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I had a chance to take a really good look at the THX certified 2.1 z623 speakers from Logitech. The box was pretty hefty so I had some hope that they might sound pretty good.
Out of the gate I wasn't expecting too much for two reasons.
1) they are small speakers in plastic cabinets.
2) they don't cost a lot
In fact, I was a bit concerned about the THX certification as well. I was having thoughts float in the back of my head of certifications meaning very little today; assuming it was simply about the fee for the usage right rather than actual performance. After all, if a sub two hundred dollar set of speakers from Logitech could garner the right to use the logo… how serious could the certification be.
The setup was very straight forward. Simply plug one of the speakers into the sub, the other one has an rs-232 style plug (kind of looks like a small vga plug). Plug the power into the wall and the double ended audio cable in (one into the sub and one into the device you want to listen to).
The reason I was interested in writing about these speakers was I needed a little solution for my kitchen. I needed something that didn't take up a ton of room, sounded good and was loud enough to listen to. I needed something that was flexible enough for me to plug many devices into, whether it was my cell phone, iPad, iPod, or even a small television.
The first thing plugged into the Logitech z623 speakers was my Verizon Wireless Ipad. I wanted to check out how Hulu sounded so I fired up my playon app and started up a show in my user queue.
It sounded great. So I went into the music selections on my media server and fired up Whitey Ford. The bass was very rich and when I cranked the volume I got loud booming sounds with a really decent frequency range, good solid highs, mid and low sounds. I have to say I was impressed with this little set of speakers.
Logitech has really put together a nice affordable, great sounding solution for folks just like me with the z623's. You can find them for well under $200 online or in stores. 200 watt rms no distortion… A great value indeed.

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ReactOS 0.4.7 released!
The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.7 as we continue to work on releasing every three months.
We're especially pleased to present this release as the very first one that's been developed in our new Git/GitHub repository. Moving from Subversion to GitHub has proven to be an invaluable way to reach new testers, users and improve the overall awareness of the ReactOS project.


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Six-Press Automated Stamping Lines Headed to Chinese Automotive OEM
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The Schuler Group, Goeppingen, Germany (represented in North America by Schuler Inc., Canton, MI) will supply two fully automated press lines to FAW-Volkswagen Automotive Company in China, a joint venture between First Automotive Works, Volkswagen and Audi. Each line will comprise six mechanical presses with a total force of 9100 tons, and speedbar press-to-press transfer technology that will enable production rates as high as 13 large panels/min.
Schuler also will supply a pair of hydraulic tryout presses to the plant, located in Changchun.
See also: Schuler Incorporated
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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, an earthquake measuring between 5.5 and 5.7 on the Richter Scale struck the area June 23rd, lasting approximately 20 seconds.
The tremor hit at 1:41 p.m. ET south of Echo Lake, Que., 60 kilometres north of Ottawa, near the Ontario border, and was felt across southern and eastern Ontario and western Quebec, as well as in some U.S. states, including Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Jersey and New York.
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A favorite of many generations, Cow Tales treats have always been made the same old-fashioned way with a low fat, low sodium, no cholesterol recipe. You'll enjoy the same great taste that's been loved for years.Made with wheat flour, milk and real cream, Cow Tales have a clean simple taste that doesn't give you that sour stomach that many really sugary sweets give you. Vanilla, Strawberry or Chocolate. Pkg. of 2. Made in the U.S.A.
Ingredients: wheat flour, corn syrup, dextrose, sugar, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, high fructose corn syrup, modified whey, skim milk, cream, mono and diglycerides, salt, lecithin, corn starch and artificial flavors.
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Winemaker Marcus Ansems heads new wine club
In a brief e-mail to friends and associates, Australian-born winemaker Marcus Ansems announced on November 12 that he has left Therapy Vineyards to run Hemispheres Wine Guild, a new wine importing club.
Marcus has been the general manager and winemaker at Therapy for the past three years, the latest stop in a varied Canadian winemaking career.
Born in 1974, he comes from the Australian family that formerly owned Mount Langhi-Ghiran, the producer of one of the top Australian Shiraz wines. After getting a winemaking degree from the University of Adelaide, Marcus launched a career as one of Australia's young flying winemakers. He did crushes in South Africa, Tuscany and the Rhone before joining the Creekside winery in Ontario in 1999. In four vintages there, he took Creekside from start-up to a rising star. He also handled the turnaround of Creekside's sister winery in Nova Scotia.
He returned briefly to Australia but was back in Canada in 2004, this time as the winemaker at Blasted Church in the Okanagan. He moved to Therapy the following year when it was starting up. As he left, the winery had just completed its 2008 crush, producing about 11,500 cases. In a matter of weeks, production moves into a new $2 million winery on Therapy's Naramata site.
The successor in Therapy's Cellar is Steve Latchford, a winemaker who has worked with the Jackson-Triggs winery in Niagara and recently with the Holman-Lang group of wineries in the Okanagan.
In his e-mail, Marcus that his new project "will allow me to travel to interesting wine regions with my family and bring back wine [for our members] not currently available in Canada."
He is president of Hemisphere Wine Club, which describes itself as a subscription-based co-operative. It is currently soliciting for members through its website, www.hemisphereswine.ca. For a $500 initiation fee (waived until January 1, 2009) and either monthly or annual payments, members will get quarterly shipments of imported wines chosen for them by Marcus. The quantities vary between eight and 16 cases a year, depending on what members sign up for.
Level one members (eight cases a year) pay either $209 a month of $2,500 a year. Level two members get 12 cases a year for $334 a month. Level three members (16 cases a year, four of which are ultra-premium and another four are icon wines) pay $500 a month or $6,000 a year.
The approximate model appears to be the Opimian Society, a wine club that was launched in 1973 and now claims a national membership of 18,000. The original general partner of the investor group that started Therapy Vineyards, John McBean, ran the Opimian Society in southern Alberta for many years. McBean and Therapy parted company this summer after an acrimonious dispute among the investors.


