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Special Section
Biological Informatics: A Comparison of Biodiversity Informatics and Neuroinformatics, Part 2
This special section of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology is devoted to two branches of biological informatics that warrant special attention from the information science community: biodiversity informatics and neuroinformatics. Biologists are turning to information technology to produce critically needed efficiencies in their work As explained in the previous issue, bioinformatics has come to mean "information on molecular biology" and in particular gene and protein sequences thus the need to come up with a new term (biological informatics) to cover the science of information about all levels of biological analysis. Health informatics (medical informatics), neuroinformatics, biodiversity informatics and biomolecular informatics (bioinformatics) all fall under this broader concept. Because of the length of this section it has been split between this issue and previous one.
Both biodiversity informatics (BDI) and neuroinformatics (NI) are brought together into one category because, while they differ broadly in other aspects of their social, political and historical context, it has become clear that progress in both fields is dependent on advances in information gathering and access. Both have reached the point of becoming "integrative sciences."
Both BDI and NI are marked with a critical need for advancement, an abundance of new research and new sources of information, but a lack of a cultural and technical infrastructure to share and use this abundance of information. As is true in many fields electronic media and the Internet are changing the nature of publishing in BDI and NI. These same forces of scale and integration are also breaking down the culture of "one lab, one data collection." In this issue Bryan Heidorn addresses the promise and perils of this change in "Publishing Digital Flora and Fauna," while Gwen Williams, in the paper "Intellectual Property and Biological Knowledge," discusses how the shift to electronic delivery has made issues of intellectual property in biological science more complicated.
Assuming that we can solve all of the above issues, we still have a major problem with the physical communication of biological information. Projects springing up around the world are being designed to use existing information retrieval standards to record, encode and deliver biological information. Chulin Meng covers some of the emerging standards with familiar sounding names but new twists such as "Darwin Core" (tsadev.speciesanalyst.net), Z39.50 (ZBIG), and Open Archives Initiative style treatment of natural history style holdings in "Biological Information Standards."
Previous articles in this section appeared in the October/November 2003 issue of the Bulletin (www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-03/index.html).
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Information Science and Technology


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The Up video game will take players on an exotic adventure with Carl Fredricksen and his young sidekick, Wilderness Explorer Russell, as they set off on a wild journey through the undiscovered jungles of South America. Players will be able to experience all four main characters from the movie -- Carl, Russell, Dug the lovable dog or Kevin the prehistoric bird -- while playing as a single-player or with a friend cooperatively throughout the entire game. Players will encounter exciting, new environments as they navigate through treacherous jungle terrains, battle dangerous creatures and trek the slippery slopes of the Amazonian Tepuis. In addition, the game also features multi-player game modes, including an epic level that will allow up to four players to compete in aerial combat.

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Louis Pearl, The Amazing Bubble Man has been thrilling audiences around the world for nearly 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
He has performed to more than one million people, including royalty and celebrities, in hundreds of cities across the USA, as well as in Switzerland, France, Japan, Dubai, Australia and New Zealand. He is a favourite at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he has enjoyed five years of sell-out success.
Now Louis Pearl, The Amazing Bubble Man brings his all-new show to New Zealand. As well as exploring the dynamics of bubbles, the show combines breath-taking artistry, ingenious sets and lighting, colourful music, plenty of audience participation and enough spellbinding bubble tricks to keep every child and adult mesmerised.
From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles and trampoline bubbles to people inside bubbles, The Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement from all ages.
"Makes the audience squeal with delight" - San Francisco Chronicle
"Just brilliant" - The Guardian, UK
"This show captivated its young audience and the adults loved it as well. Highly recommended" - British Theatre Guide 2011


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SELEX Galileo has been awarded a $9.2 M contract from TKC Aerospace Inc. to upgrade the Customs and Border Protection C-550 Citation Tracker Aircraft with its Vixen 500E intercept radar and associated mission management system. This contract is for the first two radars and mission management systems, with options for additional systems to upgrade the remainder of the fleet.
The Vixen 500E Active Electronically Scanning Array (AESA) radar is a compact and versatile radar system intended to deliver real time situational awareness of the Air-Air and Air-Surface arenas. It comprises two major LRUs: A modern processor/receiver and a state-of-the-art AESA antenna. In addition to the intercept radar, under this contract SELEX Galileo will provide the mission management system that integrates the aircraft's sensors and allows the crew to control and display information critical to mission success.
According to Patrick Geraghty, executive vice president radar systems for SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems US Inc., "This upgrade program will not only improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the C-550 Citation fleet, but it will lower life cycle support costs, primarily due to the order-of-magnitude of improvement in system reliability compared with equivalent conventional radars. This contract confirms E-scan technology as a mission critical asset in highly demanding, long endurance, surveillance and intercept missions.


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Before she went on to fame as Katherine Chancellor on "Young and the Restless" she was fun-loving tomboy Wilma Jeanne
Growing up in Taft, she was simply known as Wilma Jeanne to her friends and family – a fun-loving kid who was more of a tomboy than anything else.
But to legions of soap opera fans she was Katherine Chancellor – the iconic grand dame of the popular daytime drama "The Young and the Restless," on which she starred for 40 seasons.
Cooper died last Wednesday at the age of 84 following a short illness. Services are pending, but her longtime Taft chum Jerry Baxter said Saturday the family is planning a small service for family and close friends with a public memorial later.
And, her family, friends and costars reportedly will soon gather on the Y & R set to share their personal memories. That walk down memory lane will air on May 28 at 11 a.m.
Cooper regularly kept in touch with friends and family in Taft.
Her last trip was for the 2010 Oildorado Days parade riding in the blue and white Ford pickup her son, Corbin, drove around the streets of Taft earlier that year filming "25 Hill," the feature film he wrote, directed and starred in.
"She barely got here in time for the parade," Baxter said. "The truck broke down on the way to Taft but she made it just in time for the end of the parade."
Cooper was in Taft six months earlier for the Taft Union High School Hall of Fame banquet. She was inducted the previous year.
Whenever she comes to Taft she stays with Baxter, usually accompanied by her sister, Evelyn Rader, who also was born and raised in Taft.
"They fought like cats and dogs," Baxter said. "The last time they were here I told them, 'I'm going to put you two in separate rooms,' but they said, 'oh no, you can't do that; that's just how we get along.' And, you know, she was right."
Baxter, who is 87 and still works full-time as a bookkeeper, has fond memories of her longtime friend.
"We quickly became more like sisters," she said. "We grew up together. I've known her all my life. We had such good times together."
Families in those days were so close "you felt like you were related to everyone."
Baxter recalls showing Wilma Jeanne a painting Baxter's mother, Polly Tweedy, had done.
"She said: 'I didn't know Aunt Polly painted pictures. She was surprised when I told her mom wasn't her aunt and we weren't really cousins."
Baxter said Wilma Jeanne got along best with the boys.
"She was always playing boys games back then."
She recalled a group kids going to a shuttered plant near McKittrick.
"There were these big cables and the boys would swing on them over the machinery. Jeanne was right along with them. She was really a tomboy. I was too chicken to try any of that stuff."
Trips to Hobo Hot Springs on the Kern River and Morro Bay were popular.
Dorothy Gardner, a cousin of Cooper's, also remembers her as a tomboy.
"She was always mixing it up with the boys," she said. "She liked to shoot them with those rubber guns they made. She was such a tomboy. "
Gardner, who had a closer relationship to Jeanne's sister, Evelyn, was astonished the first time she saw Jeanne in a movie.
"I just couldn't believe it was Wilma Jeanne. I said, 'is that Wilma Jeanne?"
Stan Barrett, the founder of the TUHS Hall of Fame and instrumental in Cooper's induction, agreed with Baxter and Gardner.
