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Nearly two months into the season, Dodgers fans are coming to grips with the team's being largely absent from television.
The Dodgers have played 44 games yet their TV broadcasts remain off-limits to anyone who doesn't subscribe to Time Warner Cable.
The cable company, which acquired rights to Dodgers games starting this year, has yet to sign deals with other distributors, such as satellite broadcaster DirecTV, to make the games widely available.
Time Warner Cable and the other distributors are still wrangling over price. TWC serves about 1.5 million customers in the Los Angeles area, or roughly 30% of the region's TV audience.
So the bulk of the team's fans, along with Los Angeles-area sports bars that aren't in TWC's service area, continue to do without.
The situation prompts a question: With the Dodgers largely out of sight, could they also soon be out of mind?
The team leads Major League Baseball in attendance with an average of 46,194 tickets sold for 22 home games — about 35,000 from season tickets. But an average of only 45,000 households are watching Dodgers games on TWC, according to Nielsen ratings — a drop of nearly 63%.
With the team performing reasonably well, the reason for the fall clearly is access. Some fans have organized protests and circulated petitions, and many feel that Dodgers ownership needs to act to ensure the problem is solved quickly.
The Dodgers signed a 25-year, $8.35-billion deal with Time Warner Cable to show the team's games on the new all-Dodgers-all-the-time SportsNet LA channel. The Dodgers own the channel but TWC handles its distribution.
Stan Kasten, the Dodgers' team president, declined to be interviewed for this article.
Recent seasons have been a roller coaster for the club's legions of fans, who suffered the saga of previous owner Frank McCourt as he went through a messy divorce and then took the team into bankruptcy. Spirits soared when new ownership spent millions to upgrade the roster and the Dodgers came within two victories of the World Series last season. But now the fans' loyalty is being tested again.
"What are you going to do?" Michele Ghiatis said as she and her husband Steven watched a recent Dodgers-Giants game in the reserved level at Dodger Stadium. "It's taking the fun out of baseball."
The Ghiatises bought a 10-game ticket package at Dodger Stadium this season but have DirecTV at their Los Angeles home, so they can't watch the games there. "I feel like the Dodgers let the fans down," she said.
Asked if some fans might be losing interest, Steven Ghiatis said, "I definitely feel that way. I'm sure they have probably lost some fans."
That resignation is being felt at sports bars, too. "We don't have to give people an explanation, they pretty much know," said A.J. Sacher, regional manager of Barney's Beanery, whose Pasadena and Burbank restaurants are without the games.
"After a while we stopped getting calls" about whether the Dodgers were on TV, he said. "Now it's more like, 'Have you heard anything or is this going to be resolved soon?'"
That's the key question, according to Fred Claire, a former Dodgers general manager who still closely monitors the team. "Ultimately this will be resolved," he said, adding that "the Dodgers and their fans will move beyond it."
However, Claire acknowledged that the TV deadlock could "help dilute interest" in the team, testing the patience of fans, though probably not alienating them entirely.
"Are Dodgers fans going to give up on following the team? I don't believe that because I think the core interest in the Dodgers is so strong," Claire said. "It's more [fans'] frustration of what's taking place. They're rightfully frustrated."
The Dodgers' TV impasse is a familiar experience for Los Angeles sports fans.
In 2012, after Time Warner Cable acquired the rights to the Lakers and launched the SportsNet channel, it didn't strike all the deals required to make Lakers games widespread on TV until after the season started.
A year ago, an average of 121,000 households were watching Dodgers games on Fox-owned Prime Ticket — a channel available throughout the Southland that carried the majority of the Dodgers' games.
While that number has dwindled by nearly two-thirds, viewership of Angels games this season has experienced a 30% jump, according to Nielsen — to an average 88,400 households on widely available Fox Sports West.
Dodgers games are carried on 570 AM radio but it's unclear whether more fans are turning to those broadcasts. The station did not respond to requests for comment and Nielsen said it does not publicly release ratings figures for Dodgers radio. Experts said it was also too early to tell whether the team's merchandise sales would suffer.
Time Warner Cable said in a statement it was "eager for all consumers in the Dodger footprint to have access to SportsNet LA and we hope that providers will come on board soon."
"We will continue to work tirelessly to make that happen," TWC added. "But DirecTV has shown no sense of urgency in getting a deal done."
DirecTV issued its own statement, saying "we remain open to exploring with Time Warner Cable how it can bring Dodgers games back into the homes of families who want them."
Meanwhile, Los Angeles sports fans have been able to focus on the playoff fortunes of basketball's Clippers and hockey's Kings and Ducks.
Dodgers fan Alex Castillo of Newhall, also a Kings fan, said the excitement of the NHL playoffs had helped ease the sting of not being able to view the Dodgers. While attending a recent game at Dodger Stadium, he noted he can't watch the Dodgers at his home because his provider is AT&T U-Verse.
"It hurts, it's my team," Castillo said of the Dodgers. And he was already lamenting what would happen after the NBA and NHL seasons end. "In the summer what are you going to do?" he complained. "You can't watch anything else, except maybe Angels games."


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J's rabbit was due today to have her babies. She had started building her nest day before yesterday and then she started pulling fur out yesterday afternoon, so we knew she was getting close.
She didn't get really has fat as she did last time so I was expecting her to have 3-4 babies. Last time she had 5 and looked like a furry dump truck.
So after work yesterday we took a trip to Dodge. The cupboards were bare here at the Bruckner house, and honestly just like shopping out of town sometimes for a variety. I feel like I buy the same things over and over here. School had been canceled again for today so it wasn't a big deal that we would be getting back late.
We get home at 11, and J grabs the flashlight and says he's going on a baby check. Runs back in a few seconds later: THERE'S BABIES!!! I panicked because we lost all the babies last time from the cold. We had already talked about bringing the nest box inside at night (They only eat once a day) just till the weather warms up a bit and becomes more "stable!" HA! So I run out there and bring it in and pull back there fur....and am greeted by a HUGE blob of little arms, legs, tails, noses...there are so many in there I just gasp and stare for a moment. There are *9* babies!!
9 BABIES!!! J is excited and in disbelief.
I hope this litter goes ALOT smoother than the last one!!
And it seems really weird that I just blogged about baby bunnies. Oh well. =-)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
J's rabbit was due today to have her babies. She had started building her nest day before yesterday and then she started pulling fur out yesterday afternoon, so we knew she was getting close.
Posted by Becky at 11:29 AM
2 comments:
- Shawn said...
Wow! 9 baby bunnies! Yikes! Totally cool also!
- April 1, 2009 at 12:52 AM
- princessdiva said...
I bet J was excited!! C and I went for a walk around the house ysty when we got home. We found a rabbit in the back that must have been looking for babies. SHe wouldn't run away from us and kept sniffing the ground. She ran toward us once (mind you we were only about 5 feet from her) and we decided to take off! I brought my lunch today and decided to catch up on my buddies over noon hour! See ya later M
- April 2, 2009 at 12:23 PM


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We should all want to be wise and careful stewards of the beautiful planet we
call home. But most of us realise that humans in general are not being good stewards. We are wasteful with our natural resources and have reduced biodiversity. Therefore, when we read about groups and organisations calling for a 'green revolution' and a new relationship between humanity and nature it is easy to agree with their ideas.
