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[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 61 (Friday, March 29, 2013)] [Notices] [Pages 19294-19295] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2013-07337] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [L1610000.PQ0000/LLCAC09000] Notice of Availability of the Clear Creek Management Area Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement, California AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of Availability. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP)/Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Clear Creek Management Area (CCMA) and by this notice is announcing its availability. DATES: BLM planning regulations (43 CFR 1610) state that any person who meets the conditions as described in the regulations may protest the BLM's Proposed RMP and Final EIS. A person who meets the conditions and files a protest, must file the protest within 30 days of the date that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes its notice in the Federal Register. ADDRESSES: Copies of the CCMA Proposed RMP and Final EIS have been sent to affected Federal, State, and local government agencies and to other stakeholders. Copies of the CCMA Proposed RMP and Final EIS are available for public inspection at the Hollister Field Office, 20 Hamilton Court, Hollister, California 95023. Interested persons may also review the [[Page 19295]] CCMA Proposed RMP and Final EIS at the following Web site: http://www.blm.gov/ca/hollister. All protests must be in writing and mailed to one of the following addresses: Regular Mail: BLM Director (210) , Attention: Brenda Williams, P.O. Box 71383, Washington, DC 20024-1383. Overnight Mail: BLM Director (210), Attention: Brenda Williams, 20 M Street SE., Room 2134LM, Washington, DC 20003. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sky Murphy, Planning and Environmental Coordinator, telephone (831) 630-5039; address Hollister Field Office, 20 Hamilton Court, Hollister, California 95023; email email@example.com. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The planning area covers about 75,000 acres, including about 63,000 surface acres and 64,000 acres of subsurface mineral estate in San Benito and Fresno counties, California. The CCMA RMP will provide a framework to guide management decisions for the use and protection of the resources managed by the Hollister Field Office. The CCMA is currently managed under the 1984 Hollister RMP and subsequent amendments. The purpose of the CCMA RMP is to establish goals, objectives, and management actions for BLM-administered lands in CCMA that address current issues, and conditions. The need to develop the CCMA RMP arose from changes in circumstances since the current land use plan decisions were adopted. For example, the EPA's CCMA Asbestos Exposure and Human Health Risk Assessment (2008) provides significant new information that must be incorporated into the RMP to evaluate the public health risk associated with BLM land use authorizations. A Notice of Availability of the CCMA Draft RMP/EIS was published in the Federal Register on December 4, 2009. The Draft RMP/EIS was available for public review for 135 days. Comments on the Draft RMP/EIS were considered, and incorporated as appropriate into the proposed plan. For example, the BLM made changes to the route and trail designations between the Draft and Final EIS. These changes did not significantly alter the proposed land use decisions for transportation and travel management in the CCMA. The Hollister Field Office, through a collaborative planning process, has worked extensively with interested and affected individuals, groups, and local, State, and Federal agencies in the development of the Proposed RMP and Final EIS. The primary issues include public health and safety, recreation, protection of sensitive natural and cultural resources, livestock grazing, guidance for energy and mineral development, and land tenure adjustments. The Proposed RMP maintains the designation of the 30,000-acre Serpentine Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) to protect public health and safety while also protecting special status species and cultural, historic, and scenic resources values. Restrictions on use of public lands within the Serpentine ACEC include limitations on motorized and non-motorized activities to minimize human health risks from exposure to asbestos by reducing airborne emissions of asbestos. For example, the CCMA Proposed RMP designates the Serpentine ACEC as a ``limited'' vehicle use area based on the human health risks from exposure to asbestos; and use would be limited to highway-licensed vehicles by permit only. Under the Proposed RMP, the remaining lands in the CCMA management zones are also designated as ``limited'' vehicle use areas where motorized vehicle use would be limited to highway- licensed vehicles and all-terrain vehicles. In addition to the proposed action, the BLM considered six additional alternatives, ranging from a no action alternative, which would continue historic recreational use in the area, to complete closure of the area prohibiting all public access. Other action alternatives analyzed variations of limited annual visitor use days, seasonal use restrictions, limited OHV recreation opportunities in the Serpentine ACEC based on vehicle types, minimum age requirements, vehicle access for non-motorized recreation opportunities inside the Serpentine ACEC, and enhancing new OHV recreation opportunities outside of the ACEC. Comments on the Draft RMP/EIS received from the public and through internal BLM review were considered and incorporated as appropriate into the Proposed RMP/Final EIS. Public comments resulted in the following changes to the preferred alternative in the Draft RMP/EIS: additional information added to the Hazardous Materials and Public Health and Safety section; increased miles of designated routes to provide greater vehicle access with an emphasis on supporting non- motorized recreation opportunities in CCMA; retention of public lands surrounding Baker, Byles, and Cane Canyons; and pursuit of partnerships with local private landowners, non-profit organizations, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop public easements to BLM lands in the Tucker management zone. These changes do not significantly change proposed land use plan decisions set forth in the Draft RMP/EIS. Instructions for filing a protest with the Director of the BLM regarding the CCMA Proposed RMP and Final EIS may be found in the ``Dear Reader'' letter of the CCMA Proposed RMP and Final EIS and at 43 CFR 1610.5-2. All protests must be in writing and mailed to the appropriate address, as set forth in the ADDRESSES section above. Emailed and faxed protests will not be accepted as valid protests unless the protesting party also provides the original letter by either regular or overnight mail postmarked by the close of the protest period. Under these conditions, the BLM will consider the emailed or faxed protest as an advance copy and it will receive full consideration. If you wish to provide the BLM with such advance notification, please direct emails to firstname.lastname@example.com and faxed protests to the attention of the BLM protest coordinator at 202-912- 7212. Before including your phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your protest, you should be aware that your entire protest--including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your protest to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6 and 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2 and 1610.5. Thomas Pogacnik, Deputy State Director. [FR Doc. 2013-07337 Filed 3-28-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-40-P


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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. My research topics include the development, evaluation and application of statistical methods for stone artifact analysis, the analysis of Lower Paleolithic, Early Middle Paleolithic and late Middle Paleolithic assemblages of the European Plain, as well as the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in central Europe.
In my PhD thesis, I analyzed late Middle Paleolithic open-air assemblages from the northern and central European Plain. I incorporated stone artifact assemblages from Germany, Poland, and western Russia. The multivariate analysis of these flake assemblages together with a subsequent evaluation of the results based on the analysis of general assemblage characteristics led to the conclusion that these assemblages cannot readily be broken down into typo-technological entities defined in the past.
Furthermore, using a combination of 3D geometric morphometrics and attribute based multivariate analysis, I was able to show that the concept of late Middle Paleolithic bifacial backed knives - or Keilmesser - is not restricted to only bifacial tools. Instead, this tool concept is also applied to simple edge retouched and unifacially shaped tools.
The methods developed during my PhD will now be enhanced, refined, and applied to additional late Middle Paleolithic as well as Middle to Upper Paleolithic transitional assemblages.
