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morag needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
OfficialHotelsMap.com shows hotels on a map - and links directly to the official hotel website for each hotel listed. No 3rd-party links.
Looking for a "passport-stamp" style logo - perhaps. But open to other ideas.
Colour scheme of site is orange/grey/black/white, so logo should use these colours. But a simple orange/white logo would be good too.
Initial idea was to have a circular "passport stamp" logo, in orange, with circular text "Hotels" on top half, "Map" on bottom half - text to be white bold. The word "Official" then 'stamped' on top, slightly rotated, maybe 20 degrees, anti-clockwise.
But this is just my initial thoughts. I'm very open to your ideas.
- Something simple. Using orange/white (and possibly grey somewhere). This is cutting out the middle-men, so should give the feeling of "direct" and "cost effective" - but not in words.
- Looking for "no frills" type of design.
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**disclaimer...seems like I have to put one on all of my posts now....for those that are ready to neg for "this site is not for hacking". This is not hacking. Just a bit of info sharing for those that have been nice enough to throw the green ones my way. Not that I want alot, I guess I need them so I don't get banned.
For all the children who like to neg and call me names for my outspoken and sarcastic posts, you'll probably use this for school. Also, if you don't like my harsh replies (flames) to your stupid posts, stop posting stupid post. (sorry to everyone this does'nt apply to)
I had'nt seen this talked about in detail at all on AO so here is my random experience on the subject with a little background for "push button" kids.
Benefits of sniffing:
Sniffers are used to diagnose network problems, technicians can view packet transmission for troubleshooting. They can be used to monitor traffic as part of day to day network management. They can help show bandwidth use, packet sizes, protocol distro, ect. The IDS boxes most security departments blindly trust primarily rely on sniffing network traffic.
Dangers of sniffing:
Many application protocols (e-mail, IM, telnet, FTP, HTTP) transmit their payloads unencrypted. A lot of authentication exchanges are sent in the clear. Bad guys often install sniffers on compromised hosts. By doing this they can save decoded packets for later retrieval (used to get other usernames and passwords).
Sniffing for newbies
A basic sniffer works on the NIC, it usually filters on its layer 2 address. Layer 2 frames that pass the filter are delivered to the OS. It also passes all broadcast and multicast. Sniffer software obtains frames from the OS and decodes headers and payload for display. The most important thing is that it does not reply to traffic it receives (if you are really paranoid, clipping the transmit wire the Ethernet cable will have the same effect). Sniffers usually have to configure the NIC into promiscuous mode. This is essentially turning off the filtering the NIC does and allows all frames that are visible to the NIC to be passed on to the OS. That being said, sniffers can display frames sent between other systems as long as they are on the same wire.
Sniffing Hubs and switches
Hubs are a sniffers friend. All traffic on going thru the hub is repeated out all ports. Any sniffer connected to any hub port sees all traffic on the hub. Switches on the other hand are not sniffer friendly. On a switch, unicast traffic is forwared straight to a single port based on the the destination MAC address. Each port is a separate collision domain. A sniffer connected to a switch will only see the traffic in the prt which it is connected. A lot of (not all) network engineer retards think that switches prevent sniffing. Well, thats just plain not true. Two ways to get around that are MAC flooding and ARP poisoning.
MAC flooding
The switch relies on the MAC address table, thats how its able to separate traffic out among the ports. It builds a table by watching source traffic on each port. It then stores that table in dynamic memory. When the address table reaches maximum size some switches stop adding new addresses (can be exploited as a DoS). Other switches fail open and essentially turn into a hub. MAC flooding software is pretty easy to create, or probably can be download for you script children. You need to generate a high volume of traffic with random spoofed MAC addresses which exhaust the MAC address table. Like I said earlier, switches that fail open can be sniffed like a hub, but this attack should be detectable. Many switch venders are starting to remove that feature, exploit, whatever you wanna call it.
Address resolution protocol (ARP)
Hosts send IP traffic to corresponding MAC addresses. Local traffic is sent directly to the MAC address of the destination, while remote traffic is sent to the MAC of the forwarding router. ARP resolves a local IP address to a local MAC address. A ARP request is broadcast while a reply is usually unicast. Replies are cached in an ARP table on each host. ARP cache timeout values vary depending on the different operating systems in use. For example, the default value for NetWare 6 is 5 minutes; FreeBSD is 20
minutes; Windows NT and 2000 is 2 minutes.
ARP poisoning
Bad guy host sends unsolicted ARP replies to a unicast or broadcast address. The claiming victims IP address resolves to the attackers MAC address. One or more hosts will end up with incorrect ARP entries. This can misdirect traffic destined to the victim to the bad guy. This can also be a DoS if the misdirected packets are dropped (in other words no one can send traffic to the victim). The bad guy can now forward traffic to the victim so the victim assumes nothing is wrong. During this the bad guy is sniffing the process. This is basically a one sided man in the middle attack. A full on two way man in the middle attack requires additional ARP replies. The bad guy must spoof the MAC addresses of both the client and the server. Now the bad guy can modify the traffic before it arrives to the legit destination.
OK, if I need to post a follow up post with a step by step I can, but I hope this is clear enough.

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Dublin Community Center project gets financial boostBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
April 15. 2013 10:53PM
DUBLIN - Plans to convert "the heart of Dublin" into a community center recently got a financial boost of $190,000 that will help the center open by this fall in the Main Street building.
A $90,000 gift from the Dublin Community Church triggered several anonymous donors to come forward with $100,000 for the project, said Nancy Cayford, president of the Dublin Community Center's Board of Trustees.
The church donation comes with "strings attached," but the non-profit creating the center is happy to oblige, said Cayford.
"They need room for a Sunday school. So in our plans we will be building with that in mind," she said. "The plan is they will have space for their Sunday school and extra meetings, if they have any meetings during the week."
Total fundraising has reached about $500,000, Cayford said, making this second phase of the project possible.
The first phase was completed last fall and included gutting the building, removing asbestos and adding a new roof.
The Main Street building constructed in 1840 has housed Dublin's general store, telegraph office and Post Office at different points in its history. A century ago the building was referred to as "the heart of Dublin."
A group of residents concerned about the future of this building came up with the idea of renovating it to become a community center, Cayford said.
The non-profit organization they formed purchased the building in 2009 and has been fundraising ever since.
"I think this is going to be bringing vitality back to our original town center," Cayford said. "I think once it's built people are going to say, 'How did we ever get along without this project.'"
The renovation to take place this summer would create a community center on the first floor in which space can be rented out to say yoga or Zumba instructors who want to offer classes.
But more importantly, space would be available to the community if, for instance, a group of seniors want to have a morning coffee hour, or teens want to hang out with their friends in the afternoon.
The seniors would have to buy their own coffee, but the idea is to let residents use the space for free, Cayford said.
A computer room would also be made available for teens doing homework.
