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Screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) is currently in talks to pen the epic Cleopatra, which focuses on the Egyptian queen. Angelina Jolie is attached to star, David Fincher is circling the pic as a directing vehicle, and uber-producer Scott Rudin (The Social Network, No Country for Old Men) is producing. Needless to say, this is shaping up to be one hell of a prestigious production. Variety reports that while no formal deal is in place, Roth has been approached and is likely to begin writing in the next several weeks. The scribe has a relationship with Fincher, as he penned 2008's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and recently adapted this December's awards contender Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for Stephen Daldry. Hit the jump for more, including the likelihood of Fincher actually signing onto the project.
Fincher's involvement was first reported back in March, and he hasn't commited to the project just yet. He's currently busy finishing up The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which opens next month, then he's got a couple of things to consider. Firstly, he's committed to directing the pilot of the drama series House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey for Netflix. That's expected to shoot in the spring. Then he's also committed to directing his 3D remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Additionally, screenwriter Steven Zaillian has already been hard at work on The Girl Who Played with Fire, and should Dragon Tattoo be a hit (which I'm fairly certain it will be), Sony will undoubtedly want to get the sequel moving as quickly as possible.
So, as you can see, the possibility of Fincher directing Cleopatra comes down to scheduling. Both Cleopatra and Dragon Tattoo are with Sony, the studio would most likely be willing to have Fincher do both films. However, if he chooses 20,000 Leagues as his next project and Sony wants to move forward with Cleopatra, he may have to step away. Personally, I'd love to see him take on an historical epic of this scale. With Roth just now working on the script, one presumes that Fincher could fit another film in next year before moving on to Cleopatra.
The previous draft of the film was written by Brian Helgeland, who adapted the story from Stacy Schiff's bestselling book Cleopatra: A Life. While some find Roth to be a bit too heavy-handed, I'm a fan of his work. Yes, Forrest Gump was kind of schmaltzy, but he also wrote Munich and The Insider. Cleopatra will depict the queen as a master strategist in both politics and war, and Jolie seems like a fine choice for the role. When James Cameron was attached, he planned to shoot in 3D, but it's unknown if that's still the plan.


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HP just dropped a biggie at their never-ending on-going event in San Francisco. The company said that it is thinking beyond todayand aims at bringing the webOS platform to other connected devices including printers, scanners, MFDs, cameras and PCs and laptops.
The company did not share any more details but, they did promise to share more details about this throughout the year.
It will be interesting to see as to how HP intends to implement a touchscreen OS on a PC/Laptop. I expect that webOS will be limited to only the touch based PCs and laptops from HP. On laptops, webOS will act as a great secondary OS when a user just intends to do view some pictures or check his emails.
WebOS is expected to arrive on PCs and laptop sometime later this year. It will be interesting to see if any of the latest HP PCs or laptops will be supported or not. The company definitely lived up to its tagline of the computer is personal again' with this move.
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Cool post, Tormod.
I agree that alcohol consumption should not be part of our society. From what I can see, it stays in place for three main reasons: free will, profit and control.
Free will because people feel they have the right and freedom to drink alcohol if that is what they want to do and they have the right and freedom to take the risks they put themselves and others in.
Profit, of course, because to ban alcohol would mean massive losses for those who have stakes in that industry.
Control - because if people go and drown their sorrows and intoxicate themselves as a way to 'deal' with the inequalities and injustices as a result of the current system - then from those in power, it is convenient, because they prefer a drunken population than a population that stands up for themselves.


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One woman public relations professional who's coming to my Step Up Your Speaking workshop next Monday sent me a message on Twitter that said, "Looking forward to the workshop. Public speaking should come naturally given my profession but I'm afraid that it doesn't. HELP!" I've been there myself. Many folks working in public relations think of theirs as behind-the-scenes jobs, in which you put your experts or leaders out in front--not yourself. But most leaders and clients think the opposite: They expect communications pros to be able to handle public speaking and presentation tasks with ease. And that's true in many professions, from realtors to retail.
While that's uncomfortable, it's not unfixable. That's because, to my mind, public speaking is a learned or acquired skill, not a native one. Your interests and profession may help you appreciate it more or require more of the skills involved. You may have stronger introverted preferences, or be more of an extrovert. But none of that, in the end, beats practice and training.
On the other hand, practice and training can help almost anyone improve (a willingness to learn is essential, however). And, as reader Sarah Milstein noted in our recent roundup of reader's tips, "Ironically, the practice will help you seem spontaneous."
So don't let that "I should be a natural-born speaker" barrier get in your way. If you are in a profession where speaking is considered an essential skill, you've got a built-in argument for making speaker training part of your professional development.
Don't forget: There's just over a week to enter the "Step Up Your Speaking" contest to win a Flip Mino HD camcorder and 15 weeks of free online coaching! Details at http://bit.ly/15weeks.
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Inspiration, ideas and information to help women build public speaking content, confidence and credibility. Denise Graveline is a Washington, DC-based speaker coach who has coached nearly 200 TEDMED and TEDx speakers--including one of 2016's most popular TED talks. She also has prepared speakers for presentations, testimony, and keynotes. She offers 1:1 coaching and group workshops in public speaking, presentation and media interview skills to both men and women.
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by Leslie Budewitz
To celebrate the return of the Food Lovers' Village Mysteries with book four, TREBLE AT THE JAM FEST (June 8, 2017, Midnight Ink), I'm offering two signed copies of the first in the series, DEATH AL DENTE, winner of the 2013 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Leave a comment below to enter.
The annual Jewel Bay Jazz Festival returns!
The fun begins Sunday in Riverfront Park with a sampling of the week's offerings, including international guitar sensation Gerry Martin. Bring a picnic, kick back, and drink in the music in a sparkling outdoor setting.
Concerts continue nightly in the Playhouse, where treasured artists from across the country will entertain you. Don't miss the student concerts and open mic nights scattered around the village, where you're sure to discover a diamond in the rough—or two.
While you're visiting Jewel Bay, the Food Lovers' Village, enjoy breakfast at the Jewel Bay Inn, linger over coffee and genuine French pastry at Le Panier, and visit the Grille for the best Reubens this side of the Rockies. Dine at the Inn, Applause, or Chez Max, or take home a picnic basket stocked with delectable taste treats from the Merc.
Shop in the village for books, children's toys and clothing, and more. Jewel Bay's galleries feature painters, potters, glass artists, and sculptors from around the region.
Hike, fish, kayak, sail, golf, and enjoy the wonders of Glacier National Park, only a thirty-minute drive.
You'll take home more than treasured memories when you visit Jewel Bay, Montana's crown jewel!
Tell me about a music festival or concert you particularly love or remember!
Leave a comment below for a chance to win two signed copies of the first Food Lovers' Village Mystery, DEATH AL DENTE, winner of the 2013 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. US and Canada only. Winners will be chosen May 1, 2017.
Erin Murphy, manager of Murphy's Mercantile (aka the Merc), is tuning up for Jewel Bay's annual Jazz Festival. Between keeping the Merc's shelves stocked with Montana's tastiest local fare and hosting the festival's kick-off concert, Erin has her hands full.
Discord erupts when jazz guitarist Gerry Martin is found dead on the rocks above the Jewel River. The one-time international sensation had fallen out of sync with festival organizers, students, and performers. Was his death an accident?or did someone even the score?
Despite the warning signs to not get involved, Erin investigates. And when the killer attacks, she orchestrates her efforts into one last crescendo, hoping to avoid a deadly finale.
Leslie Budewitz is the author of the Food Lovers' Village Mysteries and the Spice Shop Mysteries—and the first author to win Agatha Awards for both fiction and nonfiction. The past president of Sisters in Crime, she lives in northwest Montana with her husband, a musician and doctor of natural medicine, and their cat, an avid bird-watcher.
Swing by my website and join the mailing list for my seasonal newsletter. And join me on Facebook where I announce lots of giveaways from my cozy writer friends.


