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Accounting and Auditing History: Major Developments in England and the United States from Ancient Roots Through the Mid-Twentieth Century1
Howard Stettler
Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas
The history of accounting and auditing, as inextricably entwined disciplines concerned with the communication of information about economic events affecting governmental or private entities, is traced from the beginning of recorded history to recent times. Both disciplines have developed as a response to emerging needs of the times, and both have facilitated the development of capital markets that have supplied the tremendous amounts of capital to satisfy the demand that was an outgrowth of the Industrial Revolution. Closely associated with the development of the two disciplines has been the emergence of the accounting profession, playing a key role in more recent times in advancing the state of the art in both professional practice and in the development of accounting and auditing standards.
The following chronological synopsis of major developments in accounting and auditing constitutes the framework for the more extensive treatment the paper gives to the evolution of the two disciplines. The rationale underlying these developments is likewise considered.
Major Developments
Means of communication Writing
Accounting and auditing
Accounts of transactions with others and of trading activity
Accounting for owner equity-double entry
Formation of stock companies and reporting of results to third parties
Chartering of companies with limited liability and subject to specified reporting requirements
Principal Causes
Communal activities
Need for a record of economic goods
Accountability for tribute exacted by ruling authority
Economic benefits of trading activity arising from the development of private property
Measurement of the increase in wealth from trading
Demand for capital to extend trading abroad
Extension of the need for capital accumulation
generated by the Industrial Revolution
1 An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Haskins Seminar in conjunction with the Third
International Congress of Accounting Historians in London in 1980.


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A man accused of harassing Google Vice President Marisa Mayer was arrested and indicted on felony charges by a San Francisco grandy jury.
Gregory Calvin King has been sending threatening and often rambling messages to Mayer via Twitter for months. He was arrested in Texas.
His Twitter account is filled with endless rants @MarisaMayer, calling her names and making at times anti-Semitic remarks towards her.
"IM SURE YOU THINK IM SERIOUS AND I'LL F****** SHOOT YOU" and "I REALLY THINK I NEED TO SHOOT SOMEONE TO EVEN MY F****** SCORE," one tweet on Aug. 14 read.
San Francisco FBI spokeswoman Julie Sohn told the San Francisco Examiner that "there is no known connection between King and the Google executive."
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From the underutilized livejournal community Fatshionism comes further evidence that the people responsible for promoting fat bias on airplanes don't understand fat, bias, or airplanes:
August 5 (News.com.au) – AIRASIA X is considering charging passengers depending on their weight in a bid to fight rising fuel prices and to "help Aussies lose weight".
The airline is allegedly considering weighing passengers to calculate the overall weight of the aircraft, said AirAsia X general manager Darren Wright.
After Australia's airlines vowed never to weigh passengers, Mr Wright told travel trade magazine Travel Today that AirAsia X is considering more extreme measures to increase revenue if fuel continues its march to $US200 a barrel.
Although admitting the move would be difficult to implement, Mr Wright said charging larger passengers "could help Aussies lose weight".
Mr Wright said the new weighing system would enable the airline to calculate the remaining weight allowance to be taken up with additional cargo.
Now, I suspect that the story here is less "AirAsia X is truly considering weighing passengers" and more "AirAsia X general manager is an ugly-minded little man." "Considering" is a nice vague term that you can use to air your personal biases and stir up publicity and controversy without actually having to rethink your policies. But Mr. Wright doesn't seem to have thought about the fact that "considering" discrimination as a cost-saving measure can also brand you as a bigot without actually saving you any money.
Listen, nobody disputes the fact that the weight of an aircraft matters. But something like nine percent — NINE PERCENT — of that weight is attributable to passengers, you dumb fuck. More than half the weight is just the weight of the craft itself, and then there are things like FUEL. Basically, airplanes are heavy, empty or full. The average Australian weighs about 167 pounds; if you limited your clientele to cut that average by, say, 20 pounds, you'd save about 1 percent of the weight of the aircraft. That's like kicking a five-year-old out of your SUV and expecting it to improve your gas mileage.
And don't even get me started about the wrongheaded and egotistical idea that denying people travel on your precious airline will make them lose weight. Hey everybody, apparently in Australia, all you have to do to lose weight is realize that some people want you to! It's crazy upside-down world, where you CAN hate people for their own good! Because everyone knows that if fat people had ever thought "hey, maybe I should go on a diet," there wouldn't be any fat people. And of course, it's fat people's responsibility to change themselves to avoid discrimination, not Mr. Wright's responsibility not to discriminate.
Still, I wish Wright luck. Seeing as how Australia just outpaced the U.S. in terms of obesity, this should be a real money-making proposition for his airline.
ETA: I'm late! Fatadelic already covered this, and apparently they're trying to pass it off as a joke. Doesn't change what I said above — I just wanted to use it as a jumping-off point to talk about the "fat people on planes ruin fuel efficiency" fallacy and the "discrimination makes people lose weight" fallacy — but it also makes Michelle's recent entry on humorless fat people (about which more later) very relevant.
ETA 2: Paul also beat me to it! Interestingly, we covered different things, so read both! And I will try to be a little more plugged in.


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Alma Lafler (left) and Teddy Himler (right) were two sailors that helped the Crimson capture the Sharpe Trophy (Gil Talbot).
BRISTOL, R.I. – The Harvard coed sailing team won the first regatta of the spring season, bringing home the Sharpe Trophy Sunday. The team-racing event was hosted by Roger Williams after ice on the Charles River forced a venue change.
Alan Palmer, Tedd Himler and Brendan Kopp represent the Crimson as skippers, while Alma Lafler, John Stokes and Meghan Wareham sailed as crews for Harvard at the Sharpe Trophy.
After first day of sailing Saturday and 10 races, the Crimson sat atop the leaderboard, having won nine races and dropped only one. Roger Williams ended Day 1 in second with seven wins and three loses.
The Crimson won six of its seven races Sunday, finishing with 16 total wins and two losses to earn the victory. Roger Williams finished in second with an 11-7 record, while MIT came in third after going 10-8 in the six-team event.
The Harvard coed team will be back on the water March 13 at the 18th St. Mary's Team Race, while the women's squad will make its first appearance of 2011 at the 28th Women's Intersectional at Navy.
1) Harvard: 16-2
4) Brown: 7-11
6) Yale: 2-13


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March 28, 2010
Santa Barbara, Calif. - Just a day after taking care of Loyola Marymount on the road, the UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team returned home to drub the Cal State Northridge Matadors, 6-1. The win evens the Gauchos' record on the season at 9-9, and improves their mark in Big West play to 4-1, putting them in position to make a run at the No. 1 seed for the Big West tournament.
The new doubles lineup again earned the Gauchos a point, providing the team with the spark they needed to cruise to the Big West victory.
At No. 1 doubles, Tova Hausman and Bryanna Ojeda defeated Northridge's top team of Brooke Doan and Anna Yang by a score of (8-5). Natalia Lozano and Jordan Dockendorf easily put away Nina Jaworowski and Whitney Paluch at No. 2 doubles (8-3). While UCSB's No. 3 team of Jill Damion and Annabel Gledden could not complete the sweep, they gave Nigora Sirojiddinova and Maria Pistalu all they could handle, losing by a score of (9-7).
