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This Standard specifies Web Services (in WSDL, in Clause 5) and SOAP bindings (in Clause 6) for the Application Session Services defined in ECMA-354. The Application Session Services allow Applications to create and maintain a relationship with Servers termed Application Session. The Web services specified herein, allow Service Requesters (Applications in ECMA-354) and Service Providers (Servers in ECMA-354) to create and maintain such Application Sessions.
This Standard builds upon and imports the XML schema definitions from ECMA-354. The method of making the WSDL description of the specified services available to Service Provider and Requester is out of the scope of this Standard.
The Notification WSDL specifies the ApplicationSessionTerminated operation. The operation specifies one input message for the event notification that Service Requesters receive from the Service Provider. Service Requesters may also receive the event notifications from web services, e.g. ECMA-348, that use this Standard for session management.
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— Green Bay Packers (@packers) April 22, 2014
The Packers offseason workouts are not mandatory, but Julius Peppers used the opportunity to make his first appearance with his new team.
Peppers was signed by the Packers in March after he was released by the Bears. Peppers has 557 total career tackles and 118.5 sacks but will be transitioning to a new role with the Packers. Previously used to playing in a 4-3 scheme as an end, the Packers will use Peppers as a hybrid player on the line and as an outside linebacker.
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TreeHouse! w/Groove Fetish
May 9 @ Orton?s?
Myrtle Beach jam band that uses reggae as a springboard for fun, laid-back excursions into alt-rock and acoustic rock. For fans of Sublime and Slightly Stoopid. Details: 10 p.m. Thursday, 133 N. Front St., downtown Wilmington. $5. Listen here?
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May 9 @ The Brikhouse
See Nikki Mastroieni's interview with this Oscar-winning rapper formerly of Three 6 Mafia.
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Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds
May 9 @ The Calico Room
Eight-piece Brooklyn band that plays energetic, ska-flavored funk and soul with a gritty, bluesy veneer. It's dynamite stuff, New Orleans meets Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland," thick with slow grooves, scorching guitars and wounded-angel vocals courtesy of lead singer Arleigh Kincheloe. Details: 8 p.m. Thursday, 107 S. Front St., downtown Wilmington. Free. For fans of Joan Osborne, Grace Potter, Corinne Bailey Rae. Scroll down the band?s web page.
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May 10 @ Brooklyn Arts Center
One common thread about this Welsh indie rock trio is they sound large for three people. Touring behind their latest – ?Wolf?s Law,? the band is drawing solid reviews for the new album and delivering shows that have been compared to the ferocity of The Breeders and the shiny pop of Echobelly. It?s pretty noise born from driving, fevered guitar riffs and bashing drums shot down the middle with warm, melodic vocals in the vein of Debbie Harry and NY Loose?s Brijitte West. No doubt it?ll shake loose some paint at BAC. Read Nikki Mastroieni's interview with bassist Rhydian Dafydd. Details: 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, Friday, 516 N. 4th Street, Downtown Wilmington, Floor – $16 adv., $18 day of, Balcony $25 adv., $28 day of
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May 10 @ Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre?
Randolph returns to Greenfield Lake with new music. The band has a new album out this summer called ?Lickety Split" on Blue Note Records, their first for the label. The pedal steel guitarist fronts a band whose music is rich in funk, soul and gospel lineage and can be seen as an roots music extension of 70?s powerhouse bands like Sly & the Family Stone, Earth, Wind & Fire or The Ohio Players. Read Roberta Penn's interview. Details: 6 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show, Friday, 1941 Amphitheater Drive, Wilmington, $25 adv., $30 day of.
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May 10 @ The Soapbox
Alternative rock band from Greensboro by way of Seattle. Their emo-based music can range from explosive to melodic and tender. Details: 8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show, Friday, 255 N. Front St., downtown Wilmington. $10 in advance, $12 day of show, $13 and $15 for those under 21.Listen here
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Final show for this Wilmington band that mixes indie rock with alternative and pop sensibilities. Details: 10 p.m. Friday, 120 Greenfield St., Wilmington. Listen here
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May 11 @ The Soapbox
Country rock songs about people living hard or having a hard time living. Fronted by BJ Barham, a singer-songwriter who can paint pictures with his lyrics. The band has been touring relentlessly since last August behind "Burn.Flicker.Die," its most successful album to date. It's a record enveloped in darkness, hope and last-ditch dreams. Details: 8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show, Saturday, 255 N. Front St., downtown Wilmington. $8 in advance, $10 day of show, $11 and $13 for those under 21.? Listen here
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If you missed the recent Lotus or Sound Tribe Sector 9 shows, The Malah will make up for it. Based in Denver, the live electronic trio is originally from Greeneville, S.C. They make lively, ambient material that can be cheerful and spacey, with the energy of such European electronic artists as M83 and Daft Punk. Details: 9 p.m. doors, 10 p.m. show, Tuesday, 255 N. Front St., downtown Wilmington. $7 in advance, $10 day of show, $10 and $13 for those under 21. Listen here?
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DOE Releases EnergyPlus 2.0 Modeling Software
The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced the release of EnergyPlus 2.0, the second generation of its free software tool to help homeowners and home builders "model their energy flows" as the summer approaches.
In a nutshell, this is a nifty tool for the extreme DIYer. The software allows a home builder to model heating, cooling, lighting, ventilating, and similar functions, allowing him to calculate how natural ventilation, for example, will affect heating a room, and the costs involved.
According to the DOE, new features included in version 2.0 include green roofs, phase-change materials, and enhanced building controls, among many others.
If you're at all interested in home repair, upgrades, or even just learning how much energy your home consumes, read on.
Because it's a free tool released by the DOE, however, the program is fairly limited: in fact, the output is a simple text file. Enter a suite of third-party interfaces, with names like DesignBuilder, E2AC, and Hevacomp.
Each provides a different front end or interface to use the data, and some are fairly sophisticated; DesignBuilder, for example, provides a CAD front end, with several heating/cooling systems already modeled. Hevacomp, a piece of design software heavily used in the UK, can use the EnergyPlus software as a plug-in to examine per-room heat losses and gains, generating the sophisticated image that you see to the left.
(Interestingly, a study released this week predicts that a pan-European heat wave similar to that which occurred in 2003 will recur twice this century. That year, the heat killed thousands across Europe. The three houses I lived in for the last two years in England -- in the Maida Vale and Wandsworth neighborhoods in London, and in West Sussex) all were built around the turn of the century, with very little insulation. Only one had double-paned windows.)
