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Officials ordered tens of thousands of coastal villagers to flee their homes Friday as a massive cyclone — so large it filled nearly the entire Bay of Bengal — gathered strength and headed toward India's eastern seaboard.
Officials canceled holy day celebrations and stockpiled emergency supplies in coastal Orissa and Andhra Pradesh states, with forecasters saying Cyclone Phailin will hit the region Saturday evening.
The Indian Meteorological Department warned that Phailin was a "very severe cyclonic storm" that was expected to hit with maximum sustained winds of 210-220 kilometers (130-135 miles) per hour. If the storm continues on its current path without weakening, it is expected to cause large-scale power and communications outages and shut down road and rail links, officials said. There would also be extensive damage to crops.
Satellite images of the storm showed its spinning tails reaching nearly 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the east coast of India to the west coast of Myanmar, an area roughly the size of France.
Using trucks and buses, authorities evacuated 40,000 people from 40 villages to government-run shelters, schools and buildings in five districts of Orissa state, said Surya Narayan Patra, the state revenue and disaster management minister.
Patra said authorities plan to take another 100,000 people to safer areas before the cyclone hits.
Authorities also began evacuating 64,000 people from the low-lying areas of three vulnerable districts in neighboring Andhra Pradesh state, said state Revenue Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy.
Officials have been stockpiling emergency food supplies, and setting up shelters for people expected to flee the heavy winds and rains. The Indian air force said four transport planes and 18 helicopters were being kept ready for relief operations in the region.
Weather forecasters had been predicting waves up to 2 meters (7 feet), but warned that the storm has been gaining strength and its impact could be severe.
The Bay of Bengal has been the scene of the some of the deadliest storms in recent history. A 1999 Orissa cyclone killed 10,000 people.


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RiYD: Classic Rock (a la Thin Lizzy), LCD Soundsystem, cowbell
This record is just good. Big sound, bigger emotions. It's the kind of stuff you want to roll all of your windows down and drive real fast to. I've never been old but I think this is the kind of music that encapsulates what it is to be young; nostalgia pop, maybe.
James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem) produced this record, continuing his infatuation with updating everything that was great about music in the '70s for today. Maybe the title is a little off, then, because, if anything, this album is stuck on the past. But I'll be darned if that's a bad thing.
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I still have to take some photographs of my decorations. In the meantime, I thought you might appreciate seeing some pictures of the Boo to You parade that takes place during Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party at Walt Disney World.
The parade comes around twice a night, the second showing being far less crowded than the first.
I attended both, of course.
For that matter, I attended two parties, so you might notice a change in location, atmosphere and even some missing figures in photos of the same float. That's because the second night it poured, and I mean no fooling around rain that delayed the parade an hour. I will say though, I do like the pictures from that night a lot. There's something about the wet streets that add to the shots. Plus, that's the parade where Tweedle Dee (or Dum) came over and gave me a big smooch.
Unfortunately the Headless Horseman, who rides out before the parade starts, didn't make an appearance for the almost rained out parade, which meant I only have the blurry images from the first one. That being said, some of those blurs turned out pretty cool.
I thought I was being a good girl by leaving my pumpkin untouched on the porch. I bought it a bit early, and while I've read that some people carve their pumpkin as early as a week ahead of the big day, my pumpkins never last that long (mainly because they spend part of their evenings in my office).
I left him on the porch to stay cool and happy.
However, the milder weather we've been having seems to have caused my pumpkin to get some moldy patches.
I rushed it inside, chopped off the bottom, carved out as much of the mold as I could, and I have him soaking in a water bath with a bit of bleach in the hope to help it stick around until at least Friday morning.
Here's what he looked like prior to his soaking in my sink ;)
Happy Halloween, folks! Two days left!
Hang on, Mr. Pumpkin.
If you've been following this blog for a while, you know I'm a fan of Joshua Hoffine's photography. I had the pleasure of meeting him and his wife (then fiancée) Jennifer a few years ago when I bought his print "Death" a few years ago.
Before you pick up that discounted copy of a B-horror film, or buy a pumkin spiced latte, or buy clearance Halloween items, let me direct you to a better cause for your $10 to be spent on.
And I say $10 specifically because I know money is tight everywhere. Believe me. I know.
But even that little bit of cash can help to support something pretty cool.
He has a kickstarter project called Black Lullaby which I just pledged $30 towards. He's in the process of making a short film inspired by his collection of photographs and needs some help with shooting the final monster appearance plus all that post production goodness. Watch the video below to learn more directly from the man himself.
While Halloween is the official night, this weekend is the star of the season when it comes to celebrating. Many people are running around trying to get last minute decorations up and grocery shopping done for their parties tonight. Others are still figuring out what to wear to these parties.
Me? A few years ago I switched my party date from Saturday to Sunday. Since my gatherings are more laid back and often include dinner, I decided to free my faithful guests from the burden of choosing which invitation to accept, or which party to leave early so they could get to the next one.
I really like the laid back feel of celebrations on a Sunday evening. And as we get older, and my friends have children and careers, I find my guests appreciate it too. They come by after 6, and folks start heading home around 10, leaving a few of us chatting until midnight.
I've run out of time to do any additional decorating. I have work, then grocery shopping. Last night I put up some last minute fun items: the red sign (top left) that reads "Hell: Where Afterlife Means Afterparty" (much more exciting than Heaven's sign of "Purgatory is Temporary. Heaven is Forever", top right).
I put up two old school black silhouettes painted on craft paper (you can see the spider bottom right). And played with lighting.
This post is dedicated to all the host and hostesses who are rushing around like maniacs today, worrying that the spider cupcakes aren't going to turn out, or regretting they didn't have enough time to get that prop in the bathtub.
Have fun tonight kiddies. Be safe.
It looks like the heavenly display is close to finished, so tonight was dedicated to getting 4 of the souls who chose Hell hung in the dining room.
Instead of using cheesecloth, I re-purposed the fabric from last year's Twin Peaks Black Lodge red waiting room. Folding, pinning, and hanging each one into various forms, I tried to get some interesting shapes and hints at stance and mass.
I think they'll look pretty cool under proper lighting.
I still have 6 more to get into place. Hopefully that will be completed tomorrow night.
Getting into that stage where it's about last minute final touches. A layer of material here. A sign there.
Some of it is still not quite right, but those should sort themselves out.
Sunday night is the big reveal.
I still have to grocery shop and put together the menu that goes along with the theme.
And then there's that pesky work thing that always gets in the way.
But for now, it's time to sleep.
I'm still adding finishing touches to the these souls, but so far I like how these simple props are turning out.
They still need proper lighting and a bit more cheesecloth, but overall I've achieved the effect I wanted with little cost.
I only had $30 to soend on this year's projects. It's a drop in the bucket compared to past years. Luckily I had picked up the paper mache masks on clearance last November. All I needed to buy was the cheesecloth.
5 packages of 15 ft lengths of cheesecloth.
Budget spent.
Everything else I had around the house including:
These would look nicer with more cheesecloth, but I think I did ok. Besides, these are not 'really ghosts, they are souls in my mind. For some reason I don't think souls have arms even in a physical manifestation, and that saved on material.
I've taken a few pictures of the process I made up as I went along. Are there better ways to build them? I am sure there are, but this worked for me and my limited resources. Let's jump into the quick how-to.
While I don't feel Heaven would promote itself to recruit souls at the end of the world like Hell would (in my imaginings, anyway), I do think they would offer their own itinerary.