In singles action, the Gauchos again came out strong and shut down the opposition. Novak won her matchup at the No. 1 position, beating Doane in straight sets (7-4, 6-4). Lozano won the first set easily against Jaworowski, who was forced to retire early after spraining her ankle in the second set. At the No. 3 position, Damion was almost perfect, as she surrendered just one game to Paluch (6-0, 6-1).
The only point for the Matadors came at the No. 4 position, when Gledden's day was ended prematurely due to a sore arm. Gledden won the first set, but could not finish the match.
Hausman again added to her recent streak of impressive performances, as she knocked off Yang in the No. 5 spot by a count of (7-6, 6-1). The win pushes the junior's winning streak to nine, as she continues to be one of the most consistent players for the Gauchos.
Dockendorf rounded out the action for UCSB with a solid, straight-set victory over Zarina Pinsoy (6-2, 6-4).
Up next for the Gauchos will be another must-see matchup, as they take on Long Beach State on Saturday, April 3rd at 11:00 a.m. at home. The 49ers are currently undefeated in Big West play, and are taking on Cal Poly (12-3, 5-1) on Friday.
"If Long Beach beats Cal Poly on Friday, then our match with Long Beach on Saturday will be for all the marbles," said head coach Pete Kirkwood.
1. Sofia Novak (UCSB) def. Brooke Doane (CSUN) 7-4, 6-4
2. Natalia Lozano (UCSB) def. Nina Jaworowski (CSUN) 6-1, 2-0 ret.
3. Jill Damion (UCSB) def. Whitney Paluch (CSUN) 6-0, 6-1
4. Nigora Sirojiddinova (CSUN) def. Annabel Gledden (UCSB) 1-6, 4-3 ret.
5. Tova Hausman (UCSB) def. Anna Yang (CSUN) 7-6, 6-1
6. Jordan Dockendorf (UCSB) def. Zarina Pinsoy (CSUN) 6-2, 6-4
1. Hausman/Bryanna Ojeda (UCSB) def. Doane/Yang (CSUN) 8-5
2. Dockendorf/Lozano (UCSB) def. Jaworowski/Paluch (CSUN) 8-3
3. Sirojiddinova/Maria Pistalu (CSUN) def. Damion/Gledden (UCSB) 9-7


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Lindsay Lohan's highly anticipated turn as Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime's Liz & Dick failed to make much of a splash with viewers in its premiere Sunday night.
The TV movie, also starring Grant Bowler as Richard Burton, averaged 3.5 million viewers and 1.3 million adults in the ages 18-49 demographic. That number was well behind the 6.5 million viewers that tuned into Lifetime's Steel Magnolias remake earlier this fall as well as the 5.8 million for Drew Peterson: Untouchable back in January.
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The ratings are disappointing considering the amount of publicity surrounding the film's premiere, including rare television appearances by Lohan on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
However, Liz & Dick did out-perform Lohan's last TV movie, Labor Pains, which premiered to 2.1 million viewers on ABC Family in July 2009.
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Exidy's Death Race, of 1976, might have been the first game adaptation and yeah, it was kind of lame, setting a standard for adaptations for decades to come. (It was inspired by 1975's Death Race 2000 starring Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine). But man did it cause a stink. Players ran down stickmen with a car, eliciting screams and turning the screen into a graveyard of pedestrians. The game had no color, no digitized sound, no blood splatter, no ragdoll physics, its violence was abstract in both audio and video, and it made 60 Minutes as a national outrage. Well since retro-revival's as much the rage in cinema as it is gaming, there's a Death Race remake coming to the screen in a couple of weeks. And the movie's history as the inspiration for a hot-button game controversy is something any marketer would exploit. So the film's official web site has a flash advergame - top down racer with some weapons thrown in. It sucks. I was 3 in 1976, so I can't speak for the state of people's thinking at the time. But I really do wonder if its level of violence is indeed trivial, even for its age, or if I only feel that way because I've seen so much more, and so much worse. It's hard to consider Death Race as the first pebble trickling off a slippery slope, and definitely makes it more important than it deserves to be. Death Race Movie Game [Death Race Movie, via Water Cooler Games]
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Multiple Benefits Of A Home Based Business
If you're seriously interested in knowing about Home-based business opportunities, you need to think beyond the basics. Taking advantage of a home-based business opportunity can afford you many benefits. There are not only the monetary benefits, but lifestyle benefits as well. Whether lifestyle or monetary, these benefits can be far greater than what you will ever receive working for an employer.
If you are already working in your own home based business or just entertaining the idea, be sure to evaluate your options and consider the value of the benefits you will receive. Home based business opportunities can provide you with independence and financial freedom if you make smart decisions. There are also multiple tax advantages for a Home Based Business as well. You will need to do some checking on the tax advantages as each state is different. When you have a Home Based Business you can definitely take advantage of the tax savings you are entitled to.
It is not always money that motivates people to start a Home based business. Sometimes the intangible benefits are more important factors when considering home based business opportunities. One of the more powerful draws to working from home is the sense of freedom you gain. You can set your own schedule, work the hours that are most convenient for you, and have time available for family obligations and leisure activities. Parents with children in school often think about what home based business opportunities may be available to them.
Teacher conferences, after school activities and the ability to be home when the children are out of school are strong motivators in making the decision to start a home-based business. Working from home gives you the benefit of flexible hours and the freedom to adjust your schedule according to the needs of your family.
Stress reduction is another benefit of operating a home based business. Any business will likely produce its own kind of stress, but certain stressful factors can be avoided when you take advantage of the more promising home business opportunities that are available to you. You will have no daily commute, you will save money on gas and automobile expenses, and you will have the extra time in the morning and evening to relax and interact with your family instead of spending that time getting to and from work. If you plan properly and budget your time wisely,being your own boss can reduce the stress you feel due to constant demands and co-worker interruptions.
A home based business opportunity cannot only give you the benefit of earning money while working from your home it can give you many other benefits as well. A home-based business is the perfect chance for you to attain financial and personal freedom.
There are numerous home based business opportunities available to you. Research each one carefully and make sure you are willing to put forth the effort that will be required in order to succeed. One more very important point to consider. If you do decide to start your own Home Based Business, get training. So many people try to start a Home Business and fail. As a matter of a fact, 95% fail. The reason is training, so consider a good marketing course before you spend loads of money on Home Based Business opportunities. Remember, there are lots of scams out there. But once you have the proper training you'll know what to look for and what to avoid.


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Overseas model shown, Australian specification may differ. Consult your preferred Jeep dealer for details.
Personalized available Off-Road Pages allow you to view your vehicle's statistics and diagnostics on your touchscreen. These include wheel articulation, transmission temperature, suspension height settings and drive modes to help provide an optimized off-roading experience.
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Soccer Saturday pundit tips wins for Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea & Everton
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If Crystal Palace lose this game then I think they will be relegated. It's quite tight down at the bottom and a few teams will be in the fight, but if you lose at home to Fulham then it leaves you sitting and wondering where you're going to get another point from. Fulham got a good result last time against Stoke, but they are not the best away from home and Ian Holloway will have highlighted this fixture, without a doubt. They went 3-0 down to Liverpool in their last game and I thought they had a good go in the second half and made chances, but it's easy to play when you're losing like that. If they make chances like that against Fulham then they should win.
