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Goofy's Kitchen Review
Jan 17, 2012 | Add Your Review
Located in Resort Disneyland
Sharing our Goofy's Kitchen Review today located at The Disneyland Hotel! This is one of our very favorite Character Dining Experiences at the Parks!
One of the most magical dining experiences at the Resort is Goofy's Kitchen! This is our review from 2012, little Pax wasn't even born yet! We were locals at the time. So many great memories!
When we stayed at the Disneyland Resort Hotel back in November, I knew that one of places we had to eat was Goofy's Kitchen that is located in the Resort. Now, take my advice and learn from our mistake……make your reservation in advance. We walked up to the counter like idiots saying, "Table for 4 please." The lady looked at us a little funny and said, "You don't have reservations?" Needless to say we had to wait a good 30-45 minutes for our table, but there was no way I was missing out on breakfast!
Goofy's Kitchen, Disneyland Resort Hotel
Here is the check-in counter. Be prepared for a very long line just to check in. People flock to this place.
Right when the hostess calls your name to be seated, she first gets you ready for a family picture with Goofy. They will take a professional one for you with their camera (and give you a card that you can view online and purchase). They will also take a photo with your camera if you request it.
Goofy's Kitchen Food!
The hostess shows you to your seat then you go right into the kitchen, grab a plate and get to work.
Ready, set go!
I promise I did not start my breakfast with dessert, but I did photograph it to show you there's a little bit of everything!
Pretty much anything you could ever want for breakfast is available at Goofy's Kitchen. Not kidding.
Nicely spiced breakfast potatoes. I am pretty sure I went back for seconds 🙂
Little cinnamon rolls were up for grabs too.
I am a huge eggs benedict fan, so I did try one out and it was pretty darn good. Not the best eggs benny I've ever had, but it was certainly enjoyable.
I'm a sucker for an omelet bar. I couldn't believe there was no line when I walked up. Sweet!
Chef busy at work preparing any kind of omelet you like.
PB&J Pizza 🙂
I think these were little pumpkin pies, how cute!
Rainbow Cupcakes.
Lemon Bars, oh my! I just couldn't do it for breakfast, but took lots of photos 🙂
Fruit Pizza.
Chocolate Chip Cookies too! Yowza!
Here's my plate. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. Yum!
The French Toast was great.
My made to order omelet was one of my favorites.
They even had biscuits and gravy. Talk about……there's no need to eat the rest of the day after this breakfast 🙂
Goofy's Kitchen is a must if you are staying at the Disneyland Resort. It is fun for the whole family and you get the best photos with the Disney Characters with no lines. Love it!
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Wow, that breakfast looks incredible!
Ummm. 🙂 looks like a nice spread,..
It all looks so good!!
Jon David is a HUGE fun of breakfast buffets, so we will definitely hit this one up if we're ever at Disneyland.
P.S. I totally would have gone for the lemon bar.
We do it every time we go to Disneyland and love it every time. Totally worth the price of the food especially if you have little ones because it is one-on-one time with the characters and the food is pretty good too. Love the omelet bar!
YES! I was waiting for this review and hoping that your family liked Goofy's Kitchen! We LOVED every minute of it. It was SO fun with the characters, and nice to get pics with a LOT of them. I read online that Goofy's Kitchen always has the most characters, out of the other places to eat at Disneyland. We LOVED the food and my son can't stop talking about the PB&J pizza (Goofy's favorite). SO fun and definitely worth the money! 🙂
We took our godson to celebrate his second birthday last June. He loved it! His favorite character is Goofy, he especially loves the classic cartoon that features Goofy skiing. That was my first visit to Goofy's Kitchen. While I thought the food was good and service was incredible (including characters), I might not go back unless I had kids with me and a celebration. The omelets are delicious, and I loved the potatoes. I did try the lemon bars, they were delicious! Dining there is expensive, but the smile on my godson's face was priceless.
That pb and j pizza looks awesome! I am heading to Disneyland in 2 weeks for the Tinkerbell run and am calling to make a reservation Do you have any other great food ideas for me while I'm there?
Wow! That looks great! We have been twice to the character breakfast at the PCH Grill with Mickey and Stitch, since we are huge Stitch fans. I thought the assortment there was great (love LOVE the chilaquiles)but the desserts alone at Goofy's Kitchen make me think we'll do that breakfast next time! Thanks for the review!
Mmm! I love going to buffets on vacation. I have never been to Goofy's Kitchen, but everything looks delicious!!
I was just there on Jan 4 and we had a wonderful experience! We had supper instead, my kids had the very expensive macaroni but tried every dessert! They also got to meet sooo many characters! I had the salad bar and a few other things but the pot stickers were amazing! It was a great start to a wonderful holiday! your blog was a great help to planning my holiday! Thanks for all the Disney info!!
We had breakfast with Goofy the last time we were at Disneyland, it was awesome!!! So much fun for young & old alike! Food was great! Reservations is a must! Also had breakfast at the disney hotel we stayed at, Paradise Pier, also with Disney characters – Lilo & Stitch and a host of others! It was fantastic as well. I love all your Disneyland posts, and it makes this 55 yr old to want to come back soon, I have things I want to try!!! We did like the french toast at the TomorrowLand Terrace!!! Keep the Disney posts coming!!!!
Oh my gosh, that looks like breakfast heaven!! Definitely a must visit, we've got to go back and check out all those desserts!! 🙂
$36 a person for breakfast?? Hahaha I must be cheap because I don't think I'd be able to enjoy it knowing it was that expensive!! 🙂
We had so much fun there too. The cupcakes for breakfast were a little over the top, but a fun experience!
The fruit pizza looks so yummy!
That's a smart way of thkniing about it.
More than $36 per person for a buffet?! Ugh, this makes me not want to go to Disney. One part of me wants to do the whole experience staying in one of the resorts, but the other part of me wants to do the economical condo thing and eat PB&J and spaghetti.
I cannot wait to go in February!!!
[…] we are there. We are going to be joining in the fun for Goofy's Kitchen, which I have heard great things about. […]
Ooowoooh! I wish I could go! IT ALL LOOKS SO DELICIOUS AND FABULOUS! Too bad it's such a long distance from Indiana! LOL
You know, we just did Goofy's Kitchen for the second time this past week. We've now had both breakfast and dinner. I like both. This time we were celebrating our anniversary and they come bearing a cupcake gift to celebrate. It was my favorite dessert I had there! I want to know that recipe…do you know it or how to find it? Oh YUM!!!!
How much is it for adults and for kids under 7???


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In Which Money Buys Judd Apatow Happiness
With Luxury
by SHELBY SHAW
This Is 40
dir. Judd Apatow
133 minutes
If anything, Judd Apatow should have titled his new effort This Is My Life In 2012, and not only because Apatow's wife of 15 years is cast as the lead mom/wife, Debbie (Leslie Mann), alongside the couple's two daughters as 13-year-old Sadie (Maude Apatow) and 8-year-old Charlotte (Iris Apatow). Alternatives such as This Is Marriage or This Is Family or even This Is Life would not have been any better.
The family in This Is 40, rounded out by the deceiving and charming Pete (Paul Rudd), is anything but typical. Sure, the daughters go through tantrums against the parents and bouts of getting along/hating one another, and there are plenty of problems stemming from woes of finances and in-laws, but this is not the average American family. For one thing, their California house is gorgeous and massive, and at one point even called out as too big for the four of them by Pete's overbearingly dependent father, Larry (Albert Brooks), who Pete secretly continues to lend money to despite having told Debbie he hasn't done so in years.
