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By Denise Oliver Velez . Originally published at Daily Kos
[Photo: Policiia Ovilsen (top, L), a Haitian-born immigrant to the Dominican Republic in 1940, poses outside her home with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, in Batey La Higuera,
in the eastern Seibo province, October 7, 2013.]
The decision by the high court in the Dominican Republic to declare anywhere from 250,000 to 400,000 Dominicans who may have Haitian ancestry "not citizens" with a start date of birth of 1929 is simply appalling.
Dominican court ruling renders hundreds of thousands stateless
For four generations Banesa Blemi's family, descendants of Haitian immigrants, put down roots as low-wage sugar cane cutters in their adopted homeland, and came to consider themselves Dominicans.
Then, last month the country's Constitutional Court issued a decision effectively denationalizing Blemi and her family, along with an estimated 250,000 fellow immigrants born after 1929.
"I have no country. What will become of me?" said Blemi, 27, standing with relatives outside the family's wooden shack near La Romana, the heart of the Dominican Republic's sugar cane industry and one of the Caribbean's top tourist resorts.
"We are Dominicans – we have never been to Haiti. We were born and raised here. We don't even speak Creole," she said, referring to Haiti's native tongue.
Many headlines of stories dealing with this travesty, simply call these people "Haitians" and few point to what is obvious–the role of racial markers and skin color.
Follow me below the fold for a closer look.
This one said it for me:
Columnist Reginald Dumas, writing for the Trinidad Express put it bluntly in the headline "If you are black, go back," which I've amended to "get out," since how can you go back to somewhere you have never been? Dumas does make that point in his article:
The Constitutional Court has widened the net: parents, grandparents and great-grandparents are now trapped, all the way back to 1929. Several hundred thousand persons in the DR have suddenly been rendered stateless: they are not citizens of the DR, they are not citizens of Haiti. But they are black. They must go back–to a country which most of them didn't come from, and which they do not know. By all means work in the cane fields and on the coffee plantations and in the brothels of the DR. But go back, or move along; you are "in transit".
Many readers here have ancestors–parents, grandparents and perhaps even great-grandparents who immigrated to the United States after 1929. They became citizens, and their children and grandchildren born here are now part of the tapestry of the U.S. Imagine what would happen if the U.S. Congress passed a law rescinding that citizenship currently based on jus soli, and demanded that all of you "go back to where you came from."
This is just what is happening in our neighboring country of the Dominican Republic, where Dominicans who have some Haitian ancestry are now being forced into statelessness by the modification of jus soli, which is retroactive.
People without a country.
For Dominicans of Haitian descent, obtaining proof of citizenship–required for everything from education to employment to voting–has become a legal and bureaucratic impossibility.
A stateless person is not recognized as a citizen by any state. Citizenship enables you not only to vote, hold public office, and exit and enter a country freely, but also to obtain housing, health care, employment, and education. It is vital in order to live a decent human life. Stateless people are denied that right.
On the left we have spent years paying attention to the statelessness of Palestinians. Many of us have not spent a lot of time looking closer to home.
There has a been a history of challenges, including the manipulation of the "in transit" clause (which is not invoked for children born of U.S. parents, for example) and the issue was brought to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
In October 2005, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights based in Costa Rica, issued a landmark judgment, Yean and Bosico, which found that the Dominican Republic had denied citizenship on the basis of race, thereby rendering children of Haitian descent effectively stateless. The court gave the government until mid October 2006 to apologize, pay damages to the two children involved, publish the ruling, and implement measures to ensure equal access to birth certificates and school enrollment. The government has done nothing to comply and stated it is bound by the Supreme Court judgment that Haitians are in transit.
The ugly part of all of this is that "Haitianness" in the DR is most often related to dark skin color. The irony in this is that the majority of Dominicans have African ancestry, though there is a visible difference at times between hues of "brown" and dark chocolate, and Dominicans are raised to embrace and aspire to lighter skin complexions.
You are all familiar with the crisp tangy herb, used to garnish many a dish of food. We call it parsley. In Spanish it is "perejil."
This herb name became the vehicle for death, in what has become known as "the Parsley Massacre" which took place in October of 1937, and which is now being commemorated after having been buried in history.
The shibboleth, in this case, cost the lives of between 20,000 and 30,000 people who were executed under the orders of the President of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo (whose mother was half-Haitian).
Michele Wucker from the World Policy Institute wrote about that period Dominican history and Hitler's influence on Trujillo in "The River Massacre: The Real and Imagined Borders of Hispaniola":
Hitler's ideas gave Trujillo a racist and nationalist plan to distract Dominicans from their empty stomachs. Reminding Dominicans that they could not afford to feed foreigners too, Trujillo cracked down on migration from Haiti. But powerful American sugar cane plantation owners, who brought in Haitians to cut cane because, unlike Dominicans, they worked for practically nothing, forced him to make huge exceptions. He resorted to deporting Haitians and tightening border patrols, but the Haitians kept coming. On October 2, 1937, while Trujillo was drunk at a party in his honor not far from the Massacre River, he gave orders for the "solution" to the Haitian problem.
In the Book of Judges, forty thousand Ephraimites were killed at the River Jordan because their inability to pronounce "Shibboleth" identified them as foreigners. On the Dominican border, Trujillo's men asked anyone with dark skin to identify the sprigs of parsley they held up. Haitians, whose Kreyol uses a wide, flat "R", could not pronounce the trilled "R" in the Spanish word for parsley, "perejil." Dominicans still refer to the massacre as El Corte, the cutting, alluding to the machetes the Dominican soldiers used so they could say the carnage was the work of peasants defending themselves; only the government could afford to kill with bullets. El Corte also suggested to the Haitians' work of harvesting sugar cane (ironically, soldiers did not touch the Haitians who stayed on the Americans' sugar plantations).
The ugly specter of race/racism and anti-Haitian attitudes in the DR, and its history, is being explored in both academia and by noted novelists like Haitian-American Edwidge Dandicat in her award-winning book, The Farming of Bones.
It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastian, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastian are separated, and she desperately flees the tide of violence for a Haiti she barely remembers.
Already acknowledged as a classic, this harrowing story of love and survival–from one of the most important voices of her generation–is an unforgettable memorial to the victims of the Parsley Massacre and a testimony to the power of human memory.
Dandicat has been active in the memorials that take place on the border, dubbed "the Border of Lights." This year, a virtual vigil was held online.
Academic scholars are exploring the roots of racial antipathy and anti-Haitian sentiments in the DR as well, among them are Silvio Torres-Saillant, author of "The Tribulations of Blackness: Stages in Dominican Racial Identity." Torres-Saillant is currently teaching at Syracuse University, and was the the first director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. For a deeper understanding of "antihaitianismo", Dr. Ernesto Sagás, currently associate professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University, published Race and Politics in the Dominican Republic.
Kudos to our universities who are teaching journalism. Students from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University traveled to the border between the DR and Haiti in 2011 and produced this documentary – Stateless in the Dominican Republic.
They are led by Rick Rodriguez, the school's Carnegie Professor of Journalism, and Jason Manning, director of Student Media.
The project is part of a depth reporting class taught by Rodriguez. Students spent the first part of the semester preparing for the trip by researching the issue of stateless people in the Dominican Republic, a subject Rodriguez called "timely and important," in part because of a debate in the United States over the citizenship status of children born to undocumented immigrants.
The Dominican Republic revoked birthright citizenship last year. Previously, individuals born in the country were automatically considered citizens. The new law prevents individuals born to people residing in the country illegally from obtaining identification documents, limiting access to important services, such as education, health care and housing.
A majority of my Latino/a students at my university are of Dominican heritage. We struggle each semester with the complicated issues of race and ethnicity in the DR, which though listed demographically as "mixed 73%, white 16%, black 11%." Those who have been raised to think of themselves as "mixed" or mulatto attribute their brown skin color to being "indio" (Taino ancestry), most denying having African ancestry. They point to Haitians as "blacks," and though most are several shades darker than I am, dub their skin color "dark-Indian." We have very lively discussions about the Dominican obsession with hair-straightening, since kinky hair texture is one of the phenotypic markers of African ancestry.
