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Man Dies From Injuries a Year After Deportation Over Medical Fees
One year after being forcefully discharged from a Chicago hospital and deported to Mexico because he could not afford his medical bill, an undocumented worker who became a quadriplegic from a work-related accident has died from a heart attack due to complications from his injuries. The man's family claims his death could have been prevented if he was allowed to receive adequate medical care in the United States.
Quelino Ojeda Jimenez, 24 at the time of his death, fell from a roof while employed with a subcontractor of Imperial Roofing in Aug. 2010. After being taken to the Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., Jimenez received care for four months. During this time, he was not able to speak, eat, or breathe, the Chicago Tribune reported in Feb. 2011.
Four months of intensive care for a quadriplegic ran up a large bill of about $650,000. Jimenez, in the country illegally and working as an undocumented laborer without any form of health insurance, could not afford to pay the bill – so the hospital chose to evict him and arranged for him to be sent to a hospital in Mexico without his consent.
Advocate Christ Medical Center claims it was the only available option once officials realized Jimenez needed a lifetime of care and several private long-term care facilities refused to accept him in as a patient, according to hospital officials.
However, the hospital's actions angered many in Chicago's Mexican community, who claim Jimenez's rights were violated because the legality of a hospital's authority to deport a patient through a medical repatriation without the patient's consent is not clear, nor ethical.
"All his rights were trampled upon," said Carlos Arango, a member of the United Front for Immigrants in Chicago, according to Fox News Latino.
"They threw him out like he was a piece of garbage," said Horacio Esparza, a disability rights advocate who runs the Progress Center for Independent Living in Forest Park, according to the Tribune.
After being deported to Oaxaca, it was reported by the Tribune that Jimenez was placed in a one-story concrete hospital in a small town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. However, according to Jimenez in an interview in 2011, the hospital was not capable of treating him.
"I didn't want to come back [to Oaxaca]… because here there's no medicine … I need therapy, I need a lot of things and they don't have," he said.
The number of medical repatriations of undocumented immigrants is not known because no government agency keeps track of them, but various accounts estimate the number to be around 300 annually. However, not all of these are forced or as serious as Jimenez's case. Whatever the numbers are, for undocumented immigrants in need of expensive, urgent care, medical repatriation can be fatal.
"Repatriation is pretty much a death sentence in some of these cases," said Dr. Steven Larson, an expert on migrant health and an emergency room physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, according to the New York Times. "I've seen patients bundled onto the plane and out of the country, and once that person is out of sight, he's out of mind."
Nonetheless, without hospitals willing to take on the costs of caring for a person who is unable to pay their bills, the only other option is to put patients in acute-care hospitals, which poses other problems.
"What that does for us, it puts a strain on our system, where we're unable to provide adequate care for our own citizens," said Alan B. Kelly, vice president of Scottsdale Healthcare in Arizona. "A full bed is a full bed."
The reader reaction to Jimenez's deportation last year was just as polarized as the public debate on immigration; while some people argued for compassion for those who come to the U.S. in search of better lives than they had back home, many others argued that undocumented immigrants have broken the law and do not deserve compassion if it costs American taxpayer dollars.
One commenter wrote: "Would it have been cheaper just to pull the plug than to fly him back to Mexico? So nice we absorb the expense of his crime of coming to America illegally."
Another commenter added: "I feel sorry for him but he was here illegally and had no insurance. He needed to go back. I pay for my health care and in my taxes I pay for my fellow Americans who can't. He should have come here the legal way. He wanted to stay here until he recovered? That would most likely be the rest of his life. He needs to stay in his country. For all you bleeding hearts out there saying he should have stayed YOU PAY FOR HIS CARE OUT OF YOUR OWN POCKET stay out of mine."
Mónica Novoa, a campaigner for Drop the i-Word, a group that campaigns against using the word "illegal" to describe undocumented immigrants because members find it equivalent to a racist slur, wrote that the vitriolic statements by many readers have been instigated by the belief that people can be "illegal."
"The 'illegal immigrant' label immediately blocks a richer conversation and is too often used as an excuse to absolve the decision makers, policies and systems that impact human life of any accountability," Novoa wrote.
She added: "Until we start putting human beings at the center of all of our policy making, our values and our regard for human life will continue to erode. The main argument against the i-word is that people have broken laws, but if our laws are inhumane and untenable, they are not valid reference points."
Another commenter thought a biblical response was appropriate, and quoted Luke 10:25-37, in which Jesus discusses the "Good Samaritan" parable on neighborly compassion.


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HAVELOCK � A driver being pursued by Havelock police lost control and crashed into the Mr. Carpet building Wednesday morning in Havelock.
Updated 2:10 p.m., 5-22-2013
HAVELOCK � A driver being pursued by Havelock police lost control and crashed into the Mr. Carpet building Wednesday morning in Havelock.
The driver, Sarah Nicole Kronenberg, 29, was transported to CarolinaEast Medical Center in New Bern, where she was treated and released, according to a hospital spokeswoman. As of early Wednesday afternoon, Kronenberg was in the custody of Havelock police, facing multiple charges.
No one was inside Mr. Carpet when the Toyota Highlander crashed through the side of the building that faces Dogwood Street shortly before 10 a.m.
Johnathon Gurney was outside the nearby Highway 55 restaurant and saw police trying to catch up with the vehicle. Kronenberg was heading east on East Main Street, hit the raised median, crossed the two westbound lanes and slammed into the side of the building.
�She was weaving in and out of traffic,� Gurney said. �She was doing a good amount of speed. She hit that curb and popped into the air. She couldn�t gain control. There were four squad cars behind her.�
Tim Hardin, who runs Mr. Carpet, was outside and saw the crash happen.
�We were out front and I thought for sure that car was coming right at us,� he said. �Normally, we would be loading up on that side of the building, but for some reason, we were loading out front today. Thank God. That would have been a mess.�
Havelock Police Capt. David Bratton said police first noticed the vehicle when it made a wide turn on Belltown Road into oncoming traffic, crossing the double lines, in front of a police officer Gaylan Finney. Kronenberg was on a cell phone at the time, according to a release from the department.
Finney turned around, put on his blue lights and siren, and tried to catch up to the vehicle, which Bratton said was estimated to be going 45 to 50 mph and running through stop signs in the Woodhaven neighborhood.
Bratton said Finney lost track of the vehicle but then saw Kronenberg leave the neighborhood and head east on East Main Street. Bratton said Kronenberg hit speeds estimated at 65 to 70 mph as other officers tried to catch up. They were about 150 to 200 yards behind her vehicle when it left the road and hit the building, according to the release.
�She tried to make a left turn, hit the median and crashed into the building,� Bratton said.
Kronenberg faces multiple charges, including driving while impaired, failure to stop for blue light and siren, damage to property, and resist, obstruct and delay of a law enforcement officer.
Damage to the building was significant, with the car hitting the side of the building and then breaking through a side garage door. Pieces of the car and building were scattered about the area where various carpet is stored.
The Highlander had significant front-end damage, and one of the tires was flat. The airbag did deploy. As police searched the vehicle, they pulled two child car seats out, but the driver was the lone person in the car at the time of the crash.

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Austrian photographer Reiner Riedler created his photo series 'The Unseen Seen' by snapping shots of the film reels of famous movies. They're drop-dead gorgeous and somehow uniquely different from each other.
It's like getting the feel for a movie from just looking at the combination of colours in its reel. I want to hang these photographs up as artwork.
Riedler gained access to an incredible archive of film reels from The Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin. You can see how some of the reels come together given the tone of the movies while others just look breathtakingly textured. Riedler says:
The concept is to confront the viewer with the image of an object (filmrolls) and in doing so recall images from the spectator's memory. By reading the movie title, I want to generate emotions and images from our memory.
You can see more of his work here. [Reiner Riedler via PetaPixel]


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New dataset provides 40-year record of carbon dioxide accumulation in the surface ocean
The most comprehensive dataset of surface water carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements for the world's oceans and coastal seas is launched today by an international team of scientists led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).
The Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) comprises 6.3 million global observations made from research vessels, commercial ships and moorings around the world since 1968. The dataset documents the changes in ocean carbon similar to the Mauna Loa record – or 'Keeling curve' - showing the rise in atmospheric CO2 over time.
Further details will be published in Eos - the journal of the American Geophysical Union. The entire dataset is freely available to scientists and members of the public via the SOCAT website.
Net CO2 absorption by the world's oceans is known to benefit human-kind by reducing the concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, but the increase in ocean carbon also causes ocean acidification endangering marine organisms. Knowledge of year-to-year and decadal changes in oceanic CO2 uptake are essential for assessing the feedbacks between climate change and the ocean carbon cycle.
