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About Graham Library
The John W. Graham Library at Trinity College is part of the University of Toronto library system and open to all members of the University. Its roots go back to 1828, and today it occupies a heritage building renewed for the 21st century.
Library Collections
The Graham Library's collection of more than 200,000 volumes is strongest in international relations, ethics, and the humanities, as well as theological disciplines and resources related to the Anglican Church.
Library Services
Services are offered to the University of Toronto community and include reference consultation, course support, instruction in research and information-seeking strategies, group study spaces and computer workstations.
Research Help
Students and faculty are welcome to drop in with research questions or set up an in-depth research appointment with a librarian. For self-directed research, you may consult online guides and research tools produced by our librarians to help you use library resources effectively.
Theological Resources
The Joint Theological Collection of Trinity and Wycliffe Colleges provides theological resources with an Anglican emphasis within the Toronto School of Theology (TST) and in collaboration with other TST libraries, the University of Toronto Library, and the Archives of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Friends of the Library
The Trinity College Friends of the Library is an active and collegial volunteer group who support the library by raising and contributing funds for acquisitions, special projects, staff, and facilities.
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Will be responsible for ensuring that the state receives the benefits associated with geospatial data.
To coordinate California's digital mapping efforts, state CIO Teri Takai today announced the appointment of Michael Byrne, 39, as the state's first geospatial information officer (GIO). The new position is expected to result in the elimination of duplicative efforts and save costs as the state increases the use of geospatial data.
"Establishing this position is a critical step in implementing a statewide strategy to more efficiently use geospatial data throughout state and local governments," said Takai. "There is a tremendous value in coordinating our resources so that we can share data and work toward more common systems to improve health, public safety, emergency preparedness, environmental protection and other services for the people of California. I am pleased to have Michael serve on our team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer."
Similar to commercially available applications such as Google Maps or Microsoft Virtual Earth, geographic information systems (GIS) allow users to access mapping resources, layered with data, to navigate in an environment where they can visualize scenarios in innovative ways. The technology provides an interface that has the potential to greatly advance government services, security and emergency response.
The GIO will be responsible for ensuring that the state receives the benefits associated with geospatial data, specifically, increased data access and sharing; reduced duplication and costs; development of technology standards; centers of expertise; public outreach and increased collaboration in state and local governments.
Byrne is an expert in design, development, implementation and use of GIS for research and policy. He is currently serving as the chair of the California GIS Council, is a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee and serves on the Board of Directors for both GreenInfo Networks and the National States GIS Council. Byrne holds a Masters in Geography from the University of California at Davis and is a certified GIS professional. He previously served as eServices program manager for the California Department of Public Health and as the enterprise GIS architect for the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
The establishment of the GIO was a chief recommendation of the GIS Task Force called for last year by Governor Schwarzenegger to develop a statewide strategy to enhance the technology for environmental protection, natural resource management, traffic flow, emergency preparedness and response, land use planning and health and human services. The Task Force subsequently issued a report to the Governor last fall.
Examples of GIS applications can be found by visiting the OCIO Web site.

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Friday, December 17, 2010
Why I Like Twitter
I got on Twitter with hesitation. I admit it took me quite awhile to get used to Twitter and to figure out how it works. I think I'm getting the hang of it. In fact, now I really like it.
Here's why:
It's a level playing field
Twitter, on the other hand, is a level playing field. We're all acquaintances regardless of actual (or lack there of) real relationships. The main reason for this is that Twitter is completely open to the whole internet (unless you've locked it down, but that's no fun). Anybody can "follow" you or check in to see what you are "tweeting." Facebook is in a constant state of restriction - who shall I be friends with and how much should I let them see.
Freedom to interact
Twitter has a sense of Freedom of Speech. You can choose not to say anything to anyone you follow and that's ok. You can also reply to people you don't know at all and who don't know you. In fact, you can "meet" some really interesting people this way. There's no pressure either way. At least I don't feel any.
Less is More
On Twitter you only have 140 characters to speak your mind. It makes you get to the point really quickly. If I want to be wordy I'll switch over to my blog. I like the quick pace of Twitter.
An International Bunch
Twitter has a way of being very international because of mutual interests. That broadens my horizons. For some reason a number of people in the UK and Australia started following me. Not sure what I have to offer them but I started following many of them in return. Seeing their tweets on a daily basis gives me a greater sense of the world. I know that Scotland and England have been getting hammered with snow this year because of their tweets. Do I need to know it's snowing in England? No. But I like to know it. I like to have a better and more intimate sense of what is going on in the world. And it's fun too.
I really began to enjoy the power of Twitter when I embraced my many passions rather than trying to brand myself just in the world of genealogy. I tweet mostly about genealogy, history and historic houses but I am interested in many more things. I like lots of things in life and I can follow people who tweet on those topics. Instead of narrowing my branding, I'm broadening my connection with the world. That's cool. I can follow anyone just because their topics interest me.
Genealogy and History
Many genealogists talk about how to engage historians in dialogue. Well, you're missing the boat if you keep talking about it amongst genealogists. Genealogists and historians get along great on Twitter and have many interactions. I have been so enriched by discovering historians on Twitter. Yes, we approach the world slightly differently but on Twitter we interact and share.