Luckily, I was able to find a vintage publication advertising a revival by John Rice, the man who wrote the book that inspired this year's theme.
I've printed it out and attached it to the official sign-up-in-Heaven's-good-book I put together.
Pictures of that soon, but in the meantime, click the photo if you want to see the large original image of the revival ad.
What if Hell took a tradeshow approach to entice souls to choose the fiery pits for their eternal stay? This is what I asked myself when I read a theory that souls actually must choose hell instead of just being cast down (as I was traditionally taught in childhood).
What could Hell possibly offer that might sway spirits to their side? In a very tongue-in-cheek way, I came up with a list. I thought about not only traditional sin, but items various churches or religious institutions across the Christian bodies have banned or decried sinful.
And I've started to build a basic booth for my Halloween party theme of "Judgment Day: the Last Revival".
First thing is books (as seen in the sample here). I chose Harry Potter, To Kill A Mockingbird, Astrology, and Darwin's Theories.
Next I played with the idea of recreation: trips to Vegas, Horror Movie Nights, and classic cartoons for the kids (and the kids in all of us).
It looks like I may indeed get the house decorated in time. It's a theme that's been waiting to be brought into being since last year when I spotted this book, When Skeletons Come Out of the Closets by John R. Rice.
Here's a description of this collection of sermons:
"When Skeletons Come Out of Closets was preached in a red hot revival service. Preacher - here is the way it's supposed to be done. Christian - there is water here if your soul needs an oasis. Seeker of truth - if you are worried about life after death, about how to have peace with God--here is the answer from God's word, the Holy Bible. 'Everybody that goes to hell gets exactly what he deserves. He walks up to the ticket window and pays his own fare to hell -- in wages! But everybody that goes to heaven rides on a free pass.'"
John Richard Rice was a Baptist preacher born in Texas in 1895. He wrote more than 200 publications, apparently selling 60 million copies of his work. He had a radio show called the Voice of Revival that aired on 69 stations in 29 states, broadcasting his evangelical sermons to folks at home.
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Verbond der vier Steden, Het
Het Verbond der vier Steden (The League of the Four Towns), also called Ordinantie, is an alliance made about 1560 by the ministers of the Mennonite congregations of Franeker, Harlingen, Leeuwarden, and Dokkum in the Dutch province of Friesland. In this Ordinantie of 19 articles they regulated their relations and passed the resolutions that the money for the care of the poor in all four churches would be provided from a common fund, and that the ministers of any of these congregations were also entitled to serve in the other three. The intention of this league was unquestionably laudable, but it was a serious error to conclude it among the ministers without consulting the membership and to keep it secret. Trouble arose when in Franeker Jeroen Tinnegieter, a Flemish immigrant, was chosen as preacher, who was not accepted by the ministers of Harlingen, Leeuwarden, and Dokkum, where according to the terms of the League Tinnegieter was entitled to preach. Then the secret league came out into the open and particularly the members of Flemish descent in the congregations of Franeker and Harlingen were outraged at the abridgment of their rights. The result was the Flemish-Frisian quarrels in 1566-1567, which ended with a schism.
Cramer, Samuel and Fredrik Pijper. Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica, 10 vols. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1903-1914: X, 536 ff.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1893): 1-90.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, No. 464.
Kühler, Wilhelmus Johannes. Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Doopsgezinden in de Zestiende Eeuw. Haarlem: H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1932: I, 397 f., 407-13.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Verbond der vier Steden, Het." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 22 Aug 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Verbond_der_vier_Steden,_Het&oldid=109594.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1959). Verbond der vier Steden, Het. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 22 August 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Verbond_der_vier_Steden,_Het&oldid=109594.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 810. All rights reserved.
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First, the Hamas clique that dominates Gaza is today welcoming back into its bosom several more convicted murderers.
Former prisoners deported to Qatar in Gaza for Hamas celebrations
Ma'an [Palestinian news agency based in Bethlehem] Published 05/12/2012
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) – A number of former Palestinian prisoners who were deported to Qatar as part of the prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel have arrived in Gaza City to mark Hamas' 25th anniversary. Sabir Abu Karsh, chief of the Waed prisoners association, told reporters that six former prisoners arrived in Gaza to join celebrations of Hamas' anniversary "and the triumph the Gaza Strip achieved against Israel in the last military offensive Israel launched against the coastal enclave." Gaza-based former prisoner and senior Hamas' leader Tawfiq Abu Naim greeted the returning former prisoners in a news conference held by Waed prisoners' association... Abdul-Hakim Hanani, a former prisoner who arrived from Qatar, said the "future stage will be based on the principle hit for hit, and blood for blood."
From our records, this Hanani - a native of Nablus, whose name appears as Abd al-Hakim Abd al-Aziz abd Hanaini in the walk-free list - is identified as prisoner number 273 in the long and ugly database of 1,027 murderers and assorted terrorists released in October 2011 as Israel's price for the return of the young hostage, Gilad Shalit.
Hanani/Hanaini was serving a life sentence for (of course) homicide. Life in Qatar can't be too difficult for people like him, but Gaza is where he really fits right in. And having an abundance of convicted murderers present for their silver anniversary will help the Hamas overlords set just the right celebratory tone.
Hanani/Hanaini was serving a life sentence for (of course) homicide. Life in Qatar can't be too difficult for people like him, but Gaza is where he really fits right in. And having an abundance of convicted murderers present for their silver anniversary will help the Hamas overlords set just the right celebratory tone.
Remember how we wrote yesterday about the ever-faster Syrian descent into hell ["4-Dec-12: Thinking about what Syria has become and what can be done"]? There's a piquant side to this in Times of Israel, capturing a moment in which the Israel side, whose diplomatic representatives have not been having the most of pleasant of weeks in the forums of the United Nations, was able to smile and even cause some of the rest of us to do the same.
"Frankly, Syria, we don't give a damn"
Raphael Ahren in Times of Israel, December 4, 2012, 11:45 pmOn November 29-30, the International Anti-Corruption Academy hosted 350 state officials and international organization representatives for an assembly in Vienna. Israel is a founding member of the UN-affiliated organization and Hebrew University law professor Mordechai Kremnitzer, who holds no official position with the Israeli government, was elected last week to the board of governors for three years — all of this to the evident chagrin of the delegate from the Syrian Arab Republic. "The representative of Syria requested that his reservation on Israel be included in this report... We don't like the idea that an Israeli is a member of the board." [Ambassador Aviv Shir, speaking for Israel referred to the Syrian delegation's pompous remarks and then stated what every last one of us would have wanted to say:] "On the background of what's going in Syria, we really don't care about the Syrian recognition."
"They usually want to get into this debate, where they can say we don't accept Israel, the occupier, and the poor Palestinians, etcetera. So he was a bit embarrassed because he was not expecting such an answer. He just shrunk in his chair." [More]
It would be nice to think the barbarity being executed daily in today's Syria would make moments like the one in Vienna unnecessary. How Syria's official representatives can summon up the brazenness to walk into the room, let alone complain about an Israeli being there, is a puzzle.
It has to be said that a considerable part of the current tension in the air relates to decisions taken by Israel's government in the wake of last week's UN General Assembly decision to give the Palestinian Arabs in Ramallah (not those in Gaza, but it's a distinction little understood outside our region) an upgrade. The result has been some odd diplomatic steps taken by states that we had hoped would show more understanding. Since that is not happening much, it's good to see and hear some articulate voices speaking out for non-politically-correct viewpoint, like this one.
