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Beacon, New York— The fifth and final installment in an ongoing series of exhibitions devoted to Agnes Martin's work, "Homage to [a] Life: Paintings 1990–2004," will be on view at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, from April 6 through November 26, 2007. Organized by Dia Art Foundation, this presentation of some twenty paintings produced during the last decade of Martin's career culminates a career-long survey.
Dia's retrospective began in May 2004 with "…going forward into unknown territory…," which featured works from 1957 to 1967, when Martin lived and worked in New York City. The second installation, "…unknown territory…," highlighted paintings from the mid-1960s. "To The Islands," the third presentation in the series, explored the period from 1974 through 1979, when Martin resumed painting after a seven-year hiatus. The fourth installment, "A Field of Vision," focused on her practice during the 1980s.
"Homage to [a] Life" features works from the prolific years in Martin's late career. Exploring both horizontal and vertical fields, Martin remained dedicated to pushing the formal possibilities of her luminous compositions. Adopting a smaller, five-by-five-foot dimension for her canvases in 1993, she also continued her long-standing preoccupation with themes of innocence, joy, and happiness, frequently titling her paintings to evoke these states. A highlight in the exhibition is the Innocent Love series, an eight-part suite of paintings commissioned by Dia in 1999. With Innocent Love, Martin sought what she called an "untroubled state of mind," producing works that seem to emanate light rather than reflect it.
Exceptional among these signature paintings from her final years are the anomalous "black" paintings from 2002–2003. Informed by a more foreboding or disturbing tenor, they are dominated by viscous black acrylic, one or two simple geometric forms, and an impastoed, at times gestural, markmaking. While seemingly a radical departure from her practice over the previous four decades, several works echo the exploratory paintings she made after first moving to New York in the late 1950s. "Homage to [a] Life" will be installed in a trio of galleries at Dia:Beacon. The title is taken from "Agnes Martin: Homage to Life," the last exhibition of Martin's work during her lifetime. A brochure with color images of Martin's paintings and an essay by Dia Art Foundation curator Lynne Cooke will accompany the exhibition.
Dia Art Foundation's collection of Agnes Martin's work comprises approximately twenty paintings, which range from early, formative works to later canvases. Dia has received promised gifts and long-term loans of Martin's work from Lannan Foundation, Louise and Leonard Riggio, the artist, and anonymous donors. Among the highlights of these gifts is the Innocent Love series, which is on long-term loan from the Lannan Foundation.
This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Dedalus Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912. She grew up in Vancouver, then moved to Bellingham, Washington, in 1932. Martin gained a BA in 1942 and an MA in 1952 from Teachers College at Columbia University, New York, while intermittently living in New Mexico. In 1957 she relocated to Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan, where her neighbors included the artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Leonore Tawney, and Ann Wilson. Martin had her first one-person exhibition in 1958 at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. After ten years in Manhattan, she returned to the Southwest and lived and worked in Taos, New Mexico, until her death on December 16, 2004. Surveys of Martin's work have been presented at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1973), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1991), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992). She was awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and a National Endowment for the National Medal of Arts in 1988, among other awards. In 1997 the Agnes Martin Gallery at the Harwood Museum of Art and the University of New Mexico was established.
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
Dia:Beacon, Dia Art Foundation's museum in the Hudson Valley, presents a distinguished collection of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. Situated on the banks of the Hudson River Beacon, New York, the museum occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility, which was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architect OpenOffice.
Dia:Beacon's expansive galleries comprise 240,000 square feet of exhibition space illuminated by natural light. The museum houses works by a focused group of some of the most significant artists of the last half century, including Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner.
Programming at the museum includes a series of temporary exhibitions, as well as public programs designed to complement the collection and exhibitions, including monthly gallery talks, music performances by St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Community Free Days for neighboring counties and an education program that serves area students at all education levels.
Dia:Beacon is easily reachable via Metro-North Railroad. The Hudson Line station in Beacon is within walking distance of the museum. Trains depart hourly from Grand Central Terminal in New York City. For schedule and fare information, please visit the MTA's website at www.mta.nyc.ny.us. The museum is also reachable by major roadways. Driving directions are available on Dia's website at www.diaart.org. Admission is $10 general, $7 for students and seniors, and free for Dia members and children under 12. Current winter hours are 11 am to 4 pm, Friday through Monday, through April 16, 2007. Summer hours are 11 am to 6 pm, Thursday through Monday. The public information line for the museum is (845) 400-0100.
Dia Art Foundation
Dia Art Foundation was founded in 1974. A nonprofit institution, Dia is internationally renowned for initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving art projects. Dia presents public programs and its permanent collection of works from the 1960s through the present at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, in New York's Hudson Valley. Dia is currently exploring the relocation of its contemporary exhibition program, formerly Dia:Chelsea, to another site in New York City. Additionally, the foundation maintains long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States, in New York City, and on Long Island.
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One of the basic ideas of GTD is to dump all the things that are on your mind outside your skull, because you can't trust your brain to reliably remember all the details.
Personally I find this argument to be quite compelling, but that is a sample of one. Is there any academic research that supports this idea? Did anyone measure the difference between chaos and pressing deadlines, and the proverbial "mind like water" state of smoothly running GTD system?

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This is the third volume in the Chandos series devoted to the music of the Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. It brings together his first surviving orchestral piece (The Symphonic Variations) and his last symphony, as well as two works for piano and orchestra – an early work originally written for two pianos (The 'Paganini' Variations), and his very last concerto. The works are performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner, described by Gramophone as a veritable 'Dream Team' in Vol. 1. They are joined in this recording by Louis Lortie, the award-winning pianist and exclusive Chandos artist.
Lutoslawski composed his Symphonic Variations while he was studying with Witold Maliszewski at the Warsaw Conservatory. When he showed the work to his teacher, he was told in no uncertain terms: 'For me your work is ugly.' A rather disheartening response to be sure, but perhaps also proof that here was a work that was well ahead of its time. Today it fits in easily with the European tradition of variation form, and is considered a prime example of the lush, but edgy harmonies of the composer, and of his vivid ear for instrumental colour and virtuosity.
Less than three years later, Poland was invaded by Germany, and normal music life disappeared. In its place, musical cafés emerged as places where light music as well as mainstream repertoire was performed. Lutoslawski made his living in these cafés by playing a repertoire of light music, arranged by himself and his piano-duet partner, Andrzej Panufnik. All but one of these works were destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The sole survivor was the Variations on a Theme of Paganini. The version recorded here is Lutoslawski's orchestration for piano and orchestra, of the original version for two pianos.
Also on this album is the Piano Concerto, the last of Lutoslawski's concertante works, as well as Symphony No. 4, which Lutoslawski composed over four years (1988 – 92), conducting its premiere in Los Angeles, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in 1993, just a year before his death.
The Polish series is supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
"...A fine choice as soloist Louis Lortie plays the two bittersweet piano scores with enthusiasm and verve. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Edward Gardner rises splendidly to the challenges of Lutoslawski's bold writing. It's a varied synthesis of orchestral textures. Gardner's control of the diverse contrasts feels authoritative without being inflexible.Beautifully recorded at the Walthamstow Assembly Hall in 2011 this splendidly presented release is kitted out with the usual high quality Chandos booklet notes. It makes a fine introduction to Lutoslawski's music."
Michael Cookson - www.musicweb-international.com - April 2012
Gramophone Choice – Orchestral
"Throughout, Gardner secures some first-class playing from the BBC SO ... Cordially recommended..."
Andrew Achenbach – Gramophone magazine – April 2012
"...This is a stunner of a disc. The BBC So never sound so comfortable as when they're tackling the 20th century repertoire, and Edward Gardner's direction is faultless."
Graham Rickson - theartsdesk.com - 25 February 2012
"...With a spectacularly good Chandos 5.0 SACD recording and the usual high production and presentation values this is a release which followers of Gardner's Lutoslawski series and fans of good 20th century music should snap up without hesitation. You certainly won't find anything lacking in any of the performances, and in all cases they occupy the top drawer when it comes to all and any of these pieces..."
Dominy Clements - Musicweb-international.com - 1 March 2012
"...A wonderful disc"
International Piano Quarterly – March/April 2012
Performance **** Recording *****
"...Gardner and the orchestra, with not a weak link in the important solos, give a performance of riveting concentration."
Martin Cotton – BBC Music magazine – March 2012
"Ed Gardner and the BBC Orchestra obviously found a workable rapport here. They play four modern classics with assurance, virtuosity and, yes, fun. Lutoslawski is one of the most rewarding of 20th-century composers, with a rhythmic and melodic gift which continually surprises. Louis Lorté is a dazzling soloist in the Piano Concerto, while the once-voguish Fourth Symphony is wonderfully well-performed."
Michael Kennedy – Sunday Telegraph – 8 January 2012


