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Monday, July 15, 2013
07/15/2013-Food Packaging: Buzzwords!
Yet another weekend has come and gone. Amongst all of the summertime travel, wedding planning, and family engagements my fiancé and I have had lately, it was nice to spend a weekend stayed put in our home. However, due to said "busyness" we coincidentally had no food in our kitchen. So we got to take a trip to the economy size food king, CostCo. Anyone that goes to these types of stores knows that the samples they hand out are the highlight of this experience. Every aisle you turn down, someones handing you a nibble of something. However, they are also giving you their sales pitch...which is what has inspired me for this blog post.
Buzz words in the food industry today include "gluten free", "all natural", and "organic" and everyone is shouting them. Food product manufactures really hone in on marketing tactics to sell their products, which includes boasting about their "good for you" ingredients and emphasizing, what sounds like, nutritional value. But what exactly do these terms mean? And how much water do these claims hold? Just because it sounds good doesn't mean its credible or valid.
Packaging for foods, like meat, poultry,and eggs may contain terms such as "free range," "natural," and "cage free," but these USDA terms do not imply a level of nutrition or health. They simply describe how the animal or plant is raised and/or grown prior to market, and in the case of "natural," how it is processed for sale. Each of the terms explained ...
Grass fed animals have constant access to pasture during the growing seasons and are not given grain or grain byproducts. Grass fed animals also can eat hay, haylage, baleage, silage, crop residue without grain, and other roughage sources.
This USDA designation means the poultry (raised for meat) has been allowed some access to the outdoors.
These laying hens live uncaged, typically within a barn, warehouse building, or other enclosed area. These hens are given continuous access to food and water and the freedom to roam within the enclosed area during their egg-production cycle.
Food with this definition does not contain any artificial flavor or flavoring, coloring ingredient, chemical preservative, or other artificial or synthetic ingredient, and the product and its ingredients are not more than minimally processed.
Foods that are classified as "organic" are produced by farmers using renewable resources and conservation efforts for soil and water, as a means to maintain the environment. Organic meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products come from animals that were not treated with antibiotics or growth hormones. Organic food is produced without the use of synthetic insecticides, synthetic fertilizers, bioengineering, or ionizing radiation. In order for a food product to be classified as "organic," the farm must be inspected to ensure it is meeting the government regulations. Companies that handle the foods also must be certified that they meet the USDA's organic standards.
So don't be fooled by the sales persons pitch. Be an informed consumer and you'll be able to recognize a quality product when you see it.


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When I tried to start XFCE the screen turned blank (black). Apply template "install/5compatible"... how can i update the system not to have the above problem? Can you keep flying after being Restrained? http://ict4m.org/keyboard-not/xp-ps2-keyboard-not-working.php
A second problem is that Xorg -configure give me "No device to configure" and I had installed xf86-video vmware, ati, ecc... i did not have this problem with CLDG10.4 beta1. don'twork Someone can give me an help? My solution was to comment out the custom mouse and kbd settings in one of my *.conf files.
Real Linux simple desktop seems to be at least 5 years from now - maybe we have automatic cars before it... //arl (Ari Lemmke) arl63 View Public Profile Find all posts Once complete resume. Starting with startx worked ! this time a false hope.
The time now is 04:18 PM. Dowgrade back to Fedora 20? It can only be run on Arch. Linux Mint Keyboard Not Working Spent searching for the right way to do this around 12 hours.
RE: mouse and keyboard not working - Added by Mohammad Reza Hadian over 6 years ago i reinstalled the CLD. Kali Linux Keyboard Problem Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in. Also the fact that the following appears worries me: "No input driver specified, ignoring this device" Apart from that I'm out of ideas. Or is it inevitable once a certain point in development is reached?
SilentSam View Public Profile View LQ Blog View Review Entries View HCL Entries Find More Posts by SilentSam 03-13-2012, 10:58 AM #14 vitorsgoncalves Member Registered: Mar 2010 Posts: 96 Ubuntu Keyboard Not Working I tried many things: following the steps in the handbook, enabling/disabling hald, reconfiguring Xorg, etc. permalinkembedsaveparentgive gold[–]Joe_Pineapples 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago(6 children)1 Can you post your /etc/fstab Use http://sprunge.us/ to make this easier. Limited output./proc/net/route: No such file or directory Apply template "install/1default"...
After rebooting another problem persisted. Password Forgot Password? Ubuntu Usb Keyboard Not Working permalinkembedsaveparentgive gold[–]Joe_Pineapples 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago(2 children)After much messing about I've managed to get the same situation as you. Linux Keyboard Stops Working There is no reference to loading or detecting any keyboard/mouse drivers devdev or otherwise) I suggest attempting to remove the nouveau drivers and see how this works for you. - Boot
This is the problem that I could solve by disabling wfb (https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/5422#note-3). http://ict4m.org/keyboard-not/wired-keyboard-not-working.php To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.Blog Offline #3 2008-11-10 01:16:05 gav616 Member Registered: 2008-01-16 Posts: 182 Re: [SOLVED] [xorg-server] mouse, keyboard not working cheers, will boot RE: mouse and keyboard not working - Added by Mikhail Hiretsky over 6 years ago Boot system with mouse problem specify boot parameter 'nox'. (Grub,'e',select second line 'e', append nox,'b'). Use eselect news to read news items. Linux Usb Keyboard Not Working
I am going crazy and especially since this happened so suddenly! :evil: Anyone has any other idea please? Last edited by vitorsgoncalves; 03-13-2012 at 08:44 AM. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. useful reference The laptop was working flawlessly for more than a month without reboot (I use the sleep mode) until today!
This is old but has 17" 1920x1200 and works. Linux Keyboard Not Working If you do get a error, force it to reinstall like this Code: pacman -Sf xf86-input-evdev Restart. Trying less strict filter... [ 164.579] (II) VESA(0):
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Very unlikely to be causing your issue. I try update and upgrade booting with a ubuntu live ubs. which desktop are you trying to run Operations Log in or register to post comments #3 Mon, 2015-08-31 22:33 zzggbb Offline Last seen: 1 year 2 months ago Joined: 2015-08-30 Well, Iommu Controller Before disabling wfb I got the following Xorg.0.log: [ 164.402] X.Org X Server 1.18.3 Release Date: 2016-04-04 [ 164.402] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 164.402] Build Operating System: Linux
These are the data requested by ScrumpyJack, captured when X already worked. uname -a: Linux localhost 4.4.14-0-virtgrsec #1-Alpine SMP Mon Jun 27 14:15:15 GMT 2016 rebuild xorg-server c use -hal +udevremove hald of startup and add udevqfile -I -C x11-drivers/displays a list of packages that need to rebuild:)rebuild and everything nice) RE: mouse and keyboard not Keyboard is razer blackwidow and mouse is razer deathadder, but tried replacing keyboard, even with ps/2 one, I don't think model is issue. http://ict4m.org/keyboard-not/xps-keyboard-not-working.php RE: mouse and keyboard not working - Added by Дмитрий Кобзев over 6 years ago What would have worked as a mouse and keyboard.1.
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Today I am linking up with Leigh Kramer and talking about "What I'm Into" for the month of November.
Dear November,
You were a good month, but you weren't that special. It's not you, it's me. I just kept my head down and tried to get work done. Maybe if I had looked up, it would have been better and the days would have been a little sweeter. You were not a bad month, you held within your dates the opening of Catching Fire and Thanksgiving. That's a great combo.
My family has a tradition of watching James Bond movies on Thanksgiving, so as a family we polished off BBC Sherlock and then watched Skyfall. Usually that's not the way we do things, but life is about adaptability. In case you are curious, we usually each pick a James Bond movie to watch (my mother, brother and myself) and have a mini-marathon. I like tradition, so pretty much every year I pick GoldenEye. My brother can by far quote more of the lines from that movie, but it's a classic in my opinion.
I also managed to read some fun books this month, which always adds to my happiness. So, November, thank you for allowing that space. With October I finished coursework for two classes, leaving me to deal with one class. Still I did not seem to have time to work ahead. While I am not off schedule, I'm also very grateful to the deadline extension from my professor. November, you are a strange breed.
