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I wonder sometimes if Paul Krugman ever gets tired of being right. Or does he get bored with it, given how often it happens?
This week, at the Take Back the American Dream conference, Krugman shared the stage with Chris Hayes for the "End This Depression NOW!" plenary session. (Videos of all the plenaries are available on our conference videos web page.) During the plenary, Krugman held that we could be at 7% unemployment right now, if Congress had extended part of the Recovery Act that sent money to states in order to prevent worker layoffs.
Today, a couple of news items suggest Krugman may be right again.
First, here's what Krugman had to say at the conference this week.
And as Paul Krugman explained at the Take Back the American Dream conference today, we could have driven unemployment down below 8% if only we extended one aspect of the initial Recovery Act: send money to the states to prevent public worker layoffs.
"Just by filling the potholes," hiring idle construction workers and saving teaching jobs, said Krugman, we would be at 7% unemployment. We would not incur much more debt to do it, because interest rates are so low. It would not take much time to implement, as opposed to also needed heavy infrastructure projects, because all that's involved is putting the money into the state accounts.
Krugman wrote in his new book, End This Depression Now, helping states reverse recent budget cuts would "create well over a million jobs directly and probably something like three million jobs once you take the indirect effect into account."
The issue of saving our public sector workforce is becoming one of the major flashpoints in the upcoming elections, which makes sense since it is one of clearest policy reversals that occurred after Republicans swiped the House in 2010.
Yesterday, a New York Times article underscored Krugman's point with the news that layoffs of public workers at the state and local level are hurting the recovery.
So while the federal government has grown a little since the recession, and many states have recently begun to add a few jobs, local governments are making new cuts that outweigh those gains. More than a quarter of municipal governments are planning layoffs this year, according to a survey by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence. They are being squeezed not only by declining federal and state support, but by their devastated property tax base.
"The unfortunate reality is our revenue streams have not rebounded," said Timothy R. Hacker, the city manager of North Las Vegas, which has cut its work force to 1,300 from 2,300 and is about to lay off 130 more. "Shaking this recession is becoming increasingly difficult."
…If governments still employed the same percentage of the work force as they did in 2009, the unemployment rate would be a percentage point lower, according to an analysis by Moody's Analytics. At the pace so far this year, layoffs will siphon off $15 billion in spending power. Yale economists have said that if state and local governments had followed the pattern of previous recessions, they would have added at least 1.4 million jobs.
The article goes on to suggest that the political decision to not to send money to state in order to avoid layoff of the very public public workers Mitt Romney thinks we need America needs fewer of — like teachers, police officers, fire fighters, etc. — has a predictable "trickle-down" effect.
"Fourteen states plan to resolve their budget gaps by reducing aid to local governments, according to a report by the National Governors Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers."
The consequences trickle all the way down Main Street. For citizens, layoff mean "longer response times to fires, larger class sizes, and in some cases lawsuits when short-staffed agencies are unable to provide the required services." Local businesses, "not only lose prospective middle-class customers but may face long waits for services."
No wonder Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke begged Congress for help him fix the economy.
But in response to questions from skeptical media, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke reminded reporters that the Fed isn't the only game in town, and practically begged Congress to take affirmative steps to boost recovery.
Bernanke cited "Fiscal restraint at the federal state and local levels," as a key head wind threatening the recovery.
"Monetary policy is not a panacea," he implored. "Monetary policy by itself is not going to solve our economic problems. We welcome help and support from any other part of the government, from other economic policy makers. Collaboration would be great."
…But in the meantime, he offered Congress his familiar prescription – it amounts to stimulus in the short term paired with a credible long-term path to reduced deficits.
It turns out that Tip O'Neill was right: All politics is local.


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OTTAWA — A cross-country political dogfight over shipbuilding contracts ended in a win for both coasts Wednesday, as the federal government awarded $33 billion in contracts to drydocks in Halifax and Vancouver and froze out Quebec.
Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax will receive a $25-billion naval vessel building contract, while Seaspan Marine in Vancouver will receive an $8-billion contract for building coast guard and other non-navy ships.
A third shipyard, Davie Shipyard in Levis, Que., was not chosen by the arm's-length body tasked with awarding the contracts.
The reaction from Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter and British Columbia Premier Christy Clark was immediate and ecstatic.
"We said from the beginning it was the industrial opportunity of a lifetime," Dexter told Postmedia News, "and it feels good to be on the winning side."
Noting the Royal Canadian Navy is headquartered in Halifax and much of the navy's current fleet was built there, Dexter said that "to a certain extent, there was a matter of pride on the line."
"Eight billion dollars is huge. At a time like this, when the world is experiencing all this economic uncertainty, it is going to be big," Clark told reporters, moments after the result was made public.
"What this means is we will see thousands of jobs come to British Columbia as a result of this federal money — thousands of high-paid jobs, people who are going to be able to support their kids, solid middle-class jobs and I think it's so important. I'm absolutely delighted."
The reaction from Quebec City, meanwhile, was frosty. Quebec Economic Development Minister Sam Hamad said his government is "extremely disappointed" with the decision — but he stopped short of criticizing the selection process.
"It's the outcome that matters. Quebec was not selected. . . . Now we want to know why," Hamad told reporters, adding Davie had a "very strong bid."
"It's bad news, not only for Quebec but also for Ontario, because it didn't get its share of the contract," he added.
Immediately after hearing the announcement at his offices in North Vancouver, Seaspan Marine Corp. CEO Jonathan Whitworth jumped to his feet and shouted: "We won!"
"We are extremely happy and proud to be chosen on the non-combat package," he said, grinning.
Kyle Washington, chairman of the board of Seaspan Marine Corp., called the win "substantial, monumental, company-changing, industry-changing."
Irving Shipbuilding CEO Jim Irving attributed his company's success to the entire community in Halifax and the region lending its support.
"It's one of those events where everybody came together," he said in an interview. "We had to get away from the boom-bust cycle. This is a huge contract and clearly we're very happy."
The consortium that owns Davie, made up of Montreal-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, Ontario-based Upper Great Lakes Shipyards and Korean multinational Daewoo, expressed disappointment.
"We were convinced, and we still are, that the structure we put in place was perfectly fit to undertake major shipbuilding projects," said Armand Couture, SNC-Lavalin vice-president.
He noted the shipyard will review its process in the coming weeks to improve future tenders on other projects.
Because of the political sensitivities inherent in three regions of the country bidding on two massive contracts, the Conservative government went out of its way to depoliticize the process.
As part of that exhaustive effort, 21 civil servants divided into three teams to review the three bids against a different set of criteria each. The review process was established with assistance from international consulting firm KPMG, and the final evaluations were reviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The largest factor, worth 60 of the total 100 points, was the current state and capability of each shipyard.
