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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — As rescuers broke through to flood-ravaged Colorado towns, they issued a stern warning Saturday to anyone thinking of staying behind: Leave now or be prepared to endure weeks without electricity, running water and basic supplies.
National Guard helicopters and truck convoys carried the admonition into paralyzed canyon communities where thousands of stranded residents were eager to escape the Rocky Mountain foothills. But not everybody was willing to go. Dozens of people in the isolated community of Jamestown wanted to stay to watch over their homes.
Authorities made clear that residents who chose not to leave might not get another chance for a while. Rescuers won't go back for people who insist on staying, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said.
"We're not trying to force anyone from their home. We're not trying to be forceful, but we're trying to be very factual and definitive about the consequences of their decision, and we hope that they will come down," Pelle said.
Special education teacher Brian Shultz, 38, was torn about leaving his Jamestown home.
"I was thinking about staying. I could have lasted at least a year. I have a lot of training in wilderness survival," he said, adding that he probably had enough beer to last the whole time.
As he sat outside a makeshift shelter at a high school, Shultz floated the idea of walking back into the funky mountain town.
"If we hike back, I would stay there and just live. I'd rather be at our own house than staying at some other people's houses," he said.
His wife, Meagan Harrington, gave him a wry smile. About 10 of their neighbors declined to evacuate, she said.
"They said they wouldn't force you, but it was strongly encouraged," she said.
Shultz teared up behind his sunglasses as he compared his situation to that of his neighbors.
"At least all of our stuff's there and will be there when we get back. The people right by the river, their houses were washed away. Other people thought their houses were going to be OK, and then they started to go. It's just really devastating."
Across the foothills, rescuers made progress against the floodwaters. But they were still unable to go up many narrow canyon roads that were either underwater or washed out.
On Saturday, the surge of water reached the plains east of the mountains, cutting off more communities and diverting some rescue operations.
Four people have been confirmed dead since the harrowing floods began Wednesday. And hundreds of others have not been heard from in the flood zone, which has grown to cover portions of an area nearly the size of Connecticut.
Some of those who are unaccounted for may be stranded or injured. Others might have gotten out but not yet contacted friends and relatives, officials said.
Police expected to find more bodies as the full scope of damage emerges.
A woman was missing and presumed dead after witnesses saw floodwaters from the Big Thompson River destroy her home in the Cedar Cove area, Larimer County sheriff's spokesman John Schulz said.
"I expect that we're going to continue to receive reports of confirmed missing and confirmed fatalities throughout the next several days," he said.
Two fatalities were identified by the Boulder County coroner Saturday as Wesley Quinlan and Wiyanna Nelson, both 19.
Authorities believe the couple died when they were swept away after driving into floodwaters and then leaving their vehicle. Their cause of death is under investigation.
The military put more troops on the ground and helicopters in the air to aid in the search-and-rescue effort.
By Saturday night, 1,750 people and 300 pets had been evacuated from Boulder and Larimer County, National Guard Lt. James Goff said.
The airlifts will continue Sunday with helicopter crews expanding their searches east to include Longmont, Fort Collins and Weld County.
It was not clear how many people were still stranded.
A helicopter taking Gov. John Hickenlooper on a tour of the flooded areas even got in the act, stopping twice to pick up six stranded people and their two pets. Terry Kishiyama's son flagged down a helicopter with his shirt after a three-day wait for rescue from a neighbor's house on higher ground.
"You could hear the choppers for miles and miles, but I didn't know if they were evacuating people. You see a chopper going down behind a ridge, and you have no clue," Kishiyama said.
In addition to his son's efforts, Kishiyama said his wife shouted at the chopper, "We have babies!"
More than 85 fifth-graders from Louisville were greeted by their parents and friends Saturday after they were rescued from an outdoor education center near Jamestown.
Above Larimer County, rescue crews airlifted 475 people to safety and planned to resume helicopter searches on Sunday, weather permitting.
Rain was expected to start up again in the mountains and foothills, with between a half-inch and 2 inches forecast to fall overnight, according to the National Weather Service.
Crews also used inflatable boats to pick up families and pets from farmhouses on Saturday. Some evacuees on horseback had to be escorted to safe ground.
Near Greeley, 35 miles east of the foothills, broad swaths of farmland had become lakes, and the raging South Platte and Poudre rivers surrounded more homes.
In one Boulder neighborhood, residents turned back city crews and machinery that arrived to remove the makeshift berms and sand-filled trash bags protecting their homes. University of Colorado students helped homeowners improvise a way to divert the rising water from Gregory Creek.
"The residents know better than anybody else how the water flows through the neighborhood," said Colleen Scanlan Lyons.
In communities where floodwaters began receding, homeowners had a chance to assess damage.
In Laporte, Wendy Clark surveyed soggy carpets and furniture that got damaged by the Poudre River.
"This mud smells disgusting," she said. "I don't know how long that's going to be around."
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Over the next four weeks, the Federal Communications Commission will conduct twelve field tests of TV white space devices—hardware that can transmit and receive broadband over unused TV channel frequencies. And it looks like the FCC may have taken up the offer from ESPN and the National Football League to let the Commission test these apps in a sports stadium. The agency's schedule says that the last two demos involve "wireless microphone testing" and will be conducted in a "sports venue" and an "entertainment venue."
As Ars reported last month, ESPN/NFL are among the many groups raising a fuss over the threat that they say unlicensed broadband devices could pose to wireless mic use. On June 26th they filed comments with the FCC offering to let the agency's Office of Engineering Technology (OET) run tests on the prototype gadgets in nearby sports stadiums.
"Wireless microphones are vital to operations at NFL games," the ESPN/NFL wrote. "We believe it is essential that field-testing studies reflect actual, true-to-life conditions, including testing of wireless microphones and other wireless audio equipment used at these games."
The ESPN/NFL filing offered two Maryland locales near the FCC's DC headquarters for the wireless mic challenge: Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium and the Federal Express Field in Landover. But the FCC has not disclosed whether it will go with these venues for the tests.
The rest of the field observations will take place in Maryland, with the exception of one at the FCC's DC headquarters. They'll commence next week in Patapsco Valley State Park and the Thomas A. Dixon, Jr. Aircraft Observation Area of the Baltimore/Washington International airport. Next will come demos at residences in Ellicot City and College Park. After the FCC HQ test, there will be five more tryouts in rural and semi-rural areas (two parking lots and a creek near Harp Hill Road). Last but not least will come the wireless mic ordeals. The Commission says it wants all these experiments completed over the course of four weeks.
At least two of these locations appear to have come from recommendations made by the Association for Maximum Service Television (MSTV): the Harp Hill Road locale and another along Route 17. As the TV industry's lobbyist on tech issues, the MSTV has been a fierce opponent of unlicensed broadband devices. But some of its recent filings suggest that the group has moved past outright opposition and is now in favor of requesting conditions that will restrict and weaken the hardware's reach.
On July 3, three MSTV execs, one National Association of Broadcasters lawyer, and a CBS veep piled into the office of FCC Commissioner Michael Copps to talk to him and two of his legal advisers about the white space docket. They conceded that geolocator devices could potentially protect TV stations from white space app interference. But, "the FCC must also focus on protections against adjacent channel interference, requirements to assure an adequate database to support geolocation methodologies, robust certification procedures, and powerful and effective policing mechanisms," they warned.
These TV white space device field tests will be open to the public, the FCC says, and the Commission will offer updates on any changes in the schedule.
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Unsung heroes
Though most people don't realize it, the MVPs yesterday in addition to Randy Wolf were the Dodger Grounds Crew, which somehow managed to get the stadium in very good playing condition despite rain all day. The game was played and the team pulled off another win and everyone went home happy.
Today's lineup is the same as yesterday with Penny in place of Wolf. He's looking to become the first Dodger starting pitcher to begin the year 4-0 since Kaz Ishii went 6-0 in 2002.
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That's quite true. In Richmond, VA, the AAA Braves team had a lot of problems with drainage a couple years ago, and they had to finish the season playing some home games over in Norfolk (where the Mets AAA team plays). That prompted a lot of debate about moving the R-Braves and the like, but they're still in Richmond for now.
I hope Randy Wolf is better than Kaz Ishii.
just for fun i'm gonna try & guess what player has a good game today, & i'm thinking Russell Martin will be the guy.
ps I hope Saenz starts tomorrows game cause he owens the pirates.
Tomorrow Saenz starts. Maybe at first and give Nomar two days off in a row.
