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February 17, 2007
New UN Radiation Warning
Unveiled this past Thursday (February 15, 2007), it's pictured above.
It features a skull and crossbones, a running person and radiating ionizing waves, all on a deep red triangle.
A UN press release noted that "The new symbol will not be visible under normal use, but only if someone attempts to disassemble a device that is a source of dangerous radiation. It will not be located on building access doors, transportation packages or containers."
I can't speak for you but me, I'm outa here.
February 17, 2007 at 04:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Cole Haan Nike Air
They've taken it to the next level with a 4-1/4" heel in linen with snakeskin trim (above).
No one but you will know you're packing
air (above).
February 17, 2007 at 03:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
There Were Some Summers — by Thomas Lux
There were some summers
like this: The blue barn steaming,
some cowbirds dozing with their heads
on each other's shoulders, the electric fences
humming so low in the mid-August heat....
So calm the slow sweat existing
in half-fictive memory: a boy
wandering from house, to hayloft, to coop,
past a dump where a saddle rots
on a sawhorse, through the still forest
of a cornfield, to a pasture talking to himself
or the bored, baleful Holsteins nodding
beneath the round shade of catalpa, the boy
walking his trail toward the brook
in a deep but mediocre gully,
through skunk cabbage and popweed,
down sandbanks (a descending
quarter-acre Sahara), the boy wandering,
thinking nothing, thinking: Sweatbox,
sweatbox, the boy on his way
toward a minnow whose slight beard
tells the subtleties of the current, holding there,
in water cold enough to break your ankles.
February 17, 2007 at 02:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Tasting Spoon — Because 'heavy lies the head...'
No self-respecting king or queen would be without a taster and no self-respecting taster should be without this elegant culinary accessory.
From the website:
- Tasting Spoon Set
Every cook needs a taste to make sure his or her creations are seasoned to perfection before serving.
Designed in Scandinavia, the set comes with a 10.5''-long tasting spoon and holder.
The holder has measurements printed on the inside and is designed to easily pour liquid ingredients without splattering.
Though it's not specified, it looks to me like porcelain.
February 17, 2007 at 01:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Project Shaw
No, not yet another black op gone bad but, rather, an ongoing effort devoted to staging readings of every play George Bernard Shaw ever wrote.
Hilton Als reported on the current state of the venture, now in its second year, in an item (in the February 19/26 New Yorker) which follows.
- Everything Shaw
As one of our more successful dramatists, critics, and vegetarians, George Bernard Shaw inhabited the role of playwright-as-celebrity with the entitlement of one who had worked hard to put his early difficulties and poverty behind him. In newsreel after newsreel, the aged albeit sprightly Shaw, with his habitual beard and plus fours, became a familiar personality to American audiences. But his position as Irish sage often obscured the enormous volume of his work (more than fifty plays and sketches), which tended toward moralizing at the expense of dramaturgical sensitivity. Nevertheless, the gallant Project Shaw — now in its second year — is devoted to staging readings of every play he ever wrote. This month, the Project presents "The King, the Constitution and the Lady," a heretofore unstaged work based on the Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson controversy, featuring the indomitable Marian Seldes. If one cannot learn from Shaw, one can always learn something from Seldes: how to make caricatures based on the news of the day real.
Each play is presented once, on a Monday; each month brings a new work.
Performances take place at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South, in New York City; Tickets: $15; 212-352-3101.
February 17, 2007 at 12:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Singelringen — Episode 2: Hollywood Nights
Episode 1 appeared on September 1, 2005, introducing the company and its signature product, the Singelring.
Then this past Monday (February 12, 2007) Linda Sherman, who runs the North American operation along with her husband, architect Ray Gordon, emailed me to thank me for mentioning them back in the day.
She reported out that the company has grown quietly but steadily over the past year and a half and added that "celebrities seen wearing the ring include Jonathan Sadowski [top], Juliette Lewis, Mario Lopez, Maria Menounos, Hunter Parrish, Terrence Howard [above], Ivana Baquero, Evan Ross, Scout Taylor-Compton, Vivica Fox, Wilmer Valderrama, Monique Coleman, Tasha Smith, Jamie Kennedy, Naomi Campbell, Marisa Lauren, Ashley Rose Orr, Marla Maples, Marco Siliotto, Jeremy Jackson and Andrea Remanda [below]."
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Is a quotation alive?
In a wonderful essay/book review in the February 19/26, 2007 New Yorker, Louis Menand writes, "Quotations are in a perpetual struggle for survival. They want people to keep saying them. They don't want to die any more than the rest of us do. And so, when they can, they attach themselves to colorful or famous people."
Here's the piece.
- Notable Quotables
Is there anything that is not a quotation?
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Neither Ingrid Bergman nor anyone else in "Casablanca" says "Play it again, Sam"; Leo Durocher did not say "Nice guys finish last"; Vince Lombardi did say "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" quite often, but he got the line from someone else. Patrick Henry almost certainly did not say "Give me liberty, or give me death!"; William Tecumseh Sherman never wrote the words "War is hell"; and there is no evidence that Horace Greeley said "Go west, young man." Marie Antoinette did not say "Let them eat cake"; Hermann Göring did not say "When I hear the word 'culture,' I reach for my gun" and Muhammad Ali did not say "No Vietcong ever called me nigger." Gordon Gekko, the character played by Michael Douglas in "Wall Street," does not say "Greed is good"; James Cagney never says "You dirty rat" in any of his films; and no movie actor, including Charles Boyer, ever said "Come with me to the Casbah." Many of the phrases for which Winston Churchill is famous he adapted from the phrases of other people, and when Yog Berra said "I didn't really say everything I said" he was correct.
So what? Should we care? Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation. What Michael Douglas did say in "Wall Street" was "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." That was not a quotable quote; it needed some editorial attention, the consequence of which is that everyone distinctly remembers Michael Douglas uttering the words "Greed is good" in "Wall Street," just as everyone distinctly remembers Ingrid Bergman uttering the words "Play it again, Sam" in "Casablanca," even though what she really utters is "Play it, Sam." When you watch the movie and get to that line, you don't think your memory is wrong. You think the movie is wrong.
"For lack of a better word" spoils a nice quotation—the speech is about calling a spade a spade, so there is no better word—and "Play it again, Sam" is somehow more affecting than "Play it, Sam." But not all emendations are improvements. What Leo Durocher actually said (referring to the New York Giants baseball team) was "The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place." The sportswriters who heard him telescoped (the technical term is "piped") the quote because it made a neater headline. They could have done a better job of piping. "Nice guys finish seventh" is a lot cleverer (and also marginally more plausible) than the non-utterance that gave immortality to Leo Durocher. But Leo Durocher doesn't own that quotation; the quotation owns Leo Durocher, the way a parasite sometimes takes over the host organism. Quotations are in a perpetual struggle for survival. They want people to keep saying them. They don't want to die any more than the rest of us do. And so, whenever they can, they attach themselves to colorful or famous people. "Nice guys finish last" profits by its association with a man whose nickname was the Lip, even if the Lip never said it, just as "Winning isn't everything" has a higher market valuation because of the mental image people have of Vince Lombardi. No one has a mental image of Henry (Red) Sanders, the coach who used the phrase first.
The adaptive mechanism benefits both parties. The survival of the quotation helps insure the survival of the person to whom it is misattributed. The Patrick Henry who lives in our heads and hearts is the man who said "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Apparently, the line was cooked up by his biographer William Wirt, a notorious embellisher, who also invented Henry's other familiar quotation, "If this be treason, make the most of it!" But a Patrick Henry who never said "Give me liberty, or give me death!" or "If this be treason, make the most of it!," a Patrick Henry without a death wish, is just not someone we know or care about. His having been said to have said what he never said is a condition of his being "Patrick Henry." Certain sayings, like "It's déjà vu all over again," are Berra-isms, whether Yogi Berra ever said them or not. "Je ne suis pas marxiste," Karl Marx once complained. Too late for that. Like Yogi, he was the author of a discourse, and he lives as long as it does.
Karl Marx has thirteen quotations (plus eight for which he shares credit with Friedrich Engels, who, interestingly, never felt it necessary to say "Je ne suis pas engeliste") in the compendious, enjoyable, and expensive "Yale Book of Quotations" (Yale; $50), edited by Fred Shapiro. Groucho Marx (no relation) has fifty-one quotations. The big winner is William Shakespeare, with four hundred and fifty-five, topping even the Yahwist and his co-authors, the wordsmiths who churned out the Bible but managed to come up with only four hundred quotable passages. Mark Twain has a hundred and fifty-three quotations, Oscar Wilde a hundred and twenty-three. Ambrose Bierce edges out Samuel Johnson in double overtime by a final score of a hundred and forty-four to a hundred and ten. And Woody Allen has forty, beating out William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, and both Roosevelts.
Shapiro, a librarian at the Yale Law School, is an attribution hound, as is Ralph Keyes, a quotation specialist and the author of "The Quote Verifier" (St. Martin's; $15.95). "Misquotation is an occupational hazard of quotation," Keyes advises, and both he and Shapiro have gone to considerable trouble to track down the original utterances that became famous quotations and their original utterers. Keyes finds that quotations tend to mutate in the direction of greater pith. He offers the original words of Rodney King as an instance: "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids? . . . Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we're all stuck here for a while. Let's try to work it out. Let's try to beat it. Let's try to beat it. Let's try to work it out." This is the rambling outburst that became the astringent and immortal "Can't we all get along?" Keyes calls the process "bumper-stickering." It worked well for Rodney King.
Shapiro gives us results of similar detective work, and he offers additional scholarly fruit in the form of citations for the first appearance of many well-known terms, slogans, and catchphrases. "This book takes a broad view of what constitutes a quotation," he explains. The Internet has helped him out, and a lot of the stuff he has come up with is pretty irresistible. It is extremely interesting to know, for instance, that the phrase "Shit happens" was introduced to print by one Connie Eble, in a publication identified as "UNC–CH Slang" (presumably the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), in 1983. "Life's a bitch, and then you die," a closely related reflection, dates from 1982, the year it appeared in the Washington Post. "Been there, done that" entered the public discourse in 1983, via the Union Recorder, a publication out of the University of Sydney. "Get a life": the Washington Post, 1983. (What is it about the nineteen-eighties, anyway?) "Size doesn't matter," a phrase, or at least a hope, that would seem to have been around since the Pleistocene, did not see print until 1989, rather late in the history of the species, when it appeared in the Boston Globe.
There are some neat finds and a few surprises (to me, anyway) in the Yale book. I did not know that Billy Wilder was the person who said that hindsight is always 20/20. "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" is attributable to a journalist named Walter Morrow, writing in the San Francisco News in 1949. We owe the useful phrase "Sue the bastards!" to Victor J. Yannacone, Jr., identified as a U.S. lawyer and environmentalist. It was Jack Weinberg, of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, who first said "You can't trust anybody over thirty." Joey Adams gets the credit for "With friends like that, who needs enemies?" The phrase "You can't go home again" was given to Thomas Wolfe by the writer Ella Winter. It was the wonderful story writer John McNulty, and not Yogi Berra, who was responsible for "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." "I'm not really a Jew. Just Jew-ish": Jonathan Miller, in "Beyond the Fringe." And the first person to call a spade a spade? That's right, it was Erasmus.
Shapiro has a good ear for the quote bites of contemporary celebrity culture, and the courage to set out on this endless sea. Donald Trump appears twice, for "Deals are my art form" and (in a section headed "Television Catchphrases") "You're fired!" Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre, known to most of us as Cher, is included for the lines "Mother told me a couple of years ago, 'Sweetheart, settle down and marry a rich man.' I said, 'Mom, I am a rich man.' " (The great Sonny Bono, on the other hand, is sadly missing and deeply missed. What about "The beat goes on"? "I got you, babe"? Jingles that got us through some unhappy hours.) Zsa Zsa Gabor, asked how many husbands she has had, said, "You mean apart from my own?" Tug McGraw, asked what he would do with the salary he was making as a pitcher, said "Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste." "I ate a whole chocolate bar" was Claudia Schiffer's comment after her retirement from the catwalk. There are separate sections in the Yale book for "Star Trek" (ten items, including "Live long and prosper" and "He's dead, Jim"; Gene Roddenberry has a section of his own), for "Advertising Slogans" (immediately following the section for Theodor Adorno, who would have grimly appreciated the irony and probably composed an incomprehensible aphorism about it), for "Sayings" ("No more Mr. Nice Guy": New York Times, 1967), for "Political Slogans," and for "Film Lines." I'm not sure that the sentence spoken by L. Paul Bremer III upon the capture of Saddam Hussein, "Ladies and gentleman, we got him," is all that deathless, but I'm quite pleased with the single quotation attributed to Richard B. Cheney, identified as a U.S. government official, and dated May 30, 2005: "The insurgency is in its last throes."
It is tiresome to encounter, for the millionth time (J. Joyce), George Santayana's tiresome mot "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (manifestly untrue any way you look at it). And it is annoying to reread Alfred North Whitehead's pompous bouleversements: "There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths"; "Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it." But if sententious paradoxes get endlessly circulated, that is not the editor's fault. Wilde was an epigrammatic genius, it's true, but too large a dose may cause stomach upset. Shapiro is interested in the sociology of knowledge (which is precisely where the study of quotation belongs), so there are quotations from Robert K. Merton, George Sarton, and Talcott Parsons, but relatively less attention is given to other academic figures. (Stanley Fish does not appear, though it can't be for lack of material. Edward Said does.) There is inevitably a problem in the case of people who are the quotation equivalent of vending machines. Charles Dickens, for example, or Bob Dylan, who is represented by a list of twenty-seven quotations that will seem, to anyone who is a Dylan listener, hopelessly arbitrary. It should all be here, every line!
In fact, though it is ungracious to say, a lot of the fun of this fun book is in second-guessing the editor. Virginia Woolf's quotations include the first sentence of "Mrs. Dalloway" ("Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself") but not the equally famous last sentence of "To the Lighthouse" ("She had had her vision"). Franz Kafka, a deep mine of quotability, has just eleven entries, and it is disappointing that one of them is not "It is enough that the arrows fit exactly in the wounds that they have made." There are two quotations from William James on the subject of truth, but not the most elegant of his formulations: "The true is the name for whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief." Guy Debord, a brilliant aphorist who coined the phrase "society of the spectacle," is represented only by a late and dubious quotation about quotations. ("Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.") The section for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.—like his father an inexhaustible fount of one-liners—lacks the always apt reminder that "certitude is not the test of certainty." The philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, whose offhand remarks were celebrated enough to have been collected, is here only for his famous retort to a speaker who had said that although there are many cases in which two negatives make a positive, he knew of no case in which two positives made a negative ("Yeah yeah"). Samuel Beckett has only nine quotations, most of them from "Waiting for Godot." We miss his remark about what it will be like in the afterlife: "We'll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead." Goethe has twenty-six entries, including one that was new to me (the attribution, not the sentiment): "He can lick my ass" (1773). But a line from "Wilhelm Meister" that has given me resolve is not here: "Action is easy; thought is hard." We miss Henri Bergson's gnomic observation "The universe is a machine for the making of gods." There is a large woodpile of Robert Frost lines, but the couplet that ends "The Tuft of Flowers"—"Men work together, I told him from the heart, / Whether they work together or apart"—is not in it.
Poetry is, admittedly, an insuperable problem for quotation compilers. The feeling that the top of your head has been taken off, a definition of what makes a quote quotable that Shapiro takes from Emily Dickinson (who took it, basically, from Kant and Burke, who took it from Longinus—a nice example of the sociology of quotation), is a feeling that readers of poetry expect from every poem they read. They are in the game to look for the strong line. But—and now we are getting to the theoretical heart of the Problem of Quotation—the experience of sublimity is subjective and associational. For some reason, a string is plucked and it never stops vibrating. Who knows why, exactly? Everyone has a list. "My glass is full, and now my glass is run." "But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you." "In the gloom, the gold gathers the light against it." "Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn." "And softly said, Dear heart, how like you this?" "The waste remains, the waste remains and kills." "I bleed by the black stream/ For my torn bough." "There's a stake in your fat black heart." "This shaking keeps me steady. I should know." "Drive, he said." "You must change your life." None of these are in the Yale book, but why would I expect them to be? They're from my book.
"You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye," the younger Holmes once wrote. He thought that you could find wisdom and felicity even in advertisements if you knew how to tweak them properly. And when you start taking phrases out of context and recasting them as quotations, you begin to feel (Shapiro must have undergone this sensation) a little vertiginous. What is not, potentially, a quotation? The dullest instructional prose, with the right light thrown on it, can acquire the gleam of suggestiveness or insight. "Objects in the rear-view mirror may appear closer than they are": that one has been appropriated many times. Whenever I take a plane, I am struck by "Secure your own mask before assisting others" as advice with wide application. And I have often found myself imagining ways of fitting tab A into slot B.
Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. Quotations are prostheses. "As Emerson/Churchill/Donald Trump once observed" borrows another person's brain waves and puts them to your own use. (If you fail to credit Emerson et al., it's called plagiarism. But isn't plagiarism just the purest form of quotation?) Then, there is a subset of quotations that are personal. We pick them up off the public street, but we put them to private uses. We hoard quotations like amulets. They are charms against chaos, secret mantras for dark times, strings that vibrate forever in defiance of the laws of time and space. That they may be opaque or banal to everyone else is what makes them precious: they aren't supposed to work for everybody. They're there to work for us. Some are little generational badges of identity. Some just seem to pop up on a million occasions. Some are razors. "I see a red door and I want it painted black." "Devenir immortelle, et puis, mourir." "Much smaller piece." "You're two tents." The quotation I have found most potent in warding off evil spirits is the motto of the Flemish philosopher Arnold Geulincx (1624-69): "Ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis." "Where you are worth nothing, you should want nothing." That's mine. You can't use it.
"Language is a virus from outer space." — William S. Burroughs
February 17, 2007 at 10:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Things to do while you're alive
That's the headline for Visa Signature's new ad campaign.
In a full-page ad in the February 12, 2007 Wall Street Journal were listed 50 such things, each with a box next to it for you to check off once it's been completed.
I suppose that's one way of living.
On the website there's an endlessly scrolling list of such items, such that you'll never, ever get to them all.
I bet they've got some crack research team types sitting in a windowless room in a secure, undisclosed location cranking out new ones faster than you can check them off.
I guess the idea behind the D.O.A. ad campaign is that if you have a Visa Signature card, you're more likely to be able to check boxes than if you don't.
Anyhow, looking at the 50 in the newspaper, I found I've done 6 to date.
They are:
1) Get published (no — blogs don't count)
2) Hike across the Continental Divide (in fact, I ran across it in the course of completing the Leadville Marathon)
3) Fly in a helicopter (once — never again)
4) Ride in a gondola on the canals of Venice
5) Renovate my kitchen
6) See Michelangelo's "David"
I'm being strict: thus, "Get a PhD" isn't being checked even though there are some who would say my M.D. is the equivalent.
I'll do the remaining 44 after I crump — no worries.
February 17, 2007 at 09:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack


