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Hamza Shahbaz Sharif looks almost wistful as he considers why he decided to run for a parliamentary seat in the elections scheduled for Feb. 18.
"You know, in all these third-world countries, the whole family gets dragged into politics," he says.
As the nephew of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the son of Shahbaz Sharif, former chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan's most powerful province, he speaks from experience. And his words have a particular resonance in this election campaign.
In a country where politics is a birthright and power is often an inheritance, Pakistan's three greatest political clans are introducing their next generations.
The most famous, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who is 19, was named chairman of Pakistan's largest political party after his mother, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated in December. But he is enrolled at Oxford University and cannot run for office for six years.
By contrast, Hamza is the only Sharif with his name on the ballot this February, since both his father and uncle have been banned – a legacy of their feud with President Pervez Musharraf, he says. Meanwhile, Moonis Elahi – whose father is mentioned as Mr. Musharraf's favored choice for prime minister – is seeking a seat in the Punjab Assembly.
Both are in their early 30s, but are distinct characters – Mr. Sharif modest and earnest in a garishly orange jacket, Mr. Elahi full of purpose and youthful panache in a suit coat and designer loafers.
But together they embody the future of Pakistani politics, both its promise and its problems.
In separate interviews, the two men come across as open, frank, and idealistic – a blend of their Pakistani roots and Western ideals gained from studying abroad. The question for them, as well as Pakistan, is whether they and the new generation they will lead are earnest in their desire to recast the nation's politics of corruption and divisiveness or whether they will merely be consumed by it.
"People say, 'This is the way things are done in Pakistan,' " says Elahi. "If I can't [change] that, there's no point in me staying in politics."
For Mr. Bhutto Zardari, this election has come too soon. Because of Bilawal's youth, his father, Asif Zardari, will run the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) for the foreseeable future. In Bhutto Zardari's public press conference, held in London on his way back to Oxford, he freely admitted that he was not yet ready for politics.
"Although I admit that my experience to date is limited, I intend to learn," he said. "Unless I can finish my education and develop enough maturity, I recognize that I will never be in a position to have sufficient wisdom to enter the political arena."
More than 10 years older than Bhutto Zardari, Sharif and Elahi have already gone through that transformation, though in different ways. How they arrived at this moment – becoming the candidates their bloodline always suggested they would be – has deeply influenced what they hope to accomplish in the future.
Elahi: CEO mentality?
For Elahi, it is as obvious as his appearance, which is as precise as a stockbroker's. Elahi presents himself as the eager, fresh-faced reformer – a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business seeking to bring a CEO's mentality to the opaque world of Pakistani politics.
The degree has shaped his political agenda most, he says. When he returned from America to help run his family's sugar factories, for example, "I saw that everything was done more as a favor than on merit," he says. "It was shocking to me.… I couldn't apply a lot of what I had learned."
He has been a controversial figure at times. Opposition leaders allege that he has used his status to his advantage. They have leveled a wide array of charges against him – from hoarding real estate to helping his father steal billions of rupees from Punjab through a front company.
Elahi has denied the charges, claiming he has done everything possible to avoid the appearance of impropriety, turning down bribes himself and constantly monitoring his staff. Whatever the truth, it is the sort of mudslinging endemic to politics here, says Najam Sethi, editor of the Daily News, a Lahore-based national newspaper.
"There's always talk, but there's never any evidence," he says. "If it wasn't about him, it would be about some other chap."
Sharif: need for tolerance
For his part, Sharif has seen firsthand how deep political rivalries go in Pakistan – and how they can change lives. At 19, he was imprisoned for six months, the result of a political feud against his family, he says. Then, seven years later, the rest of his family was exiled by Musharraf, who overthrew Sharif's uncle in a bloodless coup.
From 2000 until late last year, when his family returned, he was the only representative of the Sharif family in Pakistan. "For five years, I was not allowed to meet my mother … and eight years I spent without my family," he says. "How can you give eight years back to a person?"
He saw the same things in jail as a teenager, watching mothers and sisters who waited in the heat for hours to see their sons and brothers in prison "but didn't have the money to bribe someone."
"There is a great gap between the haves and have-nots," he says. "These things really touched my heart."
Though also schooled abroad, receiving a bachelor's degree in law from the London School of Economics, he presents a less polished image than does Elahi. While Elahi looks the part of politician – clearly excited by the prospect – Sharif's reticence is evident.
In 2002, he declined to run for a provincial or national seat despite his father's exhortations. Now, with his younger brother overseeing the family business and his father and uncle again off the ballot, he says his time has come.
Drawing from his own experience, he recites what he thinks Pakistan needs most: First, the restoration of the judges that Musharraf sacked during his emergency rule, and second, the ability to separate politics from personality.
For more than a decade, he notes, his uncle and Benazir Bhutto were bitter enemies. But in the days before her assassination, he adds, "Benazir Bhutto would call my uncle several times a week."
It was, to him, a glimpse of what Pakistan could be. "There has to be an atmosphere of tolerance – it should not turn into personal animosity," he says. "In a democracy, you have to tolerate criticism if it will make you wiser."

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In Luke's Gospel, the Our Father, like so much else in Jesus' teaching, is occasioned by a request from his disciples: "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples" (Luke 11:1). This should get our attention, because as is typical of Jesus' method of revelation, instead of going around, announcing, "Hey! I'm the Messiah!" he appears to leave so much to the initiative of others. Half of his sayings are replies and rejoinders to things somebody else said or asked. Even the great and shocking revelation of his identity as the Christ, the Son of the living God, is made, not by him directly, but through the apostle Peter. The disciple makes the great confession, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus then confirms it by telling Peter that flesh and blood has not revealed it to him, but "my Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 16:16-17). In both cases — the revelation of the Our Father and the Messianic revelation — had the disciples not made the request for instruction on prayer or plucked up the courage to make the shocking confession, we might never have received the revelation. That should stagger us, because it points to the first thing we should realize about prayer: the fact that we pray at all.
Of course, psychologically, prayer is perfectly understandable. There's no big shock about weak flesh crying out to the heavens for some sort of help in making it through this vale of tears. If we were all pagans, there would be no great surprise in the idea of our trying to wheedle and cajole the various clashing egos and agendas of the Olympians into playing favorites with us or scheming against other gods and humans in order to obtain some desired outcome to our plight.
But Christians do not believe in such a deity. We believe in a God who is omnipotent, all-knowing, and all-loving. That raises a huge question — namely, what's the point of prayer to such a God? We can neither tell him anything he does not know nor urge him to love more than he already does (a candle may just as well command the sun to shine more brightly), nor can we add one particle to his infinite and endless happiness by our praise. We are pretty much the definition of a kind of cosmic fifth wheel. In light of such a God, our prayer — and indeed our very existence — is utterly superfluous. We are, in the words of Robert Farrar Capon, "radically unnecessary." God not only doesn't need us to pray, but he also doesn't need us to do anything. He doesn't need us to exist at all!
Yet Jesus teaches us to pray and makes his actions, in a certain sense, so dependent on ours that his very instruction on prayer is given because we ask him to tell us how to pray. Why this seeming passivity on the part of him who is Pure Act?
The answer is found in the immense gulf between Jesus' reference to God as "my heavenly Father" and his instruction to us to refer to God as "Our Father." Jesus uses the term "my Father" in a way that makes clear that he enjoys by nature a relationship with God that we do not enjoy. God the Father is the Father of Jesus he Son. Jesus shares the Father's divine nature. Jesus is of the same "God stuff" as the Father. We are not. We are creatures, not sons and daughters. We are related to God as a statue is related to its sculptor, not as a child is related to his parent. Moreover, to complicate matters, we are creatures in rebellion. Evil has distanced us from God in ways that merely being a creature never could.
Jesus repeatedly emphasizes that distinct relationship when he tells us things like "You are from below, I am from above" (John 8:23) and when he takes for granted the fact that he is without sin and entirely pleasing to the Father while we are sinners, etc. To be sure, his teaching, particularly in the Sermon on the Mount, insists that we must call God "Father." But the whole point of this language is to make clear that this is shocking and revolutionary.
Mark Shea is the author of Salt and Light: The Commandments, the Beatitudes, and a Joyful Life (Servant, $15.99). He writes the "Catholic and Enjoying It" blog at www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/.
This is an excerpt from "The Heart of Catholic Prayer: Rediscovering the Our Father and the Hail Mary."