WB at third is just about ready to start racking the ball. He can whack the heater and I think he's learning how to sit on the curve.
I love the way Kent and Gonzo are getting lots of rest. This will pay off in the dog days of summer.
This is a heck of a team guys. Top to bottom very strong. And plenty of troops in the minors knocking at the doors.
Heck we've got guys getting ready to come off of the DL that we don't even have room for or know who they would replace.
It's good to be King!!!
The ground crews really are not given enough credit. They keep the field in top shape. no matter what the conditions. My hat's off to them. Lets go Dodgers lets keep on rolling and beat up on the Bucs.
Who Dat ??????????? Who Dat?????????!!!!!!!!Wilson Who? Oh Valdez he doesn't count……ROFLMAO
GO Blue 2007!!!
Not bad, tie it up in the bottom of the ninth without even getting a hit. Gotta love this team!!! Broxton hitting 98MPH and keeping us in this game with some studs coming to bat in the 10th.
I think you have this one pegged bluebleeder! Bases Loaded Martin at the Plate Vin on the mike 1 out….
Jeez, way to come out of a 0-3 for the day! Go Dodgers!!!!
Make sure you fill out your All-Star ballot for Martin!!! I love this game.
Russ Martin… incredible!
How bout that wilson guy … that Valdez,Wilson……
leanmans "Make sure you fill out your All-Star ballot for Martin!!! I love this game.
true that.
You called it Bluebleeder Great call!
Don… I never said Valdez doesn't count… he absolutely does count. I just said he's not an everyday third baseman. His ninth inning shenanigans are the reason Russ Martin got his dream moment… and what a moment that was! And has that ball even landed yet? Whoa… what a shot!
Go Dodgers!!
Go Russ Martin for All-Star 2007!!
bluebleeder, you're clairvoyant! lol! Very good call!
lol ksspark, I agree! bluebleeder, what a call!
Russell Nathan Coltrane Jeanson Martin, Jr.!!!
That Wilson kid helped out too.
That was a Shot Heard all over Redondo Beach I think my neibors all hate me again…
I never said Valdez was or could be the everyday 3rd baseman but I do think that he should be playing 3-4 days a week while he is doing well.
The only stat that shows he was in the game is that he scored an unearned run and had an 0fer AB…Either still looks lost on the basepaths he is hitting the ball better now and his defense is Very good but he looks lost when he is on base.All said and done I still look at what Valdez brings to the game and feel he needs to play more and at 3rd because that is the hole in our game for NOW. He is not the solution nor the future he is the now stop gap player.Month or 2 and Betemit might light it up and then we might have needs elsewhere but while this guy is playing and contributing I think it would be wise to use him where we need him until such time room is made for him or his value is enough that we can get help in areas where we need help and with this team there are not many places we need help.
Walkoff GRAND SLAM!!!
You are Da Man Russ!!!
Just got my Martin T-shirt in the mail yesterday – this makes me even more certain that it was a good idea to get such a young guy's number on my Dodger shirt. He is rock-solid in all aspects of his game, and clutch to boot…when he is arbitration eligible, I hope the Dodgers sign him to a 7-year deal and lock him up to be a franchise player.
My dad is visiting here in Denver from LA, and we stayed up to watch the 10th inning on mlb.tv…we were well rewarded. The evening couldn't have ended more spectacularly.
This is just plain sick espn even promoted this team to #2 in the power rankings behind of course a beloved NY …Mets team? who isn't in 1st place but #2 from them says alot…because they are sooo east coast bias.Only reason our BP is 3rd ranked is Seanez and Bills having a couple bad outings.Look at our BP era's in tonights Box ….Lights out We used to have 1 pitcher that good now we have 4 and combined don't make near what he got.WE Have all the tools this year it's gonna be the beginning of the new west coast dynasty with Martin being the MVP!
Go Blue 2007!!!
o man can i just say VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! i have been saying it all week. hahaha what a ball player… it will be a said day for baseball if this kid is not the starting catcher for the NL in the all-star game this season, i dont care how early it is in the season. Hes got evrything going for him right now his bat is smoking, his glove is way above average, his cannon of an arm puts fear in baserunners, his speed has him in the top 25 in MLB in steals (he is a catcher rite? lol), and to boot this kid can call a game like no other. do i have to say it again?! VOTE 4 MARTIN!!! GO DODGERS!!!
Does anyone here remember the condition of our bullpen at this point of the season LAST YEAR??? I still have nightmares about last years' bullpen out of spring training. What a job Ned's done in making this bullpen one of the best in baseball… and talk about depth… it's scary in a good way now! : )
Martin is The catcher for the allstar Game But I'm not posting my votes til I get a better feel for who will help the NL win this AS game. I am tired of seeing the al win year after year and with the dodgers in contension for the WS this year I'd Like to have home field advantage. Be smart in who you vote for and don't tax our team soo much as to tax our players for a much needed rest this time.While voting you vote for a team of players and we don't want to waste votes on injuried players at the time of the break. A little patience and research can do alot in the final voting surge.I wrote in my votes for Martin last year because navarro was the catch of record at this time last year.If You Really want to stuff the boxes for the NL stuff the crappy AL players and Stuff the great NL players.Our players who get a break over the AS fiasco get days to rest.Just remember Nomar and Penny Post AS last year.Not to mention that we lost over a week and a half.
Yeah I remember and I Say NED for President!!!
Who is this Jason addcox
guy? why does this post in the recap look like the Dogers lost once you get past the first paragraph?
LOS ANGELES — Catcher Russell Martin hit a grand slam off Pittsburgh's Shawn Chacon in the bottom of the 10th inning as the Dodgers rallied for a 7-3 victory on Saturday night.
The Dodgers pushed across a run in the bottom of the ninth to tie it, with Wilson Valdez scoring on a passed ball.
Jonathan Broxton (1-0) earned the win by pitching a scoreless 10th inning.
Brad Penny was seeking to become the first Dodgers pitcher to win his first four starts of the season since Kazuhisa Ishii did it in 2002, but the Pirates spoiled his night.
Pittsburgh capitalized off a Dodgers error in the first inning and took advantage of three walks in the third inning to beat the Dodgers, 3-2, in front of a crowd of 48,995 at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night.
Penny pitched into the seventh inning, but his command in the early going cost him the win as he loaded the bases in the third inning, allowing the go-ahead runs to cross the plate.
Dodgers manager Grady Little was tossed in that same inning after arguing balls and strikes with home-plate umpire Joe West.
The Pirates scored first after Chris Duffy took third base on a throwing error by Martin, and later scored on groundout by Jack Wilson.
The Dodgers scored runs in the first and sixth innings and threatened to score throughout the game but were unable to get a hit when it mattered most.
Pirates starting pitcher Ian Snell went seven innings, allowing two runs on five hits
This is just plain bad journalism no focus just random sentences with no structure you get an F on tonights report Jason go join the rest of the ex jasons……
fisher928, you gotta wait a few hours before they update the recaps on all mlb.com team websites. Others like ESPN and Yahoo use AP writers and finalize their recap fairly quickly within an hour or two, while recap for dodgers.com usually takes more than 2-3 hours. Check again in an hour or tomorrow morning and you'll see that it's a preliminary draft, not a final one.
You called it indeed, Bluebleeder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who is today's choice? Keep up the good work!!!
Oh honorable Bleeder of Blue… who doth thou pronounce to be our champion of this day? : )
only catcher in martins way for the all star game is mccann. but martin is far more versatile with his speed. espn is hilarious they wasted so much ink hyping chris ianetta, any article about martin just looks like a puff piece. i love espn's horrible analysis on young catchers.


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Median home values took a hit across the U.S. following the recession, particularly in the most populated areas of the country. In fact, only four of the 50 least populous counties saw significant slides in median home values in the years following the recession, compared to 43 of the 50 most populated counties that experienced such declines, according to a Census report released today.
Using data gathered by the American Community Survey, which collects a variety of demographic and financial information about the country's residents, the Census Bureau compared home values and homeownership rates among states, counties, metropolitan statistical areas and cities during three-year periods before and after the recession. The first three-year period covered 2007 to 2009, and statistics from that time frame were compared against numbers from 2010 to 2012 to show the effects of the recession on American homeownership.
Starting in the 1940s, American homeownership rate soared for two decades before slowing down — though still growing — from the 1960s through its peak in 2006, when more than 67% of housing units were owner-occupied. From 2007 to 2009, that percentage was 66.4%, and the rate continued to decline, falling to 64.7% from 2010 to 2012.
