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Festival Participants
|Robert Faggen - author, editor and critic
Director of The Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies
Robert Faggen is the Director of The Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. In 2009, he helped found the non-profit Czeslaw Milosz Institute and Archive, encouraging and benefiting the study of Milosz and Polish culture at Claremont McKenna College.
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|Jacek Dehnel - author, poet, and translator
Jacek Dehnel was born in 1980 in Gdansk, Poland. He graduated from the Polish Language and Literature faculty at the Interfacultative Individual Studies College, University of Warsaw. He is the author of six books of poems, two collections of short stories, Kolekcja (1999) and Rynek w Smyrnie (2007), a cycle of four mini-novels, Balzakiana (2008), a collection of 100 short prose pieces about old photos, Fotoplastikon (2009), and two novels, Lala (2006) and Saturn (2011). Dehnel has been published in many literary magazines both in Poland and abroad; his works have been translated into German, English, Hebrew, Italian, French, Hungarian and other languages.
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|Piotr Florczyk - poet and translator
Piotr Florczyk is a poet and translator. With Been and Gone (Marick Press, 2009), he introduced the English-speaking audience to Julian Kornhauser (1946-), one of the foremost Polish poets of the Generation of '68. He is also the translator of a collection of poems by Anna Swir (1909-84), Building the Barricade and Other Poems (Calypso Editions, 2011) and the forthcoming collection of poems by Jacek Gutorow, The Folding Star and other Poems (BOA Editions, 2012). He holds an MFA from San Diego State University, and has taught at the University of Delaware, San Diego State University, and at University of California-Riverside. Piotr Florczyk lives in Los Angeles, California.
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|Jacek Gutorow - poet, literary critic, and translator
Jacek Gutorow (b. 1970) is a Polish poet, literary critic and translator. He has published six volumes of poetry, five books of critical essays and numerous translations from British and American poetry. He won the 2004 Ludwik Fryde Award granted by the International Association of Literary Critics and was nominated to three most important literary awards (Nike, Gdynia and Cogito) for his 2008 collection of poems Inne tempo (A Different Tempo). In Spring 2012, BOA Editions will publish The Folding Star and Other Poems, Gutorow's first book in English, with translations done by Piotr Florczyk. Gutorow teaches British and American poetry at the University of Opole.
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|W.S. Merwin - U.S. Poet Laureate, two Pulitzer Prizes (2010-2011)
In a career spanning five decades, W.S. Merwin, poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read — and imitated — poets in America. The son of a Presbyterian minister, for whom he began writing hymns at the age of five, Merwin went to Europe as a young man and developed a love of languages that led to work as a literary translator. Over the years, his poetic voice has moved from the more formal and medieval — influenced somewhat by Robert Graves and the medieval poetry he was then translating — to a more distinctly American voice, following his two years in Boston where he got to know Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and Donald Hall, all of whom were breaking out of the rhetoric of the 1950s.
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|Adam Michnik - historian, political activist, and Gazeta Wyborcza editor-in-chief
Adam Michnik is the founder and editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's highest-circulating daily newspaper. He was is also co-founder of KOR (Committee for the Defense of Workers) in 1976. Michnik was detained many times during 1965-1980. A prominent "Solidarity" activist during the '80s, he spent a total of six years in Polish prisons for activities opposing the communist regime.
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|Anthony Milosz - composer, translator, hardware and software designer, and son of Czeslaw Milosz
Anthony Milosz was born in 1947 in Washington, DC. He attended public schools and lycee in France, and went on to study linguistics, anthropology, and chemistry at the University of California Berkeley, and neurophysiology and neuropharmacology at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. Currently Milosz is a hardware and software designer, as well as as a composer and member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music. He recently released "Rzeki", an album of Milosz readings set to music. He has also translated his father Czeslaw's poetry, including the "Last Poems" section of Selected and Last Poems (Ecco Press, Fall 2011).
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|Azar Nafisi - author (Reading Lolita in Tehran), professor and contributing writer (The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal)
Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her students. Earning high acclaim and an enthusiastic readership, Reading Lolita in Tehran is an incisive exploration of the transformative powers of fiction in a world of tyranny. The book has spent over 117 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Reading Lolita in Tehran has been translated in 32 languages, and has won diverse literary awards, including the 2004 Non-fiction Book of the Year Award from Booksense, the Frederic W. Ness Book Award, the 2004 Latifeh Yarsheter Book Award, an achievement award from the American Immigration Law Foundation, as well as being a finalist for the 2004 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Memoir.
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|Meghan O'Rourke - poet, author, editor (The New Yorker, Slate, The Paris Review)
Meghan O'Rourke began her career as one of the youngest editors in the history of The New Yorker. Since then, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate as well as poetry editor and advisory editor for The Paris Review. Her essays, criticism, and poems have appeared in Slate, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Redbook, Vogue, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry. O'Rourke is also the author of the poetry collections Once (2011) and Halflife (2007), which was a finalist for both the Patterson Poetry Prize and Britain's Forward First Book Prize. She was awarded the inaugural May Sarton Poetry Prize, the Union League Prize for Poetry from the Poetry Foundation, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Front Page Award for her cultural criticism.
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|Robert Pinsky - former U.S. Poet Laureate
Robert Pinsky's first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism, and such national enthusiasm in response, that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. Throughout his career, Pinsky has been dedicated to identifying and invigorating poetry's place in the world.
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|Claudia Rankine - poet and author
Whether writing about intimacy or alienation, Claudia Rankine's voice is one of unflinching and unrelenting candor, and her poetry is some of the most innovative and thoughtful to emerge in recent years. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and educated at Williams College and Columbia University, Rankine is the author of four collections of poetry, including the award-winning Nothing in Nature is Private. In The End of the Alphabet and Plot, she welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque. Her latest book, Don't Let Me Be Lonely, an experimental multi-genre project that blends poetry, essays, and images, is an experimental and deeply personal exploration of the condition of fragmented selfhood in contemporary America.
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|Mira Rosenthal - poet and translator
Raised in northern California, Mira Rosenthal earned her B.A. from Reed College and received her M.F.A. from the University of Houston. She is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Mira is the author of The Local World, which won the 2010 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, as well as two volumes of poetry translations. Among her awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN American Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Fulbright Commission. Her poems and translations have been published in many literary journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, APR, West Branch, and A Public Space. You can listen to her read her work on Slate and The Cortland Review.
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|Tomasz Rozycki - poet and translator
Tomasz Rózycki, Polish poet and translator, was born in 1970 in Opole (Silesia, in southwestern Poland, a region that bears the mark of a distinct mixture of cultures). Rózycki studied Romance Languages at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He then worked as a French teacher at the Foreign Languages Teaching College in his native city. Alongside his work he translated poetry from French, publishing a translation of Stéphane Mallarmé's Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard in 2005. He is the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poems: Vaterland (1997), Anima (1999), Chata umaita (2001), Swiat i antyswiat (2003). He also published the long epic poem Dwanascie stacji (2004), for which he was awarded the Ko?cielski Prize, the most prestigious literary prize for Polish writers under forty.
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|Peter Dale Scott - poet and translator
Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. His latest book of poems, Mosaic Orpheus, appeared in 2009 from McGill-Queen's University Press. His most recent prose book is American War Machine, from Rowman & Littlefield (2010).
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|Dariusz Sosnicki - poet and editor of Polish contemporary fiction
Dariusz So?nicki was born in 1969 in Kalisz. He graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?. He was co-editor of the artzine Ju? Jest Jutro (1991–1994) and co-founder and co-editor of the influential Polish literary biweekly Nowy Nurt (1994–1996). In 1994 he published a collection of poems, Marlewo, which received the best first book award from the magazine Czas Kultury. In 2001, he was a participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. The next year his fourth collection of poems, Symmetry, was shortlisted for the Polityka Passport and got the New Books Review Prize. So?nicki's poems and essays on literature have been published in many magazines and anthologies and translated into a number of languages.
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|Joanna Trzeciak - writer and translator
Joanna Trzeciak teaches in the translation studies program at Kent State. Her translations
of Polish and Russian literature have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker,
Times Literary Supplement, Harpers, The Atlantic, Paris Review, and Virginia Quarterly
Review, among others. Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska (W.W.
