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Gabriel Lilly
Gabriel Lilly was an overseer at Monticello from 1800 to 1805.[1] Great George, the previous overseer, died on November 2, 1799, so it is possible he was hired soon after George's death. He had responsibility for the nailmaking operation and for supervising enslaved men working at non-agricultural tasks such as digging of the canal for the Shadwell mills, the Ice House, and the construction of the Shadwell toll mill. He had very little to do in the way of agricultural management, since Jefferson leased out the farm fields to John Craven.
Lilly treated the slaves poorly by whipping them excessively. By 1805, he asked for a raise and moved to Kentucky.
Primary Source References[2]
1800. "Lilly" noted as Monticello overseer 1800 to 1805.[3]
1800 April 12. (Thomas Mann Randolph to Jefferson). "All goes well at Monto: what is under Lillie admirably."[4]
1800 December 22. (Richard Richardson to Jefferson). "I Carryed Mr. Lilley to the Shop this morning and told the Boys they was to Be under his direction and Joe to say when their nails was made too Big or too small with this arangement [sic] they will go on, till I see Mr. powel or hear wheather [sic] he is a Comeing [sic], if he does not I will return directly after Christmas..."[5]
1801 January 3. (Thomas Mann Randolph to Jefferson). "Lillie has failed in hiring, except one single labourer; they could not be had under 25. L. any where and difficultly for that: his exertions were what might have been expected of him but the great price in our neighborhood and the impossibility of persuading them to come up from below, which the facility of hiring everywhere makes allways [sic] a condition, have rendered them vain...Having abandoned all hope of Lillies hiring hands I directed him to take the lads from the shop, leaving three full fires of the boys with Burwell at their head...I have directed Lillie to look himself to those who remain at the nailery, for their work...It was absolutely necessary to do something without waiting to consult you for the Nailery was all in confusion, Lillie without a hand and Craven in despair because the work to be done for him was standing still."[6] .
1801 January 16. (Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph). "It gave me great joy to learn that Lilly had got a recruit of hands from Mr. Allen, tho' still I would not have that prevent the taking all from the nailery who are able to cut, as I desired in mine of the 9th, as I wish Craven's ground to be got ready for him without any delay."[7]
1801 January 23. (Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph). "I forgot to ask the favor of you to speak to Lilly as to the treatment of the nailers. It would destroy their value in my estimation to degrade them in their own eyes by the whip, this therefore must not be resorted to but in extremities. As they will be again under my government, I would chuse they should retain the stimulus of character. After Lilly shall have compleated [sic] the clearing necessary for this year for Mr. Craven, I would have him go on with what will be wanting for him the next year...P.S. when I come home I shall lay off the canal, if Lilly's gang can undertake it. I had directed Lilly to make a dividing fence between Craven's fields at Monticello and those I retain...I hope Lilly keeps the small nailers engaged so as to supply our customers in the neighborhood, so that we may not lose them during this interregnum."[8]
1801 January 29. (Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph). "I am very glad indeed, to find that Lilly has got so strong a gang, independent of yours and the nailers...I should be glad [if] Mr. Lilly or Mr. Dinsmore would count the faggots on hand, and inform me of the quantity by return of post, as I have forgotten the state of the supplies on hand when I left home."[9]
1801 April 11. (Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes). "John being at work under Lilly, Goliath is our gardener, and with his veteran aids, will be directed to make what preparation he can for you."[10]
1801 June 13. (Thomas Mann Randolph to Jefferson). "Lillie has begun to work on the Canal and was going on with much spirit but has been compelled by [[John Craven|Craven's]] discontent to return to the new clearing to collect and burn every scattered chunk and grub up every neglected bush in it, altho it was already done in a manner much better than usual."[11]
1801 July 16. (Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph). "...the inclosed letter to mr Craven...will secure you all the resources for the house which he can supply...Lilly has before received orders to furnish what he can as if I were there."[12]
1801 July 25. (Martha Jefferson Randolph to Jefferson). "Your other commissions shall be faithfully executed with regard to Lilly."[13]
1802 January 4. (Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph). "As he [Lilly] cannot read, I pray you to read for him."[14]
1802 January 17. (Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph). "P.S. in my last week's letter to Mr. Randolph I inclosed one for Mr Lilly with 940.D. in it, which I shall be glad to hear got safe to hand."[15]
1802 March 19. (Jefferson to James Dinsmore). "As I suppose Mr. Lilly is digging the North West offices, and Ice house I will now give further directions respecting them."[16]
1802 April 3. (Jefferson to [[Martha Jefferson Randolph]]). "I have desired Lilly to make the usual provision of necessaries for me at Monticello, and if he should be at a loss for the particulars to consult with you."[17]
1802 September 28. (Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph). "He is to come over, designate to Mr. Lilly and Mr. Hope the spot where my small mill is to be built, so as not to be in the way of the large one...In the spring he is to designate to Mr. Lilly and Mr. Hope the spot for the large mill."[18]
1803 January 27. (Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph). "I find Mr. Lilly was to begin filling his icehouse the 21st. We have had no thaw here since that till yesterday, and the river is still entirely blocked up; so that if the weather has corresponded there, I am in hopes he will have got his house full."[19]
1803 February 7. "Inclosed to Gabriel Lilly for waggonage of ice 30.D..."[20]
1803 March 25. (Jefferson to James Walker). "I find it the opinion of Mr. Lilly that having hired extraordinary forces for the year he shall be able to compleat [sic] the canal for my mill this summer...I will therefore ask of you to come over without delay and mark out the site of both. If you come before Tuesday I shall be at home. If afterwards apply to Mr. Lilly my [overseer] who will send for Mr. Hope and both of them will attend you on the ground."[21]
1803 April 24. (Jefferson to George Jefferson). "Will you be so good as to procure from old Mr. Collins or any other faithful seedsman 1. gallon of earliest Frame peas and 2. gallons of Dwarf Marrowfats and send them addressed to Gabriel Lilly at Monticello."[22]
1803 June 8. (Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph). "There are generally negro purchasers from Georgia passing about the state, to one of whom I would rather he [slave Cary] should be sold than to any other person. I should regard price but little in comparison with so distant an exile of him as to cut him off compleatly [sic] from ever again being heard of. I have written this to Mr. Lilly and will thank you to advise and aid him in procuring a sale...I should indeed be glad to have my toll mill up a season before another, merely to learn people the way to it...but this I am in hopes Lilly will enable me to effect..."[23]
1803 September 21. "Settled with Gabriel Lilly and paid him L3-17-3, being the balance due him. But this does not include his wages of the present year which are L50. and L10. extra for overlooking the nailery. From the commencement of the ensuing year he is to have 2. percent of all nails sold instead of the L10."[24]
1803 November 27. (Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes). "Mr. Lillie having finished the mill, is now I suppose engaged in the roadprobably the East Road to the Shadwell ford. which we have been so long wanting, and that done, the next job will be the levelling of Pantops."[25]
1803 December 24. (Thomas Mann Randolph to Jefferson). "Some say neither of these elevations [in the canal bottom] extends farther than four or five yards: Lillie believes not more than 10 or 12 feet...The wheel has been set in motion today and moved with great velocity when four inches covered. Lillie was determined to grind some grain before night."[26]
1804 January 14. (Martha Jefferson Randolph to Jefferson). "Lilly has been here [Edgehill] to advise with me about Kit. He is now in Charlottesville jail where he passed himself for a negro of Mr. Randolph's, Lilly is afraid to take him out for fear fo his going off again. He thinks you wished him sold and the money laid out in another, but he says his head was so confused during and for some time after his illness that he cannot recollect whether you gave him any orders to that effect or not: the result of the conversation however was that if he could get 120 or L25 before he could hear from you he should sell him rather than miss the sail but that the would be much obliged to you to let him know by the next post what you wish done with him in case of his not having been able to dispose of him."[27]
1804 January 28. (Jefferson to James Walker). "I must therefore get you to lay off the exact spot for the millhouse for Mr. Hope, furnish him with a plan, and give Mr. Lilly a bill of scantling which he will have sawed at the sawmill if compleated [sic]. I presume the sooner the ground is laid off the better, that Mr. Lilly may commence digging the foundation. Possibly he may find blowing to do in it. You can also be so good then when you are there as to advise him about the canal, which has not yet been properly compleated [sic] and the wing dam."[28]
1804 February 26. (Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes). "Will you desire your sister to send for Mr. Lilly and advise him what order to give Goliath for providing those vegetables which may come into use for the months of April, August, and September."[29]
1804 November 30. (Martha Jefferson Randolph to Jefferson). "Lilly was here Edgehill a fortnight ago to beg I would write you immediately about some business of his...He says you desired him to part with 100 barrils [sic] of corn as more than you required, but he says he has got it on very good terms 16 and 16.6 a barril [sic] and that there is not one bushell to much, on account of the heavy hauling he has to do. He says if the horses are not highly fed they will not be able to do the work...After receiving your letter he went to see Moran about the double payment that had been made, he pretended he knew nothing about it but that he would see Irving and it should be rectified, and that Lilly should hear from him in a fortnight...He is obliged to give up L. Smith's negro's tomorrow as he wished to get all the work possible out of them before they went. He defered [sic] going after Irving till their time was out, when he will immediately see him. The man that run away the first of August has never been recovered. He begged me also to speak particularly about John. He is utterly averse to the idea of having any thing to say to him another year. His conduct is such that there can be nothing like honesty or subordination where he is. His wish is that he should be sent off the plantation and indeed the instances of depravity that he mentioned in him, his art in throwing every thing into confusion, encouraging the hands to rebellion and idleness and then telling upon them so as to put Lilly out of his senses allmost [sic], are beyond conception. He says that John has frequently created such confusion by his art as to render it impossible to punish the very hands of whom he complained most, and pieces of ill will and mischief to himself inumerable, such as cutting up his garden destroying his things and once he suspects him of having attempted to poison him. He thinks it necessary for him be be allways [sic] upon his guard against his malice...Lilly's business has taken up so much of my time and paper that I have only room to subscribe my self with inexpressible tenderness."[30]
1805 June 5. (Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph). "I received a letter yesterday from Lilly which gives me great desquietude. He has hitherto been on wages of L50. and L10. additional for the nailery. He writes me that he cannot stay after the present year for less than L100. Certainly I can never get a man who fulfills my purposes better than he does: and if a moderate advance as from 60. to L75. would have sufficed, I would have given it. But to L100. is a larger jump than I am willing to take if I can find another who will answer my purposes. Do you know, or can you recollect one who would, and who could be got on Lilly's present allowance? I do not wish the least intimation of this matter to any mortal; and shall withold answering Lilly till I hear from you."[31]
1805 June 5. (Jefferson to John Strode). "The person [Lilly] whom I have there at present is at the wages of L60 and the ordinary allowances of pork and corn for his family. He is as good a one as can be. But I yesterday received notice from him that unless I would raise his wages to L100. he could remain only this year. This is so great a jump, that if I can get another worthy of confidence, I think to do so."[32]
1805 June 16. (Thomas Mann Randolph to Jefferson). "Lillie has so much understanding activity and perseverance that he could superintend the culture of one in the best manner with the aid of his wifes son who lives with him and at the same time manage the nailery and direct any hired force you might chuse to employ for jobs to as much advantage at present. So doing he would earn his present wages and deserve a liberal share of what he made besides." [33]
1805 August 21. "Bought a negro woman Lucretia James' wife, her 2. sons John & Randall and the child of which she is pregnant, when born, for L180. of which L100 to be paid before his [Lilly] departure & the residue a twelve month hence."[34]
1805 October 6. (Jefferson to Daniel Bradley). "My informant says he [runaway slave James Hubbard] confessed at once to the truth of his case, that he had three passes which he said had been given him by the son of Mr. Lilly my manager...It would be important for me to receive the passes immediately because Mr. Lilly sets out on Thursday for Kentucky, and if he can get the passes into his hands before he goes I am sure he will probe the forgery to the bottom."[35]
1805 November 14. (Jefferson to George Jefferson). "Mr. Freeman my manager at Monticello in the place of Lilly, being new in the business, has improperly applied to you for nail rods."[36]
1806 Fall. (Jefferson's Memorandum to Edmund Bacon). "I allow them [slaves] a best striped blanket every three years. Mr. Lilly had failed in this; but the last year Mr. Freeman gave blankets to one-third of them."[37]
1806 May 24. "Recd. by T.M. Randolph from Gabriel Lilly 1.375 the balance due me at his departure."[38]
1806 June 28. (Jefferson to John Holmes Freeman). "I have received an account from Mr. Higginbotham, by which I find that Mr. Lilly has left me a heavy sum for dealing to be paid there. This will render it indispensably necessary to push the nailery with all possible force."[39]
1. This articles is based on a Monticello Research Report, n.d.
2. Please note that this list should not be considered comprehensive.
3. Edwin M. Betts, ed. Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824: With Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings (1944. Rep. 1999), 56. Manuscript and transcription available online.
4. Julian P.Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, et al, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950-), 31:497.
5. Ibid, 32:341.
6. Ibid, 32:390-391
7. Ibid, 32:475.
8. Ibid, 32:499-500.
9. Ibid, 32: 517.
10. Ibid, 33:570.
11. Ibid, 34:327.
12. Ibid, 34:580.
13. Ibid, 34:639.
14. Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book: With Commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other Writings (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. Rep. 1976, 1987, 1999), 153. Manuscript and transcription available online.
15. Ibid, 216.
16. Garden Book, 278.
17. Edwin M. Betts and James Bear, Jr., eds, Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1966, Reprinted Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1986), 222.
19. Family Letters, 242.
20. James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 2:1092.
22. Garden Book, 286.
24. Memorandum Books, 2:1108.
25. Family Letters, 249.
27. Family Letters, 252. Kit was sold to John Perry, for L125 on April 20, 1804.
29. Garden Book, 295.
30. Family Letters, 263-264.
32. Garden Book, 302-303.
34.Memorandum Books, 2:1162.
36. Ibid, 445.
37. Ibid, 25.
38. Memorandum Books, 2:1180.

