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|Deaths in Immigration Detention 1989 - 2014
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|There have been twenty-one deaths in immigration removal centres since 1989; three women and the rest men. Harmondsworth detention centre accounts for eight deaths; three people have died at Colnbrook and two each at Campsfield, Yarl's Wood and Haslar.
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|INQUEST - Deaths of 18-24 year olds in prison since 2000
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|INQUEST draws attention to its separate findings on the number of young prisoners, aged 18-24, who have taken their lives between January 2000 and June 2015.
|The IAP - Analysis of all recorded deaths
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|The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody will play an important role in helping to shape government policy through the provision of independent advice and expertise to the Ministerial Board on Deaths in Custody.
|The IAP - Deaths in custody Parliamentary log
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|The Independent Advisory Panel (IAP) on Deaths in Custody Parliamentary Log provides a summary of all Parliamentary business concerning deaths in state custody since 1 April 2009.
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|Deaths in Custody Australia
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|Deaths in custody Australia is a series of reports from the National Deaths in Custody Program, published by the Institute from 1992 to 1996 with statistics and related research on Indigenous and non-Indigenous deaths in custody.
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|National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
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|Since its inception in 1976, NCADP has been the only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment.
|The Counted : People killed by police in the US
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Until I saw this blog post about a xeric cactus garden at the N.C. State Fairgrounds, leading to a visit to the JC Raulston Arboretum near the fairgrounds.
Could we pull off a desert garden in the Carolina clay? With some help, perhaps. Reading how a Raleigh gardener set up a scree/xeric/Alpine garden at home sealed the deal.
In September, we had several large azaleas removed from the front yard. The azaleas were not only hosting some noxious weeds, they were also blocking the sun from a nice perennial flower bed. This is the 15' X 20' hole that resulted from removing the azaleas.
We then found Michael Blake Inc. -- a terrific garden center in Knightdale. Michael sells Permatill, engineered slate (made in North Carolina!) that improves drainage dramatically and blocks voles and other varmints that like to chew on plant roots. He also sells an engineered soil (60% dirt/40% compost) that drains like a charm.
We bought 9 cubic yards of his special soil, 2 cubic yards of gravel, and 15 40-pound bags of Permatill. It was delivered to our house Thursday. In two truckloads!
After the materials were dumped in the yard, Cara and I mixed the dirt and gravel and put it over the spot where the azaleas used to live.
How much do nine cubic yards (1 cubic yard = 27 cubic feet) of soil, two cubic yards of gravel, and 15 bags of Permatill weigh? About 16 tons (cue Ernie Ford).
Cara (bless her heart) stuck with me for a couple of hours and then went indoors to bake some yummy banana bread. I got the stuff mixed, built a raised bed, and planted the first few plants that day.
Nano surveyed the progress.
Around dark, I gave up. Plus, my back and shoulders were barking pretty loudly.
So Sunday, we started again. First, we planted bulbs! Garlic, iris, crocuses, wildflowers. Some wound up in this flower bed (joining shallots I planted several weeks ago).
We also planted bulbs in two other flower beds and under this dogwood tree.
Then, it was back to the scree bed. We added plants in several stages.
Some of the plants we moved from other locations on the property were pretty doggone healthy.
And, the finished product, from several angles.
And there's the herb bed -- parsley, sage, thyme, tarragon, and oregano (the rosemary's elsewhere).
It'll be six months or more before we know if this experiment works. But it's been fun!


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Glucose fuels life. It is the preferred carbon and energy source of most cells and the only source for some cells (e.g., brain cells). Because of this, cells have evolved sophisticated mechanisms for sensing glucose and responding to it appropriately. This is especially apparent in the yeast S. cerevisiae, which has several highly evolved regulatory mechanisms for sensing and utilizing the widely varying amounts of glucose it encounters during its lifetime. These regulatory mechanisms determine the distinctive fermentative metabolism of yeast, a lifestyle it shares with many kinds of tumor cells, and which humans have long exploited for production of food (bread) and my favorite beverage (beer). Our long-term goal is to understand how yeast cells sense and respond to glucose.
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MOVIE REVIEW: Captain Underpants is an epic, absurd story
BEST pals George and Harold have been friends for years. The overly imaginative kids spend their school hours organising pranks and their after hours in their tree house writing comics.
The Year Four students' lives change forever when they accidentally hypnotise their school principal, Mr Krupp, into thinking he's a ridiculously enthusiastic, incredibly dimwitted superhero named Captain Underpants.
Enter the villain, Professor Poopypants, and the comedy is set.
It makes sense for the film to be released on the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first of the highly successful books by Dav Pilkey on which it is based.
Book fans will find this cinematic version is not a straight adaptation of the first book, but it is bright, noisy, loud and full of fart and poo jokes - just like the humour of any child.
This is, after all, the trademark of the books. And aren't poo jokes, fun and long-lasting friendship what kids want to see on screen?
The best feature of this film is, by far, the stunning animation: the images are true to the books but the 3D capabilities, the sound, movement and bright intensity of the work makes many sequences feel like they will break free of the screen and land directly into our grey matter, which by then was anything but grey.
Fans of the books will also be happy to hear that a staple of the printed series, Flip-o-rama, is also featured in the film, and it's quite the highlight of the whole audiovisual feast.
This is the sixth Dreamworks movie adapted from a children's book, after Shrek (2001), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Home (2015) and The Boss Baby (2017).
There is a lot of nostalgia in this film, but my four year-old twins didn't care about that. They just loved the action, the characters and, of course, the poo jokes.
Captain Underpants opens in cinemas tomorrow.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Stars: Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms.
Director: David Soren
Rating: G
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Somebody posts a 'Do you remember when xyz' item on Facebook and I begin to experience joy.
I go for a beer with my old (familiar and old – LOL) and we natter and we become very enthusiastic about 'the time when….'
Good old feelings arise.
Actually most of what we remember wasn't quite like that.
We have confabulated elements of our memories. We shrunk them down, bits fell off and we stowed them away in our unconsciousness – be there such a place. Just like a zipped down file on a computer storage device. When we pulled the memories back out again the original events weren't like that but we got to feel something that resembled a recollection – a re COLLECTION – of feelings
They are just feelings and repeatedly running the memories will initially intensify the joy (or whatever your emotion is) and then the intensity will transform into a different set of feelings or will dissipate.
