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Baltimore's next challenge: Vacant properties
Baltimore Sun
By Matthew D. Gallagher
With the kind of coalition that produced a historic school construction initiative, the city can eliminate blight on an unprecedented scale
By Matthew D. Gallagher
8:00 AM EDT, October 6, 2013
Baltimore is on the cusp of making once unimaginable progress in modernizing its obsolete public school facilities with more than $1 billion in investment over the next 10 years. Broad coalitions of supporters, feasible financing plans and the adoption of needed accountability systems, along with the alignment of civic and elected leadership sustained through the legislative process, helped achieve this potentially game-changing outcome.
Such a hard-won victory illustrates what is possible and should galvanize our community to act on another of the city's biggest challenges: Baltimore's 16,000 vacant properties.
Actually, "vacant" is too polite; the majority of these buildings are beyond rehabilitation. These seemingly permanent monuments to population loss destabilize neighborhoods by fostering criminal activity and inhibiting investment.
It's not that the problem has been ignored. The last 40 years brought Mayor William Donald Schaefer popularizing $1 rowhouses, Mayor Kurt Schmoke removing blighted public housing high rises, Mayor Martin O'Malley launching Project 5,000, Mayor Sheila Dixon proposing a Land Bank, and now Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake pursuing the Vacants to Value initiative. Baltimore's foundations and non-profit educational and health anchor institutions have supported these mayoral efforts and other initiatives like Healthy Neighborhoods and East Baltimore Development, Inc.
While there have been successes, the scale of these interventions is insufficient to solve the problem. Currently, one in eight Baltimore homes is vacant. While Baltimore has just recently begun to stem its population loss, vacant housing hampers the city's ability to grow. According to the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, not a single neighborhood with a vacancy rate above 4 percent gained population over the last decade.
But this issue isn't just about population growth. The large-scale elimination of Baltimore's vacant housing would impact neighborhood and community development, quality of life, public health and safety, competitiveness, even local hiring and employment.
Like school facility modernization, solving the problem of Baltimore's vacant buildings is possible if a realistic multi-year strategy is developed and championed by a broad coalition of united stakeholders.
Mayor Rawlings-Blake's plan to expand local demolition funding is a good start. The city's 10-year financial plan commits $19 million in one-time "surge" funding and a more than quadrupling of annual demolition funding from $2.3 million to $10 million. When combined with committed and other potential sources, the city estimates it can clear 4,000 severely distressed structures during the next decade — but that's still less than 25 percent of Baltimore's vacant buildings.
What would it cost to eliminate the backlog? Whole-block demolitions generate savings through economies of scale, while costs can more than double with sidewall repairs of adjacent occupied rowhouses and can swell many times more if adjacent occupied properties need to be acquired and tenants relocated. Extrapolating from the city's 10-year plan and adding a contingency yields an estimated cost of more than $700 million.
But the net cost to the city could be much lower. Ridding the city of its vacant buildings would reduce code enforcement, legal and maintenance costs. The city can place demolition liens on the 75 percent of vacant buildings not already owned by the public and recover some costs. It would also accrue financial benefits from one-time and recurring impacts associated with the sale, redevelopment and enhanced value of the cleared land and future improvements. There are also recycling-related revenues from the reuse of materials such as bricks, stone and piping.
Comprehensive action would demonstrate that Baltimore is serious about solving its vacant building problem, setting the stage for independent, market-driven demolition activity in response. City housing officials also believe that thousands of properties in private hands could potentially be spared from demolition via more targeted code enforcement and receivership efforts.
Finally, the estimated cost of large-scale demolition does not consider the multi-year employment benefits that would accompany such an ambitious undertaking. The effort would be a boon to construction firms small or large, union or non-union, majority- or minority- owned. It would also represent a tangible opportunity to move beyond problematic legislative efforts to mandate local hiring by creating new and sustained demand for Baltimore's low-skilled and chronically unemployed workers.
Over the last decade alone, the state has provided nearly $1 billion in capital support (beyond public school construction funds) for Baltimore-based education, health and cultural anchor institutions such as Coppin State University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, Morgan State University, University of Maryland at Baltimore, the University of Maryland Medical System and Shock Trauma, as well as the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Zoo, Maryland Science Center, National Aquarium and Walters Art Gallery. These and other local anchor institutions could be some of Baltimore's strongest advocates for expanded demolition efforts, given the potential of such an initiative to enable institutional growth and to stabilize surrounding communities.
When considered along with the state's other existing investments in revitalization, from historic tax credits to existing strategic demolition funds to the expanding uses of tax increment financing and payments in lieu of taxes resulting from House Speaker Michael E. Busch's Regional Revitalization Workgroup, the totality of the state efforts represents a deep pool of capital that could be aligned with a comprehensive initiative.
And in his last budget before returning home to Baltimore, Governor O'Malley might consider proposing a further multi-year capital commitment to a citywide demolition effort. It would enjoy strong prospects of winning passage if appropriately prioritized by the mayor, city legislative delegation and the broad coalitions of concerned citizens that mobilized to demand modern school facilities. These same stakeholders would also be responsible for convening the broader civic conversation and sustaining public engagement throughout Baltimore's neighborhoods to ensure that action of this scale and scope produce changes communities want.
Together, Baltimore's citizens and elected leaders have recently demonstrated that what has otherwise been viewed as an intractable problem can actually be addressed within a realistic timeframe. Let's try and tackle one more. Baltimore can deal with its vacant property problem and set the stage for transformational growth, both in population and economic activity, in the next decade.
Matthew D. Gallagher is president of the Goldseker Foundation. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Contrary to popular belief, many doctors and scientists believe that the body's first defense against disease is not the immune system, but rather the body's natural pH levels. Most of the food items in BBT diets are high alkaline /low acid in it. Thats how LDN works only with the diet.
Because cells are the basis of all life, it is important to keep them healthy in every aspect. One of the more important aspects of keeping them healthy is that of pH.
All of the body's cells are slightly alkaline, and need to stay alkaline to survive. However, as cells perform their necessary tasks, including respiration, the waste products emitted are acidic in nature. The acidic waste products are used as energy, but a buildup of the acids can cause severe damage to the body.
One major system that is affected when the body becomes too acidic is the blood system. Red blood cells are slightly negatively charged. The surface of arteries and blood cells are also slightly negatively charged. This keeps blood cells from being attracted to the walls and sticking to arteries. When the body becomes acidic, the charge of the blood cells becomes slightly positive. They are then immediately attracted to the arterial walls, sticking to them and forming plaque. Plaque buildup over time will cause heart attack and stroke or causing CCSVI.
Blood is the medium by which all nutrients are carried within the body and transferred to cells. When the body becomes too acidic, the blood flow in the vessels decreases significantly, slowing the process by which cells get nutrients. Nutrient-deprived, many cells will die before the blood gets a chance to deliver food to them. Cells that are not destroyed this way adapt to oxygen-deprivation by mutating into malignancy. In this environment, fungus, mold, bacteria, and viruses will breed.
Another affect of an acidic body is evidenced by mineral depletion. The body will, on its own, attempt to balance the pH levels itself. It does this by depositing and withdrawing acidic and alkaline minerals from the bones, soft tissues, body fluids, and saliva. If you continue to keep your body at a low (acidic) pH level, you will eventually become more and more mineral-deficient as in case of MS.
A state of acidosis is linked to decreased oxygenation in the body, and decreased calcium, which the body uses to maintain the alkaline balance. A compound called mono-ortho-calcium phosphate in particular acts as a chemical buffer for the blood, maintaining the alkaline level in the blood. Calcium, however, will only build up in the body, unused, if magnesium is not in the body. Studies show that 86% of Americans are deficient in magnesium; many of these are also most likely deficient in calcium as a result.
Acid in the body tends to wreck havoc on the internal tissues, organs, and systems of the body. Acid will eat through tissues, not only destroying them outright, but also mutating the cell. The cell mutates and can, in turn, cause harm to other cells as well. This can be the beginning of MS.
Your body is very intelligent. It knows that it cannot allow acid to exist, so it devises a way to protect itself against the acid. It creates fat cells to store the excess acid in. Safe in the fat cells, the acid cannot harm your body.
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The last time my parents went to Epcot, they said the most memorable attraction was "Impressions de France," the big-screen travelogue movie.
That caught me off guard because the film had not left any, well, impression on me at all. The Epcot flicks at the Canada and China pavilions have more staying power, I thought.
A recent revisiting of the film started positively. The foyer had informative displays about gargoyles and flying buttresses, yet nothing felt familiar. Was it possible I had never been to "Impressions," even though it has been there since Epcot opened in 1982? Or could I have gone while in a Food & Wine coma?
The French-speaking cast members were lively, though the accents were so thick it was difficult to tell if they were speaking French or English. Once I was seated in the theater, decorated in deep burgundy, two kids in front of me were pretending to be mimes, and two men behind me were speaking French, concluding with "C'est la vie!" Really? I thought only English speakers said that.
Five large, side-by-side screens form a semicircle in front of the audience so that French scenery stretches from wall to wall. The screens offer panoramic views of the Alps, Versailles, the Riviera, the Eiffel Tower and other less identifiable places. (Subtle labeling would be appreciated.)
