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How'd that get here? 10 surprising historical artifacts in the U.S.
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Wherever you go in the
United States
, you'll find monuments and reminders of America's history.
Whether it's the Statue of Liberty, Wright Flyer or early drawings of Mickey Mouse, there are objects that speak directly to the American experience.
But alongside all this Americana are items that made history elsewhere -- historical anomalies from around the world that have been captured, purchased, even nabbed along with lunch, with one thing in common -- they all found their way to the United States.
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German submarine (Chicago)
When you think about naval warfare in World War II, you typically don't associate it with the City of Big Shoulders.
But a 1944 operation that led to the capture of the
German submarine U-505
-- the first open sea capture by the U.S. Navy of an enemy warship since the War of 1812 -- was led by Chicago native Capt. Daniel Gallery.
Years after the war, when the sub was going to be scrapped, Gallery stepped forward and helped facilitate a move to the Museum of Science and Industry in his hometown.
Since Chicago is absolutely devoid of oceanside property, it took five months for the U-505 to be towed from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1954.
The sub is now exhibited in an underground hall and also serves as a war memorial.
Museum of Science and Industry
, 5700 S. Lakeshore Driv
, Chicago; 773-684-1414
Viking coin (Maine)
In 1957, an unusual coin was found by amateur archaeologist Guy Mellgren during a dig of a Native American village site in Maine.
Two decades later, a coin dealer identified the small silver coin not as Native American, but as Norse.
Did the subjects of Norwegian King Olaf Kyrre visit Maine during the 11th century?
Probably not, but there may have been trade between eastern native tribes that brought the coin south.
Some consider the discovery a hoax, but at the Maine State Museum in Augusta, where the
"Maine Penny"
is in the collection, chief archaeologist Bruce Bourque says, "Several reliable lines of evidence suggest that it is an authentic find."
Maine State Museum
, 230 State St., Augusta, Maine; 207-287-2301
Adolf Hitler's telephone, typewriter, more
Closing in on Nazi Germany in 1944-45, American and allied forces came away with a number of personal items belonging to the German high command.
Taken from Adolf Hitler's personal library, the German leader's phone can now be found at the
Army Signal Corps Museum
at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
The phone isn't the only Hitler possession to have shown up in the United States.
Bessemer Hall of History Museum
in Alabama claims to have Hitler's typewriter (or, at least, a typewriter taken from Hitler's mountain Eagle's Nest) in its collection.
Eighty miles away, the
Berman Museum of World History
in Anniston, Alabama, features Hitler's silver tea service.
Danish windmill (Elk Horn, Iowa)
What goes around, comes around ... to the USA.
Courtesy The Danish Windmill in Elk Horn
What once was rotten, or at least rotting, in Denmark, is now the pride of Elk Horn, Iowa.
In 1976, the town with strong Danish roots was looking for a way to celebrate America's bicentennial.
Funds were raised to acquire a disused windmill in Norre Snede, Denmark.
A carpenter disassembled the 60-foot windmill and built a matching 6-foot scale model.
The model was used as a guide for the 300 volunteers who helped reconstruct the full-size mill on American soil.
While it was a delight to many Iowans, the moving of the mill wasn't as popular in Denmark, where a law was passed to prevent the exportation of its windmills shortly afterward.
Danish Windmill
, 4038 Main St., Elk Horn, Iowa; 712-764-7472
Mechanical monk (Washington)
You don't find many mechanical wonders that are nearly five centuries old, but one found its way to the Smithsonian Institution.
Back in 1562, Don Carlos, the crown prince of Spain and son of King Philip II, suffered severe head trauma after falling down some stairs.
With the prince's survival in question, the king prayed for a miracle with the promise that he'd repay it with a wonder of his own.
When the prince recovered, the miracle was attributed to San Diego de Alcalá, a monk who'd died 99 years earlier.
The king employed a clock maker to fashion a
15-inch-tall mechanical version
of the monk that moved, nodded its head, genuflected and more.
To put that in perspective, the 452-year-old automaton monk was created two years before the invention of the pencil.
Smithsonian Institution
, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington; 202-633-1000
Vladimir Lenin statue (Seattle)
How did a near eight-ton symbol of Vladimir Lenin make it to Seattle?
Originally erected in Poprad, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), the statue had a short pedestal life.
It stood for only a year, before being taken down in 1989.
An American named Lewis Carpenter saw the bronze statue in a scrapyard and figured he could make money on it.
After Carpenter mortgaged his house to pay for it, the statue was cut into three pieces to facilitate travel.
Carpenter never profited -- he died soon afterward.
His family agreed to move the statue to Seattle's quirky Fremont neighborhood, where the former revolutionary now joins a troll sculpture, a chocolate factory and, during the Solstice Parade, naked bicyclists.
The statue is for sale.
As of 2006, the asking price was $250,000.
Lenin statue
, 3526 Fremont Place N., Seattle
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Queen Mary (Long Beach, California)
What was once the fastest passenger ship on one ocean is now a unique attraction on another.
From her maiden voyage in the 1930s, the RMS Queen Mary was one of the fastest ocean liners of the era, being the 14-year holder of the Blue Riband for the fastest liner on the Atlantic.
It was this speed, some 30-plus knots, that best served the ship during her time as a troop carrier in World War II.
The "Grey Ghost," as she was known, was too fast for German U-boats to catch.
At the conclusion of the Queen Mary's 1,000th Atlantic crossing, the ship was retired from service and moved to Long Beach, California, where she now houses a hotel, restaurants and an amateur radio station.
The Queen Mary
, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California; 877-342-0738
London Bridge (Lake Havasu City, Arizona)
England over Arizona: London Bridge in Lake Havasu City.
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Despite the warning implied by the nursery rhyme, London Bridge never fell down.
There's still a London Bridge over the River Thames.
But that bridge's predecessor, originally constructed in the 1820s and 1830s, moved to the United States.
Its stone exterior was disassembled piece by piece in 1967 and sold to Robert McCulloch, an Arizona developer.
McCulloch was trying to interest people in property he owned in Lake Havasu City, and when the London landmark was put up for sale, he found his attraction.
Reconstructed on a concrete skeleton over dry land, a canal was dug underneath it and flooded with water after completion.
London Bridge
, London Bridge Road,
Lake Havasu City, Arizona; 928-855-4115
Santa Anna's wooden leg (Springfield, Illinois)
Two years after leading the assault at the Battle of the Alamo, Mexican president and Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna lost his leg fighting against France in the Pastry War (started over unpaid reparations to a French baker in Mexico City).
Eight years later, during the Mexican-American War, Santa Anna lost his leg's replacement to the 4th Illinois Infantry.
As the story goes, during the Battle of Cerro Gordo in 1847, the general stopped for lunch when he was surprised by advancing American troops.
He got away, but he left a cooking chicken and his artificial leg behind.
The chicken was consumed, and the wood and cork leg can now be found at the Illinois State Military Museum.
Illinois State Military Museum
, 1301 N. MacArthur Blvd., Springfield, Illinois; 217-761
Man-eating lions (Chicago)
If the
Tsavo lions
at Chicago's Field Museum seem a little worse for wear, it might be because they spent 25 years as rugs.
Before becoming floor coverings, the two mane-less male lions were notorious man-eaters.
Over a nine-month period in 1898, the two lions were responsible for the deaths of 35 workers and laborers (though estimates at the time claimed 135) during the building of Kenya's Tsavo River railway bridge.
Finally, in December 1898, a British lieutenant colonel named John Henry Patterson hunted down both lions.
He brought them home and used them as rugs before selling them to the Field Museum for $5,000, where they were stuffed and displayed.
The Field Museum
, 400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago; 312-922 9410
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A Sandwich a Day: Pollo a La Brasa at Las Primas in Portland, OR
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
In this great nation of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year--so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Peruvian food outside of pollo a la brasa (literally "grilled chicken") is pretty foreign to me, so when I stopped by the very recent addition to Portland's dining scene, Las Primas, I gravitated toward pretty much the only menu item I was remotely familiar with: the Pollo a La Brasa sandwich ($8.50).
The key to good pollo a la brasa lies in a salt-heavy marinade and proper cooking to ensure the tenderness of the meat. At El Inka in neighboring Gresham, the chicken is cooked whole on a spit in front of a roaring fire. There's not enough time for that here (this is a sandwich place, after all), so it's grilled instead. The juicy hunks of white and dark chicken from Draper Valley Farms don't end up quite as melt-in-your-mouth tender as they do at El Inka, but they're still plenty soft with a salty crust.