Forty-three of the 50 largest cities experienced a decline in homeownership, with 23 of those cities reporting percentage-point declines greater than the U.S. average (the national homeownership average declined 1.72 percentage points between the three-year periods.) On the flip side, only 17 of the 50 smallest cities experienced decline.
It was a bit different among home values: 35 of the most-populous cities and 33 of the least-populous cities experienced median home value declines. The difference in home-value declines was much more stark on the county level.
As for a national view, 28 states saw their median home values decline, and overall, the country experienced a $17,300 decline in median home value. Nineteen states reported statistically significant increases, with North Dakota's median home value spiking the most at an $18,200 increase.
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The man charged with the first-degree murder of Concordia student Lin Jun was also asked to describe a typical day at work and list what qualities are necessary to work as an escort.
But whether Magnotta's answers to those and other questions asked during the two-hour interview will be made public is now up to a Quebec Superior Court judge to decide.
The University of Ottawa researchers behind the study claim that the findings must be kept under wraps because of a promise made to participants of confidentiality and anonymity. If the results are made public, their lawyer argued this week before Justice Sophie Bourque, no one will want to participate in future studies on sensitive subjects.
Crown prosecutor Alexandre Boucher conceded that there may be nothing pertinent in the interview, but asked the judge to "at least take a look" for potential evidence that may be used in a defence of not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
On June 22, Montreal police got a warrant to seize the audio recording and 68-page transcript of the interview after Adam McLeod, who interviewed Magnotta for the study Sex Work and Intimacy: Escorts and Their Clients, recognized his photo in the newspaper and notified police at the end of May.
Magnotta was the subject of an international manhunt after Lin's May 25 death and was eventually arrested in Berlin in June and brought back to Canada. He faces five charges, including first-degree murder, causing an indignity to a human body and producing and distributing obscene material.
His preliminary hearing continues next week, but there is a publication ban on all the evidence being presented.
Peter Jacobsen, the lawyer representing criminologists and study authors Christine Bruckert and Colette Parent, argued this week that if the judge views the interview in private, the public oversight and scrutiny of the court system is lost. But the judge saw it the other way.
"This process is to protect the public interest," Bourque said. "If I decide I have to do it, it's because otherwise the document is totally hidden from society."
Bourque didn't say when she would render her judgment on whether she would look at the recorded interview and decide if it should be unsealed for the criminal case, or if she will order the materials be returned to the researchers without anyone seeing them.
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This photo has been on the site for some time but we hadn't posted our comparison with one of the long tailed Rhamphorhynchoidea pterosaurs similar to Rhamphorhynchus.
This photo is allegedly from the 1950's and was printed in Ripley's Believe it Or not or similar magazine and shows a ranch hand holding up a long tailed creature that science says should have been extinct-for many millions of years.
Photo 2 shows the alleged pterosaur compared with two versions of Rhamphorhynchus. Text is provided primarily so that we could have something to wrap around the photos….s8int.com
Rhamphorhynchus was an early pterosaur. It belonged to a group called the rhamphorhynchoids. They were small in size and had long narrow wings made from skin stretched over a long fourth finger of the hand. These animals also could have had a throat pouch for storage.
Rhamphorhynchus (which means "beak snout") was an early pterosaur, an extinct flying reptile closely related to dinosaurs. It belonged to a group called the rhamphorhynchoids. Rhamphorhynchus, a primitive type of flying reptile, was less specialized than the later pterodactyls. This primitive pterosaurus was a carnivore, that probably ate fish and insects.
It may have hunted by draping its beak in the water. It would snap its sharp teeth shut and toss the food into its throat pouch. This throat pouch, a structure, that has been preserved in some fossils, could have been used for storage. Click Here for Larger Comparison Photo with Rhamphorhynchoidea pterosaurs
Rhamphorhynchus was small in size and had long, narrow wings made from skin stretched over a long, fourth finger of the hand. It had long, thin pointed tail (4 inch/20 cm), which ended in a diamond-shaped flap of skin. It may have been used as a rudder to direct himself when flying.
Rhamphorhynchus had long, narrow jaws with large spiked teeth that pointed outwards. Its small body with a long neck and tiny legs was supported by a relatively large head. ……Wikipedia
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Reviewed by Paul W. Taylor, chief strategy officer, Center for Digital Government
Nick Carr has written a meditation on the loss of the old when confronted by the new, the loss of the incumbents' advantage when history shifts under them, the loss of data control to third parties, and the loss of sovereignty to institutions and other actors we can't control.
It might be unexpected from the "IT Doesn't Matter guy," a self-deprecating reference to the Harvard Business Review article that made him (in)famous a few years ago. Carr's newest book has a similarly incongruous title, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google.
Carr builds on an argument familiar in his previous books - IT was necessary but didn't confer competitive advantage. In The Big Switch, Carr argues organizations will inevitably abandon data centers, PCs and most locally installed software for cheap, utility-supplied computing.
In arguing for utility computing, Carr draws heavily on a detailed analogy: the electrical utilities that changed how the world worked a century ago. Carr's Thomas Friedman-style historical review of the profound effect of cheap electricity on society is the heart of the book's first half.
The historical romp helps to set up the darker half of his thesis that Thomas Edison was wrong about how electrical utilities would develop, and he couldn't see the myriad uses of electricity if it was stable, reliable and economical. He also tweaks Microsoft for being wrong (and late) in a chapter called "Goodbye Mr. Gates", although Dell, Oracle and SAP get briefer, but no kinder, notices.
Carr points to Salesforce.com and Google as exemplars of utility computing, but he also worries Google could unwittingly violate its founding premise of not doing evil. In a curious contradiction that the book never reconciles, Carr repeats the widespread view of technological neutrality: "Technology is amoral, and inventions are routinely deployed in ways their creators neither intend nor sanction." Yet, he later reveals a strong technological determinism, warning, "It should come as no surprise, then, that most of the major advances in computing and networking ... have been spurred not by a desire to liberate the masses but by the need for greater control on the part of commercial and governmental bureaucrats."
There's a message for the Internet hopefuls: We're wrong too. "Two of the hopes most dear to the Internet optimists - that the Web will create a more bountiful culture and that it will promote greater harmony and understanding - should be treated with skepticism. Cultural impoverishment and social fragmentation seem equally likely outcomes."
Carr's dystopian homily fits the spirit of this moment, characterized by moribund politics, uncertain economics and lost national confidence. It would be too easy to say the book's lessons are that government shouldn't build data centers and that its bureaucracies shouldn't be trusted. Carr sees the threat in larger existential terms putting our societies and souls at risk. He suggests the greatest loss will be individual autonomy as we are conformed to the preferences of the utility-powered "World Wide Computer."
"The full power and consequence of a new technology are unleashed only when those who have grown up with it become adults and begin to push their outdated parents to the margins," Carr writes. "As the older generations die, they take with them their knowledge of what was lost when the new technology arrived, and only the sense of what was gained remains. It's in this way that progress covers its tracks, perpetually refreshing the illusion that where we are is where we were meant to be."Unfortunately Carr's sweeping narrative is less about redressing this loss, or resisting its casual forces than ultimately being resigned to it.
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Art Endures, Capitalism Degenerates: The Evolving Career of Amanda Palmer
The arts have always suffered and survived in times of economic depression. Amanda Palmer has forged a career that has not only weathered the recession, but rejects the received wisdom of the music industry. Is she an exception to the rule, or an example other artists should follow?
"Don't try to explain it. Just sell it."
-- Colonel Tom Parker
"But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see..."
-- from John Lennon's 'Working Class Hero', which Palmer sang for Occupy Wall Street,
On 12 October, Amanda Palmer materialised at Zuccotti Park, New York, and played a few songs for the benefit of an idea called Occupy Wall Street (OWS). "We vow," reads its declaration of principles, "to end the monied corruption of our democracy." It's an idea around which other ideas gather, and then multiply. The idea is honest, necessary, beautiful, and to a certain extent, open to interpretation.
Then again, so is Palmer.
Later, I curiously sit down to watch the performance at the speed of internet, across an ocean, from my dark, faraway lair in Scotland. I see Palmer -- elfin, tousled, feline, eyebrows drawn in delicate arabesques, clutching a battered, scotch-taped ukulele, looking down on her smiling, placard-wielding audience like a benevolent giantess; I hear 'Working Class Hero' -- John Lennon at his most rewardingly bitter -- and 'World Turned Upside Down' -- a song about 17th century agrarian communists, given unexpected life by a full-throated American accent. And I think, not for the first time: "Amanda Palmer will never stop surprising me."
