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A Compilation of Environmental Education News from Across Louisiana
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the students, faculty, and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary.
2013 Environmental Education Symposium
The Louisiana Environmental Education Commission is now accepting applications for lodging assistance in order to attend the 2013 Environmental Education Symposium to be held on February 22-23, 2013 at the Baton Rouge Marriott. Please fill out the attached form and submit it, along with electronic proof of distance, to Venise Ortego at email@example.com. Early Bird Registration postmark deadline is January 22. See attached brochure for details!
Louisiana Environthon (Deadline: February 2)
The 2013 Louisiana Envirothon will be held on March 9, 2013 at theLSU AgCenter Burden Center in Baton Rouge!!! Envirothon is an environmental problem-solving competition for students in grades 6 -12. A team of 5 students from the same school or associated with an organized group (i.e. FFA, 4-H, science club, etc.) train and compete by demonstrating their knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management. The competition focuses on five natural resource areas: soils and land use, aquatic resources, forestry, wildlife, and a current environmental issue. The 2013 current environmental issue is Sustainable Rangeland Management. Teams also present a solution to an environmental problem related to the current issue through an oral presentation. Winners receive special recognition and monetary prizes. Winning high school team may represent Louisiana in the North American Envirothon competition where students can win scholarships and prizes. Review the attached flyer and registration form for more information and submit by February 2, 2013 to compete. There will be two training sessions held in January and February. You can also get involved by assisting Envirothon in getting sponsors. If you know anyone who would be interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact our sponsorship coordinator Veronica DelBianco at 504-638-3033 or email@example.com
Fund for Teachers (Deadline: January 31)
What do you want to learn this summer? Where do you want to learn it? Fund for Teachers invites Louisiana's preK-12 educators to submit their answers through an online application, due January 31, 2013. If selected, individuals receive up to $5,000 and teaching teams up to $10,000 to make it happen. http://www.fundforteachers.org/apply/louisiana.php Last year marked the first time Louisiana teachers were eligible and 13 teachers received grants to experience their unique idea of professional development. Since 2001, 5,000 teachers from across the country have leveraged $18M in grants to pursue new knowledge in 124 countries on every continent. You could join their ranks this summer. Teachers, principals and superintendents can find out more about this opportunity for "DIY professional development" by visiting fundforteachers.org, or the nonprofit's Facebook, Tumblr and Flickr pages.
OneNOAA Science Seminars
Women in the NOAA Corps: December 19, 2012, 12:00-13:00 Eastern Time Zone; NOAASSMC-4Room 8150
Audubon Aquarium of the Americas NOAA Teacher Workshop
This professional development introduces Volume 2 of theOkeanos Explorer Education Materials Collection: How Do We Explore? The NOAA ShipOkeanos Explorer is the Nation's first ship dedicated to solely exploring the world's ocean. Participants will learn how to use standards-based lessons and other online resources that guide classroom investigations into the innovative exploration strategies, sophisticated instrumentation and equipment used onboard the ship to explore our largely unknown world ocean. Topics include how targets are selected for exploration, mapping techniques, water column exploration, remotely operated vehicles and telepresence technology that enable access to real time ocean exploration. Participants will also learn how explorers use data gathered at target sites to learn more about our deep ocean world. Registration is required and space is limited. Educators who attend the full day will receive a $50 stipend. Each participant will receive Volume 2 of theOkeanos Explorer Education Materials Collection, How Do We Explore?,materials related to activities presented during the workshop, a NOAA Ocean Exploration Certificate of Participation, continental breakfast, and lunch. For more information, visit: http://www.auduboninstitute.org/educators/workshops/how-do-we-explore
Enter NWF's Green Your Shire Giveaway
The National Wildlife Federation is teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) for the Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular novel The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journeyis now showing in theaters and IMAX® 3D. The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest that takes him and his companions into the Wild! Enter Our Sweepstakes! Students, teachers and individuals: Enter NWF's "Green Your Shire Sweepstakes" at www.nwf.org/thehobbit and describe what actions you or your class, school, community group or family are taking to improve the environment - at school, at home or in the community. Individuals could win a private screening for up to 100 friends and group members! Two runners-up will receive family 4-pack of tickets to see the film in IMAX®. Enter now >>
See attached PDF on tips for Food Service Workers on Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Targeted Disinfecting in the Cafeteria and Kitchen from the NEA Health Information Network and Clorox.
CWPPRA New Social Media and Outreach Tools
The Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Public Outreach Committee is pleased to announce three new social media tools to help you stay connected with their efforts to protect and restore coastal Louisiana. These new tools are in addition to their existing social tools (Facebook, Google+, and YouTube).
Landmarks eNewsletter: The new Landmarks eNewsletter will serve to complement Watermarks which comes out twice a year and be a living document with short articles about outreach activities and project updates. For announcements such as those found in the CWPPRA (Breaux Act) Newsflash they will continue to post such items there, while news and articles will be posted on the Landmarks eNewsletter. Check out the Landmarks eNewsletter today and subscribe to receive all of the latest articles.
Twitter: Follow CWPPRA on Twitter to see what is going on at events and engage in conversation with the coastal restoration and environmental community. The CWPPRA Twitter is a great source for live information updates. Follow on Twitter
Picasa Web Album – Photo Library: The one stop shop for CWPPRA project photos. They are in the process of collecting and organizing photos from CWPPRA project sites that will be available in Picasa Web Album for public use. Photos in Picasa will be strictly project photos. For all social activity photos, they will be posting maintaining the photo library on Facebook and Google+. Project Check out CWPPRA Project Photos on Picasa
Don't forget to follow CWPRAA on: Facebook and Google+, and check out their videos on YouTube: http://lacoast.gov/new/Pubs/videos.aspx, https://www.facebook.com/CWPPRA/app_57675755167, http://www.youtube.com/CWPPRAclips
Contact Information: Cole B. Ruckstuhl, CWPPRA Media Specialist -- (337) 266-8542 -- firstname.lastname@example.com
Environmental Awareness Student Art &Language Arts Contest - 2013 Calendars
FREE copies of the 2013 calendar "Louisiana Waters: Protect, Conserve, Enjoy!" featuring winning entries from our 2012 Environmental Awareness Student Art & Language Art Contest are available. This contest is sponsored by the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission (LEEC) through the generous support of the Alcoa Foundation. To request a calendar or to learn more about the contest contact Juliet Raffray at email@example.com or 225-765-0124. Information about the 2013 contest can also be found on our website: www.wlf.la.gov/eec
Find out about wetland outreach activities including symposiums, conferences, meetings, educational opportunities, volunteer opportunities, and related support material at the Louisiana Unified Coastal Community Calendar at http://lacoast.gov/calendar/
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Gold Star License Plate Unveiled
INDIANAPOLIS - A new Indiana license plate commemorating Indiana's fallen heroes was unveiled today by Andy Miller, Commissioner of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). The Gold Star license plate will be available to spouses, parents, siblings or children of anyone who died while serving on active duty in the military - active, Reserve or National Guard.