Haitians are also linked to and stigmatized in the DR by the practice of Voudou, while Dominicans mask the same African diasporic practices under a different name. Another legacy from Trujillo:
What many Dominicans are loath to admit is that they practice a form of voudou although even practitioners are hesitant to call it as much. They prefer Devocion de los Misterios or Las 21 Divisions, a reference to the twenty-one families of African-derived and creole spiritual entities that, in exchange for gifts, confer blessings, such as good health and protection. In reality, the practice shares much with Haitian voudou but the rejection of the voudou label reflects the Dominican resistance to identify with anything associated with Haitians. While the country's anti-voudou history continues to affect how Dominicans see the practice and, by extension, Haitians, there is also a prominent practice within Dominican society. Martha Ellen Davis, a Santo Domingo-based anthropologist who has written widely on religion in the Dominican Republic, says the practice of 21 Divisions is increasing. "Why? Maybe because people are looking more for answers to real world problems, to every day problems," she says.
What is being done and how can you help?
International refugee and relief agencies, like Amnesty International and Refugees International, have been raising a hue and cry about this for over a decade, and the response to the latest DR high court decision was swift.
UN urges Dominican Republic to ensure citizens of Haitian origin do not lose nationality
October 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of the Dominican Republic to take all necessary measures to ensure that citizens of Haitian origin are not deprived of their right to nationality in light of a recent court ruling.
Last week the country's Constitutional Court ruled that the children of undocumented migrants who have been in the Dominican Republic and registered as Dominicans as far back as 1929, cannot have Dominican nationality as their parents are considered to be "in transit."
"We are extremely concerned that a ruling of the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court may deprive tens of thousands of people of nationality, virtually all of them of Haitian descent, and have a very negative impact on their other rights," Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), told reporters in Geneva.
She said the decision could have "disastrous" implications for people of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic, leaving such individuals in a state of constitutional limbo and potentially leaving tens of thousands of them stateless and without access to basic services for which identity documents are required.
Groups in Haiti and the DR
There are petitions you can sign. Here's another one.
You can voice your opinion to the president of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina.
You can also follow some of the organizations fighting against the ruling on Twitter: @CentroBono, @reconoci_do, @mudhalegal, @MOSCTHA, @CEDAIL, @CNDHrd, @haitisg
We know the U.S. State Department is aware of the situation. In 2010, International Women of Courage Award Winner, Solange Sonia Pierre, who sadly passed away in 2011, was honored for her work with the Movement for Dominican Women of Haitian Descent (MUDHA) by then Sec. of State Clinton.
Founded in 1983, MUDHA defends Haitian immigrants and their descendants living in Bateyes, with particular emphasis on children and women's rights. MUDHA's program areas include: preschool education and parent organizing, advocacy for policy reform, legal human rights defense, community health education and services, gender-equity building and environmental conservation.
The Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from the U.S. is Raul H. Yzaguirre.
The U.S. State Department point person on the situation in the DR is the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Senior Policy Officer Nicole Shepardson.
You can contact the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Most importantly, you can spread the word to your social and political networks.
Denise Oliver Veliz is a Feminist, Activist, former Young Lords Party and Black Panther Party member, and an applied cultural anthropologist.


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Re: Allow social interest groups or not?dsacks Sep 23, 2011 7:01 AM (in response to gialyons)
Hi Gia:
This is a great data point:
51% of participants who strongly agreed with the statement "I have a best friend at work" were engaged, compared with only 10% of those who disagreed or strongly disagreed. Best friendship also translated into profit-enhancing behavior.
We have used Gallup for our employee engagement survey in the past and the question about having a best friend at work has always been a hot topic among our employees. They consistently wondered why this question was asked. But, your data point above is very telling as to why...and also a great research point for us to use in our future presentations!
To answer your question, yes, we have decided to allow social groups in our Jive instance, however it was (and still is to some degree) a long process for us to get there. We're working closely with our executive team to help them understand (and embrace) this important point about friendships and connections and how it directly translates to improved employee engagement and a more productive staff.
Any other data points you can share would be great!
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?Oosthuar Sep 25, 2011 11:38 PM (in response to gialyons)
This is such useful info Gia. Like many organisations out there, we are also trying to improve employee connectedness / engagement (break down entropy as Barret Value Surveys indicate). People like people like themselves – if they don't find any, they will move on...
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?DGarber Sep 27, 2011 9:47 AM (in response to gialyons)
This is an exchange I had with a colleague at work today.
One thing though - I don't understand what advantage a discussion in Jive has over the discussion forums we have in SharePoint.
- P.S. Here is an example of feedback I just received this morning:
OK, I went out to Jive. What a nightmare…….
This is the worst idea anyone has ever had. I will not move any of my docs there. If they need to go there at some time, then I will post on Sharepoint and someone else can move them there.
This is a site for recent college grads that have nothing better to do than chat, waste company resources, and waste everyone's time trying to find things.
The part about wasting time and the company's resources is what I have been told many times since the Loop was first introduced – "why do we have people employed who have time to chat amongst themselves…a social network for work? Are you kidding me? Why would the company encourage 'Facebook like' activity at work?"…
Where do I begin to respond to that??
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?ted.hopton Sep 27, 2011 9:59 AM (in response to DGarber)
Seriously, are you all automatons at your company? What a horrible place to work if no one chats with colleagues in hallways, around the coffee machine or in their team work places. All day long and not a word about life outside of work... it must be hard to retain people.
That's the answer I'd give. "Chatting" is already happening in any healthy organization of happy human beings. If some of it takes place online instead of in person, that means the opportunities to build relationships (which anyone with any sense knows are essential to getting real work done) is extended widely rather than limited by one's physical location or reporting structure.
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?johnt Sep 27, 2011 5:38 PM (in response to ted.hopton)
Nice one Ted Hopton that's precisely it. We are simply legitimising what already happens offline. I see people constantly talking at cubicles in the lift, coffee room...what are they doing...they are working...and even a personal conversation ends up turning into a work conversation.
Research shows that sharing personal experiences makes for a more connected and helpful enterprise...and better performing teams
Besides that if you have engaged workers who are fulfilled, have meaning, and purpose...feel they belong, fulfill their natural human social craving...are somewhat autonomous...then you have a dedicated enterprise who act as if they co-own the enterprise...by that I mean they care for it...you can't get better than that. Actually this is critical as we no longer are robots we are now the programmers.
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?crossman Sep 27, 2011 10:02 AM (in response to DGarber)
Hard to respond without know what your Jive site looks like and how it is positioned within your company.
In general, I find the Discussion features in Jive to be more feature-rich than SharePoint. But that may be a tomato/tomahto thing.
As for the social features / wasting time, that's a different nut to crack. You could explain that people are ALREADY being social at work (ever hear of the watercooler or happy hour? Or email or IM/chat?). The tool provides context for others to discover and participate in those discussions even if they are across the campus or across the world. The thing that Jive would tell you is that they are applying "social / consumer" functionality and applying it to a business tool. Follow your boss. Follow your direct reports. See automatically what they're saying or documenting.
Those conversations are no longer siloed in email. Or by the people talking at the watercooler.
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?lindsaymay Sep 27, 2011 10:06 AM (in response to DGarber)
I'm not Gia, but thought i'd chime in . Was this in reference to a social interest group or a work-related group?
We do have a few social interest groups, but I don't believe its a time-waste. I agree that connecting with other like-minded emploeyes boosts morale and improves connectnedness and engagement. We also find that the more time people spend in our instance, the more they love it and have "light bulb" moments and figure out how to use the site in really creative ways. We definately got some resistance at first, but i'm not sure how long your instance has been around.
We just celebrated our one year anniversary of our official launch, and in the beginning we found that a lot of social interest groups were created, but quickly "abandoned" as they began to learn how they could leverage our Jive instance for work productivity. We really haven't seen much "time waste" in groups, and we are in a retail environment, with lots of high school and college age workers.
We've found that groups have actually saved a ton of time for people who are using them effectively... like reducing training times by 4 hours and allowing more flexability for team members to learn on their own, as formerly they would have to set up a WebEx to do demonstrations or meet in person. Not sure if this helps you or not.
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?mdcrocker Sep 27, 2011 10:14 AM (in response to DGarber)
What they are missing is that collaboration, sharing and providing a way to contribute and improve on ideas is the true value. The hidden message is about reluctance to change and learning something new. It also appears that they are thinking of it as an OR. Put a document into SharePoint OR into Jive. The community has to be (not just seen to be) integrated into the daily work flow. It is not able features and functions, it is about getting work done.
For example, reduce email and retain knowledge by publishing in the community. The conversation is visible to everyone, even if they joined today. People can revisit assumptions an decisions to see if they are still correct.
