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Boulder Public Library officials are walking back a policy change that would have barred children under the age of 12 from the city's libraries unless they were with a parent.
The rule change was put in place out of concern that young children sometimes were left alone in the children's sections and got scared or acted up. Also, the children's section at the main branch downtown is near the front entrance, raising the potential for a child to wander off, library officials said.
However, parents of older children who had been using the libraries on their own for years objected. They pointed out that their children can ride their bikes around Boulder unattended and even take the bus to Denver.
On Tuesday night, the Boulder Library Commission voted unanimously to replace the new rule about unattended children with language used by the Poudre River Public Library District in Fort Collins, where the policy says that children in need of supervision must be accompanied by a parent.
The policy also states that the library will not act "in loco parentis," or in place of the parents, and if a child has a significant problem in the library and a parent cannot be located, the child can be placed in the custody of the police.
Commission member Donna O'Brien was absent, but the other four commission members approved the change in language.
Commission member Anne Sawyer suggested using Poudre River's language, at least as an interim policy while library officials look at the issue in more depth, because it lets parents determine whether their child is mature enough to be alone in the library. However, it also makes it clear that library employees aren't responsible for children left unattended.
"We heard from a lot of the public that 12 years old was too old and these kids are often in middle school and get themselves to and from school and have a lot of liberty," said Sawyer, recalling that she often went to the library by herself as a child. "It's a great transitional place where children can learn to be on their own."
However, the new rule won't go into effect right away.
Library spokeswoman Jennifer Bray said the new policy has to go through the same process that the original rule change did, with review by the City Attorney's Office, a public comment period and another vote by the Library Commission.
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Just to be clear, we're going with the AGD logo and not the AO logo?Originally Posted by DevilMan
for some reason my choice did not show up the first time so I re-entered them and for the record here they are again:
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Great. Thanks DM, now that you've said that I won't get my SK2k9 (Super Knife 2009) until 2010Originally Posted by DevilMan
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QTY: < 2 >~~~ STYLE: Classic black ~~< MAS, MAS >
Qty: < 1 >~~~ Style: Edge Stealth/tactical ~~ < 003 >
Qty: < 1 >~~~ Style: Edge Stealth/tactical ~~ < BEO >
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Well, can I get one the 30 then? If not, I'll go with the regular Black but I really liked that stealth one.Originally Posted by DevilMan
Thanks for doing it and please don't give up. This will be really nice to open paint bags on the field.
Don't matter to me, so if it helps you can change mine to regular Black. Length don't matter either, for what it's worth. Thanks
Im not sure if its been asked or not. What size are the initials going to be compared to the Logo, Also where are they located? Im just trying to picture the knifes with initials & logos.
Sounds good. Just like to know what im getting.Originally Posted by DevilMan
ALRIGHT!!! I updated the first post!!!! PLEASE READ!!!! The RED PART!!! Well read all of it, just in case and again make sure I have your order correct...
But read the red part!!! VERY IMPORTANT!!!!
Thank you!!!
Since you asked... ~>Originally Posted by cougar20th
I was going to leave the HEX off as a surprise of sorts... but thought why not go ahead so everyone will at least have a good idea as to what to expect. Depending on what the LaserGuy says, and what everyone who wants one says... oh sheesh.. another question... well anyway... I know the initials/numbers have to be put on knife by knife... I think they will all be burned with the logo and the hex. I'm not sure yet what the options will be for programming it in. It could be burn all logos and add or don't add initials or it could be if the AGD logo gets burned so does the HEX logo.... I don't know yet... I have not ran these options past the laser guy as I just now roughed them up and just found out today that I can get the knives. So if it's going to add too much to the overall cost then it'll be cut from the project. I will post up when I know for sure what's what....
If that is an issue with the most of you, then fine I'll leave it off of all of them... As it stands the whole thing is running into LOADS of options already.... Anyway... What do ya think? PLEASE EDIT YOUR POST!!!!!
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Alright folks the hammer has dropped!!!! I've ordered up the knives. They should ship out this week and I should have them by the weekend. I'll work them up and hopefully get them mailed to laser next week. This means I need MONEY!!!!!
Please if you are only getting 1 then payment is quick n easy... please send $17.50 to my PP or EMAIL me if you want to mail me payment and I'll get you my address.
My PP addy is ~> Mook6665 ( A T ) h o t m a i l ( D O T ) com
If you are getting multiple ones, or are out of "country" then please stand by and I'll be sending you the amount via PM or Email. I'll PM you here to let you know how much as it differs from one to the next because of shipping costs.
Anyone that wanted the stealth or black will be getting a black Gen 2.5. I'm sorry, and if that's not alright with you, then please let me know. I do prefer the Gen 2.5 over all of the other choices, even the stealth because of the belt clip.
So please get payment sent over ASAP!!! I will NOT send a knife off to get lasered if it has NOT been paid for!!!!
If you have any questions please post up here... at least all of the order stuff is up front so I can find it easily enough. If you are changing your order please do so in your initial post...
Thank you all!!!
Looks good. Just let me know final cost for my two.
You have been paid.
~ P8nt
Same here. I'll get you payment ASAP. ThanksOriginally Posted by cougar20th
I have sent you my monies.
Is that a total of $35 for my two knives?
Probably less considering the reduced shipping. That's my guess why the total for multiple purchases has to be pm'ed.Originally Posted by Frizzle Fry
Payment sent
$35 would be fine, but as stated, I can give a buck or so off due to combined shipping I figure... I was going to take some in when they got here and get exact numbers to be honest...Originally Posted by Frizzle Fry
I would say least would be $33, so somewhere in there should be a safe bet. I know it's not much, but I'll try what I can.
Thank you all for the quick payments already!!! As soon as they show, they'll start getting labeled and ready for laser!!!!
ima have to look at these :P
Yeah we don't want him making a buck or 2 ( TOTAL SARCASM )Originally Posted by DevilMan
I think you doing this is great , you'll be getting 35$ from me on the gift side of PP
I'll get payment out in the morning. Keep the extra for a beer or soda.
Payment sent. Keep the change as a 'co-op fee'
-- Feedback--
PPal sent ho ho ho
Payment sent for my 2. Get yourself a 40oz with that extra 2 bucks


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Road charging: Heavy lorries to pay for costs of air and noise pollution
EU Ministers have today voted in favour of new EU rules to allow Member States to charge heavy lorries, not only for the costs of the infrastructure which is currently the case, but also to levy an additional charge to cover the cost of air and noise pollution. The proposal to revise the current "Eurovignette Directive" will enable Member States to better manage problems of congestion, with a new flexibility to differentiate the charges applied to heavy lorries at different periods of the day.
Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Transport, said "This is an important step in the right direction. It is part of a much broader drive to create a "fair financial" framework for transport where prices for the different transport modes reflect the real costs to society and the taxpayer. These new rules send the right signals to operators. The aim is to incentivise a shift in behaviour so companies invest in more efficient logistics, less polluting vehicles and more sustainable transport at large."
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About 30,000 km of motorways are current tolled in Europe. About half of these are in the TEN-T network and therefore fall in the scope of the "Eurovignette" Directive. Under the revised Directive all motorways should be covered. This is a substantial increase with all of Europe's 30,000 km of tolled motorway covered.
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It has become an annual tradition for several Taft High football players to take part in the US Army Arena Bowl. That tradition will continue this year when Wildcat quarterback Vaughn Richardson and Matua Iakopo compete in the 2013 version Friday, April 19 at Rabobank Arena.
