asked for his autograph, put the shoe on the other foot and approached Gene to sign his stick.
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Update: President Obama answered one question about marijuana
During his YouTube Q&A, President Obama was asked what his plan is to help alleviate the detrimental effects of America's drug war.
He responded by saying that while he's not in favor of legalization, he did see room for adjusting the drug war to focus less on incarceration and enforcement and more on medical treatment and other forms of interdiction.
The position expressed by President Obama was largely unchanged from 2009, when he told a community driven Q&A that he did not believe legalizing marijuana was a good strategy to grow the economy. He did not, however, crack a joke about the question, calling the debate over drug policy "legitimate."
The president's alleged recalibration of the drug war was heavily criticized last May by reform advocates, who pointed out that while rhetoric on treatment over enforcement sounded nice, the actual budget figures did not reflect such a shift.
The fiscal year 2010 budget for America's Office on National Drug Control Policy was diverted 64 percent of its funds to law enforcement and just 36 percent to demand reduction strategies like addiction therapy.
"Due to accounting changes made under the Bush administration and maintained by Obama, the budget ratio doesn't even take into account some costs of the 'war on drugs' such as incarceration," activist group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) noted.
A prior report follows…
This sounds like a bit of history repeating: A community driven Q&A with President Barack Obama, sponsored by Google's video sharing website YouTube, has resulted in a single question rocketing to the top of the list, focusing on the legalization of drugs.
Another community driven Q&A, featured in 2009 by the nonprofit social action website Change.org, resulted in a similar question rising to the top, asking the president what he thought about legalizing marijuana as a way of growing the economy.
President Obama, however, appeared to take it as a joke.
"I don't know what this says about the online audience," he quipped, drawing laughs from an assembled crowd. "But, no, I don't think that is a good strategy to grow the economy."
This year, the YouTube community overwhelmingly chose to ask Obama about his views on the drug war, with 13,842 votes for a question by MacKenzie Allen, a retired deputy sheriff from King County, Washington. Allen was a member of LEAP, a community of activists with backgrounds in law enforcement who've set their sights on ending the nation's drug war.
"I've watched for decades as we throw good money after bad and, more importantly, life after life, at a 'War on Drugs' that is waged with counterproductive tactics and an overall flawed strategy," Allen said in a media advisory. "For the sake of those law enforcers who are still bravely on the front lines of the 'Drug War,' I hope our politicians will heed the call to finally discuss a new approach to drug control."
The runner-up question in second place received over 10,000 fewer votes, but it too asked about the prohibition of drugs, specifically marijuana.
In fact, every single question in the top 200, save for two, touched on the drug war, from angles like prison reform, reducing the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) budget, helping farmers by legalizing industrial hemp or simply allowing American adults the freedom to put whatever they want in their bodies.
One of the top questions even asked why Obama treated the 2009 Change.org query on marijuana as a joke.
Needless to say, unlike his last community Q&A, it will be incredibly difficult for President Obama to ignore or laugh off such questions this time around.
"We'd really love for the president to simply acknowledge that this is a serious issue worth debating and not embarrass himself again by trying to turn the failed drug war – which kills thousands of people a year – into some kind of Cheech and Chong joke," LEAP spokesman Tom Angell told Raw Story.
The top question posed to Obama, published by LEAP, follows.


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Linux support
The SEAD-3 is fully supported by Linux 2.6 and current Linux 3.x kernels. The main Git tree hosted on linux-mips.org is geared towards bleeding-edge development. There is a separate tree that is geared towards absolute stability on SEAD-3 as well as the Malta platform. It is actively maintained by MIPS Technologies, Inc.
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San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, a rising star in the Democrats' firmament, cast the presidential election during his convention keynote address as a choice between an incumbent who will fight for the middle class and a challenger who will not.
Castro, 37, made history on Tuesday night becoming the first Hispanic to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. Stepping into the national spotlight, he endorsed President Barack Obama and mocked his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, saying he was out of touch with the middle class.
"It's a choice between a country where the middle class pays more so that millionaires can pay less or a country where everybody pays their fair share, so we can reduce the deficit and create the jobs of the future," Castro said. "It's a choice between a nation that slashes funding for our schools and guts Pell grants or a nation that invests more in education."
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Castro portrayed Romney as a wealthy man who doesn't understand average Americans. The mayor sought to reinforce that message by telling the story of his own upbringing in a modest home led by a single mother and self-educated, immigrant grandmother.
