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A Hong Kong Gallery Celebrates 35 Years of Promoting Chinese Contemporary Art
Chinese playwright, critic, and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gao Xingjian also produces poetic and complex ink-on-paper paintings. Neither figurative nor abstract, his paintings play with light and shadow and point toward narratives, often including the silhouette of a figure travelling into the distance. Monts et cours d'eau (Mountains and Streams) portrays distant mountain ranges, with various shades of ink wash suggesting different terrains and hues found in nature. Xingjian has described his ink works as "more than self-expression, self-purification." After suffering political persecution and being forced to destroy his paintings during the Cultural Revolution, Gao fled China to begin a life in exile in 1987, later becoming a French citizen. His paintings have served as the covers for various editions of his books.
Chinese-French, b. 1940, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China, based in Paris, France
A Hong Kong Gallery Celebrates 35 Years of Promoting Chinese Contemporary Art
Gao Xingjian, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Unveils New Ink Paintings in Hong Kong
Gao Xingjian Explores the Sublime and Solitude in Chinese Ink Painting
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Coleman State ParkApril 26. 2011 4:24PM
Coleman State Park lies on the shore of Little Diamond Pond in Stewartstown, twelve miles east of Colebrook in New Hampshire's remote north country.
The excellent trout fishing in Little Diamond Pond and nearby streams makes Coleman an excellent location for fishing enthusiasts.
A boat launch is located within the park; small boats are permitted, but speed is restricted. It is also a good base for fall hunting. The park is the northern terminus of the Androscoggin Trail, a hiking path that extends 55 miles south to Berlin.
Location: Off Route 26, Little Diamond Pond Rd, Stewartstown
Phone: 603-237-5382 (In-Season)
603-538-6707 (April-May & Oct-Dec)
Activities: Camping, fishing, boating, hiking, snowmobiling, cross country skiing, canoeing, hunting
Amenities: Campground, dump station
Operation Schedule:
Day Use: Year-round
Camping: Early-May to Early December
Acreage: 1,530.5 acres
NH State Parks Website
NH State Parks Pet Policy
The primitive campground at Coleman State Park offers 24 campsites, available by reservation only. Reserved camping with full staffing and facilities will be available from May 27 to October 10, 2005. Reservations for campsites may be made by calling the Reservation Office, Monday through Friday, from January through the end of the season. Campers interested in possible first-come/first-served camping from May 13 to May 26 should call the park directly in early May for further information.
Many of the sites can accommodate most camping equipment including self-contained recreational vehicles with a maximum length of 35 feet; hook-ups are not available. Flush toilets, coin-operated showers, along with pit toilets, a playground, and a dump station are available. Late fall campers should be aware that there is no running water in the campground from mid-October for the remainder of the season.

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DuPont HL. Approach to the patient with suspected enteric infection. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 291.
Semrad CE. Approach to the patient with diarrhea and malabsorption. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 142.
Giannella Ra. Infectious enteritis and proctocolitis and bacterial food poisoning. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 107.


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L'Ecole Culinaire will hold a food drive for the Mid-South Food Bank now through Dec. 6 at the school, 1245 Germantown Parkway. Nonperishable and canned goods will be accepted. Visit midsouthfoodbank.org.
Kiwanis Club of Memphis will meet Wednesday, Nov. 6, from noon to 1 p.m. at The University Club of Memphis, 1346 Central Ave. The Kiwanis lawman and fireman of the year will be announced and honored. Cost is $18 for nonmembers.
The Downtown Memphis Commission design review board will meet Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. in the Downtown Memphis Commission conference room, 114 N. Main St. Visit downtownmemphiscommission.com.
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McHenry County's representatives in Springfield anticipate that lawmakers will override Gov. Pat Quinn's changes to their compromise concealed-carry bill.
Leaders of the House and Senate will call members back into session Tuesday to consider the changes and likely vote on an override.
Tuesday also happens to be the court-mandated deadline for lawmakers to legalize concealed carry before the state's longtime ban is invalidated. Without any rules in place by Tuesday, Illinois would have no laws governing the carrying of concealed weapons.
Local lawmakers joined others statewide, including many in Quinn's own majority party, in criticizing Quinn's changes to the hard-fought compromise legislation, which passed the House and Senate with the three-fifths majorities needed to override his amendatory veto.
"It's unfortunate that it's coming down to the wire, and it's going to cost taxpayers for another special session," said state Rep. Mike Tryon, R-Crystal Lake.
Quinn on Tuesday significantly altered what he called a "flawed bill that jeopardizes public safety." He limited the number of concealed weapons a person can carry at any given time to one, and limited that gun to one 10-round magazine. Quinn also banned concealed weapons at any establishment that serves alcohol – the original allowed them only at establishments where alcohol makes up less than half of total sales.
Another change reversed the bill's original intent regarding carrying in business venues that are not specifically exempted. Instead of businesses having to post signs banning concealed weapons, Quinn altered the language to ban concealed carry unless establishments explicitly allow it.
Lawmakers after months of often contentious debate crafted a compromise concealed-carry bill and approved it May 31, the last day of the spring session. Illinois is the only state with a total ban on concealed carry, but a federal court struck it down in December.
Reps. Barbara Wheeler, R-Crystal Lake, and David McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, accused Quinn of playing politics and pandering to a gun-control Chicago base. Quinn, who carried four of Illinois' 102 counties in 2010, likely faces a tough primary challenge next year from former Obama chief of staff Bill Daley, and could face another powerful challenger if Attorney General Lisa Madigan decides to run.
"He knows what's going to happen. This is a farce and a waste of the taxpayers' time," Wheeler said.
Some lawmakers cited issues with particular changes made by Quinn, such as his eliminating a provision forbidding municipalities from acting on their own to ban what commonly are called "assault-style weapons."
Such weapons are regular semiautomatic rifles that cosmetically look like military weapons and can accept a high-capacity magazine, but only fire one round at a time. Automatic weapons of any kind already are illegal in Illinois.
Sen. Karen McConnaughay, R-St. Charles, said the provision was put in place to prevent a "patchwork quilt" of gun laws that would ensnare law-abiding gun owners.
"Any time you allow each municipality to create a situation where they can set up their own rules, you have an environment where gun owners going from one town to the next don't know what the gun laws are," McConnaughay said.
Tryon and other lawmakers pointed out that many of the changes made by Quinn were discussed and settled during the monthslong debate process. Others, such as Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, questioned why Quinn did not participate in the process as lawmakers hashed out a bill to meet the court deadline.
"I'm disappointed that he didn't give his ideas during the months and months and dozens and dozens of votes that we took on this," Franks said. "This passed in both chambers by supermajority votes. The governor might have had a good idea here or there, but [the amendatory veto] went so far over."
The Tuesday special session happens to be the deadline Quinn set for lawmakers to come up with a plan to stabilize the state's crushing $100 billion unfunded pension liability – a deadline that will most likely not be met.
"The state is sinking in red ink, and he's wasting time rewriting bills that the House and Senate already passed," said Sen. Dan Duffy, R-Lake Barrington. "All he's doing is making taxpayers spend another $43,000 to bring us down there to override his amendatory veto."
On the Net
You can read the text of the concealed-carry bill, House Bill 183, and Gov. Pat Quinn's amendatory veto, on the General Assembly's website at www.ilga.gov.
Visit http://www.nwherald.com/2013/06/07/a-guide-to-illinois-concealed-carry-bill/a9apqu9/ to read a guide to the original bill in a Q&A format.


