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The mayor's office is concerned that some students are double-dipping (eating twice – once at home and again at school), while the City Council is worried that students who do not eat enough will not perform well in the classroom.
Serving kids from low-income families a breakfast is not a bad idea, but serving it in the classroom might be. Schools that have cafeterias should be using them for that reason. The argument that students feel singled out by eating in the cafeteria is also a little weak, as if other students will not see them eating breakfast in the classroom as well.
The problem that public education has been twisting itself to solve is how to keep kids focused. Distractions are a big vehicle to a poor education. More and more parents and advocates are coming over to the school uniforms idea because it creates less of a distraction.
The idea of students eating at their desks seems like a good idea in theory. If you are teaching that classroom, however, the last thing you want to remind students over and over again is that "breakfast is over," "please do not throw food in the classroom," "please throw your garbage out," etc. These are all major distractions.
It's interesting that when it comes to the breakfast issue, suddenly we become concerned with the performance of students. Where is all of this enthusiasm when it comes to the debate over a longer school year? If performance is the issue, there are a lot of changes that can be introduced.
Breakfast served to kids in public schools is a good idea, but the classroom does not need another distraction to keep students from their books. When they go into the work world, they will most likely not eat at their desks (although that is changing a little).
If we are preparing students for the real world, then we should do just that. Policy makers can address a real need in public education, or they can address a constituency. In this case, as in most, they would do better to address the need.
The San Fran Truckin' Experiment
The San Francisco neighborhood known as The Tenderloin, which has a serious homeless problem, will be experimenting with the idea of a food truck operated by people who are homeless in the hopes that this will create a stable income for them.
There are not many federal funds for the homeless geared solely toward job creation at this time, although that might be changing soon. A food truck, however, does not require a grant from the federal government, not in its pilot stage, anyway. San Francisco can probably foot the bill to get this experiment rolling.
There are two lessons to learn here from a public policy standpoint. The first lesson being that projects like this may get access to McKinney-Vento (federal funds for homelessness) funding for this at some point.
But before any small pilot program like this gets a commitment from the federal government, it will have to prove it will work. This program might work well in San Francisco, since lunch trucks are a big hit in that city, as in ours.
The second lesson is that if we are going to look at what makes a good jobs component for the homeless, why are cities not exploring the idea of a long-term solution, like manufacturing?
Our cities have lost their grip on manufacturing, as jobs have drifted overseas. There is a segment of the homeless population that is difficult to train, and difficult to maintain in a structured work environment. But there is also a sizable portion of the homeless, in New York especially, that can be trained to rejoin the workforce.
This reintroduction to manufacturing would require an understanding from trade unions that unionization of these people happens gradually. By opening up this industry again, we can put people back to work, and even add to the trade union ranks by creating more jobs.
Anyone reading this is already thinking that this is the process that drove business out of the big cities. It became cheaper to manufacture in southern states, and then it was cheaper to do so in developing countries.
We might not be able to draw some of those businesses back, but new start-ups can manufacture here. This is what the good politicians do, they work with the obstacles and they introduce new ideas.
A food truck puts four or five people on a truck to work, but the cycle ends there. An entity that produces a product means line workers have work, the sales people work, the shippers work, and the stores work. That is how to build up.
The San Francisco food truck idea is good, but in the end, it is not a sustainable solution to the homeless problem.


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NEW YORK >> The Kings gathered in their customary circle Tuesday, booting around a soccer ball just down the corridor from their dressing room. Their laughter and cheers pierced the quiet as some of their teammates took to the Madison Square Garden ice for an optional skate.
Drew Doughty expressed concern that someone might kick the ball onto the top of the portable bleachers used for basketball games and he'd have to climb up to get it. Anze Kopitar then smiled as Slava Voynov badly shanked the ball in the opposite direction.
It looked like just another day for the Kings.
It wasn't, though.
How could it be?
The Kings are one victory away from a second Stanley Cup championship in three seasons, after a comprehensive 3-0 victory over the New York Rangers on Monday gave them a commanding three-games-to-none lead in the best-of-7 series.
Game 4 is tonight at Madison Square Garden.
Game 5, if necessary, would be Friday at Staples Center.
The Kings certainly don't want Game 5 to be necessary. They were in a similar position in 2012, having built a 3-0 series lead over the New Jersey Devils. Staples Center was poised for a victory party, with limos lining the streets outside the arena before Game 4.
Instead of sealing the deal and sweeping the Devils, the Kings faltered. They lost that Game 4 at Staples Center and then Game 5 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., before wrapping up the series with a 6-1 rout of New Jersey back home in Game 6.
"There were some issues that maybe got us sidetracked a little bit," Kings winger Justin Williams recalled. "The thought of being one game away, family issues, ticket issues, all that stuff. That can maybe sidetrack you from the end result."
This time figures to be different.
"We've got the rest of our lives to see our friends and family, make sure they have tickets and all that," Williams continued. "We have, you know, usually one chance and this is our second chance to do it, to win a Stanley Cup, to be remembered forever."
Williams could pick up two trophies tonight if all goes as planned for the Kings. He is considered a favorite to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs, thanks to an overtime goal in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final and so much more.
"I mean, that's an award that a lot of NHL players obviously aspire to have, but at the same time, when you're presented with it, I think a lot of guys just want to put it aside and look to the big jug," Williams said, referring to the Stanley Cup. "That's pretty much how I can explain it."
The Kings must win to make it happen, however. Given how rocky their road has been to get to this point, it would seem that nothing should be taken for granted. After all, they rallied from deficits of 3-0 and 3-2 to win in the first two rounds of the playoffs.
They know how difficult it is to eliminate a determined opponent. They know how important it is to seize the moment, seize the day, and make it theirs. They understand because they've shown how hard it can be to put an end to a series.
"Well, most players, coaches, trainers never get any chance, zero," Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. "That's why not many people or teams win it, because it's hard for them to take on the whole challenge of what it is to win and the price you've got to pay and the sacrifice you've got to make."
Meanwhile, the Rangers continued to sound a defiant tone in the face of nearly impossible odds. Only four teams, including the Kings in the first round this season, have rallied to win a best-of-7 series when down 3-0. Twenty-five of 26 teams in the Final have lost when trailing 3-0.
"We're down 3-0," New York coach Alain Vigneault said. "We're all lacking sleep. This is tough. I didn't expect my players today to be cheery and upbeat. … Excuse us if today we're not real cheery, but tomorrow I can tell you we're going to show up."