Despite the family's lavish home, decorated and conveniently organized like a Pottery Barn catalogue, and the private catering for Pete's 40th birthday party (only days after Debbie's own birthday, which is celebrated as turning 38), and the nice cars they each have, and Debbie's personal trainer Jason (Jason Segel), and Sadie's random anger outburst in her walk-in closet over needing new clothes – despite all this, the family is having financial problems.
Debbie's clothing boutique, Lulu's, is your dime-a-dozen L.A. clothing store, something you would find in the likes of New Canaan or Katonah, and seems to be relatively new at her career. Whatever she did beforehand for a job is a mystery. Pete is a music producer, and manages the British rocker Graham Parker, whose latest album is hardly selling past 600 copies.
So how does this family of four manage to have weekend get-aways and still afford their life in-house? While, let's not forget, secretly supplying $80,000 to Larry, in order to support him, his wife and their test-tube triplets who are always dressed in the exact same outfit? Something seems a little suspicious about their money 'woes', until at one point (late in the film) Debbie mentions how Pete's left Sony to work on his own. So he made a lot of money in the past, I guess, and it's lasted them through now.
Oh, and provided all of their little goodies along the way. The cars, Pete's bicycle and matching Livestrong gear, Debbie's trainer, and the girls' countless personal items (including photos with Justin Bieber and the Jonas brothers, both of which are events that probably happened in the Apatows' lives but here are simply shameless props), constitute the mere basics – This Is 40 is essentially a commercial for Apple.
It would be impossible to think Apple was not a sponsor, considering how iPhone, iPad, iTunes, iHome, etc are all used not only physically, but named constantly by the characters. Yes, many/most people own an Apple product. But the way we just end up expecting the girls to watch Lost on an iPad, or for Pete to be found playing Scrabble on his iPad while on the toilet, or for Debbie to pull out her iPhone, or jump onto her MacBook in order to see if hot-to-trot salesgirl Desi (Megan Fox) is stealing $12,000 from Lulu's, all feels like too much of a privilege.
Is this really what being 40 is about? Having all the latest technology in a big house with a swimming pool and caterers and doctors' appointments where they all seem to promise you good fortune and good looks and good health just for showing up? I may not be 40, I may not be married, I may not have kids, but I know that this isn't what your average household is up to. Maybe in Los Angeles or Orange County, or even Fairfield or Westchester counties on the opposite coast, but I live there and that is not even what most of those families are like.
The film is about having privilege and luxury, alongside "common" domestic problems. But it probably does not speak to the majority of families, married couples, or even 40-year-olds in the country. Debbie's constant fear of Pete losing interest in her would insult me as a viewer if I were 40 – I am sure the majority of women that age would kill to have Debbie's looks; in fact, I would not mind looking like that right now and I am half her age. Together, the couple effortlessly steals the attention when they are out, like something out of a bank commercial, as pointed out by an angry and outlandishly brutish parent from school, Catherine (Melissa McCarthy).
I am not even sure that kids who would see the film, for whatever reason, would be able to relate to Sadie and Charlotte. Puberty can make any adolescent seethe with unwarranted rage. Sadie comes off as simply unstable with anger when she throws tantrums over needing new clothing in her walk-in closet or hating her family for not letting her carry out a bizarre obsession with watching as much Lost in as little time as she can. Meanwhile Charlotte seems the quiet prodigy of a piano playing and humble family caretaker, but is more of just a Shirley Temple-esque face for the screen, making "cute" kid quips about this or that, often with the kind of stilted candor only a child who hasn't had much time to practice the lines could deliver. Regardless, my biggest question is whether all kids these days own iPads and have iPhones that their parents take away when they are grounded.
The perfect lives of the family, chipped here and there by stress from work or each other, are hardly entertaining when the ending comes together in an almost too-resolved fashion. And aside from Rudd and Mann's good looks, their conversations feed off one another like something from improv comedy; it's like they constantly are mocking the other's lines, and it gets annoying quickly.
The couple seems the most genuine when either high on marijuana cookies, practicing the kind of talk their therapist suggested, or simply crying. This Is 40 tries too hard to portray what it's trying to sell itself as: the poster-child for mid-life crises, family dysfunction and love, and coming to terms with yourself in your age. It should have been called This Is What You Wish 40 Could Be, because there does not seem to really be anything wrong.
Shelby Shaw is the senior contributor to This Recording. She is a writer and artist living in Chicago. You can find her website here. She twitters here.
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On May 4, Secretary of Agriculture Veneman announced availability of $22.8 million in grant funds to farmers and rural businesses for renewable energy projects, including biomass, wind, geothermal, and solar. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $21 million to 113 farm energy projects. Thirty involved anaerobic digesters to capture methane (biogas) from confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) that manage manure as a liquid. Increasingly, biogas production from liquid animal "wastes" is being touted to boost farm incomes, achieve independence from foreign oil, and solve massive environmental problems associated with CAFOs.
While AWI applauds efforts to develop renewable energy sources, we are concerned that subsidizing energy production from liquefied manure artificially creates a demand to continue an extractive and exploitive relationship with animals and nature and perpetuates a form of animal production that has proved detrimental to public health and rural communities.
(see www.iatp.org/hogreport/; www.apha.org/legislative/policy/2003/2003-007.pdf; and www.factoryfarm.org/press/docs/Methane_Digesters_2003final062703.doc)
In a recent San Francisco Chronicle article a California Energy Commission spokesman estimated that, if all the dairies in California (which subsidizes methane digesters) were hooked into the state's utility grid, they would produce only "100 megawatts or so" of energy. But CAFOs have public costs that exceed their energy potential. CAFOs flush manure from buildings with water, a scarce resource in some regions. Besides methane, anaerobic decomposition of liquefied manure emits other gasses, including hydrogen sulfide, a potent neurotoxin. Hydrogen sulfide from manure pits and inside CAFO buildings has killed animals and people, including three California dairy CAFO workers. Methane is highly explosive and has asphyxiated workers repairing equipment in manure pits. Local governments' health care services and community food shelves too often are forced to "subsidize" CAFOs that hire unskilled workers at wages well below the cost of living.
Commercial biogas production requires skilled and attentive management and top of the line equipment. Most sources indicate that investments in manure digesters are not possible without subsidies. Some contend that manure digesters may never be profitable without them and that equipment life may be little longer than the payback period, necessitating further capital investments. The farmer soon finds himself on an even faster treadmill than the one on which he was running to keep up before. CAFOs' continuous need to expand to pay capital costs has driven industry structure to fewer and larger CAFOs, displacing smaller operators. Additional capital costs of manure energy are likely to exacerbate the trend.
CAFOs house pigs and dairy cattle on solid concrete or slatted floors from which manure is scraped into gutters or flushed into under-floor collection pits. Laying hens live in wire cages through which manure drops onto conveyers and into pits. CAFOs do not provide bedding that would interfere with liquid manure collection and anaerobic digestion. They submit farmed animals to lifetimes of breathing polluted air, without the possibility of performing healthful natural behaviors such as grazing or flapping of wings. Such inhumane practices will be entrenched by CAFOs' need to collect enough manure to produce energy.