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When should I remove the fountain
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While we're not particularly anxious for winter to arrive it is in our best interest to start preparing for the cold that will inevitably come. Since you are working not only outdoors but in the water as well you may want to get a jump start on removing your fountain from your pond before you start feeling the full effects of Winter.
Convenience aside, you can leave your fountain in the pond until ice starts to form. Surface forming ice may damage the float or other parts of your fountain and can potentially prevent water passing through the spray nozzle from returning back into the pond. This ice barrier can cause the fountain to run dry destroying your fountain's motor.
Removing your fountain and preparing it for storage is a fairly simple process. Most fountains have a quick disconnect at the motor that lets you separate the fountain from the main power cord. Make sure you turn off the power to the fountain and pull your fountain ashore. Wash down the fountain and float assembly to remove any algae or debris that may have accumulated over the season, a pressure washer makes short work of even the dirtiest fountains. Inspect electrical cables for signs of wear or damage and, if your fountain has lights, check for burnt out or damaged bulbs and lenses.
Since the fountain is out of the pond and won't be used for a few months, now is the perfect time to send it to a licensed repair facility for any routine maintenance it my require such as oil changes or seal replacements. Once your fountain is cleaned and inspected store it in an upright position in a climate controlled location like a heated pole barn or garage. Since there are many different types of fountains, it is very important that you read through your users manual for special instructions and maintenance plans to keep your fountain running at its very best.
If you are feeling adventurous and want to run your fountain throughout the winter you can minimize the risk of damaging your equipment by selecting a more suitable spray nozzle and regularly monitoring the environment. Choose a spray nozzle that throws heavier streams of water instead of a misty pattern. Water moving at a higher volume in a dense pattern is less likely to freeze than water sprayed in a finer pattern. Periodically check the fountain to make sure the spray nozzle is unobstructed and that the water can return back into the pond. If you are going to run your fountain in temperatures below freezing you will have to run it continuously or the water in the fountain head will freeze when switched off. Keep in mind that parts damaged by winter operation may not be covered under your manufacturer's warranty.
If your fountain is your primary source of aeration you have a few alternatives to get you through the winter. Try to keep a hole open through the surface ice in your pond. This will allow toxic gasses formed by decomposing organic debris to exit the pond and let fresh air in. Since cold water holds oxygen easier and your fish are less active in cold water you may not need additional aeration. If you are concerned however, you can install a bottom plate aeration system which can be run year round even when ice forms on the pond.
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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, generally hairy, generally taprooted
Stem prostrate to erect
Leaves simple to pinnately compound, basal or cauline, alternate or opposite; stipules 0
Inflorescence: cyme (generally raceme-like and coiled) or flowers solitary
Flower bisexual, generally radial; calyx lobes generally 5, generally fused at base, generally persistent, enlarging in fruit; corolla generally deciduous, rotate to cylindric, lobes generally 5, appendages in pairs on tube between filaments or 0; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, filament base sometimes appendaged, appendages scale-like; ovary generally superior, chamber 1, placentas 2, parietal, enlarged into chamber, sometimes meeting so ovary appears 25-chambered, styles 12, stigmas generally head-like
Fruit: capsule, generally loculicidal; valves generally 2
Genera in family: 20 genera, 300 species: especially w US; some cultivated (Emmenanthe, Nemophila, Phacelia )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to be included in an expanded Boraginaceae (also including Lennoaceae) [Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 1998 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 85:531553; Olmstead et al. 2000 Mol Phylog Evol 16:96112]
Stem erect; bark shredding
Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, leathery; upper surface glabrous, shiny, sticky, or tomentose; lower surface tomentose
Inflorescence generally open, terminal
Flower: corolla funnel- to bell-shaped, white, lavender, or purple, hairy outside; stamens included, filaments generally hairy; ovary chambers 2, styles 2, generally hairy
Fruit 13 mm wide; valves 4
Seeds striate, dark brown or black
Species in genus: 9 species: sw US, Mex
Etymology: (Greek: woolly net, from undersurface of some leaves)
Reference: [Hannan 1988 Amer J Bot 75:579588]
Stem 13 m; twigs densely hairy to tomentose
Leaf 317 cm, 16 cm wide, lance-ovate to oblong, short-petioled, entire to toothed, sparsely hairy to white-tomentose above, tomentose below
Flower: calyx lobes 26 mm, densely hairy; corolla 516 mm, lavender, densely hairy; styles 38 mm
Seeds 814
Chromosomes: n=14
Ecology: Slopes, roadsides, washes, river bottoms, mesas
Elevation: 302500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Tehachapi Mountain Area, Outer South Coast Ranges, South Coast, Western Transverse Ranges, San Gabriel Mountains, Peninsular Ranges.Lf hairiness variable; vars. not easily distinguished.
Leaf: surfaces white tomentose
Ecology: Habitats of sp.
Elevation: 301600 m.
Bioregional distribution: South Coast, Western Transverse Ranges, San Gabriel Mountains, Peninsular Ranges
Horticultural information: DRN, SUN, DRY or IRR: 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; INV; STBL.


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ADEX 2013 show report
This year's Asian Dive Expo was held from 19 to 22 April at the Sands Convention Center, Singaproe. Besides the Scubcam/Wetpixel party, we were also there to cover the latest in underwater imaging, and the show did not disappoint. There were quite a lot of new housings, including some for point and shoots like the G15 and GX1, some for the EVF big sensor cameras like the NEX6 but it was largely a show for the big cameras. So, let's not waste time with pointless filler text and get down to the nitty-gritty.
ScubaCam Singapore
My first stop was ScubaCam Singapore's stall. They are the store front for some major manufacturers and owner David Cheung also does production work on the side. So it was no surprise to find a big cache of top-of-the-line housings. It was also where Wetpixel was displaying the Full Frame website relaunch.