Norton), with a foreword by Czeslaw Milosz, was awarded the Heldt Translation Prize.
Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rózewicz was published by W. W.
Norton earlier this year.
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|Lillian Vallee - poet and translator
Lillian Vallee is an award-winning translator, writer and scholar who served an apprenticeship with Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. Her most recent essays appear in The Invisible Rope and The Devil's Punchbowl, and her most recent poems in Collision I, II & III; and in More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets. She writes a popular monthly column, "Rivers of Birds, Forests of Tule: Central Valley Nature and Culture in Season," which documents her bioregional passions. She is currently preparing two books for publication, Bear with a Cross: Primordial Tradition in the work of Czeslaw Milosz and a novel, Crane Season.
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|C.K. Williams - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
C. K. Williams is the author of ten books of poetry, the most recent of which is Wait (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010). Collected Poems (FSG, 2007), features the long arc of Williams' career, from the morbid sanguinities of his apprentice work to the careful, moving, stanzaic focus evident in 21 new poems. The Singing won the National Book Award for 2003, and his previous book, Repair, was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His collection Flesh and Blood received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Williams has also published a memoir, Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself, in 2000, and has published translations of Sophocles' Women of Trachis, Euripides' Bacchae, and poems of Francis Ponge, among others. A book of essays, Poetry and Consciousness, appeared in 1998. A prose book entitled Williams, On Whitman, was released in 2010 from Princeton University Press.
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Herculez Gomez, Edson Buddle and Robbie Findley are all going to the World Cup. Brian Ching and Eddie Johnson – two veterans of the 2006 roster – are not.
Photo Gallery: The United States World Cup roster
Those were the biggest surprises as Bob Bradley's final 23-man World Cup roster was announced on Wednesday. Gomez and Buddle, despite a combined five career caps for the USMNT, rode amazing hot streaks in their recent club play and will represent their country in South Africa.
"Both have been in great form, scored a lot of goals this year and, as we move into the World Cup, players that are on a roll come in handy," Bradley said of the two hot hands after the announcement on SportsCenter.
Perhaps most surprisingly, Real Salt Lake speedster Findley – who did not feature in the US' 4-2 loss to the Czech Republic on Tuesday night – also made Bradley's roster, perhaps at the expense of Houston Dynamo veteran target man Ching, who had been considered a lock.
Besides Ching, Eddie Johnson, Robbie Rogers, Chad Marshall, Heath Pearce, Sacha Kljestan and Alejandro Bedoya also did not make the final 23. Ching, Rogers, Marshall, Pearce and Kljestan immediately are free to return to their MLS clubs.
Here is the United States Men's National Team roster for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa:
Goalkeepers (3): Tim Howard, Brad Guzan, Marcus Hahnemann.
Defenders (7): Carlos Bocanegra, Jonathan Bornstein, Steve Cherundolo, Jay DeMerit, Clarence Goodson, Oguchi Onyewu, Jonathan Spector.
Midfielders (8): DaMarcus Beasley, Michael Bradley, Ricardo Clark, Landon Donovan, Maurice Edu, Benny Feilhaber, Stuart Holden, José Francisco Torres.
Forwards (5): Jozy Altidore, Edson Buddle, Clint Dempsey, Robbie Findley, Herculez Gomez.


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To wrap up Halloween Week, here's a dinner so terrifying my roommate left the house for the entire evening. Enjoy!
After the post on the literary James Bond's Vesper cocktail versus the vodka martini of the movies, I decided to tackle a similar movie/book/beverage change. In the film version of The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter memorably said, "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
In the book, it was a "big Amarone". As I thought about this, I realized that some well-prepared liver, fava beans, and a nice Italian wine would be a pretty good dinner, if in somewhat questionable taste. Let's just go ahead and get this straight: this is a normal cow's liver from the grocery store. Benito's Wine Reviews does not endorse cannibalism practiced upon census personnel or anyone else for that matter.
Despite the disclaimers, it still freaked out The Roommate, as this movie gave her nightmares for years afterwards and one of the house rules is that I don't do my Lecter voice around her. More liver for me!
Liver and onions is a pretty common pairing, and I looked at a few different recipes. A big contender was Mario Batali's fegato alla veneziana, but I settled on Anthony Bourdain's foie de veau lyonnaise. At the end of the recipe, he suggests several variations, including adding apples and pork to the onions. I sliced up some of those Ozark Gold apples and a bit of prosciutto to go along with the onions, and the liver was just lightly fried on each side. The best parts of the liver were the least cooked, sort of a medium rare pink. It's difficult to achieve this using the thin slices commonly available; I'd like to get a full liver and cook one-inch cubes in the future.
The fava beans were prepared with onion, bell pepper, and tomato paste, amongst other spices and seasonings. I started with dried beans (I've never seen fresh ones around here), and by the time the dish was done the beans had fallen apart into a chunky mush. This did not affect the flavor of the dish, which was rich and savory. While there are many substitutes for Italian classics like fava and cannelini beans, somehow the real thing is always best.
And what about the wine? The 2003 Bolla Amarone della Valpolicella was a real treat. $46, 15% abv, made from a proprietary blend of partially-dried Corvina, Rondinella, and Molinara grapes. It had gorgeous aromas of fig, fennel, and cedar, with flavors of pomegranate and currant. I allowed it to decant for about two hours before the meal and it went along very well with the meal. This bottle, and other Amarones topping $100, would fall under the "special occasion" wines for most folks I know, but I felt it was well worth it here. It helped elevate the dish far above the sad, overcooked liver and onions that rest under heat lamps at diners and dives throughout the country.
All in all an unforgettable meal. While I won't be replicating it precisely anytime soon, I do want to experiment further with liver, and I think that fava beans could be a great addition to the Thanksgiving table.
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2003 Bolla Amarone della Valpolicella
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- Białe nad czerwonym said...
Hi, you have great photos at yor wine blog! Yesterday I was drinking Amarone Tenuta Sant'Antonio but unfortunately not with liver but with pasta :-) In my opinion Amarone Bolla is less subtle and a bit too strong. Ciao
- 16 November, 2008 07:27
- Joe said...
Brilliant! I've never gone the cow liver route, but I'm fond of poultry liver, and pig to a lesser extent.
I'm not a very squeamish eater, so I'll have to give it a try before too long.
And, I LOVE Amarone, but it's a rare treat. Ripasso Valipolicella in a pinch...
- 27 January, 2010 15:09
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WORCESTER — A woman had to be extricated from a sport utility vehicle after it rolled on its side Tuesday afternoon at Salisbury and Grove streets.
Firefighters quickly threw blocks and wedges under the Nissan Rogue and were able to free the woman within minutes. She appeared to be favoring one leg, but did not appear to have otherwise suffered any serious injuries. She was helped onto a stretcher and taken by ambulance to a local hospital.
Bystanders said the Nissan appeared to be attempting to turn left from Salisbury onto Grove, heading toward Main Street, around 4 p.m. when it collided with a blue Honda Accord sedan driven by a young woman down Salisbury Street toward Lincoln Street. The force of the collision flipped the Nissan onto its side.
The airbag of the Honda activated, but the driver did not appear to require medical attention.
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The Walkers: Stapleton and Scott; recycled tires and the ongoing per diem saga
Losing $$. Colorado taxpayers lose out on $164,383 every day House Bill 1005 isn't signed into law, yet the legislation has languished for weeks. Denver Post.
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Carpe per diem. A Democratic senator says she can't support a travel increase for state lawmakers because Colorado families are struggling and because of what she witnessed as a Gilpin County commissioner. Denver Post.


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Gen III And IV Gm Engines - High-Tech Tradition - Tech
A Look At Gen Iii And Iv Gm Engines
While our hobby is certainly steeped in tradition, technology has always played more of a role than is often recognized. Although the Flathead Ford is archaic by today's standards, it was cutting edge in 1932, and it didn't take long for enthusiasts to forsake their four-bangers for the revolutionary V-8. Then, when the new crop of OHV engines began to appear in '49, lots of Flatheads were given the heave-ho in favor of the more sophisticated contemporary powerplants. And when the 265 Chevy came on the scene in '55, it was a brave new world for hot rodders. But since the small-block Chevy first appeared, there have certainly been some advancements in engine technology, two of the most notable being General Motors' Gen III and IV series of engines, but for some reason, it's taken rodders longer to embrace them.