The main EnergyPlus 2.0 Web site also contains an example file generator that you can play around with. In its most basic form, you can enter the floor area of your house, the type (in this case, lodging) the people density, and the energy density, or an estimate of how much electricity is consumed. In detailed mode, you can add details such as glazing, specify HVAC systems, and other parameters. It's apparently down, however; the form is designed to email you with the results, but they failed to show up after ten minutes of waiting.
EDIT: It pays to wait. Although the information that is inputted is basic, an amazing amount of data is returned: estimated construction costs, estimated electricity costs, emissions data, even estimates of comfort, where apparently insulation and building materials are weighed against heating and cooling systems. I can't vouch for the accuracy, but the data is extremely intriguing.


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Number: 110-8
Date: August 14, 2007
Senate Passes S. 849,
Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007"
On August 3, 2007, the Senate passed S. 849 by unanimous consent. On August 6th, the Senate informed the House that it had passed the bill; the House will receive the bill when they reconvene in September.
S. 849 is similar to H.R. 1309, "The Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007," (Legislative Bulletin 110-1) which passed the House in March by a vote of 308-117. H.R. 1309 is pending in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Among other things, the Senate-passed bill would:
• Require that the 20-day statutory time limit for responding to requestors with regard to a determination of whether the agency will comply with such request to begin immediately upon receipt by the appropriate agency component of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, but no later than ten days after the request is first received by any component of the agency that is designated in the agency's FOIA regulations to receive FOIA requests. Would also permit an agency to make one request for information or to clarify issues regarding fee assessment to the requester. While the agency awaits a response, the 20-day clock would stop. These provisions would be effective one year after the date of enactment.
• An agency's failure to comply with this 20-day statutory time limit would preclude the agency from assessing search fees provided that no unusual or exceptional circumstances exist. Would also require each agency to make available its FOIA Public Liaison to assist in the resolution of any disputes. These provisions would be effective one year after the date of enactment and would apply to FOIA requests filed on or after the effective date.
• Require each Federal agency (including SSA) to assign a tracking number to each request that will take longer than ten days to process and to notify the requester of such tracking number for each FOIA request. In addition, would require Federal agencies (including SSA) to establish a telephone line or Internet service that provides information about the status of requests, including the date on which the agency received the request and an estimated date on which the agency will complete action on the request. These provisions would take effect one year after the date of enactment and would apply only to FOIA requests filed on or after that effective date.
• Prohibit Congress from creating new statutory exemptions under FOIA unless it does so explicitly by requiring new statutory exemptions to specifically cite FOIA.
• For purposes of the annual FOIA compliance reports, require Federal agencies (including SSA) to provide additional information about timeframes for responding to requests with a determination, including:
• The number of requests that the agency has responded to within the required 20 days;
• Information about the timeframes for providing granted information to requesters;
• Data regarding agency responsiveness to administrative appeals; data on the 10 active requests and administrative appeals with the earliest filing dates pending at the agency; and
• Data regarding agency responsiveness to expedited review requests; and data regarding agency grants of fee waivers.
• Require each agency (including SSA) to designate a Chief FOIA Officer whose duties would include:
• Agency-wide responsibility for compliance with FOIA;
• Monitoring FOIA implementation;
• Recommending to the head of the agency changes needed to improve implementation of FOIA;
• Providing to the Attorney General reports on the agency's performance in implementing FOIA;
• Ensuring that necessary information about FOIA exemptions is included in the agency's FOIA handbook and FOIA report; and
• Designating one or more FOIA Public Liaisons.
These provisions would be effective upon enactment.
• Require Federal agencies to use the following definitions when determining whether a FOIA requestor is eligible, as a member of the news media, for a waiver of fees for document search and review:
• Define "a representative of the news media" as any person or entity that gathers information of potential interest to a segment of the public, uses its editorial skills to turn the raw materials into a distinct work, and distributes that work to an audience.
• Define "news" as information that is about current events or that would be of current interest to the public.
• Require evolving alternative media, such as electronic dissemination of newspapers through telecommunications services, to be considered news-media entities.
• Regard freelance journalists as working for a news-media entity if the journalist can demonstrate a solid basis for expecting publication through that entity.
• Allow Government agencies to consider the past publication record of the freelance journalist in determining if he/she works for a news-media entity.
• Expand the definition of "substantially prevail" for the purpose of the recovery of attorney fees and other litigation costs from the Claims and Judgment Fund of the U.S. Treasury. "Substantially prevail" would include, in addition to situations in which the claimant has obtained relief from the agency through voluntary or enforceable decisions or orders, those situations in which the claimant has obtained relief from the agency through voluntary or unilateral changes in position by the agency.
• Strengthen provisions in current law that authorize disciplinary action against government officials who deny records to FOIA requesters, by directing the Attorney General to:
• Notify the Special Counsel of civil actions taken for certain rejections of requests for agency records;
• Annually submit reports to Congress on the number of these actions taken; and
• Require the Special Counsel to submit annual reports to Congress on the actions taken by the Special Counsel regarding these civil actions.
These provisions would be effective upon enactment.
• Extend the definition of "record," to include Federal contractors who maintain, as agreed to by the contracting agency, any information that would be an agency record subject to the requirements of FOIA, in any format (including electronic format).
• Establish the Office of Government Information Services within the National Archives and Records Administration. The Office would:
• Review FOIA policies and procedures of administrative agencies;
• Review agencies on FOIA procedures and compliance;
• Recommend policy changes to Congress and the President; and
• Offer mediation services between requestors and agencies as an alternative to litigation and may issue advisory opinions if mediation does not resolve the dispute.
• Require the Government Accountability Office to conduct audits of agencies on the implementation of FOIA and report the results.
• Require the Office of Personnel Management to report to Congress regarding personnel policies related to FOIA no later than one year after the date of enactment.


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Feb. 27, 2004
The No. 3 seed Elis easily bested Cornell in the first round of the CSA Championships, hosted by Yale. The Bulldogs defeated the Big Red 9-0 to move into the semifinal round, where they will play a rematch against No. 2 seed Harvard in an attempt to avenge their regular season loss from two weeks ago.
Six of Yale's nine victories were 3-0 sweeps, with Julian Illingworth, Anshul Manchanda, Nick Chirls, Gavin Cumberbatch, Trevor Rees, and Ryan Byrnes all getting past their opponents without dropping a game. Illingworth dispatched Cornell's No. 1 Matt Serediak 9-5, 9-0, 9-7, while Manchanda was a 9-1, 9-0, 10-8 winner against Ben Bernstein in the No. 3 position.
