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Welcome to Pink Saturday! Each week Beverly at How Sweet the Sound hosts a blogging event called Pink Saturday. I've been participating in this event since June . I really have met some wonderful blogging friends that I might not have met if it hadn't been for Pink Saturday! Recently, I looked back over my first Pink Saturday post, which can be viewed HERE.
Can you guess who the first person to comment on my first Pink Saturday post was? None other than Dawn at Dawn's Daybreak! And every since then Dawn has been one of my faithful readers even when I posted something that I'm sure was not too interesting to her! And I've enjoyed reading her blog daily too! She hasn't missed too many days of posting something new.
Okay, enough of that. Can you guess where I'm going this weekend?
This picture of the pink shrimp might give you a hint!
Give up??? Take a guess on the comments and I'll tell you when I get back if anyone guesses it!
Why am I being so secretive? Because it is a surprise for a very special person, and I don't want to spoil it! So stay tuned next week, because hopefully I'll have some great pictures to share. And hopefully I'll be making lots of memories while away!
By the way, steamed shrimp is one of my very favorite SEAfoods! LOL
Have a wonderful Pink Saturday! Be sure to click on Beverly's link to visit other Pink Saturday posts!
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Pink Saturday Memories and More!
Welcome to Pink Saturday! Each week Beverly at How Sweet the Sound hosts a blogging event called Pink Saturday. I've been participating in this event since June . I really have met some wonderful blogging friends that I might not have met if it hadn't been for Pink Saturday! Recently, I looked back over my first Pink Saturday post, which can be viewed HERE.
41 comments:
- Sherrie said...
Very secretive! Great Post! I'll say your going out to Red Lobster. No, then maybe going on a cruise? I don't know for sure. But have fun where ever you go! Take Care!!
- October 11, 2008 at 5:10 AM
- Bee Haven Bev said...
Are you going to the beach? Well, where ever it is, hope you are in the pink!!
- October 11, 2008 at 5:18 AM
- Bo said...
Hi Diane...hmmmm, let me see...could you be going to Gulf Shores? Wherever you go, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy! ;-) Bo
- October 11, 2008 at 5:33 AM
- Anonymous said...
Happy Pink Saturday, Diane. I'm so glad you discovered Pink Saturday, and that you enjoy it. You met a very special person when you met Dawn. She has been a dear friend to me for years.
I don't know where you are going, but I wish I was going with you. I love seafood. Have fun!!!
- October 11, 2008 at 6:10 AM
- Gone said...
Happy PINKness day Diane. Have fun whatever it is you're going to be doing!!!
- October 11, 2008 at 6:17 AM
- Kim said...
That shrimp looks scrumptious as I'm sitting here thinking of what to eat for breakfast:)
Sounds like you are going to be having a very fun day with your surprise. Hope you have a wonderful time whatever you are doing today.
Happy Pink Saturday!!
- October 11, 2008 at 7:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
I have no idea where you are going, but I can't wait to find out, Diane.
I just saw your daughter's engagement and wedding photos. O my goodness, beautiful photos, both, but I truly believe that is one of the most gorgeous wedding photos, I've ever seen! Happy Anniversary to them.
- October 11, 2008 at 7:38 AM
- Shelia said...
You secretive one, you!! Whereever you're going, have a wonderful time and eat lots of that delicious looking shrimp. I love shrimp cooked any way I can get it! lol
Be a Pink sweetie,
Shelia ;)
- October 11, 2008 at 7:53 AM
- SmilingSally said...
I agree with you about Dawn; she's one my good Blogging friends too.
I'll guess a cruise, but whatever it is, I'm guessing that you'll be smiling.
Happy Pink Saturday!
- October 11, 2008 at 8:01 AM
- Marina Capano said...
Wow, yummy!
visit me anytime....
pink love
Happy Pink Saturday
- October 11, 2008 at 8:37 AM
- Unknown said...
Hmmm, shrim, well if you were in my neck of the woods I would say you were going to Maine. I just love Dawn. Have a great time wherever you go.
Happy Pink Saturday,
- October 11, 2008 at 8:42 AM
- Bobbi Jo Nichols said...
I am not sure where you are going it could be Alaska, CA or an wonderful far off island? Hmmmm I am not sure but the plate looks yummy! Can't wait to find out. Hugs, Bobbi Jo-AZ
- October 11, 2008 at 8:48 AM
- Anonymous said...
Diane I remember your bug jar and I wondered what a bug jar was. I liked it though. smile.
OK, I think you are going to New Orleans. Shrimp is one of my favorite foods as well, but alas, I can't eat very much or I will be ill. I can tolerate 6 small shrimp. Believe me I have tested this. lol
I hope your trip is wonderful. I'll miss you. I love your pink today, especially served so nice with strawberries. Mmmmm.
- October 11, 2008 at 8:50 AM
- Suzie Button said...
Well whomever is getting this yummy surprise is going to be happy! I have a few pink christmas gifts I'd love to post, but I can't let my 20-year-old have a chance to come upon it too! Happy Pink Saturday! Suzie Button
- October 11, 2008 at 8:59 AM
- Glennis said...
Luscious delicious shrimp!! One of my food cravings when I was pregnant with my son was chilled steamed shrimp! I love it.
Hope your special occasion is really special - and tell us all about how the surprise was received. Happy Pink Saturday.
- October 11, 2008 at 9:14 AM
- bloggin' Chrystal said...
awwwwwwwww...I know what you're up to...YOU are going to invite me over for dinner! That's so sweet. I love shrimp. How did you know? I've got to go...I'm sure I have a long drive ahead. See you soon.
- October 11, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- Dawn said...
Hi Diane, Gee you are so nice! Thanks for those kind words about me. I love visiting your blog and haven't come across anything I don't want to read :)
Hmm, I don't think I know where you are going. I am looking forward to the reveal though :)
take care,
- October 11, 2008 at 9:53 AM
- Thru Pink Curtains said...
the color is beautiful. the strawberries look scruptous but the shrimp!! i don't know must be a wedding related thing!!!
- October 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- Betty said...
Shrimp and strawberries. Yum! Happy pink Saturday!
- October 11, 2008 at 11:39 AM
- Stephanie said...
Mmmm yummy!!
Loved those painted pumkins!!
Happy Pink Saturday!
- October 11, 2008 at 11:42 AM
- Decor To Adore said...
Oh yum! Shrimp is a favorite of mine.
- October 11, 2008 at 11:45 AM
- Rechelle ~Walnuthaven Cottage~ said...
Great post!
I'm not good at guessing games, but I say you're going to a seafood restaurant for dinner and you'll be ordering up the "never ending" shrimp basket!
Enjoy your weekend!
- October 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM
- The Berry's Patch said...
Yum! I love shrimp too. I'll bet your going somewhere where there is shrimp. Must be the beach. Have fun! :-)
- October 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM
- Katie said...
Well, wherever it is you're going, if they have shrimp can I come along? Love that stuff! Happy Pink Saturday!
- October 11, 2008 at 4:51 PM
- imjacobsmom said...
Mmmm Shrimp! I'm going to guess New Orleans! Now I'll have to check back to find out where....Robyn
- October 11, 2008 at 5:38 PM
- Southern Lady said...
Diane, I hope you had fun at the Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores ... lol Can't wait to see your pictures!
- October 11, 2008 at 6:11 PM
- nikkicrumpet said...
Yum...the shrimp looks tasty. Lets see...you're going out to sea on a fishing boat to catch us all dinner??? YAY!
- October 11, 2008 at 8:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am not sure what your surprise will be but I can't wait till next week to find out - You know shrimp and strawberries make for a very interesting combination.
- October 11, 2008 at 9:33 PM
- Scooterblu's Whimsy~Rhonda said...
Good morning Diane, Are you dropping in for a visit to see Dawn??? Either that or a cruise, LOL! Weren't you the one that bought a bunch of clothes not long ago for a cruise...ummmm, has me wondering!!! :) If so, hope it is fabulous!
Happy Anniversary to your daughter and SIL! Their pictures are great! ~Rhonda :)
- October 12, 2008 at 6:15 AM
- suzanne said...
HMMMMM, does it have something to do with a wedding? It looks yummy! Emjoyed reading your blog.
come visit me some time.
- October 12, 2008 at 6:26 AM
- Virginia said...
I am not sure what your surprise will be but I can't wait till next week to find out.
Enjoy your weekend!
Blessing, Virginia
- October 12, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- Anne Fannie said...
Hi Diane, Love shrimp too. Have fun where ever you go!
Love, Ann
- October 12, 2008 at 11:58 AM
- Nancy Rosalina said...
Oh, I don't know, but I can't wait to find out!!! Nancy
- October 12, 2008 at 1:21 PM
- Manuela@A Cultivated Nest said...