You can read more about the Our Father throughout Lent in OSV Newsweekly. Carl Olson provides a reflection each week on this timeless prayer.
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Jon is the oldest member of the team, aged 64, and lives in Crowborough, East Sussex. He is a retired IT professional and has been playing Go for 50 years, learning at school in Berkshire. As well as forming the Go club at Cambridge University and starting the magazine of the British Go Association (British Go Journal), he was also British Champion for 12 years, starting at age 18, until he retired as Champion in 1977. He returned to playing Go competitively a few years ago.
He, together with Tony Goddard and Matthew Macfadyen, is a 6 dan, which is the top grade that has so far been awarded to any native-born British player. In addition Jon was one of the early pioneers in Computer Go and his programme was one of the two involved in the first inter-computer game of Go in 1970.
Jon is President of the British Go Association, represented us in the previous WMSG in Beijing and is also chairman of the Royal Tunbridge Wells Croquet Club.
Alison and Simon live in Letchworth Garden City. They have been playing together as a pair since they married twelve years ago and they represented the UK at the World Amateur Pair Go championship in Japan in 2011.
Alison, aged 44, is a chartered accountant, currently working as Head of Audit at the BBC. She is also Vice-Chairman of her local NHS hospital Trust. She has been playing go for 25 years since discovering it at Cambridge University and is a former President of the British Go Association. She has represented the UK in the Women's World Amateur Championships and in the Women's Team event at the previous World Mind Sports Games in Beijing.
Simon, aged 53, spent much of his career as an IT consultant. He has an interest in mathematical three-dimensional puzzles and in recent years he has designed and hand crafted a variety of new puzzles. He has also been playing Go for many years and is a former President of the Central London Go Club. Tournament playing for both Alison and Simon has taken a back seat in recent years to their growing family. They have two children, one cat and four chickens..
Tian-Ren, 17, lives in Loughborough and attends a local school there, where he is doing his A-levels and hoping to apply for Computer Science at University.
He first came across Go on the internet and has since then has become slightly addicted to the game. He mainly learnt Go by playing games online and a bit of self-teaching.
Tian-Ren has won the British Youth Go championship in 2009, 2010 and 2012 and has represented the UK in a Japan-Europe Go exchange project in 2009.
Henry has just finished his A-levels and hopes to study medicine at University next year. Aside from llamas, Go is his greatest passion and he has been playing obsessively for two years. Recently, he set up a Go club at a local primary school.
Matthew, 40, is an actuary and currently lives in Epsom, near London. He learnt Go when living as a child in Norwich and won the British Youth Championship in 1989. He has represent the UK in many different overseas events, including the previous WMSG in Beijing.
Anna, 32, lives in London and manages Sales and Technical Support at cloud hosting provider, ElasticHosts. At University she studied AI and her final year project was about a computer program that solved life and death problems.
Anna has been playing Go for over 20 years, having first learnt the game at Furze Platt School in Maidenhead. She was UK under 16's champion in 1996 and since then has been active in the Go community, competing in and organising many tournaments, including the European Pair Go Championship in 2005, and generally promoting Go at every opportunity.
Anna was a member of the British Go Association Council from 2003 to 2007, and she is currently involved in organising the annual Mind Sports Olympiad, which will be held in London in August.
Chong is currently an undergraduate student at Loughborough University, studying Aeronautical Engineering. He started playing Go in 2008, being self-taught, and was winner of British Open 2010.
Martha and Matt live together in Edinburgh, and are both studying at the university. They have been playing as a pair go team since 2008, when they had some entertaining games on a KGS account called 'rengo3d25k'.
Martha, 23, is studying for a PhD in History. She first learned go from Matt at the age of 19, and has played with varying degrees of dedication since. She is due to play in the semi-finals of the Scottish Championship soon. (The opponent is Matt.)
Matt, 28, is doing a PhD in Informatics. He taught himself to play after making a go board out of a large pink bathroom tile, using dried beans as stones. He plays from time to time; occasionally he even enjoys it.
Henry Manners, 25, works in London as an Editorial Assistant. He began playing playing Go in 2010 after finding a board collecting dust at a friend's house and roping various other people to play with him. Since then, he has become slightly obsessive about the game.
Natasha, 41, lives in Epsom, near London. She works as an actuary in capital modelling for Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance. She has been playing go for 13 years, and highlights include representing the UK at Pair Go in Japan, Bosnia and France, and playing a friendly game with O Rissei when he visited London! Natasha enjoys other Mind Sports too, having previously represented England in the Women's Olympiad team at chess and previously represented us at the WMSG 2008 in Beijing. She has three children: a 9-year old boy, and twin 7-year old girls.
Andrew Simons, 26, first learnt Go from a school-friend but never got past the surprise of seeing his stones, apparently in atari, being captured. During the summer after his first year at Cambridge University he discovered he could play online on KGS, joined the University club on his return and has been an avid player ever since.
He skipped his graduation to go to China for a 2 month Go holiday where he progressed from around 1 dan to 3 dan, but hasn't got much better since. He now lives in Cambridge where he works for Autonomy, a software company.
Paul, 50, lives in Cambridge. He works as a software developer at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. He learned to play Go when he was 9 years old from a book by the games collector R C Bell. He later started a Go club in his school and they competed in the British Schools Championship in 1980.
He was promoted to 1-dan in 1993 and 2-dan in 1996. In the same year he played on board 2 for the UK team at the European Teams Championship in Zlin. He was the British Small Board Go champion in 2008.
Paul helps to organise the Cambridge Junior Chess & Go Club which has now been running for 18 years, and also a Go club in Milton Primary School. His wife and three children all play Go and at the Oxford Go tournament this year the whole family for the first time all played in the same event.
Paul, 52, learnt to play Go while at school. His principal mentor was Francis Roads, President of the British Go Association at the time, and he progressed to a low kyu rank before going to university. Lack of opportunity and family responsibilities meant that he didn't play very often for many years but he was attracted back into the game at around the time that his daughter Maria took an interest in the game. He became an amateur dan player at the end of 2006 and now plays regularly at clubs, tournaments and online. Paul lives in Hildenborough, Kent and works as a business analyst specialising in Investment Banking. His interests include running and winter mountaineering. He is also Chairman of Sevenoaks Athletic Club and represented us at the previous WMSG in Beijing.
Vanessa, 16, is the youngest member of the team and the strongest woman player. She started to learn Go at the age of six. She is a student in Shrewsbury. She has taken lessons from various Go academies in Hong Kong and also from a professional from Shanghai at the age of nine. She became 1 dan at the age of ten and 3 dan at twelve. She took part in the Amateur Go Championship in Hangzhou, China in 2008 and obtained a national 4 dan certificate. She won the Hong Kong Pair Go Championship in 2005, the British Youth Go Championship in 2006, came 2nd in the Hong Kong Primary and Secondary School Go Championship in 2008 and 13th in the European Youth Goe Championship also in 2008. She represented us in the previous WMSG in Beijing.


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Kevin Federline Welcomes His Sixth Child
Kevin Federline has welcomed his sixth child into the world!
The 36-year-old former backup dancer's wife Victoria Prince gave birth to their second child together over the weekend.
"Words cannot express the joy my children bring me. We are very excited to welcome the newest member of our family.. I love you with all my heart. @crownv_16 #thefedz #sixthman I mean #sixthwoman," Kevin announced on his Instagram.
Kevin and Victoria welcomed a baby girl, though we do not know her name yet. They are also the parents to a two-year-old daughter Jordan Kay.
Kevin also has two kids with his ex-wife Britney Spears – Sean Preston, 8, and Jayden James, 7 – and two kids with his ex-girlfriend Shar Jackson – Kori, 13, and Kaleb, 9.