Where I stand
Mind you I still love Facebook. It's a special more secure place where I can interact with my community. I just wanted to stand up on my box and say, "I get Twitter now. I love it. I'm embracing it and I thought I'd let you know why."
The Dark Side of Twitter
There is of course a dark side to Twitter. It's public. Completely public. Sometimes people get lulled into a false sense of security. Don't. Before every tweet you should ask yourself these questions:
1) Am I revealing too much information about myself?
2) Am I happy with everyone in the world (include my Granny) seeing this tweet?
3) Should I really say this or is it better left unsaid?
If you can remember to stay safe of Twitter, the world is your oyster. I know it's mine.
Thanks for reading but I've got to get back to my Tweeps now....... :)
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Great post!ReplyDelete
Aside from my genealogy peeps, I also follow local news/politics people. They in turn follow me back and I'm communicating with circles of people with whom I wouldn't normally interact. Even better, these media folks now bring me their genealogy questions!
Thanks for sharing your experience with Twitter. You're a valuable asset to the genealogy community.
--Amy (@acoffin)
Great post, Marian! One of the things that I think is fun is finding non-genealogy common interests with my genealogy peeps. I love the 140-character limit also. You have to choose your thoughts and words carefully to fit into that space.ReplyDelete
- PlantDrEMBDecember 18, 2010 at 12:01 AM
great post to share with those that don't "get twitter" I have such a wide range of interests and as you point out can stay up to date this way. Also live 3,000 miles from family and monitor their weather, power outages, local news etc. Have also used it traveling for recommendations on local food, lodging etcReplyDelete
Very interesting post, Marian. Has prompted me to think about using Twitter more for genealogy.ReplyDelete
Great post, Marian! I love Twitter for all those same reasons, too! I haven't been Tweeting as much lately, and do feel 'out of the loop' worldwise for not tweeeting. With Tweep buddies in Australia and England, too, I do sometimes know what is going on before it hits the national news here. And that is cool, too. One night here in my little town, we heard sirens, lots of them, but no way to know what was going on, and within a couple of hours, someone on Facebook had mentioned a family's loss to a house fire.ReplyDelete
Great post! I love Twitter for many of the reasons you mentioned and it's the one I joined first. But once I learned to quit being distracted with games, etc. on FB, I've learn to love it too especially for the connections I can make and have made with with family.ReplyDelete


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I've been looking forward to February 19th for what seems like forever, even though it has only been four months. Flipping the page to February was pretty exciting. Now I sit here on the eve of the big day, and I'm actually so anxious to get this last one done and over that I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep tonight. Seriously.
I'm trying to think of something profound to say, and I can't. I leave you with this: Today I went to the Cancer Center for my first radiation consult. An old man came in wearing a long blonde wig. He had the wig pulled into two pig tails, braided, with pink ribbons. He had plunked his ball cap on top of it. I burst out laughing as soon as I saw him and he grinned. "I love your hair," I said. He said, "Well, hell, if you gotta have cancer, you might just as well have some fun with it." I agreed with him. He was a garrulous charactor. I'm sort of a blabber mouth myself, so the next thing you know, we are talking and laughing like two people who have known each other a hundred years. It wasn't long before Bob was whisked away for his treatment. I heard his voice echoing down the hall as he tormented the staff mercilessly. There was another old gentleman sitting there and I said, "You know, I envy that guy! What a wonderful attitude." And that gentleman related his story of the first time he'd run into Bob, and how hard he'd laughed at his comic chatter. We both agreed on this one thing: One person with a big smile makes everybody smile.
Know what? When I go back tomorrow, I'll be the one grinning. Thanks to all of you for putting that grin on my face. I will pass it on. God bless you all.
Thank you Bush Babe, Hal, Pam, Jeannie (and 'Salina), Alison and her kewl girls, and Scotty. You made my day!


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4 Stages of Business Growth
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second Stage-Growth:
As soon as a business progresses towards the expansion stage it will be able to earn a good profit, however that profit will not go near the dog owner. It is because it will likely be invested in the industry to be able to help in the main city demands of the organization. It relates to here we are at coordinating functional managing activities it relates to complicated business structure mainly concentrating on functional lines. Now development and research is going to be established to be able to increase range of products. In the beginning, it will likely be on the smaller sized scale due to insufficient capital. If management continues altering its atmosphere, the organization can remain at this time for a while. Oftentimes, proprietors sell their business at this time for substantial benefits. The rise of recent markets and product requires more finances. This stage faces bigger competitors who deal the problem by putting force on emerging firm this stress could be by means of really low prices too. At this time over buying and selling may be the greatest threat otherwise handled correctly it may lead the company to demise. As the organization grows it have to extend geographical buying and selling and distribution, so 'supervised supervision' is going to be needed at this time. If new competitors go into the market and also the owner really wants to maintain his shares, he will need to put more capital by themself or attract some partners.