Happy Pink Saturday! Have a great time and can't wait to solve the mystery!
- October 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- KatCollects said...
I hope wherever you go you have a great time!
- October 12, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- Alexandra MacVean said...
Hi Diane,
I hope you and your special someone had a great weekend! :)
- October 12, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
Shrimp is one on my favorites too! Happy Pink Weekend!
Hugs, Pat
- October 12, 2008 at 7:21 PM
- Joy said...
I hope you're having fun and enjoying lots of shrimp!
Your little table looks wonderful. Great find!
- October 12, 2008 at 11:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hey, Diane! I think you are up late, too!!! I just love that shrimpy photo and so enjoyed the post for today--blue Monday! I can hardly do one thematic day a week, (PINK) so I am impressed that you can pull off another color!!! Loved all of your blue photos, too! Hope you have great week. Are you finished with your long-term sub gig? :) Dana
- October 13, 2008 at 12:28 AM
- Sherri said...
Since I didn't get to your place until Monday, I already know where you were going. Great pictures of a fun place. :)
- October 13, 2008 at 6:57 AM
- Nanna said...
have you been yet? did you have fun? LOL Happy belated pink saturday! cute post
- October 14, 2008 at 6:30 AM


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Tournament course requires extra care
When the developers of the Champions Club built a new, links-style golf course on virgin farmland on the outskirts of Omaha, Neb., their philosophy might well have been, "If we build it, they will come." If so, they made a wise decision in following through with their plans. After all, the 18-hole championship course opened in 1992, and within 3 years, the PGA Tour booked a Nike tournament for the first week of August 1996.
Jeff Latka became golf-course superintendent in June of that year. But hosting the club's first tournament just 2 months after he arrived wasn't as stressful as replanting most of the fairways, he says. The need to replant resulted from the previous winter, which was extremely cold and dry. "It was -26 degrees F for 2 nights in a row during March," he says. "We lost 50 percent of our bentgrass fairways--about 15 to 20 acres of bentgrass turf. But we didn't lose much grass on greens because they had been heavily topdressed with sand the previous fall."
Just getting grass to grow was Latka's top priority. Unfortunately, because many other area courses were in similar or worse condition, the availability of bentgrass seed was limited. Thus, he slit-seeded whatever bentgrass varieties he could find into the existing dead thatch, without taking time to aerate. "By mid-July, we were getting pretty nervous. But we had very good weather prior to the tournament, and everything looked great by early August," notes Latka. "We hosted the tournament again in 1997, and the PGA plans to return for a third time in 1998."
Designed for wide, open spaces Designed by Jeffrey Brauer, the Champions Club follows the natural contours of the rolling Nebraska topography. The developers placed minimal housing around the course, focusing primarily on keeping the golf course wide open. They planted few trees throughout the property and instead left many natural areas where prairie grasses and wildflowers now thrive.
"I'd rather work on a wide, open course like this than a tree-lined, closed-off golf course," says Latka. "It means that wind is a major factor in our maintenance program, but disease pressure is lower. Our disease problems are generally related to lack of air movement. Fortunately, we only have a few low-lying areas on the course where we get disease pressure."
Because Latka keeps greens on the dry side and removes dew on a daily basis, he experiences little brown patch or dollar spot on greens. He waits until the end of June to begin a preventive-disease-management program on greens, tees and fairways, tank-mixing systemics and contact fungicides. "Keeping greens free of brown patch and dollar spot makes the turf less susceptible to other problems, such as algae," Latka explains. "Diseases can thin the turf, and algae then takes over in those areas."
Tank mix provides dual disease control The Champions course is so spread out that Latka finds it difficult and time-consuming to continually spray fairways during summer months. For the last 2 years, he's used a tank-mix of flutolanil (ProStar 50WP fungicide from AgrEvo) and triadimefon (Bayleton 50 fungicide from Bayer). Together, the products control both brown patch and dollar spot for 30 days at Latka's course.
"When I first sprayed the tank-mix, I was very happy to get such long control," he explains. "We only have one sprayer, so it takes a guy 2 days to treat all of the fairways. [Using this tank-mix], we only have to go out once a month instead of every 2 weeks. Depending on weather conditions, we may only have to make one application each summer and still get good disease control."
Last year, Latka got nearly 40 days of disease control with one application in June. The time saved by not making spray applications came in handy when Latka and his 25-member seasonal crew began getting ready for the August tournament. The crew starts tournament preparation in late July by restricting water and double-mowing greens to increase speeds. They also spend a great deal of time firming up sand in bunkers. In addition, they stop mowing roughs in mid July, allowing them to grow as high as 6 inches by tournament time.
"The PGA first sends runners out to preview the golf course in March, and they visit monthly after that," Latka says. "Then the rules official stays at the course for a good 2 weeks prior to the tournament. They are particularly picky about the bunker sand. We tamp it down and add water to keep it constantly moist. The PGA agronomists were a little more hands-off in 1997, after working closely with me the previous year."
In fact, green speeds were so fast last year--up to 13 on the Stimpmeter--that tournament officials asked Latka to slow them down a bit. He generally shoots for a base tournament speed of 9.5 on the Stimpmeter and increases speed depending on officials' comments during the tournament. He keeps greens speeds at 8 before and after the tournament, restricting water when necessary.
Keying in on water management "Water management is the key to turf management," Latka notes. "Drier is better. It's very tempting to overwater a golf course. When the grass starts turning blue, that's when I turn on the water. I like to say I'm about a day away from being too wet and a day away from being too dry."
Latka also believes in aggressively aerating fairways. By leaving the cores on the surface and dragging them in, he believes that microbial activity in the soil biologically controls the thatch levels. Because bentgrass is a heavy thatch accumulator, he also aggressively grooms fairways and uses moderate nitrogen levels. He mows fairways and tees at 7/16 inch, greens at 0.135 inch and roughs at 2.5 inches during non-tournament play.
Getting to know the golf course plays a major role in properly maintaining turf, Latka adds. After nearly 2 years at the Champions Club, he feels more comfortable with his management decisions. "You learn which areas need more water than others and how far you can push each green before watering," Latka explains. "It's tempting to just turn on the water and go home, but you can't keep a course in tournament condition for long that way."
Debbie Clayton is a freelance writer in the turf industry with more than 10 years of experience. She provides public-relations support for AgrEvo (Montvale, N.J.).
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Samoan Youth Boost Post-disaster Morale and Awareness
In January 2010, staff from the Pacific Islands Center for Educational Development developed a project plan funded by an urgent award from the Administration for Native Americans. The purpose was to assist villages devastated by the September 2009 American Samoa tsunami.
This plan would educate the island community in disaster preparedness and provide youth with an opportunity to serve affected communities.
During the project's first two months, PICED staff recruited and provided leadership training for nine youth leaders. PICED met with local officials to assess needs and discuss the project's two major endeavors, a village beautification effort and a disaster preparedness campaign. Next, working with village mayors and the American Samoa Department of Education, the team recruited 66 additional youth to work on project activities.
After several days of safety training, 56 youth took part in clean-ups of six tsunami-affected villages: Faga'itua, Tula, Alofau, Asili, Poloa, and Amanave. In each village, they scoured beaches, shorelines and ditches for trash.
They removed 7,810 pounds of garbage and debris, and collected over 1,000 pounds of scrap metal. They also painted curbs, bus stops, and tire planters, installed signs, weeded and cleared overgrown areas and planted coastal shrubs, including 250 plants in the village of Tula.
Village mayors expressed gratitude to the youth involved and stated the clean-up efforts helped boost community morale in their villages.
Next, the youth launched an island-wide youth-to-youth disaster preparedness outreach campaign. For this, three youth leaders researched the types of disasters most prevalent in American Samoa and studied the preparedness measures used with each kind of disaster.
Next, they designed the campaign, themed "Code Alert: Aware Today, Prepared Tomorrow," developing content and outreach strategies to educate community members on the characteristics of tsunamis, earthquakes, floods and hurricanes, and on how to prepare for each.
To implement the plan, 17 project youth, including seven project leaders, gave disaster preparedness presentations at 10 local elementary schools, reaching 1,293 children. They posted flyers and hung banners in public locations around the island; created three newspaper ads, which were published 31 times in the Samoa News; produced four radio public service announcements, which received 1,149 plays on three radio stations in three months; and made two video PSAs, which aired frequently on local television over a one-month period.
The outreach campaign reached community members of all ages throughout American Samoa. Of 600 community members surveyed about the media campaign, 54 percent said they had heard of the campaign, and 47 percent felt it had improved their capacity to deal with disasters.
Of the 629 elementary school students surveyed after the disaster preparedness presentations in their schools, 96 percent felt better prepared to cope with natural disasters.
