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Sometimes a new book comes into The Genealogy Center that commands our attention on account of the novelty of its thesis or because it breaks convention with its approach to a particular subject. One such title was added to our collection this week, and while it is not "new" by its publication date, it does represent a wonderful new addition to our collection.
The book is New York City Neighborhoods: The 18th Century by Nan Rothschild (San Diego: Academic Press Inc., 1990) GC 974.702 N422rn. What makes it wonderful is its interdisciplinary approach to local history, employing a paradigm that is refreshingly different and even groundbreaking. It weaves together historical writing with ethnography, archaeology, cartography, urbanization, and architecture, giving us an unusual glimpse into the rise of New York City neighborhoods in the eighteenth century. Beginning with a detailed study of Manhattan at a grassroots level from the beginning of the eighteenth century, when there was still a strong Dutch cultural influence, it carries us to the period after the Revolution, when New York had become transformed into a modern urbanized setting stratified by economics and restructured by many new arrivals that had diluted the former Dutch colony.
Rothschild's thesis is this: "Early in the century, clusters of people that shared an ethnic identity lived and worked near each other. They spoke the same language, had a cultural heritage in common, and worshipped at the same church, but worked in a variety of occupations and lived at different economic levels. By the end of the century, after the Revolution, many of these early ethnically defined groups had dispersed, and people lived instead among those with similar occupations and levels of wealth."
She argues further that by 1790, powerful landowners had begun to exert influence on residential choices and together with new groups of immigrants and free blacks, shifted the spatial clustering of households and altered a larger pattern of how the city functioned. In support of her thesis, she uses a variety of tools, including archaeological studies of house foundations and animal bones found at the sites of taverns and markets, historical maps, and lists of residents from 1703 and 1789, all of which document this transformation.
What does this have to do with genealogy? In short, everything. The lists of residents derive from the 1703 and 1789 tax assessment rolls of Manhattan in the Municipal Archives of the City of New York. Like census records, they include the resident's name, tax rank (by number) street of residence, occupation, job class (by code), ward, and religion. Keys to the codes are provided at the end of both lists. In addition to some reprinted historical maps, a variety of new ones are included throughout the work showing the locations of churches, taverns, markets, and the distribution of ethnic groups by neighborhood and street.
We learn, for example, that in 1703, the Dutch were found widely in all wards but were concentrated heavily in the North Ward, while few English and Huguenots lived there. The English dominated the East Ward, especially on Queen Street, and in the Dock Ward, and were drawn to Trinity Church. Huguenots also frequented the East, Dock, and South Wards, and many lived close to the Dutch Reform Church. By 1789, Dutch- and English-descended residents were evenly dispersed through all the wards. Scots were spread through the East and Montgomerie wards, Germans lived primarily in the North Ward, Jews in the Dock and East wards, and free blacks almost entirely in the Montgomerie Ward. In other chapters Rothschild correlates the wards and ethnic groups by occupation, and she even studies specific varieties animal bones from archaeological sites to determine what kinds of fowl and fish people ate.
Even beyond these lists and the amazing array of sources, what makes the book instructive is its highly localized approach to the study of urbanization. By focusing on neighborhoods and using an integrative approach, Rothschild almost puts the reader onto the streets of New York in the eighteenth century, and she reconstructs those worlds in a way that a more generalized history of New York does not. She goes on to say, "The analytic method used here can be applied to any community where the appropriate documentation exists …The research presented is also of concern to many urban scholars, namely, how do people really live in the city? What are their lives like? What kinds of strategies do they use in adapting to the great numbers of these people, most of whom they do not know?"
These are the same sorts of questions genealogists should ask about their ancestors. As many professional genealogists will tell us, research is all about location, about connecting ancestors to the communities and neighborhoods around them. We do this not only to find associates and possible relatives of our immediate family (which may give us clues of earlier connections), but we should also do it to write more accurate and engaging family histories.
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Since it was founded more than six decades ago, the University of San Diego has sought to prepare future leaders who embrace the mission of making a difference in the world.
The private Catholic university was recognized in 2011 by the nonprofit group Ashoka as a "changemaker campus." It's a designation given to institutions committed to creating social entrepreneurs — people who act as agents of change to solve social problems on a large scale.
Social entrepreneurs have done things such as launch organizations that recruit and train teachers for low-income schools, encourage publishers to use alternatives to traditional paper in books and magazines, and help establish affordable private schools for the poor.
Nineteen public and private universities have been named changemakers, including Arizona State, Portland State, Brigham Young and Marquette.
This week, USD will host a three-day conference titled "Unlock the U in University," which will bring 650 students, college leaders and social entrepreneurs from 150 institutions to San Diego. Officials on the campus said the annual Ashoka U Exchange event will provide a chance for changemaker universities to talk about what works best in social entrepreneurship education.
Ashoka was founded in 1980 by Bill Drayton, a Harvard- and Oxford-educated businessman who served as an Environmental Protection Agency administrator in the Carter administration. The organization was named after an Indian emperor in the 3rd century B.C. who renounced violence, helped spread Buddhism and dedicated his life to social welfare and economic development. It has formed programs in more than 60 countries and supports the work of nearly 3,000 fellows.
Ashoka promotes social change by investing in solutions that are sustainable and can be replicated — and by encouraging individuals to be "changemakers." The group, whose 2011 operating budget exceeded $38 million, is financed by foundations, businesses and individual donors.
Marina Kim, executive director of Ashoka U, said the social entrepreneur movement on college campuses is being driven by student demand for practical leadership training and opportunities to learn how to bring about effective social change.
Ashoka wants to boost the number of changemaker campuses to 30 by 2015.
Universities that are changemakers will likely attract students interested in making a difference in the world, Kim said.
"We find that students are really looking more and more to make a difference in this lifetime, and many of them see those as skills that they can employ in their career path," she added. "What's exciting about changemaking is whether you go into government, the nonprofit or for-profit sector, or launch your own endeavor, you can bring your values to the workplace and feel you have an impact."
USD President Mary Lyons said the changemaker-campus label is a public symbol of what the university has long pursued.
"Just as you think of (the University of California San Diego) as an incubator of tremendous primary research that has developed great companies ... I think where USD really makes a contribution to the region is its social entrepreneur, changemaking focus on the application of research, especially to the improvement of the human condition," she said.
Lyons also said the USD School of Leadership and Education has strived to improve the quality of K-12 education in the region, and that the graduate School of Nursing program has focused on the issue of combat veterans returning home with brain injuries and mental-health and physical problems.
Having the designation, Lyons said, not only reinforces the university's mission but also may help it to collaborate with like-minded campuses nationwide.
"The things that have driven a lot of the history here of community service, the focus on the environment — a lot of those come out of the basic values of our Catholic university. We call them Catholic social teachers," Lyons said. "The fact that other universities are calling this thing social entrepreneurship is just another way of describing more or less the same thrust."
She and other campus officials said USD students are provided a variety of educational, research and service opportunities to learn about social entrepreneurship. For example, the school has created an E-waste collection center that recycles old cellphones and computers. Students can donate items to the center or work there.
The project also serves as a "learning lab" for students from different disciplines on campus, said USD business professor Patricia Marquez, co-chair of the university's changemaker hub. For example, she said, engineering students have tried to determine how best to recycle the donated materials.
"In one of my classes, in social entrepreneurship, one of the projects was to consult for E-waste to figure out how they could develop better marketing. And they had to present it to the E-waste group," Marquez said.
There are other ways classroom instruction is being infused with social enterprise.
Students taking Spanish classes can travel to Guatemala to hone their language skills and learn about organic coffee farms and other types of socially conscious ventures. Students enrolled in economics courses might go to Tijuana to learn about microfinancing projects.