Both players will be part of the black team. Joining Richardson and Iakopo on the team are Bakersfield Christian's Robert Keathley, Wasco's Kyle Wedel and Arvin's Jordan Wood along with players from Garces, Independence, Frontier, Centennial, Frazier Mountain, Liberty, Bakersfield High, West, Stockdale, Northwest Christian and Ridgeview.
Richardson and Iakopo will go up against familiar players in Shafter's Derrick Barton, Wasco's Garrett Johnson and Arvin's Orlando Perez. Those three players will be joining others from Garces, Independence, Frontier, Centennial, Golden Valley, West, Bakersfield High School, Stockdale, Liberty Ridgeview, Kern Valley and South.
Richardson completed his career at Taft High this past season by going 95-for-233 for 1693 yards with 15 touchdowns. Meanwhile, Iakopo led in rushing with 51 carries for 760 yards and seven touchdowns. Iakopo also had five catches for 153 yards and two touchdowns. On the defensive end, Iakopo had 74 tackles.
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The Fourth House
by Dana Gerhardt
When I was growing up, at least once or twice a summer my mother would command my sister and I to toil on the big hill in our backyard, weeding the dandelions and mustard grass that flourished there. Weeds must be pulled by the roots or they'll just grow back again. But perched on the hill with my cardboard box, while the kitchen window that held my mother's warden eye was so small and distant, and the earth below was so hard and rocky the weeds were fixed to the ground, I took the easy way out. I yanked the damn things off at the stem.
Unhappy feelings are a lot like weeds. Neglect to take them up by the roots and they'll just grow back again. Yet who probes willingly into the soil where emotions grow? Finding the roots of feeling can be hard. You might learn this under the gray skies of a Saturn/Moon transit. If you're like most people, you'll try to ignore your depression. You'll put on a happy face for loved ones. You'll pretend to be caring, cool-headed or commanding at work. You'll send energy to your 1st house image, your 7th house partner, or your 10th house career. But eventually, inexorably, you'll fall. And the 4th house is where you'll land.
The 4th is where we go when we collapse. It rules home and family, ancestors and homeland. It provides a literal retreat. Push ourselves too hard and we'll likely end up at home, sick in bed. Suffer a devastating loss and we may knock on the door of a family member and ask to be taken in. But the 4th is just as much a retreat of the imagination. It is our psychic hearth. It holds the memories that both comfort and haunt us. As the base of our chart, it represents both the ground and mystery of our being. If we lean over the chasm of the 4th, we'll find, as the poet Rilke wrote, "something dark and like a web, where a hundred roots are silently drinking."1
This is not the definition I got from my astrology books. I have a 4th house Sun. The books said this meant I'd care deeply about my family. As a child I did, but then most children do. As an adult, I was never happier than when my family moved a thousand miles away. Holidays became a spacious new ground. The books said family relationships would sustain me. I've seen my father twice in twenty years. My sister has cut me out of her life a dozen times. And now my adventurous Aries mother is buying a home in Slovakia. When I hear others speak in gooey tones about how they miss their families, I am an anthropologist observing an alien culture. I have knowledge of their rituals, but I don't understand them.
The books said I might cherish my extended family or get into exploring the family tree. Family celebrations with aunts and uncles and cousins stopped when I was five. Aunts from both sides of the family have done extensive genealogies. I've had little curiosity about those pages full of names. Nor do the old photos of great aunts and grandparents inspire much connection. When my son was born, I gave him neither my last name nor his father's. I made one up, something alliterative. I liked the sound of it - which seemed more interesting than his carrying the name of ancestors I didn't know.
The books also said with a 4th house Sun, I'd be lucky in real estate. This was interesting. For years this was my dream. Not that I wanted to chauffeur Lookey Lous around or hold "open houses" every weekend. I just wanted to be gifted enough to buy my own home. In my twenties and thirties, I couldn't walk or drive down a residential street without feeling pangs of envy. How was it all these people managed to own homes? Why hadn't I? It seemed an impossible dream. If it's true the Sun's house identifies your hero's journey, then perhaps buying a home was mine.
It was definitely a milestone when I bought my first property. I sold it during a market slump and lost money. On the next home I made triple what I'd lost before. But my luck seemed more market-based than astrological. Everybody made and lost money at the same time I did. Last night a friend called with an urgent investment opportunity. "Rogue Valley is starting to boom!" he said. "If we pool our money and buy some rental properties in Grants Pass right now, in five years we'll be set for life. Really, we should do this!" I remembered my 4th house Sun. It was tempting. I searched for some inner confirmation of my destiny as a real estate magnate. There was no affirming spark.
None of the textbook readings for the 4th house seemed quite right. I needed to go deeper--back to the basics. The Sun in the 4th house literally describes a birth near midnight. This was in fact the origin of the horoscope's angles. With the four angles, the ancient Egyptians marked the Sun god's daily round. The Ascendant symbolized sunrise and beginnings; the Midheaven, the Sun's noontime zenith and one's public success; the Descendant evoked sunset, the descent and dissolving of the solar self. The angle marking the 4thhouse, the IC, recalled midnight, a time when the Sun god lay hidden between death and new life. The IC represented a transformation point, between the old day and the new.
Whatever your birth time, any planets in the 4th will have this "midnight" reality. Fourth house territory is what you find when, late at night, you close your eyes. It's what you encounter when you're all alone in the dark. Planets here lie beneath your surface. They are as deeply private as those in the opposite 10th are inescapably public. It's difficult to talk about 4th house planets with clients. The meanings are clear enough. Pluto in the 4th suggests a childhood full of hidden agendas and power struggles. Neptune indicates a family secret that permeated the air but was never spoken. Saturn suggests a home suffused with the dynamics of fear and control. You can talk about such histories with clients. But opening them up and touching them, for they do live on, is difficult.
Close your eyes now. Who or what is there? That's your 4th house reality. And that's how I've asked people to enter this house for years. Your family will be there, in your memories. Your ancestors will be there, in the rhythmic pulse of your blood. Your home will be there, as the secure base that allows you to connect with your innermost self. But you'll discover even greater mysteries. In the 4th you'll find your spirit center, your life source, your inner country of renewal. There will be times when you need to recreate yourself - and you'll do this by descending into the 4th house first. With the Sun in my own 4th house, it's taken me years to learn that my hero's journey was not so much to buy a home. Rather it was to learn about creating home and being at home in my world. I've had to learn this not just once, but many times.
The easiest way to discuss transits or progressions to the 4th is to start with the literal home. Pluto or Uranus in the solar return 4th is a likely indicator of moving to a new one. Neptune in the 4th may imply plumbing leaks or water damage, the discovery of toxic substances in the basement - perhaps an infestation of ghosts! Saturn transiting the natal 4th suggests a period when the house feels cramped or burdened with family duties and obligations.
What happens in the outer house often mirrors its domestic situation. Pluto transiting a 4th house planet can inspire both renovations and marital struggles. Jupiter transiting the 4th can bring a year of feeling blessed--with a spacious home and an abundance of family support. Mars in the 4th might bring an intruder, but more typically it suggests conflict. This is a time when family anger won't be suppressed.
Less easy to articulate, but perhaps more universally true, is how transits to the 4th are experienced on an inner level. Unwanted memories may flood to the surface. Dream imagery may be particularly shrill. Your body may feel exhausted. You might notice a persistent urge to stay at home with the bedcovers pulled over your head. These are signs. They're calling you to the task of "homing" - the cyclic return to oneself.
