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Loan Losses Force NCUA to Flip the Switch on Electrical Workers CU
A massive loan charge-off during the first quarter resulted in the NCUA liquidating the $622,857 Electrical Workers #527 FCU of Texas City, Texas.
In a release, the NCUA said it made the decision to liquidate the credit union and discontinue its operations after determining the credit union was insolvent and had no prospect for restoring viable operations.
That's an understatement, according to the 527-member credit union's financial performance reports posted on the NCUA's website. As of March 31, net worth plummeted to -36.07%, down from 7.23% the previous quarter.
The credit union's loan portfolio shrank from $977,894 as of Dec. 31 to just $546,111 as of March 31, with significant losses recorded in both unsecured loans and consumer loans.
Electrical Workers #527 had reported fairly high delinquencies – 16.26% of total loans as of Sept. 30, 2012 and 11.69% as of Dec. 31. Charge-offs were also high, reported as 7.08% as of 2012 year end. However, that number increased to 185.60% of average loans charged off in the first quarter.
The credit union also saw a 688% increase in its loan loss provisioning during the first quarter, setting aside $294,494 for loan losses compared to just $149,480 at year-end. The end result was a $295,220 net loss for the first quarter.
Electrical Workers #527 served a number of select groups centered primarily on electrical workers in the Texas City area. It is the seventh federally insured credit union to be liquidated in 2013.


text: So with the new flop rule starting this season, who do you think should benefit most on the Raps? I am guess Double D (DD) if he continues to attack the basket as he has been doing so far this preseason. I Know many teams will benefit from this rule but how do you guys think it will help our beloved Raps? Especially if Casey wants to play that up tempo game we seen in Preseason!

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Madison, Wis., Mayor Honored by League Chapter
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin was recently honored by members of the Madison Area Chapter of the Wisconsin Credit Union League for his efforts to drum up mayoral support for credit union member business lending legislation.
Soglin convinced a bipartisan group of 187 mayors nationwide who are members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors to pass a resolution in support of the bill in June.
"Mayor Soglin understands that credit unions can fill today's huge void for business credit because they have billions available to lend, a 100-year history of making business loans safely, the support of federal regulators and the support of 84% of Wisconsin voters who, like Forbes magazine, see this as an absolute no-brainer," said Brett Thompson, president/CEO of the Wisconsin Credit Union League.
Senate bill S. 2231 and its companion bill in the House, H.R. 1418, would increase the current cap on credit union business lending from 12.25% of assets to 27.5%. Supporters like CUNA say in the first year alone, the cap increase would make available $14 billion in new credit and 157,000 new jobs nationwide.


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Founded in 2013 by musician and painter Stone Malone, the gallery is located in the world famous Melrose District in Hollywood, California. Curated by Los Angeles based artist and designer Jonnie Rojas, the gallery exhibits a wide range of work from new emerging talents, as well as established artists from Los Angeles and all over the world.SMG exhibits the best in fine art, modern contemporary, pop, photography, and street art.
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text: Apparently Rudy Gay is being labelled the "pseudo superstar" after looking pretty good coming from the trade back in January. Considering that BC has been looking to obtain a "superstar" calibre player similar to an Tracy McGrady/Vince Carter/Chris Bosh, the word around town is that other than the fact that the Memphis Grizzlies wanted to cut off Gay due to the luxury tax, they felt that he wasn't as consistent as Conley, Gasol and Randolph. Can this one guy bring the raptors into playoff contention?


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The Cold War, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror ... we
sure have our share of long pervasive wars don't we?
I'll preface this blog by stating I don't have any personal opinion one way or
another about the current wars. War might not be always a necessity, but
it's a part of Earth life even down to the cellular level.
We're still fighting a war in Iraq and a war in Afghanistan, but the media
spotlight has already lost interest. That has to make someone wonder, "What's
next?" And there's always been something
There have been a few very important factors in the last few pervasive wars in
North America. The first being that the public did not clearly understand
the risks and factors until told so. Yeah, I saw planes crash into the
magnificent New York skyline, but myself and the near-entirety of the U.S.
population knew nothing about terrorism as a whole before that day.
Ronald Regan's war on drugs was similar: who in the U.S. knew anything about
cartel overloads in South America, willing to suck the life out of millions of
people just to build a bigger, more ostentatious villa in the Colombian
"What's next?" I ask. I think, unfortunately, I already know
the answer: the cyberwar. Every day we hear of international governments
hacking each other; or at least they're just now getting caught for doing
so. We have incredible masterminds at the helm of unfathomable networks,
digitally controlling our identities -- many of which don't care who they work
for as long as it pays well.
We're already on the cusp of digital manipulation and forgery for anything and
everything. Who hasn't heard about a database of a million or so social
security numbers getting hacked? In just this last month alone DailyTech pulled up a dozen or so
articles detailing major compromises.
All it will take is a single catastrophic event at this point, and the media
certainly isn't shy about looking for such a doomsday scenario.
"U.S. Nuclear Labs Hacked," says ABC News today. The staff writer at
ABC probably doesn't realize that Argonne used to host one of the largest U.S.
piracy hubs for the better part of a decade; or that of the tens of thousands
of machines hosted at those labs, several get hacked each day.
Think of many headlines you read about the next major Windows security
flaw that will "certainly" take down the Internet as we know it --
even here at DailyTech I'm ashamed to
Cyberwar, if the politicians ever figure out how to describe to the 80-year-old
voting demographic, is certainly on the agenda. The only thing I can wish
for is that the wheels of progress and essential liberty do not come to a halt
based on the whims of leaders who do not understand the volatile nature of all
things digital.


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GNOME Commander is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has a "two-pane" interface in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander. It features drag'n'drop, GNOME MIME types, FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV using the GnomeVFS FTP module, SAMBA access, the ability to extend the context menu with entries to call external applications or scripts on the selected items, quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting, a fast file viewer for text and images, a history of recently accessed folders, and folder bookmarks.
Lilblue Linux is a Gentoo-based, security-enhanced, fully featured XFCE4 desktop system for amd64, built on uClibc. Its userland utilities are not provided by busybox, but by coreutils, util-Linux, etc. It resembles a common Linux system with one exception: It uses uClibc as its standard C library and not the more common glibc, and so brings in some of the advantages of embedded systems. Security enhancements come from Gentoo's hardened toolchain and Grsec/PaX-patched kernel. The fully-featured XFCE4 desktop has software for browsing, email, word processing, multimedia, chat, games, and more.
ThinLinc is a fast and versatile remote desktop solution. It is based on open source software such as TigerVNC, SSH, and PulseAudio. The ThinLinc server software can be used to publish Linux/Unix desktops and applications to thin clients. The system also supports Windows Remote Desktop Services and VirtualBox. ThinLinc supports redirection of sound, serial ports, disk drives, local printers, and Smart Card readers. Clients are available for a wide variety of platforms. When used with the VirtualGL software, ThinLinc can deliver high performance graphics with OpenGL applications in a thin client environment.
CTWM is a highly-configurable window manager based on the classic TWM window manager. It supports xpms, multiple workspaces, advanced icon managment, animated icons and backgrounds, 3D titles and borders, etc. It offers rudimentary Gnome support and is backwards-compatible with TWM.
gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python and pyGTK. It manages podcast feeds for you, and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like. If you are interested in Podcast feeds, simply put the feed URLs into gPodder and it will download all episodes for you automatically. If there is a new episode, it will get it for you. It supports download resume, if the server supports it.
Florence is a scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when you don't need it. It is useful if you can't use a real keyboard either because of a handicap, disease, broken keyboard, or tablet PC but you can use a pointing device. It aims at being easy and pretty.
BitRock InstallBuilder allows you to create easy-to-use multiplatform installers for Linux (x86/PPC/s390/x86_64/Itanium), Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (x86/Sparc), IRIX, AIX, and HP-UX applications. The generated application installers have a native look-and-feel and no external dependencies, and can be run in GUI, text, and unattended modes. In addition to self-contained installers, the installation tool is also able to generate standalone RPM packages.
A tool to conduct TCP performance analysis.
Tiny, portable general Unix utilities.


