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Yale University - School of the Environment
For more information on the ELTI program, please visit https://elti.yale.edu; https://tropicalrestorationcertificate.yale.edu. Financial management: Develop and manage budgets for all ELTI programs across all revenue sources and cost centers,... Read full description
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Alliance for Girls
Program Director Job Description About Alliance for Girls: Join an organization that is relentless in its mission to improve the lives of girls* on the margins through collective action. As the nation's largest association of girls' organizations... Read full description
Manager, Investor Engagement
Manager, Investor Engagement Organization Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization leading the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. Through our powerful networks and... Read full description
Manager, Communications and Marketing (Accelerator)
Manager, Communications and Marketing Organization Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization leading the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. Through powerful networks and... Read full description
Finance Director
Tides Foundation
Organization Description: Tides Advocacy is a team of political, legal, and financial experts that identify, connect, and fuel movements for social justice and the health of our democracy. We leverage our 25 year progressive network, navigate the... Read full description
Director, Access & Inclusion
State Bar of California
Created by the Legislature in 1927, the State Bar of California is a public corporation within the Judicial Branch of state government, serving as an administrative arm of the California Supreme Court. The State Bar licenses attorneys and regulates... Read full description
Manager, Human Resources
Location This can be a remote role or an onsite opportunity located in our Brooklyn, NY headquarters. About DataKind DataKind is a global nonprofit dedicated to harnessing the power of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) in the service of... Read full description
Senior HR Manager
Organization Description: Tides envisions a world of shared prosperity and social change founded on equality & human rights, healthy individuals & communities, a sustainable environment, and quality education for all. Tides accelerates the... Read full description
Project Manager - DataKind
Location This is ideally an onsite opportunity located in our Brooklyn, NY headquarters; however, there is the potential to work remotely. About DataKind DataKind is a global nonprofit dedicated to harnessing the power of data science and... Read full description
Deputy Directors, Philanthropy and Social Ventures
Tides Foundation
Position Summary The Deputy Director interacts directly with clients to provide strategic and management services to drive high impact, effective services and to scale promising partners that build lasting social impact. The Deputy Director manages... Read full description
Manager, Corporate Partnerships (New Business)
About First Book: First Book (https://firstbook.org) believes that education offers children the best possible path out of poverty. Since 1992, First Book has distributed more than 185 million books and educational materials to children from low-... Read full description
Accounting Manager - General Ledger
Organization Description: Tides envisions a world of shared prosperity and social change founded on equality & human rights, healthy individuals & communities, a sustainable environment, and quality education for all. Tides accelerates the... Read full description
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Arabella Advisors
You are mission-driven and action-oriented. You love to get involved and work as part of a team to accomplish something great. Any job is your job if it helps the team succeed, and you thrive on variety. Today, you're looking for a role where you... Read full description
Events Project Lead (Contract)
About Caspian: At Caspian we create events that people remember. Events with purpose. Events that alter the status quo. We are a full service and high touch agency, managing from the big picture down to the smallest particulars for large... Read full description
Enterprise Development Director
Overview MACED's enterprise development program includes a robust commercial lending portfolio, a technical assistance program featuring both one-on-one and classroom-based programming, and comprehensive community-based development strategies. We... Read full description
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Adirondack Council
About us: Founded in 1975, the non-profit Adirondack Council's mission is to ensure the ecological integrity and wild character of the Adirondack Park. With members in all 50 states, the Council employs 14 staff in two offices: Elizabethtown in the... Read full description
Business Development & Partnerships
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them... Read full description
Partnerships Manager
About the Partnerships Manager position– Based in Sikasso, Mali myAgro aims to reach 1 million farmers by 2025 and has recently launched a partnerships program to achieve its ambitious target. The partnerships team develops, tests and scales an... Read full description


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When it comes to client work, I have only recently gotten more comfortable with saying no. It's always been hard because I have a bit of a guilt complex. The last thing I'd want to do is hurt a potential client's feelings. Email should make it easier and in some ways, it does. But there's still a human on the other side, reaching out.
It's only been in the last two years where I even felt comfortable turning down projects. Up until that point, I took on everything I could get my hands on because I needed the real world experience, the income and I knew that each project would teach me something new. I took on the good, the bad and the questionable in a thirst for knowledge. A few projects landed me long-term clients that I still work with over at Branch and filled out my personal portfolio at a time when I spent my days working at agencies on large corporate projects.
Looking back, I wouldn't trade any of those experiences because they not only taught me a lot about working with different types of clients but they taught me a lot about myself. I learned what I wanted more of. I learned that the sweet spot of Branch was creative small to medium-sized businesses.
Where is all this leading? By now, it should be easier to say no. A few weeks ago, even when I looked at the Branch schedule which was booked solid for at least a month out, I found myself cringing inside as I told my project manager to turn down about five jobs. Saying no still stings but I've learned that it is better to be honest.
Sometimes, it's a matter of timelines. If a client needs something faster than you can offer it to them, be upfront about it. There's no point in disappointing yourself and them when you can't keep up. Other times, it's in an industry you don't know much about or feel comfortable diving into. That's okay, too. Take the time to offer some great referrals to other designers you feel would be a better fit. And in some instances, it's a clash of communication styles — you're going to be spending a lot of time with clients, even if you're working remotely so it's imperative that you mesh well right from the beginning.
If you're saying no for the right reasons, you should never feel guilty. Every single person who contacts you deserves the absolute best service and outcome of their project. If you can't make that happen for any reason, be honest. There is nothing wrong with wanting the best for potential clients. It's nothing personal; it's a matter of being comfortable enough with who you are to know what you excel at…and what you don't.
Saying no doesn't always have to be viewed as a negative — instead, it can be viewed as empowering, honest and straightforward. Don't just focus on what's best for you but also what's best for your potential clients.
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Well I for one am not in this position at all. I've been smoking pot just about every day and have written exactly one full length prep test since the beginning of the summer. @#!* it. I burned myself out the first time I wrote, I'm doing something totally different for the rewrite.
