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Comics for bad people.
By: Sutter
Great news from here on Birthday Street! We will probably never ever post any news here! I mean… there's been NO news since 2012… so it stands to reason that there will be no news posted henceforth.
Birthday Street is now featured on justthefirstframe.com. It's a great site that gives you (as its name suggests) just the first frame of the best comics on the web. You decide if you want to read the rest!
The first 100 birthday street comics are now available in convenient book form, along with 30 extra pages of comics, sketches, and bizarre necks!
© 2019, Kevin Cornell, Matthew Sutter, and Peter Dalkner. Built by Matt Kircher. All images owned by their respective artist. Don't be a jerk and steal shit.


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Digital Video Loggers (DVL) connect existing STACK displays and data systems, as well as third-party ECUs, with synchronized multi-camera video recording
Shift lights, camera, action! Yes, sir, you can combine them all with the STACK Motorsport Digital Video Loggers (DVL) – gauges, data logging, even an EFI system, and several cameras – for perfectly synchronized video and data analysis. Stop thumbing through your data logs and scratching your head! Video will help bookmark events to figure out what is going with the car or the driver, plus you'll have some really cool onboard video to share with your friends, followers, and sponsors. Use the latest technology to go faster.
Two variations, the Clubman-3 (PN ST8320) and Pro-4 (PN ST8321), allow up to four cameras, depending on the model, to track multiple viewpoints simultaneously, which are automatically synched on replay. Keep an eye on the suspension, drivetrain, bodywork, etc and compare to the data in real time on your PC using the STACK software. Best of all, the scaling, crop, mirror, flip, and positioning can all be configured at your discretion.
Both DVLs use solid-state electronics for reliable operation as well as a professional grade, shielded motorsports harness with an optional manual record toggle switch and status LED. A live view monitor connection cable, single hi-resolution bullet camera, and mono-microphone are also included with each system. Up to 9 hours of video and data is recorded on compact flash cards (not included). The DVL is capable of recording stereo audio, and has a built-in 3-axis G sensor for acceleration analysis and automatic start/stop recording. An optional GPS antenna will allow for coordinate track mapping, vehicle speed, date, time, course, heading, etc. Other hardware options include extra cameras, lenses, sun shades, and various billet camera mounts to suit the application and use.
Here are some quick specs:
-Pricing starts at $1,499
-Dimensions: 152x23x76mm
-Weight: 380g (without memory card)
-Video resolution: 720×480 at 30fps (NTSC)
-500Hz (500 samples per second) logging rate
-CAN bus interface connects to STACK displays, data systems, and third-party ECU with CAN data stream (such as AEM, Bosch, Mast Motorsports, Motec, etc)
-Internal accelerometers and optional GPS also provide input for expanded features
-DataPro software allows lap-to-lap sync video comparison
-Existing STACK systems can be upgraded with a DVL for improved sample rates, updates software, increased memory, and sync video
Check out this footage from a STACK DVL of a Tony Stewart Racing World of Outlaws car during hot laps at Volusia Speedway Park.

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They say that Generation Y will change careers three times in their lives, or roughly speaking, about every ten years. I've spent nine in my current profession, which I am thoroughly fed up with, so now I'm heading back to uni.
As a 28-year-old student, I'm worried about the age difference between me and all those 21-year-olds. What will we have in common? They're living with parents, I'm living with my defacto; they're clubbing, I'm attending dinner parties; they're buying cars where as I'm looking at houses. Still, I suppose we'll bond over the things that have been uniting students for years – a mutual dislike of lecturers, bitching about too much homework and moaning about bad cafeteria food.
In other ways, I'm looking forward to being a student; the 12 contact hours a week as opposed to 50 plus in my last job. Then there are the student price movie tickets, train tickets, gym memberships and more. It's amazing how one little card can have so much power. Of course, there's a reason why you get mates rates. It's because you're poor, something which I haven't quite faced up to yet.
I blame employment websites for actively encouraging me to change careers. I signed up for new posts in my current profession but instead I was emailed totally unrelated positions. Maybe a programmer out there in database-land was trying to tell me something. Or maybe it was just a glitch in the system. Either way, I got the hint and decided to pack-up shop.
In the olden days, if you stayed in a profession you hated, it wasn't so bad because life expectancy was so low. These days, you're looking at a good 40 years of working life. That's like a life sentence really, if you don't enjoy what you do. Perhaps that's why there's an increase in the 'slash' professionals – i.e. artist/designer/musician. It certainly keeps your options open, but not everyone is geared to work that way.
The thing with changing careers (apart from a massive pay decrease) is that you don't get the golden handshake your grandparents received. That's why my old work partner and I are throwing our own retirement party, complete with gold watches (spray painted plastic ones) and a large cake with naff-looking icing spelling out the word 'Congratulations!' The best thing is, we won't have to share it, as no one else will be invited.
Change is scary, but of all the species on the planet, we humans are the best at adapting to it. Just look at some of America's more famous individuals and see how well their career changes worked out for them. Bill Gates used to be CEO of Microsoft, now he's a full-time philanthropist, having donated over $29 billion to charities since 2000. Al Gore was the vice president of the United States, now he's a champion of climate change and recent Nobel Prize winner because of it. Of course, not everyone will be so successful in their 'second life'.
Some people set themselves up for multiple career paths right from the outset – via a double degree at uni. This type of study is becoming more and more common, which is why I find it odd that tertiary institutions like Melbourne University have decided to abolish double degrees. They'll certainly make more money from students doing back-to-back degrees, and save themselves the headache of timetable clashes. But in today's commitment-phobic times (see Australia's growing divorce rate), how wise is it to steer our youth in only one direction? Gen Ys are an ambitious lot, and after 10 years in one profession, there's often no more corporate ladder to climb.
That's why I propose the current job sites change their domain names to mycareerchange.com.au and careermultiple.com.au(.) I'm sure there are lots of jobs where the skill set required would be very similar to other roles. Personally, I'd love to see an ad that read, 'Neurosurgeon Position Available, No Experience Necessary, Suits Patternmaker, Taxidermist or Butcher.' As well as being mildly amusing, it'd give us Gen Ys a hint as to what we could do after our first career path has run its course.
In my case, the second career choice was easy. I have one skill – writing – so there were only a few options to choose from. After ten years in my next literary pursuit, perhaps I'll become a scriptwriter for adult films, or a writer of fortune cookie messages. That way I can encourage others to change careers with profound thoughts like, 'Many a false step is made by standing still.' Or I could just get straight to the point, without the vagaries of Confucius; 'Go back to uni. Success awaits in your next career'.


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News from the world of Maths
You would not have thought it, but while you sit contentedly digesting your turkey and gazing at the telly, your brain is keeping up the hard work, making sure that everything in your body goes according to plan. And to understand this most amazing of nature's creations you need maths. Here are some of our favourite articles on brains, human and animal.
>It may be Sunday but that's no excuse for resting your brain. Plus has been grappling hard with the strange weirdnesses of quantum mechanics lately, and we think that you should too. So get ready to be mind-boggled.
What would Christmas be without the unlimited eating? And even though you can't taste it, there's plenty of maths in food. Here's some yummy examples.
Is maths always true?
Find some animal maths behind door number 8.