Marquez's big dream is to build an incubator on campus that will help turn problem-solving ideas and projects into reality. "We need to serve the community," she said. "We aren't just about (academic) papers that nobody reads."
Another campus effort is the annual Social Innovation Challenge, which invites students to submit social-venture ideas. Winning projects are rewarded with $40,000 in seed funding. One recent winner was a student whose nonprofit company developed a mobile food truck to serve San Diego's homeless population with affordable and healthy food.
"The students are beginning to see themselves not just as someone who cares and does volunteer work, but it is more than that — as being a social innovator," Marquez said. "We are pairing that consciousness with real opportunities."
While encouraging students to find ways to cultivate social change, the university — with an undergraduate enrollment of 5,500 — is trying to strengthen the personal development of students outside the classroom through themed living-learning communities.
Starting next fall, all freshmen who live on campus will be placed into one of nine living-learning communities — housing where students who share a common interest live and study together. Built around themes such as social justice, sustainability and change, the communities are designed to expand students' intellectual curiosity beyond the classroom and help them foster close relationships with faculty and classmates.
"We want them to be connected to an idea rather than a dorm," said Noelle Norton, associate dean for faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences and co-director of the living-learning community program. She said the program, which is an expansion of a a smaller effort that has been around for years, may give students another way to work on their changemaking ideas.
TEDxAshokaU Talk
•The three-day Ashoka U Exchange at the University of San Diego will include panel discussions, site visits and talks held on campus and at other locations Thursday through Saturday.
•A TEDxAshokaU Talk is scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday at the Balboa Theatre and will be open to the public. It will feature seven leaders discussing the topic of "Finding Your Place in the Universe," including San Diego's Chris Crane, CEO of Edify Inc., a faith-based social enterprise that makes small business loans to schools educating impoverished children in Africa and Latin America.
•The Tedx event costs $42. For more information, go to tedxashokau.com.

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Hamilton leads McLaren front row, Vettel fourth and Alonso seventhLaurence Edmondson at Interlagos November 24, 2012
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Lewis Hamilton took pole position as part of a McLaren front-row lockout at the Brazilian Grand Prix as championship contenders Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso only managed fourth and seventh respectively.
Mark Webber will start third behind the McLarens and ahead of his team-mate Vettel who had looked quick in Q2 but struggled to hook up a lap in the final session. Alonso, who needs to outscore Vettel by 14 points on Sunday, also struggled and was 0.795s off Hamilton by the end of the session back in seventh.
Alonso will have Nico Hulkenberg directly ahead of him with his team-mate Felipe Massa starting fifth behind Vettel. Alonso benefits from a penalty for Pastor Maldonado, who missed a call in to the weighbridge during Q2 which earned him his third reprimand of the season. The automatic ten-place grid penalty which results from three reprimands relegated Maldonado from his sixth place on the grid to 16th.
Kimi Raikkonen, Nico Rosberg and Paul di Resta rounded off the top ten, with Raikkonen just 0.045s shy of knocking Alonso back another row - an impressive performance having missed out on FP3 with an engine failure.
Bruno Senna will start 11th ahead of Sergio Perez. In his final qualifying session of his career, Michael Schumacher could only manage 13th fastest and he will start ahead of Kamui Kobayashi, Daniel Ricciardo, Maldonado and Jean-Eric Vergne.
Romain Grosjean dropped out in Q1 after making contact with Pedro de la Rosa's HRT as he attempted to pass near the pit lane entrance on the main straight. Grosjean lost his front wing against the HRT and had to trundle back to the pits for a replacement. He had time for one more lap, but couldn't improve enough to haul himself out of the bottom seven. Vitaly Petrov will start behind the Lotus in 18th and ahead of team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, Timo Glock, Charles Pic, Narain Karthikeyan and de la Rosa.
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Bearded Beaumont man on a cycle keeps lawns cut close
Every day, Rickey Green shakes off the early morning grogginess, loads his mower and edger, his gas can and broom, and sets out from his home on Pennsylvania Avenue on a bike to serve his eager clients.
The 52-year-old Green's full grey beard and burly build are emblematic of Santa Clause, his blue eyes shining in Beaumont's morning sun as he stands ready to begin mowing the yard of Pancho's Taqueria on MLK on Friday, Nov. 1.
"Tomorrow I get to do something else," Green said.
Born in Louisiana to a poor family, Green said he's always found ways to make money while surrounded by poverty. When he came to Beaumont in 1980, he began using his unique Husky 120 — an all-steel bike with an industrial-sized cargo hold flanked by two wheels on the front of the bike.
Green doesn't need a car. The bike fits a mower, edger, broom and whatever else Beaumont's handlebar handyman needs for his six to 10 mile journey each day, not including the distance he travels for pleasure.
"I've got another one I ride to my other job. I only use this one Sundays and Mondays. Sundays I go over to (Graff or Braff) Street between St. Elizabeth and 11th and I do a couple yards over there. Then I go do a car lot, so roughly two miles or three miles on Sunday and Monday," Green said, speaking about his one-way trip from Pennsylvania Avenue. "Whenever I actually need it, it's probably a lot more than that."
Rusty but sturdy, Green's specialized bike has served him well, he said, coming in handy especially in the months and years after Hurricane Rita devastated much of Southeast Texas.
"I've had it since before Rita, but I had to get used to riding it," Green said of the cumbersome cargo bike. "After I got used to riding it, then I started using it to get around on."
On any given day throughout Old Town and along MLK and Calder, you might catch a glimpse of Green as he makes his daily commute to the next job, the cargo hold on his bike filled to the brim with mowers or carpentry tools. But, he said, you probably won't catch him riding on a cold day.
"I like it much better when it's hot rather than when it's cold. I don't know. I guess it's just the working conditions," Green said. "You can do a lot more work when it's hot than when it's cold."
Plans to expand his business have been put to the side: with no vehicle, it's tough to transport the heavy equipment needed to secure big lawn contracts. But Green said prospective clients have noticed him and are taking advantage of Green's reasonable price per lawn.
"I get $20 per yard," Green said outside Pancho's. "It depends. For this one I get $25."
As he pushes his small, churning mower, Green said there are always plans to get bigger and better. For now, though, Green is content with having his own business on his own terms.
"I was talking to a guy about (mowing) Babe Zaharias," Green said. "I told him I'd have to think about that one.


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Every year, the top prospects in the NBA draft leave behind the comforts of college and head out to workout sites in Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Florida, looking for an edge that might put them in a better draft position.
Some hire basketball coaches. Others hire personal trainers. A few hire former Navy Seals. The techniques may differ from gym to gym, but the goal is the same -- to fulfill a life-long dream of playing in the NBA.
For the last decade I've taken a pre-draft tour to the top sites. I've seen the likes of Dwight Howard, Dwyane Wade, Greg Oden, Blake Griffin and a host of other, lesser-known prospects prepare for the NBA draft. This year is no different. Over the course of the next week I'll be traveling throughout the U.S. checking in on the pre-draft workouts of various prospects.
This year, the focus is going to be on a number of intriguing sleepers whose draft stock is all over the place, depending on which team you talk to. We end the trip at the Chicago pre-draft combine, where the 60 top prospects in the draft compete in a number of skill and physical challenges in front of every GM in the league.
I started the tour in Los Angeles this year. Here are the guys I got to see:
Paul George, G/F, Fresno State
If you want the upside sleeper of the first round, look no further than George. He is a 6-foot-8 wing whose silky smooth play has drawn comparisons to everyone from Tracy McGrady to Wilson Chandler.