"My grandson said he would love a place to hang out with his friends to do some homework or play some ping pong and have a soda," Cayford said.
Third and fourth phases of the project are also planned.
First, the second floor is to be converted into two apartments.
"We are continuing fundraising. We would love to finish the apartments upstairs because that would generate income for the community center," Cayford said.
She added there is such a high demand for apartments in town there is already a waiting list for the apartments.
Building the apartments would cost about $100,000, but even less if it could be completed in conjunction with the first floor renovation, Cayford said.
The final phase would add a large room to the back of the building so that if an event is taking place in the large front room, another event or class could be held at the same time, Cayford said.


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California Department of Transportation
Headquarters - Public Affairs Office
Mark DeSio
(916) 798-5902
March 11, 2009
Sacramento - A list of 57 transportation projects – totaling $625 million – was adopted today by the California Transportation Commission (CTC) as the first in line to receive infrastructure-focused federal economic stimulus dollars. The CTC also voted to allocate funding for 56 of these projects, pending only final approval by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to release the stimulus funds, enabling construction to begin. The 57th project is the reconstruction of Doyle Drive in San Francisco, which is the southern access to the Golden Gate Bridge and is awaiting approval from the CTC for the environmental approval phase before being presented to the commission for consideration of a funding allocation next month.
"This is about jobs-jobs-jobs," said Caltrans Director Will Kempton. "We plan on starting the first of these projects within 60 days – putting people to work as soon as possible. Caltrans will use the $625 million in federal economic stimulus funding to leverage other state resources, enabling construction to begin on hundreds of projects throughout California."
Nearly $565 million of the funding is targeted for projects in the State Highway Operations and Protection Program (SHOPP), including work on both rural and urban highways. These projects (paving, fixing potholes, safety, bridge preservation) receive funding first because protecting public safety is the highest priority and preserving the state's investment in its highway system is highly cost-effective. The remaining $60 million of funding allocated today will go towards pavement preservation projects.
California is expected to receive approximately $2.57 billion for highways, local streets and roads, freight and passenger rail, and port infrastructure projects from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) signed by President Obama on February 17.
For a complete list of the 57 transportation projects that were adopted/allocated funding at today's meeting, visit: http://www.dot.ca.gov/Documents/federaleconomicstimulustransportationprojects.pdf
This project list includes:
- $75 million to repave three miles of rough pavement on Interstate 710 in Los Angeles, one of the nation's busiest freeways for goods movement.
- $50 million to help reconstruct Doyle Drive, the southern access to the Golden Gate Bridge.
- $46.7 million to replace two aging bridges on Highway 99 in Merced County.
- $16.8 million to construct two new lanes on Interstate 805 in Chula Vista to ease traffic congestion.
- $13 million to replace the Russian River Bridge in Mendocino County, near Ukiah.
- $17 million to rehabilitate the roadway in Butte County, near Biggs from Rio Benito Road to Route 162 east.


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Blaxland clock conservation
The Blaxland clock was made by London clock maker, Devereux Bowly, in the early 1700s. It is a striking clock that sounds a chime at the full and half hour.
The clock is powered by a fusee system and features a solid pallet type recoil escapement fitted with a brass pendulum. The back plate of the movement is decorated with hand engraving. The dial is fitted with English style hands and there is a small window in the dial below the 12 o'clock indicator, revealing a mock pendulum.
Specialist horological conservator Peter Bucke closely examined and documented the condition of the clock mechanism and its function. To ensure preservation of original form, function and previous repair methods, the movement was completely disassembled and all parts were thoroughly cleaned and inspected for wear.
The time side fusee arbor bush on the front plate was found to be faulty and unsafe to operate under normal conditions. A new bush was manufactured and fitted to ensure safe winding operation and the clock mechanism was reassembled and lubricated with fine synthetic watch lubricants. Minor adjustments were made to the strike sequencing and escapement system to ensure accurate operation.
All photography by George Serras, unless otherwise stated.
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Fine synthetic watch oil is applied to the fusee ratchet wheel teeth to lubricate the working surfaces.
Specialist horological conservator Peter Bucke assembles the wheel train for the strike mechanism onto the back plate.


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Palmyra police investigate attempted child luring
Boy reports van approaches him
PALMYRA, Pa. —
Palmyra police are investigating an attempted child luring.
Police said a 12-year-old boy told them a van approached him about 5 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Hazel and Chestnut streets.
The white van had black rear doors, covered side windows and a license plate that was falling off, police said.
The boy described the driver as a very tall black man between 30 and 40 years old, who was wearing a red shirt and black pants, police said.
Investigators said the boy told them the man asked him if he wanted candy and the boy said, "No."
The boy said the van followed him home, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Palmyra Borough police at 717-838-8189.


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The discovery is believed to be the largest of its kind since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences told reporters in late March, according to the Associated Press.
The Buddha statues—most of which are made of white marble and limestone and many of which are broken—could date back to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties (A.D. 534 to 577), experts say.
The statues—discovered during a dig outside of Ye, the ancient capital of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties—may have been rounded up and buried after the fall of the Northern Qi dynasty by later emperors in an attempt to purge the country of Buddhism.
"It may have been that some of the ruins and broken sculptures from the past were gathered from old temple sites and buried in a pit," said Katherine Tsiang, director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago.
In some cases, the Buddhist statues may have been buried by the faithful themselves in times of danger.
"In other sites, there are inscriptions that suggest that old damaged sculptures were not just dumped in a pit, but respectfully buried in an orderly way," Tsiang said.
The head of a Buddha statue peeks above the dirt in Handan, China, where archaeologists have reportedly unearthed nearly 3,000 Buddha statues, which could be up to 1,500 years old..Knowing Smile;
On March 20 Chinese archaeologists stand at the edge of a pit where thousands of ancient Buddha statues were unearthed in January. The statues range from about 8 inches (20 centimeters) long to life-size.
While rare, such finds are not unheard of, Tsiang said. In the 1950s, for example, archaeologists found more than 2,000 fragments from broken marble Buddha statues at the site of a temple in Dingxian in China's Hebei Province.
"Many sculptures from these sites are similar in style to those found recently at Ye," Tsiang said. But this "may be the largest find. I don't know of larger examples."
The fifth and sixth centuries were important periods for the spread and development of Buddhism in China, she added.
"We know that Buddhism"—which began in India around 500 B.C.—"was introduced to China during the Han dynasty" several hundred years before the newfound artifacts are believed to have been created, Tsiang said.
"At first, it may have only been practiced by foreigners. ... Gradually it became much more popular after the Han dynasty fell. And by the fifth and sixth centuries, there was quite a lot of trade across the Silk Road into China from Central Asia.