There are nearly 7 billion of us now, but how many will there be by Christmas 2111? Find out behind door number 7...
Our new postcards are too lovely to keep to ourselves! Look behind Door 6 and find out how to get your own set...


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After tending stick behind many familiar bars in London including Townhouse, LAB and of course, Callooh Callay, Sean Ware has recently made the move to work for a brand. Now one of the UK brand ambassadors for Bombay Spirits Company he can currently be found touring the UK with Sam Carter bringing their Aroma Academy sessions and amazing Gin Aroma kits to
bartenders and bars across the country.
1.What was the first spirit you ever tasted and what was your reaction?
Malibu out of the bottle in the mine dumps in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Back then it was the most exotic thing I could of imagined.
2.What is the first cocktail you ever made?
It would have been a French Martini, I got the garnish a little wrong because I kept flaming an orange peel over the top like it was a Cosmo.
3.What was the first drink/spirit you really fell in love with and why?
The first drink would be a G&T, so gin as well. I remember hot afternoons on the veranda in Zambia sipping on a refreshing G&T after tea and scones, I think the whole theatre and routine behind it works for me.
4.One of the more trickier questions...what are your 3 favourite cocktails?
This changes quite often, but today I will be drinking in this order ;
all cliche classics I know, but thats what I'm going to have.
5.Given your extensive experience working behind the bar & also managing them, if you could pass just one thing on to a young bartender what would it be?
Customers first, your ego and technique second.
6.And if you were to break a bartending golden rule what would it be?
You don't always have to follow the recipe, for me it is about balance, accord and the harmony of ingredients together. Besides, ingredients and booze have changed over time so old recipes may not turn out how you expect. But don't run before you can walk.
7.Outside of flavor and the craft of the cocktail what in your opinion affects the customer's appreciation of cocktails the most?
Time and a place. A bartender should know that it's not always about the drink, you need to use atmosphere, lighting, music as well as flavour, banter and technique to win over people.
8.Is there anything that influences the drinks that you create from outside the industry?
The blues, food and moments in time or experiences.
9.What is a flavour you have discovered recently?
As opposed to a specific flavour, I have been doing a lot of work with aroma connection with emotions as part of flavour-as flavour is the sum of aroma, retro-nasal aroma, taste, aftertaste and trigeminal effects.
10.You've just moved across to be a UK Brand Ambassador for Bombay Spirits Company, how did you find the move from behind the bar to brand work?
I think we work in such an amazing industry and I'm lucky enough to work with such amazing people, both Team Bacardi and other, so the transition has been relatively easy. If only I could get Leanne to do my expenses though...
11.Ha, good look persuading her! I know you've only just moved into the new role, but any ideas what the future may hold for you?
My new role is keeping me pretty busy, but I might have a few things up my sleeve...
12.How very cryptic...! Do you have any industry predictions for the next couple of years?
Smaller bars specialising in either wine, beer or cocktails, with smaller but wiser choices, and hopefully better service, easier booking systems and less of those rude doormen.
13.Absolutely with you on the rude doormen - no thanks! If you where to
champion a cocktail which would it be?
Before Christmas I couldn't get enough of Victor from Callooh Callay's I amThe Moon. Go try it.
I Am The Moon
50ml Belvedere Intense
10ml Briottet White Cacao
Stir and serve in a coupet glass
50ml Belvedere Intense
10ml Briottet White Cacao
Stir and serve in a coupet glass
14.Ha, loving the bromance ;) So, I had to ask this final one...What gin do you prefer in your martini?
Tough question, you see there are so many things to consider: what ratio, gin in the freezer or not, olive or twist, which amazing vermouth to choose, but of course anything from the Bombay Spirits Company.
Two words: Cop out!
Interview conducted by Emma Stokes


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|Induction Class of 2013
|Previous College:
|UMass Boston '08
The all-time career and single-season leader in strikeouts with
234 and 82, Conway becomes the first player during head coach
Brendan Eygabroat's tenure to be named as a Hall of Fame
inductee. A freshman when Eygabroat took over the baseball program,
Conway was instrumental in leading the Beacons to four consecutive
Little East Conference tournament appearances—a program
Named the 2006 and 2008 Little East Conference Pitcher of the Year, Conway also grabbed 2008 LEC First Team All-Conference honors as well. On top of holding the career and single-season mark for strikeouts, Conway also stands as the program's all-time leader in innings pitched in a career with 245.0. His 86.0 innings of work, which he recorded in 2006, still remains the single-season best at UMass Boston.
He also stands second all-time in career wins with 14 and is third all-time in career appearances with 45 and earned run average with 3.49. His 15 and 12 K's in a single game still stand as second and fourth most all-time respectively.


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Sunderland in talks over loan deal for New York Red Bulls midfielder Tim Cahill
Sky Sports sources understand that Sunderland and New York Red Bulls are in talks over a loan move for Tim Cahill.
Last Updated: 30/12/12 4:26pm
Australia international Cahill spent eight years in the Premier League with Everton before joining the Red Bulls in July.
The Major League Soccer season came to an end last month and a number of players are expected to sign temporary deals in Europe when the January transfer window opens.
Cahill has attracted the interest of Sunderland and it is thought talks are ongoing between the clubs over an agreement to take the 33-year-old to the Stadium of Light.
Martin O'Neill is looking to strengthen his squad next month following a difficult start to the season, with the Black Cats currently 13th in the Premier League and just five points clear of the relegation zone.


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Well, "The Artist" cleaned up at the Golden Globes Sunday, this despite the fact that it has yet to gross more than $10 million in this U.S., and despite the fact that Marky Mark's itchy back just stole its lunch at the weekend box office. Let's look at the final chart via Box Office Mojo.
1. Contraband - $24.1M
2. Beauty & The Beast 3D - $18.5M
3. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - $11.5M
4. Joyful Noise - $11.3M
5. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $8.4M
6. The Devil Inside - $7.9M
7. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - $6.8M
8. Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $5.8M
9. War Horse - $5.6M
10. The Iron Lady - $5.4M
Luckily for "The Artist," our little formula is quite amenable to silent French movies that have been seen by a grand total of six people. And so, with a few handy calculations, we can give these poor Frenchies the post-Globes bump they so mildly deserve. VOILA!
1. The Artist - 423
2. Beauty & The Beast 3D - 271
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - 253
4. The Iron Lady - 248
5. The Descendants - 211
6. Contraband - 190
7. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - 99
8. The Devil Inside - 79
9. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - 46
10. War Horse - 38
It was just last week that "The Devil Inside" nearly hit quadruple digits on our little chart, so you can see what a dramatic fall it's had since people realized how bad it is. Also, please note that I adjusted the original 1990 budget for "Beauty & the Beast" ($25 million) for inflation, to a grand total of $40 million, still a bargain by today's standards. Expect a LOT more 3D retrofits of Disney classics on the way. Hey, you were silly enough to plunk down money for them. Such is the desperation of a parent during a slow Saturday. Also, look for "Contraband" to fall quickly thanks to poor critical reception and the coming arrival of "Haywire" to properly satisfy America's buttkicking needs.


