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WASHINGTON — She was "a child with dreams," as she once said, the little girl who learned at 8 that she had diabetes, who lost her father when she was 9, who devoured Nancy Drew books and spent Saturday nights playing bingo, marking the cards with chickpeas, in the squat red brick housing projects of the East Bronx.
She was the history major and Puerto Rican student activist at Princeton who spent her first year at that bastion of the Ivy League "too intimidated to ask questions." She was the tough-minded New York City prosecutor, and later the corporate lawyer with the dazzling international clients. She was the federal judge who "saved baseball" by siding with the players' union during a strike.
Now Sonia Sotomayor — a self-described "Nuyorican" whose mother, a nurse, and father, a factory worker, left Puerto Rico during World War II — is President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court, with a chance to make history as only the third woman and first Hispanic to sit on the highest court in the land. Her up-by-the-bootstraps tale, an only-in-America story that in many ways mirrors Mr. Obama's own, is one reason for her selection, and it is the animating characteristic of her approach to both life and the law.
"Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see," Judge Sotomayor (pronounced so-toe-my-OR) said in 2001, in a lecture titled "A Latina Judge's Voice." "My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage."
From her days going to the movies with cousins to see Cantinflas, a Mexican comedian whom she once called the "Abbott and Costello of my generation," to her current life in the rarefied world of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor, 54, has traveled what Mr. Obama called "an extraordinary journey."Continue reading the main story
In her 2001 address, she spoke longingly of the "sound of merengue at all our family parties" and the Puerto Rican delicacies — patitas de cerdo con garbanzos (pigs' feet with beans) and la lengua y orejas de cuchifrito (pigs' tongue and ears) — that appealed to the "particularly adventurous taste buds" that she called "a very special part of my being Latina."
Today, Judge Sotomayor's culinary tastes range from tuna fish and cottage cheese for lunch with clerks in her chambers, to her standard order at the Blue Ribbon Bakery: smoked sturgeon on toast, with Dijon mustard, onions and capers. She works out three times a week, putting in three miles on the treadmill in the court's gym. Divorced and with no children, she enjoys the ballet and theater and lives in a condominium in Greenwich Village — both a subway ride and a world away from the housing projects where she grew up.
Yet a few things have not changed: her feeling of herself as "not completely a part of the worlds I inhabit," as she said in one speech; her drive and ambition; and her willingness to speak up about her own identity as a Latina and a woman. In many ways, she is walking through a door she pushed open herself. On the bench, Judge Sotomayor may be a careful deliberator, but off it she has been a tireless advocate for Latinos.
In 1976, she wrote her senior thesis at Princeton on Luis Muñoz Marín, the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico, and dedicated it in part "to the people of my island — for the rich history that is mine." She has lectured at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. In 2001, she was a speaker at a Princeton-sponsored conference titled "Puerto Ricans: Second-Class Citizens in 'Our' Democracy?'"
In describing his criteria for a Supreme Court pick, Mr. Obama said he was looking for empathy — a word that conservatives, who are already attacking Judge Sotomayor, have described as code for an activist judge with liberal views who will impose her own agenda on the law. Her critics also raise questions about her judicial temperament, saying she can be abrupt and impatient on the bench.
But Judge Sotomayor's friends say she is simply someone who will bring the "common touch" that the president has said he prizes to her understanding of the law.
"I think she's compassionate and empathetic, and I think she is going to really listen to people who are alleging that they have been victimized in some way," said Robert H. Klonoff, dean of the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore., who attended Yale Law with Judge Sotomayor and considers her a friend. Dean Klonoff, who last saw the judge in her New York chambers the day after Mr. Obama's election, compares her to Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court's first black justice, for the perspective he says she would bring to the court.
"She had such a different path," he said. "There were so many people that had Roman numerals after their names and long histories of family members who had gone to Yale, and here was this woman who was from the projects, not hiding her views at all, just totally outspoken. She's one of those where, even at a school with great people, I knew that she was going to go on and do amazing things."
Childhood in the East Bronx
There was something of a pioneer spirit among the Puerto Ricans who settled into the East Bronx after braving tenements farther south or poverty back on the island. To settle into the Bronxdale Houses, as Sonia Sotomayor's family ultimately did in the 1960s, was to find a haven of sorts, according to people who lived there then.
"Here was a paradise," said Ricardo Velez, who was among the earliest tenants when he moved to his apartment in 1956. "It was beautiful."
This was the place where Sonia's parents, Celina and Juan Sotomayor, intended to raise their children — Ms. Sotomayor and her brother, Juan, who is now a doctor in Syracuse. The couple met and married during World War II after Celina was discharged from the Women's Army Corps, the WACS, the outlet for women of her generation to give to the war effort. Celina Sotomayor had left Puerto Rico at 17 to sign up, shipping off to Georgia for her training with no relatives in the mainland United States.
While her husband worked at a tool-and-die factory, Celina Sotomayor — by all accounts the driving force in her daughter's life — went on to become a telephone operator at Prospect Hospital, a small private hospital in the South Bronx, and later received her practical nurse's license. The family's life was upended when Sonia's father died at 42, in part from heart complications that had kept him out of the Army. Celina Sotomayor, a widow with two young children and no savings, began working six days a week.
Her daughter retreated into books. Sonia Sotomayor loved the Nancy Drew mysteries, she once said, and yearned to be a police detective. But the doctor who had diagnosed her diabetes told her that she would not be able to do that kind of work. (The White House says Judge Sotomayor's diabetes, a disease that can ultimately cause blindness, heart disease and kidney ailments, has been under control through insulin injections and careful monitoring for decades and does not affect her work.)
A 'Perry Mason' Moment
She also spent hours watching "Perry Mason" on television. An episode that ended with the camera fixed on the judge helped her set a new career goal, she told The Associated Press in 1998. "I realized that the judge was the most important player in the room," she said at the time.
The Bronxdale Houses were still ethnically mixed when the Sotomayors lived there, and neighbors say it felt mostly safe. But Judge Sotomayor recalled in a 1998 interview with The A.P. that temptation was lurking nearby.
"There were working poor in the projects," she said. "There were poor poor in the projects. There were sick poor in the projects. There were addicts and non-addicts and all sorts of people, every one of them with problems, and each group with a different response, different methods of survival, different reactions to the adversity they were facing. And you saw kids making choices."
Parents made choices, too. For Celina Sotomayor, education was the highest priority; she bought her children an Encyclopaedia Britannica, a novelty in the projects. "She was famous for the encyclopedia," said Milagros Baez O'Toole, a cousin.