text: Faculty and Staff honored with awards from graduates of the Class of 2013 News Home 05.29.13 By: Buff Lindau At the annual Senior Awards Luncheon, held May 9 in the Alliot Green Mountain Dining Room, several faculty and staff members were honored by the graduates, along with a number of members of the senior class. George Ashline, professor of mathematics, was presented a Dupont Award by Student Association President Alexander Ieronimo, who said "Professor Ashline is a true gift to Saint Michael's College - he is a scholar, instructor, and an engaged member of the community who is deeply dedicated to the mission of the College." And he said, "Catholic education has always been concerned with the development of the whole person, and Professor Ashline demonstrates enthusiastic commitment to this ideal." Dr. Ashline, who graduated from St. Lawrence and earned his PhD from Notre Dame, chairs the math department. His colleague, Professor Phil Yates said he is "in awe of the time and dedication Professor Ashline has for his students - he's the first person in our department here on campus and the last one to leave." Professor Ashline and his wife, Patricia, who works in Saint Michael's Student Financial Services office, have been members of Edmundite Campus Ministry's LEAP Retreat program for many years. "Their wisdom, warmth, creativity and attention to detail have greatly contributed to the health and vitality of the LEAP Retreat program," said Mr. Ieronimo. "Professor Ashline… goes above and beyond his demanding role as a faculty member - we are blessed to have him among us at Saint Michael's," the presenter said. Allison Cleary, an instructor in the Media Studies, Journalism and Digital Arts Department, received a Class Appreciation Award. "Allison Cleary has dedicated herself to serving her community both at home and abroad," said senior class Vice President Caroline Ward. She said Cleary is a role model and skilled mentor for countless students in class, and she "goes above and beyond" as the international coordinator in the college's volunteer service organization MOVE, leading trips to the Dominican Republic and Kolkata, India. "She balances these demanding responsibilities with the same kindness, brilliance and compassion she lives her life by," Ward said. "She has a presence that makes you immediately feel at ease; and she works to challenge and support her students, to help them grow as individuals, providing them with the resources and support they need to have amazing experiences in the classroom and abroad." Dawn Ellinwood, Vice President for Student Affairs, was presented a Class Appreciation Award by Nora Moore, senior class president, who said Dawn Ellinwood came to Saint Michael's this year and "took the college by storm." She had big shoes to fill as the new VP for student life, "and she wears great shoes," Moore joked. "She has a kind heart, a lively attitude, and a great fashion sense," Moore said. "She has changed Saint Michael's for the better." Ellinwood was Dean of Students at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, from 2008 to 2012, and before that was Vice President of Student Affairs/Dean of Students at College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, MA, from 1996-2008. Ellinwood earned a Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, from Northeastern University in 1987; a Master of Public Administration degree from Northeastern in 1989; a Master of Education degree from Northeastern, earning the Dedicated Advocate Award, in 1992; and a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts in campus curriculum/educational leadership in 2003. Patrick Gallivan '89, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, was presented a Dupont Award by Student Association Vice President Caitlin Zeytoonian, who said Patrick Gallivan has been giving of his time and energy to Saint Michael's since his days as a student when he served as SA President for two years, and worked to start the POW (pre-orientation weekend) program. "Patrick has made it his mission to keep the alumni community engaged in the everyday life of Saint Michael's," Ms. Zeytoonian said. He served many years as adviser to the Student Association, and during a recent retreat used the theme of "humble" as a quality that leaders should possess. "He is a servant leader to his core," she said. He is a volunteer and board member of Camp Ta-Kum-Ta, a summer camp for children who have or have had cancer, and has served on a number of boards. "It is mind boggling to think of the number of leaders Patrick has inspired or been a role model to," Ms. Zeytoonian said. Will Marquess, English instructor and adviser to The Onion River Review, SMC literary journal, was presented a Class Appreciation Award. Senior class Vice President Caroline Ward spoke of the impact of Professor Marquess on her education and on that of so many others. "This professor is remarkable; I know he has touched the lives of each and every one of his students in a profound way." Professor Marquess, on the faculty of Saint Michael's since 1984, has won class appreciation awards twice before, in 1988 and 2006, and won the top teaching award in 2007. He earned his bachelor's degree with Distinction in English from Duke University in 1976, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his PhD from Harvard in 1983 and was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Award for the best dissertation in English literature, Harvard University, 1983. He is a fiction writer and teacher, and the author of Lives of the Poet: The First Hundred Years of Keats Biography. "His passion for teaching and mentoring and his dedication to his students are truly inspiring…he taught me so much about literature, writing and life…. I left his classroom a better student and a better person," Ward said. Joan Wry '79, associate dean of the college and instructor of English, was presented a Class Appreciation Award. Senior class President Nora Moore spoke of how beloved Dean Wry is among students she works with due to her compassion and intelligence. "Though pint-sized, she's a powerhouse of goodness," Moore said. "We love you Dean Wry!" Professor Wry, herself a 1979 graduate of Saint Michael's, earned a master's degree in English from the University of Virginia and a doctorate from McGill. She will return to the classroom this fall after eight years as dean. Professor Wry teaches American Literature, Literary Studies and first-year seminars, and has published papers on Shakespeare, Shelley, Whitman and antebellum women writers.


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Meant to essentially be a Twitter for videos, Vine is a fairly new app that allows users to create and upload 6-second clips. Just another way to get a short glimpse into someone's life or artwork. Tons of creatives have been getting on the Vine boat, creating a vibrant social network of short-feature directors.
The best thing about a really good Vine video is that it's creators think out of the box, making creative work that can inspire any artist or designer. Below are 13 videos that inspire us in 13 different ways:
(Note: click the icon on the top left of each video to hear sound)
Connect the dots
Pinot, Creativity is about connecting the dots.
Imagine the future
yelldesign, New "Real Fruit" app
Use what you've got
abagg, WHATEVER
Build something newMark Weaver, Untitled Lego Vine
Change your perspective
Yves Das, Tape Drivers
Change it again
Matt Swinsky, Lazer as Chun Li
Tell a story
Chris Donlon, Poor Sisyphus
Re-imagine the past
Man Bartlett, Untitled
Play with your food
Jethro Ames, How to Play with your food, Oregon Trail edition
General Electric, What happens when you combine milk, food coloring, and dish soap?
Get inspired by a cause
Khoa, The Polar Bear needs love National Geographic!
Let yourself be a little weird
Adam Goldberg, youandiwillalwaysbe
Keep creating art
Ian Padgham, "Thomas Hardy" by @origiful


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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Since The Edgars Are Steeped in Controversy…
Yes, Suspicious Circumstances was eligible for the main Canadian crime fiction prize. I could have entered it as a first novel.
However, the Arthur Ellis Award doesn't have the profile of the Edgars or Daggers, so I'm not sure how much influence it carries in terms of book sales or publisher interest. Therefore, that wasn't a factor for me.
Instead, it boiled down to considerations about practicalities and realism.
I would have had to purchase 5 copies of my book to enter. Since the paperback never appeared when scheduled, that meant purchasing 5 hardcovers.
We'll generously round that down to a cost of $25 Canadian per book, plus shipping.
Then I would have had to package them up again and include the entry fee and ship them to Toronto.
$125 for the books, $25 entry fee, ship the books to Calgary, then ship to Toronto…
Let's call that an investment of $200. In reality, probably more, but let's go with $200.
This is where practical considerations come to the fore. $200. It's half the amount I've spent so far on review copies for What Burns Within and The Frailty of Flesh. With two books out this year, the $400 I've spent so far won't be the end of those costs.
It's enough money to put a half page ad in Crimespree Magazine.
It's the cost of registering for Noircon or Bouchercon.
It's almost half the cost of flying to the US to go to Noircon.
Almost enough to join two of the organizations eager to have me as a member…
Well, you get the idea. In every decision an author makes – from attending a convention to joining an organization to entering an award (if they have to pay themselves) to doing a book tour or creating promotional gizmos – has to be assessed based on anticipated return for invested cost.
Ultimately, I didn't feel entering the Arthur Ellis Awards was a justifiable expense this year. Now, I realize some might take that as a slam on the award and its lack of significance. It isn't really meant as such. If I could be nominated or win, I wouldn't be complaining…
And that's where a healthy dose of realism comes into the equation. Last year, at the award nominations announcement, the presenters raved about all the wonderful unpublished novels, so many they gave extra titles honourable mentions.
And then they lamented over the best first category and the appalling lack of quality submissions.
It irritated me to no end, for two reasons.
1. It undermines the achievement of every nominee who did make the list, because it's like saying the eligible candidates were so shitty that these were the ones that didn't suck quite as much, and
2. One of the books I had pegged to be nominated – and win – didn't even make the list.
I mean, maybe that's okay. Clearly Harcourt loved Dirty Sweet as much as I did – they're only publishing it in the US this year.
But that, more than anything, persuaded me that I'd be throwing my money away on entering, because when it comes to Canada it really does seem to be more about tone and style than about quality writing.
In other words, dark is not in.
And simply put, even Suspicious Circumstances was probably too dark. My feelings on it are such that I didn't enter any short stories this year either.
