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Eixample is Catalan for ´extension´, meaning an extension of the old Barcelona city. Eixample was designed by Catalan-born urban planning visionary, Ildefons Cerdà, who took traffic and sunlight (amongst many other things) into consideration when creating the plans for this new district.Eixample is now characterised by its octagonal blocks and its grid-like pattern, with wide streets and both commercial and residential areas. It is split into two parts, Eixample Esquerra (Left, or in Spanish, Izquierdo) and Eixample Dret (Right, or in Spanish, Derecho), both of which are home to some fantastic restaurants and stores.Eixample Izquierdo is delimited by the grand, Passeig de Gràcia, a paradise for shopping and dining, and Plaça d´Espanya, where the Montjuïc Magic Fountain and one of the biggest convention centres in Barcelona can be found. The Parc de Joan Miró, with its iconic ´Woman and Bird´ sculpture created by the Barcelona-born artist, is also situated here, as well as the Arenas shopping centre, which was once a bull-fighting ring.An apartment in Eixample Izquierdo is a great choice for your stay in Barcelona, due to its unbeatable public transportation services and its location, close to some of the best sights and attractions in Barcelona.


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Bluegrass concert opens summer lineup
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There's no shortage of entertainment this year at the Marion County Park and Lake.
The KBA Treblemakers and the Alfred Packer Memorial String band will be at the 6th annual "Bluegrass At the Lake" two-day concert event, held at the county lake beach area. It is free to the public. There also will be an open stage from 6 to 8:30 p.m. June 14 and 4 to 6 p.m. June 15. The best performance will win the $100 grand prize. The Marion County Firefighters Association will provide concessions.
MOPS Run
The 2013 MOPS of Marion 5th annual Run For Your Momma will be Aug. 10 at the Marion County Lake. The half-marathon and relay starts at 6:30 a.m. The 5K Fun Run/Walk starts at 8 a.m. Registration and sign-in start one hour prior to each race time at the lake hall.
This year's event features energy drinks at every stop, bigger medals, and more prize money.
For age and registration information, see http://www.run4yourmomma.com.
Other upcoming events
Paddle Boat Races will be at 10 a.m. Aug. 10.
The 7th annual Chili Cook-off is from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 5.
The Midwest Polka Club Dance will be from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 19.
For more information on these events, contact the lake office (620)382-3240.

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Window from the east end of Bruton Parish Church. Williamsburg, Virginia, 1751. Yellow pine, putty, and iron. OH: 85."
Architectural Fragments and Models
Door from Bowling Green Farm. Caroline County, Virginia, ca. 1780. Yellow pine, iron, and leather. OH: 71 1/4"; OW: 32 1/2."
Gift of Steve Nicklin, The Bowling Green Farm
Stair bracket probably from a house designed by William Kent (1685-1748) at Old Burlington Street, London. London, England, ca. 1730. European softwood, probably pine. OH: 6 1/8"; OW: 18."
Gift of Jeannette B. Lenygon
Raleigh Tavern Model. America, possibly Williamsburg, Virginia, 1930-1950. Paper, pasteboard, and paint. 10 5/16" x: 3 11/16" x 5 3/16".
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The Foundation's architectural collection includes approximately 15,000 fragments taken from structures that range in date from the 17th to the 21st century. Most were removed to ensure their survival when they became too fragile to remain in situ. Others came as salvage materials retrieved when early buildings were razed. While the collection is largely based on materials from Williamsburg, it also includes elements from the eastern United States, the Caribbean, and Western Europe.
Architectural fragments from greater Williamsburg informed the early restoration efforts for the town and they still do so today. In recent years the collection provided everything from paint colors to molding profiles for the reconstructions of Richard Charlton's Coffeehouse and James Anderson's Public Armoury. It also produced data for the accurate paint palette now used on reconstructed buildings in Williamsburg's Historic Area.
Collectively the building fragments contribute to our understanding of the built environment in early America. Those pieces falling outside the 18th century provide context for changing tastes and technologies.
The architectural collection contains models as well, most focused on Colonial Williamsburg buildings. Used for design, study, and aesthetic purposes, the models include the Raleigh Tavern, Robertson's Windmill, the Governor's Palace, the Wren Building at the College of William and Mary, the Williamsburg Lodge, and the Historic Area, among others.
Books about Colonial Williamsburg Architectural Fragments
- The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and University of North Carolina Press, ISBN: 978-0-8078-3577-7, $60 cloth, plus shipping, handling, and sales tax where applicable. Available March 2013.)


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Carrie Underwood will star in two new VH1 specials this fall, she revealed on the network's Big Morning Buzz talk show in New York City on Wednesday (Aug. 15). Underwood's VH1 Unplugged will premiere on Oct. 2. In addition, her episode of Behind the Music will debut in the fall. Underwood said her mother, husband Mike Fisher and some of her childhood friends were interviewed for the special. Watch the announcement below.
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
July 7 - Acacius of Sinai, Monastic, Humble, Obedient
Acacius of Sinai was a novice at an Asian monastery of Christians. As a novice his daily routine varied remarkably little from day to day and afforded him many excellent opportunities to pray and consider what God's will might be in his life. Daily he was given a chance to struggle with the question of calling and whether or not he was one of the ones called to take vows before God. At any time, Acacius could have quit and walked away from the novitiate and any potential vows he may or may not feel called to make before his brothers and sisters as well as God. He attended both the regular prayer services of the monastery and the special classes given only to novices as they did their holy work of discernment. Furthermore, he labored as he was directed to do so by the elder in charge of his novitiate. It is the lot of novices to be obedient to their elder until either the day they take permanent vows of obedience to God and their leaders and resign their will or the day they withdraw from the novitiate and regain their own will as one not called to religious service and devotion in the ways of the monastery. But, Acacius was obedient to an elder who was especially good at making novices want to leave the monastery and abandon any pretenses of calling.
The elder would regularly impose fasts upon Acacius that went beyond those prescribed by the abbot and the other leaders of the Church. Acacius did as he was instructed to do because he understood the elder's work to be a holy one that was designed to drive Acacius closer to God. The elder would beat and punish Acacius for perceived wrongs and even the slightest of errors but Acacius would accept his punishment gladly and would thank the elder after the whipping and humiliation. With each wound he received at the hand of his elder, Acacius understood himself to be learning the humble path of devotion to the meek Lord he loved.The elder forced Acacius to work longer and harder in more challenging conditions than any other novice at the monastery even to the point of exhaustion and breakdown. But until he was physically unable to do as he was ordered, he continued to be obedient to his elder's instruction. Even after he had been broken down, he still tried to continue. Acacius felt called to a religious vocation but the elder prolonged his novitiate for many years. Because the elder spoke with the authority of the Church, Acacius obeyed as if it was Jesus himself who commanded him. After nine years of ruthless discipline and little food from the elder and furious and complete obedience on the part of Acacius, Acacius died of exhaustion and was buried in a nearby cemetery.
The elder told the tragedy to a friend and brother of his who was, also, a guide and teacher of novices and the second elder refused to believe that Acacius had died. He had been repeatedly impressed with the loyalty and obedience of Acacius whenever he visited and noticed again and again with surprise that Acacius had not yet taken his vows. So, the elder of Acacius took his friend to the grave of Acacius to confirm the tragic story he told. The friend was amazed but asked something laid upon his heart,"Brother Acacius, are you really dead?" The elder of Acacius must have thought his friend was out of his mind with grief to be talking to a dead man and so he contemplated what he might say to ease the man's grief at the death of the most obedient novice either had ever known. But,then, something amazing happened:
"No, father," the voice of dead Acacius began as it rose from the grave below their feet, "surely it is not possible that an obedient man could ever truly die." The two elders were shocked--one had not known what to expect in response to his question and the other had expected nothing and heard something amazing. The elder of Acacius fell to his knees in tears and begged Acacius to forgive him for his harsh treatment and ruthless punishments. The elders who had been given charge over instructing novices in the path that leads to God were instructed that day on the nature of eternal life and obedience by a novice who never professed vows before God and his brothers and sisters. Acacius had passed from this world but the faith he shared with the elders and his many brothers and sisters insisted that death could not claim the obedient and life was the inheritance of the humble.
