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Artist of the Month
The Artist of the Month at the Cedar Keyhole is Connie Starks. Starks is a potter who creates folk art-style face mugs, jugs, household items, as well as whimsical pottery "critters". Additionally, she makes "yarn bowls" – those wonderfully functional bowls which keep knitters' and crocheters' yarn from becoming a knotted mess while they are working. Starks began making ceramics in 2004 and found her way to her specialty within five years.
The Cedar Keyhole, a 22 artist co-op, is located on 2nd St. The gallery is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., except on Christmas and Thanksgiving .
Poets to hold annual reading
The Cedar Key Poets will be holding its annual reading at the Cedar Key Library on Thursday, March 7, beginning at 5 p.m.
Those reciting their poetry include: Evelyn Duncan from New York state; Jackie Johnson from Colorado; Nancy MacMillan from Ontario; Hedy Havel from Cedar Key; Teri Brennan from Cedar Key; Ginnah Howard from New York state; Graham Duncan from New York state; Libby Cagle from Rosewood; and Jim Hoy from Cedar Key.
Refreshments will be served.
Pasta Clam Dinner fund raiser
A Pasta Clam Dinner will be served at the Community Center, 809 6th Street, Cedar Key on Friday, March 8 from 5-7 p.m.
The dinner includes salad, bread and dessert, all for $10. All proceeds will go to the Cedar Key Community Relief Fund. The dinner is co-sponsored by the Cedar Key Aquaculture Association and the City of Cedar Key. Call 352-325-1066 for tickets. Tickets are also available at Nature Coast Reality or at the door. You can eat in or take out.
Old Families reunion
The Cedar Key Old Families Reunion will be held March 9, at the Cedar Key Community Center. Bring a covered dish and enjoy reunion with friends and family. The Community Center will be open by 10 a.m. and the reunion goes on until around 2 p.m. Welcome and dinner begin at noon. For more information, contact Brenda at 352-543-5508.
March 14
CK Woman's Club fashion show
The Cedar Key Woman's Club annual luncheon and fashion show begins with the opening of the boutiques at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 14 at the Cedar Key Community Center. Lunch is served at noon, followed by the fashion show. Fashions are courtesy of Deja Vu.
Tickets are $12 per person and are available from club members, at Deja Vu and Cedar Key Emporium. Proceeds benefit the Cedar Key School.
March 16
Annual Spring Bazaar
The Annual Spring Bazaar at United Methodist Church in Cedar Key will be held Saturday, March 16, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Lunch offerings include corned beef and cabbage or beef stew. Donations accepted. There will also be a Cookie Walk and rummage sale. For more information, call Marie Lewis 352-467-4703.
March 23
'Paint Out', auction set
Cedar Key Arts Center will be hosting "Paint Out" on Monday, March 23, from 1-5 p.m. with an auction beginning at 5:30 p.m. upstairs at the Arts Center. Bidders are encouraged to preview works in progress.
Watch a local artist create a work of art in an afternoon, various mediums will be on display.
At 5:30 p.m. an auction of the newly created work will be held upstairs at the Arts Center.
Donate those excess treasures
Friends of Cedar Key State Parks are accepting donations for the Annual St. Clair Whitman House Yard Sale scheduled for March 23-24.
Drop off your donations at the Cedar Key Museum State Park, 12231 SW 166 Ct.
If you need items picked up, please call 543-5350 to make arrangements.
The event is ponsored by Friends of Cedar Key State Parks, Inc. Donations are tax deductable.
April 6
Bicycle ride for education
A bicycle ride on the Chiefland and Tri-County greenway trails will benefit the Levy County Schools Foundation on Saturday, April 6. Registration will be at Chiefland Shopping Center, 102 N. Main St./U.S. Highway 19/98, Chiefland. The designated ride is up to 48 miles long, with the option to ride as little or as much as you want. There will be stops at Fanning Springs, Old Town and Cross City with large food and beverage provisions until noon.
April 11-14
Levy Fair dates
The Levy County Fair will be April 11-14 at the Williston Airport Industrial Park, across from the Williston Horseman's Park. Visit www.LevyCountyFair.com to learn about the events and enter the contests.
April 19
Farm Bureau scholarship applications
The Levy County Farm Bureau is accepting applications for its 2013 Academic & Career/Technical Scholarships Award.
Deadline for getting applications in is April 19 at 5 p.m.
For more information, call 352-493-4780.
April 20
Apalachicola antique & classic boat show
The 15th annual Antique & Classic Boat Show in Apalachicola will be Saturday, April 20. There will be classic boats, home-built traditional craft, work boats, classic designs, antique outboard motor collections, antique and classic automobiles, artwork and more.
For details and applications go to www.antiqueboatshow.org or call 850-653-9419.
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Judith Supine Shows His Face At "Golden Child" Opening
Photos by G except where noted. Art by Judith Supine.
The back story of street artist Judith Supine is quite interesting. He was unable to speak until the age of 17 and he adopted his mother's maiden name as a persona and for the duration of his career has kept his actual identity hidden. Until now! At his exhibit "Golden Child" at MECKA Gallery in Brooklyn, the artist showed his face for the first time. And a good looking face it is.
The exhibit is located in the heart of Brooklyn (read: far for Manhattanites), but if you are a lover of street art, it will be worth the trek. Unfortunately, it's unclear if this exhibit is a one night only affair or not (read: if you want free publicity or people to show up, you should at least put the who, where, what on your goddamned website!)
The opening night party was awesome and at it, I spotted artists Icy and Sot, Insurgency Inc., WK Interact and Anthony Michael Sneed.
Speaking of Anthony Michael Sneed, whose work I am a huge fan of, he was kind enough to take a photo of Judith Supine and myself. Full disclosure: I attempted a selfie but Judith is tall and I am very short and the photo I took was a hot mess!
See what Judith Supine looks like, after the jump!