3rd Stage-Expansion:
This stage demands proper management reports, budget control, and spread authority, plus a formal accounting system. Fundamental adaptation at this time is to systemize administrative roles that are secrets of survival through this stage. The development stage demands stable lengthy term funds which is important and when there's not arrange for partners this stage should be considered at this time. Although retained salary is major types of funds but dividends would be the special attraction towards the investors at this time they are inevitable. Now company's history can help in gaining lengthy term loans but the organization will need to give security by means of assets.
fourth Stage-Maturity:
At this time primary issues have to do with expense control, look for growth possibilities and productivity. The direction of authority could be towards functional lines or it's reorganized with production lines. As there's severe cost competition, therefore, productions department ought to be the center of focus and government bodies should highlight on innovative moves towards betterment.
Now fundamental investments have been in marketing and advertising struggles and maintenance and plant up gradation. The organization matures to an amount that earnings will tackle this but from time to time more lengthy term load end up being an assistance. Only at that level firm may limit its operations or move ahead, normally acquisition or floatation in order to be a sizable corporation.
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Present Forms for the Future
We use the present continuous to talk about things that we have already arranged to do in the future.
In many situations when we talk about future plans we can use either the present continuous or the 'going to' future. However, when we use the present continuous, there is more of a suggestion that an arrangement has already been made.
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Cape Cod Community College
West Barnstable, Massachusetts 1 course · 9 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
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+1 votes Joseph Easterbrook › April 18, 2011
I too, am sad too see this course gone. I looked for it last time I was out there only to find it missing :/ The course was a lot of fun while it was there, it had some good variation for cape terrain..
+1 votes edgar lopez › March 4, 2011
What a shame this course closed. I remember the smell of spray paint in the air, and the kids that did it swearing they didn't. Was a nice little out of the way place to learn the game.
+0 votes Erica Johnson › February 27, 2013
first course i ever played. It's a shame this course was shut down. And it's a shame the town of barnstable doesn't know that some of the best golfers in the state are cape-based. (or, they don't seem to care and support them, unfortunate)


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I love Mediterranean food! Everything from tabbouleh salad to olives. I am picky about my olives, I like high quality kalamata and green olives, preferably from an olive bar at Whole Foods. I enjoy jarred green and kalamata olives in salads and as a snack, but I hate the canned black and green olives that have a rubbery texture and no taste. Few weeks ago I saw something interesting that really got me excited. Snack Pouch seasoned olives without the brine! After I read a few blog reviews I found out that they started selling these at Publix, my local grocery store. I scanned through the ingredients list and when I saw lactic acid on one of the pouches I contacted Mario Olives customer service to find out if the lactic acid was vegan. They responded very quickly that the lactic acid was derived from beets :-) So nothing was standing in my way to try this newest snack hit. As I mentioned before, I am picky about my olives. These olives rock! The taste reminds me the olives from the Whole Foods olive bar, full of flavor, great texture and nice juiciness. So far my favorite variety is the thyme seasoned kalamata. The thyme gives it just enough flavor without overpowering the taste of the kalamata olives. These pouches are very conveniently packaged snacks. There is no brine so there is no mess and I can just eat the olives straight out of the pouches. The pouches are fun and easy to take to work or the cat shelter where I can pour the olives into my mouth without touching the olives with my germy hands :-)
Mario Olives asked me what was my favorite way to use their olives and I told them that either as a snack or in my couscous salad. I have been making this couscous salad for years and wanted to share the recipe with you. It is very easy. I made this recipe with Mario Olives thyme seasoned kalamata olives but you can use any other kalamata olives that you have.
Mario Olives & Specialty Foods (Mario Camacho Foods) Olives come in these varieties:
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Mediterranean Couscous Salad
1 cup uncooked couscous (plus 1 1/2 cups water)
7-8 sun-dried tomatoes (dried or packed in olive oil)
1 1.75 oz Mario Olives "thyme seasoned kalamata" or 15-20 kalamata olives of your choice
2 large roasted red peppers (about 3/4 cup chopped)
1 Tbs balsamic vinegar
1 Tbs olive oil (less if using olive oil packed sun-dried tomatoes)
1/2 to 1 teaspoon dried oregano
salt and black pepper to taste
Optional additions: 1 diced tomato and 1 medium cucumber, peeled and dices.
There are two easy ways to prepare couscous. You can either bring the water in a saucepan to a boil, remove from heat, add couscous and cover with a lid. Let stand for 5 minutes and fluff up with a fork. Or you can follow my favorite method. Place couscous in a large bowl. Boil the water in a water kettle, pour over the couscous and cover with a large plate. Let stand for 5 minutes and fluff up with a fork.
Place couscous into a large bowl if following the first method and keep the couscous in the original bowl if using the second method.
If you are using olive oil packed sun-dried tomatoes, chop them into small pieces and add them to the couscous. If you are using dry sun-dried tomatoes, you need to soften them in hot water for about 5 minutes before you can chop them. Pour hot water over the tomatoes (enough water to cover them completely) and let sit for 5 minutes. Drain them and add them to the couscous.
Chop the olives and dice the roasted red peppers, add to the couscous. If using fresh tomato and cucumber, add them now. Season with oregano, olive oil and balsamic vinegar and stir until well combined. Season with salt and black pepper to taste.
Serve warm or chilled.
