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When historian and journalist Tony Perrottet first met Dr. John K. Lattimer, the elderly American urologist who bought Napoleons penis at auction in 1977, he was introduced to the doctors extraordinary collection of historical memorabilia kept in his New Jersey homeincluding Nazi suicide vials, medieval chastity belts, Abraham Lincolns blood-stained collar, Marilyn Monroes bathing suit and JFK assassination relics. The doctors omnivorous interest echoed the passions of 18th century scholars and the largely forgotten use of Secret Cabinetsspecially designated rooms within the worlds great museums where anything deemed scandalous was safeguarded under lock and key and access was granted only to a lucky few. With that time-honored model in mind, Perrottet decided to put together a collection of the choicest morsels culled from the dark recesses of Western history for the edification of the modern reader.
Napoleons Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped is a shamelessly entertaining guide to the arcana of history, a book that unearths the most exciting new research on themes that interest us deeplysex, celebrity, wealth, greed and debauchery through the agesand transforms it into an immediately accessible form. The result is a compendium of fascinating and irreverent stories that are guaranteed to add zest to any modern dinner party conversation.
Luckily, history is full of such jaw-dropping anecdotesand just by recounting them, Perrottet shows, we can learn a huge amount about history without even trying. What was it really like to wear a chastity belt? Were champagne glasses molded from Marie Antoinettes breasts? Is it true that Italian castrati made better lovers? What were the dreaded French impotence trials? Why did the Marquis de Sade hate his mother-in-law? And what was J. Edgar Hoovers favorite evening dress? In Napoleons Privates, Perrottet shows how even the most frivolous-sounding question can provide a vivid entrée to forgotten worlds of the past.
A terrifically funny writer... Informative and twice as
Boston Globe
It's so great to have a truly funny (and poetic) writer
putting the lurid colors back on the pale marble, where they
belong... Full of the 'get-a-load-of-this'
factorthose juicy, vivid stories you can't wait to tell
your friends. To my mind, that quality is the distinguishing trait
of great nonfiction.
Teller of Penn & Teller
Its refreshing to find such an entertaining writer
whose history is also meticulously researched. Perrottets take
on the past is erudite, original and wittyeven, frequently,
Paul Cartledge, Professor of Classics, Cambridge University
Celebrity memorabilia is big business these days, with Marilyn Monroes bra or Mohammed Alis boxers fetching astronomical prices at auction. But for specialist collectors, one intimate item is in a different class entirely: Napoleons penis.
To the horror of the French government, which refuses to accept its authenticity, the relic has drifted around Europe and the U.S. since the Emperors death in exile in 1821, dried out like beef jerky and kept in a leather presentation box adorned with a gold-embossed crown. Adding insult to injury, the item now resides in a suitcase under a bed in suburban New Jersey. How could such a sacrilege occur? According to its 19th century owners, the organ was illegally removed during Napoleons autopsy by his vindictive and possibly murderous physician, Dr. Francesco Antommarchi, then smuggled back to France by his corrupt, greedy chaplain, the Abbé Ange Vignali….
Follow the long march of Napoleons privates on page 20.
How best to worship the perfect breast? Throughout history, men have dreamed of sipping fine wine from replicas of their lovers busts, cast in glittering crystal. In antiquity, a temple on the island of Rhodes displayed a goblet that was believed to have been modeled on the breasts of Helen of Troy by her paramour Paris. In the Middle Ages, love-besotted French king Henry II had his wine glasses fashioned on the "apple-like" breasts of Diane de Poitier. And in the late 1700s, the legend sprang up that Queen Marie-Antoinettes breasts were the model for the shallow, broad-rimmed champagne coupes that are still often used today. (Although the modern fashion is more for the tall, thin and decidedly un-breast-like champagne flutes).
Find the truth about bubbly and breasts on page 3 of Napoleons Privates.
Guests at the Berghof, Hitlers private chalet in the Bavarian Alps, must have endured some unpleasant odors in the otherwise healthful mountain air.
It may sound like a Woody Allen scenario, but medical historians are unanimous that Adolf was the victim of uncontrollable flatulence. Spasmodic stomach cramps, constipation and diarrhea, possibly the result of nervous tension, had been Hitlers curse since childhood and only grew more severe as he aged. As a stressed-out dictator, the agonizing digestive attacks would occur after most meals: Albert Speer recalled that the Führer, ashen-faced, would leap up from the dinner table and disappear to his room.
This was an embarrassing problem for a ruthless leader of the Third Reich. . . .
Find out how Hitlers favorite flatulence cure may have cost him the war on page 204 of Napoleons Privates.
The spectacle of the fleshy FBI chief lurching around the corridors of New Yorks Plaza Hotel in drag is now indelibly lodged in American popular folklore. The story has is deeply satisfying, since it proves that the powerful Hoover, who monitored, harassed and blackmailed thousands of Americans about their sex lives, was a rank and villainous hypocrite. Unfortunately, it is based entirely on the testimony of only one witness - Susan Rosenstiel, the former wife of a wealthy liquor distiller, who was quoted at length in the over-heated Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, a 1993 biography by muckraking Brit Anthony Summers and excerpted in Vanity Fair magazine....
Find out what really happened at the Plaza Hotel on page 200 of Napoleons Privates.
What were Casanovas best pick-up lines?
(They got better as he got older).
How uncomfortable was it to wear a chastity belt?
(Surviving examples are so bizarre, were they ever worn at
Which Italian Renaissance genius "discovered"
the clitoris?
(He could have just asked the Venetian nuns).
Will Lincoln ever be outed?
(Just because he spent three years sharing his best
friends bed...)
What was the party etiquette at Caligulas
(Holding ones own could be a stressful business in
ancient Rome).
What were condoms made from in the 17th century?
(At least the material was organic).
How were impotence sufferers put on trial in medieval
(And why this should be a new reality TV show).
What were the kinkiest private clubs of Hogarthian
(Austin Powers would have blanched).
And what was the truth about Napoleons
(Was it a big baguette or petit éclair? And did size
matter to Josephine?)


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18 April, 2019
How India stages the world's largest election
Yellen: China's green energy industry is distorting global prices
How has India transformed under Narendra Modi's decade-long rule?
Money and jobs lure Indians to take risky 'donkey route' to the West
NMC CEO Michael Davis on growth post-scandal: Business Extra
Does recognising Palestine as a state change anything?
A Closer LookA visit to Al Arish on the border with Gaza
Morocco's Ines Laklalech on her meteoric rise in professional golf
VideoGazans on lifeline hospital ship tell of loss
Olympics 'just the beginning' for Moroccan trailblazer Slaoui
Dubai to develop emirate's longest public beach to boost eco-tourism
Striking 3D animation depicts UAE's Gateway airlock in space

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Sleepwalking to Armageddon
A frightening but necessary assessment of the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world's leading antinuclear activist
"Dr. Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor." —Naomi Klein
With the world's attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan, and unsecured stockpiles of aging weapons around the globe make a nuclear attack or a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility arguably the biggest threat facing humanity.
In Sleepwalking to Armageddon, pioneering antinuclear activist Helen Caldicott assembles the world's leading nuclear scientists and thought leaders to assess the political and scientific dimensions of the threat of nuclear war today. Chapters address the size and distribution of the current global nuclear arsenal, the history and politics of nuclear weapons, the culture of modern-day weapons labs, the militarization of space, and the dangers of combining artificial intelligence with nuclear weaponry, as well as a status report on enriched uranium and a shocking analysis of spending on nuclear weapons over the years.
The book ends with a devastating description of what a nuclear attack on Manhattan would look like, followed by an overview of contemporary antinuclear activism. Both essential and terrifying, this book is sure to become the new bible of the antinuclear movement—to wake us from our complacency and urge us to action.


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MySQL Connector/Net 5.1.4 a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.