Here's what I did differently this time (I hope it works on my retest - I HAVE been scoring much more consistently in the range I hope to achieve in):-Every other night I go through the review for each question type chapter in the LR bible-On those same nights I add a review of a game type chapter in the LG bible-I practice 3-5 game types of the chapter reviewed in the LG bible-Review-I take a timed LR section from an unused preptest-Review-On alternate nights I take a timed preptestI've only started this routine last weekend, but before that I was reviewing the chapters from the bibles independently and doing question types from the chapter(s) studied. I find that the constant review of strategy entrenches the concepts in my head. When I come across any LR question I either know immediately what to look for, or I know how to go about finding the solution (or at least checking to see if what I've chosen is right). I also set certain strategies for LR sections. First 10 in 10 minutes, next 15-16 in the next 20 minutes. 5 minutes to go back to those difficult problems. My pacing has gotten to a disturbing point. Last night I finished each LR section of PT 46 with 5 minutes to spare - I finished the LG section with 9 minutes to spare! Since you haven't scored within your target range for a couple tests you're probably psyched out. Before taking another test, don't just jump in. Sit for a minute and prep yourself. Think 'I'm going to destroy this test', 'I'm going to stay ahead of the questions'. By starting out fast, you give yourself time toward the end to work over some more difficult ones. If you spend too much time early on, its easy to feel rushed and start to lose focus. Trust me, it is what happened to me in the final RC section on the June 2007 text. I spent too long on one passage and I paid dearly for it on the last passage.
Only when I'm oot and aboot
Lol. Actually, a 163 LSAT is probably enough to get you in to every Canadian law school except UofT.And given the price of all beer in Canada, only the foolish would opt to have a Blue light.


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You can follow this link and print off the two images as a single sheet of paper (or print separately, of course, and then run them through a copier to make it two-sided) and practice folding it as a quarto yourself. When you're done, you can try folding it into a tiny little pressman's cap, following the instructions that appear in this lovely piece, "The Newspaper Man is Defunct," from The Cape Cod today.
By the way, my syllabus is now done(ish) and can be found online in pdf form.
Correction: The spelling of recto has been changed to reflect its actual spelling. Oops.
Correction 2: I have corrected my usage of "news sheet" to reflect the more accurate term "newsbook" throughout the post. See the comments below for an explanation of the difference between the two!


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Title: Bill Polk scrapbook
Dates: 1968
Collection Number: 75096
Creator: Polk, Bill.
Collection Size: 1 volume (1 manuscript box) (0.4 linear feet)
Repository: Hoover Institution Archives
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Abstract: Photographs and United States Army and Navy press releases, relating to the Vietnamese War.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In English
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Photographs and United States Army and Navy press releases, relating to the Vietnamese War.
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Oui (magazine)
Oui was a men's adult pornographic magazine published in the United States and featuring explicit nude photographs of models, with full page pin-ups, centerfolds, interviews and other articles, and cartoons. Oui ceased publication in 2007. ("Oui" is French for "yes".)
OUI magazine first cover (October 1972)
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Playboy yearsEdit
Oui was originally published in France under the name Lui by Daniel Filipacchi (first French issue November 1963), as a French equivalent of Playboy.[1][2] In 1972, Playboy Enterprises purchased the rights for a U.S. edition, changing the name to Oui, and the first issue was published in October of that year. Jon Carroll, formerly assistant editor at Rolling Stone magazine and editor of Rags and later editor of The Village Voice, was selected as the first editor.[3][4][5] Arthur Kretchmer, the editor of Playboy, however, had a role in ensuring that editorial choices would be in line with Hugh Hefner's vision.[6][7]
The intention was to differentiate the audience in mass-market men's magazines, in an attempt to answer the challenge brought by Penthouse and Hustler, with its more explicit photography, and therefore compete on multiple fronts.[1] At first Playboy considered a direct response by following Penthouse in a nudity escalation, but Playboy management was hesitant to alter the magazine's philosophy, based on a more 'mature' and 'sophisticated' audience (one-third of Playboy's readership at that time was estimated to be over 35 [8]). Instead, a separate publication, Oui, was introduced in order to pursue a younger readership, offering a combination of a "rambunctious editorial slant with uninhibited nudes pictured in the Penthouse mood." [9]
Article contentEdit
In the late seventies, Oui published some interesting articles, including "Is this the man who ate Michael Rockefeller?" (April 1977) by Lorne Blair (lately famous for the Ring of Fire documentaries), beginning with a photograph of a grinning New Guinea native, told by the intrepid anthropologist/reporter who journeyed to New Guinea, interviewed people who had known Michael Rockefeller, then ventured into the jungle and talked to members of the tribe from whom Rockefeller had bought native art artifacts, including totem poles. In the end, he found a man who claimed he had eaten the unfortunate collector.
Oui also hosted several reportages about Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activity, like the article "CIA vs. USA – The Agency's Plot to Take Over America" by Philip Agee, about an alleged Operation PBPrime, whose leaders were the top four men in the Central Intelligence Agency and whose target was the control of the U.S. government.
In a more humorous vein, Oui also published the essay "The 3 Most Important Things in Life"[10] by Harlan Ellison in its November 1978 issue. The three things in question were sex, violence and labor relations, each illustrated by anecdotes from Ellison's life. The sex anecdote involved a less-than-successful assignation with a young woman, the violence anecdote was about witnessing a murder in a movie theater during a screening of Save the Tiger, and the labor relations anecdote was Ellison's version of the story of his being fired after only one morning at The Walt Disney Company for jokingly suggesting the making of a pornographic cartoon using the primary Disney characters. The piece has since been republished in Ellison's Stalking the Nightmare and Edgeworks 1. Oui also published short fiction.