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ZedCMS is a simple base content management system from which more complicated systems can be developed. It is designed so a Web developer can quickly produce customised websites, and is not really for users. Users wanting to setup their own websites are better off with a different system, like Wordpress.
Arcavias is an e-commerce framework for Web shops, consisting of an e-commerce library, an administration interface, and different frontends. It's a modular stack which offers flexibility and speed. Unlike other Web shops, it's not a monolithic application. Instead, you have a choice between several user frontends, and you can adapt them to your needs or write one of your own.
flexi cart is a shopping cart library for CodeIgniter. While CodeIgniter comes with its own cart library, the library is quite basic in functionality and is only aimed at creating simple e-commerce stores. The flexi cart library includes the following features: shipping, taxes, localisation, discounts and reward points/vouchers, multiple currencies, item stock control, surcharges, saving/loading of incomplete carts for later shopping, multilingual custom status and error messages, and currency and weight conversion tools.
CraftShirt is software for running a Web site that lets users design and buy t-shirts. It features a shopping cart and a powerful online t-shirt designer. This is a turnkey solution for an online t-shirt printing business. It is pure AJAX; no Flash technology is used. It supports multiple payment and shipping plugins. It is built on top of the osCommerce e-commerce engine, which is integrated with a powerful graphics tool that allows advanced image manipulation and overlaying.
A simple WebDAV 1.0 server.
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Sears, 3101 N MAIN ST, ANDERSON, South Carolina, 29621-2767
Store Hours of Operation, Location & Phone Number for Sears Near You
Hours(Opening & Closing Times):
Monday: 8:00am - 7:00pm Tuesday: 8:00am - 7:00pm Wednesday: 8:00am - 7:00pm Thursday: 8:00am - 7:00pm Friday: 8:00am - 7:00pm Saturday: 8:00am - 7:00pm Sunday: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Phone Number: (864) 261-4293
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Formerly known as Sears Roebuck and Co., Sears operates a large chain of department stores throughout North America, particularly in the United States and Canada. Originally started in 1820, the Sears Company began as a mail order company, before expanding into the department store industry. Products found among the network of Sears department stores include clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, appliances, electronics, tools, hardware, and automotive parts. More than 2,200 department store locations help produce over $22 billion in annual revenue for Sears.
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CAFE restrictions are forcing all auto manufacturers to release more fuel
efficient vehicles. As a result, it's becoming commonplace to see compact
sedans cracking the 40 mpg (highway) barrier and hybrid vehicles are
becoming more prevalent.
At this week's New York Auto Show, three manufactures are
showing off new models that come close to (or achieve) the magic 40-mpg mark in
highway driving.
The first model is Chevrolet's new midsize 2013 Malibu ECO. The entire
Malibu range got a makeover for the 2012 model year, and the ECO is the most
fuel efficient of the bunch. The Malibu ECO uses the same powertrain first seen
in the Regal
eAssist and LaCrosse
eAssist from Buick. This means that a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine is
paired with GM's mild hybrid system.
When all is said and done, the Malibu ECO is good for 26 mpg
in the city and 38 mpg on the highway -- the maximum driving range for the
vehicle is 550 miles. The competing Fusion
Hybrid offers fuel economy numbers of 41/36, but the Malibu ECO will likely
cost much less (official pricing is not yet available) than the Ford's $28,990
price of entry. It may, however, find tougher pricing pressure from the Hyundai
Sonata Hybrid (35/40) which is priced from $26,545.
"Malibu ECO exemplifies Chevrolet's drive to use
technology that delivers high-value, gas-friendly performance," said
Scheidt. "In fact, the Malibu ECO delivers the fuel economy of a compact
car in a midsize sedan."
Moving on the to the first of two smaller entries, Nissan is
gearing up with its next generation 2012 Versa. This ungainly sedan is all-new and starts at a low, low $10,990. Nissan says that
the sculpted body (CD of 0.31), lighter weight (the new model is 150 pounds
lighter than the outgoing model), and fuel sipping 1.6-liter, 109hp engine make
for impressive fuel economy.
The Versa is rated at 33 mpg in the city and 37 mpg on the
highway (33 mpg combined).
"The new Versa Sedan stands out as the only expensive
looking car in the segment – with a lot of eye power," said Al
Castignetti, vice president and general manager for Nissan North America.
"Its sculpted, dynamic proportions are modern without being gimmicky,
projecting a much higher sense of design value than you might expect."
The last newcomer is Hyundai's new 2012 Accent. The
new Accent features a 1.6-liter engine like the aforementioned Versa, but it
generates a healthy -- for a subcompact -- 138hp. Despite the added power, the
Accent manages to post up impressive fuel economy numbers as well. The Accent
is rate at 30 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway.
"Accent's class-leading standard fuel economy is
another showcase of Hyundai's dedication to improving fuel efficiency with
advancements to traditional gasoline powered vehicles and is the fourth
nameplate in Hyundai's lineup delivering 40 mpg on the highway."
The 2012 Accent is priced from $12,445, and will be available in sedan and hatchback models.
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Here's another 40MPG vehicle for you today. Mazda just announced that its 2.0-liter SKYACTIV-G four-cylinder engine would be made available in the 2012 Mazda3 (both sedan and hatchback models). The Mazda3 may be known for its handling prowess, but it's equally well known for its relatively low fuel efficiency compared to its other compact rivals.
The new SKYACTIV-G engine (155hp @ 6,000 rpm, 148 lb-ft @ 4,100 rpm) solves that problem by improving fuel economy from 24/33 (city/highway) in the previous 2.0-liter engine with a 5-speed automatic to 28/40 with a 5-speed automatic (sedan). Those who opt to row their own gears will see returns of 27/39.
The hatchback (which previously was only available with the 2.5-liter engine) will also now have the SKYACTIV-G option. In hatchback form, the vehicle achieves 28/38 with an automatic transmission and 27/38 with the manual transmission.
In addition to the new engine option, the 2012 Mazda3 models also get an updated front fascia that has less of a "smile" and revamped rear taillights.
"SKYACTIV is not just an engine; it is the next generation of advanced vehicle performance and efficiency," said Jim O'Sullivan, President and CEO, Mazda North American Operations (MNAO). "SKYACTIV embodies Mazda's philosophy of engineering only vehicles that are fun to drive, satisfying to own and environmentally responsible; and there is no better vehicle to start with than the Mazda3, one of the most exciting sport compact cars on the road."