Connector/Net 5.1 represents a change in how we package our products. Until now, we've shipped our core provider and the Visual Studio integration bits as separate downloads. This has become a bit of a problem. Often we would fix a bug that involved changing code both in the VS package and in the core provider. This provided a versioning problem where users would need to upgrade both products to see the benefit of the bug fix. To solve this, we've decided to discontinue Tools for Visual Studio as a separate product and have, instead, integrated it into a new Connector/Net installer. We hope this provides a better "out of box" experience for our users.
All previous versions of Tools for Visual Studio should be uninstalled prior to installing this product.
Version 5.1.4 works with all versions of MySQL including MySQL-4.1, MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-6.0 Falcon "Preview".
It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.1.html] and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)
Issues fixed
- Fixed issue where column name metadata was not using the charset given on the connection string (Bug #31185)
- Fixed problem where closing the connection before the reader where the reader was opened with CloseConnection would cause a object disposed exception to be thrown
- Fixed problem with installer where the installation would fail if the performance counter categories had already been removed for some reason
- Fixed problem with attempting to use a command with a connection that is not open. The problem was caused by the introduction of the internal method SoftClosed that is used with transactions. (Bug #31262)
- Fixed problem where attempting to enlist in a distributed transaction would succeed even though Connector/Net doesn't currently support that. (Bug #31703)
- Fixed problem with web providers not being usable on medium trust systems
- Fixed problem with installer where attempting to install over a failed uninstall could leave multiple clients registered in machine.config. (Bug #31731)
- Marked MySqlDbType.Datetime obsolete; replaced with DateTime (just corrected capitalization) (Bug #26344)
- Fixed code where we were returning bit(1) as boolean but mysql treats tinyint(1) as boolean (bug #27959)
- Added the Default Command Timeout connection string option to allow DDEX users to set an initial command timeout for very large databases (bug #27958)
Changes ported from 5.0 branch
- Fixed problem where fields that were blobs but did not include the BLOB flag were treated as binary when they should have been treated as text. (Bug #30233)
- Changed from using Array.Copy to Buffer.BlockCopy in MySqlDataReader.GetBytes. This helps with memory usage as we expect the source and destination arrays to not be overlapping. (Bug #31090)
- Fixed problem that prevented commands from being executed from the state change handler. Not sure why you would want to do this but... (bug #30964)
- Fixed problem with connection string caching where our collection class was using case insensitive semantics and this causes cases where a user orginally used the wrong case for a user id and then fixed it to still get access denied errors. (Bug #31433)
- improved the speed of load data local infile significantly
- fixed MySqlDateTime.ToString() to properly return the date value (Bug #32010)
- fixed problem where string parameters who have their size set after their value could cause exceptions (Bug #32094)
- fixed problem where old code was preventing creating parameter objects with non-input direction using just a constructor (Bug #32093)
- fixed problem where a syntax error in a set of batch statements could leave the data adapter in a state that appears hung (bug #31930)
- fixed the MySqlException class to set the server error code in the Data[] hash so that DbProviderFactory users can access the server error code (Bug #27436)
- fixed problem where changing the connection string of a connection to one that changes the parameter marker after the connection had been assigned to a command but before the connection is opened can cause parameters to not be found (bug #13991)
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Imagine you are on the run from a Nazi manhunt and are taken under the protection of a stranger. This stranger spends the winter providing you with food and shelter—even traveling to other towns to relay messages to your family members—yet has no hope or expectation of repayment from you. While your loved ones are systematically ensnared by the Nazi machine, this stranger keeps you alive and nourishes your faith in humanity, offering proof that in the midst of widespread horror, many individuals still act with unfettered compassion and dignity.
When you think about this stranger, what they risked, what you received—how would you feel?
You may feel a rush of positive emotion, joy from the relief of worrying about survival, and a sense of close connection to the stranger who has given you this gift. In concert, these feelings could be described as gratitude.
Gratitude is celebrated throughout philosophy and religion; recent scientific studies suggest it carries significant benefits for our mental and physical health. But very little is known about what actually happens in our brain and body when we experience it.
Why does that matter? Because better understanding the physiology of gratitude can help pinpoint strategies for harnessing its health benefits and help people understand the importance of fostering this powerful emotion. The goal of my research has been to lay the groundwork for understanding what happens in the brain when we feel grateful—and a picture of the grateful brain is now starting to emerge.
What can the brain tell us about gratitude?
When I first embarked on the journey to study gratitude, I came across philosophical treatises and religious exhortations emphasizing the importance of gratitude, along with scientific studies suggesting that gratitude can improve your sleep, enhance your romantic relationships, protect you from illness, motivate you to exercise, and boost your happiness, among many other benefits.
At the time, however, very little was known about what happens in our brains and bodies when we experience gratitude, which made it difficult to understand how gratitude actually works. Since I'm a neuroscientist, I zeroed in on the neurobiology of gratitude with a more specific question in mind: Can our brain activity reveal anything about how gratitude achieves its significant benefits?
Given the clear relationship between mental and physical health, I thought that understanding what happens in the brain when we feel gratitude could tell us more about the mind-body connection—namely, how feeling positive emotion can improve bodily functions. I also thought these results could help scientists design programs aimed at generating gratitude by helping them zero in on the precise activities and experiences most essential to reaping gratitude's benefits.
It must be said that actually capturing people in the moment of feeling gratitude poses some challenges. After all, some people may not feel gratitude when we expect them to, and others may even feel grateful in unexpected situations. I thought my best bet would be to try to induce gratitude through powerful stories of aid and sacrifice.
How to make a brain grateful
To achieve this, I turned to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History, which houses the world's largest repository of videotaped Holocaust survivor testimonies—many of which, perhaps surprisingly, are filled with breathtaking acts of selflessness and generosity.
Along with a team of amazing undergraduates, I began by watching hundreds of hours of survivor testimony to find stories in which the survivor received help of some kind from another person.
We assembled a collection of these stories and transformed them into short scenarios that we shared with our participants. Each scenario was re-phrased into the second-person (e.g., "You are on a wintertime death march and a fellow prisoner gives you a warm coat") and presented to our study's participants. We asked them to imagine themselves in the scenario and feel, as much as possible, how they would feel if they were in the same situation. While participants reflected on these gifts, we measured their brain activity using modern brain imaging techniques (in the form of functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI).
For each of these scenarios, we asked participants how much gratitude they felt, and we correlated this rating with their brain activity in that moment. While such an approach will not elicit exactly the same feelings as actually living through such situations, participants overwhelmingly reported strong feelings of gratitude, deep engagement in the task, and, perhaps even more importantly, an increased empathy for and understanding of the Holocaust as a result of participating in the study.
What's more, our results revealed that when participants reported those grateful feelings, their brains showed activity in a set of regions located in the medial pre-frontal cortex, an area in the frontal lobes of the brain where the two hemispheres meet. This area of the brain is associated with understanding other people's perspectives, empathy, and feelings of relief. This is also an area of the brain that is massively connected to the systems in the body and brain that regulate emotion and support the process of stress relief.
More reasons to be grateful
These data told us a reasonable story about gratitude. The regions associated with gratitude are part of the neural networks that light up when we socialize and experience pleasure. These regions are also heavily connected to the parts of the brain that control basic emotion regulation, such as heart rate and arousal levels, and are associated with stress relief and thus pain reduction. They are also closely linked to the brain's "mu opioid" networks, which are activated during close interpersonal touch and relief from pain—and may have evolved out of the need for grooming one another for parasites.
In other words, our data suggest that because gratitude relies on the brain networks associated with social bonding and stress relief, this may explain in part how grateful feelings lead to health benefits over time. Feeling grateful and recognizing help from others creates a more relaxed body state and allows the subsequent benefits of lowered stress to wash over us. (We recently published a scientific paper elaborating on these ideas.)