Elsewhere, celebrity endorsements for the protests have been steadily forthcoming -- Tim Robbins, Tom Morello, the usual suspects for whom it would probably be a poor career move not to comment -- but much of it has been observational and restrained. It's hard to avoid the impression that Occupy Wall Street -- like the nascent anti-globalisation movements of a decade ago, from which it appears to draw much organisational influence and patchwork ideology -- seems to have left the gliteratti behind; their influence seems marginal, their involvement awkward, however well-meaning. In these circles, Slajov Zizek holds more weight than Susan Sarandon.
Palmer's appearance at OWS will probably not shatter that trend (though the idea of the former Dresden Doll leading a political movement is an intriguing fantasy), but as ever, she does not fit the status quo; her impromptu 'ninja gig' -- Palmer's preferred term for the beloved, intimate short-notice performances that have become something of a trademark for her -- was as appropriate as it was unexpected. The spectacle of Palmer, of all people, emerging spontaneously amidst the ranks of the disparate and the disenfranchised and voicing her support with some well-placed agitprop makes more sense (and, if you'll allow a lapse of cynicism, it rings truer) than the sight of some other celebrities doing the same. (Kanye, I'm looking at you.)
It's not just that Palmer's whole career has, in a very entertaining way, been practiced as a kind of direct action. It's because there are few other artists working at her level that have actively rejected the contemporary corporate consensus of how a music career is built, sustained and paid for... and lived to tell the tale. Not for nothing did David Geffen once say that when the music business turns against you, "they don't want you to fail -- they want you to die."
The various critiques of capitalism asserted by Occupy Wall Street are brave and vital and arguably self-evident, but nothing new. I have well-thumbed copies of Marx -- and Chuck Palahniuk, for that matter -- that confirm as much. What is very much new, primal and steaming is the anger at a system which has demonstrably failed, but to which no alternative seems permitted; at hideous realities which are enforced upon us all, at our own expense, without mandate; at the idea that there is a certain way in which the world does, or does not, 'work', that the only choice is between playing the game and becoming economic carrion, and that those who fail to recognise that are no less than doomed.
At a glance, Amanda Palmer is a talented singer with a respectable cult following and a degree of fame; unconventional, but unremarkable. Yet in the context of a post-recession music industry as dangerous and unpredictable as any dying animal, which was already bleeding money to online piracy and subscribes to the same circus logic as the one percent that has driven people to the streets, Palmer has toppled titans, made water run uphill and proven to her own satisfaction that 1 + 1 = 3.
Now, the question of the hour is: Can others do the same?
"There was a time when i wanted to be a Pop Star. or a Rock Star. I didn't know the difference back then."
-- Amanda Palmer
Rewind to the end of August. Palmer's return to Edinburgh, at the height of festival season, is a Roman triumph. Her regular visits to Scotland's capital have bred a particularly hardcore version of the loyalty that permeates much of her fandom; every performance -- from ninja gigs in crowded, hastily arranged cellars to the expansive, opulent surroundings of the HMV Picturehouse, where I go to see her for the second time -- is guaranteed to bring them crawling out of the woodwork.
Any sizable performance by Palmer typically takes on a circus atmosphere; colourful, theatrical, exuberant, exhilarating and sometimes, a little sinister and threatening. There's a sense of anything and everything being present and permitted, in spirit halfway between the Kit Kat Club and the Rolling Thunder Revue; a travelling carnival with an ever-changing cast of eclectic singers, local musicians, dancers, performance artists and sundry other strays drawn into Palmer's circle.
When I last saw her at the Picturehouse, two years prior, she was clad in her then-familiar costume of punkish, thrift store Victoriana and art school corsetry. Now, as she bestrides the stage to a sustained roar from the crowd, she wears a look that can only be described as Eighties Space Amazon, dressed and painted in skintight silver and black, more fearsome and imposing than ever, stomping and jumping and gesticulating like a pantomime pirate without a shred of vanity, but vast oceans of self-belief. Unlike other performers who excessively enjoy the dressing-up box, it never seems as though Palmer is trying on disposable identities for size; the woman is even more unpredictable than the wardrobe.
Her piano playing, one moment gorgeously delicate and lilting, the next artfully sloppy, the next crashing and violent, is immediately and recognisably unique; each little flourish brings to mind pianists from Tom Waits to Matt Bellamy to Chico Marx (sometimes simultaneously), but succeeds in forging its own distinct sound. Her voice can travel the distance from raw, throaty whispers to rich, operatic bellows deeper than any other contemporary female singer I can think of, all without a shred of artificiality. She veers from the emotional and introspective to the bombastic and ridiculous with barely a second breath.
The set encompasses old Dresden Dolls numbers, songs from her debut solo album (the Ben Folds-produced Who Killed Amanda Palmer?), work-in-progress new material (she asks the audience not to record these, and touchingly, they seem to yield to her request), comic cabaret novelties and wry covers of unexpected classics. She talks, she jokes, she takes periodic swigs of beer, introduces a voluptuous belly dancer, and eventually demands that the audience join her and the band in a vigorous work-out routine to the sudden blare of 'Safety Dance', before leaping off the stage and swimming through a sea of cheering, laughing humanity. And that was just the first half.
Partway through all this, I realise that there are probably people who would pay good money to watch Palmer exercise in front of them (I further realise that, inadvertently, I have become one of them). But more importantly, what I suspected when I first saw her sing, and what is particularly exciting to a curmudgeon who spends his days listening to old music and chasing old ghosts, is that Palmer may be approaching the most interesting part of her career: when the artist, after all the false starts and failed experiments, knows what they want to do, and attacks those goals with savage and single-minded ferocity, and does it in a way that is entirely new.
I think of Lou Reed with an iron cross shaved onto a skull that hides a keen and poetic intelligence, simulating shooting up with the microphone cord before blowing the doors off the place; I think of Ian Dury, sweat-drenched and winking, riding through English towns like an art school crime lord with a gang of pub rock criminals; I think of Tom Waits singing songs of romance and desolation to smoke-filled after-hours joints, with a drink resting on the piano. I think of artists at the turning point, in the white-hot prime of their creative lives -- and increasingly, Palmer starts too look like one of them.


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Consider Your Cutters
The machine tools are big, valuable and important, but they are not the only part of your process. A different way of seeing the process focuses on the cutting tools. Look at your process this way in order to let the machines do more.
We tend to focus on the seen instead of the unseen. We focus on the big or urgent things instead of the smaller things. In metalworking, that means we focus on machine tools.
As well we should. A process is defined by its machines. In your own shop, the machine tools determine the parts the shop can take on and the operations it can perform. Machine tools make the shop what it is—sort of.
Actually, there is more to it than that. The machine requires cutting tools. And because this tooling is (relatively speaking) such a small, quiet and consistent part of the process, many shops fail to give their cutting tools ample consideration. The machine is seen as an "investment" while the tool is seen as an "expense." This very distinction serves to conceal just how far the cutting tool may go in determining what the machine can do.
For a moment, shift your perspective. The process is more than the sum of its machines. Right here, in the midst of a busy day, shut out the way you might usually think about the shop, so you can briefly see things differently. Imagine all of the cutting edges. That is, imagine all of the edges shearing through all of the workpieces that your shop will machine today. Imagine all of that material removal—this is your process. Your machines get the cutting tools to where they need to be, but the cutting tools are, quite literally, at the leading edge of what you do. And you may not have noticed.
You may not have noticed, because it is easy to fall into the habit of seeing your tools as just a commodity to feed the machines.
If this is too often the view in your shop, then you may have missed a subtle shift. You may have missed the way cutting tools have changed. More rigorous machining requirements and more challenging workpiece materials have demanded more of tooling, and tooling technology has risen to the challenge. Now, new choices in cutting tools might give your shop capabilities it never expected before—perhaps including the speed to increase capacity by day, or the tool life and reliability to run through the night without an operator.
Three companies hope you will understand this idea better. They are: Diamond Innovations, Precision Dormer and Sandvik Coromant. The companies jointly contributed articles for a special online knowledge center, "The New Rules of Cutting Tools." Find it at www.mmsonline.com/newrules.
Sometime soon, step back to take a second look at your tools. What are the implications of not using the most effective tooling? You may never know! Plenty of shops get OK performance from OK tools, unaware that a different process built around different tooling might let them do more with their machines than they ever thought they could. If you haven't reconsidered your cutting tools in a while, you might not know what you are missing.


