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Cecilia Bartoli
For over two decades Cecilia Bartoli has indisputably been one of the leading artists in the world of classical music.
Every new operatic role, concert programme or recording project (she records exclusively for Decca) planned by Bartoli is eagerly awaited throughout the world.
The huge success of her solo CDs such as The Vivaldi Album, Gluck - Italian Arias, The Salieri Album, Opera proibita, Maria, Sacrificium and Mission can be seen not only in the outstanding number of discs sold - she has spent over 100 weeks in total in the international pop charts and reached 'gold' status on many occasions - but also in the major accolades they have been awarded: five Grammys (USA), ten ECHO Awards, one Bambi (Germany), two Classical Brit Awards (UK), the Victoire de la Musique (France) and many other prestigious awards besides. Cecilia Bartoli has brought classical music into the lives of millions of people all over the world.
What is more, she is of course especially pleased that the popularity of her projects has given rise to discussions that have led in turn to the extensive re-evaluation and rediscovery of forgotten repertoire and often neglected composers. Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim and Nikolaus Harnoncourt were among the first conductors to discover Cecilia Bartoli.
They noticed her talent at a very early stage, when she had barely completed her vocal training with her parents in her native city of Rome.
Since then she has worked regularly with many more renowned conductors, pianists and orchestras.
In recent years she has mainly concentrated on her work with major orchestras that use contemporary instruments and follow historical performance practice (Akademie für Alte Musik, Les Arts Florissants, I Barocchisti, the Kammerorchester Basel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Ensemble Matheus, the Freiburger Barockorchester, Il Giardino Armonico, Les Musiciens du Louvre and the Zurich orchestra La Scintilla).
Orchestral projects in which Cecilia Bartoli is responsible for the overall artistic direction have also become increasingly important, culminating in programmes developed and performed in collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Cecilia Bartoli appears in all the major concert halls of Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.
She has made stage appearances at festivals and in famous opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, at the Salzburg Festival and at the Zurich Opera House, among others.
The latter has seen many of her debut performances of operatic roles.
Her current stage projects include La Cenerentola at the Salzburg Festival, Alcina in Zurich and Rossini's Otello in Paris. In 2008 Cecilia Bartoli devoted herself to the early 19th century - the age of Italian romanticism and bel canto - and in particular to the legendary singer Maria Malibran, the 200th anniversary of whose birth took place on 24 March 2008.
To mark the occasion Cecilia Bartoli released a new CD entitled Maria (Edison Award, Prix Caecilia) as well as the DVD Maria (The Barcelona Concert/Malibran Rediscovered). Bartoli dedicated a large part of the 2009-10 season to rediscovering music written for the great Neapolitan castrato singers of the 18th century.
The release of her solo album Sacrificium with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini in October 2009 broke all records and was accompanied by concert appearances that presented this repertoire in all the major European musical capitals. In autumn 2012 Cecilia Bartoli presented arias and duets by the Italian Baroque composer Agostino Steffani on her album Mission.
Her collaborators on this multimedia project (containing a DVD and a special app for iPad) included Philippe Jaroussky and the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera as well as the period orchestra I Barocchisti directed by Diego Fasolis.
The author Donna Leon wrote the novel The Jewels of Paradise for the project.
As part of this acclaimed project ('With Mission, she has surpassed herself ...
It is as if this music was only waiting to be discovered by a unique personality such as Bartoli' - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Cecilia Bartoli, I Barocchisti and Diego Fasolis also went on an extended European tour in 2012-13.
Their new recording of Steffani's Stabat Mater appeared in autumn 2013. Norma represented another milestone in Cecilia Bartoli's career and indeed in the history of this opera's performance.
Her CD recording of the work appeared in May 2013 and she also gave her stage debut in the title role at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.
Both productions were accompanied by Giovanni Antonini and the La Scintilla orchestra.
Bartoli's new vision of this work was well received, jubilantly acclaimed by both the audience and the press. In 2012 Cecilia Bartoli followed in the footsteps of Herbert von Karajan and Riccardo Muti when she became the first woman to be appointed artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival; she recently extended her contract to 2016.
Her stint as director has coincided with stellar artistic success and a spectacular increase in ticket proceeds.
So far she has presented the following key festival themes: in 2012 the theme was 'Cleopatra', and Bartoli herself sang this role in Handel's Giulio Cesare.
In 2013 the festival was subtitled 'Sacrifice - Opfer - Victim', with a new staging of Norma as its focus.
For 2014 the theme is to be 'Rossinissimo', which will see a veritable festival of Rossini with all-star casts and a new production of La Cenerentola starring Cecilia Bartoli in the title role at its centre. Cecilia Bartoli has been honoured as a 'Cavaliere' in Italy, is an 'Accademico effettivo' of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, has been appointed to the French honours 'Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres', 'Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur' and 'Officier de l'Ordre du Mérite' and is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, as well as of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
She has been awarded the prestigious Italian prize Bellini d'Oro, a Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes (one of the highest distinctions of the Spanish Ministry of Culture) as well as the Médaille Grand Vermeil de la Ville de Paris.
To mark the 250th anniversary of Handel's death in 2009 Cecilia Bartoli was named an honorary member of the expert advisory committee of the Stiftung Händel-Haus in Halle and in the following year she was awarded the Halle Handel Prize.
In 2010 she was also awarded the distinguished Danish Léonie Sonning Music Prize in Copenhagen in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, as well as an honorary doctorate from University College, Dublin.
In 2012 she was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Prize in Baden-Baden, together with a rare Swiss Award for Culture, and she was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Culturel by the Principality of Monaco.


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What happens when you archive or delete a conversation from your inbox in Gmail? Google goes back to the inbox and you need to select the next conversation.
If you enable "Auto-advance" in Gmail Labs, you can change this behavior. The default option is to go to the older conversation, but you can also ask Gmail to send you to the newer conversation if you usually read the oldest messages first.
Gmail automatically advances to the next conversation after archiving, deleting, flagging as spam, moving or muting a conversation.
Gmail's blog reminds us that there are two useful shortcuts for archiving and going to the next/previous conversation: ] and [, but they're difficult to remember and not many people use keyboard shortcuts.
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Baghdad, Bradley Manning, citizens, corruption, cover-ups, covert operations, crimes, deaths, Fort Meade Maryland, History, Inhumane, innocent, Iraq, Iraq War, Julian Assange, Leaks, Political corruption, torture, treatment, Trial, truth, U.N., U.S, U.S. Government, U.S. Military, United States, Video, Wikileaks
As I type these lines, on June 3, 2013, Private First Class Bradley Edward Manning is being tried in a sequestered room at Fort Meade, Maryland, for the alleged crime of telling the truth. The court martial of the most prominent political prisoner in modern US history has now, finally, begun.
It has been three years. Bradley Manning, then 22 years old, was arrested in Baghdad on May 26, 2010. He was shipped to Kuwait, placed into a cage, and kept in the sweltering heat of Camp Arifjan.
