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Random Questions With: Ian MacKaye
You're listening to ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR and WNYC. I'm Ophira Eisenberg and we're live from Studio One in Washington D.C. Right now please welcome our VIP D.C. punk pioneer Ian MacKaye.
EISENBERG: Ian MacKaye.
IAN MACKAYE: Yes.
EISENBERG: Welcome.
MACKAYE: Thank you kindly.
EISENBERG: You're very well known, obviously, for the way that you ran your live performances. Very specific. All ages was very important. Low ticket price, no more than $7. And then it was also how you dealt with the behavior of the crowd. And I do a lot of live standup. I deal with the behavior of the crowd all the time, telling people not to ruin it. And I know that you also like the lights on.
MACKAYE: Yeah.
EISENBERG: The audience. I like them in darkness. But you like - why do you like them on the crowd?
MACKAYE: I want to know who I'm talking to.
EISENBERG: You want to see their eyes specifically.
MACKAYE: Of course.
EISENBERG: Hmm.
MACKAYE: Right now I'm in the band The Evens.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
MACKAYE: And whenever we play we always start by saying if you were not here, we would be practicing. Right? And that's just the truth of the matter. And I think, in fact, what's going on, the lights are masking the audience and it excuses them from actually having to participate. Now, this particular experience right now, if this audience was not here it would be very different.
EISENBERG: Absolutely.
MACKAYE: The energy of this show is coming from these people.
EISENBERG: Absolutely.
MACKAYE: You all are very funny and you're a good musician and you're a good puzzle guru or whatever.
MACKAYE: But whatever it is you - whatever you claim, you're good at it.
MACKAYE: But these people are actually making the show.
EISENBERG: Absolutely.
MACKAYE: You know? So my position is sort of like when we play I like the idea that they have a sense of being connected to what is actually happening. Now, in terms of the behavior stuff, I assume you are referring to - like, often we would encourage people to not fight.
EISENBERG: Sure.
MACKAYE: Or not jump on people's heads. I don't know why this is notable.
EISENBERG: Right.
MACKAYE: You know?
EISENBERG: Right.
MACKAYE: I mean, it's interesting to me because it would be like if I was having you over for dinner and someone starts stabbing you with a butter knife. I would encourage that person to stop, right?
MACKAYE: It just seemed obvious. It's an obvious thing.
EISENBERG: Right. The idea that people having fun in a way that hurts others would be not acceptable.
MACKAYE: I think the idea of people hurting each other is unacceptable.
EISENBERG: Yeah. I would...
MACKAYE: It's not a matter of fun, even. I think that they are a behavior of ritual, you know?
EISENBERG: Now, The Evens, you guys are a mellower sound than, say, Fugazi. But that means that you can also play in a lot of non-traditional places.
MACKAYE: It seemed to us that music had been sort of forced into really specific kinds of venues, largely bars, and which is fine. I mean, I'm not against bars or clubs, but at some point if you have a situation where you can't see a band because you're not of a certain age and that age is specific to being able to drink, then you've got to decide who's calling the shots.
Let me ask you a question. Is music important to you in your life?
EISENBERG: Me?
MACKAYE: Yeah.
EISENBERG: Oh, absolutely.
MACKAYE: OK. Did you listen to music when you were 16?
EISENBERG: I listened to music as far back as I can remember.
MACKAYE: Right. Was it important to you when you were a teenager?
EISENBERG: Very important.
MACKAYE: Right. So think about the amount of times that band - where'd you grown up in?
EISENBERG: Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
MACKAYE: OK. So.
MACKAYE: I've played there.
EISENBERG: Yeah, we - of course. We snuck into bars when we were 14.
MACKAYE: Right.
EISENBERG: Because that was the only choice.
MACKAYE: That's just insane.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
MACKAYE: It is insane that that industry is calling the shots about music. That's our position. So we think it's not shut down the bars; it's rather prove that music can exist anywhere and everywhere. And that way new ideas have an opportunity to actually develop.
EISENBERG: So we're going to talk more and we're going to put you in the puzzle hot seat a little later in the show but right now I'm going to ask you to help us out with this next round. So we're going to bring on a contestant. Welcome Andrew Howard.
MACKAYE: Hello.
EISENBERG: Now, Andrew, we chose you based on a story...
ANDREW HOWARD: Yes.
EISENBERG: ...that you told us about a presentation you made in school in the ninth grade.
HOWARD: Yes.
EISENBERG: Can you share with the class?
HOWARD: Why not?
EISENBERG: Yes, please.
HOWARD: I had to do a Tell Us About Yourself sort of thing on posterboard and I happened to read a lot of Guitar World magazine at the time. There just so happened to be this spread of, like, indie albums or something, like, from different decades. And I cut out the ones I really liked, including Fugazi's "Repeater." And I said in my ninth grade seriousness, these are the five albums that changed my life.
EISENBERG: So we know you're a big fan of Ian's music but we wanted to know how much you know about Ian. So before the show...
EISENBERG: Before the show we asked Ian a bunch of random questions with two possible answers. For instance, something like who's your favorite guitarist - Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton. And what you have to do is tell us how you think he answered. So with that one, for example, Ian, what was your answer?
MACKAYE: That would be Jimi Hendrix.
EISENBERG: Jimi Hendrix.
HOWARD: All right. That's - I would have picked that. Yes.
EISENBERG: You would've gone that way?
HOWARD: Yes. Yes.
EISENBERG: You're going to be just fine. What's Ian's old school media format of choice: vinyl records or cassette tapes?
HOWARD: I'd go with vinyl records.
EISENBERG: Ian, what do you think?
MACKAYE: You are correct, sir.
MACKAYE: I don't have a problem with cassette particularly but they were very much like the light bulb of the recording industry. They did break. They just broke yeah.
EISENBERG: They were just all plastic....
MACKAYE: Yeah.
EISENBERG: ...smushed in the end of cars.
MACKAYE: Very strange, very strange format but very popular for a while.
EISENBERG: Does Ian use an electric toothbrush or a manual toothbrush?
HOWARD: I'm guessing manual.
MACKAYE: You're correct, sir.
MACKAYE: I don't understand electric toothbrushes. I think it's crazy. I think that if you're going to brush your teeth, you should get to know your mouth.
MACKAYE: You should feel your mouth with your brush. I had a dentist who called me a dental missionary once.
EISENBERG: Really?
MACKAYE: Can I give you a piece of advice? Take care of your teeth. Don't be scared of the dentist. Think of it like a massage. Seriously. Your teeth - when your teeth go bad, your life is horrible.
MACKAYE: Take care of your teeth. That's all I can tell you.
EISENBERG: All we do is learn from you, Ian. That's all we do. All right. And finally, coffee or tea?
HOWARD: I'm going to go tea.
MACKAYE: You're correct, sir.
MACKAYE: I've never had a real taste for coffee.
EISENBERG: No?
MACKAYE: No, never.
EISENBERG: But you - you have tried it.
MACKAYE: Of course, yeah. I'm not against coffee.
EISENBERG: How did our contestant Andrew do in that?
ART CHUNG: Andrew, you did a very fine job peering into Ian's mind. You are moving on.
EISENBERG: This was one of my favorite rounds of all time. Andrew, you're going to be moving on to our Ask Me One More final round at the end of the show, and Ian, we are going to be putting you in the puzzle hot seat a little later. But right now, let's hear it for Andrew and Ian MacKaye.
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Freshman Riley Kessler has recorded 11 goals and 11 steals so far in her rookie season (photo courtesy Kevin Burns).
The Particulars
Collegiate Water Polo Association play continues this weekend for the Harvard women's water polo team. The Crimson heads to College Park, Md., to face Southern Division opponents George Washington and host Maryland, as well as CWPA member Indiana.
Last Time Out
Harvard went 1-2 in three CWPA games last weekend. Four different players found the back of the net multiple times in a 16-13 win over Bucknell Saturday. The victory followed an 11-5 defeat at the hands of Princeton earlier in the day. Against No. 6 Michigan Sunday, the Wolverines' lead grew bit by bit until a second-half push was just not enough to overcome the deficit, as the Crimson fell, 13-10.
About Harvard
The Crimson (14-11, 1-1 CWPA) enters the weekend holding second place in the CWPA Southern Division at 1-1. Harvard has won four of its last six games. A total of six Harvard players have posted double-digit figures in goals, assists and steals so far, led by junior co-captain Devan Kennifer with 61 goals, 17 assists and 70 steals. Shannon Purcell (26 g., 43 a., 28 s.), Monica Zdrojewski (51 g., 22 a., 37 s.) and Aisha Price (45 g., 20 a., 46 s.) are the only Crimson players to have posted at least 20 goals, assists and steals.