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I love a good movie trailer. It's all drama and intrigue, panning shots and portentious voice-overs, with some exciting music underneath. Who knows if the movie will be good? And in the middle of a good trailer, who cares?
And so, I love this supercut by SleepySkunk, which combines a crapload of trailers from the year in film into one megatrailer. Bonus: It starts out with "Pruit Igoe" by Philip Glass, which many of you may recognize from that amazing first trailer (and eventual soundtrack) for Grand Theft Auto IV.
What was the best movie you saw in 2012? Are there still some you've been meaning to see? I still haven't seen Argo, Wreck-It Ralph, Looper… the list goes on. I did manage to see Skyfall, though. It was pretty good.
Talk movies, or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good chatting, see you tomorrow.


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by Tom Utescher
The field hockey squad at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy is one of the few teams at the school that hasn't been impacted by the extensive renovation of the outdoors athletic facilities. The sticksters' habitual pitch, located behind the Vare Field House, is one of the few fields that was not reduced to dirt over the summer.
Of course, the 2012 team will have to adjust to the usual personnel changes that come with a new academic year. The Lions lost five seniors from last year's roster, including Ashlee Hale, a three-year starter in goal who signed with West Chester University, and Libbie Maine, the SCH recipient of the Girls Inter-Ac League Athletic Directors' Award.
The SCH franchise is under new leadership this fall; incoming coaches Megan Cipolloni and Jenny Weir are both 2011 graduates of Virginia's Lynchburg College. Cipolloni, who taught at Norwood Fontbonne Academy last year, is a Germantown Academy alum ('07) who went on to play at Lynchburg. There, she became a teammate of Weir, a native Virginian who was named the All-State College Division Player of the Year as a senior.
Obviously, Cipilloni is familiar with the Girls Inter-Ac League, in which the Lions finished 2-10 last fall thanks to a home/away sweep of Baldwin School.
This season, the candidates to replace Hale in goal are last year's JV keeper, senior Alexis Berry, and a freshman, Laura Lasprogada. The team tri-captains are back Chelsea Richardson, midfielder Taylor Wrubel, and Cassie Dunne. Dunne, a Norwood Fontbonne Academy graduate, will miss the early portion of the season due to an injury she received playing ice hockey.
The other seniors on the squad are forward Jacky Willits and mid Jackie Gansky.
Last week in Springside Chestnut Hill's first scrimmage, juniors Anna Kuo and Morgan Schneer started at forward and back, respectively, while sophomore Allie Billock joined the forward line and fellow 10th-grader Alyssa Fairman bolstered the defense.
Three freshman earned starting roles in the practice game: Remi Filippini and Madi Saltzman in the midfield and Mikaela Watson on defense.
The Lions will also be able to bring in experienced players off the bench, including junior Charlotte Cilio and sophomores Neema Herbert and Carlin Rode.
Friends Central was the Lions' opponent in last week's opening scrimmage, and their first three official games were also scheduled against teams from the Friends Schools League. This Tuesday (Sept. 4) SCH hosts familiar rival Germantown Friends, and the following afternoon the Lions will face a revealing test when they cross the Schuylkill to play Shipley School, the four-time defending champion in the FSL.


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Motion control is the simultaneous control of acceleration, velocity, and position for performing a useful task. The critical concept in this statement is that all three variables — acceleration, velocity, and position — are under control. A review of some basic electrohydraulic designs will help pave the way to understanding the concepts of motion control. Two conventional hydraulic circuits will be used to illustrate the point: discrete, or so-called bang-bang directional control, and open-loop proportional control.
These two circuits will lead us to an ultimate solution: the electrohydraulic positional servomechanism. It will be shown that when the electrohydraulic servo is properly designed — and the control system is suited to the task — the result is a true motion control system meeting the divergent goals of increasing machine productivity and product quality, while reducing overall production costs.
Hydraulic system designers should realize early in the design process that a power unit providing constant pressure to the control valve is best suited to the motion control task. The ISO symbol for a constant pressure source, along with a plot of its behavior, is shown in Figure 1. A real-world constant-pressure source is shown schematically in Figure 2. It normally consists of a pressure-compensated pump augmented by large accumulators to accommodate the sudden flow demands of a servo or proportional valve and a check valve to prevent the pump from having to cross over center in order to absorb any flow that might otherwise be forced back into the pump.
Figure 2 also shows the pressure-flow characteristics of a conventional pressure-compensated pump. At low pressure, it behaves as a fixed-displacement pump, delivering nearly constant flow, neglecting internal leakage. When pressure reaches the knee value, PK, the pump's pressure compensator becomes active, and the displacement automatically decreases with rising pressure. Thus, at pressures above PK, the pressure-compensated pump acts very nearly as a constant-pressure source. It certainly is safe to deadhead this pump with closed-center valves without danger of overpressurization.
Discrete control
In a conventional electrohydraulic control system, Figure 3, a simple, solenoid-operated directional control valve can operate in only three discrete states: centered (off), shifted to the right to route flow in one direction, or shifted to the left to route flow in the opposite direction.
To understand the problems, imagine that limit switch LS1 in Figure 3 is closed, the right-hand solenoid is energized, and the cylinder is moving the load to the right at a speed determined by the supply pressure and the valve flow coefficients. At some point, the load engages the limit switch, which causes the directional valve to center and thus block all ports. The load will decelerate rapidly, subject to its mass, the cylinder's size, and how quickly the control valve shifts. Severe shock and vibration can occur before the load actually stops, especially if the load mass is great.
In the event of large shocks, machine members experience high stress levels that can shorten their lives. Very high pressure peaks — or spikes as they are frequently called - also will occur. These pressure peaks can overstress the hydraulic components, including the cylinder tube and seals, leading to premature leakage and failures. The external vibration can move the entire machine, putting mechanical stresses on the plumbing, which can lead to fitting failure.
In the oscillatory stopping process, the frequency of the vibration can be measured if one has force, pressure or speed sensors whose outputs can be displayed on an oscillographic recording instrument. With the recording, the frequency of the vibration can be measured. This frequency is called the hydromechanical resonant frequency (HMRF), and can be calculated using any of several methods. (Space limitations prohibit discussing HMRF in detail, but for more information on this important topic, see this article from the author.)
The potential for self-destruction is probably the biggest shortcoming of the discrete control system. However, poor repeatability of the stopping point can also be a serious drawback. When system designers use a limit switch to initiate deceleration, they normally do it because the application needs to stop the load at some predictable and controlled position. Unfortunately, in the discrete system, several random effects cause considerable variation in the ultimate stopping point. The actual stopping time is a complex function of:
- magnitude of the load's mass,
- shift time of the valve,
- timing of the land shut-off within the valve,
- valve internal leakage,
- cylinder internal leakage,
- friction in the cylinder and load,
- fluid viscosity, and
- scan time of the digital controller (PLC) if used.
AC solenoids produce valve shift times that are affected by the instant within the AC power line 60- or 50-Hz sine wave when switching takes place. The random variation in shift time of the valve will be at least the time of one-half a line cycle (8.3 msec in the 60-Hz system or 10 msec in the 50-Hz system). This adds to the normal random variations in the valve shift time.
