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Why did we need the Second Vatican Council? Did we need it at all? Hearing those questions, most Catholics who have thought about Vatican II would probably cite the renewal and updating of the Church as solid reasons for the ecumenical council.
That answer isn't wrong. But a half-century after Vatican II, which took place between 1962 and 1965, it's clear that a much larger purpose was at work, with Church renewal and updating as its handmaids.
You start to see this when you consider a fairly common objection to the council. It goes like this:
Other ecumenical councils were convened to handle particular problems. Early councils dealt with heresies about Christ. In the 16th century, Trent had to respond to the Reformation. Vatican I in the 19th century faced the challenge to the authority of the pope and the bishops (but it was interrupted and didn't say much about bishops).
By contrast, there was no crisis requiring Vatican II. By the middle of the last century, the Church was strong and united in the Faith. So this was a council that wasn't needed. Wouldn't it have been better to leave things alone?
No, it wouldn't have. The Church faced a grave problem then — indeed, it still does — and an ecumenical council was required to address it. What problem? No less than the crisis of modernity itself, especially the comprehensive undermining of humankind's self-understanding and its disastrous consequences for faith, underway in the West for at least a century or longer before the council.
It had many sources, but three stand out: Darwinism — popularized evolutionary theory reducing the human person to no more than a higher animal; Marxism — whose deterministic account of history eliminated free choice; and Freudianism — no less deterministic, which explained human behavior as the sublimated acting out of impulses from libidinous realms of the psyche.
Capping it off was Friedrich Nietzsche, who boldly announced the death of God — the bourgeois deity of 19th century Christianity, that is — and predicted that a new morality of power vested in a superman ("übermensch") would soon emerge. Hitler seems to have taken that to heart.
Ordinary people were understandably slow in absorbing all of this, but it was gospel truth for Western cultural elites of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In due course it filtered down to the masses — a process hastened by the horrors of World War I. Here, then, was the crisis of modernity that Vatican II needed to confront.
Pope St. John XXIII put it clearly in his famous opening address on Oct. 11, 1962. The "greatest concern" of Vatican II, he declared, lay in guarding Christian doctrine and teaching it "more efficaciously." That included the truth about "the whole of man, composed as he is of body and soul" and created by God not only for life on earth but for eternal life in heaven.
The council that followed did its best, and that was pretty good. Central to its teaching was the Christocentric affirmation that it's Christ who "fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear" (Gaudium et Spes, No. 22). The Church has been repeating and developing that exalted vision of human dignity ever since, most notably via the personalism of Pope St. John Paul II.
Yes, an enormous amount remains to be done to recapture lost cultural ground. But don't tell me Vatican II wasn't needed.
It was, urgently.
The problem hasn't been the council but the weak and conflicted follow-up — and saying the council was unnecessary is obviously no help.
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor.
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A Day in the Life of Wake Maui
Br Shelby Kantar
Of all the fabulous and far countries that wakeboarding has brought me, I have somehow never made it to the tropical islands of my own country. After competing in Australia over my winter break, I decided that I would take my first non-wakeboarding relaxing vacation to Maui for my Aunt's wedding; or so I thought. While out on my aunt's runabout for a fun day of snorkeling with my cousins in Honolua Bay, we came across the one and only wakeboarding charter boat in Maui. This boat belongs to Ryan Hickey, head coach and founder of the wakeboarding school Wake Maui LLC. Wake Maui LLC is based out of Lahaina and has much to offer to its customers including beautiful scenery, crystal clear clean water, snorkeling, and most importantly wakeboarding.
For information about Maui Wake LLC please contact Ryan at firstname.lastname@example.com or (808)269-5645
Ryan started Wake Maui in February of 2008. He had originally planned to go to law school after graduating with a degree in philosophy. Instead of going into debt by attending school, he bought his 23′ Ski Supreme boat, and so aptly named it "Grad School". Because Maui's economy survives mainly through tourism, Ryan has to compete with many attractions including parasailing, helicopter rides, zip lines, and biking down volcanoes (most of which my family and I ended up doing). Similar to me, many people do not realize wakeboarding is present in Maui because big companies pay a lot of money in advertising and making sure travel agents are booking their activities. "We are a small company that survives purely on customer service and people's passion for wakeboarding. With small groups we avoid trying to compete with the cattle boats and instead try to make every trip like you're out with friends," says Hickey.
Despite the competition, Ryan's business is making it, taking customers right out of Lahaina into the big blue ocean for some shred time. Like many small business owners, the first few years are a struggle surviving on macaroni and cheese, but through his hard work and perseverance, Ryan is beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Like many wakeboarding locations, the water is best in the morning and can be very smooth in the various coves past the surf break. Because I hadn't planned to wakeboard in Maui, Ryan searched the entire island to find me a Liquid Force setup and a Body Glove Vest so that I could get some wakeboarding practice. We set out on the trusty Supreme named Grad School on my last day in Maui. This was quite a different experience for me because I could actually see the bottom of the ocean unlike the dirty delta where you cannot see even see your own feet. Every once in a while Ryan would point out from the boat to a sea turtle swimming next to me while I was riding. Ryan describes that "Salt water riding is a trip! I'll be out for a ride and look down and see tropical fish, turtles and every once and a while compete with the dolphins for best trick of the day!" Coincidentally, we were there when Michael Jackson died and our chase boat was a huge offshore racing boat called Thriller.
After we rode, Ryan pulled out some snorkeling gear which he reserves for his customers and we swam next to sea turtles and schools of fish underneath a pier. Operating a business has been a great opportunity for Ryan as this Montana Native has grown to know many of the hidden parts of Maui. A major advantage in wakeboarding with Wake Maui LLC, besides wakeboarding in a beautiful place, is having someone you trust take you to the best snorkeling spots and fill you in on the secret hikes that the locals might be reluctant to tell you about. Ryan describes Maui as, "amazing, we have world class surfing, scuba diving, sailing, mountain biking and now wakeboarding, it is truly the land of the endless summer." So make sure when you're in Maui to stop by Wake Maui LLC and do some wakeboarding!
Your photographs are absolutely gorgeous, and hopefully I will get to Hawaii one day!!!!!

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There is no exciting way to begin an article about a minivan. I mean, it's a minivan.
But if you're looking for a functional vehicle that seats eight, can hold some luggage and actually handles really well, you can't do much better than the 2018 Honda Odyssey.
During the test week, I piled in seven adults and took a 6-hour round-trip road trip. And we all made it back without killing each other.
When you're dealing with a minivan, the overall exterior design isn't going to change drastically from model to model or automaker to automaker. They all have the same cylindrical shape with sliding side doors.
But the Odyssey does a nice job of smoothing out some of the edges, adding in some austere Honda design cues and just generally making the most of the minivan façade.
One nice feature I noticed when parking next to a previous-generation model is that the door track lines have moved from the side panel to the area where the window meets the panel – which makes it less noticeable and a lot more attractive.
The interior design is symmetrical and well organized. There are plenty of cubbies to store purses or diaper bags or electronic devices, and I especially appreciated the hook in the foot well of the front passenger side, which will hold a bag of some sort.
There are also a plethora of USB ports and power outlets throughout the vehicle, including a jack for a standard 110V plug – rather than just a USB cable or 12V adaptor.
The test vehicle was a top-tier Elite trim, which means it included leather trim, ambient blue lighting, a heated steering wheel, heated and ventilated front seats, a wireless phone charger and tri-zone automatic climate control.
Ride & Handling
The Odyssey comes equipped with a really nice 3.5-liter V-6 engine that delivers 280 horsepower and 262 pound-feet of torque. Even when with 7 adult passengers, acceleration didn't suffer and highway passing and merges were accomplished easily.
While there is just one engine across the Odyssey lineup, there are two transmissions. The 9-speed automatic can be found in the LX, EX and EX-L trims, whereas the 10-speed automatic (with idle-stop) is in the Touring and Elite trims.
Overall, I was pleasantly surprised with how well this minivan handles. It's solid and quiet on the straight, flat highways – just as you'd expect – but it does OK with aggressive passing maneuvers and cloverleaf on and off ramps as well.
