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What to Know
- President Obama joined civil rights leaders to open the newest Smithsonian Saturday, ringing a historic bell as the museum opened.
- Timed entry passes for the opening weekend are no longer available, but visitors can enjoy a free music festival without tickets.
- Be prepared for road closures, large crowds and heightened security in the area surrounding the National Mall.
"Phenomenal." "Hopeful." "Exhilarating." Visitors were enthralled by their trips through the new National Museum of African American History and Culture on its opening day, describing the experience as inspiring, cathartic and phenomenal -- a word that came up again and again.
New groups of eager visitors are lining up outside the newest Smithsonian on Sunday, sharing their thoughts on what they're most looking forward to seeing now that Washington, D.C.'s highly anticipated black history museum has opened its doors after more than 100 years in the making.
"I think just being able to look at all the African American history in one set location, looking at Prince's jacket, Chuck Berry's Cadillac; I'm just excited about the whole thing," said Jennifer Kirby, who traveled with her family from Atlanta.
"I'm just going to say Emmett Till's original casket, because I lived through that era," said visitor Vivian Favors.
With thousands of items occupying 85,000 square feet of exhibition space, the new Smithsonian is chronicling the complex relationship between the United States and a people it once enslaved, and telling the story of those who worked to make the necessary changes to bring the country to where it is today.
Alexis Lennon, of Takoma Park, said she thought the museum did an "amazing job of telling our story."
"It was life-changing for me to finally have a place that embodies African American culture," she said Sunday.
Lifelong D.C resident Denise Evans said she jumped at the opportunity to visit the museum when a friend who couldn't make it offered her a ticket Sunday morning.
Evans, 49, said the museum was "sort of heartbreaking," but also interesting and uplifting.
"Unfortunately so many things are repeating itself and so it was a little bit heartbreaking to see that as far as we've come we are beginning to repeat those same patterns of discrimination," Evans said. "But I think because we can see the path from it then we can sort of being ourselves out of it again."
Her favorite exhibit highlighted African American fashion.
"Just really being able to see that we have our own style, that we can own who we are and that we really do have an impact on much of what the whole does... so much of that has been quieted, and so seeing it on display it's like, 'OK, right, we are pretty cool and we are creative and we are gifted,'" she said.
The museum is offering extended hours for its grand opening weekend.
Sunday, the museum will stay open from 7 a.m. to midnight, but passes were snapped up almost as soon as they became available. Although admission is free, the museum is using a timed pass system to control crowds and alleviate wait times.
Despite the lengthy lines both outside and inside the museum, visitors said the timed entry pass system is efficient, keeping wait times down.
However, anyone heading toward the museum this weekend should be prepared for large crowds and heightened security.
Freedom Sounds Festival Open to Public
The museum's outdoor music festival is open to the public on the Washington Monument grounds, with no tickets required. The festival, Freedom Sounds, is celebrating the talent and creativity of African-American artists, with jazz, R&B, gospel and hip-hop artists throughout the weekend.
The Roots, Living Colour and Public Enemy headlined Saturday night. Performances continue throughout the day Sunday, with another main-stage concert scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. A surprise special guest is slated to perform.
People gathering and dancing at the Freedom Sounds Drum Circle #APeoplesJourney #NMAAHC pic.twitter.com/3VTF5gRqNa— Stacy Schoonover (@StacySchoonover) September 25, 2016
Lylie Fisher and Meghan Collier are "enjoying sitting under a tree, with great food, great friends and fabulous music." #NMAAHC pic.twitter.com/FVy8nLOA3p— Stacy Schoonover (@StacySchoonover) September 25, 2016
After 'Incredible' Experience, Museum Goers Plan to Return
Lennon and Andres Rossy toured the museum for more than three hours Sunday, but said they would need much more time to see everything inside.
"You definitely can't do it all in one day," said Rossy, of Takoma Park. "So we'll be back, but I had a great time."
Margaret Baxter and her husband drove up from their home in Durham, North Carolina to visit the museum with Margaret's 71-year-old grandmother.
As a fan of history, Baxter said she enjoyed the exhibits on slavery and segregation in America.
"It would probably take you two to three days to see every single thing, but it's so well put together," she said. "It's incredible."
Her grandmother, D.C. resident Marthena Baxter, said she enjoyed seeing the exhibits highlighting "entertainers from back when," like Chuck Berry, Barry White and James Brown.
Marthena Baxter said she plans on returning to the museum after crowds die down to "really take everything in."
"The whole place was amazing, absolutely amazing," she said. "I will be back."
Saturday's Dedication Ceremony: "By Understanding this Story, It Binds Us Together"
Centuries of struggles and strife, decades of planning and pain, and years of hoping for a place that African-American history can call home culminated Saturday morning as President Barack Obama officially dedicated the museum.
Obama opened the museum Saturday with the ringing of the historic Freedom Bell from the First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, which was organized in 1776 by slaves.
Obama said the new national museum will help to tell a richer and fuller story of the country.
"It helps us better understand the lives, yes, of a president, but also the slave. The industrialist, but also the worker. The teacher or the cook, alongside the story of the statesman," he said. "By understanding this story, it binds us together and reaffirms we are all Americans."
He continued his message of the inclusion of African Americans in American history, calling it "an act of patriotism to understand where we've been."
"We're not a burden on America or a stain on America or an object of shame and pity for America. We are America. And that's what this museum explains," Obama said. "Hopefully, this museum makes us talk to each other and listen to each other and see each other."
The dedication featured speeches by Obama, civil rights leader U.S. Rep. John Lewis, former President George W. Bush and the museum's founding director, Lonnie Bunch. It also featured rousing musical tributes with a local flair, including Howard University's "Showtime" marching band and an a capella presentation by a choir from D.C.'s Duke Ellington School for the Arts.
The museum, the 19th and newest of the Smithsonians, opened to the public following the dedication ceremony.
"It's a historic event," said Leslie Howard, who traveled from New Orleans to attend the dedication. "And the fact that we have our first black president to dedicate it shows you how God works."
"We want to make sure we reinforce the commitment to preserve African-American history," said Glen Yonkers, Jr., a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, which was founded at Howard University in Washington. Members marched to the mall for the dedication Saturday.
"Our fraternity was built for African-American men to have a place to share our history and stories," said fraternity brother Jude Collins. "This was the only place to be today."
Seeing the dedication was a family event for many; Alicia Frayer came from Charleston with her husband and three daughters to attend. "I'm inspired by history," she said. "It's a major part of our history, and the fact that our history and culture are here for everyone to see is so important."
Many celebrities came to the museum's dedication as well, including Oprah Winfrey, who has donated more then $20 million to the museum.
The museum tweeted a video of Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae arriving. Robert De Niro, Angela Bassett, Will Smith and Patti LaBelle were among those presenting during the dedication.
Lexie Schapitl contributed to this report.
For more information about the museum, check NBC Washington's full coverage here.