Government programs should support farming practices that are inherently sustainable rather than inherently demanding of remediation. A first positive step is to stop liquefying manure. Composting bedding-based manure is safer for people, animals, and the environment than anaerobic digestion. Sustainable farms raise animals in proportion to the land they have for spreading manure. Rather than a "waste," composted manure is a valuable soil amendment needed by crops. Raising animals on pasture contributes to animal health, reduces veterinary expenses and antibiotic use, conserves energy, and helps prevent soil erosion. Requiring low capital investment, sustainable practices keep farmers off the high-tech treadmill and can provide comfortable livings for farm families and better lives for farmed animals.


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Who can forget Sarah Palin joining John McCain on the RNC stage to the thrumming guitar chords of Heart's 1977 hit song "Barracuda?" Equally well remembered was the group's request that she stop using the song on the campaign trail. When did the trend of using popular music for the sake of political branding start? Recently I asked sociologist Jennifer Lena, author of Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music to offer her thoughts on how music is used in in political campaigns. Read her Election 101 post here:
Political (Dis)chord?
Jennifer Lena
There's a long history of political music, including both highs ("We Shall Overcome" issued from the Highlander School), and lows (from National Socialist Black Metal to the stridently ethnocentrist turbofolk popular in Serbia). Given the synergies between music and politics we should find it perplexing that American politicians are so atrociously bad at picking good music for their campaigns. I won't be able to answer this puzzle in one blog post, but I can begin with a brief history of the campaign song, organized around a discussion of how candidates and tunes are matched. I have picked illustrative examples of each type from the 2012 Republican race to highlight the chasm that separates political and musical communities in the United States, at least in these national contests.
Presidential campaign staffers often commission a jingle, either novel compositions or simply new lyrics written to accompany an existing tune. The practice of commissioning songs has a long history in American politics, which includes the famous "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" (for candidate William Henry Harrison), a song that celebrated the triumph of Harrison's Indiana militia against Native Americans. You might also remember the songs that Irving Berlin wrote to support candidate Dwight Eisenhower, including "They Like Ike," then "I Still Like Ike," and finally "Ike For Four More Years."
Here's a performance of "I Like Ike" by The Promenade Band:
Campaign songs are sometimes manufactured from existing songs, with only the lyrics changed to include campaign-specific content. The practice of adapting songs for campaigns stretches back to the birth of our nation, when "God Save the King" was transformed to substitute Washington's name for the monarch's. In more recent memory, JFK's 1960 campaign was buoyed by Frank Sinatra's performance of an altered "High Hopes:"
Everyone is voting for Jack
Cause he's got what all the rest lack
Everyone wants to back, Jack
Jack is on the right track.
'Cause he's got high hopes
He's got high hopes.
When song lyrics are adapted, or when songs are used as they were originally written and recorded, intellectual property law requires that candidates obtain permission to use the song. This is true even when the lyrics are altered from the original. For example, Bob Dole's 1996 campaign received a "cease and desist" letter from the copyright holders for Sam & Moore's 1967 hit song "Soul Man," which they had altered to "Dole Man." Rondor Music (one of the copyright owners) threatened to sue the campaign $100,000 each time the song was played because it was an "unauthorized derivative work." The practice of licensing existing music for presidential campaign use may have started with FDR's 1932 contest against Herbert Hoover, for which he licensed the use of "Happy Days Are Here Again."
What has the 2012 Republican primary race contributed to this storied history of campaign songs? Among the jingles written expressly for candidates, we find a few spectacularly odd tunes. Early in the race, when Herman Cain was still running, we all saw the ad featuring his Chief of Staff Mark Block, who endorsed his boss, while smoking and accompanied by an 80s-style pop-synth song ("I Am America" by Krista Branch).
A few months later, Santorum supporters First Love released "Game On,":
Here is the chorus, transcribed by Slate:
Oh, there is Hope for our Nation again
Maybe the First time Since we Had Ronald Reagan
There will be Justice for the Unborn
Factories back on our Shores
Where the Constitution rules our land
Yes, I Believe… Rick Santorum is our Man!
The Ron Paul campaign devotes a whole page on their website to citizen-generated original songs and videos. Some of these are adapted from known works, like the following (novel lyrics sung over The Teddy Bear's Picnic by Bratton and Kennedy):
2012 GOP candidates mostly rely on licensed works; for example, Mitt Romney is using Kid Rock's single "Born Free" on the campaign trail; Rock has even appeared at several events to perform the song, including a well-timed February rally outside Detroit, Michigan.
Whether campaigns commission jingles or license existing songs, the relationships between musicians and presidential hopefuls seems to be limited to these intermittent, strategic negotiations over a single song. Why don't campaigners and parties seem to have long-term strategies to create synergies between themselves and sympathetic artists? As I've shown in my work on music genres, communities that create and consume music resemble communities that create and participate in social movements. In fact, they are often the very same group, as I illustrate in my discussions of early Chinese rock, Chilean nueva cancion, and Nigerian afrobeat. Our American history is replete with moments when social movements reach within themselves to harness the musical talents of members who are also artists—as I mentioned above, the Civil Rights Movement's soundtrack included songs written by staff and students at the Highlander School. There is really no sociological reason that politicians shouldn't cultivate musicians (or the reverse) over long periods of time, only to "cash in" (if you'll forgive the phrase) when it comes time to pick campaign songs.
I'll leave this as a puzzle for us to discuss. If you're tempted to attribute this disjuncture between musicians and politicians on the specific characteristics of one or another party and its politics, you should tune in to my next post, where I explore the power of that explanation.
One final note on an emerging means by which politicians might use music in their campaigns. This year, Barack Obama has released a Spotify playlist for his campaign. His list includes 28 songs chosen both by the President and staffers, including those by alt country band Wilco, Bruce Springsteen, and an instrumental tune, "Green Onions" by Booker T & The MGs. Using this free music service, Obama can select a potentially huge number of songs and group them under his name without needing to seek approval or permission from any of the copyright holders. A curated list of songs may provide politicians with an opportunity to craft a multi-dimensional identity for public consideration, and to reach out to multiple constituencies in a way that can be difficult when limited to only one or two campaign songs. The danger, of course, is that the more songs a candidate selects, the more interpretive complexity they invite, and a poorly selected song could quickly lead a campaign off-message.
Jennifer C. Lena is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Barnard College.
* Helpful suggestions on this and the other posts in this series provided by the following: Kieran Healy, Jonathan Neufeld, Shamus Khan, Dustin Tittle, Molly Foran Yurchak, Betsy Wissinger.


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Why is it that when people wax rhapsodic about the gritty New York of the '70s and '80s, they always manage to leave out the part about how waiting for the subway used lead to choreographed dance sequences with a variety of ethnic stereotypes? Knowing this, the nostalgia makes a lot more sense.
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Those who married took upon themselves vows before God to care for and honor another person--they took upon themselves another obligation. These vows held sway and often kept married Christians from living in the same sacrificing and devoted way that their celibate brothers and sisters were able to. Apollonia's devotion was highly respected in the Church in Alexandria but was beginning to be a cause for disfavor among the non-Christians in the city. Decius had barely taken power but the people knew he was no friend of the Christians and so they had no fear that he would outlaw their abuse and murder. Further, the thousand year anniversary of the beginning of the Roman empire was taking place. Further still, one of the non-Christian poets had predicted a great calamity within the walls of Alexandria because of the presence of Christians within. With all of these circumstances swirling together in one perfect storm, it came as no surprise when many of the non-Christians joined together as one mob to exact their own brand of justice upon the Christians.