About George Washington
The Colonials (6-13, 0-1 CWPA) split two CWPA games Sunday, defeating host Bucknell, 11-9, and falling to No. 6 Michigan, 15-5. They have won three of their last five games dating to March 26. George Washington is 0-1 in the CWPA Southern Division, losing to Princeton, 11-4, March 5. Junior Megan Walker earned her first Southern Division Player of the Week award, while freshman Rachael Bentley claimed her second Rookie of the Week honor, the CWPA announced Wednesday.
Harvard is 15-1 all-time against the Colonials. The Crimson has won eight straight in the series dating to 2004. George Washington's only win in the series came in 2004, a one-goal, 7-6 victory.
About Indiana
No. 13 Indiana (19-11, 3-2 CWPA) has solidified the third place spot in the CWPA Western Division after splitting two conference games Saturday, defeating Bucknell, 16-7, and falling to Hartwick, 8-5. The Hoosiers have four players who have scored more than 40 goals, led by Shae Fournier's 46 tallies.
Indiana has never lost to Harvard, leading the all-time series, 9-0. The two teams have not met since 2009 when Indiana won, 9-7. Five of the Hoosiers' nine victories in the series have come by three goals or less.
About Maryland
The Terrapins (13-13, 0-0 CWPA) are receiving votes in this week's CWPA Top-20 poll after snapping a four-game losing streak with a 15-9 win over Bucknell Sunday. Maryland has yet to face a CWPA Southern Division opponent, but will face all four foes, including Harvard, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through 24 games, the Terrapins were led in scoring by Ally Beck with 38 scores.
Michigan has won six in a row against Harvard to lead the series, 14-3. Harvard's last win came in 2006 by a score of 8-7. Eleven of the teams' 17 meetings have been decided by three goals or less. The teams first met in 1990.
Setting The Mark
Saturday's 16-13 win over Bucknell gave Harvard its 14th win this season, topping the team's win total from each of the past four seasons. The Crimson finished 15-18 in 2006, and could top that mark with two wins in its final four regular season contests. The program record for wins in a season is 20, reached twice in 2000 and 2004.
Defensive Recognition
For the second week in a row the CWPA named a Harvard player as its Southern Division Defensive Player of the Week. Tuesday it was Devan Kennifer receiving the honors, following Shayna Price's award April 5. Kennifer earned the nod for grabbing seven steals over three games Saturday and Sunday.
Shannon Purcell, Monica Zdrojewski and Aisha Price have posted the best all-around numbers for Harvard as the only players with at least 20 goals, assists and steals this season. Purcell has recorded 26 scores, leads the team with 43 assists and has grabbed 28 takeaways. Zdrowjewski is second on the team with 51 tallies, has dished 22 assists and has 37 steals on the year. Price is third on the team in scoring with 45 goals, notched her 20th assist Sunday against Michigan, and is second on the Crimson with 46 steals.
Unbeaten at Blodgett
With a doubleheader sweep April 2, Harvard finished the 2011 season a perfect 7-0 at Blodgett Pool. The Crimson outscored visiting opponents, 119-41, reached double-digits in scoring each home game and only allowed 10 or more goals once, as Marist notched 12 scores in a double-overtime loss to Harvard.
Fab Five
This spring's freshman class has made quite a splash for Harvard this year, making significant contributions on both ends of the pool in the players' first collegiate season. Jelena Cyr, Christy DiSilvestro, Riley Kessler, Shayna Price and Jamie Williams have totaled 76 goals, 43 assists and 75 steals as a quintet, amounting to 28 percent of the Crimson's scoring this season, 26 percent of the team's takeaways and 25 percent of Harvard's assists.
Double It Up
Harvard's offense has been lighting up the scoreboard all season long, totaling 299 goals as a team and reaching double digits in scoring 16 times. The Crimson is 8-1 in games decided by 10 goals or more.
'D' Up
The Crimson upped the defensive effort against Connecticut College Sunday in holding its opponent under 10 goals for the 13th time this spring. Harvard is 12-1 when holding opponents to nine goals or less this season.
Devan Kennifer has been putting in effort on offense and defense this season, leading the team in both goals and steals with 61 scores and 70 takeaways. Her 61 tallies outdistance the nearest teammate by 10 and give her a goals per game average of 2.4, while her 70 steals are 24 better than teammate Aisha Price's 46 so far this season.
Receiving Votes
On three different occasions this season, the Crimson has received votes in the CWPA Top-20 poll, most recently in the March 16 poll as the team was in the midst of its seven-game West Coast swing.
Up Next
Harvard will face Brown for the third time this season, this time in a neutral site, non-conference game Wednesday in Norton, Mass.


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Beginning in the spring of 2005 the Honors Council began awarding the annual Neuwirth Kathwari Honors Program Award. The award is given in the name of the late Steven Neuwirth who helped establish the program in the late 1980s and served as its first director. The Neuwirth Kathwari Honors Program Award is given to recognize the honors student(s) who the Honors Council considers to have made the most important contribution to the Kathwari Honors Program over the academic year. Students may be self-nominated or be nominated by other honors students or members of the Honors Council. The student(s) will be recognized with a certificate and a monetary award at the annual Arts & Sciences Honors Convocation in the spring semester.


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Cameron University's Dr. Mike Estep, associate professor of computing and technology, has been recognized as a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), one of only 49 members honored in 2013. Estep is the first ACM member from an Oklahoma college or university to achieve Senior Member status since it was introduced in 2006.
ACM is the world's oldest and largest international educational and scientific computing society. The organization has more than 100,000 members worldwide, of which only 1,566 have received Senior Membership status. The Senior Member designation recognizes the top 25 percent of the top ACM Professional Members for their demonstrated excellence in the computing field and is emblematic of a high degree of professional competency.
Qualifications include five years continuous ACM Professional Membership, 10 years of professional experience, demonstrated performance that sets the member apart from peers through technical leadership in project/engineering, research, education or management; technical contributions including publication in refereed journals or conference proceedings, textbooks, successful product engineering and development, patents and standards; and professional contributions including service to professional societies, on review boards and committees, conference committees, education committees or standards committees.
Estep joined the Cameron faculty in 2007. He teaches numerous computing and technology courses, including human computer interaction and design, security architecture and design, and management information systems office applications/software. He holds a bachelor of arts in music education and a master of technology in computer science from Southeastern Oklahoma State University as well as education specialist and doctor of philosophy degrees in computing technology in education from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he has also completed post-doctoral work in information systems. Estep is currently pursuing a master of science in music technology from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Information Systems Education. In addition to his ACM membership, he is a full member of the Audio Engineering Society, a member of Technology Institute for Music Educators and Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the computing honors society.
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Discovered: September 10, 2013
Updated: September 16, 2013 9:00:52 PM
Type: Trojan
Systems Affected: Android
Android.Fakedefender.B is a Trojan horse for Android devices that displays fake security alerts in an attempt to convince the user to purchase an app in order to remove non-existent malware or security risks from the device.
Android package file
The Trojan may arrive as a package with the following characteristics:
Package name: com.avastmenow
Once installed, the application will display an icon with the text of PornHub.
Antivirus Protection Dates
- Initial Rapid Release version September 10, 2013 revision 005
- Latest Rapid Release version September 10, 2013 revision 021
- Initial Daily Certified version September 12, 2013 revision 001
- Latest Daily Certified version September 12, 2013 revision 001
- Initial Weekly Certified release date September 11, 2013
Click here for a more detailed description of Rapid Release and Daily Certified virus definitions.
Technical Description
Android package file
The Trojan may arrive as a package with the following characteristics:
Package name: com.avastmenow
When the Trojan is being installed, it requests permissions to perform the following actions:
- Start once the device has finished booting
- Change network connectivity state
- Access information about the WiFi state
- Open network connections
- Access information about the WiFi state
- Update device statistics
- Prevent processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
- Access information about networks
- Check the phone's current state
Once installed, the application will display an icon with the text of PornHub.
The Trojan displays fake security alerts in an attempt to convince the user to purchase an app in order to remove non-existent malware or security risks from the device.
The Trojan displays messages stating that the compromised device is infected by multiple threats, and asks the user to pay a fee using an online payment service in order to remove the threats.
The Trojan gathers the following information from the compromised device:
- Device name
- Device ID
It then sends the information to the the following remote location:
- [http://]tube8androidapp.net (18.104.22.168)
Symantec Security Response encourages all users and administrators to adhere to the following basic security "best practices":
- Use a firewall to block all incoming connections from the Internet to services that should not be publicly available. By default, you should deny all incoming connections and only allow services you explicitly want to offer to the outside world.
- Enforce a password policy. Complex passwords make it difficult to crack password files on compromised computers. This helps to prevent or limit damage when a computer is compromised.
- Ensure that programs and users of the computer use the lowest level of privileges necessary to complete a task. When prompted for a root or UAC password, ensure that the program asking for administration-level access is a legitimate application.
- Disable AutoPlay to prevent the automatic launching of executable files on network and removable drives, and disconnect the drives when not required. If write access is not required, enable read-only mode if the option is available.