In the end, Irving beat Seaspan for the combat work with a score of 82.8 to Seaspan's 74.9. That took Irving out of the running for the non-combat package. Seaspan earned 76.8 points on the non-combat package, a significant spread over Davie's 63.2 points.
Peter Woods of Knowles Consultancy Services and Hill International Inc., hired by the government to monitor the fairness and transparency of the process, pronounced himself satisfied.
"I found no fairness deficiencies," he said, adding that, of 10 such projects reviewed during his career, this process "was one of the best, if not the best."
Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose called the contract process an innovative strategy that will remove the risk of cycles of boom and bust for shipbuilders.
"This is truly a win for Canada because we are revitalizing our shipbuilding industry and making it internationally competitive like never before," she said. "Before our government made the decision to build ships for Canada, in Canada, we were the only NATO country not to have a strategic relationship with our shipyards."
Ambrose tried to lessen the blow for Davie. "It's, of course, important to note that there still are opportunities to compete for the contract of 100 smaller vessels that have been set aside," she said. "The shipyards selected today are not allowed to bid on these contracts. In addition there is hundreds of millions of dollars a year in repair and refit work in this strategy that shipyards across Canada can also compete for."
Government officials said they did not know exactly how many jobs would be created over the next 30 years as many details still have to be worked out, starting with contract negotiations with the two winning firms.
However, officials and the government did cite a report from the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries that has predicted 15,000 jobs.
Defence analysts have said the benefits and the spending of the procurement program will be spread across the country — with Central Canada standing to cash in a lot with subcontractors.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay said it was a very exciting day for the Royal Canadian Navy.
"This will let us prepare for the challenges of the 21st century," he said, adding the government learned lessons on how to buy military equipment that will be applied in the future.
"The bids were all strong," Francois Guimont, deputy minister for public works, told the Ottawa media conference. He skirted a question about Davie's failure to land a contract.
"I wouldn't talk about failures here."
Davie does have options for appealing the decision, through either the Canadian International Trade Tribunal or the Federal Court. Officials were hopeful that would not be the case. If it does, they are counting on the selection process holding up under scrutiny.
Still to come are announcements on two other federal shipbuilding contracts — one package amounting to $2 billion and another worth $500 million per year for 30 years for refits and maintenance. These will be approved on a project-by-project basis.
The media conference announcing the contracts — the largest such federal shipbuilding procurement program since the end of the Second World War — dwelt at length on government efforts to remove politics from the process and to eliminate the political sniping between regions that usually erupts over such projects.
"We have drawn up stringent measures to protect the integrity of the process," said Guimont.
Despite being advertised from the onset as a way to revitalize Canadian shipyards, the procurement program was quickly taken over by regional politics and effectively pitted three regions of the country against each other.
The Bloc Quebecois, virtually wiped out in the last federal election by a wave of NDP wins, pounced on the announcement Wednesday, accusing the Conservatives of abandoning shipyard workers in Quebec with the tacit agreement of the NDP.
"The federalist parties favoured Canadian shipyards to the detriment of Quebec," Bloc MP Andre Bellavance said.
Initial NDP reaction was contradictory. While the party's shipbuilding critic Peter Stoffer, a Nova Scotia MP, declared himself satisfied with the process, NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel — who represents a Quebec riding — blasted the announcement for leaving Davie in a "more fragile position."
"The Conservatives have to do much more to ensure that Quebec shipbuilding capacity remains stable and that long-term skilled jobs are created," she said in a media statement.
"We have to build this industry everywhere, not pick winners and losers like the Conservatives have done."
For his part, Liberal interim leader Bob Rae congratulated the winners and said he was satisfied the process was free from political bias.
But echoing the NDP's concern for Quebec, Rae said there were still opportunities down the line for Quebec to get a piece of the shipbuilding contract.
"Obviously, Halifax and Vancouver are the centres of the shipbuilding," he said, "but there's a lot of subcontract work, there's a lot of other work that needs to be done."
When asked whether losing out on the contract would fuel the sovereigntist movement, Rae quipped, "I would say in terms of sovereignty, it's pretty hard to know how a big a navy an independent Quebec would have."
The Quebec government worked diligently to ensure Davie Shipyard — the largest drydock in the country — entered the race at the eleventh hour.
A Quebec Superior Court judge approved the sale of the ailing Quebec shipyard to Ontario's Upper Lakes Group just a few hours before the deadline for bidding on the largest chunk of the federal government work in the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy on July 22.
The provincial government added an extra $18 million to help the new owners finance the transaction.
Quebec Premier Jean Charest has said the 186-year-old Davie shipyard deserves its share of the federal shipbuilding contracts.
Ugurhan Berkok, chair of the defence management studies program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., said he was not surprised by the outcome.
He said Halifax likely won the larger contract because of its experience — it is currently refitting seven of the 12 frigates that have reached their mid-life — and its financial situation.
"Points were also awarded to what investments are needed. Vancouver is working at near capacity and they would need further investments," Berkok said. "Halifax had significant excess capacity so their expansion could be less costly."
He noted the financial strength of each bidder was a key factor.
"The (Davie consortium) was cobbled up at the last minute," he said, "so that may very well be, given what we know, (why) they lost out fair and square.
With files from Victoria Times Colonist

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I was going to post this picture without comment. Butter-flavored syrup (which clearly contains no traces of actual butter) is a product just ridiculous enough to not require introduction or description. Or so I thought. But then I tasted it.
The problem with Krasdale's "buttery" syrup is not that it's totally repulsive, but that it's kind of delicious (in the same way that Top Ramen with two seasoning packets is delicious). I have parted ways with many of my childhood food desires, but there must still be a portion of my tongue (if not my brain) that remains susceptible to these crunchy-salty, sugary-sweet lab experiments that all-too-often pass as "food", especially to kids.
I am fortunate to enough to be able to cut myself off from butter-flavored syrup after just one drop, as tasty a drop as it was, because I know that it's horrible for me, that there's such a thing as real maple syrup that comes from trees, and that you can make your own (much better) version of Krasdale's product by melting a pat of real butter in real syrup. But imagine if you weren't lucky enough to know those things. You might never see a reason to stop. And that's even more alarming than butter-flavored syrup itself.


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Breast cancer begins in the breast and may spread to the lymph nodes of the armpit (axilla). When a breast lump is found to contain cancer, and if the cancer has not spread beyond the nodes of the axilla to distant sites, it is often removed surgically. Radiation therapy may be used in addition to surgery. In certain cases of malignant lumps, lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy is as effective as a mastectomy (breast removal). Typically, lumpectomy does not require a breast reconstruction.
In many cases of breast cancer, removal of the entire breast is unnecessary. A procedure such as a segmental mastectomy can be performed. In segmental mastectomy, the cancer and a surrounding area of normal breast tissue around it are removed. Lymph nodes under the arm and the tissue over the chest muscles beneath the tumor also may be removed.