In point of fact most bad memories got bad through practice – BAD PRACTICE!
most good memories got good through practice – GOOD PRACTICE!
It's all Practice, practice, practice – whatever you practice, you will get skilled at
I may be misquoting him but Richard Bandler has said
"The best thing about the past is that it is over".
Thinking about it that way and I have to agree.
It is how we experience what's left behind that is important and what is left behind is not the actual event but a printed memory; an imprint. That's emotional.
There may be physical scarring or damage but the emotional stuff is running the show.
PTSD – Post-traumatic stress disorder, no matter the event is the reaction to memories, even if it (the feelings) are suppressed. There are things that can be done using eye movement to change the emotional impact. I use Integral Eye Movement Therapy and I've watched the inexplicable occur as I've used it. I was so fascinated by it that trained to become a trainer in it!
For me Bad memories tend to lose their impact and I can keep reducing the intensity by repeating a bad memory in my mind and reducing the emotional impact deliberately. That's not denial. It's Adjustment! Just like using knobs and dials on a control panel.
Remember, whatever you resist will persist. Its change that is required not denial.
My control panel, is my mind:
- I can change the pictures that I see in my mind
- Push images away, shrink them down, and increase the size of images from good memories of the same event.
- Change the where I see them to different positions
- Turn sounds up and down.
- Change the sounds of people's voices – their tonality, the words they use. Make them sound like Mickey Mouse
- I can change the intensity of the feeling – damp it down, crank it up.
- I can change the words that I use to describe the event.
There really isn't much that I can't do in my mind, ask any good Neuro Linguistic Practitioner.
It really is like the old gag:
"Its mind over matter – if you don't mind, it doesn't matter"
There is also changing the enquiry you are having about the past:
If you don't like the answer you get, ask a better question!
And I can move my eyes in differing patterns while I remember the event and experience it changing.
What limits our experience is how we use our mind and our body. The 'use' is our spirit – how we inspire ourselves.
It's Mind, Body, Spirit, Practice and Communication
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"Confabulation (verb: confabulate) is a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.[1] Confabulation is distinguished from lying as there is no intent to deceive and the person is unaware the information is false …..


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Expectation can be a dangerous thing. It brings with it the pressure to succeed and the possibility of failure. When it comes to cars, a sure-fire way of generating plenty of the 'E' word is asking almost half a million dollars for the privilege. Add in 95 years of provenance as one of the world's leading premium marques and you've got one hell of a promise to fulfil.
It's a relief, then, to report that Bentley's new Continental V8 S does exactly what it says on the box, offering supreme comfort with a sporting bent. It's a somewhat unique proposition, a cut above similarly-powered coupes like the BMW M6 and less overtly sporting than offerings from Maserati or Aston Martin. A Ferrari or Lambo? Far too brash. The new Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe? A formidable rival, but perhaps a touch Teutonic.
Landing in Australia at $405,600 for the coupe GT and $446,000 for the convertible GTC, the S asks for around $25,000 more than the standard V8 models yet undercuts its W12-powered sibling by a mere $3K. Why offer two separate yet similar models at virtually identical prices?
The answer is character, the difference between the two never more apparent than when the V8 S GT emits a loud whoompf on start-up. Even without the retina-searing Monaco Yellow paint job, one of two signature colours for the V8 S (the other being that worn by the GTC, Kingfisher Blue), prospective Continental owners who wish to remain discreet would be best advised to investigate the more subdued W12.
Introduced in 2013, the Audi-derived 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 produces 389kW/680Nm in S form, up 16kW/20Nm over the regular V8. It has plenty of high-tech features like direct-injection, turbochargers mounted within the vee of the engine to improve response and variable displacement to shut down four cylinders on a cruise, but thankfully the noise it produces is resolutely old school.
Hushed to a whisper on light throttle openings, sink the pedal into the deep pile carpet and the ZF eight-speed auto drops as many as five gears and a thunderous roar escapes the twin 'figure of eight' tail pipes.
Bentley claims 0-100km/h in 4.5sec for the coupe (4.7sec for the heavier convertible), which is perhaps a little ambitious, but it feels much faster than you'd expect from something weighing 2220kg. The convertible struggles a little out of slower corners, as even 680Nm takes a while to motivate 2395kg.
True speed freaks will no doubt still crave the giddying rush that only the 467kW/820Nm GT Speed can provide, but you'd have to be truly addicted to acceleration to forgo the V8 soundtrack.
Weighing as much as a Range Rover Sport, you'd forgive the big Bentley for being a bit continental in its handling characteristics, but it's nothing of the sort. You're really only conscious of its weight when you go in a bit hot, at which point you become very conscious of it very quickly. That and when the pungent aroma of brakes makes you acutely aware that the enormous composite rotors (420mm front; 356mm rear) are working very hard indeed.
Part of the solution has been to stiffen the GT's chassis, with spring rates increased 45 per cent front and 33 per cent rear, 70 per cent stiffer bushes, a 54 per cent stiffer rear anti-roll bar, and a 10mm drop in ride height. This stiffness has not come at the expense of ride quality, as even on optional 21-inch wheels both cars smother bumps superbly, at least with the four-stage adjustable dampers set in either of the softer two settings. Such is the combination of comfort and control, the two stiffer settings seem redundant.
Though the V8 is 25kg lighter in the nose than the W12, weight distribution in the Coupe is still an unfavourable 57.5:42.5 front-to-rear (the convertible is slightly better balanced at 55.7:44.3) so it's the front that inevitably gives up first in tight corners. But we can't imagine too many owners are going to be flinging their Bentley around winding mountain passes, and as the corners open out the Continental comes into its own. It's beautifully balanced and the rear-biased all-wheel drive system provides plenty of grip and confidence.
While there's no doubt a diet wouldn't go astray, the crew from Crewe are adamant weight is one of a Bentley's defining characteristics, and there is a certain appeal to driving something that feels so substantial. The steering is weighty, the brake pedal firm and the bodyshell feels to have the integrity of an underground bank vault. Bentley claims the GTC is the world's most torsionally rigid convertible, though back-to-back with the GT it does suffer a little over high-frequency bumps.
It also isn't quite as capable in the bends as its hard-top sibling, but it does offer the driver better access to the bellowing exhaust and passers-by the chance to enjoy the beautifully crafted interior. Too often cars like this are let down by parts-bin fittings, but the Bentley's cockpit feels special enough to almost make you forget the infotainment screen comes from a $40K Volkswagen.