"For me, I stopped keeping track," he told the court last November. "I didn't know whether night was day or day was night. And my world became very, very small. It became these cages… I remember thinking I'm going to die."
After protests from his lawyers, Bradley Manning was then transferred to a brig at a US Marine Corps Base in Quantico, VA, where – infamously – he was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment at the hands of his captors – a formal finding by the UN. Isolated in a tiny cell for twenty-three out of twenty-four hours a day, he was deprived of his glasses, sleep, blankets and clothes, and prevented from exercising. All of this – it has been determined by a military judge – "punished" him before he had even stood trial.
"Brad's treatment at Quantico will forever be etched, I believe, in our nation's history, as a disgraceful moment in time" said his lawyer, David Coombs. "Not only was it stupid and counterproductive, it was criminal."
Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julian-assange/julian-assange-bradley-manning-trial_b_3384436.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=060513&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry


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Server, storage and IO metrics that matter need context
There is an old saying that the best I/O (Input/Output) is the one that you do not have to do.
In the meantime, let's get a side of some context with them IOPS from vendors, marketers and their pundits who are tossing them around for server, storage and IO metrics that matter.
Expanding the conversation, the need for more context
The good news is that people are beginning to discuss storage beyond space capacity and cost per GByte, TByte or PByte for both DRAM or nand flash Solid State Devices (SSD), Hard Disk Drives (HDD) along with Hybrid HDD (HHDD) and Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) based solutions. This applies to traditional enterprise or SMB IT data center with physical, virtual or cloud based infrastructures.
This is good because it expands the conversation beyond just cost for space capacity into other aspects including performance (IOPS, latency, bandwidth) for various workload scenarios along with availability, energy effective and management.
Adding a side of context
The catch is that IOPS while part of the equation are just one aspect of performance and by themselves without context, may have little meaning if not misleading in some situations.
Granted it can be entertaining, fun to talk about or simply make good press copy for a million IOPS. IOPS vary in size depending on the type of work being done, not to mention reads or writes, random and sequential which also have a bearing on data throughout or bandwidth (Mbytes per second) along with response time.
However, are those million IOP's applicable to your environment or needs?
Likewise, what do those million or more IOPS represent about type of work being done? For example, are they small 64 byte or large 64 Kbyte sized, random or sequential, cached reads or lazy writes (deferred or buffered) on a SSD or HDD?
How about the response time or latency for achieving them IOPS?
In other words, what is the context of those metrics and why do they matter?
Click on image to view more metrics that matter including IOP's for HDD and SSD's
Metrics that matter give context for example IO sizes closer to what your real needs are, reads and writes, mixed workloads, random or sequential, sustained or bursty, in other words, real world reflective.
As with any benchmark take them with a grain (or more) of salt, they key is use them as an indicator then align to your needs. The tool or technology should work for you, not the other way around.
Here are some examples of context that can be added to help make IOP's and other metrics matter:
- What is the IOP size, are they 512 byte (or smaller) vs. 4K bytes (or larger)?
- Are they reads, writes, random, sequential or mixed and what percentage?
- How was the storage configured including RAID, replication, erasure or dispersal codes?
- Then there is the latency or response time and IO queue depths for the given number of IOPS.
- Let us not forget if the storage systems (and servers) were busy with other work or not.
- If there is a cost per IOP, is that list price or discount (hint, if discount start negotiations from there)
- What was the number of threads or workers, along with how many servers?
- What tool was used, its configuration, as well as raw or cooked (aka file system) IO?
- Was the IOP's number with one worker or multiple workers on a single or multiple servers?
- Did the IOP's number come from a single storage system or total of multiple systems?
- Fast storage needs fast serves and networks, what was their configuration?
- Was the performance a short burst, or long sustained period?
- What was the size of the test data used; did it all fit into cache?
- Were short stroking for IOPS or long stroking for bandwidth techniques used?
- Data footprint reduction (DFR) techniques (thin provisioned, compression or dedupe) used?
- Were write data committed synchronously to storage, or deferred (aka lazy writes used)?
The above are just a sampling and not all may be relevant to your particular needs, however they help to put IOP's into more contexts. Another consideration around IOPS are the configuration of the environment, from an actual running application using some measurement tool, or are they generated from a workload tool such as IOmeter, IOrate, VDbench among others.
Sure, there are more contexts and information that would be interesting as well, however learning to walk before running will help prevent falling down.
Does size or age of vendors make a difference when it comes to context?
Some vendors are doing a good job of going for out of this world record-setting marketing hero numbers.
Meanwhile other vendors are doing a good job of adding context to their IOP or response time or bandwidth among other metrics that matter. There is a mix of startup and established that give context with their IOP's or other metrics, likewise size or age does not seem to matter for those who lack context.
Some vendors may not offer metrics or information publicly, so fine, go under NDA to learn more and see if the results are applicable to your environments.
Likewise, if they do not want to provide the context, then ask some tough yet fair questions to decide if their solution is applicable for your needs.
Putting this all into context
What this means is let us start putting and asking for metrics that matter such as IOP's with context.
If you have a great IOP metric, if you want it to matter than include some context such as what size (e.g. 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, etc.), percentage of reads vs. writes, latency or response time, random or sequential.
IMHO the most interesting or applicable metrics that matter are those relevant to your environment and application. For example if your main application that needs SSD does about 75% reads (random) and 25% writes (sequential) with an average size of 32K, while fun to hear about, how relevant is a million 64 byte read IOPS? Likewise when looking at IOPS, pay attention to the latency, particular if SSD or performance is your main concern.
Get in the habit of asking or telling vendors or their surrogates to provide some context with them metrics if you want them to matter.
So how about some context around them IOP's (or latency and bandwidth or availability for that matter)?
Ok, nuff said (for now).
Cheers gs


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Huddersfield appoint Robins
Mark Robins has been appointed as the new manager of Huddersfield Town after leaving his post with Coventry.
Robins took the reigns at Coventry last September and has since lifted the Sky Blues from the League One relegation zone to eighth place in the table.
Coventry granted Huddersfield permission to talk to Robins about their vacant managerial post earlier this week despite rejecting an initial approach.
Huddersfield have been without a manager since Simon Grayson was sacked in January.
Terriers chairman Dean Hoyle said: "We've been through a lengthy and detailed process in appointing Mark as the club's new manager and we are delighted.
"As I said we would, we have taken our time in making this appointment because it is such an important one, both for our short and long term ambitions.
"Obviously retention of our Championship status is vital, but we also needed a manager who buys into the club's football philosophy and structure. We believe Mark is that man.
"Mark has the knowledge, skills and attributes that the board of directors set out for our new manager and it is clear that he shares our vision, philosophy and values.
"He has good knowledge of the division from his previous spell with Barnsley.
"He has also shown an ability to develop young players. Indeed, his work with the FA on the Elite Player Performance Plan and his commitment to development was a big factor in his appointment.