In addition to lithic analysis, I work on two main field projects. Through fieldwork at the late Middle Paleolithic open-air site Lichtenberg, Lower Saxony, our team investigates how Neanderthals adapted to climatic shifts at the northern border of their habitat during the last glacial period. The fieldwork at the Middle to Upper transitional cave site Ilsenhöhle Ranis, Thuringia, investigates the chronology, climatic conditions, and the makers of the transitional stone artefact assemblages in central Europe.
I am involved in the following research projects:
- The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in central Germany: New excavations at the transitional site Ilsenhöhle Ranis, Thuringia.
- Neanderthals in northern central Europe: The field project of the late Middle Paleolithic site Lichtenberg, Lower Saxony.
- Middle- and Upper Pleistocene landscape evolution and early human dispersal in central Germany – Chronological investigations on Saalian- and Elsterian sediment archives in the type region.


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ACPI Wakeup
Many MythTV users leave their backend (recording) servers running 24X7 and only power their front ends on and off. Being of a green disposition I wanted to avoid this, as even the best computers consume a reasonable amount of electricity just sitting there. There are various options available under Linux to wake your machine up from a sleep state.
Nvram wakeup
The normal way of getting MythTV to power up the machine on a recording schedule is to use nvram-wakeup Shutdown Wakeup. However I was not very happy with this as direct poking of the systems Non Volatile RAM seems very dangerous to me, plus it involves a lot of messing around with custom kernels etc. Plus it just did not work for my ECS Mother Board.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
The PC Industry have been moving from the older APM power managment specification to the newer ACPI specification. ACPI for Linux is under heavy development but is already quite useable with the 2.6 kernel.
I have chosen to go with using ACPI to have my MythTV box wakeup while I am away , record a programme and then power itself back down. You will find the ACPI features for your machine exposed as a collection of files and directories in /proc/acpi. For instance /proc/acpi/alarm is a file that corresponds to the Real Time Clock wakeup function on your machine.
Note: Testing this on kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 and r7, revealed that you will only have this option on x86_64 architecture. The setup of /proc/acpi/alarm is done in kernel file drivers/acpi/sleep/proc.c and controlled by the CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS flag. You can test support for you architecture by going to you kernel source and do:
$grep -r CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS arch/* arch/x86_64/defconfig:CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
Basic IO System (BIOS)
You will need to have a motherboard that supports both ACPI and a Real Time Clock Alarm Functions in the BIOS. Dont forget to enable this in the BIOS. You will find a tab similar to "Advanced Power management".
Testing ACPI Wakeup Works
Here are the commands to check that you have ACPI working.
$powersave -S ACPI
Check that you have the alarm function in /proc/acpi/alarm. This prints out the RTC Alarm clock from the BIOS.
$cat /proc/acpi/alarm 2005-**-29 10:10:04
Check that you can write a new time to the RTC Clock Alarm (you will need to be Root) Format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
#echo "2005-12-29 10:10:04" >/proc/acpi/alarm
Check that it was written, shut down and wait for it to wakeup.
#cat /proc/acpi/alarm 2005-*12-29 10:10:04 #shutdown -h now
(note you may not see the change in the bios, but it should still work)
Now go to your MythBackend Configuration and setup wakeup and shutdown. If you don't have a script you want to run before shutdown, insert 'exit 0' in the field for the command before shutdown, otherwise automatic shutdown will not work.
Trouble Shooting
Getting autostart using alarm can be quite frustrating. Here's some tips on getting it working.
UTC Bios Clock
Remember, your bios time might be in UTC rather than local time using:
# echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm
will set the wakeup time to 5 minute from now, regardless of whether the RTC is in UTC or locatltime.
Since the wake-up time given by mythtv to the mythtv wakeup command is in local time, you need to do some bash handling of the obtained time to be able to setup the wakeup time in the bios in UTC (independent of daylight savings time and such). The following bash code might help here:
#!/bin/bash stamp_file=/home/mythtv/timestamp echo $1\ $2 > $stamp_file # Read the date in the locale time format and add the time-zone info to the stamp_file datum=$(/bin/date -f $stamp_file +%F\ %T\ %Z) echo $datum > $stamp_file # reinterpret this in utc and write to alarm utcdatum=$(/bin/date -u -f $stamp_file +%F\ %T) echo $utcdatum > $stamp_file #rm -f $stamp_file #echo $utcdatum >/proc/acpi/alarm
As you noticed the echo to the acpi-alarm is commented out by default, because it is really better to check first if everything is working correctly (time format the same on your bios and such).
Fussy Bios
Some motherboard bioses are extreemly fussy when setting the wake up alarm. These bioses refuse to wake up if the hardware clock is modified after the alarm timer has been set. Most linux distributions do this by default when shutting down ( The write the current system time back to the hardware clock). This causes the system never to wake up.
Hence check your shutdown scripts!
Under ubuntu/debian modifying
/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh with the following will fix this problem:
stop|restart|reload|force-reload) ==> ACPITIME=`cat /proc/acpi/alarm` if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ] then if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] then echo "Saving the System Clock time to the Hardware Clock..." fi [ "$GMT" = "-u" ] && GMT="--utc" /sbin/hwclock --systohc $GMT $BADYEAR if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] then echo "Hardware Clock updated to `date`." fi ==> echo "$ACPITIME" > /proc/acpi/alarm
Fussy Bios II
For some motherboards, like the MS-6760 (MSI MEGA 651), it is required that you set the wakeup time two times, otherwise it will not wake up.
#echo "2005-12-29 10:10:04" >/proc/acpi/alarm && sleep 1 && echo "2005-12-29 10:10:04" >/proc/acpi/alarm
Another possible glitch is, that the option 'Resume By Alarm' (or whatever it is called) is set to Enabled but wake up using
/proc/acpi/alarm only works if the option is set to Disabled. Sounds weird but works with some boards.


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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Student's Sudden Cardiac Arrest Captured on School's Security Camera
It's good to remember that sudden cardiac arrest is not just limited to the elderly.
Addendum: Oh, and I'm sure she had an implantable cardiac defibrillator installed after her event rather than just a more conventional pacemaker as mentioned in the article.
4 comments:
- Unknown said...
It should be law that all schools have AED's. If you have a fire extinguisher then you need an AED!
- Wed Oct 12, 08:52:00 AM CDT
- Lisa said...
Let's hope she has a defibrillator and a good beta blocker routine. And that she will be excused from gym class for the rest of her educational career. My daughter's school had one that was purchased grudgingly after I insisted at an IEP meeting. She had to go to gym class, but was supposed to be excused from participating. For some reason the coach decided that she should at least take the final and had her run up and down the bleachers for ten minutes. When I tore into him about it he and the vice-principal told me "She was perfectly safe. We had the AED available." I couldn't believe it. I only hope those idiots get a chance to watch this video.
- Wed Oct 12, 10:04:00 AM CDT
Almost 30 years ago, when I started practice, I volunteered frequently to help with sports physicals for local high scools and the university. It was a way to give back to the community in which I grew up. I had picked up a murmur In a young athlete early in my medical training that later proved to be caused by IHSS, so I was very careful to aucultate in a thorough fashion. I tried to do a careful PE. When reports of athletes crumping on the court and the field of play began to appear, I decided I was not smart enough to be doing sports physicals. Being a surgeon, I finally decided it was in the kid's best interest to let the internist and cardiologists take the duty. In truth, I'm not sure that a full cardiac evaluation by a well-equipped cardilogist is enough!