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World History Homework Nine Answers - Student Three
Olivia April 1, 2009 World History Homework 9
1. Studied South American civilizations more.
- Good suggestion.
2. Because of the religious wars in England, the Puritans came to America. It is because of them that the basis for our country was religious freedom for all; who knows what could have happened if they had not fled Europe.
- Exactly.
3. Having read and watched several different depictions on the French Revolution ("The Scarlet Pimpernel", "A Tale of Two Cities", Reflections on the Revolution in France"), I think it's safe to say that, while the results of the revolution did help the peasants, it was at what cost? Over 40,000 people died under "Madame Guillotine"; did the ends really justify the means?
- Terrific (with my spelling correction for "peasants"). May use as a model.
4. Haiti's revolution against French regime began in 1791 with Toussaint L'Ouverture leading 10,000 slaves in an uprising. L'Ouverture was then tricked into boarding a French ship, captured, and sent to a French prison, where he died in 1803. However, Dessalines, a general under L'Ouverture, successfully fought for freedom and Haiti gained her independence on January 1, 1804.
- Superb again.
5. One reason why it took the world so long for revolutions to occur was just because people didn't know that they were possible. Just like the European philosophers and the concept of "zero", how could you discover or use something that you didn't know existed?
- Terrific, may use as a model answer. Good reference to another insight from history.
H3. The Louisiana Purchase was a "win-win" deal, meaning it was advantageous for both sides. Explain.
This is statement completely true, Napoleon need the money to help fund his war and America was still young and most people jumped at the idea of expanding the territory for a relatively "cheap" cost.
- Excellent again.
H4. In America, a revolution would be justified today if our president or authority was not protecting our rights and well-being; however, during the Age of Revolution, the peoples' rights were not protected and they therefore, did not have the right to overthrow their monarch. I like the idea of being able to remove a corrupt ruler but some there needs to be a balance of power.
- Do you mean that people "did have the right to overthrow their monarch"? The "not" that you included in that statement confuses me. But you obviously understand the issue.
- Very insightful answers. Well done! 70/70.--Andy Schlafly 08:37, 5 April 2009 (EDT)


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Business Improvement District fee on fast track
The push for a Business Improvement District fee on tourism-based businesses in Mammoth is so radically different from other California models that tourism chief John Urdi said the town stands alone.
"We're an anomaly here," Urdi said on Wednesday March 6, in a short presentation to the Town Council.
Speaking at a workshop in advance of the council's regular meeting, Urdi said of the 74 so-called TBIDs in place throughout California, all of them are purely lodging-based.
In Mammoth, though, Urdi has proposed a 0.5 percent surcharge of everything and anything that is based on tourism, and that means anything from sport shops to restaurants.
The revenues from the TBID would go straight into the town's general fund to help bolster Mammoth's budget for air service and marketing, which took a header in the town's recent financial restructuring.
"We'll have an appeal process," Urdi said, "but I find it very hard to believe that any restaurant can prove that the majority of their business comes from 93546."
Councilman Rick Wood said such a cooperative effort by the business community and the town could not have happened before now.
"I think people were willing, but they wanted to know if they were going to spend money, what it was going to be used for," Wood said.
Urdi said that legacy level of mistrust has been the main sticking point in what some businesses still regard as a tourist tax, even though technically it is not.
"Had we tried to launch this within even the first year I was here," said Urdi, "we would not have had the trust of the businesses. Right now, I think people in town realize what we've done to bring traffic here. We appreciate that trust, and obviously we want to expand on that."
The next step, he said, is to meet with business owners on Tuesday, March 12, to work on the plan.
"Once we have the finalization of how exactly we're going to go about this, who's going to be involved, we'll take it to the petition step. Once we achieve the 51 percent of the votes, we'll come back to you to talk about our resolution and intent. That's where we start the process with the Town Council."
In the meantime, Urdi said he has a wide-open door for feedback or comments.
"I'm more than happy to sit down and talk to anyone about the particulars and where we're headed with it at this point."
It is not just locals who have a stake in this, he said.
On Tuesday, March 5, Urdi said he conducted a breakfast meeting with owners of "some of the larger businesses in town," along with Caroline Beteta, the president and CEO of VisitCalifornia.
"The majority of the funding of California Tourism comes from rental cars—81 percent of their $50 million budget. The remaining budget comes from assessments from businesses within California.
"She's interested in what we're doing here because the TBID we're working on is incredibly unique," Urdi said.
The payoff, Urdi said to the Town Council, can be illustrated by the success, so far, of the TBID in Napa Valley.
"They put a TBID in place in July 2010. It was just on lodging, but in three years since then, they've seen their TOT go from $8 million to $11.3 million—a 38 percent increase in TOT.
"It's been successful for them and for the other cities that have put these in place."