"Mark has shown his skill in getting the most from the resources at his disposal, none more so than his recent achievements at Coventry."
The former Rotherham and Barnsley boss will take charge of his first game on Sunday when Huddersfield take on Wigan in the fifth round of the FA Cup.
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How to Add Page Numbers to a Microsoft Word Document
Creating a document in Microsoft Word for Mac? Depending on who you're creating the document for, you may have to add page numbers. Many organizations such as schools and legal entities have very strict guidelines regarding the numbering of pages.
Here's how to add page numbers to a Microsoft Word document on your Mac:
- Open Microsoft Word on your Mac, and then create a new document.
- From the Insert menu, select Page Numbers. The Page Numbers window appears, as shown below.
- From the Position menu, select a location for the page numbers. You can set the page number to be displayed at the top or bottom of the page.
- From the Alignment menu, select a position for the page numbers. You can choose left, center, or right alignment. And if you're planning on binding your document, you might want to use the inside or outside options, which are specifically designed for bound documents.
- Optional: To hide the page number on the first page of your Word document, deselect the Show number on first page checkbox.
- Click OK to save and apply your changes.
Congratulations! You have successfully added page numbers to your Microsoft Word document.
Changing the Format of the Page Numbers
Some organizations require the page numbers to be displayed in a certain format. For example, instead of the usual format (1, 2, 3...), you might need to use roman numerals (I, II, III...) or even letters (a, b, c...). Here's how to change the format of the page numbers in your Microsoft Word document:
- Open your Microsoft Word document, if it is not already open.
- From the Insert menu, select Page Numbers. The Page Numbers window appears.
- Click Format. The Page Number Format window appears, as shown below.
- From the Number Format menu, select a page number formatting option.
- Click OK.
- Now you're back in the Page Numbers window. Click OK to save and apply your changes.
Now the page numbers in your Microsoft Word document are formatted the way you want them to be!
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May 25, 1993
To: OhioLINK List
From: Barbara F. Schloman, Chair
OhioLINK User Services Committee
Subject: Formation of Task Force on ADA (Assistive
The Library Advisory Council's Coordinating Committee has approved a
task force to investigate technologies to aid OhioLINK libraries to
assist disabled users. The task force will report to the User Services
Committee. The membership is still being formed. Anyone interested
should contact Sarah Timmons (email@example.com), ADA Task
Force Chair, or myself (email@example.com).
OhioLINK User Services Committee
ADA Task Force
The Task Force will investigate and propose potential assistive
technologies to enhance OhioLINK access for persons with disabilities.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements will serve as
the benchmark for service.
Specifically, the User Services Committee asks that:
1. investigation include identifying both assistive technologies
(hardware and software) and adaptive workstations (furnishings,
etc.) to assist disabled OhioLINK users.
2. determine funding levels required to provide recommended facilities
at each OhioLINK library.
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to achieve the suggested level of access.
4. recommend a plan of action for implementation.
The Task Force will provide a suggested plan of action to the User
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As a young soldier fighting in Vietnam in 1969, John Shepherd Jr. responded to an ambush by tossing a hand grenade into a bunker that killed several enemy soldiers. He was awarded a Bronze Star with a valor device.
A few weeks later, his platoon leader was killed by a sniper, Shepherd told The New York Times, as he was trying to help Shepherd out of a canal. Shepherd's behavior became erratic, and soon he refused to go on patrol.
After a court-martial, the Army discharged Shepherd under other-than-honorable conditions, then known as an undesirable discharge, which, the Times reports, meant that veterans benefits were denied.
Shepherd is now part of a class-action lawsuit against the armed forces arguing that he and other Vietnam veterans had post-traumatic stress disorder when they were given other-than-honorable discharges, according to the Times. The suit, which was filed in Federal District Court and names as defendants the secretaries of the Army, Air Force and Navy, demands that their discharges be upgraded.
The suit, the Times noted, raises two issues that could affect thousands of Vietnam vets: whether they can retroactively be given a diagnosis of PTSD though the disorder was not identified until 1980; if so, whether recent policies intended to protect troops with PTSD should be applied retroactively to their cases.
Shepherd's legal team, students with the Yale Law School veterans legal clinic, argues yes on both counts, the Times reports. In court papers, they assert that it is reasonable to assume that Shepherd and other veterans who were later given PTSD diagnoses began exhibiting symptoms while they were in service, accoridng to the Times.
Under rules issued during the Iraq war, troops who say they have PTSD must be given medical examinations before they are forced out of the military, to ensure that problematic behavior is not linked to the disorder, the Times reports. Servicemembers given a PTSD diagnosis may still receive an honorable discharge.
"Vietnam War-era veterans, in contrast, have been denied this opportunity for appropriate consideration of the PTSD," the Times quotes the students as saying in the complaint.
The suit could have a wide impact. The students told the Times that more than a quarter million Vietnam-era veterans were discharged under other-than-honorable conditions, and that thousands of them probably had PTSD.
A Department of Veterans Affairs doctor in 2004 gave Shepherd a diagnosis of service-connected PTSD, according to the Times. As a result, the department will provide health care for his PTSD, but not general medical care, unless he is found to have other health problems related to his service.
Veterans disability compensation also is a problem. Shepherd's undesirable discharge was upgraded to a general discharge in the 1970s under a Carter administration program, and that should have made it easier for him to apply for disability compensation, the Times reports. But subsequent legislation said clemency upgrades like Shepherd's did not automatically qualify veterans for benefits. His compensation claim was ultimately rejected, according to the Times.
Shepherd, 65, twice divorced, has battled with alcoholism and drug abuse, the Times reported. He lives in New Haven, Conn., getting by on Social Security and a Teamsters pension, the Times said. While he could use the extra money from disability compensation, equally important, he told the Times, is removing the taint of his discharge.
"I want that honorable," he told the Times. "I did do my part, until I really felt it wasn't worth getting killed for."


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Until last week, California's citizens redistricting commission looked mostly like a noble, ineffective experiment -- and, as a body that has a political duty but is not legally permitted to be political, a good source of light comedy for bloggers.
After all, the way Californians have sorted themselves into communities of the like-minded, the commission couldn't create many more competitive districts, or change the politics of California, even if it tried.
That view now looks awfully sanguine.
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News from around the country and around the globe
A series of reports about problems with the commission -- including the news on a conservative web site that one of the commissioners made an undisclosed donation to a Democrat -- has the potential to cause damage far beyond redistricting.
The commission and its stained reputation could muddy the reputation of the good government groups that have backed it -- and thus the cause of broad reform in California.
Those groups have long said, correctly, that reform must be non-partisan. They have embraced the concept of using regular citizens to do the work of reform.
The redistricting commission was a test of both these concepts.
But it appears that partisanship has creeped into the commission -- despite the attempt to get regular citizens involved.
Politicians and activists on the right are screaming betrayal -- which is bad news since those on the right will have to be part of the broader constitutional reform California needs.
