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Cast: Jessie Eastern, Rene Summers, Jade East, Megan Leigh, Robert Bullock, Nina Hartley, Scott Preston
Critical Rating: AA 1/2
Genre: Feature
Robert Bullock plays a talent manager who gets the seven year itch. But breaking it off with his musical star, Megan Leigh still might not save his marriage to Nina Hartley. Someone has just anonymously phoned her and spilled the beans.
Smoke Screen is one of those morality tapes containing the message that we better watch out step because we may have to pay for our sins. The sex in every scene is lukewarm except for a sizzling sequence at the end with Hartley and Bullock – two veterans who always can be counted on to turn in top-notch performances. A slightly better than average tape aimed at the adult soap opera crowd. Nicely packaged.


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Some of the top digital, fundraising and analytics companies on both sides of the U.S. political divide have tried to parlay their campaign skills into for-profit enterprises, but finding the right business model isn't easy.
Maria Contreras-Sweet, the head of the SBA, has moved to modernize the agency and boost access to capital for underserved communities. She discusses challenges for small-business owners.
Many startup founders across Asia say that venture capitalists are hitting the brakes on funding, spooked by weakness in the global economy, volatility in China's stock market and slumping investments in Silicon Valley.
Mo, the friendly monster, needs props for his iPad-based magic show. He asks his audience, children ages 4 to 10, for help. Osmo Monsters is the latest app from startup Tangible Play.
A victory in what should be a nationwide war on occupational licensing.
A tiny Chinese firm's patent victory over Apple reflects Beijing's efforts to better protect intellectual property that often work against Western firms—but sometimes benefit them.
Jonathan Hill closed his tenure as the European Union's finance chief by unveiling proposals to bolster the Continent's venture-capital markets and spur investment in small businesses.
Thousands of craft brewers are locking in hop puns, animal combinations and witty phrases for labels, giving work to a contingent of beer attorneys to fight over brand names; 'Sosumi IPA.'
Hillary Clinton is working to extend her critique of rival Donald Trump's business practices with a new plan that her campaign says would help small businesses.
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Perfectly good WP 2.7.1 blog that I upgraded to WP 2.8 (automatic install). The front-end works, but the I can't do anything Ajaxy in the admin (upload media from post, add tags, etc.). Looking further and it seems like none of the JS libraries are loading.
Going to do a fresh install and make sure nothing happened during the automatic install. However, if that is still broken, I think I have a solution to the problem.
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Last Sunday's book section article about reassessment of the role of editor Maxwell Perkins in bringing the works of Thomas Wolfe to publication pushed a memory button for me.
Not that I'd even been aware of the campaign by literary revisionists to prove that Wolfe's raw mass of manuscript for "Look Homeward, Angel" was better than the considerably shorter work produced by Maxwell Perkins' blue pencil. But mention of Wolfe reminded me of my friend Thomas Thompson's recollections of having attended sessions of a writer's conference many years ago in Boulder, Colo., where Wolfe was the star attraction.
My friend Tom, former editor of the Globe-Times and a fellow member of the Globe-News editorial staff during most of my years with the paper, loved to talk about his experiences at the University of Colorado conferences at Boulder and his later inside look at the world of Academe at Louisiana State University where he was enrolled in a master's degree program headed by Robert Penn Warren.
He incorporated both experiences in the memoir, "North of Palo Duro," published in 1984 after his retirement from the newspaper business and a final fling at the academic life as distinguished professor of journalism at the University of Wichita. His book included re-edited versions of some items previously published in his Turnstile column in the Globe-Times.
Being much impressed by writers, I always thought Tom did much less literary name-dropping than I would have done had I known all those famous people. In any case, I enjoyed editing "North of Palo Duro," performing my chores both at home and in Thompson's long, narrow office in one of the buildings he had erected on Eighth Avenue to give himself a place to write and attend to his private business interests.
In his book Tom described attending the Colorado conferences over a period of three summers, driving his Graham-Paige coupe 600 miles to the university campus at Boulder to learn from the likes of Warren, Sherwood Anderson, John Peale Bishop - and Thomas Wolfe.
Wolfe he found to be unlike most of his fellow coaches on the conference staff who seemed to be serious about trying to develop the talents of aspiring writers.
Wolfe, on the other hand, "had come to Boulder on a spree. He was in the Rocky Mountains to drink, womanize, consort with the literati and, perhaps, be glorified."
Describing the scene, he added: "Until that summer I had never seen an author lionized. Lady school teachers working toward their master's degrees swarmed around him ... Young writers with worn copies of "Look Homeward, Angel" and "Of Time and the River" stood in line for his signature. No question he was the drawing card of the Boulder conference that summer."
Tom described himself as "among the reverent" and noted that while he remembered not a word from Wolfe's lecture, he would never forget the look of the man. "He had the impressive features of an actor ... He dwarfed sizable men. He was such a handsome giant he would have stirred excitement even if he hadn't known that he was Scribner's most valuable piece of merchandise."
Thompson's book tells how the showboating Wolfe somehow made Red Warren - Rhodes Scholar, poet, fiction writer, and editor of The Southern Review, and a man of robust build - to shrink somehow into the image of "someone's precocious little brother."
Warren, who was destined to become a lifelong friend of Thompson, at that time was far less famous than he became after he won the Pulitzer for his novel, "All the King's Men," in the 1940s. At Boulder he encouraged Tom to write short stories and advised him about his novel, "Awkward Nymph," based on elements in the life of his mother..
Tom remembered how Wolfe gave him a 24-hour fright when he misplaced the copy of a manuscript submitted for criticism. "Finally he remembered putting it under the seat of a young lady's car, for which he was apologetic. He claimed he had read portions of the manuscript and said 'There is no doubt you have ... creative talent."'