Load and cylinder friction also contribute random variations. These are affected by system temperature, as is the viscosity of the process fluid, which imposes its own variations into the stopping time. If a digital controller is used, the random variation in stopping time will be at least equal to one full scan interval. The slower the digital controller, the greater the variation. The net result is that when the system of Figure 3 is tested for repeatability, the actual stopping point will vary considerably from trial to trial.
Proportional control
Figure 4 shows the second step toward motion control, which uses a proportional valve instead of the discrete directional valve. As with Figure 2, the schematic diagram is not complete, rather, it is intended only to point out the obvious advantages of using proportional rather than on-off control. Note that the cylinder is outfitted with a position sensor that measures the position of the piston relative to the cylinder tube. The sensor works full-time — it is always sending an analog output signal to the controller.
The controller is depicted as a digital device into which a deceleration point can be entered, probably by means of a conventional keyboard. Being a digital device, it can give its attention to only one item or task at any given instant. That is, when it "looks at" the deceleration set point, it cannot be looking at the position sensor output. There must necessarily be a time lag between these two events. Additionally, the PLC probably has many other tasks that will divide its attention, such as monitoring and controlling temperature, reservoir level, and more. The resulting delay is the scan time of the controller, and it dictates how well the system performs.
Thus, we see that each of the tasks is actually serviced at regular intervals. The total time lag between the instant when one task — say monitoring the position sensor output and the instant when it does so again - is the total scan time. Furthermore, the instant when an event occurs will not be synchronous with the instant that the controller actually looks and sees the event. This results in random variation in the stopping point.
Continuing around the loop of Figure 4, note that the output of the controller consists of the start-stop signal, which is generated based on a comparison between the deceleration setpoint and the actual position from the position sensor. Also note that the start-stop signal from the controller is not connected directly to the valve solenoids. Rather, it is connected through the ramp generator.
The ramp generator is a common option on many proportional valve amplifiers. It ramps up the output until it equals the command voltage if the command input goes to a high level. Without the ramp, the amplifier output would jump up almost as quickly as the command signal from the controller. But with the ramp generator, even if the command is a step (as shown in the figure), the output is a signal to the valve coil that changes slowly. This prevents the spool from suddenly jumping to a proportional position. Instead, the spool slowly opens or closes, giving a considerable degree of acceleration control.
The ramp circuit is outfitted with trim pots to allow the user to adjust the rate at which the output changes, thus controlling the rate at which the valve spool shifts. This constitutes a vital improvement over the on-off control offered in the discrete directional system because the shocks are significantly reduced. Furthermore, the adjustability of the ramps gives the user immediate feedback as to the effectiveness of the adjustments.
A case in point
In a typical operational scenario, imagine that the start command has been given, the valve spool has ramped to a proportional position, and the cylinder is extending at some desired speed. Now suppose that the position sensor puts out a signal of, say, 1 V for every inch of travel away from the cap end of the cylinder, and that the deceleration setpoint is set to 6 V. We then expect that the deceleration will be initiated when the cylinder extends to 6 in. This is the progression of events:
In the early parts of the cycle, the cylinder will be at a position less than the 6 in. — 6 V from the position sensor. Next, the controller obtains the position signal and compares it to the deceleration setpoint. Because the setpoint is greater than the feedback signal, the controller issue a high output, commanding the valve to be open.
The piston continues extending and eventually will reach a position of 6.0000 in. Assuming perfect calibration, the position sensor will be generating 6.0000 V. Unfortunately, the controller will not be looking at the position sensor at that instant - the likelihood is very nearly zero. Instead, it will look only after the cylinder has over-traveled slightly. The amount of overtravel depends on the PLC scan time and the piston velocity at the instant the scan takes place.
At any rate, the position feedback sensor output eventually will exceed the deceleration setpoint value, and the controller will get around to scanning the sensor. The comparison will be made and judged to have resulted in over-travel, and the controller will issue a stop command.
The stop command merely means that the command will go to zero within a few milliseconds, perhaps even within a few microseconds of detection. But because of the ramp generators, the valve will not center quickly. Instead, it brings the cylinder to smooth and gentle stop. This will have been an effective means for controlling shock and vibration. And to some extent, it will have overcome the challenges from having a low hydromechanical resonant frequency.
The next step: motion control
Clearly, the proportional valve control method can tame a wild machine axis. However, the system as presented thus far is not perfect. The most serious deficiency is the uncertainty as to where the cylinder and load will eventually stop. There is no means to back up should there be overtravel. Therefore, almost all the random factors that affect the stopping point of the discrete directional system will be visited upon this, the proportional system.
A system that is proportional for its shock control, but also monitors and controls position on a full-time basis, is called the electrohydraulic positional servomechanism. It possesses all the desirable characteristics for effective motion control, but because it is a bona-fide feedback control system, it introduces its own set of challenges. However, when properly designed and tuned, this system provides the ultimate solution to the most demanding motion control application challenges.
The positional servomechanism is normally considered a positioning system. However, when the concept of profiling is superimposed, the result is motion control - total control of the machine. To be successful, motion control must have three things designed into it:
- a command motion profile
- sufficient power to manage the load at the required speeds, and
- sufficient closed-loop bandwidth to meet accuracy and stability requirements.
The motion-control profile is crucial to the motion control system, and represents the most significant contribution of the digital computer to the motion-control process. The profile is the means by which acceleration, velocity, and position are controlled simultaneously. Profiles are very easily generated by a digital computer (motion controller card or circuit board), and are formulated at design time to determine the peak speeds that must be attained by the actuator based on a stated productivity rate.
In determining these peak speeds, we must first collect data on the productivity needs of the application. For example, suppose the application requires stamping out 30 packets of paper plates per minute. Immediately, we know that the cycle rate is 12 cycle per second. Further, if we are given that cylinder stroke must be, say, 4 in., and that the cylinder must remain extended for 0.5 sec, then we know that the actuator must fully extend and retract within 1.5 sec. We can add some reasonable acceleration times, plus take into account that the cylinder does not naturally want to retract as fast as it extends. (Yes, this statement is correct for the valve-controlled cylinder.) To compensate for this, we can rob a few milliseconds from the extension time and give it to the retraction time. This allows us to reach conclusions about the maximum speed needed in order to achieve the required productivity rate.
This example leads us to the conclusion that the peak extend speed will have to be about 10 in./sec. Once we are given the maximum thrust force, we can design for a given supply pressure, which makes it possible to completely size the critical components in the system. Our example introduces the idea of a motion profile, which is a means of defining the speed, acceleration, and position of the cylinder and load at any instant within each cycle and throughout each and every cycle for the entire life of the machine.
The relationship between acceleration, velocity, and position - which are drawn against a common time axis - is illustrated in Figure 5. Newton revealed through the calculus that:
- velocity is the integral of acceleration
- position is the integral of velocity
- velocity is the derivative of position, and
- acceleration is the derivative of velocity.
Even if you never studied calculus (see box below), these are mathematical facts of our physical world. What they mean to the motion control system designer is that specifying any one of these three parameters for all time automatically specifies the other two as well. This is because of their undeniable relationship to each other — they are all integrals or derivatives of each other.
This relationship makes it possible to achieve the simultaneous control of acceleration, velocity, and position, even though the final system closes the loop with position feedback only. It works like this: The position profile, the plot at the bottom of Figure 5, is the actual command to the motion-control servomechanism. The slope of the position profile represents the velocity of the output at each and every instant in time. The slope of the velocity profile is the acceleration profile, which is actually carried in the curvature of the position profile. So the designer controls acceleration by controlling the curvature of the position command profile.