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Late Night Computing: October 5, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012. Did you already know that it's the weekend? Let's celebrate with Late Night Computing.
Friday, October 5, 2012. Did you already know that it's the weekend? Let's celebrate with Late Night Computing.
Ten years ago, I would have never thought I'd ever read books on anything else than paper. Amazon with its Kindle changed all of that. Trying to find older books can sometimes be a giant pain in the rear end though. I've been trying to hunt down an eBook format of a book named Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka from 1985 to no avail, which explores the United States after a limited nuclear strike alters the course of the nation. Thankfully I was able to get my hands on a printed edition, but attempting to track it down proved...difficult. The future has spoiled us all.
News bits:
- Medal of Honor Warfighter fans: remember that the open beta begins today (Friday, October 5) exclusively on the Xbox 360! Get an early taste of the game, and let us know your impressions. [via Shacknews]
- Video game critics weild more power over sales than is often realized. Ben Kuchera takes a look with a video game research group, guided by the "power of data". [via Penny Arcade Report]
- Will the common classroom textbook go digital? One Washington education official wants to make the change immediately. [via NPR]
- The U.S. Air Force declassified blueprints for a flying saucer vertical take off and landing (VTOL) vehicle. I want to believe? [via Wired]
- Tune in tomorrow night, October 6, 2012, for the Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium between Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly. "It's why Al Gore invented the Internet." [via The Rumble 2012]
Chatty posts of the moment.
Make sure you log-in and check your filters if you can't see the following:
- "Planetside 2 TOTAL WIPE EDITION. Anyone played on Esamir yet? Snow terrain is going to be pretty cool. Good show last night, loved splitting the squads and taking Rashnu. Baker Squad splitting off and cutting Rashnu away from the NC was pretty sweet. That alone screwed up the NC influence there. On a side note, don't forget to roll your NC characters!" [by MercFox1]
- "PS4 will have 4K support I can taste it seems like a sure thing. Recently Sony other push seems they have starting pimping 4K I really hope these screens and the PS4 will make this tech and vision blow our minds with > rez and > real estate for our games next round. " [by valcan_s]
Nightly file.
Gimbal demo 1.0. "Experience the unique Carrier Command: Gaea Mission gameplay by leading two demo-exclusive assaults on the islands of Thermopylae and Granite. Jump into the adrenaline-pumping combat by flying Mantas, driving Walruses and using tactics to guide your units". Download the free demo here.
Need for Speed Most Wanted The Most Wanted List trailer:
"Spread throughout Fairhaven are 10 of the most elite racers in the world, The Most Wanted List. They drive the best cars, win every race, and are always on the run from the cops."
See how your choices stack up against the rest of the player base in the third episode of The Walking Dead with a statistics trailer, visit the rather messy Rengot Village with a RaiderZ trailer, explore the Deep Ocean expansion for Anno 2070, view some opening credits for 007 Legends, and check out new screenshots for New Super Mario Bros. 2, World of Tanks, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Paper Mario Sticker Star, Pokemon Black and White Version 2, Rambo: The Videogame, and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.
Tyler J. Smith posted a new article, Late Night Computing: October 5, 2012.
Friday, October 5, 2012. Did you already know that it's the weekend? Let's celebrate with Late Night Computing.
Yup! He wrote that after Warday, which is no less creepy. Though in a different way. It's the same format as World War Z. The two authors place themselves in the fall out of a singular nuclear war with the Soviets. They then set out in a journey to the different regions of a shattered US and interview people about what their lives are like. It's dated for sure, but it is....compelling.

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Getting to Cauca (Colombia) via Waltham
A group of ten Merrimack College students, accompanied by Lecturer Mela Heestand and Prof. Saenz de Viguera, from World Languages and Cultures, attended a presentation by Colombian indigenous activist Ligna Pulido at Brandeis University, to countercelebrate Columbus's Day.
Ligna presented a perspective on the Colombian conflict seldomly heard in the United States mass media, and informed the audience of the struggles that the indigenous populations of the Cauca region have endured in order to maintain and affirm their autonomy and self-organization against the militarization of their territories by the Army and the FARC Guerrillas. Her testimonio and unique perspective reached and enlightened everyone in the group, opening our eyes to brutal realities that are too far away from our daily experiences, but that will hopefully remain with us from now on.


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It's good to be Cam Newton.
The Auburn quarterback, who has already locked up several of college football's top individual honors - including the Heisman Trophy and Davey O'Brien awards - is adding another piece of hardware to his collection, the AP Player of the Year award, reports CNNSI.
Newton, just under a year removed from junior college, guided his Auburn Tigers to an undefeated season, an SEC championship and a spot in the national title game on the strength of a record-breaking season. The signal called became the first player in SEC history to pass for more than 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 or more yards in the same season. He threw 28 touchdowns, ran for another 20 and caught one for good measure.
He received 51 of the 60 votes from the members of the AP football poll panel. Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore picked up three votes, Stanford quarterbacn and Heisman runner-up Andrew Luck got two and four ballots were unreturned.
Suggested Reading: CNNSI, Fanhouse, College Football Talk


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Well I'm back with another Webkinz that is just in time for Valentines Day, the love frog. He is so cute, that when I look at him, he makes me want to hug someone. I think this particular webkinz might be a limited edition from Ganz but I'm not sure. If it is, I know I have nothing to worry about because mine is in the bag. The Love Frog is a pink frog with dark pink hearts and purple spots all over him. He is a fun addition to the Webkinz family, and he also has a smile from ear to ear. This tutorial will teach you how to draw love frog with four easy steps. The instructions are pretty basic, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to draw him. I hope you have fun on your love frog journey.
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GIM necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 41 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
wanted: set of online store templates coded to web standards plus a logo for the business
GIM Global Integrative Medicine
We need a set of coded html templates, plus all related image files in adobe photoshop or illustrator format and all CSS files, for an herbal health supplements website.
We will need you to provide two variations on one template set you create, one variation for a mainstream global audience, and one targeted specifically to a Vietnamese and other Asian audience for:
1. a home page
2. a page containing an article, news item, product testimonial, or
description of the company (heavy on text)
3. a product page with photo, description, and short testimonial of a
product that can be purchased online
4. a page to list the entire product catalog (about 60 products
total), with listings by
a. product name
b. health condition
c. herbal ingredient
The template variations can be the same except the color palette for each and the image set used is different.
The mainstream version of the templates should look warm and modern.
The Asian version should use colors and design motifs that are
appropriate to the target audience, for example, no use of the color
black, some use of red, use of photos of Asian people, etc. Both
versions should be highly readable without any very small text, and
text should mostly be on a white background.
a.Top banner:
i. On the left side: features company logo and possibly a slogan on the left side.
ii. In the middle, we can list language versions.
iii. The right side will display a shopping cart with the amount of products and price reflecting any purchases. Next or below it could be a search box and member log in.
b.Mid banner can feature graphics, photo or design that can be updated or changed out easily without having to do heavy redesigning. This is where we can also list the main pages such as:
-Home page
-About GIM
-Wellness Zone
-Contact us
c.The body can consist of a three column:
i.Left column features:
-Site Categories:
o Clinic Locations
o Join us
o Charity
o Newsletter subscription
o Our Sponsors
o Buyers Club
o News
o Articles
o Research
o Clinical Trials
o Documentations
o Testimonials
-Shopping Center (Click and menu pulls down):
o Herbal Medicine
--Browse by Product Name
--Browse by Health Condition
--Browse by Body Part or System
--Browse by Ingredients
o Health Products
--Browse by Product Name
-Quick Links
ii.Middle column:
1.Welcoming message and a brief explanation about the benefits of herbal medicine and a statement about the companys commitment.
2.Top Products and Featured Products, Special Promotions
3.Featured News
4.Featured Articles
5.Featured Testimonials
iii.Right column:
1.Make a donation to our Charity Fund
2.Features Poll
3.Future Advertising of related or sponsoring websites.
The code should be compliant with web-standards, meaning as much as
possible the color, typeface, positioning, and other design elements
should be housed in a CSS file, and the html pages should primarily
just contain structural information so the code is compact, readable,
and easily editable by the webmaster who will fill your templates
with our content. Also, the website should be set up to be compatible to work with a Yahoo Store, their shopping card, product catalog and applications. Do not use frames or browser-specific technologies because the site must look equally good on Mac and PC using Safari or Internet Explorer.
See http://www.shopgim.com/, http://www.goutwell.com/, http://www.hls-herbs.com/, and http://getwellnatural.com/ to see most of the products that will be listed. http://www.shopgim.com/ shows another template-based design we started but abandoned because we had to modify the original template so much to add features we wanted it was starting to lose its design integrity. That page may give you some ideas of what we're talking about if any of the above is not clear.
Although we are looking for a functional and professional website, we are definitely open to new and creative ideas that can make the site both unique and creative. If you have any resources that can organize the features and content to make the website overall look and feel and accessibility become more efficient, please feel free to demonstrate.
As for the logo it should be reproducible at any size and resolution without quality loss or pixellation, so in other words a vector file is needed, preferably in Adobe Illustrator or photoshop format. The logo will be used on the website and for future printing on medicine bottles. Please consider a global branding, functional yet has a natural feel to it.
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Logo Design
- Web Page Design (Coded)
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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10 Interesting Facts About Astrology
Astrology is an assortment of beliefs and traditions, which states that the position of the constellations or planets of the solar system at times have an influence on our lives. This article provides you with 10 interested facts about astrology.
Astrology is the correlation between celestial bodies and nature / human affairs on Earth. It is a phenomena that has been studied for thousands of years by many ancient and modern societies. Astrology is very popular, but also extremely controversial. The word "astrology" comes from the Greek word Astrologia, which means star study or 'reason' of the stars.
Astrology focuses on the sun, moon and planets within our solar system. The purpose of astrology is usually to forecast the destiny of a person, or gain insight into a person or event. Predictions are based on the positions of the sun, moon, and planets at the time of birth. Interpreting the location of celestial objects and using a map called a "horoscope", astrologers claim to predict and explain the course of life, help people, companies, and nations in their most important decisions.
The popular use of the term astrology almost always refers to western astrology. The term astrology can have different meaning to people, depending what culture they are from. This is because different cultures are formed their own astrology systems, which differ slightly. In fact, some astrologers consider their practice only able to describe the personality traits of an individual, others ensuring that it is possible to describe the different paths their lives, even their distant future. Below are 10 interesting facts about astrology!