"She was really a character," he said. "We had a lot of fun together. I remember one trip we took to Pismo Beach. I could tell you some funny stories but I probably shouldn't. She really knew how to have fun."
Barrett's late brother, Everett, was married to Cooper's sister, Evelyn.
"Stan was close to Corbin," Baxter said. "Corbin stayed at Stan's when he came to Taft. When Corbin was a boy Stan built him a go-kart."
Barrett remembers Bernsen's trips to Taft to go motorcycle riding.
"He'd come up here and ride all over the hills on his motorcycle," he said.
Shortly after Cooper launched her acting career, Baxter said, she made an appearance in Taft.
"She came up for the opening of the drive-in theater," she said.
That would have been the Sunset Drive-In Theater, the town's first and only open-air movie venue. It was located on the east side of Fourth Street about where the Storage Bin is.


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Create simple websites fast, now.
Poole is an easy to use Markdown driven static website generator. You write the content of your pages in Markdown and Poole creates a nice and simple site with a navigation menu. You don't need to learn a template or preprocessing engine.
Though Poole is made for simple sites, it has basic support for content generation by embedding Python code in page source files. This is a dirty merge of content and logic but for simple sites it's a pragmatic way to get things done fast and easy -- if you know Python you're ready to start.
Check the list of sites built with Poole (and feel free to add yours).
You should know Markdown and optionally Python if you want to use Poole's dirty content generation capability.
Your system should have installed Python ≥ 2.7 and python-markdown. Poole has been tested on Linux but should also work on other Unix systems and Windows (in theory, report an issue if it fails).
Getting Started
Clone or download (zip, tgz) the repository and then put poole.py to your PATH:
$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/obensonne/poole/ /some/where/poole $ export PATH=$PATH:/some/where/poole
TIP: You might want to add the last command to your
Python3: Download the packages from the py3 branch (zip, tgz) or check out the py3 branch when cloned.
Create and build a site project:
$ mkdir /path/to/site/project
$ cd /path/to/site/project
$ poole.py --init --theme minimal
$ poole.py --build
$ poole.py --serve
Done. You've just created a website! Browse http://localhost:8080/ and watch the example pages which have been created during initialization. To write your own pages, use the example pages in the input folder as a starting point.
Next to the miniaml theme, there are some other choices available.
poole.py --build whenever you've made some changes in the input folder.
How It Works
Poole takes files from a project's
input directory and copies them to the
output directory. In this process files ending with md, mkd, mdown or
markdown get converted to HTML using the project's
page.html as a template
(unless a custom template is set on an individual page).
Additionally Poole expands any macros used in a page. Don't care about that for now ..
When running
poole.py --build in a Poole project, an input directory like
|- input |- index.md |- news.mkd |- foo.mdown |- images |- bar.png
will result in an output folder like that:
|- output |- index.html |- news.html |- foo.html |- images |- bar.png
Page Layout
Every Poole page is based on the skeleton file
page.html. Hence adjusting the
site layout means adjusting
page.html and extending or replacing its CSS file
The only thing you should keep in
page.html are the embedded
{{__content__}} and {{__encoding__}} expressions. Below is an almost
page.html file. It does not look nice but it's a clean starting point
to build your own layout from scratch.
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={{ __encoding__ }}" />   {{ __content__ }}
It's easy to apply one of the numerous free CSS templates out there to a Poole site. For more information read this blog post with step-by-step instructions.
In case you need special templates for individual pages, you can add the
tempalte in the front matter of each page:
title: This looks different template: a-special-page-template.html ---
In that case the given file is used as the page template instead of the default
page.html file.
Content Generation
Poole allows you to embed Python code in your pages to generate content:
Here is normal text in *markdown* flavor. {% print "hello poole" %} Did you know? The sum of 2 and 2 is {{ 2 + 2 }}.
This example demonstrates two ways to embed Python code, either as statements or as expressions:
- Everything between
%}are statements and whatever is printed to stdout during their execution is going to be part of the final HTML page.
- Everything between
}}are expressions and their evaluation is going to be part of the final page.
TIP: Instead of the outer curly brackets
{ and
} you can also use
 to prevent syntax highlighting markdown editors from getting
confused by the Python code.
TIP: To print the code surrounding tags literally, simply escape the opening tag with a backslash.
Outsource complex or frequently used code
To keep embedded code short and compact or to reuse it in several pages, it can
be outsourced into a file called
macros.py in a project's root folder (where
page.html file is located). Every public attribute in
macros.py is
available within embedded Python code blocks:
from datetime import date def today(): return date.today().strftime("%B %d, %Y") author = "Popeye"
This site has been updated on {{ today() }} by {{ author }}.
Builtin macros
Builtin macros can be used from the macros module as well as from python code in your pages and templates (just as if they are defined within your macros.py).
Currently, there is only one builtin macro available.
Replace the characters that are special within HTML (
") with their equivalent character entity (e.g.,
&). This should be called whenever an arbitrary string is inserted into HTML (i.e. use
{{ hx(variable) }}instead of
{{ variable }}). You do not need this within a markdown context.
Note that
"is not special in most HTML, only within attributes. However, since escaping it does not hurt within normal HTML, it is just escaped unconditionally.
Working with pages
Next to stuff defined in
macros.py the objects
page and
pages are
available in embedded Python code. The first one is a dictionary describing the
page in which the code is embedded. The second one is a list of all pages in
the project.
The following attributes are always set in a page dictionary:
- title: The page's title, by default its filename without extension (setting alternatives is described in the next section).
- fname: Path to the page's source file, e.g.
- url: The page's relative URL, e.g. for a source page
input/stuff/news.mdthis is
The example
page.html file in a freshly initialized site project uses a
page's title attribute:
...

a poole site

{{ page["title"] }}

 ...
TIP: All items in a page dictionary are exposed as attributes, i.e.
page["foobar"] is identical to
page.foobar. Dictionary access is useful if
an item may not be set, e.g.:
page.get("foobar", "...").
Setting page attributes
Page attributes can be set at the top of a page's source file, in Python's configuration file style. They are delimited from the page's content by a line with 3 or more dashes.
title: Hot News foobar: King Kong --- Here are some news about {{ page.foobar }}. Did I say {% print(page.foobar) %}?
That way you can also set a page's title explicitly, instead of using the file
name. Other useful attributes to set are description and keywords, which
get used by the default
page.html file to set HTML meta tags. Here it comes
in handy to set default page attributes in the
macros.py file:
page = { "description": "some stuff", "keywords": "stuff" }
That way you can safely use the description and keywords attributes without bothering if they are really defined in every page.
Accessing page objects in the macros module
The objects
pages and
page are also available within
macros.py. That
means you can define them as dummys and reference them in
macros.py. Poole
updates them when loading the
macros module.
page = {} # you can also set defaults here, see previous section pages = [] def something(): # when executing this, the page and pages objects above are up-to-date print page["title"]
Options and paths
Similarly to
page and
pages the following objects are available within
embedded Python code and within the macros module:
- options: The command line arguments given to Poole as parsed by
Python's optparse module. For instance the base URL can be
retrieved by
- project: Path to the project's root directory.
- input: Path to the project's input directory.
- output: Path to the project's output directory.
Character encodings
In case you use non-ASCII characters, check the encoding options of Poole. In most cases working with non-ASCII strings should work straight forward if the options are set properly (default is UTF-8).
However, be aware that page variables defined within page source files and
derived from a page's file name internally are handled as Python unicode
objects. That means if you want to refer to non-ASCII page variable names and
values form within embedded Python code or from
macros.py, make sure to use
unicode strings to reference them.