Each of our test cars has a very different interior treatment, though what they share is an eye-watering optional extras list. The Coupe's carbon-fibre centre console comes as part of the $36,965 'Extended Sports' package, which also includes those composite brakes and the should-be-standard sports exhaust.
Then there's the 'Mulliner Driving Specification', which adds those 21s, Bentley emblems in the headrests and diamond-quilted hide for $16,916; the premium Naim audio system adds $15K, the look-at-me paint job $11K and contrasting interior stitching another $4K. The total? $502,055 plus on-roads.
The classier, more subdued GTC is equally stacked to the hilt for a final ask of $544,810. Should equipment like massage seats, adaptive cruise control and a rear view camera be standard at this price point? Probably, but it's difficult to imagine many customers haggling over a couple of grand. The full lists can be found on our website if you're really curious.
For those that prefer their luxury coupes to be of the more wafting variety, the more raucous V8 S may be a step too far, but for our money it perfectly encapsulates what a Bentley should be: very fast and very comfortable but with a slightly rough edge. It's like a character out of a Guy Ritchie movie, the automotive equivalent of a well-dressed gentleman who is hard as nails underneath the Saville Row suit. And we didn't expect that.
Bentley Continental GT V8 S
Engine: 3993cc V8, DOHC, 32v, twin-turbo
Power: 389kW @ 6000rpm
Torque: 680Nm @ 1700rpm
Weight: 2220kg
0-100km/h: 4.5sec (claimed)
Top Speed: 309km/h
Price: $405,600
Score: 4/5
Bentley Continental GTC V8 S
Engine: 3993cc V8, DOHC, 32v, twin-turbo
Power: 389kW @ 6000rpm
Torque: 680Nm @ 1700rpm
Weight: 2395kg
0-100km/h: 4.7sec (claimed)
Top Speed: 308km/h
Price: $446,000
Score: 3.5/5


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Reuters – July 2, 2013
Rothschild beat competition from Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch at presentations last week and its role as adviser could be announced as soon as this week, the newspaper said, citing people close to the situation.
Finance Minister George Osborne said last month he would examine whether to split RBS – 81 percent owned by the government and still lumbered with toxic loans from a boom-era property binge in the UK and Ireland – into a good bank and hive its soured assets off into a so-called "bad bank."
Rothschild is expected to begin its study on the potential split immediately, with a view to completing it by September, the FT said. It added that the Treasury is also expected to pick an asset valuation specialist to go through RBS' loan book.
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Schooling for Tomorrow Knowledge Base › Themes › Innovation
In order to respond to the evolving demands of a rapidly changing society, schools and policy makers need to be able to adapt quickly. This calls for innovative solutions to new problems, which in turn demands flexibility and cooperation. Questions remain over the ability of existing structures to accomplish the necessary changes. To what extent can bureaucratic hierarchies be replaced by peer-to-peer educational networks to promote improvements in management, innovation and professionalism?
Innovation is important to education at both the macro and micro levels. In order for the schooling sector to provide the services required in an era of rapidly expanding information and communication (the 'knowledge society'), there is increasing pressure on school systems to provide flexible, personalised learning. This necessitates the formation of networks, and collaboration between schools and the broader society.
Indeed, OECD countries are increasingly described as "network societies." Networks promote sound decision-making in response to changing conditions, pressures, and centers of decision-making through the horizontal, flexible participation of key players. The network structure can create dynamics that promote innovation, but careful management is necessary to ensure equity and efficiency.
At the micro level, individual schools must also generate the flexibility required to develop innovative solutions. Whether this entails more and better use of ICTs, or creating facilities and forums for parents and pupils to voice their demands, it is clear that schools need to innovate in order to teach students in the technological age. The work collected in this section of the knowledge bank discusses the challenges faced by schools in the knowledge society, and the innovative steps that are being taken to meet them.
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By now, you're already aware of HankBamaHitlerGate, in which Monday Night Football mainstay Hank Williams Jr. compared the President to Hitler.
More importantly, by saying Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were "The Three Stooges," he broke the cardinal rule of Moe, Larry and Curly analogies: You need three people to draw a proper comparison. Now Hank is offering up a weak apology for his tirade, and here it is:
I have always been very passionate about Politics and Sports and this time it got the Best or Worst of me. The thought of the Leaders of both Parties Jukin and High Fiven on a Golf course, while so many Families are Struggling to get by simply made me Boil over and make a Dumb statement and I am very Sorry if it Offended anyone. I would like to Thank all my supporters. This was Not written by some Publicist.
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Clearly, it wasn't written by a publicist, because a publicist would understand when to capitalize words and when not to. You can tell Williams is excusing himself for his comments as he's apologizing, and the fact that he defended himself in a separate statement at his website makes it clear he's only apologizing because someone forced him to.
I'm all for free speech, and even though Williams made a clumsy and stupid analogy, I don't think ESPN should fire him for it. I DO think they should fire him because his song is old and awful and one of the highlights of my week is skipping past that entire sequence on the DVR. It's a lame song that only persists because it spawned a far more valuable catchphrase (Are you ready for some football?), and it represents the worst kind of middle America pandering that ESPN has become so proficient at in recent years.
ABC tried to kill off Hank a long time ago, back when Dan Fouts and Boomer Esiason were added to the MNF booth. Instead of going with Hank, ABC replaced him with various current rock songs playing underneath game action. People cried out in protest, and Hank was back in no time, wearing his big hat and singing his big goofy song.
So Hank already knows he's something of an institution in this regard, which is probably why he thought he could issue such a weak apology. But I don't know why ESPN wouldn't decide to fire him and replace him with NOTHING. I mean, do you really need a song to open your football game? Wouldn't you rather just get right to the football? I know I would. Monday Night Football already has about six opening sequences. We don't need another. You can take Hank out of the broadcast and while some people might complain, no one's gonna stop watching. We should have moved past Hank ages ago. His song isn't even the definitive song you think about when you think about MNF. You think of the duh-duh-duhhhhhhhh song. Play that song, have two helmets smash together, throw up a ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL super, and get to Jaws and Gruden giving me a headache. That's all you need. It's time for Hank to go, and I'd like to thank him for giving ESPN a decent excuse to put him out to pasture.