The young writer from Amarillo took those words to heart until he learned that Wolfe had used exactly the same words to "another conferee, a curvaceous blonde with wide blue eyes who hadn't a shred of fantasy to her name."
Tom remembered the mighty appetites of Thomas Wolfe, who, he said, ate hamburgers as though they were appetizers."
Tom's widowed mother, who had accompanied him to Colorado for a vacation with cultural bonuses, rented an apartment on campus and became acquainted with most of the conference leaders.
"She approved of Red Warren, John Peale Bishop and Sherwood Anderson," Thompson remembered. "Belatedly, she read my copy of 'Look Homeward, Angel' and was not impressed. "That man is not a writer," she said. "He's a rake, insane with self-esteem."
The Boulder chapter in "North of Palo Duro" foreshadows some other examples of Tom's mother's reactions to the literary ambitions of her son - a major theme in a book I continue to find fascinating.
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Again another [insult removed] update, now it destroys my website with errors which are in the files of Nextgen. I will not update this plugin anymore.
Again another [insult removed] update, now it destroys my website with errors which are in the files of Nextgen. I will not update this plugin anymore.
I'm having problems also. Some are weird:
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- My custom css added to my own stylesheet have to have !important on a lot of places to work. Even then, my styles are still not correct.
Damn, the update even disabled some of the global styles... How can this happen???
I have the same problems, which one is never happened before, I use the previous version now and I will not update it. This plugin kills also Yoast XML Sitemap.
Insult remove ? It is a horrible update End of Story
and that story from it is free does not mean I can do everything including destroy websites. If this is the intention than remove the plugin owner from this site.
I've installed, and rolled back, all the new versions. 2.0.23 installs without any errors, but brings up my website as a blank screen. I am hanging on to the old, stable, 1.9.10 version, and keep hoping for a stable, updated version!
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all his updates after the stable 1.9.10 like you said are full of bugs and it gets worst every update, so for me no updates anymore
Same problem same result: rolled back to older version and no updates for this plugin, I disabled "plugin needs updating" message too...
Same problem here and the real downer is I updated and didn't check the site so it has been screwed without me knowing...
I had some important clients drop by my site and never responded to my mails afterwards - now I know why.
I came here expecting to see fixes for all this but all I see is a bunch of folks with the same and similar problem and nothing from the developers.
Time to look for another gallery...
Thankfully rolling back to 1.9.10 works. Is that a security issue I wonder?
Sorry devs, I know this must be a mare for you but you really should be testing your software much, much more before release.
Good luck.
@xiexiema, where could I download version 1.9.10? The same happens here, the latest 2.0.27 breaks my site.
I answer myself, clicking on the "Developer" tab of the pluging page there is access to the previous versions. My problems were fixed using version 1.9.13.
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Music Artists Who Sold-OutWhen artists started out in one genre and then sold-out so they could make it on the pop charts. Let's discuss these artist who did this crime.
The Top TenXW
In the eighties, they were the greatest metal band. Ever. They practically created thrash metal. There was nothing like it. What happened? For shame, Metallica, for shame...
1st 4 albums are amazing then they lost cliff and jason and they did it(stupid idea) - rockisgood132
it's a shame really because they were amazing - muckie
Metallica is so pop now. But where is Eminem on this list? He should be like number one for sure.V4 Comments
I'm pretty sure most of the people who voted for them here have no idea what this list is about, but this time I won't complain about their ignorance. - saaarsdej
I really don't see how they sold out but X-Japan rule most and deserve to be top of most lists. Pure awesome.
X Japan will always be at the top of the hierarchy. The top predator in a food chain if you will.
X Japan have kept to true to themselves even after the 10 year hiatus.
How did they sell out? Dahlia (assuming this is the supposed sellout album) was amazing if you ask me.
many people would say KISS is great, when they just know one or two songs from them... that's because they are the most commercial band, even their fans say this - rock2metal
from "rock" to disco... bad!
Who remembers their album Curb? No one, since their fans love their new poppy music. Like with Metallica, they were heavy and processed by money to make themselves softer.
First four albums were kinda cool but then on all the rigjt reasoms it changed a little but not bad. now they suck
With every member that left Guns n Roses, they took a bit of talent with them. I hated Chinese Democracy and is nothing like Appetite For Destruction - Danielsun182
Yeah but she was always a sell outV1 Comment
Selling out hasn't worked out for them. "In the End" on their first album went to #2 on the charts in 2000. Their 2014 album didn't have a single make the Hot 100. Basically, they're at their best when they make their music: metal mixed with rap.
Linkin Park should be above Metallica - Nintendonix
They should be second to Metallica. They were both great bands who sold out! Well, LP now kicks ass.
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How did they sell out? Roger Waters left the band, and they lost a member and another member that left before. Plus they are getting older and trying hard as they can to make music. - Powerfultekin
How dare you put Avril Lavigne here!
Compare Mylo Xyloto to Parachutes. They sang with Rihanna, for god's sake!
As a side note, I don't think some people on this list understand the point of it.
This is the chick who collaborated with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.
Definitely, her latest songs are so average. She needs to go back to her old stuff.
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Seniors were honored during a special all school prayer service held on Wednesday, June 5. Messages and prayers of hope, strength and inspiration went out to each of these seventy remarkable young men and women as they now complete their final two days of high school. A candle was lit for each student to encourage them to let their light continue to shine.
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"Prayer: the last refuge of a scandrol"-Lisa Simpson
Was he previously in league with Satan?
Um, Dan, wouldn't all those "You Will Know Us (Christians) By Our..." crowd fit your definition of people who "found Jeebuz" before they were caught doing something criminal?