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This design strives to hide the extra phantom-type parameters from the Class constraints and therefore from the type signatures of client code. -} module Data.Concurrent.Deque.Class ( -- * Highly parameterized Deque type(s) Deque -- ** The choices that select a queue-variant. -- *** Choice #1 -- thread safety. , Threadsafe, Nonthreadsafe -- *** Choice #2 -- double or single functionality on an end. , SingleEnd, DoubleEnd -- *** Choice #3 -- bounded or growing queues: , Bound, Grow -- *** Choice #4 -- duplication of elements. , Safe, Dup -- ** Aliases enabling more concise Deque types: , S, D, NT, T -- ** Aliases for commonly used Deque configurations: , Queue, ConcQueue, ConcDeque, WSDeque -- * Class for basic Queue operations , DequeClass(..) -- * Extra capabilities: type classes -- | These classes provide a more programmer-friendly constraints than directly -- using the phantom type parameters to constrain queues in user code. Also note -- that instances can be provided for types outside the type `Deque` type family. -- -- We still make a distinction between the different capabilities -- (e.g. single-ended / double ended), and thus we need the below type classes for -- the additional operations unsupported by the minimal "DequeClass". -- ** The \"unnatural\" double ended cases: pop left, push right. , PopL(..), PushR(..) -- ** Operations that only make sense for bounded queues. , BoundedL(..), BoundedR(..) ) where import Prelude hiding (Bounded) {- | A family of Deques implementations. A concrete Deque implementation is selected based on the (phantom) type parameters, which encode several choices. For example, a work stealing deque is threadsafe only on one end and supports push/pop on one end (and pop-only) on the other: >> (Deque NT T D S Grow elt) Note, however, that the above example is overconstraining in many situations. It demands an implementation which is NOT threadsafe on one end and does NOT support push on one end, whereas both these features would not hurt, if present. Thus when accepting a queue as input to a function you probably never want to overconstrain by demanding a less-featureful option. For example, rather than @(Deque NT D T S Grow elt)@ You would probably want: @(Deque nt D T s Grow elt)@ -} -- data family Deque lThreaded rThreaded lDbl rDbl bnd safe elt type family Deque lThreaded rThreaded lDbl rDbl bnd safe elt -- | Haskell IO threads ("Control.Concurrent") may concurrently access -- this end of the queue. Note that this attribute is set -- separately for the left and right ends. data Threadsafe -- | Only one thread at a time may access this end of the queue. data Nonthreadsafe -- | This end of the queue provides push-only (left) or pop-only -- (right) functionality. Thus a 'SingleEnd' / 'SingleEnd' combination -- is what is commonly referred to as a /single ended queue/, whereas -- 'DoubleEnd' / 'DoubleEnd' is -- a /double ended queue/. Heterogeneous combinations are sometimes -- colloquially referred to as \"1.5 ended queues\". data SingleEnd -- | This end of the queue supports both push and pop. data DoubleEnd -- | The queue has bounded capacity. data Bound -- | The queue can grow as elements are added. data Grow -- | The queue will not duplicate elements. data Safe -- | Pop operations may possibly duplicate elements. Hopefully with low probability! data Dup -- Possible #5: -- data Lossy -- I know of no algorithm which would motivate having a Lossy mode. ---------------------------------------- type T = Threadsafe type NT = Nonthreadsafe type S = SingleEnd type D = DoubleEnd -- | A traditional single-threaded, single-ended queue. type Queue a = Deque Nonthreadsafe Nonthreadsafe SingleEnd SingleEnd Grow Safe a -- | A concurrent queue. type ConcQueue a = Deque Threadsafe Threadsafe SingleEnd SingleEnd Grow Safe a -- | A concurrent deque. type ConcDeque a = Deque Threadsafe Threadsafe DoubleEnd DoubleEnd Grow Safe a -- | Work-stealing deques (1.5 ended). Typically the worker pushes -- and pops its own queue (left) whereas thieves only pop (right). type WSDeque a = Deque Nonthreadsafe Threadsafe DoubleEnd SingleEnd Grow Safe a -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- | Class encompassing the basic queue operations that hold for all -- single, 1.5, and double ended modes. We arbitrarily call the -- ends \"left\" and \"right\" and choose the natural operations to be -- pushing on the left and popping on the right. class DequeClass d where -- | Create a new deque. Most appropriate for unbounded deques. -- If bounded, the size is unspecified. newQ :: IO (d elt) #ifdef DEFAULT_SIGNATURES #warning "Providing default binding and signature for newQ..." default newQ :: BoundedL d => IO (d elt) newQ = newBoundedQ 256 #endif -- | Is the queue currently empty? Beware that this can be a highly transient state. nullQ :: d elt -> IO Bool -- | Natural push: push onto the left end of the deque. pushL :: d elt -> elt -> IO () -- | Natural pop: pop from the right end of the deque. tryPopR :: d elt -> IO (Maybe elt) -- TODO: Consider adding a peek operation? -- TODO: It would also be possible to include blocking/spinning pops. -- But maybe those should go in separate type classes... -- | Runtime indication of thread saftey for `pushL` (and `popL`). -- (Argument unused.) leftThreadSafe :: d elt -> Bool -- | Runtime indication of thread saftey for `tryPopR` (and `pushR`). -- (Argument unused.) rightThreadSafe :: d elt -> Bool class DequeClass d => PopL d where -- | PopL is not the native operation for the left end, so it requires -- that the left end be a 'DoubleEnd', but places no other requirements -- on the input queue. -- tryPopL :: d elt -> IO (Maybe elt) class DequeClass d => PushR d where -- | Pushing is not the native operation for the right end, so it requires -- that end be a 'DoubleEnd'. pushR :: d elt -> elt -> IO () class DequeClass d => BoundedL d where -- | Create a new, bounded deque with a specified capacity. newBoundedQ :: Int -> IO (d elt) -- | For a bounded deque, pushing may fail if the deque is full. tryPushL :: d elt -> elt -> IO Bool class PushR d => BoundedR d where -- | For a bounded deque, pushing may fail if the deque is full. tryPushR :: d elt -> elt -> IO Bool


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This year's OGS Conference is sponsored in part by FamilySearch, "Where Generations Meet".
Stephen Young, a project manager with FamilySearch, will lead a workshop in "New Toronto Research Tools" on Saturday afternoon, and will also deliver a newly-scheduled Saturday lunchtime learning lecture on new developments at FamilySearch.
What you may not know is that Young was born in London, Ontario, although he now works for the Utah-based LDS Church.
Currently, he is working on a book about his father's experience in the Canadian Navy Volunteers Reserve during World War Two.
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"Gentle On My Mind - Glen Campbell with Willie Nelson and band (great guitar solo)"
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"Charlie's" post is a beautiful tribute to Glen Campbell as well as to Charlie's Dad who finds so much enjoyment from Glen's videos on YT. His Dad has Alzheimer's disease.
Charlie also acknowledges in the most tremendous way a dedicated, loving, and giving fan of Glen's, Philip Jones. He had learned of Philip from a post Michel had shared on the same video page that explained the origin of the "Gentle On My Mind" fan video: "A fellow Glen Campbell fan and friend of mine recorded about 20 DVDs of material over the years and he was so kind to share them with me. He sadly passed away in 2009. His name was Philip Jones from Rock Hill, SC. Now we are sharing these videos with the rest of the world, in tribute of his hero, Glen Campbell."
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Fantastic singer & musician that truly had it all. I grew up on Glen Campbell from the early 70's & through all of his madness & mildness, ( I think we all have the potential for Demons whether they be Natural or Synthetic ), & therefore I only ever listened to the performer & [....] the Gutter Press. My family & friends have often remarked on how under-rated he really is on the World Stage of Country & Western. He really reminds me of George Harrison of Beatles fame...just making awesome music & getting on with it. You may watch these guy's at their Craft but it is not until a little while after that you realize you've witnessed a Real Super Star that made you feel as if you were sitting in the Scullery with a few Hot Whiskey's inside you & that Warm & Homely, Safe Feeling engulfing you.