"So [Buddhist] monks from India were coming in, and Chinese monks were traveling and learning. There were also translation projects, so the texts of Buddhism were being translated into Chinese."..Deep in the Past;
A Chinese archaeologist gingerly holds an ancient headless Buddha statue, one of thousands recently uncovered in a pit in northern China.
Such "freestanding" Buddha statues—typically shown wearing monk-style robes like the one shown here—were widely made in northern China from the middle of the fifth century A.D. onward. Before this time, the Buddha was usually shown standing in a group, with pairs of attendants.
The life-size or nearly life-size nature of the freestanding Buddha and the lack of a standard body type or facial expression for the statues have led some scholars to speculate that the sculptures were results of a new understanding of the Buddha in human terms, rather than as a supernatural divinity or immortal....Colorfast
A stone Buddha missing its body is one of nearly 3,000 ancient statues depicting the enlightened prince that were unearthed in northern China earlier this year.
The Buddha's head is surrounded by a halo with a large central lotus-leaf blossom—an important symbol in Buddhism of purity and rebirth.
"The Buddha had a bump on top of his head that represents his extra wisdom," Tsiang said. "In this case that extra protuberance is not very high. It's just shown as a slightly raised part of the skull."
In fifth-century China, Buddhists would often pay to have craftsmen carve a statue of the Buddha, which they would then donate to temples.
"It was a way of doing good deeds, generating merit," Tsiang said. "People who gave gifts to temples were considered deeply deserving of rewards, which could include good health or protection by the Buddha."
Often the statues would include inscriptions wishing a deceased loved one a good rebirth or the attainment of enlightenment...Blooming Halo;
Some of the statues gifted to Buddhist temples by ancient Chinese donors—such as this newfound sculpture of a bodhisattva, or enlightened Buddhist being—were elaborately decorated at great expense.
"People wanted to show their generosity with the use of expensive materials like marble and bronze and expensive pigments and gold," Tsiang said...Bodhisattva;
Statues like this one—of young figure in a cross-legged pose common in Buddhist art—were common in fifth-century China. Such sculptures refer to a formative period in the Buddha's youth, when he had first contemplated the suffering of life and resolved to detach himself from this world while seated in the shade of a bodhi tree.
"This is an image derived from India that appeared in scenes of the life of the Buddha, and it shows the Buddha as a prince before he went in search of enlightenment," Tsiang explained.
The popularity of this "contemplative" pose amongst Buddha statues in fifth-century China may be related to the growing belief at the time that living Buddhist practitioners could also achieve enlightenment, Tsiang said.
"People learned that Buddha himself was a human," she added, "and that it was possible for them to become enlightened through study, cultivation of spirit, and meditation."...Deep Thoughts;
The Buddha is not fat. All statues portraying the historical Buddha show him as slim as befits a man who ate only enough to satisfy hunger not to be full and spent his life wandering over the countryside. The statues of the "fat Buddha" are actually statues of a Chinese monk named Hotei, who was famous for his generosity and kindness to children. Confusing those images with the Buddha is like confusing Santa Claus with Jesus. Part of the confusion may arise from the fact that Hotei's name in Chinese is Budai.
Buddha advocated a middle way in your approach to life, part of this is to eat until you are no longer hungry - not until you are full. Combining this with a vegetarian diet and a lifestyle which involved walking about giving his discussions or sermons, it is likely that he was fit and slender not fat.
As far as the non-Buddhist view that Buddha was fat, this is probably due to the fact that most people's only contact with Buddha images is Hotei, the fat laughing oriental figure often seen in restaurants, or the fat Buddha seen in Hollywood movies.
Originally posted by rudeboyrave
whats with all of the mushrooms in "2712"
Originally posted by pacifier2012
Just an observation. These buddas seem slimmer than the others we see around the world.
Does thsat prove obesity is definately only a modern plague?


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Aadel Collection
Aadel is the persian word for just.
The Aadel Collection is a growing depository of documents recovered by the IHRDC that relate to human rights issues in Iran.
This archive, dedicated to the victims of human rights abuse, promotes accountability by facilitating research on human rights violations in Iran.
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- 1986
- Rankin-Bass Productions, Lorimar Television
- SilverHawks Episode Guide
- Cartoon Characters: Steel Will, Cmdr. Stargazer, Hardware, Mon-star, Bluegrass, Pokerface, Quicksilver, Mumbo Jumbo, Timestopper, Steelheart, Melodia, Mo-Lec-U-lar, Hotwing, Wind Hammer, Seymour, Copper Kidd, Tally Hawk, Zeek the Beak, Mumbo Jumbo, Buzz Saw, Poker Face, Zero the Memory Thief.
- Vocal Talent: Bob McFadden (Steel Will, Cmdr. Stargazer, Hardware), Earl Hammond (Mon-star), Larry Kenney (Bluegrass, Pokerface), Peter Newman (Quicksilver, Mumbo Jumbo, Timestopper), Maggie Wheeler (Steelheart, Melodia), Doug Preis (Mo-Lec-U-lar, Hotwing, Wind Hammer), Adolph Caesar (Seymour the space-cabbi).
- Produced By Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass (Executive Producers).
Supervising Producer: Lee Dannacher..
- Animated By Pacific Animation Corporation.
- Written By Peter Lawrence (Script Supervisor).
Script Editor: Lee Schneider.
- In Charce of Production: Masaki Iizuka.
- Project Developed by: Leisure Concepts, Inc.
- Character Design: Michael Germakian.
- Secondary Character Design: Bob Camp.
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WHL Season Previews
All things considered the 2011-12 Everett Silvertips are poised for a breakout campaign.
The squad returns many of its top players from last season, a 'Tips team that snuck into playoffs before getting swept by the Portland Winterhawks in four, and should do much better this year.
The only notable omission from last year's 'Tips squad – that finished 8th in the Western Conference – is centreman Clayton Cumiskey. Up front, Everett returns leading goalscorer Tyler Maxwell (41 goals, 66 points). Maxwell (5'9", 180 lbs), a diminutive left winger from California contributed to 40 per cent of the 'Tips entire offense – a category Everett must make improvements in that after finishing with the second-fewest in the WHL last year.
Second-leading point scorer Ryan Harrison returns to the squad after posting 8 goals and 11 assists in 19 games, after coming over midway through last year from Medicine Hat for playmaker Kellan Tochkin.
The 'Tips have their fingers crossed that Detroit Red Wing draft pick Landon Ferraro returns for one more campaign. Ferraro is coming off two subpar 10- and 16-goal seasons, after hammering 37 in his draft year in 2008-09 to catch the eye of the 'Wings brass to use their second pick on the son of former NHLer Ray Ferraro. 18-year-old Josh Winquist led the squad in points during preseason and will look to add some secondary scoring punch.
As offensively endemic Everett was on defence last season, they were equally stingy on defence – allowing the third-fewest goals against – which bodes well considering all their top tier talent returns. Ryan Murray suited up for 70 games, scoring 6 goals and adding 40 assists for 46 points while also adding 45 penalty minutes. Murray was also named to the WHL Western Conference All-Star Team.
