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Back when Snooki was a single, minglin' partymeister obsessed with fist-pumping and pounding whatever shots were in sight on the boardwalks of the Jersey Shore -- and of course on the MTV reality show of the same name -- it made sense that the city of Florence might have reservations about allowing Snooki and co. to film the show there. Even a year and a half ago, when the city of Hoboken wasn't keen on the idea of Snooki & JWoww filming there and denied MTV a film permit, I could sort of understand. But now, New Jersey's Berkeley Township is lawyering up to protest filming in the Pelican Island neighborhood ... and it makes absolutely no sense at all.
Apparently, residents think the possibility is a "disgrace" and "fear the show will bring a circus-like atmosphere and will threaten the safety of the homes they are rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Sandy," The Star-Ledger reports. Give me a break. Do they have any idea who Snooki is these days?!
I understand what they're concerned about, but could they also please get with the times? At least judging from her Instagram and Twitter presence, Snooki's done a full Nicole Richie, e.g., gone from clubbin' famemonger to low-key, fashionable, and fit mama-turned-entrepreneur. She's more interested in quiet nights at home with her fiance Jionni and cute-as-a-button baby boy Lorenzo than going out and making a scene. The big excitement in her life is doing hardcore workouts and playing dress-up to take selfies. Gasp! Thus, I have a feeling she's grown up so much that MTV isn't going to be able to turn this season of Snooki & JWoww into a rowdy, drama-filled, raucous 24/7/365 party -- even if they WANTED to!
More from The Stir: 'Fit Mom' Snooki Tells Her Haters Off Once & For All (PHOTO)
Sure, I could see a town being concerned in general about filming of any sort. Or the reputation their area might get from being labeled "the place where Snooki and JWoww spent their summer vacation." But really, I can't see how it wouldn't have a positive effect! Seems to me it would only serve to make the area a more popular destination, which would help their local economy and rebuilding efforts!
Snooki herself responded to all the brouhaha, taking to Instagram to say:
Unable how (sic) adults are trying to ban my son, fiancé and I from enjoying our summer at the shore. Grow up, get over yourself and move on. This is not how we should be treating one another. Absolutely sick and very sad. I pray for you. There's much bigger things to worry about in life than trying to ban my family from your neighborhood.
Couldn't agree more! Hope Snooki and MTV win this ridiculous fight ... or better yet, find another town to film in that understands that welcoming her with open arms is absolutely NBD these days.
What do you think about this town's efforts to keep Snooki away?
Image via SnookiNic/Instagram

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Peter R. Ammendola, of Narrowsburg, NY a union carpenter, passed away suddenly on Friday, November 15, 2013 at his home. He was 49.
The son of the Robert John and Teresa Ruggiero Ammendola, he was born in Brooklyn, NY on November 25, 1963.
Peter was a member of St. Ann's Church, Shohola, PA. He was a member of the Hudson Valley Carpenters Union. He volunteered and participated annually with river clean up with Kittatinny Canoes, Barryville, NY.
A family statement reads: "Peter was a loving husband, father and grandfather and friend. He was an active outdoors man, who loved to hunt, fish and scuba dive. He was a talented in his trade as a carpenter. His granddaughters were the pride and joy of his life. He died too young, he will truly be missed and he will live in our hearts forever."
Peter is survived by his wife of 22 years, Andrea Falkenburg Ammendola; his son, Peter Ammendola II of Narrowsburg; his stepson, Christopher Ramm of New Jersey; his two granddaughters: Amber Lynn Ramm and Mia Ammendola; his parents, Robert John and Teresa Ammendola of Hawley, PA; two sisters: Patricia Biondo of Long Island, NY, Maria Ammendola of Barryville, NY and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
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Friends are invited to call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, November 18th at the Harrison Rasmussen Funeral Home in Barryville, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, November 19th at St. Ann's Church, Shohola, PA; the Rev. Thomas Major will officiate. Christian burial will be in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.


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Posted 23 November 2010 - 08:35 PM
I have what I think is a spirit in my bedroom mainly cause of my experience which I explained here http://www.ghostvill...showtopic=31546
I am to scared to try and talk to her in any other way besides a pendulum and its not that accurate/definitive..So maybe my guide can talk to her for me? Idk I just want this to be less anxiety provoking for me cause i'm really interested in the paranormal..Just a whimp T_T
For EVP's I only have an ipod touch (with mic) a laptop (with mic) and a mp3 player with a mic as well....I know those all SUCK for EVP's but thats my only option for that. I also have a pendulum...That's about it..
How can I get in contact with my spirit guide?
Posted 24 November 2010 - 02:22 PM
Regarding spirit guides I disagree. While some may take exception, I don't believe there is any proof there is such an entity assigned to us. If there was, with all the negativity people experience I would have to say their spirit guide is awfully lax on the job!
From your posts I would say at this point you are experiencing sleep related issues that may be addressed by medical consultations. I see nothing here which indicates the paranormal at this stage of the game. You may also want to consult a reputable local investigator and get their input as well. After all it is difficult to make these kind of recommendations with only a couple forum posts to go on. But it is also too early to call anything paranormal at this point without ruling out the mundane.
Posted 24 November 2010 - 05:04 PM
Posted 25 November 2010 - 11:35 AM
Sleep paralysis is as you said probably not indicated in your case. I simply mentioned it because often those experiencing one also the other.
Posted 25 November 2010 - 03:27 PM
Posted 25 November 2010 - 06:43 PM
I did not say paranoia, that implies some kind of mental issue. Lucid dreaming is a condition many people experience. Our minds control how we respond to external and internal influences. Thus a dream can and does at times affect our waking activities, especially when first waking and we are at a transition between sleep and awake.
It is imparitive to rule out these commonplace possibilities which have been found to be present in many such cases before jumping to spirit guides and other paranormal explanations which are based on unfounded theories and speculation. After all, doctors and researchers have proven that certain dream conditions are real and even are beginning to understand a bit about them. Show me one iota of proof a spirit guide even exists.
Posted 25 November 2010 - 07:17 PM
My main concern was to try and contact that girl I saw when I woke up but if it was Lucid dreaming then I guess it was all an awake dream...But aren't there cases where a spirit will enter your dreams to talk to you? Is there a possibility that (if there is a spirit) it came into my dream and woke me up? Then of course there is the other possibility it was all just a really real dream...
Gah I really wish I knew what to do...I did contact a local investigation group for kentucky with the same story, ill let you all know what they say.
Posted 25 November 2010 - 08:38 PM
I do believe that we all have Spirit Guides. Prior to us incarnating to this physical world we worked with our chosen Guide to help us through this life. This soul is here to gently guide us but not to tell us what to do. They are not lax in what they are doing, they are allowing us free will.
We chose a life with it trials, tribulations, hard times, good times, sadness and etc... but from each experience we learn. You always have to look at experiences (good and bad) and quesiton it with "what did I learn from this?" Spirit Guides are with us at all times. They are the ones that tell us to not take that elevator, or like those that did not go to the World Trade Center that day because events or just their thoughts prevented them from going.
I read through your previous posts. I believe that you are being visited but you may be experiencing more than just a visitaiton.
Let me explain...
I believe that the electrical panel may have something to do with the heavy feeling and such but it can also hype your sensitivity or help raise your vibrational energy that comes from inside of you
while sleeping in there. Aren't we and everything around us made up of energy? Do you have the same experiences in other rooms in the house?
