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School Daze: Celeb Yearbook Photos
Who doesn't love to see a geeky celebrity in their awkward teenage stage? Before they were stars, some of our favorite hip-hop, R&B and sports stars had homerooms, crappy cafeteria food and lunch breaks just like us. Braces and braids and acne galore. Hop in the DeLorean and check out these sometimes embarrassing shots of the stars (Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Beyoncé, Tyra Banks, Rihanna, Drake, Justin Bieber, etc.) looking their best and worst in their elementary and high school yearbook photos.


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This intermediate/advanced pronunciation course focuses on specific sounds and features of voice and articulation in learner-centered contexts. Students review the English vowel and consonant sound systems and selected features of phrasing, stress, rhythm, and intonation. Activities include a variety of speaking exercises and tasks such as informal, personal-topic talks, story-telling narratives, process or instructional talks, problem-solution talks, informational and persuasive talks or small group panel presentations. Tutorials and individual self-study work in the Language Resource Center (LRC) lab supplement class sessions.
NOTE: One section of this course may be reserved for students in the GSI track and requires permission of instructor. See current academic term Schedule of Classes for details.

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School options: Blossoming in Candia, Hooksett
December 03. 2012 6:05PM
For years, parents and school board members in Candia and Hooksett have considered their position relative to Manchester parents disadvantageous. Now, the positions are reversed.
Candia and Hooksett public school students attend Manchester high schools, per a tuition contract. The contract did not give either town a vote on Manchester's Board of School Committee. Parents in both towns often complained that their concerns were not taken seriously by city school officials. They felt taken for granted, marginalized by a multi-year contract that denied them a vote on how the high schools attended by their children were run.
This year, the reversal of fortunes has been dramatic. After Manchester schools laid off more than 100 teachers, some class sizes rose to levels that exceeded state standards. Parents and school officials in Candia and Hooksett said that violated the tuition contract. Many began demanding that Manchester either fix the problem immediately or let them out of the contract. Then something predictable happened.
Other nearby towns started hinting that their high schools might be available for Hooksett and Candia students. Hints turned into offers. Suddenly, Candia and Hooksett parents are being presented with options. They could end up with multiple tuition contracts, giving parents the ability to pick the area high school that best suits their child's needs.
Manchester parents do not find themselves in such an enviable position. There is no good reason for that. No child should be stuck in an ill-fitting school just because it is the closest one. All families should have the options competition provides.


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NHIAA Girls' Soccer: Bedford girls pull away from MemorialBy HARRY KOZLOWSKI
Union Leader Correspondent
September 20. 2013 11:56PM
BEDFORD — The Bedford High School girls' soccer team turned in a strong performance in its 3-0 win against Manchester Memorial High School Friday afternoon.
Play was mostly on the Memorial end as the Crusaders had trouble keeping up with Bedford's speed and playmaking ability.
Memorial goalkeeper Rachel Thibeault and the Crusaders' defense played well to limit Bedford's scoring.
Memorial coach Joe Romo acknowledged that he kept extra defenders back to help out his goaltender.
"Bedford is a great team. They have a lot of club players" said Romo. "Our girls are mostly rec players."
Bedford coach Michelle Winning said the Crusaders made things difficult throughout the game.
Bedford had numerous chances in the first half but could only convert one.
Bedford had several early chances, including breakaways by Sierra Soghikian shot and Johanna Celli that weren't converted.
Finally, with 18:10 remaining in the first half, Celli centered a pass to freshman forward Seana Gosselin, who scored to make it 1-0.
Memorial did have one scoring chance with 4:11 remaining when Jessica Sweetser had a direct kick from about 25 yards away that Bedford keeper Brooke Barrett handled easily.
In the second half, Bedford began to pull away.
Anna Bogursky's looping shot over Thibeault made it 2-0, and four minutes later Bogursky made it 3-0 when she picked up a rebound off Thibault on a shot by Gosselin.
Winner said Bedford's Bogursky, normally a defender, went on the attack when the opportunity presented itself.
"She can be dangerous on offense," said Winning.


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Art. VIII.
Votes that are Null and Void even if Unanimous
Motions requiring more than a majority vote
46. Voting.
If the question is undebatable, or debate has been closed by order of the assembly, the chair, immediately after stating the question, puts it to vote as described under Putting the Question [
], only allowing time for members to rise if they wish to make a motion of higher rank.
If the question is debatable and no one rises to claim the floor, after the question is stated by the chair, he should inquire, Are you ready for the question? After a moments pause, if no one rises, he should put the question to vote. If the question is debated or motions are made, the chair should wait until the debate has apparently ceased, when he should again inquire, Are you ready for the question? Having given ample time for any one to rise and claim the floor, and no one having done so, he should put the question to vote and announce the result.
The usual method of taking a vote is
viva voce
(by the voice). The rules require this method to be used in Congress. In small assemblies the vote is often taken by show of hands, or by raising the right hand as it is also called. The other methods of voting are by rising; by ballot; by roll call, or yeas and nays, as it is also called; by general consent; and by mail. In voting by any of the first three methods, the affirmative answer
or raise the right hand, or rise, as the case may be: then the negative answer
or raise the right hand, or rise.
The responsibility of announcing, or declaring, the vote rests upon the chair, and he, therefore, has the right to have the vote taken again, by rising, if he is in doubt as to the result, and even to have the vote counted, if necessary. He cannot have the vote taken by ballot or by yeas and nays (roll call) unless it is required by the rules or by a vote of the assembly. But if the viva voce vote does not make him positive as to the result he may at once say, Those in favor of the motion will rise; and when they are seated he will continue, Those opposed will rise. If this does not enable him to determine the vote, he should say, Those in favor of the motion [or, Those in the affirmative] will rise and stand until counted. He then counts those standing, or directs the secretary to do so, and then says, Be seated. Those opposed [or, Those in the negative] rise and stand until counted. After both sides are counted the chair announces the result as shown below. In a very large assembly the chair may find it necessary to appoint tellers to count the vote and report to him the numbers. In small assemblies a show of hands may be substituted for a rising vote.
When the vote is taken by voice or show of hands any member has a right to require a
division of the assembly
] by having the affirmative rise and then the negative, so that all may see how members vote. Either before or after a decision any member may call for, or demand, a count, and, if seconded, the chair must put the question on ordering a count. In organizations where it is desired to allow less than a majority vote to order a count or tellers, a special rule should be adopted specifying the necessary vote. Where no rule has been adopted a majority vote is required to order a count, or that the vote be taken by ballot or by yeas and nays (roll call).
Announcing the Vote.
When the vote has been taken so that the chair has no doubt as to the result, and no division is called for, or, if so, the assembly has divided, the chair proceeds to announce, or declare the vote thus: The ayes have it and the resolution is adopted. If he is not very positive, he may say, The ayes seem to have it, and, if no one says he doubts the vote or calls for a division, after a slight pause he adds, The ayes have it, etc. If the vote was by show of hands or by rising, it would be announced thus: The affirmative has it (or, the motion is carried) and the question is laid on the table; or if there was a count, the vote would be announced thus: There are 95 votes in the affirmative, and 99 in the negative, so the amendment is lost, and the question is now on the resolution; are you ready for the question? In announcing a vote the chair should state first whether the motion is carried or lost; second, what is the effect, or result, of the vote; and third, what is the immediately pending question or business, if there is any. If there is none, he should ask, What is the further pleasure of the assembly? One of the most prolific causes of confusion in deliberative assemblies is the neglect of the chair to keep the assembly well informed as to what is the pending business. The habit of announcing the vote by simply saying that the motion is carried and then sitting down, cannot be too strongly condemned. Many members may not know what is the effect of the vote, and it is the chairs duty to inform the assembly what is the result of the motions being carried or lost, and what business comes next before the assembly.
When a quorum [
] is present, a majority vote, that is a majority of the votes cast, ignoring blanks, is sufficient for the adoption of any motion that is in order, except those mentioned in
, which require a two-thirds vote. A plurality never adopts a motion nor elects any one to office, unless by virtue of a special rule previously adopted. On a tie vote the motion is lost, and the chair, if a member of the assembly, may vote to make it a tic unless the vote is by ballot. The chair cannot, however, vote twice, first to make a tie and then give the casting vote. In case of an appeal [
], though the question is, Shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of the assembly? a tie vote, even though his vote made it a tie, sustains the chair, upon the principle that the decision of the chair can be reversed only by a majority, including the chair if a member of the assembly.