Yale's other top three player, Josh Schwartz, rebounded from an 8-10 loss in the first game to win the next three by scores of 9-0, 9-3, 9-7 over Will Cheng. Nick Chirls' 9-2, 9-5, 9-2 score gave him the win over Mike Delany, and Avner Geva returned to the Eli lineup after being out with an injury to earn the 10-8, 9-3, 4-9, 10-8 win over Matt Greenberg at No. 5.
The win puts the Bulldogs in the semifinals, where they have a big game against Harvard. Two weeks ago, the Elis lost the Ivy League title to the Cantabs with a 7-2 loss in New Haven in a match where many Elis thought they could have done better. The return of Geva to the lineup should help Yale in tomorrow's match, which will be held at 12:00 noon. The winner will likely face Trinity in the CSA finals.
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Horrific Moment Guy Pops Cyst With A Fish Hook & Push Pin
Jason from Vancouver has been documenting his recurring ganglion cyst for years now.
He's tried every trick in the book and now he thinks he's found the ultimate solution - a push pin.
Thanks to the power of the internet, we've seen some pretty disgusting cyst removals, but you can actually hear this thing POP.
Jason tells the camera, 'I just tried to pop it with this large fish hook,' showing viewers the hook wrapped around his cyst. 'It did not work and it left a little – kind of a bruise-ish mark around the area.
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Are you ready to witness the moment Jason bursts the cyst on his wrist - by hammering a nail into the lump and letting the fluid just burst RIGHT OUT?!
If you're game, click on the video above and try not to gag.
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Marie Mévellec (CMS) competing in the half Marathon © R. Vagg, UNEP/CMS
Bonn, 7 April 2014 – several intrepid members of the CMS and AEWA Secretariats took part in the annual Bonn Marathon on Sunday, 6 April with three individuals running in the half marathon and three teams of four participating in the team race over the full 42-kilometre distance. CMS Science Adviser, Marco Barbieri completed the half Marathon in 1 hour 56 minutes, with colleagues Marie Mévellec and Melissa Sanfourche taking just over two hours. All three teams recorded very similar times with each finishing in just over four hours. Weather conditions were just about perfect – dry and cool – which also suited the support team standing along the route cheering the competitors on accompanied by the Secretariat mascot, a life-sized inflatable model of a bottle-nose dolphin. All the CMS Family runners wore attractive blue t-shirts with the slogan "We swim, we fly, we rUN" with stylized designs of a dolphin, a swallow and an elephant – representing marine, avian and terrestrial species.
"It was incredible to be part of the excitement of nearly 15,000 runners participating in the Marathon in Bonn, Germany's UN City. There was also a great turn-out by the CMS Family and the wider UN Community in Bonn" said CMS Executive Secretary, Bradnee Chambers, who was supporting the runners with live tweets from the finish line on Bonn's market square.
More photos of the event can be found here.
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Posted on Jul 25, 2014
Benefits of Seniors Living at Home and Professional In Home Help
It has probably become very apparent that today's senior generation is completely different from their grandparents' and even their parents' generation. It is more common for a senior loved one to want to remain active in their community and to frequent local markets and diners for as long as physically and emotionally possible. When given the choice, our senior loved ones would prefer to remain in the comforts of home and neighborhood that hold a lifetime of memories. It is desirable to lead an active lifestyle and maintain regular outings with friends and family. A senior living at home will have a more positive outlook on life and a better overall sense of wellbeing.
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10 U.S. Code § 3754 - Medal of honor: duplicate medal
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Medal of honor: duplicate medal
A person awarded a medal of honor shall, upon written application of that person, be issued, without charge, one duplicate medal of honor with ribbons and appurtenances. Such duplicate medal of honor shall be marked, in such manner as the Secretary of the Army may determine, as a duplicate or for display purposes only.
(Added Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title V, § 553(a)(1)(A), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1115.)
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Reprinted from MOTHER EARTH NEWS NO. 63.
Though designed for the California desert, Jim Harmon's attractive and innovative home incorporates features that would prove a blessing in any climate.
Solar Heating and Cooling With the Sun
In the desert region of Southern California's Imperial Valley—just east of San Diego's urban sprawl—the ambient temperature can seasonally fluctuate from a high of 130 degrees Fahrenheit to as low as the mid-20s, with humidity usually resting at a bone-drying 10%.
Nonetheless, folks do live in the area, and it's no secret that most such desert dwellers consume inordinate amounts of precious energy just keeping their air-conditioned homes comfortable . . . especially during the scorching hot summer months.
But one particularly resourceful resident of this arid wilderness—university professor James Harmon—has chosen to abandon the conventional methods of climate control using natural solar heating and cooling and let the desert environment passively temper his home all year-round!
Planning Paid Off
Achieving a natural climate control system using solar heating and cooling demands a good deal of planning and sound research, even in an area of moderate climate, so in order to make his concept a working reality in the often-uncompromising desert, Jim really had to do his homework. The house he eventually designed [1] rests on a concrete slab foundation that's set about four feet below the desert floor to take advantage of the temperature-stabilizing effect of the earth, [2] incorporates a naturally convected ventilation system that serves to heat the home in winter and cool it in summer, [3] uses insulation to the utmost on both interior and exterior walls, and [4] takes advantage of desirable wintertime sunlight through the use of south-facing glass (much of which is shaded by roof overhangs in summer) both at ground level and within the clerestory wall.
When Mr. Harmon first moved to his ten acres of desert property more than a decade ago, his plans included not only the construction of a practical, inexpensive, and energy-efficient dwelling, but—on a more comprehensive level—the creation of a nearly (or fully) self-sufficient homestead. And, except for his modest needs for outside electrical power, Jim has pretty much accomplished his goal of independence.
The house itself is only part of a master layout . . . which includes organic vegetable gardens and orchards (all of which are irrigated with underground watering systems), food drying bins, a workshop, a compost pile, a grape arbor, a greenhouse, and even a solar-heated outdoor hot tub!
Since construction of a dwelling was Jim's primary project (and because he scrounged much of his building material over a long period of time), the resourceful professor began to plan his structure long before he drove the first nail. "When you build a house like this, you go through a long period of information gathering and gestation before drawing even the first few simple plans. You've got to have some kind of idea about just what you want to accomplish and how your system should work.