This new dataset was assembled by a team of more than 100 scientific experts from around the world, co-ordinated by scientists from: the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research/University of Bergen/Uni Research, Norway; the University of East Anglia in the UK; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the University of Washington and the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center in the US; and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
Dr Wendy Watson-Wright, assistant director general and executive secretary of IOC, welcomed the launch of this joint initiative: "The IOC of UNESCO is very pleased to have been able to participate in this project. For more than 50 years we have been promoting international co-operation in ocean science. This achievement is a reward for all our efforts."
Dr Dorothee Bakker, Dr Ute Schuster and Prof Andy Watson of UEA's School of Environmental Sciences believe the dataset will become a cornerstone of climate change research. Dr Bakker said: "Assembling this dataset has been a major undertaking by sea-going marine carbon scientists from across the world for the last four years. We believe SOCAT will become an invaluable resource for anyone studying the ocean carbon cycle and its influence on global temperatures."
Dr Are Olsen, from the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, which physically assembled the dataset, said: "The unique aspect of this dataset is that the observations have been combined into a single uniform format and quality controlled. Reformatted input data and recalculated output data are publicly available on the PANGAEA website. The methods we have used are transparent and fully documented."
To make the dataset user-friendly, it is available on the web through a sophisticated online data visualisation and manipulation tool called the Live Access Server. The server provides interactive maps that enable users to interrogate the data. Gridded monthly data are also available.
Dr Christopher Sabine, of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Washington, added: "Our objective from the beginning was to make these products freely available to everyone. We are excited to see how the data will be used by professional and amateur scientists alike."
Dr Nicholas Metzl, of the CNRS LOCEAN/IPSL laboratory in Paris, said: "Four years ago no global surface ocean CO2 database was publicly available. SOCAT represents a fantastic new tool for ocean and climate scientists. Results derived from SOCAT will be used for the next IPCC report."
The SOCAT project was initiated in 2007 by the UNESCO-IOC/SCOR International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP), the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) and the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research project (IMBER). The project ensures long-term access to high quality, regularly updated surface ocean CO2 data. Potential applications include carbon budgets, studies of seasonal, year-to-year and decadal variation in oceanic CO2 uptake, and research into the processes driving these. Work on the next SOCAT update has already started.
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2011 Rock Wall Grenache Rose Review
Wine of the Day: 2011 Rock Wall Grenache Rosé
While my significant other has many redeeming qualities, there's a gaping hole in his heart (tongue?) where his love for rosé ought to lie. So naturally, I was delighted at the chance to sample a blushing bottle of the quintessential Summer wine this week. Luckily, the 2011 vintage from Rock Wall ($18) made a good case for its genre — it may have even made a convert out of the aforementioned naysayer.
Composed entirely of Grenache grapes grown in Davis, CA, and bottled across the bay in Alameda (practically in Sugar HQ's backyard), the bottle was tart and refreshing, balanced with a subtle sweetness (I'd describe it as teetering between dry and off-dry), and perfumed with the scent of strawberries and citrus. In other words, dangerously drinkable. Like many of its rosy brethren, it would be most at home in an alfresco setting: paired with cheese and crackers at a picnic or with salty appetizers prior to a hearty barbecue meal. Minor domestic squabbles put aside, I imagine I'll be seeing more of this varietal on my table for some time to come.


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The Wildest Thing About Amazon's iPad App Is That Apple Lets It Exist
Aug 6, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Amazon Instant Video, an app from Amazon, is available for free at the App Store. It requires a $79-per-year subscription to Amazon Prime.
A plain-Jane video-playing app just hit the iOS App Store: Amazon's Instant Video iPad app. While it doesn't do much more than let you browse and play videos, it could be the most important app to come to Apple this summer.
Hyperbole? Maybe, but hang on. Amazon Instant Video extends your iPad to an ecosystem that competes with Apple, and at the same time may signal a shift in Apple strategy.
Rewind, Please
The story really starts last year. After Netflix lost me as a customer for being so out-of-touch with people when they jacked up their prices and put out a lame so-called apology letter, I picked up the video slack by reinstating my Amazon Prime membership. Amazon Prime started out as a free two-day shipping deal for Amazon customers, then morphed into a service that adds streaming movies and TV shows, as well as the ability to borrow some e-books, all for US$79 per year. If you buy physical objects from Amazon.com, it's a pretty good deal. The video is mostly frosting.
Still, what does the video feature offer? There are two basic levels -- stuff you get "free" as part of your Prime membership, and stuff you can buy or rent from Amazon.com. For the most part, I just watch the free Prime videos from Amazon -- "Shark Week," "24," "Man vs Wild," and "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil." That sort of thing. Generally, you'll get access to older TV shows along with plenty of B movies and the occasional older A-list movie. Want a new release? You'll have to buy or rent it at essentially market prices.
Sometimes Amazon can be a bit less expensive, but not always. The price difference for Apple customers is more about where and how you want to watch the video than the cost. If you want it on your iPhone, you're going with iTunes. And before last week, if you wanted it on your iPad, you were still going with iTunes (or Netflix).
But now with Amazon Instant Video, you can choose Amazon on your iPad, too. If you have an Amazon Kindle Fire, then you'll be watching the video via Amazon on the Fire -- or on your HDTV via the Xbox 360 app, which I happen to use myself. Since I also have an Apple TV, if I want to rent or buy a movie, I tend to go with Apple's offering and use any of my iOS devices, Macs, or Apple TV to watch.
Of course, for Apple customers, the best part of Amazon Prime is the no-extra-charge Prime videos. In Apple's world, there is no subscription offering, just pay-as-you-go for everything. Amazon Prime makes it possible for me to go back in time and start watching the Jack Bauer TV series "24" from season one through season eight. Buying each season via iTunes is simply not an option for my budget, even though the iTunes experience is generally better than streaming from Amazon over my home's WiFi connection.
Play It All, Please
So the big news is that you can use your iPad to play Amazon videos, despite the fact that Apple often rejects apps from competitors for offering similar services. The path from development to my iPad is unclear, but now that I have the app, I'm a happy camper -- despite the fact that I have a Kindle Fire. Why? My iPad holds onto and connects to my home WiFi better and more consistently than my Kindle Fire. The touch experience on my iPad is better and more responsive. On the downside, my iPad is heavier, so holding it in bed isn't as easy the Kindle Fire.
It's really about choice, and if you didn't have a Kindle Fire, it's a totally new option.
What You Get
Like I noted above, there's nothing inherently special about the Amazon Instant Video iPad app. You can flick and browse through movies and TV shows, you can view your Watchlist, you can add to your Watchlist, and you can play videos. It's dirt simple, and it works pretty well. I've seen a little more buffering than I might have expected, but it's hard to say with just a few days of use if that's more or less due to the iPad app or my own home WiFi network. The fact that I don't have to prompt my iPad to find my WiFi signal nearly as often as the Fire, though, makes up for it.
Unfortunately, the app does have some limitations. The biggest issue is that it doesn't have a search feature. The second issue is that you can't buy or rent content directly from the app itself -- if you did, Amazon would have to pay Apple 30 percent, and that's not going to happen. The third issue is that AirPlay to an Apple TV connected to your living room HDTV isn't enabled.
In the case of the first two limitations, all this means is that you're going to have to browse movies and TV shows and/or subscribe to new TV seasons via your Mac or PC instead of via your iPad. As for your Watchlist, you can add to the list from your iPad, but if you have to search for it to find it, you'll have to use your computer (or your Kindle Fire or Xbox 360, etc).
Whispersync Works
One great feature of Amazon Prime is the ability for most videos to remember where you were in the video when you stop and leave it -- then communicate that information to a different device when you pick it up again. So start watching on your Mac, then finish on your Kindle Fire, that sort of thing. Now your iPad can get into the action. In fact, weeks ago I started watching "Mission: Impossible 3" on my Xbox 360 but didn't finish. Weeks ago, I'm saying. When I tapped the movie on my iPad, I had the option to resume playing where I left off. Nice. Very nice.
Beyond this new ability to enjoy Amazon Prime videos from your Apple device, the app doesn't offer much. And yet, the app is also a potential signal of future promise: Perhaps this opening means that Apple will begin playing even more with other competitors -- and when the next generation of Apple TV hits, maybe it means Apple throw open its doors to let many content delivery services stream on through.