Thank You so much for Posting this & for all of the Music you are Posting. Here in Ireland we were never shown The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour or any of his TV shows. We were so censored by the Fecking Catholic Church that even Dean Martin's Show & many of Sinatra's television appearances were never aired here either. My father is 80 years old now and he was diagnosed with that Cruel Bastard that is Alzheimer's...it is an early diagnosis but he has a form that is extremely rare & normally only affects young 40-45 year olds. Anyhow he is still a very Happy man and just Loves his Music...all kinds of music but Glen Campbell is the only musician my father ever saw here in Ireland...Oh sorry he also went to the Eagles Concert in the early 90's in Dublin...but Campbell to my Old man was something exceptional. I play these songs you have posted often to him & we remark on how many views a particular song has reached each day ( if it's a favorite of his I am tortured replaying it LOL). Anyhow I have rambled on here for long enough but Thank You Again from the bottom of my Heart for posting these American only concerts like above as we would never have seen it other wise.
I have just Subscribed to your Channel there now and I am really hoping for more of the same from your collection. Your Good Friend had fantastic taste in Music mate & if ever a person wanted an example of the inter- connectedness of everyone then just read what I have said above. I am sure Philip Jones from Rock Hill SC. never realized an Irish man would be raving about his recordings now, today in 2016!! But without his Love of Glen Campbell then Classic recordings like this one with Willie Nelson, above, would have remained an American audience only recording that my Old Man & I would never have seen.
Rest In Peace You Exceptional Human Being, Philip Jones of Rock Hill SC. & Thank You : Glen Campbell Forums for sharing this beautiful music.


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You will never know what you will find when you take a couple minutes to look around the Internet. Such was the case yesterday when I went on the British Columbia Genealogy Society website, and came across a "tips" article entitled "Twenty Ways to Avoid Grief When Researching" by Margaret M. Sharon*.
Some of the tips are -
Always note the source of any material you photocopy.
How many times have you gone to the archives, and have photocopied pages and pages from a book and then forget to mark the pages, or the source of the material?
Try not to let your research get behind.
Yes, can I tell you of the boxes, and boxes that I have of research material that has yet to be put in my genealogical family history?
Place names and boundaries have changed constantly over the years.
Even in a country like Canada with such a short history changes in place name and boundaries are everywhere. In the small village where I grew up it was known as Jordan River for many years before it was changed to Jordan Falls around 1900. Changes in place names do make a difference.
Take a minute, and read the paper in full because even though it is now somewhat "dated" having been written in 1988, there are still some genealogical truths in the paper that are still valid today.
The website is at http://www.bcgs.ca/Twenty%20Ways%20to%20Avoid%20Grief%20When%20Researching.htm
*It was originally published in The British Columbia Genealogist, March 1988, Volume 17, No. 1, pp. 4-6. © B.C.G.S.


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Sunday, February 10, 2013
Sissy Says, " Happy Valentines Day!"
16 comments:
- Barbara F. said...
Hope you have a wonderful week as well, this is a very adorable photo of that cute beagle. xo
- February 10, 2013 at 12:49 PM
- It's Just Dottie said...
Sissy is so cute! Happy Valentines Day.
- February 10, 2013 at 1:29 PM
- Tea in Texas said...
Happy Valentine's Day! Sissy is so sweet with her flowers and the red hearts. This photo is perfect for sending a Special Valentine! I wish you and Sissy a wonderful Valentine's Day. Bert and I will celebrate with my 90 year old Mother. There will be a special treat for Shelby, Lady Collie because we love our family of collies. I have sent to Lubbock, a Valentine box with a card and gifts for my son. We hope the weather will be warm and sunny for you and Sissy to have great walks this week and again A Happy Valentine's Day!
- February 10, 2013 at 2:43 PM
- Janet - Painted Piglet, BikerChickNews said...
What a little treasure she is! Wishing you both a wonderful week!
- February 10, 2013 at 3:22 PM
- Pearl said...
Happy Valentines day to both of you too, Sissy looks so sweet. My dog does the same for me to. Hugs, Pearl
- February 10, 2013 at 6:04 PM
- Susan said...
What a darling photo, Richard. You staged that one perfectly!
Yes, our pets give us supreme happiness, don't they?
A most happy Valentine's Day to you and Sissy. Susan
- February 10, 2013 at 7:17 PM
- Elizabeth and Gary said...
Hi Richard,
Happy Valentines day to you too.
Enjoy all those puppy kisses. Pets bring so much joy all year through.
Have a sweet day, Elizabeth
- February 10, 2013 at 10:20 PM
- Charlotte Wilson said...
Happy Valentine's to you Richard and to Sissy as well. She looks adorable with her flowers and hearts.
- February 11, 2013 at 9:31 AM
- An Historical Lady said...
Adorable and heart melting! Wishing you both a lovely Valentine's day.
Mary and the yorkie girls~
- February 11, 2013 at 1:09 PM
- Unknown said...
Stunning photos and have a Happy Valentines day.
Glass Doors
- February 11, 2013 at 2:11 PM
- Babs said...
Awww. So cute and Sissy is so sweet. Happy Valentine's Day, Richard and Sissy Dog, too.
- February 11, 2013 at 5:21 PM
- Sissysmom said...
Happy Valentines Day!
- February 11, 2013 at 8:43 PM
- Unknown said...
nice update
valentines day wallpaper
- February 11, 2013 at 10:05 PM
- Curtains in My Tree said...
Sissy looks scared in her beautiful picture.
She is so good to let you dress her up for her portfolio shots
just to cute
xoxox Happy Valentine's Day to both of you
- February 12, 2013 at 2:29 PM
- Deanna said...
May you have a terrific Valentines Day!
God bless,
- February 13, 2013 at 1:03 PM
- PAINTORDIG.blogspot.com said...
Sissy is such a beautiful girl! So glad ya'll have each other.
- February 15, 2013 at 4:19 AM


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Friday is going to be huge.
At 8:30 AM ET we get the Non-Farm Payrolls report for May.
Analysts expect 163K vs. 165K last month.
The unemployment rate is expected to be unchanged at 7.5%.
This will be the most closely watched report in some time.
For one thing, the market is the most wobbly it's been in quite some time. The 5%+ greater decline from the recent peaks is the worst drawdown since last Autumn.
And everyone is Fed obsessed, and wondering when Bernanke & Co. will start "the taper."
Plus, we got some weak data this week, so there are some newfound economic concerns.
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Just for Justamom Cathy.. can't have her tapping her feet, so let's give her a little something…. that… she has not just seen before… but ummm created (with her awesome husbands assistance of course.. never forget the men behind the great women of this world!).
It's almost kind of rude of me isn't it…
So unlike me… 😉
All credit goes to Cathy & her hubby… a lot of the pleasure goes to me!
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Single-family home sales rose modestly in Orange and Ulster counties last month compared with November 2011, while dropping a bit in Sullivan County.
Single-family home sales rose modestly in Orange and Ulster counties last month compared with November 2011, while dropping a bit in Sullivan County.
There were 137 sales last month in Orange County, up from 126 in November 2011, while sales in Ulster rose to 90 from 80 in the same period, and dropped in Sullivan to 32 from 40, according to the multiple listing services in those counties.
The median sale prices in the counties were: $240,000 in Orange, down from $250,000 in November 2011; $198,500 in Ulster, up from $196,500, and $90,500 in Sullivan, down from $146,500 in November 2011.
Those results come against a national backdrop of increasing sales and rising prices. Nationwide, home prices rose 6.3 percent in October compared with a year ago, the largest yearly gain since July 2006.
That degree of price appreciation has yet to materialize in the mid-Hudson.
Sales in the region may have been hampered last month by Superstorm Sandy.
