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Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" is the latest Linux Mint release based off of Ubuntu 9.04, and since I already briefly used Ubuntu 9.04 on this very same netbook, I expected it to perform at least the same, if not better. After all, the boot screen displays the phrase "from freedom came elegace" with the Linux Mint logo above it.
The hardware used for reviewing Linux Mint 7 is my trusty EeePC 1000 HE netbook. It has an Intel Atom processor at 1.66 GHz, 1 GB of DRR2 RAM, 160 GB of hard drive space, Bluetooth, wireless b, g, and n, a 1.3 MP webcam, and a 10.2-inch screen. Its network name is appropriately BLACK-BEAUTY.
To install Linux Mint on my netbook via a USB drive, I used the beautiful program known as Unetbootin, available for both Windows and Linux. Though Linux Mint 7 wasn't yet included in the default options of the program (it comes with a preset list of distributions to use), I was still able to download the image and install it on the USB drive from that. I installed the Linux Mint 7 Main Edition.
Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover-- or an OS by Its First Day of PerformanceInstallation from the bootable USB drive was painless and almost exactly the same as Ubuntu 9.04's. The entire process took around thirty minutes. Booting into Mint for the first time was sort of like being a child who comes into the family room on Christmas day when the tree is lit up and a model steam engine is weaving its way between a pile of gifts. It's pretty, it's new, it's exciting, and it's... silent. The silence was caused by the wrong driver being loaded for the sound card, but that was fixed very easily later by selecting a different one. The logon sound reminds me of a cell phone getting a text-- that's what I thought it was the first time.
It certainly was pretty, but it was missing something. The wireless wouldn't detect any networks at first, but after I let it sit for a while as I did other things, it was able to sense mine. Only after a very long time of coaxing, retrying to connect, and disabling and enabling the network adapter did it finally connect. No tweaking caused it to work-- it suddenly connected of its own accord, which is quite odd and leaves me rather bepuzzled. It finally connected, but, due to the fact that I have a somewhat unique setup in my home (DSL modem --> wireless router with the router acting as DHCP server), I was not able to connect to the Internet and was only allowed to roam my own network no matter what I did. I've only had this problem with Ubuntu and Linux Mint before as all of my other wireless computers in the house (Windows XP, Vista, and 7) have been able to connect to the Internet flawlessly. After having a bit of a think, I finally decided to change the DHCP server from the wireless router to the DSL modem, and, after more disabling, enabling, and rebooting both routers two or three times, the wireless finally connected and had Internet access at the same time: miracle. It would still take a day or two before Mint would connect to my network automatically (even though it was set to from the beginning); it also took as long for it to connect in less than a minute and a half after being told to. Again, I did no tweaking-- the system just needed to be broken in or something, I suppose, like a shoe or a horse. Thankfully, though, the networking on my netbook with Linux Mint now connects automatically in an unnoticable amount of time, and it works flawlessly except when coming out of hibernation (that seems to be a common complaint).
After the networking kafuffle, I also found that the interface seemed to be slow and jumpy, as was the starting of applications. It was disappointing, really, and surprising to find this. The visual effects were only set to normal, and I have seen similar applications start up much more quickly on Ubuntu than this. However, after using Mint for a couple of days, I set the visual effects to the most advanced setting, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that windows weren't quirky anymore and the overall performance was faster despite being more graphically intensive. After going back to check normal graphics settings, they now work just as well; I believe that my performance lagged because updated or correct drivers hadn't been downloaded (due to the network mess as previously mentioned), and that performing the first update solved that problem. On the other hand, Firefox is still painfully slow and I sometimes twiddle my thumbs a mite longer than I'd have thought as I wait for system applications such as the control panel or mintUpdate to load. Otherwise, the system seems pretty snappy.
Things were looking bleak for Linux Mint 7 at first, but, once the networking was working, things began to fall into place and were on the up and up.
A Deeper Look: System Features, Performance, Aesthetics
My hope was being restored in Mint again. Continuing in my experience with the system, I found some pretty spiffy features I'd like to show examples of.
First off is the Menu. Instead of a menu bar at the top of the screen containing all programs, options, and tools, it's contained in one button similar to Windows' Start Menu. It's divided into sections with features to filter out certain types of applications. However, my favorite of all of these is the search option similar to Windows Vista's Start Menu search and Mac OS X's Spotlight. A user may type in the name of an application to use, or the user may type in the name of a package to install or to search on repositories. What's more is that when the Menu is closes and reopened, the search filter remains.
Performance-wise, as already briefly stated, Mint runs pretty well on my netbook. It does have its slow moments using certain applications, but Chromium and OpenOffice.org, the applications I mainly use on a netbook, run beautifully. Most other standard applications do, too. It seems to mostly be Firefox and several of the system tools that have trouble. On the other hand, I'm sure that these would have vast improvements running on a desktop with at least slightly better hardware.
Start-up times are a bit slower than anticipated, as are times going into and coming out of hibernation. Going into hibernation takes around 20-25 seconds and 25-30 waking up. Start up takes around 35-40 seconds. Even still, it's not disgustingly slow; I'm still pleased.
Though the battery time on my EeePC is rated for the default system at a beautiful 6-9 hours, I seem to get less battery time using Linux Mint 7 than Windows XP. On a good day, I can get around seven hours of Internet browsing and word processing on Windows, but Linux Mint seems to fall behind at a somewhat lesser 4-5 hours.
Most of the hardware on this netbook seems to play well with Mint. Even the easy-access buttons above the keyboard have effect-- one puts the computer on standby, and the rest I believe are somehow customizable as they cause the cursor to halt in blinking for a fraction of a second whenever I press them (proving that the system picks up some sort of signal when they're pressed), but I'm currently not interested in figuring them out; I've done a few searches to see if someone else has posted their procedure of customizing them online, but none of them revealed anything. Some of the hardware that doesn't work, however, are what some people may call vital. I don't use my webcam or bluetooth very often, so it's not been a problem for me thus far to not have them work. I can't find any way to interact with the webcam in the system as it currently is, and, though there is a bluetooth interface, it doesn't seem to be able to tell that I have bluetooth hardware. I do know that there are procedures for getting webcams to work for Ubuntu posted on various websites, so I imagine that they'll work for Linux Mint as well seeing as how it's based on Ubuntu, though this theory remains untested by me.
The aesthetics of the system are undeniably pretty. There is a wide selection of different themes and backgrounds, but the default is still glorious. Green is my favorite, so perhaps I'm a bit biased. At any rate, the advanced graphics work well as detailed before, and those combined with the color and icon schemes make it a pretty environment to work in, indeed. If people want eye-candy in their operating system, Linux Mint is a very comfy way to go and can compete with other more popular systems.
I also found it funny that Linux Mint's terminal gives you a sort of joke/fortune every time you start a new session.
Since I've become addicted to Google Chrome, I decided I might try to get Chromium on my Mint partition (the slowness of Firefox also influenced my decision). At first I attempted to install the Windows version of Chrome via Wine, but despite a successful installation, all I could get was a blank about:blank screen. Using these instructions to get Chromium, I installed Chromium slickly and quickly, and I use it happily to this day.
Chromium seems more stable and completed than I had anticipated. Day by day use feels just like Chrome, and I sometimes forget that, to paraphrase Dorothy, "We're not in Windows anymore, Toto" when I use the Internet for an extended period. The only problems I've had with Chromium thus far is that some sites based on flash don't work properly (flash isn't supported at all in Chromium just yet), and pages implementing HTML5 cause Chromium to completely freeze-- pages such as the samples shown on Kroc's website regarding the successful open letter to Mozilla some time ago. Otherwise, the browser seems to work beautifully and just as fast and efficacious as the Windows version.


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(AP) NEW YORK The prototype space shuttle that arrived in New York City by air earlier this spring is on the move again, this time by sea.
The Enterprise has been parked at Kennedy Airport since it flew from Washington to New York atop a 747 jet.
The shuttle was placed on a barge Saturday and readied for a slow journey through the harbor to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Manhattan's West Side.
The barge is scheduled to be taken Sunday across New York Harbor to Port Elizabeth, N.J.
Then, on Tuesday, a tugboat is to move the Enterprise to the Intrepid, a decommissioned aircraft carrier.
Plans are in place for a floating crane to lift the spacecraft onto the flight deck.


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Hey All,
Was going through some old stuff and came across this link. It's a software company that creates and distributes cracking tools for various programs (ie: WinZip, Office, MSN, etc...). The tools seem to be effective.
Check it out if you're interested or bored.... or have a legitimate reason (need for app)
I haven't downloaded any (demo) programs (yet) to check them out, but it appears that demo versions have limited functions. Thankfully so, this way script kiddies won't have all the tools they need for password thefts.....


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Patrice Bergeron scores 1st of Bruins' 3 goals in 2nd period of 3-1 win over Red WingsNHL.com @NHL
BOSTON - Patrice Bergeron scored the first of Boston's three second-period goals that lifted the Bruins to a 3-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night.