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Friday, 2 September 2011
Pedaling Picnic Perfection
Why not squeeze out the last bit of summer and set off for a bicycle picnic this weekend. Here's our Cyclechic picnic survival kit.
Our new Nantucket Picnic Bicycle Basket. The Hamper style lid is not only totally adorable but is highly practical, avoiding the common wicker basket problem of your bits and bobs flying out of the basket when you hit a bump on the road. It connects on to the bike with a plastic bracket that's easy to attach and can be whipped off in a second to be the centre piece of your picnic party.
The Bicycle Wine Rack. What picnic would be complete without a bottle and this has got to be the coolest way to to carry booze on your bike.
And lastly you'll need a blanket to park your bicycling bottoms on. We love this delightful fringed plaid picnic rug from Beg with tanned leather straps that attach to your Brooks saddle to keep in place. What a a jolly good idea!
Now all you need is some culinary treats and a spot of sunshine and it's picnic perfection.
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Freshman Suspended Over Gun Photo On Computer
- Over-educated idiot school administrators say students are prohibited from "sending or displaying offensive messages or pictures." And that includes photos of guns.
An Arizona high school freshman was suspended over a gun photo after officials at his high school noticed that the background picture for his computer showed an AK-47 on top of a flag.
Daniel McLaine Jr. is a freshman at Arizona's Poston Butte High School, and said he was the one who put the gun picture on his school-issued computer. When a teacher noticed the desktop, the freshman was suspended over the gun photo.
McLaine said he found the photo on the Internet and the gun doesn't belong to him.
|No Freedom of Speech
A 17-year old high school student has been suspended for
writing a poem about her take on the Sandy Hook
Elementary School shooting.
Read more at Inquisitr.com
School policy had dictated that students were prohibited from "sending or displaying offensive messages or pictures," and cannot access, send, create or forward pictures that are considered "harassing, threatening, or illegal." The school argued that the freshman broke these rules since he put the gun photo on school property.
The freshman who got suspended over the gun photo disagrees, ABC 15 reported.
"This gun wallpaper does not show anything that's violent. It's not showing anybody getting shot in any way," McLaine said. "It's just a picture of a gun. It's nothing — nobody getting shot, nobody getting it pointed at them, it's nothing."
School officials noted that a tense atmosphere surrounding guns has made officials more sensitive to incidents like this.
Dana Hawman, a spokesperson for the Florence Unified School District, said in a statement:
"Although we cannot specifically discuss student discipline, we can certainly agree that violence in schools is a sensitive and timely issue. Students, parents and staff are on edge, and the daily news delivers more reasons for caution. All of us must work together to protect our kids and to cultivate an environment that is conducive to learning."The boy's father, Daniel McLaine Sr., said he disagrees with the three-day suspension and said his son should have at least had a warning first.
The freshman suspended over the gun photo at least caught one break, the Daily Caller reported. After his father talked with school officials, the suspension was reduced.


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Pick your favourite arse by number
We continue to be sold a line by the promoters and profiteers of Legends Football League (better known as Lingerie Football League, the re-branding means little) that this is a legitimate sport.
Let's see what the fans think. Here's a snag of their comments taken at 4.15pm today. Only one comment refers to a player's talent.
Sportswoman daughter rejected at last minute for being 'too fat': dad speaks out
Randy send this comment to Collective Shout's Open Letter on the LFL. Read it and see the way his daughter was treated and why he no longer supports LFL.
Randy Perrett
Until Saturday night 8 December I was a staunch supporter of the "rebranded" LFL. That was until my daughter who flew to Sydney to represent her State was told that she was not approved to wear the uniform. Previously that month she had submitted a bikini photo as required so that her body shape could approved to wear their skimpy gym outfit. Now she has no problem with the lack of uniform and has for the last 18 months lived for nothing but LFL. At 18 years old and coming from an elite swimming background she wanted to play a team sport that challenged her and she thought LFL was it. Well at the end of the day it does not matter how good you are, if Mitch Mortaza thinks your too fat to wear his uniform. Since the debacle on Saturday night my daughter has been contacted by the coach of the NSW Surge with words of encouragement . My daughter is a large framed girl, that's why she is unstoppable in defence or so we have been told by many who have seen her. So why would you bench a player who would do nothing but promote the sport as a real game, simple Mitch Mortaza and his cronies only want skinny women in his skimpy uniforms. Sure my daughter is not a size 8, 10 or even 12 for that matter. But she is a very athletic and lethal size 14 and had she played on Saturday night there would a few NSW players hurting still.
Keep adult entertainment off the footy field
Michelle Dean lives in WA and has been speaking out against the Lingerie (Legends) Football League. Here she tells us what she has been doing to stand against sexploitation of women's sport.
When I became aware of the LFL and exactly what it involved I knew I had to voice my complaint about how demeaning and objectifying it is to women and girls.
I initially contacted the Department of Sport and Recreation in WA. I asked what requirements or processes there are for a sport to set up and be considered legitimate here in WA (with particular reference to the LFL). They advised:
"There is no state government process; the approval process for events rests with the venue/land owners. This is based around the venue owner operator insuring (sic) that the event they are approving in their venue does not break any laws or health regulations. Whilst the activity may be seen as poor taste and sexist it does not breach any laws or regulations. It is therefore up to the venue to determine if suitable to be linked to their venue". Read more here
The NRL claims to care about treating women equally and eliminating sexism
So how does the Penrith Panther's official partnership with the LFL help girls and women feel included and not valued only for their bodies? (me and my colleagues have been asking this question of the NRL on twitter, with no reply).
Sign the petition
See also: 'Is a woman's performance at work or in sport secondary to how she looks?', Kate Galloway, Women's Agenda,10/12/2013