In some cases, the cancer is too large to be removed by lumpectomy. In these situations, removal of the breast, along with the lymph nodes in the armpit (axilla) that drain the breast, is required. This procedure is called modified radical mastectomy (MRM). The results of mastectomy for breast cancer depend on the stage of the cancer, the tumor size, and whether there is cancer in the lymph nodes.
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Mesoamerican Indian, member of any of the indigenous peoples inhabiting Mexico and Central America (roughly between latitudes 14° N and 22° N).
Mesoamerican Indian cultures have a common origin in the pre-Columbian civilizations of the area. The three largest linguistic groups are the Mayan, the Otomanguean, and the Uto-Aztecan. Mayan peoples, with the exception of a northeastern enclave, the Huastecs, live in southeastern Mesoamerica. Otomangueans are to be found in a wide area of Mesoamerica between Uto-Aztecan peoples to the north and east and Mayan and other peoples to the south. Some Otomanguean languages (now extinct) were spoken south of the Mayan area along the Pacific coasts of Honduras and Nicaragua, and Chichimeco and North Pame (once spoken in the central desert of highland Mexico) are outside Mesoamerica to the north. The main branches of Otomanguean languages are Oto-Pamean, Chinantecan, Tlapanec-Subtiaba, and Manguean, which constitute the Western group, and Popolocan, Zapotecan, Amuzgo, and Mixtecan, which constitute the Eastern group. As a result of the expansion of the Aztec empire centred in the Valley of Mexico, Uto-Aztecan enclaves are found throughout the area. Tarascan, a language isolate (i.e., a language having no known relatives), is spoken in the highlands of Michoacán, Mexico. (See also Mesoamerican Indian languages.)
Traditional culture patterns
Settlement patterns
The territorial unit that has prime importance for most Mesoamerican peoples is the municipio, a unit roughly corresponding to a county in Great Britain or the United States. Each municipio has a municipal centre where most civic, religious, and marketing activities take place. In the modern pattern, this centre is the largest settlement in the area. The usual elements, which vary according to the size and importance of the community, are laid out according to the standard pattern imposed by early Spanish administrators throughout New Spain: a public plaza surrounded by public edifices (church or chapel, curacy, jail, perhaps a school, and a meeting place for civil authorities). Houses situated nearest the plaza are those of the community leaders. Larger communities are often divided into sociopolitical enclaves called barrios.
An older pattern, still found in a few areas (as among some Maya peoples of the south and among the Huichol of the north), was for the municipio centre to be an empty town, occupied continuously only by civil and religious authorities and perhaps a few merchants. The bulk of the population resided in hamlets or on individual farms most of the year, moving to town residences only for short periods either to transact business or to participate in religious festivals.
Social, political, and religious institutions
The basic social and economic unit of Mesoamerica is the extended family of two to four generations. There is a strong tendency for the extended family to fragment into individual nuclear families, each consisting of one couple and their children. Kinship is usually reckoned bilaterally, with no distinction being made between kin related through males and those related through females. Such distinctions are made in a few Mayan and Zoque communities, and they are common immediately north of Mesoamerica. Those and other facts have led some anthropologists to suggest that small preconquest communities were patrilineal clans or lineages. Named clans and lineages have actually been reported in a few present-day Tzeltal Mayan communities.
Throughout Mesoamerica generally, newly married couples tend to locate near the groom's family in a slight majority of cases. Inheritance also generally favours the male line, including family names, which are almost invariably inherited from males. Inherited names are now most commonly of Spanish origin, but native surnames are known among some Mayan groups. In certain Mixtec (Otomanguean) communities, a man's first name becomes the surname of his offspring.
Marriage, traditionally an alliance between two families, is initiated by the groom's parents and arranged by them directly or through the services of a go-between. A period of bride service by the groom, often involving at least temporary residence with the bride's family, is not uncommon. Polygyny is known and socially acceptable but is not common.
Political and religious institutions are traditionally bound together into a complex of hierarchically arranged yearlong offices through which adult males may attain status and power in the community. All males must serve in the lower-ranked offices at one time or another, but only the most successful attain the highest positions. Progress through the ranks typically involves an alternation between civil and religious offices. Successful passage to the highest ranks results in election to the position of elder. The elders form a more or less informal group of senior men to whom the community looks for experienced guidance in policy matters and in times of crisis.
Mesoamerican religion is a complex syncretism of indigenous beliefs and the Christianity of early Roman Catholic missionaries. A hierarchy of indigenous supernatural beings (some benign, others not) have been reinterpreted as Christian deities and saints. Mountain and water spirits are appeased at special altars in sacred places by gift or animal sacrifice. Individuals have companion spirits in the form of animals or natural phenomena, such as lightning or shooting stars. Disease is associated with witchcraft or failure to appease malevolent spirits.
Economic institutions
The cultivation of corn (maize), as well as of a number of secondary crops, provides basic subsistence for all of Mesoamerica. Secondary crops include beans, squash or pumpkins, chili peppers for seasoning, and tomatoes. Additional foods with a limited distribution because of differing climates and terrain are pineapple, sweet potato, cassava (manioc), chayote, vanilla, maguey, nopal (a type of cactus), mesquite, cherimoya, papaya, and avocado. Native commercial plants included cotton, tobacco, henequen for its fibre, and cocoa beans, which served as a medium of exchange. Important commercial crops that have been introduced since European contact include Old World cereals (wheat, barley, oats), bananas, coffee, sugarcane, sesame, and peanuts.
Traditional slash-and-burn agriculture persists in the most isolated areas, but plow agriculture has replaced it in many places. Chinampa agriculture is limited to the Valley of Mexico: small artificial islands are built up about 1 foot (about 30 centimetres) above the level of the shallow waters of a freshwater lake, formed from the mud and vegetation of the lake floor. After settling, this serves as a rich bed for mixed-crop rotation, nurseries, and seed plots.
All modern Mesoamerican communities are tied to national and international markets, but the extent of that relationship varies considerably. The Lacandón of the Chiapas lowland jungles bordering Guatemala lie at one extreme. If imported tools such as the machete, ax, rifle, and matches became unavailable to the Lacandón through some catastrophe, they, of all Mesoamerican peoples, would have perhaps the least difficulty in adjusting to the challenge of their ecological situation. Living members of the community still retain personal knowledge of such traditional skills as working flint and stone and the making of fire, cloth, and pottery.
A larger segment of the indigenous Mesoamerican population is tied to the outside cash economy by one or more products, such as coffee, citrus, vanilla, livestock, or manufactured goods. Specialization is not the norm, but from before colonialism certain communities have specialized in particular products and skills; an entire community may be known for its pottery, weaving, or basketry.