I agree, shouldn't they be wondering what 'legitimate' purpose there could be in announcing this at a press conference? This guy was either personally, or bankrolling people who were, drowning dogs with their bare hands to feel the life leaving them. Is there a concept of penance in this religion he's found or has he just found a religion that absolves him of all blame? I'd like to hear about some good works that he'll be doing like Paris Hilton's work with women transitioning from prison. Wasn't she also going to be showing everyone that she isn't an idiot, how's that progressing?
I'm happy for him that he's found Jesus and all (Jesus has excellent camouflage and is very very hard to find without special glasses and hunting dogs) but whenever someone in trouble says that it just kills any hint of sincerity they had going for them.
michael vick deserves to get the book thrown at him. no question. what he did was just plain cruel.
for the record, he took full responsibility for his lying, his actions, his part in the dog fighting, and said, he is responsible for all this. the article cited here doesnt mention that and makes it seem like the first thing he brought up was jesus. not true. "hey-zeus" was mentioned afterwards. good move since he is in the south in front of what is most likely a southern baptist judge.
one more thing, is funny that the majority of dog fighters are rural white men in the white rural south, but the ones that get busted are black. im just saying.
Jeebus showed me the way.
Hey, did he have the full conversion thing with the spasms and orgasims for Jesus while screaming and throwing his arms around?
"locating this Jesus person"
I especially loved that when saying that he'd turned his life over to God, he added "because it seems like the right thing to do at this time". Awfully telling, IMO.
@6: Uh, he took responsibility because his three coconspirators were going to spill their guts and it was the only possible way to reduce his sentence. Nothing about his admission of guilt is heartfelt; it's motivated by self-interest alone, let's not kid ourselves. Today's presser was about reducing his sentence and doing PR for when he gets out and tries to resurrect his broken career.
And can you cite your source about most dogfighters being white rural southerners?
Maybe he's planning to pray for bad things to happen to his enemies.
Youre right is all PR. the point is that he didnt just embrace jesus. i said he deserves to get the book thrown at him.
for the rural white men angle check out HBO's real sports latest.
SeMe, you are so correct about the dogfighting being a rural white phenomenon. That fact doesn't get brought up too often in a lot of the commentary flying around. It's also why people who are downplaying the racial aspect Vick being singled out for this are utterly full of crap.
"Dogfighting has traditionally been identified with the rural South. While that may be changing, the South still has more than its share of cases."
You can also map the cases. the rural white counties in the south have most of the cases. you have to be familiar with the south, but is a known fact that dog fighting started there. law enforcement and white folks started getting up in arms when blacks in the cities ( something brought from the white rural south) started taking it up.
ignoring the racism in all this is pure crap. im all for vick going to jail for this. he should PAY. he is cruel and a spoiled millionaire. but i get overwhelmed by how excited a lot of white folks get when a black man gets nailed for this. and some are jumping at blaming hip hop culture, but yet ignoring the white southern roots in dog fighting. after all, these dogs were originally bred by white men.
Guns were invented by white men, too. That doesn't mean it's racist to point out when a black man shoots someone.
The Dirty Souf strikes again. I'm pretty sure Jesus would not have approved of the man's need to "redeem [him]self"... That's JESUS' JOB. And God knows Jesus does love his dogfights.
Orv, of course it's racist to point out when a black person shoots someone, because you are necessarily being selective with what you are pointing out. The people commenting here who are using cherry picked examples of shootings or other crimes by black individuals in order to impugn black culture and black people as a whole are engaging in a definitionally racist strain of argument.
Jesus was lost?
I'm hoping Jesus is a large angry dog, preferably one with a mad-on for Michael Vick.
Of course, Vick's admissions exclude *gambling* on dog fighting becuase that would finish his chances at an NFL comeback. The NFL is very no-no when it comes to gambling.
I would think that churches were doing their job better if celebrity criminals stopped viewing Jesus as their PR agent instead of their Lord and Savior.
Athletes and Jesus already have a tenuous, victory-based relationship. When the team wins, it's all about God. However, a loss and his name is never mentioned. Just once, I wanna see a post-game press conference include the phrase "We were marching down the field, but then the Lord made me throw an interception that cost us the game."
Judaism does not evangelize like toxic Christianity. You either are born a Jew or you are not. It is true that some Jews must go and seek their Jewish soul. But even if a Jew converts to
another religion, they remain a Jew.
Christianity with the "finding Jesus" nonsense is flypaper for idiots. The Stanger is performing Tikkun Olum by these anti-Christian posts. Mazel Tov!
seme - while i agree with most of what you're getting at -- i don't really see the racism here. maybe that one post in the other thread about hiphop music (which was a ridiculous post that no one defended), but other than that, i think people are just worked up about cruelty to animals from people who should know better.
Were they taking question at the press conference?
"Mr. Vick says he's found Jesus. That means what, exactly, in regard to these charges?"
Actually, "and that means what, exactly?" should be asked at EVERY "I Found Jesus" celebrity press conference.
Jesus loved the tax collector, too, but that didn't make the tax collector a great guy.
So, Mr. Vick: What are you going to do for Jesus now that you've found him? Are you going to make something useful of your life? Are you going to work earnestly to pay penance for your crimes? Or are you just another tawdry hypocrite, trying to plate over your ugliness with shows of faith?
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Gilles - 2014-03-25
The MPEG2 files created by my Sony camcorder show some "Delay relative to video" when opened in a video editor (eg. Sony Vegas) but play OK in VLC. Apparently, this shift is introducted on purpose "to compensate for the delay in processing the video part of their file."
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I completley agree with the fact that Scorewatch has quite a few bugs that need to be sworked out. Last week I received a Scorewatch e-mail that my score had gone up 9 points, then immediatley following that, I received another e-mail saying "congradulationgs, your score has not changed in the last month" or something along those lines.