"The design I used incorporates a bit of commonsense technology, some ancient architectural methods of the Middle East, and a smattering of Southwestern American Indian building techniques. The result is a structure that's almost wholly passive, uses native building materials where possible, and—this is quite important to me—leaves an almost indiscernible impression on the landscape."
It Works Superbly
Exactly how does Jim's home achieve his goals? First, the concrete foundation was poured in an excavation 4' deep, and surrounded with a low block wall that rises up to ground level. The slab doesn't utilize a bed layer of insulation, because—being a thermal sink—it must be given the chance to absorb ground heat in the winter and, by the same token, to assimilate the home's excess interior heat in the summer. Other factors were considered, too: The effect of occasional strong winds is minimized by the protective natural earth berming and the low profile of the dwelling. And, as an aesthetic plus, the line of sight to a nearby tarmac highway is conveniently interrupted.
But that's only part of the story . . . a natural ventilation system (adapted from Middle Eastern home design) is the major means of maintaining an acceptable comfort level in the house year-round. A total of eight unperforated, 4 inch-diameter, corrugated ABS plastic drainage pipes are connected—using vent holes previously formed in the structure's foundation—to the sides of the octagonally shaped dwelling. From these openings underneath the house, the tubes curve around, then come together (a slight distance is maintained between them to assure proper thermal conductivity) within a broad underground channel, and run to a point about 100 feet away. Jim figures the depth of this ditch—40 inches—to be something of a compromise . . . between a shallower trench (which wouldn't afford proper air tempering) and a much deeper chasm (which would be excessively labor-intensive for a relatively slight gain in efficiency).
The terminal point for the tubes—just a 2 foot by 2 foot concrete-block well extending from ground level to a depth of about 4 feet—is capped with a reworked kitchen exhaust fan that allows air to be drawn through even when the motor is off. Occasionally, use of the fan is required to force air through the system and into the house.
Normally, though, the intensity of the sun (and, in part, the direction of the prevailing winds) is great enough to cause the ventilation cycle to operate admirably. In addition to the underground tubes, Professor Harmon's design incorporates, in effect, two useful layers of roof on its windward side: the standard exterior surface, covered with tar and gravel, and an interior roof which is nothing more than pine tongue-and-groove finish sheathing fastened to the lower face of the roof joists. The upper surface of the inner roof is lined with builder's foil to form air passageways within the home's "cap." Jim provided inlets and outlets for the built-in ventilation channels by drilling a quantity of 1/2 inch holes (in circular groups) through the soffits outside the house, and likewise by opening the ducts to the atmosphere at the apex of the roof, where he's built what he calls the "tower of power" . . . which is also ventilated, through the use of small ducts, to the air within the home itself.
In the Summer . . .
Hence, during the hot season, as the sun beats down on the structure's roof with a vengeance, it initiates a natural convection and suction (see sidebar) that provides the home with fresh, comparatively cool air. To help the cooling process during periods of intense summer heat, Jim also had the fore sight to install exterior venetian blinds on the south-facing, leeward side of the house . . . which he closes to prevent the sun from beating in through the windows. Since these "light shutters" are external (not to mention white in color), heat never has a chance to find its way into the house.
Another trick up Jim Harmon's thermal sleeve is the very convenient cooling effect of evaporation. During the hottest part of the year (when J. H.'s gardens need the most moisture anyway), the professor supplies the liquid by activating his buried sprinkling system. The sprinklers soak the ground, and as the water evaporates from the sandy soil, the temperature of the earth decreases considerably . . . which, in turn, helps to further cool the incoming air in the underground vent tubes!
Mr. Harmon can achieve still more indoor air conditioning by activating his "swamp cooler": a broad belt of thin foam pad, revolving in a shallow tub of water, through which forced air is passed. (Jim also has plans for an indoor hot tub . . . which could function all year to provide humidity or heat as required, depending on the season.)
And in the Winter
The same system that cools the interior air in summer also furnishes a temperate climate during the colder months. And even though the convective action is not as pronounced in the wintertime, the design and orientation of the structure's roof—backed up with the option of activating the electric fan—assures that comfortable ventilation is always available.
In addition, a considerable amount of winter heat is derived from direct insolation. Because the sun is low in the sky, its light can stream unhindered through the main south-facing windows and the vertical clerestory glazing at the peak of the roof. Jim has installed freestanding redwood grape arbors above all the southern-exposed windows, to provide summer shade and delicious fruit. Come cold weather, the vines dry up, so sunlight can pass through the arbors.
An Airtight Thermos Bottle
Of course, the home's unique ventilation system operates properly only if the doors and windows are closed and the walls are relatively airtight. But varying levels of comfort can be attained at any time of the year by opening the windows as desired.
Another factor which contributes to the success of the Harmon desert home design is the fact that J. H. has gone to great lengths to properly insulate the structure. The lower portion of the dwelling is, of course, earth-sheltered . . . and the upper part, framed with 2 by 6 studs, is also just about impervious to nearly any temperature fluctuation that may occur. Behind the tongue-and-groove interior sheathing are two batts of fiberglass insulation, then a layer of 3/8 inch plywood. This surface is covered with 1 inch polystyrene, which, in turn, is veneered with builder's foil.
The final covering is an exterior facade of ladrillos , or Mexican brick (similar in its thermal mass effects to the materials used in Native American earthen shelters), which is set slightly away from the backing wall's foil-covered surface . . . to provide an air space through which excess heat-absorbed by the brick and reflected from the builder's foil—can escape into the roof channels. In addition to practicing careful wall construction, the professor has fully insulated each thick exterior door to create a thermal barrier and a work of art in one unit.
"It's a lot more economical," Jim observes, "to pay for good thermal protection today —especially before a structure is completed—than to continue shelling out money over the next 10 or 20 or 30 years to cover the rising cost of heating. And if, after a period of time, you should decide to add insulation, the cost will always be greater . . . because of inflation and the extra work involved in tearing a finished house apart to do the job.
"Profit and loss considerations aside, however," Harmon points out, "the design of my home is based not so much on the painful fact that energy costs are rising as on my conviction that energy consumption is an ethical rather than an economic issue. Energy waste, whether it proceeds from senselessness or selfishness, seems to me downright immoral . . . because it will adversely affect the lives of future generations."