A federal declaration of the region as a disaster area after the storm struck slowed down some sales, as lenders required re-inspections of properties before approving loans. Even if there was no visible damage, re-inspections were needed because of the disaster-area designation.
The impact varied, though, from place to place. Kingston-based Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union found little impact, for example, as did Walden Savings Bank.
A different story prevailed in other locales, such as hard-hit Rockland County.
Prudential Joyce Realty, which primarily covers Rockland and southern Orange County, saw about 20 closings delayed by the disaster designation.
"It really threw a wrench into the machine," said Kevin Joyce, president of the company.
"The hurricane was probably the worst thing that ever happened to the Northeast region, because of the population and where it hit."
He said the closing delays lasted for as long as a few weeks, but that things are now getting back to normal.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.


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I finally got around to trying something new. I saw this picture awhile ago...
This is from Spektor's Nails. It is like doing a water marble, but you only use one color and then you spray hand sanitizer on to it while it is in the water...
Here is a video from Cutepolish to show you what I mean :)
Ok so now that you know what is going on here is what I did :)
I started out with 2 coats of Julep "Lena" which is a nice turquoise with a slight golden shimmer. Sadly the shimmer isn't as noticeable on the nail :( but it is a very opaque polish and I could have gotten away with 1 coat, but I did an extra coat for good measure!
This polish went on smooth, like butter! I own quite a few julep polishes but I just haven't used them much.
For the black I used China Glaze "Liquid Leather." My left hand for the most part turned out great. It took a few tries to get what I wanted, but I'm not great at water marbling to begin with. I love this look!!
I wanted to add a little gold to it like in my inspiration picture so I used one of my cheap nail art pens. This one can be used to ways, like a pen or with a thin brush. I used the thin brush part.
Not really sure if this is the brand or not. I bought a bunch of then for $2 each at a random store at the mall awhile ago.
My left hand looks awesome :)
The thumb wasn't that great though :(
My right hand.... not so great. I think part of it was because I was getting tired, and my shoulder was bothering me. I've been having pain under my shoulder blade for a couple weeks, it comes and goes. So I just wanted to finish and ended up rushing on my right hand.
For my first try at this, I think it turned out decent!
Nice picture on a afghan my granny made years ago. She is gone now so it is nice to have things that remind me of her :)
These are the best out of them all!
This is what the polish looks like in the water after spraying with the hand sanitizer. I sprayed a couple times to get it to break up more. You want to make sure you don't spray it too close. Practice, practice, practice!
My like sprayer that I bought at the dollar store.
Well my friends that is all for today. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this post. Let me know what you think. Feel free to post any mani's you do that are similar on my facebook page :)
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[Detail] Back cover of Jackie Robinson comic book
Lesson Overview
In this lesson students draw on their previous studies of American history and culture as they analyze primary sources from Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s in American Memory. A close reading of two documents relating to Jackie Robinson's breaking of the racial barrier in professional baseball leads to a deeper exploration of racism in the United States, both in and out of sports.
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- Analyze primary documents closely.
- Research documents specific to the history of race relations in the mid-20th century United States.
- Draw conclusions moving from the specific documents to the broader society and test them for validity.
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Cannon House Office Building
Cannon House Office Building
The Cannon House Office Building, completed in 1908, is the oldest House office building as well as a significant example of the Beaux Arts style of architecture. After the Cannon Building opened in 1908 all members of the House of Representatives had an office for the first time in the nation's history. Before this time some committee chairmen used their committee room as an office, but most members worked at their desk in the House Chamber.
South of the Capitol bounded by Independence Ave., First St., New Jersey Ave., and C St. SE
Date Occupied: December 12, 1908
Area: 826,465 square feet
The first congressional office buildings were constructed immediately after the turn of the century to relieve overcrowding in the U.S. Capitol Building. Previously, members who wanted office space had to rent quarters or borrow space in committee rooms. In March 1901 plans were drawn for fireproof office buildings adjacent to the Capitol Grounds. In March 1903, the acquisition of sites and construction of the buildings were authorized. In April 1904, the prominent New York architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings was retained. Thomas Hastings took charge of the House office building project, while John Carrère oversaw the construction of an almost identical office building (now named the Russell Senate Office Building) for the Senate. Their Beaux Arts designs were restrained complements to the Capitol.
Column bases in place during the construction of the Cannon Building's colonnade in November 1906.
Architecturally, their elevations are divided into a rusticated base and a 300 foot colonnade with an entablature and balustrade. The colonnade with 34 Doric columns that face the Capitol are echoed by pilasters on the sides of the buildings. Both buildings are faced with marble and limestone; the Russell Building's base and terrace are gray granite. Modern for their time, they included such facilities as forced-air ventilation systems, steam heat, individual lavatories with hot and cold running water and ice water, telephones, and electricity. Both are connected to the Capitol by underground passages. Originally there were 397 offices and 14 committee rooms in the Cannon Building; the 1932 remodeling resulted in 85 two- or three-room suites, 10 single rooms and 23 committee rooms.
Each member of the House of Representatives was given a single, relatively modest room to use as an office. It was only 15 feet wide, 23 feet long, and furnished with a roll top desk, chairs, a wardrobe, and filing cabinets. Modern in every respect, the offices were also outfitted with telephones, lavatories (supplying hot, cold, and ice water), steam heat, and forced-air ventilation. Members of the House also had use of the building's bathing rooms, barber shop, telegraph office, restaurant and cafe.
The Cannon House Office Building rotunda in 2018 after Phase 1 of the renewal project.
Of special architectural interest is the rotunda. Eighteen Corinthian columns support an entablature and a coffered dome, whose glazed oculus floods the rotunda with natural light. Twin marble staircases lead from the rotunda to an imposing Caucus Room, which features Corinthian pilasters, a full entablature, and a richly detailed ceiling. The Cannon Building was occupied during the 60th Congress on December 12, 1908. By 1913, however, the House had outgrown the available office space, and 51 rooms were added to the original structure by raising the roof and constructing a fifth floor. In 1962, the building was named for former Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon.
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New research reveals the unusual ways people are personalising their funerals in Leicestershire
Central England Co-operative Funeralcare today publishes its third annual report into how its customers are bringing together an array of elements from their personal life to help create their own bespoke funerals - including everything from a life-size batman floral tribute to a heavy metal inspired send-off.
Based on feedback of colleagues from Funeral Homes in Leicestershire, the survey has revealed that more than 65% of funerals now include some kind of personalisation including unique dress, coffins, transport and flowers.
The research by the Society has also highlighted how new technology is having an ever increasing role in funerals including family photos being played to music on big screens, people beaming services across the world via the internet and others creating a video of the service, saving it to a USB stick and handing it out to mourners as a keepsake.
Some of the most recent examples of personalisation from the past 12 months include:
- Floral displays becoming more personalised with creations based on favourite pets, football club badges, Star Wars, bingo cards, trains and even a replica of superhero Batman
- A 1920s lorry, a biscuit lorry, and even a steam traction engine have been used as an alternative to a hearse
- A mixture of different coloured clothing for funeral directors and congregation including black, green and glittery pink
- Football themed funerals has been an area that has grown over the past 12 months, with one celebration for a Burton Albion fan including a club flag across the coffin, funeral colleagues wearing club ties and personalised yellow flowers
- A heavy metal themed funeral which included an all-black coffin, his favourite tracks being played throughout the service and a collection of band t-shirts being on display
- A coffin that was made up of hundreds of photos of the loved one who had passed away to create a memorial collage
The choice of music is another extremely personal touch with Central England Co-op research revealing that comedic hits by the likes of Monty Python and Morecambe and Wise are now among the most played, alongside old favourites such as the number one requested funeral song at Central England Co-op – 'My Way' by Frank Sinatra.