There are many lessons here for the foundations and good government organizations backing reform.
Here's a central one: Be careful not to oversell.
The commission was represented as a force for cleaning up politics, even though politics is by its nature dirty.
It was inevitable that the commission would look political, particularly when judged against promises that the body would be hyper-sanitized against politics.
It's probably not a good idea to spend so much time building structures to guarantee non-partisanship and citizens' participation.
Cleanliness is overrated.
In fact, it might be easier and wiser -- as a political and policy matter -- to develop an approach to reform that engages partisans and harnesses partisan energies to fix problems.
California's partisans, after all, are its most involved citizens.


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9-year-old Mexican girl gives birth
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say a 9-year-old girl has given birth in western Mexico and they are looking for the purported father, a 17-year-old.
Jalisco state police spokesman Lino Gonzalez says the baby girl was born last week at a hospital in the city of Guadalajara. He says the girl and her baby are doing well.
The girl identified as Dafne by the Telegraph, was reportedly only 8 years old when she became pregnant.
The Telegraph reports the baby was born on Jan. 27 in Zoquipan Hospital weighing 5.7 pounds and both girls were released over the weekend.
Gonzalez said Wednesday that the girl's family alerted authorities after she gave birth and the alleged father has not been seen since in the neighborhood the both live in.
According to ABC News, Gonzalez told reporters that, "Due to her young age, we don't know if she is being entirely truthful." He received an account of the relationship from the young mother who describes a loving relationship.
"She did not realize that she was pregnant until the seventh month," said Gonzalez, ABC is reporting.
He says that if the teenager's paternity is proven he could face child sex abuse charges.
Gonzalez says the girl told authorities the teenager was her boyfriend.
Lina Medina made medical history in May 1939 when she gave birth at age 5 in the Andean village of Ticrapo, Peru, according to Snopes.com.
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A new trailer for director Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been released. This trailer shines an interesting light on the conundrum of the The Hobbit. It has to look even bigger than what came before, but what came before what a quest to save the entire world. The new trailer breaks down the plot, which is about the dwarfs reclaiming their homeland. So the stakes are smaller, but the adventure is somehow bigger. Putting that conflict aside, the trailer still makes the movie look like a fun time, and perhaps the best thing about The Hobbit is that we'll get to return to Middle-Earth.
Hit the jump to watch the trailer. The film stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Mark Hadlow, Graham McTavish, Dean Ogorman, Peter Hambleton, Aidan Turner, Jed Brophy, John Callen, Adam Brown, Ken Stott, William Kircher, Andy Serkis, and Richard Armitage. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens in 3D on December 14th. [Update: We've embedded all four alternate endings to the trailer after the jump.]
Click over to Apple to watch in HD. If you click over to the official website, you'll find four additional endings to the trailer. You can choose your favorite, build your own trailer, and then share it with friends. [Update: You can watch all four alternate endings in the video below the trailer.]
Here's the synopsis for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain, first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever… Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities… A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.


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"I think that's a good thing," said O'Leary, who is running for the 26th Council District seat, which is being vacated by Councilman Eric Gioia, who is running for public advocate. "I'm doing this for the right reasons."
In some senses, O'Leary is a political anomaly: a Bloomberg LP attorney running a grassroots campaign; a third generation District 26 resident who has also lived for many years abroad.
O'Leary said the idea of running for public office never crossed his mind, until last year's financial crisis struck. "If it wasn't for the financial crisis I might not be running," he said, adding his first priority is bringing jobs back to the district.
O'Leary, whose father and grandfather are from Sunnyside, was born in Jackson Heights, and moved out to Long Island with his family before starting high school.
After graduating from law school, O'Leary worked for the firm White & Case, before being hired at Bloomberg LP, where he works as a financial attorney. (O'Leary said he would resign if elected, to focus full-time on the City Council). He is also an active fundraiser for various charities and served for four years on the Democratic National Committee.
"Right now we're in a financial crisis," O'Leary said. "I think I have the right skill set to make government more effective and people's lives better."
He said he is the only candidate in the race, which also features Dierdre Feerick and Jimmy Van Bramer, with finance sector experience.
But it isn't just dollars and cents for O'Leary.
Besides his plans to create new jobs, O'Leary is also focused on sustainable development, securing renewable energy for the district, especially in Long Island City, where solar power is an attractive option, and on bringing more government transparency to City Hall.
O'Leary said he's confident his message is resonating with voters. "I think it's going to be a very close election," he said, but "I think we're going to win."


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Online dating may be an easy convenient way to meet potential dates, but experts warn there are red flags that a potential love interest could be looking to steal more than your heart.
The reputation of online dating took a hit recently when a California man was accused of raping a woman he met on a Christian singles website.
Police near San Diego said Sean Banks, 37, may have used different aliases online to meet women. Investigators said he was able to gain the confidence of one woman who felt comfortable enough to invite him into her residence.
Banks is accused of assaulting the woman in her La Mesa home last fall. Police said it was the first time the two had met in person.
Banks was taken into custody on February 11 and booked on several charges including rape by force, digital penetration by force and residential burglary.
The Federal Trade Commission warns people should be aware of red flags that there could be a problem when dating online.
Bill Efron the northeast regional director for the Federal Trade Commission said one red flag can be someone claiming they love you early into the relationship.
"Claiming instant feelings of love, claiming to be from the United States but currently overseas," said Efron.
Efron said scam artists can prey online using love as a way to lure victims.
"In a typical scenario, a scam artist sets up a fake profile online on a dating site, gains the trust of an online love interest and then asks that person to send them money via wire transfer, usually to a location outside the United States. Victims could be taken for thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. And that's why the most important thing to remember is do not wire money to someone you haven't met. This is like sending cash, once it's gone, it cannot be recovered," said Efron.
Efron said another red flag is wanting to leave the dating website immediately in favor of using personal e-mail accounts or instant messaging accounts.
Others recommend always meeting in a public place and consider having a friend nearby just in case.
The Better Business Bureau said people should be suspicious when a new "match" is unable to meet in person or makes plans to meet and then cancels because of a personal issue or a problem with a job, and claims to be an American who travels abroad often.
Another big red flag the BBB wants people to be aware of is if the "match" has a sudden emergency that requires you to help by wiring money. The BBB said the problem is often with travel, medical emergencies, hospital bills for a loved one, being a victim of crime or a temporary financial setback.
To avoid online dating scams the BBB recommends the following:
Do your homework about a website by speaking to other members or customers about their experiences. You can also check a business through the Better Business Bureau's review of the service.
Don't give in to high-pressure sales tactics and read a contract carefully before committing to it.
Know how to end your relationship with the company and understand the cancellation policy. Check to make sure you will not be automatically renewed once the contract expires.
The BBB said some online profiles are connected to scammers overseas which can make it tough for police to investigate or recovery lost money.
The Better Business Bureau wants people to realize some online profiles can be fake. It is called catfishing, which the BBB said is a new label for an old scam.