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Global Recruiting: Star Search
In general, growth is a good thing. And growing globally can be a great thing. But as more companies expand operations overseas, global recruitment is becoming a vexing problem. Manpower Inc., the Milwaukee-based recruiting firm, surveyed 33,000 employers in 23 countries, and found that 40 percent of respondents are having trouble finding qualified peopleparticularly salespeople, engineers and technicians.
It's a common problem, says Jo-Anne Kruse, executive vice president of human resources at Travel Distribution Services, a division of the $18.2 billion travel-services giant Cendant Corp. And it's an issue that no company can afford to ignore, especially if, like TDS, your customers are increasingly international. As one of the world's largest online travel-booking companies, TDS employs 8,300 workers, manages 24 brands (including CheapTickets, Orbitz and Galileo International), and generates nearly 60 percent of its revenue internationally. "We may be based in America, but our future is outside the U.S.," Kruse says. As a result, TDS is actively recruiting overseas in its search for qualified employees to fill international positions.
But how to find them? "There aren't boatloads of people who do online travel outside the U.S.," or who are willing to relocate, she says. And while online job recruitment sites such as Monster.com have become the norm in the U.S., the only way to identify potential international candidates has been "to run an advertisement in every newspaper in every market for every job that was available, and then wait for people to respond," Kruse says. Or hire a recruiter in each city, an expensive option.
That's where technology enters the picture. New applications from software vendors such as Taleo Corp., BrassRing LLC and others promise to locate and recruit qualified workers around the world, and help companies manage their ever-growing pool of talent. These programs let companies post job listings to multiple international Web sites, and create a database of responding candidates that can then be sorted by skill sets. This allows a company such as TDS to track the résumé submissions for a particular job, and match applicants' résumés to other positions for which the candidate may be qualified. TDS began working with Taleo in 2004, and the results have been tangible. "It broadens the search in ways you could never do in the off-line world," Kruse says.
Sounds good, but how can Kruse tell if the system is identifying the right people? "We have a very strong retention rate," she says. In 2005, TDS's retention rate was at 99.5 percent after 30 days, and 98.4 percent after 180 days. Those numbers are consistent with TDS's previous retention rates, "which means that even though we've reduced the time it takes to recruit people, it has no impact on how long we hold on to them. We're placing candidates faster and cheaper, and they're still a good fit." Kruse adds that recruitment costs have come down by 25 percent as a result of the Taleo rollout. "Two years ago, about 40 percent of our hires came from recruitment agencies," she says. "Now that figure is at 15 percent."
Of course, the software isn't a cure-all. Not every potential employee has Internet access, and "there are definitely markets where Internet use for recruitment is still nonexistent," Kruse says. "So you have to adjust your strategy in those areas and run an ad in the paper." And there's often another obstacleyour own people. Kruse admits that some HR staffers were skeptical about the new system when it launched. "People thought it would take too long or be too hard to use," she says. "But now no one wants to do it the old way."
This article was originally published on 03-06-2006


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– Jim Ross commented on tonight's Raw, writing on Twitter, "HUGE nite in Dallas for #WWE. #RAW sold out. @JohnCena vs @CMPunk to be @ #slobberknocker level. McMahon fights @HeymanHustle! Must see TV."
– The following WWE dates have been announced:
5/3/13: Covelli Centre in Youngstown, OH (tickets on sale 3/1/13)
5/6/13: WWE Raw from the Roanoke Civic Center in Roanoke, VA (tickets on sale 3/9/13)
5/7/13: Smackdown from the PNC Arena in Raleigh, NC (tickets on sale 3/2/13)
6/23/13: MLK Jr. Arena at the Savannah Civic Center in Savannah, GA
– CNN ran a segment on the Jack Swagger/Zeb Colter storyline and covered Glenn Beck's "stupid wrestling people" remark on Newsroom with Carol Costello. CNN also showed the end of the out-of-character video that WWE posted. The debate goes on at Costello's Facebook page.
Stipulation Added to WrestleMania Bout, Backstage News on Big Johnny's TV Return, New WWE Title Plans


text: i admittedly don't know anything about kiki dee apart from the fact that she makes up the other half in elton john's fabulous don't go breaking my heart. yep, fabulous. i'm unsure how to explain why this was happening in the first place… but today i was going down a weird rabbit hole of elton john image search results in google (some of which are horrifying by the way) and happened upon these press photos of miss dee looking like a fox.


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VICTORIA - Independent MLA John van Dongen wants British Columbia's conflict of interest commissioner to launch an investigation into Premier Christy Clark's connection to the privatization of B.C. Rail nine years ago.
Van Dongen has compiled an eight-centimetre thick binder of documents connected to the controversial sale of Crown-owned railway that includes draft transcripts of RCMP wiretap conversations between Liberal insiders.
A spokeswoman at Conflict of Interest Commissioner Paul Fraser's office says van Dongen's request for an investigation has been received, but there is no word yet if the commissioner will launch a probe.
Van Dongen says the investigation should focus on Clark from May to November 2003 when the Liberal government announced it would sell B.C. Rail and approved CN Rail as the successful bidder.
Clark was serving as Education Minister and deputy premier when the B.C. Rail sale was underway.
Two former Liberal aides, David Basi and Bob Virk, pleaded guilty to corruption-related charges in connection with the railway deal and were sentenced to two years of house arrest each.
Van Dongen is currently an independent member of the legislature, twice quitting the Liberal government and once leaving the B.C. Conservatives.
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MUSIC REVIEW- Cool Jacket: <I>Moves</I> will move you
My Morning Jacket
It Still Moves , ATO Records
The title of My Morning Jacket's latest LP is certainly apropos. Upon first listen, even an ardent music fan could find the seemingly listless, reverb-drenched (and I mean drenched), mournful sounds on this record to be boring, shoe-gazer rock made for the alt-country audience.
However, as with all My Morning Jacket releases, this one grows on you with each spin, and in fact has the catchiest hooks the band has ever put to tape. So if you buy the record, stick with it. It's well worth the spins. In fact, it'll move you.
Hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, MMJ is a five-piece band homegrown around the vocal and songwriting talents of heavily bearded bandleader Jim James. In promotional materials, they bear more than a passing resemblance to The Band in its heyday. And like The Band's, the sound is lonesome, yet driving, with an almost classic country feel.
Also familiar to new audiences will be a singing voice that at times is eerily reminiscent of Neil Young's craggy, high-pitched wail. However classic rock-inspired, the music of MMJ is truly indie rock at its best, with stunning, beautifully crafted melodies to match the extraordinary lyrics, where songs seem to appear from a surly haze of smoke and backwater.
This isn't your brother's Neil Young record. It reaches beyond– by taking notes from the past and present to arrive at some empty, shelled-out roadside barroom where five stools are waiting to be sat upon. This is powerful stuff, to say the least.
The group was formed in the late '90s by James and his country cousin, Johnny Quaid. In 1999, they released their debut LP, The Tennessee Fire, on a small label, and the record garnered almost universally positive critical review, which led the band to quick underground popularity both in the States and in Europe.
I found the band around the time of their second LP, At Dawn, where the signature sound remained basically unchanged, but the crew included two new members: KC Guetig on drums, and a new keyboardist, Danny Cash.
That record was a high water mark for me, and It Still Moves is a very close second (with a bullet). Before recording It Still Moves, the group was signed by the Dave Matthews-funded ATO records, which gave them the time and budget to craft over an hour's worth of velvety smooth, high lonesome rock music. If you're a fan of quality singer-songwriters, and have even a passing interest in alternative or classic country music, MMJ should appeal to you in a big way.
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It's hard for a middle school wind ensemble to perfect its sound when the pint-sized players have trouble toting their tubas.
Garrison Arts K8 Wind Ensemble Director Michael Hutchinson, celebrated for his work with high school musicians at Savannah High and Savannah Arts Academy, is persnickety when it comes to sound. So he insists that his band practice daily at school and home, especially the tuba players.
"The tuba is the foundation of the band. Some people think you can't have too many tubas. I'm one of those people," Hutchinson said. "But that's not an easy instrument to bring back and forth every day."
It helps if you happen to have an old beat-up tuba and run across two German immigrants who have come to Savannah to establish an instrument restoration business.
Tuba troubles
Tubas are big and heavy, weighing as much as 25 pounds. The weight and size make it difficult for young musicians to lug them back and forth to school.
Because the brass behemoths can cost thousands of dollars, few public school students can afford to buy their own and few public schools have enough working tubas for every player to keep at home for practice. Plus, over the years, students tend to drop and dent their tubas, and the public school system's stock of tubas tend to lose their shape, sound and shine.
