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In addition, the Redmond Library is hosting a series of informational events for community members in needs. They will be held on the first Wednesday of the month from September through March 2016. Experts on employment, legal issues, youth, homelessness, food, health, and mental health will be on site and available to help. Click here for flyer.
The following is a list of programs funded in part by the City of Redmond. The City tries to support a full spectrum of services, from the basics of food and shelter to employment and counseling services. However, there are hundreds of other services available, including some additional teen resources, all accessible through 2-1-1 or on their website.
You are also welcome to call our office at 425-556-2458, or e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com. View or print the list in PDF format, or select from the links listed below. (Download Adobe Acrobat for free if you do not have it.)
Community Liaison - Provides job development services to people with disabilities and educates and recruits community employers.
Catholic Community Services
Emergency Assistance - Provides rent and utility assistance.
Harrington House - Transitional housing program for homeless pregnant or newly parenting women and their children.
Volunteer Chore Services - Volunteers provide free chore assistance and transportation to low-income older adults and adults living with disabilities.
Child Care Financial Assistance - Provides child care scholarships to parents who have moderate or low incomes.
Homeless Child Care - Provides case management and child care subsidies to homeless families.
Chinese Information and Services Center
Cultural Navigator Program - Helps Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Indian language (Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu) speaking immigrants access information and services in the community. Located at the Together Center in Redmond, and Mini City Hall in Crossroads.
Congregations for the Homeless
Drop In Center - Provides daytime services (showers, meals, internet access and case management) to Eastside homeless or low income men. Located at Lincoln Center, 515B 116th Ave NE, Suite 174.
Housing - Provides rental subsidies and case management to homeless men moving into their own housing.
Outreach – Provides outreach and case management, referrals and access to resources for individuals experiencing homelessness across the Eastside.
Shelter - Provides shelter, meals, case management and some job assistance for homeless men. Location varies. Call 425-614-6506 to access.
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service
Domestic Violence Community Advocacy - Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate outreach and engagement, information and referral services, advocacy-based counseling, safety planning, legal advocacy and support groups for Latina/o survivors of domestic violence.
Crisis Clinic
Crisis Line - Provides a free and confidential telephone crisis intervention and support service to anyone in emotional crisis or needing help. 24-hour crisis line: 206-461-3222 or 1-866-4CRISIS.
King County 211. Provides people with information and referrals to services. call 2-1-1 or 206-461-3200 or 1-800-621-INFO.
Teen Link - A confidential and anonymous help line answered by teens for teens. Teen Link also conducts youth suicide prevention training in schools and in youth organizations. Call 206-461-4922 or 1-866-TEENLINK.
Eastside Baby Corner
Meeting Basic Needs for Children - Distributes essential goods (diapers, clothing, baby food) for children.
Eastside Legal Assistance Program
Provides free or low-cost yet high quality civil legal services to low-income residents.
Elder and Adult Day Services
Day services including healthcare and social therapy to adults with disabilities.
Friends of Youth
Healthy Start - Home visit to young parents, offering parent education, developmental screenings, and facilitating parent child interaction.
Homeless Youth Services - Helps homeless youth and young adults access shelter and transition into permanent housing.
The Landing Shelter - Provides emergency shelter for homeless young adults, ages 18-24. Located at 16225 NE 87th Street, Suite A1 in Redmond.
Primary Dental Care - Delivers ongoing comprehensive dental services to adults and children.
Primary Medical Care - Offers medical services for preventive, urgent, acute, and chronic health conditions.
HERO House
Provides psychiatric rehabilitation and employment support services to adults with mental illness.
Adult Education - Provides basic skills training to residents through: GED preparation; Adult Basic Education (ABE) tutoring/classes in reading, writing, and math; and ESL classes.
Emergency Food - Provides food assistance through emergency feeding program to individuals in crisis and/or bi-monthly food bank services. The Redmond Food Bank is located at 16725 Cleveland Street.
Emergency Financial Assistance - Addresses the emergency financial needs of families in crisis for eviction prevention, motel vouchers, utilities help, and medical prescriptions and other needs.
Family Development Program - A long term voluntary case management program that serves low income families in North and East King County who are at risk of homelessness.
Housing - Provides emergency shelter, transitional housing and case management.
Jewish Family Services
Refugee and Immigrant Services - Provides resettlement services for refugees and immigrants, including individual and family assessment and case management, social services, English as a Second Language classes, pre-employment and employment services, and citizenship services.
Provides behavioral health consultations and trainings to child care providers throughout King County.
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center
Comprehensive Sexual Assault Services - Support services for child, youth, and adult victims of sexual violence and their families. 24-hour crisis line: 800-825-7273 or 888-99-VOICE.
Lake Washington Schools Foundation
LINKS Mentoring - A volunteer and mentoring program that supports at-risk students.
Community Advocacy Program - Provides a variety of direct services designed to address the immediate needs of survivors of domestic violence and their children.
My Sister's Home - Provides immediate, safe, confidential shelter; legal support, counseling, basic needs such as food and clothing, and domestic violence advocacy. 24-Hour crisis line: 425-746-1940.
NAMI Eastside
Provides support to those whose lives have been impacted by severe mental illness through community forums, classes, and information and referral.
Senior Services
Meals on Wheels - Provides home-delivered meals and liquid supplements to homebound elders.
Volunteer Transportation - Helps to meet the transportation needs of King County seniors by providing personalized, free transportation services.
Sound Mental Health
Child and Family Services Community Services - Provides community-based mental health care and wraparound facilitation to children and adolescents with severe emotional and/or behavioral problems.
Low-Income Counseling - Provides comprehensive assessment and treatment to low income individuals.
The Sophia Way
Sophia's Home - Addresses a continued shortage of affordable housing for homeless women on the Eastside.
Sophia's Place - Homeless shelter for adult women, with case management and support services. Located at St. Luke's Lutheran Church, 3030 Bellevue Way NE in Bellevue.
Eastside Homeless Women's Center - Place for single homeless and very low-income women at imminent risk of homelessness to drop in and get their basic needs met. Located at St. Luke's Lutheran Church, 3030 Bellevue Way NE in Bellevue.
YMCA Bellevue
Neighborhood School House - A community learning and family support center based at Redmond Elementary School.
Youth Eastside Services
Early Intervention - A comprehensive program designed to improve mental health functioning by providing and increasing community access to mental health services, substance abuse treatment, and social services.
Family Net - Provides comprehensive, free-of-charge social services to youth/families, on-site at Redmond Elementary and Rose Hill Elementary to solve serious problems at home, school or community.
Latinos Unidos - Provides a variety of youth services to identified at-risk Latino youth at Redmond High School working in collaboration with school and other community entities as warranted.
Family Village - Provides transitional housing for homeless families with children for up to 18 months.


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The Saints finished Sunday's loss to the 49ers with their fourth-string right tackle on the field and they may be in similar straits against the Falcons on Thursday night.
New Orleans announced Tuesday that tackle Bryce Harris has been placed on injured reserve. Harris started last week's game and broke his leg during the proceedings. Harris was signed off of Atlanta's practice squad earlier this season and was pressed into service thanks to injuries to starter Zach Strief and backup Charles Brown.
