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Campus Cultivation Conference
March 2nd
Tufts University
RSVP by Feb 15 at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE1hRm1fb1MteU83QWlieTVJdy1HeFE6MQ
In 2010, Middlebury College hosted the first Campus Cultivation Conference, bringing together students from liberal arts schools with a garden or farm – or just a dream for one – in the Northeast for a day of networking and sharing. The following year, Wellesley College picked it up, hosting such schools as Babson, Brandeis, Olin College of Engineering, Bennington, Tufts, and of course, Middlebury.
This year, on March 2, 2013, Tufts University student gardeners are planning to keep it going!
We'll be focusing on issues surrounding cultivation in an urban environment, with workshops on diverse topics including hydroponics, medicinal uses for herbs, and how to garden in cold climates. We will also have a collective problem solving exercise to help students create strategies for issues such as using limited resources and in the face of high membership turnover.
Working schedule includes:
Keynote speaker: Groundwork Somerville
Hydro/aquaponics by Sabrina from Rootdown Hydroponics (http://www.rootdownhydro.com/)
Canning/Preserving by TBA
Designing Food Systems Curricula by Jeff Hake (check out his blog: http://farmersfold.tumblr.com/jeffhake)
Medicinal Uses for Herbs by Naturopathic Dr. Zartarian
Soil Health by Jeff Hake
Cold Climates by Tufts Biology Professor George Ellmore
For more information or to get involved with planning, email email@example.com or join us at our weekly meetings Wednesdays at 9pm in Eaton 203.
See you in March!
Tom Thumb's Student Garden, Tufts University


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Angel Island Immigration Station
Judy Yung and Erika Lee
The Angel Island Immigration Station (1910–1940), located in San Francisco Bay, was one of twenty-four ports of entry established by the U.S. government to process and detain immigrants entering and leaving the country. Although popularly called the "Ellis Island of the West," the Angel Island station was in fact quite different from its counterpart in New York. Ellis Island was built in 1892 to welcome European immigrants and to enforce immigration laws that restricted but did not exclude European immigrants. In contrast, as the primary gateway for Chinese and other Asian immigrants, the Angel Island station was built in 1910 to better enforce discriminatory immigration policies that targeted Asians for exclusion. Chinese immigrants, in particular, were subjected to longer physical exams, interrogations, and detentions than any other immigrant group. Out of frustration, anger, and despair, many of them wrote and carved Chinese poems into the barrack walls. In 1940, a fire destroyed the administration building, and the immigration station was moved back to San Francisco. In 1963, the abandoned site became part of the state park system, and the remaining buildings were slated for demolition. Thanks to the collective efforts of Asian American activists and descendents of former detainees, the U.S. Immigration Station at Angel Island was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997, and the immigration site, including the Chinese poetry on the barrack walls, was preserved and transformed into a museum of Pacific immigration for visitors.
The Anti-Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles as a Reconstruction-Era Event
Victor Jew
Long regarded as a violent outburst significant mainly for California history, the 1871 Los Angeles anti-Chinese massacre raises themes central to America's Civil War Reconstruction era between 1865 and 1877, namely, the resort to threats and violence to preserve traditionally conceived social and political authority and power. Although the Los Angeles events occurred far from the American South, the Los Angeles anti-Chinese massacre paralleled the anti-black violence that rose in the South during Reconstruction. Although the immediate causes of the violence in the post–Civil War South and California were far different, they shared one key characteristic: they employed racial disciplining to preserve traditional social orders that old elites saw as threatened by changing times and circumstances.
The Asian American Movement
Daryl Joji Maeda
The Asian American Movement was a social movement for racial justice, most active during the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, which brought together people of various Asian ancestries in the United States who protested against racism and U.S. neo-imperialism, demanded changes in institutions such as colleges and universities, organized workers, and sought to provide social services such as housing, food, and healthcare to poor people. As one of its signal achievements, the Movement created the category "Asian American," (coined by historian and activist Yuji Ichioka), which encompasses the multiple Asian ethnic groups who have migrated to the United States. Its founding principle of coalitional politics emphasizes solidarity among Asians of all ethnicities, multiracial solidarity among Asian Americans as well as with African, Latino, and Native Americans in the United States, and transnational solidarity with peoples around the globe impacted by U.S. militarism.
The movement participated in solidarity work with other Third World peoples in the United States, including the Third World Liberation Front strikes at San Francisco State College and University of California, Berkeley. The Movement fought for housing rights for poor people in the urban cores of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle, and Philadelphia; it created arts collectives, published newspapers and magazines, and protested vigorously against the Vietnam War. It also extended to Honolulu, where activists sought to preserve land rights in rural Hawai'i. It contributed to the larger radical movement for power and justice that critiqued capitalism and neo-imperialism, which flourished during the 1960s and 1970s.
Asian Americans and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots/Uprising
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Although the 1992 Los Angeles riots have been described as a "race riot" sparked by the acquittals of a group of mostly white police officers charged with excessively beating black motorist Rodney King, the widespread targeting and destruction of Asian-owned (mainly Korean) property in and around South Central Los Angeles stands out as one of the most striking aspects of the uprising. For all the commentary generated about the state of black-white relations, African American youths, and the decline of America's inner cities, the riots also gave many Americans their first awareness of the presence of a Korean immigrant population in Southern California, a large number of Korean shop owners, and the existence of what was commonly framed as the "black-Korean conflict." For Korean Americans, and Asian Americans more generally, the Los Angeles riots represented a shattered "American dream" and brought focus to their tenuous hold on economic mobility and social inclusion in a society fraught by racial and ethnic tension. The riots furthermore marked a turning point that placed Asian immigrants and Asian Americans at the center of new conversations about social relations in a multiracial America, the place of new immigrants, and the responsibilities of relatively privileged minorities toward the less privileged.
Immigration to the United States after 1945
Xiaojian Zhao
Post-1945 immigration to the United States differed fairly dramatically from America's earlier 20th- and 19th-century immigration patterns, most notably in the dramatic rise in numbers of immigrants from Asia. Beginning in the late 19th century, the U.S. government took steps to bar immigration from Asia. The establishment of the national origins quota system in the 1924 Immigration Act narrowed the entryway for eastern and central Europeans, making western Europe the dominant source of immigrants. These policies shaped the racial and ethnic profile of the American population before 1945. Signs of change began to occur during and after World War II. The recruitment of temporary agricultural workers from Mexico led to an influx of Mexicans, and the repeal of Asian exclusion laws opened the door for Asian immigrants. Responding to complex international politics during the Cold War, the United States also formulated a series of refugee policies, admitting refugees from Europe, the western hemisphere, and later Southeast Asia. The movement of people to the United States increased drastically after 1965, when immigration reform ended the national origins quota system. The intricate and intriguing history of U.S. immigration after 1945 thus demonstrates how the United States related to a fast-changing world, its less restrictive immigration policies increasing the fluidity of the American population, with a substantial impact on American identity and domestic policy.