Other requests have included football anthems such as 'You will never walk alone, theme tunes from TV shows such as 'Eastenders', pop music, songs from musicals such as 'The Greatest Showman' and 'Les Miserables' and one family even asked for the Crazy Frog ringtone to be played at a service.
One recent trend that is on the rise is for families to bring their own instruments and play songs live at ceremonies.
This year Funeral Directors were asked for the first time to talk about the major new trends they were seeing in the industry.
The responses included funerals now becoming more environmentally friendly, more pets being welcome at funerals and families wanting to conduct the services themselves
This shift towards personalisation has also coincided with a notable rise in people opting to sign up to pre-paid funeral plans or to fill out a funeral wishes form to ensure they get the tailored send-off that they want and also to ensure that the costs do not fall on their family following their death.
Kevin Crute, Head of Funeral at Central England Co-operative, said: "Our research has shown once again that our families continue to want personalise their funerals and the funerals of their loved ones.
"We are proud at Central England Co-op to have an excellent array of Funeral Directors and arrangers who make it their mission to do everything they can to help families during their time of need including helping people to personalise their loved ones funeral to make it unique to them and reflect the life they have lived.
"This growing trend of personalisation shines a spotlight in the importance of planning ahead and ensuring people know your wishes for your funeral.
"We would advise people to pre-plan if there's something specific that they would like for their funeral service. The other consideration is that pre-planning lessens the financial burden and decision making for your next of kin at a difficult and emotional time. A pre-planned funeral means that the family can take some comfort from the fact that the person who's passed away is having their wishes met."
Central England Co-op funeral plans are fully guaranteed – meaning that there will never be more to pay for the services chosen.
All of the funeral plans include the funeral director's fees and services, hearse and personnel, cremation or burial fee and minister's fees.
People can find out more about personalised funerals and pre-paid plans by visiting http://www.prepaidfunerals.coop/ or call 0800 454 552.
Notes to editors
About Central England Co-operative
Central England Co-operative is one of the largest independent retail co-operative societies in the UK.
It is a modern, forward-looking organisation employing over 8,000 staff, with the Society's principal areas of activity being food, funeral services, and property.
The company's funeral business consists of over 120 funeral homes across 16 counties, 10 florists, masonry production and administration, Bretby Crematorium and Terry Smiths coffin factory.
Central England Co-operative has more than 430 trading outlets across 16 counties including; West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
The Society has an ambitious food store and funeral home development programme for 2018.
Central England Co-operative is proud of its reputation for ethical business practices and corporate responsibility. It is a member of Business in the Community, the membership organisation that stands for responsible business, and has also won many business awards for excellence. The Society supports a number of charities including Dementia UK and invests a percentage of its trading profit into local communities.
Becoming a member of Central England Co-operative offers a whole host of benefits ranging from collecting points every time you spend in store to earn a share of the profits, access to members activities and community initiatives including the Community Dividend Fund, which hands out grants of up to £5,000 to charities and good causes across the Society's trading estate.
Find out how to become a Central England Co-operative member by calling 0800 0501 601, emailing email@example.com or visiting https://www.members.coop
For more information visit www.centralengland.coop, follow Central England Co-operative on Twitter: @mycoopfood, @mycooplife and on Facebook: facebook.com/centralenglandcooperative
Rob Smyth at Central England Co-operative on 01543 414140
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Consumer loan changes get initial OK in NC Senate
North Carolina installment loan companies could charge higher interest rates on most borrowers and new late fees in legislation tentatively approved by the state Senate.
The chamber voted 39-9 Thursday for legislation sought by the consumer finance industry. Leaders say the industry hasn't had interest rate and loan amount caps changed in 30 years and need help to improve profits.
The bill also contains protections for young military members seeking the loans. The chamber defeated an amendment that would have barred all armed forces members from getting the loans.
Bill supporters say the industry provides a needed form of credit to working people. Opponents said the interest rates remain too high and benefits big corporations that do business in the state.
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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; To continue saying bye-bye to their bad history, the Saints need to come off their bye week and beat the New York Giants. Obviously, it wont be easy. The Giants (5-0) have held three consecutive opponents to fewer than 200 ...
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To continue saying bye-bye to their bad history, the Saints need to come off their bye week and beat the New York Giants.
Obviously, it wont be easy. The Giants (5-0) have held three consecutive opponents to fewer than 200 total yards and fewer than 100 passing yards, an almost-unheard of trifecta regardless of the quality of competition (0-5 Tampa Bay, 0-5 Kansas City, 1-4 Oakland). Eli Manning and company also rank among the NFLs top 10 in every major offensive statistical category.
Still, New Orleans has to find a way to win this early matchup of undefeated NFC powers in the Superdome. For whatever reason, the Saints have been horrible after open dates under coach Sean Payton, losing at home to Baltimore, 35-22, in 2006, at home to Carolina, 16-13, in 2007 and at Atlanta, 34-20, in 2008.
The worst part was not that they lost, but how they lost.
They committed five turnovers against the Ravens, falling behind 35-7 before scoring two meaningless touchdowns in the fourth quarter. That meltdown came after a 5-1 start.
After starting 0-3 in 2007, they blew a 13-6 fourth-quarter lead in a must-win game against the struggling Panthers. Carolina finished 7-9.
Drew Brees threw an interception on his first pass against Atlanta last year, one of three on the day as the defensively challenged Falcons went ahead 27-6 in the fourth quarter.
That setback extended the Saints losing streak after byes to five, placing them in unfortunate, exclusive company. Only Bay Area bottom-feeders Oakland (five) and San Francisco (six) are on similar skids, and they rarely won at all from 2004 to 2008. The Raiders best record in that span was 5-11. The 49ers had losing records all five years.
New Orleans endured only two losing seasons from 2004 to 2008. The Saints post-bye opponents combined for a sterling record of 53-27, but youd think they would have won at least once.
Outside of Oakland, San Francisco and New Orleans, no NFL team has a current streak of more than two losses in a row after an open date. The leagues overall post-bye record is 309-276-1.
Thinking the Saints problems might have been the by(e)-product of overwork, Payton lightened the practices last week and told the players to enjoy their down time.
Whether Payton is right or wrong, the turnaround has to start with Brees, who tossed nine interceptions in his three post-bye games compared to 39 picks in his other 49 games with the Saints.
Maybe the offense lost its rhythm with the change in routine. Maybe the opponents just played incredibly well.
Brees is due for a big performance anyway after having the first full-two-game stretch with fewer than 200 passing yards in his time with the Saints. They won with defense and the running game against Buffalo and the New York Jets, but they will need the full repertoire to beat the Giants.
The last time New Orleans won four in a row to start a season, it improved to 5-0 in 1993 before the dreaded bye. Pittsburgh whacked the Saints 37-14 the following week, and they never recovered, finishing 8-8.
Through four games in 2009, they have rendered history irrelevant.
Winning this Sunday would be the next step.
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Korean learning made simple and easy.
This blog provides new English language explanations and exercises every day.
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Blog made by a passionate teacher, especially about teaching English to young learners.
