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Call for Papers: Women & International Criminal Law
Special Issue of the International Criminal Law Review
Dedicated to Judge Patricia M. Wald
The International Criminal Law Review invites submissions for its 2010 special issue entitled "Women and International Criminal Law," to be guest-edited by Diane Marie Amann, University of California, Davis, School of Law; Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University Beasley School of Law; and Beth Van Schaack, University of Santa Clara School of Law.
The Special Issue is dedicated to Judge Patricia M. Wald, a pathbreaker in international criminal law who has served as Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a Judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, a member of the Iraq Intelligence Commission, Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law Task Force on the International Criminal Court, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative.
This special issue is devoted to the topic of women and international criminal law. Although the majority of the articles have been solicited from prominent academics and practitioners in the field of international
criminal law and feminist jurisprudence, the editors have reserved several slots for submissions in response to this call to papers. Submissions should be inspired by this theme statement:
Special Issue Theme: Women & International Criminal Law
The law, it has been noted, "has not always served women well." The critique extends readily to international law. Until very recently, women were absent from the processes of international law formation and enforcement, and invisible within substantive law reflective of the male experience. Mirroring the public/private divide running through much of law and society, the law, and those with the power to use it, tended to treat all forms of gender violence as opportunistic, peripheral, or private crimes reflecting personal motives and desires unconnected to issues of international importance.
Thanks to the tireless work of committed advocates, jurists and diplomats, international criminal law now treats many forms of gender violence as prosecutable offences against the physical and mental integrity of the victim. With the promulgation of the Statute of the International Criminal Court and the voluminous jurisprudence of the ad hoc criminal tribunals, the law now sanctions the prosecution of gender crimes as war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, and the predicate acts of genocide.
Women have stood front and center to push these developments. Other international institutions often are dominated by men. Yet women have served in top posts in all of the modern tribunals, as Presidents (Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Navanethem Pillay, and Renate Winter), Registrar (Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh), Chief Prosecutors (Louise Arbour and Carla Del Ponte), Deputy Prosecutors (Fatou Bensouda), Gender Advisors (Patricia Viseur Sellers and Catharine MacKinnon), and in many other judicial, prosecution, defense, and administrative capacities.
The tribunals are approaching gender parity in staffing, although women remain concentrated in the lower professional grades. International criminal law is thus one area of international law in which women have made headway in terms of substantive law and institutional access; still, significant obstacles remain to ensure a robust system of gender justice in the face of continued violations.
The field of international criminal law nears a watershed moment, as ad hoc tribunals wind down and the International Criminal Court becomes fully operational. This opportune time invites reflection on whether international criminal law should be considered a feminist project. Accordingly, this volume offers sustained study of how international criminal law affects women and how women have affected international criminal law. We welcome submissions on the following topics:
* Can, and has, international criminal law improved the material conditions of women's lives and promoted the dignity of women?
* Is participation in international criminal justice liberating and transformative, or alienating and regressive?
* What legal reforms, procedural devices, advocacy strategies, and institutional arrangements can be employed to ensure that women experience the former and not the latter?
* Does fixation on criminal penalties constrain imagination and implementation of other ways to respond to the needs, demands, and aspirations of women in situations of armed conflict, mass violence, abuse, and repression?
* How have women as activists, victims, lawyers, and perpetrators changed the field?
* How has the gender jurisprudence advanced, or impeded, the development of international criminal law?
* Has international criminal law changed the way we think about violence against women?
This volume looks beyond sex crimes to consider multiple ways that women experience war and repression, as agents of change, as victims, and as perpetrators. The study adopts critical perspectives to challenge conceptual boundaries between and within public international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international human rights that tend to eclipse the intersectionalities of women's identities and to fragment women's experiences with violence, based upon whether violence occurs in a time of war or peace, whether it occurs at home or in a detention center, or whether the perpetrator is a state actor or a private person. Our hope is that the new perspectives presented in this collection will advance our thinking about gender and international law across a number of disciplines. We welcome your participation in this historic effort to examine the impact of international criminal law on women, and vice versa.
Special Issue Logistics
The volume will be published in spring 2011. Judge Wald and other contributors will present their works at a roundtable hosted at the American Society of International Law's Tillar House in Washington, D.C., on October 29, 2010, days before the tenth anniversary of the first U.N. Security Council resolution on Women, Peace and Security.
To ensure anonymity in the selection phase, please submit a solid draft essay or article, in the range of 5,000 to 10,000 words, with all identifying information redacted, to Kathleen A. Doty, by way of an e-mail attachment in Word format (email@example.com), by April 15, 2010. Please note the paper's title (which should match exactly the title of the redacted paper) and your name and contact information in the body of the e-mail.
Once papers have been selected, they will be subject to a full edit and peer review in advance of the October roundtable. The final draft of the paper will be due no later than March 1, 2011, and should adhere to the International Criminal Law Review style sheet, which is available here.
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Selena Gomez met up for lunch with her mother and stepfather in Encino yesterday. It looks like they left baby Gracie at home with a sitter. Selena's mother probably needed some adult time out of the house. I'm sure Selena stopped by afterwards to see how her little sister is doing, however.
Selena is so much older than her younger sister, it probably feels like she has a new niece. I bet she'll be the "cool older sister" who can become a trusted confidante when Gracie doesn't necessarily want to talk to mom. It really does take a village to raise kids! I'm sure Selena's mother is happy with all the help she can get.
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From the Ohio Rescue Bulldogs facebook. I bet that bully is fun to clean.
and he/she looks soooo happy and content,lol!!!
smoochies the scrunchy face
reminds me of my archie....no sooner was he bathed...he would find
the spots on the yard w/soil/dirt and roll around...the green grass just
didn't do it for him!!!!
still i miss my bugaboo
looks like that bulldog had a lot of fun!!
what a good bulldoggie getting one for free and saving his humans so much money! LOL
Leesa, Diesel & Molly
My mouth dropped open and I stared in awe! LOL
Gunther's Blog: www.guntherthebulldog.com
Is he/she asleep or just taking a break from all the fun in the mud?!
Bath time would definitely be outside for this one lol
Fatboy aka Stinky :)