Roman Catholic schools of that era were embraced by many working-class Puerto Rican parents who saw the public schools as too rowdy and dangerous. The Sotomayor family, which is Catholic, was among them. Judge Sotomayor attended Cardinal Spellman High School in the Northeast Bronx, which opened in 1959 and earned a reputation as a school for high achievers. She graduated as valedictorian in 1972.
Jeri Faulkner, who was a freshman when Judge Sotomayor was a senior, remembers black students sat at one table in the cafeteria, and Latino students at another. But Ms. Faulkner, who is now the school's dean of students, said Ms. Sotomayor inspired her.
"As a freshman, when you're looking at seniors, you're a little awestruck with them," Ms. Faulkner said. "She was smart. She always had time for you if you needed to speak to her. She didn't belittle your questions. She wasn't aloof. She was one of us."
When Ms. Sotomayor entered Cardinal Spellman in the late 1960s, boys and girls were rigidly segregated into opposing wings of the school, with a nun stationed at a central point to enforce gender separation. But this "co-institutional" arrangement was abandoned while she was there, and the sexes mixed freely by the time she graduated. Ms. Sotomayor had a sweetheart, Kevin E. Noonan. "She was irrepressible, very popular, very bright, very dynamic," said one classmate who asked not to be named. "She wasn't overbearing about it, but you knew she was in the room."
By then, the Sotomayor family had moved to a new apartment in Co-op City — a clear step up from the projects. The family's Co-op City kitchen table became a regular gathering spot for food and conversation for Sonia's classmates and debate team buddies.
"Sonia was very much the ruler of the kitchen-table debate," said Kenneth K. Moy, the son of Chinese immigrants who was a year ahead of her at both Spellman and later Princeton. "She was very analytical, even back then. It was clear to people who knew her that if she wasn't going to be a lawyer, she was going to be in public life somehow."
Mr. Moy said Ms. Sotomayor's crowd was a diverse mix of students that included immigrants from struggling families and others from well-to-do parts of Westchester County. They endlessly hashed over not only school gossip, but also Vietnam — where their friends were serving in a war that had divided the school — as well as the country, race relations and social justice, he said.
Sonia's mother, Celina, would return home after long hours working as a nurse and feed the crowd of teenagers rice and beans and sometimes pork chops. "I can't tell you how many times I said, 'Is there another pork chop?' — and there was," said Mr. Moy, now a lawyer in Oakland, Calif. Later, he urged his friend to follow him to Princeton. But he was candid, he said, about what she would face there as a Puerto Rican from a modest background.
"I told her I don't want you to come here with any illusions," Mr. Moy recalled. "Social isolation is going to be a part of your experience, and you have to have the strength of character to get through intact."
Adjusting to Princeton
When Ms. Sotomayor arrived at Princeton in the fall of 1972, she was one of the only Latinos there: there were no professors, no administrators, and only a double-digit number of students. Princeton women were sharply outnumbered as well; the first ones had been admitted only a few years earlier, and some alumni had protested their increasing ranks. (Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who graduated just a few months before Ms. Sotomayor arrived, belonged to one of the groups that protested.)
Ms. Sotomayor was terrified: she barely raised her hand in class initially, and years later, she confessed to a friend at Yale Law School that she could "barely write" when she arrived at Princeton. So she barricaded herself in the library, earning a reputation as a grind (her diligence would pay off with her eventual election to Phi Beta Kappa). She spent her summers inhaling children's classics, grammar books and literature that many Princeton peers had already conquered at Choate or Exeter.
She also readily accepted help. When Ms. Sotomayor arrived in Nancy Weiss Malkiel's history class in the spring of her freshman year, for example, she seemed unprepared, Ms. Malkiel recalled in an e-mail message. But Ms. Malkiel tutored her in how to read sources and write analytically, and by late in the semester, Ms. Sotomayor was flourishing.
By her junior year or so, "I don't remember her being shy or reticent about much of anything," said Jerry Cox, a classmate.
Ms. Sotomayor also became involved in campus politics. After heavy lobbying, she joined Acción Puertorriqueña, an organization working for more opportunity for Puerto Rican students.
"Sonia had to be persuaded to join us," said Margarita Rosa, a friend from high school. "We were a ragtag-looking bunch, and she was always methodical in her decision making."
Soon Ms. Sotomayor was co-chairwoman of the organization, which filed a formal letter of complaint with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, accusing the university of discrimination in hiring and admission.
"The facts imply and reflect a total absence of regard, concern and respect for an entire people and their culture," she wrote in an opinion article in The Daily Princetonian. "In effect, they represent an effort — a successful effort so far — to relegate an important cultural sector of the population to oblivion."
In her student thesis, which she dedicated to nine friends and family members, Ms. Sotomayor wrote about Puerto Rico's long struggle for political and economic self-determination. While Muñoz Marín created great hope among Puerto Ricans, "the island has continued to be plagued by unemployment, absentee ownership and dependency on mainland revenues," she concluded. When Ms. Sotomayor graduated, she was awarded the Pyne Prize, the university's highest undergraduate award, presented for a combination of strong grades and extracurricular work. Even before she won, everyone on campus seemed to know who she was. "I certainly admired her from afar," said Randall Kennedy, now a professor at Harvard Law School and along with Ms. Sotomayor, a member of Princeton's Board of Trustees.
Ms. Sotomayor went straight to Yale Law School, where she researched and wrote her way onto the law review by analyzing the arcane constitutional issues that would determine whether Puerto Rico would be allowed to maintain access to its seabed if it became a state.
Even when she described positions with which she disagreed, "she was scrupulous about giving the strongest form," said Stephen L. Carter, who edited her submission and said Ms. Sotomayor was just as tolerant a debater in class.
Her submission was "inspired by deep social concern about having the poorest area in American jurisdiction survive economically," said Edward Rubin, another editor. "It was very scholarly and balanced even though it was inspired by social concern." Classmates remember just how hard she worked on it, polishing and repolishing it again.
At Princeton, Ms. Sotomayor had volunteered with Latino patients at a state psychiatric hospital in Trenton, and now she showed a similar desire to pull away from her elite environment. "She felt an affinity with the African-American janitor, the workers, people in the cafeteria," recalled Rudolph Aragon, a classmate and who headed the Latin, Asian and Native American association with Ms. Sotomayor. "There were so few minority students that we had to combine forces," he said.
Her closest friends at the school were all outsiders: Mr. Aragon, who is Mexican-American, along with three other students — a fellow Puerto Rican, a Mohawk Indian and an African-American, he recalled.
After hours they would retreat to one another's apartments for baseball games — Ms. Sotomayor watched ecstatically as Reggie Jackson delivered the 1977 World Series to the Yankees — or to a local club where the law students danced alongside the locals. Ms. Sotomayor was still a grind, her friends said, but she also smoked, drank beer and danced a mean salsa.