According to PICED staff, youth involved in the project learned much about community service, team work, leadership, disaster preparedness, and Samoan culture and political structures. Just as importantly, they had the opportunity to experience being part of a community, and to play an active role in the island's post-tsunami healing and recovery process.


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Empowering girls is a popular topic for many parents who have young daughters. And one group of advocates, the Brave Girls Alliance, decided to take their cause all the way to Times Square in New York City.
"We wanted to find a way to reach as many people as possible while promoting positive messages for girls," said Jodi Norgaard, a mother, entrepreneur and advisory board member of the Brave Girls Alliance (bravegirlswant.com). And with Friday being International Day of the Girl, Norgaard said, the group thought it might be a good day to launch the movement.
The Brave Girls Alliance, which was started in May of 2013 by a group of women tired of gender stereotypes portrayed in the media and in toys, will post positive tweets and messages with the hashtag #BraveGirlsWant for six minutes per hour from Oct. 11 through Oct. 18 on a billboard in Times Square at the corner of 43rd Street and 7th Avenue. The goal, Norgaard said, is to raise enough awareness to make significant change in the way girls are portrayed in the media and in commercial products.
"The sexualization of girls and women has gotten so much more pronounced in the last decade," said Norgaard, who started the Go! Go! Sports Girls doll line in 2008 to promote self-esteem in young girls. "This isn't about saying 'Girls are better than boys,' it's about equality. Why aren't we encouraging women and girls to be strong and use what's on the inside instead of only focusing on what people see on the outside?"
Jennifer Hartstein, a family psychologist based in New York City who is also an advisory board member of the Brave Girls Alliance, said young girls are coming into her office with increased rates of depression, anxiety and low self-esteem.
"They are getting this certain message that if they don't look a certain way, they just aren't good enough," said Hartstein, who wrote the book "Princess Recovery: A How-to Guide to Raising Strong, Empowered Girls Who Can Create Their Own Happily Ever Afters." "Stop and think how you address a little girl when you first meet her on the street. You say, 'You're so pretty. You're so cute," and to a little boy, we don't do this."
Here are some tips on how to promote awareness and build empowerment for young girls.
Do a personal inventory.
"Notice what you do when you see actors and actresses on television or in magazines," Hartstein said. "How do you talk about those things in front of your child? Are you envious? Judgmental? Work on your own sense of confidence on your own appearance — flaws and all."
Turn it off.
"I know it's a lot easier to let your kids watch TV when they're bored, but when you aren't paying attention, they can be overwhelmed with negative messaging," Norgaard said. "Like Viagra commercials ... . Trying to explain that to your children is very difficult. We say 'I don't believe in this and I'm sorry you are inundated with all these commercials but if you have questions, please ask me.'"
Be responsible consumers.
"The kids will see a product on TV and they are whining and crying for it but don't buy it," Norgaard said. "Why would you bring a product into your household that you do not believe in?"
Take "thin" out of your vocabulary.
"Eating disorders are on the rise and eating disorder behavior is starting in girls as young as three or four, talking about how they feel fat," Hartstein said. "My sister-in-law was tracking calories on her phone and her daughter, my niece, said, 'I need to track my calories too, Mom,' and she is seven. We need to try to talk about being healthy and fit and strong and not about being thin and skinny."
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It's never too young to start empowering.
"My daughter is 17 now but we started the dialogue with her about self-esteem and empowerment from when she was very little," Norgaard said. "She is appalled now when kids at school show their butts and dress inappropriately. She knows it's not appropriate. There wasn't even a discussion when she was younger. I think it's important for kids to express themselves but you don't want your kid to be sexy at a young age."
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NEW BEDFORD: Nicknamed "the Whaling City,�� this celebrated port city on Buzzards Bay offers maritime history with beaches and boating, arts and fun galore. Sample international cuisine from Portugal, Cape Verde, Thailand and more, or enjoy any of seven museums, varied music, theater and great galleries for every taste.
DON�T MISS: The 173-year-old Charles W. Morgan, the nation�s second oldest vessel after the USS Constitution and sole survivor of America�s once-great fleet of wind-powered whalers, will dock at the waterfront June 28 through July 6. It was first launched in New Bedford in 1841, and has been docked at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut since 1941. During its stay, tours of the waterfront will be available with related activities.
GET FESTIVE: After 4th of July fireworks at 9 p.m. over the harbor, the city kicks off the two-day New Bedford Folk Festival on Saturday and Sunday, July 5 and 6, with 70 performers, 90 juried vendors and continual music from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on seven sound stages in and around New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. Visit: www.newbedfordfolkfestival.com.
There�s a feast of festivals this summer, including:
n�Saturday, July 5: The 42nd Cape Verdean Recognition Parade and Carnival. Call 508-863-7463 or visit www.cvrcinc.org.
n�Saturday, July 5, and Sunday, July 6: The New Bedford Folk Festival heats up with performances on seven stages and five intimate sites and concerts by John Gorka, Christine Lavin and Don White and more. Call 508-991-3122 x112 or visit. www.newbedfordfolkfestival.com
n�July 31-Aug. 4: To explore one of the city�s great cultures, visit the 100th anniversary of the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, the biggest Portuguese feast in the world. Visit www.portuguesefeast.com.
n Sept. 27-28: The Working Waterfront Festival celebrates the community's commercial fishing industry. The free family event will have industry skills demos, fishing vessel tours, live music, author readings, food, a farmers market, seafood throwdown, health screenings and more. Visit www.workingwaterfrontfestival.org.
PRIME DESTINATION: Established by Congress in 1996, the 13-block New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, at 33 Williams St., next to the waterfront, includes a Visitors Center to help you plan your day. The 36-acre National Park includes a 28-room Greek Revival mansion, the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum at 396 Country St. Also check out the Seamen�s Bethel and Mariner�s Home featured in the movie "Moby Dick�� and the 120-year-old Schooner Ernestina at 10 State Pier. Call 508-996-4095 or visit www.nps.gov/nebe.
CALL ME ORCA: No visit would be complete without stopping in the world famous New Bedford Whaling Museum, which tells the global story of the mariners who put to sea hunting the leviathans through 300,000 objects, the, Lagoda, world�s largest ship model, and five complete whale skeletons. A new exhibit, �Yankee Baleeiros! The Shared Legacies of Luso and Yankee Whalers� celebrates the interwoven Luso-American stories of the Azorean, Cape Verdean and Brazilian communities in the United States from early immigration in the 18th century through the latter half of the 20th century. Located at 18 Johnny Cake Hill; Visit www.whalingmuseum.org.
MORE INFO: Visit www.newbedford-ma.gov, www.destinationnewbedford.org
Quick Trip: Get away to the Whaling City
NEW BEDFORD: Nicknamed "the Whaling City,�� this celebrated port city on Buzzards Bay offers maritime history with beaches and boating, arts and fun galore. Sample international cuisine from Portugal, Cape Verde, Thailand and more, or enjoy any of seven museums, varied music, theater and great galleries for every taste.


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From the "News We Already Knew" file: Verizon iPhone drops fewer calls than AT&T's.
It's no secret AT&T's network is notoriously flimsy, but now we have some solid evidence to prove it.
Venture Beat says a survey by ChangeWave Research shows, of the 4,068 consumers polled, Verizon's iPhone only drops calls 1.8% of the time, while AT&T's drops 4.8% of the time.
And the iPhone itself is not to blame. Network-wide results show Verizon customers had a dropped call rate of 1.4%, and AT&T had the industry's worst rate of 4.6%.
It should also be noted that Verizon only has a fraction of iPhone customers compared to AT&T's.


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chairman conyers expects prof.
john yoo to appear and answer questions,
before the house judiciary committee, on
matters related to his issuance of the OLC
legal opinion cheney relied upon to torture
detainees at guantanamo, and at secret black
site prisons elsewhere around the world.
this is the opinion that michael mukasey
called "worse than a mistake — it was a sin."
it seems john yoo has been busy creating
his 15 minutes, in on the record esquire
magazine interviews — so it would seem that
addington-cum-cheney will have a tall order
in asserting executive priviledge, or state
secrets, over matters that professor yoo has
seen fit to offer extensive magazine article
interviews about. way to go chairman conyers!
I'll have live video on may 6, 2008, when yoo
gets sworn in before the house judiciary comm-
ittee. light 'em up, man! here's the letter:
April 8, 2008
Professor John Choon Yoo
University of California, Berkeley
School of Law
890 Simon Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Dear Professor Yoo:
I write to invite you to appear before the Committee on the Judiciary at our May 6 hearing scheduled to explore issues regarding the nature and scope of Presidential power in time of war and the current Administration's approach to these questions under U.S. and international law. Among the subjects likely to be explored at the hearing are United States policies regarding interrogation of persons in the custody of the nation's intelligence services and armed forces, matters addressed in some detail in opinions that you authored during your service as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel. Given your personal knowledge of key historical facts, as well as your academic expertise, your testimony would be invaluable to the Committee on these subjects.