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I mean the nitty-gritty measurements of positions of stars and planets using transit circles. The transit instruments I've seen are mostly in national observatories and are essentially museum pieces: in Greenwich, U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, Ottawa, Sidney, Paris, etc. I've never read of anybody in the present time actually logging stars as they cross the meridian. If nobody is actually making these observations regularly, how do we know for sure the rotation period of the Earth and the exact positions of the planets? Modern astronomers study distant galaxies, but is anyone actually measuring the rotation of the Earth the old-fashioned way?
Yes, there are astronometry instruments in continuous operation.
For example, the Carlsberg Meridian Telescope at La Palma in the Canary Islands is used to provide accurate star positions to improve the proper motions of previously measured stars and for the measurement of solar system bodies, especially asteroids[1]. It[2]
The Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue 14 was released in 2005 and is an astrometric and photometric catalogue of 96 million stars in the red magnitude range 9 to 17.
[1] Astronomical transit instrument (may or may not be hidden by a paywall)
These are not exactly 'transit' experiments but they are trying to achieve the same thing... There are currently two major astrometry missions in place at the moment, LSST is the Large Synoptic Sky Survey, This will map billions of objects and is essentially an update to the Hipparcos survey.
Secondly there is the GAIA mission which will involve a space based observation making a three dimensional map of the universe. Gaia is taking great pains to make sure that each image can be tiled together accurately and then oriented on the sky. This will give a very accurate representation of where we are...
I'm majoring in astrophysics, so my opinion may not be correct. Astrometry is dying, but will not die. It is applied in many fields of everyday life, which we may pay little attention to, as @Geoff Gaherty has mentioned. Moreover, although astromechanics, or celestial mechanics, is now able to predict astronomical phenomena in billion years, there are still so many factors to influence the results, so we need astrometry to do actual records. Besides, there is no effective method to measure the whole scale of the universe. If any, to measure the universe is still too huge a project to complete.


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We know that for two real numbers $a,b$ and two random variables $X,Y$ we have that $E(a X + b Y ) = a E(X) + b E(Y)$. Under what conditions is it also true that for any three random variables $X,Y,Z$, we have that $E\bigl(X (Y + Z)\bigr) = E(X Y + X Z) = E(X Y) + E(X Z)$?
In this equation you are allowed to assume that there exist joint distributions for $X,Y$ and $X,Z$ but not necessarily for $X,Y,Z$. So, as per Michael's answer below, the question would seem to reduce to when a joint distribution exists given distributions for $X,Y$ and $X,Z$.


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I'm a college student with four classes. I typically study like:
Mon - Class A (4 hours)
Tue - Class B (4 hours)
The 4 hours aren't in a row (I take breaks and all that).
One of my friends suggested a different study plan where one studies all four classes briefly every day instead of only one or two a day in large blocks:
Mon - Class A, B, C, and D (an hour a piece)
Tue- Class A, B, C, and D (an hour a piece)
His idea is that it will help retain information since you're dealing with every course every single day.
Assuming the total amount of studying per week is equivalent between the two plans, is there any evidence that one way of studying is better than the other? Will studying each class briefly every day increase productivity and learning?


