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The greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, born at Palestrina (ancient Praeneste) in 1514 or 1515, according to Baini, Riemann, and others, according to Haberl, in 1526; died at Rome, 2 February, 1594. His early history is practically unknown. Giuseppe Ottavia Pittoni (1657-1743), in "notizie dei maestri di cappella si di Rome che ultramontani, 1600-1700", a manuscript in the Vatican, relates that young Pierluigi sang in the streets of Rome while offering for sale the products of his parents farm and that he was heard on such an occasion by the choirmaster of Santa Maria Maggiore, who, impressed by the boy's beautiful voice and pronounced musical talent, educated him musically. As to the identity of the choirmaster, tradition gives no clue. Some hold that Palestrina was taught by Jacques Arcadelt (1514-60), choirmaster and composer in Rome from 1539 to 1549. The opinion, so long held, that Claude Goudimel (1505-72) was his principal teacher has now been definitively abandoned. As far as is known, he began his active musical life as organist and choirmaster in his native city in 1544; his reputation increasing, in 1551 he was called to Rome, entrusted with the direction and musical formation of the choirboys at St. Peter's, and within the same year was advanced to the post of choirmaster. In 1554, he dedicated to Julius III (1549-55) his first compositions, a volume of masses for four voices, and was rewarded with the appointment as a member of the papal chapel in contravention of the rules governing that body. The pope had set aside the rule requiring those who held membership in the papal choir to be in Holy Orders, and also used his authority to exempt him from the usually severe entrance examination. These circumstances and the further fact that his voice was much inferior to those of the other singers, aroused the opposition, and antagonism of his fellow-members. The papal singers did not appreciate the object of the pope, which was to secure for the gifted young man the necessary leisure to compose.
In the course of the same year, Palestrina published a volume of madrigals. The texts of some of these the composer himself in later years considered too free. In the dedication of his setting of the Canticle of Canticles to Gregory XIII, he expresses not only regret but repentance, for having caused scandal by this publication. Marcellus II, as cardinal, had protected and admired Palestrina, but died after a reign of only twenty-one days. Paul IV, shortly after his accession, re-inforced the former rules for the government of the papal choir. Besides Palestrina, there were two other lay married members in the choir. All were dismissed with a small pension, in spite of the understanding that these singers were engaged for life.
The worry and hardship caused by the dismissal brought on a severe illness; restored, the composer took charge, 1 October, 1555, of the choir at St. John Lateran, where he remained until February, 1561. During this period he wrote, beside Lamentations and Magnificats, the famous "Improperia". Their performance by the papal choir on Good Friday was ordered by Paul IV, and they have remained in its repertoire for Holy Week ever since. This production greatly increased Palestrina's fame. In 1561 he asked the chapter of St. John Lateran for an increase in salary, in view of his growing needs and the expense of publishing his works. Refused, he accepted a similar post at Santa Maria Maggiore, which he held until 1571. It is not known at what period of his career Palestrina came under the influence of St. Philip Neri, but there is every reason to believe it was in early youth. As the saint's penitent and spiritual disciple, he gained that insight into the spirit of the liturgy, which enabled him to set it forth in polyphonic music as it had never before been done. It was his spiritual formation even more than his artistic maturity, which fitted him for the providential part he played in the reform of church music.
The task of hastening the reforms decreed by the Council of Trent was entrusted by Pius IV to a commission of eight cardinals. A committee of two of these, St. Charles Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitelli, was appointed to consider certain improvements in the discipline and administration of the papal choir, and to this end they associated to themselves eight of the choir members. Cardinal Vitelli caused the singers to perform certain compositions in his presence, in order to determine what measures could be taken for the preservation of the integrity and distinct declamation of the text in compositions in which the voices were interwoven. St. Charles, as chancellor of his uncle, Pius IV, was the patron of Palestrina, increasing his pension in 1565. He celebrated a solemn Mass in presence of the pontiff on 19 June, 1565, at which Palestrina's great "Missa Papae Marcelli" was sung. These historical data are the only discoverable basis for the legends, so long repeated by historians, concerning the trial before the cardinals and pope of the cause of polyphonic music, and its vindication by Palestrina, in the composition and performance of three masses, the "Missa Papae Marcelli" among them. Haberl's studies of the archives conclusively demolished these fictions, but their continued repetition for nearly two hundred years emphasizes the fact of Palestrina's activity, inspired by St. Philip and encouraged by St. Charles, in the reform of church music, an activity which embraced his entire career and antedated by some years the disciplinary measures of the Church authorities.
The foundation of his reform is the two principles legitimately deduced from the only references to church music in the Tridentine decrees:
Besides sacred madrigals, motets, psalms, hymns in honour of the Blessed Virgin, and Masses, he produced the work which brought him the title of "Prince of Music", twenty-nine motets on the words from the "Canticle of Canticles". According to his own statement, Palestrina intended to reproduce in his composition the Divine love expressed in the Canticle, so that his own heart might be touched by a spark thereof. For the enthronement of Sixtus V, he wrote a five-part motet and mass on the theme to the text "Tu es pastor ovium", followed a few months later by one of his greatest productions, the mass "Assumpta est Maria". Sixtus had intended to appoint him director of the papal choir, but the refusal of the singers to be directed by a layman, prevented the execution of his plan. During the last years of his life Palestrina wrote his great "Lamentations", settings of the liturgical hymns, a collection of motets, the well-know "Stabat Mater" for double chorus, litanies in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the offertories for the ecclesiastical year. His complete works, in thirty-three volumes, edited by Theodore de Witt, Franz Espagne, Franz Commer, and from the tenth volume on, by Haberl, are published by Breitkopf and Hartel; Msgr. Haberl presented the last volume of the completed edition to Pius X on Easter Monday, 1908. Palestrina's significance lies not so much in his unprecedented gifts of mind and heart, his creative and constructive powers, as in the fact that he made them the medium for the expression in tones of the state of his own soul, which, trained and formed by St. Philip, was attuned to and felt with the Church. His creations will for all time stand forth as the musical embodiment of the spirit of the counter-reformation, the triumphant Church.
APA citation. (1911). Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11421b.htm
MLA citation. "Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11421b.htm>.
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SAN ANTONIO — A transgender woman who was denied benefits after her firefighter husband died in the line of duty will get another chance to litigate the case in a state district courtroom, the 13th Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
Nikki Araguz was denied benefits when the mother and ex-wife of late husband Thomas Trevino Araguz III filed a lawsuit claiming the marriage was void because of Texas' ban on same-sex marriage.
Nikki Araguz identified as a woman when they married but was born a male named Justin Graham Purdue.
Thomas Araguz died in a July 2010 blaze at an egg farm in Wharton, a town of about 9,000 west of Houston. The lawsuit, filed weeks after his death, was over his $600,000 estate.
Nikki Araguz has been on feminizing hormone therapy since age 18 and in 1996 successfully petitioned the 245th state District Court of Harris County to have her name changed, court documents state. Later that year, she changed her birth certificate in California to change her gender to female.
She married Thomas Araguz in August 2008, after presenting a Texas driver's license to the Wharton County Clerk's Office stating she was female. At the time of the wedding, she still had male sex organs, but she underwent genital reassignment surgery two months later, court documents state.