The public unveiling followed an announcement of the new plate by Governor Mitch Daniels at the official 500 Festival Memorial Service on Monument Circle attended by many of Indiana's Gold Star families. Daniels previewed the plate for the families at a private reception earlier in the day. Attending the State House ceremony were Gold Star family members. They were joined by State Representative Cleo Duncan and State Senators Ron Alting, and Jim Merritt.
"Words and actions cannot repay what our fallen soldiers have given us: freedom," remarked Miller. "However, it is with our words and actions that we can honor those who have defended our freedom. The Gold Star license plate is just one way to preserve the memories and sacrifices of Indiana's bravest citizens.
"I am proud to unveil this license plate for grateful Hoosiers as we enter Memorial Day weekend."
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The perfect gift for your favorite witch, this cast iron midi cauldron has a hand-made citronella candle inside.
Cauldron Candle - Citronella
After enjoying the candle, use this 8 oz cast iron cauldron on your altar or refill with your own favorite brew. The cast iron cauldron is in the traditional witch potbelly shape with 3 legs, attached handle, and matching lid. It measures about 4.5 inches high and 3.5 inches wide.
Food safe cast iron with legs long enough to hold it above the heat. We do suggest sitting it on a heat-proof surface when in use.Item Number: NT-1347-C | Approximate Size (Inches): 3.50 wide x 3.50 deep x 8.50 high | Approximate Shipping Weight: 3.00 lbs.


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By the time the first story based on former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's disclosures splashed across the front pages of the world's newspapers, India had reportedly begun deployment of its own major surveillance architecture, the Central Management System (CMS). The system is a $132 million project that allows central access to all communications content and metadata carried over Indian telecommunications networks. According to documents reviewed by The Hindu:
the CMS will enhance the government's surveillance and interception capabilities far beyond 'meta-data,' data mining, and the original expectation of "instant" and secure interception of phone conversations.
The interception flow diagram, hitherto under wraps, reveals that the CMS being set up by C-DoT -- an obscure government enterprise located on the outskirts of New Delhi -- will have the capability to monitor and deliver Intercept Relating Information (IRI) across 900 million mobile (GSM and CDMA) and fixed (PSTN) lines as well as 160 million Internet users, on a 'real time' basis through secure ethernet leased lines.
Although the system is not yet fully operational, The Hindu further reported in September 2013 that all of India's 160 million Internet users were by that time "already being subjected to wide-ranging surveillance and monitoring," much of it "in violation of the government's own rules and notifications for ensuring 'privacy of communications.'"
And things only seem to get worse. Just last week, The Times of India reported that the Indian government will soon deploy NETRA, an Internet spy system capable of real-time keyword analysis on all manner of Internet communications, from public tweets to private emails, as well as Voice over Internet Protocol traffic such as calls made via Google Talk and Skype.
According to The Hindu, all authorizations for surveillance under the system remain secret, and contained within government departments. Thus, Indian authorities may program a keyword search, then monitor "all traffic of every and any Internet user for as long as it desires, without any oversight of courts and without the knowledge of [Internet Service Providers]."
Journalists who have sought to shed light on such systems have found themselves obstructed. Speaking to CPJ, Economic Times senior reporter Indu Nandakumar stated that after she published information about India's surveillance capabilities, "Indian government authorities, particularly top decision-makers at CERT-In [a government agency responsible for cybersecurity and surveillance] have stopped talking to me, and many other journalists who cover these issues." She added, "That makes it very hard to cover this topic."
Compounding concerns over the Indian government's technical capabilities, and the lack of independent oversight of its powerful tools, is a dearth of strong individual privacy protections under Indian law. As BBC South Asia Correspondent Andrew North wrote in October, "the intelligence agencies still report straight to the prime minister and the home minister." Bhairav Acharya, a constitutional lawyer who practices before the Supreme Court of India, agrees. Writing for the South Asian media watchdog website The Hoot in November, Acharya said, "For ordinary Indians who want to protect themselves and their communications from state encroachment, the law currently offers little solace." Even Internet users who wish to engage in self-help by using encryption--as journalists frequently do--are afforded little to no protection: pursuant to Section 69 of India's Information Technology Act, the government may put an individual who fails to comply with a governmental decryption order in prison for seven years.
From user data requests, to media ownership, to the deaths and imprisonment of journalists, India's track record on Internet and press freedom leave little reason to trust that authorities charged with unilaterally operating the country's powerful surveillance systems will choose not to turn them on journalists.
There is an additional irony. Although Indian officials have been reticent to make specific statements about disclosures by Snowden, government officials-- following requests by Indian tech companies--have begun looking into ways to wall the country off from the broader Internet. (Although ostensibly driven by a desire to "limit the capacity of foreign elements to scrutinize intra-India traffic," as an unnamed Indian official told The Hindu, forced localization would benefit the companies' bottom lines, the paper also noted.) Whatever the motivation, such efforts to fragment Internet resources help facilitate worldwide surveillance and censorship, both in the nation-state itself, and ultimately worldwide. Many commentators believe that if taken to their logical end, such maneuvers could pose an existential threat to the Internet as a neutral medium for journalism and other forms of free expression.
It remains to be seen whether the world's largest democracy will continue to emulate the misguided spy strategies of the United States, or take up more constructive solutions. For now, it appears that the Indian government is set on laying the groundwork for a sprawling, panoptic future, while employing harmful tactics that threaten to compound the issues raised by pervasive NSA surveillance, not solve them.
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NEH Awards $250,000 to World History Association to Develop World History Curriculum in U.S. Schools and Colleges
Nine 10-day institutes are taking place nationwide this summer
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the World History Association (WHA) $250,000 to hold 9 regional institutes this summer aimed at developing a world history curriculum for U.S. schools, colleges and universities. The institutes, organized by the WHA in collaboration with the College Board, comprise a national education project called Developing a New Teaching Field: World History for the 21st Century.
"As our student population grows in international diversity, a strong world history curriculum will help students better understand each other and the forces that shape our world," said NEH Chairman William Ferris. "By providing rich, collegial study opportunities for world history educators, this project will reach thousands of students who will benefit from their teachers' own adventures in ideas. I am delighted to affirm NEH's support for this important national education project."
"The National Endowment for the Humanities' support will help strengthen the teaching of world history at all levels," says Heidi Roupp, director of the WHA. "World history studies provide a global historical framework that weaves information into larger frameworks. This approach equips students to understand forces-such as the environment, industrialization, nationalism and ethnocentrism¾that shape today's and tomorrow's world."
The project includes an online world history course maintained at Colorado University in Denver. Access is available through Marilynn Hitchens, (303) 321-1615.
Each of the 9 institutes will bring together 25 world history teachers and scholars to design world history programs based on recent scholarship. They will also develop new teaching strategies and evaluations. Each new program will be reviewed by a leading scholar in the field and classroom-tested during the school year.
