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Ex-Goldman Trader Liable for Misleading Investors
A federal jury found former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre liable for misleading investors in a mortgage-linked deal that collapsed during the financial crisis. Colin Barr has the latest on The News Hub.
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Quirin Gerritsz van Brekelenkam (Dutch, Zwammerdam? after 1620 - ca. 1669 Leiden)
Mother and Child in an Interior, ca. 1660
Oil on panel
25 1/8 x 18 5/8 in. (63.8 x 47.3 cm)
Gift of Dr. Alfred R. Bader, Parks Campbell (OC 1952), Robert M. Light (OC 1950), and Ruth C. Roush (OC 1934), in honor of Prof. Wolfgang Stechow, 1972
Representations of maternal duties, like this young mother tending her child in a kitchen glowing with warmth, were common in seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting. In part, such works encouraged and celebrated the skills and pleasures of middle-class domestic life.A young woman, wearing an apron over her skirt and fur-trimmed jacket, her head and shoulders modestly covered, offers an apple to the child in the close stool at her side. With one hand the child reaches for the fruit, and with the other grasps at the toy ring bar affixed to her chair. The woman has kicked off her shoes, and warms her feet with a brazier of coals in the footwarmer tucked beneath the folds of her skirt. In the background, a cat huddles by the fire burning in the hearth. Three majolica plates are displayed on the mantle above: the center one decorated with a bishop's miter, the others with cranes and border motifs.
Intimate scenes of mothers and children were a popular subject of Dutch painters in the mid-seventeenth century, particularly among artists of the Leiden school. Perhaps stimulated by ubiquitous contemporary exhortations to domestic virtue as found in such books as "Father" Jacob Cats's Houwelijck,1 Brekelenkam, Gerrit Dou (1613-1675), and other artists painted countless scenes of women engaged in domestic duties--cooking, cleaning, needlework, grooming, or child-rearing. Sometimes these paintings conveyed a specific moralizing or didactic "message" through visual allusions to texts or emblems. More commonly, however, paintings like Brekelenkam's Mother and Child in an Interior evoke in a more general way the merits and quotidian pleasures of domestic accomplishment, and the proper nurturing for children.
Brekelenkam painted a number of similar scenes of mothers and children throughout the late 1650s and '60s; Mother Feeding a Child (monogrammed and dated 1661) and Woman Feeding a Little Girl (1661) are closest to the present work in their subject matter and in their focus on the figures of woman and child.2 Among works by Brekelenkam's contemporaries, perhaps most closely related thematically is Two Women Teaching a Child to Walk (ca. 1668-72),3 by Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684), which shows a housewife offering an apple to a child while the maid teaches her to walk.
In her catalogue of works by the artist, Angelika Lasius questioned the attribution of the Oberlin painting to Brekelenkam, without, however, substantiating her doubts. Although the Oberlin painting is not signed, it is certainly by Brekelenkam. The strong geometry of the sparsely furnished interior is characteristic of Brekelenkam's compositions, as is the warm golden brown, almost monochromatic tonality. It probably dates to about 1660, as suggested by Stechow.4
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Quirin van Brekelenkam was born probably in Zwammerdam shortly after 1622, 5 the son of Gerrit Andersz de Plutter and his wife Magdelena Crijnendr. It is not known when the artist adopted the surname "Brekelenkam." He was one of the founding members of the Leiden Guild of St. Luke in 1648. He was also married in that year, and again in 1656, following the death of his first wife. Documentary evidence suggests that the artist was not well off financially, and he was sued several times for failure to pay his debts. His last dated painting is from 1668, and it is believed that he died in this year or shortly after. Brekelenkam is perhaps best known for his genre scenes of artisans' workshops and domestic interiors. Stylistically, his early paintings (from 1648 on) are linked to the meticulous "fijnschilder" technique of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675); later works from the 1660s exhibit a looser, freer brushwork that is closer to the work of Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) or Gerard ter Borch (1617-1681).
General References
Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984, pp. 157-61.Honig, Elizabeth A. In Leidse Fijnschilders: van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge 1630-1730. Exh. cat., Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, 1988, pp. 80-93.Lasius, Angelika. Quiringh van Brekelenkam. Doornspijk, 1992.
Sale A. de Beurs Stiermans et al., Rotterdam, 23 April 1845, lot 9
Collection James Stillman, Paris
Anonymous gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1922 (acc. 22.16.16)
With Schaeffer Galleries, New York, 1972, from whom acquired
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum 17, no. 2 (1922), p. 46. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Catalogue of Paintings. Catalogue by Bryson Burroughs. New York, 1931, p. 33, no. B 74-2.Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 12.
Stechow, Wolfgang. "A Genre Painting by Brekelenkam." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 30, no. 2 (Winter 1973), pp. 74-84.
Sutton, Denys. "A Collection for Connoisseurs." Apollo 103, no. 168 (February 1976), p. 85, fig. 7.
Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 212.
Lasius, Angelika. Quiringh van Brekelenkam. Doornspijk, 1992, p. 153, no. B29 (questionable attribution).
Technical Data
The panel was thinned to 3/16 in. (0.5 cm) thick and cradled prior to acquisition by the museum in 1972. The primary support is probably a single radially-cut board; there is a slightly curved split running the entire length of the panel about 3 1/2-4 in. (8.9-10.2 cm) from the left edge, which may partially coincide with a flush join.6 There is some inpainting along this crack, as well as some minor scattered inpainting in the background and in the woman's black coat. Overall, however, the painting is in excellent condition. The ground and paint surface are thinly applied (and the latter has become more transparent over time), rendering the wood grain visible in the background and some other areas.
1. Jacob Cats, Houwelijck (Middelburg, 1618).
2. Oil on panel (oval), 30.5 x 25.5 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. C113; and oil on panel, 36.2 x 32.4 cm, Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, inv. 311. Both reproduced in Angelika Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam (Doornspijk, 1992), cat. nos. 142 and 143, respectively.
3. Oil on canvas, 67.5 x 59 cm, Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, inv. 1558. See Otto Naumann, in Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting (exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984), pp. 152-53; and Peter C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch: Complete Edition with a Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1980), p. 102, cat. 87, ill. pl. 90. Compare also similar scenes of mothers seated by a child in a close stool by Nicolaes Maes (Woman Making Lace; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 32.200.5) and Reynier Covijn (Woman Peeling Apples, with a Child; location unknown; ill. W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt Schüler, vol. 3 [Landau/Pfalz, 1983], p. 1971). In Gerard ter Borch's Woman Peeling Apples, ca. 1660 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, inv. GG588), a child looks longingly at the apples being prepared, a motif repeated in Pieter de Hooch's Woman Peeling Apples with a Child, ca. 1663 (London, Wallace Collection, inv. P23).
4. Wolfgang Stechow, "A Genre Painting by Brekelenkam," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 30, no. 2 (Winter 1973), p. 80.
5. This proposed birthdate is based on the fact that no child with the artist's name is listed among members of the Brekelenkam/de Plutter family in the Zwammerdam census of 1622; see Elizabeth A. Honig, in Leidse Fijnschilders: van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge 1630-1730 (exh. cat., Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, 1988), p. 80; and Angelika Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam (Doornspijk, 1992), p. 7.
6. Examination of existing x-radiographs (taken in 1972), and of the reverse and top and bottom edges of the panel for evidence of a join was inconclusive (examination by Aiella Diamantopoulos, ICA, September 1995).


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I had found George Herman or Herman George Weisleder in the 1910 and 1930 Census, why couldn't I find him in the 1920 Census. How do you narrow down a census for a large city. I had found him listed in a Buffalo City Directory living at 304 Sycamore. Now Buffalo has a lot of Districts. I went to Google Earth and located 304 Sycamore, and the streets surrounding it. Then as most of the enumeration districts listed the streets bounding the district, I was able to zero in on the enumeration district that 304 Sycamore would be listed. When I found the entry, the last name was Weisler, so it was not coming up in searches for Weisleader. It is amazing what can be found using various sources.