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The 6 Most Ridiculous Things Ever Taxed
#3. Cowardice
Going to war isn't for everybody, as illustrated by the fact that all branches of the military are having a hard time reaching their recruitment quotas. Men even risked imprisonment by dodging the draft during the Vietnam War, figuring that sharing a cell with Stabby McGee was a far more enjoyable prospect than being shot at all day.
"Uh ... guys, I think I'm just going to sit this one out if you don't mind."
But there was a time when you could get out of your fighting duties just by paying a tax. Called scutage, it was levied on knights who refused to go to war. See, back in the Dark Ages the entire point of a knight was to fight for his king. That's why many of them were rewarded for their service, built big houses, married an important guy's daughter and basically started living the (relatively) cushy life of an aristocrat. But then some king would remind you that you only got to live that way because you (or more likely your grandfather) had been a great soldier. Never mind if you had serfs and children to be looking after -- if a war started, you had to be there.
Eventually, Henry II worked out that some knights were just not going to fight, or at least fight well, under this system and came up with an idea to let them pay a fine for being pansy asses afraid of a getting their heads chopped off in battle. This way the king could hire regular soldiers to fight for him who were much cheaper, enlarging his fighting force. For a while this worked quite well, even as the tax you had to pay to get out of fighting slowly got more expensive.
After a while, only a rare few could still afford it.
Then things fell apart. King John of Robin Hood fame, not remembered by history as one of the great monarchs, raised the tax again. This might have been fine, but he even started charging men this tax in years where no wars occurred. Now, we can understand having to pay for being a coward, but having to pay because the king didn't feel like going to war that season? That seems a bit much. The barons thought so too, and scutage was one of the main issues brought up in the Magna Carta they made John sign.
#2. Wigs and Hats
As ridiculous as we might think men in old portraits look wearing white curly wigs, for the rich, having a wig was a big deal back in the day. Fortunes were spent on buying them and keeping them nice. A lot of highway robbers weren't after the money or jewels people had, but the wigs, the most expensive thing they owned by far. They were so expensive that only the very rich could own one. So when the British government was looking for a way to fairly tax the rich more than the poor in the late 1700s, it decided to tax wigs and wig powder.
And we all know what happens to wigs without the powder.
However, the plan backfired when almost overnight the number of people who wore wigs, or even just powdered their natural hair, plummeted. The high tax effectively ended the fashion for wigs. But the government had an ace up its sleeve: the hat tax.
Oh, HELL no!
By the time the wig tax was levied, wigs were already considered a bit uncool, and mostly older men wore them. But hats were very cool. Even poor men owned hats, while the rich might own several very expensive ones. Therefore, the tax depended on the price of the hat you were buying, and boy, was the increase steep. Every hat sold had to be from a licensed retailer (like with alcohol today) so that the government knew it was getting its tax money. If you were stopped in the street and had to prove you'd paid the tax, you simply showed a stamp on the inside of your hat. So unlike those mattress tags that say, "Do not remove" but you do anyway, no one would remove the paper tag inside his hat.
While others never removed the actual hat.
Anyone caught not paying the hat tax was heavily fined. But the government was seriously not fucking around when it came to getting its money out of this. Anyone caught forging the stamps that proved the tax had been paid faced the death penalty if convicted. Holy shit!
And the forgeries weren't that hard to spot.
#1. Fat
Most of the items on this list are from the olden days, but don't worry -- creative taxation is something that won't go away until the last nation disappears from the earth.
Probably not Germany.
For instance, obesity is becoming the plague of the modern world -- increased rates of diabetes and heart disease put a strain on health services, and those are strains that a lot of broke countries can't afford. So what to do if you and your neighbors let yourselves go a little too much? Tax you for it. The logical way to do this would be to increase taxes on fast food or sodas, but Japan went for a more literal approach and just straight-up taxes your extra inches.
Wait ... Japan? Literal? Isn't there something in the Bible about this?
Despite not being famed for its big-boned population, Japan got ahead of the game by refusing to let its citizens go the way of America and the U.K. It has started measuring the waists of all of its citizens over the age of 40 which is about 44 percent of all the people in the country. Men and women with waists larger than 35.5 inches will be given information on healthier eating and lifestyles. If after a few months they have not lost enough weight, they will be fined by the government.
And possibly forced to "stop doing crazy shit."
Technically, it isn't the individual being taxed. Companies and local councils are responsible for keeping their people in line, and in the end, they are the ones who actually pay the fine. And these aren't small fines, either; one company discovered it would be fined $19 million if none of its employees lost any weight. Since no company wants to lose money because of fat employees, the pressure to be slim is huge. Because that is obviously so much better for your stress level -- if you look like you're carrying a little extra weight, say goodbye to your job. Or maybe you suddenly find that all your neighbors are bullying you every time you so much as look at a dessert.
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Passion drives effort to preserve history, dig for family roots
Shocking discovery led to search
|Sarah Sankaouskas, left, secretary and curator, and Candice McKnight, president and CEO of the African-American Historical and Geneological Society of Colorado Springs, are researching the history and roots of local African Americans. The two were pictured September 12, 2012, in the society's museum in the Westside Community Center at the old Buena Vista School in Old Colorado City. (Christian Murdock/Colorado Springs Gazette/MCT)
But it was on an imposing rock set down in a stranger's yard in Missouri that she looked her own family's past in the face.
The president of the African-American Historical and Genealogical Society of Colorado Springs was visiting family when a cousin, who belonged to a historical society there, showed her the rock that had been a platform from which slaves were sold in the early 1800s. Intrigued, they found papers that showed that a great-great-grandmother had been sold there.
But in an unusual twist, the woman was a French indentured servant who was sold to an African-American family.
"That's when I realized not all slaves were black and that blacks might be slaveholders," McKnight said.
McKnight stood on that rock in commemoration of her ancestor. At the women's behest, the rock from which predominantly black slaves were sold became part of a display at the Franklin County Historical Society.
"It's surprises like that which makes genealogy so fascinating and important," she says, adding it's a good example of why no one should have set ideas when they delve into their history.
And it is why McKnight and her society members have relentlessly worked for decades to make sure history is preserved.
For many black Americans, the legacy of slavery created a disconnect from their historical ancestral relations, notes Stephany Rose Spaulding, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs assistant professor of women's and ethnic studies.
"It was taken away from them. It was part of the breaking process to take their identity away," she explains. The Transatlantic slave culture broke psychological ties to homeland and people. Slaves were separated from others of their culture or tribe so they were not among others who could speak their language. And their names were changed.
The search for African-American roots has particularly been difficult because the U.S. Census, which is the cornerstone of much genealogy, did not mention slaves in reports until 1870.
"They were listed as property," notes Spaulding.
In recent times, African-Americans have overcome research difficulties. The immense popularity of the book "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" in 1976 opened the door. Author Alex Haley painstakingly traced his line back to Kunta Kinte, who was kidnapped in Gambia in 1767 and sold into slavery in Maryland.
More recently, publicity about Sally Jennings, a Monticello plantation slave who is said to have borne children of President Thomas Jefferson, has renewed interest. This summer a group of genealogists issued a report that President Barack Obama likely is a descendent of slaves through his mother's lineage.
The possibility of filling in her family tree became reality for McKnight at a family reunion in 1999 when she wondered "how do all these people fit into my history?" Sometime later she was at Evergreen Cemetery talking to director Will DeBoer, who told her how to start her research.
Armed with some family names and dates, she ended up at the Penrose Library's genealogy collection and the two Colorado Springs Family History Centers run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where she met several genealogists who would be her mentors, including author Katie Brown Bennett and the late LDS librarian Bonnie Jorganson and former Pikes Peak Library District librarian Mary Davis.
She encountered the challenges that come with the lack of the usual genealogical documentations such as birth and death certificates, not to mention the Census.
"I can't tell you how many times I said 'I'm stumped, I can't I can't' and they kept me going. Katie (Bennett) would say, 'You can do this. You can do this.'"
McKnight formed the African-American Genealogical Society of Colorado Springs in 2000.
She was friends with local historian Lu Lu Pollard and others who had founded the Negro Historical Association of Colorado Springs. When Pollard died in 2003, the baton was passed to McKnight. In 2005 the genealogy and history societies merged.
It presents genealogy workshops and history lectures several times a year, and publishes a newsletter to inspire others to keep alive the past. She says the book title that sums up the challenge is "The Invisible People of the Pikes Peak Region," by John Holley.
The history is one of the few that chronicles early black residents.
"A lot of our history has just been thrown away," McKnight says with an urgency that underscores her fear that even today's family histories will disappear if no one preserves them.
She convinces one workshop at a time, one person at a time, whatever it takes.
"I tell everyone we have to keep this alive; if we don't, who will? It's a lot of work, but if you love it, it's not hard," she says.
It's not history just for history's sake. She has seen families reunited by genealogy, including some of her own. She has helped adoptees find long lost relatives. "You keep your Kleenex handy," she says.
She can't count all the microfilm she has read, documents she has searched for and phone calls she has made all over the country searching for her family history. She has found family lines that include Scottish-Irish and Native Americans as well as African-American.
McKnight grew up in the St. Vrain neighborhood in Colorado Springs, attended Garfield and North schools, and graduated from Palmer High School. She attended Blair College and worked for years as a medical assistant while raising two kids. Now retired, she says she wants to leave the legacy of her findings to her four grandchildren.
She is thrilled by those she has met along the way - some living but others she is acquainted with only through birth certificates, slave bills of sale, census materials and the fading memories of elderly relatives.
The indentured servant who was sold from the rock was Eliva Everleen Snoddy Clay. That led her to William Lacy Clay Jr. a Missouri congressman. She was shy about calling him, but didn't let that reticence get in her way.
"I was surprised he called me back. But he was so polite and happy to hear about the past we share."
She has lots of tidbits from her years of research. She discovered that a great-uncle once owned the building that eventually housed the famous black nightclub The Cotton Club owned by Fannie Mae Duncan.
She does more than record her ancestral lines on a family tree. For example, she keeps Sallie Mack, her great-great-great-grandmother on her father's side, alive through historical reenactments.
such as the one held yearly at Evergreen Cemetery.
The fancy red period costume she wears is kept at the society's headquarters in the Westside Community Center's campus at the old Buena Vista School, 1628 W. Bijou St.
McKnight calls this place "phase one" of a black museum she and the others want to create. The large room is filled with African-American lore and hundreds of books on black history and genealogy that members have gleaned from college library cullings and donations. On the wall is a display of photos of local African-American police officers back to 1880s, Tuskegee Airmen, and Buffalo soldiers. There is a large quilt with the photos of the society's members and their families.
A file cabinet is filled with worksheets given to visitors and a plethora of black research help including booklets such as "The NHSA Register of Black Settlers in the Pikes Peak Region, 1861-1941" and '"Records of Military Agencies Relating to African Americans from Post World War I to the Korean War."
McKnight is looking for a volunteer grant writer to help the society raise funds for a permanent home for the museum. McKnight points to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission and Cultural Center in Pueblo and Black American West Museum in Denver, as examples to emulate.
The Pioneers Museum has a small room dedicated to black history, and many of the photos there were donated by the society and by Lu Lu Pollard's family.
But McNight says the community deserves more than a room.
"We African-Americans need to know where we came from so we can know where we are going."
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Tootsies hosted a pair of to-do's, beginning with a meet-and-greet with couture designer Naeem Khan. He presented his fall 2013 eveningwear collection, handbeaded in India; part of the event's proceeds went to the Museum of Fine Arts, which was celebrating its upcoming Indian-themed Grand Gala Ball. ... Another shopping soiree featured an appearance by designer Cornelia Guest, who showed off her vegan handbags at an event hosted by bloggers Monica Abney, Bethany Buchanan and Julie Bortnick, who's also a Houston magazine contributor. A percentage of sales benefited Pup Squad Animal Rescue. Photography by Daniel Ortiz and Jenny Antill