Gates sent out 2 housings, but the one that interested me most was the prototype for the Sony PMWF55 Cinealta camera. It wasn't a working prototype so there was no opportunity to play with it in the pool but it was nice to see what is being planned for the housing. The great news is that it fits the 4k 16bit RAW recorder AXS-R5 so the F55 will be able to record up to 240fps in 2k and 60fps 4k 16bit RAW.
The prototype shows the camera has to be mounted to the ceiling of the housing, using a nice little sliding tray system. The F55 top handle has various ¼" and 3/8" screw mounts to allow for more space at the bottom for accessories like a dovetail mount. This way, the bottom space allows a dovetail to remain on the camera so the camera can come out of the housing directly onto a tripod etc. without much fuss.
The housing also has access to the menu functions and allows for a 3G-SDI outlet for a top monitor. As with other cinema housings, it supports a wide range of lenses. It uses 3 of the old "finger snapper" latches to secure the housing and has the Gates Seal Check II system for added security. The housing is due to ship in July 2013 at a MSRP of US$18,000. There are more pictures here.
Another housing on display was the PMW200, the ½" sensor "kid" sibling of the PMW range. It features all the same functions as the EX1 and can also be fitted with the optional Seal Check II system.
Other new housings on display included the first production Rouge, Amphibico's housing for the Red Scarlet/Epic cameras and the Genesis FS700 for the Sony FS700. I've been pretty interested in checking out the Rouge, as it's the first all electronic housing for the Red camera.
The Rouge has 2 Amphibi-grips with 14 controls that allows full electronic control, thus it does not require a REDMOTE to function. It's a really compact housing, but it is heavier than the Nauticam Rossa (what's with all euro language versions of red?). IRIS, focus and zoom are servo driven, which requires each lens to be calibrated each time it's loaded. 3G HD-SDI and HDMI outputs allow the use of an external monitor. There is a hydrophone and even a Tally light for pool use with talent, which is an important concern since pool work is a big part of shooting in film production.
The housing uses a dual latch hinged door design, which is much better than the "finger snapper" locks, and a purpose-built dome port opening, using the same 9.25" glass as used in Aquatica's DSLR dome port, and is a bayonet mount. Overall, it's an intriguing housing and I can't wait to try it. MSRP is US$12999 and it's shipping now. More detailed pictures are available here.
Accompanying the Rouge was the Genesis FS700, which took quite a few features from the higher-end Rouge. It also features electronic control with the Amphibi-grips, but adds manual buttons for comprehensive control of the camera including the menu system. Like the Rouge, it also uses a hinged door rear with a simple twist latch for quick and easy access. However, viewing the camera's monitor is via a window in the top of the housing. This window can be fitted with an optional sunshade if required.
Another difference in design is that unlike the Rouge, the FS700 utilizes Aquatica's DSLR ports, including their port lock system. Overall, the Genesis FS700 is a very compact housing and Amphibico is rumored to be making a housing for the Convergent Design Odyssey 7P, so the FS700 can record in 4k up to 60p. The zoom dial is big but there isn't any focus dial. Aquatica does have a focus-able 58mm extension ring, so this may give a solution. I'll be interested to see which lenses are covered with the FS700 housing. Still, with the 240fps in full HD and the possibility of an expandable ability to go 4k soon, the FS700, even with its issues with white balance underwater, may have found new momentum as an underwater camera. More detailed pictures and discussions on the FS700 are available here.
The Nauticam NA Rossa was on display with a macro port, something I hadn't seen yet. We did manage to give feedback to Edward Lai of Nauticam about his first foray into cinema camera housings and he was very receptive to our ideas. At under US$10000, it is one of the cheaper Red Epic/Scarlet housings. Functionally, it works well but the ergonomics needs more work. It is a light housing but with the Nauticam ports system, it is limited to Canon EF lenses and perhaps a few PL mount cinema lenses. Lenses like the new Arri Alura series are too big for the port system. It should fit the venerable Angenieux 15-40 Optimo though. There have been a few field tests done and are discussed in-depth on the forum here.
Apart from the big manufacturers, David Cheung also had his own housing on display. The Cinema II is a sectional tube housing for the Arri Alexa and Phantom Flex cameras. Designed to be highly modular, it's mostly for pool work but can be adapted for oceanic work too, if combined with a BCD for buoyancy. Having used a Phantom underwater, I think it's worthwhile saying that it's a wonderful camera to have…IF there's enough light for high-speed work!
Apart from the big cinema housings, ScubaCam also had a few more brand new things on display. Fisheye Japan's Kenji Ohmura dropped off the brand new FIX NEO DX lights with LED read outs. The new lights have a removable Li-Poly battery but can also be charged without opening the lights through the gold-plated connections on the outside of the light. There will also be a remote control that can control the light from far away. The FIX NEO DX uses a red filter to get a red light for light-sensitive sea life, as there is a patent on red LED lights on an underwater light.
Speaking of lights, the RGBlue System O1 was also on display. This light is unique in that it doesn't have a cluster of LED lights, which can cause spot lighting and that multiple shadow effect some lights display. It uses a single Chip On Board (COB) LED light, which has 80 CRI and 5000°K light temperature with 2200 max lumens. It seems like a wonderful light except the battery life is pretty poor. At 2200lm, it only lasts 35 minutes, well short of a full dive. Still, the COB design looks great and hopefully they'll solve the battery issue.
ScubaCam's product range of Sea Gadget's also has a new +10 diopter for the 67mm accessory mount cameras. This new diopter falls in to compete with the macro diopter market of Subsee and others.
Scubacam was the hub of the show for many professional camera people, and Scubazoo's Jason Isley and Roger Munns, Stephen Frink, Gutsy Tuason, Dietmar Fuchs etc were all at one point in the booth. Even Seacam's Harald Hordosch came in to demonstrate the Seacam D800 housing for a client.
And thanks to Harald, we had the privilege of watching the first 3D clips I've seen that have shot behind a dome port from the Seacam C300 3D housing. I wasn't the only one interested….