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Arsenal and Manchester United are monitoring Hamburg's teenage star Jonathan Tah, according to reports in Germany.
TalkSPORT claims Arsenal and United are tracking the 16-year-old defender, who is yet to feature for the Bundesliga club.
Tah is a Germany under-17 international, and is held in high regard by Hamburg, who view him as a potential first-team regular.
His performances at youth international level have piqued the interest of scouts from abroad, and Manchester United and Arsenal are both reportedly keeping tabs on the youngster's contract situation.
Tah also qualifies for the Ivory Coast, but so far he has chosen to play for Germany at international level. Only when he plays a competitive fixture for the full national team will Tah have to make a decision over his international future.
But at club level he could have a choice to make sooner. Tah is under contract with Hamburg until 2014, but the Premier League pair have an strong record of bringing through talented young players into the first-team.
Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley are the most recent graduates from the Manchester United academy, while Arsenal stars Kieran Gibbs, Jack Wilshere and Serge Gnabry are recent additions to the Gunners first-team.
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Ah, plop. Shakib lofts one down long off's throat. Think that will be it now.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"this was Argentinas heaviest defeat in the group stage of a World Cup since losing 6-1 to Czechoslovakia in 1958. It is also the first time they have failed to win either of their opening two matches at a World Cup for 44 years. Sampaolis players, in other words, were creating history here" - The Guardian's Stuart James on Croatia's 3-0 dicking of the South Americans
Pretty awful innings from Mahmudullah. Really need Mushfiqur and Ashrafool to bat through. Has been a tidy over from Sami, wasn't expecting it to go this well at the death for Sami tbh.
Interesting that Aamer's being used now. Guessing the logic is that if he picks up Ashraful now, it's effectively game over. Hopefully we'll get a tight end.
Pathetic. What on earth was he playing that for? Moronic shot selection screws up Bangladesh once again.
A big sigh of relieve for me!
With Gul's injury, the biggest worry for Pakistan was who would take up bowling at the death. I'ts only the first game, and that too against Bangladesh, but Aamer has had a great start and perhaps can fill that void for Pakistan.
All over. Pretty disappointing end really. Had potential to be a close game when Ashrafool and Shakib were going well, but once again moronic shot-selection has been their down-fall. To be fair to Pakistan though, they did bowl well. Aamer, Sami and Ajmal all bowled very nicely, with Hafeez going ok too. Sami took important wickets at vital stages of the game, and proved to be a very good selection. Decent performance from the holders.
almost got caught in once in a blue moon Ashraful knock.If Afridi bowling does not pick up I reckon a super 8 exit for the champions.
In Super 8's how many games out of three a team needs to win to go to Semi? Is two good enough?
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And i would have preferred to see Umar to come after Kamran was out instead of Afridi and then Razzaq.
Anyways, i think Bangladesh could have easily won this one. Ashraful played a stupid shot. Single, doubles and an odd boundary would have sealed it for Bangladesh.
Be VERY AFRIDI!!
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Worries about China and the Federal Reserve's plans rattled global markets for a second day, sending U.S. stocks to their biggest loss this year and hammering bonds and many commodities.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 353.87 points, or 2.34%, to 14758.32, on big volume, marking its first back-to-back decline of 200 points or more since Nov. 1, 2011. Yields on Treasurys hit their highest since August 2011 as bond prices fell.
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Early Friday, rates in China's money markets fell sharply on rumors that Beijing had ordered its big banks to loosen up cash. Still, they remain more than double than average for the year, and the turbulence suggests continued uncertainty in the market for cash in coming days.
The declines came a day after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the central bank expects to begin to pare its huge bond-buying program later this year and that it could end sometime next year, provided the economy unfolds as the Fed expects. The prospect of the Fed weaning the economy off unusually easy credit at a time when the pace of U.S. economic growth is modest and inflation is below the Fed's target jolted markets around the world.
At the same time, many investors believe the shakeout heralds a shift toward higher interest rates and sustained, healthier U.S. growth, following a long period of superlow rates that helped feed investor funds into higher-yielding investments. Those investments have declined sharply in recent weeks as the market has begun preparing for more-normal rates.
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Markets were jarred by the potential timetable the Fed chairman laid out. "With the Fed beginning to discount an exit from their policy, you're not only potentially decreasing asset prices—you're also increasing volatility," said Eric Stein, a portfolio manager on the $6.8 billion Eaton Vance Global Macro Absolute Return Fund.
Some investors say the economy remains on track for solid expansion. The Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index rose Thursday. "I find it difficult to think this is the onset of a bear market when the economy is getting stronger, but reverse psychology is getting a strong grip today," said Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak & Co.
Cracks in the global growth story have widened. In Europe, yields on sovereign debt have started to rise again after a substantial decline, while unemployment remains high and growth prospects are mixed.
In China, a key measure of interbank funding stress briefly touched 25%, reflecting overextended loan books and deteriorating asset quality, which are forcing banks to tap the money market with increasing urgency to fund their daily operations. The spike raises new questions among economists and investors about the country's near-term prospects.
"Maybe we went from too complacent to almost too concerned…but clearly there are problems in many pockets of the globe," said Mr. Stein.
Major stock markets in Europe fell Thursday, and Asian markets declined in early trading Friday.
In the U.S., some of the hardest-hit sectors were those that did best during the Fed-fueled run to stock-market records this year. Utilities and consumer staples declined, and the Russell 2000 Index, a small-cap index that held up well after the Fed news Wednesday, was the worst performer among the major indexes, losing 2.6%.
"Every fast-money [investor] wants out," said Matthew Cheslock, trader with brokerage firm Virtu Financial, meaning much of the selling came from firms such as hedge funds rather than longer-term investors.
On Thursday, exchange-traded funds accounted for 41% of dollar volume in U.S. equity trading, compared with a 24% average for 2013, according to Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. That was a sign of heavy trading by hedge funds.
In Thursday's market action, gold futures fell 6.4%. Oil, a barometer of global economic health, posted its largest one-day drop in seven months. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 4.5%. The dollar rose, with The Wall Street Journal dollar index gaining 1.6% since Tuesday's close. The CBOE Volatility Index, known as the market's "fear index," surged 23% to its highest level since Dec. 28.
Shares of home builders sank—reflecting fears that rising mortgage rates could damage the U.S. housing recovery, viewed as a key cog in any broader economic recovery.
Municipal-bond prices suffered their steepest one-day fall since October 2008, according to Thomson Reuters Municipal Market Data. The yield on Fannie Mae -guaranteed mortgage-backed securities rose 0.08 percentage point to a 20-month high of 3.29%, according to Credit Suisse data. The rising mortgage yields will likely pressure consumer home-loan rates, setting up a test of housing. The national average 30-year mortgage rate this week declined slightly to 4.12% from 4.14%, which was a 14-month high, according to Bankrate.com.
A report Thursday showed housing strength hasn't abated. Sales of previously owned homes rose in May to the highest level since late 2009, said the National Association of Realtors. But if mortgage rates climb to 4.5%, that would cut what borrowers could afford to spend on a home by 11.25%, according to Scott Buchta, head of fixed-income strategy at Brean Capital.
With the latest selloff, the 10-year Treasury note yielded 2.419%, up from 1.629% early last month. Despite the increase in rates and the mixed signals on the economy, some investors continue to see bonds as a questionable bet.
At these yield levels, "risk-free is now risky in terms of fixed income," said Richie Prager, global head of trading and liquidity strategies at $3.9 trillion asset manager BlackRock Inc.
—Jon Hilsenrath, Tom Orlik and Chris Dieterich contributed to this article.
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The Supreme Court apparently is exiting the terrorist detainee administration business. Yesterday, it declined to hear the appeals of seven Gitmo detainees on whose behalf habeas petitions were filed, and denied, by lower courts.
In Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court held that detainees have the right to turn to the American judicial system for a "meaningful opportunity" to challenge their confinement. But a meaningful opportunity doesn't necessarily translate into release, particularly since the government has released large numbers of detainees and now holds only those it considers the worst of the worst.
Consequently, according to Robert Barnes of the Washington Post, the detainee rights bar has been unable to convert Boumediene into a vehicle for successfully litigating many of these cases.
The detainee rights bar had high hopes for its latest case. It involved a Yemini national named Latif, who was captured in Pakistan a few months after 9/11. Unable to portray himself as a local shepherd, Latif claimed that he was in Pakistan seeking medical care. But government evidence showed that, whatever his original reason for being in Pakistan, he had received military training and joined the Taliban.
A district court judge found the government's evidence "unreliable" and ordered that Latif be released. This was the only "win" for a detainee among recent cases.
But the Court of Appeals reversed. Judge Janice Rogers Brown found that, although the intelligence report has flaws, it is entitled to the "presumption of regularity" that generally applies to government work. Brown also took a well-deserved shot at Boumediene itself, writing that its "airy suppositions have caused great difficulty for the executive and the courts."
Brilliantly put.
The detainee defense bar hoped that Brown's shot at the Supreme Court's jurisprudence, plus a strong dissent by Judge David Tatel, would move the Court to review the case. No such luck.
Why not? Because, I believe, the Court no longer perceives a problem with detainee policy. The wins for the detainee defense bar before the Court were the product of a profound mistrust of President Bush by the liberal Justices plus the crucial Justice Kennedy. That mistrust – fueled by the liberal, anti-Bush press, eager to "atone" for what the left had convinced it was a failure of reporting prior to the Iraq war – caused this bloc of Justices not to defer to the executive in the way earlier Court's had during wartime. The Court was also aware that this war is different because there's no end in sight.
With a Democrat now serving as the executive, the liberal Justices plus Justice Kennedy are satisfied that this matter no longer requires their attention. Regular service can be resumed.
Better late than never.
Meanwhile, the left-wing bar is working on Plan B. Having taken things about as far as they can go in the American legal system, it is now focused on undermining efforts to protect this country by using foreign courts and entities.
For example, according to Jack Goldsmith in Power and Constraint, leftist lawyers are filing lawsuits in Britain, Pakistan(!), and elsewhere against administration officials who authorize drone attacks that kill suspected terrorists. The idea is to intimidate U.S. officials and personnel and, Goldsmith reports, some do feel intimidated.
Apparently, the leftist bar would have us either leave al Qaeda and its friends alone or send in troops (presumably accompanied by lawyers), at great risk to life and limb, to capture them, bring them to the U.S., and then give them gold-plated legal process to test whether they truly are dangerous.
Plan B is disgusting. But it's also the logical outgrowth of Plan A, the lawyerly campaign against Bush-era anti-terrorist policies that involved measures far less harsh than killing terrorists through drone attacks.
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CAIRO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Monday upheld a one-year prison sentence against former Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, who headed the government of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.
Kandil was sentenced in April, before Morsi's July 3 downfall, for failing to implement a court ruling to renationalise a textile company sold off by the administration of autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Judge Khaled Hassan said the prison sentence must now be carried out.
Morsi appointed Kandil in July 2012, after the Muslim Brotherhood politician won Egypt's first freely contested presidential election. Morsi was deposed by the army on July 3 after mass protests against his rule. He is in detention charged with crimes including inciting the killing of protesters.
The sentence against Kandil related to a 2011 court ruling demanding the government repurchase textile company Tanta Flax and Oils from a Saudi Arabian investor who bought it in 2005.
Officials in the Kandil government had said renationalising state enterprises was not straightforward and the company had been broken up since it was sold to the foreign investor.
Egyptian courts have issued at least 11 rulings since the revolution that toppled Mubarak ordering the state to reverse deals signed by the former president's administration. The lawsuits have been brought by activists and lawyers who say companies were sold off too cheaply and were representative of corrupt business practices during the Mubarak era.
The subsequent rulings have plunged a number of foreign companies operating in Egypt into legal limbo, exposing the government to the risk of costly international arbitration that could scare off much-needed investment from abroad.
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The word "geocache" beat out 15 other nominees in last month's Scrabble Word Showdown, and as a result, will be included in the fifth edition of Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, scheduled for release this August. This marks the dictionary's first major update in nearly a decade, and the first time it has ever included a word voted on by fans.
Nominated by fans following a national call-for-entries on the Hasbro Game Night Facebook page in March, "geocache" is a verb meaning to seek items by means of a GPS device as part of a game. It faced 15 other popular choices in an online showdown from April 2 to 10, besting such fan favorites as "bitcoin," "cosplay," and "ew."
Geocache will be an eligible word right in time for National Scrabble Day on April 13. It will also be playable in the upcoming National School Scrabble Championship on April 26 to 27 and the National Scrabble Tournament in August.