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Easy German learning online with authentic materials.
Blog about Learning & Teaching Languages, with a Focus on French.
How you can learn Japanese (and many more languages) without taking classes, by having fun and doing things you enjoy—watching movies, playing video games, reading comic books—you know: fun stuff!
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On this blog there are texts in Polish and English for learners and language learning advice.
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Blog created to help English learners with their studies focused on common difficulties that Portuguese speakers have when learning English.
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Russificate: New Russian language blog, created in September 2009 by Yulia Amlinskaya, professional Russian language teacher, containing a great variety of interactive grammar, communication and vocabulary materials, exercises and quizzes for two different levels as well as Russian songs with exercises and a wide range of articles on Russian customs and traditions, literature and history, life and personalities, etc.
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Koans are flexible. They are metaphors we can take in our hands. They form in between the spaces where we apply pressure – a fist of emptiness. Koans expand into those closed off, open cracks. We tense and create pockets of space even as we flex these hands of emptiness. As we sit, stand, talk and eat – koans are always there. They are a living religion. A cold precipitate that over time crystalizes to cement those cracks – adding to the structure, building the foundations. One moment they are our birth. Next, our death. They are our family, our work and our place in this present moment. They fill the void.
Impossible to pin down. You can't name the spaces they fill. When we speak about them we may be able to take a snapshot of the process. Take many photos as you wish and wave them around saying "This is my koan. This is Zen!" But it would be just as useful to take a photo of the floor-board of your car while on vacation and say "This is it. This is California!"It isn't California. It is a floor-board. It isn't Zen, only your fleeting perception of it. Your snapshot. Your moment. Your koan. Koans are flexible. We, decidedly, are not… But we still nurture them. We hold them. We eventually let them walk on their own. They fill the spaces left between the clenching stress of life. Soon they don't look like the same koan. Sometimes around the eyes, you catch a glimpse of that brand new thing. That slab of conundrum…but by then they are likely driving down the road, cradling their own koan.
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Address: Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, VA 23187
Phone: 757.229.2891Web site: www.brutonparish.org
The restoration of Bruton Parish Church, on the corner of Duke of Gloucester Street and the Palace Green in Williamsburg, Virginia, coincided in the 1930s with the larger restoration of Colonial Williamsburg itself, a project conceived by the parish rector, the Reverend William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin. Gaining the financial support of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for the overall project, Goodwin devoted a good portion of his own restoration efforts to the church, so much a part of the colonial history of Williamsburg itself, and to its surrounding environment as well, beginning with the eighteenth-century churchyard walls and ancient tombstones.
With these major efforts envisioned or already underway, Mary Boyd Ryland, corresponding secretary of the Williamsburg Garden Club, approached Mrs. Katherine Boggs of the Restoration Committee of The Garden Club of Virginia in December 1936 to seek support for restoration of the churchyard itself. Mrs. Ryland noted that "age and the recent severe storms have played havoc with many of the old trees and shrubs and their replacement is of vital importance in bringing back the charm and beauty of the old churchyard." Initially, The Garden Club agreed to replace ten trees and to the planting of several shrubs, including Rose of Sharon, along with a fair amount of English Ivy.
Subsequently, efforts at the church became part of the larger Williamsburg Restoration, and staff of Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., took roles in the planning and implementation of the work. Arthur Shurcliff was commissioned in 1939 to create a landscape plan at the expense of the restoration project, which required the approval of The Garden Club and the vestry of Bruton Parish before the actual work would be undertaken by Colonial Williamsburg. New walkways were established and existing flagstone walks were replaced by brick. Additional trees and shrubs, including American Holly, Virginia Red Cedar, Crape-Myrtle, and English Yew, were planted, along with a ground cover of periwinkle.
Given the long period over which this churchyard restoration was accomplished, and the many hands involved in it, Shurcliff compiled a record plan in March 1942 (reproduced in Williams, Historic Virginia Gardens, pp. 64–65) that included directions for maintenance of the plantings by the church. Later maintenance also included additional restoration work undertaken jointly by the church and Colonial Williamsburg (see report of Alden Hopkins to Mrs. A. E. Kendrew, November 18, 1955, below).
Note:The images presented here record various stages of the property's landscape restoration. Since additional work has been supported by The Garden Club of Virginia at many properties, these images do not necessarily represent the current-day experience. Also, accession numbers reflect the year in which an image was received by the Virginia Historical Society, not the year in which it was taken.
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Bruton Parish Church and churchyard from the north.
Photographic print, Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.Museum CollectionAccession number: 1997.31.7.L
Main church entrance and eastern courtyard.
Photographic print, Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.Museum CollectionAccession number: 1997.31.7.M
Churchyard gate.
Photographic print, Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.Museum CollectionAccession number: 1997.31.7.O
Arthur Shurcliff's original 1939 restoration plan, revised through December 1940.
Drawing, Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.Manuscripts CollectionCall number: Mss3 G1673 a Section 3
Williamsburg Restoration, Inc., plat, 1939, showing churchyard and walkways prior to second restoration project.
Proposed revision of plantings and pavement, 1955, by Colonial Williamsburg Architect's Office staff.
Letter, 1936, of Mary Boyd Ryland, Williamsburg Garden Club, to Mrs. Katherine Botts requesting the support of The Garden Club of Virginia for the churchyard restoration.
Letter, Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.Manuscripts CollectionCall number: Mss3 G1673 a Section 2Multiple Page Document: Page 1 | Page 2
Letter, 1937, of W. A. R. Goodwin, rector of Bruton Parish Church, to Mrs. Katherine Botts regarding approval of the initial restoration work.
Letter, Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.Manuscripts CollectionCall number: Mss3 G1673 a Section 2
Letter, 1940, of A. E. Kendrew, Colonial Williamsburg, to Mrs. Ashton Dovell requesting approval by The Garden Club of Virginia of subsequent restoration plans.
Letter and report, 1955, of Alden Hopkins, Colonial Williamsburg, to Mrs. A. E. Kendrew concerning recommendations for further restoration work.
Letter, Bruton, Williamsburg, Va.Manuscripts CollectionCall number: Mss3 G1673 a Section 2
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It's not easy to be a climate reporter. You have to understand the science of climate change, as well as the politics and the economics. You need to cover energy policy, forest issues, agriculture, oceans, and industry. You have to follow both global and local politics. You need to be able to communicate with both scientists and laymen. You need to keep up with events all over the world, from China to Africa to America, and from the Arctic to Antarctica.
Basically, it's like drinking from a fire hose every day.
That goes double for covering the annual two-week climate summits organized by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the treaty organization which brings together representatives of nearly 200 countries to try and negotiate a way to prevent the planet from overheating. Climate change is already a highly technical and difficult subject to explain. Covering a Conference of Parties (COP), as these gatherings are formally known, is like entering a world of its own, with special rules, hierarchies, and traditions.
You become part of a kind of bubble—jockeying amongst all the delegates, lobbyists, youth activists, academics and assorted experts for snippets of privileged information and insight that you can feed to the outside world. At the same time, you have to constantly bear in mind that your audience is not familiar with the arcane language and bureaucratic procedures of international negotiations, or their alphabet soup of acronyms such as AOSIS and LULUCF.
This conference bubble is a massive one. There were an estimated 17,000 people at the recently concluded COP17 in Durban. Over 1,500 journalists sought accreditation, according to the UNFCCC press office—and these numbers represent a major decrease from the attendance at the Copenhagen Summit two years ago. Indeed, expectations for any kind of meaningful outcome in Durban were so low that some of the most familiar US climate journalists decided not to attend.