"A few months ago [Romney] visited a university in Ohio and gave the students there a little entrepreneurial advice," Castro said. "'Start a business,' he said. But how? 'Borrow money if you have to from your parents,' he told them."
"Gee, why didn't I think of that?" Castro asked, drawing laughter from his party's faithful in Charlotte.
Castro also taunted Romney for his shifting positions on issues like abortion rights and gay marriage.
"Gov. Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain't pretty," Castro said.
The Romney campaign shot back at Castro's claim the GOP presidential nominee is insensitive to the middle class. "Middle class families understand that they are not better off than they were four years ago because President Obama's liberal policies have failed to turn around the economy," Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said.
Leading up to Tuesday night's speech, Castro had enjoyed a spate of favorable media profiles, a landslide re-election last year and speculation about whether he will become the governor of Texas or even the country's first Hispanic president. But to most Americans, he was largely unknown.
Castro was introduced onstage by his brother Joaquin, a Texas state legislator from San Antonio now fighting to win election to Congress in November.
"My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible," Julian Castro said. "Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward."
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Some would say the mayor has had a swift ascent. But his mother, whose own political activism on behalf of Hispanics when her boys were young drew hate mail and, she says, the attention of the Justice Department, knows her sons' rise is evidence of Hispanics' growing and long overdue political power.
"They called us militant, but our way of doing things was through political ends," Rosie Castro said of her fight for Mexican-American rights in the 1970s. "Not through guns, not through overthrowing the government, but through the political process."
Now 65, Rosie Castro is the protagonist of the family story the mayor told the national audience. A civil rights activist and single parent from the time the twins were 8, she dragged the boys to rallies and often argued politics with them.
Julian Castro said he knows his mother's generation faced different burdens than the Hispanics he's trying to connect with today, and he credits her civil rights work with laying the ground work for his political success.
"My mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone," he said Tuesday night.
Rosie Castro made a failed run for San Antonio city council when she was 23 but quickly found her calling as a political organizer in Texas' Mexican-American community in the 1970s. She didn't reap the fanfare enjoyed by her sons.
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On the eve of his keynote speech, Julian Castro told reporters in Charlotte that he hopes his life's story will inspire younger Hispanics.
"As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations," Castro said. "The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that."


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Ricoh Americas has unveiled a new interactive whiteboard, a digital projector that works with walls and other fixed surfaces, and a video conferencing system as part of a slate of offerings released at the recent InfoComm AV show.
The new whiteboard, the D5500, features a 55-inch diagonal HD screen. Users can also view the information via a virtual private network using PCs, tablets, smartphones, or up to four of the whiteboards connected together across a school.
The ultra short throw digital projector, the PJ WX4141NI, functions almost like a whiteboard itself and features the ability to make walls and fixed physical whiteboards interactive. Presenters can display, underline, highlight, annotate, capture, and share projected image with an electronic markup pen.
By combining the company's unified communication system, the P3000, with the ultra short throw projector, schools can create their own portable video conferencing system, which can be moved from room to room as needed.
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For Brits, this is available on iPlayer for the next 16 days. I'd thoroughly recommend it:
I knew basically nothing about OJ Simpson and the murder trial before watching this. All I knew was 'if the glove doesn't fit...', the 'pursuit' of the white Bronco, and some jokes Eminem made on 'Role Model'.
Even as someone with little to no interest in American Football (and sports in general, really), watching OJ play is amazing:
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Campus Status information can be found on this site: http://www.uthscsa.edu/status.asp.
When a fire alarm sounds inside the library building, or in the event of a campus emergency situation the following steps must be taken to evacuate the library by Evacuation Team (ET) members and all staff members:
- Grab your cell phones to communicate with staff on the other floors and with the Evacuation Team (ET).
- ET members evacuate staff and patrons on your floor through the nearest exit.
- Check the stacks, seating area and restrooms for lagging library users; ask them to exit through the nearest available door. If a user refuses to leave the building, note the user's location and continue to evacuate the building. Give information on where they were last seen to the emergency crews when they arrive.
- Physically challenged persons: ET member find someone to accompany/assist the person out of the building. An emergency chair is located on the 5th floor, northeast exit. If it's not feasible to fetch/use the chair, the escort must get them inside an emergency stairwell, ask others to inform emergency crews of their whereabouts and remain with them until further assistance arrives.