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Area Code and Exchange (360) 295 in Washington
Exchange Code 295 for Area Code 360 covers the city of Vader, Lewis County in the State of Washington. It is centered at N 46º 24' 9.39", W 122º 57' 37.43". This Exchange Code was introduced on 11 February 1995 and is designated as being used for Landline telephones.
This Exchange covers telephone numbers ranging from (360) 295-0000 to (360) 295-9999.
In this Exchange Code there are 3 telephone numbers that have been the subject of complaints to the FCC and 3 telephone numbers that our research shows belong to legitimate businesses.
Technical Information for Exchange (360) 295
NXX/Exchange Code: 295
City: Vader
County: Lewis
State: Washington
Rate Center: VADER
Time Zone: PST
DST Observed:
Exchange Status: Active
NXX Intro Date: 11 February 1995
Latitude: 46.4026081
Longitude: -122.9603966
New NPA:
CBSA Code: 16500
Number Pooling: Yes
Number Pooling in Exchange (360) 295
The initial set up of an Exchange was to have all 10,000 numbers (0000 - 9999) for a particular Rate Center allocated to the same local exhange carrier. With the advent of multiple carriers, allocating each one of them their own Exchange Code would be inefficient and soon use up the available number pools for a particular area. To counter this, some exchanges are split into blocks of 1,000 numbers, which can each be allocated to individual carriers. This cuts down on wasted numbers that aren't allocated as each carrier has a smaller pool available.Number Pooling is activated in Exchange 360-295 and the following thousand blocks are currently assigned to carriers.
Telephone numbers subject to FCC Complaints in Exchange (360) 295 3
Below are the 3 telephone numbers that are subject to complaints to the FCC in this Exchange Code.
This number has been the subject of 1 complaint to the FCC.Click here for more details.
This number has been the subject of 1 complaint to the FCC.Click here for more details.
This number has been the subject of 1 complaint to the FCC.Click here for more details.
Businesses and other Entities in Exchange (360) 295 4
Below are details of all of the legitimate businesses and other entities that we have identified within this Exchange Code.