The homing process is described in rich detail by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in Women Who Run With the Wolves.2 As archetypal template for this recurring need, she offers "The Seal Maiden," a story that appears in various forms across many Northern cultures. It goes like this: One day a lonely hunter discovers a remarkable sight--a group of laughing, shimmering, and utterly naked women dancing on a cliff. They are seal sisters, who have shed their skins to dance briefly in the topside world, before returning to the sea. The hunter can't help himself. He steals one of the skins and strikes a bargain with the hapless seal maiden. If she agrees to be his wife and bear his child, he'll let her go in seven years.
What can she do but say yes? In the seventh summer, when it's time for her to don her pelt and go back home, the hunter changes his mind. He refuses to return her sealskin. Her human skin begins to dry. Her hair falls out. Her eyes grow dull and her body withers. Limping and nearly blind, she is like one of the homeless ones from whom we typically avert our gaze.
" Homelessness haunts us all," writes J. Edward Chamberlin. "One of the reasons we walk so nervously around the homeless on our streets is that we don't want to get too close to something we fear so deeply."4 Or is it something we already know. Chronic depression and fatigue are epidemic. They suggest a kind of psychic dispossession - an inner form of homelessness. It is what happens when we go too long without touching the life source in our 4th.
We've all experienced a sealskin theft. We've said yes to something in the topside world. Perhaps it was a promotion that would bring more money. Or a relationship that stole our heart. Maybe it was a pregnancy. Sometimes it's naivete or sheer stupidity that makes us vulnerable to psychic theft. We might have gone on an over-the-top buying spree. Or joined a questionable religious group. But not all our sealskin thefts are bad deals. It could be anything - even good things - that take us away from ourselves.
There is an inevitable conflict between the needs of the soul and the demands of public life. From the 4th we're called to serve society in our 10th house role. Our 2nd house wants us to put food on the table. Our children call us into the 5th. Our partners want attention in our 7th. In the seal maiden's story, we can read the hunter as ego. It's his job to take us into these outer worlds. But if the hunter leads us too far from our psychic skin, we will lose sustaining spirit. It doesn't matter how good our initial choices were.
Transits and progressions to the 4th can restore our spirit. This includes transits to the Midheaven. We often forget that these are also transits to the IC, so focused are we on problems of career and public identity. But to keep our outer lives informed by soul, we cannot neglect our psyche's foundation. To live in balance we must stay close to our sealskins and keep a natural rhythm of going and returning.
The sign on our 4th suggests how best to replenish ourselves. It hints at what it feels like to have our sealskin on. Taurus on the 4th will need to ground in earthy sensuality, to be nourished by touch, familiar habits, or the security of material things. Aquarius on the 4th will feel restored by shaking up routines or having the freedom to think and move without entanglements. Aries on the 4th must periodically don the pelt of "me, me, me!"
I can forget the most important things I know.
Some months ago, past midnight, I awoke suddenly. It was dark, I was alone. My partner had gone on a book tour. The stepkids were with their mom. My own son was with his father. For the first time in the two years since I moved to Oregon, I was sleeping by myself. With a start, I remembered this was my definition of the 4th house. Okay, I said, it's time. Inwardly, I felt for the familiar walls of my midnight self. But it was awkward, strange. Like that uncomfortable period of silence with an old friend that lets you both know you don't really know each other anymore. I didn't like the silence. I wanted to get back to sleep, read a book, turn on the TV.
" When did you grow uncomfortable with the territory of silence?" This is one of the questions shamans ask of patients who are depressed, displaced, or disheartened. 3 They also ask "When did you stop singing?" and "Why did you quit your dancing?" I was no longer singing or dancing at home--signs that the seal skin woman needed her pelt. There were other signs. I was suffering from unbearable fatigue and so many food allergies I couldn't keep track of them. My life had grown thick with entanglements, new demands on my time, new pressures to succeed; as well, many unconscious attachments had returned, old relationship patterns, inner messages of self worth, an addiction to doing. And the part of my root system that used to extend deep into reverie, wonder, and peace, the part that knew deeply who I was and why I came here, was now withering, nearly dry. Could I draw water into those roots again?
I don't know if what happened next was a step forward or backward in my hero's journey. But with Sagittarius in my 4th house I needed freedom. I moved out. I bought my own home down the street. For the first two months I was in a state of collapse. But eventually I began to sing again, inane impromptu tunes. I started to dance in the way that makes my son roll his eyes and groan "M-om," like it's a two-syllable word. I could sit in my living room and peel off the outer roles I'm known by, mother, lover, astrologer, daughter, writer, sister, friend. I could dissolve my pressures, fears, the memories of successes and failures, the ache of my desires. I could be nothing but the one who sat there, breathing. And the world around me grew large again. My health and love relationships improved. These things happen when your connection to the 4th is right.
In Deborah Houlding's excellent little book on traditional house meanings, the 4th house rulerships read like poetry: "Everything that relates to the foundation and roots of our existence. ... It rules hidden treasure and the treasures of the earth, such as mines and minerals, gems, oil, wells and water supplies. ... It rules land, the quality and nature of the ground (whether it is fertile, swampy, woody, stony or barren), and all the buildings and structures on it. ... It is said to indicate the beginning and end of all things, representing childhood experiences that give rise to an unconscious emotional experience of life, the vulnerability of old age, the process of death, and funerals."5
To look only at the 4th for family or real estate matters diminishes this rich legacy, as does the contentious debate over which parent the 4th house signifies - mother or father. The parent confusion springs from a conflict over planetary rulers. In traditional astrology, the Sun rules the 4th - hence, its association with fathers. Modern astrology says the Moon rules this house - hence, its link to mothers. But I agree with Howard Sasportas that it's impossible to fix the 4th house to either parent.6
The role each parent plays in a child's development - not planetary rulerships - may be the safest means for locating parents in a chart. Sasportas makes a convincing argument that we'll find the "shaping parent"in our 10th. This is the one who had the greatest influence on our societal development. The 4th describes the more "hidden parent" - the one whose influence may have been less outwardly visible, but possibly stronger at an unconscious level.
In The Astrological Houses, Dane Rudhyar sidesteps the parental debate altogether. He acknowledges the traditional view of the 4th. It indeed holds our earthy foundations - from the superficial facts of real estate and home, to all that land implies - the soil from which things grow and to which things return. But this view also suggests an archaic "flat land" mentality. It forgets the earth is a spinning globe, not a solid floor stretching on that way forever. If, says Rudhyar, we instead imagine our roots descending into a sphere, we'll reach a new and deeper meaning for the 4th. We'll discover "the experience of center." We'll find the matrix of our feeling nature. To be in the 4th is to be centered in the self. The 4th house holds the same kind of life-giving rhythmic power as our heart.
The more one explores the depths of the 4th the less it seems like a place one can point to on a map. It seems more like a state of mind. This is not so different from Clarissa Pinkola Estes' definition of home: "Home is that sustained mood or sense that allows us to experience feelings not necessarily sustained in the mundane world: wonder, vision, peace, freedom from worry, freedom from demands, freedom from constant clacking."8 In this home of the imagination, there is room for both the Sun and Moon. This 4th house nurtures us like a lunar mother, it sustains us like a father Sun. It invites us to sing and dance to its shifting rhythms. It holds that castle where we are king.
