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Re: Ancestry
This was The Grid back in Charles Babbage's days. ^__^
2 colors on a navy shirt. You can see a BIG VERSION here.
Thanks for looking! Please vote if you like this design.
Happy 2011 everyone,
Re: The Parallelogram Club
Did you ever get the feeling you just don't belong?
Re: Finding popularity
Finding Popularity.
2 colors on Navy.
Re: T-Rex Sword Fight
With the descending arch of his blade, Dino-Atsuko dispatches with his enemy, Busu Baka. So begins the Age of Crux as the Dark Lord Atsuko bends the Kingdom of Saurus to his iron will.
Colors = dark shade of violet & light yellow on royal blue.
Re: On the fence
Re: Ink-topus
Up Up and away!!
Take it as you may.
Re: Seduction
2 colors on brown.
Re: Caution: Rumble Zone
I like orange/blue combo.
And when thinking of orange, I immediately thought of the Orange Barrels song by Heywood Banks.
Two colors (duh), on cream.
Re: Little Lion Man
These more open themed derbies are always a little tricky. What do you draw when you can draw anything? I took an idea from what was playing on the radio. It also didn't hurt that I had just watched this incredible video that morning.
Thats so awesome! LOL
Re: The Sun Sets on a Concrete Forest
"It's a concrete forest of course it is of course it is
The lamp posts are the oak trees the street tops are the streams
The natives all stay inside their huts until that bright sun beams" - Aceyalone The Greatest Show on Earth
Very pretty!
Re: Complimenting Colors
only problem, no text this week.
Re: Early Light
Good luck to all. Any votes will be appreciated!
jasneko wrote:Tweet?
Re: The Lightning God
So very very cool. I'd totally wear this. GMV!
Re: Little Red Riding Bug
Lovely. And impressive illustration.
Re: The Blobby Ghosts Visit Floating Molecule Land
hahaha, yay floaty ghosts! Guess we had similar ideas. You know what they say, great minds think alike;)
Very pleasant on the eyes.... :D
Re: Ancient Chinese Fistbump
They're getting along, for now.
Re: Vinyl
There are vines. And records. It's a subtle pun. Yes.
Re: Andlers
It was either this or @lers.
Re: In With the New
Bye-bye tiger, hello rabbit!
(Happy 2011)
Floating Molecule Land was much better before it got all commercialized. Now it's just a tourist trap for Blobby Ghosts.
Re: Yellow Moon
Once upon a time, there was a yellow moon. The yellow moon was friends with the lighthouse. One day the yellow moon said to the lighthouse, "Hi, Lighthouse!"
The lighthouse said, "Hi, Yellow Moon!"
The End.
And a couple detail pics:
Re: Space Voyage
Spens, you Rock +1!
Re: Video Killed The Cupcake
No more pastry shows! Please!
Re: The Anchor
Ooh, this has super-nice flow, and the paintstroke effect is ace.
Damned impressive illustration.
Brett Favre flashback.
Re: My Dad in Two Colors
My Dad is a pretty cool guy, and would make a great t-shirt! I'm gonna win one of these derbies with a drawing of someone in my family. Just you watch!
Spiritgreen wrote:This was The Grid back in Charles Babbage's days. ^__^
2 colors on a navy shirt. You can see a BIG VERSION here.
Thanks for looking! Please vote if you like this design.
Happy 2011 everyone,
Happy Holidaaays!
Awesome design
Thanks!!! Here's a detail shot:
This is amazingly detailed and beautiful
Great Illustration, LOVE your style
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Halo Reach Digital Download (XBOX360)
Halo Reach Digital Download (XBOX360)
- Developer: Microsoft
- Genres: FPS
- Languages: EN, FR, IT, DE, ES
Halo: Reach Product Details
Released on 14/09/2010
"Halo: Reach," developed exclusively for Xbox 360, by acclaimed developer Bungie, is the blockbuster prequel to the landmark "Halo" video games franchise. "Halo" is one of the biggest video games series in history, and is the top selling franchise on Xbox. "Halo: Reach" is the culmination of 10 years of award winning "Halo" games that have raised expectations for what can be achieved in a video game.
"Halo: Reach" tells the tragic and heroic story of Noble Team, a group of Spartans, who through great sacrifice and courage, saved countless lives in the face of impossible odds. The planet Reach is humanity's last line of defence between the encroaching Covenant and their ultimate goal, the destruction of Earth. If it falls, humanity will be perched on the brink of destruction.
- Welcome to Noble Team. "Halo: Reach" immerses you in the ominous and heroic story of "Halo: Reach" as you play as a member of Noble Team, a squad of iconic Spartan soldiers, each with deadly talents as unique as their individual personalities and customized gear.
- An Intense and Epic Campaign. Live the events that set the stage for the "Halo" trilogy as the UNSC and Covenant clash at the height of their military power. New weapons, vehicles, and abilities complement the familiar "Halo" arsenal for the largest-scale battles ever witnessed in the "Halo" universe. Fiercely cunning artificial intelligence (AI) adds depth and complexity to each encounter, helping make every play-through a unique and challenging experience whether players go it alone or connect with up to three friends to launch a cooperative assault.
- The Definitive Multiplayer Experience. To match the ambition of the most epic campaign in Halo's history, the battle continues online where Halo: Reach's dramatically expanded suite of multiplayer offerings will once again redefine the landscape of online gaming and deliver an unequaled experience to millions of Halo fans. "Halo: Reach" sets a new standard for competitive gameplay, customization, matchmaking and community integration. With the addition of the new social settings, you can play with the people you want to by finding like-minded teammates, voting on preferred maps and gametypes and keeping an active roster. In addition, all new multiplayer experiences offer more variety for all types of players. "Invasion" lets players battle as Spartans vs Elites through intense, objective-based battles. And the highly competitive "Arena" lets players hone their skills in an all-out competition for ranking and bragging rights.
- Stunning Technical Advancements. "Halo: Reach" takes a significant leap forward with all-new engine technology representing the next generation of art, audio, AI, animation, and Hollywood-style special effects. Power through massive scale combat across sweeping open environments and fight up close and personal alongside new characters and creatures as you unravel mysteries buried deep in the "Halo" universe.
- Player Customization & Reward. "Halo: Reach" gives you the ability to customize and personalize your Spartan with a staggering array of armor accessories that will appear in both multiplayer and campaign play. Across every game mode, you're rewarded for everything you do, for every style of play, earning valuable credits that can be used to unlock additional cosmetic upgrades via the Armory.