Did Israeli settlements in the West Bank kill the two-state solution?
The Spectator | Douglas Murray | 3 December 2012 | When did the dream of a two-state solution die? When it became clear that there are already two Palestinian states – the Hamas-run Gaza and the Palestinian Authority-governed West Bank? Or when the extremists of Hamas fired thousands of missiles into Israeli cities? Or last week when the 'moderates' of Fatah once again refused Israeli offers to go to the negotiating table and instead moved to circumvent their only negotiating partner via a diplomatic coup at the UN? No, in the eyes of portions of the UK government as well as the international community, the two-state solution is threatened not by these consistent, physically and diplomatically violent moves; but by everybody's favourite subject: Israeli settlement building….the blockage to peace is not Israeli settlement-building, unhelpful though that undoubtedly is. The bar to peace remains, as it always has been – as it was at Oslo, Camp David and over all the decades before and since – an unwillingness on the part of the Palestinians to accept the existence of the Jewish state and an almost completely ignored Palestinian insistence that the final-status Palestinian state should be completely and wholly free of Jews. [More]
Finally, a gem of an analysis from the ascerbic Sultan Knish blog - a rather biting explanation for those who need one - of where the real danger in this fraught, on-edge region is coming from.
The Deadly Israeli House
Sultan Knish blog | Posted by Daniel Greenfield, Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Forget the cluster bomb and the mine, the poison gas shell and even tailored viruses. Iran can keep its nuclear bombs. They don't impress anyone in Europe or in Washington DC. Genocide is equally not worthy of attention when in the presence of the fearsome weapon of terror that is an Israeli family of four moving into a new apartment downwind from Jerusalem. Sudan may have built a small mountain of African corpses, but it can't expect to command the full and undivided attention of the world until it does something truly outrageous like building a house and filling it with Jews. Since the Sudanese Jews are as gone as the Jews of Egypt, Iraq, Syria and good old Afghanistan, the chances of Bashir the Butcher pulling off that trick are rather slim. Due to the Muslim world's shortsightedness in driving out its Jews from Cairo, Aleppo and Baghdad to Jerusalem, the ultimate weapon in international affairs is entirely controlled by the Jewish State. The Jewish State's stockpile of Jews should worry the international community far more than its hypothetical stockpiles of nuclear weapons. No one besides Israel, and possibly Saudi Arabia, cares much about the Iranian bomb. But when Israel builds a house, then the international community tears its clothes, wails, threatens to recall its ambassadors and boycott Israeli peaches. [More - it's really worth reading to the end]
Hopefully everything's a little clearer now.


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TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - Jan 8, 2014) - Axxess Pharma Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AXXE) a specialty pharmaceutical and nutritional supplements company is pleased to announce through its wholly-owned subsidiary, AllStar Health Brands Inc. that the initial order from Victory Brands, one of Canada's leading distributors of Health, Fitness and Nutrition products for its TapouT has sold out.
Based on the success of this initial sales effort, Axxess and Victory are preparing a more comprehensive marketing campaign aimed at expansion into larger retail outlets.
Ian Bell, President of Victory Brands, stated: "We are pleased that this initial order has sold out so quickly, and look forward to growing the brand across Canada. Our marketing team here at Victory believe the Canadian market is very receptive to the growth of this brand, and we are working closely with Axxess to ramp up sales very quickly."
Daniel Bagi, President of Axxess further stated, "We believe the initial sell out of our TapOut pain relief products bodes well for our growth across Canada. We are now we formulating a specific marketing strategy together with the team at Victory to ensure success, and expand into all major retailers in Canada. Victory purchases the inventory it distributes so we know they believe in the products and the strength of the TapouT brand. In addition to the mass retail stores, our product line will be available online at http://www.supplementsource.ca/ and http://www.vitamart.ca/, two of Canada's leading online retail outlets."
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Axxess Pharma Inc. is a Nevada Corporation operating through its wholly-owned Canadian Subsidiary: Axxess Pharma Canada Inc., headquartered in Toronto. Axxess is a specialty Health Care Products Company dedicated to improving health and quality of life by offering select medicines, nutritional supplements and over the counter remedies all across the Americas. Axxess's goal is to bring additional products to the market and provide new, innovative options for better health spanning areas such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, acute pain to optimal health management through improved nutritional supplements.
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Things are heading in a new direction for English third-division soccer team Doncaster.
One Direction boy band singer Louis Tomlinson completed his takeover of the club Thursday along with former chairman John Ryan.
The 22-year-old Tomlinson, a global star as part of the five-member pop group, is a lifelong Doncaster fan and played for the club's reserve side earlier this year.
Ryan, a businessman who oversaw Doncaster's rise from non-league to the championship, stepped aside in November.
Tomlinson signed for the club at the start of the season to raise money for a charity and drew about 10,000 fans to the stadium when he played in February.
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One tough thing about posting family photos to the web is that you need to decide which resolution to post your photo at. If you have a high resolution photo that you'd like to post on a web page, you basically have two choices:
- Option A: Resize the photo (make smaller) so that it fits on the screen
- If you do this, you'll lose the detail that you had in the higher resolution version.
- Option B: Post the higher resolution version as is
- If you post your original high-res photo, it may take a very long time to download and appear in the browser. It will also be too large to display in the browser and won't let you see the entire photo at the same time.
But what if we had a way to do both of these things at once? What if we could post a lower resolution version that allowed the user to see the entire image, but also allow zooming into the photo to see more detail? And what if we could zoom in not just a little bit, but deep into the photo to see fine details?
Well, Microsoft has a new technology, called "Deep Zoom", that helps us do exactly that.
Background: Pixels, Pixels, Pixels
Spoiler: If you're just here to see the demo, jump ahead a few sections to read about how I posted a "deep zoomable" family photo and then click on the link that takes you to the demo. But if you're curious about some of the background concepts, read on.
What do we mean by "high resolution" or "low resolution"?
To start with, when we talk about resolution, we generally talk about pixels:
Pixel – The individual colored dots in a digital image.
We can think about pixels in the context of digital images that we take with a digital camera (e.g. an 8 "megapixel" image). We can also think about pixels in the context of knowing how many pixels wide and tall our computer monitor is.
Let's start with your monitor. When you're working on your Windows-based PC or your Macintosh, your monitor is displaying everything that you see at some resolution. In other words, your monitor can display a certain number of pixels horizontally and vertically. For a typical 20″ LCD monitor, this might be 1600 pixels wide by 1200 pixels tall. Or, if you're using a MacBook, it might be 1280 pixels wide by 800 pixels high.
The more pixels that your monitor or laptop can display, the sharper the image, and the better/higher the resolution.
Back to digital images. When you take a digital image, the image is of a particular resolution, based on the camera and the current settings. For my 8MP (megapixel) camera, the images are 3264 pixels wide by 2448 pixels high. (If you multiply these two numbers together, you get something close to 8 million total pixels, hence the term "8 megapixel").
How do these two resolutions, monitor vs. digital image, relate? If you want to display that 8MP image on your MacBook, and you don't do any special scaling of the image, the entire image won't fit on the screen. That 8MP photo was 3264 pixels wide and your screen is only 1280 pixels wide, so you can see at most about 40% of the picture's width.