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The Horse Forum
- Horse Tack Reviews
- - HDR vs Crosby leathers
HDR vs Crosby leathers Hi. I own an 11 year old Collegiate Graduate saddle. I've had it for 8 years. When I bought it, I bought Crosby stirrup leathers to go with it. Finally, after 8 years, the leathers are starting to break. I have looked online and similar 48" Crosby leathers are about $100. But I saw also, on the same sites, that 48" HDR leathers are like $35. I'm confused. I was under the impression that HDR is far better than Crosby, but the price doesn't mirror that. The HDR leathers are being sold as children's, but that seems to be the only difference. Does anyone know why the HDR leathers would be so much cheaper? Thanks |
No Crosby is way better leather quality then HDR. Children's leathers are not priced less then regular leathers either. |
Actually, children's leathers usually are less expensive, because they take less material to make. I have short legs, so I save money by purchasing children's leathers. But yes, Crosby is better quality than HDR. I've personally always thought that HDR products seemed a bit cheaply made. |
I say go with Pessoa lined ones for around $80 |
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Huh, weird. Although maybe it varies by brand. I tend to always purchase Stubben or Courbette. |
Another option would be to go with leathers by Gary Mundy. Very well thought of, reasonably priced and he'll custom make them so that they closely match your saddle. You can email him at firstname.lastname@example.com He will send you all the information you need to decide which type of leathers to order. |
I don't think HDR stirrups are bad, but they aren't nearly as nice in quality as the Crosbys. They won't fall apart in a month or anything but most likely you will have to replace them sooner. It's a matter of how much you want to spend. |
I have HDR leathers (came with my saddle). I've had them on my saddle for 1 1/2 years and they look the same as the day I got the saddle. The girl I got the saddle from said she owned it (with the leathers) for 3 years. Soooo...I would have to say they're good quality. Of course, I religiously clean and condition my saddle and leathers, so that makes a difference. |
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Appetizers Being Served
Michelle Alton 8/29/2012 3:06:11 AM
Amazing detail in the capture and the info is also fascinating. I did not know that the babies' food was regurgitated whole! #1483132Tammy M. Anderson 8/29/2012 3:10:47 AM
Interesting info and capture, Jack. Great details. #10294982R. J. Laudenbacher 8/29/2012 3:11:36 AM
Loving this seris, Jack. All so well captured and your details are wonderful! #10294984Antonio Amen 8/29/2012 3:13:59 AM
Nice nature photo. #10294999Gord MacEachern 8/29/2012 3:41:07 AM
Photography at it's best Jack, the image and info are fantastic. The one minnow still looks to be alive. #10295060Karen E. Michaels 8/29/2012 3:47:07 AM
Bravo, Jack.Linda M. Walker 8/29/2012 5:18:51 AM
Excellent work! #10295360Agnes Fegan 8/29/2012 5:31:29 AM
Terrific nature capture!Sounds like Thanksgiving at my house lol! #10295418
Monnie Ryan 8/29/2012 7:00:52 AM
Ick, but then minnows aren't on my list of to-die-for foods. Very cool capture! #10295679Tiia Vissak 8/29/2012 12:41:32 PM
a cool capture! #10296985John Connolly 8/29/2012 12:59:00 PM
Incredible detail and clarity here Jack! What a fantastic image and great story! #10297063Katherine Kuhn 8/29/2012 1:43:03 PM
Wonderful color & detail, Jack! The faces of those little guys are something! #10297224Robert K. Bemus 8/29/2012 10:24:53 PM
Guess, I would've died...awesome timing and capture, Jack!! #10298438Evy Johansen 8/30/2012 9:19:00 PM
Wow... Awesome capture, Jack! Great light and details! #10300730Emile Abbott 9/22/2012 10:48:18 AM
Outstanding capture Jack and thanks for the info as well. Great series. #10333060D90 Sigma50-500@420MM ISO/1600 F9 SS1/4000
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grabbing such TINY MINNOWS. Unlike Raptors who tear food into bite size pieces for their young. Egrets just expel whatever they have consumed while hunting. At this stage of there lives the chicks pick at the hodgepodge of fish and WHATEVER ELSE Mom or Dad spits into the nest at their feet. Competition for this partially digested Sushi is at the EXTREME LEVEL ALREADY
The chick who hesitates to dive right in or fight for that last morsel could very well be a statistic in no time. It's a HAESH REALITY of NEST LIFE .
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Trying to break a six-game losing streak and win Mark Ehlen's last game at Savage Hall, the University of Toledo women's basketball team had two chances in the final 30 seconds to score the go-ahead basket.
In the midst of the four combined timeouts taken by UT and Eastern Michigan with 10.8 seconds to go, Ehlen realized that before the game, he had thought about this very scenario while reminiscing over his tenure.
"I may be wrong about this, but we've never won a game on a last-second shot," Ehlen said. "I'm not sure we've ever had the opportunity. That was going through my mind today, and sure enough, here we are with 10 seconds to go and a chance to make a last-second shot.
"I'm thinking, surely it's going to drop."
But Allie Clifton's elbow jumper didn't drop, and the Rockets lost 58-57 last night. Afterward, Ehlen borrowed a microphone for a moment to address the crowd of 1,608.
"We've had great memories and great teams," he said. "I want to thank you. It's been a wonderful 13 years."
The Rockets dropped to 10-15, 3-10 in the Mid-American Conference, while the Eagles improved to 15-11, 9-5.
Although UT couldn't win its final home game of the year and last ever for Ehlen and five seniors, senior Tamesha Scotton said Ehlen's post-game message was positive.
"He was happy with our overall effort," Scotton said. "The past six games before this one the overall effort wasn't there. We fought hard for 40 minutes."
The difference in the game came when Colleen Russell split a pair of free throws to put the Eagles ahead with 32 seconds left. The Rockets had two chances at the end but could not score, dropping their seventh straight game.
Scotton missed UT's first attempt with 11 seconds left but the Rockets regained possession and then called time out. Then EMU called two timeouts, followed by another by UT.
"We were trying to figure out if they were zone or man," Ehlen said. "We had a play for both and there was a little jockeying around there."
When play finally resumed, the Rockets got the ball to Clifton, whose shot hit off the back of the iron. The ball bobbled around but EMU finally grabbed hold as the final seconds ticked off.
Scotton led the Rockets with 14 points and seven rebounds. Lisa Johnson had a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds and Ta'Yani Clark added 10.
The Rockets made just 8-of-16 free throws for the game and missed two layups in the final four minutes.
"I don't even think the game came down to the last shot," Scotton said. "We had other little possessions that might have hurt us."
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The Rockets outrebounded the Eagles and did not allow any second-chance points. They broke out to a seven-point lead five minutes into the second half but EMU whittled it away, with Kelly Watts making some big foul-line jumpers.
"That's the best defensive effort we've had in a long time," Ehlen said. "We played about as hard as we could defensively.
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Bonnie Finally Returns to Mystic Falls
I have been contemplating putting out an APB for 'Vampire Diaries' Bonnie (Katerina Graham). She has not appeared in any episodes since her grandmother died, in episode 14. Due to the show's lengthy hiatus, that means the teen witch has been MIA from Mystic Falls since February. Fortunately, this does not mean Bonnie has been written off the show. She will return in Thursday's episode, "Miss Mystic Falls." Matt (Zach Roerig) and Caroline (Candice Accola) also pulled a disappearing act mid-season, and despite his series regular status, Tyler (Michael Trevino) has only been in about half the episodes.
Several other series do not use all of their stars in every episode, even though they continue to appear in the opening credits. There have been episodes of 'Gossip Girl' without Jenny (Taylor Momsen), Nate (Chace Crawford), and even a sad Chuck free episode in season one. '90210's' Navid (Michael Steger) spent a significant portion of season one off-screen. Though the CW does it most often, shows with large casts like ABC's 'Lost' and even their comedy 'Modern Family' have been known to leave some characters out of a few episodes.
I wondered what went into these decisions. Did the writers simply have no use for the character in the episode? Did the network dislike the characters? Did the characters end up on the cutting room floor because the episode came out too long? Was it a cost-cutting issue, since an actor who does not appear in an episode usually does not have to be paid? Is it a way of punishing an annoying actor? Well, only if it's Katherine Heigl. According to a network representative, it's a little bit of both. Stars are not always contractually guaranteed to appear in every episode of a series. Sometimes, they might be guaranteed to appear in as little as 13 episodes, and actually end up being used in 16. The showrunners generally have control over how many episodes a character appears in, but with shows under increasing pressure to lower their budgets, sending a character out of town for a couple weeks can be a good way of controlling costs.
So, 'Vampire Diaires' — which has a low budget for a series with a lot of special effects and action scenes, as well as a well structured, complex mythology that puts 'FlashForward' to shame — undoubtedly had both story and financial reasons for sending the powerful witch who may be able to re-entomb Mystic Falls' vampire population away.
Below is a sneak peek at tonight's episode. Now that Stefan's tasted human blood, will he be able to give it up? Who will win the Miss Mystic Falls pageant? These questions — and many more — will be asked and answered.