I think Palace will win this, but Fulham are one of those teams that are so hard to predict. They could go there and win 3-0 and look like the best team you've ever seen on Monday Night Football, but they could easily go there and get beat. If Palace lose then, for me, they are relegated but if Fulham don't get a draw then I think they are in major trouble and will be dark horses to go down.
Aston Villa v Tottenham (3.30pm, Sun, Sky Sports 1)
I think Andre Villas-Boas dropped a clanger by starting Jermain Defoe against West Ham. I like him, but I think he's best as a substitute and is the sort of player to put on when things aren't going well. I know he'd scored against Villa's reserves in the Capital One Cup and against Anzhi who are as bad as you can get, but West Ham were always going to sit back and deny him space and he isn't the type to hold the ball up. Roberto Soldado hasn't been scoring too many goals, but something must have been working because they'd been winning matches. I think the manager missed a trick there.
This will be a hard game for Tottenham and with Christian Benteke back in the side I think Villa will get a result. Spurs don't score a lot of goals, so you're always in the football match and someone like Benteke looks like he's going to score a goal every time he goes on a football pitch. Both teams will want the other team to attack them and play on the break, so it will be interesting. I think it will be a draw.
West Ham v Man City (5pm, Sat, Sky Sports 1)
After Soccer Saturday a fortnight ago, poor Jeff was certain that Hartlepool were going to win the Performance of the Week after they won at Exeter - and then the next day West Ham went and smashed Tottenham 3-0 and topped them in my opinion. Nobody saw that coming, even the West Ham faithful, but I don't see them repeating that on Saturday Night Football. They played with no strikers and it worked in a game where nobody was giving them a chance, but I don't think it will work against Man City at home. They will be expected to take the game to them a bit more.
Manchester City are still my tip for the title. They are strong all over and have got a big squad so I think they're best equipped. Vincent Kompany is injured, but West Ham aren't really a threat without Andy Carroll and might not play any strikers again so I think City will cope and keep a clean sheet anyway.
Arsenal v Norwich
I think Arsenal will win this, but I do believe this is a big game for them. This is where league titles are won and lost. People will turn up thinking "it's only Norwich" and that you're going to wipe the floor with them, but you have to be careful - especially after everybody has been away on international duty. I think Arsenal are playing with too much confidence and when they don't play well - as they didn't against West Brom - they are avoiding losing matches. That's important.
Chelsea v Cardiff
Chelsea haven't really got going and I thought they were lucky to get the three points against Norwich. They were under the cosh for a while and even though Jose Mourinho deserves credit for making changes, that scoreline could have gone anywhere. He still doesn't know his best team, which is not good, but I still think they will be too strong for Cardiff and should win comfortably.
Everton v Hull
I have been impressed with Hull this season. Steve Bruce has made them difficult to beat but I always say that Goodison Park is a hard place to go for any side. Everton lost their unbeaten record in the last game, but that was a great result for Manchester City and I fully expect Everton to get back to winning ways at home.
Man Utd v Southampton
This is a big game for Man United - and I mean massive. If they don't win this then they can't win the Premier League, it's as simple as that. David Moyes has said they had a hard start and their early run of games wasn't fair, but they lost to West Brom and fell over the line against Sunderland - I thought they were lucky in that match - and now they need to beat a Southampton side that is playing well. However, I've got to go for Man United at home.
Newcastle v Liverpool
St James' Park isn't the hardest place in the world to go at the moment and if Liverpool want to be contenders for the top four then they need to go and win at places like this. That's the way I look at it. I just think that with Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez up front together they will always be in the football match and they should win. On their day, Newcastle can give anybody a game but they are a bit hot and cold.
Stoke v West Brom
This is such a hard game to call because both teams have been playing well. I thought Stoke did well in their last game against Fulham and shouldn't have lost it, but West Brom are doing well too. They've taken four points in two games against Man United and Arsenal and you can't argue with that.
Swansea v Sunderland
I like Gus Poyet. He hasn't managed in the Premier League, so it could be difficult, but he did nothing wrong at Brighton and you have to give people chances. It isn't a bad appointment in my eyes. I was disappointed with Swansea's display against Southampton and I wonder if playing Sunday-Thursday is catching up with them. They have put a lot into the European basket and have been playing their strongest team in the Europa League, unlike the Capital One Cup. Foreign managers seem to like that competition because it's good for their CV and that could have an impact on their league form. They are not going down though and I think they'll be too strong for Sunderland.
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A lady is leaning against the counter at the Craven-Pamlico Animal Shelter. She has a cell phone placed against her ear and she is merrily chatting, �Oh, I�m just over here at the doggy jail.�
Last of a three-day series about the Craven-Pamlico County Animal Shelter.
A lady is leaning against the counter at the Craven-Pamlico Animal Shelter. She has a cell phone placed against her ear and she is merrily chatting, �Oh, I�m just over here at the doggy jail.�
A jail implies crimes, and if these dogs are in here for crimes, most, unfortunately, were committed by their owners.
Animal control officers seem sometimes perplexed or amazed at the animals that are brought in for problems they believe are easily corrected. While some owners, they say, do all they can to train their pets, they can still tell stories, such as the one about the dog, mentioned in an earlier part in this series, that ate a sandwich its owner had left sitting unguarded on a table.
One of the biggest problems owners claim upon turning in their pets is that they�re out of control.
�It takes time, it takes energy, it takes commitment,� Smith said of turning these animals around. �We live in a very disposable society, and I think animals are a part of that mentality.�
While animals adopted from the shelter are thankful and loving pets, you can pretty safely guess that few of them have had any significant amount of obedience training.
You need to know what you�re getting into. Pets are a long-term investment.
�We try to talk to people that come in,� Smith said. �This is what you�re going to have to expect, this is what kind of money you�re going to have to put into it.�
Patience. Determination. And, yes, money. These are the things that make a good pet.
�Number one,� Smith says, �get it spayed or neutered. That curbs so many behaviors once they don�t have those hormones. Number two, get it into training.�
Also, make sure your pet has the kind of personality that matches yours. Even mutts take on the personality of the breeds that make up their canine soup. An elderly person who just wants a laid-back companion should probably not go for a sporting breed. There are plenty of books and sites � the American Kennel Club for one � that provide information about dogs and their traits. The same goes for cats, to a lesser degree.
Dona Baker is a professional dog trainer in New Bern who shared some advice on behavior modification for new pets.
�If a dog develops problem behaviors, it�s usually because the dog hasn�t had any guidance from the owner,� she said. �You take a canine and bring it into your home, you need to teach it what items are theirs. Just like children, you need to have rules, but you also need to teach them.
�They are not furry little humans,� she adds. �Some people don�t realize how much training is involved when you bring a dog home. It�s a huge commitment.
�People get frustrated with that. It�s not the dog�s fault, and they give up and take them to the shelter. Most of that is preventable.�
Baker agrees with Smith�s notions that dogs can be at their most trying about the time they reach their teens in dog years � that is, between nine and 24 months. �It takes about that much time for people to get frustrated with an untrained dog,� she said.
As to training, Baker said that using a harsh voice or hitting your dog is not the best way to go.
�You know the adage that you get more flies with honey? Well, behavior modification, positive reinforcement gets you farther,� she said.
Misbehaving dogs often are seeking attention, and the trick is to convince them that attention comes quickest when they obey.