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The Todd Haley and Ben Roethlisberger relationship did not get off to the best of starts. Haley was hired to replace Roethlisberger-favorite, Bruce Arians, and then proceeded to never talk to Big Ben. Six weeks into a 2-3 season and Roethlisberger is returning the fuck you. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Joe Starkey had an impromptu question and answer session with a finger-pointing Roethlisberger.
"Haley's offense is not a big-play offense," he said. "It's kind of a dink-and-dunk offense."
Hmmm. That was the first time I'd heard Roethlisberger use the d-and-d phrase. When others had, he'd brushed it aside.
Our next exchange was more eye-opening.
Me: "Is there room for more quick strikes?"
Ben: "We did that last week (82-yard pass to Mike Wallace)."
Me: "Right, but you never went back to it."
Ben: "There's a guy calling the plays. That's on him."
This is a wonderful development for an otherwise run-of-the-mill October Sunday. The Steelers play the Bengals tonight on NBC, allowing plenty of time for this to simmer and slow-cook into a full-blown shit stew. And oh, what a welcome shit stew it is. We have been without a Todd Haley meltdown for so long I feel less alive, less vibrant than during the salad days of Kansas City. Look at that man up there, yelling "fuck you" at a colleague. When does something like that ever happen without Haley? It's been far too long.
Our only hope is that Roethlisberger's clumsiness has stirred the beast because, let's be honest, Pittsburgh-Cincinnati is not exactly doing anything for anyone. How will Todd Haley react? Maybe he doubles down on the fuck you and calls all running plays. Maybe he's matured and handles the whole thing in-house with Roethlisberger. Or maybe he pulls Roethlisberger for Batch, calling only flea flickers after the switch, gets fired at halftime and gives an interview with Michele Tafoya saying "I only dink and dunk because I love double D's" and thrust his hips at the camera one final, glorious time.
It's a tossup.
Starkey: Big Ben speaks truth about offense [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]


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will not be honored.
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This type of mail is not delivered directly to our building and
therefore, must be forwarded to us via the State's interoffice
delivery system. While this system is reliable, its use typically
adds several work days to the delivery time.
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back even though it has been three days. What should I do?
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request). If you did not pay the expediting fee, your work will
be treated as a regular mail request and be processed on average
10 - 15 work days following receipt. If you paid the expedited
fee, make sure you enclosed a completed self-addressed return
airbill listing you as both the sender and recipient. If you did
not include a completed airbill listing you as both the sender
and recipient, your work will be returned to you via first class
mail. In this case even though we will have completed the work
within the expedited time frame, it may still take up to 10 working
days for the mail to reach you.
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I complete an airbill?
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you as both the sender and receiver. Please note the tracking
number so that you may contact your courier service to track your
package. Our office does not track packages. Please make sure
the billing information is properly completed. The State cannot
assume billing or delivery responsibilities for any incorrectly
completed airbills. If we identify an incorrectly completed airbill,
we will return the package via first class mail. We will not maintain
the airbill.
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I use a payroll company, where will my forms be sent?
Unless you have designated your payroll company to receive these
types of mailings, they will be mailed to your business.
Q. What
happens if I change payroll companies?
The NJ Division of Revenue operates a tape exchange program with
payroll companies. Payroll companies will notify the Division
of Revenue of the changes (additions and deletions) to their client
base through this program.
Q. What
are the due dates?
First Quarter - April 30th, Second Quarter - July 30th
Third Quarter - October 30th, Fourth Quarter - January
Q. How
do you complete the return if an employee is waiving disability
for religious reasons? If the employee is not including disability
in their wages,
does the employer have to show these wages in line
four? If so, how will the
return balance to the WR-30?
The employer should send a letter to the NJ Department of Labor,
Division of Employer Accounts, PO Box 076, Trenton, NJ 08625, identifying
the employees by SS number, who are waiving disability for religious
reasons. All employees claiming this must have an affidavit on
file with Labor's Disability Section. The employer that has this
situation will complete the NJ927 with what they believe to be
the correct amount. It will be verified, and if necessary adjusted,
by Labor.
Q. How should
we complete
the NJ-W2 for private disability plans? What does the employee have
to show? What does the employer have to show? E.g. plan
Please include on the W-2 FEIN, Plan #, Contributions
paid for that individual.
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are reflected on Line 9, 'Total Payments & Credits'?
All payments made and credits for the quarter should be reflected.
This includes EFT and any other payment made for both employer withholding or UIDI contributions
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in a check with my return, does this mean that the amount on Line
11, 'Balance Due' is zero?
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11, 'Balance Due'.
Q. For the
927 return, would it be possible for us to show the deposit
for the last month of the quarter as already having been paid? (The
Balance Due line
would equal zero.)
Yes, if it has already been paid.
Q. Where do
I send my paperwork?
The address is Division of Revenue, Notary Unit, PO Box 453, Trenton,
Q. What is
the fee for submitting a legal name change?
The application fee is $50.00. Please make your check payable
to the "Treasurer, State of New Jersey". For your
own protection, please do not send cash in the mail. You must
submit the original Court Order Decree (with raised seal) plus
an additional copy. The original will be returned to you. Finally,
you must include a self-addressed stamped envelope. There is no
expedited service available for Legal Names Changes.
Q. How do
I get a certified copy of a legal name change?
