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While the guests were a little taken aback as soon as Taylor entered the room (the gasps were audible), the shock soon wore off and Taylor mingled with the partygoers effortlessly, even hugging the groom and joking around with all of the bridesmaids, and, of course, with Gena. (The two later reenact her reaction to first seeing Taylor.)
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Every summer, millions of Americans repeat again and again a word that has its roots in Taino, the Caribbean language spoken by the people Christopher Columbus met when he first landed in the Americas.
Spanish speakers brought the word into their language as barbacoa. Cooking beef on sticks over a fire was an early "fusion food" as we learn in the engaging new nonfiction book "The Story of Spanish." What English speakers have come to call "barbecue" combines "Arawak technique, European meats and Mexican flavors."
Every language, of course, contains within its structure and vocabulary a record of its past. There's a lot of Spanish embedded in English thanks to North America's proximity to Spanish-speaking lands and to the United States' conquest of part of Mexico in the 19th century. In the last quarter century, a big wave of immigration has helped make Spanish the unofficial second language of the United States.
As the authors of "The Story of Spanish" point out, Americans study Spanish more than any other language. But today, many Americans are deeply ambivalent about it. To some, it's a language of backwardness spoken by people who've entered the country illegally who steal American jobs; Americans who study Spanish do so mostly because they need it for work — or so the thinking goes.
But Spanish is so much richer than that — no matter your political leanings. "Spanish is a cluster of contradictions," write Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the authors of previous books about the spread of another language Americans like to learn, French. "Over its history, Spanish became one of the most organized and systematic tongues in history, and a finely honed tool used to express disorder and passion."
Spanish, we learn, is the major language closest to Latin. Its roots are in "vulgar Latin," the language of the common people and the provincials of the Roman Empire. Spanish is "by far the most phonetic and most transparent of all Latin languages," Nadeau and Barlow write. Its simplicity makes it a relatively easy language to learn, and it owes that simplicity in part to the influence of another language brought to the Iberian Peninsula by invaders: Arabic. In their work to formalize their language, early Spanish grammar mavens were deeply influenced by the rigor of Arab scholars. Many Arabic words came to be incorporated into Spanish as well; among them limón (lemon), naranja (orange) and the spice jazmín (jasmine).
The language of Cervantes has come to be spoken in more than 20 independent countries and in regional dialects that are mutually intelligible. A man from Buenos Aires can easily fall into conversation with someone in Mexico City, Havana and also in Los Angeles and Houston. The story of how that happened is complex, but Nadeau and Barlow do an excellent job of transforming it into an accessible and lively narrative.
The 13th century King Alfonso X helped introduce the first Spanish spelling conventions. In the 15th century, the Andalusian scholar Antonio de Nebrija became the first European to study the grammar of language spoken by common people. In 1495, he added the first Native American word to his Spanish dictionary: canoa, or canoe.
Though many words and place names in native languages such as Taino and Nahuatl became a part of the Spanish vocabulary, they never posed a threat to Spanish as the dominant language of Latin America, largely because of the death of so many native people to disease and the violence of the conquest.
Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, survives, but its impact on Mexican Spanish is subtle. Nadeau and Barlow fail to mention how Nahuatl has shaped the spoken cadences of Mexican Spanish, an influence that is also felt in Chicano English, as U.S. linguists such as Carmen Fought have written. (In effect, the spoken English of places such as East L.A. carries the linguistic DNA of the Aztecs.) But they do note Nahuatl's presence in many Mexican regionalisms and in the name of the patron saint of Mexico, the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose name means "She Who Crushes Snakes."
"The Story of Spanish" is a popularization of the work of numerous linguists, including Nicholas Ostler and his seminal "Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World." As such, "The Story of Spanish" can't help but repeat a few truths of linguistic history that have nevertheless been attacked as un-American by the English-only movement. Among other things, the authors show how Spanish (and English) have grown from contact with other cultures and languages, and how there really never is such thing as language "purity."
Mexico's vaquero (cowboy) culture gave U.S. English many beloved phrases, including some that don't sound Spanish at all. This reader laughed out loud upon learning that the "ten-gallon hat" didn't get its name from its size but rather from the Mexican expression "tan galán," which translates loosely as "really handsome."
Languages are human inventions. As with people, they're capricious, confounding and unpredictable. It's not surprising then that the reader of "The Story of Spanish" ends up learning a little about English too.
The Story of Spanish
Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow
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There have been security flaws in software as long as there has been software, but they have become even more critically important in the context of cyberweapons development.
In the past, security researchers who stumbled on a software flaw would typically report the flaw to the manufacturer of the software, so it could be fixed. That changed, however, when cyberweapon designers started looking at these flaws as vulnerabilities that could serve as a back door into a computer network. Most prized of all were "zero day vulnerabilities" — flaws whose existence was previously unknown.
Richard Bejtlich was a cyber specialist for the U.S. Air Force in the 1990s, a time when the U.S. military was going on the offense in the cyberwar. He remembers the day he realized how important a software vulnerability can be to a cyberweapons designer.
"Myself and a couple other guys, we found a zero day vulnerability in Cisco routing equipment," Bejtlich recalls. "And we looked at it, and we said, 'Did we really find this? Can we really get into these Cisco routers?' "
They could, and so Bejtlich and his colleagues reported it to Cisco. The company thanked him and said it would be fixed. Days later, he was talking to some friends who worked on the offensive side of the unit, and they had quite a different reaction to them reporting the bug to Cisco.
"They said, 'You did what? Why didn't you tell us? We could have used this to get into all these various hard targets,' " he says.
To Bejtlich, a software flaw was simply a mistake to be corrected. To a cyberweapons designer, however, it was a potential back door into the computer network he wanted to attack.
"We actually had a standing order after that," Bejtlich says, "that said, if you find something, you don't tell the vendor, you tell the offensive side, and they'll decide what to do about it."
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A potential loser here, at least in the short run, is the consumer who may be stuck with a flawed piece of software because the government doesn't want anyone to know about the flaw, seeing it as something that could be exploited for the deployment of a cyberweapon.
ACLU technologist Christopher Soghoian, who is something of a privacy activist, says this is something people should know about.
"I don't think your average small business, medium-sized business or Fortune 500 company realizes what's going on here," Soghoian says. "I don't think they realize that their government knows about flaws that could be fixed, and is sitting on them and exploiting them against other people rather than having them fixed."
A good example would be the Stuxnet worm, used by the U.S. and Israel to attack computers controlling nuclear operations in Iran. The designers of Stuxnet took advantage of a software bug in the Microsoft Windows operating system, without alerting Microsoft to the flaw.
The demand for software vulnerabilities has grown to such an extent that the researchers who discover them no longer need to settle for a software vendor sending them a thank-you note, or even a small cash reward. In the context of escalating interest in cyberwar, there is now a growing global demand for the software vulnerabilities — the back doors — that allow an attacker to get inside his enemy's computer network.
"For every researcher who's doing the right thing [by alerting the vendor] and getting the modest gift," Soghoian says, "there are plenty of researchers who are selling these things for what they deem to be the true market value.
"And the true market value is whatever governments and their middlemen are willing to pay."
'It's Just Business'
Former Airman Bejtlich, now the chief security officer at Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm, is not in the business of selling vulnerabilities to the highest bidder, but he knows other cyber people who are.
"There seems to have been an explosion of interest in the last maybe two years," Bejtlich says, "where the hot thing to do is to found a company with five of your buddies who are all really good at finding vulnerabilities and just start making money."
Given that this interest is spurred by the development of secret cyberweapons research, the vulnerability market by necessity operates mostly in the shadows. When the vulnerability traders make a public appearance, it's usually at a conference where hackers and other cyber researchers gather to discuss their latest work.
A vulnerability seller named Donato Ferrante showed up recently at the "Suits and Spooks" conference in Arlington, Va. In an interview with NPR, Ferrante said he advertises his vulnerabilities through an email list. His clients see what vulnerabilities he has found in which products, but Donato gives only the barest of information about the flaws.
"If the customer wants [to] use the vulnerability, the customer needs to buy the vulnerability," Ferrante said. "This is just a sort of portfolio; then the customer needs to buy the details."
Ferrante's company, ReVuln, is the seller. For them, "it's business," he says.
An Unregulated Market
In the U.S., the National Security Agency and other branches of the U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are among the biggest buyers of vulnerabilities. But there are other buyers, including any party with an interest in being able to penetrate an adversary's computer network.