- Turn off file sharing if not needed. If file sharing is required, use ACLs and password protection to limit access. Disable anonymous access to shared folders. Grant access only to user accounts with strong passwords to folders that must be shared.
- Turn off and remove unnecessary services. By default, many operating systems install auxiliary services that are not critical. These services are avenues of attack. If they are removed, threats have less avenues of attack.
- If a threat exploits one or more network services, disable, or block access to, those services until a patch is applied.
- Always keep your patch levels up-to-date, especially on computers that host public services and are accessible through the firewall, such as HTTP, FTP, mail, and DNS services.
- Configure your email server to block or remove email that contains file attachments that are commonly used to spread threats, such as .vbs, .bat, .exe, .pif and .scr files.
- Isolate compromised computers quickly to prevent threats from spreading further. Perform a forensic analysis and restore the computers using trusted media.
- Train employees not to open attachments unless they are expecting them. Also, do not execute software that is downloaded from the Internet unless it has been scanned for viruses. Simply visiting a compromised Web site can cause infection if certain browser vulnerabilities are not patched.
- If Bluetooth is not required for mobile devices, it should be turned off. If you require its use, ensure that the device's visibility is set to "Hidden" so that it cannot be scanned by other Bluetooth devices. If device pairing must be used, ensure that all devices are set to "Unauthorized", requiring authorization for each connection request. Do not accept applications that are unsigned or sent from unknown sources.
- For further information on the terms used in this document, please refer to the Security Response glossary.
You may have arrived at this page either because you have been alerted by your Symantec product about this risk, or you are concerned that your device has been affected by this risk.
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- Select the 90-Day free download.
- Select the Android icon to begin downloading the product.
- Select Install in order to accept the permissions that are being requested by the program.
- Next, select Open and then Agree & Launch.
Note: The first time the product runs, you will be required to enter a code that is displayed on the screen in order to activate the product. Enter the provided code and select Submit .
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Run a full system scan using Norton Mobile Security to remove this risk from the device. To do this, please perform the following actions:
- Navigate to the Anti-Malware tab.
- Select Scan Now.
Manual removal
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- Open the Google Android Menu.
- Go to the Settings icon and select Applications.
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- Select the application and select Uninstall.
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This lovely poem was translated and sent to me by a reader, Christa Weitbrecht. She gave me permission to share it with you all, as we enter a bright new year.
Recipe for a Happy New Year
by Katharina Elisabeth Goethe
(Mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Take twelve months;
Clean them thoroughly from bitterness, avarice, pedantery, and fear,
Cut each month into thirty or thirty-one equal parts,
So that this stock will last for a whole year.
Each part will be prepared separately
And arranged with one part of working and two parts of cheerfulness and good humour,
Then three big spoons heaped with optimism are added ,
As well as one small spoon of tolerance,
One grain of irony and a pinch of tactfulness.
Finally everything will be flavoured abundantly with lots of love.
It is recommended to adorn this dinner
with small bouquets of attentiveness
and serve it daily with serenity
and a cup of good revitalizing tea.
Thank you so much, Christa, and I raise my cup of good revitalizing tea to you all to wish you a wonderful and productive 2012!
(The clock photo was taken in the Waltham, MA clockworks museum.)


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I know I know, its been a while since my last post. I do apologise.. yes its the usual "sorry I've been busy" line I'm gonna throw at you ... but its true! I've been meaning to get a post out but everytime the thought of having to collate, review and edit pics etc was just too much, so I probably went and baked, ate or slept (seems all I've been doing lately).
So, enough whinging about nothing... Life's been great lately actually.. let me show you some seriously cool cake designs that have kept me on my toes :)
Lion King
One of my childhood favourites!! Hakuna Matata!!! ♥
The first I heard of this sweet little owl was when I was asked to make this cake.. I'm thinking to myself.. who is Hootabelle? What happened to good ol' Sesame Street? ... guess I'll be kept up to date when I have a bubba of my own.
Rubber Ducky
Funnily enough, this ducky coincided with the giant ducky that was on display in Sydney Harbour at the time...but that wasn't my inspiration for this cake.. it was the request of a bubble bath/rubber ducky loving toddler :)
Netherlands Soccer Fan
I dont really know anything about soccer, but I hope I did the team and their jersey justice!
All Stars Cake
This cake was super cool!! I was quite stressed out about it to be honest. Mainly thinking how am I going to balance the ball and more so the football on each tier of cake! After alot of engineering thoughts I managed to stabilise each tier.. hardly moved at all during delivery! Not to mention the whole thing was edible!
Sweet Girly
Loving the colours on this cake. There's only one word which comes to mind - "sweet"!
Police Hat CakeBefore you ask, yes it was for a real cop! And no, he didn't come in uniform to collect the cake... much to my sisters disappointment lol!
Hope everyone has been well and enjoyed the break. I know we're in February already and lots of events have passed but still wanna wish everyone a...


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Earlier this month we noted Ford's Drive One series ad featuring Chris (video below). Chris explained why he chose to buy the Ford F-150 pickup truck. In a mock press conference setting, Chris was asked why buying American was important to him. Chris responded: "I wasn't going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government. I was going to buy from a manufacturer that's standing on their own: win, lose, or draw. That's what America is about is taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you gotta pick yourself up and go back to work. Ford is that company for me."
Now comes word that Ford has killed the ad in the wake of media criticism and, reportedly, inquiries from the White House: "The ad, pulled in response to White House questions (and, presumably, carping from rival GM), threatened to rekindle the negative (if accurate) association just when the president wants credit for their positive results (GM and Chrysler are moving forward, making money and selling vehicles) and to distance himself from any public downside of his decision."
This story is, as they say, developing. At last word, Ford has restored the video to YouTube, explaining that its removal was part of a "planned rotation."
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Rep. Keith Ellison has written a letter to President Obama urging him to use diplomatic pressure to end Israel's blockade of Gaza. 50 members of the House have signed the letter, including Ellison's fellow Minnesotans Betty McCollum and James Oberstar.
The letter pays lip service to the security needs of Southern Israel, which had been subject to repeated attacks from Gaza — attacks which, to my knowledge, never prompted Ellison or his fellow leftists to write letters.
Ellison and his colleagues state:
We also sympathize deeply with the people of southern Israel who have suffered from abhorrent rocket and mortar attacks. We recognize that the Israeli government has imposed restrictions on Gaza out of a legitimate and keenly felt fear of continued terrorist action by Hamas and other militant groups. This concern must be addressed without resulting in the de facto collective punishment of the Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip. Truly, fulfilling the needs of civilians in Israel and Gaza are mutually reinforcing goals.
The first part of this passage is disingenuous and the last sentence is nonsense. The blockade is intended to prevent weapons and advanced electronic equipment from coming into Gaza. Israel permits humanitarian aid and medical supplies to enter. As Leo Rennert of the American Thinker points out:
Israel sends about 100 truckloads daily into Gaza, carrying food, medicines and other basic necessities. Plus it provides sufficient diesel fuel to meet Gaza's needs. Plus it has admitted hundreds of injured and sick Gazans into Israel where they receive the same dedicated, advanced medical care that Haitians receive in Israel's field hospital at Port-au-Prince.
In other words, Israel is striking a balance between its security concerns (which even Ellison says are legitimate) and the basic needs of Gazans. Ellison and the others also purport to strike that balance, but they fail to explain how Israel's security concerns would be met in the absence of the blockade.
The best they can do is to assert that "lifting these restrictions will give civilians in Gaza a tangible sense that diplomacy can be an effective tool for bettering their conditions." But there is no reason to believe that a "tangible sense that diplomacy can help Gazans better their conditions" will protect Southern Israel from attack. If Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza did not dissuade such attacks, Israel has no sound basis to believe that lifting the blockade will do the trick.
Lifting the blockade would, instead, lead to new demands by Israel's enemies and their supporters, including Ellison. This of course is what Ellison has in mind when he speaks of persuading Gazans of the utility of "diplomacy."
Unfortunately, the Gazans who threaten Israel's security believe in the utility of armed struggle, and this belief has nothing to do with the presence or absence of a blockade. That is why Israel should maintain the blockade.


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Rare is the occasion when a vintage house like the 1950s Dutch Colonial in California's Newport Beach presents its buyers with a blank slate inside. Scrubbed clean of earlier mistakes, dated trends, and anyone else's taste--all of which have a way of lingering like stale odors--the interior offered a blissfully fresh start. The 60-year-old exterior, meanwhile, imparted inimitable character and grace, hard-won with age. For the new owner--art teacher and painter Ellen Small--how to complete the house was obvious: Take cues from the original exterior to imbue the unfinished interior with charm. Ellen's husband, Cody, and their teenage daughter, Natalie, were confident her vision was spot-on.