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The City of Elk Grove's Veteran and Public Safety Street Naming Program is currently accepting nominations of exemplary individuals for possible future street name use. The Program was created to recognize the number of individuals who have served our community and country. By naming a City street in their honor, we hope to promote public awareness of the individual and show our appreciation for their outstanding contributions.
Prior to completing a nomination form, please review this entire packet. All questions regarding this Program can be directed to Public Works or e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or (916) 627-3424.
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2009 marks a benchmark for F1 racing with new aerodynamics, slick tires and the electrical KERS system. Thanks to Red Bull Racing we can take a look inside the changes in this slick animated short.
The short was created primarily to show off Red Bull Racing's 2009 RB5 F1 car, but it also demonstrates and compares many of the new changes imposed on the F1 series as a whole. We especially like the transformation that occurs from the 2008 car to the 2009 RB5. Thanks to Spencer for the tip!


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"Little Green" (Doubleday), by Walter Mosley
From the moment he first appeared in "Devil in a Blue Dress" in 1990, Easy Rawlins, was an instant favorite of discerning readers and literary critics alike. So the disappointment was palpable when the black private detective, drunk and in despair over a lost love, deliberately drove his car off a California cliff at the conclusion of "Blonde Faith," the eleventh novel in the series.
At the time, Easy's creator, Walter Mosley, said he'd had his fill of Easy and that it was time to move on to other creative work. In the six years since, he has remained productive, turning out political nonfiction, science fiction, young adult novels and fine crime novels featuring three new protagonists.
But now, at long last, Easy is back in "Little Green," where we find him awakening from a two-monthlong coma to discover, as usual, that people he cares about need his help.
The Easy Rawlins novels have always been distinguished by the writer's remarkable literary style and the seriousness of his purpose, for these books have never been mere whodunits. Taken together, they are nothing less than a history of race relations in post-World War II Los Angeles.
"Little Green" more than lives up to the high standard the author has set.
This isn't the first time Mosley has brought a character back to life. He appeared to have killed off Easy's dangerous sidekick, Mouse, only to have him return from oblivion two books later. Now, as a badly broken Easy regains consciousness, Mouse is one of the first faces Easy sees.
Mouse, it seems, has promised a worried mother that he will find her missing teenage son. But he has no idea how to go about it. So Easy, hobbling and in pain, drags himself from his sickbed to track the boy through the hippie-infested Sunset Strip of 1960s Los Angeles.
Soon, he discovers that Evander, whose nickname is Little Green, has gotten himself into deep trouble with some very dangerous people. It will take all of Easy's wiles, connections and flagging strength to get the kid out of it.
Easy's resurrection will remind readers of the way Arthur Conan Doyle sent another beloved character, Sherlock Holmes, to an apparent death in a plunge from Reichenback Falls in "The Final Problem," only to bring him back to life in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes."
Review: Easy Rawlins returns in 'Little Green'
"Little Green" (Doubleday), by Walter Mosley


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August 31, 2015
Questions to Ask Yourself when You're Thinking about Selling
Posted in Video Tips
When you make the decision to sell your home, the end goal is to get the best price and most favorable terms in a time-frame that meets your needs. But before the sign goes up in your front yard, there's a lot to be done to get you and your home in prime selling condition.
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August 28, 2015
#YourStoryIsOurStory: Finding the Best Place to Play
Posted in #YourStoryIsOurStory
Jayden and loyal pal Marley needed more space to play. With the help of Windermere Kennewick, they found the right place to roam and grow.
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August 27, 2015
7 Helpful Back to School Organization Ideas
Posted in Porch.com by Porch.com
The new school year is almost here! Worried about your home staying in tip-top shape during busy school days? Make the back to school transition a breeze by keeping your family and your home organized. From a menu board to a daily closet organizer, stay on track with these helpful tips and tricks that you can DIY at home!
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August 25, 2015
The Windermere Foundation Wildfire Fund
Posted in Windermere Foundation by Christine Wood
The Windermere Foundation is now accepting donations to support the families that have been affected by wildfires. One hundred percent of the funds designated to the Windermere Foundation Wildfire Fund will go to local organizations that are providing immediate assistance to those who are affected by the fires.
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August 24, 2015
How to Get Started on Your Home Search
Posted in Video Tips
Whatever your reasons for buying, finding the right home in the perfect neighborhood, and at a cost that is within your budget, is no small task. But if you do your research and approach the process with confidence, you are much more likely to emerge at the end of the day with a house you'll be proud to call home.
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August 21, 2015
#YourStoryIsOurStory: When selling the family home is like saying goodbye to a member of your family
Posted in #YourStoryIsOurStory
Homes hold some of our most sacred memories. Nancy Chapin helps her clients pass along the torch to the next family. "When people hand me the keys at the end of a conversation, I know it's not about the keys, it's not even about the house. It's about the legacy. It's about the history. It's about passing on a life to the next person, the next family, the next generation."
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August 20, 2015
Oregon and Southwest Washington Real Estate Market Update
Posted in Market News by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
The Oregon economy has regained its traditional job growth advantage relative to the nation with employment growth running about one percent higher than a typical state. With the expansion in employment—in concert with rising wages—the economy appears to be in good shape. Although not yet at full employment, the direction is very positive.
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August 18, 2015
Will Millennials be 'Perma-renters'?
Posted in Market News by Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist, Windermere Real Estate
There has been a lot of buzz in the news recently suggesting that millennials will forever be renters and not homeowners. Reasons for this theory include amenities that apartments offer, flexibility when it comes to moving and changing jobs, and inability to afford a home given the crushing student debt load many are carrying. So will this be the renter generation? Let's take a look at the data.
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August 17, 2015
You Found Your Dream Home, Now What?
Posted in Video Tips
You've found the home you can see yourself living in, now what? There are several steps to the buying process you will go through before you can officially call it your own.
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August 14, 2015
#YourStoryIsOurStory: A Unique Challenge
Posted in #YourStoryIsOurStory by Tara Sharp
Every family has unique needs to fulfill when searching for their forever home. But 3,000 action figures is more unique than most. See how the Stevens family, and Windermere agent Marguerite Giguere, found the perfect home.
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University of San Diego Names Father William Headley Founding Dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Pea
SAN DIEGO, CA - Father William (Bill) Headley, Counselor to the President of Catholic Relief Services, has been appointed the founding dean of the University of San Diego, Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, scheduled to open fall 2007.
"After an exhaustive international search and the help of many respected industry leaders and academics, I am very pleased to announce that Father William Headley has been selected as the inaugural dean of the USD Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies," announced USD President Mary E. Lyons. "His appointment to one of the most important new post in recent university history is the culmination of a journey to find the one individual whose background, experience, academic curriculum vitae and passion correspond with the high expectations of our campus, and of our generous donor, the late Mrs. Joan B. Kroc."
"When Mrs. Kroc bequeathed the university $50 million to establish the School of Peace Studies in 2003, no one could have imagined it would take us years to find our inaugural dean. But finding the right leader proved to be a formidable challenge. I am confident that the appointment of Headley brings us one important step closer to realizing our dream of building a globally recognized school to promote social justice and peace building," said Lyons.
Since 2000, Father Headley has held leadership positions at Catholic Relief Services (CRS). In his capacity as Counselor to the President, he helps to oversee CRS' relief, development, and justice and peace programs, and participates in critical decision-making activities to establish the strategic directions of the 5,000 person agency.
Founded in 1943, CRS operates on five continents and in 99 countries. The official U.S. Catholic community international relief and development agency, CRS works with a broad network of partners to provide direct assistance to the poor and disadvantaged. CRS also work to empower people to assist with their own development.
Internationally recognized as a respected peace builder, practitioner and educator, Headley attended the prominent Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University. While an associate professor of Sociology and in the Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, he established a graduate program in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies. He has led important interdisciplinary collaborations with leaders from around the globe.
Headley earned a Bachelor degree in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Divinity in Theology from St. Mary's Seminary, Norwalk, CT. After completing his undergraduate studies, he received his ordination into the priesthood at St. Mary's. As a student at the University of South Carolina, Headley received a Master of Education, followed by a Master in Sociology degree from Atlanta University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University.
His vast career includes many academic appointments and nonprofit assignments. Throughout his prolific career, he has served as a lecturer, trainer, consultant and participant in numerous lectures, conferences and symposia throughout North America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
When asked about his decision to accept the dean post, Father Headley says, "I was most hesitant. CRS is a wonderful expression of humanitarian outreach to the 99 countries in which it serves. My work here has given me an excellent outlet for my life's passion: peace building. Unbelievably, the opportunity to serve as dean of a new school of Peace Studies will allow me to pursue my other passion: the gratifying work of educating a new generation of enthusiastic future peace builders."