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J.B. Brown's Portland Sugar House, Portland, ca. 1850Item 6673 info
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Portland's industry used the inexpensive labor of the Irish to further its interests.
John Bundy Brown's sugar factory, located adjacent to one of Portland's two large Irish neighborhoods, employed scores of the Irish, as did the Portland Company, which produced locomotives, railroad cars, and ship engines.


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1 Looks and feels nice.
2 Has MSC mode as well as (default) MTP.
3 Uses portrait orientation - good for lists.
4 Output level is strong - I'd say 5V full-scale peak-to-peak, being 3-6dB above ZEN.
1 EQ has 7 bands, but range is labelled as just +/-3dB
2 When playing, after 12s idle on e.g. a system settings page, the player flips to the Play page... but there's no direct way (e.g. "menu" button) back to original page.
3 Play page bar and time are really tiny - even with no album art, because the play substitutes a large picture of a rotating disc taking up 80% of the screen.
4 In MSC mode, connection to XP SP Home PC caused request for driver for device "SE Blank MARLEY". OS search for drivers inc. on net found none. The supplied software is only on the unit itself so was inaccessible. On a XP SP2 Pro machine, this did not happen and connection was successful, and download worked without manually installing any software
5 "Add to playlist" disallows multiple occurences of a track in a playlist.
6 The so-called User Button is not programmable like e.g. the ZEN's. It just performs a different not-very-useful command on each of four different pages.
7 Track step is sluggish, even in Stopped state.
8 Track step causes a fast fade including two clicks and then a short buzz before the next track starts. The clicks and buzz sound even in Stopped state.
9 The Playlist view shows only track filenames - no folderpaths or metadata.
10 Page layout makes wasteful use of the screenspace, e.g. the Playlist page's wide line spacing causes only eleven lines to fit - and that's on this portrait-orientation screen; the Albums list fits only five, even where each album's info the album info is just one test line and no art.
11 Supports no standard playlist format such as M3U. Lists in the supported format SPL can be created in a PC text editor (be sure to include BOM) and do support folders.
12 Navigation pad is error-prone, having no division between centre Select and edge Move that is detectable to eye or fingertip before press.
13 No more than five playlists may be added-to using the device, and these exclude PC-created playlists.
14 No direct way to store the queue of playing tracks to a playlist - you have to individually select and add each track.
15 While in Play mode, add to playlist is possible only for the current track.
16 No track ratings.
17 The UI for Playlist naming is very crude, using three-char "keys" like on a phone, sequenced as per T9.
My score: 2.5/10.
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Bill Clinton was recently a guest on Piers Morgan Tonight, which was, at the time, being guest-hosted by Harvey Weinstein. Neat! PLEASE WAKE UP! I'm sorry about that opening sentence, but I had to write it because while Bill Clinton was a guest on Harvey Wenstein One Night A Few Days Ago, they discussed whom Bill Clinton would like cast in his imaginary biopic because duh what else are you going to talk about, and, first of all, Bill Clinton couldn't even come up with anyone to say so Harvey Weinstein had to answer the question for him, and then Harvey Weinstein couldn't even come up with anyone good. Television! From the Huffington Post:
When Clinton couldn't come up with a suitable candidate for himself, Weinstein suggested a few of Hollywood's elite. In the end it came down to that age-old question: Brad Pitt or George Clooney?
Pitt was just "too good looking" for Clinton. However, the former president was quite taken with the idea of George Clooney, after praising the actor — and staunch supporter of the Democratic party — for his role in "The Descendants." "He was so good in it, so real," said Clinton.
As for the naysayers who think Clooney is too good looking to play the former president, Clinton humorously replied, "You could put bulbous things on his nose."
As for who would play his wife, and current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, there was only one leading lady suitable for the job. "Meryl Streep," replied Clinton, despite the fact that Streep is 11 years older than Clooney.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Terrible answers. Brad Pitt or George Clooney? R U kidding me, Harvey Weinstein and Bill Clinton? USE YOUR BIG DUMB BRAINS. Meryl Streep isn't a terrible answer, except it kind of is because Hillary was not a 70-year-old when Bill Clinton was in the White House. Ugh. These guys. We can do better than these guys! Let's do better than these guys. Here are my choices:
Bill: Ryan Gosling
Hillary: Brit Marling
Bill: The cartoon version of Bill Clinton, as if he'd been a character on Clone High.
Hillary: Mom from Home Movies in a wig.
Bill: Mark Duplass
Hillary: Greta Gerwig
Bill: Josh Hutcherson
Hillary: Chloë Moretz
Bill: David Wain
Hillary: Amy Poehler
Bill: H. Jon Benjamin
Hillary: John Roberts
Bill: Britt Daniel
Hillary: St. Vincent
Bill: David Bowie
Hillary: Charlize Theron
Bill: Gabe Delahaye
Hillary: Jennifer Lopez
Bill: Alec Baldwin
Hillary: Martin Short dressed like a woman
Bill: Rik Mayall
Hillary: Phoebe Cates
Bill: George Clooney
Hillary: Meryl Streep
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It was one of those days when I needed a clone–you know, someone to do the cooking while I did everything else that had to be done. Since science has yet to reach the point of providing me free kitchen help, I reached into my cabinet and pulled out the next best thing: The Crockpot.
I rarely plan far enough in advance to use the crockpot, but for those times when I know I'll be busy doing other things right before dinnertime, the crockpot is a must. The trouble yesterday was that my family had had their fill of the usual crockpot fare–soups and stews–and were ready for something else. Besides, the crazy Mississippi weather was playing one of its frequent tricks on us by going from chilly soup weather to nearly 90, so it just wasn't the day for cozy comfort food. "Wouldn't it be great," I thought, "if you could make Chinese food in the crockpot." I just had to give it a try.
Actually, a crockpot is perfect for tofu. Slow cooking in sauce infuses the tofu with flavor and, since the sauce is thick and the tofu is dried slightly by pan-frying first, its texture is firm and not mushy. The vegetables are added at the end of the cooking so that they do not disintegrate. I used a large, oval crockpot for this, but I think it would probably work better in a smaller one, so don't be afraid to try it in one of the traditional-sized slow cookers. For some other cooking options, see the end of the recipe.
Chinese Barbecued Tofu and Vegetables
- 1 14-ounce package extra-firm tofu not silken tofu
- 1 small onion minced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons fresh ginger root minced
- 8 ounces no salt added tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
- 2 tablespoons seasoned rice wine vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon vegan Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 2 teaspoons molasses
- 1/4 teaspoon five spice powder
- 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
- salt to taste optional
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2-3 stalks broccoli stalks only; reserve florets for another use
- 2 medium zucchini cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1/2 large red or green bell pepper cut into 1-inch squares
- 1 8-ounce can sliced water chestnuts
- Cut the tofu into 1/2-inch thick slices. Place them on a few paper towels and cover them with 2 or 3 more. Press lightly to remove some of the moisture from the tofu. Cut the slices into triangles or other shapes.
Heat a non-stick skillet until hot, and place the tofu slices in it. Brown well on both sides. When they are done, place them in a crockpot that has been sprayed with non-stick spray. (If you avoid all oil, try lining the crockpot with parchment paper.) Set the crockpot to high heat and cover.
- Using the same skillet, sauté the onions, garlic, and ginger until the onion softens, about 3 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and heat, stirring, until bubbly. Pour the sauce over the tofu and stir well to combine. Replace the cover and cook on high for 3 hours.