This year, I have my money on Sean Chercover. I hope I'm not jinxing him by saying it. And I truly would have been honoured to lose to Sean.
But the simple reality is, in the midst of dealing with things here, plans to move, and book promotion for the two titles coming out this year I had to be practical.
The nice thing about not being up for anything is I don't have to go through any angst at all when the nominations are announced. I can just be sincerely happy for my deserving friends.
(And I've waited until after the deadline to enter so that nobody will try to persuade me to change my mind. It is the right decision.)
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Wouldn't your publisher submit the five copies, Sandra? I'm sure they would have been interested in having the book nominated.
Although when my young-adult novella was published (albeit by a tiny Canadian publisher) getting any help with publicity or marketing was impossible.
- 3:26 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
No. Not all publishers do.
And for the record, the fact that there's now an entry fee is really going to deter entries, particularly in the short story category. Just a year ago the CWC raised costs for author members - an increase from $69 to $99 per year. The overwhelming bulk of that money seems to go to the website and Toronto-based events, which do me little good where I live. I knew as much about what was going on reading blogs as I did being a member.
Follow on the heels of that the entry fees for the Arthur Ellis, and the awards run the risk of being a showdown between every self published* person with enough money to go in there, while small presses that are already struggling will be faced with tough choices because they have to pay for every book they want to enter. (*She says, knowing not all self published books are bad, but still, this is a serious concern if the legit publishers have to make tough choices because they can't afford it.)
A common problem talked about here is the lack of marketing for Canadian books, because there's no money for it. If there's no money to market already, how do we expect small publishers to come up with more money to submit for awards? And what of the magazines? Same thing.
Since SC was published by a small US publisher a Canadian award doesn't mean much to them. But the simple reality is, with only so much money to go around, obviously even US publishers are going to submit for the awards with more profile instead of a regionalized one.
- 3:38 p.m.
- Josephine Damian said...
Sandra, I had no idea these awards had these entry fees (don't know why I didn't consider that when every other contest seems to) plus all those copies - thanks for the heads up.
Speaking on contests, when-oh-when will the Spinetinger awards be announced?
- 8:39 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Josephine, I don't think the Edgar, Dagger, etc. do have entry fees, but I could be mistaken.
The Spinetingler winners will be announced at the end of the month. I'd hoped to have the physical awards in my hands in time for that, but I'm not sure if that will happen...
- 8:51 a.m.
- John McFetridge said...
Wow, Sandra, I always appreciate the mention of my work, thanks.
One thing about the Arthur Ellis Awards, though, they will accept books from any publisher, even self-published and they accept stories from on-line only publications like Shred of Evidence and so on. As you say, they charge a fee for all this, but maybe it's a step in the right direction. It's all a process and I'm glad now that it's at least a public discussion.
Who knows, maybe someday there'll be a Canadian winner that's not a cozy.
- 12:21 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Well, I'm not keen about the fees. I see it as a major deterrent to the small publishers in this county and magazines that are barely getting by as it is.
But that's my 2 cents.
And indeed, maybe some day, a book will win that isn't a cozy. It does happen in the best novel category, anyway, but in those cases it always seems to be a book published by a major publisher, the author having achieved international success - Peter Robinson, Rick Mofina.
The lack of realistic & gritty crime fiction set in this country remains a huge disappointment for me, but I am delighted you broke new ground with your work.
- 12:30 p.m.
- Eileen said...
The decision of where to spend money is brutal. As I count down to release day I keep swinging wildly between thinking I should do (and spend more) and trying to hold onto sanity.
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- "At that moment the telephone rang and Aunt Petunia went to answer it while Harry and Uncle Vernon watched Dudley unwrap the racing bike, a cine-camera, a remote control aeroplane, sixteen new computer games, and a video recorder. He was ripping the paper off a gold wristwatch when Aunt Petunia came back from the telephone looking both angry and worried."
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A cine-camera is a Muggle device that can be used for home video recording. Dudley Dursley received one of these for his birthday on 29 June, 1991.[1] At the time, videos made on such a device would most likely be recorded onto a cassette and played back on a video recorder, one of which Dudley also received. A month later, the video camera was found by Harry Potter lying in The Smallest Bedroom, which had once been Dudley Dursley's second bedroom, but had become his own. The camera had been set on top of a small, working tank that Dudley had once driven over a neighbour's dog.
The Hogwarts Express conductor once tried to eat one of these, expecting it to taste like an apple.[2]
See also
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 2 (The Vanishing Glass)
- ↑ "Conductor of the Hogwarts Express from "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter"" on Youtube.


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AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - The Masters is the only major golf tournament that seems to offer a rare edge to left-handed players as the game's minority group has triumphed there more than the sport's other three majors combined.
The jury is out on whether the majestic Augusta National layout presents an advantage to lefties, but the recent spate of winners has triggered debate on whether they have an edge among the pine trees and azaleas of the world's most famous golf course.
Five of the past 10 Masters winners, including 2012 champion Bubba Watson, have been left-handers. It is a statistic that no other major comes close to matching.
The British Open, which dates back to 1860 and is the oldest of golf's four majors, has produced just one left-handed winner, New Zealand's Bob Charles, in 1963.
There has also only been one left-handed winner of the PGA Championship, American Phil Mickelson in 2005. No left-handed player has triumphed at the U.S. Open, which dates back to 1895.
Yet the Masters, the youngest of the majors, has produced three different left-handed winners in the past decade.
Canada's Mike Weir was the first in 2003. Mickelson has won three times, in 2004, 2006 and 2010. Then Watson joined the elite club last year.
Mickelson offered an irreverent explanation of the phenomenon when asked about it before this week's tournament.
"I think we are certainly cooler," he said.
But the man known affectionately as Lefty offered a more plausible explanation when pressed on the matter. Unlike most major championship courses, Augusta National has an unusually high number of holes that are shaped from right to left.
The theory follows that because it is generally easier to slice the ball than hook it, left-handers have a natural edge with their tee shots on dogleg left holes.
Mickelson agrees and said there were other advantages, including some of the key pin positions on the lightning fast greens at Augusta.
"There are certain holes when we play Augusta National that actually do favor one side of the ball standing on it over the other based on shot dispersion.
"A hole like No. 12, based on shot dispersion for me, where as I stand up there as a left‑handed player, if I pull a shot and aim at the middle of the green, it's going to long right or short left which is exactly the way that green sits.
"It's opposite of a right‑handed shot dispersion, which is why it's such a difficult hole in the past. If you aim at in the middle of the green and you pull it, it goes long left for a right‑handed player, in trouble, or short right in the water."
If ever there was a single shot that added weight to the theory that left-handers really do have an advantage at Augusta, it was provided in dazzling fashion by Watson last year.
The American appeared to be in all sorts of trouble when he drove his tee shot into the trees on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen.
Standing at a virtual right-angle to the pin, which was 162 yards away, Watson conjured up one of the greatest shots ever seen on a golf course.
Using a wedge, he punched the ball through a narrow opening between the pines then bent it on a seemingly impossible trajectory down the fairway and on to the centre of the green.
"I think (in that) situation, lefties would have the best chance," he told a news conference when asked to recall his miracle shot.
"I think a righty, it would be hard because you have to hit such a higher club, I think four‑iron, five‑iron, to hit it that low, because you're cutting the ball, slicing the ball.
"But I'm just obviously going to say, I'm the only one that can do it. I'm the only one that had a chance to do it."
While Watson is a natural left-hander who has never been coached and relies on instinct, Mickelson is a natural right-hander who only plays golf left-handed, which also goes against golf's traditional thinking.
Arnold Palmer, a four-time Masters champion, was a natural left-hander who taught himself to play right-handed, while Weir, who writes with his right hand, actually considered switching sides when he was a teenager because he thought it would enhance his chances of making it as a professional.
He famously wrote a letter to Jack Nicklaus asking him whether to change to a southpaw but was told to do what came naturally even though Nicklaus himself had adjusted his own game to suit Augusta.
Although he was right-handed, Nicklaus realized he needed to master the art of shaping the ball from right to left to succeed at Augusta. The result was that he won a record six Masters titles.
"I knew that you had predominately, not predominately, but you had to play some right to left shots," he said on the 50th anniversary of his first Masters win in 1963.
"But I still didn't have the nerve to let them go because I didn't have the confidence in my own game to be able to do that because I was pretty confident playing left to right. It wasn't until '63 that I got that."