Besides the U.S., other governments are also developing cyberweapons. Some private companies may have an interest in penetrating a rival company's network. For that matter, criminal organizations might be interested in purchasing vulnerabilities, or even groups plotting a cyberterrorist attack.
Not surprisingly, vulnerability sellers don't want to say much about their business. Asked where he is based, Ferrante simply says, "Europe," though in a subsequent email he clarifies that he operates out of Malta. He is not eager to describe the world in which he works.
"I don't see bad guys or good guys," Ferrante says. "It's just business."
After all, Ferrante says, ReVuln is only selling information. "The way the information is used is up to the customer; it's not up to us."
There is no regulation of the vulnerability market in the U.S. There is a law prohibiting the export of software that provides penetration capabilities that would enable the users to attack, deny, disrupt or otherwise impair the use of computer infrastructure or networks. But there is no mandatory reporting of vulnerability sales.
If the sellers are not aware of the use to which their vulnerabilities will be put, they may not be prosecutable.
"I am shocked that this has not been regulated," Bejtlich says. "It would be so easy for a legislator to say, 'We're going to do arms control. We're going to keep this out of the hands of the bad guys. You're going to need a license to have these tools.'
"Who's going to stand up and say, 'No, you have to have cyberweapons!' I mean, if you wanted to look for an easy way to have legislators appear to be doing something, this would be it," he says.
The vulnerability trade is just one example of many that indicates how developments in cyberwarfare, and the development of cyberweaponry, are proceeding so quickly that the thinking about how to manage this new domain of warfare is not keeping pace.
Wars have long been fought on land, on sea and in the air. Now there's a new battlefield - cyberspace. Countries, the United States included, are launching attacks on each other's computer networks. Software can be a lethal weapon. This week, NPR's Tom Gjelten is looking at the offensive side of cyber war. Today, the cyber arms market - how computer weapons are developed, bought and sold around the world.
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: To understand how a cyber-attack works, think of it like a burglary. First, you have to get inside the place you're going to burgle. You do that by picking a lock or maybe you can sneak in through a back door someone left open. Only then, when you're inside, can you carry out the crime. Technologist Christopher Soghoian says it's the same thing when you attack a computer network.
CHRISTOPHER SOGHOIAN: You need a way of getting in the door. You need a way of getting into the system that you're hacking into, whether it's the computer of a surveillance target or the computer running a nuclear power plant. So you need a way in.
GJELTEN: Once you've found that way in, once you've penetrated a network, you instruct the computer to do what you want. But these are separate operations, and Soghoian says the first step in a cyber-attack is often the most challenging.
SOGHOIAN: The code that you run that steals data, that taps the microphone, this is easy stuff to write. The code that gets in the door is really sophisticated, very difficult and completely unregulated.
GJELTEN: Here's the trick. All computer systems linked to the Internet use applications like Internet Explorer or Adobe. These programs inevitably have bugs in them. Some are security flaws. They're like that back door someone neglected to lock. Cyber researchers call these bugs vulnerabilities because they expose the program to intruders just as an open window makes a house vulnerable to burglary.
When security researchers found these bugs in the past, they'd report them to the software manufacturer so they could be patched. But then the cyber weapon designers came along and set their sights on the vulnerabilities. They'd actually call them back doors because they could serve as back doors into a network.
They didn't want to patch them. They wanted to exploit them. The weapon designers especially liked the vulnerabilities nobody else knew about. In cyberspeak these are called zero days or O-days. Richard Bejtlich, a former cyber specialist in the Air Force, remembers the time back in the '90s when he first realized a software vulnerability was something a cyber weapon designer could exploit.
RICHARD BEJTLICH: Myself and a couple other guys, we found a zero day vulnerability in Cisco routing equipment, and we looked at it and we said, did we really find this? We can really get into these Cisco routers? Yes, we can. So what did we do? Called up Cisco, told them, hey, we found this vulnerability, and they go, thank you for telling us, we'll work on fixing it.
A couple days later, I'm talking to some of my friends who work on the offensive side of the unit and I said, yeah, we actually reported this O-day to Cisco. And they said, you did what? Why didn't you tell us? We could have used this to get into all these various hard targets.
GJELTEN: To Bejtlich, a software flaw was a mistake to be corrected. But that was the view from the defensive side. Air Force guys assigned to offensive cyber operations saw that software flaw as an open door into the network they were trying to attack.
BEJTLICH: We actually had a standing order past that point that said if you find something, you don't tell the vendor, you need to tell the offensive side, and then they'll decide what to do about it.
GJELTEN: What this means is that if the military thinks a software flaw can be used for a cyber weapon, it may not want anyone else to know about it. Christopher Soghoian with the Speech Privacy and Technology Project at the ACLU says consumers, individuals and businesses could be the losers here.
SOGHOIAN: I don't think they realize that their government knows about flaws that could be fixed and is sitting on them and exploiting them against other people rather than having them fixed.
GJELTEN: That's just one issue. There's more. The greater interest there is in a capability to launch cyber attacks, the more demand there is for those software vulnerabilities, the back doors that allow an attacker to sneak into someone's network. There's now a global market for back doors. Soghoian says private researchers who discover a software flaw have a choice - alert the manufacturer and maybe get a little reward or share that vulnerability with a potential cyber-attacker for a big payoff.
SOGHOIAN: For every researcher who's doing the right thing and getting, you know, the modest gift, there are plenty of researchers who are selling these things for what they deem to be the true market value. And the true market value is whatever governments and their middlemen are willing to pay.
GJELTEN: Former Air Force officer Richard Bejtlich is on the private side himself now, as chief security officer at Mandiant, a cyber consultancy. He's not in the business of selling vulnerabilities to the highest bidder, but he knows other people who are.
BEJTLICH: There seems to have been an explosion of interest in the last maybe two years, where the hot thing to do is to found a company with five of your buddies who are all really good at finding vulnerabilities and just start making money.
GJELTEN: Essentially we're talking here about a cyber arms market. Not surprisingly, it operates mostly in the shadows, but at conference last weekend I caught up with one seller of back door vulnerabilities. His name is Donato Ferrante. He says he advertises his vulnerabilities through an email list. Clients see what back doors he has found into which software products, but they get only the barest information about the vulnerability.
DONATO FERRANTE: If the customer wants to use the vulnerability, the customer needs to buy the vulnerability. This is just a sort of, you know, portfolio and then the customer needs to buy the details.
GJELTEN: And would you sell them?
FERRANTE: I mean if they want to buy, yeah. I mean this is our job. It's business.
GJELTEN: It's business. Between the U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, the U.S. government is a big buyer of vulnerabilities or back doors. But it's not only the U.S. developing cyber weapons. So are other governments. Private companies wanting to penetrate an adversary's network may also be in the market for back doors. So could cyber criminals, for that matter, or even groups plotting a cyberterrorist attack.
No wonder vulnerability sellers don't want to say much about their business. Donato Ferrante says he's based in Europe, but won't say which country. I want to know more.
What's this world like that you work in?
FERRANTE: It's just, you know, I don't see, you know, bad guys or good guys. It's just business.
GJELTEN: No bad guys or good guys, just clients. After all, Ferrante says, he's just selling information.
FERRANTE: The way the information, you know, would be used, it's up to the customer. It's not, you know, up to us.
GJELTEN: At the moment, there is virtually no regulation of the back door market in the United States, no mandatory reporting of vulnerability sales, for example. Richard Bejtlich of Mandiant.
BEJTLICH: I am shocked that this has not been regulated, because to me it would be so easy for a legislator to say, we're going to do arms control. We're going to keep this out of the hands of the bad guys. You're going to need a license to have these tools. And who's going to stand up and say, no, you have to have cyber weapons.
I mean, if you wanted to look for an easy way to have legislators appear to be doing something, this would be it.
GJELTEN: But developments in cyber warfare and cyber weaponry are moving so fast that our thinking about this new domain of combat and crime just can't keep pace. And it's not just governments finding new ways to attack each other. Private firms frustrated by their inability to defend their networks against cyber-attacks are increasingly going on the offense themselves. That story tomorrow. Tom Gjelten, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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For me I can't wait to be done my piano sonata but I also am excited to compose a concerto for piano and orchestra!
Is anyone having trouble with MDL crashing everytime they try to input snare line? I put a couple notes of snare, then Muescore completely crashes and DOES NOT save a recovery document. Anybody help?