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If your child is consistently waking during the night or your teen is sleeping excessively in the daytime, there could be an underlying pediatric sleep disorder to blame. Nemours' board-certified sleep medicine and pulmonology experts have special training to diagnose, evaluate the causes of, and treat sleep disorders in children such as sleep apnea, insomnia, delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS), narcolepsy, nightmares and restless leg syndrome.
Sleep is important for the body to rehabilitate and heal, and studies consistently show that our children aren't getting enough of it.
Trouble focusing, a decline in grades, irritability, excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep-related injuries, hyperactivity — these can all be signs of a potential pediatric sleep disorder. At Nemours, our pediatric sleep medicine experts will get to the bottom of what's causing your child's disrupted rest.
Common Pediatric Sleep Disorders
Some of the common sleep disorders in children we see include:
- insomnia (difficulty getting to and staying asleep)
- delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) (inability to fall asleep at bedtime and difficulty awakening)
- restless leg syndrome (irresistible need for movement)
- narcolepsy (uncontrollable urge to sleep)
- breathing-disordered sleep (snoring, sleep apnea)
- parasomnias (night terrors, nightmares or sleepwalking)
- rhythmic movement disorders (head banging or rocking)
- nocturnal enuresis (nighttime bedwetting)
- bruxism (nighttime teeth grinding or clenching)
- biological clock (circadian) rhythm disorders
- nocturnal (nighttime) seizures
Evaluating Sleep Disorders: Pediatric Sleep Studies
As part of our comprehensive sleep medicine services, Nemours conducts pediatric sleep studies, known as polysomnography, to evaluate sleep disorders in newborns, children and teens. Pediatric sleep studies monitor what happens when your child is sleeping by tracking vital information such as brain waves, breathing, muscle tone, movement and heart rate using state-of-the-art technologies.
Our pediatric sleep specialists use this information to diagnose and treat sleep problems to restore your child's peaceful, healing sleep for better nights — and days — ahead.
Specialized Care for Kids of All Ages
The Nemours team has the expertise to evaluate and treat children of all ages (from newborns to teens) with underlying medical conditions or complex medical needs that may contribute to pediatric sleep disorders. That includes kids who have:
- epilepsy/seizure disorders
- chronic or complex lung conditions (asthma, cystic fibrosis)
- tracheostomies
- ventilators (continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP)
- Down syndrome
- muscular dystrophy
- weight problems/obesity
- GERD (gastrointestinal reflux disease)
Expert, Family-Centered Care at Nemours
Nemours' pediatric sleep medicine experts include pulmonologists who are consistently named among the best doctors in America. Working with licensed respiratory specialists and sleep technicians specifically trained in pediatric sleep disorders, our coordinated care teams share a common goal of helping your child get a good night's rest.