- In the process of evacuating the building, staff should inspect their floors for smoke, fire, injuries or other emergencies and relay this information to the ET Coordinator. Only attempt to put out a fire if it is small and you have been trained to use the fire extinguisher.
- Upon evacuation, library staff are to meet at the designated meeting place, which is the motorcycle area of Lot 2, close to Dental Drive. Each supervisor or designee should attempt to account for his/her staff. See Appendix 6 for details on Departmental Emergency Evacuation Procedures.
- Library staff at the designated meeting place will be notified via radio when the Safety Officer gives the all clear to return to the library building. Only UT Police, the Fire Chief, or Environmental Health & Safety officers can give the all clear to return to the building.
- The Evacuation Team Coordinator and the Disaster Team Leader will remain near the library entrance (if safe) to keep people from entering the building, unless they are emergency personnel, and to act as liaison between emergency services and library administration
- Upon return, please check your work areas for any damage to personal property, workspace and the building, and report them to the building fire marshal or library administration office.
- Evening/Weekend staff will evacuate the floors–they may have to ask for assistance from library users.
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While premium hikes may not be as high as feared throughout the country, don't expect the rest of the nation to follow California's lead on 2015 Obamacare rates.
That's the analysis from Peter V. Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health exchange, which is leading the nation in the number of enrollees in the Affordable Care Act. Lee announced Thursday that the average insurance premium price hike for 1.4 million Californians enrolled in private plans through the Obamacare initiative will be roughly 4.2%, with roughly 16% see no increase and a cut in some cases.
The news eased fears, at least in the Golden State, of double-digit price hikes for those who signed up for coverage during the program's first open enrollment period, which ran from October to March. Whether other states will see the same, relatively moderate price hikes remains to be seen, Lee said in an interview with MarketWatch.
What sets Covered California apart is the agency's active role in negotiating with insurers, and its willingness to pour over the actuarial tables and enrollment demographics so that in-state carriers like Anthem Blue Cross /quotes/zigman/362231/delayed /quotes/nls/wlp WLP and HealthNet Inc. /quotes/zigman/269931/delayed /quotes/nls/hnt HNT have an accurate perspective on the state's risk pool.
"They have reason to feel good about the risk mix," Lee said. He adds: "We are an active purchaser."
Lee says California devotes a lot of resources to boosting enrollment. The state's 1.4 million Obamacare enrollees are by far the biggest number of any state. That high enrollment has served to settle the 10 insurers now doing business under the Obamacare program in California.
Other states may not be so lucky, he adds. While there are 14 others with exchanges currently functioning — along with the District of Columbia — and two more scheduled to begin operation, the rest may simply be left to whatever rates insurers want to charge without much of a challenge.
As an example of the state's active negotiations, Lee points out California was able to add children's dental coverage in all Obamacare policies and still keep rate hikes relatively low.
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The shock of the 2012 federal budget is just setting in, but the repercussions will be felt for years to come. Although deemed "moderate," this budget has cut thousands of jobs and left a scar on our social welfare system. A particularly unsettling decision was to dismantle the National Council of Welfare (NCW), a renowned organization that offers in-depth information on poverty and also represents the needs of the poor in government.
Established in 1969 as an advisory group to the Minister of National Health and Welfare, the National Council of Welfare has played a crucial role in measuring the depth and breadth of poverty in Canada, linking citizens concerns about welfare and poverty with parliament. Specifically mandated to report to the minister, the NCW was unique in its research collection and reporting providing accurate pan-Canadian data that was used by various organizations, including Canada Without Poverty and Campaign 2000.
In contrast to a statement made by MP Kellie Leitch, the National Council of Welfare does not duplicate the activities of any other organization in the non-profit sector. As both Canada Without Poverty and Campaign 2000 have stated in a recent press release, the federal government's termination of funding for this poverty advisory group, with unprecedented statutory powers, actually undermines national efforts to combat poverty. Without the informed voice of committed citizens to complement the important data, how will a minister know that his/her decisions are responding to real needs? The loss of NCW is a blow to social policy work.
What other organization has the resources and central position to produce an annual, detailed analysis of social assistance, the program of last resort across the country, as well as regular reports on the root causes of poverty? Critical information that is part of a comprehensive bank of resources produced by the NCW and relied on by many civil society organizations.
Most recently, "The Dollars and Sense of Solving Poverty" report released in August 2011, opened the dialogue around an economic argument against poverty -- investing in poverty head-on would cost $12.9 billion, but keeping the status quo would cost the government almost double.