Sound Construction and Low Cost
Even though his chief emphasis was not on economy, as close as Jim Harmon can figure his partially earth-sheltered, 1,000-square-foot octagonal desert home cost him about $22,000 to construct . . . an easy to swallow $22 per square foot. Of course, Jim is quick to point out that the price would be difficult to duplicate today, partly because he purchased much of his wood before the noted lumber price increase of the mid-70s, and also because he and some of his good friends did much of the work themselves.
But even with the sharp increase in lumber costs, Mr. Harmon still believes that wood construction is a sound choice. "Framing a house with lumber remains a good way to go . . . mainly because if you use some of the synthetics available on the market nowadays, you'll find they often are just as expensive yet provide less quality and longevity. I'd rather spend my money now and get it over with, and have the satisfaction of a well-done job."
Another reason Jim chose to go with wood (in conjunction with concrete and some of the materials native to his area) was that he wanted his dwelling impervious to all but the very worst earthquakes . . . phenomena which are often problems in the Imperial Valley area. In order to assure his home's integrity, he designed the structure like a wagon wheel, with a central hub plate in the roof—acting as a pivot—from which the "spokes" (in this case surplus railroad trestle beams) radiate and fasten to the eight corners formed by the walls of the house. In theory, this arrangement distributes both horizontal and vertical shocks evenly throughout the structure with little or no damage to the framework. In practice, Jim's design passed the acid test when a severe quake hit the area and did considerable damage to several local communities . . . while merely causing the Harmon home to creak ominously.
At Home in the Desert
Now that Jim's had a chance to live in the house through quite a few seasons, he's truly pleased with the structure's performance. Since the dwelling's systems are almost entirely passive, including its gravity-fed solar domestic water heater, Jim's normal power requirements are merely for lighting, refrigeration, and pumping water into a storage tank from his 330 foot well. The happy result is that the desert dweller's utility bill averages only a quarter of what his neighbors are accustomed to paying! (The Harmon household does use some bottled gas for cooking, but Jim hopes to construct a small methane-from-compost plant, which should help take care of kitchen needs.)
Otherwise, Jim's ten-acre microcommunity is relatively self-sufficient . . . with the help of the sun. And since, in addition to growing much of his food, the Golden Stater raises cacti for sale to nurseries and the like, the desert itself provides him with an extra source of income for a minimum of effort . . . and that's a hard-to-beat combination in any territory.
How It Works
Simply put, the Harmon house works on the principle of pressure differential caused by rapidly moving air. In the summer, as the sun beats down on the surface of the roof, the air within the ceiling channel absorbs heat. Because the heated air has a much lower specific gravity than the ambient atmosphere, it tends to rise, flow upward along the channel between the inner and outer roof, and exhaust out the louvers in the "tower of power."
Naturally, with all this air escaping, a new supply must be brought in . . . and it enters by way of the groups of 1/2 inch holes drilled through the soffits under the outside eaves. So, what results is a constant—sometimes downright furious—flow from the outdoors, through the roof channels, and outside again.
In order to take advantage of the air current, Jim Harmon has cut several small openings into the tower, at its highest point inside the house. As the heated air rushes past these holes, it actually entrains—or pulls—the air within the building right through the vents . . . in much the same way that an automobile's carburetor draws fuel out of its float reservoir.
Of course, since air is then being drawn from the living area of the house itself, it must be replaced . . . and the only available sources of supply—as long as the home's doors and windows remain closed—are the eight ventilation tubes buried 40 inch beneath the surface of the earth . . . where temperature is maintained at about 75 degrees to 80 degrees Fahrenheit year-round.
During the winter—when the path of the sun and its intensity result in lower temperatures within the roof channels—the system still functions, though not quite as efficiently. Fortunately, prevailing winds from the northwest, flowing over and around the outside of the "tower of power," tend to pull air out of the roof also. And, if this breeze effect is not sufficient to draw warmed air through the underground pipe network, the blower fan can always be activated.


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Art History professor John Miller has been named the 2011 recipient of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. He will have a one-person exhibition at the museum in April, and it will acquire work for its collection. Previous winners of the prestigious annual prize, named in honor of Cologne art conservator and collector Wolfgang Hahn, include Cindy Sherman, Mike Kelley, Pipilotti Rist, Richard Artschwager, Rosemarie Trockel, and Peter Doig.
Miller's work has recently been included in the 2010 Gwangju Biennial, 10,000 Lives, and PortugalArte 10 in Lisbon. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Zürich (2009), the Kunstverein Hamburg (1999), and the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York (1998). His pieces are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Carnegie Mellon Museum, Pittsburgh; and the Pangea Consortium, Zürich.


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Vicki Gonzalez
TABU Social Club
1115 N. Rolling Rd.
Catonsville, Md. 21228
It's Time to Give Back
BALTIMORE, MD. March 11, 2009-
What: NCSF 2009 Fundraiser, Auction & Live Demonstrations
Who: All who practice forms of alternative sexual expression and those who support us.
When: Friday April 3, 2009 (8:00pm to 2:00am)
Where: TABU Social Club in Catonsville, Md. 21228
We have answered Who, What, Where and When and now it is time to answer Why?
The short answer is because we strongly believe in supporting those who support us and to do our part to further the mission of NCSF (National Coalition for Sexual Freedom) (www.ncsfreedom.org)
NCSF Mission: The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is a national organization committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression. NCSF is primarily focused on the rights of consenting adults in the SM- leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities, who often face discrimination because of their sexual expression.
"We opened TABU Social Club to create an environment where people who practice forms of alternative sexual expression could congregate with other like-minded, consenting adults without fear of being judged or ostracized, a safe haven of sorts," said Rick Gonzalez, co-owner of TABU Social Club, with his wife Vicki and active member of the swinging community.
(more commonly referred to as the Lifestyle First came erroneous complaints filed with the Fire department, Police department, Compliance Division of Planning and Zoning add in a County Councilperson, 3 television stations, 3 radio stations and 3 newspapers all by a civic association who didn't like the thought of our existence and what do you get?)
Frustrated, angry and ready to throw in the towel. Just then, almost like a scene from a super hero comic book, came NCSF (National Coalition for Sexual Freedom) offering their assistance in any way possible. Finally there was a ray of hope. When fighting a battle alone, no matter how right the cause, you can be worn down. When surrounded by people who believe in and support that cause you become stronger and much more willing to continue the fight.