All in all, November, you were alright. I apologize I'm not more sad to say goodbye. Let's visit again in a year, what do you say?
Anytime Anne Lamott writes something, I need to read it. Stitches by Anne Lamott was no different. Her words are nourishment. This is the follow-up book to Help Thanks Wow, both of which are entirely too short. It's about our brokenness and where we find meaning in the midst of it. How can we stay faithful in the middle of this mess of a world we often find ourselves in? It's all woven together by words about grace:
"Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily."
Anne doesn't give you all the answers, but she paints big how we need to stick together:
"We stick together. We trust that Love bats last; that laughter is carbonated holiness: that everything that happened to us belongs to us and we can write about it, and heal; that the most direct experience of the Divine will be in the love of our pets."
I finished the last book in the Divergent trilogy this month. Allegiant by Veronica Roth was great. Again, I really love Young Adult fiction. And, whatever, I did read the plot on the internet before I finished because I can't handle surprises and I like to know what's going to happen. Plus people on the internet wouldn't stop talking about how much they hated (or loved or haved*, depending on who you are talking to) the ending.
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber. Yes. First of all, I love to read people who challenge the way I think. I devoured this book in one day. She's so honest and blunt. Apparently those are two of my favorite things. I recommend you put this on your reading list.
I needed this book: Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage by Allison Vesterfelt. She writes in a way that even though she's telling her story, you are still discovering things about yourself. She documents her 50-state road trip she took with a friend of hers. What I appreciated was she does not tell all the happy moments the way time can be kind and you spread grace over all your past experiences. She tells about the difficult moments, too.
I also read some books on Erik Erikson for class. Let's be real, by the end of next week, I'll be having Erikson come out of my ears so let's just calm down. Also, I learned this month it's not funny when you tell someone you have a date Friday night with Erikson when they have no idea who Erikson is. They end up getting just a little too excited for you.
Two words: Catching. Fire. If you have not seen Catching Fire yet, I question your ability to make decisions. I mean, all the feels, right? You can bet your bottom dollar I'm counting down until Mockingjay.
I went to see Ender's Game with the family. Even though I have not yet read the books, I enjoyed the movie.
Some more words: BBC Sherlock. Yes, please, thank you. January will be exciting.
I don't listen to music a lot. I know, I'm not normal. I'm usually listening to NPR–it's the station to which I set my car radio. I love NPR. I also love listening to audiobooks. Call me weird, but I have a thing for listening to words rather than music. Even still, I have been listening to The Head and the Heart, and I've been digging it. I've also been listening to this song by All Sons & Daughters because LISTEN TO IT.
December brings Advent, so I'm pretty excited for my favorite season on the Christian calendar. Although the beginning of December has already played out a little differently than I expected. I am back in Kansas City working a temporary job at my former place of employment. It's only for two weeks, and then I'm back in the Dakotas.
*This is not a successful way to combine the words "love" and "hated."
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Be still. Two small words yet such a great command. These are words that God has spoken to me through three different people within this last week. Today, I faced a lot of spiritual attack because of it. There are things in my life I'm working on letting go and surrendering to the Lord, all while being still. While the attack part has to do with being prayed up and pushing against the enemy which is another article in itself, the command from God to be still is what I want to focus on. How do I be still? What does that look like practically? Well, I'm still figuring that out. I do know that it is a state of mind and an attitude of heart. I also know that it comes from spending intimate time with the Lord. That being said, I went to God's word to read Psalm 46 and study what God had to say about being still…
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Come, behold the works of the Lord, how he has brought desolations on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the chariots with fire.
"Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
The student in me could sit down and pick this apart for hours, but I'll just share a few of the things I found. The first thing that I noticed when I read this chapter is that God's command to be still comes after a description of violence and turbulence. There are roaring seas, the earthquakes, burning chariots, the earth melting and words like rage, totter, and desolations. Whether it is the world on its own or the Lord's response, there is a lot of destruction happening. The only word God has for his people is to Be Still….and Know. Translation: when the world is crashing down around you, be still and know who God is.
Who is God? He says he is our refuge. The Hebrew word for refuge is machseh which is to be a shelter from storm or danger. The word is also used in the Old Testament for hope and trust. Refuge literally means "a place of trust". So God is our place of trust. Last October I was at a woman's retreat with my church and when I was praying God gave me a picture (being a visual person and a movie lover, he likes to speak to me with nature scenes or with movie lines/scenes). It was the scene from Disney's Aladdin when Aladdin reaches out his hand to Jasmine and asks, "Do you trust me?" During our worship time at Bible study last night, a friend said he got the same exact scene and words. God was speaking to me. Do I trust him? Do I trust the plans he has for me and that he has my best? Is he my refuge?
God is also our strength and our present help. Strength. When I'm lifting weights at the gym, it is the strength of my muscles under the weight that enables me to lift it up. God's strength bears us up under our burdens. He lifts us up and he is our present help. God is just that, our present help…not our past help. He is waiting at all times to help us in our present, not just what he did in the past or what he will do in the future. He is in present just as much as he is in our future (Jeremiah 29:11).
So what would he have me do? He would have me know that he is God. I know that he is my place of trust, the strength for my burdens, and my present help. But the first part of that statement…Be still. I cannot know God until I am still. The Hebrew words for "be still and know" are raphah – yada which is literally translated "cease – striving and know". Raphah means to cause to fall, to let go, to relax. I believe that God is speaking to the human nature that takes over when we start to feel burdened and overwhelmed which is fear, anxiety, worry, etc. Let those things down and relax. God is over his children for our safety. Another verse in scripture that uses the word raphah is Psalm 138:8 which ways,
" The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;
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Do not forsake the work of your hand."
No matter what season of life we are in, as children of God we can rest and know that God has our back! Relax and rest in God. Know who God is. If you don't know who God is start with reading His word; the Psalms are a great place to start. If you know who God is but have forgotten, read his Word but also look at your life and see what God has done in it. Where do you see his grace and his mercy? His healing hand and compassion? His protection? His provision? His comfort? When did he defend you? When did he pursue you? See how he loved/loves you. See the people he has put in your life. How did/do you respond to these things?
As someone who is constantly burdened by taking care of the people in my life, I don't do a great job at resting and taking care of myself sometimes. But God says to be still. When I feel anxious, worried, fearful, doubtful, hurt, insecure, inferior, broken, weary, uncertain…I can rest, be still in my heart, and know that He is my place of trust. I can trust him. I can enter his throne room through prayer and be embraced by his Holy Spirit. I can breathe in his sweet aroma and feel at peace.
As I learn more of what this means for my life and how to do these things practically, I pray that you are encouraged to do the same…


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Hi folks, well apologies for lack of news yesterday, but hoped you found the Black Sabbath DVD review, a little entertaining.
As you can guess, it's relatively quiet on the update front right now and there very few press releases hitting my inbox, so apologies for the quieter days.
I keep scouting around to try and find what I can though, so at least there's something for you!
Keep on rockin'!
New Syd Barrett compilation due: 'An Introduction To Syd Barrett'.
On 4 October 2010, EMI/Harvest Records will release An Introduction To Syd Barrett, a brand new collection that brings together for the first time the tracks of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett on one compilation. David Gilmour, having co-produced The Madcap Laughs (with Roger Waters) and produced Barrett, has taken the role of executive producer for the album, collaborating with engineers Andy Jackson and Damon Iddins, who have remixed five tracks including 'Octopus', 'She Took A Long Cool Look', 'Dominoes' and 'Here I Go'. David has added bass guitar to 'Here I Go', and the team have also remixed Pink Floyd's 'Matilda Mother'.
Brand new artwork has been provided by long time Pink Floyd associate Storm Thorgerson and his estimable studio.