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2014 NAIA Softball Players of the Week ? No. 6
Story by Chad Waller, Director of Communications and Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Raeven Clark of Oklahoma Baptist has been named the NAIA Softball National Player of the Week and Megan Nonnemacher of Saint Xavier (Ill.) has been selected as the National Pitcher of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Clark and Nonnemacher were selected based on their performances from April 14 – 20 and were chosen out of a pool of conference, independent and unaffiliated group winners.
Clark (pictured top left), a 5-foot-8 freshman catcher from Oklahoma City, Okla., was a big reason for the Lady Bison to capture three Top 25 wins last week. Clark batted .417 (5-for-12) with six RBIs, three runs scored and three extra-base hits. She recorded hits in all four games last week, including a 2-for-3 effort in the 4-3 win over No. 9 Oklahoma City on April 15. Clark knocked out her second home run of the week and 10th of the season in that contest. Overall, she posted a 1.000 slugging percentage.
Clark ranks 27th in the NAIA with 10 home runs.
Nonnemacher (pictured right), a 5-foot-7 senior from Bloomington, Ill., recorded 23 strikeouts in 23 innings of work last week for the Cougars. She notched all three wins in shutout fashion, coming against Purdue North Central (Ind.) on April 17, William Penn (Iowa) on April 18 and Grand View (Iowa) on April 19, to improve to 17-1 on the season in the circle. Nonnemacher allowed just seven hits and two walks and held opponents to a .091 batting average. Her highlight came in the 1-0 blanking of William Penn, where she fanned 10 batters in 10 innings of work. She now has 11 career shutouts.
On the season, Nonnemacher ranks No. 5 in the NAIA in ERA (0.71) and No. 8 in opponent batting average (.160).
For a complete listing of national statistical leaders, click here.
The next NAIA National Softball Players of the Week will be announced April 29.
Player Nominees: Caroline Sicht, William Woods (Mo.); Natalie Sheffey, Milligan (Tenn.); Kara Wall, Simpson (Calif.); Parker Bonife, Northwest Christian (Ore.); Hannah Gardner, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Allie Foley, Marian (Ind.); Justeena Gutierrez, Dickinson State (N.D.); Breanne Gomez, Vanguard (Calif.); Heather Sabata, Hastings (Neb.); Anna O'gorman, Peru State (Neb.); Rachel Laird, Houston-Victoria (Texas); Elisa Valenzuela, Ottawa (Kan.); Karen Mao, Point Park (Pa.); Kristina Krupinski, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Brittany Merritt, Central Baptist (Ark.); Niki Green, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Shelby Anderson, Presentation (S.D.); Mary Jordan, Langston (Okla.); Jade Sasser, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.); Christina Horton, St. Thomas (Fla.); Kc Dunne, Davenport (Mich.).
Pitcher Nominees: Kelli Wenberg, Park (Mo.); Chancli Connatser, Milligan (Tenn.); Jennifer Sizemore, William Jessup (Calif.); Jill Suratt, Northwest Christian (Ore.); Hannah Robbins, Taylor (Ind.); Tiffany Morgan, Dickinson State (N.D.); Rachel Stalford, Vanguard (Calif.); Jill Dickson, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.); Aubrey Utley, Central Methodist (Mo.); Griffin Gilbert, Houston-Victoria (Texas); Daria Leid, Kansas Wesleyan; Jessica Leanhart, Indiana Southeast; Jenna Jones, Rio Grande (Ohio); Kristen Hall, Central Christian (Kan.); Sam Flerlage, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Mandy Thiessen, Jamestown (N.D.); Katrisha Arocha, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas); Hannah Wilbur, Oklahoma Baptist; Cassie Daniels, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.); Robi Zimmerman, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Bree Crampton, Madonna (Mich.).
2014 Softball Weekly Honors (Player, Pitcher):
Week 1 (March 18): Hannah Gardner, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Nicole Nonnemacher, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Week 2 (March 25): Annette Merjano, Concordia (Calif.); Lucy Baldovino, Concordia (Ore.)
Week 3 (April 1): Abbey Wilmes, Grand View (Iowa); Bree Crampton, Madonna (Mich.)
Week 4 (April 8): Alyssa Miller, Ottawa (Kan.); MacKenzie Bowden, William Woods (Mo.)
Week 5 (April 15): Kamara Trice, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.); Virginia McAndrews, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)
Week 6 (April 22): Raeven Clark, Oklahoma Baptist; Megan Nonnemacher, Saint Xavier (Ill.)


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Starker's Bacon and Cheese Curd Burger
You can find the bacon and cheese inside these hamburgers instead of on top. Adults and kids love these flavorful burgers. Serve them at your next outdoor gathering. This recipe comes from Starker's Restaurant in Kansas City.
Place bacon slices on the unheated rack of a broiler pan. Sprinkle each slice with brown sugar. Bake in a 450 degree F oven for 10 minutes or until crisp. When cool enough to handle, chop bacon; set aside.Advertisement
Divide and pat beef into eight patties approximately 4 inches in diameter and about 3/4-inch thick.
Place one-fourth of the chopped bacon and 3 tablespoons of the cheese curds in the middle of four of the patties, leaving 1/2 inch around the edge of the patty. Top each with the remaining four patties. Pinch edges of patties together to form one large burger patty. Chill, covered, in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Season burgers with salt and black pepper. For a charcoal grill, place the patties on the well-oiled rack of an uncovered grill directly over medium coals for 10 minutes. Turn with a wide spatula and grill 10 to 12 minutes more, until meat is cooked and an instant-read thermometer inserted into patties registers 160 degrees F. Toast buns, cut side down, on grill during last 1 to 2 minutes of grilling. (For a gas grill, preheat grill. Reduce heat to medium. Place patties on grill rack and cover and grill as above.)
To serve, place a cooked burger on bottom half of each bun. If you like, top each with tomato, onion, and lettuce.


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Arts advocates and organizations scored a victory last year when New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs reorganized its process for allocating funds in an effort to make it more merit-based and equitable. In terms of funding totals, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council for the Arts both received as much money in their fiscal year 2008 budgets, if not slightly more, than they had in any year over the past decade. The immediate future looked good. But now, just a year later, the arts community sees expecting tough times ahead.
The current recession has arts organizations, like the rest of the city, taking a hard look at their finances. Public funding for the arts, as for every sector, is expected to shrink in both the city and state budgets. The cultural affairs department, which had an adopted expense budget of $168 million in fiscal year 2008, has a budget of only $152 million for this year. That may shrink to $149 million if the City Council approves the mayor's 2.5 percent budget reduction for all city departments for the remainder of the year.
If the mayor's plan for next year also is approved, the department will face another $3.8 million cut for fiscal year 2010. Bloomberg has said that he wants to keep arts funding at a high level, but when money gets scarce, arts sometimes loses out to services seen as more essential, such as education, police and fire.
The budget for the state arts council is likely to be slashed next year as well. The state legislature failed to approve budget reductions for the remainder of this fiscal year, leaving an ever greater deficit for 2010. With the public funding picture looking grim, the thousands of organizations that rely on city and state grants are expected to have to tighten their belts.
Staying Alive -- For Now
No one is yet sure exactly how much they will lose. Despite any budget reductions for the remaining fiscal year, most organizations that depend on public grants will not see a change until the next fiscal year, which starts on April 1 for the state budget and July 1 for the city budget.