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With the wide adoption of GObject Introspection (GIR for short), and to overcome the limitations (such as being static, needing manual update of defs files leading to error-prone and out-of-date code generation) the current defs file based parser started to work on GIR based one to replace (or at least accompany it) it. Back in May.
I had 2 paths in the beginning. Parsing the .gir XML files and using girepository API. I initially started with the former but decided with the latter forseeing that XML parsing would be too fragile for changes and too hacky to code (well I ended up having some hacky code with the latter as well 😦 but anyway)
In the current state it works OK for most cases. Still have false generated code both arising from not fully parsing GTypeInfo to string (which I filed bug #628812 for direct inclusion) , missing (or at least I think) functions (Bug #630062), missing coverage (not yet parsing vfuncs which are mapped to signals in java-gnome) and faulty/missing gir data.
So the future is GIR, but still both the bindings developers (us), API developers and GIR developers should improve the current status for robust bindings. Follow up for the progress.
Further addition: It was revealed that API provided function to parse parameterized G(S)List types.


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This is the second of two stories we're doing today about Harrisburg. Read the first story here.
Harrisburg is broke.
The Pennsylvania city is deep in debt. It's still spending more than it takes in. And, as David Unkovic described it to me last week, there's a cash-flow problem.
The governor of Pennsylvania decided Harrisburg can't manage its own finances, and appointed Unkovic as the city's receiver. Unkovic is supposed to be the solution to the city's financial woes. But he wouldn't put it that way.
He's a gentle, soft-spoken guy who's lived in Pennsylvania his whole life. And being the receiver for a broke town is a pretty lonely job.
"The unfortunate situation is there's simply not enough money to pay for everything," he says.
Last week, he decided to skip the city's regular debt payment so that the police and firefighters could get paid.
But the head of the firefighters union, Eric Jenkins, is still suing Unkovic, arguing that having a technocrat in charge of an American city is undemocratic. Nevin Mindlin, another plaintiff in the suit, says it isn't personal.
"Unkovic as a human being seems like a very decent soul," Mindlin says. Then he quotes Patrick Henry: "Suffer not thyself to be betrayed by a kiss."
Unkovic has to figure out what to sell off, who to pay, and who not to pay. The longer this takes, the harder it is for Harrisburg to clear its debts. New payments are coming due all the time.
Unkovic is pushing hard for cutting spending, selling off city assets, asking creditors for a break. He hopes that his plan will serve as a model to help out other struggling cities — in New York, California, Michigan.
But he also called Harrisburg a house of cards that's finally come tumbling down.
Now, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a city deep in debt. On today's MORNING EDITION, we heard about the main source of the problem, an incinerator the city built. Now, the man who is supposed to fix the problem. Here's NPR's Zoe Chace of Planet Money.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: It's easy to sum up Harrisburg's problem.
DAVID UNKOVIC: Lots of debt that it can't pay, expenses that exceed revenues every year. I mean, those are the main ones and the other one, of course, is cash flow.
CHACE: So that's the problem. The city is broke. The person who just laid it out, his name is Dave Unkovic. He is the solution, though he wouldn't say that. As the city's receiver, he makes the financial decisions for Harrisburg because the governor says the city is unable to manage itself. A gentle, soft-spoken guy who's lived in Pennsylvania his whole life, kind of a lonely job.
UNKOVIC: I have one assistant and me, so we're the smallest agency and there's two people.
CHACE: Unkovic has to make the calls. The state won't permit certain tax increases or bankruptcy court - at least, not yet. So here are the options. One, just don't pay some of the debt. Two, sell everything you can. Three, negotiate with the unions. Four, negotiate with the creditors. Unkovic is trying all of these. He's laid them out in a 200-page plan and now he's trying to get the people in Harrisburg on board. At meetings like this one at a bookstore downtown with the mayor on one side and a city councilwoman on the other, Unkovic's in the middle. Allen Shaffer from Harrisburg co-moderates.
There's the earnestly pragmatic suggestions from Karl Dunkleberger.
KARL DUNKLEBERGER: We'd ask that Mr. Unkovic consider not selling the water treatment plant because $10 gained today will lose $1,000 tomorrow.
CHACE: The single issue solutions from Ava Berg.
AVA BERG: Well, I believe in the three R's: the revenue remedy is reefer. And I have some information to back this up.
CHACE: But the reality of just not having enough money is summed up in this exchange right here. Here's Mayor Linda Thompson answering a question about police.
MAYOR LINDA THOMPSON: If I had the money, I would hire more police officers to make sure that we hire 25 a year, so the more money we get in, the more money will go to public safety and I'm not going to back down from that.
ALLEN SHAFFER: Thank you. Mr. Unkovic?
UNKOVIC: I don't have anything to add to that.
SHAFFER: Do we have the money?
UNKOVIC: Public safety is obviously the most important duty of government and, you know, one of the reasons why I decided not to make that general obligation bond payment today was because of that fact. So I do recognize that. The economic reality is that, in the long run, the city's revenues and expenditures have to match.
CHACE: Last week, Unkovic did decide to skip the city's regular debt payment so the police and firefighters could get paid, though the head of the Firefighters Union is suing, saying that having a technocrat in charge of an American city is totally undemocratic.
I met Eric Jenkins at the Keystone Diner in the city.
ERIC JENKINS: Yes. We have good benefits, but we damn well earn them. Everybody in this room is not open to running into a building that's burning. I am.
CHACE: You guys are going to have to take some cuts, right?
JENKINS: We'd have no problem. In our first meeting with this receiver, the first question I asked him is, what kind of numbers are you looking for?
CHACE: Jenkins says he came back with a plan that cut the firefighters even deeper. He says he's waiting to hear back.
Across the table from him at the diner is Nevin Mindlin, who's suing alongside Jenkins.
NEVIN MINDLIN: Unkovic as a human being is a very - he seems like a very decent soul, but I was telling Eric before you got here that Patrick Henry's line during the revolution was: Suffer not thyself to be betrayed by a kiss.
CHACE: Unkovic himself would appreciate the reference point. He loves American history and even derives comfort from how Lincoln managed the Civil War in thinking about how he's managing the different constituencies in Harrisburg.
The longer this takes, the harder it is for Harrisburg to clear its debts. New payments are coming all the time. He's pushing hard for the spending cuts, selling off city assets, asking creditors for a break. He hopes that this plan will serve as a model to help out other struggling cities, in New York, California, Michigan. But he also called Harrisburg a house of cards that's finally come tumbling down. He hopes to keep that house of cards out of bankruptcy court.
