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Google-adjacent Chelsea gets Wi-Fi, Schumer and Bloomberg suggest something bigger
"This neighborhood can now claim to be the first in Manhattan with totally free outdoor Wi-Fi," announced Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning, standing in the concrete courtyard of the Fulton Senior Center on Ninth Avenue.
Thanks to 29 antennas mounted on lamposts and buildings throughout the neighborhood, free Wi-Fi is now available outdoors in the area bounded by Gansevoort and 19th Streets, Eighth Avenue and the West Side Highway.
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The only other New York City neighborhood to have similar Wi-Fi access is Dumbo, in Brooklyn.
The mayor has made bolstering the city's tech-friendliness one of his chief third-term goals, and he framed today's announcement as part of that larger effort.
The Chelsea Improvement Company, a neighborhood nonprofit, sponsored the $250,000-over-two-years effort with Google, which bought its $2 billion Ninth Avenue headquarters a couple of years ago and can now claim New York City as its second-biggest hub.
"It's not very expensive, so the mayor and I are talking maybe we can do this for the whole city," said Schumer, who had downloaded his talking points to his iPad using the new Wi-Fi.
"With federal money, we'd love to do it," said Bloomberg.
"Excellent," said Schumer. "It would be a smidgen of what Sandy is costing us."
Twenty parks around the five boroughs also have free Wi-Fi, as part of a partnership with AT&T. Another 32 parks are supposed to be wired by September.
Following the press conference, reporters tailed Schumer out of the courtyard.
One of them asked him if today's report that Bloomberg had asked him to run for mayor was true.
"Just read the newspaper," he said, before slipping away.


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Portland happens to be blessed with a couple of totally dynamite Record Shops. They are- Exiled and Mississippi. Both are boutique stores that only stock what they like. What's more, they're thriving as neighborhood hotspots in spite of this here interweb. They're so great! I love me some record shopping, but I must say that, as a busy dad, I have less time than ever to troll through mountains of third-rate record bins searching for those hidden gems. I'm just more inclined to go visit these good folks- each happen to have two of the best curated small (& oddball) selections, new or used, that I have ever come across. What's more, both shops put out some amazing records themselves, usually limited to editions of 1000. I basically just snatch up whatever they release, and I have only been even mildly disappointed once or twice. Its downright inspiring to see them succeed in doing what they love, especially in context of the amazon/iTunes behemoth. They are a credit to their neighborhoods, to Portland, and also to the virtues of the small indie record shop. In fact, that's mostly what they sell... RECORDS!!!
Here's what I like most about each:
Mississippi Records: An unbeatable selection. Vinyl only, and some tapes. They also have a fantastic selecton of vintage stereo equipment at nice reasonable prices. You couldn't throw a rock in there and not hit a record worth having. From Irma Thomas to Animals and Men, I eagerly collect nearly anything they release. I encourage everyone out there to do the same. FYI, many of their earlier albums fetch nice sums on ebay now that they're out of print. That's why I'm at peace providing you, the reader, with the following link:
Mississippi Records Download Thread. I'd suggest starting with Washington Phillips, Lipa Kodi Ya City Council, Orchestra Regional de Kayes, Oh Graveyard..., 70s Thai Orchestra, Malcolm X Memorial and Last Kind Words. Well, they're all pretty much super. The only ones I'm not wild about so far are Ntsamina and The Rats- though I do love Fred Cole, especially Dead Moon.

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Saving Seeds from Biennial Plants/
This month we asked two experienced staff members at Seed Savers Exchange to share their knowledge about saving seeds from biennials. Our Field Manager, Bryan Stuart, and one of our Field Technicians, Trevor Madsen, took the time to answer a few questions about biennial plants. Read on for their detailed responses or click through the slideshow for some quick biennial seed saving steps.Read More