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Hunters are reminded that several North Dakota national wildlife refuges open to late-season upland game bird hunting the day after the deer gun season closes.
Arrowwood, Audubon, Des Lacs, J. Clark Salyer, Lake Alice, Lake Zahl, Long Lake, Lostwood, Tewaukon (pheasants only), and Upper Souris NWRs open Nov. 24.
North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries personnel have wrapped up surveys and sampling efforts for the open water season, and results point toward good conditions on the state's big waters.
"Fishing in North Dakota continues to be record-setting on most all levels," said Greg Power, fisheries chief. "A record number of fishing lakes has contributed considerably to the record number of fishing licenses sold in recent years."
Trappers using cable devices must register with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department prior to trapping this year.
Registration is available through the Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov, or through any Game and Fish office. Upon completion, a registration number will be provided. The number must be written on the back of the furbearer or combination license.
Outdoor enthusiasts are invited to attend a North Dakota Game and Fish Department advisory board meeting in their area.
These public meetings, held each spring and fall, provide citizens with an opportunity to discuss fish and wildlife issues and ask questions of their district advisors and agency personnel.
The governor appoints eight Game and Fish Department advisors, each representing a multi-county section of the state, to serve as a liaison between the department and public.
A new plan under consideration by the State Game and Fish Department would allow North Dakota deer hunters only one license per year, starting with the 2015 season.
The preferred license distribution plan is the result of a declining deer population and continuing high license demand. "This year we had about 30,000 people who applied for a deer gun license and didn't get one in the lottery," said Game and Fish wildlife division chief Jeb Williams. "This new system will give more people an opportunity to hunt deer each year, compared to our current system."
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's fall mule deer survey indicated production in 2014 bodes well for the future.
Biologists counted 1,969 (1,761 in 2013) mule deer in the aerial survey in October. The buck-to-doe ratio of 0.50 (0.46 in 2013) was slightly above the long-term average of 0.43 bucks per doe, while the fawn-to-doe ratio of 0.95 (0.74 in 2013) was the highest since 1999, and above the long-term average of 0.90 fawns per doe.
North Dakota Game and Fish Department enforcement personnel are issuing a reminder that a permit is required before taking possession, or any part, of a dead deer found near a road or in a field, including the skull with antlers. Only shed antlers can be possessed without a permit.
Permits to possess are free and available from game wardens and local law enforcement offices.
In addition, hunters are reminded to properly dispose of dead deer. Harvested deer cannot be left on the side of a roadway or in a ditch, and deer parts cannot be discarded in commercial dumpsters.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department reminds deer hunters to find their license and check it for accuracy.
Every year the Game and Fish Department's licensing section receives last-minute inquiries from hunters who can't find their license. When that happens, it's difficult to try to get a replacement license in time for the season opener.
Another reason to check the license now is to make sure the unit and species is what was intended.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has scheduled an examination to select candidates for the position of district game warden. The test is at 10 a.m., Dec. 29, at the department's main office in Bismarck.
Applicants must register to take the exam by submitting an online application through the North Dakota State Job Openings website.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is reminding deer hunters to keep in mind the Sportsmen Against Hunger program this fall.
While this year's deer proclamation allows only one deer gun license per hunter, families with more than one license might want to consider donating a deer to this worthy cause. In addition, hunters with an archery and muzzleloader license can help as well.
The state Game and Fish Department will continue its Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2014 hunting season, by sampling deer for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis from 10 units in North Dakota. In addition, all moose and elk harvested in the state are eligible for testing.
All Deer Gun Licenses Issued
The 48,000 deer gun licenses that were allocated by proclamation for the 2014 hunting season have all been issued, according to Randy Meissner, licensing manager for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department.
Meissner said according to state law, the number of deer gun licenses issued, including those licenses issued as gratis, cannot exceed the number of licenses authorized by the governor's proclamation.
"This is the first time in more than a decade that all licenses were issued before opening day," Meissner said.


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Getting Up To Speed With…Blaine Taylor
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Northwest Racing Productions)
Blaine Taylor has been a staple at the Cottage Grove Speedway for the last few seasons. The Pleasant Hill, Oregon native, even though the team is based out of nearby Creswell, has been in the Late Model division since 2010 after having a brief stint in the Modifieds and before that Sprint Cars.
In 2014 Taylor is going to hit the Late Models harder than ever as he looks to score his first career Late Model win at CGS even though he has four or five victories at Coos Bay Speedway. In 2010 Taylor would receive the Rookie of the Year award in both the Modifieds and Late Models at Cottage Grove Speedway as well as earning the Most Improved Driver award. We talked to Blaine about his racing career, his involvement with My Boys Slate Fired Pizza (which is a major supporter of the Cottage Grove Speedway), and why he chose the #18. Now let's get up to speed with Blaine Taylor.
Driver: Blaine Taylor
Home Track: Cottage Grove Speedway
Hometown: Pleasant Hill, Oregon
Occupation: Owner/Operator of Taylor Restaurant Equipment
Age: 36
Years Racing: 5
Classification: Late Model
Team: Blaine Taylor Racing
Car: 18
Chassis: MasterSbilt Race Cars
Sponsors: My Boys Slate Fired Pizza, Taylor Restaurant Equipment, Mueller Commercial Services
Special Thanks: Elizabeth Taylor (Wife), Gavin Taylor (Son)
BD: Blaine do you have any specific plans for 2014?
BT: I will run all the Late Model races at Cottage Grove and a handful of races at Willamette and maybe a couple at Coos Bay. This year I completely went through the car and I hope I got rid of all the bad luck from the last few seasons. We're really pushing the sponsorship of My Boys Pizza and Cottage Grove Speedway. Last year we were open late after the races and had a good turnout of both drivers and fans.
BD: Is there a story behind you racing the #18. And I thought you were #23 once, right?
BT: The #18 was just my favorite number since high school and it was my jersey number in basketball. I chose the #23 when I was in a Sprint Car because I liked Michael Jordan.
BD: How exactly did you get your start in racing?
BT: The first time I did anything racing related was when I did some autocross right after I got out of high school and I also did some drag racing. I liked circle track racing and got the Sprint Car but it got way too expensive fast. I love the adrenaline rush of racing but hanging out with everybody at the same time it's almost like a bowling league.
After I got out of the Sprint Car I took quite a few years off and my second start was after I bought a Mod from Don Muth in 2010. I ran that but the motor blew up after two or three races so I sold the Mod and bought a Late Model from Frank Brewer and have been in it ever since and I would say I enjoy it the most.
The competition in Late Models is so tough and even the Crate cars are great to race with too. My first year I got a third in the main and made a trophy dash with all of the fast guys a couple of times.
BD: How fun has the Late Model class been?
BT: To me I like it the most of all of them. They are very fast and there are some very good drivers around here. You have five to eight drivers that can win any night. I'm a real big fan of the full fender cars and I think the look of them is really good too.
BD: I got to say you operate one of the coolest businesses for race fans with My Boys Slate Fired Pizza in Creswell. How has business been since you've stayed open late on race nights?
BT: it's done well and I enjoy giving away pizzas to drivers which my dad did the same thing when he owned the place twenty years ago. He also used to sponsor Vern Guth a little bit and gave a free pizza to the last place finisher each night.
More than anything I like to give the racers a place to be after the races to hangout. We also are heavily involved in schools in the community. We're really excited about this year because my whole wrap on my car is going to focus on the business.
Cottage Grove Speedway gets back to racing this Saturday May 3rd for Cottage Grove Chamber Night. Classes in action include the Northwest Wingless Tour, Late Models, Northwest Extreme Modifieds, and Dwarf Cars. Be sure and pick up a discount coupon at either the Cottage Grove Community Center, Boyce & Sons Landscaping and Building Materials, or Aesthetic Surgical Arts to save you some money at the front gate. For more information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
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Dilion Hotel
Situated in a quiet side road, the Dilion Hotel is just a one minute walk from the lovely long sandy main beach at Parikia, the capital of Paros.
Under new management, the hotel was fully renovated in 2003 and promises a welcome as warm as the Aegean sun as well as excellent service.
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It is conveniently located about 5 minutes from the port and the town centre. A courtesy bus is available to transport guests and their luggage from and to the port or airport on arrival and departure.
Its 15 rooms and 1 suite are traditional Cycladic style decorated and equipped with air conditioning, sound proof window, direct dial phone system, satellite TV, refrigerator, balcony and private bathroom. Our breakfast is buffet style.
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- 24 Hour Reception
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- Hair Dryers
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Dilion Hotel is situated in the heart of Paros, 5min from the harbour and 1min from the beach.
Paros is one of the largest Cycladic islands.
There are frequent connections from Pireaus and Rafina, others Cycladic islands, islands of the eastern Aegean, Thessalonika and Crete (with ferryboats, catamarans and flying dolphins) and flight connections with Athens and Thessalonika.
The trip from Piraeus takes 4.5 hours by ferryboat and 2.5-3 hours by fast boats.


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I read two comments of Lang that basically places algebra over other math subjects. One of this comments is on his calculus book preface (see Remark 1 below); I am not finding his other comment, but it was an interaction he had with someone at Yale´s math department coffee break and is written somewhere. It basically says that algebra is superior to any other math subject, if I recall it correctly. My problem with his comments is that I have no idea what he is talking about. They baffle me. I suppose I stand in the exact opposite from his viewpoints. For me, you can´t compare the applicability and importance of analysis and differential equations to that of modern algebra. Hence:
1) Is there an article of Lang explaining in detail his viewpoints? 2) or, do you know what is his point?
Remark 1) On the preface of his Calculus book, Serge Lang basically says that he thinks bright students may benefit more in studying abstract algebra before or at the same time they learn calculus. My book is in portuguese, so I give a rough translation: " when I was a student I didn´t like calculus nor analysis. I probably woundn´t like this book either... [today I think] that calculus and analysis are overestimated, with a loss to algebra, mainly because of historical accidents." He goes on to say that a beginner course in algebra should consist in a study of vector spaces and groups, that this is independent of calculus and has important applications to other fields, and that some people prefer this material over calculus. He also says that there is no reason someone should be forced to study calculus before algebra. This being true specially for the most talented students.
Remrak 2) "I remember one time when I was a grad student, I was standing next to him at tea while he was explaining to a first-year that analysis is just "number theory at infinity". I said Come on, that's not true. He immediately turned up the volume, challenging me to stop bullshitting and give an example. I said OK, p-adic analysis, and then walked away. But I've always wished I had stayed to see what his reaction would have been. We need more trouble makers like him. ", from the site Not Even Wrong.