Anyway, my main gripe is that Scorewatch seems to be a sporadic updater. What I mean is, that it def. doesn't pull daily. Maybe weekly, maybe even more than that. While I understand that it costs MyFico money everytime they pull a report (and hence report an updated score) I think most were misldead by the statement that we would recieve an update whenver our score changed. It's more like, we'll recieve an update whenever our score changes and after we discover that change."
I'm going to cancel my service. Think about it. I know I'm better off with going with a service like CCT (Credit Check Total) which gives you DAILY pulls. Then I can just pull my FICO whenever I have an alert that somthing changed. Case in point, I know a collection was just deleted from my reports. My Equifax report (as of 11/12/09 shows that it has been deleted. MyFico? Nothing yet. From CCT is should of been deleted on the 9th. It's just kind of ridiculous when I'm paying the monthly fee, and also paying when I want a Score Power Report, or whatever they call it. Because that's what I've been doing, and that's how I've been "notified" that my score has changed.


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When an accordion spoiler item has a lot of text - I.e. more than one screen height, it is opened, and you scroll down the text to the bottom, the header naturally scrolls up and off the top of the visible window. So click an item further down the list, and you would hope that it is displayed inside the visible window, but it isn't. By design, because the first accordion item closes, that massive height is gone and the new accordion spoiler item header flys up and off the top of the screen, to find its natural position in the list of items - so the open accordion spoiler content goes missing off the top of the screen, and you have to scroll up to see it - I would have hoped this situation would have been catered for in the design. I have seen this in other accordion designs also.
Does anyone know of a code fix I could apply such that all new accordion spoiler items opened are aligned with the top of the visible window? I see this as a vital part of accordion functionality which is sorely missed in this implementation.
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Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has made a stunning revelation about his previously secret battle with the bottle.
In a candid interview with British GQ magazine the 21-year-old actor says he hasn't touched a drop since August 2010 when he realized he had a problem.
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"I became so reliant on alcohol to enjoy stuff," he said. "There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me."
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The Five Best Celebs To Interview
A journalist I know has grilled even more top-drawer stars than I have, so I asked him for his five faves--the ones who play the Q&A game with so much smarts and appeal that you long to shove a tape recorder right up in their face and watch them go at it.
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(5) George Clooney
"He's not just there to hawk a movie, tell you banal stuff, and make money. Clooney will delve deep into the filmmaking process while also talking up his beliefs and causes. A real charmer."
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(4) Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson
"They always seem open about their neuroses, and this year while doing press, Stewart admitted she verged on vagueness last time around, when she talked way too fast. This time, she was determined to make things crystal clear. Both she and Pattinson give the impression that they're telling you everything, even if they're not telling you much of anything, and there's a real art to that."
Alas, I doubt they'll be doing any more joint interviews, needless to say.
(3) Michael Caine
"He's a real raconteur, with lots to tell, and even if you're sitting there thinking, 'I can't really use this,' you're entranced by his storytelling skills. Michael Caine has done everything and met everyone, and he's willing to tell you about it. A fun way to spend a half hour."
(2) Diane Kruger
"She always makes you feel like you're simply having lunch with a friend. She's open and honest and seems to turn interviews into glorified therapy sessions. But when you ask something silly, she'll wisely raise a brow and say, 'How am I supposed to answer that?' "
(1) Meryl Streep
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Ooh! Can't wait to Q her A.
Maybe she'll even do an accent and some prosthetics for me.
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RetFyrfytr: Sorry to bring up the left's dreaded amendment (the second), but she stated she is "not here to take away our guns," (as if a politician can force me to comply) nor does she want to "repeal the 2A," but she "wants to keep the guns away from the people who shouldn't have them in the first place." Firearms owners are all for this, but we know the stark reality of such a delusional statement. The problem is, she's constantly spewing the "we need to ban this or that." My question is, how in the hell are you going to keep the guns out of the hands of the bad guys? Of course, she doesn't tell you HOW she plans to do it. It's simply eyewash from a professional politician.


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The Retention Mentors team, based at various locations across campus, have contact - but not overcontact - with at-risk students to help provide assistance as needed and keep them in school.
Because of the smooth aid award eligibility process, students can concentrate on the business of getting to campus and getting housing, books, and other details in order.
Summer is typically a time for relaxing—for most people. In higher education, no one rests for long. Running an institution is often just as time-consuming and intense as at any time of the year, and this summer seems to be more turbulent than ever. As many institutions continue to face the dual problems of booming enrollments and deeper cuts, they must also contend with myriad other issues brought on by new federal regulations in student aid, institutional funding, and health care.
"One of the primary challenges facing any community college is that there are many more students than parking spaces," says Eric Glohr, director of auxiliary services for Lansing Community College (Mich.) And while this has long been a fact of life for administrators, that challenge has grown significantly in recent years. Rising education costs have led many students to enroll in community colleges. In fact, a lot of these institutions are reporting double-digit increases in enrollment.
In today's difficult economy, colleges and universities are suffering like they never have before. Fundraising levels have dropped dramatically, and the amount donated annually by supporters is roughly half of what it was a few years ago. Endowments are suffering, which impacts schools' ability to support students and programs. In addition, with federal and state budget cuts also running rampant, faculty and staff are being laid off, regardless of their credentials and ability.
When competing for top students, many colleges are finding that offering merit awards or generous need-based packages is no longer enough to win the day. Academically successful students typically have multiple offers from which to choose. So, all things being equal when it comes to financial aid, how does a college compete for the best and the brightest? Here are four ideas for sweetening the offer to the student that everybody wants—because it's not just about money anymore.