As with any change, the educations and guidance to move people along the path is important. Find success stories where groups used a community as a place to solve a business problem.
It is important to also remind folks that to attract and retain the best and brightest Millennials requires a more dynamic collaboration tool.
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?dsacks Sep 27, 2011 10:26 AM (in response to mdcrocker)
We went through this same business vs. social discussion earlier this year when writing our Jive guidelines. We spoke to many organizations about their use of Jive for social conversations and also consulted with Jive. We received the e-mail below from Carrie Gilbert, who works at Jive. We have used her language in a lot of our discussions and I think it clearly demonstrates how social use of the software translates to business conversations and a successful community:
"Short answer to "how many customers use it socially?" is "All of them!" We always recommend that every internal community feature an off-topic area (often called "the water cooler" or "break room" or a similar metaphor that works within the organization), if for no other reason than to give those conversations a home. Anecdotally speaking, if you don't have that area, the entire site risks becoming off-topic. At the end of the day, employees are, of course, social creatures, and want to engage in non-work-related dialog with their peers. (If they didn't, then the water cooler metaphor wouldn't resonate in so many cultures.) So recognizing these discussions will likely occur regardless of them being officially sanctioned, the less likely they are to disrupt more business-centric conversations.
Beyond that, you WANT your employees to use this as a social platform, again because that's how humans want to interact with their peers. If you aren't getting any off-topic banter happening, you are probably not getting much on-topic banter either. In order for the true business value of a platform like this to be realized, people need to feel comfortable using it as a communication tool. Imagine how the productivity of traditional meetings might be affected if you were forbidden from engaging in small talk as everyone was settling in or at the coffee station on your way back to your desk. The more you like and respect your coworkers, the greater your sense of obligation to help them (and your company) succeed, and a lot of these bonds are formed as a result of seemingly simple social interactions.
This doesn't mean you need to have umpteen social groups accommodating every walk of life available as part of your launch, but you do need to account for these types of interactions in some fashion. It can also be a great way for shyer employees to "test the waters"—maybe I'm a little intimidated by this whole social business thing and am not quite ready to give up email for a particular project, but I can get a feel for the environment by chiming in on someone's question about where to host their daughter's birthday party. (And over time, as certain trends become clear and/or as the leadership becomes more comfortable with this whole thing, you can create [or encourage individual employees to create] more groups to support various interests.)" --Carrie Gilbert
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?sarahmmahoney Sep 27, 2011 12:29 PM (in response to DGarber)
Think about this like politicians do. A politician's goal is to get the people in their party to vote for them which is usually a pretty easy task once they receive the party's nomination. Liberal democrats know that they are not going to win the votes of right-wing-NRA-bible-belters-tea-partiers so they do not invest a lot of resources on that population and vice versa. What they do focus on is the movable middle. Identify your party, then identify the movable middle. Make sure you nurture your party and invest your effort in persuading the movable middle.
It takes time, but you will eventually have (if you don't already) stories you can tell about how your employees used the network to enhance their work. Once you get a story of someone that your employees respect (it doesn't have to be an executive), your site will no longer be viewed as another social channel. Jive is great because it gives employees more "meat" than purely social tools like yammer and chatter do. They can use the project management features, calenders, forums, etc. Maybe play up the value of these tools and move away from talking about the social features like microblogging status updates and group walls.
We have the challenge of distinguishing the use cases of sharepoint and our network. The messaging that we stick to is that sharepoint is a document repository giving users the ability to have highly customized document privacy settings. Our social intranet is the place for real-time collaboration and spontaneous interaction designed to accelerate your access to resources and identify new connections across a large institution.
Allow social interest groups or not?tmaurer Sep 27, 2011 10:56 AM (in response to gialyons)
Social dialog can be really helpful also in terms of people sharing information about resources in an area. For example, we've had a couple of office moves in the last year. In preparation for those moves, we had the groups who were moving start a group in Jive specific to the move. They posted lists of local restaurants (sometimes along with their personal feedback regarding them), where the local hospital was located, mass transit information (one office was in SanFran, one in New Jersey), local weather. This is helpful for people who are trying to work out the routine for working at the new office, but also for people who will be visiting the office. Now they can have a one stop shop to help plan their trip.
Other ways this same thing is used in other offices:
- Have a charity event going on in the office, post it there! Get people to volunteer time/effort.
- Post a sign-up sheet for the upcoming potluck
- Have a spot for people to report office problems like burned out lights, leaky toilet, out of coffee, etc.
- List upcoming maintenance on the parking garage or building
- Post details about your holiday party
It becomes the office bulletin board that people can access from anywhere. Which is great for telecommuters, people who visit the office, part-time workers, etc.
Allow social interest groups or not?DGarber Sep 27, 2011 11:55 AM (in response to gialyons)
Thanks guys! I agree with all of you. I think I just wanted to share a little of what I encounter sometimes. Overall, our adoption rate has been very good and more and more people want to know how Jive can help them do their jobs. Every once in a while, I encounter an individual or a group that just doesn't see the value.... yet. They will in time.
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?crossman Sep 27, 2011 12:43 PM (in response to gialyons)
We also make sure to say that the Groups are for "business appropriate" social interests. Which seems to give people an understanding that in Jerry Seinfeld's words things should be kept "sophisticated". Also, we don't allow anonymous activity, so when your name is attached...
Re: Allow social interest groups or not?england_k Sep 29, 2011 9:10 AM (in response to gialyons)
We started our community with a "water cooler" type area called "Always Sharing" in the beginning this was really popular, however because we have an open policy on groups (everyone in our community can create as many or any type of group) special interest groups flourished in the first few months of Beta testing and Always Sharing is less popular
Our social groups serve a number of purposes,
- Induct new users and help build capability to use the tool
- Help break down silos, you don't have to be in the same team, country or level in the organisation to enjoy the same movie or share food recipes
- Engage our colleagues and make them feel valued - we trust them to manage their time
- A great way for new acquisitions and new employees to "get" our culture and "get stuck in" to meeting and sharing with new colleagues "like" them
I love our social groups it reminds me what a diverse and interesting bunch of people I am lucky enough to work with.

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URC needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 73 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Help our growing church 'brand' itself with a new logo to appear on our website, letterhead, and other church literature.
University Reformed Church
As mentioned above, our church is looking for a new logo. We are located in East Lansing, Michigan, just outside of the Michigan State Universtiy campus. Our church description: "University Reformed Church is a Christ-centered, Bible based, mission minded, burden-bearing, mercy-ministering, pilgrim people who are passionately and prayerfully committed to making much of God in all of life", and our mission statement: "A Bible-teaching church in prayer for each other, the campus, the nations, and the world".
Here are some examples to give you a sense of types of logos we like: http://chris.gamedaytraders.com Not wanting you to replicate any of these designs, just trying to give a sense of our style.
Here is a picture of the cross outside our building: http://chris.gamedaytraders.com/cross.jpg It is not essential that you incorporate this shape into the logo, but feel free if it complements your ideas well.
We will provide feedback on a regular basis.
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Grant Green, being known mainly as a soul-jazz guitarist, eventually gravitated into the popular boogaloo sound, a derivation of Latin music. The Latin Bit is the natural bridge to that next phase, though a bit premature for most in 1961-1963, even relative to the subsequent bossa nova craze. Pianist Johnny Acea, long an underrated jazzman, is the nucleus of this session, grounding it with witty chops, chordal comping, and rhythmic meat. The Latino rhythm section of drummer Willie Bobo and conga player Carlos "Patato" Valdes personify authentic, seasoned spice, while at times the chekere sound of Garvin Masseaux makes the soup too thick. At its collective best, the group presents a steady, serene, and steamy "Besame Mucho" and the patient, slow, slinky, sultry "Tico Tico." Just a small step below is a classy take on Charlie Parker's "My Little Suede Shoes," a premier jazz bebop (emphasis) tune with a Latin undertow and Green's tiniest staccato phrases, slightly marred by the overbearing constant chekere, but still classic. "Mambo Inn" is played inaccurately, but forgivable. "Mama Inez" ranks high for its calypso-infused happy feeling and wry stop-start lines. The straight-ahead hard bopper "Brazil" and lone soul-jazz tune, "Blues for Juanita," display the single-note acumen that made Green's style instantly recognizable. Tacked on the end are two selections with pianist Sonny Clark and tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec. While Clark is not known for Latin or soul-jazz, he's quite good, while Quebec, who emphasized Brazilian rhythms in the last years of his life, plays hip secondary harmonies on the bossa nova-flavored "Granada," but is in the complete background and a non-factor on the pop tune "Hey There." This CD always yielded mixed results for staunch fans of Green, but a revisit shows it to be a credible effort, even if slightly flawed in part. The Latin Bit was remastered by Rudy Van Gelder in 2007.] ~ Michael G. Nastos


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Khloe Kardashian's father-in-law hospitalised - report
Reality TV star KHLOE KARDASHIAN's father-in-law is "gravely ill" in hospital, according to reports.