- Prepare the broccoli stalks by trimming off the tough ends and peeling off the outer skin. Slice into 1/4-inch thick rounds. After the tofu has cooked for 3 hours, add the broccoli and other vegetables. Stir well to combine and cover tightly. Cook for about 1 more hour. Vegetables should be tender but not over-cooked. Serve over brown rice. Makes 3-4 servings.
Recipe Notes
Cooking options: If you need to cook the tofu for a longer time, set the cooker on low and add 2 or 3 more tablespoons of water to the sauce. Cook for about 5-6 hours before adding the vegetables. Turn the heat up to high once the veggies are added. Note: This is not a good option for larger crockpots because the volume of food is too low.
To cook this in the oven, preheat to 375 F and put the tofu and sauce into a non-metal baking dish coated with cooking spray. Cook for 30 minutes before adding the vegetables. Cover and cook for about 15 more minutes, until vegetables are just tender. Try using frozen and defrosted tofu and skip the pan-frying.


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Rice Noodles with Clams and Sausage
This fragrant dish of clams and sausage is hearty and satisfying. A fragrant noodle filled broth is a great base for this steaming and delicious meal.
2⁄3 cup peanut oil
5 tbsp. gingerroot, finely minced
3 tbsp. garlic, minced
3-4 fresh chile peppers, finely chopped
7 cups chicken stock
1 bunch cilantro stems, tied
3 8-oz. cured andouille sausages, cut into 1⁄2-in. slices
2 doz. manilla or littleneck clams
2 lb. rice noodles, cooked and drained
1⁄2 cup fresh cilantro
Salt and pepper, as needed
1. In a large wok, heat oil until hot but not smoking. Add gingerroot, garlic, chile peppers and sauté 2-3 min. Add chicken stock and cilantro stems. Let simmer for 10 min., and remove cilantro stems.
2. Sauté andouille until warmed through. Place 1 cup broth in separate pan, add clams, cover and steam until open. Strain broth back into original mixture.3
3. Add noodles to broth and warm through. Add clams, sausage, and cilantro; season with salt and pepper and serve.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock index futures Tuesday pared gains after a report showed a larger-than-expected drop in New York-area manufacturing activity, indicating continued weakness in the economy.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJH4 dropped immediately after the Empire State data but regained footing and were 4 points higher at 16,132, while S&P 500 index futures US:SPH4 were mostly flat at 1,835.20. Nasdaq 100 futures US:NDH4 rose 2.5 points to 3,663.50.
Shares of Forest Laboratories Inc. US:FRX surged 30% in premarket trade on news that Actavis PLC ACT, -0.94% will buy its New York-based rival in a cash-and-stock deal worth $25 billion. Actavis leapt 7.9%.
U.S. markets were closed for Presidents' Day on Monday, so Tuesday's action will mark the first trading day of the week. U.S. stocks ended Friday with the biggest weekly gains of the year, and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.57% hit its highest closing level since July 2000.
Manufacturing activity in the New York region slipped in February after hitting its highest reading since May 2012 in January, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday. The regional bank's "Empire State" general business conditions index retreated to 4.5 in February from 12.5 in January.
The ISM index for the U.S. showed manufacturers suffered from the January chill last month, so markets may look for various regional surveys to assess whether the weakness persisted into February, analysts at HSBC said in a note.
At 10 a.m. Eastern, the NAHB housing market index is out, which economists say should stay at the 56 level in February. Since hitting a high of 58 in August last year, the index has drifted a bit lower, partly because of a sharp rise in mortgage interest rates.
"The pace of mortgage applications so far in 2014 suggests that sales have remained subdued," the HSBC analysts said.
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Shares of Tesla TSLA, +1.34% were up more than 7% in premarket action. The San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday reported that Apple's AAPL, +0.72% merger-and-acquisition chief, Adrian Perica, met with Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk last year when speculation abounded that the iPhone maker might bid for Tesla.
Shares of Coca-Cola Co. KO, +0.27% were down 2% in premarket action after the beverage company's fourth-quarter profit and revenue came in below analyst forecasts.
Herbalife HLF, +1.26% is expected to post fourth-quarter earnings of $1.25 a share. Herbalife said earlier this month that it plans to offer $1 billion in convertible notes and use the proceeds to buy back shares.
After Friday's quarterly 13-F filings from fund managers, other prominent companies could also move on Tuesday.
The documents showed several high-profile fund managers, including George Soros, Leon Cooperman, Kyle Bass and Barry Rosenstein, all took or increased stakes in General Motors GM, -1.01% in the fourth quarter.
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Annual Meeting Coverage
Information Science Fiction
by Howard D. White
Editors Note: Howard White delivered the following address at the Awards Luncheon at the Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 16, 2004, where he received the ASIS&T Award of Merit.
Howard D. White is affiliated with the College of
Information Science and Technology at Drexel University in
Philadelphia (PA 19104). He can be reached by email at email@example.com
Thank you, everyone. This is a very untypical day for
me, and I deeply appreciate the work of all those who made it
I had to pick a situation
that typifies my life, it would be me standing in front of a bunch
of books I havent read. Wherever I go and however long I live, I
always seem to be doing this; for some reason I like
standing there, taking books down and looking into them and putting
them back. I have done it at home, at school, in my office, in
bookstores and in libraries. I suppose that this fondness for
browsing is why I trained at one point to be a librarian: they get
paid to stand in front of a bunch of books they havent read.
But I never worked as a professional librarian; instead, I became an
academic, and this allowed me to characterize my relation to books
in more stately fashion as the human-literature interface. I
dont apologize for that phrase; one has to set the broader
context when one is doing newish things, like mapping authors in
intellectual space based on their cocitation counts. But as I looked
at these maps over time, I came to realize that all I had created
was a miniature version of
a bunch of books I hadnt read.
Even so, whether Im browsing in library stacks or looking
at cocitation maps, Im reminded of the central concern of
information science that is, effective intermediation between
people and literatures. People have a sharply limited capacity for
absorbing recorded information. They can increase this capacity only
by extending it over time that is to say, over chunks of their
lives, which are finite. People are also sharply limited in where
they can be at a given moment. Literatures, in contrast, contain
vast amounts of information, they extend globally over highly
fragmented space, and they are timeless. They and people could
hardly be more different. Yet people want to avail themselves of the
powers and pleasures found in literatures, despite the mismatch at
the point where they and literatures meet.
way of conveying this mismatch is to speak of you versus
the literature. The phrase suggests overload
the fact that, from childhood on, you have too many things
to read or otherwise attend to. But it also suggests resistance
the fact that you learn to filter even the good stuff and
restrict what you take in. Beyond that, you can sometimes
mean more than one person it can imply you
the individual plus all
the others who cut literatures down to size on your behalf.