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Luke O'Donovan and the Criminalization of Self-Defense
From Mask Magazine
My name is Luke O'Donovan. In the early morning of January 1st, 2013, I was attacked by a group of men at a party because of my sexuality. In an attempt to defend myself from the attack I thought could end my life I stabbed 5 of them, while also being stabbed 3 times myself. It is regrettable that anyone had to come to harm, but given the choice of whether to lose my life to a hateful attack or fight for the chance to live, I will always choose the ferocious refusal to go quietly into the night. This refusal was not fueled by hate for my attackers, but by my love for life. It is this passion for life that came in conflict with my attackers, and this same passion that was arrested by the cops and is being punished by the courts. It is this passion that they are trying to chain, to cage, to rehabilitate me away from, but it is this passion that will pull my gaze – always forward – through the dark. I can already glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel. I'll be home soon.
On New Year's Day in 2013, I was halfway across the world when I started receiving frantic messages from friends. Our mutual friend Luke was in an Atlanta jail,they said, being held without bond. He wasn't my only friend to get arrested that week, and it's not unusual for me to receive messages that someone I care about is going into or getting out of jail. But with Luke it felt different. The Atlanta metro media was circulating incendiary articles detailing a "stabbing rampage" that allegedly occurred on New Year's Eve. Next to each article was a picture of our friend's face, bruised and broken.
As we would soon learn, Luke was not, in fact, a "lunatic stabber", but had fiercely defended himself in a terrifying situation. As he has been forced to retell countless times, Luke was at a New Year's Eve party in Atlanta when he was called a faggot and attacked by a group of men, who continued to repeatedly call him a faggot while beating him. He defended himself using a pocket knife, and stabbed five of them. Luke was stabbed three times in the back that night, but the cops, courts, and their spokespeople in the media wrote off those wounds as "cuts" in what can only be understood as an attempt to skew the details of the event in favor of who they deemed to be victims. Luke was arrested while in the hospital being treated for the wounds he had obtained. Immediately upon recovery he was transported to the Fulton County Jail. (more…)