For those who don't know Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms e.g. triplets at the same time as duplets
Hey guys!! :D How are you? ♥ I would like to share my first score with you :D https://musescore.com/user/28725539/scores/5470048 I hope you like it! :3
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I will update this weekly
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@Jaybird1 is one of the first truly active members, I told him I would give him a shoutout here, so here you go :P
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On Musescore 3 I'm wondering how to make the crescendo end before the end of the measure as the crescendo seems to only stay on the end of the measure and I cant make it end earlier
I am working on my schools Cadence and I need help with finishing out the battery parts since I am at a complete stump. I will very much appreciate it if you all gave me some advice. https://musescore.com/user/30833944/scores/5509381
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I had my ear pierced yesterday, and afterwards met my friend Marcus Sakey (The Blade Itself, coming Feb 2007 St. Martins) for dinner.
Marcus is part of a new wave of writers who know a tremendous amount about publishing, even though their first book isn't out yet.
I didn't know squat about this business before I signed my first contract, four years ago. All the How To books were out of date and lacking practical information about even the most basic things, like how to do booksignings or how a publishing company works. There were no blogs about the business. Writing conferences existed, but I never thought to attend them. Not many writers even had websites yet.
Prior to that contract, my writing was also done in a vacuum. No networking. No contacts. I was a slush pile success, and didn't get any help or advice or encouragement from anyone in the biz, peer or pro.
I learned about publishing the old-fashioned way, by making a lot of mistakes. In hindsight, I should have asked more questions, and gotten in touch with those more experienced. I should have reached out and made friends. Because, simply put, friends make this business a whole lot easier.
Networking, talking shop, commiserating, schmoozing, offering advice and help, and even reading and commenting on manuscripts, all can accelerate the learning curve for everyone involved. Marcus realizes this. So do many other new writers. And as a result, his expectations are more realistic, his goals more grounded, and his X-Factor--that elusive luck all writers need in order to succeed--is tuned for maximum potential.
I met with Marcus for dinner so we could critique and brainstorm. We're each working on projects, and we read each other's prior to the meeting, so we could discuss ways to make each stronger.
I do this with several other authors as well. It's win-win. Not only does it reduce the rewrite time, but it accelerates the learning curve because you can learn as much critiquing as you can being critiqued.
It was a productive dinner for both of us--we each found ways to make our projects stronger, and we found them much quicker than if we'd been working solo.
Midway into the evening, Marcus commented on my new piercing, and mentioned he didn't see me as the earring type. And he's right, I'm not the earring type. I got an earring as part of my Halloween costume, and will remove it on November 1st.
Marcus immediately understood, as if it made perfect sense to permanently modify your body for a costume accessory. He recognized the value of committing to something fully, even if it didn't make a lot of sense. I had a costume idea, and I didn't pursue it half-assed. I went all-in (using a poker term.) I had a goal, and did whatever was necessary to reach that goal.
So what does this lame and sketchy analogy really mean?
If you're a writer, it's important to learn as much as you can about this business. But before you even do that, you have to have the commitment. You can't be afraid of your friends and family thinking you're silly for pursuing you goals. You can't write once a week, take an occasional writing class, and believe that will be enough to land you a contract. And you can't do zero promotion, thinking that all you have to do is write a good book and leave it to your publisher to sell it.
In other words, stop making excuses and go pierce your damn ear.
Okay, lecture over. Now I have to go rinse with the sanitizing solution...
Thursday, October 26, 2006
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Good Weather is a super cute weather app for the iPhone that not only informs you about the weather, but also includes fun games that coincide with the current weather conditions. Is it sunny outside? Then see how high you can bounce the sun off the clouds. Is it lightly snowing? The blast away the clouds with by shooting them from your super cloud. The weather has never been so fun!
The main screen of Good Weather is a solid color that represents the current weather condition, and in the center, is a cute little graphic and information about the weather. In the upper lefthand corner, the location and temperature is displayed, and when tapped, converts to a 5-day forecast. Multiple locations can be saved and Good Weather even includes neverland, oz, and winterfell as locations for fun.
What really sets Good Weather apart from other weather apps is that it's also a game! Actually, more than 30 games. At the bottom of the screen is a pulsating "tap to play" button that's just begging to be tapped. These games are directly related to the current weather conditions and are little arcade games. For example, one game is a Doodle Jump like game where you must bounce the sun off clouds as high as possible. In another game, you must tap the snowflakes to keep them from falling off the screen. There are over 30 different games that are fun and addicting. Good Weather saves your scores on a Game Board so you can see which games you've played and what your high score on each one is.
The good
- Clean, minimalist design
- Current weather conditions including temperature, description, wind speed, humidity, and chance for rain
- 5 day forecast including high, low, and descriptive graphic
- More than 30 different mini-games associated with the weather
- Games are quick, yet fun addicting
- Includes weather for neverland, oz, and winterfell
- Save multiple locations
- Support for Celsius and Fahrenheit
The bad
- Some complain of inaccurate weather (accurate for me)
The bottom line
Good weather is both a great looking weather app and a fun little game. It's basically like having two apps in one -- for free!
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David Reviews
Academy have added two new directors to their stable: Luke Davies and Fiona Godivier.
DAVID doesn't usually cover porn directors for obvious reasons, but in the case of FoodFilm, we're happy to make an exception.
Big Buoy are pleased to announce the return of Stacia Akaba as their new Executive Producer.
Object & Animal say they have signed a "true polymath director" in the shape of Andrew Thomas Huang.
Fun to watch, but got a feeling this would have worked better as a 60s!


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In marathon session, financiers grapple with Baron's South plan changes
In a meeting that lasted more than five hours Wednesday night, Board of Finance members reiterated support for a new "request for proposals" for First Selectman Gordon Joseloff's proposed senior residential complex at the town-owned Baron's South property.
Finance Board members are debating the scope and conditions of prospective proposals after Joseloff earlier this month recommended that a new RFP be issued.
Joseloff's endorsement of a new RFP came largely in response to Finance Board members' desire for a greater financial return on a senior residential campus. To achieve that goal, finance members signaled Wednesday that they would push for a more expansive RFP than the original version, which was issued by the town in December 2011.
"We need to construct the RFP such that it's timely and that we allow the bidders to play with these options," said Brian Stern. "We've got to give the bidders flexibility."
Finance Board members and Joseloff appear to concur that the required minimum number of "affordable" or below-market-rate homes for seniors at Baron's South should be reduced.
In a Nov. 20 memo to Board of Finance Chairman Avi Kaner, Joseloff recommended lowering the threshold for affordable units from 60 percent to 30 percent of the total residences. Most finance members indicated that affordable units should make up between 20 and 30 percent of the housing stock at Baron's South.
"It's clear that the 60 percent (minimum), which obviously is extremely well-intentioned, is basically going to limit the return that it will have. It's going to limit the financing and it's going to affect the flexibility as to the number of bids that come in," said Helen Garten, the board's vice chairwoman.
Changing the affordability benchmark would require a text amendment to the town's zoning regulations to modify an amendment passed last year by the Planning and Zoning Commission, at Joseloff's request, which established the 60 percent affordability threshold at Baron's South.
Despite the prospect of having to navigate another RFP process, the three development groups that submitted proposals in response to the first RFP still appear interested in building a senior living center at the 23-acre property. Principals of each of the firms -- Jonathan Rose Companies, Affirmative Hillspoint and Becker + Becker -- made presentations Wednesday to the Board of Finance. The Baron's South Committee, a nine-member panel appointed last year by Joseloff, endorsed Jonathan Rose's 99-unit proposal in September, after reviewing the three groups' plans in closed-door sessions over about five months earlier this year.
Jonathan Rose, the president of the development firm that bears his name, told the Westport News Wednesday that his firm plans to respond to a new RFP.
"In our experience, our projects go most smoothly when there is community consensus about the project," Rose said. "I would rather invest the upfront time to get the project right and define the balance between all the different community needs than to start going down the wrong path."
Becker said Wednesday that his firm would likely submit another proposal if the conditions of a new RFP were similar to the original.
"I think we're quite flexible," Becker told the Board of Finance. "We see this as a project that is more of a town asset, than a private asset."
Affirmative Hillspoint principals have shown less enthusiasm for a new RFP. In a letter Monday to the Board of Finance, they argued that the three firms that responded to the first RFP should have the opportunity to propose revised terms to the town. That letter also included modified plans for a continuing-care retirement community at the Baron's South campus with fewer total homes, but more subsidized rental units than proposed in its first offer.