Fuel economy
Regardless of transmission, the fuel economy ratings are the same across the lineup. EPA estimates that the Odyssey should get 19 mpg in the city and 28 mpg on the highway. Combined fuel economy is rated at 22 mpg.
We averaged 22.2 mpg during our test week, and while that hits the combined estimate, we did a lot of highway driving, so I would have hoped to see it edge a little higher.
Tech & gadgets
It should come as no surprise that many of the gadgets on the Odyssey are family oriented. For example CabinWatch and CabinTalk, which are standard at the Touring trim, allow you to view what's going on in the rear seats and, should you need to tell the troops to quiet down, access a PA system that projects your voice rearward.
Other available family friendly features include the HondaVAC, second- and third-row sunshades, second-row USB ports, a 12-volt adapter in the third row and a bevy of cup holders in each row.
Things like push-button start, Bluetooth phone pairing, auto up/down front windows and MP3 audio connectivity are standard across the lineup.
Also of note, Apple CarPlay/Android Auto and the Honda Sensing safety system are standard starting at the EX trim.
LX ($29,990): This base trim comes well-equipped with standard features such as Bluetooth phone pairing, a multi-angle rearview camera, push-button start, automatic climate control, cruise control and power adjustable driver's seat.
EX ($33,860): This trim adds features such as Apple CarPlay/Android Auto, Honda Sensing, blind-spot monitoring, heated front seats, tri-zone climate control, second-row sunshades and passive entry.
EX-L ($37,360): At this trim, you'll see features such as driver's memory seats, leather seating surfaces, a height adjustable power tailgate and a one-touch power moonroof.
Touring ($44,510): This trim starts to add more of the lux-level features, including a 10-speed automatic transmission, CabinWatch, CabinTalk, rear entertainment, navigation, mobile hotspot capability and HondaVAC.
Elite ($46,670): This top-tier trim adds heated-and-ventilated seats, a wireless phone charger, premium audio, blue ambient lighting and rain-sensing windshield wipers.
Our test vehicle was an Elite model with no options – but it didn't really need any. So the as-tested price was $47,645, which includes the $975 destination and handling fee.
Honda has a great suite of safety features called "Honda Sensing." It includes automatic emergency braking, lane keep assist, road departure mitigation and adaptive cruise control. While this is not available on the base LX model, it comes standard starting at the EX trim, which is just one level up.
The 2018 Odyssey gets an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick award, the only thing keeping it from a Top Safety Pick + was the merely "Acceptable" headlight ratings. Everything else was rated Good or Superior.
Odyssey also gets top marks from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, obtaining an overall 5-Star Rating.
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A few of my favorite things
One of the reasons our family road trip was fairly uneventful was the available tri-zone climate control. We were able to tailor the heating or cooling to pretty much every person in the vehicle.
Even at the very end, when my husband and I were dropping the car off at the airport, we had climate harmony with the driver's side heated seat on and HVAC set to 82, while he had the cooled seat on and HVAC set to 68.
There are a lot of great family friendly features in the Odyssey from the HondaVAC and kick-activated rear liftgate to CabinWatch and CabinTalk.
I also really liked that the home screen could easily be configured to put the most-used items on the first screen.
What I can leave
The seat bottoms weren't comfortable. At all. However, it's likely this isn't something we'd have noticed if we hadn't spent 6 hours sitting in those seats in a single day. For short trips they were fine.
While I appreciated the fact that the middle outboard seats can slide forward to provide more legroom for rear occupants, the center middle-row seat doesn't move. This can create a bit of an awkward seat arrangement – especially for the person (ahem, me!) sitting in that center middle-row seat.
The bottom line
The new Honda Odyssey has a lot of great available features and a really great starting price.
Since the EX will be the volume seller, it makes sense to add things like the Honda Sensing safety system and passive entry at this trim – and $4K isn't a huge ask for the amazing amount of content you'll get.
It's a great vehicle for hauling people and stuff. My only real complaint would be the hard seating surfaces – which could be a non-issue with cloth seats or time to break them in.
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Saturday Evening Post: Interviewing Family During Holidays
Whee! I'm in America's oldest magazine. The cover story of the November/December 2010 issue of The Saturday Evening Post is about finding out more about your family's history over holiday visits.
The five pages of the magazine covers ways to explore your family's history, from asking questions of family members to genealogical research, in an article by Doug Donaldson, and one by Stephen C. George.
Plus there's helpful advice. In a sidebar. I'm quoted there. About avoiding "Why?" when talking to family (more on Why Not Why here) and your seating arrangements when asking questions about pictures in photo albums. (More on that here and [new!] here.)
Some fun stuff: Donaldson's article and sidebar highlights family gatherings recorded using the built-in video camera on a laptop—that's a new one on me! Among the experts interviewed is oral historian Stephen M. Sloan, a fellow member of the Oral History Association (too, I read his emails from time to time on the Oral History email list). Two fellow members of the Association of Personal Historians, Jennifer Sauers, and ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 17, 2010 in
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How can I help you with your resolutions for 2010?
Happy 2010 to you. My biggest resolution is to help you with your New Year's resolutions, especially if yours take the form of saying "I really ought to talk to my…" Mom or Dad or Grandpa or Grandma or Aunt or Uncle or family friend. And record that conversation. And then process it with your computer. And then archive it somehow.
In 2010, I wish to to devote more time and effort to this site than I did the last year, and here's a toast to the posts, articles, reviews and videos that will appear here this year. I'm leery of getting too specific and too ambitious. (Been there, done that.) What can I write about that will help you?
On my own work with my own family oral histories, I have recordings of my dad and uncle—both veterans—that I want to finish processing and submit to the Veterans History Project.
I've got some family photos that I scanned. Or rather began scanning—there are so many more. I want to put them together in a MemoryMiner photo library to distribute to all the cousins (I've talked of this ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on January 01, 2010 in
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SignOn SanDiego's Family Holiday Survival Advice
Love this lead-in: "Instead of fixating on how aggravating [family] can be, focus instead on how interesting they actually are." Thus begins Jennifer Davis's overview of ways to preserve family stories. [via Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings]
There are lists of resources, and an overview of the formats.
Alas, this one bit of caution isn't warranted, really:
Audio recordings are fine but be aware that changing technologies could pose a problem in the future. Just ask any family that recorded their oral history on a cassette tape.
As long as your audio recording is an accepted, well-known format, such as AIFF or WAV, you'll be okay. Just make multiple copies, burn multiple disks. The biggest risk is data loss.
Davis lists people who provide services and locations for equipment rental and the like. This site has an equipment section that discusses most major audio equipment types. And check out my equipment store, too, ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 12, 2009 in
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Black Friday is Listening Day
National Day of Listening. Instead of (or in addition to) shopping, listen to your family. This is a StoryCorps effort.
Spend an hour recording a conversation with someone around you at Thanksgiving time. There's a 2-page recording guide that covers the basics. They also encourage you to listen to some of the recordings for inspiration, and then share your experiences with them once you've done so.
BTW, in case you were wondering what Black Friday is... it's the shopping day post Thanksgiving.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 21, 2008 in
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Veterans History Project digital specs
I got the "digital file format wishlist" from Sarah Rouse at Veterans History Project. This is specification for video, audio and image file formats.
Video: .mpeg-2 file, at least 3Mbps, with a spatial resolution of 702x480 at 30fps
Audio: .wav file, CD-Audio quality (44.1 KHz, 16-bit)
Images: Color tiff files, 300dpi, scanned at 8 bits per channel.
Veterans History Project
Download PDFs of forms from this page of the VHP site.
If you're doing video, check out the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick guide PDF file, from The War's Veterans History Project page.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 28, 2007 in
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Some thoughts about interviewing my Dad
I want the post of my Dad's story to stand on its own, and reflect on the interview process, here, separately. The thought which looms so large over any other: An interview is probably the single most concentrated way to bring out a ton of "I never knew that" revelations. Especially if the interviewee is a parent. It's one surprise after another about a person whom I've known all my life.