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Australia Day is the official national day of Australia and it is celebrated every year on 26th January by the Australians livings in different part of Australia like Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and so on.
There are different ways celebration Outdoor concerts, community barbecues, sports competitions and festivals are some of the many events presented in communities across Australia, but the most common event is the Fireworks.
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About Group | 21/05/13
All Is Not Lost will be released as the first single from About Group's forthcoming third album on June 24th 2013. The album, Between The Walls, will be available on July 1st.
All Is Not Lost is a classic heartbreak ballad; hinting at a more modern r'n'b mode of writing, the strange but wonderful airlessness of such productions is replaced here with the electricity and liveliness of a straight to tape recording session, capturing the band in performance.
The accompanying video was directed by Swedish artist, Henrik Håkansson:
'This film is a collage of projects that have recently been exhibited as single works, where bits and pieces are psyched together to create a visionary and open reading to words and music. The visions of my work use reflections of or by fragments in our surrounding environment, mirroring a personal statement on the state of our natural world today. In the end it is a shared vision of gain and loss.' Watch it HERE.
About Group: All Is Not Lost on Nowness.com
About Group can also announce an album launch show at the Dalston Victoria in London, on July 4th. Purchase tickets HERE.
Between The Walls captures the sound of a band 'playing' together, in both senses of the word - experimenting and trying things, being playful, as much as being a group performing as a unit together. Between The Walls is the sound of people pushing towards and pulling against one another simultaneously. It is the sound of buzzing amplifiers, sudden musical non-sequiturs, loud blasts of straight synth lines cutting through melody and structure. And it is also the sound of beautiful and odd electronic textures and brilliantly defined and deliberate drums, underpinning fragile but deliberate performances of sad songs and country ballads.
Between The Walls will be available on CD (WIGCD292), LP (WIGLP292), DL (WIG292D) and on special edition 2 x CD, featuring a bonus disc with DJ loops, available through Dom mart and indie stores only. Pre-order the album HERE. Download album track, Walk On By, HERE.
NB. The Trees Used Were Condemned And Were Scheduled To Be Destroyed Regardless Of The Filming.
Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now)
John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized)
Pat Thomas (has played with Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley)
Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip)
Between The Walls is About Group's last album with Charles Hayward who now moves on to other projects.


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Most of us now know that the focus of the professional cleaning industry is protecting human health.
Nowhere is this more important than in the cleaning and maintenance of public restrooms.
According to some reports, micrococacceae, which can cause skin infections, can be found in varying degrees on nearly all public restroom toilet seats.
Other bacteria found in varying degrees on toilet seats include:
- Coryneform, found on over 80 percent of all toilets tested, which can cause diphtheria and hepatitis
- Streptococcaceae, found on 39 percent of all toilet seats tested, which can result in sore throat and bronchial pneumonia
- Pseudomonadaceae, found on 22 percent of toilet seats, which can cause urinary tract infections and blood poisoning
- Enterobacteriaceae, found on 19 percent of toilet seats, which is associated with kidney infections, salmonella and shigellosis.1
Even small amounts of urine left on a toilet seat for up to 45 minutes can result in cross contamination.
The good news is that restroom users are unlikely to contract a disease merely by sitting on a pathogen-covered toilet.
Still, many people avoid touching toilet seats — or even all restroom surfaces — in order to minimize the possibility of getting sick due to cross contamination.2
So who is really at risk of getting sick due to pathogens on toilet seats?
None other than the cleaning professionals who must touch, clean and maintain restrooms on a regular basis.
Doesn't Wearing Gloves Protect Cleaning Professionals?
According to Bob Merkt, a building service contractor (BSC), cleaning instructor and consultant, while restrooms typically account for only about 5 percent of a building's total space, they are responsible for nearly 40 percent of a facility's total soil load.
But, unlike soils that simply mar a facility's appearance that can typically be removed with little concern for health or safety, restroom soils often contain germs and bacteria such as those mentioned earlier, which can cause illness or infection.
Typically, maintenance workers clean toilet seats and other restroom fixtures by hand using conventional cleaning tools such as sprayers, cleaning cloths, buckets and mops.
This is why most cleaning workers typically wear gloves when cleaning restrooms.
However, while gloves can offer a high degree of protection from harmful pathogens, cleaning workers need to know that this protection is not 100 percent.
In fact, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that cleaning workers are at risk for exposure to pathogens if gloves have unapparent defects or are torn during use.
And since hands often become warm and moist, they are a perfect breeding ground for rapidly multiplying bacteria.
Further, many cleaning workers do not properly remove gloves after working.
We also know that many conventional cleaning tools, such as those mentioned earlier, can also spread germs.
In fact, the longer they are used, the greater the soil load, the greater the contamination concentration, the greater the risk of cross contamination.
With so many potential risks, the big question is what alternatives are available for cleaning workers to hygienically clean restrooms while still protecting their own health?
Alternatives And Options
During the past several years, new cleaning technologies have greatly improved restroom cleaning effectiveness, including pathogen removal.
For instance, microfiber cleaning cloths and flat mops tend to be more effective at removing contaminants than traditional cleaning cloths and string mops.
However, they still require the cleaning worker to touch surfaces.
Dual-bucket systems, which allow one part of the bucket to be filled with cleaning solution and the other with rinse water, can delay mops from becoming soiled and contaminated.
However, even with these systems, the cleaning solution becomes contaminated as soon as mopping begins.
Further, in the course of mopping, cleaning workers' hands will likely come into contact with the soiled mop, bucket or both.
One of the options available that allows workers to clean restroom surfaces without touching them are so-called "no-touch" or "spray-and-vac" cleaning systems.
Introduced more than a decade ago, these systems are similar to pressure washers.
These machines apply cleaning solution to surfaces.
Then, after a few minutes of dwell time to ensure chemical effectiveness, the machine is used to pressure rinse and then vacuum the same surfaces, removing pathogens in the process.
No touching of any surfaces or fixtures is necessary.
The Final Step
Many studies have revealed the great number of people who do not wash their hands properly after using the restroom.
Some studies have even found that a surprisingly high number of healthcare workers do not wash their hands as often as they should during the course of their duties.
For cleaning professionals, whether using conventional cleaning methods or no-touch cleaning systems, there is a final step in cleaning that must always be completed: Proper handwashing.
This is true after all cleaning, but most especially after restroom cleaning.
1The study was conducted for Cocoon, an Australian manufacturer of protective coatings.
2Cross-contamination occurs in many ways. It is frequently caused by an individual touching a germ-laden surface and then touching his or her mouth, eyes or nose.
Dawn Shoemaker is a writer for the professional cleaning and buildings industries.
How To Remove Gloves Safely
- Grasp the outside edge of the left-hand glove at the highest point near the wrist.
- Peel the glove off the hand, essentially turning the glove inside out.
- Keeping the removed glove in the gloved right hand, discard the used glove.
- For the right-hand glove, slide the index finger under the glove at the highest point near the wrist.
- Peel the glove off from the inside and then discard.
- Wash hands using soap and water.


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Sometimes I Impress Myself
This is a story about a window. In August 2001 I took this photo because I just knew there was something behind the wall. It made a hollow sound when you knocked on it.
You can see the same window in the background in this picture taken in 2004.
There are two other windows in the room and they got stripped
and eventually finished in 2005.
Last year in December it still looked like this
While the other two looked like this.
I paid a lot of money for those curtains and I don't want the third set to sit around in boxes for years so I decided it was time to restore the woodwork to this window. Getting one inch thick wood is impossible and getting custom cut pine boards was going to cost me $20.00 a linear foot so this one window was looking to cost $480.00 in wood alone. I compromised and bought three standard 2 X 10 pine boards and some 1/4 inch thick lattice. I also bought a small can of gun stock colored wood stain and a quart of amber shellac and did my magic. I experimented with color on the base and corner molding cut from the standard boards. I had to use paint thinner to dilute the wood stain as I applied it to reduce the intensity of the orange color it made the wood. The lattice was added to all the edges to give the illusion that the boards were one inch thick. Total cost was $156.00 for wood and stain but since my palm sander fell apart on me mid project there was an additional cost of $50.00 to replace it!
I was smart enough to realize that things are not always the same length in old houses so I started by putting the top boards in place first. Then the bases.
Turns out this was a smart move because the vertical boards are one inch longer than the other ones around the room. Anyway, after a single coat of diluted stain and five coats of shellac, we have this
The color is near perfect with the rest of the room. Now all I have to do is finish the rest of the window with a few coats of shellac and get those curtains installed. This is how I impressed myself ......