The loss of important information gathering will leave a noticeable gap in the current knowledge of poverty in Canada. Such substantive reporting on social wellbeing is necessary in order to not only identify the cross-Canada trends and emerging issues, but also to help map out regional needs and develop targeted solutions.
The recent Welfare Incomes 2009 report (the year most recent data is available) noted that Newfoundland was the only province to provide social assistance that reached the poverty line in one category: lone parents with one child. Setting a bar for other provinces and territories to aspire to, the welfare incomes reports provide accurate data that governments can't hide from.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
With no federal poverty strategy, no official poverty measurement tools, and now, no Council of Welfare, how can we assess how we are doing? In the current economic climate where employment has yet to stabilize and rising costs leave many families scrambling to make ends meet, the loss of critical information makes governments less prepared to face challenges.
Instead of blinding the government to the reality of poverty and contributing to an evidence-free zone in Ottawa, we should be continuously updating social data and research -- just as we do with economic data and research -- to pave the way for solutions. Shutting down the National Council of Welfare is the wrong move.
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The yen fell versus the dollar, trading at almost the weakest since May 2010, as a private report showed U.S. companies added more workers than forecast in February, damping demand for haven assets.
The euro declined against the greenback for the first time in three days as euro-area exports fell in the fourth quarter for the first time in three years. The Canadian dollar weakened after the Bank of Canada indicated it won't raise interest rates anytime soon. Policy meetings for the euro area and Japan are scheduled to conclude tomorrow.
The ADP Research Institute's jobs report "is definitely having a positive effect on dollar-yen," Dan Dorrow, the head of research at Faros Trading LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, said in a telephone interview. "Within the G-4, this consistently decent U.S. data is supporting the dollar against the pound, euro and yen."
Japan's currency depreciated 0.7% to 93.92 per dollar at 1:37 p.m. in New York. The yen rose 0.2% the euro to 121.98. The 17-nation currency slipped 0.5% to $1.2987.
The yen has tested 93.72 ahead of a key support range from 94.78 to 95, Cilline Bain, a London-based technical analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG, wrote today in a note to clients.
The Japanese currency may decline to 99.86, which would be its lowest level since April 2009, if it breaks that support, he said. Support refers to an area on a chart where buy orders may be clustered.
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The Polish zloty weakened the most in six weeks after the central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by 0.5 percentage point, defying expectations of a 0.25 reduction in borrowing costs. The currency declined 1 percent to 3.1913 per dollar after falling to 3.1955, its lowest level since Feb. 26.
South Korea's won advanced for a second day versus the dollar after a surge in U.S. equity markets prompted global funds to buy South Korean stocks. It gained 0.4% to 1,082,60 per dollar after reaching 1,082.19, its highest level since Feb. 28. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record 14,253.77 yesterday.
The loonie, as the Canadian dollar is known for the image of the water fowl on the C$1 coin, weakened 0.5% to C$1.0318 per U.S. dollar, after falling as much as 0.7%.
The Swiss franc fell against most of its most-traded peers amid the flight to safer assets. The currency decreased 0.8% to 94.79 centimes per dollar after falling to its weakest since Nov. 19.
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ARCC needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 124 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
RAPTOR by Advanced Response Concepts http://www.responseconcepts.com
Advanced Response Concepts (http://www.responseconcepts.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of WidePoint Corporation (http://www.widepoint.com), is a TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER to the EMERGENCY SERVICES and PUBLIC SAFETY sectors.
Advanced Response Concepts is a company made up of both Techno Geeks - our engineering team, and Subject Matter Experts who are former firefighters, police officers, emergency managers, public health and health care professionals.
Our vision statement reads "No one knows what the future holds. Perhaps someday the people, who protect you, care for you, aid you in time of need, and risk their lives for you will not have to be called upon. Until that day Advanced Response Concepts will be there for them; building new solutions, providing innovative technology, allowing them to deliver their best when faced with the worst. Your experience and our technology, today, tomorrow, and beyond.
We are running this contest to develop a product logo for RAPTOR, Our electronic identification system, contestant with the logo design that just one our last contest "Speak to our nations Heroes" This will be followed by contests for our CONDOR and XCaliber products.