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DR. HOOK- Pet therapy: Dogs, horses help healing
"Woof, woof!"
"Lassie, what is wrong?"
"Woof, woof, woof!"
"Oh, dear! Did Timmy fall in the well?"
The publicity for the movie Benji says he shows more emotion than many actors. (I believe that. Look at Vin Diesel.) That cute mutt (not cuter than my beagle/fox hound, Maggie Moo) touched the hearts of kids and adults alike.
I remember in 1979 when Siskel & Ebert raved about The Black Stallion, I thought to myself– a horse movie? That's so National Velvet– but without Liz Taylor! How could it be good? Well, it was. That horse even killed a cobra to save the little boy. And so besides being our best friends, can animals improve our health?
First of all, I need to make something clear: in general Korean people do not eat dogs. In fact, I never even heard of Koreans eating dog until I was in my first year of medical school. Someone gave me a cartoon clipping saying, Korean Cookbook: 101 Ways to Wok Your Dog.
I didn't get the joke for two reasons. First, Koreans don't use a wok. Second, my family always had a dog, and we never discussed eating her. Horrified, I called my mother long-distance. She told me that during WWII and the Korean War, when there was a shortage of food, some dogs were killed and eaten. When I was in Korea, dog chow was strictly Purina, not on the human menu. So are we clear?
Dogs aren't the only animals kept as pets, but they (and cats) are the most common. New York Times bestseller Marley & Me is about a dog. Rin Tin Tin has his own fan club. It can even rain "cats and dogs."
Dogs are used in "pet therapy" because they increase social interaction, provide emotional comfort, decrease anxiety and depression, improve self-esteem, and foster a sense of independence. For example, the visually impaired use seeing eye dogs. If someone has a stroke and cannot speak well, a dog can provide an environment of nonverbal communication that is acceptable and relaxed. If the dog moves to the weaker side of the stroke patient, the patient is more likely to try to use that weak arm and hand to pet the dog.
Psychotherapy for children can be enhanced with animals like horses. The Happy Horse Farm showed how riding and caring for horses helps children with psychiatric issues. (And Mr. Ed didn't need to be there to psychoanalyze them.) Our area has a couple of equine centers that help people with brain injury, strokes, and other disabilities increase balance, strength, and coordination.
Dogs and cats sometimes live in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. Alzheimer's Care Quarterly notes in 2005 that pet therapy calms agitated patients as well as gives joy. People with pets tend to live longer than those without pets.
One study even showed that ICU patients who owned pets survived longer than those without pets. City people without pets tend to have more allergies than those with pets (desensitization). When I was a medical student, I had a patient who wanted to go home only to be with her dog— never mind her husband.
Petting a dog can lower your pulse and blood pressure. Walking your dog can lower your cholesterol and strengthen your heart. Playing with your cat can reduce stress. Cleaning your horse gives you a sense of responsibility.
Even in my office, my doggy stays with me. If patients walk by my door, they usually start cooing and canoodling with her. Maggie Moo really brings a lot of joy and good energy to our office. So much for pups having a ruff life.


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SALINAS – Former Salinas school counselor Gilbert Olivares, 36, has admitted to child pornography and molestation charges as well as allegations he videotaped Salinas High School students having sex in his office.
Olivares on Tuesday pleaded no contest to all 56 counts filed against him, and agreed to a stipulated sentence of 16 years in prison. His sentencing is scheduled for May 28.
Olivares initially faced up to 22 years in prison according to prosecutor Rolando Mazariegos.
The charges, mostly felonies, include committing lewd acts against children, possessing and manufacturing child pornography, and communicating with minors for a lewd purpose.
The investigation began in March 2012, when a 14-year-old boy's sister found sexually explicit messages from Olivares on her brother's Facebook page and notified police.
Salinas police said they discovered that for more than a year, Olivares secretly recorded 13 digital videos of teens having sex in his office at the high school.
The recordings were made between August 2010 and October 2011, according to investigators.
Police identified eight teens of both genders from the videos, and said a total of four minors were also groped or touched by Olivares, or sent Facebook messages of a sexual nature.
Investigators say the movies were secretly recorded on a hidden cellphone left in the counselor's office while he was out.
Mazariegos said in a statement Wednesday that Olivares would summon a boy and girl from class "and direct them to enter his office. Olivares would next leave the office, and the students would engage in sexual acts while the phone was recording their activity."
He said there was no evidence the videos were ever distributed.
Police also searched Olivares' residence and found hundreds of images of child pornography on his computer. None were of Salinas victims, police said.
But on his cellphone, detectives found "hundreds of sexually explicit texts" between Olivares and several Salinas High students.
Olivares was a popular drug and alcohol counselor at the school for five years before his arrest, and was also active in several community groups for at-risk youth.
Many who worked with him initially expressed shock and disbelief at the accusations, and supporters at first packed the courtroom during his hearings, though their numbers dwindled as the case continued over the past two years.
Olivares has been held in Monterey County Jail on $1 million bail, but after changing his plea, he is now being held without bail until his sentencing hearing in late May.
In addition to serving the prison time, he will be required to register as a sex offender for life.
Olivares, the Salinas Union High School District and Sunrise House, where Olivares also worked, are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by a minor referred to as "John Doe" in Monterey County Superior Court. The next hearing date in that case is not scheduled until 2016.
Julia Reynolds can be reached at 648-1187.


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- End: January 25, 2020 9:00 pm
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- Address: 5770 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy., Kissimmee, FL 34746
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Every Saturday. Old Town is home to one America's longest running weekly car show and cruise, the Saturday Nite Car Cruise. Every Saturday, we invite show-quality 1987 and older hot rods, street rods, and antiques to join us along Trophy Row and around the property showing off these classic beauties. Cars start arriving at 1:00pm and drive down Old Town's brick-paved Main Street at 8:30pm. Join us every Saturday and take a trip down memory lane. Weekly cash prizes, drawings and giveaways for our cruisers. Free live entertainment on Trophy Row Stage beginning at 7:00pm.


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I created a program in Java using Eclipse where a Flow Layout containing a text field and an event handler that when a user types in a username and presses enter, the program connects to a mySQL DB and looks for a matching username and selects the rank of that player and a dialog box pops up saying, "<username>'s rank is <rank>"
Anyway, it runs perfectly in eclipse but when I export (as a runnable Jar) and having the "Package required libraries in generated Jar" selected, the resulting program only goes to the window where a user can input text but when they press enter, (which is where the program connects to a mySQL DB) it does nothing and the typing cursor just flashes.
I have installed the Connector/J from mySQL into the environment the Eclipse uses, but how do I package it so it goes with the program and my end users don't have to fuss around installing the Connector/J?
Of course if you have further questions, please ask, but I feel my code is just fine (no warnings when exported) it just wont run outside of Eclipse.