When Garrison Arts K8 opened two years ago, Hutchinson inherited a closet full of used instruments from the old Shuman Middle School. Among them was a grungy old tuba that looked as if it had a run-in with a steamroller.
There was no way students could use it, and the company that repairs the public school system's instruments said the tuba was too old and too far gone. But Hutchinson, who didn't have enough workable tubas to go around, couldn't bear to get rid of it.
"I don't know how old it was. It was in very bad condition and it wasn't workable," Hutchinson said. "But it was a quality tuba and worth restoring."
Instrument experts arrive
About the same time Hutchinson put the old tuba up on a band-room shelf, Andreas and Victoria Moe left Munich, Germany, for Savannah, where they expanded their antique woodwind and brass instrument restoration business.
In addition to restoring rare and vintage instruments for collectors, they wanted to start a repair, sales and rent-to-own service for musicians seeking the rich sound and lasting quality some modern instruments just can't provide.
Once they got settled, they paid a visit to a local musician known for his love of quality sound - Michael Hutchinson.
They told Hutchinson how frustrating it was to tell band parents that the cheap Chinese-made instruments they purchased online can't be repaired. And they talked about the satisfying feeling of rebuilding an old instrument for a child when they know it will last.
"We love the sound of the instruments from the days when the instrument makers knew what they were doing," said Andreas Moe, who played the trumpet professionally before learning the craft of instrument making.
Hutchinson shared how he used public donations to obtain quality instruments for his successful high school bands.
"The cheaper the instrument, the worse they sound. You don't want to short change the children," Hutchinson said. "You end up spending more on repairs to the cheap instruments. In my opinion you should buy the quality instrument and train the kids to care for them."
Then he showed the Moes the tuba.
Tuba Christmas
"It was not playable," Victoria Moe said. "Tubes were flattened."
Andreas Moe chimed in.
"There were holes on parts where holes shouldn't be," he said.
But the Moes agreed it didn't make sense to throw the battered tuba away. They asked Hutchinson if they could take it back to their shop and try to rebuild it.
It was no easy task. All of the dings and dents had thinned out the metal. There were more than 50. Smoothing and rounding them out was difficult. It took more than 60 hours, but they got it working again.
"It looks great, and it's a very nice sounding tuba," Victoria Moe said. "But it shouldn't be an eye catcher; it should be an ear catcher."
The couple, who just relocated Georgia Music Warehouse to the 2400 block of Abercorn, polished up the refurbished instrument in their new workshop and delivered it to the Garrison band just in time for Christmas.
"Now all four of my tuba players have an instrument at home to use," Hutchinson said.
To celebrate, the Garrison tuba players used it during their performance at the Tuba Christmas eventin the Savannah Mall. Hutchinson was the guest conductor.


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I Wonder If I'll Ever Get Back to Blogging
Where have I been? Um, no where. I just don't seem to have the energy to blog anymore. So what's been going on? Life.
I've got lots of stories to tell, but I don't have the time tonight. I'll come tell my stories later. Here's a quickly update on my life...
I was on bed rest for a long time. After my cerclage was removed my OB expected me to deliver within three days and that did not happen. Due to some diabetes related stomach issues I was induced at 38 weeks 5 days. It was longer and harder than anyone thought possible, but in the end I had a beautiful daughter named Bella. I'll give all the details later.
When Bella was 10 days old she was admitted to Children's Hospital with RSV. Over night I went from having a baby with a stuff nose to a baby on a ventilator in the PICU. She was released yesterday after 15 days. It's so good to be home.
Jamie's had a lot going on, too. Obviously he's had a lot of changes in his life. He's in the process of undergoing specialized testing for autism spectrum disorders. On the lighter side, I've signed him up for soccer and he's looking forward to that. He should start having practices at the beginning of March. He wants to take swimming lessons this summer and I'm definitely going to let him do that.


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Concern as National Guard and FEMA deployed in wake of severe weather
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July 3, 2012
National Guard troops are conducting door to door "wellness checks" in areas of Virginia and Ohio following power outages due to severe heat and storms.
WDTV in West Virginia reports that "The National Guard is checking to make sure everyone is doing well."
The report also states that some guardsmen have been instructed to go to people's homes and carry out "personal health checks".
"Since thousands were out of power in Harrison County and there's been times the 911 center was down, the National Guard was going from house to house in places like Lost Creek, West Milford and Johnstown to see how everyone was holding up and getting them the help they may need." the report states.
In Ohio, the Mansfield News Journal reports that "some 200 Guard troops were launching door-to-door checks in the Columbus area and the Dayton area…", and that they could be sent to other areas.
"They were initially focusing on retirement communities and other neighborhoods with large numbers of older people to make sure they have access to water and medications and know that air-conditioned cooling centers were available." the report continues.
A state of emergency has been declared in both states, with the president also directing FEMA to coordinate federal assistance to state and local officials in impacted areas.
Some have expressed concern that troops are being deployed to do door to door checks with little announcement of the fact.
Despite the constitutional protections outlined in the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act, there has been and is an ongoing push to blur the divisions between military and domestic law enforcement officials.
National Guard troops are routinely involved in 'urban warfare training' drills. Usually such drills take place within the confines of military bases, however, more recently heavily armed troops are increasingly seen patrolling residential neighborhoods and even the downtown areas of major US cities.
Such "invasions" are often reported on as nothing to worry about and even as "cool".
Indeed, back in 2008 the Washington Post reported how 20,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq would be stationed inside America under Northcom for purposes of "domestic security" from September 2011 onwards.
Northcom officials were forced to subsequently issue a denial after the Army Times initially reported that the troops would be used to deal "with civil unrest and crowd control."
As Alex Jones exposed back in the late 1990's, U.S. troops have been training to impose martial law for a considerable amount of time. During numerous urban warfare drills that Jones attended and reported on, troops were trained to raid, arrest and imprison U.S. citizens in detention camps as well as taking over public buildings and running checkpoints. During role playing exercises, actors playing prisoners would scream "I'm an American citizen, I have rights" as they were being dragged away by troops.
The fact that such drills are now set to involve Russian soldiers training on U.S. soil to hunt "terrorists" has also caused consternation.
Federal authorities in the United States have clearly been preparing for domestic civil unrest for a number of years. The Department of Homeland Security recently purchased a staggering 450 million rounds of hollow point bullets as well as bullet-proof checkpoint booths that include 'stop and go' lights.
In addition, worrying legislation such as the National Defense Authorization Act, has paved the way for the incarceration of American citizens under military laws, and numerous leaked and semi-secret documents position the army as partners to domestic federal agencies in quelling unrest in America and even engaging in missions involving the "resettlement" of US citizens.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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I'm a mom whose first and last programming experience were a Pascal class in high school and a C class in college more than 20 years ago. To be perfectly honest, I don't remember much about either other than general principles.
I'd like to give my two daughters a shot at learning programming principles with some of the more fun stuff that's been developed since I was learning before they run into the dry syntax of an advanced language and get turned off.
I was thinking of starting with either Scratch, Python or Alice but don't know which one to choose. My understanding is that Scratch is more procedural and Alice is OO? And I don't have a clue yet about Python. I think Alice had an offshoot designed to be more appealing to girls called Storytelling Alice that was the outgrowth of a PhD thesis at Carnegie Mellon, but I don't know if it is available to the public.
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It's called the TR-116. It fire's bullets made of tritanium, which is a metal that is many times harder than diamond. When the gunman is wearing an Exographic Targeting Sensor (which looks pretty much like a knockoff of the DBZ "Scouter" units) which allows him/her to see through walls, and also the end of the gun barrel is equipped with a Micro Transporter which allows bullets after being fired from the gun to be teleported to any selected location, this gun is the ultimate sniper weapon. When this gun is used in this way it allows anyone to get ridiculously cheap kills on anyone.
Below is a picture of Esri Dax holding this weapon and wearing the Exographic Targeting Sensor.


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Sure, now is the time of Waldorf and Montessori educations — an age where we let children learn and discover at their own pace by assembling corn husk dolls and baking pita bread — but the new millennium of progressive education has nothing on Burgess Hill, the 1960s boarding school in Hertfordshire, England. Populated by young, gum-chewing mods, Burgess Hill was a school where students were allowed to smoke, listen to records, make modernist paintings and do the twist. Said one student of the education, "We learn no more than we would at a normal school, but there are compensations, like being happy."
Other compensations? Taking your dog to class and wearing cat-eye sunglasses like Queen of the Beatniks.
Check out the full video at the link. It's worth the watch.
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Zinc die castings.