Astral projection or Out of Body Experiences can in fact be happening to you. When we leave the body we also can see others who may be in their astral bodies. If you are sleeping in the same house with your girlfriend but not in the same room, she may be visiting you astrally as she has a desire to be with you. That is why you see this girl and she looks like your girlfriend, almost. We do not see in the astral as we see in the physical and we are not perceived to look exactly as we do in the physical as we do in the astal.
Also the dog growl... it could be that you were just in a lower plain. There is a great book called Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. This explains much.
Sleep paralysis you are correct. Your body cannot move but your mind is awake and you can see and hear things around you. But movement... no. It is terrifying when it happens but you just keep trying to move and wake yourself up.
Hope this helps.
Posted 25 November 2010 - 09:36 PM
About the Astral projection, my girlfriend said it's possible cause she said she thinks about sleeping in the same bed with me often, we sleep in different rooms but her room is literally 15-20ft from mine. She also said that when this occurs usually 1 person will not recall anything of the event but the other will. She said she can't remember dreaming or anything that night, so maybe thats what happened...But I still say there is a spirit in that room because EVERYONE in this household has said they have seen a little girl walk into that room.
So what should I do to build up this feeling I get and try to get rid of the fear/anxiety?
Posted 25 November 2010 - 10:01 PM
The furniture in the room, is there anything that has been placed in there before they started seeing this girl? Did someone give or did they buy used furniture? Have you done any research on the house?
I keep seeing mint green sheets and your right shoulder near the door with the door ajar and the light from the hall partway falls on the bed? The panel box on the far end of the room on right? Hardwood floor either now or under carpet? Just some impressions I am getting.
Posted 25 November 2010 - 10:05 PM
I have no idea about if anything in that room was pre-owned or put in before anything started happening, my girlfriend said everyone thinks its cause of a coal mining company that recently started to blow up the mountain we live on behind us looking for coal, they think it disturbed something and it came to our house.
Oh and yeah there is wood floor but its under green carpet. That's amazing Seer...Really..Can you go into ghost chat so we can talk? :]
Posted 25 November 2010 - 10:20 PM
View from the hallway
Angle from the side of my bed
The breaker box, across the room opposite of my bed
My closet which is right beside the breaker box
And just a different angle from my room
There is wood flooring but carpet covers it...Still just amazing Seer..Hope you come online soon I really want to talk to you :]
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"Yes, I am. Ma'am!" the drooling eagle answered in a husky voice . "I'm hungry to death. I gonna to take these four eggs for my breakfast. Mmm, they must be palatable."
"King Eagle," Mother Owl pleaded. "If ya promise ya don't wanna eat my babies, I'd like to go out at night from today, and only eat vipers and scorpions and save delicious birdies and rats for ya. Okay?"
King Eagle looked at the tearful Mother Owl for a moment and somehow agreed, "Seal a deal! How shall I tell yer kids apart from other birdies then?"
"Well, I should tell ya about this. My babes will be very easy to be distinguished. They must be the most adorable little birds in the world," Mother Owl answered with undisguised pride.
Several months later, King Eagle went hunting as usual. He caught sight of four little white birds which were sleeping in their cozy nest in a tall pine. When he nosedived down and landed on the three, he heard the birds chirpping sweetly in their dreams now and then, and found they were so cuddly and cute. He said to himself, "Well, these little things must be the kids of Mother Owl's. I've promised I don't eat them." And then he cast his keen eyes around and fixed on the next pine where he luckily found another nest there. After flying over there, he saw there were also four little birds but all of them were monstrous-looking. "Well, these little ugmos couldn't the kids of Mother Owl's," he figured out. And then pounced on them and ate them out soon.
At that moment, Mother Owl came back. She found the remains of her children and realised they had been killed. Her heart was broken into pieces shrieking pathetically, "King Eagle, ya have promised not to eat my babes. Why did you kill them all? Ya are a blatant liar! Liar!! Liar!!!"
"I'm sorry. I really didn't recognise they were yer sprogs," King Eagle said innocently. "Didn't you tell me they would be very lovely? What I ate were just four ugmos."
"Ow! Ow!!" the heart-wrenching mum cried. "Ya are King of birds, yet ya don't know every mother would think her babes are cutest in the world."***
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Top 10 Unique alarm clocks guaranteed to wake you up!May 24, 2008 – 3:36 am
Alarm clocks are the nemesis to blissful sleep. Some people require more than what a normal alarm provides to yank them from dreamland.
Nobody likes to be awoken before the body wakes them up, so artificial mechanisms (a.k.a. Alarm Clocks) have been the method of torture to pull our tired bodies out of our warm blanket of unconsciousness.
Creative designs and gadgetry provide these following alarm clocks an advantage against your sleepiness and prevent them from getting blamed for your lateness.
Heres my top 10:
|Shocking Alarm Clock: For the masochists out there, this clock will be the perfect method of waking you up. A seemingly normal clock, you turn the alarm off in the conventional way but with the added bonus of a hopefully harmless, shocking electric jolt. Yow.
|WaterGun Alarm Clock: For the handy people who want to wake up in a splashy mess, this DIY video provides instructions on how you can rig your typical alarm clock to wake you with a squirt from an attached watergun. Wetness or deadly electric shock if not made properly ensues!
|Bomb Alarm Clock: This Japanese product provides the excitement and stress of bomb diffusers every morning upon wake up. This alarm will sound a recorded voice 3 minutes before your wake time that the bomb will explode. You must diffuse the clock in the correct sequence. If you fail, a loud explosion will sound. Fun!
|Clocky Alarm Clock: Clocky is the father of all alarmsthatgobeyondsound. Originally a research project at MIT by Gauri Nanda, clocky's design consists of a furry clock with two wheels. This hardy alarm clock will thrust itself forward and back in a random sequence at your wake time and will hide itself in a new place in your room for you to find to deactivate.
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|Standup Wakeup Alarm Clock: This elegant design is a alarm clock embedded in a rug. To deactivate the alarm you must stand on the rug. This forces you to get up and off the bed to turn the alarm off. Unfortunately, this is only a proof of concept and not available as a product to purchase.
|Laser Target Alarm Clock: A likely candidate for gamers, this alarm has a target which you must shoot with a laser gun. The aim and concentration requires you to fully wake up.
|Kuku Alarm Clock: shaped roughly as a chicken, the alarm triggers the clock to 'lay' 5 tiny eggs into a basket. To stop the alarm you have to insert the eggs back into the clock one by one. (When you think about it, thats somewhat weird, to shove the eggs back into a chicken who just laid it)
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|Sfera Alarm Clock: This alarm clock hangs from your ceiling. When the alarm goes off, you reach up and touch the clock to set the snooze which then retracts the alarm clock closer to the ceiling. After a while, you're going to have to get up to turn the alarm off.
|Jigsaw Puzzle Alarm Clock: Like that childhood favorite Perfection, the alarm pops out 4 jigsaw pieces from the top and can only be stopped by finding the pieces that scattered around the clock and refit the puzzle. Similar to Puzzle
|Blowfly Alarm Clock: This alarm has a helicopter like device that takes off from the base. Your job is to catch or find the flying rotors and place it back on the clock base to stop the alarm. If the excitement of the search doesn't wake you, the cutting blades severing your fingers will.