However, certain aspects of the modern green movement that is permeating every segment of our society are not about protecting the environment. You don't have to dig very deep to discover the true beliefs of the influential leaders who are using genuine concerns about the environment to promote an agenda of fear and control. Please carefully consider the implications of the opinions that they so openly and freely express:
and sources for the quotes below can be found here)
"The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself."
- Club of Rome,
premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations
"We need to get some broad based support,
to capture the public's imagination...
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any doubts...
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being effective and being honest."
- Prof. Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
lead author of many IPCC reports
"We've got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation
"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment
"The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations
on the data. We're basing them on the climate models."
- Prof. Chris Folland,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
"The models are convenient fictions
that provide something very useful."
- Dr David Frame,
climate modeler, Oxford University
"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts
on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."
- Al Gore,
Climate Change activist
"It doesn't matter what is true,
it only matters what people believe is true."
- Paul Watson,
co-founder of Greenpeace
"The only way to get our society to truly change is to
frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
- emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and
spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest
opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level."
- Al Gore,
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
"We are on the verge of a global transformation.
All we need is the right major crisis..."
- David Rockefeller,
Club of Rome executive member
"Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the
world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a
major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system
into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods,
droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have
ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making."
- Al Gore,
An Inconvenient Truth
"We are getting close to catastrophic tipping points,
despite the fact that most people barely notice the warming yet."
- Dr James Hansen,
NASA researcher
"By the end of this century climate change will reduce the human
population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Revenge of Gaia
"Climate Change will result in a catastrophic global sea level
rise of seven meters. That's bye-bye most of Bangladesh,
Netherlands, Florida and would make London the new Atlantis."
- Greenpeace International
"This planet is on course for a catastrophe.
The existence of Life itself is at stake."
- Dr Tim Flannery,
Principal Research Scientist
"Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming.
It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world."
- Harry Reid,
U.S. Senate majority leader
"Climate Change is the greatest threat that
human civilization has ever faced."
- Angela Merkel,
German Chancellor
"Climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here,
and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new
global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster."
- Barack Obama,
US President
"We simply must do everything we can in our power to
slow down global warming before it is too late."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Governor of California
"Climate change should be seen as the
greatest challenge to ever face mankind."
- Prince Charles
"Climate change makes us all global citizens,
we are truly all in this together."
- Gordon Brown,
British Prime Minister
"We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change.
Failure to act to now would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible.
We urgently require a global environmental revolution."
- Tony Blair,
former British PM
"We are close to a time when all of humankind
will envision a global agenda that encompasses
a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the
causes of poverty and suffering and
environmental destruction all over the earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"In Nature organic growth proceeds according
to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. Such a 'master plan' is
missing from the process of growth and development of
the world system. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for
sustainable growth and world development based on global
allocation of all resources and a new global economic system.
Ten or twenty years form today it will probably be too late."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point
"We need a new paradigm of development in
which the environment will be a priority.
World civilization as we know it will soon end.
We have very little time and we must act.
If we can address the environmental problem,
it will have to be done within a new system, a
new paradigm. We have to change our mindset,
the way humankind views the world."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
founder of Green Cross International
"The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable,
indeed a sacred principle of international relations.
It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to
the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation."
- UN Commission on Global Governance report
"Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and
it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely.
Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well
suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature
of many of today's problems do not always allow elected
representatives to make competent decisions at the right time."
- Club of Rome,
The First Global Revolution
"The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization
and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global
community will inevitably have multiple political consequences.
Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change
in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must
assume some aspects of a world government."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum
"I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to
be a new form of the ten commandments.
They lay the foundation for a sustainable
global earth community."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
co-author of The Earth Charter
"In my view, after fifty years of service in the United Nations system,
I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper
Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present
political and economic systems are no longer appropriate
and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet.
We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways."
- Dr Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General,
"Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty
to the international community and beginning to create a
new system of international environmental governance
as a means of solving otherwise unmanageable crises."
- Lester Brown,
WorldWatch Institute
"Regionalism must precede globalism.
We foresee a seamless system of governance from
local communities, individual states, regional unions
and up through to the United Nations itself."
- UN Commission on Global Governance
"A keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that
fundamental changes will have to take place in the world order
and its power structures, in the distribution of wealth and income.
Perhaps only a new and enlightened humanism
can permit mankind to negotiate this transition."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point
"The alternative to the existing world order can only
emerge as a result of a new human dimension of progress.
We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way of thinking."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum
"We require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily.
Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations,
rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of
appeasement, designed to satisfy the public's desire to believe that
sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation
of society will not be necessary."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"Adopting a central organizing principle...
means embarking on an all-out effort to use every
policy and program, every law and institution...
to halt the destruction of the environment."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound
reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world
has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both
governments and individuals and an unprecedented
redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift
will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences
of every human action be integrated into individual and
collective decision-making at every level."
- UN Agenda 21
"The current course of development is thus clearly unsustainable.
Current problems cannot be solved by piecemeal measures.
More of the same is not enough. Radical change from the
current trajectory is not an option, but an absolute necessity.
Fundamental economic, social and cultural changes that
address the root causes of poverty and environmental
degradation are required and they are required now."
– from the Earth Charter website
"The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society,
which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope."
- David Brower,
founder of Friends of the Earth
"If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of
saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have
an ecologically sound society under socialism.
I don't think it is possible under capitalism"
- Judi Bari,
principal organiser of Earth First!
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"
- Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme
"A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the
United States. De-development means bringing our
economic system into line with the realities of
ecology and the world resource situation."
- Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population Studies
"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another
United States. We can't let other countries have the same
number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US.
We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are."
- Michael Oppenheimer,
Environmental Defense Fund
"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty,
reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control."
- Professor Maurice King
"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place
for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and
plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams,
free shackled rivers and return to wilderness
millions of acres of presently settled land."
- David Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!
"Complex technology of any sort is an assault on
human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to
discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy,
because of what we might do with it."
- Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
"The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the
worst thing that could happen to the planet."
- Jeremy Rifkin,
Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the
equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."
- Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
"Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath
the surface of the earth is a willful expansion
of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many,
doing too well economically and burning too much oil."
– Sir James Lovelock,
BBC Interview
"My three main goals would be to reduce human population to
about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure
and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species,
returning throughout the world."
-Dave Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!
"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the
affluent middle class - involving high meat intake,
use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning,
and suburban housing - are not sustainable."
- Maurice Strong,
Rio Earth Summit
"Mankind is the most dangerous, destructive,
selfish and unethical animal on the earth."
- Michael Fox,
vice-president of The Humane Society
"Human beings, as a species,
have no more value than slugs."
- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
"Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a
pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Healing Gaia
"The Earth has cancer
and the cancer is Man."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point
"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells;
the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people.
We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to
the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many
apparently brutal and heartless decisions.''
- Prof Paul Ehrlich,
The Population Bomb
"I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history,
but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in
the number of game animals and the need to adjust
the cull to the size of the surplus population."
- Prince Philip,
preface of Down to Earth
"A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society
at the present North American material standard of living
would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard
of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
- United Nations,
Global Biodiversity Assessment
"A total population of 250-300 million people,
a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
- Ted Turner,
founder of CNN and major UN donor
"... the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence
more than 500 million but less than one billion."