As an example, she spoke of how she trains dogs not to jump. �I put my hand on the dog. I just use a (verbal) behavior marker that simply annoys. I dodge the dog. And then I teach the dog to get my attention: the moment that dog sits I praise the dog. I reward the dog.�
�The thing is to give your dog good manners,� she said. �Dog training is very easy. It�s a lot of fun. You just need someone who can teach you to train a dog.�
A number of classes are available: Baker offers both individual, in-your-home training and, for a lower price, group training in a classroom environment. Some pet stores, such as PetSmart, also offer classes. If money is a major problem, there are books and websites that offer advice. A quick search for �pet training� on YouTube, for instance, gives 2,840,000 results.
One interesting statewide program that is offered in this area is New Leash On Life.
Every eight weeks or so, Trinity Smith selects four dogs that are rough around the edge, but have potential. The dogs are then sent to the state prison on Alligator Road near Vanceboro.
There, a team of six inmates � four primary trainers and two assistants � work with the dogs for eight to 10 weeks, training them to become good house pets.
Brenda Malenga, a case worker at the prison, oversees the program, approving the trainers and assisting Pals for Paws, the agency that adopts the dogs out.
It�s a program that helps everyone: adopting owners, dogs and inmates, who receive certification in dog training and veterinary assistance for their work. No other prison in the state offers this certification.
Inmate Gary Clayton is a dog lover and inmate who has been working on the program in Vanceboro for about a year. He was transferred from the Caledonia program in order to receive his certification.
Clayton�s current dog is a beagle mix named Benny.
While Benny is kept in a kennel at night and during meal times, he spends all his other time with Clayton. He has his own doggy bowl and bed in Clayton�s cell.
�These guys are with these dogs seven days a week,� Malenga said, �rain or shine.�
Clayton says it�s a commitment.
�You have to love dogs,� Clayton said. �Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, you�re responsible for the dog. No matter the weather, you have to go outside. It has to be fed.� There�s also the training time and seeing that the dog receives ample socialization with inmates and staff.
�And you get dogs that are stubborn,� Malenga adds.
Clayton said: �You have to be a respectful person to have this job. It�s hard training a dog in here if you�re hot-headed.�
Bad trainers are carefully culled and new ones are eased into their new jobs. Four main trainers are kept working and have prime responsibility for their dogs; so much so, in fact, that even staff cannot touch their dogs if they don�t allow it.
The two training assistants are studying to take over the primary training task when another prisoner moves on to a minimum security prison or otherwise exits the program. New trainees may be suggested or advised against by inmates, but Malenga has the final say.
People who are serving time for animal cruelty, child abuse or pedophilia are not allowed in the program at all.
Professional trainers train the inmates in their job.
Those trainers become as close with each other as they do with the dogs.
�We live in the same (cell), we eat at the same table,� Clayton said. �We�re family.�
While the dogs are training, Pals for Paws is looking for those dogs� adopters. The prospective pets� photographs are put up on the organization�s website at palsforpaws.org (look for �NONL Dogs� on the left hand side). Interested persons may apply and are then interviewed by the rescue group.
When a possible family is found, they are brought to the prison where Malenga takes the dog to the front gate. There, at a picnic table, dog and hopeful master have about a half hour to visit.
If everything�s a go, the adopters come to the New Leash On Life graduation day. There they meet their dogs� trainers and take them home. Their adoption fee is $135, a price that includes spaying and microchip. They also get to see the next batch of dogs arriving for the program.
�That way you can see how wild they are when they come in,� Malenga said.
Clayton said that Bennie is one of the best dogs he has worked with. While he grows fond of his dogs, and they often become attached to him, it isn�t really hard to let them go. �I know it�s a business,� he said. �I know he�s going to go to a good home.�
Clayton has high praise for the program and its positive effects.
�I think it�s the best rehabilitation tool the state�s got,� he said. �I know I get more out of it than (the dogs) are. It�s done a lot for me. It gives me confidence. It teaches you respect for the dog. The dog respects you, and you respect the people you deal with.�
When he gets out, he knows the training he�s received will help him. �It helps you become a productive member of society when you leave. It shows you�ve done something.�
Just as important, perhaps, is what it does for him inside the prison. �It humanizes you,� he said, scratching Bennie�s ear. �It gives you a sense of home, they give us purpose.
�There�s nothing else in the world that doesn�t ask for anything, but will love you unconditionally. They don�t look at you and say, �You�re an inmate! You committed a crime!�
�I can wake up and feel I�m having a bad day, but when I get to the kennel and see Benny�� He trails off a moment before going on. �I may be missing my kids. But he�ll rub up against me in that certain way and it eases your pain.�
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Harvard began the season on a tear, winning its first six games
of the year. The Crimson opened the campaign with four wins
in two days. At the Harvard Invitational, Feb. 6-7, the team
cruised past Villanova, 16-2, and defeated Siena, 15-9, to kick off
2010. The following day, the Crimson downed the New York Athletic
Club, 10-8, and Iona, 11-8.
The Crimson extended its winning streak with a 15-14 victory over Iona and a 10-8 overtime win against Wagner at the Princeton Invitational, Feb. 20. Harvard suffered its first loss of the season to No. 5 Michigan before rebounding to pick up a 10-5 win over George Washington, Feb. 21.
Harvard returned to Princeton, N.J., to compete at the ECAC Championships, Feb. 27-28. The Crimson posted a 1-2 record at the tournament, falling to Marist and Bucknell and defeating Wagner.
Competing at the prestigious Elite Eight tournament, Harvard picked up a win but was tagged with two losses. In the opening day of competition, March 6, Harvard fell to Maryland and Indiana. The Crimson closed out the weekend with a thrilling 13-12 overtime victory over Bucknell, March 7.
The team then headed to California for its annual west coast trip, March 15-20. The swing through the Golden State included six games against some of the top teams in the nation. Harvard went 3-3 in the week. The Crimson opened the trip with a 7-4 win over Fresno Pacific before suffering a 12-4 loss to No. 15 UC-Davis, March 15. Harvard fell to No. 7 San Jose St. March 17, 13-7, before claiming its first win over a ranked opponent. The Crimson defeated No. 19 Cal-State East Bay, 15-11, March 19. The final day of games saw Harvard lose to No. 17 Pacific and earn a win over Cal-State Monterey Bay, March 20.
The Crimson played one last tune-up match, March 27, before kicking off the CWPA Northern Division portion of the schedule. Harvard fell to Marist, 10-8, to close out the non-conference slate with an 11-9 record.
Harvard opened up Northern Division play April 10 with a tough 15-8 road loss to No. 11 Hartwick. The Crimson quickly leveled its league record with a 7-6 overtime victory over Brown, April 14. Losses to the Hawks and Bears closed out the regular season for Harvard. The team owned a 12-12 overall mark and went 1-3 in the CWPA Northern Division.
The Crimson earned its second consecutive bid to the Eastern Championship, April 30-May 2, as it was awarded an at-large berth to the field by the selection committee. Harvard dropped all three contests at the tournament to end the season with a 12-15 record.
Sophomore Devan Kennifer led the team with 67 goals and was an All-Northern Division first team selection. She was also tabbed to the Eastern Championship All-Tournament second team. Classmate Monica Zdrojewski, an All-Northern Division first team honoree, ranked second on the squad in scoring with 34 tallies. Sophomore Ita Barton-Kettleborough was right behind with 33 scores while freshman Aisha Price netted 31 goals. Rookie Elise Molnar received All-Northern Division honorable mention after finding the back of the net on 26 occasions.