The first engine in the Gen III series was the LS1, which featured a bore of 3.897 inches and a stroke of 3.662 inches, resulting in a displacement of 345.69 ci; however, Chevrolet called it a 350, or a 5.7L engine. Based on an aluminum block that weighed a scant 107 lbs, thanks to the deep skirt design and six-bolt main caps, it was every bit as rigid as its 160lb cast-iron predecessor. Also found inside the block were cast-iron liners, a new, shorter nodular iron crankshaft, and powdered metal rods. While the curmudgeons among us scoff at the thought of connecting rods being made in a manner reminiscent of baking a cake, the truth is, these are the strongest rods ever to find their way inside a production GM engine.
The LS1 architecture is considerably different to those familiar with the traditional small-block Chevy, which means just about every street rodder on the planet. Some of the most obvious differences are up top. Cast from 356 aluminum and heat-treated to T6 specs, the new heads have a long list of advantages over previous designs. Upon close inspection, one of the most obvious is that all the intake ports are all identical, as are the exhausts, which simply means that all cylinders breathe equally well. Less obvious differences in the new heads are the valve angles. It's generally agreed that the shallower the valve angles the better. The LS1 valves are at a 15-degree angle, considerably less than the earlier small-block's 23 degrees. But one of the LS head's most important attributes is the location of the fuel injectors. As these heads were designed for fuel injection rather than retrofit with it, the injector's fuel streams are aimed directly at the back of the intake valves.
Like most contemporary engines, the LS1 uses roller lifters as well as investment cast roller rockers. But one of the pieces that makes old-timers do a double take is the "plastic" intake manifold. Frankly, the common lament that those manifolds won't be around in 75 years like a Flathead Ford's makes us want to point out that neither will we. The fact is, making the manifold from composite material allows for the curved runner configuration, plus it's light and cost effective. Another unique feature found on the manifold is the fly-by-wire throttle body. The LSI was the first GM car to use a computer-controlled throttle (light-duty diesel trucks began using them in '95).
Of all the features of the LS1 that are out of the ordinary, the most obvious are the rocker cover-mounted coil assemblies. Each cylinder has its own coil and coil driver assembly with a short secondary wire connecting to each spark plug. The reasons given for moving the coils to the covers were the shorter plug wires lost less energy so more was delivered to the plug as well, as reduced radio frequency interference with on-board computers. A less noticeable feature is the change in firing order; no longer using the familiar 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 sequence, new engines fire 1-8-7-2-6-5-4-3.
With all that is unique on the LS1, one of the pieces that almost escapes notice is the pan-but there's more to it than meets the eye. There have been a half-dozen or more cast-aluminum pans used on theses engines; the Corvette, or batwing pan, is a two-piece and has two wings to the sides, and the Camaro and Firebird pans have a shallow rear sump. But no matter what the shape is, in all cases the pan becomes a part of the engine's structure when screwed in place and contributes to the block's rigidity. Another unique feature is these pans also provide a mount for the oil filter.
Family Tree General Motors' new engines can be broken down into two series: Generation III and Generation IV. They share the same features and attributes in most respects.
Gen III blocks were made from cast iron in 4.8L/5.3 and 6.0L sizes (used primarily in trucks) and aluminum for 5.3L, 5.7L, and 6.0L. While iron blocks are heavier, they can easily be bored oversize during a rebuild; the aluminum blocks shouldn't be bored more than .010-inch according to GM.
As we said, there are various versions of the Gen III, but the following are most sought-after:
LS1 The 5.7L LSI was the first in the Gen III series. The engine was used in the '97 Corvette C5 and was later found in the Camaro, Firebird, and GTO. Horsepower varied from 305 to 350 depending on the application. A cast-iron version of this engine appeared in trucks in 1999.
LS6 Debuting in the C5 Z06 Corvette in 2001, this engine was an enhanced version of the LS1. The block was improved, the intake manifold modified, the cam was more aggressive, and compression was increased. While the displacement remained the same, the LS6 produced 385 hp when introduced, and it was cranking out 405 ponies by 2002.
While these engines were also found in the Cadillac CTS V-series, some may remember the '70s when the original LS6 was a 454ci big-block.
Gen IV These engines were introduced in 2005 and were designed to accept GM's "displacement on demand," or DOD technology. A new lifter oil manifold was included, the cam sprocket was redesigned, a higher-volume oil pump was used, and the oil galleys were modified. For our purposes, the benefit is these blocks will accept a larger bore.
LS2 Gen IV engines introduced the big-bore versions of the LS series. The 6.0L LS2 was the new base engine for the Corvette beginning in 2005. With a 4-inch bore and a 3.62 stroke displacement, it comes out to 364 ci. Compression was 10.9:1 and it was rated at 400 horses with 400 lb-ft of torque.
In addition to Corvettes, these engines were also found in Cadillac CTS-Vs, Chevrolet SSRs, and the TrailBlazer SS.
LS3 Introduced as the new base engine for the 2008 Vette, the LS3 uses a modified LS2 block. A bigger 4.06-inch bore results in 6.2L, or 376 ci. High-flow heads, a bigger cam, an improved intake manifold, and larger injectors result in 430 hp with 424 lb-ft of torque.
LS7 Found in the 2006 Corvette Z06, the LS7 has a 4.125-inch bore and a 4.125-inch stroke that results in 7.0L/427 ci. Horsepower is 505 at 6,300 rpm, torque is 470 lb-ft at 4,800 rpm, and the redline is at 7,000 rpm. Inside, the aluminum block is some tough stuff-the crankshaft and main bearing caps are forged steel, connecting rods are forged titanium, and the pistons are hypereutectic. The LS7 is the only Gen IV engine to feature dry-sump lubrication.
LSX GM Performance Parts recently introduced the LSX, an all-new cast-iron racing block based on the LS7 engine. Designed with input from legendary drag racer Warren Johnson, it offers displacements ranging from 364 to 511 ci.
LS9 This new, mystery motor is rumored to be everything from the powerplant for the new Corvette Stingray and/or Camaro to a truck engine. Speculations persist that the engine will be supercharged and pump out 600-plus horsepower.
What It Takes To Join The New Generation Installing computer-controlled engines in a street rod has become just as easy as any other engine swap. Look no further than our advertisers index at the back of the magazine or the list below (for LS-related components) to find everything you need, including complete engines, computers, wiring harnesses, throttle bodies, headers, and all the other little doodads necessary. However, there is one little oddity that you should be aware of if you're contemplating a Gen III or IV engine installation: the positions of the cooling systems inlet and outlets. They stick straight out and may require some clever plumbing so as not to use up valuable under-hood space in an early car.
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When I hit delete, three or four times out of ten, I will be immediately thrown backwards to the message behind, instead of forwards. This is obviously a big problem if deleting more than one message in a row, since if you hit delete twice, you delete the wrong message.
This problem is new and has been happening for a few months. I was running pocomail 4.1x, and recently upgraded to 4.5x in hopes of solving the problem. No dice. Any suggestions?
(Also, when I upgraded to 4.5, I did not check the box to import skins, but it imported my skin anyway. On checking the program folder for 4.5, there is no "skin" folder. I liked the clean look of the new 4.5. I tried reinstalling, but it still kept my old skin. That's a much lesser and cosmetic priority, but any suggestions there would also be helpful).


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I use two screens - one desktop.
The date picker for appointment, to-dos etc always comes up exactly in the middle of the desktop: i.e. straddling the boundary of the two screens. Since I can't drag it to one or other screen this is extremely irritating.
Has anyone found a work-round?
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Whilst I realise, I am not as active on the Amiga scene as I used to be, I am still around, now find myself unable to access the hyperion-entertainment.biz download section, it says my account does not exist, when I try to reset password or even ask for username, I get Account doesn't exist.
I have AOS4.1 FE, Heretic, Freespace, Shogo, etc, so I am surprised my account has disappeared.
Can anyone here help me please?
Many thanks
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I am working on Java Web Server. Static contents are being returned by server. But I have to process Servlets. How can I do it?