You may obtain a certified copy of your legal name change by writing
to the Division of Revenue, Notary Unit PO Box 453, Trenton, NJ
08646. The fee for a certified copy is $25.00. Please make your
check payable to the "Treasurer, State of New Jersey".
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Body: The apparent weight of a wine in your mouth, which is usually attributable principally to a wine's alcohol. You can classify a wine as light-bodied, medium-bodied, or full-bodied.
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I have to agree about the undies. Our little guy has started wearing them full time this past week and he loves it and I love it. He's just so darn cute in them. This week I am grateful for great friends and their kids that come over to eat with us and hang out.ReplyDelete
Oh he's sooo cute!ReplyDelete
We just potty trained my daughter and she loves to pick her undies out every morning and refuses to wear pants until she can show her sister how pretty they are! So cute. This week, I'm grateful for the time off my hubby has had and for all the playground visits we've had together.ReplyDelete
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I am grateful for all of those things. I feel so blessed to finally have a home, after years of renting. I can't stop thinking up projects to do. I LOVE the color of your project! It looks like the color we just picked out to paint on the walls in our family room!ReplyDelete
I too am thankful to have a home to decorate, for being able to sleep in on sundays now (11 church yay!), and for vegetables. :)ReplyDelete
Hi! So adorable!! I have to ask, where did you find that shirt? Is it something you made or something you purchased?ReplyDelete
Love it! And your blog!! Thank you so much!!
ah. big boy underpants. we've been "potty-training" for a good solid month.ReplyDelete
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Whenever my lack
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solenoid. It was always there for us, lurking under the hood
somewhere, and always — always — it was waiting to malfunction. It
was handy, every mechanic knew where it was — like tonsils — and it
had a great name. Solenoid — like asteroid or paranoid.
I asked Vince down at
the gas station gun shop about solenoids and why we don't hear about
them anymore.
"Oh, they're still in there," he said, "but now they're a part of
the starter and everything is run by a computer, so you don't see
them separately."
Vince began selling guns at the gas station several years ago so
he could combine his two great loves: gasoline and gunpowder. The
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So the solenoid is still around, reducing current from the
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This is a terrible blow to guys like me. The solenoid, bless it,
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With the first two weeks of the NBA season canceled thanks to the lockout, some players have gone looking for alternative employment. Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz, for example, was in a Starcraft pro gaming tournament this past weekend, just barely finishing out of the money.
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It may never (and probably will never) come to pass in real life. In video games, you can take LeBron's talents to Madden NFL 12 with this set of ratings as a created player. CBSSports.com's Will Brinson put James on the Browns, not the Seahawks, and gave him his old Cleveland number even though tight ends are restricted to the numerals 40-49 and 80-89 in the NFL.
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Carl Perkins
The widely influential pioneer of rockabilly.
Carl Perkins transformed his humble sharecropper roots into jumping, jiving rockabilly hits. His song "Blue Suede Shoes" launched a label and a movement.
Rockabilly pioneer Carl Perkins lent a helping hand when the two currents that defined Southern music at mid-century—rhythm & blues and country & western—came together as rock and roll.
He was a native Tennessean who grew up in a sharecropping family near Tiptonville, a farming community in Lake County, north of Memphis. Perkins picked cotton in the fields and learned how to play guitar from a black field hand named John Westbrook. He began performing in the Forties with the Perkins Brothers Band, which included siblings Jay and Clayton.
Carl was heavily influenced by bluegrass legend Bill Monroe. "Some of those old songs [of his] are so close to rockabilly it's scary," he said. He was also right on track with Presley in the synthesis of rock and roll from homegrown elements.
After flipping for Presley's recording of Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky," Perkins made the trip to Memphis in August 1954 with the hope of auditioning for Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records. He was told to write more songs and stay in touch; a few months later, he cut his first single for the label, "Movie Magg." In December 1955, he recorded a song of his that would quickly become the signature song of the rockabilly genre: "Blue Suede Shoes." It was a tune so full of hot licks and hipster cool that Presley himself was moved to cover it. "Blue Suede Shoes" became an anthem for a rebellious post-war generation, embodying its unrest and pride as succinctly as any James Dean film," wrote music historian Art Fein.
Perkins' original version of the song became rock and roll's first across-the-board chart hit, simultaneously reaching Numer Two on the pop and R&B charts and topped the country chart. However, fate intervened unkindly to halt the momentum that had been building with "Blue Suede Shoes." While en route to New York to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Perry Como Show, Perkins was seriously injured when his Chrysler Imperial rear-ended a pickup truck. Carl, who was not driving, suffered a fractured skull, broken bones and lacerations, and his brother Jay had serious injuries as well.
After recovering, Perkins returned home to Memphis, where Sam Phillips gave him a brand-new Cadillac for having scored Sun Records' first million-seller. As music historian Colin Escott has noted, "Sun Records had never really made money until 'Blue Suede Shoes,' not even when Presley began selling in respectable quantities."