Honorable Mentions: (a.k.a. all others that I find on the Interwebs)
- Wake me Willy – No longer produced, a Rumpus Room stuffed doll alarm that vibrates and yells out to you to wake up
- WakenBacon – 10 minutes before your wake time, two halogen lamps turn on and slow cook a frozen strip of bacon placed the night before. The sizzling and aroma of cooking pig wafts into your senses and wakes you up.
- Sonic Boom Alarm– This alarm is called Sonic boom for a good reason, a 113db alarm sounds along with a vibrating pod you can place under your pillow to throw yourself awake or straight into a heart attack.
- Light Sleeper– Lights integrated into your pillow and blanket grows brighter and brighter until you awake in the blinding light. Similar Product
- SnuzNLuz – An integrated networked alarm clock that contributes to your least favorite charity for every minute that you oversleep. A concept clock by thinkgeek.
- Drill Sargeant Clock – Nothing like getting yelled to awake by your favorite drill sargeant, real or imagined. (thanks Birdzilla)
- Banclock – Similar to the SnuzNluz, this clock from Japan requires you to insert coins to stop the alarm. I'm sure the urge to bash the clock to the ground will override your desire to find coins first thing in the morning.
- Animal Sound Clock – A cute collection of kiddie clocks that feature a face of an animal, which represents the sound of the alarm that will sound. Clever. (Thanks Birdzilla)
- Progression Clock – Similar to the Light Sleeper, this is a clock that illuminates brighter and brighter then spews aromatherapy smells to stimulate your senses to wake you. If that doesnt wake you, it gives up and causes unspeakable jolting pain to your body (kidding).
- Fire Alarm Clock – A fire alarm clock thats perfect for a home that may actually have an real fire alarm to confuse the sleeper on whether to save themselves or to snooze (thanks malum)
- Screaming Meanie – Similar to the Sonic Boom, this ups the deafening decibel to 120db! You have to depress three buttons to turn the alarm off, so you wont get carried away with your snoozing.
- Sleep Tracker – Pretty neat watch that detects your sleep cycle, and tries to find the most optimal time to wake you.
- Nobby – An interactive clock that nags you to wake and only a good wringing it its neck will quiet it. Nothing like anger and fits of violence to start up your day.
- Tyrant Clock:: A concept clock designed by alice-wang that randomly calls individuals in your cell phone contact list until you wake up. So, your guilt will be the determination of the success of your consciousness.
- Rocket Launcher Alarm Clock: Instead of a helicopter launching, its a foam rocket that takes off for its alarm, which you need to find to turn the alarm off
- Barbell Clock – This barbell shaped clock requires you to do 10 reps with the clock to disable the alarm. It would get your blood flowing, if the clock had sufficient weight and required enough reps.
- Osim Nioi– Alarm clock that releases an aroma of freshly baked bread from a cartridge when its time to awake. Designed by Alfie Lake
- Dick Vitale – A basketball fan's dream, having Dick Vitale shout out one of his infamous announcer quips to wake you up
- Silent Alarm Clock– Another concept clock designed by Johan Brengesjo. This silent alarm clock triggers a wireless ring to vibrate that you wear on your finger. Shaking your hand turns on the snooze. After each subsequent snooze, you have to shake harder. hmm.. finger…
- Room Tech Beingz Alarm Clock– Another advancement in Alarm Clock evilness, these clocks can 'communicate' with others in the room and trigger a multihomed attack on your restful slumber
- Dream BanClock – A method to force you to save money by requiring you to insert a coin to stop the alarm. Get rich slowly by waking up!
- Telephone Alarm Clock – A clock alarm shaped like an old-fashioned phone, that will 'ring' you up and playback a wake up call like you receive at a hotel, until you realize youre at home, and you have to go to work.
With creative engineering, there are always solutions to any problem. Its man vs machine, I'm sure each of these devices could be conquered in the name of sleep, but at least provides challenges to our dreaded morning ritual, waking up.
Do you know of any others? What are your creative methods of waking up?
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Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is still shooting to be healthy enough to be on the field with his teammates when training camp gets underway in late July, but Griffin knows that there's a possibility that his knee won't be ready at that point.
And he knows that there's a possibility that the knee might not be sound enough for him to play in the team's preseason games, although that isn't something Griffin sees as an obstacle to playing in the first week of the regular season. Griffin said last week that he doesn't believe he needs to play in August to feel comfortable playing in September.
"I've thought about that and yeah, I would be comfortable with that," Griffin said, via Mark Maske of the Washington Post. "That's all I can say. I have no control over whether I play in the preseason or not. I would be comfortable running out of the tunnel at FedEx Field with the smoke and everything."
Coach Mike Shanahan concurred, saying that Griffin needed to practice with the first-team offense before he could play in a game but "not necessarily against an opponent." While we don't doubt that's true, it seems unlikely that this scenario would play out later this year. The Redskins' final preseason game is August 29 and they open the regular season on September 9 against the Eagles. If Griffin's knee isn't sound enough for the Redskins to feel comfortable with the risk of playing him in the first game, it's hard to imagine the situation changing enough in the intervening days for it to make sense to play him in the opener.


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All Eyes on HTML5 as Mobile Flash Fades to Black
Nov 17, 2011 5:00 AM PT
If ever there was an announcement to get tongues wagging in the Linux blogosphere and beyond, it was the news that Adobe will stop developing Flash for mobile devices.
That, of course, is just what was announced last week, and the wagging hasn't stopped ever since.
Dubbed "Story of the Week" on the Financial Times Tech Hub blog, the topic has been the focus of conversation on forums far and wide, not to mention the dominant topic of discussion in the Linux blogosphere's own Mealy Apple cafe.
Linux Girl was there, Quick Quotes Quill at the ready.
A 'Closed Source Tumor'
"Flash has been on the way out for a while now," offered Thoughts on Technology blogger and Bodhi Linux lead developer Jeff Hoogland.
Not only that, but "the end of this closed source tumor is fantastic news," Hoogland opined. "The fact that HTML5 is taking over this department is a clear sign that when given a fair chance, open standards will always proliferate over closed and locked-down ones.
"Shoot -- even Microsoft is saying HTML5 is the future!" Hoogland added.
'No Way to Make Friends'
"Yes, its days are numbered, but HTML5 is looking good," agreed blogger Robert Pogson.
"Flash was potentially great technology, but Adobe messed it up by keeping it as a moving target and never getting it right," Pogson asserted. "What's with having defective versions out for 64bit and GNU/Linux for the longest time? That was no way to make friends."
Indeed, "Adobe fired the wrong people," opined consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack, referring to the 750 staff members Adobe announced it would be laying off. "It isn't the programmer's fault things are a mess -- it's the fault of management who can't decide on a direction and stick with it."
In any case, "now we have to figure out a way to clear up the mess of sites on the Web using Flash," Pogson said. "At one point, nearly 90 percent of the sites I visited used Flash. It was a pain. Now, Flash will be the IE6-like legacy of websites for years to come."
'A Bad Way to Handle the Transition'
In fact, "a good portion of the legacy Web is, and will always be, on Flash," agreed Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor.
"Many websites will not convert their content to newer standards," he explained. "With the death of the Adobe Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers, mobile devices will never be fully backward-compatible.
"I do not see anything good about this," he added. "Having a device compatible with all content is a good thing."
In short, "I do not lament the death of Flash," Lim concluded. "The transition from Flash to HTML5 was inevitable, but this was really a bad way to handle the transition."
'A Blight on the Web'
Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza is "slightly surprised to see this happen now, but ultimately not shocked or amazed to see it happen at all," he told LinuxInsider.