Normally you don't notice this. If you open an 8MP image on your computer, the photo viewing application normally shows you the image exactly filling the screen. What happens is that your photo viewing software actually shrinks the image down so that you can see the entire thing, "squishing" it into fewer pixels. Naturally, when you do this, some detail is lost. No matter how hard you stare at that 1280×800 image, you won't see as much detail as existed in the 3264×2448 version.
But most photo viewing applications allow you to zoom in and out of the image. As you zoom in, you do see more detail, because the software is re-scaling the portion of the image that you want to see to the screen. It's actually going back to that original 3264×2448 image and resizing it again.
When you use a photo viewing application on your PC or Mac, everything works great. You are able to zoom in and out of the image and you can see all of the detail present in that original 8MP image. Images stored on the web, however, are a different matter.
Photos on Web Pages
When you post a photo on a web page, you need to pick a single resolution and post the photo at that resolution. Let's look at our previous example. Say you have this gorgeous 8MP digital photo and you want to display it on a web page (or upload it to Facebook). If you want viewers of the page to be able to see the entire photo, you'll want to scale it from 3264×2448 down to something like 800×600 pixels. The basic idea here is that you want the photo to fit into their web browser, which means that you need to think about how many pixels wide (and high) their web browser is. If they are running a browser on a MacBook and the browser is not maximized, it might only be 1000 pixels wide, or less. So you'd size the original image down to something like 800×600 pixels.
The problem with doing this is that web browsers don't normally have a mechanism for zooming into photos. And if they do (like Firefox's zoom feature), they'll never be able to display any more resolution than was present in the original 800×600 image. The detail from your original 3264×2448 image isn't available.
One workaround for this problem is to post several variants of the same photo—one at the lower resolution and then several at higher resolutions, showing some section of the photo at a higher resolution. But this is clumsy.
Resolution and Scanning Family Photos
Let's talk a bit about how resolution comes into play when you scan a photo. When scanning, you typically select a particular DPI, or "dots per inch", to scan at. The higher the DPI, the higher the resolution of the resulting digital image.
So let's say that you scan a 4×6 print at 300 dpi. The resulting image would be 1200×1800 pixels, or roughly 2 megapixels.
It's important to remember that high-quality negatives or film prints have much higher resolution. (The available detail is actually based on the size of the individual grains of the silver halide crystals on the film). A high quality 35mm negative might have a resolution equivalent to something closer to 4000 dpi.
If you actually scanned that 4×6 photo at 4000 dpi, you'd end up with a digital image that was 16000×24000 pixels, or 384 megapixels. This is an image that is as wide as about 15 20″ LCD monitors! That's a lot of detail. Stored as a typical .tif file on your hard drive, you'd end up with something like a 2GB file.
So what resolution should you use when scanning? The general rule is that it depends on what you're going to do with the digital image. If you're going to display it on a web page, there's no need to scan at a very high resolution. If you're planning on printing the photo, you'd typically print at about 150 dpi. So if you're not going to enlarge the photo, you'd also scan at 150 dpi.
Because there is so much detail available in that original print, you may sometimes want to scan at a much higher resolution. For example, you might scan just someone's face from a larger photo and then post that scan on a web page. For example, if you scan a 1″ square area of the photo and you want to display it as a 600-pixel high image, you'd scan at 600 dpi.
Deep Zooming a Family Photo
Let's go back to our original premise. When we post a photo on a web site, there's no way to zoom into the photo and see more detail, right?
Well actually, there is now a way to do this, using a new technology from Microsoft called "Deep Zoom".
Here's a sample family photo, inserted into this post at roughly 600×480 pixels.
There's nothing special about this photo. If you use the browser's zoom functions to zoom into the photo, you'll quickly see how coarse the picture is.
Here's the same photo, posted on my web site, as a "deep zoomable" photo:
Click on the link to go play with the image. Try zooming in and out and notice that as you zoom in, the photo starts off very grainy, but quickly sharpens up. Note that you can also pan the photo using the mouse. You'll need to install a small browser plug-in called Silverlight, but the install goes fairly quickly.
How Did They Do It?
The basic idea of Deep Zoom is that you start with a very high resolution image, capturing the detail that you want to see when you are all the way "zoomed in". You then use some software to generate a lot of other images, which are all chunks of the original image at various resolutions. The basic idea is to pre-generate all of the different resolutions of the image that you'll be seeing as you zoom in and out.
In my case, I started with an 8″x10″ image and scanned it at 800 dpi. This resulted in a digital image that was roughly 6400×8000 pixels, or 51 megapixels. Another way to think about this is that to display the image at the original resolution, it would cover a grid of 20″ LCD monitors that was 5 monitors wide and 5 monitors high. I saved the original photo as a TIFF image, and the file was about 145MB.
Here's the amazing part. When I ran this photo through the Deep Zoom software, it generated just over 1,100 new images from the original image. The new images are various chunks of the original photo, at many different resolutions. Coincidentally, the size on disk of all of these photos also adds up to about 145MB.
I then posted the "deep zoom" collection of photos on my web site, along with some pretty straightforward programming. (Microsoft has done most of the work here). The result is what you saw above—a single image that you can zoom into and out of, made possible by 1,100 separate images that are automatically loaded at the proper time as you zoom or pan.
Wrapping Up
The Deep Zoom technology is very exciting for family historians. We are no longer limited to posting photos merely as static images on a web site. Instead, we can post collections of "dynamic" images, allowing us to preserve all of the detail that is present in the original film-based copies that we started with. And the experience for the user is nothing short of phenomenal. The first web page loads very quickly and new chunks of the photo load only when they need to.


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Bow Pack under new ownership
Michelle and Steve Burnett had been looking for a career change for a long time. So when they hear Broken Bow Pack was for sale, they decided it was a chance worth taking. "I went home and told Steve the butcher shop was closing, and he said 'Do you want to buy it?'," Michelle recalled with a smile. "I looked at him and said, 'Are you serious?' So we decided to give it a shot." The new owners hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Broken Bow Chamber of Commerce Monday afternoon. Though running a butcher shop is something new to both of them, they do have a strong background. Steve has been around cattle all his life - he has always been involved in FFA, and milked cows for 20 years. Michelle has a little more of an idea what to expect in the business as she worked in a meat packing plant "many moons ago." The couple is also getting help from some well qualified and experienced sources. Bob Lorenz brings years of meat cutting experience to the business, and serves as the head of processing and takes care of the retail meat counter. Though Steve did already know how to butcher, he has been picking up some valuable tips and advice from former owner Lowell Bailey, who has been kind enough to stop in once in awhile to visit. The couple purchased the business in July, and opened for business Sept. 1. Michelle says a lot of work went into the shop before the doors were opened to the public. The freezers were all redone, the entire building was rewired and all new compressors were installed. Steve says what he likes best about the career change already is the fact that he gets to spend more time with his family. "Milking is a 24-7 job,." The Burnett's have seven children: Andrea, 25, lives with her new husband and daughter in New Jersey; Christopher, 21, is in the National Guard; Tony, 19, serves full time in the U.S. Army stationed in Korea; Alex, 18, works for a local farmer; Tara, 16; Meghan, 10 and Andrew, 7. To put it mildly, they keep the couple very busy. Bow Pack offers butchering services, custom processing and retail meats. They also offer locker rentals, beef and pork bundles year round and smoked products. Michelle says party platters will also be offered for the holidays. Hours for the pack are 8:30 to 6 Monday through Friday, and Saturday by appointment. So far, the Burnett's say they are thoroughly enjoying their new career. "What I have been most surprised at is how busy we are," says Michelle. "And Steven has enjoyed it more than either of us thought he would." "Anything is better than milking," Steve laughs.