Such was the case with TABU Social Club and NCSF. Widely recognized as the fastest growing "Lifestyle" club in the country, (boasting over 9000 member couples and single females), thanks in no small part to the guidance and assistance of NCSF, TABU is thriving. TABU Social Club, now a proud "Coalition Partner" of NCSF, with the assistance of Nina, owner of the "Power Exchange" (www.powerxchangebynina.com) in Baltimore, as well as many other volunteers, will be putting on a fundraiser on Friday April 3rd, 2009 with 100% of the proceeds being donated to furthering the mission of NCSF. There will be music, dancing, light snack foods, door prizes, silent & live auctions for various goods and services and best of all Live Demonstrations to give you a small taste of some of the various "Lifestyles" that NCSF works tirelessly to support.
This event is open to those 21 and over who practice forms of alternative sexual expression and to those who support our right to do so. The cost for the event is $20 per person with 100% of the proceeds being donated to NCSF. This is a BYOB event, so should you choose to drink alcohol, you must bring it yourself. We are also actively seeking volunteers to assist with various aspects of the event.
As simple as setup and breakdown to providing demonstrations in an area that you have some expertise to being a roving ambassador to all who attend, we can use your help. Further, we are seeking donations of goods and services to be used as door prizes as well as live and silent auction items. For more information regarding this event or to register please visit http://tabulife.com/ncsf_2009.html


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The Beacon broadcasts full-entropy bit-strings in blocks of 512 bits every 60 seconds. Each such value is time-stamped and signed, and includes the hash of the previous value to chain the sequence of values together. This prevents all, even the source, from retroactively changing an output packet without being detected. The beacon keeps all output packets and makes them available online.
Tables of random numbers have probably been used for multiple purposes at least since the Industrial Revolution. The first published table appears to be by the English statistician L.H.C. Tippett. In the digital age, algorithmic random number generators have largely replaced these tables. The NIST Randomness Beacon expands the use of randomness to multiple scenarios in which the latter methods cannot be used. The extra functionalities stem mainly from three features. First, the Beacon-generated numbers cannot be predicted before they are published. Second, the public, time-bound, and authenticated nature of the Beacon allows a user application to prove to anybody that it used truly random numbers not known before a certain point in time. Third, this proof can be presented offline and at any point in the future. For example, the proof could be mailed to a trusted third party, encrypted and signed by an application, only to be opened if needed and authorized.
NIST encourages the community at large to research and publish novel ways in which this tool can be used. A few examples of applications are described below:
A Quantum Source:
Commercially available physical sources of randomness are adequate as entropy sources for currently envisioned applications of the Beacon. However, demonstrably unpredictable values are not possible to obtain in any classical physical context. Given this fact, our team established a collaboration with NIST physicists from the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML). The aim is to use quantum effects to generate a sequence of truly random values, guaranteed to be unpredictable, even if an attacker has access to the random source. In August 2012, this project was awarded a multi-year grant from NIST's Innovations in Measurement Science (IMS) Program. IMS awards highly competitive projects designed to explore high-risk, leading-edge research concepts that anticipate future measurement and standards needs of industry and science. For more information on this collaboration see https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2012/10/truly-random-numbers-not-chance
A space-time diagram illustrating a locality-loophole-free Bell test. In this test, entangled photons are verified to have correlations that exceed the maximum level possible with any predetermined (or classical) states. To demonstrate this unequivocally, it is important to make sure that the measurements performed on one photon cannot, by any means within the bounds of physics, influence the measurement of the other photon. Such an influence, if it were to exist, could allow fully predetermined states to appear to share quantum correlations. Conducting the two measurements outside of each other's light cones ensures this measurement independence. In the space-time diagram above, the speed of light is depicted by rays at ±45 degrees, and also represents the maximum speed at which information about any event could (conceivably) propagate away from the origin of the event. Therefore, positions outside the cone formed by the rays from any event represent locations and times that could not possibly have received any information from the event. In the loophole-free test illustrated above, entangled photons are emitted from the source and propagate in opposite directions towards receivers Alice and Bob. At some point in time, indicated by "i" and "j," Alice and Bob each independently choose how to measure the properties of the photon each will receive. To conduct a locality-loophole-free Bell test, Alice and Bob must complete their chosen measurements (Ai,and Bj, determining results a and b, respectively.) before any information about the other's choice could possibly reach their location; Alice must complete her measurement before the rays emanating from the event "j" intersect her location, similarly Bob must complete his measurement outside the light cone of event "i." Closing this and other loopholes in the Bell test provide certification that no information about the state of the photons could have been available prior to its observation, assuring that the correlations could not have been predetermined. That guarantee of no predetermination of the photon system and its measurement results, will ultimately be used to produce random bits that can be assured to be both random and unknown to anyone before a certain time.


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little samurai necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 159 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
Golden Gadgets
Since there are a lot of skilled people here that created a bunch of great logo's for me in the past it's a no brainer to come back .
This time , my girlfriend is setting up her first ecommerce shop and she's looking for a stylish and exclusive logo that will please here; As you know, girls are mostly not that easy as man but i'm sure somebody here can make here happy :)
We're selling exclusive & stylish gadgets that are hard to find on the www and our public are mostly adults who are looking for a nice gift for their partner, friends or themselves.
The site has a dark grey background (check uploaded file) and the name that need to be used in the logo is : Gouden geschenken (which translate to golden gifts)
We're not looking for a gold color font but rather a logo with (here and there) a golden touch so it doesn't become too heavy or would overrule the page.
The best way to go is with a more or less rectangle shape, a square thing wouldn't really fit in the design i'm afrait.
Of course feedback will be given to each logo that is placed here...
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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If this blue-skinned lady looks just a little too much like Mass Effect's badass justicar, that's because she's Rana McAnear, the actress who provided the model for Samara. And she's using her resemblance to the character to take the illusion of cosplay to another level.
McAnear actually used crowdfunding site IndieGoGo to fund her costume, which is how she pulled off those custom pieces. (She also shaved her head for easier tentacle application.) Now she's making the rounds at conventions, showing off her spot-on Samara. I'd love to see if she could pull off Samara's cool, samurai dialogue.
Photos are from WonderCon 2012, taken by awesome cosplay photographer Onigun.
[via Unreality Mag via Neatorama]


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Eden Suicide — Today's SuicideGirl
Meet Eden, a SuicideGirl who works as a dog behaviorist and has over thirty tattoos.
Name: Eden Suicide
Age: 24
Location: Italy
Occupation: Antisocial, dog behaviorist, body piercer and cage fighter.