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Accompanying the hefty stack of pollo is a spicy crema de rocoto made from the notoriously hot Central and South American rocoto pepper, along with lettuce and tomato to add some crunch. Fleur De Lis Bakery seems to supply the bread for half the sandwiches in Portland, and here they are again with a lovely ciabatta roll that's sturdy enough to hold the production together without a tough crust to worry about.
Sandwiches at Las Primas come with fries or a salad. Fries are traditional with pollo a la brasa, so how could you order anything else? The shoestring fries are crisp, well salted, and an excellent complement to the sandwich.
Las Primas
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Genetics and the LawSLN #: 29561
Course Prefix: LAW-617
Course Section: 001
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor(s): Marchant;Stevens
Course Description:
Many commentators predict that the 21st Century will be the Century of the Genome, in which advances in genetic technology will fundamentally transform society, the economy, and our day-to-day lives. Already, advances in genetic sciences are having a substantial impact on diverse areas such as criminal law, health care, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals. The legal system is increasingly being called upon to address issues related to genetics, and many legislators, judges, regulators, and practicing attorneys are scrambling to learn about the new legal problems and opportunities created by advances in genetic sciences. This course will provide students with background on genetics and recent genetic advances, and it will address the legal consequences and issues associated with such advances. Specific legal topics that will be covered include forensic uses of DNA, genetic privacy and confidentiality, genetic discrimination in employment and insurance, genetic testing in the workplace, genetic screening, gene therapy and genetic enhancement, pharmacogenomics, stem cell and tissue culture research, cloning, and patenting and licensing of genetic technology. No prior study or knowledge of genetics or molecular biology is required. The readings will include materials presenting the fundamental ideas of modern genetics.
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 3
Grading Option: Letter Grade Only
Graduation Writing Requirement: Yes*
Flexible Writing Requirement: Yes*
Skills Requirement: No
Note: Only one of the above listed requirements can be fulfilled with this course.
Experiential Learning: No
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Final Exam Given: No
Paper Or In-Class Presentation: Research Paper
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
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It has always been a love hate relationship with the GMATPrep software. Every version of it has had some major flaw, but at the same time you have to love the thing because it houses the only official GMAT CATs available. In any event, each revision of the software has come with incremental improvements (happily 2.1 brought GMATPrep to Apple computers! woot!), and the new GMATPrep 2.2 continues the slow crawl forward.
Installation was a snap. I downloaded it, double clicked the install package, agreed to the terms and conditions, and entered my log-in information and within minutes I was exploring the new GMATPrep software. I have had many install and functionality issues with the last version so this smooth sailing was a nice surprise.
What's new? There have been some solid organizational improvements in Question Pack 1, as well as a very critical functionality upgrade. While most of the changes affected the general practice component of the software, the most important change occurred on the practice test side of GMATPrep. When GMATPrep v2.0 came out, I was astounded that you could no longer review questions from the full-length practice tests after you exited the program. Thankfully, they've changed that. You can now review questions whenever you feel like it.
While that's the only significant change to the practice tests, more changes happened on the practice content. In the old software the reading comprehension practice was a mess. The software would give one question from one passage and then move on to another passage. A frustrating flaw which made the reading comprehension practice almost unusable. Well, I can happily report that this issue has been addressed. The software now groups passages and questions properly if you select all of the difficulty levels. Of course, if you only select easy (or medium or hard) the software will skip around as it omits the other difficulty levels. Even if you choose random, the reading comprehension question will stay grouped. Thank you, GMAC.
Speaking of difficulty, in the new version you can select not only the level of difficulty of the question type in Question Pack 1 but how many questions you would like at each level of difficulty. That could be somewhat helpful if you want to build a practice set that might resemble a real exam. After you finish a practice set you can access the same statistics (right/wrong, time spent per question) but the new software has a dropdown menu that allows you to access statistics from your old sessions. It is a nice little touch.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the new software is (drum roll): you can exit a completed CAT exam and the software will save your results for later review. If you are unimpressed by that I completely understand. It is like a baby's first steps: not impressive in the grand scheme of things, but pretty awesome to go from crawling to walking. Thank you lords of GMAT for answering our prayers.
The last major change: the new software has a store where you can purchase official GMAT study products. Woohoo!! I wish that they had taken the time, effort, and cash used to develop this store into developing an app for the iPad or for android so that we can have our GMATprep on the go. Also, would it be so difficult to allow us access to the question banks? And would we be asking too much for that access to allow grouping of questions by not only question type but by content type? Let us be thankful that the software has been updated and improved. We are better off today than we were yesterday and that's not too shabby.
A few notes on how to use GMATPrep for maximum effectiveness:
1. Do not leave practice tests just for the end of your preparation. Use them throughout your practice so that you can gauge where you are and what you need to work on. You can take them 3-4 times and have somewhat valid scores (especially if you are improving and therefore seeing more difficult questions)
2. As you take practice tests go ahead and take a screenshot of any question that you are struggling with (and take screenshots of anything wrong once you see your results). This only takes a second. Yes, the program saves your tests results but it is easier to have a folder with these screenshots. And you can put them in a dropbox folder so that you have them with you on the go for review. You can apply this same method to the question pack (or any other software based resource).
3. Once you have exhausted the GMATPrep keep taking it just so that you can see all of the hard questions. Again, you guessed it, take screenshots of these toughies so that you can review them.
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So now it looks worse than ever for Clemens. He can't follow Pettitte's lead and come clean because he is accused of being a hard-core steroids user for at least a significant period of years. To admit to such usage would make his remarkable late-career success look fraudulent, largely the result of cheating, and would likely keep him from ever gaining entrance into the Hall of Fame.Teri Thompson and Michael O'Keefe, Daily News:
Baseball's gossip mill has been pumping out rumors that disgraced Yankees ace Roger Clemens is considering suing Major League Baseball for his inclusion in the Mitchell Report. ... Attorneys close to the game say the rumors of a possible Clemens lawsuit are most likely fueled by frustration and amount to little more than an empty threat from Clemens, especially now that Pettitte has confirmed the information contained in the report.George King, Post:
According to Rohan Baichu, Brian McNamee has severe problems. Baichu believes those problems led McNamee to fabricate stories about injecting Roger Clemens with performance enhancing drugs.Clemens is scheduled to give a presentation -- "My Vigorous Workout, How I Played So Long" -- next month at the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association conventation. Jim Long, the group's president, said: "Our officers are going to meet next week and we're going to see what he does. We're going to try to contact him and let him tell us some things."
Baichu, a massage therapist with the Astros who served as a workout partner for Clemens from 2004-06 and lived on Clemens' Texas property in order to be on hand for late-night workouts and massages, unloaded on McNamee, a former personal trainer of Clemens.
"He is a piece of [bleep]. First of all, he is an alcoholic," Baichu told The Post from his New York area residence. "He is a troubled soul and has got so many demons in his closets. He has a lot of problems in his life. ... If Roger is guilty of anything, it's that he has a big heart."


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The web abounds with resources for priests, but separating out the wheat from the chaff can be an exhausting slog. The following is a brief but comprehensive list of priest-centric resources that don't suck, won't give you a virus, and don't try to sell you gold.
– PlusHeal: Extensive forums for all healer types, with excellent priest-specific boards.
– World of Matticus: A group-run blog from multiple healing perspectives.
– BobTurkey: Theorycrafting and healer math.
– Spiritual Guidance at WoW.com: A dual-author column focusing on priest healers on Mondays and priest DPSers on Wednesdays. The healer writer is dull as ditchwater, but the shadow priest is ace.
– Disciplinary Action
– Tales of a Priest
– Righteous Orbs
– Priest Is The Word
– Holy Form
– Holy Fire Spec: A blog dedicated to DPSing in a Holy spec. So weirdly fab I had to include it (though even he admits he's not a meter-topper).
– Pugnacious Priest
– Misery
– Twisted Faith: A super-helpful comprehensive guide to raids, leveling, and the like.
– Vudho is an excellent healer add on but can be (well, was for me) extremely intimidating to start using. Check out Tamarind's idiot-friendly guide to Vudho setup at Righteous Orbs.
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OCEAN CITY- The 13th Annual Mako Mania shark tournament gets underway next week with dozens of boats and teams of anglers expected to participate in the first significant offshore tournament in the summer-long series of events in Ocean City.
With warm water starting to show up in the canyons off the coast of the resort, the early offshore fishing season is starting to heat up just in time for the annual Mako Mania tournament hosted by Bahia Marina. Sharks of all sizes and species are typically the first game fish to arrive off the coast of the resort and this year should be no different.