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Critique in teaching cartography
Posted 18 January 2012 - 10:42 AM
Nat Case
INCase, LLC
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Posted 18 January 2012 - 12:15 PM
Apart from simple review for errors and omissions, peer review is a great way to get new ideas. Not everyone is good at taking criticism of course and it can be tough to hear what people think of your work, you just have to understand that most of these design suggestions are opinion and related more to personal style than bad choices on the cartographers part.
The most valuable aspect to peer review though is not in receiving but in giving it. Looking over others work for design faults or just personal style changes really helps you grow as a map maker and develop your sense of what your personal style is and why. Again, looking at your own work it can often be difficult to make decisions about how to proceed with certain design choices. But looking over others work it is often immediately apparent what you like or what you would change. I think of peer review as much a personal exercise for yourself as it is a benefit to the work being reviewed.
The pitfall in reviewing is of course thinking that your design ideas are the best or only way to go and presenting them as such. Diplomacy rules in critical review. Never hold back an opinion but always approach design advice with a friendly tone and express ideas as choices with potential benefits and possibly costs. Human nature is to react defensively to criticism so its best to defuse that as much as possible. On the part of the person being reviewed its always best to avoid over explaining your choices if you disagree with a review, again this sets up a co0nfornational exchange. Better to just let it sink in, offer some explanation as necessary but don't get into a lengthy discussion of what may be right or wrong in your map design.
I think Imhof is the guy who said "A solution to a problem in math is either right or wrong, but a solution to a cartographic problem is only good or bad".
You might find some other ideas on the topic here: http://www.cartotalk...?showtopic=5843
Posted 18 January 2012 - 12:57 PM
Also, make it very clear that everyone is at a different level and that's okay. If you have a student that has had no prior design experience, then naturally their work will be more heavily critiqued than the more experienced students. Don't assume that all students are starting at the same level of experience, even if they are 18 years old. By that time, some have taken art classes since they were 4, or participated in their mom's architectural firm as an apprentice, or who knows what. Then there will be 18 year olds with no design experience at all. Perhaps these students focused on math and science and only just recently switched course. They are the ones to encourage; make them realize that they can get as good as the others if they manage not to take crits personally.
As far as the method goes, my landscape architecture classes in college were somewhat brutal: everyone pins their finished work on the front wall, sits down facing them, and rips them apart (figuratively). I'm not sure if that's the method you plan to use, but if you do, just preface it with all the things I've mentioned above.
Posted 18 January 2012 - 03:46 PM
This stimulation of lucidity works even if the audience does not actively critique. I have pretty thick skin, so I'm fine when they do, but I know a lot of people get their souls crushed by criticism. Perhaps people critiquing their own work to an audience who merely asks clarifying questions could be a useful technique. I do not think it would work for the sort of person who imagines "he" is always right (but neither would it hurt). Nor would it work for people who are too anxious to present (but they can simply opt out).
— daan Strebe
Posted 18 January 2012 - 04:03 PM
The vetting process for me in graduate school could be brutal at times. It was my professor's goal to get rid of 5 students after the first weekly vetting process. His theory was if they can't take negative criticism of their work then they don't need to be in cart. For me, the vetting taught me something valuable, and that was to know what I did, but more importantly, why I did it. For example, If someone said that green looks like puke, I would be able to answer that it is the PMS color of my client's company and I wanted my map to tie in with their mark.
If that helps,
Strabo 22AD
Posted 18 January 2012 - 04:05 PM
Dave Barnes
Map Geek
Posted 18 January 2012 - 04:08 PM
I don't understand that concept. It seems like a good professor would find ways to teach and bring the students "up to snuff" rather than intentionally trying to force some students out.It was my professor's goal to get rid of 5 students after the first weekly vetting process. His theory was if they can't take negative criticism of their work then they don't need to be in cart.
(sorry, minor rant)
Dave Barnes
Map Geek
Posted 18 January 2012 - 09:46 PM
I've been reflecting on the story of how Stephen Sondheim really learned how to write musicals. He was school friends with Oscar Hammerstein's son (or nephew or something) and took to hanging out at the great man's house. His senior year, he wrote a musical about life at his high school, and took it all proud and pleased and showed it to Mr Hammerstein. The elder stopped and said, essentially, "It's garbage. Do you want to know why it's garbage?" Sondheim swallowed his pride, said yes, and says he learned more about how to write a musical in that one afternoon than he learned in another 10 years of working in the trade.
That's my platonic ideal of a great critique, and it requires a few things:
- There has to be honest and heartfelt respect for the critiquer by the critiqued. You have to honestly believe the whole "I am the master, you are the student thing." The more cynical the critiqued is about the critiquer, the more the critiqued will be trying to construct arguments instead of really listening to what is said.
- The critique has to be about the work, not about the creator. That's the other direction: the critiquer has to be trying to get good work out of the critiqued, and not just but him/her in their place. And the critiqued needs to get into that mindframe too: looking at the work and its potential, not their poor bruised ego.
- There needs to be a common sense of cultural context: if Sondheim had been trying to write rock-and-roll hits, Hammerstein's critique would have been much less useful.
- The critique needs to go into technique: not just "this isn't working" but "there's a process that will make this work better." You need to give the critiqued reference to the right tools.
There's probably more, but that's kind of what I was getting at.
Nat Case
INCase, LLC
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Posted 19 January 2012 - 01:20 AM
I like the idea of everyone being able to listen in on critiques for the work of others, as long as students realize the value of observing; reminds me of a favorite saying: "Learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself." A group setting can also help people make their own conceptions of what's good form more malleable, simply by being exposed to the work and style of others and being asked to appraise it. Interesting, also, if people had a common assignment, and then saw and critiqued the varied responses to it.
One suggestion: a valuable part of the course could focus on how to give good critique. Good criticism comes from a desire to help the critiqued do better, to everyone's (i.e., cartography's) benefit. I think people can get petty when they don't have a big-picture purpose like that. Also, I think there are few good critics often because they point out faults (or even assert faults when in fact they're describing things that amount to only personal disagreement) without describing alternatives or paths to improvement.
Posted 19 January 2012 - 09:03 AM
I don't understand that concept. It seems like a good professor would find ways to teach and bring the students "up to snuff" rather than intentionally trying to force some students out.It was my professor's goal to get rid of 5 students after the first weekly vetting process. His theory was if they can't take negative criticism of their work then they don't need to be in cart.
(sorry, minor rant)
Sorry it was a curt response. We had a cart lab with 20 stations, and typical class would have about 30 students cause deans from other colleges would overwrite the 20 maximum for the class. He was typically trying to get rid of the students who tried to make their maps an hour before the deadline.
I guess his approach was quality vs quantity.
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Mumbai: Goldman Sachs expects the central bank to cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points at its policy review on Tuesday after last week's inflation data came well below expectations, and as economic growth remains sluggish. Latest News from Business News Desk
The investment bank expects another 25 basis point cut in the repo rate in January, according to an email sent to clients on Monday. Goldman had previously forecast the Reserve Bank of India would cut interest rates by 50 basis points in March.
"With both growth and inflation surprising on the downside relative to the RBI's forecast, there is a reason for the central bank to move earlier than its previous guidance," economist Tushar Poddar wrote in the note.
Data on Friday showed the wholesale price index rose 7.24 percent from a year earlier in November, below expectations for a rise of 7.6 percent. Core inflation was 4.5 percent. The country's economy grew 5.3 percent from a year earlier in the July-September period.
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Out of the strange intermingling of Alexander Hamilton's tumultuous military career and Ralph Ellison's controversial literary journey breathes Harlem's mini-district Hamilton Grange. Named for Hamilton's 19th-century estate, located in adjacent Hamilton Heights, the Grange is one of the few neighborhoods in New York that is at once chock full of historic sites, breathtaking green space, stark brownstones, and a swirl of cultures that spans the continents. The Grange can be considered the less-expensive, less-siddity, but just-as-magnetic area next to the monied Sugar Hill and Striver's Row. Indeed, many literary and jazz greats made their home in the affordable neighborhood (including Ellison, who penned Invisible Man here).
Neighborhood Boundaries: The lines blur, but most draw the bounds at 152nd Street to the north, Amsterdam Avenue to the east, 140th Street to the south, and Riverside Drive to the west. Crafty real estate brokers renamed the upper part of the area Heritage Heights Village, which could bring the Grange up to 160th Street, where George Washington did his strategizing during the battle of Harlem Heights. One resident jokes, "Since they started calling us Heritage Heights, the city has been cleaning around here a lot more."
Population: African American, West Indian, Latino, Eastern European, and African families have webbed a tight-knit community. Walk down Broadway in the 140s and lower 150s and it's hard not to be swept up by the dizzying mix of merengue, salsa, pachata, Jamaican dance hall, and hip-hop that bumps from open doors and passing vehicles.
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Transportation: Take the 1 train to 145th Street and Broadway or the A, B, C, or D train to 145th Street and walk east to Amsterdam and Broadway. The 5 bus offers a very green trip up Riverside Drive.
Average Price to Rent: Pre-war buildings boast house-sized apartments overlooking Riverside Park. One-bedroom, $1,000 to $1,500 ($1,200 to $1,500); two-bedroom, $1,300 to $1,400 ($1,500 to $1,700); three-bedroom, $1,500 and up ($1,800 to $2,200); four-bedroom, $1,800 and up ($2,200 to $2,900). Rent stabilization still exists in this neighborhood and can bring a one-bedroom down to the $900 range.
Average Price to Buy: Stunning brownstones line the streets between 145th and 150th; they range from $1.5 million to $1.8 million ($600,000 to $800,000, says long-time real estate man R. Kenyatta Punter. That's a deal, Punter points out, considering that just two blocks away in Hamilton Heights, brownstones go for between $1.5 million to $2 million ($850,000 and $1.6 million).
Green Space: Riverbank State Park, built in the '90s over a controversial sewer plant at 145th Street and Riverside Drive, contains amazingly clean indoor and outdoor pools, a skating rink, a gym, and a theater. "It's like a freakin' country club," says one area newcomer. Riverside Park runs all the way up Hamilton Grange, offering jungle gyms for children, picnic spaces, and makeshift jogging trails. The Trinity Cemetery and Mausoleum (770 Riverside Drive) is a mass of green surrounding delicate, century-old gravestones.
Cultural Institutions: There are at least two dozen historic churches, including the 1901-built Our Lady of Lourdes (463 West 142nd Street), a Roman Catholic, African American congregation. At the Hamilton Grange Branch of the New York Public Library, on the corner of 145th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, you can find a superior collection of books and research by people of color. Harlem School of the Arts (645 St. Nicholas Avenue) gives reasonably priced art lessons, while the world-renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem (466 West 152nd Street) offers dance classes and hosts a mean annual block party.
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I used to have an oval nice face that looked nice and tight all around. My cheekbones stood out beautifully due to this, but just recently my face changed dramatically. Now it looks square shaped, my cheeks look chubby when I smile, and my eyes are sort of droopy- no longer oval and pulled looking. Also, the skin underneath my cheekbones looks loose, making them so chubby looking near my jaw mostly. The skin on my forhead seems like it weighs down my eyes and I look tired all the time now.
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Boss Gt 8 Controlling A Spider Iv Head?
Posted 15 July 2013 - 05:05 AM
I am not sure it can control it.
I use my Digitech GNX4 with my HD150 Head.
No issue I just turn all the FX off, and put it on the head/Cab I want.
Also you can use the FX with the pedal I have done this many times with no issues.
Don't use the RJ45 that is for the shortboard
Posted 15 July 2013 - 04:16 PM
What I was thinking (and that may sound silly from a newbie in Midi like me) is to find a cable wit a Midi "pin" plug on 1 side/RJ45 on the other to connect the GT8 to the Spider head where the FBV goes and change programs on the Line 6 (FX, different preamp etc.) with the GT8 via MIDI.
I like the sound of the Line 6 but like the convenience of the GT8.
I used to play on a Marshall all tube JCM 2000 and was hooking up my GT5 on it with a 4 cable method using the FX loop on the Marshall. Best of both worlds, I had the all tube sound from the amp with the FX programed just how I want it on the GT5, and placed anywhere i wanted before or after the Marshall preamp thanks to the FX loop on the Marshall
Now I have a GT8, I live on the other side of the planet and had to sell my Marshal before coming here and I can't afford to buy another one...but i like the line 6 Spider IV, the only problem is I cant do what I used to since there is no FX loop, so I am trying to find a way around that...or at least being able to use the GT8 as a better foot controler for all the possibilities of the Spider IV without having to spend another $200 on a Shortboard...I have the FBV EXPRESS with it but that's nowhere near as convenient as the GT8 as far as programming it.
I did try to use the GT8 straight in the amp, dialing a neutral clean sound on the Line 6 and using the full preamp/FX etc from the GT8, not bad at all but i think i still like the Spider IV sound better...
Posted 17 July 2013 - 05:23 AM
Note that if you screw up the internals of your amp (or GT8) byy trying to control the amp through the CAT5 connector, you won't be covered by warranties. I would venture to say it won't work anyway. The GT8 is an effects processor, not sure what the MIDI output on it is, but I'm sure it is not switching, which is what the CAT5 is for the FBV/Spider connection. The FBVs are just switches, and the signal transmitted to the amp is just switching.