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Susan Bennett, a 64-year-old Zumba-loving Atlanta suburbanite, shocked tech geeks, over-connected teens and men attracted to the sound of her digital voice when she revealed this month that she is the original voice of Siri, the iPhone persona who helped Zooey Deschanel identify the sound of rain and Samuel L. Jackson find organic mushrooms for his risotto. She has a storyline on "The Big Bang Theory" and makes the seemingly far-fetched premise of Spike Jonze's upcoming film "Her," about a man who falls in love with the voice of his phone's operating system, not so unbelievable.
"More than anyone else, Siri was the voice of the new digital age," says Robert J. Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. "As communication became more and more text- and picture-based, Siri actually talked. She was comforting, maybe a little seductive, and immediately recognizable — and she penetrated every corner of the culture, from late-night comedians to sitcoms. The fact that her futuristic machine-voice was actually generated by a living, breathing human being is fascinating for obvious reasons."
Bennett's disclosure, first made to CNN, has sent the thin-framed voice-over artist on a media whirlwind, compelling her to secure a publicist, an agent and even a Twitter handle (@SiriouslySusan).
Since you've come out as Siri do people say, "You get me lost all the time"?
I've had very few complaints. I've had emails from people saying, "Oh, I'm so sorry I've been cursing at you all these years."
You've said you didn't get around to using Siri right away. Why?
It was a timing thing. I had just bought the iPhone 4 when the 4s came out. And to tell you the truth, it took me awhile to become adjusted to the fact that I would be speaking to myself and answering myself. It was a little creepy to begin with.
Do you remember the first thing you asked yourself?
I don't. But I have asked Siri certain questions about the fact that we're related and she refuses to admit it. She ditched me.
Do you get free iPhones?
No, I do not. I have a new iPhone 5s and I have to say, the OS 7 is a bit of an adjustment for me. That's the great irony of the voice of Siri. I'm not technical at all. I'm constantly passing it over to my son and saying, "Fix this for me."
Apple's new iOS 7 mobile operating system comes with a new incarnation of Siri (and option to select gender). Do you feel a sense of loss now that there's a new voice in town?
An audiologist emailed to say, "I think that's still you. They've just manipulated the voice more." So I think I'm still in there a little bit. I'm what they call Siri classic. As time goes on, I think there are going to be lots of voices, which I think is nice. Not everyone is attracted to the original Siri voice.
But there were also tons of guys who were super-attracted to the Siri voice. Have people told you about that?
Oh, yeah. A bunch of friends say, "You should do a naughty Siri app." Though Apple would definitely not like that.
How did you start doing voice work?
I started in this business playing music, singing in bands. When I first came to Atlanta, I was doing a lot of jingle singing. I was the voice of Tilly the All Time Teller. That was my first engagement as a machine. She wasn't interactive.
What was the process of creating Siri?
The original recordings took place in July 2005 for a text-to-speech company. It was four hours a day, weekdays, for the entire month. The only thing I knew at the time was that my voice would be used in phone systems.
Did they have you read dictionaries?
I read sentences that were specifically created to utilize the greatest combination of vowels, consonants, diphthongs, syllables in the English language. A lot of them were nonsensical sentences and phrases. Then the über-brain went in there and picked out the different sounds and put them back together and they created their own sentences. The process is called concatenation.
Talk about why you've come forward now.
Many of us voice-over people really enjoy our anonymity. I have a nice, quiet life. It took me a long time to make the decision to come out of the voice-over booth. I just wanted a chance to finally say, "Yeah, that was me!" And it really would be fun to get into more creative voice work. I always wanted to do a cartoon.
How were you able to stay anonymous for so long?
Most people do not pay attention to the voices they hear all day long. You're bombarded with sound, from morning to night. And my regular speaking voice doesn't sound 100% like Siri. My voice was simply the basis. I'm the human component of Siri.
You're still freaking me out with every sentence you speak.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.


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OverviewMadeira floods and mudslides were the result of an extreme weather event that affected Madeira Island in Portugal. As of 26 February 2010 there were 42 confirmed deaths. However, with at least 8 people still missing, the final death toll is still uncertain. At least 100 people were seriously injured with many left displaced.
On 06 October 2010, Gift of the Givers responded by handing over a new Mitsubishi L200 4x4 to the Red Cross for the benefit of the community. Just 8 months after the first flood, whilst our team was in Madeira, a second flood struck on 20 February 2010, leaving people in devastation once again. Club Maritimo, a Portugues soccer club who we worked closely with, received our much needed and greatly appreciated 5 containers of relief aid sent for distribution amoungst the flood affectees. More commonly known as Maritimo, they assisted with the distribution of aid items to 2000 families.
The President of Maderia, Alberto Joao Jardium met with the GOTG team to extend a welcome and also to express his gratitude for the contribution made to his country in their time of dire need and distress. Club Maritimo's president, Carlos Perreira also handed over 100 year medals to Gift of the Givers at their 100 Year ball as a token of appreciation. The Madeira Minister of Public Works, Luis da Silva and members of Club Maritimo handed over a cheque to GOTG of R133 231.24.
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I really like the new chassis a lot. I did lower my body some this week by almost a 1/4" I think that helped me out some for sure. I noticed other trucks sit very low so I will be lowering my lid even more next time at the shop which because of the huge Storm Sandy I will be at the shop today by 3pm while where closed to work on stuff.
I only have two weeks of testing and durability is not a problem at all. Setup wise I been working on mine making it better each weekend so far. Will try no sway bars as Lenman73 suggested and I wan to go just a tick slower oil in the rear from my 30wt to I think 32 1/2 and 35 front. Currently have 30wt rear and 32 1/2 front. Also want to move my camber links in the rear. I think I will shorten them one hole and see how that feels.
This weeks changes where going to the Traxxas rear alum. hubs to give me more rear toe in and moving my front steering link to the on the knuckle to the front hole instead of the rear hole (which really gave me some killer off power and mid steering. Took me a little to get use to.
Lenmen73 suggested trying with no sway bars so I will give it a try and see how it feels at out track and report results for everyone.


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Nykredit to issue green covered bonds in Danish, Swedish markets
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Europe's largest mortgage covered bond issuer, Nykredit Realkredit, is to follow compatriot Realkredit Danmark in issuing green covered bonds, with the Danish model meaning that cheaper financing costs will be passed on directly to end-borrowers, among whom Swedish clients are "leading the pack", the issuer's IR head told The CBR...
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Trail Ridge Road, some trails reopen in Rocky Mountain National Park
Trail Ridge Road through Rocky Mountain National Park has reopened to all traffic, as of 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18. Trails on the west side of the Continental Divide in the Park have reopened to day use, though no backcountry camping permits will be issued until further notice.
Two trails remain closed on the west side of the Park, Timber Lake and access to Granite Falls, due to the need for further assessment prior to opening.
Highway 7 on the east side of the park is also open, allowing access to Estes Park businesses. Commercial traffic is no longer allowed over Trail Ridge Road.
The Park is currently working to reopen Timber Creek Campground.
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BATS seeks volunteers
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Bringing Art to Schools is looking for volunteers to become classroom helpers.
BATS, an all-volunteer program that provides art education and hands-on art activities to children in the elementary schools, visits each participating classroom five times per year to share fine art prints with children and guide them in related art projects.
Volunteers do not have to be an artist to help in the classroom. Training is provided. Samples of successful art projects are available for inspiration. Anyone who enjoys working with children in grades kindergarten through fifth grade is encouraged to volunteer. For more information, call BATS director Penny Fairfield at 541-1610.