Markets are typically organized into a network in which each of several towns hosts the market in its central plaza, a different town each day of the week. The network may or may not include a central market that is held every day of the week. Such a market consists of a core of local merchants, the ranks of which are swollen once a week by merchants from the outlying hamlets of the area. All of the merchants, whether from the central market or from outlying markets, tend to be organized in single household units.
Craft specializations that figure in the marketplace are also widely practiced to meet family needs. Before the appearance of inexpensive commercial cloth, it was the norm throughout Mesoamerica for every young girl to learn to weave cotton cloth and, as a married woman, to provide clothing materials for her family. That skill has declined in the face of easy access to materials of cotton, wool, silk, and synthetic materials and blends. The introduction of the treadle loom by the Spaniards brought men into the weaving industry, especially as a commercial operation.
Both men and women weave hats and baskets. Commercial products are produced from grasses, reeds, and palms, and lowland peoples also produce baskets of vine for local use.
A variety of pottery-making techniques are known in Mesoamerica. Before colonization, female potters made most ware, forming vessels by hand modeling, by building with coils, or by using a wooden paddle or molds. The Spaniards introduced the potter's wheel. Present-day techniques are a synthesis of indigenous and Western methods.
A lacquering art, now an integral part of the tourist trade, was practiced at the time of the conquest. A variety of gourd vessels of many sizes and shapes are artistically painted, using local materials and techniques. The beautifully decorated vessels serve a range of purposes, from simple utilitarian items, such as dippers, to elaborate ceremonial bowls.
The life cycle
Christian baptism is the first major event in the life of an individual. Indeed, among Chinantecs, a child is not considered fully human until the rite has been performed. If an unbaptized infant dies, the body is buried immediately without the usual ritual observances—ringing of the church bells, burning of incense, and reading and singing of prayers in the home, at the church, and at the graveside.
Nursing may continue for as long as three or four years, and childhood is a period of little discipline except for the responsibility placed on older children to care for their younger siblings while the parents work. Formal schooling is now available in most areas for at least a few years, but monolingualism in less-acculturated areas severely limits the efficacy of the training, which is almost always conducted in Spanish only. There is no puberty rite, so that the transition from infancy to adolescence is unmarked ritually.
A girl becomes an adult at marriage, but a boy becomes an adult in two ways: through marriage and through citizenship attained when he reaches the proper age, usually 14 or 15 years. At this time he must enter the labour pool of adult men who maintain community property and must contribute his share of any assessment the citizenry may impose upon itself to cover community expenses. He becomes eligible—and obligated—to serve in the lowest-ranking offices of the political and religious institutions of the community.
Death is marked by ritual and burial within 24 hours of death, with repetition of the ritual at periodic intervals after death, sometimes ending on the ninth day, sometimes repeated on the anniversary. An All Saints feast of several days' duration is prepared annually in the fall of the year for all of the dead.
Modern developments
In the latter half of the 20th century, Mesoamerican Indians experienced increased access to material goods and the global economy. They generally accepted technological changes that improved their economic position and resisted externally imposed changes that affected their traditional social life. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, political strife (up to and including civil war) in Mexico and several Central American countries severely disrupted life for many Mesoamerican people.
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Scott was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 18 months old and Friday, the city of San Francisco teamed up with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to make Scott's dream of becoming Batman, err "Batkid," come true.
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After Lou Seal was safe and the Penguin was locked up, Scott took a victory lap by running the bases at AT&T Park. Later this afternoon, he is expected to receive the key to the city from the mayor.
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Bentley Named Asst. Prof. of Theater Arts, April 19, 2001
SOCORRO, N.M., April 19, 2001 -- At the start of the current spring semester, Leslie Bentley was named an assistant professor of Theatre Arts at New Mexico Tech, becoming the newest faculty member in the university's Humanities Department.
Bentley arrived at Tech after having received her doctor of philosophy degree in Theatre from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. She also earned a master of arts degree in Performing Arts from Emerson College in Boston, as well as a bachelor of science degree in Biology from Nebraska's Wayne State College.
This semester at New Mexico Tech, Bentley's academic duties include teaching courses in "College English," "Acting I," and a practicum in "Musical Theatre." This coming fall, she will direct a play at Tech.
Bentley accumulated nearly a decade of teaching experience prior to coming to New Mexico Tech, having been a tutor, instructor, and graduate teaching assistant for most of her college career.
Eventually, Bentley will propose adding several other Theatre-related courses to the Tech curricula, which she will teach, including "Acting II: Performing the Short Play," "Theatre History I & II," "Playwriting," "Women in Theatre and Performance," "Political Theatre," "Contemporary Theatre," and, of course, "Performing Shakespeare."
"My research interests, like my teaching interests, are varied, but tend to overlap," Bentley says, "particularly when it comes to the area of political theatre."
Political theatre, she explains, can be divided into two main types: the more traditional, scripted theatre with an activist, political focus, such as El Teatro Campesino, which was formed in the 1960s among the migrant farmworker camps in California, and the more contemporary, non-traditional, free-form workshop approach which devises theatre performances according to the specific needs of a community.
"I've been involved in several workshops throughout the country, which draw from both types of political theatre," Bentley says.
She also has trained with such theatre artists as Brazilian director Augusto Boal and social activist Michael Rohd, artistic director of the Sojourn Theatre in Portland, Ore., which is mostly run by teenagers to address hard-hitting youth issues such as violence, teen pregnancy, and the spread of AIDS.
"I hope to eventually start a theatre group here at New Mexico Tech," Bentley says, "but I'm not so sure what form it will take--perhaps either through willing participants from acting classes getting together to do theatre, or establishing acting workshops with community groups to enable them to do their own theatrical works. . . . I'm constantly learning new things about the community, so my learning curve needs to be steep before I can begin to prepare anything in a formal sense."
Bentley points to Brazilian playwright and director Boal's development of "The Theatre of the Oppressed" movement as a major influence on her own research and teaching techniques.
"Traditional scripted forms of theatre are vital," she says, "but I also think theatre should be an integral element of community life. Art and performance are natural vehicles for human expression and should serve positive individual and social change."
Teaching, whether in classroom or workshop settings, remains one of Bentley's major passions: "It's my calling," she says. "I cannot imagine not teaching because I love working with people, finding out how they learn best, and most importantly, learning from them. Good teaching involves active listening and a willingness to learn new things.
"However, an equal passion is directing plays," Bentley adds. "There's nothing quite like creating a complex piece of art with dialogue, settings, and bodies. . . . If I weren't teaching, I'd probably be a working performer and director with a theatre company."
She currently is working on writing some of her own performance pieces, including a solo performance based on her love of the land combined with an oral history of her family as seen through the eyes of her own grandmother and other ancestors.
"I also want to begin writing an acting textbook -- something along the lines of 'Acting for the Non-Major' or 'Acting for the Non-Actor,'" Bentley says.