Perhaps even more encouraging, researcher Prathik Kini and colleagues at Indiana University performed a subsequent study examining how practicing gratitude can alter brain function in depressed individuals. They found evidence that gratitude may induce structural changes in the very same parts of the brain that we found active in our experiment. Such a result, in complement to our own, tells a story of how the mental practice of gratitude may even be able to change and re-wire the brain. (For more on Kini's research, read this Greater Good article by his co-authors Joel Wong and Joshua Brown.)
Of course, these findings are still only the first steps in a much longer process. My colleagues and I are heartened by the growth of gratitude research and encourage other research groups to join us in studying this powerful emotion. What is clear so far is the deep and serious need to continue studying gratitude and exploring the limits of its capacities.
I am doubly inspired to practice it in my everyday life. Indeed, all of us will experience deep loss and struggle in our lives.
Based on my research so far, I believe gratitude's capacity to ameliorate suffering in these circumstances does not stem from our ability to "think happy thoughts" or deny reality. Instead, its benefits likely stem from the same functions that it serves in other aspects of our lives: It brings us together, raises awareness of what we have, and impels us to consider how we can recognize and spread human goodness.


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Bryan's Page o' links etc
My name is Bryan Clingman and you've found my homepage. It's not meant to be pretty. I just put stuff here that I want other people to see.
So what's here?
From there I graduated to a Mac classic and later a IIcx.
For the most part I use Linux. I've been using Linux since the days of the SLS distribution (who remembers that?) I believe it was kernel 0.95?. This was all circa 1992. At the time I didn't own an ix86 machine so I installed linux on a machine at Texas Tech in the electrical engineering department.
I still use the sucessor to SLS, Slackware on a couple of machines. For the most part I stick with redhat, although I use debian on my SPARC IPX just for kicks. At last count I had 6 machines in my house running linux. My 1.2GHz Athlon, a Dual CPU P133 machine, a P75, a 486DX2/66, an Alpha AXPpci/33, and my SPARC.
At work I'm forced to used Windows NT/2000/98/Me. Note no href to that company. Nuf said.
BTW, some of my machines also use NetBSD/Mac, and NetBSD/Vax.
This machine runs Apache on Linux.


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Every year, you promise yourself you won't wait until the last minute to do your holiday shopping, but once again, it's the week before Christmas and you've gotten nary a gift. Don't panic! Before you go into a desperate shopping frenzy, check out these 10 tips for last-minute shoppers. You'll find everything you need with time to spare, and nobody on your list will know you procrastinated (again).
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Let me preface with this: this is over-simplified for someone just getting started with git, who does not have the time to learn all the intricacies of git, and covers the most common workflow I've encountered, that is:
– download code from a remote repository
– make changes
– commit and send the changes back
– get the latest from that remote repository
So, here goes:
First you'll need to install git is it is not aleady installed.
Checkout a project
git clone http://github.com/psq/spider.git
Edit files as you see fit, then when time comes to commit your changes back in:
git status
will show you what files you've modified. Or added. If you added any files, add them to the files controlled by git (this also works with a new directory and will recursively add everything)
git add README.txt
Then commit all
git commit -a -m "added readme"
-m option adds a messages, -a adds all modified files to the commit
Upload your changes
Then push your changes back to the original repo
git push origin master
Download the latest version
And finally, to get any updates from the master repo (you may need to do this before doing the push above)
git pull origin master
This is overly simplified on purpose, but will give any beginner time to dive in deeper when time permits.
See this previous post for some helpful git shortcuts


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Choice Physical Therapy can be your first point of access for muscoloskeletal care; however, your insurance company MAY require a referral from your physician to receive physical therapy services. Please check with your insurance provider prior to scheduling your first appointment.
Although we try to assist you in determining your coverage with your insurance plan, it is always wise to call your insurance company yourself prior to your visit to determine what coverage you have for Physical Therapy and Occupational services.
Choice Physical Therapy is a participating provider with most major insurance plans; please check with our front desk when you arrive for your appointment.
If you are covered by a Managed Care Plan, it is important that you check with your primary care physician to make sure they have sent us the managed care referral. This is sometimes separate from the Physician referral and it is important to make sure you have both in place.
Please arrive 15 minutes ahead of your scheduled appointment time to allow us time to process your paperwork. You can download your forms and fill them out prior to your appointment.
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Please plan on spending 1 – 1 ½ hours on your first appointment. This allows the physical therapist to spend the time evaluating you and establishing a treatment plan that will allow you to attain your goals.
If you have any questions prior to your visit, please call us at 802.476.3305 and we will be happy to assist you.
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You know, I got a chance to attend a high-school graduation yesterday. They have this cool tradition. Instead of one graduation speaker, every graduate is invited to say a few words, and many reflected on how far they'd come. In Yukon, Okla., graduates reflect by returning to their old elementary school. StateImpact Oklahoma's Robby Korth has this report.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Over intercom) Ranchwood seniors, when you hear the music, you may start your walk.
ROBBY KORTH, BYLINE: Graduating senior Ivan Ramirez leads his classmates in a walk through their alma mater, Ranchwood Elementary School.
IVAN RAMIREZ: I'm very excited to be the leader because I've never been a leader before.
KORTH: He was also very excited when he saw my microphone.
RAMIREZ: I'm going to be on the - OK. I just want to say a huge shoutout to my mom.
KORTH: Ramirez and his classmates at Yukon High School were sophomores when schools shut down in March 2020. The district's tradition of bringing seniors back to their elementary school was also put on hold. This year, it's finally back.
RAMIREZ: When I saw the PE gym, I was just like, wow. I was like - that was my favorite place to go.
KORTH: Another place he frequented back in the day, Principal Kristin Lipe's office.
KRISTIN LIPE: And that little Ivan - oh, my gosh - a stinker, a stinker.
KORTH: A stinker who brings back memories of a time before masks or vaccines. And seeing kids like him at this brief ceremony featuring orange juice and doughnuts means everything to Lipe, especially in the wake of the pandemic, which upended these graduates' high-school years.
LIPE: This is the reason I come and do my job every day, is to see these kids rise above a lot of different circumstances that they face and just to see them become young adults. And I can't wait to see where their journey takes them to the next stage.
KORTH: Both Lipe and Ramirez say going back and seeing some familiar faces makes life feel a little better, a little more normal. Less normal is what happened when Lipe, who spent years disciplining Ramirez, sees him for the first time.
RAMIREZ: She actually came up to me and hugged me. She recognized me. And I was like, of course she would. I was like, yeah. I knew she would recognize me. This time she was actually - she actually had a smile on her face.
KORTH: And how could she not?
For NPR News, I'm Robby Korth in Yukon, Okla.
(SOUNDBITE OF EDWARD ELGAR'S "POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Toronto Real Estate Board President Larry Cerqua announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 12,077 residential sales through TREB's MLS® System in March 2017. This result represented a 17.7 per cent increase compared to the 10,260 sales reported in March 2016. For the TREB market area as a whole, annual sales growth was strongest for condominium apartments and detached houses.
The number of new listings also increased on a year-over-year basis, at 17,051 – a 15.2 per cent increase compared to March 2016. The strongest growth in new listings was experienced in the detached market segment. While new listings were up strongly compared to last year, the rate new listings growth was still lower than the rate of sales growth. As a result, GTA market conditions continued to tighten.
"It has been encouraging to see that policymakers have not implemented any knee-jerk policies regarding the GTA housing market. Different levels of government are holding consultations with market stakeholders and TREB has participated and will continue to participate in these discussions. Policy makers must remember that it is the interplay between the demand for and supply of listings that influences price growth," said Mr. Cerqua.