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Borderlands 2 short film "+ 5 to Punching: A Bunkers & Badasses Prologue" released
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Borderlands 2 features some totally bat-shit crazy characters, but none are as loop as enfant terrible Tiny Tina, the game's resident child bomb-maker. Gamers have called out Tina's dialogue as racist in a Twitter spat with the game's lead writer. The result? She may be patched in future.


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Less than a week after joining dozens of other prosecutors, corrections officials and probation chiefs in signing an open letter calling for the closure of all youth prisons, one California district attorney took her first official step toward doing just that in her own county.
National Youth Mentoring Model Faces Rigorous Final Test
A federal grant will allow for the completion of a major study on the effect of long-term professional mentoring on at-risk youth.
The Sad Omission of Child Welfare from Mainstream Discussion on Race
Tehra Coles, Zainab Akbar, Emma Ketteringham, Lauren Shapiro
As thousands of Black people and their allies are protesting the systemic racism and police brutality that have been part of the fabric of this society for centuries, some white Americans appear ready to discuss the damage that oppression has done to Black and brown people.
As Hotline Calls Plummeted, Michigan Did Some Dialing of Its Own
It is safe to say that without the benefit of hindsight, no child welfare agency got it totally right in responding to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. But Michigan child welfare director, JooYeun Chang, said that an unrelated assessment of her agency, finished months before the virus hit our shores, was fortuitous in helping to shape a creative response to COVID-19.
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Statistics show that the longer kids are in foster care, the harder it is to place them permanently in a loving home.
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Federal auditors recently faulted Kansas' Department for Children and Families for allowing residents of its foster care group homes to be chronically exposed to potentially hazardous conditions, even though the state regularly inspected the facilities.
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A 20-year-old Northern California man stepped into freedom late last month, after serving his time in one of the state's three youth prisons – human warehouses now struggling to beat back the coronavirus before it spreads faster through a population of 775 young people who committed crimes as juveniles.


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Chapter 1 I don't play tennis with Jessie anymore. Not since last summer, when she asked me tojust hit it around,and I naively believed she meant we were simply going to volley the ball back and forth over the net, not that I'd get a forehand to the stomach and end up doubled over gasping to catch my breath. Jessie immediately ran over and apologized profusely (she jumped over the net, which, even though I was nearly suffocating, still impressed me), but that was the end of our match. So now the closest I get to Jessie on the court is the sidelines, not so much because she's so good, which she is, but because she is so much better than me. And as much as I hated getting hit with a ball going sixty miles per hour, I hated losing even more. "Come on, just one game?" Jessie begged, bouncing the ball against alternating sides of her racquet head. She was between clinics, so we had an hour to kill before her afternoon program. Even after only a week of teaching junior clinics at the Community Center, Jessie was dark, her legs and arms a warm toffee color compared to my mid-June pallor. The thing was, no matter how dark Jessie's skin got, and by the end of the summer she was darker than even the girls who loyally fake-baked at the Sun Tropez, Jessie's hair was always the same color. Almost black. Not a single highlight, no streaks from the sun. Just a solid mass of black curls pulled back into a ponytail, so dark and shiny the color reminded me of licorice jelly beans, which I always thought looked out of place in my pastel-colored Easter basket and always traded with Shelby for the purple, grape-flavored ones. My hair, on the other hand, ended up pale honey blond by the end of the summer, which looked great with a tan. But when my regular old dirty blond started growing in around October and there was no sun and salt air to provide a little assistance from Mother Nature, I had to turn to a bottle to ease the transition to my winter shade of blah. I shook my head even as Jessie gave me a look that pleadedpretty please."I didn't bring my protective gear." Jessie rolled her eyes at me. "Well, you'd better remember to bring some tomorrow. You're going to need it." "I think I can handle a few kids on the beach. Besides, who are you to talk? You just spent three hours teaching a group of ten-year-olds how to rush the net." "Yeah, but they get out of line, and whack." Jessie let the ball fall to the ground, bounce once, then smacked it away with a killer backhand. Even without her trying, it skimmed over the net and slid down the right side of the court, just inside the tape. She'd made the varsity tennis team our freshman year, all thanks to that backhand. "If I need your disciplinary skills, I'll be sure to call," I said. Jessie had started teaching junior tennis clinics at the Chilmark Community Center last week, which is why every afternoon I'd come by before her afternoon session to hang out. My complete and total boredom. But today was my last day of unemployment, because tomorrow I started work at the Oceanview Inn, as a camp counselor for the chil- dren's program. "Better you than me," Jessie sighed, looking around for another ball. She taught at the center because it gave her an excuse to hit the court every day, not because she relished explaining the concepts ofloveanddeuceandtopspinto a bunch of kids who'd rather be at the beach or at their summer homes playing their Xboxes. "You hear from Shelby?" "Yeah," I said, then waited while she dug a faded yellow ball out from behind the chain-link fence and resumed bouncing. "She said she doubts there'll be enough time to come home this summer, but she'll try." Shelby attended the Boston Culinary Institute, turning what had begun as a coping mechanism into an actual vocation. Shelby's obsession with baking had gone into overdrive the summer after her ill-fated and short-lived freshman year aO'Connell, Jenny is the author of 'Rich Boys' with ISBN 9781416563365 and ISBN 1416563369.[read more]
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They say the more things change, the more they remain the same. We've crossed the border, if not the Rubicon, but some things are exactly the same as before. Some of us still roam around wearing shawls and windcheaters (and threaten to bring parkas); and some of us keep asking why the air-conditioning is turned off. The amount of time it takes people to reach office has apparently gone up by anything between half an hour to forty minutes, but the moment of arrival or departure for most people has barely changed by four minutes here and there. And despite having everyone on the same floor, some people are never to be found at those 'Stop Press' moments!
But there are some things that we did leave behind, when we left the old (dis)Functional Industrial Area. There are those who have called 482/483 fie a quirky office; but quirky doesn't begin to describe it really.
When an office occupies two buildings, getting lost is almost inevitable. An ex-colleague wandered into a Very Important Person's office on her first day at work because she forgot which floor her department was on. She was most courteously redirected of course, but was thereafter so embarrassed that she soon moved to a different continent.
Another colleague would regularly climb down to the basement, and instead of turning right to enter the hr domain, would walk straight on and only stop when she realised that she had reached the absolute nether regions of the office
(read, Finance).