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Since independence in 1968, mauritius has developed from a low-income, agriculturally based economy to a middle-income diversified economy with growing industrial, financial, and tourist sectors. for most of the period, annual growth has been in the order of 5% to 6%. this remarkable achievement has been reflected in more equitable income distribution, increased life expectancy, lowered infant mortality, and a much-improved infrastructure. the economy rests on sugar, tourism, textiles and apparel, and financial services, and is expanding into fish processing, information and communications technology, and hospitality and property development. sugarcane is grown on about 90% of the cultivated land area and accounts for 15% of export earnings. the government's development strategy centers on creating vertical and horizontal clusters of development in these sectors. mauritius has attracted more than 32,000 offshore entities, many aimed at commerce in india, south africa, and china. investment in the banking sector alone has reached over $1 billion. mauritius, with its strong textile sector, has been well poised to take advantage of the africa growth and opportunity act (agoa).
Water pollution, degradation of coral reefs
Parliamentary democracy
1,274,189 (july 2008 est.)
Southern africa, island in the indian ocean, east of madagascar
Total: 2,040 sq km land: 2,030 sq km water: 10 sq km note: includes agalega islands, cargados carajos shoals (saint brandon), and rodrigues
Almost 11 times the size of washington, dc
Conventional long form: republic of mauritius conventional short form: mauritius local long form: republic of mauritius local short form: mauritius
Name: port louis geographic coordinates: 20 09 s, 57 29 e time difference: utc+4 (9 hours ahead of washington, dc during standard time)
Mauritius claims the chagos archipelago (uk-administered british indian ocean territory), and its former inhabitants, who reside chiefly in mauritius; claims french-administered tromelin island


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Yesterday, we showed you the entertaining trailer for Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths. The movie follows a trio of dognappers (Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, and Christopher Walken) who steal the wrong shih tzu end up running afoul of a psychotic gangster (Woody Harrelson). But the gangster is only 1/7th of the film's group of psychopaths, and CBS films has released seven character posters highlighting the eponymous lunatics.
Hit the jump to check out the posters. The film also stars Olga Kurylenko, Abbie Cornish, and Tom Waits. Seven Psychopaths will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, and opens domestically October 12th.
Via CS, EW, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, MTV, Hitfix, and Vulture.
Here's the official synopsis for Seven Psychopaths:
From Oscar-winning writer and director Martin McDonagh comes a star-studded, blood-drenched, black comedy. Marty (Colin Farrell) is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay Seven Psychopaths. All he needs is a little focus and inspiration.
Billy (Sam Rockwell) is Marty's best friend, an unemployed actor and part time dog thief, who wants to help Marty by any means necessary.
Hans (Christopher Walken) is Billy's partner in crime. A religious man with a violent past. Charlie is the psychopathetic gangster whose beloved dog, Billy and Hans have just stolen. Charlie's unpredictable, extremely violent and wouldn't think twice about killing anyone or anything associated with the theft. Marty is going to get all the focus and inspiration he needs, just as long as he lives to tell the tale.


