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State needs a balanced approach to budget crisis
As the Vermont Legislature and the Douglas administration work to achieve a balanced budget in light of a significant downturn in revenues, an emphasis on increasing revenues needs to be matched with proposed cuts. That has not happened to date.Rather, the Douglas administration has focused all of its efforts on making cuts to the current budget. The stated target is to initially cut $20 million, though the Douglas team is hoping for an amount closer to $34 million. What is not being discussed in any substantive way is a proposed increase in revenue. When Gov. Dick Snelling was in office, he navigated his way through two recessions — one in 1983 and another in 1991 — and both times he used a mix of budgetary tools to get the state through the crisis, including a temporary income tax hike for the highest income brackets.In approaching today's challenges, Gov. Douglas and the Legislature need to recognize that the problem is not that the state is spending recklessly on unnecessary programs. Rather, the global recession and financial crisis — which has hit Vermonters particularly hard because of the large amount of passive income (from capital gains, trusts and retirement accounts) that boosts Vermont's tax receipts — has taken a big chunk out of the state's revenue. Economists have projected the state will fall $107 million below the previous year's total, and revenues are expected to be about $100 million below fiscal year 2008 levels through the next two years — a decrease of about 10 percent of the state's general fund. That's a big sum to make up solely by whacking away at costs — with important programs being decimated as a result. The state does have options. It has about $100 million in a rainy day fund which should be tapped, and Vermont can anticipate a federal handout of perhaps as much as $100 million in conjunction with President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus package.But tapping the rainy day fund or hoping for federal government handouts, are not the only ways to generate more revenues. As was suggested in this column a few weeks ago, the state should study a proposal to lower the state income tax rate from its current 9 percent to half that. How could such a move possibly generate more income tax revenue? By lowering the state income tax below most of Vermont's New England neighbors, many second-home owners would consider moving their full-time residency status to Vermont. If a significant number chose to do that, the full amount of their incomes (which are usually much higher than the average Vermonter) would flow into state coffers — plus, they would end up staying a few more weeks in Vermont to boot. A study could determine in pretty short order how many current out-of-state second-home owners would have to declare full-time residency to make up the lost revenue of cutting the state income tax essentially in half, but it could be well worth the cost and there is little to lose. (Those close to the ski industry, by the way, say the transition could happen quickly because many second homeowners would prefer to live in Vermont if state income taxes were lower.) The downside is that even if it is a solution, it wouldn't unfold overnight or even in the first year or two of implementation. It is a long-term plan that would evolve over several years. The important point, nonetheless, is to look beyond simply cutting expenses that will undoubtedly do harm to important programs and services, and to broaden the state's options by considering ways to also increase revenue.Angelo S. Lynn


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Few technologies have divided the Middle East like Twitter: Young people love it; their governments not as much.
The San Francisco-based microblogging service played a significant role in facilitating the uprisings that shook the region two years ago and brought down the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya.
As Twitter now plans a public offering in the U.S., the mideast region — with both its potential and pitfalls–increasingly figures into the company's future, according to Shailesh Rao, the company's head of Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and emerging markets.
The Middle East/North Africa region accounts for 6% of Twitter's active users, and the tweeting device of choice more often than elsewhere is the mobile smartphone, he said during a break at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.
The region has seen "terrific adoption" of twitter in the last several years, he said. And, notwithstanding the publicity surrounding Twitter's role in demonstrations and increasing government crackdowns on tweeting and retweeting, much of the activity is entirely apolitical, he said.
The hashtag #Eid was tweeted some three million times during the observance of the recent Islamic religious holiday, he pointed out, and entertainment events from soccer to the Arab Idol television show have proven huge tweet generators.
"There's a fair amount of diversity," he said. "That sets the stage for advertisers."
Still, the medium also continues to give some governments in the region concerns–even as users as diverse as teen idols, conservative clerics and cloistered housewives take to Twitter in droves. To be sure, some governments have also embraced twitter; Abu Dhabi is featuring Mr. Rao and other Twitter executives at the annual government-sponsored media conference.
Yet governments–including Kuwait, Qatar and even the United Arab Emirates (of which Abu Dhabi is a member emirate)–have also come down hard on Twitter users who criticize the government or, especially, the ruling sheikhs. Some have been convicted and jailed. In the UAE, some family members of a group of men accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy were detained for tweeting about the trial.
Mr. Rao said Twitter itself has terms and conditions of use that allow it to take some users off-line, and the company is committed to obeying all local laws. But the company still sees its mission as promoting people's freedom to say what they please within Twitter's usage guidelines. He said Twitter has a special team that works to familiarize government officials in the Middle East, as well as elsewhere, about how twitter works and is used–in hope that a better understanding will ameliorate some government worries.
"The strategy is to focus on education," he said.

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Tributes paid to 'Mr Southwold' John Veitch who died in Halesworth crash
PUBLISHED: 09:15 22 February 2014 | UPDATED: 09:15 22 February 2014
Tributes have been paid to an 88-year-old man described as "the face of Southwold" after he died in a road accident in Halesworth.
John Veitch died when the car he was driving crashed in to a shop on the junction of Bridge Street and The Thoroughfare.
His blue Volvo struck the side of women's clothing store Valerie's – the former site of The Hawk Inn – at around 3.10pm on Thursday.
Mr Veitch, the only occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene despite the efforts of emergency crews.
No other injuries were reported and a structural engineer worked to ensure the building was made safe.
Mr Veitch is believed to have lived in Southwold for more than 40 years and was both a former chairman and president of the Southwold and Reydon Society; and before that a long-serving member of the committee.
John Perkins, secretary of the society, led the glowing tributes to the man who was "part of the DNA of Southwold".
"He will be genuinely missed. He was in many people's eyes 'Mr Southwold' – he was the face of Southwold," Mr Perkins said.
"He had lived here for 40 years or more and was passionate about the town. When people thought of Southwold, they thought of John Veitch.
"He believed in very much what Southwold should stand for. He was not a revolutionary by any means; he was just someone who cared very much about Southwold.
"He was very active in the town and was always on-side campaigning on behalf of it against anything that might spoil it.