But the camera work is intriguing and immersive, especially the flyovers of buildings and cliffs. Lift your feet and you almost get that light sensation, as in the Soarin' attraction on the other side of Epcot. All it needs is the smell of exhaust for the Champs-Elysees scene and the whiff of grapes in the vineyard and you'd have another of Disney's "4-D" attractions.
Sometimes the action moves from far right screen to far left screen, such as the musicians on horseback on Bastille Day or the sheep dodging bicyclists. There's a lot to absorb. All this is set to the music of Claude Debussy and his countrymen.
Some scenes are too conspicuously staged, such as the flower market, the romantic dinner (couples only) and the wedding and reception. If this film is to be believed, there's a lot of love in France.
But it made me want to visit. I had to settle for the gift shop, which sells all manner of Eiffel Towers, including pink ones and versions with Tinker Bell or Stitch. It's just not the same.
Other notes from France
•My podmate, Food Editor Heather McPherson, shared this little-known breakfast option, Les Halles Boulangerie Patisserie. It opens at 9 a.m. even though World Showcase opens at 11 a.m. Don't worry about the closed attractions on the way. Just keep walking.
•The tabletop animatronic version of Remy, star of "Ratatouille," has left the Chefs de France restaurant. It shouldn't be sad to get rid of rats from an eatery, but this one was a rare treat, no?
•Here's a leftover from the opening of the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Visitor Carla Hall, a personality on ABC's "The View" and a fan of the festival's escargot, said:
"That is like garlic bread on steroids with a boom-pop-bang. It's a popper. …You pop the entire thing in your mouth so you can get the snail and you can get all the crunchiness and the garlicky [taste]."
Still … it's a snail.
•I ended my time in France watching Serveur Amusant, stacked-chair climber. He draws a sizable audience in the street, but usually I skip it and seek less-crowded spaces. Plus, this act historically has made me nervous. Imagine a double-wide stroller veering into the chairs, toppling the guy from his two-story-high perch.
But this time, I watched with borderline glee. I was starting to dig the accordion music. It's all further evidence that I'm turning into my parents.
C'est la vie.
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A Florida appellate court has upheld the $15 million award to the survivors of an Edgewater woman in their lawsuit against the tobacco company, whose cigarettes they blamed for their mother's lung cancer.
A Florida appellate court has upheld the $15 million award to the survivors of an Edgewater woman in their lawsuit against the tobacco company, whose cigarettes they blamed for their mother's lung cancer.
The 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee last week ruled on an appeal of a Duval County jury's March 2011 verdict in the Mrozek vs. Lorillard Tobacco Company wrongful death lawsuit.
"Our clients are one step closer to receiving justice and Lorillard is one step closer to being held accountable for its actions," Angelo Patacca, a partner with Jacksonville-based Terrell-Hogan Law Firm, said in a statement
Patacca represented Jacqueline Swann Miller's three children, including daughter Michelle Mrozek, who filed the lawsuit.
Efforts to reach Mrozek, of Stuart, were unsuccessful Thursday.
Miller, a longtime New Smyrna Beach resident, died at 63 due to lung cancer in December 1994 after becoming addicted to Lorillard's Old Gold brand of unfiltered cigarettes as a teenager.
"Lorillard was not challenging the amount of the damages nor was it challenging the jury's finding that the tobacco company should be punished for its actions," Patacca said. "Lorillard was essentially asking the appellate court to overturn the judgment based on procedural and evidentiary grounds."
In its opinion, the 1st District Court stated at its genesis the litigation was part of a 1994 class-action lawsuit against various cigarette manufacturers, including Lorillard, seeking damages for smoking-related illnesses and deaths.
The opinion indicated Lorillard argued whether Miller's illness and death were caused by her two-pack-a-day cigarette addiction specifically or by her choice to continue smoking.
"Whether the addicted individual kept smoking after learning of cigarettes' deleterious health effects is a question of comparative fault, thus of liability to be determined at trial," the opinion read. "The jury found Ms. Miller 35 percent responsible for her death."
Since she met the requirements for the class-action lawsuit, the trial court correctly ruled for Mrozek, the opinion said.
Lorillard, whose website identifies itself as America's oldest continually operating tobacco company, is the maker of Newport, Kent, True and Old Gold brand cigarettes.
It has offices in Longwood.
Calls to Lorillard company spokesman Ron Milstein seeking comment on the court ruling were not immediately returned Thursday.
Miller, then known as Mary Jacqueline Swann, was a 1948 graduate of then Live Oak High School in New Smyrna Beach. She left the area in the mid-60s and returned in the 1970s, trial testimony said. She worked at the New Smyrna Beach-based Observer Newspaper in the mid to late 70s and then at Daytona Beach Jai Lai fronton. In her later years, Miller worked as a companion and caregiver to several elderly clients.
She lived in Edgewater at the time of her death.


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Then answer yes to questions, even though youre not connected to the Internet. For the MIBs you can simply extract the downloaded archive to the home directory of Netdisco.
The installation process installs Netdisco self-contained to your home directory. The target directory can easily be changed by setting the NETDISCO_HOME environment variable, for example:
export NETDISCO_HOME=/opt/netdisco
Obviously, youll need to substitute this wherever you see "~" in the installation instructions. The Netdisco application will use this setting itself to locate files and configuration.
Simply add any options after the "start" command. See other sections of this document for some examples.
Netdisco will assume its web site is hosted at the apex of your server - that is, the document root. To relocate the web application, pass the --path parameter to the web startup script:
~/bin/netdisco-web start --path=/netdisco2
Alternatively, can set the path configuration option in your deployment.yml file:
path: /netdisco2
Pass the --port parameter to any of the web scripts. For example:
~/bin/netdisco-web start --port=8080
Pass the --host parameter to any of the web scripts. For example:
~/bin/netdisco-web start --host=127.0.0.1
By default the web application daemon starts listening on port 5000 and goes into the background. This is ideal for hosting behind a web proxy (e.g. Apache with mod_proxy).
After enabling the headers, proxy and proxy_http modules in Apache, a suitable configuration would be:
ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass / http://localhost:5000/ retry=0 timeout=60 ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:5000/ ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Proxy>
To combine this with Non-root Hosting as above, simply change the paths referenced in the configuration, and set path in your deployment.yml as discussed above. Note there is no trailing slash in the Apache config:
ProxyPass /netdisco2 http://localhost:5000/netdisco2 retry=0 timeout=60 ProxyPassReverse /netdisco2 http://localhost:5000/netdisco2
To delegate user authentication to Apache, use the trust_remote_user or trust_x_remote_user settings. See App::Netdisco::Manual::Configuration for more details.
There is no SSL support in the built-in web server. This is because its not straightforward to support all the SSL options, and using port 443 requires root privilege, which the Netdisco application should not have.
You are instead recommended to run netdisco-web behind a reverse proxy as described elsewhere in this document. Apache can easily act as an SSL reverse proxy.
We recommend you backup the Netdisco database regularly. You could put the following commands into a shell script and call it nightly from cron:
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d` /usr/bin/pg_dump -F c --create -f /path/to/backups/netdisco-pgsql-$DATE.dump netdisco gzip -9f /path/to/backups/netdisco-pgsql-$DATE.dump /usr/bin/find /path/to/backups/ -type f -ctime +30 -exec rm {} \;
This will keep 30 days of backups. You dont need to stop Netdisco during the backup.
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table_pagesize: -1
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Ending discrimination against older women through the Convention : . 07/05/2002.
A/57/38 (Part I),paras.430-436. (Decision)
Convention Abbreviation: CEDAW
Decisions of the Twenty-sixth session
Decision 26/III. Ending discrimination against older women through the Convention
430. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women welcomes the convening of the second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid, and urges that special attention be focused on the special needs of older women. The situation of older women is of concern to the Committee, which is the United Nations treaty body in charge of monitoring the implementation of the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The Convention, often described as the international bill of rights for women, defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.
431. The Convention is an important tool for addressing the specific issue of the human rights of older women. Discrimination against women in all areas of their lives throughout their lifespan has a severe and compounded impact on women in old age. The Committee has increasingly used the Convention to point out the discrimination faced by older women in all countries of the world and, in its concluding comments, has suggested ways to improve the quality of life of these women. In particular, the Committee has recommended action, inter alia, to address the situation of older women living in poverty, particularly in rural areas; to address the physical, financial and emotional needs of older women; and to improve older women's access to health care.
432. The Committee therefore urges States parties to include and integrate women's perspectives into all aspects of the proposed international strategies for action on ageing.
433. The Committee places strong emphasis on the need for Governments to collect and analyse statistical data disaggregated by sex and age as a way to better assess living conditions, including the incidence of poverty and violence against women of all ages, and stresses the importance of formulating and implementing programmes with a life-cycle approach to older women's economic and social well-being and empowerment.
434. Furthermore, the Committee recommends that special attention be paid to improving the further education of older women. The Committee recommends that measures be taken to increase the literacy levels of older women and to reduce the literacy gap between older women in urban and rural areas. It also recommends the design and implementation of gender-sensitive policies and programmes that address the specific needs of older women, including those relating to their physical, mental, social and economic well-being.