Kardashian's husband, basketball star Lamar Odom, was forced to take a leave of absence from the Dallas Mavericks game against his old team the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday (22Feb12) to tend to a "family matter" - and RadarOnline.com editors report Odom's father Joe was the cause for the sportsman's no-show.
A source says, "Lamar's dad is gravely ill, and he wanted time off to be with him.
"Khloe and Lamar were really upset about the news about Joe. They're putting their schedules on hold right now to be there for him. It's a really serious medical condition."
Former heroin addict Joe Odom appeared in numerous episodes of the couple's E! network show Khloe & Lamar last year (11) as cameras followed his troubled relationship with his son.
Representatives for both Lamar Odom and Kardashian have yet to comment on the latest reports.
The socialite, an avid Twitter.com blogger, was noticeably quiet on Wednesday, simply writing, "Weird day... Well if its not one thing, it's another... I guess I can say life is never boring."
Wednesday was a poignant day for Kardashian and her family - it would have been her late father Robert Kardashian's 68th birthday.


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Why Do These Commercials For Chantix Not Mention The Drug? At All?
Our sister publication Consumer Reports Health has posted a new video in their AdWatch series, which examines direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. This time they're examining some "stealth" advertising for the quit-smoking drug Chantix.
CRH says that Chantix is an effective drug — but its commercials never mention its name. Why not? Well, no one knows — but what we do know is that if you mention the drug you have to mention the side effects — and the side effects of Chantix are pretty serious.
Last year, the drug's label was updated to include a warning about potential psychiatric effects of the drug which include "changes in behavior, agitation, depressed mood, suicidal ideation and attempted and completed suicide"— and CRH says that the FAA has actually banned pilots from taking the drug because of the severity of these potential side effects.
So if you see an advertisement that looks like a PSA, stop and think.
CRH says:
When you see an ad or Web site with that PSA-like tone, listen or look to see who's sponsoring it. If it's a drug company, and you decide to visit the site, realize that the information, however useful, is there to help promote a drug. And be wary of the interactive options that these sites offer. For example, a Share Your Story section on the FibroCenter site requires you to sign a release basically allowing Pfizer to change your whole story to make it more "commercially viable." So much for an authentic online community.
As far as Chantix goes, about a year ago, New York Magazine had an interesting first person account from someone who had a bad experience with the drug.
The most unsettling thing about sleeping on Chantix is that I never felt like I was truly asleep. Some part of me remained on guard. It was more like lucid dreaming, what I thought it might feel like to be hypnotized. And it didn't entirely go away come morning. As I showered, shaved, and scrambled into clothes, I tried to shake a weird, paranoid sense that I'd just been psychically raped by a household appliance.
Mental air conditioner rape aside… it did help him quit smoking, before he started hallucinating and smashed up his entire apartment. Chantix isn't for everyone, it seems.
Pfizer and Chantix: Stealth advertising at its finest [Consumer Reports Health]
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PACIFIC PALISADES, California (Reuters) - Having been on both sides of the 'long putter' debate, former world number one Ernie Els can see no good reason why putters anchored to the belly or chest should be banned by golf's rulemakers.
In November, the game's governing bodies proposed a ban on players anchoring putters to their body, saying they wanted to outlaw the practice by 2016 in order to preserve the "skill and challenge" of putting.
Players and the golfing community were then given 90 days in which to discuss that proposal by the Royal and Ancient (R&A) and United States Golf Association (USGA), a period which concludes at the end of this month.
"Hopefully they don't ban it, because I really don't think … there's any data that really confirms that they have to ban it," British Open champion Els, 43, told reporters at Riviera Country Club on Wednesday.
"If there were 90 percent of the guys using it or if the guys using it were top of the putting ranks, guys making more putts from 20 feet, more putts from four feet...
"Give me something to go by to really make me believe that you have to ban it; then ban it. But I can't see them having a really great way of explaining to me why they would want to ban it."
Els, a four-times major champion, famously criticized his fellow South African Trevor Immelman for using a belly putter for several years. However, he has since changed his tune, having switched to a long putter himself toward the end of 2011.
"As long as it's legal, I'll cheat like the rest of them," Els, popularly known as the 'Big Easy', joked at the time about his putting U-turn.
On Wednesday, he added: "I said it in jest but I have to stick with what I said back then. Then 10, 12 years later, I'm using it so I kind of contradicted myself a little bit if you want to take it like that.
"But I've putted great with the short putter. I wouldn't say that I'm putting exceptionally great now with the long putter, but I'm starting to feel comfortable. I've been on it now for a whole year and obviously won a major with it.
"It's helped me from short range a lot. But still, it's not like it's an automatic thing. You're not just going to stick it in your belly and make every putt you look at it. It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort to learn that way of putting."
When Els triumphed at last year's British Open, he became the third player to win a major using a putter anchored to the body in a very short span, following Keegan Bradley (2011 PGA Championship) and Webb Simpson (2012 U.S. Open).
Asked whether he felt that had been the tipping point for golf's rulemakers to propose a ban, Els replied: "In all honesty, I'm not too sure what their whole reason is behind this whole thing because there's (only) a handful of guys using it.
"It's helped some careers. Some guys cannot putt another way so there's some stuff that you have to follow through.
"Because of those last two majors, going with Webb and going with myself, I think that had a huge influence in their decision."
The R&A and USGA say putters should swing freely and not be anchored to any part of the body, and that swinging a club freely has been the essence of the 600-year-old sport.
Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Frank Pingue


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The University of Colorado was supposed to play host to Fresno State at Folsom Field on Saturday afternoon, but when historic rains led to massive flooding in and around Boulder this week the school postponed the football game and hosted flood victims and first responders at the stadium instead.
Colorado football players and coaches, joined by other student-athletes and athletic department staffers, served lunch to approximately 800 residents of married and family housing and first responders on the suite level at Folsom Field early Saturday afternoon.
Hundreds of residents in married and family housing units adjacent to the football practice fields had to be evacuated when Boulder Creek rose dramatically Thursday and Friday. The swollen creek cut off power and water and flooded some units.
Centerplate, the company that handles concessions in Folsom Field, had the food for Saturday's game delivered Friday before the school made the decision to postpone the game. Athletic director Rick George said it was a no-brainer choosing to give the food to those who need it most right now.
"A lot of the people we're giving it to are young kids who live in married housing who still don't have water or power and some of them don't have food in their refrigerators," George said. "To be able to do this is terrific. Our student-athletes and coaches are a great group of people."
Televisions and the stadium big screens showed other college games around the country as the Buffs served up hamburgers, hotdogs, brats, cookies and chips and other game day staples.
"It's been a really nice break and a nice little diversion for us," said officer Matthew DeLaria of the CU Police Department. "It's nice to see the players and everybody out here working to support the community.
"It's been hard. It's been exhausting. All the police, fire and ambulance crews are just running and running and running. We're all working 12-hour shifts at least. So we're tired but we're hanging in there. We've got a lot of support from the community. So it's been good."
Everyone would have preferred to see the Buffs on the field against the Bulldogs, but being able to relax, eat and watch something other than rising water was a welcome relief.
The Buffs won't play again until a Sept. 28 road game at Oregon State. Next week was a previously scheduled bye week. They don't play in Folsom Field again until Oct. 5 against Oregon.
Eugene and Shana Ding live approximately 100 yards from Boulder Creek in married and family housing. They were awakened by police at 2 a.m. Friday and told to evacuate. They chose to stay with their two sons and keep an eye on the rising water. Neighbors on the third-floor above their ground-floor apartment offered to open their doors to the family if needed.
"This is great," Eugene Ding said. "We celebrate that we survived. ... We really feel like a family."
Mike and Barbara MacFerrin live at Smiley Court near 30th Street and Arapahoe. They were not evacuated and never lost power in their apartment, but they recently moved from a complex closer to the creek where residents were evacuated. The couple is expecting their first child together in a month and was in the middle of unpacking when the flooding began.