Japanese American Resettlement in Postwar America: The Los Angeles Experience
Jean-Paul deGuzman
Racism and xenophobia, but also resilience and community building, characterize the return of thousands of Japanese Americans, or Nikkei, to the West Coast after World War II. Although the specific histories of different regions shaped the resettlement experiences for Japanese Americans, Los Angeles provides an instructive case study. For generations, the City of Angels has been home to one of the nation's largest and most diverse Nikkei communities and the ways in which Japanese Americans rebuilt their lives and institutions resonate with the resettlement experience elsewhere.
Before World War II, greater Los Angeles was home to a vibrant Japanese American population. First generation immigrants, or Issei, and their American-born children, the Nisei, forged dynamic social, economic, cultural, and spiritual institutions out of various racial exclusions. World War II uprooted the community as Japanese Americans left behind their farms, businesses, and homes. In the best instances, they were able to entrust their property to neighbors or other sympathetic individuals. More often, the uncertainty of their future led Japanese Americans to sell off their property, far below the market price. Upon the war's end, thousands of Japanese Americans returned to Los Angeles, often to financial ruin.
Upon their arrival in the Los Angeles area, Japanese Americans continued to face deep-seated prejudice, all the more accentuated by an overall dearth of housing. Without a place to live, they sought refuge in communal hostels set up in pre-war institutions that survived the war such as a variety of Christian and Buddhist churches. Meanwhile, others found housing in temporary trailer camps set up by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), and later administered by the Federal Public Housing Authority (FPHA), in areas such as Burbank, Sun Valley, Hawthorne, Santa Monica, and Long Beach. Although some local religious groups and others welcomed the returnees, white homeowners, who viewed the settlement of Japanese Americans as a threat to their property values, often mobilized to protest the construction of these camps. The last of these camps closed in 1956, demonstrating the hardship some Japanese Americans still faced in integrating back into society. Even when the returnees were able to leave the camps, they still faced racially restrictive housing covenants and, when those practices were ruled unconstitutional, exclusionary lending. Although new suburban enclaves of Japanese Americans eventually developed in areas such as Gardena, West Los Angeles, and Pacoima by the 1960s, the pathway to those destinations was far from easy. Ultimately, the resettlement of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles after their mass incarceration during World War II took place within the intertwined contexts of lingering anti-Japanese racism, Cold War politics, and the suburbanization of Southern California.
Japantown and the Fillmore District
Clement Lai
Many Asian American neighborhoods faced displacement after World War II because of urban renewal or redevelopment under the 1949 Housing Act. In the name of blight removal and slum clearance this Act allowed local elites to procure federal money to seize land designated as blighted, clear it of its structures, and sell this land to private developers—in the process displacing thousands of residents, small businesses, and community institutions. San Francisco's Fillmore District, a multiracial neighborhood that housed the city's largest Japanese American and African American communities, experienced this postwar redevelopment. Like many Asian American neighborhoods that shared space with other communities of color, the Fillmore formed at the intersection of class inequality and racism, and it was this intersection of structural factors that led to substandard urban conditions. Rather than recognize the root causes of urban decline, San Francisco urban and regional elites argued that the Fillmore was among the city's most blighted neighborhoods and advocated for the neighborhood's destruction in the name of the public good. They also targeted the Fillmore because their postwar plans for remaking the city's political economy envisioned the Fillmore as (1) a space to house white- collar workers in the postwar economy and (2) as an Asian-themed space for tourism that connected the city symbolically and economically to Japan, an important U.S. postwar ally. For over four decades these elite-directed plans for the Fillmore displaced more than 20,000 residents in two phases, severely damaging the community. The Fillmore's redevelopment, then, provides a window into other cases of redevelopment and aids further investigations of the connection between Asian Americans and urban crisis. It also sheds light on the deeper history of displacement in the Asian American experience and contextualizes contemporary gentrification in Asian American neighborhoods.
Racial Diversity and Suburban Politics in 20th-Century Los Angeles
Hillary Jenks
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Please check back later for the full article.
Despite its cultivated reputation as the nation's "white spot" in the early 20th century, Southern California was in fact home to diverse and numerous communities of color, some composed of relatively new immigrants and some long predating the era of Anglo settlement and conquest. In the years following World War II, the region engaged in suburban home construction on a mass scale and became a global symbol of what Dolores Hayden called the economically democratic but racially exclusive "sitcom suburb," from the tax-lowering mechanism of its "Lakewood plan" to the car-friendly "Googie" architecture of the San Fernando Valley. Existing suburban communities of color, such as the colonias of agricultural laborers, were engulfed by new settlements, while upwardly mobile African Americans, Latinas/Latinos, and Asian Americans sought access to the expanding suburban dream of homeownership, with varying degrees of success. The political responses to suburban diversity in metropolitan Los Angeles ranged from Anglo resistance and flight to multiracial political coalitions and the incorporation of people of color at multiple levels of local government. The ascent by a number of suburbanites of color to positions of local and regional political power from the 1960s through the 1980s sometimes exposed intra-ethnic discord and sometimes the fragility of cross-race coalition as multiple actors sought to protect property values and to pursue economic security within the competitive constraints of shrinking municipal resources, aging infrastructure, and a receding suburban fringe. As a result, political conflicts over crime, immigration, education, and inequality emerged in many Los Angeles County suburbs by the 1970s and later in the more distant corporate suburbs of Orange, Ventura, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. The suburbanization of poverty, the role of suburbs as immigrant gateways, and the emergence of "majority-minority" suburbs—all national trends by the late 1990s and the first decade of the 20th century—were evident far earlier in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, where diverse suburbanites negotiated social and economic crises and innovated political responses.


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Fedora Scientific
Fedora Scientific spin aims to create a Fedora desktop based spin which will have a generic toolset for Linux users whose profession/studies involve scientific research. The spin aims to be directly under the umbrella of the Fedora Science and Technology SIG.