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Some of these flesh-hook devils, having refined manners, posed as gentlemen.
You have surely practised the flesh-hook a long time, friend, to have raised that goodly presence.
a many-pronged fork used in the sacrificial services (1 Sam. 2:13, 14; Ex. 27:3; 38:3) by the priest in drawing away the flesh. The fat of the sacrifice, together with the breast and shoulder (Lev. 7:29-34), were presented by the worshipper to the priest. The fat was burned on the alter (3:3-5), and the breast and shoulder became the portion of the priests. But Hophni and Phinehas, not content with this, sent a servant to seize with a flesh-hook a further portion.


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An unknown suspect stole a safe from an unlocked residence on Paradise Valley Road Wednesday.
The victim called police at about 1:30 p.m. after seeing a suspicious vehicle fleeing from the area of his residence and realizing it was burglarized, state police said. The burglar entered through an unlocked basement door, removed a closet door from its hinges and stole a white metal safe.
Inside the safe was about $1,390 in cash, various rolls of coins and vehicle titles. Contact the state police with any information at 570-839-7701.
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Even in a family sadly experienced in public mourning, the sight of Victoria Reggie Kennedy standing by her husband's casket at the John F. Kennedy Library, greeting a seemingly endless number of well wishers, or leading a group of prominent political figures in honoring Ted Kennedy's memory at a service Friday night, seemed to have special meaning. They were, in a sense, the public affirmation of the role the dark-haired Louisiana lawyer who became Kennedy's second wife had come to play in his life.
Friends of Kennedy say it was Vicki who rescued him from his famously self-destructive habits when they were married 17 years ago, becoming both confidante, protector and adviser. As Kennedy battled with the brain cancer that would ultimately kill him, she organized his treatment and managed his time, and after he died she planned how he would be remembered and who would be attending. "It was as if the good Lord had sent her," former Sen. John Warner, a close friend of Kennedy's, said in an interview with POLITICO.
Vicki Kennedy played a far more active part in her husband's career than the wives of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, whose grief over their slain husbands embedded them in the national consciousness. And as a widow she is likely to live a different kind of life — though how she will define it is not clear.
Her very public moments this week left some wondering whether Vicki Kennedy will remain on the national stage, pushing her husband's issues—including the one he never saw to fruition, health care reform. But it is at least as likely that she will revert back to the life she had before she met Kennedy, this time as a 55-year-old working mother with two grown children, Curran Raclin and Caroline Raclin, now in their twenties.
Kennedy has told friends she isn't interested in filling her late husband's Senate seat either temporarily—if state lawmakers revert back to an old system that would allow the governor to fill the vacancy—or in the long-term, by running in a special election. "All this stuff about her going to the Senate is completely wrong," Bob Shrum, the longtime Kennedy speechwriter and adviser, said in an interview.
But that hasn't stopped the pundits—and even some Kennedy aides— from chattering about the possibility. Appearing on ABC News on Thursday, Cokie Roberts called Kennedy a "political person" and said she wouldn't be surprised if she did in fact make a run for the Senate. "She knows politics. She knows substance. It's normal for someone who's been that involved to want to stay involved," Roberts said.
A former longtime Kennedy aide agrees: "She's the logical choice to keep the seat. She's a very sharp lawyer, she knows the issues well, and she could carry the torch for Teddy on the health care issue. She would complete his mission."
But friends say they take Vicki Kennedy at her word. "I believe her when she says she has no interest in public office," said Pam Covington, a friend of Kennedy's for close to two decades. "I've never heard her even hint at that.
"I don't know what's in her heart of hearts that she's not talking about," Covington added. "But my guess is that she is happy to carry on Teddy's legacy in other ways."
Rep. Ed Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat and a longtime Kennedy friend, said he can see Vicki continuing to be an advocate for the passage of health care reform. "It's something that is central to his legacy and I think that she will work to see that legacy completed," Markey said.
As many have noted in recent days that legacy was sometimes challenged by issues in Ted Kennedy's personal life. He divorced his first wife in 1982 and his name quickly became shorthand for comedians' jokes about politicians behaving badly. In the months leading up to his testimony at the rape trial of his nephew William Kennedy Smith, the senator began dating Vicki after she invited him to party celebrating her parents' 40th wedding anniversary. (The two families had been longtime friends: Vicki's father Edmund, a judge, supported John F. Kennedy for Vice President in 1956 and Vicki's mother Doris was the only delegate from Louisiana to vote for Ted Kennedy for president in 1980.)
They married in 1992 and Kennedy aides quickly noticed a difference in him. "She brought sunshine to his life," one longtime aide recalls. "It's like she opened the shades and lifted his spirits. He suddenly looked healthy."
During Friday night's ceremony, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said Vicki has "been a tremendously wonderful wife to my friend Ted."
"Their marriage in many respects saved Teddy," Hatch continued, adding that their union made him "a better man and a better senator."
Markey and others credit Vicki for helping to win Kennedy's hard-fought Senate race against Republican Mitt Romney in 1994.
"He obviously loved having her at his side at every event and he turned to her constantly for advice," Markey said. "She was constantly providing encouragement and advice to him and they became inseparable both personally and professionally."
While the spotlight was on her husband, Vicki Kennedy took on her own causes, becoming an advocate of children's safety issues and president and co-founder of "Common Sense about Kids and Guns," an organization committed to reducing gun violence involving children.
While she's likely to maintain those interests, it's unclear whether she intends to resume her legal career. After marrying Kennedy, she left the law firm Keck Mahin & Cate, where she was a partner specializing in banking and restructuring, to focus on her kids—she served on the board at the Maret School, where they were students -- and her husband's career.
But friends think Vicki Kennedy will return to Washington and resume life in a home she and the senator purchased in the Kalorama neighborhood, far from the Kennedy family's Massachusetts base, but also outside of the Washington limelight.
"She was not a socialite by any means and they were never part of the Washington social scene," says Sally Quinn, the Washington hostess and social observer. "He was good at being a pol but not crazy about going to seated dinners. He would often do a 'fly by.'"
"Vicki is very quiet but I don't see her becoming the grande dame of Washington," Quinn added. "She was very content being Teddy's wife and being a mother."
"I would expect her to be very active in his causes," she said. "I still don't think she'll be a major figure in the Washington social scene. She'll remain much more a quiet figure in Washington."
Still, she added, "She'll always be effective at what she does."
That Vicki Kennedy possesses an inner toughness was clear to anyone who came in contact with her during her husband's illness. News reports have documented one particular squabble between Vicki and Joseph Kennedy II, Kennedy's nephew, over her husband's medical treatment.
"It was obvious that there were many demands flying around," said one longtime family friend. "She became Teddy's guardian of the gate and that created some tension. To this day, there's a lot of ice there and some difficulty."
The friend added that many members of the Kennedy clan including, Caroline Kennedy, were "solidly in Vicki's corner."
Even though Ted Kennedy was the "lion" and family patriarch, everyone knew that in the end it was Vicki who would call the shots. "A great reason why he did have as great a year as he did was because of Vicki," added Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) one of Kennedy's closest friends, said in an interview. "She gave him a remarkable year."
She spent her time talking to doctors across the country about the best medical options for her husband, while juggling the cooking, prodding him to finish his memoirs and deciding when the senator was well enough to venture out on his 50 foot-sailboat "Mya" and when he would have to stay in.
Even Dodd, one of his closest confidants, admits, "I never went up to see him without talking to her and I never called him without talking to her."
And in May when Dodd was coping with his own sister's battle with cancer, it was Vicki, he says, who called him within hours to say she had scheduled an appointment for her to see Ted Kennedy's doctor.
While the last year provided challenges for Vicki Kennedy, friends say, it also provided her with clarity.
"As tough as it was, I know the last year provided her with some of the happiest moments of their life together," Covington said. "Her faith and great optimism not only bolstered him, but it bolstered them."