Dance NYC executive director Michelle Burkhart said her organization, which provides services to artists and groups, has "already seen less funding from both city and state" grants. Of the groups Dance NYC works with, Burkhart said so far "no one's come yet saying they have to close their doors or go on hiatus."
However, she said, budget cuts would certainly affect her organization and its ability to serve its members. The majority of Dance NYC's constituents, according to Burkhart, are "underrepresented artists, working project to project" as well as "grassroots organizations." Dance NYC offers them various kinds of assistance, from workshops to help artists efficiently run organizations to providing stable infrastructure to dance groups. "We've just kind of had to re-evaluate some of the programming we're offering - minimizing some of the programs we're able to provide the field," Burkhart said. "Workshops are being re-evaluated or cut completely."
With the financial crisis deepening and the city and state budgets for next year still in the planning stages, the fiscal predictions change constantly. Virginia Louloudes, executive director of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, said, "Now we're OK. Next year, we're not so sure."
Her organization provides services and support to member artists and theaters and is one of the thousands of groups that rely on state grants, city money or both. State and city budget cuts are difficult enough for organizations to absorb, but in a recession, arts organizations face other budget reductions as well. "It's going to hit us in three places: individual giving, the amount of money the city has to give us and the amount of money the state has to give us," Louloudes said.
Private Money
The budget cuts in the recession in the early 1990s, Louloudes said, changed arts funding so that organizations relied more on corporate and individual donations than before, making private gifts perhaps even more important than public funds for some organizations.
Due to business mergers in recent years, the number of corporate donors has shrunk, forcing groups to rely more on individuals. Steve Zeitlin, executive director of City Lore, an organization committed to preserving New York's cultural heritage, said that in the coming months, changes in individual giving will "affect people the most."
With the economy in a recession, major corporate and individual donations are scarcer. As organizations conduct their year-end appeals, Zeitlin said he guessed that the response would show that giving has dropped a great deal. Of City Lore's funding, Zeitlin said, "We've had funders who say 'yes, we'll consider your proposal, but we have no idea when.'"
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Arts organizations had prepared for the worst in terms of their finances, according to Louloudes. "I think that all of us have been sensing that this has been coming, so we are all being very conservative," she said.
However, less than a week later, after her organization had done more surveying among its members, Louloudes had a different opinion. "It's worse than I thought," she said. According to Louloudes, theaters in her organization are seeing a decline in attendance and income as well as a decline in funding.
New York has already seen a rash of show closings on Broadway, with "Hairspray," "Spamalot," "Spring Awakening," "13" and "Young Frankenstein" all announcing final performances in January. Smaller shows and companies are also expected to suffer. In the theater community, Louloudes predicted, "Off-Broadway will feel it the most." Smaller off-off Broadway groups without established fixed costs like rent for performance and office space may have an easier time weathering the storm than larger groups. But regardless, Louloudes said, "I'm concerned about the entire field."
Looking Ahead
Despite all the planning and saving, arts groups feel the worst is yet to come. Steve Zeitlin said City Lore had not felt the effects of city and state budget cuts, but probably would in the next year. "When these cuts happen, there's always a little bit of a lag. ... It hits us over a period of time," he said.
When funding is cut, Zeitlin said, "We basically have to go into survival mode and keep the infrastructure of the office intact." The result, Zeitlin said, is that the group may have to cut some programming in order to survive and continue advancing its cause. City Lore runs programs aiming to preserve New York City art and landmarks as well as promote ethnic folk arts to "ensure that the city's traditions and cultures are still given a voice in the city's cultural life." Zeitlin said. Zeitlin said he hoped City Lore wouldn't have to cut any programming next year, but worried that financial pressures would force the group to do so.
The various affects of the recession will be widespread. Louloudes said she has already seen groups suffer because of the downturn - the Ohio Theatre, an off-Broadway theater in SoHo and a member of ART/New York, will no longer have a space. The theatre's landlord was forced to sell the building because of financial pressures.
As a result of the funding cuts and fall off in contributions, New York City may experience a decline in the number of arts groups, performances and events in the upcoming months. It also seems likely New York City will see fewer free public events, Zeitlin said, because "those are precisely the events that rely on government funding."
In any case, arts in New York face a difficult battle. Of the times ahead, Louloudes said, "We have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. And when I say 'best,' I mean 'I hope we can survive this.'"


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Lake Granby ice retreats; summer resurfaces
Ice on local lakes is almost completely melted and should be all gone within the next few days, according to Marty Schroeder of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.
The ice melt is a week or so behind when ice normally melts off of the area's reservoirs due to colder temperatures during the beginning of May and late April, according to Noble Underbrink, Northern's collection systems manager at the Farr Pump Plant on Lake Granby. The historical average date that ice is off of the area's lakes and reservoirs is April 30, according to Underbrink.
Willow Creek Reservoir and Lake Granby currently have no ice on them and the ice on Grand Lake and Shadow Mountain Reservoir is quickly depleting. In 2012, the lakes and reservoirs in the area were free of ice by April 9, and in 2011, ice was gone by May 8.
At Trail Ridge Marina, where new managers Deb and Lyle Portinga saw the last of the ice disappear from their shore on Shadow Mountain on Sunday, May 12, dock assembly started Tuesday to create the marina's 80 boat slips. Deb said she's been taking reservations in recent days as boat owners gear up for the season. The marina is tentatively set to open this weekend.
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Bearcats Pull Away from 21-21 Halftime Tie
SALEM, ORE. -- Scott Schoettgen (Sr., WR, Columbia, CA/Sonora HS) caught four touchdown passes between the 9:41 mark of the third quarter and the first half-minute of the fourth quarter, as Willamette University defeated Lewis & Clark College, 65-24, on Saturday, Nov. 6. The Bearcats pulled away from a 21-21 halftime tie.
Willamette improved to 7-2 overall, 4-1 in the Northwest Conference. L&C dropped to 4-4 overall, 2-3 in the NWC.
Schoettgen, who already held the Willamette record for career touchdown receptions, now has 36 touchdowns as a Bearcat. His scoring plays against Lewis & Clark covered 7, 8, 37 and 49 yards. All four passes were thrown by sophomore quarterback Brian Widing (Canby, OR/Canby Union HS).
For the season, Schoettgen has caught 46 passes for 923 yards and 13 touchdowns. His four touchdowns in one game tied the Willamette record, which Schoettgen also tied against the University of Puget Sound last year. Gib Gilmore (1967), Darren Holsey (1989) and Justin Pate (1993) also share the single-game record.
Widing completed 13 of 16 passes for 223 yards, four TDs and one interception against L&C. He has tossed 14 touchdowns in 2010, while completing 69.1% of his passes.
The Pioneers marched 78 yards on nine plays following the opening kickoff to take a 7-0 lead. Freshman quarterback Keith Welch ran three times for 24 yards and completed a 37-yard pass to Harrison Keller during the drive. Joevonte Mayes scored the touchdown on a 6-yard run.
On Willamette's first possession, the Bearcats earned just one first down -- on a 19-yard pass from Widing to Jose Green (Sr., TB, Downey, CA/Warren HS) -- before being forced to punt.
The kick by Mitchell Rowan (Jr., P/PK, Cotati, CA/Rancho Cotate HS) was kept in play near the goal line by WU's Chris Santana (So., S, Salinas, CA/North Salinas HS) and was downed by teammate Mikey Lemon (Sr., FL, McMinnville, OR/McMinnville HS/Linfield Coll.) at the L&C 1-yard line.