Strong competition between buyers continued to cause high levels of price growth in all major market segments. The MLS® Home Price Index (HPI) Composite Benchmark Price was up by 28.6 per cent year-over-year. For the TREB market area as a whole, the average selling price was up by 33.2 per cent, with similar annual rates of growth in the low-rise and condominium apartment segments.
"Annual rates of price growth continued to accelerate in March as growth in sales outstripped growth in listings. A substantial period of months in which listings growth is greater than sales growth will be required to bring the GTA housing market back into balance. As policy makers seek to achieve this balance, it is important that an evidence-based approach is followed," said Jason Mercer, TREB's Director of Market Analysis.
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The 2011 ASHRAE Winter Conference technical program features a range of programs and papers addressing the real cost of net-zero-energy design, the efficient use of energy, the greening of the industrial base, and other topics related to design, standards, codes, and professional skills. In total, the program includes paper-related sessions—five technical-paper sessions, 24 conference-paper sessions, and a poster session—57 application-oriented non-paper seminars, and eight open-discussion forums.
Numerous sessions address the cost of net-zero-energy buildings and cover modeling and design, applications, and equipment. Also, several sessions examine how countries around the world have approached net-zero energy, such as "Cutting-Edge Japanese Technologies for Zero-Energy Buildings," "Zero Energy Buildings Around the World," and "European Net-Zero Energy Activities and Buildings."
Several sessions focus on HVAC systems for casinos, such as "Designing for Improved Air Quality in Casinos with ETS" and "Historical Perspectives: Las Vegas Casino Design Past to Present."
Other sessions address the growing demand for green buildings and the importance of integrated design: "Mechanical Engineer's Role in Green Building" and "Building Development: High Performance Teamwork for High Performance Buildings."
Additional sessions include:
- "Smart Grid and Net Zero Buildings: Where Are We Now?"
- "Energy Modeling of Existing Buildings"
- "Modeling Extreme Events"
- "Controls for Central Chiller Plant Optimization"
- "Next Generation Heat Exchangers for Net-Zero Design"
- "Thermal Comfort Evaluation and Standards"
The Virtual Conference, free to paid conference registrants, allows attendees to catch up with sessions they might not have been able to attend in person. The Virtual Conference includes access to all speakers' PowerPoint and audio presentations, an open forum for a two-week period following the conference, and the ability to rate presentations.
The 2011 ASHRAE Winter Conference and will take place at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel, Las Vegas, Nev. For complete conference information, including abstracts on all technical program sessions, or to register, visit www.ashrae.org/lasvegas. Those who take part in the early-bird registration before Dec. 31 can save up to $160.


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Signs by the Numbers
8 in 10 consumers say they entered a store or business they had never visited before based simply on its signs.
3 out of 4 tell others about a business simply based on its signage.
2 out of 3 consumers believe that a business' signage reflects the quality of its products or services.
2 out of 3 consumers say they purchased a product or service because a sign caught their eye.


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Meet the Interns: Mehek Mirchandani
(Gainesville Office)
1. Tell us a little about yourself...
My name is Mehek, and I am a first generation Indian American student at the University of Florida.
2. Why are you involved with LGBT activism?
I became involved in LGBTQ activism when I was in high school. I joined the drama club and made so many friends who opened my eyes to the issues facing LGBTQ people today. As time went on, I myself came out, and in turn, worked as president of the Gay Straight Alliance at that school to fight to have a Day of Silence, which the administration was adamantly against. Throughout college my activism waned as school took up more of my time.
3. Why did you want to intern at Equality Florida?
I wanted to intern at Equality Florida because I missed being in the thick of discussion and action toward progress. A friend of mine had a wonderful experience as an intern with Equality Florida and encouraged me to apply when I was looking for internships.
4. What are your plans after you graduate?
After I graduate, I hope to pursue a Masters in Public Policy, though I have not yet decided when I want start school again. In the meantime, I hope to find a job in something I am passionate about.
Stay tuned next week for the next blog post in our "Meet The Interns" series!


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The Star
Encep Nurjaman 1980 |
Hambali is not his real name but his nom-de-guerre.
According to official records, Hambali was born Encep Nurjaman on April 4, 1964 in Pamokolan, a small town here, about three hours' drive south of Jakarta.
"He was a smart person, his English was superior, his knowledge on religion was intensive and he paid a lot of attention to his friends," said Ati Fahriati, who is now a kindergarten teacher, but back in the early 1980s, used to attend the al-I'anah High School with Hambali.
English is not widely spoken in Cianjur and other places in Indonesia but young Hambali conversed in English with his English teacher. Hambali also turned out to be a natural leader among his peers.
Al-I'anah is an Islamic school where students are required to attend not only regular classes but learn the Quran and Arabic.
The students conversed daily in Sundanese – the language of the major ethnic group in this part of western Java – which was also spoken by Hambali, himself a Sundanese.
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Hambali is currently known as a chief strategist of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist network. He was formerly a leader of Mantiqi One – a JI brigade whose territories include Malaysia and Singapore.
He was arrested in Thailand on Aug 15 and is being held in a secret location by the US authorities.
According to the International Crisis Group, a think-tank based in Brussels, Hambali was the head of Mantiqi One until early last year, when he was replaced by Mukhlas, another JI leader now facing trial in Bali.
Hambali himself became the overall head of JI's four mantiqi (regions), according to Hashim bin Abbas, one of the Singapore JI detainees.
Prior to joining al-I'anah, young Hambali attended the Manarul Huda Islamic boarding school for nine years and learned to read Arabic and recite the Quran.
"He finished reciting the Quran when he was in grade four, or maybe grade three," said Hindun Maksum, Hambali's aunt who is a teacher at Manarul Huda and taught Hambali to recite the Quran.
Manarul Huda was established in 1936 by Hindun's grandfather and it was only natural that Hambali went to study there. Hambali enrolled in al-I'anah in 1980.
Hindun remembered Hambali as a quiet young man who was never involved in a brawl.
"He was friendly, not a troublemaker, and rather quiet, maybe because of his background from the village," said Aip Saripudin, another classmate who used to share the same classes with Hambali between 1980 and 1983.
Wirahma Wiradinata, the chemistry teacher at al-I'anah, said: "Encep was exceptional in his religious conviction. But he did not show any deviation from his religious teaching. Islam is a peaceful religion. I wondered if Hambali is really Encep. But if it is true Hambali is Encep, I am disappointed with him."
Fahriati recalled that Hambali had regularly received a news bulletin from abroad.
"I have never seen it myself but probably from Iran. He was an avid reader and knew politics better than his peers.
"Once he approached me and asked: 'Do you know the most corrupt person in Indonesia? He answered it himself, 'Pak Harto'.'"
Fahriati was surprised and replied: "Please don't say that."
Hambali insisted that his argument was correct. "It's true. One day it will be proven. Pak Harto is the Pharaoh of Asia. The Pharaoh was indeed rich just like Suharto," he had said.
"Pak Harto" is a reference to President Suharto, Indonesia 's authoritarian leader, who ruled from 1968 to 1998.
A few weeks after graduating from al-I'anah, the 19-year-old Hambali told his parents and relatives that he was going to work in Malaysia, just like many other Cianjur citizens.
He assured his parents that he would financially help his younger siblings.
Most friends never met Hambali after his 1983 departure. Hindun said Encep only returned to Cianjur in 1990 for one week and later in 1995 along with his young Malaysian wife, Noraliza Abdullah.
"He said that he was doing some businesses in Malaysia, selling batik and other goods," Hindun said.
What Hindun did not say was that Hambali had told his siblings and probably other relatives that he was also involved in training and "jihad fighting" in Afghanistan since 1987 just like other senior JI members in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In Malaysia, Hambali met two Indonesian radical religious leaders, Abdullah Sungkar and Abubakar Ba'asyir, the co-founders of JI, who fled Indonesia in 1985 and internationalised their activities from Malaysia.