Before determining the school's particular area of focus, Headley plans to solicit feedback from members of the university, San Diego and global communities. "I need to hear more about the dreams and expectations of the USD community. And, I need to let the rich environment of San Diego speak of its needs for peace. In all, it should be an exciting venture."
About University of San Diego
The University of San Diego is a Catholic institution of higher learning chartered in 1949; the school enrolls approximately 7,500 students and is known for its commitment to teaching, the liberal arts, the formation of values and community service. The opening of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies will bring the University's total number of schools and colleges to six. Other academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of Business Administration, Law, Leadership and Education Sciences, and Nursing and Health Science.
About the University of San Diego
The University of San Diego sets the standard for an engaged, contemporary Catholic university where innovative Changemakers confront humanity's urgent challenges. With more than 9,000 students from 69 countries and 50 states, USD is the youngest independent institution on the U.S. News & World Report list of top 100 universities in the United States. The university's eight academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and the Division of Professional and Continuing Education. USD's Envisioning 2024 strategic plan capitalizes on the university's recent progress and aligns new strategic goals with current strengths to help shape a vision for the future as the university looks ahead to its 75th anniversary in the year 2024.


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We turn to a controversial case of blogger Megan Fox versus the Orland Park Public Library. The UK Government pushes for laws against Slavery. Later, we look at the case of a rapper named Brian Watkins in the USA who is facing prison time for his lyrics; while HBO is filming a Scientology documentary. Our Craniumelody band this week is Hanzel und Gretyl.
Topics Discussed:
- Shout-Outs and Other Remarks
- Orland Park Public Library
- Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Hanzel und Gretyl
- Brian Watkins aka Tiny Doo
- HBO and Scientology
- Zombie Apocalypse
- WTF: Selfie Stick
- WTF: Stormtrooper Walking
BlendoveR is the "trendover" podcast, bringing you the news that the news isn't covering. Presented by Greg Davies, we focus on topics that are not trending across the web and in the mainstream media, and have a knack accurate predictions of coming events, trends, and media coverage.
Shout-Outs and Other Remarks
Ed Gein: Through a Dead Skin Mask
RIP R.A. Montgomery 1936-2014, founder of Choose Your Own Adventure
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens Official Teaser Trailer #1
Orland Park Public Library
9 Secrets to Keep Your Daughter From Becoming a Slut
2013-10-04 = Megan Fox Orland Park Library Misadventure
2014-11-23 Megan Fox audits the Field Museum's "Evolving Earth" exhibit
Bridget Bittman vs. Megan Fox et al
For the Good of Illinois: Adam Andrzejewski | Founder
For the Good of Illinois – Form 990 2013
How the American Library Association Created a New Porn Craze
Internet controversy costs Orland library $125,000 in legal bills
Is Your Library XXX…Like Orland Park?
Pro-Porn Librarians Gone Wild!
Science-hating homeschool mom sued for defamation in ongoing library porn flap
Today's College Porn Stars Will Be Tomorrow's 'Sex Educators'
Slavery and Human Trafficking
Slavery levels in UK 'higher than thought'
Hanzel und Gretyl
Hanzel und Gretyl – Official Site
Hanzel und Gretyl @ ReverbNation
HBO and Scientology
HBO to make film of Scientology book, hires 160 lawyers
Brian Watkins aka Tiny Doo
Rap Artist With No Criminal Record Faces Life In Prison For Album Lyrics
Rapper may face 25 years in prison over 'gangsta rap' album
Rapper Tiny Doo charged; his album 'promoted' shootings, D.A. says
Zombie Apocalypse
Evolved people or real-life zombies?
Man allegedly awaiting 'zombie apocalypse' pleads guilty to gun charge
Zombie Olfaction: Smells Like Undead Spirit
WTF: Selfie Stick
WTF: Stormtrooper Walking
The Wandering Stormtrooper – Man Walks 5,600 Miles across Australia in Iconic Star Wars Suit
Recommended Listening:
- "Number 1 In Deutschland" by Hanzel und Gretyl from the album 2012: Zwanzig Zwolf
- "More Metal Than The Devil" by Hanzel und Gretyl from the album Black Forest Metal
- "Black Forest Metal" by Hanzel und Gretyl from the album Black Forest Metal


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Welcome to Heirloom Organic Gardens! Heirloom Organics specializes in growing giving the customer the flavors of food that tastes like you would like to remember it tasting. We only grow vegetables, fruits and other crops that we like the taste of, and use largely Heirloom varieties. Where we use modern varieties, they must give the taste experience of the best Heirlooms. We pride ourselves in delivering quality produce to you and your business. We do not sell the same produce as every other grower....
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Desktop Virtualization, App Security, MoreBy Elizabeth Millard Print
The economy may be tanking, but venture capitalists are still digging deep into their pockets to fund technology ventures.
Desktop Virtualization
According to Justin Perreault, general partner of Commonwealth Capital Ventures, the area of desktop virtualization is speeding ahead faster than some experts have predicted.
"I've been shocked by the level of interest we're seeing from very large corporations moving ahead with desktop virtualization stations that are, on one hand, pilots, but on the other hand are pretty aggressive in terms of the scope of the rollout," says Perreault. Because of this, the amount of development and number of startup firms could increase sharply in the year ahead, as VCs try to fuel more opportunity in the sector.
Application Security
Anything security related -- particularly technology that might stand out in a very crowded market -- is likely to be heard in more than an elevator pitch, and this year's darling is application security, notes Perreault. IT managers are urged to put a multi-layered defense strategy in place, which is driving development of different levels related to servers, desktops, and networks. And if you can secure all those, why not applications?
"Application and data security is seeing strong corporate emphasis and spending, and application security in particular is getting a lot more momentum," says Perreault. "It's been around for a while, but we're seeing more interest lately."
The convergence of technology and healthcare has been intriguing to many VCs, particularly as healthcare organizations demand cutting-edge gadgets, better data storage, and compliance-friendly online applications.
In the near future, look for even more expansion around diagnostics and alternative therapeutics, notes Christopher Greendale, general partner at Kodiak Venture Partners. Most notably, drug development is heavily accompanied by diagnostics, he says, and the advances in technologies servicing these sectors takes the guesswork out of prescriptions and how they work.
High-end E-Commerce
It's tough to build the next Amazon, but it's possible that shoppers aren't looking for another way to buy books, tools, and housewares all from one site -- they could be searching for diamonds and furs instead.
"We're seeing significant growth opportunities in these [sites]," says Greendale. Kodiak recently invested in an online luxury retail site called Ideeli, a members-only site offering premium products at a reduced rate. The company generates revenues through a business model that combines online sales with a premium subscription service, he adds.
Software as Service
The SaaS model has been around for years, but it could get kicked up in the near future, notes Don Caldwell, founder and CEO of Cross Atlantic Capital Partners.
"Enterprise-wide systems tend to be yesterday's news," he says. 'Companies don't' want to invest any more than absolutely necessary in plumbing. It is a necessary evil to be done as inexpensively as possible, hence SaaS: little upfront investment, ease of install, and variable expense."
So, the economy may be making the average Joe and Jane fret over home values and job security, but just like during the dot-com bust, investment in good ideas rolls on and on.
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Hello everyone, it's Jane here and I hope you are all well.
Welcome to Delightful Wednesday where Sandy and I bring you weekly inspiration with a monthly theme and February is all about the colour RED!
So I have been dying to colour up this little cutie and her name is SWEETHEART FELICIA! Isn't she just gorgeous!! She comes in varying guises too so check them all out HERE.
I decided to make a little shaker element on my card so cut out the heart she is holding and filled it with seed beads and tiny hearts….I am still vacuuming them out of my carpet!!! J
More details of my make are on my blog and pop back next week to see what our wonderful Sandy has made to inspire you.
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Our guest blogger today is Talk Show Host/Advice Columnist/YourTango contributor Susan McCord – who has some tough words about the ever-popular "taking a break" syndrome.
What the heck does "We are taking a break in our relationship" really mean? So many people are doing it today & how do they get away with it? It is the same as having your cake & eating it too ~ you may as well cut off a big piece & spoon feed it to them!