"I remember when Tesco moved in around three years ago he was one of the leading protesters holding a poster outside. He also campaigned against the Costa Coffee shop which opened last year.
"He was a prominent campaigner and the sort of character that everybody liked. He was a prominent man around Southwold for a long time. It will be a much poorer place without him."
It is thought Mr Veitch was married twice and widowed twice, and it is also understood he had two sons; one who died and the other living in Norwich.
Simon Tobin, mayor of Southwold, paid his respects to the man he described as "the stalwart of Southwold".
"He was a character who wore many hats and was someone who greatly contributed to a cross-section of many things for the community of Southwold. He will be greatly missed," he added.
Suffolk Constabulary last night renewed their appeal for witnesses to the collision to come forward.
They are keen on speaking to people who saw the vehicle, which came from the direction of Quay Street and New Cut in Halesworth.
Call police on 101 with information.


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As far as I can tell, the headline above is correct.
More than 3,000 readers responded to the Chronicle's poll Wednesday and 68 percent said they would rather the Rockets land Andrew Bynum than Dwight Howard. I tweeted the same question and most of the responses I got also favored Bynum.
Most pointed out he's younger, not coming off back surgery and more likely to extend or re-sign with the Rockets so he won't be a one-and-done here.
Some readers like Sean Burns said they'd like to see the Rockets forget about both and continue to rebuild around what they have.
That's showing confidence in the young players the Rockets have. Throw in two or three more lottery picks, preferably higher than 12th, and the Rockets might contend in, oh, five or six or seven years. While waiting, the Aeros will topple them as the No. 1 winter sport in town. As it is now, the only reason to go see the Rockets at the Toyota Center is if there's someone on the opposing team you want to see, like LeBron or Kobe or Kevin Durant.
As for me, I'd be in the 32 percent. I prefer Howard, if he would agree to stay more than one season in Houston. I'd be worried about his back, but Bynum has had only one healthy season because of his knees.
And as immature as Howard has acted in recent months, he's a rock compared to Bynum.
Everyone remembers the Lakers' final game in the 2011 players when he got tossed for an unnecessary flagrant foul against Dallas' J.A. Barea, long after the outcome was decided. That cost him a four-game suspension at the start of last season.
Since then, he has gotten caught parking in a handicapped spot so he could unload groceries, talked about how closing games are easy when the Lakers were up 3-1 on Denver only to have the Nuggets take thems seven games and, after the Lakers lost to Oklahoma City in the playoffs, further agitated Lakers fans by saying, "I'll play anywhere."
Houston is somewhere. Now if only the Rockets can convince Howard of that …


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I read about the "repenting bench" a long time ago from something of your parents {I wrote about that here} but I have always wondered what if you have a strong willed kid that wont sit on the bench-- especially when they are already fired up?
Sit there with that strong-willed child. My Dad says "put a seat belt on that fighting bench" ! Whatever will keep him/her there for long enough to calm down and think about what they did wrong. It may be really tough for the first couple times, but it will get easier if you are persistent and consistent.
Lately Lucy has been fired up about some things that aren't fighting-related…just feisty and snappy and grumpy. I've been having her "put her nose to the wall" when this hits (a brilliant tactic introduced to me by one of my wise sisters). At first my request caused Lucy to melt into a tantrum, but gradually she has decided I'm not forgetting about that darn thing and she solemnly puts her nose to the wall for a minute until I ask if she's ready to join us back in 'real life.'
How do you put your watermark on all your photos? I've noticed "71toes" and "Sepphotography" and want to know how to do that stuff to my pics. Thanks!
I do try to watermark the pictures because every so often I notice one of my pictures displayed somewhere I didn't give permission for. I know there's a way you can do it automatically in Lightroom, but it always puts the watermark in the same spot so I opt to do it in Photoshop so I can have more options.
If you don't know Photoshop, this may sound like a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, but if you do, all you do is go to "file," then "create new." Create whatever you want your watermark to say with the text tool. (I just make them small because you are going to turn this into a "paintbrush" where you can adjust the size.) When you have it how you want it, go to "edit," then "define brush preset." It will give you the option to name it whatever you want. After that your watermark will be available as an option when you use the brush tool.
Does that sound like a bunch of hog-wash? Sorry! Maybe I'll have to do a tutorial with pictures some time.
Ok...I have to ask. HOW, HOW, HOW do you do it all???? Your kids seem so involved in everything which is great but I just really don't see how you do it. Please advise ;)
I don't. I am sadly lacking in SO many areas. I sure wish I could "do it all!"
Remember, this blog is where I record our family life and it's so much easier to cover all the exciting stuff like sports and recitals and sun-lit walks to the park than it is to capture things like how frustrated I am at the laugh-track on the dumbest ever TV shows my sick kids have been watching lately! Although I do try my very darnedest to be deliberate and live my life "on purpose" I struggle and fail every single day. We all do, right?
One of my favorite quotes that makes me feel better about that little fact:
"Oh God of second chances and new beginnings, here I am again."
(not sure who said that but I love it.)
Be sure to read my disclaimer here if you ever think I have it all together :)
In closing, I'd just like to share my favorite lunch lately:
My caprese salads. (Fresh mozarella, tomato and basil with balsamic vinaigrette.)


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Work in progress!
Apache Struts 2 is at a pre-release stage. If you are just getting started with Struts2/WebWork2, we recommend WebWork 2.2 as an entry point. WW2 is stable and production ready. When Struts 2 is released, migration paths for WebWork 2 and Struts 1 developers will be available. See the Release Plan 2.0.0 for details and status.
Apache Struts is a free open-source framework for creating Java web applications. For more about the Apache Struts project, visit the project web site.
Getting Started
The documentation is grouped into three areas.
Our tutorials are designed to help you get started with the framework ASAP. We offer an all-purpose "soup to nuts" tutorial as well as specialty tutorials on portlets and database access.
Our FAQs provide a wide range of rapid-fire "HOWTOs" in question-and-answer format.
Our in-depth guides focus on specific components of the framework, such as Views, the Core framework, and optional Extensions, as well as migrating from Struts 1 or WebWork 2.
An overview of all three areas is available.
The snapshot builds are classified "test-build" quality.