Even with all the activity, there was more to ADEX…


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Few days back I wrote about strace tool for reporting and finding bug in program. Today I'm going to talk about another interesting tool called valgrind.
Valgrind is a flexible program for debugging and profiling Linux executables. It consists of a core, which provides a synthetic CPU in software, and a series of "tools", each of which is a debugging or profiling tool. The architecture is modular, so that new tools can be created easily and without disturbing the existing structure. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use Valgrind to build new tools.
The Valgrind distribution currently includes five production-quality tools:
- a memory error detector
- a thread error detector
- a cache and branch-prediction profiler
- a call-graph generating cache profiler
- a heap profiler
It also includes two experimental tools:
- a data race detector
- an instant memory leak detector.
It runs on the following platforms:
- X86/Linux
- AMD64/Linux
- PPC32/Linux
- PPC64/Linux
How do I use valgrind?
Valgrind is typically run as follows:
$ valgrind command-name arg1 arg2 argN
$ valgrind program args
$ valgrind ./myapp -d /tmp -f 120
You can select tool using the –tool=TOOLName option. For example use memcheck which is a fine-grained memory checker. To generate trace back for command called myapp, enter:
$ valgrind --tool=memcheck -v --log-file=myapp.dbg --num-callers=8 ./myapp -d /tmp -f 120
- –tool=memcheck : Run the Valgrind tool called memcheck
- -v : Verbose output
- –log-file=myapp.dbg : Specifies that Valgrind should send all of its messages to the specified file.
- –num-callers=8 : By default, Valgrind shows twelve levels of function call names to help you identify program locations. You can change that number with this option. This can help in determining the program's location in deeply-nested call chains.
The –leak-check option turns on the detailed memory leak detector:
$ valgrind --tool=memcheck -v --log-file=myapp.dbg --num-callers=8 --leak-check=yes ./myapp -d /tmp -f 120


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Srebrenica: Blood
In July 1995 Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic murdered some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys after the fall of the enclave of Srebrenica. It was a seminal event in the history, not just of the Balkans but of the rest of this part of Europe too. The failure of Western leaders to act is likely to have been one of the considerations in mind when they decided to go to war with Milosević's Serbia over Kosovo in 1999.
Much has been written about Srebrenica but one of the most profound books of all was written by Chuck Sudetic who worked for the New York Times covering the Croatian and Bosnian wars. Much of the story was told through the eyes of the Čelik family, to whom he is distantly related by marriage. They came from a hamlet in eastern Bosnia and eventually ended up in besieged Srebrenica. Their story gave Sudetic an extraordinary insight, especially into the way that local historical memories shaped peoples' actions in our times. Naser Orić was the commander of Bosnian Muslim forces in Srebrenica and Žepa was another less populated enclave, which was close but physically separated from Srebrenica. This passage describes events in 1992.
In late September, Orić and Žepa's commander, Avdo Palić, amassed their forces around Podravanje, a Serb village that controls a rich bauxite pit and straddles the ancient caravan route between Srebrenica and Žepa. Serb fighters in Podravanje had been drawing Muslim blood since the beginning of the war. They had not forgotten that the Austrian army, which included many local Muslims, had burned their village in 1914 and that the Ustaše, who also included many Muslims from neighbouring villages, had killed over 250 Serbs and burned the place in 1942 and 1943. Podravanje's Serbs had been firing mortars and tank cannons into Srebrenica and nearby Muslim hamlets for months and been ambushing Muslims hiking between Žepa and Srebrenica, just as their ancestors had done in the summer of 1943 when Naza Čelik, Huso's grandmother, was killed there. Now Orić wanted to drive the Serbs out and free the mountain trail between Srebrenica and Žepa.
After the village was taken the torbari – or bag people – rushed in. They were the hungry of Srebrenica who followed the troops with their bags to raid for food and whatever else they could find.
Paja grew angry at himself as he watched the men and women stream back into Srebrenica, bent over under the weight of rucksacks stuffed with meat, potatoes, flour, beans, and salt. Down the mountain into town came blankets, mattresses, clothing, canisters of gasoline, and farm tools. Paja had known that the attack was coming – everyone in Srebrenica had known the attack was coming – but he had been afraid to go. Paja had never before seen a Muslim attack that had ended in anything but retreat and confusion.
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia. Chuck Sudetic. 1998.
[pp. 157-8 / W. W. Norton]
April 2007
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A minister speaks to the EPA on the natural order
I am a Lutheran minister, and I teach on the subject of religion and the environment for a Lutheran college. I am also a member of the board of Colorado Interfaith Power and Light.
Colorado is one of 40 IPL state affiliates working with communities of faith to lessen the impacts of climate change through education, through taking action to reduce their own carbon footprints and through advocacy for more environmentally responsible policies at every level of government.
We do this out of our conviction that we human beings have a divine calling and responsibility as caretakers of the creation — the beautiful, intricate, interdependent web of life and natural resources upon which all life, including our own, depends. It is a sacred calling to care for a sacred gift.
All major religious traditions share this belief in our calling to be stewards of creation, to see ourselves not as the masters and commanders of the earth, but as part of a community of creatures who live an interdependent existence.
We are not outside or above the natural order, we are part of it, and everything we do affects that natural order.
We cannot pretend that our activity on the earth has no impacts and no consequences. Our scriptures attest that the well-being of the creation is dependent on treating it and each other with reverence and respect. In turn, our own well-being as a human community is dependent on the well-being of the ecosphere.
As people of faith, we believe that God speaks to us through the creation, and that scientific inquiry is one of the tools available to us in order to discern what creation is saying.
Concerns about climate change and intensive scientific research into its causes and potential impacts have been ongoing for several decades, and we are now experiencing many of the impacts that scientists began alerting us to back then. Our climate is changing rapidly. We know that a major driver of that change is the emission of carbon dioxide, and we know that the largest single source of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions is electrical power plants, mostly powered by coal.