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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Whereas Will Ferrell & Co."s Anchorman only seems to click on way-past-your-bedtime HBO, Talladega Nights clicks on most cylinders, and the star shows why he"s mainstream comedy"s best hope to bring in the money and the funny.
Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) has been hotdoggin" since the day he was born--when, legend has it, his momma (Jane Lynch) popped him out of her belly in the back seat of a car. Now grown up and living his dream as a NASCAR driver, he takes his swagger out onto the tracks, with mixed results. Even though he and lifelong friend Cal (John C. Reilly) usually end up in first and second place, respectively, his owner deems him a financial liability after he finishes a race in reverse. Consequently, a prim, proper and gay French F-1 driver (Da Ali G Show"s Sacha Baron Cohen) is recruited as a new investment, and Ricky gets in a horrific crash trying to beat him, winding up paralyzed in his mind. After a long road back--which sees Cal steal Ricky"s lady (Leslie Bibb) and limelight and Ricky reunite with his estranged racer dad (Gary Cole)--Ricky learns to leave showmanship, homophobia and pyrophobia (fear of fire) in his dust, and just drive the damn car!
Ah...Will Ferrell in his total element--it"s a beautiful thing and one we haven"t much seen since SNL. Until now. In Talladega, Ferrell brings his energy, satire and out-of-the-blue pop-culture references to new highs in his best post-SNL performance yet. And if you close your eyes and listen to Ferrell"s faux South-speak, you can hear his great George Dubya send-up of yore. Matching Ferrell scene for scene--in quality, not quantity--is Reilly. With his role as a tractable doofus with a good heart, Reilly has now completed the whole spectrum of roles and can be unequivocally branded an acting chameleon. Oddly, he seems best fit a tractable doofus, but that"s merely a testament to his abilities. Cohen"s biggest mainstream role to date is also a hit, as he applies equal parts Ali G"s Borat and hyperbolic French stereotype for often hilarious results. And Amy Adams stars as Ricky"s neglected assistant; it"s a role so small that she must"ve signed on before Junebug took her to the Oscars.
If, after his hit "70s San Diego news show, Ron Burgundy were to have done something to necessitate placement in a witness protection program, it"s not inconceivable that he could've relocated to the South, found his true calling as a pompous NASCAR driver and taken the fake-sounding name Ricky Bobby. That"s no coincidence: Talladega, like Anchorman, is written by Ferrell and Adam McKay, who also directed. But the two have filled in the blanks from their previous collaboration for a more well-rounded effort. The duo best complement one another when it comes to Ferrell"s sense of humor; it is, at its core, drier than most care to realize, but the co-writers manage to moisten it in such a way for all to thoroughly enjoy. What really separates this film from its predecessor, though, is the action--the racing scenes will surprise! And to that end, McKay uses the NASCAR angle to reel in its massive contingency as well as Ferrell/comedy fans, all of whom should go home happy.
Bottom Line
Hollywood.com rated this film 3 stars.


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Many people find that the more they know about an art form, the more they enjoy it. The Cleveland Orchestra provides spoken, written, and audiovisual commentary on the music it performs, and it presents concerts in a variety of formats. Whatever your style of learning, you can easily find information about the music and the composers on the Orchestra's programs.
Cleveland Orchestra Concert Previews take place one hour prior to most classical subscription concerts at Severance Hall during our fall, winter, and spring seasons. These previews designed to enrich the concert-going experience for audience members of all levels of musical knowledge through interviews with conductors, guest artists, and Orchestra staff, and through exploration of the music by local and national experts.
This series is funded by a generous endowment gift from Dorothy Humel Hovorka.
Unlock the magic of music with Cleveland Orchestra Music Study Groups led by Dr. Rose Breckenridge. Meet both new and experienced music lovers and explore the Orchestra's 'concert of the week' through informal lectures, listening and discussion at one of our convenient community locations.
The series covers the Severance Hall subscription season. Registrants may choose a length that best fits their schedules — selecting from fall, winter, and/or spring. The Listening Guide, a specially prepared booklet of program notes and musical themes for featured compositions, is included in the registration fee.
Download the 2017-18 Music Study Group Brochure and Registration Form
View Armond Budish's interview of Rose Breckenridge about the Music Study Groups on WKYC-TV3's "Golden Opportunities."
Persons with vision loss may attend a concert with support from The Cleveland Orchestra's Alice Cull Memorial Fund.
For more information about Music Study Groups and/or Cull tickets for persons with vision loss, call 216-231-7355 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Printed program books are handed out free of charge at most Cleveland Orchestra concerts. These include information about the performance and performers, as well as program notes about the music and other information about the Orchestra's current and upcoming activities. Printed program notes are intended to inform listeners about the composers' lives and the historical background of the works performed at every subscription concert. They are written to encourage open-minded listening to new works and provide fresh insights for hearing familiar pieces. Program notes are usually available in advance online through this website.
To access program notes online, go to the Event Calendar and select the "More Info" button for the concert you are interested in, then select the "About the Music" or "Program Book" tab.
The Orchestra's regular program books are funded through advertising. For more information, click here.
Meet the Artist series are a popular interview and luncheon program that connects audiences with artists from The Cleveland Orchestra's current season.
For reservations, or to be placed on the Meet the Artist series mailing list, please call us at 216-231-7557.
This series is presented by Friends of The Cleveland Orchestra (formerly Women's Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra).
The Archives of The Cleveland Orchestra is a working resource center that serves both the institution and the public. Its prime function is to organize, preserve, and promote the historical records of the institution, which includes The Cleveland Orchestra and its parent non-profit organization, the Musical Arts Association, as well as materials related to Severance Hall and Blossom Music Center. The institution's historical heritage is expressed in a wide variety of media such as documents, sound recordings, photographic materials, and artifacts. The Archives encourages an appreciation of the Orchestra's historical heritage by making most of its non-current records open to serious researchers of any age. Researchers are able to consult such materials as correspondence, press releases, a nearly complete set of programs, photos, recordings, scrapbooks, minutes and annual reports. In addition, various internal databases provide efficient access to information. Research inquiries can be made by mail, by phone, or by a scheduled visit with the Archivist. From time to time, the Archives has a need for interns with historical, musical, research, and/or library background. Please call 216-231-7356 or email email@example.com to schedule an appointment or for more information.


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In implementing a language like Scheme in a language like C#, you might want to write code like this:
public class Test { public static object multiply(object o1, object o2) { return o1 * o2; } public static void Main() { System.Console.WriteLine(multiply(1, 3.0)); } }
That is, you'd like to multiple an int times a double and have the system's type system figure out what to do. However, C# 3.0 and earlier didn't support such "dynamic dispatch". If you try to compile this with Mono:
mcs Test.cs
you'd get the error:
Test.cs(3,19): error CS0019: Operator `*' cannot be applied to operands of type `object' and `object'
Thanks to Julia Ferraioli for a link to Math ∩ Programming. This post on Bezier Curves and Picasso translates nicely into Calico Python (code below). Makes an interesting discussion, even for younger students, using Calico Jigsaw (inspired by Scratch, code to right).
This example shows off some of the new features in the latest Calico, version 2.3.5: you can programmatically create a spreadsheet, put data in it, collect data from other users, and make the data available on the web. This might be a way of collecting data in a classroom activity (perhaps measurements of some kind), or perhaps a multiplayer game. The program below is what the teacher might show on the screen, as it shows the spreadsheet as it changes as new data comes in from the student.
You can download the latest Calico from http://calicoproject.org/Calico_Download
There is a new version of Calico, version 2.0.4, ready for download. This version fixes a few bugs, new examples (such as accessing the Arduino), and adds a new language (Logo) for Calico. Additions to this version include:
In the Fall 2012 semester I'll be teaching a quarter course (1/2 semester) on Physical Computing at Bryn Mawr College. As an experiment, I thought I'd explore programming an Arduino, but I'd like to start out programming interactively rather than jumping straight into embedded systems using C.
Processing is the basis for the standard method of the Arduino programming environment, and also Processing can be used to talk to an Arduino board directly. I wondered if Calico could be used in the same way.
The Pyjama Project is a framework for learning, doing, and playing with computation. At its core is an integrated editor, interactive console, and social interaction framework for exploring computer science through modern, dynamic languages. It is designed to be a simple, yet powerful, integrated development environment (IDE) for students, teachers, researchers---and regular humans, too! It runs on most any operating system, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. All sources for the Pyjama Project are open and free---freely available and you are free to use them in various ways.
Pyjama has three main types of users in mind: the educator, the learner, and the scripter.
Pyjama is a framework for educators to instruct, gain insight, and to explore better methods of teaching.
Pyjama is ready to use for instruction, and includes useful functions for teaching in the laboratory setting:
Instructors can use the user checkpoint question feedback, chat questions, and log analysis to adapt, even on the fly.
Instructors can extend the Pyjama framework by developing their own languages, visualizations, or interfaces. For example, an instructor develop a new text-based language, or a language like Scratch; or they could develop an interface to objects, like BlueJ.
Pyjama is designed for students:
It is planned that Pyjama will support extended assistance for getting help with particular errors.
Pyjama is a nice environment for writing code, in general. It is planned to make Pyjama be an environment for exploring (and researching) ideas in computer science. For example, one can write in multiple languages, sharing data between them.
We have been busy working on the Pyjama Project, our next version of our educational environment, and the Myro API to interact with robots.
As we have been redesigning the entire scripting environment from the bottom up, we have asked ourselves: what should a modern environment look like for learning about computing? There are many aspects to think about, but one that we have always considered was the social perspective.
Of course, most students are very familiar with social media: Twitter, Facebook, IM, IRC, and a host of other technologies designed to share and network. What could a programming environment do in this domain?
We have two answers: Chat, and Blast. Chat is fairly straight forward: allow students to easily communicate with the instructor and each other as they program. They are probably already doing that, so why not build it into the environment? We have experimented with this idea in the past, by designing a chat interface into Myro. This has allowed students to write programs that can coordinate with people, robots, and other programs (I just added a chess engine to Pyjama, so students can write the brains and play each other's chess programs over the Chat protocol). Students can send pictures taken from their robot to their associated webpage. It is really using the chat infrastructure as a networking protocol. We use XMPP, aka Jabber. It is a little slow as far as networking goes, but dependable and extendable. And pervasive! You can write a program to chat with your phone.
The second answer, Blast, is quite innovative, I think. The basic idea is that teachers have the ability to send programs directly to each other, or to a group of people. You can Blast a script to a student so that it shows up in their editor, centered on the line number you're discussing. Or you can Blast a program so that it just executes in the other's environment.
Want a checkpoint of the classes current understanding with a poll? Blast them an interactive survey question script, which gives you feedback. Want them to follow along with your lecture? Blast them an interactive set of executable "slides". Think of this as a sort of Classroom Presenter, but over chat.
But Blasting need not be only a teacher affair. What would students do if they could Blast code to each other? Would this end up being a cheating nightmare? What about security? Can we prevent people from sending destructive scripts? Or would Blasting be a really good way to learn? Would it drive motivation, and increase interest, attention, and knowledge?
We will see.
You can download Pyjama and try it out, in a variety of languages, including Python, Ruby, C#, Boo, and Scheme, at http://PyjamaProject.org.
Today is Ada Lovelace Day! In her honor, writers around the world have pledged to publish a note about a woman in technology who they admire. See FindingAda.com for more info. It is impossible for me to only pick one woman in technology! For me, there are so many to choose from, including:
But, instead of picking just one woman, I'm going to cop-out and vote for the entire Next Generation of women who will change the face of computing, and take the field in exciting new directions. This includes:
To all of the women in the Next Generation, we salute you!
We just returned from ACM SIGCSE-2008 which was held in rainy and gloomy Portland, OR. Nice city though, despite the weather and most of us from IPRE were just too busy fielding interest from the 1400+ attendees.
IPRE had a booth in the Exibhition Hall which was continuously staffed by the bulk of the IPRE team. The conference also coincided with the official launch of the first IPRE Kit and also an announcement regarding two summer workshops we will be hosting. Needless to say, we were thrilled to have received numerous orders within 24 hours of the launch. It kind of generated the euphoria that many dot-commers experience when a site goes online.
iQue robot by Toy Quest (image from http://www.toyquest.com/ique/index.html)
Its manufacturers, Toy Quest, call it the "world's smartest robot". Indeed, the speaking iQue robot on wheels has a superb memory and fact recall. Specifically, iQue knows the entire Meriam-Webster student edition dictionary, thousands of historical and other facts, and can even learn and remember information about its beloved owner. But does that really make iQue smart?
IQue's marketers claim that it will become "your new best friend", which seems a far reach. It's entertaining that it can speak to you, ask you questions, and remember facts about you. Yet you cannot exactly have any real type of communication with the iQue – you must type all responses to its questions in a remote control keypad, and you cannot ask it questions about itself. I find Pleo, which cannot form human words, a better companion since it can interact with you. You can watch it develop as a live being would. It reacts when you play tug-of-war with it over its plastic "leaf", tugging playfully at the leaf and panting, and it yelps angrily when you hold it up by its tail. In short, it can communicate non-verbally with you in a much more natural way than the iQue can.