So many choices, so many decisions. Campus HR professionals face decisions about how to enhance their technology systems to streamline business processes. Purchase new software or tweak existing HR modules? Help vendors build a compatible interface for a program or design it in-house?
Last month's End Note featured a president who lived among students for an overnight. Here is the perspective of another president who has lived as a student for a day?and who allows a student to sit at his desk for that day.
These are challenging times for higher education and the families that engage it. Colleges and universities are trying to preserve access and programming. Additionally, the economic crisis has stretched the budgets of many families, causing them to question more than ever before the possibility of sending their children to a liberal arts college where practicality and return on investment are not as immediately intuitive as they might appear to be at more pre-professionally and vocationally-driven institutions. Without a doubt, these are hard times for many liberal arts colleges.
Campus card technology is a fast-changing world. From the early days of magnetic strips to the RFID tags and "smart chips" of today, cards have evolved into intelligent, multi-purpose tools that make campus life safer and more convenient. Based on current industry trends, here are 10 predictions for the future of campus card technology.
In the summer of 2004, as athletes from around the world converged in Athens for the Olympic Games, another Olympian venture was taking place half a world away at George Mason University (Va.). Just as the ancient Greeks had formed academies of higher learning, George Mason University's Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering embarked on an ambitious plan to create a world-class curriculum to train the "architects of the networked future."
Greening doesn't have to be costly. Working with students and associates who have an interest in sustainability and greening can generate many, many ideas. Any initiative that supports learning or diverts normal waste to innovative channels is a green initiative. Something as simple as creating a collection point for discarded electronics to be sent to a credible recycling location counts. The following are tips from schools managed by Parkhurst Dining on how to keep the green cost low.
When there's an opportunity to convert a hotel into student housing, should officials pursue it?
A hotel building can be turned into a housing solution due to having similar amenities - including bedrooms, dining rooms, and bathrooms - found in traditional residence halls. It can provide an immediate solution when an institution is in dire need of quick housing due to a sudden spurt in enrollment before the school year starts.
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Dr. Ganz is conducting a range of research activities that are primarily focused on improving cognitive function in breast cancer survivors who have persistent memory and concentration problems. Her work includes studies that may provide greater insight into the reasons why some women have ongoing difficulties with thinking and memory, as well as the identification of ways to help women improve their memory and concentration after breast cancer treatment. In the coming year she will focus on cognitive changes associated with endocrine therapy, including looking for evidence of brain changes that are similar to those found in Alzheimer's disease. A new pilot study is examining whether the extent of breast cancer surgery (and anesthesia) may make women more susceptible to cognitive changes prior to starting chemotherapy and/or radiation. This is a particular concern given the increasing numbers of women who are having bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction, which is a much longer surgical procedure.
Dr. Ganz is also working with BCRF colleague, Norman Wolmark on a cost of care/quality of life data collection study that is part of a SWOG/NSABP Phase III clinical treatment trial testing the combination of endocrine therapy with everolimus, a new targeted breast cancer treatment. With funding from BCRF, Drs. Ganz and Wolmark are collecting data on quality of life measures as well as assessing the costs that are likely to occur with the everolimus treatment. This will facilitate an examination of both the extended survival benefits, quality of life impact, and value (costs) of this targeted treatment at the end of the trial. Without the real time collection of data concerning side effects that may require additional tests and medical treatments, it would not be possible to estimate the additional cost of this new treatment. The increased cost of care includes the drug itself, which is considerable, along with additional costs that can be incurred due to increased toxicities resulting in additional office visits, prescribed medications to manage toxicities, as well as increased hospitalizations.
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The 50th Anniversary Of 'Silent Spring' Reminds Us Of The Importance Of Environmental Regulations
by Arpita Bhattacharyya
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the release of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a book often credited with launching the modern environmental movement. As we celebrate recent vital regulations, from new fuel economy standards to carbon pollution standard, it's important to look back on how one book moved the American public to realize the importance of environmental protection and called the government to action.
In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson broke down four years of research on the harmful impacts of DDT, a pesticide first used to kill malaria-causing insects for U.S. troops during World War II and later used to kill agricultural pests. The generous use of DDT on crops killed far more than the targeted insects and remained in the environment even after dilution with water. The consequence? DDT entered into the food chain and built up in fatty tissues of animals, leading to cancer and genetic damage. It was dangerous for birds and animals and threatened the entire globe's food chain. Silent Spring's most famous chapter detailed a town in which DDT's effects had "silenced" all animals and residents. Importantly , however, Carson did not call for a complete ban of DDT.
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"It is not my contention that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm. We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge."
Even with this explanation, the chemical industry responded forcefully. Monsanto, for example, published a brochure titled "The Desolate Year," warning of famine and disease without the use of DDT. Yet Carson's meticulous research, with 55 pages of notes and list of experts, withstood the attacks and was recognized by President John F. Kennedy, who asked the President's Science Advisory Committee to research Carson's claims. DDT was eventually banned in 1972. For the American public, it raised far bigger questions about more than just DDT. If DDT had this dangerous impact on humans and animals, what other poisons were unknowingly lurking in neighborhoods, water, and food?
The threat of invisible pollutants added to the pollution problems Americans could see and feel in their cities during rapid industrialization. In the 1940s and 1950s, smog had blanketed major cities and sewage and industrial waste floated in U.S. rivers. In 1948, pollutants trapped over the industrial city of Donora, Pennsylvania killed twenty and permanently injured hundreds.
In these conditions, the publication of Silent Spring lit a spark among environmentalists and the general public alike to address industrial pollution, both the visible and invisible. As the decade went on, teach-ins, TV shows, and various forums educated the public on threats the humans and the environment faced from pollution. Then in June 1969, the Cuyahoga river caught on fire due to oil slicked debris and pollution from decades of industrial waste. The flaming river was a powerful symbol of the costs of unchecked industrialization, and Americans demanded government action to clean up pollution.