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The most important utterance in Judaism is the Shema': Shema' yisrael adonai eloheinu adonai ehad. (Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.) This declaration of the absolute unity of God is the cornerstone of our faith. By Biblical mandate, a Jew recites the Shema' twice daily, be-shokhbekha u-ve-kumekha ("when you lie down and when you rise up"). See Deuteronomy 6:7.
All of the above is quite famous. What remains today a little known fact is that once upon a time this recitation was accompanied by head movements to the four directions, and up and down. This practice is recorded both in the Ge'onim(post-Talmudic Babylonian sages) and the Rishonim (medieval European sages).[1] The basis for this observance is the following statement in the Talmud:
Symmachus says: "Whoever prolongs the word ehad ("one"), his days and years are prolonged.
Said Rav Aha bar Ya'akov: "And [specifically] the letter dalet [of ehad]."
Said Rav Ashi: "Provided he does not speed up the letter het [of ehad]."
R. Yirmiyah was sitting before R. [Hiyya bar Abba]. He saw that he was prolonging overly much. He said to him: "Once you have proclaimed Him King above and below, and to the four winds of heaven, you need not any further."[2]
Rashi, the eleventh-century exegete of Troyes, France, comments: "Proclaimed Him King above, etc. – You have prolonged the amount [of time] necessary to think in your heart that the Lord is one in heaven and on earth and its four directions."
This is a disembodied approach; no mention in Rashi of actual body movements. The visualization of heaven and earth and the four cardinal points is purely mental.
However, if one consults the commentary of Rabbi Menahem Ha-Me'iri of Perpignan, Provence (1249-1306) one finds an added dimension: "The amount of lengthening the letter dalet is that required to picture in the heart that He, blessed be He, rules over heaven and earth and the four winds of the world. And for this reason, it is customary to tilt the head and move it to these sides. Nevertheless, if one prefers not to tilt the head, one need not, because the thing depends not on the tilting of the head and its movements, but rather upon the feeling of the heart."[3]
Me'iri revisits this theme in his commentary to Tractate Sukkah when discussing the na'anu'im or waving of the lulav (palm frond) during the Sukkot festival. There, he opines that both in regard to the movement of the lulav during the recitation ofHallel and the movement of the head during Shema', only a to-and-fro and up-and-down movement is called for (as opposed to the four directions, and up and down). "Even that which they said. . .to prolong the word ehad ("one") sufficiently to proclaim Him King above and below and in the four winds of the world, even this necessitates only a movement to the two directions, and below and above. Furthermore, some say that in ehad no movement is necessary, only picturing in the heart."[4]
Neither is Me'iri the only Provencal commentator to bear witness to the practice of head movements. His contemporary Rabbi David ben Levi of Narbonne writes: "How long? Long enough to proclaim Him King, etc. – Some interpret that one proclaims Him King by moving one's head. And so interpreted Rabbenu Hai, of blessed memory."[5]
In Provence, where we find most evidence of the head movements, there were some who found the practice ludicrous (huka ve-itlula).[6] Perhaps, these authorities took exception not so much to the movements themselves, as to the fact that as often happens in the case of rituals, the simple folk focus on the externals rather than on the inner awareness which is the essence.[7]
The German codifier Rabbi Jacob ben Asher (d. Toledo, Spain before 1340) defended the practice of the head movements accompanying Shema':
One must prolong the dalet of ehad the amount [of time] necessary to think in one's heart that the Holy One, blessed be He, is unique in His world, above and below, and in the four winds of the world. There are some accustomed to tilt the head according to the thought, above and below, and to the four directions. Some object to the practice because of the statement of the Rabbis, "He who recites Shema' should not gesticulate with his eyes or lips."[8] My father, of blessed memory, used to say that one need not heed [their words], for there, the gesticulations are for an extraneous purpose, and interrupt the concentration, but here, the gesture is a requisite of the concentration and brings it about (tsorekh ha-kavvanah ve-goremet otah)."[9]
Rabbi Joshua Boaz Baruch (Italy, d. 1557) offers a very graphic description of the head movements of Shema':
This is the amount [of time] to prolong the word ehad: one third in the letter het and two thirds in the letter dalet. How does one proclaim the Kingship? Up and down during the het, and in the four directions during the dalet.[10] And one concentrates while moving the head up and down, to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south . . .[11]
One can only speculate what happened to these head movements. Whereas the movements of the lulav or palm frond continue in full force to this day, wherever Jews are found, we are not aware of any community that has retained the custom of moving the head during Shema', though as we have seen, it was once widespread in communities as diverse as Babel (today Iraq), Provence, Spain and Italy.
One of the most provocative statements found in Rav Kook's Orot (Jerusalem, 1920) is this:
We dealt much in soulfulness; we forgot the holiness of the body.[12]
Perhaps these head movements of Shema' are a "mitsvah yetomah" (orphan mitsvah) due for revival.[13]
[1] These head movements of the Shema' are not to be confused with those employed in the so-called school of "Prophetic Kabbalah" founded by Abraham Abulafia (b. 1240), although it is possible that Abulafia was inspired in this respect by the earlier tradition surrounding the Shema'. Prof. Gershom Scholem was struck by the similarity between the Abulafian technique (especially the technique of breathing) and Indian Yogic practices. Perhaps Scholem was unaware of the Judaic practice surrounding Shema'. It is possible though, that Scholem would have regarded even this practice, stretching back at least as far as Rav Hai Gaon, as influenced by Yogic or Sufic tradition. See Gershom G. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (New York, 1971), pp. 139, 144; Aryeh Kaplan, Meditation and Kabbalah (York Beach, ME, 1985), pp. 55-114.
[2] Talmud Bavli, Berakhot 13b. The words "Hiyya bar Abba" are bracketed in the standard Vilna edition. In the parallel discussion in Talmud Yerushalmi, Berakhot 2:1, rather than R. Hiyya bar Abba, it is Ze'ira who apprises R. Yirmiyah that he needn't overly prolong the recitation. R. Aryeh Leib Yellin (Yefeh 'Einayim) suggests that the text of the Bavli be emended to "R. Zeira" to conform to the Yerushalmi.
[3] R. Menahem ben Shelomo ha-Me'iri, Beit ha-Behirah, Berakhot, Dikman ed. (Jerusalem, 1965), p. 42.
[4] R. Menahem ben Shelomo ha-Me'ri, Beit ha-Behirah, Sukkah, Liss ed. (Jerusalem, 1966), p. 133.
[5] R. David ben Levi of Narbonne, Sefer ha-Mikhtam in: Hershler ed., Ginzei Rishonim / Berakhot (Jerusalem, 1967), p. 28. This comment of Rabbenu Hai ben Sherira Gaon (939-1038) to Berakhot 13b first crops up in the Sefer ha-Eshkol of Rabbi Abraham ben Isaac, Av-Beit-Din of Narbonne (d. 1158). See Albeck ed., Sefer ha-Eshkol, p. 14; included in B.M. Lewin ed., Otsar ha-Ge'onim, Vol. I – Berakhot (Haifa, 1928), Perushim, p. 13. Cf. Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome,Arukh, s.v. bar pahatei.
[6] Sefer ha-Mikhtam ibid.; R. Asher of Lunel, Orhot Hayyim, chap. 18.
[7] For example, Rabbi Hayyim El'azar Spira of Munkatch (Munkacevo) explained the custom of reciting the verse Atah har'eita la-da'at ["Unto you it was shown, that you might know, that the Lord is the God; there is none else besides Him"] (Deuteronomy 4:35) on Simhat Torah at the opening of the Ark before commencing the hakafot or circumambulations with the Torah scroll in hand, as an antidote to any perverse notions that might creep into the common mind. By declaring the absolute unity of God, we stave off any misguided tendency to deify the Torah. See Rabbi Hayyim El'azar Spira, Sha'ar Yissachar, Simhat Torah. Cf. Rabbi Meir Simha Cohen of Dvinsk, Meshekh Hokhmah (Riga, 1927), Exodus 32:19 who explains that Moses smashed the Tablets of the Law to prevent their deification by the worshippers of the Golden Calf.
[8] Yoma 19b. There, included in the prohibition is gesticulating with the finger(s).
[9] Rabbi Jacob ben Asher, Tur, Orah Hayyim.
[10] The Hebrew letters also signify numbers. Thus, het has the numerical value of 8; dalet, the numerical value of 4. The head movements up and down allude to the seven heavens and earth, a total of eight. It is appropriate that they occur during recitation of the letter het. The movements in the four directions of the compass occur during the recitation of the letter dalet.
On the practical level, one may question how it is possible to prolong the sound of the letter dalet (twice as long as the letter het!) when the consonant dalet is a stop or plosive. The question is based on ignorance of the correct pronunciation of the Hebrew letters. In the Ashkenazic community, the differentiation between dalet degushah (hard dalet, indicated by the dot or dagesh mark) and dalet rafah (soft dalet, lacking the dagesh or dot) was lost. In the Oriental communities, this tradition was maintained. In truth, only the hard dalet has the "d" sound; the soft dalet is pronounced "th" as in the English word "the." In phonetics, such a sound is referred to as a "continuant," as opposed to a "stop" or "plosive." As the dalet ofehad is soft, the word is properly pronounced "ehath." Adhering to these basic rules of the Hebrew language, the dalet ofehad may certainly be drawn out. See Rabbi Nahum L. Rabinovitch, Yad Peshutah (Jerusalem, 1984), Hil. Keri'at Shema2:9 (p. 64). For the record, there were several Ashkenazic gedolim who were sensitive to the refinements of Hebrew pronunciation, as practiced by the Oriental communities. In the previous generation, Rabbis Joseph Elijah Henkin and Jacob Kamenecki expressed such concerns, to name but two.
[11] R. Joshua Boaz Baruch, Shiltei ha-Gibborim to Mordekhai, Berakhot (Vilna ed., 46a).
[12] See Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook, Orot (Jerusalem, 1950), Orot ha-Tehiyah, chap. 33 (p. 80); Naor trans.,Orot: The Original 1920 Version (Spring Valley, NY, 2004), p. 189.
[13] Rabbi Jacob Moses Harlap, the eminent disciple of Rav Kook, wrote that the revival of mitsvot that have fallen into desuetude is a cure for the malady of our generation of neshamot she-be-'olam ha-tohu (souls of the World of Chaos), whose vessel is too narrow to contain the great light due to penetrate it. This thought is expressed in a letter Rabbi Harlap wrote in 1946 upon the occasion of the renewed "Hakhel" ceremony. Published as an appendix to Rabbi J.M. Harlap, Mei Marom, Vol. V (Nimmukei ha-Mikra'ot) (Jerusalem, 1981). Cf. the essay entitled "Ha-Neshamot shel 'Olam ha-Tohu" (The Souls of the World of Chaos) in: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook, Orot (Jerusalem, 1950), pp. 121-123.


