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- Molly Paccione (Clarinet)
- Jenny Perron (Piano)
- Michael Campbell (Piano)
- Nurit Tilles (Piano)
- Terry Chasteen
- Andrea Molina (Piano)
- Mois�s Nolina (Cello)
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Paul Paccione's music is noted for its lyricism, intimacy, distinctive orchestration, contrapuntal refinement, and metaphoric complexity. His teachers have included Harley Gaber, Kenneth Gaburo, William Hibbard, and Eric Richards. His work reflects an interest in the tonal colors' exact pitch placement, and a reverence for the mystery of unhurried long durations: the first two characteristics are found in the work of Anton Webern and all three characteristics can be found in the work of Morton Feldman. The works of these two composers were studied in detail by Paccione. These are all World Premiere recordings.
"Paul Paccione's music has always been concerned with the manipulation of musical space/time. That is, Paccione reconceives musical geometry (xtime, y-space) as a canvas, on which musical objects are placed, like figures or brushstrokes in an abstract painting or drawing...My favorite piece on this recording is the Three Motets: Arabesques (1999), for four prerecorded clarinets. These motets are simple - contrapuntal in the extreme, they are made of short, tonally-enigmatic melodic gestures that are imitated by subsequent instrumental entrances. The result is a haunting, subtly and constantly changing soundscape. The performances and recording here are of the highest quality. Paccione teaches at Western Illinois University, and most of the performers are his colleagues there. Several pieces were written for clarinetist Molly Paccione, the composer's wife, and her readings show deep understanding of the music. Highly recommended." - Sequenza 21
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Works Details
Paccione, Paul : Rhapsody, for clarinet & piano- Performers: Molly Paccione (Clarinet); Jenny Perron (Piano)
- Notes: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (06/08/2009/06/11/2009)
- Running Time: 4 min. 24 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2005
Paccione, Paul : Stations - To Morton Feldman, for piano
- Performer: Michael Campbell (Piano)
- Running Time: 7 min. 8 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1987
Paccione, Paul : Inscape :: Choral Settings (3) from Gerard Manley Hopkins, for chorus
- Conductor: James Stegall
- Running Time: 10 min. 37 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2007
Paccione, Paul : A Page for Will, for piano
- Performer: Nurit Tilles (Piano)
- Running Time: 1 min. 55 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2003
Paccione, Paul : Arabesques, motets (3) for 4 pre-recorded clarinets
- Performer: Molly Paccione (Clarinet)
- Running Time: 16 min. 12 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1999
Paccione, Paul : Songs (5) from Christina Rossetti, for voice, clarinet, cello & piano
- Performers: Terry Chasteen; Andrea Molina (Piano); Moisés Nolina (Cello); Molly Paccione (Clarinet)
- Notes: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (05/27/2009-05/28/2009)
- Running Time: 14 min. 37 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2003
Paccione, Paul : Planxty Cage, for piano :: Postlude
- Performer: Nurit Tilles (Piano)
- Running Time: 2 min. 2 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1993


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As transit talks wound down to another midnight deadline tonight, Transport Workers Union president Roger Toussaint softened his wage demands this morning, but observers said that there's still been little progress at the bargaining table with management negotiators.
Toussaint's comments appeared geared to placing the union's own demands regarding wages, reduced disciplinary sanctions, and what it calls "dignity and respect," back before the public while putting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the defensive. Most attention has focused on the MTA's call for reduced pension and health care benefits for new employees, demands the union has rejected.
"We are prepared to lower our wage demands even to below 6 percent, provided that the authority ensures that disciplinary actions against transit workers be substantially reduced," said Toussaint. The union's prior wage demand was 8 percent per year over a three-year contract. The MTA has offered a total of 9 percent.
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Deterministic versus Stochastic Mechanisms in Principal–Agent Models
This paper shows that, contrary to what is generally believed, decreasing concavity of the agent's utility function with respect to the screening variable is not sufficient to ensure that stochastic mechanisms are suboptimal. The paper demonstrates, however, that they are suboptimal whenever the optimal deterministic mechanism exhibits no bunching. This is the case for most applications of the theory and therefore validates the literature's usual focus on deterministic mechanisms.
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Dreamweaver: A Visual Tool for Serious Web Codersby Bruce A. Epstein, coauthor of Dreamweaver in a Nutshell11/02/2001 With over 20 years of programming experience, I am skeptical of visual Web development environments. Dreamweaver has made me a convert. Even if you prefer to hand-code your HTML and JavaScript, perhaps especially if you do, Dreamweaver is a tool worth learning. Dreamweaver lets novices apply JavaScript behaviors to create rollovers and other effects, but it also lets JavaScript developers manage and distribute their own libraries of JavaScript behaviors. Dreamweaver has numerous time-saving features including File Check In/Check Out, integration with SourceSafe or WebDAV, and Design Notes for Web team collaboration. Furthermore, its Templates, Libraries, and HTML Styles features speed site development. But you're not going to use those features unless Dreamweaver lets you continue working the way you want to work. You demand the ability to use your favorite text editor to hand-code HTML and JavaScript. You won't tolerate a visual tool writing lousy HTML or changing your code. Dreamweaver gives you the best of both worlds. You can use its Design view to work visually and hide the underlying HTML, or you can use its Code view to write HTML and JavaScript by hand. Dreamweaver even offers support for server-side tags, including ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, and PHP. This article will explore several of Dreamweaver's advanced features for hardcore Web developers:
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China Plan Puts High-Sulfur Coal From U.S. at Risk, XCoal Says
Fitri WulandariChina's plan to ban imports of power-station coal with relatively low heating value and high sulfur content may cut shipments of U.S. coal into the country, an American executive said.