Sometimes they do this by singling out just those writings that
address your interests or your specific questions. Other times they
shorten what has to be read through abridgement and synthesis. One
way or another, you as reader go from glut to gist. Or at least
thats how its supposed to be.
me pretend Im a science fiction writer who is coining names for
two imaginary sciences that do R&D on the activities just
mentioned. Both overlap present-day information science, but they do
not limit us to it, because both can make use of research from many
other disciplines. The first is a behavioral science that deals with
filtering. It is the study of how people choose what they will and
will not read; how they ask for writings and how they judge what
they get. It is the study of selection from diverse information
sources more broadly, the social psychology of information
seeking. Ill call this Eclectics. The second science is concerned
with text. It deals with the resources language affords for making
overviews, condensations and indexing schemes, for reducing messages
to briefer compass, for putting much into little, perhaps with
pictures rather than words. Ill call this Synoptics. The unit of
analysis in Eclectics is people, in Synoptics, it is writings and
other graphic records. Eclectics and Synoptics are both motivated by
the condition of information overload; they focus on how you
whether singular or plural cope with ever-growing
to say, the two fields are highly interrelated. Eclectics defines you
as a bundle of interests and questions. Synoptics defines the
literature as bundles of
satisfactions of your interests and answers to your questions. The
engineering task is to effect a match, or reduce the mismatch,
between you and your literature-based satisfactions and answers. The
scientific task is to find out enough about you and about the micro-
and macro-structure of literatures to make this possible. Of course,
the great bridge between people and literatures should be language
that they have in common, but the major finding of Eclectics to date
is that many people dont know the right language to get what they
want from literatures. All the intermediating systems that Synoptics
puts up can be considered proposals as to what the right language
should be. They may also inadvertently show that the right language
doesnt yet exist that it remains to be created.
ultimate goal of information science is an artificial intelligence
that can furnish answers from literatures like an ideal human
conversationalist. A preview of this in a science fiction movie is
Vox, the holographic reference librarian in the 2002 remake of H. G.
Wellss The Time Machine. As an interviewer, Vox has flaws he can jump to conclusions just like a real
reference librarian but he is an object lesson in what the
human-literature interface might look like as Synoptics and
Eclectics converge.
think Voxs brain will exploit the core-and-scatter distributions
of terms that figure so prominently in information science. Those
distributions concentrate meanings that are otherwise hidden across
texts, and a Vox could marshal them to recommend some writings over
others. My own work has suggested what this might mean with terms as
diverse as cited authors and the titles of items held by OCLC-member
libraries. In my current project, I hope to push this work, which is
a form of Synoptics, closer to user studies, which are a form of
If these names seem like something out of early L. Ron Hubbard, you can blame my boyhood love of science fiction. I assure you that if I live to speak to Vox about information science, I wont use them. Ill use the same terms you would and then take only his top recommendations. Ill filter. In fact, my final words to him will probably be Just browsing.
Thank you.
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Information Science and Technology


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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake on Wednesday sent GK Jeff Attinella on a short-term loan to the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers of the second-division North American Soccer League (NASL).
Signed by Real Salt Lake in December 2012, the 24-year-old Attinella has not appeared in any of RSL's first-team matches this year. The third-year pro has seen action in the Reserve League, allowing just one goal in 135 minutes of action across three games.
Attinella spent the first two years of his professional career in NASL with the Tampa Bay Rowdies, which he helped lead to the 2012 NASL title. The Clearwater, Fla. native is the second RSL player to be sent on loan to a NASL side in the last 10 days; MF Enzo Martinez was sent on-loan to the Carolina RailHawks on April 30.
Currently in seventh place in the NASL, the Strikers have three remaining league games in May.
RSL still has three goalkeepers on its active roster in Nick Rimando, Josh Saunders and Lalo Fernandez.
Real Salt Lake will return to action on Wednesday, when it will take on the New England Revolution at 6:00 p.m. MT at Gillette Stadium. The Claret-and-Cobalt will play again on Saturday, traveling north of the border to take on the Montreal Impact at 12:00 p.m. MT at Stade Saputo. Both Wednesday's and Saturday's games will be broadcast live on CW30, ESPN700 AM and 102.3 La Gran D FM/1600AM.


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Comparing microphone sensitivity ratings: what does it mean?
What is microphone sensitivity?
A microphone sensitivity specification tells how much electrical output (in thousandths of a volt or \"millivolts\") a microphone produces for a certain sound pressure input (in dB SPL). If two microphones are subject to the same sound pressure level and one puts out a stronger signal (higher voltage), that microphone is said to have higher sensitivity. However, keep in mind that a higher sensitivity rating does not necessarily make a microphone better than another microphone with a lower sensitivity rating.
What is \"dB SPL\"?
The term \"dB SPL \" is a measurement of Sound Pressure Level (SPL) which is the force that acoustical sound waves apply to air particles. As a person talks or sings, SPL is strongest near the mouth and weakens as the acoustical waves move away from the person. As reference levels, 0 dB SPL is the quietest sound a human can normally hear and 1 dB is the smallest change in level that the human ear can detect. For comparison, at three feet, speech conversation level is about 60 dB SPL and a jackhammer\'s level is about 120 dB SPL.
What about dB SPL input levels?
Microphone manufacturers normally specify one of two dB SPL input levels: 74 dB SPL or 94 dB SPL. Shure uses 74 dB SPL unless indicated otherwise on the data sheet. How do these dB SPL values relate to the real world? 74 dB SPL is typical of the sound intensity twelve inches away from a talker. 94 dB SPL is typical of the sound intensity one inch away from the same talker. A microphone \"hears\" these sound intensities and converts the acoustic wave into an equivalent electrical signal. To determine which SPL is used for a sensitivity measurement, look at the microphone data sheet. Confusion can arise because of the different units by which SPL may be specified. For example, 94 dB SPL = 1 Pascal = 10 microbars = 10 dynes/cm2. And 74 dB SPL = 0.1 Pascal = 1 microbar = 1 dyne/cm2. Unfortunately for the microphone buyer, different manufacturers use different units to specify SPL. But by following these dB SPL unit conversions, you can determine how different dB SPL ratings relate to each other.
What does \"open circuit voltage rating\" mean?
First, \"open circuit\" means the microphone is not connected to anything. That is, there is no electrical load on the microphone. The open circuit voltage rating indicates how much voltage appears at the microphone output when a certain SPL is introduced to the microphone diaphragm. A value for a typical dynamic mic is -75 dBV/microbar. The \"V\" in dBV indicates the microphone output level is referenced to 1 Volt. If there was a microphone with an output voltage of 1 volt, its level would be given as 0 dBV. The negative dBV output level (\"-75\") indicates that the mic output voltage is less than 1 volt (-75 dBV converts to .00018 volts). The \"microbar\" part indicates the microphone was tested with an input of 74 dB SPL. (Please reread the preceding section if the conversion from 1 microbar to 74 dB SPL is confusing.) To compare this typical dynamic microphone\'s sensitivity with a different microphone that was tested at 94 dB SPL or 1 Pascal, simply add 20 dB to the rating: -75 + 20 = -55 dBV/Pascal. Remember, to compare specifications from different manufacturers, make certain that each has been converted to the same input dB SPL level.
What is a microphone power rating?
To get a power rating, a microphone is attached to a load equal to its own internal resistance. The microphone is subjected to 94 dB SPL and the resulting power output across the load is measured. Power ratings have virtually no relevance to today\'s audio circuits and are now rarely used.
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The New American Majority
How food and beverage marketers are targeting Hispanics, Asians and other fast-growing demographic groups.
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., reports the Huffington Post/Associated Press. And a headline earlier this year predicted collective minorities would become the majority in the U.S. as early as 2040 – although more recent studies are pushing that date back as immigration has slowed, probably due to the weak economy.
Nevertheless, Hispanics and Asians, in particular, are forces to be reckoned with – and marketed to. Every food & beverage processor that wants to be around in 2040, or maybe even 2020, is creating strategies to appeal to these groups.
The annual growth rates for Hispanics, who make up 16.7 percent of our population, and Asians, who represent 4.8 percent, fell sharply last year to about 2.2 percent, roughly half the rates in 2000. The growth rate of Blacks, who comprise about 12.3 percent of the population, stayed flat at 1 percent, as did that of Caucasians.
So, despite some slowing, the nation's minority population continues to rise, following a higher-than-expected Hispanic count in the 2010 census. Minorities increased 1.9 percent to 114.1 million, or 36.6 percent of the total U.S. population, boosted by earlier waves of immigration of young families and Hispanic women in their prime childbearing years. With relatively high fertility rates – seven births for every death – the median age of U.S. Hispanics is 27.6 years compared to 42 for whites.