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Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day) and Norah Jones released an cover album celebrating the music of The Everly Brothers, titled "Foreverly," back in November. After Phil Everly's passing on January 3rd, Billie Joe reflected on his connection with their music in a blog post and you can read it below.
"Foreverly" was released on Warner Bros. Records and is also available for streaming below.
Billie Joe:
My connection to the Everly Brothers goes way back. My mother was an Everly Brothers fan. I remember her playing them in the house and hearing songs like "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie."
The Everly Brothers' harmonies are so immaculate. You can tell that they're brothers and have been singing together basically since birth. They improved on the whole craft of singing harmony, and their harmonies are pretty much better than everybody's.
Their 1958 album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us"– I thought it was just so dark. They sounded like angels or spirits singing these really dark murder ballads and old southern hymns and folk songs that go back to the 17th century. It was just so different for them being rock and roll stars at the time to then take this turn looking at their family history and singing these songs. It was impressive.
I've been singing harmony with Mike Dirnt since we were about 15 years old. I've always had a more melodic side of me. Even in punk terms, I've always been drawn to melodies. The Everly Brothers, the songs are so good, and they are also very percussive. When the chords on "Bye Bye Love" come out, they come out rocking hard, there's no pretense at all. I feel like I really love the range of their voices, the tone of their voices.
The song that always gets me from "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" is "Put My Little Shoes Away." The kid in the song is talking to his mother and saying it's time for me to go. How could you not be affected by something like that? It's so real. Death is something that happens to all of us. I'm still kind of in shock with Phil Everly dying—it's almost as if I can hear him singing that song.
They've influenced people already and the people they influenced don't even know it. If you're influenced by the early Beatles harmonies, then you're influenced by the Everly Brothers. If you're influenced by Simon and Garfunkel, then you're influenced by the Everly Brothers. I think any time you hear harmony, the spirit of the Everly Brothers will live on forever.
I never met the Everly Brothers or Phil Everly. I thought that I'd run into him in the future. When I found out yesterday that he had died, I got to say I'm kind of in shock. I feel like I lost a relative.
They've been on my mind for the last couple of years, I've been thinking about this record and diving inside those harmonies and seeing the way they do things, and diving inside those lyrics and knowing they sang those songs on a porch somewhere in Kentucky. Anything that you're a huge fan of and paying homage to on top of that—when it's taken from you, it's sad.
I think their songs are about family and tradition. I have my own family. There are certain things in society that need to be torn down–these things that come in between the human spirit and people truly identifying with each other in a pure way. Everly Brothers songs connect people and traditions. They're handed down. They're kind of like a family heirloom.
They were a part of the foundation of rock and roll. You have Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly and Little Richard and Elvis Presley—a lot of those guys are straight rockers. And what the Everly Brothers did is they brought that straight harmony in that is so important to establish how the future was going to go.
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STEP ONE: OPENING A BATCH, before you can process any membership, A/R Cash must be open.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Police said Tuesday they plan to interview a California teen who stowed away on a Hawaii-bound flight two weeks ago, surviving sub-freezing temperatures in the wheel well of a jetliner as it crossed the Pacific Ocean.
The 15-year-old Somali immigrant flew back to California over the weekend and was being cared for by Santa Clara County Child Protective Services, San Jose police spokesman Albert Morales said.
"There are plans to speak to him," Morales said.
Yahya Abdi's father, Abdilahi Yusuf, who drives a taxi in San Jose, flew to Hawaii last week to bring his son home, but child welfare officials there turned the boy over to their California counterparts.
Law enforcement agents want to question Abdi about how he climbed over a fence at San Jose International Airport then got into the wheel well of a Boeing 767 and survived the April 20 flight at 35,000 feet despite the cold and a lack of oxygen.
Authorities have searched the airport perimeter and found no signs of anyone going over or under the fence. A review of video surveillance also didn't show Abdi, but there are gaps in the coverage. As a result of the breach, the airport is adding more cameras.
Abdi, who lived in Santa Clara with his father, stepmother and siblings, had been unhappy in California and desperately missed his mother, according to those who know his family. School officials said he had been in the U.S. for about four years and speaks English as a second language.
Abdi's mother Ubah Mohammed Abdule lives in a refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia and told The Associated Press that the boy longed to see her but his father told him she was dead.
"I just heard he was discharged from the hospital through media," she said during a telephone interview Tuesday from the Shedder refugee camp in Ethiopia where she is waiting for her application for asylum in the U.S. to be processed. "I really don't know his whereabouts, nor did I talk to him. I was expecting he would join me afterward."
She said her asylum application is about to be concluded, and she is looking forward to seeing her family in the U.S.
The boy's siblings have told local media that the father didn't take the children away from Abdule or mistreat them.
James Livingston, a San Jose psychologist who works with refugees and adolescents, said it's not surprising that a teen in Abdi's situation would have a hard time.
"It is always a difficult adjustment for refugee children coming from another country and culture and speaking a different language to make the adjustment in this country," he said. "It's not surprising if he would start to miss the home country no matter how bad the situation is there."
Livingston, who doesn't know Abdi, said it doesn't surprise him that authorities have not immediately returned the teen to his father.
"It's the responsibility of social services to investigate any possibility of his home not being a safe environment before returning that child to that environment, so I would assume they are being thorough before returning the boy to his dad," he said.
Associated Press reporter Abdi Guled in Mogadishu, Somalia, contributed to this story.


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Lifetime Moving Forward With Lindsay Lohan's Elizabeth Taylor Movie
It's called Liz & Dick.
That long-rumored Elizabeth Taylor biopic starring Lindsay Lohan is officially happening on Lifetime. "Happening" of course meaning "going into preproduction," but the reality of the project inches ever closer. According to Lifetime, the made-for-TV movie starts filming in June. Liz & Dick — elegant! — focuses on Taylor's relationship with Richard Burton, but so far no one has been cast opposite Lohan.


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'Wolf-In-Skins' :: New Dance/Opera Piece Gets Philly Outing
Philadelphia Dance Projects is presenting sections from "Wolf-In-Skins,"
Other segments of the piece previewed at American Opera Projects in 2011, but the Philly performances will be the most fully realized staged sections of the work so far.
"The only thing missing will be some of the planned set pieces," Williams explained. The full production date is undetermined, but he said there are negotiations for the full version, with New York Live Arts co-producing, possibly for spring 2014.
Last week, the Philadelphia cast was in the second session of rehearsals at the Conwell with Williams and Spears. Williams was singing the score as he is refining the choreography for "the dance of the courtiers and courtesans" with Spears at the piano.
Six of Philadelphia's most dynamic independent dancers - Beau Hancock, Gregory Holt, Drew Kaiser, Stuart Meyers, Alec Moss and Gabrielle Revlock - are part of a cast of over 30 singers, musicians and dancers performing in the scene extracts. Spears and Williams have collaborated on a trilogy of works for five years, but Wolf is their most ambitious project yet.
Last week in rehearsals at the Conwell Theater on the Temple University campus, Williams demonstrates moves in the scene or darts over to consult with Spears on a point in the score, or checking his digital video track on his computer as well as checking the sight and sound spots from the seating. He picks up the song cues and sings with complete serenity.
Terry Fox, artistic director of PDP, saw 'Wolf' in development in New York, said it is PDP's biggest commission to date. "There's such specificity in Christopher's direction, he communicates the subtleties and theatricality so well."
Fox noted that there were challenges for him working with the opera singers who had to move as characters in the scenes but that Williams simplified the movements, to be simple but dramatically effective. The piece is scored for an 11-piece orchestra on period instruments with musicians from the Sebastian Chamber Players.