"Many Chinese customers can consume higher-sulfur coal without polluting the environment," Ernie Thrasher, chief executive officer at XCoal Energy & Resources LLC, a Pennsylvania-based exporting company, said in e-mail on June 10. If the ban is implemented, it would be detrimental to higher-sulfur coal coming from the U.S., he said.
China may ban purchases of coal with a heating value below about 4,540 kilocalories a kilogram on a net-as-received basis, sulfur content above 1 percent and ash above 25 percent, according to an initial draft obtained by Bloomberg News. The standards may be eased, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. said in a note on June 5.
The U.S. ships about 4 million metric tons of higher-heating value and high-sulfur power-station coal into China every year, according to Thrasher.
High-heating value U.S. coal from Central Appalachia has an average sulfur content of 0.95 percent, while low-calorific grade Powder River Basin has average sulfur content of 0.34 percent, Deutsche Bank said in a May 9 report.
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The U.S. exported about 30.5 million tons of coking and thermal coal into the Asia-Pacific region from April 2012 to March 2013, according to the Department of Commerce. That was up from an estimated 23.2 million tons in the previous year as natural gas displaced coal and warmer winter temperatures in the U.S. cut domestic demand for the fuel.
"Mining companies exported their coal to liquidate inventory," Thrasher said. "That was an anomaly that occurred from February 2012 to June 2012."
Coal exports from the U.S may fall by 15 percent to 20 percent from April 2013 to March 2014, down from an estimated 115 million tons in the previous 12 months, Thrasher said. Shipments of the fuel from the U.S. to Asia will also drop in the same period, he said.
Lower-sulfur coal, which has higher production costs, will struggle to keep its share of the Asian market because of the current price level, he said.
Coal prices have fallen by more than half since they peaked in mid-2008 amid slowing Chinese imports and rising shipments from Indonesia, Colombia and the U.S.
Coal at the Australian port of Newcastle, Asia's benchmark price, dropped 40 cents to $86.40 a ton for the week ended June 7 from the previous week, data from IHS McCloskey show. The price reached a record $192.50 a ton in July 2008 and averaged $94.29 a ton last year.
Xcoal plans to export about 18 million tons of coal from April 2013 to March 2014, up from about 14 million tons in previous year, Thrasher said. "We don't know if this goal will be achievable due the market conditions we are experiencing in Europe, South America, India, Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan," he said.


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Introduction I see questions about SSDs being posted everyday and they often ask the same questions. My goal is not to stop people from making new threads, absolutely not. However, I think it would be good to have one big post/thread that includes the basic information about SSDs, which can then be linked to posts asking about SSDs. The idea of this thread is that anyone can contribute to it. If you think something is missing, please PM me. You can either write it yourself which I will then add (and cite you of course) or you can ask me to investigate and write about it. I would prefer you writing it yourself because my time is limited (I have mod duties and some real work to do as well). SSD vs HD - Is SSD worth it? This gets asked a lot but there is no single answer to it. With HD, you get lots of capacity for very little $. With SSD, you pay the premium even for very little amount of storage. For the record, a 60GB SSD costs roughly the same as 1TB 2.5 or 2TB 3.5 HD at the moment. The reason why there is no one right answer is that we all have different usages. If all you need is less than 120GB for example, then 120GB SSD for ~$200-250 doesnt sound that bad, given the huge performance increase. So what is the performance difference then? Enormous. Hard drives have latency of several milliseconds (ms) whereas SSDs latency is measured in microseconds (µs). Depending on the SSD and HD, the SSD can easily have over 100 times lower latency. The latency isnt the only thing that separates them. SSDs sport much higher read and write speeds. Regular HDs top out at around 150MB/s but the fastest SATA 3Gb/s SSDs can provide up to 285MB/s, which is the maximum of SATA 3Gb/s. SATA 6Gb/s SSDs can offer speeds of up to 550MB/s currently, over three times faster than traditional HDs. Just to show the capability of SSDs, there are some enterprise level SSDs that deliver speeds of over 3GB/s. Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB vs Intel 320 Series 160GB SSD vs HD - boot time The performance difference isn't the only advantage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they are inaudible. HDs, especially 7200rpm ones, can be quite noisy when reading or writing data. SSDs also run cooler and in some cases use less energy (there are different results on this. Some say it increases the battery life, some say it stays the same or even degrades). A good SSD is also a lot more reliable. Most of us should be aware that HDs are very unreliable and some of us have experienced HD failures and even data loss. HDs have moving parts so sooner than later they will wear out, that is a fact. However, don't think your SSD is immortal though. NANDs lose their charge after about 10 years so that is about the maximum life span of an SSD. Of course, something else may fail sooner, for example the controller. There is also the wear out factor which will be covered later (finite amount of P/E cycles). What does SSD speed up? While I said the performance difference is enormous, it is still limited to certain tasks. It cant speed your encoding times because the drive is not the bottleneck, its most likely the CPU. In games, it may speed up game loading times but the actual frame rate and graphics will not be improved, again because the drive is not the bottleneck. SSD will speed up anything that involves reading or writing of the drive. Tasks like that include but are not limited to: booting, launching apps and file transfers. People say that the OS feels more responsive with an SSD, which can be true because your slow HD was the bottleneck before. If your OS is in the SSD, then the swap file will be there too so in case you run out of RAM, the system shouldnt feel as unresponsive as with an HD because the SSD is so fast. Which SSD to buy? I again want to start off by saying that there is no single answer to this. It all depends on your budget, needs and Mac. Here are a few things to consider: 1. Capacity. How much capacity are you going to need? This is the number one element in determining what SSD to buy. 2. Budget. This could be the first one too but in my opinion, it is useless to buy an SSD that cannot fulfill your needs. 