The six-foot, 18-year-old is a projected Top 5 pick in the upcoming 2012 NHL entry draft and is poised for a stellar year. Murray, a native of White City, Sask. is a smooth-skater with tremendous offensive capability. Veteran defenceman Brennan Yadlowski helps out Murray, with over 100 games of WHL games under his belt.
Bruising 6-foot-2, 215-pounder Evan Morden and 6-foot-2, 190-pounder Nick Walters, both in their second season, will be given more ice time and responsibility on the point. 19-year-old Dominik Bittner comes over Germany and could turn some heads if he can add some offensive punch to the Everett lineup.
In goal the 'Tips boast a top-tier duo in Kent Simpson and Luke Siemens. Simpson heads in as starter, backstopping 53 game and posting a 21-20-9 record to go along with a .916 save percentage in 2010-11.
However, Siemens is no slouch and should push Simpson after posting a stellar .917 save percentage in 23 starts as a rookie.
The Everett Silvertips start their season on the road tomorrow night (Friday, Sept. 23) against the Portland Winterhawks. Puck drops at 7 p.m.


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I regard Paul Robeson as my hero and one of the greatest men who has ever lived. His words have a relevance that continues to inspire us, decades after his utterance. Of his art, he said: "[It] is a weapon in the struggle for my people's freedom and for the freedom of all people."


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Changes in Climate, Altitude, Landscape and Perspective
May 24, 2010
It has been a long time since my last entry. I won't apologise, because the past few months have been life-changing, mind-blowing, horizon-expanding and at times refreshingly mundane, but I will try and share with you some of the reasons for my hiatus from this blog and contact in general.
Just to backtrack a little, since the diagnosis of my husband (then still boyfriend) in 2006, there had not been a day I had not thought about HIV in one way or another. Sure, it didn't help that I subsequently took on a job in paediatric HIV clinics, where it was unavoidable, but in general, I kind of had the feeling that it was something I, as a partner and loved-one, needed to face head-on. And for a good while, that was the best thing for me; informing myself, confronting my role in this (or what I thought it was), adjusting, supporting and seeking support.
But then it kind of got a bit out of hand. I somehow had the feeling that I was destined for this work -- I was good at it, life had somehow prepared me for it (looooong before my husband's diagnosis I had worked around the topic 'HIV' in my studies, Honours and Masters theses). And it got to the point where I felt I no longer had a choice.
So I lived with HIV beside me like an imaginary friend/foe you can't ignore and whose presence you are constantly aware of, thus affecting your decisions and plans at every corner. Sometimes less, sometimes more, but you somehow adjust your life around it. And I figured that was just how it had to be.
In the last three months I have travelled across Argentina, Brazil, Peru and have currently reached Bolivia. Apart from the significant changes of climate and landscape from temperate to tropical, from sea level to 5,000m altitude with snow and storms, floods (which I narrowly missed), sunburn and fresh breezes, something also shifted within me. It was gradual at first, nothing groundbreaking, but I started to get a different viewpoint on things.
And one day, during a full-day hike, after completing the last little bit of a difficult climb to see the breathtakingly beautiful Laguna de Los Tres at the bottom of Fitz Roy Mountain, I realised I hadn't seen my imaginary friend in days. That is not to say I didn't think about my husband, not at all, but HIV as that little mind-blocking, thought-occupying truth-and-perspective-blocker had not featured in my thought processes for a while.
For some time after that I started to think about different possibilities and opportunities in my life. Possibilities which had always been there but which I, having been blinded by my supposed destiny and responsibilities, was unable to even begin to consider. Like the fact that my life doesn't have to revolve around HIV if I don't want it to. Don't get me wrong, intellectually I totally knew that (and I am aware it may sound bizarre, being the seronegative magnet), but deep down I just never believed that I had any other options, if that makes sense. And just as a contrast, at no point did my husband's life revolve around his illness. No, that was just something that I managed to make up for myself.
So over the following weeks I really just enjoyed my new found 'freedom,' and checking my emails or blogging some more seemed like something I was not yet ready for. I was afraid that if I immersed myself in the HIV scene again, I would lose the clarity I had just so recently gained and I needed to have some conversations with myself (some out loud, I admit, while no one was listening), enjoy some unusual things (like eating llama and guinea pig), meet new people (that did not know my connection to HIV, or anything else about me for that matter) and generally challenge myself in other ways to see that I am able to retain my insights through tougher times. I think I'm getting there.
Soooo, at the end of May I will be making my way to the US via Montreal and I look forward to meeting some of you along my road trip through the US in June, exchanging experiences and hopefully a few laughs as well. My road trip will take me from the East coast to the West (in other words I will cover a lot of ground), so those of you who get in touch I will contact within the next couple of weeks, to see how we can meet up as well. Afterwards I will spend some time in Vancouver as well, so if you're from there, the same applies to you.
Looking forward to it!
Magnetic Mama
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Liberal leadership candidates must keep clear of Ornge, eHealth scandals
Any Ontario Liberal who has come within reach of eHealth, ORNGE or the power plant deals really has no business leading the province.
These debacles, which were all being probed to some degree prior to prorogation, are an albatross trio hanging over many prominent Liberals. Seeing as Ontarians still have many questions, such Liberals would be wise to not enter the ring, clean conscience or not.
Assuming the only serious contenders right now are Kathleen Wynne, Glen Murray and Sandra Pupatello (the latter not yet declared) let's look at them through that prism.
Many commentators have voiced excitement at the prospect of Ontario having its first female or gay premier. Based on the above three it seems at least one of these will come to pass, if not both, so we can drop the "historic" factor from the discussion and get down to policy talk.
None are, to use gangland parlance, "in too deep". None seem to have any dirt on them that makes them beholden to that albatross trio.
This is integral because if the new leader has any respect for Ontarians they must reconvene the committees investigating these bungles (and perhaps crimes). They must do this no matter how damning the findings are for their former cabinet colleagues and former leader.
Hence why Chris Bentley, Deb Matthews, George Smitherman and others have no place running.
Sandra Pupatello is farthest from the fray. While a long-time party supporter and Windsor MPP from 1995 until 2011 (she chose not to run), she didn't support McGuinty in the 1996 leadership. Her current employment in global markets hopefully makes her appreciate how unsustainable our debt situation is.
Glen Murray, former Winnipeg mayor and current Toronto-Centre MPP, is the smoothest operator. He's a career politician who considered running for Toronto mayor. His leadership pledge of "no money down" tuition suggests he'd roll out big government to appease special interests (and no doubt more useless agencies, thus paving the way for the next scandal). This isn't what Ontario needs. If the pulse of Ontario was calling out for another McGuinty the original wouldn't have resigned.