From the reception on the ground floor, it was perfectly possible to spot someone on the first floor, but since the first floor connected to both buildings, it was equally possible that said person would have utterly vanished by the time one toiled up that inordinately steep flight of stairs.
Oh yes, avoiding someone you didn't want to meet was only too easy in that labyrinth. Finding conference rooms, however, could be more exciting than the quest for the Holy Grail; especially as people who had been there for ages often gave absolute new-comers directions like, 'Oh X hall is in the basement', and conveniently forgot to mention that they meant the basement of the other building.
As I said, quirky doesn't cover everything that office was. For example, the thing I miss the most about the old place is the (wash)room on the roof. On our floor, there was just one washroom. And to get to it, one had to step out onto the terrace and take a dozen steps or so. I know this may not sound eccentric, or exciting, but consider this. If it was a summer afternoon, the terrace would be a cosy 40°C; if it was a winter evening, then there was a nip in the air which was not quite pleasant; and if it happened to be raining, well, the choices ranged from being patient to making a dash for it. There is this to be said for the new office—with all its well-planned amenities, it does seem unlikely that I'll ever need an umbrella to visit the loo.
But this office has its own share of…umm…interesting features. For one thing, one mustn't forget that this is a green building, which the old one wasn't. Which is a surprising claim in a way because the old office had veritable hanging gardens whereas the only significant greenery on these premises is the grass. And yes, the power generators are painted a deep green. But if they say it's a green building, who am I to argue?
And of course there's the daily excitement in the parking lot. In the old office, we had a solitary, rather benign looking parking attendant. He took the keys from one in the morning, with a look of calm assurance, and when he returned the keys in the evening, you knew your car had been in safe hands. Here there's a whole fleet of parking attendants whose single-minded devotion to their duty would have been most touching, were it not for the fact that their duty consists of telling people to move their cars one foot to the right, or three inches to the left. The idea of course is that if one maneouvers one's car three-quarters of an inch to the left, they will be able to provide parking space for the people in the other offices in the building. Did you ask, what people? Never mind.
These days there's the added pleasure of being told, after one has wooshed into an empty parking space that one will jolly well have to woosh out and park the car in reverse. Apparently the building will lose its coveted green status unless every car in the parking lot faces the same direction. And if you try pointing at another car which is also parked illegally, as it were, you will, in all likelihood, be told that the driver is a novice who doesn't know how to reverse his car. Oh, how glibly they perjure their souls for the sake of beautifying a parking lot!
But of course the latest happy news is that in a short while the little antics of our parking lot attendants will cease to matter to many people in the office because they won't be parking their cars on the premises at all.
There are a couple of things about this new office which are really quite amusing, if you have the right perspective, of course. For one thing, the work stations are perfectly designed for a bpo, with enough space for a desktop (with the keyboard) and a phone. Never mind the editors; they just imagine that they need a lot of space for half a dozen reference books and four page proofs. Who needs proofs and reference books anyway? And now of course there's this. So first we have the office in a place where the only reasonable means of transport is a car, and then we don't have a place to park said car. Nice planning.
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Post script: I can never resist the chance to tell a story; no matter how indirectly related it may be. When I was in college, I spent two years in the same classroom. No, I didn't skip a year; my class refused to move out of the room. The third year, we were forcibly shunted out. And a professor philosophically (and not a little irritably) told us, 'A classroom isn't made up of four walls and benches, it's about the people d****t!' This post wasn't about the new office at all; it was a long-overdue elegy to a place I was before.


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Former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and his wife, Linda, were found guilty on a number of charges Friday morning following a second trial on federal charges that they abused their positions for personal benefit.
Ed Mangano was found guilty of bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice; Linda was found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators.
The Manganos were first arrested in October 2016, and went to trial last year. Their co-defendant in 2018, former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, was acquitted of all charges, while jurors were unable to reach a verdict on the Manganos.
The jury deliberated on the charges for six days before reaching its decision, following a five-week retrial at the federal court building in Central Islip.
The U.S. government told jurors that Ed Mangano accepted bribes from his former friend, restaurateur Harendra Singh, in exchange for political favors and that Linda Mangano lied to investigators about a no-show job she had with Singh. Both were tried last year, in a case that ended in a hung jury, alongside Venditto, who was acquitted of charges that he used the town to guarantee loans for Singh.
U.S. attorneys alleged that Mangano had pressured Oyster Bay officials to guarantee the loans, in order to get from Singh what he wanted.
The defense team, however, characterized Singh as a liar who tried, but failed, to influence Ed Mangano with gifts in an effort to build up his struggling restaurant empire. Singh, the defense attorneys added, only testified against the couple to gain leniency for his own crimes; he pleaded guilty in 2016 to eight charges, including federal program bribery and obstructing and impeding the due administration of internal revenue laws.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Treinis Gatz said the timing of gifts provided to the Manganos by Singh pointed to corruption. Treinis Gatz said Singh never provided the Manganos with gifts before Ed Mangano became county executive in 2010, despite being friends with them for more than 20 years. "Only after Ed Mangano had become Nassau County executive . . . did Mr. Singh bestow anything of value," she said. "Dates matter. Timing is significant."
Ed Mangano's defense attorney, Kevin Keating, did not deny that Singh provided gifts to the Manganos, but said the restaurateur got little to nothing in return for them. The only county contract Singh received was an emergency one to provide food for government workers after Superstorm Sandy.
Treinis Gatz, though, said a county-approved caterer was already approved to do that job and that was the week Singh bought the Manganos' son a $7,300 watch. She also said Ed Mangano steered a contract to Singh to provide bread and rolls to county jail inmates from a low bidder, who had been doing the work for 10 years.
Keating disputed that the bread and rolls contract was steered by Mangano, saying the late Peter Schmitt, the former presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, wanted to ensure contracts went to local vendors like Singh. Singh, though, later backed out of the contract, as his bakery could not handle the work required.
Keating also called it "preposterous" that Mangano used his power to convince Oyster Bay officials to back Singh on $20 million in loans, saying he would not have the clout to do so as a newly minted county executive in 2010. He also said former town officials were already "doing backflips" for Singh, who ran concession stands on Oyster Bay property, by extending those contracts.