For your convenience, a one-stop all distribution is available. Individual elements of the distribution may also be downloaded separately.
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Apache Struts 2 in a Nutshell
Apache Struts 2 is a flexible control layer based on standard technologies like Java Filters, JavaBeans, ResourceBundles, Locales, and XML, as well as various OpenSymphony packages, like OGNL and XWork. The framework helps you create an extensible development environment for your application, based on industry standards and proven design patterns.
The framework provides its own web Controller component and integrates with other technologies to provide the Model and the View. For the Model, the framework can interact with standard data access technologies, like JDBC and EJB, as well as most any third-party packages, like Cayenne, Hibernate, or iBATIS. For the View, the framework works well with JavaServer Pages, including JSTL and JSF, as well as FreeMarker or Velocity Templates, PDF, XSLT, and other presentation systems.
The framework's Controller acts as a bridge between the application's Model and the web View. When a request is received, the Controller invokes an Action class. The Action class examines or updates the application's state by consulting the Model (or, preferably, an interface representing the Model). To transfer data between the Model and the View, properties can be placed on the Action class, or on a plain old JavaBean.
Most often, the Model is represented as a graph of JavaBean objects. Alternatively, the Model may be represented as a set of data-driven service methods. Preferably, the Model will do the "heavy lifting", and the Action will act as a "traffic cop" or adapter. The framework provides sophisticated, automatic type conversion to simplify transfering data between rich domain objects and text-only HTTP requests.
To make it easier to access dynamic data obtained by an Action, the framework includes a library of custom tags. The tags interact with the framework's validation and internationalization features, to ensure that input is correct and output is localized. The tag library can be used with JSP, FreeMarker, or Velocity.
Struts configuration in a nutshell
A web application uses a deployment descriptor to initialize resources like filters and listeners. The deployment descriptor is formatted as a XML document and named
web.xml. Likewise, the framework uses a configuration file, named
struts.xml, to initialize its own resources. These resources include action mappings, to direct input to server-side Action classes, and result types, to select output pages.
Here's a simple configuration (
struts.xml) for a login workflow:
<struts> <include file="struts-default.xml"/> <package name="default" namespace="/" extends="struts-default"> <action name="Logon" class="mailreader2.Logon"> <result name="input">/pages/Logon.jsp</result> <result name="cancel" type="redirect-action">Welcome</result> <result type="redirect-action">MainMenu</result> <result name="expired" type="chain">ChangePassword</result> </action> <action name="Logoff" class="mailreader2.Logoff"> <result type="redirect-action">Welcome</result> </action> </package> </struts>
Aside from actions and results, you can also specify exception handlers and interceptors. Interceptors specify the "request-processing lifecycle" for an action. (What happens to the request before and after the Action class fires.) You can specify both global and local lifecycles. If some of your actions respond to AJAX, SOAP, or JSF requests, you can simplify the lifecycle, and even just "pass through" the request, if you like.
Struts 2 is extensible. Very extensible. Every class deployed by the framework is based on an interface. We provide base classes, but you can substitute your own. In the case of Action classes, even the interface is optional. POJO web development is here!
The framework provides general-purpose defaults, so you can start using Struts 2 right away, "out of the box". As needed, you can override any of our defaults in your application's configuration. We provide the base framework, but you can still write your application your way.


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If the world needed one more reason for global rules on cyberwarfare, it arrived Wednesday with a major cyberattack on South Korea.
The computer systems of three TV stations and a number of large financial institutions were shut down, some for as long as seven hours. The most visible disruption could be seen in the long lines of South Koreans standing at disabled ATMs.
The source of the attack was not immediately known, but North Korea remains the top suspect. It has been making more threats than usual in recent days, challenging a new government in Seoul and chafing at new international sanctions on its nuclear program.
In 2007, the Baltic state of Estonia suffered a similar widespread attack from inside Russia on the websites of its banks, government, and media. That attack prompted NATO to create an advisory manual on how states should respond to cyberwarfare. Now the attack in South Korea should force a similar global effort.
North Korea, which the South blames for previous shutdowns on some of its digital networks, may not go along with any new legal rules. It is a rogue state on many levels. But a global consensus could push its patron, China, to rein in its ally as well as possibly force China itself to accept new norms.
Just last week, the Obama administration fingered China for the first time as a source of cyberintrusion, mainly against businesses. In a speech, National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon called on Beijing to "take serious steps to investigate" reports of hacking coming fromwithin China.
The online attack in South Korea shows the potential to sow panic among civilians, similar to a terrorist bombing. The Geneva Conventions on war outlaw any attacks on certain key civilian sites. A cyberdisruption of vital services, such as water or electricity, could be the equivalent of an act of war.
If North Korea is found to have orchestrated Wednesday's attack, this could bring serious repercussions. Ever since the North shelled a South Korean island in 2010, killing four people, leaders in Seoul have become more serious about retaliating after the next attack.
Just how nations should respond to cyberattacks remains unclear. In a recent report, a Pentagon advisory body, the Defense Science Board, warned the military to "expect cyber to be part of all future conflicts ... with potential consequences similar in some ways to the nuclear threat of the Cold War." Its top recommendation is that the United States rely on the deterrence of a nuclear strike on any country that achieves an "existential" cyberattack on vital infrastructure of the US.
"Nuclear weapons would remain the ultimate response," the report stated.
The report also found the Defense Department to be years away from building an "effective response" to such attacks. It found current efforts to thwart attacks to be "fragmented."
Just as the world has come up with various schemes to combat terrorism, it now needs a similar approach to cyberwarfare. Each new type of warfare needs to be restrained by the kind of rules that have worked against many old types of warfare.


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What is NAPA?
The National Asphalt Pavement Association is the only trade association that exclusively represents the interests of the asphalt pavement material producer and paving contractor on the national level with Congress, government agencies, and other national trade and business organizations. NAPA supports an active research program designed to answer questions about environmental issues and to improve the quality of asphalt pavements and paving techniques used in the construction of roads, streets, highways, parking lots, airports, and environmental and recreational facilities. The Association provides technical, educational, and marketing materials and information to its members, and supplies technical information to users and specifiers of paving materials. The Association, which counts nearly 1,200 companies as its members, was founded in 1955.