The scam is in the spotlight again in light of Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame football star, reportedly falling victim to a fake profile hoax. He said he fell in love, but his online girlfriend's profile was fake.
Catfishing is when someone pretends to be someone they're not on social media or dating websites.
These people use deception as a way to gain romantic attention, personal information or even financial support. The BBB has also referred to this as a "sweetheart scam."
The BBB said the following are red flags of this type of scam:
• Only communicate through email, instant message and cell phone.
• Never able to physically meet you in person.
• Charming, understanding, flattering, sensitive, caring.
• Has a career or life circumstances that takes him or her overseas (i.e. military).
• Is quick to develop the relationship and talk of love.
• Has a young child, typically a boy or girl between the ages of 5 and 12.
• Has a sudden emergency, often involving the child's health.
• Has a reason they cannot get their money and needs your help.
The Better Business Bureau said to watch out because if you help them once, they will often need more money and if you have no money they will find a "client" to send you money orders with instructions to wire the money to them.
The BBB said the money orders or checks are counterfeit. Once money is wired, it is very difficult if not impossible to get it back.


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The horror. Halloween is under threat this year because of a paucity of pumpkins. There'll be nothing to carve by October 31 if you don't run to the store now to purchase your pumpkin. Your children will curse you. Vampires will stalk you.
Yes, a wet summer on the East Coast, topped off by the torrential rains of Hurricane Irene, made mush out of lot of farmland normally devoted to pumpkins. That has yielded an early harvest of pumpkin shortage stories—about 427,000 hits, according to Mr. Google, who counts these things. But as usual in the news enviralment, one reporter does the story, and everyone else repeats it, and Time is sometimes as guilty of it, too.
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But let's squash the idea that we will have a pumpkin-less Halloween this year. Apparently, the only people who can't find pumpkins are journalists.
The shelves are gorged with gourds. In my neighborhood in far eastern Manhattan, pumpkins are popping up everywhere: in supermarkets, in specialty food shops, in fruit stands and bodegas. Across the river in New Jersey (you know, the Garden State, where they grow lots of pumpkins) the A&P is advertising "large face" pumpkins for five bucks a pop, and novelty pumpkins value priced at 2 for $4, which means, if I have my math correct, $2 apiece. It's early in the buying season, certainly, but does this availability and pricing signal a shortage to you?
The original reports were not wrong: the pumpkin crop in New York state took it on the chin. But it does not mean that pumpkins were wiped out—supplies are down 25% to 50% depending on location. But keep in mind that pumpkins are planted in every state, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And those states are still in business. Among the big producers, Pennsylvania got hit with the weather, but it suffered to a lesser extent than New York. Michigan, another big pumpkin planter, has plenty to offer. Don't count Illinois because it mostly grows pumpkins for pie filling. Do count on pumpkins from west of the Mississippi, especially Texas and California. And if a short supply of local pumpkins drives the price high enough, pumpkins will be flying in from France, where they would normally be doing duty this time of year in soupe de potiron as opposed to ritual disfigurement. Plus, with pumpkins there is a thing called substitutability, as in plastic.
(MORE: What to Expect of the Upcoming Holiday Shopping Season)
Have you ever been unable to find a pumpkin? No. Because that's the way an economy works. In functioning markets there is no shortage of anything. There are only temporary imbalances between demand and supply. Whatever you want— pumpkins, iPhones, gold, Yankees playoff tickets, heroin— is available. The only question is the price at which it's available.
So let's not frighten the children. There may be scary things associated with Halloween, but the lack of pumpkins isn't one of them.


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Kathleen Therese Meany receives unanimous vote
Kathleen Therese Meany was unanimously elected by her eight fellow Commissioners to serve as president of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) Board of Commissioners during the first Board meeting of the new year.
Vice President Barbara McGowan was reelected to her Vice Presidential post, while Commissioner Mariyana Spyropoulos was elected to serve as chairman of Finance. Committee assignments will be made at the next board meeting to be held Jan. 17.
President Meany was first elected to the Board in 1990. She served as vice president for 16 years and is currently Chairman of the Committee on Public Information and Education and the Committee on Ethics. President Meany also chaired the Committee on Federal Legislation for 18 years.
With a background in public policy, President Meany has made policy decisions during her tenure that strive to improve the water environment. One of her earliest achievements was to introduce a program to collect and properly dispose of household hazardous waste. This waste had previously been discharged indiscriminately into the sewer system and ultimately had a negative impact on water quality.
President Meany is a retired assistant professor of Political Science at Harold Washington College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Roosevelt University and a Master's Degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Vice President McGowan has served on the MWRD Board of Commissioners since 1998. As chairman of the Affirmative Action Committee, Vice President McGowan has been active in ensuring that minority and women contractors have an opportunity to perform work on MWRD contracts and are treated fairly. She lead changes to the MWRD's Minority Business Enterprise/Women Business Enterprise Affirmative Action Ordinance to include penalties for contractors that violate the ordinance.
Commissioner Spyropoulos was appointed to the Board in 2009 and was re-elected in 2010. She earned her law degree from The John Marshall Law School and her Masters in Business Administration from Loyola University Chicago. As an attorney, Commissioner Spyropoulos brings a unique legal and business perspective to the MWRD.
This is the first time in the MWRD's history that women have filled the top posts.


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Things That Are Worse Than France
Say what ya want about the mighty market divas of the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Dodgers. Go ahead and hate on A-Rod, slam Manny, spit on Youk… whatevs. Sometimes they deserve it; sometimes they don't. It's all a part of professional sports.
But no matter how infantile and annoying MLB superstars can be (yes, I'm looking at you, Milton Bradley), none of them quite qualify as being as toxically asinine as Nicolas Anelka and his band of busted b!tches that once formed the French national soccer team.
You think Roberto Alomar spitting on John Hirschbeck was bad? Imagine Roberto Alomar spitting on John Hirschbeck during the World Series, with a big nasty particle-filled loogey, and all his teammates joining in.
Yeah. That's sorta what France's World Cup was like. But at least it's over. And now we can think about… things that are worse than France. For instance:
The Pirates
Duh. You knew that was comin'.
Rob Blagojevich's Image
For all of you who live outside of Illinois, be glad you do; 'cuz this Blago crap is just now gettin' started for real. The lego hair, the smarmy and disingenuous smile, the creepy way he talks to every woman as if she were a dumb, money-chasin, cheap-trick-happy cocktail waitress… this dude is going to the joint. Eventually.
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The Royals
You knew that was comin' too.
Justin Bieber
It makes me sick that he was in my neighborhood. It makes me even more sick to know that he was at Sox Park. And it makes me Bush-Sr-Throwin-Up-On-Japanese-People sick to know he tossed the first pitch to Mark Buehrle!
And finally…
The Astros
You didn't think this could end with anything worse, did you? I'm pretty sure I heard the Astros' team on-base-percentage was the worse on-base-percentage in the history of time, including all dimensions — even those we are unaware of yet…
That's why they're called the LOLstros.