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These underground storage facilities are deep underground which tells you that what is being placed in them is meant to be protected from some major catastrophic event on the surface. It makes me ask myself, "what is our government preparing for"?
*** After reviewing some of the e-mails I received on this article I wanted to share some information that was brought to my attention. It appears that the facility in Carthage, Missouri is operated by a company called Americold. Though I do not doubt that this company does indeed use some of the space inside these massive cave facilities it is hard to imagine that they are the only one using them.
As you view the video will notice how massive they are and as the truck drives through the cave please notice the shear number of loading docks it passes. In my opinion these simply is no way that one company could use this amount of warehouse space alone.
I would love to hear your comments on this subject so please leave a comment.


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Feathers to Fly With
Birds, birds, and more birds. Mainly in Australia, but with a few gallery-wanderers from North America.Read More
Tony Brittonon August 14, 2010
These are excellent examples of what makes photography so enjoyable. Your compositions are technically and artistically a joy to behold! Extremely well done!
Lesley Sinclairon August 1, 2010
I have to put my comment on the Osprey because I love them so much!! Your gallery is absolutely fabulous! I feel like I've just come home from an around-the-world trip!! You have some absolutely amazing birds in Australia - and I loved seeing the architecture there in Melbourne too. My brother lives in Melbourne so it gave me a good idea of where he's at!


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A collection of brand new stills from The Hunger Games shows off a few more side characters from the dystopian future, where children battle to the death for public entertainment. Get a better look at the Peace Keepers, and Woody Harrelson as the drunken fight tutor to Katniss and Peetah named Haymitch Abernathy.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Birmingham-Southern men's basketball team held court at the U.S. Capitol today. The team, which is in the Washington area to play in a Division III national men's tournament, took a "time out" from practice to tour the Capitol and meet with Congressman Spencer Bachus.
Bachus discussed the unique history and architecture of the Capitol and was presented with a signed team basketball during a gathering with players and coaches on the building's east steps. The team's tour included a visit to the Rotunda, the home to important national ceremonial events and historic statues, paintings, and decorative works depicting the heritage of the U.S.
"The sports program at Birmingham-Southern strongly values the concept of the student-athlete," Bachus said. "This visit to the U.S. Capitol fit in perfectly with the college's educational philosophy and I hope it will be a memorable part of the team's stay in Washington. It is also important for the students to know that their president, Gen. Charles Krulak, is held in the highest regard here for his dedicated service to our nation. These young men have now been on the 'home court' of American democracy, and I wish them the best of luck with their tournament this weekend and with their continuing studies."
The Panthers are playing in the Hoopsville National Invitation Classic in Owings Mills, Md., Nov. 22-24. The annual competition is the biggest on-campus tournament in Division III basketball and features top teams from across the country; 10 schools from seven different states are playing. BSC will face Salisbury University on Friday at 3 p.m. and host Stevenson University on Saturday at 4 p.m.
"Basketball is one part of the educational experience for our players," said BSC Head Coach Chris Graves. "It is great to have the opportunity to play in a national tournament, but it is very meaningful for our students to be able to come to the U.S. Capitol, learn about its history first-hand, and have time with Congressman Bachus."


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RjBeals wrote:here's a feeble attempt at another hawaii map a few years ago. Not much there - but worth a quick read.
But look what I did with the water there - you may want to make the ocean a cool pattern instead of the swimming pool feel it has now.
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Should the current voluntary bandplans be made mandatory.
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No-code: Life beyond repeaters.
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I was trying to install it and I got something like this...
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When it comes to maximizing Social Security benefits, it's all about timing.
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"If you look at a married couple, there are 81 different strategies on how to claim Social Security," says David Richmond, founder of Richmond Brothers. "A lot of times people don't know their options."
Filing too early for Social Security can mean getting a smaller check and potentially leaving thousands of dollars on the table, while waiting until Full Retirement Age (FRA) can maximize monthly payments.
Social Security benefits are designed to supplement retirement income, but too often people rely on these benefits as their only cash flow in retirement.
"Most clients assume they should take it right away at 62 and many times that's not the best way to do it," says Richmond. "Social Security went from a safety net to a primary source of income, and that's not what the program was designed for."
To determine when to start collecting benefits, financial experts say you must identify your FRA, which is when you can collect Social Security benefits without penalties. The Social Security website can help calculate this number.
Workers can start collecting at age 62, but doing that could result in as much of a 30% reduction in benefits.
David Hefty, chief executive of Hefty Wealth Partners, says people also need to determine their primary insurance amount (PIA)—the monthly payout from Social Security.
"Your PIA is based on 35 years of your highest earnings. If the end of your career has the highest years, you are doing a good job of increasing your Social Security check," he says.
Knowing how much to can expect each month can help determine when to start collecting.
If the benefits aren't crucial to making ends meet, experts suggest waiting until age 70 to start drawing benefits to maximize check size. Every year past FRA until 70 earns a delayed retirement credit. For example, those born in 1943 or later will get an 8% credit each year collection is delayed, according to the government.
Some people start drawing their benefits as soon as possible and invest it in hopes of making a greater return, but experts caution against this.
"If you wait to 70 you're guaranteed a roughly 8% rate of return," says Richmond. "In today's world, what's growing at 8% guaranteed?"
The decision for single senior citizens on when to collect boils down to whether they need the funds to make ends meet, but for married people, it's a little more complicated.
According to Hefty, two common strategies for married people to get the most from Social Security is the "file and suspend" and "double dip" strategies. Both strategies are only for couples that have other financial means outside Social Security.
The file and suspend strategy helps spouses with a large difference in the size of their benefits, and involves having the person with less benefits filing at 62 while the other spouse can file for benefits and then suspend them. This allows the person who started collecting at age 62 to also get 50% of the spouse's Social Security benefit.
The spouse who delayed gets to maximize the amount he or she will get because each year Social Security isn't collected earns the delayed retirement credit. This strategy enables the couple to start getting some Social Security at age 62 while still getting the most out of the other person's benefits.
The double dip strategy, which is ideal for couples set to get similar benefits, includes taking the spousal benefit and regular benefit at different times. Even if one person's benefit is less, if a couple can live off that, they will end up getting more the longer they wait to collect.
"If you don't need your social security then ideally you should delay it," says Hefty.


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Deputy OEM Coordinator: Michael Onder
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What is Clifton's OEM?
Clifton's office of Emergency Management represents our local Participation in our Nations official emergency management structure:
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•New Jersey Office Emergency Management (NJSP)
•Passaic County Office Emergency Management
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What is the OEM's Mission?
Implement an Emergency Plan and Direct Response
Coordination of City Resources with City Chiefs/Department Heads
Municipal - Neighboring Communities
County - OEM,HAZMAT, Health
State - NJ OEM, NJSP, NJ Department of Health
Federal - FEMA, EPA, Coast Guard
Agencies - Red Cross
What is the OEM's Role?
"Should an emergency arise that would cause the activation of the Office of Emergency Management Organization, Chiefs and Department Heads Would remain in charge of their respective sections. However, requests for communications, movements, resources and needs Would be coordinated through the incident command post site or at the Emergency Operations Center".
Who is part of Clifton's OEM?
•Every Department of the City is Represented
•City Council
•Department of Public Works
•Board of Education
•Communications Team - FCC Licensed Amateur Radio Ops
•Citizen Volunteers
How does the OEM achieve it's mission?
Mitigation - Activities that eliminate or reduce the risk of disaster (insurance, building codes, flood plain management, public education)
Preparedness - Planning, exercise, training, public information systems and warning
Response - Direction/Control, warning, evacuation, emergency service to address immediate and short term effects of a emergency/ disaster
Recovery - Short term, those operations that seek to restore critical services and meet basic needs. Long term, those actions that restore community to normal state. Mitigation measures such as temporary housing and food, restoring non-vital City services.