Zoe Chace, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. – Karl Marx
Jamie Zawinski takes issue with my post yesterday where I quoted him. Here's his new post:
Watch a VC use my name to sell a con.
Normally I just ignore navel-gazing tech-industry articles like this, but people keep sending it to me, so I guess this guy is famous or something. Michael Arrington posted this article, "Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining" which quotes extensively from my 1994 diary.
He's trying to make the point that the only path to success in the software industry is to work insane hours, sleep under your desk, and give up your one and only youth, and if you don't do that, you're a pussy. He's using my words to try and back up that thesis.
I hate this, because it's not true, and it's disingenuous.
What is true is that for a VC's business model to work, it's necessary for you to give up your life in order for him to become richer.
Follow the fucking money. When a VC tells you what's good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers.
He's telling you the story of, "If you bust your ass and don't sleep, you'll get rich" because the only way that people in his line of work get richer is if young, poorly-socialized, naive geniuses believe that story! Without those coat-tails to ride, VCs might have to work for a living. Once that kid burns out, they'll just slot a new one in.
I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it's true. So did most of the early engineers. But the people who made 100x as much as the engineers did? I can tell you for a fact that none of them slept under their desk. If you look at a list of financially successful people from the software industry, I'll bet you get a very different view of what kind of sleep habits and office hours are successful than the one presented here.
So if your goal is to enrich the Arringtons of the world while maybe, if you win the lottery, scooping some of the groundscore that they overlooked, then by all means, bust your ass while the bankers and speculators cheer you on.
Instead of that, I recommend that you do what you love because you love doing it. If that means long hours, fantastic. If that means leaving the office by 6pm every day for your underwater basket-weaving class, also fantastic.
A few thoughts:
1. I've been a VC for four months.
2. "He's trying to make the point that the only path to success in the software industry is to work insane hours, sleep under your desk, and give up your one and only youth, and if you don't do that, you're a pussy." – No. I was making the point that people have been working crushingly hard in our industry for quite a while now, and that today's hard workers shouldn't assume this is something new.
3. "He's telling you the story of, "If you bust your ass and don't sleep, you'll get rich"" No. I'm saying that working very hard is a necessary ingredient to being successful. Unless you are very, very lucky. But working hard doesn't mean you'll get rich. You're chances are still abysmally, wonderfully slim.
4. "I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it's true. So did most of the early engineers. But the people who made 100x as much as the engineers did? I can tell you for a fact that none of them slept under their desk." – Is the problem that the money you made wasn't enough to compensate you for what you gave up? Or is the problem that other people at Netscape made far more money than you? Or, both?
5. The question I'd want to ask Jamie is, if he could go back and do it all over again, would he? He implies he would, but he never says it.
6. Lots of bitterness against venture capitalists and management. I get it. I was an entrepreneur for a lot longer than I've been a VC (10 years v. four months). I've been burned badly by VCs. Treated unfairly. But my response was simply to stop doing what I was doing and start doing something else.
7. Most VCs today that I know are a whole lot different than the VCs I knew a decade ago. Competition has driven them to behave much more civilly. In the process, many of them have learned that they can make a lot more money by simply chilling out, too.
8. I said this before, but I'll say it again. Startup life isn't for everyone. Do it with your eyes wide open. If you don't like it, leave. If you do, don't leave. If you like the life but hate the company, start your own company. Join, I guess, the dark side. And remember, being broke is no excuse. Move back with your parents and get free food and rent. Learn how to code if you don't already. Just make it work. Or don't. But don't expect to get tons of equity and perks from a startup that someone else was willing to risk it all to start in exchange for average work. This isn't the place for that.
I too have slept under desks, or wherever I fell. I too have at times worked so hard that there was nothing in my life except that work. The reason why I did this for all those years wasn't because some VC was driving me to, or even because I thought I would get rich doing it. We never raised any venture capital at TechCrunch, and for the first several years I thought it was nothing more than a hobby, then a small business.
I did it because I was fascinated with the community around me. In love with it. There was nothing else I wanted to be doing. The courage and imagination I see every day from founders. And low level employees who struck out on their own to follow their own destiny.
Things are a lot different today than they were in Marx's time. Today's labor gets to nibble on organic food, be pampered with acupuncturists, and generally be coddled like no other employees on the planet. And when they get frustrated, or it's just their time, they go out and start companies of their own, take venture capital or not, and see what they're made of.
That's the way I see Silicon Valley. It's the same way I saw it as an employee being leveraged by bosses and venture capitalists who had far more equity than I did. It's the same way I saw it when I started my own companies. And it's the same way I see it as as an investor. Like an old, busted up ballplayer, I don't have the stamina any more to start companies (maybe I will again in a couple years). But I can invest in, and cheer on, those that do.
I can't think of anything more fun than continuing to be a part of the community that has fundamentally changed the world's cultures and economies in just a few short years. A community that constantly creates somethings from nothings.
There is so much more to build. And, unlike the coal miners and child laborers in Marx's time, we all get the chance to be a boss in this world. All you have to do, is do it. And maybe, when you're the boss, you'll see how hard it is to grow a company, with thousands of employees and their families relying on you to make the right decisions. And maybe, when those bosses aren't perfect all the time, you'll see why it's just because they're humans. Not soul sucking vampires.
So you see, Jamie, I wasn't using your words as an argument to trick people into selling their souls. I just assume people will give them freely, drinking the same narcotic-spiked startup Kool Aid that I am. I was using your words to simply note that today's hard workers were preceded by generations of other hard workers. Who sometimes also complained. In the end, we all know sausage making isn't pretty. But sausage is, you know, delicious.


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October 04. 2013 3:58PM
2013 budget shows $76 million surplus; Hassan hopes to restore HHS spending
By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
CONCORD - New Hampshire ended the 2013 fiscal year with a $76.1 million surplus and Gov. Maggie Hassan wants to use some of the money to rebuild the state's rainy day fund and restore reductions at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Lawmakers believed the state would have a $57 million surplus when budget writers crafted the 2014-2015 biennial budget in June.
The surplus figures are unaudited and will be adjusted when the official audit is done on the state's books later this year.
The state is currently showing $27 million more than anticipated from state taxes and fees for the first quarter of the 2014 fiscal year budget, which gives the state a $46 million revenue cushion.
"A strengthening economy and sound fiscal management from state agencies resulted in a strong surplus, improving our ability to address our fiscal challenges," said Gov. Maggie Hassan.
