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A trip around Northland, gives Malcolm (director, Hiking New Zealand) an insight to how a first impression can affect your holiday...
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The Dalai Lama was once asked what the secret to being happy was. Apparently he answered something like "being happy is the secret".
I travel around New Zealand frequently, renewing and rekindling relationships with the people and businesses that help us run our tours; lodge owners, rafting companies and in particular the numerous icecream shops where we gorge ourselves. I enjoy the warmth and great friendships we have built up over the years and I muse that these happy friendships come from knowing people at great length (and of course knowing me must make people happy too....).
Or maybe not. Last week I explored an area just north of Auckland where I did not know anyone, hoping to find some enjoyable walks or sceneries that we could include on the first afternoon of our new Northland Discovery tour this summer.
Happy people just keep on coming
Ninety minutes out of Auckland and barely out of urban Whangarei we stumbled into happy person after happy person. They helped us, had the time to talk and the curiosity to be interested in what we were up to – and to give us some fine suggestions as well.
If Christina from the Blue Heron Holiday Park was exasperated by us showing up late, blinding her and her kids with our car headlight through their lounge window as they were having stories read, and generally performing collateral damage on their blissful looking family life, she didn't show it. In fact she fooled us completely and in approximately three minutes we created a lifelong friendship.
Of course I did have a secret weapon called SARAH. I had a Scottish friend visiting New Zealand with me who I let talk first in a grand experiment to test local friendliness. Of course as Sarah talked, our Whangarei saints assumed I too was Scottish. Plan was working so far…
But I was faced eventually with a dilemma. These conversations were going so darn well I was starting to look like a complete grinning mute moron. I tried not to open my mouth in case this deep love was reserved for overseas folk only. But at some point I would have to talk and risk blowing it. Should I try and pull off a fake Scottish accent and risk being mocked or potentially knee capped by Sarah for insulting her clan? Or do I break out in kiwi brogue and risk the love evaporating?
I dropped my vowels, entered the tête-à-tête and the love never evaporated… These Whangarei folk sure are nice.
It has always been remarkable to me how the kindness of people tempers the sense of place that you form. This was my experience hitchhiking through Algeria in the 1990s: astonishing hospitality + arid and lonely lands = wonderful experience. Whangarei Heads is no Algeria, but is a splendid spot in a Swiss sort of way and has astonishing natural landscapes swilling in a matrix of humanness – farms, seaside villages and roads, all festooning around the extinct volcanic plugs and bush-clad hills. But the chain of excellent, enthusiastic and very happy locals we met along the way tipped this place from worthwhile to truly excellent.
Go on embrace it
Is this what New Zealand tourism really has over some of our neighbours? If so, then when you are here you must prime yourself to embrace it, invest some time to prod and poke and talk to random people, get rid of your hurry, give people the time to talk to you, and above all listen.
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On Aug. 5, Envestnet Inc. (ENV) announced it would acquire FundQuest Inc., a TAMP with $15 billion in AUM and administration, for $24.4 million in cash in a deal that the company expects to close in the fourth quarter of 2011.
In an interview on Aug. 9, Envestnet co-founder and Chairman Jud Bergman (left) said, "We're looking to retain the best of what FundQuest has, and build on it," including the "continuity of key personnel" from FundQuest and providing the acquired firm's existing advisors with "more investment portfolios and solutions," including Envestnet PMC. The deal, he said, would also expand Envestnet's revenue and cash flow and improve the Envestnet platform. But more acquisitions are also possible, Bergman said.
In a previous interview for the June 2011 cover story of Investment Advisor, Bergman disclosed that Envestnet planned to do "one or two" acquisitions in the coming year that would accelerate its planned 20% annual organic growth. Those "selected" deals, he said, would be either financially accretive and provide access to more advisors in the channels Envestnet already served, or be strategic acquisitions of application providers that add to or enhance functions on the Envestnet platform. Bergman characterized those types of acquisitions as "value accretive."
"FundQuest is financially accretive," he said, and added that the acquisition was the culmination of an 18-month process that began in February 2010 when the two companies signed a Platform Services Agreement (PSA) under which FundQuest's 180 advisory firm clients gained access to Envestnet's wealth management platform.
"We think there's a real opportunity to achieve accretive results," said Bergman, speaking by chance on the day when the public company released its second quarter results (see below). "We still expect to do one or two additional transactions over the coming three or four quarters, depending on what we're able to identify; we're regularly evaluating [potential acquisitions] that will bring us access to more advisors or promising new technology, or the opportunity to provide services to new channels" beyond the broker-dealer and RIA advisors that the firm currently serves.
Speaking in the first week after Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. debt, Bergman said Envestnet was actively reaching out to advisors who use its platform. "Staying connected to the advisors is essential, we've had communications just yesterday [Aug. 8] with 300 of our top advisors. They've got a lot of choices, so how they're allocating assets and selecting portfolio solutions is something we can help them with."
Were those advisors changing their allocations? "We're seeing advisors do a variety of things," he said, "moving into equities, moving into alternatives and rebalancing." While Bergman said that the flight to Treasuries "was not unexpected, it's hard to get comfortable with bonds, though we're very comfortable with high-grade corporates," along with "larger allocations to non-correlative asset classes with liquidity."
Bergman concluded by saying, "we've had advisors following that guidance, and advisors pursuing independent strategies, but using the analytical tools and the portfolio tools that are available on our platform."
In the second quarter ended June 30, 2011, Envestnet, which went public on July 29, 2010, reported adjusted net income of $3.3 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, on a 29% increase in total revenues of $31.3 million, compared to the second quarter of 2010. Revenues from AUM and assets under administration increased 36% in the quarter to $25.4 million.
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A four tonne, 3.6 metre high art work, destined for the United Nations, is being created at Te Puia and visitors over the next few months can get up close.
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Its not every day that you get to see the creation of a four tonne, 3.6 metre high art work that is destined for the United Nations, but visitors to Te Puia over the next few months will have that unique opportunity.
Māori Tū is a bronze whatarangi (elevated storehouse) that will be a gift from the Māori nations of Aotearoa New Zealand as a symbol of endorsement for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The work is being created by tutors and students at the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute at Te Puia.
Whatarangi – elevated storehouse
The work involves the creation of two whatarangi – a wooden carved original which will remain in New Zealand and a four tonne bronze cast version, which is proposed to be presented to the United Nations.
The tohu (symbol) of the whatarangi was chosen for Māori Tū as the storehouse represents the wealth and importance of Māori cultural heritage.
The whatarangi is a symbol of safe-keeping, identity and cultural wellbeing, and it represents the storage and maintenance of tangible and intangible heritage – all aspects that the Declaration sets out to protect.
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In order to create the significant piece, a foundry has been created on site at Te Puia, with the carvers and artists pushing the limits of the bronze material. While bronze may be considered to be contemporary in terms of Māori culture, the skills and techniques have been used for more than 7000 years elsewhere in the world.
Bronze also has a long history in New Zealand – even though it may not be well known – cast bronze patu (short weapons) were traded with iwi on Captain James Cook's second voyage to New Zealand between 1772 and 1775.