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Hey fun4now just what do you charge for parties your funny
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but I guess how would you set that up eh
dig a big hole out behind the class, and weld in it no matter what the conditions are out there. get a water hose ready if its a nice day.
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"Over the mountains"
Hey John that sounds good. I think its only $125.round trip I'm not sure though but I could check it out not to hard.Business expence.ha ha ha
Kwantlen doent offer the instructors course some private company does it not sure who yet.I have to go to an information session first to qualify.I went down to the union hall and renewed pressure tks stick and tig I was there all day some of the people there man are they talented at school.1 young guy about 25 was doing his 6 G ticket he passed but I dont think schools teach real world like do a pressue test when your half in a trench there is about 2 feet between you and the pipe that you will be welding on and it's raining out the temp is 0.try that on for size.then do your test.well maybe this is a little to harsh but I mean come on I went to school for my training and ya everybody is babied there I guess I would just like to see a little more real world but I guess how would you set that up eh.
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If you find yourself up north near here, feel free to drop in for a coffee.
I'd like to know more about the instructors course. Sounds like times will be changing around Kwantlen shorty, with the new facillity now open and those boys retiring.
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Zinc alloys
There melting temp is 200F stay away from this range.you what to be around the 60F to 125F do not Quench these they will fall apart on ya.slow cooling I think is the key to a good fix.welding cast Iron like zinc you should warm up the or try to the whole piece before welding.This will fall apart right in front of your eyes durning cooling becareful with this one.The first pass will produce a fine grain structure followed by the second pass which will produce a coarse to fine grain structure you want everybody to be at a happy medium.your second pass will afect the first pass big time.welds take about 24 hrs to actually cure.Do not restrain the piece that you are trying to weld you will end up with a problem call hot cracking and hot shortness.
Brasing works okay for this the HAZ is not much of a problem but when you use tig or stick this is the better way and where it gets interisting it will play with your skill.for your tig or stick rod stay with the 7xxx series filler metal.
every welding supplier has a different name or code or something for there stuff.just stay with the 7xxx series and you should be fine.
Hey john kawntlen does sell the books but the course ?
I have to take an instructors course before anything and I'm working on my
class 3 licence.I want to be ready for the new pipeline thats going in up north so my brother and I are buying a truck at the end of the month to handle the terrian and all of his stuff and mine will be installed I bougt a body from work so I have some time to put it together.Bob ,Rob and Ron well I think Bob and Ron are retiring in 2 more years they've put in there time.
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Have you followed up on the the Gooderham / degree courses? Let me know if Kwantlen has the degree in welding tech open yet.
Where are you subbing? Kwantlen? How's Bob, Ron, and Rob doing?
I've welded a few zinc alloy parts in the past, they do tend to burn up pretty quick if conditions aren't just right.
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cool info i was just wondering what was prompting it, thought maybee you were getting us to help ya with your home work, or test gradeing it.
i never tryed to weld a zink die cast, so i'll have to take your word for it. i'll give ya a C+ you didnt tell us the best process for welding or the melting temp.
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It's just one of those things where I have seen enough people on here ask about this kind of stuff and well I think somebody might like to know.and your right I sub at a school so with the new step block system I have to do metalallurgy level 1 and 2.Last edited by Darmik; 06-14-2007, 10:01 PM.
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are you practising to give a report for your home work in welding class or what ?? whats with the welding 101 post's lately ??
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Zinc die castings.Just thought you might like to know.
This alloy used commonly contains about 4% aluminum.Zinc alloy is low in cost and high in strengh and machineability is good. good corrosion resistance but limited to service temps of 200F these casting are heavy compared to the others.The grain structure is a CPH and will never get coarse.
the composition for the two zinc alloys are zamak-3 with the addition of manganese this has good ductility and strengh at higher temps.
the other is zamak-5with copper this is stronger and harder and has better castability
Welding this is a little more difficult because of the low melting tempand boiling point.which means that this metal will evaporate before your eyes if heat in put is to high.
the second facter is the oxide film that forms while heating.heavy fluxing and careful manipulation of the torch and the weld puddle are the only means of over comming this problem. With oxy-fuel welding the flame should be neutral or slightly carburizing.The filler metal should be under the name white metal but there are various trade names.
safety Zinc fumes are very toxic so good ventilation is important during the welding process.Tags: None


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If 'Brother' was any more gorgeous Win Butler would sue. This is Annuals' introduction proper to the UK market, following an EP lost in the fogs of time, and it's just about wonderful enough to have a perfectly sane and straight gentleman want to passionately French-kiss a passing suit under the most perfect sunshine this side of Shipwrecked. This is, quite probably, the finest slice of symphonic indie-rock that'll never make an impact on mainstream radio. The why: it takes what feels like forever to actually kick in.
But when it does, when it does… it sweeps you off your itty-bitty tip-toes and carries you up to the clouds, up to heights that so very few acts of this ilk can actually reach. Yes, Arcade Fire are an obvious parallel, and a nod to Broken Social Scene wouldn't go amiss in the referential stakes, but this is no pastiche, no act of plagiarism. There's no way anything so gloriously triumphant, so expressionist, so wonderfully otherworldly could derive exclusively from existing material; sure, echoes resonate, but to a tone entirely of Annuals' own making.
'Brother' probably isn't the song to propel Annuals to the levels of acclaim and adoration achieved already by those aforementioned acts – there are enough pop-orientated songs on their Be He He LP to break radio in this country, and win over the hordes in the process – but it is a song that those listening to the static in modern indie's margins will fall in love with, without fail. It's a song to dive into and float to the surface of, sinking slowly as its final seconds fade to stillness and silence.
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Boise River Restoration Project Earns Timberline High School (Boise, ID) Students the President's Environmental Youth Award
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(Boise, ID – April 24, 2012) A two-year project that restored a portion of the Boise River, improved water quality, upgraded trout habitat, and even created a beautiful riverside rest spot, has earned three Timberline High School students the prestigious President's Environmental Youth Award(PEYA). Since 1971, the PEYA award has been administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has offered national recognition for youth that promote environmental awareness and positive community involvement.
Carl Breidenbach, William D'Onofrio, and Nathan Wong, juniors at Timberline High School and members of Timberline's Boise Riverbank Restoration Group, were one of only ten youth groups or schools to win the Presidential Environmental Youth Award, presented by the Environmental Protection Agency.
"We're proud to recognize students for outstanding achievement and community service, "said Dennis McLerran, EPA Regional Administrator in Seattle, Washington. "By enhancing the environment, protecting water quality and creating a wonderful riverside rest area, these young men have earned our respect and the President's recognition."
After contacting the City with their proposal, the three student leaders worked with people on every level of government, non-profits and businesses. The project team exceeded their advisors' expectations in a variety of ways: from applying for and receiving grant funding, to designing and building a durable community asset that will last for decades, even during seasonal flooding.
"These remarkable students have initiated improvements to the Boise River that will last for decades," Boise Mayor David Bieter said. "This project will improve water quality, create a better habitat for trout and will provide a beautiful shoreline stop along the river for citizens to enjoy. We are proud to recognize these Boise students for their outstanding achievement and community service."
The Timberline student leaders will be honored by officials from EPA, Boise City, and Boise School District in a ceremony Tuesday, April 24, in Boise City Hall.
AP Environmental Science teacher Dick Jordan, who served as the team's sponsor, said that "this project represents an outstanding example of how students can truly make a difference and literally change the world and in the process develop communication and leadership skills that will last a lifetime."
Annually, young people from around the country, kindergarten through high school, are invited to participate in the awards program as individuals or in groups. This is the first time that an Idaho team has been recognized for this award since the early 1980's.
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Amalia Pica, 2012. Chisenhale Gallery, London. Photo: Mark Blower.
There is a particular romance in miscommunication, wrought by difference and distance. The undelivered letter, the intercepted telegram, the voicemail message never played back are the chance minutiae which drive the action of the plot forward, or cause it to veer dramatically off-course. Mislaid memoranda and transposed missives are Greek Fates for the modern era, where rupture is a stronger organizing force than the continuity of a single thread. Still, it is strange to contemplate crossed-wires in a contemporary context, where a missed cue – the probable end-result of too many functional, thus distractible, multiple-channel communication devices – still engenders the ultimate social faux pas: You didn't get the message?
Managers and technocrats determined to allay postmodern anxiety seek to reduce error in manifestations of human passion, from theaters of war to those of love, both on- and off-line. To a certain extent clinical psychology, too, helps condition us to distinguish signal from noise. Alain Badiou's In Praise of Love laments the disappearance of social discomfiture via the easy connectivity peddled by Internet dating sites:
After all, it's not so very different to an arranged marriage. Not done in the name of family order and hierarchy by despotic parents, but in the name of safety for the individuals involved, through advance agreements that avoid randomness, chance encounters and in the end any existential poetry, due to the categorical absence of risks.