The current biennial budget includes some across the board cuts in personnel and in Health and Human Services programs and staffing totaling about $18 million.
"At the end of the process, uncertain about revenues, back-of-the-budget cuts were made to the Department of Health and Human Services that no one liked," Hassan said. "With this surplus, and strong revenues for this year, my hope is we can work in that same cooperative spirit to use a portion of the surplus to begin rebuilding our state's Rainy Day Fund and a portion to reduce back-of-the-budget cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services, which could impact vital programs ranging from services for people with disabilities to child care."
The budget package passed in June had overwhelming support in the House and Senate and spends a total of $10.8 billion over the next two years, including $2.8 million in state general funds.
The current budget spends about $800 million more than the previous one crafted under the then Republican-controlled legislature.


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Xfce 4.8
Update Xfce to the upstream 4.8 release with many new improvements and features.
- Names: Kevin Fenzi, Christoph Wickert
- email: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 14
- Last updated: 2010-01-14
- Percentage of completion: 10%
Detailed Description
The Xfce project has been working on a new version, 4.8 for quite a while now.
|Xfce 4.8pre1
|Feature Freeze
|Alpha Freeze
|Xfce 4.8pre2
|Alpha Release
|Beta Freeze
|Xfce 4.8pre3
|Beta Release
|Xfce 4.8final
|Final Freeze
|Compose Release Candidate
|F13 Release
This means:
- We only have 8 days from the release of Xfce 4.8pre1 till Feature Freeze. If release is delayed, we might need to drop the feature as it needs to be in a testable state for feature freeze.
- Fedora 13 Alpha will come with Xfce 4.8pre1 (15 days from release to Alpha freeze)
- Fedora 13 Beta will come with Xfce 4.8pre2 (22 days from release to Beta freeze)
- Fedora 13 RC will come with Xfce 4.8final (15 days from release to Final freeze)
Additionally, a dist-f13-xfce tag will be used to coordinate the package builds, so impact on rawhide will be minimal until the full set of packages is ready to land at once.
Benefit to Fedora
Xfce 4.8 has a number of improvements and new features. A few of the more notable ones:
- Xfce menu will support menu merging.
- (Hopefully) bring back the graphical menu editor known from Xfce 4.4
- Thunar is ported from thunar-vfs to gvfs
- PolicyKit support in xfce4-session
- Multilib enhancements for xfce4-panel plugins.
Existing packages will need to be updated to 4.8 in rawhide. Three new packages have been reviewed and will need to be imported:
- garcon: Implementation of the freedesktop.org menu specification. Review request at
- tumbler: D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails for various URI schemes and MIME types. Review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549593 (In Progress)
- libxfce4ui: Commonly used Xfce widgets. Review request at
Two packages will need to be Obsoleted and blocked from F13:
- libxfce4menu (replaecd by garcon)
- libxfcegui4 (replaced by libxfce4ui)
How To Test
New installs:
- install rawhide/Fedora 13 on any machine.
- yum install @xfce-desktop
- confirm gdm offers Xfce4 as a session type
- confirm you can select this session and login
- confirm settings changes can be made and saved, and are found after a logout/login cycle.
- confirm day to day desktop functions are working.
- confirm all settings dialogs come up and work.
(More specifics can be added when final changelogs are available)
- confirm yum groupupdate 'XFCE' works and all packages are properly updated/obsoleted.
- confirm the updated desktop works fine.
Contingency Plan
Revert to older Xfce 4.6 version. This may require a Epoch and rebuilding packages and plugins. Or if the dist-f13-xfce tag has not yet been merged back into rawhide, only reverts in cvs will be required.
Release Notes
- Xfce has been updated to version 4.8. This version includes many enhancements and bug fixes. See the tour at http://www.xfce.org/about/tour for more information.


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Carting it up with Stevo
I was perusing the NZ newspapers online the other day (a sad reflection of my life) and an article or two popped up about the state of Rugby League in the land of the long white cloud.
It seems that the trials many of the Australian Super 14 teams are facing, that is, poor crowds made worse by relatively boring and ineffective Rugby, have made their way to the Rugby heartland of New Zealand.
While it's true that the All Blacks are still number one in NZ, the same cannot be said for their Super 14 offspring. Crowds are down and the press aren't filling their back pages with Rugby as automatically as they did in the past. Suddenly the once unthinkable is taking place; pubs are choosing to show NZ Warriors games live over their local Super 14 teams.
Make no mistake - I'm not trying to bash Rugby. The sport is a religion in NZ and will always enjoy the upper hand. A comparison between NZ Rugby and the NZ Warriors is much more about highlighting the efforts of the Warriors coaches, administrators and players than a swipe at the 15-a-side crowd.
The Warriors have done some great things lately. Their home crowds average above 20,000 after 4 games, up 8,000 on last years figures. The re-signing of Stacey Jones has been a reasonable success on the field and, I suspect, a roaring success for the clubs marketing manager.
According to an excellent article by Steve Kilgallon in the Sunday Star Times, it is the progress the Warriors are making under the surface that is the most significant. Like in greater Sydney and other parts (Newcastle and Wollongong to name two), Rugby League has always been perceived, rightly or wrongly, as a working class code in Auckland.
Subsequently many corporates have given them plenty of distance when handing out their sponsorship dollars. The perception that Rugby was the ultimate NZ sport led to everyone seeing Rugby League as second class - something you do if you haven't got a Rugby ticket.
However things have changed and a Warriors clash is now arguably the biggest ticket in the top end of town as well as the bottom. The result is new spectators are being exposed to the game in NZ and, while the team is winning, they are enjoying being along for the ride. And that is a key issue, what happened when the Warriors lose a few more games, or when the All Blacks international season begins?
Who knows. In the past the Warriors have always endured a topsy-turvy existence: fluctuating crowds, insolvency and debate (usually in Sydney) about their relevance in the competition. While many of these issues have already been resolved, a fresh spike in interest may be just what the club needs to cement their place in the NRL elite.
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Braddock, Pennsylvania is a city named for a loser. A plaque on the east side of North Braddock, located 8 miles downriver from Pittsburgh, commemorates Braddock's Defeat, a turning point in the 1755 French and Indian War. Named for a defeated British general in a war now rarely remembered, Braddock, Pennsylvania somehow still remains, a cluster of half-empty storefronts and homes perched on a steep slope above the Monogahela River, looming over a massive blast furnace that sits quiet, hulking and as defeated as Braddock himself.