- Name: Amit Saha
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I am a long-term Linux user and have been into full-time scientific research for the past 3 years now. Everytime I have to do a fresh-install of Linux (not so frequently, ofcourse), I have to download a bunch of tools which I use regularly. For example, gnuplot, xfig, LaTex compilers, numpy, etc. Say hello to Fedora-Scientific. The idea is to create a Fedora spin based on the Fedora KDE Desktop, but having additional tools which most researchers will use.
Benefit to Fedora
Although the motivation for such a spin is purely "scratching my own itch", but I won't be wrong in stating that a significant percentage of Fedora users will be involved in scientific research use a number of numerical libraries, tools and libraries in their daily work. Pulling all those packages everytime a fresh install of Fedora is done is time consuming and redundant.
Moving beyond Fedora users, such a spin will definitely attract new or seasoned Linux users who feels the need to have some the scientific software that he/she uses to be already insalled.
I discussed this idea on mailing lists and the CLUG folks showed a lot of +1s to the idea (Thread). As was pointed out to me (which I didn't think before!), Fedora Scientific will be complimentary to the relatively more stable, RHEL based, Scientific Linux, as Fedora will cater to a similar audience, but giving the users more bleeding edge software experience.
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KDE Based Kickstart file (Lasted Updated on: October 5, 2011)
ISO Name / FS Label
Fedora KDE Spin
Scope / Testing
This spin will be based on the Fedora KDE spin . A number of tools and libraries for scientific research is included. I have decided upon the current set of applications based on my own experience and some discussions on mailing lists, notable the Canberra Linux Users Group. (as pointed out earlier).
The current set of packages include a IDE, tools and libraries for programming in C, C++, Python, Java and R. Also included alongwith are libraries for parallel computing such as the OpenMPI and OpenMP. Tools for typesetting, writing and publishing are included. Scientific computing libraries and tools such as the GNU Scientific Library, SciPy, Octave, Maxima are also shipped in this spin.
A detailed list of all packages can be seen from the kickstart file. To see some discussions/thoughts/decisions and to add your own, please visit the Talk:Scientific_Spin page. The ISO stands at about ~2.2 G.
Spins Page
To Be Written Upon Approval
Fedora for Researchers in Science and Engineering
Spin description
Fedora Scientific Spin brings together the open source scientific and numerical tools used in research alongwith the goodness of the Fedora KDE desktop. These tools range from libraries such as the GNU Scientific library, the SciPy libraries, tools like Octave and xfig to typesetting tools like Kile and graphics programs such as Inkscape. Fedora Scientific Spin aims to prevent the need to re-install your favourite scientific packages everytime you re-install Linux.
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Air pollution in counties of the San Francisco Bay Area this week has been the worst since 1999 when officials began collecting data.
"The pollution is so high it's comparable to high pollution days in China," says Lisa Fasano at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
The worst hour so far was measured on Tuesday in Napa, Calif., with an Air Quality Index of 404 for small particulate matter — so high it's off the chart, as you can see below.
Officials warn that very fine smoke particles, a fraction of the size of a human hair, can lodge in the lungs and, particularly in some vulnerable populations, do damage.
"When we breathe particulates, they bypass the lung system and get into our bloodstream," says Fasano. "They exacerbate respiratory conditions like asthma, [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease], emphysema and other conditions, because they are very harmful."
A seasonal inversion layer is putting a lid on the pollution and holding it in the region. Usually the Bay Area benefits from a natural air conditioning system with winds blowing in off the coast and carrying the air inland.
Residents in the North Bay are experiencing the brunt of the pollution because of nearby wildfires in California's wine country. Residents in Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties should try to stay inside buildings with air conditioning. But people in the East Bay and South Bay are not completely in the clear because the toxic air is creeping all over the region. You can look up your ZIP code here and find a five-day forecast here.
"We are also seeing elevated levels in San Francisco and Redwood City," says Fasano. "We are all being impacted by this really unhealthy air pollution."
Fasano recommends buying a face mask at the hardware store with an N-95 rating or higher. Unfortunately neither a hospital mask nor a bandanna tied over the face prevents noxious air from entering the lungs, and to make much of a difference, even N-95 masks must fit well. Fasano suggests staying inside as much as possible while skies are smoky to avoid breathing both particle pollution and ash wafting through the air.
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- Consider, in some cases, leaving the region until air quality improves.
This post is based on a story by KQED that is being periodically updated with the most recent air quality numbers.
Much of Northern California is under thick, black smoke because of the wildfires. The worst of it is in Napa and Sonoma counties. And it's being blown south into the San Francisco Bay Area, where people are now breathing the most polluted air on record. Member station KQED's Lesley McClurg reports.
LESLEY MCCLURG, BYLINE: On a street corner in San Francisco, cyclists whiz by me wearing white surgical masks, and a woman here is approaching me with a turquoise mask on.
MEGAN BEAN: I have been wearing it in my car, to walk around. Even just a few minutes without it sometimes starts me coughing and makes my throat burn.
MCCLURG: Megan Bean's mask is tightly pressed to her face to protect her from the air that smells like a campfire.
BEAN: There's been some, like, plasticky burning smells as well. It smells pretty toxic.
MCCLURG: The sky is an eerie orange with thick, low clouds. In parts of the city, it's tough to see through the haze at street level. Lisa Fasano monitors pollution for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
LISA FASANO: It's very unhealthy. We're seeing levels that rival that that you might see in China on poor air quality days.
MCCLURG: Usually San Francisco benefits from a natural air conditioning system. Winds blow in off the coast and sweep air out of the city. But Fasano says an inversion layer is locking in the smoke from all the wildfires.
FASANO: We are seeing readings that are really off the charts. It's very, very unhealthy.
MCCLURG: The levels are record-breaking. The worst part is you can't even see the stuff that's really bad for you. Very fine toxic particles are wafting through the air. When you breathe them in, they go through your lungs. And Fasano says they can go directly into your bloodstream.
FASANO: They can trigger asthma attacks. They can exacerbate emphysema problems. They can in fact produce heart attacks.
MCCLURG: Vulnerable populations like older people and young kids are at the highest risk. That's why many schools are closed. Dr. Robert Blount is a pulmonologist at UC San Francisco.
ROBERT BLOUNT: Children have developing organs that are increasingly susceptible. They also tend to breathe faster than adults and tend to be more active outside.