Thomas Araguz's parents have told the media their son was "conned" — an allegation that Nikki Araguz has adamantly denied.
"I had been completely honest with him about my entire history: legally, financially, physically, mentally and medically," she told the Houston Chronicle outside a courtroom in July 2010, weeks after Thomas Araguz's death. "My husband and I loved each other very much."
As first reported Thursday in the San Antonio Express-News, the appellate court, based in Corpus Christi and Edinburg, voided the state district court judge's summary judgment in favor or Thomas Araguz's parents and ordered the case returned to the original courtroom for further litigation.
"... We conclude that the trial court erred in granting the summary judgment because there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding Nikki's sex and whether the marriage was a same sex marriage," Chief Justice Rogelio Valdez wrote in the 26-page ruling for the case.
The justices noted in the opinion recent moves by other states to allow same-sex marriage and the 2013 Supreme Court decision that struck down a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act that prevented the federal government from recognizing such unions.
"To date, these developments have not affected the law banning same sex marriages in Texas," Valdez wrote. "The dispute in this case is whether Thomas and Nikki had a same sex marriage in contravention of Texas law. The resolution of the dispute will require a determination of Nikki's sex, an issue on which the parties strongly disagree."
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Angels righty injured avoiding line drive on Sunday against Rangers
ANAHEIM -- Jered Weaver initially felt he dodged more than Mitch Moreland's comebacker at Rangers Ballpark; he thought he had avoided a serious injury. X-rays on the right-hander's left elbow came back negative on Sunday night, shortly after he used it to brace his fall and promptly checked out of the game. And Weaver, despite feeling pain, figured he'd be fine.
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A follow-up MRI in Southern California revealed that the Angels' ace has a broken left elbow -- the official term is a non-displaced radial head fracture -- and will miss at least four weeks, possibly up to six.
"This is all new to me," Weaver said Tuesday, his left arm in a sling. "I've never broken anything before. I didn't really know how to take the news. It kind of was a shock at first. Now you just have to play the waiting game, I guess."
While Weaver waits, young right-hander Garrett Richards will take his spot in the rotation, emerging from the bullpen to start on Saturday against the Astros. The 24-year-old Richards was impressive in Spring Training, posting a 1.45 ERA in 18 2/3 innings, then promptly carved a role in the back end of the bullpen to start the season.
But Richards still has plenty of length to take over as a starter and has by far the best stuff among the candidates to fill in.
"All hands on deck," said Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto, who doesn't foresee having to go outside the organization to add rotation depth. "We're trying to win a championship here. Garrett understands that. Garrett has trained as a starting pitcher and has been stretched as a starting pitcher."
On the positive side, Weaver's ailment isn't on his pitching arm and it happened early enough in the season where Richards can be available in a pinch.
But Weaver is perhaps the last guy the Angels needed to see land on the disabled list. Given the perceived questions in their rotation heading into the season, and their desire to get off to a much better start than they did last season, his loss is almost crippling to the Angels -- a team that lost four of its first six games heading into Tuesday night's home opener against the A's.
"It's a tough break," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said, "but we'll absorb it and keep moving forward."
It'll be up to Joe Blanton, Jason Vargas, Tommy Hanson and now Richards to step up in Weaver's absence, but most important of all is perhaps Tuesday starter C.J. Wilson, the No. 2 starter who's coming off a rough second half of 2012 but can be an ace-like pitcher when right.
Weaver's loss also seeps down to the bullpen, which has now lost a key member in Richards. To give them more coverage, the Angels purchased the contract of reliever Dane De La Rosa from Triple-A Salt Lake in a corresponding move to placing Weaver on the DL.
De La Rosa, a 6-foot-7 right-hander who was acquired from the Rays for Steven Geltz on March 27, posted a 2.79 ERA and 87 strikeouts in 67 2/3 innings for Triple-A Durham last year. To make room for him on the roster, lefty Andrew Taylor (labrum tear) was transferred to the 60-day DL.
"He's a power arm," Scioscia described. "He's a big guy with a power arm and good stuff."
Weaver had given up four runs in five innings at Rangers Ballpark on Sunday night, his fastball velocity eerily dropping close to the mid-80s once again, when Moreland hit a line drive up the middle to start the bottom of the sixth.
The shot barely missed Weaver, but he hurt himself while using his left arm to brace his fall. Weaver immediately came out of the game, with Ian Kinsler hitting a game-breaking three-run homer off Mark Lowe -- expected to be placed in more high-leverage situations moving forward -- later in the inning.
It was, as Weaver called it, "a little freakish."
"I like to tell myself everything happens for a reason," Weaver said. "I'm still trying to find that reason, but hopefully somewhere along the line, something good comes out of it."
Weaver has finished in the top five in American League Cy Young Award voting each of the past three years. In 2012, he won a career-high 20 games, threw his first no-hitter, finished with a 2.81 ERA and sported a Major League-low 1.018 WHIP, but he missed the first three weeks of June because of a lower back strain and was limited to 188 2/3 innings.
Now the Angels will be without their ace for somewhere between four and seven turns through the rotation.
"You guys know Weave -- he's going to do what he can to make sure it's closer to the four [weeks]," Dipoto said. "Whatever we can do to help that, we will. But we're not going to push him back further. For us to achieve what we want to achieve this year, we need Jered to keep doing the things that Jered does on a consistent basis, and allowing him to get fully healthy is the most important thing for us right now."


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The study of more than 1,000 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders in the Philadelphia school system also showed that body mass index is as significant a factor in determining absenteeism from school as age, race, socioeconomic status and gender.
"What's keeping them from school, more than health issues, is the stigma and the bullying that accompanies being overweight," says Andrew B. Geier, a doctoral candidate in Pennsylvania's department of psychology and one of the researchers of the study. "Future research should explore this additional, very damaging side effect of being overweight."
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Neil wrote to me, as he's in the process of setting up a website dedicated to the place name and literary phrase Beggars Bush. He noticed that there is a "Beggars Bush" listed on a map of Blackheath from 1695 by Samuel Travers, and wondered if anyone knew the origin of the name? It isn't indexed as a place name in Neil Rhind's Volumes 1 or 2 of Blackheath Village and Environs.
There is a terrible online interface to the map mentioned in the post, at the National Maritime Museum. It is completely beyond me as to why a museum would insist on only providing tiny piecemeal chunks of a map like this. They say the map is copyright, but given that it was created in 1695, and published in 1812, I can't help thinking it should really be in the public hands (even if the mechanical copyright to the photograph is owned by the museum). It's not as though bandwidth for delivering large images is unaffordable.
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Increasing the numbers 5F7 and %5F19 within the URL above, adjusts the Y and X coordinates shown, respectively. Which makes me think that any web developers with a spare Sunday afternoon could probably pull down the entire map, tile it together, and then upload it somewhere out of harms way…


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Investigation opened 25 years after death of 8-year-old
Artis Echoles died in June 1988 at a Jefferson County campground
A mother is on a mission looking for justice in the death of her 8-year-old son, who died 25 years ago, and a new investigation is underway.
"I forgive him because I have to forgive him in order to move on in my life," Carmin White said about the man she said murdered her son, Artis Echoles in June 1988.