Just around the corner from that plaque and down by the furnace too, Hollywood has improbably come to town. Director Scott Cooper first heard of Braddock while on tour promoting his debut feature Crazy Heart-- the town's mayor John Fetterman has done extensive media appearances to bring the town's plight to national attention, which means Braddock was not like most depressed former industrial towns even before Cooper came calling. A thriving part of the steel industry until the Carrie Furnace shut down in 1982, Braddock now stands alongside Detroit and Gary, Indiana and any number of other Rust Belt towns as a symbol of America's lost industrial might. We've seen the pictures of rusted-out factories and crumbling towns; what Cooper wanted to bring to Braddock was a story, about what happens when the world collapses around you but also how a community moves on together. That fact that this story includes movie stars-- Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard and Forest Whitaker-- means that, when Out of the Furnace opens on December 6, Braddock will emerge into its biggest spotlight yet.
On an overcast but gloomily beautiful day in May of last year, Cooper did something maybe even more uncommon than dragging a full Hollywood production to a ruined steel town-- he invited a group of journalists to a set of a movie that doesn't include explosions, superheroes or giant set-pieces of a any kind. That day production was set up in Hidy's Cafe, a bar and restaurant in an anonymous brick building that sidles up to the underside of the Rankin Bridge. The bar had been renamed The Cellar Door for the shoot but barely transformed, with Hidy's handwritten signs all over, warning patrons not to sell drugs inside and offering the salmon burger (actually ordered by Woody Harrelson's character in the film).
The production team added Christmas lights but little else, and moved into the bar's back office to shoot that day's scene between Willem Dafoe and Casey Affleck. As the owner of The Cellar Door with significant ties to local criminals, Dafoe's character John Petty is helping Affleck's, Rodney Baze, get into a local bare-knuckle boxing match. In the scene Affleck pleads and pleads, Dafoe refuses but eventually gives in, making the phone call as Affleck shadow-boxes in the corner.
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Images from around the world.
In this Wednesday, photo, Taravati, who uses only one name, shows a photograph of her son Shiv Kumar Singh, a daily wage laborer, who was killed by a tiger at Maniawala, in northern India. The tiger that killed Singh on Jan. 10 has killed at least nine people so far traveling over 120 miles of villages, small towns and even a highway, spreading fear amongst the villagers many of whom are either farmers or laborers working the the large swathes of sugarcane fields which need harvesting now. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man walks past in front of an octopus made with lemons and oranges during the 81st Lemon festival in Menton, southeastern France. The theme this year is "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" from the classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. This exhibition involves over more than 300 professionals working on the project and 145 tons of citrus fruits. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Competitors take part in a traditional boat race in the River Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India. The 2,906 kilometers (1800 miles) long Brahmaputra is one of Asia's largest rivers which passes through China's Tibet region, India and Bangladesh before converging into the Bay of Bengal. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Children play with old car tires in a street in the Katlehong Township, south east of Johannesburg. Katlehong, translates to place of success, was established in 1945 and has become a high-density area of informal settlements. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man confronts police officers during an operation to reclaim government offices occupied by anti-government protesters on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand.. Riot police cleared anti-government protesters from a major boulevard in the Thai capital in a small victory for authorities. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lauren Tresse-Ellebracht wears sunglasses while visiting the Olympic Park at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Indian women dry their saris after taking a dip at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati during the annual traditional fair of "Magh Mela" in Allahabad, India. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mount Kelud erupts, as seen from Anyar village in Blitar, East Java, Indonesia. Volcanic ash from the major eruption in Indonesia shrouded a large swath of the country's most densely populated island and sent thousands fleeing. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Roses are displayed on the Pont des Arts bridge by French watchmaker Sismeek to mark Valentine's Day, in Paris. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Large metropolitan centers and industrial areas are particularly vulnerable
to global environmental change (Schmandt and Clarkson, 1992). Large cities are
considered to be areas of high risk because warming could lead to problems such
as heat stress, water scarcity, and intense rainfall. Other potential impacts
vary with location. In Canada and the northern United States, for example, people
in larger cities are expected to experience fewer periods of extreme winter
cold (Born, 1996). Many coastal communities will be affected by rising sea levels
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extremes. This sector of the urban population is growing faster than the population
as a wholea trend that is expected to continue (Boesch et al., 2000).
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Press, 2000). Cities that are vulnerable to regular flooding may experience
changes in the timing, frequency, and severity of this hazard (Weijers and Vellinga,
1995). In addition, the risk of increased periods of drought will be a challenge,
particularly for communities that already are struggling to cope with water
management issues. Overall, climate change should reduce vulnerability to some
hazards such as cold waves but increase it with respect to others such as sustained
periods of extreme heat.
The number of people in North America increased from 83 million in 1901 to
301 million in 1998 (Statistics Canada, 1999a; U.S. Census Bureau, 1999b). The
number living in large urban communities of more than 750,000 people increased
over this period from 6 million to more than 140 million. A higher share of
the population in North America lives in large urban centers (45% in 1995) than
in any other region of the world (UNDP, 1999). These large population centers
may be vulnerable to climate change.
Aging of the population is another important demographic trend in North America.
Europe and Japan currently are adapting to an aging of the population that is
just emerging in North America. These demographic trends also appear in native
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is more vulnerable to climate extremes (McMichael, 1997).
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including drainage and water systems, roads and bridges, and mass transit (Miller,
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(Bruce et al., 1999a).
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Almost 3.5% of GDP was spent on a broad range of infrastructure projects in
the early 1960s, compared to less than 2% in the 1990s (Statistics Canada, 1999b;
Sustained lower spending has increased society's vulnerability to some
hazards. The American Society of Civil Engineers, for example, has warned that
many dams in the United States have exceeded their intended lifespan (Plate
and Duckstein, 1998). More than 9,000 regulated dams have been identified as
being at high risk of failing, and there may be significant loss of life and
property from future failures.
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lines, and other infrastructure have been built on the basis of historical climate
experience (Bruce et al., 1999a). Similarly, land-use practices and building
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climate. Emerging knowledge about future climate pressures was not available
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from the increased risk of intense rainfall and subsequent flooding (Liebig,
1997). Furthermore, building codes have been modified frequently over the years
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of investments in larger diameter storm sewers in communities that expect more
periods of intense rainfall may be affected by the age of existing systems (Fowler
and Hennessey, 1995; Trenberth, 1998). Urban expansion and population growth
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Soccer Anatomy combines step-by-step instructions and full-color
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The Thunder will be raising the ECHL Western Conference championship banner at Stockton Arena in 122 days.