Where are exhilaration and ecstasy without some amount of personal risk? This conundrum resonates throughout London-based artist Amalia Pica's sculpture, installation, and performance works, which consider moments of potential for point-to-point communication – and by extension, human connection; togetherness. Using not especially technological materials, the invariable "failure" of Pica's work to draw disparate subjectivities into dialogue is most always a result of the aesthetic formalism of mediation, a quality borne out in the quiet beauty of her installations. Exhibited in the New Museum's second triennial this year, Pica's pleasing post-Minimal projection Venn Diagram (Under the Spotlight) (2011) expanded upon an earlier preoccupation with the diagrams from the ink-on-paper series Untitled (2006). The mathematical illustrations were banned in 1970s Argentina, where Pica grew up, for the perceived danger in clear expressions of collectivity.
Her interest in the visualization of interaction and exchange might seem to have pragmatic applications today, although significantly it is the symbolism of "the social" (in the above case a field of color rather than a cloud or network,) which is philosophically operative beyond the direct representation of raw data. In this sense, her body of work forms a critique of the individual's pure egoism as much as particular barriers to communication (chance, timing, autocracy) – playing with language, symbol and signal to "talk about talking." Barring an algorithm to calculate the compatibility of notional personality tics, favorite 90s slasher flicks or other equally ambiguous criteria, Pica's most reliable device describing the relationship between two is a single line: forming a bond or being deflected.
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"This guy's the greatest producer ever," garbles an intensely annoying ginger lad fiddling with the house party entertainment system and generally trying painfully hard, before reclining toward a telling nose-up of Colombian marching powder.
"Fucking students," we mutter, supping beer instead, before enquiring into the identity of said knob-twiddler extraordinaire as if the name had never been in general hip-hop-slash-electronica consciousnesses for several years already now. Why not indulge this rampant ego in the time until it's engulfed by crushing downer self-doubt.
"RJD2," comes the retort, between snorts and misguided attempts to present an all-knowing persona.
Limping from the speakers is Since We Last Spoke. It's 2004's strangely flaccid follow-up to a record that previously marked RJD2 as smooth's multi-talented answer to DJ Shadow, namely debut album Deadringer. Augmented by a CV ram-jammed with desk-manning duties for various US alt-rap luminaries, back then RJD2 had the creative world at his proverbial feet.
It used to be about the hip-hop. But since _we_ last conversed, RJ, what happened? You've abandoned experimental New York rap set home Definitive Jux. Now you're singing and playing every instrument as if it's a token to worldwide acceptance in itself, pretending every two-bit band and pop act this side of Milli Vanilli don't manage so already.
At first aural glance, it's easy to let The Third Hand glide across ears and declare it less immediately awkward than that orange follicle owner-endorsed predecessor. And there's no arguing that by definition it's less disappointing, considering the differing expectance levels.
Isolating individual tracks quickly becomes largely redundant, though, even if the intro could become an incidental scene separator from Curb Your Enthusiasm, such is its inherently gawky tinkling. From there onwards, one congealed labour of unwanted love seeps forth, teetering perilously close to semi-easy listening nu-soul and killing dead all but the hardiest strains of RJ's hitherto invention, sporadically represented by boggling drum patterns or swiftly buried melodic lilts. Not much else sounds like The Third Hand, sure, but, dammit, be grateful. Somewhere, a ginger fuckwit is making ejaculatory faces, soon to bore another victim tearless with charlie-fuelled recommendations.
And therein is the problem: RJD2's constructing music idiots will perceive as worthy. Who gives a fuck if equally moronic intelligentsia and sell-out shouters will condemn RJ to a life of Moby-level antichrist status? Because the bottom line is, for all its comparative brave departures and originality, The Third Hand just isn't particularly engaging.
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$k$ is a field of characteristic $p$.
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As an endomorphism of $k[t]$, $\partial^p=0$.
First way to fix it: Use the divided power differential operator $\partial^{[p]}$. Shortfall: As an endomorphism of $k[t]$, ${\partial^{[p]}}^p=0$
Second way to fix it: Use crystalline differential operators. Shortfall: No higher order operators on $k[t]$.
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AS THEY move out of the shadows and back into the limelight, the Hurricanes must cope with renewed external pressure in 2013.
Hope and anticipation were not themes associated with Mark Hammett's second year in charge.
Historically, even with Christian Cullen, Jonah Lomu and Tana Umaga shining, expectations haven't been a welcome bedfellow for the perennial underachievers. Last year presented a clean slate.
Sure, there was spotlight, but, initially, on-field performance wasn't the hot topic.
Hammett's radical rebuild began with a firm grasp. Ma'a Nonu and then-captain Andrew Hore were jettisoned. At that point, many thought the former Crusader was bonkers. Few expected his side, which also lost Hosea Gear, Aaron Cruden and Piri Weepu, to be competitive.
"Last year we were seen at a really low ebb," chief executive James Te Puni said. "Because of that a lot of people expected us to tank and finish at the bottom of the table."
They did much more, missing the play-offs by just two points during a defiant, backs-to-the-wall campaign. It was a remarkable ride.
"Last year we didn't know what to expect," halfback TJ Perenara reflected. "There were no expectations publicly. We got the motivation from people writing us off. We came together as a tight group to achieve that."
Only now, the underdogs tag is gone. So, too, has All Blacks winger Cory Jane after a potentially season-ending ACL knee injury in training on Friday, a huge blow.
There are no other dramas to galvanise a similar them-against-us mentality this season, either. The build-up had been smooth, precise and without controversy.
One major question hangs over what is a largely familiar squad – can they back it up to buck the frustrating trend? It is a contrasting scenario facing the Canes' quest to enhance those solid, surprisingly strong, foundations.
No longer is this a rookie outfit; the new kids on the block must progressively come of age, with Conrad Smith and Victor Vito continuing to pave the way in Jane's absence.
While internal goals were lofty last year, the public offered a temporary grace period. Essentially, there was nothing to lose, much like the position the Blues are in.
After the unsettling turbulence, eighth was a successful season.
Naturally, more will be demanded now. Play-offs are a minimum. Having seemingly proven themselves, the 24 returning players and nine new faces want to contest the title.
"We're here to win the competition, just like any other team, and we're confident about that. We think it is realistic," Perenara said. "You have to beat the best to be the best."
Only once last year did the Canes lose consecutive matches. Lessons were quickly absorbed. And for further steps to be taken, improved consistency will be crucial.
"We could muck around, but the truth is people have higher expectations of the Hurricanes," Te Puni said. "This year people expect us to challenge for the semi-finals. We know that."
In this competition, pressure and hype go hand-in-hand. Second-year blues, where youngsters fail to kick on, is a notable danger.
Hammett and backs coach Alama Ieremaia oversaw the promotion of Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett and Dane Coles to the All Blacks, and Hammett is conscious of keeping them, and other prospects, grounded.
"Second-year syndrome often trips new All Blacks up," said Hammett, who was granted a two-year contact extension.
All Blacks prop Ben Franks, Coles and Ben May form a solid engine room, with heat being applied from Jeffery Toomaga-Allen and hard-hitting hooker Motu Matu'u.
With Vito, Brad Shields, Faifili Levave, powerhouse prodigy Ardie Savea and the experienced Karl Lowe and Jack Lam vying for places, the loose forwards pack serious punch. Perenara and Barrett are dynamic halves and while Tim Bateman and Conrad Smith may lack penetration, they are creative, and gutsy defence can be just as potent.
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A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark Matter
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A powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations of the cluster known as MACS J0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separated the dark from ordinary matter and provide an independent confirmation of a similar effect detected previously in a target dubbed the Bullet Cluster. These new results show that the Bullet Cluster is not an anomalous case.


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There's a whole generation of shopkeepers whose small businesses are a part of our lives, and whose presence we take for granted, that are fading from our scene. - Sy Edelstein
It's been centuries since Jewish families first were forced to live in the Diaspora, outside of their ancestral homeland. Over time, many found their way to the United States, where they set up shop, both literally and figuratively. They settled and became butchers, milliners, cobblers, and tailors. They sold ties and buttons and sandwiches.