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Botswana has maintained one of the world's highest economic growth rates since independence in 1966, though growth slowed to 4.7% annually in 2006-07. through fiscal discipline and sound management, botswana has transformed itself from one of the poorest countries in the world to a middle-income country with a per capita gdp of nearly $15,000 in 2007. two major investment services rank botswana as the best credit risk in africa. diamond mining has fueled much of the expansion and currently accounts for more than one-third of gdp and for 70-80% of export earnings. tourism, financial services, subsistence farming, and cattle raising are other key sectors. on the downside, the government must deal with high rates of unemployment and poverty. unemployment officially was 23.8% in 2004, but unofficial estimates place it closer to 40%. hiv/aids infection rates are the second highest in the world and threaten botswana's impressive economic gains. an expected leveling off in diamond mining production overshadows long-term prospects.
Overgrazing; desertification; limited fresh water resources
Parliamentary republic
1,842,323 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to aids; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (july 2008 est.)
Southern africa, north of south africa
Total: 600,370 sq km land: 585,370 sq km water: 15,000 sq km
Slightly smaller than texas
Conventional long form: republic of botswana conventional short form: botswana local long form: republic of botswana local short form: botswana former: bechuanaland
Name: gaborone geographic coordinates: 24 45 s, 25 55 e time difference: utc+2 (7 hours ahead of washington, dc during standard time)
18 is the apparent age of voluntary military service; the official qualifications for determining minimum age are unknown (2001)
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Erik Bohen, a 2004 graduate with a BA in elementary education, is a special education teacher at Hamlin Park Public School. Highly involved in his community, he is a board member of the General Educational Development Program, and co-chair of the Buffalo City Bration 5K Run to benefit Wellness Program of Buffalo Public Schools. In 2010, Bohen received the Mount Mercy Academy Civic Pride Award. In 2009, the city of Buffalo proclaimed one day "Erik Bohen Day."
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Garrett Epps on the recent 7CA opinion striking down Illinois's ban on concealed carry:
Posner's opinon in the new case Moore v. Madigan contains the most bizarre line I have read in a federal-court opinion since, well, ever. The issue is whether the Supreme Court's two recent gun-rights decisions, Heller v. District of Columbia and McDonald v. City of Chicago, create a right to armed self-defense outside the home. The Court's opinions said they did not; but to Posner, that's silly: "To confine the right to be armed to the home is to divorce the Second Amendment from the right of self-defense described in Heller and McDonald. It is not a property right — a right to kill a houseguest who, in a fit of aesthetic fury, tries to slash your copy of Norman Rockwell's painting, Santa with Elves."
People may be dying in the streets, but to Posner, the case is a chance for shtick.
Justice Scalia made his own set of headlines this week, mocking and belittling gay rights to a Princeton audience. Posner has recently made a specialty of needling Scalia, but the truth is the two judges are more alike than either would like to admit. And both of them might consider whether it's a good time to dial it back a bit.
On one level, I think this is a little unfair to Posner. Whatever motivated his (tasteless) joke, it's not that he's a gun nut indifferent to the consequences of striking down gun control legislation. Posner has been openly contemptuous of the the Supreme Court's holding in Heller.
Having said that, Posner's opinion is a little odd. Had the Supreme Court in Heller merely declared an individual right to bear arms in self-defense without detailing the potential limitations, it would be hard to object to Posner's application of the precedent. On its face, Posner's argument isn't illogical: if the 2nd Amendment creates an individual right to self-defense, this would seem to apply outside the home even if the facts of Heller were about maintaining a weapon in one's residence.
The problem is, Scalia's opinion did address this question directly, and at a minimum strongly implied that the 2nd Amendment did not proscribe concealed carry laws:
For example, the majority of the 19th-century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful under the Second Amendment or state analogues.
Given that to Scalia originalism provided the justification for finding an individual right to bear arms, this settles the question for me. My reading of Posner's opinion — since we know his application of Heller isn't the product of a personal belief that the Second Amendment should confer an individual right to bear arms — is that it's another round in his ongoing battle with Scalia. Scalia might disown the implications of his opinion, Posner seems to be saying, but lower courts are now obligated to follow his holding to its radical conclusions. If you don't like it, overrule Heller.
I can sort of understand the impulse, but I think Epps is right that it's the wrong course to take. Reductio ad absurdum is fine for a law review article, but less so for an circuit court. If the Supreme Court wants to hold that concealed carry laws are unconstitutional, it should go first. Especially since the Supreme Court can just refuse to hear appeals, lower courts shouldn't apply Heller more broadly than necessary, it in particular shouldn't cite it to strike down laws that the Court specifically implied are constitutional.


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ABRAHAM OF HAMBURG (called also Rab Aberle):(Redirected from ABERLE, RAB.)
Warden and leading spirit of the Ashkenazic community of London; born at Hamburg after 1650; died at London after 1721. By inducing the shamas (sexton) of the only Ashkenazic synagogue at that time surreptitiously to mutilate the ṭallit, or prayer-scarf, of the rabbi Judah Loeb ben Ephraim Anschel—in which condition he unwittingly used it—he forced Anschel to go, and installed Uri Phœbus in his place (1705). Abraham interfered not only in the affairs of the Ashkenazic, but also in those of the Sephardic community; for it was he who drew Ẓebi Ashkenazi's attention to an expression in a sermon of David Nieto's on Providence (1705) which savored of heresy. In this case Abraham failed to carry his point; and he was equally unsuccessful in trying to induce Ashkenazi to confirm a decree of excommunication against Mordecai Hamburger, who thereupon seceded and founded the Hambro' Synagogue. Later in life Abraham became involved in difficulties, owing to a lawsuit with his brother-in-law at Hamburg and to the conduct of his son, who dissipated at Paris the fortune Abraham had made at his trade as jeweler.
- D. Kaufmann, in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Soc. iii. 104-119;
- Schudt, Jüd. Merkwürdigkeiten, iv. 1-35;
- references in Uri Phœbus, Urim we-Tu-mim, 1707, and Johanan Holleschau's answer, Ma'aseh Rab, 1707;
- also in Jacob Emden, Megillat Sefer, ed. D. Kohn. pp. 77 et seq., Warsaw, 1897.