"Flash has been a blight on the Web in many ways all along, but it's not clear that the competition won't suffer the same fate of a thousand security holes," Espinoza pointed out. "WebGL, in particular, has been fingered as a likely path for exploits of your graphics drivers.
"It will also be particularly telling when we discover which solution for DRM major studios turn to now that Flash is in full recession," he added. "I fear that it will be Microsoft's."
'Adobe Is Just Using This Opportunity'
Adobe is "probably the first major software producer to realize that we're heading into the 'desktop on a tablet' wars, and that HTML5 doesn't endanger Flash," suggested Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
"HTML5 applications are much slower, and if you're a game publisher or other for-profit developer, HTML5 exposes much more of your source to the competition," Hudson pointed out. "Adobe is just using this opportunity to create a new line of developer tools while pushing current developers towards Adobe Air and Flash3D, and cutting costs."
The desktop is dying, Hudson added, "but it's going to come back in the most unexpected place," she predicted. "With cheap Amazon tablets already eating into their market share, other tablets will need to continue to add more capabilities.
"This will culminate in tablets providing the whole desktop experience on any device with a large enough screen," she predicted. "The current 'app-centric' implementations will no longer be enough to move hardware at anything but bargain basement prices."
'Microsoft Is the First to Get It'
Strange as it may seem, in fact, "Microsoft is the first to 'get it' by providing both environments in their next OS," Hudson asserted. "While a certain Linux distro fiddles with the user interface to 'go after the tablet market,' Microsoft will give people the best of both worlds, just like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups."
Android tablets, meanwhile, are "going to have to go the same route or bleed market share," she predicted. "Fortunately for Android, Linux can already run an assortment of desktop software such as LibreOffice, multiple browsers with Flash, and Flash games without a browser using Flash Player for Linux."
As for the iPad, "all this exposes what many of us originally said was the biggest weakness of the iPad: it doesn't run atop OS X," she added. "Getting a desktop-like experience on the iPad is going to be tough; having to add a compatibility layer for old iOS apps is going to suck battery life, and one key Apple advantage is the long battery life of iOS-based tablets."
So, in the end, "anyone who wants to develop or run Flash on the desktop or in the browser will still be able to -- unless they're running an iPad -- but I think both Adobe and the Flash development community will be able to console themselves with 'only' an eventual 80 to 90 percent market share on tablets," Hudson predicted.
'Like a Drunk at a Free Bar'
In fact, the day will come when the FOSS community looks back on Flash with fondness, Slashdot blogger hairyfeet told LinuxInsider.
"While flash would play SD video nicely without hardware acceleration even on a 1.8 Ghz Sempron, the new HTML V5 is a pig that frankly sucks resources like a drunk at a free bar and will get worse not better," hairyfeet explained.
Meanwhile, "your old pals at Apple, since they rule the buzzworld thanks to iShiny, will make sure that it will NEVER be Theora NOR WebM, so they will get together with MSFT and force the 'standard' to be H.264, which of course unless you are ready to break out your checkbooks won't be legally available to Linux or FOSS users," he added. "And of course your old pals at the MPAA certainly aren't going to allow their precious content to run on an unsecured player."
'Not So Good for the Four Freedoms'
So, "working with Apple, Google -- whom I predict will lock up Android 'for security reasons' -- and MSFT, they will come up with the 'HTML V5 Secure Content spec,' which will work on OS X, iOS, and anything by MSFT, because both OSes allow kernel level DRM," hairyfeet said.
"Guess who doesn't have and doesn't allow kernel level DRM? That would be YOU!" he pointed out. "Google will just sign the NDA and get the kernel DRM put into Android and lock it down with code signing. This will be great for Google as it will give them more control of the Android ecosystem, not so good for the four freedoms."
In the end, then, Flash will be replaced by "something that sucks more power, will mean more machines have to be tossed because they won't run it, will equal less battery life, will use a codec that has so much more patents it isn't even funny, will allow the big three to lock you even further out of the loop, and you call THIS progress?" hairyfeet concluded. "It's a shame that sometimes folks just don't see the train heading their way until it runs them down."
'I Am Underwhelmed'
Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, isn't losing any sleep over the situation, however.
"I am rather underwhelmed," Travers told Linux Girl.
"Flash is dying because you can do a lot in HTML5 and CSS that you used to need Flash to do," he explained. "The market has eroded underneath it. This means that HTML has substantially replaced Flash as a good side. On the other hand, HTML has substantially replaced Flash.
"Really the only thing it will mean is that no plugin will be required for much content that used to be done in Flash," Travers predicted.


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2017-18 Winter Series @ Portland Golf Club
Portland Golf Club
Monday, March 26, 2018
FORMAT: Individual Stableford Points
All OJGA Events Close at 5:00pm on the Closing Date which is listed as the last date in the "entries accepted" column of the OJG Online Schedule.
This OJG Winter Series Tournament is conducted by OJG staff and volunteers in cooperation with golf course staff.
By continuing with the registration process, you agree to follow the Code of Conduct and Policies of Oregon Junior Golf. To inquire about this event please contact Robyn Lorain at the OGA (503) 981-4653
or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
1.Eligibility/Approval Process/Format
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2. OJG MEMBER DISCOUNT: 2017 and 2018 OJGA Members will receive a $20 discount during the registration process. OJGA Membership is open to golfers who are at least 8 years of age (as of 8/12/2017) but no older than 19 years of age (as of 4/1/2017) and are permanent or summer residents of Oregon or SW Washington (including Clark and Skamania Counties).
3. WITHDRAWAL/REFUND POLICY: Until the closing deadline, you may cancel/withdraw your entry without fee. However, after the closing deadline, no refunds will be available except in the case of a medical condition or family emergency, where a $5 administrative fee will apply. You may view the full withdrawal policy, including how to withdraw after the start of an event, on pages 25-26 of the Member Handbook or by clicking here to be directed to the OJG website.
4. SPECTATOR CART POLICY: In this OJGA Winter Series event, spectator carts will be permitted on a first come first serve basis. All spectators wishing to rent a cart should check in with the golf shop to inquire about the rate.
At no time are spectator golf carts to leave the cart path, including for passing. Without exception, spectators seen driving a cart off the cart paths during this event will immediately lose the privilege of using a cart and will be required to walk the rest of the round. Understand this means there will be times when you will not be able to pass other carts in front of you.
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HIV Prevention, Young Gay Men of Color and the Fourth Wave of HIV Activism
How do we, as a global community, get to zero? Whether it's zero AIDS-related deaths, zero new infections or zero stigma, any progress is going to start with knowledge.
If you want the knowledge to help us all get to zero, then you've reached the right place -- TheBody.com's World AIDS Day 2013 page. Here, you can read about the current state of the epidemic, hear voices from people within the community, learn how to get involved, and more.
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Good Morning. It is such a pleasure to be here today. It is always a great treat to have an opportunity to return to the Brown campus.
My Brown roots run deep. While many who entered Brown as I did in the fall of 1974 probably visited the campus for the first time shortly before they matriculated, my first memories of Brown go back much further. My mother, Dolores LaPorte Nazareth, is a Pembroker, and she often had me accompany her to the campus for her alumni events. It was only much later, as an adult, that I realized my mother was an early proponent of subliminal advertising techniques. And while I don't think it's fair to say that she had the specific goal of having her daughter serve on the Securities and Exchange Commission, her message nevertheless was clear — that with a Brown education all things were possible. So it is with great gratitude and affection for all that Brown has meant to me and to all of us that I address you today. My topic is securities regulation in a global economy.