Custom file converters
If you use LESS or CleverCSS you'll be happy about the possibility to
define custom converters Poole applies to selected files in its building
process. Custom converters may be defined in
macros.py using a dictionary
named 'converter' with file name patterns as keys and a converter function as
well as a target file name extension as values:
converter = { r'\.ccss': (ccss_to_css, 'css'), ... }
The converter function
ccss_to_css must accept the source file name and the
destination file name as arguments. The destination file name is a suggestion
(the source filename mapped to the project's output directory with the
extension given in the converter dictionary) - you are free to choose another
import clevercss def ccss_to_css(src, dst): # when `src` is '/path/to/project/input/foo.ccss' # then `dst` is '/path/to/project/output/foo.css' ccss = open(src).read() css = clevercss.convert(ccss) open(dst, 'w').write(css)
Pre- and post-convert hooks
All pages converted by Poole may be processed by custom code in
using hook functions. In particular, any function whose name starts with
hook_preconvert_ is run after source markdown files have been parsed but
not yet converted. Similarly, any function whose name starts with
hook_postconvert_ is run after the content of pages has been converted to
HTML (but still without the skeleton HTML given in the project's
Pre-convert hooks are useful to preprocess the markdown source and/or to generate new virtual pages based on existing real pages:
def hook_preconvert_foo(): # important: replace all foos by bars in every page for p in pages: p.source = p.source.replace("foo", "bar") # create a new virtual page which still has a foo p = Page("foo.md", virtual="The only page with a *foo*.", title="Foony") pages.append(p)
Virtual pages can be created by providing a virtual source filename relative
to the project's input folder and corresponding markdown content. Page
attributes (e.g.
title) may be given as additional keyword arguments but
may also be encoded in the markdown source as in real markdown input files.
A common use case for post-convert hooks is to generate full content RSS feeds:
def hook_postconvert_rss(): # this is kind of pseudo code rss = ... for p in pages: rss.add_item(..., r.html) rss.save(".../rss.xml")
More practical and detailed usage examples of hooks and virtual pages can be found in the recipes.
You can do some pretty fancy and useful things with inlined Python code and the macros module, for instance generate a list of blog posts or create an RSS file. Check out the example recipes.
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When it comes to natural beauty, there's nothing like having the ability to easily allow sunlight into a living space through wood blinds and shades. However, you'll likely want to spruce up your windows with curtains and drapes as well. These discount window treatments can add a sense of elegance into any area.
But how do you properly clean them? While you might not think to give your curtains and drapes a good washing on a routine basis, failing to do so can cause a world of problems in your household. Soiled curtains can increase the risk of allergy complications and even make it more difficult for the sun to shine into a space. Here are some tips for cleaning your curtains and revitalizing your windows.
1. Know the material.
The material used to create the curtains will influence how you clean them. Be sure to read any labels attached to the window treatments for specific cleaning instructions. For example, certain satin materials may not be able to be thrown into your washer.
2. Consider handwashing.
If you aren't sure how you're going to clean your curtains and there aren't any instructions on the window treatments themselves, play it safe and handwash them. Remember to use cold water to keep colors from bleeding into each other just as you would with clothes.
3. Clean your curtains routinely.
To reduce how often you need to intensely dry your curtains, give them a dusting or a vacuuming at least once a week. This can keep debris from developing over time and make it easier to wash them once the time comes.
Whether you're a pro at cleaning drapes or you've never done it before, these three tips can help you fine-tune your technique.


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I hope you like free stuff because that's what many places near you are serving up this week.
Let's start with 7-Eleven, which is celebrating, well, 7-Eleven Day Friday.
Stop by any participating store between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. and get a free small Slurpee, while supplies last.
But the giveaways don't end there. Download the convenience store's app on your mobile device and get ready for a week's worth of freebies through July 19.
Quick tip: Even when 7-Eleven isn't celebrating its anniversary, the app is a great source of deals. I use it frequently.
Also giving away free food Friday is Chick-fil-A.
The chicken sandwich purveyor is celebrating Cow Appreciation Day, and anyone who visits one of its restaurants today dressed as a cow will get free food. How much you dress like a cow determines how much free food you get.
Dress a little like a cow (a cowbell, perhaps, or some udders), and you'll receive a free entree.
Go bovine from head to toe (hoof?) and get a free meal.
The chain even has a kit on its website to print out and start your cow costume. Head to the Dine 909 blog (www.insidesocal.com/dine909) for a link.
[N7] Creamery in Rancho Cucamonga's Victoria Gardens has been open a few weeks now, but the bakery/coffeehouse/liquid nitrogen ice creamery is hosting its official grand opening at 11 a.m. Saturday. The event is open to the public and will include giveaways, contests, and free ice cream.
[N7] Creamery is at 7880 Kew Ave.
Pieology is gearing up for three days of pizza giveaways as a kind of a stress test as a preamble to its Redlands store opening.
On Sunday, giveaway times are brief and limited to the pizzeria's "menued" pizzas from 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., 3:30-4:15 p.m. and 7:30-8:15 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday giveaways are scheduled to take place from 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., 2:30-4:15 p.m. and 6:30-8:15 p.m.
Note that there are limited numbers of pizzas given away at each session, so come early in the session for your best chance at a free pizza.
Giveaways are limited to one pizza per guest.
The new location, 623 Orange St., will officially open July 18.
But what is now open is Tahoe Joe's Famous Steakhouse. The chain restaurant opened its Chino location July 1.
The restaurant is currently open for dinner only from 4 p.m. on weekdays and noon on weekends, but will eventually offer lunch.
The new restaurant, 3968 Grand Ave., is the chain's first in Southern California. It has nine locations in Central and Northern California.
Dine out: Claremont's Restaurant Week runs July 14-20. Visit www.claremontrestaurant.com for details.
John Plessel is Systems Editor for the San Bernardino Sun and also blogs for Dine 909. Visit the blog at www.insidesocal.com/dine909 or email Dine 909 at email@example.com.


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Attorney Robert Franklin
November 5, 2012
As October, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, draws to a close, it seems like a good time to reflect on domestic violence policy. Predictably, the month brought an unusually high number of claims about domestic violence that just don't hold up under even minimal scrutiny. For example, the oft-quoted statistic that "one in three" women will become victims of domestic violence in their lifetimes, can only be made by defining "domestic violence" so broadly as to make the term all but unrecognizable to the English-speaking public. To get to the "one in three" figure, studies use definitions of domestic violence that involve no violence whatsoever.
Therefore, "domestic violence" is often defined as "a pattern of behavior that seeks to control the activities of the other person." So if a husband repeatedly encourages his wife to stop buying so many shoes because household finances don't permit it, he's not being fiscally prudent, he's committing an act of domestic violence. The same holds true for his asking her to stop spending time with the heroin addicts down the street. That's not the act of a sensible and loving husband who doesn't want to see his wife in prison. No, it's an act of domestic violence.
Now, I suspect that the great majority of people who read about domestic violence in the newspapers don't know that the word "violence" doesn't necessarily mean "violence." To encourage this misunderstanding, the domestic violence industry – i.e. that vast array of shelters, non-profit organizations, foundations, advocates, etc. that feed at the government's deep DV trough – often substitutes the word "battering" for the word "violence." It's more graphic, suggesting repeated heavy blows, and serves to deflect attention from the fact that much of domestic violence has nothing to do with, well, violence.
There's a reason for all of this misrepresentation of course - money. The federal government alone spends about $1 billion a year on domestic violence "awareness" and "prevention," and when the contributions of state governments, private foundations and individuals are added in, the total is more like $2 billion. With that much at stake, it simply won't do to admit that the problem of domestic violence, while terribly real, just isn't as big as it's made out to be.