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Editor's note: This story has been updated to update where Bryce Johnson lives.
Two college students have more than aching muscles to show for 12 days and 836 adventurous miles bicycling to Aurora, New York.
Brontë Benson and Bryce Johnson, both of Rockford, have raised $2,185 through a CrowdRise campaign for GiGi's Playhouse Rockford, a support center for people with Down syndrome.
Benson and Johnson, 2013 graduates of Augustana College, are studying at Northern Illinois University. Benson, who plans to work in speech and language pathology after NIU, is a tutor at GiGi's Playhouse.
The pair had been thinking about the cross-country bike ride for some time, even though neither has experience cycling distances.
"We decided to knock out two birds with one stone before life got too busy," Johnson said.
They set out July 17 with recently purchased bikes. Brontë's was new, Johnson's was used.
By the third day, problems set it.
After repeatedly patching one tire tube on Johnson's bike, the chain broke. The duo were rescued from an Indiana cornfield by a couple on their way to dinner. "They went home, got their pickup and took us to a bike shop in Michigan City," Johnson said.
In the end, the pit stop turned out to be game-changer. "They fixed up a lot of stuff for free, gave us tips on how to ride and helped us travel lighter."
One important tip was that cemeteries have an open water source. Learning that allowed the pair to bike carrying less water.
They also were told about a hospitality website for touring bicyclists, warmshowers.org, which they used several times.
"It was a wonderful experience," Benson said. "It was just amazing to see the countryside not from an Interstate but through small towns."
Donations are still being accepted at crowdrise.com/bikingforgigis. All contributions go directly to GiGi's in Rockford, one of 16 centers nationwide that provide networking opportunities and support for families and no-fee programming for children and adults with Down syndrome.
Founded in 2003 by a Hoffman Estates mother of a child with Down syndrome, the centers focus on educational and therapeutic goals disguised as fun. Building self-esteem while developing new skills is another important element.
The Rockford center opened in 2010 and serves more than 210 families. "Our mission is to inspire and empower individuals with Down syndrome to succeed in life," manager Paula Capone said.
"It's a happy place to be. It's just infectious. People come in with smiles and they leave with smiles. I call it a hidden gem."


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click here to read "Londonderry's Bandstand Needs a Band-Aid"
The latest story from the Londonderry Online News website about the bandstand on the common. Hopefully the work won't interfere with Old Home Day, but it is sorely needed. I remember being up on stage 23 years ago for the Old Home Day baby contest, and up there with the Girl Scouts for various events over the years. Most of New Hampshire's historic town commons have band stands, like this one.


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* BNA SOFTWARE reports on recent testimony before the Senate Finance Committee in "Experts: Temporarily Extend Tax Cuts With 2013 Tax Reform Guarantee".
Some good advice was offered to the idiots on the Committee (highlight it mine) -
"Rivlin {Alice Rivlin, the former Congressional Budget Office director and head of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration} and former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force, urged lawmakers to temporarily extend the Bush-era tax cuts but include language with it forcing fundamental tax reform."
The fundamental tax reform needed -
"Rivlin also urged lawmakers to scrap the current Internal Revenue Code and start over by assuming that all income is taxable and then figure out which modifications and tax expenditures are absolutely essential, even though they would raise the rate."
* Jason Dinesen of DINESEN'S TAX TIMES talks about "Being In The Tax Business and Making Mistakes".
In a recent post at THE TAX PROFESSIONAL I addressed the subject of mistakes by tax preparers –
"In the history of the US Tax Code there has NEVER been a paid preparer who has NEVER made a mistake. The complexity of the Code and the workload demands of the limited filing season make it literally impossible for a paid preparer to complete a perfect tax return every time."
* The TAX FOUNDATION now has a "Weekly Tax Update" newsletter.
* The TAXPAYER ADVOCACY PANEL wants you to "Submit your comments and suggestions for improving the IRS". Click here to do so.
* Trish McIntire discusses an "Underpayment Catch-22" over at OUR TAXING TIMES.
This raises an interesting point about "self-assessing" a penalty for underpayment of estimated taxes. Be sure to see my comment on the post – and her response. Trish and I have "agreed to disagree" on the subject.
* A post from Trish has "turned me on" to a new tax blog – TAX FACTOR by Jamaal Solomon, EA from Brooklyn NY.
Here is a post titled "Dem IRS No Worry We: EAs Are America's Tax Experts" that explains just what an EA is.


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It would be understandable if representing Scotland under-21s wasn't uppermost in the mind of Oliver Burke right now. That, though, will be anything but the case according to Scot Gemmill, who will manage him at international level next month.
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A year ago, the opening international break of the season brought Burke a first start for Scotland's full team. It came only a matter of days after he had become the country's most expensive player with a £13 million move to RB Leipzig from Nottingham Forest. Now he has dropped out of the senior set-ups for both club and country – a £15m move to Crystal Palace has been mooted – causing the clamour that was once around him as Scotland's big hope to dissipate.
The need for the winger to put his career on an upward trajectory again has Gemmill convinced that Burke will be bursting to show his worth when Scotland U21 host Holland in their European Championship opener on 5 September. He can say so confidently because the 20-year-old proved an inspirational performer as the young Scots reached the semi-finals of the Toulon tournament in May.
"Oliver is obviously, hopefully, going to be coming with a real point to prove," said Gemmill. "Not just with what has happened with the national team but his club as well. He's said himself that he's determined not to sulk, determined to improve himself.
"Oliver was incredible in the summer, in terms of his application. In a way, we shouldn't have expected anything else, knowing him as we do.
"I went to see him during pre-season in Austria recently and he spoke really well. We weren't sure at that time if Gordon Strachan was going to take him for the full squad. The fact that he hasn't, we benefit from that. Now we really need to use the weapons he's got, his power and his pace."