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Summer is short in Finland and spring is even shorter. In southern Finland there is often snow on the ground at the beginning of April, with a few crocuses poking their heads through the bare patches. Of all the seasons, spring is definitely the most versatile depending which part of Finland you are visiting. In the North it is still possible to go skiing where as South is getting warmer and warmer.
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45 – 60 days
March – May
Getting ready for summer
Ice melting and birds singing – these are the sounds of Finnish spring.
Spring is time of rebirth and celebration. It is the time of Easter, and May the 1st – Vappu – a time of frenzied celebrations across the country. Be forewarned: this is not a day when Finns are their usual sober and hardworking selves.
COttage life
Spending those bright spring days in a cottage near water can be just as lovely as doing it in the summer-time. Coastal Finland has many cabins and cottages for rent throughout the year.
Sun & Snow
Depending where in Finland you are located, spring can offer totally different experiences. In the South you can already loose the thick winter clothes and buy fresh flowers from the market – while in the North it is still possible to ski and snowboard under the bright spring sun.
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Bird observation towers – found all around Finland – are perfect for spotting rare species and appreciating the beautiful landscape.
For design hunters
If you crave cool, the best place to start the perfect day in Helsinki is the Design District around Diana Park. Follow the black-and-white stickers and discover a hip neighbourhood of 200 trendy boutiques, galleries and eateries. It is a shopping heaven for design aficionados.
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Nature is never far in Finland. Visitors can get a feel of real countryside in Helsinki, too, by heading to Viikki nature trails or visiting friendly cows.Read More
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Your body is a magnificent instrument that is designed to move you toward a state of health on a moment by moment basis. Just think about it works to heal your body when you injure it in some way. At the cellular level, the body just knows what to do. In the same way, the body knows when it needs to be fed and responds positively to food that it determines is healthy for it. It actually works to dispose of food that is not good for its functioning. And many of us make it work overtime if we are putting food into that is toxic to the system in some way, such as eating too much sugar, fat, and salt.
If you have not been paying attention to your body's physical signals for a long time, it might sound a little overwhelming to think about trusting your body to tell you what it really needs. Not listening to your body can happen for a number of reasons—you're too busy, you've followed the advice of diets or diet gurus to tell you what to eat and when, and you listen to the thoughts in your head more than you listen to your body.
In the class that I teach, the idea of mindfulness-based, intuitive eating can be a little scary for people. The most common things I hear (and I hear them all of the time) are: If I eat intuitively, I'm afraid that I will get fat. How can I eat whatever I want and not gain weight? If I don't weigh myself regularly (something I ask people not to do), how will I know how much I weigh?
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Slow Food Maumee Valley is happy to share this announcement from Toledo GROWs:
Toledo GROWs to Bring Acclaimed Chef and Author to Toledo Botanical Garden (April 17th and April 19th) .
Internationally-acclaimed health and wellness pioneer Nancy Lee Bentley will appear at Toledo Botanical Garden, April 17th and-19th to introduce her newest book, Truly Cultured: Rejuvenating Taste, Health and Community with Naturally Fermented Foods.
Nancy Lee Bentley is a pioneering holistic health expert, professional chef, natural foods marketing and nutrition consultant, teacher, writer andspeaker. Her work has appeared in national/regional trade and consumer publications ranging from "Organic Gardening" to "Natural Foods Merchandiser". She co-authored the successful Dr. Mercola's TOTAL HEALTHProgram.
Nancy Lee has organized and developed organic/natural food products, co-ops, cooking classes, restaurants, healthy food service pilots, start-up businesses, national trade and organic certification associations. She has trained MasterCard® chefs; organized an allergy/specialty foods mail-orderbusiness, brokered organic and specialty grains, developed wheat-free recipes for Cher, baked a 3-tiered purple birthday cake for Prince, and catered for Aveda founder, Horst Rechelbacher.
Bentley workshops will show participants how to: "Eat our way back to good health, sense, and enjoyment!" using the ancient practice of natural fermentation and culturing.Truly Cultured is a delicious and nutritious feast of recipes, quips,quotes, quizzes, history, anecdotes, puns, myths, food science, facts and figures, secrets, insights, how-to tips, tidbits and unabashed, call-it-like-it-is power truths that help readers understand how important live, cultured, fermented foods are to our health and our communities. Ms. Bentley is well-known for connecting the burgeoning healthy and gourmet organic foods industry with the environmental movement and the spiritual revolution. She tirelessly promotes traditionally cultured foods and holistic lifestyles to support optimum nutrition and sustainable communities. For more on Nancy Lee Bentley and her book, Truly Cultured, please visit the website http://www.trulycultured.com/.
Thursday: April 17th - 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm
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Saturday April 19th 10am to 2pm
Seminar : What Does it Mean to be Truly Cultured ( includes food tasting ) .$40 advance fee / $50 walk in. Space is limited -reserve your space in advance.
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There are plenty of things I take for granted, but not being burglarized was never one of them. Whether I was in a good neighborhood or a crummy one, in a house or an apartment or a hotel room, every time I walked in and found my dresser drawers not emptied onto the floor I would offer a silent, nondenominational prayer of thanks. I honestly believed that my gratitude would keep me safe, so imagine my surprise in late November, 2011, when someone broke into a place I was renting with Hugh and my sister Gretchen and stole my computer bag.
I thought of my laptop—a year's worth of work, gone!—but my real concern was my passport, which had been tucked into an interior pocket alongside my checkbook. Its loss was colossal because it was my only form of I.D., and also because my Indefinite Leave to Remain sticker was in it.
This is the British equivalent of a green card, and getting it had not been easy. Before Indefinite Leave, I'd had visas, and those had taken some effort as well. The rules have changed since 2002, when I first applied. Back then, if you wanted permission to live in the U.K. it was possible to apply as a writer. All I had to do was fill out a great many forms and prove that I had published a book. Hugh, by extension, was granted a visa as the boyfriend of a writer. This meant that when crossing into Great Britain I would be asked by the border agents if I wrote mysteries, and Hugh would be asked if his boyfriend wrote mysteries. No other genre was ever considered.
We had to renew our visas every few years. This involved going to the dismal town of Croydon and spending a day in what was always the longest and most desperate line I had ever imagined. It was also the most diverse. I thought I was good at identifying languages, but it turns out I know next to nothing. Surely they're making that up, I'd think, listening in on the couple ahead of me. The woman, most often, would be dressed like the Grim Reaper. Her husband would wear a sweatshirt with a picture of a boat or a horse on it, and the two would be speaking something so unmelodious and dire-sounding that I could not imagine it having the words for "birthday cake." If Hugh and I were denied extensions of our visas, we would have returned to Paris or New York, while they'd have gone back to, what? Beheadings? Clitoridectomies? What they had at stake was life and death. What we had at stake was Yorkshire pudding.
The nuisance of visas and having them renewed was something I left to Hugh, who's a whiz at that sort of thing. There was nothing the authorities demanded that he couldn't locate: our original birth certificates, a hank of his grandmother's hair, the shoes I wore when I was twelve. People think it's easy to leave home and resettle in another country, but in fact it's exhausting, and purposefully so. The government hopes to weed out the lazy, though all it really eliminates are those who can't afford an immigration lawyer. Had we not been native English speakers, and had Hugh not loved the challenges, we'd have hired one, too. As it was, we renewed our visas the requisite number of times and then applied for Indefinite Leave. Aside from the mountain of paperwork, this involved reading a manual called "Life in the UK" and taking a subsequent test.
Hugh and I spent weeks in the summer of 2007 studying. During that time, I learned the difference between the House of Lords and the House of Commons. I learned that in 1857 women in the U.K. won the right to divorce their husbands. I learned that people below the age of sixteen cannot deliver milk in the U.K., but I don't think I learned why. It was just one of those weird English injustices, like summer.
Before taking the real test, I took the fake ones provided at the back of the study manual. "What is the traditional meat served for Christmas dinner?" was one of the questions. Another was "How might you stop young people playing tricks on you at Halloween?" It was multiple-choice, and possible answers included "call the police" and "hide from them."
I laughed, but these weren't jokes. If you were from Chad, you'd likely come unglued when children with panty hose over their heads showed up at your house demanding that you give them candy. As for the Christmas-meal question, do I know what they eat in Nigeria for Eid-el-Kabir or in Beijing for Qingming?
Another of the test questions asked why great numbers of Jewish people immigrated to the U.K. in the early part of the twentieth century. I don't recall all the possible answers, but B was "to escape the violence they faced at home" and C was "to invade and seize land."
Hugh and I took our tests along with a dozen other foreigners, and though we weren't given our grades, I'm pretty sure I had a perfect score. He missed a question about the cost of eye exams for people over sixty but otherwise got everything right. The Indefinite Leave stickers affixed in our passports were nothing much to look at—just our photographs surrounded by stamps and seals—yet we gazed at them for hours on end, the way you might at a picture of the baby you birthed upside down in a burning house after a difficult seven-year pregnancy. While juggling knives.
The next step is to get our British passports, though it's not necessary. As it is, Hugh and I can live and work in the U.K. for the rest of our lives.
I had my Indefinite Leave for four years before my passport was stolen. The theft took place on Oahu. Telling people this erases the sympathy I get for being burglarized, so I'm always inclined to leave it out. Then, too, there seems nothing specifically Hawaiian about it.
There are only two places to get robbed: TV and the real world. On television you get your stuff back. In the real world, if you're lucky, the policeman who responds to your call will wonder what kind of computer it was. Don't let this get your hopes up. Chances are he's asking only because he has a software question. The officer who responded to our call was prompt but not terribly reassuring. "Yeah"—she sighed, looking at the spot where my stolen property used to be—"we get a lot of burgs in this area."
That's how lazy she was—couldn't even squeeze out the extra two syllables. The pair who joined her ten minutes later were equally uninspired.
There was an oceanfront park a quarter of a mile up the road from our rental house, so after the police left I walked over with Gretchen, convinced that in one of the trash cans I would discover my computer bag. The laptop would be gone, I figured, but surely I would find my passport. It's crazy how certain I was. Gretchen and I looked in one trash can after another, and just as I started searching the bushes I realized how big the world is. You'd think I might have noticed this before, perhaps while on a twenty-three-hour flight from London to Sydney, but the size of a planet doesn't really strike you until you start looking for something. It could have been anywhere, my old passport, but in my mind's eye I saw it on a scratched-up, glass-topped coffee table, the surface of which was dusted with meth.
I suppose the people who steal from us could be decent and well intentioned. The things they take while we're out working—our watches and cameras, the wedding rings passed down by our great-grandmothers—are all going to feed a sick child or to buy a new hip for a bubbly and deserving old person. That, though, would make things too complicated. Much simpler to do as I did, and decide that these people are scum. Your stuff was sold off for a bag of dope, and while you lie awake, turning it over in your mind, your thief is getting high somewhere in front of a stolen TV. Remorse? His only regrets are that you weren't away from home longer and that you didn't have better things.
I have it on good authority that in the days before DNA testing a great many burglars used to shit on their victims' beds or carpets, this as an added insult before heading back out the window or whichever hole they'd crept in through. That they could defecate on command like that, and solely for spite, further illustrated their depravity in my book.
My computer was stolen at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday morning, and that night I had a reading in Honolulu. Several stars from the crime series "Hawaii Five-0" came backstage before the show and were infinitely more helpful than the real police officers I'd dealt with. "The first thing we need to do is set up a reward," the actor who played Detective Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly said. I'd never spoken to anyone so handsome, and said in response, obviously dazed, "You'll be my what?"
Hugh, Gretchen, and I stayed on Oahu for five more days, and afterward, with me using my police report as I.D., we flew to Los Angeles, where I secured a new passport. The picture in my stolen one wasn't half bad, but in the new one I look like a penis with an old person's face drawn on it. I could have had more photos taken, but it wouldn't have made any difference. This was the new me, post-theft—all my youthful optimism gone, filched by some drug addict in Hawaii. Every time I looked at my horrible new passport, I thought of him and wondered what he was up to. The person I pictured was in his mid- to late twenties, with a vibrant tattoo on his neck—something classy, such as a scorpion waving a joint. He was a paper doll I would accessorize with whatever I found irritating that day: He texted during movies. He ate at Chick-fil-A. He put glitter in his thank-you letters, and when you opened them the damn stuff got all over everything.
I often wondered if my thief had ever been caught. If he'd spent time in jail, who had bailed him out? His mother? His girlfriend? I figured he was straight, since a gay person, or even a bisexual, would have also taken my rubberized canvas tote, which was right next to my computer bag and which prompts compliments like you would not believe.
In early December, 2011, I flew back to London. Border agents in France don't care who comes into their country, but in England it's a different story. "What are you doing here?" they want to know. "What are you really doing here?" Indefinite Leave had put an end to these questions, but now I was back to square one, treated like a lowly visitor.
"How long will you be in the U.K.?" my Heathrow border agent asked. "Where are you staying?"
I explained my situation, and, after asking me to step to the side, the man carried my passport into an office and looked me up on the computer. It confirmed my Indefinite Leave, and I was free to go. No problem. Returning from South Korea a month later, I had the exact same experience. Then I took the train to Paris, and on my return I got a female border agent who really laid into me. "Why haven't you got a new Indefinite Leave sticker?"
I reminded her that the process takes a great deal of time. It involves surrendering your passport—a problem, as I'd been travelling nonstop for work.
She crossed her arms. "What do you do for a living?"
I told her I was a writer, and she said very sternly that I could write at home.
"Well, not about South Korea," I wanted to say, but it's pointless to argue with people like her, so I just stood there, shaking.
"I don't even have to let you in," she hissed. "Do you realize that?"
I cleared my throat. "Yes."
"What did you say?"
I felt the people behind me watching, and sensed them thinking, as I often do, What's with the troublemaker? "Yes."
"Yes, what?"
It seemed she wouldn't be happy until I was crying. "Yes, I realize you don't have to let me in."
I don't think I've ever felt more foolish than I did at that moment. Who was I to feel at home in another country, to believe that filling out forms and scoring high marks on a test guaranteed me the same sense of belonging I take for granted in the United States? Had a border agent there given me trouble, I might have got frustrated, but I doubt that my hands would have shaken, or that my voice, after climbing three more octaves, would have quivered and broken, leaving me to sound like Snow White with Parkinson's. "But . . .," I wanted to say, "but I thought you liked me."
"Walk this way." The woman lifted herself, muttering, from her chair, and as she left her booth I glanced at her belt, expecting to find scalps swinging from it. Grabbing my bag, I followed her to an office, where one of her colleagues looked me up on the computer. My passport was stamped, and, after ten minutes spent sitting on a bench and thinking about my thief, I was free to go. Hugh suggested that I'd simply got the wrong border agent, but the experience was so unsettling that I had him complete the paperwork for a new Indefinite Leave sticker. The forms were sent, along with my passport and a sizable check, to the British Home Office, and after a week I received a letter saying that they'd got my envelope and should hopefully get back to me within six months.
I said to Hugh, "Six months?"
"That's at the latest," he told me. "For all you know, it could come next week."
I sent off my passport at the beginning of June, and when, by mid-July, it had still not been returned, I had to cancel a trip to Italy. When it did not come by the end of July, I had to forfeit a nonrefundable Eurostar ticket to France. Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling. When I explained it to people face to face, I would see their eyes glazing over, and, when I explained it over the phone, I could feel them turning on their computers and checking their retirement accounts.
Without my passport, I was stuck in the country I had immigrated to. And all because of some drug addict in Hawaii. While he got high on the beach, I was in England, enduring one of the wettest, coldest summers on record. Growing up in North Carolina, I got my fill of hot, sticky weather. Ninety-degree heat does nothing for me. A little warmth wouldn't have hurt, though, a couple of days when I didn't have to wear both a sweater and a long undershirt, these beneath a hideous plastic poncho. I honestly hadn't known it was possible for that much rain to fall. It was so bad in West Sussex that baby birds were drowning in their nests. Even frogs were dying. Frogs! Our Italy trip was a work assignment with a few days of vacation tacked on. But, instead of driving through the Piedmont with Hugh and our friend Eduardo, I walked the roads surrounding our house, wearing knee-high rubber boots and watching as bloated slugs floated by.
Everyone but me seemed to be going places.
Once a week, in an attempt to break the monotony, Hugh and I would grab our jumbo golf umbrellas and slog down the road to the pub, where we'd catch up on the local news. One of our few neighbors who had not yet flown to Spain was burglarized while she was upstairs asleep. The thief stole her purse and, after discovering that her car keys were in it, he took her Volvo as well. In response, the local police suggested that, as a precautionary measure, we all start sleeping with our keys.
Had they responded this way in France or America, it wouldn't have surprised me, but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how complex, solved in a timely fashion by either a professional or a hobbyist? That's the impression you get from British books and TV shows. Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hetty Wainthropp, Inspector George Gently: they come from every class and corner of the country. There's even Edith Pargeter's Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine monk who solved crimes in twelfth-century Shrewsbury. No surveillance cameras, no fingerprints, not even a telephone, and still he cracked every case that came his way. But now, almost nine hundred years later, the solution is to sleep with our keys? "How's that for progress?" I said to Hugh as we waded home. "I mean, why not just tell us to sleep in our cars?"
In mid-October, I was scheduled to fly to the U.S. for work. Cancelling was out of the question, so in early September I called the Home Office and demanded that they send my passport back. This meant voiding my application and losing the five hundred dollars that accompanied it, but what choice did I have? The person I spoke to on the phone explained that the return process could take up to twenty business days. She also said that if I left for the States there was no guarantee the British government would let me back into the U.K.
I hung up thinking there were worse things than being deported from England. What's with a country that takes six months to replace a sticker in somebody's passport, this when it's all right there on the computer? Then I thought of other things I don't like about the place: the littering, the public drunkenness, the way they say "Jan" instead of January. There are problems everywhere, of course. It's just that without my passport I couldn't adequately appreciate them.
A few days after I arrived in the U.S., someone on Oahu came upon a computer bag with a checkbook and a passport in it. He or she took them to the nearest post office, along with a note reading "Aloha. These were found abandoned. Very important documents. I hope they can find their way back to the owner." There was no name at the bottom, just the word "Thanks."
The postal supervisor used my checkbook to track down my banker, and three days later I had my old passport back. After opening it up and kissing my Indefinite Leave to Remain sticker, I called the Hawaiian postal supervisor, who told me that my things had been found in the vicinity of the house I'd rented, not far from the area I'd scoured with Gretchen. That was all he could tell me. Neither the passport nor the checkbook smelled of mildew, so maybe they had only recently been tossed out. By whom? I no longer care. Instead of thinking about my burglar, I'm turning my imagination toward the unidentified person who so thoughtfully ended my nightmare with the British Home Office. I think of good instead of evil. I believe in luck again. It would have been nice to get my computer back, but I can live with its loss. My only regret is that my case was so anticlimactic. What began as a mystery ended as an even bigger one. Who are you, Good Samaritan? I wonder. What are you doing right this minute? Donating bone marrow? Reading to the blind? Teaching crippled children to dance?
On returning to England in early December, I handed two passports to my Heathrow border agent. He looked at the old one containing my Indefinite Leave sticker, and then at the new one, which he stamped and handed back. He may have said "Welcome home," or it might have been, simply, "Next." In the way of people who have better things on their minds, I didn't quite bother to listen. ♦