White was told Artis drowned in the pond at a campground in Jefferson County while in the care of a foster family. White was in jail at the time and didn't see the original police report. In 2012, her daughter came across the report for the first time and found some startling information.
"I was seeing how people seen him getting dunked in the water," Shaqueta Streeter said.
Streeter and White said they knew Artis was terrified of water.
"He was scared of bath water," Streeter said.
When White was released, she contacted a Jefferson County judge who reopened the case in January. The judge mailed her a letter stating she had ordered a John Doe investigation, but a few months later a second letter came saying the district attorney stood by the accidental death ruling.
In a third letter, the judge informed White she gave the district attorney 60 days to rethink the decision and consider lesser charges, but it didn't happen.
White's newest bit of hope came through the mail in a fourth letter from Jefferson County Judge Jennifer Weston.
The judge ordered a new John Doe investigation Friday, this time without the district attorney's involvement.
"Even if the (district attorney didn't) want to charge anyone, the judge can," White said.
Everyone subpoenaed will be at a hearing where White said she hopes to see the man she said killed her son.
"I just want to see him face to face and just ask him why," she said.
The hearing will be Dec. 5 in Jefferson County.
The district attorney said she was not able to comment on the case.


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Tucked away in a breeding enclosure, one of the smallest animals in the zoo has just quietly produced the newest generation of tiny offspring. Red-tailed Phascogales are Dasyurids, or carnivorous marsupials related to Tasmanian Devils. They are an endangered species found only in remnant bushland throughout the wheat-belt of Western Australia. The most recent assessment indicates the main threat to this species is habitat fragmentation, exacerbated by issues of salinity, changed fire regime and loss of corridors from road widening.1
Catch a glimpse of these tiny predators and you might think that they are ordinary house mice, but closer inspection hints at their fascinating story. The species is arboreal (tree dwelling), extremely agile and quite ferocious, tackling prey (such as house mice) almost as big as themselves. In an astonishing aspect of life history, male phascogales undergo semelparity – this means that as they approach their first birthday they reach sexual maturity and undergo a breeding season of such single minded purpose that they all die at the end of it, before even reaching one year of age!
Phascogales are a great example of Australia's many cryptic species. Being small, nocturnal and shy, they live secret lives hidden from human view, and consequently few people have ever heard of them. So next time you go for a bush walk or go past a patch of remnant bushland, have a thought for the secret world of small creatures that may be hidden there.
One of the smallest animals in the zoo, they highlight some of the difficulties of species management. We were delighted to have a successful breeding season this year, with 20 offspring from three females. However this success presents its own problems. Because one female can have up to eight offspring, and we need to breed with several females to maximise genetic diversity, we can very soon end up with an over abundance. We sometimes joke that with any animal transaction to another zoo, we will include a bag of free phascogales! As males need to be kept individually, management is difficult. Stay tuned to hear how the story unfolds.....
1 (Short, Jeff, Hide, Andrew, and Stone, Megan (2011) Habitat requirements of the endangered red-tailed phascogale, Phascogale calura. Wildlife Research 38, 359–369. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR10220)
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Reconstruction for Interstitial Diffuse Optical Tomography (iDOT) for Human Prostate
Determination of tissue optical properties distributions is very important for determining light fluence distribution during photodynamic therapy (PDT). In this study, an interstitial diffuse optical tomography (iDOT) system was used to characterize the spatial distribution of optical properties for a series of mathematical phantoms as well as verification measurements in a prostate phantom.
The iDOT system was implemented with multiple linear light diffusers as continuous-wave (CW) light source and isotropic detectors. The spatial distributions of light fluence rate can be described by a diffusion equation with spatial distribution of optical properties as unknown parameters. COMSOL was used to establish the mesh geometry of the system and to validate the solution to the diffusion equation using a finite element method.


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By Jay Glaser, M.D.
Dr. Glaser is a board-certified internist, researcher and medical director at the Lancaster Ayurveda Medical Centers based in Sterling, MA. He can be reached at 978-422-5044. Answers to many questions about Ayurveda can be found on the Lancaster web site, www.AyurvedaMed.com, where you can subscribe to their free online newsletter, The Spirit of Health.
Sufferers of pemphigus are in a good position to aid well meaning administrators in politics, social policy, security, intelligence and defense who are currently grappling with how to re-engineer a free society immune to disruption from within or without, because this disorder recapitulates issues in domestic security. Understanding the immunology of autoimmune disorders sheds light on critical issues of individual and societal health, so we will examine immunology from both a western and eastern perspective.


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It was a day of milestones for the stock market.
Stronger corporate earnings reports and expectations that central banks will act to support the economy powered the Standard & Poor's 500 index past 1,400 for the first time in three months. The index rose 7.12 points to close at 1,401.35 on Tuesday. Energy stocks increased the most of the 10 industry groups tracked by the index.
The Nasdaq composite index marked a milestone of its own: the first close above 3,000 since early May. The Nasdaq rose 25.95 points to 3,015.86.
The S&P hasn't closed above 1,400 since May 2, and the Nasdaq hasn't closed above 3,000 since May 3.
"There's been a bunch of positive earnings numbers," said Stephen Carl, head of equity trading at The Williams Capital Group. "While that makes some investors happy, I'd like to see some more robust growth."
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 51.09 points to 13,168.60. The Dow is now 996 points below its all-time high of 14,164.53 reached on Oct. 9, 2007, prior to the financial crisis. The Dow would have to rise 7.6 percent to break that record.
Energy companies rose broadly after Chesapeake Energy reported that its income doubled in the second quarter. Revenue from oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids rose. Chesapeake's stock soared $1.67 to $19.37, lifting other energy stocks with it — Cabot Oil & Gas jumped $2.09 to $42.88 and Occidental Petroleum rose $2.48 to $90.74.
Chesapeake was the latest major U.S. company to turn in a stronger earnings report. Of the 430 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings through Tuesday, 65 percent beat Wall Street's expectations, according to S&P Capital IQ. More than 43 percent have reported double-digit growth.
On Tuesday, accessories maker Fossil reported that its second-quarter net income climbed 12 percent thanks to growing demand in Asia and strong watch sales. The performance topped analysts' estimates, and the stockpopped $21.98, or 31.5 percent, to $91.77, the biggest gain in the S&P 500 index.
MGM Resorts International reported a 29 percent surge in revenue even though the casino company had a quarterly loss. The stock rose 70 cents, or 7.5 percent, to $10.08.
Also Tuesday, the Labor Department said U.S. employers posted the most job openings in four years in June, a positive sign that hiring may pick up. Layoffs also fell. The data follow Friday's report that said U.S. employers in July added the most jobs in five months, far more than economists were expecting.
Recent comments by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the slow economic recovery has hurt many Americans has kept hope alive that the Fed will take more steps to kick-start the economy at its next meeting in September.
Investors cut their holdings of safer assets like U.S. Treasurys, sending yields higher, as investors sold them. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.63 percent from 1.56 late Monday.
In Europe, most markets rose, despite news that Italy's recession deepened in the April through June period. Italy's economy shrank for the fourth quarter in a row. Benchmark stock indexes rose 2.2 percent in both Italy and Spain, and 1.5 percent in France.