I understand that, in discussions with my staff, you have expressed reluctance to testify voluntarily on such matters. I am hopeful that you have reconsidered that stance, however, given your extensive public comments on these very issues. For example, on April 3, 2008, Esquire magazine published an interview in which you made frank and on-the-record comments regarding the origination, drafting, and scope of OLC interrogation memoranda. Similarly, you provided on-the-record comments on the recently released March 2003 interrogation memorandum to the Washington Post just last week, describing that document as "near boilerplate" and asserting that, in pulling back from the analysis in that memorandum, the Department had "ignored [its] long tradition in defending the President's authority in wartime." Overall, you have made such extensive public comments on these and related matters, that it is extremely difficult to understand why you would continue to decline to present your views to the Committee.
To the extent you have raised concerns with my staff that some questions on these matters might call for responses that you believe would be covered by executive privilege or that would implicate executive confidentiality interests, I am confident such concerns can be effectively managed in a setting where you are voluntarily appearing before the Committee. Indeed, just two months ago, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Bradbury testified before the Committee on many legal issues raised by Administration policy on the interrogation of detainees. If the current head of OLC was able to testify on these matters, and especially given that OLC's current interrogation memoranda remain classified unlike at least some of the opinions that you authored, I can see no principled basis on which you might decline to appear.
During your recent executive branch service to the Nation, you played a key role in momentous, and controversial, events of great interest to all Americans. And I am sure that, from your prior service as General Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, you would agree that it is the unique responsibility of Congress, the representative branch, to explore such issues and to bring relevant information to light. As you once wrote,"Congress' power to conduct such inquiries inheres in its power to study and pass legislation, and it has used this power from the very beginning of the Republic to investigate maladministration in the Executive Branch, to determine whether social conditions require new legislation, and to review the success of existing laws."
In that vein, let me repeat my hope that you will voluntarily appear before the Committee on May 6. If that date poses a particular scheduling problem, please contact my staff as described below and we will be happy to discuss reasonable alternatives. Should you continue to refuse to testify on a cooperative basis, however, the Committee must of course proceed with its investigation and will be left with no option but to compel your appearance.
Thank you for your careful consideration of this invitation. So that we may plan accordingly, please contact Committee staff at (202) 225-3951 as soon as possible and no later than the close of business on Thursday, April 17, 2008, to discuss the details of your appearance.
Any further responses and questions should similarly be directed to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: 202-225-3951, fax: 202-225-7680).
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The Milwaukee Police Department will hold another open house Saturday for people interested in learning more about becoming a dispatcher with the department.
"I feel it's rewarding because you're helping people every day," dispatcher Tim Lemke said.
He admitted it's stressful at times.
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Asked whether she's thought about running, Raitt said Thursday she'll continue to represent the riding of Halton, west of Toronto, any way that she can.
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Christine Elliott, deputy leader of the Progressive Conservatives, is the only declared candidate in what will be her second leadership run.
She lost to Tim Hudak in 2009, but he resigned after a disastrous loss in the June 12 provincial election.
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Got an Active Directory (AD) problem? Chances are, it's really a DNS problem. Can't get to your email, Twitter, or Facebook account? Chances are, it's really a DNS problem. Smoking out DNS-related problems is Step Two in troubleshooting almost any network problem—but knowing how to troubleshoot DNS is something of a moving target, because it just keeps changing. We've covered the basics of DNS troubleshooting in the past (see the Learning Path). In this article, we move beyond the basics to take a new look at an old idea. We explore how to simplify name resolution on your network with a couple of DNS troubleshooting tools that far surpass Nslookup, and we examine in-depth the unjustly accused cause of a DNS trouble scenario that's new in Windows Server 2008 R2: Extension mechanisms for DNS (EDNS). (By the way, Step One is "Check that it's plugged in." But you already knew that, right?)
Turn Off WINS
When people say, "Check DNS," it's sort of shorthand for "Check the entire name resolution infrastructure," which includes local NetBIOS broadcasts, WINS, and a newly styled Network Neighborhood replacement called Network Discovery that arrived with Windows Vista—not to mention the HOSTS and LMHOSTS files. No wonder name resolution troubleshooting is so complicated! It's as if some of your electricity came from the phone company and ran at 80 volts, some came from the cable company and provided direct current, and the rest came from the traditional power company, but you never knew exactly which kind of power went to your blender, your computer, or Grandma's iron lung—which would make troubleshooting nonworking appliances very difficult and time consuming. Simplify the name resolution, and the troubleshooting gets easier.
Before you turn off WINS, you should of course test your network configuration without it (including the NetBIOS over TCP/IP setting in your TCP/IP properties). I think you'll be surprised at how few things—or nothing at all—still need WINS, although it clearly depends on how modern your client and server OSs are. Disabling WINS is a terrible idea in Windows 2000 Server, workable but occasionally annoying in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, and fairly trouble-free in Vista and later OSs. Understand, however, that just because your OS is fine in a NetBIOS-free environment, your apps might not be—I've heard that some anti-malware apps need NetBIOS, although I haven't run into this situation. If you do need WINS for an occasional app or two, look into using Server 2008's GlobalNames zone; it can help DNS do part of WINS's job in some cases. (For more information about Server 2008's GlobalNames zone, see "What is GlobalNames in Windows Server 2008?")
Use Network Monitor
Everyone knows about Network Monitor, but most folks are still scared to try it—and they shouldn't be. Network Monitor captures and displays every network packet that enters or leaves your system, laying bare for your inspection every single bit that zips through your NIC. Netmon initially seems like a tool for black belts, but in some ways it's even better suited for the Jack-of-all-trades DNS troubleshooter because it lets administrators employ an old repair adage: It's hard to recognize "sick" if you don't know what "healthy" looks like. So if you run Netmon on your system when it's working, keep that capture handy and then run another capture when things aren't working. Compare the two captures and play a bit of "What's different?" and you'll soon start gleaning clues.
I know that simply mentioning Netmon causes some folks to run in fear, but don't—here's a quick primer on Netmon and DNS. In this example, I set up a Server 2008 R2 DNS server, which I configured to look to itself to resolve DNS addresses. I told the server to ping www.bigfirm.com and capture the resulting network traffic with Netmon. The result will be a complete mess of largely irrelevant network chatter—a ton of ore from which we want to pluck just a few golden nuggets.
The first step is to install Network Monitor. (The tool is available for free download.) When you start Netmon, be sure to right-click its icon and select Run as administrator. The first time you start Netmon, the program asks whether you want to use Microsoft Update. After you dismiss this dialog box, you'll see a welcome screen such as the one in Figure 1. The lower left window controls which traffic you want captured. We don't care about the isatap and Teredo traffic, so clear those check boxes. Leave the Local Area Connection check box selected. Ignore the P-Mode option; enabling it would only add to the clutter. Click New capture tab in the upper left window.
Figure 1: Network Monitor's welcome screen
The Capture screen that opens, which Figure 2 shows, is one of the reasons administrators shy away from Netmon. To simplify this screen, close the Network Conversation pane on the far left side and the Hex Details pane in the lower right corner, leaving just Display Filter, Frame Summary, and Frame Details.
Figure 2: Network Monitor's Capture screen
To put Netmon to work, open a command prompt and click the green triangle next to Start in the Netmon window. Give Netmon a second to get rolling, then return to the command prompt and run the command
ping -n 1 www.bigfirm.com
After the ping command runs, return to Netmon and click the blue square next to Stop. Congratulations—you've made your first capture! Look at the status information at the very bottom of the Netmon window frame to see how many network packets you captured. Depending on how quickly you worked and how quiet your network is, you might have anywhere from about a dozen frames to a hundred or so. No matter how many you have, it'll look like a mess. To separate the wheat from the chaff, you need to create a display filter.
To view only the DNS-specific traffic, enter DNS in the Display Filter text field and click Apply. You'll see a screen such as the one in Figure 3. This example screenshot shows just the six packets I'm interested in. (I removed the Process, Time Offset, and TimeDateLocalAdjusted columns because they weren't relevant to this capture.)