- Club of Rome,
Goals for Mankind
"One America burdens the earth much more than
twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say.
In order to stabilize world population,we must eliminate
350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say,
but it's just as bad not to say it."
- Jacques Cousteau,
UNESCO Courier
"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth
as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
patron of the World Wildlife Fund
"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong.
It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."
- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
"The extinction of the human species may not
only be inevitable but a good thing."
- Christopher Manes, Earth First!
"The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival
for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species.
Phasing out the human race will solve every
problem on Earth - social and environmental."
- Ingrid Newkirk,
former President of PETA
"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against
society, unless the parents hold a government license.
All potential parents should be required to use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing
antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
- David Brower,
first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
"The fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon
the emergence of a new faith in the future.
Armed with such a faith, we might find
it possible to resanctify the earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and
scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament
and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of
international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope."
- Club of Rome,
Goals for Mankind
"What an incredible planet in the universe this will be
when we will be one human family living in justice,
peace, love and harmony with our divine Earth,
with each other and with the heavens."
- Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General
"The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on
her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human
species has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution....
Our salvation depends upon our ability
to create a religion of nature."
- Rene Dubos,
board member, Planetary Citizens
"Each element, plant, insect, fish and animal
represents a certain aspect of Gaia's - and our - being.
In a way, we are Gaia's intelligence and awareness
- currently lost in self-destructive madness.
We must acknowledge, respect and love her for being
the Mother she is to us or we deny our very selves.
Nurture the Mother as she nurtures us."
- Prof. Michael J. Cohen,
"It is the responsibility of each human being today to
choose between the force of darkness and the force of light.
We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed
respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature."
- Maurice Strong,
first Secretary General of UNEP
"The spirit of our planet is stirring!
The Consciousness of Goddess Earth
is now rising against all odds,
in spite of millennia of suppression,
repression and oppression inflicted on Her
by a hubristic and misguided humanity.
The Earth is a living entity, a biological organism
with psychic and spiritual dimensions.
With the expansion of the patriarchal religions
that focused on a male God majestically
stationed in Heaven ruling over the Earth and the
Universe, the memory of our planet's innate Divinity
was repressed and banished into the
collective unconscious of humanity."
- Envision Earth
"Still more important is the implication that the evolution of
homo sapiens, with his technological inventiveness and his
increasingly subtle communications network, has vastly increased
Gaia's range of perception. She is now through us awake and aware
of herself. She has seen the reflection of her fair face through the
eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting spacecraft.
Our sensations of wonder and pleasure, our capacity
for conscious thought and speculation, our restless curiosity and
drive are hers to share. This new interrelationship of Gaia with man
is by no means fully established; we are not yet a truly collective
species, corralled and tamed as an integral part of the biosphere,
as we are as individual creatures. It may be that the destiny of
mankind is to become tamed, so that the fierce, destructive, and
greedy forces of tribalism and nationalism are fused into a
compulsive urge to belong to the commonwealth of all
creatures which constitutes Gaia."
– Sir James Lovelock,
Gaia: A New Look At Life
"Little by little a planetary prayer book is
thus being composed by an increasingly united
humanity seeking its oneness. Once again,
but this time on a universal scale, humankind is
seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,'
its transcendence into higher forms of life. Hindus
call our earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly
see no difference between our earth and the divine.
This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again upon
humanity, as we are about to enter our cosmic age
and become what we were always meant to be:
the planet of god."
- Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General
"What if Mary is another name for Gaia? Then her capacity for
virgin birth is no miracle . . . it is a role of Gaia since life began . . .
She is of this Universe and, conceivably, a part of God. On Earth,
she is the source of life everlasting and is alive now;
she gave birth to humankind and we are part of her."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Ages of Gaia
"Nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred;
trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
Green Cross International
"The spiritual sense of our place in nature...
can be traced to the origins of human civilization....
The last vestige of organized goddess worship
was eliminated by Christianity."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed,
we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition."
- Peter Singer, founder of Animal Rights
"I pledge allegiance to the Earth and all its sacred parts.
Its water, land and living things and all its human hearts."
- Global Education Associates,
The Earth Pledge
"By fostering a deep sense of connection to others and to the earth
in all its dimensions, holistic education encourages a sense of
responsibility to self to others and to the planet."
- Global Alliance for Transforming Education
"The earth is not dead matter. She is alive.
Now begin to speak to the earth as you walk.
You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your mind.
Send your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your
heart touching upon the heart of the planet. Say to her
whatever words come to you: Mother Earth, I love you.
Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May all
your creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth.
On behalf of the human race, I ask forgiveness
for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother Earth"
- US Student Textbook,
"Prayer to the Earth"


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Day 3: Ex-detainees allege that U.S. troops abused Quran
KUWAIT CITY — Former Guantanamo detainees told McClatchy that American soldiers and interrogators mistreated the Quran in detention facilities at Bagram Air Base, Kandahar Airfield and Guantanamo.
Former detainees interviewed in Jordan, Russia, Kuwait, Pakistan and Afghanistan said that from late 2001 to early 2002, soldiers at Kandahar dropped Qurans into buckets used as latrines.
"I saw the soldiers, many times, drop the Quran on the floor, in the garbage and in buckets of feces," said Airat Vakhitov, a Russian who was held at Kandahar for about six months in 2002 before he was transferred to Guantanamo. "I approached a guard one time and said it was no good to do this because it would provoke unrest amongst the prisoners; that while we were unarmed, this book was the most holy thing in the world for us, and that it would be better for them if they stopped doing these things."
It's an incendiary allegation: A 2005 Newsweek magazine report that Qurans were dumped in toilets at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp — which the magazine later retracted — sparked riots in Afghanistan and other countries that killed more than a dozen people.
The stories of mistreatment of the Quran at Guantanamo were repeated and exaggerated so many times by detainees or militants looking to stir up trouble in the cellblocks, however, that it was impossible to pinpoint the truth.
A U.S. military investigation of Quran-abuse allegations in the aftermath of the 2005 riots documented nine incidents of alleged mishandling of the Quran at Guantanamo, five of which were confirmed. The investigation didn't include Bagram or Kandahar.
In a Justice Department study released May 20, the FBI said its agents on two occasions witnessed "disrespectful statements, handling or actions involving the Quran" at Guantanamo. Detainees reported 19 additional instances of such abuse to FBI agents, and in 10 more cases the reports were relayed by "others," a category that wasn't defined.
The issue of Qurans and latrine buckets at Kandahar was one of 15 questions that McClatchy submitted to the Defense Department for comment. Senior defense officials repeatedly turned down requests for interviews, but Pentagon spokesman Col. Gary Keck said, "We heard many times the allegations about Qurans thrown into buckets that were used as latrines. There have been some (instances) where it's been substantiated, I think."
Afterward, Keck quickly sent an e-mail to the reporter saying that he assumed that the conversation wasn't for reporting purposes.
Told that the reporter considered all conversations with public affairs officials to be on the record — but that there were no immediate plans to use the interview material — Keck sent a second note, saying, "My only concern here is that I have researched nothing specifically on the information we discussed, so if you need an on-the-record quote, I would have to try to determine the facts. I was speaking in general on the subject of detention operations, it is not my expertise. I would hate for you to use inaccurate information."