MCCLURG: Blount says it's normal to experience stinging eyes, an itchy throat or even headaches in this kind of pollution. He says anyone struggling to breathe or feeling tightness in their chest should seek medical treatment. Everyone should stay inside as much as possible.
BLOUNT: Closing the windows and, if there is an air conditioner, turning on the air conditioner to recirculate the air inside and filter the air from the outside.
MCCLURG: Resident Megan Bean plans to keep her turquoise mask on at home in the East Bay this weekend. She says her commute this week to San Francisco was grim.
BEAN: Driving over the bridge, I couldn't see the city. I couldn't see the Golden Gate Bridge. It's scary.
MCCLURG: The air may stay like this for a while. High winds are in the forecast near the largest fires tonight, and no rain is in sight. For NPR News, I'm Lesley McClurg in San Francisco. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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I recieved this email from a subdeacon who is affiliated with this mission in progress:"...Unfortunately some Eastern Orthodox don't understand the Western Rite and have not been too happy about this development....
Additionally many Western Rite Parishes also use the Pre-Vatican II Gregorian Latin Mass from time to time. Also the Western fasts are used, and there is an adaptation of the Liturgical year to the Western Feasts and to commemorate a large number of Western Saints.
All in all it should be quite familiar to anyone coming from a Roman Catholic or Anglo Catholic background. It is the same Creed, the same date for Easter, etc. "
And what are theses "Western Fasts"? No meat on Fridays (not much of a fast)? I'm VERY curious.
We make a distinction between FASTING on one hand, and ABSTINENCE on the other. "Abstinence" refers to the quality or kind of food consumed, while "fasting" pertains to the amount of food consumed.The law of abstinence forbids the eating of flesh meat and broth made from meat (dairy products are not included). The law of abstinence alone (without fasting) must be observed on all Fridays throughout the year. All who have reached the age of reason (around the age of 7) are bound by the law of abstinence.The law of fast permits only one full meal a day; but it does not forbid the taking of a small collation in the morning and in the evening. The law of fast must be observed on all days of Lent (Sundays excluded, as not being technically of the "forty days" of Lent).Both fasting and abstinence must be observed on Ash Wednesday, the Fridays and Saturdays of Lent, the Ember Days, and the Vigils of Pentecost, the Assumption of the Mother of God, All Saints, and the Nativity of Our Lord.On Sundays and certain Major Holy Days, the law of abstinence, the law of fast, and the law of both fast and abstinence together, are not binding, except on Holy Days during Lent.
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That was a well-said, to the point article and personally my favorite that you have written to date. Twitter is trying to point us in the "right" direction, hiding reality and attempting to lead us to believe that the U.S is correct far more often than it truly is, something WikiLeaks has proved wrong, attracting endless criticism. Yet Twitter allows it's entire community to babble on relentlessly regarding the Iranian revolution.
By all means I respect the United States and believe it does a fantastic job of maintaining order in such an enormous population. At the same time we need to be able to own up to our mistakes and not go chasing after those who ratted us out. Countries like Iran are not close to home and clearly do not affect our lives on a daily basis.
Once again, an excellent article, Thom.
The "Iranian revolution" is also a reality. Apparently not yours, but of others it is. Sorry for you that twitter pursues it's own view of reality instead of yours.


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Comcast, which recently acquired NBC Universal, has quietly decided to remove advertisements promoting firearms from its cable network, and gun retailers aren't happy about it.
A Michigan company that handles the advertising for Michigan-based Williams Gun Sight and Outfitters contacted TheBlaze regarding the change, stunned that it couldn't re-air a commercial they played last fall due to the new policy.
John Kupiec, president of the advertising agency Canadian American Corp., told us over the phone Monday that when they recently tried to buy ad time, a Comcast representative informed them that as of February 8 of this year, the network would no longer accept advertising from companies promoting firearms or fireworks on any network, during any time period.
"They've been a longtime advertiser [but] they said it doesn't matter who they are," Kupiec related, "if they sell firearms they will not be allowed to advertise firearms on their airwaves."
He noted that the change doesn't just impact local companies, but business like Cabela's, Walmart, and others.
"My company has been in the advertising business for well over 30 years, [and] we've never remotely run into a situation where a product or service was banned from being on the airwaves that's legal," he added.
Here's the commercial that Comcast declined to air:
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TheBlaze attempted to get in touch with several Comcast representatives to ask why the decision was made now, what they hope to accomplish, and whether they plan to change their scheduled programming that features guns, but only one responded.
Chris Ellis, the director of communications at Comcast Spotlight, confirmed the new policy but declined to provide any supplementary information.
"Consistent with long standing NBC policies, Comcast Spotlight has decided it will not accept new advertising for firearms or weapons moving forward," he said in an email. "This policy aligns us with the guidelines in place at many media organizations."
Tom Wright, the president of Williams Gun Sight Co., told TheBlaze that he thinks the change is "ridiculous."
They're "fine promoting strip clubs and condoms," Wright said, but appear to have a problem airing advertisements for a legal product.
ABC 12 also interviewed Wright for the evening news. Here's what he had to say:
Both Wright and Kupiec further noted that at almost any given time, you can flip to regular programming that features guns in a legal capacity (the Outdoor Channel, the Sportsman Channel, NBC Sports), or in a violent scene of a television show or movie.
Is Comcast planning on making changes to their scheduled programming, too, they wondered?
Before speaking with TheBlaze on Monday, Wright urged people on Facebook to speak out with their dollars:
Wright added for TheBlaze: "I don't know whether NBC or Comcast have an agenda related to all the political activity going on, but it wouldn't surprise me."
The president of Williams Gun Sight and Outfitters concluded with a statement on how the change will affect his company.
"It certainly has the ability to negatively impact our business. We've been in business for over 85 years; we provide a service to not only the hunting and shooting community, but we're part of a longstanding tradition here in America. I think it's a sad state of affairs where a cable network such as Comcast would come out with such a policy."
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Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family (after its type genus Aralia) or ivy family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants in two subfamilies. Species usually bear pinnately or palmately compound leaves, and usually have small flowers produced in large panicles.
The family from tropical area origin is present in cooler climates, too. They are found in the Americas, Eurasia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Pacific islands. Araliaceae bear essential oils, or without essential oils can be resinous and heterophyllous. It presents many shapes, includes some trees and ivies as the angelica tree (devil's walking-stick, Aralia spinosa), the devil's club (Oplopanax horridus), Hedera spp., including Hedera helix and herbs as ginseng Panax spp., a native of Korea and used as medical herb. Leaves are simple, or compound, sometimes lauroid (resembling Laurus) or peltate, or not peltate; when compound, ternate, or pinnate, or palmate.