A 1977 interview by Peter Manso to the then 29-year-old emerging actor Arnold Schwarzenegger on issues like sex, drugs, bodybuilding and homosexuality produced some embarrassment 25 years later to candidate Schwarzenegger in the 2003 California gubernatorial campaign.[11]
Post Playboy yearsEdit
Despite its popularity, Oui was unable to produce a profit. Furthermore, management realized that Oui was taking more readers from Playboy than from Penthouse.[12][13][14] So, in June 1981 Playboy Enterprises, based in Chicago,[15] ended its Oui experiment.[16] The magazine was sold to Laurant Publishing Ltd. in New York; its new president and chief operating officer was Irwin E. Billman, former executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Penthouse Group.[17]
Initially, Laurant featured celebrity nudity in Oui, peaking in 1982 with pictorials of Linda Blair, Demi Moore and Pia Zadora. The 1990s found the magazine focusing on pop culture and youth-centered topics, with rock musician interviews and an increasingly large comics section that included R-rated versions of the X-rated Carnal Comics: True Stories of Adult Film Stars line, Rip Off Press' Demi the Demoness (later the first adults-only comic character to be adapted as a live action film), and a serialized version of Jay Allen Sanford's illustrated book Triple-X Cinema: A Cartoon History.
The magazine subsequently experienced a significant decline in circulation. As had many of its competitors, Oui expanded its photo content to hardcore in the early 2000s, which included depictions of couples having sexual intercourse, including explicit penetration. Oui ceased publication in 2007.
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b Aaron Latham, "Rabbit, Run", New York, Nov 27, 1972, p.54
- ^ Stéphane Groueff, "My Odyssey", iUniverse, 2003, ISBN 0-595-25709-7, p. 574
- ^ Carroll, Jon: "Strange Days at The Playboy Mansion", San Francisco Chronicle, April 09, 1996
- ^ Carroll, Jon: "Strange Days at The Playboy Mansion (Part II)", San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 1996
- ^ Carroll, Jon: "Sex and Magazines" JONCARROLLPROSE October 14, 2016
- ^ Carroll, Jon: "Windy City legend hangs up his cleats", San Francisco Chronicle, September 16, 2002
- ^ Carroll, Jon: "Arthur Kretchmer tried to warn me", San Francisco Chronicle, September 17, 2002
- ^ "Hefner's Grandchild" Time, August 28, 1972
- ^ "Adventures in the Skin Trade", Time, Jul. 30, 1973
- ^ "The 3 Most Important Things in Life" at harlanellison.com
- ^ "Schwarzenegger has 'no memory' of lewd 1977 interview - Candidate says he never lived 'to be a politician'" Thursday, August 28, 2003 CNN
- ^ Steven Watts, Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, John Wiley and Sons, 2009
- ^ Susan Gunelius, Building Brand Value the Playboy Way, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- ^ Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America, Oxford University Press, 2011
- ^ "Oui Album 1". Abe Books. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
- ^ Thomas, Sari (1986). "Gender and social‐class coding in popular photographic erotica". Communication Quarterly. 34 (2): 103–114. doi:10.1080/01463378609369626.
- ^ Dougherty, Philip H. New York Times, June 12, 1981


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The wonderful Gwen Driscoll of the blog, Ragland Hill Social recently debuted a new interior design website showcasing her interior design portfolio. It is filled with beautiful, thoughtfully-designed spaces, my favorite of which is this charming little girl's room. I love the combination of saffron yellow and lavender along with several accents that are reminiscent of the South for me: French-style tables and bulletin board, a fancy monogram, dramatic silk drapes, a crystal chandelier, and an elephant.
After last weekend's activity-filled time in Napa, I am looking forward to being home and relaxing this weekend. Happy Friday!
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Bicycle thieves on a roll in town
A series of bicycle thefts has been reported in town since the beginning of the month.
The biggest loss was the reported theft of an $8,000 racing bicycle from an open garage on Stonybrook Road sometime between 3 and 5 p.m. July 2.
A bicycle valued at $1,200 was taken from a driveway on Fairfield Beach Road sometime between 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 11:20 a.m. Sunday. The bike was not secured, police said.
A $400 Trek bicycle was reported stolen form the south side of the downtown train station last Thursday morning. It was locked to a pole.
Another bicycle, worth $100, was reported stolen from in front of a set of stairs at the Brick Walk, sometime between 10 a.m. .and noon Thursday.
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Up Next, with baseball season just beginning, our contributor Jeff Greenfield names some of his favorite baseball films. Here's Jeff.
Well, the new baseball season is underway; and right now, you may be asking yourself "what is that stunning fact doing in a program about the movies?" Well, for one thing, baseball and the movies began to grow up at just about the same time:
{old still of baseball circa 1903; cut or dissolve to "Great Train Robbery" clip}
The first World Series between the American and National Leagues was played in 1903--the same year "The Great Train Robbery," a pioneering American film, was released.
But more significant, just about every kind of movie, every genre, every emotional tone, has found its way into at least one movie about baseball.
{Pride of the Yankees}
There's the sentimental" "Pride of the Yankees," with Gary Cooper as the dying Lou Gehrig delivering his immortal farewell lines:
{SOT from movie} "today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." {from "Cobb--with brief track up}
There's the hard-edged: "Cobb," with Tommie Lee Jones playing a man who was one of the greatest baseball players ever--as well as a racist, a drunk, and more.
{It Happens Every Spring"}
Fantasy? In "Field of Dreams," the ghosts of players past reappear on an Iowa diamond, with perhaps the best-known line from any baseball movie.
{track up: "If you build it, he will come."}
{"Take Me Out to the Ballgame"}
Musical comedy? Well, the same year that Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelley, and Jules Munshin teamed up in "On The Town," they also made "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," featuring a musical salute to a double-play combination: not the Cubs' "Tinker to Evers to Chance" but--
{trackup 'O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg"}
{EIght Men Out"- to "League of their Own"}
The seamy underside of the game? "Eight Men Out" chronicles the owners' greed that led to the fixing of the 1919 World Series." The women's movement? "A league of their own" with another classic line.
{Track up "there's no crying in baseball")
If you like your movies ripped fromt e tabloids, try renting 1989's Major League featuring a very familiar face in a kind of jam
{Bull Durham"}
And for an ultimate zen philosophy of life, this from what may be the best-written of any baseball movie, Ron Shelton's "Bull Durham"
{sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains."}
The scholar Jacques Barzun famously said once, "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball" Come to think of it, if whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America,,,they'd better learn about the movies, too.