Williams wrote the story, a mash-up of shared tropes in Welsh myths. "I got very interested in the sources, went back further to denizens of early Celtic mythology and found that they are from an ancient myth of the British Isles, that were expressed in different ways locally," he said.
"Characters in the human world come from the 13th century Welsh romance tales and they aren't really Christianized. Things like animal transformation and passage to the underworld are present in medieval literature."
Spears uses various classical forms madrigals, choral baroque and pre-classical genres that tell the story orchestrally and Williams' choreography, is atmospheric and period decorous. Williams extends with modern components, sculptural torso groupings and intimate communalism. His repeated use of dancer-entwined spirals has an earthy and ethereal beauty.
Williams and Spears had to return to New York after working with the Philadelphia dancers. He spoke by phone from his home over the weekend.
"My choreography has contrasting styles; I was influenced by renaissance court dances like Pavanes and Galliards, and even early 17th century alliances of dance with opera that grew out of the court of the Sun King. (Some) characters are inspired by imagery on megalithic monuments and early British art. I use circular and linear patterns, working with spiral formations of the body."
Fox observes that themes of "otherness" and transformation are the story's subtext and Williams and Spears have built fantasy homoerotism into that.
"This court dance, for instance, is just a façade. Underneath there is always the wild, emotional side of life. The dramatic arch of the opera is this wild passion that a character develops for another. The deep channel of passion that underlies our lives, whether we can express it or not, is a different story. So the dance bleeds in and out of that untamed emotional states."
PDP Presents "Wolf-In-Skins: A Dance Opera Choreography" by Christopher Williams with music by Gregory Spears (extracted scenes) | Conwell Dance Theater, NE corner of Broad St & Montgomery Ave., 215.546.2552; Jan. 25, 7:30; Jan. 26- 2:30 & 7:30.


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Flying Yankee
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On February 9, 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, a new train arrived in New England to lift people's spirits and take train travel in a whole new direction.
It was the Flying Yankee, one of only three articulated streamliners of its type ever built. It operated for 22 years running between Portland and Boston six days a week, with a "commute" time of only 51 minutes.
After 40 years of inactivity, this icon of American ingenuity and railroad history was lovingly restored after being discovered in a Massachusetts railyard by New Hampshire businessman Robert Morrell. The restoration took place at the shops of the Claremont Concord Railroad while spectators looked on.
Today, the Yankee can be found parked parallel to the rails on the south side of the parking lot at the Hobo Railroad Station in Lincoln.


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Cebus kaapori
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Cebus kaapori Queiroz, 1992
Common Name(s):
Cebus olivaceus Queiroz, 1992 ssp. kaapori
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Silva Jr (2001, 2002) argued that the tufted capuchins and the untufted capuchins (sensu Hershkovitz 1949, 1955) are so distinct in their morphology that they should be considered separate genera. Cebus Erxleben, 1777 for the untufted group, and Sapajus Kerr, 1792 is the name available for the tufted capuchins.
Cebus kaapori had previously been recorded from Maranhão by Vieira (1957) but was registered as Cebus nigrivittatus and overlooked in subsequent assessments of the range of the species. Masterson (1995) reported on a cranial study. Harada and Ferrari (1996) argued that Cebus kaapori Queiroz, 1992 should be considered a subspecies of C. olivaceus. Considered a full species by Groves (2001, 2005) and Silva Jr. (2001).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A2cd ver 3.1
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|Date Assessed:
|Kierulff, M.C.M. & de Oliveira, M.M.
|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)
This species is listed as Critically Endangered due to a drastic population reduction over the past 3 generations (48 years). During this period it is estimated that the population has been reduced by at least 80% due to both deforestation and hunting for bushmeat. Lopes and Ferrari (1993) and Ferrari and Queiroz (1994) concluded that Cebus kaapori is one of the most threatened of all the Amazonian primates.
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|Range Description:
|Cebus kaapori was described from the eastern Amazon in the state of Maranhão and eastern part of the state of Pará in 1992. The distribution of this form is now quite well known, occurring east of the lower Rio Tocantins to the right bank of the Rio Grajaú in Maranhão where it entres the Zona dos Cocais (Queiroz 1992; Ferrari and Queiroz 1994; Ferrari and Souza Jr 1994; Ferrari and Lopes 1996; Silva, Jr. and Cerqueira 1998; Carvalho, Jr. et al. 1999; Cunha et al. 2007). Although possibly extending as far east as the Mearim-Itapecuru interfluvium in the past, Silva Jr and Cerqueira (1998) concluded that it can be "considered practically absent from the right bank of the Rio Grajaú, eastwards".
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Native:Brazil (Maranhão, Pará)
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|Ferrari and Lopes (1996) estimated a density of 0.98 individuals/km² in the Gurupí Biological Reserve. Ferrari and Lopes (1996) attribute the scarcity of this species to hunting and to interspecific competition with sympatric Cebus apella.
Carvalho Jr. et al. (1999) reported a population survey in the Fazenda Cauaxi in Paragominas, north-eastern Pará, Brazil. The realtive abundance of Cebus kaapori was 0.99 groups/10 km (over 71 km). Lopes (1993) saw three groups in 480 km walked in the Gurupí Biological Reserve.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|Undisturbed and and slightly disturbed dense lowland Amazonian high forest, at altitudes of 200 m or less (Queiroz 1992). Can also be found in edge habitat in the transition with the Zona dos Cocais due to its propensity to feed on palm fruit. Capuchin monkeys are arboreal quadrepeds, and are typically found in the lower to mid-canopy and understorey (Freese and Oppenheimer 1981; Fragaszy et al. 2004; Jack 2007).
Capuchin monkeys are frugivores-insectivores, including a wide variety of fruits, seeds and arthropods, frogs, nestlings and even small mammals, supplemented by stems, flowers and leaves. They are extractive, manipulative foragers. Groups seen by Carvalho Jr et al. (1999) ranged in size from 1 to 7 individuals. Males disperse. Both sexes take up linear hierarchies, the top ranking male being dominant to the top ranking female. Subordinate males are often peripheral (Fragaszy et al. 2004).
Paratype. Adult male HB 46.5 cm, TL 51.0 cm, 3.05 kg (Queiroz 1982).
|Major Threat(s):
|The major threat is habitat loss, as its forests in southern Pará and Maranhão have been extensively destroyed over the last 10 years and continue to be so. It is the region with the highest human population density and the highest level of deforestation and habitat degradation in the entire Brazilian Amazon (Carvalho Jr. et al. 1999). The Gurupí Biological Reserve is the only protected area where it is known to occur, but the reserve has lost more than half of its forest. Lopes (1993) concluded that selective logging was particularly prejudicial to Cebus kaapori due to the loss of trees providing fruits that are a significant component of its diet. The species is also hunted. Guajá indians keep them as pets (Queiroz 1992).
|Conservation Actions:
|This species is recorded from the Gurupí Biological Reserve (272,379 ha) (Queiroz 1992) and Lago de Tucuruí State Environmental Protection Area (568,667 ha) (Cunha et al. 2007). It is listed on CITES Appendix II.
|Kierulff, M.C.M. & de Oliveira, M.M. 2008. Cebus kaapori. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T40019A10303725. . Downloaded on 22 September 2018.
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Construction will add meeting room, tech center
Additional space will be added to the Saranac Public Library next year to help improve its services and atmosphere for patrons.
Library Board President Michele Westbrook said the library purchased the building next door to the library, which previously housed Creative Image Salon. She said the timing for such a change was perfect, as the need was high and the only available space to gain was for sale at an inexpensive cost.
"If we were ever going to expand, this was the opportunity," she added. "This is looking forward."