Lewis & Clark responded by driving to the Willamette 24. On 3rd-and-11, Welch was intercepted in the end zone by Arlin Taylor (Sr., S, Spring Valley, CA/Steele Canyon HS).
WU drove 80 yards on eight plays to tie the score at 7-7. Chad Pollard (Jr., FL, Bakersfield, CA/Liberty HS/Bakersfield Coll.) opened the drive with a 22-yard run and Jake Knecht (So., WR, Issaquah, WA/Skyline HS/Illinois State Univ.) caught a 17-yard pass two plays later.
Eventually, a 20-yard pass from Widing to Matt Williams (So., FL, Encinitas, CA/La Costa Canyon HS) brought the ball to the L&C 20. Williams tacked on an 11-yard run on the next play, and Widing followed with a 9-yard scamper for the touchdown with 14:08 left in the second quarter.
L&C surged back in front, 14-7, on a 31-yard run by Mayes with 9:12 remaining in the half. The touchdown completed an 11-play, 79-yard drive by the Pioneers.
Lemon provided Willamette with the game's next two scores. He reached the end zone on a 9-yard run at the 7:38 mark of the second quarter and also crossed the goal line on a 7-yard run with 0:53 to go in the half. Kyle Derby (Fr., PK/P, Oakdale, CA/Oakdale HS) kicked the PATs, giving WU a 21-14 lead.
The Pioneers benefited from a good kick return by Logan Kotzian and a 15-yard personal foul penalty against Willamette to take over at the WU 45 with 46 seconds on the clock. Four plays later, with just 0:07 remaining in the second quarter, Welch hit Keller with a 20-yard touchdown pass.
WU broke the 21-21 tie on the opening drive of the second half, as the Bearcats went 57 yards on 12 plays. The key play was a 17-yard run by Widing on 3rd-and-12 at the L&C 46. Seven plays later, Widing passed to Schoettgen for the first of their four touchdowns, giving the Bearcats a 28-21 lead with 9:41 left in the third quarter.
Kotzian fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Cullen Carroll (So., OLB, Petaluma, CA/St. Vincent de Paul HS) recovered for WU at the L&C 31-yard line. A penalty at the end of the play forced Willamette to start at the L&C 46, but the Bearcats scored on Widing's 8-yard pass to Schoettgen six plays later.
L&C then drove from its own 26 to the Willamette 7-yard line, but had to settle for a field goal with 37 seconds on the clock. Simon Monley converted the kick from 23 yards out.
Knecht returned the following kickoff 46 yards to the L&C 37. On the first play after the kickoff, Widing threw deep to Schoettgen for a 37-yard touchdown. WU led 42-24 entering the final period.
After forcing Lewis & Clark to punt, WU received possession again. This time, Schoettgen hauled in his longest catch of the day, a 49-yard scoring strike from Widing. The Willamette lead increased to 49-24 with 14:33 left in the game.
Willamette added a 7-yard touchdown run by Ryan Whitcomb (Sr., QB, Oak View, CA/Nordhoff HS/Hartnell Coll.) with 6:15 to go, after driving 85 yards on 12 plays. The Bearcats also received a safety on the kickoff, when Kotzian stepped out of the end zone before retreating and downing the ball.
WU's final touchdown was scored by Lamar Griffin (So., FL, Lakeland, FL/Jenkins HS/Arizona Western Coll.) on a 1-yard run at the 2:58 mark. Derby kicked the PAT and finished the day 9 for 9 on extra points.
The Bearcats amassed 572 total yards during the game. Willamette ran for 332 yards on 52 carries, an average of 6.4 yards per rush. Williams led WU with nine carries for 82 yards. Whitcomb rushed nine times for 59 yards. Widing and Whitcomb (2 for 2) combined for 240 yards through the air.
L&C gained 426 yards of total offense. The Pioneers achieved 149 rushing yards on 36 carries. Welch, who ran for 86 yards on 18 attempts, also completed 17 of 27 passes for 277 yards, one touchdown and one interception.
After gaining 298 total yards in the first half, Lewis & Clark was limited to 128 yards over the final 30 minutes. The Pioneers kept the ball for 18:01 in the first half, but the Bearcats had possession for 19:22 in the second half.
Walter Robinson II (Sr., DE, Altadena, CA/Cathedral HS) topped the WU defense with nine total tackles, including 2.0 tackles for losses. Taylor achieved eight tackles in addition to his interception. Jordan Weil (So., ILB, Sammamish, WA/Skyline HS) earned seven tackles, including an assisted sack, to go with a forced fumble and a quarterback hurry.
Dan Curtin (Jr., LB) led L&C with 12 total tackles. Chris Kelly (Jr., S) supplied 11 tackles (7 solo). Kotzian recorded nine tackles and also had an interception.
Willamette will conclude the regular season by taking on Pacific Lutheran University on Saturday, Nov. 13. PLU, which defeated Pacific University, 50-23, on Saturday, was ranked #21 in this week's D3football.com Top 25. Kickoff in Puyallup, Wash., is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. (PST).
BOX SCOREWillamette University 65
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Addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky will have a new prime-time show weeknights on HLN starting next spring.
The network, formerly CNN Headline News, made the announcement Monday. HLN wouldn't say where Pinsky will fit in its schedule; currently a rerun of Nancy Grace's 8 p.m. show airs each night at 10 p.m. Eastern.
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Pinsky hosts "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" on VH1. He also has separate shows on rehab for sex addiction and on sober living.
His HLN show is expected to be more of a talk show, where he discusses news stories that fit into his area of expertise. Pinsky says he's looking forward to the chance to "really explain the choices that people make."
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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. 1847-1922
Marble, on a marble pedestal
Installed 1903
Westminster Abbey
"Gladstone stands bareheaded and wears the robes of Chancellor of the Exchequer. His right hand grasps his lapel and his left hand holds a sheaf of papers. He is looking slightly to the right; his expression firm and resolute, even stern. Gladstone's son Herbert, himself a politician, wrote to Brock on 31 March 1903: 'I must write a line to thank you for your very fine statue of my father. I have looked at it from all points of view and in different lights, and in every way it is worthy of its place in the Abbey'" (Sankey 195).
[Cf. Brock's Gladstone Memorial, St John's Gardens, Liverpool, in which Gladstone wears a frock-coat, has a draped pedestal behind him, a stack of four books beside him, and winged figures below him at the base of the pedestal — JB.]
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Luxury Oceanfront Retreat With Spectacular Amenities On Picturesque Hilton Head Island, South Carolina To Sell At Auction Without Reserve
Concierge Auctions and Hilton Head Properties to sell a stunning, low-maintenance residence with six bedroom suites along the Atlantic Ocean to the highest bidder on March 8th
Feb 12, 2013
HILTON HEAD, S.C., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A private oceanfront retreat on the Gold Coast of the Palmetto Dunes, nationally known as one of the best destinations for a beach getaway along the Atlantic Ocean, will sell at auction without reserve on March 8th, Concierge Auctions has announced. Located at 120 South Shore Drive in the exclusive community of Leamington, the gated townhouse has access to unsurpassed golf, tennis and beach amenities while also enjoying the ultimate in privacy. Originally offered for $3.3 million, the property will sell to the highest bidder in cooperation with Robbie Bunting of Hilton Head Properties.