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The beauty of these versatile, easy-to-do hairstyles? They work equally well for parties and the everyday. Even better: As elegant as they look, they take only minutes. "These styles were designed to be done by anyone," says New York City stylist Erika Wightman. And, she adds, they're not meant to be done perfectly: "A little messy can be fun." (In this story: Hair, Erika Wightman. Makeup, Melissa Silver.)


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Weekend picks: Carey rocks at St. Charles' Zanies
Proud of Cleveland
Cleveland native and famed TV comic Drew Carey ("The Drew Carey Show," "The Price is Right") returns to the Chicago area for a special standup engagement this weekend at Zanies at Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. $35 plus a two-item menu purchase. (630) 584-6342 or zanies.com. 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Saturday, June 29
Movie music
The third annual Music Box Summer Music Film Festival brings the best new documentary and concert films available about performers and music. There will be five days and nights of great music movies, featuring everything from break dancing ("Wild Style") and Detroit punk ("A Band Called Death") to air guitar ("Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure") and the new documentary, "Ain't in It for My Health." See the new documentary "Downloaded," about the rise and fall of Napster, with director Alex Winter (co-star of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure") also scheduled to appear. The Music Box Theatre is located at 3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago. Single tickets cost $8-$15 and festival passes cost $70. www.summermusicfilmfestival.com. Screening times vary Saturday through Tuesday, June 29-July 2
Art aplenty
Find plenty of art for purchase accompanied by a variety of live music acts at the 11th Annual Arts Festival this weekendat Bartlett Park, Oak and North avenues, Bartlett. No admission charge. (630) 837-0800 or artsinbartlett.org. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 29-30
Leapin' lizards!
See a variety of reptiles, amphibians and other exotic animals and purchase merchandise at Chicagoland Repticon in the Prairie Events Center at the Kane County Fairgrounds, 525 S. Randall Road, St. Charles. Admission for both days is $15 or $10 for one day; $5 for ages 5-12. Visit repticon.com. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 29, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 30
Good as gold
If you have time for just one city festival or fair this summer, make it the 56th Annual Gold Coast Art Fair in Chicago's Grant Park, 400 E. Monroe St. There will be 350 local, national and international talents for a showcase of first-rate, one-of-a-kind art in painting, sculpture, jewelry, glass, woodwork, photography, clothing and mixed media with prices ranging from $25 to $25,000. There also will be free live art demonstrations, art activities for kids, food and live music. Free. (847) 926-4300 or www.gcartfair.com. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 29-30
Illinois Prairie Path Day
The Fox River Trolley Museum, 361 S. LaFox St. (Route 31), South Elgin, marks the 50th anniversary of North America's first successful rails-to-trail railroad to nature path conversion at its Illinois Prairie Path Day. Electric railway cars of the Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railway, which once traversed where the 61-mile Illinois Prairie Path now runs through Cook, DuPage and Kane counties, will be on display and in operation. Fares are $4 for adults; $3 for seniors; $2 for kids ages 3-11; free for children younger than 3 and Illinois Prairie Path members. (847) 697-4676 or foxtrolley.org. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 29
First PiqNiq
Alt-rock station Q87.7 is hosting their first summer concert at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, 19100 Ridgeland Ave., Tinley Park. There will be two stages featuring bands like Atlas Genius, Bush, Awolnation and more. Besides the abundance of alternative bands, the concert also draws many indie acts hoping to bring their music to a larger audience. $25-$95.90. Go to Q87.7.com. 11:30 a.m. Saturday, June 29
Feeling fit
Advocate Condell Medical Center sponsors the Lambs Farm Fun and Fit Family Day, designed for families to learn how to be healthy, at Lambs Farm, 14245 W. Rockland Road, I-94 at Route 176, Libertyville. The event showcases a variety of vendor and information booths, demonstrations and competitions that encourage physical activity. Guests are also invited to see Lambs Farm's farmyard and other attractions. Free admission. (847) 362-4636 or lambsfarm.org. Noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 29
Doggy days
The "dog days of summer" become literal in artist Dale Rogers' traveling outdoor sculpture exhibit "Big Dog Show"presented alongside other dog-related events this June around Highland Park City Hall, 1707 St. Johns Ave., Highland Park. (847) 780-4293 or downtownhp.com. 1 to 3 p.m. kickoff event Saturday, June 29; sculptures on display throughout downtown Highland Park until Friday, July 26
An old-fashioned Fourth
Learn how Independence Day was celebrated in the 1800s with old-fashioned games, music and speeches (including a reading of the Declaration of Independence) at the Celebrating the Fourth program at Kline Creek Farm, 1N600 County Farm Road, West Chicago. Guests are welcome to bring a picnic lunch and to help make homemade ice cream. Free. (630) 876-5900 or dupageforest.com. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29
Crazy stunts
They flip! They fly! The skilled daredevils of the King BMX Stunt Show risk their lives for your enjoyment this weekend at MB Financial Park at Rosemont, 5501 Park Place, Rosemont. Free. (847) 349-5008 or rosemont.com. 4, 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, June 29
Pure country
See two country greats, Loretta Lynn and Randy Travis, on the same billSaturday at RiverEdge Park, 360 Broadway St., Aurora. $45 general admission; $55 seated. (630) 896-6666 or riveredgeaurora.com. 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29
Etheridge & pals
Melissa Etheridge and Friends features Joan Osborne, Paula Cole and Jessie Payo as her cohorts in concert Saturday at the Ravinia Festival, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. $90-$100 reserved seating; $38-$43 lawn seating. (847) 266-5100 or ravinia.org. 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29
CSO at Morton
For the first time, The Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, will host the world-renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a series of open-air concerts. Tickets cost $25-$30 for the Saturday show and $15-$20 for the Sunday show. (312) 294-3000, cso.org/morton or mortonarb.org/calendar.html. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 30
Thirsty Whale's quenchers
Catch the band According to Sarah Saturday and enjoy everyday specials of $3 domestic pints and bottles and $4 mai tais and Long Islands at Thirsty Whale Bar and Grill, 1700 S. Randall Road, Algonquin. Sunday Funday drink specials include $12 domestic buckets, $4 Guinness Bloody Marys and $4 Soco shots. (847) 458-8555 or thirstywhalebar.com. Saturday, June 29
'Exit Interview'
A university lecturer fired from his position is subjected to a final chat with his superior that causes him to reflect on his past in the dark comedy "The Exit Interview" by William Missouri Downs running at Aurora's Comedy Shrine, 4034 Fox Valley Center Drive. $20, plus a two-beverage minimum. (630) 585-0300 or comedyshrine.com. 8 p.m. Saturday, June 29
Tribute time
The tribute rock 'n' roll show "Jerry Lee & Friends: An Evening With The King, The Killer and Cash" is a centerpiece of The Second Annual National Piano Conference at the Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. (815) 356-9212 or rauecenter.org. 8 p.m. Saturday, June 29
Gibsons' patio fun
Phil Seed plays some R&B, funk and jazz Saturday on Gibsons' patio at 2105 South Spring Road, Oak Brook. Saturday specials include $10 French martinis, $8 Jack Honey and lemonade, $12 Rush Street Manhattan, $18 Sonoma Cutrer chardonnay half bottles and $10 Kir Royal. (630) 954-0000 or gibsonssteakhouse.com. 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday, June 29
Majestic drama
Academy Award winner Helen Mirren returns to the role of Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's new London play "The Audience" (about the weekly meeting between the monarch and the Prime Minister), catch it this week at two Chicago locations: Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., and the Landmark Century Centre Cinema, 2828 N. Clark St. Ticket prices vary by venue. Visit ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk for details. 11 a.m. Sunday, June 30 at Century Centre; 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 30, at Music Box
Meet 'Folding and Doodling' author
Meet author Tom Angleberger as he signs copies of his book "Art 2 Ds's Guide to Folding and Doodling" at Anderson's Bookshop, 5112 Main St., Downers Grove. (630) 963-2665 or andersonsbookshop.com. 3 p.m. Sunday, June 30


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...to see ourselves as others see us.
