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Greetings from the Côte d'Azur!
I've taken a well deserved break from a very busy month – just sitting back and relaxing on the water with a cocktail. You can see what I've got in my beach bag here, but there's just one thing I couldn't live without on holiday (make that all year round!): sunglasses. Not only do they shield your eyes from the sun, they can also compliment your face, if you choose the right pair. Fear not, ladies, I've compiled an essential sunglasses guide so that you can make sure you're prepped and looking your best for your summer getaway. Happy shopping!
From Left to Right: Thierry Lasry, Miu Miu, and Miu Miu
SHOP HERE: (from left to right) Ray Ban, Victoria Beckham, Linda Farrow for Matthew Williamson
Aviators are perfect for a heart shaped face as they balance out the broadest area of your face. They also compliment one of summer's hottest trends: luxury sportswear, and with a range of colour and weight of frame to choose from, you're sure to find the perfect pair. My favourite? Victoria Beckham's; they're practically weightless so they won't leave a mark, plus the coloured lenses are so fun!
Cat Eye
SHOP HERE: (from left to right) Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford, Stella McCartney
If you have a square face cat-eye frames are perfect, as they draw the eye upwards and offset a pronounced jaw. They soften the face, making sure that you look your absolute best on the beach – plus, they're totally on trend and add a high-fashion spin to any bikini. This Tom Ford pair is an absolute classic but if you're looking for something a little more fun, opt for either of these patterned pairs from McQueen and Stella McCartney.
SHOP HERE: (from left to right) Fendi, Elizabeth and James, Burberry
As the cat-eye style works for a square face, a more angular style works for rounder faces. Whether you prefer a hexagonal shape or something more conventional, these will slim down your face and narrow your cheekbones: a win-win! This Elizabeth and James pair will make a major statement, but if you prefer something softer, go for the Fendi pair; the lighter blue outer layer is angular enough to slim your face but will flatter oblong faces too.
SHOP HERE: (from left to right) Prada, Fendi, Miu Miu
If you have an oval shaped face, round glasses will draw the eye away from longer chins or foreheads – they also work wonders for smaller faces, but make sure you opt for a smaller size to fit! If you're feeling bold try this hot red Prada pair, but if you'd prefer something with a little sparkle, this Fendi pair is great!
SHOP HERE: (from left to right) Cutler and Gross, Linda Farrow x The Row, Linda Farrow x Prabal Gurung
Think smaller lenses are out of fashion? Think again. This style is perfect for long or rectangular faces as the flat top draws the eye outwards, balancing the face. They also allow for crazier styles; taking up less of the face. I love this Linda Farrow x Prabal Gurung pair; wear if you dare!
That's all from me for now, stay tuned for more of my holiday escapades.
xo Emma