"A designer had bought the home, gutted it, and then changed her mind about completing the remodeling," Ellen explains. "I knew I wanted to improve the exterior's traditional Dutch Colonial style and then continue it on the inside, staying true to the architecture." In addition, she wanted to make the home feel airy and open and to bring the outdoors in to fully enjoy the California lifestyle.
To implement her vision, Ellen turned to Los Angeles architectural designer Virgil W. McDowell. He is known for his residential work in the classical tradition, with a special emphasis on details and a deep respect for historical precedents.
"Virgil is responsible for the design and space planning, including all the beautiful custom moldings that give the house its special character," says Ellen. "He also determined the palette and decided details like the hardware." The only exceptions are the fabrics on some furnishings moved from the Smalls' previous home. "The living room sofa and toile chairs in front of the fireplace were pieces we already had," says Ellen. "Their fabrics were chosen by designer Hanna Skjonsby, who's my golf buddy."
"I push the architecture--I'm not a decorator," McDowell insists, "but when clients ask for a turnkey job, I always say yes." So while he sketched designs for the custom yellow-upholstered club chairs in the living room, he never lost focus on the bigger picture. One of his first tasks was to transform the facade into a truer representation of Dutch Colonial design.
"It was the worst house in the neighborhood," the designer recalls. "The roofline was all wrong. The eaves were maybe 6 feet higher than they are now. I corrected the proportions, and then feathered in the shingles to make it more authentic, like a home you would find in South Africa." He also added the front portico and designed the landscaping.
Indoors, he used wood for many surfaces, injecting other materials sparingly for impact. He replaced the all-brick fireplace wall with a simple wood mantel and frame for the brick firebox; he was careful not to overuse marble in the bathroom, confining it to accents. "Aside from the distinctive roofline, the most important trait of Dutch Colonial design is modesty and restraint," McDowell says. "These homes were usually built by the homeowners. They utilized natural, local materials because it was a vernacular architecture. That's the same philosophy we brought to this house."
That philosophy resonated deeply with Ellen. "The last thing we wanted to do was come into this neighborhood and create a McMansion," she says. "Simplicity was our goal." They kept the house's square footage to 3,000 feet, but enhanced its sense of privacy. "Even though the houses are very close together, there's no sense of being crowded," notes Ellen.
One reason is McDowell's decision to elevate the second story to take advantage of bay views. "Raising the ceilings wouldn't have accomplished anything," he explains. "We had to come in and raise the second-story floors, creating a crawl space between the downstairs ceiling and the upstairs floors." The result is Ellen's favorite feature of the home: "The treetops seem to be a part of our bedroom now," she says. "All of the windows and doors allow the ocean breezes to blow through. I love the fact that we can see the bay from our bedroom."
The breezy island feel is conveyed by materials such as the plank floors, sisal rugs, beadboard walls, and strié paint treatments. The living room's coffered wood-plank ceiling--a trait of Dutch Colonial design and the house's only extant feature from the 1950s--was painted a glossy white to bounce sunlight.The unusual selection of a mirror for the kitchen serves the same end: "It reflects the garden," explains McDowell. When he first suggested it, Ellen was unconvinced.
"I thought, 'Virgil--a mirror in the kitchen?' But I absolutely love it. It's one more way of bringing the outdoors in, which is what this house is about."
Photography: Joe Schmelzer
Produced by Andrea Caughey
Architectural designer; landscape designer: Virgil W. McDowell, Virgil W. McDowell Inc., 15304 Sunset Blvd., Suite 202, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272; 310/459-8838, virgilmcdowell.com.
Contractor: Lars-Erik Ljungh Builder, 332 Monte Vista, Costa Mesa, CA 92627; 949/375-4900 and 949/650-5333./p>
Siding: color achieved through natural aging.
Trim paint: custom.
Door paint ("Black Blue" #95): Farrow & Ball, 888/511-1121, farrow-ball.com.
Lighting: Charles Edwards, charlesedwards.com.
Topiaries: Roger's Gardens, 800/647-2356, rogersgardens.com.
The living room fireplace, bookcases, and millwork (except for the original 1950s ceiling) are all new.
Sofa; chairs by fireplace: custom.
Toile fabric: Old World Weavers, 212/355-7186.
Coffee table: Chao's Chinese Antiques, 888/771-5877, chaosantiques.com.
Yellow chair (custom): Virgil W. McDowell Inc., 310/459-8838.
Chair fabric: discontinued.
Bench; bench fabric; painting; antique chest: owner's collection.
Mirror over chest: antiqued mirrors, antiquedmirrors.com.
Bookcase lights (by Visual Comfort & Co.): through Circa Lighting, 877/762-2323, circalighting.com.
Wall paint ("Adam's Gold" #HC-18): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Ceiling and trim paint: custom.
Sisal rug: International Flooring, 310/859-0044.
Flowers: French Buckets, 800/652-9551, frenchbuckets.com.
An antique hutch in the dining room is filled with sea treasures that convey the house's easygoing attitude.
Table (owner's collection): refininshed by Virgil W. McDowell Inc., 310/459-8838.
Slipcovered chairs: owner's collection.
Chandeliers (hanging coach lamps): Charles Edwards, 011 44 207 736 8490, charlesedwards.com.
Hutch: Big Daddy's Antiques, bdantiques.com.
Glassware ("Graham"); flatware ("Black Bamboo"): Juliska, 888/414-8448, juliska.com.
Plates: Vietri, 919/245-4180, vietri.com.
Windows: design by Virgil W. McDowell, 310/459-8838.
Wall paint ("Adam's Gold" #HC-18): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
An antique mirror reflects the airy Dutch Colonial style that architectural designer Virgil W. McDowell brought to the kitchen.
Countertops: Calacatta marble.
Cabinetry (custom): designed by Virgil W. McDowell, 310/459-8838.
Fabrication: R&S Construction, 325/949-6663, and Lars-Erik Ljungh, 949/375-4900.
Sink: Blanco America Inc., 800/451-5782, blancoamerica.com.
Faucet: Rohl, 800/777-9762, rohlhome.com.
Range: Viking, 888/845-4641, vikingrange.com.
Mirror above range: antique.
Bar stools and fabric (custom); hutch (custom): Virgil W. McDowell, 310/459-8838.
Fruit pedestal: Zinc Café, 949/719-9462, zinccafe.com.
Cake stand: Anthropologie, 800/309-2500, anthropologie.com.
Paint: custom.
Flooring: walnut.
Backsplash: white subway tile.
McDowell designed the red hutch to work with the cabinetry--made by his company, VWM Inc.
Ellen painted the landscape above the Oly Studio bed in the master bedroom. White fabrics and Benjamin Moore blue-painted walls invite rest.
Bed ("Willa"): Oly, 775/336-2100, olystudio.com.
Bedding and throw pillows: Frette, 212/988-5221, frette.com.
Antique fabric pillow: owner's collection.
Area rug: International Flooring, 310/859-0044.
Lamps: Big Daddy Antiques, bdantiques.com.
Left nightstand; antique chest: Chao's Chinese Antiques, 888/771-5877, chaosantiques.com.
Right nightstand; painting (by Ellen Small): owner's collection.
Wall paint ("Woodlawn Blue" #HC-147): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Views are great from the bedroom's sitting area.
Upholstered sofa: owner's collection.
Ottoman (custom): design by Virgil W. McDowell Inc., 310/459-8838.
Side chairs at window: Charles Fradin Furniture, 323/930-1057, charlesfradinfurniture.com.
Chair fabric: Old World Weavers, 212/355-7186.
Pillows on side chairs: Lee Jofa, 800/453-3563.
McDowell's detailing extends to the bathroom's custom cabinetry.
Faucets ("Town," by Michael S Smith): Kallista, 888/452-5547, kallista.com.
Sinks: original to house.
Cabinetry: design and fabrication by Virgil W. McDowell, 310/459-8838.
Vanity countertop: Carrara marble.
Sconce: Circa Lighting, 877/762-2323.
A sitting area awaits at the top of the stairs.
Wing chair: design and fabrication by Virgil W. McDowell, 310/459-8838.
Chair fabric: Rogers & Goffigon, 203/532-8068.
Area rug; footstool; upholstered bench: owner's collection.
Chest: Chao's Chinese Antiques, 888/771-5877.
Lamps: Les Interieurs, 949/650-7603.
Sconces (by Visual Comfort & Co.): through Circa Lighting, 877/762-2323, circalighting.com.
Wall paint on wood paneling and trim paint ("Abingdon Putty" #HC-99); ceiling paint ("Lancaster Whitewash" #HC-174): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Homeowner Ellen Small and her Sheltie, Charlie, enjoy the livability of Dutch Colonial design.