Brown was out of practice on Tuesday, but Strief, who has missed the last three games with a groin injury, was able to participate in limited fashion. Larry Holder of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that Strief said he's feeling better than he has since suffering the injury and we'll find out his status for the game when the Saints release their injury report on Wednesday afternoon. If he's not able to start, William Robinson, who joined the team a week ago, will get the call.
Defensive end Junior Galette, defensive tackle Tom Johnson, safety Isa Abdul-Quddus and wide receiver Courtney Roby also missed practice for the Saints.

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Young love runs free on The Voice
Love was in the air every time the judges turned around on Sunday's episode of The Voice.
With teams filling up and only a few more nights of blind auditions to go, the coaches have become harder to please.
But newlywed Julian Simonsz must've been channelling his marital bliss when he took to the stage to sing Suit and Tie.
Married the same week as his audition was taped, Simonsz's smooth yet energetic take on Justin Timberlake's falsetto-heavy song impressed all four coaches.
And good thing it did - he'd postponed his honeymoon for the audition.
After Joel ran behind stage to retrieve Simonsz's thrilled new bride, the Melburnian said his wedding had been the best day of his life.
"(But) this is pretty close," he laughed.
With his wife kissing his shoulder and clutching his hand, the audio producer even got a generous offer from Will.I.Am: "You need to use my trailer?"
But the course of love didn't run quite as smooth for punk-pop rockers Nick McClure and Rachel Giusti.
The young pair, also from Melbourne, auditioned straight after each other.
Giusti gave a determined but slightly strained performance of Lady Gaga's You and I, while her beau followed on with Naive, by The Kooks.
But neither managed to turn a chair.
Embracing afterwards, at least the young lovers proved the couple that sings together, stays together.
BEST ONE LINERS Sassy Sydney girl Nicole Martini didn't get a chair to turn but made an impression with her brassy quips nonetheless.
The 28-year-old explained her weight fluctuations matter-of-factly - "I've gone from bombshell to bomb, and back again" - and made her partner promise her a puppy if all the judges turned for her before hitting the stage.
But it was her shutdown to Will.i.Am's suggestion she was singing in Spanish (her choice, Caruso, was actually Italian) that took the cake.
"If I could speak Spanish baby I'd be talking to him," she smirked, pointing to Ricky.
BEST PROFESSIONAL HANDBALL As a 16-year-old growing up in New Zealand, Maybelle Galuvao had followed her musical dreams by joining a girl band.
But after her husband Joe's career as a professional rugby player took off, she put her entertaining career on the backburner.
Now 35, it's her turn again. Her performance of Gravity was soulful and controlled, which got Kylie writhing in her seat before she hit her buzzer.
BEST FAMILY SUPPORT Daughter of talent agent Mark Morrissey, Mia wanted to make it on her own terms by competing on The Voice.
The 19-year-old's fragile take on Cyndi Lauper's True Colours was almost too delicate for the judges, until a late turn from Ricky booked her a place in the battle rounds.
But it was her little sister, not dad, who proved her biggest supporter.
When the Puerto Rican hit his buzzer at the very last moment, the anxious younger sibling couldn't help herself, jumping and squealing like a true fan girl.
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Since releasing their ethereal debut album, South London trio The xx have hardly put a foot wrong. Collecting the Mercury Music Prize for xx, they followed it with last year's Coexist - a stunning LP even more delicate than its predecessor. Sparse and subtle, their sound translates to some of the most atmospheric live performances around. Current live project Night + Day is an especially attractive proposition. Hand-picking their favourite bands, food and festival wares, the XL Recordings trio have curated three unique events in suitably decadent surroundings. From a disused Berlin theme park, to Bélem Tower in Lisbon - the last date for the band and their support is in a Hertfordshire country mansion on 22 June. Taking some well-earned downtime, we asked bassist and vocalist Mr Oliver Sim for the tracks and acts that inspired this special series of mini festivals.
"Lay Your Cards Out"
"One of the most enticing parts of building the line-up for Night + Day has essentially been that we're creating our own fantasy musical experience. Poliça have undoubtedly been our band of the past year. This track is simply beautiful."
"Made to Stray"
Mount Kimbie
"Mount Kimbie have to be one of the most progressive bands I follow. Their fluid mix of guitar music and electronics is something we aspire to - I definitely feel an affinity with this band. This is the first released track from their new album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth."
"Feel Real"
Deptford goth
"I've listened to Deptford Goth's album Life After Defo a lot in the past few months. I feel he writes fantastic pop songs with big choruses and classic melodies. This song is one of my favourites and has a great video."
"Locked in Closets"
I've had the terrifying honour of sharing the stage with Solange on more than one occasion. She's one of the most exciting performers I've ever seen. Her EP True is perfect pop and is regularly heard playing from our dressing rooms.
"The River"
I am continuously inspired by Chromatics. The three of us saw them live when we were 18, long before we'd released anything. We saw them in Berlin and Lisbon and our love for them hasn't changed. This is the brilliant "The River" off their last album Kill for Love.


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We just got to put it all together and go for one goal and that's win ballgames for this organization. —Jazz guard Jamaal Tinsley
SALT LAKE CITY — Nobody puked, and Enes Kanter didn't post any wacky pictures in the social media sphere.
Consider the Utah Jazz's first practice a success.
It helped the team's cause that players arrived at training camp in "pretty good shape," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin pointed out.
"We came in and guys are in shape, so that made it a little bit easier for us to move along," Jazz forward Paul Millsap said. "We're moving on pace."
With eight newcomers in the 18-player camp, the Jazz's first task is to get everybody introduced to each other.
"We're just trying to get everybody familiar with everybody right now," Corbin said. "(We're) making sure everybody's on the same page."
As they learn each other's names and playing tendencies, the coaching staff will continue to introduce different aspects of the Jazz's system and work on player combinations.
Corbin said it helps to have a good group of guys back, so the majority of the team can "build on what we learned last year" while the new guys get up to speed.
With two-a-day sessions going this week, Corbin explained that he wants to "get the guys out of thinking as fast as we can, so we can get to playing basketball."
The Jazz's first preseason game is Monday at Golden State. Fans, however, will have a chance to get a sneak peek of the squad Saturday at a free open scrimmage (4 p.m., EnergySolutions Arena).
"Everybody's played against each other. It's just us playing with each other," said Jazz guard Jamaal Tinsley, who practiced Tuesday after missing media day with a mouth issue. "We just got to put it all together and go for one goal and that's win ballgames for this organization."
Corbin said he could notice a change in the comfort level and confidence of returning young guys like Enes Kanter and Alec Burks. The Jazz expect veteran additions Mo Williams, Marvin Williams and Randy Foye to catch on quickly as well.
Now in his third year, Gordon Hayward also feels more at ease in this training camp.
"It's good to have that experience under your belt and kind of know what to expect," Hayward said. "But it's also kind of weird to have some of these guys ask you what's going to happen. 'What's practice going to be like and stuff?' I was asking that."