No comment really needed, saving just how shocking most foreigners find this drunkeness.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Oh wad some had the gift tae gie us...
3 comments:
- Newmania said...
I am shocked shocked . Reminds me of going out drinking with two French bods a while back. Myself and a colleague turned up with lined stomachs and wet suits and they had their parents.
We will never never understand eachother.
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- AngloAmerikan said...
Photo number 11 is deeply disturbing. Get your hands off that young man you vile beast!
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Around The Blogosphere: Pe'Shon Nails A DaggerPosted by nvr1983 on November 11th, 2010
We are still early in the season, but things are starting to kick into gear with our first huge shot of the (regular) season. Like we stated after opening night, if you are interested in participating in this feature and getting your site linked to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Game of the Night
- Maryland 75, College of Charleston 74: "For 39 and a half minutes, there was no shortage of things I could've said about Maryland's game against College of Charleston: the missed free throws, the turnovers, the sensational Andrew Goudelock, the fact that Maryland lost to College of Charleston in their second game, and so on. And then Pe'Shon Howard happened. And then I was left speechless." (Testudo Times: Part 1 and Part 2)
Top 25
- #4 Pittsburgh 97, Illinois-Chicago 54: "Pitt played nearly perfectly in every facet of the game. The team shot about 60% from the field, rebounded extremely well, and only turned the ball over six times. When the Panthers play that well, they will be nearly impossible to beat." (SB Nation: Pittsburgh)
- #16 Illinois 84, Toledo 45: "This was more like it. Illinois played its first complete game of the season on Wednesday with a 84-45 blowout of Toledo at Assembly Hall. All 11 Illini players that saw playing time scored, including walk-on Kevin Berardini." (Chicago Breaking Sports)
- #25 Texas 89, Louisiana Tech 58: "Through two games, this Texas team has looked as solid as anyone could have imagined. They are playing as a team, moving the ball, crisply on offense, and not settling for jump shot. On the other end, they've been able to win the rebounding battle in both games and held both opponents to under 40% from the floor. J'Covan [Brown] and [Jordan] Hamilton look like different players; [Tristan] Thompson and [Cory] Joseph have already been impactful; and [Gary] Johnson and Dogus [Balbay] are leading by example. Heck, even Jai Lucas and [Matt] Hill have provided some quality minutes. The competition takes a giant step up next week, but, again, through two games, I'm impressed." (Burnt Orange Nation)


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The world can break your heart when you least expect it. For Adan Carriaga that shocking moment happened in 1984 when a drunk driver killed his mother. From that moment on, he made a life-altering decision to end his own destructive drinking habit and, in honor of his mother's memory, turn his anger into something positive. Today Carriaga, a devout Christian, dedicates his livelihood to giving others a second chance to sober up before they take an innocent life. "I wanted to help people clean up and be responsible," he said.
Carriaga is the division manager of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center's DWI Addiction Treatment Program. His goal and the goal of the program is to focus on the inmates' recovery rather than their incarceration. It is a program that aims to help solve the drunk driving epidemic that plagues Bernalillo County.
The object of the program is to decrease the number of DWI arrests and fatalities. While it might only make a small dent in resolving a large problem, officials and inmates at the center believe in its potential success.
The program began in 1997 with funds from the state Legislature, following a bill pushed by North Valley Rep. Rick Miera to address a lack of treatment for DWI offenders. Resolving the DWI problem in New Mexico has been Miera's passion since taking elected office more than a decade ago. His commitment to fix the problem as a public servant stems from his clinical work at the UNM department of psychiatry, where Miera works with adolescents and their families that struggle with alcohol and drug abuse.
"When I got into the Legislature, one of the issues that was heavy in my mind was DWI, so what I was looking for were alternatives to sentencing," Miera said, "not sitting [in jail] for six months, looking out the window wishing you had a drink."
The bill pushed by Miera ultimately funded the metro jail DWI treatment program and encouraged alternative sentencing such as treatment and education as opposed to just serving time.
Funding for the program comes directly from the state liquor excise tax. Or as Carriaga puts it: "In a sense, these people are paying for their treatment before they ever get here."
Carriaga explained that the program focuses on peer evaluation and self-reflection, which is a major step to the inmates' recovery. The goal of the 28-day program is not to point fingers at the already convicted and humiliated, but rather to offer guidance, self-reflection and addiction awareness in order to make inmates conscious of their problem before their destructive behavior claims yet another life.
The program has been at maximum enrollment since its inception, with nearly 200 inmates participating at any given time. There are currently an average of 35 men and five women added to the waiting list each week. Despite the fact that it is the largest DWI program in the state, the demand for treatment, for now, far exceeds the supply of counselors and space at the facility.
It is 3 p.m., and the women's pod is in lock down/quiet time. This is one of the few breaks inmates (clients as they call them) get from participating in the detention center's 12-step rehab program. Instead of enjoying a brilliant Albuquerque afternoon, they are confined to a cell with several other women all battling their own addictions.
There are currently 54 women in the program. All of the women are locked up for repeat DWI offenses. Most of these women resemble dutiful college students (studying and resting when they can in their bunks), with the exception of the orange jumpsuits.
Although the age range for men and women in the program is between 25 and 55, you might say the program is a little like college. But instead of having to pass academic exams, the inmates have to pass tests of their sobriety, peer and self-evaluation, and the ultimate test: will power. Everyday they focus on their workbooks, How to Escape Your Prison, on their free time. They are responsible for completing everything in their workbook that goes over the 12 steps to treatment, such as exercises in self-reflection and gaining knowledge about their addiction and the consequences of their actions. The work focuses on how they view themselves and has them look into their past. If they don't complete the program, they will have to take it over again as a condition of their release. Constant tests are taken to ensure that the clients remain clean, sober and committed.
The women are busy with group therapy, classes and homework from the time they wake up at 5 a.m. to the time they go to bed at 10 p.m. They are also visited by speakers from Mothers Against Drunk Driving who emphasize the consequences of their actions and TVI representatives who encourage them to enroll in school and prepare for an alternative future.
The program constantly forces them to reflect on their lives, admit they have an addiction and, from what the inmates tell me, even feel guilt about what they have done. More importantly, the program makes them think about solutions to their problem with substance abuse and teaches them to admit that the problem exists.
Three women spoke to me about their addictions, struggles and goals. For privacy purposes, names of the inmates are changed.
Sally, the oldest of the three women, who looked like she was in her late 20s or early 30s, said she landed in the detention center because the "wrong people" influenced her. She has been in the program since Dec. 11, 2002, trying to kick an addiction to crystal meth and "where it has taken me." She also said the program has helped her to express herself and open up. She realized things that she'd kept hidden. "I learned about my addiction. I never knew I had one."