The final result is this: For merely having fed the position command profile to the motion control servo axis, all three dynamic variables are implicit in that profile. Furthermore, designing a servo axis that faithfully follows the command profile, controls all three parameters. This is the sum and substance on modern motion control philosophy.
At design time, the design methodology recommends that the entire motion control profile, acceleration, velocity, and position, be synthesized based on productivity and other motion needs. In contrast, at commissioning time the programmer of a dedicated motion controller card may only specify that the motion must go from, say, position x to position y with maximum speed of v and maximum acceleration of a. The digital motion controller interprets these as instructions, then generates the actual profile commands on the fly. Consequently, the programmer may never see the entire profile itself.
Calculus simplified
Simple algebra defines the slope of any line as the difference between two points on the y axis divided by the difference between two points on the x axis. Because the y axis represents position, the difference between two points is distance. Likewise, the x axis represents time, so the difference between two points is the time it took to travel the respective distance.
So the slope of a line plotted as position versus time is distance travelled divided by time travelled, which, by definition, is velocity. Likewise, the slope of velocity is acceleration. Calculus simply extends this concept further by calculating slope of a line or curve at any instant by breaking it into infinitely small steps instead of at one place.
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Perhaps Gov. Tom Corbett will get lucky. Maybe the bungled launch of the Healthcare.gov website will cause federal regulators to accept state alternatives to the Obamacare Medicaid plan for the sake of boosting enrollment, no matter how bad the state plan.
But even if the feds approve the many waivers from federal requirements sought by the governor, Pennsylvanians wouldn't begin to realize his plan's marginal benefits until 2015. Meanwhile, beginning Jan. 1 when the new health care law takes effect, the governor's refusal to readily expand health care access will cost Pennsylvania $10 million a day in direct federal benefits and related economic activity, according to several separate studies.
Under Obamacare, the federal government pays 100 percent of the cost for three years, and 90 percent of the cost thereafter, of expanding Medicaid to cover low-income workers who earn too much for conventional Medicaid but not enough to buy their own insurance. It's a great deal that has been embraced by several other Republican governors, including Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. Thus, substantial federal benefits to cover low-income workers and ensure payment to health care providers will begin flowing into New Jersey this week, but not into Pennsylvania.
Rather than accepting the straightforward federal proposal, Mr. Corbett has concocted a complex hybrid that needlessly would funnel federal money through private insurers while contradicting the very purpose of the federal initiative. It would impose significant premiums on enrollees, even though the federal plan was created to help people who can't afford premiums. It also would require proof that unemployed enrollees are seeking work, even though the Labor Department says there are 2.9 available workers for every available job.
Failure to expand Medicaid also contributes to rising premiums for covered Pennsylvanians, because the costs of treating uninsured people are rolled into hospitals' and doctors' costs that show up in insurance rates.
Federal regulators recently rejected an Iowa plan that had a premium structure similar to that proposed by Mr. Corbett.
As of Jan. 1, about 2 million Americans who did not have health care will be covered through Medicaid, despite the problems with the Affordable Care Act launch. None of them will be Pennsylvanians.
State lawmakers should move aggressively to correct Mr. Corbett's wayward diagnosis so that as many Pennsylvanians as possible gain access to health care and the state economy gains from the resulting increased economic activity.


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Trojans build on power
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Baseball is different from other sports; its practices feature a unique cadence.
Among the thwack of balls landing in leather gloves and light ping of a bat connecting for grounders, there were plenty of juvenile jokes flying through the air at the Hillsboro High School baseball practice on Thursday.
Seniors Kale Arnold and Josh Davidson were both manning first base during a drill. It involved pitchers sprinting from the mound to field throws from the first baseman receiving grounders. Anytime a Hillsboro pitcher muffed a toss, Arnold would remark, "You shouldn't have eaten that popcorn. Everyone has butter in their gloves."
The drill also involved prospective outfielders running to first to simulate the bang-bang play. One of those outfielders was Caleb Bettles. After one round of the drill, head coach Doug Dick asked Bettles if he was running at 100 percent.
"It was about 98.5," Bettles responded.
"Not 99, not 98.6, 98.5," Arnold reflected.
Dick stopped the drill for a moment to enjoy this colorful quote from one of his players.
"Ninety-eight point five, is that a radio station Bettles?" Dick said.
"That's the quote of the year," Davidson remarked.
There is a flipside to the lighthearted nature of the game. The reason Dick accepts this silliness is because confidence is an important component of the game.
Any player, no matter how athletically gifted, can suffer a slump at the plate or in the field. Part of the coach's job is to make sure players are not thinking too much, to get them out of their own heads.
One example of this was senior Lucas Sinclair last season. Dick said Sinclair's work ethic never wavered last season yet he struggled at the plate.
One change this year is that Sinclair should have a solid place on the diamond. He was a pitcher, catcher, infielder, and outfielder last season. At this point in early practices, Dick does not have another catcher he would trust behind the plate to start the season. He said it is a position Sinclair has grown to love.
"That's part of being a catcher, you have to like it because you will take some abuse," Dick said. "He's filling the role he has to play."
With an established position, Dick hopes Sinclair will take comfort in the field and apply it at the plate.
Comfort is a part of establishing confidence. This is the second year Aaron Stepanek will serve as an assistant coach for the Trojans. Dick said he will give Stepanek more freedom to work with players on his own.
The Trojans should take comfort that they have a team that fits the mold of historic Hillsboro clubs with power hitting and pitching. The foundation of the lineup is seniors Nathan Unruh and Arnold in the middle of the order with Sinclair possibly hitting in front of them in the three or two hole.
Unruh developed into a doubles machine last year, blasting line drives to all fields. He will again man third base for the Trojans.
"I think he'll just keep getting better," Dick said.
Arnold's work with the bat nearly matched his prowess on the mound as one of Hillsboro's RBI producers. Whenever he is not pitching, he will play first base.
Dick hopes to have Arnold pitching as often as his arm will allow. Arnold developed into Hillsboro's clear ace last year with a dynamic fastball, curve ball selection and a workhorse mentality — he tended to get stronger as games dipped into later innings.
Three newcomers should round out Hillsboro's pitching staff. Davidson is one of the new hurlers. When not on the mound, Davidson could play first or one of the corner outfield spots. His strength could be an asset in the Hillsboro lineup.
"He's a good kid," Dick said.
Freshmen Austin Cross and Dylan Nelson are two intriguing prospects. Cross uses exceptional height, at about 6-foot-4, to create velocity and movement on his pitches. Cross could also see time at first, in the outfield, or at shortstop.
"He's not built like a freshman," Dick said.
Nelson has a tendency to sprinkle at bats with more off speed deliveries. Dick said Nelson has shined in summer league performances. Nelson is another outfield candidate.
The Trojans have two established outfielders with sophomores Micah Allen and Jakob Hanschu, either of whom could play center field. In limited playing time last year, both players showed prowess with the bat and the glove. Hanschu is an intriguing player for Dick with the ability to pitch and play second and short.
Other outfielders battling for a starting position are sophomores Josh Funk and Bettles and freshman Jonah Wiles.
Up the middle, the Trojans are starting with a deficit. Last year's starting shortstop Cody Delk is out for the season with an arm injury. The likely player to take over at short is Jordan Faul. Like Sinclair, Faul struggled with the stick last season after a strong freshman campaign.
Dick is looking for a bounce back season from the junior infielder. He does not worry much about Faul in the field. Faul makes up for a lack of lateral quickness by playing smooth, efficiently getting to the ball and transitioning from glove to hand to release a throw.
David Dick is the likely candidate to start at second base, a position he played often last season. The sophomore infielder is one of many players who could lead off for the Trojans, including Faul, Hanschu, Allen, and Funk.
"We're not going to be blessed with overall team speed," Dick said.