But while the number of US journalists from mainstream media at these summits seems to be dwindling, the number from developing countries appears to be steadily increasing. At the first two climate conferences I covered while working as a journalist for a Thai newspaper—COP2 in 1996 in Geneva and the famous Kyoto Summit in 1997—there were only a tiny number of journalists from the Global South. By COP13 in Bali, an analysis of the press registrations showed that around 9 percent came from developing countries, in addition to hundreds from the host country Indonesia. Although there was no similar analysis of this year's numbers, there certainly seemed to be better representation in Durban, particularly from the larger, emerging economies such as Brazil, South Africa, India, and Indonesia.
The location of the summit obviously has a major bearing on who can attend, so there were also more journalists from other African countries in Durban, as well, compared to most other COPs. As I explained in a recent interview with Public Radio International's Living on Earth, climate change isn't treated with the same urgency in the US as it is in Europe and the developing world, especially in the least developed countries and small island states that are considered the most vulnerable.
This dynamic was reflected in one of the more important geopolitical shifts at the Durban summit: The European Union, which has taken on binding emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol, teamed up with the least developed countries and small island states—reportedly with encouragement from Brazil and South Africa—to push for stronger and faster action by the notably reluctant China, India, and USA, the world's three largest greenhouse gas emitters. Previously, the developing countries had generally remained united under the banner of the G77 negotiating group, consistently pushing for more action by developed countries but refraining from making similar demands on the large emitters in their own group.
This shift by the most vulnerable countries away from Third World solidarity and toward their climate interests was widely noted in the Durban coverage but not well analyzed—the exception being this piece by the BBC's Richard Black. Was it due to the pending demise of the Kyoto Protocol, which had enshrined the division between North and South? Was it the lack of sufficient commitments to keep global warming to an average temperature rise of two degrees Celsius? In fact, there has been little good coverage over the years of the presumably fascinating political tensions that must exist within the G77. One wonders if journalists from developing countries have been persuaded to avoid reporting on such tensions, or perhaps they just don't think they're newsworthy.
The other side of this shift is that the US, China, and India now seem to have found at least a modicum of common cause in their reluctance to act more quickly. And that may also be reflected in the media attention paid to the summit in China, or lack thereof.
"This time the conference is not a hot topic in China," says Liu Lican, a former journalist who is now a project manager at the International Center for Communications Development. "Not many Chinese media sent their reporters to South Africa. I observe environmental news every day and most media are [pre]occupied by China's [own] air pollution in recent environmental reporting."
Media representation from India, meanwhile, seemed quite strong in Durban, both from mainstream news outlets and through a cohort of reporters sent by the Center for Science and Environment. The non-profit's strident calls for equity—a code word at the talks for more action by the developed countries—were again reflected in the impassioned plea by the Indian environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan during the final night of negotiations: "Am I to write a blank check and sign away the livelihoods and sustainability of 1.2 billion Indians, without even knowing what the EU roadmap contains? I wonder if this is an agenda to shift the blame on to countries who are not responsible [for climate change]."
What you may not realize if you've never been to a climate COP is that although the negotiations are the most important part of the conference, they're also just a small part of it. There are hundreds of exhibitions, side events, meetings and demonstrations that take place in and around the summit on any and all issues related to climate change—which is such a huge subject that it encompasses everything from adaptation to zooplankton.
For journalists, this means it is a veritable gold mine of information, events and experts that can be tapped to generate compelling, locally relevant stories about this difficult topic and sent to audiences back home. Even the negotiations themselves—although often derided as being glacially slow-moving, over-ambitious, overwhelmingly complex, and lacking in much real-world relevance—still serve as one of the most reliable annual sources of news and headlines on climate change. That's important because the nature of climate change as a slow, abstract shift with hard-to-pinpoint impacts makes it notoriously difficult to find news pegs.
That's one of the reasons that my organization Internews has joined with two others—Panos and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)—to form the Climate Change Media Partnership - to send over 160 journalists from the developing world and the US to the climate summits over the last five years. This year the CCMP brought nineteen Fellows from fifteen countries to Durban where, in addition to covering the negotiations, they reported on everything from the extent of snow cover in the Himalayas to transport options in Indonesia.
Keeping track of all that's going on at the COPs has always been difficult, but made easier in recent years by following hash tags on Twitter such as #COP17 or #UNFCCC. The advent of digital media has changed things in other ways. The environmental, advocacy and lobby groups that attend the summits have always served as important sources of information and analysis, but now they can distribute it much more easily themselves, as in this insightful piece in The Huffington Post from Jake Schmidt of the National Resources Defense Council, rather than having to work through the mainstream media.
The use of new media was one of the topics during Climate Communications Day, the first-ever daylong event at the summit organized by and for journalists and communicators, initiated by Internews and IIED. Over 170 reporters, bloggers, press officers, advocates, delegates, and scientists participated in sessions focused on innovative ways to explain climate issues to the public using not just the news media but also film, technology, business, religion, and even games.
For journalists, it was emphasized, the central challenge of climate change reporting is the need to turn this global issue into local stories by humanizing them and making them more visceral. In a sometimes heated discussion that reflected both traditional tensions and the rapid changes sweeping the media field, journalists and activists hotly debated if they should allow advocacy to creep into their reporting, although there was general agreement that the mainstream media has failed to convey the urgency of the situation.
A panel on the role of governments and multilateral institutions included a discussion of the little-known Article 6 of the treaty, which enjoins member states to "promote and facilitate … public awareness programs on climate change and its effects." Achim Halpaap of UN CC:Learn described it as an "orphan article" because it receives such little attention and support in practice. "Everybody agrees it's important but few are willing to fund it," he said.
Government support of journalism can be controversial. The news media in the US often suspects such efforts are a threat to their independence. But that has not stopped the National Science Foundation, for instance, from launching its own media outreach efforts on the subject.
According to a new study led by James Painter from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University that looked at climate coverage in the US, UK, China, France, India, and Brazil, climate change deniers are also active in the media. This is particularly true in the US and UK, which accounted for about 80 percent of the stories found to be quoting skeptical voices. "Over 40 percent of the stories where such voices were included were found to be in the opinion pages and editorials as opposed to the news pages," the study reports, and Painter noted that these views often co-existed with solid science-based reporting in the news sections.
The skepticism most prevalent at these climates summits does not concern the scientific basis for human-induced global warming, but rather whether these UN congregations will ever bring about effective, collective action to prevent it. Such doubts were on full display in the widespread media coverage of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action that finally resulted from the COP17 negotiations, thirty-six hours after the summit was due to end.
Although some viewed it as a "significant political breakthrough", and others dismissed it as a failure, most saw it as simply a modest agreement that included some technical advances but once again postponed any hard decisions. The general consensus seems to be that it saved the UN process but not the planet, which is now on track to undergo a potentially disastrous three-to-four degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures by the end of the century.
The outcome from Durban sets us up for another Copenhagen-like summit circus in 2015. Even if a significant agreement emerges then, it wouldn't initiate action for another three to five years. Meanwhile, the scientific reports keep raising new alarms, and the really important experiments and advances in climate change prevention and adaptation will be taking place on the local, regional and national levels. But the climate conferences will remain one of the best places to find out all about them, and that's why journalists will continue to find these summits well worth covering.