I suppose if I were to look at it statistically, the concentration of surprises per time spent would be pretty dense. In a 2.5 hour conversation, I heard, oh, 8 to 10 "wow!" things. So that comes out to 1 shocker per 15 minutes of interview. YMMV. (My shocker ratio could be way off; when I transcribed the portion I included in the last post, I didn't listen to the entire interview, so my "Total Surprises = N" count is not accurate.) There were several snippets from Dad's youth—a protracted illness, stories of learning Morse code and learning to use firearms, swimming in high school and mathematical prowess in the Navy—those were there all along, but didn't come up in the day-to-day ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 15, 2007 in
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Making a recording self-explanatory
I've been finalizing an Audio CD of a 1980-era recording that my Mom gave to me. (For her birthday). I'm making copies for her and for a brothers and a coupla cousins that will be at a family gathering. The "think long term" mindset has dug in and changed the way I mark CDs and my other "metadata" (data about the data) that I'm including with the CD. The recording came to me with some gaps in info, a generation and family branch removed, so I'm learning by doing and trying to create as dense a nugget of info to pass on to others with the CD as I can.
I was amused by a little in-situ metadata that was part of the recording itself, identifying who the main speakers are. The original recording was made by my grandfather's cousin, Bud or George (I hafta ask my Mom again. I wasn't there, I don't know. Have never met either.) It opens with my grandpa telling a story. At the end, the narrator's voice comes on and says, "That was Bruce B[ family name]." My great uncle, his brother, also told a story. The narrator identified him, too. It's obvious he made this recording for his side of the family, and identified the speakers on the other side—that would be my side. I, of course recognize the voices that he identified, and am frustrated by ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on July 18, 2007 in
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Thoughts from the Jamboree of last weekend
I spent three days at a table showing off digital recording tools to passers by at the Southern California Genealogy Society Jamboree and Resources Expo (which I'm calling Genealogy Expo for short) last weekend. Here's a recap of conversational snippets and observations from the Jamboree, along with follow-up of discussions at my booth.
For people who have recordings that they made already—how to get them from tape (cassette, reel-to-reel, microcassette) and into digital form: I talked to many people who've already done recordings that they have on cassette or even micro-cassette. Which reminds me, I want to get some resources for digitizing reel to reel tapes (one person said they have the tape, but not the recorder/player) and another who's working off the original microcassette to transcribe the interview. I told the person to minimize wear and tear on the actual tape and get it transferred to digital format ASAP, and then do the fast forward and rewind on the digital version. The digital file won't stretch, snap ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on June 15, 2007 in
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Whither Audio or Video
Recording family stories: Which is better, audio or video? This question came up last week at the L.A. Podcasters meetup while talking to a podcaster (Karen "KFC" Blanchette, aka Podchick) about this site's topic–recording and preserving family memories.
She asked me, "Why not video?"
I've been asked that before.
I talked about the barrier that video imposes—how things need to look good. The interviewee has to make him or herself presentable, and the environment also has to look good. I said, "The last couple of family members I interviewed, it would have been much harder to do on video. One was in a room that wasn't photogenic at all, and when I interviewed my great aunt, she wore her robe and sat on the couch. I don't think that she'd have let me videotape her wearing a robe. My boyfriend's mother, who'd had cancer and lost hair from chemotherapy, always said, 'Don't take my picture!' so there's no way she would have talked on ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on March 19, 2007 in
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Evoca- Record to this site from your phone
They've got a page devoted to oral history; Donald Ritchie is an advisor. Gotta check it out. It has that Web 2.0 shiny hype headline of "Evoca will change the way oral history is done." (Thank goodness it does not say that "it will take your oral histories to the next level!" – can you tell I used to work in the software biz?) Anyway, there's a nice quick guide on that page. I gotta check out the site some more. [via Place Based Education]
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 14, 2007 in
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Carnival of Genealogy: Solving Technical Problems: Call for entries!!!!
Submit entries here. Deadline: November 15, 10pm Pacific.
Theme: Solving technical problems while working on your family history.
Have you encountered a technical problem while working on your family history? Did you solve it? Then let's hear the problem and your solution. Haven't found a solution? Describe the problem and how it affects you (who knows, you might find a solution as a result). You know that all software and hardware works perfectly. (cough, cough). It never breaks. All components work well with one another. Upgrades always go smoothly. (yeah right sure). So come one, come all. Feel free to gripe. Or to boast of your prowess. Or anything in between. Just as long as it's about solving technical problems while working on your family history.
The carnival will be posted here by November 19th.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 10, 2006 in
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Open discussion thread: Have you tried it? Or do you want to? What was it like?
Have you conducted some form of oral history with one or more person in your family? What was it like? What did you learn? What would you like to know? What are the "stuck points" that prevent you from doing so? Did you overcome them? How? Now that you've done it, how do you feel about it?
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 15, 2006 in
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StoryCorp's Question Generator
Storycorps has an online tool to generate questions for an interview. "You'll start by writing your own questions, then we'll suggest questions that, in our experience, have led to great interviews." I didn't try this for my interview with my Mom yesterday (just over 3 hours in two sessions. Which is a lot!). But maybe I will for a future interview. By the way, the StoryCorps web site doesn't keep the questions; it emails them to you. You may also print them off of the web site. They come in two forms: Remembering someone (i.e., Mom, tell me about your Mom, my Grandma), and questions to elicit descriptions about his/her own life.
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Learn How in Portland, OR April 27, 2006
Two introductory workshops will be held the first day of the Pacific Northwest History Conference, April 27-29 [PDF file]. Each workshop costs $50; admission to main conference is not required.
I'm inquiring whether conference fee is required if you wish to attend workshops only. At Doubletree Hotel on Multnomah Street in Portland.
Descriptions of Workshops from the Conference Program:
NOHA Workshop A
Introduction to Oral History
Instructor: Brad Williams, Director, Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, Pasadena, California
NOHA Workshop B
History in the Digital Age: Digital Recording and Archiving
Instructor: Doug Boyd, Kentucky Oral History Commission
I've attended a workshop by Brad Williams in the L.A. area and the man simply rocks. You'll learn tons from him. I've heard good things about Doug Boyd's presentations on digital formats; I wish I could speak from personal experience.
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Vermont Folk Life Center's Field Research Guides
Field Research, as in field recording, as in portable audio recording equipment. As in information about solid state field recorders, and digitizing and editing recorded audio. Very good information from the Vermont Folk Life Center.
I learned about the Vermont Folk Life Center from reading the Oral History mailing list. Andy Kovalos always has a good word on the ins and outs of digital tools. He recently wrote to the list and said that they'd re-vamped their field recording guides. These pages are definitely worth a read.
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I don't always mind being wrong. It is one of the joys of pessimism to find oneself unexpectedly disproved. (Joke!) Yet there are, still, moments when your humble columnist feels honour-bound to recant. This is one.
It's my second official opinion-recall. The first was late last century. I had predicted Philip Cox's ABC-TV building in Ultimo as a fine addition to the streetscape. I was wrong, and two years later, built fact proved it.
Now it's Berry. Last week I suggested in passing that a bypass might save Windsor ''as it has saved Berry''.
Well! You'd have thought I proposed deep-frying the Royal corgis. A tsunami followed; polite, unfailingly cogent but implacable dissent. And not a form letter among it.
My Berry remark had been made in good faith but without examining the detail.
Now, having done that, I'm here to tell you. It's a shocker.
The Berry bypass is not a bypass at all. It's a through-pass. A bugger-up. A wrecking ball, dividing the town, and the community.
It reminds me of another regret I have as a critic, another sin of omission. A friend persuaded me to delete from a roads-versus-heritage piece the phrase ''the Baskerville hounds of the RTA''. My friend thought the analogy extreme. I thought it merely descriptive. Still do.
Berry is one of the sweetest towns you could ever hope to meet. Summer Berry, in my head, because I've mainly stopped there for gelato, sourdough, single malt or other life-essentials en route to some summer holiday or other. This whiff of the delicious confection known as summer pudding conjures, for me, the leafy gardens of Kent, where I first tasted it, pinching myself (after a year there) that the sun could indeed shine in England, and berries ripen.
All of which I mention only because that's the sort of place Berry is; succulent, leafy and gracious in a slightly Midsomer Murders sort of way. Sweet.