Gemmill isn't concerned about the possibility that Burke could face the upheaval of moving club in the days leading up to the Scotland under-21s meeting up. "Obviously we don't have a lot of insight into that. But it's not long until we play," he said. "I honestly couldn't tell you what is going on behind the scenes. But I know from speaking to him that there's no question he'll be coming to give his maximum."
Asked if he would be disappointed to see Burke move away from a club with an enviable set-up devoted to developing young players, Gemmill said: "That's a personal question for Oliver. He's got himself that move, he's really determined and ambitious. It's about how he sees his pathway, the opportunities he's going to get. He knows that we'll support him whatever he decides."
The young Scots need support in Gemmill's first under-21 campaign. It is one wherein realism dictates that results may have to come second to allowing players to grow and develop an understanding of the requirements of the international domain.
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"At Augustana, we mourn the loss of a dear friend and colleague who touched the lives of countless students, families, faculty and staff members with her passion for life, tenacious spirit and gentle compassion," said Rob Oliver, president. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Tracy's family and friends during this difficult time."
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The performance of the Macedonian economy since the transition from socialism has not been impressive. For years Macedonia had lower growth, higher official unemployment, and lower FDI than its neighbours. The 2001 uprising, which left the country on the brink of civil war, plunged the economy into recession. In 2001, GDP declined by 4.5 percent. In the years since, GDP grew, but only slowly. Only very recently has the situation begun to improve.
The weak performance of Macedonia's economy is strongly linked to its socialist legacy. Until the late 1940s, the area that today makes up the Republic of Macedonia – battered by the two Balkan wars and the two World Wars – was backward, rural and poor. It was only alongside communism that industrialisation came to Macedonia; it was to leave a lasting mark on the country's economy.
The creation of urban industrial centres led to an important demographic shift, as people left the rural areas to take up jobs in towns and cities. The country's most important industries were metal processing, textiles, food processing and chemicals (Economist Intelligence Unit). Until the collapse of Yugoslavia, these sectors were able to survive thanks to protected markets and the lack of trade barriers within the Socialist Federal Republic. Nevertheless, Macedonia remained one of the country's poorest areas.
After the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Macedonia's socialist enterprises were exposed as inefficient and overstaffed. Macedonia entered a period of deindustrialisation. Factories laid off workers and sharply cut production. A private sector – entrepreneurial businesses that could promote industrial development – failed to materialise. Between 1990 and 2006, the industrial sector's contribution to GDP declined from 45 percent to 28 percent (EIU). Deindustrialisation led to a large increase in unemployment. In the Kumanovo region, for example, there were 18,000 people employed in the industrial sector in 1990; by 2003 only 7,000 jobs remained, with about half of these under threat. In Kicevo, the number of jobs in industry declined from 6,600 to 2,800 between 1989 and 2005. At the national level, official unemployment stood at 36 percent in the first half of 2007, being especially high among young people.
Foreign direct investment in Macedonia was the lowest in the region in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 (CRPM). In 2005 Macedonia attracted only 1 percent of the FDI that went to South East European countries (ICEG EC). This figure is especially striking considering Macedonia's relative progress – as compared to that of other countries in the region – towards EU accession.
Private investment is also low. A 2006 IMF report found private capital accumulation to be the lowest in the region. The process of insider privatisation, through which many of Macedonia's socialist firms were privatised, generated no new capital. Transferring ownership to existing managers and workers also prevented companies from restructuring: these new shareholders had no incentives to lay off workers.
Remittances play an important role in Macedonia's economy. Estimates suggest remittances doubled between 2000 and 2005, reaching a level of 18 percent of GDP by 2005 (IMF). Migration and remittances have proved especially vital for the Albanian minority. For decades Albanians found it more difficult than ethnic Macedonians to secure jobs in the public sector or in industry, leading many of them to emigrate to Western Europe and the United States.
As a landlocked country, Macedonia is dependent on its neighbours for trade and access to ports. When Greece imposed a trade embargo on Macedonia in the course of the long-running dispute about Macedonia's name, the country found itself cut off from the Greek ports that handled much of its trade. It was further buffeted by the 1997 crisis in Albania and the 1999 war in Kosovo, over the course of which Macedonia accepted over 300,000 refugees. Given the importance that Macedonia attaches to regional stability, low trade barriers and good relations with its neighbours, the economic benefits of EU membership would be especially high.
In September 2006, the Prime Minster of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, announced:
"It's high time Macedonia became a new economic tiger, in the footsteps of Ireland and Slovakia. The country is committed to doing so through assistance of all sectors in our society." (News, Government of Republic of Macedonia)
Indeed, economic performance has recently improved. GDP growth in 2007 was estimated at 5.1 percent (CIA World Factbook). The Macedonian government predicts that the gradual upswing will continue in 2008, projecting growth of 6.1 percent. Industrial output increased by 10 percent in January-February 2008 (US embassy). An encouraging example of industrial development is the growth and creation of jobs in the textile sector.
Macedonian Economy Key Facts
GDP Growth (2007)
5.1 %
Per capita GDP (2006)
$ 7,500
Inflation (2007)
Population below poverty line (2006)
Official Unemployment (2007)
Official Employment rate (2007)
GDP by Sector: (Employment by Sector) (2007)
10.3% (19.6%)
28.1% (30.4%)
61.6% (50.0%)
Foreign Direct Investment Net inflows (2007)
$ 320 million
Exports (2007)
$ 3,356 million
Imports (2007)
$ 5,228 million
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Hot Harry moves out
We all do it. Some do it when they leave for university. Some stay until they're married. I recently saw Jeff, Who Lives At Home starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon, and Judy Greer (who is SO lovely) and Segel's character is around 30 and still lives in his ma's basement smoking pot. At the junket I asked him the age at which it's no longer appropriate to be staying at your parents' and he told me he moved out at 17 and in his mind, though his parents are great, you need to be out of there no later than 20. Susan, a mom, felt differently about having her kids with her at home. She's ok with however long it takes. And certainly, in some cultures, there's not the same North American expectation of independent living as you mature. I know Chinese people who've shared a residence with their folks the whole time and still now. It's built-in babysitting too.