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Endeavour's astronauts are looking forward to using one more small bonus in mapping operations time. They were given an additional 10 minutes, bringing the total to nine days, 18 hours and 10 minutes. The additional minutes have been added to allow one more mapping pass across Australia, rather than turning off the radar just as the spacecraft approaches the nation's coastline.
So far, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission has imaged 44.7 million square miles, or about 93.9 percent of the target area, at least once. About 33.4 million square miles or 70.1 percent of the target area has been imaged at least twice. The target area extends from 60 degrees north latitude to 56 degrees south latitude. That covers all the Southern Hemisphere landmasses except Antarctica and Northern Hemisphere land south of Hudson Bay and St. Petersburg, Russia. It is home to about 95 percent of Earth's population.
At the scheduled end of mapping operations, more than 99.9 percent of the area will have been imaged at least once. More than 94.6 percent of it will be covered at least twice, and almost half will be imaged at least three times. All but about 80,000 square miles of targeted land will have been covered. The areas that will not be covered are in small, scattered segments, mostly in North America and most of them already accurately mapped.
Endeavour's radar, gathering data in 140-mile-wide swaths as the spacecraft orbits at 17,500 miles per hour, images 40,000 square miles each minute. Data from this mission will, after a year or more of processing, produce the most accurate and most uniform global topography maps ever made.
The EarthKAM, a digital camera mounted at an overhead window on Endeavour's flight deck, has sent down about 2,200 images so far, and the number is growing. On four previous shuttle flights, EarthKAM sent down a total of 2,018 images.
The camera takes pictures for middle school students working on projects in Earth science, geography, space sciences and other topics. Through the Internet, their schools' mission operations centers are linked to the EarthKAM Mission Operations Center at the University of California at San Diego, which sends up photo targets and receives the images. Except for setup, initial camera pointing and lens changes, no crew involvement is required for normal operations.
On Saturday, Endeavour's crew carried out the seventh and final trim burn and flycast maneuver of the flight. The maneuver keeps the spacecraft at the proper altitude for mapping and is designed to reduce the stresses on the mast and minimize the loads at the tip.
Blue Team members, Pilot Dom Gorie and Mission Specialists Janice Voss and Mamoru Mohri, are on duty and continue mapping operations. Commander Kevin Kregel and Mission Specialists Gerhard Thiele and Janet Kavandi, the Red Team, are sleeping. They are to be awakened at 10:14 a.m. CST.
Endeavour's systems continue to perform well as it orbits about 150 statute miles above the surface. The next status report will be issued at 6 p.m. Sunday, or as mission events warrant.
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New Spring Training ballpark, complex unveiled in Mesa
Ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrates largest stadium in Cactus League
MESA, Ariz. -- The Cubs unveiled their new Spring Training ballpark on Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, ending a five-year project to keep the team in the city.
"There's nothing like it in baseball," Mesa Mayor Scott Smith said about the new Cubs Park. "There's nothing like it in Arizona or Florida, and when people understand we've taken a Spring Training game and made it into an experience that can last all day, and once Wrigleyville is built out into the night, they'll find that this place is truly special."
The ballpark, located on a 140-acre site in west Mesa, which was the former Riverview Golf Course, will seat up to 15,000 people. It's the largest in the Cactus League, and not only includes a new complex that the team will use year-round for training and rehab, but also a park and pond to provide a new recreation area in the city. The total cost was $84 million.
"What's also very, very special about the mayor's vision and what we have here today is it's going to be the best fan experience in all the Cactus League and probably all of Spring Training," Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said.
Fans are encouraged to arrive at the facility early to take advantage of the park, watch the workouts, then go to the games. Ninety percent of the seats will be in the shade, but there will be plenty of sunny spots in the bleachers and berm for those snowbirds eager to catch a few rays.
"We're lucky in that we're the last of several new facilities in the Cactus League, so we looked at what we believed others had done well and we looked at where we felt other stadiums had fell short," Smith said. "We feel we created something that's the best of all worlds."
Ricketts would like to do the same with Wrigley Field in Chicago, but a proposed $500 million renovation plan for the 100-year-old stadium has been stalled because of challenges by rooftop owners opposed to additional signage in the outfield.
"We're working to a point where we can get started," Ricketts said of the Wrigley plans. "Everyone is talking, everyone has incentives to see us get to that point. We're optimistic we'll get to the finish line on that pretty soon. It's a process and we just have to play through it."
Ricketts said "everyone has an incentive" to get the Wrigley project completed.
"Everyone wants to see it get to the finish line and we're working toward it," he said.
Smith interrupted and said he's talked to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel about Wrigley, and also encouraged him to get the plan done.
But Mesa was the focus on Wednesday. Fans will sense a Wrigley feel to the new park, especially with the light standards and the brick on the walls. They are trying to grow ivy.
"As it evolved, we realized we're creating something that not only feels like Wrigley but, man, if you stand out in those bleachers and look back, it eerily looks like Wrigley Field," Smith said. "I won't say it's by accident, but we didn't start to try and replicate anything other than the experience that fans had, and to maximize that experience, and we think we've done it."
The Cubs had threatened to move to Naples, Fla., if they couldn't get a new complex in Mesa, and Smith said that threat was very real. Spring Training brings $130 million a year to Mesa, and Smith said the Cactus League is the city's "Super Bowl."
It's also important for the Mesa community's psyche to keep the Cubs, who have played in the city since 1979.
"I was amazed when I went around Mesa during the election as to how many people had Chicago connections and most of the time, they had moved here, transferred here, retired here, you name it," Smith said. "A lot of times their first visit to Mesa was for Cubs Spring Training. There's a real connection between the Phoenix metro area and Chicagoland. Losing that would've been huge for our community. That's one reason why I think people voted. They recognized the social and cultural and really identified who they are. You can't separate Mesa from the Cubs."
Joining Ricketts and Smith at the ribbon-cutting ceremony were board member Laura Ricketts, president of baseball operations Theo Epstein, president of business operations Crane Kenney, Hall of Fame pitcher Fergie Jenkins and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. There were balloons, bagpipes, and perfect weather with sunshine and temperatures in the upper 60s.
One person missing was Robert Brinton, who helped turn the Cactus League into a major tourism draw and was a huge booster of baseball in Mesa. He passed away in October 2011, but his widow Nanette, and family were in attendance.