When she's not teaching, researching, writing, or directing, Bentley does manage to find time to pursue some of her other favorite past times, such as cooking, birding, music, and hiking.
"I've been intensely dazzled by the beauty of the landscape and the sincerity of the people since I've arrived here," Bentley says. "I have a real strong connection to Nature, so it's serendipitous that I should come here. . . . I feel truly lucky."


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A vote in favor of tweaks, not an overhaul, for the Bills.
The Dolphins are on pace for the worst four-year stretch in franchise history.
Patriots WR Brandon Lloyd didn't have much to say after his biggest game in a while.
Said Jets S Yeremiah Bell, "In this locker room, we know we started off slow and we got some room to make up, so as soon as we start thinking ahead that's when things are going to go wrong. As long as we keep our focus on one game at a time and handling business, we'll be okay."
Up-tempo offenses have been part of new Ravens offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell's history.
Bengals coach Marvin Lewis spent part of Monday defending the offensive play calling.
A breakdown of every pass Browns QB Brandon Weeden threw on Sunday.
Steelers DT Casey Hampton hasn't lost faith in the team.
Jerome Solomon of the Houston Chronicle points out that the Texans are still unbeaten when they allow less than 42 points in a game.
The Colts are closing in on a rare turnaround.
Veteran OL Guy Whimper is having fun playing some tight end for the Jaguars.
Titans coach Mike Munchak hopes people around the team remain patient.
The Broncos say they aren't paying any attention to playoff seeding right now.
Sunday's loss was the seventh time the Chiefs have lost by 16 points or more this season.
P Shane Lechler could be nearing the end of his time with the Raiders.
Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune isn't expecting to see the Chargers repeat their performance against the Steelers.
What does Cowboys WR Dez Bryant's injury mean for Miles Austin?
The Giants don't think they've had a signature defensive performance this season.
Phil Sheridan of the Philadelphia Inquirer wonders if Eagles QB Nick Foles will turn out to be for real or if he'll turn out to be Bobby Hoying.
Redskins defensive coordinator Jim Haslett has gotten the unit to play better in recent weeks.
There's plenty of blame to go around with the Bears.
An argument that Lions coach Jim Schwartz should be on the hot seat with another loss this week.
An unlikely trio has given a boost to the Packers run game.
Vikings FB Jerome Felton has opened up plenty of holes for Adrian Peterson this season.
There's no spot on the honor roll for the Falcons with a report card like this.
Moving CB Josh Norman out of the lineup allows the Panthers to take looks at other players.
Saints interim head coach Joe Vitt said that the team is swimming in unfamiliar waters right now.
Said Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano on whether his team needs to make more plays late in games, "I think when you focus on making plays, that's exactly when you don't make plays. Focus on doing your job and plays come to you, the game comes to you. That's what we believe around here."
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DENVER, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A 7-year-old Colorado girl is recovering after being infected with the bubonic plague, officials said.
Sierra Jane Downing, a Girl Scout, was bitten by fleas that were feasting on a dead squirrel she was looking over while picnicking with her parents near Pagosa Springs several weeks ago, The Denver Post reported Thursday.
About five days after the picnic, Sierra Jane woke up with a fever. She was taken to the Pagosa Springs emergency room where her fever reached 107 and she had seizures.
Doctors at the ER called other doctors around the state for their expertize in the odd combination of Sierra Jane's symptoms, which included septic shock, seizures, an extremely high temperature and swollen lymph nodes in the thigh. Dr. Jennifer Snow, on call in intensive care at the Rocky Mountain Children's hospital in Denver, urged the girl's transport to Denver.
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Sierra Jane was then put on antibiotics and has been making a slow recovery. She may be released within the next few days.
Officials said there are five to six reported cases of the bubonic plague in the United States every year.


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Oilers 2, Red Wings 3 – Game 33 – 2011-12-19 @ 7:30 PM MST – SNET
On paper, the Oilers should get smoked horribly. I'm not so sure they won't, but the Oilers seem to have a habit of showing up for big games like these. But the Red Wings are a killer force this year, just like they are every year. They had a slow start to the season, but they seem to have found their game. The Oilers are definitely catching them at a bad time. Not that there is necessarily a good time for the Oilers to catch any team.
Khabibulin will get the start tonight.
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Like most people, when I was a kid I loved playing with a kaleidoscope. Pointing it at different light sources and twisting the chamber caused a morphing geometric mandala to take shape before my eyes, magically shifting sunshine and the colored bits inside into a series of hypnotizing designs. The same part of me that was enamored with a kaleidoscope is the same part of me that loves juicy colored highly geometric contemporary art.
As the highly influential artist and color theorist of the Bauhaus, Josef Albers, says so succinctly in his classic book Interaction of Color, "As with tones in music, so with color- dissonance is as desirable as its opposite, consonance." The dance of tension and fluidity in an ever changing kaleidoscopic pattern is a rhythm of light and hue, which there is an abundance of in contemporary art. There are so many artists out there these days who use these components in their visual art, however the five artists included here emerge with unique strength, vision and technical ability that is worth noting. Artists include: Dalek (James Marshall), Maya Hayuk, Richard Colman, Amanda Airs and Jeff Depner


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The Empire State Building, once the world's tallest building and the skyscraper famously scaled by King Kong, is now set for a $100 million 'green renovation.' The great symbol of New York and America, which sits in the heart of midtown Manhattan (one of the most efficient cities in the nation with per capita emissions one third the US average), just underwent an eight month modeling and analysis program and will receive a massive overhaul. The Clinton Climate Initiative, Johnson Controls Inc., Jones Lang LaSalle and the Rocky Mountain Institute partnered to come up with a plan to reduce the building's energy consumption by 38 percent, or $4.4 million, annually!
The 102-story building was built during the Great Depression; now, as we face new economic 'stumbles,' it is poised to lead the way into a more efficient future. "We have a very deep commitment to sustainability," Tony Malkin of the Empire State Building Company says. "Without applying sustainable practices in all aspects of our businesses and lives, we will greatly harm our future."
The group has decided not to apply for LEED certification, opting instead to making the building as efficient and healthy as possible without such guidelines. This is an interesting approach in a time when many cities seem to be embracing the USGBC's guidelines like giant apes to skyscrapers, but it appears as though the numerous planned upgrades and technological additions will do great things for the building and its inhabitants without applying the LEED checklist.
The partners involved are fully aware that this project will be serving as a template for the massive efficiency upgrades in store for many of the nation's buildings in the not so distant future. Seventy-five percent of the 4.5 million buildings in the United States are more than 20 years old and need energy retrofits (buildings alone account for over 40% of our energy use!). While a 38% predicted reduction in energy use is an incredibly ambitious undertaking, the Rocky Mountain Institute is not an organization for pulling punches and neither are the folks at the Clinton Climate Initiative, Johnson Controls Inc., or Jones Lang LaSalle. Some of the measures included the Empire State Building's renovation agenda include a total overhaul of the HVAC system, improvements to the building envelope, triple-glazed windows, electronic readouts to make users aware of their personal energy consumption, maximized daylighting, tenant demand ventilation control, and occupant sensor controls.