Tuesday was Marvin Williams' first training camp with a team other than the Atlanta Hawks, for which he played for the past seven seasons.
He doesn't have the advantage of already having played for the Jazz like Mo Williams, but what the small forward saw was familiar.
"Obviously, Utah's run the same system for a long time, so playing against them I know a little bit of their sets," he said. "But obviously when they get deeper and deeper, I'll have to focus a little bit more."
Guard Earl Watson was only able to partially participate as he rehabs from his spring knee surgery, but he couldn't help but chuckle while working out with the team.
"Man," he said, "I was looking out at the court today. I've been in the league for a long time. You see the guys on my team, they're so young."
One of the Jazz's young guns wasn't at Day 1 of training camp, though.
Rookie Kevin Murphy missed his first day of workouts. The 22-year-old Tennessee Tech guard returned home to be with his pregnant wife, who went into labor.
While it sets the Jazz's second-round pick back to not be at practice, an empathetic Corbin said it was the right decision for the shooting guard.
"He needed to be with his wife. We understand that," Corbin said. "We'll support him and we look forward to him getting back."
Guard Raja Bell also didn't practice. He remains away from the team while his camp and the Jazz try to figure out how to resolve his situation after the veteran made it clear he no longer wants to play for Utah.
As for the guys in camp, the consensus was that they have to work hard in practice, build a strong chemistry, get plenty of rest and fluids between sessions and implement what the coaching staff threw at them.
"The honeymoon is over," Mo Williams said. "It's here now. Training camp is here."
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Some people believe the ease of self-publishing means that millions of wannabe writers will flood the market with their crummy ebooks, and the good authors will get lost in the morass, and then family values will go unprotected and the economy will collapse and the world will crash into the sun and puppies and kittens by the truckload will die horrible, screaming deaths.
Or something like that.
This is bullshit, of course. A myth. A fabrication. One rooted in envy and fear.
Readers aren't the ones worried about the scores of new ebooks being released. They have no need to be worried. There are already billions of books in the world. A few more million won't make a difference.
Readers are able to find what they want, quite easily. They can go into a bookstore and come out with a purchase, even though that store stocks 150,000 titles. They can go into a library, and ten minutes later walk out with a handful of books that interest them.
There are millions of websites, and YouTube videos, and things to buy on Amazon.com. There are thousands of choices on cable TV and Netflix and Hula. Yet we're always able to find gems.
No, the readers don't care if some moron uploads his ten-years-in-the-making opus "Me and My Boogers: A Love Story." They'll be able to avoid it just by looking at the crummy cover art, the poor description, and the handful of one star reviews.
Readers don't care if something is self-pubbed or not. They've read books they don't like by legacy publishers, and they may find books they don't like by indie authors, but they aren't going to give up reading. In fact, they're going to help each other find good things to read. Goodreads.com is a perfect example of readers becoming gatekeepers, sharing reviews and recommendations.
Anyone paying the slightest bit of attention knows that ereaders are actually increasing the number of books bought, and causing people to read more. There aren't droves of readers ditching their Kindles because they bought a bad indie ebook. Rather, there are hundreds of new ereaders and many thousands of new ebooks sold every day.
So readers aren't the ones perpetuating this stupid myth that the crap will destroy the world. It's the writers--specifically the legacy writers--who keep trotting this one out.
The reason for it is disappointingly obvious. Legacy writers no longer feel special, because now anyone with a book can sell it. Even worse, they can sell it for cheap, and get higher royalty rates, meaning these pretenders to the throne can actually make more than those who "earned" their spots in the pecking order by kissing legacy butt and waving around their rejections as badges of honor.
These authors fear loss of income, and are envious of the ease in which indies can self-publish and the money they can earn. But saying that out loud would make them look petty.
So instead, they cloak their fear and envy in a poorly constructed argument that says their real intent is protecting readers from crap.
Newsflash: there has always been crap, and always will be crap. Get over it.
Whenever someone feels the need to make decisions for me because I'm apparently incapable of doing it myself, it irks me. I can decide by myself who to sleep with, what to smoke, what God to worship (or not worship), and what to read. I don't need anyone to protect me from indie ebooks, and neither does anyone else.
If you're really worried about readers being subjected to crap, here's what you can do:
But enough with the whining about it. It makes you look silly.
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text: As part of Coca Cola's Move to the Beat program for the 2012 Olympics, London design partners Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt put together the Coca Cola Beatbox pavilion in the Olympic Park, an interactive architectural installation composed of 200 translucent air cushions. The cushions respond to movement from pavilion visitors with sound and light, effectively remixing a track commissioned by the bottling company for the Games. Different areas in the structure emit various sports-themed sounds like sneakers squeaking on the court and recorded heart rates. This one's probably not for the claustrophobic, but London is definitely the place to be right now. Concept sketches and more images of the musical pavilion after the jump. (via)


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Your financial aid disburses to your account after the semester has started. All your aid disburses directly to your Davenport student account to pay all charges on the account first. Any excess financial aid will be refunded if there is a credit balance on your account after disbursement.
Grants and scholarships typically disburse after the first week of the semester. Loans typically disburse according to this schedule.
Questions about your financial aid refund?
Disbursement vs. Excess Financial Aid (aka Refund)
- Disbursement occurs when your lender sends the loan funds to Davenport University
- Excess financial aid (refund) occurs if your total financial aid disbursement exceeds the charges on your student account.
Do I have excess financial aid?
Check your student account visiting the Student Payment Center(login required). If there is a credit balance on your account and you have not dropped or withdrawn from any of your courses, you are eligible to receive the credit balance (refund) . If you have dropped or withdrawn from some courses, there may be a required adjustment in your financial aid.
It can take up to 14 days for Accounts Receivable to process a credit balance (refund) after your financial aid is disbursed to your account. Davenport is required to perform an audit of each student account prior to sending excess financial aid.
What if my loan has not posted?
If your loan has been approved by the lender, loans will disburse on the date listed on your Notice of Loan Certification. If that date has passed and the funds have not disbursed, check your financial aid tracking documents on the Accounts & Services tab of the portal to see if you have any documents that need to be submitted. You can also contact your advisor.
Loans have disbursed, but I have not received my money
It can take up to 14 days for Accounts Receivable to process a credit balance (refund) after your financial aid is disbursed to your account. Also be sure to select a refund preference at pantheronecard.vibeaccount.com. Check your student account to confirm that you have a credit balance. Contact your advisor if you still have questions.
Schedule for processing excess financial aid
Credit balances (refunds) are processed twice weekly on Wednesday and Friday. It can take 24-48 hours for funds to be deposited into your account after Davenport sends the funds to BankMobile Disbursements.
My disbursement is less than anticipated
Most lenders charge the federally approved fees of between 1% - 2% of the loan. The loan disclosure statement that your lender sends to you explains the fees.
What kind of notifications will I receive regarding my student loans?
- To view your total financial aid award for the year, go to Student Connections > Financial Tools > Financial Aid > Awards (login required).