NZMACI is also bringing a unique sense of the valley to the casting process, using the geothermal waters of Te Whakarewarewa to patina the bronze.
Māori Tū reinforces Te Puia | NZMACI's founding legislation to protect and perpetuate Māori art, craft and culture, and to enable connections with indigenous cultures around the world.
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• Being created at the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute at Te Puia in Rotorua
• Base 1600 mm x 2375 mm
• Paepae (Barge board) 2400 mm
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An Opera for Animals was first staged at Para Site in Hong Kong between 23 March and 2 June 2019, with works by over 48 artists and collectives that use opera as a metaphor for modes of contemporary, cross-disciplinary art-making. The exhibition's second iteration takes up a large portion of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai (22 June–25...
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The brightest star in the constellation, Cancer.
Acubens (AKS-5) was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MCE hull 1935) on 25 November 1943 by the Delta Shipbuilding Co., New Orleans, La.; launched on 8 January 1944; sponsored by Mrs. J. A. Farrington; acquired by the Navy on 9 February 1944; converted for naval service by Todd-Johnson Drydocks, Inc., New Orleans; and commissioned on 15 July 1944, Comdr. Edward B. Ellis in command.
Following shakedown out of Norfolk, Va., and a short run to New York City, Acubens sailed for the Panama Canal on 8 September and entered the Pacific. The ship dropped anchor at Hollandia, New Guinea, on 25 October and remained there until 10 November issuing stores to vessels of Task Force 76. On the 10th, Acubens transported a load of ammunition to Brisbane, Australia. The ship left Australia on 13 December bound for the Phillippines and reached Leyte on the 21st.
Acubens remained based in the Philippines for the duration of the war. Her routine consisted of loading stores at Milne Bay, New Guinea; proceeding to Manus Island to load more provisions, then steaming back to the Philippines to distribute her cargo. Acubens departed the Philippines on 25 November 1945, bound via Pearl Harbor for the California coast.
The stores ship arrived at San Francisco on 22 December. Shortly thereafter, work was begun to prepare the ship for decommissioning. Acubens got underway on 18 January 1946 to return to Pearl Harbor, where she was to be laid up. Acubens was decommissioned on 11 March 1946 and was struck from the Navy list on 17 July 1947. The ship was then transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal.


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Everyone knew the Padres weren't going to finish the season 156-6. They were going to lose another game in 2010. I think most of us, however, figured it wouldn't be yesterday, especially after Kyle Blanks doubled in two to give the team a 4-2 lead after 5 1/2 innings.
Scott Rolen's HR made the game close after 6, but after turning the contest over to the bullpen one had to like the Padres' chances. Going into Sunday, the Padres bullpen was one of only 2 in the NL not to have lost a game (the other? Pittsburgh. Go figure), the third lowest ERA (3.02), and the best Batting Average Against (.190). Looking good.
Unfortunately, Mike Adams couldn't get the game to Heath Bell. Cincinnati scored 2 in the eighth, and won 5-4. Bye-bye, 8 game winning streak.
You gotta like where the Padres are now, though. Form 3-6 to 11-7, and the best record in the NL. The team is pitching its butt off, and they are getting just enough production offensively (10th in the NL with a .736 OPS). There is some cause for concern, though: Padre starters aren't getting deep enough into games.
They have the second-best ERA in the league for starters (2.75, second only to the Giants), but the starters are averaging 5.2 innings per start. They can't get out of the sixth inning. And, they're throwing a ton of pitches - 1630 to be exact, in 98.1 innings worked by the starters. It roughly works out to 17 pitches an inning, or 93 pitches an outing.
Here's the problem. San Diego has one of the best bullpens in the NL. Local media-types extol the virtues of Padre pitchers making it through 6, then turning the game over to Gregerson for the seventh, Adams the eighth, and Bell the ninth. You can't do that every, single, game. Assuming the Padres play .600 ball the rest of the way, that's 86 more wins, and almost 100 appearances by those three guys.
So you don't turn the game over to the Big Three every game. Even so, the bullpen will be overworked come August, and their strength will be a liability.
Padre pitchers have got to get deeper into games. It seems criminal that a ML pitcher, the ace of this staff, can't get out of the sixth inning with leads of 10 and 14 runs, respectively. One way to do that is to stop working so many deep counts on every hitter. I lost track of the number of 3-2 counts Kevin Correia threw in his Saturday start. He is far from alone in the deep-count doghouse, but he's my best example.
Hey, this is fixable. They just need to attack the strike zone a little better. And there'll be more long winning streaks this summer.
Monday, April 26, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A program to compensate victims of crashes linked to a faulty ignition switch in General Motors vehicles has received claims for 107 deaths as of Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for the lawyer overseeing the program.
Amy Weiss, a spokeswoman for Kenneth Feinberg, told Reuters that the 107 deaths were among 309 claims that have been submitted so far. The program began accepting claims on Aug. 1 and will remain open until Dec. 31.
Before a claim is deemed eligible, it will be evaluated by Feinberg and his staff to determine whether the ignition switch was in fact responsible for causing a serious physical injury or death. If so, Feinberg will determine how much compensation to award.
The number of death claims submitted already far exceeds the 13 deaths that GM has officially attributed to the switch, which prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles earlier this year.
Jere Beasley, a lawyer representing multiple people who have submitted claims, said the pace for filing claims seemed slightly slower than initially expected, in part because lawyers may be waiting to see how much compensation will be offered for certain claims before bringing new ones. In addition, waiting also allows time to gather evidence to determine whether certain accidents could be eligible before submitting claims.
Determinations on eligibility for claims will be made within 90 to 180 days after they are submitted, Feinberg said in June when he announced the program.
Feinberg previously said he expected the highest volume of claims within the first few months of the program, as well as its last.
Robert Hilliard, a lawyer representing hundreds of people who are either suing GM in court or filing claims with the program, said he anticipated the number of claims would grow steadily.
GM has set aside $400 million to cover compensation through the program, although the amount of total payouts is not capped. Under the program's protocol, eligible claims for deaths linked to the switch will likely be awarded at least $1 million, which could increase, depending on factors like whether the deceased had children or other dependents.
People submitting claims will not waive their right to sue GM unless and until they accept an offer from the program.
Feinberg will make all determinations on eligibility and compensation, GM has said. A spokesman for GM, Jim Cain, said the company is allowing the process to continue at arm's length.
Feinberg has overseen compensation programs for victims of other high-profile catastrophes, including the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the BP oil spill in 2010.
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This is the 155mm Field Howitzer 77. It's one of the deadliest artillery pieces in the world. It was manufactured by Swedish weapons company Bofors in the 80s, but this model is new—a complete mechanical and electronics overhaul over the old one.
It is called the 155mm Field Howitzer 77 B02. The Indian Army is retrofitting 410 of them for deployment in 2013.
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The University of Rochester's Board of Trustees has approved the construction of a new home for the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, President Joel Seligman announced today. The building will be named in memory of the late Raymond F. LeChase, founder of LeChase Construction Services, LLC, who was a pioneer in the Rochester construction community, renowned philanthropist, and dedicated supporter of education.