The new space will add roughly 1,200 square feet to the existing library and will offer a meeting room and gathering area as well as a technology center.
Bids for the construction are expected to be reviewed and approved at the next library board meeting, which is scheduled for Jan 16.
Saranac Public Library Director Sherri Rasmus said currently the library's computers are spread out in the building, which can be difficult for patrons because of disruption from other library activities. With the new addition, however, that will change.
"This will just combine everything in one area, and it will be quiet because there are glass doors that can be shut," said Rasmus.
Storage space and a family bathroom also are part of the floor plan by Lake Odessa architect Tim Spitzley, who has worked with the library in the past.
Construction is expected to begin in spring and will take a few months to complete. Westbrook said the addition will help bring the library up to date and offer some of the same services provided by larger libraries in the area.
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Rasmus said she has seen the library's use increase over the past few years, as more people utilize book borrowing, Internet services and technological device training.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pay attention. Stay focused. Be respectful. Be polite. Don't act bored. Or angry. Or distracted. Or sarcastic.
These might sound like simple principles, but it seems that candidates sometimes forget that during debates, they're being watched not just when they're speaking, but when they're listening.
And that's never been truer than this election season. Joe Biden's skeptical chuckles, President Barack Obama's copious note-taking, even Paul Ryan's thirsty gulps of water have become fodder for endless chatter, with a cultural shelf life possibly far longer than what these candidates were actually saying.
It's all been magnified by those constant split screens on TV. If it seems like they were used more than usual during the first two debates, it's because the candidates were so expressive — for better or worse — when they weren't speaking, says Marc Burstein, senior executive producer of political and live events coverage at ABC News.
"It was part of the story," Burstein says. "I shouldn't be in my job if I wasn't giving my viewers the opportunity to see that."
With the next debate upon us, here are a few tips from the experts on what to do when you're not the one talking.
Candidates! Are you listening?
Everyone jots down a note here and there. But it was duly noted that Obama looked like he was drafting a full speech during his first debate with Mitt Romney. Perhaps he felt it was a way to put the time to use. In any case, it hurt him.
"It can be perceived as being rude, inattentive, not really listening to what the other person is saying and being preoccupied with your own thoughts," says Lillian Glass, a body-language coach in Los Angeles. Of course, it's fine to jot down an occasional note, she says. "But when they consistently write while the other is speaking, it is disconcerting."
Many viewers of the vice presidential debate enjoyed the Biden laughs, chuckles, smiles, grins — especially Democrats. But it's a tough balance.
Biden may have gotten away with it because of his stature, age and experience, says Jonathan Paul, director of debate at Georgetown University. "Imagine if it wasn't the vice president but Paul Ryan who had been making those faces," says Paul. "I don't think the reaction would have been the same."
Glass, an author on body language, says that as a general rule, candidates "should never mug or make faces or have a condescending smile or laugh inappropriately. People are judging them by what they see, just as they're judging them by what they hear."
This sounds like a no-brainer, but there are nonverbal cues that can be interpreted as distracted, bored or impatient, which can seem perilously close to disrespectful. Remember George H.W. Bush's unfortunate glance at his watch in 1992? Remember Al Gore's sighs and eye-rolls in 2000? Did either of them win those elections?
"I tell my students all the time — the most important thing is to pay attention," says Paul, the Georgetown debate coach. "You have to appear as if you are listening and on top at every moment."
Paul says he's had students who were excellent debaters but who would gasp or roll their eyes when hearing opponents' arguments. "People think nobody is paying attention to that — but they are," he says.
There is a way to demonstrate you are listening carefully, says Jerry Shuster, who teaches political communication at the University of Pittsburgh.
"Have direct eye contact, body leaning toward the speaker, head raised — maybe nod the head," he says.
About that head-nodding: Be careful not to do too much of it, or you'll be seen as agreeing with your opponent's positions. That's a trap Obama seemed to fall into in the first debate, nodding in assent too many times for his supporters' liking.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor of political communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has a concise formula for such head-nodding.
"Candidates should avoid nodding in agreement to anything but statements praising our soldiers, complimenting their spouses and thanking the host school," she says.
When and how to interrupt can be a minefield. You don't want to miss opportunities to rebut, but you can't be overly aggressive, either.
"If you want to interrupt or even disrupt the speaker, do so with authority but not a tone which denigrates the speaker," says Shuster. "Use a hand gesture while verbally signaling with a stock statement, like, 'I believe I need to stop you right there to respond or to react.' Above all, stay professional."
We all want our candidates to be well hydrated. That's why the glass of water is there.
But Ryan drank so often — undoubtedly a nervous tic rather than actual thirst — that it took up way too much attention. ("Saturday Night Live" spoofed him drinking so much during the debate that they eventually fed him with one of those hamster bottles.)
"I don't know Paul Ryan, but I assume he doesn't drink water every 15 seconds in everyday life," says Michael Levine, a veteran Hollywood publicist and debate watcher. "I might say to him, 'Son, it's fine to be hydrated, but that was a little much.'"
All the experts agree that it's tough and delicate work to strike a balance between politeness and aggressiveness, passion and control.
But a good rule of thumb, says Paul, the Georgetown coach, is not to do too much of anything.
"I say to my students that people shouldn't notice you doing anything more than once," he says. "Because if they do, they will always find a negative."
Associated Press writer David Bauder contributed to this report.
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In "Chicago Fire," the men and women of Firehouse 51 save lives, mourn lost colleagues, and, in the cases of Taylor Kinney and Jesse Spencer, spend a some time shirtless or in tank tops.
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"Law & Order" mastermind Dick Wolf doesn't blaze any new trails with his latest effort, but at least he's getting out of the courtroom and precinct house. Though there's not anything particularly groundbreaking about "Chicago Fire" (9 p.m. Oct. 10, NBC; 2.5 stars out of 4), Wolf and creators/writers Derek Haas and Michael Brandt are trying to stretch the procedural format with character-driven stories. Sometimes those stories even work.
My real joy in watching, however, has been the Chicago locations. Having a sense of place is important to any drama like this, and "Fire" benefits from being filmed in and around the city. If you're not all that into the fire-of-the-week action elements, you can play "Where was that filmed?" (Co-star Charlie Barnett recently confirmed my suspicion that the eatery run by his character's family is the now-shuttered Salt & Pepper Diner on Lincoln Avenue. I win the round!)
But about those firefighters, rescue workers and paramedics ... Barnett's character, a young firefighter candidate named Peter Mills, serves as the viewers' entree into the fire station much the way Noah Wyle's Dr. John Carter once led viewers into the hospital of another Chicago-set NBC drama, "ER."
Pete, as he's called by the new workmates who haze him, steps into a firehouse divided in Wednesday's premiere. Lt. Matthew Casey (Spencer), who is in charge of the firefighters, and Lt. Kelly Severide (Kinney), in charge of the rescue squad, blame each other for a firefighter's death. Their bickering throws such a pall over the fire house, which is filled with a diverse mix of beautiful young people (Monica Raymund and Lauren German), wise veterans (David Eigenberg and Christian Stolte) and jokers (Joe Minoso and Yuri Sardarov), that Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker of "Oz") has to shut them up.
That's quite a few characters, and those are just the ones at the fire station. Each has his or her own issues, from relationship and financial problems to the need to self-medicate in order to hide an injury. With so many sub plots, along with the characters' weekly displays of bravery, "Fire" never dwells long enough on one character to be effective. Just when you're about to get interested, the writers jump to something else.