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SEATTLE, WASH. - Freshman Michael Redlicki helped seal the doubles point and after falling, 1-6, in the opening set of his singles match the rookie went on to clinch the ninth-ranked Duke men's tennis team win over No. 5 Pepperdine Sunday, 4-1, to close out play in the consolation round at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship at the Seattle Tennis Club. The Blue Devils conclude the indoor portion of their schedule with an 11-2 record, while Pepperdine falls to 6-2 on the season.
"I saw the true character of our team tonight," said head coach Ramsey Smith. "I couldn't be prouder of my guys. They put absolutely everything into that match and competed like champions. We've been battling some adversity recently, and it makes this win especially sweet."
The contest opened with three exciting matches won by two games or less in the doubles portion of the match. The Blue Devils claimed the first win of the opening point at the third position after the junior pair of Fred Saba and Chris Mengel defeated David Sofaer and Mousheg Hovhannisyan, 8-6. The Waves countered with a win at the No. 1 spot, as second-ranked Henrique Cunha and Raphael Hemmeler were edged by Finn Tearney and Francis Alcantara, 6-8.
With the deciding match being played at the No. 2 position, the duo of Jason Tahir and Redlicki clinched the doubles point for Duke with a narrow 8-7 decision over Sebastian Fanselow and Alex Sarkissian. The win is the duo's fourth consecutive win and they now own a 17-4 mark for the season.
Pepperdine evened the team score at one by taking the first singles match of the contest on court four, after Mengel was unable to recover from a slow start and was defeated by Alcantara, 6-1, 6-3. Minutes later, Hemmeler reclaimed the lead for the Blue Devils as he defeated Hovhannisyan, 6-2, 6-4. The win for Hemmeler is his team-leading 21st win of the season, as the sophomore owns a perfect 7-0 ledger from the fifth position. At the No. 6 position, Tahir gave the team a 3-1 lead in the match after he defeated Sofaer, 6-4, 6-4. A product of Rochester, N.Y., Tahir remains unbeaten when playing in the No. 6 spot in the singles lineup, with a 5-0 record for the season.
After dropping the first set of his match 1-6, Redlicki, a product of Hawthorn Woods, Ill., bounced back in a big way for the Blue Devils to clinch the match in a decisive third set over Sarkissian, 1-6, 7-6, 6-4. The rookie now owns an 8-3 record in dual matches this season.
In the No. 1 position, Cunha was on serve in the third frame of his match at 5-all, before the match was ultimately left unfinished, 3-6, 6-4, 5-5, while Saba's match in the second position was also left unfinished in a decisive third set, 6-2, 7-6.
Duke concludes play at the ITA National Team Indoors with a 2-1 record for the third consecutive season, defeating No. 8 Oklahoma, 4-0, and No. 5 Pepperdine, 4-1, while falling to top-ranked Virginia, 4-0. The Blue Devils picked up their first win over the Waves since January 29, 2011, a 4-3 decision.
Up next, Duke will begin the outdoor portion of its schedule, as it hosts Virginia Commonwealth at Ambler Tennis Stadium on Tuesday, March 5 at 2 p.m., before concluding the non-conference portion of the schedule on the road Sunday, March 11 against Cal.-Berkeley at 4 p.m. ET.
2013 ITA National Men's Team Indoor Championship
Hosted by the University of Washington
(5) Pepperdine vs. (9) Duke
Feb. 17, 2013 at Seattle, Wash.
No. 9 Duke 4, No. 5 Pepperdine 1
1. Tearney/Alcantara (PEP)def. #2 Cunha/Hemmeler (DUKE), 8-6
2. #18 Redlicki/Tahir (DUKE) def. Fanselow/Sarkissian (PEP), 8-7
3. #33 Saba/Mengel (DUKE) def. Sofaer/Hovhannisyan (PEP), 8-6
Order of Finish: 3, 1, 2
1. #4 Sebastian Fanselow (PEP) vs. #9 Henrique Cunha (DUKE), 6-3, 4-6, 5-5 unfinished
2. #105 Finn Tearney (PEP) vs. #31 Fred Saba (DUKE), 2-6, 7-6 unfinished
3. #15 Michael Redlicki (DUKE) def. #89 Alex Sarkissian (PEP), 1-6, 7-6, 6-4
4. Francis Alcantara (PEP) def. #53 Chris Mengel (DUKE), 6-1, 6-3
5. #57 Raphael Hemmeler (DUKE) def. Mousheg Hovhannisyan (PEP), 6-4, 6-2
6. Jason Tahir (DUKE) def. David Sofaer (PEP), 6-4, 6-4
Order of Finish: 4, 5, 6, 3


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Modern Home Furnishings Celebrate Italian Design
Dallas, TX - Cantoni, the modern furniture retailer and design studio, will introduce a Natuzzi Italia showroom as part of the Flagship's 20,000 square foot expansion this winter. The Natuzzi Italia store-within-a-store concept is exclusive to Cantoni in Dallas.
"Cantoni's partnership with Natuzzi Italia delivers on our 28 year commitment to bringing our clients the best in cutting-edge modern design, said Michael Wilkov, Cantoni Founder and CEO. "Natuzzi Group-Italy's largest furniture manufacturer-is known around the world as a leader in leather furniture and Natuzzi Italia represents the finest of Natuzzi on a global level. Natuzzi Italia designs are merchandised with a comprehensive range of high-style furnishings for a whole home concept that epitomizes the excellence, fashion and quality of products designed and crafted in Italy."
Cantoni will mark the opening with an intimate preview party in partnership with Modern Luxury Interiors Texas on Thursday, December 6th. The exclusive evening event, hosted in the new Natuzzi Italia space, will celebrate Italian design and boast live cooking demonstrations in the store's fully functioning Bontempi Cucine kitchen by renowned chef Anthony Van Camp of SER Steak & Spirits. Guests will also enjoy fine Italian wines and cocktails by Ultimate Vodka & Patron, along with a special performance by award-winning quartet, DSQ Electric.
Cantoni's 4,000 square-foot glass-encased Natuzzi Italia shop-in-shop will feature the Iuxury label's sleek collections including the Plaza, Frank, Opus, Savoy, Brio, Wave, Sound, Avana, Surround, Releve, Cambre and Opera. Patrons will be greeted by warm and welcoming hues of natural materials and precious timbers that comprise the foundation of each unique installation in the Natuzzi Italia space.
Each vignette, artfully appointed, will feature distinctive furniture collections, case goods and accessories, hand-crafted in Italy using precious timbers, the luxurious leathers and coveted fabrics.
"The Natuzzi Italia store-within-a-store concept is unique to Cantoni and to the Dallas marketplace," said Brad Cates, Senior Vice President, Natuzzi Americas.
"As we move forward with aggressive growth plans for Natuzzi Italia in key markets, we are particularly excited to partner with a retail leader like Cantoni because it provides great consumer exposure to the Natuzzi Italia brand inside one of the industry's most recognized and respected lifestyle furniture retailers. No one understands the desires of design-conscious shoppers in the Dallas market better than Cantoni."
Cantoni's Natuzzi Italia showroom will open to the public on Friday, December 7th. Shoppers will find that the new Natuzzi Italia installation is one part of the 20,000-square-foot expansion that will boast new showrooms including a sleep studio, outdoor entertaining, flooring and among other launches slated to open this winter.