Raymond's son R.Wayne LeChase and his wife Beverly have made a $3.5 million commitment to the University in recognition of the important role education plays in improving lives and strengthening the community. The gift will allow the Warner School of Education to break ground next month and to expand fundraising efforts for its construction and the important research, teaching, and education reform programs it will enable.
"Wayne and Beverly's leadership and support will help to make the creation of a new home for the Warner School a reality, and we are proud to partner with them to honor Wayne's father and his father's legacy in the Rochester community," said Seligman. "Raymond F. LeChase Hall will commemorate the many years of generosity and service which the LeChases have given to the University of Rochester. Their leadership is pivotal to creating a new facility that supports the University's commitment to improving K-12 educationone of the greatest challenges we face in the 21st century."
Raymond's commitment to social responsibility and the community were founding principles of his company and a legacy that his son Wayne continues as chairman of LeChase Construction and as a Rochester community leader, Seligman said. Wayne also serves the University as a member of the Board of Trustees and advisor and member of key Medical Center leadership groups, helping to shape the future of the University as a volunteer and donor. He and Beverly are charter members of the George Eastman Circle, the University's leadership annual giving society.
Raymond F. LeChase Hall is the first major building to be constructed in the historic Wilson Quadrangle on River Campus in 30 years. A four-story, 65,000-square-foot facility, it provides a unified home for the Warner School and will feature an expansive suite of 14 classrooms on the first floor that will serve the College during the day and the Warner School in the evening, providing an efficient solution to the critical need for classroom space on River Campus. The Warner School will be housed on the upper three floors, unified by a dramatic three-story atrium, with additional classrooms, offices, and spaces specifically designed to support the preparation and professional development of educators and the conduct of educational research and reform work.
"My family and I are honored to be a part of this new facility," said Wayne LeChase. "I was raised to believe in the values of hard work, perseverance, commitment, and community, and there is no better way to see these ideals come to life than through the support of an institution committed to preparing our future educators. These educators in turn will teach our children a love of learning and prepare them to become the leaders of our future. The Warner School of Education is a valuable asset to our community, and we are very excited to watch this come to fruition."
"All of us at Warner are grateful for Wayne and Beverly's generosity and service and for our shared aspirations for building a great learning environment for the preparation of teachers, counselors, and educational leaders in our community," said Raffaella Borasi, dean of the Warner School. "This is the second transformative gift in Warner's history after the naming of the School in 1993 by William F. Scandling to honor his late wife, Margaret Warner. This building will create an environment that will not only support teaching and learning, but allow us to work collaboratively with each other and the community to research complex education problems and forge effective solutions."
The Warner School of Education, founded in 1958, is involved in several education reform projects in the Rochester community. Many of these projects will greatly benefit from the new facilities. In particular, the Warner School launched the new Horizons Summer Program in 2010 to help Rochester children improve their academic performance, raise their personal aspirations, and discover a love of learning. With the new building, Horizons will become a demonstration site that helps to strengthen Warner's teacher preparation program, and the School will gradually expand the program to include grades kindergarten through eighth, eventually serving nearly 150 students each summer as an integral part of the University's commitment to the Rochester community.
In the past decade, the Warner School has grown faster than any other academic division within the University. The School has doubled its student enrollment, more than doubled support from state and federal grants, and tripled its budget and the number of fully-funded doctoral students. At more than 600 full- and part-time graduate students and 60 faculty and staff members, the Warner School has outgrown its current building space in Dewey Hall. The new building will allow for up to an additional 20 percent growth, enabling the School to strengthen its existing programs and stay at the forefront of education.
According to a 2008 Center for Governmental Research report, the construction phase of the building will have a substantial economic and fiscal impact locally. The project will boost the Rochester economy with 260 direct and 200 spillover construction jobs and generate nearly $1.25 million in sales tax and income tax revenue to the Rochester region and New York State.
LeChase Construction will assist in constructing Raymond F. LeChase Hall. As the architect of record, Bergmann Associates of Rochester designed the facility with help from SHW Group, a Michigan firm with extensive background in designing creative learning environments.
The estimated cost of the project is $24 million. Raymond F. LeChase Hall is tentatively scheduled to open January 2013. For the latest updates on the construction of Raymond F. LeChase Hall or to learn more about the building, please visit www.warner.rochester.edu/building.
About the University of Rochester
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College, School of Arts and Sciences, and Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are complemented by its Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.


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Ohio's Newborn Screening Program
Erica Twiggs is a phlebotomist at University Hospitals, a specialist in drawing blood. She's explaining to mother Tiffany Cone of Bedford, Ohio that she's taking her baby to the nursery for newborn screening.
TWIGGS: She's sleeping so peacefully…let's see how long this is going to last.
Twiggs readies the needle and quickly pricks the heel of Cone's baby, Kennedy.
Kennedy is no longer fuzzy with sleep.
TWIGGS: Almost done, honey.
Blood from baby Kennedy's heel hits the absorbent paper of the official Ohio newborn screening form.
Five perfect circles of bright red blood stand out against the form's white background. In a couple minutes, Twiggs is finished and the sample is ready to send off for testing.
Chances are, baby Kennedy is just fine, but some babies do have genetic disorders that, when caught early, can be treated.
GLAUSSER: Do you remember the heel stick, the newborn screening?
MARSHA BIGHAM: Oh yeah, yeah, like it was yesterday.
Marsha Bigham and her 19 year old son Josh are from Canal Fulton, just south of Akron.
When Josh was born, the blood from his heel stick showed he has a condition called Phenylketonuria, or PKU.
MARSHA BIGHAM: We knew nothing about PKU.
But they learned quickly. Within a week of birth, Josh was put on a special diet by his doctors at Akron Children's Hospital. People with PKU can't break down proteins and if they breast feed or later eat meat & dairy, it can cause irreversible brain damage.
PKU is pretty rare—about one in every twenty five thousand babies is born with it in the US.
In Josh's case the early intervention was a success.
He's a full time student and a natural with cars. It takes him a while to think of a auto repair that actually challenges him:
JOSH BIGHAM: Rebuilding the engine-taking out the engine.
GLAUSSER: You can do that?
JOSH BIGHAM: Yeah.
Josh is a typical teenager--dirt bikes, girlfriend, short answers—and this is because of newborn screening.
His mom gets quiet when she thinks of what might've happened without it.
MARSHA BIGHAM: I mean he would have been severely mentally challenged.
PKU is the flagship disease for newborn screening. It kick-started the practice in the sixties, and now most states screen for a core group of about 30 different disorders.
Here's how it works: those drops of blood from the heel stick contain information about a person's genes and how they process nutrients. Clues in the blood can send up red flags, and alert doctors to certain disorders, like PKU, sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis.
The Ohio Department of Health runs the state's Newborn Screening Program, and Sharon Linard is a supervisor there. She says blood is a window to the body.
LINARD: It's very easy to get and it has a ton of information in it.
After a heel stick, all those samples are overnighted to the Department of Health's lab in Columbus. Results are usually known within 24 hours and they're faxed or phoned in to the baby's doctor's office. In a given year, they identify an average of 250 babies in Ohio with genetic disorders.