Tracklisting is Arnold Layne, See Emily Play, Apples And Oranges, Matilda Mother (2010 Mix), Chapter 24, Bike (all by Pink Floyd), Terrapin, Love You, Dark Globe, Here I Go (2010 Remix), Octopus (2010 Mix), She Took A Long Cool Look (2010 Mix) (aka She Took A Long Cold Look), If It's In You (all from The Madcap Laughs), Baby Lemonade, Dominoes (2010 Mix), Gigolo Aunt, Effervescing Elephant (all from Barrett) and Bob Dylan Blues (from Wouldn't You Miss Me – The Best Of Syd Barrett). All tracks have been remastered from the original analogue masters by Andy Jackson of Tube Mastering.
An addition to An Introduction To Syd Barrett is the previously-unreleased 20-minute instrumental 'Rhamadan'. Produced by former Pink Floyd and Syd co-manager Peter Jenner, the list of musicians is lost in the mists of time, though it's rumoured to include congas by Steve Peregrine Took of Tyrannosaurus Rex. It is to be offered as an extra downloadable track with the CD (via an auxiliary Website), and also the iTunes version of the album. Once again Damon Iddins and Andy Jackson mixed it in 2010.
Info from: www.sydbarrett.com/home.htm
Rush 2112 and Moving Pictures (Classic Album) DVD and Blue Ray to be released September 28th
The latest addition to the acclaimed and award winning Classic Albums series tells the story behind the making of two legendary albums from Rush. "2112" was the album that saw Rush break through to major chart success, going to No.1 in their native Canada and Top 75 in the USA where it would eventually be certified triple platinum. "Moving Pictures" opened them to a mass audience for the first time and remains the biggest selling album of their career. It also went to No.1 in Canada and went quadruple platinum there while hitting No.3 in both the UK and USA. Rush members Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart talk us through the making of the albums, together with original producer Terry Brown via interviews, demonstrations, archive videos and use of the original multi-track tapes. BONUS FEATURES Over 50 minutes of additional interviews, archive footage and new demonstrations not included in the broadcast version.
For more info on 'Classic Album' releases go to: www.eagle-rock.com/
Michael Schenker jams with Scorpions on last night of tour
For some lucky people, this past Saturday night in Rosemont, IL, The Scorpions played their last night of the recent US tour and who was opening? None other than ex-Scorpion Michael Schenker and M.S.G.
It promised to be a great show and it seemed obvious that as the last night of the tour, they would jam together.
It seems they did with Michael Schenker joining The Scorpions on 'Another Piece of Meat' and Michael's guest drummer on his tour, Carmine Appice joined The Scorpions for 'No One Like You.'
It seems http://www.blabbermouth.net/ got the lowdown on it and feature both fan shot videos over there.
Here's the direct link to the story:
As a reminder of the Scorpions gig here in Detroit, here's a link to that review:


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Editor's note: I (David M. Kinchen) reviewed this biography in May 2007 and I'm posting it because I will soon post a review of Professor Smith's new biography of Eisenhower, just published by Random House
Reviewed By David M. Kinchen
Four years ago, I read and reviewed Conrad Black's 1,280 page biography of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
I figured the controversial Canadian-born media magnate's excellent biography, published in 2003 by PublicAffairs, a New York publisher that is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year (2007), would put an end to future one-volume biographies of one of our greatest presidents.
I didn't reckon with the indefatigable Marshall University professor and independent biographer Jean Edward Smith, who was a 2002 Pulitzer finalist for his biography of U.S. Grant (it was named a New YorkTimes Notable Book) and who has written the definitive biography of MU's namesake Chief Justice John Marshall.
Lord Black of Crossharbour is currently on trial in federal district court in Chicago on fraud charges in connection with Hollinger Inc., his now broken-up-into-little-pieces media empire – which at one time included the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post and 400 other publications– and his latest biography, a reportedly often sympathetic 1,168 – page account of Richard M. Nixon, will be published later this month in Canada by McClelland & Stewart and soon after by an American publisher.
Both the Smith biography, "FDR" (Random House, 880pages, $35.00, black and white photos, bibliography, notes, index) and Black's are valuable resources for the general reader. I don't think the latest one makes the earlier one obsolete. More is better when it comes to biographies.
I quickly noted that Smith included Black's book in his bibliography. A lavish lifestyle – and few are more lavish than Lord and Lady Black's – and the arrogant behavior that rich people display all too often shouldn't detract from the obvious writing talents of Conrad Black.
A sidelight: I donated my review copy of Black's biography "Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom" to the Summers County Library. It had been checked out only one time before I checked it out this past weekend to work on this review – and that was more than three years ago!
I'm guessing that few readers in this seemingly post-literate era share my love and appreciation of a good biography. Professor Smith's "FDR" is definitely an outstanding biography. He captures the qualities of FDR (1882-1945) that made him an American icon and that rarity, a rich, aristocratic man beloved by the poor.
On my 1938 birth certificate from Van Buren County,Mich., my father's occupation is listed as "WPA fruit hauler." The WPA – Works Progress Administration – was born three years before I was – in 1935 – and is eloquently described by Smith.WPA workers built the Timberline Lodge on the slopes of Mt. Hood in Oregon – the setting for the Stanley Kubrick movie version of Stephen King's "The Shining."
A branch of the WPA, the Federal Writers Project, kept many hungry and talented writers going at a time of limited options and resulted in the outstanding American Guide Series. Other WPA offshoots benefited artists and actors.
Our small farm was a subsistence operation, but we sold milk, eggs, chickens, strawberries, potatoes and other products of the farm during the years of FDR's presidency. Both of my parents were solid Democrats– Chicago natives who supported FDR down the line. He gave the nation hope when it was needed most, as both Smith and Black demonstrate eloquently in their biographies.
As governor of New York from 1928 to 1932, FDR gave those who were looking a taste of what his presidency would be, Smith writes.Not for a minute did anyone doubt that his being stricken with polio in 1921, after attending a Boy Scout jamboree, would keep him from the presidency.
Smith writes that many of the figures of FDR's presidency, people like his friend and Dutchess County neighbor Henry Morgenthau Jr., later to become Treasury Secretary in FDR's presidency, as well as his political adviser Louis Howe (a man whose advice would be sorely missed when FDR made poor choices in his second term), Jim Farley and future labor secretary Frances Perkins were all present in Albany or working with Tammany Hall in New York City.
After graduating from Harvard in 1904, Roosevelt began studying law at Columbia Law School, passing the New York bar exam in 1906 without finishing law school. FDR never planned to be a full-time lawyer, leaving that to his partner and political adviser Basil O'Connor, but his study of law served him well – except when he misjudged the American public and Congress during his ill-fated attempt to enlarge the Supreme Court in 1937.
Professor Smith debunks the notion that the Supreme Court was uniformly opposed to FDR's New Deal measures; rather, the court objected to the hasty legal drafting behind the creation of many programs and agencies. This is a contrarian point of view, surely to be questioned by those who take the opposite position.
In any case, FDR's normally well-tuned ear regarding public opinion failed him miserably. Smith's description of FDR's "hubris" on pages 377-389 is one of the finest passages in an eloquent biography – nothing less than outstanding!
Smith: "As a lawyer he should have known better; as a politician he should have been more cautious; as president he should have had a firmer grasp of the constitutional separation of powers."
Smith points out that while the Supreme Court had rejected six New Deal measures since 1933, it had also upheld many important New Deal measures and presidential powers. Most importantly to those of us who depend on Social Security for much of our retirement income, the high court upheld the Social Security Act 7-2 in 1937.
The failed attempt to enlarge the court with FDR yes-men effectively ended the New Deal as part of the Democratic Party platform, Smith writes. Spending was cut and FDR's "hubris" – as Smith calls it – extended to his relations with Congressional leaders he should have been cultivating.
His errors of judgment contributed to the 1937-38 recession, which many argue was ended – along with the Great Depression – only with the defense buildup prior to Pearl Harbor. My father morphed from his "fruit hauling" occupation to working in a defense plant in St. Joseph,Mich.
Naturally, Smith covers FDR's marriage to his distant cousin Eleanor in 1905 and the next 40 years. It was an odd marriage, but what marriage isn't? There must have been something going with the two, because the marriage produced five living offspring — four sons and a daughter, Anna. All four sons, Smith notes, served in harm's way during WW II. The sons, in order of birth (Anna was the first born) were James, Elliott, FDR Jr. and John.