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When Creative Director Rachel Been and MakeMeSustainable founder Ben Brown saw this apartment in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, they instantly fell head over heels for the loft's exposed pipes, brick walls and 14′ high ceilings — they even loved the huge industrial-sized heater. The couple's design choices were intended to mimic that unfinished aesthetic. They built cage lights, used black pipes to create a coat rack and shoe shelves and brought in gray industrial metal bookshelves and lockers for storage. They set off these industrial elements by combining mid-century colors and pieces (the Arco Castiglioni lamp, the pop orange pillows and school chairs) with a rustic farm aesthetic (the dried plants, green mounted windows from a dairy farm and the wooden table). The result is an open, expansive space that still feels homey. Thanks, Rachel & Ben! — Amy Azzarito
Image above: We bought the combo of orange and green pillows from CB2 a few years ago to spice up our neutral couch. Last year, we purchased the "Atmosphere" poster from Brainstorm printshop based out of Philadelphia. We loved the typography, colors and concept of the entire triptych and bought the full set; since our previous pillows matched so perfectly with the "Earth" print, we decided to finish the scheme with the blue pillows. The table is a hand-me-down from Ben's mother who is an architect and an incredible collector of beautiful furniture. It is entirely made of wood. I have an obsession with photographic coffee-table books and have a rotation going in those three spots with various books from our collection. At the time the image was taken, Platon's Power, Tim Hetherington's Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, and Elliot Erwitt's Snaps were on the table.
Image above: This is our color-coordinated cabinet of curiosities adjacent to our desk. The green trunk, art deco lamp and vintage camera/bridges lithographs are from the Brooklyn Flea. We ordered the illuminated globe and the small hanging scale from eBay (which has an incredible mercantile, trades & factories section for buying vintage scales). The Rolleiflex camera sitting on the invisible bookshelf to the right was the camera my grandfather used as a crime-scene photographer in Las Vegas in the '50s and my father used at Berkeley in the '60s, while the one hanging on the wall is a felt replica from Etsy that my sister-in-law bought us for Christmas.
The rest of Rachel and Ben's home tour continues after the jump!
Image above: Our space is about 1200 sq. ft. with 14 ft. ceilings, exposed brick, pipes and a very large skylight. We have a small patio in the back, but apart from the skylight and patio door, there are, surprisingly, no windows. When we first moved in, there was no built-in storage or closets in the apartment. Ben constructed a massive unit next to our bed, and we bought lockers and built a pipe rack for coats. We talked a lot about creating a division between our bedroom/study and the main living area, but decided to leave it open to make the apartment feel more expansive and have a better flow of light. We are currently attempting to build our hanging plants collection, but the water is proving to be quite a challenge since they are so high up.
Image above: The beautiful welding and wood table was given to us by Ben's mother, who used this as a conference table at her architecture firm. The chairs were part of a school set from the Brooklyn Flea. We originally found these green windows on eBay from a vintage housewares shop in Scranton, PA. The individuals were so kind that they personally delivered the windows and a vintage door to us. The windows were sourced from an old dairy barn; we mounted them using pipes and placed the decal birds from BLIK to illustrate dimension, since we don't actually have windows in the space. We built the hanging cage lights ourselves and mimicked the BLIK decals near the skylight.
Image above: Neither one of us likes fresh flowers, and our table decoration reflects that; we rotate dried flowers, branches and lavender in various mason jars and glass vases. We found the lantern from a small French antique shop in Brooklyn. The cheese box was a happy surprise we discovered inside of a crate we purchased as a plant holder. I letterpressed the coasters inside for a cheese-pairing party this April that we converted into an engagement party; I like to keep the reminders of that wonderful event. The massive hook we originally picked up from an antique shop with the thought of hanging plants from it, but people seem to love playing with it on the table.
Image above: Our bed is propped up on cinder blocks (great shoe storage). We wanted to keep the brick completely unadorned. There are a few mystery pieces of wood (the one embedded in the brick and the one on the right in the ceiling), and we sometimes postulate what they could have been used for. The apartment is above a paper factory, and we know that these apartments were once factories themselves, but we don't have much additional information.
Image above: I shot the photograph of the artichoke for my previous job, and it was framed for a model apartment that Ben's mother designed. The photograph was a housewarming gift shot by my dear friend, Carmen Winant.
Image above: Ben built the coat rack using black piping and placed a plank of wood above the pipe for shelving. We thought the vertical division of the bikes separated the main area from the entranceway.
Image above: I love colorful blazers and keep my collection close to the door. The hook is for my purses, including my mother's briefcase from the 1970s. We are currently collecting blue typewriters for our wedding to use as centerpieces; we now have about six of them peppering the house. The image above the coats was shot in Iceland at the swimming pools by Carmen Winant and given to us as a gift.
Image above: We always wanted an Arco Castiglioni lamp but never lived in a space suitable for such a large piece. It serves as the main source of light in our entrance. The mat is a faux barn board — we originally had it under our coffee table, but felt that with it placed there, too many wood varieties were combined. We now use it as a space division. We wanted the TV mounted on the wall to blend in with our art, so we built a salon tableaux around it. The mirror is anchored in place by very heavy photography books.
Beautiful! I actually met Rachel a few times when I first moved to NYC, so it was fun to be reminded of someone I had kind of forgotten about and see what they were up to!! Gorgeous space and wonderful photographer:)
I want to live here! Seriously this is one of those moments when I want to climb into my computer screen and live in the pictures! I love the 'windows' in the dining area, such a clever idea!x
Totally charming! I'm sold ;)
Looks fantastic!
beautiful couple and home! industrial, but still homey and unique.
What a great space full of spirit. Love the eclectic spontaneity. Original and as fun as the couple
your dining room is perfect. great place!
I live in lowell, ma and it deff reminds me of the renovated mills here..especially the exposed bricks! love love love!
I went to high school with Rachel – it feels so funny to peek into her {fabulous} life now! (Hi Rachel! – Your place looks great!) ♥
And you have to love the Typestache print by Old Tom Foolery!
Do you sell prints of that artichoke? I love it!!!!!
I absolutely love the bikes on the wall creating a separation between rooms. It's unique and creative would love to try something like that in an office! The concrete blocks under the bed would also be an awesome way to build a desk, albeit an extremely heavy one.
OMG! I have fond memories of this apartment – dog-sitting the previous tenants' cute dog before they moved. Glad to see another creative couple took it over!
So lovely, simple, calm, and happy – the place and couple both. Inspiring
What an utterly fanstastic space, industrial yet homely… one of my favourite sneak peeks!
where did you get the brooklyn typography poster???
beautiful apartment – love all your art clusters.
I love the reference to Lowell. I've been and found the sewing factories (and living quarters) to be fascinating. Lovely space!
Hi Rayray,
Love your style and the first shot on your page. I though that was Eve for a moment.
Keep creating!
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What a beautiful home… I also live in an industrial building with various hooks and mystery fixtures which remain embedded in the fabric of the architecture long after there being any practical use for them and I often wonder what they were for. The mystery piece of wood I suspect is a lintel which means there must have been an opening in your bedroom wall that has now been bricked over!
Barry, the Brooklyn poster is done by Ork Posters (orkposters.com). They have a bunch of neighborhoods to choose from. The Typestache poster next to it was done by Old Tom Foolery (oldtomfoolery.com). They do a lot of great greeting cards, but also have a line of posters. You should check them out, too. Enjoy.
Oh, my God! It's beautiful, it's so me! I woul move there tomorrow!
Oh! SO beautiful. What camera do you use?
Bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn !!!!! so happy abt your life…can't wait to come to your wedding!!!!
big hugs!!!
Simple perfect!
Hugs from Brazil!
Where did you find the file cabinets to make the desk? Love them.