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For more fine grained information about the API the javadocs should be consulted.
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The code was originally intended for use only in a number of JHove2 modules, but since the classes could be of use outside JHove2 an independent project was created.
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Weaving plastic rugs and carpets was started in Dalarna, Sweden in 1948 and is now carried on by Pappelina who have moved the processes on to create eyecatching and bright designs on traditional looms. The plastic for Pappelina rugs is supplied by a Swedish company that is environmentally certified in accordance to ISO 14001. Soft and pliable, dust and dirt repellant, water and UV resistant they are extremely versatile and hardwearing so can be used for any room in the house and even outside! Turn them over and the colourway is reversed if you fancy a change. Their rugs are non slip due to the material used and therefore need no extra underlays to do the job.
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Sharif University of Technology - Weekly Cosmology Seminar ( Sunday- 23 October 2016 - 2 Aban 1395)
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Convective dynamo action in a spherical shell: symmetries and modulation
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We consider dynamo action driven by three-dimensional rotating anelastic convection in a spherical shell. Motivated by the behaviour of the solar dynamo, we examine the interaction of hydromagnetic modes with different symmetries and demonstrate how complicated interactions between convection, differential rotation and magnetic fields may lead to modulation of the basic cycle. For some parameters, Type 1 modulation occurs by the transfer of energy between modes of different symmetries with little change in the overall amplitude; for other parameters, the modulation is of Type 2, where the amplitude is significantly affected (leading to grand minima in activity) without significant changes in symmetry. Most importantly, we identify the presence of 'supermodulation' in the solutions, where the activity switches chaotically between Type 1 and Type 2 modulation; this is believed to be an important process in solar activity.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Feb. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced the call for nominations for Breakaway from Cancer® Champions. For the last five years, Amgen has recognized outstanding individuals making a difference for cancer patients and their loved ones in communities across California through the Breakaway from Cancer initiative. Breakaway from Cancer is designed to raise awareness of the important resources that are available to those affected by cancer – from prevention through survivorship. Many of these resources can be found on www.breakawayfromcancer.com, where a powerful search tool customizes answers specific to an individual's needs.
"Breakaway from Cancer is a collaboration between Amgen and four nonprofit organizations dedicated to providing patients with the support network they need to beat cancer," said Bob Azelby, vice president and general manager, Amgen Oncology. "Amgen's mission is to serve patients, and we are pleased to be able to use our sponsorship of the Amgen Tour of California to recognize those men and women who are actively working to help others."
From Feb. 5 through Feb. 25, nominations will be accepted online to recognize a cancer survivor, patient, caregiver or advocate for those impacted by cancer. Four individuals – one from each of the 2013 Amgen Tour of California communities of Escondido, Santa Clarita, Santa Barbara and Livermore – will ultimately be selected as the Breakaway from Cancer Champions.
"When I first heard that I was selected by my community to be a Breakaway from Cancer Champion, it reminded me of what John F. Kennedy said when asked how he became a war hero. 'They sank my boat.' I didn't willingly choose to be diagnosed with cancer, but rather looked within myself to handle my diagnosis with dignity and grace," said Marilyn Luma, 2010 Breakaway from Cancer Champion for Santa Cruz, CA. "Now, I aim to do something each year to help make a difference." Luma is a 16-year breast cancer survivor who has dedicated herself to "fighting the fight" and encouraging others affected by cancer.
Breakaway from Cancer Champions will be granted special access to the 2013 Amgen Tour of California, award a jersey to a professional cyclist, be recognized on stage and lead the Breakaway Mile through their community. Sponsored by Amgen, the Breakaway Mile takes place at the finish line of the Amgen Tour of California to honor the millions of cancer survivors worldwide.
Learn more about becoming a Breakaway from Cancer Champion at www.breakawayfromcancer.com/champions or via Facebook at www.facebook.com/BreakawayfromCancer. Healthcare professionals and employees of Amgen, AEG, Medalist Sports, Prevent Cancer Foundation, Cancer Support Community, Patient Advocate Foundation and National Coalition of Cancer Survivorship are not eligible.
The Breakaway from Cancer Champions will be selected via online public voting in April.
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Founded in 2005 by Amgen, Breakaway from Cancer is a national initiative to increase awareness of important resources available to people affected by cancer – from prevention through survivorship. Breakaway from Cancer is a collaboration between Amgen and four nonprofit partner organizations: Prevent Cancer Foundation, Cancer Support Community, Patient Advocate Foundation, and National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. These organizations offer a broad range of support services complementing those provided by a patient's team of healthcare professionals. For more information, please visit www.breakawayfromcancer.com or follow us @BreakawayCancer on Twitter and www.facebook.com/BreakawayfromCancer on Facebook.
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02 May 1990, DENVER, CO: Imagine earth without money. Begin with the occupations that would cease to be. The IRS workers would be the first to go; who needs taxes on a planet without paychecks? Running a close second would be the lawyers; no one would have money to give them, and they wouldn't work for free.
Who would miss the televangelists that peddle the good word? Robert Schuller would have to simplify his Crystal Cathedral "gospel of prosperity" down to "the Gospel." And how would Jim and Tammy Faye raise cash for Christ in a world where a "donation" is the giving of oneself? They wouldn't.
Then, there would be the product distributors from Amway, Herbalife and Kirby; the peddlers of water purification systems, encyclopedias and aluminum siding; the entrepreneurs of ways to keep our lives tidy. They would pass from this world without a eulogy.
Finally, on the slightly darker side of life, drug peddlers and prostitutes would also be left without soil from which to grow. What bounty would there be, after all, from the selling of bodies and dependencies without the fertilizer of money? Imagining earth without money is like imagining a garden without weeds.
There is something wrong with money and its cancerous effects on humanity: money forces into a secondary position all other thoughts than those of acquiring earnings, just as a life-threatening disease forces into a secondary position all other thoughts than those of survival. Only after the tumor of money has been wrenched free of its grip on humanity will this oppressive focus on survival be cast aside, like a broken cocoon.
The vocations that remain will be those that matter: the teachers, the medical workers, the farmers, the pilots, the researchers, the scientists, the religious, the writers, the artists, the architects, the builders, the clothing designers, the engineers and the chefs. Minds and hearts, without bonds, will be free to pursue the higher concerns of civilization.
What would motivate people to fill these vocations when money no longer exists as reward? Ask yourself what you would do with your life if you didn't have to earn money in order to purchase survival.
Would you build a sailboat and sail around the world with your companion while drinking 100-year-old bottles of Chateau d'Yquem white wine from the Bordeaux district of France; eating all the grilled, freshly-caught seafood that the world's seas have to offer; making wild, passionate love five or six times a day on the foredeck, under the flying jib sail?
Would you build a log cabin in a secluded mountain valley next to a gushing stream that glistens like light through a crystal and read the entire fifty-four volumes of the Brittanica Great Books from Homer to Freud? Or, would you commit yourself to eternal sluggishness as a couch potato by watching the entire series of videos of Star Trek, The Twilight Zone and The Lucy Show?