David Krejci and Torey Krug also scored for the Bruins, who posted just their second home win this season (2-5-1).
Boston's Tuukka Rask made 22 saves. He had allowed 27 goals in his previous seven home games.
Justin Abdelkader scored a third-period, power-play goal for Detroit, which has lost its last five meetings with the Bruins.
Peter Mrazek stopped 28 shots for Detroit, which was coming off a 3-2 loss at home against San Jose on Friday night.


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Artemis Quartet
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet was founded in 1989. While a couple of big awards and prizes signaled their success early on, they elected to immerse themselves in further study with the Alban Berg Quartet rather than pitching into the tempting fast track of career success. They turned professional in 1994 and have since drawn attention for their performances, which overflow with fullness of sound and unparalleled drama. Now in residence at Konzerthaus Vienna with a regular concert series at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Artemis Quartet makes its UMS debut with an interesting program that pairs Bach preludes and fugues with Piazzolla tangos that were originally written for a stage play. The program is bookended by two Mendelssohn quartets.
Mendelssohn: Quartet in D Major, Op. 44, No. 1
J. S. Bach: "Contrapunctus I" from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Astor Piazzolla: Tango del Angel
Bach: "Prelude in e minor" from The Well-Tempered Clavier I, BWV 855
Piazzolla: Muerte del Angel I
Bach: "Prelude in A Major" from The Well-Tempered Clavier I, BWV 862
Piazzolla: Milonga del Angel
Bach: "Fugue in f minor" from The Well-Tempered Clavier I, BWV 857
Piazzolla: Muerte del Angel II
Bach: "Prelude in c minor" from The Well-Tempered Clavier I, BWV 847
Mendelssohn: Quartet in f minor, Op. 80


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Feb 2013 08:44 UTC
"This release includes many new features and improvements over Tizen 1.0 released in April, and Tizen 2.0 alpha in September, 2012. As a Tizen 2.0 developer, you will find strong HTML5/W3C APIs and a new native framework." Are any of you doing any Tizen-related work? How is it?
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Yeah, but from that article it looks like one fortune 500 company completely screwed over another ( in addition other developers). I think this is even more evidence that the higher ups at intel just look at their linux mobile effort as a distraction, rather than an actual shipping product that they care about. If I were an intel dev working on the project, I'd quit the company and find a job where my work is appreciated. Or at the very least lobby to contribute to a different internal effort.
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The 2015 Business Women's Forum (BWF) will present two $3,000 scholarship awards to Ms. Nicole Blum of Woodbridge, Connecticut and Tatyana Daniel of Waterbury, Connecticut, both juniors majoring in business in the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business at Post University in Waterbury. The non-profit BWF is based in Waterbury and is Connecticut's longest-running full-day annual conference for women. BWF's mission is to raise funds for an annual scholarship to enable female Post University
students to pursue business educations.
Ms. Blum and Ms. Daniel will receive their honors October 23rd before more than 500 anticipated attendees at the 33rd annual BWF conference that will be held at The Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville between 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and will feature keynote addresses by Emmy Award-winning television and radio talk show host Leeza Gibbons, and nationally-recognized motivational speaker Juliet Funt, founder of WhiteSpace at Work.
"Making It All Work" is the theme of the 2015 BWF, which will feature two keynote addresses, networking, six professional development workshops, breakfast, lunch and a closing reception with raffle and door prizes. Celebrating 33 years of success, the BWF is a program of the Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce Foundation. The thriving organization is led by female executives dedicated to the professional and personal growth of working women. "The BWF's continual commitment for more than three decades has been to the equality of opportunity and advancement for women in business," explained Lynn Ward, a BWF Director and Waterbury Regional Chamber President and CEO. "During the past 32 years, the BWF has generated in excess of $190,000 toward those scholarships and helped business women across Connecticut enhance their small to medium-sized companies as well as their personal careers."
Sandra Wilson, Esq., Academic Program Manager, Criminal Justice at Post University a program at the John P. Burke School of Public Service, a BWF Board Member, and the 2015 BWF Scholarship Committee Chairwoman, stated, "The Committee had rounds of interviews with five impressive candidates for this year's scholarship award. The Committee had to make the difficult decision to select two recipients and we are confident these two young women will achieve great success into their futures. A college education is fundamental to the success of young women today and providing financial assistance greatly improves their future."
Scholarship winner Tatyana Daniel is currently a junior majoring in business administration and aspires to someday own her own business. She earned a GPA of 3.4 and is currently a member of Post University's Honors Program. Ms. Daniel entered Post University on a partial academic scholarship and expressed that her goal is to, "Open the best bridal boutique in America which is what I've wanted to do since I was thirteen years old." She stated that previously she was embarrassed to discuss her dream as, "some people would laugh at my idea and what I wanted to do." At a young age, Ms. Daniel realized that she is, "the only person that can tell me no, and nobody can stop me from my success. I know to reach my goal of having the best business is going to take a lot of time and dedication, and I will not stop until I have accomplished success."
Scholarship winner Nicole Blum aspires to become an accountant and at Post University she is treasurer of the Accounting Society expressed the desire to the organization's vice president or president before she graduates. An honor roll student in high school, Ms. Blum was diagnosed in first grade with a hearing disability. She commented, "Although I have faced challenges in my life, I always end up coming out stronger." Today she is a member of Post University's Honors Program and a full-time student who also works as a lifeguard at an elementary school in Woodbridge and is an administrative assistant in the Accounting Department at the University. Ms. Blum is working toward obtaining her Masters' Degree in Accounting and sit for the CPA exam after she graduates with Honors Distinction. "In accounting," she commented, "I will do everything from preparing financial statements to auditing businesses and preparing taxes. I know that as a certified public accountant, I will have more opportunities for jobs that will let me explore all of the different areas of accounting, while having a chance to advance and get promoted."
On October 23rd, Ms. Blum and Ms. Daniel will receive their scholarships from the Board of the Business Women's Forum. Admission to the highly-informative full-day 2015 BWF includes the two keynote speakers, six professional development workshops, day-long networking opportunities, and a high-energy closing reception with hors d'oeuvres, beverages, raffle and door prizes. Star Partner major sponsors of the 2015 BWF are Post University and Wells Fargo.
To learn more, and to register for the 2015 BWF, visit www.2015bwf.com, or call the Waterbury Regional Chamber at 203-757-0701.
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Bishop Hendricken Hall of Fame ceremony is March 18
The Bishop Hendricken Hall of Fame will be holding an induction ceremony at the school on Sunday, beginning with a 10 a.m. Mass followed by the ceremony at 11 and a luncheon afterward.
Among the honorees are: Power Kanga, Brother Thomas R. Leto, Thomas Dorgan, Robert Preston, William Flynn, Eileen Kohler, Jamal Gomes, Michael Rooney, Rocco Baldelli, Alfred Baker, and the 1962 Suburban League Football Champions.
Kanga is the winner of the 2012 Freshman Alumni Scholarship, awarded to a deserving, well-rounded member of the freshman class each year. It is $1,500 per year for four years.
Leto led Hendricken as the school's president for 11 years, helping the community to grow spiritually, socially, academically, athletically and artistically.
Dorgan, '62, was a three-year co-captain of the football team and a member of the first graduating class of Hendricken. He scored the first touchdown in school history.
Preston, '76, served the Hendricken community as president of the Parent's Council, vice chair of the Board of Directors Executive Committee and chair of the Major Gifts Committee, which funded school expansion, including the theater and classroom additions.
Flynn, '63, graduated as class salutatorian and was named Hendricken Man of the Year. He credits Hendricken's Holy Cross Brothers as a major influence in his choosing a career in social work.
Kohler will soon retire from her position in the school's guidance office, where she has served as a "secretary, receptionist, computer 'geekress,' student advocate, parent support and faculty 'go-to' person extraordinaire."
Gomes, '91, accumulated many accolades as a Hawk basketball star, setting the single season scoring record with 696 points, in addition to receiving All-City, All League, and First Team All-State honors as well as in 1991 being named the Gatorade Player of the Year, The USA Today RI Player of the Year, Atlanta Tip-Off Club Player of the Year, McDonald's All-American Honorable Mention and a Converse All-American, all while being an Academic All League player.
Rooney has been the Hawks soccer coach for 33 years, winning 12 division titles, four state championships and five state finalists in that time. He also holds the record for most wins in high school soccer history.
Baldelli, '00, was drafted sixth by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 2000 Amateur Baseball Draft. In 2002, he was selected as Minor League Player of the Year. Throughout his limited MLB career (due to health issues), he was able to play in the 2008 World Series and hit a home run to tie Game 5.