She somehow seemed older than her classmates, several said — perhaps because of her difficult childhood, or maybe because she was already married. (She and Mr. Noonan, who would become a biologist and later a biotech patent lawyer, wed in the summer of 1976, but divorced seven years later.) And she knew exactly what she wanted after graduation: to be a litigator. She was "tough, clear, very quick on her feet," said Martha Minow, now a Harvard Law School professor who advised the White House on the selection.
An Imposing Prosecutor
She would soon get plenty of practice. In 1979, Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, hired Ms. Sotomayor on the recommendation of José A. Cabranes, then a teacher at Yale Law School and now a federal appeals court judge. She became a young prosecutor in a city struggling with a drug- related crime wave, joining a trial unit that handled everything from misdemeanors to homicides.
"Some of the judges like to push around young assistants and get them to dispose of cases," Mr. Morgenthau recalled. "Well, no one pushed around Sonia Sotomayor; she stood up to the judges, in an appropriate way."
In her fifth year in the office, she was interviewed for The New York Times Magazine about the prosecutors working for Mr. Morgenthau. She was described as an imposing woman of 29 who smoked incessantly, and spoke of how she had coped in a job that some liberal friends disapproved of.
"I had more problems during my first year in the office with the low-grade crimes — the shoplifting, the prostitution, the minor assault cases," she said. "In large measure, in those cases you were dealing with socioeconomic crimes, crimes that could be the product of the environment and of poverty.
"Once I started doing felonies, it became less hard. No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous."
In 1984, Ms. Sotomayor left the district attorney's office and joined Pavia & Harcourt, a boutique commercial law firm in Manhattan.
"We had an opening for a litigator, and her résumé was perfect," said George M. Pavia, the managing partner who hired her. "She's an excellent lawyer, a careful preparer of cases, liberal, but not doctrinaire, not wild-eyed."
A large part of Ms. Sotomayor's work was fighting the counterfeiters who copied products of Fendi, the luxury goods company, and its well-known "double F" logo. Sometimes, that meant suing counterfeiters to stop them from importing fake Fendi goods.
At other times, it involved more derring-do: if the firm had a tip from the United States Customs Office about a suspicious shipment, Ms. Sotomayor would often be involved in the risky maneuver of going to the warehouse to have the merchandise seized. One incident that figures largely in firm lore was a seizure in Chinatown, where the counterfeiters ran away, and Ms. Sotomayor got on a motorcycle and gave chase.
In July 1987, Mario M. Cuomo, then the governor, appointed Ms. Sotomayor to the board of the State of New York Mortgage Agency, which helps low-income people get loans to buy homes. In 1992, when she left the unpaid board position, it passed a resolution honoring her for consistently defending the rights of the disadvantaged to secure affordable housing" and serving as the conscience of the board concerning "the negative effects of gentrification."
A Docket of Notable Cases
In 1991, the first President George Bush nominated Ms. Sotomayor to be a federal district judge in the Southern District of New York. But she was informally selected by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, who shared her working-class and parochial school roots and who was convinced, former aides said, that Ms. Sotomayor would become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
Leaving private practice for public service meant that she would never be as wealthy as many of her peers. Financial disclosure forms that Ms. Sotomayor filed in 2007 show that her primary asset is her Greenwich Village condo, which she bought in 1998 with the help of two mortgages totaling $324,000 from Chase Manhattan Bank. Her last reported savings account balance was between $50,000 and $100,000, and she held no stocks or other significant investments. In addition to her judicial salary, she earned small sums for teaching at the law schools at New York University and Columbia University.
But her confirmation, in August 1992, made her the first Hispanic federal judge in the state. She joined a federal district courthouse in New York City whose docket is rich with everything from so-called drug mule cases to white-collar crimes and securities litigation.
She had several notable cases as a district judge on religious liberties. In 1993, she struck down as unconstitutional a White Plains law that prohibited the displaying of a menorah in a park. In 1994, she ordered New York prison officials to allow inmates to wear beads of the Santeria religion under their belts, even though prison officials said the beads were gang symbols.
Other notable cases included a 1995 ruling in which she ordered the government to make public a photocopy of a torn-up note found in the briefcase of a former White House counsel, Vincent Foster, who committed suicide. And in 1998, she ruled that homeless people working for the Grand Central Partnership, a business consortium, had to be paid the minimum wage.
But Judge Sotomayor's most celebrated case came in 1995, when she ended a prolonged baseball strike by ruling forcefully against the baseball team owners and in favor of the ballplayers, resulting in a quick resumption of play. For a brief period, she was widely celebrated, at least in those cities with major-league teams, as the savior of baseball.
In 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated her to become a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York. In filling out her Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, Judge Sotomayor seemed to evoke the same concerns for the real-world impact of rulings that Mr. Obama has said he is seeking.
"Judges must be extraordinarily sensitive to the impact of their decisions and function within, and respectful of, the Constitution," she wrote. She arrived at her hearing with a New York construction contractor, Peter White, whom she introduced as "my fiancé" and who was photographed helping her on with her robe after she was sworn in as an appellate court judge. The relationship ended not long after that, roughly 10 years ago, according to a friend.
It took the Senate more than a year to confirm her. Republicans delayed a vote, drawing an accusation from Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who is now the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, that they feared that Mr. Clinton would try to elevate her to the Supreme Court.
But Alfonse M. D'Amato, then a Republican senator from New York, eventually helped push through a vote, and she was confirmed 67 to 29 in October 1998. Among those voting in her favor was Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who remains a leading Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Over the next decade, Judge Sotomayor would hear appeals in more than 3,000 cases, writing about 380 majority opinions. The Supreme Court reviewed five of those, reversing three and affirming two, although it rejected her reasoning while accepting the outcome in one of those it upheld.
A No-Nonsense Reputation
She would develop a reputation for asking tough questions at oral arguments and for being sometimes brusque and curt with lawyers who were not prepared to answer them.
The 2009 edition of the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary, which includes anonymous comments evaluating judges by lawyers who appear before them, presents a mixed portrait of Judge Sotomayor. Most of the unnamed lawyers interviewed said she had good legal ability and wrote good opinions. But several also spoke very negatively of her manner from the bench, saying she could be abusive of lawyers appearing before her and using words like "bully," "nasty" and "a terror."
But one former clerk defended her style.
"Personality- and style-wise, she is a dynamo," said Lisa Zornberg, who clerked for her in 1997-98 and is now an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York. Lawyers "who come before her know she always shows up on her game" and "doesn't tolerate unpreparedness, nor should she."