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Could make everyone yearn for that Congestion Pricing that so many said would cost too much.
This is the alternative way for the City to control drivers & raise funds.
MC, yes, they are.
The summons is automatic, the picture shows otherwise. It is annoying as all get out, but what can you do?
As for the number of summonses.... Two things on that. First is that if there weren't so many violators, there would not be that many summonses. It has been many years that the driving of the NYC cab fleet has determined how everyone else in the city drives. I absolutely HATE driving in the city during any time but the dead hours.
These guys squeeze up in shoulders, parking lanes or any other area to crowd you out to the next light. they use their blinkers like weapons and not notification symbols. They close any gap and do not know what "merge" means. This may not be YOU MC, but there are enough out there that the term "NYC Cab Driver" is an anathema to many that drive through the city.
Second is this. Because of all the budget shortfalls, the cops are out en force recently. Just this weekend I saw 4 out with the radar guns on relatively local highways. Driving to PA last weekend I saw about 6 along 80. They are looking for cash in any way they can.
Good luck protesting this now.
Could make everyone yearn for that Congestion Pricing that so many said would cost too much.
This is the alternative way for the City to control drivers & raise funds.
Everybody says everything will cost too much until you take the food away from them.
Unfortunately, the only two that are readily available for that now are Teachers and Cops. Bloomie is not missing a step. He says we do not have the money, all other contracts can't be broken, this is all he has. Someone has to offer up some other sacrificial cows or the Lame Duck mayor is going to pull the plug on something that many will only feel a few years down the line.
As for how that fee would effect the Taxis... there is one way to look at it. That fee could be seen to be included in the Medalion/Licensing fee that all cabs need to pay. Any others would need to pay on an event, daily, weekly or monthly basis, with the discounts becoming greater the longer the subscription is paid for.
Times of day would also be accounted for.
The one trick that could be used is a monitoring of all vehicles entering and leaving the congestion zones. If there was a way to find the box trucks that come in in the wee-hours, double park all over CT and the other districts, and leave after, additional fees could be levied for them simply taking up so much space.
Now, over to MC and the liveries. This is a tough one. I really do not see it as a major issue either way. As described briefly in one thnig he quoted, this is a bone for the dogs.
I see no real problem on this either way. The toughest part is splitting the hairs between the different levels of licensure and their ability to legally carry fares. How much do we really want to track these guys just for the opportunity to make hailing one in Brooklyn legal?
This brings up a good point, do we have a map of where all the traffic cams are?
I usually spot them while seeing cars blow the light and seeing the unmistakable camera flash getting set off. I don't run red lights but sometimes when you're following the pace of traffic the light turns on you when you're going through a yellow. I'd be a lot more cautious if I knew where the cams were
I've never seen a map but I sure am noticing a lot more cams at intersections all over town.
Maybe something like this out in Utah will be coming to NYC ...
External security cameras coming to 'real time crime center'
OGDEN -- Attempting a police omniscience seen in only about 20 U.S. cities, the Ogden Police Department is gearing up for a "real time crime center" to be operational soon after its Crime Blimp launches.
The center hopes to eventually be linked with the thousands of private and government security cameras around town, including the city's own inventory of some 200 cameras ...
The NYC DOT has a link to a Live Cam page ...
Real Time Traffic Cameras
The ones shown don't seem to be the full bunch, just the live cams to monitor traffic ...
There is a Cameras List that allows you to see what the various cams see, but based on the image available it's not certain how helpful the cams are to casual users ...
February 28, 2011, 1:07 pm
Supreme Court Halts Mayor's Push for Hybrid Taxis
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM The Bloomberg administration has banned cars from Broadway, prohibited smoking in public parks, and cracked down on fats and salts in restaurants.
But City Hall's march toward better living, whether its citizens want it or not, may have finally met a yellow-hued Waterloo.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider an appeal by the city on its years-long attempt to mandate fuel emissions standards in New York City's taxicabs,
exhausting the legal options for a policy that had twice been struck down by lower courts.
The city's plan, which would have created financial incentives for taxi owners to buy hybrid cars, had been rejected by prior judges as a de facto regulation of emissions standards — a power that, under existing laws, belongs to the federal government. A group of taxi owners brought the original suit against the plan in 2008.
"I am bitterly disappointed," said David S. Yassky, chairman of the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission. "New York City is trying to reduce literally millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions, and the Supreme Court has told us we can't do it."
"I cannot imagine," Mr. Yassky added, "when Congress wrote the Clean Air Act that they intended to handcuff states and cities trying to clean their own air."
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking at a news conference on Monday, noted that several cities had signed on in support of New York's appeal to the Supreme Court.
"The cities are those that are addressing real-world problems like climate change and energy policy," Mr. Bloomberg said. "The federal government seems unable to address those issues."
"So now we've got to lobby the federal legislature," Mr. Bloomberg added.
A bill proposed in 2009 by Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, the Green Taxis Act, would tweak the 1970s-era law's language to allow local governments to set emissions standards. A spokeswoman for the senator said Monday that Ms. Gillibrand planned to reintroduce the legislation "soon."
In a statement, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, the taxi owners' group that filed the original legal challenge against the city's proposal, called the victory "bittersweet."
The spokesman, Michael Woloz, wrote that while the owners support a fuel-efficient fleet, the city's policy as planned would have placed an "impossible" burden on taxi owners who require commercial-grade vehicles that can stand up to years of abuse. Mr. Woloz said that a city mandate would compromise passengers' safety and the ability of the taxi industry to do business.
The most commonly used yellow cab, the venerable Ford Crown Victoria, is a notorious gas-guzzler. The Crown Vic is being phased out, and taxi officials are holding a contest to find a new model that would eventually replace all of the cabs currently on the road.
The Supreme Court's decision on Monday effectively rules that the city cannot mandate that a new car meet certain emissions standards.
About 4,300 yellow cabs, a third of the fleet, are currently hybrids.
The Bloomberg administration first tried to encourage the use of hybrid cars by setting a minimum miles-per-gallon rating for taxis; that rule was also struck down in federal court.
A second attempt tried to skirt around the ban on local regulation by setting up financial incentives: in exchange for using hybrid vehicles, taxi owners would be allowed to charge higher leases on their cabs.
But Judge Paul A. Crotty of Federal District Court in Manhattan rejected that proposal too, writing in a 2009 opinion that the incentives amounted to "a de facto mandate" and thus did not escape the same legal scrutiny. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit later upheld that ruling. City lawyers had hoped the Supreme Court would hear its appeal.
Noah Rosenberg contributed reporting.
What a load of crap.
I wonder if the laws were mis-written. I can't see where there can be any federal law that would require anything of this nature to be forbidden so long as it satisfies all federal minimums.
How does Cali have such stringent emmission standards compared to the rest of the US? Is that a state or federal law?
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David Yassky and Janette Sadik-Khan
Updated: Mon., Feb. 28, 2011, 7:45 AM
Janette's big transitway a road to ruin
By ANDREA PEYSER
Last Updated: 7:45 AM, February 28, 2011
Posted: 2:57 AM, February 28, 2011
From the East River to the Hudson, New Yorkers are kicking their bicycles, stomping their cats and asking a burning question:
Is Janette Sadik-Khan, the psycho bike lady who helms the city's Department of Transportation, nuts?
Or maybe Khan, the hater of the internal-combustion engine, is just an incompetent, overpromoted, overzealous bureaucrat who wields power like a chain saw and fits her widely whispered nickname to a T -- Janette "Sadist"-Khan.
Either way, we're screwed.
At issue is a project bigger than the detested, dangerous bike lanes and despised pedestrian plazas that have sprouted up like a cancer, to applause from Mayor Bloomberg. The new plan is Sadik-Khan's crowning achievement. Her Taj Mahal. Her Coney Island fun house.
It's called the 34th Street Transitway. And as plans reveal, it's a doozy -- meant to surrender that main Midtown thoroughfare to buses while preventing passenger cars from traveling it from the Lincoln Tunnel to the Midtown Tunnel.
The project is a budding Titanic -- a monstrous muddle of bus routes, bike lanes and pedestrian malls.
According to the plans, eastbound vehicular traffic would start at Fifth Avenue (Lord know how cars would even get there first) and head to the East River. Westbound traffic would start at Sixth Avenue. In the middle of the two avenues would be a pedestrian plaza. So put on your hiking boots and dodge the buses. This mess would make M.C. Escher, famed for drawing nonsensical roads that go absolutely nowhere, proud.
The transitway is set to be completed by 2012. Ironically, that's the year the Mayans predicted that the world would come to a cataclysmic end.
"She's nuts!" a government source told me. "The woman's more dangerous than Robert Moses. At least he had a plan. Mike [Bloomberg] doesn't give a s- - -. He doesn't get it."
And those were some of the tamer thoughts. Residents of 34th Street are apoplectic about the total blackout on cars.
Old folks and moms shopping at Costco will no longer be able to get car services to drop them at their doors.
And Access-a-Ride vans for the disabled can cross into bus lanes -- but "vehicles will not be permitted to wait for passengers in the bus lanes," according to Department of Transportation documents.
"So it's raining, it's snowing, it's January, and Mrs. Smith, who's 95 years old -- you want her waiting outside?" asked an incredulous Tim Hughes, a 34th Street resident who's not allergic to taking buses himself.
But Hughes crunched DOT numbers on bus speeds -- and estimated that bus travel times would improve by a measly one or two minutes in the three-quarter-of-a-mile stretch with which Sadik-Khan is obsessed.
"So I can't access my front door because it's blocked 24/7/365 by bus lanes. I've lost my curbside access to my door. I can't get my bottled water, 30 pounds of Goya beans and my 3-year-old and 1-year-old inside because the city has determined that a one-minute improvement is more important for a guy from Ronkonkoma!" Hughes said.
As The Post's Steve Cuozzo reported last week, the DOT, which has received more than $18 million so far from the feds to study the thing, has zipped its lip.
A transportation source, weary from rotten press hammering his bike-crazy agency, told me he doesn't want to give a "sneak peek to The Post" but said the transitway will be built by next year.
"It's definitely moving forward," said an agency spokesman, Seth Solomonow, who added that the design was still being tweaked.
It should be scrapped.
"Oh, my God! This means all of our side streets will become tunnel-to-tunnel streets," said Marisa Bulzone, a 35th Street resident. "How many meetings do I have to go to and tell officials that 33rd Street does not go through? You'd think they'd know this. They don't!"
Lisa Pyle of Manhattan griped, "This is a case of Mayor Bloomberg hiring those he enjoys as dinner guests, like [Schools Chancellor] Cathie Black.
"I bet [Sadik-Khan] doesn't even own a car -- maybe doesn't even have a license."
Stop her before it's too late.
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I got three words to say........... Administrative Procedure Act......... this Mayor needs to read it.....
Um.... I was not aware either were "despised" or "dangerous" to all but a few self-centered motorists who believe that NYC belongs to them alone.the detested, dangerous bike lanes and despised pedestrian plazas that have sprouted up like a cancer
I will keep reading, but a rant is a rant.
Mike's traffic turnabout
Last Updated: 12:16 AM, March 28, 2011
Posted: March 28, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg saw the light last week, announcing his opposition to a proposed city law that would totally ban cars from the main loops in Central and Prospect parks.
"If you did not allow cars in the park during rush hour . . . the rest of the city streets would be overloaded, and it would create an awful lot of traffic," he said.
Can't argue with that.
City Councilwoman Gale Brewer's proposal would turn the areas abutting Central Park into even more of a disaster zone come the morning and evening rush -- especially on the Upper West Side, with Columbus Avenue already bollixed up by bike lanes.
And Brooklyn drivers are still reeling from the installation of bike lanes that tore up half of Prospect Park West.
Actually, New York City has dedicated so much macadam to its bicycle-obsessed transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, that turning over the park roads seemed like a natural next step.
But, for once, Bloomberg is making sense on the subject. Whatever could be going on?
Oh, wait.
Wouldn't 79th Street around Fifth, Madison and Park avenues be among the "the city streets [that] would be overloaded" by Central Park traffic spillover?
You know, where the mayor lives?
One doesn't normally take him for a Not-Near-My-Maisonette populist -- but if the impulse compels him to make a common-sense judgment, that's OK.
And hey -- maybe all new Sadik-Khan traffic schemes should be road-tested in Bloomberg's 'hood first.
Just saying.
Um, whatever.
I think the only ground they have to protest on this one is not traffic spillover, but rather what plans were made besides just shutting down the roadways in the park? Saying there will be more traffic in the city is difficult to sympathize with (even though I am one of those people that now drives through on occasion for family/work). Hearing about motorists whine over bike lanes is lame.
What they need to do is find a way to keep the roads clear. Elimination of all the people that need to park or deliver in the city during rush hours is probably the first step. But it is not a full plan. Closing the park roads will probably not do much more than piss of a small percentage of the overall drivers (or voters) that actually use it regularly, but doing so without a full plan for streamlining traffic flow in the city, not just accommodating one special interest or another, is in order.