Smith notes that FDR never trusted Eleanor as much as he did his secretary Missy LeHand and Lucy Mercer, who came into FDR's life in 1914 when he was assistant secretary of the navy in the Wilson administration and the impoverished but socially prominent Lucy Mercer was hired as Eleanor's social secretary.
Both Lucy and Missy were in love with FDR and he returned this love, as I somehow don't think he did with Eleanor, who had her own life and friends. Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd was with FDR when he died on April 12, 1945 in Warm Springs, GA.
Smith discusses Eleanor's friends Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman at Val-Kil, her house in Hyde Park, NY. She also had a "lasting, loving relationship" with New York State Police sergeant Earl Miller that Smith says lasted throughout her life. She lived almost two decades more than FDR, dying in 1962.
Along with other readers and critics, I have issues with Roosevelt's handling of the Holocaust, as well as the horrendous crime of the Japanese resettlement fueled by what I consider to be violent West Coast – especially California – racism.
Smith deals with both issues in the book, blaming the failure to rescue European Jews fleeing the Nazis on an anti-Semitic Department of State headed by Cordell Hull. This begs the question, since Hull was FDR's choice to head the State Department.
I looked in vain for an index entry for Hiram Bingham IV (1903-1988), a career State Department diplomat who in 1939 was posted to the US Consulate in Marseilles, France,where he, together with another vice-consul named Miles Standish, was in charge of issuing entry visas to the U.S.
According to Bingham's biographers, Bingham and Standish cooperated with Varian Fry in issuing visas and helping refugees escape France. Among those helped were famous authors and artists: Leon Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler Werfel, Heinrich Mann, Golo Mann (son and brother of Thomas Mann), Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, Andre Masson, Nobel Prize winner Otto Meyerhof, Konrad Heiden and Hannah Arendt.
Bingham also sheltered Jews in his Marseilles home, and obtained forged identity papers to help Jews in their dangerous journeys across Europe. He worked with the French underground to smuggle Jews out of France into Franco's Spain or across the Mediterranean and even contributed to their expenses out of his own pocket.
For his efforts, Bingham was hounded out of the State Department in 1945. He has been honored by Israel and with a commemorative U.S. postage stamp last year. In 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell praised Bingham's 'constructive dissent' and presented a posthumous "courageous diplomat" award to his children at an American Foreign Service Officers Association awards ceremony.
Why all the information about Bingham? Because it shows that something could have been done to save refugees from Nazi Europe – Jews and Gentiles alike – that wasn't done because FDR put up with racist cabinet members.
Of all people, FDR would have known this, Smith hints, since he served in the administration of Woodrow Wilson, who resegregated the federal government after his inauguration in 1913. Smith discusses Wilson's racism, which extended to the Japanese, who asked for a declaration of human rights at the Paris peace conference, only to be rebuffed by Wilson.
Smith fails to mention FDR's refusal on June 4, 1939 to allow passengers of the German ocean liner St. Louis permission to unload in Florida. Immortalized in the excellent 1976 film "Voyage of the Damned" directed by "Cool Hand Luke"director Stuart Rosenberg, the liner sailed out of Hamburg in the summer of 1939 carrying 917 Jewish refugees, mostly wealthy, seeking asylum from German persecution just before the onset of the Second World War
According to the Wikipedia entry, "the ship then tried to enter Canada [but] was refused once more.The ship sailed back to Germany, whereupon various European nations each agreed to admit a small number of its passengers, the vast majority of whom ended up perishing in the Holocaust as most of the host countries came under Nazi occupation at some point during World War II, which started only a few weeks after the ship's return to Hamburg."
I'm surprised that this infamous incident wasn't even mentioned in a footnote in Smith's otherwise outstanding biography. He does mention the racism of the State Department under Hull.
Professor Smith deals forthrightly (Pages 549-553) with Roosevelt's signing in February 1942 of Executive Order 9066, which sent 80,000 American citizens, the Nisei, and 40,000 older Issei, who had been barred from American citizenship by racist1924 legislation, into what were effectively concentration camps. I've been to the site of Manzanar on the barren eastern Sierra slopes in California, one of the camps where loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned.
Smith notes that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opposed the order, calling it "utterly unwarranted." Later liberal icon U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren — in 1942 California's attorney general — was among those "clammering" for removal of the Japanese. Smith notes that Warren later apologized in his 1977 memoirs.
All told, with my objections noted, Professor Smith has produced an outstanding biography,elegantly written, carefully documented and sure to be on everybody's shortlist for top prizes. Dare I say "Pulitzer finalist?"
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Google Maps shows transit stop icons to everyone when they are zoomed into the map, whether they are searching for transit directions or not. Clicking on one of the blue transit stops shows all transit lines that service that stop or station. Screenshot below.
GTFS data that is ingested in Google Maps directly affects the placement of the blue transit stop icons. However, these icons are updated less frequently than the trip planner. It may take 1-2 months for the locations of transit icons to represent changes in a GTFS dataset.
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Legalization of gambling
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DECIDE to be happy…
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Today, I dare you to choose to be happy today…no matter what is going on…because you know what? YOU WILL GET THROUGH whatever it is that you're struggling with!
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Love this and I am totally with you!
Cuz when you worry your face will frown..and that will bring everybody down..so don't worry..be happy
Great post!! Sometimes that is harder to do than normal but I do love this idea! I have been making myself do this a lot lately! lol
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Today I am celebrating. Zara is finally making shoes in a size 5. I have been lusting over zara shoes ever since they went live with online shopping site. They especially do their pointy toes well. Not too round, not too pointy…just perfect. Not to mention that it is already nearly impossible to find grown woman shoes in size 5!!! These are the ones that I want, but are currently out of stock:
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Companies FAQ
All companies must have a registered office, which must be a situated at a physical location in their country of registration (England and Wales for companies registered through this site). It can be your business address, the address of your accountant or any other address you choose. However, it must be an address at which you will be able to deal with all official letters and notices that you receive.
Q. Can a PO Box be used for the registered office address?
Yes, provided the full physical address is given including the postcode.
Q. How do I notify Companies House of a change of registered office address?
The easiest and quickest way to notify Companies House of this change is online via WebFiling, however, if you do not have the facility to file online you can download a Change of registered address form AD01, and on completion send to Companies House, Crown Way, Cardiff CF14 3UZ
Q. When will the change of Registered Office take effect?
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North Korea's Pyongyang University worried about U
Last week, the U.S. government announced that it plans to bar its citizens from traveling to North Korea. This budge is being contemplated due to the risk of "long-term detention in the country." The travel ban would prohibit any U.S. citizen to go to North Korea, and special validations would be required for anyone to travel to the country under exceptional circumstances. The U.S. government has also requested its citizens to leave North Korea. If the ban comes in to effect, North Korea's Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) will face major repercussions as PUST's President and about 40 faculty and lecturers are U.S. citizens.
The strain inbetween the U.S. and North Korea has been escalating over the treatment extended to U.S. citizens by North Korea over the past year as well as the latest testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile by North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. While last year, one American student had been detained in North Korea, presently two Korean-American academics who worked for PUST are being held captive. Sang-duk Kim who had trained accounting for some months at PUST and Hak-song Kim who was responsible for managing PUST's experimental farm were arrested by the North Korean regime about two months ago over unspecified "hostile acts" that are unrelated to their university stint.
PUST is one of the few academic institutions that employ and admit foreign nationals. The imminent travel ban would make it difficult for PUST to function sleekly as it would need to substitute 40 staff members. While it would become unlikely to hire people from the U.S, even inviting academics from South Korea is difficult due to political tensions. PUST Chancellor Chan-Mo Park, 82, who is a computer scientist and a U.S. citizen born in South Korea, says that the travel ban would hurt the university's program of instructing courses in English. He adds that the university has been facing several other problems. Since U.N. sanctions, it has been rough to buy necessary research materials for the university from China. Apart from this, there have been allegations that PUST graduates go on to work for cyberterrorism. "I can assure you that PUST does not help train hackers and "cyberwarriors" at all," clarifies Park.