Figure 3: Viewing DNS-specific traffic
These six packets show how a DNS server finds basically any host in any .com domain. First, your local DNS server queries a root server for the host address of www.bigfirm.com (packet 6, notice "Query for www.bigfirm.com…"). The root server responds, "I have no idea, but if you ask one of the .com DNS servers, it can help you" (packet 7, notice "Response – Success"). Then your DNS server asks a .com DNS server for www.bigfirm.com's host address (packet 8) and is told that no, the .com DNS server can't help, but that your DNS server might try asking bigfirm.com's DNS server (packet 9). Your DNS server then asks bigfirm.com's DNS server for www.bigfirm.com's host address (packet 10) and finally gets its desired response (packet 11). Note that Netmon makes keeping track of who's doing the talking easier with its Source and Destination columns: My local DNS server is 18.104.22.168, the root server is 188.8.131.52, the .com DNS server is d.gtld-servers, and bigfirm.com's DNS server is web2.minasi.com. This is, of course, a very high-level overview.
Figure 4: Viewing a frame's details
To view a packet's hierarchy, click the first of the filtered frames and look in the Frame Details pane. Figure 4 shows the packet hierarchy, which Netmon calls a frame. This frame contains the Ethernet packet, which in turn contains the IPv4 packet. Within IPv4 is the UDP packet (it could be TCP, but most DNS traffic runs over UDP), and inside that is the actual DNS query. Each level's summary includes relevant addresses or ports and lengths for a nice overview. To dig deeper into the DNS query, click the plus sign to expand the DNS frame, as Figure 5 shows. Netmon's level of detail in this frame is fairly self-explanatory. You can see that it's a query (rather than a response), the question (host record for www.bigfirm.com), and an additional record that I'll cover later in the article.
Examine the next frame's DNS details and you'll see that the root server responds by telling your DNS server, "Go talk to a .com DNS server," by simply returning the list of 13 .com DNS servers. Your DNS server makes the same query to the .com DNS servers, recursing through the DNS hierarchy until your DNS server finally gets its answer.
So how does this information help you troubleshoot DNS problems? Well, just recently, one of my DNS servers simply stopped responding to DNS queries. To make matters worse, a look at the detailed logging that Windows DNS servers can offer showed that the DNS server hadn't received any queries. Could the firewall have somehow started blocking DNS traffic? The fastest way to find out was to run Netmon, which showed me that yes, indeed, the NIC was receiving the DNS queries from other systems—I could see the frames, and I could see that my DNS server had responded to none of them. I was pretty confident that it wasn't a DNS problem, but rather something in the routing and IP itself. Sure enough, disabling RRAS solved the problem. (The ultimate answer seems to be that a patch broke my RRAS-based VPN servers and leaked over to the IP stack somehow.) Without the clarification of a Netmon trace, I'd have spent hours trying to eliminate possible culprits.
Dump Nslookup, Get DIG
The basic DNS troubleshooting tool shipped with Windows is of course Nslookup. But did you know that UNIX folks have had a much better alternative for years—Domain Information Groper? DIG isn't built into Windows, but it's easy to find and is a great addition to your DNS toolbelt.
To get DIG, go to the Internet Systems Consortium's Downloads site, and download the latest version of BIND (currently BIND 9.7.2-P3). BIND is a free program that's the Internet's most popular DNS server.
After you download the latest version of BIND, create a folder on your system's hard drive, add the folder to your system's PATH environment variable, and copy the files from the BIND zip file to the folder. (If you prefer, you can delete everything in the folder except the DLL files, dig.exe, and dig.html, which is DIG's Help file—because we're not running BIND, so we don't need all the extra files.)
DIG's basic syntax looks like
dig record-to-query-for \\[@dnsserver\\] \\[querytype\\] \\[+option1, +option2…\\]
So a query such as
dig bigfirm.com ns @192.168.1.125
would instruct DIG to ask the DNS server at 192.168.1.125 to find all the name server records for bigfirm.com. Figure 6 shows this query's output; notice the greater level of detail in DIG's output than in Nslookup's output.
Skip down a few lines to the two lines that begin with ->>HEADER<<-; you can see the DNS header information basically taken from the frame and reformatted a bit. The status info tells you whether the query failed because the record doesn't exist (NXDOMAIN), there was some sort of configuration error on the server (SERVFAIL), no error at all (NOERROR), or an invalid query, such as asking for a record type that doesn't exist (FORERR).
You then see the flags in the DNS header. A nice feature of DIG is that it lets you force the DNS header flags to particular values when you make your query. So, for example, if you were to add +norecurse, DIG would set the flag telling the DNS server in question to perform only the first step in resolving bigfirm.com, which in this case would return only the root servers.
The option +trace takes things a step further and causes DIG to print out exactly what the DNS server is doing as it finds bigfirm.com's DNS server. This tool is very useful for anyone running AD, because security forces us to run our AD-serving DNS hierarchies outside of the public hierarchy, which can lead to a number of configuration errors that +trace can help smoke out. Put DIG on a USB stick and run it on a troubled system with +trace to find the domain controller's (DC's) host record; this action will often shed some light on the problem. Once you give DIG a try, I bet you'll never go back to Nslookup.
Check EDNS
Let's finish with a topic that I keep running across and am constantly asked about. I've found that people seem to think that a DNS feature called EDNS is making Server 2008 R2–based DNS servers incapable of resolving common Internet domain names and that the solution is to disable EDNS—in truth, EDNS isn't new, nor is it at fault. Like many bedrock Internet protocols, our requirements for DNS have outgrown their original 1983 (RFC 882) specifications, forcing the Internet authorities to try to figure out how to shoehorn new capabilities into a small and inflexibly laid-out space.
I say that DNS is inflexibly laid out because it relies heavily upon a small number of 1-bit flags that indicate such things as whether or not a query needs recursion and whether or not a given DNS server is capable of doing a recursive search. The original RFCs allow only enough space for seven such flags, of which only one remains unused. Got a great idea to solve some DNS problem with a useful new flag? Too bad, unless something changes—there's no room at the inn.
The small-space issue stems from the fact that whenever DNS communicates via UDP—which is preferable, because UDP is so fast and the Internet contains so much DNS traffic—it's constrained to a maximum packet size of 512 bytes. That 512-byte maximum was mandated by RFCs 883 (1983) and 1035 (1987) and is based on 1980s network realities that no longer apply. For example, have you ever noticed that very few domains on the Internet have more than 13 DNS servers? Even the massively overworked root domain advertises 13 DNS servers, even though it actually hosts 236 servers and uses clustering to make so many appear to be so few. This is because advertising more than 13 servers would create a packet that's larger than 512 bytes, thus forcing a fallback to the much-slower TCP.
So we needed more flags and bigger packets, but we didn't want to expand DNS in a way that would create a worldwide DNS compatibility nightmare in the process. The answer? 1999's RFC 2671 and EDNS (again, Extension mechanisms for DNS). EDNS provides a clever way for an ever-growing population of EDNS-aware DNS servers to detect whether they're talking to fellow EDNS-aware servers (and thus enjoy the benefits of more flags and more space), or instead are speaking to EDNS-deaf servers (in which case they remain within the pre–RFC 2671 realities, thus avoiding compatibility issues).
When an EDNS-aware requestor queries a responder for a DNS record, it formats the request in standard DNS format but then adds an extra record to its request: a new-to-EDNS kind of DNS record called an OPT record. OPT isn't like the more familiar DNS records, such as A, MX, NS, SOA, CNAME, etc.; you'll never see an OPT record in a zone file. It's more like a secret handshake that only EDNS-aware servers know—a bit of data added to a query.
For example, suppose an EDNS-aware requestor wants to retrieve the A record for a system named PC1 in the bigfirm.com zone from bigfirm's DNS server. A pre-EDNS requestor would just request the A record of the responder. In contrast, an EDNS-aware requestor would say, "I've got two requests for you: First, I need the A record for 'PC1' in bigfirm.com, and second, here's an OPT query with the value '4000.'" The 4000 value is the requestor's way of saying, "Hey, I understand EDNS and if you want to send me a packet that's larger than 512 bytes, I can handle any UDP packet up to 4,000 bytes." If the responder isn't EDNS-aware, it won't recognize the OPT record—and in that case just ignores it, responding only to the familiar A record query type and emitting no error messages (and thus preserving backward compatibility). But if the responder is EDNS-aware, it responds to both the A record request and the OPT request; in the OPT response, it also includes a number declaring how large a UDP packet it can handle. Thus, if a requestor were to send an OPT=4096 query at the end of another query, and if the responder came back with an OPT=1280 response, then the requestor would know first that the other side understood EDNS and second that it can use oversized UDP packets, but no larger than 1,280 bytes.
So, how does this process go wrong? Well, imagine that your EDNS-aware Server 2008 R2 server queries another EDNS-aware server, and they decide to use a UDP packet that's larger than 512 bytes. This size of packet can become fragmented (whereas 512-byte packets almost never do), and many cheap Network Address Translation (NAT) routers discard fragmented packets. Worse yet, some firewalls have security rules that say, "If it's DNS and UDP and it's bigger than 512 bytes, it must be evil—discard it." In either case, the result is the same: a failed resolution.