435. Older women, for a variety of reasons, including their work as unpaid family members in the informal sector, part-time work, interrupted career patterns and concentration in low-paying jobs, are often insufficiently covered by health insurance and pension schemes. Migration and the breakdown of supportive family structures often leave older women dependent on State assistance the providers of which have not been trained to recognize or meet their specific educational, financial and health needs. The Committee recommends that the issue of the care required for older women be addressed through public policy measures in order to establish societal responsibility for their well-being. Care given to them by family members should be socially and financially recognized and encouraged.
436. Special recognition should be provided to the contribution of women to their families, the national economy and civil society throughout their life span: stereotypes and taboos that restrict or limit older women from continuing to contribute should be eliminated.


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Maryland wants more of my money. It may not seem like a big tax increase being presented, but how much money does the state need? I am the so-called wealthy American who must pay more in taxes. Well I pay plenty of taxes so my politicians can yuk it up in their sky boxes.
I pay 23.5 cents per gallon in gasoline taxes per fill-up. That's about $400 per year for two cars. I paid $300 in tolls to get to and from work. There was $41 to park for meetings in Baltimore, $180 to register my car, $1,600 in miscellaneous school fees (field trips, sporting events, uniforms, yearbook, prom, homecoming), $6,500 in real estate taxes, $9,000 in state income taxes. Then there was emission fees, the taxes paid during a vacation in Ocean City, and the 6 percent sales tax on all my purchases.
Yet the state insists they do not have enough money and passed a tax increase ("Special session fallout," May 17). Remember this come election day as the same old politicians continue to take your money without providing the results you should expect. Spend, spend, spend and tax, tax, tax. It never ends. It needs to end on election day.
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Code morpher Transitive dives into Red Hat Exchange
Proprietary chums meet open sourcers
Red Hat added a peculiar name to its Exchange software store by picking up OS morphing code from Transitive.
Last year, Red Hat launched RHX (Red Hat Exchange) as a centralized shop for customers looking to pick up software that runs on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux server operating system. RHX offers up code such as Alfresco's content management software, the MySQL database and Zimbra/Yahoo!'s messaging products. Red Hat vows to support these applications, resolving issues with RHX partners on behalf of the end customers.
All of the applications available so far on RHX will be familiar to members of the open source/Linux world. Transitive, however, has mostly made a name for itself letting customers run Solaris for SPARC software on x86 and Itanium processors without modification and helping shift software written for PowerPC-based Macs to Intel-based systems via Rosetta.
Okay, sure, part of Transitive's Solaris/SPARC play centers on placing Solaris customers on machines running Linux. (Transitive will also move Solaris/SPARC customers onto Solaris/x86 boxes.) But Transitive isn't typically talked about in the same breath as the Linux clan regulars like MySQL or Zmanda.
In addition, most of the RHX partners have open source licenses or something nudging near an open source license.
Meanwhile, Transitive is a proprietary software player that relies on licensing its code and doing engineering deals with companies such as IBM, SGI, HP and Sun.
"The RHX distribution agreement between Transitive and Red Hat was strongly encouraged by our enterprise customers, who regard the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and QuickTransit as a single solution for broadening the range of applications that can be run on modern standards-based server platforms," said Ian Robinson, VP of marketing for Transitive. "By purchasing QuickTransit with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, customers obtain a platform capable of running not only the popular and diverse range of Linux applications, but also the vast selection of software developed for Solaris/SPARC platforms."
According to Robinson, customers have been asking Transitive to form a deal with Red Hat to make renewing subscriptions and support easier.
"We spend quite a bit of time doing proof of concepts. Once that process finishes, the customers will ask to buy 50 or however many licenses. We've heard from a number of those customers buying in volume that they'd like to get the software through Red Hat Exchange."
While the companies said QuickTransit is available immediately via RHX, you won't actually find the code on Red Hat's web site. Robinson explained that Transitive is currently taking care of customers who have already asked for an RHX deal and that it will post documentation to RHX at a later date.
"The reality is that if a customer wants this we can deliver it now," he said.
RHX has taken off a bit slowly, although some companies have generated a lot of business through the service. Alfresco executive Matt Asay described his rather positive experience with RHX during the last episode of Open Season. ®


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Is FedRAMP, the government's standardized approach to cloud security, working?
All cloud services and products in use by the federal government and in active acquisition must be FedRAMP-compliant by June 2014. As vendors work their way through the assessment process with the deadline a mere seven months away, the question of whether or not the program is working is being raised by some observers in government and industry.
"Is it working? It is going to have to work," said Sarah Mosley, network and infrastructure security branch chief of the Homeland Security Department's Office of Cyber Security and Communications. FedRAMP is currently the only standardization program to address the federal government's cloud security accreditation and authorization requirements, Mosely said Nov. 6 during a panel on consuming cloud computing at FedScoop's Red Hat Government Symposium in Washington, D.C.
The program will continue to mature, she said, noting that large companies such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, both which have received the FedRAMP stamp-of-approval, recognize that this is the way the government is going to pursue security accreditation for cloud services and products.
IBM can now be added to that list. IBM's SmartCloud for Government platform is the most recent cloud environment to receive a provisional authority to operate from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board, making the company a more attractive cloud services provider for potential federal customers, according to FCW.
With the addition of IBM, nine companies and one government agency – the Agriculture Department's National Information Technology Center – have gone through the rigorous accreditation process and been granted either a provisional or an agency authority to operate under FedRAMP.
The real measure of FedRAMP success is not how many vendors get through the assessment program, but how many agencies are really using the packages once the cloud service providers are accredited, said David Blankenhorn, chief cloud strategist for DLT Solutions and also a member of the Red Hat cloud panel.
Blankenhorn said that FedRAMP is working on a high level. Most of the core cloud service providers are new to the federal public sector, so they must learn to speak a completely different language, he said, which accounts for why there are not more cloud providers receiving the FedRAMP authority to operate. Commercial providers must adhere to more than 290 security controls, document their security processes and then go through an audit, which is a massive undertaking, Blankenhorn noted.
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Maria, from CIO memo: "10 For all currently implemented cloud services or those services currently in the acquisition process prior to FedRAMP being declared operational, security authorizations must meet the FedRAMP security authorization requirement within 2 years of FedRAMP being declared operational." Also here: http://cloud.cio.gov/fedramp/agency
Which policy mandates the FedRAMP compliance by June 2014? I only know about the Dec 2011 Fed CIO FedRAMP memo which does not specify this deadline. Thanks!
So basically the original poster is stating that everyone should throw security out the window for innovation/development? FedRAMP isn't killing innovation or making it only for big companies. It is actually better for a small company, because they can go through FedRAMP, become certified, and use that for all of there Federal contracts, without having to go through individual accreditations.
The first company to be FedRAMP authorized was a small company. Many large companies are at a disadvantage due to the politics within their own organizations. Having worked at FedRAMP previously, I would says that small companies can get FedRAMP authorized if they are willing to make the commitment.
FedRamp is in response to some of the cyber security threats that agencies have dealt with for years. However, Fedramp security vulnerabilities are the following: transparency of information regarding the health of the controls, insider threat, opsec, and supply chain. Principal Risk is also a looming issue. The company could get so big it decides to avoid regulation and its going off-shore. Those missions housed in those systems are now in physical risk from not only nation-states but also small organized groups. Companies gaming security regulations will result in issues not being recognized or dealt with until the problem collapses of its own weight. (See current banking crisis.) People will learn not to trust one more institution.
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Inspiring Outdoor Bathrooms
My sister and I used to spend a few weeks with our grandparents on the eastern shore of Maryland every summer. While I loved going to the beach I hated my Gramps's rule that returning beach-goers must bathe outdoors in a dark, make-shift, outdoor shower whose regular inhabitants—giant spiders—didn't seem too pleased to see me either.
Even with that bias in place, I have to say I am totally swooning at the idea of an outdoor bathroom after seeing these inspiring images!
Granted, many of these come from vacation villas and not year round homes, but if I lived in the right climate and my neighbors were a safe distance away, I think I'd be tempted to take to the open air for my daily ablutions.
What do you think? Is open air bathing something you like to do? Would you consider adding an outdoor shower or bathtub to your home?
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Trilogy: Antiques & Design
- Location: Three Oaks, Michigan
Store History
- Sister stores: Ipso Facto
Trilogy is treasure hunter's delight! Owned by Brandon Nelson — who also owns the nearby and equally fabulous Ipso Facto — Trilogy is a collection of revolving resale vendors under one roof. Brandon prides himself and his store on frequent turnover of merchandise, which means there's something new every time I visit.
On the day I visited Trilogy, there was an impressive mixture of beautiful furniture and accessories as well as some unique oddities. I mean, that big light up crown?! How fun is that! Or the giant paintbrush? There was a little note on the tag that says the paintbrush was a display piece from the 1940s. So cool!
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By Brent Pella, Daily Nexus
From an epiphany-inducing visit with his sister in Arizona, to a last-minute international showcase in Germany and subsequent back-to-back national championships in Texas, junior men's goalkeeper André Grandt has trekked an unusual path to the oceanside campus of UC Santa Barbara.