With a small roster, 13 players, the Trojans will have to be diverse as a team, especially in case of injury.
The Trojans begin the season March 28 at Little River. It will be a tough opening test with the Redskins' unnerving modified softball field, which often features a wind blowing out to outfield.
The first home contest will be with Nickerson on April 2. One opponent Dick has circled on the calendar is Pratt. The Greenbacks went to the 4A state tournament last season.
"Anybody in our league is beatable, sweepable on some nights, or we can get swept," Dick said. "We have to come with our best in these games."
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Jets win finale against Flames on Postma's first goal
Considering that Winnipeg Jets goalie Michael Hutchinson spent most of this season in the ECHL and AHL, he sure looked like an NHL player against the host Calgary Flames.
Paul Postma scored the winning goal, and Hutchinson made 35 saves, including 18 in a perfect third period, as the Jets hung on for a 5-3 win on Friday night.
"Especially with where I started at the start of the year, I didn't think it would be possible to be in the NHL," said Hutchinson, who played in Winnipeg's final three games and went 2-1 with a 1.64 goals-against average and .943 save percentage.
Postma broke a 3-3 tie at 9:16 of the third, ripping a slap shot past Karri Ramo from the blue line.
"There was a lot of traffic in front of the net, and I just wanted to get it through," Postma said. "I took a shot, kept it low and it found a way into the back of the net."
It then fell upon Hutchinson to preserve the lead as the Flames buzzed around the Jets end, outshooting Winnipeg 14-1 before Blake Wheeler put the game away with an empty-net goal.
"I definitely had a lot of work in the third period, but at the same time, our guys played hard in front and blocked a lot of shots," the 24-year-old Hutchison said. "When your guys are working that hard in front of you, it gives you that added incentive to bear down and make those saves."
One of Hutchinson's biggest stops came with four minutes left when he threw out his glove to stab a shot from Kenny Agostino, who came in alone.
"Hutch played so well for us these last three games," Postma said. "He's got a bright future ahead of him, and we're looking forward to playing with him."
Michael Frolik, Evander Kane, Carl Klingberg, also scored for Winnipeg (37-35-10).
It was the final game of the season for the Jets, who failed to make the playoffs for the seventh straight season — dating to the team's days in Atlanta.
Jiri Hudler, Sean Monahan and Kris Russell scored for Calgary, which had its four-game winning streak snapped.
"We didn't get the start that we wanted, but by the middle of the second period after those two power-play goals, it seemed like the momentum shifted and we had a great third period," Flames coach Bob Hartley said. "The boys were on a mission, they wanted that win for the fans but unfortunately we couldn't get it done."
It was Calgary's final game at the Saddledome, where the Flames went 19-19-3.
Calgary has played in 49 one-goal games (25-18-7), tying the NHL record set by Florida in the 2010-11 season.
"We've really tried to establish a work ethic and an identity of being one of the hardest-working teams in the league," Flames center Matt Stajan said. "We have a lot of work ahead of us. No one is satisfied in here."
Down 3-1 halfway through the second, the Flames got a great chance to get back in the game when they received a two-man advantage for 1:31. Mark Stuart put the Jets down two men when he caught Hudler in the face with a high stick.
Although just 1-for-9 with a two-man advantage coming into the game, Calgary took full advantage this time.
At 11:46, Monahan continued his impressive season by scoring his 22nd goal. It is the most goals for a Flames rookie since the 1989-90 season when Paul Ranheim had 26 and Sergei Makarov had 24.
Just 24 seconds later, Russell whipped a wrist shot past Hutchinson from 40 feet out to tie it.
The Flames cut into a 2-0 deficit on Hudler's redirection 1:04 into the second period.
Winnipeg restored its two-goal cushion at 8:48 when Klingberg curled out from behind the net and wrapped in his first NHL goal.
The Jets scored the only two goals of the first period.
The opening goal at 7:23 came off a bad bounce. Frolik's rising shot was going well wide of the net when it hit Calgary defenseman TJ Brodie in the chest and caromed past unsuspecting goalie Karri Ramo.
The second goal was much nicer. Bryan Little left a nifty drop pass for Kane, who ripped a wrist shot from the top of the circle into the top corner.
"I never ever put a lot of stock into the last games when you're out, except if they quit on each other, if they just say `It's fine,'" Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice said. "They didn't quit and there was nothing on the line."
Ramo had 22 saves but he fell to 17-14-4.
NOTES: Rookie Jets D Jacob Trouba left the game halfway through the first period after a shot from Paul Byron hit his own stick blade and struck him in the face. He didn't return. … Calgary C Mike Cammalleri (virus) didn't play. … Maurice went 18-12-5 after taking over as Winnipeg coach on Jan. 12. … The Flames signed Hobey Baker winner Johnny Gaudreau and his Boston College linemate Bill Arnold. Both will join the team for practice Saturday in Vancouver and will be in the lineup against the Canucks on Sunday.


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Chapter 2: Depression in Adolescents [9:35]
Adolescent depression can go undiagnosed when mistaken for typical teen behaviors. Emily and Hart tell their stories.
Transcript: Chapter 2 - Depression in Adolescents
NARRATION: (EMMA DRIVING) For Emma, the onset of her depression was not tied to a single event. Her symptoms unfolded early, beginning at age eleven.
EMMA: (VO, EMMA DRIVING) I started feeling kind of lonely and just separate from the other kids.
EMMA: (OC) I thought all my friends were feeling the same way, that it was just kind of a part of life and that I was just weak because I couldn't deal with it,
NARRATION: (EMMA WALKING) The onset of clinical depression most typically presents itself between the ages of 15 to 34, but the disease is often missed in adolescence because it can be mistaken for normal teenage behavior.
EMMA: (VO, EMMA WALKING) I mean, they talk about on those depression surveys, "Have you lost interest in things you used to enjoy?" And I never really understood that
EMMA: (OC) because I didn't remember ever enjoying anything.
EMMA: (VO, TREES SWIRLING) It's, like the dementors in Harry Potter, how they kind of suck all the happiness out of you, and they suck all your good memories-
EMMA: (VO, FROZEN GROUND) it's like the world goes cold.
DR. MYRNA WEISSMAN: (VO, EMMA SITTING BY WATER) when we're talking about clinical depression, we mean depression that goes on for several weeks in which the symptoms happen almost every single day. So what are these symptoms? There's feeling sad and blue, feeling guilty, feeling hopeless and helpless,
MYRNA WEISSMAN: (OC) having problems of sleeping and eating and feeling life is just not worth living.
JULIE SCHUMACKER: (OC) You imagine as a parent that it would never happen to your kid. Here we are,
JULIE SCHUMACKER: (VO, PARIS FAMILY PHOTO) an intact family, no divorce, no history of depression.
NARRATION: (PARIS FAMILY PHOTO) Emma masked behavior she herself did not understand.
EMMA: (VO, PARIS FAMILY PHOTO) I don't know how much
EMMA: (OC, EMMA SITTING WITH FAMILY) I necessarily, like, lied to them, necessarily, like, before things started getting really bad. I just wasn't completely honest. Like, I started getting depressed in, like, fifth grade.
EMMA: (VO, EMMA 5TH GRADE PHOTO) And I didn't say anything until I was about to be a sophomore in high school.
LARRY: (VO, EMMA 5TH GRADE PHOTO) The signs that you would look for, like, doing bad in school
LARRY: (VO, FAMILY PHOTO) or being isolated, the stuff you would read in a textbook, we didn't see anything like that. It was just--
LARRY: (OC, DAD SITTING WITH FAMILY) On the surface, everything was doing great. And then it was like a meteorite just smashed into our house.