This summer's schedule of institutes is:
Long Beach, California State University, Long Beach-July 10-21
Contact: Tim Keirn, (562) 985-4428
San Francisco, San Francisco State University-August 7-18
Contact: Tom Martin, (415) 647-9668
Denver, Colorado University, Denver (online)-June 1-August 15
Contact: Marilynn Hitchens, (303) 321-1615
Kennesaw, Kennesaw State University-June 12-23
Contact: Alan LeBaron, (770) 423-6589
Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago-July 10-22
Contact: Gerald Danzer, (312) 996-5471
New York
Bronx, Horace Mann School-July 31-August 11
Contact: Sam Gellens, (718) 432-3916
New York City, American Forum for Global Education-August 14-25
Contact: Elizabeth Sperling, (212) 873-2347, or Linda Arkin, (212) 624-1300, ext. 342
Austin, St. Edwards University-July 24-August 4
Dallas-Forth Worth, University of North Texas-June 12-22
Contact: Harold Tanner, (940) 565-2288
Falls Church, Fairfax County Public Schools-June 26-30, July 5-7, July 10-12
Contact: Bernadette Glaze, (703) 208-7706
The WHA promotes scholarship and teaching in the fields of world and comparative history at all levels. WHA's membership consists of secondary, college and university teachers and has regional affiliates throughout the United States.
The College Board, located in New York City, is developing an advanced placement world history program to be taught for the first time in 2000-2001. The Board is a national association of schools and colleges offering services and programs in the areas of assessment, guidance, admission, placement, financial aid, curriculum, and research.


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To expand and deepen scholarly, policy, and public understanding of older Americans' labor market activities and to identify ways in which institutional adjustments may facilitate employment of those who need or want to work beyond conventional retirement ages.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation retains its founder's conviction that rigorous scientific analysis of economic behavior is essential to managing many aspects of both public and private life. Founded in 2010, our Working Longer program is examining one of today's most pressing social issues: older workers who need or want to work beyond conventional retirement ages. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2020, one of four people working will be 55 years old or older. Research in this multidisciplinary program is creating a body of knowledge about how the labor market functions for older workers, the companies that employ them, as well as what can be done to support and strengthen this shift in how Americans work. Adjusting U.S. labor market institutions for the new demographic realities is a tier-one challenge for the 21st century.
In this multi-disciplinary program, the Foundation seeks proposals for original projects led by outstanding individuals or teams, which exhibit a high degree of methodological rigor, which have a high expected return to society, and for which funding from the private sector, government, or other foundations is not yet widely available.
Older Worker Labor Market
Grants in this subprogram examine the supply and demand sides of the U.S. labor market for older workers. Research topics include:
Human Capital: Occupation, Education, Cognition, and Health
How do the particular work history, occupation, cognitive abilities, and health of the individual impact employment for men and women after age 55?
Household Structure: Marriage, Divorce, Children, and Grandchildren
How do changes in the family at older ages alter labor force activities due to intergenerational transfers of money or in-kind resources, such as housing and care?
Personnel Practices: Incentives, Sorting, Compensation, Job Design, and HR Practices
How can employers identify and implement practices that sustain or improve employee productivity as people age?
Gig Economy: Independent Contracting and Other Forms of Self-Employment
How does the shift to the gig economy affect opportunities and costs for older workers?
Economic Security for Older Americans
Grants in this subprogram examine the ways in which assets and access to resources and information affect labor market behavior among older workers. Research topics include:
Finances: Resources, Pensions, and Financial Literacy
What roles do financial security, macroeconomic factors, and individual financial literacy play in work and retirement decisions?
Infrastructure for Data Collection and Community-Building
Grants in this subprogram focus on providing resources to the diverse and growing community of scholars investigating issues at the intersection of aging and work. Funded activities include:
Data Collection
The collection and management of datasets and related tools that bear on the analysis of older workers' labor market behavior.
Conferences,workshops, and networks to enhance sharing of research and building of a community.
Public Policy Impediments and Facilitators
Grants in this subprogram focus on understanding the complex interplay of state and federal regulations regarding work and retirement and the ensuing effects on older workers' labor market decisions. Topics include:
Institutions: Social Security, Pension, Disability, and Health Insurance Regulations
How do the important and changing regulatory aspects of the Social Security system and other federal and state policies relate to decisions to work longer and to retire?
NewsSee All
Older Americans Are Increasingly Unwilling — Or Unable — To Retire
Associated Press
Technology, temporary help keeps farmers on job longer
Voice of America
Nearly 1 in 4 Americans Say They Do Not Plan to Retire.
Poll: 1 in 4 don't plan to retire despite realities of aging
ProPublica's Age Discrimination Series Wins Gerald Loeb Award
Associated Press
Seniors more likely to work longer in big metropolitan areas
Recent GrantsSee All
Interested scholars should send a letter of inquiry of no more than two pages to program director Kathleen E. Christensen.


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Pakistan's Afghan border remains closed to NATO
ISLAMABAD – The U.S. Embassy says Pakistan's border with Afghanistan remains closed to NATO despite comments by a senior Pakistani official that seemed to indicate the coalition would be allowed to transport some food items.
Pakistan closed the crossings to NATO at the end of November in retaliation for American airstrikes that accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said this week that Pakistan would temporarily allow NATO to ship perishable items to its troops in Afghanistan. He said the coalition could transport the supplies "by air or by truck."
But the U.S. Embassy said on Thursday that the crossings remained closed.
U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter has said the air route remains open.


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If there's one person who's not buying into Mia Farrow's claim that Frank Sinatra, and not Woody Allen, could "possibly" be the biological father of her 25-year-old son, Ronan, it's the widow of Ol' Blue Eyes himself.
Barbara Sinatra, who was married to the legendary crooner for 22 years until his death in 1998, called such speculation "a phony deal" when contacted by The Desert Sun on Wednesday.
"I can't hardly believe that. It's just a bunch of junk. There's always junk written--lies that aren't true," noted the 85-year-old, who said she had not heard of Farrow's comment to Vanity Fair until the Palm Springs, Calif., newspaper reached her on the phone.
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Farrow, who was married to Frank Sinatra between 1966 and 1968, told Vanity Fair that the "My Way" singer was the great love of her life and "we never really split up."
NEWS: Idris Elba reveals child he thought he'd fathered was not his son
When asked if Ronan could be Sinatra's biological child, Farrow simply replied, "Possibly."
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Downhill skier Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway has a confession to make — he swiped some yogurt.
Quite a bit, actually. And no, he doesn't feel any remorse.
After days of lamenting about not having the breakfast treat up in the mountains, Svindal took matters into his own hands when he was in Sochi's coastal cluster for the opening ceremonies, where he was a flag bearer for his nation.
While visiting the coastal village, he noticed a stash of yogurt and, well, indulged.
"They have way more food. So I stole some from there," said Svindal, who finished fourth in Sunday's downhill race, 0.29 seconds behind winner Matthias Mayer of Austria.
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How to Tune-Up Social Security
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En español | In just 21 years, Social Security will be able to pay only three-fourths of its promised benefits, an outlook that guarantees debate about the future of — and the meaning of — Social Security in American life. Yet the projected shortfall is not the only challenge facing the program and those who depend on it. Changes in lifestyle, demographics and the economy are bringing insecurity to many older Americans.
See also: Social Security and older women.