Mesa City Councilman Dave Richins said the facility was missing one thing, and that was a world championship banner. The Cubs are working on that. Kenney acknowledged new manager Rick Renteria in the crowd and said, "This is yours going forward."


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As Madison Rising proves, when it comes to performance, good attitude is everything
I've been a fan of Madison Rising, a patriotic rock band, for a long time. I don't necessarily like all their music, because they're pretty heavy on classic rock guitar playing, but I really like their attitude. The band takes its solid rock chops and applies it to patriotism. Unlike most musical groups that pretty much reflexively "harsh on" American because it's what all the cool kids are doing, this band uses its hard rock chops to celebrate America and her many virtues.
As it happens, I love Madison Rising's rock guitar version of the Star Spangled Banner. This is quite an admission for me, because I tend to like my songs performed straight, without howls and yowls. If you were going to predict my musical tastes, you'd usually guess right if you said I would prefer Bing Crosby singing our anthem over some tortured rock band version. Nevertheless, I'll repeat: I love the Madison Rising Star Spangled Banner.
If you're wondering why I've step out of my musical comfort zone with this one, here's the answer: Madison Rising's rendition is a fresh take on our nation's anthem, performed with enormous energy, and a great deal of love. This is not a robotic repeat of an old song:
When I listen to Madison Rising's version of the Star Spangled Banner, I'm reminded of Runrig's version of Loch Lomond, Scotland's unofficial anthem. As does Madison Rising, Runrig rocks up a traditional song (indeed, one written around the same time as the Star Spangled Banner), but the group does it with love and passion. Scottish fans are enthusiastic about the group's version:
My point about both of these groups is that their unorthodox renditions of old favorites are done with reverence and respect. They are intended to build up, not to tear down. Contrast that with Roseanne Barr's justifiably infamous rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, which saw her adding crotch-clutching to melody-mangling. Likewise, a lot of non-homophobic patriots took umbrage when Lady Gaga turned the Star Spangled Banner into a gay-themed anthem. It was disrespectful, not because she brought her own spirit and style to the song, but because she was quite obviously denigrating the song and America as they currently exist.
I'm waffling on along these lines because at NASCAR's opening this past weekend, both fans and racers disliked Madison Rising's version of the Star Spangled Banner, considering its rock energy "disgraceful" and "disrespectful." I wish I could reach out to the NASCAR crowd and let them know that there's nothing insulting or disrespectful about Madison Rising. Whether or not you like their version, they sing it as respectful homage to a nation they love. If they can help resurrect some basic patriotism into disaffected young people who read Howard Zinn and like heavy metal and hard rock, more power to them.


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A Tibbo Project PCB (TPP) contains a T1000 CPU, an Ethernet port, Flash memory, etc., like an EM1000 module. Unlike the EM1000, however, the TPP doesn't need a host board to plug into; the TPP is the host board.
The TPP3 provides seven "tiles" which equates to 14 M and 14 C sockets for Tibbits. Plug in desired Tibbits, put the assembly into an optional Tibbo Project Box, and you've got yourself a cost-effective, highly customized automation device that carries no unwanted excess.
To achieve an economical basic unit price, the TPP keeps the on-board circuitry to the necessary minimum. For example, there is no built-in power supply; the board directly accepts only regulated +5V power. Real-world power processing (from 12V, PoE, etc.) is achieved by adding power supply Tibbits. This "no excess" approach is the cornerstone of the Tibbo Project System.
This larger TPP can to construct devices with up to four full serial ports, up to 25 relays, or up to 47 opto-inputs, PWM, and open-collector outputs. It can be used to replace dumb PLC controllers or to work as a safety, security, or access control device. The TPB3 is also ideal for factory, lab, shop, building, hotel, and home automation projects.
Furthermore, the generous number of available Tibbit sockets means that you can increase your system's versatility by offering multiple power supply options, such as +5V, +12V, PoE, etc. You also can install multiple power supply Tibbits to increase total available power or to provide power redundancy.
High-level objects simplify your code and allow you to create a data-transport application with just a few lines of code:
View the TIDE, TiOS, Tibbo BASIC and Tibbo C Online Manual.
View Tibbo BASIC Introduction Videos.
View a video of the Serial-over-IP application showing WiFi support.
View a video of the Tibbo Connection Wizard showing how to create a Virtual Serial Port and link it with the Device Server.
Once you're happy with your setup, go to the Tibbits Category and purchase each Tibbit that you have determined your system will need.
To complete a neatly enclosed system for deployment, also purchase the TPB3-KIT box assembly.
If you choose the optional WiFi module below, be sure also to select both Tibbit #37 and the WiFi antenna listed under it.


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It's highly relevant to some recent discussions here, since Ruse has noticed what I noticed about the Pope's recent statement. Sadly those discussions are, I find, now all closed. So to make sure this is on record, I post it here anew.
Michael Ruse: Evolution and Catholic Theology
as things stand at the moment, there is a flat-out contradiction between the claims of modern biological science and the theology of the Roman Catholic Church. And the fact is that the Pope, for all of his vaulted theological expertise, is either ignoring this fact or is glossing over it, probably because he has made the decision that, when push comes to shove, theology trumps science.
Ruse notes that the Pope needs humans not to be a product of chance. Therefore there needs to be an element of direction in evolution. But evolution allows for no direction and no design. The Pope says that "theology trumps science". Ruse says that the theology needs more work (he doesn't accept that any attempt to show that humans were a necessary product of evolution could be successful). He even has a helpful suggestion:
I have suggested that, since we have appeared, we could appear. Hence, God (being outside time and space) could simply go on creating universes until humans did appear. A bit of a waste admittedly but we have that already in our universe.
some solution needs to be found. At least, some solution needs to be found by Christians. Otherwise, the New Atheists are right, and science and religion cannot be reconciled. Hence, you must take your choice, and since science is right the appropriate conclusion follows at once.