George is closer to Chandler than McGrady at the moment, but it's clear that he's the type of player who could explode with a little coaching. He's been in the gym with former NBA big man Don MacLean for the past three weeks working on the little things that separate the good wings from the great wings. Specifically, he's working on creating his own shot -- ball handling, first step and getting separation off the dribble.
In the workout we saw, George was terrific. He showed deep range on his jump shot, exploded to the rim and had terrific quickness. Scouts have had questions about his consistency and toughness. They've also worried about his love affair with the 3-pointer. But it was also clear that he was rarely pushed at Fresno State.
In this environment, playing alongside other NBA prospects, he looked much sharper and more focused. He needs to get stronger and improve his motor (something he admitted to me when we chatted) but MacLean told me George has been a sponge since coming into the gym.
George believes he may be more of a 2-guard than a 3. Some NBA teams agree. In fact his first workout is in San Antonio on Thursday. His workout partner: Kansas shooting guard Xavier Henry.
Damion James, F, Texas
Last year at this time, nearly every NBA team had written off James. After an unimpressive combine in Chicago, James withdrew from the draft and most NBA teams penciled him as a second-rounder in 2010.
But James has been gaining momentum all year. NBA teams loved his toughness, motor and athleticism. But they questioned what position he would play in the NBA. James has worked hard on his perimeter skills and this year became a much more convincing small forward.
James was in for his first day with MacLean, but he was already in terrific shape. He's got big hands, terrific strength and attacks every drill like he's trying to kill. In one drill, during which MacLean had players moving from box to box and dunking each time they came to the rim, James nearly ripped the rim from the backboard on every play.
While James isn't going to show the skill of a player like George in this type of setting, what he does show is plenty of fire. I think it's going to be a terrific selling point for him in the draft. He could rise in a way similar to what Tyler Hansbrough did in last year's draft. You can't teach toughness, motor and NBA readiness. With so many question marks in this draft, James is one of the few guys who you know, right out of the gate, what you are and aren't getting. By June, he could end up in the late lottery.
Jerome Jordan, C, Tulsa
At the start of the 2008-09 season, we had Jordan ranked in the lottery. Jordan was coming off a terrific summer run at the LeBron James Skills Academy, and a number of NBA scouts thought they were looking at a potentially dominant big man.
However, Jordan never quite developed the way many teams thought he would. He got better, but he rarely dominated. By the midpoint of his senior season, it seemed like most NBA teams had lost interest.
I think they'll be regaining it soon. I was really impressed with Jordan in his workout. He was light on his feet, showed a soft touch around the basket and looked absolutely huge.
Jordan has measured nearly 7-1 in shoes and has a big-time, 7-5 wingspan. Size-wise, he's the real deal, which was evident watching Jarvis Varnado struggle to get his shot off against him.
Jordan's two biggest weaknesses are correctable. He only started playing seriously when he was 17 years old, missed his senior season in high school and rarely played as a freshman at Tulsa. In other words, he has a lot of room to grow as a player. He also needs to add strength, especially in his lower body. He's made some progress in that area over the course of his college career, but he needs more time in the weight room.
Of all the players I saw Monday, he was the one I walked away convinced was too low on our Big Board. There is a dearth of centers in the draft, and Jordan has too much potential to slide out of the first round. Big guys rise as we get closer to draft night, and if Jordan continues to play like he did in Los Angeles, someone is going to take a chance on him in the 20s.
Jarvis Varnado, F, Mississippi State
Varnado is easier to get your arms around. He's been the most dominant shot blocker in college basketball the past few years, and it's hard to imagine he won't continue that success at the next level.
He's an explosive athlete with a downright freaky 7-4 wingspan. He has a knack for blocking shots, is a good rebounder and plays hard on every possession. He's slowly been improving on the offensive end, but he's never going to be a dominant offensive player.
Varnado held his own in the offensive drills and even hit a couple of 3-pointers, but that's not going to be his bread and butter. He's so active defensively that he reminds me a lot of the Nuggets' Chris Andersen.
If he can convince NBA GMs he could be that type of game-changing defensive presence, he could go in the 20s.
Jordan Crawford, G, Xavier
Crawford was also in L.A. He's coming off quite a year. First he was in national headlines when he dunked on LeBron at a camp last summer, then he turned in several terrific performances for Xavier in the NCAA tournament.
Crawford is the type of undersized, explosive scorer that seems to be gaining momentum in the NBA. He has deep range on his jump shot and can also get to the basket and finish with a big-time dunk.
Crawford measured out at just over 6-4 in shoes. If he were two inches taller, NBA teams would be calling him a lottery pick. As it stands, he's an undersized scoring guard trying to fight his way into the league. The fact he has a rep as being tough to coach (something Crawford said he's put behind him, now that he realizes coaching is the only way for him to get better) has probably hurt his stock.
But when you watch him start rolling as a scorer (something he showed off in workouts Monday), it's hard to believe he's not going to catch someone's eye as a poor man's Ben Gordon. He's going to be instant offense when he gets into the game.
Ben Uzoh, G, Tulsa
I know Uzoh isn't getting a lot of love right now. Of all the top guys I saw Monday, he was the only one not invited to the Chicago pre-draft camp. But I think he has a chance to be a solid role player in the NBA. He was very good in the workout, showing elite athleticism, shooting the lights out and fighting hard on defense. His handle and decision making need some work, but he's another guy who could provide a scoring boost off the bench.
Luke Harangody, F, Notre Dame
Once again Harangody has gotten himself into great shape and has tightened up his body. I'm not sure where he'll go in the draft. Everything about him is unorthodox. His shot is ugly (but it goes in), he's undersized to be a 4 (but he cleaned up on the boards), he's not a great athlete (but scored at will in college). When I asked him to give me his comparison in the NBA, even he couldn't come up with anyone. Clearly a workout-type setting won't be ideal for him. But when you watch him go in 5-on-5, it's hard to argue with years of 20 and 10 in the Big East.


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This book focuses on the role of translation in a globalising world. It presents a series of case studies that explore the ways in which translation is subject to ideology and power play across diverging domains and genres. Broadly based on a discussion of 'translation and the economies of power', the chapters examine an array of contextual and textual factors, ranging from global, regional and institutional power relations to the linguistic, stylistic and rhetorical implications of translation decisions. The book maps the multiple ways in which power relations and ideological positions affect cross-cultural communication, with special reference to repressive practices in history, translation policies, media power and commercial hegemonies. It concludes that future translation research will benefit from a more sustained emphasis on the power of technology and economic capital.
This timely and clearly written collection of chapters explores the key role played by translation in the complex network of unequal power relationships of today's globalised world. The authors offer a range of perspectives on ethical and ideological dimensions of translation, which is never an innocent activity.- Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick and University of Glasgow, UK
This important edited collection is an invitation for translators to take their visibility and accountability seriously within the global contexts in which they work. Drawing on a number of influential theories within and outside translation and interpreting studies, the contributions demonstrate the potential of translators and interpreters to contest hegemonic discourses and practices and create alternative interactive spaces where diverse understandings of the world are expressed.- Moira Inghilleri, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Stefan Baumgarten is a Lecturer in German Language Studies at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. His current research centres on critical translation theories and the role of translation as an ideological practice.
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"?" with Jarrod Fairclough
Because Asking Questions is a Good Way to Find Out Things
Question: Why do drawings of Oscar the Grouch wear a garbage can lid hat? Part 2
Hello Muppet fans, and welcome to part 2 (technically part 3, but we won't count Katy Perry's article) of my series of articles.