The premiere has an explosive action sequence when our heroes try to escape a fire raging in a multistory building, but nothing is likely to get viewers hooked. They might find it worthwhile to stick around, however. Next week's episode kicks off an intriguing story about Casey's run-in with a dirty cop. A touching rescue effort in the same episode is particularly effective at showing us more about Kelly's psyche.
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Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan departs LAX airport on Sunday afternoon with two of his sons Dylan Brosnan, 10, and Paris Brosnan, 6.
Handsome father = handsome sons.
Pierce was last spotted with his Dylan and Paris along with his wife Keely at the "Terminate The Terminal" protest.
The 53-year-old Irish actor recently said enjoyed making post-American Civil War period movie Seraphim Falls with Liam Neeson that he wants to go further back into U.S. history to visit the Wild West.
Said Pierce, "It's always in the cards. There's a bunch of us Irish fellows who keep saying we should get together and make a western – myself, Gabriel Byrne, Colm Meaney and people like that. We'd just like to do an Irish film about the West. I was getting serious about that when, and lo and behold, the script for Seraphim Falls came to me with Liam attached. That film just whet my appetite further because it's a western-themed movie. I was brought up on the kind of staple of the westerns. I just thought it all had an elegance to it."
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Aotus trivirgatus
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Aotus trivirgatus (Humboldt, 1812)
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|Taxonomic Notes:
|It is doubtful that the current taxonomy provides a true picture of the diversity of the genus Aotus. Ruiz-Herrera et al. (2005) reported that cytogenetic studies have characterized 18 different karyotypes with diploid numbers ranging from 46 to 58 chromosomes. The taxonomy of the night monkeys essentially follows the revision by Hershkovitz (1983), with some modifications for the Colombian and Central American forms.
Reviewing the entire taxonomy and distributions of the night monkeys, Aotus, Ford (1994) carried out multivariate analyses of craniodental measures and pelage patterns and color, and also took into consideration chromosomal data and blood protein variations. Ford (1994) concluded that there was "good support" for just two species north of the Río Amazonas: A. trivirgatus (Humboldt, 1812) east and north of the Rio Negro, and the polymorphic A. vociferans to the west of the Rio Negro. Aotus vociferans, as such, would include all the forms north of the Río Amazonas/Solimões in Brazil (west of the Rio Negro), Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, and in the Chocó, northern Colombia and Colombian Andes, and Panama: brumbacki, lemurinus, griseimembra, and zonalis.
The karyotype of Aotus trivirgatus is not known (Defler and Bueno 2007), and Hershkovitz (1983), who based his taxonomy primarily on karyotypes, indicated that further research may result in a revision of this and the forms he recognizes as miconax and infulatus.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Veiga, L.M. & Rylands, A.B.
|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)
This species is listed as Least Concern due to its wide range, presumed large populations, and because there are no major threats believed to be resulting in a significant population decline at present.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Based on a specimen collected at Maipures, near the mouth of the Río Tomo on the Río Orinoco, Defler and Bueno (2007) indicated that the night monkeys of eastern central Colombia north of the Río Guaviare are probably A. brumbacki.
Hershkovitz (1983) proposed that A. trivirgatus was the form in Colombia between the Rios Vaupés and Inirida, but Defler (2003, 2004) indicated that A. vociferans occurred in this region and that A. trivirgatus as such is restricted to the east of the Ríos Negro, lower Guainia, and Atabapo and, below the mouth the Río Atabapo, the Río Orinoco. To the north, in Venezuela, A. trivirgatus occurs south of the Río Orinoco and east as far the middle Rio Caroni. The extension east beyond the Río Caura is based on just one locality on the upper Caroni (Bodini and Pérez-Hernandez 1987; Linares 1998). A. trivrigatus is confined to north (left bank) of the Rio Negro to its mouth, extending east, north of the Rio Amazonas, as far as the Rio Trombetas. North it reaches the Serra da Pacaraima, but does not it seem extend into Guyana. In the state of Roraima, the Rio Mucajaí is indicated (by Hershkovitz (1983) as marking its northern limits.
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|In Bolivar, Colombia, Green (1978) estimated a density of 0.5 groups/km² or 1.5 individuals/km². Aquino and Encarnación (1994b) reviewed population structure and densities for the genus.
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|Night monkeys typically occur in primary and secondary forest (including disturbed forest and selectively logged forest), seasonally flooded and terra firma, lowland forest, submontane forest (Hernández-Camacho and Cooper 1976; Defler 2003, 2004). Aquino and Encarnación (1994b) reviewed the habitat and forest preferences of the genus.
Night monkeys are nocturnal: they are most active at dawn and dusk. The only exception is Aotus azarae azarae of the Chaco of southern Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, which is cathemeral (active during night and day). They are frugivorous; their diet includes fruit, nectar and flower (seasonally important for the A. a. azarae in the Chaco), leaves, and small animals prey such as insects (Wright 1989; Fernandez-Duque 2007).
They are socially monogamous, living in small groups of an adult pair and offspring of different ages (infant, one or two juveniles and sometimes a subadult. In A. a. azarae a significant number of adults range alone. They may be subadults that have left their natal groups or older adults which have been evicted from their groups by competitors (Fernandez-Duque and Huntington 2002; Fernandez-Duque 2004). Both sexes disperse. Males care for the infants (carry them) (Rotundo et al. 2002, 2005). Lone adults were observed by Villavicencio Galindo (2003) in northern Colombia. Night monkeys are territorial—groups occupy overlapping territories of 5-18 ha (depending on the species and location) (Wright 1978, 1981; Fernandez-Duque 2007). Wright (1994) and Fernandez-Duque (2007) review the behaviour and ecology of the genus.
Captive male A. lemurinus reach sexual maturity when 2 years old, and captive female A. vociferans and A. nancymaae first breed when 3-4 years old (Dixson 1983; Fernandez-Duque 2007). In the wild, male A. azarae reach adult weight only when about 4 years old, and age at first reproduction is about 5 years of age (Juárez et al. 2003; Fernandez-Duque 2004). Single offspring are the rule. Wright (1985) recorded births between August and February for A. nigriceps in Peru (Manu National Park), and Aquino et al. (1990) indicated a birth season between December and March for A. nancymaae in north-eastern Peru.
Adult male weight average 1.2 kg (n=1), adult female weight 1.0 kg (n=1) (Fernandes 1993).
|Major Threat(s):
|This is a wide-ranging species, and there is no evidence of any particular threat other than habitat loss.
|Conservation Actions:
In Brazil, the species is confirmed, or may occur, in the following protected areas:
Pico da Neblina National Park (2,298,154 ha) (in range)
Rio Trombetas Biological Reserve (409,578 ha) (in range)
Uatumã Biological Reserve (942,786 ha) (in range)
Anavilhanas Ecological Station (343,897 ha) (in range)
Caracaraí Ecological Station (85,957 ha) (in range)
Niquiá Ecological Station (282,830 ha) (in range).
It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
|Veiga, L.M. & Rylands, A.B. 2008. Aotus trivirgatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T41543A10496292. . Downloaded on 23 September 2018.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Complete gear with Nikon FT-1
Here's my updated current digiscoping rig showing the Nikon FT-1 mount with a Nikon F-mount T-ring, instead of using only a generic Nikon 1 T-ring. As a digiscoper of nearly 12 years, and in all matters pertinent to the craft, this is the best photography equipment I have ever used for bird portraiture. I'm super pleased with the function as well as the results I'm getting. At this juncture, I'm not sure I'll bother buying the 18.5mm lens when it becomes available next week. I'll wait and see what other digiscopers say about it before I make a final decision.