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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – UMBC senior pitcher Mac Gill (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) tossed six innings of shutout ball, but William and Mary rallied for two runs in the bottom of the ninth to defeat the Retrievers, 2-1, Friday afternoon at Plumeri Park in UMBC's season opener.
Junior Bobby Applegate (Somerdale, N.J./Sterling/Gloucester CC) took the loss for UMBC (0-1) after putting on the first two hitters of the ninth, both of whom scored. Applegate (0-1) escaped trouble early in his outing, but settled down nicely, striking out four.
Joseph Gaouette (2-0) earned the win out of the bullpen for William and Mary (4-4) after pitching one shutout inning. Starter Jason Inghram was no-decisioned after giving up just one unearned run on one hit.
Gill shut the Tribe out in his second consecutive season-opening outing. Last season, Gill took the ball in UMBC's opener against No. 10 N.C. State, a 5-3 loss in Myrtle Beach, S.C., throwing 5.1 innings and giving up just two earned runs. This time around, the right-hander limited the Tribe throughout his six innings of work, scattering six hits and not walking a batter.
Inghram was equally effective for the hosts, giving up just one hit, a two-out single to sophomore Kevin Lachance (Clifton, Va./Centreville) in eight innings.
It was the Retrievers who broke through first, however, crossing the plate once in the top of the fourth. Senior Rob McCabe (Philadelphia, Pa./St. Joseph's Prep) started the inning with a four-pitch walk and junior Vince Corbi (Medford, N.J./Shawnee) then reached on an error to give the Retrievers two on with none out. After McCabe advanced to third on a wild pitch, he raced home on a double-play ball to give UMBC the lead.
Gill continued to keep the Tribe at bay, allowing just two more base runners in the next three frames.
In the sixth, Gill got Kevin Nutter to ground out weakly, but Willie Shaw followed by pulling a single to right. The veteran righty avoided any trouble, though, inducing a 6-4-3 double play off the bat of Ryan Lindemuth.
Gatto was hit by a pitch with two away in the seventh, but UMBC could not capitalize. Applegate entered in the bottom half and continued where Gill left off. After Michael Katz welcomed the right-hander with a single to left, Applegate struck out the next three batters in order to preserve the lead.
Neither team made a push in the eighth, with the Tribe only getting a two out single from Nutter.
The Retrievers threatened in the top of the ninth as sophomore Mark Esposito (Bethany, Conn./Amity Regional) led off the inning with an infield single. McCabe then laid down a sac bunt, but the Tribe third baseman made an errant play. Corbi followed with a sacrifice, sending Esposito to third and McCabe to second. The rally ended there, however, as Inghram got a ground out and strike out to end the threat.
The Tribe made the visitors pay in the bottom half as Lindemuth started the rally by drawing a walk. Katz then doubled to send Lindemuth to third and knock out Applegate. Sophomore Denis Mikush (Burke, Va./Robinson) entered for the Black and Gold and struck out Thompson looking on a 3-2 pitch. White then reached on an error and Lindemuth took advantage to score from third. Kevin Casey followed with a bunt and Katz came home with the winning run.
UMBC and William and Mary continue their series on Saturday afternoon at Plumeri Park. First pitch between the Retrievers and Tribe is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
- William and Mary now leads the all-time series, 11-2.
- Nine of the 13 all-time meetings between the two clubs have come during the month of February.
- UMBC has not won its season-opening game since 2001 when the Retrievers defeated Georgetown, 19-9.


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The report comes two days before the government's broader and much-watched monthly jobs report.
"This is an upsetting report," said David Carter, chief investment officer at Lenox Advisors in New York.
"The strength of the U.S. economic rebound is clearly still uncertain. Hopefully we don't get a third consecutive summer of weaker growth."
Recent data, including softer labour market figures, have fueled fears that the economy may have lost some strength as the second quarter got under way. Those worries were partly offset by data from an industry group on Tuesday that showed a better-than-expected pick-up in the manufacturing sector last month.
But government data on Wednesday showed new orders for factory goods suffered their biggest decline in three years in March as demand for transportation equipment and a range of other goods dried up.
Growth in the U.S. economy has been seen as increasingly important to offset slack elsewhere in the world. The eurozone on Wednesday reported another contraction in its factory sector.
In China, factory activity contracted again in April, although at a slower rate, hinting at stabilization in the world's second-largest economy.
The day's data helped take U.S. stocks down about 0.5% in midday trading, while Treasuries prices rose and the euro fell against the dollar.
But despite the weak numbers in the ADP report on private-sector hiring, some analysts and economists were cautious on whether the data indicates a trend in the labour market.
Joel Prakken at Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, which jointly develops the employment report with payrolls processor ADP, said the unusually warm winter months were partly to blame for the weakness in ADP report as employers had moved their hiring up to earlier in the year.
The evidence suggests private-sector employment was boosted by as much as 70,000 in the winter months, Prakken said.
"It does play into this notion that the numbers over the winter … probably weren't quite as strong as the reports indicated, and this number today probably is not as soft as it appears on the surface," Prakken said on a conference call with journalists.
The manufacturing sector shed 5,000 jobs, the first loss since September of last year, the report showed. That was in contrast to data on Tuesday that showed a gauge of employment in the sector rose to its highest level since last June.
The U.S. labour Department's report on Friday on nonfarm payrolls is expected to show hiring rebounded last month with 170,000 new jobs, an improvement from a meager 120,000 in March. Private payrolls are seen rising by 175,000.
Jonathan Basile, director of economics at Credit Suisse, said Wednesday's release did not change his forecast for a gain of 150,000 in Friday's jobs data, noting ADP has had a mixed record as an indicator of the payrolls numbers.
"For what it's worth, the first print of ADP … has had some big misses in recent months in either direction compared to the first print of private payrolls. For instance, ADP overshot by 88,000 in March, undershot by 87,000 in January and overshot by 113,000 in December," Basile said in a note.
Boris Schlossberg, director of FX research at broker firm GFT, said he was watching more closely for the employment reading in the U.S. Institute for Supply Management's survey of the services sector, due out on Thursday, which he said was a better forecaster for the payrolls report.
In other data on Wednesday, the Commerce Department said orders for manufactured goods dropped 1.5% after a revised 1.1% rise in February.
On the housing front, applications for U.S. home mortgage purchases rose for a second week in a row, though demand for refinancing slipped as interest rates edged up, an industry group reported.
Markets have been speculating whether the Federal Reserve will embark on a third round of bond buying, or quantitative easing, to drive down long-term interest rates and help bolster the economy. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke last month said monetary policy was appropriate, though he said the U.S. central bank would not hesitate to launch another round of asset purchases if the economy were to weaken.
Comments from several top Fed officials on Tuesday reinforced the picture that the central bank is happy to stand pat for now. The Fed has held interest rates at near-zero since late 2008 and has purchased more than US$2 trillion in long-term securities.
Still, the Fed's concern about the high unemployment rate means investors will be watching the jobs number on Friday for clues on whether more bond buying – known as QE III – is in the cards.
"Any disappointment over Friday's non-farm payrolls will take us one step closer to QE III this summer, with the likelihood already at over 50% that Bernanke pulls the trigger by U.S. labour Day," in early September, Michael Woolfolk, senior forex strategist with BNY Mellon, wrote in a note.
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ALBANY — Lawmakers have reached a tentative agreement on a bill to broaden the state's definition of banned assault weapons, increase penalties for those convicted of gun crimes and create a statewide registry of assault rifles, people briefed on the draft bill said.
Key lawmakers, including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeff Klein said they were "hopeful" and "confident" that a vote would be held Monday — a rapid move toward consideration that requires a special "message of necessity" from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who has been pushing lawmakers to act quickly on a gun control package.
Silver, D-Manhattan, said the legislation would adjust the definition of a banned assault rifle so that any single characteristic — a telescoping stock, a bayonet attachment, a pistol grip — on a semi-automatic rifle qualifies it to be banned. Existing weapons would be grandfathered in, Silver said, but their ownership could not be transferred. A statewide registry of these guns would be created, Silver said, and the county-by-county process for issuing handgun permits would also be standardized.
At the urging of Republicans in the Senate, the bill will also stiffen penalties for people who use guns criminally, Klein said. It would also include an expansion of mental health providers' ability to commit those found to be a danger to the public — another GOP priority — known as "Kendra's Law."
"This is an issue that shows we can work together," said Klein, D-Bronx. "Republicans, it's very clear, wanted harsher criminal penalties for illegal guns, which is something that I agree with. But on the other hand, we're also going to ban assault weapons and limit the number of rounds in a magazine. Putting those together makes it a better bill."
Silver said the maximum capacity of an ammunition magazine would be reduced to seven rounds, from 10, and that a current exemption for clips manufactured before 1994 would be removed.
Legislators will review the proposed outline of legislation in their private party conferences Monday afternoon. In order for vote to be taken on Monday, the package would require a "message of necessity" from the governor that would eliminate the need for the usual three-day "aging" period for bills. Cuomo and lawmakers took heavy criticism last March, when they passed numerous significant items in a late-night session that made extensive use of such shortcuts.
The biggest hurdle may be Republicans in the state Senate who comprise the chamber's governing coalition along with Klein's five-member IDC. A spokesman for Senate Republicans did not immediately say what his conference's intentions were, but Deputy Republican Leader Thomas Libous said during a morning interview on WGDJ 1300-AM that some type of legislative action was "inevitable," and that Democrats, though split into two factions, outnumber his fellow Republicans in the chamber.
"As we speak, it's not done," Libous, R-Binghamton, said. "There are a lot of things here that, I think, true second amendment believers are going to have some issues with … Liberals feel a very certain way when it comes to these things. What we're doing as Republicans is trying to get pieces in this bill that are going to be, a school safety piece, a Kendra's law bill."
It's unclear whether those provisions would weigh heavily enough for at least some Republicans to support aspects of the bill. But if the GOP agrees to bring a bill to the floor — it shares authority with Klein over what bills come to the chamber's floor — Democrats acting in unison could provide enough votes for its passage.
"I haven't seen all the details," said Sen. Greg Ball, a Republican from Putnam County. "A lot of focus right now … seems to be intense on those that are already obeying the law and pose zero threat, whereas we still have people dying every day from illegal firearms and we still have a mental health system in this country where the violently mental ill and unstable are falling through the cracks. You're not going to fix that unless you dig into the deeper, harder, details."
In the wake of the killings in Newtown, Conn., gun control became a major element of Cuomo's third State of the State address last week. And in a Monday press conference, President Barack Obama said that his gun
control proposals were likely to be ready for introduction later this week.
"The message out there is so clear after Newtown to get us down this road as quickly as possible," Silver said. "It's something the people of this state want and it's an important thing to do. It is an emergency."
The only remaining sticking point, he said, is how to provide funding for school safety improvements.
A formal event featuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo announcing the tentative agreement could come Monday afternoon.