Hambali took a new name in his Malaysian permanent residence permit: Riduan Isamuddin.
The three of them shared the same housing compound in Sungai Manggis, Banting, Selangor. Both religious leaders actively sent their students "to study" in Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan.
Fahriati said in an interview that she had learned about Hambali's Afghanistan experience from his siblings, who told her about their big brother's sagas.
According to the International Crisis Group report "Jemaah Islamiah in South-East Asia: Damaged but Still Dangerous", JI senior leaders were mostly trained in the camps of Saudi-financed Afghan mujahidin (Islamic fighter) leader Abdul Rasul Sayyaf. There they developed "jihadist fervour, international contacts and deadly skills."
Hambali's relatives and some teachers, however, still doubted if Hambali is their long lost Encep Nurjaman.
"Hambali is not Encep. His face is not similar. If only one knows Encep, the teenager, who never involved himself in trouble, one will realise that it is very unlikely he is Hambali," said Hindun.


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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to provide medical assistance to civilians affected by recent fighting in N'Djamena, Chad's capital city, as well as refugees who have fled the combat to Cameroon, and displaced populations in the east of the country.
Since Monday, the situation has remained relatively calm in the capital. Between February 2 and February 5, MSF treated 106 wounded in one of the N'Djamena hospitals. An additional 500 wounded civilians were admitted into the two main hospitals of N'Djamena since fighting started over the weekend. On Tuesday, MSF visited these two hospitals, but hundreds of wounded had fled the city either heading towards the south of Ndjamena, to Cameroon, or to Nigeria, and only 100 out of 500 wounded remain.
The International Committee for the Red Cross is now working in the Liberté Hospital while MSF has provided the General Hospital with medical and surgical supplies and has reinforced the Chadian staff with a nurse, a pharmacist, and a surgical team which has started to operate. Wounded people are continuing to arrive for treatment. There are 14 international staff members working in N'Djamena.
Full cargos with medical, logistical supplies, and relief items are also being sent to the region.
Displaced and refugees in Cameroon
An estimated 60,000 people have crossed the border into Cameroon and settled in the town of Kousseri. People are still arriving in the town. Eighty-two wounded were admitted into Kousseri hospital. A team of doctors including a surgical team, nurses, and a logistician is on the field to provide medical care to the refugees and to distribute relief items. One cargo plane arrived to Garoua this morning with 15 tons of drugs, medical, and logistic material to support the team's activities. A team is now assessing the situation between N'Djamena and Bongor where displaced people are arriving too.
Situation in Eastern Chad
While MSF teams have been reduced in eastern Chad due to the unpredictable situation, MSF is still continuing to work in the region where the teams provide primary and secondary health care, psychosocial care, water and sanitation to Sudanese refugees and to Chadians, both local residents and displaced people, in Abeche, Adre, Farchana, Goz Beida, Dogdoré, Guereda, Iriba, and Am Timam.


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Sex, lies and lingerie! The titillating title provides a reliable clue to what you're in for, as does the reputation of "wild and crazy guy" Steve Martin, famous actor, writer, frequent Saturday Night Live host and the adaptor of this hundred-year-old German comedy.
The Underpants, currently playing at Princeton Summer Theater (PST), certainly contains a smattering of social commentary — on sexism and gender roles, on our fascination with fame and on the power of sex as a motivating force in the individual and society — but the great power of this play lies in its bawdy humor. Director Shawn Fennell and his PST company deliver that humor with admirable skill and intelligence in this delightful finale to an outstanding 2009 season.
As pretty young housewife Louise was standing on a bench on her tiptoes, trying to see the king passing by in a procession, her underpants fell down! Her puritanical husband Theo is furious that he will be blamed, fired from his job as a government clerk, and ruined by the scandal. Lured by the sight of Louise with her underpants around her ankles, Versati, an impassioned poet, and Cohen, a sickly, philosophical Jewish barber, soon appear at Theo and Louise's apartment, seeking to rent a room. The plot unfolds from there, as the boarders attempt to seduce Louise, Louise and her nosy neighbor Gertrude plot their own intrigues, and the dimwitted Theo loudly and ineffectually tries to assert his masculine authority. Witty repartee, puns, and sex jokes fly, as the larger-than-life characters and their wacky behaviors speed the action from scene to scene.
The Underpants is Mr. Martin's 2002 adaptation of Carl Sternheim's 1911 comedy, the first of a six-play cycle Comedies From the Heroic Life of the Middle Class, showing influences from Molière and capturing more than a taste of the farces of Sternheim's French contemporary Georges Feydeau. Later in the twentieth century Noël Coward's comedies of manners and Eugene Ionesco's Theater of the Absurd would echo the spirit of Sternheim's sharp, funny dialogue, off-the-wall one-liners and preposterous situations. Mr. Martin's adaptation ratchets up the madcap hilarity.
As Mr. Fennell, Princeton University senior, points out in his program notes, Sternheim undoubtedly had some larger issues on his plate in the original play, Die Hose. Strains of anti-Semitism in the years leading up to the rise of Nazism in Germany, apparent in Theo's comments and Cohen's attempts to hide his Jewish heritage; the portrayal of Theo as the quintessential bourgeois in contrast with the aristocrat Versati and the lower class Cohen; and the intellectual name-dropping of Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud. and Einstein all provide thought-provoking material.
There are repeated allusions to sightings of the Loch Ness monster, to the power of the imagination and lies, references to appearances and realities, what's on the surface and what's underneath (It's no coincidence that the protagonists' last name is "Maske," the German word for "mask.") — and, of course, there's the underpants motif. The major concerns of Mr. Martin and his larger-than-life characters, however, are hardly subtle.
Steve Martins adaptation of Carl Sternheims The Underpants, runs from August 13-16, with performances Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Call (609) 258-7062 for information.
There's sexual desire, which drives the plot. There's the allure and fear of fame, as Louise basks in her celebrity and Theo cringes in horror. And there's the gender politics, as Theo asserts the sexist male tradition and Louise ventures forth through disappointment with her traditional marriage, disillusionment with the dream of romance, and the thrills of sudden celebrity to eventually achieve a certain knowledge, wisdom, and power in her world.
The Princeton Summer Theater ensemble of seven embraces this challenging material with style and energy. The characters and situations here are not without their grounding in the real world, but the farcical tone calls for caricature rather than realism.
Aaron Strand as Versati and Billy Hepfinger as Theo, with the two most extreme roles here, prove most adept at capturing the cartoon-like spirit of this crazy world.
Mr. Hepfinger's Theo is the consummate hidebound, self-centered bureaucrat. With buzz cut, high collar, suspenders, and bowler hat, he attempts to bully his wife and everybody else, but ultimately proves more ridiculous than threatening. "You are much too attractive for a man in my position," he warns Louise. "Your breasts, your legs, they draw the eyes. My job and your appearance do not go together. Everyone notices you. And it's your fault …. The woman's fault always …. What are breasts? Harmless utilitarian lumps of flesh. But you squeeze them into a sweater and mountains move …. Flesh speaks to men from under coats, under caftans, under furs, from igloos. There's always a small voice calling: I am here." And Mr. Hepfinger masters the challenge of playing the silliness with the greatest conviction and seriousness.
A worthy foil to Theo, Strand's Versati, with gymnastic dexterity, embraces the physical and verbal comedy at every juncture. Slithering on and off stage in his seductive smoothness, waxing poetic in his romantic exhortations, crawling on one knee in pursuit of Louise, he's all talk, and plenty of action too, just not the sort of sexual action Louise is looking for. Sexual double entendres and silliness abound as he follows his romantic quest. "Think of (your husband)" he urges Louise, "as a necessary part of the triangle. You are the flint, I am the fire, and he is the wet piece of wood."