Last weekend, the first mako of the year was caught by a boat fishing out of Ocean City, a 185-pounder taken way off the coast. There have also been some reports of a few big thresher sharks in the area along with some tuna spotted, although not caught yet. Most of the action thus far has been relegated to the canyons to the south as warm water slowly makes its way up the coast, bringing the fish with it.
Last year, 44 boats participated in the annual Mako Mania, which paid out over $75,000 in prize money. All in all, 18 makos and two big threshers were caught during the tournament. The top prize went to the "Press Time" with Captain Luke Blume and angler Jeff Kowalski with a 226-pound mako worth over $38,000. Second-place went to the crew aboard the "Salty Sons," while the "Wayne's World" was third and the "Playmate" was fourth. The two big threshers caught included a 506-pounder caught by the "Marli" and a 436-pounder caught by the crew on the "Barbed Wire."
While the event is all about fishing, and particularly sharks, as its name implies, the activity on land is no less exciting. Curiosity seekers will cram into Bahia Marina each afternoon during the tournament for a chance to see a potential winning shark raised at the scale in what has become a festival of sorts celebrating the arrival of another summer offshore fishing season.
The event gets started next Thursday with a captains' meeting with the first of three official fishing days set for next Friday. Other fishing days include Saturday and Sunday, and the boats and their captains must choose to fish two of the three fishing days. Mako sharks are the featured species in the tournament although there are also divisions for threshers and bluefish, for example.
Like most tournaments in the area, the conservation of the various species is paramount to success, and to that end, an award and a check for $1,000 is given out for the most shark releases called the W.W. Harman Award. Last year, the "It'll Do" took the W.W. Harman Award and earned a check for $1,000.


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What's a chain fork? The IRS claims only 802 people claimed Bitcoin on their 2015 taxes, and we explore the difficulty BTC users face with IRS compliance. Numerous Bitcoin exchanges issue joint letter regarding Bitcoin ticker tag in the face of the chain fork. Darren talks about what to expect from a Bitcoin Unlimited / Bitcoin Core hard fork and elaborates on what a chain fork is. Bitcoin Core explores a new Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm that would render current ASICs obsolete for Bitcoin mining. Pedro shares a new website that monitors and optimizes Ethereum transaction gas prices. Darren has a scam alert and a cautionary tale about CoinTelegraph's article credibility. China demands explicit details from Bitcoin exchange users, including receipts that will be verified against Chinese National Archival records. The Zcash Company announces the creation of the Zcash Foundation which will be rewarded with part of the Zcash Founder's Reward. We talk about methods used by the Zcash team to create the initial public and private keys. Charlie Shrem is looking for funding to create a Dash based debit card. Prediction markets are a big part of the crypto space, can they actually predict the future? Matchpool looks to link up people for a variety of reasons including dating.
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The father of the suspected Newtown gunman spoke out late Saturday as he and his family struggle to come to grips with the horrific events at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Peter Lanza said in a statement that "our family is grieving along with all those who have been affected by this enormous tragedy."
Investigators are trying to learn more about Lanza's son, 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza, who gunned down six women and 20 children at a Newtown elementary school. They've questioned his older brother, who's not believed to have been involved in the rampage.
The statement said: "No words can truly express how heartbroken we are," adding that relatives are "in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can."
"We too are asking why. We have cooperated fully with law enforcement and will continue to do so. Like so many of you, we are saddened, but struggling to make sense of what has transpired."


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H.R.2821 - American Jobs Act of 2013113th Congress (2013-2014)
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|Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24] (Introduced 07/24/2013)
|House - Ways and Means; Small Business; Education and the Workforce; Judiciary; Transportation and Infrastructure; Financial Services; House Administration; Oversight and Government Reform; Budget
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|House - 09/18/2014 Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Ms. Wilson (FL). Petition No: 113-12. (Discharge petition text with signatures.) (All Actions)
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American Jobs Act of 2013 - Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or public work unless all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in such project are produced in the United States (Buy American). Waives such prohibition in cases where: (1) the prohibition would be inconsistent with the public interest; (2) iron, steel, and the relevant manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities of a satisfactory quality; or (3) inclusion of iron, steel, and manufactured goods produced in the United States will increase the cost of the overall project by more than 25%.
Requires all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on federally-assisted projects to be paid wages at the locally prevailing rates (Davis-Bacon Act).
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) restore the making work pay tax credit in 2014, and (2) extend the additional allowance for depreciation (bonus depreciation) for 3 years.
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase from $2 million to $5 million through FY2014 the limit on the guarantee for contract surety bonds and on the liability for bonds obtained by fraud or misrepresentation.
Directs the Secretaries of Education and the Interior (for schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Education) to reserve through FY2014 appropriated amounts to provide educational assistance to outlying areas based on their respective needs. Provides for allocations to states and local educational entities for early childhood learning programs in FY2014-FY2015 at specified levels.
Directs the Attorney General to carry out a competitive grant program pursuant to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 for the hiring, rehiring, or retention of career law enforcement officers. Makes appropriations to the Community Oriented Policing Stabilization Fund to carry out such program and provides for a transfer to a First Responder Stabilization Fund, from which the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) shall make competitive grants for hiring additional firefighters pursuant to the Federal Fire Prevention Control Act of 1974.
Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to states to modernize, renovate, or repair early learning or elementary or secondary education facilities and existing facilities at community colleges.
Makes specified funds available to the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) for: (1) grants-in-aid for airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning projects under the airport improvement program (AIP); (2) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Next Generation air traffic control system advancements; (3) highway and bridge restoration, repair, and construction projects and for passenger and freight rail transportation and port infrastructure projects; (4) grants for high-speed rail projects, capital investment grants for intercity passenger rail service, and grants to reduce congestion on intercity rail passenger transportation; (5) capital grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); (6) transit capital assistance grants; (7) capital projects for existing fixed guideway system modernization, replacement and repair of buses and bus-related equipment, and construction of bus-related facilities; and (8) discretionary capital investment grants for surface transportation infrastructure.
Building and Upgrading Infrastructure for Long-Term Development Act - Establishes the American Infrastructure Financing Authority (AIFA) as a wholly-owned government corporation to make direct loans and loan guarantees to facilitate transportation, water, or energy infrastructure projects. Requires infrastructure projects assisted under this Act to have costs that are reasonably anticipated to equal or exceed $100 million ($25 million for rural infrastructure projects).
Sets forth special requirements for infrastructure projects in rural areas. Requires the AIFA Chief Lending Officer to establish: (1) an Office of Rural Assistance to provide technical assistance in the development and financing of rural infrastructure projects, and (2) a Center for Excellence to provide such assistance to public sector borrowers in the development and financing of infrastructure projects.
Establishes an Office of Special Inspector General to audit and investigate the business activities of AIFA.
Makes private projects for which no public benefit is created ineligible for financial assistance. Sets forth terms for loans or loan guarantees for infrastructure projects.
Requires the Chief Executive Officer of AIFA to establish and collect fees sufficient to cover all or a portion of AIFA administrative costs.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2014 the exemption from the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for certain tax-exempt private activity bonds.
Appropriates funds for assistance to eligible entities, including state and local governments, qualified nonprofit organizations, businesses, or eligible consortia, for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties and for stabilization of affected neighborhoods (Project Rebuild). Allows the use of funds to: (1) establish financing mechanisms for the purchase and redevelopment of such properties; (2) purchase and rehabilitate such properties; (3) establish and operate land banks for them; (4) demolish blighted structures (except public housing); and (5) redevelop abandoned, foreclosed, demolished, or vacant properties.
Requires each state to receive at least $20 million of formula funds, all of which shall be used with respect to low and moderate-income individuals and families.
Requires each state and local government grantee to establish procedures to create preferences for development of affordable rental housing.
Allows a grantee to use up to 10% of a grant to create jobs by establishing and operating a program to maintain eligible neighborhood properties.
Supporting Unemployed Workers Act of 2013 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to extend the emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) program until January 1, 2016.
Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend through December 31, 2015, requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.
Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to extend through December 31, 2015, the temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits for employees with 10 or more years of service and for employees with less than 10 years of service. Permits the use of pre-existing appropriated funds under such Act to cover the cost of additional extended unemployment benefits and the cost of current benefits.
Establishes the Reemployment NOW program to facilitate the reemployment of individuals receiving emergency unemployment compensation (EUC claimants). Requires a state to submit for approval by the Secretary of Labor a plan meeting certain minimum requirements in order to be eligible for an allotment of federal funds under such program.