The liability risk was a worry, but I would have had difficulty dealing with the death of an athlete I had cleared for play.
- Thu Oct 13, 10:06:00 PM CDT
- OBGYN Woodstock GA said...
It's great that they now release videos like this, because it's a great wakeup call to the public that yes, events like this happen in real life and that you never know where and when it occurs.
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Israeli telecommunications equipment maker ECI Telecom said this week it was behind a new consortium aimed at getting to the next technical level in DSL technologies. It wants to develop and promote an upgrade to DSL technology called Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM).
DSM is an attempt at taking copper networks to fiber-optic-like data transfer rates and is, ECI says, the next step after ADSL2+ and VDSL2, which are the core installation focus of current DSL suppliers. ADSL2+ can send data over a 2.2 MHz channel which offers data rates up to 24 Mbps, but which is resilient over a much further distance from a telephone exchange than other high speed technologies and is better than ADSL up to around 10,000 feet from the exchange. VDSL2 uses a 30 MHz carrier and the signal deteriorates rapidly
ECI and partners set out store to double the speed of DSL from its peak at 100 Mbps at under 1000 feet from the exchange, to its useful rate of around 25 to 35 Mbps between 3,000 and 4,000 feet from a telephone exchange.
Most recently new chips have emerged which can support either scheme, depending on what conditions the chips find on the network.
ECI Telecom says it has secured $10m of Israeli government money and will lead the consortium alongside operators including Telefonica and Bezeq, vendors such as Actelis, RIT Technologies and Amethist, as well as leading academic institutions, including the Technion, Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv University.
"The main obstacle for the advancement of DSL technology is the interference ("crosstalk") generated from different DSL lines that share the same telephone cable binder," said Professor John Cioffi, Professor of Engineering at Stanford University, a pioneer of DSM research, who is also recognized as the inventor of the DMT line code. "DSM is a promising technology for the future evolution of broadband access networks using existing copper infrastructure."
ECI Telecom will be presenting a discussion on DSM and the Consortium at the Broadband World Forum in Paris on October 12, 2006.
DSM uses four key concepts that Cioffi describes as channel identification, spectrum balancing, vectored transmission methods and multi-user detection.
The idea works best when fiber is feeding a DSL line, and spectrum balancing co-ordinates the allocation of different frequencies to each user in a cable binder to achieve best results based on the characteristics of the line. Using these ideas ECI has already achieved rates of 45 Mbps at distances of over 1,500 feet from an exchange and it claims these techniques can double the speed of broadband over ADSL distances like 12,000 feet.
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In the run up to the Parliamentary recess the country was transfixed by a scandal involving the Conservative contingent of the Government, the media, powerful private companies and a Select Committee exerting itself. The scandal gained momentum when it was clear that particularly vulnerable people were being affected by unacceptable or underhand practice.
There is another scandal brewing which has the same cocktail of ingredients. I am talking about the changes to Incapacity Benefit and the implementation of Employment Support Allowance. The rhetoric of reform here is positive. Some might even say unexceptional. But the practice is, by comparison, looking decidedly ropey. As so often turns out to be the case.
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US Under-17 national team head coach Wilmer Cabrera has called in 24 players for an 11-day training trip to Mexico in preparation for this summer's U-17 World Cup.
The squad will arrive in Querétaro on April 22 and will battle the World Cup hosts on their turf for two friendlies on April 27 and May 1.
LA Galaxy Home Grown player Jack McBean is the sole professional on the roster but Major League Soccer academies are well represented. Kellyn Acosta and Fernando Laverde hail from the FC Dallas Juniors system, while Fernando Piña (Houston Dynamo), Andrew Souders (Crew Soccer Academy), Dillon Serna (Colorado Rapids Academy) and Kellen Gulley (MS Chicago Fire Juniors) are also part of the academy program.
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The US are one of 24 teams that will participate in the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico from June 18 through July 10. Here's the full list of Cabrera's squad for its training trip:
GOALKEEPERS (3): Wade Hamilton (Arsenal FC; Murietta, Calif.), Kendall McIntosh (San Jose Earthquakes Academy; Santa Rosa, Calif.), Fernando Piña (Houston Dynamo; Houston)
DEFENDERS (8): Kellyn Acosta (FC Dallas Juniors; Plano, Texas), Joe Amon (South Carolina United FC; Summerville, S.C.), Zach Carroll (Vardar; Grand Blanc, Mich.), Mobi Fehr (Tokyo Verdy 1969; Tokyo), Alessandro Mion (Kendall SC; Miami, Fla.), Reed Norton (Concorde Fire; Evans, Ga.), Nathan Smith (Cal Odyssey; Clovis, Calif.), Andrew Souders (Crew Soccer Academy; Amherst, Ohio)
MIDFIELDERS (9): Matt Dunn (FC Köln; Dallas), Alejandro Guido (Aztecs Premier; Chula Vista, Calif.), Fernando Laverde (FC Dallas Juniors; Cali, Colombia), Nico Melo (Florida Rush; Kissimmee, Fla.), Marc Pelosi (De Anza Force; Sunnyvale, Calif.), Esteban Rodriguez (Cosmos Academy West; Palmdale, Calif.), Tarik Salkicic (Strictly Soccer; Pinellas Park, Fla.), Dillon Serna (Colorado Rapids Academy; Brighton, Colo.), Colton Storm (HMMS Eagle FC; Mechanicsburg, Pa.)
FORWARDS (4): Kellen Gulley (MS Chicago Fire Juniors; Clinton, Miss.), Alfred Koroma (Solar Chelsea FC; Arlington, Texas), Jack McBean (LA Galaxy; Newport Beach, Calif.), Mario Rodriguez (Central Aztecs; North Hollywood, Calif.)
Noah Davis covers the United States men's national team for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on Twitter at @noahedavis.


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The Chakra Armour (チャクラの鎧, Chakura no Yoroi) is a unique type of armour that drains chakra from ninjutsu and genjutsu while at the same time amplifies the wearer's chakra. A black-coloured prototype armour was worn by Dotō Kazahana.
This being said, the armour is also seen blocking and defending against thrown projectiles which require no chakra in the least, raising the question of what exactly their armour is based on. The armour has been shown to be strong enough to protect its wearer from multiple explosive tags, though it became heavily damaged in the process.
Despite the advantage it gives the wearer, multiple wearers must be careful not to be too close to one another, as the armour is highly unstable and will, if sufficiently damaged, explode on contact with another suit. The fact that this armour's main strength is chakra absorption also makes the wearer vulnerable to taijutsu and other blunt physical trauma. Also, Sasuke's Chidori was able to crack Dotō's armour, and Naruto was able to deal the blow that shattered its defence, suggesting that the armour has its limits in absorbing chakra.
Aside from these features, the Chakra Armour was also endowed with a wristmounted wire-launcher, enabling the user to either quickly move about using the wire, or bind and restrain an opponent. Some suits of armour was also shown having built-in wings for gliding, such as the one worn by Fubuki Kakuyoku and Dotō.