Our consumers are the same type of people we have working for our company so we want them to know we speak their language. This audience is comprised of Firefighters, Paramedics, Police Officers, Emergency Managers, Doctors and Nurses, National Citizen Corps Volunteers, Federal Agents, FEMA, Homeland Security and the Defense Dept. Our customers are ALTRUISTIC, SERVICE ORIENTED, and PATRIOTIC. Our customers value TRADITION, and within their own fraternity have a strong sense of "brotherhood" or "family". Our Customers GET THE JOB DONE REGARDLESS OF THE COST OR SACRIFICE. Our customers are INTELLIGENT, and EDUCATED, but work with their hand and are not afraid to get dirty. Our customers have likely followed other family members into their career field, are of mixed races and creeds, and although women are in these fields they are dominated by men. Although the customer is all of these things they almost all work for GOVERNMENT, at the local, state and Federal Levels.
The RAPTOR logo should incorporate a design that is easily identifiable by our customers, one they can relate too. Many of our products, like RAPTOR, are named for birds of prey, this should be considered as part of a consistent theme along with the incorporation of design elements from our recently awarded corporate logo contest "Speak to our Nations Heroes" Raptor is an identity management tool and "biometrics" like electronic fingerprints should also be considered as a theme.
Although the words "Advanced Response Concepts" should be an optional part of the design the graphic element(s) should be able to stand alone. Using the Tag line "It's who you are" is another optional part of the design element. The graphic element should tell a short concise story of the product without requiring a long dissertation. The Logo, especially the graphic element should be able to be clearly reproduced and look good on a huge sign on a trade show, on the web or in print. The successful designer will keep in mind that this contest will be followed by contests for our product logo's, initially and immediately two, but with more to come. For the most part our products have names consistent with Birds of Prey. CONDOR will be run as the next contest, The exception to this rule are the XCALIBUR cases (contest 3) which is themed on the "sword in the stone" and "only the chosen can open it"
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Alison Brie, Star of 'Mad Men' and 'Community,' Strips Down in Esquire Spread
The shapely star strips down in a sexy Esquire spread. See some of her most jaw-dropping moments.
She may play the goody-two-shoes wife of two-timing ad man Pete Campbell on AMC's hit series Mad Men, but Alison Brie is far from conservative off-camera. The curvy 30-year-old starlet decided to strip down for a sexy photo spread in this month's Esquire magazine.
In the photos, Brie—who also stars as the quirky Annie Edison on NBC's Community—shows off her bodacious bod in a pair of revealing swimsuits by a pool.
Brie, who will appear in the indie film Kings of Summer later this year, is rumored to be dating actor Dave Franco, the younger brother of James (sorry, fellas).
The Daily Beast has compiled some of Brie's sexiest moments, which can watch here—ice cream cones included.


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This is an activity about Earth's magnetic field. Learners will construct a soda bottle magnetometer, collect data, and analyze the results to detect magnetic storm events. Ideally, learners should collect data for at least a month. If several... (View More) months are available for data collection, this is ideal. This is the first activity as part of the iMAGiNETICspace: Where Imagination, Magnetism, and Space Collide educator's guide. Instructions for downloading the iBook educator's guide and the associated Transmedia book student guide are available at the resource link. (View Less)
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This module focuses on ultraviolet radiation on Earth and in space and how it affects life. Learners will construct their own "martian" using craft materials and UV beads. They will explore how UV radiation from the Sun can affect living things,... (View More) comparing conditions on Earth and Mars, and then discuss ways in which organisms may protect themselves from UV radiation. They will then take part in a Mars Creature Challenge, where they will change their creature to help it survive harsh UV conditions — like on Mars. They will then test their Mars creatures by subjecting them to different environmental conditions to see how well they "survive" in a martian environment. This investigation will explore shelter and protection as one of life's requirements and how Earth's atmosphere protects life from harmful UV radiation. It also includes specific tips for effectively engaging girls in STEM. This is activity 5 in Explore: Life on Mars? that was developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
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Each time I hear someone complain, "Well, black people say the N-word. Why can't I say the N-word too?" It always sounds to me like, "You engage in self-harm. Why can't I cut you too?" Unfortunately not enough of my fellow AAs hear this as well. Instead, too many of us view the N-word as some sort of privileged that we can say simply because we are black. In any case, what caused me to think about this today was a quite shocking episode of America's Supernanny, which you can watch in full here. The subjects of the episode are an family of 10 kids (with two more on the way), the Carzells. Needless to say, they are out of control, which is rather remarkable in itself. However, their behavior does not compare to the racism that quickly spews from the children's mouth toward their 9 year-old sister Nevada. (This conversation starts at 7:30)
"That girl got something going on with her skin," Desja says, "She is dark!" All Nevada's sisters all begin to laugh at her. "You're the darkest person [in the room], so get out!"