The Thunder will be raising the ECHL Western Conference championship banner at Stockton Arena in 122 days.
It opens the 2013-14 season Oct. 19 with a home game against the Colorado Eagles, and the team announced it will hang the banner on opening night. Stockton won the conference during the 2012-13 season and advanced to the Kelly Cup Finals, where it to lost to the Reading (Pa.) Royals in five games.
The league released the season schedules Wednesday. Colorado will be the Thunder's first opponent, but not its most frequent. That honor goes to the Thunder's closest regional rival, the San Francisco Bulls.
The Bulls and the Thunder will meet 15 times, with the first matchup on Nov. 11 in Stockton. Among its other Pacific Division opponents, the Thunder plays 14 games with the Ontario Reign, nine with the Bakersfield Condors but just three with the Las Vegas Wranglers.
The franchise will hosts its annual breast cancer awareness event, Thunder Goes Pink VIII, on Nov. 1-2 with games against the Utah Grizzlies. On Nov. 23, the team hosts the Idaho Steelheads in the first meeting since the Western Conference championship series, which Stockton won in five games.
The Thunder will be very busy in the offseason as owner Brad Rowbotham must fill the team president and head coach vacancies.
Dan Chapman is leaving as team president to become associate athletic director at Pacific, and coach Matt Thomas resigned Tuesday to take over as head coach at the University of Alaska-Anchorage.
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Those 35mm skin tones look complete crap compared to a Leaf!!!! What camera is that???
Thread readers: Which 35mm and which MF are we comparing? I've seen both crappy and good cameras in both groups. A lot of the performance quality depends on the CFAs (Color filter array composing the Bayer Matrix)and it looks like every generation of 35mm cams has different CFAs. An then there are sensor IR and UV sensitivity issues, which interact with the lens being used ... I've seen cameras which can look through the skin, just about.Edmund
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Be careful, I think he switched the 2 images on purpose to confuse the discussion.
@ Peter,Correction per my humble mind in red above. They seem to say "throw away old camera, buy this new magic dslr, now have achieved more pixels"
This of course is not applicable at all to MFDBs... Cheers,Bernard
Those 35mm skin tones look complete crap compared to a Leaf!!!! What camera is that???Attaching a 4.7 MP crop from my Leaf AFi-II 12 80MP back.
Here is a good example of my Hassy 39MP supreme color tones !!!...Look at the beautiful skin tones in the nose of the model !!! the details of light of the hair !!!
I agree with the conclusion in as much as he sees finer details and more natural skin. I'm not sure he knows why there is an advantage. As discussed, its not 14 versus 16 bit, it may or may not be due to sensor size. No one seems to know the cause of the advantage. Can anyone give a reasoned, not overly technical explanation?
Different choice of color filters over the sensor. If you want high ISO you need lots of overlap between the colors to bring down the noise but this reduces color fidelity. DSLR's fit in to that but you don't notice this difference very much with big patches since there where the color is even over a larger number of sensor pixels the color is more accurately reproduced. This is why DXO has high color sensitivity figures. But actually a real object can vary a lot in color over a small distance. Sensors with color filters selected for color fidelity instead of less chroma noise, can reproduce these color changes over smaller areas better. Again DXO isn't going to show this, nor Imatest really. I'll have to ask Norman Koren if there is a way to measure this with his Imatest software.
No one comments on the fruit images? The thing about skin is that a lot of times we want to see it smooth and uniform, so maybe dslr's help?
I agree with at least half of that."good skin tone" is a combination of many technical factors. Rolloff, color accuracy/placement, color uniformity, and tonal transitions are all very important in the final look of skin. These factors were played with in the chemistry of portrait-oriented films for decades and are played with no in a combination of sensor (CFA, IR filter, and inherent spectral response), profiles, demosaicing algorithms, and software tools/sliders.The rolloff into highlights is very important as, regardless of lighting, many people find skintone more pleasing if the shoulder of reds in the skintone range are more gradual. This is a large component in the Leaf Portrait profiles, which I've found nigh impossible to recreate with any other camera using any profiling software (the color engineers at Leaf are clearly lightyears ahead of my novice level of color profiling and profile manipulation).The color, and consistency of color is another factor. What the ideal skin color is for any given model/shot and how aggressively surrounding colors are moved toward that color are personal choices and a matter of personal/cultural/business aesthetics. It helps if the underlying system is capable of seeing the difference in a large variety of subtle colors so that if/when you want to smooth those colors out it can do so with better smoothness (color range feathering) and with less artifacts (e.g. cross over colors in shadows or bands of poor color in shadows). Both Phase One and Leaf provide a variety of very well made portrait profiles that provide for a certain amount of this color uniformity in skintones (reducing the difference between good skin and a blemish or path of overly-olive or overly-magenta skin) but importantly Capture One provides a tool in the Color Editor which (while not very intuitive) provides for a very nuanced control over this effect (usually you'd do this for a few images to your own tastes/needs and then save presets or ICC profiles which you would then use during/after shoots).The tonal gradations also matter a LOT especially as the contrast of the light goes up. For instance a lower quality imaging chain may produce a "hard break" in skintone transitions from highlight to shadow. Software is part of that chain and in my (biased) opinion Capture One does by far the best job of making the best of those transitions for any given camera system. If the transitions are abrupt, fall on a visible line rather than along dithered and stochastic area, show color non-linearity (e.g. a shift from red to green in the shadows) then the overall effect of the skintone will be greatly harmed.None of these factors can be effectively discussed in isolation, nor can software be discounted as each software package handles all of the above a little differently (in the case of Leaf Portrait Profiles in Capture One - a LOT differently). The skintone of an imaging system (lens+camera+lighting+software) is a complex thing and a good deal of it is subjective. But the inherent complexity is one reason to use a system that produces the results you find most pleasing with the least post-processing or tweaking - otherwise you'll be fighting to isolate and control the many underlying variables rather than simply enjoying good skintone. And all the more reason you should test a camera system you plan on buying into in situations and manners which are relevant to your actual intended usage.edit: I didn't even mention lens, but yes that absolutely matters too. The way detail is rendered (high frequency), transitions are rendered (low frequency), bokeh (out of focus areas), and color rendition are all influenced by the lens and any filters used in front of it.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A senior European Commission official suggested regulators would not be swayed by requests from telecoms companies for more leniency in assessing mergers, saying there was no guarantee that bigger companies would result in more investment.