See Also
- Bando, the primary antagonist of Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2, wears a variation of the Chakra Armour, which functions similarly as the Yukigakure version by reducing incoming damage and increasing attack powers.


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The ongoing debate on poverty tourism got a paroxysm of blogger attention following the recent NYT op-ed by Kennedy Odede, whose personal experience gave him harsh words for what he called Slumdog Tourism. A good assemblage of recent blogs and articles related to the poverty tourism debate is posted at Good Intentions Are Not Enough. As I followed the debate, I realized that the nebulous meaning of "poverty tourism" had many bloggers and commenters talking past each other. A couple of weeks ago I posted my contribution to the debate as a taxonomy of the terms used. The intention of that first post – "Poverty Tourism: A Debate in Need of Typological Nuance" – was that with linguistic clarity, the debate could be more productive and less shrill. The post became my popular and the word tree graphic was reproduced and discussed on a number of blogs and websites, which provided ample feedback leading to this Poverty Tourism Taxonomy 2.0. To avoid a rerun, I'm only providing a few update notes here; for a more complete explanation of the taxonomy, please refer back to the original post.
The Poverty Tourism Family of Travel Terms
Although it sounds straightforward enough, the term poverty tourism has been used to describe a range of travel types involving distinct types of travelers and purposes. The term is most often used disparagingly. An alternative term used more by those highlighting positive aspects is "development tourism." Both terms are used to discuss three quite different genus-level travel types: education travel, tourism, and volunteerism. Each of these implies a distinct purpose: learning, leisure, and labor, respectively. These are not mutually exclusive, of course; many people travel with mixed motives. The distinction is useful, however, because the primary travel motive informs the way the travel is designed and conducted. For example, a university designing a study abroad trip might include volunteer work, but the primary motive is student learning. This informs the focus the of the travel and defines in large part what a "successful" trip will look like. Likewise, a non-profit organization hosting a group of voluntourists may be mindful of both the learning and leisure motives of the travelers, but they will have a primary focus on the labor that is to be done. Dotted lines in the graphic make explicit some travel types where mixed motives are integral the travel design.
Species-level Update
The only change from the first version is the splitting of voluntourism between commercial and non-profit providers. Commercial voluntourism operators tend to be customer-centric, and primarily profit-driven. Their history and core competencies are focused on responding to the leisure motives of tourism. Non-profit providers of voluntours tend to be more community-centric, and primarily project-driven. Their history and core competencies are focused on responding to the labor motives of volunteerism. In one of my very first posts as a blogger, "The Future of Voluntourism" I provide a more detailed explanation of this difference and its implications for development and vulnerable communities.
Again, to avoid a rerun, I'm not going to describe the meaning of each of these species-level travel types here, but rather refer you back to the original post, "Poverty Tourism: A Debate in Need of Typological Nuance."
The list of "also known as" terms is by no means comprehensive. I'm getting introduced to new terms almost daily, including "pet-the-orphan tours", "cultural zoo trips", and any number of creative, mostly disparaging terms. The purpose of listing any of these is to show how the taxonomy can help us sort such terms into a linguistic system that facilitates greater clarity. So, although done, one shouldn't use the term "poverty safari" to talk about a non-profit voluntour. It's true that a voluntourist may gawk at the locals and snap inappropriate photos, but the type of travel he is doing is not defined by these behaviors, but rather the purpose of the travel as designed by the host. Likewise, you shouldn't use "missionary safari" to talk about a group of donors from a Christian non-profit that are visiting the projects they help fund. These are just fundamentally different types of travel. Its fun to invent and throw around deprecating terms at people traveling through poor communities, but without at least some care to use terms that actually link back to the intention of the trip, it makes debating the merits or dangers of such travel difficult.


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I've got to disagree. Under Chief Justice Roberts' opinion, what matters under the constitutional law is how the thing operates in reality, not what you call it. You can switch the labels around, play whatever political euphemism games you like, and the judges will let you get away with that. It's propaganda. Knock yourself out. Bamboozle the people. Democracy rolls on.
But in court — the message is — we look through the surface and see what is really happening. And if it is structured and functions like a tax, it's a tax.
You know, there's a saying that lawyers and lawprofs like. I think it's corny, so I haven't been saying it. I don't think that in 25+ years of teaching law I've ever said it, but I've heard it said so many times, and it's said because it's a way of saying something that lawyers and lawprofs really think about law: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
Googling that saying, I get — as my first result — a Wikipedia page titled "Duck test."
Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) may have coined the phrase when he wrote "when I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."The phrase may also have originated much later with Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer of the United Auto Workers, at a labor meeting in 1946 accusing a person of being a communist....Oh! I didn't know I'd encounter so much communism!
Later references to the duck test include Cardinal Richard Cushing's, who used the phrase in 1964 in reference to Fidel Castro.
Make of it what you will. We have a democracy, and it's not going to work if we can't handle the bullshit.
The President can say it's not a tax, and it's still a tax for the purposes of analyzing the taxing power. The Supreme Court has validated lying.
Did you notice the other case that came out last Thursday also put the stamp of approval on lying? It was United States v. Alvarez — the "Stolen Valor" case. A man who lied and said he'd won the Congressional Medal of Honor was prosecuted, and he won on free speech grounds in the Supreme Court.
So Thursday in the U.S. Supreme Court was a great day for the grand old human practice of lying. From Justice Alito's dissenting opinion in Alvarez:
Respondent's brief features a veritable paean to lying. According to respondent, his lie about the Medal of Honor was nothing out of the ordinary for 21st-century Americans. "Everyone lies," he says. Brief for Respondent 10. "We lie all the time." Ibid. "[H]uman beings are constantly forced to choose the persona we present to the world, and our choices nearly always involve intentional omissions and misrepresentations, if not outright deception." Id., at 39.Everybody's always lying.
Now, grow up, pay attention, and don't get played.


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|John & Donna Bartram
on their wedding day
I didn't get to know Grandma Donna since she passed away when I was a baby, but I feel like I know her through the stories told by my mom, her siblings and their cousins. I was lucky to know Grandpa John very well as he lived with us for a good part of the time when my sister, Cindy, and I were growing up. I miss them both and wish they were around to help me tell their colorful stories.
|John & Donna Bartram grave, Livermore, CA. Photo taken December 2010.


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Otherwise known as the U.S. Senate. The Democrats have proposed a $1.1 trillion spending bill for FY 2011 that includes gobs of pork, and, most ominously of all, allocations to fund Obama Care (a key provision of which has just been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge). Any Republican who supports this pig - and, yes, I'm looking at you, Bond and Collins - ought to get primaried.
"Spurgeon, hand me my clue-by-four."
"The one with the protruding nails, sir?"
"Yes. Half measures would seem to be pointless at this stage."
"Very good, sir."
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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Half measures avail us NOTHING...nothing but more expensive government, of course.
- December 15, 2010 at 8:13 AM
Just the logical extension of the past two years. Expanding power, authority and spending so they can negotiate from a higher base. That has been the mission statement of this Congress.
- December 15, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- RebeccaH said...
House Democrat: "I don't understand. Why is everybody so upset?"