Her brother shouts, "She took a shower yesterday, and she's still dark!"
"That's why no one ever knows where you are," Desja continues, "and every time we're at the store, you always get lost, because you're so dark."
"You is burt! You look like a gorilla."
Later Deborah Tillman (the Supernanny) confronts Desja about why she attacks her sister for being dark.
"Nevada was talking about everyone else," she says. "My mom was like, 'Nevada stop talking 'cause you're the darkest in this family."
This attitude is perpetuated throughout our community. Often, I see AAs highlighting racism coming from the outside. However, the outrage that comes when racism comes from someone who is not black is absent when a fellow AA is racist, which is why we have this absurd notion that it is okay for a fellow AA to say the n-word. "Oh, a Caucasian can't cut us, but we can hurt ourselves." As long as this attitude persists, with or without systematic racism, we will always keep ourselves down. It will only be changed when we start holding a AA who is racist accountable, just as we would if a Caucasian were to us. I don't care if you're black, you do not have a pass to be racist.


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Can someone please tell me how to rip models from this game? It's the only N64 game I want to rip models from and I can't seem to get it to work.
I first tried Ganbare Goemon - Dero Dero Douchuu Obake Tenkomori, then Goemon's Great Adventure, and then finally Mystical Ninja 2 Starring Goemon.
They all give me the error:
Error: Too many commands executed. Stopping dlist processing.
The game loads and I hear the sounds, but no image of the game is showing. All I get is a black screen.
I tried to play the game without the plugin to get to a spot to rip a model, hoping that the black screen wouldn't be a problem other than I can't see what I'm going, but when I export, there's no textures in the VRML folder and the output.wrl is 253 bytes.
Opening it into any program shows there's nothing within the .wrl file. How do I get around this please?
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Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch recently landed on NFL Network's Top 100 list. Four spots higher than Darrelle Revis.
Which prompted a candid reaction from MDS.
And so Tulloch has found a way to find extra motivation, based on the response to his placement ahead of Revis.
"Trust me, I've been [a] fourth-round pick, undersized, this and that. I've heard it all," Tulloch said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. "I've came to the league, I've played a long time, I've made good money, I've done it all. At this point, you can keep throwing stones at me but I'm going to keep breaking them up and keep doing what I do. That's just another one. It's all good."
Still, Tulloch believes the players who vote on the top 100 players (actually, the players who vote merely pick their top 20) got it right.
"People don't realize that when you play the game of football you endure a lot and you go through a lot and the players, they understand that," Tulloch said. "So for the players to vote [me in the top 100] and leave the writers out of it, it speaks volumes because we know what it is to go week in and week out and play against one another."
Tulloch was more direct in response to MDS's assessment of the wisdom of Tulloch's placement ahead of Revis. "Lol I love it when people hate @ProFootballTalk Michael D Smith!" Tulloch said on Twitter. "He can sit behind a computer & write about something he wish [he] could play!"
Tulloch has a right to his opinions. And so do we. On the question of whether Tulloch is actually a better player than Revis, we've got a feeling that most people would agree with our opinion.


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Gold Supply Falls in Response to Lower Prices
Overall supply in the gold market is falling, as recyclers hold back from turning in the metal in reaction to sharp drops in the gold price during the second quarter of this year, while a rationalization of gold production by miners is also underway and could persist for some time. Brendan Conway reports.