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Angel's Destiny RPG is a game based on Final Fantasy 2. There is a system for overworld maps and a combat system which randomizes attacks from banding enemies. Thus you can fight in a side-view screen just as the FF2 combat phases. It features a small overland map with two full levels, including a town where you can talk to NPCs. The system provides for a room with attacks and one without.
PrestaShop Custom Fields is a module that allows merchants to add extra fields to the checkout page. These can be used to get extra information from customers. Fields can be text, text area, date, yes/no, multi-select, drop-down, check box, radio button, and message only. Input validation is supported.
Goozzee allows you to easily create, browse, and share knowledge bases and documentation repositories using topic maps. It can be used standalone with an embedded database or in multi-user mode with a MySQL or MariaDB server to store its data. It can store notes and files of any type and size, create links between notes and files, browse through your knowledge base by following these links, or search notes using the fast and powerful full text search engine.
PrestaShop Store Locator Module allows you to show different stores locations on Google Maps like Google places. It adds a new tab to product pages that shows different store locations with availability of product. It can also automatically sense the user's location if enable from the backend.
PrestaShop Advance Search Friendly URL Module is used to remove dynamically generated IDs and numbers from the URLs of different Web pages. The default URL typically contains different IDs, tags, and numbers that are not according to the guideline of search engines. This PrestaShop friendly URL module removes auto generated session IDs quickly, e.g. if your URL is www.domain.com/56product-a.php/profile&5649876, it will replace the number and IDs, e.g. www.domain.com/product-a.
Foodsoft is online software for a non-profit food coop. It features a product catalog, order cycle management, accounting, and tasks. A food cooperative is a group of people that buy food from suppliers of their own choosing; a collective do-it-yourself supermarket. Members order their products online and collect them on a specified day, and all put in a bit of work to make that possible. foodsoft facilitates the ordering and administration.
PrestaShop Advance Support Module is a customer support plugin for ticketing. You can offer your customers the chance to submit queries with different formats of attached files (PDF, Word, text, Excel, images, etc.). The admin can see and manage all the information of tickets submitted by the customer (last response of customer, attachments, ticket status, date and time of submitted tickets, etc.). You can set and manage ticket status, priorities, departments, email templates, premade replies, internal notes, and much more.
TAO Translator (formerly, The Advanced Online Translator) uses online translation services to provide translations. Currently supported services: Google Translate (supports translation, language detection, dictionary, and reverse translations for single words); Microsoft Translator, a.k.a. Bing Translator (supports translation only); Yandex.Translate (supports translation and language detection); and Yandex.Dictionaries (supports dictionary with synonyms and reverse translations). More services are possible in the future.
A 2D vector drawing program with PDF output.
An iTunes companion for BPM detection, song matching, and meta data correction.


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NATO launches major Afghan offensive
NATO launched its biggest offensive in Afghanistan since the 2001 war, targeting the Taliban and drug lords as hundreds of people rallied in the east against US soldiers killing civilians.
Operation Achilles, which will eventually involve 4,500 NATO soldiers and 1,000 Afghans, began about dawn in Helmand province - the opium centre of the world's biggest producer, the head of the alliance's southern command Dutch Major-General Ton van Loon said in a statement.
The Taliban over-ran the key Helmand town of Musa Qala a month ago, ending a controversial truce, but a NATO spokeswoman said Achilles was not specifically aimed at regaining the town.
"It signifies the beginning of a planned offensive to bring security to northern Helmand and set the conditions for meaningful development that will fundamentally improve the quality of life for Afghans in the area," van Loon said.
NATO has about 33,000 troops in the country, including support personnel.
The open-ended operation is aimed largely at allowing the repair and expansion of the province's Kajaki dam hydroelectric facility.
"Operations will focus on improving security in areas where Taliban extremists, narco-traffickers and other elements are trying to destabilise the government," van Loon said.
More than 4,000 people died in fighting last year, the bloodiest since US-led forces ousted the Taliban in 2001.
NATO, the US and the Taliban are warning of a bloody spring offensive as the snows melt, with both sides vowing to take the initiative.
The offensive came as hundreds of people protested in the eastern city of Jalalabad, near Pakistan, over the killing of several civilians by US troops on Sunday.
At least 2,000 people blocked the highway between the city and Kabul, a major trade route to Pakistan, chanting "Death to Americans!", witnesses said.
They demanded strict action by the government against the Marines responsible, who opened fire after their convoy was hit by a suicide bomber.
Officials say at least 10 civilians were killed and the New York-based Human Rights Watch says between eight and 16 died.
The US military will only say 16 people died in the suicide attack and subsequent shooting after militants opened fire.
"Suicide bombers in Afghanistan regularly pose as civilians, but that doesn't give coalition forces carte blanche to respond with indiscriminate fire," Human Rights Watch's Asia director, Brad Adams said in a statement.
"The fact that the insurgents violate the laws of war doesn't absolve the US and its allies of the need to observe them.
Human Rights Watch said it was "concerned that the US military is attempting to control information" about the incident, saying the military confiscated the cameras of local and foreign journalists and deleted images and footage.
The Afghan government has launched an inquiry, but previous such investigations by the government, NATO and US forces have done nothing more than confirm initial witness accounts.
US forces also killed nine civilians - five women, three children and an old man - with a 2,000 pound bomb near Kabul after a post was attacked.
"The US military should ensure that meaningful investigations take place in both cases," Human Rights Watch said.
"Appropriate action, including disciplinary measures and prosecution, should be undertaken as warranted."
Analysts say civilian deaths undermine support for foreign troops in a country where most of the population is seeing almost no reconstruction and development to lift living standards.
Afghan leaders say foreign soldiers need to work more closely with local soldiers and police to be able to tell militants from ordinary people and minimise civilian deaths.
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What's in a name? If the name is Dixie State College, based in St. George, Utah, it's nothing to sneeze at. Recently, as the college began moving closer to becoming a university, locals saw this as the perfect opportunity to sever any connection to the South's history of slavery and racism. Defenders countered that the name most likely derived from pioneer attempts to grow cotton in southwest Utah. Besides, they say, hundreds of local businesses pride themselves on the so-called "Dixie Spirit" of friendliness. Perhaps the name has good intentions, but as the daily Spectrum pointed out, the history of the college also includes hosting mock slave auctions, flying Confederate flags and erecting a statue honoring Confederate soldiers.
Spectrum columnist Sally Musemeche talked to lots of people about the issue, and many were baffled and saddened that anyone would be offended by such things, or by a sports team named "The Dixie Rebels." "Only the over-sensitive" could possibly read racism into this, they said; Dixie really means "the spirit of independence." If that's true, Musemeche suggested, then the college ought to start celebrating the state's own civil war - an armed confrontation between the Mormon settlers in the Utah territory and the armed forces of the U.S. government, which lasted from May 1857 until July 1858: "Go, Dixie!"
Speaking of names, how about the high school in Tonopah, Nev., that calls its basketball team the "Fighting Muckers"? Or Orofino, Idaho, with its team dubbed the "Maniacs"? As reader Wes Perrin discovered, unusual names for high school teams are a Western staple, with Phantoms, Blue Devils and Sun Devils standing out from all those Huskies and Eagles. But we believe the most unusual name can be found in Yuma, Ariz., where basketball players don warm-up suits in black-and-white stripes because their team is called the "Criminals." Students buy merchandise from a store called the Cell Block, reports the San Francisco Examiner, and the team mascot wears a burlap prison uniform and a plaster-of-Paris head with a scary, scrunched-up face that resembles somebody's notion of a perpetrator. The odd name was born 103 years ago, when Yuma's high school burned down, and the only available site for classes was a former territorial prison. Students used the old cells for several years, but the Criminals name was officially adopted in 1913, after a rival team from Phoenix claimed that Yuma cheated and "stole a victory." The team decided to treat the slur as a badge of honor, and in 1917, the school board officially approved the distinctive moniker. Perrin notes that for several years, the Criminals - cheered on with a hearty, "Go, Crims!" - faced a rival in the felon department: Bagdad, Ariz., fielded the "Thieves" until 1958, when the team's name was changed to the less interesting "Sultans."
It read like one of the sweetest wildlife stories ever - the tale of an orphaned bobcat that was too darned nice. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the affectionate bobcat kitten - known as Chips - was found in the burning Plumas National Forest, a surprising survivor at only a few weeks old. Soon Chips had adapted to humans so completely that biologists doubted that she could survive in the wild. So volunteers at the Sierra Wildlife Rescue in Placerville have begun squirting her with water whenever she cuddles up to a human; the couch is now verboten for naps; and Chips must chase down her own mice and rabbits or go hungry. The hope is that all this tough love toughens up Chips, though the fact that she's alive at all bodes well for the bobcat.
"How it survived with the fire passing through is miraculous," said Forest Service spokesman John Heil.
Talk about an ick factor! Northern Arizona's Snowbowl ski resort recently fired up its guns to spray some fake snow, and to the horror of all concerned, "the snow that blasted onto the mountain was yellow," reports The New York Times. But the snow was not yellow because it is the first in the world to be made completely from sewage effluent. No, the problem was caused by "rusty residue" in the snowmaking equipment that carries wastewater from Flagstaff, at least according to the resort. Skiers tried out the artificial snow, and although at least one found the yellow surface "disgusting," he said he was also confident that it would discourage him from making any face-plants.
For years, tribes that regard the area as sacred and other critics have fought the resort's continuing development and sued to prevent the use of treated sewage for snowmaking. Now, they said, the Forest Service and state needed to do some investigating and find out exactly what had turned the snow yellow.
Betsy Marston is the editor of Writers on the Range, an op ed service of High Country News (hcn.org). Tips and photos of Western weirdness from readers are always appreciated at email@example.com.