The best solution is to figure out what hop on the journey caused the problem, but that's not always possible. Another approach is to simply tell your Server 2008 R2 server to no longer send out OPT queries, and thus to never initiate EDNS transactions. You can do that from an elevated command prompt with the following command:
dnscmd /config /enableednsprobes 0
No reboot is necessary after you run this command, and replacing the 0 with a 1 undoes the effect. Understand, however, that the only effect of this command is to prevent Server 2008 R2 from starting an EDNS conversation. If a DNS server queries the Server 2008 R2 server with an OPT packet, the Server 2008 R2 server will happily respond in EDNS fashion—so make sure that your routers and firewalls don't have an outgoing filter that kills big DNS UDP packets!
EDNS isn't new to Windows Server; Windows DNS has supported it since Server 2003. Server 2008 R2's only change was to enable the probes. Nor is EDNS some sort of exotic futuristic protocol; rather, some sniffing of my Internet traffic shows that at least 85 percent of DNS servers of all stripes understand EDNS and are using it to good advantage. It would be a shame to make your Server 2008 R2 DNS server miss out on EDNS's advantages, so you should do a bit of router reconfiguration before deprobing your DNS server.
Plan Ahead
DNS failures are big problems, but they're easily conquered with a bit of housekeeping, keeping up on the best tools, and staying abreast of what's new in DNS. Try out some of what you've learned here, and you'll be better prepared to fix the really bad stuff!


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Tar Wars was developed by Jeff Cain, MD, and Glenna Pember of the Hall of Life, a division of the Denver Museum of Natural History, and Doctors Out to Care (DOC) in 1988. Since the development of Tar Wars in 1988, the program has reached more than 10 million children worldwide.
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Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné (1888-1944): From Cubism to Surrealism (St Petersburg Gallery, London)
If every ground-floor window on Cork Street is alive with the lure of artworks, St Petersburg Gallery's is ablaze with a kaleidoscope of colours and styles. Dazzling variety is indeed one's first impression of Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné's work, an impression strengthened by the exhibition's title, From Cubism to Surrealism.
Indeed, from the realistic style of Mansions (1907), to the Cézannist landscape Red Roof (1910) via the impressionistic touches of Barges on the Dnieper (1907) and the green shadows of Nude (1909), Baranov-Rossiné's early paintings seem to chronicle the discovery of the French avant-garde in Russia. Influenced by the artistic discoveries of the group 'World of Art,' these works seemingly reflect the international climate of turn-of-the-century St Petersburg, where Baranov-Rossiné studied. Yet despite their formative importance, these works are relegated to the gallery's lower ground floor.
Greater prominence is given to works displayed on the gallery's ground floor. With one exception, these are all from the period between 1910 and 1915, when, under the alias Daniel Rossiné, the artist was living in Paris among the well-known émigrés of the creative colony La Ruche.
Placed on each side of the entrance, Still Life with a Shell (1910) and Maternity (1910) reveal the impact of post-Impressionism and synthetic Cubism on Branov-Rossiné's work. Unfortunately, excessive emphasis on these works prevents the viewer from seeing Baranov-Rossiné's career as a unitary development, eventually presenting him as an eclectic creator without a personal style. On the contrary, sculptures such as Polytechnical Sculpture (1915), Rhythm (1913) and Dance (1914) are original experiments with three-dimensional form and unconventional sculptural materials such as polychrome metal, cardboard and even crushed eggshell.
The later Counter Relief (1917) manifests the same interest with three-dimensionality, yet employs a very different style. Marking the artist's return to Russia after the Revolution of 1917 and directly borrowing its title from Tatlin, this work reveals Baranov-Rossiné's willingness to embrace a new art for a new order. In fact, Baranov-Rossiné gained immediate recognition upon his return to Russia and obtained important official positions such as Head of Painting at the Petrograd Free Studios.
Despite Baranov-Rossiné success in Bolshevik Russia, no other work of this period is included in the show. Lack of information on this period is all the more regrettable for it is in Russia that the artist perfected his Octophonic Piano (1920-1923), a silent instrument which, when played, projected ever-changing coloured patterns through a magic lantern. Yet for all its whimsical appeal, little importance is given in the exhibition to Disk for Colour Music (1921-1922), now but a cracked and inert memorabilia of the artist's life.
Around the disk, the artist's earlier and later works are juxtaposed in a synthesis that is often hard to follow. Certainly, the resulting exhibition has striking visual dazzle; but fascination can all too easily turn into disorientation, as the viewer is offered no contextual information to decode this catalogue of heterogeneous styles.
Constanza Beltrami is a third-year BA student at the Courtauld.
Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné (1888-1944): From Cubism to Surrealism is at the St Petersburg Gallery, London until 29 March 2014.


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I'm listening to a rebroadcast of Diane Rehm's interview with Maya Angelou, about her new book, Letter to My Daughter. Angelou--whose only child is a son--wrote the book to share lessons with women she calls her daughters all over the world. Callers to this show are demonstrating how much she has moved and connected with them, and this book begins with just such a passage:
I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think that what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.Angelou's writing and speaking style emphasize qualities that any speaker would do well to learn. She's genuine and direct, but not unkind in being so. She uses plain, accessible language, and uses poetic rhythms, modulated tones and vocal emphasis to enhance the simple words. And she enjoys herself and appreciates her audience, always a key to connecting. Enjoy the interview and the book as inspiration from a great woman speaker.
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In Alain Resnais' Wild
Grass (Les herbes folles), many things happen that are impossible to describe. Resnais' famously idiosyncratic
style and clinical approach to psychodrama render plot and behavior
so charged with the potential for literally anything to happen, that
I find myself at a loss for words - especially since this intuitive unpredictability
is the chief feature of the film's tone. Resnais' characters
speak, make choices, and interact with one another in ways that at
first seems "normal." But the tension that creeps under the
surface, and the filmmaker's visual choices - among other factors
- subtly alter the plot and dialogue in wholly unexpected ways, placing
attempts at gathering meaning and significance tantalizingly beyond
arm's reach. I do not suggest that Resnais' films are in any
way devoid of tangible content, but at least in the instance of Wild
Grass, that content is only partially accessible to this writer.
Wild Grass is rich in incident, visual information, oblique thematic
gestures, obfuscatory dialogue, and hard left turns against the grain
of expectation. There is a lot to process here, and the film demands
multiple viewings and a lot of meditation.
Resnais' style in Wild
Grass is not enormously different from many of his other films:
the camera is fluid, there is some tricky editing that achieves unusual
effects, and characters' motivations are often veiled. These
elements are a large part of what make Wild Grass ceaselessly
fascinating; they also prevent a really incisive discussion of the film based on a single viewing.
What is intended for the big screen often cannot be translated into
words, and a master of cinematic form such as Resnais will confound
a writer every step of the way. Writers more confident in their
craft than I will go to great lengths to create strings of sentences
jam-packed with the language of critical theory, fooling readers with
a web of "insights" that only stand as an obstacle to the film itself.
What they won't admit is that there is something going on here that
is simply impossible to translate into their chosen medium.
Nonetheless, I will describe
a few of the most important things that happen in Wild Grass. First,
a woman named Marguerite Muir (Sabine Azťma) has her purse snatched
outside a Marc Jacobs in Paris. Next, Georges Palet (Andrť Dussollier)
finds Marguerite's discarded wallet in a parking garage. Palet,
a married man who lives with a dark and undisclosed secret, seeks to
return the wallet personally to Marguerite. When she proves elusive,
Palet leaves it with the police. Marguerite retrieves the wallet
from the police and then feels compelled to thank Palet, which leads
to a series of awkward phone calls and attempts at communication.
Palet finds himself revealing some of his deepest desires, including
his passion for airplanes; as an amateur pilot, Marguerite eventually
agrees to take him up in her small plane. By this point, Palet's
wife (Anne Consigny) and Marguerite's friend Josepha (Emmanuelle Devos)
have been drawn into this odd relationship, which has gone through a
number of iterations before finally achieving a strained mutual understanding.
Wild Grass moves in
the slow but irresistible manner of a lava flow, and the film's depiction
of elemental human desires suggests the bubbling action of submerged
primordial impulses. Color is of immense importance, varying from
neutral earth tones to crazily gaudy neons; the production design is
meticulous and forceful in this regard. The loving, fluid widescreen
camerawork of the great …ric Gautier and a remarkably graceful editorial
style (thanks to regular Renais and Polanski collaborator Hervť de
Luze) merge in some striking imagery, particularly during the film's
final sequence, which concludes with a pulse-pounding series of pans
and cuts across an alien, barren landscape before delivering a final
blow with one of the most jaw-dropping lines of dialogue of all time.