Were the bomb scheduled for tomorrow, Berry would be in the handful of NSW towns I'd bother saving.
So imagine my shock to find that the Roads and Maritime Services, apparently all new-age and consultative, is in fact unreconstituted from Baskerville times, and proposes to run a four-lane 100km/h concrete-jungle divided highway through the middle of it.
Berry has always straddled the highway, bisected, as towns often are, by the very road that feeds it. Yet it has survived, largely because, when the road is heavy with holidaymakers, its narrowness gives a whole new meaning to Australian crawl.
This means that you can drift across with relative ease, and the bookshops, cafes and boutique butchers lining the street are kept alive.
But the hounds are restive.
Movement of this drifty, poking-around kind - the kind that sustains and invigorates towns - bores them. They want things to go FAST.
Fast backwards. You may have noticed how everything this government does to ''get the state moving again'' is retrograde - from harbour heliports and towering casinos to shooters in parks and B-triples on the Hume, spewing ever more carbon into the air even as we face the hottest weather on record.
Perhaps Barry O'Farrell didn't get the memo. Conservative no longer means old-fashioned, dead-headed, moribund. It doesn't legitimise old-style aggro-modernism, rampaging through people's town centres like some 20th century boofhead.
Conservative now implies conservation - protecting heritage, environment, amenity, beauty because it's all there is.
Yet the Berry bypass looks like something out of Chief City Engineer Garnsey's report after his tour of Europe and America 1946-47. Excited as only engineers can be over such things, Garnsey spends 683 pages documenting the highway paraphernalia he would bestow upon Sydney - parkways and interchanges, culs-de-sac and clover leafs, on-ramps, off-ramps and high-level overpasses.
That's 70-odd years back. For the past 20, cities such as San Francisco and Berlin have been pulling such stuff down, dirty, ugly, urbanistically unsound and environmentally catastrophic as it is.
Yet, lucky little Berry. If the RMS has its way they'll get the lot.
Government feasibilities show various options for Berry, but are overwhelmingly weighted towards the preferred town-halving one. Now, courtesy of the port leases from Kembla and Botany, they've also got the money.
Berry always had a lovely, open-ended feel, making its beginning, middle and end quite clear without any sense of entrapment.
Not for much longer. Skimming first along the town's northern edge, the bypass slides the dagger under Berry's skin before plunging straight through its pretty gridded heart.
Soon, drifting down Queen Street will bring you face to face with a great concrete road-barrier, complete with overpass, aerial roundabouts and a litter of dead ends.
Less your charming southern village, more your James Ruse Drive on steroids.
And there's more. This so-called ''northern interchange'' is just one of five such concrete fandangos that will march across the 12 kilometres of pasture-scape between Toolijooa and Kangaroo Valley Road.
O'Farrell may be right that ''half the nation's road freight and three-quarters of all interstate road freight journeys are on NSW roads and the Princes Highway is a key freight route''. But we should encourage freight on to rail, not funnel 35-metre road-trains through country towns.
Of course, roads bring life, as well as destroying it. Some, such as Berry Chamber of Commerce president Bill Seelis, support the new road, believing it will save Berry from becoming a ghost town.
But traffic on this thundering scale, and the jack-boot infrastructure that enables it, never saved anyone's town.
The sad thing is, it didn't have to end like this. The RMS considered a genuine bypass.
Taking the highway south of Berry, along the rail line, is still the Berry Alliance's preferred option.
Yet the RMS dismisses it in two short paragraphs, saying it did ''not perform well'' - no detail given - and required $150 million of extra earthworks. Alternative costings, prepared by private consultants for the community and given to the RMS, reversed this imbalance, showing the southern option $12 million cheaper.
Perhaps the RMS, like me, should look again at the Berry bypass. Long enough and hard enough to understand roads are not just roads. They are our cultural conduits, way too important to leave to the engineers.
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Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based columnist and author who holds a PhD in architecture and several international writing awards. A former editor and Sydney City Councilor, she is also Associate Professor (Practice) at the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism at UNSW. Her books include 'Glenn Murcutt: Three Houses', 'Blubberland; the dangers of happiness' and 'Caro Was Here', crime fiction for children (2014).


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Minister for Nordic Cooperation Anne Berner will attend a meeting of the Ministers for Nordic Cooperation in Stockholm on 8 February 2018. This is the first meeting of the year during Sweden's Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Ministers are expected to decide about the budget proposal for 2019 and about some of the projects under the Arctic Cooperation Programme.
The Ministers for Nordic Cooperation will also discuss the study of Nordic legislative cooperation, commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers, and handle the Freedom of Movement Council's report on 2017.
Inquiries: Johan Schalin, Chief of the Secretariat for Nordic Cooperation, tel. +358 295 351 781.
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To my eyes, MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE is a darkly twisted and wildly subversive horror film. Although occasionally it does get bogged down in what seems to be some of the old-fashioned visual grammar of silent film-making, I think that, in terms of radiating a sense of out-and-out pre-Code unclean weirdness, this movie is second only to THE BLACK CAT. Anyone unsuspectingly stumbling upon it on TV in the late '50s just had to have been unnerved by it.
I mention these commercial interruptions because on of the most notorious things about MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (and maybe one of the things that keeps fans from liking it more) is that the narrative is a little choppy in the telling because of some out-of-sequence editing that took place in post-production. This scrambled the continuity of the film-- it would seem that a block of TV commercials every 25 minutes or so would add to the confusion, and maybe that would turn off some people to this tale.


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Moving to put the issue of practical water reuse in the spotlight of the 2010 National Association of Homebuilders Conference (NAHB), Bord na Móna Environmental Products U.S. Inc. will convene a group of industry experts to discuss "Water Efficiency, Reclamation, Reuse, and Management: Advances, Challenges, Opportunities" on May 17.
"We invite every builder who is concerned about America's growing water shortage problem to attend this vitally important panel discussion," said Raymond Peat, director of Business Development at the company. "There is a lot that we can do today to address this issue and this panel presentation and discussion will provide a much needed overview of the challenges and the opportunities we face."
According to Peat, the value of water efficiency and the use of reclaimed water are widely recognized as a smart way to satisfy both building and landscape water use demands and also earn significant points and credits toward a variety of increasingly visible green-certified building classifications. Water reuse experts will address a variety of topics to offer an overview of this extremely important issue.
Joining Peat on the panel will be Bord na Móna Environmental Products U.S. Inc. President Shane Keaney; Albert Robert Rubin, senior environmental scientist at McKim and Creed in Raleigh, N.C.; Thomas Bruursema, general manager, Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment Unit Programs at NSF; and Mike Hoover, Ph.D., professor and Soils Extension specialist, Soil Science Department, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University.


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Chucks hit OT winner to down Rovers boys' soccer
PUNXSUTAWNEY — In what could be described as a see saw battle all night between two of the area's best, Punxsy was able to record the last strike on a Trevor Peace boot 1:42 into overtime for the 5-4 boys' soccer win over Brockway.
"It was great game of hustle, effort and guts," said Chucks coach Phil Shenkle right afterwards. "This was a game of playoff training, as you have to have these types of games going into the playoffs."
Peace produced a 'hat trick' trick to highlight the Chucks (9-3) offense. Tanner Evans added a goal and assisted on Kevin Hughes' header off a corner kick.
Punxsy started the scoring when Evans played a through ball and booted it into the lower right corner of the goal from 20 yards at 27:27 to lead 1-0.
As was the case the entire match, Brockway would answer each home score. With just 15.7 seconds left in the first half, the Rovers tied the contest, 1-1, for the half.
The first score of the second half came early on. Only 2:11 in, Peace posted his second goal on a penalty kick after being taken down by the Brockway defense in the penalty box. The Chucks' lead would be short lived. Just 45 seconds later, the Rovers pushed a ball past the home goalie after the Chucks failed to clear the ball on two-straight attempts to tie the match, 2-2, for a second time.
In the 50th minute, Peace put the home team in front for a third time when he deeked two Brockway players and went around the keeper and shot the ball into the empty net for a 3-2 tally.