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This study is maintained and distributed by the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP). NAHDAP is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), 1994: [United States] (ICPSR 2756)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) survey is designed to capture data on emergency department (ED) episodes that are induced by or related to the use of an illicit, prescription, or over-the-counter drug. For purposes of this collection, a drug "episode" is an ED visit that was induced by or related to the use of an illegal drug or the nonmedical use of a legal drug for patients aged six years and older. A drug "mention" refers to a substance that was mentioned during a drug-related ED episode. Because up to four drugs can be reported for each drug abuse episode, there are more mentions than episodes in the data. Individual persons may also be included more than once in the data. Within each facility participating in DAWN, a designated reporter, usually a member of the emergency department or medical records staff, was responsible for identifying drug-related episodes and recording and submitting data on each case. An episode report was submitted for each patient visiting a DAWN emergency department whose presenting problem(s) was/were related to their own drug use. DAWN produces estimates of drug-related emergency department visits for 50 specific drugs, drug categories, or combinations of drugs, including the following: acetaminophen, alcohol in combination with other drugs, alprazolam, amitriptyline, amphetamines, aspirin, cocaine, codeine, diazepam, diphenhydramine, fluoxetine, heroin/morphine, inhalants/solvents/aerosols, LSD, lorazepam, marijuana/hashish, methadone, methamphetamine, and PCP/PCP in combination with other drugs. The use of alcohol alone is not reported. The route of administration and form of drug used (e.g., powder, tablet, liquid) are included for each drug. Data collected for DAWN also include drug use motive and total drug mentions in the episode, as well as race, age, patient disposition, reason for ED visit, and day of the week, quarter, and year of episode.
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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies. Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), 1994: [United States]. ICPSR02756-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-03-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02756.v2
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: demographic characteristics, drug abuse, drug dependence, drug overdose, drug use, emergencies, emergency services, health behavior, hospitalization, substance abuse
Geographic Coverage: United States
- 1994
- 1994
Universe: Patients treated during 1994 in the emergency department of nonfederal, short-stay general hospitals that have a 24-hour emergency department. Eligible respondents were those patients who met the following criteria: (1) they were aged 6 years or older, (2) their presenting problem(s) was/were induced by or related to drug use, regardless of when the drug ingestion occurred, (3) the case involved the nonmedical use of a legal drug or any use of an illegal drug, (4) the patient's reason for taking the substance(s) included one of the following: (a) dependence, (b) suicide attempt or gesture, or (c) psychic effects.
Because data are abstracted from medical records completed by hospital staff who treat the patients, the accuracy of these reports depends on their careful recording of these conditions. It is also important to recognize that DAWN does not provide a complete picture of problems associated with drug use, but rather focuses on the impact that these problems have on hospital emergency departments in the United States. If a person is admitted to another part of the hospital for treatment, or treated in a physician's office or at a drug treatment center, the episode would not be included in DAWN.
To protect the privacy of respondents, all variables that could be used to identify individuals have been encrypted or collapsed in the public use file. These modifications should not affect analytic uses of the public use file.
In January 1994, several DAWN hospital emergency departments in Los Angeles were closed for a period of time due to the Northridge earthquake. In addition, emergency department records in some facilities were destroyed. This may explain the decrease in the total number of drug-related episodes in Los Angeles between the first half of 1993 and the first half of 1994.
Changes in reporting procedures in 1994 in two national panel hospitals may have caused an increase in the volume of drug-related cases reported there. Because these hospitals reported a large number of methamphetamine cases, part of the estimated 75 percent increase in methamphetamine-related episodes from 1993 to 1994 may be an artifact. However, after removing these two hospitals from the estimation, methamphetamine still showed a 45-percent increase.
The data were collected and cleaned by Johnson, Bassin, and Shaw, Inc. Westat, Inc. created the weights and analytic files, and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) created the public use file and codebook.
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Sample: More than 500 EDs that were part of a scientifically- selected sample of general hospitals in the country provided data for DAWN. The DAWN sample is constructed to produce estimates of substance abuse visits to emergency departments across the nation and to 21 oversampled metropolitan areas. The sample design of DAWN does not permit state-level estimates. Hospitals in the frame were stratified according to size, with hospitals reporting 80,000 or more annual emergency department visits assigned to a single stratum and selected with certainty. Additional strata were defined according to whether the hospital had an organized outpatient department or a chemical/alcohol inpatient unit. The 21 oversampled MSAs include: Atlanta, GA, Baltimore, MD, Boston, MA, Buffalo, NY, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Denver, CO, Detroit, MI, Los Angeles, CA, Miami, FL, Minneapolis, MN, New Orleans, LA, New York, NY, Newark, NJ, Philadelphia, PA, Phoenix, AZ, San Diego, CA, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, St. Louis, MO, and Washington, DC.
Mode of Data Collection: hospital medical records
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Restrictions: Users are reminded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration that these data are to be used solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for the investigation of specific individuals or organizations.
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Assessing Local Legal Culture: Practitioner Norms in Four Criminal Courts, 1979 (ICPSR 7808)
Principal Investigator(s): Church, Thomas W. Jr.
This study attempts to operationalize the concept of local legal culture by examining differences in the processing of twelve hypothetical criminal cases in four criminal courts. Questionnaires asking how these hypothetical cases should best be handled were administered to judges, district attorneys, and defense attorneys in four cities: Bronx County (New York City), New York, Detroit, Michigan, Miami, Florida, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In each city, the presiding judge, prosecutor, and head of the public defender's office were informed of the project. Questionnaires were distributed to prosecuting attorneys and public defenders by their supervisors. Judges were contacted in person or given questionnaires with a cover letter from the presiding judge. All questionnaires were completed anonymously and returned separately by respondents. The variables include number of years the respondent had been in the criminal justice system, preferred mode of disposition and of sentencing for each of the twelve cases, and the respondents' predictions of the probability of conviction in each case.
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Church, Thomas W., Jr. ASSESSING LOCAL LEGAL CULTURE: PRACTITIONER NORMS IN FOUR CRIMINAL COURTS, 1979. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1997. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07808.v1
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Subject Terms: attorneys, court cases, courts, courtroom proceedings, disposition (legal), judges, legal systems, sentencing
Geographic Coverage: United States
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Universe: Judges, district attorneys, and defense attorneys in four cities in the United States.
Sample: Systematic samples of lawyers and judges were drawn from the four cities studied.
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Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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Craig, I've never seen a blowtorch ever produce a pie that looks like yours- or any other archetypal Neapolitan pizza. I also strongly believe that combustion never consumes 100% of a fuel and, for some people, trace amounts of blowtorch fuel can be detected in the flavor of the crust.
+1 on the torch. Here is little video I did for friend to help him with the pizzas he makes in his conventional oven.
How beautiful is that? And added "oven" spring as an extra bonus!
then you might want to think of a trick, such as the frozen towel technique.
+1 on the torch. Here is little video I did for friend to help him with the pizzas he makes in his conventional oven. Absolutely no residual taste or smell from butane.
Scott where can we find info on this technique?Mark
Modifying Oven to Get Higher TempsOven modification/Bosch Universal pie.Last night's dough w/tricked ovenYou love Neopolitan-style pizza, but don't want to invest in a brick oven.
I have an Iwatani butane torch I use for searing meat cooked via Sous Vide. It is a serious torch. I used it on a pizza one time as part of an experiment, and the resulting pizza had an overly bitter acrid flavor that made it entirely uneatable. I've mentioned this here in the past an pissed a bunch of people off for some reason, but that was my experience. For the record I recently did some soldering with the Iwatani and would venture to say it is 4 times more powerful then a standard plumbers torch.
The flame may not be hotter then MAPP, but it is MUCH larger and as a result produces way more heat. I was soldering some large copper my MAPP torch has struggled with in the past, with the Iwatani I had the solder flowing in about 10 seconds. I've never had an issue with off flavors in my meats using this, it is a professional culinary torch used in commercial kitchens, but it did something to that pizza that was just vial, lol.