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I want to say that I started watching this movie when I was about 7 years old. It was one of three films that was tradition at Christmas time in our home growing up. Still today at age 32, I make sure I watch it. My wife, of course, has no interest in it. I hope to pass it on to my kids when they are a little older. I don't know what it is about this movie that brings me back to watch it each and every year. It could be the fact that hope can come from hopelessness or now that I am a Christian it might of been that I wanted to believe growing up in a greater power that helped people. This is a must see movie for all.
I'm sorry that one of my favorite lines in this essay had a typo. It should read:
"I don't know who the sonuvabitch was!"
I HIGHLY SUGGEST that you follow the link to the New York Times article. If you don't read it all, at least watch the video within it. I thank the Hook for adding this terrific link to the on-line version of my essay.


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Making Sense of Split Tunneling: Part 2
von VPNHaus | 10.01.2013 |Mobile, Rethink Remote Access, VPN
By Patrick Oliver Graf, General Manager of Americas, NCP engineering
Last week, we provided an overview of split and full tunnel configurations. Here, we delve a bit deeper to explore the security benefits of this technology.
Split tunneling has a variety of advantages:
- It only transmits data that actually requires the protection of a VPN. This leads to smaller workloads for VPN clients, server and gateways.
- It enables strict separation of corporate Internet traffic and private Internet use.
- It conserves bandwidth within the VPN connection since it does not have to transmit private data.
Despite these gains, many IT administrators still have reservations about split tunneling. Most notably, some believe split tunneling is a security risk because some data traffic is separated from the secure VPN tunnel and is not directed through the secure gateway. Others criticize the split tunneling concept as being too complicated and requiring specialized VPN clients. These concerns are further fueled by fears that an attacker might somehow be able to use the private Internet connection to gain access to the corporate network, which the user accesses through the VPN.
However, none of these points are logical. Firstly, in order to route a private Internet connection into a VPN, the client has to have the bridging mode activated. This is not a default setting. Moreover, an administrator can use a group policy to deactivate the bridging feature and prevent the user from activating it.
Additionally, the concern of infecting a corporate network with malware through a private connection is only partially valid. On the one hand, almost every company uses antivirus software to eliminate malware before it even enters the company's intranet. Furthermore, there are other sources of viruses and Trojans beyond the Internet—for example, USB drives and DVDs can also infect a user's PC. From this point of view, the raised risk of infection through split tunneling is hardly significant.
Split tunneling does not make a company network unmanageable, but it's important to note that its manageability depends on the quality of the implemented VPN components. For example, VPN gateways and clients like the NCP Secure VPN Client, support full tunneling and split tunneling. This solution requires minimal configuration effort, and it supports various platforms including Windows 8, Linux, Mac, and Android.
The bottom line is that split tunneling should not be considered a security risk. However, client systems that use this technology should always be up-to-date. For example, security patches have to be installed promptly; personal firewall and antivirus engines have to be activated and updated on a regular basis; and potentially risky features, like bridging, have to be deactivated permanently.
Full tunneling is the better alternative for companies and authorities with extremely high security requirements. However, they have to accept the increased effort that comes with full tunneling and implement more powerful VPN systems and "big pipes" for VPN data traffic. Alternatively, it's no longer appropriate to prohibit private use of the company computer in order to keep the data volume within limits. Ultimately, it comes down to efficiency. After all, it doesn't take scores of data to know that companies that restrict employee access to corporate information also limit overall productivity.


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Wikitravel:Travellers' pub
The Travellers' pub is the place to ask questions when you're confused, lost, afraid, tired, annoyed, thoughtful, or helpful. Please check the FAQ and Help page before asking a question, though, since that may save your time and others'.
Please add new questions at the bottom of the page and sign your post by appending four tildes (~~~~) to it, but otherwise plunge forward!
New administrators nomination
We have a new nomination for the administrator on Wikitravel. Please have a look at Administrator nominations. Best, IBAlex 20:34, 3 December 2012 (EST)
Improvement Ideas
We are planning to revitalize Wikitravel and our community! In 2013 we would like to improve technicality and usability of the site and we are open to any ideas! Please let us know of any new features you would like to have on WT and share with us your suggestions on how to make Wikitravel better. I am not talking about any particular pages, this is an open question for improvement ideas. What are the features and functionalists you would like to see on Wikitravel? Please write them below. Firstly we will be upgrading the software, afterwards we will work on improving the functionalists, step by step. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. kind regards, IBAlex 16:33, 25 March 2013 (EDT)
Policy on free-riding tips
I got some second thoughts about deleting tips on how to evade a station entrance fee in Stockholm-Arlanda Airport: Link to change log What is Wikitravel's policy for riding transports, or entering venues, without a proper ticket? Is it a no-no, or are there circumstances when such information is allowed? /Blist 19:12, 23 December 2012 (EST)
Star Articles
Many articles on Wikitravel are very well developed and serve as a great source of information for many Travelers. We should nominate the best ones as Star Articles and feature them on the Main Page. I nominated Bangkok today. Please let me know what you think and if you have any other candidates. IBAlex 15:23, 14 January 2013 (EST)
New Main Page
We have updated today the Main Page and added a fully new section with Top Destinations. Right now we are featuring Top Destinations 2013 and Top Ski Destination. We would like to change this section frequently and we are open to your ideas for future top places around the world, for example:
What are your ideas? Please let us know. Thank you! IBAlex 13:10, 18 January 2013 (EST)
Interestingly, we have the option to book hotels for the moon with the orbitz booking tool. 19:12, 11 February 2013 (EST)
Default image sizes in Thumbnails
Currently, all unregistered users (and those logged-on, registered users that have not bothered to change their preferences at
from the default)
Since this default was set 10 years ago, connection speeds have typically increased (and prices reduced) worldwide.
I would, therefore, like to suggest that the default size be modestly increased to 250px and the pick selection be changed from:
$wgThumbLimits = array( 120, 150, 180, 200, 250, 300 );
$wgThumbLimits = array( 120, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500 );
The relevant variable in LocalSettings.php on the server in which to set this range of thumbnail size options is, I think, $wgThumbLimits. (And see also in the Manual's FAQ, How do I change default user preferences and $wgDefaultUserOptions].)