The systematics of Araliaceae are currently under study, and taxonomic changes and novelties are to be expected. Endemic Araliaceae are found in the pluvial montane forest, very humid montane, and humid lowland river forest regions. They are present, too, in laurel forest, cloud forest and warm, humid habitats. The family is closely related to Apiaceae and Pittosporaceae, and the boundaries between these families and other members of Apiales are still uncertain. Some recent systems included Araliaceae in an expanded Apiaceae, but this has not been widely followed. Molecular phylogenies[2] suggest at least some of the genera traditionally included in Apiaceae as subfamily Hydrocotyloideae appear to be more closely related to Araliaceae, and the inclusion of Hydrocotyle and Trachymene in Araliaceae has been recommended.[3]
The generic level classification of Araliaceae has been unstable; in particular, numerous genera have been synonymized under Schefflera. Recent molecular phylogenies[4] have shown this large pantropical genus is polyphyletic and some believe it should be divided again into several genera, though these would probably not correspond with the previously recognized genera.
Subfamilies and genera[edit]
Subfamily Aralioideae
Subfamily Hydrocotyloideae
See also[edit]
List of foliage plant diseases (Araliaceae)
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- ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x, retrieved 2010-12-10
- ^ Plunkett, G.M., Soltis, D.E. & Soltis, P.S. 1997. Clarification of the relationship between Apiaceae and Araliaceae based on MATK and RBCL sequence data. American Journal of Botany 84: 565-580 (available online; pdf file).
- ^ Chandler, G.T. and G. M. Plunkett. 2004. Evolution in Apiales: nuclear and chloroplast markers together in (almost) perfect harmony. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 144: 123-147 (abstract).
- ^ Wen, J., G. M. Plunkett, A. D. Mitchell, and S.J. Wagstaff. 2001. The Evolution of Araliaceae: A Phylogenetic Analysis Based on ITS Sequences of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA. Systematic Botany 26: 144–167 (abstract).
- ^ Manchester, S.R. (1994). "Fruits and Seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon". Palaeontographica Americana 58: 30-31.
- Frodin, D. G. and R. Govaerts. 2004. World Checklist and Bibliography of Araliaceae. Kew Publishing.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. – Barry University's volleyball team moved within a match of the .500 mark after sweeping North Alabama, 25-12, 25-19, 25-21, in the finale of the South Region Crossover at the University of West Florida Saturday.
The Buccaneers (8-9) won their third straight match – the second via the sweep – and finished their four-match trip to North Florida with a 3-1 mark and victory over a top 20 nationally-ranked opponent.
"It was a great weekend for the team and our confidence," Buccaneers coach Steve Hendricks said. "Our goal was to go 3-1, and we succeeded. Our team has turned a very important corner in terms of playing to our potential. They are determined to use this momentum for the second half of the season."
Barry ran out to an 18-8 lead in the first set after Ivana Didanovic pounded a kill. Kristen Reid's kill and service point closed out the first set in run-away fashion. The Bucs scored of the last 10 points in the set.
Tied at 17-17 in the second set, following an Ashley Carrero kill, Didanovic served up an ace as Barry took a late lead. A Lions attack error and kill by Carrero padded the Bucs lead to 20-17. Tashalyn Begon banged down her first kill of the match to make it a four-point Buccaneers lead. Carrero put away her ninth and 10th kills in between North Alabama winners by Megan Gorey and Hope Rayburn, and a Lions attack error gave the Buccaneers a 2-0 match lead.
In the third set, the Lions hung with Barry most of the way before Begon's kill and a combination block by Katie Dooley and Begon put the Bucs ahead 23-20. Dooley added a kill, and Cielena subbed in and pounded home the final point in Pensacola.
Cielena had eight kills and two block assists, hitting .364. Carrero had 12 kills, marking her third straight match with double-digit kills. She hit .241, and had two of the Bucs' 14 block assists.
Didanovic had a .583 attack percentage and seven kills without an error in 12 attempts. It was her fourth match this season without a hitting error. She also had three aces and two block assists.
Trinidad had 29 assists.
Barry hit .216, while North Alabama was held to .044. It was the second lowest hitting percentage by a Buccaneers opponent this year. Bowie State hit a dismal -.340 in the first weekend of the season.
The Bucs had five aces to the Lions' one.
Barry returns home to re-enter Sunshine State Conference play at 7 p.m. Wednesday against Florida Tech.


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LONDON (AP) -- The organizers of last summer's London Olympics said Tuesday that security firm G4S has agreed to take a hit of 85 million pounds ($133 million) over its failure to meet the terms of its contract.
Organizers had to scramble to provide military personnel and other extra security after G4S admitted it could not provide all of the 10,400 security guards it had promised for games venues.
The two sides have been in talks over a final settlement for the 240 million-pound security contract.
The games' organizing committee, LOCOG, said G4S had agreed to an adjustment of 85 million pounds in the terms of the contract.
That includes 48 million pounds to cover "all the additional military, police and other step-in costs" incurred by organizers because of G4S's failure and a reduction in the project management costs and operational costs paid to G4S.
Home Secretary Theresa May said in a statement that the government fully backed the agreement. She said it met the government's objective that British taxpayers would not be "adversely impacted" by the failure of G4S to meet its obligations.
The statement also stressed that Olympic organizers did not have to pay for any services that were not delivered.
G4S said its total loss from the games would be 70 million pounds, more than its previous estimate of 50 million pounds.
G4S chief executive Nick Buckles said the agreement had been reached without protracted legal proceedings.
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X-Fit is tough!Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Been doing those crossfit workouts that I was going on about. They take anywhere from 5 minutes to 45 min. give or take, and what a burn! Some days I do just one x-fit workout and then do running, or a dvd. Yesterday I did 3 crossfit workouts. Yes, I'm a little go-getter!
For example, yesterday I did the following:
(I downloaded a handy timer app to my phone)
For time: x6 rounds of 400 meter runs & 7 burpees. So you run a quarter mile and do 7 burpees then dash off and carry on thru the remaining rounds of run/burpees-run/burpees….. Good way to work on your running! Or stumbling along as I seem to do a lot of. 🙂
On nice days I like to take my gear outside, if possible, to do the workout. For any running WOD's I have marked spots on the street so that when I return to my yard I have run the 1/4 mile, or 1/2 mile distance required depending on what the WOD calls for. Then I can easily get right into which ever ever exercises are scheduled for in between the runs.