Mike MacFerrin, a CU graduate student who is working on his doctorate in the Geography Department, said he had never seen Boulder Creek running at more than 600 cubic feet per second. He said he received a text near midnight Thursday telling him the creek was running at more than 5,000 cubic feet per second.
The MacFerrins said they are thankful to CU for the meal and a few hours of distraction and they consider themselves lucky compared to friends and neighbors.
"Just moving in and my wife due in a month, I did not want to have our apartment flooded, everything ruined and trying to figure out what to do from there," Mike MacFerrin said. "We got lucky."
CU place-kicker Will Oliver is one of eight members of the football team who has been displaced from his apartment by the flooding. Oliver joined his teammates in serving food to others who have endured three straight nights of sirens and flood warnings telling citizens to move to higher ground.
"A lot of these people have lost their homes," Oliver said. "Their homes are flooded and they have no idea what they're going to do. It's nice to be able to give back and make sure everyone is OK."
CU coach Mike MacIntyre and his family pitched in, and, at times, MacIntyre looked like a proud father watching CU players carrying trays of food, emptying trash bags and talking with children and their parents.
"This truly teaches life lessons," MacIntyre said. "There are a lot more important things than football."
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Firefox - популярный веб-браузер с открытым исходным кодом от Mozilla.
- 1 Установка
- 2 Локализация
- 3 Дополнения
- 4 Plugins
- 5 Projects related to Firefox
- 6 Tips and Tricks
- 7 Troubleshooting
- 7.1 Firefox 4 New Menu Bar/Firefox Button
- 7.2 Open containing folder problems (KDE)
- 7.3 Firefox keeps creating ~/Desktop even when this is not desired
- 7.4 How to prevent plugins from allowing popups?
- 7.5 Middle-click errors
- 7.6 Backspace does not work as the 'Back' button
- 7.7 Firefox does not remember login information
- 7.8 Broken websites / input fields with dark Gtk Themes
- 7.9 File association problems
- 7.10 "I'm Feeling Lucky" Mode
- 7.11 "I'm Feeling Ducky" Mode (for DuckDuckGo)
- 7.12 "Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for the next time it starts?" dialog does not appear
- 7.13 Firefox has high CPU usage and feels slow on scrolling with nVidia GPUs
- 7.14 Firefox uses ugly fonts on certain webpages
- 8 See also
firefox можно найти в официальном репозитории и установить с помощью pacman.
# pacman -S firefox
Руссифицировать можно так:
#pacman -S firefox-i18n-ru
Для других языков можно найти нужный языковой пакет командой:
$ pacman -Ss firefox-i18n
Firefox славится своей большой библиотекой дополнений которые могут быть использованы как для добавления нового функционала, так и для изменения существующего. Новые дополнения можно найти с помощью инструмента "Дополнения" в самом Firefox.
См. так же дополнений отсортированный по популярности.
See: Browser Plugins
To find out what plugins are installed/enabled, enter:
in the Firefox address bar. Or go to Addons from the main bar drop downs and select the Plugins tab.
GNOME integration
Install firefox-extension-gnome-keyring-gitAUR from the AUR to integrate Firefox 3.6.x with Gnome-keyring.
You can also install firefox-extension-firefoxnotify-gitAUR to get libnotify/notifyOSD integration.
Dictionaries for spell checking
Right click in any text entry field and add the dictionary for the solicited language. Restart Firefox, and click in a text entry field again to enable spell checking.
Or get it from pacman:
pacman -Ss hunspell
Adding Firefox search engines
Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4/ and install.
If you want to custom one, take a look at:
~/.mozilla/firefox/xxx.default/searchplugins/ where xxx is your profile ID).
Adds Arch-specific searches (AUR, wiki, forum, etc, as specified by user) to the Firefox search toolbar.
# pacman -S arch-firefox-search
Firefox derivatives
- Iceweasel - The name of two different Firefox forks. One was a GNU project; the name of this project has since changed to Icecat. The second is being developed by Debian and is based on 2.0. At the time of writing the AUR only has Icecat.
- GNU/IceCat - formerly known as GNU IceWeasel, is a web browser distributed by the GNU Project. IceCat, which is made entirely of free software, is a fork of Mozilla Firefox. It is compatible with the GNU/Linux operating system and almost all of Firefox's addons. GNU/IceCat really can fully replace Firefox.
Firefox with better KDE integration
- with OpenSUSE patch, integrates better with KDE. OpenSUSE's patch and integration of Firefox with KDE is considered the best by many users.
- This plugin uses KDE's KParts to embed file viewers into non-KDE browsers
- This addon provides further integration with KDE's Oxygen theme, color scheme detection, Faenza icons and various customizations.
Tips and Tricks
This section has been distilled out into a discrete Firefox Tweaks article.
Firefox 4 New Menu Bar/Firefox Button
By default, Arch Linux shows the classic layout of the menu bar. To activate the new Firefox 4 layout with the "Firefox" button replacing the menu bar, uncheck View -> Toolbars -> Menubar.
In GNU/Linux, you will just get a plain grey button instead of the new orange one from Windows. However you can change this to either a Firefox icon or the icon followed by the "Firefox" text.
Adding the following to your
~/.mozilla/firefox/userprofile/chrome/userChrome.css file will place the icon before the text:
#appmenu-toolbar-button { list-style-image: url("chrome://branding/content/icon16.png"); }
Adding the following to the same file will remove the "Firefox" text:
#appmenu-toolbar-button > .toolbarbutton-text, #appmenu-toolbar-button > .toolbarbutton-menu-dropmarker { display: none !important; }
chrome directory and
userChrome.css, if they do not already exist.
Open containing folder problems (KDE)
If Firefox launches something other than your preferred file manager when using the "Open Containing Folder" option in the Downloads manager, make sure you select your file manager of choice (e.g. Dolphin) in KDE's System Settings:
- System Settings -> Default Applications -> File Manager
If you have already selected your file manager of choice and Cervisia (or a file manager other than your favorite) is opening modify your user's
~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list to include these two lines:
x-directory/normal=kde4-dolphin.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_dir.desktop; inode/directory=kde4-dolphin.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_dir.desktop;kde4-gwenview.desktop;kde4-filelight.desktop;kde4-cervisia.desktop;
Firefox keeps creating ~/Desktop even when this is not desired
See this forum post.
How to prevent plugins from allowing popups?
Ever wondered why pop-ups appear even though you have blocked them? It seems that the Flash plugin can bypass default settings and annoy us with those pesky pop-ups. Fear not, for we can prevent it from doing that.
To get around it:
- Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
- Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
- Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
- Set the value to 2.
The possible values are:
- 0: Allow all popups from plugins.
- 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
- 2: Block popups from plugins.
- 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.
Middle-click errors
! The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.
Another symptom is that middle-clicking results in unexpected behavior, like accessing a random web page.
The reason stems from the use of the middle mouse buttons in UNIX-like operating systems. The middle mouse button is used to paste whatever text has been highlighted/added to the clipboard. Then there is the possibly conflicting feature in Firefox, which defaults to loading the URL of the corresponding text when the button is depressed. This can be disabled like so:
Open the browser, and type the following into the address bar:
Search for middlemouse.contentLoadURL and set it to false.
Alternatively, having the traditional scroll cursor on middle-click (default behaviour on Windows browsers) can be achieved by searching for general.autoScroll and setting it to true.
As per this article, the feature has been removed in order to fix a bug. Follow the next steps to retain the original behaviour.
Open the browser and type the following address:
Search for browser.backspace_action and set it to 0 (zero).
Firefox does not remember login information
It may be cause of a corrupted
cookies.sqlite file in Firefox's profile folder. In order to fix this, just rename or remove the cookie.sqlite while Firefox is not running.
Open a terminal of choice and type the following:
$ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/ $ rm -f cookies.sqlite
Restart Firefox and see if it solved the problem.
Broken websites / input fields with dark Gtk Themes
When using a dark GTK theme, one might encounter Internet pages with unreadable input and text fields (p.e. Amazon - white text on white background). This can happen because the site only sets either background or text color, and Firefox takes the other one from the theme.
A work around is to explicitly setting standard colours for all web pages in
The following sets input fields to standard black text / white background; both can be overridden by the displayed site, so that colors are seen as intended:
input { -moz-appearance: none !important; background-color: white; color: black; } textarea { -moz-appearance: none !important; background-color: white; color: black; }
This will force the colours ("Allow paged to choose their own colors [..]" setting, in the Preferences > Content > Color dialog):
input { -moz-appearance: none !important; background-color: pink !important; color: green !important; } textarea { -moz-appearance: none !important; background-color: pink !important; color: green !important; }
Change color values to suit, or use an add-on like Stylish.