Linda Mangano was questioned three times about a no-show job she had with Singh. John Carman, Linda Mangano's lawyer, criticized federal investigators for being careless when interviewing her about the position by not recording or taping any of the three discussions.
"There is no word-for-word account of what Linda said in any of the three meetings," he said, criticizing the "scribbled notes" of FBI Special Agent Laura Spence that prosecutors used to indict his client. "They went low-tech on her. Dare I say, they went no-tech."
Elected officials released statements reacting to the convictions. "Today is a sad reminder that for too long, Nassau County's taxpayers paid a high price for a government that did not work for them," said Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat and Mangano's successor. "Our residents have footed the bill for a culture of corruption that has been allowed to permeate throughout our County government, enriching the few while betraying the many."
"Today's verdict is a sad reminder that for too long elected officials have used their positions to enrich themselves at the expense of the public they were meant to serve," State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach and former federal prosecutor, said. "This should also be a reminder that federal prosecutors cannot be expected to bring all of the necessary corruption cases in New York, and that state prosecutors need to be given the tools to help police the political landscape."
— Erik Hawkins contributed to this story
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William Christenberry: Kodachromes is the first publication to showcase the artist's stunning and previously unknown body of work produced with 35 mm Kodachrome slide film. Spanning from 1964 to 2007, only a small number of the images have ever been published or exhibited. As in all of Christenberry's photographs, the subject matter is the rural Deep South: the twisting back roads, open landscapes, rusted signage, and ramshackle vernacular architecture found in Hale County, Alabama where the artist was born and raised.
Though many of the sites pictured in this collection are new, other subjects grew iconic in Christenberry's oeuvre as he has returned to photograph them for decades—the red building in the forest, Sprott Church, the Palmist Sign, and the Bar-B-Q Inn. However, the photographs in William Christenberry: Kodachromes, made with a camera that allowed for greater mobility, reveal new ways of considering Christenberry's perennial subjects, offering insight into the working method of this venerable artist. With the recent discontinuation of Kodachrome film by Kodak, the work in this beautiful volume is rendered even more meaningful.
William Christenberry (born in Hale County, Alabama, 1936) has been a professor at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, D.C., since 1968. His work has been the subject of dozens of shows, including a yearlong solo exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2006, where his work is in the permanent collection. It can also be found at the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.
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Staff Picks: Design Your Dream Ben & Jerry's Flavor
We have to hand it to them; when it comes to ice cream with mix-ins, Ben & Jerry's is hard to beat. And because we like to dream big at SE* we asked ourselves, if you could have B&J's create any flavor you wanted, what would it be? And no, the realities of science need not apply.
*Or just amuse ourselves with questions like, if you could have any burger delivered to you right now, what would it be? It passes the time.
So check out our answers and chime in with your own concoctions in the comments section below!
Our Dream Flavors
Sea salt, dark chocolate, burnt caramel, buttered pecans, dark chocolate malted milk balls, all mixed into espresso ice cream.—Ed Levine, SE Overlord
Der... I don't know how to say this, but I'm not really a "flavors" kind of guy. I appreciate ice cream for its basic technique and quality, not its wackiness. Too boring? Oh, ok. I suppose I've always been partial to buttermilk or yogurt flavored ice creams, so let's go with buttermilk as one of the base flavors. And wait, buttermilk makes me think of pancakes, so let's go ahead and add a swirl of salty maple caramel to that guy. And what's pancakes and syrup without bacon? Clusters of chocolate covered bacon too, please. Dark chocolate. And fine, let's go ahead and add some nuts too. Toasted almonds for me, please.—J.Kenji Lopez-Alt, Chief Creative Officer
Tea Thai'm; it's a ceylon or black tea ice cream base with mochi mix'ins and condense milk swirls. It should be slightly bitter but rich with a nice chew—everything you want in a Thai bubble tea. Keeping the mochi pliant after freezing might be a little hard, but I'm sure Ben and Jerry's scientists can figure something out. Make this happen please!—Leang Chaing, Sales Operations Manager
This probably exists in some million-year-old Italian gelateria, but I want B&J to do something involving a ricotta base with hunks of chewy almond or pistachio marzipan. Maybe throw some orange blossom honey in there, too? I know it's a little more understated than their usual combos, but they could call it something cute like The Italian Stallion and totally get away with it.—Jamie Feldmar, Managing Editor
You know what coffee heath bar crunch really needs? Malt. And a fudge swirl. And triple the amount of heath bars.—Max Falkowitz, New York Editor
A swirl of coffee and salted caramel ice creams with heath bar chunks, yogurt pretzels, and dark chocolate-covered cranberries. #Lifeiscomplete. —Niki Achitoff-Gray, Assistant Managing Editor
I'm a HUGE fan of s'mores made with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, so I'd love an ice cream flavor that has toasted marshmallows and ribbons of creamy peanut butter, plus graham cracker bits. For the chocolate, I might go darker than the traditional Reese's. For the ice cream itself, maybe keep it simple vanilla. Yum!—Maggie Hoffman, Senior Editor
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I know that what I am about to talk about may not be pleasant to hear about, and I sincerely hope I don't make any of you angry (although I don't know why I should). But recent events have brought about an upsetting problem that I can't shake, and for reasons that will soon become obvious - but I will outline them below anyway - I can't confide in my theist family about this problem... they would not understand and would most likely gain false hope of me "returning to the fold" - I most certainly will not!
Let me begin this way:
I would have thought that after 7 years after I lost my faith, and after 3 years of being an admitted atheist, that I would have settled all the "adjusting period" emotional and social problems that I had... you know... dealing with the confusion of having the thing that you based your life on (devotion to God) disappear, dealing with confusion and uncertainty about what being an atheist would mean for me and my life (besides lacking belief in God - although that may be the most basic definition - we all know that being an atheist in the United States of America has far more practical issues and implications and hard choices about how you will go forward with your life), dealing with anxiety about who to "come out" to and when (if at all), dealing with confusion and new difficulties over how to live in a society that makes no room for non-believers and - even worse - rejects them and sometimes demonizes them, dealing with the friends and family that don't understand, may try to "win you back", may ask you (with that inevitable look of concern and worry) "What happened? Do you hate god? Did you stop coming to church/ stop believing in God because something bad happened? Are you depressed/ angry? Was it something I did? I REALLY want to know if I did something to hurt you so much that you took out your anger at me on God! Do you need someone to talk to, because I know a pastor/ priest/ rabbi/ etc. that I think you should talk to! He/she can REALLY help you in your time of darkness." (What I was thinking at the time: Ummm... my "time of darkness" is for an entirely different reason than you think! It's not something that anyone did! My faith just collapsed and my world is falling apart around me!), also... you have to deal with the friends and family that reject you because they can't deal with your atheism.