Founded in 1984 by Michael Wilkov, Cantoni, is a full service interior design resource, that delivers cutting edge modern furnishings and design services with integrity, insight and innovation. With retail locations in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Irvine as well as Los Angeles and a team of talented design consultants who specialize in creating sophisticated, modern interiors, Cantoni has earned a reputation among its discerning clientele for excellence in design and business practices.
Founded in 2012, Modern Luxury Interiors Texas serves as a premier guide to the best of home, art, architecture and design throughout the Lone Star State, with a focus on the design-minded cities of Dallas and Houston, as well as San Antonio and Austin.
Published quarterly, Modern Luxury Interiors Texas provides local editorial with a highly targeted distribution that includes design influencers and end-users. In addition, the magazine is also sold in Central Market, Whole Foods, and Barnes & Noble Bookstores.
For more information, visit www.cantoni.com and follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CantoniDesign and become a fan on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cantonifurniture


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"Awesome Campus, Awesome Students, Awesome Teachers. Lots of Trees."
A new video shows what makes Drew Drew.
A fresh and visually powerful Drew recruitment video is making the rounds this semester at college fairs and open houses.
Geared to prospective students, the video rolls out Full-Impact Learning, Drew's core educational philosophy whose goal is to push students to think, question and shun intellectual complacency, all qualities in high demand in today's job market.
Even without an Oscar category for recruitment videos, the production has garnered critical acclaim: "Great job capturing the breadth and depth of a Drew education," says Professor of Political Science Debra Liebowitz, "in under five minutes."
Flashing through hundreds of campus images (see how many people and places you recognize), the video also features a commissioned soundtrack by MadAve alumnus and New York composer Ross Michaels '08 (see sidebar).
The project—"produced by Drew students and alumni for future Drew students and alumni"—showcases the talents of a dozen photographers and videographers, the voice-over talents of undergraduates Sophie Blum '13, Emily Crawford '14, Jessica Funtenatto '14, Matthew Lerner-Lam '13 and Rob Van Horn '14 and direction and editing by Thirst, an award-winning Chicago-based design firm.
All in the Family
The video's catchy soundtrack comes courtesy of former MadAve president and composer Ross Michaels '08 and his songwriting partner Jordan Batiste. "Drew's personality really comes through in the colorfulness and vibrancy of this video," says Michaels. "I wanted the music to build on that in an upbeat way, to show people what we're all about."—Michael Bressman '06


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Steven Hayward
Hayward will give a presentation titled "Is 'Conservative Environmentalist' an Oxymoron?" from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday in Old Main.
He holds a doctoral degree in American studies from Claremont Graduate School. He has been the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he was a principal author and project director of AEI's "Energy and Environment Outlook."
He has been a visiting lecturer in the government department at Georgetown University and is a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy. He also has served as a Bradley fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
Hayward's essays have been published in The Washington Post, National Review, Weekly Standard and other publications. His most recent book is "Mere Environmentalism: A Biblical Perspective on Humans and the Natural World."
Ron Haskins
Haskins will give a presentation titled "Why Worry About the Federal Deficit?: Our Kids Can Pay" from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Feb. 19 in Old Main.
Since 2004, Haskins has served as senior editor of "The Future of Children," a collaboration between the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution. He has been a senior consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation since 2001 and has served in advisory and staff leadership positions in the White House and Congress.
Haskins has edited or co-edited several books. He is the author of "Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law." He has appeared frequently on television and radio and has written essays published in The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review and others.
Linda Chavez
Chavez will give a presentation titled "A Conservative Approach to Immigration Reform" from 10 to 11 a.m. Feb. 18 in Old Main.
She is a 1970 graduate of CU, where she studied English literature, and she earned a master of fine arts in creative writing from George Mason University in 2012. She was director of public liaison at the White House during the Reagan administration and director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
She has been a syndicated columnist since 1987 and has written public policy books including "Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation." Chavez is also a Fox News Channel contributor, regular panelist on the PBS show "To the Contrary" and a frequent commentator on National Public Radio. In 2000, the Library of Congress named her a "Living Legend" for her contributions to America's cultural and historical legacy.
Among three finalists announced Monday for the University of Colorado's first visiting scholar in conservative thought is a Boulder woman who was a White House public liaison and director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under President Reagan.
Later, under President Bush, Linda Chavez withdrew as a U.S. labor secretary nominee once it became known she had given money and a home to an illegal immigrant.
Chavez graduated from CU in 1970 and taught in a remedial program at the campus during the early years of affirmative action efforts. That inside look would later turn her into an opponent of affirmative action.
She is the sole candidate with ties to CU.
The other finalists for the visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy are: Steven Hayward, the Thomas W. Smith distinguished fellow at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio; and Ron Haskins, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
The finalists will visit the campus over the next couple of weeks, giving public presentations, meeting with university leaders and faculty members as well as guest teaching in CU classrooms. The scholar who is selected for the two-semester job will begin teaching in the fall.
CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano described the new position -- which is paid for with donor money -- as a novel way to enrich discourse on the campus.
"Any one of the finalists, if selected, will contribute to the diversity of thought on campus by encouraging debate and discussion, by sharing their scholarship and career experience, and by hosting public events in the campus community and perhaps around the state," DiStefano said in a statement.
Haskins was the only finalist who could not be reached for comment Monday.
'No regrets' over helping immigrant
In 2001, Chavez withdrew her name as George W. Bush's nominee for secretary of labor and told reporters that the "search-and-destroy politics" would be a distraction to the incoming administration.
In the early 1990s, Chavez allowed Marta Mercado, a battered woman from Guatemala, to live in her home in Bethesda, Md. Chavez said she helped the woman enroll in English courses and linked her with a women's support group.
"I gave her a place to live and helped her learn English," she said in an interview with the Camera on Monday.
Chavez gave money to Mercado, but she said it was charity, not wages.
She said she has no regrets and that Mercado is now a legal U.S. citizen.
Inside look at affirmative action
Chavez has been a syndicated columnist since 1987 and has written public policy books including "Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation." In her book "An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-liberal (Or How I Became the Most Hated Hispanic in America)," Chavez is critical of affirmative action programs at colleges.
She said many students weren't served well by affirmative action.
"At both the University of Colorado and at UCLA, I witnessed firsthand the devastating impact these programs had on academic standards, race relations, and on the intended beneficiaries as well," she wrote in her book. "These kids came into school with huge handicaps, but instead of recognizing their academic deficiencies and trying to do whatever it took to improve them, many of the affirmative action students I taught preferred to wallow in self-pity. Their attitude -- as much as their social, economic, and educational disadvantages -- would make life difficult and success elusive."
When she guest teaches on campus, she said, she'll be discussing the Fisher v. University of Texas Supreme Court case, which challenges the consideration of race as a factor in admitting students.
Her book also describes a time in the late 1980s when she was on the Boulder campus to debate then-Colorado Attorney Gen. Duane Woodard about English language being the country's official language.
Students raised protest signs -- some of which were personal attacks -- to be captured by news cameras when she spoke. She hired an off-duty police officer to be her bodyguard because of the tension on the campus.
As a scholar who has been on the college-speaking circuit, she said she doesn't feel that political tensions are nearly as hostile on campuses now.
She said the position she's in the running for will help students get a point of view they may not hear in their other classes.
"You don't want to propagandize students, but you want them to be exposed to all points of view," she said.