Don Valley West MPP Kathleen Wynne at first seemed willing to call McGuinty's missteps for what they are, stating her "discomfort" with prorogation. But on Tuesday rather than craft her own position she defended the Premier's call to prorogue. Her left-leaning stance could also lead us further down the big government path. A more fiscally conservative Liberal – do those exist anymore? – could hedge the party's votes for the next election.
It's hard to tell how deeply a politician will kowtow to party structure and history. When Michael Bryant was Attorney General, his memoir 28 Seconds revealed, he'd send communications from the Premier's office to the shredder. Cavalier and obnoxious, yes, but a sign of independence.
The sad reality is there's no knight waiting in the wings. Neither Tim Hudak or Andrea Horwath have the ability to promptly fix Ontario. Anyone praying the Liberals will select the weakest contender in the hopes they will self-destruct and bring the party down is playing with fire. That will bring greater harm to Ontario and further abuses of government.
Because the next Liberal leader is the next premier of Ontario, what's required is a sober assessment of who, within the Liberal spectrum, is the best for the province for the time being. Let's talk about general elections only once they arise.
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Capitale nightclub was the scene of the lavish affair.
The East Village arrives, again, at swank FEVA fete
By Sarah Ferguson
It was a decidedly upscale celebration of Downtown counterculture. On Monday night, more than 500 guests swamped the grand ballroom of Capitale a Beaux Arts events venue located in the old Bowery Savings Bank on Bowery and Grand to attend the Federation of East Village Artists first annual Pantheon gala.
The purpose was to raise big bucks for FEVAs plan to create a Museum of the Counterculture, while inducting four pioneering artists into the museums Pantheon of famous bohemians: Ellen Stewart, who founded the La MaMa theater company; Jonas Mekas, who created Anthology Film Archives; Miguel Algarin of the Nuyorican Poets Café; and Tuli Kupferberg, the irreverent Beatnik and lyricist for 60s-era rock band The Fugs.
Admittedly, the soiree was a bit swanky for a scene that always thumbed its nose at the elitism of the Uptown art world and all those Brooke Astor charity balls.
Milling inside Capitales palatial front hall for the opening silent auction, locals like Penny Arcade, who used to boast of being the slum goddess of the Lower East Side, sipped cocktails and sampled caviar alongside patrons like art world star Matthew Barney, who served as co-chairperson of the gala, accompanied by his girlfriend Bjork. Other heavy-hitting supporters included actors Luis Guzman and Kathleen Turner, who came by to introduce Ellen Stewart, but instead let Mireille Enos, her co-star in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, do the talking, since Turner had lost her voice.
Ive sort of reconciled myself to the contradiction, shrugged Steve Englander, administrative director of the adamantly downscale arts collective ABC No Rio, which was also honored by FEVA for its 25-year legacy in the nabe. Its a huge undertaking to create a museum. So if you start from the premise that its important to collect all these artifacts to make sure that what was created here over the last 30 to 40 years is not lost to the winds, then youre going to have to take on benefits like this, he added while snagging another skewer of chicken satay from one of the black-clad waiters ferrying silver platters amid the boisterous fray.
There was V.I.P. seating for patrons who gave up to $10,000 to support the effort, and a dinner featuring grilled salmon with tomato roulade, braised asparagus and an exquisite chocolate crème brulee.
But both the presenters of the awards and the honorees did their best to keep it real. Emcee Jonathan Ames led the crowd in a group howl in honor of patron saint Allen Ginsberg. Writer and fellow Fug Ed Sanders followed that with a sung tribute to Ginsberg played on a three-string strum-stick, while Miguel Algarin gave his acceptance speech in the form of one of the Nuyoricans signature Boricuan chants.
And Jonas Mekas, who was introduced as both a survivor of Nazi labor camps and a godfather of avant-garde film, questioned the very notion of creating a museum of countercultural immortals.
My feeling is its not good to be too serious, said the 81-year-old, in an acceptance speech that sounded more like an expressionist poem. Its not good to create serious institutions. Life goes on, life is free and unpredictable and beautiful. What is culture? What is counterculture? All the poets, all the visionaries, all the saints and scientists all those who did everything that humans would become something else
. Something more beautiful. Something more subtle. That is what culture is, he said taking his plaque, which featured a portrait of him by local artist James Romberger.
Indeed, more than any particular icon or character, it is really the collective history of the East Village that FEVAs gala sought to honor.
Ellen Stewart talked about meeting Ginsberg in the Kasbah in Morocco. He told me he was going to help me, she said of her plans to start La MaMa in 1961. And Ed Sanders gave me a lecture on what The Fugs was, because I didnt know what that was, she laughed.
Similarly, Penny Arcade spoke of listening to the Fugs when she was a teenager in a Catholic reform school in Connecticut in the late 60s back when having a Fugs record was highest proof of cool you could have or hanging around Ed Sanderss Peace Eye book store on E. 10th St. and the Psychedelicatessen when she hit town as a young rebel ready to make the scene.
Bohemia has always been about ones lineage, the pride of ones influences, said Arcade, who founded the Lower East Side Biography Project to help document the many unsung artists and politicos who made their mark on the neighborhood. Downtown New York has always been a multigenerational scene, and in the HOWL Festival and FEVA, that is what we are trying desperately to preserve.
Just how fragile that legacy is was underscored by the fact that the 81-year-old Kupferberg could not make the benefit because he is currently in a nursing home recovering from a bout of double pneumonia. Still, it was a revelation to hear his son Noah read his 1960 poem Greenwich Village of My Dreams with its lines about Love on the dole, Roosevelt not elected, Hoover under the 3rd Ave. El. (The poem was first published in the Village Voice in 1960, back when the Voice still found space for poetry.)
They were words from another century, fast fleeting away. Hearing that poem, or Ed Sanderss playful, sad paean to Ginsberg and the loss of time, underscored the central paradox of FEVA and the whole HOWL project. The bohemia that FEVA is looking to celebrate and preserve was founded on the premise of having free time thanks to cheap rent something the East Village just doesnt provide anymore.
With the real estate market skyrocketing, FEVA founder Phil Hartman acknowledges its tough to carve out space for a museum let alone really communicate the East Villages legacy to a new generation of more wealthy residents with perhaps far less time or countercultural inclinations. He is currently scouting out locations and hopes to open a temporary exhibition space within the next two years.
However ritzy and well-attended, Monday nights gala was, Hartman says they will be lucky if they break even after expenses though they did pull in more than $18,000 in art sales through the auction.
Nevertheless, he believes that more serious backing will materialize once recognition of the projects value builds. We have to look at this as a long-range thing, he said. At the same time, he said, FEVA is working to create new opportunities for the next generation of artists like partnering with the Lower Eastside Girls Club to provide 51 new artists studios when their building goes up on Avenue D.
Part of the problem is the next generation of artists is not really here in the East Village, Hartman acknowledged. So we have to work harder to extend our tentacles a little father.