"It all started from Google," Grandt said.
Think about that next time you need directions.
Growing Up Goalie
Grandt's future as a goalkeeper was evident from an early age. As the son of a professional handball player, Grandt was able to learn useful skills and techniques from his father, a 25-year veteran of the Vorsfelde professional handball club in Germany.
"He's the one who taught me from the get-go how to catch a ball," Grandt said. "My mom always brought me around the games when I was little, so I was always around the ball."
After high school, Grandt began to play with a semi-professional team in Germany. Grandt's goal was to attend school and play soccer simultaneously, a feat he was unable to do while a part of the team.
While athletic scholarships seem to come from every corner of NCAA-recognized schools in America, there is quite a contrast when it comes to financial support for athletics in Germany.
"In Germany you can't get a scholarship for sports … only one or two universities [offer scholarships]," Grandt said. "So the only scholarship you can get is academic-wise."
While Grandt was still in the midst of determining his future in soccer and school, a trip abroad to visit his sister in Arizona provided the life-changing moment that would act as the catalyst in Grandt's migration west.
Google and a Goalkeeper
Grandt's arrival in Arizona to visit his sister was his first trip to the U.S., and was the first time he heard about the opportunity for athletic scholarships in America.
"[My sister] actually asked me 'why don't you get a scholarship for soccer?'" Grandt said. "I just got on Google and typed in 'sports scholarships,' and the first thing that popped up [became] my agency at the end."
After completing a few evaluation and academic forms, Grandt was greeted with a phone call from his newfound representatives the very next day with some exciting information.
"Two weeks later there was supposed to be a showcase for 50 soccer players in Germany that had the same problem I had," Grandt said. "They wanted to study and they wanted to play soccer."
Grandt was forced to make an immediate decision whether to pay a hefty late fee and sign up for the showcase, or to wait and hope for another opportunity. For an eager young athlete looking to find a balance between sports and school, the decision came quickly.
"It happened within five minutes, and two weeks later I was in a showcase," Grandt said.
Among the 25 U.S. scouts and coaches at the showcase was a representative from Tyler junior college in Tyler, Texas. After some conversations between the Tyler coaches and his recently-googled agency, Grandt was offered a position on the roster for the following season.
"I was like 'Yeah, let's go,'" Grandt said. "I was in Arizona and it was pretty hot so maybe I could take it in Texas too."
From Bratwrust to BBQ
The move to Texas proved to be successful. Grandt led the Tyler Apaches to consecutive national titles and an undefeated 41-0-1 record during his two-year junior college campaign.
Yet toward the end of his two-year reign as one of the best JC goalkeepers in the nation, Grandt was once again met with uncertainty toward his future.
"When you're a sophomore at a JC you have to think what's next," Grandt said.
UCSB coaches had heard of the Tyler soccer dynasty in the making, and initially expressed interest in a player on the other side of the field from Grandt.
"We were actually recruiting a forward from his team," UCSB Head Coach Tim Vom Steeg said. "While we were watching the footage for this forward we took notice that there was a goalie on the team that looked really good."
When the call eventually came from the UCSB offices offering Grandt a visit and potential spot on the roster, Grandt's reaction was to be expected.
"I heard from my coach at Tyler that UCSB wanted to call me out and I was like 'Jackpot! Where's my flight ticket?'" Grandt said.
Beach Bound and New in Town
The move to UCSB put even more distance between Grandt and his family, which currently resides in Germany. When Grandt's mother and father were recently able to come stateside for a visit, both parties were thankful for the reunion.
"My parents were here for two weeks," Grandt said. "They went to the Akron game and Cal Poly game… It was such a nice experience for them to see me play here."
As a business-economics major, Grandt looks forward to finishing his academics before taking any further steps in his career of choice. Though pursuing the dream of becoming a professional soccer player is a goal for Grandt, it is not his only focus.
"What I want to accomplish in the future is to be satisfied with myself," Grandt said. "I'll get my degree first … if I get offered a nice job here, why not? I could start a nice life in California."
But before that life begins, Grandt must focus on the one at hand. He has helped lead the Gauchos to their No. 19 ranking in the nation, and currently leads the Big West conference in shutout percentage.
"We're gonna need him to make some big saves for us as we come down to the final four games in the regular season," Vom Steeg said. "He's very focused … it's critical for us that we have that type of player in goal."
See André Grandt and the men's soccer team in action tonight when UCSB hosts Big West conference leader UC Davis at Harder Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.


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oh and glitches
In fighting games I hate whenever the last boss has an ultimate move that he is capable to pull off in half a sec and theres no way to dodge/block it ><
if any of you have played maplestory, you know how long it takes to level.
and when you hack the game they then make a stupid "update" and then you have to redownload the hack again. (thats how i quit)
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supercanti wrote:
Okay, so I was playing GEARS of WAR online in a rank match a few hours ago, and on my teams 18th match my connection lost!!!!! Once I watched this dude I know play the Dreamcast game for 6 hours in one day and he didnt even get to beat it because of some GLITCH (which doesnt really affect me, but thats 6 hours of my life Im never getting back). THAT HAMMER ON SUPER SMASH BROS!!!!!! Dont even get me started on Mega Man games....... And I hate hard bosses on Dragon Quest 8!!
I hate games that dont know how to throw in checkpoints or savepoints!!!!
let off some steam
what pisses you off?
are you talking about me trying to beat blue stinger? Man that game made me mad
yeah dude, that was so dumb!! I watched you play that zombie piece of crap for about 6 hours and you didnt even get to go farther because of a glitch!!!!
I hate when you get to near the end of a long, difficult fight in an FPS and then you get killed and sent back to the last checkpoint, which then forces you to face the overwhelming odds again with what seems like a smaller number of allies. The example of this that angers/annoys me every single time is the Pointe Du Hoc level of Call of Duty 2 on PC. Took me three hours and I don't know how many tries to beat that one.
People who constantly complain in Online games. I didn't log on to hear you bitch to me about how your parents/life/gf/bf/whatever suck. I hate it when people spawn camp in FPS's too.
When you're playing an RPG...and you have a REALLY long scene, than a ridculously hard boss fight....than if you lose the boss fight you need to watch that stupid scene all over again...and the game doesn't come with a Scene Skip option. =/ I can't remember what game this happened on though. I think it was Yunalesca in FFX but that doesn't seem right at all....
And I hate turn-based (?) fights...and you're just about to win, but than the monster's turn comes up and out of nowhere they attack you a good ten times, not giving you time to attack, and kill you. Grrr....
really long cutscenes *coughs*METAL GEAR SOLID*coughs*
In a state fof Despair
Dreamie wrote:
I hate it when you failed to jump over a massive hole in the stairs in Devil May Cry or Demon May Cry... I forgot. Well I was nearly sucked into the game... I was really shocked in how I liked it... By the way I am 14 AND I AM A GIRL. Playing a boys game... I enjoy video games. Like sonic and RPG.
you're sayin that likes its impossible for girls to like boy video games
i know plenty of girls who like those kinda games and rpgs and such
wait how do you tell the difference between boy games and girl games cuz they all seem the same to me besides different genres and stuff
Little BIG Planet
Escort missions, hate'em with a passion, espically when you're forced to escort a useless heap of flesh that basically runs out, getting murdered and ending the game so you can do it all over again
_when I fall down after a great deal of climbing!
_the goddamn archers...
_the stupid and irritating control in some games,I remember that I broke a game because of that
Just don't be like who refused life and death has rejected!
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Escort missions, hate'em with a passion, espically when you're forced to escort a useless heap of flesh that basically runs out, getting murdered and ending the game so you can do it all over again
Why is it in escort missions the whatever your escorting's AI reaches an all time low
i hate botters, espcially on Silkroad Online...but then again im a botter myself
when you play and it freeze aghhh and its not my fault someof the rent games are scratch -.-
oh and when your about to finsh something hard or about to save -.-


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CAMBRIDGE, UK – Dec. 11, 2002 –ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor technology, today announced that Anam Semiconductor and Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., have joined the ARM® Foundry Program. As part of their membership in the Program, Anam has licensed the microprocessor core and Silterra has licensed the microprocessor core.
Anam, based in Korea, and Silterra, based in Malaysia, are the first two foundries in their respective countries to join the ARM Foundry Program, thereby extending local ARM support in the Asia Pacific region. Anam and Silterra join existing ARM Foundry Partners TSMC, UMC, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Tower Semiconductor and AMI, as members in the Program, bringing the total number of Program members to seven.
"A growing number of semiconductor developers are looking to gain access to ARM technology in the most cost-effective and flexible manner possible," said Kevin Smith, Foundry Program Licensing manager, ARM. "Anam and Silterra offer these companies a flexible route to fabrication of ARM core-based SoC's through the ARM Foundry Program."
"In today's competitive environment, many customers are looking for more choices and greater flexibility for the design and manufacture of their products," said Victor Kwong, vice president of Design Solutions, Silterra. "As a member of the ARM Foundry Program, Silterra is able to offer the ARM processor core as the cornerstone of our Design Solutions initiative."