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Conservative talk radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger, under fire after a racially-charged rant where she hurled the "n-word" at least 11 times, says she will not renew her radio contract at the end of the year. Schlessinger made the announcement on CNN's Larry King Live were she said she "was trying to make a point to help" the Black caller with "her hypersensitivity" and didnt want to be muzzled.
"I'm here to say that my contract is up for my radio show at the end of the year, and I've made the decision not to do radio anymore. The reason is, I want to regain my First Amendment rights. I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart, and what I think is helpful and useful, without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates and attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that. I'm not retiring. I'm not quitting. I feel energized, actually -- stronger and freer to say the things that I believe need to be said for people in this country."
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Schlessinger claims her "First Amendment rights" have been "usurped by angry, hateful groups." The radio host also blasted Media Matters for their campaign calling on advertisers to distance themselves from the controversial host. In the last week, General Motors and Motel 6 have dropped their sponsorship of Schlessinger's show ... which might have factored in Schlessinger's decision.
The New York Times Media Decoder adds:
In her three decades on the radio, Dr. Schlessinger's popular show — at its peak it was the second highest-rated radio show after The Rush Limbaugh Show — has come under fire from rights groups a number of times. In 2000, a coalition of gay activists launched a Web site, StopDrLaura.com, and organized protests and boycotts across the United States and Canada in response to her comments about homosexuality, which she referred to as a "biological error." They were also angered by her outspoken stance against adoption by same-sex couples, and remarks in which she said that a "a huge portion of the male homosexual populace is predatory on young boys." Dr. Schlessinger apologized for many of her comments, but many of her advertisers left her radio show, and a television show she started in 2000 was ended a year later. On the Web site StopDrLaura.com Tuesday night, a headline at the top of the home page declared, 'We Stopped Dr Laura.'"
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I have decided that this weblog is in need of a name change.
I originally named it Spontaneous Publicity on a whim, from the line in the movie The Jerk where Steve Martin's character sees that the new phone books have arrived and excitedly exclaims, "This is the kind of spontaneous publicity—your name in print—that makes people."
This was back in September 2005, when my first entries into a nascent weblog were about other weblogs having taken notice of my Blues Brothers map. To have other people talking about my website was, quite literally, "spontaneous publicity"—which immediately made me think of that movie line, and thus I had a title for my weblog.
Of course, since then my topics have ranged much further from self-referential contemplation of my website and its place in cyberspace (this entry notwithstanding). The title has no relevance to these topics.
In addition, I find that the domain name for the dot-com version of this title is held by some Microsofter and his family, and is used for the usual semi-literate stuff-going-on-in-our-lives rambling of all blogs—I won't denigrate it any further than that, per the "glass houses" rule. Suffice to say that we both got our titles from the same source, but they bought the domain name when I didn't bother to do so. By the way, my blog pre-dates theirs by more than two years. But no matter.
Here's the funny thing, and the one reason I'm reluctant to change my weblog's name. If you Google "spontaneous publicity weblog" my site, not theirs, comes up first. This is because Google loves me. (Of course, if you use the loogie-word "blog" instead of "weblog," theirs wins.)
Still, that's probably not enough reason not to change it. Moreover, a good reason to change the name is this: I'm not all that big a fan of The Jerk.
I have a front-running candidate for the new title. It comes from having clicked on an external link in my entry on Angelo Testa the other day, in order to check that it was still a good link. It came back successful, with this result:
Angelo Testa
USA, c. 1978
11.5 h x 28.5 w inches
: A Boolean argument was expected. Provenance: Collection Of The Artist; Daniel Czubak, Chicago
As I read the description, I thought to myself: that's an interesting title for that work. It took me several seconds to realise it was in fact a database error—"A Boolean argument was expected."
Here's a point in favour: current Google results imply it would stand out a little more…
- "spontaneous publicity" = 2440
- "A Boolean argument was expected" = 1210
Best of all, the title is in a vague way a better reflection of what this weblog is about. The arguments one finds here are distinctly not Boolean. There are no clear-cut, black-and-white, Manichaean dichotomies here. Just a whole lot of shades of grey. Kind of like the new "inove" theme it's using.