Between the posts, Laurel McCarthy saw most of the action as she blocked 158 shots on the season. The sophomore netminder owned a 9.07 goals-against average. Junior Shami Entenman made just three appearances at the goalie position, making eight saves on the year. Entenman made her first collegiate start between the pipes in the final game of the season against Maryland at the Eastern Championship, May 2.


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Fowler, Chacin lead Rockies to sweep of Padres
DENVER -- The Rockies completed an emphatic spring cleaning Sunday, sweeping the Padres out of Coors Field while simultaneously vanquishing the demons haunting them from their 98-loss campaign in 2012. They did it with their "Sunday lineup," banishing the bugaboo of the "bench" days, and they did it with balance. They coupled timely hitting with precision pitching and web-gem fielding for a 9-1 victory that gave them a five-game winning streak and left fans clamoring for more.
"It's nice to get off to a good start," manager Walt Weiss said in understated fashion. "Last year was a tough year. It's nice to put some of those demons behind us right away. We felt all spring like we have a good club. A lot of people may not have felt the same way on the outside, but we're very confident in the fact that we have a good club.
"Confidence is very important in this game. Sometimes it's fleeting, but it's just what the doctor ordered."
Opening Day starter Jhoulys Chacin replicated his 6 2/3 innings of one-run ball for back-to-back quality starts, and walked off the mound to a standing ovation from the 31,060 fans in attendance at Coors Field.
"It was really nice," Chacin said of the crowd's reaction to his pitching. "You work really hard for those moments. You give them good reason to come here and watch you pitch."
Chacin gave up six hits and struck out two while walking none, maintaining a 1.35 ERA and improving the rotation's ERA to 2.78. Chacin's Opening Day start was the Rockies' only loss, an extra-innings affair that unraveled a bit after he left the game. He looked even sharper Sunday, relying on his sinker-changeup combination, which proved an effective tandem in stifling the free-swinging Friars.
"Today I had better location with my pitches than last time," Chacin said. "Last time I got more power with my fastball. Today I was throwing sinkers. That was the plan today, especially with those guys. They swing early in the count, they're aggressive, so [catcher] Wilin [Rosario] and I tried to get the sinker down and let them hit it on the ground."
Chacin had a phenomenal ground ball to fly ball ratio, recording 14 outs on ground balls and only three on fly balls. For the most part, his hits were scattered, with no more than one an inning with the exception of the fourth frame, when he allowed three hits and one run. He rebounded to retire nine in a row starting with the last out of the fourth, until a seventh-inning single from Alexi Amarista on his 99th and final pitch of the day.
It shouldn't be surprising to see the Rockies hitting the ball, but it was a welcome change of pace to see Weiss' Sunday lineup command a game for the second time this season. The club was 5-22 on Sunday's in 2012, and carried a 17-game Sunday losing streak into August, partly as a result of resting veteran regulars on day games following night games.
The four bench players in the lineup Sunday entered the game hitting .353, went a combined 7-for-16 with two doubles, a triple, and three RBIs, which improved the quartet to .394 for the season. Jonathan Herrera led the assault with three hits, including a run-scoring triple in the eighth.
"They're all capable of that," Weiss said. "The guys produced. It's a good roster. We killed two birds with one stone. You give some guys a break, and you keep the other guys involved. Regardless of who we throw out there, it's a tough lineup."
The Rockies staked Chacin to an early lead, as Eric Young Jr. led off the first with a double to deep right field, then scored on Dexter Fowler's drive into the Rockies' right-field bullpen. It was Fowler's fourth homer of the year, and the first of his two extra-base hits on the afternoon.
"They jumped on some pitches early," Padres manager Bud Black said of the Rockies approach to starting pitcher Edinson Volquez. "Volky hung in there and only gave up one run after the first."
Carlos Gonzalez followed in the first with a double to right, and Reid Brignac plated him with a two-out double to center, giving the Rockies a 3-0 lead and offering Chacin the breathing room he needed to be comfortably aggressive with the Padres lineup.
"It's important," Gonzalez said of the strong start to the season. "All the things you work on in Spring Training, game situations, runners on base, move runners, bring the guy home. The long balls, they're going to come. We never look for home runs. We all know we can hit homers. Everybody in this clubhouse can do damage at the plate, but right now we're just trying to play smart. Score runs and try to take the lead early and get comfortable seeing pitches."
The Padres' lone rally was sparked by a two-out single to center from Jedd Gyorko. He advanced to second on a wild pitch, then scored on a double to left off the bat of Chris Denorfia.
The Rockies added insurance runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth -- including a three-run shot from Rosario in the seventh -- employing the relentless offensive attack that hitting coach Dante Bichette has instilled in the "Blake Street Bullies," as he calls the lineup.
"We're not surprised," Gonzalez said of the Rockies resurgence as the season starts. "We understand the way people think because of the way we finished last year. Last year was one of the worst years -- everybody understands that part. But we're really excited about this season. Early in Spring Training, [we knew] when we started playing the regular season in 2013, we were going to put [2012] in the past. Right now we're not thinking about last year, we're thinking about what's going on right now. We're doing a great job. We're winning ball games, and that's the most important thing."


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Crackdown cuts claims firms by 600
Almost 600 claims companies have left the industry in the last year amid a Government crackdown on standards.
The number of firms who are regulated to handle compensation claims - for example for personal injuries or mis-sold financial products, including PPI - has fallen from 2,693 in April 2013 to 2,097 in March 2014, according to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
The fall has come as the Government introduced tough new rules to prevent bad business practices as well as increasing regulation fees. It is introducing large new fines, of potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds, for companies which break the rules.
The number of claims management firms has fallen after a crackdown, new figures show
This follows previous reforms to tackle rogue firms, including a ban on companies offering cash and other incentives to consumers to bring claims and the banning of "referral fees" which used to be paid between no-win no-fee lawyers, claims firms and others for profitable claims.
Kevin Rousell, head of watchdog the Claims Management Regulation Unit, said: "We have made it very clear to businesses that we take a zero-tolerance approach to any malpractice or attempts to take advantage of victims of crime.
"Our changes have made a clear impact, for the benefit of consumers.
"But no regulator can ever stand still and we are going further. The new fines we are introducing this year will give us the power to impose tough sanctions on those firms that flout the rules with much more precision, power and proportionality than ever before."
The regulation unit, at the MoJ, is responsible for regulating companies which handle claims on behalf of people pursuing compensation for injuries, as well as other issues such as mis-sold financial products and services.
Justice Minister Lord Faulks said: "We have made major reforms to turn the tide on compensation culture, drive down insurance premiums and help honest people.
"What we have already seen is that this has had a significant impact on the amounts people are having to pay and the departure of a large number of claims companies will be welcomed by many."
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It was meant to be China's answer to the Nobel Peace Prize, a timely riposte to the honoring of jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波). But the winner of the first "Confucius Peace Prize" didn't even show up.
Instead, it was left to a scared-looking girl, whom organizers did not properly identify, to collect a stack of bills for the US$15,000 cash prize meant for former vice president Lien Chan (連戰).
Lien had won the prize for his efforts to improve relations between China and Taiwan.
"We believe that Mr Lien Chan, with his knowledge, dignity, and political wisdom, would not refuse peace, and he would not refuse this prize," Confucius Prize organizer Tan Changliu (譚長流) told a packed news conference in Beijing.