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Housing market Top 10s in the Baltimore area in early 2012 [Pictures]
Which ZIP codes and city neighborhoods in the Baltimore metro area had the most home sales? The biggest drops in price? The Baltimore Sun analyzed data from Metropolitan Regional Information Systems' RealEstate Business Intelligence to find the extremes during the first half of 2012, among places with at least five home sales during that period and in the first half of 2011. (A word to the wise: Big changes in average price are usually a sign of shifts in the sorts of homes selling -- fewer foreclosures in poor condition, for instance, or larger houses. Individual homeowners' values aren't necessarily changing in lockstep.) --Jamie Smith Hopkins
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text: Yo, peeps, what is up. Today on Dragoart.com you're going to learn how to draw Pichu from Pokemon. Pikachu is the evolved form of Pichu. After Pikachu, it's Richu, which I may put up if I want. They are all electric type Pokemon. Electric Pokemon are weak against ground, and are super effective on water and bird. OK, fine, I was in a Pokemon mode for about a week, then I got bored with it. Anyways, I think Pichu is the cutest type of Pokemon. This tutorial was very easy and I hope you'll find it easy, too. The background is kinda boring if you ask me. So, I hope you enjoy the tutorial. Until next time, I'll see ya.


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- Binding: Hardcover & eBook
- Era: 19th Century
- Number of Pages: 384
- Subject: War of 1812
- Date Available: November 2011
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Your tax-deductible gift to the Naval Institute Press underwrites worthy books that might not otherwise be published.
Focusing on the oceanic war rather than the war in the Great Lakes, this study charts the War of 1812 from the perspectives of the two opposing navies at sea—one of the largest fleets in the world and a small, upsta"Besides a generous number of illustrations, the book includes some excellent tables of warship strengths and other matters, as well as helpful maps of the several operations and single ship combats covered. Although a general understanding of the chronology of the War of 1812 would be helpful for any reader dipping into Utmost Gallantry, McCranie does an excellent job of weaving in sources from both sides of the ocean, commenting fairly when those sources conflict, and explaining the events at sea in terms of grand strategy. The book would be an excellent addition to any naval history library or fine reading for anyone interested in the War of 1812." — The Journal of America's Military Past, November 2012rt navy just three decades old. While American naval leadership searched for a means of contesting Britain's naval dominance, the English sought to destroy the U.S. Navy and protect its oceanic highways. Instead of describing battles between opposing warships, McCranie evaluates entire cruises by American and British men-of-war, noting both successes and failures and how they translated into broader strategies. In the process, his study becomes a history of how the two navies fought the oceanic war, linking high-level governmental decisions about strategy to the operational use of fleets in the Atlantic and Caribbean and from the South Pacific to the Indian Ocean.
Unlike other books on the subject, this work offers a balanced appraisal of the war on the high seas, taking into account the strategic considerations of both sides and how the leadership from each side assessed, planned, and implemented operational concepts. Drawing on a wealth of British and American archival sources, McCranie guides the through the strategic decision making processes on both sides of the Atlantic. He demonstrates vividly their impact of those decisions on the course of the war at sea, where the contest was close and deadly. Indeed, the author's action-packed accounts of battles hold special appeal.
Kevin D. McCranie is a professor of strategy and policy at the Naval War College in Newport, RI, who holds a PhD in history from Florida State University. A specialist in the naval history of the Age of Sail, he is also the author of the award-winning Admiral Lord Keith and the Naval War against Napoleon. He lives in West Greenwich, RI.
"This is an essential read for those with an interest in the War of 1812, the age of fighting sail, or the navy in general."
— The NYMAS Review
"In all, Kevin McCranie's Utmost Gallantry is an admirable work. It certainly stands out among the other more recent works on the naval conflict in the War of 1812. The intricate detail he provides regarding the operations of the U.S. and Royal navies elevates his work from a standard narrative of the war to a must read for anybody interested in fully understanding the fighting on the high seas during the War of 1812."
— H-War, H-Net Reviews, August 2012
"…This is the best narrative account of American naval operations in the War of 1812…"
— International Journal of Maritime History, June 2012
"McCranie, a specialist in naval conflict in the age of sail, provides colorful descriptions of several engagements. His detailed explanations of sailing tactics, assessments of command decisions and astute use of direct quotations from battle participants add new material to the battle narratives without detracting from the drama... McCranie always returns to strategic issues, however, which makes this book particularly valuable."
"Among the plethora of bicentennial books describing the War of 1812 at sea, Professor Kevin McCranie of the Naval War College sets an unequaled standard for depth of research and analysis. It is to be hoped that Professor McCranie will follow up this volume with a second one dealing with those aspects of the naval conflict omitted in Utmost Gallantry. His talents in research diligence and analytical insight are too well demonstrated to leave us without a complete history of the naval aspects of the War of 1812."
— Naval History, August 2012
"…Geared toward serious students of this conflict and is a valuable asset to historians because of its impartial and well-researched analysis."
— Privates and Privateers
"McCranie's thought-provoking, well-written book puts the primary naval events of this war in a fresh perspective. Utmost Gallantry is an outstanding scholarly work, a book that is easy to recommend for anyone's maritime library."
— Sea History, Spring 2012
"Kevin McCranie takes the refreshing high road to history in this absorbing page turner that makes the War of 1812 exude the immediacy of having happened yesterday….This effort is definitely one of the better new books to examine a war of far more significance than history usually accorded it."
— Sea Classics, April 2012
"Utmost Gallantry is an important, balanced view of the War of 1812. McCranie offers a fresh perspective on both U.S. and British strategic considerations."
—CLAUDE BERUBE, U.S. Naval Academy, co-author of A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution
"McCranie's fine book provides both a comprehensive review of the seaborne deployments during the 1812 war and insightful analyses of the strategic choices of the combatants. But it's most intriguing contribution may be the examples it gives of the difficulties that faced the strategic and tactical decision makers as a result of slow communications combined with faulty and/or incomplete intelligence. It ignores the heroics to show a reader the true fog of war."
—GORDON S. BROWN, author of The Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750–1829
"Based on a wide range of sources, Kevin McCranie offers an impressive account of the naval dimensions of the War of 1812—an account alive to tactical, operational, and strategic aspects."
—JEREMY BLACK, professor of history at the University of Exeter and author of The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon
"Professor Kevin McCranie skillfully portrays the blue-water strategy and tactics of the naval high commands in Great Britain and the United States during the War of 1812. McCranie's thoroughly researched study is a valuable addition to the naval literature of this important conflict."
—GEORGE C. DAUGHAN, author of 1812: The Navy's War and If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy from the Revolution to the War of 1812


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Bestselling author and Bennington alumna Kathleen Norris '69 will speak and read from selected works on Thursday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the College's Deane Carriage Barn. The event—this year's Candace DeVries Olesen '50 Lectureship for Distinguished Alumni—is free and open to the public.
"Bennington is where my life began as a writer," Norris says. "It's great to be able to come back and talk about that."
An award-winning poet and writer, Norris is the author of New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk; Dakota: A Spiritual Geography; Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith; and The Virgin of Bennington.
Her new book, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, is a study of acedia, the ancient word for the spiritual side of sloth, which she examines in the light of theology, psychology, monastic spirituality, and her own experience.
The recipient of grants from the Bush and Guggenheim Foundations, Norris has also published seven books of poetry.
Read USA Today's review of Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life.