It is a general rule that no one can vote on a question in which he has a direct personal or pecuniary interest. Yet this does not prevent a member from voting for himself for any office or other position, as voting for a delegate or for a member of a committee; nor from voting when other members are included with him in the motion, even though he has a personal or pecuniary interest in the result, as voting on charges preferred against more than one person at a time, or on a resolution to increase the salaries of all the members. If a member could in no case vote on a question affecting himself, it would be impossible for a society to vote to hold a banquet, or for a legislature to vote salaries to members, or for the majority to prevent a small minority from preferring charges against them and suspending or expelling them. By simply including the names of all the members, except those of their own faction, in a resolution preferring charges against them, the minority could get all the power in their own hands, were it not for the fact that in such a case all the members are entitled to vote regardless of their personal interest. A sense of delicacy usually prevents a member from exercising this right of voting in matters affecting himself except where his vote might affect the result. After charges are preferred against a member, and the assembly has ordered him to appear for trial, he is theoretically under arrest, and is deprived of all rights of membership and therefore cannot vote until his case is disposed of.
A member has the right to change his vote up to the time the vote is finally announced. After that, he can make the change only by permission of the assembly, which may be given by general consent; that is, by no members objecting when the chair inquires if any one objects. If objection is made, a motion may be made to grant the permission, which motion is undebatable.
While it is the duty of every member who has an opinion on the question to express it by his vote, yet he cannot be compelled to do so. He may prefer to abstain from voting, though he knows the effect is the same as if he voted on the prevailing side.
Voting by Ballot.
The main object of this form of voting is secrecy, and it is resorted to when the question is of such a nature that some members might hesitate to vote publicly their true sentiments. Its special use is in the reception of members, elections, and trials of members and officers, as well as in the preliminary steps in both cases, and the by-laws should require the vote to be by ballot in such cases. Where the by-laws do not require the vote to be by ballot, it can be so ordered by a majority vote, or by general consent. Such motions are undebatable. Voting by ballot is rarely, if ever, used in legislative bodies, but in ordinary societies, especially secret ones, it is habitually used in connection with elections and trials, and sometimes for the selection of the next place for the meeting of a convention. As the usual object of the ballot is secrecy, where the by-laws require the vote to be taken by ballot any motion is out of order which members cannot oppose without exposing their views on the question to be decided by ballot. Thus, it is out of order to move that one person cast the ballot of the assembly for a certain person when the by-laws require the vote to be by ballot. So, when the ballot is not unanimous it is out of order to move to make the vote unanimous, unless the motion is voted on by ballot so as to allow members to vote against it in secrecy.
In some cases black balls and white ones and a ballot box are provided for voting, where the question can be answered
The white ball answers
and the black one
But in ordinary deliberative assemblies the ballots are strips of paper upon which are printed, or written,
or the names of the candidates, as the case may be. These ballots are first distributed and are afterwards collected by tellers, either by being dropped into a hat or box by the members, who remain in their seats; or by the members coming to the ballot box and handing their folded ballot to a teller, who deposits it in the ballot box. In the latter case it is necessary for the tellers to see that no member votes twice, which in large societies can be best done by checking off the names from a list of members as the ballots are deposited. The ballots should usually be folded so that if more than one is voted by the same person the tellers will detect it in unfolding the ballot. In satisfying themselves that only one ballot is voted, the vote may be exposed if the ballot is not folded.
When every one appears to have voted, the chair inquires, Have all voted who wish to? and if there is no response he says, The polls are closed, whereupon the tellers proceed to count the ballots. If in unfolding the ballots it is found that two have been folded together, both are rejected as fraudulent. A blank piece of paper is not counted as a ballot and would not cause the rejection of the ballot with which it was folded. All blanks are ignored as simply waste paper, and are not reported, the members who do not wish to vote adopting this method of concealing the fact. Small technical errors, like the misspelling of a word, should not be noticed if the meaning of the ballot is clear. For instance, if at the trial of a member a ballot was written gilty, every one knows what was intended. In all cases where the name on the ballot sounds like the name of one of the candidates it should be so credited. If a ballot is written Johnson, or Johnston, or Johnstone, it should be credited to the candidate whose name is one of these: but if there are two candidates with these names and no eligible member with the name on the ballot, it must be rejected as illegal, or reported to the chair, who will at once submit the question to the assembly as to whom the ballot should be credited. If these doubtful ballots will not affect the result, the tellers may make their full report without asking for instructions in regard to them, placing these doubtful votes opposite the exact name as written on the ballot. Votes for ineligible persons and fraudulent votes should be reported under the heading of Illegal Votes, after the legal votes. When two or three filled-out ballots are folded together they are counted as one fraudulent vote. The names of the candidates should be arranged in order, the one receiving the highest number of legal votes being first. In reporting the number of votes cast and the number necessary for election, all votes except blanks must be counted. Suppose the tellers find 100 ballot papers, 4 of which are blank, 1 contains two filled-out ones folded together, and 50 are cast for a person who is ineligible because of having held the office as long as permitted by the constitution: the tellers report should be in this form:
Number of votes cast...96
Necessary for election...49
Mr. A received...37
Mr. B received...8
Illegal Votes.
Mr. C (ineligible) received...50
One ballot containing two for Mr. D, folded together, rejected as fraudulent...1
The teller first named, standing, addresses the chair, reads the report and hands it to the chairman, and takes his seat, without saying who is elected. The chairman again reads the report of the tellers and declares who is elected. In the case just given he says there is no election, stating the reason. If no one is elected, it is necessary to ballot again, and to continue balloting until there is an election. The chairman should always vote in case of a ballot. Should he fail to do so before the polls are closed, he cannot then do it without the permission of the assembly. When the tellers report, they should hand the ballots to the secretary, who should retain them until it is certain that the assembly will not order a recount, which is within its power to do by a majority vote.
Yeas and Nays,
or Roll Call.
When a vote has been ordered to be taken by yeas and nays [see
for the motion] the chair puts the question in a form similar to this: As many as are in favor of the adoption of these resolutions will, as their names are called, answer
those opposed will answer
The chairman then directs the clerk to call the roll. The negative being put at the same time as the affirmative, it is too late, after one person has answered to the roll call, to renew the debate. The clerk calls the roll, and each member, as his name is called, rises and answers yes or no, or present if he does not wish to vote, and the clerk notes the answers in separate columns. Upon the completion of the roll call the clerk reads the names of those who answered in the affirmative, and afterwards those in the negative, and then those who answered present, that mistakes may be corrected; he then gives the number voting on each side to the chairman, who announces the result. An entry must be made in the minutes of the names of all voting in the affirmative, and also of those in the negative, and those who answered present. A convenient method of noting the answers at the roll call is to write the figure 1 on the left of the name of the first member answering in the affirmative, the figure 2 to the left of the second name in the affirmative, and so on. The negative answers are treated similarly, being entered on the right of the names, and those answering present should be entered similarly in a third column. In this way the last figures on each side at any time show how the vote stands at that time. The yeas and nays cannot be ordered in committee of the whole.
General Consent.
Business can be expedited greatly by avoiding the formality of motions and voting in routine business and on questions of little importance, the chair assuming general (unanimous) consent until some one objects. It does not necessarily mean that every member is in favor of the motion, but, that knowing it is useless to oppose it, or even to discuss it, the opposition simply acquiesces in the informality. Thus, in the case of approving the minutes, the chair inquires if there are any corrections, and, if one is suggested, it is made: when no correction [or no further correction] is suggested, the chair says: There being no corrections [or no further corrections] the minutes stand approved. While routine and minor matters can be rapidly disposed of in this way, if at any time objection is made with reasonable promptness, the chair ignores what has been done in that case even if he has announced the result, and requires a regular vote. [See also page
Absentee Voting.
In a strictly deliberative assembly no member can vote who is not present when the question is completely put. But in many societies the membership is scattered all over a state, or even still wider, and it has been found expedient to provide a method of voting that will enable all the members to vote upon certain matters, as upon amendments to constitutions, by-laws, and in elections of officers. This provision, when it is deemed advisable to adopt it, should be placed in the constitution or by-laws, as otherwise, unless the charter or state laws authorize absentee voting, no member can vote except in person. There are two forms of absentee voting by mail, and proxy voting.