Its not easy because you time yourself and next time you do that WOD (workout of the day) maybe in a month, or two you see how much you've improved on time. I find it so motivating to challenge/test myself. Be fun with a friend too!
I did another where I set the countdown timer for 12 minutes.
In 12 minutes do as many rounds as possible of:
50 squats
30 push-ups
15 pull-ups
I managed 4 rounds! It was grueling, but the thing is that I did it. 150 squats! 120 push-ups & 60 pull-ups.
My push-ups were the girly type and they destroyed my arms! Wow! For pull-ups I laid on my treadmill and pulled my body up from an angle by grabbing the handrails as I'm not strong enough to do regular chin-ups. But Its a start!!!
After that I did: For Time:
12 then 9 then 6 then 3 reps of thrusters and burpees. My god I thought my heart was coming out of my chest. So that's 12 reps of thrusters (dumbell overhead press right into a squat) followed by 12 burpees which I DO NOT like! They are so so sooooo exhausting! Then do 9 reps of thrusters/ 9 burpees, then 6 reps each and so on….i used my 15 pound each dumbbells and that was plenty.
This took me 3:14.
3 minutes and 14 seconds of pure hell.
Just try a crossfit workout and you will understand. So deceptively tough!
If you have no idea what the hell I'm talking about, but somehow are still interested, simply utube crossfit. Or 'crossfit' followed by any exercise you want an example of. Crossfit thrusters, crossfit sit-ups, crossfit burpees, etc.
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Legends supporting the album include: Sir Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Clash and U2. Modern artists recording include: Duffy, Scissor Sisters, Elbow, Beck, Rufus Wainwright and Lily Allen.
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Today: Hot Chip covers "Transmission"
Despite their brief existence, Joy Division garnered a widespread cult following which has resulted in them becoming one of the most significant and defining influences on modern music.
Formed in Manchester after witnessing the raw energy of The Sex Pistols, Joy Division quickly developed a sound and style that pioneered the post-punk movement of the late 1970s. They have become the blueprint for indie rock bands ever since: intense music; intelligent, dark lyrics; and even darker clothes.
A flurry of unpredictable and exciting gigs preceded the 1979 release of Joy Division's debut album 'Unknown Pleasures' on cutting-edge Factory Records, and the album was an instant critical hit.
Although the band's success grew and huge fame seemed imminent, vocalist Ian Curtis was beset with depression, and a diagnosis of epilepsy and suffering frequent on-stage seizures only heightened his personal difficulties.
In May 1980, on the eve of the band's first American tour, Curtis, overwhelmed with depression, committed suicide. The band's second album 'Closer' and the single 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', completed before Curtis' death and released posthumously, became their highest charting releases. As bassist Peter Hook would recall: "the great tragedy of Ian's death was that all he wanted to be was successful. And he missed it… by a week."
Joy Division and Curtis' legacy is huge, not least through the remaining members of the band who reformed as New Order. The recent films 'Control' and 'Joy Division' have seen the band's standing as genuine legends further affirmed.
The Original Song:
"Transmission" was the band's last single before Ian Curtis' death, released in November 1979.
Moving away from raw post-punk guitar sound into electronica, it was the song that paved the way for New Order - a shift in direction that was led by Ian Curtis, as Bernard Sumner recalls: "Ian used to play Kraftwerk records to us, saying 'listen to this, this is something new, something fantastic.' Maybe he knew and maybe he was showing us the way."
Just last year NME magazine placed "Transmission" at number 20 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.
Hot Chip's Joe Goddard:
"We totally idolise New Order and Joy Division, and Alexis wasn't sure about singing the words because Ian Curtis was so iconic, but we used loads of different instruments to the original and it came off well. We didn't want to piss off any die hard fans."
Hot Chip's Alexis Turner:
"It is totally different from Joy Division's original version. It is much more Caribbean sounding because it features steel pans as the lead instrument.
Watch: Joy Division, 'Transmission'
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I was having the trackpad issue before the trackpad update a few weeks ago, and haven't had any trackpad problems since then.
I also had the won't-stay-asleep problem and the freeze-on-wake, but they were so intermittent that it'll be a while before I know if the fix actually fixed them.
I haven't had the 'black screen of death' problem at all before or after the update (even during intense gaming sessions both using Crossover and BootCamp).


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Oncorhynchus mykiss is among the most important game fishes in North America. These common fish are found in cold headwaters, creeks, and small to large rivers, as well as lakes. They are anadromous in coastal streams, moving upstream from the ocean to spawn (unlike salmon, adults usually survive spawning and may breed again). (Page and Burr 1991)
The different forms of Oncorhynchus mykiss are known by different common names. The sea-run Rainbow Trout are known as Steelhead; interior populations are sometimes known as Redband Trout. These fish are highly variable in color, but have small, irregular black spots on the back and most fins. There are radiating rows of black spots on the caudal (tail) fin and a pink to red stripe on the side. Stream and spawning fish have intense dark colors whereas lake fish are light and silvery. The upper jaw reaches barely behind the eye in young and female individuals, but well behind the eye in large males. Sea-run individuals (Steelhead) are silvery and largely lack the pink stripe on the side; they typically develop a more pointed head and grow much larger than Rainbow Trout. (Page and Burr 1991)
Rainbow Trout are native to the Pacific Slope of North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to Baja California. They have been widely introduced in cold waters elsewhere in North America and the rest of the world. (Page and Burr 1991)
In contrast to the Rainbow Trout, the Golden Trout (O. aguabonita) has a red belly and cheek, a gold lower side, and large black spots on the dorsal and caudal fins (but in some areas where they co-occur, these two species hybridize). The Cutthroat Trout (O. clarki) has an orange or red "cutthroat" mark on the underside of the lower jaw and small teeth on the floor of the mouth between the gill arches (no such teeth are present in Rainbow Trout). Salvelinus species have light spots on a dark background. Salmon have 13 or more anal rays (8 to 12 in Rainbow Trout). (Page and Burr 1991)
For detailed information on the biology and status of this species, including conservation issues, see this resource from the NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources.