3. Mac. Different Macs have different SATA revisions and even different drive form factors. You should buy one that is the most suitable for your Mac. 4. Usage. For general usage, it wont matter much what SSD you get but if you are getting an SSD for serious work, then it can be crucial to get one with the best performance. So what SSD to buy for what Mac? Lets see: Any Mac with SATA 1.5Gb/s or SATA 3Gb/s (i.e. pre-2011 Macs): Intel 320 Series. Why? Because it is relatively fast, reasonably priced and probably the most reliable MLC SATA SSD on the market at the moment. Intel also offers an OS-independent firmware updater so you wont need Windows to update its firmware. Macs with SATA 6Gb/s: This just got a lot harder. I have yet to see a totally trouble-free SATA 6Gb/s SSD. No matter what SSD you pick, there seems to be some issues. All 6Gb/s SandForce based SSDs seem to be having a share of issues which look like firmware related. Intel 510 Series isnt perfect either. There seem to be random slow downs and long boot times with that SSD. Crucial m4/Micron C400 uses the same controller as Intel 510 Series and thus shares the same issues. In fact, Crucial even pulled MacBook Pro from supported machines list. Its important to note that there are plenty of users with no issues. For example AnandTech tried to recreate the issue in their 2011 MBP review but they were not able to do it. Its also worth it to note that at least 17 MBPs are experiencing some SATA issues. Moreover, 2011 MBPs are supposed to have two SATA III ports, but some of the earlier versions only have one SATA III port. MBPs built in late May and June most likely have two SATA III ports. Some users have stated that they have two SATA III ports even though they bought their Macs at an earlier time. Performance degradation and TRIM TRIM is a command that allows the operating system to inform the SSD controller which files are no longer in use. In other words, when you delete something from the ssd, the operating system does not erase the actual data from the drive, the OS will just mark that space as free space and overwrite the data when needed. However, the issue with mainstream SSDs with MLC NAND is that only blocks can be erased, individual pages cannot be. To make this simpler, think page as a file and block as a folder. So, if you want to delete one file (page) inside a folder (block), the whole whole folder needs to be erased and rewritten to get rid of that file. The issue raises when you don't have TRIM because the SSD controller still thinks that the file is in use. When the OS decides to overwrite that file, you first need to read the whole block to the cache (usually DRAM) and then you can rewrite the folder (block). The difference is that if you had an empty block, only the write action would have to be done. Now the SSD needs to read the while block first and then write. For the end-user, that appears as performance degradation. It looks like your write speeds have gone and they can easily degrade by 50%. With TRIM, the OS can inform when a file has been deleted and the SSD controller can do this action in the background. You won't have useless files floating around, thus write speeds will remain great. Windows 7 supports TRIM on all SSDs. As of Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6, TRIM is enabled on 2011 Macs with SSDs. OS X Lion is to add TRIM support for all Apple SSDs. As of DP4, third party SSDs are not supported. This may change in the future though. For third party SSDs, there is TRIM Enabler, but it is known to cause problems for some SSDs see the forum thread for more info). AnandTech's article covers this through with a great example. If you are interested in this whole performance degradation issue, read that, it will open your eyes a lot. In my opinion, the performance degradation issue is overhyped. Most of today's SSDs have very effective garbage collection which helps if your OS does not support TRIM. A good SSD will experience little to no degradation, even without TRIM. -------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This is still in progress and you can help me building it by PMing me. I plan on updating this when new information is released too. To do list: Performance, different usages etc. Will get this done ASAP Performance degradation and TRIM - What it is, how it works, is it necessary, support in OS X etc List of SSDs with specifications and their current compatibility with Macs and OS X (maybe a fancy table?) Alternative methods (OptiBay, external SSD etc) Wear out (finite amount of P/E cycles)
Guides section is pretty much dead at the moment. MBP forum is where most of the SSD questions are asked, thus I think this is the best place for it.
nice post and good points. i think you have a lot of good info covered, and the to do list seems on point.
How about adding a list of the contenders with features and price points? Eventually you might add user feedback.
I see a number of discussions on this subject but seldom see mentioned that a SSD has no noise level (a HDD is often louder than the fan) which is very noticeable working during the night. If implemented properly a SSD will have a life expectancy far above that of a HDD. Data retention of a SSD is also higher than that of a HDD (10 years in most cases). A SSD is not affected by magnetic fields (some medical uses e.g. in an area with MRI.) The other item seldom mentioned is the effect of over provisioning (e.g. see Intel's website) where when one assigns only 48 Gb of a 80 Gb X25-M and the life expectancy goes up by a factor 5 and performance goes also up by a factor 4.6 (if I remember correctly). This means that althought the cost per Gb goes up the total cost of ownership goes down for the life of the SSD. On another note: It is near impossible to retrieve deleted data from a SSD by forensic specialists. (There are legitimate uses like financial markets trading systems or where one does not want intelectual property to fall in someone else's hands). To some this is a great plus.
I have added some more info regarding 2011 Macs and their SATA problems as well as a summary of performance degradation and TRIM. Thanks to miamirulz29 for help! MJL, thanks for those. I will add them ASAP
You might want to add a few things in the "is it worth it" section. Bigger difference are random reads and writes, which usually occur during App launching, normal OS operating and stuff (less so in games and media which is mostly sequential. An average HDD with 70MB/s read speed usually only shows something like 0,5MB/s random read speed. Compare that to a decent SSD with about 50+ MB/s and there is another times 100 improvement. Much more impressive than the difference in write speed and also the cause for many of its praised speed increases. Secondly they make no noise and with MBPs and even though the fans never stop (as they do in many Windows notebooks) those fans at 2000rpm are still much more quiet than a 5400rpm HDD and the noise is also deeper and less annoying. A MBP isn't loud with an HDD but there is a big difference between not loud and almost inaudible at night in silent environments. Yes and add some info about optibay as mentioned. Some mod should make it sticky as soon as everything is it.