Lien has not commented publicly on the prize.
Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Lai Shin-yuan (賴幸媛) told lawmakers in Taipei that the government found the prize "amusing."
"As far as we know it is an unofficial prize. We don't plan to make any comment on it," she said. "But we do find it amusing."
Lien traveled to China in 2005 in his then capacity as chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
He has since visited China numerous times and had several meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤).
The prize, offered before more than 100 journalists in a cramped windowless conference room in a Beijing office block, was first suggested in an opinion piece in the Chinese tabloid the Global Times three weeks ago.
Tan said China's prize had nothing to do with the government.


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Amanda Sobhy is on the verge of her second straight Ramsay Cup and the 12th in program history (Gil Talbot).
HARTFORD, Conn. – Harvard sophomore Amanda Sobhy continued her impressive run with a pair of victories Saturday to advance to the College Squash Association Individual National Championship match for the second consecutive year.
Sobhy, who won last year's Ramsay Cup, cruised in both of her matches to earn another trip to the finals at 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon, this time against Trinity's Kanzy El Defrawy. The sophomore made quick work of Cornell's Danielle Letourneau, 11-1, 11-5, 11-3, in the quarterfinals, and she handled Penn's Yan Xin Tan, 11-5, 11-2, 11-5, in the semifinals to improve to 14-0 on the year.
Senior Laura Gemmell also reached the Ramsay Cup round of eight, but she fell to El Defraway, 11-1, 11-6, 10-12, 11-5, to have her Crimson career come to an end. The 2010 CSA Individual National Champion finishes her career with a 61-6 mark during his four years in Cambridge, including a 14-3 record this year.
In the first round consolation, freshman Michelle Gemmell earned a pair of victories to reach the finals. She bested Rachel Leizman of Princeton, 11-5, 9-11, 11-9, 11-2, in the quarterfinals before sweeping Cornell's Jaime Laird, 11-6, 11-5, 11-6. Gemmell will face Penn's Pia Trikha at noon Sunday in the bracket final.
Sophomore Haley Mendez also reached a championship match, winning two contests in the second round consolation to move on to face Catalina Pelaez of Trinity at 10:45 tomorrow for the title. She began the afternoon with an 11-7, 11-8, 11-3 triumph against Jesse Pacheco of Cornell, and Mendez toppled No. 7 seed Pam Chua of Stanford, 11-7, 11-9, 6-11, 5-11, 11-7.
Julianne Chu was the only member of the Crimson competing in the Holleran Cup, and she reached the quarterfinals with a victory on Friday; however, she fell to Dartmouth's Nina Scott, 11-8, 13-11, 11-13, 11-6, in the round of eight.


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A playboy drops his many girlfriends when he falls in love with a grounded angel.
At Budapest's venerable Palaffi Bank, Count Willie Palaffi is warned by his advisor, Herman "Whiskers" Rothbart, that the institution's largest depositors are tired of Willie's playboy lifestyle and inattention to business, and may start a run on the bank. Marika Szabo, Willie's secretary and one of his many girl friends, tells Herman that Willie is throwing a big costume party for his birthday the following week, and Herman insists that Anna Zador, a winsome young typist in the bank, be invited. At Willie's lavish party, the glamorous guests laugh when Anna arrives in a cheaply constructed angel costume. After a brief dance with Anna, whom he had never noticed during her six years with the bank, Willie sneaks upstairs to his study. Herman scolds Willie for being unmarried and advises him to find a virtuous woman. When Herman leaves, Willie dozes on the couch and has a dream: A real angel, Brigitta, appears in the room and tells Willie she has come from heaven to marry him. Literally walking on air, Willie and Brigitta go to Paris and are married. At Willie's Paris home, Brigitta announces her intention to return to heaven for the night, but Willie's kiss changes her mind. In the morning, Brigitta awakens to discover that she has lost her wings. Willie takes her shopping, and Brigitta offends the couturiers by refusing to wear anything with feathers or fur, but when Willie explains that she is really an angel, they hasten to assemble a suitable wardrobe. They then attend a harp concert, where they are interrupted by Willie's colleague Peter, who says that the bank's stockholders were alarmed by his elopement and have ordered an investigation of his new bride. Willie calls Herman and instructs him to arrange a banquet in Budapest to introduce Brigitta to the important depositors, such as the wealthy Baron Szigethy. At the banquet, Willie presents Brigitta, accompanied by a retinue of his former girl friends, who now live with them. Unfortunately, the ingenuous Brigitta inadvertently insults the guests with her honesty, and the evening erupts into chaos when she changes the seating arrangements at dinner to reflect her guests's secret alliances. When Brigitta innocently allows the baron to kiss her, Willie strikes him, and the baron vengefully calls a board meeting for the following morning. Later that night, Willie upbraids Brigitta for her honesty and walks out, saying he never wants to hear anything but lies. Hurt by Willie's rejection but willing to do anything to save his bank, Brigitta turns to Willie's old friend Peggy, who advises her in the art of deceit. Later, at a nightclub, Brigitta shows up on the baron's arm, dressed in black and lying to all the people she insulted before with world-weary sophistication. Willie is shocked by his wife's transformation, but the baron says he has made Brigitta his business partner and assures Willie that his bank is safe. Willie's dream becomes increasingly surreal as he sees Brigitta before him, singing in a number of exotic locations. Just then, Willie awakens as Herman, Peggy and Peter enter the room. Inspired by his dream, Willie announces that he has fallen in love, and he returns to the party and promptly proposes to Anna.
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With co-host Christine Meehan's move to New York, Alejandro Morales is on a search for a new partner for his monthly show Camp Tabu. Starting this Friday, Alejandro will test new co-pilots at each Camp Tabu show – in a Regis and Kelly style search for a co-host with the perfect chemistry. This week, Carolyn Busa will take the stage with Alejandro, and also close the show with a featured set. Future months' guest hosts include Erin Mulville, R. Eric Thomas, Jaime Fountaine, Hillary Rea, Val Temple, and Mary Radzinski.
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There has been some *drama* on the interwebs about the dumbing down of quilting (just Google it). I'm a little late to the party, but as far as I can tell, there are about three arguments...
1. The modern quilt movement is just a euphemism for sloppy quilt–making.
My response: Eff that. For reals. This actually reminds me of a story Chuck Csuri tells. Chuck is a celebrated artist who specializes in computer–generated art, and I had the good fortune to work with him in graduate school. In his office hangs a framed telegram from ARTFORUM magazine that reads something like "I can't imagine ARTFORUM magazine ever featuring art made on a computer."
Shortsighted, no? And we see this in a lot of creative endeavors -- the old guard not accepting something new and different. Isn't there room for everyone? Keep doing what makes you happy. Chuck did.
edited to add -- I found the telegram online!
2. Bloggers are generating overly simple quilts to be able to post more often.
My response: If it bothers you that much, don't read those blogs. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. I *wish* I could be as prolific as some of the bloggers I follow (obviously, as I am averaging one blog post per month I do not fall in this category, but see below**), simple quilts or not!
3. Pattern designers are bilking the naive public out of their hard–earned dollars by selling basic / historical designs.