Authorizes a state to use its allotted funds to: (1) establish a Bridge to Work program to provide EUC claimants with short-term work experience placements with eligible employers; (2) provide a wage insurance program to pay, for up to two years, an EUC claimant who obtains reemployment up to 50% of the difference between the wages received at the time of work separation and the wages received for reemployment; and (3) provide a program of enhanced reemployment services to EUC claimants, including unemployed individuals who have exhausted their EUC rights.
Provides for federal financing of state short-time compensation programs. Requires the Secretary of Labor to: (1) award grants to states that enact such programs; (2) develop model legislative language for use by states in developing, enacting, and implementing such programs; and (3) report to Congress and the President on the implementation of such programs.
Allows an increased work opportunity tax credit for long-term unemployed individuals (individuals who are unemployed and receiving unemployment compensation for six months or more).
Pathways Back to Work Act of 2013 - Establishes programs to subsidize employment for unemployed, low-income adults, to provide summer and year-round employment opportunities to low-income youth, and for work-based training. Provides for an initial appropriation of $5 billion, with funds available for obligation by the Secretary of Labor until December 31, 2014, and for expenditure by grantees and subgrantees until September 30, 2015.
Subjects activities funded under this Act to federal labor standards and nondiscrimination protections.
Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2013 - Makes it an unlawful practice for certain employers to: (1) publish a job advertisement or announcement that includes provisions indicating that an individual's status as unemployed disqualifies the individual for employment or that the employer will not consider or hire an individual for employment based on such status, (2) fail or refuse to consider or hire an individual because of such status, or (3) direct or request that an employment agency take an individual's status into account to disqualify an applicant for consideration for employment or when screening or referring employees.
Makes it an unlawful practice for an employment agency to commit similar acts, including to: (1) screen, or fail or refuse to consider or refer, an individual for employment because of the individual's unemployed status; or (2) limit, segregate, or classify any such individual in any manner that would limit access to job information or consideration, screening, or referral for jobs.
Makes it unlawful for any employer or employment agency to: (1) interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of any right provided under this Act; or (2) fail or refuse to hire, discharge, or otherwise discriminate against an employee because such individual opposed any practice made unlawful by this Act or asserted any right under it.
Prescribes enforcement authorities and legal remedies for violations of this Act.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for offsets against decreases in revenue by: (1) limiting tax deductions and other tax exclusions for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds $200,000 ($250,000 for married taxpayers filing a joint return), (2) treating income received by a partner from an investment services partnership interest as ordinary income for income tax purposes, and (3) treating all general aviation aircraft (including corporate jets) as seven-year property for depreciation purposes.
Repeals, after 2013, certain tax expenditures for the oil and gas industry, including: (1) the tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs for oil and gas wells; (2) the tax deduction for tertiary injectant expenditures; (3) percentage depletion for oil and gas wells; (4) the tax deduction for income from activities relating to oil, natural gas, or any primary product thereof; (5) the exemption from limitations on passive activity losses; and (6) the tax credits for enhanced oil recovery and for producing oil and gas from marginal wells. Increases from two to seven years the period for amortizing geological and geophysical expenditures.
Denies the foreign tax credit for amounts paid or accrued by a dual capacity taxpayer to a foreign country or U.S. possession. Defines "dual capacity taxpayer" as a person who is subject to a levy of a foreign country or U.S. possession and who receives a specific economic benefit from such country or possession. Sets forth a special rule for the treatment of taxes paid on foreign oil and gas income for purposes of the foreign tax credit.
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm--Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011, to repeal its budget goal enforcement requirements (sequestration mandate).


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Dina Lohan's production company is getting ready to shoot a feature film about a group of heroin-addicted kids -- and her son will play the lead. Wait ... Dina Lohan has a production company?
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New: TELEGRAPH (AVE) TALES: A Good Week in Lake Southside
It was a good week in Lake Southside, where everyone is down and out.
Craig Becker was making plans for the first Thanksgiving at the Cafe Med since he bought the business four years ago, when it was close to bankruptcy. Becker is a Berkeley big shot, who is chummy with all the city bureaucrats, as well as two police chiefs.
He is a member of the city's homeless commission, and president of the Telegraph Avenue business improvement district, but manages to find time here and there to run the Med, which has recently added Beer and Wine, which some Medheads thought triggered the death of the Med.
Their fears turned out to be ill-founded.
Becker enjoys being a sommelier and purveyor of spirits. He spent almost as much time converting the Med into a nightclub, as he did birthing and backing Measure "S," no-sitting, which was rejected by voters.
His cafe hosts musicians, go-matches, and Tango classes.
I asked him yesterday whether his high profile position on "S" had cost him business.
"Business is up," he said.
Becker tells me that TBID, Telegraph property owners, commissioned a poll when "S" was first put on the ballot, which among other questions polled respondents on "S."
"We were behind in the poll, 44% to our opponents' 52%," he said. "If we had had more time we might have closed the gap," he added.
Becker and one of his employees was mopping the filthy floor of the notorious coffee-house cheap-eats establishment, when I poked my head, then my body into the cafe.
The floor was still damp. The floor had not been cleaned in more than a year.
What the floor needs is to be power-cleaned by one of those gizmos the Navy uses to clean its decks, then to be sealed. Mopping just treats the symptoms mildly. "Look," said Becker's fellow mopper (swabby), pointing to accumulated stains, and a patina "there is forty years of dirt ground into the tiles," he said.
"More like twenty-five years," Becker quibbled.
Becker told me the floors didn't really matter, since "no one looks at the floors. They are too busy looking at all the interesting things I put on the walls."
This seemed completely weird. "What gives you that idea? Is it some sort of marketing theory. Is it in a book, like "Sell the Sizzle, Not the Steak?"
"It doesn't need to be in a book," he said resolutely, "I just to know that myself."
Becker and his colleague on TBID, Roland Peterson, Executive Director, used the same logic to rebut a Cal law school study, which was reported by the Daily Californian just days before the election.
The study refuted claims favoring "S," using what seemed to be impressive data. Becker and Peterson shot back with, a we-don't-need-no-stinkin study attitude, saying,
more or less, that they could feel the need for "S" in their bones.
According to Rob Wrenn in the Planet, students on the Southside defeated "S."
Becker had, as well, been put in the difficult position of quarreling with the student government in print, subjecting Daily Cal readers to his long tomes, and opposing the paper's own position on "S." Free speech lives at Cal.
Berkeley's re-elected mayor shows up, but skips the turkeyTom Bates, with his wife, Loni Hancock, and her daughter, poked their noses in to wish Becker, one of Bates' most persistent petitioners, a happy holiday. But he didn't join the turkey-feed.
Through a complicated series of steps, the turkey was prepared—I didn't say cooked—by the cook for the Unitarian-Universalist Church, Kensington.
I was married in a Unitarian church, so I wanted to taste this Unitarian turkey.
How thankful is it to be unthankful for Thanksgiving?If I were a food reviewer, I would say that Unitarian turkey was half-baked—bloody, but the analogy degrades.
Perhaps I can say the mayor got something right this time when he didn't duck in for Turkey.
Also, the Turkey appeared in an un-Turkey like manner, sort of grey, and eviscerated.
If I didn't know better, I'd say the Unitarians' prayers for this Turkey fell on deaf ears, if God even listens to them at all.
Just how unthankful is all this? And on Thanksgiving. What would Norman Rockwell think?
Still there was a lot to be thankful for at the Med's first Thanksgiving, ever. There was a lot of affection among Medheads, who showed up looking grey and lonely. Becker hugged someone, but it must have been the drinks. He gave me a free pint of his best beer.
The singer was good.
The Unitarian turkey, and a glob of pot-luck, wound up in Camp Hate, People's Park, U.S.A., according to a representative of the church's cook.
Ted Friedman, the Planet's 'Voice of the South side," promises to interview Camp Haters about that Unitarian turkey.


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High-speed toll road has first fatality
A Lockhart woman was killed on the Texas 130 toll road in what is the first fatality since the corridor's new segment opened last month.
Though the Sunday afternoon crash immediately revived questions about the road's 85 mph speed limit, the fastest in the country, investigators have not yet determined if speed was a factor.
The new Texas 130 segment, a band of asphalt cutting through the open land of Central Texas, stretches 41 miles from south Austin to Interstate 10 in Seguin, passing west of Lockhart.
About 1:45 p.m., driver Martha Melinda Harris, 60, was entering the southbound lanes from U.S. 183 when she was struck by a Chevrolet Tahoe headed south on Texas 130, said Mustang Ridge Police Chief Michael Gonzales. The wreck occurred near where the road intersects State Highway 45, another toll road.