Ohio screens for nearly all of the core diseases recommended by federal guidelines. These are conditions that benefit from early detection.
LINARD: If we don't have a treatment, we will not test for it.
Linard says the most common disorder that crops up in Ohio is hypothyroidism, where the baby doesn't have enough thyroid hormone to keep growing, and the fix is simple: take a pill. Other common ones are sickle cell and cystic fibrosis. More rare disorders, like something called Maple Syrup Urine Disease, might surface only once in a blue moon.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call newborn screening one of the ten greatest public health achievements in the U.S. over the last decade. It's estimated that over five thousand of the 4 million babies born in the states each year will have one of the conditions that's screened for.
LINARD: When you think about the babies you save by this, these are babies who have normal lives and wouldn't have had normal lives otherwise.
All thanks to a couple drops of blood.


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I was lured into a local market this week by one of their 10 for $10 bargains. Tuna was on sale and I couldn't resist the opportunity to restock the pantry while prices were this low. I love the Italian oil-packed tuna, but I save it for special dishes and tend to rely on domestic varieties for everyday use. I usually keep a supply of the less expensive brands on hand for tuna melts and other more pedestrian entrees, but as I was unpacking my stash I realized the less expensive tuna would also be a wonderful source of protein for a frugal Friday meal. Pasta dishes can be terrific money savers, and if you don't have to watch carbs or calories, they are a wonderful way to feed a family on a limited food budget. Tonight's feature can be table ready in less than 30 minutes and it is nearly foolproof to make. Like many of these quick and inexpensive meals, it helps to have a rhythm as you work your way through the assembly steps. So, like all good cooks, you'll begin by preheating the oven and setting the water to boil. This will give you time to prepare and toast the breadcrumbs, which have a special function here. You'll want to keep them coarse because they add some texture to an otherwise one-note pasta. Be sure to save some pasta water to help sauce the noodles. This dish tends to be dry and you'll need the water to moisten and coat the noodles. The predominant flavors here will be provided by the lemon zest and slivered olives. Unfortunately, this dish does not age well, so make no more than you need for a single meal. I actually cut this recipe in half when there are just two of us at the table. This is a lovely family meal and I do hope you'll give it a try. I've also included a selection of other pasta dishes that would be perfect for a for a frugal Friday meal. First, let's see how tonight's feature is made. Here's the recipe.
Spaghetti with Tuna, Lemon and Bread Crumbs...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Martha Stewart
Coarse salt and ground pepper
2 slices whole-wheat sandwich bread
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon olive oil
3/4 pound spaghetti
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest, plus 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
3 tablespoons slivered Kalamata olives
2 cans (6 ounces each) chunk light tuna in water, drained
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Meanwhile, in a food processor, pulse bread and 1 teaspoon oil until coarse crumbs form. Spread on a rimmed baking sheet; season with salt and pepper. Bake until golden, tossing occasionally, 6 to 8 minutes.
2) Cook pasta in boiling water until al dente. Reserve 1/2 cup pasta water; drain pasta, and return to pot. Add lemon zest and juice, parsley, olives, and 1 tablespoon oil; toss, adding enough pasta water to coat. Add tuna; toss gently. Serve sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Yield: 4 servings.
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Saw a full size discus today, like a maxed out one . . . . Wow they get big, biggest I've ever seen, it was at least 11inch high and around 9inch nose to tail. I can now appreciate how people can devote such time, money and effort to them
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Kanakapura Road has become the hotspot of the city of Bangalore. Kanakapura Road originates in the city at Krishna Rao Park in Basanavagudi. It is close to J.P Nagar, Banashankari, Jayanagar and is 16 km away from M.G Road. It has a metro station. Kanakapura Road in the south of the city is one of the fastest growing localities because of its connectivity, accessibility to Electronic City and supply of Cauvery water. This is why a larger fraction of new launch projects in Bangalore are launched in this area and the neighborhood surrounding it.
Connectivity has played an important part in the growth of this area. The region is well-connected with the NICE corridor and has good metro connectivity. Kanakapura Road has become active on the real estate radar, especially in the residential sector, thanks to the infrastructure development and excellent connectivity. Location wise too this locality works for a number of reasons. Affordable land prices and water supply from Cauvery River are the two important factors for a boom in this area. [Read more…]


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text: This autobiography by Anatoly Dobrynin, Russia's ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986, provides unique perspectives on the events and relationships between the superpowers during the intense years of the Cold War. The chapter describing his role in the Cuban missile crisis is of particular interest. His insights on the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) and resulting treaties are also informative. The author offers fascinating characterizations of officials with whom he worked closely in both governments, including six U.S. presidents and their administrations as well as Soviet premiers and their subordinates. In addition to recounting his memory of events, the author makes extensive use of Soviet diplomatic archives and his own diaries.


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From pushing a crate around Dover Arena as a wide-eyed 3-year-old while learning to skate to pushing a puck around Verizon Wireless Arena this weekend as a collegian in pursuit of a national championship, Riley Wetmore has come a long way.
"The first time I stepped on the ice I couldn't skate," he recalled.
Turns out he was wearing a pair of used skates and one of them was broken. Once that situation was rectified it's been a rewarding climb ever since.
The Dover native is a senior captain on the fifth-ranked UMass-Lowell men's hockey team, which is the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament's Northeast Regional being hosted by the University of New Hampshire.
The River Hawks will take on Wisconsin in Manchester on Friday (4:30 p.m.), not far from where he cut his hockey teeth. UNH meets Denver in Friday's second game.
Wetmore began playing organized hockey in Dover at the age of 5 for coach John Tiano and scored his first goal the day before one of his older brothers broke through.
"I used to brag about that," he said. "We were always competitive."
Although Riley's mom kept that puck, he's after a much bigger souvenir now. One of the hottest teams in the country, UMass-Lowell is a legitimate contender for the national championship.
The defensive-minded River Hawks won the Hockey East regular-season crown and last weekend captured the program's first league tournament title with a 1-0 win over Boston University.
"We're sticking to the process," Wetmore said. "We roll four lines. We blocked 21 shots in the championship game so we must be doing something right. We're sacrificing and playing for each other."
The victory was part of a remarkable turnaround for UMass-Lowell, which had high hopes after reaching the national quarterfinals last year but got off to a slow start this season, winning only four of its first 12 games.
UML received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament last year as opposed to being an automatic qualifier this time around.
After blowing a 3-0 lead against Miami in the first round last year, the River Hawks ended up winning in overtime. However, they lost to Union in the regional final.
"Everyone's fighting for their life," Wetmore said. "I think last year we lost focus because we were just happy to get there and happy to win that first game. I feel like we've really earned our spot this year."
After going 4-7-1 out of the gate, the River Hawks are 22-3-1 in their last 26 games. They've won 12 of their last 13 and appear to be peaking at the right time.
Wetmore has become a leader on a team with only two seniors.
"We've got a good group of guys," he said. "We've got good leadership in the locker room. We just came together as a team. Everyone has bought into our systems and we've become closer. I try to hold myself accountable as well as everyone else."