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WWF projects to help wild gorillas
WWF Gorilla Related Projects
Protecting Africa's Great Apes
Africa's great apes – gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos – are facing many threats: destruction of forest habitats for agriculture, mining and commerci...
Species Action Plans
Partnerships to Improve Food Security and Livelihoods in South East Lowveld
The project will encompass the Chiredzi District in the South East Lowveld of Zimbabwe. There is particular focus on the Sengwe Communal Lands and Chi...
Renovation of the Dzanga-Sangha Tourism Interpretation Centre
The Dzanga-Sangha tourism interpretation centre is located in the Dzanga-Sangha complex of protected areas in the Central African Republic. The comple...
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Safety Programme (Boma, Luki)
This project aims to promote sustainable development in and around the Luki Biosphere Reserve, which integrates economic viability, social acceptabili...
Cross-border conservation in Gabon and Congo
In an effort to improve cross-border management of protected areas of the Congo Basin, Gabon and The Republic of Congo are working together in the Gam...
Ebola Vaccination Initiative for Gorillas
An Ebola vaccine could save thousands of gorillas. It is estimated that one year of Ebola vaccination could save as many apes as decades of anti-poach...
Support to Sustainable Management and Conservation of Forest Ecosystems
African Great Apes Programme: West Africa
African Great Apes Programme: Eastern Africa


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Why not? That's the motto of the G 650 GS. Whether in town or on the gravel track: with this machine you have every terrain under control, and you get more than your money's worth when it comes to riding fun, too. The G 650 GS continues the success story of BMW Motorrad's single cylinder engines in impressive fashion – with a solid output of 48 hp at 6500 rpm and a maximum torque of 44 ft-lb at 5000 rpm. The bike offers absolutely sensational fuel consumption levels: 74 mpg, at a constant 55 mph.The ride feel on the G 650 GS is thrilling, too – wherever you're going. Whether on the road or over rough terrain – the reliable, tried-and-tested chassis with central spring strut on the swinging fork ensures crisp handling. Membership of the enduro family is highlighted in this new machine with the upright seating position and an impressive 6.7″ of spring travel at the front with 5.5″ at the rear.
The moderate standard seat height of 30.7″ and the lowered suspension option make this experience accessible to virtually anyone.The G 650 GS is a robust, powerful and yet still extremely light, weighing just 431 lbs (with a full tank). With its low fuel consumption and simple handling, it is not just ideal for beginning motorcyclists. Its slim, athletic stature in a youthful and typically enduro-style design stands for uncomplicated riding pleasure and pure fun. Even the paint finish is a real eye-catcher – whether in hot-blooded Orange Red or pure Aura White.The equipment features of the new BMW enduro include comfortable hand protectors, aluminum sump guard, a high windshield and practical Vario cases.The options make the machine a touch safer still: a center stand makes for improved stability, the heated grips provide a more solid grasp and ABS prevents the wheels from locking.


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Lancer Athletics
On behalf of our outstanding student athletes, coaches and staff, I want to thank you for your interest in the Lancer Athletics Association. The LAA is the fundraising arm of Lancer Athletics. Whether you are a long-time supporter or a first-time donor, I want to emphasize the importance of your decision to be a part of "The Team Behind the Team." Every dollar donated directly impacts our student-athletes. The funds raised support capital projects, recruiting efforts, facility improvements and provide needed scholarships.
LAA support has translated to the field of play and the classroom. Since transitioning to the NCAA Division II, Lancer Athletics have won 3 PacWest Commissioner's Cups—the first school to do so—and finished 16th in the NCAA Division II Learfield Sports Director's Cup, 10 spots higher than last year.
In the past two years, the Lancers have gone 244-81-3 in games on our campus which is a testament to how much our fans mean to our success! This past year, our student-athletes won 4 conference championships and an amazing 12 teams qualified for NCAA postseason play. We even saw both of our basketball teams advancing to the NCAA Division II Sweet 16, with the women moving on to the championship game to finish the year as the No. 2 team in the division. CBU cheer also won its third straight National Cheerleading Association Championship, becoming the first all-girls Division II program to accomplish the feat and remain undefeated since 2013.
On the academics side, our Lancers continue to excel and our departing senior athletes boasted a 3.17 grade point average, finishing their careers with both athletic and academic accolades for their résumé. We are excited about the future of our programs and with your help we can continue building on the tradition of success that has been established.
The Team Behind the Team campaign requests the support of alumni, family and fans. This is a special invitation to join the LAA and partner with Lancer Athletics and the 20 varsity programs on the CBU campus. The mission of our athletic program is to honor Christ through excellence in athletics. With your support, we will be a model of excellence on the field of play, in the classroom and in our community.
In Christ,
Micah Parker, Ph.D.
Director of Athletics


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Hi folks
Last night this SH2000 I have on loan went a little crazy tuning-wise. It was doing fine, then I came back to it an hour later and the overall pitch had shifted dramatically, and the internal tuning was way off. Currently the intonation across the length of the keyboard is compressed by about a whole tone, and this is after some messing - it was almost a perfect 4th when I started.
I've found 5 pitch controls - there are 2 on the outside which affect the overall pitch. On the inside there's another overall control trimpot marked "VCO TUNING". There are also 2 trimpots marked "LOW TUNING" and "HIGH TUNING", which seem to affect the stretch of the scale as you move away from the middle of the keyboard. Currently I've got both stretched as much as possible. The upper half is _almost_ okay, but the low end is really compressed - you have to play a -9 to get an octave.
Has anybody come across this before? Any suggestions? Is there anything I'm missing?
Thanks for any help.