The Rovers would not be happy to just tie the contest, but to take the lead next. At 57:54, Brockway took a center ball and took a rebound off Punxsy goalie Tristen Acre and scored for the 3-3 tie. The game remained tied for almost the next 17 minutes before the Rovers' player blistered a free kick 35 yards from the right side to bury it over Acre's outstretched arms for the visitors' first lead 4-3.
After Brockway kicked the ball out across the end line, Punxsy rushed to get away a corner kick. Evans lined the ball up quickly, booted it to the center of the goal where a charging Hughes headed it home for the fourth tie, 4-4, with 4:17 left.
Neither team was able to net the game-winner in the final four minutes to bring on overtime. The Chucks went on the offensive early in overtime. At 1:42 into the extra period, Peace took a ball in the middle, made a move to the right and to the left before coming back to the right and connecting on the game-winner into the corner of the goal and 5-4 final.
"Brockway is an excellent team and most likely the favorite in District IX A," added Shenkle. "This is a meaningful game for us to comeback and have this win."
The victory comes after a disappointing loss on Sept. 17 when Brockway shut out Punxsy, 7-0.
Punxsy will stay home to host rival Brookville on Thursday afternoon starting at 4 p.m.


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Ok, say what you will about Carolyn Meinel. You may view her as a security expert, or as a crazy old woman who doesn't know dos from unix. Either way, I hope you find yourself as shocked and outraged as I was when I read the following:
It appears that convicted felon, and self proclaimed bullshitter (erm, I'm sorry "social engineer") Kevin Mitnick is planning on filing suit against her because of a small side-note in one of her Happy Hacker Guides which claims that Kevin Mitnick can't program.
Yes, you read that right. The very man who's spent a good portion of his adult life bitching and moaning about the US Legal System and Freedom of Speech and Information is going to sue some old lady because she wrote 1 sentence on a website claiming that he can't program to save his life, or even his career for that matter (If you could call running a security company who's website gets hacked every other day a career).
Obviously, this goes to demonstrate how vulnerable of a position Mitnick finds himself in. He's got the difficult task of trying to convince people that he's a "security expert" and not just some 2 bit petty bullshitter (which are, by the way, a dime a dozen). If he manages to accomplish that, I say three cheers to him, for being even a better bullshitter than everyone already suspects.
I'll probably get sued by him now, too. "Mr. Vranesevich, I will love to see you prove in a court of law that I have ever actually extricated bovine dung".......
Oh well, if you'd like to shoot him off an e-mail to remind him that he's stupid, here it is: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Luke Bryan Performs for Sold Out Crowd at Greeley Stampede – Exclusive Pictures
Luke Bryan is the act to top at this year's Greeley Stampede in Greeley, Colo. The country singer took the stage to play in front of a sold out crowd on Saturday night (June 23). Fans waited in line for hours to grab the best real estate to watch Bryan sing hits like 'Country Girl (Shake It for Me)' and 'Drunk on You.'
"I have a poster of him in my heart," Tesia Koloclzicjczyk, who arrived at 5PM, told the Greeley Tribune. Justin Moore was the headliner on Friday night, and Montgomery Gentry will play on July 3. The festival wraps up with the Pro Rodeo Finals on July 4.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who describes himself as the persecuted man in history, was found guilty of tax fraud and sentenced to four years in prison in a film-rights case involving his Mediaset SpA television company.
It is unlikely that Berlusconi will serve any jail time given his age, 76, and the Italian appeals process, which can run out the statute of limitations. The court pardoned three years of the sentence. He was also barred from public office for a period of time, according to a sentence read today by a judge in Milan.
The ruling came in the same week that the three-time prime minister announced that he would not run for the premiership in elections due by May. Berlusconi has accused prosecutors of trying to destroy him politically and has said that he has spent more than 400 million euros ($517 million) on his legal defense since he entered politics in 1994.
Shares in Mediaset SpA, Berlusconi's media company at the center of the case, fell 2.8 percent to 1.34 euros. That compared with an advance of 0.2 percent in Italy's benchmark FTSE MIB index.
The ruling comes as Berlusconi faces another trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor. The revelations about his relationship with a 17-year-old Milan nightclub dancer and the so-called Bunga Bunga parties he threw at his Milan residence led to a slump in his popularity last year that contributed to his resignation as prime minister in November.
Berlusconi can appeal the verdict two more times under Italian law.
Fedele Confalonieri, chief executive officer of Mediaset and a co-defendant in the trial, was absolved by the court.
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Longtime Amityville resident and devoted evangelist Hannah C. Crews, died Dec. 25, 2008 at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip. She was 75. She was born Feb. 22, 1933 in Oxford, North Carolina to the late Deacon William Walter Brown and Mother Vianna Brown. She graduated from Farmingdale High School in 1950 and worked as a secretary for attorney Herman Austin.
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Red Sox Acquire OF Yoenis Cespedes and Competitive Balance Draft Pick from Athletics for LHP Jon Lester and OF Jonny Gomes
The Boston Red Sox today acquired outfielder Yoenis Céspedes and a 2015 competitive balance draft pick from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for left-handed pitcher Jon Lester, outfielder Jonny Gomes, and cash considerations. Both Céspedes and Lester were All-Stars in 2014.
Executive Vice President/General Manager Ben Cherington made the announcement.
The Boston Red Sox today acquired outfielder Yoenis Céspedes and a 2015 competitive balance draft pick from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for left-handed pitcher Jon Lester, outfielder Jonny Gomes, and cash considerations. Both Céspedes and Lester were All-Stars in 2014.
Executive Vice President/General Manager Ben Cherington made the announcement.
Céspedes, who will wear No. 52 for the Red Sox, is batting .256 (102-for-399) with 26 doubles, three triples, 17 home runs, 67 RBI, and 28 walks in 101 games this year, his first All-Star season. Among American League leaders, the 28-year-old ranks tied for sixth in extra-base hits (46) and tied for ninth in RBI. Since the All-Star break, he has hit .326 (15-for-46) with five doubles, three home runs, and 11 RBI.
In three seasons since joining the major leagues from Cuba in 2012, the right-handed batter has hit .262 (371-for-1,415) with 72 doubles, 12 triples, 66 home runs, and 229 RBI. Beginning in 2012, he places among the top 15 American Leaguers in both homers and RBI. In his three seasons with the team, Oakland went 228-131 (.635) with Céspedes in the starting lineup compared to 28-44 (.389) when he did not start.
As a major leaguer, he has hit .296 with a .366 on-base percentage, and a .494 slugging percentage with runners in scoring position. In 142 career big league games after the All-Star break, is a .293 hitter with an .859 OPS.
Among players who debuted in 1987 or later, the only others with at least 20 home runs and 80 RBI in each of their first two major league seasons are Evan Longoria, Ryan Braun, Dan Uggla, Mark Teixeira, and Albert Pujols.
Céspedes hit safely in all 10 of Oakland's postseason games over the last two years, batting .350 (14-for-40) with two doubles, one triple, one home run, and six RBI.
Last season, he hit 26 home runs in 135 games. He finished second among American League Rookie of the Year voting in 2012 after batting .292 with 23 home runs, 82 RBI, and 16 stolen bases in 129 games.
Prior to his major league career, Céspedes played for Granma in Cuba's Serie Nacional for eight seasons. Over his last six seasons in Cuba, he hit .323 with 119 doubles, 145 home runs, 464 RBI, and a .604 slugging percentage in 528 games. In 90 games during his final Cuban season in 2010-11, he led the league in runs (89) and RBI (99), and tied for the lead in home runs (33), while batting .333. He also played for Cuba in the 2009 World Baseball Classic and hit .458 with two home runs and five RBI in six games.
Defensively, he has appeared primarily in left field in 2014 (82 games, 79 starts) and in his career (232 games, 226 starts), but also has major league experience in centerfield (75 games, 65 starts). He is tied for the major league lead this season with 12 outfield assists, along with Boston's Jackie Bradley Jr. His 31 career assists from the outfield rank third among all major leaguers since the start of 2012, trailing only Alex Gordon (40) and Gerrardo Parra (33).
Céspedes has won each of the last two MLB Home Run Derbies, joining Ken Griffey, Jr. as the only players to win it in back-to-back seasons (1998-99).