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You seemed to appear in New Orleans out of nowhere, yet you already had some devoted fans and played with some of the best in town. Can you tell us where you came from?
In the beginning there was nothing. Then there was something. Then there was Man, and shortly thereafter followed free will and frozen waffles (in the ice age). Next there was Danger. And from Danger, the loins of El Duende, and the miracle of plate tectonics sprung forth the countryside of Dangeria, where coincidentally, a lot of us keep a summer home (just about a hundred miles downriver—when you come to the crossways, take a left and then three rights). It was there that I first learned to rock it like it's hot. Hail Dangeria! The land that's brave and blue.
The album is mostly good rock 'n' roll, but there are also those pieces in between that have to do with a sea journey of some kind. How does that play into the Rory Danger story?
We are nothing if not our own hero's journey, traversing the high seas of triumphs and failures, seeking out that great white whale of our own deepest ambitions, hopes and desires. The sage words of Allen Ginsberg (who, coincidentally, was our fifth guitarist for a short stint) sum up our story pretty aptly:
"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human—looks out of the heart burning with purity—for the burden of life is love, but we carry the weight wearily, and so must rest in the arms of love at last, must rest in the arms of love. […} The warm bodies shine together in the darkness, the hand moves to the center of the flesh, the skin trembles in happiness and the soul comes joyful to the eye—yes, yes, that's what I wanted, I always wanted, I always wanted, to return to the body where I was born."
Seems like a lot of your inspiration comes from vintage rockabilly, but you also do interesting covers like Cher's "Bang Bang." Who looms large in your musical universe?
While certainly Cher, and her impressive hair, are a universal inspiration to us all, I would have to say that Ernest Shackleton is probably our biggest musical influence. Such a rocker, and can really make a damn good cup of tea.
I saw a show last year at Jazz Fest where you tried to play every song in 30 minutes and had them all cut off after 75 seconds. How did that idea come about, and is that the most fun thing you've done onstage?
In times of great constraint spring forth feats of the unimaginable. We were set to the task of playing a 20-minute show, which as any true rocker will tell you is just enough time for your bassist to tune his E string. In the sage words of Nelson Mandela (who, coincidentally, we once asked to be our sixth guitarist—he declined on account of being preoccupied with being one of the world's most visionary leaders and humanitarians): "We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." No matter how short the time constraints, the right thing to do is always to deliver at least 14 good rockers to a crowd.
New Orleans is of course full of gifted jazz players, Aurora Nealand being one of them. What's your opinion on that kind of music?
Ah, jazz! That great primordial soup of sound. We have often heard that New Orleans is known as the birthplace of jazz, and that moniker indeed seems to ring true—all across the city you can hear the laboring cries of fabulous musicians giving birth, breathing their Lamaze in a collective joyous rhythm and pushing out the beautiful mutant baby of improvisation and composition. In the wizened words of Lou Reed (who was our sub bongo-ist for a short stint), "One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." And as for the question about Aurora Nealand? Never heard of him.


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The Instituto Cidade Democrática (Democratic City Institute), in Brazil, is about to launch and coordinate a very interesting initiative, part of the public project Redes e Ruas (Streets and Networks) of the Municipality of São Paulo, called Laboratórios Livres de Participação Social (Free Labs for Social Participation).
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Vanishing Act
Law librarians have been concerned for some time about the preservation of information generated by the federal government. The problem is particularly acute when it comes to digital information, whether that information takes the form of email messages, websites, "born digital" reports, or other official records. An article in the September 13 New York Times should be required reading for anyone concerned about the ability of researchers to access federal information in the future. Some examples that I found particularly shocking were:
- "The Web site of the Environmental Protection Agency lists more than 50 'broken links' that once connected readers to documents on depletion of the ozone layer of the atmosphere."
- "At least 20 documents have been removed from the Web site of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. They include a draft report highly critical of the civil rights policies of the Bush Administration."
- "Federal employees ... store many official records on desktop computers, so the records are not managed in a consistent way."
- The Government Accountability Office ... "described widespread violations of federal record-keeping requirements" in a recent report.
- Email messages of federal officials are not being preserved in a consistent fashion.
- At many agencies, federal employees don't even know what their obligations are as to record keeping.
The problem is replicated at the state and local level. The article describes initiatives that would begin to address these problems, but the author doesn't seem particularly sanguine about their success.
Thanks to Vicky Gannon for pointing out this article to me.