Italy's government, which is trying to reduce debt, has made spending cuts and tax increases that are hurting businesses and households. Investors hope that the European Central Bank will help support financial weaker countries like Italy and Spain by buying their government bonds, which will hold down the interest rates these countries must pay to borrow money.


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The EB093 Arduino Shield is part of the E-blocks range of circuit boards. This board allows you to use an Arduino Uno, Leonardo, Mini, Micro, or Nano module as the heart of an E-blocks system. The D-type connectors provide a bus system that enables "clean" access to all I/O lines. This allows you to use downstream E-blocks with the Arduino upstream microcontroller architecture. All the standard signals from the Arduino board are brought across onto the Shield board including the reset switch, power LED, microcontroller VCC, analog reference, ICSP header and screw terminals to allow for easy connection with the voltage regulators on the Arduino board.
To use an Arduino Nano, Micro or Mini, you'll either have to solder it to the through-hole pads on the shield, or install sockets first. We have a pack of sockets available that you can break down to the sizes you'll need. Note: An Arduino Mini should be version 04 or higher.
Once your Arduino is attached, the three downstream E-blocks DB9 ports (J1 through J3) will be connected to the following Arduino pins:
The Arduino's power pins (AREF, Vin, 5V, 3.3V, IOREF) are routed to accessible screw terminals. The Arduino's reset pin is routed to an accessible button, and its ICSP header is routed to a new header on the EB093, making it possible to reprogram the Arduino via ICSP without having to remove it from this shield. Note: For the routed ICSP header to be used with an Uno/Leonardo clone, that clone must have its ICSP header in the default location so that it can plug into the shield's socket. Some clones, e.g. those by Olimex which we carry, have the ICSP header in a different location, or don't have the ICSP pins installed by default.
The AREF jumper allows the Arduino's analog positive reference voltage to be connected either to the microcontroller's VCC (marked +V) or to another input voltage which can be supplied via the pin pad marked EXT.
E-Blocks can be put together to form a variety of systems that can be used for teaching and learning electronics, and for the rapid prototyping of complex electronic systems.
Each E-Block has one or more 9-way D-type connectors that provide up to eight input/output lines and a ground line. These D-type connectors allow connection between E-Blocks to be made in buses of multiples of 8 lines, just like a real electronic system. Power is routed separately to those E-Blocks that need it.
Processing E-Blocks based on PIC, dsPIC, ARM or AVR microcontrollers, Altera FPGAs, Arduino or Raspberry Pi control the whole E-Blocks system. Processing E-Blocks provide up to five input/output ports with up to eight lines per port.
Please see the E-Blocks Category for a list of available components. For more details on E-Blocks, see the E-Blocks User Guide (in English, French, German and Spanish) or watch the Introduction to E-Blocks video.


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And another AAA-club member quietly exits not with a bang but a whimper:
- MOODY'S DOWNGRADES UK'S GOVERNMENT BOND RATING TO Aa1 FROM AAA
Someone must have clued Moody's on the fact that the UK is about to have its very own Goldman banker, which means consolidated debt/GDP will soon need four digits. In other news, every lawyer in the UK is now celebrating because come Monday Moody's will be sued to smithereens.
Cable not happy as it tests 31 month lows, which however also explains why the Moody's action has another name: accelerated cable devaluation. Those who heeded our call to short Cable when Goldman's Mark Carney was appointed are now 1000 pips richer. Also, please sacrifice a lamb at the altar of Goldman: It's the polite thing to do.
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Moody's downgrades UK's government bond rating to Aa1 from Aaa; outlook is now stable
London, 22 February 2013 -- Moody's Investors Service has today downgraded the domestic- and foreign-currency government bond ratings of the United Kingdom by one notch to Aa1 from Aaa. The outlook on the ratings is now stable.
The key interrelated drivers of today's action are:
1. The continuing weakness in the UK's medium-term growth outlook, with a period of sluggish growth which Moody's now expects will extend into the second half of the decade;
2. The challenges that subdued medium-term growth prospects pose to the government's fiscal consolidation programme, which will now extend well into the next parliament;
3. And, as a consequence of the UK's high and rising debt burden, a deterioration in the shock-absorption capacity of the government's balance sheet, which is unlikely to reverse before 2016.
At the same time, Moody's explains that the UK's creditworthiness remains extremely high, rated at Aa1, because of the country's significant credit strengths. These include (i) a highly competitive, well-diversified economy; (ii) a strong track record of fiscal consolidation and a robust institutional structure; and (iii) a favourable debt structure, with supportive domestic demand for government debt, the longest average maturity structure (15 years) among all highly rated sovereigns globally and the resulting reduced interest rate risk on UK debt.
The stable outlook on the UK's Aa1 sovereign rating reflects Moody's expectation that a combination of political will and medium-term fundamental underlying economic strengths will, in time, allow the government to implement its fiscal consolidation plan and reverse the UK's debt trajectory. Moreover, although the UK's economy has considerable risk exposure through trade and financial linkages to a potential escalation in the euro area sovereign debt crisis, its contagion risk is mitigated by the flexibility afforded by the UK's independent monetary policy framework and sterling's global reserve currency status.
In a related rating action, Moody's has today also downgraded the ratings of the Bank of England to Aa1 from Aaa. The issuer's P-1 rating is unaffected by this rating action. The rating outlook for this entity is now also stable.
The main driver underpinning Moody's decision to downgrade the UK's government bond rating to Aa1 is the increasing clarity that, despite considerable structural economic strengths, the UK's economic growth will remain sluggish over the next few years due to the anticipated slow growth of the global economy and the drag on the UK economy from the ongoing domestic public- and private-sector deleveraging process. Moody's says that the country's current economic recovery has already proven to be significantly slower -- and believes that it will likely remain so -- compared with the recovery observed after previous recessions, such as those of the 1970s, early 1980s and early 1990s. Moreover, while the government's recent Funding for Lending Scheme has the potential to support a surge in growth, Moody's believes the risks to the growth outlook remain skewed to the downside.
The sluggish growth environment in turn poses an increasing challenge to the government's fiscal consolidation efforts, which represents the second driver informing Moody's one-notch downgrade of the UK's sovereign rating. When Moody's changed the outlook on the UK's rating to negative in February 2012, the rating agency cited concerns over the increased uncertainty regarding the pace of fiscal consolidation due to materially weaker growth prospects, which contributed to higher than previously expected projections for the deficit, and consequently also an expected ise in the debt burden. Moody's now expects that the UK's gross general government debt level will peak at just over 96% of GDP in 2016. The rating agency says that it would have expected it to peak at a higher level if the government had not reduced its debt stock by transferring funds from the Asset Purchase Facility -- which will equal to roughly 3.7% of GDP in total -- as announced in November 2012.
More specifically, projected tax revenue increases have been difficult to achieve in the UK due to the challenging economic environment. As a result, the weaker economic outturn has substantially slowed the anticipated pace of deficit and debt-to-GDP reduction, and is likely to continue to do so over the medium term. After it was elected in 2010, the government outlined a fiscal consolidation programme that would run through this parliament's five-year term and place the net public-sector debt-to-GDP ratio on a declining trajectory by the 2015-16 financial year. (Although it was not one of the government's targets, Moody's had expected the UK's gross general government debt -- a key debt metric in the rating agency's analysis -- to start declining in the 2014-15 financial year.) Now, however, the government has announced that fiscal consolidation will extend into the next parliament, which necessarily makes their implementation less certain.