If UMass-Lowell and UNH both advance, they would meet in the regional final Saturday night with a trip to the Frozen Four on the line.
"At this point it doesn't matter," Wetmore said. "Right now we're just looking at that first game."
When Riley was a youngster his dad took him to UNH hockey games. However, when his parents divorced when he was in second grade, Riley moved to Vermont to live with his mom.
He had a growth spurt after his freshman year in high school. His hockey prowess also started to grow.
"Playing with older kids definitely helped," Wetmore said. "Once I started doing that I got better and I developed."
He played three years of junior hockey for Green Mountain of the EJHL when he was in high school, then followed a couple of teammates from that club to UMass-Lowell where he has become a member of the exclusive century club.
It took only one visit for Wetmore to be sold on the school that would be his home for the next four years.
"I came down and fell in love with it," he said. "I'm so happy with the program. I wouldn't change a thing."
Wetmore has 110 points in 149 career games on 49 goals and 61 assists, including 15 goals and 11 assists this season. He's tied for the team lead in goals and ranks fourth in points.
His hat trick in an 8-2 win over Massachusetts early in the season while the River Hawks were struggling helped turn their fortunes around.
"We started believing in each other and trusting the process," Wetmore said. "Before that we weren't scoring a lot of goals. We didn't know where we were going as a team. That built our confidence."
The development of freshman goalie Connor Hellebuyck, who was named MVP of the Hockey East playoffs, hasn't hurt.
Despite growing up in Vermont and going to college in Massachusetts, Wetmore hasn't forgotten his roots. He visits the Seacoast as much as possible and plays golf at Dover's Cochecho Country Club with his dad, Rick Wetmore, who lives and works in Portsmouth.
He also remains close with the Tiano family, including Mike Tiano, who played hockey at Dover High School.
"I love it up there," Wetmore said. "I'm actually thinking about living up in Portsmouth this summer. It depends on how hockey goes. It will be nice to be back up there."
It will be even nicer if he comes back a national champion.
Al Pike is a staff sports writer for Foster's Daily Democrat. He can be reached at 742-4455, ext. 5514, or at email@example.com.


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7 some hours and counting I'm counting on our Rob here to help us out snagging the intro- video but you all know that you are free to snag whatever you can and post it here, its appreciated and welcomed.
Come on Peach stay positive.I mean what the hell are they going to do just use clips from the other seasons?"Runs around the house knocking on wood"
Makonde carving is probably the best known art work produced in Tanzania. This art is produced by the Makonde people of southern Tanzania, and their material of choice is African blackwood, or mpingo. Their work is both traditional and contemporary, reflecting a tribal past as well as modern response to urban life. They utilize their tribal myths and stories as inspiration for the masterful work; one carver, for instance, specializes in ghost spirits and clouds. Animal statuettes, and human and demon-faced ceremonial masks are common. Mpingo allows them to achieve the incredible detail typical of their work. The image* at the left (click it to see a 108KB GIF image) is called the "Tree of Life" which depicts the members of an extended family, including past and present generations, gently supporting each other, generation after generation, around the family ancestor. This motif speaks to a common human ancestral heritageall that we have achieved collectively in our various civilizations has been literally built upon the backs of those who came before."Tree of Life" carvings can be as large as six feet tall, encompassing the work of one carver for at least nine months. They exhibit an intricacy of design and detail which would not be possible to achieve in a wood less dense and strong than mpingo. The most famous outlet for Makonde art is the Mwenge market in Dar-es-Salaam, where shop holders either buy a finished product, or buy semi-carved pieces or raw timber and pay carvers to work on-site. A large statue is often sold for an initial price in excess of $1000, but it can bring the purchaser three times that amount when resold in a more affluent country. The statues are found in art collections worldwide. A recent exhibit of African art at the University of Virginia Bayly Museum highlighted several pieces of Makonde work.
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MapMap of Lapeer Co., Michigan "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by Samuel Geil, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the western district of Pennsylvania." LC Land ownership maps, 341 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth backing, original sheets sectioned into 2 panels to enable folding. Include business directories,...
- Contributor: Doughty, W. E. - Gross, I. M. - Geil & Harley - Worley & Bracher - F. Bourquin & Co.
- Date: 1863


text: This might be the last WordCamp Dallas 2008 post you see on this blog and since that is the case, better to go out with a bang! In case you were one of the unlucky ones who didn't have a chance to attend the conference live, the good news is that there were plenty of attendees blogging, vlogging, and live blogging the event. I present to you a list of links which will correspond to the conference schedule. Matt Mullenweg discussing WordPress 2.5 and beyond. Actually, he announced the redesign of WordPress.org along with the release of 2.5. John Pozadzides presented his 45 ways to power up your blog. After Lunch, Jonathan Bailey gave us the lowdown on content theft and protection along with a number of other things that bloggers of any platform would be interested in. Jonathan has also published the slides for his presentation on his own […][Continue Reading...]


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So the tour of is over and in between long bus trips and tasty bento boxes there hasn't been much time to think anything let alone even write anything. So the best most memorable events must get blogged first
So check THIS out.
That is Shawry's garmin/strava file from what was far and away the most ridiculous race of my life. It bordered on insanity.
Rumour has it when Kristian House won the same stage in 2010 for Rapha Condor he said it was the hardest stage of his life and he was glad it was over. Well back then they raced 98k.
We raced 148k!!!! (This point needs a severe and comprehensive exclaiming.)
Have a look at what Wurfy wrote about it
Or maybe peek at the youtube video
And don't miss all the purty pictures that Cycling iQ has posted
Just look at it!
Or maybe just trust me when I say it was ludicrous.
Like a roller coaster ride for road bikes. The course twisted, turned, climbed, dropped, cut back on itself and managed to give everyone motion sickness, whip lash and the urge to cry. You would come out of a corner with G forces throwing the rice in your stomach around like clothes in a washing machine only to whip out, up and around onto 'yet another' climb that not only sapped (these climbs were especially potent 'sappers', one would almost deem them to be 'grippy') all your energy and momentum but every time made you contemplate why on earth you were doing this.
But each lap you would remember why;
-You would pass your soigneurs handing out drinks.
-You would see the time gap to your team mate suffering out in the break (thanks Shawry)
-And you would look back and see your DS bored out of their skull in the team car
After 4 hours I can safely say all riders went through every stage of the emtional cyclist mental scale
1) Apprehension of the extreme fisting your are about to endure
2) Slight excitment whilst pondering the 'epicness' of the ride
3) Denial after the first lap; "Surely they didn't mean 12 whole laps?"
4) Frustration after the 2nd lap; "This is going to be a long day"
5) Contemplating death on the 3rd lap
6) Contemplating death of the 4th lap
7) Laps 5-11: See Laps 3 and 4
8) Lap 12: "Thank you sweet jesus that is over. Someone find me a corner of the bus to die in. Wake me once we get to Tokyo."
The whole day was rather analogous to the famous Milgram experiments
Give a normal person the authority of a UCI endorsed race organisor, and they can convince a bunch of directors to do absurd things to a bunch of cyclists under their control.