What does NAPA do?
NAPA's staff consists of professionals ready to help its members learn the latest technology, understand environmental issues, gain market share, and receive training. NAPA is the most valuable resource in the asphalt pavement industry.
Where is NAPA located?
NAPA is conveniently located just east of the Capital Beltway, and just minutes from downtown Washington, D.C. The NAPA office is convenient to all three Washington-area airports (BWI Marshall Airport, Reagan National Airport, Dulles International Airport). For directions to the NAPA office, please click here.
Who are NAPA Members?
Companies or individuals in the asphalt pavement industry that operate on a for-profit basis, which include asphalt pavement material producers, paving contractors, equipment and materials manufacturers, materials suppliers, equipment distributors, engineering firms, and consultants. Interested in becoming a Member of NAPA? Click here.
What is asphalt pavement?
Asphalt pavement is a combination of approximately 95 percent stone, sand, or gravel bound together by 5 percent asphalt cement, a product of crude oil. Recycled materials, including reclaimed asphalt pavement from old roads and parking lots, are often used to replace some of the virgin aggregate and asphalt cement in a pavement mixture. Asphalt cement is heated and mixed with the aggregate at an asphalt mixture production facility. The resulting asphalt pavement material is loaded into trucks for transport to the paving site. The trucks dump the pavement material into hoppers located at the front of paving machines. The asphalt is placed, then compacted using a heavy roller, which is driven over the asphalt. Traffic is generally permitted on the pavement as soon as the pavement has cooled.


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GNOME 2.26.0 Release Candidate (2.25.92) Released!
GNOME 2.26.0 Release Candidate (2.25.92)
My friends, we're nearly there! 2.26.0 will be out in two weeks. Yes, it
will! I tell you so. And it will be a milestone in our history. Sure, it
will! You don't doubt it. Because it's looking quite good. It definitely
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Make people try it. But we can still work a bit more on polishing GNOME
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For years, income-hungry investors have had to endure the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping interest rates near record lows. Although that's been positive for homeowners and other major borrowers, savers have borne the brunt of the cost of zero-interest rate policy, as the amount of cash they used to get from bank CDs, savings accounts, and bond investments has plunged.
In response, more investors than ever are turning to dividend-paying stocks. With dividend yields that in many cases greatly exceed what you can get on bonds, dividend stocks have become the only viable option for those who rely on regular income from their investment portfolios to meet their needs. Yet as more money flows into dividend stocks, higher valuations raise the question of whether they can provide good total returns -- or whether buying dividend stocks right now is like following the herd off a cliff.
The search for yield
Even with the stock market at all-time highs, money continues to flood into dividend stocks. As an article from IndexUniverse highlighted on Friday, income-starved investors bought huge amounts of new shares in dividend ETFs Vanguard High Dividend Yield (NYSEMKT:VYM) and iShares High Dividend Equity (NYSEMKT:HDV) last week. Inflows into the Vanguard ETF amounted to more than $1 billion, boosting the size of the fund by 20%. The smaller iShares ETF saw a 10% rise in its overall assets under management, as more than $280 million got added to the fund.
What's noteworthy about the moves is the emphasis on the highest yields possible. Vanguard has another dividend ETF that focuses more on long-term dividend growth than immediate yield, and that fund has generally been more popular than its high-yield dividend ETF. But now, more investors are piling into the higher-yielding fund.
What a falling bond market may do to dividend stocks
Low bond yields encourage investors to move to higher-yielding stocks. But over the past six months, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has bounced off its summer 2012 lows, rising from below 1.5% to above 2% recently. If bond yields continue to rise, will fickle investors move back to the bond market?
The answer is far from clear. On one hand, higher bond yields will allow conservative investors to get the income they need while moving back into more comfortable territory. Bonds tend to be less volatile than stocks, and if bank CDs start to raise their rates in line with Treasuries, the added benefit of FDIC insurance protection will undoubtedly lure some investors to pull their money out of dividend stocks.
But there's a countervailing trend that could actually lead to less investment in bonds as rates rise. Bond funds have been extremely attractive as investments lately, because their prices have gone up as rates have fallen, producing lucrative total returns. Yet because prices of existing bonds fall when yields go up, returns will look worse for bond funds, making them look less attractive to many performance-chasing investors. Already, popular bond funds have made investors suffer capital losses. For instance, iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) having lost almost 10% since last July, even including the dividends that fund shareholders have received over that timeframe.
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Unfortunately, history suggests that even investors who arguably shouldn't have as much exposure to dividend stocks will resist reducing their stock allocations until after the stock market starts to decline. Already, popular high-yielding stocks have seen big increases in their earnings multiples. Among consumer food and beverage stocks, for instance, both Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) have seen their P/E ratios climb significantly over the past couple of years, with multiples approaching 20 even amid the companies' declining demand in the U.S. amid regulatory pressure to address obesity concerns from sugary soft drinks. When stock prices ignore fundamental challenges, it's a reflection of how much demand there is for the stocks' roughly 3% dividend yields.
Combined with the likelihood that investors will flee negative returns in bond funds and add even more money to dividend ETFs and similar income-producing stock investments, the bull market in dividend-paying stocks looks likely to continue for a while longer. The higher dividend stocks go from here, though, the more likely it will be that when the inevitable downturn comes, it will be more violent than most conservative investors are prepared to see.


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July 17, 2014
In 2005, while conducting Fulbright-sponsored research in Rabat, Morocco, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Oren Kosansky encountered a storage room full of documents in the city's major synagogue. He would soon learn that the room—called a genizah—contained multilingual letters, manuscripts, poems, publications, community records, educational materials, and sacred texts that could reveal an Arab nation's Jewish history.
In accordance with religious custom, the trove was slated to be buried. Kosansky sought to salvage what he could.
Now, many of the Rabat Genizah's documents are available to anyone with computer access. After working extensively with Rabat's Jewish community leaders to determine what should be preserved, Kosansky received a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2010 to create an archive of approximately 4,000 digital images. The archive follows Moroccan Jews from persecution in the 18th century to flourishing in the mid-20th century, when their population exceeded 250,000. It also tracks the subsequent staggering decline of that population, which numbers less than 2,500 today.