Judge Sotomayor has had several rulings that indicate a generally more liberal judicial philosophy than a majority of justices on the current Supreme Court, leading some conservatives to label her a "judicial activist."
In 2000, for example, she wrote an opinion that would have allowed a man to sue a government contractor he accused of violating his constitutional rights. In 2007, she wrote an opinion interpreting an environmental law in a way that would favor more stringent protections, even if it cost power plant owners more money. The Supreme Court reversed both decisions.
The ruling by Judge Sotomayor that has attracted the most attention was a 2008 case upholding an affirmative action program at the New Haven Fire Department. A group of white firefighters sued because the city threw out the results of a test for promotions after few minority firefighters scored well on it. The Supreme Court is now reviewing that result.
Several of Judge Sotomayor's appeals court clerks described her as a rigorous boss. Her clerks' offices surround her own office and are within earshot, and she calls out to them when she has questions. She sometimes asks for the full records of trial transcripts and motions for a case that was on appeal, something her experience as a district judge has made her more interested in than some other judges.
Judge Sotomayor has also developed a reputation for treating her clerks as a family — taking a strong interest in their personal lives and careers, attending their weddings, keeping framed pictures of her former clerks and later, their children, in her office, and keeping in touch with them as a friend and mentor. She has told friends that one of her greatest regrets is that she herself was never a law clerk.
James R. Levine, a New York lawyer who clerked for Judge Sotomayor in 2001-2, recalled that during his interview with her as a law student, the first question she asked was about himself and his family, while every other judge with whom he interviewed had first asked about issues like the topic of his law review note. The interview would turn intellectually rigorous, he said, but first she wanted to get to know him as a person.
Staying True to Her Roots
She has also tried to stay down to earth, friends say. Melissa Murray, who worked for the judge from 2003-4 and is now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, recalled going to a Yankees game with Judge Sotomayor. The judge, a Yankees fan, bought tickets in the bleachers, which Ms. Murray said the judge preferred as a more "authentic experience," and she appeared to be known to several in the crowd.
"We were on the way to the bleachers and people were, like, 'Judge! Judge!' " Ms. Murray recalled. "She is really well known in the South Bronx and kind of a role model in the community."
Ms. Rosa, the friend who also went from a low-income childhood to Princeton and law school, said that the experiences that someone like Judge Sotomayor accumulated in her rise from the housing projects of the Bronx to the threshold of the Supreme Court would leave a vivid understanding of how the world works.
"We came up in a period of time with a sense of conscience about social justice," Ms. Rosa said. "It grounded us in a set of values that told us our lives could be about something more than ourselves and the size of our bank account. That is a lesson many of us carry."
In her 2001 speech, Judge Sotomayor reflected on how she applies that lesson.
"Each day on the bench I learn something new about the judicial process and about being a professional Latina woman in a world that sometimes looks at me with suspicion," she said.
"I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences but I accept my limitations," Judge Sotomayor added. "I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage, but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate."
A Woman in the News article on Wednesday about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, misstated, in some editions, the year in which she was confirmed as the first Hispanic judge on the federal bench in New York State. It was 1992, not 2002. The article also misspelled, in some editions, the given name of the former Republican senator from New York State who helped push through the October 1998 vote in which Judge Sotomayor was confirmed as a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York. He is Alfonse M. D'Amato, not Alphonse.


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The scene-making Improv Everywhere troupe has released a pair of videos in which it pokes fun at people who can't take their eyes off their texting devices even while navigating busy streets in New York City. Improv Everywhere's solution for safeguarding oblivious walking/texting zombies: Seeing-eye People.
As has been well documented, walking and texting, like driving and texting, doesn't mix and has serious safety implications. Recent research found that pedestrians who text are four times less likely to look before crossing the street, obey traffic lights, etc., as those who aren't staring at their gadgets. Some communities have banned walking and texting, and others are trying to.
[ RELATED: Dartmouth researchers now have pedestrians and drivers covered with Android apps ]
The Improv Everywhere gag, done in collaboration with BuzzFeed, involves a supposed Department of Transportation pilot initiative in which orange-vested workers leash up others who walk and text on their smartphones.
Much hilarity ensues, as onlookers point and laugh.
In a companion video, the troupe approaches people who actually are walking and texting to see if they'd like a Seeing-eye Person to escort them.
Bob Brown tracks network research in his Alpha Doggs blog and Facebook page, as well on Twitter and Google +.
Read more about anti-malware in Network World's Anti-malware section.

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PLEASE NOTE that the Tennessee State Library and Archives does not hold copies of all of the items listed in this bibliography. Please check the Tennessee State Library and Archives Online Catalog or visit the Ask Us a Question! web page to contact the Library and Archives and verify we have an item in our collection. We will respond to e-mail requests promptly; response time may vary, depending on the amount of research required to answer your question and the unique nature of your request. If you need immediate assistance you may call the reference desk at (615) 741-2764 or visit us in person.
Houston County in General
Allred, Charles E. Rural relief & rehabilitation possibilities in Houston County, TN. Knoxville, TN Ag. Exp. Sta., 1935. 45 pp. (its Report #3)
Biographical directory, TN General Assembly, 1796-1969 (Houston County, Preliminary #35). Nashville, TSLA, 1973. 55 pp.
Goodspeed's history of TN (Houston County, pp. 974-998, 1388-1402). Goodspeed, 1886.
Guild, Josephus C. Speech of Judge Jo C. Guild, on Tuesday, August 25, 1874, at Erin, Houston County, TN. N.p., 1874. 16 pp.
Houston County, TN Chamber of Commerce. Opportunity knocks in Houston County. Erin, the chamber, 19--. 24 pp.
Houston County, TN: water use survey, TN-Tombigbee corridor study. Memphis, MSU, 1981. 14 pp.
Houston County, 1980-1987: an economic analysis. Nashville, TN Dept. Emp. Sec., 1988. 12 pp.
Irwin, David. Land utilization in Houston County, TN. UT thesis, 1949. 39 pp.
Little, Inc. The opportunity for industrial development in Houston [& other] counties, TN; report to the Area Redevelopment Administration, C- 65063. Cambridge, MA, n.p., 1964. 135 pp.
Lovelady, Joyce & Charles Lovelady, eds. Arlington, Cumberland City, Erin, TN, & the Wells Creek Valley. Dover, Lovelady Publications, 1989. 618 pp.
McClain, Iris H. A history of Houston County, TN. Columbia, n.p., 1966. 241 pp.
Maddux, Rachel. A walk in the spring rain, & The orchard children. Knoxville, UT Press, 1992. 328 pp. (fiction)
Presson, Alan D. Proposed building program for the Houston County school system in Houston County, TN. (field study, Austin Peay State University, 1977)
Seeber, R. Clifford. A manual of public service agencies in Houston [& other] counties. Murray, KY, TVA, 1942. 118 pp.