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... ay ay mm mm ... gold's ... not only are gold prices down sharply off the record highs but overall supply of the precious metal is also falling ... Barron's blogger Brendan Conway is here to explain exactly what is going on in this market ... and thanks for joining us thank Steve ... aren't so we all know that prices are down a lot but the supply is down now this is this is new but so ... here you know Steve so ... gold passes for the calculus right ... you know they they being basically all the supply of the world's gold the center of the mind is still out there he knew that these companies that are mining so where the price goes ... so to help determine whether Grandma I you know polls that gold of the attic and sells it ... can also affect the decisions of companies as to how much it invests support more of it ... out of the ground ... there's some studies that say that the costs of them getting new gold out of the ground is is high is fourteen hundred ... dollars per ounce which if you look at today's price that's above while yet so if it's not not not all them say it's that high but this is very complex interplay we're you know when the price goes down and lonely hold people don't wanna sell what they have as much ... in these gold mining companies that spent spent spent to do more and more mining during the go go years suddenly they think oh she's ... we should of done that would scale back ... so it is this is the first time that we've seen this the in in the sleaze reporters aside is is continuing on the tenth of the past six months or so ... you know you know it's it's it's it's it is in full on folks have only been paying attention in gold during the last twelve years when ... the metal when open up an upset is going to strike a lot of people is new ... to really ... you know this like any under a any any other industry when the price of your product is down ... you have to just in ... these companies were building for years is if gold was going to keep going up and open up so I'd I'd say it's it's it's it's it's it's an old story ... it's new to allow people to action so just talking about gold and down I mean the all time high was in two thousand eleven ... stay calm and on ever since the sun beginning in this show really really fall for a steep drop prices stabilize the pit and have been coming up and she recently ... but not from the people he's talked to in the market what exactly are their forecasts in their outlook for gold in the second half of the year ... yes he's the one big thing this change is that kind of this booming industry of ... Wall Street and you know mom and pop investors ... looking at gold not just is something shiny and nice but as like an actual investment has collapsed this year ... and in fact last night we got these on so-called thirteen F ... quarterly portfolio filings ... John Paulson who was the biggest holder ... of the biggest gold ETF Incas stake was seven one four percent he cut in half in the second quarter he just revealed last night yet so he he said he saw something like a ten million shares over that period said you you have folks like that moving out of of of of of the market ... so most strategists who you ... are here talk about this subject ... the view that is is a serious net negative that there just isn't the same investment demand out there ... but the same time the prices stabilized recently right to think of this or something or is this sort of oh two we expect gold around thirteen hundred ish ... you know for the rest of the year ... here you know Steve my my God does come to say that you would trade in a range ... if if this is in part that there's still some folks out there who kanna think that the Federal Reserve keep in mind the Fed is in the backdrop ... for a lot of gold investors bungled investors think that the Fed is going to ... destroy the dollar ... and that's why the move in the gold as a so-called ... alternative currency you still have some folks out there whom we think it's a value at this level ... on you just don't have those users giant investors as excited about it ... alright Brendan Conway thank so much for joining us thinking


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Back in the late 1980s, during Robert Gottlieb's tenure as editor of The New Yorker, I remember that there appeared a magazine spread on Gottlieb's museum-quality collection of – of all things – plastic purses. (He subsequently produced a lavish coffee-table book on the subject.) Now here, I thought, was a man of truly broad interests.
Twenty years later I find myself confirmed in this judgment, for Gottlieb's new collection of essays and reviews, Lives and Letters, testifies to the catholic nature of his tastes: In its pages we are treated to a plethora of informed and opinionated discussions on everything and everyone from ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev to wife-slayer Scott Peterson. It's the kind of book that ideally finds its way to the bedside table in the guest room, for it seems to contain at least one or two items that will appeal to any reader's inclinations.
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Gottlieb has served as editor-in-chief at both Simon and Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf as well as a The New Yorker, and he was for many years a very active board member of the New York City Ballet. He knows (or knew) many of his subjects personally, and has even acted as editor for a few of them. For professional reasons one might have expected him to favor the "Letters" portion of the collection, and indeed his essay on the long friendship between legendary editor Maxwell Perkins and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is moving and deeply felt; there are fine pieces, too, on Dickens, Kipling, Thurber, and even the trash novelist Judith Krantz, with whom Gottlieb claims to identify. He is particularly interesting on Steinbeck and the question of that author's greatness or lack thereof: "The extraordinary thing about John Steinbeck," Gottlieb throws out as an opener, "is how good he can be when so much of the time he's so bad." (Steinbeck would seem to have agreed with this assessment: when asked by a reporter whether he thought he actually deserved his Nobel Prize, he answered, "Frankly, no.")