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Los Angeles: Actress Vanessa Hudgens has multiple things on her mind for the future. It includes an Oscar award and kids.
The 24-year-old, who will appear on the cover of the October issue of fashion magazine Marie Claire, has opened up about her future hopes and dreams, her early struggles in Hollywood and living her life in the public eye, reports eonline.com.
"A vintage Mustang, kids, and an Oscar," said the `Sucker Punch` star in response to a question about her dreams.
Hudgens also said that she is comfortable with what she is doing now and doesn`t care if others don`t like it.
"I am so comfortable with myself-honing in on what I love and what makes me powerful. Things I`ve been doing lately, I`m super-proud of. So I don`t really care if someone doesn`t like it, because I love it," she said.
The former `High School Musical` star has also opened up about finding happiness in the cut-throat Hollywood world.
"You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy. And it`s been working out pretty well," she says, adding: "A sense of knowing I`m part of something bigger than myself has allowed me to enjoy life more. And not worry about the little things. Like paparazzi."


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Her Turn
"I'm sick of the way Nick flirts," said Patty, 32, a tall blond who just celebrated her first anniversary. "Whenever we go to a party Nick gravitates to the most beautiful woman in the room and launches into a sparkling conversation before I can even get my coat off. And even when he does remember to introduce me, he soon walks off and leaves me hanging. We often have to leave early because we've gotten into another ugly, embarrassing fight.
"I don't think it's expecting too much for my husband to care about me and to show it. Nick has absolutely no idea how hurtful he is, and he won't admit he's done anything wrong. He's very quick and articulate, and manages to twist my words around and turn the whole story inside out every time.
"I met Nick, a management consultant, when he moved into my apartment building back in St. Louis. At the time, I was finishing my master's in speech pathology. I'd spent a year after college in L.A., trying to break into TV news, but I had decided to quit that crazy world and become a speech therapist instead. So I moved to Missouri and really found my niche-- I liked the city and my friends there.
"Nick's a charmer, and in the beginning he was attentive and really courted me. But at the same time, he also came off as a playboy. I wasn't crazy about the way he hugged all his female friends and would casually slip his arm around the shoulder of a woman he'd just met.
"Maybe I never should have gotten married in the first place. I don't want my marriage to be as unhappy as my parents' was. Dad, a lawyer, was very controlling, and Mother, an urban planner, used to tell me how miserable she was with him. But even thought they didn't get along, I know they loved me.
"My sister, Andrea, was clearly our father's favorite, and I was jealous. Everything in our home revolved around her moods, her needs.
"But aside from that, I had a wonderful childhood. My parents encouraged me to try new things, and they were always there when I had to make difficult decisions — where to go to college, what career path to follow.
"Now I've come to realize how very different we are. I'm a morning person, but Nick parties till the wee hours and sleeps till noon on weekends. I like to be at the airport two hours ahead of time; Nick is the guy who dawdles endlessly, then dashes to the gate just before the plane takes off. His seat-of-the-pants attitude gives me ulcers.
"For the last few months, we've been living separate lives. I'm so angry at the way he treats me that I can't imagine having sex with him. I don't even want to make his dinner anymore. Why should I do anything for him?
"Most of all, I want to be able to trust my husband — trust that he loves me, that he'll be on my side, that he's not interested in other women. Right now, I don't. And I want out."
His Turn
"Patty has already left this marriage emotionally and physically," said Nick, 32. "We haven't made love — hell, we haven't slept in the same bed — for months. I'm the one in the guest room, thank you very much. She doesn't make dinner plans with me, refuses to join me for important business events, and she leaves my laundry in the hamper while she does hers. Is she trying to punish me? For a long time, I've suspected that Patty doesn't want to be married to me. This proves it.
"I'm not a flirt, and I don't ignore her at parties. Those accusations just aren't true. I love my wife, and she had nothing to be jealous about. But she's convinced that she doesn't measure up to everyone else, and that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. She's one of the most beautiful women I've ever met, but that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy talking to other women. I'm a sociable guy who likes to be around accomplished people; what's wrong with that? I've always had a lot of friends. I don't know why patty thinks I'm a selfish, belittling cad. Nothing I do wins her forgiveness.
"Frankly, I'm not sure I even want it anymore. Her insane jealousy stifles me. Patty misreads my actions and assumes the worst. Every time we go out, I assure her that she's the only one I love, but she doesn't even hear me. She gets angry at the drop of a hat, and next thing you know, we're in the middle of a huge public argument.
"Maybe we are too different. Patty's organized and careful; I've always liked to take chances, add some risk to the mix. I don't think you grow or achieve anything unless you do. I remember when I was eight, I wanted to walk to my cousin's house to play. Mom said I was too young to go that far by myself, but I did it anyway. I caught hell for it, of course, but I think my folks were secretly pleased at my initiative.
"They were role models in every sense of the word. Both grew up poor, put themselves through college and started businesses — Dad runs a large clothing manufacturing business, and mom is a real-estate broker. My folks had high expectations for both me and my younger sister. We've always been competitive, but in a good way. i think we believe that if we want something and try hard enough, we'll get it.
"But Patty has no confidence in herself at all. She can't make up her mind about anything, from buying a new car to choosing a restaurant, without endless discussion and waffling. it drives me nuts. And everything becomes an issue with her. Back in St. Louis, I figured Patty was getting bored with her job and needed new challenges. I wanted to help her, so when I was negotiating for my job up here, I told the interviewers what she was looking for. I just so happened that they knew of an opening. Why does she look for an ulterior motive in everything I do?
I don't know why Patty sees me as a selfish cad who belittles what's important to her. Nothing I do wins her forgiveness. Frankly, I'm not sure I want it anymore. She's insanely jealous. She misreads my actions and assumes the worst. Every time we go out, I reassure her that I care only about her, but she doesn't hear me. She becomes enraged instantly, starts hassling me, and before I know it we're in the middle of an embarrassing argument.
"In the last few months, we've been acting like roommates who barely know each other. It's easier than getting into a huge fight every time we open our mouths. I work late, have dinner with a friend or colleague and sometimes go out to the clubs till all hours to avoid going home to another inquisition. I don't want to lose Patty, but right now, our marriage is a joke."
The Counselor's Turn
"Patty and Nick's marriage was a time bomb," said the counselor. "Each felt persecuted, misunderstood and unloved, and each insisted it was the other's fault. The key to saving their marriage was, first, to get both of them to accept responsibility for their problems, and second, to guide them toward compassion and empathy.
"Charismatic and considerate when he wanted to be, Nick could also be a domineering man who was used to having his own way. He had learned long ago that he could use charm to his advantage, so he put a positive spin on everything: He wasn't flirting, he was 'sociable.'
"Nick frequently came late to our early sessions or even blew them off entirely. But when I told him that his lateness suggested that he didn't really want to fight for his marriage, he began to see how his actions could be negatively interpreted by others — including his wife.
"Patty was a stunning, accomplished woman. Sadly, to a large extent, she was still wrestling with feelings of inferiority that dated back to when her father favored her sister. This gave Patty an insatiable need to be loved and praised. 'You're rejecting Nick in much the same way you always felt rejected yourself,' I pointed out.
"Patty's parents had always told her what to do and encouraged her to quit if something became too difficult. As a result, Patty never learned from her mistakes.
"When Patty saw how stuck she was in her old patterns, she decided it was time to make some changes. Instead of rushing to accuse her husband, she tried to look at things from his point of view. Seeing the changes in her, Nick began to change, too. He finally admitted that he really was flirtatious at parties, and he made an earnest effort to behave differently with other women.
"Now it was time for a total communication makeover. I established ground rules for fighting: no more accusations or blame. Instead, they were to use the 'When you... then I ...' technique. Instead of flying into a rage, Patty learned to say, 'When you spend the night talking to beautiful women, I feel insecure.'
"Leading the conversation with questions ('I know you don't like it when I chat with my women friends, but what exactly are you afraid of?') instead of direct attacks ('You're crazy — I'm not flirting'), helped stop them from placing blame. They also reached a workable solution for dealing with social occasions. Nick told Patty, 'Just give me a signal when you want me to stop talking with someone, and I'll come over to you.'
"Within four months, the tension between these two eased considerably. Patty is much happier, more confident and doesn't need constant reassurance from her husband. Nick is thrilled to have Patty back on his side."
"Can This Marriage Be Saved?" is the most popular, most enduring women's magazine feature in the world. This month's case is based on interviews with clients and information from the files of Jane Greer, Ph.D., a marriage and sex therapist in New York City. The story told here is true, although names and other identifying details have been changed to conceal identities.
Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal, October 1999.