EMMA: (OC, EMMA SITTING WITH FAMILY) I was really good at playing the role that I felt like I was supposed to play.
LARRY: (OC, DAD SITTING WITH FAMILY) So that's the trap I think parents could fall into, which is, we have such high expectations of our kids.
LARRY: (VO, CU OF EMMA) The kids meet those expectations
LARRY: (OC, DAD SITTING WITH FAMILY) outwardly, even while they're crumbling inwardly.
NARRATION: (EMMA LOOKING AT PHOTO ALBUM) As time went on, Emma's symptoms escalated. To the outside world, she was just a teenager acting out.
EMMA: (VO, EMMA LOOKING AT PHOTO ALBUM) I started drinking. That kind of got a little bit out of hand. My friends
EMMA: (OC) told me that I was drinking too much and they told me to try to stop drinking. And I found that it wasn't easy to stop drinking so I started smoking pot a lot.
EMMA: (VO, EMMA LOOKING AT PHOTO ALBUM) I was, gonna take a bottle of Tylenol and slit my wrists or something along those lines, But instead, I-- I was, like, no, no, you have to do something about this
EMMA: (OC) And I basically went downstairs and told my dad. Like, I was just, like, "I want to kill myself." And he was kind of, like, trying to talk to me, like, "Well, what's going on," you know, "Why do you feel so sad?" And I just started screaming and crying and I just fell over onto the floor. And he picked me up, kind of, like, holding me up so I wouldn't drag on the floor...(inaudible) "What did you take? What did you take?" And I was, like, "I didn't take anything." Like, "This is me sober." Like-- I mean, he still thinks I was high that night when we talked. But I was just so horribly depressed.
NARRATION: (EMMA TIME-LAPSE ON STAIRS) This was a turning point. Emma's parents sought psychiatric help, supported by medication. When those therapies failed, they resorted to inpatient hospitalization.
EMMA: (VO, EMMA WALKING UP STAIRS) While I was in treatment, I was mad at the counselors for something. And I was screaming and, you know, throwing a temper tantrum on the floor,
EMMA: (OC) And the staff, like, dragged me into the living room and I tried to strangle myself with my sweatshirt cords. And the staff had me to hold for, like, the rest of the night. And I attacked several staff members and-- I just-- I mean, I don't really even remember it.
NARRATION: (PHOTO OF EMMA) When treatment at the local hospital failed, the family felt they had no other recourse, but to send Emma away to a specialized residential facility.
LARRY: (VO, PHOTO OF EMMA) I think the hardest part was, um, when we were just kind of hitting a wall and Emma had been hospitalized several times, uh,
LARRY: (OC) coming to the conclusion that we had to look at other options. And we spent, uh, some time working with a national educational consultant, looking at different residential programs. And for a parent, that was one of the hardest things imaginable, to think that the person you love so much
LARRY: (VO, CU OF EMMA) and that you were so devoted to was someone that you could not really care for anymore.
JULIE: (VO, CU OF LARRY) And to send her away when she was ill,
JULIE: (OC) you know, that-- That was the worst thing, to drop your child off in another state when you think her life is in danger, and to drive away. It's nearly impossible to do. It was-- it was, um-- But we also felt like it was the only chance we had left. We had tried everything else.
NARRATION: (ALARM CLOCK RINGS, HART LIPTON TURNS OFF) Unlike Emma, some cases of depression can be so severe that they are impossible to miss. Hart Liptons's world began to close in on him in sixth grade.
HART LIPTON: (VO, HART LIPTON IN BED) For me it was going to sleep, just locking myself in my room. I just felt like there was no escape. It was like--
HART LIPTON: (OC) a black hole, like, once you come in there, you just can't come back out, just blackness.
NARRATION: (HART LIPTON IN BED) In time, Hart's depression spiraled even deeper.
NARRATION: (WENDY LIPTON IN ART STUDIO) Although he was under the close watch of his parents, he became afraid that he might end his life and asked to be taken to a hospital.
WENDY LIPTON: (VO, WENDY LIPTON IN ART STUDIO) My husband made a surreally slow motion trip to a hospital following the ambulance that was carrying him. The lights were quietly flashing but there was no siren. My perfect child seemed to want to sacrifice himself.
WENDY LIPTON: (VO, WENDY LIPTON IN ART STUDIO) I brought these two kids into the world and for one of them
WENDY LIPTON: (OC) To not enjoy life, to be tired of life itself, and to not want to participate in life is-- nothing else even matters. That's-- It's the saddest thing that I could ever hear.
NARRATION: (LIPTON FAMILY WALKING IN FLAT IRON RANGE) Hart Lipton suffers from bipolar illness, a disorder related to depression or unipolar depression. Bipolar illness manifests itself in a variety of ways and is characterized by moods, which can swing dramatically between depression and euphoria or between depression and a more intense irritable state.
ELLEN LIEBENLUFT: (VO, LIPTON FAMILY WALKING IN FLAT IRON RANGE) Bipolar disorder is one of the most heritable psychiatric illnesses. And in fact, bipolar disorder
ELLEN LIEBENLUFT: (OC) is what we call more heritable than is unipolar depression, okay? So the genetic part of bipolar disorder is particularly strong.
NARRATION: (HART LIPTON PLAYING VIDEO GAMES) Multiple conflicting symptoms in Hart made his diagnosis especially challenging. He displayed signs of attention deficit disorder, which his doctor suggested might be contributing to his depression.
JOSH LIPTON: (VO, HART LIPTON PLAYING VIDEO GAMES) Teenage and adolescent behaviors are complex and scary and defiant.
JOSH LIPTON: (OC) But there was a point, which kind of we had to accept that he was really starting to be in pain.
NARRATION: (HART LIPTON PLAYING BASKETBALL) Hart began therapy and was put on an anti-depressant. He was also given medication for attention deficit disorder, which made his depression worse and was discontinued.
Hart, seeking relief, turned to cutting.
HART LIPTON: (VO, HART LIPTON'S WRIST) You can see my wrists. They've been cut too.
HART LIPTON: (OC) I tried it. Some people get a kick out of it. Hurting yourself, you feel this pain and you don't feel this pain so much.
NARRATION: (HART LIPTON WITH CLASSMATES) By ninth grade, Hart's self-destructive behaviors forced his parents to monitor his every move.
WENDY LIPTON: (VO, HART LIPTON WITH CLASSMATES) They just have to be kept safe and you have to take away anything that could be used to hurt themselves - knives, medicine, all those kinds of things. And I think in a way it feels very regressive, almost like
WENDY LIPTON: (OC) you're never gonna have your independence again.
JOSH LIPTON: (VO, JOSH LIPTON PLAYING PIANO) And you would sit, you know, like all day, you would just be wondering, are you gonna
JOSH LIPTON: (OC) hear from him that he's suicidal that day? Is he-- Actually, you know, talk to your son about, is he feeling like hurting himself.
NARRATION: (JOSH LIPTON PLAYING PIANO) The Lipton family put their life on hold, watching and waiting. They knew the threat of adolescent suicide was very real.
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Miss AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY on The Colbert Report? See it here.
We have just over a week to go and we've already doubled our initial ask! Do we still need funds? Definitely. Any additional contributions go towards finishing costs and important things like subtitling, which will only help Weiwei's story reach a wider, global audience. Forty-three days into Weiwei's detention by Chinese authorities, he was granted his first family visit. Yet this only raises more questions than it answers, as his location and the charges against him remain a mystery, and his access to legal counsel completely denied. It's important that we continue to tell people about Weiwei. Funding this film is a way to achieve this end.