Current crush: The Masterpiece.
Stats: Borderline.
Body mods: More than thirty tattoos and fifteen piercings.
Gets me hot: Tattoos, bruises, scars and bloody wounds.
Favorite position: Praying mantis.
Fantasy: All my ex-boyfriends in a deadly last man standing fight.
Sign: Antisocial
Most humbling moment: Give me a couple of drinks and we start from there.
I lost my virginity: …and I bought a new one on eBay.
SuicideGirls is a community that celebrates alternative beauty and alternative culture from all over the world. Since 2001, tens of thousands of models have submitted millions of photos to their website hoping to become SuicideGirls.


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Posted on APCBlog today at
"Microsoft revealed today that no 32-bit versions of Windows Vista will be able to play back next generation high definition protected content (translation studio-released BluRay and HD-DVD movies).
PC users will now have to choose between a PC that can play high definition content (64 bit) versus one that can potentially run older devices that only have unsigned drivers available (32 bit)."
I personally don't play DVDs on my computer (yet) but this is something I was contemplating on doing around Vista time frame. So, basically if you have a relatively new 32-bit PC you use as a media center - you're screwed. For people looking to get a new PC this Christmas, they'll just have to shell out more for 64 bit systems.
Thanks Microsoft, which I'm sure they've just caved into Hollywood demands.
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MSU Cheese Store: extended hours, holiday orders
The staff at the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Sales Store, located on Mississippi State University's campus, is encouraging patrons to place orders now for the holidays and to take advantage of products that make great additions to the tailgate.
The store's famous cheese and other products sell quickly during the holiday season.
"Customers should place their orders by early to mid-November for Christmas delivery," said Debbie Huffman, manager of the MAFES Sales Store. "It is best to place orders early because we always sell out of cheese. Our vallagret and jalapeno pepper spread sell out first, but we will also quickly sell out of the inventory we have remaining for each variety of cheese."
To accommodate tailgaters, the store will be open MSU home game Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. During November, the store will be open the Sundays after home games from 7:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
"We have prepared pork barbeque that can be quickly heated up for tailgating," Huffman said. "New this year is the V Ham, a delicious, boneless, fully-cooked ham, ready to serve."
The store also sells a variety of jellies, ice cream, peanut products and spice blends. It offers a large selection of meat products, such as T-bone and ribeye steaks, three varieties of smoked sausage, fresh sausage, and cured bacon.
The store is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Thanksgiving week, the store is open Nov. 21-23 from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Sales will resume on Nov. 26, Egg Bowl Saturday.
To place an order, visit http://www.msucheese.com or call (662) 325-2338.
Karen Templeton | Agricultural Communications


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NextLevel needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 307 designs submitted by 67 freelance designers.
Our company will be offering staffing/recruiting services. We will offer permanent, contract, and contract-to-hire services. We are targeting the Information Technology and Accounting/Finance areas.
We need a company logo to eventually place on letterhead, website and anything associated with the company.
We will be running a second contest for the CI package (biz cards, letter head, envelope, etc). We want this contest to strictly focus on the logo.
elevano Professional Resources and/or 'eleVano'. Read below for more info...
We are looking for a professional logo. The name of the company is elevano Professional Resources. We would like the word elevano either all lower case or 'eleVano'. We are not sure if we want to include the words "Professional Resources" yet. So we would love to see concepts with and without the words "Professional Resources".
The word Elevano is derived from the Italian language and means to elevate. elevano is what we want people to know us as. We are looking for a professional look.
- Simple, yet innovative and creative. not plain, but also not busy/confusing.
- 2-3 colors, max
- We are open to having the logo be font based or be logo + icon
- Not distracting but still gathers your attention. Sometimes less is more.
- Logo should be in vector format, such as Adobe Illustrator
- Leverage your creative minds to show us something we completely didn't think about. We know what we like when we see it...but we aren't artists. Such as maybe elevano looks better in all caps than we are envisioning in our minds...or something that your experience will add that makes our original thoughts better.
- Not frivolous/pointless
- Very busy or flashy
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Yep, a week has passed already and despite not thinking I'd be doing another audio post for some time, I've done it already. Thanks to my brother, Cezza, not only for helping me figure out this technology stuff but also for being an awesome guitarist and allowing me to use one of his very own tracks at the beginning and the end of the post. You can follow him on Twitter right here.
I actually picked a topic this week that wasn't, well, me! I was afraid I was turning in to Ron Burgundy. It would be great to know what you think about what I discuss in this post, so please get in touch once you've listened.
This was kind of a serious topic so I'll make the next one more fun. Feel free to email me with suggestions.
Here goes part two of my adventures in audio……….


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Nidra Poller is the prominent American writer living in Paris who has written extensively on the al Dura affair in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the New York Sun, the New York Post Post, Makor Rishon, Frontpage, and other outlets. She has forwarded us the following dispatch with a Paris dateline:
Why should Americans take note of a verdict announced in the musty halls of the Palais de Justice in Paris? Philippe Karsenty, convicted of defamation in 2006 for declaring in a Media-Ratings release that the al Dura news report was a hoax, a fraud, a staged scene, was acquitted in the Court of Appeals on May 21. Pursued by state-owned France 2 and Jerusalem bureau chief Charles Enderlin, the courageous businessman cum media watchdog director, bounced back from the harsh judgment of the lower court, carrying bushel baskets of evidence. The meeting of the tireless Karsenty and the perspicacious French judge Madame Laurence Trébucq, produced an earth-shaking judgment that concerns all media in the free world…and all tainted news sources in the lands of discord.
Where is the earth when truth comes shaking? French media, which are the most immediately concerned by this judgment, have hunkered down to the point of absurdity. A few flabby spin attempts were dropped like litter on a systematically uninformed public just in case someone might realize that Karensty's acquittal is Charles Enderlin's disgrace. The 13-page ruling is there for all to see, and it belies last-ditch efforts to claim the defamation charge endures.
The antiquated late nineteenth-century press law offers two paths to absolution: 1. absolute proof of the truth of the incriminated statement(s) or 2. convincing proof of good faith, serious investigation, lack of personal animosity or excessive verbal violence. Acquittal on either of the two accounts is acquittal of all charges.
Not only did the court acquit Mr. Karsenty—a stunning exploit given the hefty weight of France 2 and Charles Enderlin—but the judges displayed impressive mastery of every detail of this complex affair. Instead of ignoring Judge Trébucq, French journalists should take a lesson from her fair-minded, intelligent, skillful exercise of a noble vocation.