text: should be fought with no aid of kurama, no aid of sharingan. just them duking it out. I'm sure some of the fight will involve that. but when it gets down to it i want them just beating the snot out of each giving it their EVERYTHING, keep getting back up.. other til naruto gets the last punch and does talk-no-jutsu. thoughts?


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August 30, 2009
Edi disappointed that Laurent doesn't have a Sparkle Scene in New Moon
I haven't got my copy of New Moon to hand (because I lent it to convert a friend like any good Twilighter) but I'm pretty sure that when Bella finds the meadow again, it's in sunlight... (<-- Turns out, it's NOT sunny in the book scene...)
Sooo, when Laurent appears, why doesn't he sparkle, dammit?!
- Lorabell ;)
UPDATE: G'morning, everybody! What a weekend of news.
Thanks to the readers who clarified that the weather was mostly cloudy with a side of meatballs on the day that Laurent and Bella met up in the meadow in New Moon.
No wonder Laurent doesn't have a sparkle scene -- because he doesn't have a big sunny moment, even though it appears in the above movie still that there is a little sunlight. I'm guessing that 'sunnyness' will be gone in post-production once the movie comes out -- because if it's not and Laurent doesn't sparkle, that would be totally lameo!
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P.S. You can read more about how Edi is bummed not to have a sparkle scene at MTV.
31 comments:
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Wow! That has never occurred to me! He SHOULD sparkle! BIG BIG mistake if they don't have him sparklin'! Maybe they're not done with all the cgi effects. The cast said the film they saw was a rough cut.ReplyDelete
Hmmm I never even thought of that lol. I think it was a sunny day but maybe it wasn't. I need to go back and check now ;)ReplyDelete
@Jade514: Let me know if you do!ReplyDelete
- Lorabell ;)
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Was he black in the book? I can't remember, I read it a while ago and lent it to a friend. I was thinking maybe because of his dark skin he doesn't sparkle? I mean he can't exactly be pale either, so maybe you only sparkle if you're pale.ReplyDelete
I don't think it was sunny that day. Bella says something like this time the meadow was cloudy. Am I right?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 12:33 AM
He wasn't black in the book - he had an olive-toned pallor IIRCReplyDelete
Also it said something like 'it was not nearly as beautiful without the sunlight' I think. Could be wrong though?
I don't think it was sunny that day! It was a different season and there were no flowers and everything was brown/dead and drab. Like Bella's mood. The meadow didn't have the same effect it had when Edward brought her there in Twilight. I haven't read the book in awhile, but I'm fairly sure I remember the comment about the dreariness in so many words.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 12:56 AM
It wasn't sunny at all that day in the book. Bella specifically mentions it.ReplyDelete
I don't think it has anything to do with being black. I think it is because they probably don't want to have to use that cheesy CGI sparkle any more than they have to.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 1:02 AM
Well I can see the sun shinning on him in the pic. Maybe they'll change the overlay color to look cloudy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 1:02 AM
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- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 1:27 AM
Pg.232 It was cloudy, but almost dry-a very niceday, for Forks. Pg.234 The place wasn't nearly as stunning w/out the sunlight, but it was still very beautiful and serene.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 2:08 AM
Nice work anon 8:27. Anon 8:02, get out of here!ReplyDelete
hummm, cuz his black? .ReplyDelete
I thought it was because he was dark skinned or because he was evil LMAOReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 4:02 AM
UH! one olive toned in a book description means hes black or darker skinned so anonymous 7:33 grow a brain, and two most like the reason he doesnt sparkle is because they didnt have time to add in the complex cgi there is in making him sparkle, i mean they released this trailer only like 2 weeks after they finished filming, its not like they had a lot of time to add cgi in. so lets not be racist and say its cause he's black you know no director/produce would be that judgmental.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 4:26 AM
HE DOESN'T SPARKLE BECUASE THE F**ING SUN WASN'T OUT! SO STOP ARGUING ABOUT SKIN COLOR!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 4:31 AM
An "olive skinned" description does NOT mean the person is "black or darker skinned", Anon 11:02!!!ReplyDelete
So lay off of Anon 7:33- their post was NOT racist. Wow this site is going to pot, but quick.
Please folks calm down. There's no shit storm - just some questions, varying viewpoints, and some misunderstandings. It was an honest question - we are fans but we are also human so we can't be expected to remember every single detail of each book.ReplyDelete
Why Laurent doesn't sparkle in the movie regardless of how it looked in the trailer or at the screening that Edi saw is creative license of the production team.
Now I wish he did sparkle and had wind chimes playing in the background so I could crack up like I did when it happened in "Twilight." To this day it makes me laugh even though I know it is going to happen.
He doesn't sparkle. So he doesn't sparkle. I love Laurent. Why shouldest it matter? It's not because he's black. I think anon pg. 232 said it was cloudy is why he doesn't sparkle. Read the book. She/he is right.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 6:32 AM
About a previous post, Do you know Argentina? or argentinian girls? so shut the fuck up! Luisana is gorgeous! Naturally blond with blue eyes! She have a great body, and she is a respect actress here in Argentina. I wanna see a picture of you, fucking racist!ReplyDelete
Seriously guys grow up. This is not the time nor place to be getting into stupid arguments over miscommunication. Olive tone does not necessarily mean black it just means olive toned skin. Like most latin descendants as well as european, such as the polish people and italian people as well. I personally think lorabell brought up a valid point because when I read it, it made me stop and think as well. If you have an issue with lorabell's preferences take it elsewhere I for one do not accept intolerance. If you like this site then read it, but do not come here to put anyone else down and act like children it reflects poorly on your character. Please keep this a "safe" place to come and enjoy the wonderful world SMeyer has created, because I hate to see that a site I enjoy very, very much may be less enjoyable now to other people's intolerance. For the record I think KStew is hot too lorabell...lol. For the record, the fact that you are all anon says that you may not want to be held accountable for acting childish so don't do it!ReplyDelete
I think that's a great question lorrabell, I hadn't considered it, even when Edi mentioned he wished he had sparkled!ReplyDelete
ah as already said in the book the meadow is cloudy and sunless that day hence no sparkle :o)
But the trailer does show Laurent and Bella in a sunny place.... so crossing fingers Edi gets to realise his dream of seeing his character sparkle.lol and seriously hope the sparkles are not so dodgy as in Twilight coz that was LAME!!
- It's me, EdwardAugust 31, 2009 at 8:37 AM
I get why he doesn't sparkle in the book, but in the trailer, the meadow does seem sunny. Hmmm... I'm intrigued.ReplyDelete
And I really don't get what happened with people's comments here, so I'll just ignore them for lack of civility and intellectuality.
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 9:15 AM
^ I doesn't seem sunny in the trailer either, it's not dark when it's cloudy people. You can clearly see there is no sunshine even in the trailer.ReplyDelete
As you said its not black that we are always look in to it.ReplyDelete
- It's me, EdwardAugust 31, 2009 at 10:13 AM
I watched the trailer again. The meadow isn't sunny... so no sparkling Laurent. :(ReplyDelete
Hey guys,ReplyDelete
It's TwiCrack Addict here. Just saw all of the comments here.
Sorry for the confusion / controversy we may have kicked up with our random musings.
The story was really around how Edi Gathegi is bummed that he doesn't have a scene where he sparkles, and I think that there was some confusion around the following:
1) Was there any Sun in the Laurent/Bella meadow showdown in the book? --> turns out, not really...
2) Will there be sunlight in the movie scene btw. Bella and Laurent, since the pics that we've seen so far seem a bit sunny? --> well, my guess is no.
As @TJB said, this was never about creating controversy, but about how closely the movie mirrors the book. Moreover, we never meant to suggest anything about race or skin color in this equation, and it's quite surprising to me that it even came up...
Looks like we still need to wait and see what the final cut of this scene looks like!
Yowza peeps, I did not expect such a tangent!ReplyDelete
I just thought it ironic that Edi was sad he didn't get to sparkle but the trailer looked sunny-ish.
Since I couldn't remember exactly what the books said about the weather in this scene (even though I've read the series more times than I can remember at this point) I wondered whether it'd be "fixed" for the movie.
That is the last time I post something quizzical before bed, lol ;)
P.s. Negativity is never called for - especially Anonymous 11.26 who "shouted" in caps.
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2009 at 11:38 PM
hahahahahaha........... okay maybe the dude does sparkle?ReplyDelete
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Trivial Memories of My First Baseball Book
I'm relatively new to MLBlogs so I'm still discovering new shiny things every time I visit. This weekend it was the Baseball Books blog. A little infrequently updated – which I understand – but a great concept. I really liked the what is your most precious baseball book post from April, but it was so old I hesitated to comment. Still, that post got the question spinning around in my brain and I figured I would answer it here. My most precious baseball book is kind of an odd choice. It isn't valuable. It isn't even necessarily good, but it was my first: Remembrance of Swings Past by Ron Luciano. It's a part memoir, part historical baseball trivia book written by a former major league umpire.
Allow me to explain, my father has a head for trivia, one that I've inherited. We like to joke that no factoid is too trivial, no random piece of data so inconsequential that our brains will not latch onto it forever at the expense of a lot of, quite frankly, much more important information. We come by it honestly. My grandfather was a similar repository of useless but intriguing information and I can only assume that in each generation going all the way back to Ireland there was at least one gleeful collector of random facts. Hey, as family heritages go, it's less painful than low arches and a lot less responsibility than a decaying manor house in a far away land – I'll take it.
For this reason my sister and I gave our sports loving dad this book, a Joe Madden football trivia book and, if memory serves, one of the Far Side Gallery collections (How's that for a trip in the way back machine boys and girls?) for Father's Day one year. I was a kid who always had to have something to read to the point where, when new books were lacking, I would start rereading old books, peruse the encyclopedias (no joke!), or pick up pretty much anything my parents left lying around the house (Side Note: Parents, don't worry if your kids do this. Your 10 year old isn't going to learn anything from Danielle Steele, etc. other than that "adult situations" are really kind of boring until you're old enough to figure out that boys don't actually have cooties.).
A lot of the stuff my parents left lying around the house was boring – see side note – but Remembrance of Swings Past was not. It played to my love of baseball and growing interests in history and trivia. Besides, it gave me all kinds of questions for my father and grandfather (the original Angels fan in the family) and I will treasure those conversations forever. I will also always remember the books often hilarious stories about the Mad Hungarian, The Bird, the "auspicious" debut of the Kansas City Athletics green and gold uniforms and much more. Remembrance of Swings Past is neither the best baseball nor the best trivia book I have read, but it gave me a lifelong love of both.