"With plenty of space and privacy, this home appeals to a wide range of buyers including families, those who like to entertain and also people looking for an excellent vacation property. Leamington is a prestigious community where the new owners will have everything at their fingertips," Bunting stated. "We encourage all interested parties get involved in the auction process now and come see what it would be like to have the Atlantic Ocean as your backyard."
With 4,650 square feet of living area, 120 South Shore Drive features six bedrooms (including two master suites on the first and second floors), six full and one half bathrooms and an extensive amount of storage space. Designed with a "Berkeley" floor plan, it channels the open, relaxed atmosphere of the Caribbean including high ceilings and a spacious, flowing layout. The first floor includes an expansive great room, formal dining room, a gourmet kitchen with a breakfast nook, and laundry facilities. The high ceiling of the great room stretches up to the second floor, where a gorgeous fireplace with a custom mantle that anchors the room. The third floor offers two expansive bedrooms and bathrooms, bringing the total number of guest suites to four. There is also an additional laundry room. Outdoors there are a multitude of patios, cabanas and verandas, and wide windows and columned terraces allow for stunning ocean and white sand beach views, even from inside. There is also an outdoor pool, a four-car garage and an additional separate storage room.
"120 South Shore offers privacy, spectacular views and a location that encourages an active and luxurious lifestyle," stated Laura Brady, President of Concierge Auctions. "Today's buyers appreciate low-maintenance gated communities such as this, particularly when it comes to vacation homes. Ease and privacy are key. Our client has already moved on and is prepared to sell to the highest bidder on March 8th. All interested parties should step forward, as this is undoubtedly the best buying opportunity on Hilton Head Island."
Ranked as the 8th top island in the nation, Hilton Head Island is a 12-mile-long beach and resort town located along the Atlantic Ocean. The area is complemented with resorts and gated communities and is home to a large number of cultural and outdoor recreation opportunities. Offering all the private amenities of Palmetto Dunes, the property is located within The Townhomes at South Shore in Leamington, which is fast-becoming known as the finest oceanfront development on the Island. Stretching seven private acres, each home is designed to capture the best ocean views and have the utmost in privacy. Leisurely paths weave throughout the community to a host of five-star amenities including a winding, 11-mile lagoon; three championship golf courses including the famous Arthur Hill Golf Course; an award-winning tennis center with 25 clay and synthetic courts; Club House access including lockers and dining facilities; bike and leisure paths; the Leamington Recreation center with swimming pool, kitchen and barbecue facilities; a boat dock with lagoon ramp access; canoe/kayak storage, a fishing area; a natural setting children's playground; and an open-air pavilion. The property is located one hour north of Savannah, Georgia and two hours south of Charleston, South Carolina.
The auction of 120 South Shore Drive will be held on March 8th. A 3% commission is offered to the buyer's representing broker. The property will be open for preview daily from 1 to 4pm by appointment. See Auction Terms and Conditions for full details. For more information visit HiltonHeadIslandAuction.com, call 877.636.7517 or join the discussion at #HiltonHeadAuction.
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Yesterday Bash gave us the first still shot from Japan's upcoming Phoenix Wright flick. Today, thanks to the sharp eyes of Kotaku tipster KingKellogg the Waffle Haggler, we see the first live action. There's a lot of Japanese in this, and that goes for the cross-talk as well as the dialogue. One word, however, seems very familiar.
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Paul Ryan's new path to power
Paul Ryan feels pinched by competing paths to power.
His friends tell us the most obvious route — a run for the White House in 2016 — holds less appeal to him with each passing day. "He has no interest in the sheer grind of campaigning," said a conservative who recently spent time with Ryan. "It's hard to see him having 'what it takes.'"
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Instead, Ryan seems increasingly intrigued with the prospect of amassing more power within Congress, using his juice in the House leadership to promote his trademark Medicare plan and engineer spending cuts. The friends say this path could ultimately lead him to an eventual run for House GOP leader, or even speaker, an option they surmise he has warmed to since the election.
Ryan associates say he has been surprised at how central his governing role has been among House Republicans since returning from his failed run for vice president. He was instrumental in cooking up the GOP's new debt ceiling strategy and will craft a budget plan that sets the direction for the GOP caucus on virtually every consequential issue. With this in mind, he now calculates that naked national ambitions would only dilute his growing power as Speaker John Boehner's unofficial wing man.
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At the same time, Ryan continues to cultivate a national political and financial network that would serve him in any role. A top GOP source said Ryan recently huddled with Spencer Zwick, Mitt Romney's fundraising guru, who made plain much of the 2012 donor base stands ready to back him if he were to ever warm again to a White House run. Ryan also made a fundraising trip to Texas last month for his Prosperity PAC. He was hosted by top Romney donors who urged him to run, convinced he has been totally vetted and passed the readiness test.
Some conservatives suggested Ryan challenge Boehner right after the election — something Ryan would never do. But, in those conversations and others, longtime associates of Ryan noticed a subtle but significant change in his mood. He seemed open to ultimately running for leadership, suggesting to two friends that this was the best and safest way to get Medicare and budget cuts done.
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He would never challenge Boehner or his No. 2, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, for their current jobs. But many Republicans think Boehner will leave in a few years, perhaps after the 2014 election, to make way for the next generation of leaders. The safest path of all would be his current trajectory: Run the Budget Committee until 2014 and then take over the Ways and Means Committee, to do to tax policy what he did for entitlements and spending.


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Dragon Dictation Lands in the App Store
Dragon Dictation, a surprise for the iPhone, was released recently. It lets you translate speech into text to be used in an email or text message.
Dragon Dictation, a surprise for the iPhone, was released recently. It lets you translate speech into text to be used in an email or text message.
Dragon Dictation was a surprise when it showed up in the App Store this week. While I guess it's no surprise that more and more developers are launching applications for the iPhone so we should see more surprise launches like this.
Dragon Dictation does a pretty good job of translating speech into text. In a few tests I read some standard political quotes into the phone and it seemed to translate with around a 95% accuracy. Very good results really. I particularly liked the way it capitalized words when they were in a particular context. For example, United States was properly capitalized in one text example.
Once you have your speech dictated, you can send that text in an email without even leaving the app, a nice touch. Or you can send it to the clip board and use it in a text message or paste it into another app. Would really like to see more options here. Would be great to have it automatically launch Tweetie 2, or Facebook, or other apps to allow status updates via voice.
There has been some confusion on one part of the end user license agreement (EULA) for this app. That passage states that your contacts will be uploaded to their servers. This, of course, got people up in arms, and generally confused. We asked Nuance, developers of Dragon Dictation for some clarification on this.
Dragon Dictation transcribes voice to text with fully automated speech recognition software and only uploads users' contact names - no email, phone or any other personally identifying information - to optimize name recognition when a user dictates. From there, speech recognition requests and contact names are processed in data centers based here in the US that meet Nuance's stringent security and privacy standards - the same standards that we use for processing private information in other areas of our business. We keep the contact names for the life of the service in order to keep synchronized with the user's address book.
For additional details, feel free to review our corporate privacy policy at http://www.nuance.com/company/privacy/.