Suddenly being without the need to earn money would be similar to skipping grade school: the idea sounds great until you're at home for awhile, bored and wondering what to do next. There is a natural motivation in people to be useful. In fact, people are born uniquely useful. In most cases, this usefulness is stifled as people move towards concentrating on the practicality of earning a living. The impression that people would veer towards laziness when confronted with freedom is only because people today yearn for laziness as a drastic alternative to the imposed drudgery of their function in society. Function is a substitute for usefulness. In a world without money, people would be free to realize the full potential of their usefulness.
Why would a person purposely choose to be lazy (an act of rebellious escape) when their natural role in life has become unbound, recognized and appreciated? Instead of laziness, there would be play and festivity: the rejoicing of the body, mind and spirit in the celebration of being fully human and fully alive. What wonders of human creativity could be revived?
In a world without money, education would be different. Teachers would be teachers because they are truly gifted at teaching and their desire is to teach. They would be free to wholly concentrate on the activity of teaching, instead of teaching while also having to earn a living. Students would be in school according to their educational needs and not according to the level of their parents' income (or lack of income).
School would serve to guide in the discovery of a student's unique usefulness as well as to emphasize and strengthen the student's awareness of that usefulness. In the process of strengthening awareness, the student would come to an understanding of why certain jobs (with their underlying skills) will always be more effortless, and why other occupations will always require more effort (like swimming against the flow as opposed to swimming with the flow).
When students reach the end of high school, they would have both the ability for university level work (those who desire such) and a defined sense of direction from high school to a vocation (both virtually unknown today), based on the recognition and understanding of their natural, underlying skills. Students today are so concerned about "priorities" like job images, jobs that are in demand for the decade of the nineties and amounts of income, that they are blind to how their unique talents translate into useful vocations. In a world without money, education would be a process in which everyone gains and not a game in which some win and most lose.
Without the concept of money, work would settle into that which is necessary for the advancement of civilization. People would practice their vocations throughout the world. With the benefits of language study in school, carpenters would offer their skills in the building of housing throughout the world. Doctors and medical aides would also be in demand worldwide.
The concept of ownership would disappear with money; people would be free to live wherever their vocation would be needed at the time. Transportation would not be a concern since fares would be nonexistent. Think of the entire globe as an extended metropolitan area. As people now travel modestly among Northglenn, Boulder, Littleton, Aurora, Castle Rock and Colorado Springs, they could travel freely among Denver, Paris, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Prague, Beijing, New Delhi, Tokyo or Homer, Alaska.
Housing would exist for those workers living in each "suburb." Restaurants of all cuisines would serve meals cooked by those who love their occupations. In a world without money, people would simply love doing the things that they do the best. As a result, there would no longer be room for greed, crime, or empire building. Purpose in life would be to fulfill creative potential daily instead of to "fill full" savings accounts for retirement.
Play and festivity would be hard to distinguish from work in a world without money. In work that one truly loves, there is a sense of already being at play and of having to force oneself to break away for quiet time or simple frolicking. One thing play would not be is an escape from work. Instead, it would be a celebration of life; and that is exactly that imagining earth (without money) is all about.
by S. A. Bort / 6 August 2013 (2 May 1990)
Three Essays Advocating The Abolishing Of Money: II. "The Travail of Wage Labor"
Three Essays Advocating The Abolishing Of Money: I. "The Lower Depths of Capitalism"
1). http://photobucket.com/images/cornucopia/#/images/cornucopia/?page=1&_suid=137586034581408885752393535319 2). http://www.netspedizioni.com/f/86d43ca40a 3). http://brokenlightcollective.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/cocoon/ 4). http://www.wine-searcher.com/find/yquem/1990 5). http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/musicman.htm 6). http://www.paperbackswap.com/1990-What-Color-Richard-N-Bolles/book/0898153174/ 7). http://www.123rf.com/photo_15913053_illustration-of-a-jobs-and-professions.html 8). http://www.igourmet.com/shoppe/Maryland-Crabcakes—Classic—FREE-SHIPPING.asp?cat=&subcat=&cf=usp_ListSeafood_MultiCategory_Sel&cprod=&source=pepperjamppc&gclid=CMWmxJCm6rgCFctcMgodawoAzQ
I originally wrote this May 2, 1990. After twenty-three years, I thought I would tune it up a bit and publish it here on the blog, along with the two accompanying essays.
I sent these three essays to Burlington, Vermont's Brautigan Library, named for Richard Brautigan and initiated by his daughter, Ianthe. The essays were among the first (in 1990) accepted, bound and placed on the shelves under the "Mayonnaise System Catalog Number" of: "Social/Political/Cultural: SOC 1990.007." My accompanying certificate states: "LET NO MAN block the light of wisdom and inspiration found therein."
See: http://dtc-wsuv.org/brautiganlibrary/?s=Stephen+Bort , http://www.cchmuseum.org/research/the-brautigan-library/ , http://www.thebrautiganlibrary.org/Blank.html , http://www.brautigan.net/responses-library.html , http://brautigan.cybernetic-meadows.net/tiki-index.php?page=The+Brautigan+Library and https://www.facebook.com/BrautiganLibrary for current information on the library.
Shortly after I was added to the shelves, I was contacted by Lawrence Ingrassia of the Wall Street Journal, who was writing an article on the opening of the library. He had seen the above foreward to this essay and was curious about the concept of "abolishing money." He asked if I was a socialist. I answered no. He asked other questions, but in the end, his article of May 28, 1991 did not mention me. His article can be found here: http://brautigan.cybernetic-meadows.net/tiki-index.php?page=Ingrassia+1991+Fictional+Library+Becomes+a+Real+Place


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POTROAST Band Drum Circle and Hellina Bucket
May 27 @ 8:30 pm - 2:00 am
An event every week that begins at 8:30pm on Wednesday, repeating until December 17, 2020
Since 1996 POTROAST has been heating up Wednesdays the backyard with there own brand of rock n roll jams. Come join us for one of Houston's longest running musical traditions. Bring your hula hoops or borrow one of ours.
Midnight set break brings in our traditional drum circle.
Every Wednesday kicks off at 8:30 on the patio with Hellina Bucket offering their acoustic take on classic jams from Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead and others, as well as originals.
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Some of us have a windows phone, and while my first preference would be for an officially supported windows phone app with the full feature set, I doubt that is coming any time soon. As such, it would be nice if we could add pictures from our own files from the web site rather than having to deal with Instagram. I don't always upload Instagram photos in the time window allotted. Truth be told, the only reason I have an Instagram account is so I can have my ride pictures show up in strava. I would probably just close my Instagram account if you added manual file upload for ride pictures to the web site.