"The only reason that this retirement community is not the overwhelming solution is because there's been a judgment, which nobody has explained, that a CCRC is not the right solution," said Affirmative Hillspoint President Marshall Breines. "I ask the process to reconsider its position on CCRC because I don't think, to anybody's satisfaction, it's been justified as to why it's been demonized, quite frankly."
While they appear to agree about issuing a new RFP, Joseloff and Board of Finance members still have yet to resolve a number of key questions. Perhaps the most important decision yet to be made is whether a new RFP should allow developers to present CCRC plans. In his memo to Kaner, Joseloff expressed his opposition to developing a CCRC at Baron's South.
Joseloff did not speak publicly Wednesday, instead spending much of the meeting sitting in one of the back rows in the Town Hall auditorium. He declined to be interviewed after the meeting about the status of the proposed new RFP.
Selectwoman Shelly Kassen indicated that she would not be keen for a new RFP, if it would significantly delay the project.
"We seem to sort of be in a circle here," she said. "I think I speak for the [Baron's South] Committee, when I say, `We're tired.' This could go on forever and there are a lot of people who would like to live in this place."
After more than five hours of discussion, the Board of Finance's meeting ended Thursday at about 12:30 a.m., without the board taking any votes.
In an interview with the Westport News after the meeting, Kaner maintained that Finance Board members support senior housing at Baron's South.
"We certainly don't want to kill the project," Kaner said. "We want to make it better. This is a decision that the town will have to live with for the next 75-plus years and it would be unfair to current taxpayers and future taxpayers to rush into a less-than-optimal project. If it takes a few more months, let it take a few more months. We're looking at this for the long-term."
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I remember my first love. It was a summer in the 1960's. I was on holiday. We met in the Catskills. He was a tough, misunderstood, ne'er-do-well dance instructor with great hair. I was a naive, privileged, daddy's girl who wanted to take a walk on the wild side. Wait, Wait, Wait, that wasn't me. That was Frances 'Baby' Houseman (Jennifer Grey) and Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) in Dirty Dancing. I have watched this movie an uncountable and incalculable number of times – case in point – I used to have "CRAZY FOR SWAYZE" sleepover nights with girlfriends.
Keep Calm and Carry a Watermelon (Screencaps Here).
Dirty Dancing is meant to capture a time in American history before families vacationed at Disney World or took International Cruises, before people were heading to the Bahamas or Cancun, families wholesomely vacationed in New York's Catskill Mountains. From the 1920's until the 1960's, families often traveled to now mostly defunct summer camps – colloquially termed "Jewish Alps" or the "Borscht Belt". The movie is scripted to take place during the decline of these camps and the onslaught of commercial airline travel. Well-known resorts of the area included Brickman's, Brown's, The Concord, Friar Tuck Inn, Gibber's, Gilbert's, Grossinger's, Granit, the Heiden Hotel, Irvington, Kutsher's Hotel and Country Club, the Nevele, The Laurels Hotel and Country Club, and The Pines Resort.
c. 1940s postcard of the Pine Tree Villa, a primarily Jewish resort at Kiamesha Lake, New York in the Borscht Belt of the Catskill Mountains! Finely detailed image, showing layout of many of the resort's buildings, including the casino and tennis courts to the left. Was run by Greenberg & Son. The unused postcard can be purchased HERE.
GROSSINGER'S: The resort's huge pool in the 1950s (Here).
The indoor and outdoor pool at GROSSINGER'S, dilapidated and in disrepair as of 2008 (Here).
My mom remembers a time when she used to visit these summer camps! She told me that such comedic legends at Woody Allen, Don Rickles, Rodney Dangerfield, Carl Reiner, George Burns, Mel Brooks, Fanny Brice, Bea Arthur and Joan Rivers got their start at these hotel resorts. Amazing actresses and entertainers such as Carole King, Shari Lewis, Mel Torme, Barbara Streisand, and Joel Grey also performed yearly at the establishments. These establishments were also some of the only places wherein African American performers were allowed to frequent (before Civil Rights) and was referred to as "The Chitlin Circuit". The Supremes, Duke Ellington, The Four Tops, Etta James, Cab Calloway, and Smokey Robinson are some of the famous acts who frequented east coast resort towns. Clearly the performance halls and boarding houses nestled in the counties of Upstate New York have had an everlasting effect on the landscape of entertainment. However, has anyone yearned for the decor of this time period?


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12.02.08 U.S. officials adjust level of chemical melamine allowed in infant milk products
The Food and Drug Administration has decided to raise the safety threshold for the industrial chemical melamine in baby formula in the wake of a dust-up last week over its use, The Associated Press reports. The new standard is 1 part per million (ppm) provided a related chemical is not also used in the product, the FDA said Friday. No amount of the two chemicals together is allowed, AP reports. The previous stance was below 2.5 ppm of melamine.
U.S. health officials insist that U.S. baby formulas are safe, but the development comes days after FDA tests found traces of melamine in formula from one manufacturer and then cyanuric acid (a chemical relative) in formula from another maker. The FDA decided against a national recall because officials said no evidence was found to suggest that the tested formula would be dangerous with the trace level of melamine detected.
Melamine is OK'd for use to line cans, make flame retardant and cleaning product, and does not occur naturally. Safety problems over melamine in milk products first surfaced earlier this year in China, where at least six children have died of kidney failure and 294,000 have fallen ill after consuming such items laced with high doses of the chemical, Chinese media reports. Crib Notes first reported on the tainted milk in China back in September.
For 15 years Fit Pregnancy has been touting "Breast is still best!" But for some women, we understand that formula is the answer, so here's some tips on how to keep it safe.
Maria Vega is Fit Pregnancy magazine's copy editor.


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UK citizens' portal exposes edit kit interface
HTML undergarments of Direct.gov.uk aired in public
Coding errors left the edit kit interface on the UK government's citizens' portal visible last week.
Hmmm. Excuse me but your HTML is showing
Although the interface of Direct.gov.uk was visible, a faux pas akin to exposing the site's undergarments to public view, more serious mischief wasn't possible. The interface didn't have write permissions to the website, security experts at UK-based penetration testing consultancy SecureTest confirmed.
Reg reader Phil stumbled on the page while passing time waiting for a Java update and looking at which UK health and government sites disallowed indexing by Google. "I'm not sure that's something I should be able to see. I didn't play with it much after seeing that, and wouldn't have known what to do if I had, but when a .gov.uk page says something like that, I can't help but wonder if someone who actually knows what they're doing might be able to cause some mischief," he explained.
As it happens the slip-up was minor - since it wasn't possible to post anything from the interface - but nonetheless surprising. The webmasters of Direct.gov.uk have since
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'Save the planet', science leaders urge G8 governments
Leaders of the global science community have issued joint statements to world leaders meeting at the G8 summit later this month in the US.
National science academies from 15 countries have called on the leading industrialised economies to pay greater heed to science and technology.
The academies include those from the US, China, India and the UK.
The organisations agreed three statements on tackling Earth's most pressing problems.
According to Dr Michael Clegg of the US National Academy of Sciences: "In the long term, the pressing concerns are managing the environment in a way that assures that future generations have a quality of life that's at least as equivalent to the quality of life we enjoy today."
As the host G8 nation, the US national academy has taken the lead this year, working with counterparts to draw up a co-ordinated message for the summit.
For the past seven years, science academies representing countries that are attending the summit have issued statements to inform delegates of vital science and technology matters.
This year, they are targeting leaders attending not just the G8 summit but also the G20, the Rio+20 environmental summit, and other important events.
'Influential' message
In past G8 summits, the views of the collective academies have been influential. World leaders including Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have previously met with representatives of the global science community and the text from their statements has ended up in the final summit communiques.
"I think most governments pay attention to science," says Dr Clegg
"The fact we have a consensus of a great diversity of countries is an indication of the importance of priorities that we as leaders of the global science community place on these issues".
The three so-called "G-Science" statements say that priority should be given to finding ways of finding a coherent way of simultaneously meeting water and energy needs, building resilience to natural disasters and developing better ways of measuring greenhouse gas emissions in order to see if individual countries are meeting their international obligations to reduce emissions.
The first G-Science statement called on leaders to consider water and energy as closely linked issues. Otherwise, it says, there will be shortages of both. The statement recommends that governments pursue policies that integrate the two, emphasise conservation and encourage regional and global cooperation.