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My flat at the moment has all the switches at about 1 meter off the floor. Naturally my growing kids are starting to toggle the lighting now that they are tall enough. Is it possible to raise the switches and is it a DIY job? Can you list out the stages I will have to do including making a new hole in the wall etc. etc?
They make various types of "child proof" switch guards, which might be a more practical approach than moving all the switches.
Well....you could install light switch guards such as these:
...that would be used to keep the switch on all the time. Then install remote controlled light socket adapters like these on critical lighting circuits:
You can find many choices for the "remote controlled light switch" by using that phrase as a search string on Google or eBay.
There's really a lot to a job like this. One doesn't know what entails until it's started.
While the work isn't terribly complicated, getting it done (and done right) is not a weekend job for the average diy'er. I mean, we don't know if it's '70s aluminum wiring, the grounding scheme of the house, if the switch was properly wired initially, what kind of switch it is, etc. A person could do the job easily or seriously mess things up, costing them more if they realize their mistakes by calling a pro, or costing them a lot more if they don't by causing a fire.
Yes it can be simple, but if something complicates the move it is just as much work to put the switch back in the original location as it would have been to move it under simple scenarios.
Basically, try your hand at drywall repair before moving light switches. If you get really good at that, then open up the wall knowing you can close it again. What you find behind the drywall is going to tell you if the move is easy. Most of the time such a job isn't difficult, but if you lack the drywall repair skills, it is difficult to even know if moving that switch is easy or not.
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You probably opened up the drywall and realized that your wiring doesn't facilitate easy movement of the switch upwards. Perhaps they drilled through studs and ran the wiring sideways or it's coming up from the floor. In any case, you don't have enough existing wire to place the box where you want it.
At this point, seriously consider just skipping to the patch the drywall steps, or hire a professional. The job just grew from moving a box to installing a junction or possibly rewiring that run. You don't want your building to go out of code. A licensed professional carries insurance and is held to a different standard that you are, and that makes all the difference in whether your insurance policy will pay or not should the work create an electrical fire.
A simple move of the box isn't fundamentally changing the electrical wiring, but if you need more wire, the necessary changes are considered beyond the boundaries of simple home repair / maintenance.
You could place a new outlet box and switch above the existing switches and cover the existing switch boxes with a blank plate.
This is better as a comment than an answer, but since it includes pictures, I'll post it as an "alternative" answer.
A possible alternative to raising your light switches, is making something switch-y for your kid(s) to play with. I ran across an electronics kit at Jameco when I was looking for toggle switches and remembered this question on DIY.
I discovered there's a history to the box, which you can find here at GeekDad.
So here is the home-brew version:
And the kit version from Jameco:


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Kerry Cites Broad Backing for Syria Strike
U.S. Secretary of State Says the Number of Countries Ready to Take Action Has Reached 'Double Digits'
PARIS—The number of countries ready to take military action in Syria has reached "double digits," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday after European Union foreign ministers agreed there was strong evidence the regime of Bashar al-Assad was behind the alleged use of chemical weapons against rebels.
Mr. Kerry was speaking at a joint press conference with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that sought to address deep skepticism among lawmakers and the public in both countries. Washington and Paris are pushing to assemble a broad international coalition of countries that support possible strikes on the Assad regime in order to persuade Congress to vote in favor of authorizing military action.
"There are a number of countries in the double digits, who are prepared to take military action,'' said Mr. Kerry, without naming the countries. France and Denmark are among the EU governments who say they could join U.S. led strikes.
Earlier Saturday, Mr. Kerry met with EU foreign ministers who issued a statement describing evidence that the Assad regime used chemical weapons as "strong" and urging a "clear and strong" response. The Assad regime has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons.
However, the ministers stopped short of calling for military action and expressed hope that United Nations inspectors sent to investigate last month's attack would be allowed to present their report before any action was taken.
Mr. Kerry said he planned to discuss whether to wait for the U.N. findings with U.S. President Barack Obama, adding that Mr. Obama had not decided on the matter.
Washington and Paris are both under pressure to garner public support for military intervention in the Syrian conflict. Mr. Obama faces a tough vote in Congress seeking authorization to strike the regime. French President François Hollande can act without parliamentary approval, but he has said Paris will not strike the Assad regime without Washington.
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Messrs. Kerry and Fabius insisted international diplomatic support was building for possible strikes, citing the EU agreement as well as a similar statement issued Friday by 11 countries on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.
"The overwhelming support is moving in the direction of holding the Assad regime to account," Mr. Kerry said.
A senior French official said the pledges of international support provide Paris and Washington crucial diplomatic cover to carry out strikes without a resolution from the U.N. Security Council. Both countries consider a resolution out of reach, because Russia is wielding its veto power on the Security Council to block military intervention in Syria.
"Roughly speaking, if the Security Council is blocked and we carry out strikes, we know that the countries that signed will politically support that response," the official said.
On Saturday Mr. Kerry repeatedly drew parallels between the world's struggle to respond to the Assad regime and European appeasement of Nazi Germany during the Munich conference that took place at the outset of World War II.
"This is our Munich moment. This is our chance to join together and pursue accountability over appeasement," Mr. Kerry said. At several points in the news conference, he spoke in French to drive home his arguments with the French public, which mainly opposes military intervention in Syria.
The EU statement was the bloc's strongest since the alleged chemical attack occurred on Aug. 21. Still, there was no explicit support for the idea of military strikes in the EU's statement, which called for a resumption of peace talks in Geneva.
"We were unanimous in condemning in the strongest terms this horrific attack. Information from a wide variety of sources confirms the existence of such an attack an d seems to indicate strong evidence that the Syrian regime is responsible for this attack," read the statement from the EU foreign ministers.
"In the face of this cynical use of chemical weapons, the international community cannot remain idle. A clear and strong response is crucial to make clear that such crimes are unacceptable and that there will be no impunity."
After Saturday's meeting, Germany's foreign minister confirmed that his government would sign the statement that came out of this week's Group of 20 leaders meeting calling for a "strong international response" to the attack. Germany had initially withheld its signature when the statement was signed in St. Petersburg on Friday.
"After we saw this excellent and very wise position of the European Union the chancellor and myself, we decided of course that we support now the G20 statement," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said after the meeting.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said it was "very important" that Germany now backed the St. Petersburg statement, allowing the EU to stand united on Syria.
Until Saturday, the EU had struggled for a common stance on Syria, with some backing a military response to the chemical-weapons attack and others warning such action could make a political solution to the crisis impossible.
"The question we must ask ourselves is what should we do in Syria which is in the interests of the Syrian people," said Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn on Friday. "Is this truly in the interest of the Syrian people to want to carry out military strikes to punish Bashar al-Assad. I think not."


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When looking at the United States Declaration of Independence its easy to notice that John Hancock's signature is more prominent than the others: From my readings I know John Hancock did sign one of the published copies later, and being the first his was more prominent - and this size difference may be due to the fact it was printed rather than signed. Some of the other signatures seem grouped such that they might have been signed at different times as well, how were the signatures added to the Declaration and was the printing process involved in their differences and groupings?
John Hancock was the President of Congress. So, as stated, he signed first and largest. In the leftmost block are the signers from Georgia. In the block immediately to the right of that one are the signers from North Carolina. The block below contains the signers from South Carolina. This pattern continues throughout with a few exceptions. Here is a visualization:
Two exceptions: John Hancock, although from Massachusetts, did not sign with the rest of the Massachusites as he was the President of Congress. Also, Matthew Thornton did not sign with the rest of the New Hampshirites.
The blocks are also categorized. Start at the leftmost column and go to the rightmost column. Begin with the bottom of each list: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire (we skip Matthew Thornton's Signature here). This is roughly the order of the colonies, going South to North along the Atlantic Coast.
So, to sum it up, for the most part, the signers signed with the rest of the signers from their respective state.


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Gina Ponzani is now in charge at Snips Hair Design in St. Clairsville.
It's a role she's more than capable of filling.
But it's also one she had no intention of filling a few weeks ago and definitely not in the manner the move presented itself.
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THE STAFF at Snips Hair Design want the public to know they will carry on Luke Elerick's legacy and continue to offer quality hair stylings. From left, are: Maggie Jarvis, Gina Ponzani, Erin Rinkes and Lisa Pata. Not pictured is Paula Riccadonna
A veteran stylist and employee, Ponzani, like her fellow coworkers, enjoyed working under the director and tutelage of former owner Luke Elerick.
Elerick passed away on June 5 after a tragic accident near his home on Ohio 9 in St. Clairsville.
According to Ponzani, Elerick was returning back across the street from obtaining the mail when he was hit by a truck and killed.
Two weeks later, Ponzani and her staff are still dealing with Elerick's passing.
"Luke was a great guy to work for," Ponzani said.
Ponzani explained that Elerick was always in a great mood, even when things going on dictated that his demeanor should be different.
At age 61, Elerick had a zeal for life and the motivation of a man half his age.
They fielded calls from former and current customers offering their sympathies and had the unenviable task of informing Elerick's clients about the tragic news.
But despite Elerick's passing, someone had to pick up the torch and keep Snips Hair Design running through the tough times, so Ponzani felt it was her duty to keep the ship afloat.
Her name is now on the building rental agreement as owner/operator and along with taking care of her regular clients, Ponzani now has to add scheduling, payroll and other tasks to her daily workload.
Safe to say, she's been busy.
She noted that fortunately, Elerick utilized the services of a bookkeeper for the more labor-intensive accounting duties.
Ponzani currently employs one full-time employee and multiple part-timers. She noted she's going to be doing some hiring to help out, although currently, she's not sure if that will be a full-time or part-time position.
The staff will continue to provide its customers the same passionate, caring service that they expected to receive under Elerick's leadership.
Snips is located at 46450 National Rd. W. in St. Clairsville and can be reached by calling (740) 695-4292.
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Voluntary list of people with cars:
- Patrick - my old Lexus is reliable and comfortably fits 5 passengers plus my dog.
- [User:Jared] - 1996 Taurus with terrible transmission but a big trunk will help haul shit to dumps if people help load/unload it.