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From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
This new set of photoshop actions works much like the ones we've used previously, with three buttons. The button for the final step is the only one that has changed. Instead of being called 'crop save close,' it is called 'Auto_Border' because it adds a border to the object automatically -- so you don't have to eyeball it!
Procedure for new actions:
- Rotate 90 degrees as usual (if necessary)
- Align Edges as usual
- Auto_Border
- For relatively square objects, use the familiar Rectangular Marquee Tool, but draw the box to the edge of the object, without leaving any border
- For objects that aren't square, use the Lasso Tool: right click on the Lasso Tool icon and select Polygonal Lasso Tool, then use it to click on each corner of the object (eventually making it back to the corner you started from).
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The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today announced that it will close the State-owned Manville Hill Road Bridge on the Cumberland/Lincoln line effective this afternoon. The 58-year-old bridge carries Manville Hill Road over the Blackstone River, the Blackstone River Bikeway and the Providence & Worcester Railroad.
"Based upon a recent inspection, RIDOT is closing the Manville Road Bridge today," said RIDOT Director Michael P. Lewis. "We regret any inconvenience this closure may cause the two host communities. However, safety is our first priority."
During a bridge inspection this week, engineers noted steel and bridge beam deterioration significant enough to require the Department to close the bridge. The 233-foot long bridge carries 4,300 vehicles per day.
Rehabilitation of the Manville Hill Road Bridge is under design. RIDOT is investigating options to make immediate repairs to minimize the duration of the closure. Additional repair work will be addressed through an upcoming construction contract scheduled to begin in Summer 2013.
A detour route will be established using Route 99 to cross the Blackstone River. Motorists on the Lincoln side of the bridge should follow a detour using Manville Hill Road, Route 126 (Old River Road) and Sayles Hill Road to reach Route 99. Motorists on the Cumberland side should follow Manville Hill Road to Route 122 (Mendon Road) to Route 99. A detour map will be posted on the Department's website at www.dot.ri.gov/travelri/detourmaps.asp.
Motorists with questions can contact RIDOT's Customer Service office at 401-222-2450 weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Additional information can be found on RIDOT's social media sites Twitter and Facebook.
Contact: Heidi Gudmundson (401) 222-1362, Ext. 4009