Soil survey, Houston County, TN. Washington, D.C., US GPO, 1949, 1958.
TN Dept. Transportation [county maps] issued periodically.
US Geol. Survey [topographic maps] issued periodically. Quadrangles: McKinnon, Stewart, Erin, Ellis Mills, Harmon Creek, Halls Creek, Woolworth, Ruskin.
Wilson, Charles W. Geology of the Wells Creek structure, TN. Nashville, TN Div. Geol., 1968. 236 pp.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. – Later today the lacrosse program will be making their second straight appearance in the Little East Conference Tournament as they travel to UMass Dartmouth for a 7:30 p.m. first round game.
For tonight's contest live stats and a free video webcast will be available.
Live Stats: http://livestats.prestosports.com/umassdartmouth/
Video: http://www.littleeast.tv/play/index.cfm?fuseaction=embstay&id=44265B7287
The Beacons enter this year's tournament as the sixth-seed, while the Corsairs are currently the third-seed. The postseason meeting will mark the first between the two teams since the 2001 season when the Beacons earned a 12-10 victory. It also stands as only the second time ever that the two intra-state rivals have faced-off in the playoffs.
In 2014, the Corsairs ended a two-game regular season skid as they defeated the Beacons 11-5 on April 26 in Boston. Prior to that win, the Beacons stunned the Corsairs on their home field with an 8-7 overtime decision in 2013, and a 12-10 win in Boston in 2012.
Leading the Beacons into the postseason is junior attackman John Powers (Marshfield, Mass.), who sits with a team leading 54 points, 34 goals, and 20 assists. Donny Delpha (Walpole, Mass.) and Tommy Petitti (Quincy, Mass.) are sitting tied for first in man-up goals with six each, while Noah Ellis (Hingham, Mass.), Nick Tangherlini (Cohasset, Mass.), and Powers each own two game-winning scores.
Defensively, Derek Froio (Cohasset, Mass.) has had an impressive season for the Beacons backline totaling a team-high 79 groundballs. He also leads the team with 32 caused turnovers, while fellow defenseman Andrew Guy (Northbridge, Mass.) sits second with 23 caused turnovers and third with 42 groundballs.
Between the pipes it has been sophomore Craig Frehill (Norwell, Mass.), who has played a major part in the Beacons recording their most successful season during the Tyler Low era. Sitting with 170 saves, Frehill has been named a two-time LEC Goalie of the Week, and stands at 8-9 going into tonight's match-up.
The winner of tonight's contest will advance to the semi-final round of this year's tournament where they will face the second-seeded Warriors of Eastern Connecticut State University. This year's semi-finals will be held on Friday at the ECSU Sports Complex in Mansfield, CT. Start time is scheduled for 7 p.m. This year's championship will be held this Sunday at the highest remaining seed.


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Has the time come for you to get out of the dorm and move into an off campus CVCC apartment? Perhaps the options available from the Central Virginia Community College housing office no longer meet your needs and you would like to find a cheap apartment close to the CVCC campus. If so, you can search for off campus Central Virginia Community College apartments with MyNewPlace's college housing search.
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Ok, so you've heard of this place, but perhaps you need a reminder of what Liberty University is all about. Founded by the late Jerry Falwell, this private Christian college located in the snowy northern part of Virginia (as opposed to the merely freezing rain soaked southern portion) is ablaze with over 70,000 students and curricula covering a whole lot more than just scripture. In fact Liberty University's motto is "Knowledge Aflame," so there. You're encouraged to have fun here, but know that you'll be expected to abide by the university's code of conduct, dubbed "The Liberty Way."
So living rent-free is probably impossible, unless you plan to live in a van down by the river, but with our help you can bet you'll secure a Lynchburg rental that won't break the piggy bank. Housing on campus is most assuredly not co-ed. That wouldn't be the Liberty University way. Housing for men, women, singles, and even those with disabilities can be found at this particular private school, and the deposit for a space is only $250. And within these rules and regulations, the campus offers some flexibility when it comes to just who you bunk with. To prove it, let us link you to the "Roommate Selection Tutorial." We must say, for an institution upholding a religion thousands of years old, that's a pretty hip and up-to-date lil' feature. If after all that information you're still looking to live off campus, look no further! We have plenty of options listed here, just waiting for your approval.
This private institution's transportation system seems to have everything the word "private" would entail: efficiency, cleanliness, and timeliness. Liberty University's transit services include both what it can give and what it can offer (yea yea, big diff, but just bear with us). It can give you intra-campus rides and offer you free access to public transportation for the city of Lynchburg, in addition to airport to-and-fro service during major campus break periods. We're thinking spring break, but this is a Christian college, so keep it clean. And where would a Liberty University student go for fun when he or she isn't hitting the (good) books? Well take your pick: Shaker's Restaurant, the Golden Corral, or Macado's. But that's not all. Ok, now get back to filling out those student loan forms...


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I deleted the app from my phone to troubleshoot the issue I detailed in thread 152. When I reinstalled, I noticed the Facebook button in the top left corner that says Existing Account on the new user character select screen. When I click it, it redirects to Facebook, then back to HTF:DD on the character select screen, but none of my currently unlocked characters were available. The Existing Account Facebook button is now a back button. If I click it, it flashes the map select menu briefly, then goes back to the new user character select screen to start all over.
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Final Witness
Is Grandeur still Grand if it has no witness? And if no one's there to vouch for it, how would you know for sure that the moment had, indeed, been "Grand?
Luckily, that night there were at least two witnesses.
And "Grandeur" most assuredly did happen.
Oh Captain, My Captain
She was a mountain person.
Always had been.
The strength, the power, the quiet sense of undeniable mastery
So perfectly resonated within her.
Tunnel View Of My Dreams
Talk about an iconic view! It's almost intimidating to lay a lens on this one... but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I always see Tunnel View two ways in my mind: one is that classic black and white a la Ansel Adams... the other is something like this. All warm, luscious colors and textures and that dreamy sense of a memory. And also that feeling of another time, another place. I almost expect to see dinosaurs!
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It's All Right There In Front Of You
She gave me a long look, that while enigmatic, was also loving and kind.
When she finally spoke, it was deliberately, quietly; but with a power that made the air hum, weaving itself into a moment of only us, apart from time.
"It's all right there in front of you. Look.
Where your eyes see form, structure, depth and balance...
Your heart will understand truth, wisdom, discernment.
Then listen carefully. For in that moment you will Know... and you will be free."
She took a breath. The air waited expectantly.