...Of course none of them were from you. I totally forgot that putting your e-mail on the internet results in spammers getting ahold of it. Although, on the bright side, I did inherit $250 million from a Nigerian Prince I didn't even know, so, hey... Every cloud...
But that's cool, perhaps "?" won't be much of an audience participation segment.
I did get one e-mail from Beauregard from the Muppet Central Forums, who gave a bit of a theory which makes a fair bit of sense... Here it is, in all its copied and pasted form:
"Hello there. Beauregard here from the old Muppet Central boards. Wanted to weigh in on the scandal that is going down over at The Muppet Mindset. Oh, wait, that's a whole other e-mail... *ahem* I just wanted to send a clue regarding the dustbin-hat-wearing-Oscar. Have you noticed that the Grouchketeers all wear dustbin lids as hats? Surely they must have taken this fashion cue from somewhere, adding weight to the idea that Oscar himself may have at one time worn said lid-based item as a millinery accompaniment?
Love ya! – Beau"
Awww, thanks Beau, we love you too. Because you're the only one who e-mailed me. You're now my favorite... My favorite behind Joe Hennes from ToughPigs, because that's where this thing really got going. I managed to get Joe's e-mail and shot him a note asking if he could talk to Joe Mathieu, the illustrator I mentioned countless times in the article. And the next day, well wasn't I surprised to see an e-mail from one Mr. Mathieu, with a full on explanation, which totally made sense! So, here, please enjoy it in its copied and pasted form:
"Hi Jarrod
I love your question about Oscar the Grouch's can lid; I hope I can shed some light.
Don't forget, in the early 70's we had not seen most of the puppets legs because most of them didn't have any; Kermit and Grover had legs, Big Bird too, but Ernie and Bert, Cookie Monster and most of the rest didn't. We had to make the legs up and the early style books didn't help at all. By the way, the '73 style book didn't show Oscar's lid as a hat; I looked at the book after you asked.
As for who pictured it this way first, I am not really sure, but I don't think it was me. I have two possibilities. One is that Michael Frith, who was an early illustrator but also the art director at Random House, might have suggested it to one of the illustrators. Or two, maybe it was Mel Crawford. Crawford was one of the early illustrators who seemed to disappear after a couple of books. He drew the lid as a hat in the Sesame St. 1-2-3 Storybook (1973) on page 24, and that's the earliest one I can find. I just thought of another possibility; see if you can find a copy of the Oscar Book by Jeff Moss, illustrated by Michael Gross. This might have been the first Oscar book, but I don't know where my copy is; maybe he tried it, I don't know.
I hope this has been some help. And thanks for the kind words in your article. Cheers!
Joe Mathieu"
You know what, Joe Mathieu? That totally makes sense!
So there we go, Oscar has a hat because otherwise he'd look too religious!
I hope that's answered some questions for you, and be sure my friends that I shall be back very shortly with more questions, because asking questions is a good way to find out things!
Cheers Muppet fans,
Jarrod Fairclough
Hello Muppet fans.
I am an honorable man, willing to admit defeat when it is necessary. And today, it is so.
For the record, I wrote the above article around a week before writing this update, and I liked the above article too much to re-do it.
Tuesday this week, I was sitting at home, actually reading over my Katy Perry article from the other day, being arrogant and admiring my own work. At midday here in Australia, ABC2 plays Sesame Street. This means I don't have to be up at some ridiculous hour to watch it on ABC1. Okay, so 8:30am isn't a ridiculous time, but I like to sleep in. So I notice its 12:03, and I turn over to get myself a bit of a Sesame fix. They're playing a season 36 episode, all about the Grouchketeers and Telly learning a cheer. Episode 4094, for those of you playing at home.
Now, unfortunately I can't get a screen-cap of this, so with any luck the awesome Mr. Picture Getter himself, Ryan Dosier, may be able to rummage one up. If not, I apologize. But Oscar was wearing a garbage can lid... As a hat... I was shocked, and I audibly laughed, and tried, but failed, to find a picture of it.
So it turns out Beauregard was right! And we love him for it.
I'll see you soon, Muppet fans. I'm trying to come up with my next question as we speak...
The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier


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English: Transfer
As an English student at UCC, you'll develop valuable critical thinking and communication skills through reading, discussing, researching, and writing about literature. While you will study nonfiction works such as letters, journals, autobiographies, and essays, you will mainly focus on creative works such as poetry, short stories, plays, and novels. These works differ from typical readings in other academic disciplines since they are designed to engage the imagination while conveying important insights into human experience.
The great Roman poet Horace described literature as "dulce et utile," or "sweet and useful." In other words, the study of literature is practical in that it conveys important, often highly complex ideas about history, culture, society, philosophy, psychology, language...the list goes on. It is also enjoyable, and that is certainly one of the pleasures of majoring in English!
While the most obvious careers for English majors include teaching, writing, and editing, an English degree is remarkably versatile, opening doors into a variety of graduate programs, including law and library science. An English degree also opens doors into the professional world, including jobs in business management, public relations, publishing, journalism, advertising, sales, and many, many others.
In fact, English majors develop skills that are prized in the professional world: the ability to communicate effectively; research, analyze, and interpret complex information; write clear, strong, reasonable arguments; understand human behavior and the complex issues that surround diversity; view situations from a variety of perspectives; and creatively solve problems.
Transfer Guide
English majors are offered at University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Eastern Oregon University, Portland State University, Western Oregon University, and Southern Oregon University, and at most other colleges nationwide. You need to know the requirements of the department at the university to which you plan to transfer. You should talk with both a UCC counselor and English advisor, Dr. Jillanne Michell. Many students who major in other subjects choose to minor in English, as it is such a valuable degree.
Subjects offered at UCC for the English major include:
- Introduction to Literature
- Survey of American Literature
- Survey of English Literature
- Shakespeare
- World Literature
Residents of WA, ID, NV, and CA
If you are from Washington, Idaho, Nevada, or California, you pay Oregon resident tuition rates. That's a big discount! You might also be interested in what life is like around UCC. Find out!
Money for College
Don't miss your chance to apply for a UCC Foundation Scholarship! The application period is open now through March 5. The UCC Scholars application is combined in the same application process. Need help? Check out scholarship nights. (Feb 13 & 26)
Why UCC?
At UCC, you can earn a TWO-YEAR TRANSFER DEGREE for less than you'll pay for one year at a state university. Plus, UCC offers:
• Seamless, direct transfer degrees
• Expert faculty dedicated to teaching
• Personal attention and small class sizes
• Online classes
Prospective students should visit Advising and Career Services to get started and then see a program advisor (below) to develop a more focused educational plan.
Amy Fair - Contact
Chair, Associate Professor, English
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The Self-Realization Fellowship How To Meditate Weekly Home Study Lessons are unique among Paramahansa Yogananda's published writings in that they give his step-by-step instructions in the yoga techniques of meditation, concentration, and energization that he taught, including Kriya Yoga.
The goal of these simple yet highly effective yoga techniques is to teach you to deal directly with energy and consciousness enabling you to recharge your body with energy, to awaken the mind's unlimited power, and to experience a deepening awareness of the Divine in your life.
The How To Meditate Weekly Home Study Lessons were compiled under Paramahansa Yogananda's direction from his writings and the many classes and lectures he gave. In addition to his comprehensive instructions in meditation, the Lessons offer practical guidance for every aspect of spiritual living — how to live joyfully and successfully amidst the unceasing challenges and opportunities in this world of change.
Each lesson is 6–8 pages in length, and is meant to be studied for one week. The entire course of Lessons lasts about 3½ years.