Justice was done! It is time for justice to be applied in the realm of another vocation—journalism—whose integrity has been sorely lacking where the Mohamed al Dura case is concerned. Beyond the dramatic staged killing of the Palestinian boy that has lodged poison in millions of hearts and inspired murder and mayhem all over the world, the widespread practice in Western media of swallowing questionable material from unverifiable sources—in the Palestinian territories and more generally in the Arab-Muslim world—is targeted by the findings of the French Court of Appeals.
One could hardly accuse former President Jacques Chirac of participating in the staging of the al Dura scene. However, he immediately employed the alleged murder of the Palestinian child as a stick with which to beat then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and pressure Israel to cave in to Palestinian demands. Civilian (Palestinian) casualties served as a weapon against Israel when the Palestinians began their intifada-war in September 2000. The alleged murder of Mohamed al Dura covered the real and absolutely deliberate murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians that followed.
Chirac's France was an influential underhanded opponent of the United States in those crucial years. The new Sarkozy government is a forceful, vibrant ally. Next month France will take its turn in the rotating EU presidency. President Sarkozy has courageously reinforced French troops in Afghanistan, he is firm in his determination to prevent Iran from going nuclear, his government is committed to stemming the influx of illegal immigrants, he is implementing a bold program of economic and institutional reform.
Contrary to the mumblings of surrender freaks, relations with Europe improve when the United States accepts its international responsibilities, including the military interventions that no other country can ensure. Nicolas Sarkozy, elected by popular enthusiasm, has been the target of unconscionable contempt in French media, much of which seeps right into American MSM. And what does this have to do with the al Dura controversy?
The French media blackout of information about this gigantic media hoax is an indication of the abysmal absence of a vibrant free press here in France. The media sleaze Sarkozy, trash Bush, and protect Charles Enderlin whose reports from Israel perpetuate the tiresome bashing that serves no honest purpose. This zombie French press silence should not be contagious. American mass media broadcast the al Dura image, participated in the dissemination of the hatred it bears. They have not even begun to examine the case, the footage, the sources.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, the al Dura hoax makes Lebanese fauxtography look like a childish prank. It caused more deaths than 100 Mohamed cartoons. Where are you when we need you? Will the first brave journalist please stand up!
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In May of 1968 an anonymous gift of $10,000 was received by the Kalamazoo Board of Education for the purpose of establishing a library in the poorest section of town. At that meeting, the board acknowledged the gift but decided not to accept it immediately. Instead the board asked the Friends of the Library to study the proposed facility and make recommendations for its implementation.
The donor, later revealed to be Mrs. Dorothy Dalton, made certain stipulations about the new library. In addition to its location in a poor neighborhood, she asked that it be staffed by accredited library personnel who would select books for the facility in consultation with leaders and teachers of the Northside community. She also wanted a small stage for rehearsal purposes, since it was her hope that the library would work with such groups as creative writers, drama groups, art, music and dancing groups.
Library services were first offered on the Northside in 1915 at the North West (later Westnedge) Street School. A few years later it was moved to the new Lincoln School. What became of that small library is not clear, but it was no longer operating in March of 1969 when the Board of Education approved the establishment of a small library room at Lincoln School, to be funded by the Friends of the Library and the Public Museum. It would be staffed by volunteers, offer a place to study, and provide a collection on black culture and other books for the people of the Northside. It would be a regular part of the Kalamazoo Public Library system, and was named by the Friends and the Board of Education in memory of Mrs. Alma Powell. Mrs Powell joined the KPL staff in 1946 and worked at Lincoln School and the Eastwood Branch Library until her death in 1967. She was a noted storyteller and enjoyed sharing her rich African heritage and love for books with children
The new room held its first open house on 12 October 1969, the 97th anniversary of the library system. The branch was first directed by the distinguished librarian and researcher Mary Mace Spradling, who took a leave from her duties as the head of the young adult department at the main library. Featured services of the new facility included a Saturday story hour for children, a seminar for young adults, and a coffee hour for adults.
As a new location was being planned for the branch, Mrs. Roberta Cheney was appointed head of the Alma Powell Library in July of 1971. She had been director of the Cass County Library and was well prepared for the work ahead.
Mrs. Dalton's vision came to fruition when the new Alma Powell Branch was opened in December 1971 in a remodeled building that had formerly housed the Van Avery Drug Store. It seems appropriate that a building that was the focus of a civil rights action should become the branch's first home of its own. Earlier, residents of the Northside had protested and picketed the drugstore for its refusal to hire employees from the clientele that it served. This eventually led to its closing. After standing vacant for a short time, it was reborn as the Alma Powell Branch.
Mrs. Cheney said of the new building, "The building looks great. It's wide open—with windows on two sides. It is full of bright off white and gold with accents of bright oranges, saffron, deep purple and red. Draw drapes of a marvelous Finnish casement cloth add the right touch of luxury. The building is truly the only bright spot in the whole drab Northside community." Her philosophy was simple. She wanted the library "to be a complete community service. A focal point for the Northside community. I would like to see how I can enhance the learning process of black youngsters, and show them how they can relate themselves to the things in the world. A library can help a child find himself." Her success in achieving her goals resulted in her being named "Michigan Librarian of the Year" in 1972, for her "outstanding contribution to effective and improved library service to a community."
Attendance was not what had been hoped for at that location, so in January of 1985, the branch moved into the new Douglass Community Association building on West Paterson Street in a more centralized residential location. At the opening, Dr. Benjamin Wilson was quoted by the Kalamazoo Gazette, "A library under the same roof as a gymnasium? Books and basketball? A sneaky way to give kids the message that there's more to life than a slam dunk. ...Doing a slam dunk is beautiful, but so is sitting down and reading a book."
Powell Branch Library at its present location in Douglass Community Center
After a decade of hard use, the branch was renovated in 1996. The completely reconfigured interior now includes youth, adult audiovisual, and technology areas. Five new display cases along the east-west corridor wall feature African-American artifacts. A traditional Kente cloth hanging inspired the richly colored floor, ceiling and wall finishes and built-in furnishings. Descended from generations of weavers, artist Gilbert Bobbo created the narrow strips at his studio in Ghana, where weaving is a noble vocation. Each motif represents a song, legend, or proverb. Michael Hayden's holographic film was applied to the barrel-vaulted skylight and now dapples the library with color.
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