"As above, so below... as within, so without, top to bottom, side to side, corner to corner, all around. So be it. Now."
She opened her eyes and smiled.
Then slowly faded... and disappeared.
It took me years to understand what she meant.
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Like every morning, when the light was still soft and the colors just waking up, she looked out over the edge of her world.
All was well, serene and still beautiful.
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Not so long ago, I stood here on the shore of Silver Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Took a week, got away from the hum of computers, emails and the madding crowd.
Went into nature.
Got up at 5am and beat the sun to the day. More than once.
Hoped for golds, pinks, purples and brilliance, but got mist.
Magic, flirtatious mist though… so all was well.
Had breakfast at the oldest trout fishing retreat in the Eastern Sierras.
Last seats, end of the counter.
Followed whims.
Captured starlight.
Came home. (Reluctantly)
Still do.
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Climb Up Fall
Around here, climbers and skiers are the Heroes. Come Fall, they know they've only got a few good climbing days left for the year.
I don't know if they know intrepid photographers look for frame-ups just like this, combining the two though! hehheh.
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The Bishop's Ranch
Nevermind that his name was Bishop, he was a bishop and lived in a town called Bishop... the ranch itself was called Safe Haven and had been in the family for years.
Day In The Sun
Sunsets Do Smile Sometimes
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She thought about all the time she spent trying to remember.
Stuff to pick up, bring with, find, people's names.
It took up a good chunk of the day.
Then she remembered New Zealand.
Which took no time at all. She wondered why that was...
Entrance to the Mountains
These magnificent sentries are like dare-you-to-pass guardians of ancient realms. I felt like I should have to decode an ancient rune or dodge poison darts whilst leaping from rock to rock over a wide mountain stream to gain entry. But that day but we were allowed to drive peacefully on through.


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PAMOL palm oil farm inside Korup National Park. The working conditions in this state-owned plantation are very bad. Salaries are continuously dropping down, while the facilities and services the company is supposed to provide in its workers' camps, such as electricity, water or health care, are hardly ever delivered.02/20/2012
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Sylvie Cloutier, Ph.D. and Ruth C. Newberry, Ph.D. of Washington State University's Center for the Study for Animal Well-Being increases the value of research data and help the animals.
A long-term goal of our laboratory animal welfare research group is to identify management and housing factors that affect animal welfare and influence the validity of research findings. Validity is an important component of scientific methodology. One aspect of validity refers to the degree to which the findings from a study are repeatable—in other words, whether the findings would hold true if the same study was conducted again in other laboratories.
Because rats are used often in research, the discovery of husbandry methods to improve their welfare can have a major impact on laboratory animal care. Our research team is currently investigating how laboratory rats are affected by the degree to which they can see out of their cages, as well as the location of their cages in a rodent rack. These factors are almost never mentioned in the reporting of biomedical research involving animals, and yet they may contribute variability to the data. If so, this could increase the number of animals required to detect treatment effects and reduce the comparability of findings from different laboratories.
Rats used in biomedical research are commonly housed in shoebox cages made of polypropylene (opaque white) or polycarbonate (clear) material. Opaque white cages prevent visual contact with the surrounding environment. Since rats are social animals, visual contact between individually housed animals could reduce the negative impact of social isolation. Clear cages allow a view of the room and facilitate visual social contact with neighboring rats. However, they may induce anxiety due to lack of visual cover.
It is possible, therefore, that cages with partially covered walls, rather than completely clear or opaque walls, would be beneficial to rat welfare. Walls with alternating opaque and clear stripes could create a "Venetian blind" effect that allows the animals to observe the surrounding environment, while providing a sense of security and control over exposure to visual stimuli outside of their cages.
Rat cages are usually placed on multi-shelf racks. On different shelves, rats are likely to be exposed to multiple varieties of light intensity, temperature, humidity, sounds and views of the surrounding area. When studying laying hens, birds housed in upper cages are reported to be more fearful than birds housed at middle or lower levels. In laboratory rats, the effect of shelf height is unknown. Furthermore, there may be interactions between shelf height and degree of visual cover provided by the cage walls, especially when rats are housed individually. A better understanding of the effects of shelf height and cage cover could lead to improvements in housing that increase the well-being of laboratory rats used for research.
We are comparing the responses of male Sprague-Dawley rats housed in three different cage types: clear plastic cages, opaque cages (clear plastic cages covered with white cardboard walls), and partially covered cages (clear plastic cages covered with vertical bands of white cardboard). Our research group is also interested in knowing how rats may be affected by shelf height. Therefore, the three cage types are spread among three different shelf heights: top (at or above human head), middle (at human body level) and bottom (at human leg level).
While the rats are housed in these cages, we assess effects of cage cover and shelf height on body weight, chromodacryorrhea secretion, and behavior. Chromodacryorrhea is a reddish porphyrin secretion that stains the skin and fur around the eyes and nostrils during times of stress. We measure chromodacryorrhea secretion weekly, following two routine procedures:
body weight measurement and cage cleaning. The anxiety levels of the rats, and their reactions to the anticipation of being handled by a human, are assessed at four-week intervals.
Preliminary results suggest that body weight, growth rate and secretion of chromodacryorrhea are not affected by the degree of visual cover provided by the cage walls or the height of the cage in the rodent rack. The rats are reacting similarly in anticipation of being handled. They are curious and approach the experimenter when the cage lid is removed. However, after eight weeks of housing, we are finding differences in the behavior of the rats according to cage type and shelf height. Rats housed in partially covered cages show less anxiety-related behavior than rats housed in clear and opaque cages when tested in an elevated plus maze. Additionally, rats housed on the bottom shelf in opaque cages or on the top shelf in clear cages are more active during behavioral testing compared with other rats. It still needs to be determined whether this increased activity is related to exploration or escape attempts, but these results suggest cage types and location may modulate the animals' fear responses.
Our results indicate that the degree of visual contact with the surroundings can affect the outcome of behavioral tests used in biomedical research. The use of cages providing partial visual cover may reduce the anxiety level of rats and thus reduce the time taken by rats to habituate to the cage, humans and routine handling. This simple change in housing could improve the welfare of laboratory rats, and the external validity of research data from behavioral tests performed outside the home cage.
This research project was made possible through funding from an Animal Welfare Institute Refinement Award.


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Welcome to the Ask the Core Team blog. My name is Eriq Stern and today we are going to discuss Failover Cluster networks. This information applies to Windows 2008 thru Windows 2012 R2 Failover Clusters. What does a Windows Failover Cluster consider a "Cluster Network"? In a Windows Failover Cluster, Cluster Networks are created automatically… Read more


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I just returned from a trip to Florida. You know its a tough winter everywhere when even in February..Florida is cold! This past Sunday the 14th was the Daytona 500….NASCAR's first race os the season and the biggest race of the year. I have posted before I am a casual fan, but there is no sporting event that I have ever attended that can top this race!!! 200,000 people…tough to beat! I have been to this race I think 4 of the last 6 years? No matter how many times I attend…I truly love it!