The second statement says more can be done to minimise the impact of major international disasters, such as a tsunami or nuclear accident. In addition to regular risk surveillance, the G-Science statement recommends building "resilience" to catastrophic events by, for example, improving public health systems.
The third statement calls for more accurate and standardised methods to estimate human and natural sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. It recommends that all countries produce annual reports of their greenhouse gas emissions and sinks. The academies also call for greater international cooperation to share new technologies and scientific data.
The statements have been signed by the leaders of the national science academies of Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the US.
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IT security and control firm Sophos has published the latest 'Dirty Dozen' of spam-relaying countries, covering the fourth quarter of 2010. The United States increased its lead at the top spot, and continues to be responsible for nearly one in five junk e-mails – 18.83 percent of all spam messages.
The U.S.'s domination of the list underlines the continuing problem of computers being compromised by hackers in the country, allowing them to be remotely controlled for criminal purposes without the owners' knowledge.
The UK decreased its percentage of total spam output compared to the third quarter last year – from 5 percent to 4.54 percent – however, it remains in fifth place overall.
Sophos notes that, while the same countries continue to dominate in terms of spam output, the nature of the spam being distributed is becoming more malicious. Traditional subject matter such as adverts for pharmaceuticals continue to be a concern, with some 36 million Americans reported to purchase drugs from unlicensed online sellers - but more and more messages are spreading malware and are attempting to phish user names, passwords and personal information.
Sophos warns that there has also been an increase in more focused, targeted e-mail attacks, known as spearphishing. In addition to this, Sophos is continuing to receive an increased number of reports of malicious apps, compromised profiles and unwanted messages spreading across social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
"Spam is certainly here to stay, however, the motivations and the methods are continuing to change in order to reap the greatest rewards for the spammers," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "What's becoming even more prevalent is the mailing of links to poisoned Web pages – victims are tricked into clicking a link in an e-mail, and then led to a site that attacks their computer with exploits or attempts to implant fake anti-virus software."
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Just came upon this video. And (although it has some areas that seam to be missing) it is quite interesting for a number of reasons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog ... ure=g-vrec
How do you reconcile your right to free speech with your practice of Right Speech?
and what is considered hate speech and what do you consider the Right Speech aspect of such speech?
some European convention information & related articles.
ARTICLE 10Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.
2. Freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
Some factsheets from the European courtsFreedom of expression
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
Hate Speech
Protection of Journalistic Sources
some more examples can be found in this fact sheet Freedom of religion


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Image Magazine
Southern California dreaming on 2013 spring runways
The 2013 spring collections are packed with designs influenced by California's landscape, art, architecture, creativity and attitude.
Bold and bright colors at play
Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodriguez, Fendi, Rupert Sanderson, Nicholas Kirkwood and Mary Katrantzou used bright colors in modern and nostalgic fashions.
Floral prints are a sure sign of spring
Marni, Miuccia Prada, Aviator Nation, Stubbs & Wootton, Brooks Brothers, Didi Dunphy and Chanel put their own marks on floral prints.
Cultural Touchstone: Peggy Moffitt
Peggy Moffitt still embodies the Mod aesthetic. She's never stopped wearing Rudi Gernreich's iconic designs.
L.A. flair, the French way
A Southland vibe runs rampant through Isabel Marant's collections. And now the Parisian has opened a store in Los Angeles.
Aurelie Bidermann jewelry line inspired by Southern California scene
The jewelry designer crafts a spring 2013 collection based on her travels in Southern California and her memories of film, books and photos of the area.
Expect the unexpected at decadent shop Just One Eye
The Hollywood store and art gallery Just One Eye offers an eclectic stock of T-shirts, luxe outfits, antiques and new furnishings. It's tucked-away location makes it a challenge to find, but once there, shoppers have labels from known and unknown designers to browse.
Quite the spectacles
These shades have something to say, and they're doing so with wrap-around, oversized and geometric styles, colorful lenses and sparkly I-will-NOT-be-ignored embellishments.
Hair: Delicate decorations top off the season
Nothing captures summer's sunny joie de vivre like a devil-may-care hairstyle polished off with a pretty hair ornament. Head-turning hair accessories were front and center in the spring runway collections. Satin bow headbands topped off '60s-inspired beehives at Louis Vuitton, while silk faille...
These boots were made for gawking
Gladiator sandal-boots. In orchid. Dinner at a fancy French place gave her a chance to try them out.


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"I fished by the post sign where it shows you the map and such and I was wondering what bait seems to work the best?..." Sibbald Meadows Pond
"Park in Lakeview Parking lot end of 61st Avenue SW. Follow path west down big hill by bridge. I've had good results fishing the south side of bridge upstream (west)...." Glenmore Reservoir
"My buddy Barry and I were planning to go icefishing at this lake as I have never seen nor heard of this lake and I have lived in Calgary for 50 years now. We called the..." Silver Lake


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Government & Politics
Paul Davis touts support from Republicans in bid for Kansas governor
TOPEKA –Democratic challenger Paul Davis sought Tuesday to give his campaign for Kansas governor a bipartisan boost by announcing endorsements from more than 100 moderate Republicans who've split with conservative GOP Gov. Sam Brownback over education and tax policy.
The disaffected Republicans include outgoing Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, three former Kansas Senate presidents and three former Kansas House speakers. More than half are former legislators, and the list includes former U.S. Rep. Jan Meyers, who represented the Kansas City-area 3rd District from 1985 to 1997.
They announced that they formed Republicans for Kansas Values because of their concerns about the aggressive personal income tax cuts enacted at Brownback's urging.
They called the reductions a reckless fiscal experiment and suggested Brownback's administration has been hostile to public education.
Davis' campaign staged a news conference at a Topeka hotel with 40 of the disaffected Republicans so that the bipartisan tone would draw a sharp contrast with rallies Brownback's re-election campaign had on Monday in Olathe and Wichita.
Those events featured former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, a favorite of Republicans opposing abortion and gay marriage, and were designed to energize the governor's core, conservative supporters.
"This election should not be about electing a Republican or electing a Democrat, but it should be about electing a moderate, common sense Kansan as governor," said Dick Bond, of Overland Park, who served as Senate president from 1997 to 2001.
Brownback is facing a tougher-than-expected re-election race in GOP-leaning Kansas after winning the governor's office in 2010 with 63 percent of the vote. Davis needs to attract support from moderate Republicans and unaffiliated voters to defeat the incumbent, because Republicans hold a significant advantage in voter registration.
The Kansas Republican Party portrayed the group of Republicans backing Davis as an old political guard that held a "big government" philosophy voters rejected in electing Brownback governor in 2010.
Six state senators on the list lost their seats in 2012 primaries to Brownback-favored candidates, including former Senate President Steve Morris, of Hugoton.
Many of the former lawmakers have been out of office for at least a decade.
"When was the last time any of them took a day and walked a precinct to talk with today's voters about the voters' concerns?" state GOP Executive Director Clay Barker said.
State Rep. J.R. Claeys, a conservative Republican, was even more dismissive, tweeting, "and they really raided the nursing home for some of them."
Brownback campaign spokesman John Milburn responded to the new group's criticism by noting that since Brownback took office in January 2011, Kansas has gained more than 50,000 private-sector jobs. He also pointed to enactment this year of an education funding plan boosting aid to poor school districts.
"Governor Brownback is focused on leading Kansas by growing the economy, investing in education for future generations, and preserving the bedrock values of hard work, faith and family," Milburn said.
But the new group backing Davis said Brownback's "experiment" with tax cuts has impeded the economy, with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that private-sector job growth has been slower in Kansas than in the U.S. as a whole.
The new group also contends spending on public schools remains inadequate.
"They're going to be very involved in their communities, talking to their friends and neighbors," Davis said after the news conference. "Every person here has got a network of people."
Davis, the Kansas House minority leader, is the only Democrat running for governor.
Brownback faces Jennifer Winn, owner of a Wichita landscaping business, in the Aug. 5 Republican primary. Her platform includes legalizing marijuana, but also greater government transparency and an end to targeted business tax incentives.
Winn campaign manager Mike Shatz said Davis is picking up GOP endorsements "due to the immense unpopularity of Brownback's policies among Kansas voters."


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Imagine you're a happy baby, off with your folks to visit the doctor.