Perkins quickly resumed work at Sun, recording a brace of classic rockabilly sides—including "Boppin' the Blues" and "Matchbox"—throughout 1956. However, for almost unexplainable reasons, he would never again crack the Top Forty. In all likelihood, Perkins' Dixie-fried sound was too authentic for what was fast becoming a watered-down teen market. On December 4, 1956, Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley (who had already moved from Sun to RCA) held an impromptu jam session at Sun Studio. (Johnny Cash stuck around only long enough to be photographed with the others.) The foursome were dubbed the Million Dollar Quartet, although the results of the summit meeting were not officially released until 1990.
Perkins moved to Columbia Records in 1958, where he had a few minor hits, such as "Pink Pedal Pushers," in his patented rockabilly style. In 1964, while touring Britain, he learned to his great surprise that he had been a major influence on the Beatles, especially guitarist George Harrison. Under Perkins' supervision, the Beatles cut five of his songs—more songs than they recorded by any other outside source—including "Matchbox," "Honey Don't" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby."
Perkins' career got another boost when fellow Sun Records alumnus Johnny Cash tapped him to tour and record as part of his band in the mid-Sixties and featured him as a regular in his Seventies variety show. Perkins remained part of Cash's touring entourage from 1967 to 1975—a mutual show of loyalty from two Sun-era comrades who came up much the same way.
When the roots-oriented side of the New Wave movement, driven by such retro-minded bands as the Stray Cats and the Blasters, took hold in the early Eighties, Perkins found himself back in favor once again. A widely watched Cinemax special from 1985 celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of "Blue Suede Shoes" found him joined onstage by a few Beatles (George Harrison and Ringo Starr), Eric Clapton and others. In 1988 he reunited with Sun Records stalwarts Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison in Memphis to record Class of '55 (1986).
Having survived throat cancer in the early Nineties, Perkins continued to perform and record. His autobiography, Go, Cat, Go!, was published in 1995, and an album with the same title was released on Capitol Records. He also cut Born to Rock for Universal in 1989. Perkins died of a stroke in 1998 at age 66.
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A car packed with five young friends who were leaving a birthday party in Queens Friday night hit a curb and flipped into a creek, trapping and killing four passengers, authorities said.
The driver escaped serious injury and called 911, telling responding officers that the passengers were trapped in the underwater car, the NYPD said in a statement.
The 20-year-old driver, who was in stable condition, said he and his four passengers had left a party nearby when his car hopped the curb on a dead-end street in Astoria and plunged into Steinway Creek, off the East River, at around 10:35 p.m.
Divers from the FDNY had to break the car's windows to pull out the two men and two women who were trapped, officials said. The women and one of the men were pronounced dead at Elmhurst General Hospital, and the other man was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
The four who died were all from East Elmhurst and between the ages of 19 and 21: Darius Fletcher, Jada Monique Butts, Crystal Gravely and Jaleel Furtado.
Several of the victims' family members visited the scene Saturday morning. The sobbing stepmother of one was comforted by police.
Police did not immediately identify the driver.
Police said early Saturday the investigation was continuing but that the driver had been given and passed a breathalyzer test. The roads were also wet Friday night, and investigators are looking into whether that may have caused the accident.
Police visited a car service business that has security cameras trained in the direction the car would have been going in hopes of learning the vehicle's speed in the seconds before it crashed.
The deaths shook residents of East Elmhurst, the working-class neighborhood of brick row houses where all four victims lived within two blocks of each other.
Susan Martinez, who lives across the street from the home of Crystal Gravely, said the four longtime friends had gone out to celebrate what would have been Gravely's 20th birthday Saturday.
"They were all friends and they went to church and they all had jobs," Martinez said. "That's how they grew up."
Martinez watched as Gravely's father stepped out of his house and walked slowly to the backyard without speaking to anyone.
"He hasn't taken it in yet--that his only child will never be back," Martinez said.
Hairdresser Sheila Ortiz said both of the young women got their hair done at her salon, and she had known them since they were little girls.
"Those kids were very happy," Ortiz said. "They were nice young kids, not troublemakers."
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Even though I would never consider myself a "social butterfly," I am not short on the gift of gab.
If you get me talking about broad topics such as farming, gardening, landscaping or even baseball for that matter, you run the risk of having to listen to my voice for a while.
As the topics become narrower, the verbosity tends to become even larger: describing the taste of a fresh carrot, the calm feeling that envelops me as I sit in my yard while the sun drops behind the western horizon, my desire to play baseball for the Chicago Cubs (now, my desire for my son to play for the Cubbies).
Speaking of my son, Asher, he just finished his first true season of baseball. While I'm not sure who is more bummed – he or I – that it's over, I think the whole family got caught up in the romance of our national pastime. That was until Asher, in some strange way, foul-tipped a ball that popped him right in the face. I tried to convince him that blood and blurred vision were part of the game, but he wanted none of that. Fortunately, all ended well. A trip to the doctor and then to get ice cream quickly relieved the stress and pain. He already is practicing for next year.
And like many of you, the summer months push me through the addiction gamut of the Durango Farmers Market. Starting with crisp lettuce to über-sweet snap peas to the aforementioned carrots, then moving on to the warm-season crops of tomatoes, peppers and eggplant, and finishing with a delicata or Hubbard squash. The market takes your hand and gently leads you along the sometimes curvy path that is our growing season. Throw in a tasty pastry, perhaps a pizza and even a jar of honey. So while the wallet may be lighter, the belly and the brain will be thankful.