On the morning of April 3rd Ai Weiwei was detained at Beijing Capital Airport by customs police while traveling to Hong Kong. His Beijing studio was raided. His wife, Lu Qing, and eight assistants were taken into the local police station for questioning. Five of Weiwei's associates remain missing. On May 15th, 43 days after Weiwei disappeared into police custody, Lu Qing was allowed to visit him at an undisclosed location in Beijing. There still are no formal charges against Weiwei, but he continues to be held by police.
These above events have dramatically changed the context of my film's production and release, but here is my original Kickstarter pitch ::
Two years, seven countries and eleven cities later, I know Ai Weiwei. He is the ultimate prankster: simultaneously an international art star and a "dissident artist" in the Western press, with tens of thousands of Chinese netizens following him online and the government keeping almost constant tabs on him.
I have over 200 hours of footage (some of it viewable here) that includes never-before-seen interviews with Weiwei's family, friends and fellow artists, and chronicles his preparation for major museum shows at the Haus der Kunst and Tate Modern, and a public sculpture work for New York's Central Park. The two years I spent filming him really mark his rise to international renown, both for his art and his online activism. He is probably the fiercest and loudest internal critic of China, yet somehow he is not in jail.
Weiwei's story is extraordinary, but I need your help bringing it to the world.
To date I have invested my own money and earned critical support from Agnes Gund, the Henry Luce Foundation and Hazen-Polsky Foundation. But, making a feature-length documentary is no small task. I'm working with a top-notch team including editor Jen Fineran, composer Ilan Isakov, Beijing-based graphics company 39 Degrees North, and a host of volunteers helping get the word out. I now need funding to meet post-production costs of editing, color-correcting, sound mix and music recording.
In a more abstract sense, you are helping to bring the issues of human rights, Internet censorship and freedom of expression to the forefront of conversations at film festivals, theaters, museums, universities, broadcast television, government and diplomatic offices…everywhere we plan to show the film.
Thank you for your support!
Alison Klayman
最新消息: 艾未未的妻子路青昨天在北京获准探视丈夫,她在警方安排的一个秘密处所与艾未未见面并简单交谈。路青说艾的身体状况目前还不错。随后她与律师刘晓原会面商议,刘律师认为艾未未目前相当于遭到软禁并处于警方密切监视中。
我拍摄了超过200个小时的镜头,其中包括之前从未发布过的对艾未未家人、朋友以及同事的采访,同时还记录了艾未未为慕尼黑Haus der Kunst美术馆 、伦敦泰特现代美术馆(Tate Modern)以及纽约市中央公园等展出所做的准备工作。在我拍他的这两年中,他的国际知名度爆增,无论是在艺术方面,还是在网络激进主义方面。在中国,他可能是最尖锐,也是最张扬的批评家,不知道为什么他没有被逮捕。
到目前为止,除了自己投资之外,我也得到了来自MoMA总裁Agnes Gund,Henry Luce基金会 和Hazen-Polsky 基金会的大力支持。然而,制作一部长篇纪录电影不是一件容易的事情。目前我正在与一些非常出色的先锋艺术家们合作,这其中包括编导兼联合制片人Jen Fineran,作曲家Ilan Isakov,北京的创意机构39 Degrees North,同时还有许多帮助我们宣传的志愿者。现在,我们需要更多的资金支持来进行后期制作,例如剪辑,调色,音响效果以及音乐录制等工作。
Alison Klayman
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PBS Frontline :: Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?
Wall Street Journal :: Film Gives Close-Up to Chinese Artist
Curated: Alison Klayman, Director of "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"
The Good Pitch :: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
To see and read more about Ai Weiwei:
The New York Times : 'Ai Weiwei Takes Role of China's Conscience'
Time Magazine: 'Not Another Day in the Life of Ai Weiwei'
HUM Media: 'Noted Chinese Artist Detained at Beijing Airport, Studio Raided'
Ai Weiwei and Christiane Amanpour discuss Twitter http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/03/17/twitter.amanpour.cnn
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Polish Government Funding 'Full Set Of Educational Materials' Available Under CC-BY
from the setting-a-good-example dept
One of the fields that is ripe for disruption by open digital technologies and business models based on abundance is education. That's already starting to happening with growing successes in the areas of open access and free textbooks. Now here's a major win for open educational resources in Poland (via Slashdot):
Polish Prime Minister Office yesterday accepted "Digital School program" with "Digital Textbooks" component included. With 45 million PLN (approx. 15 million USD) funding it has been the biggest governmental Open Educational Resources initiative in Poland so far. The government has decided to fund creating full set of educational materials for grades 4-6 (9-11 year olds). All those resources will be available under CC BY license, which is fully free license according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works.
It sounds like the use of that cc-by license was a close thing:
This draft [of the Digital School program] was accepted by Ministry of Education, but at a later stage of preparations the free licensing requirement was left out. Both Open Education Coalition and Modern Poland Foundation took part in the public consultation process; their comments in support of free licensing were taken on board in the very last minute.
Without that free license, this would have been just another scheme to produce government-funded educational materials. But with the license, those resources can take on a life of their own through re-use, improvement and wide-ranging adaptations. And once teachers, parents and students begin to see what can be done with freely-licensed educational materials that is hard or impossible to match with traditional licensing, the demand for them is likely to grow.
This makes the last-minute acceptance by the Polish government that the materials would be released under the cc-by license, after some apparent reluctance, doubly welcome, since it may well help to trigger the production of further open educational resources both within and beyond Poland.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & Viacom's "Get Schooled" Initiative launch at L.A.'s Paramount Studios brought out Heidi and Seal, Malin and Morgan, and, I'll just say it, the worst pair of shoes I've ever seen .
I don't know how a heavily pregnant Heidi can stand in these heels...one hopes at least that she doesn't have a good view of the unfortunate tie-dyed border.
Rhyon Brown's dress looks like rainbow sherbet, except with...coffee, instead of lime. You decide whether this is a good thing.
Olivia Munn proves that a sack with a zipper down the front is still a sack.
Kim Coles is wise to break up this bamboo grove with a belt...but it's a little uncanny how exactly the belt matches her hair.
I get that the whole little-tramp menswear thing is back, but seriously, couldn't Maria Menounos has hemmed her trousers like 1/2" shorter?
I like to think that Malin Akerman pulled this out of the closet on laundry day at the last second and still kind of makes it work.
Monica has the look of a woman whose pants are cutting off her circulation.
So does Lauren 'Lo' Bosworth. And her very loud jacket only distracts momentarily.
I have a really hard time not seeing Miranda Cosgrove as the brat from School of Rock - even though I know she's a tween star in her own right, who wears rather adult one-shouldered cocktail frocks.
Elisabeth Shue sports an LBD - longish black dress - and a very frumpy pair of Easy Spirit-ish shoes.
Cheryl Hines has found it: the most hideously unflattering pair of shoes in all the land.
Morgan Freeman: Fagin called. He wants his gloves back.
I like Tichina Arnold's daughter's version of the mother-daughter ensemble better - but in combination, they're pretty cute.
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Before the M Draft, East Cecchi claimed that he did not want to work for the King and finally made the Sacramento King determined to win Bagley. At that time, many people were optimistic about this choice. Bagley's good physical fitness, can be appointed as the 3rd and 4th position, is the ideal swing forward in the small ball era, but the performance of the summer league has made some fans stunned. The NBA's resistance to non-university leagues is comparable, and Bagley loses the advantage of ending in the paint, while exposing the shortcomings of lack of outside shooting ability. The lack of concentration on the defensive end is a problem in college. Therefore, Bagley wants to be the most popular 3D player today, at least for now. As a ball-handling player, he is not an outside player who scores and organizes explosives. Today's preseason debut show, highlighting Bagley's ambiguous positioning. The outside line was not released, and it seemed to lack confidence in the inside line. Even the free throws were only 50%. When defending, the footsteps are general, and it is easy to be targeted by the opponent. If you are not conscious, you can only use four fouls to stop the opponent's attack. The Suns' lottery show, Mick Carl Bridges, although he only played a game around the game, scored a blank, but watched his defensive end of the resilience and the offensive king's taboo on his ability to open space, It feels more affordable than Bagley. But Bagley's comparison is of course not Bridges, but the opposite center player Ayton.