Voting by Mail
is used for election of officers, and for amendments to the constitution or by-laws, and for such other important matters as the society may order to be voted on in this way. If an amendment to the by-laws is to be voted on by mail, a printed copy of the proposed amendment is mailed to every member, with the words yes and no printed underneath, or on a separate slip, with directions to cross out one of them, and return in the enclosed envelope, upon which should be printed the words, Ballot for Amendment to Constitution. This envelope should usually have the signature of the voter on it, and be sealed and enclosed in another one addressed to the secretary, or to the chairman of the tellers, so that the inner envelope will not be opened except by the tellers when the votes are counted. If it is desired to present the arguments pro and con, the society can allow the leaders on the two sides to prepare brief statements to be printed and mailed with the proposed amendment to every member. Instead of having the voters signature on the inner envelope, it may be placed on the ballot, but a place for the signature should be indicated, so that there may be some means of protection against votes being cast by other than legal voters. Voting by mail cannot be a secret ballot, as it is necessary for the tellers to know by whom each vote is cast. By some such method as the above it is practicable to give all the members, however scattered they may be, an opportunity to vote on questions of great importance.
Proxy Voting.
A proxy is a power of attorney given by one person to another to vote in his stead, and it is also used to designate the person who holds the power of attorney. It is unknown to a strictly deliberative assembly, and is in conflict with the idea of the equality of members, which is a fundamental principle of deliberative assemblies. There can be but little use for debate where one member has more votes than another, possibly more than all the others combined. If the proxy voting is limited to the election of a board of directors, as it is practically in stock corporations, and if, also, the proxies must be given to members of the corporation in all cases where it requires an election to become a member with these two limitations proxy voting would be useful and do no harm. In stock companies the members meet only annually to elect directors, who elect the officers and transact the business of the corporation. Though the directors are elected largely by proxies, their own meetings, where all the business is done, are as secret as they choose to make them, no proxies being allowed in them, and therefore proxy voting does not interfere with their business. As any one can dispose of his stock to any one else, there is no objection to his appointing any one as his proxy. But the case is very different with many incorporated societies of a social, benevolent, or religious character, whose business meetings are sometimes secret. Their membership cannot be transferred by the members like stock, and therefore they should not be allowed to appoint any proxies who are not members of the organization. The state law is above the by-laws of the society, and if the state law empowers members of all corporations to appoint proxies to vote at all business meetings, no by-laws of an incorporated secret society could prevent non-members holding proxies from attending and voting at all business meetings of the society. This should not be the case. With stock corporations it does no harm, because all the business is done by directors, and no proxies are allowed in their meetings, and no one can be present without their consent. But in many societies of the kind mentioned the business is transacted in meetings attended by none but members, and unlimited proxies would be a serious interference with their work. If the state law requires proxy voting in all corporations, it should be limited to the election of officers, including directors, and also the proxies should be required to be held by members of the corporation in all organizations whose primary object is not pecuniary profit.
Note 40.
Taking a vote by yeas and nays, which has the effect to place on the record how each member votes, is peculiar to this country, and, while it consumes a great deal of time, is rarely useful in ordinary societies. While it can never be used to hinder business, as long as the above rule is observed, it should not be used at all in a mass meeting, or in any other assembly whose members are not responsible to a constituency. By the Constitution, one-fifth of the members present can, in either house of Congress, order a vote to be taken by yeas and nays. In representative bodies this method of voting is very useful, especially where the proceedings are published, as it enables the people to know how their representatives voted on important measures. If there is no legal or constitutional provision for the yeas and nays being ordered by a minority in a representative body, they should adopt a rule allowing the yeas and nays to be ordered by a one-fifth vote, as in Congress, or even by a much smaller number. In some small bodies a vote on a resolution must be taken by yeas and nays, upon the demand of a single member. [
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Today's Meditation
The Right Investment
Read Matthew 6:19-21
Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
— Matthew 6:20 (NIV)
For some time now I have been helping an extremely poor family to survive. Sometimes I give this mother and her three children money; other times I take them clothes or other items they need. One day, the mother asked me for some more money. I told her I was not able to offer her any right then. A few days later I bought a tool that I had needed for a long time. At first I was excited about my purchase, but soon I thought of that mother and her children. The money I had spent for the tool could have bought their food for several days. As I continued to think about what I had done, I found myself conflicted. On one hand, I blamed myself for not having given the mother money. On the other hand, I excused myself by saying, "I need this tool; it's an investment to help me earn even more money, to help even more people." That sounded good, but I had no peace in my heart. The tool wasn't the right investment. The tool was something that would, in time, rust and become useless. But Jesus told us that the treasures we store up in heaven will never rust; they will last forever. I vowed to be careful about my investments — about where I use my material and spiritual resources.
George Enchev
(Pleven, Bulgaria)
Thought for the Day: How can I use my resources to help those in need?
Prayer: Dear God, help us to make good investments—ones that will bring hope and healing to your people. Amen.
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Fringe Festival Preview
Established in 2005, the Kansas City Fringe Festival has grown into a 10-day celebration of theater, visual arts, film, dance, and music. This year's edition runs from Thursday, July 18, through Sunday, July 28, 2013, at dozens of venues around the city. You can get an advance look at what's in store for festival audiences at the Fringe Festival Preview.
This special preview features some of the festival's hottest acts:
- Excerpts from A Divine Intervention, SahjKaya's reggae musical about a near-death experience.
- Poetic Underground… spoken-word poetry meets performance art with hosts Miss Conception, William Peck, and Doug Rosenbrook.
- An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein presented by Heidi Van and members of the Fishtank.
- Immigrant Voices, a work based on interviews with new arrivals to the United States, performed by the Westport Center for the Arts.
- Comedy by Right Between the Ears, Kansas City and Lawrence's award-winning radio (and live performance) sketch show.
Refreshments provided by Minsky's Pizza.
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Helping victims of Super Storm Sandy
Honolulus Emily Kukulies deployed on Red Cross relief missionHonolulu Community College
Billie K T Lueder, (808) 845-9187
Communications & External Affairs, Honolulu Community College
Communications & External Affairs, Honolulu Community College
Posted: Jan 10, 2013
Assistant Professor and Director of Honolulu Community College's Student Life and Development Office Emily Kukulies didn't blink twice when she received the call that she would be deployed to aid in the relief efforts for Super Storm Sandy that hit the East Coast in late October.
A volunteer with the Hawaiʻi chapter of the Red Cross, Kukulies is a member of the disaster action team that is on call 24-7.
"As a Red Cross volunteer you have to flexible because you are working in extreme conditions, along side other Red Cross volunteers from all over the country representing a broad range of cultural backgrounds and life experiences. It is imperative that we work as a cohesive unit staying true to the mission so that we don't lose sight of why we are there," explains Kukulies.
During her three weeks of service, Kukulies was assigned as a client caseworker overseeing the Northern region of the state of New Jersey that encompasses 11 counties. She managed a team of approximately 80 caseworkers who were in the field assisting families and individuals offering resources and getting victims on to the path of recovery.
"By sharing these real-world experiences with my students I hope to teach them valuable life lessons about how to deal with crises conflict, be able to successfully collaborate with one another, and be an effective project manager."
To date, the Hawaiʻi State Chapter has sent 42 local volunteers to the East Coast to aid in Sandy relief efforts. Having local volunteers gain experience and leadership on large disaster operations will help ensure that each island will be able to respond if a large disaster strikes here in Hawaiʻi.
"We are so proud that Hawaiʻi Red Cross volunteers from Kauaʻi, Big Island, Maui, Molokaʻi and Oʻahu gave their time and efforts to help those in need on the East Coast. Volunteers like Emily have shown selfless dedication, sacrificing time with their families, to help those affected," said Coralie Chun Matayoshi, CEO, American Red Cross, Hawaiʻi State Chapter. "As an island state, we all need to be prepared for disasters. Having our local volunteers gain invaluable experience and leadership on large disaster operations will help ensure that each island will be able to respond if a large disaster strikes here."