"They're probably thinking, 'Oh hi everybody, hi!' and suddenly — boom! A shot," says John Harrington, a pediatrician in Norfolk, Va.
Who wouldn't scream at that?
But Harrington says that the same techniques used to soothe a fussy baby can also help an infant overcome the pain of vaccinations.
"It probably generates more pain than you or I have when we get a shot," says Harrington, a researcher at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk, Va., because infants are so much smaller.
Harrington wanted to find a way to ease the pain and stress of a shot. So he studied 230 infants, who were two months old and four months old. He divided them into four groups. Two groups got water before a vaccination, while the other two got a sugar solution, a sort of liquid lollipop known to distract infants from pain. After the shot, half the babies got typical comfort care from their parents. The others received the "5 S's".
That's a method that Harvey Karp, a Los Angeles-based pediatrician, developed about a decade ago to calm a screeching infant. The technique involves swaddling the baby, putting the baby on her stomach, gently swinging her, shushing into her ear, and offering a pacifier to suck on.
The babies who received the "5 S's" physical intervention stopped crying much sooner than the infants who received comfort care from their parents. And their pain scores, as measured by flailing arms and facial grimaces, were also significantly less, says Harrington. The "5 S's" group did much better than the comfort care group, whether they got sugar water or not.
The results were published in the journal Pediatrics.
Karp says the method works because it simulates the security of the womb. "In the womb, there's a symphony of sensations, constant jiggling, constant whooshing, which is the sound of the blood flow through the arteries, and constant touching against the velvet walls of the womb."
Let's talk now about an easier problem to solve: comforting your baby when getting a shot. Researchers find that a technique used to calm infants and help them sleep also helps with pain. NPR's Patti Neighmond reports on the study published in the journal Pediatrics.
PATTI NEIGHMOND, BYLINE: Babies get lots of vaccinations. Most of them shots. And shots hurt.
DR. JOHN HARRINGTON: It probably generates more pain than you or I have when we get a shot.
NEIGHMOND: That's because the infant's so small. Dr. John Harrington, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, says it's even more stressful because the babies don't see it coming.
HARRINGTON: They're kind of like thinking, oh, hi, hi, everybody, hi.
HARRINGTON: And they get a shot.
Harrington wanted to find a way to ease the pain and stress of a shot. So he studied 230 infants, 2 months old and 4 months old. He divided them into different groups. One group received water before vaccination, the other, a sugar solution - a sort of liquid lollipop - known to distract infants from pain. After the shot, one group got typical comfort care from their parents. The other got a specific type of physical intervention called the 5 Ss.
HARRINGTON: The babies with 5 Ss stopped crying at an earlier time and their pain scores were significantly less.
NEIGHMOND: The 5 Ss: swaddling the baby, putting the baby on their stomach, gently swinging them back and forth, shushing into their ear and offering a pacifier to suck on. Even without the pacifier, infants who got the other Ss suffered less pain and stress - as measured by flailing arms and grimaces.
NEIGHMOND: The 5 Ss were developed by pediatrician Harvey Karp, who today works with 3-and a-half-week old Henry Wick to demonstrate the technique.
NEIGHMOND: Henry's hungry. But not too hungry to be soothed and calmed by Karp.
DR. HARVEY KARP: So swaddling is the first step; in a big blanket because you have to wrap really snugly with the arms down.
NEIGHMOND: Constant reassuring touch simulates the security of the womb. Karp then places Henry on his stomach - the same position as during his last few months in utero. Then Karp shushes in Henry's ear.
NEIGHMOND: It sounds loud to us. But to Henry it's sweetly reminiscent.
KARP: In the womb it's a symphony of sensations. There's the constant sound, that...
KARP: That's the sound of a blood flow through arteries.
NEIGHMOND: And all the while, Karp gently swings Henry back and forth, jiggling him, sort of like Jell-O on a plate. Henry sucks on Karp's thumb. All these Ss - swaddling, stomach, shushing, swinging and sucking work really quickly. Henry stops crying, appears peaceful - almost as if in a trance.
KARP: When parents learn this - it kind of looks like a parlor trick - could this possibly be so easy? But you have to remember is this is based on a reflex. So think of the knee reflex; if I whack your knee your foot goes out. Now it makes no sense really, why - if I hit the knee here, your foot jumps out. It's kind of magic, but it isn't really, it's just physiology.
NEIGHMOND: The 5 Ss can be used to calm babies through all kinds of stressful situations. It can help them sleep, or nap. Henry's mom, Ann Vanderpool, says it was simple to learn.
ANN VANDERPOOL: It's amazing because he does fuss right away; every time I swaddle him he doesn't like it at first but then he'll just stop crying - altogether. It works when he's a little fussy. It works when he's in a full-tilt fuss, screaming as loud as he can, and just all of a sudden shut off. It's almost unnerving.
NEIGHMOND: The technique works well up to four months. But it starts to wane after that - as babies acclimate to the world around them - and memories of the womb fade.
Patti Neighmond, NPR News.
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The rattler that took a deadly bite out of "Snake Salvation" pastor Jamie Coots will not be killed ... in fact, the family will deploy the snake during next Saturday's service ... TMZ has learned.
Coots was bitten Saturday while he was preaching to his congregation and died after refusing medical help ... believing he was protected from the venom by God's power.
Jamie's son Cody tells us, the family still believes in God's protective power against snake venom -- despite his father's death -- telling us his dad felt it was much better to die from a snakebite than a stroke or car accident ... in fact, for him a snakebite was "God's way."
Cody -- who will take over as pastor -- says, "It was God saying, this is how you wanted it, and it's your time to go ... If he didn't plan [to die this way] he would have stayed alive."
As we reported ... even though using snakes during religious services is illegal in Kentucky, the police chief told us he would NOT enforce the law.


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Kalamazoo, MI – Tuesday, October 15, 2013. Kalamazoo Public Library and Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra are pleased to present Music & Make Believe, five sessions of storytimes, crafts and child-friendly performances by the KSO's String Quartet. Perfect for 3-6 year-olds, Music & Make Believe is a great way to introduce children to classical music!
This fall's Music & Make Believe is based on David McPhail's Mole Music, a story about a mole who feels something is missing from his life until he learns how to play the violin. Kalamazoo Public Library librarians will read Mole Music and follow the storytime with a craft activity. Kalamazoo Symphony String Quartet will also perform a program based on the story and activity.
Tuesday, October 29Central Library: 315 S. Rose St., 553-7804Two sessions9:30 – 10:30 am and 10:30 – 11:30 am
Wednesday, October 30Central Library: 315 S. Rose St., 553-7804Two sessions9:30 – 10:30 am and 10:30 – 11:30 am
Thursday, October 31Washington Square Branch Library1244 Portage St., 553-7970One session only10:30 – 11:30 am
Space is limited and registration is required. Groups should call 269-553-7804 to register.
This program is made possible with support from PNC, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and Kalamazoo Public Library.
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Yampa Valley Electric Association purchases commercial parcel on Elk River Road
Steamboat Springs — Yampa Valley Electric Association has purchased just less than 7 acres of commercial land on Elk River Road.
The land, directly adjacent to a substation and parcel already owned by YVEA, was acquired to secure "options for future growth in the event that" it needs to relocate, according to a news release.
"With constrained property options in the Steamboat area, it's prudent to ensure that we have reasonable options for relocation in the near future," Diane Johnson, general manager of YVEA, stated in the release.
The sale price was $640,000, according to YVEA's Melissa Watson.
In June 2012, YVEA purchased 70 acres of land that once was planned for a subdivision on Steamboat's west side for $2.025 million in cash.
At the time, previous general manager Larry Covillo said the YVEA board had made hunting for land a priority.
YVEA would like to eventually move its headquarters on Yampa Street and its equipment yard south of Howelsen Hill Ice Arena out of the downtown area.
The parcel that YVEA previously owned on Elk River Road is 13.9 acres, bringing the total area available with the new purchase to about 20.7 acres.
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New school record, outdone expectations at state mark bright future for Moffat County track and field
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Nazem Kadri has put Maple Leafs in the running
Toronto, finally showing some pop with coach Randy Carlyle working with a clean slate from the start of the season, will be on Causeway Street Thursday night. Maybe the Maple Leafs can shift the discussion away from, "Thank you, Phil Kessel,'' for one night, especially now that top pick Nazem Kadri is putting up numbers, including his first career hat trick in a 5-4 OT win vs. the Islanders last week.