Keck didn't supply any additional information in subsequent conversations.
The only nongovernmental agency allowed to visit Kandahar was the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Officials at the main Red Cross office in Kabul said they weren't able to comment on previous findings at installations such as Kandahar. To do so would violate the impartial standing that allows the committee access, said Michael O'Brien, a spokesman.


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Who let the dogs out?
Man's best friend can be of immense comfort to the sick, instinctively knowing when to cuddle, when to nuzzle with a cold, wet nose, and when to smother the master's face with sloppy, wet kisses. And the mere thought of any dog losing its life to abuse or because it's not a cute puppy anymore is too much for many people to bear.
Dogs, knowingly or not, helped raise money for two worthy causes by joining their humans for a Bow Wow Benefit at Saks Galleries in Cherry Creek North. Proceeds went to the Diana Price-Fish Cancer Foundation and MaxFund Animal Adoption Center.
The Diana Price-Fish Cancer Foundation serves adults undergoing cancer treatment by providing welcome diversions to the seemingly daily doses of medicine, doctors' appointments, and pain. The foundation offers activities ranging from a meal at a favorite restaurant to mountain get-aways or tickets to a movie or sporting event.
MaxFund is a no-kill shelter whose four-legged guests often have been the victims of cruelty or neglect.
The Bow Wow Benefit was billed as Denver's first all-dog, all-donated art show and sale. Curator Candice Pulliam put together an exhibition of dog-themed works by about 70 local artists, including Rita Derjue, Kim English, Meg Ingraham,Ralph Nagel, Paty Ortiz, Jill Soukup, Michelle Torrez and Robert Wogrin, for the guests to enjoy.
There were treats for both dogs and their humans, and the chance to meet many of the contributing artists.
The benefit was planned by Felicia Diamond, founder and secretary of the Diana Price-Fish Cancer Foundation board; Rebecca Gershten, Jennifer Nicholas, Pulliam and gallery owner Catherine Saks.
Sponsors included Steve and Linda Wheeler; and their dog, Sadie Blu; Three Tomatoes Catering and Saks Galleries.
Pictures taken at the Bow Wow Benefit can be viewed at denverpost.com/SeenGallery.
Society Editor Joanne Davidson could really identify with this benefit seeing's how she has four dogs of her own: Millie, a terrier mix; Ling, a Pekingese; Diego, a Chihuahua; and Ty, a black Lab. Three of the four are rescue dogs; Ty was purchased at an auction benefiting the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Joanne's column appears every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. She can be reached at 303-809-1314 or email@example.com.


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A licensed naturopathic physician (ND) attends a four-year, graduate-level naturopathic medical school and is educated in all of the same basic sciences as an MD, but also studies holistic and nontoxic approaches to therapy with a strong emphasis on disease prevention and optimizing wellness. In addition to a standard medical curriculum, the naturopathic physician also studies clinical nutrition, homeopathic medicine, botanical medicine, psychology, and counseling. A naturopathic physician takes rigorous professional board exams so that he or she may be licensed by a state or jurisdiction as a primary care general practice physician. Please see the AANMC's Professional Competency Profile for more information.
Additional information on naturopathic schools can be found on the American Association of Naturopathic Medical Colleges Web site.
American Association of Naturopathic Medical Colleges
The Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges (AANMC) was established in February 2001 to propel and foster the naturopathic medical profession by actively supporting the academic efforts of accredited and recognized schools of naturopathic medicine. AANMC offers seven accredited naturopathic medical programs and eight campus locations in North America.
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Lumpy's Links for 2017-01-08
Lumpy's Links for 2017-01-08
Welcome to the new year and my first issue of my links for 2017.
Due to my most recent change of schedule, I am going to start publishing this on Sundays and not Fridays. It shall be that way at least till February. Then we shall have to see what schedule I have from there. This is being done so I actually have the time to put out better quality material.
The categories are (click on the category to jump right to it):
- Ludicrous – Funny, odd, strange, bizarre or humorous
- Useful – Software, references, lists, etc.,
- Music – Music, music tech, music videos and album releases
- Photos – Pictures, drawings, animation and videos
- Yours – Something from email or social media
- Science – Anything science or technology related
Extra stuff is tossed into the Leftovers
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The Atlanta Falcons have cut 12 players, including former Doherty High standout Yawin Smallwood, a linebacker drafted in the seventh round out of the University of Connecticut, and running back Josh Vaughan.
The cuts left the Falcons with 63 players. The team must make 10 more cuts by today's 4 p.m. deadline.
Among other players released were wide receiver Freddie Martino, who caught a 67-yard touchdown pass in Thursday night's 24-14 preseason win at Jacksonville, and veteran linebacker Pat Angerer, a former starter with the Colts.
Hill rises in Cincinnati
Former Patriots running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis was released by the Bengals, among a handful of players out of jobs — for now — as NFL teams started to trim their rosters to get down to the mandatory 53 players by this afternoon.
The move on Green-Ellis was anticipated after the Bengals drafted LSU's Jeremy Hill in the second round.
Green-Ellis was Cincinnati's leading rusher each of the last two seasons. His role was reduced last year when Giovani Bernard was added to the backfield. Green-Ellis ran for 756 yards and a career-low 3.4 yards per carry. He was entering the final year on his contract.
The Bengals wanted another pass-catching threat out of the backfield. Hill carried 20 times for 90 yards and caught a team-high six passes for 70 yards during a 35-7 preseason win over Indianapolis on Thursday.
Bye to longtime punter
Also among the announced cuts were Buffalo punter Brian Moorman and quarterback Jordan Palmer, Jacksonville center Mike Brewster and Chicago running back Jordan Lynch, a former Heisman trophy finalist as a quarterback at Northern Illinois.
Moorman, a 13-year veteran who spent 12 seasons in Buffalo, is out for the second time with the Bills. After being cut by the team in 2012, he re-signed with the Bills last October, but struggled this preseason, averaging 40.25 yards.
Palmer, signed Tuesday, had a bad outing in the Bills' preseason finale, going 9 of 22 for 73 yards and three interceptions in a 23-0 loss to Detroit. He was cut by the Bears last weekend.
Also released by the Bills were: cornerbacks Kamaal McIlwain and Sam Miller, linebacker Xavius Boyd, defensive tackle Landon Cohen, tight end Dominique Jones, fullback Evan Rodriguez, receiver Naaman Roosevelt and center Jared Wheeler.
Barth out in Tampa Bay
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers released Connor Barth, the most accurate kicker in franchise history.
An 84 percent career field goal kicker in five NFL seasons with Kansas City and the Bucs, Barth missed all of 2013 after tearing the Achilles tendon in his right foot during a charity basketball game.
Rookie Patrick Murray replaces Barth, who made a club-record 92.9 percent of his field goal attempts in 2011, when he hit 26 of 28. He set a team single-season mark with six of 50-plus yards in 2012, and led the NFL with 33 field goals of 40-plus yards over those two seasons.
Barth, 28, was headed toward the second season of a four-year, $13.2 million contract when he was injured during a charity basketball game in his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina.
He began kicking again last October and by January rebuilt strength in his right leg to the point he said he was hitting 61-yard field goals.
NFL suspends Smith
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was suspended for nine games by the NFL after a series of off-field legal issues.