Kukulies is one of the few known employees within the University of Hawaiʻi System that has represented the state of Hawaiʻi in the Sandy relief efforts. She is currently working towards a certificate in disaster management and humanitarian assistance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
She was most recently called to help families displaced by a multi-unit fire in Nānākuli. "We provide tools to help the families make decisions about what to do post-disaster, everything from landlord relations, how to clean up from the smoke and water to helping the family members who may have trouble recovery from the tragedy of loss. When you are scared in the middle of the night because your home has had, what could have been, a deadly event, it is helpful to know that there is someone there to make sure you are safe."


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Floyd Mayweather and Ray J Drop $50K at Atlanta Strip Club (Photos)
A couple of things and neither have to do with money.
1- Ray J back with the Money Team?
2- These are some terrible looking strippers.
If I am going to blow through $50k, I would at least want my strippers to look half way decent. According to TMZ, this is Diamonds Strip Club in Atlanta. I can cross this off the list of places I need to go next time I hit up the ATL.
When Joseline from Love and Hip-Hop is best looking woman there (and she might be a man) that is a problem.
Look for Mayweather to fight again sometime in the spring of 2013.


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YouTube Decides Obama Singing Al Green Is Fair Use; Restores All The Videos
from the your-move,-BMG dept
At this point, the ball is back in BMG's court. Technically, it can now file a lawsuit against the uploaders of the video if it wants (so, the Romney campaign, the Associated Press and others). Also, it could potentially try to go after Google itself, claiming that the safe harbors no longer apply due to the early reposting. Of course, one would hope that BMG realizes that pursuing any of these strategies would lead to ridicule and, quite possibly, a court issued rebuke for wasting their time with a bogus copyright claim. Unfortunately, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, when it comes to copyright claims, many copyright holders fail to recognize this kind of likely outcome ahead of time.


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South Milwaukee tactical situation leads to 2 arrests
South Milwaukee tactical situation leads to 2 arrests
SOUTH MILWAUKEE, Wis. —
A South Milwaukee neighborhood was on edge Thursday night as police and the county SWAT team searched for a woman who may have been held against her will.
South Milwaukee police said the tactical situation began around 9:15 a.m. after receiving a report of a woman being held against her will.
Police searched the neighborhood near 3rd Street and Marquette for nearly six hours.
WISN 12 News has learned that two people were arrested and the woman at the center of the report was found unharmed.
Police are expected to release further details about the situation later Friday morning.


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'How should negroes living in Europe dress? The natural reply to such a question to be, "Just like everybody else, according to the demands of the climate and social life."….Well, in that case, the inquiry of the Review is pointless. Not in the least: for we must keep in mind that the sight of a Negro dressed in European fashion always provokes the laughter of the white man. Then must we reckon with the white man?'
Magd Raney, "Our Inquiry," The Review of the Black World, 1931
I was both perplexed and saddened by a recent blog post in the on-line magazine, Clutch, by "The Black Snob." The article, under the headline, "To Assimilate or Not: The Black Person's Lament," argues that in American society it is necessary but futile for black people to try to assimilate. Could the notion of assimilating, which the author characterizes as "speaking the King's English" and straightening her hair for job interviews, really be a relevant one in 2013? Although the author mentions that her mother chose the name "Danielle" for her because "she thought I just looked like a Danielle," the Black Snob also claims that her parents made a conscious choice to name her Danielle instead of "Keisha," a popular name at the time of her birth, because "they wanted [her] to assimilate."
I would not have given the article a second thought, though it is by prominent author who seems to be one of the mainstream media's go-to people on things racial. It would have been easy to chalk up the simplistic definitions of "whiteness" and "blackness" that informed her piece to the social anxieties particular to someone who would chose the nom-de-plume "the Black Snob." Is it really a serious cause for existential racial angst to realize that one speaks one way in a job interview and another when hearing one's favorite Bell Biv DeVoe song come on the radio? But I happened to read this article the same week that I was reading articles about the Georgetown study, "Separate and Unequal: How Higher Education Reinforces the Intergenerational Reproduction of White Privilege." The findings of the report are reflected starkly in its title. As a professor who teaches at a highly selective, predominately white, private liberal arts college married to an educator who has worked at community college and open-access public universities, I have long had front-row seat to how the structural dynamics of American higher education reproduce white privilege and conspire to give even bright, ambitious students of color inferior college and university experiences and degrees. The report found that low-income black and brown young people are over-represented at open-access two- and four-year institutions and underrepresented at the most selective institutions. That's no surprise~ but I was particularly interested to read that even low-income students of color who are well qualified don't go to more selective institutions, thus missing out on the tangible and intangible advantages that such institutions have to offer. This includes not only better quality teaching, smaller class sizes, and more support systems, but also cultural and social capital that includes such enriching opportunities as travel, a breadth of social and intellectual experience, and door-opening contacts with institutions and networks of privilege that can be invested in educational and career growth for years to come. Low-income students of color are often deprived of access to cultural capital long before they enter their first classroom: lack of exposure to worlds beyond their own, either through books or excursions, and to adults with rewarding and satisfying work lives, handicaps smart, aspiring young people academically and socially.
I started wondering, after reading the Black Snob's lament on the failures of assimilation, a notion that for her is predicated on a fundamental opposition between "blackness" and assimilation, if "assimilation" is a useful concept for understanding the relationship between American concepts of "blackness" and the dominant culture, and more importantly, for recognizing and advancing the participation of black Americans in the broader society.
What does it mean to "assimilate"?
In ante-bellum America, the concept of "black humanity" was, for the majority of white people, an oxymoron—otherwise, the systemic and consistent cruelties and degradations could not have been maintained. After the abolition of slavery, white recognition of the dignity of black humanity and citizenship were still difficult to achieve. Black activists, especially those of the educated classes, developed what the historian Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham calls a "politics of respectability": for Civil Rights activists up until the late 1960s, this entailed always being well dressed, well spoken, and maintaining a sense of dignity no matter what humiliations and indignities were imposed upon you. Anna Julia Cooper, the pioneering feminist writer and education reformer, could thus make a call for black women, who had been both unsexed and sexually exploited by slavery, to be treated as "ladies" by train conductors—given the respect, assistance and small courtesies afforded to white women. At a time when many white women were shaking off the constraints of "lady-hood," it was radical for black women to demand to be treated like ladies. This example highlights the difficulties of talking about black assimilation into white society without looking carefully at the historical context and what the alternative to assimilation might be. Until well into the 20th century, black American activists argued for white respect and recognition of human rights necessary to support claims for citizenship rights; equality in all realms of life; economic integration and fairness at all levels from laborer to entrepreneur. "Assimilation" (and terms such as "integration" describing similar and related concepts of supporting the entrance of black Americans into all spheres of American life with all of the rights accorded to other Americans) were usually juxtaposed to ideas committed to varying degrees of separatism or nationalism. A major tenet of black separatist approaches such as those advocated by Marcus Garvey has been that white Americans will never accept black people as equals, and that economic and cultural self-sufficiency is the only rational response to white refusal to recognize black people as humans and citizens. On the other hand, white arguments against assimilation have rested on the belief that blackness is so fundamentally and intractably different from whiteness that black people and white people can never coexist productively and peacefully as equals in the same society.
During the era of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s, the idea of assimilation took on more cultural and social connotations. To "assimilate" meant to conform to white expectations of behavior at the price of sacrificing black identities and cultural values. Of course, "whiteness" in these conversations was juxtaposed in simple terms to "blackness": for the Black Snob, "whiteness" is speaking the King's English (does any American speak this? Or any English speaker?) and straightening her hair. But assimilation defined as a way of trying to disguise or ameliorate "blackness" so as to get ahead in America will always be a failed project: "You can name me Danielle, but you can still see I'm black." The entire article has the air of the view of someone whose nose is pressed against the windowpane of "real" American life, forced to play a game which can never be won: "Assimilation is the greatest and most important waste of time any black person will ever engage in. Because it essentially means spending your life anticipating someone else's prejudices, then trying to modify your behavior to prove you're a special, different, extraordinary Negro…."
The Black Snob is accurate in her depiction of white people's general inability to perceive black individuality outside of handy-dandy shortcut stereotypes, but I don't think that the concept of "assimilation" is a relevant way to understand the challenges and paradoxes of "blackness" and black advancement in 21st century America. As we continue to struggle to gain access to meaningful and empowering education and political and economic power, we must also avoid internalizing racist, inaccurate, and disabling concepts of "blackness" as we seek to understand and combat the effects of racism.