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Cutting Human Lives
What should we make of Arizona's new law for rationing organ transplants?
On Oct. 1, cash-strapped Arizona ended state-financed payments for certain organ transplants. The decision, as the New York Times put it last week, "amounts to a death sentence for some patients."
Francisco Felix might be one of them. The 32-year-old truck driver with four children will die without a new liver. According to the Times story, doctors at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center had a matched liver for Felix several weeks ago and were ready to proceed. News of the budget cuts forced them to scrap the surgery.
Graciously, Arizona has allowed Felix to stay on the waiting list, but if another suitable organ is found, he must somehow raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for the procedure or pray that some billionaire like, say, Steve Jobs comes along to help.
I mention Jobs because the Apple CEO had his own encounter with transplantation in 2009, when he received a new liver. His story became a parable of class privilege and the inequities of the nation's transplant system. Jobs relocated from his home in California to Tennessee, where there is much less competition for vital organs.
It's perfectly legal to use one's wealth to improve the odds of getting transplanted—and thousands of other Americans who are waiting for life-saving livers, kidneys, or lungs would do the same. But unlike Jobs, few patients can afford to move to another state to improve their chances. Nor can they afford to register (again legally) at multiple transplant centers—each charging a fee of about $600—and then visit each one for preliminary tests before jetting, at a moment's notice, to the first one at which an organ becomes available.
Economic rationing of transplants occurs in other ways, too. Hospitals routinely reject candidates for new organs or bone marrow if they have no insurance or if their coverage will not guarantee payment for the anti-rejection medications that a patient must take for the rest of his life.
Jobs didn't have to worry about medical coverage for the procedure the way Francisco Felix must. Rather, his obstacle was the long-standing and worsening organ shortage. This state of affairs makes transplantation the most overtly rationed procedure in American medicine. There is a list, you know whether you are on that list, and you have some rough idea of your place in the queue. Seventeen people die every day because they could not survive the wait for a kidney, liver, heart, or lungs.
The Arizona law purports to be a different sort of rationing—one based on prognosis, rather than the availability of organs. According to Gov. Jan Brewer, liver transplants are inessential. "The state only has so much money, and we can only provide so many optional kinds of care," she told the Associated Press last month. "And those were one of the options that we had taken the liberty to discard, to dismiss." State Medicaid officials, the Times reported, said they recommended discontinuing some transplants only after assessing the success rates for previous patients. (I assume this is what Gov. Brewer meant when she used the unfortunate word optional.)
In certain instances, this sort of reasoning makes sense. Given limited resources—of organs as well as money—there's no logic in encouraging procedures with minimal or mitigated effects. For example, why give a precious liver to someone who won't quit heavy drinking or to a homeless individual whose circumstances make him unlikely to follow the anti-rejection regimen? And what about age? Arguably, a quality kidney from a young donor should go to a 40-year-old whose life would be prolonged by decades rather than a 70-year-old who would probably die with unused miles on his transplant.
But state politicians got bad medical advice. Liver transplantation is far from "optional"; it's the standard of care for cirrhosis caused by hepatitis C.
What's more, the procedure often prolongs productive life by many years. Although most patients can expect their new liver to be reinfected with the hep C virus, which is still in their bodies, two-thirds enjoy up to a decade or more of life. The vast improvement in health enables many leave the Medicaid disability rolls and become taxpayers. As for saving money by denying liver transplants, even this is not a sure thing, as end-of-life care for many patients with liver failure (that is, those who did not get a new organ in time) is likely to equal or exceed the $200,000 that Francisco Felix was told to come up with.
The Arizona decision is doubly wrong, technically and morally. To regard transplantation as "optional" is a grievous medical error. When suitable patients receive organs, they can live meaningful and longer lives as parents, spouses, neighbors, and workers. Morally, it is troubling enough to deny life-saving treatment by never guaranteeing it in the first place; it is even worse to pull the plug on people's hope—and, with it, their lives. At the very least, the state should have grandfathered in those already assured of coverage. Then, going forward, in refusing to transplant those who could not afford it, Arizona would be making more explicit the economic rationing that already exists.
Uneasy questions of apportioning arise in environments of scarcity. Who will stay in the crowded lifeboat and who will be thrown to the sharks? This age-old tension between utility to society (the maximum good for the maximum number) and fairness to the individual is a crucible for American medicine. David C. Cronin, director of the Liver Transplantation at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, sees Arizona's effort as a "dress rehearsal" for future cutbacks in a healthcare system where the government is poised to expand its role as insurer. "For a state agency to deny and even revoke approval for an accepted standard of care is new territory," he says.
I see a more immediate lesson, relating to what sociologists and economists call the problem of "identified lives." Flesh-and-blood people—Uncle Bernie with cancer rather than all people with cancer—elicit empathy and feelings of duty. Bioethicist Al Jonsen coined the term "Rule of Rescue" for the powerful human imperative to save a single endangered life, regardless of cost, over nameless throngs who may be in similar peril.
In the end, Arizona attempted to save money by curtailing expensive procedures that were believed to be relatively ineffective. From the standpoint of hard choices and cold calculation, this principle is defensible. But there is little reason to believe that Arizona undertook the time-consuming and painstaking data collection and cost-benefit analyses that should inform such policy change. Instead, it clumsily targeted a discrete group of people with names and faces who will die without a standard procedure that is proven to be successful in so many cases.
Thus public outcry over Arizona's blunder will, I suspect, lead the state legislature to reverse the cuts when it meets in January. As Francisco Felix's wife told the Times, "You can't cut human lives. … You just can't do that."


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An experimental therapy that uses skin cells grown from an aborted fetus successfully healed severe burns in eight children, sparing them the need for skin grafts, according to a study published today.
The treatment led to the regrowth of essentially normal skin on second- and third-degree burns in about two weeks, according to the report by a Swiss research team. The scarring and tissue contraction seen after many burns did not occur, and dressing changes were easier and less painful, the researchers said.
The fetal tissue promotes growth of the patient's own skin cells rather than becoming incorporated into the recipient's skin as a true "graft." Further, it appears that a piece of fetal skin smaller than a postage stamp could be used to produce enough cells to treat hundreds of patients.
"The results were sort of unexpected. . . . These constructs seem to work as a biological Band-Aid, promoting spontaneous healing of the patient," said Patrick Hohlfeld of University Hospital of Lausanne, who was one of the researchers.
The study will appear in a future edition of the Lancet and was published online today.
Cells grown from the foreskin of circumcised newborns and large pieces of skin removed from cadavers are sometimes used to cover burns and promote healing. The Swiss researchers were the first to use cells from a fetus -- a 14-week male whose mother gave permission at the time of abortion.
Burns that destroy the outer skin layer -- the epidermis -- heal on their own. Ones that go deep into the second layer -- the dermis -- require skin grafts, patches of skin sliced off one part of the body, often the thigh, and transferred to the burned area. So-called third-degree burns that destroy the entire dermis and leave muscle or bone exposed also need grafts.
Several burn experts said the technique sounded promising, but its usefulness is not yet proved.
"I can't say whether it's a leap forward before we know how it compares with standard wound care," said Roger W. Yurt, head of the burn center at Weill Cornell Medical Center, in New York.
"This is certainly work worth following with great eagerness. But in the absence of comparisons, it would be very difficult to assess the difference that the fetal cells bring," said Robert Sheridan, chief of burn medicine at Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston.
Deciding which second-degree burns need skin grafts is often a matter of judgment.
"Were they helping heal a burn that was going to heal on its own?" asked Gary Purdue, director of the burn center at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. "It's good if it helps do that, but it may be only an incremental advance."
The Swiss researchers used a patch of fetal skin 1.5 inches square. They grew cells from it in tissue culture and let the cells spread out on sheets of a material called collagen, forming a kind of artificial skin. They cut that into pieces 31/2 by 5 inches and placed about four of them on 10-day-old burns in eight children. The burns were second- and third-degree, they said, and all would normally have undergone skin grafting.
The fetal-cell material disappeared, but it was not incorporated into the regenerating skin. The scientists determined that by testing the genes in a piece of skin taken from a healed burn in a female patient. The skin contained no male cells, which it would have if it contained any of the fetal material.
Skin cells secrete numerous chemical "growth factors" that cause progenitor skin cells to divide, spread out and attach to one another. Exactly how they differ from the cells of newborns or adults is uncertain.
"We are very busy with the characterization of these cells and their byproducts," Hohlfeld said.
A main problem with healed but heavily scarred burns is that they contract, limiting the motion of joints. Grafts frequently leave an uneven contour on the skin surface. Neither of these problems occurred in the eight children, according to the report. There was "total recovery of mobility, especially in hands and fingers."
The patients have been followed for one to two years. There was some color change in some areas, but the overall appearance of the healed burns was good, Hohlfeld said.
The team calculated that the small piece taken in this case could ultimately produce more than 2 million of the squares that were put on the burns.
One fetus could theoretically provide material for hundreds or thousands of burn victims, although Hohlfeld said he suspected that would not remove some people's objections to the use of tissue from an aborted fetus.


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text: With the recent news of the 2010 BMW S1000RR making 183hp at the rear-wheel, the Bavarian Superbike is looking like quite the potent potable. With its liter-bike class leading performance, the bike doesn't break the wallet much either with its $13,800 price tag. With such a great bike hitting US soil soon, it's hard to imagine how to make it better…but that's what the Dutch did with their BMW S1000RR Carbon Edition. More after the jump.