Baker, '80, won the R.I. State Championship and Outstanding Wrestler Award, going on to place second in the New Englands in his senior year. His record while at Hendricken was 93-3, winning both the Metropolitan League Championship and the R.I. All Star Championship from 1978-80.
The '62 Suburban League football team earned the school its first football championship title in only its fourth year, and began a long tradition of continued athletic success.


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The Toy Industry Association's Responsible Marketing to Children (M2C) Committee has developed a White Paper, The Changing Privacy and Data Security Landscape: From Mobile Apps to OBA, and a corresponding Checklist for Mobile Apps and Promotions, to assist members of the industry in understanding an array of laws and regulations, policy initiatives, self-regulatory standards, and reports addressing various aspects of privacy and data security.
Members of the TIA M2C Committee have been working with outside counsel to monitor developing "hot button" issues in Europe, Washington, District of Columbia, and California related to privacy protections and non-privacy-related consumer deception and fairness issues linked to mobile app use. The committee also created a subcommittee on privacy, which seeks to develop a better understanding of current practices in these areas by reviewing existing regulations and self-regulatory guidelines to identify gaps.
The TIA members-only white paper, The Changing Privacy and Data Security Landscape: From Mobile Apps to OBA, provides background on the issues and a status report on significant U.S. and international laws and policy developments. A Checklist for Mobile Apps and Promotions, which provides a framework that all toy companies can use to examine and evaluate the risks and opportunities related to their app initiatives, will also be available to TIA members only.
This post was originally written by Gigi Rubin and published by ToyBook.com For more news, visit www.toybook.com, follow The Toy Book on Twitter, and like The Toy Book on Facebook. The Toy Book is a bimonthly trade magazine covering the toy industry, published by Adventure Publishing Group.


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MARIETTA, Pa., March 19, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Donegal Group Inc. (Nasdaq:DGICA) (Nasdaq:DGICB) announced that the Company will hold a live webcast on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, beginning at 11:00AM Eastern Time. At that time, the Company will discuss its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. The Company will release its quarterly results on this same date prior to the opening of regular trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
You may listen to the webcast by accessing the event link in the Investors area of Donegal Group's website (www.donegalgroup.com).
About the Company
Donegal Group Inc. is an insurance holding company with insurance subsidiaries offering personal and commercial property and casualty lines of insurance in 22 Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, New England and Southern states.
The Company's Class A common stock and Class B common stock trade on NASDAQ under the symbols DGICA and DGICB, respectively. As an effective acquirer of small to medium-sized "main street" property and casualty insurers, Donegal Group has grown profitably for more than two decades. The Company continues to seek opportunities for growth while striving to achieve its longstanding goal of outperforming the industry in terms of service, profitability and growth in book value.
The insurance subsidiaries of Donegal Group Inc. and Donegal Mutual Insurance Company conduct business together as the Donegal Insurance Group. The Donegal Insurance Group has an A.M. Best rating of A (Excellent).
CONTACT: Jeffrey D. Miller Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Phone: (717) 426-1931 Fax: (717) 426-7031 E-mail: email@example.com:Donegal Group Inc.


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Two dedicated practitioners talk about rituals and women:
-Big Mommas and Golden Apples>by Luisah Teish
-Bringing Home the Light>by E.M. Broner
- A Community Creates a Rite of Passage for Girls
-Ms. Readers Share Their Personal Rituals
-Giving the Vatican the Boot
-And Then There Were Six Billion
-No Activism, No Asylum
-Opinion: Purse Snatchers
-Abortion Consent Laws: Mother, May I?
-VAWA: Act II
-Newsmaker: Audie Bock
-Oh Canada!
Melinda Lackey's quiet nature belies her subversive organizing methods. The unique organization that she founded and directs, the Welfare Rights Initiative, helps women on public assistance stay in college--their best chance to move out of poverty--despite punitive workfare requirements. It also acts as a training ground for activists, offering a course in leadership that turns welfare recipients into antipoverty advocates who speak out to bust stereotypes of women on welfare.
Housed at Hunter College, part of the vast public City University of New York (CUNY), WRI operates on the radical notion that women who have firsthand experience of poverty must be included in the process of reforming the welfare system. A former professional ballet dancer, Lackey herself has never been on welfare, but WRI is staffed almost entirely by women who have. "When women come to WRI, they're greeted by other women who have been there and have discovered some options," says Lackey. "Our staff helps them see that they aren't the stereotypes they have internalized from the media and from welfare policies."
A self-assured, clear speaker with the confident posture of a dancer, Lackey is nonetheless deliberately unassuming in her leadership style. "I try to help awaken in each participant her power to create and her unique capacity to contribute to the whole," she says. "I try to model leadership defined as service to the greater good, and to quietly--imperceptibly, if possible--foster an inclusive, creative social-change process that is in itself powerfully transforming."
"Melinda's soft-spokenness is very important," says Maureen Lane, WRI's coordinator for campus and community organizing and a graduate of the program. "As a person on public assistance, I was used to being yelled at and people being loud and rude to me. Her gentleness touched me; it was so tender." In 1995, Lane received a mailing about the newly formed organization and its inaugural leadership class. At the time, she was on Home Relief, New York State aid for single adults without children, after being hospitalized for alcoholism. "This was my first experience of any kind with welfare. Like most people, I knew nothing but stereotypes. What I learned was mind-expanding."
"Eighty-seven percent of students who graduate college move permanently off welfare," says Lackey. "Education can alleviate poverty, not just reduce welfare rolls." Lackey and the half dozen members of the WRI staff advocate for hundreds of CUNY students who receive public assistance, offering them emotional support, legal counsel, and technical advice on how to manage the welfare system. The program is designed to politicize students and encourage them to join WRI's efforts to educate the public and influence the welfare policy debate on local, state, and federal levels. Each year, more than a dozen students receive college credit for a leadership seminar and hands-on internship at WRI.
Previous welfare regulations made it relatively easy for recipients to go to college. But in 1995, New York City instituted the Work Experience Program (WEP) requiring welfare recipients to perform unpaid labor for the city. Over the next few years the enrollment of welfare recipients at CUNY fell precipitously, from 28,000 to 10,000, as students dropped out to fulfill their workfare obligations. Lackey and two professors cofounded WRI to help students on public assistance throughout the CUNY system--90 percent of whom are women, most of them single mothers--remain in college despite time-consuming, dead-end workfare requirements as well as other roadblocks the system puts in their way. Even with their paperwork in order, for example, students may be called in weekly for face-to-face meetings with state Human Resource Administration (HRA) caseworkers, regardless of their class schedule, or find themselves at a hearing about their benefits on the day of their final exams.
A year after WRI began, the sweeping federal welfare reform legislation of 1996 turned welfare funds and jurisdiction primarily over to individual states. Hundreds of thousands of people were removed from the welfare rolls with no guarantee of employment training or education. While WEP's exact requirements are specific to New York City, the new rules enacted in many parts of the country are similar to New York's.
"The workfare program is not training people for work," says Lackey. "It is purely punitive. So women on public assistance are being forced out of college to work for the parks department cleaning bathrooms, which a lot of women already know how to do." Workfare requirements begin at 35 hours per week, but using a complicated formula that weighs credits and exemptions, a person in the know might be able to whittle her hours to 20 per week. "Mandating people into workfare programs traps them where they are," Lackey says, "taking up all the hours in a day so they can't pursue anything that's a route out of poverty."
WRI graduate Regina Buxton, who had been on public assistance for ten years and planned to get off welfare when she completed her degree, was called in regularly by the HRA. "One caseworker gave me a lecture [about not working] without even asking me if I was in school. When I told her, she said, 'Why didn't you say so?' Then she wrote me up, saying that I had failed to comply with regulations. I turned to WRI and they helped me prove that she was wrong."
For her internship, Buxton advocated for women who were facing WEP assignments, prepared them for appeals, and showed mothers who didn't have child care how to work the system. A graduate of CUNY's York College, Buxton is currently working as a counselor for the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and plans to attend Hunter College School of Social Work to earn a master's degree.
"I actively use everything Melinda taught me in my work," says Bianca Vela, a graduate of WRI's first class and now a general contractor. "Melinda inspired us to go from feeling fearful and ashamed to becoming empowered and taking control of our lives." A graduate of CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Vela founded Collins Construction company, where she makes a point of hiring people on public assistance; is raising a 16-year-old daughter and a seven-year-old son; and just started law school. "When I say it out loud, it sounds amazing," she remarks about all she has accomplished.
In 1978, with $1,000 in her pocket that she had won in a local poetry contest, Melinda Lackey came to New York City from her hometown of St. Louis to study ballet. After a decade of performing as a professional ballet dancer and dancing in Broadway musicals, films, and commercials, Lackey decided to enroll in college at the age of 29.