For starters, let's get rid of the assumption that to speak and dress professionally is to somehow be less black. As we emerge into adulthood, all of us realize that how we speak and comport ourselves depends upon the demands of the context. There's no inherent conflict between being able to shriek, "That's my JAM!" with your friends in the cafeteria and speaking grammatically correct English as you present a report to your boss. On the other hand, I believe that we need to combat messages from both within and outside our community that natural black hair is somehow unprofessional: professional hair is clean and neat. I'll grant that someone might feel that she has to straighten her hair for a job interview, but if that's the only reason she is straightening her hair, she should start a campaign to change the company culture as soon as she gets the job. On the other hand, if straightening her hair is the equivalent of putting on panty hose and heels when she usually wears pants, then the concession to the performance demands of job-hunting is not a high-stakes proposition.
Cultural Capital
The concept of cultural capital originated with the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and refers to the non-tangible assets that provide upward mobility in a particular society. Education scholars have long recognized that a lack of cultural capital in poor, non-white families in this country is a severe academic and later social handicap. It accounts for the fact that the achievement gap opens up before many children enter pre-school: poor children on average have heard millions fewer words than their middle-class peers by the time they enter kindergarten. Later along the educational path, low-income children who have little sense of the world and its opportunities beyond their own constrained and stressful neighborhoods are ill-prepared to take advantage of good college and university programs. They also have little sense of the realities of the black presence and contributions to American society, and so may not have the tools to advocate for themselves and their communities from a position of strength and dignity.
In my predominantly white community, I've too often seen both black and white efforts to limit all of our children's access to cultural capital. For starters, African American history is seen as only relevant to African Americans. I once had a teacher from a Pueblo, Colorado, school tell me that her colleagues in the English Department didn't think it appropriate to teach Frederick Douglass's Narrative because they only had three African Americans in the school. On the other hand, a couple of years ago a white parent in Colorado Springs complained to the school district because her child was not allowed to go on a field trip to the local concert hall to see a show commemorating Martin Luther King's birthday, while all of the African American children in the school were automatically excused and loaded onto busses to attend. Given this kind of thinking, then, perhaps I should not have been surprised that when I first attended a Pueblo Symphony concert a few years ago– the professor wife of the university president– that a white local businessman felt that he had to explain to me the basic composition of a symphony orchestra and start on a Classical Music 101 lobby lecture before a tactful intervention by my companion.
Cultural capital and cultural competency for 21st century Americans is not assimilating whiteness, though our history of white supremacist binary thinking may contribute to this habit of mind. A far more common lament I have heard from both black and white students in my college classes is that they have so little idea that African-descended people and their energy, ingenuity, and resistance have been, in W.E.B. DuBois's words, part of the "warp and woof" of the United States since "before the Mayflower." African American students don't realize that, simply by virtue of being English speakers, that Shakespeare is part of their heritage as much as it is that of the middle-class Jewish kid from Shaker Heights. Pioneering black artists like Jacob Lawrence and Lois Maillou Jones were situating their work in artistic traditions that included Giotto as well as West African artists. It is dangerous to internalize the patently false and racist idea that blackness represents the outer limits of "otherness"~ the ultimate social and cultural "not-this". If our children somehow get the message that there is white culture, and there is black culture, and that the two somehow cancel each other out, they are not going to be prepared for the complex cultural interpollinations that are occurring on both a national and global scale.
In our increasingly complex American society, which in these days of digital communities and mass media is not governed by one dominant code of appropriate behavior, all Americans must be able to read and, if it is consistent with their goals, adapt, to the rhetorics and codes of various social groups. We must all develop the skills associated with "code switching" as we compete for jobs, power, and self-determination in a world in which physical borders are becoming more and more permeable and irrelevant and micro-cultures aren't necessarily consistently hierarchized. To worry about the myriad and multifaceted challenges of being black in what is still a white supremacist society in terms of either assimilating or remaining "black" is to doom yourself to sitting on the sidelines of a game that has moved on to other arenas.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The conductors, mechanics and engineers who operate Amtrak's trains have been testing positive for drugs and alcohol more and more frequently over the last six years, a government watchdog said Friday. And Amtrak's management isn't doing enough to stop it.
Drug and alcohol use by Amtrak operating employees in safety-sensitive positions far exceeds the national average for the railroad industry, Amtrak's inspector general said in a report warning of serious safety risks.
Amtrak's mechanics and signal operators had the highest rate in 2011, testing positive for drugs four times as often as those working for other railroads. Although Amtrak also tests for alcohol, the larger problem in recent years has been with drugs — specifically cocaine and marijuana.
Seventeen workers in 2011 failed alcohol or drug tests intended to root out employees who are high or drunk on the job. But federal guidelines only require that Amtrak randomly test one-quarter of operations employees every year. Just one in 10 must be tested for alcohol.
Amtrak Inspector General Ted Alves, in his report, said Amtrak has failed to control drug and alcohol use by the more than 4,400 workers involved in operating trains. Amtrak's management has been unaware of the extent of the problem and hasn't addressed persistent concerns about its program to physically observe workers for signs they may be under the influence.
"These conditions increase the risk that a serious accident will occur that involves drugs or alcohol," Alves said in his report.
Amtrak said it agreed with the watchdog's recommendations, including that Amtrak should test a higher portion of its workers and expand its program for physical observation. The railroad plans to spend $1.5 million this year on its drug and alcohol program, and will boost its random drug test rate from 33 percent to 50 percent.
"Amtrak runs a safe railroad today," said Amtrak spokesman Steve Kulm. "We are committed to making further safety improvements for passengers and employees."
Under Amtrak policy, a single failed drug or alcohol test doesn't automatically lead to dismissal. Employees may be given an opportunity to seek treatment through Amtrak. But if workers fail a second test within a 10-year period, they must be removed from service. That's happened to six workers since 2006, the inspector general's office said. Four resigned, one retired and one was terminated.
The nation's largest passenger-rail system, Amtrak is heavily reliant on federal subsidies, a major point of contention among Republicans. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman, has been holding near-weekly hearings probing Amtrak's operations, arguing the corporation is a poorly run drain on public resources. Republicans included a call to yank Amtrak's subsidies in the platform adopted in August at their national convention.
Railroads have been required to control drug and alcohol use by employees since a 1987 train accident in Chase, Md., that killed 16 people and injured 147. The engineer for a now-defunct railroad had sped through three signals, causing his train to collide with an Amtrak train. An investigation found that the engineer had been under the influence of marijuana.
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A GUI Library For Lisp On OS X
A blog entry about Ltk, and a quick introduction on how to use it. Ltk is a Lisp interface to the Tk gui kit.
A Guided Tour of the Common Lisp Interface Manager
Paper by Ramana Rao, William York and Dennis Doughty published in 1990(?) by Lisp Pointers. It provides an overview of CLIM's facilities and presents a series of examples. Although the sample code is ...
A tutorial for ASDF-INSTALL
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ANSI Common Lisp, by Paul Graham
Introductory book that focuses on the essentials of Lisp programming and discusses the "bottom up" paradigm for program design. This well organized introduction to the language also serves as a useful...
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 2002, ISBN 0137903952. A popular AI textbook with an agent-based approach.
Basic Lisp Techniques
Book by David Cooper, 2003. It showcases the features that make Lisp a better language, and provides a quick-start guide for Using Common Lisp as a development environment. Full text available online.
Beating C in Scientific Computing Applications -- On the Behavior and Performance of Lisp, Part I.
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Berkeley SICP Lectures
"CS61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" at the University of California, Berkeley.
Binary Methods Programming: the CLOS Perspective.
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CLIM - Der Common LISP Interface Manager
Introductory CLIM slides by Michael Wessel, 2003 (in German).
CLIM Screencast - Installation and Hello World
A screencast introducing the viewer to McCLIM.
CLOS Efficiency: Instantiation -- On the Behavior and Performance of Lisp, Part 2.1
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CLOS/MOP at Dynamic Languages Day
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COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach
Book by Stuart C. Shapiro. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1992, ISBN 0716782189. Full text available online.
Casting SPELs in Lisp
A comic book that explains why Lisp is powerful by developing a text adventure game. The book, which is intended for novices, is a Common Lisp tutorial with the goal of taking the reader to appreciate...