The people of Alexandria got an early start to the Decian persecutions. They seized two well-known Christians and tortured them to the thrill of the gathered crowd. When they grew tired of the couple, they killed them. They burned down the homes of suspected Christians and brutally mugged and stripped any reported Christians they met in the streets. The mob went so far as to kick down the door of the home of a prominent and wealthy Christian so that they might loot and pillage the home. Apollonia was not only celibate but was also a deaconess--all of this conspired to make her a perfect target. They took her to an open place and held her down. They began by pounding her face and mouth with clubs and fists with the special purpose of breaking or knocking out her teeth. When this savagery proved too humane, they retrieved a pair of tongs and began slowly and painfully removing her teeth one by one.
The pain was incredible but she endured it without returning evil for their evil. Even though they were torturing her to the best of their abilities, she noticed that they had built up a pile of kindling and logs upon which they planned to burn her alive. They had already started the fire and it was roaring by the time they dragged her before it. Their plan was to throw the faithful woman upon the flames and then rejoice in her agonizing death. As they approached, they gave her an ultimatum: deny her faith or burn to death. She asked one request from a bleeding mouth: "Please give me just a moment to pray about it." Perhaps they thought it would be another great occasion to mock her or perhaps they felt she was beginning to cave to their abuse and would renounce her faith after prayer. They released their hold on her for a moment and she leaped into the flames without a scream. She died an eager martyr who could not even consider denying the faith that had gripped her all those years.
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Slovakian authorities on Monday announced plans to seek the extradition of a 97-year-old Hungarian man arrested in Budapest earlier this month on allegations of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Slovak Justice Minister Tomas Borec [official profile, in Slovak] asked a court to seek the extradition of the man alleged to be Laszlo Csatary [AP report]. The Hungarian man was arrested after the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) [advocacy website], a Jewish human rights organization committed to finding and prosecuting Holocaust war criminals, submitted new evidence [JURIST report] to the Budapest prosecutor's office detailing the war crimes allegedly committed by Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary, a former senior Hungarian police officer in the Slovakian city of Kosice. The evidence submitted to Prosecutor Dr. Gabor Hetenyi alleged that Csatary was one of the main actors responsible for deporting 300 Jews from Kosice to Kamenetz-Podolsk in Ukraine, where they were killed in 1941. The SWC also accused Csatary of being responsible for transferring about 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz [JURIST news archive]. According to a Czechoslovak court ruling from June 8, 1948, Csatary was found guilty of deportations to Nazi death camps and of unlawfully whipping, torturing or killing people in 1944, and he was sentenced to death in absentia. Czechoslovakia abolished the death penalty three years before dividing into Slovakia and the Czech Republic, so the death sentence would likely be changed to life imprisonment if Csatary is extradited from Hungary.
Earlier this month Hungarian prosecutors charged Csatary [JURIST report] with the "unlawful torture of human beings," a war crime that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Csatary is at the top of the SWC's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals [BBC backgrounder], and the SWC had already called on the Hungarian government to prosecute the Nazi war criminal [JURIST report] when the center issued its annual report in April. Nazi prosecution continues regardless of the ages of the criminals. In January the Ingolstadt Prosecutor's Office [official website, in German] filed a motion [JURIST report] to jail Klaas Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands in 1947 of Nazi war crimes. Germany reopened investigations into former Nazi death camp guards in October, which stemmed from the conviction of John Demjanjuk [JURIST reports], a former guard at a camp in Poland who was deported to Germany to stand trial for his alleged Nazi crimes. Last September alleged Nazi Sandor Kepiro died while he awaited an appeal [JURIST report] on his acquittal on war crimes charges.


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Jeffrey L. Tomlinson, 63, passed away May 17, 2013, at St. Luke Hospital in Marion as a result of cancer. He was born Nov. 9, 1949, in Charleston, W. Va. He was the son of Robert and Virginia (Berry) Tomlinson.
Jeff was an Army veteran who proudly served his country in the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1968.
On Oct. 9, 1971, he was married to Rita (Stika) Tomlinson of Marion.
Jeff's last job was manager of the Marion Pizza Hut after being a semi-truck driver for over 40 years.
Survivors include his loving wife Rita; a son, Gary Tomlinson of Marion; a daughter, Karen Dornbush of Newton; a brother, Michael Tomlinson and wife Laurinda and their children of Colorado; and four grandchildren, Jackon, Jimi, Emily, and Caleb.
He was predeceased by his parents Robert and Virginia Tomlinson and an infant brother, Daniel.
Funeral services will be held at Zeiner Funeral Home in Marion at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Interment with military rites will be in the Marion Cemetery, Marion, Kan.
Memorials may be made to the Marion City Library or Harden Hospice in McPherson, Kan., and sent in care of Zeiner Funeral Home, 205 Elm St., Marion, KS 66861.


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In 2003, President Bush nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The Democrats have blocked consideration of that nomination, and Kavanaugh was not part of the group of nominees who saw the light of day after the gang of 14 deal. To add insult to injury, the Senate now has agreed, by unanimous consent, to hold over all nominations from this session except Kavanaugh's. This means that Kavanaugh can receive future consideration (or more likely non-consideration) only if Bush renominates him.
Why is Kavanaugh being singled out for such shabbly treatment? Hugh Hewitt provides the likely explanation — Hillary Clinton has placed a hold on Kavanaugh because he served as Ken Starr's deputy during the Clinton investigations.
A non-partisan media would want to discover whether Senator Clinton is, in fact, exacting revenge on Kavanaugh. As Hugh puts it, "if. . . Hillary [is] punishing a fine man for the sins of her husband, that's a big story." After all, "everything connected to Hillary, a potential presidential candidate and a major celebrity even if she declined the race, is a big story." But the leading MSM outlets are not interested. The Washington Post, for example, appears to be ignoring the story, preferring instead (in Hugh's words) to " slag independent but brave correspondents roaming the Iraq-Syrian border with the Marines."


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Plagiarism Policy
Papers submitted must be the work of the student whose name appears on the paper. Submitting another student's work as your own is cheating. If you let another student use your work and designate it as his or her original work, you are also subject to penalty. Don't even consider using another student's work or allowing another student to use your work; the consequences are too high. This same rule applies to using any author's work and submitting it as your own. In either case, it is cheating. In recent years, it has become easy to cheat by using materials placed on the Internet or World Wide Web. College plagiarism policies also apply to cybercheating.
Plagiarism: An All-College Policy Enacted by College Senate on May 11, 1977, North Central College Faculty Handbook, Pages 22-24 (Section 184.108.40.206.10)
I. What plagiarism is: Plagiarism means the offering of someone else's words, ideas, or conceptions as if they were one's own. Students are indeed encouraged to draw upon the information and wisdom of others, but in the spirit of scholarship they are always expected to state such indebtedness so that a) their own creativity can be justly appreciated and b) their use of sources, like a scientist's experiment, can be verified by others. Plagiarism differs from this productive use of sources in that the similarity of the original and the borrowings is very close; it is acknowledged inexactly or not at all; and it shows little or no creative application by the borrower.
Plagiarism is a prime intellectual offense in that the borrower is faking the learning process. No learning community can thrive if its members counterfeit their achievements, deceive their teachers, and take unfair advantage of their fellow students. Since the integrity of the whole academic community is thus at stake, the penalties are high.
II. How plagiarism is identified: To establish the occurrence of plagiarism, it is not necessary to prove intent. All students are responsible for knowing or learning what academic honesty is. At North Central College, plagiarism will be deemed to have occurred when one or more of the following external evidences is present:
1. The writing of a student includes word-for-word passages taken without explicit and accurate acknowledgment from a source written by another, provided that the cumulative borrowing includes at least ten words. "Explicit and accurate acknowledgment" means the use of quotation marks and a verifiable citation of source, either in parentheses or by footnote, at the point of indebtedness. (The mere listing of the source in the bibliography is not enough acknowledgment in itself.)