Lester, 30, was 10-7 with a 2.52 ERA in 21 starts for the Red Sox this year, his third career All-Star campaign (2010, 2011). In 143.0 innings pitched this season he has struck out 149 batters and issued just 32 walks. Entering today, Lester ranks among AL leaders in ERA (5th), strikeouts (6th), wins (T-6th), and innings (9th), and has surrendered seven earned runs over his last eight starts (1.07 ERA). A two-time World Series Champion with Boston (2007, 2013), Lester helped the club to last year's title with four wins in five postseason starts. Signed by the Red Sox as a second-round selection in the 2002 June Draft, the left-hander went 110-63 with a 3.64 ERA (615 ER/1,519.1 IP) in 242 career major league outings, with all but one appearance as a starter. He threw the 18th no-hitter in franchise history against the Kansas City Royals on May 19, 2008 at Fenway Park.
The 33-year-old Gomes batted .234 (49-for-209) in 78 games for Boston this season, which included a .302 (35-for-116) mark against left-handed pitching. Defensively, he appeared in 65 games in left field (45 starts), and 11 in right field (8 starts). Over his two seasons with the Red Sox, he hit .242 (126-for-521) with 24 doubles, 19 home runs, 84 RBI, and 71 runs scored in 194 games. Gomes' six pinch-hit homers for Boston rank second on the club's all-time list behind Hall of Famer Ted Williams (7). A Petaluma, CA native, Gomes has hit .244 (772-for-3167) with 147 doubles, 14 triples, 155 home runs and 495 RBI in 1,074 major league games between the Tampa Bay Rays (2003-08), Cincinnati Reds (2009-11), Washington Nationals (2011), Athletics (2012), and Red Sox (2013-14). He was signed by the Red Sox as a free agent on December 1, 2012.


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This includes servers based on WorldWideWeb as well as local installations and the defini- tion of new database connections into the SRS database net- work via suitable tools as provided with the software. Charter: Announce, and inform on, new achievements on information servers running the Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) engine. This affects predominantly data and services in the biology and/or related areas which can be accessed via elec- tronic networked information retrieval software (WWW or specific client software). Announcements from the author (Thure Etzold) or other developers, proposals and discus- sions of customers, maintainers and developers with respect to new strategies and tools, as well user and maintainer support shall inform and invite to participate. Status: unmoderated, not restricted. Exclusion: General issues on accompanying software problems shall be placed in bionet.software or suitable software-specific newsgroups in the comp hierarchy. 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patrickbirdsong necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
This design should be very simple. The name of the company is Rainey Day Shades.
I want a silhouette of a pair of RayBan Wayfarer sunglasses, with water dripping from them like they have been left out in the rain. The spelling of the word Rainey in the name is a family name, but we want the "idea" behind the design to be rainy. A play on words.
We would also like you to include the name in the design of the logo as well. We want only a black on white design, no color right now. The logo should be hip and trendy.
Example pair of sunglasses, pictures that capture the idea, etc. at the following link:
Target audience is Generation Y. Young, trendy and on a budget.
The above description is very specific, room to play is with the design of the sunglasses. The general idea is Wayfarers, but if they are more dramatic or exagerated, I am open to that. If you do feel the need to incorporate color, do so with simplicity in mind.
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Meagan McKinney Kensington, Feb 2001, 23.00, 320 pp. ISBN: 1575666154 For two hundred years the St. Valliers family lived at Shadow Oaks in Cane Town, Louisiana. However, the once proud and elegant Bayou plantation is near the end of its' existence as financial problems beset the last two members of the St. Valliers clan. To save the estate and restore it to some of its past glory, Stella, a tenured college professor, has taken a leave of ab...


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This message might meet you in utmost surprise,However,Its just my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction,I am a banker by profession from Burkina Faso currently holding the post of a director auditing and accounting section of the bank.I have the opportunity of transferring the left over fund($50.MILLION USD) which bellongs to one of my client who died along with his family in a plane crash.
After further investigation it was discovered that the deceased person did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, twenty five million three hundred thousand united State
Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration seven years six months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Burkina Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to instruct BOA BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you 60/30 while 10% will be mapped for expenses that may be incured in the preoccess of transfering this fund into your account. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the procentange 60/30. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line in my involvement in claiming the deposit.
I assure you that I could have the
deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the deceased person I will then officially communicate with my Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these: all is done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.
I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you,delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector.
I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control of my destiny. These chances wont pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.
I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Lets share the blessing. If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official channels;
I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will provide for you, Further more be informed that the fact that you are a foreigner give you the privilege to stand in as my deceased client beneficiary as my deceased client had no relation all his family died with him in a plane crash and I can not use my relation because its not accepted here in Burkina Faso.
Also I am very confident that we will be able to establish the trust that is needed to complete this deal and all that I need from the time been is your willingness and commitment so that we can end this in the nest one weeks.Like I said before there is no risk involve as it will pass through international banking laws and all the necessary information will be given to you in later.I do not want any direct link between you and me. My official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management Policy. Please observe this instruction religiously Please, again, note I am a family man, I have wife and children.
I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon.
Futher detailes of the transfer will be sent to you as soon as i receive a positive response from you. By sending this following informations,
1)Your Full Name..................
2)Your Age.................
3)Direct Phone Number................
4)Your Occupation.............................
5)Your Full address and passport copy of a pictire of you............
Your Countr's name and address.........................
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A team of storm-chasing scientists sampling rarefied air has found a world of bacteria and fungi floating about 30,000 feet above Earth. The findings, detailed Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that microbes have the potential to affect the weather.
Scientists have long studied airborne bacteria, but they typically do so from the ground, often trekking to mountain peaks to examine microbes in fresh snow. Beyond that, they don't know much about the number and diversity of floating microbes, said study coauthor Athanasios Nenes, an atmospheric scientist at Georgia Tech.
To get a glimpse of this hovering world, Nenes and his colleagues hitched several rides on a NASA aircraft as onboard instruments sampled the air before, during and after hurricanes Earl and Karl in 2010. The plane flew into the upper troposphere, about 6 miles above the surface.
During nine flights — most over the Caribbean and the midwest Atlantic — the researchers ran the outside air over a series of filters, each time capturing material from an average of 212 cubic feet of ambient air. They sampled a variety of environments, from the cloudy masses that preceded Hurricane Earl to the cloud-free air after Hurricane Karl passed.