Hispanics are not a monolithic group
The danger – for marketers and for stories like this one – is to imply that you can market to a unified demographic called "Hispanics." The Hispanic population in America hails from some 24 Latin American countries – all but Portuguese-speaking Brazil. And even that connected group is a diversity of cultures. Some demographers include European Spanish in this category. Change the term to Latino and you can include Brazil and Portugal. Despite that warning, we will continue to address them collectively as Hispanics in this article.
First of all, Hispanic or Latino? Answer: They either don't care or don't care for either. Nearly four decades after the U.S. government mandated the use of those terms to categorize Americans who trace their roots to Spanish-speaking countries, a new Pew Hispanic Center study of 1,220 U.S. Latino adults finds that most respondents don't care if they are called Hispanic or Latino. Of those that do care, Hispanic is preferred by 33 percent, versus 14 percent who prefer Latino.
Fifty-one percent of those surveyed say they use their family's country of origin to describe their identity. That includes such terms as "Mexican" or "Cuban" or "Dominican." Twenty-four percent say they use the terms Hispanic or Latino, and 21 percent say they use American most often.
The study found. U.S.-born Hispanics (who now make up 48 percent of Hispanic adults) express a stronger sense of affinity with other Americans and America than do immigrant Hispanics. The survey finds that 38 percent of all respondents are Spanish language-dominant, 38 percent are bilingual and 24 percent are English-dominant. Among U.S.-born Hispanics, 51 percent are English-dominant.
Race is another tricky issue. Most Hispanics don't see themselves fitting into the U.S. Census Bureau standard racial categories. When it comes to race, 51 of Latinos identify their race as "some other race" or "Hispanic/Latino." Meanwhile, 36 percent identify their race as white, and 3 percent say their race is black.
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Exhibitors at the first nine of this year's National Marine Manufacturers Association boat shows are reporting better-than-expected sales and buying crowds with boats selling in all categories, the NMMA reports.
Attendance figures for most shows were not immediately available, though the New York show posted a 51 percent increase in attendance from the previous year.
"While many variables contribute to a show's overall attendance - weather, competing events, show dates - at the end of the day, it's not how many people came, it's how many came to buy," NMMA president Thom Dammrich said in a statement. "This year - with a slight increase in consumer confidence, pent-up demand and the allure of the boating lifestyle - we're seeing buyers return, reminding us that boat shows remain an important sales venue for our industry."
Results this year have exceeded expectations with public relations, interactive and advertising programs creating momentum leading into each show, helping to further promote the affordability of boating and the boating lifestyle, according to the NMMA.
Also, the NMMA Advantage program has delivered thousands of visitors to NMMA boat and sportshow Web sites to view participating dealer inventories, driving traffic on-site and additional awareness for exhibitors' offerings, the association said in a statement.
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Singers will appear on episodes slated for May 8 and May 14 as more musical firepower arrives for NBC's hit competition series
Music superstars Rod Stewart, CeeLo Green, Lady Antebellum, Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I. will perform live on upcoming episodes of NBC's "The Voice."
Stewart and Green will take to the stage in the Wednesday, May 8, episode (8 p.m.). Lady Antebellum, as well as Thicke with Williams and TI will perform on the Tuesday, May 14 program (9 p.m.).
Green was a highly popular coach on the first three seasons of "The Voice." Both Williams and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum have previous connections to "The Voice" as well. Williams was the adviser to Team Usher while Scott served as adviser to Team Adam during the "Battle Rounds" of the current season. Thicke also has experience as an adviser for "The Voice," as he offered his expertise to contestants in season two.
Stewart will perform a song from his upcoming album, which is being released May 7 on Capitol Records and is his first album of new material in almost 20 years.
"The Voice's" own Green, who recently wrapped his stint performing in "Loberace" at the Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, will perform "Only You" off his forthcoming new solo album "Girl Power," slated for a late 2013 release.
Seven-time Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum is set to perform "Goodbye Town" from their new album "Golden," which will be released May 7.
Thicke, with Williams and T.I., collaborated on Thicke's latest single, "Blurred Lines." Since its release March 20, the hit single has become a viral sensation racking up more than 8 million views on YouTube and VEVO.com.
Grammy-winning Williams' current single "Get Lucky" with Daft Punk is No. 1 in 44 countries.
Rapper, producer, actor and author T.I. recently released his eighth studio album, "Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head," which has been certified gold.
Season to date, the Monday edition of "The Voice" is averaging a 5.2 rating, 13 share in adults 18-49 and 14.2 million viewers overall, making it the No. 3 primetime series on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in adults 18-49, as well as the No. 2 entertainment series and the No. 1 reality series, according to "most current" results from Nielsen Media Research.
The Tuesday editions is averaging a 4.7/14 in 18-49 and 13.4 million viewers overall. For the week of April 15-21, the Monday and Tuesday telecasts of "The Voice" for the first time grabbed the No. 1 and No. 2 rankings among primetime series on those networks in both adults 18-49 and total viewers, and also took the top two spots for the week among adults 18-34, adults 25-54, kids 2-11 and teens 12-17.
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Malaysia Airports Continues To Find Solutions For Ibrahim Nasir International Airport
02 December 2012
Sepang, 2 December 2012 - In an effort to find a solution to the concession agreement (CA) between the Government of Maldives and the consortium led by
India's GMR Group and Malaysia Airports, a delegation led by Malaysian Foreign Minister Dato' Sri Anifah Hj Aman had met with the Maldives counterpart
Abdul Samad Abdullah, in Male on 30 November 2012.
The objective of the meeting was to discuss the resolution on the airport CA undertaken by the consortium. Malaysia Airports holds 23% while GMR holds 77% stake in the consortium. GMR Group is a strategic partner to Malaysia Airports in managing and operating airports overseas and both have enjoyed a good working relationship, building on each other's strengths to offer the best values to the airports under its management.
There have been numerous efforts made by both GMR and Malaysia Airports in finding a resolution to the CA. The Government of India has also voiced out its concerns on this matter.
The latest meeting between the senior representatives of the Malaysian and Maldivian Governments is a further indication that all the parties are determined to find an amicable solution which will allow all parties to continue to work together.
The GMR-MAHB consortium has made significant investments into the project and continues to reinvest into the rehabilitation, expansion and
modernization of INIA. Up to date, the GMR-MAHB Consortium has not received any dividends for the investments made.


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Sidonie Variation 1
Added Feb 19, 2008
By burdastyle
New York, New Yo...
Our first variation on the Sidonie basic skirt pattern. A longer variation with a playful paper bag waist detail and ruffle on the hem shows off beautiful curves.
Material Notes
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May 26, 2008, 04.30 PMby camilaustral
i really really really like it!! i'm making it as a formal outfit, it looks so elegant! (i'm making a top too, similar to this one) thanks!
May 15, 2008, 07.25 AMby airyfairyclarey
wat a fabulous skirt, i luv it! I really want to make it but would anybody know what other fabric it might work in as I can't find any nice corduroy, thanks!
Apr 23, 2008, 06.55 AMby barbaraagatha
I have been struggling with downloading this variation 1. I got the basic sidonie skirt, now how do i get this fab variation? I can't seem to find the link to the pattern. Help?
Apr 15, 2008, 10.58 AMby burdastylegirl
LOVE this skirt looks so cute and it goes nice with the shirt too. Very chic and sophisticated SEXY too =)
Mar 27, 2008, 08.11 AMby antigone
This skirt is gorgeous! It would make a great statement piece, even in black!