Ellen Small responded with an enthusiastic yes when her friend Ann Cooper asked if she would help her start a faith-based preschool in Fiji's rural Vuni Kura village. That was after a mission trip there in 2007, when Ann saw the need. Both teachers with years of kindergarten experience (Ellen has taught art to elementary schoolchildren for 19 years), they "put together the basic necessities to start a school in a village with no electricity, no running water, but with one incredible asset--a woman, Anna, who was willing to take on the job of 'kinde teacher' for her village's children," says Ellen.
"My friend and I pooled our teaching and art supplies, age-appropriate books, puzzles, and other educational materials, along with toothbrushes and toothpaste. [Dental care was a major need.] We packed these into four giant suitcases and headed to Vuni Kura." The team transformed the village's winter harvest shed into a preschool (shown above). They painted ABCs and a mural on the walls--and set up a toothbrushing station outside.
In April 2008, they returned, but this time to help children in the impoverished village of Nawi. Ellen and Ann each had a teenage daughter in tow, and both of the 17-year-olds caught their mom's passion for helping. Fiji Kinde Project (fijikindeproject.com) is now a nonprofit organization.
Ellen in the classroom of the preschool.


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Dr. Jyotika Virmani is Executive Director of Planet and Environment at XPRIZE and the Executive Director for the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, to incentivize deep-sea technology to map the sea floor rapidly, accurately, and at a higher resolution. She joined XPRIZE in 2014 as the Technical Director for the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE, a competition advancing pH sensor development to measure ocean acidification. Before joining XPRIZE, Dr. Virmani served as the Associate Director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography and as a Senior Scientist at the UK Met Office.
She has a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the University of South Florida. As a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar, with partial funding from NASA, she earned a M.S. in Atmospheric Science from SUNY at Stony Brook. She also has a B.Sc. in Physics from Imperial College London and is an Associate of the Royal College of Science and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.
She serves on the Schmidt Marine Technology Partners Advisory Board, American Geophysical Union Centennial Steering Committee, National Ocean Exploration Forum Advisory Council, Catch the Next Wave Planning Committee, and the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System Federal Advisory Committee.
In her 'spare' time, she is producing a Science Fiction short film and writes a humorous and informative tropical storms blog.


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The Blog Azeroth Shared Topic this week is a touchy subject for me, I've always been a firm believer in asking forgiveness not permission but only when caught red handed in mischief. However, in order to write this, I've put my "big girl shoes" on and gritted my teeth. Here's hoping confession really is good for the soul, as suggested by Matty.
What is one thing, just one thing, you did that was pretty awful in Azeroth, that you wish you could get some kind of redemption or forgiveness for, or even just get off your chest?
First the extenuating circumstances leading to my crime.
Back in vanilla, my then guild got server firsts on everything after Razorgore (the Horde beat us to that one) but everything in the garden was far from rosy. Too many egos clashing, massive competition to top the damage metres and lots of cliques hidden amongst the raiding team. We Priests however all got on fairly well, communicating mostly through the Priest channel, the name of which we changed regularly to stop non-Priests from infiltrating. The biggest "fly" in our ointment was a former Priest rerolled Mage who thought that we "healers" existed to serve, nothing more and who set about orchestrating a campaign with the Guild leaders to prevent amongst other things healers rolling against dps alts on dungeon drops that no main wanted on our Molten Core/BWL fun runs. Things came to a head one BWL where our GM (who ruled with a rod of iron) was catnapping with the intention of logging later for AQ40. In his absence, the one healer who was an officer lead the raid and awarded Mish'undare to a fellow Priest. Now everyone's favourite Mage ignored the war raging in guildchat and took the step (too far) of phoning the GM at home who promptly erupted on-line and proceeded to read the riot act. DKP was threatened and even I (usually considered immune to the yelling) ended up on the receiving end of furious whispers because I had done nothing to stop the "crime".
The Priest Officer turned first to shadow before vanishing in the dead of night, having "mislaid" the guild bank and the rest of us were under scrutiny and house arrest by the rest of the guild. We in turn, reacted like the children we were currently being treated as. Rank 1 fortitude buffs on certain people and lots of "accidental" deaths on Nefarian during the Priest call topped the bill. However my sin came a bit later when still smarting from the fall out I happened to be spending a lazy afternoon on-line picking herbs in Felwood and chatting away to a range of people including a pvp hungry Horde Druid who had logged his Alliance alt for some ganking gossip. Our server had a fairly small community and the news of rebelling Priests had spread like wildfire, after all, no other guild wanted to be "infected" and so once we'd covered the latest who ganked who news we moved straight to the events of that BWL. Some how I found myself breaking my own cardinal rule and the identity of a certain Mage fell from my lips like cherry blossom petals from the tree. Naturally my Druid buddy excused himself from the conversation a few minutes later and logged off, I continued picking flowers and waited to see what happened next. It didn't take long, soon Mr Mage was complaining about being ganked by a 5 man group including a particular Druid. In all, he died five or six times before the cavalry reached him.
I didn't give his location but then I didn't need to, the Druid was perfectly capable of using the /who function but that doesn't mitigate my crime. As soon as I started typing I knew what would happen, after all Druids were in a similar boat to Priests, having to fight to be accepted as something other than healers and more importantly I knew that this particular Druid would be happy to avenge me.
In closing, I'm not in the slightly bit sorry that the Mage got ganked repeatedly and from that moment forward had a target painted on his back but I do regret the fact that I sunk to his level, that I got into bed with the Horde to get revenge.
Edit: Mr Harpy made me add this bit which is probably the worst part. We ended up being part of the rescue group because the guild had to stick together and all and despite said Druid emoting /love at me, when my GM charged him I had no choice but to play my part as a good little Alliance healer. In short, not only did I get a Guildmate ganked against my own "principles", but I played a starring role in the corpse camping of my Knight in shining armour because I didn't have the guts to admit that it was all my fault in case my DKP got wiped.
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
Two concerts: at 4:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m.
On Sunday, December 15, the Piedmont Chamber Singers will perform two free candlelight concerts in the 1788 Gemeinhaus at 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served in the Visitor Center throughout the evening. We invite you to join us and view Bethabara exhibits, enjoy mulled cider, and browse in the Bethabara Gift Shop.
PCS offers this concert as their end-of-year gift to the community. They have been performing holiday concerts at the Bethabara Gemeinhaus since 1979, missing only one year, 1989, when they had to cancel because of icy weather. It's a beautiful setting, one rich in history. Consecrated 5 months prior to George Washington's inauguration as President of the United States in April 1789, the space resonates with over 225 years of musical offerings by a people known for their love of music.
The Piedmont Chamber Singers will perform Christmas anthems as well as sing-along carols. The acoustics in the church are amazing, and to be in such a special space, filled with the sounds of the organ and choral performance, is truly a memorable experience.
Brother Johann Michael Graff brought the first organ to Bethabara from Bethlehem, PA in 1762. Only 9 years after the first settlers had arrived, Bethabara residents were still struggling to create a home in the wilderness of the Carolina backcountry and still dealing with the effects of the French & Indian War, which had yet to be resolved. Music was central to their lives, and it served as an expression of their communal beliefs.
With this concert Bethabara will begin to put the Park to bed for the winter season. The Park officially closes on December 11, when we shut our doors as we prepare to please and inspire you once more in the upcoming 2020 season.
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South Indian actresses always played a vital role in Hindi movies. WE should remember Ragini, Padmini, Vyajayantimala, Hema Malini, Rekha,Sridevi, Jayaprada who ruled Hindi film industry for many decades. In recent decades a new batch of south Indian actresses including Shilpa Shetty, Aishvarya Rai, Vidya Balan, Deepika Padukon, Genelia D'Souza, Asin and many others appeared in Hindi movies.
Please have a look at the brief history of the first batch of South Indian actresses in Hindi films at: South Indian Actresses in Hindi Movies
Now, the question is why the south Indian actors are not so popular in Hindi films? (There are some exceptions, like Rajani Kant, Kamal Hassan, Sunil Shetty etc.).


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I know we're all excited for the first installment of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy to come out in a few weeks, and we're all bouncing up and down in gleeful anticipation at the thought of getting to see Gandalf saunter into the Shire again, or to see Martin Freeman run around on hairy prsosethic feet. But I have the firm suspicion that there's no way The Hobbit, as good as it may be, could possibly live up to the epic adventure chronicled above in "The Fellowship of the Ringwraiths." Honestly, if the Ringwraiths didn't have this conversation after the Prancing Pony Inn incident, they certainly should have.