So, when Scotland recently conducted a large-scale survey of domestic violence, it found that, while 5% of men and 5% of women said they'd been victimized in the previous 12 months, only 20% of those, i.e. 1% of the total, had sustained any injury greater than "a minor cut or bruise." Similar figures came out of the most recent study done for the Centers for Disease Control. In other words, about 80% of what we throw billions of dollars at every year consists of harm that wouldn't require a Band-Aid were it caused by something else. Needless to say, the domestic violence industry has no intention of admitting those facts.
But of course, real, injurious domestic violence does exist. Men and women are killed and seriously injured by intimate partners every day and, just like any crime of violence, it is emphatically the duty of government to try to eradicate - or at least greatly diminish – its incidence. But we don't. In fact, were we to ask the proverbial space alien for his analysis of our approach to the problem of domestic violence, he'd tell us that we obviously like domestic violence very much since we do so much to perpetuate it.
He'd say that in part because we adamantly refuse to admit who commits domestic violence and against whom. After all, for some 37 years we've known from an ever-growing body of social science that men and women are equally likely to commit domestic violence, and yet essentially all of domestic violence policy assumes that men abuse women, but not the other way around.
That of course radically skews resources away from men and toward women, but the frank sexism of domestic violence policy is only part of the problem. Far worse is the fact that, by denying women's commission of domestic violence, the system paradoxically ensures that women will continue to be victimized. Studies show that women are often injured, not because men initiate violence, but because women do. According to one such study for the Centers for Disease Control, about half of domestic violence involves one person hitting and the other refusing to respond in kind. In those cases, about half the perpetrators are men and the other half women.
When violence is reciprocal however, about 70% of the time it's the woman who initiates the violence. In those cases, the man responds, often resulting in injury to the woman. The obvious lesson? Teach women to refrain from initiating violence and you'll save a lot of them from being hurt.
But nowhere do we teach that simple lesson that could save so many women from injury. The space alien sees the matter clearly – we say we want to stop domestic violence, we say we want to protect women, but we adopt a narrative of domestic violence and policies to fit, that ensure that incidents of domestic violence won't decrease and that women will continue to be hurt. The necessary conclusion is that we don't really want to reduce domestic violence and we're not very concerned about women's victimization. Into the bargain, we're utterly indifferent to the injury of males by their intimate partners.
When it comes to "treatment" of perpetrators, it's more of the same. Being the savvy guy he is, our space alien knows that psychologists have some very good ideas about who commits domestic violence, why they do and how to correct their behavior. So he's understandably shocked at the facts that (a) those psychological interventions are almost uniformly ignored when "treating" perpetrators of DV and (b) women who assault their partners receive essentially no services for their problem.
All of that is because, from the start, the domestic violence industry has defined domestic violence in terms of political ideology instead of scientific reality. That ideology holds that men use domestic violence to keep women subservient. The fact that there's essentially no evidence for the proposition and mountains of evidence against it troubles the movement not at all.
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As the reputable DV researcher Dr. Donald Dutton once said, when confronted with the claim that DV is not a psychological issue, "Everything about this statement is wrong- it is a political statement not a scientific one. There is substantial evidence that Intimate Partner Violence is related to 1) attachment insecurity 2) anger and depression 3) personality disorder 4) alcohol/substance abuse.
So, having misdiagnosed the problem, it's no surprise that our efforts to address it come up empty. The domestic violence industry weeps for victims, but they're crocodile tears. If they really wanted to fix the problem, they'd admit that women initiate violence as often as do men and take real steps to help victims and perpetrators of both sexes. Until they do, the problem of domestic violence will continue and taxpayer's money will be wasted.
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Author Notes: What can be better and more versatile then crepes? Savory or sweet, filled or just by themselves, topped with sour cream or crème fraîche, fresh fruit and berries, with Nutella, chocolate sauce or deferent cheeses for breakfast, brunch or any time, it is everybody's favorite. Here is one of my recipes, which I share today, and I also added a technique for an interesting twist of using julienned crepes like pasta. I learned this technique while watching Martha Stewart and her guest chef Jody Williams on Martha's show. —Kukla
Makes: 14-16
For the crepes
• 1 cup whole milk
• 3/4 cup whey or Seltzer water
• 1 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
• 3 extra-large eggs at room temperature
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• A pinch of coarse salt
• 1 tablespoon lemon, lime or orange zest
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted, plus more for skillet and baking dish
For the Caramelized Apples
• 4 Granny Smith or any crisp, slightly tart apples, each sliced in 16 wedges
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries, cherries or raisins
• Juice of 1 orange
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 1/3 cup honey, Maple syrup or organic Raw Blue Agave Sweetener
• 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar or 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 handfuls chopped hazelnuts + 2 handfuls lightly salted peanuts
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 sprig fresh basil or mint
• 3 tablespoons Calvados or brandy
• 2-3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- To make crepes: In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, salt, sugar, zest and melted butter until well combined. Slowly whisk in flour, alternately with milk and in the end add whey or water. Transfer to a pitcher and let rest for two hours or refrigerate overnight.
- Place a 10-inch nonstick skillet with sloped sides over medium heat. Use a crumpled-up paper towel to spread melted butter evenly on skillet. Gently stir the batter before frying. Add just enough batter to thinly coat the bottom of the skillet, swirling to coat.
- Cook until edges begin to dry, about 1 minute. Using your fingers or an offset spatula, turn crepe and continue cooking about 15 seconds more; transfer to a plate and keep warm in oven, covered. Repeat process with melted butter and remaining batter, stacking each crepe on top of the last as you work.
- To make the Caramelized apples: In a large sauté pan combine orange and lemon juices, honey or what ever sweetener you are using, vanilla sugar (if using vanilla extract add in the end); add cinnamon sticks and basil or mint.
- Cook over medium-high heat until the mixture thickens and turns golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes; add apples, cranberries, nuts and Calvados or brandy. Cook, stirring, until apples are softened and coated in the caramel.
- Turn of the heat, discard cinnamon sticks and basil and immediately gently mix in butter. Serve Caramelized apples on the side or spread a tablespoonful on each crepe and fold in quarters.
- To warm and crisp-up the filled crepes: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Butter a baking dish; place crepes on the baking dish, drizzle with some melted butter. Transfer baking dish to oven and bake until golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes. Serve.