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Meditation Techniques Offered to Followers of All Religions
Since Yoga is based on practice and experience rather than on adherence to a particular set of beliefs, followers of all religions can benefit from the spiritual teachings in the Lessons and the three basic techniques. When practiced regularly, these methods lead unfailingly to deeper levels of spiritual awareness and perception.
Kriya Yoga
After a preliminary period of study and practice of the basic techniques, students are eligible to apply for initiation in Kriya Yoga. At this time they formally establish the sacred guru-disciple relationship with Paramahansa Yogananda and his lineage of gurus.
The technique of Kriya Yoga is given in person at special initiation ceremonies, as well as sent to each initiate in a special series of printed lessons that cover every aspect of the Kriya science.
Personal Guidance and Other Services to Students
Lessons students can also receive personal guidance in their practice at any time, free of charge, from experienced meditation counselors of the Self-Realization Fellowship Monastic Order, by contacting the international headquarters.
In addition, students can attend classes on the techniques of meditation conducted periodically by SRF monastics all over the world. (These classes are open only to Lessons students.)
Students also receive special letters of inspiration and encouragement from the SRF president throughout the year, as well as newsletters and other publications from Self-Realization Fellowship.
Cost and Timing
The How To Meditate Weekly Home Study Lessons are divided into six steps of thirty lessons each, and two lessons are mailed every other week. It takes about 3½ years to receive all of them. All of the basic meditation techniques that are preparatory to Kriya Yoga are mailed during the first 6 months.
It was Paramahansa Yogananda's wish that the Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons be easily available to all who sincerely desire to know God. To this end, the Lessons have always been offered for only a nominal fee to help cover printing and postage costs — currently about 70 cents per lesson. Full details and subscription/mailing plans are outlined on the Lessons application form, available here.


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A stylish escape to Mallorca
A stylish escape to Mallorca
2015-06-10 - To celebrate the launch of the Bugaboo Buffalo Escape, we hosted a competition to send two lucky families on a escape with their very own all-terrain stroller. Alyssa and Shane Yuhas together with their two year-old son Sasha, were shipped-off from Toronto, Canada to the picturesque island of Mallorca.
How do you integrate travelling into your family's life?
"Travelling is important to us, because we really want Sasha (our 2 year old son) to learn not only from books but also through experience. Travelling is such an amazing way to get out of your comfort zone and learn from other cultures and people. We want our family to explore, ask questions and experience new things – not only travelling abroad but during our daily lives!"
What do you love about escaping to Mallorca?
"We loved escaping to the island, because of the beautiful landscapes and history of the small towns. Shane and I would often look at each other and say, 'is this even real?' As the scenery felt like a backdrop, it was so picturesque. We always love exploring, eating and documenting our trips in a fun way, so we felt incredibly inspired being in Mallorca. Plus, there were so many other families visiting the island and everywhere we went (for nice dinners, etc) they were incredibly accommodating and welcoming of our son, Sasha."
How has having a child changed or enhanced your life?
"Having a child has changed our life in so many ways. It's made us slow down, and really savour the little things. He's made our world new again, and parts of our life or tradition that had become routine, have a new sense of magic about them. We get to see the world through his eyes."
How has this stroller allowed you get around easily?
"We love the 5 point, one-click harness which allows us to easily get Sasha in and out of the stroller. When he is sleeping and we want to transfer him into his own bed, the harness easily releases in one click and we don't have to struggle to get him out of the stroller. We also LOVE the extended canopy. This is ideal for when he is napping in his stroller or when it's really sunny. We also love how it has a spacious underseat basket and can handle a lot of weight (idea for when we get groceries!).
I could go on and on..."
And what about day-to-day?
"Living in Toronto we don't own a vehicle, which means we rely on our stroller to get groceries, navigate transit and carry any items we need for a day out. We can easily get around the city with everything we need and Sasha loves it!"
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Next Episode of Michael Bentine's Potty Time is
not planed. TV Show was canceled.
Michael Bentine's Potty Time was a children's comedy sketch series which aired on ITV in the United Kingdom. The Pottys were little puppets whose legs were usually hidden by their costumes and they interacted with Michael Bentine. The episodes in the first series only lasted for about 12 minutes. The remainder of the episodes lasted for about 22 minutes.
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So far this season Trufant, Browner, and Sherman were the only Seahawk cornerbacks to get playing time on defense. At this point, the suspensions seem all but inevitable, but we don't know when they may be in effect. There's a lot of inexperience in the depth of or secondary, which leads me to ask:
Do you think Jeremy Lane and Byron Maxwell are going to see the field on defense at all this Sunday?


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Zassi Medical Evolutions Spins out Electrical Stimulation Technology for Gastrointestinal Continence Control and Forms New Company with Technology Investment Firm
Jan 12, 2010, 06:00 ET
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Zassi Medical Evolutions, a privately held organization that innovates, designs and develops high technology medical devices and software announced today that it has successfully spun out and formed a new company with Tucson, Arizona based Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) to pursue the continued development of a novel electrical stimulation technology for the gastrointestinal continence control market.
The new company called Leto Medical, will employ an innovative electrical stimulation technology along with proprietary, single use disposables to restore continence control to individuals with colostomies for six to 12 hours per day during which time, they will not have to wear an ostomy pouch.
A colostomy is created when an individual's colon and/or rectum is partially or completely removed or bypassed and the remaining healthy portion of the intestine is brought through the abdominal wall, forming what is referred to as a stoma. Ostomy surgery leaves the individual incontinent and primarily reliant on ostomy bags for waste management. Leto Medical's use of electrical stimulation technology to treat colostomy related incontinence, although unique, is following one of the fastest moving trends in the medical device industry today – the use of electrical and neuro stimulation to treat a wide variety of chronic conditions. Having been used in cardiac pacing for decades, electrical stimulation is now being clinically tested as a treatment for ailments such as chronic pain, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, gastroparesis and obesity.
"The market for ostomy supplies is estimated at nearly $2 billion annually and growing at over 4% per annum, and we believe that this market of consumers is desperate for an elegant and more discrete alternative than having to wear bulky bags and/or belts 24 hours of the day," said Peter M. von Dyck, CEO of Zassi Medical Evolutions and a founding board member of Leto Medical. "We are proud to have partnered with RCT on this important new application as they are a seasoned technology investment firm with a longstanding and successful track record of working and funding new promising technologies that can materially evolve the life sciences."
Chris Martin of RCT states, "We are pleased to be a part of this disruptive, game-changing technology to improve the lives of individuals with colostomies and to be working with such a talented group of people."
RCT is a Tucson-based technology investment and management company that provides early-stage funding and development for promising biomedical companies and technologies. RCT focuses on technology investments with origins from universities and research institutions worldwide. To learn more, see www.rctech.com.
Zassi Medical Evolutions, LLC, is a medical device innovation company specializing in the innovation & development of breakthrough medical device related technologies and software. To learn more, see www.zassimedical.com
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Surveying the Terrain at the RISD Museum's "American View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now"
A visually compelling, conceptually provocative consideration of the photographic medium, American View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now is anything but the kind of straightforward overview such a title suggests. Showcasing works drawn primarily from the Rhode Island School of Design's rich photography collection, American View shifts deftly between and among periods and styles and, in so doing, illuminates the ever-evolving relationship between landscape and photographic image. Upon entering the[…..]


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Hi from Hamburg, I am spending the weekend in this urban town. I (among others) fell in love with this silky acne shirt.. the cut and style is genious. I will wear it gently, I promise.
It took me a while to find the perfect white nail polish but I now swear by the american apparel one. They have 3 different shades of white. I bough them all, cos sometimes I want to be cream and sometimes I need dusty white. Today I wore the cotton one.