2. The writing of a student closely resembles another source in thought, order, or diction (including synonyms) for a cumulative resemblance of three or more sentences, without explicit and accurate acknowledgment as defined in #1 above.
3. Two or more papers or exams, submitted at the same time, contain resemblances in factual or stylistic detail which are decidedly outside normal probabilities of coincidence. The likelihood of plagiarism will be deemed even higher a) if the students were known to be in close physical proximity at the time of writing, and b) if the factual details involve unusual error. In the event of such resemblances, all parties involved will be judged responsible.
4. A paper or exam contains terminology or information which the student, on questioning, cannot explain.
5. A paper or exam contains unusually detailed data for which the student does not produce a verifiable source.
6. These same principles hold for the inclusion of borrowed diagrams, mathematical statements, tables, and pictures.
Note: In citing any sources, the student implicitly guarantees the accuracy and fullness of acknowledgment. The instructor may therefore properly request the student to bring in those sources so that such guarantees may be confirmed. Such a request, made routinely in many schools, carries no implied criticism.
If they are unsure about whether their writing has sufficiently acknowledged outside sources, students should consult with either their course instructor or the Writing Center before submitting final copy.
In an essay, a student needs to define the word "plagiarism" and writes the following two sentences:
According to the NCC Guide to Writing, plagiarism means the offering of someone else's words, ideas or conceptions as if they were one's own. The Guide notes that students are encouraged to draw upon the information and wisdom of
others, but in the spirit of such scholarship they are always expected to state such indebtedness.
Although the student has acknowledged the source of these ideas, the writing is plagiarized. The author has copied, word for word, the language of the original source and has not used quotation marks to indicate the fact. Plagiarism is avoided once the original words are enclosed in quotation marks. Another way to solve this same problem is through a mix of paraphrase and precise quotation, as shown in the following revision:
The NCC Guide to Writing defines plagiarism as presenting others' "words, ideas, or conceptions" as the writer's own. The Guide encourages the use of outside material, but insists that "the spirit of scholarship" requires students to
acknowledge their sources properly.
Any instructor who has assembled evidence of plagiarism will first offer the student a chance to provide an alternate explanation of the evidence or to admit fault. If the inference of plagiarism remains, the instructor may choose one of these options, listed in order of increased severity according to the extent and evident deliberateness of the deceit. The first two options suppose that the plagiarism is not extensive, or that it would not have given the student substantial academic advantage such as full course credit or high course grade, or that the instructor has clear reasons to believe that the plagiarism can be accounted for by ignorance which though subject to discipline is genuine.
1. Reprimanding the student and requiring a revision of the work to eliminate plagiarism or an additional paper, or exam.
2. Lowering the grade for the paper or exam (even as far as F) without opportunity to regain the lost credit.
The remaining options would come into play if the plagiarism is extensive; or if it would have given the student substantial academic advantage, or if the student had previously been warned against it.
3. Directed withdrawal of the student from the course.
4. Failure of the student for the course.
5. Referral of evidence to the Dean of Faculty for appropriate disciplinary action (which may go so far as suspension or dismissal).
Any sanction beyond 1) will be reported to the Dean of Faculty for notation in the student's file. The record of past plagiarisms for a given student may affect the disposition of any new case. No notation will appear on the student's permanent transcript, nor will any notation be sent off campus with the student's records.


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Download of the Day: Wireshark 1.6.0 RC1
Our Download of the Day today is Wireshark 1.6.0 RC1.
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto standard across many industries and educational institutions.
Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
Live capture and offline analysis
Standard three-pane packet browser
Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
The most powerful display filters in the industry
Rich VoIP analysis
Read/write many different capture file formats
Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platfrom)
Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text
The latest version includes the following changes:
Changes in Version 1.6.0 RC1
# Bug Fixes
- Wireshark is unresponsive when capturing from named pipes on Windows.
- Ring buffers are no longer turned on by default when using multiple capture files.
# New and Updated Features
- Wireshark can import text dumps, similar to text2pcap.
- You can now view Wireshark's dissector tables (for example the TCP port to dissector mappings) from the main window.
- TShark can show a specific occurrence of a field when using '-T fields'.
- Custom columns can show a specific occurrence of a field.
- You can hide columns in the packet list.
- Wireshark can now export SMB objects.
- dftest and randpkt now have manual pages.
- TShark can now display iSCSI, ICMP and ICMPv6 service response times.
- Dumpcap can now save files with a user-specified group id.
- Syntax checking is done for capture filters.
- You can display the compiled BPF code for capture filters in the Capture Options dialog.
- You can now navigate backwards and forwards through TCP and UDP sessions using Ctrl+, and Ctrl+. .
- Packet length is (finally) a default column.
- TCP window size is now avaiable both scaled and unscaled. A TCP window scaling graph is available in the GUI.
- 802.1q VLAN tags are now shown by the Ethernet II dissector.
- Various dissectors now display some UTF-16 strings as proper Unicode including the DCE/RPC and SMB dissectors.
- The RTP player now has an option to show the time of day in the graph in addition to the seconds since beginning of capture.
- The RTP player now shows why media interruptions occur.
- Graphs now save as PNG images by default.
- TShark can read and write host name information from and to pcapng-formatted files. Wireshark can read it. TShark can dump host name information via
* [-z hosts]
* The tshark -z option now uses the
* [-z ,srt]
* syntax instead of
* [-z ,rtt]
- for all protocols that support service response time statistics. This syntax now matches Wireshark's syntax for this option.
# New Protocol Support
- ADwin, ADwin-Config, Apache Etch, Aruba PAPI, Babel Routing Protocol, Broadcast/Multicast Control, Constrained Application Protocol (COAP), Digium TDMoE, Erlang Distribution Protocol, Ether-S-I/O, FastCGI, Fibre Channel over InfiniBand (FCoIB),Gopher, Gigamon GMHDR, IDMP, Infiniband Socket Direct Protocol(SDP),JSON, LISP Control, LISP Data, LISP, MikroTik MAC-Telnet,MRP Multiple Mac Registration Protocol (MMRP) Mongo Wire Protocol,MUX27010, Network Monitor 802.11 radio header, OPC UAExtensionObjects, GPPI-GEOLOCATION-GPS, ReLOAD, ReLOAD Framing,RObust Header Compression (ROHC), RSIP, SAMETIME, SCoP, SGSAP,Tektronix Teklink, USB/AT Commands, uTorrent Transport Protocol,WAI authentication, Wi-Fi P2P (Wi-Fi Direct)
# Updated Protocol Support
* New and Updated Capture File Support
- Apple PacketLogger, Catapult DCT2000, Daintree SNA, Endace ERF, HP OpenVMS TCPTrace, IPFIX (the file format, not the protocol),Lucent/Ascend debug, Microsoft Network Monitor, NetworkInstruments, TamoSoft CommView


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Disparate Groups Urge NY to Cut Taxes
Business groups as well as progressive social service groups told New York officials they must put an end to decades of targeted, often politically fueled tax breaks and, instead, fairly cut taxes to turn around one of the country's worst business climates.
Senate Republicans who share control of the chamber held a rare pre-session hearing, featuring business groups that called for deep tax cuts. Meanwhile, in a separate news conference, progressive groups sought what they called tax fairness by eliminating breaks for the rich to cover the cost of reducing income taxes and to cut some of the nation's highest property taxes crushing the middle class and working poor.