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Beyond personal preference, is there any credence to the idea that, for example: in a cubicle with a fabric wall behind the monitor - if that wall is covered in paraphernalia (be it photos, post it notes, cheatsheets, whatever), does that distract or otherwise encumber the worker?
Personally I find that it makes me exhausted if there isn't some clean space. But I'm wondering if there's been any evidence found to support that.


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Definition of hoof in English:
noun (plural hoofs or hooves /huːvz/)
The horny part of the foot of an ungulate animal, especially a horse: there was a clatter of hoofs as a rider came up to them
More example sentences
- With their teeth, hooves, horns and dung, wildebeest have literally cultivated the grasslands.
- I closed my eyes, the horses hooves and the rocking of the carriage almost lulling me to sleep.
- She heard the clopping of horse hooves but she didn't know where it was coming from.
foot, trotter, cloven hoof
technical ungula, cloot
verb[with object] informal
1Kick (a ball) powerfully: he hoofed the ball 70 metres
More example sentences
- There can't be nine players hoofing the ball upfield from their own area any more, and if we play like that, then I don't fancy being part of it.
- Borough's plan appeared to be nothing more than hoofing the ball as far and as high as they could into the Morecambe penalty area.
- It never really came and it seemed as if both Jones and Wilkinson were obsessed with hoofing the ball down the middle of the park.
2 (hoof it) Go on foot: I paid the check and hoofed it over to Jane Street
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- If you are required to keep your cart on the path, you can end up walking farther than you would have if you hoofed it.
- Why go with a guide instead of hoofing it on your own?
- The bus wheezed up the road to the village of Naggar, where we disembarked, hoisted our packs, and started hoofing it.
2.1Dance: we hoof it reasonably fancily, and no one guffaws
More example sentences
- Fred's a smart alec sailor who bumps into his old flame while on shore leave, and it's not long before they're hoofing it to 'Let Yourself Go' and 'Dance'.
- But, no, he really does run a dance club, and Maria is soon hoofing it in Geneva.
- Certainly it's nothing new to see older dancers still hoofing it.
on the hoof
- He said livestock was judged on the hoof at the show and subsequently slaughtered at the East London abattoir.
- This all seemed to work well, but as well as this, according to the regulations, you must have a vet to first inspect all slaughter animals on the hoof - thus adding to the expense.
- It is also used by a number of exporters in the Irish livestock industry who ship cattle on the hoof to Lebanon, Egypt and Europe.
- Unfortunately they look set to continue the trend of setting parking policy on the hoof, in response to short-term financial pressures rather than in accordance with a long-term vision.
- But too often, he appears to be making up crime policy on the hoof, like his decision today to release hundreds of criminals early because the prisons are full.
- Are we about to witness more policy made on the hoof, or is this merely evidence they are struggling to defend the indefensible against valid widespread public protest?
1(Of livestock) not yet slaughtered: livestock on the hoof
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2British informal Without proper thought or preparation: policy was made on the hoof
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- Example sentences
- If they're lucky, the couple will catch sight of the mousedeer, which is the world's smallest hoofed animal and features in local folklore.
- Foot-and-mouth is a highly contagious viral disease which causes blisters and fever in hoofed animals.
- Lions prey mostly on hoofed animals, although they occasionally consume fallen fruit.
Old English hōf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoef and German Huf.
If a government makes policy on the hoof, it does so without proper thought and preparation. The original reference was to livestock that was alive and not yet slaughtered; the earliest example in print dates from 1818. The human foot is also treated like a cow's or horse's in the phrase to hoof it 'to walk as opposed to ride', which dates from as far back as the mid 17th century. To hoof meaning 'to dance', and hoofer 'a dancer' both arose in US slang in the 1920s.
Words that rhyme with hoofaloof, behoof, goof, pouffe, proof, roof, shadoof, spoof, Tartuffe, underproof, woof
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught In History Class
High school was hard enough, what with all the video games and boobies to distract us from our homework. What makes it even harder is having to unlearn all of the stuff they taught us in elementary school that turned out to be utter bullshit.
To this day you can even hear some adults repeating these "amazing" historical tales that, years ago, somebody just pulled out of their ass:
#5. Columbus Discovered the Earth is Round
The story we heard:
In 1492, an Italian ponce by the name of Christopher Columbus won his long-standing feud with the monarchy and the Catholic church to get funding for a voyage to East Asia. They were afraid that he would fail spectacularly, because everybody knew that the Earth was a flat disc, and the direction Columbus was sailing in would cause him to fall off the edge and into the mouth of the giant turtle that supported it.
Columbus, as we were told, did fail to reach his destination, but not because the world was flat--it was because he crashed into the future greatest nation on Earth, baby! Thus, Columbus proved the world was round, discovered America, and a national holiday was born.
The truth:
In the 1400s, the flat-earth theory was taken about as seriously as the Time Cube theory is today, if not less so. The shape of the world has been pretty much settled since the orb theory was first proposed by the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, around 2,000 years before the existence of Spain.
In fact, the navigational techniques of Columbus' time were actually based on the fact that the Earth was a sphere. Trying to navigate the globe as if it was a flat plane would have fucked up the trip even more than it was.
Artists' representation
The Spanish government's reluctance to pay for Columbus' expeditions didn't have anything to do with their misconceptions about the shape of the world. Ironically, it was because Columbus himself severely underestimated the size of the Earth and everybody knew it. The distance he planned to travel wouldn't have taken him anywhere near Asia. Nevertheless, he eventually scraped together enough funds to embark on his ridiculous adventure, and the clusterfuck that was the Columbus voyage has been celebrated annually in the Americas and in Spain ever since.
So where did the myth come from? It began with author and historical charlatan Washington Irving, who wrote a novel about Columbus in 1838. The novel was fiction, but some elements managed to creep into our history textbooks anyway, probably by some editors who wanted to spice it up a bit. Who's going to read a history book that's just filled with a bunch of boring shit anyway?
#4. Einstein Flunked Math
The story we heard:
Motivational speakers love to tell this tale, inspiring underachievers with the story of this German kid who was just like you! Despite his sincerest efforts he could never manage to do well in his math exams, and struggled desperately with physics while working as a lowly patent clerk.
That muddled kid grew up to be Albert Fucking Einstein! And if he can do it, then so can you!
The truth:
Well, no you can't. As it turns out, Einstein was a mathematical prodigy, and before he was 12, he was already better at arithmetic and calculus than you are now. Einstein was in fact so fucking smart that he believed school was holding him back, and his parents purchased advanced textbooks for him to study from. Not only did he pass math with flying colors, it's entirely possible that he was actually teaching the class by the end of semester.
The idea that Einstein did badly at school is thought to have originated with a a 1935 Ripley's Believe it or Not! trivia column.
Not the actual column
There's actually a good reason why it's a bad idea to include Robert Ripley among the references in your advanced university thesis. The famous bizarre trivia "expert" never cited his sources, and the various "facts" he presented throughout his career were an amalgamation of things he thought he read somewhere, heard from somebody, or pulled out of his ass. The feature's title probably should have been: Believe it or Not! I Get Paid Either Way, Assholes.
When he was first shown this supposed expose of his early life, Einstein allegedly just laughed, and probably went on to solve another 12 mysteries of quantum physics before dinner. By the time he finally kicked the bucket in 1955, it's entirely possible that "failure" was the one concept that Albert Einstein had never managed to master.
Of course, this just reaffirms what we have always suspected, deep down: success really is decided at birth, and your life will never be better than it is right now. Sorry about that.
#3. Newton and the Apple
The story we heard:
You've probably heard of Isaac Newton. He's pretty much the Jesus of physics. In the late 17th century, Newton practically fucking invented science. The discoveries we can thank him for include the laws of motion, the visible spectrum, the speed of sound, the law of cooling, and calculus. Yes, all of goddamn calculus. One wonders if anybody in history ever had a thought before Newton.
Probably his most famous discovery, however, is the law of gravity. The story goes that Newton, a modest mathematician and professor of physics, was sitting under the shade of an apple tree one sunny day, when an apple dropped from a branch and bopped him right on the head.
While most people would merely think "Ouch! Son of a bitch!" and stare warily upward for 10 minutes, Newton's first instinct was to formulate the entire set of universal laws governing the motion of gravitating bodies, a theory so sound that it went unchallenged and unmodified for over 200 years.
The truth:
Newton never mentioned the thing with the apple, and in fact it was another guy named John Conduitt who first told the story some 60 years after it supposedly happened. Even then, he was decisively vague about whether Newton actually saw an apple, or whether the apple is a metaphor that he used to illustrate the idea of gravity for people less intelligent than he was (read: everybody):
"Whilst he was musing in a garden it came into his thought that the power of gravity (which brought an apple from the tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from the earth but that this power must extend much further."
You'll notice that even then we don't get the thing with the apple actually hitting Newton in the head, it got added somewhere along the line to add the element of cartoonish slapstick to his genius life.
Future versions will say that Newton then vomited in agony.
We like to think complex discoveries happen this way, with a sudden light bulb popping on over our head. Kind of makes it seem like it could happen to us one day, the next great idea will just occur to us while we're wasting the afternoon on a park bench. In reality, Newton spent the best part of his life formulating and perfecting his theories.
When we have kids, we're going to tell them the truth, dammit. Just Newton, hunched over his piles of papers covered with clouds of tiny numbers. Just months and years of tedious, grinding, silent, lonely work, until he had a nervous breakdown and finally died years later, insane from Mercury poisoning. Welcome to the real world, Timmy.