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Hilary Rosenberg
Class of 2014
Major/Minor: English / French
Campus Involvement
- Peer Mentor
- Varsity Softball team member
- Presidential Fellow
- Alpha Chi Omega member
- WAC Cultural Ambassadors
Hometown: Sweetwater, New Jersey
What do you do for a campus job or work study?
I am the Leadership Intern for the Office of Student Activities and a Peer Mentor.
How has WC changed your life? Or, what does WC mean to you?
I cannot imagine the person I would be without WC. As cliché as that sounds, WC (more affectionately called WAC) has shaped me into the person I am today. It has introduced me to new and exciting opportunities that have challenged me to grow as a person. WAC provides a welcoming environment, which consequently encourages that kind of maturing.
What is your Sunday habit?
If I don't have a mountain of homework to do (if so, I'd be bumping in Club Miller, aka the Miller Library), I would probably just be hanging out with friends.
Why did you choose your major?
In high school, I was blessed with some incredible English teachers that encouraged me to pursue English. I love the subjectivity of English as well; it simultaneously allows for creative process and critical thinking.


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The principles set forth herein, and internal office procedures adopted pursuant hereto, are intended solely for the guidance of attorneys for the government. They are not intended to, do not, and may not be relied upon to create a right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a party to litigation with the United States, including criminal defendants, targets or subjects of criminal investigations, witnesses in criminal or civil cases (including civil law enforcement proceedings), or plaintiffs or defendants in civil investigations or litigation; or any other person, whether or not a party to litigation with the United States, or their counsel; and shall not be a basis for dismissing criminal or civil charges or proceedings or for excluding relevant evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding. Nor are any limitations placed on otherwise lawful litigative prerogatives of the Department of Justice as a result of this part.


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Special Bed Bug Program at the Museum of the City of New York
If you live in New York, don't miss next week's panel discussion at the Museum of the City of New York. Entitled Plague! Bed Bugs: Myths and Realities, it will feature some wonderful people - Renee Corea (author of the fantastic New York vs. Bedbugs weblog), Lou Sorkin, of the American Museum of Natural History, City Council Member Gale Brewer, David Cain of Bed Bugs Ltd and more.
I had the pleasure to meet with Renee Corea and Lou Sorkin on my last visit to New York, and I would gladly listen to anything they have to say about the bedbug crisis affecting New York. Council Member Brewer has also been one of the most active voices in the city when it comes to the bedbug fight.
Reservations are required - you can call 917-492-3395 or e-mail the museum at [email protected] The cost is $6 for museum members; $8 for seniors and students, and $12 non-members, but the Museum has been kind enough to offer a discount price of $6 if you mention the Bed Bug Registry when you make your reservation.
I really wish I could attend this talk, and hope that any of you in NYC will take this opportunity in my place. If you want to hear informed and expert voices about bedbugs in New York City, this is the best group of people you could hope to assemble.


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Navy UAS kicks off flight testing as Northrop finally offers to trim ops costs for USAF Global Hawk
As Northrop Grumman battles to save its high-flying Global Hawk unmanned aircraft franchise from Air Force termination, the aircraft's newer and more robust cousin, the Navy-sponsored Triton maritime surveillance aircraft, has begun flight testing.
The Triton's May 22 first flight not only breathes some life into Northrop's turbulent Global Hawk efforts—and possible hope for foreign sales—it marks progress in the Navy's quest to open up new sea-going roles for unmanned aircraft. The MQ-4C Triton, which is slated to enter service in 2015, took to the skies only days after the historic catapult launch of the tailless, stealthy X-47B from a Navy aircraft carrier deck. Once fielded in fiscal 2016, Triton will be the first Navy UAS to replace a mission currently handled by a manned system, says Capt. Jim Hoke, the Navy's Triton program manager.
After launching from Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, Calif., facility the 80-min. flight took place in restricted airspace near Edwards AFB, Calif. It was the first of up to nine envelope-expansion missions that will pave the way for more extensive systems flight trials at NAS Patuxent River, Md. The flight, though five months later than planned at the MQ-4C's unveiling last June, marks progress toward the Navy's maritime patrol modernization goal.
The two-pronged initiative, geared toward longer-range overwater surveillance as part of the renewed strategic focus on the Asia-Pacific region, will see the service's aging P-3 fleet replaced by a combination of 117 Boeing P-8As, based on the company's 737, and 68 land-based MQ-4Cs.
The most advanced variant of Northrop's Global Hawk, the MQ-4C, has been in development since 2008 under the $1.16 billion Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program. The Navy plans to buy 70 aircraft, including two test vehicles, for $13 billion.
The first flight is a timely boost for Northrop Grumman, which is fighting the premature termination of the U.S. Air Force's RQ-4B variant owing to cost and sensor performance issues. Germany has also announced it will not proceed with its €508 million ($655 million) EuroHawk project to outfit Global Hawk with an indigenous signals intelligence suite, due to worries over certifying the aircraft in national airspace; Berlin has one aircraft and does not intend to buy four more.
Triton's first flight coincides with support from Australia, which has requested information on the system's cost, capability and availability. As a P-8 partner that is expected to order at least eight P-8s in 2014, Canberra is eyeing a maritime patrol architecture similar to Washington's. Australia intends to replace its Lockheed AP-3Cs with P-8As, but is considering the MQ-4C for the AIR 7000 Phase 1B program. India, another likely P-8 customer, has also expressed interest in Triton.
The Navy hopes to field the first three Tritons—an early operational capability—to the 5th Fleet in the Arabian Gulf in fiscal 2016. Initial operational capability is slated when the fourth arrives there. The second batch is slated for operations in Asia and the Pacific. The third is going to the Mediterranean region, says Rear Adm. Sean Buck, who command's the Navy's patrol and reconnaissance group.
SDD-1, the first of two developmental Tritons, will be joined by SDD-2 in 2-3 months says Mike Mackey, Northrop's Triton deputy program director. A third developmental MQ-4C, company-funded, will join the pair at Pax River early next year for electromagnetic interference testing. Flights during the first phase will be every 7-10 days with the duration of each gradually increasing to about 12 hr.
Issues with the aircraft's integrated mission management computer and flight-control surfaces delayed the first-flight milestone. "We took a regimented and strong systems-engineering approach," says Mackey. Vibration testing also revealed a potential coupled flutter issue in a particular "corner" of the planned flight envelope. Northrop is adding a counterbalance to the V-tail ruddervaters, Mackey says. Due to the MQ-4C's mission profile, it must be capable of flying at lower altitudes than the Air Force's Global Hawk.
In parallel, the heart of the Triton—its Multifunction Active Sensor (MFAS) radar—is flying on a Gulfstream 2 surrogate for risk reduction. Hoke says the sensor work is ahead of plan, thanks to added testing during the five-month vehicle delay. The two test vehicles are slated to be outfitted with MFAS sensors early next year in advance of flight trials at Pax River. Meanwhile, the aircraft's sophisticated suite of surveillance and communications sensors will be represented in the flight tests initially by weights.
The MFAS is designed for maritime detection, tracking and classification using maritime search, inverse synthetic aperture (ISAR) and SAR modes. To assist with target identification, the MQ-4C will also carry the Automatic Identification System, which provides information received from VHF broadcasts on maritime vessel movements around the world.