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The main house has two bedrooms and two bathrooms in 2,374 square feet. Walls of glass frame ocean views in the living room, which has a fireplace and skylights. A guesthouse has two one-bedroom suites, and a stairway leads to the beach.
DiCaprio, 34, put the property on the market in mid-November. He purchased it for $6.35 million in 2007, according to public records.
The three-time Oscar nominee has the lead in the upcoming thriller "Shutter Island," scheduled for October release. Last year, he starred in "Body of Lies" and "Revolutionary Road" and was ranked as the fifth-highest-paid actor in Hollywood by Forbes magazine. Among his acting credits are "Blood Diamond" (2006), "Catch Me if You Can" (2002) and "Titanic" (1997).
He is a producer of "Greensburg," a series in its second season on Planet Green about a community in the Midwest rebuilding after a 2007 tornado. The actor-environmentalist-producer-writer-Lakers fan wears many hats -- literally. After studying photos of DiCaprio courtside at Staples Center since 2004, Canada's National Post observed last month that it looks like he never wears the same baseball cap twice.
The listing agents were Katie Bentzen and Sarah Kosasky of Bentzen Levin Real Estate, Malibu.


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Locally made horror film "The Conjuring" is getting a nationwide release on July 19, so we thought we'd take the opportunity to jump out of the shadows with, in no particular order:
The 7 scariest movies ever made in Wilmington
1. 'I Know What You Did Last Summer': It can't hold a candle to the "Scream" series, but Kevin Williamson's "other" horror movie with a name cast of sweet young things had enough panicky moments to find a place in pop culture. (Upon its release, a local boutique freaked out Wilmington fashionistas by posting a sign that read, "We know what you wore last summer.")
2. 'Sleeping with the Enemy': There's nothing quite so fear-inducing as a psycho ex, as Julia Roberts discovers in this 1991 thriller. It has more than enough suspenseful moments to earn its scary stripes.
3. 'Ding-a-ling-less': Onur Tukel's 2001 indie comedy is about a man with no penis. Enough said.
4. 'The Conjuring': The trailer itself is scarier than almost all of what qualifies as Wilmington-made horror, but James Wan's '70s-style fright flick is spooky enough to easily warrant a place on The List.
5. 'Pieces of Talent': Joe Stauffer's graphic 2012 indie gorefest is plenty disturbing.
6. 'Virus': Seriously, it's scary how much talent (Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland) was wasted in this 1999 sci-fi flop.
7. 'Blue Velvet': David Lynch's surreal noir from 1986 isn't a horror film, but Dennis Hopper's physical and psychological abuse of Isabella Rossellini is one of the most terrifying things ever committed to celluloid.
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Was Cape Fear not filmed here? If so, how can that be off the list?
Neither version of "Cape Fear" (1962 or 1991) was filmed in the Wilmington area. Great title, though.
Cat's Eye, Silver Bullet, and Maximum Overdrive. Ya'll really don't like Stephen King, do you?
I like Stephen King just fine, I just don't think those movies are particularly scary!
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In a room there are 10 people, none of whom are older than 100 (ages are given in whole numbers only) but each of whom is at least 1 year old. Prove that one can always find two groups of people (possibly intersection, but different) the sums of whose ages are the same.
I know we have to use the pigeon hole principle. But I don't know how to find the pigeons and pigeonholes. Can someone help me out?


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SALISBURY, MD – The York College women's basketball team needed a victory at Salisbury on Saturday. The Spartans got that victory in impressive fashion as they downed the Sea Gulls 72-50 in Capital Athletic Conference action at the Maggs Center.
The Spartans improve to 17-5 overall and more importantly kept themselves in the conference race as they stand at 6-3 in the league. The Spartans sit one game behind second-place Mary Washington and two games back of front-running Marymount. The Sea Gulls fall to 10-10 overall and 4-4 in the league with the setback.
Like many Spartan games this year, the contest got off to a slow offensive start. The Spartans got on the board with a Kelsey Murphy (Olney, Md./Good Counsel) three 2:15 into the game. That started a 7-0 Spartan spurt as the Green and White seized the early advantage.
Salisbury cut the lead to four at 10-6, but The Spartans scored 11 of the next 15 points of the game to push their advantage to 11 at 21-10. Salisbury got a pair of Katie McGahagan free throws but Spartan senior captain Loreta Tonuzi (Hazlet, N.J./ Raritan) hit treys on three straight possessions as the York lead quickly ballooned to 18 points.
The Spartans pushed the lead to 21 on a pair of Murphy free throws before the Gulls scored the final four points of the half as York took a 39-22 lead to the break.
The Green and White continued to control the contest in the second half. Salisbury got to within 17 three times before York went on a 9-2 spurt to push the lead to 24. York would eventually increase the lead to 26 on a Kristen Haley (Silver Spring, Md./Georgetown Visitation) bucket with 2:28 left before the Green and White settled for the 22-point win.
The Spartans received a number of outstanding performances led by Haley as the junior forward poured in a game-high 23 points on 10-of-15 shooting. Haley, who has scored 20 points in three of her last four games, also had six rebounds, a pair of steals and a blocked shot in 28 minutes of work. Junior Brittany Hicks (Dover, Pa./York Catholic) notched her 12th double-double of the year with 13 points and 14 rebounds. Hicks added three assists and two steals. The junior forward is now just 13 points short of 1,000 career points.
Murphy contributed 13 points, four assists, two rebounds and a steal as she continues to play well for the Green and White. Tonuzi concluded the game with 12 points as she banged home four three-pointers in the first half. Point guard Aja Wallpher (Ellicott City, Md./Seton Keough) had a solid floor game with a game-high 10 assists to go along with her six points, two rebounds, and five steals in 37 minutes of work.
Anna Hackett paced the Sea Gulls with 20 points while McGahagan notched a double double of her own with 14 points and 17 rebounds. Both Hackett and McGahagan were a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line. No other Gull scored more than six points in the loss.
The Spartans shot the ball well, converting 45.8% from the floor and 43.8% (7-for-16) from three. The Spartans were pedestrian from the free throw line as they went 11-for-19 (57.9%) from the stripe.
The Sea Gulls shot just 33.3% from the floor and went a cool 3-for-15 (20%) from beyond the arc. The Gulls were a perfect 13-for-13 from the free throw line in the game.
The Spartan defense forced 21 turnovers and turned the Sea Gull miscues into 26 points. The Green and White took care of the ball as they made just 13 mistakes in the game but Salisbury got only six points off the Spartan turnovers.
York outrebounded Salisbury 35-32 in the game.
The Spartans are now off for the week as they have their CAC bye on Wednesday. The Green and White will host Wesley College next Saturday in York. Tip time is set for 1:00 pm.