text: A Response to Duesberg and Rasnick (Genetica 1998;104(2):85-132) An Explanation of Differential HIV Infection and Other AIDS Phenomena that Refutes the Duesberg and Rasnick Hypotheses James Michael Howard Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.A. Duesberg and Rasnick suggest: "The drug hypothesis predicts that AIDS: (1) is non-contagious; (2) is non-random, because 85% of AIDS causing drugs are used by males, particularly sexually active homosexuals between 25 and 49 years of age, and (3) would follow the drug epidemics chronologically." (Genetica 1998; 104: 85). In 1985, I suggested vulnerability to infection by the HIV is due to lowered levels of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). Following puberty, as a group, male homosexuals produce less DHEA than heterosexual men (Biological Psychiatry 1973; 6: 31). (It is my hypothesis that male homosexuality results from low DHEA during brain development, in utero.) Therefore, male homosexuals are more vulnerable to infection. When the HIV entered the United States, this group was first hit. Since there is overlap in DHEA levels between homosexual men and heterosexual men, this would predict that some men will be infected, and continue to AIDS, some will be infected, but not continue to AIDS, and some will not be infected. This is the case in the male homosexual community. DHEA starts to decline around age 25 and continues to very low levels in old age. Nearly 75% of AIDS-related mortality is in men 25 to 44 years of age (Science 1988; 239: 611). Now, I later deduced that the hormone, testosterone, reduces availability of DHEA. Therefore, men should exhibit greater infection rates than women. "More than 90% of AIDS-related premature mortality occurs in men" (Science 1988; 239: 611). In an animal model, it is demonstrated that testosterone is directly involved in infection and persistence of a virus, the equine arteritis virus ((Journal of Comparative Pathology 1994; 111: 383 and J Comp Pathol 1993; 109: 29). Black men produce significantly more testosterone than white men (Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1986; 76: 45) and black women produce "moderately, but significantly" more testosterone than white women (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 1996; 81: 1108). Viral persistence according to race was recently reported in humans. "Persistent viremia" occurs more in blacks than whites. "Although the basis for this racial difference [in persistent viremia] is unknown, the magnitude of the association and its independence from other factors suggest host genetics may be important in the outcome of acute hepatitis C. Further research is needed to explain the less frequent clearance of HCV [Hepatitis C Virus] infection among black persons and to improve utilization of treatment for those infected in the context of injection drug use." (Journal of the American Medical Association 2000; 284: 450). Therefore, the least HIV infection rates should occur in white women, followed by black women, then white men, then black men. This is the case (Science 1995; 270: 1372). The ratio of testosterone in these four groups produces the differences in HIV infection rates in the heterosexual population. This also explains why Africa exhibits so much greater infection rates. HIV infection is connected to drug use. However, this is not necessarily connected to needle sharing. Again, the connection to higher testosterone is supported. "While blacks and Hispanics had a greater HIV seroprevalence rate than whites, whites reported sharing [needles] more. Further, sharing needles was more frequent among white HIV-seropositive IVDAs [intravenous drug abusers] than among their minority counterparts." (Journal of the American Medical Association 1987; 258: 1475). I suggest testosterone contributes to this difference. The connection of HIV infection is very high in drug abusing communities. There is more to this difference than differences in testosterone levels. For years I have thought that all drugs of abuse produce effects on DHEA production: (1) they first stimulate DHEA, which (2) increases dependence, then (3) DHEA production eventually wanes and results in tolerance. The drug abuser, over time, must use drugs to try to keep DHEA levels up. At first DHEA is involved in the effectiveness of the drugs, then, as DHEA production declines because of over-use of the adrenal glands, the effectiveness declines. The drug abuser seeks only to maintain declining levels of DHEA, while drug effects decline. I have found little support in this area of my theory of DHEA function, but there is one citation that fits well. In the following study, chronic methadone produced significant decreases in DHEA, only, compared to other hormones. "The effect of chronic methadone treatment upon the serum levels of Estradiol (E2), Progesterone (P), Prolactin (Prl), monkey chorionic gonadotropin (mCG), dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) and Cortisol (C) in pregnant Cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) is described in comparison with the hormone levels in a control group. Only DHEAS was significantly decreased in late pregnancy in the methadone group. From these data it can not be concluded that methadone treatment compromises (feto)placental function. The observed intra-uterine growth retardation in the methadone treated group might be a result of a direct influence of methadone upon growth." (European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology 1991; 38: 145). (Since my work suggests all growth, development, and maintenance of all tissues depends on DHEA, I suggest "intra-uterine growth retardation in the methadone treated group" was due to the significant decrease in DHEAS (the background supply of DHEA). It was this assumption, in 1985, that resulted in my prediction of low DHEA in AIDS in 1985.) So, drug abuse, at least methadone and probably other drugs of abuse, may reduce the availability of DHEA and impair immune function. Therefore, I suggest that the connection of drugs of abuse and HIV/AIDS results from the ultimate decline of DHEA. When this occurs in people of higher testosterone, the result intensifies. I suggest this is why HIV infection appears to be caused by drugs of abuse. I mentioned above that I think all tissue maintenance depends on DHEA. DHEA first surges during HIV infection, then declines. This is a surge of DHEA which stimulates the immune system. Because of the decline of DHEA during progression to AIDS, I have suggested for many years that the symptoms of AIDS actually represent loss of DHEA. This was recently supported: "This study confirms that low serum DHEAS is associated with HIV illness markers, including viral load, and carries a negative prognostic value." (Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 1999; 22: 146). Now, the loss of DHEA will produce effects in different tissues according to vulnerabilities. Therefore, AIDS will produce symptoms typical of other diseases and phenomena that cause DHEA declines will produce symptoms of AIDS. This is why some diseases mimic AIDS.


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Toyota FJ Cruiser Axle Swap - Hardcore HardwarePosted in How To on April 1, 2008
FJ cruisers are everywhere. Yes, they can be found getting groceries and driving kids to after-school sports, but there's no shortage of 'Cruisers on the trail. From moab to Baja to tellico, FJ cruiser owners haven't held back in the dirt.
With body-on-frame construction, and a gutsy 4L V6, toyota provided FJ cruiser drivers a great platform for a real-world trail rig.
The FJ's suspension is as functional and rugged as the rest of the vehicle. The five-link (four links with a Panhard bar) rear suspension treats the occupants to a smooth coil-sprung ride, and the ifs delivers great handling on twisty high-speed terrain. So far, so good.
It's not all perfect. As competently as the ifs handles high-speed terrain, it is nonetheless shackled with pencil-thin tie rods and breakageprone cv boots and cv joints. Furthermore, there's not enough droop travel to allow the FJ to keep all four feet firmly planted when the rocks get bigger than a microwave oven. We're not saying that the ifs is junk. We're saying it has drawbacks.
Hardcore trail performance calls for a solid front axle. Properly executed, a swapped-in solid front axle gives gobs of articulation, keeping the rubber on the trail when the boulders get big. Noodle-sized ifs tie rods are replaced with heavy-wall tubing. Finally, two stout u-joints take the place of a quartet of CV boots and CV joints. Properly executed, a solid front axle is a simpler, stronger way to go.
The phrase "properly executed" bears repeating because there are several criteria for a successful solid- axle swap. The resulting trail rig should steer properly without "death wobble." The axle must be squared up under the rig so it drives down the road in a straight line. The axle needs to cycle through the range of suspension travel without hitting vital engine parts. It must cycle without binding u-joints or steering components. Do a solid-axle swap the right way and you've got a sought-after trail rig with newfound capability. Do a solid-axle swap the wrong way and you'll be the not-so-proud owner of a rolling disaster.
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All-Pro off-road, in Hemet, California, is no stranger to properly executed solid-axle swaps or to traversing hardcore trails. All-Pro's rsum includes solid-axle swap kits for '86-'95 toyota pickups and 4runners as well as the taco' supreme solid-axle swap kit for the '96-'04 tacoma. Developing a solidaxle swap kit for the FJ cruiser was a natural progression. "We're the leader in the FJ cruiser aftermarket, and we're going to keep that leadership," states all-Pro's Jon Bundrant. "We know that not every FJ cruiser owner will end up swapping the ifs for a solid axle, but enthusiasts need to know that they can turn to us for that product if they want it. Our sas kit for the FJ cruiser is the first kit of its kind. We've done a solidaxle swap on another FJ cruiser, but that buildup was beyond the scope of what we would offer as a kit. We know of a couple of other FJ cruisers out there with swapped-in solid front axles, but no one has offered a solid-axle swap kit for the FJ cruiser until now."
We followed along, lenses and notepads in hand, as all-Pro's lead fabricator Mike Schoffstall and all-Pro ceo Jon Bundrant developed and installed the FJ sas kit using Jon's personal FJ as a lab rat. The kit is based on the highly successful taco' supreme sas kit but is not identical. Although the two kits do share some common parts, dimensions differ between these two vehicles.
The photos that follow capture the prototyping process. Snags were encountered and solutions were found. Stay tuned for the final version of the kit in our coverage of the '08 all-Pro Jamboree in Johnson valley.
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[See the rest of our How to Apply Makeup series for beginners.]
Eyeshadow is a great way to emphasize your eyes and create some really pretty looks. Most shadows come in powder format in little pots without any instructions. With so many different colors and brushes, it can be difficult to know where to start when applying eyeshadow. Since this "how-to" is part of our beginner's How to Apply Makeup series, this is a basic routine for an everyday eyeshadow look. We have instructions on more advanced looks on our eye makeup page.
1. You will need a minimum of three colors to achieve a pretty eyeshadow look. Choose three shades in the same color family: one very sheer, one with a medium tone, and one dark color.
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2. Begin with the sheer shade. This will be used as a wash over the entire eyelid. Neutrals are best for this purpose. Sweep the color over the entire eyelid all the way to your brows using a flat eyeshadow brush.