This retrofit is just what New York needed. It does the job and does it well. If the parties involved are able to achieve the savings they anticipate, there will be no excuse not to look to the Empire State Building as the symbol of progress and American ingenuity that it was when it was built.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Authorities continue to investigate a fire that killed three children in Sioux Falls a few days before Christmas, but extensive structural damage has prevented the investigators from entering the structure.
KELO-TV reports that officials from Sioux Falls Fire Rescue say the structure must be reinforced before investigators can work inside the house.
The fire on Saturday killed 16-year-old Michael Hensley, 12-year-old Savannah Coon and 6-year-old Alivia Coon. The parents, Rhiannon and David White, escaped by leaping to the ground from a second-floor window.
Funeral services for the three children will be held Monday.
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Gaming, Social Media and the Cloud
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Gaming Through Social Media
Social gaming has always been around, whether it was sitting around a Nintendo console or playing CounterStrike with friends online. But in recent years, gaming through social media platforms has become much more visible as a mainstream phenomenon. Of course, we can't discuss this topic without mentioning Facebook games, which are now easy to play through smartphone and tablet apps as well. Words with Friends is a now-classic example of a multiplayer game that integrates seamlessly with social media, and FarmVille brings memories of tending sunflowers individually, but stopping by friends' farms to help out, too.
More serious social media gaming is hitting the scene as well, as we see in Plyfe and Kiip, which combine social media, real life and games in just the right way. They allow users to earn real-life rewards, like merchandise, snacks and vacations, by playing games and interacting with others through the platform. These sorts of companies will expand their reach even farther as they tap into established social media networks.
Cloud Gaming Takes Off
The days of simple web games are long gone, thanks to the sudden surge in cloud computing. Now it's possible to play huge, graphically detailed games, all without downloading anything to a computer. This transition from gaming on connected devices to gaming on the cloud is an important one because it makes it easier for people to connect with one another, given that they're all tapping into a game run from the same set of servers.
The two leaders in cloud gaming are OnLive and Gaikai, which both allow users to play games on the cloud and connect with others at the same time. For instance, Gaikai has methods in place for people to chat with other gamers and even look in on what they're doing, all in real time and without having to download anything. This social aspect is appealing, as is the ability to pick up the game from any device, which is important for people who aren't tied down to a single desktop or laptop computer anymore.
The Future of Gaming: Bringing it All Together
Companies are looking to draw together these converging factors to create new gaming experiences. For example, take GFace, a new social network focused on gaming. The network is cloud-based and seeks to bring gamers console-quality play within the convenience and connections of a social network. By taking a hobby and designing a social network and gaming system around it, companies like GFace are likely to take off as people get drawn into the connectivity and ease of use.
Technology is increasingly shaping the way we spend our time, and it's largely doing so in a way that connects us with one another. Social media's role in the gaming world is an increasingly important one, given that technology is allowing people to play high-quality games through Internet connections alone. The connectivity has big implications for the future of gaming as people can more easily connect and collaborate on games in the cloud. With cloud hosting companies like Rackspace–a founder of the open source cloud platform OpenStack–offering high availability in their data centers, it's only a matter of time before we see more cloud gaming choices pop up and experience a spike in cloud gaming adoption.


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OK. Let's make it clear: I am in a corporate network, and I have suspicions on being spyed. Don´t problem with that, not my PC, not my network. It´s fine.
So, just curious: How I can know if they are spying on my messenger conversations?
Edit: Can I find any clues on my computer of being spied on messenger?


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Gadsden County, FL - The defendant, Patrick Linn, did not show up in court today.
His attorney filed a not guilty plea on his behalf.
A case management hearing was scheduled for January 10.
Gadsden County, FL - A Gadsden County man arrested for sneaking into a barn and having sex with a horse is now facing a big bond to get out of jail.
Patrick Linn was arrested earlier this week and charged with burglary, trespassing and sex acts with animals.
The judge set bond at $47,500. At last check Linn had not posted that bond.
Gadsden County - A Gadsden County man is accused of sneaking into a neighbor's barn and having sex with a horse.
It's the second time Patrick Linn has been arrested for it .
The owner of that horse can hardly believe Linn would return to the scene of the crime.
"I would say it's hard to believe, but I had a feeling he'd be back because I believe it's a compulsion type thing with him. I don't ... I just ... it's bad," Allen McDearmid said shaking his head.
Allen McDearmid says he knew there was trouble when his wife went to the barn and noticed a some lubricant on the stall door.
"She then checked the horse ... and I went down and checked the security video and sure enough there he was going into the stall," McDearmid said.
Deputies say Patrick Linn was caught on tape sneaking into McDearmid's barn in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Linn has been charged with trespassing, burglary and sex acts with animals.
That animal is a stud horse named Sunny.
It comes two years after Linn was caught on tape and arrested for doing the same thing in the same barn with a different horse. Linn was sentenced to two years in prison for the break in and was just released in May.
The McDearmid's and just about everyone else around here can't believe Linn would return knowing there were surveillance cameras in the barn.
Monday night deputies waited for Linn. They wound up chasing him through the woods and arresting him in front of his own house more than a mile way. Linn told them he'd been out for a walk.
"The guy knows right from wrong or he wouldn't be running like he does, but he ain't totally right for what he's doing," McDearmid said.
"I think he needs help and he needs to be put away so he can't do anything like that."
McDearmid says he is tired of worrying about what he's going to find when he walks out in his yard at night or what his wife or daughter might find.
"Where does that lead to? It could escalate ... you don't know," he said.
Gadsden County, FL - WCTV will have an interview with the horse's owner coming up tonight on WCTV Eyewitness News at 6.
Gadsden County, FL - A Gadsden County man once arrested for having sexual relations with a horse is now facing four new charges, one of which is again, animal related.
According to the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office website, Patrick Louis Linn, 44, is currently behind bars for trespassing, resisting officer, burglary and a fourth charge listed as "Conservation-Animals," Statute 828.126.2a.
According to the Florida Senate Website, 2012 Florida Statutes under 828.126 are sexual activities involving animals, with 2a. stating to "knowingly engage in any sexual conduct or sexual contact with an animal."
Linn was arrested on October 1 by the Gadsden County Sheriff's Department and is currently in jail as of Tuesday night.
He was arrested on similar charges in 2010. Court records show he was released from prison in May.
Previous Story, December 10, 2010 6:07 pm - Patrick Louis Linn was arrested for having sexual relations with a horse in Havana. Friday he had a hearing in Gadsden County.