Jane had only a week to complete the program the last time we met in April. She said treatment for her crack addiction had taught her many valuable lessons.
"(The program) has helped me to look at things I put my family through. It helped me to forgive myself and deal with things rather than just feeling numb. It helps me to recognize what triggers me."
Ann has been in the program for six months. "I never thought I had a problem (with alcohol). I realized there were addictive behaviors I used to perform. This program has taught me to look deep down in myself. It made me look at what I did to my family and how to deal with emotion, nervousness and anger."
The women said that they developed a strong relationship with the other women there and that they feel like a close-knit family. They are aware that they are going to face challenging situations when they return to the outside world and that this treatment program is only the beginning of their recovery. The challenge is trying to stay clean and not returning to old friends and bad influences. And by confronting their addictions and admitting they have a weakness, the pervasive anxiety sets in, wondering if they are setting themselves up for failure.
"When I turn 21, I'll be legal," said Ann. "It's two weeks until I'm released. That's why the fears are there, on the back burner."
We discussed their future and personal goals. Sally said she wants to work for her family. From her youthful appearance, you couldn't tell that Sally had two teenage daughters. "I'm trying to get my relationship back together with (them)."
Jane said, "I do plan to go to school. I'm still kind of in the dark. I want to look for a part-time job, work and go to the gym."
Anne wants to take advantage of life's simple treasures. "I want to appreciate the little things like hiking and family functions. I want to get a job and go to school." She also needs to undergo treatment for dual diagnoses of depression and addiction.
There are twice as many men as women—128 to be exact. The men seemed more hesitant to speak with me at first, but as the interview went on they were very candid about their feelings. It was as though they wanted the world to know what the program has taught them.
I spoke to five men (whose names were changed as well). Four of them were addicted to alcohol and one was addicted to heroin. Each one said he had learned something valuable from the program.
Alex, in his early 20s, with tattooed arms and a "don't mess with me" demeanor, was actually quite open with his feelings when I talked to him about the program. "It brings out issues we have to deal with to maintain sobriety," he said. These issues have to do with their past, their fragile emotions and how they used the substance to try to bury painful memories.
All the men I spoke to agree that adhering to a religious faith was imperative to maintaining sobriety. Not surprisingly, in the 12-step program, spiritual awakening is one of the key elements the program highlights that help lead to life change.
Carriaga said that because individuals believe differently, it is up to each client to define his or her spirituality. The treatment is about treating the mind, body and spirit, he said, in various forms. "We don't force anything down anyone's throat, you need to look into the eyes of the man or woman in the mirror and decide to change," Carriaga said, adding that counselors take into consideration that each person has his or her own beliefs and the staff does not infringe on that.
When we talked about the challenges they've had in the program, they all said simultaneously: being honest, trusting the program, putting your pride aside, letting out hidden problems from your childhood. "We have to reveal things, it's painful," said a client, anonymously known as James. The five men in the pod all talked about how hard it is for them to speak openly about their failings and insecurities, because society teaches them to repress their emotions.
Though they are in treatment, it's still prison, which was not designed to be pleasant. They don't have any privacy. The men and women at the center have visitation rights, but only behind a monitor. They aren't allowed to physically touch or be near their loved ones. This is done for security purposes and also because of the possibility of inmates receiving drugs from their visitors.
Despite these obstacles, the men praised the program. James said he's maintained sobriety for a year and a half. He mentioned that he is short tempered and that the program helped him to recognize his personality traits. He said that they all know it's going to be a life-long struggle.
Each of the five men I interviewed confirmed that the program has helped them to express themselves. Jim, one of the quiet ones, spoke up in a rare moment of comfort: "The first time I came here I was angry. It's taught me I'm an alcoholic. It's given us the tools to change our lives." In response to this, James pointed to a serenity prayer that they say everyday: "Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live."
"We've never had a program like this before," James said, alluding not just to time spent incarcerated, but to all of life's misadventures that ultimately brought these men together.
The majority of the men I spoke to are mentors within their pod, which means they are peer leaders when in separate groups.
We discussed some of their goals when they re-enter the outside world. James and Alex keep it simple and practical with their goals of maintaining a job and staying sober. James also wants to go to school, enhancing his prospects, however vague at the moment, of someday earning a "decent living."
Jim said that the program has helped him so much that he wants to work as a counselor. As I was about to leave, he added: "We have great counselors, but it's what you got in the inside. It goes way back to childhood. If we don't stop this, our children will go through it."
Carriaga proudly honors the metro jail staff, saying the program is sustained by their dedication and optimism in the face of very emotionally demanding circumstances. The staff are all licensed by the state of New Mexico and are certified in MRT counseling. The counselors all do case management in groups.
Michael Harrison, a clinical coordinator at the center who has worked in the field for 15 years, said the treatment program is beneficial because it focuses on peer evaluation.
An important aspect of the program is that it hands a lot of the authority to the clients. In other words, Harrison explained, clients evaluate each other and work with their peers just as much if not more than they work with counselors.
"We put the responsibility of the environment on the client," said Harrison, who embodies the definition of tough love, adding, "Sometimes you have to go in there and bark."
The counselors, however, have little trouble connecting to the clients. They know what it's like to be on the opposite end of the spectrum. They have all battled addictions to drugs and/or alcohol.
Harrison said the most rewarding thing about his job is seeing people want to take responsibility for themselves. "All of us believe that people can change and that's why we do it. Locking people away is not the answer."
The struggles that Aurora Cata, a counselor in the women's pod, faces have as much to do with staff turnover as with meeting the rigorous demands of rehabilitating repeat DWI offenders. She said that the security staff keeps changing and are often moved to different areas of the center.
"We are constantly parenting and re-educating," said Cata, "when it is important for the clients to have consistency in their lives."
Harrison added that retaining objective security personnel always seems to be one of the greatest struggles for the program. "It is important that all the staff work without prejudice," he said.
Chuck Conner, who has been a counselor for 17 years and sober for 22 years, shared Cata's sentiments about the benefits of the program. "I enjoy this kind of work. It gets clients to open up," Conner said.
Aside from getting the clients to make that first step to recovery, the counselors are also helping themselves stay sober. As they all said, it's a life-long mission.
Conner said that one thing that he hopes to bring to his clients is "to let them know that they have a choice so that they'll snap one day like I did—to know that change is possible."
Pete Valencia, a substance abuse counselor for the Spanish-speaking groups, said that the most rewarding thing for him is the progress clients have made. "I've actually seen them on the outside and they'll come and say 'hi.' I tell them 'You make it that much easier for me to go to work.' They provide the results." He said that he saw one client at his place of employment. "You get the feeling I helped, but then you think 'I'm just doing my job.'"
Officials for the treatment program don't have an outcome study finalized yet, and success and recidivism rates are not always easy to quantify. Still, the program's first comprehensive outcome study is expected to be out in late July or early August. Harrison and Carriaga mentioned that it is difficult to pinpoint what directions the clients have taken or will take. The counselors said that sometimes the person you'd least expect to succeed will make it, or vice-versa. Meanwhile, the program is not cheap, estimated at $730 per person for 28 days, but the counselors and directors say they are committed to keeping it alive.
According to police reports from Albuquerque Police Department traffic analysis center, there have been 2,443 DWI arrests from January to May for 2004. The number of traffic accidents involving drivers under the influence is 298 from January to April.