The rarity of left-handed champions in golf is something of an anomaly in professional sports as left-handers have been succeeding in similar eye-hand co-ordination sports for the past century.
Tennis has a long and distinguished honor roll of left-handers, including Rafa Nadal and Hall of Famers Martina Navratilova, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Monica Seles.
Major League Baseball is packed with great left-handers, most notably Babe Ruth.
It is the same in international cricket where four of the five highest individual scores in test cricket have been made by left-handers, including Brian Lara's all-time record of 400 not out.
The main reason for the disparity between golf and other sports is the equipment. The rackets and bats used in tennis, baseball and cricket are the same for right-handers and left-handers, but not so in golf.
Many young players started out as right-handers because they were the only clubs they could find but that is less of a case now.
Of the 93 players in this year's Masters, just four are left-handers. The odds seem stacked against them, but if recent history is any guide, one of them could still end up with the winner's green jacket.
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Pictures: Meet Holga, the toy camera from China
Vintage Holga cameras are sought out for their decidedly flawed results, in which bad focus, out-of-control vignetting (dark corners), dubious color repro and unpredictable light-leak streaks can create a funky art form of sorts -- much to the delight of low-fidelity photo enthusiasts. Here's a selection from several hours of loitering at Epcot's China, resulting in a surreal mix of distinctly retro-warped, Holga-listic images typical of the toy camera genre.
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Credit where it's due: for the first time, well, since 9/11, I listened to Bush speak and found myself nodding in agreement with much of what he had to say. Not too much credit to the man: he was reading words someone else wrote about a deal he was obligated to make, but for the first time he had the maturity or wisdom to make the compromise and get the job done, rather than stamp his feet and insist on "my way or the highway."
I know what I said earlier, but there are in fact a few redeeming qualities about this $700 billion deal, as far as available details can be understood:
- The Treasury will essentially receive stock options (sort of) in companies they bail out, so that if taxpayers may receive a return on the investment in these companies.
- The distressed assets will be purchased at their current fair market value -- a deep discount from their nominal value, as initially suggested.
- With no need to leverage these assets further, the Treasury has the ability to wait and see if their actual value improves, which may be the case.
- There's some fluff about executive compensation and bankruptcy protections for consumers which is irrelevant but nice symbolism, and the oversight requirement is apparently satisfied.
By the way, I may be fiercely liberal, but it may surprise you to learn that I am what used to be called a fiscal conservative (before that phrase was retired due to excessive irony), now I guess I would be called a deficit hawk.
On a snarkier note: did anyone catch the Palin trainwreck tonight? I had to feel bad for her, sent out there to claim that McCain was not a deregulation fanatic. She got crucified by Couric on that point, which made her look bad, but that wasn't entirely her fault: her marching orders were to claim something patently false. It's hard to put lipstick on that, er, um, never mind. But it was pretty inexcusable that she had no clue what their stance is on a foreclosure moratorium. That was pathetic.
It's no wonder that the McCain camp is trying to scuttle the VP debate. They must be terrified at the prospect of Palin having to face tough, unscripted questions. I was a little freaked about about Palin for a while, but it's becoming more clear every day that this choice was a gift for the Obama/Biden ticket.
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Our flickr pool, now well past its infancy and into its chubby adolescence, is a great repository of High Line visitor photos. It's a fun browse, but it needs your help to grow big and strong.
If you're on flickr, please take a moment to add your best High Line shots to our pool. You'll be glad you helped expand the prettiest little corner of the internet.
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The 2010 Solar Decathlon is well underway in Madrid, Spain and a team of three universities from Berlin has already been attracting a lot of attention with their clean-lined Living Equia Home. Designed to run completely off the grid with all of the modern comforts of climate control, this submission is sure to keep the hot Madrid summer at bay. Here is our exclusive look at this impressive and stoic design.
Aside from its striking black envelope, the home's main visual feature is two strips of windows crossing each other through the middle of the house, beaming light into the interior throughout the day. A sophisticated cooling and heating system is incorporated using solar thermal panels and a heat pump. In the winter they work to heat the home and in the summer the thermal panels can shed heat at night. The walls and ceiling use a high-tech phase change material that can absorb much more heat than benign materials, helping maintain a comfortable interior temperature.
The roof is covered in a 6300 kWh monocrystalline solar array that makes more than enough energy for this house to keep the occupants comfy. We also dig the folding solar screen, although its usefulness is dubious. The black stained wooden exterior may be an ode to the physics principle of a Black Body, the hypothetical highest efficiency of an object.


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Rudy Giuliani, in full Rudolph William Giuliani, (born May 28, 1944, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of New York City (1994–2001). He was especially known for his handling of the September 11 attacks of 2001.
Giuliani was educated at Manhattan College (A.B., 1965) and New York University (J.D., 1968). Beginning in 1970, he worked for the U.S. government, holding positions in the office of the U.S. attorney and in the Department of Justice. From 1977 to 1981 he practiced law privately, but in 1981 he returned to the Justice Department as associate attorney general. In 1983 he was appointed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Early in his political career, Giuliani became affiliated with the Republican Party. After being narrowly defeated in 1989, he won election as mayor in 1993, the first Republican to hold the position in two decades. He promised to reform the city's finances and to crack down on crime, and he was credited with success in both areas. He cut expenditures by, among other things, trimming the city's workforce and winning concessions from unions. The mayor encouraged the police to take an aggressive stance against even minor infractions of the law—even litterers, jaywalkers, and reckless cabdrivers were ticketed as lawbreakers. This campaign earned him the sobriquet "the Nanny of New York." However, the crime rate fell, and the mayor claimed that New York had become a more civilized place.
Giuliani had his detractors, however. Critics pointed out that he was taking credit for a crime decrease that was part of a nationwide trend. Further, in several incidents involving charges of police brutality, the mayor seemed to be defending officers' misconduct. To some critics the mayor's actions could be petty, as when he refused to meet visiting dignitaries if he disagreed with their policies. In a highly publicized incident in 1999, the mayor denounced a controversial exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art that included works that many observers found offensive or sacrilegious. He attempted to withdraw funding for the museum but was overruled in court. Nonetheless, the mayor generally maintained high approval ratings, and there was speculation that he would run for the U.S. Senate in 2000. However, following the disclosures that he had prostate cancer and that he was separating from his wife, Donna Hanover, Giuliani announced in May 2000 that he would not run.
On September 11, 2001, New York City became the scene of the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States after hijackers flew commercial airplanes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, killing some 2,800 people. Giuliani drew high praise for his handling of the situation, and there were calls that he run for a third term, even though New York City law barred a mayor from serving more than two consecutive terms. Giuliani, however, decided not to seek reelection. He received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his efforts in the wake of the attacks.
Leadership, which Giuliani cowrote with Ken Kurson, was published in 2002. In 2007 Giuliani announced that he would seek the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 2008. His platform focused on national security, and he was an early front-runner. By concentrating his campaign efforts on the Florida primary, however, he conceded nearly a month of caucuses and primaries to other candidates. He withdrew from the race in late January 2008 after finishing a distant third in Florida.
Giuliani was an early and ardent supporter of fellow New Yorker Donald J. Trump's pursuit of the presidency in 2016. When Trump was elected, Giuliani became a prominent candidate for the position of secretary of state, though Rex W. Tillerson was ultimately chosen to fill the post. Giuliani, however, was tapped by Trump to serve as an unofficial adviser on cybersecurity. In April 2018 Giuliani joined the legal team that was representing the president in the special counsel's investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election.


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After some confusion on Twitter and at Grant Park following the evacuation of Lollapalooza due to severe weather warnings, C3 Presents announced via a statement it would let fest-goers back into the park and resume the festival at 6 p.m.:
"We want to thank the tens of thousands of festival goers, staff, and artists who calmly and safely exited from Grant Park today," said Charlie Jones, partner of C3 Presents, the promoter for Lollapalooza. "We also applaud and thank the City of Chicago for their cooperation and commitment to making Lolla a safe and enjoyable experience for all. Once again Chicago has come through and we're proud to call the city our partner."
Around 3:20 p.m., fest-goers were told via announcements at various stages, message on stage screens, alerts from the Lollapalooza mobile app and word of mouth that Grant Park was being evacuated due to severe weather conditions reportedly on the way. There was no information given at that time about if the festival would resume or how entrants would be allowed back in if so.