While you are at the market, talk to the producers. Unless you are in the early-morning carrot queue (which reminds me of the "Seinfeld" Soup Nazi episode – move forward, do not push, do not talk too much, grab your bag of carrots, give Chuck your money, move along) or in a line with 10 people behind you waiting to pay, quiz the producers about their growing practices, their challenges and their successes.
That is the beauty of the market: You get to speak to the people who grew or raised your food. There are not too many places where you can do that, so relish the opportunity. I would bet that you will walk away with a greater appreciation of what they do – every day, during the heat of the summer – and the amount of blood (OK, hopefully not blood), sweat and tears that goes into that bunch of beets or that bag of spinach.
And it is years such as this one – with whipping winds, zero moisture and dry soils – that can really create some major challenges (and consequently, good stories) for the vast majority of producers. Challenges such as trying to grow water-thirsty crops when it hasn't rained for more than a month or attempting to feed an animal when the winter snowpack did very little for our soil moisture can be excruciatingly painful and stressful.
But they seem to do it. And our bodies sure are happy they do.
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Texts by Rachel Adams, Sandra H. Olsen, Mari Rodriguez Binnie; interview with Lydia Okumura
For almost fifty years, Lydia Okumura has explored the realm of geometric abstraction. She challenges our perception of space through sculptures, installations, and works on paper that blur distinctions between dimensions. In the 1970s, a young artist in her native São Paulo, she studied the Japanese art magazine Bijutsu Techou, which introduced her to Conceptual art, Minimalism, Land art, and Arte Povera. These movements, along with Brazilian Concretism and Neoconcretism, influenced Okumura's work. Using simple materials such as string, glass, and paint, her dynamic work balances line, plane, and shadow.
Okumura's oeuvre—although reminiscent of the work of Latin American artists such as Lygia Pape and Carmen Herrera, as well as contemporaries such as Dorothea Rockburne and Robert Irwin—has remained under-recognized. She has exhibited widely in São Paulo and is part of multiple museum collections, but she is much less known in her adopted country, the United States. "Lydia Okumura: Situations" (September 8, 2016–January 8, 2017) is the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States. Through the exhibition and catalogue, the UB Art Galleries seek to encourage a critical reassessment of Okumura's oeuvre within art history. The catalogue includes an essay on Okumura and her work, by curator Rachel Adams; an account of vanguardism in Brazilian art from 1960 to 1975, by art historian Mari Rodriguez Binnie; a conversation between Adams and Okumura; and extensive photo documentation of Okumura's work from the 1970s until today.
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CitationsFritz MA, Speroff L (2011). Endometriosis. In Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, 8th ed., pp. 1221–1248. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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The late 20th century will be remembered for the onset of dramatic economic, social, environmental and political changes which continue to challenge us at home and abroad. Though our increasingly interdependent global economy allowed people across the world to trade, invest, communicate, debate, and make common cause at a level never before imaginable, the news was not all good.
In the U.S., middle class incomes began to stagnate in the 1980s, child poverty was rising, as were welfare rolls, teen pregnancy, crime rates, and income inequality. More and more of the nation's growth was benefiting those already doing well.
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By 1993, the patterns of family life had been changing for decades. Between 1965 and 1992, the percentage of mothers with children working outside the home had grown from 35 to 67 percent, giving women new opportunities and allowing middle class families that once prospered on a single paycheck to maintain their lifestyles with two incomes. Meanwhile, single parent households had become much more common in America, growing from 16 to 27 percent of families between 1975 and 1992. Many children in these homes were living in poverty even when their parents, usually mothers, worked.
These stark developments caused many to question whether, in spite of our progress toward gender and racial equality, the American Dream could survive the turmoil. Therefore, the question most Americans wanted those of us running for the White House in 1992 to answer were: how can we restore the American Dream for those who work hard and play by the rules? How can we empower the poor to work their way into the middle class? How can hard-pressed parents do a good job at work and at home with their kids?
Americans had tired of the typical answers. They knew that government alone couldn't cure our social and economic ills. But after 12 years of Republican rule, they also knew that government neglect was making things worse. The "government is the problem" mantra proved to be another way of saying to the middle class and the aspiring poor: "You're on your own."
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Waterski ropes are usually 60-75 feet long and are made of a slightly stretchy polyethylene (Poly-e) rope that is designed to be forgiving and cushion a certain amount of the load on the arms as the skier loads the line. Competition / Tournament ski ropes are split into sections (between 5 and 10) which enable the rope to be shortenned in pre-determined lengths during slalom competitions, thus increasing the skill required to complete the slalom course. Waterski handles are generally 12 inches wide. Easy-Up water ski handles are available and are aimed specifically at beginners. These are like normal ski ropes but they have the addition of a large "V" section that you put the tips of the skis in to keep everything nice and stable during deep water starts. Recreational / family skiiers can still ski with a larger 15" wakeboarding rope but these lack many of the characteristics required to progress to intermediate standard in skiing.
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Lawmakers blast Navy over Lejeune water contamination
WASHINGTON — Five members of Congress on Friday called the Department of the Navy to task — again — for what they say is an apparent resistance to keeping veterans informed about past water contamination at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
In a tartly written letter to the Navy, Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, Sens. Kay Hagan and Richard Burr and Rep. Brad Miller of North Carolina, and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan said the military continues to mislead the public about a high-profile scientific report on the contamination.