A statement from the league said Smith had violated the NFL's substance abuse and personal conduct policies.
Smith won't be eligible to return until Nov. 10, the day after the 49ers' game against the New Orleans Saints.
''Our organization has known this decision would come and we have prepared for it as a team,'' 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement.
''Aldon has taken responsibility for his actions and has continued to show growth personally and professionally. We will continue to support him, but it is time to put this matter behind us and focus on the season ahead.''
The 24-year-old Smith, one of the NFL's top pass rushers, missed five games last season to undergo treatment at an in-patient facility following his DUI arrest Sept. 20.
Just before training camp began last month, the 24-year-old Smith was sentenced to serve three years of probation and to spend 11 days with a work crew after he pleaded no contest to drunken driving and weapons charges.
Simpson punished again
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jerome Simpson was suspended for three games for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy, his second such punishment in three seasons.
The league announced the punishment Friday, putting Simpson on the sideline without pay until Sept. 22 when the Vikings begin practice for a Week 4 matchup with Atlanta.
He won't count against the 53-man active roster until then, creating an opportunity for Adam Thielen and Rodney Smith, both of whom spent last year on the practice squad as undrafted rookies, to survive the final cuts and make the team for now.
Simpson will sit out games against St. Louis, New England and New Orleans. Cordarrelle Patterson and Greg Jennings are the top two wide receivers, with Jarius Wright the only other player with NFL experience at the position.
Harrison still off field
Outside linebacker James Harrison met with the Arizona Cardinals on Friday but won't sign with the team because the two sides couldn't agree on a contract.
Harrison's agent, William Parise, said Harrison had a physical and met with coach Bruce Arians but a deal broke down over money.
The 36-year-old Harrison played last year with Cincinnati, starting in 10 games and getting two sacks.
Harrison played his first nine NFL seasons with the Steelers before going to Cincinnati.


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Inquiry Question
The following activities will help students to understand some of the issues involved in the use of parks.
Activity 1: Use a Park or Preserve It?
Divide the class into two groups. Group 1 represents those who would restrict the number of visitors allowed into the park in order to conserve the land as it is. Students in this group should consider what their position would be on building a road, for instance. Construction would damage the landscape, but might confine the largest number of visitors to specific areas of the park, protecting other areas against excessive visitation. Group 2 takes the position of those who believe that as Americans who pay taxes to support parks they have the right to use the facilities when and as they choose. Students in this group should consider what they would be willing to do to accommodate unlimited visitation--the cost and impact of constructing campgrounds and other accommodations, insuring safety and security, expanding existing roadways to be used by more cars and recreational vehicles. What would they do to ensure that what people came to see was not destroyed by the very people who came to see it?
Have each group develop and present at least three arguments for their assigned point of view. After both sets of arguments have been presented, ask all students to list the kinds of work that are needed to make a park more accessible and to accommodate visitors, and those that are needed to protect the park's natural resources from overuse or abuse. For example, to make a park more accessible, students should consider road construction and maintenance, operation of hotels and stores, trash collection, security, and police. For concerns about conservation, students might consider security people to enforce regulations and the use of biologists, geologists, and others to study and monitor the well-being of the park's natural resources. In either case, do students think we should count on visitors to protect parks voluntarily, or do we need specific regulations?
Activity 2: Working in a Park
Activity 3: Investigating the Local Community
After they explore the subject, ask your students to use what they've learned and the information they've gathered to create a chart comparing and contrasting the creation of the local road with the creation of the Going-to-the-Sun road. They should consider the similar or different purposes, environmental concerns, costs, controversies, tools used for planning and construction -- as well as the methods and materials used during those stages -- and organizations that oversaw construction for both roads.


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India is gaining popularity among international travelers with every passing day. This country is now one of the most preferred Asian destinations for the foreign tourists. More than 10 million tourists from all around the globe visit India every year. They love to experience the vibrant and rich Indian heritage. They find peace while travelling and experiencing the Ghats, and meadows.
The tourists find some sort of distinct happiness while touring in India that makes it impossible for them to restrict it for too long, and they keep coming back over and again to re-experience India's rich culture. For those visiting the country for the first time, here are the best 5 Indian places to visit.
- Unfold the Romantic History of Agra
If you wish to witness eternal divinity, then Agra is probably the best place to visit. You can experience the grandeur of epic TajMahal, which is without any doubt the best Mughal monument depicting the undying love. It was built in the remembrance of Shah Jahan's beloved wife MumtazMahal. It was declared as the world heritage site by UNESCO in the year 1983. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The TajMahal has the ability to take away the hearts of the sightseers. Few other Mughal monuments of equal great importance are situated nearby such as Agra Fort and FatehpurSikri. Agra has rich mughal history, which one would love to explore.
- Kashmir- A Paradise on Earth
As a tourist, you should never miss to visit Kashmir. It is an exquisite and the most beautiful valley situated in North India. Kashmir has been gifted with the most beautiful natural assets like sonmarg, pahalgam, gulmarg and Srinagar. It truly is a paradise on earth. It is often referred to as Switzerland of Asia by the tourists. The Dal Lake is a must-visit place and you would love to experience it by riding in the local shikaras, which are the houseboats of Kashmir.
- The Beautiful Delhi
Delhi is India's capital and one of the most travelled and busiest cities in India. It holds lot of tourist attractions such as QutubMinar, India Gate, LalQuilla, Lotus Temple, PuranaQuilla, ChandniChowk, Rajghat and more. This place is rich in Indian history.
- The Lovely Goa
Goa is the land of Portuguese warrens that hold the amazing view of rising Western Ghats. It is rich in sea food and a little of Portuguese influence. It is one of the most visited beach tourist destinations in India, which is considered to be the top spot with amazing nightlife.
- The Natural Beauty of Kerala
Kerala is famous as God's own country, since this place is rich in natural scenic beauty and backwaters. It is blessed with natural heritage and surrounded by greenery from everywhere. It is a place, which is too hard to miss. You can make use of Traveloka.com to plan your tour to India. You would also be glad to know that it offers various great deals on trips and tours to foreign countries also; Traveloka regularly publishes Sriwijaya Air promo tickets that you can make use of.


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Lyrics:First verseMister Brown, Mister Brown had a violin, Went around, all around with his violin. Lawdy, how he play'd it, away'd it made it moan so beautiful; Anna Lize, Anna Lize heard his violin, Roll'd her eyes, roll'd her eyes at his violin, Lawdy, how he lov'd 'er, turtled doved 'er, When Anna would cry.ChorusFiddle up, fiddle up on your violin, Lay right on it, rest your chin upon it, Doggone you better begin, And play an overture upon your violin; Hurry up, hurry up with your violin, Make it sooner, don't you stop to tune 'er, Fid, fid, fid, fiddle the middle of your ragtime violinSecond verseMister Brown, Mister Brown at a fancy ball, Sat around, sat around, sat around the hall. Wouldn't take a chance to dance, because the band was terrible; Anna Lize, Anna Lize hit upon a plan, Roll'd her eyes, Roll'd her eyes, roll'd her eyes at the leader man, Took his fiddle down to Mister Brown, to Just kiss him and cry.(Chorus)
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Free, arts-based, weekly group for adults living with severe and persistent mental illness. The group is a safe space for creative and reflective work, and to celebrate ourselves as artists rather than as damaged people, continually challenging the stigma that shapes our public conversation about mental illness. Members have individual therapists in addition to participating in the group.