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Quite a long time ago, I had felt that there ought to be a standard modified version of ASCII for use in word processing applications:
replacing the characters not normally found on a typewriter by additional characters which are found there. One could do the same for a basic set of characters appropriate to a typesetting keyboard as well, shown in the third chart above, or for a set of characters for computing, as shown in the fourth chart. I think that originally I interchanged the substitutes for ~ and \ as when I first had the idea, I wasn't thinking exclusively in terms of the now-ubiquitous keyboard layout derived from the 101-key Model M keyboard:
Similarly, if that keyboard layout is to be used without any change, the substitutes for ` and " would need to be interchanged for the typesetting character set, but that gives a character equivalent in meaning to ` the code for ", which seems inappropriate.
Changing a few characters within the basic 94-character printable characters of ASCII originally was not unusual, when ASCII was strictly a 7-bit code;
as this was done to accommodate the accented letters used by numerous languages. Later, those first 94 printable characters were kept constant in codes derived from ASCII that were 8 or 16 bits long.
Thinking in terms of Unicode, and its extension of ASCII to what was, at first, a 16-bit code (although it was only Unicode 1.0 that was strictly defined as a 16-bit code) to support other languages, it seemed to me that because some foreign languages have more than 32 letters in their alphabet, it was a pity that what we think of 8-bit ASCII (officially, ISO 8859-1) couldn't have been restructured significantly, rather than having its first 128 characters kept strictly compatible with ASCII:
As noted above, I felt that alternate ASCII character sets for computation and word processing would have been useful. This was still the case even when ASCII was expanded to eight bits from seven:
The multiplication and division symbols used in grade school textbooks weren't particularly important characters, and so the OE ligatures should have been left in those code positions for ISO 8859-1. But the emphasis on accented letters, while understandable to facilitate international use, meant the code was chiefly oriented to word processing.
It didn't include the symbols for less than or equal to, not equal to, and greater than or equal to, which seemed to me to be the most important deficiencies of ASCII when used for writing computer programs. And so, I put those characters in, along with the characters I removed from ISO 8859-1, in the computing character set, along with the Greek alphabet.
Finally, another anomaly of 8-bit ASCII is the code positions used for control characters.
Control characters certainly are important for a code used for communications between a computer and a computer terminal. But they really aren't very useful for a code used to store documents as files on a disk drive.
These days, computers usually don't have terminals connected to them - instead, the computer is the terminal, as this keeps hardware costs to a minimum.
Taking out the control characters, except for 00 being NUL and FF being DEL, allows including small capitals as a basic character case in the code, having the same status as upper and lower case - instead of being treated as a presentation form which requires a switch to a different font.
I'm willing to accept that boldface and italic are presentation forms, but the keyboard ought to include keys for switching to those as well, rather than requiring one to lift one's hands up and use the mouse to select text and switch to them.
However, doing away with control characters might be just a tad too radical.
Using the word processing form of ASCII as a basis, and keeping only the most important additional characters, one could arrive at the following 8-bit character set to serve as the starting point for a code:
However, while I tried to pick the most necessary of the added special characters, this is too tight a squeeze. The Euro symbol really ought to be added, if one is going to make changes, and several other highly useful characters had to be left out.
Note that, though, with the restructuring done to accomodate languages like Armenian, it is no longer as convenient to handle Chinese, Japanese, or Korean with a double-byte character set (DBCS). At least, though, with this design, it's not completely impossible. With ISO 8859-1 in its original form, the printable characters with the high bit set allowed 94 possible prefix characters as the first character of a two-character code representing one Chinese character. Using the high bit to indicate lower case had spoiled that. But with a space reserved for small capitals, at least those 32 codes could be used as DBCS prefixes. Given the full integration of the high bit, the second character could be any of the 222 normal printable characters, rather than being only one of 94 characters.
This doesn't mean that the situation for DBCS coding has improved, as 2 times 94 times 94 was always an option that had been easy to take, and the Big-5 coding had made use of that option.
Considering that many control characters aren't used, while some are, and that the two possible 8-bit codes for technical and word processing use would be derived from portions of a 16-bit code, which would have to be modified from Unicode to fit a significantly modified basis that replaces ISO 8859-1, this diagram indicates how enough room for new currency symbols might be obtained:
After taking some time to examine the history of the development of ASCII, an even stranger idea occurred to me.
First, I thought, when adding lowercase to ASCII, the old ESC and ALT MODE characters could have been left in their old places; except for the lower case letters, instead of adding printable characters, one - the backslash - could even be subtracted. Then there would be 89 printable characters, one of which would be the space, matching the size of a conventional typewriter keyboard, and removing the temptation to add keys in awkward places on computer keyboards.
A truncated ASCII of this sort is depicted in the first section of the diagram above.
Then, I thought, if ASCII is to be modified to reflect the typewriter keyboard, perhaps some characters could be moved around so as to allow a bit-pairing keyboard to have its characters in the normal positions of a typewriter keyboard, rather than forcing people to wait until the technology advanced before they could enjoy typewriter-pairing keyboards.
The second diagram shows a possible arrangement with this goal in mind. The third diagram shows an even more radical rearrangement; it has the one flaw, though, that because it is assumed the period and comma are never shifted, it interferes with providing an alternate APL keyboard layout.
The fourth diagram shows the rearrangement in the third diagram, with typewriter alternate characters. Note that some pairs of symbols are assigned in reverse compared to the typewriter arrangement shown at the top of the screen; this is because characters that occured on the shifted keys on a typewriter were, in that earlier arrangement, put on the "first" key - the one on the left - when the two characters were split between two different keys.
Instead of a new version of, or a replacement for, ASCII, this code could be considered as a terminal connection code - used strictly for computer terminals, with translation to ASCII being done for intercommunication.


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To the inner naysayer/self-doubter/giver-upper. I no longer have room nor hospitality.
Yes I've been a horrible blog hostess. I had a bit of rhythm for awhile then let life's troubles get me down.
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I've never had a whirlwind romance and didn't really understand that phrase until the last couple of weeks. Yes. Right after complaining to the Cyber universe about no one wanting my life I was proved wrong. Maybe that's the trick.
Dare the universe with the unimaginable. Then stand back and watch it do it's magic.
Did I say I met someone?


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|Lyra Gardhouse (gardhouse) wrote in nevermore_logs,
@ 2013-09-19 12:42:00
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|lil kemp, lyra gardhouse
WHO: Lyra & Little [Open to Thanatos]
WHEN: Thursday evening
WHERE: Lyra and Thanatos' place
WHAT: Comfort and dinners
When Lyra got home from a long day of classes and dissections, it was to find Little curled up against her front door, asleep. She put down her bag quietly and kneeled down beside the girl, reaching out to touch her shoulder. Little stirred and blinked a few times to look up at her.
Lyra couldn't help but feel a little maternal towards the teenager who had taken to appearing at their house surprisingly often. At first it had been a surprise and she'd told Thanatos that maybe they should call her parents to come and collect her? But Thanatos was right when he said that wasn't what the girl needed. Lyra often thought of herself as the one more connected to humanity, but Thanatos could see with a distance that she couldn't. If Lyra had family she would want to be with them and to tell them everything, so it was difficult - at least at first - for Lyra to understand that Little didn't want that.
"I think I fell asleep," Little said, rubbing at her eyes.
"I think you did too," Lyra said with a warm smile and stood, holding her hand out to help Little up. "Come on, let's get you inside."
Inside the apartment Lyra put on the kettle as Little sat down on the couch, those long legs of hers crossed under her. Lyra watched her from the kitchen and wished she could do something more for the poor thing. She was just a teenager but so terrified of the death and disease that was coming her way. Lyra couldn't really relate to that, and so she just tried to comfort the redhead when it was needed.
"I'm so tired," Little said, dropping her cheek onto the back of the sofa.
"Did you not get any sleep last night?" Lyra asked, coming over to sit beside the girl.
"No, I mean, last night, yeah, I slept but just... all the time, I'm so tired all the time. Life, it's tiring." Then she moved and laid down across the couch, resting her head on Lyra's lap. Lyra hesitated for a moment and then stroked the girl's hair. Little had so easily and quickly taken to being physical with the two of them. She seemed to lack any idea of distance, of that they had been little more than strangers. Whatever, exactly, it was that had passed between Thanatos and Little that first time they met had clearly been very powerful. Thanatos was like that, even to those that didn't know what he was.
The closeness that Little presented sometimes made Lyra ache; the desire to protect the girl who'd chosen them as her protectors could be overwhelming, and Lyra wished that she could wrap her up and take her away. She wanted, sometimes, to never to return her to her own family and to keep her. She'd never wanted a child more than when she was holding Little.
"Sometimes I feel that way as well," Lyra agreed, fingers running through Little's hair. "Life can be very exhausting, but it's worth it."
"I don't know about that," Little muttered. "I feel like everything's pressing down on me and I'm always waiting for the next horrible thing. I can't even breathe before something new and terrible happens." There was a little choke in her voice and Lyra squeezed her gently in what she hoped was a comforting manner.
"Nothing horrible will ever happen to you when you're here," Lyra said, lifting the girl to sit so that Little would see the seriousness in her eyes. She knew it was foolish to say, but she would have said anything (done anything) to make her feel better. "I promise to protect you."
"But you can't protect everyone else around me," Little said, looking down.
"I can't," Lyra agreed after a pause. There was silence between them for a long while and then she took a deep breath and said, "Alright," in a decisive manner, standing up and pulling Little to stand as well. "How about you go hop into bed and have a little nap - everything will feel a bit better after a proper sleep. And when you wake up," she said, leading her into the bedroom, "I'll have some dinner ready for you."
Little nodded a little sleepily, clearly not going to argue her way out of a nap, and Lyra pulled back the covers to help Little into bed, where she chose Thanatos' side and splayed her legs out a little onto Lyra's side. Lyra pulled the lightest of the blankets up over her, more as a protection from the world than for warmth, and left Little to sleep. She left the door ajar as she made her way out to the kitchen to start dinner.