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San Jose Stage Company Hosts 1st Annual Bay Area High School Musical Theatre Showcase Today
San Jose Stage Company has announced the first annual Bay Area High School Musical Theatre Showcase. In conjunction with The Fourth Annual Stage Top Honor Awards, participating schools are invited to have their students audition in the Bay Area High School Musical Theatre Showcase. This will be the first annual showcase that will present and celebrate some of the best high school musical theatre performers in the Bay Area.
The showcase will consist of 20-25 students from across the Bay Area, singing some of the best songs that Broadway has to offer. Not only will the students be showcasing their talents to each other, friends and family, but also to industry professionals, professors and casting directors, who will be invited to join the theatre at its showcase event today, January 26th, 2013 at 7:30pm at San Jose Stage Company, 490 South First Street, San Jose, Calif.
"One of the most successful aspects of The Stage Top Honor Awards is the exciting Red Carpet Awards Event in June each year, held at the California Theatre. Over 1,100 public and private high school students from all over the Bay Area have the opportunity to perform for each other and it's a night that's filled with energy and excitement," said Spencer Williams, The Stage's Education Director. "This showcase performance will allow us to capture some of that same spirit by featuring the most talented young performers in our region in a more intimate, personalized setting. In addition, the students will receive input from industry professionals on their auditioned material so that the culminating performance will be a spectacular show highlighting the amazing high school talent we have in the Bay Area."
In order to be eligible for an audition, the student's school must be participating in the 2013 Stage Top Honor Awards.
Audition Information:
Students whose schools are participating in the 2013 Stage Top Honor Awards are invited to make an appointment for an audition time on:
Sunday, December 9th, 2012 - 5:00pm to 9:00pm
Sunday, December 16th, 2012 - 5:00pm to 9:00pm (possible callbacks)
Email the director, Mr. Spencer Williams, at email@example.com or email@example.com to schedule an appointment.
Students are invited to bring two contrasting musical theatre pieces - 32 bars or two minutes each song for the audition. An accompanist will be provided. Students will have a total of five minutes for the audition. Please bring two copies of your headshot and resume. Please note your audition song will be the one you will perform in the January showcase (choose accordingly). If you would like to sing a duet or trio, you may audition with other students.
Students must be available for all rehearsals and the performance, as the schedule is restricted and limited.
Rehearsal Schedule (at San Jose Stage Company):
Monday, January 14th, 2013 - 6 to 10pm
Monday, January 21st, 2013 - 6 to 10pm
Saturday, January 26th, 2013 - 1 to 5:30pm
Performance Schedule (at San Jose Stage Company):
Saturday, January 26th, 2013 - Call: 6:30pm
Saturday, January 26th, 2013 - Performance: 7:30pm
Tickets will be available in January on San Jose Stage Company's website at www.thestage.org.
Private and public high school musical theatre programs in the Bay Area are invited to participate in The Stage Top Honor Awards, modeled after Broadway's Tony Awards, with a culminating Gala Ceremony with awards and performances by the nominated high schools. The program is in partnership with Broadway San Jose and has been supported by Michelson Family Foundation, Heritage Bank of Commerce, Symphony Silicon Valley and CreaTV.
The Best Leading Actor and Best Leading Actress receive an all-expense paid trip to New York to compete in The National High School Musical Theater Awards, also know as the Jimmy Awards. Students from 30 awards programs from around the nation participate in rehearsals, master classes, private coaching and interviews with theater professionals, leading up to the live awards show where the Jimmy Award for Best Performance by an Actor and Best Performance by an Actress are presented. The week-long program was featured in Broadway or Bust, a three-part PBS documentary, which aired in September.
Recognition of outstanding achievement by students, designers, directors and educators will be made in the areas of performance, design, direction, choreography, technical production and overall production excellence.The adjudicators (comprised of theatre professionals, performing artists, designers, and theatre arts educators) will fan out across the Bay Area between the beginning of November to April to evaluate the participating high school's musical theatre production. The adjudicators will then make nomination recommendations in various performance and production categories. The Gala Ceremony will showcase and recognize the nominated students and take place in June 3, 2013.
For more information, see www.thestage.org/edu_awards.php.
Now in its 30th season, San Jose Stage Company is recognized as The Bay Area's Premiere Off-Broadway Theatre. The Stage is known for its devotion to new and cutting-edge work and for its commitment to showcasing high-quality local talent.
Ranked 3rd largest theatre and 9th largest performance arts organization in Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal (May 2012), San Jose Stage Company is a vital force in the community. The Stage has earned a reputation for artistic excellence by providing high-quality, edgy theatrical experiences that engage, educate and provoke audiences. The Stage has produced 143 productions, 44 new works and 11 world premieres.
The Stage also offers five core educational and outreach programs, including National High School Top Honors Awards, and has housed over 200 independent performance groups in its theatre. The Stage is located at 490 South First Street, San Jose, Calif.


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To quote Bill Cosby: "Thebere ibis uh fiber in mah mabouth!"
At least, I *think* that's what's happening here.
More specifically: a squirrel with his ears on fire.
But then, I always get off to a Rocky start on Mondays.
Thanks to Jeff G., whose bottom lip is on the floor. I'll take that as a compliment.