While earning a combined bachelor's and master's degree in social research/policy analysis, she took a series of jobs and did internships in line with her commitment to social justice. She signed up for an AIDS care course sequence, working as a case manager. "I'd lost a lot of friends in theater to AIDS," says Lackey. "I tested different means of approaching the AIDS crisis, helping people to cope with oppressive living conditions. Soon, I wanted instead to learn how to change the structures that make people need all that help in the first place."
She landed an internship at then Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger's office, where she was instrumental in the creation of Iris House, the first multiservice support center in the U.S. designed by and for women infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
For a graduate research project, Lackey evaluated CUNY's existing programs for students on public assistance. She interviewed CUNY students and graduates who had gotten off welfare. "These women were so inspiring," says Lackey. "To see how much they were doing with so little, how committed they were, and how much hope they had. After trying every other way of to get off welfare, now they were in college. They all had the feeling that they were finally doing something that would change their lives and their children's lives." The women she interviewed had an avalanche of suggestions for improving their circumstances and the programs.
"I made a list of all of their concerns, experiences, and ideas and carried the list around with me for weeks, talking to lots of people about it." Lackey finally brought her research to Hunter College's Center for the Study of Family Policy. Center director Jan Poppendeick and CUNY poverty expert Mimi Abramovitz were intrigued by Lackey's lists. "We three put our heads together," says Lackey, "and dreamed up Welfare Rights Initiative."
Lackey created and teaches the leadership course that is the cornerstone of the program. The two-semester, seven-credit course opens with an introduction to social welfare policy, and then plunges into hands-on leadership skills--planning and facilitating meetings (students run WRI staff meetings and are required to attend meetings of community activist groups), active listening, public speaking, fund-raising, and coalition building. Immersed in the details of ever-changing welfare policy, students complete a four-month internship at the WRI office--staffing the hotline, coordinating campus organizing, testifying at legislative hearings, and speaking to school audiences and community groups. Although the course initially was open only to female welfare recipients, the current seminar students are a mix of gender and class. Lackey believes this allows for a richer mix of perspectives and a broader range of voices advocating for the rights of poor women.
Three years ago, Lackey approached CUNY's Law School to seek pro bono legal assistance for CUNY welfare recipients. The school responded enthusiastically: it has trained about 45 law students, 70 WRI undergraduates, and several social work graduate students to provide peer support, legal advice, and representation for students. "We leapt into a service provision role," she says, "because if you know that you have rights and you know how to protect your rights, you can stay in school.
"Workfare has been designed with the assumption that everyone on welfare is the same person," explains Lackey. "That person is supposedly lazy, unwilling to work, unqualified, and incapable of contributing to society, one who needs to be given an alarm clock and forced to show up to work. Our students challenge and alter the stereotypes of poor women.
"I don't have a vision for the future of WRI--it only exists because it has to," she explains. "In the future, I do hope to see a welfare entitlement system that meets an individual where she or he is, to provide whatever is necessary to become independent from public assistance. And if we impose a five-year maximum lifetime limit, then let's spend those five years helping people to become economically self-supporting."
Kristen Golden is a "Ms." contributing editor.


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It was about five years ago when the Meridian Public School District first announced plans to establish at least four small learning communities at Meridian High. Fast forward to the present, and this year the first of those communities is being launched in earnest with a strong partnership between the school district, two local hospitals and Meridian Community College.
This fall, the Meridian Public School District will be one of only two school district's in Mississippi to have a Health Small Learning Community.
'The high school will be a smaller version of a university. When you get to the high school, you'll join your school or college,' says MPSD Superintendent, Dr. Alvin Taylor.
This fall 45 students from the 9th grade at MHS are slated to enter the program.
'They will be grouped together in their academic classes, their biology, English and their math,' says Terry Moore, who is director for Ross Collins Vocational Center. 'Those students will have the same teacher each year. So, what it does is make it more personal for them.'
For students enrolled in the Health Small Learning Community at MHS, Moore says all of their 9th through 12th grade curriculum will be geared towards the healthcare field.
'If you write a paper in English, it's going to be geared toward something to do with the medical career. This will be the same with math.'
According to district officials, studies show that grouping students who have the same interest in classes together helps improve students' grades. Officials are optimistic that this strategy will also help improve the graduation rate and career opportunities for students.
'What Anderson Hospital and Rush Hospital have guaranteed us is that if students do this and they can put this on their resume' when they apply at those hospitals, it's going to make a big difference for them about whether they will be considered for those jobs or not,' says Moore.
So far, the Rankin County School District is the only other school district in Mississippi to have a Health Small Learning Community.


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Cute Up-cycled Baby Shorts from shirt
Added Mar 2, 2013
by Bublet
Brisbane, Australia
This was a fun (and super quick) project I recently completed. My 1 year old goes through ALOT of shorts- he is one of those little people you just can't seem to keep a nappy done up on if he doesn't have a pair on. I found out one of my old shirts that I loved and wore to death before my 3 kids but now have no hope of ever wearing again. I went searching online for a free baby pants pattern online till I found one that was exactly what I was after. I have alot of photos and I think it is pretty easy to see what I've done. I wanted the print on the rear- wish it was alittle lower on the shirt but oh well. I folded the leg pattern pieces and made the the side seam of the shirt, the pants side seam. It even had the cute little side tag. Traced the pieces, cut them out and stiched them up in the order described on the Blog. Less than an hour and a half later- cute little shorts that have already had a LOT of wear. I never overlocked the edge as the fabric doesn't fray at all and, i also just catch stiched the inner leg seam down on the hem to get it to sit right as I used the origional shirt hem as the pants hem and was sitting alittle funny till I did. All in all I love this pattern and would love to make some out of Band Promo shirts in future. Please let me know what you think in the comments. The link to the pattern I used is http://fromanigloo.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/one-size-fits-many-babytoddler-pj-pants.html
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Old T-Shirt or any sort knit
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Mar 3, 2013, 01.15 PMby Mary Athey
I love.what.you've done.with.your.old.t.shirt. What.fab little.shorts.x
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Mar 3, 2013, 01.44 PMby Bublet
Thank you so much! I love them too such a great fitting pattern roomy enough for the nappy, and will fit forever! x
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NEW YORK -- No doubt John Waters meant it fondly when he quipped: "Come to Baltimore and be shocked."
Now his vision of 1960s Baltimore is headed to Broadway, where, with the help of a team of designers, the musical theater version of Waters' 1988 movie Hairspray will show Charm City in all its delightfully excessive glory -- complete with big hair, fake Formstone and fabrics with more florals than a florist's shop.
What will Baltimore look like on Broadway? Right now, only Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long, set designer David Rockwell and -- most crucial for a show called Hairspray -- Paul Huntley, Broadway's top wig designer, know for sure.
Their efforts go on public view for the first time Thursday, when Hairspray -- the story of a chubby Baltimore teen who finds fame on a local TV dance show and, in the process, brings integration to the airwaves -- begins its pre-Broadway engagement at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre.
But before Hairspray wows (or should we say appalls?) its first paying audience, three of its designers sat down with The Sun to discuss their craft, and offer a sneak peek of Waters' Baltimore on Broadway.
Enter: Hairspray. Exit: Quiet good taste.
The costumes
Here's a William Ivey Long rule for designing costumes for the stage:
Avoid splashy prints. They detract from the actor's face.
Here's a William Ivey Long rule for designing costumes for Hairspray:
Go wild with florals.
And checks.
And stripes.
And polka dots.
A three-time Tony Award winner, Long knew from the start how he'd capture 1960s Baltimore fashion on stage. "I'm going to dive right in on this one," the preppy-looking, bespectacled designer says.
"Nothing succeeds like excess. That's Oscar Wilde, I think, and I'm sure he came to Baltimore."
That explains the plethora of patterns appearing in the musical adaptation of John Waters' movie. The heroine's mother, Edna Turnblad, a middle-aged Baltimore housewife played by Harvey Fierstein, will wear "Baltimore Chanel -- a floral Chanel with ruffles." And when Edna and her daughter, Tracy, played by Marissa Jaret Winokur, get a makeover, they'll sport matching feather-trimmed mother-daughter outfits.
Though he was raised in Raleigh, N.C., Long is no stranger to Baltimore. His mother grew up in Bolton Hill, and he frequently visited relatives there. "I was a difficult child to adore because I was weird as all get-out. I bring that to this piece," he says. "That's why Baltimore has a big halo around it for me, because I was accepted there and it really meant a lot."
Long sees Baltimore as a place that welcomes outsiders and outcasts, a notion that's a continuing theme in Waters' movies. His own idiosyncrasies -- and love of costumes -- began in infancy. The oldest of three children born to parents who worked for the Raleigh Little Theatre, the 54-year-old designer says, "I was raised in a costume shop and put to bed in piles of fabric." His first home, during the post-World War II housing shortage, was "the stage-left dressing room."
Now one of Broadway's most successful costume designers, he still lives in a costume shop -- his 1854 Chelsea brownstone, "the house Crazy for You built," he calls it, referring to the show that won him his 1992 Tony.