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Denver, Colo., Mar 5, 2013 / 04:05 am (CNA).- The Catholic Church needs to "set the example of beauty" in evangelizing society through media rather than existing as an isolated sub-culture, says screenwriter Barbara Nicolosi.
"We're not just supposed to be in the culture; as Catholics, we're supposed to be important in the culture," she said March 1 at the Living the Catholic Faith Conference in Denver.
"And right now, we're completely in our own little room."
During her presentation, "Evangelization and media: re-thinking the Catholic sub-culture," Nicolosi discussed the challenges facing Catholics' efforts to evangelize in society.
These difficulties, she said, first spring from a lack of beauty within the Church as seen by contemporary church buildings, modern liturgical music and a general absence of artistic endeavors.
Nicolosi added that the problem is worsened by many Catholics isolating themselves in a sub-culture which maintains poor artistic standards by not interacting with the culture at large.
The Church was once called "the patron of the arts," but Nicolosi pointed out that "we couldn't begin to pretend the Catholic Church is the patron of the arts in any meaningful way today." Christianity once produced such works as the Milan Cathedral, Handel's Messiah, and the sculptures of Michelangelo.
That heritage has been replaced by the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, "Our God is an Awesome God," and Rainaldi's statue of John Paul II in Rome.
On the current state of liturgical music, Nicolosi remarked to CNA in March 2 interview that what's needed today is a recapturing of the "mysterious, mystical," and "ethereal."
"As Pope Benedict said, the music at the liturgy should not be like any music you hear anywhere else – you should know immediately, 'oh, this is of God.' That's going to take a whole re-thinking," she noted.
During her presentation on Friday, Nicolosi said in order to re-vitalize efforts to evangelize, Catholics must first "admit we have a problem" with art and media in the Church today. Having done that, we must re-commit to beauty.
She presented a litany of what does not constitute beauty, including that which is facile, disproportionate, sentimental, cheap, non-threatening, and cute. Yet these adjectives describe "much of what we're awash in in our Church, and the broader society," she said.
The screenwriter issued a call to "renounce the sub-culture." Rather than being an isolated group, Christians must be a leaven for the wider culture. In recounting the legacy of Christian storytelling, she pointed to "The Divine Comedy," "Pilgrim's Progress," "Anna Karenina," "Brideshead Revisited," and the works of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Tolkien, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy.
"None of these books were written for the Catholic subculture," Nicolosi noted. "They were all books written for the mainstream culture, yet are profoundly Catholic."
Contrasting with that great legacy, Nicolosi pointed to contemporary works of Christian storytelling, saying that "not one of these comes close to untying the sandal strap of 'Brideshead Revisited.'"
Many of these efforts, she noted, are "created in the sub-culture for the sub-culture."
The great works, however, were "written for the mainstream," and have Christian subtexts which permeate their worldview yet rarely overtly deal with theology, she said. Works produced in the Christian sub-culture, by contrast, openly address religious themes yet fail to incite a theological response from the reader or viewer.
Nicolosi said that the Christian sub-culture, created originally as a refuge from the sexual revolution, has become "a prison, a ghetto artistically." Christian works are relegated to this sub-culture, and do not reach non-Christian audiences.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen was for Nicolosi an example of the leavening influence Catholics ought to have in the mainstream culture, rather than being isolated in a sub-culture. Archbishop Sheen hosted a radio program for 20 years, and was then on television, including ABC, through the 1950s and 60s.
"Fulton Sheen used to be on network television not because he was Catholic, but because he was good."
Poorly made Christian media which do not "get people to ask the questions they should be asking" are failures of evangelization, Nicolosi suggested. By contrast, well-made secular works such as "Finding Nemo" actually raise important questions in the minds of fathers: "Am I a good dad?"
Christian media, she emphasized, need to be willing to work with, and learn from, the best of secular figures in the media. Christian media has to engage the consumer and their passions, and create a dialogue with the audience.
"Nothing cheap, facile, or banal will do it. Don't you dare put something out ugly and say the Holy Spirit inspired you to do it," Nicolosi urged – "it undermines our entire faith project."
She concluded her talk by presenting five things the Church can do to change the culture. First, she said the Church must identify those people who can represent us well to the wider culture. Media spokesmen are needed, orators are needed, and good singers are needed, she said.
Next, the Church needs to start training artists again. Those with talents for creating beautiful works of art need to be identified, encouraged, and taught, all within the Church. Nicolosi lamented that there is not one Catholic school among the top 20 film programs in the country – "there is no place in the Church to send your artist kid to be the best."
Nicolosi's third recommendation for Catholics to change the culture is to start treating the arts as important, by again becoming patrons of beauty. Singers and architects need to well-compensated for their efforts to produce beautiful works of art; "we used to be willing to pay for gorgeous art."
Medieval inhabitants of Europe sacrificed to produce magnificent Cathedrals, giving a sign of their faith for the future. Our sign for the future, Nicolosi lamented, is the popular 1980s hymn, "Gather Us In."
Fourth, we need to work with professionals in the media field. Poorly made Catholic media does not evangelize: "ugly, shoddy, embarrassing work is not orthodox Catholic – it's another kind of lie," she said.
"You're saying one thing with your mouth, and something else with your style." As when building a Church one hires construction professionals, not necessarily daily Mass-goers, the production of Catholic films must include professional filmmakers.
Finally, Nicolosi urged prayer for artistic geniuses – for "Mozarts." We must "pray to God to send a new influx of beauty, and people who can send it into our midst."
"Ask God to send a Mozart, and that we'll recognize him," she concluded. "Let us, for the sake of the people out there beyond our doors, make what John Paul II called the sacrifices that beauty requires."
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Shirley J. Othic, 89, Marceline, died Saturday July 20, 2013, at Pioneer Skilled Nursing Center, Marceline.
Graveside services were held at 11 a.m. today, July 22, 2013, in St. Bonaventure Cemetery with Father Jerry Kaimann officiating.
Memorials to the Activity Fund at Pioneer Skilled Nursing Center may be left at or mailed to Delaney Funeral Home, 1720 N. Missouri Ave., Marceline, Mo. 64658.
Shirley was born June 3, 1924, in Brookfield, daughter of Wylie and Winifred (Maxwell) Baker. She married Michael C. (Micky) Othic on June 3, 1944, in Marceline. He preceded her in death on April 14, 2008.
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Israel's prime minister has accused the international community of "deafening silence" in response to recent vows by the head of the Hamas militant group to fight on until the Jewish state is destroyed, and appeared unmoved by the gathering storm of global condemnation of his government's plans to continue settling the West Bank.