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Let $x \in R^n$ be vector with entries $x_1\geq\cdots \geq x_n$.
I would like to decompose this vector into vectors $x^1=(x_1,\ldots,x_m,0,\ldots0), x^2=(0,\ldots,0,x_{m+1},\ldots,x_1,0,\ldots,0)$..., where $2x_m>{x_1}$; $2x_{m+1}<{x_1}$; $x_{m+1}<2x_l;x_{l+1}>2x_{l+1} $ and so on.
How many of those vectors $x^i$? (My filing it should be $log$ terms, but I would like to see the proof of it. Any good sours will be also helpful).
Thank you.


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A while ago I made Conway's Game of Life. I'd like to make something similar (in C++), where each cell would exhibit behaviours such as:
- Movement
- Reproduction
- Killing of other cells (moving onto another cell, for example)
Over time, the cells would 'learn', and I'd (hopefully) end up with a set of behaviours that are beneficial to the ecosystem as a whole, rather than the individual cell.
I'm 100% sure that this isn't new, but I don't know:
- What technical terms cover what it is I'm trying to do (what keywords cover my aim such that I can search for other implementations),
- Resources, preferably online, although dead-tree style is also good, which would be beneficial reading for this type of programming.
- How I should implement this (#2 would help with this); I can modify my cells to do some things (moving, for example), but I'm not sure how I should implement the learning; should I be using a genetic algorithm or is some other type of evolutionary algorithm better suited?


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I like the threaded view for mail.app, but it only groups the messages per thread. In other words, there's only two levels: the original messages, and all the replies that came after that.
Is it possible (perhaps via plugin?) to show a multi-level view of the e-mail thread in mail.app?


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How can I upload waypoints from QGIS to my Garmin GPSmap 62 by using GPS Tools in plugins? I only manage to do it with an older Garmin GPS.
Regards Kaja
I wonder if you are able to download data, in any case this link describes how to connect a garmin usb gps in Qgis
As everyone else has told you, a little bit of more information could be useful in order to help you.....
Your question is a little vague as commented above, but I have been successful at getting waypoints (a qgis layer) into my magellan triton using the following process. I obtained the qgis plugin "PostGPS2gpx". This converts a selected qgis layer into a gpx file which can then be loaded into into your handheld gps with the software that came with your device rather than trying to cable directly to qgis.


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KILLEEN (February 25, 2010)—Killeen police arrested two men Wednesday after an early-morning robbery in the parking lot of the Residence Inn and Suites at 400 E. Central Texas Expressway where a woman said an armed man wearing a hooded jacket demanded money from her and then escaped in a light-colored vehicle that another man was driving.
An officer spotted a car matching the description of the getaway vehicle in the area of Trimmier Road and Lowes Boulevard and officers pulled the car over in the 200 block of East Jasper.
The two men inside were detained and the victim later identified them as the robbers.
Joshua Kalani, 21, and Jason Whitney Laird, 27, were charged with aggravated robbery.
They were ordered held in lieu of bonds of $100,000 each.
The robbery was the latest in a series of six holdups, the first of which was Tuesday.
It's not clear whether all six are related.
Links in the Chain of Robberies?
Police agencies have been pooling their investigations in an attempt to link the robberies.
"We definitely have leads with these cases," Temple Police Lt. Edward Best said on Wednesday.
"We are in contact with other agencies and are comparing our notes and seeing what, if there is a possibility if these are related," Best said.
Robbery No. 1
The first robbery happened in the parking lot of Killeen's Hilton Garden Inn where Killeen police spokeswoman Carroll Smith said a man armed with a gun walked into the lobby at around 8:50 p.m. Tuesday and demanded money.
No one was injured but the robber got away.
Killeen police are looking for a black man who may be in his 20s.
Robbery No. 2
The next robbery happened 10 minutes later, a around 9 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of the Barnes & Noble in the Market Heights Shopping Center in Harker Heights where an armed robber approached a man and demanded his valuables.
The intended victim quickly drove away, but saw the would-be robber run to a car parked nearby.
The man provided a description of both the car and the robber, police said.
Robbery No. 3
About 30 minutes later, at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, someone drove up beside a car in the parking lot of the McDonald's on 6th Avenue in Belton, got out and demanded money from the vehicle's occupant.
No weapon was displayed in the robbery and no one was injured.
Robbery No. 4
Then sometime before 10 p.m. three 17-year-olds were robbed after a car pulled up and three of the four men got out.
One pulled a gun and demanded money.
Robbery No. 5
The fifth robbery occurred just after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of the Walgreens store on 31st Street in Temple.
A delivery truck driver told police he was approached by a man with a gun who demanded money.
The would-be robber left empty-handed, however.


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Prince Saud meets with Egyptian leaders, pledges support
September 2, 2013
Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal was received by Egyptian President Adli Mansour at the Presidential Palace in Cairo yesterday. During their meeting, Prince Saud conveyed a message from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz confirming that the Saudi government and people will always stand with Egypt in all ways. He stressed the depth of relations between the two countries, agreeing that they should be strengthened even more.
Afterwards, Prince Saud held a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy. The Saudi Foreign Minister expressed optimism over the improved security situation in Egypt, saying that the country deserves a bright future. "I'm happy to witness stability in Egypt now," he said. "We are sure that the future will be prosperous for the people and the state." Prince Saud dismissed the threats of some countries to cut aid as empty, citing the mutual interests that those countries share with Egypt. He said, "Egypt is a big country, hence it is not easy to deal with it as simple as that."
For his part, Foreign Minister Fahmy expressed appreciation for the Kingdom's support, stressing that the relations between the two countries are strong. "The meeting between Egyptian President Adli Mansour and Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Minister of Foreign Affairs, confirms the binding relations between the Saudi and Egyptian peoples," he stated.
During his visit to Egypt, Prince Saud also met with Egyptian Prime Minister Dr. Hazem Al-Beblawi and First Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Abdulfattah Al-Sisi, who is also Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defense and Military Production. Prince Saud was in Egypt to lead a delegation to the 140th session of the Arab League Foreign Ministers Council, which gathered to discuss the crisis in Syria.


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Dance and Fall Down
- Music
DirectionsPut on some music and dance around the room with your child. When the music stops, everyone falls down. When the music begins again, everyone gets up and dances some more.
More on: Activities for Toddlers
Copyright é 1999 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Toddler's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.
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Guest speakers will include longtime advocates and an expert on probation and parole. The webinar will also feature a first-hand account of a survivor who was sexually abused in community corrections. The session is geared toward advocates, and specifically those working in community corrections, probation, or parole, but anyone who works with current or former detainees is encouraged to attend. The webinar is being supported by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women.
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