-- Rebecca Paquette, Nuance
While some users still won't be happy about this, it's good to know before you download the app. If it bothers you, don't download the app.
Dragon Dictation is currently available for free from the App Store. There is some indication that the app is free for only a certain, unknown, amount of time. So if it is interesting to you, grab it now!
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04 August 2010
Hands On Scotland: Isle of Coll
8 comments:
- CallieK said...
Beautiful place, beautiful words.
- Thursday, 05 August, 2010
- Brenda said...
Kind of you, faithful reader.
- Friday, 06 August, 2010
- Sheri said...
It's not camels, but I am still very jealous. What a beautiful county!
- Sunday, 08 August, 2010
Welcome home Brenda! You did come home didn't you? You were missed !
- Monday, 09 August, 2010
- Brenda said...
Nice to be missed ... "home" has more than one meaning.
- Friday, 13 August, 2010
You are right about "home". I was told a long time ago the I had D.S.S.
I asked "what the heck is D.S.S?" The reply was, "Displaced Soul Syndrome". Looking back on it now, I think it was a very accurate diagnosis.
- Saturday, 14 August, 2010
- Ray McHatton said...
Thanks for this, enjoyed it very much. Found this blog while doing a search about Culloden. Am co-writing a book. Was trying to find a copy of a National Trust for Scotland pamphlet on Culldoen by Lindsey Bowditch. Any ideas??
- Wednesday, 25 December, 2013
- BDM said...
Ray, I don't know about a brochure but I have a 72-pp book about Culloden by Lyndsey Bowditch, purchased on site at the Culloden shop. You could investigate the National Trust for Scotland website and choose "Culloden." There is an online shop with that particular book along with many other NT guides.
- Thursday, 26 December, 2013


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text: Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood started writing the songs for his second solo record Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) back in the early '90s—which means the album was in the gestation stage for about as long as Chinese Democracy. But unlike Axl Rose's belabored boondoggle, Murdering Oscar doesn't feel 10 years too late. (Not even the stormy "Heavy And Hanging," which recalls Kurt Cobain's suicide from the perspective of the man who discovered his body.) If anything, Murdering Oscar—which was recorded in 2005 and sat in a vault until Hood put out it on his own label—was a record slightly ahead of its time when it was made, foreshadowing the concise poppiness of DBT's underrated 2006 effort A Blessing And A Curse and the domestic concerns of last year's terrific Brighter Than Creation's Dark. Of course, since Murdering Oscar is coming out now, it's merely an excellent companion to Hood's recent work with his regular band, with several songs—including the Springsteen-like "Pollyanna" and the smoldering guitar workout "Walking Around Sense"—ranking with his very best.


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book / beech
These two words demonstrate the perils of reading too much into Indo-European roots and highlight how much we just don't know about the Proto-Indo-European language (or languages). Book and beech, the type of tree, appear to be related, but traditional etymologies of the words are largely based on conjecture and we can't even say for certain that they are, in fact, related.
Both words go back to Old English. Book, or boc (with a plural of bec) is found as far back as the turn of the 10th century when it appears in a manuscript collected in Benjamin Thorpe's Diplomatarium Anglicum aevi Saxonici in the sense of a charter or deed that designates ownership of land:
Ic him sealde ðæt lond on ece erfe and ða bec.
(I gave him the land and the books in a perpetual inheritance.)
The modern sense of work of literature or other writing dates to about the same period. From an inscription to King Alfred's c.897 translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care:
Ðeos boc sceal to Wiogora ceastre.
This book shall [belong] to [the town of] Worcester [lit. castle of the Wiogora tribe].
But the word book can be traced back further. It is attested to in Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old Norse as bok. This shows the form bok stretched across both the West Germanic and North Germanic branches of the family. Gothic, the only East Germanic language of which we have evidence, has boka, meaning a letter of the alphabet. From this we can deduce that the common Old Germanic form was *bok.
Beech is boece or bece in Old English. It is attested earlier, appearing in the c.725 Corpus Glossary as boece and in The Latin and Old English Epinal Glossary, written sometime before the year 800, as boecae. The form bece appears sometime before 1000.
The common explanation for the similarity is that both book and beech are from the same root and that the bark of beech trees was used as a primitive medium for writing. And backing this up is the Roman tradition that the Latin liber, meaning both book and tree bark is so called because bark was a primitive writing medium for the Romans. The assumption is that a similar process happened in the Germanic.
The trouble with the explanation is that the Germanic bok and boece roots don't quite match and the old Roman tradition could simply be folk etymology at work. The words may indeed be related, but we can't say this with high confidence and the explanation about beech bark being used for writing is stretching the available evidence extremely thin.
This is one of the reasons I rarely give the commonly accepted Proto-Indo-European roots in these pages. The reconstruction of PIE is very conjectural and often based on the sketchiest of evidence. We can say with a high degree of certainty that that languages we today call Indo-European are descended from a common dialect, or more likely cluster of related dialects, but reconstructing the specifics of what that dialect or dialects looked like is futile, the evidence that would allow us to do so with any confidence simply does not exist.
(Sources: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition; Dictionary of English Place Names)
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The relatively common sightings of bald eagles wintering along waterways in the Capital District have an uncommon story in how our nation's symbol made a comeback from near extinction in the state. A team of biologists led by Peter Nye, now retired from 36 years of service in New York State's Endangered Species Unit, and others devised first a fostering program with chicks and then a very successful hacking program with juveniles to reintroduce bald eagles into suitable breeding territories. I was able to hear Peter Nye speak recently about the restoration of the bald eagle to New York at a program by Audubon New York. Why were bald eagles by 1976 reduced to one breeding pair in New York? What was wrong that this pair could not raise young on their own? What were some of the factors of the bird's biology that enabled the Department of Environmental Conservation's team to jump-start the return using juveniles from out of state? In 1782 when we adopted the bald eagle as our national symbol there were estimated to be 100,000 nesting pairs in America. Because of habitat loss, illegal shooting, often because birds of prey were viewed as competitors for game, and contamination of their food sources, by 1963 there were only 487 nesting pairs, and the bird was in danger of extinction. DDT was the primary contaminant that built up in the food chain for these top predators. Bald eagles take fish as their staple food and live near rivers, lakes, and marshes to be close to their food supply. Peter Nye pointed out DDT was not the main cause of the bald eagle's decline, but the "straw" that proved too much for this species. DDT caused the shells of the eagle's eggs to be thin and crack when the mother incubated them. Observations of New York's last remaining eagle pair, nesting near Rochester, showed the female to by laying and attempting to incubate, but the eggs breaking. A fostering program was started by removing any egg, adding a plastic dummy egg for the birds to incubate, and replacing the plastic egg with a captive-bred chick after several weeks of incubation. The pair successfully raised a total of 8 chicks from 1975 to 1987 this way, however, the process was deemed too slow for overall bald eagle recovery in the state. An inventory of past known bald eagle nest sites in the state was made with the purpose of serving as release or hacking sites for juvenile bald eagles brought in from other states as Alaska and Minnesota. Cornell's Dr. Tom Cade had been having success in bringing back peregrine falcons by hacking. Peter Nye's team worked in conjunction with him to develop a similar program for bald eagles. Hacking involves building a protected nesting tower and raising juvenile birds until they can leave the tower nest by hand feeding behind a blind. In 1976 two juvenile bald eagles, Henry and Agnes, were brought in from Minnesota to a hacking tower at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. For several years the birds returned to their release site, and in 1980 nested near Watertown and successfully raised a chick of their own. Bald eagles exhibit nest site fidelity or a preference to return to the same general area they were raised. No one in the world had released or hacked bald eagles. Peter Nye's team was the first to try it, and they found it worked better than expected. Between 1976 and 1988 198 eagles were released in New York this way, most collected as nestlings from Alaska. This involved the New York team, with Alaska's and the Federal Governments' permission, climbing nest trees to collect the young birds, transporting them to New York, and feeding them lots of fish along the way. Eleven other states including Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania contacted the group on how to set up similar hacking programs of their own. Between the five states of Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey 409 eagles were hacked. The original hacking towers were modified into hacking condominiums for multiple releases. By 1989 the team's goal of 10 breeding pairs in New York was reached, and the program ended. The success of the program can be seen in the more than 170 breeding pairs that nest in New York and the striking sights of bald eagles once again flying in our wild portions of Nature's Notebook. Sandy de Waal Malefyt is a local nature enthusiast and science teacher.