Benjamin Netanyahu's tough words were likely to deepen the rift between Israel and some of its closest allies, particularly in Europe, that has emerged since the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in favour of Palestinian independence last month.
In a sign of the tense relations, European Union foreign ministers were gathered in Brussels to condemn new settlement construction that Mr Netanyahu has authorised in response to the UN decision.
Speaking to foreign reporters, Mr Netanyahu accused the international community of having double standards, condemning not-yet-built settlements in the West Bank while standing quiet during a historic visit to the Gaza Strip by Hamas' exiled leader, Khaled Mashaal.
Making his first trip to the Hamas-ruled territory over the weekend, Mr Mashaal delivered a series of speeches to throngs of supporters vowing to wipe Israel off the map. The visit underscored Hamas' rising clout and regional acceptance since its eight-day conflict with Israel last month.
Mr Netanyahu also directed his ire at Hamas' rival, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, for not speaking out. "This weekend the leader of Hamas, sitting next to the Hamas leader of Gaza, a man who praised Osama Bin Laden, this weekend openly called for the destruction of Israel. Where was the outrage? Where were the UN resolutions? Where was President Abbas?" Mr Netanyahu said.
"Why weren't Palestinian diplomats summoned to European and other capitals to explain why the PA president not only refused to condemn this but actually declared his intention to unite with Hamas. There was nothing, there was silence and it was deafening silence," he added.
Mr Netanyahu has long complained that the world unfairly singles out Israel for criticism. In Monday's address, he accused the UN of passing an unbalanced resolution that supported Palestinian independence but did not address Israeli security concerns.
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Indianapolis, IN - Secretary of State Todd Rokita announced today that Indiana owned and operated software development, integration and consulting firm Quest Information Systems has been selected to develop Indiana's first statewide voter registration system, pending successful contract negotiations.
The federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) requires states to implement a statewide voter registration system by January 1, 2006. Creation of the statewide voter registration system in Indiana is expected to cost $9.3 million.
"Creating the statewide voter registration system is vitally important to voters and the electoral process in Indiana. The statewide voter registration system will bring election administration into the 21st century and ensure the integrity of Indiana's elections by creating one accurate and complete list of Indiana's voters. This is a significant challenge, but one for which Quest is well qualified. I look forward to working with Quest over the next several years as we implement this important election reform," said Rokita.
The statewide voter registration system will, for the first time, merge all 92 county voter registration databases together in real-time and link to it databases from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the Social Security Administration and the Indiana Departments of Health and Corrections.
Currently, voter registration lists are maintained separately in each of Indiana's 92 counties. By linking the statewide voter registration system to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the Social Security Administration and the Indiana Departments of Health and Corrections, state and local voter registration officials will know in real-time when a voter alters his/her voter registration, changes residences, is incarcerated or passes away. Working under the strict auspices of the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993, commonly known as "Motor Voter," the statewide voter registration system will create a single, accurate list of Indiana registered voters.
"Inaccurate voter registration lists not only drive up costs of administering elections, they also serve as an invitation for voter fraud. Because Indiana's voter rolls are artificially inflated by numerous duplicate and erroneous registrations, the statewide voter registration system will reduce the cost of election administration in local jurisdictions, minimize the potential for fraud and allow for a more accurate assessment of voter turnout," Rokita said.
Quest, with clients in government and business, has done extensive work with the Indiana Election Division, including creating the Campaign Finance Reporting System and implementing the Duplicate Voter Elimination Project. Quest was also the primary application design and development provider for the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles STARS system. The STARS system is a browser-based business system that integrates with the BMV mainframe and other legacy systems and supports as many as 800 users in all 92 counties.
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DeFuniak Springs resident Dwayne Langston grew up around music.
As a little boy, he would sing along while his aunt played the ukulele. A self proclaimed "Air Force brat," Langston and his brothers learned to play the guitar while living in Germany and they even formed a band, gaining praise during talent shows on base.
In high school, Langston recorded a few original songs on a 45 rpm record. He continued to play and write songs until 1996. Years later, his son found the 45 and gave it a listen.
"He told me, 'Hey Dad, that's pretty good stuff,'" Langston recalled.
After years �on the backburner" and with the approval of his son, Langston was inspired to start his musical career.
"I decided to give it a shot and start sending stuff off," he said. "I didn't hear anything for six months. And then I got a call from Tate Publishing."
The family-owned company based in Okalahoma worked with Langston to produce his eight-track album, "Someplace I'd Rather Be" in July 2012, which includes the original tracks from his old 45 as well as new material. The album was released April 16.
Tate Publishing received Langston's raw materials and helped create a fuller, more modern sound, he said. While the process of handing off your creative work for someone else to finish may be a dubious endeavor, Langston was pleased with the results.
"I told them what I wanted from my perspective and I think they did a phenomenal job," he said. "I couldn't have laid it out better myself."
Langston's writing process is sporadic � and inspiration comes from all over the place, whether it's a catch phrase that sticks in his head or life experiences, like a high school sweetheart.
"It's a mood thing," he said. "I never really sit down and say, 'I'm gonna write a song today.'"
Technology comes in handy for those sudden bursts of inspiration. When he creates new music or thinks of a fun lyric, he'll often capture it on his cell phone before he can forget, Langston said.
Growing up, Langston listened to country greats such as Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard. It's no surprise that his own music is of the country genre.
"My roots are in country music," said Langston. "I tend to write country-sounding music. I'm dedicated to that kind of music."
"Someplace I'd Rather Be," reflects various country styles; some songs even have a blues element.
"It's a well-rounded album," Langston said. "There's a little bit for everybody."
To promote his album, Langston hopes to put a full band together and start touring festivals. Unfortunately, his day-job as a restaurant owner, can get in the way.
"I wish my entire focus was on my music, but I'm trying to juggle life," he admitted. "A lot of people I know don't even know I play. I'd love to put a quality band together."
If you told Langston last year that he would be plugging a new album and putting a band together to promote his music, he may not have believed you. It goes to show it's never too late to follow your dreams.
"Last year I wasn't doing a lot," he said of his schedule. "This time, it's taken off."
Listen now: Dwayne Langston's album "Someplace I'd Rather Be," is available on Amazon, iTunes, Rhapsody, Spotify and at www.tatepublishing.com. To learn more about Langston, visit www.reverbnation.com/dwaynelangston.