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Faye – the Waitress
108 cut out images of Faye the waitress. Dozens of poses photographed from multiple angles allow you to tell a visual story with Faye in your eLearning course or presentation. We've gone through the tedious task of removing all of the backgrounds for you so that you can drop Faye onto any background with other characters of your choice to create a custom scene.


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Greenpeace activists scaled Microsoft's building in Herzliya, Israel this week to call on the company to stop using 19th-century coal to power its 21st-century cloud platform.
The activists displayed a 100 square meter banner with a replica of the Microsoft operating system error message along with the text "Stop Using Coal!" in English and "Clean up your cloud from coal" in Hebrew.
Following the launch of Greenpeace's Clean Our Cloud campaign, Microsoft said last month that it would put an internal price on its carbon usage and adopt a goal of "carbon neutrality". This was a clear step that showed Microsoft has started to listen to its customers who want a clean cloud.
But the devil is in the details, and the details show that Microsoft's actions so far may help to clean up its reputation, but are failing to clean up its cloud.
Microsoft's "carbon neutral" plan allows it to keep building data centres that rely on coal, such as its new investments in Virginia and Wyoming in the United States, yet claim to be carbon neutral by buying renewable energy credits (RECs).
RECs are a method of carbon offsets that allow companies to pay for credits that supposedly help finance other renewable energy projects, while not receiving the actual electricity from that project. In other words, Microsoft's use of RECs means that no less coal is burned and no more renewable energy is produced to power its cloud.
Apple is pursuing a similar strategy to try to quell the controversy over its data centre in North Carolina.
Like Apple, Microsoft has far better clean energy options than simply paying to paper over its coal problem. Google, for example, has invested more than $900 million in clean energy investments without the use of RECs and is actively pushing for stronger clean energy and climate policies. Facebook has a specific policy expressing a preference for renewable energy when it builds new data centres.
If Microsoft matched or exceeded those efforts, it would catalyze a shift from dirty to clean electricity and create the scale of positive change that Microsoft could be proud of.
Microsoft's new internal carbon fee could hold the most promise for the company's growth as a clean energy leader. Microsoft is saying that since there is no effective price on carbon in the external world, it will charge a fee to its own departments and operations for how much carbon they use.
It's a good idea, and hopefully it will lead to an improvement in Microsoft's decision making and prompt it to actively advocate for effective carbon pricing policies from the US government. After all, if Microsoft can do it, surely it can ask the government to do the same.
But if Microsoft's internal carbon fee and new "carbon neutral" goal result only in more carbon offsets, then both will be wasted opportunities.
Microsoft should move quickly to back up its rhetoric by committing to renewable energy for its growing data centre fleet without the use of RECs, and using its influence to demand a shift away from dirty energy, as Google and Facebook have already done.
David Pomerantz is a media officer for Greenpeace's work to push technology companies to lead the shift to a prosperous clean energy economy.
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Dance Competitions
Search Competitions by Name, City, State & Date here.
*Click on each competition to view their website.
Looking for a dance convention? Check this list here: Dance Conventions
Act 1 Talent
American Dance Awards
Applause Talent
Beyond The Stars Competition
Boogie Fever USA
Bravo! National Dance & Talent Competition
Cathy Roe Ultimate Dance
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Creation Dance Championships
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Fusion Dance Competition
Groove Competition
Hall of Fame Dance Challenge
I Love Dance
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Legacy Dance Championships
Masquerade Dance Competition
Move Productions
National Dance Showcase
Nexstar Competition
Odyssey Dance Competition
On Point Dance Competition
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Platinum Performing Arts Competition
Power of Dance
Rainbow Connection
Revolution Talent Competition
Rising Star Talent
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Showtime Dance Challenge
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Spotlight Dance Cup
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Starbound National Talent Competition
Starpower Talent
Starquest Dance
Symposium Talent
Take Centerstage Dance Challenge
Talent On Parade
That's Enterainment Performing Arts Competition
Thunderstruck Dance
Ticket to Broadway
Turn It Up Dance Challenge
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Wild About Dance
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Hey Shawn -
Remember that day I accidentally put the dry-clean-only pants to your good suit in the washing machine? And then not realizing my mistake I put them in the dryer and the hem fell out, the waistband frayed and they shrunk beyond recognition?
And then my car slid backwards down the driveway and got stuck in the snow?
And then you left for a business trip in Frankfurt and realized you had Hannah's car seat in your car after you'd already driven for two hours?
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Gamescom 2011 exhibitor numbers up 20% on 2010
Gamescom's organiser has said the current number of registered exhibitors for this year's show is up 20 percent on the same point last year. Plus, the trade and consumer event will welcome Mexican exhibitors with a new country-specific pavilion.
Leipziger Messe headlines
Official: Games Convention is dead
Leipziger Messe's just confirmed that Games Convention is officially dead. The 2009 event, originally planned for August 20-23, has been cancelled. The news ends Games Convention as was, one of the largest games shows in the world. Launched in 2002, the fair was an epic event, and by far the most important annual show in […]
North American GC Canada-bound?
According to this Gamekyo piece, Game Convention owner Leipziger Messe said this morning that the show's promised North American version may be held in Canada as opposed to the US. "We'll decide about the place of the new event in cooperation with the games industry," said a rep. "It seems to become a city in […]
Frank Sliwka to leave Leipziger Messe
According to this GI story, Frank Sliwka, the organiser of GCDC and GCAC, is to leave Leipziger Messe for Global Games Media, a marketing and communication company. "I spent wonderful years with Leipziger Messe," he said. "However, I'm now looking forward to starting from October onwards a new challenge as the CEO of Global Games […]
Gamescom's "ridiculous," says Leipzig boss
This isn't going to get any simpler, is it? Speaking to MCV, Games Convention boss Wolfgang Marzin has trashed 2009 Cologne show gamescom as a "ridiculous" idea. "We know the truth," he told MCV. "We've already proved that GC works, and we have trade backing – nobody wants a show in September. Another copy of […]
Games Convention fixes sights on North America
We already have proof positive that Leipzig is to remain GC's central base of operations, but the super-sized convention may soon be expanding its empire onto North American shores. "The concept is flexible and the network of the global games industry permits us to be active at different locations. After the Southeast Asian Games Convention, […]
It's so on: Games Convention 2009 officially dated
According to the official GC site, Leipziger Messe has officially dated Games Convention 2009, which is to run from August 19-23, 2009. To say this "puts the cat among the pigeons" is a bit of an understatement. The BIU – the German equivalent of ESA or ELSPA – has announced GamesCOM for 2009, a Cologne […]
Record number of visitors hit Games Convention on Saturday
According to this EG.de post, Leipziger Messe's confirmed that 81,000 people visited Games Convention yesterday, more than 11,000 visitors up on the same day in the previous year. Since Wednesday – the press day – more than 170,500 people have visited the show, and with today still to go it looks as though GC08 will […]
Leipziger Messe announces direct charter flight from UK to Games Convention
According to this MCV story, Leipziger Messe's announced direct flights from Luton to Leipzig for Games Convention this year, for the bargain price of €250. Charter flights of Windrose Air Jetcharter leave on Tuesday evening (August 19th) at 6.00pm BST and Thursday morning (August 21st) at 6.00am BST from Luton Airport. It's a two-hour flight. […]
Games Convention will happen in Leipzig in 2009, says Messe
Leipziger Messe just put out a press release spelling out in 40-foot high letters than Games Convention will still take place in Leipzig in 2009. From the missive: In response to individual reports in the media in recent months claiming that the GC – Games Convention 2009 would be held elsewhere, the Leipziger Messe boss […]
Confirmed: Games Convention moved to Cologne, renamed GAMESCom
Breaking news from the Leipzig press conference. Leipziger Messe has just confirmed that Games Convention as we know it is no more, and that the event has been moved to Cologne for 2009. Its new name is GAMESCom. Update: Eurogamer.de's just published this. The new show is being moved from August to September. Better travel […]
Games Convention press conference 10am Monday, confusion over new name
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David Grabitske is the manager of outreach services at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Legacy Funding for History
Members of the history community in Minnesota will gather on December 10, 11 and 15 to discuss the recently approved constitutional amendment and what may happen next.