Thousands were directed to exit calmly through the entrance gates. RedEye exited through the entrance on Balbo Drive, where a small cluster developed when the new 10-foot-tall iron gates were not opened to let fest-goers out. A few climbed up and over to be let out.
Several acts were removed from the schedule--Alabama Shakes, B.O.B., Temper Trap, Neon Indian, The Dunwells--a few sets have been shortened and the Grant Park curfew has been extended from its original time of 10 p.m. Santigold, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Ocean and Avicii all play until 10:45 p.m., now.


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"The alienation of the spectator to the profit of the contemplated object (which is the result of his own unconscious activity) is expressed in the following way: the more he contemplates the less he lives; the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desires. The externality of the spectacle in relation to the active man appears in the fact that his own gestures are no longer his but those of another who represents them to him. This is why the spectator feels at home nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere." (1)
For some time now I have become aware that our preoccupation with the momentary facets of our media culture have moved beyond mere distraction to dangerous manipulation. Our daily addiction to these cellular technologies and their proprietary structures is altogether troubling. But the barely camouflaged agendas within the media-driven services, created via corporate programmed commerce, dictate our willing enslavement for most of our waking hours.
We sign on to the Internet, a ready stand-in for Guy Debord's "Spectacle," believing that we are "just checking our Facebook," only to be prompted to some "suggested post," a disguised advertisement poised to register our "likes" for future "call lists." Our keystrokes and movements through this insidious "World Wide Web" are tracked and monitored, with the resultant "spam" steadily filling our filtered lives, and our habits and preferences traded to those corporations complicit in the deceit. Because distraction is just a click away - political scandal, celebrity misadventure, YouTube miscreants and fiascoes - our loss of time is imperceptible as we text, scroll and meme our way through the Spectacular.
This is not to say that the Internet has no function, for that would be patently absurd. The 'Net's usefulness as basic information source cannot be denied. From students to academics, to research scientists and authors, the ease and speed with which any topic can be accessed and explored on the Web makes it the premier tool for gathering and gaining knowledge, or at least a sense of knowing.
We could never have known how correct Debord's predictions would become. We communicate via The Spectacle, controlled by its machinations, lead to wherever it wants us to go. This may be harmless for the young, perhaps even amusing for five or six years as they sojourn through the tethers of Academia. However, the adult mind becomes besotted among the zeros and ones, drugged by the "Now," mired in the false belief that this "Media Culture" is the "Only Culture."
As I have aged, I have begun to tabulate what I have missed, what I haven't read, the things I haven't seen. The experience of Here and Now is lost to me when I am on the Web. I can no longer allow myself the sloth of wandering through meaningless gossip, innuendo, "fact" based on opinion, "truth" based on Wikipedia.
Before there were blogs and digitized media there were books; before YouTube there was cinema, before iTunes there was jazz. How many hours are left to me? How many days?
I have read only fragments of Dante, Ben Jonson, Coleridge; and I haven't read enough Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Clemens. I have seen bits of Griffith, Eisenstein, von Stroheim; and I haven't watched enough Chaplin, Ford, Kurosawa.
This is my resolve, to wisely use what moments remain, to be in the moment. My plan is simple and forthright: I will abandon the superficialities of Facebook, YouTube and the "social media." I will seek knowledge through books, art and poetry through film, to rekindle these lost art forms and the essence of their relationship to me. I will stay aware of my epistemic conditions but go deeper than The Spectacle allows. I take a chance that there is a life other than that proposition of an existence "mediated by images." I seek a social practice among humans whose being is defined by actions. The possibilities are too promising to ignore.
IMAGE: Still from Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin, Kino, 1925.
1. Debord, Guy. "The Society of the Spectacle," Detroit, Black & Red, 1977, #30.


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Cedarcap needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 19 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
Cedar Capital - http://www.cedarcapital.ie
We are an investment management company (1 year old) trying to build a global brand. We advise high net worth individuals regarding their equity portfolios. We are called Cedar Capital Advisors and we are an Irish based company. We are looking for business cards with a logo, and we need to do a lot of powerpoints, so a powerpoint template incorporating the logo, together with headed stationary incorporating the logo and contact details. We have a website - http://www.cedarcapital.ie and would like to use the new brand to update this website to attract more clients. If possible it would be good to incorporate some sort of theme into the design.
brand name Cedar Capital target audience
We advice high net worth individuals here in Ireland and within Europe. We are trying to build the perception that we are a strong brand with a global reputation even though we are a startup from Ireland. We hope the logo's help us to achieve this. We would like our brand to mirror the market leader which is Goldman Sachs!!
We are looking for business cards incorporating the logo for Cedar Capital and on reverse.
We are also looking for a powerpoint & e-zine template that incorporates the logo and contact details, so that we can do slideshows with the same theme coming through. We enclose details of our current documentation.
We also need to get headed paper done up incorporating the logo.
The theme needs to be strong, creating belief and presence in the brand name. The powerpoint template needs to be practical allowing for room for txt, diagrams etc without drowning out the template. Suggestions are to maybe use a portion of the slide window for the logo. Not sure, but will leave to your creative juices. See attached file which is what we currently use. . Because we're selling to high net worth successful businessmen, it needs to be professional, not childish, these guys can be quite conservative, It can't be cheap and it needs to be elegant. The typeface needs to be clear, but it does need to be striking


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Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver was in Washington on March 17 where he was the principal guest at the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion in Public Life. The event was one of an occasional series the center holds in which they examine where religion and the political life come together. This one focused on the political obligations of Catholics and how Catholics' convictions are played out in the public square.
Archbishop Chaput is the author of "Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life" (2008), and he has written and spoken widely on Catholics and political activity. The guests included members of the secular and religious press including Catholic News Service. CNS reporter Pat Zapor covered the wide-ranging presentation and discussion.
The Pew Center now has made the transcript of the event avalable on their Web site. While you are on their site, check out the U.S. religious landscape survey that Pew began in 2008. There are also many other excellent resources on the participation of religious Americans in the public square.


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New Jersey is Digging Out in Bitter Cold
Bitter cold air will make snow clearing work a chilly task throughout New Jersey Wednesday. State offices and many schools are closed.
[See searchable list of reported closings and delayed openings.]
The snow tapered off and came to an end overnight. Temperatures are in the single digits and lower teens this morning with a wind chill of -10 to -15 out of the northwest, prompting a Wind Chill Advisory by the National Weather Service until 11 a.m. Temperatures are not expected to reach 20 in most places during the day.
The greatest amounts of snow fell in Monmouth County with 13-15 inches in Manapapan, Englishtown, Freehold and Colts Neck according to National Weather Service observations.
The New Jersey Office of Emergency Management tweeted that state offices will be closed Wednesday, but all essential employees will still be required to report to work.
Speeds remain reduced to 35 MPH on the entire lengths of the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike according to New Jersey Fast Traffic. Crews are working to clear main roads to pavement. However, secondary roads may not be as well plowed, forcing closings or delayed openings in many school districts.
On Tuesday night a charter bus ran down an embankment on I-80 in Roxbury Township according to ABC 7. There were three people on the bus at the time of the crash, and none of the injuries were listed as life-threatening.
New Jersey Transit will cross-honor tickets system-wide on buses, light rail and trains again on Wednesday and operate on an enhanced weekend schedule except for the Atlantic City Line which will operate normally.
Amtrak's Northeast Corridor will operate on a modified schedule on Wednesday between Boston and Washington while Acela service will operate at reduced frequencies according to their website.
New Jersey State Police tweeted they had 238 reported accidents and 354 motorist aid calls by 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon in their patrol areas. In addition, the NJ DOT has requested that State Police tow any abandoned cars off the interstates and state roads until noon on Wednesday.
A State of Emergency declaration by Gov. Chris Christie remains in effect to allow for easier co-ordination for snow removal. "I encourage all New Jerseyans to stay off the roads if possible so that our first responders and public safety officials can safely respond to any emergency situations," he said.
- Get Alan Kasper's latest storm forecast
- Snow crippling N.J., thundersnow possible in some areas tonight / Star-Ledger
- Ready to dig out now? / Asbury Park Press
Toniann Antonelli contributed to this report.


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From Books to Baskets to Gold
By Frank Radosevich II
August 29, 2012
Textbooks can do better than simply improve the minds of students. They can improve the lives of a community.