"It's fascinating and also a bit sad to comprehend the loss of a substantial Jewish minority in Morocco—a whole piece of Moroccan society and culture," said Hannah McCain B.A. '12 in a New Voices article on the Rabat Genizah Project. "That's why it's so important to have things like [the genizah], that document that once-robust presence."
During the summer of 2011, McCain and Samantha Stein B.A. '11 joined Kosansky in Morocco to begin digitizing and translating documents. This summer, Maia Erickson '15 is continuing their translation efforts. She is also sharing knowledge of the digitization process with Vanessa Paloma, an ethnomusicologist who records musical and oral histories of Jewish Moroccans.
Erickson's work with Paloma exemplifies two major intentions of the Rabat Genizah Project—to foster global collaboration and to set a standard for future archival endeavors in the humanities. By employing open-source technologies, the project has allowed a diverse demographic of students scholars, archivists, information technologists, community organizations, and research groups from around the world to make meaningful contributions. By being freely accessible, the project acts as an unprecedented resource in the realm of Jewish studies.
An extensive roster of Lewis & Clark students, faculty, staff, and alumni have contributed to the Rabat Genizah Project, participating in everything from site planning and graphic design to archival and library support, editing, and research. Meanwhile, a section of Lewis & Clark's French 301 course has used the project as an educational tool to practice translation and transliteration.
Kosansky recognizes that the Rabat Genizah Project has significantly benefited from the involvement of Lewis & Clark students. But he also believes that the students themselves have profited greatly.
"Lewis & Clark students gain so much from working on the project," Kosansky said. "They are able to further develop their language skills, work alongside professional scholars in dealing with primary historical documents, and gain valuable experience with digital technologies that are transforming contemporary scholarship."
Read more about the Rabat Genizah Project in the following articles:
- Tablet, "Story of Moroccan Jewry Now Available Online"
- New Voices, "Past Meets Future: Ground-Breaking Rabat Genizah Project Fueled by Students"
- Chronicle, "Digital Shift: Lewis & Clark plays a leadership role in the emerging field of digital scholarship"
Katrina Staaf '16 contributed to this story.
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Dan Walters: California politicians, interests play 'economic impact' game
One of the games that politicians and interest groups play is called "economic impact."
The sponsors of a particular project or program, particularly a scheme that involves public funds, pay some consulting firm to gin up a report purporting to prove that it will generate gobs of jobs and other economic benefits.
The consultants employ all sorts of arithmetic tricks to accomplish the predigested result, such as mysterious "multiplier effects" that take one dollar of "investment" (it's never spending) and magically transform it into $10 worth of benefits.
One of the seamier devices that projects sponsors use has to do with the number of jobs that will result.
Most of us would assume that if 10 workers are hired to do the work, it generates 10 jobs. But the hype mongers count one worker for one year as one job, so if it lasts for 10 years, they claim it would create 100 jobs.
We got a dose of economic puffery recently when John A. Pérez, the speaker of the state Assembly, and Nancy Skinner, who chairs the Assembly's budget committee, unveiled a "blueprint for a responsible budget" that includes a "jobs investment proposal" (once again, it's "investment," not "spending").
Spending more state money on clean energy projects, parks and schools, creating a state-financed bank to loan money to local governments for public works and using anti-greenhouse gas "cap and trade" fees on business "to reinvest into our communities," plus expanding various forms of welfare payments, they claimed, would be an economic boon.
How extracting money from California taxpayers and businesses and redirecting it to these other uses would be a net economic gain was not explained.
It was financial alchemy, one supposes.
We are seeing a lot of other "economic impact" hype these days from sponsors of public and semi-public projects, such as the north-south bullet train, a twin tunnel water project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a football stadium in Los Angeles and new basketball arenas in Sacramento and San Francisco.
But then there's reality.
A final report on the America's Cup races in San Francisco reveals that they didn't have quite the economic impact sponsors had touted.
For one thing, they cost taxpayers an estimated $5.5 million, in net terms, to underwrite the indulgences of wealthy boat owners and their highly paid crews, most of which were from other countries.
And the projected $902 million in private economic impact turned out to be perhaps half that, while private fundraising that was supposed to offset the cost missed its mark by 75 percent.
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This week kicked off with a ton of star gazing during an epic Oscar night on Sunday.
Jennifer Lawrence made headlines when she tripped on her way to pick up her award.
We like to see the human side of celebrities, and we really like it when celebrities get in trouble.
In honor of that great American obsession, we've compiled a list of the sexiest celebrity mug shots in history - courtesy of The Smoking Gun.
Of course porn star Jenna Jameson and entertainer Carmen Electra top the list.
But a young Frank Sinatra and and boxing legend Floyd Mayweather also looked pretty hot after they got arrested.
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Bolsinger impresses with bat, arm to tally first win
CHICAGO -- Two wins in a row might not seem like much for a big league team.
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CHICAGO -- Two wins in a row might not seem like much for a big league team.
Right now for the Arizona Diamondbacks, though, it's a big step.View Full Game Coverage
Behind the pitching of Chicago native Mike Bolsinger, the D-backs beat the Cubs, 5-2, on Thursday afternoon at Wrigley Field.
It is just the second time this year that the D-backs have managed two victories in a row and they head home having split the four-game series with the Cubs after losing two of three to the Dodgers.
"It was a tough trip," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "We were 3-4 on it. We'd like to do better than that. We were in a very tough time and we were pressing very hard, but it seemed like we came out more relaxed today, and guys are feeling better about themselves."
Bolsinger had a contingent of friends and family in attendance. The 26-year-old grew up not far from Wrigley Field before moving at age 10 and until this week, had never gotten to step out on the field.
The Cubs probably wish he hadn't Thursday as he held them to one unearned run on four hits in 6 2/3 innings to earn his first Major League win in his third appearance (second start).
"I did have a little bit more nerves being closer to home," Bolsinger said. "Every once in a while I had a tendency to look over and see my family and friends over there cheering me on. It's definitely good to have everyone there. Some of those people haven't seen me since I was probably waist high on them. It was good to see them, too."
Rather than sit in his hotel room the night before the start, Bolsinger decided to go to the Chicago Blackhawks NHL playoff game against the St. Louis Blues at the United Center.