Harris was driving on a part of U.S. 183 where the Texas Department of Transportation recently lowered the speed limit from 65 mph to 55 mph, a decision that toll opponents said was designed to force people onto the toll road. Local officials have asked the state to raise the speed limit back to 65 mph, partly out of convenience and partly out of concern that the speed limit disparity could hinder drivers as they enter the much-faster toll road.
TxDOT said it will do more speed studies on the road in the coming months.
Officials are still trying to determine Harris' speed when she drove onto the toll road; Gonzales did not know whether Harris was wearing her seatbelt. The investigation is ongoing.
The Tahoe driver, Angela Kolb, 49, was transported to a hospital for evaluation but Gonzales said he didn't know her condition.
Kolb also lives in Lockhart, a small town that many believe will grow substantially because of Texas 130.
Until Sunday's crash, the wrecks on the road that had garnered the most attention involved vehicles colliding with feral hogs and deer in this largely rural area at night. There was no sign that an animal posed a hazard Sunday.
Gonzales said investigators believe the Tahoe may have been going in the 70 mph range or above, since it was already on the toll road.
A Department of Public Safety spokeswoman, Trooper Robbie Barrera, said evidence indicated Harris' car was perpendicular to traffic when it was T-boned by the Tahoe but investigators aren't sure why.
Even if Harris' death proves not to be speed-related, "it's really only a matter of time" before one does occur, said Jonathan Adkins, deputy executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association, part of a chorus of organizations that have raised concerns about the 85 mph speed limit. Roughly a third of all traffic fatalities in the country are speed-related, Adkins said.
"Our experience, based on history and research, is when speeds go up, deaths unfortunately go up," he said.
The new road opened to traffic Oct. 24 and was free for two weeks. Sunday was the first day drivers were charged tolls.
Anti-toll objections
The new segment of Texas 130 is an extension of a toll road that connects Georgetown to south of Austin. But while the older part of the road was constructed and is operated by the state, the new portion was built by a private consortium called the SH 130 Concession Company, made up of the Spanish company Cintra and San Antonio based-Zachry American Infrastructure. Cintra has an office in Austin.
The state retains ownership of the road and collects some of the toll revenues, but Cintra and Zachry will maintain and operate it for 50 years. The companies will collect most of the toll revenues during that period, though more funds proportionally go to the state as traffic volumes increase. As part of its contract with TxDOT, the company paid the state $100 million after the Texas Transportation Commission voted to allow vehicles to drive 85 mph on Texas 130.
The project has been lauded by many elected officials as an example of leveraging private-sector investment in a time of limited transportation funding. It is the state's first such public-private partnership.
On Monday, the anti-toll road group Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom, led by founder Terri Hall, held a press conference, urging drivers to boycott Texas 130 because of Cintra's connection to the project. Cintra has contracts on a number of other public-private projects in Texas and across the country.


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Monday, May 30, 2011
What I've been up to: AoC... a bit of a ramble
Funcom reactivated my account until the end of May (tomorrow) recently, which was enough to get me to try the game out again. Not much has changed that I can tell on my low level guys (my max is a 25 HoX), but it remains a solid MMO. The graphics are still quite good, years after it launched. However, I still maintain that launching with required hardware specs very few of their potential customers had at the time was a mistake. Sente estimates that AoC has in the neighborhood of 60K subs, which is pretty believable. However, I can't help but wonder how they'd be doing if the game had a better launch, including more mainstream hardware specs (i.e., specs that were mainstream 3 years ago, the specs are perfectly reasonable now).
AoC possibly still has the best character models among MMOs I've played. The Tortage quest chains are also still a lot of fun. I especially like how the quest chains of various classes interlock. For example, an operation a rogue will only hear about a soldier will actually do if you start a new alt. However, on the whole, I was left feeling..."Hey this is fun and all, but I can't really see subbing. If it went FtP I'd throw some money at it, but I doubt I'd play it enough to justify a sub fee." One or two evenings after I had that mental conversation, as if reading my mind, Funcom announce FtP.
The grid they announced did not really encourage me. At first glance it looked like they were repeating the same mistakes as launch EQ2X. Most classes walled off, no AAs, and no way to buy your way out of those restrictions. I'll sink $40-100 into a FtP MMO I like to make it a fully functional option for my spare time...easy. I spent $200 for a lifer sub in LoTRO, and paid for boxes on top of that. I'd guess I've spent around $100 on DDO, and I don't regret it. I've spent on Wizard 101 and EQ2X and also feel like they were good investments, because I can go back any time I like...no additional payment needed. The hundreds I've spent on WoW over the years, on the other hand, is utterly and completely pointless any time I don't have an active sub.
Like launch EQ2x, the AoC model looked like an extended trial more than a viable FtP option. It was still basically "sub or don't bother to play." However, the one thing that irked me the most was class restrictions. Four classes out of 12 is hardly a decent sample of the full game, imo. To my surprise, I soon dicovered there is an odd way to get around it once, I started doing research. Until tomorrow at midnight, and for one month if you ever decide to sub, you can make toons of any class you like. Forever after, you still have access to them as a FtP player as long as you have enough open character slots to unlock them. So, for example, if your first two characters are restricted classes you still get to play both those characters once AoC goes FtP (everyone gets two slots for free).
Because of this, what I've been doing for the past few days is rolling a string of alts in AoC, trying to decide what classes I want easy access to once FtP goes live. If I have interpreted the official post at their forum correctly, once FtP is up I'll only have to pay for two extra character slots and the four toons I've rolled of restricted classes will be available to me...as long as I don't care about the endgame.
My guys will still have no access to AAs, and I'll have no way to unlock AAs without subbing. However, you really don't need AAs to see the bulk of the PVE game. They were only added in the latest expansion. AAs is mainly an endgame system (or so I understand). Long term, Funcom will have the choice of getting a few bucks out of me to unlock one or two character slots, or more dollars out of me to unlock AAs and/ or the entire Rise of the Godslayer Expansion as well if I really like the game. I expect, like a lot of the utterly asshatish restrictions that SOE put on EQ2x accounts at first, Funcom will realize quickly that the real money is not in subs and move quickly to let FtP accounts buy their way out of most restrictions.
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I really enjoy AoC when I've played it, but it does not look like F2P will be enough to get me back. If I want to play. It looks like I'll just have to subscribe again.ReplyDelete
My problem with AoC has always been a lack of interest in the setting and nothing to do with money. That said, I might have gone back to mess around with the game except my main class was a Ranger, or at least that was my thought until reading about this loophole. Is that really going to be the case? Seems like a huge oversight on Funcom's part.ReplyDelete
If they actually will allow any existing class that is already there then I would certainly link up my old account to take them for an occasional spin.ReplyDelete
I have no problem paying a bit for unlocking some of the character slots and merging the AoC account with my AO account (account mergers are free at the moment) will allow me to have a common pool for Funcom points.
@Anjin: I like it too. I always seem to stall out some time after leaving tortage, however. I'm not sure why the switch to FtP has revived my interest in it, but I definitely plan to put in a week or so with it and try to see some of the higher level content when it goes live.ReplyDelete
@Blue Kae: I'm actually a fan of the Robert E. Howard short stories, and the first Conan the Barbarian is among my favorite movies (the second not so much). It's nowhere near Tolkien or Fritz Lieber in my fantasy pantheon, but I still consider them solidly entertaining stories.
As for your ranger, I think you'll be able to play it if you've ever subbed in the past. From the blue forum post, at worst you'd have to sub up for a month to unlock the character in FtP forever.
@Sente: I hadn't thought about the common pool of Funcom points, but I can definitely see where that could be nice. I wonder if I could even remember what my old AO login was...
I just hope that the f2p move is as successful for AoC as it has been for LOTRO.ReplyDelete
I am very much looking forward to AoC going free to play. Since I stopped paying for a sub, I've gotten a new computer last fall and I can't wait to see the game on this rig. Yeah, I agree that might be a silly motivation to play AoC again, but like you said, the game is gorgeous :PReplyDelete
I also have a level 80 character, so I'm definitely interested in puttering around in the game again -- for free at first, but if I happen to get into it again, especially the end game, I'll have no qualms about paying a bit. It IS a great game, and I'm curious as to what will happen after it goes "unrated", supposedly with tie-ins to the upcoming movie and all.
@Jaydub: yeah me too. AoC was crippled by launch issues, with the FtP relaunch and the upcoming movie it will hopefully get the attention it deserves, the modern game is quite good.ReplyDelete
@Mmmogamerchick: oh yeah. When I got the PC I'm using now, AoC was the first thing I wanted to throw at it to see how it ran :-)
"The hundreds I've spent on WoW over the years, on the other hand, is utterly and completely pointless any time I don't have an active sub."ReplyDelete
This is one of the things that bugs me about sub games. They are so deeply beholden to the acquisition of *stuff* in the game design, but they cut off access to that stuff. It's a rude ploy to generate revenue, and it always annoys me.