Cecilio Madero, deputy director-general for antitrust at the European Commission, told a conference on Thursday: "Frankly speaking, we do not have evidence that operators will invest more if they reach a bigger size as long as markets will remain fragmented and along national borders."
Telecoms companies are struggling to find the resources to pay for new infrastructure as demanded by the surge in data-heavy smartphones and tablets.
After four straight years of revenue declines and ferocious competition, they have been lobbying European Union regulators to look more kindly on mergers that would enable them to find funds.
Operators such as Vodafone, France Telecom-owned Orange and KPN have said companies need to scale up via mergers to meet the need for investment in networks and that regulators should be more flexible with deals.
Lobbying group the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO), which organised the conference, said the gloomy outlook in the sector in Europe, compared with upbeat prospects in Asia and North America, called for a change in EU competition policy.
"In reality, competition has shifted from the national level, and indeed from European level, to the global arena," ETNO head Luigi Gambardella told the conference.
But the EC's Madero said: "What we cannot do in any event is to give some companies a sort of blank check to consolidate within their national borders and increase prices for consumers on the basis of mere promises of further investments."
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Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Winner Prabal Gurung On Oprah, Target, And Spending His $25K Prize
Earlier this week, the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation announced the seven lucky designers who scooped up $25,000 each--and some serious exposure--to put towards their fall 2010 fashion shows. Prabal Gurung, the up-and-coming master of ultra-feminine dresses, nabbed a coveted spot in the winner's circle...and now he's chatting with STF about how Oprah Winfrey may have had a huge hand in that (in more than one way!).
STF: Congratulations on your award! Must be nice to be in the same company as past winners like Proenza Schouler and Rodarte...how'd you find out?PG: I actually read about it in Womenswear Daily on Monday. I had just flown back from holiday in Tortola with some friends and I saw it and I was just like, holy cow. It's so exciting. I never expect these kinds of things to happen!
STF: How are you going to spend the $25,000 Ecco Domani gave you to put towards your fall 2010 show?
PG: My first two seasons, I held presentations, and now with the money from Ecco Domani I'm going to do my first runway show. This season is going to have a more three-dimensional quality to it. The dreams that I've had as a designer--you envision a lot of stuff, but there's always a budget issue, especially for a young designer like me who is self financed. As much as i have big dreams, I have to be realistic about stuff. The Ecco Domani money made dreams that were impossible to me possible. It's going to help me add more pieces to the collection, up the production values, and show on the runway.
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STF: Your business has grown so much so quickly and yet you launched it at such a funny time--doing a beautiful, expensive luxury line in the middle of a recession. How did you manage that?
PG: Ask anyone who knows me and they'll say I'm a total planner. I always have a five, ten, 20 year plan, and I always had my eye on doing my first collection for fall 2009. Ten years ago when I decided that, I had no idea it would be a recession but for some reason it just felt right. There's room in fashion for anybody and everybody who has integrity and believes in what they do. I thought, "If I can just find a small audience who responds to this, I'll consider it a job well done for my first collection." But it just blossomed.
STF: No kidding! Your very first collection was on the cover of Womenswear Daily. How did that feel?
PG: That was just the biggest moment for me. When you think about it, there are only a week's worth of covers and it's always the usual suspects, who I think deserve to be there--Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren. But when they decided to put my first collection on the cover, that just changed the whole ballgame. People started calling me to tell me and I just couldn't believe it.
STF: There have been a few more "pinch me!" moments since then, too. Oprah, Demi Moore...
PG: Rachel Zoe and Brad were the ones who pulled a dress for Demi from me, and she wore it, and then she started Tweeting about it! People told me and I was like "Demi who?" I thought they were kidding! But I went on the internet and looked and there was Demi giving me support and wearing my dress.
STF: And then Oprah wore one of your dresses on the cover of her magazine.
PG: Oh, the Oprah moment! One of the reasons why I left Nepal and came here is because 10 years ago I was watching her show and there was one episode all about living your dream. I'd never been to America, to new york, and I thought, "why not, I want to give it a shot!" So I have always, always been in awe of Oprah--who doesn't love her--and that was a feeling I will never forget.
STF: Any celebrities you would just die to dress that you haven't yet?
PG: My dream right now would be for Michelle Obama to wear one of my dresses. She embodies what it is to be a modern American woman in every possible way--smart, educated, confident enough to just let her husband be in the forefront yet still command her own attention. That would be my dream.
STF: So what's the next step for you in expanding your business? Can we expect to see accessories or menswear anytime soon?
PG: I don't want to jump. I want to take a steady pace of building the business. I definitely want to expand into all of the categories, but when it feels right at the right time. I want to get into accessories, menswear, a lower priced line...
STF: Would you want a bridge line under your own name, or would you do a collaboration?
PG: I'd love to do a collaboration with Target! I just love what they're doing.
STF: At the rate you're moving, it sounds like it might not be far off.
PG: People love to say "Oh, you were an overnight success," but I really did pay my dues. And now I'm truly living my American dream. All the stuff that has happened to me wouldn't be possible in any other country. The beauty of living in America and the American fashion scene in particular is that they're very willing to take a chance on you. What I would love to let unsung heroes know, these assistant designers, is that your time will come. Just learn the craft, and when the time comes it will be amazing.
Prabal Gurung will show his fall 2010 collection in New York this February--and will also participate in Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation's first-ever joint runway show on February 15, featuring looks from all seven winners. Find out more about the EDFF here and more about Prabal Gurung here. What you dolls think of his designs? Are you excited that he's about to become so major? Which of these dresses is your favorite? Discuss!
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MANHATTAN — The North American Butterfly Association (NABA) will conduct a butterfly count at the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Manhattan Plant Materials Center (PMC) and surrounding area on Wednesday, July 14, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The count will help scientists monitor butterfly migration and get a good estimate of the different species, their numbers, and their relationship with plants and their natural environment.
"We are recruiting volunteers to help accomplish this count," said Allen Casey, PMC soil conservationist. "While knowledge of butterflies is a plus, it is not necessary."
Volunteers helping with the count should bring a sack lunch and bug spray, binoculars and camera, and dress appropriately for the weather. Volunteers must provide their own transportation. Participation in the count is free, but volunteers need to register by calling 785-539-8761 to ensure an adequate supply of materials and handouts are available. Special accommodations are available if requested at registration.
Volunteers will meet at the PMC and receive instructions on how to participate in the count. The count covers a 15 square-mile area with PMC the center of the circle.