Bolsinger, who grew up a huge Blackhawks fan, watched his boyhood team come away with a thrilling 4-3 overtime win in Game 4.
"I kind of took the excitement of that game out onto the mound," he said. "That kind of stuff fires me up. I love hockey. I played when I was little. Growing up and in high school. That was one of the first sports I ever played before baseball."
The D-backs gave him some early runs to work with as Gerardo Parra led off the game with a single and scored two outs later when Miguel Montero laced a double to right.
The Cubs tied the score in the bottom half of the inning thanks in part to an error by left fielder Roger Kieschnick, who was playing in his first game since being recalled from Triple-A Reno.
The D-backs, though, grabbed the lead right back in the second.
Cliff Pennington led off with a walk off Edwin Jackson and Tony Campana followed with a double to left that scored Pennington.
Bolsinger helped his own cause when he then singled to left driving home Campana and giving the D-backs a 3-1 lead.
Bolsinger settled in after that and scattered three more hits before departing in favor of Oliver Perez with two outs in the seventh and a runner on second.
"Bolsinger, he threw the ball well, he made good pitches when he needed it," Montero said. "He was working ahead in the count. He mixed his breaking ball, changeup, fastball, it was good."
The Cubs did not sound overly impressed, though, after the game.
"It was nothing special," Chicago shortstop Starlin Castro said. "His curve is his best pitch. We have to do more against him. I think next time we face him, we got him."
Jackson allowed three runs on five hits over seven innings to suffer the loss against his former team.
"Obviously, we know Edwin has a great arm," said Montero, who caught Jackson during his time in Arizona. "Obviously, you don't know what to expect. It's hit or miss. He's a guy that can come and dominate it and a guy that can come and pitch around too much with that kind of arm."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB.


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Jeremy Pound reflects on the first instalment of ITV's Popstar to Operastar series… and dares to pick a winner
I'm not exactly reality TV's biggest fan. I've never felt the urge to come dancing, strictly or otherwise; I've no inclination to get celebrities out of the jungle; and I don't really need scathing critiques from Simon Cowell to make it clear to me that Britain's got very little talent. Given the choice, I'd much rather settle for the company of my reality wife and a glass of reality red any day.
However, having last year attended the filming of the BBC's Maestro! competition for celeb wannabe conductors and rather brilliantly (OK, fortuitously) tipped Sue Perkins to win, I felt myself inevitably drawn to ITV's Popstar to Operastar (PtOS) on Friday evening. Time to see if I can repeat the trick.
The PtOS format couldn't be much simpler: take eight figures who have made their name as pop musicians, and see if they can learn to sing opera convincingly. One gets voted off each week, until just a single winner remains.
Two mentors are there to help our courageous eight through the ordeal. One is Rolando Villazón (pictured right), the world-class Mexican tenor who has recently taken time away from the stage to repair damage done to his vocal cords… and, by the looks of it, to culture a new hairstyle best described as part-poodle, part-chrysanthemum. The other is Welsh mezzo Katherine Jenkins, who has thus far remained mysteriously coy when it comes to sharing her reminiscences of the world's great opera stages.
So, who's going to win? First up on Friday was Jimmy Osmond, whose performance of 'O Sole Mio' was prefaced by footage of him being trained for the task by Villazón. Hmmm. As the Long-Haired Lover from Liverpool was urged with increasing desperation to reach for the top notes by the mop-haired mentor from Mexico, the sheer enormity of said task dawned.
At least Osmond had the bottle to have a stab at those top notes. Unlike Darius Thingummy who, frankly, should have been booted off at the outset – partly for being someone a lot of us have never heard of, but mainly for cheating. Did he really think he could get away with singing 'Nessun Dorma' at a pitch considerably below that intended by Puccini and that no-one would notice? Think again, old boy.
Far more game was Kym Marsh, once of Hear'Say, who despite struggling with a sore throat and cold pressed ahead nonetheless with her rendition of some Offenbach. Very naïve, that. Had Marsh had aspirations to be a true opera star, she would have immediately cancelled the whole run, leaving the role to an understudy. But I'm sure she'll learn.
Sadly for Alex James the learning curve is already over. Much as though we all enjoyed the former Blur bassist's robust performance of Rossini's 'Largo al Factotum', it didn't take long for both TV audience and the studio jury to twig that he really, really can't sing. Rightly, if regretfully, he was the person to be voted off. Still, at least he made it onto stage in the first place, which wasn't always the case at the hedonistic peak of his Blur career.
Which brings us down to just seven contestants from whom to predict a winner. Though I suspect that – on grounds of charisma if nothing else – Osmond and McFly's Danny Jones may push her close, I'm going to plump for former Shakespeare's Sister singer Marcella Detroit. Slightly scary she may be, but she clearly has the most agile voice. Watch this space.
Whether I myself survive the series to the end remains to be seen. Now where's that corkscrew…?
Jeremy Pound is the deputy editor of BBC Music Magazine.
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Architect's dream: Putting flare in a compact affair
ADDRESS: 208 6th Street NW
NEIGHBORHOOD: 10th & Page
SIZE: 1,568 fin. sq. ft.
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CURB APPEAL: 7.5 out of 10
LISTED BY: Mary P. Newton, Keller Williams Realty, 434-220-2233
Just like you don't try to order quiche lorraine at the Aberdeen Barn, you don't look for sprawling farmsteads inside Charlottesville's city limits. Most houses in town don't get much area to spread across, and the ones tucked behind the Starr Hill brewery are no exception. By necessity, they aren't valued by how much space they have, but by how their space is used.
The house, featured in an early On the Block column ["Starr-y, Starr-y Hill: Grab a piece of the 'ville,' December 5, 2002], has retained the positives that we previously noted, including the "architectural sleight of hand" at work on the second floor. We're still impressed with the architect's choices that make the most of the space available, starting in the front hall. A wall has been removed, leaving decorative arches and making the living room into an open reception area that welcomes visitors.
The dining room is a standard size, and while the kitchen isn't huge, it uses space efficiently with an array of cabinets and counters along three walls. The stove, dishwasher, and refrigerator date from different years: the first two are white and blend in with the counters, while the third, stainless steel, has been purchased more recently.