Hayward wants 'cross-pollination' of ideas
If chosen for the job, Hayward -- who has been a visiting lecturer in the government department at Georgetown University -- said he'd like for a liberal professor to join his classroom for occasional discussions.
"I think our public discourse in universities, and in the real world, goes much better when both sides bring their 'A' game," he said.
He said he favors the "cross-pollination of ideas."
If selected, he said, he'd approach the job in the spirit of constructive engagement, not combat.
"The remedy to left-wing dogmatism, or perceived left-wing dogmatism, in the classroom is not to self-consciously introduce right-wing dogmatism and call it 'balance,'" he said. "The university at its best should be about the thoughtful consideration of the full spectrum of ideas, seriously presented and discussed, in competition with one another."
Hayward said he wants the position to be one that's not viewed as a "freak show" on a predominantly liberal campus, or one that is just for conservative-leaning students.
Rather, he thinks it should be a mainstream position in a department where students of varying political opinions feel welcome and interested.
Scaled-back plans
CU originally unveiled grand plans in 2007 to establish a visiting chair in conservative thought and policy, which would have required $7 million to $9 million to fund. But school officials have said the sluggish economy caused them to scale back plans and instead run a pilot program to bring visiting scholars to Boulder.
CU has raised $1 million in donations for its visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy, a position that is funded for at least three years.
As part of the selection process, each finalist will visit the campus for a day and meet privately with the search committee, chancellor, provost and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Each will also teach a class.
Since last summer, an advisory committee made up of faculty and community members has been searching for candidates. The committee has sought a "highly visible" scholar who is "deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both."
Keith Maskus, associate dean of social sciences and chairman of the committee, said the scholar, once selected, will teach courses ranging from large introductory courses to smaller seminar-style classes.
"I'm excited about all three finalists," he said. "Each has a long career writing about policy questions and engaging in policy debate. All of them are well connected to Washington, D.C., and are well-known commentators and scholars."
Contact Camera Staff Writer Brittany Anas at 303-473-1132 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Boulder's Beverage Licensing Authority voted 4-1 late Monday to deny the transfer of the liquor license of longtime University Hill institution K's China to its successor, NoEntiendo, following a six-hour hearing.
Longtime K's general manager Kyle McNamara bought the business this spring and reopened as NoEntiendo, a restaurant and bar serving a fusion of South American and American food.
NoEntiendo had a temporary license and applied for a permanent one. With the denial, however, NoEntiendo's license reverts to the previous owners of K's China. But because that license expired in July, the previous owners would be required to file a late renewal application to continue to use it.
In denying the transfer, Beverage Licensing Authority members cited K's China's past problems and recent reports by police of alleged violations of the conditions of K's license that remained in place under NoEntiendo's temporary license.
"He probably has many talents, but I don't think running a bar is one of them," Beverage Licensing Authority member Lisa Spalding said of McNamara.
Restrictions imposed on the renewal of K's liquor license last year included a requirement that every person who comes into NoEntiendo -- regardless of whether they plan to drink -- must show ID. And those who order alcohol are required to show a second form of ID.
Boulder police reported noise complaints and concerns about hand-stamping and ID checks at K's and NoEntiendo.
Carlene Hofmann, the alcohol enforcement officer for Boulder police, said that in a check on April 20 she found speakers on the roof that exceeded the restaurant's size restriction. The business also didn't have the required ID scanner, which McNamara said had been stolen but not reported to police right away because he was at his grandmother's funeral.
A third issue Hofmann noted was the stamps indicating customers were old enough to drink were "no larger than a nickel" and placed on the inside of the wrist rather than on the back of the hand. McNamara said the conditions only require that the stamp be on the right hand, but don't require a certain size.
Too many people on the roof and music that was too loud also were noted by police on previous visits.
No citations against NoEntiendo were issued.
Timothy McMurray, who cast the dissenting vote, pointed out that the city didn't call for a hearing before the liquor board to address the violations.
"I don't understand why city didn't go forward with issues on license," he said.
At the hearing, McNamara said he addressed all the concerns and did his best to meet all the stipulations, including adding soundproofing material, modifying the seating, changing the menu and raising drink prices.
"I think a lot of those were misunderstandings," McNamara said. "We're following all the rules to be best of our ability."
Beverage Licensing Authority members said McNamara's criminal history, which includes a DUI and two convictions for petty theft for shoplifting a couple of items from grocery stores when he was 19 and 20, didn't factor into their decision because he appears to have been rehabilitated.
McNamara said his issues started after a bad traffic accident at 17 that prompted him to start drinking heavily. He said he's been through treatment and has been sober since 2009. Colorado law says that holders of liquor licenses should be "of good moral character."
Eleven people testified on McNamara's behalf, talking about his rehabilitation from his drug and alcohol problems and willingness to help those who are dealing with similar issues. Employees said NoEntiendo has changed for the better and become family friendly -- instead of being just a place to drink -- through McNamara's leadership.
"If you're truly trying to change the atmosphere on the Hill, there's not a better person to do it," said friend Phillip Hengemuhle.


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America I AM: The African American Imprint Exhibition
Exhibit | Showcase
Date: August 1, 2012
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Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
551 S. Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Contact: Sharon Holm
Phone: 704-547-3767
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The Harvey B. Gantt Center will become home to the award-winning exhibition, America I AM: The African American Imprint. Conceived and presented by broadcaster Tavis Smiley, this exciting exhibit celebrates nearly 500 years of African American contributions to the United States and will bring Americans of all ages and backgrounds together to explore and appreciate our shared culture and history. The 10,000 square foot exhibit will fill the Gantt Center with more than 200 artifacts as diverse as the Doors of No Return which millions of Africans passed through as they boarded ships for the �New World� to the typewriter Alex Haley used when he penned his Pulitzer Prize-winner, Roots, to Michael Jordan�s basketball jersey to the purple guitar Prince played during Super Bowl XLI! America I AM offers an in-depth look at the pivotal role African Americans have played and continue to play in the development of our nation.
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Burks 4GNB9-2 Centrifugal Pump, Close Coupled, 60 Hz, 1750 RPM, ODP Motor Enclosure, 135 lbs.
Burks 4GNB9-2 Centrifugal Pump, Close Coupled, 60 Hz, 1750 RPM, ODP Motor Enclosure, 135 lbs.
|Adapter Material
|Cast Iron
|Capacities (GPM)
|Casing Material
|Cast Iron
|Casing Working Pressure
|Discharge NPT (Inches)
|Heads To (Feet)
|Impeller Material
|Inlet Pressure (PSI)
|Bronze Fitted
|Maximum Operating Temperature
|225°F (107°C) - Standard Buna-N Seal
|Motor Enclosure Type
|ODP - Open Drip Proof Enclosure
|Motor Shaft Material
|Shaft Seal Material
|Carbon / Ceramic / SS Buna-N
|Speed (RPM)
|Suction NPT (Inches)
|General Description
|Burks GNB Series - Centrifugal Pump, Base Mounted
|Materials of Construction
|Adapter - Bronze Fitted: Cast Iron, All Bronze: Bronze, All Iron: Cast Iron.
Casing - Bronze Fitted: Cast Iron, All Bronze: Bronze, All Iron: Cast Iron.
Casing Wear Ring - Bronze Fitted: Bronze, All Bronze: Bronze, All Iron: Steel.
Shaft: Steel.
Shaft Sleeve: Bronze Fitted: Bronze, All Bronze: Bronze, All Iron: #316 Stainless.