"Faster time to market is now a critical issue for many semiconductor design companies and to fulfil this requires partnerships to bring all necessary expertise under one roof," said, HeungJun Park, director of Design Services, Anam. "By working with the world leader in low-power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores, we are able to offer leading technology and manufacturing facilities to our customers and together, help them get their products to market as smoothly as possible."
Cores from the respective foundries will be available at the end of Q4 2002.
About the ARM Foundry Program
The ARM Foundry Program is an innovative business model that enables fabless semiconductor companies in emerging markets to gain access to ARM processor technology for use in the design and manufacture of advanced system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. There are currently 49 Partners in the Foundry Program, which was launched in 2000. ARM now offers the ARM7TDMI core, the ARM922T core, the ARM946E™ core and the ARM1022E™ core through the Program.
The Foundry Program offers a flexible partnership model that accelerates the time-to-market for ARM core-based designs and enables OEMs, which do not have access to fabrication facilities, to work directly with an approved ARM semiconductor foundry. Unlike a traditional ARM license, where a licensee gains both manufacturing and design rights, the ARM Foundry Program builds a three-way Partnership between ARM, an approved silicon foundry, and an OEM.
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in markets such as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions.
ARM and ARM7TDMI are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. ARM922T ARM946E and ARM1022E are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE:ARM and Nasdaq:ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM, Taiwan; ARM France SAS; ARM China.


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Luca Cambiaso (Italian, Moneglia 1527 - 1585 Madrid)
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, 1570s
Inscribed in brown ink, upper left: 24Z242; lower left in black ink: Parmigianino; on verso in pencil: Unknown 28
Pen and brown ink, with grey wash on white laid paper
13 5/16 x 9 11/16 in. (33.9 x 24.6 cm)
Mrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund, 1971
This wash drawing of the Holy Family with Saint Catherine of Alexandria kneeling at the feet of the Christ child is evidently a completely independent work, not a study for any other work of art. The artist's rendition of Catherine's fervent devotion accords with goals of the Catholic Counter Reformation, which intensified during the last decades of the sixteenth century.
The compositional power and directness of Cambiaso's drawing represents a return to canonical High Renaissance groupings of the Holy Family, and a move away from Mannerist complexity. The compact massing of the monumental figures, generously swathed in drapery, ultimately derives from Leonardo da Vinci's figural inventions for devotional subjects, as further developed by Michelangelo and Raphael. 1 The intensity of the figures' gazes--Joseph leaning forward to look at Mary and the Christ child; the Mother and infant bending towards the kneeling, supplicant Catherine--further unifies the composition. The simplicity, clarity, and spiritual impact inherent in this work were qualities sought by artists affected by the goals of the Counter Reformation.
The geometrical, almost blocklike rendering of the figures in the Oberlin drawing is a hallmark of Cambiaso's later drawing style. During the Renaissance, several artists--notably Albrecht Dürer --published treatises claiming a divine systematization in the proportion of human bodies. Cambiaso's geometric execution reflects a reinvestigation of this belief. 2 Because strict, rigorous linearity was often seen as a reflection of spiritual rectitude and purity--as opposed to the aesthetic sensual beauty conveyed by the curving, graceful lines of High Renaissance drawings--this drawing style can also been linked to Cambiaso's interest in the reform of art. 3 Cambiaso's drawings in this geometricizing, simplified style have been tentatively dated to the late 1560s and '70s, although there are no dated works to make this supposition a certainty. 4
The Oberlin drawing is an original composition; the pen lines are vividly rendered and there are traces of chalk underdrawing and minor corrections in Mary's right arm and Joseph's staff. It is not a preparatory study for any known work of art, and because of the use of wash, which gives the drawing an impression of completeness, it is likely that it was intended as a finished work of art.
Magnani has noted that Cambiaso often repeated the same composition in more than one drawing; these multiple drawings functioned much as prints. 5 Related to the Oberlin composition are a woodcut, a drawing attributed to Cambiaso in the Louvre, and a drawn copy, perhaps by another artist after the woodcut, in the Collection Frits Lugt, Fondation Custodia, Institut Néerlandais, Paris. 6 Cambiaso also executed a painting of this subject, but it is unrelated to the drawing both iconographically and compositionally. 7
According to medieval legend, Catherine of Alexandria's mystical marriage to Christ--which transpired in a vision after her baptism--was evidence of the extreme devotion of this early Christian martyr. As a consequence of this union, Catherine later refused to marry the emperor Maxentius and was tortured on a spiked wheel before she was beheaded. In sixteenth-century depictions of the subject, the infant Christ is usually represented (as here) in his mother's lap, and the instrument of Catherine's torture is often present, as in the wheel partially visible behind Catherine.
In this drawing, Cambiaso rendered a different instant than the one most common in contemporary renditions. 8 Rather than kneeling to accept the ring, and thus be joined to Christ in marital union, Catherine is shown worshiping the child with clasped hands. 9
Cambiaso also removed all references to Catherine's rank, by leaving out her conventional spiked royal crown and jewelry, and to her physical beauty, by representing her from behind. Instead, he draws attention to her humble, supplicant posture. This emphasis on worship, rather than wealth and privilege, may well reflect Counter Reformation devotional goals.
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The son of a Genoese painter, Cambiaso absorbed developments in Roman High Renaissance and early Mannerist art from the Roman fresco painter Perino del Vaga (1500/1-1547) who was in Genoa in the 1520s, and from his own probable visit to the capital from 1547 to 1550. On Cambiaso's return to Genoa, he painted many fresco cycles in Genoese churches and palaces, as well as altarpieces and some sculpture, and became the most prominent artist in Genoa. His early hard-edged and mannered style was tempered by the influence of Correggio (ca. 1489-1534), Titian (ca. 1485-1576), and Veronese (ca. 1528-1588) during this period.
In the 1570s, Cambiaso executed fewer public commissions and more devotional works for private patrons, depicting evocative nocturnal religious scenes, and other subjects, presented in a simplified style. His interest in Counter-Reformation art may have been stimulated by Jesuit spiritual practices and a visit to Rome in 1582. In 1583 Philip II of Spain invited Cambiaso to Madrid, as a result of an altarpiece the artist had sent from Genoa to the Escorial, a monastery and royal residence, in 1581. In Spain he was mainly occupied with the decoration of the church of San Lorenzo in the Escorial. He died in Madrid two years later and was buried there.
General References
Soprani, Raffaello, ed. Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi. Vol. 1. Genoa, 1768, pp. 76-97.
Manning, Bertina Suida, and William Suida. Luca Cambiaso, La Vite e le opere. Milan, 1958.
Magnani, Lauro. Luca Cambiaso, Da Genova all'Escorial. Genoa, 1995.
Magnani, Lauro. In The Dictionary of Art. Edited by Jane Turner. Vol. 5. London and New York, 1996, pp. 455-57.
Bartoletti, M. "Cambiaso, Luca." In Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Vol. 15. Munich and Leipzig, 1997, pp. 659-60.
With P. and D. Colnaghi, London, from whom purchased in 1971
London, P. and D. Colnaghi, 1971. Old Master Drawings. June - July. Cat. no. 53.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1976, pp. 10-11, fig. 43.
Technical Data
The drawing is executed in iron gall or bister ink applied over traces of graphite underdrawing; the grey-brown ink wash appears slightly faded. The sheet is slightly stained and has suffered a few losses in the lower right-hand corner; it was perhaps washed and pressed in restoration before it came to Oberlin. 10 The unidentified watermark (not in Briquet, Churchill, or Meder) has the letters AM (C?) in a circle, surmounted by a knot.
1. For example, Raphael's Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John (Canigiani Holy Family) and Michelangelo's Doni Tondo.
2. Piero Torriti, Luca Cambiaso Disegni (Genoa, 1966), pp. 13-14; Lauro Magnani, Luca Cambiaso, Da Genova all'Escorial (Genoa, 1995), pp. 147-49.
3. Luciana Profumo Müller, "Le Opere 'geometrizzate' di Luca Cambiaso," Arte Lombarda 15, no. 2 (1970), pp. 33-40; Lauro Magnani, "Luca Cambiaso tra 'due riforme,'" Arte Lombarda 50 (1978), pp. 87-94; and idem, Luca Cambiaso da Genova (Genoa, 1995), pp. 211-27. See also Nicola Courtright, "Origins and Meanings of Rembrandt's Late Drawing Style," The Art Bulletin 78 (1996), pp. 485-510.
4. Drawings of similar subject and style include: Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John and Saint Catherine (pen and bister, 31 x 22 cm; Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, inv. 1800); reproduced in Iván Fenyö, North Italian Drawings from the Collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, 1965), p. 77, fig. 41; Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (ink, 37.6 x 29 cm; Genoa, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, inv. 4628); reproduced in Luca Cambiaso e la sua fortuna (exh. cat., Palazzo Dell'Accademia, Genoa, 1956), cat. no. 77; Madonna and Child with Saint John and a Holy Family; both in Rome, Gabinetto Nazionale della Stampe; reproduced in Giulia Fusconi, Disegni genovesi dal XVI al XVIII secolo (exh. cat., Villa Farnesina, Rome, 1980), p. 15, figs. 1, 2.