At age 88, Alain Resnais is in no way off his game. Wild Grass challenges viewers to engage with cinema in an unusually intense way. Nothing is to be taken for granted, nothing is done for the sake of storytelling convenience, and every assumption we have about the conventions of filmmaking is challenged whenever possible. The inventive and eclectic score by Mark Snow matches the rapid shifts in tone, from the comic to the foreboding, and there is an unnamed narrator whose relationship to the film's characters and events is wholly nebulous. There are suggestions of infidelity that may or may not have happened, a group of singing pilots, occasional dental work, and expensive shoes. Wild Grass is an investigation of deep-set human brain activity - the ways and means by which we perceive and process information and experience. As a counterpoint to the easy solipsistic "answers" provided by most films, Renais has composed a searching, fascinating question.


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I ran the last of my long runs yesterday, as preparation for the Ice Age 50 Mile Ultra. Ice Age is in two weeks. I'll probably run 10/10 Saturday and Sunday of this week and 5's on the weekdays.
Saturday was a total rain event. We received 1.5 inches of rain. I ran only 8 miles in the deluge and then headed over to TC Running Company looking for trail shoes.
I've worn Inov-8 for as long as I've been running ultras. After my first finish at McNaughton 100 I was offered a sponsorship from Inov-8 and have been the thankful recipient of 36 pair of shoes since then. I had never been fitted for a running shoe, I don't have any glaring problems that would need a corrective shoe so have done very well running in the Inov-8. Lately, however, it seems that I want more cushion, more substance on the bottom of my foot while running trail. I figured it was time to check out the market.
Kurt at TC Running Company brought out a dozen different pair of trail running shoes. I tried Adidas, Brooks, Asics, Montrail, Solomon and more. After running in all of the models I chose the third shoe I tried on: Brooks Cascadia. As soon as I slid my foot into the shoe I said "ahhh, nice and cushy" it had a great feeling. I ran in the shoe and loved the way it allowed my foot to toe off effortlessly. It almost felt as though the toe was curved upward.
Yesterday the rain had stopped but snow was in its place. Ugh. 28F, 45 mph winds and snowflakes with a 25 mile run on tap. It seems crazy, but the brand new shoes took the edge off of running in those elements! I was just amazed at how good they felt. My feet didn't have that running on flatness feeling, my legs didn't feel dead and my ankles felt great. I don't know if new shoes really make that much of a difference but in my mind they did.
Topaz rooted out grouse, turkey and deer from their hiding places. He was having as much fun as I. I brought along gels and heed, stopping at the car at 15 miles to refuel and refill. I never removed my winter running gloves or fleece ear band! Yeah, it was that cold, here. Instead of Happy May Day it was May Day! May Day! Topaz only soaked in the lake 2x, he was comfortable during our run.
After the run Troy and I headed off to the Science Museum to see the Omni film exhibit for King Tut. It was amazing. I enjoy the Science Museum so much, the exhibits never fail to amaze me. There were more than 100 authentic artifacts illuminating the lives of great rulers buried in the Valley of the Kings, including the most famous of them all—King Tut. We learned about Tut's ancestors who defined the 18th Dynasty and the pharaohs' function in Egyptian society and religion.
This training session has allowed no time for speed training, it's been all about endurance. This week I'll run a speed session at the track - first time in two years and try a hill workout at the ski hill. I'm anxious to add the two workouts into my weekly training regularly after Ice Age.


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Foxbusiness.com published this deansguide article 2-03-09
If you are currently a job seeker, how do you organize your day? Do you have a plan? What tasks make up the plan that you execute on a daily basis? Do you have enough to do so that your job of finding a job is a fulltime job?
Is This You and Your Job Search Effort?
1. You are utilizing a resume as your #1 marketing tool
2. You are not utilizing social media
3. You are utilizing social media without an understanding of the strategies
4. You are email spamming your network with requests
5. You only respond to job listings or word of mouth aka "response mode"
6. You attend networking events without doing research to understand the organization, who may attend, or what the expected etiquette demands from each event
7. You are working less than 8 hrs per day on your job search and can not imagine having enough tasks to perform to fill a full work day.
8. You do not give value first
9. You are not delivering your value first before your resume
10. You are not learning and adding new skills to your current skill set
If you recognize any, a portion, or all of this list as what you are currently doing in your job search, then it is time to consider a change. Unless what you are doing is working for you, stay tuned as I will outline and describe a job seeker's day in the world of social media.


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Wired.com and Wired magazine have so many favorite science-fiction films that it's taking us two days to list 'em all. To honor Tuesday's 107th anniversary of A Trip to the Moon, we showed you what we like pre–Star Wars. Here are our faves from then 'til now.
Flip through 'em, and then tell us what your favorites are.
Above: Star Wars (1977)
Why? Obvious. Just plain obvious. —Chuck Squatriglia
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Isn't it everyone's dream to fill their house with dirt? —Stephanie Dale
Capricorn One (1978)
Because it's based on the theory that the lunar landing was a hoax. And O.J. Simpson is my favorite actor. —David Kravets
Alien (1979)
Beyond-claustrophobic scary, with secret agendas, an expendable crew, an evil robot and no clear sighting of the menacing protagonist until the movie is almost over. This would have been the first sci-fi movie that made me scared of outer space if I hadn't first seen Outland. —John Abell
Stalker (1979)
Stalker is an existential sci-fi masterpiece from Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Filmed during the Cold War, the story takes place in a no-go area called "The Zone." Deep within the The Zone, one's secret fantasies are waiting to be fulfilled. Like all of Tarkovsky's films, the haunting imagery of Stalker is more like a dream than a movie. It should also be noted that Tarkovsky shot Stalker at an abandoned hydroelectric power plant in Estonia. Tarkovsky, his wife Larissa, and the film's star, Anatoly Solonitsyn, all died of cancer, perhaps due to contamination, within a decade of the film's release. —Annaliza Savage
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Hands down, the best of the Star Wars movies and not only that: It's actually good. —Evan Hansen
Outland (1981)
A retelling of High Noon set in a off-planet mining facility that could have been in the Old West, where the law is a washed-up sheriff with an inexplicable Scottish accent who just won't sell out, more bounty hunters, a Dr. McCoy–like sidekick and a villainous Peter Boyle who hadn't been this sleazy a character since Joe. —John Abell
Road Warrior (1981)
No elaboration necessary. —Evan Hansen
Hey, I have kids, what can I tell you. —Louise Knapp
Blade Runner (1982)
It has a reluctant cop who works alone, tons of meaning-of-life questions, amazing set and production design and a very hot Daryl Hannah. —John Abell
One of the films I didn't mind watching over and over for my aesthetics and criticism class in college. So much symbolism, great cinematography… and costumes, of course. —Stephanie Dale
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Hands down the best of the Trek movies and not only that … it's actually good. —Evan Hansen
Liquid Sky (1982)
Tiny aliens land their dinner-plate–sized spaceship in a fashion model's NYC loft apartment to satisfy their jonesing for human endorphins. The low-budget sleaze ensues. Bonus points for the 1980's neon fashions and the Casio-tastic electro soundtrack. —Michael Calore
2010 (1984)
Great cinematography right from the opening shots comparing human scale with the Very Large Array of radiotelescopes and that implicitly with the universe. The point-of-view spacewalk out-vertigoes Alfred Hitchcock's trick shots in Vertigo, and the scene's sound mix of pulse and respiration makes it vertiginously frightening. –Randy Alfred
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Humor, adventure, like a dozen movie stars before they were movie stars, eminently quotable, and the coolest hero ever. So obvious a choice, if it'd been a snake, it would've bit me. —Adam Rogers
The Hidden (1987)
Is it the best movie about giant alien slugs that take over human bodies so they can indulge in earthly pleasantries like driving sports cars, going to strip clubs and mercilessly slaughtering innocents? Maybe. The best one starring Kyle MacLachlan? Definitely. —Michael Calore
Robocop (1987)
No film in history has come so close to predicting the war zone that modern day Detroit has become. —Danny Dumas
Spaceballs (1987)
It may not count, because it's a Mel Brooks comedy, but in my estimation you have to be really smart about sci-fi to make the kind of jokes they make in that film, which in turn makes it the nerdiest thing ever. Geeks geeking out about being geeks, you know? I recently watched it with some current and former Wired folks and we pretty much quoted the entire movie beginning to end. Again, geeks geeking out about being geeks. —Angela Watercutter
Terminator II (1990)
Better than the original. —Evan Hansen
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Nobody does desperate, crazy, dirty, tooth-pulling time traveler like Bruce Willis. Plus, it's the first time the world realized Brad Pitt's best roles are when he plays bat-shit insane guys. —Erin Biba
Starship Troopers (1997)
The brilliant CG animation of the buglike aliens still looks great 12 years later. But what really makes this film timeless (and timely) is the way that it layers wicked satire and subtle commentary on fascism, colonialism and wartime propaganda underneath all of the gung-ho action movie clichés. —Chris Baker
Neil Patrick Harris as a psychic intelligence officer FTW! —Danny Dumas
Giant bugs, exploding guts, Neil Patrick Harris. Nuff said. —Erin Biba
Gattaca (1997)
It's a perfectly imagined dystopian future because, frankly, it's not so far-fetched. DNA-based discrimination, designer babies and manned missions to Saturn. Sounds like 2009. —Erin Biba
The Matrix (1999)
Screw all you art house snobs. The Matrix was awesome, and you know it. — Keith Axline
See, that is the power of the sequel working on my mind. The crap of 2 and 3 has fogged the awesomeness of The Matrix. —Marty Cortinas
Yeah, yeah, it's still a great movie. —Evan Hansen
The Iron Giant (1999)
Love that movie, always makes me cry. —Louise Knapp
Based on Ted Hughes' 1968 novel, The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights. A brilliant, accessible and balanced portrayal of innocence, violence and paranoia, The Iron Giant flopped two years before 9/11, and its level-headed analysis of weaponry and peace was swept away in the debris. But its stature has only grown in the decade since, and it remains a shining example of that lost art: A film for all ages. It's a hilarious Cold War cultural satire wrapped up in a movie about a boy and his misunderstood robot that wants to be Superman. It's timeless. —Scott Thill
Children of Men (2006)
This is one scary future, because it's so near and so plausible. I've got to see it again just to read all the posters and other media in the backgrounds. —Randy AlfredGo Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Please join us for our 2012 Mid-Year Customs & International Trade Webinar Series. The presentation will focus on key trade relevant and trade sensitive issues impacting the movement of goods across international boundaries.