Since PUST is open to foreign nationals, which is uncommon in North Korea, it has been praised for its academic diplomacy. However, CNN reported in May 2017 that PUST might be controlling its staff and students. Michael Madden who is a visiting academic at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins said that pupils admitted to PUST are "heavily vetted for […] political reliability" before their admission and are students are expected to "report on their interactions with foreign staff." The article also indicated that PUST offers free education to those students who would otherwise have preferred to examine abroad.


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Writers have never had as many opportunities as they do now. Fiction's a big opportunity. However, fiction's a challenge for writers, both long-established writers, as well as new writers. Yes, there are many ways you can self-publish. You can even go the traditional route: literary agent, and publishing contract.
There are many ways you can market your books too. Additionally — what will you write? You can choose novels, series, and serials. You can choose short fiction, as we discuss in Story Power.


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Happy Anniversary to UofL's Institutional Repository, ThinkIR!Posted: February 14, 2018 Filed under: Archives & Special Collections, Art Library, Collections, Databases, Ekstrom Library, Kornhauser Health Sciences Library, Law Library, Libraries, Music Library, Primary Sources, University Archives & Records Center, University of Louisville | Tags: faculty scholarship, institutional repository, research, scholarship, thinkIR Leave a comment
By Sarah Frankel, Open Access & Repository Coordinator
On February 12, 2015, Digital Initiatives Librarian Rachel Howard imported over 1,000 Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) from the University Libraries' Digital Collections into the newly created ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. Three years later, this particular collection now has nearly 3,000 titles which have been downloaded over 500,000 times! This same year, graduate students began submitting their theses and dissertations to ThinkIR directly, after approval from their committees. This has saved much time and effort, now that we no longer have to scan each paper or track down students to sign permission forms!
In 2016, we began recruiting faculty scholarship for inclusion in ThinkIR and also developed a mediated deposit model where we create research profiles for faculty members, investigate the copyright status of their works and ultimately upload what can be included in ThinkIR. Today, we have 341 faculty papers in ThinkIR and over 50 faculty profiles have been created, which we anticipate will grow even more in the coming year.
In early 2017, the first open access journal hosted by ThinkIR – Journal of Respiratory Infections – was launched. We also host the Journal of Refugee & Global Health. Both journals are managed by UofL faculty and staff on the Health Sciences Campus.
In addition to these successes, ThinkIR is also home to the College of Education & Human Development Capstone Projects and the College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses. In 2017, the administrators of the Honors Program and several faculty advisors began using ThinkIR in what we refer to as the "caterpillar" model. Each student submits a proposal, the faculty member reads it and submits their review, the proposal is then replaced with the thesis document by the student, then the faculty member submits a final review, the thesis is approved by the administrators and posted to ThinkIR. The entire process from beginning to end is completed using the repository!
To date, our most downloaded item is a 2012 Master's Thesis from the Department of Pan African Studies: "The hidden help : black domestic workers in the civil rights movement" by Trena Easley Armstrong – this has been downloaded 7,725 times since February 12, 2015!
Note to Shelf: A Book's JourneyPosted: September 13, 2017 Filed under: Books, Collections, Ekstrom Library, Libraries, People, Primary Sources, Services, Uncategorized | Tags: Books, Ekstrom Library, john burton, open access, Technical Services, tyler goldberg, University Libraries, University of Louisville Leave a comment
One of life's greatest pleasures is browsing bookshelves, searching for topics at random, finding the unexpected, neglecting all commitments to ponder at leisure.
Anyone seeking such non-digital delights can visit libraries on the Belknap or HSC campuses, or for virtual browsing, our website. But how did these physical and virtual books make it to the stacks and website, to be discovered by inquiring eyes and fingertips?
Each book's journey to the shelf is deliberately egalitarian, says Tyler Goldberg, Head of Technical Services and Print Collection Development. Anyone affiliated with the University may request books, videos, recordings or other materials via this link on the Libraries' website (http://library.louisville.edu/forms/order-recommendation). Allowing suggestions from University-affiliated individuals aligns with the Libraries' mission to provide free and open access to information for our patrons.
After a request comes in, Tyler and Technical Services Acquisitions Specialist John Burton confer to determine: 1) whether we already have an item; 2) whether it meets basic criteria for inclusion in our collection; 3) if so, where to order it; and 4) how to pay for it.
After searching Amazon or other online sites, John orders an item, inspects it when it arrives, and ensures it is as advertised, i.e., not ripped, not missing pages, published in the wrong language, or another book altogether. (These errors have all happened.) Before the book is ordered, John has to choose a fund from which to order the book, either from an endowment or gift*, or from the main Libraries budget.
Continuing the journey, a book, DVD or other item arrives at a Technical Services staffer's desk, to be barcoded, cataloged (added to Libraries' online catalog), and passed to a staff member for labeling, stamping, and a final check. Items without records or incorrect information are bounced back to Tyler. For those items without records, she creates and adds a record to the WorldCat database.
After final processing, materials arrive at their final destination, perhaps the Browsing Collection on the third floor of Ekstrom Library, or the African American Collection on Ekstrom's second floor, or the general stacks — wherever it will be among its counterparts, waiting to be gazed at fondly by browsing eyes.
So there you have it. Our librarians and staff deal with machinations behind the scenes so you can study, research, write that scholarly paper, or continue in the simple pleasure of book browsing.
*Many of our loyal and fantastic donors have contributed funds for general materials and specific genres, and the Libraries depend upon these gifts to augment our collections. Some of these funds support specific subject areas, such as Asian studies, humanities, engineering, women's studies, finance, children's literature, biology, American literature, and even railroads. Given the budget cuts to collections, these gifts are more valuable than ever.
Research DIY: Self-Guided LibraryPosted: September 5, 2017 Filed under: Books, Collections, Databases, Ekstrom Library, Libraries, Primary Sources, Research Tips, Services, Teaching Ideas, Technology | Tags: Ekstrom Library, information literacy, librarians, project information literacy freshman study, research, research DIY, Research Guides, writing Leave a comment
By Amber Willenborg
Research assignments can lead to enlightenment, but, as the scholarship on information literacy indicates, the path isn't easy. The Project Information Literacy Freshmen Study found that students face many challenges with finding and using information, from locating appropriate databases to reading research articles and evaluating information. With this in mind, and in direct response to faculty requests for a one-stop research resource for students, the library has unveiled our new Research DIY website.
Research DIY is an online tool featuring visually appealing infographics, videos, and step-by-step instructions to help students get started with a wide variety of research tasks. The PIL Freshmen Study revealed that students struggle most with formulating online searches, selecting and locating research resources, and reading and comprehending materials. On the DIY website, students will find resources that directly address these struggles: a video on generating keywords for searching, numerous videos with instructions for finding a variety of source types like scholarly articles, and an infographic on how to approach reading research articles. Research DIY also includes content created in conjunction with the University Writing Center to help students appropriately integrate sources into their research papers.
While the website is easy for students to find and use on their own, we encourage instructors to link to the site on Blackboard or in their syllabus, or direct students to sections of the website that would be helpful for particular assignments. In addition to Research DIY, the library offers a variety of teaching tools including online learning modules for practice with information literacy concepts and research guides for more in-depth information on research topics and resources. Librarians are also available to create custom content tailored to your class or assignment. The path may not be easy, but the library is here to illuminate your way forward to success.
New Guide Provides Best Sources for Data and StatisticsPosted: August 22, 2017 Filed under: Databases, Ekstrom Library, Libraries, Primary Sources, Research Tips, Services, Teaching Ideas | Tags: data, Ekstrom Library, lib guides, research, sources, statistics, subject guides Leave a comment
By Chris Heckman, Intern, Research Assistance and Instruction, Ekstrom Library
Do you need to know the rate of accidental gun deaths in the U.S. between 2006-2012? What about the voting records of your representatives in Congress, or the percentage of households with running water in a particular Afghan province?