5. Lauro Magnani, Luca Cambiaso, Da Genova all'Escorial (Genoa, 1995), p. 147.
6. The woodcut is reproduced in Bertina Suida Manning and William Suida, Luca Cambiaso: La Vita e le opere (Milan, 1958), p. 170, pl. 221, fig. 365. The Cambiaso drawing is in Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 9236. For the Lugt drawing, see James Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection (Paris, 1983), pp. 410-11, pl. 465.
7. Collection Leonetti, Naples; reproduced in Bertina Suida Manning and William Suida, Luca Cambiaso: La Vita e le opere (Milan, 1958), p. 143, pl. 224, fig. 370.
8. For example, Cambiaso's painting in the Leonetti collection, Naples (as in note 7), and his drawing in Genoa (as in note 4); Correggio's painting (ca. 1514; The Detroit Institute of Arts, inv. 26.94), which includes Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist (reproduced in Cecil Gould, The Paintings of Correggio [Ithaca, N.Y. 1976], pl. I); and Pellegrino Tibaldi's Marriage of Saint Catherine (Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale), which includes the same cast of characters (reproduced in Giulio Briganti, Il Manierismo e Pellegrino Tibaldi [Rome, 1945], fig. 102).
9. Another, slightly earlier example of a Holy Family with Catherine worshiping the infant, who returns her intense gaze, is a painting of the 1560s by the Bolognese artist Orazio Samacchini (1532-77), in a private Bolognese collection. Reproduced in The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1986), p. 193, no. 71. Samacchini's painting includes additional saints, however.
10. Report of technical examination by Moyna Stanton (11 April 1995) in museum files.


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ELIZABETH, NJ (May 07, 2012) — Hayward Commercial Pool unveils its new Universal CrystaLogic™ white LED lighting, the most brilliant and versatile lighting for commercial pools and spas.
This breakthrough design combines all the very latest high performance LED and advanced polymer technology to deliver extraordinary lumen per watt energy efficiency and associated long lifetime cost benefits. The unique 12V, all-plastic light and niche design eliminates the need for bond, ground wire and GFCI. UL listed to retrofit virtually all existing manufacturer's niches, CrystaLogic is the perfect aftermarket upgrade product. For new construction, the shallow design together with a new all-plastic Thin Niche, just 2 3/4 inches deep allows niches to be mounted to the face of the rebar saving well over $150 in material and labor per light. Additionally, the innovative design delivers unparalleled versatility; lights can be mounted in as little as 4 inches of water either on the sidewall or upwardly facing from the floor.
According to Hayward Commercial General Manager Patrick Sweeney, "These LED lights are incredibly brilliant. Their patent-pending design comprised of advanced LEDs, optics and thermal management, delivers extraordinary, best in class lumen output. We're equally excited about their versatility and efficiency. CrystaLogic LED all-plastic lights are truly universal, meaning these lights are UL listed to go into virtually any manufacture's niche. Additionally, new pools with beach entries, steps, shelves, water features, etc. can also upgrade to LED lighting. What this will do for the ambiance of these bodies of water, not to mention the dramatic energy cost savings, is game changing."
These low voltage lights offer energy savings of up to 79 percent over incandescent and can last 10 times longer. "There is simply nothing that compares," said Sweeney. Based on actual integrating sphere lumen measurements, the CrystaLogic 300W delivers the same lumens as the leading competitor's claimed 500W equivalent light.
The key features of Hayward Commercial's new Universal CrystaLogic LED lighting system include:
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Judges assigned categories: Simon Cowell to mentor groups; Demi Lovato, young adults; L.A. Reid, over 25s; and Britney Spears to mentor teens
Judges make final category selections Wednesday, Oct. 17; first live performance show airs Thursday, Nov. 1
Learn more about the Top 24 atwww.TheXFactorUSA.com
The "Boot Camp" round of "The X Factor" came to a dramatic conclusion Wednesday when the Top 24 acts were revealed. Then, the show's producers informed the judges of the categories they will be mentoring for the rest of the season and which superstar guest would join each judge during the "Judges' Homes" round of the competition.
Simon Cowell, who will mentor groups, was joined by Marc Anthony. Demi Lovato, set to mentor young adults (17-24), was paired up with Nick Jonas. L.A. Reid, who will mentor over 25s (25 and up), was accompanied by Justin Bieber and talent manager Scooter Braun. Britney Spears, mentoring teens (16 and under), was joined by will.i.am.
Cowell will mentor the following six groups:
Dope Crisis
Lyric 145 (One4Five & Lyric Da Queen)
Sister C
Lovato will mentor the following six young adults (17-24):
•Cece Frey (age 21, from Decatur, Ill.)
•Jennel Garcia (age 18, from Rochester, Mass.)
•Jillian Jensen (age 20, from Rochester, Mass.)
•Willie Jones (age 18, from Shreveport, La.)
•Paige Thomas (age 22, from San Antonio)
•Nick Youngerman (age 21, from Tipp City, Ohio)
Reid will mentor the following over 25s (25 and Up):
•Vino Alan (age 40, from Laquey, Miss.)
•Daryl Black (age 38, from Elk Grove, Calif.)
•Jason Brock (age 35, from San Francisco)
•David Correy (age 27, from Riva, Md.)
•Tara Simon (age 28, from Smyrna, Ga.)
•Tate Stevens (age 37, from Raymore, Miss.)
Spears will mentor the following six teens (16 and under):
•Reed Deming (age 13, from San Antonio)
•Beatrice Miller (age 13, from Maplewood, N.J.)
•Arin Ray (age 17, from Cincinnati)
•Carly Rose Sonenclar (age 13, from Mamaroneck)
•James Tanner (age 15, from Columbus, Ohio)
•Diamond White (age 13, from Los Angeles)
To learn more about each of the Top 24 acts, visithttp://www.thexfactorusa.com/contestants/judges-homes.
Next week on Wednesday, Oct. 17 (8 to 10 p.m.), the judges will each reveal which four acts continue and which two acts are eliminated.
After the "Judges' Homes" round, "The X Factor" returns with special live episodes Thursday, Nov. 1 (8 until 10 p.m.), and on a special night Sunday, Nov. 4 (8 to 10 p.m.).


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Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University
465 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1971
Coming soon on edX: Online course 3/26/15 - 5/21/15
Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics: Basic Concepts
Registration open (free)
Online Forum: Questions from Readers
* Click here to visit the Q&A Forum
The forum is open to everyone, no membership is required.
Over the years our group has worked in many different areas, the dominant theme being current flow (that is, electronic transport) in nanostructures, including Spin Electronics, Nanoscale Device Physics, Mesoscopic Physics and Mesoscopic Superconductivity, Molecular Electronics.
Our primary research interest at this time is centered around
** Spin Transistor, Spin Circuits and Spin Logic, and
** the theroretical framework used for their analysis and design.
Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) method
Our first paper on this topic published in 1989,
S.Datta, Phys. Rev. B40, 5830 (1989),
established the relation between the NEGF method of many-body physics and the Landauer approach of mesoscopic physics.
Since then a significant part of our group's research has been focused on developing what we call the NEGF-Landauer method into a suitable conceptual framework for the description of quantum transport. This approach is now widely used in the modeling of quantum transport in nanoscale electronic devices.
My books are an extension of our group research, seeking to convey research results like the NEGF method to graduate students, professionals and more recently to a broader audience.
* Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor, Cambridge 2005 is intended to introduce the NEGF method to graduate students in electrical engineering, physics and chemistry. * Chapters 8-11 and the Appendix present the NEGF method.
* Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems, Cambridge 1995, 1997 is intended to introduce the scattering theory of transport (Landauer-Buttiker formalism) and relate it to the NEGF method, with graduate students in physics and electrical engineering in mind. * Chapter 8 presents the NEGF method relating it to the Landauer formalism.
* LNE: Lessons from Nanoelectronics, World Scientific 2012 is intended for a broad audience including students and professionals in other science and engineering disciplines. ** Part III (Lectures 18-23) of this book is devoted to making the NEGF (Non-Equilibrium Green's Function) method accessible to non-specialists.
A New Perspective on Transport
LNE: Lessons from Nanoelectronics: A New Perspective on Transport (World Scientific, 2012)
* LNE: Lessons from Nanoelectronics
* (1) introduces the seminal concepts of nanoelectronics and mesoscopic physics, and
* (2) shows that these concepts are not only relevant to small conductors but can also be used to obtain many standard results in the transport theory of large conductors in a relatively straightforward way.
This second point represents the new perspective and both (1) and (2) could be of broad relevance to the general problems of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics involving the emergence of irreversibility from reversible laws.
With this in mind we have tried to make the key concepts accessible to a broad audience.