- December 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM
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U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has apologized for a heated exchange that took place during a House Oversight Committee meeting on Wednesday.
The hearing was about an investigation into the IRS for targeting conservative groups.
When IRS official Lois Lerner refused to answer questions, Issa abruptly ended the hearing.
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However, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., protested and said he wanted to ask a question. Issa motioned to cut Cummings' microphone. Cummings kept speaking, becoming increasingly upset. Issa eventually told Cummings that he had his chance and left.
On Thursday, Issa personally apologized to Cummings.
Cummings then released this statement:
This evening, Chairman Issa telephoned me and apologized for his conduct, and I accepted his apology. My sincere hope is that we move forward, we will respect the opinions of all members of the committee, we will proceed in a deliberate manner to obtain the facts, we will refrain from making accusations that have no basis in fact, and we will seek resolution rather than unnecessary conflict.
Issa's office did not release a statement, but referred NBC 7 to the congressman's Twitter account:
I just wanted to clear the air with @RepCummings: http://t.co/Krs974TlTH — Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) March 7, 2014
"I could have offered to reopen the hearing and allowed him to make a second statement. As chairman, I should have been much more sensitive to the mood of what was going on, and I take responsibility," Issa said in a phone interview with the UT San Diego.
Issa represents California's 49th Congressional District, with includes parts of San Diego's North County and southern Orange County.


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From the sands to the skies, look up and go birdwatching in Broome Bird Observatory. Want to see something cool? Find the 130-million-year old dinosaur footprints at Gantheaume Point when the tides are low. Even the winds in Albany create something spectacular, so don't you forget to check out the massive rock formations of Entrance Point.
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UAlbany Students Awarded $100K to Commercialize RNA Technology
The RNA Institute's Student Venture Fund Challenges Teams of Science and Business Students to Bring RNA Inventions to Market
ALBANY, N.Y. (July 16, 2012) -- Underscoring the significant role universities play in fostering research, entrepreneurship and economic growth, the University at Albany's RNA Institute recently awarded two teams of science and business students $50,000 each in its inaugural Student Venture Fund program. Made possible through funding from Waltham, Mass-based Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the fund challenges students to develop commercially viable technologies for biomedical science and their applications to the biology of RNA.
Uniting graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from UAlbany's School of Business, College of Arts and Sciences and The RNA Institute, the venture fund participants develop inventions and submit proposals aimed at advancing both the technology and commercialization of RNA science. The winning teams will now demonstrate proof of principle and conduct a detailed market analysis for their invention, with additional in-kind support through School of Business cooperating firms.
The inventions and proposals, formulated through an entrepreneurship course designed by Professor Fred Buse that is offered by UAlbany's School of Business, were judged by a committee consisting of Thermo Fisher and The RNA Institute representatives. Course adjunct professors Robert Schwartz and Cory Martin also served as judges. Project evaluations are based upon scientific merit, market potential, and synergy with existing Thermo Fisher product lines.
Student teams from UAlbany's School of Business and The RNA Institute consult on inventions and proposals to advance both the technology and commercialization of RNA science in the Student Venture Fund.
Paul F. Agris, director of The RNA Institute, said Thermo Fisher's contribution provides resources for the Venture Fund students to develop novel technologies aimed at furthering the discovery of therapeutics, diagnostics, and forensics with application to RNA.
"Partnering with Thermo Fisher immerses UAlbany students in the development of intellectual property and business plans," said Agris. "These projects nurture both discovery and entrepreneurship in a cutting-edge scientific environment."
Agris added, "We are happy to say that UAlbany science department alumni that have their own successful technology companies or are now serving as vice presidents for research and development at major U.S. corporations set extraordinary examples for our students. These alumni are participating as ad hoc reviewers of the student proposals."
"This unique university-industry partnership links world-class life scientists and graduate business students, in order to accelerate the commercialization of basic research," said UAlbany School of Business Dean Don Siegel. "The partnership we have developed will allow us to achieve remarkable economic development outcomes in the realm of life sciences entrepreneurship, in terms of new firm and job creation, as well as product innovation and development."
Dr. Jon Karpilow from Thermo Fisher encouraged and enlightened the venture fund students in the entrepreneurship course by providing examples of successful Thermo Fisher product development projects.
"Universities play a critical role in economic development by preparing students for the workforce, fostering scientific discovery that translates into economic growth," said Craig Smith, V.P. Research and Development for Thermo Fisher's Biosciences business. "The students put together well-conceived proposals which hold a very high potential for success and commercial applicability."
Doctoral student Abhijit Jadhav, a member of one of the winning teams, reflected on the unique, hands-on structure of the class. "The course not only reflected on how to build a successful business but showed us what it takes to be an entrepreneur," said Jadhav. "It has definitely helped me understand how to integrate scientific principles with commercial aspects of business. I am now better equipped to take on the challenge of real world problems."
This announcement comes on the heels of a $2 million RNA Institute Biomedical Translational Research grant award from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's "Open for Business" competition. The biotech translational research will help promote novel, collaborative research ideas for training and job opportunities in the biomedical sector of the Capital Region economy. Monies will be used to support capital equipment, create new jobs and provide high technology training opportunities.
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The RNA Institute, launched in June 2010 at the University at Albany, leverages a new paradigm for development and delivery of innovative medicines, vaccines and diagnostics. It brings together leading researchers from higher education and other institutions, and offers advanced facilities for RNA science and its applications. It provides the critical resources needed to advance innovation in technologies, and the development of drugs for the most serious and difficult to treat human diseases in the areas of infectious disease, including bacterial (MRSA) and viral (HIV), cancer, and neurodegenerative and neuromuscular disorders.
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Police report at least three people are dead after a gunman opened fire at a Pathmark grocery store in Old Bridge, New Jersey. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Updated at 5 p.m. ET: Three people are dead after an employee shot to death two coworkers before killing himself at a New Jersey supermarket Friday morning, authorities said.
Police said the shooting happened just before 4 a.m. inside a Pathmark grocery store on Route 9 in Old Bridge, N.J., about 25 miles from New York.
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Police investigate a shooting at a Pathmark grocery store on Route 9 in Old Bridge, N.J., on Friday.
The victims were 18-year-old Christine Lo Brutto and 24-year-old Bryan Breen, both from Old Bridge. The gunman, Terence S. Tyler, was 23 years old, police said.
All three were working the night shift at the Pathmark with 12 other employees. The store was closed at the time, scheduled to open at 6 a.m.
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Police believe Tyler may have gotten into an argument with a coworker at the Pathmark before he allegedly left the store around 3:30 a.m. Police say he then went to his car, drove away and returned to the store about 20 minutes later, dressed in camouflage clothing and with a weapon similar to an AK-47 assault rifle.
Police say Tyler opened fired on an employee standing outside the store, then went inside and fired at least 16 shots from the rifle at five employees, killing two people. He then killed himself with a handgun.
Some employees ran out of the back of the store to escape, while police safely removed other employees after making entry into the store. No shots were fired by police.
Authorities said the victims were not necessarily targeted, but the motive is under investigation. Officials recovered the rifle, several ammunition magazines and a 45 caliber handgun from the scene.