Finding very specific data like this can be a significant challenge for both new and experienced researchers. That's why the University Libraries offers research guides, or collections of curated links to useful journals, databases, and depositories of statistical data, organized by subject. These can be invaluable resources for students beginning the research process, as well as for faculty who want to impart research skills in their students.
Social Sciences and Outreach Librarian Sam McClellan has recently added a new research guide, Finding Data and Statistics, which provides links to several databases and search engines for use with a variety of topics. For example, Zanran is a search engine specifically designed for finding statistics on the internet. A search as simple as "birth rate Somalia" returns over 2,700 relevant graphs, charts, and tables for a researcher to easily narrow down and comb through. You can find a link to this research guide in any of the social sciences subject guides.
The Finding Data and Statistics guide also includes links to social science data archives from universities such Cornell, Princeton, and Northwestern, all freely available for students at University of Louisville to use.
The new guide allows for narrowing by topic, including criminal justice, economics, education, environment, health, politics and elections, labor and employment, public opinion, religion, and urban planning and housing. Selecting any of these topics takes the user to a collection of links to useful data sources. For example, narrowing by "health" yields links to over 50 different data sources along with descriptions of those sources. These data archives are selected because they are freely available (or available to anyone with a UofL Library account), and because they contain a wealth of information for researchers interested in health issues in the United States and abroad. From statistics on the prevalence and mortality rates of specific diseases to information on access to healthcare by region, a wide array of information is available here at a researcher's fingertips.
Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institute of Health (NIH) are available here, as well as data from international bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank. Broad research tools such as CDC Wonder, a search engine provided by the CDC for navigating the agency's public records, or WHOSIS, the WHO's statistical information system, can assist with research on a wide array of topics, but there are also databases for more narrowly focused research areas. For example, the AIDS Public Information Dataset from the CDC provides data specifically on HIV/AIDS incidence in the U.S., while the Cancer Statistics resource from NIH provides data on cancer in the United States. You can find data from some current large-scale studies here as well. For example, results from Princeton University's ongoing Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study are useful for research on children's health, particularly among children with single parents.
Several resources provide information on mental health concerns (the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health, the HHS's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), child and adolescent health concerns (Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health, Monitoring the Future Series, The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, UNICEF Data: Monitoring the Situation of Children and Statistics, Guatemalan Survey of Family Health 1995), and healthcare cost and utilization (Health and Medical Care Archive @ ICPSR, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HHS), Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (HHS)).
The Health section of the Finding Data and Statistics guide contains many more avenues for researchers to explore subtopics in the health field, and health is just one of the topics available in the guide. Anyone conducting research at University of Louisville should consider giving the research guides a try!
Executive Orders: Best Sources for ResearchPosted: February 6, 2017 Filed under: Collections, Databases, Law Library, Libraries, Primary Sources Leave a comment
by Erin Gow
Perhaps not surprisingly, given recent news, the Law Library has seen a sudden surge in questions about U.S. executive orders.
Wondering how to find out more about them? Here are a few good resources to get you started.
Executive orders are published along with other Presidential documents in the Code of Federal Regulations Title 3, which you can access online, in print in the library, or through a subscription database such as Bloomberg Law, HeinOnline, Lexis or Westlaw.
To see recent executive orders visit the White House page. The American Presidency Project and Federal Register also reproduce executive orders, although there may be a slight delay before the latest orders are available.
For current and older Presidential documents, consult the FDsys compilation, which includes executive orders along with letters, statements and other documents.
Historic executive orders are available through the National Archives and through HeinOnline's Daily and Weekly compilations of Presidential documents.
For more information about the issuing, modifying and revoking of Executive Orders, see the Congressional Research Service's 2014 report.
Research Assistance Gives Student Lifetime SkillPosted: March 31, 2016 Filed under: Ekstrom Library, Libraries, People, Primary Sources, Research Tips, Services, University of Louisville, Writing Leave a comment
When they need help with their writing, most UofL students know to contact the Writing Center, located in Ekstrom Library's Learning Commons.
But what about the meat and bones of their papers: research, i.e., finding, evaluating and citing sources? For this equally challenging and unwieldy task, students have an excellent resource in the librarians in Research Assistance and Instruction (RAI), also located in Ekstrom's Learning Commons.
A phone call or appointment made online will get students a face-to-face meeting with a research librarian, who can help them find relevant sources and learn better methods of research to benefit their future scholarship.
UofL sophomore Christian Bush is a recent convert to the benefits of research assistance. He thought such help was only available to students in higher grades.
"Students at all levels and at all times need this help, and don't realize such a resource is available," said Bush, a History and Asian Studies major. "When you first enter college, you have an impression that research appointments are sacrosanct; that only seniors working on their senior papers can get help."
But after a savvy History professor suggested Bush reach out to RAI for help with his research, Bush found he could access the services himself. Required to create an archeological site profile for his class, History 341, Introduction to Egypt, Bush "did what most students do, I googled. But I couldn't find any information on Google at all," he said.
In particular, he needed a specific site profile from 1911 that was nowhere to be found. Exasperated, he set up an appointment with RAI online, after which the response was "lightning quick," Bush said. "They called the next day."
At the research appointment, RAI Librarian Sue Finley showed Bush not only the original excavation report he needed, but subsequent ones, up to modern-era excavation where ground-penetrating radar helps archeologists explore underground tombs.
"I got a wealth of information," Bush said. "More than enough to write my paper, and then some."
But beyond helping with his immediate needs, Finley "took me through her methodology for locating the sources. She spent a good amount of time showing me how to use databases and work with sources, the nitty-gritty of the research."
"If I hadn't been able to meet with her I wouldn't have had such a strong research base and it would have made the profile much less substantial," he continued. "The fact that she taught me how to research and how to go through sources and then use the sources within sources; that's benefited me outside that project."
"A paper is only as strong as your writing skills and your research; if you don't have solid research, there's only so much you can do."
The short-term results were important to Bush, too: "I got an A on the paper," he said, smiling.
Libraries Embraces TRIO Program via Personalized Library ServicesPosted: February 29, 2016 Filed under: Ekstrom Library, Libraries, People, Primary Sources, Uncategorized, University of Louisville Leave a comment
By now, most students on UofL's main campus know Ekstrom has been renovated into a more modern, tech-friendly library, with a new services hub in the Learning Commons. However, Ekstrom is not just a pretty space.
The Belknap campus' main library offers a wide range of services for students and faculty. Tailored, curated guides to research, research appointments offering one-on-one help, and instruction within individual classes are among the services provided by Research Assistance and Instruction (RAI) department (http://louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/research/). Often, students overwhelmed with the demands of their coursework are greatly helped by these services.
Recently, RAI department began offering personalized library services to students who are part of the University's TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) program. This pilot initiative, begun by RAI last semester, provides individualized outreach and assistance to any TRIO student. Currently some 141 students are enrolled.
The federally funded TRIO SSS helps students whose backgrounds may pose challenges to completing college. The program offers financial, academic and personal assistance to students who are disabled, from low-income backgrounds, or first in their family to attend college, and is completely free of charge. The goal is to increase retention and graduation. For more information, please http://louisville.edu/trio
"We thought this was a really great idea, to focus on the TRIO students," said Anna Marie Johnson, Professor and Head of RAI. "We wanted to help students who may not have been introduced to library services before, and to help them with their research projects."
"Particularly students from low-income neighborhoods may not have been enrolled in schools with libraries, or research resources," she continued. "The more we can help serve this population, the more successful they will be, and the more the University will be successful."
RAI has reached out to all 141 students with personalized emails offering advice and information, like available printing services, or study spaces offering technology inputs, and how to reach any of the RAI staff or services. So far a number of students have responded with questions about the library.
Future plans include an online module that will allow students to access videos that guide them in their research. Such modules will also be used for General Education classes introducing the University to freshmen. Johnson hopes for more one-on-one visits with TRIO students as well.
"We will be continuing this program in subsequent semesters and we hope to get a groundswell of interest," Johnson said. "I'm always so happy when someone new comes in and finds out what help they can get; we've had some very happy students as a result."


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have you seen Up?
if not…you should! i won't go into a full review here, but i will set up this clip…just in case you haven't had the pleasure of seeing this beautiful movie.