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It's the Super Bowl of literary athletes, the Mardi Gras of bibliophilic partiers, Christmas for book-lovers across the world.
It's World Book Night, the day when tens of thousands of volunteers in the US and Europe will hand out millions of free books to underserved communities to encourage reading.
In the US, 25,000 volunteers will distribute 500,000 free paperback books in some 5,800 communities across the country through book-centered events and community drop-offs. In Britain, 20,000 volunteers will distribute 1 million books. Ireland and Germany are celebrating, too.
"It's like an intellectual Halloween, only better," novelist and essayist Anna Quindlen, the program's honorary chairwoman, told USA Today. "We're giving out books, not just Mars bars."
Sponsored by a coalition of publishers, booksellers, and librarians, World Book Night is modeled after a British program that began last year.
The point, says World Book Night director Carl Lennertz, "is to get good books in the hands of people who are underserved because of income or location or other reasons."
Though there is no public registry of who's giving away books where, participants will be handing out books in schools, prisons, and homeless shelters, some of which will be posted on Facebook and Pinterest.
"It's also about giving," he told USA Today. "There may not be anything that says, 'I care about someone else, friend or stranger,' more than handing them a book that you personally love and want to share."
In the US, a committee of librarians, publishers, and booksellers selected 30 titles to distribute, including novels like Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner," memoirs like Patti Smith's "Just Kids," non-fiction like Dave Eggers' "Zeitoun," and young adult hits like Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games."
April 23 is the UNESCO International Day of the Book, chosen in honor of Shakespeare and Cervantes, both of whom died on April 23, 1616. World Book Night honors these literary titans and legions of others.
(An interesting aside: At yet another book industry jab at Amazon, USA Today reports most of the publishing industry, including Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, is involved in underwriting World Book Night. The one exception? Amazon. It wasn't asked to participate because "the philosophy behind World Book Night has been about physical books in physical places, handed out person to person," said Lennertz.)
To find out more about World Book Night and how you can participate, visit www.us.worldbooknight.org.
Happy World Book Night!
Husna Haq is a Monitor correspondent.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - The No. 19 Georgia College & State University's women's tennis team (4-5, 3-4 PBC) broke their three-match skid defeating Mount Olive College (3-5, 1-1 CC) 9-0 today (March 12).
The Bobcats had a 2-0 advantage before play began as Mount Olive had a netter who was unable to participate.
Georgia College's Gabby Acuna (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Marjorie Ceppo (Sao Paulo, Brazil) beat Carol Aro and Sofia Medeiros 8-5 at the first doubles slot.
The French duo of Bertille Lion and Diane Danna dominated their match against Pietra Viana and Camila Kurebayashi winning 8-0.
Ceppo beat Aro 6-0, 6-1 at the number one singles match. Ceppo moves to 4-5 on the season.
Danna faced an opponent she saw in doubles, Kurebayashi, and was able to defeat her again 6-0, 6-1. Danna yields a 4-5 record on the year that includes back-to-back wins.
Lion breezed past Medeiros in two straight 6-0 sets. Lion breaks her three match losing streak and moves to 4-5 during 2009 play.
Acuna was able to take down Viana 6-3, 6-2. Acuna improves to 5-4 in the 2009 campaign with a two-match winning streak.
Playing at fifth singles, Angy Cuellar (Bogota, Colombia) defeated Kristen Jones 6-1, 6-1. With the victory, Cuellar is now 4-5 in singles action.
No. 19 Georgia College will host N0. 40 Lander University Saturday, March 14 at 1 p.m. at the Centennial Center Tennis Facility.
Visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Federal Reserve policy looks "very easy" and is below one of the Fed favorite guideposts for policy, said James Bullard, the president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank on Thursday. In a speech at the New York University School of Business, Bullard said that one estimate of policy puts the Fed's short-term rate at negative 5%, considerably more negative than the Taylor rule that the central bank often used before the crisis to gauge policy. The Taylor rule and St. Louis Fed forecasts suggest that rates should increase above zero in August, Bullard said. But some analysts suggest that the Fed would want to keep rates at zero for an "extra time" to make up for having rates at zero since 2008. Bullard said Fed policy is consistent with the extra time approach. Bullard repeated that he backed tapering asset purchases to send signals to the market about the economy's progress.
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Chile commission recommends scrapping 2012 census
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's latest census should be scrapped and repeated in 2015, because there was a substantial undercount of the population, an independent commission of experts said Wednesday.
The government had boasted that the 2012 census was the most comprehensive in the country's history. But after a three-month evaluation, six outside experts said it shouldn't be used to calculate official numbers.
"The commission believes that the 2012 census suffers from serious problems," the experts said in a report commissioned by the National Statistics Institute.
The report said 9.3 percent of the population was not included in the census. "That percentage is three times higher than other censuses carried out recently in other regional countries," it said.
Government officials said they welcomed the study, but made no commitment to repeat the census. Juan Eduardo Coeymans, head of the statistics institute, said that idea "is very drastic," referring to it as a "tsunami."
Chile's reputation for providing some of the most solid official statistics in Latin America has been hit by questions surrounding the gathering of the census data. The commission said the government surveyed 15.8 million people, when it should be closer to 17.4 million.
"This is a solid projection, and therefore valid to estimate the census omission," it said.
A third of those missing from the census findings were not counted because they were not at home, and two-thirds were not surveyed or were wrongfully marked as empty homes, the report said.
Experts said the census was carried out amid a climate of "strong internal divisions" inside the National Statistics Institute. Francisco Labbe, who ran the institute, resigned in April after he was accused of tweaking the census numbers and under-reporting inflation.
The commission blamed the census fiasco on President Sebastian Pinera's government but also said that problems during former President Michelle Bachelet's 2006-10 administration delayed the 2012 census.
Experts recommended that a new census with fewer questions be carried out during a national holiday.
Pinera met with some of his top aides Wednesday afternoon to discuss the report. Economy Minister Felix de Vicente said the government "shares the commission's recommendation of strengthening" the statistics institute and officials have contacted statistics experts at international organizations to "make sure the census is certain and reliable."
The 2012 census cost about $32 million, said Mariana Alcerreca, a former senior officer at the national institute who had reported the irregularities in compiling the data.


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When you start to research a family or person, what do you consider the "most important" records? Where do you go first? Which do you put the most faith in?
If you're like most you start on the internet and probably Ancestry.com, don't you? Census records? Yes, of course you should go there ~ if you know where the person was and if he wasn't named a common name like"William Sherman" or "Peter Wolf" as my ancestors are!
The records I start with (whenever available) are, in no particular order:
- Census Records – Depending on the year, again, you find an age range, number of children, wife's age, occupation, and place of birth. That's a lot of information, all pieces to the puzzle.
- Church Records (Births) – Parents names, birth date, baptism date, sponsors, religion and in some cases (Moravian records for instance) mother's maiden name!
- Church Records (Marriages) – Both Parties names, ages, places of residence, in some cases occupations, parents names
- Church Records (Deaths) – Date of death, date of burial, place of burial, in some cases age at death, birth date.
- Tax Records – owner or renter? What years did they live there? Occupation, all of the above in some records
- Deeds – Did they own property? When? Where? Did they sell it or lose it? How much was it worth? Was it land or was there a structure on it?
- Wills – How large was their estate? Who did they leave it to? When did they die? When was the will proved? Did they have to sell property to settle the estate? Where was the property?
- Cemetery records – Date of Burial, lot number, persons buried around them (could be family) Age, Date of Death, Place of death in some instances
- Obituaries – Depending on the newspaper, these can be goldmines! They can list wife (and her maiden name) children's names and their spouses, sister, brothers, parents, place of residence, occupation, organizations they belonged to and where they are buried.
- Newspapers – check articles around the date of their death or marriage or other important date. They could have died in an accident and there may be an article about the accident. If they were married over 50 years there may be an article on their Golden Wedding Anniversary and there may be a big write-up on their wedding. Ancestry has newspapers, Genealogy Bank has newspapers and many, many other sites have digitalized newspapers. They are an excellent source of information!
- Family Bibles – If they are available, copy every record in them! They are vital! They were written by those who knew! They may be misspelled, but that doesn't matter. They were written by your great grandfather, or great great grandmother, or even an aunt. They are first person accounts!
- Books! – County histories, Family histories, Church histories, Historical journals and anything else you can possibly think about.
- Your local Historical Society – This is probably one of the most important resources you have! There is usually somebody there that knows the county history by heart and can direct you to the right book or area. They can suggest where to start and find out where you have looked so they won't duplicate your efforts.
These are just the tip of the iceburg. I've found clues in prison records (yes!) divorce records, immigration records, guardian records, city directories and school histories, among other things. Don't overlook something you think doesn't possibly apply to your family ~ you never know!
Family legends tend to gloss over our ancestors imperfections. . . .