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Okay all you crazy fell runners and mountaineers – this sneak peek is for you.
Straight from the legendary S-Lab comes the second iteration of the Fellcross, Salomon's technical and aggressive trail racing shoe. There are minimal changes with this update – slight modifications to the outsole should improve grip but all in all this will be the same shoe as its mountain-slaying predecessor.
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- Improved Grip: The Fellcross 2 features Salomon's patented V-shaped lugs for optimal traction over unforgiving terrain.
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Every year Buffalo Trace releases their Experimental Collection: 375 ml bottles of some wacky experiment (or in one case some old barrels they found). When they first came out, these things were impossible to get and, though priced around $45 in Kentucky, often went for $200 in California. Lately, it seems they have been a bit more reasonable and a bit more available (though they are by no means plentiful). A friend shared with me some of the latest release which was announced in December and hit shelves earlier this year.
This year's Experimental consist of two bourbons with different secondary grains (the grain added in addition to corn and a small amount of barley malt). One uses oats and the other uses rice.
Now, I don't usually pay much attention to reviews in selecting my bourbons, but it's always interesting when someone has a very passionate reaction. John Hansell reviewed these bourbons in a post provocatively titled Don't buy this whiskey! He particularly disliked the oat bourbon and had this to say about it:
The one thing I am sure of: I could randomly pick any bourbon priced at $10 or more from any retailers' shelf and be pretty confident I will like it more than this. And, with a suggested price of $46.35 for a 375 ml, bottle, I wouldn't go anywhere near this whiskey.
That may be the worst thing I've ever heard him say about a whiskey, certainly a major distillery whiskey. Anyway, I was more than a little intrigued, and since I particularly like to chase down the bad stuff, I had to try it. Is it as bad as Hansell suggests? Let's see.
Buffalo Trace Experimental Collection "Made with Rice," 9 years 5 months old, 45% abv
The nose on this is definitely a bit different from the average bourbon. It's got some definite spice similar to a rye spice but also a sort of wet cardboard sort of aroma. On the palate, well, it doesn't taste like Uncle Ben's. The palate is extremely subtle and muted, but quite pleasant. It's also on the weak side, tasting much weaker than 45%. The finish is very light, just a bit of bourbon fumes and then a sort of graininess, really the only discernible rice-like flavor I've gotten from it (and if I didn't know it was made with rice, there is no way I would have identified it that way). This one is sort of nice in its understatedness. It's not something I would seek out, but it's perfectly nice for sipping. I actually think there is something to it, and if I were BT, I'd probably thing about further rice experiments as they could use the formula to end up with an ideal flavor profile for someone who wants a lighter bourbon.
Buffalo Trace Experimental Collection "Made with Oats," 9 years 5 months old, 45% abv
The nose on this is similar to a rye recipe bourbon, sweet and spicy, though there is also a bit of a plastic note. The palate starts off with medicinal notes which yield to a bitterness that lasts into the finish. I have to say I agree with Hansell that this one is not very good. I would never guess that it was oats, but the bitter notes don't do it any favors. Still, it's not horrible. I've had much, much worse, but it's certainly flawed.
So the rice showed some promise, but the oat was not good. Maybe BT should give potatoes a try.


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I recently got a new computer and so installed MacTeX 2011, previously I had been using the 2009 version. I have used the TeXLive utility to bring the 2011 version up to date today.
I use XeTeX with the beamer package to create presentations and need to occasionally embed movies. I used to be able to do the following with my 2009 installation:
%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\frametitle{Movie Test}
\includemovie[poster,text={Tacoma Narrows}, mouse, repeat,controls]{.5\linewidth}{.375\linewidth}{tacoma.avi}
Here "tacoma.avi" can of course be any .avi movie, I used a DivX 4.1.2 encoding. I downloaded the file movie15_dvipdfmx.sty from http://asymptote.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/asymptote/trunk/asymptote/patches/
In the new installation, I need to replace the document class with
i.e., I need to drop the "[dvipdfmx]" option. This is fine by me. The code still compiles, but when I open the resulting file in Adobe reader 10.1, I get an error message: A window titled "Warning: JavaScript Window -" pops up and says "Expected a stream object." The movie is not shown.
Furthermore, I just checked the file size: the .avi movie should be included inside the pdf container of the compiled TeX file, but this evidently doesn't happen, as the .pdf file is only 6 kb large.
Everything still works fine in the 2009 installation. I understand that the file "movie15_dvipdfmx.sty" is two years old and perhaps incompatible with TeXLive 2011, but there seems to be no newer version available. Can I make the above code work in some way with TexLive 2011? If not, what are my options for embedding movies in the XeTeX+beamer set-up?


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Or…Remember, what goes around comes around and you'll always get yours in the end!
I've done some bad stuff in my life, probably no more than the guy next to me if I wasn't alone in my office – but you get the point. As a matter of fact, a reader or two may have witnessed some of the more benign bad stuff, but I digress…
My focus today is the art of
Boy Meets Girl
Girl Irritates Boy
Boy Runs From Girl, FAST…
Prior to getting married I was a bad breaker-upper (BBU), I admit it. I once had a friend drop me off at a GF's house told him to drive around the block and pick me up. When he came back around I broke up with her and told her I couldn't talk anymore because my buddy was back, I got in the car and never looked back. At least that was in person, IM (√), Email (√), Phone (√), Friend pretending to be me on the phone (√, √) – Texting to break up is post single life for me but I can imagine I'd have done it.
(cnt stnd u no more – i m out – cya)
The point of all of this rambling is this – A lot of people I talk to say that "having a little girl is retribution for all the girls you've wronged in your life." I've broken up with a lot of girls, poorly in some cases, and now I have a daughter and I don't want the fate of those girls to befall her.
Some quotes from friends and their husbands:
Friend A: "We have four daughters [my husband] must have been really bad prior to me"
Husband: [Above the barely audible sobbing and sniffing] "Yup 4 girls and the oldest is twelve. Where can I buy a chastity belt?"
Friend B: "3 girls and counting…"
Husband: "WTF did I do wrong?"
I'm not saying that I or any of these fine gentlemen are complaining or have regrets about having a daughter, we all love them dearly. It's just the fact that we know what is in store for them – teenage boys. My little girl just turned one and my hair gets grayer each day she inches toward young-lady-hood. She's become a symbol to me – love, life and dread. After having two boys I thought I was in the clear but I must have pissed off Mighty Aphrodite too much with that last IM break up because my wife and I got the girl on the last shot.
What am I to do?
Bitch and moan for the next 20 years? Probably, but it won't do any good.
Lock her in her room as soon as she turns 10? No, my wife won't let me.
Train my boys as an elite, two-man paramilitary squad to protect her and hunt down those who would hurt her? Maybe, but probably not since that might be misconstrued somehow…
Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong – maybe since I was a BBU, my cross to bear is my boys.
Maybe my penance is to train them to be more sensitive to the wants and needs of women and not break hearts.
Maybe if I do that my fears with raising a girl will all be unfounded.
On second thought, Anyone know where can I learn more about paramilitary training?