Rack upon rack of 1960s clothing, culled from New York's vintage and second-hand clothing stores, is jammed into the front of his home. When searching for inspiration he sorts through plaid shirts, coats and narrow-waisted, full-skirted dresses in everything from pastels to leopard prints. The 100-plus costumes for Hairspray, however, are all brand-new, sewn in six different New York shops.
Long is a veteran of musicals that started out as films. Two of his Tony Awards are for shows adapted from movies -- The Producers and Nine. And that brings up another rule he's broken on Hairspray : Typically, he doesn't use the movies -- or, as he calls them, "previously owned vehicles" -- as reference. But in this case, he says, "We really are encouraged to look at the movie because of the type of authenticity that John Waters was able to gather."
Costumes help define character, or entire groups of characters, Long says. He has divided his designs for the last scene into three basic color schemes, one for each of what he describes as the show's main groups: Red for the "winners," Tracy and her family and friends; yellow for the "losers," Tracy's rivals; and gold for the black characters who help Tracy bring integration to Baltimore television.
Clothing also can indicate character development. As Tracy and her mother change and grow during the course of the musical, their outfits evolve, too.
Initially, Long dresses the mother and daughter in blue (or, as he calls it, "victim blue"), then purple and finally a proud, defiant red. Even his costume sketches reflect Edna's personal growth. As the character's confidence increases and her social consciousness is raised, his drawings show her head held higher and higher. Edna Turnblad may start out a drab housewife, but she ends up a glamorous, bona fide Bawlamer hon.
As to the fact that Edna -- the role created by Divine in the movie -- is being played by a man, well, that doesn't matter at all in terms of design. "Once you have created the under-structure -- meaning, does he wear a corset, does he wear a bra? -- there is absolutely no difference," says Long, who is also designing the undergarments.
"You're designing the character. It's not a man as a woman," he explains. "God put creatures on this Earth in all shapes and sizes. It's all just a matter of plumage."
The sets
Faux Formstone. Is such as thing possible?
It is if you're designer David Rockwell. Before creating the set for Hairspray, the Broadway musical version of John Waters' movie, Rockwell traveled to Baltimore, along with the show's director, Jack O'Brien, and choreographer, Jerry Mitchell.
Escorted by Waters, they went to Pigtown, with its bars and forbidding alleys. They went to , with its mom-and-pop stores and graffiti. And they went to Highlandtown, with its rowhouses and painted screens.
"When you ride down your first street with Formstone and white marble steps on both sides, it's a quite amazing view," Rockwell says. "I didn't realize before I went there that Formstone was an art form."
By stock and trade, Rockwell is an architect, head of the Rockwell Group, a prestigious 90-person New York firm. Hairspray is only his second Broadway set (the first was for The Rocky Horror Show last season), but the 45-year-old is no stranger to dramatic designs. Best known for such trendy New York restaurants as Nobu and Ruby Foo's, Rockwell also designed Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, site of the Academy Awards; Connecticut's Mohegan Sun casino; and Cirque du Soleil's permanent home in Orlando, Fla.
After a career of bringing theater to architecture, he's now bringing architecture to the theater. "I guess it's been sort of a rehearsal," says Rockwell, whose late mother was a vaudeville dancer and community theater director.
To re-create Baltimore of the 1960s, he'll use plenty of fake Formstone. Walls painted to resemble the stuff will show up not only on the exteriors of rowhouses, but also on the interior of the crystal-chandeliered "Eventorium," where a lucky girl is crowned Miss Teenage Hairspray 1962 in the show's finale. This "elegant" banquet hall has Gothic arches made of ... Formstone.
"David loved the Formstone," says a delighted Waters. "They really used what they saw."
"Ordinary baroque" is the way Rockwell describes his vision of the set. Think of it as the everyday world taken to excess. "On stage, ordinary Baltimore would end up looking like Death of a Salesman or A View from the Bridge," he says. "So we came up with ways to use elements like Formstone sort of cinematically, so they move in and out of the picture."
Rockwell's set incorporates a number of '60s motifs. Working with costume designer William Ivey Long and lighting designer Kenneth Posner, Rockwell is using a palette based in part on the colors of Necco wafers. Panels in Necco pastels form the backdrop of the TV studio for the teen dance show -- based on WJZ's former Buddy Deane Show -- that is at the center of the musical. Another backdrop is modeled after the popular vintage toy, Lite Brite.
Though Rockwell is clearly having a ball on Hairspray, he has no intention of giving up his day job; one set design a year would be ideal. Besides he's still coming to grips with one stop on that John Waters tour.
"We ended up in a situation that was a little too close to reality in terms of simulating all of the tension of a John Waters movie. We got to a cul de sac, it was kind of a dead end, and we were in the middle of what looked like some kind of shady transaction," Rockwell recalls. "It was incredible that you just turned one corner and we were in this very dangerous little cul de sac." That's one bit of research that won't be showing up on stage.
The wigs
"Oh, dear," mutters Paul Huntley, catching his breath. The septuagenarian British gentleman is sitting in the living room of his Upper West Side townhouse, leafing through pictures of women with titles like "Fantasy," "Intrigue" and "Baby Doll."
He's doing research. Really he is.
The pages come from a 1960s book of hairstyles called Mr. Ray & His Magic Brush, essential research supplied by John Waters for the Broadway musical being adapted from his movie, Hairspray.
Huntley is Broadway's top wig man. His stage credits include 400 shows, from Chekhovian plays to Cats, from Shakespearean tragedies toThe Producers. Stars such as Glenn Close, Elizabeth Ashley and Christopher Plummer wouldn't think of using anyone else. On television, his work can be seen on The Sopranos; on film, his wigs were worn by Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie and Jennifer Lopez in the newly released Enough. Way back when, he worked with Marlene Dietrich.
Usually Huntley creates wigs that look natural, that don't cause comment, that blend in nicely. "I prefer when it's not a great feature," he says.
Not this time. After all, as producer Margo Lion told him, "It is Hairspray."
With the help of three assistants, Huntley makes his wigs by hand in his basement studio, where shelves display wig blocks custom-made to the proportions of everyone from Carol Channing to Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. The warren of small rooms also contains a drying cabinet for wigs, a standard washer and dryer, worktables and assorted Broadway show posters. And then, of course, there's the hair -- box upon plastic box filled with red, blond and brunette strands. Huntley prefers human hair, most of which comes from Russia.
Each of the 70 wigs for Hairspray took Huntley and his chief assistant four days to make. To achieve the realistic hairlines for which he is known, Huntley sews each strand individually into nearly transparent netting. Wigs made of human hair cost $1,800-$2,500 per wig; synthetic wigs cost $120-$350.
The designer had to relearn a few skills for this show. "Today, of course, we've all forgotten how to tease," he explains. "And it is a lot of teasing."
While big hair is a major feature of Hairspray, Huntley emphasizes, "We're not trying to make people grotesque. They're very young performers, and they have to have a sweetness and a glamour at the same time."
Nonetheless, the oversized 'do worn by the show's teen-aged protagonist, Tracy (Marissa Jaret Winokur), brands her a "hair hopper" and lands her in high school detention with the rest of the hair hoppers. To heighten the humor in one of Tracy's wigs -- a puffy flip with frosted bangs, Huntley has designed a frosted blue ribbon.
He's also built a sly commentary into the wig worn by the villainous character of Velma Von Tussle, mother of Tracy's chief rival. Velma is played by Linda Hart, whose real hair is dark brown. In Hairspray, her shellacked coiffure is light blond, to match that of her daughter Amber, a character Huntley describes as an evil Sandra Dee.
But Huntley has seen to it that Mrs. Von T. isn't a natural blonde. He's given her wig's roots telltale shadowing. "It sort of suggests that she's bleached it," he explains. As to the style, "one shouldn't say it unkindly, but a sort of blond Ann Miller."
For actor Harvey Fierstein, who portrays Tracy's mother, Edna (played on film by Divine), Huntley has created five different wigs beginning with a straggly, mousy number and progressing to auburn lacquered glory after Edna's makeover.
The makeover wig is highlighted with frosting, the front set in a relatively conservative style that used to be called a "bubble." But turn it around, and hello, Baltimore! -- the back is a French twist.
Frosting, French twists, teasing, bubble cuts -- isn't there something missing?
Hairspray, of course.
Huntley rarely uses the stuff anymore, but these days he and his backstage staff of hairdressers are stocking up.


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Quest Announces Battery-Powered Mobile Wireless Surgical Video Display Solution
Wireless 32" surgical display system provides for complete video mobility
Jan 22, 2013, 04:09 ET
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest International, Inc., a leading supplier of medical imaging display technologies and information technology solutions, today announced the availability of the AlphaView® Battery-Powered Mobile Video Cart. The newly announced wireless HD video, surgical display system feature a 32 inch, 2.3 megapixel medical-grade LCD on a heavy-duty battery-powered mobile cart. Under typical operating conditions, the AVC2F4P-CART will power the 32 inch LCD monitor for up to 8 hours between charges.