Taken together, the slower-than-expected recovery, the higher debt load and the policy uncertainties combine to form the third driver of today's rating action -- namely, the erosion of the shock-absorption capacity of the UK's balance sheet. Moody's believes that the mounting debt levels in a low-growth environment have impaired the sovereign's ability to contain and quickly reverse the impact of adverse economic or financial shocks. For example, given the pace of deficit and debt reduction that Moody's has observed since 2010, there is a risk that the UK government may not be able to reverse the debt trajectory before the next economic shock or cyclical downturn in the economy.
In summary, although the UK's debt-servicing capacity remains very strong and very capable of withstanding further adverse economic and financial shocks, it does not at present possess the extraordinary resilience common to other Aaa-rated issuers.
The stable outlook on the UK's Aa1 sovereign rating partly reflects the strengths that underpin the Aa1 rating itself -- the underlying economic strength and fiscal policy commitment which Moody's expects will ultimately allow the UK government to reverse the debt trajectory. The stable outlook is also an indication of the fact that Moody's does not expect further additional material deterioration in the UK's economic prospects or additional material difficulties in implementing fiscal consolidation. It also reflects the greater capacity of the UK government compared with its euro area peers to absorb shocks resulting from any further escalation in the euro area sovereign debt crisis, given (1) the absence of the contingent liabilities from mutual support mechanisms that euro area members face; (2) the UK's more limited trade dependence on the euro area; and (3) the policy flexibility that the UK derives from having its own national currency, which is a global reserve currency. Lastly, the UK also benefits from a considerably longer-than-average debt-maturity schedule, making the country's debt-servicing costs less vulnerable to swings in interest rates.
As reflected by the stable rating outlook, Moody's does not anticipate any movement in the rating over the next 12-18 months. However, downward pressure on the rating could arise if government policies were unable to stabilise and begin to ease the UK's debt burden during the multi-year fiscal consolidation programme. Moody's could also downgrade the UK's government debt rating further in the event of an additional material deterioration in the country's economic prospects or reduced political commitment to fiscal consolidation.
Conversely, Moody's would consider changing the outlook on the UK's rating to positive, and ultimately upgrading the rating back to Aaa, in the event of much more rapid economic growth and debt-to-GDP reduction than Moody's is currently anticipating.
The UK's foreign- and local-currency bond and deposit ceilings remain unchanged at Aaa. The short-term foreign-currency bond and deposit ceilings remain Prime-1.
Moody's will assess the implications of this action for the debt obligations of other issuers which benefit from a guarantee from the UK sovereign, and will announce its conclusions shortly in accordance with EU regulatory requirements. Moody's does not consider that the one-notch downgrade of the UK sovereign has any implications for the standalone strength of UK financial institutions, or for the systemic support uplift factored into certain UK financial institutions' unguaranteed debt ratings.
Moody's previous action on the UK's sovereign rating and the Bank of England was implemented on 13 February 2012, when the rating agency changed the outlook on both Aaa ratings to negative from stable. For the UK sovereign, the actions prior to that were Moody's assignment of a Aaa rating to the UK's government bonds in March 1978 and the assignment of a stable outlook in March 1997. For the Bank of England, the action prior to the one from February 2012 was the assignment of a Aaa rating and stable outlook in March 2010.


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Two Many Quilts is the website home of a mother/daughter quilting duo. Catherine Conkey, the daughter in the duo, began her exploration into quilt making before her mother, Judy Johnson. It didnt take much enticing by Catherine, however, to convince her mother to share her passion. Now between them, some may say they have too many quilts.
Catherine is currently on hiatus from quilting to devote full time to her professional photography business, White Rabbit Studioz in Portland, Oregon. You can see her photography work at www.whiterabbitstudioz.com.
Judy continues to teach and lecture at various regional venues. She is the past president of her local quilt guild (www.mtnmeadowquilters.org) and chairman of the annual Sunriver Quilt Show. When not busy with quilt-related activities, she and her family follow University of Oregon sports (Go Ducks!), travel, and enjoy the Oregon lifestyle.
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When Hoosier Beer Geek started in 2006, the beer community lacked a voice for the novices. Founder Chris Maples and I knew there were great beers to be had, but we did not know how to begin our craft beer journey. We had great resources in NUVO's Rita Kohn and IndianaBeer.com's Bob Ostrander, but we were looking for someone to join in the journey. We put out a call for others to join us in the Knights of the Beer Roundtable. We had some great friends along the way in Jim, Renee, Kelly, Mike, Gina, Matt E., Rod, Jessica, Chris, Matt R., Kristin, Jake, Meg, and many others who opted to travel with us.
As part of the journey, we reached out to the brewers and publicans that made a living in beer. We found a community of professionals who were passionate about their work and enjoyed that we at Hoosier Beer Geek were passionate about improving the conversation in Indianapolis. Folks like Deano, Bob Mack, Ted Miller, Clay and Dave, Tracy Robertson, Jon Rangel, Justin-Holly-Jordon-Steve, and many others that let us do silly events because it was fun. We did tailgates, breakfasts, tastings, pairings, and parties that didn't always make sense but almost always made people happy.
We returned the favor by helping the industry with its events. We assisted the Brewers of Indiana Guild launch Winterfest and the Bloomington Craft Beer Festival, and expand the Indiana Microbrewers Festival in Broad Ripple. We brought our own unique skill sets and perspectives to the events and made them better.
But at some point, we were dedicating a lot of time to our hobby. And as anybody that is reading this knows, it is an expensive hobby. We had to either scale back our efforts or ramp up and figure out how to get paid. We opted for the latter.
Making money from social media and internet content is a tricky business. The most common way for websites to make money is through online advertising and sponsorships, but whenever the Hoosier Beer Geek collective approached the subject, we all felt the same way: selling advertising on the website felt dirty. It felt like we were selling out and bamboozling the public. In online advertising, unique views drives the money. We did not want to let the desire to drive up numbers impact how we wrote. Writing for web clicks is a dirty way to be a journalist, if you can call it that. We did not want to cheapen our writing process.
We opted to pursue compensation through two channels: event operations and contract journalism. We convinced the Brewers of Indiana Guild, Sun King, Black Acre, and others to hire us for their beer event management. While I feel that we were successful with everything we did (with one exception that showed me that beer geeks think differently than foodies), we were still a part-time operation. Everybody had their real jobs and family. In spite of the compensation, we were still hobbyists. And while the events grew, we could not. The Guild, at one hundred members, needs someone who can be dedicated to the Guild's cause. We can't provide that. They hired an events manager and Hoosier Beer Geek was no longer needed.
We also wrote for the Gannett publications for a while. It was great working with Neal and Amanda, but as craft beer became more mainstream, Gannett needed a writer that could address this new mainstream market in the Gannett way. And if you have seen our writings, you know that our writings are not the Gannett way. The opportunities to write dried up as Gannett hired someone to cover the craft beer beat.
We sought to improve the craft beer community. You can argue what impact we had, but the community is better now than when we started in 2006. But it outgrew Hoosier Beer Geek by leaps and bounds. There are numerous other voices and organizations that are better able to connect with the mainstream audience. Hoosier Beer Geek has become stubborn in its old age, unwilling to compromise its integrity. And we no longer have the endurance to remain dependable and enthusiastic in the community.