Out of both sight and mind are the washer, dryer, and water heater all in an adjoining utility room that's large enough to provide some additional storage space. The gas heating system is also housed there; the air conditioning system is in the attic. It's no big deal that the extra cooling power cost storage space, since the attic access is tricky, making that area inconvenient anyway.
The downstairs bathroom feels a little enclosed at the end of the hallway in the center of the house. It has a shower, but not enough room for a tub. Due to its location, some ceiling is lost to the stairs, but it's the area above the toilet, so who cares?
The idea of getting more from less is most evident upstairs. At the back of the house, a suite with living space, private study, and sleeping loft has been created in a compact area. Currently a nursery, the corner study has a glass door for privacy and two design windows that are part of the vertical line of three visible from the front. The main area gets extra space from a vaulted ceiling arcing over the study's ceiling to provide a loft. None of these rooms is especially large, but the entire arrangement uses just a little bit of the second floor to create a whimsical whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
The ceilings in the rest of the second floor are a standard eight feet, but extra features like a wall cutout on the landing show where the design was improve to create more space. While the closets in two of the upstairs bedrooms are a standard size with ordinary doors, a smaller closet in the corner of a front bedroom has no door to hide its built-in shelves. Another interesting feature is an interior window in the middle bedroom. It's a little too small and too high to provide a view to the adjoining nursery, but it lets welcome extra light into the room shadowed by the neighboring house.
It's bad enough that the bedroom windows along the side of the house don't get much light, but the bathroom on the opposite side doesn't have any windows at all. But even windowless, it has one distinction: the house's only bathtub.
The private fenced yard behind the house won't accommodate an in-ground pool, but is nevertheless large enough for a sandbox, an herb garden, or a close-quarters game of catch. The back deck could hold some recreational furniture and possibly a small grill for quiet summer evenings.
Throughout the house, space is economized and rarely wasted. It's a fine place for someone prepared to live in the city, but folks with expansive outside interests are advised to seek greener pastures.
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We recently took a trip to New York City and had a wonderful time! There truly is something going on there at all hours of the day or night! Trip highlights include great theater, great food, great sightseeing and great shopping! Doesn't that sound like a winning formula?
As for theater, we saw "Jersey Boys" and "Anything Goes." They are both musicals and were outstanding performances! "Jersey Boys" is about the evolution of the group, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, and featured their music. "Anything Goes" is a revival of Cole Porter's romantic comedy. It takes place aboard an ocean-liner during the 1930's. The costumes, dancing and music from that era are fabulous.
When it comes to restaurants, it is difficult to find a bad one in New York City! We had several unforgettable meals. "Victor's Cafe" serves incredible Cuban food, that combined with the music and the ambiance transports you to what it must have been like in Old Havana. "The Russian Tea Room" is elegantly decorated in gold and red and serves delicious Russian cuisine that includes Chicken Kiev and Boeuf a la Stroganoff. The Borscht was the best that I have ever eaten.
Highlights in sightseeing were the 9/11 Memorial, Top of the Rock, the Museum of Modern Art, Central Park, Chinatown and Little Italy.
As for shopping, a New York City staple that we do not have in Texas is Bloomingdale's on 59th Street! I managed to do some major damage there and in many of the individual shops along Fifth Avenue.
This is a vacation that is on the expensive side, but worth every penny!
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Your tree must be beautiful with all these gorgeous ornaments. Merry Christmas.ReplyDelete
This one is so beautiful, Greta! I bet it looks amazing on your tree.ReplyDelete
This one's beautiful! I've enjoyed these posts, Greta. We moved into a much smaller house and were not able to put up our tree, so I've been living vicariously through your posts :)ReplyDelete
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Gini - The funny thing is, I have to hang this one in just the right place or it disappears into the dark green of the tree.
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You might recognize today's date as April Fools' Day, but it also means something else: The debut of your newspaper's new electronic edition - a paperless replica of the daily printed Savannah Morning News.
We call it the eEdition, and it's available free to our seven-day, home-delivery subscribers. To receive the digital edition, give us a call at 912-236-0271, tell us your e-mail address, and we'll get you started.
If you're not a subscriber or you live in an area where you can't get home delivery, go to eedition.savannahnow.com to get started. You'll get a free two-week trial. It's not designed to be a substitute for the 24/7 news reports at savannahnow.com; it's another way to get news the way you want it.
The debut is part of our April focus on environmental initiatives throughout Savannah and the region. Today, you'll find a story about a business in the area that is taking long-term steps to protect the environment and the start of a weekly series on how to save money while saving the planet.
Granted, some might see irony in what appears to be a paper-based business working toward green initiatives. We understand that.
You'll be glad to know we're pretty conscientious about what we do here and the impact we make on the Earth. Here are a few examples:
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-- One of our two regular newsprint suppliers annually plants three times the number of trees it harvests each year.
-- The Savannah Morning News recycles 10 to 12 tons of newsprint a month.
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An Apple application that let users guess which French politicians or celebrities are Jewish was pulled from France's App Store. but its American equivalent is still available.
French activist groups said the "Jew or Not Jew?" app violated bans on compiling information on people's religion and revealing that religion without their consent, according to United Press International.
An Apple application that let users guess which French politicians or celebrities are Jewish was pulled from France's App Store. but its American equivalent is still available.
French activist groups said the "Jew or Not Jew?" app violated bans on compiling information on people's religion and revealing that religion without their consent, according to United Press International.
I still remember when Saturday Night Live introduced this as a mock game show almost 30 years ago! Those with long memories will recall that the show was hosted by Kurt Waldheim, then becoming infamous for having lied about his Nazi past. Frankly, I though it was hysterical. But perhaps that's the point.
What's funny in America may not be so funny in France, where Antisemitism is a much more prevalent and dangerous fact of life than it is in America. But is that really a sufficient argument?
I do appreciate that in France, far more likely than in the United States, the "Jew or Not Jew" game could be used in ugly ways. I just think that laws which prohibit such things mask very serious underlying problems, much more than they actually address them.