And then there are the Royals. I suppose when "home" is always a palace or a mega mega manor, when even small sections of the estate are bigger than shopping malls, "moving out" means something different.
Up to recently, Hot Harry lived with this dad at Clarence House. He and Prince William used to occupy a "suite of rooms" there together. Will and Kate now live in a cottage at Kensington Palace. Harry apparently has just moved into a one bedroom apartment also at Kensington Palace. It used to be a "staff" dwelling and isn't the first class spread you might associate with someone in his position.
In other words, Harry hooked up his own Bachelor Pad.
Where he can fall asleep on the couch after too many beer with his hand down his pants and not have to worry about dad getting on his ass about sleeping in too late. Does Harry play video games? Will he stock up on instant noodles?
If I were Lupo, the Cambridge's puppy, I'd be over at Uncle Harry's all the time. Dogs like a place with a certain musky stink. That's my house.
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Man overboard rescue system wins international navigation prizes
Innovators Peter Hall and Christine Edwards from British company Sci-Tech were awarded this year's Galileo Masters 2008 and the EGNOS special prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition for their novel tracking system for seamen falling overboard.
The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) is an international innovation competition with 13 high-tech regions that awards the best ideas for innovative applications in the field of satellite navigation, and is oriented toward companies, entrepreneurs, research institutes, universities, and private individuals.
The winning proposal is a straightforward yet genial system for fast location of 'man overboard', known among sailors as an MOB. It combines two available technologies, positioning by satellite navigation systems and radio communication, to create a functionality which helps in situations where it is the matter of life and death.
The positioning is provided by the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), in the first instance by the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). In the future it can work with the European satellite navigation system Galileo which will provide greater accuracy. The communication is done on one of the common radio channels used at sea.
Hall and Edwards' MOB tracking system, which won initially in the United Kingdom and Ireland region, is made up of a central unit installed on the ship and mobile units worn by all crew members. When a man falls overboard the mobile unit is detached automatically from the life jacket when it inflates, and on hitting the water it starts transmitting its position to the central unit on the ship. The signal is plotted as a waypoint on the ships navigation device, and the ship can easily return to the position of the MOB. The signal is transmitted on an open radio channel so the MOB position can also be picked up by other ships.
For this idea the winners received the coveted Galileo Masters 2008 award and a cash prize of €20.000. The European Satellite Navigation Competition jury was not alone in their choice of winner. The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), which, this year, had assigned a special prize for the best application of EGNOS was just as convinced by this safety-critical system based on EGNOS as the international jury in the choice of the overall winner.
European Satellite Navigation Competition
The European Satellite Navigation Competition objective is to find new ideas for commercially viable global navigation satellite system applications, and to strengthen the international collaboration, particularly with regard to the development of applications and services made possible by the European satellite navigation system Galileo.
Now in its fifth year, the competition has grown to become one of Europe's largest networks for satellite navigation down-stream applications and covers 11 high-tech regions in Europe and two outside Europe: Queensland in Australia and Taiwan. This year 525 entries were received, double that of previous years.
The European Satellite Navigation Competition is organised by the Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen and the Munich ITC trade fair SYSTEMS. The competition is run under the patronage of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, and supported by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and ESA through its Technology Transfer Programme Office.
This year, special topic prizes were given by sponsors T-Systems, DHL Innovation Center, ESA's Technology Transfer Programme, Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan and European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA).
ESA's Technology Transfer Programme's special topic prize
The winner is Pierre Salmona from the French start-up company, Locus, for a mobile phone-based museum guide which by combining WiFi and stationary pseudo-satellites, so-called pseudolites, allows indoor navigation.
T-Systems / DHL Innovation Center's special topic prize
The winner was the Taiwanese researcher Jung-Huang Liao for the tourism 'CITITOUR' application for backpackers, group travellers and professional tour guides which encompasses mobility, locality, touring and Web 2.0. The winners were Dr Mario Neugebauer and Dr Jürgen Anke from the Dresden-based company Ubigrate. Their system 'LoVoTrack' measures in real-time the position and load volume of delivery vehicles. This information is sent to the transport centre which then can optimise the usage of their transportation fleet.
Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan's special topic prize
The winner was the Taiwanese researcher Jung-Huang Liao for the tourism 'CITITOUR' application for backpackers, group travellers and professional tour guides which encompasses mobility, locality, touring and Web 2.0.
'CITITOUR' turns travellers into tour guides and at the same time makes available mobile exchange of experiences.
All winners were honoured for their creativity and technological competence by the patroness and Bavarian Minister for Economics, Mrs Emilia Müller at the award event last Tuesday in the Court Church of All Saints of the Munich Residence, in Germany.
Regional winners
Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
Winner: Erich Franke from German company Afusoft.
Idea: A system which connects the signals of satellite navigation, mobile telephony and cargo-tags to a secure surveillance network for warehouses and transportation. It protects valuable freight and dangerous goods against theft and warns on incorrect loading or unloading.
Lower Saxony (Germany)
Winner: Frank Brennecke from the German company OECON.
Idea: The hybrid container management system 'LogiLoc' that integrates satellite signals with GSM, RFID and WiFi in a multi-sensor box and thus allows the location of containers independent of the availability of any specific positioning technology both in open and closed spaces.
Bavaria (Germany)
Winners: Alex Ackerman and Yossef Shiri from the Swedish-Israeli company Road-Guard.
Idea: The mobile phone-based 'GreenDrive' system which predicts the routes ahead and recommends to the driver the most economical speed within the given speed limit. The system assists the driver to improve his or her driving-style to reduce the fuel consumption by 15-25%.
Hessen (Germany)
Winner: Robert Carter from Luxembourg.
Idea: The 'IPAYMO – I PAY Mobile' system which uses the precise time signal and position data of satellite navigation systems to increase the security of electronic, mobile and online-based payments, in order to stem fraud and data abuse.