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· leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico"
Synonym(s): holiday
Hypernym(s): leisure, leisure_time
2. vacation - noun
· the act of making something legally void
Hypernym(s): abrogation, repeal, annulment
3. vacation - verb
· spend or take a vacation
Synonym(s): holiday
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- Admission Fee: $0.00
Hours of Operation
- Monday : 12:00am - 12:00pm
- Tuesday : 12:00am - 12:00pm
- Wednesday : 12:00am - 12:00pm
- Thursday : 12:00am - 12:00pm
- Friday : 12:00am - 12:00pm
- Saturday : 12:00am - 12:00pm
- Sunday : 12:00am - 12:00pm
The Kingsland Veterans Memorial Park stands as a reminder to all Americans that we will never forget the brave men and women who have serve, and are currently serving, in all branches of the United States Armed Forces. The Memorial Park pays tribute to the American servicemen and women who have fought and lost their lives in service for the protections of our freedom.
The Veterans Memorial Park is located in Historic Downtown Kingsland at 201 W. King Avenue (Hwy 40) and its intersection with South Orange Edwards Boulevard. The memorial boasts five colorful memorial walls, each featuring detailed images depicting the different branches of the military. Proudly displayed are the five flags respective of each branch of service centered by the American Flag.
The seating area provides a quiet place to reflect and remember. Lights illuminating the flags cast a soft shadow in the evenings. Statues representing the United States of America Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard line the brick walkways gently curving throughout the park. Memorial bricks list names of remembered ones and can be purchased to leave a reminder to future generations of a loved one's service to their country.
The Kingsland Veterans Memorial Park was funded entirely through donations. If you would like to donate towards the next phase or purchase a Veterans Memorial Brick in remembrance, please visit our website.
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Celebrating Contemporary Global Indigenous Culture: Planet IndigenUS
Celebrating Contemporary Global Indigenous Culture Planet IndigenUS co-produced by Woodland Cultural Centre kicks off this Friday! Aug. 10-19, 2012
WHAT: Planet IndigenUS co-produced by Woodland Cultural Centre The biggest festival in the world of its kind: A ten-day celebration of cutting-edge, contemporary Indigenous culture from around the world.
WHERE: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto; Woodland Cultural Centre, 184 Mohawk Street, Brantford; and partners across the GTA Buses will be running between Harbourfront Centre, Woodland Cultural Centre and partner sites around the GTA each festival weekend.
WHEN: Friday, Aug. 10-Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 Fri Aug 10: 8 p.m.-1 a.m., Sat Aug 11: noon-1 a.m., Sun Aug 12 noon-8 p.m. Fri Aug 17: 7 p.m.-1 a.m., Sat Aug 18 noon-1 a.m., Sun Aug 19 noon-6:30 p.m.
WHAT, EXACTLY: . Planet IndigenUS kicks off with the Opening Spectacle, a multidisciplinary extravaganza hosted by Wab Kinew and Sarah Podemski and featuring a range of performers from around the world; . Music, dance, theatre, visual art and more from hundreds of artists hailing from across Canada, the US, China, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and Norway; . Don't miss Shared Perspectives - An Evening of Reconciliation, featuring keynote addresses from Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair as well as performances and an authors' dialogue on Tuesday, Aug. 14.
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Keeping an eye on Wilkins Ice Shelf
As the Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula, ESA's Envisat satellite is observing the area on a daily basis. The satellite acquisitions of the ice shelf are updated automatically on this website to monitor the developments immediately as they occur.
In late November 2008, new rifts developed on Wilkins Ice Shelf. As scientists predicted, this led to the collapse of the ice bridge that had connected the ice shelf to Charcot Island in early April 2009.
A full size version of the animation is also available.
The collapse of the ice bridge, which was approximately 100 km long and only a few km wide, had formed a barrier pinning back the northern ice front of the central Wilkins Ice Shelf. As a consequence of the collapse, the rifts on the shelf widened and new cracks formed as the ice adjusted in the days that followed.
Towards the end of April 2009, icebergs had started to calve from the northern front of the ice shelf, indicating that it had destabilised.
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Armchair Travel
February 2018
Recent Releases
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Kushanava Choudhury
What it's about:
After graduating from Princeton,
Kushanava Choudhury left his immigrant parents in New Jersey and returned to Calcutta, India, where'd he spent a portion of his youth, to work at the
newspaper and explore the teeming, complex city.
For fans of
Eloquently combining travelogue, memoir, and history,
he Epic City
will be appreciated by fans of
Suketu Mehta's
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Following Fifi: My Adventures Among Wild Chimpanzees
John Crocker; foreword by Jane Goodall
fascinating wild chimpanzees; primatologist Jane Goodall (who's justifiably famous for studying them in Gombe forest in Tanzania); and author John Crocker (who, a
s a premed student,
spent eight months working with Goodall, observing mother chimpanzees).
What it's about:
Not only does Crocker describe his 1973 visit, but also a return trip with his teenage son years later. Crocker also explains how his field work helped make him a better father and physician.
Look for:
Those interested in Goodall will be interested in the recent National Geographic documentary,
Cuba on the Verge: 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across...
Leila Guerriero, editor
What it is:
an anthology of eye-opening essays w
ritten by 12 authors -- some native Cubans, some visitors -- and edited by Leila Guerriero, an
Argentinian journalist. The book
offers a
wide-ranging look
at modern Cuba, covering baseball, movies, sex tourism, immigration, sexism, and more.
Further reading:
Pick up another thought-provoking recent book about Cuba, Mark Kurlansky's
The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East
Adam Valen Levinson
What it's about:
Hoping to address his post-9/11 fears, a
Jewish American man armed with college Arabic skills took a job in Abu Dhabi and visited over 20 Middle-Eastern countries, including Iraq, Iran, and Egypt.
Who it's for:
those who appreciate curious, funny, introspective travelers.
Further reading:
Want another amusing, Arabic-centric travelogue? Try Zora O'Neill's
All Strangers Are Kin
Made into Movies
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson
What it's about:
American travel writer Bill Bryson, who'd been living in England for years, set out to hike the Appalachian Trail with an old friend. The two out-of-shape 40-somethings thought they'd walk the entire 2,100 miles to Maine before winter -- but reality soon hit. Nature d
escriptions and a history of the storied trail c
ombine with the pair's amusing experiences and their encounters with other hikers.
The movie:
Robert Redford and Nick Nolte dramatized the duo's nature adventure on the big screen.
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
What it's about:
When Kenya was known as British East Africa, Dane Karen Blixen (whose pseudonym was Isak Dinesen) lived and worked on a family coffee plantation located at the foot of the Ngong Hills. Her classic memoir lyrically captures her time there from 1913-1931, describing the alluring landscape, the local people, the deaths of close friends, and the eventual failure of the farm.
The movie
: The award-winning 1985 film adaptation of
Out of Africa,
drew from other Dinesen writings, focused on Blixen's romance with a British aristocrat and starred Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
What it's about:
Bestselling author Jon Krakauer pieces together the dramatic -- and tragic -- story of Chris McCandless, an intelligent young man who embarked on a solo journey into the wilds of Alaska with no map and virtually no supplies.
The movie:
Originally published in 1996,
Into the Wild
was adapted as a film in 2007 by Sean Penn and starred Emile Hirsch; Chris' sister, Carine McCandless, consulted on the movie and later wrote a book,
The Wild Truth,
about her and her brother's abusive childhood.
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Frances Mayes
What it's about:
First published in 1986, this delightful book chronicles poet Frances Mayes' purchase of a Tuscan villa in need of refurbishing. Relating experiences from her new Italian life, Mayes describes spending time with her neighbors, dealing with repairs, and dining on delicious foods (recipes are included!).
The movie:
The 2003
Under the Tuscan Sun
movie is quite different from the book but features luminous scenery and a compelling Diane Lane as Mayes.
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Unveil In Detroit
Unveil In Detroit
seems to have a little updated interior, I think they need to stretch the car about 4 more inches from more rear legroom. They need to set the Model X apart from the others. Perhaps a new way to get in the deeper frunk, seems hard to put shopping bags in compared to the Model S. Like that they ditched the camera mirrors. I like the new dash.
I actually am disappointed in the new interior. I was hoping the screen sticking out like a sore thumb was simply an alpha design oversight but they seem to have made the problem worse in this model X. I much prefer the way the screen blends into the lines of the dashboard as it does in the Model S. In the current Model X, the touch screen looks like an awkward afterthought rather than the elegant interface in the soul of the car.
As for the length of the car, I think the car is already plenty long (I'm already going to have a tight squeeze in my Boston garage).
It's not a surprise they had to back to traditional mirrors--the laws on car design haven't caught up to technology yet.
Well Model X is the same chassis as Model S I believe. So might be difficult to add more length to it...
They have stretched the wheelbase a bit. The position of the axles wrt the battery isn't "fixed" by its design.
I like the new look. Why do we need wood in cars? Seems like a history lesson. Go Tesla, I'm keeping my deposit/reservation for X.
Wood, when treated correctly, is just beautiful. Nothing historic there, just aesthetic.
I like the updated look (interior), that includes the way that the screen is attached. F.e http://green.autoblog.com/photos/tesla-model-x-detroit-2013/#photo-5567936/
Nothing wrong with the exterior, although they should have worked a bit more on the alignment of the back doors: http://green.autoblog.com/photos/tesla-model-x-detroit-2013/#photo-5567930/
Anyone know if Tesla will represent at the upcoming Chicago Auto Show?
^^ Good question, I would be interrested in going to that
I had the same thought. Checked the list of exhibitors, Tesla isn't listed.
Here are the Electrics on show at Chicago:
Cadillac 2014 ELR
Ford Focus Electric
Chevrolet Volt
Honda Fit EV
Ford 2014 Transit Connect
These pictures are much better then what I have seen so far from other web sites reporting from Detroit. In my opinion it also shows a much more usable 3rd row. Looks like the car they had on display is a Signature model X ( with the red leather strip around the seats).
That's called piping. And yes, the photos are quite good.
Interesting seeing the Smart display just beyond the Tesla one in one pic. Wonder which got the most attention. ;)
Did you see those cool wheels, picture #9? Makes me wonder if they are ever going to offer the aerodynamic wheels that were originally to be offered as an option on the Model S?
My take on the Smart Car?
"Smart for Two
Dumb for Three!"