Feb 25, 2008, 08.17 AMby ahlem
this skirt is very nice i love its sunny color
Feb 24, 2008, 07.41 PMby rachelalfreda
I definitely have to make this skirt, I already know what jacket I would wear it with…
Feb 20, 2008, 10.45 PMby jendockter
Personally, I like the look of the serged edges; it gives the fabric a very soft look where if it were crisp edged, with the colour, it would look too sharp. Luckily for me, my sewing machine has a stitch that looks (and pretty much acts) the same as a serge-overlocked stitch. I'd probably try this variation in a lilac though as yellows just look horrible on me :)
Feb 20, 2008, 02.34 PMby jj1
Love it too.
Feb 20, 2008, 07.57 AMby lybu
This skirt is really gorgeous. I love this colour. I want to make one for myself. Thank you for inspiration!
Feb 20, 2008, 07.55 AMby bturner0022
This is a beautiful skirt! I absolutely love it! I'm gonna have to try this one soon!
Feb 20, 2008, 02.09 AMby lauriana
I love this version as well, although I don't really like the hem finishings: I think it works in this case, but it makes the whole thing a sergers-only project which I don't like (because, like many other members, I don't have a serger). I would know my way around it though. This is great timing for me as I was pondering about how to take my beloved high waisted sleek skirt look into summer.
Feb 19, 2008, 09.51 PMby lilo
lovely, delicious! makes me happy to look at it, so sunny.
I would (will?) finish off all hems traditionally though for myself; I would also skip the center back split and make it from a fabric with enough stretch.
Feb 19, 2008, 07.48 PMby bathina
Thank you for an other motivation! The model is such a beauty and looks very sunny.
Feb 19, 2008, 07.28 PMby marinaglory
wow, everything about this skirt is alluring and pretty- i love it! wonderful variation! this is going on my "to-do-when-i-get-better-at-sewing-and-won't-mess-it-up" list :D
Feb 19, 2008, 04.41 PMby marcy harriell | oonaballoona
so awesome… i knew the sidonie shape wouldn't look good on me, and this changes things completely! i guess that's the point of the site, eh, to play with the patterns… wish i could see outside that first box, but for now i will use your eyes :)
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text: Wayne, A question everyone will ask me now that this new version is available.. Do I have to pay for the upgrade? I purchased SATPC32 from an AMSAT rep at a flea market and it didn't come with a code to be put in to make it work... When I run the program-it says "registered" and is fully functional.. Maybe you know if this is the case, Wayne. Martha is not in today. 73, Dee, NB2F -----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Wayne Estes Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 3:28 AM To: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 version 12.8b is released SatPC32 version 12.8b is available for download at http://www.dk1tb.de/downloadeng.htm The main SatPC32 program window now displays more information such as the date of the Keplerian elements file in use. Before upgrading your SatPC32 installation, be sure to use the new program (in the ZIP file) to backup your user configuration. The upgrade erases all previous user configurations, but the new program will restore your configurations after upgrading. The download is a demo version that requires users to enter their lat/lon each time the program is started. To make the program fully functional, enter your existing registration code or purchase a registration code from the AMSAT web site: http://www.amsat-na.com/store/category.php?c=Software DK1TB, the author of SatPC32 has donated the software to AMSAT. All sales of SatPC32 are used to support AMSAT. Here are the changes described in the What's New file: 1. SatPC32, SatPC32ISS, Wisat32 and SuM now support rotor control of the M2 RC-2800 rotor system. 2. The CAT control functions of SatPC32, SatPC32ISS and Wisat32 have been expanded. The programs now provide CAT control of the new Icom transceiver IC-9100. 3. The main windows of SatPC32 and SatPC32ISS have been slightly changed to make them clearer. With window size W3 the world map can be stretched (only SatPC32). 4. The accuracy of the rotor positions can now be adjusted for the particular rotor controller. SatPC32 therefore can output the rotor positions with 0, 1 or 2 decimals. Corrections of the antenna positions can automatically be saved. In previous versions that had to be done manually. 5. The tool 'DataBackup' has been added. The tool allows users to save the SatPC32 program data via mouse click and to restore them if necessary. After the program has been configured for the user's equipment the settings should be saved with 'DataBackup'. If problems occur later, the program can easily restore the working configuration. 6. The rotor interfaces IF-100, FODTrack, RifPC and KCT require the kerneldriver IOPort.SYS to be installed. Since it is a 32-bit driver it will not work on 64-bit Windows systems. On such systems the driver can cause error messages.To prevent such messages the driver can now optionally be deactivated. 7. SuM now outputs a DDE string with azimuth and elevation, that can be evaluated by client programs. Some demo files show how to program and configure the client. 73, Wayne Estes W9AE Oakland, Oregon, USA, CN83ik _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb


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DENVER Colorados Legislature is getting more tech-savvy this year with iPads for every member.
The paper-saving move was approved last year to cut down on printing and filing costs and to increase legislative efficiency. The tablet computers cost about $60,000 including iPads, covers and software for every member and a few staff members.
Paper copies of pending bills will still be available to lawmakers and the public. But legislative administrators envision a more efficient body of lawmakers. Lawmakers trained with the iPads on Friday.
If we save paper and we save time and we save money, then great. But this is really about making you more effective, said Mike Mauer, who leads the states Office of Legislative Council.
Colorado is one of 16 states trying to cut down on paper and printing by ordering tablets for some or all lawmakers, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Tablets already are used by many Colorado lawmakers. But the Legislature maintains an entire printing shop to keep up with legislation and amendments. State budgets are sometimes the size of phone books.
House and Senate clerks said they envision getting rid of metal file cabinets by lawmakers desks that are currently stuffed nightly with printed and updated legislation, agendas and announcements. Lawmakers had mixed feelings about moving away from paper.
The file cabinet? I bet I can go three weeks without ever opening it, said Republican Sen. Greg Brophy, one of the Legislature more tech-savvy members.
Talking about his file cabinet, Brophy said jokingly, I guess thats what I put my coffee on. I dont know what else.
Democratic Sen. Pat Steadman said he liked the iPads but has a few reservations.
Im still old-fashioned and like paper, Steadman said.
Lawmakers will continue to receive state-issued laptops, for now. Those are updated every six years and can be shared with a lawmakers staff members, though the iPads are to be used by lawmakers only.
The legislative printing office, across the street from the Capitol, is still in business. Clerks envision eventually changing the office to an on-demand shop, instead of automatically printing paper copies of legislative documents. Those decisions would have to be made in the future, though.
You might see less paper. But well still have paper next year and the year after that, Mauer assured lawmakers.


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The hits just keep on coming! The peanut product recall for salmonella that started with Trader Joe's Creamy Salted Valencia version and expanded to include hundreds of other peanut products now also includes Uncrustables sandwiches that were sent to schools.
Smucker's used Sunland peanut butter that was provided by the USDA and has since been recalled, for limited production runs of bulk packs of the sandwiches that went to schools under the National School Lunch Program. Smucker's tested the peanut butter before using it in its products and found it safe, but out of an "abundance of caution," is recalling the round, crustless sandwiches just in case. Schools have been notified that they should check to see if they have any of the recalled lots, and should not serve them to students.
Symptoms of salmonella poisoning include diarrhea, cramps and fever 12 to 72 hours after eating the infected food. Children are particularly susceptible, and can require hospitalization.


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Iason Secutor wrote:Once I have the Aeneid memorized, I'll probably be in good shape. That's going to take me a while though.
adrianus wrote:I'd like to book a ticket for that but I predict that in a year's time you'll have forgotten your ambition. Please prove me wrong.