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Covington program to rehab, resell vacant properties paying off
The city of Covington's initiative to buy, fix up and resell vacant homes in its urban core is paying off.
The Kentucky Enquirer reports young professionals are among those purchasing the properties, some of which had been abandoned and boarded up.
With the help of a $5 million federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program grant through the Kentucky Department for Local Government, city officials bought 14 homes at a low cost and have been able to sell most of them after sprucing them up.
The city's home program coordinator, Jeremy Wallace, says five of the rehabbed houses, three of which were just completed, are all that's left.
"These are a challenge to sell," said Wallace, but he quickly added, "They're awesome properties."
The challenge is that the only marketing for the homes is a listing on the city's website - there's no funding for anything else.
Cole Imperi, 28, and Victor Imperi, 30, learned of a house in the program only through happenstance.
"When we drove by the house, now our house, we knew it was the one," Cole Imperi said. "We put our lives on hold for about two years."
They moved in on June 3.
Wallace said the Neighborhood Stabilization Program was specifically targeted to redevelop foreclosed or vacant properties and make them affordable.
Grant restrictions limit potential buyers to a household income at 120 percent of the Housing and Urban Development Area Median Income.
Wallace says the program offers homes at their appraised values, ranging from $85,000 to $220,000, and had drawn mostly young professionals.
"It's a great program," Wallace said. "We've redone some houses that had been sitting vacant for a long, long time." ?


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Credit-Based Insurance Scores
Most insurance companies nowadays are using insurance scores in those states that allow it, in addition to other factors, to determine the premiums to charge customers for auto and home insurance, or whether to insure them at all. For instance, according to the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA), which represents more than 400 consumer data companies, 92% of the largest auto insurers use credit data for evaluating new potential customers, and half started doing so after 1998.
A credit-based insurance score is a 3 digit number resulting from a statistical analysis of a consumer's credit record that is highly predictive of future claim costs. Several studies by actuarial groups, notably Tillinghast Towers-Perrin and the Casualty Actuarial Society, have found, with a statistical correlation greater than 99%, that the loss ratio, which is the ratio of losses and associated expenses to premiums, is significantly higher for people with lower scores. In fact, for those with the lowest credit scores, the loss ratio actually exceeds 1, where losses exceed the premiums collected. A recent study by the Texas Department of Insurance showed that the loss ratio for homeowners with the worst scores was triple that of those with the highest scores and drivers with the highest scores had 40% fewer accidents over those with the worst scores. The insurance industry also believes that credit reports are more accurate than motor vehicle registration records for predicting future auto accident claims.
According to 1 study, the Consumer Federation of America found that Allstate charged 39% more for drivers with top insurance scores over others with poor scores; State Farm's prices varied even more – 127%.
There are different insurance scores available, but not all of them are available to the consumer. Probably the insurance score that is used most by insurers is by FICO, who also provides the most common credit scores for lenders. The main company providing insurance scores is Fair Isaac Corporation (now calling itself FICO), which sells the scores to the 3 main credit reporting agencies—Experian, TransUnion, Equifax. Fair Isaac also supplies the FICO credit score, which is the most popular credit score used by lenders. According to Fair Isaac, 90% of the top property and casualty insurers and 300 others use insurance scores for rating and underwriting.
Tips and Resources for Improving Your Credit Score or Insurance Score
- Get a free credit report at AnnualCreditReport.com every 4 months by requesting a report from only 1 credit reporting agency at a time—a good, free way to monitor your credit report.
- Some credit cards offer free credit scores that are updated at least monthly. For instance, Discover Card provides a free FICO score based on your credit information held by TransUnion. Even if the credit card does not provide a FICO score, any score can be used to monitor changes in your credit information by checking for monthly changes in your score. Credit scores often change by 10 to 20 points during the month, but if you notice larger changes in your score during a time when there was no significant credit event, you may want to check the credit report from the agency on which the score is based for errors or for possible identity theft.
- As of November, 2015, you can upload supporting documents, such as paid bills or canceled checks, to support your credit dispute. Source: Fixing Credit Report Errors Online Gets Added Heft - The New York Times
- File a credit reporting complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- Sample Letter for Disputing Errors on Your Credit Report with Information Providers. See also Disputing Errors on Credit Reports by the FTC.
- If you want to send a letter to the CRAs that may lead to legal action, then send it as certified mail with return receipt.
Although the algorithm used to compute the scores is the mostly the same, insurance scores, like the FICO and other scores that are based on credit information, will probably differ to some extent from each of the credit reporting agencies, since the information that each agency has on each consumer differs to some extent. However, the algorithm for computing insurance scores does different to some extent to conform to state law.
Although insurance scores are calculated using the information in the consumer's credit file, only some of the information is used and it is weighted differently than the information used in calculating credit scores. There is a greater weight given to payment history and total debt and less for types of credit used or the number of inquiries made for loans and credit, for instance.
Many states have limited the use of insurance scores for rating and underwriting. Montana, New Mexico, and Washington have recently enacted legislation that restricts the use of insurance scores in rating and underwriting consumers. Washington state law forbids companies to deny insurance or base rates on the lack of credit history, available credit, number of credit inquiries, collection accounts for unpaid medical bills, and using a particular type of credit. Kansas has similar laws. Maryland banned the use of insurance scores for determining premiums for homeowner's insurance in 2002. Texas law prohibits the absence of credit information to be used in underwriting decisions, and insurers must account for extraordinary circumstances, such as hospitalization or identity theft, that could cause declines in one's insurance score if the insured requests special consideration in writing. Michigan requires insurance companies to recalculate the score annually, and also when consumers successfully correct information in their credit records. However, only 3 states — California, Hawaii and Massachusetts — prohibit the use of insurance scores altogether.
In response to criticism about using insurance scores for rating consumers, insurance companies have argued that:
- there is a high correlation between low credit ratings and future claims;
- people who are responsible with money are generally more responsible in other areas of life, such as driving and preventing hazards at home;
- using insurance scores is more objective and less discriminatory, and most consumers will pay less since most people have fairly good credit;
- and that the Fair Credit Reporting Act allows them to use credit information for rating and underwriting.
Insurance companies have also argued, in opposing changes to regulations in Michigan, that eliminating the use of insurance scores will increase prices for most consumers:
- Auto Club Insurance Association (AAA) claims that 2/3 of its policyholders will see rate increases if insurance scoring is eliminated.
- Hastings Mutual has a 5 tier discount level for premiums that range from 0 to 35% for auto insurance and 0 to 27% for homeowner's insurance. Hastings Mutual claims that 77.6% of its auto customers and 84.4% of its homeowners will see rate increases if the use of insurance scores are banned.
People opposing the use of insurance scores have argued that:
- it discriminates against ethnic groups or economically disadvantaged people, such as single mothers;
- credit reports often contain errors that would increase premiums for people who would otherwise qualify for lower premiums;
- and insurance scores are socially unacceptable.
Legal Basis for Using Credit Information for Insurance Purposes — Excerpt from the Fair Credit Reporting Act
15 U.S.C. §1681b, 604. Permissible purposes of consumer reports
(a) ... any consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other: ...
(3) To a person which it has reason to believe
(A) intends to use the information in connection with a credit transaction involving the consumer on whom the information is to be furnished and involving the extension of credit to, or review or collection of an account of, the consumer; or
(B) intends to use the information for employment purposes; or
(C) intends to use the information in connection with the underwriting of insurance involving the consumer;