It is this once-vibrant — now dimming — culture of independently run and owned Jewish businesses that is the subject of Photographic Visions of the Diaspora and which fascinated Sy Edelstein. An art director and graphic designer who once taught at the Otis/Parson School of Art, he began photographing shopkeepers in 1978 when a corporate magazine assigned him to show people in their workplace. What followed was more than 20 years-worthof attraction to a rapidly disappearing way of life. From Los Angeles to New York, he captured not just the shopkeeper, but the workplace with its own story as well.
Still, Edelstein recognized that even when these businesses and their owners don't fade away, sometimes they are erased by progress and the mere passage of time. As he wrote about one of his first subjects, an elderly watchmaker in his cluttered shop in downtown L.A.: "Some weeks after being photographed, he died suddenly at his workbench. His daughter was in the process of closing down the store when I came to show the prints. The watchmaker and his shop were history."
There were others too. The Russian émigré shoemaker who survived a Siberian prison; the attractive antique shop owner who was once a professional dancer; the barber in Venice who served in the British army during World War II and still keeps a photo of himself in uniform stuck to the wall.
Many of these shopowners are captured on the black-and-white photographs here. Some stand proudly in front of their wares, like the New York man backed by rows of ties in "Jack Berg Quality Ties." Others are hard at work. A gloved Torah scribe bends intently over the scroll as his long white beard flows onto it in Rabbi A.m. Eisenbach (Wearing Gloves)." And then there's the man behind the cash register, flashing a smile as he beckons the viewer towards him in "Delicatessen on Essex St." from 1993.
Edelstein approached each with understanding and empathy, preserving their stories forevermore, even if they no longer remain to tell them. Maybe it's because of his own background — his own role in the Jewish Diaspora — that he was able to do this.
"Looking back at my own early life as a child in Chicago, I remember my father's stores, he sold parlor stoves and re-upholstered furniture. In my teens in New York, my parents had a 'candy store' and of course I worked there. I guess that made me a 'storekeeper' too," he wrote. "Perhaps that's why I have an affinity towards the people I have chosen to photograph … I could have been some other photographer's subject."
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It is not generally known that John Birch (left), a Christian missionary in China from 1940-45, led Doolittle and many other survivors of the Tokyo raid back to safety after they had been forced to parachute from their bombers behind Japanese lines on the China mainland. See the 10-minute video, The Adventures of Captain John Birch (also posted at the bottom of this article) for a brief account of John Birch's role in rescuing Doolittle's Raiders.
There is further information about John Birch's rescue of Doolittle's Raiders in a 50-minute video, Who is John Birch? This video is also available as a high-quality DVD.
When Robert Welch created The John Birch Society* at a two-day meeting in December 1958 (transcript available as The Blue Book of The John Birch Society), he explained why he chose John Birch as the namesake of the new organization as follows:
In fact, as will become more clear tomorrow, the young man I admire most of all of those America has produced was a fundamentalist Baptist missionary named John Birch. My own obsession with this fight against the increasing forces of evil in the world, which — as already explained — has caused me to give up business career and income and any prospect of ever having any peace or leisure again during my lifetime, is due in large part to my admiration for John Birch; to my feeling that I simply had to pick up and carry, to the utmost of my ability and energy, the torch of a humane righteousness which he was carrying so well and so faithfully when the Communists struck him down.
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Douglas Ambrose. Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xiv + 226. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-2080-4.
Reviewed by Robert Emmett Curran (Department of History, Georgetown University)
Published on H-CivWar (July, 1998)
Henry Hughes (1829-62), Douglas Ambrose shows in this study, is at the very least a reminder that there was intellectual life in the antebellum South beyond Charleston and piedmont Virginia. Of the intellectuals who mounted a defense of the "peculiar institution," Henry Hughes is notable for his attempt to utilize social science to justify slavery as an ideal condition of society in the broadest possible terms, going so far as to invent new terms, "warrantor and warrantee," for slaveholder and slave respectively. In this study of Hughes's contribution to southern social theory, Douglas Ambrose is intent on highlighting Hughes's proslavery thought as the leading voice of a subsidiary inclination among southern intellectuals toward the modern authoritarian state. Hughes, Ambrose concludes, was not only the "most forceful and comprehensive expression" (p. 7) of the antebellum South's alternative to a social vision based on freedom and equality, but one rooted in an authoritarian state that regulated and controlled all aspects of social activity, including the appropriation of the labor of some human beings by others. Ambrose, confirming Bertram Wyatt-Brown's judgment, finds Hughes to be the "foremost proponent of statism in the antebellum South" (p. 5), one who fundamentally rejected the hegemony of the market and the liberal individualism that undergirded it.
The son of a factor in Port Gibson, Mississippi, Hughes graduated from Oakland College in 1847 and studied law through which, he was convinced, he was destined to become "the greatest mortal man that can be" (p. 50). His weekly diary (1848-53) reveals his persistent sophomoric messianism: "I am by God set apart ... for my fellow being's happiness. I am to be the Greatest Mortal Man that can be ... I am God's implement to reveal the philosophy of the human Mind ... to reform legislation; to reveal perfect politics ... to be the leader, and beloved of the World" (p. 50). Unfortunately for Hughes, legal practice brought no quick occasions for glory or the demonstration of his God-marked genius. Hughes looked for other avenues. Journalism proved unavailing. Technology fascinated him and led to several inventions (a type-setter, a cotton-press) but failed to quench his thirst for glory. A voracious reader, he proposed "to make the whole circuit of human knowledge" and transform that into an intellectual power that could reform society (p. 53). Francis Bacon, Auguste Comte, Comte de Saint Simon, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Charles Fourier, and Thomas Carlyle were all vital sources of the social vision he began to develop for his society. Carlyle inspired his conviction of the self as political savior; Comte provided the format for achieving social perfection; Fourier showed him that human perfectibility could be realized only through a reorganization of society that replaced the atomistic individualism of contemporary civilization with an organic, interdependently structured order.
In 1854, Hughes embarked on a European tour. Ambrose speculates that that experience perhaps provided the exposure to ideas on social organization that provided him with an intellectual framework for a social blueprint for modern society and, more specifically, the South. Actually Hughes had done his reading before reaching Europe; it is likely that the writing of his Treatise on Sociology: Theoretical and Practical was done there or at least begun. It appeared in print just months after his return. In it, he explicated a unique social order that had emerged in the South that represented the extant high point of social progress and set the mark toward which all societies should aspire. At the heart of any just society is one that is fundamentally ordered: "The essence of power is orderliness" (p. 75). This meant, for Hughes, that individual freedom must be subordinated to social duty. It also meant that inequality and hierarchy are essential characteristics of a proper society. And it meant that the sovereign power rests in the state to ensure order. Among the seven systems (economic, political, hygienic, philosophic [i.e. educational] aesthetical, ethical, and religious) that Hughes saw encompassing society, the first five needed to be controlled by the state to ensure that progress would follow.
Hughes had once written, "The relations of land-lord & tenant is as sinful as that [of] master & slave. Both relations shall be abolished; but not to the hurt of the South" (p. 67). In the Treatise he attempted, as Ambrose observes, "to defend the basic principles of the southern social order while simultaneously advocating major reform that would place it on a ... theoretically sound foundation" (p. 81). Of course in doing so, as Ambrose notes, he was articulating a social order that in many ways was radically different from the one in which southerners lived. Hughes basically replaced the essence of slavery, one person's ownership of another, with a new relation based on state mandate. The primary prerequisite in society is universal subsistence. The state needs to do whatever will provide that, including the disposition of some individuals to the service of others. Indeed, this social inequality is the only way in which universal subsistence can be assured. In Hughes's view, free labor is a recipe for the inevitable starvation of some. Only state-enforced labor relations could guarantee subsistence. These relations he labeled warranteeism; those who hold others in service are warrantors. Both warrantors and warrantees hold their positions by virtue of the power of the state; property rights have nothing to do with the arrangement. If slavery is a system in which the slave has no rights and the master has total control over his property, warranteeism preserves the limited rights of both. So Hughes could write, "The warranted economic system of the United States South, is not slavery ... the simple-laborer in that system is not a slave.... He has essentially all his rights" (p. 86). Under warranteeism, unlike slavery, the state regulated the relations between warrantor and warrantee in which each had mutual obligations and benefits. As Ambrose notes, the picture of the "warrantor" that the Treatise depicts is a contradictory one in which he is both dutiful state agent and benevolent paternalist. Nonetheless, in Hughes's scheme, warranteeism not only made impossible the outrages of slavery Harriet Beecher Stowe was trumpeting in Uncle Tom's Cabin, but it also "provided for a rational, efficient, and orderly system of social relations based on and guided by a responsible state" (p. 116).