"Healthcare video applications are rapidly evolving and the introduction of the AlphaView Battery-Powered Mobile Cart allows facilities to adapt to these new demands," said Shawn Arshadi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Quest International. "Until now, surgical displays were typically mounted to booms or towers. With the AlphaView Battery-Powered Mobile Cart that valuable asset is now able to move where it's needed, when it's needed," Arshadi continued.
The AlphaView mobile video system ships complete with a medical-grade 32 inch HD LCD, heavy-duty rolling cart, foot pedal controlled height adjustable mounting column, 76.8 Ah (Amp-Hour) lithium-ion battery pack and 60GHz HD video receiver and transmitter, allowing picture-perfect wireless reception up to 10 meters from the video source.
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Porsche Panamera GTS review
* New Panamera GTS driven * Priced from 90,409 * On sale February...
The Porsche Panamera was already one of the sportiest grand tourers money could buy, but with this new GTS version, dynamic ability is pushed even further to the fore.
The Panamera GTS looks similar to the mind-blowingly fast Turbo model it gets the same front-end styling treatment and 19-inch alloys but there are all sorts of other visual tweaks, including high-gloss black trim, xenon headlamps and matt black exhaust pipes.
Like Turbo and Turbo S models, the Panamera GTS has adaptive air-suspension that alters its height, spring rate and damping response according to which of the three modes Comfort, Sport or Sport Plus are selected. However, to make it even sharper in the bends, the Panamera GTS's suspension has been given lower, tauter settings.
What's it like to drive? Our test car had an optional 3197 suspension package, which adds active anti-roll bars and a torque vectoring system. With this entire arsenal of gadgetry on board, the results are stunning.
There's amazing lateral grip and virtually zero body lean, so the Panamera GTS handles rapid direction changes with real composure. Meanwhile, the quick and beautifully weighted steering lets you place the car with great accuracy.
As good as the handling is, though, the Panamera is still a little hamstrung by its sheer size and weight.
On the upside, you don't lose much of the Panamera's impressive ride comfort, so the GTS can still play the role of grand tourer.
You'll be able to tour from place to place very quickly, too. The GTS has a version of the 4.8-litre V8 found in the S and 4S Panamera models, but power has been boosted by 29bhp to 424bhp, while torque is up 15lb ft to 384lb ft.
The power is sent to all four wheels through Porsche's seven-speed twin-clutch PDK gearbox, and 0-62mph takes just 4.5 seconds, although the power delivery is strong and linear, rather than utterly ballistic.
A sports exhaust gives the engine extra volume and menace.
What's it like inside? The GTS has some bespoke Alcantara-and-leather trim, plus a host of embroidered GTS badges. Other than that, it's pretty much like any other Panamera.
That means the plush cabin materials are a feast for the eyes and fingertips, and with an 18-way electrically adjustable seat and an electrically adjustable steering column, you won't struggle to find the perfect driving position.
The dash has a sophisticated-looking design, too, but with Porsche believing in a separate button for every function, the console is somewhat over-endowed with them.
Over-the-shoulder visibility isn't great, either, but all four seats have acres of space around them, and there's a decent boot.
Should I buy one? That all depends on what sort of Panamera you have your heart set on, but the GTS wouldn't be top of our list.
Yes, it's utterly brilliant to drive, but so are all Panameras, and most are cheaper than the 90,409 GTS. For us, the diesel is still the one to go for.
Still, if you've got your eye on a 4S, and plan to add all the performance-enhancing options available (air-suspension, twin-clutch transmission, sports exhaust, Sports Chrono package), then the GTS makes a lot of sense. It has all those items and more as standard, and the premium you pay for the GTS is less than it'll cost you to add all that tech to your 4S. The GTS is more powerful and looks cooler, too.
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This presentation was given by Gary Coates at the 5th China International Duplex Stainless Steel Congress in Beijing on 26 November 2015.
This presentation was given by Richard Matheson in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, on 15 November 2015.
The poster explaining the unique properties of alloys as 'special mixtures' and the metals industry's proposed application of bioelution based approaches for the classification of alloys was presented by Dr. Adriana Oller, NiPERA in collaboration with the European Copper Institute and Eurometaux at the Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques conference Chemical risk: innovative methods and techniques held 8-10 April, 2015 in Nancy, France.
This presentation was given by Dr. Mark Mistry on 5th November 2014 at the [avniR] Conference in Lille.
The presentation "Nickel in Stainless Steel - Robust Performance and Essential Value for the next 100 Years" was given by Richard Matheson at the 8th International Stainless Steel conference in Shanghai on 3 September 2013.
The presentation "The Importance of Understanding Material Flows: the Nickel Perspective" was given by Mark Mistry, Nickel Institute Technical Director, EU Public Affairs, at the international Industrial Ecology conference in Tel Aviv, 18 October 2012.
The presentation "Stainless Steel and Nickel - an Ongoing Partnershp" was given by Dr. Peter Cutler, Director Promotion, Nickel Institute at the ISSDA and FICCI Stainless Steel Celebration.
The celebration took place in New Delhi, India 9 October 2012.
The presentation "Stainless Steel - For Life Cycle Advantage" was given 10 October 2012 by Nickel Institute Director Promotion, Dr. Peter Cutler, at Towards Building Corrosion Free India which took place at the Stainless Steel Centenary Celebration in New Delhi, India, 10 October 2012.
The presentation "Stainless Steel and Nickel - Still Partners After 100 Years" was given 18 September 2012 by Dr. Peter Cutler, Director Promotion at the 5th International Stianless Steel Symposim in Dusseldorf Germany.
Dr. Peter Cutler, Director of NI Promotion delivered a presentation entitled "The Role of Nickel in Stainless Steel" to members of the Indian Stainless Steel Development Association (ISSDA) and the Delhi Chapter of the Indian Institute of Metals. The presentation was given 14 December 2011 in New Delhi, India.
Nancy Baddoo of SCI (the Steel Construction Institute) gave a presentation on structural stainless steel.
The presentation was given on November 9, 2011 in Beijing China.
The presentation "Nickel & Society in the 21st Century" was given by Nickel Institute President Dr. Kevin Bradley. The conference was held in Perth Australia 30 September 2011.
The presentation "Nickel-containing Stainless Steel has a Bright Future" was given by Licheng Zhang, Managing Director Nickel Institute China. The congress was held in Shanghai China, 6-8 September 2011.
Nickel Institute President Dr. Kevin Bradley gave a keynote address on REACH and nickel compounds at NASF SUR/FIN 2011 in Chicago IL, USA 13-14 June , 2011.
The presentation "Nickel Applications & Uses" was given by Nickel Institute President, Dr. Kevin Bradley at the 8th Annual China Nickel Conference.
The conference was held in Shanghai, China 18-19 May 2011
Nickel Institute President Kevin Bradley gave an invited presentation at the NASF Washington Forum "Nickel and the Future".
The forum was held in Washington DC, USA, 12-13 April 2011.
The presentation "How Nickel Improves Ferritic & Martensitic Stainless Steels" was given in March 2011 by Licheng Zhang of the NI Beijing office and Gary Coates, consultant to the NI, at the Fourth China International Modern Ferritic Stainless Steel and Modern Matrensitic Stainless Steel Conference.
The Nickel Institute was invited to speak at the Cobalt, Molybdenum and Nickel 2011 Conference in London organised on 16 February 2011 by Metal Pages.
Dr. Peter Cutler, Director of NI Promotions delivered a speech entitled "How Society Benefits from Nickel" at the 2010 China International Nickel Cobalt Forum in Changsha, China, 8-10 November 2010
Nickel Institute President, Stephen Barnett gave an invited presentation, "The Advantages Nickel brings to Stainless Steel" at the 7th Annual China Nickel Conference, 26-27 May, Shanghai China.
Dr. Peter Cutler, Promotions Director of the Nickel Institute gave an invited presentation at the German Association for Electrolytic and other Coating Techniques Berlin experts seminar: Nickel and Nickel Alloys in Coating - A Material with a Future. January 29, 2010
Gary Coates, consultant to the Nickel Institute, and Dr. Peter Cutler, Nickel Institute Director Promotion, presented a seminar in Taiyuan, China on the advantages of nickel in duplex stainless steels, November 25, 2009.
Nickel Institute President, Stephen Barnett, gave an invited presentation "The Advantages which Nickel Brings to Stainless Steels" at Paydirt, 2009 Australian Nickel Conference in October, 2009.
Dr. Peter Cutler, NI Director Promotion, gave an invited presentation "The Advantages which Nickel Brings to Stainless Steels" at the 3rd International Stainless Steel Symposium in Stresa, Italy on 8 October., 2009 The audience of around 160 people was drawn from the stainless steel producers, distributors, fabricators and users in Italy and surrounding countries.