Still on my to-do list. If people just didn't break the rules that much I added this in my previous edit. Working on it as we speak. Well, I am a mod However, our sticky policy is pretty strict and it's rare that we add stickies. I can ask though.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5) It would be great if there was a little about setting up the SSD. When I first came to this forum there was alot of different information on how to setup your SSD in regards to settings, such as: "Unticking" the go to sleep for the drive option when you have an SSD installed.
personally i'm leaning towards the apple-branded 256gb ssd option. the apple 128gb option seems to be a far more popular recommendation for people wanting an inexpensive way to get into ssds, but i know there's no way i'd be able to constrain myself to that amount of space. seems like most people going for higher capacity just opt for a 3rd party drive, but for me, it feels like the native trim support and slightly cheaper price would be the best compromise for now. i figure i'll consider a proper SATA III upgrade in a year or two when i can hopefully get 500gb at the same price point. part of that justification, however, stems from the psychological feeling that an "apple-approved" drive would be sacrificing bleeding edge performance for some sense of increased reliability. but has anyone actually gone that route and can confirm or dispel that notion?
As for the OP's comment that third party SSD's are currently not TRIM supported: Sounds like it's not a good idea to buy third party SSDs?
I want to buy a second MBP with a SSD. The one i have now has a 7200 RPM HD and works like a gem. Should i go with the SSD? Will i notice a difference?
You will notice a big difference in initial boot time and the startup time of apps, but once the system is running and you have all your apps started there is not much of a difference. I will qualify that by saying if your normal usage it to import say large video/image files into app, then that will be much faster.


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Jessica Biel is all about defying fashion conventions these days.
After marrying Justin Timberlake in a pink wedding gown custom-designed by Giambattista Valli last month, she hit her first red carpet as a married woman the Sunday Nov. 18 premiere of Hitchcock in NYC.
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Up to 70 civilians were reportedly killed in the Farah province of Afghanistan in a battle between Taliban insurgents and coalition forces on Tuesday, adding friction to already tense relations between the U.S. and Afghan governments.
According to Mohammad Nieem Qadderdan, a former top official in the Farah district of Bala Baluk, "These houses that were full of children and women and elders were bombed by planes." The U.S. military is investigating the claims.
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Civilian casualties are likely to remain a highly sensitive topic in coming months with the arrival of some 20,000 additional American troops and the ongoing Afghan election campaign. Western military officials say they expect an increased level of violence as coalition forces pursue the insurgents into areas where the Taliban previously operated freely, including much of Farah.


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Jan, Jan, Jan. What are we going to do with you?
There have been hints on past episodes of The Office that Michael's boss/girlfriend has a few issues, and even she can't quite figure out why she's attracted to Michael. But wow — things just kind of came spilling out tonight, didn't they?
Granted, Michael wasn't helping any with his barely restrained glee that they were finally going public with their relationship ("Hi. Jan and I are lovers"). But here's what Jan had to say about the situation:
"What's the upside? I overcome my nausea, fall deeply in love, babies, normalcy, no more self-loathing. And the downside? I date Michael Scott in public and collapse on myself like a dying star. … Why is this so hard? That's what she said. [beat] Oh my god."
I understand that it would be a little weird to have Jan in every episode, given that she's based in New York. But every time Melora Hardin is featured, she knocks it out of the park. She and Steve Carell work so great together that I think I'd take a little bit of contrivance in the writing to have her on screen a little more often.
Also, I take back all the nice things I've said about Roy in the past few months. If I were Pam I don't know that I would have told him about Jim, but yeesh. His extreme and kinda scary reaction to it marred an otherwise sublime episode a little for me. Here's hoping he feels some remorse in the near future.
But the rest of it, from Dwight's house inspection to Michael's potato salad, was great. Some highlights:
- "Magic camp … is really for anyone with a dream, and a belief in magic, and a little extra time after school." Michael's straitjacket non-escape was one of the show's better throwaway bits this season.
- Tonight's guest director: J.J. Abrams, following Joss Whedon last week. I'm it's fun for these guys to do, but given how strictly the show adheres to its documentary style, is it really that big a deal? (That said, I loved the shot where the CFO's wife nearly runs into the camera.)
- Kevin on his wedding date: "It's complicated. I'd appreciate some space on this."
- Toby. You poor, optimistic bastard you — don't ever change.
- I was a little worried that the show was setting up a revelation that Karen was a serial co-worker dater, and a little bit nutty to boot. Glad to see she was just messing with Jim — it may be inevitable that they break up, but I'd prefer it be over something that wasn't so trite.
- Of course Creed sells fake IDs to underage kids.
- Dwight's end-of-night assessment: "The chimney's in good shape. Not great, but good. I found some termite damage in a crawl space, and some structural flaws in the foundation. So all in all — it was a pretty fun cocktail party."
- "I want the house, Jan. I want the picket fence, and the ketchup fights, and the tickling and the giggling." Wait — ketchup fights?
Were you as bugged by Roy as I was? What would be in your intra-office romance waiver? And — seriously, ketchup fights?


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A new House committee focused on Detroit's exit from bankruptcy and its future recovery was created today by House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall.
"As the House considers support to help resolve Detroit's bankruptcy and secure its recovery, we need to ensure taxpayers statewide are protected and Detroit's success is assured," Bolger said in a statement. "We are putting a strong team in place to resolve this difficult issue today with a vision for a bright future."
The House is expected this week to introduce a 10-bill package that will include funding to help resolve the city's bankruptcy, as well as continued financial oversight. This committee will handle those bills.
The lawmaker responsible for crafting those bills, Rep. John Walsh, R-Livonia, will chair this new committee, called "Detroit's Recovery and Michigan's Future."