Common Lisp
The Wikipedia entry for Common Lisp. It provides a short introduction to the language, a comparison with other Lisp dialects, a list of implementations, and a list of successful applications.
Common Lisp B-level course
Notes from the lectures, spring of 1997, Mid-Sweden University - Sundsvall. Teacher and instructor for the labworks J.E. Spragg. These notes provide an introductory coverage of the Common Lisp languag...
Common Lisp FAQ
New Common Lisp FAQ created and maintained by a CL Gardeners sponsored project. The maintainers are committed to make this a primary, extensive and up to date resource for new users.
Common Lisp FAQ for comp.lang.lisp newsgroup
A set of frequently asked questions posted regularly to comp.lang.lisp. Topics include implementations, mailing lists, object-oriented programming and CLOS, FTP resources, windowing systems and GUIs, ...
Common Lisp Quick Reference
A booklet with short descriptions of the symbols defined in the ANSI standard. It comes with a comprehensive index.
Common Lisp Wikibook
This is a collaborative textbook based on MediaWiki engine for learning Common Lisp programming
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
Book by David S. Touretzky. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1989, ISBN 0805304924.
CommonSQL tutorial
A nice tutorial for LispWorks' CommonSQL. It also applies to CLSQL.
Daniel Bobrow CLOS video from 87
Daniel Bobrow clos video, spotted by jao: http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/vintage-clos/
Dynamic Learning Center
A web site that provides students and teachers with documented source code examples, exercises, tools and other resources for learning Common Lisp. It is maintained by Franz, Inc.
Episode 2: (Re)writing Reddit in Lisp is 20 minutes and 100 lines
Screencast by Sven Van Caekenberghe on building Web applications with the KPAX framework to create a simple Reddit clone. It is based on the interaction with LispWorks under MacOS X. QuickTime format.
Guide to good Lisp style
Infornography - Gene Michael Stover's web site
Large collection of computing articles by Gene Michael Stover, many of which about learning and using Common Lisp.
Installing TBNL on Linux and Windows and creating a web application
A tutorial on installing the TBNL toolkit for dynamic Lisp web sites and creating a simple application.
Introduction à la programmation en Common Lisp (French)
"Introduction à la programmation en Common Lisp" (PDF in French) and Lisp Programming Examples: - Computing influence spheres for atoms in a protein. - Functions to compute frequencies of characters, ...
Lisp Exercises at Northwestern
Simple practice exercises for Common Lisp
Lisp Programming Style
Some general suggestions/notes about improving Lisp programming style, readability, correctness and efficiency. These are written by Mark Kantrowitz and Barry Margolin and come from the Lisp FAQ.
Lisp Starter Pack
A personal Common Lisp "newbie" guide (for Windows)
Lisp Style and Efficiency
Introduction to efficient coding style in Common Lisp.
An episodic series of screencasts of Common Lisp software development. Their aim is to educate and serve as a locus of discussion. Mainly for the beginner, these videos may also be of interest to th...
Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon
Introductory book by Mark Watson, 2002. Full text available online.
MIT's SICP Open Courseware
MIT Open Courseware for EE 6.001 - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
Nikodemus' Common Lisp FAQ
"A highly uncanonical Common Lisp FAQ with a strong editorial bias, by Nikodemus Siivola".
On Lisp html document
browsable version of Paul Graham's On Lisp
PCL Allegroserve Examples with mod_lisp
Short tutorial on running the Allegroserve examples from Practical Common Lisp with mod_lisp and Apache (for newbies)
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Starts with an introduction to the language, including an excellent discussion of programming style. Most of the book is a collection of projects covering classic topics in Artificial Intelligence. Th...
Practical Common Lisp
A Common Lisp book by Peter Seibel for folks who already know how to program but who don't know Lisp. Focuses on practical applications of Common Lisp. Apress, 2005, ISBN 1590592395. Full text availab...
Practical Common Lisp (video)
The video of a Google TechTalks talk given by Peter Seibel on May 10, 2006 at Google's New York office. He discussed "how our choices of programming language influences and shapes our pattern language...
Remote SLIME sessions over SSH
Andy Sloane describes his emacs and sbcl customizations to allow editing of lisp code, interaction with a REPL and debugging remote applications over an ssh connection.
Revisiting the Visitor: the "Just Do It" Pattern.
A software design pattern is a three-part rule which expresses a relation between a certain context, a problem, and a solution. The well-known "GoF Book" describes 23 software design patterns. Its inf...
SICP at ArsDigita University
"The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" at the ArsDigita University (ADU).
SLIME video
Screencast by Marco Baringer. It shows how to use the Emacs-based SLIME IDE, from installation and setup to some advanced features. The screencast is based on the interaction with LispWorks under MacO...
Setting up ASDF for CLISP+Win32
A short tutorial on setting up and using ASDF with CLISP under Win32.
Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp
Book by David Lamkins. BOOKFIX.COM, 2004, ISBN 3-937526-00-5. Full text available online.
Sven Van Caekenberghe's s-http-server Tutorial
How to get started with Sven's minimal Common Lisp s-http-server.
The Blog
A tutorial which describes how to develop a blogging framework in Common Lisp based on TBNL and Hunchentoot.
The Common Lisp Cookbook
A collection of "recipes."
The Game - Yet Another Lisp Newbie Example
A tutorial which describes how to write a little grid game in Lisp (using the LispWorks CAPI toolkit for the GUI part)
The Idiot's Guide to Common Lisp Packages
A tutorial by Ron Garret on Common Lisp packages. It covers symbols, values and the REPL loop, interning, home packages, exporting symbols and using packages, shadowing, and DEFPACKAGE.
The Idiot's Guide to Special Variables and Lexical Closures
A tutorial by Ron Garret on Common Lisp special variables. It covers variables and bindings, lexical and dynamic scope, DEFVAR, and lexical closures.
The Nature of Lisp
An article that is an "attempt to explain Lisp in familiar, intuitive concepts". The author tells how he found and approached Lisp, and introduces the main concepts and features of Common Lisp.
Tutorial for Gigamonkeys Markup
Explains how to use Gigamonkeys Markup, a typesetting language from Peter Seibel that was successfully used to document large amounts of Lisp code in his book "Practical Common Lisp."
UCW intro
A tutorial on the UnCommon Web application framework. It covers installation, configuration, the environment, basic techniques, templates, and more.
UnCommon Web video
Screencast by Marco Baringer. It demonstrates using the UnCommon Web application framework and the Emacs-based SLIME IDE to create a simple, "hello world" web application. It is based on the interacti...
How to embed ECL into Visual Basic.
Validating a PGP key without personal contact
An article explaining how to validate the PGP signatures of software packages, and establish a weak but reasonably secure web of trust when establishing an uninterrupted one is not practical. This is ...
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Members of the community are invited to bring their classic cars and take part in Northgate Health Care Facility's fourth annual "Car Show and 1950s Night" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 7264 Nash Road, North Wheatfield.
Residents, family members and fellow community members will be on hand to view the cars and reminisce about yesteryear. Hot dogs and a beverage will be served to those who participate.
For more information, call Judy Ogden at 716-694-7700.
•Northgate has announced the memory care support group that meets at its facility on the first Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. has been discontinued.
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Bob Norberg, second in command at the Florida Department of Citrus, resigned Monday in an apparent dispute with Executive Director Doug Ackerman over his management authority.
WINTER HAVEN | Bob Norberg, second in command at the Florida Department of Citrus, resigned Monday in an apparent dispute with Executive Director Doug Ackerman over his management authority.
Norberg, formerly deputy executive director of research and operations, confirmed Tuesday in an email to The Ledger he submitted his resignation following a dispute with Ackerman over pay raises for employees under his supervision and disagreement over his management. He would not elaborate or return calls to The Ledger.
Ackerman also would not return calls to The Ledger on Tuesday.
Marty McKenna, chairman of the Florida Citrus Commission, the department's governing body, said he received a call from Norberg on Monday morning, shortly before he met with Ackerman to submit his resignation.
McKenna said he offered to mediate the dispute between the two executives but "it was very obvious he (Norberg) had made up his mind (to resign)."
Norberg mentioned a dispute between him and Ackerman over pay raises to some subordinates, McKenna said, but they did not discuss it at length.
Ackerman later told him the dispute involved pay raises, McKenna said.