- A Notice of Loan Certificate is sent out by Davenport once we receive confirmation that the loan has been certified by the lender and guaranty agency. This notice will include disbursement dates and information regarding your total indebtedness.
- A Loan Disclosure Statement is sent to you by the lender and has details about fees and interest.
- EFT Notification comes from Davenport via email within 24 - 48 hours of when your loans are disbursed. The notification includes information about checking for excess financial aid eligibility and declining your loans if you don't want them.
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Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest Ever View of the Universe
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe. Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full Moon. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation Fornax, created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over many hours of observation, it revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the universe ever taken at that time. The new full-color XDF image reaches much fainter galaxies and includes very deep exposures in red light from Hubble's new infrared camera, enabling new studies of the earliest galaxies in the universe. The XDF contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.
Astronomers continue studying this area of sky with Hubble. Extensive ongoing observing programs, led by Harry Teplitz and Richard Ellis at the California Institute of Technology, will allow astronomers to study the deep-field galaxies with Hubble to even greater depths in ultraviolet and infrared light prior to the launch of JWST. These new results will provide even more extraordinary views of this region of the sky and will be shared with the public in the coming months.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The Australian government on Thursday very publicly rejected labeling the eastern half of Jerusalem as "occupied," even though the Palestinians claim the area as their future capital and Israel refuses to relinquish it.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has for years made it clear that she does not support the popular, anti-Israel terminology that defines the Middle East peace process.
Earlier this year, Bishop insisted it was wrong to call Jewish settlements "illegal," and late last year she demanded the United Nations take a more balanced approach to the conflict and stop bashing Israel as every perceived opportunity.
In remarks cited by The Sydney Morning Herald, Attorney General George Brandis, speaking on behalf of Bishop, said that the "description of East Jerusalem as 'Occupied East Jerusalem' is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful."
Bishop's opponents in the Australian parliament were outraged, noting that even Israel's greatest ally, the United States, views eastern Jerusalem as occupied territory.
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Mali: Tuareg rebels take 30 hostages in north
BAMAKO, Mali -- Separatist Tuareg rebels launched an assault on the northern Mali city of Kidal over the weekend, killing eight soldiers, storming government buildings and taking 30 hostages in a "declaration of war" on the government, officials said Sunday.
The attack was apparently prompted by a visit to Kidal on Saturday by newly appointed Prime Minister Moussa Mara, highlighting regional hostility toward the central government in Bamako and casting further doubt on the viability of reconciliation efforts.
The country's U.N. mission said in a statement Sunday that six local government officials and two civilians had also been killed, although the circumstances of their deaths were unclear.
"This barbaric crime is totally unacceptable and those responsible must answer for their actions," said mission chief Albert Koenders. "An investigation must be carried out quickly to verify the facts and bring those responsible to justice."
The violence began Saturday morning when the rebels launched a heavy assault on the governor's office, where officials had gathered to meet Mara, according to a government statement. Mara stayed in the army barracks and then left Kidal on Sunday for another northern center, Gao.
Fighting continued throughout the day, killing eight soldiers and injuring 25, according to a separate Defense Ministry statement. The statement said 28 assailants were also killed along with 62 wounded.
The Defense Ministry said Malian soldiers had regained control of all administrative buildings in Kidal except the governor's office. It was unclear where the hostages were being held.
"The government considers this unspeakable and cowardly attack to be a declaration of war, which leaves it with no choice but to respond," the government statement said.
Twenty-one U.N. police officers were injured in the fighting, the peacekeeping mission said.
Much of northern Mali fell under the control of ethnic Tuareg separatists in 2012 before al-Qaida-linked fighters hijacked the invasion. A French-led military intervention in 2013 scattered the Islamic extremists, but Tuareg separatists have retained a strong presence in Kidal despite efforts by the central government to control the northern city.


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This combination works. Although one might expect a group with the name of "The Blue Note All Stars" to be revisiting songs associated with Art Blakey, Horace Silver and perhaps Wayne Shorter, the impressive sextet sticks to new material with each member contributing one or two originals. The players (trumpeter Tim Hagans, altoist Greg Osby, tenor-saxophonist Javon Jackson, pianist Kevin Hays, bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Bill Stewart) range in their individual careers from Jackson's Joe Henderson-influenced hard bop to Osby's attempts to fuse hip-hop with jazz, but together they successfully form a unified group sound. The music is mostly pretty complex and a logical extension of the late 60's explorations that often took place on Blue Note sessions. For example, Bill Stewart's "Kae" has 11-bar choruses played in 7/4 and the swinging "Think Before You Think" is actually comprised of nine-bar choruses. All of the musicians play quite well and, although a melancholy mood often dominates, there are some sparkling and very fresh solos, particularly from Osby and Hagans. The music really needs several auditions for one to take in everything that occurs. Recommended.


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Did the Big Ten Ban the Shot Clock Tonight?Posted by rtmsf on February 18th, 2009
No, this is not a typo…
Penn St. really did win a 38-33 thriller in Champaign tonight.
Apparently, with six minutes remaining, the score was 31-24 in favor of the Illini, but PSU made a mad rush to outscore Bruce Weber's team 14-2 down the stretch (a veritable blitzkrieg) to secure the win. Or, as ESPN's copy editors put it, Penn St. powered past Illinois.
The two teams combined to shoot 28-96 (.292) from the field and 6-33 (.180) from three, which by any objective measure is also known as an abortion on the court. There were more bricks thrown up in this one than in Modesto and West Palm during the height of the housing bubble. One of our earliest memories of basketball was this crime against hoops-manity which helped inspire the original 45-second shot clock in 1985-86; it's nice to see that we can count on the Big Ten to set new modern records for offensive futility. The combined total of 71 pts is the lowest output in four years (since Monmouth defeated Princeton 41-21 in 2005). We have no idea how long it's been for a BCS conference, but this might just be the worst of the shot-clock era. Ugh.
We just saw ESPN break down the NCAA Tourney chances of both of these teams, and we're disgusted that either of these teams are even in the conversation given the putrid display they each put forth tonight. Oh, it was a defensive battle, right?


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Hello, starting Monday, and until the first of December, my apartment is going to look like a warzone: workers going in and out, making holes in concrete slaps, using jackhammers to rip out old crap, etc... the reason is that they are redoing the plumbing and air evacuation system in the whole building block (which was built in the 60ies).
How it may impact you is that Miniserve (the IRC stats / SVN server) is in this apartment, and the workers may have to cut the power from time to time... the server is on an UPS, but it's good enough for 15 minutes or so, and then the server has to be manually restarted.
So if you notice a problem, don't hesitate to reply on this thread, I will try to fix the issue as soon as possible (which may be longer than usual consider I'm going to crash at some friends place who is still waiting for his internet line to be installed!).
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My most recent story on the PRI-WGBH-BBC Program "The WORLD".
50 years ago this month, black and white activists boarded buses in Washington and headed into the Deep South. That took courage in 1961.The year before, the Supreme Court had made segregation illegal in interstate travel. But the law wasn't being enforced in the South. And so those bus passengers forced the issue.