Since this is an economics forum and most of you in the audience have had the good judgment not to attend law school, I will avoid any legal references to the extent possible. I will even make a concerted effort to describe what we do at the Commission in what we call "Plain English." But before I begin I must make clear that the views I express are my personal views and not necessarily those of the Securities and Exchange Commission or other individual members of the Commission or its staff.1
The principal legislation on which our securities regulations are based was adopted, as you may know, in the 1930s and reflects the marketplace that existed at that time and the immediately preceding period. Consider what our securities markets were like in the early part of the last century. They were all floor-based markets, meaning that agents for buyers and sellers met in one physical location, called a "floor," to transact business. Certainly today the visual of a floor that comes to mind is that of the NYSE — that chaotic jumble of frenetic people and blinking computer screens that you see on CNBC. In the early part of the century, when telecommunications technology was in its infancy, exchanges operated in major U.S. cities all across the country, including places such as Kansas City and Cincinnati, to meet the needs of local business. Indeed, there were even some two dozen exchanges below Fourteenth Street in Manhattan before the 1900s.2 And while many of these eventually folded, a group of brokers — not members of the NYSE — gathered out-of-doors on Broad Street to trade securities of companies too new or too small to transact on the NYSE. Aptly named "curbstone brokers," this gathering flourished over the years, eventually moving indoors to a market that became the American Stock Exchange.
Over the years, advances in communication and technology have fundamentally shaped how exchanges organize themselves and trade securities. For instance, the invention of the telegraph in the early 1800s permitted "out-of-towners," as they were called, to place orders on Wall Street. But more importantly, the invention of the ticker machine, which provided quotation information on specific securities, greatly expanded business for brokers and provided current stock price information just about anywhere a ticker machine could be located. So too, the invention of the telephone in 1877 and development of long distance telephone service would eventually permit all parts of the nation to place buy and sell orders, and so, a mass market for securities ultimately developed in the early twentieth century.3
Further development of telecommunications may have contributed significantly to consolidation of the securities markets over time, as orders could be communicated from greater distances via telephone lines. But the floor-based market model prevailed well into the latter part of the century, when advances in both computer technology and telecommunications led to a virtual tectonic shift in the way securities markets operate. Today, the vast majority of securities markets, both in the U.S. and abroad are floorless, electronic markets in which buyers and sellers meet in cyberspace from their separate computer terminals. Indeed, electronic trading is no longer the wave of the future. It is our current reality, with markets competing on the basis of speed of trade execution as well as price, and with execution times of more than 300 milliseconds being considered a veritable pony express. Even the world's largest equities market in terms of dollar volume, the New York Stock Exchange, has coupled its famous floor-based market on Broad Street in lower Manhattan with electronic-based access through its new "Hybrid" market model.
Securities markets are traditionally national in that they are identified by their country of origin and subject to domestic market rules. But in a fully electronic trading world one can begin to appreciate the challenges of maintaining national standards in a borderless trading environment. One need only think of the virtually limitless expanse of the internet to appreciate the seamlessness of electronic communications.
The question, of course, is why do we care about maintaining our national standards? Why is applying our domestic market rules so important to us? The very simple answer is that we believe our regulatory regime has fostered the development of the finest securities markets in the world. There has been a longstanding concern that it will be extremely difficult to maintain our domestic regime if we permit regulatory arbitrage to exist between the rules applicable to our domestic players versus foreign participants. And perhaps it is obvious to an audience at a forum on economics, but I will emphasize nevertheless that our national markets are absolutely vital to our economy. They play a critical role in capital formation in that they are the primary means by which investment is directed to its highest and best uses. The United States has the deepest and most liquid securities markets in the world. Our markets also enjoy the highest level of retail investor participation in the world. Indeed, today the number of U.S. households that invest in equities securities has tripled from 15.9 million to 56.9 million between 1983 and 2005.4 This is an extraordinary figure. America's investors have considerable confidence in our markets and with very good reason. The regulatory oversight that was established in the 1930s and that continues to evolve and adapt to changed circumstances has been a key factor in earning the confidence of investors and fueling the growth of our markets and the success of our economy.
There are three key components of our regulatory framework as set out by Congress. We are charged with protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation. Virtually all that we do at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and all that we mandate others who we regulate to do, are in furtherance of these three important goals.
Investor protection is perhaps the most easily understood goal. Generally, we require that exchanges operating in the U.S. and intermediaries who deal with U.S. customers register with us and be subject to U.S. regulation. All of our exchanges are also self-regulatory organizations, meaning that they have obligations to enforce their members' compliance with the federal securities laws. The rules of the exchanges cover a wide range of activities, including member conduct, sales practices, financial responsibility, supervision, disciplinary proceedings, education, and training. Exchanges are required to surveil vigorously their markets for inappropriate conduct such as manipulation and insider trading, oversee their members for violations of the exchanges' rules and the securities laws, and take appropriate disciplinary action. The SEC oversees the self-regulatory functions of the exchanges to ensure that they are properly supervising all of the activities of their members.
Every broker-dealer is required to register and to be a member of an exchange or a securities association. Broker-dealer registration allows the SEC and the self-regulatory organizations, for example, to review qualifications of a broker-dealer, conduct examinations, and ensure that broker-dealers maintain adequate competency levels, and enforce their policies and procedures for their particular business.
And when all of these best efforts at effecting appropriate conduct fail, we use our enforcement power to punish wrongdoing and to seek compensation for aggrieved parties.
We promote fair, orderly and efficient markets in a whole host of ways. For example, we mandate that the best bids and offers of every security offered on every exchange be made publicly available in real time so that all investors have immediate access to information on which to buy or sell securities. We approve and oversee how the markets handle customer orders to be sure they are treated fairly and do not disadvantage or discriminate against certain customers or orders. We also have rules that require brokers to obtain the best prices for customers that are reasonably available in the marketplace.
Finally, we have a regulatory program that encourages capital formation. We have perhaps the most robust transparency and reporting regime for public companies in the world. We have registration requirements for issuers that mandate disclosure for companies that raise capital in the public markets by offering securities. We also have periodic reporting requirements such as annual reports on Form 10-K to keep investors informed about the performance of the companies whose securities they own. These reports provide the market with current material information about the issuer that is reported in a consistent manner under GAAP.
Over the years our regulatory regime has been emulated by many foreign jurisdictions, but it is fair to say that no two jurisdictions have the same rules or identical investor protection regimes. Thus, we have heretofore required all markets operating in the U.S., including those that wish to place their trading screens here in order to access U.S. investors electronically, to be registered with the SEC. We apply the same rules to all regulated markets and intermediaries who operate here. Yet, not surprisingly, we are under increased pressure to permit foreign participation in our markets under more flexible terms. Our well informed, technologically savvy investors have an ever increasing appetite for investment products offered by foreign markets. There are many reasons for this. One is the desire to diversify their portfolios. Another is their interest in accessing the growth opportunities of other economies, particularly emerging markets. And clearly foreign issuers and foreign markets have a strong interest in directly accessing our broad investor base. We have relatively sophisticated and experienced investors with capital to spare and a high degree of confidence in our domestic markets.