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Tyler was a former Marine, who earned several medals for his service between March 2008 and February 2010. At the time of his discharge, he achieved the rank of Lance Corporal. He was an Old Bridge resident and had been working at the Pathmark since Aug. 20. Police said Tyler may have had a history of depression and mental illness.
The family of victim Lo Brutto, a recent high school grad, has asked for privacy. However, neighbor Carolyn Anders said Lo Brutto had a "heart of gold, always smile on her face."
"Why does an 18-year-old have to lose her life? She just [began] it," Anders said.
A vigil for Lo Brutto and Breen was planned for Friday night.
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An aerial view of the Pathmark supermarket in Old Bridge, N.J., where a shooting that occurred at about 4 a.m. Friday left three people, including the gunman, dead.
Employees who were in the store at the time of the shooting congregated later in the morning outside a TGI Friday's restaurant in the shopping center where the supermarket is located.
New Jersey Transit closed its nearby park-and-ride lot, The Associated Press reported.
Aerial news video showed heavily armed police on the ground outside the supermarket and several windows broken.
The store was closed Friday. Pathmark officials had no immediate comment on the shooting.
NBC News' Jonathan Dienst, Brynn Gingras, Brian Thompson and Katherine Creag contributed to this report.
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Christmas Sheets
Graphing Sheets For Christmas
Christmas Sheets
During this Christmas time, you are probably already thinking ahead planning your first lesson plan of your first unit. With first year planning, comes also taking stock of accessible resources including writing various types of worksheets.
For the new teacher, this may seem a daunting task. Building an extensive resource of worksheets takes a long time. You, like any new teacher, are probably overwhelmed yet curious as to how to begin this process. Of course you'll have to try and survive like any other teacher, but the good news is you don't have to make up and recreate every single worksheet for your students.
The ideal situation is to pool all available teacher resources on staff and in your learning resource centers. If you find yourself stuck, go the files on hand at your school, and look through for ideas generic enough to help get you started. This could mean taking the ideas of one of the many free worksheets from this site and adapting them to meet the needs of your student.
Part of the learning process for a new teacher involves experimenting with utilizing free worksheets, whether it be from the Internet or from your staff. You will never know in advance whether the teacher ideas from the classroom worksheets will work well with your students. It is almost a random 'hit or miss' situation. However, in order to maximize your points for success, try to aim for:
- Following your intuition. What was successful about the worksheet? What wasn't?
- Is the teacher idea doable? Can the students actually perform the task on hand?
If the answers to these questions are 'no,' you'll need to do some major revamping on those free worksheets, which will inevitably benefit your students in the long run. Plus, you'll be teaching yourself new skills that are important for new teacher independence.


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Adventurer Club Awards
The Adventurer awards are designed to be used in connection with the Adventurer curriculum. It is recommended that a variety of awards be offered to help each child have a well-rounded understanding of many interests.
It is the desire of the committee that the teacher will be creative and make the award meaningful to the Adventurer child. Remember to challenge the more advanced child without discouraging the lesser achiever.
The goal is to help each child experience achievement and to learn new activities and ideas in an interesting and fun way. Affirm each child, remembering that there is more than one right way. Encourage each child to do his/her best. We do not need to be perfect. God is not finished with us yet.
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I would like to know What is the best method for predicting the water solubility (and in other solvents) of a compound given its molecular structure at different pHs. What I know now is based on the seminal paper from Eisenberg et al.;
Eisenberg, D. & McLachlan, A. D. Solvation energy in protein folding and binding. Nature 319, 199–203 (1986).
where partition coefficient can be estimated depending on each atom type and its exposed surface to the solvent (SASA). This seems to work well for many substances, but I have the problem that I need to know the solubility dependence of some substances against pH, and I the only thing I found now as Chemaxon tools, but their results are not very accurate. It seems that the best option might be quantum mechanical calculations and tools such as COSMO-RS. At the moment we can not pay its license.
So in summary, I wonder what approaches do you suggest for calculating solubility of small chemical compounds depending on pH. Any method/software/server would be fine for us.


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Vietnam veteran Frank Spink (center) receives the Silver Star from Indiana National Guard Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. R. Martin Umbarger (left), and Indiana Congressman Todd Rokita (right), at Indiana Joint Force Headquarters in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012.
Forty-four years ago, Frank Spink, a 22-year-old Army sergeant who had been drafted into the Vietnam War, spotted enemy forces approaching in the middle of the night and warned his sleeping platoon leader. Their company was quickly receiving rocket and grenade fire; Spink lost his right arm in the attack and attempted to shoot with his left hand until he passed out.
That was in June 1968, and Spink eventually returned home to Indiana following a stay at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he received a Purple Heart.
"It was a mission," Spink, 66, told NBC News. "I never thought a whole lot more about it."
But that night stayed with his platoon leader and second lieutenant John McHenry, who said Spink saved soldiers' lives with his warning.
"Those few seconds that we had made all the difference," he said. "If they had gotten much closer with their firepower, we would have been toast."
McHenry hadn't really spoken about the attack that night, during which he sustained a concussion, until a few years ago. Then he began wondering if his soldiers had ever received recognition for their heroic acts.
"That's one of the things that haunted me over the years, that the guys didn't get recognition," McHenry said.
He decided to investigate the records at the National Archives in College Park, Md., four years ago and found an order to award Spink a Silver Star that had nearly been lost to history. McHenry believes the mistake may have been the result of an error in the number that identified Spink.
McHenry called Spink with the good news. "I couldn't believe it," said Spink, who didn't realize his actions were worthy of the military's third highest honor. "I thought I was supposed to do that."
Earlier this year, Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., who counts Spink as a constituent, lobbied military officials to award the medal quickly.
"Sgt. Spink did his duty bravely and heroically, and to our shame as a country, we never gave him the honor he deserved. I'm glad we were able to right this wrong and show our appreciation to him and to all of his fellow veterans," said Rokita.
Spink received the medal on Wednesday in Indianapolis at the Indiana National Guard headquarters. In a ceremony attended by many local veterans, Spink asked those who served in Vietnam to stand up and be applauded.
"This is their day also," he said. "We were there to watch out for each other."
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Chelsea Condo Project The Dorian Will Start at $3 Million
May 22, 2015, by Jeremiah Budin
A new luxury condo project in Chelsea is set to launch sales, with prices ranging from around $3 million to around $10 million, according to the Instagram account of one Fredrik Eklund. The building, located at 221 West 17th Street, is being developed by Delshah Capital. It will consist of 10 stories with a total of 14 units over 40,000 square feet, according to The Real Deal, for an average size of 2,857 square feet per unithuge for most areas of the city, but more standard for the type of uberluxury development that is springing up all over Chelsea these days. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2016.
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Another Pivoting Skyscraper Coming to Crowded Midtown East Block
By Ondel Hylton
August 10th, 2015
Its hard for a new building to stand out in the Big Apple these days, with striking towers designed by the worlds foremost architects, soaring pinnacles jutting 1,500 feet into the clouds, and massive 1,000-unit apartment buildings possessing all the amenities of a Caribbean resort. However, within the densest thicket of Midtown skyscrapers, Handel Architects along with SLCE have crafted a 43-story, 450,000-square-foot residential tower whose elevations are angled to the street grid on all sides. The tactic will set the skyscraper apart from its perpendicular neighbors and grant its residents a touch more light and air within Midtowns concrete canyons.