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Some health policy analysts and provider groups cheered last year when results from a 2010 national survey of employers showed that Massachusetts no longer had the most expensive health insurance coverage in the country. But the latest data show that the family plans offered through Massachusetts employers once again cost more, on average, than in any other state.
"I'm not surprised," said John McDonough, director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The idea that Massachusetts fell so dramatically last year in relation to other states was "wacky," he said. "It's a cautionary tale, in terms of never taking too seriously statistical news that shows such a sudden shift in either direction."
The average family premium in 2011 was $16,953, including what both employer and employee pay. That's about 16 percent higher then the 2010 average, $14,606. Meanwhile, the national average increased about 8 percent.
Because the data are based on a survey sample of employers, and not on more complete market reporting, the figures may not accurately reflect year-to-year changes in state averages and there may be little actual difference between costs in Massachusetts and other expensive states, such as New Hampshire, where the family average was $16,902.
Plus, the sample is not made up of the exact same employers each year, which could account for some of the variation over time.
Last year, as the debate on Beacon Hill about how to control health costs heated up, provider groups and others said the 2010 federal data and a Commonwealth Fund report analyzing it showed that the market was already regulating itself.
Lynn Nicholas, chief executive of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, wrote on the group's website in November that the change was "a great start."
"It's also evidence that the market's efforts to slow the cost of health care increases are working, and that government intervention in price regulation would be premature," she wrote.
Several prominent health policy experts raised doubts then about the numbers.
The national survey is generally thought of as a strong measure of premium trends, said Nancy Turnbull, senior lecturer and associate dean at the Harvard School of Public Health. But, she said, at the state level the survey results have too much volatility to be trusted. For example, the average premium cost at the largest employers, those with 1,000 employees or more, decreased 9 percent in 2010 and then increased 22 percent in 2011.
The double-digit increase in 2011 prices in the survey doesn't correlate with what seems to be happening in the insurance market, with carriers holding costs down and negotiating new contracts with doctors and hospitals, said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
"There's a lot of other evidence that we slowed the rate of growth of costs," he said.
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VP, Business Development, Alfresco SoftwareMatt Asay is VP of Business Development for Alfresco. Prior to Alfresco Asay co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office, founded the Open Source Business Conference, and ran embedded Linux vendor Lineo's Network & Communications division.
Asay earned a JD from Stanford Law School, where he spent two of his three years studying open source licensing under Professor Lawrence Lessig. Matt blogs for InfoWorld and for CNET.


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1983 Chevy 1500 - Hammerhead
Old School Chevy
You may already be familiar with the Hammerhead Truck. It was featured last issue in our (add month and prior link) Mud Girl of the month. Our editors like the look and style of this truck so much that they thought it needed to be used as a full feature. It's rare that we come across a clean old school Chevy like this one. The attention to detail and bright orange paint really make this truck stand out amongst others. Not to mention, its owner is crazy behind the wheel. Keith Spiker and family have Offroad in their blood. Growing up, Keith's father had Spikers owned his own Monster Truck, All American, that was used in competitions. The famous Lakeland Motorsports park is also owned by the Spiker Family so Keith is no stranger to the mega truck scene.
Keith knew that he wanted a truck, but he wanted something that would be competitive on a racing level. He turned to longtime friend Chris Haygood. Haygood has had a lot of experience in truck building and has helped build some of the fastest trucks in the south. They started with a 1983 1500 long bed Chevy regular cab. Spiker and Haygood ditched the stock Chevy frame and built a custom box frame. Box frames are becoming extremely common in the Mega Truck industry because of their lightness, strength and cost effectiveness. The Hammerhead Truck also sports a set of TNT nitrogen shocks on all four corners. Spiker chose to use a four-link suspension with aluminum four link bars and chromoly heim joints. A set of shortened 2-1/2-ton Rockwells were thrown under the truck to keep Spikers from breaking axles.
Even if you have never met Keith Spiker, just by looking at his truck you can tell he's a stickler for having nice things. The entire undercarriage of the Chevy was powder coated by Jerrigan Custom Coating. He then turned to long time family friends, Fransicos Paint and Body to give the hammerhead all its bling. The meticulous attention to detail and sweet choice of paint color go along with Spikers need to win attitude.
Obviously with a name like Hammerhead, the predator had to have a lot of bite. Spiker slammed a 512ci Chevy motor under the hood of the '83 long bed. Like most racers, Spiker was reluctant to relinquish any details on his power plant but told Mud Life that his big-block Chevy had a lot of modifications and a gang of nitrous on board. A TH400 transmission by Gavin transfers the power to an SCS transfer case with quick change gear ratios. The fuel system was completely designed and installed by Scott Carlton and helped give Spiker the upper hand at most competitions. A custom set of Chris Haygood designed wheels wrapped in BKT smoothed and cut tractor tires give this Hammerhead all the traction it needs.
Having only taken three weeks to build from the ground up, this truck has really proven itself time and time again. Spiker admits that without the support and help of his friends and family he would have never gotten his truck completed. With appearances on the famed Trucks Gone Wild DVD and now a full spread in Mud Life Magazine, we hope this hammerhead doesn't get out of its tank!
Body: 1983 Chevy Truck
Suspension : Triangulated 4-link with TNT Shocks
Motor: 512 C.I. BBC with Nitrous
Horsepower: 750+
Transmission: Turbo 400
Tires: 14.9x24
Transfer Case: SCS
Driver/Owner: Keith Spiker
Special Thanks/Sponsors: Mike and Sandy Spiker, Chris Haygood, Franciscoís Paint and Body, Tim Gavin, LD Howell, Tommy Detailing