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Can't say I find much originality in RUN. It's basically a GS DRK with tanking ability and RDM buff spells. It's fun to play but it just feels like a mash-up rather than a unique class. GEO is pretty interesting and really feels like the FFXI equivalent to WoWs Shaman. I love Aldouin as a setting, but haven't really gotten into the Rieves or Skirmish yet. I applaud SE for trying new things but there's such a polyglot of unused and/or broken systems I wish they'd focus on things people enjoy instead of trying to reinvent the wheel every expansion/major update. When was the last time anyone played Brenner? Off the top of my head we have Expeditionary Force, Garrison, BCNM, KSNM, Gods, Kings, Dynamis cities, Dynamis out lands, Dynamis Dreamlands, ENMs, Assault, Salvage, Nyzul, NNI, Einherjar, Limbus, Sea Gods, ZNMs, Beseiged, Voidwatch, Abyssea, Campaign, Campaign Ops, Legion, Fields of Valor, Grounds of Valor, Clamming, Synergy, Chocobo Digging, Pankration, Chocobo Raising, Chocobo Racing, Moblin Maze Mongers, Rieves, Skirmish, and I'm sure I've missed a couple more. I wish they'd move away from game concept du jour and focus more on some core systems rather than this constant rebranding and reinvention.
Long story....well less long.I joined an LS maybe a month ago that another friend of mine recommended. He's a good dude, so I expected good results with this group. Obvious starter period went underway, so I went out of my way to prove I was a good and helpful member. I spent money in game, used items I was saving, and spent personal free time assisting members of this group in order to make a good name for myself. A few member had been making some relics, and were far along their final stages, so I loaned out my own saved currency for them to finish, in hopes that when I requested assistance in my own fields of advancement (my Ragnarok), it wouldn't be like pulling teeth. In total, I used 500k gil, all of my abysse KI pop items (which I refarmed and used again), voidwalker pops, and loaned out in total 3154 ( I kept track, contrary to popular belief) units of ancient currency, which totalled...22mil gil.The day I quit, I was kicked from the linkshell for telling everyone to fuck off for a stupid argument that evolved into bickering and insults that weren't necessary by any standard. I was told I could come back if I apologized to the shell for my behavior....it then dawned on me that once again, I was letting this piece of shit game run my life, and for all the time I spent on this game, I have gone fucking nowhere in terms of my own accomplishments. In a nutshell, I'm tired of getting used and abused and paying 13 buckd a month for it.That actual details go on much longer, I didn't wanna bore anyone with the details.
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16-year-old, 17-year-old shot at Orlando school
Teen shot during fight at Agape Christian Academy
ORLANDO, Fla. – A 16-year-old boy was shot in the hip and a 17-year-old boy was shot in the leg on Friday afternoon during a fight at an Orlando school, officials say.
The shooting occurred around 2 p.m. at Agape Christian Academy on Hiawassee Road near Silver Star Road.
Deputies said a group of kids gathered in the parking lot of the school when a fight ensued as part of an ongoing dispute. Multiple shots were fired and the shooter got into a car and left the scene, according to deputies.
"I saw people running in the window, people running," said first-grade student Edward, who saw the shooting unfold.
The boy was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
A second student was taken the hospital by his family after the shooting. The 17-year-old student was shot in the leg or ankle.
Deputies said one of the students shot was on the football team, which is still playing in Lakeland on Friday night.
No one has been taken into custody. Deputies said the shooter was not a student at the school and have not released information on the shooter's description.
"You have children here, who have nothing to do with this type of individual, we need community to help us get him off the street," said OCSO Cpt. Angelo Nieves.
Watch Local 6 News and stay with ClickOrlando.com for more on this story.
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Showcasing Tourism in the Northern Neck
Ripe with history and natural beauty, tourism comes naturally to Virginia's Northern Neck. As such, the Northern Neck News has launched a "Tourism" page as part of its newly redesigned and much-improved website. Here, our online readers can learn more about local attractions and we can help bring awareness to an industry on the move here in the 'Neck. In our initial launch, we have decided to feature the following attractions:
Menokin – Warsaw
Tour the ruins of Francis Lightfoot Lee's circa-1769 home near Warsaw. At Menokin, you will experience an 18th century house like never before – feel hand wrought nails; observe how joists, girders and posts fit together to create the framing; and look behind the interior woodwork to see the construction techniques of the 18th century artisans. You can also enjoy the property's scenic beauty by hiking on its trails to Cat Point Creek.
Historic Christ Church – Irvington
The first church constructed here, most likely a wood-framed structure, was built under the direction of John Carter and finished in 1670. In 1730, John's son Robert "King" Carter, colonial Virginia's most powerful planter, proposed to build a brick church here at his own expense, which the vestry of Christ Church Parish accepted. Finished in 1735, Christ Church was the most finely crafted Anglican parish church in all of colonial Virginia.
Morattico Waterfront Museum – Morattico
The Morattico Waterfront Museum is situated in the heart of the watermen's village on the north shore of the Rappahannock River with commanding views of the river, Lancaster Creek, and Mulberry Bay. The village takes its name from the Moraughtacund Indians of the Algonquin Nation encountered in the area by Captain John Smith in 1608.
Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge – Warsaw
Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is the newest of four refuges that comprise the Eastern Virginia Rivers National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Established in 1996, the goal of the Refuge is to protect 20,000 acres of wetlands and associated uplands along the River and its major tributaries.
Belle Mount Vineyards – Warsaw
The vineyard and winery is on the 243-acre estate once known as Belle Mount Plantation, not far from Warsaw, the county seat for Richmond County. The scenic vineyard setting, that includes a banquet hall and log cabins, overlooks the Rappahannock River and Cat Point Creek.


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Study Group Statutes
§ 1 Name and Legal Status
The Study Group shall carry "ESCMID" and "Study Group" in its name. The Study Group shall be subject to the laws of the country in which the hosting Society ESCMID has its registered office (Basel-Stadt, Switzerland). Since the Study Group itself is not a legal entity, it is subject to the statutes of ESCMID and governed by the same law as ESCMID. Therefore, the Study Group Statutes have to be in agreement with the Statutes of ESCMID and the ESCMID Operating Procedures for Study Groups. To ensure this, these statutes are identical for all ESCMID Study Groups. They may be complemented – but not substituted or superseded – by individual SG Bylaws.
§ 2 Objects of the Study Group
The Study Group shall devote itself to the promotion of research and education in diagnosis and therapy in its defined field(s) of expertise, which shall be published on the SG website. The Study Group shall strive to bring together persons who are active in the above mentioned fields in the European countries and beyond.
§ 3 Membership
Membership is, subject to the approval of the Study Group Executive Committee, open to all who are interested and working in fields covered by the Study Group. Interested persons from any country can participate in a Study Group. Study Group members must become members of ESCMID (any member category). There are no membership fees to the Study Group. In line with ESCMID discontinuing their corporate membership programme, corporate membership for companies is no longer available for Study Groups. Individuals employed by companies can still become ESCMID and/or Study Group Members as long as they do not appear as an official representative of their employer.
§ 4 Organisation
The Study Group will be organised by an Executive Committee and an Assembly of Members. Executive power of the Study Group is vested in the Executive Committee, which shall consist at least of the Chairperson, the Secretary and the Treasurer.
Nomination of candidates requires the candidate to approve the nomination and two Study Group members to support it. The selection of candidates to be considered for election to the Executive Committee shall be made by the membership. The election process is conducted by two Study Group members who are not members of the current Executive Committee.
The members of the Executive Committee shall be elected by simple majority from among the members of the Study Group. They will be elected for a term of two years and may be re-elected for a maximum of eight consecutive years. After this, at least four years must elapse before they are eligible for re-election, upon which the aforestated restrictions apply anew. Positions within the Executive Committee (minimally Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer) are decided on by the Executive Committee members themselves, after internal deliberations. Each position can be held by the same person for a maximum of four years.
A term starts and ends at the date of the Assembly of Members. Elected Executive Committee members have to be ESCMID members (any category) in good standing and professionally active at the time of assuming office. Temporary replacements may be made by the Executive Committee as necessary.
No more than one elected member of the Executive Committee shall come from the same country.
The Chairperson, the Secretary or the Treasurer shall represent the Study Group towards ESCMID and beyond and have executive powers within authorisation rendered by the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall adopt resolutions by the majority of its members; in case of a tie, the majority is decided by the Chairperson's casting vote. The Executive Committee may appoint subcommittees for specific purposes.
§ 5 Amendments to the Statutes and Bylaws
The ESCMID Scientific Affairs Officer has the right, upon legal advice and upon the advice of the ESCMID Executive Committee, to make any amendments to the Study Group Statutes that are necessary for registration of ESCMID or for recognition of its non-profit status by the tax authorities or otherwise in the interest of ESCMID.
The SG Executive Committee has the right, upon legal advice and upon the advice of the ESCMID Scientific Affairs Officer or the ESCMID Executive Committee, to enact Study Group Bylaws and make any amendments to the Study Group Bylaws that are necessary or otherwise in the interest of the Study Group. These Bylaws and its amendments must be approved afterwards by the SG Assembly of Members.
§ 6 Language
The language of the Study Group and its publications is English. The English version of the Statutes shall be determinative in all cases. The language for accounting and tax purposes is the language governing ESCMID.