I can get Servlet position from Web.xml and all other info of Servlets. But how can I process it?
Web server first call intit() method of servlet, then service(), then destroy(). I am unable to understand, how it can b done?
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Brandon Watson's "Many Niches" Blog
There's been quite a bit of chatter on the web about the Azure Services Platform. Obviously I'm excited to see people talking about our new platform, especially when there is plenty of good, some bad, and some good if not somewhat rambling. There will be no shortage of guessing as to what Microsoft is "really up to" with our development efforts.
I wanted to take a crack at that one, but from a completely different perspective. I want to frame the discussion centered on the motivations of the platform providers, and let that be a guide to understanding the delivered product.
Let me start by giving a hat tip to the AMZN guys. Their web services platform (AWS) has really been at the tip of the spear for cloud computing. or the sake of this discussion, when I use the term "cloud computing," I am talking about the developer platform, not things like GOOG apps. The AMZN services are a loosely coupled set of services targeted at developers looking to avail themselves of infrastructure buildout. Their infrastructure as a service (EC2) is a great way for developers to reduce their capital expenditures and take on a variable costing model for their servers.
The services, all up, encompass several key pieces for building applications that can take on a range of workloads. The ability to now run Windows Server 2003 (which should get you terminal services) means that as a developer, you can deploy varying application types into AWS, beyond simply web apps. From a developer standpoint, however, there is no unified development experience. Which brings me to the discussion around motivations.
AMZN essentially spends 10 months out of the year building out servers. They build out massive numbers of servers for the two months out of the year when they are handling the Christmas shopping season. AMZN is, for all intents and purposes, a giant mall. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year building more capacity for their mall. Their store is the primary reason shoppers come in the front door, and most of the year, their mall is empty, relative to the size of the mall. As a retailer with an ecommerce backend, their problems are no different than most enterprises. They have machines that are sitting around doing little or nothing for large portions of the year. Unlike most other enterprises, AMZN has the financial capacity to build out their server capacity. At some point, AMZN made the decision to no longer be the primary traffic draw to their mall. They realized that they could completely offset their own traffic (and then some) by taking the technology that they had built for themselves and making it available to other developers.
AMZN is, essentially, in the load management business. They are a low margin retail operator that is running a hugely expensive infrastructure for which they are seeking maximum utilization. They would like nothing more than to be noise in their own system. AMZN is relentlessly metrics driven. As such, they have a pretty good idea of how much money to expect off of traffic that walks through their front door. They know how much to expect from traffic ending up at one of their marketplace partners. With the addition of AWS, they have a new way to monetize their capacity, and with their predictable pricing model, they know exactly how much money they are going to make off of customers who deploy applications to their service.Traffic on their network makes them money. It may not make your app money, but it makes them money, so they are happy. It more than likely saves you money, so you are probably happy too.
So, AMZN is motivated by maximization of infrastructure capacity, and optimization of what would otherwise be very low margin businesses. They do this by delivering a loosely coupled set of services to developers looking for infrastructure as a service. They aren't necessarily targeting developers. They aren't a platform, per se. They are targeting anyone who is looking to move workloads off of their own infrastructure and onto AMZN.
Ahh, Google. I love those guys. They have done plenty of cool things, and their release of the AppEngine (GAE) was welcomed with very loud praise from many in the tech community. According to some reports, they had 25,000 developers sign up for GAE in the first few hours of releasing it.Taken as a whole, GAE is a very tightly coupled set of services designed to allow developers to build applications that will have no problem scaling up to, theoretically, infinite capacity. The rigid requirements for a developer deploying into the GAE are such that you use one language (Python) and their database (big table).
Once again, when considering what has been built, one need look no further than the motivations of GOOG to really get where they are going. When you consider the stricture imposed on the architecture of apps built for GAE (singple process, no long running queries, no local file access, no network access), a developer is all but required to build standard CRUD web applications. There is no stack for enterprise integration. The delivery vehicle is the web browser. The data that is created goes right into big table.
Some might say that GOOG's core business is search. I actually have a different opinion. GOOG's core business is the monetization of page views. Search is their instantiation of that business model, but many of their other applications have nothing to do with search, and everything to do with the monetization of page views. Think about gmail - ads on the sidebar.
Applicaitons on GAE are mostly CRUD apps, storing structured data into big table. As a developer, building an applicaiton on GAE, you are essentially feeding the GOOG beast. While they have not yet released final pricing, allow me to put on my pointy tin foil hat and talk about what might come to pass. GOOG knows exactly how much it costs to run their infrastructure, and as such could hand developers a bill for the resources which they consume. However, GOOG doesn't have AMZN's problem. Their traffic is mostly linear, and going up and to the right. It's probably logarithmic at this point, but who's counting? In any event, since they have little variability in their traffic patterns, they don't have to get into the load management business. By allowing developers to build applications on their infrastructure, they are incurring unnecessary costs. Their motivations, however, are driven by their business model. Each new app that is plugged into the infrastructure ads new data to their data set, and creates new opportunities for page monetization.
Think of the case where GOOG shows up to a developer and says, "hey, moboganda.com - how are you doing? That's a great app you put up on GAE. We've been going over the data and we figured out that if we ran AdSense on your pages 20% of the time, we could actually recoup the cost of running the infrastructure for you. In fact, you don't even need to do anything, since we own the infrastructure, the feature is already in there. You can turn it off with a JavaScript include." As the young CEO of a web startup, this could sound like a pretty cool deal. Free infrastructure and they didn't have to do anything to get that turned on. Not bad. Let's take this game of what-if one step further. The GOOG guys come back in two months with the following, "hey buddy, that app of yours is performing really well. You made more money on those 20% ads than we thought. What we would love to do is run ads 100% of the time. Of course, you are free to sell that ad space yourself. I'm sure you have a full time ad sales force. We're only a multi-billion dollar company focused soley on monetizing pageviews, but feel free to go it alone if you want." To the developer, this could be music to your ears - focus on building the application, and GOOG does the monetization for you. If you really wanted to go crazy, one could imagine a world where GOOG says to their developers, "$5 bounty for all new GOOG accounts created through your app."
Bottom line: GOOG is motivated by feeding the GOOG beast and monetizing pageviews. That shines through in the design of their app delivery vehicle, the tight coupling of the services, and the expected design patters of the applications to be built on their infrastructure.
With all of the above points in mind, hopefully you can start drawing some pretty good conclusions about the potential future directions of the competitive cloud platforms in the market. As for MSFT, there are plenty of things I could say, but let me simply state what I believe to be our motivations. We are a platform company. We very much believe that we are in the business of delivering the best platform and tools to developers to build great applications. Our on-premise stack has proven to be extremely successful over the last several decades. With the release of the Azure Services Platform, one of the core design tenets was that we would like to achieve parity between our on and off-premise stacks. The entirety of the Azure Services Platform is designed to enable experienced MSFT developers to be combat effective on day one.
However, the platform, from my point of view, is but a part of the engine. The heart of the engine is the application that you plan to build. GOOG very much believes that the web is the platform, and thus the web browser is the only delivery vehicle for applications. We have a divergent opinion. It seems absolutely crazy to me that a person carries around more computing power in their pocket today (cell phone) than was available a scant 15 years ago in the high end desktop computers, and GOOG believes that those processor cycles should be shunted aside. Our software plus services strategy really is about enabling developers to deliver the right experience to their customers, on the preferred end point device, at the right time from a single piece of infrastructure. We are motivated by our developers building great applications, and Azure is the final leg of the software plus services strategy.
[This post appeared originally here and is republished in full with the kind permission of the author.]
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- Themes & Topics To Be Discussed at Cloud Expo in New York April 19–21, 2010
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Partner Showcase – Associated Students of Stanford University
Eileen is a Zimride administrator at Stanford University. The Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) implemented the Zimride Shuttle Program at Stanford this year to make transportation for students more convenient and affordable. Check out what she has to say about Zimride:
A couple of years ago, we had a shuttle service for students going to the airport, but we found the service to be expensive and generally unsustainable.
This year, we decided to use Zimride because the interface was super user-friendly and efficient. It's so easy because of the exportable rosters, detailed maps, and instructions which are essential features to effectively address a huge number of students, especially during peak travel times like winter break.