Online Course
In Spring 2012 an online course on the Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics was offered using LNE as the text. Related video lectures, quizzes, homework problems and solutions can all be accessed by going to
Self-paced course on Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics, Part I: Basic Concepts
Self-paced course on Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics, Part II: Quantum Models
Introductory videos
Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics, Part I: Basic Concepts
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Tag: film
Making the Most of Kodak Aerochromewritten by lazybuddha on 2011-10-11 #gear #tutorials
Since I published my Aerochrome albums, I have been swamped with questions about various aspects of this incredible film. Several Lomographers have asked me to write an article explaining how to make the most of it, so here it is.75 290 Share Tweet
The BIG LomoKino Rumblewritten by tomas_bates on 2012-01-13 #news
If you've been waiting for a LomoKino rumble you can really dig your teeth into, this one is for you. We've got some out-of-this-world prizes, including a 1000 EUR film budget for the competition grand prize winner. This is your opportunity to turn all those movie-making dreams into a reality; so read on for full details and get submitting!261 75 Share Tweet
Handmade Color Processingwritten by stouf on 2010-10-02 #gear #tutorials
How to process color film at home, in your bathroom.79 223 Share Tweet
Dr. Lab Experiment One: Do the Dishwasherwritten by hti on 2010-10-29 #gear #tutorials
Meet Dr. Lab aka hti. Straight from the HQ Lomography Archive where he has been whipping up some weird and wonderful experiments just for you. Many thanks Dr. Lab for sharing your laboratory experience, secret techniques and analogue passion in the first of his special edition Film Freak Tipsters. Now come on everyone and do the dishwasher!70 204 Share Tweet
Click Click and Away : The Film Editionwritten by sladuredka on 2012-06-26 #news
Yesterday we asked you to click your way to a surprise camera, today we're giving you the chance to get your hands on a tasty film surprise. On your marks, get ready, get set, go......214 33 Share Tweet
Handmade Hybrid Processing (HPro)written by stouf on 2011-02-01 #gear #tutorials
'Ho nooo, I finished my C41 Bleach… Wait a minute… I have tons of E6 Bleach…' Thus, a new types of color processing are born! Get to know all of them right here, right now!67 177 Share Tweet
The Cheapskate Way to Value Negativeswritten by syafiqmddaud on 2011-04-11 #gear #tutorials
To those who have no budget on slide films, worry not. This is a suggestion for you to try by using negative films. Most of us use slide films to get strong yet vibrant colours of our pictures. But this way, you might not be having the same vibrant colours but may be able to have some better results even better than slide films do.46 170 Share Tweet
Get the Film Out the Canister Without a Film Pullerwritten by bongofury on 2011-06-21 #gear #tutorials
The people from the labs are our friends, but we all like to doubles, whether made with us or with someone halfway across the world, but what to do when the film gets inside the canister.45 155 Share Tweet
Shoot with Redscale in Overcast Weather!written by hodachrome on 2012-11-12 #gear #tutorials
Do you like overcast weather? I prefer sunny days for going out and shooting films, however, I also do like overcast because it's the best time to shoot with redscale! I love shooting in redscale, and in this article I'll let you in on secrets for how to master shooting in redscale in overcast weather!18 174 Share Tweet
Do Doubles on Different Sides of Your Film!written by porkchopsandy on 2011-07-15 #gear #tutorials
When you flip your film and shoot on the back side of it, you get the lovely redscale. But sometimes I do miss the blue colour from the film when I do that. Why not shoot on both sides then!38 155 Share Tweet
Best Usage of your Filmswritten by suizidekid on 2013-02-08 #gear #tutorials
A few tips on what films to use and the best conditions to use them.37 145 Share Tweet
Lomography India Nostagia : Film & Ink Rumblewritten by abhoan on 2011-09-21 #news
Nostalgia is one of the reasons why we all stick to film. One of the things which is always connected with that is handwritten postcards. And that's why we're bringing you a brand new contest, Nostagia : Film & Ink Rumble.132 45 Share Tweet
Redscale Technique: The Principle of Light Penetrabilitywritten by renenob on 2012-03-05 #gear #tutorials
I do not know if this is a unique idea; if it is, then I am taking my claim to immortality. Introducing, the "Principle of Light Penetrability" by Rene M. Nob.37 140 Share Tweet
Destroying Film to Play with Colorwritten by crevans27 on 2012-07-23 #gear #tutorials
Add a bit of excitement to your pictures and take a risk! Read on to find out more about my film destroyer tip, which produced psychedelic results!25 133 Share Tweet
How to Achieve Perfect Silhouette Doubleswritten by vtayeh on 2012-07-19 #gear #tutorials
Lomographers from all over the world love doing doubles but have you tried silhouette doubles? All you need is your favorite camera, some sun, and a bit of imagination. Read on to find out how to create perfect silhouette doubles every time even if your camera doesn't have an MX button, like the Polaroid Spectra.29 129 Share Tweet
A Beginner's Guide to C-41 Developing at Home (It's a Lot Easier Than you Think!) - Part One of Twowritten by blueskyandhardrock on 2013-03-22 #gear #tutorials
People are often surprised that I develop and even cross process my own negatives in the comfort of my own home, especially after they've seen my photos. And I am often surprised that they're surprised, considering how easy it is to do.37 120 Share Tweet
Astrophotography: The Easy Way!written by natalieerachel on 2011-11-08 #gear #tutorials
I decided to shoot a roll of doubles with myself layering the stars of the night sky with ordinary things down on Earth!36 121 Share Tweet
Click Click and Away: Accessories Editionwritten by sladuredka on 2012-06-27 #news
Hey there cowboys and cowgirls! It's time to get liking to win a surprise goodie again! Which is your favourite LomoAccessory? Click like and drop us a comment and you might be the lucky winner. Read on to find out how it works.122 24 Share Tweet
Back to Basics: Film Speedwritten by adam_g2000 on 2012-02-10 #gear #tutorials
Getting blurry shots when you shoot inside? Night shots all browny looking or washed out? Got no detail in clouds or snow or on beaches? Get the right film for the job.21 131 Share Tweet
Come on! Let's Do the Color Process!written by pepper-b on 2011-02-02 #gear #tutorials
Since I got into analogue photography, I´ve only developed one roll in the lab: they took one day to develop and scan it, and then I found out they hadn't scanned the sprocket holes… I really needed a scanner and knowledge on processing/developing!!31 116 Share Tweet
Mixing Words With Realitywritten by lilithmoon on 2012-01-06 #gear #tutorials
Some time ago, I read an article of cohetesnaranjas about a failed experiment of mixing words with landscape. I thought it was a wonderful idea so I kept it in my mind so that I could try it someday, maybe with something more.25 118 Share Tweet
Hail Mary, Her Photographs are Full of Gracewritten by basterda on 2010-11-26
She is young & talented and talented & young. Her photographs would undeniably justify these reversible descriptions. Seeing her stream of film photos entrances you into a dreamlike fantasy: inspiring, magical, vivid, and sometimes haunting in a lovely kind of way. And just like a wonderful dream, you'll want to go back to sleep again and again so you can dream more and, maybe, assimilate right into the beauty of her color negative stills itself. Mary Robinson, you make our eyes swoon.37 105 Share Tweet
Expired Film Competitionwritten by cruzron on 2012-03-05 #news
Past their prime and useless? Hardly! We love our expired film and we know you guys do as well! It's time to showcase your best shots taken with outdated film and we'll pick winners that are more than fresh!33 106 Share Tweet
Kodak Will Keep Film Alivewritten by plasticpopsicle on 2012-02-10 #news
Nearly a month after Kodak announced its move to file for bankruptcy protection, the iconic company finally has a good news for film photographers: it will cease the production of digital equipment but will carry on with its film division. Read more about it after the jump!42 97 Share Tweet
Instax Photo Collage Optical Illusionwritten by mafiosa on 2013-02-26 #gear #tutorials
Have you ever accidentally pressed the eject button on your instant-back adapter before taking a photo? If so, you have likely been crushed thinking about what an incredible waste it is to have to discard these instant "blanks". Well you no longer have to let them go to waste. You can re-purpose these blanks to create cool photo collages.38 103 Share Tweet
Dr. Lab Experiment Two: Bleach & Shout - 50's Effectwritten by hti on 2010-10-29 #gear #tutorials
Meet Dr. Lab aka hti. Straight from the HQ Lomography Archive where he has been whipping up some weird and wonderful experiments just for you. Many thanks Dr. Lab for sharing your laboratory experience, secret techniques and analogue passion in the second of his special edition Film Freak Tipsters. Now come on everyone bleach & shout!17 119 Share Tweet
Saran Wrappedwritten by natalieerachel on 2012-01-27 #gear #tutorials
Tired of boring photos? Grab some saran wrap from your kitchen cabinet and mask it! Read more after the jump!29 108 Share Tweet
Don't Diss Digital!written by pmcameraclub on 2011-06-21 #gear #tutorials
Analogue is the future, yes; we all know that?! BUT think how much this analogue revolution relies on digital intervention and why it works so well.30 105 Share Tweet
See Through your La Sardina DIY Using this Easy to Make Trompe l'œil Coverwritten by digitaljunk on 2012-09-27 #gear #tutorials
Dress up your La Sardina DIY camera to look as if it has not been covered at all! A step-by-step guide to creating a see-through optical illusion for your do-it-yourself sardine cam.28 107 Share Tweet
Add Baking Soda!written by mephisto19 on 2011-01-12 #gear #tutorials
A nice LabRat tutorial to gain strange effects on your films!29 102 Share Tweet


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US: More prisoners end hunger strike at Guantanamo
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The number of inmates on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison has dropped to 75 from a peak of 106 last week, and even most of the men still listed as strikers ate a meal in the last day, the U.S. military said Thursday in its latest tally of the protest that began in February.