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A two-hour block of short films about LGBT youths will be shown on Sunday, April 6, at 2 p.m. at BP Learned Center, 40 Shaw St., in New London.
The theme of the series is "Tweens to Teens to College Themes." The films address issues about gender identity, sexual orientation, coming out, bullying, suicide and homelessness.


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This is by no means a simple question. Some of the activities which fall under the rubric of the Digital Humanities are:
- The preservation and presentation of cultural artifacts in electronic form (e.g. digital editions of literary texts).
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- State Assemblyman David Buchwald's (D-Westchester) proposed legislation that would strip state pension benefits from any public official convicted of a felony where the public's trust has been violated has gained the support of more than 60 state Assembly members.
"Government officials who betray the public trust should not collect a pension in the same way as those who serve honorably, and I'm pleased that over 60 members of the State Assembly agree with me," Buchwald said in a statement. "No matter how serious the offense, current law still assures most public employees that their state pensions cannot be challenged. I promised Westchester families that I wouldn't stand for this type of behavior, and now more than ever we need to act."
Buchwald's represents Bedford, Harrison, Lewisboro, Mount Kisco, New Castle, North Castle, North Salem, Pound Ridge and White Plains.
The bill is an amendment to the New York State Constitution aiming to strengthen the current "Public Integrity Reform Act," which only strips pension benefits of convicted officials who first entered the State pension system after the law took effect in November 2011. The amendment would apply to any public official, regardless of when the person first held office.
"When an elected official is sworn into office, he or she must sign a solemn Oath stating that they will uphold the laws and the Constitution that govern New York State," State Sen. Neil Breslin (D-Albany) said in a statement. "This Oath sets the highest standard for integrity -- the public's trust. A violation of that trust, while in office, demands pecuniary as well as criminal penalty. The current law only regulates officials that joined the pension system after 2011. It is critical that we enact a law that applies to all public officials. The public deserves nothing less."
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Morris Langlo West (26 April 1916 – 9 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright.
- I can write no more today. The contemplation of my sorry state has reduced me to so deep a melancholy that I contemplate opening my wrist like Petronius Arbiter and lapsing quietly into oblivion. Unlike Petronius, however, I shall have neither the sound of music nor the gentle talk of friends. I still have time to choose a better moment — besides, who knows to what nightmares I might awake.
- Last lines which he had written for his unfinished work The Last Confession (2000), about the last days of Giordano Bruno.
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963)[edit]
- It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price…. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover, and yet demand no easy return of love. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
The Heretic (1968)[edit]
- A play in three acts on the arrest, imprisonment, and trials of Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake in 1600.
- There are a few of us — madmen all! — who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting —
- No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!"
- Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
- If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
- O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums.
- I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!
- To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle for animals in human masks!
- You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.
- I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men.
- Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?" No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then — No! I will not recant.
The Clowns of God (1981)[edit]
- Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
- "Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- This statement begins with a quotation of Horace.
Cassidy (1986)[edit]
- They're a migratory tribe, so you find them everywhere ... They're hardy, longevitous, resistant to infection by disease or new ideas, little modified by regional influences. The accent drifts a bit, maybe. The dialect adapts itself to the local patois: but that's a chameleon's trick: protective colouring, no more. The rest of it, the sinuous mind, the easy passion, the leery eye, the ready smile, the fine, swaggering, billycock-and-shillelagh walk, the flexible moralities, the bel canto oratory, the black bilious angers, these never change.
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With the help of his wife, daughter and grandchildren, Alan Roy spent 70 years painstakingly peeling off about two million stamps from envelopes.
The industrial-scale operation involved the family spending hours soaking thousands of the envelopes in water and carefully lifting the stamps off with tweezers.
Mr Roy would then meticulously dry them by lining them up in rows on kitchen cooling trays that snaked around the family's two-bedroomed flat.
His collection is so vast that it fills up 40 packing crates that stack as high as a house.
There are stamps from all over the globe and marking numerous historical events such as Olympic Games and World Cups.
Now, following Mr Roy's recent death aged 76, his family say they never want to see another stamp again and are selling the collection.
The stockpile is so great it could make them tens of thousands of pounds.
They are also having to be sold over a series of auctions as they would flood the market and cause stamp prices to plummet if they were made available in one go.
His daughter Janette Dorrell, 50, from Poole, Dorset, said her late father's hobby was the bane of her childhood.
She said: "You could say that I never want to see another stamp ever again.
"Dad started when he was very young, long before he became a postman, and it just grew and grew, it was relentless.
"I grew up surrounded by stamps. He used to get sacks and sacks of used envelopes delivered to the flat from various contacts from around the world and he used my old baby bath to peel them off.
"We had to put the bits of paper with the stamps on in the warm water and leave them for 20 minutes and let them detach.
"We then used tweezers to hook out each stamp very, very carefully and put them in rows on blotting paper placed on kitchen cooling trays and left them on the lounge floor to dry.
"There would be row after row of these trays and we had to be very careful where we trod or when we opened the door.
"The stamps were put in bundles of 100 and then packs of 1,000. He was very meticulous and labelled them ready for sale.
"As soon as I moved out and married when I was 21 he filled my old room up with his stamps.
"When I left my mother took over as the main helper but he often roped in my two twin daughters to help.
"He was going to sell them after he retired but he didn't get around to it and died.
"We are selling them now for him, that is what he wanted and what he was striving towards.
"But it is a huge emotional thing as well as they are so many memories of my father attached to these stamps."
The auctioneers selling them don't know for sure how many stamps there are as it is impossible to count them, but the collection is up to two million.
On average Mr Roy knocked out 80 stamps per day or nearly 30,000 per year.
Auctioneer David Elliott has been unable to put a true value on them because he is unable to complete the time consuming task of cataloguing them.
He said there are about one million stamps from Britain, 500,000 from Ireland, 400,000 from the rest of the world and 50,000 Christmas themed stamps and all dating back 70 years.
He said: "He was trying to sort them and catalogue them so he could sell them in little packs but he sadly died before he could finish it.
"This just consumed his life. It would take us another 70 years to thoroughly break them down so we are just going to break them up in marketable lots, like stamps from Ireland or ones relating to Christmas, and sell them in packs or boxes of several thousand.
"We expect to sell them to large stamp dealers who will have the resources to finish Mr Roy's work and organise them.
"It's a colossal amount of stamps. I've never seen anything like it."
Hugh Jeffries, editor of the stamp magazine Gibbons Stamp Monthly, said: "It's enormous and may well be one of the biggest collections, certainly by an individual.
"It is very uncommon to collect stamps in this manner. He has obviously gone for quantity over the individual rarity of stamps.
"But having done it that way, there is a very good chance of there being a few hidden gems in there. It will be a bit of a gamble for the dealers who buy them but it could quite easily pay off."