File association problems
For non-GNOME users, Firefox may not associate file types (in the "Open With" part of the download dialog). Installing libgnome amends the problem:
pacman -S libgnome
If you are using KDE you can also do the following:
ln -s ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
From now on Firefox should use the applications which are explicitly set in KDE.
"I'm Feeling Lucky" Mode
"I'm Feeling Lucky" mode lets the user harness the power of Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" search engine feature via the Firefox address bar.
To activate this mode, do the following (solution from this forum post):
- Type "about:config" in the address bar.
- Search for the string keyword.url
- Modify its value (if any) to
"I'm Feeling Ducky" Mode (for DuckDuckGo)
"I'm Feeling Ducky" is similar to the Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" but using the DuckDuckGo search engine.
To activate this mode, do the following (solution using the above one):
- Type "about:config" in the address bar.
- Search for the string keyword.url
- Modify its value (if any) to
The last character is a space ' '. It is necessary because if you do not put it, it will become a !Bang.
"Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for the next time it starts?" dialog does not appear
From the Mozilla Support site:
- Type "about:config" in the address bar.
- Set browser.warnOnQuit to true.
- Set browser.showQuitWarning to true.
Firefox has high CPU usage and feels slow on scrolling with nVidia GPUs
In some cases, forcing the proprietary nVidia driver to store pixmaps in video memory instead of system memory can yield massive improvements in the perceived performance of pixmap-intensive applications like Firefox. Run
$ nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2
from the terminal; if desired results are achieved add this line to a script and use your desktop environment's autorun facilities to execute it on every startup. Alternatively, add the parameter to your
~/.nvidia-settings-rc and run
$ nvidia-settings --load-config-only
on startup. This setting is documented in nvidia-settings source code. Make sure you have added other perfomance-improving settings, see NVIDIA.
Firefox uses ugly fonts on certain webpages
When Firefox uses bitmap fonts, it can happen that on certain webpages the fonts are very ugly (compared to Google Chrome for example):
http://i.imgur.com/SMVdi.png vs http://i.imgur.com/jNmxU.png
To fix that, just disable bitmap fonts for X:
$ sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
See also
- An account of the trademark issues from the Firefox package maintainer for Debian.
- Official website for the GNU Mozilla forks.


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Aluminum Pot galvanic corrosion - ruined?
I stored my copper immersion wort chiller in my aluminum brewpot for over a year and when I next went to use it I found it lhad arge black spots had developed and some pits. Can I still brew with this or have I ruined it?
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by Michael Caruso
Sunday, February 3, was a double delight. I had the chance to hear two musical events, both of which took place in Chestnut Hill. Woodmere Art Museum presented Astral Artists' pianist Michael Mizrahi in a program that paired traditional parts of the repertoire – Beethoven and Chopin – with music newly composed for the pianist. Just up the Avenue, the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill hosted Tempesta di Mare Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra in a program devoted to the group's own orchestrations of the six Organ Trio Sonatas by J.S. Bach.
Tempesta's program was a delight. Who would have ever thought that orchestrating six works by Bach intended for solo organ would be anything other than a dry, academic exercise meant for either a music history or orchestration class? Not anyone who knows the music of Bach, of course; not anyone who recognizes Bach as the greatest of all classical composers. For me, it came as no surprise at all.
What was most impressive here was the breadth and depth of timbral and textural imagination shown by the Tempesta musicians in producing a series of scores of such variety. While several sounded exactly like Bach's own originally intended chamber music, Sonatas Nos. 1 and 6 sounded as though they were the 7th and 8th "Brandenburg" Concerti. What was consistent was the master's ingenuity of thematic development and flexibility of contrapuntal writing.
Tempesta's musicians played all six sonatas with technical command and interpretive depth. Gwyn Roberts was exceptionally expressive on two different recorders and one wooden transverse flute, while harpsichordist Adam Pearl played a 1980 William Dowd instrument with flawless phrasing.
In order to hear Tempesta's concert at Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church, I had to leave Mizrahi's recital at Woodmere at the intermission, catching only the first half. I was particularly impressed by his rendition of the first movement of Mark Danciger's "The Bright Motion." The score employs the full range of pianistic effects, making me look forward to someday hearing the entire work.
For those Chestnut Hillers who have been thrilled by the organ playing of Zach Hemenway during either Sunday morning services or at Choral Evensong in the afternoon at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, where he is music director, here's an opportunity to hear him in a different setting. Hemenway will be the organist at 4 p.m. Sunday, February 17, Lenten Choral Vespers at Old St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 4th and Walnut streets, Society Hill. The church was founded in 1733 by Jesuit Fathers and is the oldest Catholic parish in Philadelphia.
Hemenway will perform J.S. Bach's "Erbarm dich mein O Herr Gott" for the organ prelude and then accompany Old St. Joseph's Schola Cantorum in music by Byrd, Farrant/Hilton, French, Nestor, and Normand Gouin, Old St. Joseph's music director, who will conduct the service. Roman Vespers is the original Latin liturgy for the afternoon upon which Anglican Choral Evensong was based after the 16th century Reformation in England under Queen Elizabeth I.
For more information, call 215-923-1733.
Opera Philadelphia presented the East Coast premiere of Kevin Puts' Pulitzer Prize-winning "Silent Night" Friday, February 8, in the Academy of Music before an audience that packed the historic house. The Peabody Conservatory of Music faculty member's first opera, "Silent Night" continues February 13, 15 and 17 – and shouldn't be missed by anyone sincerely interested in and in love with opera.
"Silent Night" is based on the true story of the fraternization between Scottish, French and German soldiers during World War I on Christmas Eve and Day. Early on in the war that profoundly destroyed Western civilization's previously unbroken arch of progress, three sets of soldiers came to recognize their shared humanity, if only for a brief span of 24 or so hours. And, in a gesture that symbolized the stupidity that had started the "War to End All Wars" in the first place, the three officers in charge of these men were severely reprimanded rather than held up as prophets on how to end the carnage that left all of Europe depleted to this very day, nearly a century after the war began.
The triumph of "Silent Night" lies in Puts' collaboration with librettist Mark Campbell, who based his work on Christian Carion's screenplay for the film "Joyeux Noel," which told the story in the first place. Together Puts and Campbell delineated the heart and soul of the tale through choice dialogue superbly set to beautifully dramatic music.
Opera Philadelphia's production, conducted by Michael Christie and directed by Eric Simonson, is a miracle of evocative spectacle and personal revelation.
For more information, visit www.operaphila.org.


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The Mill River flood of 1874 captured the imagination and sympathy of a nation preoccupied with disasters. Three weeks after the flood (in which a reservoir dam failed in western Massachusetts and killed 139, making it the most deadly dam failure in the U.S. at the time), the national magazine "Harper's Weekly" (circulation 160,000) featured the flood's heroes on its cover. When the dam's gatekeeper, George Cheney, saw the dam begin to crumble, he raced downstream on his bareback horse to warn residents of the coming disaster. Collins Graves, a milkman on his morning route, picked up Cheney's alarm and sped ahead of the flood to warn residents in the villages downstream. Cheney and Graves saved the lives of hundreds and achieved national celebrity. Harper's correctly asserted that one of the affects of the flood would be the permanent distrust among people living downstream from man-made reservoirs.
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I agree, River. The teams seem so unbalanced. At least if they're gonna put most of the strong members on one tribe, the challenges should be balanced between brains & brawn. That way, each tribe gets a chance to shine.
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A McDonalds restaurant character that has been retired for a while now. He had a hamburger for a head.
by Ryan Thompson January 18, 2004
A colleague who consistently leaves work ('cheeses it') much earlier than expected, leaving you wondering whether they are actually employed part-time.
"Hey, where's Padma?"
"Sorry buddy, Mayor McCheese has already cheesed it"
"What?! But it's only 3pm!"
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i knew she had too many chicken nuggets when she Mayor Mc'cheesed all over my cock
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A McDonald's guyp;my hero
Mayor McCheese is my idol.
by the wierdest person you never knew May 06, 2005
Sometimes I like to look at pictures of Rosie O'Donnell and play with my Mayor McCheese.
by Tom Penniman December 08, 2005
When a married public official cleans the cheese from your foreskin.