Low-rate production is set to start for Triton in fiscal 2015, a year later than planned. This has exposed Northrop to a potential production gap, as the Air Force is adamantly opposed to buying more Global Hawks and plans to mothball those now in service. Congress, however, is pushing the service to buy three more (Nos. 19-21), even though operations are not funded beyond fiscal 2014. One Air Force officer complained that this $500 million could be better spent on keeping flying squadrons—now grounded due to funding cuts—airborne. USAF still has two Block 30 Global Hawks, optimized for imagery collection, and two more Block 40s, outfitted with ground surveillance radars, to be delivered, says William Hancock, a service spokesman.
Northrop, desperate to keep the franchise alive, has offered the Air Force a fixed-price deal to reduce the Block 30's operating cost—a sore spot for service leadership—and replace the subpar Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite, made by Raytheon, with the U-2's imager. The proposal includes a fixed price for 10 years of contractor logistics support with a presumed cost-per-flight-hour reduction of 40%.
"We understand the debate is around the need to reduce the operating and support cost, and the need in particular [of] operational requirements for increased range and resolution," says Tom Vice, president of Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. In a report to Congress, the Air Force says the flying-hour cost for the U-2, which Global Hawk was to replace, and the UAS are "roughly equal" at $33,564. But, "cost is not the factor," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh told lawmakers. Combatant commanders prefer the quality of the U-2's most recent Senior-Year Electro-Optical System (Syers) camera, made by Goodrich. Some also still insist on a need for Optical Bar Camera (OBC) images using wet film. This system is most often used for treaty verification because the images can be more easily shared with allies.
Air Force testers noted problems with the EISS imaging system two years ago during the Block 30's operational testing period, but the service still accepted it into the fleet. Only months later, amid funding cuts, the Air Force opted to remove Block 30 purchases from their budget (AW&ST Feb. 26, 2012, p. 34). This year, the service has also walked away from the Block 40.
Vice says Northrop will integrate the Syers-2B version on the Global Hawk for 6% of the Air Force's estimated cost of an $855 million bill to upgrade the Raytheon sensor to specifications. An Air Force report cites the cost of integrating Syers-2B and OBC onto Global Hawk as $487 million.
The Air Force report, however, calls for pulling these cameras from U-2s for integration, which is unlikely to sit well with commanders who use them daily. And, the belly-mounted SAR has to be removed from Global Hawk to accommodate the U-2 sensors.
The Air Force said the proposal is "too little, too late" as the service has struggled to contain Global Hawk cost for years, owing to shifts in requirements, deployment plans and developmental challenges.
Navy officials assert that they are proceeding well with the Triton effort, which intends to follow a methodical process. In a fervor to support the war efforts, USAF developed a complex upgrade plan that ultimately delivered a capability that has not been accepted by combatant commanders.
"One of the advantages we've had is being able to follow the Air Force in the Global Hawk program and take on many lessons learned from the challenges they faced," Hoke says.
|MQ-4C Triton
|Total program cost: $13 billion
|Planned inventory: 70
|Unit cost (including development): $189 million
|Powerplant: Rolls-Royce AE3007H
|Wingspan: 130.9 ft.
|Length: 47.6 ft.
|Height: 15.4 ft.
|GTOW: 32,250 lb.
|Max. Internal Payload: 3,200 lb.
|Max. External Payload: 2,400 lb.
|Average Cruising Altitude: 56,500 ft.
|Average Cruising Velocity: 331 kt.
|Endurance: 24 hr.
|RQ-4B Global Hawk(Blocks 30 and 40)
|Total program cost: $10 billion
|Planned inventory: 45*
|Unit cost (including development): $222.7 million
|Powerplant: Rolls-Royce AE3007H
|Wingspan: 130.9 ft.
|Length: 47.6 ft.
|Height: 15.4 ft.
|GTOW: 32,250 lb.
|Max. Internal Payload: 3,000 lb.
|Max. External Payload: not used by USAF
|Average Cruising Altitude: 55,000 ft.
|Average Cruising Velocity: 310 kt
|Endurance: 30 hr.
|Sources: Northrop Grumman, Government Accountability Office and USAF


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President Fillmore issued this proclamation following the arrest and subsequent rescue by a mob of fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins in Boston on February 15, 1851. The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by congress on September 18, 1850, as part of a compromise allowing California to enter the Union as a free state and ending the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The act made the federal government responsible for tracking down and apprehending slaves who had escaped to the northern states. Boston authorities did not come to the aid of the federal marshals when a mob broke into the courtroom and rescued Shadrach. In this proclamation, President Fillmore commands "all officers, civil and military," to aid and assist the "Marshal and his Deputies in recapturing the above named persons." He also compels the arrest and prosecution of all the people who helped in Shadrach's escape.
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The REMEDY 92 provides tough thrill: it is made for high to very high-level female skiers. Its large waist ensures perfect flotation. Its tapered tip and tail give it great agility in curves. Its Triaxial Braid construction makes it a powerful, technical and fast ski. In powder snow it provides unprecedented gliding sensation close to that of surfing. Its All Terrain rocker makes it versatile enough to manage different snow qualities while maintaining a high general level of performance. The REMEDY 92 has it all: it is maneuverable, precise, quick and stable.
- Core: pine/poplar
- Tapered tip and tail
- Skin Grommets : All the Adventure skis are provided with a hole at both ends. The holes are covered, and can be opened simply with a flat-head screw, for use in ski touring. They are primarily designed for the installation of skins, but can also be used in the manufacture of a rescue sledge in backcountry, and also for marking support points in the snow.
- All Terrain Rocker: This Rocker has been developed to be used in all snow conditions. The raised tip improves performance on variable and soft snow and facilitates the release curve, while the camber underfoot provides power, energy and edge grip on hard snow needed.
- Twintech Sidewall: This specific construction for Twin Tip skis improves the life of sides. A traditional side creates an angle of 90 degrees to the junction with the topsheet. Twin Tech construction actually gets the topsheet in the side, reducing the angle of grip on this sensitive area.
- Triaxial Braid: This patented process consists o surrounding the nucleus of woven glass fiber to increase the torsional stiffness and increase control. Triaxial braiding was developed by K2 engineers in 1988. It consists in sending a prepared wooden core to the triaxial braiding machine where glass fiber strips tangle around the core. Skis with triaxial fiber have great power and snap but are easy to use for both high-end and entry-level skis.
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The MARKER F12 TOUR EPF is a manoeuvrable and reliable ski-touring binding designed for the skier looking for performance both uphill and downhill.
This super-robust binding allows quick turns on steep descents, which makes it perfect for those who want more power in difficult terrain. Thanks to the resistance of the EPF frame, you can control the wider touring skis on any terrain. The improved power transfer makes it easy to control energy in all snow conditions.
If you want easy access in touring mode to the best corridors and then be able to rush at the descent by taking advantage of the flotation of your fat skis, then the F12 TOUR EPF is what you need!
- DIN adjustment: 4 to 12
- Standing height without ski: 36mm
- EPF - Extended Power frame: The power booster. The new power frame, exclusively designed for the new Duke EPF, delivers breath-taking performance and amazing power transfer in every condition. Recommended for skis over 88 mm.
- Backcountry Technology : The uphill hiking mode integrated in the Duke binding features easy adjustment from Ride to Hike. The climbing bar offers a 7° and 13° position. During the descent, the BCT lever is protected from unwanted releases. A 40 mm backward movement of the binding in BC mode results in better-balanced and easier kick turns
- AFD Stainless Steel : All MARKER bindings are equipped with a moveable AFD (anti friction device) leading to a highly precise release almost entirely unhindered by dirt, snow and ice! Adjustment of the AFD to the area of application ensures perfect functionality - from racing, for children's bindings or on ski tours.