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how do I define how the window shadows are drawn? the offsets and so on? by default the shadow seems to fall towards the top left corner that's just wrong. I remember that I did change those settings somewhere but I just can't remember how I did it..
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In the xfwm4 code: src/compositor.c
isn't the option there in wm settings?
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes
That way, if they get angry, they're a mile away and barefoot
In the xfwm4 code: src/compositor.c
Is that really the only place? I'm using the 4.4 beta and I REALLY hope there would be some sort of gui or even setting file where you could edit these. It's possible that I was using xcompmgr earlier, but don't remember..
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isn't the option there in wm settings?
please tell me if you can find it. becouse I didn't.
In the settings dialog you can only change the opacity (transparent - opaque) settings
and enable/disable the dialog/window shadow.
There is no way to change the shadow position/offset. There will probably never a setting
to change this, since it doesn't fit in the Xfce philosophy.
So you have to change the #define's in the compositor.c file .
Mm this also seems to affect the shadow: <install_dir>/share/themes/<your_theme>/xfwm4/themerc
Juuust perfect.. now I can't get the compositor activated. No matter what I do. the compositor tab just wont come to the Window Manager Tweaks. I know that xfwm4 should be started with --compositor=on option but that just doesn't do it. And yes, there is composite "true" on my x.org.conf
Are you sure xfwm4 is compiled with compositor support?
[code=Command]xfwm4 -V[/code]
Yes, twice already.
$ xfwm4 -V
This is xfwm4 version 22.214.171.124 (revision 22378) for Xfce 126.96.36.199
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Compiled against GTK+-2.8.19, using GTK+-2.8.19.
Build configuration and supported features:
- Startup notification support: No
- Render support: Yes
- Xrandr support: Yes
- Embedded compositor: Yes
- KDE systray proxy (deprecated): No
Ok, somehow a reboot did what restarting the X didn't so now the compositor works again.
Yes! I did it! there are certain setting in the ~/.config/xfce4/xfwm4/xfwm4rc
Came settings can be used in the themerc file of each xfwm4 theme in(well, in gentoo) /usr/share/themes/ but I guess the correct way is to edit that xfwm4rc file instead. Why those settings are not in the Compositor tab in the Window Manager Tweaks?
Because shadow offset wouldn't be a userfriendly setting.
Xfce must be easy to configure and since most people won't change this value, a hidden setting is good enough.
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One of the craziest common questions circulating around during this period of labour uncertainty is that if the owners cry poor, then why are they still signing these players to huge contracts? The simplest answer is that the owners that are crying poor, aren't exactly the ones signing teams to contracts.
The big deals signed by NHL players, the ones over $50M, are proportionally distributed with the top revenue teams in the NHL and, coincidentally, with the number of playoff berths:
|% of NHL Revenue
|% of NHL Playoff Spots
|% of $50M+ Contracts
|Top 10 revenue teams
|Bottom 10 revenue teams
That's revenue from 2010-11, $50M contracts signed for the 2011-12 season and playoff berths for the 2011-12 season.
So that isn't a case necessarily of revenue being an effect, not a cause, of teams signing big-money deals or collecting playoff gate receipts. I think it's safe to say that even after the salary cap was instituted and with modest revenue sharing, the league is still tilted towards the big market teams.
Not to editorialize in this case here, that can be either a good thing or a bad thing (probably a good thing if you're a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs) but there's more wiggle room for a misstep. You can offload a bad contract in the minors, you can afford to backload a long contract to lower the salary hit and keep players with your team playing for a far lower salary cap hit than they're worth in exchange for physically paying them far more than they're worth in a capped system.
Damien Cox wrote this today, giving credence to a pretty silly belief that's been floating online:
When the Oilers drafted Taylor Hall first overall in the NHL draft two years ago, the new collective agreement seemed to ensure Hall wouldn't be able to demand one of the bigger contracts in the game until 2017 at the earliest and only if his performance warranted such a deal.
So how, exactly, can we explain the seven-year, $42-million extension signed by Hall on Aug. 22, three months before he even turns 21, a year before his first contract expires and five years before he could become a UFA?
This isn't to slag the Oilers. Really, they were put in a tough spot by external market forces. Again.
Still, these financial decisions, and their timing, less than a month before a lockout, really make it perplexing as hockey fans try to sort out the situation at hand.
The last deal was done — theoretically— for teams like the Oilers, yet now it's Edmonton choosing not to take advantage of the rules put in place. The richest team in Canada, the Maple Leafs, doesn't have a single outstanding salary commitment in place anywhere close to that of Hall or Eberle despite having a superior team (albeit, also a non-playoff one) the last four seasons.
Odd, really. Meanwhile, the Oilers and Leafs and 28 other teams are jointly demanding enormous concessions from the NHL Players' Association.
The external market forces didn't necessarily put the Edmonton Oilers in a bad spot, their own crummy management did that, and it's thanks to the fact that the market has gravitated towards giving star players their first big contract on their second deal that the Oilers were able to afford to lock up their Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle for their prime years.
Now, unless Damien Cox is suggesting that the owners collectively avoid giving raises to players, something that is illegal until the current collective bargaining agreement that is still in effect until September 15, then the Oilers, and all these other teams that have been giving out massive contracts this offseason, are doing exactly what the 2005 CBA suggested they could do.
The agreement did everything it could. Revenues grew, player costs were dramatically cut. According to the post linked above, the salaries of the best players in the world have grown at a rate slower than the average player increase between 2004 and 2012. Edmonton is betting that these players, paid like 1a superstars, will be one day worth as much on the ice as the true superstars this league has the offer, the ones making the $50M+ contracts. I expect those will run unchanged in the next deal, particularly since so many of these stars have salary cap hits of over $6M already.
The agreement the NHL currently wants is designed to slice the costs on the next grade of player contract: the one for the lower-tiered first liners and second liners of the world, hovering between $4M and about $6M. It isn't hypocritical for teams to be signing these deals right now—it would be illegal for them to agree to avoid doing it while the collective bargaining agreement is still in place. The owners signing the cheques have the right to be more discrete with their money than hockey's moral police in the media.


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Original personal and behind the scenes photographs of infamous pin-up models Bettie Page and Bunny Yeager are now on view at the art gallery Gavlak, in Los Angeles as part of the exhibit How I Photograph Myself. You may think this is a strange title, but it actually refers to a book that Bunny Yeager herself wrote during her lifetime. Born in 1929, Yeager was not only a wildly successful pin-up model, but also a photographer herself who very often took her own photographs. She came into modeling after meeting actress Bettie Page shortly after studying photography at Lindsay-Hopkins Technical College. Bettie Page asked Bunny Yeager to photograph her, and Yeager eventually began modeling herself. She was not only an accomplished photographer and model, but also a scriptwriter and author, publishing How to Photograph Nudes and How I Photograph Myself, hence the exhibition title. These books went on to influence such well-known photographers as Cindy Sherman and Diane Arbus.
What is so interesting about these photographs, besides the obvious appeal and seductiveness of the pin-up style clothing and curvy women, is that Bunny Yeager was able to become so successful both as the photographer and model; the artist and the muse. Her femininity and beauty was laid out on a silver platter as a model, yet she could be taken seriously in a time when men dominated almost any scene. To portray yourself in such a sexual way and also sought after as a woman in your craft would still be an accomplishment today, let alone in the 1940s and 50s. Bunny Yeager was able to work against the traditional male gaze, and create her own photographic style that is both delicate and alluring. How I Photograph Myself will be on view at Gavlak from July 25th to August 29th.


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A trading update from WH Ireland today offered little insight as to why chief executive Paul Compton quit the firm amid talk a row over his personal share dealings led to his sudden departure.
In a statement to the London Stock Exchange yesterday, the private client stockbroker stunned the market with news Compton (pictured) was leaving the firm with 'immediate effect' just two years into his tenure.
The news sparked a plunge in the firm's value, with shares falling from 72.5p to close at 56p, a loss of 25%.
According to the Times, Compton left after a disagreement with the board over his share dealings and is believed to have sold around 66% of his stake in the firm shortly after his departure.
Today's trading update showed Compton had left the WH Ireland in decent shape but offered no mention of its former chief executive.
The firm said in the year to 30 November 2012 group revenue increased to £25 million, resulting in a significant improvement in the underlying trading performance.
'The group achieved a good balance between investing in the business and a continued focus on the cost base, and further strengthened the balance sheet with an improved net cash position at the year end compared to the prior year,' WH Ireland said in an accompanying statement.
Within this it said wealth management had 'considerably' strengthened its offering through the acquisition of the client list of Pritchard Stockbrokers and the resulting expansion of its regional office network.
It said the majority of former Pritchard clients had successfully migrated to the group, helping assets under management or influence have exceeded £1.6 billion.
WH Ireland chairman Rupert Lowe told the market: 'The group has made good progress in 2012. While underlying markets remain challenging, momentum with corporate client wins, an increasing pipeline of corporate finance work and a reinvigorated strategy within the private wealth management business, enable us to look to 2013 with cautious optimism.'
In an exclusive interview with Wealth Manager earlier this year, Compton outlined his vision for the firm in which he set a £5 billion target for assets under management.
'We are almost too small,' Compton said at the time. 'I think we need to at least double the wealth management side to get to the scale where we can cope with all the compliance and all the regulation.'
The task of implementing this strategy has been passed on to wealth head Richard Killingbeck, who will become chief executive of WH Ireland subject to FSA approval.