"Detroit is still a driver of economic activity in the Great Lakes region, and its failures and successes impact all of Michigan," Walsh said in a statement. "We are taking action to ensure its bankruptcy is a new beginning rather than an end. We will bring ideas to the table and vet those ideas through a transparent committee process, and find the best solution to protect taxpayers."
Along with Walsh, the committee will include Rep. Mike McCready, R-Bloomfield Hills; Rep. Earl Poleski, R-Jackson; Rep. Thomas Stallworth, D-Detroit; and Rep. Harvey Santana, D-Detroit.
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MANILA, July 24 (Reuters) - Nearly 100 people were killed in the Philippines last week when Typhoon Rammasun roared through, raising doubts about efforts to end the heavy tolls from storms that are only expected to get more intense as the global climate changes.
But in Albay province, which bore the brunt of the strongest storm in the new typhoon season, no one was killed, proving that deaths can be prevented provided there is the will to force people to do what is necessary to save their own lives.
"Tools of leadership are lacking," Joey Salceda, the three-term governor of Albay told Reuters when asked about the tally of casualties in other provinces.
About 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year, and recently they have been getting stronger. Meteorologists say that as ocean temperatures rise, storms will get more dangerous.
Late last year, Typhoon Haiyan became the strongest storm to hit land anywhere, killing more than 6,100 people, most along the east coast of central Philippine islands as it whipped up tsunami-like storm surges.
Since the shock of Haiyan, the central government and its agencies have been more active in their risk assessments and recommendations of pre-emptive measures.
But Salceda says it is up to provincial governments, not the central government, to use their powers to force people to take steps to save themselves, and if that is to happen, provincial authorities have to get to grips with what has to be done.
"Local executives need more training, they are still struggling to grasp what it really takes to make people act," he said. "It's a failure to communicate, failure to ensure household compliance."
Salceda's efforts clearly work, as the clean sheet on deaths attest, even as the storm destroyed 6.2 billion pesos ($143 million) worth of crops and property in his province.
Salceda says he has at times used "shock therapy" to get people moving to avoid the storms that regularly roar in from the Pacific Ocean.
He described the bemused reaction of citizens to his order to close schools while skies were clear, a day before a typhoon was due to strike.
He uses relief supplies as a tool, offering residents of low-lying areas emergency rice packs but only if they moved into shelters.
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction designated Albay a role model for disaster risk reduction in 2012, highlighting its massive communications campaign in preventing casualties.
Salceda agreed that getting word out, through every channel available, was vital.
"I aired warnings over my Facebook. I probably had 100 interviews over the radio, over and over," he said of the latest storm.
The province also sends out advisories over mobile phones to about 12,000 village leaders and officials and has a smartphone app for warnings.
Albay has tried to pass on the secrets of its success to other provinces but officials elsewhere often don't seem to take the lessons to heart. That was perhaps partly because other provinces are not hit by storms as often as Albay, Salceda said.
But it also comes down to money: other provinces just do not allocate enough funds for disaster management.
Albay passed a law in 1994 creating a disaster management office with permanent staff and its own budget to sustain its mandate despite inevitable changes of political leaders. The province has seen storm deaths in only two of the 20 years since then, Salceda said.
Provincial governors and city mayors are elected every three years, and can serve at most three terms, so setting up a structure that survives leadership changes was vital, said Ramon Isberto, president of the Corporate Network for Disaster Response Inc.
"You've got to make it permanent, you've got to give it a budget of its own and you've got to make it professional," said Isberto, whose group tries to help businesses and communities prepare for disasters.
"It survives and does not collapse when governors change," Isberto said of Albay's disaster management office.
Isberto said in some places, there was just not the political will to save lives.
"Some are not so interested, they are not as committed," Isberto said, adding that his group has had to drop some communities from its programme because leaders did not care.
The Philippines was ranked the world's third most disaster-prone country on the World Disaster Report of 2012, and Isberto said communities had to adapt to climate change.
"What if we had not just one, but 10 Albays in different parts of the country? Or better yet what if there are 20, or 30?," Isberto told a disaster forum of government, business and humanitarian officials on Tuesday.
"Wouldn't the country be a better place?" (Additional reporting by Karen Lema and Erik dela Cruz; Editing by Robert Birsel and Michael Urquhart)


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text: Gamaheua natural cameo, or intaglio. These stones (chiefly agate) contain natural representations of plants, landscapes, or animals. Pliny tells us that the "Agate of Pyrrhus" contained a representation of the nine Muses, with Apollo in the midst. Paracelsus calls them natural talismans. Albertus Magnus makes mention of them, and Gaffaret, in his Curiosités inouïes, attributes to them magical powers. (French, camaïeu, from the oriental gamahuia, camehuia, or camebouia.) When magic was ranked as a science, certain conjunctions were called "Gamahæan unions." Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894


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text: The dead get buried (metaphorically) in this new Walking Dead season 3 trailerRob Bricken1/02/13 12:30pmFiled to: walking deadTVZombiesAmc52EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink It seems like only a few short weeks ago that the first chunk of season 3 of The Walking Dead ended, mostly because it did end only a few short weeks ago. Still, now the second half of the season is only a few short weeks away, premiering on February 10, and AMC just released the first trailer for it, showcasing... well, a lot of gunfire and a lot of people being upset including Angry Pirate Santa Herschel (the two things may be somewhat related). There don't seem to be a lot of zombies, though. I wonder if the Walking Dead may want to consider walking into another talent agency, maybe see if someone can get them a little bit more screentime.AdvertisementClick to view[Via Warming Glow]


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WASHINGTON -- In the Catholic catechism, schoolchildren learn the seven deadly sins.
There is Lust, which ran unchecked -- in a tortured, destructive form -- in the Catholic priesthood.