§ 7 Operating Procedures for Study Groups
The operating rules of the Study Group are stated in the ESCMID Operating Procedures for Study Groups and are the responsibility of the ESCMID Scientific Affairs Officer. All activities of the Study Group must be in accordance with the ESCMID Operating Procedures for Study Groups and the ESCMID Statutes.
§ 8 Termination
If the Study Group has not covered the minimum activity as detailed in the ESCMID Operating Procedures for Study Groups, the Scientific Affairs Subcommittee may propose through the Scientific Affairs Officer to the ESCMID Executive Committee to terminate the Study Group.
In addition, Study Groups may be terminated either by a majority vote of members or by a decision of the ESCMID Executive Committee if there is a documented violation of the present operating procedures. In such cases, remaining funds from Study Groups are transferred to ESCMID.
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Park model builder Woodland Park Inc. will be holding its Open House Showcase Sept. 18-21 at its manufacturing headquarters in Middlebury, Ind.
According to a press release, the dates will coincide with the 5th Annual Elkhart County RV Open House, set to run Sept. 17-21 throughout the industry's manufacturing hub.
"We are excited to spend this time with all of our dealers and their staff and look forward to spending more personal time with all of them," said Daryle Lambright, North American sales manager.
Lambright said that Woodland Park would be showing models for both the Canadian and U.S. markets, including the "largest display of custom-built park models in Elkhart County."
He added, "We'll feature exciting new residential options in décor, furniture, appliances and wood finishes, touches that give Woodland Park homes that contemporary designer feel. The dealers will also have the opportunity to meet our staff, ask product questions and learn more about Woodland Park products and how they can thoroughly satisfy a dealer's clientele."
Hours for the open house are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Woodland Park will also be conducting sales training seminars for dealers on alternating schedules and a dealer's luncheon is slated for Sept. 18 at 11 a.m.


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1 head cauliflower, broken into florets
2 jalapenos, halved
8 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon celery seed
3 teaspoon black peppercorns
1 1/2 teaspoons caraway seeds
3 teaspoons yellow mustard seeds
1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seeds
1/2 teaspoon charnushka
3 cups water
2 cups white vinegar
1/3 cup pickling salt
Bring the water, vinegar and salt to a boil. Prep the lids/jars. Evenly divide all of the spices, peppers and garlic between 4 wide mouth pint jars. Add the cauliflower, packing it down and leaving 1/4 inch headroom.
Pour in the vinegar mixture, still leaving that 1/4 inch headroom. Close the jars and process for 10 minutes in a hot water bath. Allow to sit 1 week before eating.
Yield: 4 pints
Note: If you'd rather not process these pickles, you can make these into "refrigerator" pickles. Just let them come to room temperature and keep all of the jars in the refrigerator.
Note: A great source for canning information is the Blue Book guide to preserving. I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books and equipment I find useful.
My thoughts:I always find cauliflower to be oddly expensive so when some went to sale recently, I thought I'd finally do something I've been thinking about for a while: make cauliflower pickles! I am of course, a huge fan of anything pickled and while I've mostly had pickled cauliflower as part of a larger pickled dish like giardiniera, I thought they'd be fun to pickle on their own. I can just picture a pickle plate with these pretty white pickles, some dill pickled garlic, Old Bay zucchini pickles, hot pepper pickled asparagus and smokin' hot pickled okra. I also really enjoyed these with a wedge of really sharp cheddar as a late night snack.
One unexpected thing about these pickles is that after I took them out of the pot, there was a lot of "float"; the cauliflower was above about 2 inches of brine. The next morning however, they were as they are pictured there, evenly distributed in the brine just like they were before processing. I haven't had this happen before but I like it! The pickles would taste the same either way but the jars look prettier with the cauliflower spread out.


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Rays Bang Out 5-Game Winning Streak
Trivia Fact for the Night:
The first All-Star game television telecast took place on July, 11,1950.
The Good,The Bad,and The Ugly
The Good
The Rays have currently been on a very impressive Disney adventure. They are a combined 5-0 while visiting this "magical stadium. It is the only stadium besides San Diego's Petco( 3-0) where the Rays are undefeated. The Top honors tonight are a total Rays' team effort.. So with that in mind, let's start off with the Rays scoring machine in the bottom of the 6th inning.
Down 3-0 early, Rays catcher Dioner Navarro got thing started with a double to left field. Jason Barlett then reaches base on an infield single to second. The Rays Carl Crawford, who has now hit in 10 straight games to raise his average to .286, hit an RBI single to shallow centerfield to score Navarro.
B J Upton then walked to load the bases for the Rays. After a Carlos Pena strike out, Rays rookie Evan Longoria produced a 2-run RBI single to right to tie the score at 3-3.
Recent hero, rightfielder Eric Hinske then blasted a shot to right to score B J Upton and the Rays led 4-3. At this point, the Toronto starting pitcher Roy Halladay had thrown over 30 pitches for the inning.
Honorable mention "Good" guys:
*** Evan Longoria made a veteran throw from deep deep in the hole at third to get speedy Blue Jay Shannon Stewart. Longoria backhanded a ball on the back of the clay and threw a lazer to first to get Stewart for the second out of the game. It was a classic ESPN moment for the rookie.
** Speedy outfielder Carl Crawford recorded his 75th triple of his young career tonight. Carl hit a ball to deep centerfield that one-hopped to the wall. Crawford is one of only three people to ever have over 75 triples in his first 1,000 hits. Garry Templeton (76) and Lance Johnson (73) are the other members of this exclusive club.
* Rays closer Troy Percival is in a unqiue club right now. Percival all alone in 11th place in the All Time save category after posting his 3rd save of the year last night. Troy currently has 329 saves, one more than former Ray Roberto Hernandez. All of Percivals saves have come in the American League, second only to Yankee Mario Riveria (448 saves).
The Bad
The only "Bad" play I can come up with in this great game was the very veteran move and confidience of our Rookie at third.
Evan Longoria is not playing like a rookie in any sense of the word in the field. His throw from the back of third was a classic play that will be in the Rays end of the year highlight reel for sure. It caught a speedy Shannon Stewart by one stride for the out at first. It is a classic Ray moment, and hopefully one to get Rays fans excited for his long career with the club.
The Ugly
What was really ugly in this game was the Jays Matt Stairs second homer off starter Jason Hammel. Stairs hit a monster ball that clearly was out on initial contact. What made it more "ugly" was the fact he produced all 3 Blue Jays RBI's on his two blasts tonight.
His second homer did not only go deep to right centerfield, but it bounced out of Champion's stadium over the wall and the television production trucks in the parking lot.
Another "ugly" posted, but in as positive spin is the rsurgence of the Rays Bullpen pitchers. The Rays bullpen is currently number one in the majors with an impressive 2.61 ERAthrough 20 games. Last years bullpen ERA through 20 games was an unimpressive 6.11 ERA, and were ranked 29th in the majors.
Former Rays of the Night:
Everyone in Boston remembers the slow start of 2007 for Julio Lugo. He went in a early hitting funk and was an average shrtstop for the first half of the season. But this year, Lugo is hitting .338 and contributing nightly to the Red Sox success on the field. Julio went 2-3 last night with an RBI.
Lugo also contributed two great pivots in the two double plays executed by the Sox last night.
Up tonight is the Rays finale at the Disney complex this year.
They will take a 5 game winning streak at Chamion's stadium in the game against the Toronto Blue Jays. The Rays will have Andy Sonnanstine on the mound, The Blue Jays will counter with Dustin McGowan.
After tonight, the Rays will return to Tropicana Field for a 3 game homestand against the Boston Red Sox.


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EVERETT — The City Council agreed Wednesday to pay out $17,090 to settle a case involving the failure to provide training records for a parking-enforcement officer.
The payout stemmed from Jonathan Scott Bander's July 2010 request under Washington's Public Records Act for Everett Police Department records about a parking-enforcement officer's training. Although the department did supply numerous documents, Bander remained dissatisfied and sued the city in July 2011.
In September 2012, city employees discovered additional training records in an unmarked binder. Those documents were made available 789 days after Bander's original request.
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To be clear at the outset, your lead singer is in no danger of being replaced by Cantor, VirSyn's new voice-synthesis software. Desktop speech synthesis has not yet reached that level, although it may in the future. To quote Cantor's designer, Harry Gohs, "Keep in mind that Cantor was not built to replace humans in this field; its main goal is to open a new playing ground for composers and sound designers to explore the exciting new area of 'language sound systems.'" To that end, Cantor does not disappoint.
FIG. 1: VirSyn Cantor's Score editor is used for entering and editing notes and lyrics.
Cantor has a standalone application as well as VST and AU format plug-ins for Mac OS X and Windows XP. Support for RTAS and Propellerhead's ReWire is planned for a future release.