The man was sneaking onto property for hours at a time and having relations with the horses. Friday's hearing was to see if he was not competent to stand trial. His lawyer said that he is competent and will be going to trial February 3rd,2011.
Previous Story, December 10, 2010 10:08 am - Patrick Louis Linn
has been found competent and will stand trial February 3, 2011.
Previous Story, December 10, 2010 10:00 am - The Gadsden County Court is deciding today (12/10) if Patrick Louis Linn is competent to stand trial. He was arrested for having sex with a horse in Havana earlier this year. Eyewitness News has a reporter in court and we will be bringing you details on the trial.
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"It's really sickening that somebody would be doing something like that."
Allen and Priscilla McDearmid say they don't feel as safe as they once did on their Havana farm. Someone has been trespassing on their property and leaving personal and very graphic items behind in the barn.
43-year-old Patrick Linn is being held in the Gadsden County jail on burglary and trespassing charges, but the sheriff's office and the District Attorney are pursuing bestiality charges.
The McDearmid's knew someone was coming into their horse stalls at night, but what they found, made them think the worst.
Deputies say the items left behind were sexual in nature. When Linn came to the barn Tuesday night and saw investigators waiting for him, he took off into the woods, and deputies found him hours later.
"I have walked these pastures in the middle of the night checking on mares that were due to foal, and never felt the slightest worry about being endangered and now, I don't even like to have the dog out at night lately because we don't know if that man is standing over there in the corner somewhere watching," says Priscilla.
"You just don't feel secure, we've never had any type of problems out here, I leave doors unlocked, and everything, but it's different now, it really is," says Allen.
The McDearmids want bestiality charges pressed, but there are no such laws against it in Florida.
"This individual is exactly where he needs to be right now, he is in our segregated unit at the county jail for his own safety he will be given a psychological evaluation as things proceed," says Lt. Jim Corder with the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office.
Right now, this is the only property the sheriff's deputies are investigating, however, they don't know how many other barns Linn could have targeted.
Florida is one of only 16 states that still permit bestiality A bill outlawing "sexual activities with animals" died pending review in the 2010 regular session. This bill would have made such acts a felony in Florida.


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Audi created a specific sound it is naming e-sound to create awareness in the surroundings of its A8 e-tron model.
The challenge is one many electric cars face. Audi had to make sure pedestrians would hear and notice the presence of the electric A8 close to them.
Audi's goals for this e-sound was to make sure it would sound like a sports car, but also, a one-of-a-kind and very futuristic sports car.
The e-tron generates its sound by the millisecond using data relating to the electric motor's rotational speed, vehicle speed, loads, and other parameters. The e-tron then uses this data to generate sound.
The e-sound is played via a sturdy 40-watt loudspeaker attached to the car's undercarriage.
As the vehicle accelerates, the purr turns into a cultivated growl and is inspired by the sound of the company's V8 engine.
The e-sound was developed in a giant acoustic test bed, a large room used as a laboratory with dense rows of wedges full of glass wool, each three foot in length, projecting from the walls. These wedges absorbed a majority of any sound energy, allowing things to sound almost like they do outdoors.


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text: I was tired after teaching my third class last Tuesday, and I felt like going home and resting. But instead of heading for the comforts of home, I went to the middle school, along with hundreds of other people. Most of us were there because we oppose the pipeline that would carry fracked gas through Addison County on route to International Paper in Ticonderoga, N.Y.


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Harvest Festival runs 5-10 p.m. on Friday
Final preparations are being made as Moss Hill Elementary School gears up for its annual Harvest Festival.
The festival will run from 5-10 p.m. on Friday on the grounds of the school.
Mandy Henderson, a physical education teacher at Moss Hill, and Millicent Sanderson, technology teacher at the school, are the co-chairs for this year�s festival.
Henderson and Sanderson said members of the community look forward to the festival every year, a sentiment echoed by Principal Susan Glover.
�I�m excited about this time of year,� Glover said. �People look forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas; I look forward to Harvest Festival.�
The event, sponsored by the Moss Hill PTA, is free to the public with tickets used for games and concessions costing 50 cents per ticket or $1 for three tickets, Henderson said. All proceeds go to the school�s budget.
Henderson said the festival attracts a large number of former students, in addition to the community.
The night will begin with a turkey supper in the cafeteria, which will cost $6 a plate. Included on the plate along with the turkey are string beans, yams, cranberry sauce, a roll and sweet tea.
There will be a costume contest for Moss Hill students at 5:30 in the auditorium, Sanderson said. Students will participate in a range of costume categories, from superhero to princess.
From 6-9 p.m., there will be variety of games and booths set up on the ball field, including cornhole and face-painting.
An auction consisting of items donated by local businesses and members of the community will begin at 8:30, Sanderson said. Tickets to Carolina Hurricanes games and gift cards to area restaurants are among the pieces that will be up for bid.
There will be a raffle drawing at 9 p.m. in the cafeteria for $500, $300 and $200 prizes, Henderson said. Students have been selling raffle tickets for $1 each over the last few weeks.
�That�s where the bulk of the money we raise comes from,� Henderson said
Henderson said it has been a down year in ticket sales, but in the past, students have been able to sell as many as 25,000 tickets in total.
Other activities include a cake walk at from 6-9 p.m., where people can bid on various cakes and bingo from 6-8:30 p.m.
Sanderson said in the end, it�s the community that makes the event a success every year.
�The biggest thing is the community support,� Sanderson said. �Not just the ones who come out, but the businesses who donate. We couldn�t do it without the support of the community.�
For more information, contact Moss Hill Elementary School at 252-569-5071.
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Moss Hill Harvest Festival
Friday 5-10 p.m.
Admission is free
Tickets used for games and concessions cost 50 cents per ticket or $1 for three tickets
For more information, call Moss Hill Elementary School at 252-569-5071


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Michigan State University researchers observed more than 3,700 people washing their hands in bars, restaurants and other public establishments in Lansing, Mich.
And while that might sound a little creepy, what they found (see abstract) is actually more creepy: Only five percent of people washed their hands properly.
More data:
- Fifteen percent of men didn't wash their hands at all, compared with 7 percent of women.
- When they did wash their hands, only 50 percent of men used soap, compared with 78 percent of women.
- People were less likely to wash their hands if the sink was dirty.
- Hand washing was more prevalent earlier in the day. Borchgrevink said this suggests people who were out at night for a meal or drinks were in a relaxed mode and hand washing became less important.
- People were more likely to wash their hands if a sign encouraging them to do so was present.
"These findings were surprising to us because past research suggested that proper hand washing is occurring at a much higher rate," said Carl Borchgrevink, the study's lead author.
Do you wash your hands the right way?
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the following is the proper way to wash you hands:
- Wet your hands with clean, running water (warm or cold) and apply soap.