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Hickey posted about this traumatizing moment at the Grand Annual Steeplechase at Australia's Warrnambool carnival this morning, when a wild racehorse leaped over a fence and into a crowd of people, injuring an 80-year-old woman and a two-year-old boy and scaring the shit out of an unspecified number of people. Now there's video, here to kill any lingering childhood dreams of the "cute horsie" you might be holding onto.
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A snow plow waits for a vehicle to move out of its parking spot in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood on Monday Feb. 3, 2014 in New York.
The first of three storm systems expected to pound wide swaths of the country over the next week was leaving the Northeast on Monday night after dumping several inches of thick snow, snarling traffic, and shuttering schools.
Fat flakes turned the streets of Philadelphia and New York into a sea of slush, casting a pall over morning commutes just one day after the Seahawks trounced the Broncos amid unseasonably balmy East Coast weather in the 50s.
Hopeful passengers are settling in for extended delays, as flight disruptions are slated to cost $2.5 billion.
At least two deaths and one serious injury could be blamed the storm and its clean up: In western Kentucky, where the snow began to fall Sunday, a 24-year-old man died after his car skidded into a snowplow, officials told NBC affiliate WFIE. And in New York, a 73-year-old man was struck and killed by a snowplow that was backing up on a Brooklyn street, police told NBC New York.
Meanwhile, a 10-year-old girl remained in serious condition Monday evening after she was impaled in the back by a metal rod while sledding north of Baltimore, Md., the AP reported.
The storm was slowly moving out over the Atlantic Ocean Monday afternoon — leaving room for another wild system that forecasters expect will swing in from the Plains with ice, snow and freezing rain on Tuesday evening.
"Across the U.S. we're going to have a very snowy situation, with at least three winter storms over the next week — and these are high-impact storms" said Guy Walton, a forecaster with The Weather Channel. "There is a very active storm pattern across the country."
The National Weather Service reported roughly 8 inches of snow near Frostburg, Md., while areas of southern Ohio and West Virginia were slammed by about 10 inches of the white stuff. Snow totals in Philadelphia ran the gamut from 3 to 9 inches; New York City was hit by as much as 7 inches by the early afternoon.
The system forced government offices, courts and schools to close in parts of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Cars came grinding to a halt as speed limits were reduced on many major highways throughout the region.
In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency with travel conditions hazardous — unwelcome news for football fans trying to get out of the Garden State after the Super Bowl -- and nonessential government employees were sent home early.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was among the stranded travelers after her return flight to Phoenix was nixed Monday, a spokesman told The Associated Press. Brewer attended the Super Bowl as part of the ceremonial handoff of hosting duties. Next year's big game will go down in Glendale, Ariz.
Millions are in the path of yet another winter storm about to blow through the U.S.
By midday, the flight-tracking website FlightAware reported upwards of 4,3000 delayed flights and 1,900 canceled flights across the country in cities including Philadelphia, Newark, N.J., and New York. Inbound flights to those major travel hubs were pushed back one to three hours due to the snow and ice.
The second storm is expected to slam the Midwest and Ohio Valley on Tuesday, dumping up to 10 inches of snow in Kansas and between 3 and 6 inches in Chicago and Detroit. By early Wednesday, the northeast will be shivering again, as freezing rain, snow and sleet are expected to blanket the streets, rattling the morning commute.
"They'll have a break Tuesday and then the next storm will bear down on them Wednesday morning," Walton said.
Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan could also all get 6 or more inches of snow between Tuesday and Wednesday, The Weather Channel predicted, and Walton said the Mississippi Valley could also see some of the white stuff.
Starting Tuesday, ice could also accumulate and threaten power outages in western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, northwest Virginia, and eastern West Virginia.
A third winter storm could also have a high impact on the Rockies on Friday, with a wintry mix across the Tennessee Valley, Walton said.
"We don't know the orientation or the path of the storm," he added. "There will likely be high impacts from the Midwest into the Northeast and perhaps even the south Saturday and Sunday."
Millions in the U.S. have already suffered from an unforgiving winter, especially through the month of January. And last week, Southern states like Georgia and Alabama were caught flat-footed by just a few inches of snow — leaving motorists and school children unable to get home.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Downton America
A snowball effect is working to widen the gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else at an accelerating pace, turning the nation into Downton America, where an aristocratic elite enjoys privileges and power that undermine democracy.
This effect was visible in the Supreme Court decision released Wednesday that erased the cap on aggregated political contributions by individuals to the candidates of their choice. The majority of the Roberts court, which had ruled in the Citizens United case to allow unfettered giving by corporations and unions, has now decided that individuals, too, should not face restrictions in the amount of money the law permits them to give.
Thus, the snowball picks up speed. Billionaires eager to protect the many privileges secured for them in the law, and to receive additional tax cuts and other benefits, are now able to spend all the money they like to buy friendly congressmen and women. It is a self-reinforcing cycle. As their privileges expand, their power to protect and extend their privileges also expands.
That's why the erosion of campaign finance law has been one of the most damaging trends effected by the Roberts court. (The other is the erosion of voting rights, which has its own potential snowball effect.) Already Democrats are seeking to highlight the out-sized role of the Koch brothers and gambling tycoon Sheldon Adelson in bankrolling Republican candidates. And if control of the U.S. Senate falls to the Republicans this fall, the snowball of privilege will only pick up momentum.
Willful blindness has characterized the court's rulings, ignoring the real-world consequences on both campaign finance and voting rights. What are those consequences? In campaign finance, its rulings ignore the corruption of the democratic process and the power accruing to corporations and wealthy individuals who have the money to drown out competing voices. In its voting rights ruling in the Shelby County (Ala.) case, the majority ignored the racial bias that still prevails in many parts of the South.
The majority argues that limiting a person's right to make contributions limits his First Amendment right of free speech. The minority counters that spending money is not speech; it is commerce. Anyone can speak up on election issues or candidates, but commerce in political speech has in the past been regulated in order to maintain a fair marketplace.
It is becoming widely recognized that the United States is in the midst of a new Gilded Age. The comparisons are startling. The top 1 percent of income in the United States goes to a narrower percentage of the population than in Colombia. Oxfam has reported that the richest 85 people in the world now possess more wealth than the bottom half of the world's population.
Economists are advancing theories about why this is taking place. One important consideration is that corporate CEOs now take home exorbitant packages of pay and stock. In the 1950s the average CEO took home about 20 times the earnings of a typical worker in his company. Today, Fortune 500 companies give their CEOs more than 200 times as much. The CEO of Apple earns 6,258 times what a typical worker at his company earns.
That is how you build a Downton-style elite. Moreover, cutting taxes on the elite, as the Republicans hope to do, is a way of depriving the government of the funds needed to pay for the schools, income support, health care and other expenditures that help lift up the non-elite. And yet if the elite is free to buy the politicians of its choice, the divergence between rich and poor will only grow.
"Freedom of speech, in my view, does not mean the freedom to buy the United States government," Sen. Bernard Sanders said Wednesday. That appears not to be the view of the U.S. Supreme Court.