Experts have put forth a number of proposals that in some combination could sustain Social Security for the long haul, while making it more helpful and fair. Here are 10 options now on the policy table in Washington:
1. Increase the cap
You make payroll tax contributions to Social Security on your earnings up to a limit ($110,100 in 2012). If you're like most workers, you earn less than the cap. Increasing the cap to $215,400 — so that 90 percent of U.S. earnings are covered — would reduce Social Security's shortfall by about 36 percent. Eliminating it altogether would end almost all of the shortfall in one stroke. Supporters say that raising the cap would be fair and that the amount would not be onerous. The main argument against such a rise is that high earners already get less of a return on contributions than lower-income workers, because benefits are progressive by design. Also, raising the earnings base would amount to a big tax hike on high earners.
2. Raise the payroll tax rate
In recent years, wage earners have paid a Social Security tax of 6.2 percent on earnings up to the income cap, as have their employers. (Congress temporarily cut the employee share to 4.2 percent in 2011 and 2012 as a way to boost the economy.)
Raising the tax rate to 6.45 percent for both employees and employers would eliminate 22 percent of the shortfall and could be phased in. Critics voice concerns about the economic impact and say employers might respond by cutting other payroll costs, such as jobs.
Other ways to raise revenues include increasing income taxes on benefits. Taxing the money that goes into "salary reduction plans," which let you divert pretax income to health care, transit and other uses, could reduce the shortfall by 10 percent. But such a move would hit consumers who may rely on such accounts.
3. Consider women's work patterns
Women workers — single or married — tend to get lower benefits because they're paid less over the course of their careers and because they are more likely than men to take time off from paid employment for caregiving or child-rearing. One proposal would give workers credit for at least some of the time spent caregiving or child-rearing. At the same time, a non-married woman potentially gets a much smaller benefit (depending on her earnings history) than a nonworking wife because she can't rely on a higher-earning spouse for benefits. Measures addressing these issues would be gender-neutral, so they could also help some men. The cost of such a proposal would have to be offset, however, or it could increase the shortfall.
4. Adjust benefits
Benefit cuts are nothing to cheer about, but they would save money. They could be structured in a way that doesn't hurt current or near-retirees and low-income individuals. Any changes could be phased in after a long lead time, giving younger workers years to adjust their financial plans.
Still, reducing benefits for modest-income people could affect their standard of living in retirement. Reducing benefits for higher earners could undermine the broad public support for Social Security as a program in which everyone pays in and everyone gets benefits.
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5. Set a minimum benefit
People who had low incomes during their working lives — perhaps one in five earners — now may end up with benefits that are still below the poverty line. A minimum benefit might be set at 125 percent of the poverty line, indexed to wage increases to keep it adequate over time.
6. Modify the COLA formula
Social Security benefits generally rise to keep up with the cost of living. This cost-of-living adjustment, known as the COLA, is currently based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (known as CPI-W).
One proposal would switch to a different measure, the "chained CPI," which assumes consumers alter their buying patterns if a price goes up too much. Say the price of beef soars — people may switch to chicken. The chained CPI rises about 0.3 percentage point more slowly each year than the CPI-W, meaning benefits would grow more slowly, too — about 6 percent less over the course of 20 years. Adopting a chained CPI would reduce the shortfall by about 23 percent.
Another approach would substitute a formula known as CPI-E. It takes into special account the type of spending that is more common among people 62 and older, such as medical care, which continues to rise faster than other costs. This could increase benefits, expanding the shortfall by about 16 percent.
7. Raise the full retirement age
The age at which you can get full Social Security benefits is gradually rising to 67 for people born in 1960 and later. Pushing it up even further would save money and provide an incentive for people to keep working.
A full retirement age of 68 could reduce the shortfall by about 18 percent. Raising it to 70 would close 44 percent. Such increases could be phased in, and proponents say this approach makes sense in an era of increased life expectancy. A healthy 65-year-old man, for example, is expected to live beyond 82. But not everyone has benefited equally from increases in longevity — lower-income, less educated workers have not gained as much as their more affluent, more educated counterparts. And a later full retirement age could be onerous for workers with health problems or physically demanding jobs. A related proposal — longevity indexing — would link benefits to increased life expectancy.
8. Give the oldest a boost
Americans are living longer, and the oldest often are the poorest. They may have little savings left; usually they no longer work and any pensions they have are likely eroded by inflation. A longevity bonus, for example, a 5 percent benefit increase for people above a certain age, say 85, could help them.
9. Establish private accounts
Free-market advocates have long pushed to make Social Security more of a private program, in which some of your payroll taxes would go into a personal account that would rise and fall with the financial markets. Supporters believe that stock market returns could make up for benefit cuts. You would own the assets in your personal account and could pass them on to your heirs. Personal accounts could be introduced gradually and become a choice for younger workers, while retirees and near retirees could remain in the current system. Opponents worry that they would replace a guaranteed, inflation-protected benefit for workers and, potentially, family members, with more limited protections. Private accounts only pay out the amount in the account. Also, diverting money to private accounts means additional funding could be needed to pay currently promised benefits.
10. Cover more workers
Not all workers take part in Social Security. The largest uncovered group is about 25 percent of state and local government employees who rely on state pension systems. Bringing new hires into Social Security would raise enough new revenue to trim about 8 percent of the long-term shortfall (though down the road, when these people claim benefits, costs would rise). State and local governments may oppose such a measure because it would divert dollars from public pensions that are already underfunded.
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Jonathan Peterson wrote Social Security for Dummies © 2012 by AARP/John Wiley & Sons Inc. He is an executive communications director at AARP and a former correspondent at the Los Angeles Times.
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When we were pregnant with our first child, I would read "Good Night Moon" to him in utero. I continued to read it to him for years and later to his younger sibling. Night time routine, especially in the harried society we live in, is key to clarity the next day as countless studies have shown. So how is someone with dementia affected by their nighttime wandering and insomnia? How do caregivers survive the sleeplessness and still perform at jobs? The answer to both questions is "not well" and while day programs are available in virtually all larger cities, night programs are non existent. Unless you happen to live near the Bronx.
Imagine my surprise to see a New York Times article about a night time program for people with dementia. Having been around the disease for years and day programs for the last year or two, I had never heard of, or sadly, even thought of such an idea. It seems brilliant. At support groups we offer a variety of suggestions to deal with night time behavior; starting with routines, adding simple alarms, removing risk factors, adding more locks and even sometimes medication. Never have we suggested a night time program. The focus has always been to get the person with dementia to sleep.
Many of us nap off and on during the day. With little ability to maintain focus, we tire easily and "rest our eyes", doze or actually lay down and nap once or more a day. It is little surprise that our night time activities are similarly punctuated, but if we live alone it doesn't bother anyone. If we live with someone who has a diurnal routine that can be problematic. I am impressed that the featured program seems to have a variety of activities from complex and busy to quiet and even resting rooms where participants can sleep when the urge strikes them. The need for such facilities can not be limited to the Bronx and I wonder why there are not similar programs, or why I have not heard of them.
I know Day programs in the state I live in are licensed and have strict rules. Since the buildings and staff have survived the licensing procedure, I will ask if there are limits on hours of operation. Overnight childcare facilities are not easy to find, but do exist for those who works nights. Perhaps this is an area to explore to further allow people to live in the community. If you need something like this in your area, I would suggest contacting your existing day programs first, then nursing homes that offer respite programs second. Let me know if you're able to get something like this going in your area.