Carl and Ellie have had a precious lifetime together…full of dreams and love. Ellie, when a little girl, started this scrapbook of "stuff i'm going to do" which included traveling to faraway places and building a home on the edge of Paradise Falls. throughout their life together, Carl strived to bring these dreams into reality. however… he failed. his beloved Ellie passed away, and Carl was not only left with his grief but also with his incompetence.
watch as Carl's understanding of Ellie's life takes an unexpected turn…
what new, unexpected adventure will this year bring?
*now…head to your nearest redbox or blockbuster or netflix and spend some time with this amazing movie:)*


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First things first: I want to thank all of you for coming, for helping me in innumerable ways since Lisa died, for all your acts of generosity. There've been so many
instances we'd be here a long time and the food would go bad.
Clearly, this is the stuff of nightmares. She should still be with us.
We used to talk in that way long-term couples do about what we would do if the other died first. I called this "the worst-case scenario" because in all honesty I fully
expected to die before Lisa. She was seven years younger and I'd already been
widowed, so be sure I never saw it coming, either.
I knew from these talks what she wanted: to be cremated and interred in WV near her grandfather. God willing, that will happen soon. But I also told her that if
she died first I reserved the right to tell a couple of stories on her at the
memorial. "You wouldn't," she'd always say.
Oh, yes, beloved. I would.
I've known Lisa since the early nineteen-eighties; in that time we shared every story we possibly could. I know she's cringing a bit in the next world right now, but I
did reserve this right. And so:
Likely you know her politics were defiantly left-leaning. But one night during the 2004 US presidential campaign she saved Dick Cheney from an encounter with me. We were driving home on the 80/90 in OH past an especially well-lit truck stop when I
realized Cheney was there for an advertised meet-and-greet. (Odd image, isn't
that?) "Love," I said, "For the good of the country and future history we have
got to go down and do something." Lisa never even looked at me. She kept both hands at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel, kept her gaze straight ahead, and quoted Richard Pryor back at me: "Not in this motherfucker you ain't." And we didn't.
Fewer of you might know she was a dedicated, lifelong wrestling fan. That's right. She grew up in the southeastern US, and wrestling shows were among the few traveling
entertainments that came through towns like the ones she lived in. So at around
age twelve she and a somewhat older girlfriend would dress in heavy makeup (and
for Lisa, a lavender feather boa—no kidding) and hit the local arena. Michael
"PS" Hayes was among her favorites, and on this one occasion he was to "face"
Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy. Lisa had an aisle seat for Gordy's walk toward the ring,
so when he passed her she stood, got in his way, yelled out YOU BASTARD—and
Maced Terry Gordy.
Right in the chest.
Lisa was never a tall person. Gordy was.
Gordy may or may not have gotten Mace in his eyes, but she doubted it. He did, however, scream bloody murder, Lisa was thrown out of the arena, and the next week Gordy recorded a "promo" interview for the following show where he referenced Lisa.
I'd love to hear precisely what he said.
Lisa was also a fan of auto racing. I know. It seems counter-intuitive to what you know about her, right? All the same, she was. She went from "You've got to be
kidding me" to yelling GO TONY STEWART! in a voice loud enough to be heard
above 800-horsepower engines. That was a wonderful voice.
I miss that voice more than I can ever tell you. I miss her. A month hasn't changed a thing. Neither will a year, or ten. We've all lost someone vital, special. You've lost a great friend and colleague. Art has lost one of its most beautifully-gifted writers. As for me, I've lost the one great love of my life. We were together twice, and now I've lost her twice.
For all this, though, she wouldn't want us to mourn too hard or too long, but just
remember her with happiness. We'll always be carrying her now. Be certain I
Again, everyone, my thanks. I don't know how to tell you how much this means to me,
and for a writer to be without proper language is embarrassing at the very
least, but you understand. For all the cards, calls, e-mails, donations,
prayers, hugs, good wishes, offers of help, offers of all kinds of things,
meals, the food and drink here, for this wonderful hall in fact, and above all
the idea of ongoing hope you are providing means the rest of the world to me.
(Admiral James T. Kirk once said that the first rule in a crisis is to eat. Perhaps we


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Nicholas A. DeFelice, a retired Allfirst Bank executive who served on various local charitable boards, died Saturday from metastatic melanoma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
The longtime Hunt Valley resident was 74.
The son of Nicola DeFelice, an Italian immigrant and chemical factory worker, and Carmella DeFelice, a homemaker, Nicholas A. DeFelice was born and raised in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and graduated from Niagara Falls High School.
He obtained a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1964 from Niagara University and took additional graduate courses in sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo.
From 1965 to 1979, Mr. DeFelice completed various banking related courses at the University of Georgia. During part of that period — in 1968 and 1969 — he served as a member of an Air Force ground grew that loaded bombs aboard warplanes. He was discharged with the rank of airman.
Mr. DeFelice had begun his career in 1965 with Marine Midland Bank in Buffalo, N.Y., in its residential mortgage department. In 1972 he was promoted to its commercial mortgage department.
From 1973 to 1974, he was a commercial mortgage officer, then in 1974 was named vice president and manager of Marine Midland Realty Corp., a subsidiary of the bank.
In 1980, Mr. DeFelice joined the old First National Bank of Maryland as group senior vice president, responsible for all real estate lending.
He was also president of First Maryland Mortgage Corp., and served as chairman of the real estate loan committee and headed the real estate due diligence team for bank acquisitions. He was also a member of the investment, retail and hedging committees.
In 1997, Allied Irish Banks of Ireland acquired First National Bank of Maryland, and two years later changed its name to Allfirst Financial Inc. Mr. DeFelice retired in 2001 from Allfirst Financial.
In announcing his retirement, the bank described him as "dean of commercial real estate."
Mr. DeFelice served on the boards of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Chicago Title Co., Maryland Transplant, The Living Legacy Foundation, Italian American Charity and the Frank J. Battaglia Signal 13 Foundation.
He enjoyed playing golf and was a member of the Eagle's Nest and Hayfields country clubs. He was also an avid Orioles and Ravens fan.
Mr. DeFelice was a communicant of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, 101 Church Lane, Cockeysville, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m. Thursday.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, the former Virginia "Ginni" Harwood; two sons, Scott N. DeFelice of Timonium and Nicholas F. DeFelice of Monkton; a daughter, Kara B. DeFelice Oliver of Ellicott City; a brother, Gary DeFelice of North Tonawanda, N.Y.; two sisters, Marie Amerose of Rochester, N.Y., and Elizabeth Johns of North Tonawanda; and seven grandchildren.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen


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Inventory: Only Challenge to the Real Estate Recovery
Posted: 29 Jan 2013 04:00 AM PST
The real estate market is in the midst of a major comeback. Sales are greater than any time since 2007. Consumer confidence is increasing. Economists are now saying housing is the major tailwind to our nation's overall economic recovery.
However, there is one major challenge that could stall the housing market: a lack of inventory.
According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) latest Existing Home Sales Report:
A recent survey by Redfin reveals that the challenge seems to be continuing into 2013. New listings taken in the first 14 days of the year decreased by 30% as compared to the first two weeks of 2012.
A lack of supply will be good news for prices in the short term. However, for a long term recovery in housing, an increase in current inventory is crucial.
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Innovation for the Ultra High Throughput Dynamic
15 January 2018 16:00 - 17:00
Hall 8, at the GVF Satellite Hub Summit – Dubai World Trade Center
Event: GVF Satellite Hub Summit at CABSAT 2018, January 14-16, 2017, Dubai, UAE
Type: Speaking slot with panel discussion
Speaker: Bart Van Poucke, VP Product Management, Newtec
Topic: (Session 4) Innovation for the 'Ultra' High Throughput Dynamic
This session addresses the following topics:
- HTS & the Emergence of UHTS
- GEO & MEO... Onwards to LEO?
- Broadband: From Everywhere... To Everywhere
The session will be introduced and moderated by Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Programme Development, GVF.
Location: The GVF Satellite Hub Summit takes place within the satellite area of the CABSAT exhibition, using a dedicated, purpose built, centrally located and high-profile meetings facility.