- You also can stack 5 crepes and roll up into a cylinder; cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick or more narrow (linguini-like) strips. Add julienned crepes to skillet with about 1/2 a cup of the Caramelized apples mixture and toss to combine; cook until crepes are heated through and slightly crisp. Serve immediately.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Weekday Breakfast Recipe
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Pancakes, Sweet or Savory
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Holiday Breakfast II
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endorsed by the ube bf 7 millions of bi tr ... the best family kjgi^e fc children k.r adults and v.r t!.c aged only ger'uine bu our z suin:j in nd on fn,nt of v nipper j h zeilin & co philadelphia pa 0cle i-kurxiiitl/ks vrice 1.oo victor gram dels kelle33 faiemi for sale to the farmers of row an ( hraj for cash or well secured time u0te3 this drill stands at the wry front and is unsurpassed by any other in america t sows wheat an<l clover seed and bearded oats together with fertilizers most admirably the quantity per acre can be changed in an instant — by a single motion of the hand read what people who have used it say about it mr vkrxon kowas co x c sept 15th 1886 i have usc.l the victor — kellers patent — gruiu drill for several years and 1 consider it a perfect machine one can set it in an instant to sow any quantity of wheat nr oats per acre from oue peck to four bush els it bows bearded oats us well as it does wheat ir clov.er seed and fertizers to in fection 1 know it to be strictly a no 1 drill and combines great strength with its other good qualities w a luckkt salisbury x ('. sept 15th lissg la=;t 8prins i borrowed mr white fraley'b victor kellers patent grain drill and put in my oats with it it sowed beanieil mi'l non-bearded oats to perfection i believe it t be the best grain drill i ever saw it sows wheat or oats and clover seed nnd fertilizer all o k and i have bought one ir this fall's seeding of the agent john a boyden rlchabd ii cmvan salisbury x 0 sept 17th 1886 ihave used the victor kellers patent grain drill for the past ten years and con sider it by far the best drill made i have also used the bechford fc huffman drill but greatly prefer the victor because it is much the most convenient and i believe one victor will last as ionic us two heck ford & huffman drills the victor m>\ys all kinds of grain satisfactorily fit an k breathed for salt y jno a bgyden the new south by sherman rogbess of sallsru'ry bdtce the war - public improvements and thriving institutions special correspondence of the commercial advertiser salisbury ttowan co n <'., nov 20 when toward the dose of the war 3fconeman's troopers rode into this town they found it a considerable place as compared with many others they had visited the broad well shaded streets crossed each other at right angles the houses were roomy comfortable look ing abodes standing in the midst of lawns and gardens the trim walks bordered with prim rows of box the old-fashioned flowers and herb the roses and more modern plants that were blooming in the sunny spots all told of a community that until war came upon it bad enjoyed life in aquiet refined fashion but salisbury had been unfortunate in that the confeder ate military authorities hail without saving " by your leave '" to her citizens located a prison camp in the suburbs most of the people regretted the selec tion but were powerless to prevent it nor had the many who felt charitable disposed to the captives any opportu nity to do them kindness 01 course all this was unknown to the raiders who some for revenge and others out df pure wantonness did considerable damage at h'rst but alter a few days every disorder was repressed and the troops quartered in the town were soon on friendly terms with the citizens the watchman a weekly paper the representative of the mining interests of this section is published here it has entered upon it fifty-third year and for nearly ail thai time if has been owned and edited by mr john joseph bruni r who is now i believe the nestor of the north carolina press although hearing his three core and ten years mr bruner is as regularly at hi office and attending to its affairs as though he had just started in life as this veteran printer was apprenticed to the trade when but s year old he has been setting typ ■n tarly sixty years v hen the raiders arrived they visited hi oliice which was then one of the best appointed printing houses in the state and soon had the press in pieces and the type a high pile of pi in the middle of the floor but there were some printers among those calvarymen who when they found what had been done went t;i mr bruuer's assistance and after they had the place in some thing like order they issued the watch man and announced under heavily leaded headlines that stoncman had come town some of these men be came warmly attached to the veteran editor and secured many good jobs from headquarters for him and when they went marching home again there was mutual regret at parting during its half century of existence forty journals have atttempted to oc cupy the watchman's field but none have succeeded mr thomas k bru ner a son of the old editor has relieved his father of most of the editorial work lie was a small lad at the time but he has a vivid remembrance of stoneraan's raid like many men educated mainly in printing offices the younger bruner has a large fund of practical knowledge the mineral wealth of this country has for many years attracted toitscores of scientists and hundreds of trained mining specialists the watchman has always chronicled their doings and its office has been their favorite resort brought up amid such surroundings the younger bruner early acquired a taste fur mineralogical studies and in vestigations and he is now a recogniz ed authority on the precious ores the gems and the general mineralogy of this state lie is one of thai large and yearly increasing number of southern young men who are intelligently and most industriously engaged in develop ing the natural resources of their states or in converting the abounding raw materials dose at hand into all forms of manufactured goods young men of this stamp are fast coining to the front in industrial pursuits and by their examples and successes are help ing forward the progress of the new south salisbury's trade and inih-stuies salisbury has always been a consid erable trading point rowan county soil is noted for productiveness its farmers are among the few in this state who raise large hay crops and send their surplus in bales to market asheville's stables are supplied to a^large extent from here although they might be from the farms in a radius or five miles from that beautiful city if the agriculturists of that region so chose wheat and all other cereals yield hand somely and orchards and vineyards flourish rowan farmers who under stand and attend to their business are generally in good circumstances and are profitable customers of the city merchants the gold mines in this and adjoining counties add much to the business of this place there is also some manufacturing but nothing to what then 1 mignt be and undoubtedly will be before loug but the great factor in the town's trr.de is the rich mond and danville railroad and its tributary the western north carolina which extends from here to the moun tains and then divides into two branch es one pushing toward knoxville tennessee the other toward north georgia the freight business of the latter has assumed vast proportions and is steadily increasing the passen \ ger traffic is also very much heavier j than it was two years ago many j tourists stop over here several days and leave considerable money behind them ] all these are contributions to the growth of salisbury there are two new railroads project ! ed that when constructed will add ' largely to the town's importance ! both these are to come from the south j east and one will open direct commit j nication with tide water at smithville i which is at the mouth of the cape fear river and make this one of the chief central d pots of distribution for for tht state such is not the un reasonable belief of salisbury's citizens city improvements the people seem to be wide awake to the necessity of improving their city they have voted to put in public water and are discussing other modern appli ances they have gas lights in the streets too far apart however and the gas is not as good as it might be the sidewalks in the business streets arc poorly paved but despite these little drawbacks that will be remedied before long the place is going ahead for when progressive ideas once acquire headway in a north carolina town there is no cessation of effort until all possible im provements have been made formerly the place lay on the west side of the track of the piedmont air line rail road now there are streets and dwel lings to the east of it and the sixteen acres once enclosed by the stockade that surrounded the union prisoners are now covered with neat houses and gardens between there and the national ceme tery a quarty of a mile to the south a large new two-story building stands out conspicuously it is the graded school for colored pupils built at the towns expense and maintained by general taxation it stands there a silent wit ness to the tremendous changes that time has wrought the flag of the union floats above the graves of more than 12,000 dead soldiers in the ceme tery testifying to a nation's reverent care for the ashrs of its heroes while this great white school house is in no less a ser.se the voluntary tribute of those who were once its foes to the supremacy of the nation and to the perpetuity of the union rail eoad election facts for the people on dec 21st the citizens of rowan are to determine whether our county shall subscribe 100,000 in bonds run ning forty years to the south atlantic k northwestern railroad in order that our people may have a firm foundation on which to base their opinions we sub mit the following facts for their con sideration why we nkkd till road the people of our county are paying at least 30,000 too much freight an nually a larger amount than all our state and county taxes because we have no competing line in charlotte because they have two lines over which they can ship their cotton to new york they pay 40 cents a bale less freight than we do this fact is noto rious and was proved in our court in the ross cases now rowan ships a bout 5.000 bales of cotton a year on which is paid 2,000 too much freight this amount would pay nearly half the interest on the 100,000 of bonds and it is paid by those who raise the cotton because we have no competing line of railroad a car load of wagons is ship ped from cincinnati to baltimore over the western r r through salisbury for 108 less than has to l»e paid if it stops here making each wagon cost 4j more here than at baltimore this excess is paid by the rowan county far mer because we have no competing hue one firm in salisbury pays 1300 more freight a year for goods received in car loads than it would pay if it was doing business in raleigh and this excess is paid by the rowan county farmers be cause we have no competing line lime costs here 1.50 a barrel at other places no nearer the lime kiln it costs 45 cts and this excessive freight is paid by the i rowan county fanners because we have ! no competing line hay has sold here j this fall at