Does anyone disagree and, if so, why? --118dot93dot73dot30 01:10, 15 March 2013 (EDT) 19:10, 28 February 2013 (EST)
Template:Panorama now seems to work
- but use it sparingly until we sort out the image defaults above. (There may be a case for having just a tiny thumbnail on the main article pages with a link to a subpage of the main article containing any panorama images to save hassles for roaming mobile users and those on other slow/expensive connections)... --118dot93dot73dot30 19:21, 7 March 2013 (EST)
Unfortunately you have not taken a screenshot of your whole screen (and, more especially, your screen width), but I have a strong suspicion that you are using a relatively wide screen (or at least one wide enough to display the whole width of the wide panorama and, therefore, you have no slider to pan left or right. What happens when you reduce the width of your tab or window and do you have an "enlarge" widget visible at the bottom right?
I am enclosing two screen-grabs of how things look on typical laptops or notebooks (as opposed to wide, desk-top monitors). Please try reducing your tab/window width to a narrow width and report here what happens.
If you continue to have further problems, I will need full details such as screen size in pixels, and all your preference settings including what skin you are using and whether you have adverts and Orbitz switched on or off... --118dot93dot73dot30 04:09, 14 March 2013 (EDT)
Emergency phone numbers
I have made a start on adding the unified emergency phone number to the quickbar of about a dozen English speaking countries that have a unified common number but there are still a couple of hundred to go... --118dot93dot73dot30 04:59, 12 March 2013 (EDT)
Linking to Encyclopaedia Britannica articles
Because we want to develop our own travel related content here (and also because travellers may be reading a printed version or off-line), we do not link to secondary sources here on the web's most read travel guide.
However, we are not (and will never be) an encyclopaedia. We have a different aim and focus and a different tone. Our ability to use primary sources is one of the great strengths of our travel guide - nothing in Wikipedia is going to beat our ability to utilise the insights of people who have visited a destination recently - the conundrum comes in distinguishing which anecdotes we can rely on from those that are self-serving or mendacious and unfair.
I think we should consider giving our readers free access to any of Britannica's 120,000 articles directly from this web site with special types of in-line links.
IBadmins: You might want to ask your IT department to engineer special types of visually distinctive links brief instructions here, or we can just slightly change our policies so that when our readers click through the special type of in-line link to Britannica from our articles, he or she will be able to view the complete article—even those that normally require a subscription to read—as a free sample.
For example, to link to the Britannica Online article on Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson from our own Nelson (New Zealand) article, the Britannica article URL is
Our HTML code then might look something like Viscount Horatio Nelson and display a little like:
(I've prepared a normal xl here without the logo in a version of our Nelson (New Zealand) article).
Note: This code will link users to the article on the publicly accessible Britannica site britannica.com. Readers that they recognize as members of a college or library that subscribes to Britannica will have the same experience as a paid subscriber to the public site with full access to the entire site in an advertising-free environment. Readers that are not members of a subscribing institution will still be able to access the full article, however additional content may be restricted and users may be served advertising.
Please note that, for readers that do not have access via a subscription, that the link will be to the full Britannica article only when the page holding the link is hosted on a Web Server. When you test this page on your local machine, it will still lead to the truncated version of the article. This is not an error, and when the same page is put on a Web Server it will still work as intended. --118dot93dot73dot30 17:10, 16 March 2013 (EDT)
Renovating our Listing format
One of the great things about this travel guide is how easy we have made it for casual editors to both wt:add a listing and then update it as information like opening hours or prices change.
However, currently businesses have a perverse double incentive not to use these great XML style listings, since that way they get to retain an obviously
and avoid that (baffling)
Please could the IT department make it a top priority to change this style so that the name="?" tag field becomes BLUE anchor text with the clickable arrow symbol directly after it in an identical way to the non-XML style listings?
Please also remind them to implement HTML code similar to
At the same time, they could activate the geographical co-ordinate information. --118dot93dot73dot30 02:00, 17 March 2013 (EDT)
Joke article for 2013
Hello! April Fool's 2013 is coming up! Let's choose this year's joke article. Any suggestions?:) You can leave your comment here IBAlex 20:03, 14 March 2013 (EDT)
Is User:Tyen a bot ?
He/she/it never replies and seems to be able (Special:Contributions/Tyen) to make 12 boilerplate welcoming edits to 12 separate user pages inside 60 seconds!
Don't we have a policy that bots should be named and "owned" by a human being? Why can't I find any mention of this (eg: at Wikitravel:Bots) ? --118dot93dot73dot30 19:29, 18 March 2013 (EDT)
I appear to have been accidentally blocked and can only edit by logging out. Can anyone help? I have edits I need to make to my user page. User:LtPowers
Wikitravel upgrade - read-only mode for a few days beginning Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Hello all, We're excited to announce that Wikitravel will be upgrading its software next week. In order to migrate Wikitravel's extraordinary database of travel information, we'll be putting the site into read-only mode starting Tuesday, 26 Mar 2013 (PST) and running for about three days. No edits will be possible at this time. When we come back, we'll be better than ever. Please let us know if there are any questions or concerns, --IBobi 17:36, 22 March 2013 (EDT)
Changing the title of a page
Earlier today, this guy Gold Membership Only changed the title of my itinerary "Alexandria to Cape Town by train and bus" to "LOL U NOOBS". I saw that he actually did a LOT of vandalism today and that his account got deleted and he is now banned until the year 9999. But, how do I change the title of my itinerary back?Travelgeek (talk) 12:55, 7 April 2013 (EDT)
Previously I've been told that Tyen is not a bot. However I can get no reply from him/her/it and now is mistakenly blocking IPs.
Additionally, I find Tyen's substitution of the signature of an IBadmin misleading and a breach of UUTP
In case this user continues to be uncommunicative, what is the current procedure for revoking admin privileges, please? --118dot93dot73dot30 21:05, 11 April 2013 (EDT)


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Jill Abramson, fired last week as executive editor of The New York Times, encouraged a group of college graduates Monday to use disappointments in their lives to "show what you are made of."
In a commencement address at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, Abramson said that she did not know what was next for her but suggested that she would not stray far from her last job. They were her first public comments since her ouster.