The first auction takes place at Elliotts of Wimborne, Dorset, on November 28.


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Oct. 27, 1909
A large triplex pump for the new pumping station arrived today.
A force of carpenters are at work making repairs to the Bay View House.
From the Newport Daily News, Oct. 30, 1909
Blackfish are still plentiful and numbers are being caught during the past week. Captain Wales, assistant keeper of Beavertail Light, caught the largest one for the week, a ten pounder and with it at the same time he landed a four grouper.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Oct. 27, 1934
(At the town council meeting) as suggested by the director of public aid, it was voted that the American Legion and the Royal Arcanum be requested to move their cupboards from the town sergeant's room, in order that it may be used as the State Unemployment Relief office.
From the Newport Daily News, Oct. 31, 1934
The pupils of the Thomas H. Clarke school will hold a Halloween costume party in the assembly hall Friday evening from 7:30 to 10, music and games being the features of the evening.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Oct. 27, 1959
The Jamestown Town Council last night appointed John J. Vasquez as a probationer policeman, but went on record as saying the appointment was a luxury the town could ill afford. … The council president, with the approval of the Council, said he would recommend to the next financial town meeting that the force be reduced to four men. (He said with a peak population of 2,300, Jamestown did not need a fifth patrolman and the funds are not available. This was not a reflection on the new appointee.)
From the Newport Daily News, Oct. 30, 1959
Members and friends of Conanicut Grange met in Grange Hall last night to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Grange.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Oct. 26, 1984
Developers planning a 125-room hotel next to the golf course will air their proposal to the town council Monday night. The hotel … would be built on a 32-acre tract of land north of the golf course and next to the first fairway. …The $5 million complex would feature tennis courts, an outdoor swimming pool, walking paths and gardens, and access to the golf course.
From the Newport Daily News, Oct. 30, 1984
Plans for a $5 million, 125-room luxury hotel got rave reviews from two councilmen Monday night even though they admitted to some "stumbling blocks." Potential impact of the hotel on the town water supply and the sewage treatment plant were uppermost concerns on the minds of the councilmen.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Oct. 27, 1994
Jamestown will have not one but two Halloween exhibitions designed to frighten the pants off you — or at least make your heart go pitter patter a little faster. Jamie Lurgio, 17, and Seth Englehard, 16, are the creators of Nightmare Alley '94 which will be held at the Community Center … . Just a few streets away, David Albaugh. 27, will stage his Fright Night '94 at 9 Columbia Ave. … This is the 10th year for David's Halloween production.
Jamestown Junior High crosscountry coach Kevin O'Neil was the overall winner in the annual Jack O'Lantern Jog to benefit the renovation of the Community Center. Some 250 persons turned out Sunday for the 5k sprint. Perfect weather marked the event.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Oct. 28, 1999
More than 100 islanders among 237 participants from all over the state and as far away as Georgia and Texas came to compete in the 11th annual Jack O'Lantern Jog. The weather Sunday was brisk and sunny, perfect for the 5k run.
Conanicut Island's only grocery store is about to get bigger, while its parking lot gets smaller, safer and prettier, following the decisions in the past week by the Planning Commission and the Zoning Board of Review. The fire that closed McQuade's for four and a half weeks last month and condemned all its electrical systems has forced owner Michael McQuade to move forward with a remodeling plan now rather than later.


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School board decides against snow guards for gym roof
Gutters damaged in last storm.
Heavy snow that fell in October damaged rain gutters on the east side of the new gymnasium at the Brady school when giant sheets of white slid from the roof.
It wasn't the $1,000 in repairs that caused concern for superintendent Bill Porter, though. He is worried a student may walk under the eave the next time weighty snow drops.
Porter proposed installing guards on the roof to block the snow from avalanching off.
At Monday's school board meeting, he said $5,256 would cover the cost of putting the guards on the roof.
But school board members weren't convinced that is the best use of their money.
Harry Haythorne, a member of the board's building committee involved in the construction of the new gymnasium, said snow guards were proposed during the building process.
At that time, the committee decided against them.
Porter called it a Catch 22. If heavy snow is held on the roof, it could damage the structure. If allowed to slide off, it could hurt someone walking below.
"I'd rather repair a roof than a kid," said board member T.J. Walker. "Five thousand dollars sounds pretty cheap compared to the cost of a child."
Board members discussed other options, such as setting up barricades should another wet snow occur and allowing students to enter the north end of the building rather than pass the gym on the east side.
With a 5-1 vote, the board refused to purchase the snow guards. Walker was the only one voting in favor.
In other business, the school board heard a request from junior student Erin Smith to consider again adding wrestling as a school-sponsored activity.
Smith said she has spoken to several students who would be interested in participating.
Board president Lisa Diehl explained to Smith that cost has been the deterrent to adding wrestling because it would not be a one-time expense but a long-term budget item for equipment and coaching.
Diehl said the board will consider the idea again in the spring.
In other action, board members:
- approved the purchase of a mat to be placed under the bench chairs in the gymnasium during athletic contests for up to $530.
- approved Bob Fattig and Robert Fredrickson as local substitute teachers.
- gave final approval to a long list of board policies associated with support staff work agreements.
- discussed the senior citizen Christmas dinner and technology tour, expressing appreciation to the staff for work involved and agreeing it was a worthwhile event.
- learned Robbi McKenney has been awarded a $2,300 grant from the John R. Applegate Fund through the Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation for additional student-held technology devices.
- heard from principal Jerry Wallace that all 21 teachers now have school-issued laptop computers.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that two anti-gay words commonly used in Mexico are hate speech and not protected as freedom of expression under the country's constitution, allowing those offended by them to sue for moral damages.
The magistrates voted 3-2 late Wednesday in favor of a journalist from the central city of Puebla who in 2010 sued a reporter at a different newspaper who had written a column referring to him as "punal" and others at the plaintiff's newspaper as "maricones." Both words roughly translate into "faggot."
The majority said the terms are offensive and discriminatory.
"Even though they are deeply rooted expressions in Mexican society, the fact is that the practices of the majority of society can't validate the violations of basic right," their opinion said.
The resolution was praised by the Mexican gay and lesbian community and anti-discrimination activists as a step forward in the fight for equality in this conservative country rife with machismo. But others criticized it as ridiculous, saying many other words would have to be added, including some used to offend poor people in a society excessively concerned with social status.
"The historic resolution ... marks the first precedent in the discussion of the limits of freedom of expression versus the right to non-discrimination," said the country's National Council to Prevent Discrimination.
Alejandro Brito, director of Letter S, a gay rights group, said that the resolution will lead to a more respectful way of referring to gay people but that it falls short of having an impact on the mentality of anti-gay Mexicans.
"This will inhibit the use of the words in public forums and the media, and that's very positive," Brito said. "But this doesn't mean that the person who stops saying these words will stop being homophobic."