Earth Team volunteers will assist with the count and will be recruited at the event. Earth Team volunteers expand NRCS services with their time, talent, and energy to help meet agency needs. Anyone age 14 or older who is interested in conserving natural resources is welcome to become a volunteer. Earth Team application forms will be available the day of the butterfly count. Anyone 14 through 17 years of age needs a signed parental consent form.


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Second TEDxManoa event coming to Keoni Auditorium on October 18
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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On October 18, 2013, the UH Mānoa Library, Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and Native Books/Na Mea Hawai'i are collaborating to bring TEDxManoa to Honolulu for a second time. The purpose of this independently organized event, licensed by TED, is to highlight innovative solutions that incorporate native ingenuity, knowledge and practices with 21st century information and technology as part of the solution for issues such as sustainability, health, food safety and education.
Mānoa is the perfect location because of the wealth of learning and knowledge in the valley. It is also a gathering place to exchange ideas. We have obtained a TEDx Talk license and have booked the East-West Center's Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center, Keoni Auditorium, for the all-day event.
TEDxMānoa will provide inspirational talks by native speakers and networking opportunities for the community. The event will feature 8 talks by native speakers to stress the importance of collaborative/communal/ancestral 'ike and mana'o. The talks will be filmed and uploaded to the TEDx YouTube Channel for open access. Please plan to attend the full day. Due to professional filming, the doors will be closed until official breaks for coffee and lunch.
In addition to the presentations, there will be an information table for non-profit community organizations to share brochures about their programs and services with the attendees. We encourage organizations to publicize internships, collaborative initiatives, community programs, and service learning positions for high school and college students.
The TEDx format is a day-long presentation of talks that are 5-18 minutes in length. The TEDxMānoa event will begin with an official TED Talk on DVD from TED.com. Here is the final list of speakers (in alphabetical order) :
Malia Akutagawa, William S. Richardson School of Law
Kālepa Baybayan, Associate Director, 'Imiloa Astronomy Center
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Kamuela Enos, MA'O Organic Farms
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BELMONT -- A 59-year-old woman was terrified Saturday evening when a man reached into her car and stole her purse, according to police.
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Skip to comments.Ron Paul: Obama Czars Are Unconstitutional
Posted on 09/26/2009 8:25:59 AM PDT by kellynla
With 28 remaining czars in the Obama administration after the departure of Van Jones, there has been a new call to bring transparency to shed light on the secretive nature of this group of individuals that operate outside the watch of government.
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) takes that sentiment a step further.
In an interview with Dan Mangru of Newsmax TV, Paul said he believes that the czars are unconstitutional.
They are not authorized (by the constitution), and not approved by the Senate, but Obamas not the only guilty party.
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Paul asserted that government operating in secrecy is nothing new and pointed to the existence of czars since the 1970s
The whole principle of uncontrolled government and government working in secrecy, thats nothing new, but thank goodness its becoming more apparent.
Asked if he would favor passing legislation that would bring Obamas czars under Senate authority, Paul said he would favor such legislation and would also favor denying funding to Obamas czars.
(Excerpt) Read more at moneynews.newsmax.com ...
Yep. Never liked the czars anyway.
Its one thing to put someone in place for a few months oversight in the event of an emergency. Its another to put someone in place without oversight permanently.
"Paul asserted that government operating in secrecy is nothing new and pointed to the existence of czars since the 1970s "
Uh huh.....Mr. Paul, who previously had 34 Czars??
Most or all of them communist?
Thank you.
Absolutely Unconstitutional!
Bypassing the confirmation process required by the legislative branch is the taking illegal and unauthorized power by the Executive Branch.
Anyone who has anything to do with directing budget items, which are the people's money, have to be qualified by congress through the hearing process. If they are purely in an advisory capacity, with no authority to administer or direct policy or money, they become the personal responsibility of the White Hose. But they can't administer policy.
There goes that "crazy old man" making sense again....
I maintain the czars are Obama's shadow government waiting.
Interestingly, if we called them 'emissaries' rather than 'czars' then they would probably not be getting any attention at all.
It's like the old joke about prostitutes but it is too serious to be funny:
"We already know what you are. We're just talking about price now."
In this case, we already know that most politicians are unscrupulous whores. We're just talking about a matter of degree.
Politicians of both parties are always only too willing to break the law and ignore the Constitution for a short term advantage benefiting them and their party.
And once again they hold true to form.
That's exactly what the democrats have done in voting against even minor oversight for Obama's Czars, even though they are trading away even more of their constitutional authority and responsibility to support Obama.
But if the tables were reversed, the republicans would do the same thing.
And Obama is doing the same thing his predecessors have done. He is walking down an unconstitutional path; one that republicans helped carve out.
The big difference here is that he is taking his power grab it to new heights (or lows) no one else thought was possible, and he is using his power and authority to further destroy Constitutional protections.
It turns out that our vaunted concepts of separation of powers and constitutional protections have been illusionary, held up by honor alone and ready to fall when a big enough scoundrel stomps on them.
Obama is that scoundrel and there isn't even a squeal from the other two branches.
The Founders knew a scoundrel like Obama could come along.
They knew that greedy arrogant toadies could control the legislature, as they now do. They knew that weak, resentful, narrow minded people could sit on the Supreme Court as they have for years.
This is what concerned Thomas Jefferson and others. And this is why there is a second ammendment and other constitutional protections, thankfully not yet completely eroded. Will the Bill of Rights work to preserve the Republic as intended? That remains to be seen.
Thanks for the thread..
If it is unconstitutional, why can't Paul sue the White House?
Need top constitutional attys on this one, and go ahead and start the lawsuits. This should have been done already. I think Glen Beck brought this czar thingy to light...others were asleep.
The Republican Party does not have access to top constitutional lawyers?
Shadow Government? Only accountable to NObama !!!
Who funded them in the first place?
What vote was taken in Congress?
What department pays them?
What department pays their staffs?
Who hired their staffs?
What authority do they all have? To do what?
There is alot fundamentally wrong with this whole picture.
Even Roosevelt had his Czars. They were called "Dollar a Year Men" but were in fact a shadow government during the war.
It would be interesting to watch the Liberal reaction to the next Republican President who decides to do the same exact thing except they would be titled Supreme Senators. I'm sure the libs would go along with it just like they are with the Obama Czars.
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WW1 Photo Album archive here is the third page. Three very nice photos of WW1 cavalry soldiers are glued directly on to the page.
My grandmother's brother Ernie, is in the group photo of the soldiers on horseback. He's second from the left.
Unfortunately I don't know who any of the other soldiers are, or where this was taken.