If you were to purchase all of these components right now (10/22/2012), you're looking at around $5,500.00 for the complete package. The price of the Nikon 1 V1 varies from store to store. However, most places have it for under $500.00 (I paid $750.00 for it in April), but you may want to wait for the Nikon 1 V2.
© 2012 Mike McDowell
Posted on: October 22, 2012
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will this work with the Vortex Razor?ReplyDelete
Hi Laurie,ReplyDelete
The Swarovski TLS APO adapter only fits Swarovski spotting scopes. However, there is a way to attach the Nikon 1 V1 to the Vortex Razor using the Vortex DCA and a 40.5-52mm step ring.
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Thanks,God bless you! Your photos, advise and writing are beautiful, informative and entertaining as well.ReplyDelete
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Author Notes: About six weeks ago a friend of mine introduced me to Biscoff Spread. Six week's later, I've gone through seven jars. Biscoff Spread is hard to describe but it essentially is like a spiced cookie butter (yes, COOKIE BUTTER). Needless to say I'm a little obsessed. This cake was inspired by Cafe Fernando's Biscoff Ganache and Regan Daley's Wesson Oil's Chocolate Cake. Wowza, this cake is good. The sweet & spicy ganache balances perfectly with the dense chocolate cake. —katie_white
Serves: 12 generous pieces
Chocolate Cake
cups all purpose flour, sifted
cups sugar
cup unsweetened cocoa powder (the best you can afford)
teaspoons baking soda
cup vegetable oil
teaspoon pure vanilla extract
teaspoon Maker's Mark Bourbon
tablespoons white vinegar
1 1/2
cups cold water
cup cold coffee
- If you live at high altitude like I do now, you will find the cake needs a little finessing. These are the adjustments for this cake: Decrease sugar to 3/4c. + 2tsp; Decrease the baking soda to 3/4 tsp.
- Center the rack in your oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 8-inch round and line with parchment. Butter parchment and dust with cocoa powder.
- Using a mixer with a paddle attachment, place all of the dry ingredients into the bowl and stir on the lowest setting for 30 second until combined. Then add the oil, water, coffee, vinegar, vanilla, bourbon and mix until just combined.
- Then take two 8 or 9 in round pans. Divide evenly between pans and bake for 30 minutes until a toothpick is clean when entered and removed from the center of the cake.
- Remove from oven let cool in pan for 30 minutes and then run knife along edge and remove from pans. Place cakes on cooling rack and set aside until completely cool.
Biscoff Ganache
ounces Semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
ounces Bittersweet chocolate, chopped
14 oz. jar of Biscoff Spread
teaspoon cinnamon
teaspoon ginger
pint less 1/3 cup heavy cream chilled
Chocolate for shaving
- Using a double broiler or your microwave melt the chopped chocolates until they are just smooth. If using a microwave, heat in 30-second increments stirring between rounds. Should take about 3-4 minutes. You don't want to over heat this so make sure to go slow and stir.
- Once melted, pour the chocolate into your mixer. Add the entire jar of Biscoff Spread Whisk until just combined. Stir in ginger and cinnamon.
- Add heavy cream straight from the fridge. It needs to be cold so make sure you don't leave it out. Whisk slowly until the liquid is combined and then whip just until soft peaks form.
- Place the bottom layer on your serving dish or cake plate, add about 1/3 of the ganache and spread from the center to the edge as evenly as possible.
- Place the second layer on the cake. Scoop half of the remaining ganache on top. Clean your utensil (knife, spatula or offset spatula) and then use it to evenly spread a thin layer of the ganache from the center towards the edges. You want a majority of the frosting to spill over and frost the edges. Use your utensil to spread around the edge of the cake.
- Scoop the remainder of the frosting evenly across the top of the cake.
- Decorate with shaved chocolate and refrigerate for at least an hour to allow the ganache to set. Slice and serve.
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I am going on a fly in fishing trip near Lake Nipigon in Ontario Canada, it is about 100 miles north of Thunder Bay. There is a cabin on the lake, and I was going to bring my hammock to sleep in, mainly because of comfort, and the cabin really only sleeps 4.. but the other guys who aren't backpackers and aren't from there are concerned about Bears.
I have never been there, or packed anywhere in Canada for that matter, but it is my understanding that the bears are similar to Northern Wi, or Minnisota. Few and far between, black bear mostly, and the guide company is saying that they aren't a problem. So I am thinking it's like anywhere else and just follow the rules...
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U.S. skaters were looking to rebound from an awful start in the Sochi Olympics by slipping back into old suits that should have been made obsolete by new high-tech gear.
Instead of one of the black-and-silver "Mach 39" skinsuits touted as the fastest the world has ever seen, Shani Davis was doing practice laps Saturday in a suit with blue arms and USA printed vertically on the back. It's the early-season World Cup edition made for American skaters.
"People now have something to kind of lock on to, and say, `ok this is a change,"' said U.S. coach Matthew Kooreman. "Now it is up to us to perform. There's no excuses anymore."
All eyes will be on Davis on Saturday evening, when he should be wearing the old suit during one of his favorite events, the 1,500 meter. He is a double Olympic silver medalist in the event and a strong contender to add gold for the first US speedskating medal of the games.
Davis was the double defending 1,000 champion but faded into eighth place in that race on Wednesday. He was at a loss of words to explain his futility since he said he felt in gold-medal form. When favorites Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe also finished outside the top six the next day, the suit became the major focus of criticism.
Traditionally, the U.S. team has been among the medal leaders halfway through the competition. Instead, it was shut out.
Kooreman hopes changing suits will re-ignite the skaters for the final week of competition. Suit designer Under Armour was busy altering the logo on the old suits, so they will conform with International Olympic Committee regulations. If they fail to meet specifications, the suits would be illegal.
"We don't see it as any problem at all," said IOC spokesman Mark Adams, as long as the suits meet the branding and regulation standards.
Kooreman acknowledged that the Mach 39 suits had been competition tested only "very minimally." Instead, the team is reverting to a suit that has a proven track record, since Bowe already has set world records in them. "So just kind of something to spark a little bit of change," Kooreman said.
While the U.S. team got its suits just before the Olympics started, some among the Dutch team have been using their new uniforms since October. The Dutch have dominated through the first six races, winning 12 of a possible 18 medals, including four golds.
"It looked worse because the Dutch are performing so well. It really rubbed it in our faces," said Kooreman.
Now the Dutch have the bragging rights, after Under Armour company described the Mach 39 suit, developed together with the U.S. aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin, as "the fastest speedskating suit in the world."
Kooreman said that is just what marketing men do. "And when you don't live up to that expectation, you get it thrown back at you pretty harshly."


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Congressional hopefuls Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert-Bush made the most of their final weekend of campaigning in this fiercely contested special election. NBC's Ali Weinberg reports.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, bidding for political redemption in a congressional race after a high-profile divorce that seemingly ended his aspirations, sought to challenge the notion that he has a problem among women voters by spending part of a visit to a small shopping street looking for, as he put it, "a woman who hates me."
The question of Sanford's ability to win women voters, first raised by his 2009 high-profile affair and divorce, re-emerged after a recent legal dispute with his ex-wife. He further complicated matters during a debate last week, saying he had not heard his opponent when she asked a question about the affair and his use of public funds surrounding the episode.
On Saturday, after answering several questions about whether he thought a trespassing charge at his ex-wife's home might compromise his standing with female voters, Sanford led reporters on a foray in downtown Summerville, S.C., stopping women to ask them their opinion of him, specifically referring to the question posed by a reporter for NBC News.
"No group's vote is a monolith," Sanford said, pointing out that he had recently received an endorsement for Tuesday's special election from a group of Republican women who took an ad out in a local newspaper. Sanford is running against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to fill the South Carolina congressional seat vacated by now-Sen. Tim Scott.