This column can be found at the Columbia Journalism Review and has been republished with permission.
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I snarked on Kellan Lutz a couple times yesterday because, obviously.
He is more insufferable to me than ever since Comic-Con. And, you know, if I were him I'd be a little more careful about that secret because it's no longer a secret anymore. Anyway, my friend Scott in New York, seeing that I was sh-tting on Kellan, being the bitchy, encouraging person that he is, sent me a scan from a recent issue of Us Weekly with an interview of Kellan Lutz. This was his note in the email:
"I've been meaning to send you this. Took a photo on my phone from US weekly maybe a month ago (?). It's an interview with Kellan Douche. WHO answers a question like this?!!"
Here's the question:
What's it like being a sex symbol.
Don't open the image yet. Just, just imagine how Kellan Lutz would answer it. Just imagine how he would process it. Remember this is the Jerry Curl who once POSED IN A TREE WITH A BOOK for the paps. Think about how a person like that might respond to that question.
You ready?
Anything you came up with isn't anywhere near what he put out there.
Q: What's it like being a sex symbol?
Kellan Lutz: I thank God for blessing me. I can't really sing, I can't play guitar but he gave me a physique, which is nice.
As Scott said: Who answers a question like this??!!!
That's Hollywood, right? They say sh-t, sh-t like this, and NO ONE calls them on it. The people who DO call them on it are banished from the circle. I wonder then how Kristen Stewart handles Kellan Lutz. What she says to him at work the next day about those tree posing book shots. What she must think of him when she reads quotes like this one, how she must have to stop herself from sneering behind his oiled, toned back.
Attached – Kellan earlier this week at a party in New York. You know, the organisers at some of these events usher him in like he's A List level Brad Pitt. I hate people.
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 8:36 AM
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WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced it has made its WANdisco Distro (WDD) available for free download. WDD is the first fully tested, production-ready version powered by Apache Hadoop 2 based on the most recent release, including the latest fixes. These certified Apache Hadoop binaries undergo the same rigorous quality assurance process as WANdisco's enterprise software solutions.
The WDD team is led by Dr. Konstantin Boudnik, who is one of the original Hadoop developers, has been an Apache Hadoop committer since 2009 and served as a Hadoop architect with Yahoo! This dedicated team of Apache Hadoop development, QA and support professionals is focused exclusively on delivering the highest quality version of the software. WANdisco's Apache Hadoop developers have been involved in the open source project since its inception and have the authority within the Apache Hadoop community to make changes to the code base, ensuring fast delivery of fixes and enhancements.
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"WANdisco's active-active replication technology not only aims to eliminate single points of failure in Hadoop, but it could also be used to extend Hadoop deployment over wide areas. Users could start to utilize Hadoop as a globally distributed resource," said Tony Baer, principal analyst for Ovum.
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"This is one of a number of key Big Data product announcements WANdisco will be making between now and the upcoming Strata 2013 Big Data conference in Santa Clara, CA, February 26-28. It's a great time for enterprises requiring a hardened, non-stop Hadoop," said David Richards, CEO of WANdisco. "Only our patented active-active technology removes the single point of failure inherent in Hadoop and works locally and globally. We are excited to have Dr. Konstantin Boudnik, one of the original developers of Hadoop, leading this rollout."
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SONL plummer block housings have the following features and benefits:
Simple mounting
To simplify mounting and make alignment more accurate, lines indicating the centre of the bearing seat and housing bore axis are cast into the housing base. Dimples indicate the position for dowel pins (fig. 1).
SONL housings have significantly fewer components than earlier SOFN housings. Their four cap bolts are loosened prior to delivery for easy removal.
Mounting instructions are supplied with each seal kit. The housings have an eye bolt on the cap for safe and easy handling.
Deep sump for lower operating temperatures
SONL housings have a deep sump that holds a large volume of oil so that heat can be dissipated effectively (fig. 2). This cooling effect extends the service life of both the lubricant and the bearing.
If operating conditions require it, auxiliary oil cooling tubes are available. These can be installed through the oil outlet holes in the housing base.
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Tiger Blood
The coke-binged, wiry meme used as today's title may not have the same ring to it as it did WAY back in 2011, but if you're a fan of the Detroit variety, you know that Tiger blood is still in the streets.
Well, the South Florida streets anyway.
In case you've been distracted by the train wreck that is the Republican Party primary, Victor Martinez tore his ACL and will be out for the whole season, leaving my pessimistic and oft lugubrious colleague, Mr. Krause, as sad as sad can be (probably).
But not all hope is lost, Mr. Krause. My team lost its ace pitcher prior to the '11 season and we went out and won the whole damn thing.
Still, just in case Tigers fans are really feeling suicidal, let me remind you of some even bigger Tiger fails that make this one look minor in comparison:
For those of you who are still trying to forget the 2003 season actually happened, let me just remind you that Mike Maroth (above) went 9-21 that year with an ERA of 5.73.
See, life can ALWAYS be worse. Like Mike Maroth worse.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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SAN JOSE — A federal grand jury this week indicted two Scotts Valley investment advisers and a third person they say received more than $60 million from investors but diverted half of the money to themselves and private companies in which they held an interest.
Indicted by a grand jury in San Jose were John Geringer and Christopher Luck of Scotts Valley along with Keith Rode of Franklin, Wis.
The three men are alleged to have been partners in an investment company called Geringer, Luck and Rode LLC, which managed an investment fund called GLR Growth Fund. Geringer was the managing partner.
In a criminal complaint, the three are accused of "engaging in a scheme, plan and artifice to defraud investors and to obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses."
Federal authorities allege the men created the false appearance that the investors' funds were primarily invested in publicly traded securities. In reality, most of the money was invested in two startup companies, MediaTile and DDNI, in which the three held an interest. Geringer, Rode and Luck are due in court on the charges in Jan. 17.
There is also a pending civil suit in federal court, filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year. The SEC accuses Geringer of the same wrongdoing, alleging he deceived investors into thinking the fund was earning double-digit returns, when it really had generated substantial losses for years.
Rode and Luck were not named in the civil suit initially but the SEC has now added them to the complaint. The SEC alleges that Geringer told Luck and Rode in 2009 that he'd been lying to them about the balances in the fund's trading accounts, but Luck continued to solicit new investors and Rode continued to mail misleading mail account statements.
"Luck and Rode knew Geringer had squandered millions of dollars in investor funds and were uniquely positioned to stop the fraud in its tracks," said Marc Fagel, director of the SEC's San Francisco Regional Office. "Rather than expose Geringer, they instead chose to join forces and pretend it was business as usual, further concealing the fraud from investors."
The next court date in the civil case is Feb. 13, according to court records.
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* around 1445 (Prostějov), †1506 (Kutná Hora)
Stonemason, sculptor and builder, representative of late Gothic style. He had no professional education but he gained his work experience in Parléř´s workshop. He worked mostly for king Vladislav II Jagiello. He was teacher and rector at the Týn school. In Prague he constructed and decorated the Powder Tower, cooperated on the decoration of Týn Church, his other works also include a rib vault in the house At the Angel on Malé Square (1/44) or the late Gothic style of the House At the Unicorn at the Old Town Square. His sculptures have often grotesque expressions. From 1489 he was working on St.Barbara Cathedral in Kutná Hora and his traces can be found in Kaňk near Kutná Hora and also in Hradec Králové and Rakovník.
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