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Could This Honeycomb Tower Be Moshe Safdies Bancroft Building Replacement?
By Ondel Hylton
August 13, 2015
The rendered skyscraper appears to align with a block-through development site near the corner of West 29th Street and Fifth Avenue that has been assembled by Ziel Feldmans HFZ Development. That site was purchased from the Collegiate Churches of New York in 2013 and was partially occupied by the striped brick and limestone
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Very nice.
Two Upper East Side Sites Prepare for New Towers
August 11, 2015, by Zoe Rosenberg
Rendering of 1562-1564 Second Avenue via Isaac & Stern.
Developer Icon Realty Management has been setting the scene for a mini-takeover of a two-block stretch of Second Avenue on the Upper East Side, and is preparing to bring in the big gunsor rather, cranes. As machines bore the Second Avenue Subway underfoot, the Post reports that Icon is beginning "full bore demolition" on the sites of two future residential developments at a six-parcel assemblage at 1538 Second Avenue between 80th and 81st streets, and at 1562 Second Avenue just one block to the north. Plans were revealed in mid-2014 for a 14-story high-end residential building designed by Isaac & Stern for the site at 1562, but the high-end residential building that will rise on the southern site has yet to be unveiled.
Another rendering of 1562-1564 Second Avenue via Isaac & Stern.
Icon purchased the glut of properties for $44.8 million, plus a $3 million air rights deal, a few years ago. Locals haven't taken kindly to Icon's takeover; as the buildings traded hands, their ground-floor institutionsamongst them Chinese staple Pig Heavenhave shuttered and remained vacant ahead of demolition.
The site at 1562-1564 Second Avenue via PropertyShark.
1538-1546 Second Avenue via Google Maps.
Plans have been filed for the 14-story building at 1562 that will replace the two low-rise buildings at 1562-1564 Second Avenue and bring 11 floor-through apartments plus a duplex to the site. The Post suspects construction will begin on both projects by 2016.
Ambitious 2nd Avenue project looks to fulfill 70-year-old dream [NYP]
Handel Architects Luxurious Amalfi Condo Tower Will Now Be Swanky Senior Living Pads
By Ondel Hylton
August 26, 2015
Heres a closer look at Handel Architects design of a would-have-been condominium tower at 305 East 93rd Street, named The Amalfi. The five-parcel site located at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 93rd Street in Yorkville was slated to be developed by Merchants Hospitality until they recently bowed out to a senior living developer, Maplewood.
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Karl Fischer-Designed Tower to Replace Beekman Places Piscane Seafood Building
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September 2, 2015
Piscane Seafood, one of the oldest remaining fish markets in the city, closed this spring, and its humble 19th-century home at 940 First Avenue will be replaced by a 14-story residential building. According to permits filed with the citys Department of Buildings yesterday, the narrow 25-foot-wide lot will give rise to a 141-foot-tall tower developed by Brooklyn-based CS Real Estate Group and designed by the often-maligned architect Karl Fischer. The building will provide a commercial storefront at ground level and thirteen floor-through units above, likely condominiums.
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Village Green West, Alfa Developments Chelsea Condominium, Nears Completion
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September 3, 2015
The finishing touches are being applied to Alfa Developments environmentally sensitive and industrially evocative condominium Village Green West. According to CityRealty, only two if its 27 units are are currently up for grabs, with at least 18 already in contract. Alfas 12-story mid-block building is centrally positioned at 245 West 14th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues at the crossroads of Chelsea, the West Village, and the Meatpacking District. The Michael Namer-led development team purchased the 5,200-square-foot development site in 2012 for $14.65 million.
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Flatirons 21W20 Finally Unshrouded Take a Virtual Walk Through the Penthouses
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December 3, 2015
Two penthouse units (yes, two) remain at Gale Internationals boutique condominium development 21W20. The 15-story mid-rise is Gales first foray into the Manhattan market and has already placed 11 of the buildings 13 full-floor homes into contract at an average price of $2,528 per square foot. Slated for occupancy by years end, the projects construction netting has finally come down and the finishing touches are now being applied to the lobby.
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I am copying and pasting my email to Shirls aka Happychix, just to make things easier for me right now.
I had a really bad panic attack at the surgical center this morning. I almost fainted on them (both my surgeons reached out to grab me). I had to sit down and was pale and dripping with sweat. It lasted about 20 mins, but as soon as I stepped into the operating room, I was good to go. The surgery lasted 4 hrs. I was super itchy for 1.5 hrs afterwards from the meds, but I felt (and still feel) GREAT! The staff was surprised at how well I am doing. I worked my butt off to be in the best health possible for this surgery, and it's looking like it's paying off. I expect to be more sore later, but right now I am feeling no pain. They have me bandaged up for both my tummy and my breasts. So I'm not in a compression garment or surgical bra yet. At my one week post-op appointment, they will remove the bandages and I will start to wear my garments.
I know that I was a total wreck for the two weeks leading up to the surgery. I only slept 45 minutes last night, but now I see how silly it was to fret so much because everything went great, and I am pleased as punch!
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I think you rock! I've been reading along for awhile now! Boo on those negative nelly's!
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffet does not approve of President Obama's recent veto of the Keystone XL pipeline. Buffet believes Obama is thumbing his nose at Canada.
Buffet said another reason he would have passed Keystone XL is because the United States may need a favor from Canada in the future. It should be noted that Obama's veto of Keystone XL is not his final decision on the transnational project. The president vetoed the bill because he wants to make the final decision as opposed to allowing Congress to back him into a corner.
But Buffet's support of the pipeline is particularly surprising, given his ownership of BNSF Railway, which is a major network that transports crude from the Bakken region of North Dakota. This may be one case where the prosperous investor is placing his conscious above his portfolio. He mentioned that pipeline explosions and mishaps are rare compared to shipments by way of rail. And given the string of train derailments in recent years, the issue of shipping crude through the rail system has come to the forefront.
Railway vs. Pipeline Debate Rages On
Many contend that pipeline transportation is safer than trains, but the issue is a bit more complicated. According to data taken from 2005 to 2009, there were 718 train-related accidents each year, compared to 354 accidents for pipelines. However, some critics argue that pipeline proponents are misleading the public about the true safety of pipeline networks. The fact is that pipeline leaks occur more frequently than railroad accidents; the only difference is that the pipeline industry is only required to report spills over five gallons. Railway networks, on the other hand, are mandated to report all accidents. Pipeline spills can also be harder to reach and clean up.
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While pipeline accidents are more frequent, no one can deny that train derailments can happen in populated areas. Another problem is that the Bakken-type crude being shipped throughout the country ignites at a low temperature due to the higher levels of natural gas contained within. Using pipeline systems is a safer and efficient alternative to loading volatile crude on trains. And those who support further pipeline construction contend that more pipeline networks should be implemented to import more oil from Canada to reduce Middle East dependence.