Students have also been saying that they enjoy Zimride because of it's well-designed interface and helpful features, such as the quick and secure payment system. The system makes it clear how many rides are left on shuttles, which makes it easier for students and the administrators to coordinate shuttles.
Thank you Eileen for your feedback! We love that you're able to make students lives better through Zimride.
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I collect names. Names from books. Names of places. Names I have made up. Names others have made up. This is a list of the names I have collected. It will be updated continually. The names are listed alphabetically. 58,161 names are in my database. 30,462 names are listed here . . . so far.


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Medical Checks & Support
Guide to medical checks and support
Regular medical checks are available to help you to spot any potential medical problems. Some health services may be available to you for free or at a concessionary rate – such as sight tests, dental care, prescriptions and immunizations. Support is also available for instances of elder abuse.
Medical checks and staying healthy
Certain health conditions become more common with age. Having routine medical tests is a good way to spot any potential problems and give you the best chance to age and live healthily.
Recognize and report elder abuse
Elder abuse is the violation of an elderly individual's human and civil rights by any person. If you are concerned that you might be at risk, or are worried about a friend, relative or client, there are ways to help.
Flu jabs and immunization
As you get older, you might find an illness like flu harder to shake off. You can protect yourself by taking advantage of free immunization schemes for flu and other highly infectious diseases.
Free prescriptions and sight tests
If you are over 60, you are entitled to free prescriptions and sight tests. Over 50s can also get free sight tests if certain conditions are met.
Sight care and services if you are disabled
You may be entitled to free NHS sight tests and other vision-related services. If you are housebound, you can arrange to have a home visit from an optometrist or optician.
Hearing care and services
If you are experiencing problems with your hearing, contact your local doctor or social services office to find out about the range of services available. You can also contact your hearing aid centre to find a hearing therapist.
Standards in healthcare, social care and housing services
If you use health, social care or housing services there are standards which need to be met.
Dental care for disabled people
If you are disabled or have a severe medical condition it may be hard to visit a dental surgery. There are options available to ensure that you have full access to dental care and treatment.
Help with health costs
Most treatment on the Government System is free, although there can be charges for some things. Depending on your circumstances, you might get help with the cost of some treatment, services and items.
Recognize and report elder abuse
Elder abuse includes many different kinds of harm to older people. It includes intending to harm, harming without intent and the neglect that leads to harm. If you're concerned that you might be at risk, or are worried about a friend, relative or client, there are ways to help.
Who is most vulnerable?
People who are physically, emotionally or psychologically frail and dependent on others for care are most at risk of elder abuse.
Abuse and neglect can happen in the home, as well as in care homes, nursing homes and hospitals. It can involve care workers, family, neighbours, friends or strangers.
People most at risk at home include:
- the socially isolated
- anyone with an illness that affects memory or ability to communicate
- those in a poor relationship with their carer
- those who provide housing, financial or emotional support to their career
- those who depend on a carer who has drug or alcohol problems
If you are experiencing harm through abuse or neglect, or are worried about a friend, relative or client, there are ways to help. You can go to a social worker, GP or police officer in complete confidence.
How to recognize elder abuse
Elder abuse may happen once or regularly over short or long periods of time.
The abuse can be
- physical – hitting, slapping, pushing, kicking, inappropriate restraint, misuse of medication, inadequate monitoring of prescriptions
- psychological – emotional abuse, threats of harm, threats of leaving or stopping care, lack of human contact, or stopping access to people who can advise or help
- sexual – all unwanted sexual acts
- financial or material, including theft from the abused person, fraud, or coercion regarding wills and any financial transactions
- neglectful or just not doing something, for example ensuring that the person is eating or is warm and clean
- discriminatory – racist, sexist, exploiting a disability or other forms of harassment or slurs
There are some tell-tale signs to look for:
- unexplained bruising, fractures, open wounds and welts, and untreated injuries
- poor general hygiene and weight loss
- helplessness and fear – or any sudden change in behaviour
- unexplained changes in a person's finances and material well-being
- questionable financial or legal documents, or the disappearance of those documents
Reporting to the police
Some types of abuse – including assault (sexual or physical), theft and fraud – are criminal offences and should be reported to the police. This may lead to prosecution following a criminal investigation.
You may feel too afraid to report abuse, especially if your care giver is the abuser. But you are entitled to the protection of the law and to dignity and respect. Anyone concerned about a friend, relative or care giver who is being abused needs to take action to prevent further abuse and protect others.
Reporting elder abuse to social services
Local councils have social workers specifically to deal with abuse or risk of abuse. If you want to speak to someone, you can phone your local council and ask for the Adult Protection or Welfare Department.
The Welfare Department will help you with advice and information. They will ensure action is taken to give people at risk of abuse appropriate protection and support. They can provide a co-coordinating role and investigate what you are concerned about, in discussion with local police etc.
Medical checks and staying healthy
With age, certain health conditions become more common. Routine medical testing is a good way to spot any potential problems and give you the best chance to live and age healthily.
What is medical testing?
You've probably had a blood or urine test at some point. Doctors use medical tests like these to learn more about your health. The results can reassure you that all's well or identify problems that require treatment.
Checklist of vital health tests
As you get older, it's advisable to consider having regular tests for:
- cholesterol levels
- blood pressure
- susceptibility to diabetes
- eyesight
- hearing
Where you can have them done
You'd usually be tested at your doctor's surgery. From there, your doctor might refer you to a specialist. Sometimes, you can do home testing.
Testing for cholesterol
You're most at risk of high cholesterol if you're a man over 45 or a woman over 55.
High cholesterol contributes to heart disease, especially if you have high blood pressure, smoke, eat a high fat diet or are physically inactive.
The test for high levels of cholesterol is a simple blood test, drawn from a vein in your arm or finger.
Your cholesterol levels change with time. So it's useful to have at least two different tests, several weeks or months apart, before beginning any kind of treatment.
Testing your blood pressure
Your blood pressure tends to rise with age. If you have high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, you are more at risk of a stroke, heart disease or kidney failure.
Blood pressure needs to be checked regularly. It also has to be re-checked at different times to get an accurate reading.
Testing for diabetes
Up to one million people may have diabetes without knowing it, and many don't find out until their 50s. It is a serious health condition that's much more common with age.
Testing involves taking a sample of your urine to see if it contains glucose. You may have to have a blood test to confirm any diagnosis.
Having diabetes puts you at greater risk of strokes, heart disease, nerve, eye and kidney problems, yet in most cases diabetes can be avoided. Testing for it is a first step.
Diabetes testing is advisable once you're over 40, especially if you're overweight, or have a family history of the disease.
Eyesight tests
You can have good sight into your 80s and 90s if you look after your eyes. You are entitled to a free sight test if you are over 60.
If you're over 50, you can have a free sight test if you:
- need complex lenses
- are registered blind or partially sighted
- have diabetes
- have or are at risk of glaucoma
- An eye test is not just a test for glasses. It's important for your general health and to spot diseases of the eye that are more common as you age. E.g. macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma.
Detecting hearing loss
Everyone loses some hearing ability with age. Age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, affects more than half of all people over 60. It's the second most common cause of disability as you age.
If you are worried about hearing loss, your doctor can examine your ears and do some simple tests, like asking what sounds you can hear. You'll also need to explain why you think your hearing is not as good as it used to be.
If your doctor thinks you might have hearing loss, you may be referred to an audiology clinic or Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department.


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I told the munchkins that we were going for a hike after lunch. Sam was appalled. Jack was ambivalent. Quinn set about enthusiastically packing a snack for us even though we had just consumed lunch. He was so goddamn adorable about it that I didn't have the heart to make him stop. Not to mention that he was putting it all in his backpack, so it looked like he was going to end up carrying our supplies, which I found awesome.
The only problem was that I didn't know where we were going to hike. What does a nerd do when she's looking for a place to hike? She Googles the name of her city and "hiking" and finds some easy trails 15 minutes from her house.
Done and done.
It was pretty funny because Sam continued to complain and complain about being forced to go, you know, outside and even claimed to have called Alex and gotten permission from him to not have to go, but then when we pulled into the parking lot of the trail-head, which we've driven by a million times, he was all, "Oh. I've always wanted to come here."