3. Next use the medium shade. Apply it only to the lid using a tapered brush and stop when you reach the crease. This color should fill the space between your lash line and the crease.
4. Finally, use the darkest color. This color should be applied sparingly. Remember, you can always add more but if you start out with too much, your look will be ruined. Using an angled brush, apply this color into the crease and then extend it slightly past the outer corner of your eye using a light sweeping motion.
5. Blend, blend, and blend some more. This is the most important step to achieving a natural look. Use a big, soft blending brush and brush in an outward motion from the inside corner toward the outside corner of each eye.
6. To tie the whole look together, you can take the darkest color and use it to line your lower lash line. A wet eyeliner brush can transform dark eyeshadow into a great eyeliner.


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The Mispillion River was just beginning to slip its banks after noon on Monday with the worst of Hurricane Sandy still more than 10 hours away.
The Mispillion River was just beginning to slip its banks after noon on Monday with the worst of Hurricane Sandy still more than 10 hours away.
At about 1 p.m., City Public Works Director Brad Dennehy said a portion of Northwest Front Street, west of the Milford Police Department, has been closed off due to river flooding. The Mispillion also was spilling over onto Park Avenue at about noon.
"It's up in the low-laying areas, but it's not too bad yet," Dennehy said. "So far, we seem to be holding our own, but we'll be monitoring it closely and dealing with the best that we can. There's definitely a concern from here on out."
The river is currently moving toward low tide at 3:59 p.m.
Town officials said the highest risk of major flooding will come during the second high tide of the day, which is expected at 9:37 p.m.
"That's also when we're expecting the winds to increase, which could cause trees to fall onto power lines, causing outages in town," Dennehy said.
No power outages were reported in the Milford area as of 1 p.m.
Milford Police Chief Keith Hudson said he thinks the city and its residents have done the best they can to prepare for the worst of the storm.
"I'm really proud of the people of Milford," he said about 11 a.m. "They've all done a really good job preparing for this storm, and right now, they seem to be staying put and off the roads."
Not everyone was staying off the roads, however.
American Red Cross volunteer Charlotte Duffy, who is managing the emergency shelter at Milford Middle School, said dozens of people arrived this morning. As of noon, the total number of people staying at the shelter was 110, up from 51 at 6 p.m. Saturday.
"We had about eight or 10 come in last night, but most came in this morning," she said, adding that there is no limit on the number of people the shelter can accept. "The Milford School District has been nice enough to allow us to open up classroom space to house people, if need be"
Carolyn Palmer, a HAM radio operator with the American Radio Emergency Service, who is stationed at the Milford shelter and in constant contact with the Sussex County Emergency Operations Center, said evacuees can request transportation to the their nearest shelter by calling the state's hurricane hotline at (800) 464-4357.
"As the storm gets worse, we don't want people risking their lives to come here," she said. "People who call that number can get a lift from DART or the National Guard."
Despite a state driving ban for non-emergency personnel, dozens of people were still braving the weather to visit local gas stations like Wawa and Royal Farms, which remained open.
Gene Dorff of Dentsply-Caulk said he stopped by the dental supplies manufacturer on West Clark Avenue to ensure the facility was still dry before stopping at Wawa for a cup of coffee on his way home.
"Everything seems fine right now," he said. "I'm an optimist. I think it will pass and we'll all be fine."
Harrington resident Bob Pardee stopped to get gas on his way to pick up some parts for his farm equipment.
"Driving wasn't so bad this morning," he said. "But I think it will get worse tomorrow, which is why I'm picking up parts today."
Milford resident Violet Sorden also said was out in search of a cup of coffee.
"I wanted to see what was going on and how bad it is out here before heading back home, where I'll stay probably through tomorrow," she said. "I'm not worried. I think I'll be ok, as long as I'm not stupid about it and go out again."


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Companies can't satisfy 'stakeholders'
In their joint announcement, the companies said that they still believed the merger was based on "sound industrial logic."
The deal apparently died because the two companies could not satisfy their government stakeholders in France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States that the structure of the new company was in everyone's best interest.
"We are obviously disappointed that we were unable to reach an acceptable agreement with our various government stakeholders," BAE CEO Ian King said in a statement. "We believe the merger presented a unique opportunity for BAE Systems and EADS to combine two world class and complementary businesses to create a world leading aerospace, defence and security group."
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the deal fell apart because the U.K., France and Germany could not agree on state ownership of the new company, board membership and where the company would be based.
One of EADS shareholders is the French government. Other parts of the company are owned by French and German corporations. It also has dual headquarters in France and Germany.
In the United States, there were concerns that regulators could have forced a sale of BAE's intelligence business as a condition for approving the merger.
There also has been speculation that if the merger collapsed, that BAE would be broken into pieces and sold. King, however, described BAE as "strong and financially robust."
"We continue to see opportunities across our platforms and services offerings and in the various international markets in which we operate," he said.
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Click on image for larger view of Buddy's muddy down tube
Maybe I really AM just a fair weather cyclist - unless I'm on Frankenbike in which case my six year-old inner self comes to the surface.
You clean that stuff off? No wonder the rain bugs you. You need to learn to mistreat your bikes. Remember, they don't have feelings.
They have feelings.
But they like to be dirty.
Buddy isn't fully amortized yet. Barely 3000 miles. Buddy can get REAL dirty in cyclocross season but dirty commuting means wear in the drivetrain. Filigree's chian guards are more than just pretty.


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Chinese Researchers Study Nano-Scale Deformation of Crack Tip
The fracture of materials is a very important issue for both structural and functional materials. Crack-tip behavior is among the most basic problems in fracture mechanics. Many theoretical and experimental investigations have been carried out to understand the effect of crack-tip deformation fields.
However, direct nanoscale measurement of strain fields around the crack-tip has not yet been achieved, despite many years of research. Professors Zhao ChunWang and Xing YongMing from Inner Mongolia University of Technology set out to tackle this problem. They adopted a combination of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and geometric phase analysis (GPA) and mapped the near atomic-scale strain fields of a crack-tip. Their work, entitled "Quantitative analysis of nanoscale deformation fields of a crack-tip in single-crystal silicon", was published in SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy. 2012, Vol. 55(6).
Although the fracture of materials is part of our everyday experience, the process is not well understood. The effects of fracture of materials are obvious on macroscopic scales, but the dynamics of fracture that lead to such failures are governed entirely by the material's behavior at the smallest scale. Deformation fields of a crack-tip were examined using HRTEM, which is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for measuring deformation fields at the nanoscale because of the development of quantitative image analysis methods. One such technique is GPA, which has been applied to a wide variety of systems, such as dislocations, quantum dots, nanowires, nanoparticles, heterostructures, low-angle grain boundaries, etc. The current work presented an HRTEM investigation of a mode II crack in single-crystal silicon. First, a micro-crack in single-crystal silicon was found using TEM under low magnification (Figure a). Second, the crack-tip was located and a higher magnification HRTEM image obtained (Figure b). Third, the GPA method was employed to map the strain fields of the crack-tip area from the HRTEM image (Figure c). Because the HRTEM images are at near atomic-scale, the strain map is also at near atomic-scale. The measurements showed that the strain at the crack tip was pure shear strain, and thus the micro-crack was identified as a mode II crack. Finally, the experimental strain values on the crack plane were extracted and compared with theoretical predictions from linear elastic fracture mechanics (Figure d). The comparison shows that the experimental results on the crack plane agree with the theoretical predictions up to 1 nm from the crack-tip.
Until now, experimental research on micro-cracks has mainly focused on initiation, extension and morphology at a wide variety of scales. Professor Zhao ChunWang and his group have pioneered quantitative analysis of nanoscale deformation fields of crack-tips and developed an effective method to analyze the deformation of crack-tips at a very small scale. With further development of HRTEM, measurement and analysis of deformation fields at the atomic scale will become possible. Atomic bonding and atom movement ahead of the crack-tip may be also analyzed quantitatively.
This is an important development in the recent history of fracture mechanics. The researchers suggest that the next steps in their work are to examine more materials and also to attempt to measure the deformation fields of a dynamic crack-tip. These future efforts will be an important boost to fracture mechanics and materials physics.
Source: http://www.imut.edu.cn