We are no longer proclaiming "I'm not dead yet." We are instead the Norwegian Blue parrot. We are dead. Bleedin' demised. Passed on. No more. Ceased to be. Expired and gone on to meet our maker. A stiff. Bereft of life, we rest in peace. We are pushing up the daises. This is an ex-beer blog.


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Sometime during 2009, professional bastard James Mercer apparently might have slightly fired the rest of The Shins a bit. He seems, by all accounts, to have gotten away with it. Odd though, that the righteously sniffy indie brigade took this act of bawling self-importance and betrayal - potential careerism - so keenly in their stride, isn't it? For the band's dearly departed - indeed, now all but swept off the radar - this whole 'Ta for the years of blood, sweat and tears guys but you're not actually conducive to my resounding genius right now' thing was, well, surely, quite the - ahem - kick in the... oh, never mind.
Anyways, one man standing to benefit from James's outrageous ego-vajazzling is former bit-part player Eric D. Johnson. Reeled in from the Shins sidelines, the primordial Fruit Bats mainman - also a former Vetiver and Califone hand-lender - is currently sitting pretty in the hallowed lair of that merciless beast Mercer, guitar in hand, and fair play to the guy: ten years into his less-than-prosperous Bats career new horizons will surely beckon, and while it would be easy to start throwing around terrifying phrases like 'session musician', 'bridesmaid' and - Christ forbid! - 'side project', if you imagine the Bats as the Silver Jews to The Shins' Pavement, or the other way round, you might find a juicier point of entry.
Thewy fifth Tripper is Eric's first Fruit Bats offering since joining The Shins empire. On this evidence, working alongside an industrial bell-end like James Mercer is not only part and parcel of earning a reliable income in indie rock, but a fertile ram up the arse in musical terms. Opening psych-folk odyssey 'Tony the Tripper' drips with the lush scent of daydream hedonism and flutters into exotic, gorgeous left-turns with a drifting élan that is, yes, occasionally redolent of Mercer's lot, but perhaps more in the boat of Make Up The Breakdown-era Hot Hot Heat, prioritising listeners' pleasure over anything excessively indulgent or esoteric. Admittedly it's altogether more windy and ponderous than that lot, and there's nothing like a 'Bandages' to be found welcoming instant megaloveability in the front door. What we get instead is vibrantly rendered, twinkly tunes like 'The Banishment Song', who, presaged with a curious minute of misty fingerpick, could almost claim legitimate kinship to a particularly mellow/high Of Montreal. Its passive-aggressive missives, told by a typically resentful rejecter in a "fucked up world" eventually recede into a plaintive, perspicacious brood on self-realisation and harnessing blame, but not brain-mulchingly boring, and all crowed in a smoothly stage-worthy falsetto.
But where you might expect exuberance or pomp of Fruit Bats' more attention-reliant peers, there's a peculiar warmth and welcome to Tripper which at once feels restrained and wild, lighting the touch-paper to even the most damp or casual imagination. The sinker comes with 'Wild Honey', a rippling cover of Eric's travelling songwriter pal the late Diane Izzo. Its gently, seductively evocative centrepiece, "To penetrate pure light / You gotta suffer some" somehow captures everything quintessentially beautiful about Tripper better than anything else here. All said and done, it's the kind of enchanting, quietly literate indie rock record you could build an intricately compelling life story from, while retaining a fascinating jumble of half-told, quarter-understood anecdotes, stolen glances and sad, gleaming characters for leftovers. Lovely stuff.
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September 27, 2013 1:38 pm
Whoever thinks fashion, especially runway fashion, has nothing whatsoever to do with everyday life should come on over to Paris for the spring/summer 2014 season. Something relevant is happening here.
It began with Rick Owens' . . . what? It's hard to say. Not a show exactly, or a piece of performance art, but something akin to an "in-your-face-fashion-doubters" explosion, courtesy of 40 largely African-American college students from four sororities who had been flown in from Los Angeles, Washington and Brooklyn to showcase a form of percussive movement known as step-dancing, which involves using your body to make syncopated, impossible-to-ignore sound.
Wearing the origami folded shorts and tunics and harem shift dresses, the laced and zippered leathers of Mr Owens' collection, in black and white and beige and olive green, the students stomped and kicked and sneered and otherwise tried to intimidate all viewers, ultimately joining together in what looked like a rumba line, but was actually the chain developed during the civil rights movement to navigate through rioting crowds. It had nothing to do with putting on a show, but everything to do with fashion.
Because it telegraphed, through the choreography and the non-models and the clothes themselves: you complaining about lack of diversity in fashion? (Fashion has been complaining about this for months.) Here's an answer.
You worried about body image issues, and too-skinny models, and fashion's culpability? Check these women out: stocky, powerful, muscular, chunky, beautiful.
You worried about the lack of female presence in the upper levels of power hierarchies, and women's willingness to lean in? Here they are, hear them roar.
And you know what? They can do all of that, in all these different sizes and all these different colours, and all these different rhythms, in these supposedly highfalutin' frocks. In fact, the clothes help them do it, which is one thing clothes can do.
But they can do more.
They can make you question your own assumptions – at least about what is a shirt or a jacket, a towel or a gown, as they did at Chalayan's "breeze corridor", where culottes sliced up one leg fluttered with the stride, little dresses came with integral extra topping – shrug it on or off, hands-free – and corseted structure segued invisibly into silk.
They can be the heralds of a new generation: see Yang Li, a young Australian-Chinese designer, whose sophomore debut mixed military references (colours and camo and crisp camp shirts) and raw grace (sweeping skirts of the lightest linen, the edges unfinished).
Or Julien Dossena at Paco Rabanne, who wisely focused on an aerodynamic sportiness in the form of patent shift dresses, silver trouser with crisp white shirts, and chain mail tank dresses under neoprene minis and nylon in his debut.
And they can even be tongue-in-cheek nods to the commodities boom of recent years, the money made and behemoths built; for proof simply see Lanvin, where designer Alber Elbaz sent out a minefield of gold and silver and bronze (and rubellite and emerald and black gold and so on) lamé and metallic jackets, trousers, flapper cocktail numbers and trenches, all cut with an easy insouciance that belied the richesse of the fabrics and allowed for a certain physical liberty more associated with jeans and tees.
It was, in its excess, helplessly celebratory, a final over-the-top party before the sobriety of morning, and the reality of the marketplace. Not that Mr Elbaz ignored the latter, as a trio of plain black and white halters and pencil skirts, belted and tracing the body, showed.
But because fashion can, and should, be all of the above, when it completely fails to deliver, it is striking. Such was the case at Balmain, where designer Olivier Rousteing went all-in for the 1980s, from the overblown houndstooth suiting – complete with big shoulders, gold buttons and big gold chain belts – to the quilted leather overalls, the denim and the diamanté.
There were sheer mint green chiffon shirts peppered with pearls and crystals, paired with matching quilted mint leather trousers; jeans-and-gold-chain suiting, and gold pinstripes without an edge of irony in sight. Let's go back to the bling? Been there, done that, sold the stuff at auction.