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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - An Illinois man and two of his sons died from exposure to freezing temperatures during a weekend hike in the Ozark Mountains in southeast Missouri, authorities said on Monday.
Rescue crews found David Decareaux, 36, and sons Dominic, 10, and Grant, 8, on a rocky bluff Sunday morning, Reynolds County Sheriff Tom Volner said.
The father was pronounced dead at the scene and the boys later died at a hospital, Volner said.
Decareaux, his wife and five children of Millstadt, Illinois, were staying at an Ozarks lodge, Volner said. They were experienced hikers, he said.
"It's just a tragic loss," Volner said. "It's really hard when you lose half of a family like that,"
The cause of death was hypothermia, said Jeff McSpadden, Reynolds County Coroner. When the three hikers left Saturday morning, the temperature was in the 50s and they were dressed in light outerwear, he said. Rain moved into the area and temperatures plunged to the mid-20s overnight.
"I guess they didn't think about the weather coming in and were not dressed for the cold," McSpadden said.
A motorist saw Decareaux and the boys in the rain early on Saturday afternoon and asked if they wanted a ride but the father declined, Volner said. The trio was reported missing about nightfall, he said.
A search by about 50 law enforcement officers, firefighters and others on foot, horseback and in vehicles failed to locate the lost hikers. The search was scaled back after midnight because of rapidly rising creeks and flash flooding, Volner said.
The trio was found on Sunday morning on a bluff on the trail, Volner said. They had missed a turn that would have returned them to the lodge, he said. CPR was performed on the boys and they were transferred to a hospital, but died, he said.
A four-month-old Labrador dog, who was on the hike, survived, Volner said.
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book review: to the heart of the mystery of redemption
A new Hans Urs von Balthsar book is out that includes a few selections from Adrienne von Speyr (emphasis on a few).
To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption (THMR), which you can find here, is actually a book of four authors in one. The shortest contribution comes from von Speyr.
To see von Speyr in print is always good (let us remember the Speyrian phrase "always more"). This book is actually a sketch of von Balthasar's soteriology with a long essay from Jacques Servais, S.J., a scholar of von Balthasar and von Speyr as well as the director of the Casa Balthasar.
Henri de Lubac, teacher and friend to von Balthasar compiled the original collection, which were two conferences von Balthasar gave to priests in Paris. After these conferences there are seven one-page selections from von Speyr, mostly from Objectiv Mystik and Passion nach Matthaeus. It is fascinating that de Lubac would have included von Speyr in this collection. In the introduction, he says that "there is no better initiation into this mystery than the experience received from the mystics, who are no more lacking to the present generation than to earlier ones" and this why von Speyr's selections were added because "They will introduce the reader into that participation in the mystery of the redemption" (p. 12). I have always wondered about de Lubac's understanding of von Speyr. Now we know more.
Fr. Servais was responsible for releasing the book again in French and included with it his essay on Balthasar's soteriology from 2005. The book has now come to us in English by the translating work of Anne Englund Nash. This book has actually been touched by many hands.
Immer mehr (always more) Adrienne is good. Yet, this book gives us very, very little. True, these are words not yet read by English-only readers of von Speyr. But, after the bold release of Book of All Saints (Nachlassbaende vol. 1), this is disappointing to von Speyr readers.
Let me be clear. The book is not a disappointment. Von Balthasar is at his most highly associative in these conferences. You see his mind at work as he leads you through multiple sources in order to provide you with an elevated ground to consider the whole landscape of soteriology in the modern age. Even though you will need some background in von Balthasar to work through his thoughts here, he is always worth reading.
Still … (how to say this gently) … the English-speaking world needs more substantive von Speyr than this book. What about offering these: Subjective Mystik, Objective Mystik, Markus, and the very important Apokalypse (her commentary on the Book of Revelation)? When the English theological world reads these, Speyrian theology will really blossom.
Yes, read THMR if you are interested in de Lubac, von Balthasar, or Servais. You should know, it is not required reading for those interested in von Speyr. Instead, pick up John, Confession, Handmaid of the Lord, or Book of All Saints. Better yet, read her auf Deutsch. Sie werden nicht enttäuscht sein.
Here is a brief exerpt from von Speyr's commentary on Matthew 5:39 in Bergpredigt:
"On the Cross the Lord does not show merely that he allows his grace to flow visibly over all … but he also shows that he can make use of all they have accomplished for him. And thus that he does not suffer his Passion simply for sins, but that he is in a mysterious compassion with all believers. … He assumes all the trials of their faith, of their suffering, and of their availability and opens wide to them the grace that flows from the Cross" (THMR, p. 78).
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Here is our vacation in a nutshell.
There was...
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and good times with Grammie,
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You can kick off your week riding an elephant, enjoying acrobatic performances and hanging out with some clowns.
You can kick off your week riding an elephant, enjoying acrobatic performances and hanging out with some clowns.
That's all part of the Cole Bros. Circus that will be in Houma Monday and Tuesday with daredevils, pink French poodles, tigers and more.
Tom E Boy, the show's head clown, came to town a week ahead of the event to spread the word and drum up an audience.
At a performance at ABC Nursery Monday morning, Tom E Boy wowed a group of preschoolers with disappearing acts and other magic tricks, using the kids as part of hisroutine.
The children could hardly stay seated as they rushed to take turns saying the magic words and waving their hands over enchanted top hats.
"This is one of the last shows left that's truly for family. There's nothing there risqu� or anything. If I can't take my grandchildren to it, I wouldn't be associated with it," Tom E Boy said of the youth-driven performances.
"So this is a true family event, and if you've heard about the old circuses, this is as close as you'll ever come," the clown said. "Everything is family oriented, family run, and most of the performers are families. We're just built all around being a good ole' family, wholesome institution."
Around Christmas, Tom E. Boy also dresses as Santa Claus.
The Florida-based Circus of the Stars is celebrating its 128th year, performing for the first time in Houma in more than 30 years.
"We are looking forward to our appearance here," spokesman Michael Norris said.
Romania's Cretu family will perform springboard gymnastics and a Russian Barre routine, which combines the use of a balance beam, the rebound of a trampoline and the gymnast-like handstands of uneven and parallel bars.
Suspended from their locks, "hair-ial artists" Wendy and Petya will perform their unique acrobatic and aerial routines with a twist.
The circus will also feature magic acts with quick changes and other illusion tricks.
Daredevil performances include The Human Cannonball who bursts from a barrel of what circus reps say is the world's largest cannon.
There will be seats to hold up to 2,000 under the big top.
"The worst seat is 14 rows up, so that way everybody has a good seat," Tom E Boy said. "There is no such thing as a bad seat."
The first show each day is at 4:30 p.m., followed by the 7:30 p.m. performance at the Houma Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd.
If you or your kids have ever wanted to ride an elephant or a pony, now you'll have the chance.
Free rides will be offered an hour before each show, and there will be face painting.
Tickets cost $21 for adults, $16 for teenagers.
Children under 13 can see the show for free.
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text: Two women who lead very different lives – one with a wealthy family and the other with a poor one – learn of their entwined fate and switch their lives and families. Jang Bo Ri (Oh Yeon Seo) was adopted by a family with little money when she was a baby, but she learns in adulthood that she is the missing daughter of a wealthy family. Yeon Min Jung (Lee Yoo Ri), who grew up in that family as a surrogate daughter, must return to her place with Bo Ri's adopted family. The two women struggle within their new surroundings and also get entangled in the hearts of two stepbrothers, Joo Chan Woo (Kim Ji Hoon) and Joo Sang Woo (Oh Chang Suk). Can they find happiness in their new identities? "Jang Bo Ri Is Here," also known as "Come! Jang Bo Ri," is a 2014 South Korean drama series directed by Baek Ho Min.


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Remember Brink? I initially looked forward to that game because it promised me a parkour competitive shooter, and that idea seemed awesome.
Alas, that wasn't what the game gave me. Not a good one, anyway. This Mirror's Edge inspired server mod for TF2, though? Looks like it might just pull it off.
The developer, explaining how the mod works:
While in Parkour Fortress, speed, timing, and precision are used to the player's advantage (or in some cases, disadvantage) to pull off stunts and tricks while keeping momentum, and either reach the end of the course or to bring all of the flags to one location, thus winning the round.
It's perfect because, any time I play as the scout, I'm mostly doing it for the thrill. His pace and speed are really something else. And this mod looks like it takes advantage of that.