Dr. Peter Cutler, NI Director Promotion, gave a presentation on behalf of Steve Barnett (President) on the "Nickel Advantage" in stainless steels at the SMR Metal Bulletin Stainless and Special Steel conference in Düsseldorf, Germany on 2 September, 2009.
The Nickel Institute and ID Inox (the French Stainless Steel Development Association) were invited to give a joint seminar in Warsaw on January 8, 2008 on the use of stainless steels in the water industry.
A Nickel Institute representative was the keynote speaker at the "Nickel and Ferro-nickel Alloys with Stainless Steel Market" Conference in Qingdao, China, November 28-30 2007.


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Alternative content delivered into movie theatres continues to be an area of growth for Microspace and our theatre partners appreciate the ease, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the Microspace Digital Cinema system enabling this in their auditoriums.
Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) May 06, 2014
On April 27 in St. Peter's Square, the canonization, by Pope Francis, of two of the most beloved Popes in modern history — John XXIII and John Paul II — captured the attention of the whole world and Microspace Communications Corporation (Microspace), brought this unprecedented event to theater screens in high definition to thousands of viewers in the U.S.
For the first time viewers could watch a historic canonization event presented live across the U.S. in theatres on Microspace's Digital Cinema Network. The event, which was free to the general public, reported good attendance with many theatres filled to capacity.
"Carmike was thrilled to participate in this live event from Rome. Attendance was beyond our expectations with many of our theatres across the country filling up entire auditoriums. Our partners at Nexo Digital and Microspace made the entire event seamless, even with the complexities of getting live video delivered from the other side of the world," said Gary Green, Director of Alternative Content, Carmike Cinemas.
Microspace continues to grow its slate of live and alternative content programming deliveries to theater customers all across North America, further establishing its leadership role in delivering digital cinema via satellite to more than 3,500 screens in the United States. Microspace continues to be the only company in North America delivering Hollywood features, alternative content and live events to theatres.
"Microspace was proud to be a part of this record-making live broadcast from the Vatican. Alternative content delivered into movie theatres continues to be an area of growth for Microspace and our theatre partners appreciate the ease, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the Microspace Digital Cinema system enabling this in their auditoriums," said Curt Tilly, Director of Enterprise Media, Microspace.
The broadcasting of this celebration in collaboration with the Vatican Television Center highlights the growing capacity of Microspace to impeccably deliver alternative content from around the globe to theatres across North America.
Microspace Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. a diversified communications company which owns and/or operates WRAL-TV, WRAL Digital, WRAZ-TV, WRAZ Digital, WRAL-FM, WRAL-HD2, WCMC-FM, WCMC-HD1, WDNC-AM, WCMC-HD2, WCMC-HD3, WCLY-AM, WCMC-HD4, Microspace, CBC New Media Group and Wolfpack Sports Properties (a joint venture with Learfield Sports) in Raleigh, NC; WILM-TV and Sunrise Broadcasting in Wilmington, NC; The Durham Bulls Baseball Club in Durham, NC; and real estate interests including the American Tobacco Project and Diamond View office buildings in Durham, NC.


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kung-fu dk Veteran Tuesday 07/02/2012, 12:16
Do you know any cards here that looks weak on paper, but are actually pretty good/great?
for me, Petra is the 1 card that looks weak on paper but are good . i mean 7/5 for a 4*? looks pretty weak. but the truth is that her sob shuts down annoying attack manipulation clans, and then puts the opponents down to 1 pill less most of the time
Soundtrack-HW Imperator humanoid weapons Tuesday 07/02/2012, 12:59
When I look at Petra I know she is good, 7/5 are pretty stable stats for a 4 star, especially with attack manip with a bonus. With her sob she becomes instantly stronger, and imo a better card then gibson, due to her extra damage, 4 doesnt cut it for a 4 star for me :/ In the end she pretty much becomes a raeth, but he is usually used more due to the clan.
Honestly, im not actually sure which cards look weak, but prove themselves worthy. maybe someone like Ernest, even though I've never used him, he is actually incredibly annoying
But yeah, other then that im not sure, maybe peopel should also post cards that seem great on paper, but in use aren't all that effective. Imo one of these cards are Tsubame, I just cant get her to work xD
AbigailWyatt Mediator Wise Men Distracted Tuesday 07/02/2012, 14:13
A lot of people wouldn't include Jonas when it came to their Uppers decks, but I'm going to defend him right now. One look and people think he's a weak card but he's provided the finishing damage in many KOs I've had with my Uppers deck. Plus if you get the timing right with his AND Ambre's abilities...well, a 10 powered Jonas can actually look pretty scary, especially with his bonus. Plus many people don't expect you to pill that much with him. I'm just saying, he's actually pretty good when I play him.
@Soundtrack: Ernst can be pretty annoying, as someone who uses and faces him. Because I never know who's going to overpill him and who's going to make me waste pills by only playing 1. Many would go for Dr Saw in GHEIST mono, but I'm willing to sacrifice one extra damage and life to fit the spare star into my deck.
AmberRed1994 Senior Stay Humble or be Humbled Tuesday 07/02/2012, 14:53
Alhalish Veteran URBAN MADNESS Tuesday 07/02/2012, 15:10
Tino. Most people might think that because of his average power and Defeat ability, he's just a sacrifice... Tino + Avola, anyone? And yep, sometimes, they forget that almighty 7 damage.... Pill him like crazy, and you can use Edd Cr/Vito/furious Oscar to finish the job.
Beef & Sylvia Ld. Why underestimate these people? Sure, Backlash may hinder them, but you can't just ignore that 8 damage... And thus, countless players have fallen before these underrated cards.
As for cards that look good on paper, yet somehow is kinda hard to use in battle would be... Hefty. Dunno why, but when I'm using him, it feels like he's useless. Sure, he can take care of those pesky Piranas and Nightmare cards, but when I'm facing cards that don't rely on their bonus (like Berzerk cards like Spyke and Junkz cards like Rowdy)... Oh, how I wish that I didn't draw him.
LB_Abnormal Titan Tuesday 07/02/2012, 15:53
Randy looks incredibly bad on paper, but is a true powerhouse. The same also applies to Tula, and to a lesser extent, Laura.
Rainbow-Dash Senior Tuesday 07/02/2012, 19:52
Lola noel- totally replaces vivian, just one damage less. But for that -1 damage, you also get your power protected.
Elya cr- very predictable, but if you don't have SOA or a power reducer, it's not easy to beat
Kerozinn cr- I know many ppl will look at that choice and say WTF? Well, I used to just counter her with mona, but as I don't have her anymore, I notice how scary kero becomes. That -1 opp power combined with 8 base power is pretty scary.
Elke- very useful in later rounds of survivor elo where you just need to take - pill off of your opp (and nothing you have will force them to pill) to ensure a victory. Also feeds anibal his revenge: +2 power. But it is pretty useless in the first rounds or if your opp still has too many pillz.
And borss- SOB is annoying when I'm running atk manip clans
DeepEnd Guru Limit Break Tuesday 07/02/2012, 20:06
Marty makes at times game totally impossible for opponent, especially when you slip 8 damage nuke in with few pills on first round.
maki_mUR Senior Dragons Cro Clan Tuesday 07/02/2012, 22:38
Wesley... he's tougher to beat than Mona if confidence is active. Yes his damage is a bit of a turnoff but in a good deck it's fine.
DeepEnd Guru Limit Break Tuesday 07/02/2012, 23:42
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This Saturday will mark the UFC's triumphant return to Japan for the first time in 11 years, and what a card we have in store. Aside from Frankie Edgar fighting someone not named B.J. Penn or Gray Maynard (not that we were complaining), UFC 144 also offers a light heayweight sure to be slugfest between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Ryan Bader, Yoshihiro Akiyama's welterweight debut against Jake Shields, and Mark Hunt vs. Cheick Kongo.
The seven fight main card will be kicked off by a battle of top lightweight contenders when Joe Lauzon takes on Anthony Pettis, and the undercard features the the likes of Takanori Gomi and former K1 standout Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto, each attempting to rebound from recent losses. It's safe to say that we are in for a hell of a night, so let's all go get Henna tattoos to celebrate this glorious milestone.
Check out the pre-fight press conference video above, which, aside from the occasional translation flub, goes off without a hitch. Just a warning: due to the fact that everything is being translated into Japanese as it is being said, it is difficult to understand the questions at hand every so often. But honestly, who gives a shit? THE UFC IS BACK IN JAPAN, BABY!!!
While we're discussing how awesome Japan is, check out the anime-style trailer for UFC 144 below, which is easily the coolest thing you will see all day, and possible ever.