This is the insincere person's way of ending a relationship, because they don't want to be alone right away. They want to be able to lean on you when they can & keep their options open. Both sexes initiate this scenario today, especially in the twenty-something crowd. Wouldn't it be better to stay single & date rather than have to hurt someone in this manner? It is not a nice place to be as it is seldom reciprocated.
What are the reasons for couples to want to take a break?
• They are easing into a full-time breakup.
• It can be used as a threatening tool to get something more out of the relationship that they are not receiving.
• It allows more nights out with friends or separate vacations.
• Stalls the marriage discussions.
• Trying to keep them interested by being evasive & playing hard to get.
• Being more in control
Ultimately taking a break means the relationship is over. If you are bored, or have fallen out of love, what is a break going to do? You can't force yourself to love them? If you take a break & then end up getting married down the road, it usually ends up in divorce because the same problems are still there that always have been. People do not change that much.
What does this "Break" entail?
• Are you allowed to "hook up" with others?
• Do you see each other at all?
• How long is it for? Is there a set time limit?
This scenario is not a good situation to fall into. You are temporarily on hold to see if they can find someone better than you. There is a chance that they may "settle for you" if nothing comes along but will you ever feel good about that? Don't ever put yourself number two. If a relationship is right, it really isn't that much work. When two people really love each other they want to be together. They are not happy being apart.
What do you think about taking a break? Has it ever worked for you or anyone you know – or is it always a good predictor of the more permanent breakup?
More on Susan McCord & YourTango:
Should You Keep an Affair to Yourself?
Don't Let Texting Ruin Your Love Life


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Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time,
which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate
very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he
suffered from bad breath. This made him. [Oh man this is so bad...it's
good.....] a super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.


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ESA Navigation Support Office
The Navigation Support Office is based at ESOC's Navigation Facility, which provides products and services related to global navigation satellite systems in support of ESA missions and to European customers such as Eumetsat and to worldwide customers through its participation in the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) Services group.
Our core service consists of calculating and predicting highly accurate GPS, Galileo and GLONAS satellite orbits, in near-real time, every six hours, around the clock. These data are then used to improve GPS position accuracy, paving the way to even more sophisticated applications such as scientific studies, large-scale climate monitoring and tracking of long-term changes in Earth's geology.
What we do
The Facility's cornerstone activity, as part of the IGNSS group, has been the computation and prediction of highly accurate orbit (position) information for the US GPS satellite system, and, now, the European Galileo system.
Based on these computed orbits, timing corrections are computed every 15 minutes for all active satellites in the system network, and for all associated ground receivers.
The accuracy of this data is on the order of 3 cm, corresponding to a timing accuracy of 0.1 nanoseconds. Such enhanced data, which forms the Navigation Facility's core product, is used by a wide range of European and international customers – ranging from national weather offices and satellite operators to universities and geo-science institutes world-wide – for a variety of purposes, ranging from scientific studies to climate tracking.
In addition, and in partnership with the GFZ, the Navigation Facility is helping establish a network of ground-based Galileo signal receivers, to test and validate the first two Galileo satellites. This service of the Facility is conducted on behalf of Galileo Industries, the consortium of industrial partners responsible for the building of the Galileo system.
Case study
One of most interesting new applications of the Navigation Facility's products will be made in conjunction with Eumetsat's MetOp-series of weather satellites to perform so-called 'atmospheric sounding' experiments.
Since the MetOp satellites can see the lower-flying GPS satellite, they can capture the GPS navigation signals via an onboard GPS receiver.
As these GPS signals travel through the upper atmosphere, they are affected in ways that, through specialised processing, the Navigation Facility can analyse and extract valuable data on the ionosphere and troposphere, including the concentration of charged ions, and temperature, pressure and humidity measurements.
In February 2006, the Navigation Facility was inaugurated at ESOC. The Facility is directly connected to a worldwide network of 44 GPS signal receivers, and can receive data from several hundred others.
Werner Enderle
ESA/ESOC Darmstadt, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)6151-90-2272
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I live in the New Orleans/Northshore area and I was wondering if anyone was interested in (or knows of) any local groups? I'm very new to all of this, but I would love to get a paranormal research/discussion group together.
Louisiana researchers?
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Most current in-car infotainment and "telematics" systems follow a common theme in their design. For the sake of safety, branding, and a sustained source of revenue, they shackle vehicle owners to an integrated system that does poorly the things that smartphones already do well. The "connected car" dream has arrived in small doses on select vehicles, and it has idiosyncrasies that drive vehicle owners who've become used to the power and simplicity of smartphone apps a little bit crazy.
OK, a lot crazy. A few months back, I ranted about my personal experience with MyFord Touch and the shortcomings of in-car technology. It seemed like the car makers were missing the point with systems that tried to copy smartphone features and to get developers to code for their own proprietary platforms. While a recent upgrade to MyFord Touch (that I had installed at a dealership) has solved many of the problems that drove me to distraction, it's still a locked-down environment that gets in my way more often than it does what I want.
When Michael O'Shea, the CEO of Abalta Technologies, told me his company was working on a system called Weblink that draws on the capabilities of the cell phone to drive in-car systems, I wanted to see it immediately. He gave Ars access to a prerelease iOS application and sent prototype hardware to test it with: it's a fairly standard 7-inch VGA touchscreen tethered to a Raspberry Pi computer.
I plugged the Raspberry Pi into a DC adapter in my car and booted it up. Seeing a Linux startup console on my dash, I started to salivate at the potential. Even after the test was done, I was still turning over the ramifications of the system in my head. While there are clearly a few bugs to be worked out, there is also so much potential. This promise lies not just in Weblink or in harnessing smartphone technology and economics, but in future applications of cheap, modular, wirelessly networked computing power in a vehicle.
The Web on your dashboard
The Weblink "app" for iOS and Android is essentially an application server for the client software that runs on the Raspberry Pi (and will run on embedded computing systems on "head units" from manufacturers that license the Weblink technology). What shows up on the screen is an HTML5 interface to the Weblink server app itself as well as other applications on the smartphone that it interacts with.
The Weblink server app can be connected to the client in a number of ways. Two of those approaches use Wi-Fi—either a peer-to-peer connection, using a static IP address setting for the smartphone, or an existing shared Wi-Fi network. The second approach works best if you've got your phone enabled as a Wi-Fi hotspot, or your vehicle has some other in-car Wi-Fi hotspot. There's also the option of tethering the phone to the client over USB. O'Shea said that Bluetooth connections will also be available in finished Weblink units.
Once I got things connected, I took some of the HTML5 applications already configured in the Weblink menu for a test drive. Some of the applications were purely demos, but the vast majority of the apps were fully functional. Media applications on Weblink—such as Slacker Auto, 8Track, and NPR's Web radio player—worked flawlessly on the prototype.
That's largely because applications that have been developed in HTML5 require little if any modification to run on Weblink, O'Shea said. The Slacker Auto app that was included on the Weblink demo, for example, is essentially the same application that runs on the Chevy MyLink system. So if you've already developed an HTML5 application for iOS and Android devices that accesses location data, the same code can be run within Weblink's sandbox with minimal modification.
It's also possible to create hooks that tap into native applications on a phone. One example of that is a demo mapping program from TeleCommunications Systems, which uses a "helper" app on the smartphone to control the view of the map so that the smartphone's screen can be used as a sort of touchpad to pan the map on the dashboard screen.
By default, audio from Weblink apps I tested played from the iPhone itself, though Weblink can be configured to "stream" the audio to the client over the USB or network connection. In the commercial units, there will be support for Bluetooth "streaming" of audio. But I was able to switch audio to the MyFord Touch/Sync system as well as to a Bose portable Bluetooth speaker through my iPhone's own settings as a workaround.
Since the Raspberry Pi setup of Weblink was, as O'Shea put it, "a simple evaluation kit" that was one of a dozen or so configured to show the technology to potential partners, it wasn't set up as a full demonstration of the platform and lacked call-handling features and the like. There are certainly some challenges posed for Abalta's developers by the nature of iOS itself—particularly for cases when the phone is connected to the client over Wi-Fi.
For example, when a phone call comes in, iOS forces applications to suspend, which terminates the network connection between the smartphone app and the client. The same thing happens with popup notifications. In both cases, Weblink has to re-establish the Wi-Fi connection once the alert or call has been cleared. Alternatively, neither of these is an issue over Bluetooth or USB, because those connections use Apple's iPod Accessory Protocol (iAP) to handle communications.