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508 Combined Wins
Two veteran lefthanders, Jamie Moyer (Phillies) and Tom Glavine (Mets), are facing each other in the Shea Stadium series finale Thursday night.
Moyer, 44, has been pitching in the majors since 1986, while the much younger Glavine (41) has been a big leaguer since 1987. Combined, that's 85 years of big league experience.
Size and age aren't as big a factor in baseball as in other professional sports. Because of salaries, nutrition and better conditioning, baseball players today are able to play longer and longer.
It is a real testimony to athletes, both physically and mentally, to play into their 40s. The mental portion might be the most difficult part.
Including the 2007 season, there's a pretty impressive pitching staff 40 and over:
Greg Maddox
Curt Schilling
John Smoltz
David Wells
Tim Wakefield
Woody Williams
Roberto Hernandez
Jose Mesa
Mike Timlin
Rheal Cormier
Tom Gordon
Trevor Hoffman
Mike Stanton
Disabled list:
Randy Johnson
Kenny Rogers
Undetermined list:
Roger Clemens
I'm not a big fan of pitch counts but in the case of Moyer and Glavine, it is worth mentioning. According to a Stats Inc., formula, Moyer has thrown the most pitches of any current pitcher, 74,355; Glavine is second, 69,093.
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Coming from a provincial family, Domenico arrives in Milan in search of a job. After undergoing a series of absurd physical and psychological tests, he is given the position of a lowly clerk in a corporate firm. Also applying for a job is Antonietta, who becomes the object of shy Domenico's infatuation. However he finds little time to pursue any possible future with her, the pressures and working hours completely take over his private life. Domenico, a newcomer in Milan, becomes lonely as a result of these changes and is filled with anxiety over his future.
Il Posto was Ermanno Olmi's first major work and its achievement was immediately heralded by a prize at the Venice Film Festival. Partially autobiographical, the film draws influences from neo-realism as well from Olmi's background making industrial short documentaries. A miniaturist devoted to the small and seemingly innocuous moments of life, Olmi's intimate vision would subsequently influence the work of Abbas Kiarostami.
"Olmi's late neo-realist classic...Majestic predecessor of modern-day drone dramas like Office Space" - Village Voice
Cast & Credits: Loredana Detto / Sandro Panseri / Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Awards: British Film Institute Awards (1961), Won, Sutherland Trophy, Ermanno Olmi / David di Donatello Awards (1962), Won, David, Best Director / New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1963), 2nd place, Best Foreign Language Film / Venice Film Festival (1961), Won, Award of the City of Imola, Ermanno Olmi / Venice Film Festival (1961), Won, OCIC Award, Ermanno Olmi / Venice Film Festival (1961), Won, Pasinetti Award, Ermanno Olmi
Technical: 1961 / 93 minutes / Italian with English subtitles / Mono audio / 1.33 : 1 Black & White / DVD PAL Multi Region
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By Isabella Tianzi Cai
U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke's recent arrival in Beijing generated intense discussions among Chinese nationals about how Chinese civil servants compare unfavorably to their American counterparts. As reported in a September 20th article in The Wall Street Journal's blog "China Real Time Report," the central government and its affiliated media bodies such as the Guangming Daily and the Xinhua News Agency tried to cast aspersions over the political motives behind the U.S. government's choice of a Chinese-American ambassador. But Chinese online netizens focused on something entirely different. After seeing photos of Locke buying his own coffee and carrying his own bags, and learning that he flew coach to China, Chinese web commentators assailed their civil servants for squandering taxpayers' money on ridiculously extravagant meals, cars, and the like, and for shirking physical work and other chores that they consider to be below their dignity.
Zhou Hao's 2011 documentary The Transition Period, which will be playing next Monday in Chicago's Doc Films series on Chinese independent cinema, looks at the working life of one typical Chinese civil servant by the name of Guo Yongchang before his transfer to a new post within the Chinese government. Shot over the last three months of Guo working as the party secretary of the Committee of the Communist Party of Gushi County in Xinyang Municipality of Henan Province, this documentary presents different facets of Guo's work as a medium- to low-level Chinese civil servant in a leading position. This article aims at laying out some groundwork in China's political system and its political environment for first-time viewers of the documentary, as sometimes the stories in the documentary are more complicated than their presentations. (Spoilers may follow.)


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Department of Revenue News Release
January 23, 2014Grandview License Office contract awarded
JEFFERSON CITY - The Office of Administration, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Revenue, has awarded the management contract for the Grandview License Office to the City of Grandview. All license office contracts in Missouri are awarded through a competitive bid process.
The City of Grandview has been the contractor of the Grandview License Office since 1984. The Grandview office will remain at its current location at 1200 Main St.
In fiscal year 2013, more than 100,000 transactions were conducted at the Grandview office, generating approximately $354,000 in agent processing fees.
All local license offices are overseen by the Missouri Department of Revenue, but each is operated by an independent agent.
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Confident Image-Based Authentication API - SDKs
Confident Technologies provides image based authentication solutions for mobile devices, applications and web sites. This API gives developers the means to create image-based authentication services. It generates a single use password by asking users to identify which pictures fit into their previously chosen, secret authentication categories. Developers can customize and integrate their approach using the API. Client libraries are available for Classic ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Java and Python. The API uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in XML and Text.


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A new crowd-sourced craft beer venture hopes to tap into downtown's growing entrepreneurial district.
A new crowd-sourced craft beer venture hopes to tap into downtown's growing entrepreneurial district.
Anderson-based Growler Haus has signed a lease on the former C. Edward Cigars space at 113 North Church Street near Morgan Square, where it will establish its second location it expects will be open by mid-summer.
The business, which was started by Anderson entrepreneur Craig Kinley in June 2012, was one of seven companies expected to be announced as a finalist in the city's Main Street Challenge. Kinley said he decided to withdraw from the competition in order to jump on the space.
"We are so excited about this," said Kinley, who spent 20 years in the telecommunications industry, but left in 2008 to pursue small business ideas. "Spartanburg has been on our radar for some time now and we are really looking forward to being in the city."
C. Edward Cigars's space has sat vacant since the shop shuttered last fall after five years, citing a drop off in business.
Kinley said his goal is to start a "tribe," or a community of craft beer enthusiasts in Spartanburg.
His second-in-command Lauren Harris, who Kinley refers to as his "craft beer liberator" and "beer evangelist," has been spreading the good news in the county since January, when the company started doing its due diligence.
Basically, customers will be able to choose from several different options to join the tribe, including pints to drink on-site and 64-ounce growlers, large glass beer jugs, to take home.
Patrons who buy an entry-level growler for $5 can have it refilled while they enjoy a complimentary pint with fresh beer from one of 12 varieties that are on tap, but consistently rotated. Beer prices vary.
The business will essentially operate as a retail shop and a bar, but membership has its benefits, the owner said. A menu of lighter food dishes will also be available. The business will employ about 5 people.
Kinley said that the interior of the business will be similar to his Anderson store—rustic and unpretentious. It will include comfortable furniture, a private tasting room, an area upstairs for live music, patio access and other amenities.
The owner envisions Growler Haus hosting beer dinners and tastings, partnering with local brewing clubs, having community brewing contests, craft beer parties, and other fun stuff like an ugly sweater Christmas party.
Kinley said his business is typically popular with the 25 to 45 age range, but all people of legal drinking age will be welcome.
"It's not home and it's not work… It's somewhere in between," Kinley said. "You can have a fresh glass of beer with your associate or take it with you and enjoy it at home."
Kinley said he became a "beer snob" while spending time in Chicago in the early 1990s. He said a growler is the best way to drink fresh beer.
"I just couldn't drink yellow beer anymore," he said. "When I came home I wanted to do something to share my passion for great beer with the people of the Upstate."
For more information, visit: www.growlerhaus.com, or www.rockethub.com/projects/18784-growler-haus-spartanburg-sc