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Parshiyos Tazriya Umetzora 5758 - '98
Outline Vol. 2, # 26
Hashem's Help -- Ezer Eloki
Tzora'as, a leprous-type disease, occurred in a miraculous manner. It came largely as a result of error or transgression, and could only be diagnosed by a Kohein, not a physician. We have discussed this concept at length in previous years.
One question in this regard has always disturbed me. The Ramban (end of parshas Bo), states emphatically that "there is no such thing as nature," but everything that occurs is miraculous. He makes a distinction between "hidden miracles" -- everyday occurrences, and "open miracles" -- extraordinary events.
Elsewhere, it is clear from Ramban's writing that the "hidden miracles" -- the everyday occurrences -- are what we generally refer to as "nature."
Granted that it is important to recognize G-d's hand in the "natural world," but what is the meaning of the statement "there is no such thing as nature"? Isn't this just a matter of semantics? Ramban himself refers to nature several times!
Sidur of Rav Yaakov Emden (Tefilas Al Hanisim)
Years ago, I came across the words of Rav Shlomo Kluger, who made the distinction between man's point of view and Hashem's. In man's eyes, extraordinary events seem miraculous; everyday occurrences seem to be natural. To Hashem's outlook, however, there is no such distinction -- everything was planned long ago; extraordinary events are just as natural as everyday occurrences.
This year, the words of Rav Yerucham Lebovitz caught my attention.
Da'as Chochmo Umussar, Volume One
There is no real difference between nature and events beyond nature. In the one realm, miracles come about less directly, in the other realm, miracles come about in a more direct fashion. Hashem helps us all the time; yet, it is only at Pesach that we say: Lo al yedei malach, lo al yedei saraph, v'lo al yedei shliach -- "Not through an angel, nor messenger, nor agent," rak Hashem b'atzmo ubichvodo -- "only Hashem, Himself, in His full Glory." The "open miracles" show a direct connection; this is what we refer to as the ezer Eloki, "G-d's help."
Chasom Sofer made a similar distinction.
The Difference Between Moshe and Yehoshua
In Sefer Yehoshua (Book of Joshua), a malach (angel) came to Yehoshua and declared that he (the angel) would fight the wars on behalf of Hashem's people. Chasom Sofer, in his chidushim to tractate Megilah, noted a discrepancy. From the verses, the angel's declaration seemed to be a blessing, yet the Talmud declares that it was a punishment due to lack of Torah study!
Both are correct. The commentaries relate in parshas Mishpatim, that when Hashem offered to send Moshe a malach, Moshe protested. He did not want any angel; he desired only Hashem's direct guidance. Hashem acquiesced, but promised that the angel would have to suffice in the days of Yehoshua.
When the angel did, indeed, appear to Yehoshua, Yehoshua also protested. The angel responded: "Your master rejected me; do you also want to reject me?" He would not budge. The result was that Yehoshua would not have the direct help from Hashem b'atzmo ubichvodo -- "Hashem, Himself, in His full Glory," but through an intermediary.
Why? Had the generation applied themselves to Torah study as diligently as possible, they would have merited a level of prophecy akin to that of Moshe, which was called "face to face," i.e., direct. Instead, they would be relegated to an indirect sort of help.
Da'as Chochmo Umussar
Rav Yerucham Lebovitz discussed the relationship between the two levels of Divine assistance. Everything, he held, comes about through nature. We are unable to change nature, and the Torah commands us to respect nature and protect our lives. To attempt to transcend the laws of nature would be tantamount to defying Hashem's world. Quite the contrary -- we find that the Avos (forefathers) were working men, and the Mishnah states: Yafeh Torah im derech eretz -- "Torah study, combined with an occupation, is fine." Rather, by devoting ourselves to the natural, earthy world -- in an attempt to fulfill our duties -- we can merit a higher level of assistance, the Ezer Eloki -- Hashem's help.
We have previously discussed this attitude of Rav Lebovitz and the Alter of Kelm -- that relying purely on miracles shows a lack of emunah (faith). Our faith is not that Hashem will help us in a purely supernatural manner, but that our endeavors will receive assistance. If we strive properly, in this world, we, too, may merit the aid of Lo al yedei malach, lo al yedei saraph, v'lo al yedei shliach -- "Not through an angel, nor messenger, nor agent," rak Hashem b'atzmo ubichvodo -- "only Hashem, Himself, in His full Glory."
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Text Copyright © '98 Rabbi Yaakov Bernstein and Project Genesis, Inc.
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Jim joins Jenny in the fight against Autism07 Apr 2008
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It's no secret that Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy now live together, nor is it a secret that Jenny is an ardent spokeswoman for families and children touched by autism, prompted by the discovery that her own son Evan Asher was diagnosed at 2. What might come as a surprise however, is Jim's involvement in the fight to find the cause and cure for the condition.
Described by Jenny as 'an Autism Whisperer' because of his skills with Evan, Jim has openly spoken of his fondness for her son and has helped him overcome, not only his fear of water but also his fear of dogs and thunderstorms according to press reports.
A highly misunderstood and complex brain development disorder, autism impairs social interaction and communication, and causes restricted and repetitive behaviour. Causes are unknown but it is recognised that autism is highly heritable, although it is unclear which genes are responsible.
Most recent figures estimate 1:100 children under the age of 5 now display behaviour within the autistic spectrum, whilst a phenomenal 1:58 is the UK figure, with mostly boys affected.
So why these shocking figures? Considering the rates in 1983 were estimated at 1/10th of today's figures? In Evan's case his autism was diagnosed after a particularly harrowing series of events. Jenny notes in her book 'louder than Words', the trigger seems to have been Evan's vaccinations and frustrated with the advice given by the conventional medical community, Jenny was prompted to seek alternative treatments.
At this point Evan was seizing regularly, had lost all language and eye contact and was trapped in his own world. By seeking out a 'Defeat Autism Now' doctor who helped Jenny implement a casein and gluten free diet and a programme to removed heavy metals and yeast from Evans system, Jenny noted an almost instantaneous improvement in Evans speech and behaviour.
Coupled with speech and behavioural therapies, Evan's huge improvement has been noted by his doctors and Jenny is convinced the causes of Evans autism were influenced strongly by the toxins and heavy metal preservatives found in todays vaccines, which have increased from 10 shots in 1983 to 30+ in 2007.
Convinced the government needs to address the vaccine issue, Jenny has been doing the rounds of talk shows promoting the rights of parents to control their childs vaccine schedule, the clean-up of vaccines and the Biomedical therapies which worked for Evan.
Joining her in the cause, Jim put his name to a full page advert which appeared several weeks ago on behalf of Generation Rescue. An organisation dedicated to cleaning up vaccines and promoting the cause the advert listed the differences in vaccination schedules over the years.
Coinciding with the start of 'World Autism Awareness Month' last week Jenny and Jim co-wrote a piece for CNN. Read it here
Clearly passionate about the cause, Jenny has announced she, along with Jim will be heading a mass demonstration in Washington DC on June 4th. Calling on congress to re-examine their approach to vaccination schedules, and the toxins and preservatives used. Thousands are expected to attend.
Full details are here at the TACA website and if you want to be there, remember you need to sign up first.
From a personal perspective I'll be watching on with interest as a professional working with children in the autistic spectrum in the UK. Whatever the outcome of the rally and the ensuing debate, there is no doubt that this is a topic which inspires passionate discussion and we will continue to report on any developments.
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The international news media has insisted the Board Of Control For Cricket In India can resolve the dispute over the photo coverage of the India-England Test series through its own existing media rules.
According to the News Media Coalition (NMC), an international organisation that defends the ability of the press to inform the public with independent news material, the issue could be sorted out easily.
"All of this is avoidable and without the BCCI having to shift its stance," said the NMC.
"The BCCI's own rules on media attendance at matches already prohibit activities the BCCI wants to control. Perhaps they would like to look up their own rules. In addition, news organisations themselves attach restrictions on the use of their content to ensure that it cannot be used for anything other than editorial purposes," it added.
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Earlier Kevan Gosper, chairman, International Olympic Committee Press Commission, said of the BCCI, "The IOC strongly disagrees with these moves by the BCCI, which we believe are a direct attack on the freedom of the media to report from sporting events, and shows contempt for the sporting public around the world who would otherwise like to follow these important matches."