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Siesta Key Spiced Rum has made it to Disney World.
The locally crafted, award-winning drink will be a key ingredient in one of Disney's famous "Dole Whip" frozen desserts served at the upcoming Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival.
Drum Circle Distilling, which produces Siesta Key Spiced and other rums at a distillery in northern Sarasota County, will make its debut at the famous theme park.
"It's a real coup for us," said Troy Roberts, chief executive and distiller who founded the company in 2007. "The big guys like to be in those high-profile locations."
Drum Circle has been working to expand in the Orlando and surrounding resort market, he said. He credits its distributor, Brown Distributing Co.'s Specialty Division, with landing the Epcot business.
"We are now approved in the park," Roberts said. "We can leverage that to try and get into more of the actual Disney property resorts. Orlando is a huge market for us, not only all the people who live there but all the tourists coming down."
The Epcot festival runs from March 6 through May 19. The sale itself won't be huge, he said, but the exposure could pay off.
The company's Siesta Key rum brands went national in January, with the Total Wine and More chain now selling them in 10 other states.
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Espresso in Portugal
Posted by TheShot on 03 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee, Starbucks
Despite Portugal's prominent historical role in the development of the coffee trade (for example, they introduced coffee production to Brazil), and the degree with which coffee is "interwoven throughout Portugal's social, literary and economic history", I've found surprisingly little written about the espresso in this small-but-influential coffee nation. Last month I took advantage of some time off from my "day job" (and it didn't hurt that my wife's first language is Portuguese) to visit the country and learn a bit more about the current state of quality coffee there.
Portugal Coffee Culture
In daily life, the Portuguese are at least as addicted to the single espresso as the Italians — if not even moreso. Whereas Italians use the ti offro un caffè excuse to socialize for a few minutes over a cup, the Portuguese drink it like clockwork. It's an expected way to finish every meal. And unlike the U.S., restaurant espresso is as good as anything you can get in a café.
One difference from Italy is the cappuccino. While available most everywhere in Portugal, it's an interloper in Portuguese coffee culture. (It also invariably comes with cocoa or cinnamon.) As a result, milk frothing is generally primitive and poor. However, the Portuguese do add milk to their coffee. As with the Italians, it is practically unheard of outside of mornings, and then it typically takes the form of a galão — literally, a "gallon" — which consists of drip coffee cut with a lot of milk. I ordered a couple cappuccinos that were literally no different than the house galão.
One popular word for the Portuguese espresso shot is bica. While use of this term somewhat marks you as a Lisboan, it is understood throughout the rest of the country. Antonio Machado, the proprietor of the fantastic Casa Mariazinha in Porto, tipped me on the little-known origin of "bica". There still is a bit of debate about this, but the term is actually an acronym, and it's a holdover from when the first espresso machines came to Portugal with newbie instructions for how to serve from them. BICA (according to some legends) apparently stands for "beba isto chávena aquesida" — Portuguese for pretty much "drink in a warmed cup". (Tell that one the next time someone serves you a shot in a paper cup.)
The espresso shot is ubiquitous in Portugal. It's available in restaurants, cafés, and even stands within shopping malls so that you never have to walk more than a block to down one. They are generally inexpensive — typically from 0,50€ to 0,60€ a shot (less than 75¢) — other than what you can get at the few remaining European grand cafés that are making something of a comeback from extinction.
As a word of caution wherever you get your coffee, the Portuguese can smoke like chimneys. In some cities, such as Lisbon, we were the only non-smokers in the place. But there are towns like Braga where smoking is more the exception than the rule. However, today there are signs that Portugal could soon follow Italy's shocking suit in anti-smoking health laws, as government anti-smoking programs seek to curb the enormous health care expenses coming for generations of aging smokers.
Portugal Coffee Quality
As I touched on in a recent CoffeeGeek post, Portugal seems to have the reverse problem of, say, a Seattle. Whereas Seattle has a handful of outstanding cafés to counter a baseline that's pretty lousy, in Portugal the baseline standards are high enough that it seems the notion of seeking out exceptional coffee is kind of pointless. As a result, you don't find a culture where people say "Café Blah blah blah" is the best place to get an espresso in town. But then anybody need only walk down the block for a good shot of espresso.
Overall, I found the Portuguese espresso shots to be pungent, with a darker brown crema that means business, and occasionally with a slightly thinner body. A tendency I discovered is that the average espresso seemed to improve the further north I travelled in Portugal [map]. Around Lisbon, a number of places served a somewhat weaker body than what I would typically find further north in places like Coimbra, Porto, or even Braga and Guimarães (with a few exceptions).
Some Portuguese recoil at the thought of a bica, despite the fact that I generally didn't find it bitter or overly potent. Yet the Portuguese seem to put more sugar in their espresso than any nation I've seen. (I always drink it straight. To which one elderly Portuguese gentleman characteristically responded to me years ago, in Portuguese, "I have enough bitterness in my life.") Another leading theory behind BICA is that it stands for "beba isto com açúcar", or "drink this with sugar" — but I dismiss that as redundant, given the national sweet tooth.
Portuguese Brands
Imagine a world where everyone lives for their coffee, and there's a place that serves it on every corner. Now imagine a world where virtually no one has ever seen a Starbucks. How's that for Halloween spooky? But given that Portugal is one of the European Union's top four coffee consuming nations, Starbucks can't hold back forever. Which is why there are recent reports of Starbucks' intentions of coming to Portugal.
But until Big Green moves into town, Portugal is brimming with a variety of competitive coffee brands and café chains. Delta Cafés and their coffee is the dominant force, though less so in the north. Some Delta cafés are fully owned & operated and come with full branding, while many others simply carry their coffee service and some limited branding.
While Delta is pretty good, my favorites of the national chains were Nicola Cafés. The simple Nicola-branded owned & operated kiosks you can find in shopping areas, for example, are excellent. I found that they served some of the best espresso in Portugal.
So as a first pass, here's my weak attempt to force rank ten of the various major coffee brands I sampled more than once in Portugal:
- Nicola Cafés
- Delta Cafés – Can be particularly good if you get Delta Platina or even Diamante
- Beira Douro
- A Brasileira – A Portuguese institution, but espresso at Lisbon's main Chiado café pales compared with the one at Braga's Praça da República
- Chave D'ouro
- Cafés Christina
- Sanzala Cafés
- Magnolia Caffé – This chain brings a cosmopolitan, modern edge with salads, etc., but the espresso could be far better
- Buondi
- Sical – One of the weakest of the bunch, but still not bad by world standards
Note: Buondi, Cafés Christina, Sical, and Tofa are all under the Nestlé umbrella. For a comprehensive list of Portuguese café chains — along with photos of each their sugar, or açúcar, packets — check out this fine homage to a collector's obsession.
I once read that residents of Porto call espresso the Cimbalinho — a reference to the apparent popularity of La Cimbali machines. However, I predominantly found mostly Brasilia machines in use throughout the country (Porto included). Following these were La Spaziale and then maybe La Cimbali machines. Occasionally I encountered a few Magister Kappa machines, the likes I've never seen before.