@Tesh: with there being so many quality FtP options, I am less and less inclined to pay a sub fee as time goes on. SWTOR may end up being the last game I ever sub to.ReplyDelete


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Sunday, November 26, 2006
Dragging Things Out
I guess we are the only family in the United States actually smoking a turkey today. You'd think we're tired of turkey after Thanksgiving, but Hubby Dear received a dandy bird from a client and well…..we have to eat, you know. We usually drag holidays out as long as we can.
Sometimes dragging something out is great and other times well….sometimes things can go on too long. Cinderella over at World of Royalty linked to two newspaper stories regarding the American Mohegan tribe and a request to meet with monarch of Britan dating back to the 1730s. Read the whole story story here and here.
This is most interesting. Everytime I visit Cinderella I find something wonderful.
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- Amerloc said...
Wet smoke or dry? If wet, what (if anything) do you add to the water tray besides water? What kind of wood?
If you stuff the bird with fruit, do you try to match the fruit to the wood? Or vice versa? Or do you not stuff it at all?
Do you use a rub?
Please feel free to ignore any and/or all of these questions. They were mostly tongue-in-cheek anyway, as we have a traditional method already established (buffet at restaurant closest to wherever we're mooching).
- Jennie W said...
Fried turkey is definitely yummy! I love dragging out the holidays as well! But I do have to admit my Christmas decorations are up now. But I do firmly refuse to decorate or shop for Christmas before Thanksgiving - don't destroy one for the commerical benefits of the other! All those stores that decorate for Christmas the day after Halloween drive me bonkers!


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A joint military offensive between the armed forces of the Central African Republic (CAR) and Chad to oust Chad's Front Populaire pour le Redressement (FPR) rebel movement from its stronghold in parts of north-central CAR is hampering operations to help the displaced, say humanitarian officials.
The military operation, which was launched on 23 January, is aimed at capturing FPR rebel leader "General" Abdel Kader, alias Baba Laddé, and is concentrated in the north-central CAR areas of Ouandago and Gondava, 80km and 45km from the main town of Kaga-Bandoro, respectively.
But following a 24 January joint attack on FPR positions, an estimated 16,000 people were displaced, according to a bulletin by CAR's Humanitarian and Development Partnership Team (HDPT).
"This number is likely to change since some regions still remain inaccessible," it added.
The area most affected is Kabo, where internally displaced persons (IDPs) need water and latrines, states the bulletin, noting that IDPs had also been registered in the areas of Nana Outa and Farazala and between Kabo and Kaga-Bandoro.
On 28 January, Firmin Feindiro, the CAR government spokesman, said the military operations were targeting the FPR's operational centre and had led to rebel casualties after a brief resistance. The exact toll, however, remained unknown, with Laddé still free; reports suggest he could have fled to South Sudan.
Kaga-Bandoro's bishop, Albert Vanbuel, was quoted in the media in early February as saying the counter-rebel operations had led to a generalized fear among the population as Chadian troops combed the area for FPR rebels. "They stop the so-called rebels, torture and kill them without knowing if they are rebels or not. Many innocent [people] have died this way."
Bishop Vanbuel further added that FPR and civilian deaths had been recorded, with many corpses unburied.
Several villages in the northern part of CAR, on the road between Ouandago and Gondava, have been partially or completely destroyed since the end of January, according to a 23 February statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
"Thousands of people have had to flee," said Katharina Ritz, head of the ICRC delegation in Bangui. "They've lost everything: their houses, their crops, all their belongings."
Insecurity continues to pose a threat to the population and humanitarian organizations, despite the military operation, according to Jean Sebastien Munie, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the CAR. "If the military operation was on the whole a success, it did not completely eradicate insecurity in the region."
The FPR rebels, who arrived in CAR from Chad in 2008, have continued to carry out sporadic attacks in parts of northern CAR as well as to recruit, mainly Fulani community members, and acquire weapons. On 2 February, an ethnic Fulani herder, suspected of belonging to the FPR, was killed by a presidential guard in the capital Bangui. Another Fulani herder was seriously wounded and a third reported missing.
In early February, the FPR announced that several groups, including the Parti pour la Justice et le Développement (PJD), the Convention des patriotes pour la justice et la paix (CPJP), the Union des forces démocratiques pour le rassemblement (UFDR) and the Armée populaire pour la restauration de la démocratie (APRD), whose leader Jean Jacques Démafouth is under arrest, were to create an alliance to depose CAR President François Bozizé. But the APRD, a former national rebel group, denied involvement in the alliance.
The APRD and the UFDR signed peace accords with the CAR government in 2008, with members taking part in the demobilization, disarmament and reintegration process, while the CPJP signed a ceasefire agreement in 2011.
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A teenage boy was shot Friday outside Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH headquarters and near President Barack Obama's Chicago home. He was one of 16 people shot across the city in less than 12 hours.
Police say the 17-year-old was walking in the 4900 block of South Drexel Boulevard at about 7:30 p.m. when someone fired shots from a minivan, hitting the teen in the back.
The teen, who police say is a "documented gang member," was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in stable condition.
A town hall meeting was underway at Rainbow PUSH when the shooting occurred, and Jackson ran outside to find him lying on the ground.
"I had to leave before the meeting was over to come across the street," he said. "A young man had just been shot and was still lying down."
The shooting comes amid the coalition's 43rd Annual International Convention dubbed "a quest for equality and peace."
President Barack Obama's home is just two blocks away from where the shooting occurred.
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A little more than an hour earlier, two people were shot in the 8000 block of South Paulina Street. A 42-year-old man was shot in the arm and leg and was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in stable condition and a 40-year-old woman was shot in the ankle and taken to Holy Cross Hospital in stable condition.
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Around 8:40 p.m. an 18-year-old man was shot in the ankle while walking in the 6500 block of South Stony Island Avenue. The teen, who police said was being uncooperative, told officers he heard shots and felt pain. He transported himself to Jackson Park Hospital in good condition.
About an hour later, a 22-year-old man was shot in the leg and foot. Police did not immediately have details surrounding the shooting but said the man, a documented gang member, was shot in the 2400 block of East 99th Street and was taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital in good condition.
Around 11 p.m. Friday, three people were shot in the 0-100 block of East 102nd Place, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic.
A 23-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the neck but refused medical treatment, police said. A 23-year-old man was shot in the foot and a 19-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the foot. Both were taken to Roseland Community Hospital for treatment.
Police said an offender approached the group and fired roughly five shots at them before fleeing on foot.
At the same time, two people were shot near 60th Street and Prairie Avenue.
Police said a 17-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man were standing outside when they heard shots and felt pain.
The teen was shot in the back and taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital and the 21-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the shoulder and was treated and released at Stroger Hospital.
At least six others were shot overnight and into Saturday morning.
- Around 12:20 a.m., a 24-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the groin in the 2200 block of South Sawyer, police said. Officials believe the shooting was self-inflicted and said the man was taken in serious condition to St. Anthony Hospital
- Just after 12:30 a.m., police shot a man during a foot chase in the city's Austin neighborhood. Officers patrolling the area heard gunshots and observed a vehicle "traveling at a high rate of speed away from the area," according to a statement from police. The officers were attempting to curb the vehicle when a passenger fled the vehicle and officers followed. During the chase, police said the man produced a weapon and turned toward the officers who then fired at him, shooting him in the leg, according to authorities. The offender was taken to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
- Less than 30 minutes later, a 39-year-old man was shot during an apparent robbery in the 5000 block of West Madison Street. Police said an offender with a handgun demanded money from the man. The victim gave the offender an unknown amount of money and the offender ordered him to lay on the ground. When the victim refused, the offender shot him in the left leg, ran to a nearby car and fled west on Madison, Sedevic said. The victim was listed in good condition at Stroger Hospital.
- Just after 3 a.m., a man was walking with his girlfriend in the 11900 block of South Yale when he became involved in a confrontation with his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend, police said. During the argument, the ex-girlfriend's boyfriend shot the man, 25, in the abdomen and right arm. The man was taken to Roseland Community Hospital in stable condition and no one was in custody as of Saturday morning.
- Around 4:15 a.m., a 27-year-old man was shot in an apparent drive-by in the 8000 block of South Justine Street. The man suffered wounds to both legs after someone in a passing four-door vehicle opened fire at him. The man was taken in stable condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center, police said.