Army Lt. Col. Sam House said in a phone interview from Guantanamo that 67 of those 75 inmates had eaten a meal during the previous 24 hours at the prison, which is currently serving food at night during the Muslim holy period of Ramadan, which lasts through early August.
The 67 detainees are still listed as hunger strikers because the U.S. military requires a minimum of three days of sustained eating and a minimal caloric intake before they can be removed from the tally. But House said the main factor must be that a prisoner wishes to be removed from the hunger strike list.
"We're not going to remove any individual who doesn't want to be removed. If they want to be considered a hunger striker and eat three meals a day, then they're a hunger striker and they eat three meals a day. That's just the way it is," he said.
A total of 46 prisoners are on the "enteral feed list," meaning they can be strapped down and fed a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube, according to the military's latest report on the protest at the jail at the U.S. military base in Cuba.
The strike has prompted President Barack Obama to criticize the force-feedings and renew his efforts to close the prison, which houses 166 inmates.
On Tuesday, a U.S. federal judge turned down a bid by three Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strike to stop authorities from force-feeding them. Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ruled she didn't have jurisdiction in the case because Congress removed Guantanamo detainees' treatment and conditions of confinement from the purview of federal courts. She also said there was "nothing so shocking or inhumane in the treatment" that would raise a constitutional concern.
An attorney in Oakland, California, Jon. B. Eisenberg, said Thursday he believed the reason why more prisoners were now eating was "because they have been threatened with deprivation of the right to perform special communal Ramadan prayers if they don't eat."
Eisenberg filed a motion Thursday seeking an emergency injunction against the alleged denial of the right to pray communally during Ramadan on behalf of the three detainees who were turned down by Collyer while he appeals her ruling. The men, Ahmed Belbacha, Nabil Hadjarab and Shaker Aamer, all have been cleared for release but remain at Guantanamo. More than half of the prison's population has been cleared for release, but the government has said it has been unable to find stable countries to transfer them to.
House dismissed the motion's assertions that prisoners were being denied their right to the free exercise of religion by denying them the ability to perform communal prayers during Ramadan. As a rule, all hunger striking detainees are kept in single cells for observation.
"It would be inappropriate for me to comment on issues which are in litigation; however, we take our commitment to ensure that detainees held in our care are afforded every opportunity to practice their faith, and, furthermore, any accusation that says otherwise is ridiculous," he said in an email later Thursday.
In April, prison authorities moved most of the men out of communal units and into single cells after detainees covered security cameras used to monitor them. The move set off a violent clash, but officials issued a "pardon" that erased the men's accumulated disciplinary infractions and permitted many of them to pray together in recent days after having been largely isolated from each other.
House declined to speculate on the reasons behind the reduced number of hunger strikers and said he was not aware of any reasons detainees may have given guards or medical staff. But he noted that Ramadan, an important period in the Muslim calendar in which the observant abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset, has historically been a tranquil period at Guantanamo.
He said eating regular meals is "a condition of communal living." Asked whether detainees who had resumed eating were being returned to communal living quarters, he said: "It is likely that they are, but I cannot speak for each one. There are some detainees who actually choose to be in a single cell."
According to the military's Thursday tally, three hunger strikers were being observed in a base hospital. It said none had any life-threatening condition.
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BE IT RESOLVED, by the city council (the council) of the city of Duluth, Minnesota (the city), as follows:
Section 1. Under and pursuant to the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, sections 410.32 and 412.301, and Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 475, and the City Charter, the city is authorized to issue its general obligation capital equipment certificates of indebtedness to provide funds to purchase capital equipment having an expected useful life at least as long as the term of the certificates of indebtedness.
Section 2. The city council declares the intent of the city to issue certificates of indebtedness in 2007 in the amount of approximately $1,950,000 to finance the purchase of capital equipment authorized by the act, together with an additional amount to pay costs of issuance of the certificates of indebtedness and discount in an amount estimated to be not more than $50,000.
Section 3. The capital equipment to be financed includes those items of equipment set forth on the list (Public Document No. __________), which list of equipment is hereby approved for purchase in 2007.
Section 4. The terms and conditions of the certificates of indebtedness and the sale thereof shall be established by further resolution of the council.
Section 5. This resolution constitutes a declaration of official intent under Treasury Regulations Section 1.150-2. The city reasonably expects to reimburse expenditures incurred with respect to such capital equipment purchase program.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: This resolution states the city's intent to issue general obligation equipment certificates of indebtedness, Series 2007, to finance the purchase of capital equipment. It further approves the capital equipment list as items to be bonded for in 2007 in the amount of $1,950,000 plus an additional amount for costs of issuance and discount.


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We Didn't Start the Fire
You aren't responsible for Quran burners. Don't hold Muslims responsible for 9/11.
Two days ago, hundreds of Afghans gathered in Kabul to denounce the United States for burning the Quran. They torched American flags, chanted "Death to America," and carried signs calling for the death of President Obama. Some of them hurled rocks at U.S. troops. A student in the crowd said of the planned Quran burning: "We know this is not just the decision of a church. It is the decision of the president and the entire United States."
He's wrong, of course. The Quran burning is the brainchild of a Florida minister and his tiny fundamentalist church. It has been condemned by the White House, the State Department, the commanding U.S. general in Afghanistan, Christian organizations, and countless Americans. But when clerics in Egypt denounce the incendiary plan, we feel the heat. When thousands of Muslims rally against it in Indonesia, they do so outside our embassy. When an imam in Kabul threatens retaliation, he casts a shadow on all of us: "If they decide to burn the holy Quran, I will announce jihad against these Christians and infidels."
This is how it feels to be judged by the sins of others who destroy in the name of your faith. You're no more responsible for 30 Christian extremists in Florida than Muslims are for the 19 hijackers of 9/11. Yet most of us, when polled, say that no Muslim house of worship should be built near the site of the 9/11 attacks. In saying this, we implicitly hold all Muslims accountable for the crime of those 19 people.
Now you know how it feels to be judged that way. It's inaccurate, and it's wrong.
Of course the two situations are different. The hijackers killed 3,000 people; the Quran burners would destroy only their own property. The hijackers were organized by a global terrorist network; the Quran burners are acting alone. But the Quran burners claim to speak for Christianity, just as the hijackers claimed to speak for Islam. And the Quran burners have many open supporters on Facebook in addition to others who are quietly cheering them on.
You, your country, and your faith are being held accountable for the deeds of these people. A widely viewed YouTube video combines "International Burn-the-Quran Day" shirts proclaiming "ISLAM IS OF THE DEVIL" (marketed by the same Florida church), satirical cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed, European criticism of Islamic veils, and myths about U.S. troops flushing a Quran down a toilet. The video says these "attacks on Muslims," including U.S. invasions of Muslim countries, expose the "hatred of the disbelievers." It calls on Muslims to "rise up and do something."
The video also features a sign at a rally: "No More Mosques." Our indiscriminate, collective-responsibility campaign against mosques is being used in an indiscriminate, collective-responsibility campaign against us and our troops.
A pastor who preaches at a nearby Florida church is aghast at the global outrage the Quran-burning minister has provoked. "He represents only 30 people in this town," the pastor tells the New York Times. "It needs to get out somehow to the rest of the world that this isn't the face of Christianity."
It will, Reverend. Right after it gets out to the rest of the world that we don't think the 9/11 hijackers are the face of Islam. Like Slate on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. William Saletan's latest short takes on the news, via Twitter:


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Beyond Beige: Bold & Beautiful Kitchen Floors
I recently stuck my toe in the real estate waters to see what townhouses are out there for sale. One thing that already stands out to me is how much I dislike the beige tile floors that seem to turn up in every kitchen. Some nice wood would be perfectly good, but these examples have me daydreaming about a different look.
While calling these floors "bold" might make it seem like they would only fit in with edgy decor, but they can work with a variety of styles. After all, some of them are classics — such as French and Moroccan tiles and black and white checkerboard (Images 1, 2, and 3, respectively). There are, of course, crazier ones like the Sharpie floor in Image 9.
For example, I could see the tiles in the more traditional kitchens in Image 1 and 7 also looking great in more modern settings. As it is, the flooring makes the kitchens shown stand out so much more than if it were beige, beige, beige.
For wood floors that aren't in great shape, you can consider painting part (Image 8) or all of it (Image 4). Stripes and geometric patterns are unexpected (Images 5 and 6), and a colorful floor can be an alternative or complement to colorful walls.
• Painted Floors: Inspiration Gallery
• Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
• Tile Vault: Villa Lagoon
• Penny Tile Floor at the Standard Hotel
• Nickel Tile Floor! A DIY Bathroom Renovation
Images: 1. Elle Decor 2. Scott Copley via Kitchen Clarity 3. Kate Spade's kitchen via Polka Dots and Puppies 4. High-Heeled Foot in the Door 5. Orlando Soria via Design*Sponge 6. M-Dashing 7. via Cococozy 8. Nora Fleming via Orange Beautiful 9. Olle Hemmendorff 10. Merrilee McGehee via J&K Homestead