Sanford also noted that during his visit to the hot dog restaurant Perfectly Frank's, where earlier that afternoon his campaign announced the endorsement of the Tea Party Express, patrons had not brought the issue up.
When the reporter noted that he was speaking to a crowd that included some people who had gone to the restaurant specifically for the campaign event, Sanford dismissed that context as "the case of any political venue."
"If you're a political figure, some people, because they hear you're going to be at some place, they're going to show up," he said.
Sanford then walked across the street to begin his meet-and-greet, flanked by two campaign staffers and three reporters, telling the reporter who asked the questions about his status with women that he rejected the "premise" that women wouldn't vote for him because of his personal life.
He then indicated he wanted to seek out women who "hated" him.
"Let's go to this woman – does she look biased?" he asked as he crossed the street, the NBC reporter walking next to him.
As a car whizzed by, he told the reporter, "Watch out, I don't want you to get run over. Actually I kind of do, but that's a different story."
After Sanford caught up with the woman he had pointed out, she told him she was a big supporter and that she would be making phone calls for him on Tuesday.
A staffer, mimicking Sanford's tongue-in-cheek approach, suggested that the woman had been planted.
A few shops down, he stopped in a women's consignment store to chat with two shoppers who were visiting South Carolina from Arkansas, but who had seen some of his campaign ads and signs, which they said were "beautiful."
"You look like you're totally capable and we wish you luck," one of the women told him.
Laughing, Sanford pointed to the two cameras in front of him, saying, "you hear that?"
Later, Sanford visited a women's clothing store where the shopkeeper said she knew one of Sanford's staffers, and that the staffer "knows I'm in your corner."
"Oh good," the former governor said. "[But] that defeats what I'm after."
Pointing to the NBC reporter, he continued, "We were trying to find her a woman who hates me so she can use it in her TV show. She's with NBC National."
As Sanford wrapped up his hourlong canvas, he came across a couple, each of whom expressed their support for him.
After indicating, as he had previously, that the NBC reporter was looking to talk to women who didn't support him because of his marital history, the woman, Patty Hulbard, responded, "I'm not your biggest fan. What you did I don't appreciate, but that should not influence my vote necessarily."
"You line up ideology with my thinking, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt," she continued.
"I appreciate that. Thank you," Sanford said.
Turning to NBC's camera, he pointed and said, "That's pretty close to what you're looking for. We're getting somewhere, all right."
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Now that signs of preparations for next (2015) general elections are fast becoming apparent, as an ardent follower of your insightful submissions on this column and also someone 'with an eye' on involvement in Nigerian politics, your insight on an issue is essential at this time. Please enlighten my prospective campaign staffers and I on the applicability of marketing in efforts for my electioneering campaign, which I intend launching once the time is right – J. Bassey
Processes of marketing are directly applicable to what it takes to effectively carry out campaigns for elective posts. Think about all those steps or techniques required to 'swing' prospective buyers to favour sale offerings (örneğin. kişisel Satış, sales promotion) for products or services as part of marketing process. The candidate comprises the 'product' in this regard, mirroring his or her personal qualities and what the accompanying manifesto or programme is all about.
In line with this definition of marketing I often adhere to – "The management process through which goods and services move from concept to the customer" and my 'self composed' version, "All that should be needed to favourably make product or service available to the end-user" – it is easy to discern the close relationship between marketing and what electioneering campaign is all about. A look at electioneering, when defined, strengthens this reasoning going by these definitions – "Persuasion of voters in a political campaign" or "a set of strategies and tools to trace and study public opinion before and during an election campaign, to develop campaign communications and to assess their impact". This is marketing, but with offering different from products or services most of us are used to.
Without getting into details of what it represents, just as obtainable in marketing communications, electioneering communication is also reflective of communication publicly disseminated through use of television (the terrestrial form), radio, cable television system, newspaper, magazine, direct mail, telephone, and even the satellite system. This is why it now seems a common pattern in electioneering campaign to find candidates and/or their election agents prod prospective voters by means of telephone. The same holds for lobbing this same prospective 'consumers' using short messaging services (SMS) and emails.
Aside basic marketing skills which are required in the process of campaigning, these tools of marketing (especially in the areas of personal selling and sales promotion) are obviously vital to it – Posters, badges, rallies (an event), speeches (just like sales pitches or presentations), and a platform (as obtainable at experiential/activation programmes or promotional concerts). benzer şekilde, efforts of sales persons at making promises about products or services in order to convince the prospective customers tally with what occurs in the process of convincing prospective voters at electioneering campaigns.
To further demonstrate this link of marketing with electioneering, remember that while business concerns do not leave the issue of promotion (örneğin. announcing a new product) to chance, the place of 'communication process' within your campaign plan serves the same purpose. To foster a successful outcome of a product development process, most business concerns tend to create an entirely separate framework or structure for this. Something similar holds for your electioneering effort – A campaign organisation.
Now there is an obvious deviation from the past in Nigeria, in which there had been an impression that candidates did not care about who was going to vote for them, but who was going to count the votes – Going by the strong presence of a 'puppeteer' with strings attached to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) – I may have to sway with the time. Dust-up my ten part package on electioneering campaign (grudgingly kept away all this while) for deployment as prospective candidates are now evidently warming up for the 2015 elections.
With growing confidence that votes are beginning to count in Nigeria, along with the country's immense human capital potentials, I am convinced there are Nigerians with skills in organising electioneering campaigns. This is the time for them to come forth to exhibit their prowess, and also band together as a professional group. The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) started the same way.
As electioneering campaign (a political process) and its relationship with marketing remains the subject here, it will be completely out of place not to state a phenomenon indicative of the 'marriage' between politics and marketing or the application of the marketing concept in politics – Political marketing.
Political marketing is derived from applying typical input of commercial marketplace in a political terrain. Başka bir deyişle, "the application of marketing principles and procedures in political campaigns by various individuals and organizations". Political marketing is marketing designed to influence consumers about political issues, especially candidates for public office, or public issues. In political marketing, marketing techniques are applied to promote a concept or an idea, and then motivate people to vote for that idea, rather than a specific product or service (as often the case for a commercial marketing situation).
It is proper to hold the view that political marketing improves the quantity and quality of information that flows from the electorate to parties and candidates (fallout of electioneering campaigns), thus making them more sensitive and responsive to voters' needs. These are reasons why Lees-Marshment (an expert in the field) sees it as representing "the permeation of the political arena by marketing". This indeed substantiates any assumption that there is always marketing in electioneering campaign.
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Is Buddhism really that cool?
RE: Is Buddhism really that cool?
Precious (see what I did there ), this reminds me of one my Portuguese teachers, who was telling me (ad nauseam) how everything in life is caused by positive/negative thinking. She had a cousin, whose sister was born with Down's Syndrome, and she'd been taking care of her her entire life, as their parents had died when she was still a girl. I can't imagine that lady caring much for this "explanation". And my teacher actually had the nerve to tell me how her cousin was lucky, 'cause she had inherited her parents houses and shit like this.
Man, after a month living in her house (it was this type of course), I could've strangled her with my bare hands (if she hadn't been so fat that I probably wouldn't've been able to put my hands around her neck )
"E se non passa la tristezza con altri occhi la guarderò."
RE: Is Buddhism really that cool?
Eastern philosophy was devised to justify that ancient oppression, little else.
"Damn that Emperor! why does he brutalise us so?"
"Well Kong-Ftze said it is our karma, and we are repaying for our ill deeds."