Praevenditionem pro isto emere velim. Praedico autem fore ut post uni anni spatium illum honorem oblitus esses. Te amabò, ut falsus sim effice.
scribo wrote:Hey! I have a good amount of the first book down
Iason Secutor wrote:I recommend the books of Dominic O'Brien for starters
.Iason Secutor wrote:You set a good example
Iason Secutor wrote:A mere 10,000 lines or so. Not such a big feat for the ancients.
cb wrote:hi, in response to the original query, there's a lot of latin mnemonic poetry devoted specifically to the gender of latin nouns. e.g. Lily wrote some verses which were burned into school childrens' brains over centuries:
dr johnson remembers reciting some of these verses in a dream:
lots of other classicists wrote hexameter verses in latin on the gender of latin nouns, for students to repeat and memorise. If you search online for a typical opening, e.g. "MASCVLA SVNT...", you'll find many.
cheers, chad
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Thanks. I enjoyed both of those links.
Maybe hexameters aren't cool in Sweden, but here in Wisconsin they're all the rage.
Iason Secutor wrote:The simple answer to my question then is no, you don't actually make use of ars memorativa in your studies of Latin. Is that so hard to say?
adrianus wrote:You ask me, Scribo, to tell you about Fabula, I think, which is indeed a game,—or will be, at least. I don't want to tell much about it until at least next July possibly. I want more to be done to demonstrate. It might be rubbish as a game and as a learning tool. We'll see. It's about an immortal who becomes human and a human who becomes immortal.
Me rogas, "Fac nos certos de programmate Fabula nomine", credo, quod verè ludus est vel saltem erit. Non volo multum dicere ante mensem quidem Julii proximum. Plus profici ante id demonstrem volo. Forsit malum ut instrumentum discendi ut ludus erit. Videbimus. Immortalem spectat quis fit homo et hominem quis fit immortal.


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A "fuss-free" website has won a coveted crown for North Lincolnshire Council.
The local authority www.northlincs.gov.uk has been reviewed by SOCITM Better Connected Survey, and chosen as one of their five favourites from over 400 websites.
Each council is awarded a rating from one to four stars, with four being the highest. The recent survey increased NLC's rating to three stars following a recent programme of improvements to the website.
The key aims of that programme were to improve access to information and services for customers by using a top task approach, combined with grouping services logically around what the customer uses rather than by the council structure and improving the search function.
North Lincolnshire Council's website was highly praised in the review summary, some of the main points included:
"This really is a very good site."
"The mobile version was easy enough to use and the desktop site really promotes top tasks, which makes it quick and easy to navigate."
"Most of the tasks were easy to carry out with logical journeys and a good range of clear, concise content."
Of the 400 websites evaluated the reviewers named NLC's site as one of their five favourites in the UK, they said: "I really enjoyed visiting North Lincolnshire's simple, fuss-free website. A glance at the home page will show you how task-focused it is."
Councillor Neil Poole, cabinet member for policy and resources, said: "It is brilliant that we have already made a number of great improvements to our website, but we recognise that there is still more to be done. To be named as one of the reviewers' five favourites out of all council websites across the country is a fantastic achievement and gives credit to all the hard work that has been put into improving the website.
"We launched the new website in October last year after following previous feedback from SOCITM and customers on how it could be improved. The website has been designed to make it easy and quick to use by having the top tasks that people look for the most."


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BRSITOL, Tenn. – Following their performances at the past two events, King University women's wrestler's Sarah Hildebrandt and Julia Salata will be competing at the Senior PanAm Games in Panama City, Panama this weekend. The duo will be competing for team U.S. Senior National team in the international competition.
This marks the first time either student-athlete has made a Senior World team, as both have competed at the junior level before. Salata competed at the University World Championships in Finland while Hildebrandt traveled to the Junior World Championships in Thailand. Both Hildebrandt and Salata won silver at the Lady Clippan Open in Sweden in their respective weight classes.
Hildebrandt qualified for the Senior National team by virtue of her fourth place finish at the Dave Schultz Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colo., back in February. The sophomore found herself in the consolation bracket of the 55-kilogram weight class, but she took five straight victories, all by decision to advance to the third place bout where she narrowly fell to Yajing Gaun of China.
Salata earned her spot on the team by winning the wrestle off at last weekend's University Nationals. The sophomore defeated Brittany David at the 67-kilogram weight class 6-0, 4-1 to capture the spot on the team.
With their previous experiences competing at the junior national level, King head coach Jason Moorman feels confident Hildebrandt and Salata will perform well at the event. "I'm excited to see both Sarah and Julia compete at this level," Moorman added. "It's a great experience for them to be able to wrestle at this level."
The Senior PanAm Games are slated to take place this weekend in Panama City, Panama, with Hildebrandt and Salata competing on Saturday. Follow @KingAthletics on Twitter or check www.KingTornado.com for updates.


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A Non-Toxic Way To Clean Stainless Steel Pans
We all know that a little bit of baking soda and vinegar can go a long way when it comes to household cleaning. There are plenty of DIYs out there using these two as the main ingredients. Karen Lee of ecokaren uses a vinegar and baking soda recipe to clean her stainless steel pots and pans. What makes her process different is that she has replaced your normal scouring pad with a piece of aluminum foil.
There is no longer a need for Brillo or copper pads. Just add a piece of foil to the mix, then gently scrub, rinse, and dry.
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Steve Jobs reported today that Apple had sold 50 million iPhones and 35 million iPod touch for a grand total of 85 million iPhone OS devices on the market (okay, 85,450,000 including the iPad).
Jobs said this was a great target for developers. He's right. No matter how many complaints there are about iPhone OS and Apple's stewardship thereof, that's a tremendous install base of devices that can pretty much all run the same OS (give or take a few features here or there) and same apps.
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Leaders of L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art say a campaign launched less than 10 months ago to quintuple its endowment to $100 million has met its goal, prompting them to keep the campaign going with a new goal of $150 million.
They see the achievement as a turning point after five years of financial instability that has led to budget and staffing cuts, including a winnowing of the curatorial staff from eight to the current two through layoffs or resignations.


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Video streaming and video rental giant Netflix rocked its world for the second time in as many months on Sunday, announcing the company will be spinning off its DVD rental business into an independently-operating new business dubbed Qwikster. Qwikster's CEO will be Andy Rendich, who has served as Netflix's chief service and operations officer.
The announcement follows on the heels of a controversial restructuring program that significantly raised fees for customers who use both streaming and DVD rental services. In a letter to shareholders (PDF), Netflix forecast the changes would result in the loss of some 800,000 DVD rental subscribers and about 200,000 streaming subscribers.
Explaining Qwikster's spinoff, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings took responsibility for alienating customers and attempted to outline the case for separating the businesses, noting that "companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly." But the moves leave several questions: where are Netflix and Qwikster headed in such a hurry, and will customers get whiplash from Netflix moving "too fast?"
The deal for customers
The Netflix-Qwikster split will have a very real impact for existing Netflix DVD rental customers, very soon. Netflix's existing DVD-by-mail and video streaming businesses will be separated into two separate Web sites, with separate accounts, separate queues, separate recommendations, separate reviews, and separate billing. What used to be an integrated experience of browsing both streaming content and material available for rental will become two completely disconnected services. Qwikster will launch with a snapshot of customers' Netflix account data, but from there the services will diverge. Where customers used to receive one bill, they will receive two; if a film or TV series is reviewed on one service, that review will not be available on another service; and neither Netflix nor Qwikster will consider selections on the other service when making recommendations or helping users manage their queues. However, streaming customers will no longer be frustrated searching for content only to find it's only available via DVD (or not available at all): For streaming customers, unavailable content simply won't exist.
Equally importantly for consumers, Qwikster is not changing the recently-increased prices for DVD-by-mail service: an unlimited one-at-a-time DVD-by-mail service will still run $7.99 a month. Customers can add Blu-ray options to their choices for an additional $2 per month, and Qwikster will actually have an option not available under the existing Netflix DVD-by-mail service: video games. Like Blu-ray, users will be able to pay an additional $2 per month to rent game discs for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the Nintendo Wii.