Convergence by the dashboard light
In some ways, Weblink resembles the next generation of technology planned by General Motors. While I was in the middle of testing the Weblink, I paid a visit to GM's OnStar Command Center in downtown Detroit and got a look at a prototype of the next version of OnStar's telematics display. (It's branded as MyLink for Chevrolet, Cue for Cadillac, and Intellink for Buick and GMC.)
Like Weblink, the next version of the MyLink/Cue/Intellink interface will be based on HTML5. But instead of using a smartphone's computing power, the applications will run on the telematics system's embedded computer. While they'll be stored locally, they will be able to use the 4G wireless being built into the next generation of GM's OnStar systems to connect to the Internet (with applicable charges for data usage of course).
GM's approach has the advantage of integration with both the rest of the vehicle and with the OnStar service—which can connect a driver with a real human being to help them do things that tapping and dragging on a touchscreen can't. And OnStar and Sync can also get access to information on vehicle performance and potential maintenance issues. Those are things that aren't in Abalta's scope for Weblink.
This doesn't mean that sort of functionality couldn't be brought into Weblink or a similar system. Most of the data that drives car telematics is accessible over vehicles' Controller Area Network (CAN) through a vehicle diagnostics port—a port that generally only gets used when you bring your car in for an emissions test. Ford has sponsored the development of OpenXC, an open interface that allows other devices to plug into the CAN and pull data from it. That interface could, for example, be used with an application like Weblink to launch a call to 911 when airbags deploy or upload vehicle performance data. The same apps could use the accelerometer data from a phone to alert 911 of a rollover and give a location for the accident.
That sort of thing is a significant hack right now—one the Raspberry Pi running under my armrest in my Escape inspired me to take on. But it could soon become a feature of aftermarket and off-the-shelf systems for people who'd rather not pay for OnStar or Sync or the other equivalent services offered bundled with vehicles at the dealership. It should also help those of us who drive less expensive models that don't come with the option to begin with.


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Why and how Hoodline is automating local news and information
Earlier this year, we launched a data-driven local wire service that's distributing thousands of semi-automated local stories across the U.S. every month.
Since then, we've expanded the scope of the project, incorporating additional data sets and designing templates to generate more locally relevant news and information across a growing swath of cities and regions.
Want to know why and how we're doing it? Read on for a deep-dive into our process, methods, and motivation.
Why the focus on data?
With gaps in local news coverage widening across many parts of the country, and local publications laying off staff or shutting down altogether, there's a pressing need for creative solutions to tackle the challenges faced by today's news industry.
In many cases, it's no longer feasible or cost-effective for individual reporters to investigate and write a local news story that may only be read by a small number of readers. But as the cacophony of information in today's digital age have made it no easier—and perhaps much harder—to figure out what's happening around us, local news and information remain as relevant and valuable as ever.
The digital age also presents new opportunities, including the growing availability of public and private datasets that can provide locally relevant information on everything from businesses and real estate to jobs, crime, transit and more. Using this kind of data, we have the opportunity to systematically identify developments of interest to local communities, and increase story volume and geographic coverage in efficient and economical ways. Our current data partners include Yelp, Zumper, Zillow, Crunchbase, SpotCrime, MaxPreps, Fandango, Groupon, Petfinder, Saildrone and more.
If you're a company or organization with locally relevant data that could help to create local news stories, we want to hear from you! Please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
What's all this about automation?
Hoodline got its start as a neighborhood news site featuring original reporting in San Francisco and Oakland. But the majority of Hoodline's content today—thousands of stories published across 50+ cities around the U.S.—is mostly or fully automated based on locally relevant data.
We distribute this content to local partner publications to supplement their own content, providing stories that traditional newsrooms may not have the resources to cover, and that are designed to complement rather than replace human reporting.
Hoodline's content represents a collaboration between experienced local reporters and innovative data scientists and engineers, combining the latest computational methods and tools with journalistic insights, news judgment, and thoughtful design to develop a new form of news reporting. We leverage machine learning and natural language processing, as well as creative engineering pipelines and thoughtful construction of replicable yet flexible narratives.
Our goal is to produce meaningful stories that capture important local happenings, that vary with each new development, that are delivered in a timely manner, and that fill existing news gaps and add real, practical value to local communities and everyday lives.
How does it all work?
Our journalists design templates for each type of story that we produce. A template is like a blueprint for a story: it contains complex logic and language that may be included based on different values in the data, and also includes placeholders for numbers, words, and phrases that come directly from the data sources, or that we extract, calculate, and generate based on trends and insights drawn from that data.
For the data and computational aspects of the process, we've developed our own library of tools to transform datasets into tables that populate each template, along with our own schema for the structure of data components that make up a narrative.
The articles generated from the transformed data tables and the pre-written templates become drafts available for editing and publishing in our proprietary content management system. Human editors review all drafts before they are finalized, identifying and resolving issues and filling in any remaining qualitative elements that may require manual effort.
These editors also provide feedback to the template designers, as we seek to automate as many tedious or repetitive components as we can to reduce costs and shift human effort to more valuable contributions. We also collect feedback from publishing partners and continuously seek to identify new datasets that would be valuable to incorporate, new story ideas worth covering, and improvements that can be made to existing stories.
What's next?
Automation in the local news space is a young and evolving field, and there's still much to learn about the possibilities and pitfalls it presents. Many of us are experienced journalists, and others scientific researchers motivated by social challenges, which means that we're determined to report news as accurately as possible, understand the shortcomings in our data, and be thorough in validating the information we publish.
As this project evolves, we want your feedback to make it better. What's missing in our reporting on your local area? Which types of stories are falling short, and what would make them more interesting or useful? Which of our stories are most engaging or valuable to you?
Do you have suggestions for other datasets or data sources that we might explore, to open up new areas of coverage, or to validate, complement, and enhance existing coverage? Or overall thoughts on what we're doing in general?
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The 24 Under 24 … or in other words, the best 24 players in MLS under the age of 24 (as of Nov. 1, 2010).
MLSsoccer.com whittled down the comprehensive list to a group of 30 players and then an expert panel ranked the names based on five categories: (1) Skill; (2) Upside; (3) Q-Rating or Marketability; (4) Future Value; and (5) Intangibles.
The "24 Under 24" expert panel was made up of six members: Jeff Carlisle (ESPN.com), Steve Davis (SI.com), Brian Dunseth (Fox Soccer Channel), Allen Hopkins (ESPN), Alexi Lalas (ESPN) and the MLSsoccer.com editorial staff.
The countdown to No. 1 begins today with the first four names on the list featuring a Colombian midfielder, an 18-year-old American forward, an All-Star right back and a five-year MLS veteran.
Despite falling out of the starting lineup on their respective clubs, FC Dallas veteran holding midfielder Dax McCarty (No. 24) and Philadelphia Union attacking mid Roger Torres (No. 23) just squeezed into the 24 Under 24 list in the bottom two places. McCarty has missed several weeks in 2010 due to a quad injury while the Colombian Torres was replaced in Philly's starting XI.
Former US Under-17 forward Jack McInerney (No. 22) joins Torres as a Union representative on the list. The 18-year-old has already scored his first two MLS goals in his debut season, mainly seeing time off the bench.
McInerney's two goals are two more than Revolution right back Kevin Alston (No. 21), who was an MLS All-Star and started against Manchester United in the 2010 MLS All-Star Game.
Check back on Wednesday for players ranked No. 16-20.
Facts & Figures
The Philadelphia Union are tied for most players on the 24 Under 24 list with three.
Dax McCarty has played in more MLS matches and more MLS seasons than any other player in the rankings.
Roger Torres and Kevin Alston are the only players in the Top 24 never to score an MLS goal.
Colombia is one of nine nations to be represented in the 24 Under 24.
Jack McInerney is the second youngest player in the list.
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MLS Technical Directors Say: "Has very good concentration, he's brave and he has elite athleticism … He can get forward with that athleticism but he needs to refine his game in the attacking third in his one-v-one play and his combination play … he needs a little more consistency on his final pass."
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MLS Technical Directors Say: "Like his mentality. He's always busy, always in motion … His size is a factor but he makes up for it with this work rate and his ability in the air … His finishing is very good … He needs to manage his own expectations and he'll find his way in MLS."
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The young Colombian wowed fans with his ball skills early on, but he has since lost his place in the Union starting lineup and has become an occasional sub. He possesses superior vision and technique but there are doubts whether his speed and physique can meet the demands of MLS.
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A full 2010 season may have bumped up McCarty's place in the rankings. After a promising start in central midfield alongside Daniel Hernandez, he fell to a quad injury and now has an uphill battle just to regain his spot in the FCD starting lineup.