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Packers tight end Jermichael Finley was removed from the field on a stretcher after a helmet-to-helmet collision in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game against Cleveland.
According to Kevin Harlan of CBS Finley has "feeling in all of his extremities." Finley did appear to be moving his arms as he left the field.
Finley's head collided with Browns safety Tashaun Gipson's head as the defensive back tackled Finley. Gipson was penalized on the play.
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Formed in the summer of 2013, The Guessing Game features Jeff Rouse from Duff Mckagan's LOADED, long time Seattle rock luminaries Kathy Moore (Brad, Satchel) Gary Westlake (Kristen Ward, Flight To Mars) Keith Ash (Star Anna) and Shawn Zellar(Redneck Girlfriend). Holy Crow drips of heartache, regret and finally redemption. Like that first drink Friday evening to that last sermon Sunday morning.
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Gerard Klauer Upgrades Tenet to 'Neutral'
Gerard Klauer upgraded Tenet Healthcare (THC ) to neutral from sell.
Analyst Andreas Dirnagl says he is appeased by Tenet's stock buyback expansion program. The hospital operator says it will buy back an additional 16.3 million shares. Dirnagl says on a conference call last week, Tenet provided some parameters around its future financial performance, and he says he thinks this share repurchase should provide some support to the stock.
However, the risk to Tenet's story remains, including a transition to a new pricing strategy, a potential backlash by payers and patients, and an audit by the Department of Health and Human Services. The company is the subject of an investigation into allegations of medical and billing fraud Tenet also said its 2003 and 2004 profits would fall short of expectations.
Dirnagl thinks a resolution to these matters lies months away. He doesn't argue that shares are cheap, but even with a new buyback program putting a floor on stock, he sees limited upside and thinks this warrants his neutral rating.


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if only one was a hitman who could tie a "loose end" for us.
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Rainey is a star.
Sorry to just join in....had a few things to do. This is all just a crock of **** folks. Is it any coincidence that Gooddell is there? Unfortunately we liive in a "New York" centered universe. The pity factor plus the flag football rules of Gooddell makes this all doubly painful. Enjoy football while you can.....its this kind of **** that makes me what to pick up the remote....
JD from Utah
Hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I think we just got screwed as bad as I recall in a long time. Hopefully it motivates the players to have a ood second half.
my best friend is a giants fan, he watches the games at my house every week...he thinks the refs made all the right calls...****ing douchebag
Redman is gonna have 100 yds on this series
can we stop with the bubble screens?!
Wallace is terrible
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Wallace should have cut that back inside!
Yeah, Chris Rainey!


text: A Gaming Mural With HeartBrian Crecente7/22/10 11:00amFiled to: screengrabmuralCharitygood deeds20EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink This isn't just a great gaming mural, it's a gaming mural with heart. Advertisement Reader Jay Moncada, 24, painted this wall mural at a local Children's Home where he volunteers. He and his friend Emily spent three months on the painting.Check out more shots over on Flickr.Reply20 repliesLeave a reply


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My '08 Journal: A Day in the Life of FjordLove '08 finally came! I was working on one of my poems at midnight, I didn't even notice the New Year. I know that it is late, but WHOOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy [late] New Year. So far, '08 has been a good year. Nothing that awesome but nothing terrible which is good. I am going to turn 16 on February 18!!!!! YIPPEE!!!!!! Can't wait! So nervous for my drivers test in March. I just hope I won't crash like in those movies. Not that it's funny, but I just hope I don't. I got a new violin today. I have a recital on the 17th... nervous for that as well. I usually don't mess up, but with a new instrument to get used to, who knows what will happen! It comes out of tune really easily, so I am going to need to "break it in" like a pair of boots. A couple of days ago, I went over to my friend Sonja's house (she is the owner of a Percheron and a Thoroughbred *heart, heart* ). I practiced jumping on Apollo, the Thoroughbred. He is a chestnut and he is a perfect jumper! He just soars over the jumps! He is a 16hh stallion and i am in love with him!!!! His trot is very smooth and he is mellow, but he spooks at thunder. Sometimes, I also ride Sonja's Percheron, Berry. He is a gentle giant, standing at 17hh. Sonja and I usually sit two to a bareback and it is awesome to ride through trails, while hikers stare at two 15 year old girls sitting on a Percheron. Well, that is pretty much it so far. I will check in every time something exciting or something that I want to share happens. Thanks for reading my "Journal" and commenting (if you did). ~FjordLove |
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In honor of Valentines, I thought I would post a little pink love. I'm actually really liking pink, even when it's not Valentines. It's easy to incorporate through pillows, art, rugs and other small accessories. You will also see a few pink options, including pale pink and hot pink.
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Red Bull Designs Olympian-Powered Rube Goldberg Machine
The world's best athletes lend their skills to Red Bull's 'Kluge,' an extreme contraption that took 100 builders 17 days to construct.
Beverage brand, Red Bull debuts its latest endeavor in extreme sports – an obstacle-filled Rube Goldberg contraption that features twelve of the world's greatest athletes. Athletes such as Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones, skater Ryan Sheckler and Scottish trials cyclist Danny MacAskill participated in this 17-day stunt. The entire structure, dubbed the Kluge, is "a witty, yet inelegant solution that succeeds in performing a particular task."
The grand device was constructed by over 100 builders with 250 tons of materials. The 5-minute run on the machine features a variety of sports, from skateboarding to golfing to even skydiving. On Red Bull's website, visitors can watch behind-the-scenes footage of the building process and test runs by the famous athletes. Watch the Kluge in action below.
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text: Kinect Will Read Sign Language, Paving Way For New Input MethodsKat Hannaford8/06/10 11:20amFiled to: KinectMicrosoft kinect sign languageSign LanguageAmerican Sign LanguageASLMicrosoftGamingMicrosoft KinectVideo GamesGames147EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkIt's not just your clumsy leg-kicks that Kinect will understand, with a newly-discovered patent showing that it's actually capable of understanding American Sign Language, or ASL. Is this another way to input text to the game? UPDATED.It could be, if you actually know ASL—it's estimated that anywhere up to 2 million people in the US know sign language. At the very least, leaning how to sign could help save you from forking out for a keyboard peripheral. Update: Microsoft has confirmed that the version of Kinect going on sale in November will NOT have the ability to read sign language due to a downgrade in camera hardware. [GoRumors via SlashGear]


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Sprint Offers Samsung Moment Users an Eclair
May 14, 2010, 10:36 AM by Philip Berne
Sprint is now offering a software update for Samsung Moment users, and the key feature is an upgrade to Google Android 2.1 (Eclair). Besides the Android 2.1 features, like ubiquitous speech-to-text and live wallpapers, the software update goes further to improve upon Samsung's QWERTY slider. The software update, available as a download directly from Sprint, offers a number of Bluetooth improvements and even improves the Samsung Moment camera. Sprint also says users should see a speed and performance increase. Sprint Hero by HTC users have not been forgotten, and Sprint's official Twitter feed notes that Hero users are next in line for an update.
Anyone else notice??


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Trust superstar Mohanlal to try out different roles for his movies. Having acted as a classical singer and a dancer in his earlier films, the actor has now turned his attention on a form of music from up north
Known to be enthusiastic about singing, Mohanlal will soon make a special appearance as a ghazal singer in debutant director Jayachandran Ayilara's Sneham Plus Ishtam Equals Amma. The actor has reportedly agreed to do a lengthy cameo for the film. This was confirmed after Mohanlal took part in a photoshoot for the film, which is being produced by Bharath Samuel under the banner of Bharath Creations.
Revathy is making a return to Malayalam cinema with this film while debutant Shaheen would play her son. Oscar winner Resul Pookutty also makes his acting debut in the film, which has two heroines, Vandana and Namitha.


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The green birds below are my favorite, so beautiful!
I am thinking I may need some new pillow shams for my bedroom out of my new fav fabric.
These fabrics would also look so pretty in a boy's room (oxy moron) or a lake house or my breezeway if it had furniture.
Cicada No 2
I'm not really a bug person but the details and colors in her art are so pretty they make any bug look good enough to hang on the wall!