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In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
Ten years ago this month, I was passing through some upheaval in my life. I was going through a divorce and finishing up a graduate program, and really I was trying to figure out how to reconstruct my life from the ruins. Instinctively I knew I needed to get outside of my own head, where things were pretty confused. I wanted to get involved in the community, do some volunteer work for an environmental cause. A friend connected me with the executive director of the Oakhurst Community Garden Project, who was looking for someone to help out with their communications efforts. In many ways, over the next decade, Sally Wylde would inspire the Southern Urban Homesteader in me.
Sally called me up and invited me to lunch. We sat for two hours at Our Way Café over heaping plates of veggie comfort food (I love that macaroni and cheese is a vegetable in the South), and she asked question after question about my life history. Then she told me hers. A native New Englander who had made her way to Georgia to attend the Candler School of Theology, Sally was a seeker. She was an artist, had raised two amazing daughters, been widowed, had completed a master's in theological studies at Emory, and several years before had remarried a wonderful Atlanta man and planted herself in Decatur soil. Her rural Massachusetts upbringing had cultivated in her a profound connection to the natural world. She had grown up knowing, as she put it, "secret wild spaces for children." And that knowledge lay at the heart of her passion that gave rise to the Oakhurst Community Garden.
When Sally moved to Decatur in 1993, she witnessed a troubling phenomenon that to her emblematized the urban dweller's increasing separation from nature. Every afternoon, children leaving a local elementary school cut through the yard of one of her neighbors in the Oakhurst district and trampled the neighbor's beloved garden. Instead of involving the police, Sally and her neighbors invited the children to become caretakers of the garden. The children watched with delight and amazement as their plantings flourished and something ordinary turned into something special — a process they had never noticed or understood before. The group went on to create another garden in a nearby median strip. The children were honored for their work at a ceremony with the city's mayor. And even after the work was finished, they kept coming back for more.
So the following year, Sally and her husband purchased a nearby, undeveloped half-acre lot that was at risk for development in the rapidly gentrifying Oakhurst. That piece of land became the Oakhurst Community Garden Project. As the Garden matured into an established grassroots nonprofit organization with Sally at its helm, the lot transformed into an urban oasis with vegetable and floral plots, a pond, art installations, beehives, animals, restored native habitats, and full program of environmental education for urban youth. For me, it was the endeavor that made Decatur truly my home. I found a loving, smart, energetic, optimistic community of people who shared an understanding of how a garden could unite people and save this stupid, beautiful planet.
Helping with the Garden's newsletter and other communications was a wonderful way for me to learn its story and wisdom. And what was clear was that the Garden was really a manifestation of Sally's spirit—radiant, colorful, inviting, fertile, imaginative, artistic, chaotic, spiritual, vital, visionary. It was healing work for me, and I fell in love. A year later, I joined the board of directors of the Garden. Another year later and I was board president. I remained board president for five years and after stepping down from that role, I remained on the board for another year still, two years after Sally retired from the Garden in 2005.During those years, Sally and I spoke on the phone almost every day. Often after work I would ride my bicycle to her house, where usually there was food. Sally had this way of feeding people. Once a month the entire Garden board would gather at her home, and unfailingly she would have some delicious meal prepared for at least a dozen people — some kind of stew and bread, or maybe pasta and green salad. Always with garden fare. Always fresh and delectable. It was nourishing in more ways than one, and I knew I wanted to embody that same spirit of hospitality and generosity in my own home.
I remember arriving at her house for one of those amazing meals and watching her make pesto from an enormous bouquet of fresh basil. I asked where it had come from, and she told me, "From Gaia Gardens CSA." "What's a CSA?" I asked. So went my introduction to principles of local, sustainable agriculture. And six or seven years ago, she took a group of us to the Southface Green Prints conference dinner. It was more than your average conference banquet; it was a sumptuous affair with multiple courses and wine pairings. But more than that, it was my introduction to what food could be and what it could signify. A full-immersion baptism into the ecology and geography of good food. We took our time eating and enjoying the conversation around the table. We were told where each dish came from, who the grower was, what the particular terrain of our region contributed to the flavors we were experiencing. In some cases we met the grower. We talked about why it was important. It was a revelation. I went home sated but hungry for more of this new way of thinking about food. I will never forget that dinner.
The first time I visited Sally in the Garden, she was weeding. Surrounding her were three hens, happy to help her dispatch the tasty green stuff and the insects she was unearthing. They were completely relaxed in her presence; her movements were gentle and unthreatening to them. Their soft, contented clucks and coos charmed me. This was 2000, and it was the first time I had ever seen chickens in the city. That scene took root in my own imagination, and four years later my neighbors and I had modified a shed in my backyard and acquired our first five chicks.
Sally taught me much about urban gardening — some practical, some aesthetic. She once told me that a garden needs something tall and upright in it — some kind of visual contrast rising up out of the earth. She had an artist's eye for growing things. Mindful of that admonition I have always tried to erect something that towers in my garden. She also was a master at mulching. Before she left Decatur in early July to spend her customary summer months at her lovely family home in Massachusetts, she mulched her home garden deeply and well. Even weeks after we heard that the breast cancer she had been battling since 2008 had spread to her bones, liver, and lungs, and that she would not be returning to Decatur, her garden thrived through brutal heat and drought. It is still thriving.
Sally had more energy than anyone I have ever known. I'll always remember the email she sent me some years ago after she ran the Marine Corps marathon: "I ran the damn marathon" was all it said. She was also a writer, a teacher, an activist. She took piano lessons. She got involved in an improv theater group. And illness didn't stop her. Her husband used to joke two summers back about how the steroids she was taking to boost her immune system during her chemotherapy souped her up, and the result was the most elaborate garden she had ever grown. But even without the steroids, Sally just left life and beauty in her wake. One of her responses to her illness was to co-create a performance art piece titled "Lump Journey" with a group of friends. The performance at a local art gallery in 2008 was packed with friends and loved ones.
Sally died last Thursday evening, August 19. It doesn't quite seem real to me yet. It feels more like she is still in Massachusetts until Labor Day as usual, and I'll see her in the fall after she makes the long drive home with her husband and her beloved canine companion, Red Dog, and we'll have lunch at the Universal Joint. Knowing the reality will sink in hard as time passes, I want to keep her essence alive in my own life — by sharing nourishing food and hospitality, bounteous gardens, creativity that inspires and transforms. Food, gardens, and art connect and heal us in a world that is struggling against its own toxicity.
After she retired from the Oakhurst Garden, Sally returned to her first calling and began making art again. I attended a show of her work and came home with this piece, which now hangs in my home. Sally had wings, and she inspired others — including me — to flight, too.