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Dr. Joan Carletta
Title: Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
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Joan Carletta joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Akron in 1999, where she now holds the rank of Professor. Her research is in the area of embedded systems design, with an emphasis on the implementation of digital signal processing algorithms on embedded platforms using fixed-point mathematics. She is also active in research involving the design of analog electronics, particularly for applications involving the instrumentation of sensors.
Dr. Carletta earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1996, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1988. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2009, she was on the team that won the Moody Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Fluids Engineering Division (with Dr. J. Zhe, and students S. Murali, X. Xiu, and A. Jagtiani).
Dr. Carletta has an active research program, and has funding from a variety of sources, including the National Science Foundation and industry. Her most recent embedded systems work involves the embedded real-time implementation of tone-mapping algorithms for high dynamic range images, and of digital image correlation techniques for monitoring the health of civil engineering structures. She is an active participant in ongoing research work associated with the Wright Center for Sensor Systems Engineering, and has contributed to work on wear debris sensors for monitoring the health of rotating machinery, and the design of analog electronics for use in high temperature environments.
C.X. Jiang, J.E. Carletta, T.T. Hartley, and R.V. Veillette, "A Systematic Approach for Implementing Fractional-Order Operators and Systems," IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, (print version in press), DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2013.2272836, 2013.
J. Liu, F. Hassan, and J.E. Carletta, "A Study of Hardware-Friendly Methods for Gradient Domain Tone Mapping of High Dynamic Range Images," Springer Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, (print version in press), DOI: 10.1007/s11554-013-0365-y, 2013.
S. Shang, G. Yun, S. Kunchum, and J. Carletta, "Identification of Isotropic and Orthotropic Constitutive Parameters by FEA-Free Energy-Based Inverse Characterization Method," Structural Engineering and Mechanics, vol. 45, no. 4, April 2013, pp. 471-494.
G. Yun, S.G. Lee, J. Carletta, and T. Nagayama, "Decentralized Damage Identification using Wavelet Signal Analysis Embedded on Wireless Smart Sensors," Engineering Structures, vol. 33, no. 7, July 2011, pp. 2162-72.
A. Jagtiani, J. Carletta, and J. Zhe, "A Microfluidic Multichannel Resistive Pulse Sensor using Frequency Division Multiplexing for High Throughput Counting of Micro Particles," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 21, no. 6, DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/21/6/065004, June 2011.
A. Jagtiani, J. Carletta, and J. Zhe, "An Impedimetric Approach for Accurate Particle Sizing using a Microfluidic Coulter Counter," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 21, no. 4, DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/21/4/045036, April 2011.
L. Vytla, F. Hassan, and J. Carletta, "A Real-Time Implementation of Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression," Springer Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, (print version vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 153 – 167, June 2013), DOI: 10.1007/s11554-011-0198-5, 2011.
S.-B. Nam, G. Yun, J. Carletta, D.-H. Kim, and W. Binienda, "A Novel Noncontact Electromagnetic Field-based Sensor for Monitoring of Resonant Fatigue Tests," Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 20, no. 3, p. 035005, March 2011.
L. Du, J. Zhe, J. Carletta, R. Veillette, and F. Choy, "Real-Time Monitoring of Wear Debris in Lubrication Oil using a Microfluidic Inductive Coulter Counting Device," Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 1241–1245, 2010.
L. Du, J. Zhe, J. Carletta, and R. Veillette, "Inductive Coulter Counting: Detection and Differentiation of Metal Wear Particles in Lubricant," Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 19, no. 5, p. 057001, 2010.
S.M.N. Hasan, I. Husain, R.J. Veillette, and J.E. Carletta, "Power Generation in Series Mode: Performance of a Starter/Generator System," IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, March/April 2010, pp. 12-21.
S. Murali, X. Xia, A. Jagtiani, J. Carletta, and J. Zhe, "Capacitive Coulter Counting: Detection of Metal Wear Particles in Lubricant Using a Microfluidic Device," Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 18, no. 3, March 2009, 037001.
S.V. Murali, A. Jagtiani, X. Xia, J. Carletta, and J. Zhe, "A Microfluidic Coulter Counting Device for Metal Wear Detection in Lubrication Oil," Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 80, no. 1, Jan. 2009, 016105.
K. Varma, H.B. Damecharla, A.E. Bell, J.E. Carletta, and G. Back, "A Fast JPEG2000 Encoder that Preserves Coding Efficiency: the Split Arithmetic Encoder," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 55, no. 11, December 2008, pp. 3711-3722.
A.V. Jagtiani, R. Sawant, J. Carletta, and J. Zhe, "Wavelet Transform-Based Methods for Denoising of Coulter Counter Signals," Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 19, June 2008, 065102 (15 pp).
F. Hassan and J. Carletta, "An FPGA-Based Architecture for a Local Tone Mapping Operator," Springer Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, vol. 2, no. 4, December 2007, pp. 293-308.
J. Zhe, A. Jagtiani, P. Dutta, J. Hu, and J. Carletta, "A Micromachined High-Throughput Resistive Pulse Sensor for Bioparticle Detection and Counting," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 17, no. 2, February 2007, pp. 304-313.
A.V. Jagtiani, J. Zhe, J. Hu, and J.E. Carletta, "Detection and Counting of Micro-Scale Particles and Pollen Using a Multi-Aperture Coulter Counter," Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 17, no. 7, July 2006, pp. 1706-1714.
K.A. Kotteri, A.E. Bell, and J.E. Carletta, "Multiplierless Filter Bank Design: Methods that Improve Both Hardware and Image Compression Performance," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 6, June 2006, pp. 776-780.
Z. Fang, J.E. Carletta, and R. Veillette, "A Methodology for FPGA-Based Control Implementation," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 13, no. 6, November 2005, pp. 977-987.
K.A. Kotteri, S. Barua, A.E. Bell, and J.E. Carletta, "A Comparison of Hardware Implementations of the Biorthogonal 9/7 DWT: Convolution vs. Lifting," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 52, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 256-260.
S. Barua, J.E. Carletta, K. Kotteri, and A.E. Bell, "An Efficient Architecture for Lifting-Based Two-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transforms," Integration - the VLSI Journal, vol. 38, no. 3, January 2005, pp. 341-352.
K.A. Kotteri, A.E. Bell, and J.E. Carletta, "Design of Multiplierless, High-Performance, Wavelet Filter Banks with Image Compression Applications," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 51, no. 3, March 2004, pp. 483-494.
J. Carletta, G. Giakos, N. Patnekar, L. Fraiwan and F. Krach, "Design of a Field Programmable Gate Array-based Platform for Real-Time De-noising of Optical Imaging Signals Using Wavelet Transforms," Measurement, vol. 36, no. 3-4, October-December 2004, pp. 289-296.
K.A. Kotteri, A.E. Bell, and J. Carletta, "Quantized FIR Filter Design Using Compensating Zeros," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 20, no. 6, November 2003, pp. 60-67.
M. Nourani, J.E. Carletta, and C.A. Papachristou, "Integrated Test of Interacting Controllers and Datapaths," ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, vol. 6, no. 3, July 2001, pp. 401-422.
J.E. Carletta and C.A. Papachristou, "Behavioral Testability Insertion for Datapath / Controller Pairs," Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, vol. 11, no. 1, August 1997, pp. 9-28.
Ph.D. Computer Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 1995; B.S. Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1988
4450:220 Digital Logic Design, freshman level undergraduate course, Spring 2013.
4400:360 Physical Electronics, junior level undergraduate course, Fall 2000 and Fall 2006.
4450:367 VLSI Design, junior level undergraduate course, Springs 2000 through 2012.
4450:420 Computer Systems Design (previously High Performance Computing/Advanced Processor Design), senior level and graduate course, Springs 2001 through 2004, 2010 through 2013.
4450:467 VLSI Circuits and Systems/VLSI Design Automation, senior level and graduate course, Falls 1999 through 2002, 2004 through 2007, 2010 through 2013.
4400:498/598 Analog IC Design, senior level and graduate course, Falls 2008 and 2009.
4450:410/510 Embedded Scientific Computing, senior level and graduate course, Falls 2008 through 2013.
4400:498/598 FPGAs and Embedded Systems, graduate special topics course, Springs 2005 and 2006, Fall 2007.
4450:693 VLSI Design and Development, graduate level reading course, Spring 2001.
Firas Hassan, "Real-Time Embedded Algorithms for Local Tone Mapping of High Dynamic Range Images," Ph.D. dissertation, 2007.
Sami Khorbotly, "Design and Implementation of Low Cost De-Noising Systems for Real-Time Control Applications," Ph.D. dissertation, 2007.
Zhengwei (Vicky) Fang, "A Methodology for the Fixed-Point Implementation of Digital Infinite Impulse Response Filters on Field Programmable Gate Arrays," Ph.D. dissertation, 2004.
Tanvir Tanvir, co-advised with R. Veillette, "Design and Stability Analysis of a High-Temperature SRAM," Masters Thesis, Dec. 2012.
Kripesh Bhattarai, co-advised with K. Lee, "On the Use of a Digital Communication Channel for Feedback in a Position Control System," Masters Thesis, Dec. 2012.
Shilpa Kunchum, "Embedded Digital Image Correlation in a Full-Field Displacement Sensor," Masters Thesis, Dec. 2012.
Utthej Nukala, co-advised with R. Veillette, "Design of a Temperature Independent MOSFET-Only Current Reference," Masters Thesis, Dec. 2011.
Purushottam Parajuli, co-advised with R. Veillette, "Design and Simulation of All-CMOS Temperature-Compensated gm-C Bandpass Filters and Sinusoidal Oscillators," Masters Thesis, Dec. 2011.
Dileep Reddy Desai, co-advised with R. Veillette, "Analog Non-Linear Multi-Variable Function Evaluation by Piece-Wise Linear Approximation," Masters Thesis, Aug. 2010.
Matthew Kollarits, co-advised with R. Veillette, "Design and Simulation of a Temperature-Insensitive Rail-To-Rail Comparator for Analog-to-Digital Converter Application," Masters Thesis, Aug. 2010.
Madhu Latha Reddy Vatte, co-advised with R. Veillette, "Readout Circuitry for a Logarithmic CMOS Active Pixel Sensor that Facilitates High Speed Image Processing," Masters Thesis, Aug. 2010.
Pradeep Namburu, co-advised with R. Veillette, "A Temperature-Insensitive Gate-Controlled Weighted Current Digital-to-Analog Converter," Masters Thesis, May 2010.
Lavanya Vytla, "A Real-Time Implementation of Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression Using a Local Poisson Solver," Masters Thesis, May 2010.
Xinggao Xia, "Modeling A Microfluidic Capacitive Sensor for Metal Wear Debris Detection in Lubrication Oil," Masters Thesis, 2009, The University of Akron.
Yang Wang, co-advised with R. Veillette and T. Hartley, "Modeling of Ultracapitor Short-Term and Long-Term Dynamic Behavior," Masters Thesis, 2008.
Casey Bakula, "Low-Power Pulse-Shaping Filter Design Using Hardware-Specific Power Modeling and Optimization," Masters Thesis, 2007.
Vamsi Annavajjula, co-advised with T. Hartley, "A Failure Accommodating Battery Management System with Individual Cell Equalizers and State of Charge Observers," Masters Thesis, 2007.
Hima Bindu Damecharla, "FPGA Implementation of a Parallel EBCOT Tier-1 Encoder that Preserves Encoding Efficiency," Masters Thesis, 2006.
Sankar Barua, "A High-Performance Hardware Architecture for Lifting-based Discrete Wavelet Transforms for Image Compression Applications," Masters Thesis, 2004.
Frederick W. Krach, "Design and Implementation of FPGA-based Control Using Digital Redesign for a Magnetic Bearing Application," Masters Thesis, 2003.
Elie Yarack, "Toward Both a Time and Solution Efficient Multi-Way Partitioning," Masters Thesis, 1999, Case Western Reserve University.
Mark C. Brighton, "Datapath Placement using Simulated Annealing for the Virtex Family of Field Programmable Gate Arrays," Masters project, 1999, Case Western Reserve University.
Marina Rabinovich, "Netlist Clustering Enhancer Algorithm as It Relates to Improving VLSI Partitioning," Masters project, 1999, Case Western Reserve University.
Aaron Carkin, "Simulating 3-Dimensional Environments Using Fisheye Video," Masters project, 1999, Case Western Reserve University.
Mark Kuemerle, "Design and Intelligent Power Control of an Asynchronous Floating Point Unit," Masters project, 1997, Case Western Reserve University.