Its a full day indeed. I went this year with my father-in-law George (his first time!) and we arrived at Daytona around 6:15 AM. Had breakfast and walked to the track at around 8 AM for some shopping! We shopped for an hour and had passes for the Fan Zone. For the Fan Zone you get to walk around the stages near pit row and listen to drivers speak, music playing, eat food, watch car inspections, walk through pit row and onto the field. The big draw is to walk on the track and sign the starting line and walls before the race. As the cars are brought out….you cant get right next to pit row, behind a rope. Only a few feet from the starting lineup! After the cars are inspected they are rolled out one by one. So I stood and took pics of each car coming out for about 2 hours. My father-in-law was a trooper and stood next to me the whole time. I had my big lens – Nikon 70-200 VR on a monopod and snapped away!
The pic above is from the lineup which includes Tony Stewart's car….race ready. If the crowds are not too heavy around the cars, close up shots are possible. I saw Dale Jr's car rolled out and could barley get close! So we hit the stands for the race at about 12:30 and grabbed some lunch and our seats.
As our seats were first row right by the fence you see in the pic above…I wanted to grab a shot from above as the race started. I walked up the aisle and took the shot above (turn 4) as lap 1 was just about to start! Mark Martin is in the lead and Dale Jr. is is in second! The shot above is at 200mm focal length. I took a few more shots throughout the race and they were just ok. This was the biggest lens I have ever taken to a race and made some conclusions about shooting races. 1) Use a bigger lens 2) Get pit passes 3) Practice beforehand if possible
Any fan that wants great shots like you see in Sports Illustrated…from the stands..its impossible. I can assume a 400mm or 600mm lens is necessary to get those cool shots. Added to that your photo location has to be from the pits. How to get there…hmmm…maybe you have to be a professional. So lesson learned as I tried to push my photography limits this day. If anyone is a race fan and knows how to get such a photo pass…please let me know! I'll get into the race details in a future post next week. A fun day and I can't wait to get back again. As I have a long post..I'll skip the photo settings for the day. Have fun and let the race begin!


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We are providing only the address at this time, there has been an error in the MAPQUEST link application. While we work on a resolution, we are providing the street address information and provided notes to playing fields. In addition, we are providing a DIRECT link to MapQuest - from which you can generate driving directions. Shortly we will restore the Mapping function.
Below you will find the address to Playing Field CCHS Turf 2B for CONNOTES: The artificial turf fields are at the rear of the building. Follow the signs up the hill to the drop-off area. Turf fields are on the left side of the parking lot. CCHS Turf 2 is the field furthest from the parking lot. CCHS Turf 2B is the 8v8 half of the field furthest from the parking lot.
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Electricity pricing proposals & AMI charges
The electricity distribution businesses are required to submit to us an annual pricing proposal, outlining proposed prices to take effect from the commencement of the next regulatory year. The structure of the tariffs set out in each distributors annual pricing proposal must match those approved by us in their tariff structure statement. In Victoria, 2017 will be the first year where this obligation is active.
Victorian distributors must also submit for the last time in 2016 advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) charges for our assessment.
We approve the proposals if we are satisfied they comply with rule requirements and any applicable distribution determination and if all forecasts associated with the proposals are reasonable. The businesses are required to maintain approved prices on their websites.
Gas annual tariff variations
The gas distribution and transmission businesses are required to submit an annual tariff proposal to meet the requirements of their individual access arrangement.
We will approve and publish the tariff report if satisfied that the proposed reference tariff variations comply with rule requirements and any applicable access arrangement.
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"Eggs are like a blank canvas — the decorating possibilities are endless, and you don't have to stick to a standard store-bought kit," says Soto. "In addition to dyeing eggs in beautiful colors, dress them up with items already sitting in your kitchen or closet, like scraps of ribbon, buttons, glitter or even confetti."
Before you get started, though, there's a bit of preparation required. Start with clean, cool, hard-boiled eggs. Make sure everyone washes their hands in hot, soapy water before and after handling eggs. This protects the eggshell from any oils on hands that may prevent dye from adhering. Make use of accessories like an egg dipper, which can be found in egg coloring kits, to hold onto the eggs while coloring them. This accessory helps little hands dip it into the dye securely.
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Experiment: When using an egg coloring kit, vary the color of egg dye by adding different ingredients to the color tablet. For ultra-vibrant colored eggs, add vinegar. Looking for more traditional colored eggs? Use lemon juice. To embrace the pastel colors of spring, just use water.
Perfect polka: Use the eraser end of a pencil to paint perfect polka dots on the egg. Just dip the eraser into acrylic craft paint and dab onto the egg. Make different patterns and use different colors to create designs.
Tattoo décor: Kids often have temporary tattoos lying around. Apply those same tattoos to eggs for a professional and easy look that kids will love.
Ribbon wrap: Tie a pretty ribbon around a dyed egg. Mix colors and patterns for fun visual interest. Adorn with craft or fabric flowers, or even buttons. For a more rustic look, use natural fibers such as hemp or twine with dried flowers in place of the ribbons.
Doodle designs: Eggs don't have to be dyed to look special. Get a thin Sharpie marker and doodle away. Create designs and patterns around the egg. Paisley and flowers are simple to make. Start with a leaf or a daisy shape and keep building off that design until the egg is fully decorated!
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Jeannette was born to parents James Lee and Rosie Mae Westfall in Polemic, W. Va. on October 25, 1942.
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Jeannette was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, George Wolfe and her brother, Vernon Lee Westfall.
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What a rock-bottom! Allegiant is a big bummer!
From the enthralling tales that were so successfully luring us towards its nail-biting enclaves, comes another one, a rather dismissive twist that takes the plot to weird levels of alcoves from where there is no possible return. The movie franchise has met an ugly thud and now we are left with a stale taste in our palate. We are thinking can someone really revive this?
Just an year ago, Robert Schwentke had wrapped us a thrilling sequel to the first part where things seemed really promising. It was a fast paced dig, au contraire, to the first installment and acquainted us to a fantastical world of simulations. I don't know how his direction degraded for Allegiant to meet complete chaos.