Of Lebanese descent, Kadri pronounces his first name NAH-zem. But a few PA announcers around the league have referred to him as nah-ZEEM, leading teammates to refer to him as "Nah-ZEEM the Dream.''
A quick-handed center, Kadri is fast and creative, which at times infuriated ex-coach Ron Wilson when his free-wheeling led to mistakes. Carlyle is far more mindful of line-matching, and plays Kadri to his strengths, most often not pairing him against the opponents' top offensive lines and not putting him with linemates who attract the best checkers. Carlyle will do his best here to employ Kadri on those rare shifts when Zdeno Chara takes a seat.
Kadri likely will line up at the Garden with Colton Orr and Clarke MacArthur. Orr provides the muscle and space for Kadri to wheel. Matt Frattin, if healthy, could sub in for MacArthur because Frattin and Kadri have displayed some chemistry. Following the win over the Islanders, Kadri led the Leafs in scoring with 8-13—21 in 22 games.
Meanwhile, rumors persist in Toronto that general manager Dave Nonis may unload Kessel (4-12—16 in his first 22 games) prior to the April 3 trade deadline. In three-plus seasons, the ex-Bruin has convinced many up there that he's neither a leader nor core performer. Add him to a deep lineup with a coach who emphasizes offense (say, the Blackhawks, or maybe Canucks or Ducks), and he could be that 60-, 70-, or even 80-point guy who helps deliver a Stanley Cup.
Ideally, a Kessel swap would bring the Leafs a franchise center. Of course, if they had a franchise center, perhaps they wouldn't consider dealing Kessel. Such is life in the salary cap world.
Realignment is in the cards
As of Friday, the league and the Players Association had yet to finalize realignment for 2013-14, but reports early in the week added further credence that the 30-team league will switch from six to four divisions, as noted here.
The surprise was the reported shift east by both Detroit and Columbus, in part to accommodate Winnipeg's shift to the West.
Each of the four divisions will send its top three teams to the playoffs, while two others qualify as wild cards; so five teams could qualify in one division, three in the other.
The division setups:
■ Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Florida, Montreal, Ottawa, Tampa, Toronto.
■ Carolina, Columbus, New Jersey, Islanders, Rangers, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington.
■ Anaheim, Calgary, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Jose, Vancouver.
■ Chicago, Colorado, Dallas, Minnesota, Nashville, St. Louis, Winnipeg.
The imbalance, with 16 teams in the East and 14 in the West, makes it appear the league is readying to accommodate a couple of expansion teams. The likes of Kansas City, Houston, Seattle, Portland, and even Las Vegas have long been considered candidates.
In the East, Quebec City, southern Ontario (metro Toronto), and Hartford are among the wannabes. Betting around the league has it that if Florida remains a doormat, it could be shifted to Quebec City, where construction on the state-of-the-art Quebecor Arena began in September.
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■ Headed into Saturday's play, four NHL clubs had yet to win more than two games on the road. The weariest of the road warriors: Columbus (2-8-1), Colorado (2-6-2), Washington (2-6-1), Rangers (2-4-1).
■ The ever-enigmatic Sharks went 2-6-4 in February, scoring only 15 goals in those 12 games. Joe Thornton's 12 games for the month: 1-5—6 with 22 shots on net.
■ Ryan O'Reilly's contract impasse came to prompt conclusion Thursday when the Avalanche immediately matched Calgary's offer sheet of $10 million/two years. The 22-year-old pivot received a $2.5 million signing bonus, another $1 million for the remainder of this season, and will jump to $6.5 million in salary beginning in October. Boston's highest-paid forward on the books for next year is Milan Lucic at $5.5 million.
■ Four other NHLers will draw the same $6.5 million next season: Dion Phaneuf, Erik Karlsson, Carey Price, Daniel Briere.
■ As of Saturday morning, ex-Bruin Dennis Wideman stood a lackluster 3-7—10 and minus-5 through 19 games, ranking him T-23 for scoring among all blue liners. The Flames signed BMW (Big Money Wides) to a five-year deal paying a total $26.5 million in the offseason.
■ You know it's a different Leafs team when Mark Fraser leads all NHL defensemen in plus/minus (+15 headed into Saturday's play). Originally a Devils draft pick (No. 84 in 2005), the 6-foot-4-inch Fraser was dealt to Toronto by Anaheim for Dale Mitchell at last year's trade deadline.
■ Boston's Shawn Thornton has yet to engage in a fight since getting his bell rung in the Jan. 31 dustup with Buffalo's John Scott. A valuable fourth-liner, Thornton can do much more than fight, but it's clear the Scott bout brought a kinder, gentler Thornton to the ice the last three weeks.
■ As of Friday morning, Tyler Seguin stood T-173 in NHL goal-scoring with 3. He did score in Saturday's game against the Lightning.
■ You don't hear a lot of talk about Matt Martin, because his Islanders aren't worth a lot of words. But as of Saturday morn, the 23-year-old winger led the NHL with 93 hits. Takes a lot of moxie and mental strength to keep dishing out hits in a losing cause. Martin finished atop the league last year with 374 smacks, 28 percent more than runner-up Dustin Brown (293).
■ Scott Gomez, 13 games, 0-2—2, with San Jose. Hasn't lost a step.
A Star is born in Cole trade
Michael Ryder is expected in the Montreal lineup at the Garden Sunday night, playing against a number of his fellow 2011 Cup winners in Black and Gold. Ryder scored 62 points with Dallas last season and stood a team-high 6-8—14 through 19 games this season before being traded for Erik Cole. He is making $3.5 million and will be a UFA again July 5.
Cole, though, has two more seasons to go at $4 million. Ex-Bruin Mark Recchi, recently hired by the Stars in a player development role, won a Cup with Cole in Carolina in 2006 and no doubt lobbied for him in Big D.
Heck, Cole is only 34, a newbie in comparison to fellow Stars Jaromir Jagr, 41, and Ray Whitney, 40 (another Cup winner with the Hurricanes).
The new CBA allows for clubs to retain a portion of salaries in trades. But two league sources confirmed Friday that it was a straight swap, with the Stars on the hook for all of Cole's $8 million after this season. The Habs also will receive a third-round pick from Dallas.
Patience paid for Killorn
Prime example at the Garden Saturday of patience paying off for kids dreaming of an NHL career, with ex-Harvard center Alexander Killorn suiting up for his 11th game with the Lightning and scoring a goal.
Picked 77th overall by Tampa in 2007 after his first year at Deerfield Academy, the Montreal-raised Killorn opted to stick to the education path, and he played all four seasons for Ted Donato's Cambridge crew. He turned pro last spring with AHL Norfolk and reported back there this fall with the NHL in lockout, going 16-22—38 in 44 games before getting the call to Tampa.
He's only 23 years old, with degree in hand and what looks like a long NHL career in front of him.
"It's not about getting there the fastest, but getting there and staying there,'' noted his agent, Matt Keator, who preached much the same for Chris Kreider, encouraging the ex-Boston College Eagle to remain at The Heights for three years before turning pro.
Another way to get it going
My recent chat with Mike Milbury about dwindling NHL goal scoring regenerated one of my old ideas about how to pump up the scoring volume.
At even strength, five-on-five, teams in their defensive end always have an advantage because they are defending their net with six bodies (five skaters and one goalie). Seems to me, the obvious way to open up the game in those situations would be to prohibit teams from having five skaters in their defensive end.
Ergo, the team with the puck would attack in the offensive end with five skaters and be resisted by five defenders: four skaters and one goalie. What of that fifth "defensive'' player? He would be forced to remain outside his own blue line, in the neutral zone.
The immediate effect would be attacking teams having significantly more room to create in the offensive zone. The hidden benefit, and perhaps the most exciting, would be that teams skilled in puck repossession in their own end (hello, Bruins) would develop a knack for wiring breakaway passes to that one player outside the zone. During a 60-minute game, we might see a handful of thrilling breakaways.
So sign me up. Anyone else on board?
Rask may be next extension
Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli and agent Bill Zito remain tight-lipped about negotiations aimed at getting Tuukka Rask signed to a long-term deal. "I'm not going to negotiate through the media,'' Chiarelli reiterated Thursday. Zito added only that he talks regularly with Chiarelli on myriad subjects. Sounds like a Foxborough tutorial, doesn't it? But based on Chiarelli's track record, with extensions for Tyler Seguin, Milan Lucic, and Brad Marchand last summer, he's likely to get Rask's deal done sooner rather than later. Rask's expiring one-year deal, signed last summer, pays $3.5 million. Given his start this season, his wage next year likely will jump to $5 million, but with a cap hit on a long-term deal something around the $6.5 million Montreal goalie Carey Price will pocket next season.