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"We would like to bring to your attention several issues that call into question (the Department of the Navy's) and (the Marine Corps') commitment to transparency and veracity in efforts to keep the public informed of ongoing developments related to Camp Lejeune's historic contaminated drinking water," the members of Congress wrote to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.
The letter is the latest missive in an ongoing bureaucratic battle among military leaders, federal scientists, and veterans and their advocates in Congress.
At stake are ongoing scientific studies that could determine just how, and how badly, several contaminants might have affected the health of people who lived and worked at Camp Lejeune until the 1980s.
The letter raises four issues:
_ The lawmakers said the Navy has continuously mischaracterized a 2009 report by the National Academy of the Sciences' National Research Council. The NRC report found no concrete link between the chemicals trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene and a host of ailments suffered by veterans and family members. The report has been criticized by other scientists.
The lawmakers said the Navy has indicated that the NRC did assess benzene, but that isn't true. The report didn't include a comprehensive study on benzene, a known cancer-causing chemical that was a significant contaminant in the water.
The lawmakers asked the Navy to correct the information and send a letter to more than 160,000 people who have signed up to receive information about the contamination.
_ The lawmakers said the Navy has not agreed to a communications protocol with federal scientists at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The ATSDR has spent years studying the contamination and is trying to figure out its potential health impacts. The deal would have the Navy run all of its public relations material past ATSDR for scientific accuracy, but the military hasn't signed on yet.
The letter asked the Navy to retract an inaccurate booklet on the contamination from its website and to sign the agreement by the end of this month.
_ The lawmakers said the Marine Corps website on the contamination doesn't include direct links to ATSDR's ongoing work on the issue, including reports conducted since January 2009.
_ And the lawmakers oppose a military plan to survey the more than 160,000 registrants about whether they want more or less information on the contamination.
"It is inconceivable to us that Camp Lejeune registrants would want to have less information flow about a subject that concerns their health and well-being," the lawmakers said. They also worried that such a survey would conflict with work that scientists are doing to survey veterans and family members about their health.
It is estimated that a million people were exposed to contaminated drinking water at the base until poisoned wells were shut down in 1984. Many former Lejeune residents now believe that their cancers and other illnesses were caused by the chemicals.
Department of Veterans Affairs information on Camp Lejeune water contamination
The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten: Camp Lejeune Toxic Water
Camp Lejeune Historic Drinking Water
Military, health agency in PR war over base's tainted water
Judge refuses to dismiss Camp Lejeune water exposure lawsuit
VA slow to find link between Lejeune's toxic water, illnesses
Victims of toxic Camp Lejeune water are holding meet-ups
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The Relationship between Hospital Infection Surveillance and Control Activities and Antibiotic Resistant Pathogen Rates
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Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship of surveillance and control activities in Canadian hospitals with rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), C. difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD), and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE). Methods: Surveys were sent to Infection Control programs in hospitals that participated in an earlier survey of infection control practices in Canadian acute care hospitals. Results: One hundred and twenty of 145 (82.8%) hospitals responded to the survey. The mean MRSA rate was 2.0 (SD 2.9) per 1,000 admissions, the mean CDAD rate was 3.8 (SD 4.3), and the mean VRE rate was 0.4 (SD 1.5). Multiple stepwise regression analysis found hospitals that reported infection rates by specific risk groups (r = - 0.27, p < 0.01) and that kept attendance records of infection control teaching activities (r = - 0.23, p < 0.01) were associated with lower MRSA rates. Multiple stepwise regression analysis found larger hospitals (r = 0.25, p < 0.01) and hospitals where infection control committees or staff had the direct authority to close a ward or unit to further admissions due to outbreaks (r = 0.22, p < 0.05) were associated with higher CDAD rates. Multiple logistic regression analysis found larger hospitals (OR = 1.6, CI 1.2 - 2.0, p = 0.003) and teaching hospitals (OR = 3.7, CI 1.2 - 11.8, p = 0.02) were associated with the presence of VRE. Hospitals were less likely to have VRE when infection control staff frequently contacted physicians and nurses for reports of new infections (OR = 0.5, CI 0.3 - 0.7, p = 0.02) and there were in-service programs for updating nursing and ancillary staff on current infection control practices (OR = 0.2, CI 0.1 - 0.7, p = 0.01). Conclusions: Surveillance and control activities were associated with MRSA and CDAD rates and the presence of VRE. Surveillance and control activities might be especially beneficial in large and teaching hospitals.


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Christmas 2012: A Few Thoughts . . .
I heard an old Chinese proverb the other day that made a deep impact on me: "If there's food on the table then the family will have many problems to discuss. If there's no food on the table then there's only one problem."
As a special mention to my fellow Canadians, while we constantly gripe about the weather and politicians and taxes - and I'm more guilty of it than most - take a moment to look at the world as a whole and realize that most of us are so incredibly blessed to be living at this time and in this place. Do keep on working hard - for yourself, your family, and your country - but also pause this Christmas to take stock of the many blessings you have!
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