According to two Florida citrus officials who also talked to Norberg but talked to The Ledger only if they were not identified, Norberg had attempted to get pay raises for for Matt Salois, the department's chief economist, and research economist Carlos Jauregui, both of whom work in the Citrus Department's Gainesville office on the University of Florida campus.
Norberg feared he would lose both employees because their salaries are significantly less than UF academics at the same level, the sources said. Norberg believed he had preliminary approval for the raises that Ackerman later withdrew in an email he received Monday morning.
McKenna confirmed Norberg resigned after receiving a Monday email from Ackerman but could not speak to the contents.
The Citrus Department did not respond to a Monday afternoon public records request to provide Ackerman email or other documents related to the dispute, including Norberg's resignation letter.
Norberg joined the Citrus Department in July 2004 as the part-time director of market and economic research. He was hired full time at annual salary of $115,000 on Jan. 20, 2005.
Norberg was promoted to deputy executive director in September 2006 at an annual salary of $143,750.
[ Kevin Bouffard can be reached at email@example.com or at 863-401-6980. Read more on Florida citrus on his Facebook page, Florida Citrus Witness, http://bit.ly/baxWuU. ]


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Nurses call for an immediate moratorium on private financing for hospitals
TORONTO, Dec. 10, 2008 – Ontario nurses say this week's auditor general's report proves public-private-partnerships (P3s) are pricey, and are urging the government to place an immediate moratorium on using private financing to build hospitals.
The demand, by members of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO), follows Auditor General Jim McCarter's conclusion that Brampton Civic Hospital didn't deliver the promised cost efficiencies. In fact, not only did the P3 (public-private partnership) arrangement cost an estimated $300 million more, it took longer to build and opened with 479 instead of the promised 608 beds originally planned.
RNAO President Wendy Fucile says she wasn't surprised by McCarter's findings. "When former Premier Mike Harris directed that future hospitals be built using private sector partners, the people of Ontario were told this was a good idea because it would save money. Now, the provincial auditor has confirmed what we knew all along - private financing costs taxpayers more. Hospitals are meant to serve the public and we should make sure that they are financed and built with the public in mind, not some company shareholder."
Although the McGuinty government changed the rules around private financing of public infrastructure projects such as hospitals and developed a model known as Alternative Financing and Procurement (AFP), RNAO believes the taxpayer is no better protected than under the P3 scheme initiated by the previous government. "We are most concerned that more than a dozen hospitals are to be built under this new method and we are calling for an immediate moratorium," Fucile says.
RNAO's Executive Director Doris Grinspun says the Auditor's findings confirm the association's suspicions about these arrangements. Earlier this year, RNAO and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released a study that examined the province's AFP method. RNAO and CCPA concluded that the government's prediction that these deals with the private sector would save millions of dollars was doubtful. The study also concluded that the new method didn't provide enough information or transparency to ensure value for money.
"Given the Auditor's findings about the Brampton hospital, we want full disclosure of the financial details of the government's AFP deals and we call on the Auditor to step in immediately to determine whether the public is getting the value they've been promised. Until then, we need a moratorium," says Grinspun.
The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional association representing registered nurses in Ontario. Since 1925, RNAO has lobbied for healthy public policy, promoted excellence in nursing practice, increased nurses' contribution to shaping the health-care system, and influenced decisions that affect nurses and the public they serve.-30-
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2004 Lexus LS 430 ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Liquid smooth and whisper quiet, quicker and more sophisticated.
The Lexus LS 430 benefits from substantial engineering upgrades for 2004 that significantly improve what was already a superb luxury car. It's quicker and more sophisticated than last year's model.
The LS 430 is everything a flagship luxury sedan should be. Its ride is silky and its steering is liquid smooth. Its soft suspension and slow steering lead some to believe that the LS 430 doesn't handle well when compared with such European benchmarks as the BMW 7 Series or Mercedes-Benz S-Class, but we haven't found that to be the case. The LS 430 can, in fact, be driven hard, whereupon it reveals lots of grip and very good handling. It boasts a powerful V8 engine, a new six-speed automatic, rear-wheel drive, and the latest in active safety technology.
Inside is a beautiful interior with rich wood accents and buttery soft leather, seats so comfortable that you never think about them, and controls that are a paragon of ergonomic excellence. Lexus provides every convenience feature imaginable. Finding failings in this car devolves into whining about bland styling or nitpicking about the lack of inconsequential features such as being able to grind the starter when the engine is running. In other words, the Lexus LS 430 plays its role to near perfection. That role is of a smooth, luxurious sedan that whisks occupants along in supreme comfort, allowing the driver to concentrate on other, more pressing matters than the automobile.
Toyota launched its Lexus luxury channel in fall 1989 with the introduction of the 1990 LS 400, an event that changed the rules for luxury car ownership. The third-generation Lexus LS appeared for 2001.
Model year 2004 brings major changes to the LS 430: revised styling, suspension refinements, safety improvements, and mind-boggling technology. A new six-speed automatic replaces last year's five-speed for improved acceleration performance without sacrificing fuel economy. There are more airbags than ever before (eight) and a system that tightens the seat belts before a crash. There's a tire-pressure monitor, a backup camera, headlights that swivel for seeing around corners, and Dynamic Laser Cruise Control that maintains a set following distance to the car ahead. With Bluetooth technology and SmartAccess, you can unlock the doors, start the car, drive off, and make hands-free phone calls without even pulling your key or your cell phone out of your pocket or purse.
Quality, durability and reliability are Lexus hallmarks. For the seventh consecutive year, the LS 430 ranked highest among luxury cars in the J.D. Power and Associates 2003 Initial Quality Study, a survey of owners after 90 days of ownership. And for the ninth consecutive year, J.D. Power's vehicle dependability study named the LS 430 the most problem-free car after three years of ownership.
Clearly, the Lexus LS 430 is a luxury vehicle that owners do not need to worry about. They can simply enjoy its comfortable ambiance as it whisks them to their destinations.
The Lexus LS 430 ($55,125) is powered by a 290-horsepower 4.3-liter aluminum V8 and comes standard with a new six-speed automatic transmission. The LS 430 comes as one model, loaded with every feature expected of a flagship luxury sedan and more. For 2004, Lexus has added as standard equipment features that were previously optional, including a power moonroof with an auto open/close feature, a power rear sunshade, and lighted rear-seat vanity mirrors.
Several important option packages are available. A Sport Package ($220) sharpens the handling of the LS 430 with a sport-tuned suspension and 18-inch wheels and 245/45R18 summer tires.
In addition to the leather upholstery that comes standard, two grades of leather trim are available as optional, Semi-Aniline ($2,100) and Nappa ($1,460). A Premium Package ($1,390) adds front climate-controlled (heating/cooling) seats, heated rear seats, and sonar-based Intuitive Parking Assist.
A Custom Luxury Package ($5,935) is available with the Mark Levinson audio system, the navigation system with rear back-up camera, Bluetooth, the new Dynamic Radar Cruise Control, Intuitive Parking Assist, climate-controlled front seats with fans that circulate heated or chilled air, rear seat heaters, headlamp washers, and power door closers. The aptly named Ultra Luxury Package ($11,320) features all that plus the Adaptive Variable Air Suspension, SmartAccess, rear door sunshades, a rear seat adjuster with memory and massage feature, rear climate-controlled seats, rear air conditioner with optical deodorizer, and other rear-seat features.
The Lexus LS 430 is an attractive luxury car that makes a substantial, upscale statement, but don't expect young people to stop what they're doing to gawk as you whisper by. It tends to blend in, particularly in areas frequented by other luxury cars. It's somewhat distinguished for 2004 with styling revisions that are substantial but subtle to the casual observer.
The front fenders, hood, headlamps, fog lamps, grille, front and rear bumpers, trunk lid, and rear combination lamps are all new and the front headlamps have been redesigned. The standard 17-inch wheels have been redesigned and new 18-inch wheels are available with the Sport Package, freshening the profile. These changes clearly upgrade the appearance for 2004, giving it a more substantial look and more presence, but few are likely to say, 'Ohmigosh! It's the new LS 430!' Perhaps most noticeable to other motorists are the newly exposed dual exhaust tailpipes, which protrude from the lower edge of the bumper and project a look of power and performance to those in your rearview mirror. New LED brake lights are brighter, light up quicker, last longer, and draw less current, plus they look neat.