But as Gottlieb points out, the boundary between "Lives" and "Letters" frequently blurs, and it must be said that he is really better on Lives – with a special emphasis on those of high-octane divas. Plenty of these have been included in this collection. There is Tallulah Bankhead, Sarah Bernhardt (the subject of a recent biography by Gottlieb), Isadora Duncan, Eleonora Duse, Mae West, Judy Garland, and Katharine Hepburn. Though Gottlieb is vastly amused by such dames, his experiences as a frequent editor of showbiz memoirs have endowed him with an admirable cut-the-crap attitude to celebrity mythologizing. He is especially entertaining on Hepburn, taking A. Scott Berg to task for making his "Kate Remembered," "the vehicle for her posthumous version of her life story. He is the ghost to her ghost." Gottlieb's Kate is pure, ruthless self-invention, and she rings true:
"She believed in never looking back, not wasting emotion, getting on with things. She also needed to exert control, and never more so than in the calculated way she presented herself to the world – classy, even haughty, a touch hard, but never dangerous…. Because we all thought we understood Hepburn's 'aristocratic' background; because she gamely kept working on the stage, in Shakespeare and Shaw as well as in shows like "Coco"; because she was so vital and independent and apparently straight-shooting, she became a Figure as well as a star, closer in our minds to a Mrs. Roosevelt than to a Davis or a Crawford. And she never stopped working on her image. Of course, that's what people in her position do or they don't hold on to that position, but few have done it with her relish. She always knew what she wanted – fame – and she demanded, and obtained, it from the world."
As the passage indicates, Gottlieb is good at separating the person from the myth. His Bernhardt gets similar treatment: much as he admires the star's act of willful self-creation, he always sees the funny side. Of her famous portrayal of Hamlet, for example: "Far from being the Romantic era's indecisive weakling, her Prince of Denmark was virile and determined (not unlike Madame herself)." Best of all, when it comes to these ladies Gottlieb is not just a critic or a scholar but an unabashed and passionate fan. Regarding Bernhardt: eBay, he informs us, has provided him with "the 1986 'Dame aux Camélias' memorial plate (Limoges), one of several available embroidery patterns based on the famous art nouveau posters by Mulcha (stitch your own Gismonda), and a 1973 Mexican comic book called Sara, la Artista Dramática Más Famosa en la Historia del Teatro. So far I've resisted the book of Sarah Bernhardt paper dolls, the Madame Alexander Sarah Bernhardt doll, the 'asymmetrical' Sarah Bernhardt earrings, and the 'Heirloom' Sarah Bernhardt peony."
This sort of enthusiasm is what first got Gottlieb involved with the New York City Ballet. He recalls attending performances while still a student, back in the early '50s: What was important, he writes, "was the way Balanchine's dances and dancers made me feel…. I was released from the tyranny of words and filled with joy. I can remember rushing out of the City Center after countless performances and chunkily jeté-ing up Sixth Avenue, to the tolerant amusement of my not-yet first wife and my closest friend, Richard Howard." By the '70s he was helping to plan the ballet's season programs and providing many other useful administrative services. "I saw myself during this period," he writes, "as a part-time messenger of the gods, and I found this kind of uncomplicated service to two great men [Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein] and a noble institution highly satisfying."
Years of devoted fandom turned Gottlieb into a real expert on ballet, and his long and informed dissection of "The International Encyclopedia of Ballet" is one of the most interesting pieces in this collection. In six extra-large, double-column volumes, originally priced at $1,250 (!), the encyclopedia is a monument to the multicultural and multidisciplinary spirit of our era. Gottlieb's largely negative review of the work amounts to a considered critique of that spirit and its fruits. After all, for whom, he asks with some justification, was the encyclopedia written?
Surely any intellectually curious reader should be able to browse with pleasure and profit through an encyclopedia. I find it difficult to imagine someone without a predisposition to read about such matters as Azerbaijani folk dance ("One type of yally has various forms known as kochari, uchayag, tell, and galadangalaya; another type is a dance mixed with games called gazy-gazy, zopy-zopy, and chopu-chopu") browsing profitably through Oxford's many hundreds of pages of such information. This is writing by specialists for specialists, and is all too likely to confuse, if not intimidate, the general reader. Perhaps more important, the only principles that apply to this kind of scholarship are those of accuracy (of course) and inclusivity: Everything is by definition as important as everything else. But this is not true of art….
As this demonstrates, Gottlieb is good on art – but he is just as good, it turns out, on gossip. His comments on a book by Christopher Wilson about the sleazy Duke and Duchess of Windsor and "his/her/their gay lover, Jimmy Donohue" set the tone: "Mr. Wilson forthrightly declares, 'Some may consider it prurient to delve into the mysteries of the bedroom, but in the case of Jimmy and the Duchess there is a vital need.' I second that emotion and I'm sure you do, too, so let's delve right in after him." I was right with him on that one, and nearly as much so on his piece about Porfirio Rubirosa – one of the great playboys of the 20th century.
Wide-ranging interests indeed! Perhaps the collection should have been called "Lives, Letters, and Scandal."
Brooke Allen writes for The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Barnes & Noble Review.


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