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"Baez as a less troubled soul, skilfully interpreting others' songs as of old: Janis Ian's sorrowful Amsterdam, Mary Chapin Carpenter's reflective Stones in the Road, John Hiatt's uplifting Through Your Hands and an exquisite cover of Strange Rivers, written by John Stewartas much part of America's folk fabric as Baez."Record Collector
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Kakashi can spam Kamui and has better Stamina/Chakra reserves now.
Kamui to the head of Sasuke and its all over.
Sasuke does have Susanoo but that can be taken care of plus the arrows....and Kakashi is more efficient with Chidori/Raikiri
Imo Kakashi>Sasuke still.
Anything Sasuke throws at Kakashi gets warped.
If you think otherwise please post a reason why and genjutsu doesnt apply as Sasuke's genjutsu doesnt compare to Itachi's


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Envision the spirited festivals of the small villages that dot Eastern Africa. Red dirt under dancing bare feet. Brightly-colored clothing clad in beads, shells and feathers. Drums and songs and bright smiles from everyone.
Now imagine you didn't have to take a 16-hour flight to see all this. If dinner and a movie are becoming too commonplace for your Valentine's weekend, or if you need to travel to forget about the holiday, consider a trip to Santa Fe's Greer Garson Theater (1600 St. Michaels Dr.) to experience international performing troupe the Spirit of Uganda.
The show, which is tomorrow at 7pm, is a 2-hour folkloric musical and dance performance featuring the group's 21 performers, all 12 to 20 years old. The performance is produced by Empower African Children, a nonprofit that benefits the youth of Uganda.
The cast and some of the crew have benefited from the organization as either orphans or at-risk youth; these include Santa Fe University alumni Peter Kasule. "I have always wanted to leave a mark in every community, and this is a great opportunity for me to be back in Santa Fe," Kasule said. "Long live the arts." Tickets, available at ticketssantafe.org, are $25 and benefit Empower African Children. Greer Garson Theater, Santa Fe • Sat Feb 15 • 7-9pm • $25 • ALL-AGES! • View on Alibi calendar
Everyone has that friend or family member. The one who unabashedly maneuvers around trick-or-treaters to string up their Christmas lights on Halloween. The one who has been humming Christmas carols for weeks—humming only, because singing aloud can have harsh repercussions. The one who already assembled most of their Christmas presents and will soon wrap them, probably while watching their well-worn Elf DVD.
In my circles, that friend or family member is me. Loved ones recently informed me that Dec. 1 is a more reasonable time to begin decking one's halls with boughs of holly. In my defense, it seems there are more early-bird holiday hounds than ever. To wit, Starbucks released their red cup on Nov. 1, Christmas displays in big-box retailers went up the same day, and I've begun spotting Christmas trees on my Facebook news feed.
Why not engage in early Christmas merriment? Here are a triptych of ho-ho-holiday events that even the Ebenezer Scrooges of your life can dig.
Joy to the Whirled: Cliff's Magical Christmas
Have you ridden at Uncle Cliff's for decades, hoping there was a way to make the amusement park even more exhilarating? There is; just add Christmas. Cliff's Amusement Park hosts Joy to the Whirled, a holiday celebration wherein they decorate the park, sell holiday snacks and invite Old St. Nick to ride the Rattler with other guests. The event begins on Nov. 29 and runs through Dec. 23, from 6pm to 9pm daily. Tickets are $10.
The River of Lights tops my list of fave winter treats, along with spending time with family ... and biscochitos. The gardens abound with Christmas lights as you sip hot chocolate. This light show never fails to delight. If you've never been, this is a must-do; if you have, you know that walking into the Botanical Gardens this time of year is about as close as you'll ever get to the land of Oz. The River of Lights opens Nov. 30 and runs through Dec. 19, from 6pm to 9pm daily. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children. The show continues Dec. 20 through Jan. 5, but tickets will cost you $12 for adults and $6 for children. The River of Lights is closed Dec. 24, 25 and 31 and Jan. 1.
The New Mexico Ballet Company and the New Mexico Philharmonic inhabit Popejoy for two consecutive weekends to proffer a balletic holiday indulgence, The Nutcracker. While I've never actually seen it, the fact that it's a commonplace holiday topic and is often associated with words like "elegance" and "excellence" leads me to believe even those friends who've been grumbling about your holiday cheer may enjoy this show. The performance series begins Nov. 30 at 7pm and runs through Dec. 8 at 2pm. Tickets start at $11 for adults.
For more info on these events, visit the above-linked websites. If you know of other awesome community events—
Bright red cheeks. Cool November. Bike racing, costumes and helping those in need. These are the ingredients in Albuquerque's first annual ABQ Cranksgiving bike ride through the city. The ABQ Cranksgiving food drive and "alley cat"-type race happens on Sunday. The event has individuals (as well as teams of two to four), equipped with $15 and a knowledge of the city, racing to previously mapped out locations and collecting food for Joy Junction and the Roadrunner Food Bank. Participants will try to be the first rider(s) to the downtown finish line in addition to the one(s) with the most items checked off their shopping list. Cranksgiving, which is 9am to 2pm and begins at UNM's Johnson Field, will kick off with the junior costume bike ride around the Nob Hill area. At the finish line, Tractor Brewing Company will host an awards party at their new location with food trucks and face painting on site. "ABQ Cranksgiving was born out of the idea of giving back to our community," says ABQ Cranksgiving's website. "We are building a team with the intent of gathering enough food to help feed the homeless and the hungry during the Thanksgiving holiday." Participants will need $5 to register and $15 for food. For more information or to register, visit abqcranksgiving.net. UNM Johnson Field • Sun Nov 10 • 9am-2pm • $5 entry, $15 for food • ALL-AGES! • View on Alibi calendar
In the mood for something a bit artsy and altogether local?
Kamiomedia recently released a short media production titled "UNM @ Night." The short spotlights a variety of beautiful scenes on Albuquerque's favorite campus—sorry CNM Suncats, but I'm a Lobo—from within the mantle of midnight.
The Kamiomedia video team—Kyle Maier, Amie Gibson and Rico Ramirez—captured images reminiscent of a light show. In some instances, the filmmakers demonstrate their creative expertise by highlighting the glowing colors of campus with special effects like a fisheye lens and slow motion. And nearly all Kamiomedia productions feature original music by the trio themselves. This brief cinematic outing is only one example among many works by the visual and musical artistic collective.
Sometimes I fail to fully appreciate the beauty of my own campus, and this short film gave me a fresh appreciation for UNM's eclectic visual landscape—natural fall color juxtaposed with bright neon. If you have three minutes to spare, check it out below.
Speaking of UNM and short films, swing by the Southwest Film Center—located in the Student Union Building—on Nov. 9 for the second annual UNM Student Film Festival—where more sublime cinematic treats await you.
They say that good deals and great ideas happen over food, which is why a professional lunch can have many opportunities. FemCity Albuquerque will host author Jessica Eaves Mathews at a connection luncheon tomorrow at Savoy Bar and Grill (10601 Montgomery). At the event, Matthews will discuss her book, Wonder Women: How Western Women will Save the World, with the public and, true to the book's mission, aims to empower and motivate local women. The book frankly discusses politics, the national debt and economic issues rooted in the customary approach to business. After a drawn out government shutdown and an only increasing national debt problem, maybe some practical local solutions and a change of mind would do the community a little good. The connection lunch begins at 11:30am. FemCity Albuquerque members can buy tickets for $45 and others can purchase them for $55. Tickets include an elegant lunch—complete with a glass of wine—and a raffle. For more information on the event or Femfessionals Albuquerque, visit femfessionals.com or FemCity Albuquerque's Facebook page. Savoy Bar and Grill • Fri Nov 1 • 11:30am • $45 for FemCity members, $55 for non-members • View on Alibi calendar
Last June, a book sat in front of me that, honestly, I was not inclined to read. Consuming a great deal of nonfiction in my college courses, I browsed the web for favorite bloggers or settled in with F. Scott Fitzgerald during the lazy summer months. But my summer job entailed urging incoming UNM freshmen to read this book, and a pesky voice in my head persuaded me to practice what I preached.
David Shipler's The Working Poor: Invisible in America is a well-rounded, nonpartisan account of the poverty plight in the US; while that summary did not necessarily entice me, the personal anecdotes did. I was intrigued by Claudio, an illegal immigrant living fearfully between farmhand jobs, and I was a little heartbroken by Peaches, a homeless, working woman who had been abused countless times. After doing some research on the author—a Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist fascinated with society—I was admittedly a little star-struck as I sat across from him a couple weeks ago.