Coming up next: CoffeeRatings.com-style ratings and reviews of a few Portugal cafés of note, complete with the usual espresso porn photos. Stay tuned…
- Trip Report: Lisbon Espresso
- Trip Report: Espresso in Coimbra, Porto, and Braga
- Trip Report: Illy Espressamente – Lisbon
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[…] In a previous post, I noted some generalizations about the espresso in Portugal. For this post, I've selected a few notable cafés to review in Portugal's political and cultural capital, Lisbon. […]
[…] Back in August we reported on Caffè Nero's expansion plans beyond the U.K. to the rest of Europe. For my recent travels to Portugal, I passed through London Heathrow Airport and had the chance to finally review a Caffè Nero for myself. (OK, you always have to wonder about airport espresso, but I'll get to that.) […]
[…] Starbucks demonstrated success at establishing over 100 cafés in Mexico, which is generally not known as a coffee-drinking (let alone espresso-drinking) nation. However, Brazil is an entirely different story. As with their compatriots in the sibling nation of Portugal, Brazilians participate in a ritualistic, daily regimen of espresso shots as part of the culture. Also as in Portugal, the average cost of an espresso in Brazil is around 55-70¢ per cup. Starbucks plans to charge its new Brazilian customers almost twice that. […]
[…] Brazilian botequins — sort of café/lunch counter/bistro combinations — can sometimes be pretty awful. Despite Brazil's esteemed coffee status, they often serve coffee that has sat on burners for far too long. But at these botequins, you can order a traditional cafezinho — a Portuguese diminutive for a "small coffee". You can order it black, Carioca ("Rio style": with added water), media (with milk), or pintado (just a few drops of milk). And no matter how you order it, it will come with mandatory sugar: the Brazilians and Portuguese love their coffee sweet. […]
[…] coffee culture for Anglo-Saxon markets. However, Starbucks has wisely not set foot in Italy or Portugal — knowing the folly of re-importing their native culture (once removed), putting it through a […]
Enjoyed reading your article, and just wanted to add further explanation the the whole "bica" etymology thing.
A "bica" in Portuguese is a fountain, or better yet, it's the tube through which the water drips.
It seems logical that espresso coffe, that drips from a tap, could be called Tap (instead of tap-whatter, you have tap-coffee)
A quite unimaginative answer to your quest, and a rather simple answer, but those are often the right ones.
Good article.
But the best coffe in Portugal is BUONDI.
nice article the best portuguese coffe is delta and us portuguese are addicted to espresso in portugual average person drinks 3 cups a day
excellent article! 🙂
make no mistake, coffee is Portugal's best offering to the world right now and typically, it's not a widespread export… am on a mission to find Delta or close enough quality tuga coffee in Manchester. Any clues, anyone? Cheers 🙂
[…] that Bica was the name of a model of an espresso machine once widely used in Portugal. According to Coffeeratings.com, BICA might be an acronym either for "beba isto chávena aquecida" (drink in a heated cup) or […]
tenho pena que nao conste na lista os cafe TROPICAL. É uma trorrefacçao situada no norte de Portugal, se nao me engano, em Valongo. Sou viciada nesse café. É excelente. Acredito que sera em breve uma das grandes marcas de Portugal.
Recently I visited a Christina's Cafe in Cas Cais. Great place for my morning Americano. It was in the Pinohieros neighborhood. Anyone familiar with the place?


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text: As our luck would have it, we've already had a couple of major challenges with our resolution in the way of our much-relied-upon technical devices, which we take for granted in this day and age, and especially this resolution. Joe lost, and then found, and then tried, unsuccessfully, to revive his cell phone, which he dropped in a snow bank back in February. Further back than that though, only mere weeks after making our New Years resolution to buy nothing new for a year, our business Macbook up and quit on us. I went to check our fun-filled Facebook page, and there on the screen to greet me was a blinking folder with a question mark on it, as if it had amnesia. This can't be good, I thought. I shut her down and restarted her to get the same blinking question mark folder.


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* Download the latest released version in order to use it as an API Baseline
* Download the latest released version in order to use it as an API Baseline
** Go to the [http://www.eclipse.org/mat/downloads.php MAT download page]
** Go to the [http://www.eclipse.org/mat/downloads.php MAT download page]
** Download the "Archived Update Site" zip file
** Download the "Archived Update Site" zip file
** Unzip the file somewhere locally
** Unzip the file somewhere locally
* Configure the API Baseline in the IDE
* Configure the API Baseline in the IDE
Revision as of 10:23, 1 March 2012
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Workspace
- 3 Building MAT with Maven/Tycho
- 4 Ideas for Contributions
- 5 Writing plugins for the Memory Analyzer
- 6 Simultaneous release policies
Getting Started
This page is meant to help you contribute to the Memory Analyzer project.
Install Eclipse and configure it to develop Java 5 applications.
- We usually use Eclipse 3.6 (Helios). However, as of today, a 3.5, 3.4 or perhaps a 3.3 release works.
Setup your development environment:
- Via the Update Manager Help -> Install New Software... install:
- Subversive SVN Team Provider
- Subversive SVN Connectors (See Subversion Team Provider Download Page for the Update Site URL)
- Eclipse BIRT Framework
- IBM Diagnostic Tool Framework for Java (See IBM Diagnostic Tool Framework for Java Version 1.5 to find the archived Update Site.) This is needed to compile and run with the DTFJ adapter which is part of Memory Analyzer and allows Memory Analyzer to read dumps from IBM virtual machines for Java.
- Configure the Code Formatter Template:
- Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter -> Import... and import this template.
The MAT repository in SVN is: https://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/tools/org.eclipse.mat/
The branch with the most recent development is 'trunk'.
If you do not intend to build the MAT update site and standalone distributions, then it is enough to chech out only the MAT plugins. Check out the projects by saving
mat.psf file locally, and then using File -> Import -> Team Project Set. Use user name "anonymous" and an empty password.
If you want to run locally the Maven/Tycho build for MAT, which produces an update site and standalone RCP products, follow the checkout instructions on the build Wiki page: MemoryAnalyzer/Building_MAT_With_Tycho#Checkout_MAT_Sources_from_SVN
More information: SVN Howto, Web Access, MemoryAnalyzer/Building_MAT_With_Tycho
If you do not have BIRT installed then there will be compilation errors in the org.eclipse.mat.chart and org.eclipse.mat.chart.ui projects.
If you do not have the IBM DTFJ feature installed then there will be compilation errors in the org.eclipse.mat.dtfj project.
Configure API Tooling Baseline
In order to guarantee that no API breaking changes are introduced we recomment using the PDE API Tooling and defining the latest released version of MAT as an API Baseline. Here is a short description how this could be done:
- Download the latest released version in order to use it as an API Baseline
- Go to the MAT download page
- Download the "Archived Update Site" zip file for the latest release
- Unzip the file somewhere locally
- Configure the API Baseline in the IDE
- In the IDE open Window -> Preferences -> Plug-in Development -> API Baselines
- Press Add Baseline
- Browse and select as Location the directory in which the zip was extracted
- Enter a name for the baseline, click Finish and confirm the rest of the dialogs
Once the API Tooling is properly setup, one will see errors reported if API changes are introduced.