As Louise, the central figure of the play, Ariel Sibert is credible and in character, though more subdued than her male counterparts. She is the straight, sympathetic character amidst the eccentric assortment surrounding her, but, in keeping with the spirit of the show, a bit more expression from Ms. Sibert, especially when her own passions become aroused, would bring an extra shot of adrenalin to the proceedings.
Max Rosmarin creates a distinctly quirky Cohen, providing sharp humor in his lusts, his hypochondria and his perceptive wit, far beyond the comprehension of the smug Theo. As the officious, high-spirited, and comical Gertrude, Sara-Ashley Bischoff injects a sparkling dose of energy and provides an ally, a cheerleader, and a confidante for Louise. Ms. Bischoff's Gertrude is vivid in character, but occasionally needs clearer diction to bring across her accented, rapid-fire lines.
Tyler Crosby as Klinglehoff introduces, in the last act, yet another idiosyncratic and extremely amusing character, and Patrick Harvey makes a startling dramatic appearance in a cameo role in the last scene to bring the absurdities to a fittingly wild and absurd culmination.
Allen Grimm's unit set, representing the Maske's apartment, is appropriately askew, with raked platforms on three different levels and a Magritte-like window looking out into blue sky on the top level. Period costumes by Ms. Sibert and Maggie Tominey and sound by Mitch Frank also provide excellent complements to the proceedings.
Over the past two months, Princeton Summer Theater has consistently delivered first-rate theater and attracted large, enthusiastic audiences. Following highly acclaimed productions of Urinetown, The Glass Menagerie and No Time for Comedy, The Underpants again sets impressive standards for acting, staging and sheer entertainment.
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San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with Professor Pamela Samuelson of the University of California, Berkeley, urged the U.S. Supreme Court today to clean up the legal mess that is software patent law, reining in overbroad patents that are impermissibly abstract.
In front of the court is Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, a long running case about a computer system that helps with closing financial transactions by avoiding settlement risk. In its amicus brief filed today, EFF argues that allowing a patent on this system goes against previous Supreme Court rulings that ideas like these are "abstract" and aren't legally patentable.
"It wouldn't make sense to patent simple ideas like ways of running a business or prioritizing a to-do list," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Julie Samuels, who also holds the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents. "That's basically what's under consideration here, with the small addition of a step that essentially implements it on a computer. Of course, since basically everything we do today is on the computer, letting patents like this exist shuts down entire business models."
The data on the U.S. technology industry bear this out. Since software patents have boomed, we've seen no corresponding boom in software growth and innovation; to the contrary, that growth maintained the steady pace that existed long before the advent of software patents. Instead, along with software patents, we've seen the rise of patent trolls – companies that don't make or sell anything, but shake down true creators through the loopholes in the law.
"In this case, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to implement a sensible system, limiting these broad and vague claims that do nothing besides fuel lawsuits," said Samuels. "A clear ruling here would limit one of the patent troll's favorite weapons—broad and vague software patents—and keep our innovation economy safe."
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For more on abstract software patents:
Julie Samuels
Staff Attorney and The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents
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Push Notifications
A push notification (AKA client notification) is a notification that shows up on one or more of your client devices without you having to explicitly request it — it's "pushed" to you, instead of you having to poll for it. –Source: IndieWeb.org
Today I came across a beta web service called Pushpad that provides easy-to-install push notifications. As a result, for people who spend a lot of time in front of their screens, they can now subscribe to updates on the site here via web browser push notifications. Subscribers will get a small toaster-like pop up notification in real time on their screen to indicate that new content was published.
Set up
The service was quick and simple to set up with lots of documentation. While geared at large corporations looking for a simple turnkey implementation for push notifications on most major web browsers, it's also easily usable by smaller sites. Even better it's free for providing less than 10,000 notifications a month, which covers most small sites.
They provide an "Express" version that requires no serious technical skills and sets up in just a few minutes and a separate "Pro" version which provides a lot of additional customization (including a white labeled version) for those with the development skills to implement it.
For those on WordPress, they also have an easy to use plugin.
Pushpad supports the Push API for Chrome and Firefox and APNs for Safari.
Pushpad also supports integration with Zapier (currently in beta), which means that any of the hundreds of applications that are integrated with Zapier can be used to create push notifications on the desktop. Hopefully they include IFTTT.com soon too. I'm already using Pushbullet with IFTTT for integration between my Android phone and my desktop, but additional integrations for personalized notifications could be cool.
Roll Your Own
But maybe you're hard core? If you prefer not relying on outside services, you can always build your own push notifications! In particular, IndieWeb.org provides some thoughts and tips about how to implement these for yourself based on open web standards.
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Photo by Mark Zuckerman / NATS INSIDER The Nats try to extend their winning streak to six tonight against the Marlins. |
The Nationals are down to their final four series of the year, beginning tonight against the Marlins. They'll travel to Philadelphia next week, host the Braves next weekend, then travel to Florida for the final three games of the year.
John Lannan will be on the mound tonight, looking once again to secure his career-best 10th win. He'll be opposed by veteran Javier Vazquez, who is 3-0 with an 0.45 ERA over his last three starts.
I'm back at the ballpark all weekend, so please check back for updates throughout...
MARLINS at NATIONALS
Where: Nationals Park
Gametime: 7:05 p.m.
Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM), WFED (1500 AM), XM 186
Weather: Mostly cloudy, 63 degrees, Wind 4 mph in from RF
STARTING LINEUPS4:45 p.m. -- You'll surely notice the absence of both Michael Morse and Jayson Werth from tonight's lineup. No injuries for either player, but Davey Johnson has been wanting to give each guy a day off for a while now. He finally felt comfortable doing that tonight since both Roger Bernadina (hand) and Laynce Nix (groin) are able to play the field again after battling nagging injuries the last couple of weeks. Both Morse and Werth should be back in the lineup tomorrow night.
SS Ian Desmond
LF Roger Bernadina
3B Ryan Zimmerman
RF Laynce Nix
CF Rick Ankiel
2B Danny Espinosa
1B Chris Marrero
C Wilson Ramos
P John Lannan
SS Emilio Bonifacio
2B Omar Infante
RF Mike Stanton
3B Jose Lopez
LF Logan Morrison
1B Gaby Sanchez
CF Bryan Petersen
C John Buck
P Javier Vazquez
7:07 p.m. -- And we're underway with a strike from John Lannan to Emilio Bonifacio. It's a cool 62 degrees at gametime. Yep, fall has arrived.
7:15 p.m. -- What could've been a ragged first inning for Lannan turned out fine, thanks to a sliding catch in left field by Roger Bernadina and a nice 5-3 double play started by Ryan Zimmerman. Lannan had gotten himself in trouble after allowing a single to Emilio Bonifacio and then walking Omar Infante. His defense bailed him out, big-time.
7:34 p.m. -- Eventually, walks are going to come back to haunt you. Sure enough, when Lannan issued two free passes in the top of the second, one of them wound up scoring thanks to a wild pitch and then John Buck's RBI single to center. That's not going to get it done. Lannan had better figure this out quickly, or he's not going to be on the mound much longer tonight. Nats trail 1-0 in the middle of the second.
7:41 p.m. -- Wasted opportunity for the Nats in the bottom of the second. They got back-to-back singles from Ankiel and Espinosa, but Espinosa got greedy and tried to stretch his hit into a double. He was promptly gunned down at second base. Which meant there were already two outs when Marrero flied out to right, and thus Ankiel couldn't tag up to score. So it remains 1-0 after two.
7:50 p.m. -- This is not going well for Lannan, is it? Back-to-back doubles to open the third, then a two-out single by Gaby Sanchez, then another single by Bryan Petersen that thankfully as wiped out on a great relay throw by Ian Desmond to catch Petersen straying too far off first base. Still, it's 3-0 Marlins in the middle of the third, and Lannan has been all over the place. Surprised the bullpen has remained quiet to this point.