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So I did the 1960 election Nixon commericals, so I thought I'd also do the 1968 ones - where he won. You never know - I might be on a role and 1972 might be next!
So this is a Humphrey commerical, laughing at the idea of Agnew for VP. What makes me laugh here....the TV itself!
This one is a Nixon ad, targeting the youth. Knowing how the youth was really getting a bad rap in this era, I find it interesting that he advertised to them. We can see this in later campaigns as well, like Clinton!
Friday, October 05, 2012
1968 Commericals
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I've never really been one to care about what foods I eat. Have I counted calories? Cut carbs? Sure. But when it came to the quality of my food, my philosophy was basically: "If it tastes good, I'll eat it." I've been lucky enough to never encounter any food allergies or restrictions — that I knew … Continue reading I finished the Whole30 – Here are my Thoughts!
"Skinny"-ish Broccoli Salad
Even though I am a gym rat, I seriously struggle with eating well. I crave carbs and sweets - not veggies. So when it comes to losing weight, food is my biggest challenge. I love that sites like Pinterest and Instagram can inspire me to try new things! Recently, someone I follow on Instagram posted … Continue reading "Skinny"-ish Broccoli Salad
Throwback Thursday
Quick post today! Three years ago, I did something I never thought I could - I completed a half-marathon. Considering I am someone who hates running, this was a huge accomplishment. I trained for four months, and ended up finishing the One America 500 Festival Mini Marathon in 2:34. No, I wasn't incredibly fast, but that wasn't … Continue reading Throwback Thursday
Comfort Zone – Are You in Yours?
In July, I will have been teaching indoor cycling for five years! Hard to believe, considering at one point, the thought of taking a spin class scared the you-know-what out of me. I started teaching one class a week in 2011, and more recently, I am up to 2-3 a week. However, I am now … Continue reading Comfort Zone – Are You in Yours?
Down But Not Defeated!
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and is gearing up for a fantastic New Year! One of the presents my son got from is dad for Christmas was a hoverboard. Yeah, yeah, they spontaneously combust and are dangerous. But what fun is life if you don't take some risks? This one was a "safer" model … Continue reading Down But Not Defeated!
5 Tips to Get Out of your Workout Rut
We all get stuck in ruts - whether it's your job, hobbies, diet, or your workout routine. It's easy to be so bored with your usual workout that you just decide to quit, or take a small break. Not only do you get burnt out, but your muscles need to be challenged as well. Here … Continue reading 5 Tips to Get Out of your Workout Rut
Tough Day at the Gym?
I work out 5-6 days a week, which includes the 2-3 spin classes I teach. A lot of people ask me how I stay motivated. I would be lying if I said I feel like going to the gym each and every day. I don't! I get burnt out or just feel incredibly lazy some … Continue reading Tough Day at the Gym?


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As dogs age, you will begin to notice changes in their behavior. The changes may be very subtle or pronounced and as a dog owner you should pay special attention to any changes to avoid any potential health problems from developing further down the road.
A dog's needs may change with time and observing your pet should help you preempt any problems related to old age. Your dog may change both mentally and physically. Many pet owners feel that certain changes in behavior are to be expected with age, but this is not necessarily so, there are things you can do to help your pet feel more comfortable as he ages.
Some dogs slow down dramatically as the years creep up on them whereas others retain their puppy-like behavior for life. The majority of dogs show their aging by becoming less reluctant to play. If your dog seems uninterested in activities he usually seems to like you should investigate further, never chalk it down to aging. If your dog becomes stiff or hesitant when moving or getting up, there are things you can do to make him more comfortable. Your vet would be able to recommend some medication and light exercise to help keep him limber.
Any sudden weight changes should not be taken lightly. If your dog experiences a sudden change in weight you should consult with your vet immediately as this could be a sign that something is seriously wrong with your pet. You should always keep a record of your dog's current weight to help with medication and dosages anyway. Keep tabs on your dog's eating and drinking habits. Make sure your dog is drinking adequately otherwise he could become dehydrated. Excessive drinking is almost always a sign something is wrong and shouldn't be ignored. If your dog's water intake increases you should take him to the vet for a checkup. Excessive drinking can be a sign of renal failure which is a very common ailment in older dogs.
You should also have your dog's eyes examined because as dogs age, they develop conditions like glaucoma and dry eye. You can help keep your dog more comfortable by discovering these problems at an early stage and treating them. If your dog appears to be "out of it" don't put that down to age related senility, it could be a sign that he is suffering from kidney or liver disease. Just because your dog is getting older, it doesn't necessarily have to mean he will become senile. Again, your vet should be able to diagnose any health related issues in your pet.
If you're considering changing your dog's diet for any reason this should be done gradually as an older dog's digestive system may not be able to cope with sudden dietary changes. Keep an eye on your dog's bowl movements to make sure he doesn't develop constipation or diarrhea.
Regular checkups at the vet will ensure you give your dog the best possible chance at living a long and healthy life throughout his lifespan. Your dog may be getting older, but there is no reason he should be acting old.