At the end of 1969, President Nixon and Congress sprang into action to address public concerns on the environment. Congress passed the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that declared a national environmental policy, promoted efforts to protect the environment and public health, and encouraged deeper understanding of the threats humans and ecosystems faced. Importantly, NEPA called for the federal government to complete environmental impact statements (EIS) for all federal project planning. NEPA also established the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to advise the President on environmental issues.
On New Year's Day 1970, Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), stating that he was:
"convinced that the 1970s absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never."
He declared the signing his "first official act of the decade." Then on February 10th, he presented Congress with a 37-point environmental action message and requested 4 billion dollars to improve federal water and air pollution problems. Later that year, Americans showed their public and bipartisan support for environmental protection on April 22nd 1970, when 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day, holding teach-ins and peaceful demonstrations around the country. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis) and Congressman Paul McCloskey (R-Calif) cosponsored a bipartisan event in Washington.
As the year progressed, President Nixon became more convinced that a new independent agency was necessary to coordinate the environmental work across the administration. The President's Commission on Executive Reorganization helped stitch together the various air, water and other environmental quality programs and departments that eventually became the EPA. The core programs were the HEW National Air pollution Control Administration (NAPCA) and Interior's Water Quality Administration (FWQA), that were created in response to a wide range of environmental problems, including toxic smog in Los Angeles, untreated sewage, industrial waste, dying rivers and lakes.
On December 2nd, 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency opened with Assistant Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus at the reins. By the end of the month, Congress had passed the Clean Air Act, giving the EPA the authority to establish national air quality standards, national standards for significant new pollution sources, and facilities emitting hazardous substances. With NEPA and the Clean Air Act as bookends to 1970, President Nixon and the 91st Congress paved the way for the vital health standards that protect Americans today. Two years later, the EPA issued a ban on DDT, based on research of DDT's effects on wildlife and the potential human health risks. As a direct result, the Eagle population, which was dramatically affected by DDT, has rebounded from just over 400 pairs of bald eagles in the lower 48 states to now more than 4,000
Silent Spring's impact was much greater than the ban on DDT. Carson's book made Americans realize that we need regulatory bodies, like the EPA and the Food and Drug Administration to protect us in cases when we cannot realistically protect ourselves. We could not simply rely on enterprising reporters like Carson to do the research and lobby the government to ban toxins. And the average American does not have the resources, expertise, or time to check every glass of water their family drinks for toxins or ensure the air around schools is safe every single day. They need someone to monitor their water and air consistently. They need someone to read every study to know what is safe for their bodies. And they need someone to work with the companies and power plants when their development endangers public health.
Some members of Congress don't agree with that. Currently, House Republicans are trying to push through H.R. 3409 through the House, which would block clean water and Clean Air Standards, remove the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases, prevent regulations on all greenhouse gas with limited exceptions, negate the new tailpipe standards, and threaten existing tailpipe standards. The bill takes non-partisan issues, such as clean air and clean water, and politicizes them — opening up new threats to public health and the environment.
Protecting the environment and public health began as a bipartisan effort to protect all Americans. That is the legacy that Rachel Carson began, and a legacy that needs to continue to keep Americans safe today.
Arpita Bhattacharyya is Research Assistant to Distinguished Senior Fellow Carol Browner at the Center for American Progress.
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That book inspired me, too.
It's worth noting that there are still DDT deniers. After we cut back its use, pelicans and bald eagles, among other creatures, rebounded, and it was barely in time.
There is something deeply wrong with those who promote DDT and Roundup, tar sands, clearcutting, fracking, and all of the rest of it. They should be treated accordingly, and granted no respect whatsoever. That approach will resonate.
"Americans demanded government action" – it's time to do it again folks, ME
Thanks for posting this. And yes, there are even ignorant congressmen (Tom Coburn for one) who claim that Carson killed millions of people by fighting for the banning of DDT. Carson didn't promote the banning of DDT — she promoted the responsible, informed use of chemicals. Too many authorities were using large amounts of chemicals (the more the better) with little knowledge of their impact, which is how so many raptors came close to extinction. Now there is evidence in the countries that still use DDT that it causes breast cancer. Hopefully that research will continue as long as DDT is in use.
Indeed, there persists today a vociferous coterie of maligners who deceitfully maintain that Rachel Carson killed millions due to the worldwide ban on DDT her book brought about, which allowed malaria to run rampant.
There is, of course, no worldwide ban on DDT. Even in the U.S., which did ban it in 1972, there is an exception for outbreaks of insect-borne disease. And that ban was enacted in part because DDT had lost much of its effectiveness against the pests it was supposed to kill — a loss of effectiveness largely due to its overuse in support of agriculture.
This coterie includes some people with highly responsible positions, like members of Congress, as well as people who have the intelligence to know better. One example is Robert Zubrin, whose latest book Merchants of Despair devotes a chapter to denigrating Carson's work. Dr. Zubrin has made outstanding contributions to space exploration, yet on this issue and on climate change he is completely mistaken. See my review of Merchants of Despair.
For an excellent overview of the scientific and political history of this pesticide, I recommend DDT by Thomas R. Dunlap (Princeton University Press, 1981.)
The psychotic Right hate Carson with their habitual vicious extremism. The Murdoch sewer frequently publishes slanders that accuse her of causing 'millions' of deaths because of the DDT bans, and other estuaries of Rightist MSM toxic waste also publish these lies. Still, the hatred of these, the worst human specimens, simply redounds to Carson's good repute.
People who repeat the attack on Carson about DDT simply identify themselves as toads.