There is Greed, which prompted Catholic prelates to defame victims rather than face civil fines and depleted contributions.
And then there is Pride, which was on infuriating display last week in Rome, where the most compelling tableau was the row of empty chairs at a Vatican news conference. Only two of the 12 American cardinals there bothered to attend.
As American Catholics waited and prayed for a glimmer of humility, the princes of the church strutted off to what one church official called "other obligations," as if there were something more pressing than the rape of children.
And while conservatives back home yammered that the answer was a return to clerical austerity, Cardinal Edward Egan luxuriated at a five-star hotel near the Pantheon. (Add Gluttony to the list.)
When the cardinals issued a statement targeting "notorious" predatory priests, that notorious protector of predators, Cardinal Bernard Law, was hiding in a friend's apartment inside the Vatican.
This was supposed to be the moment when these shamed vicars would make an extraordinary act of contrition, when the men who usually urge redemption angled for their own.
But the leaders of a church built on symbols could not even manage the symbolism. The empty chairs sent an unequivocal message: They hadn't learned a thing.
The cardinals chose defiance over deference to the expectations of their devastated flock, which thought that celibacy, women priests and married priests might be discussed.
The shepherds opted for arcane legalisms over actual remorse, meaningless distinctions over meaningful changes: An abusive priest might or might not be ejected from the club, depending on the age of his victims and the frequency of his transgressions, and how long ago the abuse occurred. Was he a "serial" offender or a hobbyist, intent on abusing or inebriated? To the hair-splitting cardinals, these variables still seemed to matter. To enraged American Catholics, they no longer do.
We are angry that these spiritual arbiters are unyielding when the "sins" belong to us, not to them.
We have relatives whose lives were choked because they could not get annulments -- and thus remarry in the church -- after their spouses betrayed and abandoned them.
We know faithfully married women who are forced to violate the Vatican stricture against birth control if they don't want 13 babies. We are friends with gay Catholics who are expected to sacrifice intimacy to maintain their faith.
Rome has resisted modernity, clinging to black and white.
But -- astonishingly, disgustingly -- on the matter of molestation, which any sane person does see in black and white, the cardinals divine shades of gray.
It took them three days and a deafening chorus of disapproval before they ostensibly agreed on a one-grope-and-you're-out policy. They can still water that down at the bishops conference in June.
And it will be a miracle if they don't, given the increasing evidence that church leaders in America, and perhaps even the Holy See, have engaged in a huge conspiracy, spurred by fear of blackmail. They knowingly put children in harm's way because they did not want the priests they should have punished to divulge the church's hypocrisy.
Even as the cardinals were making their way back from Rome, the Archdiocese of Boston released new documents in the case of the Rev. Paul Shanley, an unabashed molester who made a speech in 1977 asserting that no sexual act in and of itself causes damage to children, not even incest or bestiality.
The documents show that Shanley threatened to spill the church's sexual secrets if he wasn't allowed to keep his street ministry. They also include a 1972 essay in which the priest boasted: "My name is to be found in the files of countless VD clinics in this fair land. One of the first things I do in a new city is to sign up at the local clinics for help with my VD."
In the cardinals' Vatican statement, they said of the church, "A great work of art may be blemished, but its beauty remains." Not at this rate.
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It took them three days and a deafening chorus of disapproval before they ostensibly agreed on a one-grope-and-you're-out policy. They can still water that down at the bishops conference in June.Sickening.
Law was probably with one of his homo/pedophile buddy Cardinals doing their homo sex rituals too?
15 "Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are really wolves that will tear you apart.
16 You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You don't pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles.
17 A healthy tree produces good fruit, and an unhealthy tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can't produce good fruit.
Oh if only that were true!
Dowd's biggest self-contradiction here is that she advocates "grayness" in virtually all areas of the faith. She's right to criticize the waffling and dishonest application of standards in the American cardinals and bishops. But her remedy seems to be to shift their waffling into areas where she'd like to see it, rather than to return to a firm moral standard in ALL areas.
This is the most sickening statement of all. When I heard about this last week, I was in shock, that Catholic Leaders would condone child rape as long a it is held to a minimum. Raping one or two is ok, it is only raping a lot of little boys that is bad.
This religion needs to be abandoned, immediately, that or this man needs a good lynching, for he just said it is ok to rape YOUR little boy!!
This is where she wanders off. If she wants to be a New York Times editorial writer she must adhere to the rules of her office. She is free, of course, to pursue something else.
I really don't think she is qualified to say what the doctrine of the Catholic Church should be. I don't think someone should just go into a denomination and say "I am Catholic, but I don't believe this this this and this..." and expect an entire Church to say "Okay, let's change our entire belief system to accomodate you." There is a religion to fit everyone in this Country. If there isn't, make one up yourself. It's done all the time. But this idea of verbal intimidation and coercion to force an assembled group of people to accomodate every contrary belief Maureen Dowd thinks they should is crazy. She makes herself into an Opinion Nazi when she does that. If she doesn't like it "No views for you!!!!"
Typical Dowd column; long on rhetoric, short on facts. She leaves out the capital sins of sloth and wrath, which she has been repeatedly guilty of committing, including in this piece. Her contempt for Law and his fellow aiders and abettors, which is well deserved, is undermined by her venom for the disciplines and doctrines of Roman Catholicism.
Aside from Cardinal Bevilacqua and perhaps a handful of bishops, all of the rest have not only failed us -- they have failed Jesus Christ Our Lord.
Maureen Dowd has repeatedly attacked the Catholic Church, so lets remember her point of view has its own agenda and carries with it her own baggage.
But she is spot on when she notes how disgusting and perverse it is that the Cardinals see gray regarding sexual abuse -- when the rest of the world can see it in black and white -- and Catholics like me are seeing RED.