Gay rights have made some advances in Mexico, with the Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay couples adopting and requiring that same-sex marriages performed in Mexico City be recognized in the rest of the country.
Mexico City's groundbreaking same-sex marriage law, enacted in 2010, extends to wedded gay couples the right to adopt children, to jointly apply for bank loans, to inherit wealth and to be covered by their spouses' insurance policies. The capital's annual gay pride parade draws tens of thousands of people, and in some neighborhoods gays openly hold hands.
But discrimination and violence against gay people remains a problem, despite campaigns against intolerance.
Violence against gays has increased over the past few years as more people go public about their sexual orientation, according to a report released by Brito's group in 2010. Mexico City had the most killings of gay people in Mexico, with 144 between 1995 and 2009, according to the report.


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GDP growth was revised up for the second quarter to 2.5 from 1.7 percent, because the trade deficit was much smaller than originally estimated and investments in inventory were revised upward.
The trade gap remains a substantial drag on economy and continued improvements will be needed to main stronger growth.
Continued slow growth in consumer spending indicates household balance sheets have not strengthened enough to instigate more robust growth in the second half.
Small businesses are expressing more optimism through sentiment surveys; however, they are not spending enough on new structures and capital goods to ignite stronger growth.
Businesses of all sizes remain wary about ObamaCare mandates, more cumbersome and costly business regulations, and global economic and political conditions. Managers are inclined to squeeze more production out of existing facilities to meet moderately growing demand, and remain cautious about adding full time workers.
Since January, 936,000 more Americans report working part time, while only 27,000 more say they have obtained full-time employment. This shift places downward pressure on wages, which have increased less than one percent over the last six months.
Rising mortgage rates in anticipation that the Federal Reserve will scale purchases of mortgage back securities and longer-term Treasury debt (QE3) are slowing new home sales.
Overall, economists expect growth to continue at a somewhat stronger pace in the second half of 2013. But to see that expectation become a reality, it will require continued improvements in the trade deficit, stable oil prices, and for Congress and President Obama to reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling in October with not too much drama.
The failure of House Republicans, Senate Democrats and President Obama to reach a compromise on fiscal year 2014 budget is less menacing.
A continuing resolution to maintain current outlays, subject to further spending cuts through sequestration, would slow the economy much less than a compromise budget. The latter would almost certainly entail higher taxes to appease the president, and the tax increases he obtained in January are already slowing growth and jobs creation.
Since mid 2009, growth has averaged a paltry 2.2 percent, whereas following a deeper recession the Reagan recovery produced 5 percent growth over a comparable time span.
Expectations of permanently slower growth are hardening disturbing changes in the structure of the labor market and social conditions. These days, new college graduates often work at unpaid internships while taking part-time jobs at places like Starbucks to meet minimal living expenses.
Many young people have no prospects for meaningful permanent employment, and saddled with burdensome education loans, continue to live with parents and postpone marriage into their late 20s and 30s.
All this slows new home new home construction, purchases of appliances and suppresses the birth rate. Let's face it, nothing drives consumer spending like babies, and we are simply not getting enough middle class births.
The Federal Reserve, by scaling back QE3 this fall, would exacerbate these conditions, but it may have little choice.
Historically low interests rates have inspired Wall Street speculators to rush to purchase homes, and created distortions in other asset markets, such as for agricultural land, and stocks bonds. Destructive bubbles could cause another deep recession.
The Fed is between a rock and hard place. Obama administration policies are decidedly anti growth—for example, the failure to confront China on the undervalued yuan; failure to approve more offshore drilling; failure to properly regulate banks, causing both loan shortages for good businesses and too many bad loans for questionable enterprises; health care policies that raise benefits costs and slow hiring; and regulatory overreach elsewhere that stifles manufacturing investment.
If the Fed slows bond purchases, it risks torpedoing a fragile recovery.
If it continues easy money policies, distortions in asset markets continue to grow, and new bubbles will threaten another financial crisis.
Peter Morici served as Chief Economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission from 1993 to 1995. He is an economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.


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The Globe Guilders and Neiman Marcus presented Celebrating Couture 2013 on May 21 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. Honorary chairwoman Elaine Darwin, chairwoman Liz Helming and co-chairwoman Marlene Sterling presented this extraordinary luncheon and fashion show featuring the creations of the international designer Naeem Khan. A third-generation designer from India, Khan is well known for his intricate beadwork and embroideries and his creations for movie stars and celebrities from first lady Michelle Obama and Queen Noor of Jordan to Lady Gaga, Penelope Cruz and Beyoncé.
Kahn said the theme for the fall 2013 collection was Byzantine embroidery mixed with a 1920s Erté-inspiration reflecting texture and luxury.
Asked who his customer was, he said, "A powerful woman who is not afraid and can light up a room. She rules the world."
The high-paced fashion show highlighted one luxurious creation after another. One major trend, gold metallic embroidery, was featured in several of the runway standouts in panné velvet with antique gold ottoman embroidery. Draped caftans with deco-beaded necklines and beaded starburst gowns were favorites, especially deco-beaded bolero jacket and taffeta ball skirt with cigarette pants. A cake was wheeled in after the finale to surprise Khan for his birthday, after which a trunk show was held back stage and all the guests were excited to see the creations up close. Proceeds go to The Old Globe Theatre's artistic, education and community programs. For more information, visit ww.globeguilders.org.
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The GOLD Diggers (Gifts of Loving Donors) celebrated its 28th Hats Off To San Diego on May 16, chaired by Julie Sarno. After Sandra Graff was announced as the Gold Digger of the Year, the festivities began by highlighting 11 local charities, each of who created colorful hats reflecting the theme "Light Up the World Through Giving." The hat fashion show was choreographed by Vernetta's Dance Studio, showcasing one creative hat after another.
Winners of the hat parade: The $1,000 Golden Shovel Award went to BABES for Best Theme Hat; The $1,000 Wild Card went to Classic For Kids; $1,000 Prospector Award went to North County Rep; $2,000 49er Award went to BABES; and $3,000 18-Karat Gold Award went to Angels of Aseltine.
This event benefited two organizations — Girls Think Tank's Transitional Storage Center for the homeless, and License to Freedom, which helps battered women and children who are refugees and immigrants. For more information about Gold Diggers, visit www.the-golddiggerssandiego.org.
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June 1 — WIBAC (Women in Business Aiding Community) spring fashion show and luncheon, Handlery Hotel, 950 Hotel Circle North, 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
June 15 — National Charity League's "Be" fashion dinner, Hyatt Aventine, 3777 La Jolla Village Drive, presented by Macy's Fashion Valley. (858) 459-1685
June 20 — Raw: San Diego // Kaleidoscope at Block No. 16, 344 Seventh Ave., 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., combination of art, film, fashion, music, makeup, hair, photography and performing arts. (858) 751-6956.