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The romance of TchaikovskyÆs Yevgeny Onegin is an evergreen staple of the repertoire today, but rarely did his genius find better expression than in this psychological melodrama of breathtaking intensity and beauty.
Many theories exist as to the motivations behind The Queen of Spades, of how it perhaps charts the composerÆs own personal turmoil, but whatever lies behind the operaÆs magnificent narrative, it provides the operatic stage with one if the greatest musical dramas of all time and a collection of deeply flawed and haunting characters.
Hermann is seeking the secret of the winning cards and it is such an obsession that all before him ¢ his love for Liza, (herself betrothed to another), comradeship, life itself, becomes secondary. The result of his slow descent into madness is death and suicide.
TchaikovskyÆs beautiful music is febrile and inspired, his characters acutely drawn and the opera remains one of the great masterpieces of all Russian opera.
Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky, after the novel by Alexander Pushkin
Alexei Stepanyuk, Production Director:ĀōTheĀarticle by Boris Asafiev aboutĀTheĀQueen ofĀSpadesĀbegins, inĀmy opinion, with that which is most important: ōThere is aĀstrange Russian city. There one can only dream ofĀlight... When spring comes, it may appear, it delights no-one more than theĀpopulace ofĀthis imperious city. Shy, meek and tender, as it emerges it senses its brief existence... TheĀWhite Nights that follow spring are also infused with grief. This strange and refracted light tires one, draws one, allures one, and when theĀsun rises people are inĀno state toĀrejoice and be glad inĀitĀ¢ they are already exhausted by theĀprocess itself ofĀbeing attracted toĀlight...öĀ
TheĀQueen ofĀSpadesĀis not about cards or gambling. You canÆt stage this opera by rejecting PushkinÆs magnificent story. InĀits plotĀ¢ wonderful and even detective-likeĀ¢ there is nothing inĀcommon with theĀmonumental tragic quality ofĀTchaikovskyÆs music. Pyotr Tchaikovsky wrote ofĀhimselfĀ¢ ofĀhis fate, ofĀhis destiny, ofĀhis desire toĀbe like others and his right toĀbe different... About fear and passion, rooted inĀone and theĀsame. All three charactersĀ¢ Hermann, theĀCountess and LizaĀ¢ are infected by theĀsame virus, they are drawn by what is fearsome...ĀThis opera is about attitudes toĀdeath, about how death can be aĀrelease, how it can be beautiful, noble and redemptive... Perhaps theĀCountess was waiting forĀHermann! InĀtheĀfourth scene she becomes younger before our very eyes... As with Akhmatova, ōThis beauty is very young, but not from our century, we are not toĀbe together, that oneĀ¢ theĀthirdĀ¢ will never leave us.ö That is death itself.Ā
TheĀplot ofĀTchaikovskyÆsĀTheĀQueen ofĀSpadesĀis filled with St Petersburg mythology which is hard toĀembody on theĀstage. I am delighted toĀbe working with Alexander Orlov and Irina Cherednikova, designers with tremendous intuition. They are creating metaphorical and beautiful sets and luxuriant costumes. TheĀarchitectural leitmotif ofĀSt Petersburg comes with theĀcolumns, there are aĀgreat many, they depict various configurations, there are black on top ofĀgold... They act as shading, light-absorbing tulle curtains and when theĀaction unfolds behind them everything takes on aĀspectral character, just like during theĀwhite nights...ö
Act IĀScene OneĀTheĀSummer Garden inĀspringtime. Two officers, Chekalinsky andĀSurin, are concerned about theĀfortunes ofĀtheir friend Herman, who visits gambling halls every evening, despite theĀfact that he does not play because he is so poor. Herman turns up, accompanied byĀCount Tomsky, toĀwhom he explains theĀreason forĀhis strange behaviour: he is inĀlove with aĀgirl toĀwhom he has not yet been introduced, andĀwants toĀwin aĀlarge sum ofĀmoney inĀorder toĀmarry her (ōI do not know her nameö). Chekalinsky andĀSurin congratulate theĀPrince Yeletsky onĀhis forthcoming marriage. AnĀold Countess is walking inĀtheĀgarden with theĀvery girl whom Herman loves. Upon finding out that she is theĀPrince´s fiancée, he is deeply shaken. TheĀwomen are frightened byĀhis appearance (ōI´m frightenedö). Tomsky tells theĀstory ofĀtheĀold Countess´ past inĀParis. Count Saint-Germain showed her three winning cards. TheĀofficers laugh at Herman, andĀadvise him toĀtempt fate while Herman vows toĀfight forĀhis love.ĀScene TwoĀLiza´s room. She is singing with her friend Polina (ōOh, what anĀeveningö). Left alone, Liza reveals her feelings: theĀPrince loves her, but she cannot forget theĀpassionate gaze ofĀtheĀstranger inĀtheĀgarden (ōWhere are these tears from?ö ōOh, listen, oh, nightö). As if he had heard her calling, Herman appears onĀtheĀbalcony. He threatens toĀkill himself because Liza is promised toĀanother, andĀtells her that no-one loves her asĀpassionately asĀhe does (ōForgive me, heavenly creatureö). TheĀCountess enters, andĀLiza hides theĀlove-struck Herman. Like aĀman possessed, Herman starts toĀsearch forĀtheĀthree cards. Having been with Liza, he realises he is happy only when he is with her.
Act IIĀScene ThreeĀAĀmasquerade at theĀhome ofĀaĀhigh official. Yeletsky assures Liza ofĀhis love (ōI love theeö). Herman continues toĀbe haunted byĀthoughts ofĀtheĀthree cards. AĀmusical intermezzo-pastorale begins (ōMy dear little friendö). After it ends, Liza gives Herman aĀkey toĀaĀsecret door byĀwhich he can enter her room.ĀScene FourĀTheĀCountess´ bedroom. It is night. Above theĀfireplace there is aĀportrait ofĀtheĀCountess inĀher youth dressed up asĀtheĀQueen ofĀSpades. Herman carefully enters theĀroom. He vows toĀwrest theĀsecret out ofĀtheĀold woman, even if Hell awaits him. Footsteps are heard, andĀHerman hides. Servants enter, andĀthen theĀCountess, who starts getting ready forĀbed. Having sent theĀservants away, theĀCountess falls asleep inĀher chair. Suddenly, Herman appears before her (ōDon´t be frightened! ForĀGod´s sake, don´t be frightened!ö). On his knees, he begs her toĀname theĀthree cards. TheĀCountess, having risen from her chair, is silent. Then Herman points his pistol at her. TheĀold woman falls. Herman sees that she is dead.
Act IIIĀScene FiveĀHerman´s room at theĀbarracks. Liza has written toĀhim toĀsay that she is ready toĀforgive him, but Herman´s thoughts are elsewhere. He remembers theĀCountess´ funeral (ōAll theĀsame thoughts, theĀsame nightmareö). TheĀghost ofĀtheĀCountess appears before him. Out ofĀlove forĀLiza, she names theĀthree magic cards forĀhim: aĀThree, aĀSeven andĀanĀAce.ĀScene SixĀOn theĀbanks ofĀtheĀWinter Canal, Liza waits forĀHerman (ōAh! I´m worn out, I´m tiredö). From his words she understands that he is responsible forĀtheĀCountess´ death, andĀthat he has gone out ofĀhis mind. She wants toĀtake him away with her, but he pushes her aside andĀruns away (the duet ōOh, yes, theĀsufferings are overö). Liza throws herself into theĀriver.ĀScene SevenĀAĀgambling hall. Tomsky is surprised toĀfind Yeletsky, who is looking forĀHerman inĀorder toĀexact revenge from him. TheĀnewly arrived Herman enters theĀgame. Herman celebrates his victory (ōWhat is our life, but aĀgame!ö). His winning streak strikes fear into everyone´s hearts. Yeletsky enters theĀgame. Herman bets all ofĀhis winnings onĀtheĀthird card, but instead ofĀanĀAce, his hand comes up with theĀQueen ofĀSpades. AĀshocked Herman sees theĀghost ofĀtheĀCountess. She waits forĀhis death. Herman dies, his last thought ofĀLiza.


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The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall properly mark all pierheads belonging to the United States situated on the northern and northwestern lakes, whenever he is duly notified by the department charged with the construction or repair of pierheads that the construction or repair of any such pierheads has been completed.
33 U.S. Code § 735. Marking pierheads in certain lakes
R.S. § 4677 derived from act July 15, 1870, ch. 292, § 3, 16 Stat. 309.
"Commandant of the Coast Guard" substituted in text for "Light-House Board" on authority of sections 6 and 13 of act June 17, 1910, which abolished the board and transferred its powers and duties to the Commissioner of Lighthouses, who was the head of the Bureau of Lighthouses. Said sections 6 and 13 were repealed by section 20 of act Aug. 4, 1949, section 1 of which reestablished the Coast Guard by enacting Title 14, Coast Guard. Section 2(a) of Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, consolidated the Bureau of Lighthouses with the Coast Guard, the Chief of which is the Commandant of the Coast Guard.
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Treasury, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, 1281, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. Functions of Coast Guard, and Commandant of Coast Guard, were excepted from transfer when Coast Guard is operating as part of Navy under former sections 1 and 3 (now 101 and 103) of Title 14, Coast Guard.
Coast Guard transferred to Department of Transportation, and all functions, powers, and duties relating to Coast Guard of Secretary of the Treasury and of other officers and offices of Department of the Treasury transferred to Secretary of Transportation by Pub. L. 89–670, § 6(b)(1), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 938. Section 6(b)(2) of Pub. L. 89–670, however, provided that notwithstanding such transfer of functions, Coast Guard shall operate as part of Navy in time of war or when President directs as provided in former section 3 (now 103) of Title 14. See section 108 of Title 49, Transportation.
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.