My response: Then don't buy those patterns. When I first began quilting I bought a magazine with a snowball quilt on the cover. I had no idea the name of the block, or that I could search for it online and find the pattern for free. I saw a quilt I liked, I bought the pattern, I made it (learning something new to me) and grew a bit as a quilter. Seven dollars well spent.
**So in solidarity with the modern quilting movement, the quilters who are able to make a lot of simple quilts, and the newbies who need a little confidence boost by buying a few patterns -- here are two quilts I made last month for baby showers -- simple, made with love, and appreciated.
For my sister–in–law:
A panel surrounded by piano keys. This fabric was some that I raided from my sister's house last December. I ran out of time to do a label -- Chris, I need to add that!
For my cousin:
My coveted Prints Charming rockets fabric surrounded by squares, also from my stash. The border is also hoarded Prints Charming. And cute little Jaxon hands holding it up (he's gotten so tall!)
I made a rocket–shaped label...
...and need to add Isaiah's name now that he's been born!
And this might be why it took me awhile to quilt it! That's a 20 pound cat -- I'm not that strong!
And I haven't posted in a bit because work has been cra-zazy. But I did agree to help a student with a project for another class. If you forward to 1:20 you can see me and my large lecture "bernie-ing."
Only three weeks left and then we're off to Disney World! Any advice for visiting with an almost-5-year-old??
Keep it simple, stupid!
There has been some *drama* on the interwebs about the dumbing down of quilting (just Google it). I'm a little late to the party, but as far as I can tell, there are about three arguments...
18 comments:
- AnneMarie said...
LOVE the video! Oh, yeah, nice quilts too!
- PurlingPirate said...
Seriously?!?! This is an issue??! I can't seem to be able to sew. Anything. I would be thrilled if someone gave me a quilt that was simply two bed sheets sewn together. Anything made by hand, with love, for me, is AMAZING.
- beth said...
Love the border on that rockets quilt! Any vacation with a 5 year old requires lots of snacks and some little trinkets from the $1 store for travel time! ;)
- Anna Joy said...
I agree with everything you just said. Art/design is always changing, sometimes simple quilts are way better than overly complicated quilts because of two things - craftsmanship and layout, and when I was a novice, I bought a bunch of patterns which definitely helped me grow as a sewer/quilter. I still buy them especially if I don't feel like trying to figure out a pattern myself...and it's also about supporting the person who made the pattern!
And your quilts are all so adorable!!
- Paul said...
You go Beth!! I think I just found my next CMQG demo request...
- Anonymous said...
Great post Beth! Each to their own. The bst thing for me about Modern quilting is the beautiful bright colurs, and I try to work with as many as possible :-)
- Anonymous said...
You know what... if people are making quilts and it makes their hearts happy then who cares what anyone else thinks. People have been making simple quilts for a very long time and had no one to share them with. How lucky that we now have a whole blogging audience for our work.
The more quilts in the world the better! Vive le quilts.
- jac. said...
We just got back from Disney World last week. Now we didn't go with a 5 yr. old but I did learn a few tricks.
1. Go to guest services when you get there and you can ask for a button for almost anything for free. You can get your son a 1st time button, happy birthday, celebration, etc. They will write his name on it and it's a fun, free special souvenir to start the day off with.
2. Water is a must. We bought this water bottle fanny pack looking thing from meijers and extended it to the max and wore it across our shoulder and it was perfect. Most of the water fountain are pretty gross tasting so whenever you order food try and get a few free cups of ice water to drink with your meal and to refill your bottle.
3. speaking of ordering food - most places give you the option of fries or apple slices as you side dish. Choose the apple slices. In the hot weather the fried food will make you feel that more gross and the apples will keep you intestines happier.
4. Everyone does the inside rides/shows during the heat of the day, so we did those first with no lines.
5. The electric parade at Magic Kingdom is at 9pm. get your spot by 8:30 or you won't find a good spot and then it's pretty much followed by the fireworks which you also need a good spot for so plan ahead and ask the people at guest services the best spot to see both.
6. Everyone leaves the park right after the fireworks and it's miserable, hot, stinky...and kids are crying from being tired. Plan on staying for 30 minutes after the fireworks, ride one more ride or just sit in a restaurant and have a drink or dessert before heading out.
7. Toy story mania at Holloywood studio is way better that the toy story ride in Magic kingdom. Botrh are good, just rank different to me.
8. The tea cups are more fun than they look.
I could keep going but I'll stop before I over whlem you:). Have a great trip!
- Jackie said...
It's seriously hot down here. Get to the park early. Ride the rides that tend to have the long lines first. They won't be so bad when the park first opens. In the heat of the day spend some time in the pool or grab a nap. Go back in the evening. Everything really looks so much different at night.
- Sally said...
This bernie-ing is hilarious! Some of the students in your lecture class look a bit reluctant :-)
I haven't searched out any of the quilting debate...but I've seen several response posts. I think that crafters should do/make what makes them happy. I make things for me and blog for me...not really for others. I know that some bloggers/quilters have other commercial obligations, etc, and not sure how that feeds in.... but I think we should all "play nice".
- Molly said...
Amen, seriously amen. Be happy and make quilts.
Also have fun at Disney. So jealous.
- ~Michelle~ said...
Interesting take on your #1 - The modern quilt movement is just a euphemism for sloppy quilt–making. My only response to this is that I hope that the people who hold this view are exposed to something that is constructed beautifully that they might then define as "modern". I have seen some sloppy quilt-making, and don't think that should be the "voice" of modern quilting. There are better examples out there.
A side note - have you seen the Pixar Story documentary (it's on Netflix instant)? There's also a shorter, but slightly different, documentary on the Pixar Shorts DVD. Talk about art made on a computer!
I think with the pattern issue (which is probably my #1 issue) is that I just want some acknowledgment that almost none of these ideas are new. I take issue with the representation that a pattern is a 100% new idea. That is almost never the case - there's a lot of history in quilting that I think is being ignored. However, if you have a new/different idea on how to make the process easier, I can get behind that. I'm definitely a sucker for gadgets.
And finally... I'll be able to give you a review on Thursday of the new Star Wars attraction. I believe the WDW & DL versions are the same, and I'm getting to do a passholder preview on Wednesday (the DL one is opening later for some reason, while WDW is already open). Can't wait to get my geek on!
- MJ said...
My grandmother was my inspiration to quilt. She used polyester fabrics (because they were perceived as more exotic than cotton ~ the pioneers disliked cotton because they had to iron it) and often went to the Salvation Army to pick up fabrics for her quilt. It wasn't the fancy/coordinated and detailed quilts that I love but the reality the older generations faced was that they needed blankets and it was about recycling fabrics. With all our drive towards being artsy (and the vanities that can come with it), we tend to forget the quilts' simple history and the love, memories and labour/struggles incorporated within them. At the end of the day, this is why I love quilts. My grandma's quilts may not be aesthetically pretty (& being polyester they aren't that warm) and they wouldn't be publishable by today's standards, but I can't bear to get rid of them.
IMy comment reminds me of Dolly's song ~ just substitute "coat" with "quilt" see:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1zJzr-kWsI
PS: I love Dolly's book "Coat of Many Colours" as well... and I'm not a huge country/western fan...
- Cristin said...
Oh man, I had no clue there was this huge debate over QUILTS! Geez people!