What is known:
The constitutional amendment to increase and dedicate sales tax funds for outdoor and cultural resources passed in the November election with 56% of the vote.
"Minnesota history" is contained within the constitutional language. History funding is contained within the "Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund."
According to the Department of Revenue's latest estimate, the Arts and Cultural Heritage fund will contain approximately $54 million per year.
Funds will ultimately be appropriated by the legislature.
Language within this new section of the constitution states that funding from this fund shall supplement existing sources of funding, but not be a substitute.
What is not known:
It is not clear how much money will be allocated to the various areas within the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, or by what mechanism funds will be allocated (i.e. citizens' council, direct appropriation, etc.)
What can you do:
- Propose how the funding could be used. Specifically, what needs are there?
- Attend one of three meetings (same content, three locations): RSVP to David Kelliher
- 7 p.m. December 10, 2008 at the Nicollet County Historical Society in St. Peter 7 p.m.
- December 11, 2008 at the Stearns History Museum in St. Cloud 3 p.m. December 15, 2008 at
- Historic Fort Snelling Visitor Center near the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport
- Attend "History Matters Day at the Capitol" on February 16, 2009.
If you would prefer to deliver your thoughts without posting them to this blog, please email David Kelliher at the Minnesota Historical Society who volunteered to compile comments for the Council for Minnesota Archaeology, Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums, Minnesota Historical Society, and Preservation Alliance of Minnesota.
12 Responses to Legacy Funding for History
Claudia Nicholson says:
Since I will not be able to attend any of the planning sessions, I'll give it a shot. I would love to see at least part of this fund go towards a General Operating Support grant program, along the lines of what IMLS got rid of. GOS is the hardest money to raise, and the most critical.
A little bit of money could go a long way in a program like this. Let's say that institutions could request up to 5% of their annual operating budget, capped at, say, $50,000 (for the real bigs). For us, this would be a little over $10,000. It would make a huge difference for us, and I'm sure it would for other organizations as well.
The criteria could be similar to the IMLS program: general excellence and adherence to accepted standards.
That's what I'd like.
June Lynne says:
I think that there needs to be some funding set aside for preservation of our historic buildings. I have heard several good ideas and agree with them, but funds for preservation are so limited, and the preservation of our structures are vital to our history. Simiplification of the process would also be important.
Yes to Claudia, yes to June.
To add to Claudia's thoughts, 5% for us would be around $5K. That amount would be a tremendous lift at is would allow us to engage in the activities that we often have to put off. New display cases (boy are those spendy!), upgrading technology (love my color laser printer, but after ten years, starting to show its age), collections storage stuff, and even books for our library can get deferred when the funds are tight. I do believe that a peer review process like what IMLS did for GOS and does for MFA could be put together.
No doubt there will be many good ideas coming forward in the next few months. My curiosity will be to see what kind of procedures the legislature puts into place to handle the funds as they accumulate. Which committee(s) will steer the funds. How will groups have to apply for those funds. Etc.
tamara edevold says:
i see two "needs"
technology- we need scanners, projectors, lap tops, smart boards, all those 21st century things that we don't all have.
we also need building upgrades: energy efficient windows, insulation, better furnaces. many museums were built so long ago these things need replacing and now is the time to do it.
funds for these would free up funds for programs
Mary Warner says:
My concern is that all of our historical organizations have needs, from the largest to the smallest. How do we make sure funding is distributed equitably across the spectrum? How do we make sure that Greater Minnesota is not short shrifted due to having less population than metro areas?
Marcia Anderson says:
If it's true "that funding from this fund shall supplement existing sources of funding, but not be a substitute" then I'd like to suggest that some sort of grant program emphasize (as one of its components) projects that are institutional collaborations. Collaboration could result in a blending of available resources, & enable regional activities (thereby saving on advertising, etc.). Using this approach it's possible that some of the existing needs mentioned previously would be eligible for funding. I believe, especially in Minnesota where the cultural resources are so plentiful, more collaborative projects are overdue anyway.
As we move forward in this process, let's be mindful that there are other groups who are now eyeing this pool of funds that were likely not intended targets of the legacy amendment.
One of the other hats I wear is that of a high school forensics (speech) coach. There is a movement amongst the debate coaching community to make a coordinated effort to persuade legislators to include high school forensics programs as potential recipients for the arts portion of the amendment. Debate in particular has seen a large loss in programs due to its high cost and lack of off-setting revenue (i.e. no gate receipts).
I bring this up as but one example of how, esp. considering how state, county, and local budgets will be under tremendous stress due to the condition of the state's budget, that people/organizations will view the legacy amendment funds as a way to make up for what they have lost.
Debbie Miller says:
What about support for regional histories/historical guidebooks of the state? That might get us all thinking about what we have in common with our neighbors and raising the profile of history statewide. Such histories could include both a book and a web component, with lists/links to county & local museums, historic sites, National Register sites, driving and/or walking tours as well as what makes that region a region — often geology and natural history. Just a thought.
You can add musicians to the list of people lining up to get a portion of the arts funding component from the Legacy Amendment.
Musicians are not getting in line for Legacy Amendment funding.
Let me try that again:
Musicians are now(!) getting in line for Legacy Amendment funding. Same link as previous post. (Note to self: proof posts before posting.)
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WASHINGTON — Amid the fierce debate about massive federal budget deficits, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued Tuesday that continued U.S. government spending abroad was crucial to America's economic growth and global leadership.
Speaking to the Global Leadership Coalition, a group of businesses and nonprofits that advocate for greater U.S. engagement abroad, Clinton said government spending on diplomacy helped open up new markets for U.S. companies and produced jobs for Americans at home.
"The 1 percent of our budget we spend on all diplomacy and development is not what is driving our deficit," Clinton said. "Not only can we afford to maintain a strong civilian presence, we cannot afford not to."
The Obama administration is eager to highlight the economic benefits of foreign investment as the economy continues to limp along feebly with millions of Americans out of work and the unemployment rate in June registering 9.2 percent.
In President Barack Obama's $3.7 trillion budget request in February, he asked for $73.6 billion for State Department operations for the 2012 fiscal year, a slight decrease from the previous year. But many congressional Republicans are intent on making even deeper cuts in what they see as runaway government spending.