The groups, usually at odds, approached common ground just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo is preparing his 2014-15 budget and the Legislature prepares for the next session, beginning in January, the start of an election year for Cuomo and lawmakers.
"There's something there, but it takes some leaders that are willing to get into details, rather than into sound bites," Michael Kink of the progressive group Strong Economy for All said in an interview.
Joseph Henchman of the national Tax Foundation said New York's tax system, whose tax burden consistently ranks worst or second worst in the nation, continues to be an albatross.
By comparison, he said, Nebraska has spent the last five years systematically fixing its problems and Michigan eliminated the tax credit it had been using to attract movie productions. Although Michigan lost some film productions, the revenue lost to the credit was used more effectively to lower other, broader taxes, said Henchman.
Meanwhile, Cuomo and the New York Legislature expanded the state's $400 million tax break for film and TV production while giving NBC a tax break to bring "The Tonight Show" to Manhattan. Cuomo said the tax break helped bring 404 projects to New York since 2011, generated $5.4 billion in revenue according to the applications, and hired 350,000 workers.
The Tax Foundation ranked New York's business climate as the 50th worst among states this year.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco said several states are cutting taxes, while New York continues to see layoffs and an exodus of young people.
"It's time to change all this," DeFrancisco said.
Cuomo has said cutting just 1 percentage point of the tax rate for everyone would cost $6 billion in revenue, a drop in funding that the $135 billion state budget, which is still struggling from the Recession, can't afford.
E.J. McMahon of the Manhattan Institute think tank criticized Cuomo and the Legislature for extending what were to be temporary tax increases, while claiming they weren't increasing taxes because they weren't new levies. Specifically, a 2009 emergency surcharge on million dollar earners to contend with a fiscal crisis was extended by Cuomo and the Legislature in a special session in December 2011, and again in a closed-door deal this spring. Cuomo and Senate Republicans had vowed during the 2010 campaigns to oppose any extension and Cuomo, in his first days as governor, said he'd consider an extension of the tax to be a tax increase.
"We have reduced taxes tremendously," Cuomo said Wednesday.
He noted his extension of the so-called millionaire's tax uses part of the more than $2 billion in annual revenue to reduce middle-class taxes. The extension was slightly smaller than the original 2009 tax increase and took effect days before the higher rate expired so technically all taxpayers are paying less than they had been, he said, although still more than if the temporary tax had been allowed to expire.
But more is needed.
"I said when I was elected we have no future as the tax capital of the nation," Cuomo said.
Cuomo said his Start-Up New York program will change the perception of New York to a "no-tax state" and jump start the upstate economy. It offers a company and its employees no taxes for 10 years if they locate in New York.
A 2009 emergency surcharge on million dollar earners to contend with a fiscal crisis was extended by Cuomo and the Legislature in a special session in December 2011, and again in a closed-door deal this spring. Cuomo and Senate Republicans had vowed during the 2010 campaigns to oppose any extension as a "job killer."
The Unshackle Upstate business group earlier this week said New York needs to take "a bold step" and cut income taxes by 25 percent for upstate residents making less than $50,000, as well as cut the sales tax by half in several upstate counties.
Frank Mauro of the labor-backed Fiscal Policy Institute also criticized $350 rebate checks to be sent to most New Yorkers during next fall's elections. He said that, instead, property taxes should be limited by a homeowner's ability to pay.


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§ 422.510. Applications and related forms used in the health insurance for the aged program.
(a) Application forms. The following forms are prescribed for use in applying for entitlement to benefits under the health insurance for the aged program:
SSA-18—Application for Hospital Insurance Entitlement. (For use by individuals who are not entitled to retirement benefits under title II of the Social Security Act or under the Railroad Retirement Act. This form may also be used for enrollment in the supplementary medical insurance benefits plan.)
SSA-40—Application for Enrollment in the Supplementary Medical Insurance Program. (This form is mailed directly to beneficiaries at the beginning of their initial enrollment period.)
SSA-40A—Application for Enrollment in Supplementary Medical Insurance. (For use by civil service employees who are not eligible for enrollment in the hospital insurance plan.)
SSA-40B—Application for Medical Insurance. (For general use in requesting medical insurance protection.)
SSA-40C—Application for Enrollment. (This form is mailed to beneficiaries as a followup on Form SSA-40 (Application for Enrollment in the Supplementary Medical Insurance Program).)
SSA-40F—Application for Medical Insurance. (For use by beneficiaries residing outside the United States.)
An individual who upon attainment of age 65 is entitled to a monthly benefit based on application OA-C1, SSA-2, OA-C7, OA-C10, SSA-10A, OA-C13, or SSA-14 is automatically entitled to hospital insurance protection. (For conditions of entitlement to hospital insurance benefits, see 42 CFR part 405, subpart A. For medical insurance protection, an applicant must request supplementary medical insurance coverage (see Forms SSA-40, SSA-40A, SSA-40B, SSA-40C, and SSA-40F under § 422.510(a)). (For conditions of entitlement to supplementary medical insurance benefits, see 42 CFR part 405, subpart B.)
(b) Related forms. The following are the prescribed forms for use in requesting payment for services under the hospital insurance benefits program and the supplementary medical insurance benefits program and other related forms:
SSA-1453—Inpatient Hospital and Extended Care Admission and Billing. (To be completed by hospital for payment of hospital expenses for treatment of patient confined in hospital.)
SSA-1483—Provider Billing for Medical and Other Health Services. (To be completed by hospital for payment of hospital expenses for treatment of patient who is not confined in the hospital.)
SSA-1484—Explanation of Accommodation Furnished. (To be completed by the hospital to explain accommodation of a patient in other than a semiprivate (two- to four-bed) room.)
SSA-1486—Inpatient Admission and Billing—Christian Science Sanatorium. (To be completed by a Christian Science sanatorium for payment for treatment of patients confined in the sanatorium.)
SSA-1487—Home Health Agency Report and Billing. (For use by an organization providing home health services.)
SSA-1490—Request for Medicare Payment. (For use by patient or physician to request payment for medical expenses.)
SSA-1554—Provider Billing for Patient Services by Physicians. (For use by hospital for payment for services provided by hospital-based physicians.)
SSA-1556—Prepayment Plan for Group Medical Practices Dealing Through a Carrier. (For use by organizations (which have been determined to be group practice prepayment plans for medicare purposes) for reimbursement for medical services provided to beneficiaries.)
SSA-1660—Request for Information—Medicare Payment For Services to a Patient Now Deceased. (For use in requesting amounts payable under title XVIII to a deceased beneficiary.)
SSA-1739—Request for Enrollment Card Information by Foreign Beneficiary. (Used to notify beneficiaries approaching age 65 who reside in foreign countries that they are eligible to enroll for SMI. They return this form if they wish additional information and an application, SSA-40F.)
SSA-1966—Health Insurance Card. (This card is issued to a person entitled to benefits under the health insurance for the aged program and designates whether he is entitled to hospital insurance benefits or supplementary medical insurance benefits or both.
SSA-1980—Carrier or Intermediary Request for SSA Assistance.
SSA-2384—Third Party Premium Billing Request. (For use by a nonbeneficiary enrollee who must pay premiums by direct remittance and is having his premium notices sent to a third party to assure continuance of supplementary medical insurance.)