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By Tom Utescher
Building up steam heading into the Mid-Atlantic Squash Association tournament at the end of this month, Germantown Friends extended its regular-season match record to 6-1 last week with a pair of victories. Hosting both bouts at the Germantown Cricket Club, the Tigers took down Friends Schools League rival Shipley School, 5-2, on Tuesday, then swept the Harriton/Lower Merion High School squad on Friday afternoon, 7-0.
The Shipley Gators gave GFS a good workout at the start of the week, with only one of the seven official best-of-five-games contests ending with a 3-0 score. The lone sweep was turned in by Germantown senior Alex Nalle, who dispatched Shipley number two Mike Gagnier.
There were 3-1 victories for Tigers junior Diego Sanz (over Ian Udvarheyli at number three) and sophomore Max McCafferty (over Nat Fry at number four). Pulling out 3-2 victories for the home team were sophomore David Sneed, who won at number five against Ted Nehrbas, and senior Cole McCourt, who rallied from 0-2 to prevail over Shipley's sixth man, Kevin Staples.
On the other end of a 3-2 score was GFS sophomore Drew Wallace, who was edged in the seventh position by visitor Ridge Woods. David Sneed's brother Dan, a senior veteran at number one, succumbed to Shipley's Brian Henry by a score of 3-1. Two other Tigers, tenth-graders Sam Conant and Sam York, each won an exhibition match in Tuesday's encounter.
Germantown senior Ben York (Sam's sibling) was out sick for the set-to with Shipley (which was also missing one of its regulars), but he was back in his customary number five spot three days later, when the Tigers welcomed the Harriton/Lower Merion combinbation team.
This amalgam consisted of Matt Cooper, Josh Marks, Joey Gringold, Will Tobias, Max Novick, and Max Eisenberg of the Lower Merion Aces, and Timmy Brooks, Jon Abrams, Mike Contra, and David Litmer of the Harriton Rams.
While the Tigers won everywhere, they were overpowering in the middle of the line-up. McCafferty mastered Gringold at number four, 11-5, 11-4, 11-3, and one rung down Ben York took out Tobias, 11-7, 11-5, 11-7. In the sixth spot David Sneed was also a 3-0 victor, winning his three games at six, love, and seven against HLM's Abrams.
The visiting Brooks opened with an 11-8 win at number three, but then was settled by Sanz, 11-7, 11-3, 11-3, while in the seventh position McCourt overcame Contra in four rounds, 12-10, 11-4, 8-11, 11-7. Up at number two, Germantown's Nalle cruised in the first two games, 11-2, 11-5, but HLM's Marks took the next two frames, 12-10, 11-9, forcing a fifth game where Nalle emerged on top, 11-5.
The number one match between Dan Sneed and the visitors' Cooper also went the distance. Sneed confidently claimed an 11-5 victory in the initial game, placing his shots cleverly to make Cooper scramble all over the court. Up by four points in game two, it looked as though the GFS senior might end the match quickly, but Cooper hit his stride and fought back tenaciously. The game turned into a marathon that was ultimately won, 19-17, by Cooper, who then pocketed the third game as well, 11-8.
Now confronted with elimination himself, Sneed evened the match at 2-2 by taking the fourth game in extra innings, 13-11. His momentum carried over into game five, which he won at 11-7 when a stroke by Cooper sent the ball high off the front surface and out above the boundary stripe on the left side-wall.


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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Zadie Smith on "Speaking in Tongues"
2 comments:
- Justin Hansford said...
Hey Prof. Ernst:
Thanks so much for recommending this lecture! I agree with Zadie Smith's assessment of the virtues of Aristotelian "temperance," or what she conceptualizes as Halifax's "equivocation." While Obama's rejection of ideological heroism is indeed a thorn in the side of many leftists, I agree wholeheartedly that it is a virtue generally, and very likely emerges from the ability to be "double voiced" that he illustrated in both "Dreams from my Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."
My challenge is this: acknowledging that this is a virtue in novelists, poets, and possibly presidents, is it also a virtue in lawyers, and does it follow that is it a virtue in legal scholars, judges, and law professors? Is it better to aspire to be "double voiced," than to aspire to be objective or to think that, through the use of the socratic method, a law professor can be voiceless in the classroom?
This thought leads me to a good natured challenge emerging from my experience when I took your section 3 property class in the spring of 2005. I don't buy that there wasn't time to fit in on the syllabus, for example, law articles, if not cases, on slavery and property, or the native american's interaction with property law in the 19th and 20th century. The narrative of a field of law is degraded when it is not presented as a conversation between different voices. And we are lucky in the law because, unlike Obama or Zadie Smith, we do not have to fully empathize with or recreate these voices for ourselves. All we need to do is research them, cite them, and in the classroom setting, all the professor has to do is put them on the syllabus next to the law and economics readings, and then let the students make judgments for themselves.
I hope the era of Obama is one where ideological heroism becomes passe and both conservatives and liberals can embrace double voicedness as a virtue!
Again, fantastic recommendation, and I plan to visit your blog again many times in the future!
- January 8, 2009 at 1:05:00 PM EST
- Unknown said...
It appears her podcast has been taken down. Shucks. Fantastic blog.
- January 12, 2009 at 10:02:00 AM EST


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A memorial fund has been set up to raise funds to provide a memorial to one of Newmarket's unsung heroes.
Interest has been expressed in the project from around the country and from as far afield as Canada, where Bill Tutte lived and died after the war.
"Who was Bill Tutte?"
Bill Tutte was born in Newmarket in 1917. He was educated locally and in Cambridge before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1935. In 1941 he was invited to join the so-called Government Codes and Cipher School at Bletchley Park, where he was responsible for cracking the German Lorenz code (called Tunny by the British).
Due to continuing Cold War security reasons, he received no official recognition or public acclaim for his achievement and it was not until the mid 1990s, some 50 years later, that details were released; even now some aspects of his work remain classified.
It is widely believed that the Russians used captured Lorenz machines for their own purposes for some years after the end of World War Two without realising that the British security services had cracked the code; to recognise Tutte's achievement would have given the game away.
In 2012, following a campaign by The Newmarket Journal, the Prime Minister wrote to Tutte's remaining family in Newmarket to acknowledge the debt we owe him and Newmarket Town Council resolved to honour him with a memorial on Rutland Hill in the town centre.
"What can I do to help?"
In the First Instance, you could click the banner below, read more about this amazing mans achievements follow the Memorial Trust on Twitter, or like them in Facebook. Links are on the official page