Or maybe we wanted to do it? Maybe we are just masochists.
I just like that fact that I get a tuna sandwich and some free sashimi after the race. How cool is that!


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8-8-09 PNC Park
O.A.R. is in town playing a post game concert to coincide with fireworks set off from a barge on the river, the Clemente bridge, atop the scoreboard, and buildings across the river. Tonight was night two of the annual Skyblast Series, a popular Pirates promotion.
This game was the 700th game in the history of PNC Park, the seventh largest crowd in the history of PNC Park, and the largest ever Skyblast crowd. Additionally, it was the largest crowd of the 2009 season.
Luckily, the skies were threatening earlier in the day, keeping some fans away from batting practice. As a result, there were slightly less fans than attended yesterday.
Since it was a Saturday game, the gates opened a half hour earlier than during the week. I was in line by 3:30, and was the first one into the stadium. My plan was to get off to a big start by picking up a bunch of Easter Eggs. Another Saturday special perk is that the entire seating bowl is also open to season ticket holders, rather than just the left field bleachers. (Season Ticket holders are confined to left field only during weekdays).
I ran in and checked to lower bleachers. Nothing.
I hopped up the steps and checked the upper general admission bleachers. Nothing.
I ran over into foul territory and checked all of the upper and lower sections along the left field line. Nothing.
The only thing I did find was an old usher with a devilish wry smile on his face as I walked back up the stairs empty handed to return to left field. I had a feeling he had pocketed several balls, as I've personally seen him do so at previous games.
I was shut out for the first twenty minutes of batting practice. My plan to get on the board was to ask new Pirate Jose Ascanio for a ball in Spanish.
I moved down to the front row, waiting for Ascanio to snag a ball.
Soon, Andy LaRoche hit a line drive that carried fairly deep into the outfield. It hit on the grass and took a medium sized hop towards the wall, right where I was standing. I reacted and reached down over the wall and snagged ball #1. Unfortunately, Ascanio was about ten feet away watching. Now, I couldn't ask him for a ball today, as he had just seen me snag one. I'll have to save that request for another day.
I didn't get another ball until near the very end of the Pirates batting practice. Many of the Pirates righties must've been watching the Cardinals take batting practice yesterday, because they took the exact same approach – trying to inside out every pitch to right field.
Luckily, Steve Pearce hit a towering home run towards me. I had to hobble over one section and just managed to snag the ball at the last second. After catching ball #2, I stumbled a bit and regained my balance by grabbing onto the bleacher back support. (My range is improving a bit. My back, which has ailed me for the last nine days, has felt markedly better since I started using a hydrocolater pad yesterday. I even went without my back brace today.)
Upon inspecting the Pearce home run ball, I noticed an awesome green smudge. Likely from the batting cage?
and the sweet spots:
Game: 5 balls (3 hit, 2 device)
Season: 260 balls (134 hit, 84 thrown, 42 device)
Games: 55 games (5 of which didn't have BP)
Average: 4.73 balls per game
Career: 426 balls
Streak: 70 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
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by Sean Uyehara
My friend Meredith Brody once teased me a bit for calling a movie "delicious." It's ironic because, in addition to being a cinephile, she is a bona fide restaurant and food critic—one of the best that San Francisco has seen, in this writer's humble opinion. Anyhow, she understood what I meant, and even delighted in the turn of phrase a bit, but the phrase is open for a bit of ribbing.
I bring it up because it's the term that first came to mind when thinking of the Taiwan Film Days entry Days We Stared at the Sun. Also, I wrote it in the program note SFFS put on the web: "Delicious melodrama." The film is based on a wildly popular Taiwanese television series. It's setting is high school; the typical high school that is rife with drug abuse, bullying, class differences, cliques, adolescent rage, big government scandals and the occasional homicide. Ah, to be young again.
So, what makes Days We Stared at the Sundelicious? What can I possibly mean? I don't mean that rhetorically only. I actually have needed to go back and figure out why I would want to say that. (Thanks, Meredith.)
If I say a movie is delicious, it's almost certainly going to be a melodrama. It's going to be excessive, full of diffuse and pleasurable surprises. A taut movie can't really be delicious. That sandwich was taut, yum? Naw, that sandwich was overloaded with secrets and unexpected textures and flavors. Maybe the best sandwich I've ever eaten. That seems a bit more on track.
Here's a strange thing I start to conclude from these cinegastronomical thoughts: as genres go, in general, it's easier to justify liking a suspense film than a melodrama. And I wonder, is that true? I do in fact LOVE suspense films. Suspense is explicit in its pleasures. The tensions are conscious and on the table. As audience members, we want to know specific things—Who is the killer? Will he survive? Is she who she says she is? Does he even like pancakes? Okay, that last question is less common, but you get it: Suspense films address specific questions to audiences, tugging them along with a self-conscious playfulness.
With melodrama the pleasure is much more hazy. Excessive narration, excessive emotion, excess in general can overwhelm audiences with information that isn't always apparently relevant. Manipulating the serial revelation of strange facts can sometimes feel like tricks: Okay, he's her boss and her lover. Hold on he's also her therapist… What?! And, he's her brother? It's a fine line between the ridiculous and the sublime here. Arguing in favor of melodrama takes resolve. It requires saying you are giggling with the film not in contempt of it. Days We Stared at the Sun is like that, a kind of scaffolding of unlikely events, piling up begging to crash at any second, defiantly and incredibly refusing to give in to reason and gravity. It's terrifically delicious.
P.S. If you want to see one of the most crazy, delicious films ever, you have to check out Sympathy for Delicious, directed by and co-starring Mark Ruffalo.
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Print advertisement created by FCB, Mexico for Tamayo, within the category: Recreation, Leisure.
Creative Directors: Yuri Alvarado, Luis Pedro González
Art Director: Gustavo González
Copywriter: Ezra Mochón
Tamayo's adds are really dificult to portrait, specially contemporary art.
I like it, strong, with and impact, resembles the art galery's actual concept, and damn sure people will remember it.
BUT, will they remember the museum's name? that's my only doubt. It may be to strong that it captures all the atenttion and leaves the galery's name aside. Anyways thats just my opinion.
Sorry my bad, I did not see the ad in large format, hence didn't notice the phrase "contemporary art". Now that I have, I think it's cool. Not a bad idea at all. And yes I do work in advertising ;) Sorry dude.
A good thing would be to actually locate where in the human body the heart is placed. I know my heart isnt close to my left shoulder...
It's a fist
Boobs was nice
Good graphics
is it speaking about heart pulling Museum?
if so then very bad idea...
the face expression is very odd!
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Doesn't make sense for a museum.
Sorry guys. This is very contemporary art indeed. Check yourself names like Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney and you'll understand the appeal of this ad to the target audience. Besides, the art direction is freaking great. Did it disgust you? Than it worked.
i can not related this ad to a museum, unless is about a shocking arts! I agree with the first opinion. Should be refined. Is a museum!