This month, a racially integrated group of 40 American – and foreign – students recreated the Freedom Riders' journey. Ray Arsenault, the author of a history of the Freedom Riders of 1961, is leading a group of 40 College students on a tour of one of Alabama's most notorious sites. This place just outside of Anniston, Alabama, is where fifty years ago, the Ku Klux Klan attacked a Freedom Riders' Greyhound bus bound for New Orleans. After slashing the tires, the bus was firebombed, which forced the riders into the road.
Along this highway outside of Anniston, Zilong Wang, who was born many years after 1961 in Baotou, China, is thinking about the lessons of non-violence practiced by the original Freedom Riders and how they might guide his beliefs and actions.
"This is not just a healing of the past but also it sheds a light on the future. Not just a future of the United States but also for China, because China will definitely go through a similar period," Wang said. "How can we use non-violence and civil disobedience to bring meaningful reform into China's social system under the condition of social harmony and stability, I think we're learning a lot from them."
Wang, a philosophy student at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, is one of a handful of students chosen to board a bus from DC to New Orleans, to re-create the journey of 50 years ago along with original freedom riders. They met important figures from the time along the route.
Like John Siegenthaler, who was an assistant to US Attorney General Robert Kennedy in 1961. He pointed out the contradictions of era – the Administration was pushing for freedoms around the world even as president Kennedy tolerated segregation and injustice throughout the Jim Crow South.
"The timing of the Freedom Rides and the conflagration that he (President Kennedy) hoped would never come, came at exactly the wrong time," Siegenthaler said. "Came at the moment when' he 's not able to make a convincing case about freedoms around the world, is not able to convince the Soviet Union 'look free your people, let your people go. He's not able to make that case because he had not let his own people go." Siegenthaler said that the critical worldwide focus on domestic events in the USA helped to push the Administration into supporting civil rights.
Those events included attacks on Freedom Riders at this Trailways Bus Terminal in Birmingham, Alabama. This is the 8th city visited by the students on Freedom Ride 2011. Here Zilong Wang comes face to face with Freedom Rider James Zwerg, whose bloodied face peered from newspapers in 1961 helped compel hundreds of new riders to join the movement. Zwerg offers the college kids some pointers for their struggles, whatever they may be.
Follow the money: "If you want to bring about change you're going to have to go the decision makers. In trying to change the movie theaters, it wasn't going to happen," Zwerg said. "In Nashville, for example, we had to make the people who owned the theaters decide to change."
On this journey South, Zilong Wang and his fellow travelers also learned about the ultimate price that some paid for the advancement of human rights in the United States. The bus carring the 40 students has stopped in front of the 16th Street baptist Church in Birmingham. A bomb planted here took the lives of four little girls on September 15th , 1963.
Zilong Wang is only one of several foreign students on this tour of history and memory. Bakhrom Ismoilov is studying at Eastern Oregon University. He's from Tajikistan. He equated some of the violence his country has recently experienced with the segregation of the south during the 1960's. "It helps me a lot to see how much bigger and how much bigger scale it was. I can definitely relate this to terrorism, and actually putting a population of black Americans in fear," Ismoilov said.
As the Freedom Riders' Tour winded down, students were asked what they will do with the knowledge they've collected along the way. Tanya Smith, who grew up in Haiti, and plans to return there to lead a non-violent movement on behalf of youth, spoke up.
"Just like the Freedom Riders saw the need in society for change, Haitian youth realize the power they do have and the stake they have for building Haiti's future," she said. "And I want to be able show that non-violence is more effective in the sense that you're able to do what you're doing without resorting to the same tools that your oppressors are using against you."


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It's been ages since I have posted anything I have made and it's about time that I change that and start breaking the cycle of blogging laziness. I am trying to ease myself back into it. Not that easy but I remember how much I used to enjoy blogging and sharing my thoughts and creations with you guys.
This week I decided to start working on some of the vintage patterns I bought over the summer. I posted about a bunch of vintage blouse patterns in May and finally got around to making simplicity 4139. I got inspired after reading this post and remembered I had the pattern myself.
It was super easy to whip up. I used a very light cotton lawn in a pretty red floral print. I have the same material in green still waiting to be transformed. I think I might make another blouse from it.
I combined the blouse with one of my Autumn/Winter collection staple pieces. Extreme high waisted wide legged trousers.
I think I am really getting into 1940s designs for the winter. I need more from that period.
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Senger Family was one of the First Pioneer Families in Emmons County
"Senger Family was one of the First Pioneer Families in Emmons County." Emmons County Record, 21 December 1999, 29.
Editor's Note: The Michael Senger family was one of the first German-Russian immigrant families to settle in Emmons County. They arrived from Russia in 1886.
Michael Senger was born August 18, 1847, and died April 10, 1917. His father's name was John Senger. Michael was married in Russia to Barbara Schumacher, who was born August 4, 1850, and died September 9, 1915. Her father's name was Joseph Schumacher.
Michael's second wife was Katharina Roehrich, who was born April 11, 1859, and died April 9, 1949.
The Sengers' forefathers migrated from Germany to Russia in 1763 at the invitation of German-born Catherine the Great II, then Tsarista or Empress of Russia.
The Senger's sod home is still standing southeast of Strasburg.
Irvin Senger of Strasburg and Clem Rohrich of Linton, both descendants of the pioneer family assisted the Record with the story and photos.)
Early Homesteader describes trip to the river with ox
team. Lad of fifteen spent night in hills expecting to be devoured
by monster beasts.
By Anton Senger (Oldest son of Michael Senger)
In our family when we left our home in Strasburg, South Russia, were my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Senger, myself, four other brothers and two sisters. I was the oldest son, being fourteen years of age.
My father owned two well improved farms of about 150 acres each, about four miles from the little colony where all the farmers lived. Farming operations there were carried on differently than over here. The farms were located out in the country and the owners or tenants lived in the little village, going out in the day to do the field work and returning to the village at night.
The question has often come up as to what brought the German-Russians to North Dakota. In the first place the main reason was that the people there were oppressed. They were heavily taxed and just as soon as a son was old enough he was forced to serve in the Czar's army. It was to get away from this servitude that caused many of them to leave that country.
The U.S. Government had an immigration agent working in that territory as early as 1870 and as the farmers were accustomed to raising wheat in a prairie country, he advised them to go to North and South Dakota where they could adapt themselves easily to the same methods of farming they were accustomed to. To all of us America was a land of Paradise; where a person was free of servitude and oppression; a land where taxes were low and where great opportunities existed.
In the fall of 1885 my father sold his farm and turned all his property into cash. The next spring in March we left by train from Strasburg to Bremen, Germany, and from there took the boat for New York. In our party were about ten families. We had second class quarters on the boat and spent 11 days on the Atlantic. I will never forget that trip. For five days I never got out of my bed and I was the sickest I have ever been.
We spent one day in New York and then took the train for Menno, South Dakota, where my father bought his farming equipment--2 yoke of oxen, 1 span of horses and six cows. We loaded them into a box car and went on to Ipswich, South Dakota, the end of the railroad. Father paid $120 for each yoke of oxen; $300 for the team, and $20 each for the cows. He figured he made a good deal for when we got to Ipswich they were selling for about twice what he paid for them.