8:27 p.m. -- We're through five innings now, and it's still 3-0 Marlins. Lannan has settled down some, but his teammates have done little against Vazquez through five. It didn't help matters when Ankiel didn't hustle out of the box on a grounder to second to lead off the bottom of the fifth. Infante booted the ball but still through Ankiel out by a half-step. If Ankiel is busting it down the line right from the get-go, he's easily safe.
8:34 p.m. -- Alex Cora will pinch-hit for Lannan to open the bottom of the sixth, ending Lanna's night. Amazingly, he still gets credit for a quality start: three runs allowed in six innings. If you've watched this game, you know there was very little about this start that deserves to be classified as "quality."
8:58 p.m. -- Another nice inning of relief from Craig Stammen, who recorded a pair of strikeouts and then got an assist from Espinosa, who made a nifty play to get Logan Morrison to end the inning. Still 3-0 at the seventh-inning stretch.
9:13 p.m. -- Uh, Brian Bixler: What are you doing? Getting picked off first base to end the bottom of the seventh? With a runner in front of you? And the tying run at the plate, down three runs? Come on, you're better than that.
9:30 p.m. -- Eight innings in the books, and Javier Vazquez has still not allowed a run. Just a feeble showing from the Nats lineup tonight. They've got three outs to turn it around.
9:39 p.m. -- Well, at least something happened to get the crowd excited in the top of the ninth. Nice double play to end the inning, with Ryan Zimmerman going home to get Bonifacio, then Ramos making a great throw to second base to nail Stanton. We go to the bottom of the ninth, Nats still down 3-0.
9:45 p.m. -- That'll do it. Behind a complete-game performance from Javier Vazquez, the Nats lose 3-0. It's the 14th time they've been shut out this season. So much for the momentum of that four-game sweep in New York. That was the least interesting game of the year right there. Sheesh.


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GREENBELT, Md. — The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-14, provided its first visible full disk image of Earth on July 27, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The prime instrument on GOES, called the Imager, is taking images of Earth with a 1 kilometer (km) or 0.62 mile resolution from an altitude of 36,000 km (22,240 miles) above Earth's surface, equivalent to taking a picture of a dime from a distance of seven football fields.
"The first GOES-14 visible full disk image shows little activity in the Atlantic Ocean and two tropical waves located in the East Pacific Ocean with a low probability of becoming a tropical cyclone. Numerous thunderstorms are seen scattered along the east coast and western Atlantic Ocean, with more significant rains and thunderstorms in the southeast Oklahoma and northeast Texas area," remarked Thomas Renkevens, a User Services Coordinator from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, Camp Springs, Md. "NOAA will continue to follow the tropical waves and thunderstorms for possible further development."
The GOES satellite system aids forecasters in locating severe weather events and is instrumental in providing early warnings for residents located in the surrounding areas. "Being able to predict the path of a hurricane with reasonable certainty and only evacuating the areas at risk saves communities roughly a million dollars per mile," Renkevens stated.
"This GOES-14 image also shows a mostly cloud-free southwest United States, with a blanket of low clouds along over the Pacific Ocean off the west coast," stated Renkevens.
The Imager was built by ITT Industries, Inc. in Fort Wayne, Ind. The Imager is mounted on an ultra-stable optical bench on a spacecraft built by Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems of El Segundo, Calif. Star trackers on the spacecraft provide the attitude reference in order to point the instruments and keep the images jitter-free.
"Capturing this first sharp image is a major milestone for our GOES team. It represents a culmination of this team's hard work and dedication. We still have more to do but full mission success is clearly in our sights," stated Andre' Dress, the NASA GOES N Series Deputy Project Manager, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Launched as GOES-O on June 27, 2009, the satellite was renamed GOES-14 after reaching geostationary orbit on July 8, 2009. The satellite is now approximately 22,300 miles above Earth's surface located at 89.5 west longitude where it will remain during the 5 month checkout period.
Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems handed over engineering control of GOES-14 to NASA on July 18, at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Md.
On August 14, NASA plans to deploy the Imager and Sounder cooler doors that will allow the infrared detectors to take infrared images of Earth and soundings of atmospheric temperatures and water vapor levels. The Imager and Sounder data are also used for sea surface temperatures, fog and fire detection, volcanic eruption monitoring, and severe storm evaluations.
NASA expects to complete checkout of the satellite by mid-December and hand it over to NOAA for operational use. NOAA expects to store GOES-14 on-orbit at 105 west longitude until an operational need arises. NOAA also expects to deorbit GOES-10 within the next six months due to fuel depletion.
NOAA manages the GOES program, establishes requirements, provides all funding and distributes the environmental satellite data for the United States. NASA Goddard procures and manages the design, development and launch of the satellites and provides some ground station components for NOAA. Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems built GOES-O and provided the commercial launch services through Boeing Launch Services and the United Launch Alliance.
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(LE MARS)–Plymouth County department heads may choose to contract their fuel purchases with Gasrite of Omaha and Sioux City.
Plymouth County supervisors, on a motion by Don Kass, Tuesday authorized department heads to utilize Gasrite.
Kass said he wanted to make one thing clear to the public.
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Gasrite issues cards similar to credit cards to fuel users that trigger payments to fuel businesses and monthly bills to the county.
During a meeting Tuesday, Supervisor Craig Anderson talked with Tim Johnson of Gasrite about the way the program works and county purchases.
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Supervisor Gordon Greene saw the issue as up to department heads comparing it to the annual purchase of a motorgrader for the Secondary Road Department.
New business's request gets Council backing
(LE MARS)–A new business may make a decision about locating in Le Mars this month.
The City Council Tuesday agreed to apply for funds from a state program and state tax credits for North American Co-Pack Iowa L-L-C.
Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Neal Adler Adler said the requests were not new to the Council. Adler told the Council said the request for the business had been done a number of times over the years for other businesses.
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The Council approved a request to the Iowa Department of Economic Development for Value Added Ag Program loan funding and state tax credits.
Adler said the city would probably know within the next couple of weeks whether Le Mars is where the firm is going to locate.
Specifics about the products North American Co-Pack Iowa L-L-C would make and employment numbers were not discussed at the Council meeting.
Two accidents, two injuries Tueday afternoon in Le Mars
(LE MARS)–Two people were injured in related traffic accidents in southwest Le Mars Tuesday afternoon.
A preliminary report from Le Mars Police indicates a moped driven by 14-year-old Nicole Orban of Le Mars was traveling north on Sixth Avenue Southwest. Orban stopped at the stop sign at the intersection of Fourth Street Southwest and crossed Fourth Street.
Police report the moped was struck by a car being driven west on Fourth Street by 81-year-old Marjorie Loutsch of Le Mars.
Another accident was reported when Loutsch was struck after she got out of her car to help Orban. The driver of the car, 87-year-old Vincent Roeser of Le Mars, was driving east on Fourth Street Southwest and began to make a left turn onto Sixth Avenue Southwest. Police say Roeser did not see Loutsch because he was distracted by the first accident. His car struck Loutsch from behind and she was thrown to the ground from the impact.
Le Mars Ambulance took Loutsch and Orban to Floyd Valley Hospital. Le Mars Ambulance and Le Mars Fire assisted police.
Fire fighters respond to two electrical fires
(LE MARS)–Stop signs replaced traffic signals at two downtown Le Mars intersections after a street light was reported on fire early this (Wednesday) morning.
The Le Mars Fire Department was called to 18 Plymouth Street Southwest about one this morning and completed the call about 45 minutes later.
Two, four-way stop signs were placed at the intersection of Plymouth Street and First Avenue Southwest and Plymouth Street and Central Avenue.