I've only been quilting for 2.5 years and I still consider myself a beginner, but I have tried a few "more complicated" blocks and I find them tedious and way more time-consuming than I care to think about. After all, I enjoying just FINISHING a quilt every month or so... ok, more like every 2-3 months, but whatever. I like the simpler designs... lets the fun fabrics stand out. Maybe its just the age difference among quilters that gets everyone up in arms? Wow... dang. I'm floored.
BUT moving on - what lovely quilts you've gifted! well done ;-)
- Thimbleanna said...
Ohmygosh -- you've parted with the rocket fabric -- you're a braver soul than I am LOL. Have a wonderful time at Disney!
- deb said...
well said!!!! as a newbie who pretty much decided to quit because of mean people, its refreshing to hear that it does not have to be perfect!!!
- Beth said...
Wow, I am also a bit late to this talk becasue I havent really heard all this buzz!
- Beth said...
oops, last comment posted early!
I really can't beleive this is really an issure or debate! I love the challenge of something requiring more difficult peicing like hst or pebbling instead os tipple but I also love to make simple line quilts too!
For the car trip you should ge some new movies, some easy snacks like crackers and some fun new dollar store toys. Thats usually my go to for all our long car trips!
Oh, I love love love you Prints Charming quilt too! Sometimes a simple quilt pattern is needed to show off an awesome print!


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This week The Atlantic and APM's Marketplace announce a new joint reporting project, "American Futures," documenting life in small towns and cities across the country, spearheaded by James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic and a pilot, and his wife, the linguist and author Deborah Fallows. The couple has traveled extensively both abroad and in the U.S. with particular interest in small towns and areas that are not necessarily tourist destinations. Fallows spoke about the project at the Esri User Conference 2013 in San Diego in July.
For this project, they will travel from one small-town airport to the next in their propeller-driven Cirrus SR-22 airplane, spending time in towns and cities that are off the beaten path of most people. Kai Ryssdal, host and senior editor of Marketplace, and his team will report from various legs of the trip.


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Creating Cisco PIX 501 Firewall Graphs
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The Cisco PIX 501 Device Manager can generate five types of graphs:
- VPN Connection Graphs
- System Graphs
- Connection Graphs
- Miscellaneous Graphs
- Interface Graphs
To Create a Cisco PIX 501 Firewall Interface Graph:
- In a Web browser, navigate to: https://[your firewall management IP address]/
- You may receive a number of security certificate warnings. If you accept the certs and save them as "Trusted," you will avoid warnings in the future.
- Enter your User name and Password, and then click OK.
Note: Your browser must have Java enabled and allow pop-ups from your firewall management IP.
- In the Device Manager application tool bar, click the Monitoring icon.
- In the tree on the left, expand the Interface Graphs folder.
- Click inside.
- In the Available Graphs list box, select the data you want graphed. Click Add>>.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Spoken word performance is a powerful way for students to publish their work and build a variety of language arts skills. As a strategy connected to critical pedagogy, it provides students with a creative way to address a political issue important to them and advocate for change. Dale Allender, Associate Executive Director of NCTE, suggests, "To engage students in spoken word instruction, teachers can explore the West African griot tradition, participate in language study and language play, read widely in the political arena, and work on dramatic readings and analysis." Teachers should ask students to read books, articles, or short stories in which the griot is invoked or present in the text. For example, students might read the introduction of the Malian epic Sundiata and note the humorous, sometimes grandiose expressions from the griot as he begins to tell the tale of Sundiata, the legendary Malian king.
The experience of listening to, creating, and performing spoken word pieces involves an appreciation of dialect and semantics. Teachers should encourage students to analyze the different ways in which people use language on a regular basis. As an assignment, teachers can divide students into groups and send them to a variety of settings -- for example, a mall, an auction house, a barbershop or salon, and a courthouse. Students should record how people use language in these settings. They can note levels of formality, turn-taking, pitch, speed, figurative language, bilingualism, multilingualism, and code-switching. When they return to class, students then can compare notes. Students can also try out the expressions they heard through role play. Contrastive analysis is another, more formal and focused language study activity, through which students contrast various dialects of English in a given verbal expression.
To help students take on roles and perform effectively, teachers can engage students in language play activities such as reading Doctor Seuss stories aloud. Students should read in character, varying speeds and/or emphasis. They can do the same with nursery rhymes, jump-rope chants, or proverbs.
The spoken word tradition requires the performer to inform, enlighten,
or entertain an audience with a political message. In order to do this, students should read a variety of perspectives on contemporary and historic issues. For example, students should read a story in mainstream media outlet such as The New York Times. Then they should then look for information on the topic in alternative or ethnic publications such as The Nation, Exxtra, or Africana (http://africana.com). This kind of wide, comparative reading should be ongoing, but it can be focused for a specific assignment.
Spoken word in performance is a creative way for students to extend their work beyond the classroom and express their ideas to their community. Teachers can organize poetry slams or spoken word performances in their classroom, school, community centers, libraries, or bookstores. They can also videotape or audio-record student performances and stream them on a Web site or send them to another class, their school's Parent Teacher Organization, or the school board.
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In fact, ADSBexchange is proud to collaborate with C4ADS to support its mission to produce data-driven reporting to understand, prevent, and mitigate global conflict. Over the coming months, this partnership will yield more receivers in interesting and unusual global locations, ADSBexchange will have wider coverage and C4ADS will have more data to enhance their mission.
Although you can do it here, this is not the go-to site to track your grandmother's flight from Cincinnati to Chicago so you can pick her up from the airport. For that, I recommend radarbox24.com or flightaware.com.
ADS-B Exchange differs from typical flight tracking sites in two primary ways. First, all data sent in from the community is, in turn, made available back to the community through various archives and APIs. (www.adsbexchange.com/data). Best of all, for non-commercial use, all of this data is freely accessible to anyone!
We do ask that any non-commercial users, who are able, contribute a small amount to ensure the continuing existence of this site. Any commercial users are required to license the data from ADSBexchange, contact here for terms.
Processing petabytes of incoming data monthly, the storage and redistribution of this data, and the effort involved to add new features, does require significant technical infrastructure and effort.
Secondly, ADS-B Exchange does not participate in the "security theater" performed by most other flight tracking websites which do not share data on military or certain private aircraft. There are no FAA BARR, military, or other "filters" here.
By definition, ADS-B information is broadcast unencrypted over the air. Claims that this information is secret or "sensitive" do not hold water. Any member of the public with $100 and the ability to order parts from Amazon can receive this data. ADS-B Exchange does not expose anything that is not freely available via other methods, however the power of the network is realized when all participants' data is aggregated resulting in wide, global coverage.
We are always looking for new participants to expand our network. Be sure to check out the "how to feed" page.
Some other flight-tracking websites gladly accept your data, but only return to you a "filtered" map of traffic and offer no access to data APIs without charging large sums of money. On the other hand, ADS-B Exchange works for the hobbyist and endeavors to share as much data as possible, as widely as possible.
Some of the "big" flight tracking websites have reacted "negatively" to our approach, but this site was built for hobbyists, by hobbyists. We do not exist to serve Fortune 500 flight departments, airlines, governments, or large corporate interests. We exist to serve the aviation hobbyist/enthusiast first and foremost. If business interests find our data useful, they too are welcome to it (assuming they pay their way for usage). This is the exact opposite approach of most other tracking sites, and is our differentiator.
There are also pages with textual listings of "interesting" aircraft being tracked, as well as all military aircraft being tracked.