- Fifteen minutes later, a 26-year-old man was shot in the Little Village neighborhood. Police said the man was walking with a friend on 24 Street near Pulaski Road when people in a red, four—door vehicle began shouting gang slogans and a man standing outside the vehicle opened fire. The victim was shot in the shoulder and listed in stable condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.


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Note: Windows XP End of Support -- What you need to know (PDF)
- Date: Jan 27, 2008
- Version: 5.50.30
- Size: 2.7 MB
- Format: EXE
Web-based PostScript Driver Installer
DescriptionWeb-based PostScript Driver Installer for the Phaser 7760. Microsoft WHQL certified. Citrix Ready.
- Recommended
- PostScript
- Date: Jan 5, 2016
- Version: 5.469.9.0
- Format: WWW
Xerox Global Print Driver
DescriptionThe free Xerox Global Print Driver manages Xerox and non-Xerox printers on your network with a single, easy-to-use interface. It dramatically simplifies enterprise printer management for IT managers, making it easy to add and update printers without changing drivers.
- Global / Mobile
- Package-Aware
- V3 Driver
Note: Please re-select your Operating System and Language choices after you are re-directed to the Global Print Driver web page.
For more information about the benefits and features of the Xerox Global Print Driver please go to: www.xerox.com/global
- Date: Dec 18, 2009
- Version: 5.50.30
- Size: 5.9 MB
- Format: EXE
PostScript Driver
DescriptionWindows XP/2003/2008/Vista/Win7 PostScript driver. This driver uses the Add Printer Wizard and offers full support of the printer specific features for the Xerox Phaser 7760. Microsoft WHQL certified
- PostScript
- Date: Sep 11, 2007
- Version: 22.214.171.124
- Size: 3.1 MB
- Format: EXE
SRA3 Page Size PostScript Driver
DescriptionUse this Windows 2000/XP/03 PostScript driver with Phaser 7760 Firmware Release PS 5.2.1 to address SRA3 page size. This driver uses the Add Printer Wizard and offers full support of the printer specific features for the Xerox Phaser 7760.Note: This driver addresses the PostScript clipping problem with minimum margins on SRA3 page sizes. The Phaser 7760 must have the Firmware Release PS 5.2.1 installed in order to address the SRA3 page size.
- PostScript
- Date: May 14, 2006
- Version: 1.10.2006
- Size: 5.2 MB
- Format: EXE
PCL5c Driver
DescriptionWindows 2000/XP/03 PCL driver. This driver uses the Add Printer Wizard and should only be installed when printing from an application that requires a PCL driver. The PostScript driver is recommended for printing from the majority of applications. Microsoft WHQL certified.
- Date: Mar 16, 2006
- Version: 5.08.06
- Size: 108.6 KB
- Format: EXE
Windows PostScript PPD Driver Files - 32/64-bit
DescriptionOptional Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7 32-/64-bit PostScript PPD driver files for the Phaser 7760.
Note: It is highly recommended to consult with your Network or System Administrator before performing any software (firmware) update. Some updates may cause the machine to become non-compliant and cease to work as intended with the environment in which it is installed.
- Date: Mar 15, 2010
- Version: MER2: OS 6.1 / PS 5.2.1 / Net 40.34.03.01.2010
- Size: 45.2 MB
- Format: ZIP
Firmware Release PS 5.2.1DescriptionPhaser 7760 maintenance release that resolves color plane shift at power-up or after warm-up, PostScript image rendering issue, stapler diagnostic adjustment issue, SRA3 margin issue, Thick Glossy media issue for PCL drivers, Direct PDF submission issues, and Secure Print job name issue.Note: For more specific details on the issues resolved, please read the release notes packaged with this upgrade including help on how to download the firmware to your printer.
- Date: Mar 8, 2006
- Version:
- Format: WWW
Instructions for Downloading Firmware Update FilesDescriptionHow To Download PostScript and Other Files, Such as a Firmware Update File, to the Printer
Utilities & Applications
- Date: Mar 8, 2016
- Version: 184.108.40.206
- Size: 3 MB
- Format: File
Font Management UtilityDescriptionFont Management Utility.
- Date: Oct 1, 2014
- Version: 126.96.36.199
- Size: 30.6 MB
- Format: EXE
Usage Analysis Tool for Xerox PrintersDescriptionUsage Analysis Tool for Xerox printers. This tool allows system administrators to automatically track printer usage and obtain job accounting records.
- Date: May 29, 2007
- Version:
- Size: 105.5 KB
- Format: EXE
Xerox File Downloader UtilityDescriptionXerox utility for downloading PostScript files or PostScript fonts to PostScript printers over any connection.
- Date: Jan 31, 2007
- Version:
- Format: WWW
Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS)DescriptionClick the file link to visit the Xerox NDPS Gateway download page. Xerox NDPS Solution allows use of Novell NDPS with many models of Xerox printers .
- Date: Jan 10, 2007
- Version: NA
- Size: 82 bytes
- Format: File
Image Unit ID Postscript SnippetDescriptionPhaser 7760 Image Unit ID postscript snippet.
- Date: Jan 2, 2007
- Version:
- Size: 4.1 MB
- Format: ZIP
- Date: Oct 29, 2006
- Version:
- Format: WWW
Xerox CentreWare Web Device Management SoftwareDescriptionRobust, easy-to-use, Web-based tool helps increase organizational efficiency by managing and reporting on all of the networked SNMP printers and multifunction devices across the entire enterprise-regardless of manufacturer.
- Date: Mar 17, 2006
- Version:
- Size: 3 MB
- Format: EXE
Xerox Support CentreDescriptionThe Xerox Support Centre application provides a central location for accessing the following information: * User manuals and video tutorials * Solutions to troubleshooting problems * Printer and supplies status * Supplies ordering and recycling * Answers to frequently asked questions
Color Profiles
- Date: Sep 11, 2006
- Version: NA
- Size: 63 KB
- Format: EXE
SPOT Pantone Table Update and ChartDescriptionPhaser 7760 SPOT Pantone Table Update and Chart
- Date: May 10, 2006
- Version:
- Size: 227.5 KB
- Format: File
ICM ProfileDescriptionWindows ICM Profile for the Phaser 7760
- Date: May 10, 2006
- Version:
- Size: 1.5 MB
- Format: ZIP
PhaserMatch Target ProfilesDescriptionPhaserMatch Target Profiles for the Phaser 7760 Press emulations.


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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Estonian recipes: thick fruit soup (dried fruit kissel)
One non-Christmas recipe for a change :) Paks puuviljakissell or thick (dried) fruit soup/kissel is an old Estonian favourite (I've previously blogged about it's more modest cousin, raisin fruit soup). The kissel on the photo was made with dried apricots, prunes, pears and raisins, but you can use whatever fruit you have in hand. It's cheap, tasty and easy to make.
You can also serve it in umpteen ways. Traditional way to serve fruit soup is with milk (or perhaps light cream), but you can top a thick fruit soup with whipped cream or even good-quality vanilla ice cream, which would make it actually a rather festive pudding, especially if served from pretty dessert bowls.
Dried fruit soup
(Paks puuviljakissell)
Serves 6
500 g dried fruit and berries of your choice - apples, pears, prunes, seedless raisins, apricots etc.
1.5 litre of water
a cinnamon stick
2 cloves
85 g caster sugar (100 ml)
juice of half a lemon
2 to 3 Tbsp potato starch or cornflour + some cold water (see note below)
Rinse the dried fruit under cold water, then cut into smaller pieces, if necessary.
Place into a large saucepan with water and let them soak for 2-3 hours.
Add the cinnamon stick and cloves. Bring the "soup" into a boil, reduce heat and simmer slowly until the fruit is softened. Near the end of the cooking, add the sugar and season to taste with lemon juice.
To thicken the soup, make a slurry with starch and some cold water. Drizzle the starch slurry into the fruit soup, stirring carefully. If you are using potato starch, then re-heat the fruit soup and remove from the heat as soon as the first bubbles appear on surface - do NOT boil. If you're using cornflour, then you need to cook the soup for a few minutes for it to thicken.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and sprinkle some sugar on top - this prevents the "skin" from forming on top.
5 comments:
- Maie P. Jyoti said...
Kompott! yum - haven't thought about that in years. My mom would serve it on top of sweet rice.
- 4:30 pm, December 12, 2011
- Teevi said...
Suur tanu Pille, ma olin kompotti ara unustanud, ma kasvasin ules Eestis.... ma maletan me soime palju kompotti vahukoorega kooli ajal.
- 6:47 pm, December 12, 2011
- Ragne said...
Mina just tegin nädalavahetusel paksu kisselli, kus sees rohkelt maasikaid, vaarikaid ja mustikaid.