In comparing the plantation-centered household of the South with its free labor counterpart of the North, Hughes argued (as did George Fitzhugh even more rigorously in his Sociology for the South that appeared in the same year) that the southern one was inherently superior precisely because of its ability, due to its integration within the warrantee system, to provide for all, something which the free labor household could not match, dependent as it was on a capitalism not integrally committed to the household. The free laborer's wage was not determined by the needs of the family but by the impersonal market. Conveniently, Hughes ignored the extent to which the plantation economy was thoroughly involved in the market.
By Hughes's logic, all those who labor should be warrantees or charges of others. This was a logic that Hughes's racism did not allow him to pursue. Because of the peculiar racial composition of southern society, warranteeism there had an "ethnical qualification" (p. 108). Elsewhere, pure warranteeism could obtain, but not in the biracial South. To have allowed whites as well as blacks as warrantees would have been to promote miscegenation and violate natural law as well as assure the mutual decline of the races.
The Treatise, although welcomed in Southern circles as another forthright defense of slavery, had little impact. Few read it; even fewer considered it on its own terms. Nonetheless, Hughes became active in Democratic politics as well as the movement to revitalize the South that the southern commercial conventions of the late 1850s represented. Among the reforms that Hughes championed was the reopening of the slave trade. Convinced that northern economic inequity would in the near future provoke class conflict, Hughes in a series of newspaper articles urged that the South needed to protect itself through an expansion of slavery (warranteeism) by obtaining new slaves from abroad. Otherwise, the South would be vulnerable to a growing political power of a North desperate to exploit the South to stave off its own internal social discontents. In other words, more slaves would mean more representation in the federal government, which would mean more national power to counteract the North's dark designs.
In his post-Treatise articles, Hughes filled in his conception of a social order in which individuals would act "as they ought" according to that which the state, through science, determined to be proper (p. 180). He underscored the need to apply scientific methods to the study and solution of social problems. This would involve a greatly enlarged bureaucracy, but only thus would efficiently informed state agencies be able to perform their roles responsibly. The state would thus oversee society and administer it according to the dictates of science.
When the war came, Hughes enlisted, formed his own Mississippi battalion, went to Virginia, and died of war-related illness in 1862. Ambrose sees the war providing the environment for the fulfillment, or at least partial realization, of his vision that had seemed irrelevant in the antebellum South. Ambrose is referring to the vast expansion of state authority in the Confederate republic, which "constructed one of if not the largest nationally operated economies in the world" to that time. "Hughes's ideas," Ambrose concludes, "might well have found a more receptive audience in such a society that, although unaware of him, had adopted many of his fundamental notions of social organization and development" (p. 187). But that republic, of course, oversaw the destruction of the heart of Hughes's society, the slave/warrantee system that by the time of Hughes's death was already not "progressing" to a higher form but withering away under the pressures of war.
A primary difficulty in studying Hughes is the paucity of sources. All his papers, with the exception of the five year diary and some newspaper clippings, were destroyed. His publications, The Treatise and newspaper/journal articles, were all written within a six year period. Indeed, more than a third of this book is a commentary on the Treatise. There is consequently much repetition and a certain amount of speculation, but Ambrose has made a noteworthy contribution to our understanding of southern antebellum social thought by examining Hughes's distinctive theory within its broad intellectual and social contours.
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syphilissĭf´əlĭs [key], contagious sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum (described by Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann in 1905). Syphilis was not widely recognized until an epidemic in Europe at the end of the 15th cent. Some medical historians have proposed that syphilis first appeared in Spain among sailors who had returned from the New World in 1493, while others have concluded from archaeological evidence that it probably originated in the Old World but may have been confused with leprosy. A study (pub. 2008) that examined the evolutionary relationships among Treponema bacteria supported the idea that the spirochete originated in the New World, with some researchers suggesting it may have mutated into a sexually transmitted disease in Europe.
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Burnaby Velodrome Maydays
The Burnaby Velodrome will showcase some of the best track racing talent that Canada has to offer at the Maydays Track Challenge, taking place May 9, 10, and 11 at the Harry Jerome Sports Center in Burnaby. Racers are coming from as far away as California and Ontario to take part in the first big track race event of the summer of 2008.
Wanting to come out and watch all the action? Check out the spectator link below; there's plenty of action all weekend long! Local beverage maker Red Truck Beer will be serving their wares throughout the weekend, and a couple of local DJs will be spinning tunes to keep the blood pumping! Tickets are $2 at the door, one of the best entertainment values in the City!
Do you have kids? Looking for something to do Saturday morning? Check out the Kiddie Kilo link below! Over 30 kids experienced track racing for the first time at our inaugural Kiddie Kilo in January, and we hope to see even more new faces this weekend!
As part of Vancouver's '30 Days of Sustainability', Saturday will feature an infield exposition with various sponsors, merchants, and media representatives setting up and providing information on bike commuting, credit union banking, alternative media sources, among other exciting things.
Check out the following links for more information, and see you Friday night!
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Wanaka: Getaway girls
Where are you going? We ask two stylish designers showing at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia where they're heading over winterELISABETH FINDLAY The Zambesi designer will be escaping to Wanaka th
The Zambesi designer will be escaping to Wanaka this winter, a place she and her family have visited for years. Findlay and her team will show at Australian Fashion Week next Friday.
I love Wanaka because... it is a wonderful relaxing place to be with family and you can do as little as you want and explore as much as you like.
When I get there... I feel close to home. When my family arrived in New Zealand we spent a few years in Chatto Creek, Central Otago and then moved to Dunedin where I grew up. Great memories!
We always stay... in our timeshare apartment at The Pines, which has amazing views and a short walk to the lake.
I always eat well. There are many great places to eat in Wanaka. One of my favourites is The White House.
When I fly I always wear... whatever I like. I do not really change the way I dress for flying.
I always carry... my Zambesi leather Football bag. It is has a great capacity for many items but is soft enough to look discreet.
My latest suitcase is... a hard shell Samsonite in black (of course) that is very light before I start filling it with my winter woollies.
When I fly... I always make sure I have plenty of water to drink and if it is a long flight I wear flight socks.
When I arrive, my holiday essentials are... Zambesi sunglasses, my beanie, my scarf, my gloves and my swimsuit as there is an indoor pool and spa.
My beauty essentials... are M.A.C. cleansing wipes and lip balm, Le Mer moisturiser, Clarins body scrub and body cream.
My holiday beauty regime... is pretty much the same as my non-holiday regime. I am becoming more fastidious about taking care of my skin as I am getting older.
The getaway gadget I can't leave home without... I am not really a gadget person and on holiday I would have no need as I am in one of the most relaxing places in the world. Is a Blackberry a gadget? Of course, that goes with me everywhere!
My holiday read... I am reading I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen. I always take several books.
My ultimate travel mix... Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, David Bowie, Nick Cave.
Top tip for holiday relaxation... Close your eyes and open them again. You are somewhere else!
This Australian designer is drawn to the ocean on her getaways, favouring Bali and her Avalon home as places to escape to. She shows at Australian Fashion Week next Wednesday.
My favourite holiday destination... is my home, on the beautiful coast in Avalon, NSW.
I love it there because... it is calm, we are by the beautiful ocean and people are always relaxed.
When I get there, I... spend time with my beautiful daughters, they love being seaside.
I always stay... in Bali, as we have a house there.
I always eat... coconuts and Mexican food!
When I fly, I always wear... an Ella Bache eye gel and Creme de La Mer to stop dehydration.
And I always carry... an iPod, a big bottle of water, flat sandals, M.A.C lip conditioner and a book in my giant Balenciaga tote.
My suitcase is... Samsonite.
I travel often and always at the last minute so I've just learnt to go with the flow.
When I arrive, my holiday essentials are... Celine sunglasses I bought on a recent Hong Kong trip, H&M bikinis which fit so well, Jac + Jack beach towels, and I always take multi vitamins with me to ward of any sickness I might catch on the plane. The rest, I buy on arrival!
My beauty essentials... Creme de La Mer, Ella Bache including their suncare range. I try to keep my skincare simple and uncomplicated.
My holiday beauty regime... I can't recall the last holiday or my regime, but I can get back to you on this one after Fashion Week! I do tend to exercise always on holiday, and try to eat healthily and look after my skin.
The getaway gadget I can't leave home without... obvious but true, my iPod for music and films.
My holiday read... I actually love downloading TED talks and watching these as they are so inspiring across so many topics. Always uplifting.
My ultimate travel mix... Solange and Blood Orange!
Top tip for holiday relaxation... One tip: massages!
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