Impeller - Bronze Fitted: Bronze, All Bronze: Bronze, All Iron: Cast Iron.
Shaft Seal: Carbon Ceramic SS Buna-N
|Casing Wear Ring
|Prevents wear on casing and is easy to replace.
|Mechanical Shaft Seal Information
|Mechanical Shaft Seal is self-adjusting for temperatures up to 225°F (107°C) and pressures to 150 psi (1034kpa). Has ceramic seat and carbon seal faces for long trouble-free service. Special seals are available for higher temperatures and fl uids other than water. Tapped opening is provided in the seal chamber or flushing seal faces.
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|Radial Split Casing Design
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|Coupling Guard
|Furnished on all complete Base-Mounted units manufactured by Burks Pumps. Not furnished with purchase of pump only, but required.
|Gasketed Bronze Sleeve
|Gasketed Bronze Sleeve on GNB and GNC power frames protects the shaft against wear and corrosion. Shaft on GNA power frame in #316 Stainless Steel.
|Grease lubricated ball bearings provide two years minimum service at maximum load. Average bearing life is five times minimum. Wide bearing spacing provides soild shaft support.
|Oil Seals
|Protect both bearings
|Convenient Relubrication
|Tapped and plugged openings are conveniently located for easy relubrication of power frame.
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U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer will be at Pactiv Corporation in Canandaigua Thursday to push legislation to boost Finger Lakes Railway and the businesses that rely on the Geneva-based rail system.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer will be at Pactiv Corporation in Canandaigua Thursday to push legislation Schumer said would boost Finger Lakes Railway and the businesses that rely on the Geneva-based rail system.
Schumer will be joined by Finger Lakes Railway President Mike Smith and Pactiv Plant Manager Rod Kucera to launch his push for the Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2013. The legislation extends the tax credit to short-line freight railroads like Finger Lakes Railway for infrastructure improvement projects through 2016.
Schumer will explain that big employers in Ontario County, like the 750-employee Pactiv Plant, rely on the Finger Lakes Railway to transport its raw materials and others rely on it to ship out finished goods to interstate railways, which then take their products to market.
In a release, Schumer said that because of a missing 11.5 mile railroad link, cargo shipping to and from western destinations on the Finger Lakes Railway must now be diverted 380 miles to as far as Selkirk, NY in the Capitol Region in order to connect with the main CSX line. Currently more than 5,600 rail cars a year are forced to use this 380 mile detour, which adds an extra two days to the route and an estimated $150 per rail car for the average Finger Lakes-based customer.
Finger Lakes Railway is now the process of negotiating with Norfolk Southern railroad to acquire an existing 11.5 mile stretch of track – the "Corning Secondary Line" – that would give Finger Lakes Railway a new direct connection to the CSX mainline in Lyon's, NY. The line has been abandoned for years and is in need of repairs, and Schumer's legislation would extend federal capital financing for the infrastructure repairs and upgrades the Finger Lakes Railway needs to quickly bring this new 11.5 mile railroad line back.
Schumer will be at Pactiv, 5250 North St. Canandaigua at 10:15 a.m.


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For seven years, Mary Robinson served as the first female president of Ireland. Yet, she also has a long record of service as a human rights advocate.
After leaving office in 1997, she was appointed as the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations. She now runs The Mary Robinson Foundation — Climate Justice. This week, she has a new book out called Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice.
She speaks with guest host Celeste Headlee on Saturday's All Things Considered about her foundation, her views on Catholicism and the EU crisis affecting Ireland.
Interview Highlights
On the challenges facing the European Union
"I think Ireland has gained a great deal. I think the European Union is suffering from severe financial constraints and they've also affected Ireland, and a certain questioning of being part of a larger whole that doesn't seem to be very responsive to people's needs, where people talk about a democratic deficit that the EU is kind of behind closed doors too much, and I think that's a criticism that I think the European Union has to address."
On attending Mass
"I had been thinking for a long time about the paternalistic and authoritarian nature of the way the church operated, particularly in Ireland at the time. All of that, I was questioning and then the questions came to the surface and I said, 'I don't need to go to Mass every Sunday and feel guilty if I don't.' I don't feel compelled to do it every Sunday or in a sort of strictly paid-up way because I disagree with so much of what the church stands for, particularly in reproductive health."
On advocating for Climate Justice
"To me, there is an injustice that we have to draw attention to, but the good news is, there's so much we can do. I find it shocking that ... 1.3 billion people out of the 7 billion in our world today don't have any electricity. But even more so that 2.6 billion, mainly women, still cook on open fires — with coal, with wood, with animal dung — and ingest fumes that cause 4 million to die every year, and that's a lot of people.
"So, how come when we have clean cook stoves now, when we have D lights that can be recharged in the solar, wonderful sun that shines in poor developing countries, how come we haven't got the solidarity as a race to say, 'Everybody should have the basics of clean water, light in the home'?
"That to me is what being part of human life together is about."
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee. Coming up, the front man of the musical duo Rhye on being perceived as a front woman. But first...
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Today, as an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shown a light on human suffering but illuminated a better future for our world.
HEADLEE: That was the day in 2009 when Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. Upon leaving office in 1997, she was appointed as the high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, and she now runs the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice. She has a new memoir out this week called "Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice." She joins us here in studio in Washington. Mary Robinson, welcome to the program.
MARY ROBINSON: Thank you very much.
HEADLEE: From the descriptions in your book, you became aware of a social imbalance, at least where class was concerned, from a very, very early age. Tell me about some of the social changes, how that particular part, the class differences that you noticed as a child, how that has changed in Ireland, or if it has.
ROBINSON: I think my early interest in human rights came from the fact that I was the only girl with four brothers - two older than me and two younger. So I had to be engaged in equality of human rights...
HEADLEE: Oh, you were fighting all the time.
ROBINSON: And my parents actually gave me a real sense that I had as much right to my full achievement of whatever I could do as my brothers. But that wasn't the Ireland at that time that I was growing up in. Women knew their place; girls knew their place in church, in every other way. The constitution made it quite clear the place of the woman is in the home. And when I was in my last year in boarding school, the conversation between us was what do you do for a year or two before getting married?
HEADLEE: You know, your book catalogs such an incredible era of change that lasts decade after decade in which Ireland really transforms from the time you're a child until now. I wonder, is there a period that you look back at and think, this is the decade when Ireland transformed?
ROBINSON: I think one of the transforming decisions that Ireland took was to apply - at the same time as Britain and Denmark - to become a member of the then European community.
HEADLEE: Although right now there are countries, like Britain, that are questioning whether they should remain in the EU, in the final tally, you think then that Ireland has gotten more out of the EU than it would have had it remained out, or should it leave now?
ROBINSON: I think Ireland has gained a great deal. I think the European Union is suffering from severe financial constraints and that they've also affected Ireland. And a certain questioning of being part of a larger hold that doesn't seem to be very responsive to people's needs where people talk about, you know, a democratic deficit, that the EU isn't - is kind of behind closed doors too much. And I think that's a criticism that the European Union has to address.
HEADLEE: You know, in the book, you talk about a discussion with a friend in college. And she asks you to name seven Irish laws that discriminate against women. You say seven. I can name way more than that. Things have clearly changed since the days when you were in college. Could you still name way more than seven?
ROBINSON: I couldn't name the laws, but nor could I say that we have reached true gender balance. There are still too few women in parliament, too few women in the top levels of business.