Consider, for a moment, the growth in U.S. investment in foreign securities just over the last 25 years. Between 1980 and 2005, U.S. gross trading activity (purchases and sales) in foreign securities grew from $53 billion to $7.5 trillion.5 And gross foreign trading activity in U.S. securities has similarly grown from $198 billion in 1980 to $33 trillion in 2005.6 This reflects the broader expansion of equity ownership in the U.S. generally. And as I previously mentioned, since the 1980s, the number of households owning equities has tripled.7 This increase in equity ownership reflects several significant phenomena: a sustained period of economic growth, a record bull market, the baby boomer generation's need to prepare for retirement and the change in many employers' retirement programs to defined-contribution plans.
Interestingly, this sizable increase in global trading has occurred despite the current regulatory limitations placed on access by foreign markets to U.S. investors. Foreign broker-dealers are constrained in their ability to contact and transact with U.S. persons without registering in the U.S. For example, foreign brokers generally cannot solicit business in the U.S.; they can provide research reports only to certain institutional investors; and they can trade for certain institutional investors only through a U.S. registered broker or dealer.
Nonetheless, retail investors have numerous additional means of investing in foreign securities — through mutual funds, American Depositary Receipts, exchange-traded funds, U.S.-traded foreign stocks, or by direct investments in foreign markets. It may surprise you that many mutual funds today are either focused primarily on investing in foreign securities or contain foreign stocks within a broader portfolio of securities. Mutual funds provide more diversification than most investors could achieve on their own. Many fund managers are familiar with international investing and have the resources to research foreign companies. This indirect ownership of foreign securities provides all the investment benefit to U.S. investors but spares them the challenges of dealing with foreign exchange issues as well as custody and settlement details.
Some investors invest in foreign companies by purchasing ADRs, or American Depositary Receipts, listed and traded on a U.S. exchange. ADRs are issued by U.S. depositary banks. They represent one or more shares of foreign stock or fractions of shares. The price of an ADR corresponds to the price of the foreign stock in its home market, adjusted to the ratio of the ADRs to foreign company shares. If you own an ADR, you have the right to obtain the foreign stock itself, but U.S. investors usually find it more convenient to own the ADR. A real advantage to ADRs is that you are trading in the U.S. market and so the trade will clear and settle in U.S. dollars.
Retail investors can also purchase foreign securities through their U.S. brokers, as many clearly have. Normally, the U.S. broker communicates the customer order to one of its foreign affiliates in the relevant country or to another broker with which it has a relationship in order to consummate the trade. Given the advances in technology, the communication by a U.S. person to his or her broker to purchase or sell a foreign security happens in a nearly seamless manner. What has been important from our regulatory perspective is that the entity that has the customer relationship with the U.S. person must comply with U.S. laws and regulations, including the array of safeguards and protections I mentioned earlier. That having been said, our restrictions on foreign exchanges to operate directly in the U.S. under any sort of mutual recognition approach has inhibited, to some extent, the growth of trading foreign securities in the U.S. One significant factor is the inability of foreign markets to solicit or advertise in the U.S. Foreign markets also argue that the costs of trading would be somewhat more efficient if some of the U.S. intermediation requirements were relaxed.
Certain foreign exchanges also argue that we should be more accepting of their regimes because they are substantially similar in terms of investor protection and market integrity. Indeed, it is fair to say that significant progress has been made through various international efforts to export high quality regulatory standards to several parts of the globe. Through IOSCO, the Joint Forum, and other international regulatory groups, progress has been made on many fronts, whether it be transparency, disclosure, or international accounting standards. Perhaps equally important, we have since the 1980s signed over 30 bilateral information-sharing agreements, known as memoranda of understanding (MOU). These MOUs are the backbone of the enforcement program and have provided crucial assistance to the Commission's enforcement staff in the prosecution of cases. An interesting outgrowth of the MOU process occurred in 2002, when IOSCO created a Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMOU). This is the first global multilateral information-sharing arrangement among numerous securities regulators and the SEC was among the first signatories to the agreement. Under the MMOU, signatories agree to provide certain critical information (including information related to bank and brokerage records), to permit use of that information in enforcement and regulatory matters, and otherwise to keep shared information confidential.
We expect the interest of U.S. investors in trading foreign securities to continue to grow exponentially for a number of reasons. One recent catalyst is the cross-border consolidation of the markets. For example, the NYSE just this month completed its merger with Euronext, a European federation of exchanges. While the markets currently operate separately under a common holding company, it is only a matter of time, in my opinion, before business opportunities will compel these markets to argue for further regulatory easing of restrictions. The pressure from numerous foreign markets, even those not affiliated with U.S. markets, also continues to build as they see the potential for greater U.S. investment in their local companies. One thing is for certain. Technology, rather than being an impediment, is the fuel that is ultimately driving these changes in the marketplace.
Thus, we are working at the SEC to provide an appropriate response — one that eases access to foreign securities and markets, but that does so in a manner that maintains our high domestic standards of market integrity and investor protection. I believe a new cooperative approach should be forged — one that offers the possibility of foreign exchanges that are deemed to have comparable exchange regulation and oversight standards to be permitted to operate in the U.S. under some sort of conditional exemption to full U.S. registration. Fundamental would be that the jurisdiction cooperates with the SEC in assuring investor protection, as well as other statutory requirements. As a practical matter, the scope of this exemption would be limited and I believe should incorporate certain conditions:
Comparable Regulation — The foreign exchange should be subject to comparable regulatory oversight in its primary jurisdiction that protects investors and the integrity of the securities markets, including: fair markets; fraud; manipulation; insider trading; current trade reporting; issuer disclosure standards; surveillance and enforcement.
Notice to Investors — Investors should be notified that their trading is being done in a foreign marketplace, which may not offer the same protections afforded to them in the United States.
Foreign Securities Only — An exemption should be limited to accessing foreign securities only. This would maintain existing investor protection standards for exchange trading of U.S. securities, and serve to limit the problems associated with different regulations applying to trading in the same securities in the U.S.
Membership Limited to Broker-Dealers — The foreign exchange should provide direct access only to registered U.S. broker-dealers.
Access Only to "Qualified Institutional Buyers" — As an initial matter, the end users should only be sophisticated investors.
Fair Access — An exempt foreign exchange would not be permitted to discriminate unfairly among U.S. broker-dealers in granting access to services.
MOU — The SEC and the non-U.S. exchange's home regulator coordinate their oversight in a manner designed to assure effective regulation in both jurisdictions and should coordinate inspections, and regularly share information regarding the exchange.
Recordkeeping and Reporting — The SEC should be able to obtain access to separately identifiable audit trail of orders sent to, and executed on, the foreign exchange by U.S. members and have access to trading information involving U.S. investors.
Just as we apply U.S. legal standards to issuers, exchanges and brokers that avail themselves of our jurisdiction by transacting business here, likewise our regulatory counterparts offshore do the same. National regulators have a very legitimate policy interest in maintaining high quality standards in their own jurisdictions.
That having been said, supervisory authorities have long recognized the inevitability of globalization and the natural tension that arises when the rule sets of numerous jurisdictions meet. I've mentioned some of the efforts to achieve cooperation among regulators as well as to further the goal of consistent international standards. Ultimately, I believe even greater synergies and efficiencies will be achieved in the marketplace as the differences among regulatory approaches give way to consistent, high quality standards that are internationally recognized. And as regulatory approaches become more consistent, the decision to move to greater recognition of other regulatory regimes becomes ever-more inevitable. I look forward to meeting this challenge in the years to come.
Thank you very much.