At Bradley, accounting students saw beyond the normal shelf life of a textbook and turned their vision into an adept business plan that donated more than $1,500 to a local charity and grade schools. The project, dubbed Books to Baskets, collected textbooks from Bradley students and faculty and then sold them online to buyers, giving the funds to the charity and schools.
The idea for the service project came from the students in Bradley's chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, a national honorary organization for accounting majors. The chapter was honored with the Gold Chapter award at the Beta Alpha Psi national convention in August for its Books to Baskets idea and going beyond what is required of a student group.
Students with the organization said the award was a validation for all their hard work and proof that innovative ideas set them apart from other 200-plus universities that attended the conference.
"It's a nice summation to our year," said Zach Albert, a senior in accounting and the chapter's vice president of professional events. "You don't stick with what works every year."
Bradley has won the Gold Chapter distinction for three of the four years it has been offered. Students also gave two presentations at the convention, one describing their Books to Baskets program and the other focusing on how to better lead a local chapter on campus.
"It's an accomplishment to say 'I gave a presentation at the national meeting of Beta Alpha Psi,' and we've historically had students speaking there," said Simon Petravick, professor and chair of the accounting department who also attended the conference in Baltimore, Md. "It's good for Bradley, too, by showing our interest in the organization."
Students kicked off convention by volunteering to help the homeless. The United Way sponsored a service project that pulled together 20 different charities or organizations to assist the homeless community in Baltimore at a single location. The students from Bradley and other universities worked as one-on-one guides with a homeless individual and walked them through a checklist of what services they required. At the end, volunteers conducted exit interviews with homeless individuals to judge how effective the day was.
Overall, the Beta Alpha Psi meeting exposed students to new ways to tackling problems in accounting as well as introduced them to professionals working in the field.
"You do learn about professionalism in accounting," said Emily Ioerger, an accounting senior from Metamora, Ill. Ioerger, the vice president of community service for Bradley's Beta Alpha Psi, presented at the meeting and said the practice would come in handy for her future professional career. She, along with the other six students that attended, also networked with companies and experts in the field.
Petravick added, "It gives the students a chance to learn about things that don't always take place on campus and it's good for Bradley that we are active in the meeting and making presentations."


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The O2 was released in 1996 to replace the Indy and was discontinued in 2002.
The Silicon Graphics O2 was introduced in 1996 as the successor to the SGI Indy workstation. As the entry-level system in SGI's workstation lineup, it was designed with a focus on multimedia and video, and it found widespread use in the fields of visual effects, medical imaging, and television weather reporting. Its high-end counterpart was the SGI SGI Octane. Early O2 systems bear the original Silicon Graphics hypercube logo, while later systems were rebadged with the new lowercase "sgi" logo.
In August 2001, the O2 was re-introduced with minor modifications as the O2+: the case colors were changed to purple and gray, a DVD-ROM came standard, the serial port controller was improved, and the baseline CPU was upgraded to the R7000/350MHz. The O2+ was only available for a brief period, after which it was not replaced (the Fuel, released in January 2002, was not a replacement for O2; Fuel was intended purely to be a single-CPU mid-range system).
The O2 is a single-processor system available with two different CPU architectures: the R5000/RM7000 series at the low-end, and later the R10000/R12000 at the high-end. The former line has lower cooling requirements and left space for two hard drives, while the latter series requires a large heat sink and fan and uses a wider system module that consumes one adjacent hard drive bay.
The O2 is often regarded as an ideal introductory system for budding SGI collectors thanks to its standard DB15 VGA, 10/100 ethernet, and PS/2 keyboard & mouse ports, its built-in optical drive, and its relatively modest power consumption, space requirements, and noise levels. It is widely available on the secondhand market and relatively inexpensive to ship, weighing approximately 25 pounds. O2+ systems, which are exceedingly rare, fetch a premium.
- 1 System Architecture
- 2 Operating system support
- 3 Add-On Options
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 Further Reading
- 6 Manuals
- 7 Wiki Resources
- 8 External Resources
- 9 Photo Gallery
System Architecture
Originally dubbed the "Moosehead" project during development, the O2 features a proprietary high-bandwidth Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) that connects the various system components. The O2 is a highly-integrated system, with CPU, graphics accelerator, memory, SCSI controller, and I/O all incorporated into a single system module, which can be slid out of the chassis with the flip of a lever. A PCI bus is bridged onto the UMA with one expansion slot available. The O2 has a designer case and a modular design, with space for two Ultra SCSI drives mounted on special sleds (only one in the later R10000/R12000 models) and an optional video capture / sound module mounted on the far left side. Further information on the design and construction of the O2 can be found in SGI service manuals on Techpubs. Detailed breakdown pictures and an IRIX hinv dump can be found here.
An O2's unique system ID (MAC address) is stored on the small PCI riser card that connects the PCI card holder to the motherboard. If this riser card is swapped, the corresponding black plastic badge on the rear of the case should be swapped as well to preserve consistency.
WARNING: The O2 system module should NEVER be removed or installed while the power cord is connected. Doing so can permanently damage the motherboard.
CPU Options
The O2 comes in two distinct CPU families: the low-end MIPS 180-350 MHz R5000/R7000 based units and the higher-end 150-400 MHz R10000/R12000 based units. Processors are mounted to a daughterboard which attaches to the motherboard with a plastic bracket. It is possible to install an R10000/R12000 system module into most R5000 O2's by removing the metal separator between the system module and the hard drives, however, on some earlier models the separator is part of the chassis and cannot be removed short of cutting it out.
The 200 MHz R5000 CPUs with 1 MB L2-cache are generally noticeably faster than the 180 MHz R5000s with only 512 KB L2-cache. Note that there is no 300 Mhz R5000 CPU, the O2 will incorrectly report the RM5200 CPU as an R5000.
|SGI Part Number
|R5000 180MHz (512kb SC)
|R5000 200MHz (1mb SC)
|R10000 175MHz SC
|R10000 195MHz SC
|R5200 300MHz (1mb SC)
|CPU Version:
|Clock Speed:
|2nd Level Cache:
|180 MHz
|180 MHz
|200 MHz
|300 MHz
|350 MHz
|256 KB (+1 MB tertiary)
|150, 175, 195, 225, 250 MHz
|270, 300 MHz
|400 MHz
There is also a hobbyist project that has successfully retrofitted a 600 MHz R7000 MIPS processor into the O2. In theory faster CPUs at 900MHz any beyond are possible, but this would require the public release of the O2 PROM source code which at present is not available and probably never will be.
A recall of some early versions of the RM7000A 350Mhz CPU is thought to have hastened the removal of the O2 from SGI's product line.
The O2 features eight SDRAM slots (four banks of two), with a maximum of 1GB allowed using 128MB DIMMs. PROM 4.4 is required to use 128MB DIMMs with earlier versions only allowing a 256MB maximum.
The motherboard has eight proprietary 278-pin (139 per side) memory slots, accepting four sets of paired DIMM modules, referred to as "kits." The individual SDRAM DIMM modules come in 16 MB, 32 MB, 64 MB, and 128 MB sizes. The memory banks must be filled in order, and larger modules should be installed first. The O2 is expandable to 1 GB using 4 2x128 MB kits, which were available from various manufacturers including SGI, Kingston, and Dataram.
Original SGI-branded O2 DIMMs are either single-sided (SS) with memory chips on only one side of the module or double-sided (DS), and are color-coded to assist in identification. 3rd party DIMMs may or may not follow these conventions. Knowing the current memory configuration is important as DIMMs must be installed according to a number of specific rules. These rules follow the table in this section.
|Color Code 1
|Color Code 2
- The DIMMs in slots 1 and 2 make up Bank A. DIMMs in slots 3 and 4 make up Bank B, and so on.
- A bank of two slots must have a DIMM in each slot or be empty (except for slots 1 and 2, Bank A, which must always be populated.)
- The two DIMMs in any bank must be of the same size and type.
- The largest size DIMMs must be in Bank A.
- DIMM banks must be filled sequentially, beginning with bank A.
- Equal or smaller size DIMMs must be in Bank B, and so on.
- Do not skip banks, or the memory will not be recognized.
To install high density (128 MB) DIMMs, PROM revision 4.4 or higher is required (see hinv(1M)). With older PROM revisions maximum memory is 256 MB. For IRIX 6.3 there are patches to upgrade the PROM as described in "Silicon Graphics® O2® Workstation Memory Installation Instructions", for IRIX 6.5 PROM images come with the operating system and overlays CD sets.