[32 FR 18030, Dec. 16, 1967, as amended at 38 FR 11451, May 8, 1973; 44 FR 34943, June 18, 1979]


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For more than a decade, teen behavior specialist and motivational speaker Josh Shipp has been helping adults understand youths and youths understand themselves. In doing so, the Los Gatos resident often finds himself channeling his own traumatic life experiences.
Shipp was abandoned at birth by his 17-year-old mother and wound up bouncing around a variety of foster homes. He was abused, addicted and suicidal, so he knows what it means to be a teen in trouble.
Now, Shipp is bringing that experience to a gritty new unscripted TV series, "Teen Trouble." Each episode follows Shipp as he embeds himself into the lives of teens on dangerous, self-destructive paths — taking drugs, stealing from their families, abusing alcohol and breaking the law. Along the way, he helps desperate parents while confronting their out-of-control kids with some cold, hard facts.
Shipp recently took some time to field some questions about his work and the show.
Q So what brought you to television?
A I've been approached many times about doing some kind of show. But all the pitches came off sounding like a "Jerry Springer"-type thing or exploitive or totally unrealistic. The producers for this show had my attention right from the get-go. They told me that they're just going to follow me around and not tell me what to say or do — that they would just capture the experience, and that would be compelling enough.
Q But was there any concern about having cameras involved in the process?
A Actually, I was quite worried about that. I was concerned about the kids questioning my motives — that maybe I was trying to exploit them. Teens tend to put up walls to begin with, so I thought that maybe the cameras would make it worse and they'd shut down.
Q But they didn't?
A I came to realize that the camera also has a lot of power. For example, kids involved with drugs and other destructive behavior often live in denial. They don't see themselves at their worst moments. They'll tell you, "I'm in control. It's not that bad. You're blowing things out of proportion." … But now, they can see it for themselves. It's a huge wake-up call when they realize that, yes, they truly are out of control. The cameras were a surprise blessing.
Q How do you get these kids to change?
A First, I fast-forward to what I see as a possible rock-bottom moment for them. I had one kid go to a morgue and lie in a casket. For another, we simulated a funeral where they heard people speak about them in past tense. I had one spend a night in jail. …
Q And then what?
A Then we give them a sense of hope. I'll have them meet someone who overcame drug addiction and went on to have a successful life. Ultimately, it comes down to: What life do you want?
Q What is the biggest mistake parents make with their children?
A A lack of consistency in their approach. The parents might make a lot of threats, but there's no follow-through. If you're not mean at times, life is going to be mean to them.
Q And no consistency means no direction.
A Right. In the kid's mind, you become a liar. If there's no consistency, he or she is going to say, "Why don't I just do what the hell I want to do?" There needs to be consistent encouragement and consistent consequences.
Q Do you have any other key advice?
A A kid has to want to change, or nothing is going to happen. And they need to find a passion in life. Then they have something to lose. My passion as a teen was baseball. I had to clean up my act or get kicked off the team.
Q When did you realize that you might be good at what you do?
A In high school, I was kind of a class clown. Most teachers saw me as an utter annoyance. But one told me, "I can see that you have a gift. When you speak, you hold the kids' attention." That was like an epiphany for me.
Read Chuck Barney's TV blog at http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/category/tv, and follow him at Twitter.com/chuckbarney.
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A Staffing Atlas to Guide You
What's the temp penetration rate in your county? If someone asked you that, you would probably dismiss both the question and the person who asked. But for those in contingent workforce management, it's not an inane request. And we at Staffing Industry Analysts can help answer it.
Our analysts have come up with a tool, the 2012 Opportunity Atlas, which contains not just temporar yworker data but traditional employee statistics as well at the state, metro and county levels. Available to SIA's corporate and council members, it's a great interactive resource for staffing firms. And there are two really good reasons to use it. To begin with, it helps you benchmark your own performance.
For instance, you are a staffing in Akron, Ohio. You want to know how much of the market your agency has. Well go to the atlas and you can find out. It also helps with expansion openings. For the reader's convenience, Staffing Industry Analysts has ranked all U.S. markets by an "opportunity score." This score has a potential range of 0 to 100; higher scores indicate greater opportunity for staffing firms. The calculation for the score takes into account local market growth trends over the short- and long-term — in terms of general employment, temporary employment and branches — as well as sales activity per branch.
So the atlas tells you that perhaps expanding (further) into Akron is not the answer. You already have 50 percent of the market. Maybe it's time to look at another metro or even state. So next time your boss or a client asks you what the temp penetration rate in Oregon is, you can stun them with your brilliance.
P.S. Buyers of contingent workforce services: make sure your staffing suppliers have access to this tool. It can help staff your next project more efficiently.


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After several weather-related flight delays, Solar Impulse made a successful demonstration flight June 26, the last day of the Paris Air Show. The sun-powered four-engine aircraft is intended to shine a light on green technologies. It's backed by Bertrand Piccard, the Swiss adventurer best known for circumnavigating the world in the Breitling Orbiter 3, a propane balloon, in 1999.
The aircraft has the "wingspan of an A340, with the weight of a VW Golf." Pilot Andr Borschberg flew the plane to Le Bourget airport from Brussels and the intention was to fly for airshow audiences much earlier, but several windy days kept Solar Impulse grounded. Sunday morning provided the weather needed to show attendees this year's guest of honor.
What does it take to get Solar Impuse into the air? AVweb spoke with Flight Test Engineer Christoph Schlettig:
The aircraft, based in Payerne, Switzerland, has four custom-made lithium polymer batteries, each weighing around one hundred kilograms, or 220 pounds, located on linen-covered, carbon-fiber wings. The wings themselves house solar cells that charge throughout daylight hours in order to give the plane "seven to eight hours" of battery-powered flight at night. All told, the cells cover approximately 220 square meters, or 2,300 square feet, on top of both the wings and horizontal stabilizer of the aircraft.
As Schlettig explained, the challenge with extended battery-powered flight lies in the storage capacities of the batteries. The solar cells, on the other hand, are "perfect."
The plane stores both solar and potential energy. During flight, Solar Impulse climbs to cruising altitude, and at sundown begins a slow, gliding descent in order to provide added power to the engines, which are the basic equivalent of "four electric screwdrivers."
During level flight, Solar Impulse has a cruising speed of a modest 23 knots, with each engine providing 10 kilowatts of power. Referring to the persistent delays in planning the demonstration flight, Schlettig said that the plane needs "perfect weather" in order to fly. This means winds of less than five knots and sunny skies. More wind, and the super-light aircraft would be buffeted too much to fly safely.
Schlettig said the goal of Solar Impulse is not to gain commercial interest in solar-powered aircraft, but instead to convey the message that "even today we have the means and technology to fly around the world with solar energy." Schlettig hopes that this will encourage people to turn towards greener technologies.
Solar Impulse differs significantly from previous solar-powered aircraft, such as NASA's unmanned Helios aircraft. Schlettig said a manned aircraft presents myriad difficulties concerning weight distribution and overall design considerations. "In order to have a pilot, you need a fuselage." Instead of the single-wing design, Solar Impulse must incorporate all the requisites of manned flight, including controls and instruments, but also high-altitude survival gear. Helios is "a hell of a lot easier than what we did," Schlettig said.
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Despite the Warren Commission's 1964 conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, most Americans believe that there was a wider conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
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The seemingly unlimited number of potential explanations has fueled a teeming micro-industry of academics, historians, journalists and amateur sleuths who churn out books and websites devoted to advancing one theory or another.