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Who is Jesus? Read John Chapter 2!
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John 2
Water Turned to Wine
1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."
4 Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come."
5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it."
6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. 7 Jesus said to them, "Fill the waterpots with water." And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And He said to them, "Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast." And they took it. 9 When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. 10 And he said to him, "Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"
11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
12 After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
13 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. 15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables. 16 And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!" 17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten[a] Me up."[b]
18 So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?"
19 Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
20 Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?"
21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22 Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them;[c] and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
The Discerner of Hearts
23 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did. 24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, 25 and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.
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Goblin Lackey
Creature — Goblin
Whenever Goblin Lackey deals damage to a player, you may put a Goblin permanent card from your hand into play.
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Goblin Lackey Discussion
Korath37 on Krenko, Mob Boss
2 weeks ago
Goblin Lackey is Great for this deck (nice btw)
LilGuy on Burning and Pillaging with Grenzo
3 weeks ago
Grisbane on Meat's Back on the Menu
1 month ago
Deck isn't modern legal. Goblin Lackey was never printed in a modern set nor is in Dominaria. Was last printed in "From the Vault" which is not a modern legal set.
TheMadRocketeer on What do you call that? A Goblipede?
2 months ago
Just goldfishing around with this deck tonight, and it achieved a turn 3 kill. I didn't realize it could. Had a really sweet starting hand, consisting of:
3x Mountain
1x Goblin Lackey
1x Goblin Piledriver
1x Lightning Bolt
1x Reckless Bushwhacker
Turn 1:
Played: Mountain, Goblin Lackey
Drew: Foundry Street Denizen
Turn 2:
Played: Mountain, Goblin Piledriver
Swung with Goblin Lackey.
This dealt 1 damage and brought out Foundry Street Denizen.
Drew: Foundry Street Denizen
Turn 3:
Played: Mountain, Foundry Street Denizen, Reckless Bushwhacker
Swung with everything.
This dealt 21 damage for lethal + 2.
Playing the Lightning Bolt on turn 3 instead of the Foundry Street Denizen would have dealt 18 damage, just missing lethal.
So, between the starting hand and the draws, This . . . Was . . . Sweet!
TheMadRocketeer on one-drop goblins
2 months ago
If you're sticking with mono-red and one drops, there's still a number of cool things you can do, and I like the consistency and freedom from mana issues that can be had that way. A few suggestions within that framework:
Goblin Grenade - This one really is a must-have. Sells for about $1.
Mogg Fanatic - Surprisingly good 1-drop. Can clear away a pesky small creature, sneak in an extra point of damage when you need it, and even do damage twice when it makes sense to do so.
Quest for the Goblin Lord - A nice 1-drop booster for the goblin army.
Outnumber - Good for clearing larger creatures so the nasty goblin parade can march on in.
My Goblins 1.0 deck has a few nice 1-drop options that I've found quite useful.
Bonesplitter - Cheap power boost.
Goblin Gaveleer - A goblin that just looooves to carry that Bonesplitter.
Mugging - Great for getting damage past a deck that's beginning to outclass the goblins. Kills small problems and lets you evade larger ones.
Skullclamp - Great for adding draw to a deck like this one.
Goblin Lackey - Nice for sneaking in lords, but this deck is all-out rank and file goblins, so I don't recommend it for this build.
Two more that are superb but pricey.
Goblin Guide - Super super goblin, but at about $20 I can't convince myself to pay that for a game piece.
Legion Loyalist - Also very nice. Good relevant abilities. At about $8 apiece, I might buy 1 or 2 someday, but not today.
HashMasta on KrenkOCD
3 months ago
just a heads up because I found this out the hard way when i bought my playset of it. Goblin Lackey is not modern legal. other than that seems like a good deck.
Liquidbeaver on [PRIMER] Ib Halfheart, Goblin Sac-tician
4 months ago
Jimmy_Chinchila: Thanks Jimmy!
I will go through the suggestions one by one, but most of the answers are because of CMC.
Mutavault - I run very, very few non-basic lands because part of the deck is trying to punish the decks that run a lot of them. Even when I ran 20 nonbasic lands I ran into a lot of problems with not having enough mountains to sacrifice to Ib, which also makes it hard to cast a Price of Progress without killing myself, you get a lot of bad interactions with Blood Moon and Blood Sun, and I just can't capitalize on an extra 2/2, it just makes it a land that is easier to hit with spot removal.
Metallic Mimic - While it wouldn't be a bad card at all, I try really hard to keep my Goblins under 2/2 as much as possible, so that I can take advantage of Raid Bombardment and Shared Animosity at the same time. Also, the bigger the individual Goblins get, the closer they are to doing reduced damage when blocked if they are above a 4/4, or not being blocked at all which makes it harder for me to use a lot of the blocking tricks that I have. You also look like less of a threat (temporarily) when you only have a table full of 1/1's.
Stoneforge Masterwork - I had this in the deck at one point, but it has the same problem that Reckless One and Battle Squadron have, that they might be a 40/40, but if they are blocked when Ib is out they only do 4 damage. It is a pretty good form of protection to put on Ib himself, but I would rather give him hexproof or shroud instead. I can do a fair bit of toughness buffing with Goblin Sledder when needed.
Obelisk of Urd - Same as Mutavault, I don't really want to buff the individual Goblins up. The Convoke is a great selling point though, so this could be a meta choice for someone building the deck.
Door of Destinies - This card is great if two things happens: You get it down early, and you actually cast a lot of your creatures. I've never gotten this card down early in my other tribal decks, and it has no impact if you draw it late game. I would look more towards Coat of Arms and waiting as long as possible to play it, so that it has a profound effect the instant it gets played, instead of just speeding up the whole game if other tribal decks are at the table. Second, I don't cast more than two or three Goblins per game on average, so that would be a lot of work for a little buff. That's why I only have kind of a bare bones of either Goblin token generators, or utility Goblins, so no matter what I draw into I can build something out of it. It's why I don't have any Goblins that I actually attack with, outside of Goblin Lackey and Warren Instigator, the rest are mostly meant to sit there and provide a buff or a combat tweak. I have a few friends that play tribal decks with Door and have a lot of success with it, it's just never performed that well for me.
Caged Sun - I don't need the mana doubler for anything (I always have extra, it's cards in hand that I need), so I would be paying the 6 CMC only for the +1/+1. Definitely a tribal staple, but I have a hard time with anything over 4 mana when I am trying to keep the Average CMC of the deck as low as possible to help make rebuilding after a wipe a lot faster.
Swiftfoot Boots - I've actually been thinking about this for a little more targetted haste, and protection for Ib/Krenko/King/Warchief/Feldon etc...Adding this to the sideboard until I can find a spot for it.
Elixir of Immortality - While mono-red definitely suffers from lack of recursion, I haven't been able to get Elixir to work how I wanted. I generally spend all game trying to get all of my lands out of my library, so that I am only drawing into spells or creatures, but if I sacrifice a bunch of lands and then sac the Elixir, I'll be drawing a bunch of lands late game, which would be like starting the game over for me, but no one else at the table. I do want to see if I can play around it on purpose though (like how I use Surveyor's Scope to great effect now), and not just use it as an Emergency Button, in which case I would put it in place of Feldon of the Third Path because that is the job he is trying to do, but has a hard time with.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions!
RaberSaber on Goblins Everywhere
4 months ago
lukas96 well, I guess I'll proxy him in for next fnm and report in the results, also I do like those one drop ideas... if only Goblin Lackey got a reprint for modern.


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It's so frustrating today. I can't write a single story, or even a small part of one. Is this what they call writer's block? I spent the whole day staring at the blank screen. I'm only writing this to keep the blog updated daily, as I've promised myself. But it's really annoying when you don't get the flow of ideas. Maybe my mind is too occupied today to come up with stories, I don't know.
When I get a story in my head, it feels nice, and writing becomes fun. But I don't know what is the deal with me today.
Maybe I should spend the rest of the day reading a novel instead.
See you guys tomorrow, and I apologize for not writing any story today.