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A group of European entrepreneurs have banded together to create a new mobile telecommunications company aimed at the high-volume consumer market, and it even has a local call centre.
In addition to a play on "simply amazing", amaysim is, according to founder and CEO, Rolf Hansen, Australia's first low-cost mobile service provider.
Amaysim might not win any awards for originality – there are plenty of 'low-cost' mobile resellers around – but it surely deserves credit for its agile use of third-party services in away that should make any CIO proud.
In Hansen's words, the company has the low-cost airline model "without the crap" of additional fees and charges.
Amaysim resells the Optus 3G mobile network, but its strategy centres around low-cost, transparency and customer service.
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"Providing local customer service might not be the cheapest option, but it's better," he said. "The Philippines and India are great countries, but will your customers get better support from an offshore call centre?"
I asked Hansen what it was like starting a potentially global brand Down Under. He said while the 'Down Under' stigma still holds in parts of Europe, Australia is a good place to do business.
"You guys were not impacted as much by the GFC and are on top of the business world."
Australians spend about twice as much per capita than the Germans on mobile services and amaysim aims to bring more competition into the market, he said.
Incidentally, the company amaysim engaged with for marketing services is BMF. With offices in Sydney and Melbourne, its slogan is 'a world class agency that happens to be in Australia'.
Hothouse in Sydney was contracted to develop the Web and e-commerce site, which Hansen says is the most crucial channel for new sales and after-sales service like top-ups.
As a reporter, it's not my role to drum up the virtues of doing business Down Under, but as an IT observer I can't help but be perplexed at the level of outsourcing and offshoring among local large enterprises for key parts of their operations.
Amaysim is the other extreme where foreign business people have started a business here using local third-parties for different service – a form of local 'selective sourcing'.
Amaysim has 32 office staff with plans to go to 50 and 42 people in its local call centre.
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"We will spend double digit millions every year on marketing because it's important to build the brand," he said.
TV commercials will run on channels 9 and 10 until the New Year.
Strategy, branding, technology, sourcing and marketing – the immigrant amaysim has rolled them all into one. Let's hope more local companies take a leaf out this global entrepreneurial playbook.
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Collins, Kathy. "Measuring the Effectiveness of Employee Communications," Institute for Public Relations.
Employee contact is one of the most credible sources of information about the company and the products. This case demonstrates how General Motors measures the effectiveness of its employee communications initiatives.
Michaelson, David B., and Toni Griffin. "A New Model for Media Content Analysis," Institute for Public Relations, 2005.
Media content analysis using four key factors — correct information, incorrect information, misleading information and omitted information — addresses the fundamental needs of public relations professionals. This case shows how an insurance organization used the results of media content analysis to manage media relations efforts.
Lindenmann, Walter K. "Measuring Public Relations Effectiveness: For the Dole Food Company and the Society for Nutrition Education," Institute for Public Relations, 1995.
This case shows how the Dole Food Company measured the knowledge, attitude and behavior levels of the teachers and their students, both before and after these audiences were exposed to an education program on the role fruits and vegetables — their products — can play in achieving proper nutrition.
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The Executive Master of Science in Communications program project team identified factors affecting Liechtenstein's reputation through audits and focus groups discussing Liechtenstein's reputation, identity and communications. The findings of the team's research informed Liechtenstein's communications strategy.
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According to the Health Academy's "What's Reputation Got to Do With it?" survey, the consensus of the nation's top health care CEOs was that the perceptions of reputation by shareholders was critical to the building of business. Singer and Hiburg discuss the need for health care companies to benchmark and assess reputation regularly.
Kirk, David."Assessing the Health of Your Relationships With a Relationship Check-up," Public Relations Tactics, July 2001.
A checklist of the check-up tools used to monitor relationships between the hospital and its patients, community leaders, physicians, hospital employees and hospital trustees, as well as a method of assessing relationships with community and opinion leaders without using a communications audit, are described.
Lindenmann, Walter K. "Spotlight on 'Public Health': A Benchmark Content Analysis of Press Coverage for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation," Institute for Public Relations, 1999.
Understanding how the press sees and portrays "public health" issues has lead the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to be able to better identify what and how the public health community might be communicating to its stakeholders. Ketchum designed and carried out an in-depth study, which would determine as precisely as possible what "public health" issues are covered by print media, identifying spokespersons quoted, analyzing what language is used to describe these issues, and determining how deep and extensive is media coverage of relevant health issues.
Comalco with Burson-Marsteller. "Using Measurement to Plan and Manage Stakeholder Engagement," Institute for Public Relations, 2004.
Community outreach programs developed based on the results of Comalco's surveys of, and interviews with, community leaders, resulted in stakeholders showing a 50 percent increase in perceptions of the mining and minerals company and a 60 percent increase in Comalco's overall credibility. The surveys allowed Burson-Marsteller to benchmark the views of opinion leaders and the interviews provided Comalco's managers with opportunity to listen, learn and develop better relationships with these leaders.
Nicholson, Tom. "Measuring Success: Both Externally and Internally," Institute for Public Relations, 2003.
Sears demonstrates how improved employee attitudes contributed to improved customer attitudes and explains the links between external and internal measures of public relations effectiveness.
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The Employee Workplace Assessment studies employee perceptions of their local work environment instead of their perceptions of the company as a whole. Bell Atlantic uses this information to adjust communications strategies and helps align employee actions towards supporting corporate objectives.
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Biofeedback teaches people how to control body functions they normally do not think about. It may help you reduce the severity of the pain. A biofeedback therapist will guide you to relax certain muscles or control breathing. A device shows your body's response.
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Relaxing the muscles can help prevent and reduce the severity of muscle tension and back pain. Relaxation techniques may include conscious breathing, visualizing being in a relaxing place, or clearing the mind of any thoughts. A mental health professional can teach you how to perform different relaxation techniques.
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is often used to help manage chronic pain and stress. It is a form of talk therapy that may be done individually or in a group. A therapist will help you identify negative thoughts and teach you to unlearn these thought patterns. You will also learn new, helpful habits to manage your pain with minimal disruption to your life.
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