I thought I was through all that... now I'm not so sure.
You see... I have been going through a hard time... and sometimes I desperately wish that God was real and prayer worked so that I could have some relief from my pain... even though I am fully aware that all that is a fantasy.
But something happened last night that really got me to wondering whether I am REALLY over my period of darkness and confusion and made me desperate for some advice from fellow non-theists who wouldn't try to do what my theist friends and family would inevitably do - interpret it as a sign that I wanted/ needed God back.
You see, I had a rather disturbing nightmare that I can't shake. When my Christian mother asked what the dream was about, I couldn't tell her... so I lied and said that I didn't remember. In reality... how could I forget?
The nightmare took place at my old church that I grew up in. I haven't been there in a very long time although, the other day, I passed one of my old friends, a youth pastor, as I was driving down the road. She and her husband both smiled and waved at me.
In the dream, I remember that the old church that I had loved so much was decrepit. It was falling apart at the seams bricks missing, the steeple was gone, and the floors inside were dusty and bare. The main pastor and the rest of the staff was leaving the building through the back entrance with grim, pale, sad faces. Some were crying. The reverend told me that the church had gone bankrupt and that it had been sold to a local atheist group. - I didn't know what to make of that - As soon as they were gone, a group of atheists I had never met before - but that seemed to know me - entered the building and started partying, putting up anti-theistic signs and banners all over the church and leaving popped balloons and confetti on the floor. The place was a mess. Everyone was smiling and laughing and inviting me to join in. But I didn't want to. I remember that I sat on the floor of the sanctuary and cried. I was not crying about God, I was remembering all the friends I had made there, all the various fun activities I had participated in over the years, and all the broken, forlorn faces of my friends that had left in silence after emptying their offices. I felt like a piece of my childhood that I kept close to my heart had been destroyed. I wasn't angry at the atheists, I felt confused and sad. I had no desire to join in on the anti-theist party... I just wanted to cry.
I woke up from the dream feeling disturbed and not knowing what it meant. Can any of you help me figure out what is going on? Have you had similar experiences? How have you dealt with them?
This was just a dream, but it also made me wonder why I would have a dream like that.
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I don't know who that is... I didn't receive the "saint-sinner" email. Could you PM me and explain what was going on yesterday and what this troll was talking about?
I guess I should have been paying more attention. I and my wife don't stay up as late as we used to, we miss SNL. Atleast I can come here, read a little, post a little, chukkle and fume a little, and sometimes learn a little about stuff that would only be had from the 700 Club.
I missed Saint-Sinner, even before I learned anything from him/her.
@James - I'm not at all sure I like this site's prohibition against proselytizing, as we are missing out on a lot of fun by not being allowed to shred them.
Not so much fun for the moderators when an all out forum war breaks out.
@Dan - that strikes me as a good time for a moderator to pop a cold one and put his feet up --
Years ago, a retired prof. gave me his collection of rough drafts, papers, and letters, that he had received from past students. For him, these were his collection from graduate cranks.
The most memorable one was from a guy that seemed, by all indications, to be a cocane user. The one book had a recipe for time travel, lost books of the Bible, a position paper on 'forbiden fruit', and vegetarian diet recommendations. The time travel piece was an attempt to draw a parallel between time displacement and raping two pingpong balls with a modius strip. I and a friend played with the pingpong balls idea for a few moments, over a cold glass of water (one needs extream clarity when a time traveler), but could see no linkage that would generate a response, or if a response, no way to target a moment in time. We had to give the fellow credit though, it is still possible that we did travel in time, we just could not tell, it did fill about 20mins for the attempt. LOL
Our many dear folks that make an appearance here, seem to be more together than the aformentioned fellow. We should count ourselves lucky that they do not crank out 500 pages of material. Michael has come very close. LOL
@ James Cox - I miss him too - I had some more "Advice" for him :)
Skycomet, stories like yours make me realize how lucky I was not to have grown up with the same type of religious upbringing many people seem to have had. I am only inferring from your post that you were raised in a somewhat stringent religious environment, so this may apply to you to a greater or lesser degree, but I've read so many deconversion stories that describe alienation, great sadness, and friends/relatives with an inability to understand and whose instinct is to argue with or shun the person. I experienced so very little of that through my loss of faith, and I'm always a bit surprised to find my own experience is less common than I assume. Maybe it was a combination of factors: I grew up in the open-minded Pacific NW, had faithful but not super-religious parents, went to a faithful but laid-back church, was allowed to enjoy whatever TV/books/movies I wanted that were age-appropriate, and was encouraged to get the best education possible. The attitude instilled in me was that being religious was the wise thing, the good thing, the best team to be on, and why wouldn't I want that? God loves you and he doesn't really like when you swear or masturbate, but the Big Guy will make sure everything works out all right in the end. It was comforting but not particularly satisfying. So when I went off to college and didn't bother to find a local church to attend, it was not an issue, and was in fact somewhat expected of a college student. When I graduated and didn't ever go to another church service, my family sort of assumed I'd eventually get settled down and rediscover the importance of faith. When I started being critical of religious thought, religion was just...not really discussed any more. No big deal; it's not like we talked about it in our free time anyway.
It's really sad to me to read about people that really struggle with atheism. Some people aren't religious, no big deal. 99% of the interactions I've ever had with people anyway (whether those people are religious or not, or whether they're my family, friends, or mere acquaintances) have been about our work/school, our likes/dislikes, our weekends -- secular, everyday concerns. Isn't that normal everywhere? That didn't change one iota when I stopped believing in God, so it's had a minimal impact on my life.
Sorry I can't offer you much advice, but from my experience, we all just need to stop taking it so seriously.
I seem to have little difficulty with atheism generally, if any unsettledness exists, it seems to come from my metaphysical committments that seem to have matured out of it. So much nuttyness now seems unimportant. When I see folks making a great deal about fitting reality into a theist world view, they seem very desparete and needy, seemingly willing to lie to fit it, round peg to square hole as it were.