Dude. Trust your mom once in a while. Jackass.
See, I suckered them in with running water and by the time they realized that the rest of the walk wasn't as exciting, they were already too far in to throw a tantrum.
Furthermore, I was correct about Quinn wanting to carry the backpack. Everything was coming up roses.
Because I'm me, I made them stop to take a photo. This was just as Sam came to the realization that there are bugs in nature and he started to scream and wave his arms around his head. It started when he spotted a butterfly, continued with a dragonfly, and disintegrated from there. Thank God we didn't find any ticks.
Then Quinn noticed that our water bottle (one of my favorites, naturally) had disappeared. I tried to send Sam back to look for it, because he is the most reliable of the munchkins by himself, but he refused to unfurl himself enough to walk past the bushes in his way, so I backtracked a little bit to look for it, but I couldn't find it.
I came back to find Quinn demanding a snack break.
We had been hiking for three minutes.
I wasn't ready to let them stop and eat the chicken drumsticks and slices of bread that Quinn had packed for us, but that didn't stop Quinn from sitting down by a tree and saying, "You go ahead, I have to take a break," as if we should abandon him on the trail because he was just too exhausted.
I made them walk for a half hour before I finally let them stop. No one was really hungry, but Quinn, Jack, and I all made an effort to eat a couple of bites of bread after it had been so earnestly packed. Sam refused to sit down and scanned the air for low-flying insects.
He did manage to get a photo of our smallest hiker as well.
He blends into the trail, but he's there. It's Algernon!
We may have lost a water bottle, but on the way back, we did find this awesome abandoned shoe sole that Quinn insisted on carrying all the way to the car with us.
For a while, it looked as if we were going to be able to get rid of the shoe sole because this dog here really wanted it.
Unfortunately, the dog's moms didn't want the shoe sole as much as I didn't want the shoe sole and foiled all my efforts to force Quinn to let the dog have the damn thing.
The rest of the hike was pretty uneventful. The shoe sole is still in my car. No one had a tick and Sam wasn't murdered by any bugs. As we drove away, I told the kiddos that next time we're going to hike even farther. Happily, they seemed to accept the fact that there would be more hiking.
Next time though, we're not taking our best water bottle.


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March 19, 2012
Flexing his academic muscles
After Friday's Winter Quarter Commencement, a graduate poses "Arnold" style in front of Veterans Memorial where the new bronze statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger was recently installed. More than 550 graduates earned their degrees March 16 and heard a commencement address by the CEO of State Auto Insurance, Robert Restrepo.
There's still time to join the Welcome Team!
The Welcome Team Spring 2012 edition will be held Monday, March 26, and Tuesday, March 27, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. You can join to welcome new and returning students to the Columbus Campus.
Your service is vital, appreciated and has a direct impact on student success at Columbus State. This quarter the team will be offering assistance in Madison Hall, on the second floor level in the Student Assistance Center and Records and Registration lobby.
RSVP to Barbara Allen, firstname.lastname@example.com, or call ext. 5297 with the times and days you are able to work and she will send you a confirmation within 24 hours.
Michael Wise to retire
Michael Wise, Coordinator of Grounds in the Physical Plant, will retire after nearly 27 years at Columbus State. Please join the Physical Plant Department at a reception for him on Thursday, March 22, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the Physical Plant lunchroom.
Refreshments will be provided.
Save the dates for the next Employee Resource Group meetings
Join the information sharing, networking, development and support at the next meetings of Columbus State's Employee Resource Groups, or attend a special field trip to COSI on April 14.
Employee Resource Groups (ERG) are designed to create and sustain an environment in which employees can achieve their potential and provide an intellectually rich and engaging forum. The groups will share diverse views, perspectives, support and experiences and foster excellence in working, teaching, research, service, and community partnerships. Upcoming meetings:
Minority Group: Friday, April 13, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Library Studio
Women's Group: Thursday, April 19, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. in Library Studio
Men's Group: Friday, April 20, at lunch break during In-Service
Spectrum (LGBT) Group: Friday, April 20, at lunch during In-Service
ERG Day at COSI: Saturday, April 14, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at COSI- Join us for a special event for all Columbus State ERG members to view the Race Exhibit at COSI!
For more information on Columbus State's ERGs, contact Kimberly Brazwell, manager of Diversity Initiatives, at ext. 2426.
Twenty-first annual Symposium takes place at Bolton Field
Accepting the FAA Aviation Maintenance Technician Gold Award at the March 14 Symposium are, from left: Chair Dick Bickerstaff, Valeria Palazzolo, Great Lakes Region Manager FAA Safety Team, Tim Sokol, FAA Safety Team Ohio Program Manager, and Associate Dean Mary Vaughn.
Columbus State's Aviation Maintenance Technology hosted the 21st annual Ohio Aviation Maintenance Symposium March 14 and 15 at Bolton Field. Over the two-day event, 457 aviation maintenance technicians and students attended recurrent training. For mechanics holding the Inspection Authorization designation by the FAA, the training is required for their annual renewal.
The 25 speakers at the Symposium included the FAA's Chief Scientist for Human Factors, Dr. Bill Johnson. Attendees also had the opportunity to visit 39 vendor displays, which were set up in the hangar of the Bolton Field facility.
Cliff Kelling, Professor Emeritus was honored by the FAA and awarded the Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award for his dedication and service in the aviation community for fifty years. Prof. Kelling will be honored with a permanent plaque in the FAA Headquarters in Washington D.C. He joins fellow Columbus Technical Institute and Columbus State faculty and chairs Claire Kosbab and Cliff Marr with this honor.
Columbus State was also awarded the FAA Gold Award for the Aviation Maintenance Technician Awards Program. In January, Gene Sprang, associate professor, Jeff Gruber, assistant professor/program coordinator, and Mike Kent, adjunct instructor were also awarded the FAA's Bronze Award for the AMT Awards Program in continuing education.
TRiO students complete service project
As part of a TRiO Day celebration on Saturday March 10, students in Columbus State's TRiO Programs—Student Support Services, Upward Bound, and Educational Talent Search—completed their service project to assemble personal care packs for the Broad Street Food Pantry and Choices. Columbus State students donated products, as well as employees and several departments. With donations from area businesses Walgreens, Kroger, Sam's Club, Giant Eagle, and Target, the students were able to produce 80 complete packs that will be donated, along with hundreds of stand-alone products, to the two organizations.
Columbus State's three TRiO programs are federally funded college access and success programs that annually serve 729 middle school, high school, and current students who are from low-income families and/or are potential first-generation college graduates. TRiO programs provide support, tools, and guidance that enable each student to set and achieve ambitious academic goals. Thank you to all who donated to the students' service project!
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Grains and oilseeds closed modestly lower after more soybean cancellations were reported. March corn settled 1 ½ cents lower at $6.89 ¼, March soybeans 5 ¾ cents lower at $13.86 ½, and March wheat up ¼ of a cent at $7.55 ½.
The USDA reported the cancellation of 315,000 MTs of US soybeans to China which sent soybeans back to their overnight lows again at $13.72 ½. The soybean strength over the past few months has been heavily dependent on export demand. The sale cancellations by China have certainly sent unsettling signals to the bulls. Favorable weather in South America also continues to weigh on soybean prices. With record production potential in SA, the world stocks to usage ratio will look much better in July than it does currently. This weakness could also be related to pre-fund liquidation in expectation of next week's rebalancing. In my opinion we still need to see the January 11th stocks report for further direction. We may have seen a short term technical bottom reached today based on the front month soybean chart.
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The US Dollar Index was exceptionally strong today after the FOMC Minutes. Some Fed members want to end the QE programs at the end of 2013, well before the prior Minutes report suggested. Either way it shows some dissention between the officials on what the right policy approach is. A stronger dollar could have contributed to some of today's weakness. We will have to see if this change in sentiment continues to affect the dollar positively.
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COLUMBIA - One of Georgia's key bargaining chips in negotiating with South Carolina to obtain a permit for deepening the Savannah harbor rests in Jasper County.