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Mississippi State University will host three finalists for director of the Environmental Health and Safety Office over the next several weeks.
During their visits, each candidate will deliver a public presentation where they will share their vision for the office, as well as discuss their leadership style. Interested members of the campus community are invited to attend.
The finalists, and date, time and location information for their public forums, are:
Michael Parsons [C.V.] [Itinerary]: Thursday, May 23, 1 p.m., Colvard Student Union, Fowlkes Auditorium;
Margaret Naugle [C.V.] [Itinerary]: Friday, June 7, 1:30 p.m., McCool Hall, Room 126;
James Banks [C.V.] [Itinerary]: Thursday, June 13, 3:15 p.m., McCool Hall, Room 126.


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JHaswell needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 114 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
We are looking for a logo design for our next upcoming race event "GT Challenge".
We need a hi-res logo design for our upcoming race "GT Challenge." The "GT Challenge" refers to an event that is GT vehicle based, so not too specific. The logo should depict the name of the event and any imagery of your choosing as long as it is original artwork. We are always looking for something clean, sleek, and vibrant. The logo should be a good size and shape to be able to be placed in email headers and such.
- Sick web 2.0 logo for our race event.
- Must also create and include an avatar size badge of the logo (1 color if possible)
- something light flimsy and fragile
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Jiří Havelka
Dramaturgy: Marta Ljubková, Martina Sľúková
Sets and Costumes: Dragan Stojčevski
Sound design: Martin Tvrdý
Video design: Jaromír Vondrák (Clad)
The laboratory mouse may be a lovely pet. But what about its serving for scientific experiments? Experiments seeking eternal youth, experiments with the brain, genetic experiments. The humans make tests on animals. What if we became the lab mouse? A stage experiment with an actor and a mouse, an attempt at stage reality, laboratory conditions right before our eyes. We analyse society's welfare, present scientific proof of the decomposition of society, in which those entering paradise inevitably perish.
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California's bishops issued a statement of appreciation on Oct. 29 for the work and ministry of women religious in the nation's most populous state. The statement acknowledged "with profound gratitude the contributions of these women of the Gospel who have lived and served in the Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of California." The statement was accompanied by a letter from Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles and was sent to communities of women religious across the state. "We are all aware of the special anxieties which surround our women religious these days, and I am writing to offer you my prayers of gratitude and my support for all of your members," the cardinal wrote. Cardinal Mahony cited the two centuries of ministry the sisters have offered to the people of California. He credited the sisters for establishing schools, hospitals and other facilities.
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Zero Dark Thirty
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For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. ZERO DARK THIRTY reunites the Oscar-winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (2009, Best Picture, THE HURT LOCKER) for the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man.
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I've long been frustrated at the lack of bars in my preferred size, 40 cm o-o or 38 cm c-c. My shoulders are relatively narrow, and when I go to wider bars, I feel like I'm in a less stable position, with arms spread out. If I'm holding the plank position, I want my hands directly under my shoulders, and on the bike it's the same. This is the position of greatest mechanical strength.
On top of this, narrower bars are more aerodynamic and have less of a cross-section for contact with adjacent riders. It's win-win.
Yet for some reason wide bars have been popular. People feel they can get more leverage on wide bars. But power on the bike comes from the legs, not the arms (tests have confirmed this). To maximize this, you want to have as smooth and fluid a pedal stroke as possible. That implies staying balanced on the bike, not wildly thrashing about. So I think any benefits of wide bars except in violent sprints are over-rated.
But what about violent sprints? Andre Greipel is perhaps the most powerful sprinter in European cycling and he won the prelude race to the Tour Down Under in Australia yesterday. A key leadout man is Adam Hanson. Here's a photo of Adam at the race:
Adam is running 38 mm bars this year, the same size I prefer. And Adam's significantly larger. I copied the bars in front of his shoulders to show the bars are clearly narrower:


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Emotional Design
Part of "Breakthroughs: Where Inspiration and Technology Meet," a new webinar series designed by Adobe and AIGA
Emotional design is an essential component to digital products and brands, and can positively influence our interactions with devices and services. With traditional media, there is no interaction, no meaningful exchange between the content and the user. But with digital products, there is a conversation—we talk to our products and our products talk back. In this webinar Celeste M. Combs, principal of The Experience Group, and Adobe expert Erik Natzke share best practices of emotional design and how you can apply them to enhance the user experience of your next project.
This session was recorded on September 19, 2012. Watch this webinar.
Celeste M. Combs is principal of experience design agency The Experience Group, based in Seattle. She is a nationally recognized leader in interactive design and user experience where her experience in design for emotion has garnered clients' significant success. Combs counts Alaska Airlines, Susan G. Komen, REI, and Microsoft amongst numerous clients. Her contributions have garnered top awards; most recently Microsoft's highly coveted Circle of Excellence Award. She gained much of her early foundation in design for emotion as part of Microsoft Hardware's pioneering design group that shipped groundbreaking input devices and gaming technology that earned Business Week's IDEA Design Awards and an IEEE Pioneering Design Award. Combs completed master's work at the University of Oregon with a focus on product design and human performance. She is a guest lecturer at the University of Washington, Seattle University and the University of Oregon and a former board and committee member of ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) and Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
Adobe expert Erik Natzke is an artist, designer, and programmer who creates and gives material substance to his ideas through immaterial computer code. His sensibility, combined with his stubborn resolve, has enabled him to push back the limits of his medium, beyond known methods and approaches. Natzke loves to take risks, in the awareness that the value of failure lies in discovering new, never-before conceived solutions. His work focuses on aesthetics and methodology, in which code and numbers generate beauty. When Natzke wants to draw something, he doesn't pick up a pencil. He opens his Flash software editor and starts writing code. It is at this initial stage that he controls the environment in which his creation will grow and take shape down to every last, minute detail, before stepping back and watching the work emerge as the code is executed.
Callie Neylan is a designer, researcher and writer who has worked in visual and interaction design for renowned design firms Gensler and Teague and nonprofit media organization NPR. She has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle and at UMBC and MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in design. She is an award-winning designer whose work has been recognized by Communication Arts, I.D. and AIGA, and featured in The New York Times, Fast Company and on Gizmodo.
Callie holds an MFA in design from the University of Washington and is a Senior User Experience Designer at Microsoft where she designs user-friendly data visualization tools.
About this series
"Breakthroughs: Where Inspiration and Technology Meet" is a new webinar series designed by Adobe and AIGA exclusively for members.
Great designers need more than good ideas to succeed. Knowing this AIGA and Adobe, the official AIGA sponsor for design solutions, have designed a free members-only webinar series to explore the ways that today's studios are creating innovative, multiplatform experiences and the tools they're using to achieve them.
Through visual presentations and instructive case studies, visionary designers will pair with Adobe experts to offer guidance to help lead you to your next breakthrough. Moderated by educator and interaction designer Callie Neylan, each session will address industry best practices and fresh ideas for using new technology and platforms to solve client challenges.


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Capturing ChemistryActivity by Peter Crowley | added on Nov 19, 2010 | Ireland
Sponsor(s): NUI Galway
In Summer 2011 NUI Galway will exhibit artworks about Chemistry. We would like you to submit an artwork, which draws attention to chemistry in the everyday world.
"Capturing Chemistry" is an Art exhibition which aims to draw attention to chemistry in the everyday world.
We would like you to submit an artwork on anything at all that interests you. A poster is probably the easiest form of submission but we welcome whatever you come up with. We also ask that entrants accompany their piece with a brief description.
In terms of prizes there will be an exhibition held in Summer 2011 and cash prizes will be awarded for the best entries. A date has yet to be finalised for the exhibition but we would like to receive submissions in May.
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SMITE is an online battleground between mythical gods that is free-to-play and currently in Closed Beta. (http://www.smitegame.com)
SMITE is similar to DoTA gameplay but instead of being above the action you are IN the action. Close third-person camera instead of RTS view. Move with WASD instead of clicking on a map. Detailed graphics and visual FX. Action combat, dodging, and AIMING. Everything is a skill-shot. Free-to-Play but not pay-to-win.
This SMITE video covers: Anhur, Slayer of Enemies


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - After a tough pre-season led by captain Todd Ruth, the Yale men's squash team is determined to shock its Ivy League competition in the upcoming Ivy Scrimmages. Finishing fifth at the CSA Team Championships last February, the team is looking to drastically improve its National rank this year. During the 2008-2009 season, the Yale men saw 13 wins and two losses, one to Ivy League Champion Princeton and the other to National Champion Trinity.