Don't try explaining the unexplainable. There lies religion and superstition. Joseph (Genesis) was an interpreter of dreams; an interpreter of someone's psyche more like.
During REM sleep, the brain carries out some housekeeping, sifting through memories discarding some stuff relocating other stuff, a bit like defragging your computer's hard drive. With all this memory data flying around inside your head, some of it will affect your short term memory in one way or another. Being a tad jumbled up, your mind tries to organise the information into something it can cope with and a dream is born. It has no meaning at all. However depending upon your mental condition, the dreams can take on specific themes and directions. Because everyone's mind tends to work in it's unique way, Freud was able to use dreams to attempt analyse his patients. He wasn't interpreting dreams, but rather interpreting how his patient's minds were interpreting their jumbled up brain re-organization. So, don't worry about your dream. Its not them it's you.
When I became an atheist some years ago, after being a non-conformist christian for most of my fifty odd years, I was uncomfortable about the afterlife thing, or rather the lack of it. However, when I understood what this really meant, it was such a relief for me. A weight was taken off my shoulders. I had been saved (halleluja!). Not by an imaginary friend, but by my own intellect.
RE: "like defragging your computer's hard drive" - that's a great analogy!


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More autonomy for blind people thanks to satellite navigation
"When blind people take a taxi, they will be able to give directions to the taxi driver!" says Jose Luis Fernandez Coya. The man speaking really knows what he is talking about: he is blind but also heads the R&D department of ONCE, the National Organization of Spanish Blind people.
This association has always been looking for helpful innovations and has just developed a system based on GPS to guide blind people. The system called "Tormes", named after a famous Spanish 16th century story, is a computer with a Braille keyboard and satellite navigation technology that gives verbal directions.
This personal navigator was presented to the press in Madrid recently. The European Space Agency (ESA) was involved in this event because ONCE and ESA are already working on how to improve "Tormes".
The accuracy given by GPS is not precise enough and not guaranteed. A new tool, developed by ESA could be the breakthrough: EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service). EGNOS corrects the GPS signals and gives an accuracy of 2 m while GPS provides an accuracy of only 15 to 20 m. It also warns the users of any problem with the signal thus giving integrity information.
EGNOS is transmitted to the ground via geostationary satellites, so sometimes signals are blocked by buildings. This is called the canyon effect. To solve this problem, ESA engineers had the idea of getting the data through the Internet via a GSM connection, a project called SISNeT (Signal In Space through Internet). This makes EGNOS available anywhere downtown. Blind people who are able to access this information could distinguish streets. For a blind person walking in a town this will make all the difference because with an accuracy of 15 m (with GPS) the street is already crossed, with 2 m and less (with EGNOS) you know which pavement you are on.
Tormes, the hand held device developed by ONCE along with the Spanish company GMV Sistemas, speaks to the user, like any GPS device in a car, but weighing less than one kilo it can be carried over the shoulder. It can be used in two ways: to guide the user to their destination or to tell them where they are as they walk around.
Ruben Dominguez, a blind mathematician who has tried out the device says 'This completes what exists for assisting blind people: the dog or the white cane, but furthermore it will really improve the life of the blind community by giving a lot more autonomy when moving around town, specially in unknown places.'
Testing of the prototype is ongoing but already the results indicate that this is a revolution under way for blind people. When EGNOS is operational in spring 2004, blind people can expect unprecedented assistance giving them more autonomy.
EGNOS, an initiative of ESA, the European Commission and Eurocontrol, for use in civil aviation and other new services, paves the way for Galileo, the first civil global satellite navigation system.


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So one of my favorite Charlotte Hornets memories was Glen Rice winning the All-Star Game MVP in 1997. I was still a chitlin, but even then I knew the Hornets were the epitome of small market (and moved just a few years later). Rice seemed like a fill-in bench player (even though he was pretty nasty in 96-97 with a by far career-high 26.8 a game), but went absolutely bonkers in the ASG second half, putting up 20 in the 3rd quarter. He was hotter than P.J. Hairston in a "yo mama" contest! I knew the Hornets had no title aspirations (ending up getting swept in the first round), but it made the whole season worth it.
And the Glen Rices of the world now have another, well smaller, trophy on their mantle with Glen Rice Jr. winning the Summer League MVP. Actually, I'm not sure if he gets a trophy… Maybe just a stack of $1,000 in Belagio chips… Either way, Rice put up a 6-game line of 25/7.8/2.3/2.5/0.5 boosted by a plain stupid 36/11/3/4/0 line with six treys last Saturday. "Pretend every game is the All-Star game film I always make you watch, son!" The Wizards boosted their wings (and headband usage) with Paul Pierce brought in, plus Otto Porter should see a lot of minutes off the bench. But behind Bradley Beal, Martell Webster just had herniated disc back surgery leaving a big early-season gap for backup SG minutes. Sure Garrett Temple might be able to fill-in, but off the hot Summer, I think Rice Jr. has got some minutes coming his way. Plus one of the biggest concerns for Beal is his injury risk, so a deep-league gamble on Glenny Jr. could be an interesting flier. Here's what else has gone down with Summer League wrapping up and free agency moves:Please, blog, may I have some more?


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How to Create Song Parodies With Your Kids: Minecraft Style
Do your kids listen to song parodies on YouTube?
Are they into Minecraft?
Compile your family's favorite Minecraft song parodies into a songbook and turn time online into an offline musical adventure.
It's a great way to encourage your kids to sing more without sitting in front of the computer!
In this article I'll show you how to find music and lyrics for your favorite YouTube Minecraft songs (or any song parodies) and turn them into a songbook you can take anywhere.
Why Make a Songbook for Minecraft Songs?
Minecraft is one of those fun online games that has spiraled into loads of fun activities in other areas. Do a Minecraft treasure hunt, play Minecraft Monopoly or even throw a Minecraft birthday party.
One Minecraft offshoot that has taken the world by storm is Minecraft song parodies. Remember Weird Al Yankovic and his humorous lyrics "Eat It" to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat It"? That's a song parody.
Song parodies about Minecraft have become a YouTube phenomenon. Kids love them and may sing Minecraft songs more than they sing the original hits.
Take your kids' love of Minecraft parodies and make a songbook so your family can sing their favorites anytime, anywhere. Prepping the book involves some computer time, but once you finish it, you'll be able to unplug and rock out.