The problem is not the app per se — it is not in and of itself hateful or ugly. The danger lies in how it could be used by hateful and ugly people. Not having this app will not address the problem of their hate and ugliness. Not to mention that the app's unavailability in the french-based app store does not mean that it will not be readily available in France. That's one of the blessing and the burdens of the internet, right?
This seems like a well-intentioned, but totally unsophisticated response to a very real problem. And in this case the old adage about the road to Hell and good intentions seems pretty apt.
R. Kirby Godsey's new book, Is God A Christian?, challenges what the author describes as the commonly held belief among many religious people that the God in whom they believe is "one of them". People, Mr. Kirby observes, too often confuse God's religious identity with their own, leading them to believe that God in exclusively on their side in all things, and by extension, hostile to all those with whom they disagree.
In a world of increasing polarization and rising religious violence, the notion that God stands fully and exclusively with any one group or faith is not only theologically problematic for those who believe in an infinite God, but actually quite dangerous. For raising those issues, Kirby is to be thanked. The likely hood that religion will be a source for as much public healing in the 21st century as it has already been a source of public suffering hinges on this issue, if not exclusively, then at least quite significantly.
In pursuing this important line of thought however, the author makes statements and pursues a methodology that is itself problematic in many ways — ways which also invite consideration in an honest exploration of this book. Kirby consistently writes about what, for lack of a better term might be called religious fundamentalists or fundamentalist approaches to God and religion, almost as judgmentally and arrogantly as those people often have treated him.
From the very beginning of the book, for example, the author refers to Christians with whom he has deep theological disagreements, especially on the issues addressed in the book, as "Christians" – note the quotation marks indicating that that are not really Christians at all. Kirby doesn't even seem to notice the irony of doing this in the midst of stories which inveigh against those very people reading Kirby out of his own Baptist community! What happened to doing to others as you would have them do to you?
I raise this issue precisely because I share so many of the author's concerns, and identify so closely with so many of his solutions. Kirby's book is not simply some academic exercise, but a heartfelt effort to bridge the worlds of deep religious commitment to particular traditions, and the absolute necessity to remain cognizant of and respectful toward other communities. If we cannot figure out how to do both of those at the same time, we are going to kill each other and ourselves. Because the stakes are so high, we cannot avoid asking tough questions.
It is a matter of pride among people who identify with words like progressive, forward-thinking, and inclusive, to be at the forefront of bridging that divided, but if those terms become synonymous with treating those who think differently as backward, narrow-minded people who don't "get" God, then what have we gained?
This book intrigued me and it surely raises questions with which all people committed to any cause, and especially to a faith, must wrestle. It just needs a better, more nuanced ending.
Is God A Christian? answers the question posed by the title with an unqualified "no". But perhaps by offering a qualified "yes", the author would serve his important cause better. Instead of undermining God's Christian identity, one might imagine that God is, or could be, a Christian, just as God is, or could be, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, etc. all at the same time.
The issue is not what God is, or even how we need to experience the 100 per cent realty that God is as we experience God being – as long as no one of those identities is thought to exhaust all of who God is. For an infinite God, multiple identities are neither problematic nor incoherent; they are simply loving concessions to a finite faithful.
As is so often the case, the issue isn't God, the issue is us.
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 brings up many emotions and presents some very real challenges, among them how to remember the past without being imprisoned by it. This video, filmed at St. Paul's, the church closest to the World Trade Center site, is a wonderful example of rising to that challenge. Watch it and see for yourself.
Over the coming days, I will offer further reflections on a variety of questions raised by the attacks of September 11th, how we dealt with them then, and how we deal with them now. Stay tuned.


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Lucie & Simon's projects are conceived as series of photographs (Earth Vision, Scenes of life, Living images, Silent World) which all outsmart our perception of reality by staging a quirky view of daily life. From urban or family solitude to existential wanderings, their compositions capture different moods of man's silent melancholy, focusing on the narrow chink between our existence and the world of dreams. In an enigmatic universe rekindling the memory of Edward Hopper's paintings, each character seems totally absorbed by the timelessness of dreams.


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Taylor Swift loves her cat -- a lot. The country star often shares tidbits about her feline friend, Meredith, most recently posting a video of her playing "fetch."
"These days if I'm not in the studio, I'm most likely doing this. So...," Swift wrote on her Facebook page with a link to the video clip. With over 11,000 likes, it's clear that her fans approve.
The video shows Tay in a floral print dress, asking her kitty if she wants to play. "Wanna play fetch? K," she says, before tossing a treat (or maybe just cat food) across the room. Meredith sprints to the goodie and gobbles it up.
Although the cat failed to return the item like a dog would, Swift was pleased. "Good girl," she adds. "Well done. Proud of you." It looks like T-Swizzle is even rewriting the script on how to play fetch.
Meredith joined Swift's family in November 2011. The singer introduced her adorable kitten to the world via Twitter. "Hanging out with my new roommate, Meredith," she wrote with a photo of her new pet. Since then, Swift has posted dozens of pics and videos of her cat, who was named after the character Meredith Grey in 'Grey's Anatomy.'
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Thome Joins Elite with No. 600
Jim Thome, who became the eighth member of the 600 home run club last night in the Twins win over the Tigers, hit 134 round-trippers in a White Sox uniform.
I have to admit that I wasn't the biggest Thome fan during his four seasons on the South Side. I felt he struck out or grounded out when an RBI double or homer was needed in a crucial situation. But no one can deny that he is a future Hall of Famer, universally loved by the baseball world for being an ideal teammate and all-round good guy. We all should be happy for him.
I also have a much different perspective about Thome's tenure in Chicago after witnessing Adam Dunn's miserable season as the Sox DH. I guess Gentleman Jim wasn't so bad after all.


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I don't know if it's true but I think in a finite dimensional veccter space, an orthonormal set which is complete becomes a basis. But in a Hilbert space, the books say that the set of finite linear combinations of the elements in a complete orthonormal set is only dense in the Hilbert space. So why aren't they equal? Does the problem lie in closedness or infinity of dimension? Would you please give me an example of a Hilbert space where a complete orthonormal set is not a basis?
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(William) Robert Wood (born 13 November 1949) is a UK-born Australian who was elected to the Australian Parliament in the 1987 elections as Senator for New South Wales.
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