- 7:03 pm, December 12, 2011
- susanna silver said...
wow this looks really good. I love anything fruity and sweet but I wonder what my kids will think, well if they dont like it then theres more for me! :)
- 1:15 pm, March 23, 2012
- Becki said...
We really liked the fruit soup, too. It's always great to find a dessert that isn't also full of fat. Three year old Henry was actually the biggest fan of the fruit soup—I think he had thirds. He asked me to make it again, too.
- 3:00 pm, April 30, 2013
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Music heading 'out of this world'
Young Norwegian Therese Miljeteig won ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle competition in July 2007. Her music playlist will be launched to the astronauts onboard the International Space Station with Jules Verne ATV.
The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is Europe's new supply vessel for the International Space Station (ISS). The very first ATV, Jules Verne, is scheduled to launch from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, early in the morning of Sunday 9 March 2008.
Jules Verne will bring vital supplies such as oxygen, fuel and scientific equipment to the Space Station. Clothes and other personal belongings are also brought up into orbit for the astronauts.
ATV will also bring a special gift that is meant to inspire and cheer the astronauts up; music that is 'out of this world', selected by a young European, Therese Miljeteig, from Norway.
Winner of the ATV competition
Fourteen year old Therese Miljeteig from Norway was selected as the competition winner from over 1000 entries.
In the competition, youngsters from the ten countries who participate in the ATV Programme (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) were invited to send in a top 10 music playlist for the astronauts onboard the ISS.
The young participants were asked to imagine what it feels like to be an astronaut on the International Space Station and select music that would inspire and brighten their day.
The panel of judges, which included ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy, called Therese's playlist "a wonderful mixture of songs that are 'out of this world'".
How did the playlist come about?
When asked how she came up with the playlist, Therese says: "I actually didn't think very hard about the tracks, I just chose the ones that came into my mind and that seemed to fit."
The list includes music that was recorded long before Therese was born. How did she think up those tracks? "I don't listen to only one type of music or just new music," says Therese. "I listen to a lot of different music."
Therese's launch prize
As the winner of the ATV competition, Therese and her family will be travelling to Europe's Spaceport. Here they will watch as Jules Verne ATV soars into the sky in the morning of the 9 March 2008.
The trip also includes a visit to Devil's Islands, a former penal colony which is now a national heritage site for French Guiana.
It is, however, the visit to the European Spaceport and the launch of ATV which Therese is most looking forward to experiencing. "I will take a lot of pictures of the launch," the young Norwegian says enthusiastically.
A personal interest
Therese found the ATV competition while browsing the internet for space news. "I read space news and space science out of a personal interest," she says. "I'm not sure how the interest started. I just began reading articles about space because it was fun."
The history of the space race between the US and the Soviet Union holds a special fascination for Therese. "But I also enjoy reading about present day space exploration and the plans of future flights to the Moon and Mars."
Prizes were also awarded for the best playlist entry from each of the ten countries in the ATV programme. Each national winner received a VIP tour to the European Astronaut Centre in Germany.
Therese's playlist:
Here Comes The Sun - Beatles
Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra
Rocket Man - Elton John
Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
Imagine - John Lennon
Flashdance - What A Feeling - Irene Cara
Walk of Life - Dire Straits
Fly - Celine Dion
Rockin' All Over The World - Status Quo
I Believe I Can Fly - R Kelly


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Time Inc, the publisher behind such titles as Time, People, and Sports Illustrated, is planning to make all 21 of its titles available on tablets by the end of the year, making it the first major publisher to do so.
While its top four magazines already have tablet versions — People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Time — none of the others are yet available. But everything from Real Simple to Entertainment Weekly will be getting the tablet treatment in the coming months.
It shows how seriously publishers are taking the tablet. While Time Inc has 28 million print subscribers across all its properties, the number of tablet downloads is slowly increasing. It'll be interesting to see the differences in treatments between all of its disparate titles as they're released over the coming months.
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Winter Olympics: Why Do Olympians 'Bite Down on Their Booty?'
By Meagan Hook | BSU at the Games
Chomping into the gold. Salivating over the silver. Biting a piece of the bronze.
One sees it with regularity during the medal ceremonies on Krasnodar-Teatralnaya Square at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia.
What started this trend? Is it made of something delicious that only Olympians know? Is it some kind of well-kept secret if you bite the medal you get special powers?
"There are only so many things to do with a medal, and the excited champions are usually appeasing requests from the gallery of Olympic photographers when they bite down on their booty," said David Wallechinsky, president of the Netherlands-based International Society of Olympic Historians.
It has been said in the past that when checking for counterfeit gold, inspectors would bite the metal to check for authenticity.
The authenticity of the 3.94-inch (100-millimeter) in diameter medals being handed out on Sochi's Medals Plaza is gold, silver and polycarbonate for gold medals; silver and polycarbonate for silver medals; and polycarbonate for bronze medals, according to the International Olympic Committee.
The assumption is Olympic athletes are doing the same thing, as if not believing those gold medals are finally theirs.
Why are these world-class athletes so narrow in the ways they display their hard-earned glory?
They deserve to show off their Olympic prize in varied ways and not be limited to just biting down.
Some suggestions for medal winners in posing with their newly-claimed hardware instead of just munching away:
- Everyone has seen lifeguards at the pool spinning their whistle on their fingers. Why not try that with the medal? As it spins, the shine will be reflected off the light and look beautiful.
- Fan themselves. Hold that medal as though it were a fan, and flutter it with the attitude of "too hot to handle, too cold to hold."
- Along those lines, grasping the medal fully with both hands and arms extended. The visual would be similar to Simba being presented to his new kingdom in "The Lion King."
- If being flashy is more a winner's style, then they should take the coin-spin approach. Find a flat surface and spin the medal while standing prominently behind it. The medal doesn't own you; you own the medal.
- Style is important, especially in Sochi. To be stylish and show off the victory, the Olympian should fashion it into a headband. A few staples or extra rubber bands can easily be used to shape the ribbon of the medal to the winner's head. Instead of a flower on a basic headband it's a shining gold medal.
- One last pose to consider would be to eat the medal. Put the whole thing in one's mouth. Yes, it's scandalous. But that's what photographers want. It's what the people want. The drama. The theatrics.
So, please Olympic victors and other medal winners, spice up those special moments. Biting is boring.
Give the crowd what it wants: more poses.
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The secret life of blurbs
Blurbs, the quotes from famous people that appear on books, are curious things. They've been around forever, and show no sign of going away. It takes work for an author to get them. When you see a high profile name on a book it means the author, or their editor or agent, is well connected. It's not a democratic nor meritocratic process.
The work involved goes something like this:
- Publishers and authors want to sell books
- Endorsements from famous people, in theory, help sell books
- To get a blurb, authors ask everyone famous they know, or friends of friends of famous people
- Some of those people agree to consider it – many decline or don't respond
- Some of the people who agree actually look at the book
- Of those people, some offer a blurb, many decline here too
- Of those that offer a blurb, some are good enough to use
It's a long, nag-filled process. Reading a book takes time, as does writing a short quotable summation of it.
Some famous people never give blurbs (I know because I've asked them, and they told me). Other famous people love to blurb as many things as they can (It'd be interesting for someone with google-fu to see which famous people give the most blurbs). It's likely many famous people give blurbs without even skimming the book (quid-pro-quo blurbing is common), whereas others insist on reading the entire thing before considering anything.
My first 3 books have many great blurbs from famous people, and I'm grateful for them. But for such a small piece of copy, people have very strong opinions about what they do or do not imply.
The singular blurb for my new book, Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds is unique. It's unusual because unlike every other blurb I've seen, I, the author, wrote it myself. "You are smart enough to buy books for better reasons than a famous person you don't know saying you should." It's my book, why not be honest?
I hope you find it amusing, or at least clever. Here's why I did it:
- Most blurbs sound the same. I figured a more interesting and honest blurb may earn more attention than a famous person you don't really know saying "I love this. It was better than Cats" or "Amazing read" or another thing much like what others have said about other books.
- As a self-published book, I'd rather invest time in making the book awesome. If I could skip the laborious and unavoidable steps listed above for hunting blurbs, I could focus more energy on making the book itself worthy of attention. Was it a mistake? I'm not sure.
- Given a chance, people can evaluate things themselves. I decided to give 1/3rd of the book away, for free, as a Preview (PDF). I think most people know how to skim a book and decide if it's interesting or not, all on their own.
Did I make a mistake? Do blurbs make a big difference in your book purchasing decisions? If not, what does?
If you want to know more about my self-publishing experience, read this.


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