Simon Gagne rejoined the Flyers last week in trade from Los Angeles. In March 2000, less than two years after the Flyers made him the 22d pick in the 1998 draft, Gagne was wrapping up his rookie season on Broad Street. Boston captain Ray Bourque, traded that month from Boston to Colorado, had the Flyers topping his list of choices when asking GM Harry Sinden to be dealt. Sinden never acknowledged it publicly, but had the Flyers been willing to part with Gagne, Bourque most likely would have gone to Philadelphia. And the Bruins would have had Gagne flying on Joe Thornton's left wing, or perhaps shifted to the right side to form a Sergei Samsonov-Thornton-Gagne trio. Bourque won his Cup in the spring of 2001 with Colorado, then retired. Gagne won his lone Cup last spring with the Kings and entered weekend play with 773 games and 587 points.
Lots of folks are musing over the prospect of an Original Six Boston-Chicago matchup in the Cup final. Vegas loves such dreamers. For the record, the two sides have never played for the championship. The Bruins and Blackhawks last met in the postseason in 1975, with Chicago prevailing, 2-1, in a best-of-three . . . Montreal-born defenseman Jean Gauthier died last week at age 73. Gauthier played but 166 NHL games, and 11 of those were with the Bruins in 1968-69, the start of the Bobby Orr era. He also suited up for the Habs and Flyers before finishing his pro career with Rochester of the AHL in 1973-74 . . . Look for a lot of bidding action on Andrej Sustr in the weeks ahead, once his junior year is over at Nebraska-Omaha. Sustr is a 6-foot-8-inch Czech defenseman, more in the style of, say, Tyler Myers than Zdeno Chara. Never drafted, he will be free to sign with the highest bidder . . . Anton Khudobin made the start in Boston's net Saturday vs. Tampa Bay, only his fourth of the season. Nothing but kudos for Khudobin throughout the organization, but I still think Chiarelli will target a veteran backup prior to the trade deadline. Rask's core injury last March had Chiarelli scrambling to Austria post-deadline to acquire stopgap Marty Turco. For very little impact on the salary cap, it could be a very valuable ounce of prevention . . . The Bruins will face Adam Oates's Capitals Tuesday night in D.C., the first time they will see their former star pivot as a bench boss. Slick Washington defenseman Mike Green, sidelined once again by a groin injury, did not make the club's weekend trip to Winnipeg. Green, 27, is a huge talent, but it looks like this will be his third straight season diminished by injury.
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While a new crop of TV talk show hosts are jockeying for ratings success, Jon Stewart is the king of the late night, at least in terms of his paycheck.
The host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" is earning $25 to $30 million a year, surpassing the retiring David Letterman, who will make $20 million in his final year as host of the "Late Show" on CBS, according to TV Guide Magazine.
The magazine's 6th annual "TV's Highest Paid Stars" issue hits newsstands this week, ranking the salaries of some of the most recognizable faces in television by genre for the upcoming TV season.
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July 2010 Millennium Cooking Class
So this summer I thought wouldn't it be a good idea to learn how to make bread from scratch. It's seems such a basic human cooking skill, but one I was put off from as a teen. Why? Well, I sincerely tried to make a bread from scratch when I was 16. Alas, it didn't rise, but I optimistically baked it anyway. Result, a bread that bounced off concrete without a chip. A serious brick. But, I blinked, and summer is almost over and the yeast hasn't been touched...
Happily, my July cooking class at Millennium, taught by Millennium's Executive Chef Eric Tucker, saves the day by providing the opportunity to make a quick-rising French style baguette. I naturally jumped at the opportunity to prove my hopeless bread-baking skills wrong with the help of some expert advice. It was a simple fast-raising, french bread making recipe for Bahn Mi sandwiches. I measured, I mixed, I kneaded. And, by golly, this time it worked! After allowing the dough to rise over good heat, we broke it into baguette sandwiches. See Chef Eric displaying the results above.
Inside this delicious sandwich was Yuba (fresh tofu skin marinated with a Lemon Grass-Shallot glaze):
Here's the crisp and delicious fried version. I can't believe we put this in a sandwich. I can't believe I didn't eat it before the bread was baked:
And tofu marinated and grilled with the same glaze:
And on the hot grill with onions:
So, I think this was the most filling "lunch" I've eaten at a Millennium cooking class:
The Bahn Mi also boasted sesame tofu mayonnaise, plum anise hoisin, pickled carrots, sliced jalapeno. Oh, yes, the salad. Let me tell you about the salad.
A seaweed based salad with Arame, Mendocino Sea Palm Fronds, and Kelp Noodles:
The sea noodles were combined with avocado, plums, and fresh herbs and dressed with a Plum Ume & Shiso dressing:
One class participant was interested in novel uses of potatoes. The result was a potato and corn "risotto" made creamy with cashew cream:
It was then served with Vanilla-glazed Maitake mushrooms:
The mushrooms were delicious!
We then made a South Indian vegetable filling for Buck Wheat Dosas with cumin, curry leaf and asafoetida::
Topped with a mint chutney, these were delicious:
Dessert was typically over the top - shortbread cookies with nectarines, macadamia nut cheese, and a lemon-verbena caramel:
Many thanks to Eric, Ann, Thomas and my classmates for another memorable vegan cooking class.
Here's links to my previous 15 classes:


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Thanh Lam's New Plan
The man who launched Ba-Le in Hawaii has a new bakery—and a new café coming to a location near you.
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The office is 1,000 square feet, exactly the same size as the small sandwich shop Lam owned on King Street when I first met him in 1986.
I can still picture him as he was then, a white baker's cap perched on his head. He was young, only 27, rail-thin, almost vibrating with energy.
He had plans, which he explained to me with the diffident, yet determined air of a man for whom life had been an uphill battle.
Thrown in jail for several weeks for the crime of preventing a government official from harassing a neighbor girl, he'd fled his native Vietnam.
He, his brothers and his fiancée, Xuan Chau, paid 10 ounces of gold apiece for the privilege of boarding a 42-foot boat bound for Malaysia. For four days, they shared the boat with 186 other refugees.
"No more food, no room even to sit," recalls Lam. "It was hard to sleep. You couldn't stretch out. All you could do is close your eyes and pray you'd make it to land."
They did and, after a few stops and a crash course in English, he and Xuan Chau, now his wife, arrived in Hawaii in 1984. "I had no trade, no education," he says. "To make money, I told my wife the only thing was business for myself."
He'd saved his money to open this small Chinatown shop selling bánh mi, Vietnamese sandwiches. Bánh mi are now a staple, but, in 1986, few people in Hawaii had ever tasted them.
To me, the bánh mi was a startling food fusion: a French sandwich—baguette with ham, pâté or sausage—enlivened by Vietnamese flavors such as cilantro and do chua (pickled daikon and carrots).
His shop was named after a famous chain in Vietnam, Ba-Le, Vietnamese for Paris. If the name rings a bell, that's because there are now 25 of them, a Hawaii success story.
Remarkably enough, even in 1986, Lam had bigger plans than becoming the bánh mi king of Honolulu. He dragged me into the back of his crowded little shop. Frustrated with the supply of baguettes in Honolulu, he'd turned himself into a baker.
Proudly, he showed me his new $17,000, single-rack Pavailler bread oven. It could turn out 1,400, 8-inch baguettes a day—excellent bread, soft, yet firm on the inside, the crust crispy without being hard.
Some day—"When I have money," he said—he wanted to supply supermarkets, hotels and restaurants. "I want to be like Love's."
Oh, good luck, I thought. Still, it was hard to discount a 97-pound guy who worked 16- to 18-hour days and sometimes fell asleep next to his equipment, waking up with flour in his hair. If he wanted to rival the biggest commercial bakery in town, it was fine with me.
I wrote a piece called "The Man Who Would Be Love's." It began with one of those only-in-Hawaii leads: "The best French bread in Honolulu is made by a Vietnamese in Chinatown."
Writing is odd. You never know what, if anything, happens as a result. For 25 years, till Lam told me yesterday, I had no idea that an angel investor read the piece, called him and loaned him some money at reasonable interest. He was on his way.
As if much was going to stop him.