HEADLEE: But you guys have had a female president. We haven't. I mean, why do you think that is? Why has the U.S., do you - in your opinion, why have we not had a woman in the White House yet?
ROBINSON: I was in New York during the campaign when then-Senator Clinton was fighting a hard campaign against the...
HEADLEE: Then-Senator Barack Obama.
ROBINSON: Yes. In reflecting on those, I think that the way in which she campaigned for the presidency, and then the way in which she exercised the very tough office of secretary of state somehow shattered that invisible ceiling. I don't think it will be very surprising if in the relatively near future there is a woman who comes forward and becomes president of the United States.
HEADLEE: I'm speaking with Mary Robinson. She was the first female president of Ireland. Her new book, a memoir, is called "Everybody Matters."
Allow me, if I may, to move on to Catholicism. It was, as you've mentioned, an incredibly significant part of your upbringing, both of your parents, very devout Catholics until their death. Immediately after you left school, you had a crisis of religion. You thought you were going to be a nun. You went to France. You changed your mind. You decided you weren't going to go to mass.
You describe in the book that you wish you handled it differently with your parents. There are so many young Catholics right now having these same kind of crises of conscience. I wonder if you have any advice for someone else before they make a mistake, perhaps, that they might regret?
ROBINSON: I'm not sure that it's easy to give advice in individual circumstances, and particularly when you're talking about a spirituality belief, somebody's interim thoughts. I was aware that I had been thinking for a long time about the paternalistic and authoritarian nature of the way the church operated, particularly in Ireland at the time. But all of that, I was questioning. And then the questions came to surface.
And I said: I don't need to go to mass every Sunday and feel guilty if I don't. I don't feel compelled to do it every Sunday or in a sort of strictly paid-up way, because I disagree with so much of what the church stands for, particularly in reproductive health.
HEADLEE: So does that mean that you don't follow the trial and tribulation of the Catholic Church, that you don't have any emotional investment in who might be the next pope or what's been going on?
ROBINSON: I think I'm more interested in the religions of the world giving us a kind of global, ethical standard, you know? And I like the work of Hans Kung who's being - looking at a global ethic. And I know him, and we've talked about this quite a bit. And I think we do need the spirituality of the great religions of the world. And it is important for human rights and human dignity.
HEADLEE: Well, since you brought up the battle that you have with the Catholic Church over reproductive rights, I have to ask you about the young wife who died in Ireland because she had a troubled pregnancy and she was in the hospital and they refused her an abortion. What reaction did you have to that story?
ROBINSON: There was a huge reaction in Ireland to that story. It really touched people. And people were ashamed that it had happened, such a lovely couple, so popular in Galway. They even said they came to Ireland to have children because it was such a safe country to have children in. And I think there is sometimes one single human tragedy that evokes a need for change. I must say I'm proud of the fact that so many people in Ireland were especially touched by that story to come out into the streets.
And it was a bit like what happened in India with that rape in the bus of a young woman. Sometimes, something that was tolerated and not spoken about for a very long time becomes something that has to be dealt with.
HEADLEE: Let's talk about your foundation, the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice. And I found it also intriguing that you called it Climate Justice. I assume you chose that name, yourself a constitutional lawyer. But to put Climate Change into the idea of justice, why?
ROBINSON: Because of the injustice of how climate change is undermining poverty in very poor countries and very poor communities. The conversation now in Africa is things are so much worse. We don't have seasons anymore. We have long periods of drought, and then flash flooding. We used to have rainy seasons. We knew when to sow and when to harvest. Now, the rainy season doesn't come when it used to. And we've never known anything like this.
And they don't use the fossil fuel. They don't have cars. They don't contribute to the oil and gas and coal problem that is causing this. And therefore, to me, there is an injustice that we have to draw attention to. But the good news is there's so much we can do. I find it shocking - and this is the first and probably the only statistic I'll use - that 1.3 billion people out of the seven billion in our world today don't have any electricity. But even more so, the 2.6 billion, mainly women, still cook on open fires, with coal, with wood, with animal dung and ingest fumes that cause four million to die every year. And that's a lot of people.
So how come, when we have clean cook stoves now, when we have d.lights that can be recharged in the solar, wonderful sun that shines in poor, developing countries, how come we haven't got the solidarity as, you know, as a race to say everybody should have the basics of clean water, light in the home?
That, to me, is what being part of human life together is about. And it's about climate justice, it's about human rights, it's about targeting the poorest and making sure they have the basics of what it is to be a citizen of the world in the 21st century.
HEADLEE: Mary Robinson was the first female president of Ireland. She now runs the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, as you just heard her talking about. Her new memoir is called "Everybody Matters." Mrs. Robinson, thank you so much for joining us.
ROBINSON: Pleasure. Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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LONGMONT -- A transient man who has long lived in Longmont was found dead in an SUV on Sunday afternoon, but police do not believe his death is suspicious.
Police have not released the 48-year-old man's name, because his family has not been notified, Cmdr. Jeff Satur wrote in an email.
"This death is unrelated and not connected to the death investigation at Lanyon Park on the evening of March 14," Satur wrote. "The neighborhood does not need to be alarmed."
Police were called to the 1800 block of Meadow Street at 3:22 p.m. after a resident of a home there said he found a man in a white Jeep who appeared to be "beyond help," according to the police dispatcher.
The deceased often slept in the vehicle, Satur wrote.
The vehicle was parked behind the house, Sgt. Eric Lewis said. Several people needed to be interviewed as part of the investigation, and police obtained a search warrant for the house Sunday evening, Satur said.
The Boulder County Coroner's Office will perform an autopsy, then determine the cause and manner of death.


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Here it is again...Valve only discussion please!
Feel free to add your thoughts. I think it should be based on the following design but 1 piece. If you are interested and have some money to burn then let me know and we will start a list. If not feel free to add your positive thoughts and constructive criticism.
This would basically be a valve body with the following:
(Classic style) Theaded front dump chamber
On/Off hole
Fieldstrip hole
1-3? - female NPTs (2 side & 1 rear)
The other option is a cap that originally cost me $35...
This was from when I tried to do what I coined as the Hacked Valve mod...it needed more attention to detail as it had pin hole leaks.


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Atlassian has announced the availability of JIRA Service Desk, its service desk software designed to boost IT team efficiency and streamline end user requests.
JIRA Service Desk integrates directly with JIRA, the company's issue management software. The firm's own surveys suggest that as many as 40 percent of customers are already "extending and configuring" JIRA as a service desk for its workflow and tracking abilities.
JIRA Service Desk adds specific service desk capabilities including advanced SLA-management, customizable team queues, real-time reports and analytics, and a new "end user experience" (we think they mean "function") for creating and managing service requests.
NOTE: JIRA Service Desk is as a hosted solution through Atlassian OnDemand — Atlassian's cloud offering — or installable on a company's own infrastructure.
"Customer demand for a service desk solution built on JIRA has been strong and growing, so we're excited to introduce a new experience for both agents and end users," said Bryan Rollins, JIRA business manager. "The service desk software category has historically been defined by software users don't like. That ends today with the introduction of JIRA Service Desk."
A lean and clean interface with configurable simple-language inputs guide end users to file requests and help agents identify and address problems faster. SLA management is a critical element of service desk offerings — with JIRA Service Desk, agents can create advanced service-level agreements with parameters by issue type and severity level. Preconfigured reports help identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement, and custom reports can quickly be created using JIRA Query Language (JQL).