1 The Securities and Exchange Commission, as a matter of policy, disclaims responsibility for any private publications or statements by any of its employees. The view expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission, any other Commissioner, or the staff.
2 R. Sobel, Inside Wall Street (W.W. Horton & Co. 1979) pp 26-33.
3 R. Sobel, Inside Wall Street (W.W. Horton & Co. 1979) pp 30-32.
4 Investment Company Institute and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Equity Ownership in America, 2005 at http://www.sia.com/research/pdf/EquityOwnership05.pdf
5 Based on annualized data for the first eight months of 2004. Key Trends in the Securities Industry at http://www.sia.com/research/html/key_industry_trends.html.
6 Id.
7 Investment Company Institute and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Equity Ownership in America, 2005 at http://www.sia.com/research/pdf/EquityOwnership05.pdf


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While iOS 3 (iPhone 3.0) introduced Spotlight search for on-device information like contacts, songs, and apps, iOS 4 examples Spotlight to search the Web and Wikipedia as well.
From the main home screen, just swipe to move left to Spotlight, or click the home button to toggle to it, and start typing your search. You may see the aforementioned local results start to pop up but you'll also see a Safari icon saying Search Web and a curiously blank icon saying Search Wikipedia.
Tap those and Spotlight fades, Safari comes up, and you're off and searching the internet.
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Around the corner from the abandoned, gutted building, behind the corrugated metal walls of the tennis club, within earshot of traffic rumbling down Blue Hill Avenue, farmers are working the land. Some sift compost, while others tug weeds from around tender green shoots of lettuce. On a picnic table at the far end of the quarter-acre lot, plastic bags of spring greens and pea shoots await delivery to area restaurants.
"Once you are in this field, doing this work, it changes you," says Bobby Walker, a Roxbury native who is there on this tiny farm in Dorchester to teach aspiring farmers about the ins and outs of growing food in the city. "I can't see a better job." Walker and his trainees are part of an urban farming scene many believe is on the cusp of unprecedented growth.
As the popularity of local food has exploded over the past several years, advocates have started pushing to bring the movement to urban areas, where, they say, small-scale farming can create jobs, strengthen communities, and improve access to and education about fresh, healthy foods.
Change is already budding in Boston and its immediate neighbors: In 2012, there were 20 farms in Suffolk County, up from just seven in 2007, according to the Department of Agriculture. In December, these efforts got a boost with the passage of Article 89, a package of zoning changes that lowered the barriers for establishing commercial farms in Boston. And the city has identified three parcels of land it is targeting for development into urban agriculture projects under these new, more farming-friendly rules.
"There is this sort of creativity and entrepreneurship that's being unleashed when we start to think about what the potential for growing in cities could be," says Gregory C. Watson, commissioner of the state Department of Agricultural Resources. Urban agriculture projects, he says, can spark entrepreneurship and even improve the environment, as city farmers reclaim and rehabilitate contaminated brownfield lots, turning them into productive growing spaces.
"We're looking at how to increase our ability to grow more and give folks more access," Watson says.
The land where Walker is training new farmers is one of four plots operated in Dorchester and Roxbury by City Growers, a business launched in 2010 by food entrepreneur Glynn Lloyd and public health advocate Margaret Connors. The project hatched when Connors, then the wellness coordinator for the Boston public schools, realized how many students weren't getting fresh fruits and vegetables in their diets.
The business targets vacant lots — many of which are trash-strewn or contaminated — cleans them up, and converts them into productive, sustainable minifarms. A small staff, along with trainees and about 400 volunteers per year, tends to the land, growing greens and herbs, harvesting and packing the crops, and delivering the food to area restaurants. In addition, the farms will be selling at the Roslindale Village Main Street Farmers Market this summer, Connors says, and workers also take home some of the extra harvest.
While most of the food is sold commercially, urban farms serve educational and community-building roles in their neighborhoods, Walker says. As neighbors see the fields come to life, they ask questions, visit the site, and maybe even try their own hand at growing food.
"It changes people," Walker says. "People want to be more involved."
By design, the farm's workers and board members generally come from the neighborhoods in which the farms are located, Lloyd says. "Most of the land that is vacant is in communities of color," he says. "If that's where we are, then let's make sure the people who are nearby are not just at the table but driving this movement."
City Growers's trainees are part of a program operated by the Boston Urban Farming Institute and the Tufts New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, which has been educating new farmers since 2002. The training includes a classroom component — in which novice farmers learn how to choose crops, do market research, and create a business plan — and 30 weeks of field experience. The goal is to create fully trained farmers who will be able to launch agricultural projects in their communities.
"It makes a lot of sense to help people get the skills they want in their community, when that's where they want to farm," says project director Jennifer Hashley.
In Dorchester, Victory Programs, a nonprofit focused on helping the homeless and those with substance abuse problems, runs ReVision Urban Farms. The greens, tomatoes, squash, and peppers grown on the operation's two plots are sold at farmers markets and through a community-supported agriculture program, says farm manager Shani Fletcher. Discounted community-supported agriculture shares are available to Mattapan and Dorchester residents, and both of the markets the farm participates in accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and Bounty Bucks, a city program that matches SNAP spending up to $10. Residents in the ReVision shelter are eligible for free produce from the farm and receive nutrition education to help them make the most of the food they receive, Fletcher says. "Our priority is access," she says.
'There is this sort of creativity and entrepreneurship that's being unleashed when we start to think about what the potential for growing in cities could be.'
Also operating in Dorchester and Roxbury is the Food Project, perhaps the oldest urban agriculture group in the city. The nonprofit runs two farms in Boston — over a total of 2½ acres — along with other locations in Lynn, Lincoln, and Beverly.
These operations are staffed by 150 young men and women per year from these communities, who learn about the importance of fresh local food along with leadership, teamwork, and civic engagement, says Greater Boston regional director Sutton Kiplinger.
Food Project also runs a greenhouse in Roxbury, where half the space is dedicated to growing for restaurants and the other half is available to community gardeners. These growers raise produce for themselves and their families, and provide services for the community, such as supplying vegetables to local food pantries or offering educational opportunities to neighborhood children.
In Greater Boston, the Food Project grew more than 200,000 pounds of produce last year. The harvest is sold mostly at the Dudley Town Commons Farmers Market — one of the first markets in the state to accept SNAP benefits — and through community-supported agriculture subscriptions in the areas where the farms are located. Some shares are reserved for community members with children in the Head Start program, who receive weekly produce deliveries at sharply discounted prices.
"The idea there was to bring produce into the regular orbit of a family's life," Kiplinger says.
Urban agriculture is still finding its footing in Boston, as the city's farmers try to figure out how best to balance the goals of running a financially sustainable farm and providing affordable foods to those who need it. But this growing field is moving in the right direction, Kiplinger says. "It just makes fresh food a reality for people in this neighborhood," she says. "They see it grown; they can participate in the growing of it."


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When I heard about World Nutella Day 2007 from Ms. Adventures in Italy I was beside myself. An ardent fan of the famed chocolate hazelnut spread, my first thought was a big, fat, "Finally!". I am in firm agreement that Nutella does derserve a day when everyone goes and pays it homage. Suffice to say I was definitely planning to participate and do my share of Nutella-worship.
I already had a recipe in mind. Since I got myself Nigella Lawson's How to be a Domestic Goddess many moons ago, her Torta alla Gianduja, or Nutella Cake, was bookmarked to be tried. Many recipes jumped ahead of the queue though, but it remained there, dancing in the back of my head, a sweet temptation. Well, today is the day to yield. Nutella lovers, today is YOUR day!