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Everyone has wondered what it would be like to dig right through to the other side of the Earth. This animated short takes that notion one step further. Here, the probe is accomplished by an ingenious machine dubbed Old Chucknose, which with the help of amazing gadgetry, bores through every layer of the Earth's crust and centre.
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The Lucas Museum passed its final big hurdle to becoming a reality near Chicago's lakefront when City Council gave full approval for the museum plans in a vote Wednesday.
The "Star Wars" director plans to build the 300,000-square-foot museum, called the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, along Lake Michigan near Soldier Field.
Earlier this month, the Chicago Park District approved a deal to lease seven acres of land near Soldier Field for the project. A week later, a city zoning committee recommended approval of the museum.
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The museum faces one more snag, however. The non-profit group Friends of the Park, which is lobbying to keep the museum from being built on public land along the lake, has filed a lawsuit against the museum. The group argues that the museum will ruin the character of the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Those behind the plans for the museum intend on building and maintaining several thousand square feet of new greenery along the lakefront. They say the construction and maintenance of the facility and green space will not cost Chicago taxpayers, however.
The same day that City Council voted to allow museum plans to proceed, the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Park District reached a deal concerning game-day parking, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Among the conditions of the agreement is the relocation of tailgating spots on the south lot to the "event prairie" tailgating lawn, the top of a new parking garage on 18th Street and "various other places on the museum campus in Grant Park," the Sun-Times reports.
Construction on the museum is slated to begin no sooner than March 1 with an opening date as early as 2019, according to The Associated Press.


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WUD Art is proud to host "Alone & Together: The Tender Dissonance of Passing Through" by artist Teo Nguyen.
This exhibition will feature Nguyen's paintings and work that "capture the quiet beauty" around you. Nguyen states, "these paintings are an interpretation of what I feel and see: moments in which we are alone even as we are connected to each other, connected to each other in our aloneness. I hope that my work will create for the viewer that moment as I see it... when ordinary things become remarkable and beautiful."
"Alone & Together: The Tender Dissonance of Passing Through" will be showing in Gallery 1308 at Union South from December 1st, 2017 through January 26th, 2018.
Please join us for the opening reception of "Alone & Together" on Friday, December 1st from 6-8pm at Gallery 1308 in Union South. Light refreshments will be served.


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Save money. Pack lighter. Rest easier. Take a look at these insider tips to help ensure all your vacations are Dream Vacations.
By land or seaWhether you're deciding between a cruise, land tour or a resort vacation, the first decision is choosing the destination. Next, how long can you get away? And when? These questions will help steer your decision. Exclusive deals, perks and upgrades that your Independent Vacation Specialist has access to might just sway you as well.
When to book a cruise
Insiders know about Wave Season. It starts in January and ends in March, and it's when cruise lines offer up some pretty amazing deals. It's also when most of the country is feeling the effects of winter, so it's no coincidence that they want you daydreaming of white sand beaches and sunshine. But it's not just the warmer destinations that are discounted, think great deals on Alaska, Europe, fall cruises and holiday travel.
If you're more of the spontaneous type, you're in luck. Last minute deals offer big savings, even better than Wave Season. One more tip, keep your passport up–to–date.
Choosing your stateroom
Just like real estate, staterooms are all about location. Here are the main factors to consider when choosing your stateroom:
Which deck – While every cruise line and ship is different, keep your likes and dislikes in mind. Prefer to be close to the action? Consider a deck near the pools, or bars and restaurants. If you travel with children, being close to the kids' club offers convenience since you'll be back and forth frequently.
Which type of stateroom – From a luxury suite complete with your own butler to a comfy cabin that provides all the necessities, but offers an obstructed view, the type of stateroom you choose determines your price. You may also want to keep your destination in mind. We highly recommend a balcony/verandah when cruising Alaska! Some cruise lines also offer specialty staterooms. For instance, spa staterooms and suites are in close proximity to the onboard spa, offer a soothing décor and special in–room amenities.
Where your stateroom is located – Forward, midship or aft, and whats the difference? Every ship is divided into forward, midship and aft (front, middle and back). Because of the way that most ships are built, you will experience the least amount of movement in the lower and more central area of the ship (midship). However, you may experience more foot traffic from other passengers at midship as well, especially on the upper decks.
Use this handy checklist when packing for your next vacation.
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For safety reasons, many cruise lines prohibit the following items onboard.
On cruises – Most cruise lines add tipping, also called gratuities, to your shipboard account or tipping is included in your all–inclusive experience. Some still leave tipping up to your own discretion. In that case, plan to tip $2 to $3 per person, per day (for a total of $84 on a seven–night cruise) for each person in your stateroom. On shore excursions, tip $2 to $5 for the tour guide, and $1 to $2 for the driver.
At resorts – It is customary to tip for good service in the U.S. Most tip 15%–20% on food and beverages. For exceptional service, tip up to 25%. When staying at an all inclusive resort, tipping is already included. However, your favorite bartender or server always appreciates a little extra, especially at the beginning of your stay.
At airports Tipping your skycap is a good thing. If they check you in curbside, tip $1–$2 per bag. If they take your bags inside for you, tip $2 per bag. If your bags are extra heavy, add in a little extra. If you don't have any small bills, ask if they have change. Chances are, they have a pocket full of singles and can gladly make change for you.
Whether it's horseback riding on a beach, scuba diving the reef or trekking across a glacier, when your ship pulls into port, there are so many ways for you to experience the best of the local culture. To ensure you won't miss out on what many consider the highlights of their trip, book your excursions in advance, ideally BEFORE you set sail. Your Independent Vacation Specialist can help you choose the excursions that best match your activity level and interests.


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The popular social programming platform, GitHub, released a Mac version of their desktop application today. For the unaware, GitHub is a website aimed at giving programmers the ability to share code and changes across the internet. It is immensely popular among open source programmers, as well as being used by major companies like Facebook.
The Mac client is one of the best executions that I have seen of GitHub. On top of being very functional, with the ability to pull in both local and internet based repositories, it is very beautiful. Once you download the file and install the app, you can start it up. You will be asked to log into your GitHub account, and from there, you can connect to any repositories that you are a part of.
Unfortunately, I am not really a computer programmer. I have dabbled in some Java and C, but I am not an active user of GitHub. As such, I cannot give a full hearted review of the application or the service. According to the coders I have spoken to about it, GitHub has become an industry standard.
I know that I make use of GitHub to monitor the progress of my Android ROM of choice, CyanogenMod. I check out the commits, comment on the added features, and even directly interact with the coders. I look forward to digging into the features of this desktop client to see how it pertains to my use of GitHub.
I feel like nothing but good can come from having a desktop version of this. The ability to focus more on your work and less on Facebook has to be a good thing. I know that I work better when I write my articles from a desktop client instead of doing it in the browser window.
If you want to see what the GitHub client looks like on Mac, then check out the screen shots below. You can download it by heading over to GitHub.