Launch Configuration
Launch the Memory Analyzer as stand-alone RCP:
- Create a new Eclipse Application configuration
- Run a product: org.eclipse.mat.ui.rcp.MemoryAnalyzer
- Launch with: plug-ins selected below only
- Deselect org.eclipse.mat.tests
- Deselect Target Platform and click Add Required Plug-ins
- Select org.eclipse.pde.runtime (3.3) or org.eclipse.ui.views.log (3.4 or later) to include the Error Log
- Select com.ibm.dtfj.api com.ibm.dtfj.j9 com.ibm.dtfj.phd com.ibm.dtfj.sov if you have installed the IBM DTFJ feature and wish to process dumps from IBM virtual machines
- Select com.ibm.java.doc.tools.dtfj for help for IBM DTFJ
or as feature plugged into the IDE:
- Create a new Eclipse Application configuration
- Run a product: org.eclipse.sdk.ide
- Launch with: plug-ins selected below only
- Deselect org.eclipse.mat.tests and org.eclipse.mat.ui.rcp
- Select com.ibm.dtfj.api com.ibm.dtfj.j9 com.ibm.dtfj.phd com.ibm.dtfj.sov if you have installed the IBM DTFJ feature and wish to process dumps from IBM virtual machines
- Select com.ibm.java.doc.tools.dtfj for help for IBM DTFJ
Export Stand-Alone RCP
To export the RCP, you need an Eclipse 3.6 (or 3.5, 3.4) IDE setup as described above.
Then open org.eclipse.mat.ui.rcp/mat.product and use the Eclipse Product Export Wizard to build the RCP.
JUnit Tests
The unit tests a placed in the org.eclipse.mat.tests project. Execute the tests by right-clicking on the project and choose Run As... -> JUnit Plug-in Test.
The following VM arguments are required in the run configuration for the JUnit Plug-in Test: -Xmx850m -ea
Build Help with DITA
- Download DITA-OT220.127.116.11 and unzip it into C:\DITA-OT184.108.40.206
- In plugin org.eclipse.mat.ui.help select DitaBuild.xml and configure the runtime configuration:
- right click Run As > Ant Build...
- add all the libraries from C:\DITA-OT220.127.116.11\lib into the classpath
- To modify Help documentation modify xml files
- XML Buddy - might not be available anymore
- Download XMLBuddy and copy a product directory (e.g., com.objfac.xmleditor_2.0_72) to the plugins directory of your Eclipse installation.
- Configure XMLBuddy editor as described here
- or use the XML editor from Eclipse Web Tools
- Window > Preferences > XML > XML files > Validation > Enable markup validation
- Window > Preferences > Validator > XML Validator > Settings > Include Group > Add Rule > File extensions : dita
- Window > Preferences > XML > XML Catalog > User supplied entries > Link reference.dtd, task.dtd, concept.dtd to the corresponding files in the Dita directory /dtd/technicalContent/dtd
- XML Buddy - might not be available anymore
- Run ant on DitaBuild.xml to build html files.
Build OQL Parser using JavaCC
- Download JavaCC 5.0 tar.gz or JavaCC 5.0 zip and unpack it.
- Copy javacc.jar to the root of the org.eclipse.mat.parser project
- In plugin org.eclipse.mat.parser select build_javacc.xml
- right click Run As > Ant Build...
- Select package org.eclipse.mat.parser.internal.oql.parser
- Source > Organize Imports
- Source > Format
- Ignore the choice conflict message and non-ASCII character message
- Synchronize with the source repository to add the copyright header etc. back in
Building MAT with Maven/Tycho
The following page describes how Memory Analyzer (p2 repository and standalone RCP applications) can be build using Maven/Tycho: MemoryAnalyzer/Building MAT With Tycho
Ideas for Contributions
This is just a short list of ideas. If you are missing a feature and have some time to contribute, please do not hesitate to contact us.
- Extensions to the tool adding application knowledge: MAT provides some extension points which can help you to plug-in pieces of information that give meaning to your specific object structures. It would be nice to have in MAT application knowlegde about prominent open source projects, e.g. different Eclipse components, servers like Tomcat and Glassfish, etc... Some examples:
- using an org.eclipse.mat.api.nameResolver extension one can specify what description should be shown next to an object, similar to a toString() method. See for example bug 273915
- using an org.eclipse.mat.api.requestResolver extension one can add to the leak report information about what a threads was executing, e.g. tell which HTTP request it was processing, list the URL, parameters, etc... For example bug 318989 proposes an extension which points to the ruby script a thread is executing
- using an org.eclipse.mat.api.query extension one can add a useful query which will be available all the other queries/commands seen in the tool. See for example bug 256154
- Documentation
- Unit Tests
Writing plugins for the Memory Analyzer
If you want to write a plugin for the Memory Analyzer, you can find information on the following pages:
- MemoryAnalyzer/Reading Data from Heap Dumps
- MemoryAnalyzer/Extending Memory Analyzer
- MemoryAnalyzer/Adding a new heap dump format to the Memory Analyzer


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Boomtown: Barbary Coast at the Conservatory of Flowers
January 31, 2013 @ 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, repeating until April 14, 2013
Event Navigation
Land ho! Get ready to jump ship into San Francisco's rowdy past as the Conservatory of Flowers presents an all new garden railway display celebrating San Francisco's gold rush Boomtown days and its infamous Barbary Coast neighborhood. In an enchanting display landscaped with hundreds of dwarf plants and several water features, model trains wend their way along miniature docks crowded with replicas of the clipper ships that brought fortune seekers to California, then zip past whimsical recreations of the city's most important landmarks of the day, including Portsmouth Square, Chinatown's Waverly Place, and Maiden Lane where many a greenhorn was parted from his gold.
Boomtown: Barbary Coast at the Conservatory of Flowers, the historic conservatory's 5th Annual Garden Railway, introduces an entirely new layout that brings to miniature life the colorful history of the city after the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill. Fewer than 500 people lived in San Francisco before James Marshall found gold in the American River, but over the next year, the population would double every ten days, and more than 600 ships would sail through the Golden Gate, bringing thousands of treasure hunters to California.
At the heart of this Boomtown was the world famous Barbary Coast, a neighborhood described by 19th Century actress Sarah Bernhardt as "fascinatingly wicked." This 40-square-block area bounded by the Embarcadero, Grant Avenue, Broadway, and Commercial Street, was both a busy maritime district at the heart of San Francisco's Port and an infamous concentration of saloons, dancehalls and more lurid attractions where cutthroats and con-men preyed on entertainment-starved sailors, miners, and thrill seekers.
Visitors can imagine the past as they watch G-gauge steam engines and small cable cars loop around Portsmouth Square where the city's first schoolhouse was located and where, in the streets leading down to the Bay, houses were built right on top of ships hastily abandoned in port by men hoping to strike it rich. Other landmarks include Union Square with its familiar Victory Monument (the statue at the top, in fact, modeled after a well-known San Franciscan of the day named "Big Alma"); Maiden Lane (formerly Morton Lane), home to some of the area's most notorious dives and reputed to be the site of one murder a week during its hey day; and Waverly Place in Chinatown. Small tents, shanties, and lean tos ramble up San Francisco's famous hills, testament to the transitory nature of housing in a time when the city burned repeatedly. A water feature in front of the model train platform bustles with small schooners and others ships offloading their cargo at miniature docks.