It's not that fashion needs to be making big meaningful statements all the time (it's exhausting just considering it), but when there isn't much to say, it's not a bad idea, really, simply to focus on something pretty.
Consider, for example, Nina Ricci, where Peter Copping sent out an indubitably lovely parade of white lace and eyelet fragility, intelligently mixed with crisp menswear references – white shirtdresses and grey suiting – and some tougher sportswear. A skirt and tank of mirrored shards irregularly interspersed with fragments of ruffle were a particularly fine interpretation of the inexplicable love affair with sparkle designers are having this season, and if, in the end, they didn't have the urgency that drives need, they were still clothes that would lift a wardrobe.
Similarly, at Roland Mouret, a move towards a graphic sensibility that combined Niki de St Phalle's palette with the striped column installation in the gardens of the Palais-Royale gave the designer's signature Parisienne sheaths and sharp suits notable verve. Even though it got a bit bogged down later in too many folds and flounces, it's still a step (dance) in the right direction.
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Minimizing disturbance: Camilla Landscape Design attempts to maintain sustainable beauty
The mild days before Christmas were a chance for Camilla Worden to work on making a dry streambed and rain garden on her Brookfield property.
"It's creating something that's attractive and functional," she said, explaining that stormwater runoff from her roof is now diverted into a dry streambed in her yard, where plants and rocks slow it down.
"It allows the ground water to recharge, because you're not sending (runoff) into the street," she said. "It can percolate into the ground and naturally get filtered. You're creating a landscape feature that increases habitat and adds biodiversity."
Worden, of Camilla Landscape Design, has been a professional landscaper for more than two decades. She was assisted in her yard by her business partner, John Petriello, of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Petriello is a master craftsman with a 30-year background in masonry and construction.
The streambed is an example of the kind of sustainable environment the two strive for in their designs. The stream, for instance, provides interest, said Worden, an accredited organic land-care professional with the Northeast Organic Farming Association.
Worden teaches courses through NOFA, serves on its advisory board and lectures locally. She also serves on the Land Trust of Danbury.
Aside from her business, Worden has experience as a polymer chemist. She also has a bachelor's in chemistry, a master's in business from New York University, and a landscape design certificate from the New York Botanical Garden. A master gardener since 1988, she's a licensed landscape contractor in Connecticut and New York.
From recycled leaves for mulch, to natural plantings in keeping with nature's surroundings, Worden's designs promote diversity and protect the soil.
"Some accounts (properties) are formal and structured, while others are more natural," said Worden, noting that installations depend on what occurs in each setting.
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"We look carefully at what's already growing on a site to give us clues about what will thrive," she said. "For formal land, the goal is to keep some natural areas and not pave over everything with grass. We try to minimize soil disturbance, channel water where possible."
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How to get your tracks back on Spotify
Maybe when you entered at some of your playlists at Spotify, you found out that one or more of your Spotify tracks are missing, as if those songs were erased from your playlist automatically.
Well, your tracks weren't erased. The fact is that Spotify is continuosly dealing with record companies and all sorts of music publishing companies. That's why Spotify may have lost the play rights for those songs, and then they decided to remove those songs temporarily. But these songs haven't been erased from your playlist: these songs have only been hidden.
You cannot play those songs, but you can get your tracks back on Spotify (keeping your playlists, so you may be able to listen to that songs in the future, if they restore such songs, or to keep just a backup of your musical preferences). This is how to do it:
- In Spotify's main menu, click Edit / Preferences (Control + P).
- Disable the checkbox (if you already had it marked) tagged as Hide unplayable tracks in Spotify's playlist section inside this Preferences menu.
And that's how to get your tracks back on Spotify when temporary song removals take place!
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For months, we have been predicting that the Governor's abortion expansion proposal would permit non-doctors to perform abortions. That was because the only bill that he would allow us to see was the Reproductive Health Act, which would have allowed any "licensed qualified health care practitioner" to terminate the life of an unborn child.
Now the Governor has finally released his actual bill, and I've taken to calling it the Stealth Abortion Expansion Act, because it does all the same terrible things as the former bill, but it does so in such subtle ways that at first blush might seem insignificant, but which take on great meaning once properly understood.
A case in point is the way that the Governor's bill would permit non-doctors to do surgical abortions, even late-term abortions up until the moment of birth. It's done by a combination of several key changes to current law they might easily be overlooked by the casual observer:
First, by repealing all of the current Penal Law provisions that permit criminal prosecutions of some abortions, if they are "inconsistent" with the rest of the bill. Those sections of the law right now include a specific requirement that, to be lawful, an abortion must be performed by "a duly licensed physician" (Penal Law section 125.05(3)). The Governor's bill would erase that requirement from the law — again, to the extent that it is "inconsistent" with other parts of the bill.
Next, the bill is silent about who could do abortions. It doesn't even have the provision from the old Reproductive Health Act about a "licensed qualified health care practitioner". The only reference in the bill to a physician is to authorize an abortion at any stage in pregnancy if a doctor deems it necessary for her "health". But it doesn't say anything about who would actually do the abortion.
This silence is very significant, when taken together with the following provision in the bill:
"No prosecution or proceeding shall be brought or maintained under the penal law or otherwise for acts that are authorized or permitted pursuant to this section or by this chapter and the education law" (emphasis added)
To understand the incredible breadth of this simple sentence, you have to know that the Health Department, acting under wide authority granted to it by the Education Law, can define the proper "scope of practice" for health professionals. It can also enact wide-ranging regulations that govern surgical and medical activities. Those determinations are not reviewable by courts, and do not have to be ratified by the Legislature. The decision would be made by bureaucrats in Albany, accountable to nobody. They wouldn't even have to publish regulations for the public to see — they routinely make such decisions by private letter rulings given to interested parties.
As a result, this sweeping provision would give the Health Department the unlimited authority to permit anyone — even non-health professionals — to do abortions. It would immunize any such non-doctor abortionist from any criminal prosecution under the old Penal Law sections (that would be "inconsistent" with this section of the bill) or for practicing medicine without a license, or any kind of civil proceeding (including an action for professional misconduct). That means abortion with impunity for those favored by the Health Department.
It actually gets worse. The bill would permit abortion of any child who is not "viable" for any reason, at any time in the pregnancy. But this key term is completely undefined in the bill — it would be left entirely in the discretion of the abortionist to determine if a child is "viable" or not, with no legal standard to go by and no requirement that any other person (much less a trained doctor) concur with that determination.
Think about that for a second. This bill would allow non-doctors, people with far less training and experience than physicians, to make their own decisions about whether a baby could survive outside the womb, and then to perform surgery to kill that child — even up to the moment of birth.
This is a stunning expansion of abortion. And it is not an accident, given that the bill was written in collaboration with abortionists and their apologists.
I've been calling the Governor's proposal the Stealth Abortion Expansion Act.
We should be calling it the Abortionist's Dream Act.
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Following on from the great performance of the fat Dutch man comes Backstreet Boys' As Long As You Love Me (4MB video file, let's hope it's mirrored soon!). It's done in the same style by 2 lads, with another guy playing CS in the background. Love those facial expressions! 🙂
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NOTE: Watch the AGA website for our Day 2 Update — including Michael Redmond's analysis of the Park Jeongghwan (Korea)-Chen Yaoye (China) game — which will be posted later this morning.