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Promises Kept: Donald Trump Signs Steel and Aluminum Tariffs to Protect Workers
President Donald Trump signed his official establishment of tariffs on aluminum and steel on Thursday in a dramatic ceremony in the Oval Office. The tariffs were exactly as he proposed them last week — 25 percent on steel, ten percent on aluminum. Trump said that the tariffs were important to sign, citing the industry communities that were devastated by bad trade deals and failed promises from failed politicians. "Our factories were left to rot and to rust all over the place," Trump said. "Thriving communities were turned into ghost towns." During his remarks, Trump explained how fundamental the tough actions on trade and tariffs were to his presidency and the core his personal beliefs. "Those who poured their souls into building this great nation were betrayed. But that betra


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Newly qualified dental surgeons can now join GID for a concessionary that applies until the sixth year post qualification. There is no joining fee and the monthly subscription is £30 which entitles the member to attend all our study days as well as the social events. Membership will enable you to meet many of the local dental health professionals and local dental suppliers as well as attending some of the best postgraduate study days in the country. Please contact our Newly Qualified Secretary on firstname.lastname@example.com or 07415069768.
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Dental Directory offers you a discounted core product list of 100 items and the additional of your own personal items called the bonus 5. The website now has live stock updates and we continue to make it easier to not only order through Dental Directory but also see where you are saving. More recently we have begun to really increase our specialist ranges for Ortho, Surgical and Digital and we continue to work with all manufacturers. We also offer exclusives such as Periochip, Hygitech and Geistlich. Dental Directory will provide a yearly rebate to each practice to say thank you for spending with us.
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One-name studies, Genealogy
Study: Bratherton
Category: 1 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is in its early stages.
Website: www.bratherton.org.uk
Contact: Mrs Pam Davies
I am interested in the name BRATHERTON because it is my own maiden name. Within my direct family the name is being 'daughtered out': there are many descendants of Brathertons, but none in the generation below mine who have the family surname.
I have collected data from the UK Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths 1837-1903/30/35, and censuses and various other sources. Using Google I take an interest in today's Brathertons.
The Taliesin database, from NHS England and Wales records, has 287 Brathertons. This puts it as the 16,859th most common surname, and gives an estimate of 267 Brathertons in today's England and Wales population. By contrast, there are 1,544 Brethertons (4,646th) and 2,499 Brothertons (3,048th) in the database (population estimates 1,436 and 2,324 respectively).
The 1901 UK census initially listed 105 Brathertons - but omitted several of them including my grandfather and great-grandfather whose household appeared as 'Bralliorton' (since corrected)!
There are Brathertons today in Cheshire and Lancashire, and also elsewhere in England and the USA.
See my Bratherton page for a note about Scottish records.
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IPL 10 has begun with a bang, and instead of matches, performance, or controversies, people are going crazy over a girl shown on the big screen for 5 seconds.
Everyone wants to watch her over and over again, and her beauty is simply mesmerizing the crowd like nuts.
Later, she revealed her name as Poonam Kaur Lal. It is coincidental that her name is Poonam and just like Poonam Pandey, she has become an internet sensation due to cricket but it good sense.
She is a model cum actress. She has played many roles in Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam movies.
She is so beautiful that you just cannot take your eyes off her. She is a fashion designer and studied in prestigious NIFT in Delhi. You won't believe that she is in her 30s now but looks more like a teenager.
She is a great dancer as well and has some liking for cricket. She is truly multitalented and not just another pretty face with no brain.
She can speak five different languages fluently, and she is simply a killer in nailed men with her natural beauty.
The fact that she is quite good at what she does is proven from the fact that she won Filmfare Award for best supporting actress in a Telugu movie. She is also the brand ambassador of Miss Telangana event.
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She was first spotted when people started booing Amy Jackson's performance, and the camera shifted to Poonam for a few seconds. She had a sweet smile on her face that won everyone's, heart.
She went viral on Twitter, and everyone started saying that she was the best part of the opening ceremony of IPL 10. She is that dream girl that everyone wants to have in their life as their girlfriend.


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You Need: (Serves 4)
- 1kg gemfish fillet cut into chunks
- 250g butter
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1/2 red and 1/2 green pepper, sliced
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1 cup sliced mushrooms
- 1/2 cup parsley, chopped
- 1 cup cream
- salt and pepper to taste
Melt butter in a large pan, saute garlic and onions until translucent and golden and add peppers.
Add fish and stir fry until half done, then add mushrooms, parsley and continue cooking until fish is cooked, then add cream. Heat, but do not boil.
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WOD 1 Gymnastic Strength: 1-3 Challenging HSPU every minute x 10 min Attempt to stay at a challenging level (or make it tougher) the whole time. I'd rather you move from 3reps to 1 rep in the wod and stay at a challenging level then stay at 3 reps for all 10 rounds by making the level easier. Record level and total reps.
Here I worked with 15# plate and tried one w/ a 10# plate. Continuing to make progress. Need to push it a little harder next time.
WOD 2. Mashup Tabata: Pullups and Dips :20 max reps Pullups, :10 Rest, :20 max reps ring Dips, :10 rest x 8 intervals each = 16 total = 8 minutes. Score total reps in Pullups, score total reps in Dips
Rest 1 Minute
Total: 78 reps
WOD 3. Mashup Tabata: Squats and Situps :20 max reps Squats, :10 Rest, :20 max reps ring Situps, :10 rest x 8 intervals each = 16 total = 8 minutes. Score total reps in Squats, score total reps in Situps
Total: 219
Tabata Total: 297 reps.
I was incredibly consistent on this tabata. I consistently got 17-18 squats and 13-14 situps. On pullups/dips, I got 5 of each for all but 2 rounds! Great WOD. Finished with a mile run. Triathlon looming in 3 weeks.
Time to start tracking again. I want to make some strong progress on overall fitness the next few months.


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Great Lakes Exploration has filed a legal request for Federal protection of the shipwreck. As part of its case, Great Lakes has asked the Court to deny the State of Michigan's claim that it is the sovereign owner of the target shipwreck, The Griffin, superior to the Republic of France. The case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan (Great Lakes Exploration Group LLC v. The Unidentified, Wrecked and (For Salvage-Right Purposes), Abandoned Sailing Vessel, her tackle, apparel, appurtenances, cargo, etc. located within a circle having a radius of 3.5 statute miles, whose center point is at coordinates 45° 32.8' North latitude and 86° 41.5' West longitude).
Upon locating the site which it believes to be the target, Great Lakes Exploration became concerned that in the absence of legal protection, the shipwreck could be subject to irreparable destruction and loss at the hands of souvenir seekers and relic hunters. Great Lakes Exploration and the Field Museum are asking the Federal Court to allow their scientific exploration of the shipwreck to go forward, so that the identity of the shipwreck can be conclusively and scientifically determined.
In opposition, the State of Michigan has asserted that its sovereign rights in the shipwreck are superior to those of the Republic of France. Michigan claims that because the shipwreck lies in Michigan state waters, the State of Michigan— not the Republic of France— is the lawful owner of The Griffin. The State opposes federal protection of the shipwreck on grounds that it is the property of the State Government, and that the scientific exploration of the shipwreck by Great Lakes Exploration and the Field Museum should not go forward except under exclusive state control.