Speech synthesis is a complex process. You'll need a fast CPU for Cantor to "sing" multiple parts while other audio tracks and plug-ins are playing. For example, using Cantor standalone to sing four-part harmony on a 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor running Windows XP or a dual G5 2 GHz processor running Mac OS X gobbles up roughly 25 percent of the CPU.
Speech synthesis — first mechanical, then electro-mechanical, and finally digital — has fascinated humans for several hundred years. (For a survey of the field, see "Voices from the Machine" in the February 2004 issue of EM.) Until recently, attempts to synthesize the human voice have mostly been the province of academic researchers using high-end computer systems. But high-speed microprocessors have brought speech synthesis within reach of the desktop musician. Cantor, along with Yamaha's Vocaloid technology, is the first of what is sure to be a continuing flow of software for synthesized singing. (For a review of Zero-G's Vocaloid 1.02 Leon and Lola, see the August 2004 issue of EM.)
Cantor can sing eight monophonic parts, each with its own notes, lyrics, and voice. The notes and lyrics are entered in a piano-roll-style Score editor, in which you can also enter automation for various voice parameters. Voice programming involves two separate editors: Voice and Phoneme. Voice is a synthesizer for simulating the vocal cords and breath, and Phoneme is a morphing formant filter for generating phonemes, the basic building blocks of speech. Cantor converts lyrics, entered as text, to phonemes using a 120,000 word Pronouncing Dictionary provided by Carnegie Mellon University.
Cantor's user interface is divided into five pages: one for each of the three editors just described (Score, Voice, and Phoneme); an effects page (FX); and a mixer page (Mix). Each of Cantor's monophonic parts has its own editor settings as well as settings for three insert effects (Distortion, Delay/Echo, and Chorus). The mixer mixes the eight parts and controls the reverb-send level for each part. On the Mix page, you can specify a MIDI channel and note range for each part. Those apply when Cantor is played live or is used as a plug-in.
Cantor's Score editor is used to enter and edit notes and their associated lyrics (see Fig. 1). It contains tools for entering, selecting, moving, deleting, copying, and pasting notes in a familiar piano-roll display. Knobs along the left edge of the Score page control a variety of voice parameters including vibrato, brightness, balance (between voiced and unvoiced phonemes), gender bending, breathiness, and vibrato.
Score is arguably Cantor's most important page, but not its most elegant. All note manipulation must be done onscreen (there's no MIDI note entry), tools must be selected with the mouse (there are no key commands), and the display is not vertically resizable, which results in small text-entry fields and the potential for notes to get cluttered. Those issues aren't showstoppers, but some upgrading of the Score editor would be welcome.
Notes are entered by clicking on them with a pencil tool. Notes automatically get the one-syllable default lyric "La." Once a note is entered, you can click on its lyric with the pencil tool and type in text. You can enter polysyllabic words, but single syllables work best. You can follow a syllable with a hyphen to tell Cantor that the syllable is connected to the syllable in the next note. That gives you independent control of pitch and note-specific automation for each syllable, while still getting the correct phonemes from the Pronouncing Dictionary. You can optionally display and edit the phonemes that Cantor generates from your text. For a more creative approach, you can type in strings of phonemes and forget the text.
The smaller window below the piano-roll display is for editing note Velocity and for creating automation envelopes for some of the voice parameters previously mentioned. Envelopes are associated with individual notes, which gives you incredibly detailed control — for example, you can apply a different pitch contour to each note. Envelope editing is easy and intuitive.
Once you have entered notes and lyrics, you can either let Cantor play the sequence or trigger individual notes in the sequence from your MIDI keyboard or from a host application when Cantor is running as a plug-in.
If Cantor plays the sequence, then the sequenced pitches, Velocities, and lyrics will be used. If you trigger the notes from an external source (keyboard or host software), then the external source controls the pitch and Velocity. But the lyrics, and more importantly the note order, are still controlled by Cantor. You can step through the notes only in the order that they appear in Cantor's score. Aside from setting loop boundaries to control where the sequence starts and stops, you have no control over which notes are played. That inhibits Cantor's use as a live instrument to a certain degree, but it is not a fatal flaw. A future update will have MIDI control of note selection.
When Cantor is used as a plug-in, you can select between Automatic and Manual modes. In Manual mode, MIDI from the host is handled just as it is from a MIDI keyboard. In Automatic mode, Cantor plays the score as it does when it's running standalone, but the host controls playback tempo and position. A hybrid mode, in which the host controls tempo, position, pitch, and Velocity, would be a welcome addition.
Cantor's voice is controlled from the Voice and Phoneme pages, and each of Cantor's eight parts can have a different voice. You can think of the Voice page as the synthesizer's sound generator and the Phoneme page as its filter. The sound generator simulates breath and vocal cords. The filter simulates the filtering effect of the mouth, tongue, and nasal tract.
The sound generator uses a combination of additive synthesis and noise sculpting (see Fig. 2). It is used only for voiced sounds; the phoneme set has complete control of unvoiced sounds. (The division of speech between voiced and unvoiced sounds is more complicated than differentiating vowels from consonants, but that communicates the basic idea.) For voiced sounds, the additive synth controls the pitched component of the sound (vocal cords), whereas the noise synth controls the breath component (whisper). The Breath knob together with any Breath automation controls the mix of the two.
FIG. 2: Cantor's Voice editor uses additive synthesis (top) to simulate the vocal cords and filtered noise (bottom) to simulate breath.
The Voice page will be familiar to you if you have used any of VirSyn's synths. The top half of the display is for editing the levels of the partials in the additive waveform. Each partial represents a sine wave at a whole-number multiple of the fundamental frequency — the leftmost being the fundamental, the next being an octave higher (2x), the next being a fifth above the octave (3x), and so on. You can have as many as 256 partials, but as you go higher, they are controlled in groups. The first 32 (the most important) can be set individually, and as you move the mouse over the window, the targeted partial turns red. Although all partials are always displayed, a scrolling numerical allows you to control how many are produced — fewer partials means less computation.
The window below the Partials window is for entering the noise-transfer function, which is a fancy name for a spectrum filter applied to white noise. You draw in the shape of the filter, then use the Breath control on the Score page to determine the mix of filtered noise with the output of the additive synth.
Try to say something without moving your tongue or jaw, and you will immediately grasp the importance of Cantor's Phoneme page. You move your mouth to sculpt the sound of your vocal cords and breath into words. The mouth is an extremely complex filter.
FIG. 3: Cantor's Phoneme editor consists of two formant filters. Phonemes are produced by morphing from the top to the bottom filter.
Although complex, it takes only 39 filter pairs to sculpt all of the sounds needed to construct all of the words in the English language. (That number varies only slightly depending on the language and the speech-theory being used.) Two filters are used to reproduce the change that occurs for some phonemes — for example, the "ow" in "cow."
Setting up phoneme filters for intelligible speech is not a job for the faint-hearted. Fortunately, you do not have to take on that task. Cantor comes with six factory sets of English phonemes, and sets for other languages are planned for a future release.
Fig. 3 shows Cantor's Phoneme List. If you choose one of the 16 user sets, which are filled with Factory Set 1 by default, you can edit the filters for each phoneme. A context menu allows you to copy and paste filters between phonemes, and you can produce some interesting language mutations by modifying the user phoneme sets. You can also enter phonemes directly in the score to produce vocal sequences that are not words. (If you plan to do that, printing out a screen shot of the phoneme list is a good idea.)
Cantor's three insert effects can have different settings (including off) for each part. Distortion has soft, tube, and tape models; Delay/Echo can be mono, stereo, or ping-pong; and Chorus has phasing and flanging. Reverb is global with an individual send for each part.
Cantor saves two kinds of files: projects and presets. Projects contain all information on all pages for all parts — in other words, a complete Cantor setup. Presets contain all voice settings for a single part, meaning all settings from the Voice, Phoneme, and FX pages, except for the reverb settings. That makes it possible to exchange voices between parts without affecting the notes or lyrics. Cantor ships with 29 voice presets covering everything from male and female singing voices to extreme effects (see Web Clip 1).
Some Cantor preset voices are considerably more intelligible than others. You can get understandable lyrics out of Cantor, but as mentioned, that is probably not it's best use. It truly shines at producing a wide range of intriguing vocal sounds, which, used judiciously, can enliven a mix. You can download a save-disabled demo of Cantor as well as a variety of sound clips from VirSyn's Web site.
Minimum System Requirements
Cantor 1.02
MAC: G4/400 MHz; 256 MB RAM; Mac OS 10.2
PC: Pentium III/600 MHz; 256 MB RAM; Windows XP
Cantor 1.02 (Mac/Win)
software instrument
PROS: Powerful and flexible additive-synthesis and formant-filter-morphing engine. Massive text-to-phoneme dictionary. Built-in song sequencer.
CONS: Note and lyric entry scheme is cumbersome. Limited ability to select lyrics with MIDI. No MIDI note entry.
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