I followed the original recipe pretty much, except I used rum instead of Frangelico, although Nigella does mention that you can do this. And, I didn't toast the hazelnuts for the topping…they were already roasted and I was too lazy (sorry Nigella!).
Here's the recipe…Nutella Cake
(from Nigella Lawson's How to be a Domestic Goddess, page 172)
for the cake:
for the icing:
– Preheat oven to 180C.
– In the bowl of your mixer whip egg whites until stiff peaks form (yes! slowly getting over the egg white fear).
– In another bowl beat butter and Nutella. Add rum, egg yolks, and ground hazelnuts. Fold in the cooled melted chocolate, then add a bit of the egg white (no need to be so gentle) just to lighten the mixture.
– Fold in the rest of the egg whites, one third at a time.
– Pour into a 23 cm greased and lined springform tin and bake for 40 minutes (sides should be coming away from pan). Cool in pan on a wire rack.
– Prepare the icing. Place chocolate, cream, and rum in a saucepan over low heat until chocolate starts melting. Take off heat and whisk until it reaches a consistency suitable for icing your cake. – Unmold the cooled cake. Nigella advises to leave the cake on the base as the cake's "dampness" may make it difficult to move, but I let the parchment I lined it with do the job.
– Pour ganache over the cake and top with whole hazelnuts.
Doesn't it look like something you would want to come home to after a hard day? The Nutella-lover in me sure thinks so. I did come across some "bumps" in the form of a cracked top once the cake settled (help! suggestions anyone???), but the gloriously smooth ganache covered it all up! I don't know how this tastes though. It is presently sitting on its pink throne, untouched, waiting for me to (hopefully!) get this post out in time to make Nutella Day! I will add an update here as soon as we sample it 🙂
So there you have it. My small contribution in honor of the wondrous substance that has seen me through many a bad day, and a ton of good ones too. Thank you Sara and Shelley for hosting such a fantastic event! And Happy Nutella day to one and all!!!
My previous posts involving Nutella:
Nutella as part of my childhood
Those famous cupcakes!UPDATE 2/7 — Tasting notes: We had some for dessert last night and it was delicious! Moist and dense and chocolate-y. It is a great chocolate cake to have in your chocolate cake stable, and it is surpringly easy to make. However, despite using a whole bottle of Nutella, the Nutella flavor was not as pronounced as I would have liked. I will try incorporating Nutella into the icing next time I make this (yes, there will definitely be a next time!) to up the Nutella quotient.


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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: Until 1959, postmasters in the United States got the job as presidential political appointees. Associated salaries were a way for politicians to reward loyal followers. Thomas Dickman was Greenfield, Massachusetts', first postmaster.Dickman was also the first editor of the Greenfield Gazette (then known as The Impartial Intelligencer), founded 1791. A Federalist, Dickman was a strongly supported of the Washington administration. As a reward, in 1792 he was appointed postmaster. When Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican, was elected in 1802, his administration chose the blacksmith Ambrose Ames, a supporter, to replace Dickman as postmaster. Federalists were outraged, but powerless to stop it. The Federalists never won the presidency again. Ames served until the Whig William Henry Harrison won the presidency in 1840. In 1842, Richardson Hall (here, "Richard") was appointed, serving until the Democrat John Tyler became president in 1846. Each succeeding postmaster served until his supporting party lost the presidency or until they retired: Lewis Merriam, Republican, 1862-1882; H.F. Hamilton, also a Republican, 1882-86; Charles Keith, Democrat, 1886-1890; Anson Wilbey, also a Democrat, 1890-1894; Frederick E. Pierce, Republican, 1894-1914. The pattern continued until 1959, when postmasters became subject to Civil Service exams and rules.
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I will be placing this on a series of US state job boards/sites which will target people who are unemployed who need Mortgage Help.... I will be sending them to a landing page with lots of information put out about US government programs/plans that are available.
Unemployed Americans needing help with their mortgages while they are between jobs. I will be talking about US government programs that can help them.
I use GIMP a lot to do this myself, but I really I need something done well
Unemployed and need help with your mortgage?
Think professional, think government, think US government
I want something patriotic, and clear.
The typeface should be clear, simple and bold. We want something that stands out. Again being careful not to be too fancy.
160x600 wide skyscraper size.
Things to Say (whatever you can fit, or make sound good)-- note I don't want them all on my banner -- this is just for ideas.
Unemployed and need help with your mortgage?
Government Mortgage Programs for Unemployed Americans
Don't lose your House
Mortgage Programs for the Unemployed
Colors... think RED/white/Blue.
think US flag
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Maj. Gen. Garrett takes command of U.S. Army Alaska
The newest commander of the U.S. Army in Alaska is no stranger to the 49th state.
Maj. Gen. Michael X. Garrett, who from 2006 to '08 served as first commander of the 4th Brigade Comant Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division at Fort Richardson, took command from Maj. Gen. Raymond Palumbo in a change of command ceremony held on Thursday, May 17 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
"It is absolutely fabulous to be back in Alaska," Garrett said before the ceremony.
Garrett and his wife, Lorelei, are familiar faces in the Eagle River community. Their son, Mikey, played his Squirt hockey with the local Mustang Hockey Association Blue Devils, and plans to join the Eagle River High Wolves on the ice this winter.
Lorelei Garrett said she was overjoyed when she learned of her husband's assignment.
"It really is like coming home," she said.
Maj. Gen. Garrett most recently served as Deputy Chief of Staff for United States Forces-Iraq during Operation New Dawn.
DIgnitaries in attendance at Thursday's ceremony included Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan, Eagle River Rep. Anna Fairclough. outgoing Anchorage School District Superintendent Carol Comeau, North Pole Mayor Doug Isaacson and Wayne Stolt, honorary consul of the Finnish embassy in Anchorage.
After two years of service, Maj. Gen. Palumbo has been promoted to Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence) for Joint Colaition and Warfighter Support at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
During his remarks, Maj. Gen. Garrett said Palumbo set the bar high during his two-year command.
"The shoes that I have to fill are big, but I will do my best," Garrett said.


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Bad? Not necessarily.
Dangerous? Yes, emphatically YES.
Any mass of people who believe whole heartedly that they must not pursue evidence that disagrees with their belief is inherently dangerous.
It's called brainwashing, and it's never used to support a truth... truth does not require faith... nor can it co-exist.
All religions make one fatal mistake.
They provide a claim, and then seek evidence to support it.
None of them have ever found that evidence.
We however do not make claims, unless we encounter evidence which demands a claim be made for it.
It is in this process that we cannot be "wrong".
It is by this process that we know religions are wrong.
What is our evidence?
Our evidence is simple, and inescapable.
They have made claims for which they have been desperately trying to find evidence to support for thousands of years.
Our evidence is that they have none.
Our claim is that they have made an unsupported one.
Thousands of years to provide their evidence... quite frankly, time's up.
We however have entire libraries filled with evidence supporting our claims, from the structure of the atom, to molecular bonding, scores of results from physics tests, chemistry tests, museums filled with the evidence of evolution through not just thousands of years, but millions. We have shaped our entire world using what we have discovered. You need not look further than your microwave oven... your television set... just about everything in your home is due to our discoveries.
... and none of it agrees with the claims of religions.
Time's up religion. Best get off the tracks before the discovery train explores your faith in its brake line.
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