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Buffet has stated that the railway industry will need stringent safety standards to minimize accidents and hazards, and he has already put his money where his mouth is by investing in safer railway cars. But Buffet isn't coming down on one side or the other. He still believes both sides are using talking points to advance their agendas, and he stresses that pipelines and trains are necessary to sustain America's energy future.


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Wrkncacnter wrote:Sad!
Windbreaker wrote:What's sad is no one knows which image you were trying to post :C
Wrkncacnter wrote:We need to get to the bottom of this, as it's far more important than Wind's useless maps.
Wrkncacnter wrote:Edit: Apparently, you need to visit somethingawful.com in your browser before the images load. Maybe you need a cookie or something? Terrible!
thedoctor45 wrote:Still not as important as getting WMaiD done, ofc...
Windbreaker wrote:I'd be interested in returning to that project if other people are still working on it; I'm pretty much all out of ideas for netmaps right now. In terms of converting some of my multiplayer maps to WMaiD netmaps as per your review (thanks btw), that could be interesting. I'd probably only do a couple, but I could see it turning out pretty well!
thedoctor45 wrote:If by that time you are still interested in working with me on the project, we can try to actually get this thing ready for release
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You've probably noticed that many websites now allow you to register or sign in using one of your existing social network accounts, like your Facebook username or your Twitter ID. It's not just a startup fad; in fact, there's solid science behind it. Blue Research studied the holiday shopping habits of US consumers and noticed that the vast majority of us are annoyed by having to create a new account to use a site, and would generally rather use one of our existing social network accounts.
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Charles Schwab Corporation released its Monthly Market Activity Report today. Company highlights for the month of October 2012 include:
- Net new assets brought to the company by new and existing clients in October 2012 totaled $24.7 billion, including a $15.7 billion inflow related to a mutual fund clearing services client.
- Total client assets were a record $1.9 trillion as of month-end October, up 13% from October 2011 and flat compared to September 2012.
- Client daily average trades were 439.7 thousand in October 2012, down 14% from October 2011 and flat compared to September 2012. October 29 and 30, 2012 were not included as trading days due to weather-related market closures, with a corresponding impact on trading revenue. October 2012 trading activity included a sequential rise in asset-based trades.
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The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: SCHW) is a leading provider of financial services, with more than 300 offices and 8.7 million client brokerage accounts, 1.6 million corporate retirement plan participants, 851,000 banking accounts, and $1.9 trillion in client assets. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC, www.sipc.org), and affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; compliance and trade monitoring solutions; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through Schwab Advisor Services. Its banking subsidiary, Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender), provides banking and mortgage services and products. More information is available at www.schwab.com and www.aboutschwab.com.
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Today former NYPD police officer Kenneth Moreno, who was acquitted of raping a woman while on duty, received the maximum sentence for "official misconduct" and was berated by a judge for his numerous lies. But, the story has an utterly unsatisfying end, as Moreno was released just hours later by an appeals court judge.
In May a jury found Moreno not guilty of raping a 27-year-old woman while his partner, Franklin Mata, stood watch. Though there was ample evidence against Moreno, the jury wasn't convinced that he committed the crime because there was no DNA evidence (and no one believes drunk women). The officers were found guilty of three counts of official misconduct for returning to the woman's apartment three times while on duty (and as Moreno admitted, "snuggling" with her in bed).
Though a parole committee recommended that the officers be given probation, in court today Judge Gregory Carro sentenced Moreno to one year in prison for each count. According to Reuters (which decided to note in its headline that the misconduct involved a "drunk" woman) the law dictates that the sentences must be served concurrently. Mata's sentencing has been postponed to Wednesday.
Carro insisted that his harsh treatment of Moreno had nothing to do with the rape acquittal and pointed out that just the official misconduct was despicable enough to warrant the maximum sentence. "Law enforcement plays an important role in the fabric of our society," he said. "You ripped that fabric." Carro added:
"There has to be an import to some of the lies you told on the stand, but also your position at the time you committed these crimes. You were a police officer."
Moreno's lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, gave the protesters gathered outside the courtroom and unintentional tip of the hat by declaring, "I don't think if this had been an anonymous defendant that the sentence would have been same." Moreno's request for 20 days to surrender was denied, and he was escorted to directly to Riker's Island.
Sonia Ossorio of the National Organization for Women, said, "There is some semblance of justice in seeing Moreno led away in handcuffs for his crimes." But that feeling was short-lived. This afternoon Appeals Court Judge Nelson Roman released Moreno on $125,000 bail so he can appeal his conviction.
Even if Moreno's appeal is successful, he may still be facing jail time. During the rape and misconduct investigation, heroin was found in his locker, and now he's facing drug possession charges. Stay tuned to find out Moreno's lawyer paints him as the victim in that case too.
Former Cop Gets Prison For Misconduct With Drunk Woman [Reuters]
Kenneth Moreno, Ex-NYPD Cop Acquitted Of Rape, Freed On Bail Hours After Sentenced To Year In Prison [N.Y. Daily News]
Ex-Cop, Acquitted Of Rape, Sentenced To Prison For Misconduct [CNN]


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Empty lot along Wisconsin, 27th being developed
An area of Milwaukee plagued by boarded up businesses, battered streets and loitering is now under construction.
A new state agency building is breaking ground, and it's designed to attract more economic growth.
A 2 1/2-acre lot along 27th Street and Wisconsin Avenue is on its way to becoming a three-story state agency building and neighbors are taking notice.
"Have you been staring at a vacant lot for a while?" WISN 12 News reporter Hillary Mintz asked a resident in the area.
"Yep, for quite some time. Whatever they doing I guess it's for the best," neighbor Melvin McCauley said.
"We are constructing about a 70,000-square foot office building that the Department of Children and Families is going to be occupying in June of 2013," said Joe Klein of Klein Development.
It will house about 200 employees with a public entrance on 26th Street.
The lot is the former site of a high-rise hotel and a Marquette University dormitory, but for at least the past 10 years, it's been empty.
City leaders said they've been waiting for the right fit. Other ideas had been presented, such as a new police administration building.
Ultimately, the Department of Children and Families said this allows them to combine three Milwaukee offices into one and serve the public more efficiently.
The hope is right now that the additional development will actually add another positive cornerstone to reinvigorate the area and actually bring it back up," milwaukee Alderman James Bohl said.
Bohl said despite a few design tweaks, they're confident this is the start of positive growth for the area.
A parking lot is also being built on the land.
Common Council members said there are even more redevelopment plans on the table for that neighborhood.


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[Posted 07/01/2005] In response to recent scientific publications that report the possibility of increased risk of suicidal behavior in adults treated with antidepressants, the FDA has issued a Public Health Advisory to update patients and healthcare providers with the latest information on this subject. Even before the publication of these recent reports, FDA had already begun the process of reviewing available data to determine whether there is an increased risk of suicidal behavior in adults taking antidepressants. The Agency has asked manufacturers to provide information from their trials using an approach similar to that used in the evaluation of the risk of suicidal behavior in the pediatric population taking antidepressants. This effort will involve hundreds of clinical trials and may take more than a year to complete.
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