We left Ipswich on the last day of April 1886, and started out across the country for our new home. It took five days for us to reach our homestead nine miles northeast of Hauge on the Little Beaver.
We lived in the covered wagon for a few days until we had the shack built. Although there were quite a few neighbors to the south of us, we were on the north end of the settlement and from our place north our nearest neighbors were the people who lived at Williamsport.
As soon as we got our shack up we walled it up with sod and then looked for something with which to cover the roof. We had heard that to the west somewhere was the big river where there was plenty of timber for everyone. So we started out one morning to get what was needed to finish up our home.
In the group were myself, my father, John Senger, Jacob Fischer, Jacob Bolander, and George Gackle. The latter was a young man 20 years and a hustler. He soon afterwards started dealing in the land and within a few years had made a fortune. The town of Gackle in Logan County was named for him. There was no road to the river and we had to make our way across the prairie the best we knew how. Each of us had a yoke of oxen hitched to a wagon. We left early in the morning and the day was plenty hot. There was no track for the oxen to follow so I had to lead them all the way.
At noon we hit a homestead about two miles north and two miles west of where Strasburg is now. Our oxen were panting and their tongues were hanging out of their mouths. We watered them there, filled our jugs and started on--headed west. I found out afterwards the place we stopped at was Wally Petrie's.
I will never forget my first night out on the prairies. The farther we got the bigger the hills were, until, when night came, we were right in the middle of them. I was scared to death, and felt sure some unknown animal would surely eat us up during the night.
We picketed our oxen and rolled in blankets to sleep. But I didn't sleep a wink. There were millions of mosquitoes. Then every little while a coyote would howl on one side and then a fox on another, and to make it more miserable for me, a night owl would let out a screech in between. All of those different noises kept the chills running up and down my back all night and I was glad when morning came.
We arrived at Winona about noon the second day. It was a real town and everything was booming. We made our deal for timber and spent two days cutting timber and loading it up on our wagons. We stayed at Winona during the night, camping near one of the dance halls. The trip home was not so bad because we had our own trail to follow.
That winter we spent three days in our sod shack while one of the worst blizzards I ever went through hit the country. We used hay for fuel and that soon gave out. The snow blew so hard we couldn't get out of the house and all we could do was sit inside and try to keep from freezing.
That same winter my father started for Eureka, South Dakota for supplies for the family and was caught in the blizzard on his way home. The trip in those times took nine days and there were only a few houses on the way where a traveler could stop if he was caught out in a storm. When the blizzard came we all expected we would never see our father again, but he finally got home. But when he arrived icicles were hanging from his beard and his feet were frosted. The horses suffered a lot on that trip. They had to break their way through hard crusted snow about every step on the way and when they arrived at our place the hide was all scratched off their legs from their hoofs up to their knees.
Those early days on the homestead were hard ones, as all the old settlers know. But along with the hard times we had our fun and enjoyed many pleasant evenings dancing and visiting in each other's homes or visiting with each other on Sundays.
There were no churches nor any schools in those days. Later we built a church north of Zeeland and as for a school, we took care of that in our own home with myself as teacher. We had an old slate we brought from the old country and that was our blackboard. Our lessons were taken from the Bible and what other few books we had brought with us.
Now, with the country settled up, we have schools within a short distance from every home in the country and every town has its churches and even the country districts are well supplied with them.
Michael Senger eventually owned 25 quarters of land which was farmed by his sons and sons-in-law.
Senger children and grandchildren
- Barbara Senger married Anton K. Fischer, and they had nine
- Anton Senger married Marian Eisenzimmer, and they had nine children.
- Lorenz Senger married Marian Schweitzer, and the couple had nine children.
- Joseph Senger married Johanna Feist, and they had seven children.
- John Senger married Veronica Schnuur. After Veronica's death, he married Katie Michael, and they had nine children.
- Katharina Senger married August Thomas, and the couple had eight children.
- Christ Senger married Marian Scherr, and they had nine children.
- Eva Senger married Sebastian Schmidt, and they had seven children.
- Michael Senger married Anastasia Rohrich, and they had five children.
- Ludwig Senger married Marian Schmidt, and they had eight children.
The family jewels
According to Senger family history, John Senger, Michael's father, farmed land owned by a Russian noble, which was commonplace for the German-Russians.
John's hogs were digging one day and unearthed a large steel chest. John opened it and discovered it was filled with gold coins and jewelry. An honest man, John gave it to the noble.
In gratitude, the noble gave John all the land he could cover in a day on horseback, riding in each direction.
The noble also asked John's wife what she would like to have, and she picked out a gold ring. He gave it to her, and it has been passed down from generation to generations in the Senger family since that time.
Reprinted with permission of the Emmons County Record.


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Costs to defend the Defense of Marriage Act have spiraled out of control over the past two years, as the case wound its way to the Supreme Court.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is paying the legal bills, which have accumulated to six times as much as originally anticipated.
$3 million has been authorized for the defense, compared to the initial $500,000.
After the President announced that the Justice Department would no longer commit resources to the legal defense of DOMA in February 2011, House Speaker John Boehner announced that the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) of the U.S. House of Representatives would take up the defense of DOMA.
Originally, the funding for this legal defense was capped at $500,000. The House GOP paid former Solicitor General and conservative Supreme Court rockstar Paul Clement to defend DOMA.
That cap has been repeatedly raised as the costs of defending the 1996 law have continued to spiral upwards. By October 2012, the GOP defense had burned through almost the entire new cap of $1.5 million.
Then, as of January, House Republicans authorized up to $3 million in government spending for Clement to defend the law.
All told, the House legal defense of the Defense of Marriage Act cost six times as much as the House GOP leadership originally anticipated.
Today Clement is before the Supreme Court defending DOMA, so the final decision of the highest court in the land will show whether that was money well-spent.
UPDATE 3:30 PM: Gregory Abbot, the Press Secretary for the Democrats of the House Committee on Administration, sent along the most recent copy of the contract extension with Paul Clement. Click to enlarge:


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> Allergen-specific IgE antibody test
Allergen-specific IgE antibody test
Also listed as:
Radioallergosorbent test, RAST®
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How it is performed
Test results
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Allergen, allergic, allergic reaction, allergic response allergy, allergy test, allergosorbent, antibodies, antibody, antigen, basophils, blood test, bradykinin, chemical mediators, chemotactic factors, generating factor, histamine, Ig, IgE, immune, immune cells, immune defense system, immune system, immunoglobulin, immunoglobulin E, inflammation,
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test, leukocytes, leukotrienes, mast cells, prostaglandins, proteases, radioallergosorbent, serotonin, skin test, thromboxanes, Type I allergic reaction, white blood cells.
An allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) test, commonly often referred to as radioallergosorbent test (RAST®) is a type of blood test that can help determine if a patient who experiences allergy symptoms, such as runny nose, watery eyes and hives, is allergic to particular substances called allergens.
in vitro
test (performed outside of the body, in a laboratory setting) exposes a blood sample to suspected allergens (like dust mites, pollen or animal dander) to determine whether the patient has developed allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies. Antibodies are proteins that recognize and bind to specific antigens (foreign substances in the body).
The test is used to diagnose Type I allergic reactions. Type I allergic reactions involve IgE, which is specific for a particular drug, antigen or other allergen that triggers the allergic reaction. The allergen binds to the immunoglobulin on specific immune cells known as basophils and mast cells. This binding results in the release of chemicals that cause inflammation in the body within 30 minutes of exposure to the allergen. Inflammatory chemicals including histamine, serotonin, proteases, bradykinin generating factor, chemotactic factors (molecules that stimulate the immune response), leukotrienes, prostaglandins and thromboxanes are released. These chemical mediators cause symptoms associated with allergies such as hives, runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, wheezing or itching. Type I allergic reactions are often triggered by food (like peanuts, shellfish and milk), drugs (like penicillin), inhaled allergens (like dust, pollen and pet dander), latex and insect venom (bees, wasps, etc.).
The test may also be conducted to monitor immunotherapy (allergy shots) or to determine whether an individual has outgrown an allergy.
The antibody test is less accurate than a skin test. However, if the patient has a severe skin disease (like eczema or psoriasis) that is present on large areas of skin on the arms or back, a skin test may not be possible. This is because the skin test may only be performed on the arms and back, and there may not be enough unaffected skin to perform a conclusive test. For these patients, an allergen-specific IgE test is the preferred diagnostic method.
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GP Notebook. Radioallergosorbent testing. .
Lab Tests Online. Allergy Testing. .
Natural Standard: The Authority on Integrative Medicine. .
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How it is performed
The allergen-specific IgE antibody test is an
in vitro
test, which means it is conducted outside of the body in a laboratory setting.
During the procedure, a sample of blood is taken from the patient.
The blood is then sent to a laboratory that performs specific IgE blood tests. Currently, more than 550 allergens are available for determinations.
An allergen-antigen complex is bound to an allergosorbent (paper disk) and the patient's blood is added. If the blood contains antibodies to the specific antigen, it will bind to the "tagged" immunoglobulins.
The patient will receive the test results in 7-14 days.
There are no medical risks associated with the allergen-specific IgE antibody test. Slight bruising may occur at the site where blood was taken.
Unlike skin tests, there is no risk of a serious allergic reaction occurring during the antibody test because the patient's body is not exposed to the allergen.
Pharmacia Diagnostics AB developed the allergen-specific IgE test, which was first marketed as RAST® in 1974. In 1989, Pharmacia Diagnostics AB replaced it with a superior test called the ImmunoCAP® specific IgE blood test, which is more sensitive and specific. The newer test is a cellulose polymer in a plastic reserve, which has a higher binding capacity of allergy proteins than the RAST® test. According to medical literature, the new test has replaced about 80% of the old RAST® tests in laboratories worldwide.
The newest version of ImmunoCap® is the only specific IgE assay to receive approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Test results
A qualified healthcare provider will interpret the results of the test. In general, the sensitivity of these tests range from 50-90%, with the average being about 70-75%.
Elevated levels of antibodies indicate an allergy. The amount of antibodies present is not proportionate to the severity of the allergy.
Patients who have allergies may be advised to avoid the allergen or they may be prescribed allergy medications, such as antihistamines (like diphenhydramine) or anti-inflammatories (like prednisone). However, treatment depends on the specific allergen and the severity of the allergy. Therefore, patients should consult their healthcare providers if they test positive.
Patients who test negative will have extremely low or nonexistent levels of antibodies. Negative results indicate that the patient does not have an allergy.
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In the early 20th century, this area was already known for its incredible fishing opportunities. Visitors were struck by the carpets of ground lichen and the exceptional Arctic vegetation at this latitude. They thus named it the Grands-Jardins-the Great Gardens. Today, Parc national des Grands-Jardins is still visited by anglers and also by hikers, campers, and vacationers. It has the privilege of forming one of the core zones of the Charlevoix World Biosphere Reserve, a status granted to the region by UNESCO.
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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Perennial from taproot and caudex
Stems 1several, erect
Leaves basal and cauline, alternate or opposite; petioles short to long; blades generally 3-veined, linear to ± ovate, entire, ± scabrous
Inflorescence: heads radiate, 1few, in cymes; peduncles long, with 0few leaf-like bracts; involucre hemispheric; phyllaries in 23 series, free; receptacle flat to ± convex, chaff scales folded around ovary, entire, obtuse, tip hairy
Ray flowers sterile; corolla yellow; style 0
Disk flowers many; corolla and anthers yellow or purple; style tips short-triangular
Fruit thick or compressed; pappus 0 or 2 awns 12 mm (sometimes also crown of low scales)
Species in genus: 8 species: w North America
Etymology: (Latin: diminutive of Helianthus )
Reference: [Weber 1952 Amer Midl Naturalist 48:135]
Stems 16 dm, glabrous to coarsely hairy
Leaves: blades 0.54 cm wide, linear to oblanceolate
Inflorescence: peduncles 1030 cm, sometimes ± scapose, ± short-hairy; involucre generally 12 cm diam; phyllaries seldom leaf-like, generally 12 cm, short-ciliate
Ray flowers 921; ligules generally 12 cm
Disk flowers: corollas 45 mm, yellow; anthers yellow to purple
Fruit 68 mm, obovate, thin, glabrous; pappus 0 or 2 awns or narrow scales, sometimes with crown of short scales
Ecology: Grassy sites, woodland, forest
Elevation: < 2600 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, s Peninsular Ranges
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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They're both now tucked away in my Albert Dorne Flickr set for your viewing pleasure.
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- Mir5:11 PM
The countdown with Christmas pictures is a very pleasant idea.Thank you for doing this.ReplyDelete
Every time I see an Albert Dorne illustration, I'm struck by what pleasure he obviously took in creating pictures. I suppose some might find his imagery corny, but he was such a cool draughtsman. Years ago I was lucky enough to view some original Dorne drawings, in the collection of Ben & Jane Eisendtadt -- a great experience. Thanks again, Leif.ReplyDelete
How lucky for you to get to see some Dorne originals, Neil! I agree with you about the obvious pleasure he must have taken in the act of picture creation - that certainly speaks to his almost legendary childhood remark about his intentions to become a famous artist, doesn't it?ReplyDelete
And a lot of his work is hokey but so what, I say! ;-)


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In September 1967 in Detroit, Mike Abbott and Kathy Adams, recent high school graduates, welcomed Jim, their first child, into the world. Their marriage, fifteen days later, was subdued because Jim was born without a right hand. (1) With the help of their parents, Mike and Kathy overcame their doubts about their ability to raise a child with a handicap and helped Jim cope with challenges galore – putting on his clothes, tying his shoes, (2) blending in with peers, coping with jokes and insults, and opting for perseverance over self-pity. (3)
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Former Senator Rick Santorum said yesterday that he thinks President Obama "elevates the Earth above man," and should rethink his dedication to "radical environmentalists." Santorum has recently come into the political spotlight thanks to his steady rise up the Republican primary ladder over the past few weeks. This past weekend Santorum was accused of questioning President Barack Obama's religion at a campaign stop in Ohio. When asked about his statement the following day on Face the Nation, Santorum explained that he wasn't questioning the President's religion but rather his dedication to the human race. It seems Santorum might have forgotten that without the Earth, there is no human race and that perhaps the President is just trying to take good care of this big blue planet we call home.