from 20 to 30 c-ents a bun ■i dred and in rockir.gham only co miles i distant by the proposed line of road it has been selling at from 90 to 100 cents a hundred and yet if we ship hay to them the railroads take the entire dif ference between the prices for freight thus the rowan county farmer loses about 50 or go cents a hundred on his hay because we have no competing line of railroad we have given only a few items we pay too much freight on every thing we send off and on every thing we receive too much freight on cotton too much on tobacco too much on your grain too much on hay too much on granite too much on the food we eat too much on the coffee and tea i we drink too much on the clothes we wear too much on the tools we work with too much on the coffins we bury in too much on the tombstones we set up over the dead because we have no competing line of road this road the proposed road is to run from smithville x 0 to bristol teun through salisbury thus giving us an other line to the sea and also to the great northwest no ho at no boxm i not a bond will ta issued not one cent of tux levied until the railroad is ! built equipped and running regularly for the carriage of freight and passen gers from smithville to salisbury a dis tance of about 210 miles when one half the bonds are to be delivered and the other half when the road i milt and regularly running to the duvie line unless the road is completed to salisbury within two years the sub scription is to be void these are the ; terms upon which the subscription is asked so that the county runs no risk \ of loss xo convicts no convicts are to be employed in building this road what will the tax be we begin our statement on this sub j ject by printing the following certifi cate from mr woodson of the net amount of the tuxes tor last year after j various losses and expense in collection ! were deducted 1 certify that the state tax last year was 25 cents on the hundred dollars the county tax was 2 : > cents and the school tax 2 cents and that the net ! amount yielded by property and polls ' from the above taxes was 28,615 t>7 horatio n woodsox clerk board county commissioners xow it is easy to see that if a tax of 65 cents on the hundred dollars yielded 28,615 a tax of ten cents would yield 4104 but when we need the money the railroad will have '"!>; miles of road valued at 10,000 a mile to be taxed this 260,000 will yield to the county after the sheriffs fees are deducted 617.50 more than enough to pay the balance of interest on the the bonds besides paying to the state and to the school fund a net tax of >~-\ { i each thus the interest on our bond would cost us when the tax is first laid not more than 10 cents on the hundred dol lars and a less amount as our taxable property increases in value indeed at the present rate of taxation there is often a surplus in the county trea urv of 2,000 or 3,000 which could he used to reduce the r it tax stock given for the bonds the 100,000 voted to the fi ■tl is not i tfift for it we are to receive 100,000 ill siock in the road with honest management tins stock ought j soon to be worth par and to yield goo i i dividends stocks in the nt c l k j is now worth above par and its divi dends 6 per cent or more if there should be a struggle betwen capitalists for control of the road and such n struggle must come sooner '..•:• later stock may be worth more than par money before we are taxi all the work below salisbury and most of the grading in our county above salisbury would have to bo com pleted before a bond would be issued the grading of these 1 miles of road would cost at 5,000 a mile 8130,000 the cross ties would cost more than j 16,000 the timber and stone for bridges would cost a large amount thus between 150,000 and 200,000 would be paid to the farmers and labor ers of rowan county before we would have to pay a cent of tax miss kg opportunities when tho ro:id from columbia to charlotte was built it would have been built to salisbury instead of charlotte if rowan had extended proper assistance the same was the case with the air line road from atlanta to charlotte with these roads salisbury would have been what charlotte is a:;d land i;i rowan would have been worth as much as it is in mecklenburg and our people would have enjoyed as low freight as they do we think our fathers made a great blunder in not getting those roads but in those cases the bonds would have been issued before the roads were built and there was some risk of the road being left incomplete in this case the road is to be built first and there is no risk if the road is not j finished from the sea to salisbury in j ! two years we pay nothing here is our opportunity when you have read this post it up in some public place then be sure and go and register b.t»re election clay i use your influence with others in i'u r of the road and don t fail to vote for the itoad on tuesday dec 21st many citizens of rowax hucuniatistn jef£^>j£i£|sjjjr j'ttinu in tho v / sl<l<s had wood xalarla , const i pa t 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produced consequences to ije expected from the motives which influenced the liberators and the expectations inspired in the liberated the fundamental idea with the first was that the negro the man and brother unrighteously restrained be it said from his creation from the right.s of freedom when invested with that inestimable gift became at once the social and political equal of the white man not unnaturally the ne gro was prompt to accept the admis sion and made haste to avail himself of all the privileges it brought with it the most profitable use of these privileges w.;s of course political recog nition advancement this the party in powerwas nine than ready to grant it was greedy to demonstrate the sin cerity of its convictions of race equali ty e truest to prove its devotion to the cause of an oppressed people eager to proffer compensation for long denied rights and not at ail slow to humiliate the oppressor's by putting in power over them those so long cowering un der the lash of slavery tinie enough has passed for the popular temper to recover its equilib rium time enough to examine wheth er our institutions should i i j sub jected to this discordant clash of race ambition time enough to question whether the whit race is called upon to abdicate its right and claim to di rect the affairs of the country time enough to ask whether the grave and momentous interests of the country shall be imperilled by the demands of sentimentalism fcr it is nothing more than sentimentalism sickly or depraved thai demands the sudden and immediate elevation of a people buried sinc-3 the time that history had a re 1 cord i:t tiu depths of slavery and bar barism to tha heights and rights at tained by the white race after centuries of struggle with tyranny learning by experience theeosi and value of liberty and groping their way with painful step t'roiu the lowest depths of intel ijctuul darkne.ss to the brightest efful gence of tnentul light docs it stand to reason that those blessings attained with so much cost should be carelessly hand with those who have had freedom thrust upon them without effort of their own and whose enlightenment is only the dim reflection of mental rush-light now we take the position unequivo cally that this is th white mans country and tin the white mans gov i eminent the one subdued by the white man's valor and energy the othi r created by the white man's cour i :■■. intelligence and spirii of liberty the infusion of the negro element into the field oi politics and into rights of official re wants is a gross interpola tion of offensive incongruities it is enough for the negro thai he has been liberated from slavery that he has been invested with the full rights of citizenship that he can acquire hold and enjoy property the fruits of his own labor that he can acquire educa tion and that he has the opportunity intelligent to exercise the rights and duties of citizenship but he has yet acquired no right to be called as a rule over us we admit the remarkable de velopment made by individuals of african blood acquirements in learn ing in oratory in thrift are somewhat startling but these do not alter the case an 1 in fact are only insolated and exceptional and do not jusitfy break ing down the barrier which instinct if nothing more erects against the intru sion of other races and other people into t!ie administration of public af fairs the american mind is fixed a gainst commingling with other blood it resents the intrusion of oilier races right under the eye of the govern ment at washington are chinese offi cials sis astute as intellectual as cul tivated as adroit and skillful diplo mats as the world present et a chinese they are socially ostracized and their race proscribed the chi nese had the intelligence and the meth od to create a civilization peculiar to itself but the wonder of man kind they lived to themselves in close seclusion and buit up a power which has stood strong and unchanged for thousands of years the negroes with a continent to themselves through the same period make no farther ad vance in civilization than the apes that share the forests with them and only became known to civilization as they were dragged out from the depths of the interior to supply the material for the slave markets of the world vet in washington where the chi nese is ostracised the negro is deified almost elevated to office and made arbiter of social and official destiny we call fora change wo must see the soie claim of the white man recog nized we cannot tolerate the idea of negro superiors over needy whites w e abhor the idea that negro official shouldlord it over white females we want and must have an official list im contiiminated with the touch of anoth er race we want a white man's gov ernment national and state li there were no other reason the one of moral unfitness would prevent itself of this there are illustrations abundant enough to be furnished as an abstract question of parties in their choice we would v brought to dis criminate but lighily between the two if both recognized the equal right of the negro to a share i 1 . tb we have the kindliest feeling for the negro we >\ ud aid him in his moral mental and ma terial advantage in every possible way we rejoice iri hi liberation from : erv and rejoice i:i the proj er use of his freedom but fur all tiiis do not make him ruler g over us eir r r i.s great tlii i;i small — .!>/" '""' ' cltizi ■■-. old ajc dean bradley successor of stanley in tiu deanery of westm i i isan , anecdote *■■£ linn as lie nearcd his >:\- '. tieth year he wjis traveling in g r oiany on i rhine steamer i;'.l getting acquainted with a boy i he loved chil dren the lx-v asked him his which being answered he said l '\\ liy all your life is over 1 no said the dean the best is yei to come l you must be on the wrong side of sixty said one acquaintance to anoth er xo he replied i am on the right side old age is cheerless enough to oiie lacking faith in god and gh 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|The Carolina Watchman
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|[J. J. Bruner and T. K. Bruner]
|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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|The December 16, 1886 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina
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There's been so much talk this week about the Obama dog, I just had to weigh in.