The LS 430 looks long and low, sleek and shapely. It cuts a handsome, though subtle profile. Its large passenger cabin with a generous greenhouse is sandwiched between a long hood and a short tail. Its canted windshield and elegant A-pillars are set off by the slant of the backlight (rear window) and thick, curvacious C-pillars that blend seamlessly into the rear flanks. The bold, trapezoidal grille thrusts it forward, while the hood bulges with power. The grille is rimmed in bright trim. The short, horizontal deck leads to a vertical back panel with oversized lamps at the corners, camouflaging the mass of the trunk.
The LS 430 is so streamlined that it earns a 0.26 coefficient of drag, 0.25 with the optional air suspension, making it one of the most aerodynamic shapes on the road. That contributes to exceptionally low wind noise and improved fuel economy. The slick exterior form is further enhanced by the remarkable fit of the body panels. Although Lexus has long been recognized for superior fit and finish, the quality achieved by the LS 430 reaches a new dimension. Engineers used a supercomputer to digitize all body surfaces, then worked out new fit tolerances ten times more precise than on the previous-generation (pre-2001) model.
The interior of the Lexus LS 430 is quiet, comfortable and luxurious and is loaded with high-tech gear designed to make driving safe and pleasurable. It isn't a showy interior, but the workmanship and attention to detail are first class. And a number of revisions improve what was already an excellent interior.
Majesty leather upholstery is standard and comes in a choice of Ash, Cashmere, Semi-Aniline Black and Comfort Interior in Saddle and Ecru. We found the light colors beautiful, but no one does black as well as the Germans. Snazzy perforated semi-aniline or luxury leather trim are optional. Rich wood trim in Bird's-Eye Maple or Walnut warms the LS 430 interior beautifully and there's an optional Antique Walnut with fired edges that's quite interesting.
The seats are roomy and can be quickly adjusted to a comfortable driving position. The driver faces an adjustable steering wheel trimmed in wood and leather with easy-to-use controls for the audio system. Vivid electroluminescent gauges rank among the best available and, for 2004, the needles are white, making the instruments easier to read. Window switches are illuminated, making them easy to find at night.
To the right, at the top of the center stack, is a seven-inch touch screen used to control climate and audio, as well as the optional navigation system. Thankfully, a set of hard buttons integrated along the driver's side of the touch screen is provided for the primary climate controls (temperature, fan speed, Auto, recirculate, defrost). A similar set of buttons to the right allows quick access to key navigation and audio functions. This combination of hard buttons and touch-screen buttons seems to work well. You can also use voice commands to direct the action: '68 degrees.' Your passenger should have no trouble finding and adjusting the separate temperature control. The automatic climate system reads temperature sensors around the cabin and aims cool air specifically at any hot spots where the sun is baring down.
The navigation system is improved for 2004 with more datapoints (5.6 million vs. last year's 785,000). It's also more sophisticated, using icons to show points of interest, and even displays building footprints in Manhattan and Chicago. Navigation systems are getting better every year. A new backup camera can help the driver spot objects behind the car. Whenever Reverse is selected, the system automatically projects an image (in living color) onto the navigation screen of whatever the camera lens can detect behind the car. Looking at this screen can help the driver spot objects that might be difficult to see in the mirrors or over the shoulder. As if that wasn't enough, the navigation system is linked to the optional Lexus Dual Mode Mobile Phone. For example, if a point of interest is called up on the navigation screen, a push of a button will dial the location directly.
Bluetooth technology is part of the optional navigation system as well. When combined with a Bluetooth-equipped phone, this wireless technology allows the driver to transfer personal phone books to the navigation system and make hands-free phone calls using the car's touch-screen display. Customers can place a hands-free call in different ways depending on their preference. To help prevent driver distraction, the one-touch dial feature is the only dialing function that a customer can access when the vehicle is in motion. The system can store up to 18 one-touch dial numbers. Some Bluetooth technology functions are disabled when the vehicle is in motion, but the driver can use steering wheel controls to answer and end calls as well as adjust call volume. This greatly extends the utility of the handheld cell phone, which can remain in the driver's pocket while underway. The system can be programmed to work with up to four different phones. The Lexus dealer orders a compatible phone for you.
Driving Impression
The Lexus LS 430 sets the benchmark for smooth ride quality. This is one smooth, quiet car, and riding in it is very pleasant. The engine is barely audible. Mechanical and road vibration is damped out. No other automaker does a better job than Lexus in creating a zone of serenity for driver and passengers.
The LS 430 handles well for such a large, luxurious sedan. It responds predictably when driven to the limit of the tires in corners, though it doesn't encourage you to do so the way a BMW does. The softness of the suspension results in squirmy transient response when compared with say, the BMW 745i. But the LS 430 does generate lots of grip and offers the responsiveness afforded by rear-wheel drive and double-wishbone suspension front and rear. New monotube shock absorbers improve handling for 2004. The new shocks are larger and more technologically advanced, resulting in flatter cornering response and a smoother ride. The steering system has also been improved for 2004, providing more road feel, more feedback, more precision.
Two suspension options are available, a sport suspension and an air suspension. The Sport Package features a sport-tuned suspension and 18-inch wheels and tires. This setup improves handling feel while maintaining a smooth, comfortable ride. While Mercedes and other manufacturers offer sport suspension packages that result in a harsh, choppy ride, this isn't one of them. Even with the sport suspension, the LS 430 rides smoothly and softly. The optional air suspension allows the driver to switch between two shock-damping modes (and to raise the ride height for driving in deep snow). However, the car floats a little more on the air suspension, even in the Sport mode, making it feel bigger, more boatlike. For this reason, we prefer the sport suspension.
The Lexus V8 is smooth and quiet, and the new six-speed automatic shifts so smoothly it's almost seamless. The 4.3-liter V8 generates 290 horsepower and 320 pounds-feet of torque. Acceleration performance has been improved significantly over last year's model. Lexus says the 2004 LS 430 can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 5.9 seconds, a significant improvement over last year's 6.3-second performance. The performance improvement is almost entirely a result of the new six-speed automatic. First gear is lower, and second, third, and fourth gears are closer together, all of which makes for a quicker launch and quicker acceleration. Yet the LS 430 still earns an EPA-estimated 18/25 mpg City/Highway, a benefit of the transmission's long-legged fifth and sixth gears. The driver can manually control shifting, though we found it usually best to put it in Drive and let it do its job. Engine and transmission are designed to favor smoothness over performance, however, so they do not offer the crispness of a BMW powertrain, the other end of the spectrum. The engine's electronic throttle control (drive-by-wire) system helps smooth acceleration from a standing start by very slightly delaying throttle opening when the driver steps on the accelerator pedal, and the transmission favors smoothness over shifting speed. But overall, the Lexus V8 and six-speed automatic are a powerful team, delivering strong acceleration performance for quick passing and freeway merging.
The brakes are responsive and easy to modulate for smooth stopping power. Four-channel, four sensor ABS helps the driver maintain steering control during panic stops. Brake Assist is designed to determine if the driver is attempting emergency braking and, if the driver has not stepped hard enough on the brake pedal to activate the anti-lock brake system, it applies maximum braking pressure until pedal pressure is released. Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) is an excellent active safety feature that helps control side skids under demanding conditions by correcting loss of lateral traction during cornering. VSC integrates traction control t.
The Lexus LS 430 excels as a luxury sedan with a cabin that's quiet, comfortable, and luxurious. It is a meticulously crafted car that offers every luxury amenity imaginable, plus a few we would not have imagined. Its construction quality is the best in the industry. Everything about its operation is smooth. Its powerful V8 and six-speed automatic are a smooth, silent team. Its ride is silky, its steering is smooth and precise, its brakes allow easy modulation for smooth stops. If you want a premium luxury sedan that delivers no-hassle smooth, luxurious sailing, the Lexus LS 430 should be at the top of the list.
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Lexus LS 430 ($55,125).
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Options As Tested
Sport Package ($220) includes Euro-tuned sport suspension, 18x7.5-inch aluminum wheels with 245/45R18 summer tires; Modern Luxury Package ($4,980) includes Mark Levinson Audio, Lexus Navigation system with rear back-up camera and Bluetooth technology' 4-spoke wood and leather steering wheel with Voice command, front climate control seats with heating/cooling control, rear seat heaters, Intuitive Parking Assist.
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Lexus LS 430 ($55,125).
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