We're not sure what Santorum is talking about, and we're inclined to think that neither does he. "I just said that when you have a worldview that elevates the Earth above man and says that, you know, we can't take those resources because we're going to harm the Earth by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven — for example, that politicization of the whole global-warming debate — I mean, this is just all an attempt to centralize power and to give more power to the government," he said.
We're pretty sure that it has been proven, scientifically, that natural resources are finite. So if there is only a limited amount of them and if we rely on them for our daily livelihood, it might then be a good idea to lay off using them and find something else more sustainable — say what those "radical environmentalists" call renewable energy — in order to keep the human race from perishing.
"This idea that man is here to serve the earth, as opposed to husband its resources and being good stewards of the earth, and I think that is a phony ideal," Santorum continued. If Santorum thinks our current state of resource husbandry is good stewardship, he is the one pushing phony ideals. Our reliance on shipping has polluted the world's oceans, in some cases making them uninhabitable to fish that we eat; coal mining has chopped thousands of mountains in half and has polluted the water that we drink; oil pipelines have decimated habitats of animals that we hunt for sustenance; the timber industry has deforested millions of acres of rainforest causing the changing of weather patterns that allow agriculture to exist; the extraction of rare Earth minerals from underground has caused the destruction of entire communities of people in developing countries; and our desperation to extract and burn fossil fuels has caused millions — maybe billions — of people to fall ill from breathing toxic emissions.
Rick Santorum seems to forget that humans wouldn't be here without this planet and the life-giving qualities it was born with. President Obama — though sometimes he gets off track — is just trying to keep this place hospitable and perhaps Sen. Santorum should go find his own planet to husband — and perhaps learn a little bit about how to get rid of Google search results.
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The Classical Style of Drupal Architecture
Update: The final proposed session is a bit more focused. This is why I pretend there's a method to my madness.
While brainstorming narratives for a presentation for drupalcon on "the practical drupal architect", I started scribling notes about "schools of thought" for drupal architecture. Interested in whether this kind of high level stuff is even remotely interesting to anyone. An actual presentation will use real websites with labels and overlays and big arrows to illustrate these points of course.
The Classical[1] School of Drupal Architecture
Prototypical example of Classical Drupal Architecture: whitehouse.gov
From the builder's perspective[2]:
The classical school is relatively conservative: you might use mini-panels to create clusters of blocks to ease the micromanagement of visibility settings, but not full on panels itself. The classical builder tends to pick modules which are the most tried and true solutions to the sites needs, and rarely uses radical new methods. For this reason, many people will call classical sites "standard implementations" - but the good builder knows there's nothing standard about knowing the right tool for the job.
Competence and experience is required from the builder in this style, and their failure to choose the right patterns, and methods will mean the building comes crashing down.
From the themer's perspective:
Classical Drupal Architecture is easiest for the themer.[4] A themer who messes up a classical design is like an out of tune piano.
1. Small number of page layouts and regions, usually no more than 2 or 3 layouts with 4 to 10 regions in total (10 at the extremes).
2. A navigation system that works for all page layouts, and behaves consistently.
3. The only distinct styles for nodes tend to based on medium: text, video, and image. Each medium tends to have a simple teaser, and simple page view.
4. Each region tends to have one consistent style for blocks.
From the designer's perspective:
The classical designer must understand[3]:
1. the functional purpose of the page they are designing
2. limits of html/css and what they can bend in special cases
3. how to design defensively (e.g. not every page is as ideal as a photoshop mockup with fake titles and text)
4. basic user interaction states (photoshop dude, remember every page needs to maybe display messages like "your password is incorrect").
5. development resources are limited, and that they only have a limited amount of "design bucks" on each project to invest in the various parts of the potentially tens of thousands of pages.
6. When a function requires a special touch, lazy developer be damned.
7. the handy features in their tools that let them assign design attributes to common elements that can be shared by multiple pages. (I hope you found out how to do that, and don't tell anyone if you haven't.
Some common characteristics of classical drupal sites:
1. An emphasis on mathematical precision, typographical hierarchy, as well as vertical rhythm. While the design doesn't have to be pure white, flourish is usually reserved for the background, header or other areas that aren't already being used by content.
2. Elements that's style repeats in multiple places for multiple types of content and pages, but serves a consistant purposes.
Many designers mistakenly equate "reusable" with "cookie cutter". They may even think developers who moan about building another curvy shadowed box as "lazy". The classical designer laughs at these people, and drives off in their new BMW. They are by and far the most rare, and highly valued web designers in the industry -- even if the industry doesn't realize it yet.
From the Chx's perspective:
The whole point of the style in a way is to make everyone more efficient at the basic crap which is where most drupal sites get hung up. Its tried and true for big drupal content rich sites with basic community features. Chx would probably get really bored, and have a lot of free time if he were working within the inherit constraints of this style. From his perspective, this style merely frees him up to spend time working on the development challenges that require a chx.
Tangents I didn't want to completely delete:
1. I used classical because of the its emphasis on tradition, technique, and structure from the module/theme perspective, as well as the elegance, harmony, and mathematical precision that's evident in the final product from the design perspective. I haven't yet identified more with confidence, but am making up labels at least so the perspective is relative: drupal.org's current implementation is "neo-baroque", and drupal 6 out of the box "traditional-folk". Neither are worth covering as neo-baroque is a style that has emerged from the special conditions of one place (drupal.org is a freak), and everyone can sing traditional-folk. Baroque, I define as classical minus a great designer, the builder as the architect, and the themer being non existent.
2. Understand that i'm treating terms like "themer", "designer", and "builder" like hats you can put on and take off at any point.
3. It could be argued that this is just plain good web design in general. I 100% agree with this interpretation. Web design is constrained medium. Designing dynamic web sites is even more constraining. Don't design either if you are frustrated by constraints. In a sense i'm making a point of "stop blaming drupal and the developers, and embrace the inhereit complexity of designing giant websites.
4. I've never actually never met a themer. I've met builders who theme, and builder's who don't, but i've never once met a themer who doesn't built. At the same time, i've heard a lot of gossip about these themer folk and admit I'm not inspired by what i've heard about their capabilities.


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India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow opens to the public this Sunday (Thursday if you're a member), and we've gotten a sneak peek into the installation of this massive show. The exhibition features roughly 200 objects--paintings, costumes, jewelry, weapons, decorative arts, glassware, and more--made in this artistic capital during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The sheer number and diversity of objects means that our curators, conservators, registrars, and installation staff had their hands full. Here's a slice of all they've been doing for the past couple of weeks.
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