Contemporary art is everything but "refined"!! This ad ain´t talking about Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo! How long has it been since you guys went to a contemporary art show? This represets the extreme feelings you get while standing infront of contemporary artists such as: Oleg Kulik, Damien Hirst, Douglas Gordon, Kendell Geers. Or as a guy up there says: Mathew Barney.
Why are you shouting? We all know it's for a contemporary art museum. We can read.
And I'd argue your point. People don't only have "extreme feelings" in response to contemprary art. Any art can elicit a powerful emotional response. Whether classical or contemporary.
However, if your argument is that contemporary art is generally edgier, more controversial, and often more offensive, then I agree with you. This execution is that as well.
What I don't understand is why it's a fist. Why not just the heart? Maybe I'm missing something.
woooooooowww!!! i love it
In my point of view, the fist helps represent the heart pumping so hard that it came out, I also think that using the heart itself would have been weak. The fist helps you have movement. And I "scream" because people ask on and on to be more "refined" and "subtle", like if we were talking about classic art.
it's not about the museum.
it's about the art that the museum presents..
ok guys it doesn't work for a museum, honestly but the art direction it's really beautiful,
Just an aplausse for a thousand of layers in this ad.
People it is contemporary Arts!! it justify gore!!
Great add
No one mentioned reference to Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter...internationally famous...like her husband Diego Rivera...who painted her emotions onto the canvas depicting hearts and other viceral images. She would have very much enjoyed this ad for the Tamayo..


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We all know the famous Norman Rockwell painting of a typical American family gathered around Grandma as she serves up a huge turkey. If Rockwell were painting today, his portrait of a Thanksgiving feast would have to include gay Uncle Kevin and perhaps a niece who's brought her girlfriend home from college. (He might also sketch in the new Chinese daughter-in-law, but that's another story.)
The American family is changing rapidly, and so are attitudes about same-sex marriage. In the last election, three states voted to approve the institution (Maryland, Maine and Washington), and one, Minnesota, rejected a move to ban it. The focus on Barack Obama's re-election, and the attention paid to the critical Latino vote, obscured this historic milestone.
For the first time, after more than 30 failed tries, gay marriage was approved by statewide vote. (Until now, it took court decisions or legislative action to enact the laws.) That means same-sex unions are now legal in nine states and the District of Columbia, and advocates are planning a half-dozen more campaigns in the next few years.
In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 51 percent supported marriage equality, up sharply from 32 percent just eight years ago. And the trend line is clear. Among young adults, more than six in 10 favor the right of same-sex couples to wed legally.
"The pace of the change in opinions has picked up over the last few years," pollster Michael Dimock of the Pew Research Center told The New York Times, "and as the younger generation becomes a larger share of the electorate, the writing is on the wall."
The main motive behind this shift is not ideology but experience. More and more Americans have gay friends and neighbors, classmates and colleagues. And more are sharing their holiday tables with gay relatives. Now add the U.S. Senate, where Democrat Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin will become the first openly gay member in January. A new congressman from upstate New York, Sean Patrick Maloney, has three children with his male partner of more than 20 years.
Like many Americans, we see this change in our own lives. We gave a party last summer for our old friend Rep. Barney Frank, who deliberately married his partner, Jim Ready, before he retires from Congress next month. Barney wanted to make sure his fellow lawmakers knew a gay married couple.
Cokie recently visited with four of her closest college friends; two have gay children and one a gay sister. A former student of Steve's saved for years so he and his partner could afford a surrogate mother, and they are now parenting twin sons. We voted enthusiastically for gay marriage in Maryland, partly because another former student lives in a neighboring suburb with her partner and child, and they yearned for the stability and security of a legal union.
GOP strategists have many post-election worries, but here's one of the most significant: Six in 10 young voters backed Obama. Yes, they might lose some of their liberal instincts as they start families, buy houses and pay taxes. But it's also true that once voters cast ballots for the same party several elections in a row, they acquire a certain loyalty to that party. The New Deal coalition that backed FDR held together for more than 30 years; the majority forged by Ronald Reagan won five of seven elections from 1980 through 2004.
Gay marriage is only one issue that helped generate Obama's strong margins among young voters, but it's an important part of a larger idea. These voters are more tolerant than their elders on many social matters, from abortion and contraception to marijuana. And they are more likely to reject the domineering moralism emanating from the conservative Christian activists who control Republican policy.
Republicans who actually want to win elections -- and not just preach sermons -- understand this problem. Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser on Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential bid, says the GOP would be signing a "suicide pact" if it continued to oppose gay marriage.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was right on when he analyzed his party's defeat in Politico: "If I hear anybody say it was because Romney wasn't conservative enough, I'm going to go nuts. We're not losing 95 percent of African-Americans and two-thirds of Hispanics and voters under 30 because we're not being hard-ass enough."
So give thanks this holiday season for the new American family, including your gay uncle. And that lovely Chinese daughter-in-law.


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Squirrels are a costly problem for utility companies. As the worst months for squirrel damage approach, here�s what Kinston is trying to do about it.
One of the smallest animals around poses one of the largest problems for electric companies.
Squirrels, typically docile and harmless, are the exact opposite when it comes to their effects to utility companies across the nation � and in Kinston.
A 2012 statement from electrical giant TE Connectivity shows squirrels are much more than just a nuisance. The message stated, �The second highest cause of power outages � estimated to be approximately 7 percent � is caused by animals; mostly squirrels who gain access to substations. The cost to utility companies for recovering from animal-related outages is estimated to run between $15 million and $18 million per year.�
The statement continues, �But when commercial entities and consumer frustration are taken into consideration, the overall cost of these outages to utility companies can be much higher.�
Kinston Public Services has had plenty of occurrences with the animals, especially recently. There have been four instances so far this month, including two on the 14th, when power was knocked out due to squirrels.
�Three of the instances were in the northwest Kinston area and one was on the east,� KPS Electric Systems Superintendent Randy Croom said. �As few as 10 people and as many as 100 people lost power during those outages because of squirrels. They generally tend to congregate around oak trees with acorns and create larger issues around us.�
As summer fades into fall, KPS Director Rhonda Barwick suspects the activity will be worse in the coming months.
�I assume the squirrels are active and getting ready for the winter season,� Barwick said. �We tend to have more events related to them. We have miles and miles of distribution and transmission lines that are affected by animals, weather and birds. In some years, we�ll see more damage than others, but it�s what we have to deal with. As a utility company, we�re going to have environmental issues.�
KPS is working on methods to combat the problem; one of the main solutions comes from trimming trees around power lines and telephone poles.
�Squirrels tend to jump from tree to tree and hit lines or poles,� Croom said. �The further away we keep limbs, the better we can limit the outage process. We can make them think about what they�re doing instead of just jumping all over the place.�
Although actions have been taken to make it harder for animals to affect power lines, plans are never fool-proof.
�There�s no one place that a squirrel won�t go,� Croom said. �In fact, Caswell Farms had an outage, and their building is about 200 yards away from the woods. We expected something other than a squirrel the entire time.