For those who have had their heads buried in the sand this past week, here's the lowdown: the first-family-to-be is going to get a dog after they move into the White House, and there have been all sorts of polls, petitions and pleas floating around from the various groups involved in the caninosphere. While purebreed-pushers like the American Kennel Club have put out their suggestions of purebreed dogs the Obamas might adopt, animal rescue groups such as the wonderful Best Friends Animal Society have been lobbying the president to adopt a shelter dog.
This is, of course, one smart family, and last month Michelle Obama announced on a television show that they would indeed adopt from a shelter. But other complications have arisen since. It turns out that one of the Obama daughters is allergic, and in his press conference today the president-elect said that his family has to take that into consideration. They would need, he said, a hypoallergenic dog. But, he added, most shelter dogs are mutts.
Wrong. I firmly believe mutts make the greatest pets and it is true that a majority of dogs at shelters are usually mutts, or mixed breeds. But, President-elect Obama, if you think you need a purebred dog so you can be sure it is hypoallergenic, a good number of dogs entering shelters are also purebreeds and, like Nike – a Bichon Frise I fostered- hypoallergenic. And there are many, many breed rescues out there that rescue purebreed dogs and rehome them. Here is one that rescues bichons. Here is another that rescues labradoodles and goldendoodles, also hypoallergenic dogs. Here's a whole list of dogs that are considered hypoallergenic, and it is easy as cake to google up groups that rescue each one of these pure breeds.
The Washington Humane Society, which rescues dogs in Mr. Obama's new home city, Washington, also rescues many purebreed dogs each year, including hypoallergenic ones.
Here are three of the several hypoallergenic puppies available in the Washington area. I pulled these up on Petfinder, a great resource for anyone looking to rescue dogs.
The new first family would be setting a wonderful example for the country and the rest of the world if they did, indeed, adopt a rescue dog. As someone who has rescued many, many dogs, I know they will never regret that decision because any dog they adopt will give them its whole heart and lots of great times. But equally important, by giving a rescue dog a second chance, the Obamas and their dog would deal a body blow to long-held and mistaken attitudes that shelter dogs are, somehow, just not good enough.
President-elect Obama, this is your chance to bring hope and change to millions of four-legged creatures who more than deserve a chance at that most basic of rights: life. It may not be the most important item on your agenda, but it could also be the easiest one to resolve. Please, don't let the doggies down. Bring a rescue dog home to the White House.
Make your voice heard. Email the president-elect with your thoughts on why you think his family should get a shelter dog. Be a hero.


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In 1786, the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed an act that allowed unimproved land owned by non-residents to be sold for back taxes. In 1788, Caleb Chapin purchased at public auction, the fifty acres of lot number 48 in Bernardston. This document attests that Jesse Field, the tax collector, had the authority to sell this land, and grants Chapin, his heirs and assigns, free inheritance.
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June 12, 2014
LOS ANGELES (June 12, 2014) -- In addition to the quarterly U.S. and California economic forecasts, today's UCLA Anderson Forecast conference analyzed the "The Changing Landscape of Commercial Real Estate," and the outlook was mixed.
UCLA Anderson Forecast Senior Economist David Shulman spoke about the disruptive technologies that are undermining tenant demand across the nation. In the case of commercial real estate, the disruptions are coming from surging e-commerce sales (which currently account for about 6.25 percent of U.S. retail sales), high mall-vacancy rates (about 11 percent among strip malls) and the downsizing of office space required per worker due to technology - which in turn makes much of the existing office stock obsolete due to HVAC and other compliance issues.
In his keynote address, Lewis C. Horne, president of CBRE's Greater Los Angeles-Orange County Region, shared how CBRE drastically improved efficiency and variety (types of work spaces) by redesigning their L.A. office. The new, First Well-certified office features open workspaces, sit-stand desks, new technologies to promote mobility and fewer file cabinets and paper.
"People don't want to be treated like machines," Horne said. "Our most important asset by far is not the real estate, it's the people in the real estate."
Horne also talked about millennials returning to urban centers where the jobs and "coolness factor" are, and about the influx of global investments into downtown Los Angeles.
"It's a great time to be in Southern California and in the Los Angeles area.... We have never seen global investment the way we have today," he said, noting that four of the largest transactions that occurred in downtown L.A. in the last year were by Asian investors.
Economist William Yu predicted more Chinese investors will turn to U.S. markets in the long run, now that the real estate bubble in China has started to deflate. Los Angeles, in particular, is an attractive destination in which to invest because of its depth and liquidity, geographic location, large Asian communities and nice weather. Los Angeles also has the second largest share (7.3 percent) of the wealthiest U.S. households.
Conference speakers also zeroed in on the latest housing trends. For instance, a shift in demand away from ownership and toward rental is fueling the demand for multi-family units, with construction expected to boom nationwide to more than 400,000 new units in 2015 and 2016, explained Shulman. In California, while home sales have been flat, foreclosures have plummeted to less than 7 percent of the market, while home prices continue to soar, according to Senior Economist Jerry Nickelsburg.
When it comes to jobs, however, California is helping drive the nation's economic recovery, with 2.1 percent non-farm payroll growth in 2014 and a growing labor force (about 128,000 new workers this year), Nickelsburg said. UCLA Anderson Forecast Director Ed Leamer painted a different picture for national job creation, with payrolls currently about 21 million jobs (16 percent) below trend.
"We're in a world of hurt," Leamer said. "Getting Americans back to work is critical for a viable democracy."
He also pointed to shifting demographics that will soon affect the U.S. economy - mainly, a marked decrease in the growth rate of the working-age population (25-64). By 2020, he predicts, there will be fewer than 500,000 new workers in the economy, compared to historical peaks of more than two million new workers, which will lead to slower GDP growth and a near-collapse of household formation in 2023.
The quarterly conference culminated in a panel discussion featuring real estate industry representatives, who shared their thoughts and predictions on everything from Airbnb's impact on the hotel industry to e-commerce. Michael Schall, president and CEO of Essex Property Trust, said that, despite Airbnb's growth (current market cap of $10 billion), business users are more likely to remain loyal to hotel brands and their incentives, such as points programs.
Timur Tecimer, president and CEO of Overton Moore Properties, observed that e-commerce companies are willing to pay high rents for specialized properties to be "in-close" and able to offer customers same-day delivery. He noted, for instance, Amazon Fresh, which recently signed a new lease in Inglewood, Calif., at $20 to $30 per square foot. Tecimer said he expects more e-commerce companies to settle in the L.A. market.
For more on today's event, which also featured a sneak peak at the upcoming Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey publishing in July 2014, visit the UCLA Anderson Forecast website.
About UCLA Anderson Forecast
UCLA Anderson Forecast is one of the most widely watched and often-cited economic outlooks for California and the nation and was unique in predicting both the seriousness of the early-1990s downturn in California and the strength of the state's rebound since 1993. More recently, the Forecast was credited as the first major U.S. economic forecasting group to declare the recession of 2001. Visit UCLA Anderson Forecast at http://uclaforecast.com.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the growing economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Global Executive MBA for the Americas, Master of Financial Engineering, doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think In The Next ethos. Annually, some 1,800 students are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UCLAAnderson or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/uclaanderson.