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Advice for New Kayak Anglers
With kayak fishing growing in popularity by the minute we thought it would be a great idea to ask our seasoned kayak anglers to provide some advice and tricks for the newbies. By far the most popular piece of advice was to wear Buy the best PFD you can afford and ALWAYS wear it Always check the weather forecast Keep everything tied down Learn how to self rescue Buy a sit-on-top kayak for easiest kayak fishing Test a bunch of kayaks before you buy one Tie down what you cant afford to lose Dont use your anchor in fast flowing rivers Look both ways before crossing an intracoastal Be anchored or tied off- big fish will pull you around!
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As a kid, I was fortunate to be exposed to the outdoors by my family. My father's side of the family enjoyed hunting as much as Grandpa River enjoyed the coast, so hook and bullets became a way of life for me.
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Written by guest blogger and KATS participant, ACK & Wilderness Systems Ambassador Eugene Mora III. First, let me begin by thanking the ACK and KATS tournament personnel and sponsors.
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Looking to try your hand at kayak fishing but don't know where to start? With all of the gear and kayaks available we understand that it can be somewhat overwhelming.
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Living in Florida I'd heard nothing but good things about the Casting for a Cause tournament held annually in Port Aransas, so when I moved back to Texas I had to add this tournament to my schedule. This year's beneficiaries for the tournament are The National MS society, Haven for Hope, Heroes on the Water, and over 20 other charitable organizations.
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For the last 20 years, L2 tree-based network topologies meant that the only practical design methodology was to buy large, vertically scaled switch chassis for the core of the data centre. This limitation was largely due to the tree-structure forced on LAN networking by Spanning Tree Protocol. For every new device at point Access/1 we […]
Musing: Ethernet Connected Hard Drives, Network Designs
Ethernet Hard Drives are coming. Nothing to do with networking.
Blessay: Overlay Networking, BFD And Integration with Physical Network
Lede: In discussions with a stealthy networking startup today, we were discussing how their overlay network technology for the SDN WAN was able to to detect network blackouts and brownouts in the physical network. Their answer was to run Bi-directional Forwarding Detection (BFD) in the overlay tunnels. Now you have effective quality and service detection in the overlay network.
Vendor Price Variation on 40 Gigabit SFP Modules – It's Nuts
In a recent project, I noted an astonishing difference in price of the optical and copper cabling assemblies associated with 10Gigabit Networking. I conclude that some companies are including a "license fee" in the cost of these components and making the overall cost harder to determine.
What Makes Network Appliances Fast ?
The performance of appliances is complex topic. There are four broad aspects of the dedicated hardware to provide the higher performance and three reasons why vendors like selling appliances instead of software VMs. I cover them here.
Cheap Network Equipment Makes a Better Data Centre
TL:DR A recent project bought a low cost network for the data centre. It cost less one-third of the the market leader & half the cost of a well known merchant silicon vendors. As a result, it is planned to last for two, maybe three years before it will be replaced. From this project I learned that "fast & cheap networking" could make a big impact on new data centre designs and business attitudes. Plus it was much more satisfying as a professional project. I'm now wondering – is networking too expensive ?
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Most people refer to the "Data Centre Network" as though it was a single network. In practice, data centres have a number of individual networks. Each network is specifically designed for a specific purpose and function. A typical data centre network design has about five individual networks that connect together to form the "data centre network" which many people fail to recognise. I'll define these networks and then look at the future of data centre networks with overlays. What seems clear, today, is that networking will provide different networks for different use cases and the customer will decide.
Visual Guide to LAG Thinking for Server Admins
When working with Server and VMware people, there is a fair amount of misunderstanding of what is happening in the network. The best technical explanation for what is happening in LAG is, of course described at Ivan Pepelnjak's IPSpace Blog – vSphere Does Not Need LAG Bandaids – The Network Does while Chris Wahl talks about the server side for VMware but I wanted to add something to the debate.
Network Diagrams: Choosing Better and Free Fonts
Making diagrams aesthetically appealing with visual impact is better documentation. Choosing the correct fonts on network diagrams will improve your network diagrams significantly. Here is some work on how to choose a good font and some recommendations on the best free fonts for your machine.
Overlay Networking & VXLAN Means MPLS in the Data Centre is Dead
Overlay networking has been around for a year or so now and the ideas behind it are well established. It was about 3/4 weeks ago while researching VTEP functionality in Dell and Arista switches that I realised I could build manually configured tunnels with VXLAN and get the same results as an EoMPLS x-connect with almost zero effort. More importantly, I don't have to pay for expensive hardware that has MPLS functions or pay again for software licenses to upgrade with MPLS features.
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Analysing the future of cities
Just as you can look at a newspaper photograph and see both the image and the tiny individual dots that give it its shapes and shadings, city leaders look at their municipalities in terms of both the big picture and the individual citizens that comprise it.
The majority of us live in cities, and the percentage is growing. Municipal leaders who run the complex network of diverse people, expected services and aging infrastructure are on a constant search for more efficient ways to analyse data, anticipate problems and coordinate resources in their cities.
As centres of business, culture and life, cities are logical places to integrate many of the Smarter Planet principles and innovations in public safety, transportation, water, building, social services and agencies. A new kind of solution, the IBM Intelligent Operations Centre for Smarter Cities (US), (also available for cloud (US)), synchronises and analyses efforts among sectors and agencies as they happen, giving decision makers consolidated information that helps them anticipate — rather than just react to — problems. By using these tested approaches, cities can manage growth and development in a sustainable way that minimises disruptions and helps increase prosperity for everyone.
Realising a World Class Infrastructure – ICE's Guiding Principles of Asset Management
Asset Management creates a holistic focus from inception to decommissioning, viewing our economic infrastructure over its entire lifecycle. It provides the basis for a coordinated and coherent approach to infrastructure development, thereby ensuring appropriate investment and attention, and the necessary resilience to meet new challenges enabling the UK to sustain our economic prosperity.