The bottom line for many of Netflix's 12 million customers who subscribe to both DVD rental and streaming services is that prices just increased from a minimum of $9.99 to $16.98 per month back in July. Now, on top of that price increase, the services will be more difficult to use, thanks to separate accounts, separate sites, and separate billing. It's a move that hardly smacks of "innovation."
The deal for Netflix
Netflix is positioning the Qwikster spinoff as the best way to handle the divergent businesses of streaming and DVD rentals. There's little doubt they are different. Where DVD-by-mail needs warehouses, inventory management, mailing services (and the goodwill of the postal service), plus all the paraphernalia of dealing with a business shipping physical goods, streaming is a more-global business that has to deal with data centers, content delivery networks, and software — whether that be for tablets, smartphones, smart televisions, set-top boxes, or old-fashioned PCs. Netflix argues that by separating the businesses, both can innovate separately without worrying about ramifications to the other. "Our view is with this split of the businesses, we will be better at streaming, and we will be better at DVD by mail," Hastings wrote by way of explanation.
Innovating the streaming business will likely mean insinuating Netflix into even more consumer electronics devices, as well as striking new deals for digital content distribution that don't have to be tied to DVD rentals. Netflix has already been forced to grant studios windows of exclusivity on DVD releases, and recently lost its long-term agreement for streaming content from Starz. Separating the streaming business will enabling Netflix to negotiate with studios separately from DVD release windows, and possibly offer new types of streaming availability, like limited release windows or even pay-per-view or per-title rental options for premium content.
Netflix has been operating for 14 years; in that time, Hastings has always been clear that the business he wanted to build was literally Netflix — video delivered online — rather than DVD-by-mailflix. The DVD rental business, although a mammoth success, was just Hastings' leg up until a streaming-only business became a practical reality. Separating out the DVD rental business enables Hasting to focus on what he really wanted to do: create an industry-leading online video service.
And Netflix's streaming is a practical success: even by its downwardly-revised estimates in the wake of price hikes, the company expects to have 9.8 million customers to its streaming-only service, compared to just 2.2 million who will subscribe to a DVD-by-mail service. Factoring in customers subscribing to both, Netflix's streaming business is considerably larger than its DVD rental business: 21.8 million subscribes, compared to 14.2 million for DVDs. In other words, over 60 percent of the company's customers currently pay for streaming service.
The Qwikster spinoff seems designed to make sure the majority of those 12 million DVD-and-streaming subscribers stick with Netflix. Already stung by a price hike and now facing separated accounts, services, and billing, many of those dual customers will cut their losses by choosing one service or another. Although adding video games to the DVD services may sway some rent-by-mail subscribers, it's a good bet the majority will choose to stick with the streaming service —after all, streaming customers are already the majority of Netflix's overall customer base. Short of lowering prices, or increasing the number of DVDs available at different price points, it's not clear how Qwikster can "innovate" the DVD-by-mail business much further. (However, Qwikster will be able to advertise its service separately, which may eliminate some confusion over what, exactly, Netflix is.) And even Hastings concedes Qwikster's days may be numbered. "DVD by mail may not last forever, but we want it to last as long as possible," he wrote.
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Well, here goes......what is the cost difference in making one compared to buying one? I know the it all depends on what your buying and making but whats an average price difference? New to hammocks and only tried to sleep in one for an hour (yes that was enough to convince me to buy a hammock) until it started pouring raining (no it didnt have a rainfly-wasnt mine) it was just put up to show the new Boy Scouts what it looks like.
I can sew and I am pretty good at making my own stuff. I have been cruising the forum and there are tons of tutorials. If I am able to make one which tutorials (options) do I really want.
P.S. If I'm gonna spend the money then I'm going to do it right. Basically all or most of the best bells and whistles.


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Beauty's Haven Farm & Equine Rescue, an all volunteer charity organization, held its 5th annual Celebration of Life in conjunction with the ASPCA's Help A Horse Day on April 26. More than 25 volunteers and 100 guests attended the educational fundraising event.
Each year, National Nurses Week is celebrated beginning May 6 and ending May 12 on Florence Nightingale's birthday.
National Nurses Week is one of the nation's largest health care events, recognizing the contributions and commitments nurses make and educating the public about the significant work they perform.
It is with sad hearts that the Board of Directors of the Williston Animal Group (WAG) has accepted a letter of resignation from Claudia Parkhurst, Vice President. Claudia and her husband Bill are two of the founding members of WAG. As Claudia stated in her letter, they have seen WAG progress from its meager beginnings of adopting out dogs in the Sparr parking lot to the full-fledged non-profit organization with kennel facilities here in Williston with many fun activities in between.
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Securtiy Shift Supervisor
Number of Positions: 1
Job Category: Security/Protective Services
Contract Type: Full Time
Salary: $11.75 - $12.75
G4S Region: North America
Country:United States
G4S Business Unit:US Secure Solutions
Closing Date: October 14, 2018
Job Introduction:
The world's leading private security organization, G4S, has an immediate job opportunity for an experienced supervisor with a background in security. As a Shift Supervisor, you will be responsible for the professional operation, administration, profitability, and quality assurance of uniformed services for a single shift at a G4S Secure Solutions (USA) Inc. client's site.
G4S is a security provider for the United States government, fortune 500 companies, nuclear power plants, oil and gas companies, airport, ports, banks, hospitals, factories, warehouses, commercial facilities, residential communities and much more.
G4S offers job security, excellent pay and benefits, and career opportunities. We offer entry level careers, management careers, sales careers and executive careers across the United States and internationally.
Role Responsibility:
Specific Duties and Essential Functions
- Oversee the staffing, scheduling, and on-site training for security officers assigned to his/her shift.
- Ensure that contract-required training and screening elements for security personnel have been met.
- Maintain overtime to a preset requirement designated by G4S.
- Ensure quality of service and contract compliance by regularly inspecting security personnel and their job performance when assigned to his/her shift.
- Perform other operations related functions (e.g., payroll, review and maintain incident reports, issue uniforms, coordinate fleet vehicles, assist in preparation of security surveys and post orders).
- Make recommendations for positive and negative personnel actions for those under his/her direct supervision.
- Respond to client requests.
The Ideal Candidate:
Education, Licenses and Certifications Required
- Must possess a high school diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass any State-required training or other qualifications for licensing
- Must be able to pass a State licensing test if driving a company-owned or client-provided vehicle
Type and Length of Specific Experience Required
- Must have one or more of the following:
- Service in the active duty military, military reserves, or National Guard
- Service in Auxiliary Police or Police Cadets
- Meaningful and verifiable work history
- Minimum of one year verifiable and successful security experience
- Associate's degree or higher in any discipline
Skills Required
- Proficient computer skills including Microsoft Office
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Active listening skills
- Ability to assess and evaluate situations effectively
- Ability to identify critical issues quickly and accurately
- Attention to detail
- Must be at least 18 years old or the minimum age required by the state, if higher
- Must be a U.S. citizen or a foreign citizen authorized to legally work in the United States
- Must not use illegal drugs. Must be able to pass a drug test with negative results (except when undergoing documented medical treatment).
- Must submit to an extensive background check, including criminal history, personal references, employment and education verifications, and Department of Motor Vehicle and credit checks if applicable
- Must be able to provide, upon job offer, a DD214 discharge document with discharge status indicated, if prior military
Physical Requirements and Environment
Environment: Office; minimal to no work in extreme temperatures is expected
Major activity: Working on PC while sitting; telephone use; driving; standing
Physical efforts to carry out job duties: Limited, to include some standing, bending, light lifting, and limited stretching and reaching
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EOE Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
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