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When Weston Wells, photographer extraordinaire whom I have talked about on this blog before, sent me an email letting me know he had some photos that might interest me, I knew I was about to get my hands on something special. Weston recently visited Rocco Ciccarelli and his custom tailoring operation out in Long Island City and, naturally, brought his camera along to document the whole thing. Rocco's reputation precedes him and I'd hate to ruin the beautiful images below with some of my nonsense, so I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. Not to mention, Michael Williams already broke down Rocco's genius perfectly back in 2008. I'd like to thank Weston and Rocco for making this post possible. Enjoy.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Weston Visits Rocco
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- AnonymousMarch 8, 2011 at 11:32 AM
That story was great! Man, I'm so glad you told me!...Jus kiddin' youz a bitch!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 8, 2011 at 1:03 PM
It's "pique my interest"ReplyDelete
It's nice to see Rocco involved in something other than explicit pornography.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 10, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Personally, I think it's amazing to have a look at how these bespoke suits are made. I wonder if there are any younger tailors working there?ReplyDelete
I thought custom tailoring was overrated and unnecessarily expensive until recently when my cousin wore a custom tailored suit at his wedding.ReplyDelete
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Bandit Run to Stop in Laramie
The seventh annual Bandit Run, a rolling car show honoring the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit, will be making a stop in Laramie as participants trek across Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado.
The Bandit Run began in 2007 in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Smokey and the Bandit. The event was started by Dave Hall, owner of the Lincoln, Nebraska's Restore A Muscle Car LLC. "We restore classic muscle cars," says Hall. "The Trans-Ams are one of our specialties. The Smokey and the Bandit black and gold Trans-Ams have been a major forte for us."
Hall says that while sitting down to a meal with a customer the idea was floated of making a run from Texarkana, TX to Atlanta Georgia, effectively recreating the journey made by the characters in the movie. "We started letting people know that we were going to do this, and if they wanted to join us, just show up," Hall says. "It's turned into an annual event, every year I change the route to see different parts of the country."
In the film Burt Reynolds plays The Bandit, who must help escort his friend Snowman, played by Jerry Reed, and a truck full of Coors beer across the Texas border into Atlanta. At the time Coors beer was illegal in that state. During the journey Bandit is pursued by a highway patrol officer Buford T. Justice (dubbed "Smokey"), played by Jackie Gleeson.
The event kicks off at the Restore A Muscle Car home base in Lincoln, Nebraska, where participants will have the chance to hear from and meet Smokey and the Bandit writer, director and stuntman Hal Needham.
The Bandit Run will then take participants through Nebraska, up to South Dakota, into Wyoming and will make a stop here in Laramie. The Bandit Runners will touch down in the Gem City on June 17th where they will be able to tour the facilities at WyoTech.
"One of the reasons we wanted to migrate to Laramie is I get a lot of technicians out of Wyo Tech," says Hall.
The 75-90 cars participating in the Bandit Run (including 30 Bandit replicas and 2 police cars) will receive an escort from the Laramie Police Department from Wyo Tech to the Laramie Holiday Inn. Expected to arrive at 7:30 pm, the Holiday Inn of Laramie will then play host to a block party. Dr. Pepper products and Coors Beer will be served, and Smokey and the Bandit will be screened in the hotel's ballroom. Also a live band, Have Fun Will Travel will play at 7:30. The Laramie stop of the Bandit Run is being handled in conjunction with the Albany County Tourism Board.
The block party is open to not only the Bandit Runners but also the public at large.
The Holiday Inn will also host a lookalike contest in the following categories:
- Burt Reynolds as Bo Darville/Bandit
- Sally Field as Carrie/Frog
- Jerry Reed as Cledus Snow/Snowman
- Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice/Smokey
- Pat McCormick as Enos Burdette/Big Enos
- Paul Williams as "Little" Enos Burdette
- Fred (Basset Hound)
After their overnight in Laramie, the Bandit Runners will continue to Golden Colorado where they will tour the Coors Brewery.
As an added bonus, as the Runners are rolling into town our own David Settle will be hosting Sportsline Live from Laramie's Holiday Inn at 5:00 pm on 1230 AM KOWB.
Runners are tentatively expected to arrive in Laramie at 5:00 pm July 17th. The block party which is, once again, open to the public is scheduled for 7:30 pm at Laramie's Holiday Inn that same day.


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"The most powerful car under 30 grand" says the announcer. For $29,995 you got a car with endless rear-leg room, projector headlights, leather and a pushrod V8 that would propel you to 60 in five seconds flat. It wasn't a earth shattering level of performance nor would the mid 90's decorated interior impressed most buyers...but good god was it a performance deal.
My wife owned a G8 GT. It was not a stock car. Heads, cam, headers, a 2800 stall; it was a beast of a car and she loved it. Unfortunately it was too loud for our new baby so she sold it and we bought an IS-F.
Here is a quick start-up video of the G8. I still keep up with car and email the owner every now and then.
I'm not here to reminiscence the demise of Pontiac, but rather to ask what has filled the void of cars like the G8 GT in terms of practical, performance and price point.
When you look at the URL for the Dodge Charger it says, "2014 Dodge Charger - Full Size Sedan with a HEMI Engine." It would appear that Dodge is the last bastion in the land of performance sedans that I would consider affordable.
I started to think about all this after Jalopnik's review of the new Chevrolet SS, a car that in many ways replaces the G8, both in offering and Country of Origin. But the SS costs $14,000 more than the G8 GT putting it far out of reach of many buyers. Yet the performance is identical, 0-60 in 5 seconds.
Think about that. Five years after the G8 GT was launched Chevy brings over an almost similar car with almost identical performance numbers and charges you $14,000 more for it. Talk about "Bend over performance buyer."
I don't want this to turn into a Best Performance Car Under $30K discussion, but I have to ask – was the G8 GT the last of it's breed from General Motors? Has GM walked away from the family performance buyer that isn't SS-rich?


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Jose Reyes said he's 100 percent, but he's not really. He's not been the player he was before going on the disabled list with a hamstring, and while he's still had a good year, he once again served reminder of the dangers of giving him a long-term contract in the neighborhood of seven years.
The offensive rap on Reyes has always been giving away too many at-bats at the plate and falling back into bad habits, such as pulling off the ball and adopting an uppercut swing.
What were line drives and crisp ground balls have turned into weak fly balls and pop ups. He's taking a 2-for-13 slide into tonight's game against the Braves, including nine fly ball outs.
Reyes has had had a marvelous season and somebody will give him a payday this winter. If not the Mets, then somebody.
However, two things have surfaced to warrant caution in anybody dealing with Reyes, with the first being his propensity to injury and breaking down.
He hasn't played in 150 games since 2008, and since 2003 has only logged at least 150 games four times. From 2005 through 2008, Reyes had at least 56 stolen bases.
For a player who makes his living with his legs, there are breakdown signs for the 28-year-old Reyes.
With his health always a concern, so is his performance. Players will always have slides and slumps, but there are still holes in Reyes' game that indicate Carl Crawford money of $142 million over seven years – which Fred Wilpon said he would not get – will be unattainable.
After three years of leading the NL in stolen bases, he has 32 now, his most in four years. His on-base percentage on .376 is the highest of his career, but how much is that playing for the contract? His career .339 on-base is more representative of his capabilities, and that's not worthy of Crawford money. I don't know if it is worth more than a $100,000 million package.
He's never walked more than 77 times in his career and has only drawn 29 this summer. His career strikeouts-to-walks ratio is 498 to 319.
Reyes is a good player having a good season, but as the last few weeks have shown, there are vulnerabilities in his game that say Wilpon might have been right all along.