The talented freshman class includes Kenneth Chan from Singapore, Richard Dodd from South Africa, Sam Haig from Greenwich, Conn., and Hywel Robinson from Wales. Chan, Dodd and Robinson are all vying for top spots on the ladder, which will ultimately add depth to the line-up. The freshmen are a key component to closing the gap between Yale and powerhouses Princeton and Trinity.
Returning players include Ruth and fellow senior Aaron Fuchs, both of whom will play top positions. The senior class also includes Sharyar Aziz, Rusty Feldman and Chris Reid. Juniors John Fulham and CJ Plimpton will also play high on the ladder. Sophomores Robby Berner, Sam Clayman, Ryan Dowd and John Roberts will fill in the rest of the line-up with talent, strength and experience.
Head coach Dave Talbott and assistant coaches Pam Saunders and Gareth Webber will be joined by volunteer assistant coach Pam Anckermann, a recent graduate from Mount Holyoke. This strong coaching staff will help push each individual player to his full potential.
The Ivy Scrimmages will give the Bulldogs the opportunity to showcase their new and improved team. The Scrimmages will be held at Yale's Brady Squash Center, beginning on Nov. 7. The season opener against Williams will take place on Nov. 20 at home and will set the tone for the 2009-2010 season.
Ivy League Squash Scrimmage
November 7-8, 2009
Men: 10:30-Harvard-Dartmouth, Yale -Brown, winners and losers play-3:00
12:45-Princeton-Columbia, Cornell-Penn, winners and losers play-5:15
Women: 10:30-Brown-Penn, Dartmouth-Harvard, winners and losers play-3:00
12:45-Princeton-Columbia, Yale-Cornell, winners and losers play-5:15
5-8 place-10:00
1-4 place-12:30


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This Week In Pictures – 28/01/2013
THE SAG Awards last weekend provided us with numerous beautiful red carpet dresses to gaze at, some tearful speeches to listen to, but also a host of pictures that captured the most entertaining, tender and headline-grabbing moments.
Anne Hathaway and husband Adam Shulman fought, figuratively-speaking, with Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck to be the event's happiest couple - with romantic kisses and eye-gazing in abundance. Jennifer Lawrence shared the most heartfelt embrace with co-star Bradley Cooper after finding out that she had won Best Leading Actress, while Homeland's Damian Lewis and Claire Danes looked deep in conversation at their table.
In other news, Rihanna's debut campaign to help boost tourism in her native Barbados was unveiled, as were the character posters for new Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz the Great and Powerful, while Dita Von Teese took a rather unusual catwalk turn. Beyoncé Knowles invited us to see inside rehearsals for her performance at the Super Bowl; Nicholas Kirkwood gave an emotional acceptance speech after winning the 2013 BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund prize; the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall made a surprise appearance on the London Underground and David Beckham landed a new job.
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FanFare was a science fiction fanzine published by Art Widner in the 1940s, and co-edited with Henry Earl Singleton.
FanFare was published from 1940 till 1943, and 10 issues were released during that time. It was a hektographed publication of around 28 pages. It was the official publication of the Boston Science Fiction Association, "The Stranger".
Contributors included Forrest J. Ackerman, Will Bryant, Louis Russell Chauvenet, Virginia Combs, Joseph Gilbert, Howard Gott, Damon Knight writing as himself and as Ritter Conway, Harry Jenkins Jr., H.C. Koenig, Robert W. Lowndes, Ray Martinuk, Jack Chapman Miske (Scienti-Snaps, Bizarre), Sam Moskowitz (Helios), Laetaz U. Sewell, Bob Tucker (Le Zombie) and Harry Warner, Jr. (Spaceways).
Contributing artists include Bob Jones, Damon Knight and Roy Hunt. The cover of issue 8 featured a portrait of Cthulhu by both artists.


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Firewire FST Unibrow Surfboard 7ft 0 FCS II - White
Product Details
The rapid response flex memory in the Future Shapes Technology used in these boards yields great speed through the turns whilst the parabolic rail configuration guarantees 100% return memory for years.
Firewire surfboards feature some very distinct construction traits that set them aside form other boards currently available:
1) parabolic balsa rails
2) dual density EPS and advanced composite core
The parabolic balsa rails flex at the start of a turn storing energy and rebound through the turn releasing built up energy in the form of speed. The spring back of the parabolic rails to the original rocker triggers rapid acceleration, like an arrow shot from a bow. The construction materials, a unique formulation of hi-tech epoxy resins and advanced composites mean that these boards maintain the lively feel you get with brand new polyurethane boards, but are up to 20% lighter and will last 5+ times longer.
This manufacturing process has won environmental awards and has created a range of lightweight and durable custom boards that are quickly being recognised for their awesome performance.
What this all means for surfers is a step forward in the age old trade off of performance versus durability that has traditionally limited polyurethane boards. The nature of the core technology in these boards allows them to rebound in and out of turns with little loss of speed. The secret to improved surfing is maintaining and using this speed to go higher, bigger, longer or whatever does it for you!
Boardshop is stoked to be a key partner for Firewire surfboards across Europe and beyond, we've been with them since the very start.
Firewire surfboards are more durable than other surfboard manufacturing processes, and for 90% of surfers they will improve your surfing. Firewire is pushing the limits of applying new technology and innovation to surfboard design and always has an eye on the environmental impact of what they do, they truly are different to the other board companies out there.
Firewire have come a long way since the early boards and the range of shapes and tech just gets better and better. A big chunk of the boards in the range are perfectly suited to the waves that 90% of us surf on a regular basis so if you haven't already, give them a try. The staff here have surfed pretty much every board in the Firewire range at some time or another and we speak to surfers from all over the world and get their feedback on how the boards perform in all sorts of conditions so we're well placed to talk about all aspects of Firewire surfboards.
We're happy to consider trading in your old board against a new Firewire, so If you have any questions about this we'd be delighted to answer them and advise on any potential board choices or enquiries you might have, just drop us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or call us on 0044 (0) 1243 674250.
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Welcome to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Project Delivery Sustainability web page. Caltrans is committed to preserve and enhance California's resources and assets by minimizing the environmental impacts of our highway construction and maintenance projects. Caltrans can achieve this goal by building and maintaining a sustainable highway system. The goal of sustainability can be described with the triple bottom line, which includes giving consideration to three primary principles: Social, Environmental, and Economic. A sustainable highway should satisfy the lifecycle functional requirements of societal development and economic growth while striving to enhance the natural environment and reduce consumption of natural resources. The sustainability characteristics of a highway or roadway project should be assessed and considered from implementation throughout its lifecycle, from conception through construction, operations, and maintenance.
A Sustainable Highways Initiative has been established to assist State and local agencies to document and improve the sustainability of our roadways. The sustainable highways initiative supports the various activities needed to facilitate balanced decision-making among environmental, economic, and social values-the triple bottom line of sustainability.
- The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has developed a tool that identifies characteristics of sustainable highways and provides information and techniques to help agencies and organizations integrate sustainability best practices into highways and other roadway projects. Called the Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability Tool, INVEST is a practical, web-based collection of best practices.
To learn more or to use the INVEST tool on your project, please visit: FHWA's Sustainable Highway
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Long time no see, Hockey fans.
Timmy Thomas made headlines this week by snubbing Barack Obama at the White house for their visit with the big man.
Word is that he missed the party because of his political views...wrong!
I have the Tweet Ten Tim Thomas Excuses for snubbing POTUS.
10. I have never paid my taxes.
9. My Skinnard cover band had a gig that night.
8. I couldn't get someone at the border to cover my shift.
7. I waited at 1602 Pennsilvania avenue for like 5 hours!
6. I was on my way but my Hummer only gets 5 miles to the galon.
5. I didn't want to break my lunch date with Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin.
4. What, and miss Dr. Oz?
3. Zdeno Chara sneezed on me and I wound up in Kansas!
2. I thought we were meeting Osama!
1. Nah I'm just kidding, I knew it was Obama, I'm just a douche!


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Hi CC members
Well, let me introduce myself.
My name is Erik and I'm from the Netherlands (Nijmegen).
I've been looking around here for 2 years and started collecting more castle sets to build MOCs. I'll upload some of them soon.
About the name Locksley: It comes from the film Robin Hood prince of thieves. I was looking for a cool gamers/forum name and then I heard the name Locksley.
So that's why the name is Locksley
I hope that I will have a good time here.
PS: My English is not that good