The Georgia Department of Transportation has agreed to preserve or transfer to the Palmetto State two parcels spanning nearly 1,700 acres of salt marshes. The larger parcel is situated adjacent to Tybee National Wildlife Refuge on the north side of Jones/Oysterbed Island. The smaller piece of land stretches further up the river across from the Nature Conservancy's Red Bluff Marsh Preserve.
During a committee meeting Tuesday, Jasper County's state senator, Democrat Clementa Pinckney, wanted to know whether the land was currently owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under easement, or being used as a place to spoils from maintenance dredging of the Savannah River.
Heather Preston, an official with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control's Bureau of Water Bureau, said the Georgia Department of Transportation had purchased the land in 1984 to be used if needed for dredge spoils. She told Pinckney that the parcels were not in use as dredge spoils heaps.
Georgia's concession for the 1,690 salt marsh acres was just one aspect of nearly seven hours of discussion that unfolded in a S.C. Senate committee room Tuesday, as lawmakers probed DHEC board members and agency staff about the Nov. 10 decision to grant the permit.
Members of the DHEC staff and board testified under oath that they were not pressured by the Haley administration to support Georgia's deepening plan and approve the permit request.
At that time DHEC staff had reached a last-minute compromise with the corp, which included Georgia's promise to protect the additional marshlands and a financial guarantee to fund annual operations of oxygen injectors, if federal dollars to do so lapsed in a given year. DHEC staff recommended the board accept the settlement, which the board did, effectively reversing the staff's Sept. 30 determination that the corps' initial request for certification be denied.
The Senate Medical Affairs Committee has scheduled another meeting for Friday morning, when members are expected to try again to compel four of Haley's staff members to testify under oath about any role in DHEC's Nov. 10 decision. Haley has resisted, citing separation-of-powers limitations, but she and staff agreed to meet with senators outside the committee arena.
Tuesday's committee interrogations stemmed from some lawmakers' suspicions that Haley's administration had improperly influenced DHEC board members' decision to approve the settlement and grant the corps' permit request.
The state of Georgia has been trying to deepen about 35 miles of the Savannah River from 42 feet to 48 feet in order to allow larger ships to enter the harbor after the Panama Canal is expanded in 2014.
Obtaining the water quality certification from the state of South Carolina is one step toward completing the $600 deepening project.
However, the corp has said South Carolina's blessing is not necessary to moving forward. For this reason, some lawmakers asked DHEC officials Tuesday if they had been bluffed by the corp into viewing the project as a foregone conclusion. Officials said no.
Some legislators have suggested a fundraiser in Atlanta on Oct. 28 for Haley had led her to drop her opposition to Georgia's Savannah harbor expansion plans. A comment then-governor-elect Haley had made in Charleston in November of 2010 had been widely interpreted to suggest that she would oppose Georgia's deepening project.
"Georgia has had their way with us for way too long, and I don't have the patience to let it happen anymore," Haley had told the Propeller Club about one year ago.
But less than three months after taking office, her spokesman had made it clear that the first-term governor was not threatening to obstruct Georgia's plans.
In an email to reporters on February 23, Haley's spokesman Rob Godfrey said coverage that paraphrased the quote to suggest she would thwart the Savannah Harbor project was "inaccurate." He said Haley's Propeller Club remarks had simply meant she was not content to let the Savannah Harbor continue to enjoy greater economic activity than the Charleston Port.
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Counting Crows, The Fray and Annie Bosko will perform at Pimlico Race Course's Black-Eyed Susan Day on May 16, the Maryland Jockey Club announced this morning.
The Crows are most famous for their radio-rock run in the '90s, when singles such as "Mr. Jones," "Round Here" and "A Long December" dominated airwaves. (Fans of the movie "Cruel Intentions" will certainly remember the piano ballad "Colorblind" as well.) Expect to hear "Raining in Baltimore," too.
The Fray, which released its fourth album "Helios" a couple of weeks ago, is most known for the singles "Over My Head (Cable Car)" and "How to Save a Life." Bosko is a country singer who was a semi-finalist on "American Idol" Season 8.
The show will begin in the late afternoon and take place in the public infield.
Tickets, on sale now, are $40 and can be purchased at the Pimlico sales office (877-206-8042) or at blackeyedsusanday.com. There is also a two-day Infield combo ticket for both Black-Eyed Susan Day and Preakness Stakes; it costs $90 through April.
Last year, Goo Goo Dolls, Rodney Atkins and Rachel Farley performed at Black-Eyed Susan Day, in the runup to the Preakness.


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Cy Vance Dirty DA Will be Excoriated in "Flash Boys" One of the Best Films of the Century (Thinking of this best free gift this holiday season for how many victims of Cy Vance?)
This film has not been cast yet but I promise you it will be one of the most famous films of our time so powerful I'm alleging my blogging about it scared Judge Zweibel, in my opinion, in to owning up late in the game the false prosecution (double jeopardy which he didn't aknowledge right away) of a Goldman Sachs programmer whose only crime was quitting, leaving Judge Z's usual partner (hardee har har) in crime Cy Vance to a starring role for prime global excoriation in Flash Boys without him! The Feds FBI come off looking bad in this too and considering the Feds failing the People with 9-11, Wall St Implosion, NYPD IAB corruption far greater than NYPD Jose Ramos, 911 Tech Corruption ala Bloomberg greater than Rudy Giuliani not moving emergency command center when he could've before the second horrific Terror attack on the World Trade Center.
My lawsuits are going to be historical records of corruption retaliation that -- win or lose -- can't be erased (like Eric Garner filed a lawsuit against the NYPD 7 yrs ago) and next year's lawsuit against Cy Vance NYPD IAB DOI I want to pursue to the Supreme Court if that's what it takes and the knowledge "Flash Boys" film is coming and it's historic impact around the world to come is comfort and solace re: my case.
From Youtube after the Wall Street implosion I urged Oliver Stone to do Wall Street 2. His film flopped but Michael Lewis's film exposes how it's business as usual with Wall Street again above the law and not being policed but owns the police and the Injustice system. The Dow may have hit record high 18,000 but the inevitable we have Wall St Implosion Part 2? Do you call that a correction? (Almost laughable if it wasn't also tragic.)
Cy Vance Dirty DA (District Atty.) protects NYPD IAB (Internal affairs Bureau) and Goldman Sachs (Teflon Wall St Bank) note: it is horrific and tragic 2 NYPD officers could be murdered very sad condolences despite a group of NYPD and internal affairs incredible abuse and criminal behavior involving me but the heartbreaking murder of 2 cops doesn't let systematic corruption and dirty corrupt cops including under Mike Bloomberg and (including) Ray Kelly off the hook and their corruption and dirty DAs like Charles Hynes and Cy Vance led to an anti NYPD feeling! It is amazing the NYPD and media pretend otherwise. My new lawsuit next year includes Cy Vance, Ray Kelly Bill Bratton, Mark Peters head of DOI, The NYPD (notice of claim filed) and internal affairs include Corruption involving the largest taxpayer titanic New York City government history 911 tech system and Cy Vance could've stopped the stealing and corruption almost 3 years ago but the Oligarchs of NY and their NYC gov puppets say you can go over budget $1 billion on 911 tech system but there was NO stealing like the Wall St Titans responsible for the implosion of Wall Street. (Laughable if it wasn't tragic...).
Looks like Sony pictures has a huge hit despite the hacking but it can't compare to the effect Michael Lewis's Flash Boys will have and because I am a victim of Cy Vance's corruption, evil and myopic stupidity a trade mark of Cy's beside the fact I am suing him and ADA Joan Illuzi, ADA Tiana Walton ADA Giovenetti, I will be among the first to rush to see Flash Boys which will win Oscars and excoriate Cy Vance for all the World in what may be one of the best films of the century!!!!
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Between Suspicious Deaths and Cy Vance Criminal Prosecutions, Technology Jobs On Wall Street Are Now Among the Most Dangerous in America
"Wall Street's incestuous relationship with law enforcement in New York City has grown to epic proportions. It includes the joint operation of a surveillance center in Lower Manhattanand the ability for Wall Street firms to hire off duty NYPD officers with the power to arrest.
"It's time for a truly independent investigation of the prosecutorial hubris that has built up in New York City under the banner of "protecting" Wall Street. As Cy Vance scurries about prosecuting IT workers on Wall Street, the FBI, Justice Department, and New York State Attorney General are investigating Wall Street firms for potentially designing computer code to fleece investors across America.""