The latest document from ICE outlines:
- The issues and challenges faced by economic infrastructure and how these can be overcome
- The principles key decision makers should use to effectively create, develop, operate and decommission their assets.
Centre for Cities - Cities Outlook 2012
Cities Outlook 2012 highlights some of the challenges confronting cities today: economic development, unemployment, changing demographics, ever-increasing resident expectations - all coupled with significantly reduced budgets. Leaders will need to act decisively and on a broader range of topics if their cities are to transition successfully into 'Smarter Cities'.
Smarter Stories for Better Cities
Rick Robinson, an Executive Architect at IBM specialising in emerging technologies and Smarter Cities, recently presented at TEDxWarwick 2013.
Replay: Enabling Early Intervention Webinar
This webinar replay discusses the government's 'Troubled Families Initiative' and outlines how IBM has been helping local authorities to overcome the data challenge, and provide ways to create a holistic view of a household, and effectively track, manage and act upon trusted information, to better enable early interventions.
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As governments infuse the basic systems of our planet with intelligence to stimulate economies, we start to ask: Can the operations of government itself become smarter?
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Cities large and small are turning to advanced computing capabilities such as data analytics, visualisation and sensor networks to enhance public safety systems.
If a building's systems interoperate, they can be managed centrally, even intelligently. With all their impact on the planet, it's time for buildings to get smart.
With smarter grids, utilities can manage the flow of power through their systems. And consumers can manage their appliances and use of energy at the household (or even automobile) level.
Our rapidly urbanising planet depends on getting people and things from here to there. Our cars keep getting smarter. So how about our roadways?
A new school of thought: educate yourself on key trends in learning, advances in computing and the economic factors that are reshaping our educational systems.
Sensor networks, smart metering and advanced computing and analytics are helping to ensure the flow of clean, plentiful water around the planet.
Imagine a rail system infused with enough intelligence to increase capacity and utilisation and reduce congestion. Fortunately, we don't have to wait to begin seeing such impacts.
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Cities are complex networks of components. How can we manage their growth so they are sustainable for years to come and how can we measure progress?
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With insight from more 2,000 Smarter Cities projects, IBM has developed the expertise and capabilities to help cities of all sizes become smarter.
In Florida, fans who attend Miami Dolphins football games and other events at the Sun Life Stadium will find more organised traffic, better services and an improved experience thanks to on-the-spot data analysis provided through an Intelligent Operations Centre on the IBM SmartCloud.
Rio de Janeiro is transforming its emergency response system to prepare to host the World Cup and Olympics.
IBM can help city and industry leaders increase the vitality and competitiveness of urban environments with solutions that can optimise the entire city, improve the quality and efficiency of services, and reduce waste and expense associated with inefficient processes and uncoordinated, duplicated execution.


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'Letting go of poison': In wake of grief, families offer astonishing acts of forgiveness
"If three funerals isn't enough to stop a guy from drinking and driving ...," Ceran said.
Prieto was sentenced to 10 years in prison and will likely be deported for being an illegal immigrant after his time is served.
The Christmas after the accident, Ceran visited Prieto at the state prison in Gunnison. He said the man — who had been depressed, lonely and had made the bad decision to drink and drive that night because his wife was going to leave him and take their young child — had completely changed.
"There was so much light in his eyes," Ceran said. "He was a strong, good person."
Because of Ceran's act of forgiveness, Prieto said he was able to forgive the man who had killed his father many years earlier.
Ceran said the community should not look down on Prieto because he is not an American citizen. "If the temple president had had a heart attack and hit my car, my family would still be dead," he said.
After Williams was involved in his accident, Ceran received a letter from him, which he still keeps today. Although the two had never met, both men understood what the other was going through.
In his letter, Williams apologizes for taking so long to write to Ceran, noting, "I'm sure our wives have already met and no doubt started a great friendship."
In 2010, a moving video filmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for their "Mormon Messages" series was released featuring Williams. In it, Williams talks about his decision to forgive, Cameron White, the then 17-year-old boy who killed his family.
Williams said he "never felt so vulnerable" in his life as he did on the night of the accident.
"I saw her chest go down and her last breath leave her body and I wanted to cry out to her to come back. The next sound I heard was of me wailing and grieving they were gone," Williams said in the video. "Such a huge part of my life was gone."
Williams said his LDS faith and prayer helped him get through the tragedy. He said God listened to him first when he prayed, then let him get his anger out before responding.
"In my heart I didn't know or understand or comprehend how it had happened or the circumstances," he said. "The only thing I remember sensing and feeling was I needed to let this go."
The video also shows an interview with the driver, White, and the first time he met Williams after he had been incarcerated.
"He walked in and he had a big smile on his face, and I had no smile on my face because I'm facing the man I had done this to," White said in the video.
Williams didn't mince words, White's family said. But he also told White to pick a date and from that point on, let go of what had happened and move on.
"There's no way to explain it. It's an overwhelming feeling of thankfulness, of gratefulness, of strength to see him, to see how he's acted in this situation," White said.
Williams said he was thankful for the trials and tragedies in his life, "not because they're easy or they're desired, but because they help us love."
Williams recently released a book, "For Giving Hearts," in which he talks about the accident and how he was able to forgive and heal through his faith.
Letting go of anger
The dictionary defines "forgive" as "to stop feeling anger toward (someone who has done something wrong), and to "stop feeling angry or resentful toward (someone) for an offense, flaw, or mistake."
But that doesn't mean there isn't a place for anger, Derezotes said.
"Anger is a motivator," he said. "I think anger is there for a reason. Maybe being angry motivates me to protect myself and the people I care about."
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