The fact that we had a pre-written storyline in our baggage for Allegiant should have actually helped not played against Schwentke. His direction goes dodgy at so many occasions that it is hard to just pinpoint one. Also, the plot jack-hammers into a recess that we weren't really expecting it to converge into. Even though it was supposed to be from Veronica Roth's perspective, we could have used some better helming to ease into some mind-numbing revelations. The shoddy display at points where it mattered the most proves how little director cared about its eye-openers.
What messed with matters further was the dramatic quotient of Allegiant. The fact that Tori gets lost amidst a ruckus, and the next-to-absent "Evelyn and Johanna Reyes war" makes things even worse. Jeff Daniels plays a great David although his hands seemed more tied and his perversion not milked enough.
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The Deutsche Bank Americas Conferences & Events team, the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation and Restaurant Associates recently partnered to launch a new volunteer initiative, "Culinary Kids." At the inaugural event on December 1, 42 employees from across the Bank partnered with 23 children ages 7-9, educating them about balanced nutrition and healthy lifestyles. A team of chefs from Restaurant Associates led everyone through multiple hands-on cooking activities hosted in the 60 Wall Street Level A cafe.
In developing the program, the planners considered that many low-income children and families often do not have easy access to healthy, affordable food options in their communities, so education and exposure are especially important. The children visiting the Bank all participate in after-school programming offered by the nonprofit, Hudson Guild, to families living in New York City Housing Authority properties in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.
Each child was outfitted with an apron and personalized chef's hat and paired up with a volunteer at one of four cooking stations. Working together, the volunteers and kids carefully crafted a number of healthy recipes including tomato and basil sandwiches on whole wheat bread with low-fat mayonnaise, breaded chicken tenders, and "kabobs" made of fruits, reduced-fat cheese and turkey.
The program also allowed time for questions and answers from the kids about nutrition and smart food choices, as well as instruction in the basics of food preparation. At the end, the volunteers and kids were able to sample all the snacks prepared. For beverages, everyone was served fresh fruit water, a lower-calorie alternative to sugary juice or soda.
"Nutrition and fitness are in the forefront of everyone's mind," says Joan Stagg, Regional Head of Deutsche Bank's Conferences and Events, who was instrumental in putting the event together. "We thought 'Culinary Kids' was a perfect way to combine an educational and fun program with giving back to the community. [The kids] were well informed and eager to learn about healthy eating and cooking. It was a great experience participating hands-on with the children, and we volunteers probably enjoyed the program just as much, if not more than they did."
The partnership of Restaurant Associates brought cooking and nutritional expertise to the program's content. Eamon Manley and Sean Wilson of Restaurant Associates planned a thoughtful event and ensured that the recipes prepared were healthy, quick and kid-friendly. To try the recipes that the kids prepared, please download the PDF below.
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Houston can add another spot to its impressive list of eateries and watering holes that have been featured on national television. The latest local bar, Houston Sports Hub (formerly known as The End Zone Sports Bar and Grill) got a makeover, compliments of Spike TV's "Bar Rescue."
"It was like a bar boot camp," said Justin Whitfield, owner of Houston Sports Hub, located at 15209 Westheimer.
This bar was featured on the season finale on May 11. We're guessing it landed the coveted spot because of the friction among this group of employees. But all's well that ends well:
"There's drama like all bars," said Whitfield. "(Being on the show) did help to mend some relationships."
Whitfield said he was trained by some of the nation's finest in the industry, but he added that there was no guarantee that the show would complete the makeover, meaning the crew could pack up and leave at any time.
The big question is: Would he do it again?
"It was a great experience," Whitfield said. "I wouldn't do it again, though, because I don't like being yelled at. The yelling wasn't so bad. It was the stress."
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Astronauts (or other 'nauts) could find life on Mars quite healthy
New revelations suggest radiation-safe caves, ice
Mars may be more hospitable to life - including human explorers of the future - than had been feared, according to new research using information sent back both from NASA's robot rover Curiosity and from orbiters circling the red planet.
As we've previously reported, Curiosity's radiation instruments indicate that normal background radiation at the Martian surface is comparatively mild - a pleasant surprise considering the planet's thin atmosphere.
Apart from atmosphere and possible planetary magnetic fields (like those which make Earth so hospitable), there's another major way in which a planet can protect those on its surface from the dangerous levels of radiation which permeate space at all times and occasionally - for instance during major solar storms - surge to fatal levels.
A planet naturally blocks out half the sky and its background cosmic rays for anyone standing on its surface. Around half the time this will include the Sun, which is the source of most of the dangerous radiation in the solar system.
But that still leaves a lot of potential for explorers to be hit by harmful radiation during solar storms and so on. Shielding materials would necessarily be heavy, and thus probably impractical to send along on an interplanetary trip.
Another major issue for Mars explorers is likely to be availability of water. If water can be obtained locally, this solves several problems: it can be used to make rocket fuel and/or oxidiser, meaning that far less need be hauled in across the immense journey from Earth and hugely cutting travel costs. Oxygen from water can also be breathed, and naturally the water itself can also help sustain the lives of the astronauts themselves and the probable hydroponic plants they will be growing for food.
Given all of this, then, it's good news to hear on the science wires of new research indicating that there may be more water about on Mars than had seemed to be the case from orbital imagery. An announcement from Gothenburg uni has this to say:
The process of analysing satellite images from Mars has been combined with similar studies of an arctic environment in Svalbard. Despite the fact that Svalbard is considerably warmer than Mars, the arctic landscape shows a number of striking similarities to certain parts of Mars.
One important common feature is the presence of permafrost and frozen subsurface water.
Having studied hundreds of gullies on Mars and compared these with Svalbard, the researchers found evidence that the gullies on Mars were likely formed by melting snow and water erosion. Field work has supplemented the interpretation of aerial images.
"One important insight we have gained is that, despite the high image resolution for both Svalbard and Mars, the camera can't capture everything," explains Dr Andreas Johnsson. "What appears to be fine-grained sediment on an aerial image of Svalbard can actually turn out to be a very rocky area which has implications for certain types of landforms. It's important to bear this in mind when studying images of Mars."
So, not only is there more water than had been thought, some areas of Mars may be more like Svalbard than they seem from space. As opposed to red sand, they actually be rocky - and, like Svalbard, they may have rock caves formed by snow and ice in the past, suitable for human habitation.
Caves would make excellent shelters from radiation storms and indeed radiation in general, so their presence or absence is always of great interest to planetary exploration. And, of course, if water is more common then alien life may also be more likely.
The Gothenburg statement goes on to add:
The existence of liquid water is a vital component if life on Mars is to be possible.
"Research on Earth has shown that organisms can survive in extreme cold environments with limited access to liquid water," continues Dr Johnsson. "Studying various areas on Mars therefore enables us to investigate whether there could be environments with conditions capable of supporting life." ®
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