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#7. The Importance of the Occupiers and of Non-occupying Supporters
Non-occupying supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement are critical forces in influencing the impact of the movement. The bold and brave occupiers, who put their bodies on the line for what they believe in, are themselves a tiny fraction of the discontented and exploited who seek major change, but their support reaches widely, those many that are discontent, insecure, and/or exploited, dissatisfied with things as they are, angry about the direction in which the country is going. Their support reaches into the majority of the population, even into Republican circles, even sharing some roots with some tea partiers. Occupy Wall Street will not bring about the changes that are wanted by themsleves, but it can be a force to bring about a shift from a defensive to an offensive posture, to push from radical reform rather than only amelioration at the edges.
Supportive non-occupiers can play a major role in moving in this direction. They can develop the details occupiers are accused if ignoring, organize around individual the individual concrete issues contributing to the deep discontent with the direction in which society is moving. Linking the broadly-targeting aroused occupiers to the multiple existing groups and organization already struggling for change might provide strength and energy all around.
In more detail:
Non-occupying supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement need to reflect on just what the Occupy movements (s) are, and what they signify, for the two are not the same. Substantively, those who are occupying space with their bodies, often in the heart of the beast, are brave and largely young discontents, dissatisfied with a society in which human values are subordinate to the search for profit, opportunities for creative work are shrinking and often put in the service of destruction, war is an accepted part of foreign policy, nature is simply raw materials for production, consumption exceeds needs for some and is inadequate for a decent life for many, violence is made attractive and non-conformity punished.[1] In this they reflect what many, many, feel. But they are putting their bodies where their feelings are, and in this they are a small minority. They signify the depth of those feelings, but do not reflect on their actions the breadth with which they are shared.
Numerically, the occupiers, those physically occupying space in protest, today constitute perhaps .05% of the population of the United States.[2] Much more important, however, is that from various polls a good majority of the American people agree with them.[3]
One might line things up somewhat like this – for illustrative purposes only, :
Occupiers non-Occupiers + Support OWS Republican Tea Party Ruling Class Ruling class
OWS Supporting Occupy Republican Not TP/ OWS foot soldiers Wall Street
.05% 55%+ 10% 15% 15% 4% 1%
Small majority small large large small very small
The occupiers of Wall Street will not bring about the changes that are wanted by themselves, but they can be a great force to bring about a shift from a defensive to an offensive posture of those needing and wanting change, to push for radical reform rather than only tinkering at the edges. One might line things up somewhat like this – for illustrative purposes only :
Occupiers Support OWS Support OWS Republican Tea party
in OWS Not in OWS Republican Not TP or OWS
.05% 55%+ 10% 15% 15%
Tiny majority small large large
Ruling class Ruling Class
foot soldiers Wall Street
4% 1%
small very small
If such an analysis is anywhere near right, the real impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement will be in what effect it has on the other 94.5% of the population (although the 4% and 1% at the top may be influenced to change their ways somewhat, not out of conviction but in self-defense). Certainly energizing the already supportive majority is highly important, and to some extent the 1% may be influenced against their will. . But the fact that a significant percentage of Republicans also express sympathy with the movement, and that there are elements within it that even resonate with tea partiers, is something to which attention should be paid. Tea partiers, after all, also condemn casino capitalism; when occupiers are accused of illegally occupying public spaces, do they not have more right to claim the tradition of the illegal dumping of tea in the Boston Harbor than the members of the law and order tea parties do? Are there any openings for discussion there? Possibly, as the broadest yet potentially most meaningful proposal, might not the push for a millionaire's tax be a unifying struggle, to which the occupations could give a clearer meaning Occupy Wall Street is, must see itself, and must be seen, as part of a very broad movement, one involving far more of the discontented and deprived than can occupy the spaces of the movement itself.
Putting the substantive and the numerical together, it is clear that the possibilities for real change do not rest with the members of Occupy Wall Street itself. It is misleading to measure the movement for change by the growth or shrinkage of the number of occupiers; it must be measured by the scope and effectiveness of the movement of those they represent, that are in sympathy with their feelings and in support of their goals. It is likewise misleading to focus on a critique of their slogans, the limitations of their theoretical understandings or organization (surprisingly good, even exemplary, as it might be!), or to want them to formulate detailed demands or lobby or get into electoral politics. None of this is what they are about, nor is it the role that they want to or can play.
The Occupy Wall Street movement It is not about to occupy the Winter Palace, charge the Bastille, overthrow Batista, or even throw cases of tea into Boston harbor. Those reactions that might eventually result from what they do, although it seems pretty unlikely right now. Where the discontent and the deprivation that their movement signifies goes next is not in the first place up to them, but up to those in whose name they act. They do not occupy positions of influence, their work is not essential to the survival of the system, they do not command the resources that can take on the establishment and win major concessions, let alone overthrow it.
The real support that non-occupying supporters can give the Occupy Wall Street movement, then, is to draw from it the conclusion that the time is right to go on the offensive, to move from Real Politiik to principled politics, to expose and attack the real roots of social injustice rather than only ameliorate their worst manifestations. If they are being accused of not formulating concrete and feasible programs to achieve their clear goals, there are plenty of other organizations and individuals around who can do so. Rather than blaming the occupiers for not doing it, let those who are working within the system re-double their efforts. The occupation movement is no substitute for the labor movement, for urban social movements, for radical think tanks, for insurgent political organization; it is rather a call to arms for their further mobilization.
But the immediate needs of the occupiers should not be lost sight of in the debate about how their work relates to others. Real support, not only in the obvious ways: pizza, legal defense, blankets, physical presence and encouragement. But also with shared experience, history, theory. There is incredible discussion going on within the occupied spaces, debates, experiments in organizing, discussion of tactics. In one occupation I was at the participants had divided their discussions into those requiring consensus – how to organize, how to run meetings, how to obtain, prepare, and distribute food, how to deal with individual problem – in a sense, management matters — and deal separately with those that required political action, to be decided with debate and discussion but majority vote in General Assemblies. Whether the experience in such an (almost commune-like) setting can be extrapolated to lessons in democracy at other scales is a complex question, but certainly the experience puts vital questions on the table. Such questions have been dealt with before, in much drier fashion, perhaps but deeply and extensively. And need to be faced directly now.
Certainly there are issues on which there are divergent opinions among those fully in support of the basic goals of the Occupy movement. Is the opponent greed, or corporations? Will revising the electoral system produce a democracy where all will be heard? Gross inequality is bad; is all inequality bad? Affordable housing should be available to all; can that best be accomplished through regulation, through subsidies, through non-market provision? In what sense are major corporations job creators or is their motivation to limit payrolls as an expense? What is the history of movements like Occupy Wall Street , what strategies have they historically used? What is the experience with non-hierarchical but effective forms of organization? Can encampments in public space lilke those of Occupy groups be justified in law? If in private spaces? How does "race " relate to anti-corporate campaigns? Immigration? Gender bias? Some Occupy groups are welcoming teach-in type forums where such matters are systematically discussed; more offers to organize such events would surely be welcomed. The movement needs theory as well as practice, information as well as feeling. Non-occupiers can surely help.
Could not supporters of Occupy Wall Street, many of whom are in education one way or another, provide opportunities for education at the sites of the occupations, perhaps offer to organize teach-ins, discussion groups? Providing reading material – would not copies of Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States be as satisfying to the hunger for intellectual nourishment as boxes of pizza to the hunger for physical nourishment.
A perhaps more far-fetched possibility might be the direct linking of the occupations with the existing movements and organizations of the discontented and the deprived. Might not occupiers be invited out to attend meetings of LGBTQ groups, labor union meetings, civil rights groups, homeless groups ,environmental groups, both to tell their stories and to see how others do things? Might not educational institutions or teachers and faculty offer visits, discussions, seminars for occupiers?
The occupations will not go on forever; certainly the length of time any individual can participate directly is limited. Cannot outsiders offer opportunities for engagement outside of the space and time of the occupation, but compatible with them, for participants? Is not in fact, in the broadest sense, the promise of the occupations exactly the extent to which they will link to, inform and be informed by, ultimately coalesce together with others, in hat the 99% want and need and strive for?
If all of those who, in support of Occupy Wall Street, have put pen to paper, finger to keyboard, frown to forehead, or mouth to movement, would put conviction into action, the change for which the occupiers have put their bodies on the line might indeed begin to take place.
[2] Just for order of magnitude: 200 cities, average 200 occupiers each, = 40,000 people, say even triple that number at times of heightened activity, 120,000, rounded off, 200,000. That's .066% of the population of the United States. In any event, a very small number.
[3] In a Sienna poll, 58%; a Quinnipiac poll, 68%; http://empire.wnyc.org/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-killing-it-in-the-polls, and http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2011/10/siena-poll-new-york-state-voters-would-rather-occupy-wall-street-than-throw-a-. Polls have their limits, and much too much attention is paid to them, yet they can be revealing; the Time Magazine poll of 1001 persons is fairly typical: http://swampland.time.com/full-results-of-oct-9-10-2011-time-poll/.