"Really? meh, I guess i shouldn't have been a bastard in my previous life."
Call that a cynical view, but I reserve prerogative to be cynical over a canon of belief that says humans should suffer and that mystic forces want us to suffer.
08-01-2013, 02:22 PM (This post was last modified: 08-01-2013 02:26 PM by fstratzero.)
RE: Is Buddhism really that cool?
(08-01-2013 01:49 PM)namiloveyou Wrote: Eastern philosophy was devised to justify that ancient oppression, little else.
King Ashoka after defeating Kalinga in India.
What have I done? If this is a victory, what's a defeat then? Is this a victory or a defeat? Is this justice or injustice? Is it gallantry or a rout? Is it valor to kill innocent children and women? Did I do it to widen the empire and for prosperity or to destroy the other's kingdom and splendor? One has lost her husband, someone else a father, someone a child, someone an unborn infant.... What's this debris of the corpses? Are these marks of victory or defeat? Are these vultures, crows, eagles the messengers of death or evil?
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08-01-2013, 05:59 PM (This post was last modified: 08-01-2013 06:05 PM by ghostexorcist.)
RE: Is Buddhism really that cool?
Buddhism is one of my favorite religions to study as far as art and history is concerned. Some people have said it's a philosophy, others have said it's a religion. I personally think it's both. Buddhism at its very core is a philosophy, a way of life. The point, as others have stated, is to rid oneself of desire because this is the source of suffering. Suffering is what keeps one from experiencing enlightenment. A simple way of describing this is to not let your possessions or hobbies rule you. Sex is often used as an example of things that can exacerbate desire-induced suffering. Many people think Buddhists aren't allowed to have sex, but this is not entirely true. Monks tend to be celibate, but layman can and do have sex. It's important to note that early Buddhist stupas had decorations of voluptuous couples (mithuna) because they represented fertility and the givers of life. There would be no monks if people didn't have sex.
Buddhism on the surface is a highly complex world religion. The Mahayana, Vajrapani, Pureland (etc.) branches of Buddhism have a giant pantheon of gods with the Buddha at the very top. Adherents invoke the names of and worship images of various Buddhas. In fact, there was a taboo against depicting images of the historical Buddha (c. 500 BCE) until the 1st century CE. This is when anthropomorphized images of him began to appear on stupas holding relics from his body. Hardcore Buddhists go nuts over bodily relics just like the Catholics do. Buddhist temples are not considered official unless they have some kind of relic. Buddhism is not known for proselytism today, but it has a long history of it. There is no way it could have spread beyond India without it. Central Asian merchants were instrumental in bringing the religion to China. Buddhism thrived in China long after it had pretty much gone extinct in its Indian homeland. A few pogroms were aimed at it because of its foreign nature (the Chinese were really xenophobic), but it remained extremely popular for millennia. Just like the mega churches of today, many Buddhist monasteries soaked up wealth via land holdings and horded treasure. It happened in other countries as well. This just goes to show that no religion is safe from greed, even those that supposedly shun it.
Anyone can follow philosophical Buddhism, even atheists. It's only when you delve into the various religious sects that you come across the supernatural beliefs that we deem silly. However, I will say that superstition has led to some absolutely gorgeous art.
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Logisch (08-01-2013)
RE: Is Buddhism really that cool?
As far as in the "atheist movement," a big reason Buddhism isn't criticized like Christianity/Islam is because they aren't aggressively after control of people/governments.
Apart from the few Tibetan Monks who lite themselves on fire in protests to the Chinese each year; there is not any significant violence from the Buddhist populations.
"Allow there to be a spectrum in all that you see" - Neil Degrasse Tyson
09-01-2013, 02:30 AM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2013 02:43 AM by fstratzero.)
RE: Is Buddhism really that cool?
The story of Ashoka is my favorite story of history, sad and beautiful.
What have I done? If this is a victory, what's a defeat then? Is
this a victory or a defeat? Is this justice or injustice? Is it
gallantry or a rout? Is it valor to kill innocent children and women? Do
I do it to widen the empire and for prosperity or to destroy the
other's kingdom and splendor? One has lost her husband, someone else a
father, someone a child, someone an unborn infant…. What's this debris
of the corpses? Are these marks of victory or defeat? Are these
vultures, crows, eagles the messengers of death or evil? - King Ashoka
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-Baron d'Holbach-
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Logisch (09-01-2013)
RE: Is Buddhism really that cool?
(09-01-2013 01:17 AM)ClydeLee Wrote: As far as in the "atheist movement," a big reason Buddhism isn't criticized like Christianity/Islam is because they aren't aggressively after control of people/governments.
And also because when you meet a Buddhist over here (Sing), it's about 50/50 that they are the atheist kinda Buddhist i.e. there is no supernatural element to their beliefs.
And, although I have not done a scientific study (just observation), the poorer and less educated they are (i.e. many of my Vietnamese and Thai friends) the more likely it is that they will to the whole shrine thing.
I tease my colleague (the other trainer we have here in Sing) that he (self-labelled Atheist/Buddhist) has picked the wrong half of the Utilitarian model:
From Wikipedia:
Utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics holding that the proper course of action is the one that maximizes utility, specifically defined as maximizing happiness and reducing suffering.
But between us, we've got it covered.
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RE: Is Buddhism really that cool?
Ok so I've learned (and am learning) from experience more or less as we speak that reading about buddhism and maybe agree to some point with a few wise words here and there is a completely different can of worms if you actually live in a place where it's being practiced. And now lemme tell you a story that actually took place just a day ago after I've started this thread. It seemed just like any other day, except that sometime in the afternoon there was supposed to be some new years party. Then, out of the blue, my co-workers tell me to leave office and follow them. While my brain was still processing the stuff I have been working on, it realized quite late that my body now was in a room full of chanting monks, hoping it won't last long because either my ass or knees would hurt from a quite familiar sitting position I remembered from my childhood... But my ass did hurt, yes it lasted longer than I was willing to, or I'm just getting old, but anyways... after the show was over, my co-workers had prepared some nice sheets for the dudes with the orange robes to sit on and enjoy some free food (oh, and free cash too, but shhhh....). All of that had to happen before our official lunchtime, for whatever reason and we were only allowed to eat our lunch, once the bunch was kindly done with eating.
Up to that point I still had no clue what the whole fuzz was about so I asked one of the staff who thankfully spoke english well enough so I could actually ask some deeper questions. So... the show was about giving the workplace and its stuff some blessings for the new year (eh?! Did the Buddhists steal this one from the Christians or the other way round?) and remind everyone to do/be good so next life gets better. [font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]The post above pretty much says it all how fucked up this concept can be. Apart from that, I'm going to list a few other things that came from that discussion:[/font]
[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]1. Lord (!) Buddha realized that everything is mortal (wow...) and he has set the famous 5 truths people shall live by. They are like commandments, but rather stripped to the basics, I have to give them that. BTW, that was the answer to my question if buddhism accepts science... [/font]
2. As a for the Dalai Lama, who stands for tibetan buddhism, which according to the staff lady (and possibly many others) is only reading and cherry-picking in terms of a philosophy, while her country is the only one who'd actually practice it (I head the true Buddhism between the lines) Uh-huh...
3. A bit bitching and moaning about the young people who don't care so much about the real teachings anymore and do it only to please their parents... (they just need Jeeeezussss, no, I mean Buddddddhaaaaah)
I then rather skipped the question if they have ever considered scientific prove for all the other creatures and ghosts they believe alongside Buddha and his bunch. And now, what's the moral of the story? (Every) religion is bullshit, go figure!
"Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." (Carl Sagan)
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