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1. Prop. 8 passed in California. It's the second time voters in California have passed a citizen initiative expressing their will that marriage be regarded as an exclusive relationship between one man and one woman. Same-sex marriage supporters will for the second time try to overturn the will of the people of California by appealing to the California Supreme Court.
More on this later, but consider the words of San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty as he protested Mormon support of Prop. 8:
"The time has come to take it out there to the people who voted for this awful thing," said San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty outside the Oakland temple. "The Mormon church has had to rely on our tolerance in the past, to be able to express their beliefs. "... This is a huge mistake for them. It looks like they've forgotten some lessons."
Is that a threat? Perhaps Dufty should look up some American history about the bloody threats to Mormon religious liberty before making statements like that. Or maybe he did?
2. Lots of snarky blog comments about the effectiveness and propriety of Bishops' statements defending the primacy of life in this election. OSV has an interesting story which seems to indicate that the Catholic vote in Missouri and Pennsylvania significantly bucked the trend:
In six states Obama lost ground to Kerry's Catholic vote totals of 2004. Catholics in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, and California were less likely than Catholics in 2004 to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate. In both Missouri and Pennsylvania, Catholic bishops made statements, widely covered by the media, regarding the importance of life issues relative to other issues in the campaign. These statements potentially had an effect on the votes of Catholics in these states given Obama's voting record and support for abortion. In California voters approved a ballot proposition banning same-sex marriage that was supported by California bishops. It is not possible to isolate these potential effects with the exit poll data released so far but these are potential hypothesis to explore further. . .
The Catholic vote in Missouri may have an historical consequence. At the time of this writing McCain leads Obama in total votes in the state by just more than 5,800. The state has yet to be called for either candidate. If Obama does lose this state, one of the central reasons will be his inability to attract the support of a majority of Catholics. If Missouri is declared for McCain it will have lost its "bellwether" status. Missouri has voted for the winning candidate in every election since 1960 and no Democrat has ever been elected president without winning Missouri.
Bishop Finn also made public statements opposing an English-only law in Missouri. The Missouri Catholic Conference also joined in opposing an expansion of the gambling license in the state. Unfortunately, voters rejected the bishops' advice and overwhelmingly adopted both measures. No analysis on the effectiveness or propriety of bishops publicly opposing xenophobia or exploitation of the poor has been found.
3. Cardinal George didn't skip a breath today between recognizing the tremendously positive historic nature of Senator Obama's victory and the gross irony on which it is based:
. . .this is a moment that touches more than our history when a country that once enshrined race slavery in its very constitutional order should come to elect an African American to the presidency. . .
We can also be truly grateful that our country's social conscience has advanced to the point that Barack Obama was not asked to renounce his racial heritage in order to be president, as, effectively, John Kennedy was asked to promise that his Catholic faith would not influence his perspective and decisions as president a generation ago. Echoes of that debate remain in the words of those who reject universal moral propositions that have been espoused by the human race throughout history, with the excuse that they are part of Catholic moral teaching. We are, perhaps, at a moment when, with the grace of God, all races are safely within the American consensus. We are not at the point, however, when Catholics, especially in public life, can be considered full partners in the American experience unless they are willing to put aside some fundamental Catholic teachings on a just moral and political order. . .
In working for the common good of our society, racial justice is one pillar of our social doctrine. Economic justice, especially for the poor both here and abroad, is another. But the Church comes also and always and everywhere with the memory, the conviction, that the Eternal Word of God became man, took flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary, nine months before Jesus was born in Bethlehem. This truth is celebrated in our liturgy because it is branded into our spirit. The common good can never be adequately incarnated in any society when those waiting to be born can be legally killed at choice. If the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision that African Americans were other people's property and somehow less than persons were still settled constitutional law, Mr. Obama would not be president of the United States. Today, as was the case a hundred and fifty years ago, common ground cannot be found by destroying the common good.


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The Auckland Art & Craft Fair is a one of a kind, special event happening again in July 2012, following a hugely successful debut in July 2010.
Designed to showcase a selection of New Zealand's best independent and contemporary designers, artists & crafters selling their products direct to the public for one day only.
At the fair you will find products with an emphasis on quality, craftsmanship, creativity and style. Each vendor will be chosen for their focus on quality products, craftsmanship, ingenuity that all are well designed and well executed. With independent photographers, artists, illustrators, jewellers, fashion designers, homeware designers and more, coming together for customers to make a purchase will take home something different and unique, while supporting this home-grown industry.
The fair will be a destination event that customers can look forward to and make a day of being in the heart of the Auckland CBD. Available on the day for customers will be Eftpos facilities, along with everything that the Auckland city has to offer including local cafes and shops, not to mention the newly renovated Aotea Square for lounging in the winter sun — so something for everyone, all for just a gold coin entry fee.
With the fair being held inside, it will be lovely and cosy for our guests, no matter the weather.


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Hidden Lakes Real Estate
Hidden Lakes is a lush neighborhood adjacent to Folsom Lake in Granite Bay. This charming area offers an array of recreational activities via the state recreation area, including hiking, biking, fishing, boating, swimming, and horseback riding.
The neighborhood is bordered by Douglas Boulevard on the south, providing convenient access to shopping and dining. Residences range from contemporary and custom homes to ranch style and quaint cottages. Most were built throughout the '70s and '90s. Streets are mainly wide, quiet, and rich with established trees and shrubs. The area includes Hidden Lakes Estates, a non-gated community with two small lakes, and a park. Several neighborhood gatherings are held throughout the year.
In addition to the expansive Granite Beach at Folsom Lake, the recreation area accesses the paved American River trail, a 32-mile trail that follows the American River to Old Sacramento.
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