As in past years, these replicas are all creatively crafted in miniature from recycled and repurposed materials. San Francisco artist James Sellier, back for his fourth year as a Garden Railway model maker, created Waverly Place from old wooden lantern pieces and the buildings of Portsmouth Square from old speaker cabinets. Also back this year is sound designer Andrew Roth who fills the gallery with echoes of the past including vintage recordings of the saloon songs of the day, the sound of creaking docks and more.
Other features of the exhibit include a recreation of a life-sized schooner that greets visitors as they enter; a special photo booth for souvenir "mug shots;" a smaller train track especially for children that features San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz and Angel Island; and immersive displays about the banking business during the Gold Rush, as well as the well-known men and women of the time like Emperor Norton I, a highly eccentric, but celebrated citizen who proclaimed himself "Emperor of these United States," and dancer, singer, actress and banjo player Lotta Crabtree who entertained in mining camps throughout the West. Copies of original photos, maps and fascinating interpretive signs written by Founder and Director of the Barbary Coast Trail Daniel Bacon help visitors to understand this formative and shadowy chapter in San Francisco's history.


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Budget 2013: full coverage
Budget 2013: live
Mr Hoyle had to interrupt George Osborne twice in the first few minutes of his Budget speech in order to silence MPs.
The Shadow Chancellor then received the second telling off as the government benches called for him to be removed from the chamber.
In a robust Lancashire accent, he told Mr Balls that he should "know better" after he waved a copy of the Evening Standard front page, which had been sent out in error, under the nose of George Osborne.
He warned Mr Balls not to make a "circus" of proceedings, later telling MPs: "It's not a competition who can shout the loudest."
In another interjection he tried to silence the House by telling them "pantomime season is not for nine months", and asking them to take their auditions outside.
And as Ed Miliband spoke, he told roaring Labour MPs: "I cannot understand an opposition that doesn't want to hear its own leader."
His interruptions led to praise on Twitter, with some attempting to start a campaign for him to chair debates on a more regular basis.
Sam Jones wrote: "Twitter seems to agree that Lindsay Hoyle is the main winner from this budget."
Political commentator Gaby Hinsliff tweeted: "Time for more Lindsay Hoyle. i find him immensely reassuring. maybe scrap the Budget & just have Hoyle giving everyone a stern telling off."
Bernard Aryeetey , a policy analyst, added: "Lindsay Hoyle definitely an early contender for man of the match today."
Chairing the Budget debate is one of the set duties of the Deputy Speaker - the Chairman of Ways and Means - as the financial measures are brought in on Ways and Means Resolutions.
Mr Hoyle prides himself on being outspoken, and in the past has even taken on Lord Mandelson.
The Chorley MP, a former high Mayor, become the first-ever elected Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Chairman of Ways and Means when he was elected by secret ballot in 2010.
But despite his outspoken ways he is considered by some a member of the Labour aristocracy.
His father is Lord Hoyle, a former MP for Nelson and Colne and Warrington North who was elevated to the Lords after a long stint in the Commons.
When announcing his candidacy for the position of Deputy Speaker, Mr Hoyle wrote a letter to party members claiming his was a strong voice, adding: "My time spent in parliament has been one of an independent minded and outspoken backbencher; perhaps to the dismay of the party whips!"
The MP started out in politics in 1980 when he became the youngest ever councillor to serve in Chorley.
Mr Hoyle was elected the town's MP in 1997, becoming the first Labour man in the seat for 18 years.
During a 2009 debate in the Business Select Committee he clashed with Lord Mandelson, who despite being a powerful Secretary of State sat in the House of Lords.
Mr Hoyle told him "we are the Commons" and it was "becoming unacceptable" that Secretaries of State were being chosen from the Lords.
When Lord Mandelson told him he would pass his views to the Prime Minister, Mr Hoyle quipped of his power: "Marvellous. I thought I'd speak to the main one."
Mr Hoyle's wife, Catherine, is a local borough councillor and his House of Commons biography claims he "enjoys reading, watching sport and in particular rugby league."


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I pour my heart and soul into each and every little detail of my costumes right down to the thread I sew with. I spare no expense at replicating a costume from a comic, movie or anime to appear as close to exactly what the original design was.
I also create my own fashions which range from traditional to the darker, gothic side of the realm of fashion.
I live, breath and eat sewing! Please contact me if you would like to chat about my costumes or just get to know one another and share costume tips and secrets or just to say HELLO and what fun anime/comic cons are good to attend. I love to meet fellow likeminded cosplayers who dedicate their life to their art as I do. :o)
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The Terrebonne Parish Council will consider an ordinance Monday that would fine anyone with pants that sag below the waist.
The Terrebonne Parish Council will consider an ordinance Monday that would fine anyone with pants that sag below the waist.
The ordinance, if approved, will prohibit people from wearing pants in public that hang low enough below the waistline to expose skin or underwear.
Violators couldn't be arrested or searched, according to the proposed ordinance, but they would face fines:
- $50 for the first offense.
- $100 for the second offense.
- $100 and 16 hours of community service for a third offense.
The ordinance does not specify what action would be taken for four or more offenses.
Lafourche Parish already has an ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to reveal underwear or to dress in a way that is deemed "unbecoming of his or her sex."
According to Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office records, 45 people have been ticketed in the law's five-year existence.
Terrebonne Councilman John Navy said the Terrebonne proposal stems from complaints from residents who say they want the parish to step in and control the situation.
Navy said the ordinance should only be enforced in "extreme cases," and it is ultimately meant to create awareness of the issue "because the situation is getting out of hand."
"You got kids that are nearly exposing their butts, and I can see why residents are concerned about that," Navy said. "In some cases, they take it too far."
Councilman Greg Hood, a retired Houma Police captain, said the ordinance is well intended, but it's going to be difficult to enforce. It also blurs the lines between how government dictates self-expression, he said.
"I don't want to violate anyone's right to express themselves," Hood said. "If you want to color your hair like a peacock — yeah, I think it's stupid looking — but that's your right."
Hood said law enforcement has "more important things to be dealing with than dealing with some guy exposing his britches."
Terrebonne Sheriff Jerry Larpenter, on the other hand, said he will make certain his officers enforce the ordinance if it becomes law.
"We're going to write a lot of tickets," he said. "It's time these young people learn to pull up their pants and start acting like normal human beings."
Larpenter said he doesn't care how people dress in their own homes and he doesn't want to hinder peoples' right to express themselves. "But that doesn't mean you have to express yourself in public showing your rear end. At what point is the line drawn?"
Parish President Michel Claudet said the proposed ordinance is meant to promote public decency. However, he said he questions whether the ordinance will hold up against legal scrutiny.
The Parish Council is expected to call for a public hearing on the proposal before it deciding whether to adopt it.. That public hearing would be held at 6:30 p.m. April 10 the Government Tower, 8026 Main St., Houma. If it passes, Claudet said he will not veto the measure.