�It�s so sporadic and hard to pinpoint when the squirrels will cause the outages. They�re all over the spectrum.�
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Mary was born on 3 Feb 1900 in Caton, New York to Charles Tobey and Theresa Haselbauer. She died on 18 Apr 1974 in Interlaken, New York at age 74, and was buried in Grove Cemetery, Trumansburg, New York. Mary married Frank Judson Hildreth, son of Frank Judson Hildreth and Myrta E. Nichols, on 21 May 1923 in Elmira, New York. The marriage ended about 1925 when Frank deserted Mary and the two boys.
Mary graduated from Horseheads High School in June 1918 and Meeker Business Institute in 1920 after which she taught at Meeker for two years. After she married Frank she worked at Pennsylvania Railroad as a stenographer and they lived at 449 Pennsylvania Avenue in Elmira, New York.She worked as a stenographer in Elmira to support herself and her little boys, but the boys had to live with relatives since she had no way to take care of them. She visited them when she could, but it must have been heart breaking to be away from the boys. In the 1930 census she still listed herself as married and her sister and another young lady were living with her. The children returned to live with her when they were in junior high school. She worked for Elmira Women's College as Secretary to the President for most of her career.


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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
What I Learned Wednesday: What's a Gmina Doing in an Uyezd, and Other Bits
Translating documents of genealogical significance from Eastern European languages usually means 19th century or early 20th century - always an interesting experience. For fun and to help out, for friends and acquaintances I have translated Russian items before (curiously, the locations were actually in countries no longer under Russian control - Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus), as well as Ukrainian/Rusyn, Slovak, and Hungarian. Last weekend Chris Harvey of Family Pilgrimage had an internal Russian passport for which he needed a translation. The handwritten entries were in a very ornate script, which didn't present much of a problem for the regular words, but names were another matter. Chris gave me the Polish version of the passport owner's name, but place names were the main challenge and required a bit of research. The gmina (community) was Serock, but the name of the gubernia (governorate, a fairly large administrative unit) was difficult - I finally figured out through the process of elimination that it was Łomża, aka Łomżyńska gubernia, aka Lomzhinskaya guberniya. And in between the two was an uyezd (district); I am used to this term in documents referring to Russia, but not for documents about Poland, although I knew that it would have been in use there, too, during the era of Congress Poland - when this part of Poland belonged to the Russian Empire. The name kept looking like Moskovskiy, though of course that could not be so; after searching a bit I found a page which listed the "districts" in Łomża Gubernia, and there was Maków uyezd. So a gmina could be part of an uyezd which could be part of a gubernia.
Duh Moment from last week:
When you sign up with online photo services, take a serious look around the website to examine the different options for photo presentation. (Confession: No, I did not do this when I signed up for a photo service. Or during the first year. Or during the second or third....).
I had just been looking at our rows of photo albums (which take up one and a half bookcases) and thinking "We can't go on this way" when I got an e-mail from Snapfish saying that my account was about to expire from lack of use. I hurriedly tried to put together an order to retain the account and became intrigued by the "photo books" option. This is something that I had always ignored before because I didn't think I had enough time to look into it or that I would be interested in it.
After submitting my order for some plain old vanilla prints, I clicked to see prices and formats for photo books. There were so many different choices - size, color, cover - and I liked that captions were included in the deal. This is exactly the kind of simple, no-frills presentation of my photos I want to do. Perhaps this format, especially the smaller sizes, can really save space compared to traditional photo albums. But what about price? The thing is, preservation-quality albums are not that cheap, so I would not really save a lot of money by opting for albums instead of books. And I already have a preservation-quality storage box that could hold a lot of these books in addition to loose photos.
So I'll give them a try, and if I like them, along with my new weekend routine of starting research with bookmark organization (Genealogy Toolbox and Diigo), I will be uploading the photos from my computers to Snapfish and then, bit by bit, creating and ordering photo books.
The reorganization process is really changing the way I look at "stuff," space, and efficient use of time. It has taken a long time, but the light bulb finally went on.
City Directories Are Fabulous
I get Cyndi's list updates by e-mail and this week one of the links was for various city directories on Foot-, oops, Fold3. There were several years of the Dallas City Directory, and I was able to use it to track the professions and residences of my Lewis ancestors there. I love city directories!
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Well, what a gift! What you learn on Wednesday, I get to learn on Thursday -- or Friday, if I am running late. Thanks a heap.ReplyDelete
Sometimes I feel like I am reading my own life when I read your posts! Last week I got an email from Shutterfly saying that the bazillion prepaid photo prints I purchased two years ago were about to expire. As I was loading pictures I wanted to print for the bookcase full of photo albums, I started thinking about those photobooks too.ReplyDelete
Actually I have made several photobooks for special occassions and they turn out beautifully but are quite a bit of work (maybe because I am trying to make them extra special for those special occassions). After reading this post, it occurs to me that they might not be that much work if I were creating them from pre-existing photo albums. After all, the photos are already labeled and under my system, I have included 4x6 index cards in some of the picture slots with descriptions or even narratives. So really I would be scanning the photos (which I plan to do anyway - eventually) and then adding information that I've already put together. Hmmm. Food for thought.
I'll be very interested in hearing where you go with your idea. In the meantime, I'm going to add this project to my ever growing and never shrinking To Do List!
You do make me smile, Greta. If you are upon occasion flummoxed by the documents I shan't feel so inadequate.ReplyDelete
I'm curious about the photo album solution. I've no expiring membership to motivate me, but I would love your feedback if you opt to tackle the albums.
Joan - It was kind of random this (= last) week, but you never know when this stuff will come in handy!ReplyDelete
Michelle - Yeah, I've had that "doppelganger" sense when I have read some of your posts as well - we feel the need to organize our spaces. My plans have been temporarily interrupted by the Big Basement Flood, but when I get a bunch more pictures loaded and work up the nerve to try a photobook, I'll definitely report on the results here.
Susan - As above to Michelle, I'll be sure to report the results. Genealogical research is always so surprising - there are so many aspects to it, you never know when something surprising or hard to figure out will pop up.
Uh oh - Big Basement Flood - floods are never good. Best of luck getting things pumped, repaired and back to normal.ReplyDelete
Greta, thanks again for your help on the Russian internal passport translation. Glad to see you learned a few new things from the experience.ReplyDelete


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The Hilariously Morbid 9/11 Art of Texas' Fourth Graders
What happens when you ask a bunch of eight-year-old kids to draw pictures of a horrific, scarring disaster that they not only lack the processing tools to understand but also happened three years before they were even born? You get drawings of stick figures jumping out of buildings with the caption "One-Way Ticket to Heaven."
In defense of the El Paso school teacher who apparently assigned his or her students to depict 9/11 ("We had to draw the boom cloud, the planes hitting, and people jumping out of the windows," one student told her mother), the kid spelled "ticket" and "heaven" correctly. One student rendered the planes with speech bubbles reading "hahaha"; another one gave one of the jumpers a parachute ("I got a persuit," he says, mid-air). It was not, really, a learning experience:
"'The Afghans did this because they hate all of us and want to kill all of us,'" Gremillion claims the teacher told her daughter.
She said her daughter isn't the only one emotionally affected by the assignment. She said so was her neighbor's son, who drew another similar picture.
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