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Prevent cavities in your baby's teeth
New statistics reveal the alarming amount of tooth decay that is happening in kids' first teeth. It is among the most common diseases of childhood — but it can be prevented.
The most common disease in infants is...
You guessed it — tooth decay. The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's (AAPD) recently released "State of Little Teeth" report defines early childhood caries (ECC) as a rapid form of tooth decay that is on the rise and can cause lasting harm to not only your child's oral health but his general health as well as his social and intellectual development.
AAPD president Dr. Warren Brill says, "These statistics are alarming because of the critical role of baby teeth in helping children speak clearly and chew naturally, and also [in] helping to form a path that permanent teeth can follow when they are ready to erupt."
What's causing the spike in infant tooth decay?
Dr. Brill attributes the epidemic of decay in little teeth to delaying the first dental visit, putting children to bed with a bottle and poor diet and eating habits.
Brent Cornelius, DDS, who runs a private dental practice in Keller, Texas, adds that putting a baby to bed with a bottle of milk or juice contributes to tooth decay because, "Once asleep, the last drink remains in the baby's mouth all night causing decay." He says other contributors to infant tooth decay are honey on a pacifier ("a terrible idea for obvious, sugary reasons"), and "the advent of the sippy cup. A child carrying a sippy cup of anything but water is a cavity waiting to happen."
Julie Dimock, a pediatric dentist at Dimock, Weinberg & Cherry in Wilmington, North Carolina, says that breastfeeding at will during the night can also be to blame for the rise of infant tooth decay. Dr. Dimock says, "Breast milk contains sugar. The frequent contact of the breast milk to the baby's teeth will also cause early childhood caries when not wiped off the teeth." She also notes that offering a bottle of milk or juice throughout the day "increased risk of decay by increasing the number of acid attacks to the teeth."
Dr. Cristelle Rodriguez of Nova Children's Dentistry says after breast or bottle feeding baby, "Look for the white film [that] forms over the tongue and on the gums and try to remove it gently. This film is plaque, which harbors caries-forming bacteria."
Infant tooth decay is preventable
It is 100 percent preventable in fact, according to Dr. Brill. He offers the following AAPD recommendations to ensure your children have a "happy, healthy smile for a lifetime."
- Take your child to see a pediatric dentist no later than his or her first birthday. This helps establish an ongoing relationship between the pediatric dentist, patient and parents or caregivers. It also plays a very important role in preventing tooth decay and avoiding costly and painful treatments for kids down the road.
- If your baby is given a bottle when going to sleep, use nothing but water.
- Before teeth erupt, clean your baby's mouth and gums with a soft cloth or infant toothbrush at bath time. This helps prepare your baby for the teeth cleaning to come.
- Once the first tooth does arrive, brush with an infant toothbrush twice a day.
- Remember, even after your child is capable of brushing their own teeth, they will need supervision until the age of 7 or 8.
Dr. Brill summarizes, "Oral health is important for children's overall health and well-being, so it's important that parents help establish healthy oral habits at an early age."
More on care for baby
The importance of brushing your baby's teeth
The top 5 infant ailments
Your baby's first year in checkups, explained


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Siemens supplied 80% of the MW installed offshore last year, while SSE (the former Scottish & Southern Energy) and RWE Innogy were the most active developers. Dong Energy were again the most active equity player in offshore wind power.
In 2011 EWEA said non-recourse debt financing for offshore wind farms in Europe increased by 40% on the previous year, from €1.46 billion to €2.05 billion, with three transaction – Meerwind, Globaltech 1 and Baltic 1 – closing in the last 12 months.
Once completed, EWEA said the nine offshore wind projects currently under construction in European waters will increase installed capacity by a further 2,375MW, bringing cumulative capacity in Europe to 6,188MW. Preparatory work has started on nine other offshore projects, with a cumulative installed capacity of 2,910MW.


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17 comments:
- Gorgeous Glam said...
Wonderful and dreamy! I love these pics! xoxo
- April 29, 2010 at 11:33 AM
Those floral curtains are so pretty! xo
- April 29, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- Unknown said...
LOVE! So romantic! I especially love the photo with the model smoking, embarrassing secret: I smoke, and it makes me feel a million times better to see pretty girls doing it! Bah! The English probably don't worry so much about such things, Americans are kind of health-crazed (but yet still so darn out of shape compared to the rest of the world, what's up with that?!). LOL, I digress, lovely photos, some of today's prettiest! XO!
- April 29, 2010 at 1:08 PM
- A Casa da Vá said...
I love visiting your blog... there is always an inspiring message and lovely pictures! ^_^
- April 29, 2010 at 1:43 PM
- Cornflakes and Honey said...
Such a lovely quote and a great choice of photos to support it.
Have a lovely weekend, it's almost here...I can smell it :-)
- April 29, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- I Love Pretty Little Things said...
I LOVE the quote. It is so true! And the pictures, so Beautiful!
What a pretty post,
- April 29, 2010 at 7:32 PM
- Sophie said...
Such a stunning post. so romantic and just makes me want to go somewhere amazing.
I love the 5th photo. so stunning.
I hope you have a great weekend xx
- April 29, 2010 at 8:59 PM
- Cornflakes and Honey said...
I just checked out the link for Pottery Barn - close match, thanks!
I might have a go at making my own...watch this space (but don't watch too closely, it might be a while, lol!)
- April 29, 2010 at 9:00 PM
- Clare said...
i love this post, so thoughtful and dreamy. beautiful pictures x
- April 30, 2010 at 1:52 AM
- Haute World said...
Beautiful images! Love how the movement of the breeze was captured via the fluttering curtains. I get a sense of peaceful calm when I see these...
- April 30, 2010 at 2:09 AM
- Marija said...
What beautiful images to wake up to! Love breezy sheers - especially in bedrooms. Makes me want to hurry up and get some window treatments in our hosue. Embrassingly, we are in temporary peel and stick paper shade mode right now :)
- April 30, 2010 at 4:48 AM
- iamchasingthirty said...
I love these photos and they are making me want to skip work and stay in with the windows open and the light shining in, all the day long!!
- April 30, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Cat said...
Bravo! I adore this quote and the lovely images you selected to go with it!
Happy Friday to you, my dear!
xo Cat
- April 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM
- Trish {Pink Preppy Lilly Lover} said...
These pictures are absolutely unbelievable...so dreamy and romantic! I love that large loft with the big windows and pillows...I could get lost in a book for hours up there! Love your blog! xox
- April 30, 2010 at 11:57 AM
- Marcie said...
I love the window pictures. They are so dreamy and full of wonder & excitement.
- May 1, 2010 at 12:47 AM
- Laura said...
I love all of these pictures! they are so so romantic
- May 1, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- shopgirl said...
I love these collection of photos! Very dreamy!
- May 2, 2010 at 1:21 AM


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