"My mother raised me to be comfortable in an embassy or in a hut," said Shipler, who is now 70 years old, with kind eyes and his trademark white beard. "My mother brought me up to believe you can learn something from everyone. And I believe that's true."
Shipler, who visited UNM campus as part of the Lobo Reading Experience event from Oct. 15 to 16, shared stories about his beginnings in journalistic digging, his thoughts on the value of the human story and a peek into his most recent work in progress.
Shipler was raised in Chatham, N.J. and received a bachelor's in sociology from Dartmouth. Then a policy-minded student, he was also actively involved in his college radio station, had interviewed Martin Luther King, Jr. and attended the March on Washington before graduating in 1964. Late in his college career, a creative writing professor counseled him to consider journalism after graduation. Shipler needed to serve two years with the Navy, but he took the advisement to heart.
"The idea kind of kept percolating and midway through my Navy time, I went around and asked to see some editors to find out how you got into journalism," Shipler said. "I started literally as a copy boy. … running around the floor, getting coffee for editors and stuff like that."
Beginning as a news clerk at the New York Times, Shipler eventually reported for the city desk on New York housing before moving on to the Washington Bureau and work as a foreign correspondent in Russia and the Middle East. In these nations, he wrote his first books, among which was "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in the Promised Land." A still-thrilled Shipler recalled learning that this investigation won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
"I can tell you that I had no inkling that this was a possibility," the storyteller said.
He recollected the moment he learned he had won, having called in to the Times from an airport to check on a story he had written. "Joe [Lelyveld, the foreign news editor], got on the phone and he said, 'You won a Pulitzer for your book.' I said 'What? My gosh.' I never expected that to happen and it was just a tremendous honor."
The practiced newsman said his interest fundamentally stems from a fascination and appreciation for people.
"There are a lot of interesting human stories here, and it's not just about abstractions, it's about real people who want to say certain things and are either stymied or are able to, depending on how they navigate their way through the labyrinth of inhibitions and impediments," Shipler said. "I [find these] stories compelling and moving and powerful."
Having explored the territories of American poverty, unrest abroad and civil liberties, Shipler continues to examine the human faces of political issues within his new book on free speech. Owing to his own tried-and-true First Amendment rights, he said he is curious primarily about cultural restraints on free speech.
"I'm hoping to do this book about individual people who run up against these limits and are confronted by others who want to close them down," Shipler said. The author wants to explore diverse free speech issues, such as censorship, electronic speech and political speech.
A journalist who has confronted race issues, poverty and war, Shipler emphasized that people of any career—in any domain—can make a difference for good.
"Human dignity is a universal need," he said. "It doesn't matter where you are on the socioeconomic spectrum. You crave it and you deserve it, and that is a lesson that [everyone] can learn. You don't have to be working for an anti-poverty organization to have an impact and make change."
Keep your eyes peeled for Shipler's new book or check out his blog, The Shipler Report, for more of the author's work.
Sugar skulls and pan de muerto, face paint and papeles picados—it's that time of year again. Dia de los Muertos will be here soon, and Masks y Mas invites the Duke City to come out and celebrate.
Albuquerque's own Day of the Dead-themed shop at 3106 Central SE will hold their annual fiesta Friday, Oct. 25 so as to "beat everybody else by one week," says store manager Kenny Chavez.
The event will include art demonstrations—such as the making of papeles picados (colorful paper banners)—as well as a muerte dessert show, sugar skull decorating and a reception featuring 40 local artists. Muerte face paint is available during the event by prior appointment (call the store at 256-4183) and The Cool Arrows, a Latino punk band, will provide live festival tunes.
Chavez says that the event, which has been held in the shop for over a decade, is a time to celebrate and honor lost loved ones. There will be a community altar for photos and keepsakes of those who have passed.
"It is driven by life and death," Chavez says. "It's all part of the cycle, and it is becoming more a part of the culture in the United States. People have been so fearful of it … but it's a memorial day. And we've turned it into an art form. It's not a mourning thing, it's a celebration."
Banksy has hit Broadway.
Today marks the tenth day of British street artist Banksy's "residency on the streets of New York." The artist's website proudly declares that his famous—some might say infamous—work will be surfacing on the streets of the city that never sleeps for the month of October. The exhibit is titled Better Out Than In.
So far, there has been a new piece on a wall or vehicle every day—with the exception of the day when Banksy posted an ambiguous but clearly opinionated YouTube video on the Syrian War to his site. Among the street art is an intricately detailed rainforest scene in the back of an old delivery truck, the addition of the words "The Musical" to random graffiti around the city (ex. "Occupy! The Musical") and the popular "THIS IS MY NEW YORK ACCENT … normally I write like this" spray-painting (below) on the Westside. All pieces are viewable on the street artist's website and are now accompanied by a numbered tag, and a tongue-in-cheek audio component accessible by Banksy's 800 number, 1-800-656-4271.
More than a week in, and it seems as if the city of New York hasn't yet decided how to respond to Banksy's pieces. While the first was painted over within 24 hours—as the satirical American voice at the other end of the 800 number predicted—others are rapidly being removed from their original locations to auction. This presents an interesting dilemma; some wonder if—in such a cultured city—removing the murals is preservation of art or its destruction. According to The Guardian, Bristol's City Council polled citizens a few years ago about Banksy's art, and 97 percent voted that when a Banksy image appeared in public domain, it should remain.
While this conundrum is certainly one to mull over, this may be a good time to recognize some of Albuquerque's own great street art, sanctioned and otherwise. Albuquerque, another city rich in art and culture, has long integrated street art into the urban landscape. Three years ago, 516 Arts hosted an event called STREET ART: A Celebration of Hip-Hop Culture and Free Expression, which left street murals around downtown Albuquerque. Participating artists included Chris Stain, who left a large painting of a solemn, silhouetted working man at Second and Central. Native Burqueño Ernest Doty was charged as the controversial, anonymous Rainbow Warrior, a street artist who spilled smile-inducing spectrums over buildings across the city. At least one of these rainbows remain untouched; whether that's due to cultural appreciation or inability to cover them up, I couldn't say.
For more street works around the Duke City, check out the Street Art Albuquerque Facebook Page, which includes photos of acrylic and spray-painted works and the streets where they're located. And to keep up with Banksy's exhibit from the Duke City, visit the site or check out the #banskyny tag on Instagram.(Disclaimer: This blog is not intended to motivate all artistic adolescents to begin scribbling property that is not your own; some things are best left to the, er, more experienced.)
Attention all 5k fiends and fanatics: Looking for something more organic than the Color Run or more local than the Dirty Dash? Check out Rio Grande Community Farm Fall Fest 5k. Beginning Saturday at 8am, runners, rookie and veteran, will take off through Los Poblanos Open Space farm (1701 Montano NW), complete with beautiful views and wildlife sightings. The trail is almost entirely straight-ahead, and the venue describes it as "a very fast course that will encourage the novice and keep the quick on their toes." A 1-mile kid's run, a corn labyrinth, food trucks and several opportunities for the family to learn about creatures and crops are included in the event. All participants also receive admission for a family of four to the RGCF Fall Fest on October 26, as well as a RGCF tote—and who couldn't use another tote bag? Tickets are $30 for adults, $10 for children. Proceeds go to Rio Grande Community Farm which provides produce for Albuquerque Public Schools, donates to shelters and maintains a wildlife habitat and a two acre community garden. To register go to riograndefarm.org. See you down on the farm! Los Poblanos Open Space • Sat Oct 12 • 8am • $10-$30 • ALL-AGES! • View on Alibi calendar