Wow judge Zweibel in my opinion was forced to do the right my guess because he read my blog posts and figured out he would be excoriated in an Oscar Award winning film!!!! If he had integrity in my opinion he would not have taken this case because it was double jeopardy and of an innocent man!!!!!http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/07/between-suspicious-deaths-and-cy-vance-criminal-prosecutions-technology-jobs-on-wall-street-are-now-among-the-most-dangerous-in-america/
Cy Vance could have already prosecuted and put away NYC gov 911 ECTP criminals involving by the way possibly retired NYPD... Cy Vance could have prosecute Wall St's top dogs or St Vincent's Hospital crooks which might have angered Howard Rubenstein's Client Rudin Family Greed's need to replace a Trauma L1 Hospital luxury condos. I'm still trying to find out if Cy Vances wiretapping NYPD detective who got arrested was doing any illegal wiretapping for extra cash but that interests the FBI as much as the Wall St Titans responsible for the implosion of Wall St.!!!! 911 thieves greed and stupidity just impacts about 8 million people here New York City that's nothing compared to Wall Street implosion.
Cy Vance is a dirty DA who I'm suing next year along with three dirty ADA's in my opinion - oh yeah this is an opinion blog.
Cy Vance is an arrogant piece of crap posing as blue blood royalty US style confident he's above the law a fixer of the worst kind a corrupt corrupts creep but here comes the good news...
He is going to be excoriated in an Oscar award winning film that will be far more successful than 100 times more powerful than Oliver Stone's film Wall St.
Greed is good is going to be replaced with Michael Lewis's catch phrase "Market is rigged" with even bigger broader meaning because so is our corrupt legal system so Cy Vance has done so many corrupt misdeeds, abuses and unlike some of his victims who been jailed for no crime but political agendas by Cy Vance or his pals and include dirty cops to powerbrokers starting with Goldman Sachs.... It will be with great joy I support the film that's going to expose this piece of crap and evil scumbag and prevents him from ever getting a lucrative job hopefully ever again. Re: everyone involved in my case it won't be enough until they own up and take responsibility for what they did to me and I wonder how many others?
I wish Michael Lewis would put Joan Illuzi's words describing her boss Cy Vance in the film. She sounded like she drank Cy Vance lemonade or is it koolaide "The Cult of Cy" and she was completely ignorant of his role in preventing the prosecution of St. Vincent's crooks and clearly either ignorant of other of his actions or party to it like in my case? Joan Illuzi told me she would not hold my politics or my blogging against me. She told me she didn't know who I was and at the time she didn't but do you think she lied to me when she said she would not hold my politics against me and I had a right to blog freedom of speech?
"It would certainly not be the first time that a New York City defender of the public interest used his office to audition for a multi-million dollar job on Wall Street.
According to Lewis, Aleynikov has started a memoir. One line from the memoir reads: "The prisons are filled by people who crossed the law, as well as by those who were incidentally and circumstantially picked and crushed by somebody else's agenda.""
""The evidence included the laptop, a flash drive and computers the FBI seized in its search of Aleynikov and his home, which they later gave to Vance's office after Aleynikov's federal conviction was overturned. Zweibel said that it was "improper" of the FBI to give the evidence to the district attorney's office even after Aleynikov requested that the property be returned.
"This constituted an unauthorized seizure and retention of defendant's property that was unreasonable under the circumstances," Zweibel wrote.
Zweibel denied Aleynikov's motion to suppress statements he made to the FBI after he was read his Miranda rights.
In a statement, Aleynikov's lawyer, Kevin Marino, said Zweibel's decision gutted the district attorney's case and was "another important step on Sergey Aleynikov's long journey to complete vindication."
The Manhattan district attorney's office declined to comment. (note from Suzannah: Cy won't comment on Sandy Rubenstein alleged rape, cy Vance is my opinion oh yeah this an opinion blog is a corrupt piece of excrement posing as a human who protects banks, oligarchs, corrupt cops who lie on the witness as well as mayor bloomberg who committed perjury during the Haggerty trial and Judge Zweibel didn't notice? Well my guess Judge Z read my blog post and didn't want to be starring in an Oscar-winning film that exposes him for being a corrupt political judge like how many corrupt political judges in New York? hardee har har)
Last year, Zweibel denied Aleynikov's motion to dismiss the case, saying Aleynikov did not show that the charges brought by Vance amounted to double jeopardy. (Note from Suzannah: again I have to say in Judge Zweibel read my blog is my guess and he got shamed pure fear of being excoriated in Hollywood film made him act like a friggin honest judge and do a complete turnaround!!!!)
Aleynikov was featured in author Michael Lewis's book "Flash Boys" earlier this year.
The case is People v. Aleynikov, New York State Supreme Court for New York County, No. 04447/2012.""http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ny-judge-narrows-states-case-against-former-goldman-programmer-2014-20
I protested Cy Vance after the NYPD Rape Cop Pena case asking if he was going to return the $5000 campaign donation from his pal Llyod Constantine who allegedly led the jurors to misogynist prejudicial decisions when clearly it was 1st° rape and it was a no brainer NYPD Rape cop Pena lying was yet another misigynist dirty corrupt NYPD officer business as usual.
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Edamame and Green Bean Salad
serves four
I know, I know....things like fresh edamame beans and sunflower sprouts are not your standard supermarket fare. I've suggested some substitutions you might try. Whatever you use, make sure it's fresh - and preferably local. This is not about food snobbism but the pure pleasure of eating really really fresh things that just came out of the earth. I promise that you will feel like you've been given a giant vitamin.
1 pint fresh edamame beans (approx one c shelled; use frozen edamame if fresh are not available)
2 c mixed beans (green, yellow, purple - so pretty! or just good ole green beans will do too), trimmed and cut in half
1 tbsp plus ¼ c olive oil (make sure the ¼ c is your very best stuff)
1 lg shallot, minced
1 garlic clove, minced
2 anchovies, either packed in salt and rinsed, or oil-packed, cut into thirds
¼ c chicken stock or water
2 c fresh sunflower sprouts (use lettuce if sunflower sprouts are not available)
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
Splash Champagne vinegar (use white wine vinegar as a sub)
½ tsp French grey sea salt (or any fine grained salt)
Pinch sugar
Freshly ground black pepper to taste.
1. Rinse edamame thoroughly to remove any sand. Bring a pot of water to a boil and add the beans. Boil for approximately 7-8 minutes, or until the beans are cooked but still with a firm bite. Drain the beans, rinse with cold water and set aside.
2. Meanwhile, heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add shallot and garlic and saute for a minute until fragrant. Add the beans and anchovies and continue cooking, stirring constantly. After a few minutes, add the stock or water and cook until the beans are tender-crisp, about 7-10 minutes. Take off heat and set aside.
3. In a small bowl, combine the ¼ c olive oil, mustard, vinegar, salt, sugar and pepper and whisk until thoroughly blended.
4. Put the sunflower sprouts in an attractive serving dish. Top with the green beans, and then the edamame. Pour dressing over the salad, toss gently and serve.
I got the fresh edamame beans from O.K. Farms, which has a stand every week at the Liberty Village "My Market". It's the first year they've grown the soybeans and they're absolutely fantastic.


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Man wounded in Orlando police-involved shooting
Shooting happened at Village at Rosemont Preserve complex
Two men are in custody, one of them wounded, after officers were involved in a gunfight in Orlando.
The incident happened at the Village at Rosemont Preserve on Tuesday evening. The apartment complex is located at 5300 Cinderlane Pkwy.
Investigators said officers were in the 5500 block of the roadway conducting a drug investigation when they encountered two men.
Officials said Sadiki Allwood pulled a gun and fired at an officer. The officer returned fire and hit him in the shoulder.
Jim Young, the Orlando Police Department public information officer, said Allwood ran to the 5200 block of Cinderlane Parkway, where he was taken into custody and transported to an area hospital.
The other men, Makabee Seow, fled but officers found and detained him.
Allwood is charged with two counts of attempted murder on a law enforcement officer, two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Seow is charged with resisting an officer without violence, possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia.
No officers were injured in the gunfight.


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