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NHL.com: Russians, Czechs renew rivalry in Group D
by Staff Writer / Nashville PredatorsDue to the Capitals being eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Hart Trophy finalist Alexander Ovechkin will be available to play for Team Russia.
The Soviet/Russian teams have combined for 38 medals in World Championship play, while the Czechoslovak/Czech entries have racked up 43. The Russians hold the all-time edge in gold medals, 23 to 11.
Russia, however, has been mired in a gold-medal drought that goes back to 1993 (its only post-Communist era gold). A year ago, with the tournament played in Moscow, a stacked Russian team was the favorite to win gold. Instead, the hosts fell to a scrappy Finnish team in the semifinals and had to settle for a bronze medal.
This year, Russia is once again considered a strong contender for gold. There's nothing the Russians would like more than to return the favor to defending gold medalist Canada by taking gold on Canadian ice.
The Czechs, meanwhile, have won gold in four of the last nine tournaments, including three in a row at one point (1999-2001) and most recently in 2003. After a silver medal at the 2006 tourney in Riga, Latvia, the Czechs finished a disappointing seventh last year.
The other two teams in Group D are Denmark and Italy. The Danish program has made remarkable progress during the last few years, and the team has been successful in holding its spot in the elite tourney at the senior level. This year, the Danes are hoping to finish in the top 10.
Italy, which placed 12th last year and survived the relegation round in 2006, has been able to stay in the top tourney for most of the last 16 years -- with the exception of a three-year demotion that lasted from 2003-05. But the national team, coached by former NHL star Michel Goulet, is in a transitional phase.
After round-robin play, the top three teams in Group D will move on to play the top three teams of Group A (Sweden, Switzerland, Belarus and France) in the medal-round qualification phase of the tournament. The fourth-place teams – likely to be France and the loser of the Italy-Denmark game – will head to the relegation round.
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While Fedorov is no longer a prolific point producer, he's revered by fellow Russian players and is still valuable defensively and is a top faceoff man. The tournament also affords him the opportunity to play on the national team with his brother, Fedor Fedorov (now with Dynamo Moscow).
If the Capitals three weren't dangerous enough, Russia will feature top Atlanta Thrashers sniper Ilya Kovalchuk, fast-rising Nashville Predators talent Alexander Radulov and highly regarded Toronto Maple Leafs prospect Nikolai Kulemin.
Ever since he returned home to play in the Russian Super League, former Pittsburgh Penguins right wing Alexei Morozov has been the top offensive talent in Europe. Morozov will be joined on Team Russia by his Ak Bars Kazan linemates Danis Zaripov and Sergei Zinoviev. The league's leading scorer this season, Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant Mytishi), is also on board for the Worlds.
Russia's defense and goaltending are not quite up to the same standards as its forwards. With defensemen such as Sergei Zubov and Sergei Gonchar still playing in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Russia will look to Buffalo Sabres defenseman Dmitri Kalinin, Denis Grebeshkov (Edmonton Oilers), former NHLer Danny Markov (Dynamo Moscow) and several RSL defensemen.
In goal, Alexander Eremenko of RSL champion Salavat Yulaev Ufa is likely to get the starting nod. He will be backed up by Mikhail Biryukov (MVD Balashikha) and Washington Capitals prospect Semen Varlamov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl).
Czechs look to regain form
The New Jersey Devils' Patrik Elias will headline the Czech Republic roster at the 2008 World Championships. |
Up front, the Czechs' most-decorated player is New Jersey Devils star Patrik Elias. He'll be joined by the likes of Radim Vrbata and Ales Kotalik, who will be expected to provide scoring punch. The lineup will also feature the likes of Tomas Fleischmann, Martin Hanzal, Boston Bruins youngster David Krejci (fresh off a productive Stanley Cup Playoff series against Montreal) and several players currently plying their trade in the Czech Extraliga, or elsewhere in Europe.
The Czech defense will be anchored by Toronto Maple Leafs blueliner Tomas Kaberle. Heavy minutes will also go to NHL veterans Filip Kuba and Karel Rachunek. The unit is rounded out by Ladislav Smid, Zbynek Michalek, defensive-minded Vladimir Sicak (HC Mountfield Ceske Budejovice) and Petr Caslava (RSL team Severstal Cherepovets).
Former NHL goaltender Milan Hnilicka (Liberec White Tigers) is the likely starting goaltender. He'll be backed up by Adam Svoboda of Czech Extraliga champs Slavia Prague.
Denmark eyes Italy game
Team Denmark has little chance of betting either Russia or the Czech Republic in the round robin. But as long as the Danes beat Italy, they're safe from the relegation round.
Coached by former University of Manitoba coach Mike Sirant, the Danes will need to adapt their style to the smaller North American ice that will be used in this tourney. Typically, the Danes play a technical, puck-possession perimeter game.
The Manitoba Moose of the AHL were eliminated from the Calder Cup playoffs and as a result Jannik Hansen will be available to play for Team Denmark. |
The Danes' real progress has been in developing young prospects, and highly regarded St. Louis Blues 2007 first-round pick Lars Eller will be in the lineup. Likewise, Minnesota Wild farmhand Morten Madsen, Peter Regin of Swedish club Timrå IK and Nichlas Hardt all made the roster. The tournament availability of likely 2008 first-round draft pick Mikkel Boedker depends on how his Kitchener Rangers fare in the Ontario Hockey League finals.
Veteran defenseman Jesper Damgaard (Rodovre Mighty Bulls) typically captains the Danish team and plays heavy minutes in all game situations. Swedish league blueliners Mads Bodker (Rögle) and Daniel Nielsen (Leksand) will also see significant time.
In goal, former Swedish-league player Peter Hirsch (now with Aalborg IK in Denmark) will retain the starting job almost by default. He has not played well in recent tournaments. His primary backup is 22-year-old Patrick Galbraith (Soenderjyske Vojens).
Italy faces new challenges
In recent years, Team Italy has been able to rely on veteran passport players, such as former NHL goaltender Jason Muzzatti, center Tony Tuzzolino, former Philadelphia Flyers draft pick John Parco and longtime European league player Joe Busillo to plug key holes on the national team. All of those players except Parco are gone.
In their place, coach Michel Goulet will rely on former Winnipeg Jets and longtime minor league center Jason Cirone, former Michigan Tech center Jon Pittis, one-time AHL defenseman Steve Gallace and a core of Italian-born and -trained players.
Up front, Goulet has slim pickings from which to choose. He will need Mario Chitarroni, who averaged better than a point-per-game this season, or Luca Ansoldi (the second-leading scorer on HC Bolzano) to supplement the offense.
On defense, Erste Bank Liga defenseman Armin Helfer (HC Innsbruck) should see both power-play and penalty-killing time, as will Canadian-born former AHLer Andre Signoretti. Veteran defenseman Carlo Lorenzi (Alleghe) is a Team Italy mainstay, as is Michele Strazzabosco (Milan).
Italy named four goaltenders to its preliminary roster. Unfortunately, Goulet will have to hold his breath no matter which one he chooses. Alleghe goaltender Gunther Hell (there's a name you won't soon forget) made the Italian squad at last year's tournament and backed up Muzzatti at the 2006 Olympics in Turin. So he may get the nod at the beginning.
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For tonight, at least, the records really don't matter. I know, that's cliché, but look at last year. MSU, which finished last in the SEC, and Ole Miss, which hosted a Super Regional, split four games, with the Bulldogs taking two of three in Oxford.
Tonight, they meet again at Trustmark Park in Pearl in the fourth annual Governor's Cup (né Mayor's Trophy). John Cohen, MSU's second-year coach, has had particular success against Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco, holding a 17-11 record over their careers.
"When you play each other one time in the middle of the week, I don't think that's ever an indication of where your clubs are," Cohen said. "But I've been very fortunate, I personally have had great success against Ole Miss, and they're always good. Mike's done a really solid job there, and again, they've had a good recruiting plan for a while now to have that good balance. That's where we've got to get to."
That's right, Cohen also used the name "Ole Miss," not "The School Up North." When I told him Dan Mullen would be disappointed, he just laughed. But Cohen did point to Bianco's program as a model one.
"They defend well, and they pitch well," Cohen said. "Their offensive numbers are OK. They're a good club. They have that nice mixture that we're trying to get here at Mississippi State. They have that nice mixture of old guys to help you with the young guys."
First pitch is 6:30 p.m. Freshman left-hander C.C. Watson will start on the mound for MSU, while Ole Miss will counter with sophomore righty David Goforth.
A couple of other notes:
• Cohen said there's nothing new on injured sophomore LHP Nick Routt (arm). "We'll just see where he is in a couple of weeks, and hopefully he'll be ready to go."
• Freshman 2B Sam Frost banged up his knee on Sunday, but Cohen said there's a "good chance" he'll play tonight.