Some are considered rational. Others, not so much. Many have turned up in movies and books, in television and video games. All have added fuel to a mystery that may never be fully explained.
Making sense of them all is virtually impossible.
Lawyer Vincent Bugliosi, best known as the prosecutor who put Charles Manson behind bars, tried to analyze every one for his 2007 book "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy." He found himself drowning in what he called "a bottomless pit."
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1. A second shooter
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This Academy Award-winning 1991 film by Oliver Stone is a mashup of several suspected plots involving the mob, the CIA, the military-industrial complex, the Secret Service and the FBI, then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Fidel Castro. "JFK" was a huge success, despite its many historical inaccuracies. It sparked renewed interest in Kennedy conspiracy theories and led to the creation of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which provided for the National Archives to house all documents related to JFK's killing.
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- The graphic novel "The Watchmen," which suggests the character named The Comedian had something to do with the Kennedy assassination; in the 2009 movie version, The Comedian is shown as the shooter on the grassy knoll.
- A 1996 episode of the television series "The X-Files," in which the mysterious character known as The Smoking Man is shown firing on Kennedy from a sewer drain in Dealey Plaza.
- A 1992 episode of "Seinfeld" satires "JFK" by re-imagining it the retelling of a spitting incident outside Shea Stadium involving Keith Hernandez.
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Ok, let's start with a cliché: Chanel jackets are one of the most coveted garment pieces for women all over the world. Check! Their Haute Couture versions reportedly sell for some $30,000, while a ready-to-wear version sells for around $5,000 and up. Check! It inspired countless imitations, by runway designers as well as home seamstresses. Check!
Pictured: The jacket that spawned a thousand copies – a Chanel tweed next to jackets by the likes of Marc Jacobs, Milly and Tory Burch which have obviously been inspired by the original.
While an Haute Couture version remains unaffordable for most of us (right?), I was keen to find out more about techniques used in the construction of the legendary garment. And more, I wanted to make my own Chanel-inspired jacket! So, after reading every available article or book on the subject, watching movies and combing the web for bits and pieces of information, I decided to join a Classic French Jacket Class by Susan Khalje, the author of a sought-after Bridal Couture book, a contributing editor to the Threads magazine and the founder of the Couture Sewing School.
Just get on with it!
Susan demonstrates a jacket she made for the Threads Magazine feature 'Inside a Designer Jacket', Issue 121, November 2005
The good news: the jacket (even using couture sewing techniques) is easy to construct.
The 'bad' news is, it takes 70 to 80 hours to make it! It's a lot, even for sewing nerds like myself, and perfectionists alike, but I like to think of it as a timeless wardrobe staple that I can wear for many years – completely worth the time investment. Don't you have a few pieces like that, pieces that you've been wearing for five or ten years and are still in love with?
That's what I was thinking when I joined the class, which covers the entire process of sewing of this classic French cardigan jacket, from the fabric selection to the trim. Twenty-six steps and seven pages of Susan's instructions separated me from the dream. By the way, she sent them to us only after the class was over! "If you saw them now, you would freak out," she told us on the first day.
In other words, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Susan guided us through the process so skillfully – we haven't noticed how the six days passed. So, no fear, friends – just get on with it!
It all starts with great fabric and matching trim!
Show and Tell session: class participants show their fabrics and trims
Bouclé is the most classical choice for the jacket. Look for interesting texture and color. There are so many beautiful bouclé fabrics out there, in casual or dressier options. Choose wool for cooler weather, or silk for warmer days. Use silk charmeuse or crepe de chine as your lining choice.
My tip: if you want to avoid matching work (for you would want this unique jacket to be meticulously matched), go for fabric with less obvious pattern. Also, wool is more forgiving than silk, especially when setting-in the sleeves.
Bring your fabric to a trim store and see how the fabric-trim combination looks as a whole. Trim can make or break the jacket. A false choice, and your jacket may end up looking like an upholstery refashion project. Watch Chanel or other designers' fashion shows for some inspiration.
The fit is the key
Participants queuing for fitting with Susan
This is probably the most challenging part of the project, but also one of the most important ones. Don't just whip it up! Really, make a test garment (or toile, in French). Fit the toile. Fit the bodice in fashion fabric. Fit the sleeves. Fit again, to determine the hem and the sleeve length.
After the bodice is fitted, alteration lines are thread-traced in a different color
A Chanel jacket signature technique – quilting
Quilted portion of the jacket bodice
Why are these jackets quilted? The answer is simple – loosely woven fabrics need some support and structure to maintain their shape. When I heard about this technique for the first time – I thought interfacing would do the job as well… Quilting seemed to be more of a couture gimmick to me. How I was wrong! A quilted jacket feels so soft and luxurious!
If you have doubts about making your own jacket, please, just try the quilting technique only: quilt a small square of boucle and silk charmeuse using straight stitch rows, approximately 1 inch apart (or, follow the lines of your fabric pattern). Touch it – you will see what I mean!
Set-in sleeves
Here, pins stabilize the upper half section of the sleeve before it is sewn on
When I started working on my sleeves, a classmate told me: "Did you know, it takes seventeen hours to set-in the sleeves in a couture jacket?" My first reaction was – no way! I was keen to prove that it's possible to do it faster and was extra conscious of time. Seventeen hours (or very close) it was!
Sleeves are sewn-in entirely by hand and the reason is – control. First, the underarm section is sewn-in and overcast, and then, the upper half section is shaped and sewn using tiny fell stitches. The more your fabric lends itself to shaping, the easier will the job be.
The chain
Chain balances out the weight of the trim on the front, and helps jacket hang smoothly
Once the jacket is assembled, the trim is sewn on and all the edges are cleaned up – it's time for the famous chain. It is added just above the hemline and helps the jacket hang smoothly.
I realize that this project is not for everyone – but even if you use just one of these techniques, it will lend your jacket that very special feel that we are all after as seamstresses or designers.
Finally, Susan wanted to share with you, BurdaStyle readers, some tips that you can use in your everyday sewing. Here they are…
Susan's Tips
Use pins as a stitch – insert pins perpendicular to the seamline as close to it as possible. This will ensure minimum shifting of the fabric layers, and often eliminate the need for basting.
Pins inserted 'as a stitch' often eliminate the need for basting
Twisting thread – sometimes, when you are handsewing or basting, the thread twists and forms a knot – very annoying! In most cases you can see when it's going to happen; so, when you just pull out the needle out of the fabric layer, roll the needle between your index finder and the thumb to unwind the twist.
Wax your thread – use double-strength of waxed thread to set-in sleeves by hand or to sew on a chain or buttons. The wax provides additional strength and prevents thread twisting. Thread the needle, pull the thread through the beeswax and press it to blend the wax with the thread. Wax several threads at once to save time.
More resources:
I highly recommend these two articles for more details on the techniques used for the construction of Chanel-inspired jackets. They are available as a part of Threads Archive CD, which can be purchased on the publisher's website.
• Inside a Designer Jacket (Susan Khalje, Threads, Issue 121, November 2005)
• Master Class: Setting a sleeve by hand (Susan Khalje, Threads, Issue 122, Dec 2006 – Jan 2006)
• Check out Susan's website to find out more about her Couture Sewing School and the upcoming classes
• For inspiration, visit the Chanel website.
• And, finally, do watch Signé Chanel – a great documentary on making of Chanel couture collection. It is available from the French Amazon site, if you have a multi-region DVD player.
Check out Marina's blog, Frabjous Couture, for a day-by-day report of the Classic French Jacket Class and images of her finished jacket!