All webinars will begin at 1:00 PM EST and are scheduled to run approximately 60 minutes. The 2012 Mid-Year Customs & International Trade Webinar Series is complimentary.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
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"Is Your Imported Product Included Within the Scope of an Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order?" - Doug Heffner & Randy Rucker
Thursday, July 26, 2012
"Valuation of Imported Goods for Repair in the U.S. or After Repairs Performed Abroad; Applicable Appraisement Methods and Developments of SOPs" - Beata Spuhler
Thursday, September 13, 2012
"NAFTA - 'Beyond the A, B, C's of the Preference Criteria'" - Randy Rucker
Thursday, October 4, 2012
"Navigating an International Trade Commission Injury Investigation" - Richard Ferrin
Thursday, October 18, 2012
"The National Export Reform Initiative: Where Do We Stand?" - Joan Koenig
Thursday, November 1, 2012
"Understanding the Unique Challenges of Southern Border Crossings" - Joan Koenig & Nick Guzman
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Food Fight Ends With Ten High School Students Getting Arrested
By Bill Galluccio
April 19, 2019
Authorities in Stamford, Connecticut have arrested ten students from Westhill High School for their role in an "out of control" food fight that left a teacher and school resource officer injured. Police say that the students planned the fight ahead of time and used social media to promote it. Despite school officials best efforts to stop the fight, hundreds of students participated in the massive food fight which quickly spiraled into a dangerous situation.
A school resource officer was hit in the head with a full can of soda while she tried to put an end to the brawl which saw students "throwing eggs, water and soda cans" at each other. She had to be taken to the hospital where she was treated for a concussion and laceration on her head. A teacher at the school was also injured after being trampled by the students as they ran outside to join in the massive melee.
It took 24 police officers to contain the chaotic scene and put an end to the massive brawl the developed.
The students, who were between the ages of 15 and 17 are facing charges of rioting in the first degree, breach of peace, reckless endangerment, and assault on a police officer, which is a felony. Their identities have not been released because they are all minors.
The school announced that they are making changes to ensure that something like this does not happen again in the future. Those changes include closing the courtyard where the food fight began during lunch and instituting a zero-tolerance policy for students who skip class.
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If every idea has its time, the intellectual respectability and volume of assets flowing into so-called smart beta suggests its time is now. But will the alternative indexing scheme endure or fade from the scene? In other words, is smart beta really better beta?
That was the question debated at the Morningstar Investment Conference Thursday morning by two eminent authorities on indexing: Chris Brightman, chief investment officer of Research Affiliates, which more than other firm has popularized smart beta through its RAFI and other indexes; and financial advisor Rick Ferri of Portfolio Solutions, an early champion of exchange-traded funds and longtime advocate of low-cost passive indexing.
The two heavyweights in their respective camps came out slugging:
"Over the 10 years since we've launched, the live results have been completely in line with the historical studies…That has attracted the attention of asset managers everywhere who all want to jump on the bandwagon and get into this alternative space," said Brightman, who touted the strategy's 2% return advantage over standard market-cap-weighted indexing.
But Ferri was having none of it, and warned against drawing premature conclusions from recent market experience.
"Well, it has been smart over the last 15 years; but it's probably been the best 15 years you could have ever picked because you would have outperformed no matter what you did. But how it will do over the next 15 years?"
Softening his target with the initial blow, the former Marine attempted an early knockout by attacking the now popular strategy's very essence:
"I don't know what smart beta is," Ferri said, defending the efficient market idea that makes a virtue of ignorance of what will perform well or poorly.
"We don't know what smart is, and I'd be surprised if 10% those going around saying 'smart beta,' 'smart beta,' know what beta is. 'Smart beta' is a marketing phrase.
Then, aiming for the final blow: "Smart beta is defined by me as anything that's not beta."
But Brightman was no pushover. By conceding in non-vital areas, he asserted a strong defense over the core basis of his smart beta approach.
"None of these are magic strategies that are going to outperform every year," Brightman said, "There will be uncomfortable periods of underperformance for any strategy."
But he defended what he called the simplicity and transparency of weighting indexes according to criteria such as sales and book value and then rebalancing annually in order to sell companies that outperform and buy companies that underperform.
Such an approach provides an advantage to market-cap-weighted indexes that inherently favor larger, more popular stocks simply because the higher prices magnify their importance in the index.
"If you don't believe in long-term mean reversion and think that markets are perfectly efficient … then don't invest [in smart beta]. If you do believe in it, stick with it," Brightman said, adding that investors' return-chasing behavior is precisely what provides a return advantage to those who do stick with the strategy.
To Ferri, the theory behind smart beta could not withstand what he saw as three real-world disadvantages: the cost of implementing the strategy, its risk, and what he deemed the probability of capitulation of ordinary investors lacking the patience to see it through periods of underperformance.
"The cost of beta is basically free — you can get it for 5 or 6 basis points. Everything other than beta is more costly — on the average of 60, 70 or 80 basis points. That's a high hurdle rate," he said.
Then, citing Eugene Fama, he said that the "smart" aspect of selecting stocks that might generate higher returns inherently means adding more risk. This is problematic, he said, because "there are very long periods of time that these strategies can underperform the market," citing an 18-year period where value underperformed.
"Are your clients going to hang in there for 18 years?" Ferri asked. "Probably not."
That's when Brightman started slugging, attacking Ferri's core assumptions.
"Let's start w/ the assertion that return comes from risk. That's not a fact — it's a theory. That's Eugene Fama's theory; most research would suggest that [return does not come from risk]."
The Research Affiliates chief investment officer insisted that fundamental indexing is not a small-cap value strategy, emphasizing that his firm's indexes include large companies like Exxon, Google and Apple as well. "We just weight them a little more carefully," he said.
Now Ferri politely gave a little ground, admitting he liked the PowerShares FTSE RAFI Small-Mid ETF, while jabbing back with his principal objection:
"More choices are great but…what are we paying for and what are we getting? Does it have a tilt? Yes, but it's not a strong tilt, and I'm paying another 50 basis points," Ferri said, restating his general preference for Vanguard ETFs costing 15 basis points.
Ferri maintained his pugilistic stance on costs throughout, arguing that even if investors could obtain a risk premium, that premium "could be zero or less over the next 15 years."
Brightman, though, lamented all the talk about risk premiums, arguing for the value and discipline of buying "when a 2008 comes around," which smart beta's rebalancing requires. "That's like buying [Russian oil producer] Lukoil today. Does that feel like a comfortable trade? No. It means selling Internet stocks in the late '90s, buying emerging-market resource stocks today."
Citing his 25 years in the business, Ferri said that experience tells him of smart beta's current popularity that "when everybody tries to do something, it's usually not a good time to do it."
While neither combatant fatigued during their slugfest, Ferri sarcastically appointed the government as referee in a concluding line that had the advisor audience and Brightman laughing.
"The Securities and Exchange Commission has called these [smart beta products] indexes," he said. "Since the government calls it an index, it's an index."
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