The Players Arrive: After months of build-up, go players from Argentina, Canada, China, Czechia, Chinese Taipei, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United Kingdom began arriving in Beijing around December 10 for the 2012 SportAccord World Mind Games (SAWMG). The first event on their schedule was an evening meeting on December 11 at which they drew for the all-important player numbers that would decide their pairings during the games…click here for Ranka's complete report.
Press Conference: The popularization of mind games are part of Beijing's plan to develop into a cultural center and an "intelligent city," Wu Jingmi, Executive President of the local organizing committee said at the December 12 press conference launching the 2012 SportAccord World Mind Games. Beijing's all-out approach to the 2008 Olympic Games earned it a permanent Olympic legacy, added Hein Verbruggen, president of SportAccord. This year's Games have attracted extensive media coverage, reported David Neville, Director of SportAccord's Multi-Sports Unit, with 24 platforms broadcasting to 64 countries, who noted that the event's preliminary online tournament attracted 380,000 amateur participants this year, five of whom won trips to Beijing…click here for Ranka's complete report.
Opening Ceremony: "Mind sports are deeply rooted in Chinese culture" said SportAccord president Hein Verbruggen at the opening ceremony of the SportAccord World Mind Games on December 12 in Beijing, China. The flags of the People's Republic of China and SportAccord were hoisted to flutter vigorously in an artificial breeze, anthems were played, and the attending athletes, officials, staff, and guests were treated to a succession of speeches…click here for Ranka's complete report. All photos by Ivan Vigano
LIVE from the SAWMG: Redmond, Bogdanov, Missingham & Lin
The first-day go segment of the SAWMG live web-streaming program featured Michael Redmond 9P's analysis of the Round 1 game between Russia's Ilya Shiksin 7d and Japan's Daisuke Murakawa 7P, as well as visits from Russian Go Federation Vice-President Victor Bogdanov, Taipei player — and official Go Ambassador to the SAWMG — Joanne Jia Jia Missingham (l) and Canadian representative Tianyu (Bill) Lin. Missingham's tips for tournament prep included "watching television and taking a bath" to relax. American Go E-Journal Managing Editor — and the IGF's Media Officer for the SAWMG — Chris Garlock hosted the show, which is available on the Mind Games Channel on YouTube.
World Mind Games 2012 Game Commentary: Round 1 (China-Korea)
December 12, 2012, Beijing, China
W: Jiaxi TUO 3P (China)
B: Chulhan CHOI 9P (Korea)
Commentary by Michael Redmond
Edited by Chris Garlock
Tuo is a relatively young player, very high in the world rankings right now. Choi has been representing Korea for some time now; he's known for his fighting strength and usually plays an exciting game, as you'll see here.
This was the most evenly-matched game of the first round, featuring top players from Korea and China.


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Design thought for the day – I just love certified kitchen designer Susan Serra's attitude toward trends:
You know what's cool about blogging for a long time? Getting to meet bloggers online and then in person. Every now and then I have the great pleasure of meeting someone I've known online for years.
I think I bumped into Certified Kitchen Designer Susan Serra online about eight years ago, following her kitchen design blog. We later became Facebook friends and I always felt like I knew her, but it wasn't until yesterday at Coverings in Atlanta that we actually got to meet in person.
I am now kicking myself for not getting a picture of the two of us, but the reason I bring up Susan is because before heading off to Coverings this busy lady was down in New Orleans covering The Kitchen and Bath Industry Show, a.k.a. KBIS. She carefully documented all of the trends she spied down there and shared them with the world in right here.
Susan spills everything from what's hot in hardware and finishes, cabinets and colors, appliances and layouts, even styles for different types of people from different generations. She's even thrown in the kitchen sinks, and plenty of accessories for it! She's figured out the useful ways to curate and interpret the trends practically, has photographed miles of products and even included some gorgeous shots she took of New Orleans that make me long for a trip down there.
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T-Mobile MDA Pro full review
The MDA Pro is the latest addition to T-Mobile's phone-cum-PDA-cum-kitchen-sink range, and it does everything bar make the tea. Running the latest version of Microsoft's mobile OS and sporting a 72x55mm colour display, it's a worthy replacement for PDA and mobile.
The Pro's design is unusual but functional. Open it up and you've got a standard clamshell PDA with full qwerty keyboard. Spin the screen around and fold it flat and you've got yourself a Pocket PC. Fold the screen the other way and it's a phone. All very impressive.
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A 1.3Mp (megapixel) camera capable of producing passable pictures is built into the back, and there's another in the lid for video calls. It supports 3G in addition to GPRS, so you can grab fast data where available or drop back to more sedentary means when out of range.
T-Mobile is bundling the Pro with its new Web 'n' Walk price plan. Prices start at £30, which includes 100 minutes of talk time plus 40MB of data per month.
For a PDA it's not overly large, but fans of super-slinky mobiles may find it somewhat clunky for phone use.
It's tri-band, so you won't have a problem using it in the States, and it features built-in Bluetooth, so transferring data will be a cinch. There's a standard mini-USB connector on the back, so you don't need to worry about expensive proprietary cables, and the USB port doubles as a charging socket. It will also recharge itself when connected to a PC.
The Pro is reasonably priced, too. Sign up for a Web 'n' Walk package and you could get it for £100.
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Scientist: Global Cooling is the Real Crisis
Most of us have heard or seen what global warming alarmists say the consequences will be if something isn't done to limit the man's impact on the environment. Al Gore, in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth," warns global sea levels will rise by a whopping 20 feet, causing coastal flooding and creating a refugee crisis. Others aren't quite as gloomy, but that's not the real threat to the planet.
At the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change on May 17, Professor Don Easterbrook of
"I think that there's three possibilities that we're headed for," Easterbrook said. "One is cooling similar to 1945-1977 – about a half degree. Not really all that bad. Perhaps something similar to the cold period of 1880-1915, to perhaps the Dalton Minimum, which would be even colder. And which of these happens, it remains to be seen."
The Dalton Minimum, named after the English meteorologist John Dalton, was a period of low solar activity lasting from about 1790 to 1830 that resulted in a two-degree drop in global temperature.
Easterbrook explained that any significant drop – from a half-degree to two degrees – would have a much worse impact on human civilization than global warming.
"Impacts of global cooling are unfortunately worse than they are for global warming," Easterbrook said. "The good news is that global warming is over for several decades. The bad news is that its going to be worse than global warming would have been because twice as many people are killed by extreme cold than extreme heat. We'll have a decrease in food production. It's already happening in various parts of the world."
And just as global warming alarmists suggest the poor will be hit the hardest, so would the poor when it comes to a global cooling phenomenon.
"Hardest hit will be third world countries where millions are now near the starvation level. We will have an increase in per capita energy demands – people will want to keep warm and a decrease in the ability to cope with a population explosion, which is happening and is scheduled to increase the population of the world by 50 percent in the next 40 years."
And Easterbrook advised those in attendance not to be too narrow-minded, but instead rely on the actual science.
"So my conclusion is then that, keep an open mind, let the data speak for itself, and my hypothesis is provable, it's testable with time," Easterbrook said. "So if I live long enough, I hope to see whether my prediction is right."
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