Despite no official outcome studies, Adan Carriaga said a positive change has happened since the program first went into existence. For example, according to New Mexico Department of Transportation and the Division of Government research, DWI fatality rates have declined since the program's inception in 1997. Of course, New Mexico still registers an alarming number of DWI arrests and fatalities each year.
The ever-consistent waiting list at the metro jail treatment program only proves that there is more work to be done to provide rehabilitation for the overflowing list of offenders.
No one is certain just what road the inmates will take after this program. The treatment has made a visible impact on the clients behind bars, but as they re-enter the outside world after completing the metro jail treatment program, clients are at least aware that a clean and sober future is possible.


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People and Policies
Commitment to Sustainability 2013
As institutions of higher education, we strive to prepare students to be responsible citizens equipped to meet the social, ethical, local and global challenges of today. As Catholic, Benedictine institutions, we take seriously our responsibility to be stewards for the entire community of life on Earth now and into the future. To achieve these goals, we are dedicated to creating a culture of sustainability at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.
To this end, we will continue to:
- Commit ourselves to the principles of sustainability: our actions should be ecologically sound, socially just, and economically viable today and for future generations
- Seek a leadership role exercising these principles in academics, operations and outreach
- Strive to reflect the virtues of humility, stability and frugality within our institutional practices
- Honor our dedication to the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment signed in 2007 and the Catholic Climate Covenant signed in 2012, and
- Endeavor to integrate sustainability into all facets of campus life.
We make this commitment on Earth Day, April 22, 2013.
MaryAnn Baenninger
President, College of Saint Benedict
Michael Hemesath
President, Saint John's University


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Port Arthur burglary foiled by 12-year-old boy
A 12-year-old boy in Port Arthur locked himself in a bedroom and called police when he heard strange noises outside his home Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 20. When police arrived, they arrested two men who were apparently attempting to burglarize the boy's home.
According to a police report from PAPD, the office received a 911 call from a residence in the 5100 block of Minnie Street. The caller was a 12-year-old boy who lived at the residence. He told police dispatch he heard something outside near the back of his home. The dispatcher told the boy to lock himself in a bedroom and wait for officers to arrive. A short time later, the boy reported that it sounded as if someone had entered his home and was outside of the bedroom where he was hiding.
Officers quickly responded to the call, and when they arrived at the scene observed one suspect looking out of a window of the home. After seeing the officers from the window, he and a second suspect fled the residence. Officers pursued the two men along a canal bank into a wooded area, police reported. Two police K-9 units and their handlers joined the chase. A K-9 unit tracked one suspect who was hiding under a home. The other K-9 unit led his handler to a residence in the area. The second suspect was found inside the home. Both suspects were located within approximately a quarter mile of the burglary.
The suspects, 20 and 22, were both from Port Arthur. They were taken into custody and charged with burglary of a habitation.


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In the story of Oedipus Rex, the protagonist gouges out his eyes after learning that he senselessly killed his father, and has been pounding his mother into the bedroom headboard. Until recently, we didn't think we could get down to that level and relate to Oedipus with the same wealth of shame and despondency; but the universe is a fickle beast and wins another round today, as we've been dry heaving all morning after looking at the race livery for the Team SuperMartxé VIP by Paris Hilton race livery.
Everything we feared it would be, the pretty-in-pink design is going to be obnoxiously flamboyant on the 125GP grid. Capping off the news is that we learn that Paris herself will be attending more than a few races, helping promote the team, do a couple lines of coccaine, and maybe run over a few MotoGP fans while in a drunken stupor. Pretty typical Sunday for the famous for being famous star.
Undoubtedly not the proudest moment in the GP paddock, we'll leave you with this thought though. Has any other 125GP team made headlines in the New York Times, Perez Hilton, and Asphalt & Rubber this week? This month? This year? Say what you will about the former sex-tape star, but she's already borught the team a plethora of attention. That's a win in marketing dollars speak. Touché Paris.


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For the past six months, I've been attempting to come to terms with my decision to leave the United States and return to Mexico. I am incredibly grateful and feel very fortunate to have had the experience of living in the United States. Living here has allowed me to conceptualize, in previously unimaginable ways, a more progressive future. It has helped me to genuinely believe in the possibility of a more respectful, interdependent and conscious world. Despite all this, there came a point when my eyes were opened to the myth behind the surreal American dream. But every so often, politics likes to shake me up.
In the last five years, I've been sheltered and nurtured by an incredibly progressive circle of friends and allies who've fed fuel to the fire of my ideals, people who believe like me, that the stigma and criminalization of marginalized populations is ill-intentioned, out of focus, and counterproductive to the fabric of society. People who understand that through proper support founded on a culture of genuine concern and understanding, an individual's infinite potential can be garnered. A society can thus develop in a sustainable manner that respects and addresses the needs of all its constituents. Yet the reality I've lived in the United States is the ultimate contradiction to my ideals. My place here in society, which I like to metaphorically see as being at the top of the bottom of a totem pole, is something I am constantly reminded of- real and dehumanizing challenges constantly arise because I am undocumented. But I am also aware that the privilege of graduating from Columbia affords me a much more comfortable place in society than many other people, particularly individuals within my community.
Yet I now know not to get comfortable, and not to let my guard down as some of my obstacles seem to have dissipated and my dreams have come closer to fruition. Because as this has happened, my immediate family has had its stability uprooted, dispersing throughout the United States in an attempt to escape the persecution of e-verify, 287g and Secure Communities. My mother and I have had sleepless nights where we had to mobilize and take immediate action in response to each of my brothers getting arrested, to prevent them being identified by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nights during which it became painfully real that to be an undocumented woman of color is a privilege compared to the experience my brother's face on a daily basis, simply because as a woman, though I may be racially profiled, that does not come with the additional perception of a threat, thus producing unwarranted police involvement.
While I'd like to shout for joy at this announcement of "Deferred Action Process for Young People Who Are Low Enforcement Priorities," which seems beamed down from an enlightened source, I'm hesitant. Perhaps because after eight years of activism within this particular movement, I'm used to the disappointment and broken promises that have rained down from politicians, from a very close call for the Federal DREAM Act at the end of 2010 to last summer's Morton Memo, which ultimately proved to be a worthless appeasement. Had the Morton Memo held fast to its promises, there would be no DREAM Act eligible youth facing deportation proceedings today.
This seems like little more than a political ploy by a president seeking reelection who's faced increasing pressure from undocumented youth to do something, pressure which ultimately resulted in various of his campaign offices shutting down after they were occupied by undocumented activists who resolved not to leave unless an executive order were to be issued or they were arrested. These pressures in a sense forced Obama to do the right thing. And for that I'm touched, because as I watched his remarks on this new announcement, I realized that he thoroughly understands what it means to feel morally obliged, to do the "right thing", even as ignorance bombards, as made obvious by the reporter attempting to argue with the president. But I cannot say that the president has regained my trust, or that this announcement has sparked hope. Buckling under pressure is not a sign of strength. What has sparked hope and garnered my unconditional support and confidence is the work of undocumented youth the country over who have dropped the fear and claimed their value, giving a megaphonic voice where before there was an eerie silence gripping the undocumented community. To them I am eternally grateful. Through their leadership and examples of strength, I've found my voice, and it's liberating. Hopefully this announcement is genuine and the voice of undocumented individuals continues to get louder. However, it takes an understanding and strong recognition that this is not the time to rest or preemptively celebrate.


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