- Triple Pivot Light toe piece : The newly designed, compact toe features a horizontally inserted spring. Together with the gliding plate, the gliding elements integrated into the sole holders ensure a very precise release behaviour, which is comparable to all other MARKER bindings. Why should touring and freestyle skiers have to compromise? An aluminium bridge on the top provides additional support without adding any extra weight.
- Hollow Linkage heelpiece: The heel was also completely redesigned from the ground up to optimise retention for all types of alpine and touring soles. The aluminium hollow axle saves on weight and maximises the torsional stiffness. This very robust heel construction is best suited for the most strenuous of requirements.
- Weight of the pair: 2150g in S and 2180g in L
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K2 was founded in 1961 by brothers Bill and Don Kirschner on Vashon Island, near Seattle, USA.
K2 is known for their pioneering fiberglass ski technology, which made their skis significantly lighter and more responsive than their contemporaries who were using metal and wood.
The #1 manufacturer in the United States, this unique American brand is known for its innovative products that offer a range of wide and new-school skis usually with rocker tips.
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The Lone Ranger is a bloated spectacle whose running time can't end soon enough.
The movie's main selling point — perhaps its very reason for being — is that it comes from the team behind "Pirates of the Caribbean." But even if this weren't beaten to death in every piece of its marketing, it wouldn't take moviegoers long to catch on.
Just like Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow, his Tonto is an offbeat nomad. They both wear eyeliner, bandanas and braids and beads in their hair. Sparrow clings to a seemingly useless compass; Tonto clings to a seemingly useless pocket watch. If somebody at Disney didn't misguidedly think The Lone Ranger still had some sort of name recognition among that elusive young-male demographic, they might as well have called it Tonto of the Caribbean.
But if it comes from the team behind Pirates — Depp, director Gore Verbinski, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (who share credit here with Snitch's Justin Haythe) — it also comes from the team behind its progressively worse sequels. (Only Verbinski didn't return for the dreadful On Stranger Tides.)
The Lone Ranger continues their cycle of diminishing returns.
Tonto and fancy East Coast lawyer John Reid (Armie Hammer) meet on a train bound for Colby, Texas, in 1869. Reid is studying John Locke amid a gaggle of singing Presbyterians; Tonto is chained next to the dastardly Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner). The two reluctantly join forces during an escape pulled off by Cavendish's bland band of outlaws.
Reid doesn't believe in guns. Well, presumably he believes they exist, just not in using them. But he's soon deputized as a Texas Ranger by his revered older brother Dan (James Badge Dale) before setting off in his shiny new white hat as part of an eight-member posse to bring Cavendish to justice.
As for what happens next, for you spoilerphobes out there, let's just say there's a reason the movie isn't called The Eight Rangers.
Following an ambush, a white "spirit horse" shows up and decides, much to Tonto's disbelief, that John, not his heroic brother, is destined to be a "spirit walker" who will be brought back from the other side.
From there, the mismatched duo sets off in search of Cavendish — Reid, for what he did to Dan, and Tonto for the atrocities Cavendish committed against the Comanches 26 years earlier.
There are plenty of departures along the way. Political shenanigans involving a greedy railroad man (Tom Wilkinson). Dan's always-in-peril widow (Ruth Wilson) and son (Bryant Prince). A shady cavalry officer (Barry Pepper). Helena Bonham Carter even turns up as a one-legged madame because, after appearing together in five previous movies, she and Depp are practically a package deal.
Depp gives the role of Tonto his quirky best, forever "feeding" the dead crow he wears as a hat, among other eccentricities. But that only goes so far.
He's one of my absolute favorite people in Hollywood. Heck, we were born in the same relatively small hospital. But after his overreliance on misfits and oddballs, it would be so refreshing to see Depp as a regular, 21st century guy. In something other than The Tourist.
Hammer does what he can with the underwritten role of Reid, ever-so-slowly transitioning from nervous fussbudget to legendary hero. But for long stretches, he's little more than a bystander in his own story.
And the movie's framing device — an elderly Tonto tells his story to an inquisitive young visitor (Mason Cook) at a Wild West Exhibition in 1933 San Francisco — is not only unnecessary, it proves a distraction as the numerous cutaways disrupt whatever flow The Lone Ranger manages to muster.
All the familiar hallmarks are accounted for. The mask. The silver bullet. Kemosabe. The six-shooters that only need reloading in those rare instances when the plot dictates.
Unlike Man of Steel, this summer's other too-long origin story of a 1930s action hero, at least The Lone Ranger remembered to use its iconic music.
And seeing a big-screen Western full of horses, trains and spectacular vistas never gets old. Even if this particular Western treats those trains the way the Fast and Furious franchise treats cars: with little respect or knowledge of physics.
But with a reported budget of $250 million, The Lone Ranger ultimately feels like an extravagant noise in search of an audience.
Although if you were a fan of Pirates but felt that Sparrow fellow had a bit too much charisma, it just may be the diversion for you.


text: Many Mexican families are tuned into news from Washington and whether Congress will change immigration laws. For years, families on both sides of the border have lived apart, with Mexicans in the US without papers afraid of visiting home and then being unable to cross back. But new laws could change this. From the public radio collaboration Fronteras Desk, Jude Joffe-Block reports from Mexico about families hoping for long-awaited reunions. It's a typical Sunday in the town of Tepeapulco, in Mexico's central highlands. Families gather, cook and catch up. And that's the scene at Santiago Domínguez's home. At 82-years-old, he's the family patriarch. He's wearing pressed slacks, his dark hair smoothed back. By lunchtime, he's surrounded by relatives. But one person's always missing: Rosa, Domínguez's daughter. In the living room, there's a picture of her as a young woman. "I thought she'd only be gone three or four years–and then come back," Domínguez said in Spanish. But it's been 18 years since Rosa left for Arizona with her two young sons. They went illegally to join the boys' father there. She's now 43 and has never returned to Mexico. Without papers, it's just too risky. "It got to the point that I told her, 'You know, I'm not sure if we'll see each other again,'" Domínguez said. But now they might. A proposed Senate bill would allow millions of immigrants who entered the US illegally to apply for provisional status and the chance to work legally and travel internationally. "There's hope like never before," Domínguez said. And it's a feeling felt throughout Mexico. A few towns over, Catalina Cervera knocks on a neighbor's gate to visit the house next door–the one her younger sister, Sandra, abandoned. Cervera's sister left Mexico with her young children about 10 years ago. They crossed into Arizona illegally, picked produce, and now live near Phoenix. "They've taken the door, the windows," Cervera said in Spanish as she stood in front of her sister's house. Since her sister's been gone, thieves have stripped her house clean, even the roof. It's a cinder block skeleton. Cervera said she and her sister feel impotencia, powerlessness–they want to see each other, but can't. Her sister couldn't visit when their mother was dying. And a few years ago, Cervera couldn't get a tourist visa to see her sister in Arizona. Cervera said she lacked what's needed for a US visa: things like a bank account, a business, or a credit card. But now she can envision her sister–and her sister's kids–visiting Mexico again. "They are motivated with the dream that this immigration reform is going to happen," Cervera said of her relatives in Arizona. But as Congress debates the legislation, the wait continues. Back in Tepeapulco, Domínguez's tradition is to sing to his daughter a famous ballad over the phone. It's called "Sin Ti" or Without You. "What else matters if being far from you makes me cry," he sang. Over a 1,000 miles away, in Arizona, his daughter Rosa has become an activist for immigration reform. She asks to only use her first name because of her unauthorized status. "I want this to happen now, because our parents' lives won't wait," Rosa said in Spanish. And if reform does happen and she can travel to Mexico freely one day? She said she'll surprise her dad with a mariachi band. And they'll play that ballad he's sung to her for the last 18 years.