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Simpson-Bowles Resurrected for House Budget Vote
The House vote on the budget will not just include an up-or-down vote on the Paul Ryan version. As per custom, several budgets will get a vote that day. The Republican Study Group introduced their budget, which slashed spending even further and more quickly than Ryan's and cut Medicaid more deeply, today. Hardline conservatives who support the RSG plan are in fact taking credit for making Ryan's budget even tougher. The Congressional Progressive Caucus has their Budget for All, which sees deeper deficits than the Ryan budget in FY2013 but smaller ones over time, thanks to the ending of wars and raising of taxes on corporations and the wealthy. A full rundown of that budget plan can be found here, and there are some really good components to it, like ending the mortgage interest deduction for second homes, and enacting a health insurance public option, just to pick two. And, House Democrats released their own alternative, from Budget Committee ranking member Chris Van Hollen, yesterday. It's mainly a Budget for All-lite.
But there's another version out there, one from what I'll term the Wanker Caucus, looking to just put Simpson-Bowles on the House floor:
Monday night, a bipartisan group of House members including Reps. Jim Cooper (D-TN) Steve LaTourette (R-OH), Kurt Schrader (D-OR), Charlie Bass (R-NH), Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Tom Reed (R-NY), introduced the Simpson-Bowles plan as a budget alternative to the powerful House Rules committee. Usually these alternatives are ruled in order, and if that holds for this plan, the full House will have an opportunity to back up their words with votes.
If it passed, it would unseat the GOP's consensus plan, drafted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the incumbent budget for the House — and it's hard to imagine GOP leaders allowing that to happen. But that would give the lie to the criticisms they and others have lobbed at Obama for failing to embrace the plan himself.
As a political maneuver this could hurt Republicans more. After all, they run the House, and they've been making the point that Obama ran away from Simpson-Bowles. So if they run away too, that neutralizes the argument. However, this bipartisan plan is just as dumb as Simpson-Bowles, and it will serve to keep Simpson-Bowles alive as if it's a serious plan.
Just look at their executive summary. My favorite part is this:
Limits long-term growth for federal health care spending to GDP +1%
Um, OK. How? I know how Simpson-Bowles accomplished this: with the famous "magic asterisk." They just decreed that growth would be limited and imitated Jean-Luc Picard by saying "Make it so." In Simpson-Bowles, there is absolutely no mechanism to limit health care cost growth in this fashion, and I suspect that there's no mechanism in this Wanker Caucus proposal either. And if you correctly believe that the entire issue of the federal budget deficit comes down to health care spending, then you cannot see Simpson-Bowles as a legitimate solution, any more than "Whip Inflation Now" buttons were a legitimate solution to rising prices in the Ford Administration.
The document also calls it a "balanced approach" to reduce the deficit with 2/3 spending cuts and 1/3 "tax reform" – they couldn't even bring themselves to say tax increases – which includes lowering overall rates.
What should concern people is that Simpson-Bowles comes to be seen as a serious, bipartisan alternative, when it's a fantasy plan, as much as Ryan's budget in that respect, and one that may cause milder suffering than Ryan's, but still causes plenty of suffering.


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The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) is a national research institute under supervision of the Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications. VTI conducts applied research, commissioned by the transport sector, in the fields of infrastructure, traffic and transport. VTI´s annual turnover 2009 was 16.5 M€, of which 80 % was acquired through commissioned research. VTI holds the Quality System Certificate ISO 9001:2008. The Institute employs a staff of 190, of which approx. 150 are researchers or experts. Almost half of the research staff have licentiates and doctors degree. Several senior researchers are associate professors at Swedish universities or institutes of technology. VTI's competencies cover traffic engineering, transport economics, transport supply and demand, traffic safety, environmental impact of traffic, road user behaviour, collision safety, human factors research, automotive engineering, and railway engineering, in addition to the planning, design, building, operation and maintenance of roads and railways. VTI's resources include well equipped laboratories for material testing as well as a heavy vehicle simulator for the mobile testing of road pavements and other advanced measuring equipment for field testing. Approximately 100 R&D reports are issued annually in VTI publication series. VTI was involved in the TREE project (FP5 Thematic Network on Research Facilities). It is also active in the FP7 DETRA project (Developing European Transport Research Arena).
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"All the world's a stage . . ." We invite you to join us on another trip into Shakespeare's enchanted woods. . . where Rosalind disguises herself as a man as Orlando litters the woods with love notes praising her beauty and virtue. Will the two lovers be united? Will Orlando survive the wrestling match? Will you have a great time? Here's a hint: this summer, there's no better place to be than in Shakespeare's woods at The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse.
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Friday, July 3, 2015
Shakespeare throws a lot of ingredients into "As You Like It" -- pastoral characters, royalty in exile, cross-dressing, romance, humor, and melancholy. The New American Shakespeare Tavern has scrambled them together with slapstick and served up a messy, runny omelet of enjoyment.
The main story involves Rosalind, daughter of a banished Duke, who is herself banished and disguises herself as a boy, taking along the ruler's daughter, Celia, with whom she is fast friends. Dani Herd plays Rosalind as a gawky Great Dane puppy of a character, full of boundless, bounding energy. Kirstin Calvert plays Celia as the quirky best friend of a rom-com, supportive and comic in equal measure. Both are excellent.
The other females in the cast are also in fine form. Kristin Storla plays Audrey, a country wench, wringing every possible bit of "country" and "wench" out of her performance. Becky Cormier Finch plays shepherdess Phebe, whose slack-jawed, lovesick expressions for Ganymede (Rosalind's male disguise) never fail to please. Mary Ruth Ralston sings and plays guitar with charm and grace, and has done some fabulous fight choreography. (The wrassling match near the top of the show is hilarity in physical form.)
None of the men give bad performances, but the balance seems a little off. Part of this is due to the script, which introduces characters in a somewhat haphazard fashion, with some popping up early, some late, some briefly, and some with long intervals between entrances. Multi-casting adds its own complications (with kudos to Troy Willis for a lightning-fast change from the imperiously unpleasant Duke Frederick to the rustic Corin). Sometimes minor characters (Vinnie Mascola as Charles) steal focus, making lead characters (Paul Hester as Oliver and Jonathan Horne as Orlando) appear somewhat bland in comparison. Sometimes multiple characters seem to serve the same purpose in the story, with Jeffrey Stephenson's Touchstone and Chris Kayser's Jaques both equal parts clown and philosopher.
For me, the heart of the production was in J. Tony Brown's underplayed performance. While officially cast in two roles (the servant Adam and Hymen), his sweet, loyal demeanor remained constant throughout, providing a central spot of calmness as plot and comedy raged around him. The soft sincerity of his performance in large measure balanced the over-the-top qualities of the rest of the production.
Director Andrew Houchins has provided pleasing stage pictures through his blocking and has inspired his cast to give energetic, well-spoken performances. (Everyone projected well.) Matt Felten's lighting design gives an Arden Forest sun-dappled look to the stage, which I found somewhat distracting when an actor would move inches from a brightly lit position to one where shadows played across his face. Costumes, by Anné Carole Butler, work well and don't draw a great deal of attention to themselves.
This production of "As You Like It" is not a cleanly constructed manifestation of a director's overriding vision, but it's a hoot and a half. Credit the actors for giving their all to entertain the patrons of the New Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern. And credit Bo Gaiason for some pretty nifty music that adds to the overall Elizabethan effect.


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