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While perhaps everyone except Microsoft itself
sees the irony in this, the company is continuing its public assault on Google
and its practices in a new blog post this week.
a Microsoft on the Issues blog
post titled "Google's
misleading security claims to the government raise serious questions", Corporate
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel David Howard basically calls Google
a liar for touting certification under the Federal Information Security
Management Act (FISMA) for its Google Apps for Government. Howard claims that
unsealed court documents now prove that the certification was for a different
software suite, Google Apps Premier.
competition should involve accurate competition. It's time for Google to stop
telling governments something that is not true," Howard concludes.
Why does
Microsoft really care about certification for a software suite for government
employees? Well, because Google stepped in when it looked like Microsoft was
going to be selected to provide a cloud-based email system to the Department of
Interior. Google
sued the government, claiming favoritism towards Microsoft by the DoI.
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FISMA certification, which "creates a process for federal agencies to
accredit and certify the security of information management systems like
e-mail," Howard writes. "FISMA-certification suggests that a
particular solution has proven that it has met an adequate level of security
for a specific need."
documents of the legal proceedings were unsealed last week, the Department of
Justice brief read: "On December 16, 2010, counsel for the Government learned
that, notwithstanding Google's representations to the public at large, its
counsel, the GAO and this Court, it appears that Google's Google Apps for
Government does not have FISMA certification."
Rather, the
General Services Administration (GSA) under FISMA had certified Google Apps
Premier for its own use. Meanwhile, Google Apps for Government was still in the
process of certification.
put it charitably, because of Google's unwillingness to provide answers, the
facts have remained opaque," Howard writes. "As a result of the
lawsuit, it looks like we finally are beginning to get some answers.
on Howard's blog post take a generally mocking tone, as someone identified as
Kevin sums up: "Is it 'open competition' if only Microsoft products are
available for government contracts?"
commenter, identified as Chuck, had this to say: "Microsoft is afraid of
Google -- very afraid."
fear can also help explain why a company the size of Microsoft, once the
principal of a very public antitrust lawsuit in the 1990s, has filed an
antitrust complaint against Google in Europe.
lengthy list of complaints against Google in Europe are all summed up in
another blog post, which takes note of the irony:
There of course will be some who will point out the irony in
today's filing. Having spent more than a decade wearing the shoe on the other
foot with the European Commission, the filing of a formal antitrust complaint
is not something we take lightly. This is the first time Microsoft Corporation
has ever taken this step. More so than most, we recognize the importance of
ensuring that competition laws remain balanced and that technology innovation
moves forward.
because Microsoft was once in Google's position, it learned its lesson and now
understands the importance of competition?
Meanwhile, Google still claims FISMA
certification over on the
Google Apps for Government webpage.


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