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ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting
Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012
Unwiring and Rewiring for the Knowledge Future
Denise Bedford, Richard McDermott, Gordon Vala-Webb and Jack Uldrich
Tuesday, 8:30am
This program addresses an emerging area of scholarship - unlearning - and places it in the context of knowledge and information sciences. Unlearning is presented as a process that should be practiced by knowledge scientists, information scientists and information technologists.
Knowledge is a dynamic thing. It is not static. It is constantly changing, challenged and tested against new and different ideas, applied and judged in
different contexts and recast by people. The life cycle of knowledge is dynamic and
chaotic. It reflects the human thought process. It is different from the information cycle which is linear and predictable. A critical step in
the knowledge life cycle is "knowledge validation/invalidation." Too often, this step takes the form of a
check against an existing stock of information. The result is what we might call
- knowledge sub optimization. What does it take to do a deep validation/invalidation of knowledge?
The premise of this panel discussion is that in order to truly evaluate knowledge - new or existing - people have to have the capacity to unlearn and relearn what they know they know. Unlearning is an emerging area of research aligned with education, psychology, neurosciences, organizational learning and knowledge sciences. The meaning of this statement is clear to knowledge scientists. What does this mean the field of information science and technology? We celebrate our wonderful history and the knowledge base that we have developed. How often, though, have we critically evaluated old knowledge and decided that it is time to unlearn something?
The panelists will introduce the topic of unlearning and discuss it in the context of the fields of knowledge sciences, information sciences and information technology. Two examples of knowledge that might be exposed to "unlearning" will be introduced - the DIKW (Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom pyramid) and some classical theories underlying cataloging, classification and indexing.


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Qld seeks change to council referendum question
The Queensland Government says it cannot give its full support to the referendum question on local government.
Voters will be asked to recognise local councils in the constitution at the September federal election.
But State Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie says legal advice confirms the referendum question would allow the Federal Government to control councils by placing conditions on direct funding.
"The Premier and the [Local Government] Minister have made the comments very clear in terms of we give in-principle support to the concept," he said.
"We don't currently support the wording because we see it's going to hamstring councils.
"The support can't be there, only is there in principle until such time as they see common sense.
"It's fundamental that the amendment is amended to reflect that we support direct financing.
"But with the caveat, of course, the in-principle support we give to that is, of course, that the Federal Government will not tie the hands of local government."
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As we mentioned recently, the inn has been undergoing some changes. We never have time to do anything but emergency repairs during the busy season so this is the time of the year to get up and get working on the inn. No more sleeping in, no more bon bon eating, no more manicures (which is really hard on Dave) because we have work to do!
We joke that having guests is like having a houseful of teenagers eating you out of house and home, creating laundry and putting dings in the walls. The truth is that no matter how much we love our guests there is a lot of normal wear and tear that needs put back together.
After 11 years, we realized that we were sick and tired of some of the rooms. We were bored with our own house and some things just needed to get changed or finished.
We also noticed that our web photos were looking sad and tired too. Unfortunately we aren't up to creating good pictures. Seely attended the Professional Association of Innkeepers conference in January and hired a photographer to take new pictures of the inn.
This created deadline pressure to get things spruced up.
We've spent the last month frantically painting, redecorating, buying art for the walls, moving furniture around and generally making ourselves crazy. We've become good friends with the guys in the paint department at Home Depot. Last weekend Seely's sister and her friend came up to help us finish up in time for yesterday's photo shoot. We couldn't have done it all without them.
Yesterday the photographer and his stylist spent almost 13 hours shooting nine rooms of the inn. It was an amazing process. They will be back in June to shoot the rest. We will be posting the first shots very soon. .
In the meantime, we have dining room tables, closets, and kitchen space taken up by abandoned props, left over bits of construction materials and wrappers for linens. The truck is full of rejected linens and other things waiting to be returned to the stores. We haven't accounted for all the paint brushes and rollers so they must still be waiting in a fridge somewhere to be used again.
How did this happen? Who left this mess? More importantly, who is going to clean it up? Since it is unlikely that either of us have a Fairy Godmother coming to the rescue we'd better set the alarms for early tomorrow morning....
The innkeepers at Blueberry Cove Inn, Narragansett, RI invite you to their world of innkeeping. This is a behind the scenes look at their version of innkeeping.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Who left this mess??
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Dang. Where is that fairy godmother when you need her? It sounds like you've really got your place spiffed up. It will be fun to see the pictures when they're posted. We are way out in Calif. but if we ever make it to the east coast I would love to come stay at your inn. It is really entertaining, reading about the behind-the-scenes goings on. I love the analogy that running an inn is like having a bunch of teenagers around :)ReplyDelete
I just saw your inn! The rooms look really cozy! Thanks for commenting on my blog. I would love to see your backsplash!ReplyDelete
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Criteria for and Nomination of Book Awards
The Victorian Society in America presents three book awards, usually given annually, to books that best advance an understanding or appreciation of the decorative arts or architecture of the 19th Century.
Apart from the prestige of the Society's respected award, winners receive an illuminated manuscript presented at a dinner during the Society's Annual Meeting. The Society also publicizes its award winners and their books on this web site.
Project criteria
The book must be published in the year preceding the award.
Chronology & subject should be in the period 1837-1917.
Evaluation of the book will include content and the following:
overall design
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Source material (footnotes, bibliography, etc.)
In addition, the subject matter:
for the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award, which was was named to honor one of the early presidents of the Society in recognition of his significant contributions to architectural history, shall be centered on architecture or the decorative arts but may include related topics, such as landscape, painting, interiors, biographies of designers or architects, museum or historic house exhibition catalogues.
for the Ruth Emery Award, which was named to honor one of the founders of the Society instrumental in forming The Society's London Summer School, must deal with a regional topic.
for the W.E. Fischelis Award, which was named to honor former member, writer/editor of the Society newsletter, and managing editor of 19th Century magazine, is given occasionally to an outstanding book dealing with 19th century art and artists, in recognition of Mr. Fischelis' great contribution and interest in this field.
CLICK HERE to view Previous Book Award winners.
Nominations for the Victorian Society in America Book awards are accepted from members of the Society, in written form.
Publishers may also submit a nomination but must include a copy of the book to be considered.
The award committee finalizes its choices each year at the VSA Winter Board Meeting held early in the new year. Therefore, the deadline for receipt of nominations is December 31st.
The Business Manager will be pleased to answer any questions regarding the criteria for the process for nominations for a book award.
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Hendricks lifts Caps past Sabres in SO
Buffalo, NY – Matt Hendricks scored the game-winner in the shootout, as the Washington Capitals rallied late for a 4-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday at First Niagara Center.
Hendricks started the shootout with a successful wrister in close and after both Buffalo shooters came up empty, Alex Ovechkin rifled a quick shot through the five-hole of Jhonas Enroth to send the Capitals to their fourth victory in their last five games.
Ovechkin also the lit the lamp in regulation, while Troy Brouwer and Mike Green added a goal and an assist apiece for Washington, which sits just two points back of the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference playoff picture.
"There's no room for error," said Green. "We have to win these games, that's the bottom line."
Braden Holtby posted 20 saves and also added his second assist of the season.
Ville Leino recorded his first two goals of the season, while Christian Ehrhoff tallied once for the Sabres, who have registered a point in two straight games despite dropping three in a row.
Enroth stopped 35-of-38 shots in the setback.
"They're pros and they understand the time of the year that is and Wednesday is the deadline and what'll happen will happen," Sabres interim coach Ron Rolston said. "They don't have control over that, so they've been pretty focused."
Buffalo seemed well on its way to collecting two crucial points as it led 3-1 after two frames, but the Capitals battled back with a pair of goals in the third to force an extra session.
The first came early in the period with the Capitals on the penalty kill, as Holtby's clearing attempt from behind the Washington net sprang Brouwer up the left wing. Brouwer then skated into the left circle before beating Enroth to the short-side to make it 3-2 at the 2:43 mark of the third.
Enroth was able to keep the Capitals off the board from there until Holtby made his way to the Washington bench late in regulation. With the extra attacker, Green fired a heavy slapper from the high slot that found iron, but the rebound bounced off the back of Enroth and crossed the goal line to knot the game with 39.2 seconds left.
Neither team managed much in overtime, as the teams combined for just four shots over the extra five minutes to force the shootout.
Buffalo struck first just over three minutes into the game when Ehrhoff won a scrum on the short left boards and skated into the left circle before rifling a wrister high into the far corner of the net for a 1-0 lead at the 3:01 mark.
The Sabres doubled their advantage just 1:19 into the second when Leino lit the lamp with a wrister, but Ovechkin's power-play marker just over a minute later cut the margin to 2-1.
Game Notes
Washington took all three meetings from the Sabres to sweep the season series ... The Capitals improved to 8-9-1 as the guest this season ... Ovechkin extended his point streak to seven games ... Sabres leading scorer Thomas Vanek missed his second straight game with an upper-body injury ... Buffalo fell to 6-6-3 at home this season.