Clinton said the United States faced increasing competition from fast-developing economies such as China, India and Brazil. She cautioned against Americans losing interest in global affairs, which she said would have detrimental effects on U.S. interests abroad.
"The simple truth is that if we don't seize the opportunities today, other countries will," Clinton said. "Other countries will fight for their companies, while ours fend for themselves. Other countries will promote their own models and serve their own interests.
"Other countries will create the jobs that should be created here and even claim the mantle of global leadership. None of us want to see that happen."
At the same time, however, she renewed criticism of countries that favor local companies at the expense of foreign businesses, although she didn't specify which nations.
"Other countries are, very frankly, providing much greater direct support to their businesses, tilting the playing field in their favor," she said. "When we see governments enact regulations that are an excuse to give state-owned enterprises or local favorites an unfair advantage, our embassies are pushing back."
Clinton also touted the work of the State Department's more than 1,000 economic officers, who work to promote American business interests and find new opportunities for U.S. companies overseas.
"Old-fashioned door-to-door salesmanship still works in the 21st century," she said.
Clinton argued that Congress should pass three pending bilateral trade agreements — with Colombia, Panama and South Korea _saying the deals are "critical to our economic recovery" and could create tens of thousands of U.S. jobs.
Some conservative experts disagreed with Clinton's claims about the connection between U.S. foreign aid and domestic expansion, particularly at a time of fiscal distress.
"It seems hard to believe that (foreign aid) leads to more jobs here in the United States, with the possible exception of northern Virginia and Maryland, where people who work for the federal government live," said Christopher Preble, a foreign policy scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington.
But business leaders interviewed at the summit where Clinton spoke said U.S. diplomacy and aid helped to boost their companies' operations abroad.
"If you think about the return on investment of about 1 percent of our budget to create stable markets, it creates business success for U.S. companies," said Chris Policinski, the CEO of the St. Paul, Minn.-based dairy company Land O'Lakes.
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NYX Jumbo Lipstick Pencils: Hot Red, Hera
NYX Jumbo Lipstick Pencil ($3.50 each) is available in thirty different shades, as listed on the brand's website, from browns to pinks to reds. I recently tested out two shades: Hot Red and Hera. Hot Red is a vibrant shade of orange-based tomato red, while Hera is a shimmery pink raspberry color.
I found Hot Red to apply quite opaque and has a very solid look to it. Hera, on the other hand, was sheerer and applied unevenly when used as an all-over lip color. Ironically, I didn't find that the Jumbo Lip Pencils were stellar as lip liners, but they did make for quick and easy lip color. I'm not entirely sure what their official purpose is – is it to line lips and make them look defined? I want to say no, it can't be, because they're just too jumbo to work well for that purpose. The size alone makes them more suited for filling in lips entirely than actually providing definition. Plus, it is a Lipstick Pencil, so I think the idea is more of a two-in-one lipstick and liner combination, but it works better as a lipstick.
I found this to be true through trial as well, because neither shade I tested gave me clear, crisp definition. In fact, Hot Red feathered quite a bit, and I'd definitely use a lip liner before applying the pencil itself in the future. Hera didn't feather as much, but it was decidedly uneven compared to Hot Red as well. I think the shimmer/frost of it makes for a less opaque product. The product itself feels fairly soft and creamy, with Hot Red definitely creamy and Hera only mildly creamy. I do, personally, detect a bit of "plasticness" to the taste/feel of the products, but it's not really noticeable.
I really wish NYX's website had a better showcase of color swatches, because the majority of the lip pencils actually look unappealing (seems like a lot of browns/mustards almost!), so I'm not sure if I'll try additional shades or not. I also didn't like how messy the pencil itself got when you use it directly – lip color kind of smudges and smears on the pencil edge, so it looks fairly dirty.
Bottom Line: For the price, I don't think you could go wrong if you were looking for a product to use to create layered lip color. Alone, they didn't have that precise application needed to really pull it off, but they could certainly be layered or used in conjunction with a lip liner for better definition.
- Product: 24/30
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- Ease of Use: 4/5
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Recommendation: If you've been curious about more opaque lip color, NYX Jumbo Lipstick Pencils are an affordable way to try out different shades. For those with naturally defined lips, these are an excellent choice for lip color. Others may want to double-up and use a lip liner for more intense shades like Hot Red.
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Growing up on several acres amid the horse farms of rural McHenry County, 12-year-old Tarren See-Garcia had stumbled upon an animal skull on his parents' property once before.
This time, though, he could tell from its shape that the skull he discovered outside his Bull Valley home early Tuesday morning did not come from any four-legged creature.
After first mistaking the object for a dead bird, Tarren rushed back to his house to tell his mother that he'd missed his school bus and -- by the way -- had found a piece of a human skeleton.
"I was scared," Tarren, a sixth-grader at Parkland Middle School in McHenry, said Wednesday.
The boy's finding led to a deeper mystery when police arrived later Tuesday and came across a second human skull under a large pine tree about 75 feet away on the same property along Cherry Valley Road.
After cadaver dogs and dozens of officers from several departments spent much of Wednesday scouring the 6 1/2-acre property and found nothing else suspicious, Bull Valley police Chief Robert Vance said he was satisfied that there was no imminent danger to the community.
But origin of the skulls remained baffling, officials said.
Authorities said the bones, one of which was missing its jaw, are not believed to be tied to any open missing-persons investigation in McHenry County.
The skulls were clean -- with no skin, hair or blood on them -- and McHenry County Deputy Coroner Kim Bostic said it appears they had been exposed to the elements for "quite a while."
Officials even checked a nearby cemetery but found no grave sites that appeared to have been disturbed.
The skulls were shipped to Indianapolis on Wednesday to be examined by an anthropologist in hopes of determining how old they are, as well as the ages and sexes of people they came from and whether the skulls showed any signs of trauma or any other indication of how the people died.
Vance said there were no immediate plans to resume the search but that authorities might return to the property later, though possibly not until the snow melts and the ground thaws.
Tarren's mother, Leanne See-Garcia, said it appears that the skulls had just landed on her property, as if they had been tossed from a passing car.
After returning home Tuesday morning from driving her "alarmed" son to school, See-Garcia said she placed the first skull into a plastic bag and took it inside her garage.
She explained that it appeared the skull's placement on the ground had shifted slightly, and she was afraid an animal might carry it off.
See-Garcia said she called police and left a message, and that authorities arrived her at home several hours later, when the search commenced.
At its peak Wednesday, about 40 officers and four or five police dogs were canvassing the property, authorities said.
See-Garcia called her community -- about halfway between the cities of McHenry and Woodstock, the McHenry County seat -- "a nice quiet area."
She said the family, which includes Tarren's two older siblings, "didn't notice anything out of the ordinary" in the days leading up to Tarren's discovery. And the family's three dogs, who will often start barking at any unusual noise, were quiet throughout the previous night.
Tarren was circumspect about his finding Wednesday. Despite the bragging rights his middle school classmates might have afforded him, Tarren said he shared his discovery only with a couple of friends at school.
Their assessment of the news? "Scary," Tarren said.
Tribune reporters Robert McCoppin, Lawerence Synett and Liam Ford contributed.
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