Thank you for your unity at this time of strife. I know that Catholics and our non-Catholic Christian brothers and sisters are united in our effort to expose the depravity of homosexuality and the lies of abortion, through love and prayer and truth. When we agree on so much, and work together to end the immoral acts of our generation sometimes our differences seem trivial.
God bless.
Is her point that Egan is a conservative or that he is hailed by conservatives or that the conservatives "yammering" are wrong?
The cardinals chose defiance over deference to the expectations of their devastated flock, which thought that celibacy, women priests and married priests might be discussed.
Some of us thought that dealing with priest-molesters might be discussed, or does that constitute mere conservative "yammer[ing] about a return to clerical austerity"?
Repetez, if there is molestation, there should be investigation of the accusation, and if charges are filed by a prosecutor, then the Church should allow the law to prevail. If the Church had taken this position, there never would have been this scandal.
I recently saw a show about pedophila, and there was testimony by child victims, and how many years these guys were locked up. While it dealt with girls, the pedophiles all told how careful and cunning they were. It was gross, but it explained how a priest could get away with his position of trust with little boys.
That is, I am afraid, not very likely.
"Christianity shall die of its own mendaciousness"-A Great Historian 1888.
This is where you hit it on the head. Despite the desires of many here to use this problem as validation for their irrational beliefs about the Catholic Church, the real issue is that the Catholic Church has been infiltrated by evil.
Dowd alert! She speaketh out of both sides of her mouth.
BTTT for the truth!
However, don't get sucked into the media myth that these crimes were pedophila. I believe there were only one or two cases of actual pedophila (sex with children). The acts that have been committed are HOMOSEXUAL acts with teen-age boys (post-pubescent.) This in no way condones the crime, which is an affort to God and His Church, in addition to hurting teen-age boys and their families, and being against the secular law.
God bless.
Dowd, like others, don't understand the Church teachings. Artificial birth control has a lower percentage success rate than faithfully practiced natural family planning. However, many people think that human beings are animals when it comes to sex and can't refrain during the few days of the month that a woman can conceive. They have the secular "me-first" attitude. Why should we conform to please God? Why should we deny ourselves when we don't get immediate rewards? Why can't we have sex whenever we want with whoever we want? We have this wonderful thing called birth control, no consequences. Whoops, got pregnant! Condom broke! I can get an abortion.
The church has a moral position and some people don't like it. Fine, they don't have to. But don't expect the church to change because some people in this society think that the rules are unfair or too strict.
Infiltration is one of the key questions. We know that the communists were trying to infiltrate the Catholic Church. There is that little book The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle that now seems to be reasonable given current events. And there are the old satanist and luciferian groups that have longed to destroyed the Church.
Regardless of the group, you are spot on when your right that "the real issue is that the Catholic Church has been infiltrated by evil" because it surely has, and the smoke of satan is billowing forth from the sanctuaries.
Guess he found a lot of morsels. Was it C.S. Lewis who said that the Devil likes nothing better than for us to deny he exists?
Jail the pederasts and pedopholes, and, excommunicate them.
Heaven forbid, we have enough to contend with the homosexuals who have infiltrated our seminaries and worked their way through the hierachy...now, we surely don't want lesbianism to take the same course.
Satan and his able emissaries on earth are within the walls.
Understatement of the decade.
Regarding the Catholic teaching on contraceptives, I'm not an expert on this matter. I have never suggested that those who use birth control shouldn't attend mass; I simply stated that the Catholic Church should not change it's teachings simply because some .. even most .. in the church do not abide by its teachings.
On the "sin scale", I don't know where contraceptive use falls. Personally, I think it's a serious sin, but not a mortal sin unless the contraceptive is an abortifacient, in which case it is a mortal sin because it procures an abortion. However, I also believe that Catholics who are actively practicing should try their hardest to abide by the teachings of the church. There are sound moral and biblical reasons to not use contraceptives.
Finally, I just want people who don't agree to just stop trying to tear apart the church. They can silently dissent by not practicing what the church teaches, but to try and subvert the church by saying the TEACHING is wrong (when, in fact, it is a moral good, just not convenient) is doubly wrong.
I'm not explaining myself well, but I feel strongly about this. I try very hard to live by the teachings of the church because I believe they are inspired or demanded by God. Sometimes I fail. But when I fail, I don't expect the church to change because I did something sinful; I confess and repent and strive to not commit the same sin, through perseverence and prayer.
God bless.
The cardinals chose defiance over deference to the expectations of their devastated flock, which thought that celibacy, women priests and married priests might be discussed.
She is incapable of understanding that these "remedies" will exacerbate the current homosexual problem in the Church.
I skimmed her article (thats as much time as I can devote to her silly screeds with getting sick to my stomach) and noticed that she did not touch on the "root cause" of the problem - homosexuality in the priesthood. Rather, she goes out of her way to talk about her Catholic homosexual friends!
I dare say the overwhelming majority of Catholics do not have homosexuals whom they consider friends! They know some, to be sure and some may even be family relatives but to say they are amongst one's circle of friends is outlandish - except for Dowd and her ilk.
The Church has never proposed "eliminating" them. It has always offered them forgiveness, no matter how many times they commit this sin.
Those who want to take vote on what constitutes sin, rather than faithfully trying to follow the will of God expressed through His Church, are separating themselves from the Church, not the other way around. Even if they leave on this basis, the Church will continue to hold a place for them and pray for their return.
And there has been quite enough concentration on the "coffers" of the Church in the USA. These coffers are bursting, while the souls of the faithful are neglected. If it comes down to a choice of faithfully observing the will of God, or having a wealthy Chuch (a false dichotomy I believe), the correct choice ought to be obvious.
Are you implying that they are connected?
Has anyone?
And you seem confused about the commandments, so hear it is as you don't seem to know what you are referring to.