"Losing a job you love hurts," she said. "But the work I revere, journalism that holds powerful institutions and people accountable, is what makes our democracy so resilient. This is the work I will remain very much a part of."
She joked that she wasn't unlike the newly minted graduates.
"What's next for me? I don't know," she said. "So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you! And like you, I'm a little scared, but also excited."
Abramson also resolved speculation over what she would do about a tattoo of the signature Times "T" logo on her back. She said that she had been asked by a Wake Forest student whether she would have it removed.
"Not a chance," she said.
Abramson to Wake Forest Graduates: 'Show what You Are Made Of'May 19, 201403:07
The remarks were her first in public since Abramson, the first woman to lead the newspaper, was dismissed last week after less than three years on the job.
Her supporters have said that she was treated unfairly because she is a woman. The New Yorker magazine reported after the firing that Abramson was paid 10 percent less than her predecessor, Bill Keller, when she took the job.
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher, said this weekend that Abramson's pay was "not in fact unequal." In a statement, he cited "arbitrary decision-making, a failure to consult and bring colleagues with her, inadequate communication and the public mistreatment of colleagues."
Abramson was succeeded by Dean Baquet, the first black executive editor in the paper's history.
In her speech at Wake Forest, Abramson said that among the people she has heard from since her firing is Anita Hill, the law professor who accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his Supreme Court confirmation proceedings in 1991.
Hill wrote to say that she was proud of Abramson, she said.
Abramson closed by citing a commencement address given by Robert Frost in 1956, in which he described life after graduation as "pieces of knitting to go on with."
"My mother was a great knitter, and she made some really magnificent things, but she also made a few itchy, frankly hideous sweaters for me," Abramson said. "She left some things unfinished. So today, you gorgeous, brilliant people, get on with your knitting."


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Brian has spent his life working on the details of how to build and scale out systems. He is currently working on a new MicroKernel designed MySQL called Drizzle and is building the plumbing required for a new generation of
large scale computer deployment. He also spends time working on Apache Modules, Memcached, and Gearman.
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Over the past year, people around the globe endured epic, historic storms — literally and metaphorically — and were often left wondering, like countless generations before, whether the clouds would ever break. Peering through the dark lens of armed conflict, natural disasters and unfathomable barbarity in places as far-flung as Connecticut and Kandahar, we've all — at one time or another — wondered if the tide of catastrophe was, finally, simply going to overwhelm us.
As we approach 2013, it's only natural that we look for glimmers of promise. Next August, for example, the United States will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech — an event and an eloquence so central to a nation's ideas of what it can be and should be that, in celebrating the memory of that day, we embrace the notion that united, we can overcome any new adversity.
Here, LightBox presents a series of images from 2012 that are joined in theme and in import by a slim yet powerfully symbolic thread: a rainbow connection. As we envision what the coming year might bring, and how we might do better as individuals and as a culture in 2013, we pause to celebrate the fleeting emblem of peace that was seen and photographed in unexpected, incongruous places — scenes that many of us no doubt missed in the welter of the past year's violence and sorrow.
It is not what's at the end of the rainbow that counts; we know, in our hearts, that there's nothing there at all. But taking a moment, now and in the future, to acknowledge the rainbow's fleeting beauty costs nothing, and there's never any harm in hope.


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Tennessee Williams The Two-Character Play
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"Sensational! Hilarious! Powerful!" -Ben Brantley, The New York Times
"REVELATORY. Divine, crazy, straight from Tennessee. In a time of cookie-cutter theater, 'The Two-Character Play' stands out. Few can do cray-cray like these two. SUPERB!" –The New York Post
Tony Award winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God, Pulp Fiction, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Deadwood) unite their white-hot talents for this highly anticipated production of Tennessee Williams The Two-Character Play.
Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors on tour – brother and sister – find themselves deserted by their troupe. Faced by an audience expecting a performance, they enact The Two-Character Play. Haunting, provocative, and often funny, The Two-Character Play is one of Tennessee Williams most personal and rarely seen plays.
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Even my wife can produce such paperwork at the drop of a hat. THis includes her actual birth certificate (in Persian) and the official English translation (raised stamp). Now, if my wife of foreign origin can produce such documentation, why can't Obama?
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Seems that the birth certificate released by the Obama campaign might be that of his sister, Maya:
*Breaking* Sister Maya's Name Uncovered on Alleged Obama Birth Certificate [Update]
August 5, 2008 · 106 Comments
Forensics specialist Techdude, who has been chipping away at the Obama Birth Certificate mystery for some time, has confirmed that the name on the original Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) which was used to forge the document presented by Barack Obama as his valid Birth Certificate IS:
Maya Kassandra Soetoro.
His sister.
The document presented by Obama as the "truth about his birth certificate" can be seen on his official campaign web page, "FightTheSmears," here. In an exclusive TexasDarlin report on Sunday, Techdude revealed that he had discovered the true identity of the person on the original COLB, but that he was not ready to disclose that person's name.
He gave readers step-by-step instructions for conducting the analysis at home. In a follow-up post, I published a comment by Techdude in which he explained why he was waiting to name the person, and he challenged readers to solve the mystery first, offering a free trip to Las Vegas for the first person who posted the correct answer.
Several hours later, KG, a reader on the TexasDarlin blog, posted her/his discovery in the Comments section of this post, and detailed the technical process she/he followed to get there....
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Techdude's Credentials: 20 years experience in the computer field; performing computer forensic investigations since 1993. Board certified as a forensic computer examiner and for the previous six years also licensed as a private investigator. A certificated legal investigator, served close to 6 years under the direction of a practicing attorney. Testified in numerous trials at the state level…written (winning) briefs and motions that have been presented for state's Court of Appeals and state's Supreme Court.
U.S. Department of Justice clearance for access to sensitive but unclassified information and has personally handled the investigation of over 7,000 cases. Previously received training from the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA as well as countless forensics seminars and specialized training events over the years. Five years ago, opened his own computer forensic science lab and often accepts cases pro bono. Active member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the American College of Forensic Examiners, Computer Forensics Volunteer Project, a Member of Federal Bureau of Investigation's InfraGard program, International Information Systems Forensics Association, The International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners, and others.
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