Le Mars Fire also responded to a report of a small electrical fire at 41 Prospect Street Southwest about eight Tuesday night. According to the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office fire log, the call was completed in about 45 minutes.
Fire Chief Dave Schipper says the electrical fire was in a counter top mounted range stove. After the stove had been used to prepare the evening meal, the Van Wyne family noticed a noise. Schipper says there was electrical arcing under the knobs controlling the stove burners. Power was shut off to the applicance. There was no smoke or fire damage.
Endowment receives its largest gift
(LE MARS)–Gehlen Catholic Schools Endowment Fund is marking its 23rd anniversary with an announcement about the largest gift in its history.
The Endowment hosts the Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce Coffee this (Wednesday) morning from 9:30 to 10:30 in the school library.
According to information released by the endowment board, an investment of 184-thousand dollars was added to the Eva Waite Tuition Assistance Fund by a donor who wishes to remain anonymous.
The endowment fund is restricted and the income is used only to assist families attending Gehlen Catholic School with their Transitional Kindergarten through 12th Grade School tuition. The money is for tuition that is not covered by the Monsignor Lafferty Tuition Foundation.
During an annual meeting in August, the board noted the largest total donations in one year were received and invested. The total was 238-thousand dollars. Donations are not spent–only the earnings from the invested principal. The earnings support Gehlen Catholic's operating budget and K-12 student assistance.
Investment earnings of more than 70-thousand dollars were transferred to Gehlen Catholic during the last year.
The board announced a new scholarship opportunity for graduates. A recent substantial donation will restrict its earnings to fund an annual award to help Gehlen Catholic high school seniors with tuition for a technical or trade school.
Michael Ruhland of Le Mars was elected to a three-year term on the endowment board replacing retiring trustee Dr. Wayne Meylor who served 12 years. Ruhland is a certified financial planner and a 1976 graduate of Gehlen Catholic.
Chuck Kellen of Le Mars was re-elected to a three-year term. Board officers re-elected to another year include chairperson Dick Ahlers; Kellen as vice chairperson; and Joe Kessenich as secretary-treasurer.
Little Sioux makes energy improvements
(LE MARS)–Energy efficiency is growing just like the production at a Cherokee County renewable fuels plant.
Daryl Haack is a Primghar corn grower who helped organize ethanol maker Little Sioux Corn Processors of rural Marcus.
Haack says the ethanol plant was built to produce 40 million gallons of ethanol a year and has been expanded twice, with production exceeding the design and using energy more efficiently.
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Haack explains more work to make the Little Sioux operation efficient is planned.
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Energy conservation improvements have been made by Little Sioux staff as well as outside engineers.
Storm Lake man found after search
(STORM LAKE)–A search for a missing Storm Lake man Saturday was a success.
Sixty-two-year-old James Sheplear had been kayaking on the Little Sioux River with friends and became separated from the group.
After he'd been missing for about an hour, the Buena Vista County Sheriff's office was contacted. A search began in the Blue Bird Creek Access area upstream from the Linn Grove Dam at around 9:45 p-m.
The sheriff's office, the Sioux Rapids Fire Department and First Responders set up for a search of the river along with two people from Sioux Rapids who volunteered boats.
Sheplear was found about a mile upstream from the access in some backwater off the main river.
Authorities say he'd become disoriented and lost his way, but was not injured.
The search and returning Sheplear to the access took about two hours.
Crop report: corn harvest ahead of average
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa's corn harvest is already under way as corn development continue well ahead of average.
In its weekly crop report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Tuesday that chopping corn for silage and harvesting seed corn are in full swing in Iowa, while harvesting for grain is starting in fields that were planted early.
Corn development in Iowa in all three stages is at least nine days ahead of last year and the five-year average.
Forty-five percent of Iowa's soybean acres have turned color. That's ahead of last year's 26 percent and the average of 39 percent.
Some hay producers continued their third cutting last week while some started a fourth cutting.
Last week's light rains and lower humidity also relieved stress on Iowa livestock.
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will speak on judicial retention
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A coalition of legal, business and labor advocates is working to support three Iowa Supreme Court justices under fire for a decision last year legalizing gay marriage.
The coalition plans a panel discussion Wednesday featuring retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She has been outspoken about what she sees as an effort to politicize the judicial process, something supporters of the Iowa Supreme Court justices say is happening in the state.
Backers of the justices oppose a campaign led by former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats to oust the judges in November's retention election.
Vander Plaats says the justices should be replaced because their ruling reflected judicial activism.
Celebration Iowa suspended
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) Luther College is suspending its Celebration Iowa summer music program for 2011 while the school evaluates the program.
The college made the announcement Tuesday. A Luther College project for high school students, Celebration Iowa completed its 28th year this summer.
Rob Larson, who oversees the program, says increased costs and declining philanthropic support are among reasons why the college decided to assess the program for the coming year.
About three-dozen high school students are selected each year to take part in Celebration Iowa. Since 1983, more than 700 students from about 250 Iowa communities have participated.
Celebration Iowa features an eight-week performing tour that provides entertainment at festivals, fairs and concerts statewide.
Grassley will debate Conlin
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) An aide to Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley says he's agreed to a radio debate with Democratic challenger Roxanne Conlin less than a week before the Nov. 2 election.
Grassley spokesman Eric Woolson announced Tuesday that the five-term senator accepted the Oct. 28 debate on WHO-AM. The debate will run from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Conlin spokesman Mark Daley says the Democrat is checking her schedule to see if she can accept the proposed debate.
Daley says Conlin also has accepted debate invitations from TV stations that have offered to broadcast the events statewide. Daley called upon Grassley to join Conlin in those debates.
The two have agreed to one joint appearance Friday on the Iowa Public Television program, "Iowa Press."
Sexual assault investigated by U of Iowa police
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) University of Iowa police say a woman reported an attempted sexual assault on campus.
The woman says she was crossing the Finkbine Golf Course driving range about 2 p.m. Saturday to return to her car when she passed two men. The woman says one of the men pushed her to the ground and attempts were made to remove her clothes.
Police say the woman fought off her attacker, ran to her car and escaped. She did not report any physical injuries.
Both men are described as college-age white men. The main suspect is short and stocky with a dark beard; he was wearing a black fleece jacket, cargo shorts and a white athletic hat. The other man also wore cargo shorts and is taller and thinner than the main suspect.
Romney returns to Iowa for Branstad campaign
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will return to Iowa next month to campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad.
Branstad spokesman Tim Albrecht says the 2008 Republican presidential candidate will visit Iowa on Oct. 26.
It's Romney's second visit to the state since his disappointing showing in the state's 2008 caucuses. Romney finished a distant second to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee despite campaigning heavily in Iowa.
Romney is frequently mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in 2012. His trip to the state will follow planned September stops in Iowa by two others mentioned as possible presidential candidates former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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We've created new web pages about parishes in Berwickshire.
These pages show information about the parish location, coverage of old parish records, relevant publications for sale from Borders Family History Society, specific volumes in our archive at Old Gala House (in addition to the items for sale), articles in our magazine, other sources of information including some of the Hawick Heritage Hub's records, items in the National Archives of Scotland, and in the LDS Family History Library.
There are also links to useful websites, place and farm names appearing in the 1841-1861 census records, and population figures.
From the Scottish Borders Counties Map you can drill down to the Berwickshire (Parish) Map page by clicking on the Berwickshire area, and from that page you can access the individual parish pages either by clicking the relevant parish area or by clicking the parish name.
We've deliberately tried to include information that is not easily available online elsewhere, and these pages are not intended to be a substitute or in competition with pages on other websites, for example, GENUKI.
We hope that you will find these useful, and we'll update them as resources permit.
If you know of other resources relating to any of these parishes or if you find a mistake, please let us know, using the form on our Contacts page and selecting contact type Unlisted Questions.
We're working on pages for the other Borders counties.
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