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1965 Chevy Chevelle Wagon - Under Construction
1965 Chevy Chevelle Wagon
Over The Top
Rick Billuni ran into the guys at Hot Rods and Custom Stuff in Escondido, California, many years ago. The relationship started with smaller jobs on his personal cars, then their first full build together. Rick really enjoyed that first car, and wanted another. This one would be different though; his previous cars had been 100 percent show, and he didn't spend much time on the road. This time Rick wanted something that would be just fun to drive.
Hot Rods and Custom Stuff is known for their turnkey cars, ranging from the 1920s through the 1970s. They do everything in-house from frame building to final painting, with exception of chrome and powdercoating. They start with totally unrestored, destroyed, or unfinished cars, and produce top-notch custom or restoration builds.
Rick brought a '65 Chevelle wagon that had much of the fabrication work done, but it still needed a lot. First things on the list were the exhaust, brakes, and fuel system plumbing, mounting the air conditioning unit, and setting up the stereo. Since this would be a driver, not just a show car, it would need all of the comfort items commonplace in modern cars, like plush leather-wrapped seats from a modern-day GTO and power accessories.
Next on the build list was the body. They did only minor modifications to smooth the look of the car. They shaved the gas door, smoothed the firewall, and replaced the factory drip rail with round stock. They are finishing the assembly and will unveil the car at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona.
By The Numbers
|Rick Billuni San Marcos, CA
|502ci big-block Chevy
|factory iron
|Meziere's radiator and water pump
|Fuel system:
|Hilborn injection
|custom 3-inch
|mandrel-bent tubing
|stainless steel
|five-speed manual
|custom built
|Rear axle:
|Ford 9-inch
|Front suspension:
|Detroit Speed and
|Engineering, Roadster Shop frame
|Rear suspension:
|Detroit Speed
|and Engineering
|Wilwood four-wheel disc
|Pontiac GTO
|Kicker speakers and amps,
|Pioneer DVD navigation unit
|power windows, A/C
|Foose, 18- and 20-inch
|BFGoodrich G-Force,
|225/35ZR18 and 265/35ZR20
'78 Trans Am
Roadster Obsession
Owner of Performance Restorations, Brent Jarvis, has been into racing for a long time. He held the highest licenses in NASA, SVRA, VSCDA, and NHRA. He's also well-versed in both road racing and drag racing. With this much time around these awesome machines, he saw for himself what was missing, and wanted to build cars the way he felt they should be built. He started his shop in 1988, and has created some amazing cars since then.
One of his current projects is this '78 Pontiac Trans Am. He met the owners of this car at an auction. They asked Brent to look over some cars they were looking to buy, and Brent was able to point out the bad apples, and save them a lot of money and frustration. They quickly became friends with a shared interest in muscle cars. You may remember the Charger roadster previously featured in this column, that belonged to Josh and Francis too. They live in Chicago, so the cars would have to be tough to keep up with the potholes and rough roads the harsh winters produce. This wouldn't be a problem for Brent. "Josh comes up with these ideas for custom cars, and if they are possible, I call Murray Pfaff and we have him design them. Once we all agree on a concept, I bring the drawings into the fabrication shop and my guys build the cars," Brent says. They have worked with each other enough that the builds now go very smoothly and they have a mutual understanding of what is needed. Brent sourced a great body to start with that had absolutely no rust on it. The body's frame structure needed to be in excellent condition, because removing the top takes away some of the built-in structure that would have to be absorbed by the undercarriage-that's why it started with some heavy-duty subframe connectors and bracing.
By The Numbers
|1978 Trans Am
|Josh Fishkin and Francis Wisneski
|400 hp
|400ci Pontiac
|COMP Cams High Energy series
|COMP Cams
|Edlebrock Performer,
|Holley 650-cfm HP
|HD cooling system
|Fuel system:
|Edlebrock mechanical fuel pump
|Hedman headers,
|custom 2 1/2-inch exhaust,
|Flowmaster mufflers
|Turbo 400
|Rear axle:
|3.23 gears
|Front suspension:
|QA1 shocks,
|Energy Suspension bushings,
|offset upper A-arm shafts,
|W6 components
|Rear suspension:
|leaf spring with
|7/8-inch sway bar,
|Energy, QA1 shocks
|four-wheel Wilwood disc
|Honeycomb style, 20-inch
|Goodyear F1
Xtreme Build
It started with Peter White, from the Boston area, who bought this '68 AMX in 1981. He drove the car through his last years of high school, then college. Once he got his final graduation papers, he moved to New York City, an environment not suitable for such a neat classic car. The car sat in storage for the next 15 years. Peter moved back to the suburbs of Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife and two kids. Life was stable there and he wanted to bring the AMX out of hiding and back onto the street. He charged the battery, replaced the spark plugs, and the thing fired right up. One Thursday (this he remembers clearly) he took the car out to grab dinner for the family when the front left wheel fell off. He decided that now was a good time to do a complete restoration.
Peter brought it to a shop where it spent three years for a relatively minor project. He decided to pull the car out of that shop and look for another one to finish it right. Peter gathered some business cards at the Boston World of Wheels show, and that's what brought him to Xtreme Restoration of Slatersville, Rhode Island.
Todd Lewis, owner of the shop, started out working for his neighbor's body shop out of high school, and quickly tired of the mundane crash repairs on minivans. When he was 22 years old, he started his first shop that grew to 28 employees, with 50 to 60 projects at a time. He sold the business, and started Xtreme where he could build more extreme projects.
Peter took a tour of Todd's shop, and decided to bring his AMX over to be completed. As we've all heard many times before, it came in for a typical restoration with some minor upgrades, but has since turned into a massive transformation of the car. The idea was to build it bigger and better without losing the classic look and feel of the original. They took care to leave the dash in its original form, but modified it heavily. Yes, they could have done an aluminum dash plate for one-third the price, but it wouldn't follow the theme they were after. This project has turned in a direction greater than Peter expected, and he couldn't be more excited for the final product.
By The Numbers
|Peter White, 45 Wellesley, MA
|745 hp, 614 lb-ft of torque
|451ci AMC 401
|Indy aluminum
|Canton pan,
|Indy high-volume external oiling system
|Rotating assembly:
|Moldex 4340
|forged steel crank,
|Eagle H-beam rods.
|Ross forged aluminum pistons,
|10.5:1 compression
|Cylinder heads:
|Indy aluminum
|COMP Cams solid roller,
|248/254 degrees duration,
|.654-/.661-inch lift
|2.20-/1.8-inch stainless valves
|Kinsler fuel injection
|ACCEL distributor and 6A10 box
|Northern radiator
|Fuel system:
|Rick's tanks,
|Aeroquip in-tank pump
|Tubular Automotive headers
|ARP, stainless steel socket
|button head cap screws for entire car
|Richmond five-speed,
|Ram clutch, Lakewood bell housing,
|hydraulic, Hurst shifter
|Denny's custom
|3 1/2-inch aluminum
|Rear axle:
|Competition Engineering
|9-inch housing,
|Moser 33-spline axels,
|3.90 gears, Detroit Locker
|Front suspension:
|tubular K-frame,
|QA1 lower control arms and coilovers,
|Pfadt Engineering custom sway bar
|Rear suspension:
|Competition Engineering
|coilovers, three-link ladder bar,
|Speedway sway bar
|Wilwood six- and four-piston calipers,
|14- and 12.5-inch rotors
|American Racing 17-inch Salt Flats
|Nitto, 275/40R17 and 315/35R17
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