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Tyg darlin it is great to see you and Congratulations on becoming a grand ma soon. Even if we are speaking of the canine type.
Drieske, Heliona, Iris and everyone else, I have missed posting with you lot so much.
Loved the link Iris as they are some of the funniest stories I have read in a long time. It's amazing how weird some folks are.
Gwenny I cant wait to see the dress. I bet it will be very pretty when you finish it. I have seen the pattern you showed but I find it very interesting to see the colors and textures of fabric that people choose.
Rwhen we most certainly will get together this August or as soon as possible.
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TORONTO — Ontario's ombudsman wants the power to look into all three of the province's police oversight bodies, not just the Special Investigations Unit.
It's part of ombudsman Paul Dube's submission to Ontario's independent police oversight review, which has a broad mandate to recommend ways to enhance accountability and transparency.
The only police oversight agency currently within the ombudsman's jurisdiction is the SIU, which investigates when police are involved in incidents of serious injury or death.
But Dube said his office should also have the power to probe the Office of the Independent Police Review Director and the Ontario Civilian Police Commission, as well as municipal police services boards.
"The time has come to jettison the historic anomaly that sets the OIPRD and the OCPC apart and ensure that all three civilian oversight bodies are equally subject to ombudsman review," Dube wrote in his submission.
"Our civilian oversight bodies represent critical checks and balances in our democracy. However, public trust depends on their effectiveness, and transformative change is required to foster confidence in policing in this province."
The OIPRD is responsible for overseeing public complaints about the police in Ontario, such as about the conduct of a police officer, the policies of a police department or how it delivers services.
The OCPC hears appeals of police disciplinary decisions, adjudicates budget disputes between municipal councils and police service boards, oversees amalgamation of police services and investigates chiefs of police, police officers and members of police services boards.
The ombudsman's office has received 184 complaints about both organizations in the past four years, 138 of them about the OIPRD.
Members of the public have complained about the quality of OIPRD investigations, its dismissal of complaints, and its practice of referring certain matters back to police services, Dube said.
The ombudmsan also recommended several legislative reforms to the SIU, including making it an offence for police to fail to co-operate with an SIU investigation. The office has conducted two systemic investigations of the SIU in the past 10 years, and some of the issues they raised remain, Dube said.
"The recommendations we made to transform the SIU's legislative authority remain unfulfilled, and the problems we first highlighted in 2008 continue to damage public trust in the SIU," Dube wrote.
Attorney General Yasir Naqvi attended one of the review's public consultations Wednesday night, and said he is looking forward to the recommendations of Appeal Court Justice Michael Tulloch, who is leading the review.
"Part of that consultation is to hear from other officers like the ombudsman as to what kind of changes that they envision will enhance the transparency and accountability of police oversight," he said. "I will leave the deliberation and recommendation development up to Justice Tulloch."
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Dear Kettle fans,
Today I'm really excited to be able to announce a few really important changes to the Pentaho Data Integration landscape. To me, the changes that are being announced today compare favorably to reaching Kettle version 1.0 some 9 years ago, or reaching version 2.0 with plugin support or even open sourcing Kettle itself…
First of all…
Pentaho is again open sourcing an important piece of software. Today we're bringing all big data related software to you as open source software. This includes all currently available capabilities to access HDFS, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, the specific VFS drivers we created as well as the ability to execute work inside of Hadoop (MapReduce), Amazon EMR, Pig and so on.
This is important to you because it means that you can now use Kettle to integrate a multitude of technologies, ranging from files over relational databases to big data and NoSQL. You can do this in other words without writing any code. Take a look at how easy it is to program for Hadoop MapReduce:
In other words, this part of the big news of today allows you to use the best tool for the job, whatever that tool is. You can now combine the large set of steps and job entries with all the available data sources and use that to integrate everything. Especially for Hadoop the time it takes to implement a MapReduce job is really small taking the sting out of costly and long training and testing cycles.
But that's not all…
Pentaho Data Integration as well as the new big data plugins are now available under the Apache License 2.0. This means that it's now very easy to integrate Kettle or the plugins in 3rd party software. In fact, for Hadoop, all major distributions are already supported including: Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Apache Hadoop, Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH), Cloudera Enterprise, EMC Greenplum HD, HortonWorks Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop, and MapR's M3 Free and M5 Edition.
The change of Kettle from LGPL to Apache License 2.0 was broadly supported by our community and acts as an open invitation for other projects (and companies) to integrate Kettle. I hope that more NoSQL, Big Data and Big Search communities will reach out to us to work together to even broaden our portfolio. The way I see it, the Kettle community just got a whole lot bigger!
Where are the goodies?
The main landing page for the Big Data community is placed on our wiki to emphasize our intention to closely work with the various communities to make Pentaho Big Data a success. You can find all information over there, including a set of videos, PDI 4.3.0 preview download (including Big Data plugins), Hadoop installation instructions, PRD configuration information and much more.
Thanks for your time reading this and thanks for using Pentaho software!


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I clicked this image while exploring Amer town on a beautiful February morning.
With the temple in foreground and play between light & clouds in the background, the opportunity to click was too good to resist! It set the stage for the the divine light!
For uninitiated, Amer town is where the famous Amer Palace is located and it predates Jaipur as a capital of rulers of Jaipur state.
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Volvo Ocean Race Game starts on October 29
Race around the world on your desktop
The winner of the 2011-12 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race Game, which enables online players to race a virtual Volvo Open 70 around the world following the course of the actual race, will drive away in a brand new Volvo XC60 car.
Exactly like the world class professional sailing teams competing in the Volvo Ocean Race for real, players of the game will use live weather data to help them choose the fastest track and the optimum sail combinations to navigate their virtual boats around the world as quickly as possible.
Created by multiplayer online gaming specialists United Games, the all-new game will be launched on October 29, the day of the in-port racing in Alicante, and features many enhancements over the previous version which attracted over 220,000 players during the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race.
United Games CEO Marijn Harinck said:
"We're very excited to show the game to all the Volvo Ocean Race fans. There have been a lot of changes since the last virtual edition of the Volvo Ocean Race Game. Social media exploded, Twitter has become the number one newsfeed. With this in mind our team created a state of the art racing game where players can test their ability to navigate a Volvo Open 70 across the oceans.
"The last edition of the game was a huge success, though we think that the Volvo Ocean Race Game 2011-12 will outclass all sailing games. With Facebook integration and easy playable via mobile we can assure it will be easier to connect and sail your virtual yacht. But be aware, the competition will be also harder with over 500.000 boats on the water."
The 2011-12 game will be available to play on Facebook and on the Volvo Ocean Race website, as well as on several major news and sporting sites. For the first time, players will also be able to access the Volvo Ocean Race Game on iPhones and Android devices.
Facebook players will be able to tag friends and check how they are faring against them as well as sharing the game with other Facebook users. A built in "Friend Bar" within the game interface will enable all players to create and interact with their own communities as they play the game. Players will also be able to post to Facebook and Twitter directly from the game itself.
Other enhancements mean that the latest version will be significantly faster than previously and will enable novice players to quickly become proficient, while also challenging more expert players. Entry in the game is free but players will be able to purchase extra credits to access special features and information.
In addition to the top prize of a Volvo XC60, the second placed player will receive a unique timepiece, presented by IWC Schaffhausen, the official timekeeper of the Volvo Ocean Race and the Volvo Ocean Race Game.
Third prize will be a VIP Formula 1 motor racing hospitality package, including accommodation and access to the drivers' paddock, presented by Volvo Ocean Race logistics partner DHL.
A host of additional exclusive prizes will be given away during the race including VIP visits to stopover race villages and rides on Volvo Open 70s, as well as Volvo Ocean Race gifts and other special merchandise.
Volvo Ocean Race Communications Director, Jon Bramley said "Integration with Facebook and Twitter and the fact that the game can be played on several major news and sports websites, as well as on mobile devices, will dramatically extend its reach. The Volvo Ocean Race already has more than 50,000 Facebook fans and we are looking forward to welcoming many more when the game launches."
Before the start of Leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race from Alicante, Spain to Cape Town, South Africa on November 5, players will have a chance to try out the new game during an official Practice Race from October 29 to November 2.
Volvo Ocean Race Game Schedule:
October 29th - Start of official Practice Race
November 2nd - Finish of official Practice Race
November 5th - Start of Leg 1 Alicante, Spain to Cape Town, South Africa
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