The Eighth Commandment.
Thou shalt not steal.
No, it is you who is confused. The Seventh Commandment is, Thou shalt not steal. Exodus 20:15, Deuteronomy 5:19. The Eighth Commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Exodus 20:16, Deuteronomy 5:20
And if you're going to continue to vaguely infer that the Roman Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon, just come right out and say it. God doesn't appreciate cowards and neither does Jim Robinson.
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Tackling a life-changing gluten-free diet head on...
by Sandra J. Leonard
Please allow me to introduce myself...Sandra J. Leonard. (Oh, the J. stands for Joan.) If you will permit me, I would like to take this opportunity to tell you a bit about myself. First off, I am a celiac, have celiac sprue disease and am on a total gluten-free diet (no wheat, rye, barley or oat grains) for life. It was just short of my 50th birthday when I was finally diagnosed after being sick most of my life. I have to admit it is great to feel so good all the time now.
After finally being diagnosed, going on a gluten-free diet and regaining some of my health, I felt a strong urge to be around other folks that also had celiac sprue and were on gluten-free diets. I had seen the name of a person from my town when reading an article in a national celiac newsletter. I was able to locate her and met my first person with celiac disease. She in turn, knew other celiacs in the area.
That is how the very first support group meetings came to be. Most were held in the living room of my home with other celiac friends, with a sharing of recipes and delicious gluten-free tastings. This little support group grew right out of the living room and has been meeting at a local area hospital for some time now. Hence, the Celiac Sprue Support Group, Ohio Miami Valley Area (Dayton and surrounding areas.) was formed and I officially became the chairman.
Upon being diagnosed and informed that a gluten-free diet would be my new lifestyle for life, my thoughts were...."All my illness problems finally had a name...how bad could a gluten-free diet be?" The 'cure' sure sounded simple enough....I only had to stay on a gluten-free diet for life. What could be so bad about that...no drugs to take...just that gluten-free diet bit and I would be feeling good as new. It would be a snap.
The next person I saw was the dietitian..."Like WOW!" was my first comment after she explained a bit about just what a gluten-free diet really was. "What do you mean I can't have all those things to eat?" I stated firmly. "A person just can't get along without things like bread, cakes, cookies, pizza and good things like that to eat....I just can't eat rice and corn stuff for the rest of my life."
After having a good cry, feeling very sorry for myself and very alone, I decided I had better do an attitude check. I really had to try to stop thinking so negatively about all the foods I couldn't have on this darned gluten-free diet and must start to concentrate instead on all the good healthy foods I really could have on this diet.
Well that was back then and today I do know that you can be on a gluten-free diet and have many delicious things to eat. Many health food stores have gluten-free products available. Mail order companies selling gluten-free products have doubled just in the past few years. And last but not least are those of us who enjoy making our own tasty gluten-free baked treats.
I love to cook (and eat too) so felt very confident that I could just start making some treats that I could have. I rushed off to the library to find some cookbooks that would have recipes for rice flour, after all, I was ready to start baking. I came back home empty handed and with a frowny face. There was no information under celiac sprue, celiac disease, gluten intolerance or rice flour recipes. There was that darned negative attitude again...made myself head back to the library to seek further information. It was suggested that I look under allergy related cookbooks. "I never would have thought to look under that heading as I don't have an allergy, I have an intolerance." I quietly informed the librarian. I returned home once again, this time with several cookbooks and a smiley face. I hadn't yet found out about the really good gluten-free cookbooks that were available.
How quickly I learned that of all the gluten-free recipes I tried, most all came out very heavy, dense in texture and quite gritty in taste. I would love to meet the people that tested some of the recipes I tried...do you suppose they really ate the end result? I doubt it. Probably weren't on a gluten-free diet either. Memory still brings to mind my attempt at making favorite spice cookies. The aroma coming from the oven was wonderful. The longed for first bite, was another story...it tasted like a mouthful of sand with some spices thrown in! AWFUL!! Gee, is it any wonder that darned negative attitude was trying to take over?
That was then and this is now...this little checklist works for me.
Do put on a smiley face and do an attitude check.
Don't wait until the last minute to bake that dessert when company is coming.
Don't be afraid to experiment a bit.
At times there will be failures just because the baked item is gluten-free, no other cause except to say that it is sometimes the way of gluten-free. If you can accept these few statements, your gluten-free baking will become a lot more successful.
Earlier I stated that I love to cook (and eat too). I started cooking at the age of 9—10 years of age. This was done under my mothers supervision and guidance. As my experience grew, I might be asked to place a roast in the oven, clean vegetables and put foods to cook at proper times. This in turn lead me to help with meal planning and shopping. Finally came the day for me to prepare a complete meal. It wasn't long before I was doing much of the cooking because I enjoyed it and my mother didn't really. My experimenting started early...I was always wanting to do something different...not eat the same meals all the time. Guess I was a bit of a maverick even back in the early cooking days.
When I married, my husband was in the Air Force and stationed in Colorado. We both lived in and around New York City and the Long Island area, lots of ethnic communities and foods. I quickly learned that if a specialty food was wanted, I better learn how to make it as most were not available. My husband chose a 26 year career in the Air Force and we traveled the world over during his military career. Food/cooking/eating are shared by all cultures...a common bond. Having lived in various locations has given me a better understanding of food and cooking. Friendships are made, barriers broken when people share their love of food. My love for cooking has grown greatly.
Sandra J. Leonard was editor of The Gluten-Free Baker Newsletter a quarterly newsletter of home kitchen tested gluten-free recipes. The Gluten-Free Baker Newsletter, Suite A, 361 Cherrywood Drive, Fairborn, OH 45324-4012 (This address last verified in 2003).
Also check out Bake Deliciously! Gluten and Dairy Free Cookbook.
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