- Rub your hands together to make a lather and scrub them well; be sure to scrub the backs of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails.
- Continue rubbing your hands for at least 20 seconds. Need a timer? Hum the "Happy Birthday" song from beginning to end twice.
- Rinse your hands well under running water.
- Dry your hands using a clean towel or air dry them.
Scientists say proper hand washing with soap could protect about 1 out of every 3 young children who get sick with diarrhea.


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This module just reexports Control.Concurrent.ParallelIO.Global: this contains versions of the combinators that make use of a single global thread pool with as many threads as there are capabilities.
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The ViewSonic VP2365wb can be found online for about $350. For that price, you get a 23-inch E-IPS monitor with plenty of ergonomic options, five USB ports, and good performance. The performance would be better if it wasn't hampered by low brightness, unfortunately. Also, the display has a chintzy-feeling chassis, lacks an HDMI connection, and although its colors are accurate, they shift when viewing the monitor from the left or right. If you're looking for a 23-inch, 16:9 monitor, we'd recommend the Samsung SyncMaster XL2370 or Dell SP2309W instead. Both are better-performing 16:9 monitors, with more valuable features.
Design and Features
The 23-inch ViewSonic VP2365wb has a matte, black, thin bezel that measures 0.7-inch on all sides. The black chassis feels hollow and fragile compared with similar monitors from Dell and Samsung, like the U2410 and XL2370. The panel is 1.1-inches deep; however, the back of the display–which houses the backlight, connection options, and ventilation system–extends another 1.4 inches, bringing the full monitor depth to about 2.5 inches. The screen has a slightly frosty matte finish with an antiglare coating. The back of the monitor is a smooth, black, matte plastic with a ViewSonic logo etched into the top.
The circular footstand measures about 9 inches in diameter. With the screen height adjusted to its maximum, the display wobbles considerably when knocked from the sides and could easily topple if hit hard enough. It wobbles less at its lowest height and showed no real signs of toppling.
The panel swivels 360 degrees and tilts back about 20 degrees. The panel can be unscrewed from the stand and mounted (VESA-style) on the wall. Also, the panel pivots 90 degrees to the left for portrait mode.
The monitor's video connection options are limited to VGA, and DVI; however, ViewSonic also includes USB downstream ports and one upstream. All connections are on the back on the lower right-hand side of the panel and face downward. While the video connections are easy to access, the best way to get to the USB ports is to pivot the panel first.
The onscreen display button array is located in the middle of the bottom of the bezel and consists of four light gray buttons, not including the power button in the middle. The buttons are aligned horizontally with enough space between each to keep your fingers comfortable while navigating it. Pressing the 1 button brings up the OSD, and the up- and down-arrow buttons let you navigate the menu. The 2 button doubles as the enter button and source select.
The OSD options include the standard brightness, contrast, and various color options. In lieu of preset options, the ViewSonic provides four color temperature selections: 5,000K; 6,500K; 7,500K; and 9,300K; as well as a sRGB option and a user color option that lets you change its red, green, and blue values individually. Other OSD options include memory recall, which resets the monitor to its factory settings, and a Dynamic Contrast option. ViewSonic also includes eco-mode on the monitor with three options: Standard, Optimize, and Conserve.
Selecting each mode adjusts the brightness level, which, in turn, lowers the monitor's energy consumption. Finally, there's an OSD specific option for setting the OSD to stay onscreen up to a minute (useful for anyone who will spend a good amount of time calibrating the display).
The ViewSonic VP2365wb 16:9 aspect ratio supports a "Full HD" native resolution of 1,920×1,080 pixels. This continues the trend of monitor vendors moving toward 16:9 from 16:10, because high-definition content–in particular, 1080p movies–can fit onto a 1,920×1,080-pixel screen in full-screen mode without the image stretching.
We tested the ViewSonic VP2365wb with its DVI connection in the 7,500K color mode. The display posted a composite score of 95 on CNET Labs' DisplayMate-based performance tests. The VP2365wb scored well in nearly all of our color and uniformity tests, but we found that the vibrancy of its colors were lacking compared with the XL2370. This has more to do with the display's relatively low brightness, however. The ViewSonic VP2365wb achieved a brightness score of 203 candelas per square meter (cd/m2)–much lower than ViewSonic's claimed 300 cd/m2 max. We found that this low brightness adversely affected the colors in movies and games. Instead of exhibiting the kind of pop we saw on the XL2370, the colors looked dull.
We looked at "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" on DVD and a number of 1080p movie files from Microsoft's WMV HD Showcase. Movies on the Viewsonic displayed accurate colors, but missing was the vibrancy or pop the XL2370 had.
Unreal Tournament 3 and World of Warcraft both looked great running at 1,920×1,200 and showed no signs of ghosting or input lag. Compared with the XL2370, the VB2365wb exhibited duller colors–not conducive to gaming.
The optimal viewing angle for a monitor is usually directly in front, about a quarter of the screen's distance down from the top. At this angle, you're viewing the colors and gamma correction as they were intended to be seen. Most monitors are made to be viewed at only that angle. Depending on its panel type, picture quality at nonoptimal angles varies. The ViewSonic was made with an E-IPS panel. IPS panels usually show only minimal color shifts with angle changes. On the VP2365wb, we noticed that the colors shifted at about 45 degrees to the left or right. The screen doesn't darken, like TN panels do, when viewed from below.
We tested the ViewSonic VP2365wb's input lag by connecting it and the Samsung XL2370 in extend mode to the same graphics card, then opening a window, and placing the window so that half of it was on one monitor and half on the other. We then dragged the window up and down, keeping the two halves even. We didn't notice lag from either monitor and the window moved at the same rate.
In the power consumption tests, the ViewSonic VP2365wb drew 40.14 watts in its Default/On mod–more than the Samsung SyncMaster XL2370's 30.09 watts. Based on our formula, the VP2365wb would cost $12.32 per year to run. Compare that with the XL2370's $9.96 per year.


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The back of the Benjamin A. Butterworth's Deed of Emancipation.
Image from Colonial Williamsburg
The last Will and Testament of Williamsburg cabinetmaker Edmund Dickenson, March 28, 1778.
Notation of Edmund Dickenson's "balance of full pay," July 7, 1783. Dickenson served at Valley Forge and was killed during the war.
Susan Riddick's penmanship on "Her Book," May 6, 1804.
A poem by Susan Riddick of Williamsburg, May 6, 1804.
John Dickenson leaves his "soul to Almighty God" and his estate to "beloved wife Mary Dickenson," June 8, 1801.
On the will's second page, John Dickenson "set my hand and affixes my Seal," June 8, 1801.
John Dickenson's codicil to his will leaves "my Negroes" to nephew William Chapman, Sept. 21, 1801.
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