Graphics subsystem
The CRM chipset that SGI developed for the O2 shares OpenGL calculations with the CPU. Due to the unified memory architecture, video memory is shared with main memory, and there is effectively an 'unlimited' amount of texture memory. Another useful feature is that any incoming video data from the Audio/Video option can be mapped directly as an OpenGL texture without having to perform a copy or move.
ICE (Image Compression Engine -- a dedicated 64-bit R4000-based processor containing a 128-bit SIMD unit running at 66 MHz, which is used to accelerate various image and video operations)
OpenGL 1.1 + ARB image extensions
O2 Video System
The O2 Video system supports two simultaneous input video streams and one output video stream which can be seperated into two outputs, one carrying pixel information, the other carrying alpha (key) information.
Using the O2 Video system, it is possible to capture live video into the computer's memory which can then be displayed in a graphics window on the screen or further processed by an application. It is also possible to generate video output from images in memory, which can be displayed on a standard video monitor, or recorded to a VTR. Using the VL programming library (see vlintro(3), and mvp(3)), a program can capture video in either the RGB or YCrCb color spaces, and either full or reduced size formats, and in a format usable for input to the compressor/decompressor, display on the graphics screen, or as an input to a graphics processing and/or texture operation.
SGI offered two video options for the O2/O2+: the AV1 interface and the AV2 interface.
- The AV1 interface supports Composite and SVideo (Y/C) (both analog), and Digital I/O via the Camera/Digital Video port. The analog I/O jacks are for use with standard analog video equipment, supporting both PAL and NTSC video formats. There are a variety of controls available that allow the user or programmer to set various parameters used for the decoding and encoding of the video signals. The digital input of the AV1 is for use with the O2Cam Digital System Camera, or can be connected to an optional digital video input and output adapter to interface to standard SMPTE259M serial digital video devices.
- The AV2 interface supports two ITU-601 (CCIR-601) serial digital video input connectors and two similiar output connectors, as well as GPI input and output and analog (black burst) sync input and loop through.
Chris Pirazzi's Lurker's Guide to Video contains the following three sections exclusively for the O2 Video System:
Operating system support
IRIX versions 6.3 and 6.5 (up to the latest overlay - 6.5.30) are supported on this machine, however, only in 32-bit mode, due to the nature of the O2's internal architecture. For CPU-specific versions, see also: IRIX for O2.
Besides the default CD-based Installation, the O2 also supports network installation through DINA.
For a list of useful tips after a fresh installation of IRIX on the O2, see: IRIX Installation and Customization.
There is official Linux support for the O2 in Debian 4.0 "Etch" as well as in Gentoo but only for R5000/R7000 O2s. Linux is not stable on R10000/R12000 CPUs due to a known issue with the way they handle speculative loads and stores, detailed here. This is not a problem for Linux on the SGI Octane as there is different hardware to support these processor features.
O2 hardware currently not fully supported by Linux:
- R10K or R12K processors.
- CRM Accelerated Graphics (framebuffer only)
- Sound (ALSA driver exists in Linux-MIPS tree, currently under development)
- Video capture via SAA 7111 (Linux driver exists for the chip)
- ICE (experimental patches exist)
Installing Linux is made more difficult due to the O2's PROM being unable to read ISO9660 filesystems. Gentoo has an experimental SGI bootable X Live CD. Please read the README for details on supported machines (the O2 is one of many SGIs supported), the level of support, and how to burn the CD as it is not a typical ISO image. Additionally, there is a project to create Linux bootable CDs here if you want to roll your own. However, the more common procedure is to use a 2nd computer as a PXE boot server and netboot an installer. Details on using a Debian minimal netinstall image can be found here.
NetBSD has run on the O2 since NetBSD 2.0.
From http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html : Currently OpenBSD/sgi runs in 64 bit mode and boots multi-user on supported systems.
Supported models:
- O2 (aka Moosehead) with R5000, RM5200, RM7000, R10000 and R12000 CPUs. Level 2 caches are supported on all CPUs. RM7000 level 3 cache is supported.
- Built-in Adaptec AIC-7880 SCSI (ahc)
- Built-in Ethernet (mec)
- Built-in serial ports (com)
- 64 bit PCI expansion slot
- Intel i8255x-based (except the i82556) PCI ethernet (fxp)
- Built-in audio (mavb)
Add-On Options
The O2 is unusual for a Silicon Graphics machine in that it has only one available graphics option (CRM), which is integrated and cannot be replaced. Similarly unusual, the base machine has a single DB15 connector for graphics output. There is, however, a proprietary expansion port for one of three extra graphics interface options.
- Dual-head 2xDB15 adapter. PN: 030-1296-002
- 1600SW flat panel adapter. PN: 030-1170-001
- Indy Presenter or Presenter 1280 flat panel adapter. PN: 030-1202-001
Since the video calculations are performed on the O2's CPU, running in higher resolutions or dual-head mode has a significant impact on performance. Additionally, due to limited CRM framebuffer width, the two screens for dual-head are positioned vertically in memory, causing a slowdown when objects are drawn across both screens. While no DVI option exists for the O2, when using either flat panel adapter there is an all-digital path from the computer to the display.
Media options include the Audio Option, Analog Video Option (AV1), Digital Video Option (AV2) and various PCI64 cards ranging from SCSI, Ethernet and Firewire to FDDI.
Additional PCI slots can be obtained by using PCI expansion units such as the Magma series.
The O2 is a very unique system and thus has its own quirks. With proper care it can be very reliable, though the following common problems are likely to manifest themselves.
The Toshiba CD-ROM drives in the O2 commonly throw a small white plastic gear from the tray motor. Symptoms include the tray either refusing to open or refusing to stay closed. This problem is relatively easy to fix by opening the CD-ROM drive and pushing the gear back onto the motor shaft, then adding a small amount of glue to keep the gear in place. To avoid damaging the tray mechanism during ordinary use, do not push it closed: use the "inject" command instead.
To quote kjaer in the forum post here.. ... "there is a pressfit nylon pinion on the transport motor that opens and closes the drive tray, and also raises and lowers the optical pickup assembly (moves it closer to the disc after the tray closes, and moves it away from the disk before the tray opens). This pinion splits when it ages, and when this happens the static friction between pinion and spindle is no longer sufficient to hold the torque required to lift the optical pickup. The drive interprets this as a mis-load and ejects the tray."
(images from forum topic.. http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16727779#p7360973 )
The O2's proprietary memory modules are highly susceptible to dirt and shock, particularly during shipping. The symptoms of a bad memory contact include random memory errors and a total inability to boot, with a solid red or blinking amber LED at startup. Careful cleaning and re-seating of memory will typically solve such problems, though the DIMMs should also be carefully inspected for missing surface-mount components, which can be easily knocked-off via mishandling.
Graphics Console
If the O2 boots successfully but refuses to display video, it may be configured for output to the serial console.
PROM version dictates what processor version works in what board
It was written in the forum on topic ( http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16721199&start=0 ) ..
well, finally solved. I spent the better half of the day swapping parts between two O2 boards, with trial, error, and success. my problem and solution go as follows: 1. the board in o2 x was a 1997 board with what I found to be a 300mhz "2000 sgi" processor 2.the board in o2 y was a 1997 board and 200mhz "1997 cube-bug" processor both had 4.14 PROM versions so I switched processor y into board x, installed 6.5, upgraded overlay to 6.5.22, which upgraded the PROM to 4.18. upon swapping the x processor back into the x board, it all works! so as it seems, PROM version seems to dictate what processor version works in what board...
Further Reading
Wiki Articles:
External References
SGI / TechPubs:
- O2 Hardware Reference Guide (PDF only)
- O2 Out Of Box Experience release notes
- O2Video(7) manual page
- SGIstuff: Hardware: Machines: O2
- FutureTech Research: O2
- Birth of the O2: The design and manufacturing of the O2-workstation
- O2 Designstudies, once at alias.com
- O2 over clocking page (In French)
- 007-3275-003 - O2 Workstation Hardware Reference Guide
- 007-3612-002 - O2 Workstation CPU Upgrade Installation
- 007-3778-002 - Silicon Graphics O2 Workstation Memory Installation Instructions
- 007-3902-002 - Downgrading to IRIX 6.3 on O2 Systems
- 007-3998-002 - Silicon Graphics O2 R5000 Class CPU Upgrade Installation Instructions
- 007-4486-001 - Silicon Graphics O2+ Workstation Hardware Reference Guide
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