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sql_variant (Transact-SQL)
A data type that stores values of various SQL Server-supported data types.
sql_variant can be used in columns, parameters, variables, and the return values of user-defined functions. sql_variant enables these database objects to support values of other data types.
A column of type sql_variant may contain rows of different data types. For example, a column defined as sql_variant can store int, binary, and char values. The following table lists the types of values that cannot be stored by using sql_variant:
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sql_variant can have a maximum length of 8016 bytes. This includes both the base type information and the base type value. The maximum length of the actual base type value is 8,000 bytes.
A sql_variant data type must first be cast to its base data type value before participating in operations such as addition and subtraction.
sql_variant can be assigned a default value. This data type can also have NULL as its underlying value, but the NULL values will not have an associated base type. Also, sql_variant cannot have another sql_variant as its base type.
A unique, primary, or foreign key may include columns of type sql_variant, but the total length of the data values that make up the key of a specific row should not be more than the maximum length of an index. This is 900 bytes.
A table can have any number of sql_variant columns.
sql_variant cannot be used in CONTAINSTABLE and FREETEXTTABLE.
ODBC does not fully support sql_variant. Therefore, queries of sql_variant columns are returned as binary data when you use Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC (MSDASQL). For example, a sql_variant column that contains the character string data 'PS2091' is returned as 0x505332303931.
The sql_variant data type belongs to the top of the data type hierarchy list for conversion. For sql_variant comparisons, the SQL Server data type hierarchy order is grouped into data type families.
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datetime2 | Date and time |
datetimeoffset | Date and time |
datetime | Date and time |
smalldatetime | Date and time |
date | Date and time |
time | Date and time |
float | Approximate numeric |
real | Approximate numeric |
decimal | Exact numeric |
money | Exact numeric |
smallmoney | Exact numeric |
bigint | Exact numeric |
int | Exact numeric |
smallint | Exact numeric |
tinyint | Exact numeric |
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The following rules apply to sql_variant comparisons:
When sql_variant values of different base data types are compared and the base data types are in different data type families, the value whose data type family is higher in the hierarchy chart is considered the greater of the two values.
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When sql_variant values of the char, varchar, nchar, or nvarchar data types are compared, their collations are first compared based on the following criteria: LCID, LCID version, comparison flags, and sort ID. Each of these criteria are compared as integer values, and in the order listed. If all of these criteria are equal, then the actual string values are compared according to the collation.


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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Health officials in Oklahoma say they're keeping a close eye on a measles outbreak in Texas.
There have been no reported cases of measles in Oklahoma. But state Department of Health Immunization Service Director Lori Linstead says there is concern because measles is very contagious and "spreads like wildfire."
Symptoms include a high fever and red blotchy rash starting on the phase and spreading to the body. Health officials are advising health care providers to consider measles when diagnosing patients with those symptoms.
Anyone not vaccinated is at risk of getting the disease.
The last reported case of measles in Oklahoma was in 1997.


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NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS Subject Reference Daily Worker, 12.3.37 Sheet No. Folder No. BEVIN BLOCKS AID FOR SPAIN DELEGATES SHOCKED AT "BRUTAL" DECLARATION Spaniards Repudiate Shameful Betrayal SHARP DIVISIONS REVEALED AT WORLD CONFERENCE (From a Special Correspondent) WESTMINSTER, Thursday. ERNEST BEVIN declared himself to be speaking in the name of the whole British Labour movement when he flatly told the Spanish delegation and their mass of international supporters in the International Conference today that the British Labour movement absolutely refused to accede to their most urgent demands for international action to save Spain's democracy and the peace of the world. His speech was described by Vandervelde, Belgium's Socialist leader, as " brutal " and as a " cold douche " thrown on the hopes of effective action for Spain. THE CHARACTER OF BEVIN'S SPEECH MAY BE JUDGED FROM THE FACT THAT THE SPANISH DELEGATION, WHO, UP TO THE LAST MOMENT, HAD BEEN HOPING THAT HIS SPEECH WOULD INDICATE THAT THE LEADERS OF THE BRITISH LABOUR MOVEMENT WERE NOT AFTER ALL GOING UTTERLY TO DESERT THE CAUSE OF DEMOCRACY, DECIDED IMMEDIATELY THE SPEECH WAS OVER TO REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONFERENCE COMMISSION ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY COULD NOT ASSOCIATE THEMSELVES WITH A BODY WHOSE POLICY SEEMED LIKELY TO BE DOMINATED BY THE DESTRUCTIVE AND DISRUPTIVE DEMANDS OF THE BRITISH DELEGATION. Instead, they presented to the Commission a statement, embodying once again their own clear-cut demands for action. No wonder that following Bevin's speech, Vandervelde revealed that while the Spaniards had told him in conversation they were sure of the ultimate loyalty of the Belgians, Dutch and Scandinavians, it was the British Labour Party and the British trade union leadership they had feared all along would desert them. Vandervelde repeated openly yesterday afternoon a statement I already heard whispered in the corridors of the Congress. "This," he said, " is the turning point in the history of the Second International. From this Conference will result either dissolution of the Second International, or a new departure for a more glorious future." He made no secret of his belief now already expressed on the previous evening by Pietro Nenni in the name of the Italian delegation - that if Bevin's policy in fact prevails, this is the death rattle of the Second International. One-third of Bevin's speech was devoted to an attack on the Communists, and on the idea of national and international unity. He declared, among other things, that the L.C.C. elections had been won in spite of the Communists. He said that the fact of the war in Spain must not be allowed at any cost to influence the decisions and the policy of the British Labour leaders in this country. He boasted at intervals of the great things done for Spain by British Labour, but when he came to facts was only able to speak of "diplomatic pressure" behind the scenes and Parliamentary resolutions. He actually defended the National Government on the grounds that we had Eden's word for it that no pressure had been brought by the Conservative British Government on the Blum Government last August in order to pursuade the French Government to refuse arms to the legal Government of Spain. DELEGATE'S VIEW A delegate who listened to the whole of Bevin's speech told me he doubted whether Transport House would ever dare to make it public. The only point at which Bevin approached the essential demand at all was on the question of foreign troops and volunteers fighting in Spain. He stated that the British public would, he thought, be in favour of the withdrawal of these forces, provided that the anti-fascist volunteers fighting in the International Brigades were treated on the same footing as the German and Italian troops, the Portuguese and the Moors. He refrained, however, from suggesting any practical pressure by which this could be applied, and particularly avoided the proposal of strike action to enforce this demand, which was not only made by the Spanish delegation but had a few minutes before received the full support of Leon Jouhaux, leader of the French T.U.C. Bevin was far from recognising the monstrous character of the proposed naval control with which, in the words of Vandervelde, the aggressors are put in control of the very country they are attacking, confining himself to stating that the control would not be efficacious unless some form of supervision was set up by the International, and sought to comfort the Spaniards that if the control was proved ineffective the British Labour Party would " bombard the Government with protests." FRENCH DECLARATION The chill and the utter disappointment which followed Bevin's speech hung over the Conference for the rest of the day. Zyromski, speaking in the name of the French Socialist Party, declared in the name of the whole Party its readiness to throw its whole weight behind action to get the foreign troops out of Spain, and to secure the possibility for the Spanish Government to exercise its international legal right to buy arms and other supplies it needed. The Spanish demands have been formulated in thé following points and presented to the Commission:- (1) Immediate publication of the document, explaining the character and significance of the Spanish war, publication of which was decided upon at the November meeting of the Internationals in Paris. (2) Recognition of the complete failure and breakdown of the Non-Intervention Committee. (3) Immediate resumption of the rights of the Spanish Government to buy arms and to import them and other needed products unhindered by the piracy at present being practised on the seas. (4) Immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from Spain. (5) A vigorous protest against the employment of the Italian and German Fleets to control the Spanish Government's coasts. The Scandinavians have put in a resolution embodying the following three points:— (1) The present " non-intervention " policy has failed completely. (2) The new control scheme must be regarded as a last effort. (3) Should this effort fail and should we have in a few weeks evidence of failure then the policy must be entirely changed. PIETRO NENNI, who spoke in the name of the Italian delegation. Spanish delegates to the International Conference. From left to right: Pretel, Treasurer of the U.G.T.; Pedroso, Professor of Law at Seville University; Pasqual Tomas, Assistant General Secretary of the U.G.T.; Zabalza, Secretary of the Federation of Peasants. PUBLISH ! DEMAND that Bevin's speech to the International Labour Conference on Spain yesterday be published in full. DEMAND that Bevin's speech to the National Council of Labour on Tuesday be published in full. Let the British Labour movement know what their representatives are saying and doing in their name. End the secrecy ! Let the full shame of the British Labour chiefs' role be known in order that the mass of the Labour movement may fight and end it.
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