Similar to Bagley, the most worrying thing about Ayton when he was selected was the defensive problem. After all, as the traditional 5th position, it was easy to be targeted by the NBA's ball-handed defenders. In the first preseason game, Ayton did not become the defensive end of the Sun, and his foot movement was at least above the average of the big man. Needless to say, the inner line protection ability, the innate advantage of the height of the arm and the keen defensive sense, make him enough to become the team's guardian of the basket, the three big hot pot is just a regular operation, I believe we can see in the follow-up game. Go to the hot pot feast of the champion. On the offensive end, Ayton showed a better range than Bagley as the inside, and the low-post singles had one hand, and even saw the ability to cope. A 20+10 double-double performance, the limelight not only completely overshadowed Bagley, but also dwarfed the data of the King's Twin Towers. It is necessary to know that the experience of Kalistan and Rabbisier in the NBA is far more than Ayton. This is the extent to which Ayton adapts to the NBA. Of course, it is the maturity and strength of a No. 1 pick.
The sample for a preseason game is small, and the visible gap is reflected in several details. Ayton proved why he could hold the champion seat, and Bagley's prospects seemed confusing. Aiton can clearly define the core of the game. Bagley can neither do the core of the ball nor the three-pointer and defensive ability of high-quality 3D players. He can only use 3D as the development direction and temper his own outside shooting and defensive skills. However, in that case, it runs counter to the core play of his college days. The King hopes that Bagley will practice the outside line and defense. Perhaps he hopes that the former champion, Giles, will be healthy and more realistic. After the sun has harvested the joy of Ayton to live up to the expectations, it is necessary to think about the primary and secondary issues of the dual-core inside and outside of Booker's return. Booker's scoring ability is very good, and the defense has obvious problems. It may be more appropriate as Ayton's older assistant. What do you think?


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The world's biggest bond fund, Pimco, says the Fed needs to double the liabilities on its balance sheet to save the economy.
Does anyone see a possible conflict of interest here?
The government hired Pimco to help run its mortgage-backed securities purchase program – a program which benefitted Pimco. Specifically, as of June 30th, 2008, 61% of Pimco's holdings were in the very mortgage backed securities that it was hired by the Fed to buy back on behalf of American taxpayers, according to a September Bloomberg report that cited data on Pimco's own website.
The government also hired Pimco to advise it of the value of $118 billion of assets guaranteed in the bailout of Bank of America.
There are a couple of other quasi-governmental hats which Pimco is wearing as well.
In addition, Pimco is buying toxic assets through the PPIP program.
It appears that the bigger and more numerous the government bailout programs, the more money Pimco makes. So I'm not sure that Pimco is the most independent, objective observer on the government's response to the economic crisis.


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by Clark Groome
When Buddy Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Havens died in a plane crash on February 3, 1959, that date became known as "The Day the Music Died." Fortunately for Philadelphia theatergoers, the music is alive and well through July 15 at the Walnut Street Theatre where "Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story" is energizing audiences through July 22.
Holly was a Lubbock, Texas, native who in the course of 18 months changed the face of popular music. He had some help, This was also the time that Elvis Presley was beginning his career and Bill Haley and the Comets were performing the first major rock 'n' roll hit, "Rock Around the Clock."
Holly (the phenomenal Christopher Sutton) and the Crickets (Jason Yachanin, Eli Zoller, Luke Smith) grew from a small-time country act into one the country's most popular new groups. Holly's hits included "That'll Be the Day," "Peggy Sue," "Not Fade Away," "Oh Boy" and many others that have become standards. His music influenced many major performers who followed, from Bob Dylan to Elton John and from the Beatles to the modern big bands like Chicago.
In "Buddy" the story, while important and ultimately tragic, is secondary in import to the music. Told in a generally banal way, the book does have its impressive moments.
The most important event takes place when Buddy and the Crickets are booked into Harlem's Apollo Theatre. Because of their music, they were believed to be a "colored" group. Imagine everyone's surprise — and ultimate delight — when they turned out to be white and still wowed the audience.
Then there's the reason the song "Cyndi Lou" had its name changed to "Peggy Sue." The drummer's girlfriend was Peggy Sue, and he thought if the song were named after her, he'd finally be able to make her a sexual partner. Mission accomplished.
For all the banality of the very well known story, the music never disappoints. The superb musical cast that director and choreographer Casey Husion has assembled enhances the music's appeal. The superb designers are Robert Andrew Kovach (sets), Paul Black (lighting), Colleen Grady (costumes) and Matt Kraus (sound).
Christopher Sutton recreates the role he first performed at the Walnut, and for which he won a Barrymore Award, in 1999. It doesn't look like he's aged a day.
While it's probably unfair to single out others in the cast, Scott Greer's Big Bopper and Miquel Jarquin-Moreland as Havens are really superb.
Holly's music, like most early rock 'n' roll, wasn't the overamplified, electronically produced music into which it evolved. It's really solidly based on the country, jazz and blues that preceded it, "Negro music played by white musicians." While the guitars were often electrified, the rest of the instruments were acoustic, and amplification was minimal. So it's disturbing that the Walnut has the music amplified to a level that is both annoying and not accurate to the period.
That aside, "Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story" lets us spend a couple of exciting hours with music that is at once familiar, enjoyable and important.
For tickets to "Buddy — TBuddy Holly Story," playing through July 22 at the Walnut Street Theatre, call 215-574-3550 or 800-982-2787 or visit www.walnutstreettheatre.org


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After Withdrawal Peace Spreads to Conflict Zones Worldwide
Leaders Worldwide Scramble to Follow American Lead
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, government leaders and warlords in conflict zones worldwide seemed to be falling over themselves to pledge peace.
Iraqis Around the World Celebrate U.S. Withdrawal, Rebuilding Plan
JORDAN — With the news that U.S. forces were withdrawing from Iraq, nearly five million Iraqi refugees learned that the nightmare that started in 2003 was over. However, most are convinced that going back to a pre-sanctions or even pre-war Iraq is a mere pipedream.
Labor Dept. Launches Job Creation Program
The Department of Labor is scrambling to propose new standards that will affect every American worker.
What the Future Holds for Afghanistan
A 400-page plan, written by Afghani leaders under U.N. supervision, outlines the final stages of U.S. and NATO withdrawal, and details a rebuilding effort on a scale not seen since World War Two.
USA Patriot Act Repealed
The controversial USA PATRIOT Act was repealed by Congress by a vote of 99-1 in the Senate and 520 to 18 in the House.
Washington Redskins Renamed
Washington Redskins owner, Daniel Snyder, announced at a press conference today that his football team will be changing its name.
"Let's face it, the term 'Redskins' is offensive to many people and continuing to use it as the name of an NFL franchise is totally inappropriate," said Snyder. "This is long overdue."
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Canadian Scientists find Shorter Work Week as Effective as Viagra
Also effective against global warming.
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Mets Purchased by 10,000-Strong Local Citizen Cooperative
NEW YORK — Mets owner Jeff Willpon confirmed the sale of his team to citizen group Our Teams NY (OTNY) yesterday in an interview on WFAN. "I feel noble giving New York fans their own team" said Willpon. Neither Willpon nor OTNY spokesperson Sara Smith disclosed the sale amount. "It's part of our [...]
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