Madrid (Spain)
Winners: Pablo de Miguel and Rafael Olmedo from the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology INTA.
Idea: An 'eWarning' system that informs drivers in real time of obstacles and dangers on the roads ahead before they are visible.
Lombardy (Italy)
Winners: Giorgio Soldavini and Ivan Allevi from the Italian company Allix.
Idea: A tracking platform that facilitates the very precise surveillance of fleets by combining low-cost standard GPS receivers with EGNOS. The initial version is already used to control the transport of toxic waste.
Nice – Sophia Antipolis (France)
Winner: Lokesh Bitra from India.
Idea: The 'Yellow Tags' system which enables the marking of real objects on mobile navigation devices and GPS mobile phones with the help of visual-virtual tags.
North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
Winners: Prof. Dr Jürgen Rossmann, Dr Michael Schluse, Arno Bücken and Petra Krahwinkler from the Institute of Man-Machine-Interaction of RWTH in Aachen, Germany.
Idea: The 'Visual GPS' system which combines robotic-localisation technologies with satellite navigation data in order to increase the accuracy of using GPS in forestry management.
Prague (Czech Republic)
Winner: Dr Jaroslav Jansa from the Czech company Immobiliser Central Europe.
Idea: The mobile, wireless rescue service 'IHY – I Help You' that simplifies the victim's communication with the relevant rescuers. It can be used by people with health problems as well as by people who want to protect themselves against attacks of violence.
Queensland (Australia)
Winners: Dr Charles Worringham from Queensland University of Technology and Bruce Satchwell from the Australian company Alive Technologies.
Idea: A remote monitoring system for the rehabilitation of patients with heart disease, who would hardly have any opportunities, due to time reasons or extreme distances as in Australia, to participate to a cardiac rehabilitation programme.
South Holland (the Netherlands)
Winners: Dutchmen Alex Beek, Jan van Rossum and Maarten Uyterlinde from Food Process Innovations BV.
Idea: The system 'AgriBase' which reduces the administrative work of farmers by documenting the production of their agricultural produce and creates production chain transparency for consumers.
Winners: Terence T. Huang, Alan C.-Y. Lin and Ted. C.-Y. Chang from Quanta Computer in Taiwan.
Idea: The Web 2.0 platform 'YouCast' which provides location-based videos on cellular phones in real time.


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NEW YORK — City Comptroller John C. Liu called for raising the minimum wage, leveling the playing field for small businesses and making higher education more affordable for New Yorkers in a wide-ranging speech yesterday — his second state of the city address — in front of hundreds of people, including several elected officials.
With a showy introduction that included singing elementary school children performing "We're all in this together" from the High School Musical and a contemporary dance performance, Liu's speech was the ambitious, sweeping kind you might expect from someone who has made his ambitions to be the next mayor well known — not the talking points of the city's "chief financial officer." Liu is the only comptroller in the city's history to deliver a state of the city speech.
"New York should be a city where working men and women can afford to make ends meet," Liu said, striking a populist tenor that seemed to put him on the progressive side of the Democratic Party. "We have to continue to speak up for the working poor."
The elected officials in the crowd included Borough Presidents Scott Stringer, Ruben Diaz Jr. and Marty Markowitz; Assemblymen Guillermo Linares and David Weprin; state Sen. Kevin Parker; and Council members Daniel Dromm, Gale Brewer, Robert Jackson, Jumaane Williams and Ydanis Rodriguez.
"For me he touched on concrete issues that are important to our community," Rodriguez said after the 50-minute speech.
The New York Post said of Liu's speech: "All that was missing from John Liu's campaign-style â€state of the city' lollapalooza at John Jay College yesterday were fireworks and a balloon drop." The newspaper continued, "He needs to just go away, and to stage his circuses on his own dime."
A cloud of scandal overshadows Liu's presumed ambitions to run for mayor in 2013 after federal authorities began investigating fundraising improprieties by his campaign. A fundraiser for Liu and his campaign treasurer have been arrested and are facing trial.
The scandal went unmentioned by Liu. And there was plenty of policy substance to Liu's speech, even if there is very little he could do to channel them into actual law. "All of these proposals can't be done locally. They must be approved by Albany," said Doug Turetsky, of the city's Independent Budget Office.
Even so, Liu has shown a knack for using his bully pulpit as the comptroller to push for his agenda, from reforming the NYPD dress code to allow Sikhs to wear long beards and turbans to improving high school graduation rates.
"In times like these it's not just managing our money," Liu said during the speech delivered at John Jay College. "It's managing the impossible. But New Yorkers deserve it and the people of our city are counting on it to make our lives easier, better, and fairer. Every dollar does something so every saving means something."
Here are three of Liu's major policy proposals:
Increase the minimum wage by $4.25
Some in the audience applauded in unison after Liu called for an increase in the minimum wage. "If you are serious about narrowing the wealth gap, we need to have the courage to pay all New Yorkers a livable minimum wage," Liu said.
Though he also pointed out that he supports legislators in Albany were working to raise the wage to $8.50 an hour, he said the cost of living in the city is much higher and that that amount of pay "buys a lot more in Buffalo and Rochester than it does in the Bronx and Brooklyn."
Eliminate the city's taxes for some businesses
Liu announced his proposal to eliminate the city's general corporations tax for businesses with less than $5,000 in assets, which would help roughly 240,000 businesses. He also proposed that 25,000 businesses — such as neighborhood pizza stores, dry cleaners, vegetable grocers, and home repair contractors — be exempt from the unincorporated business tax, costing the city $100 million.
Liu said he proposed offsetting the cost of saving small businesses by closing corporate loopholes. The comptroller plans to require insurance companies, which are currently exempt, to pay the general tax, and private equity firms to pay a tax on all profits from assets held as investments.
He also said he wanted Madison Square Garden to start paying a property tax, which he says costs the city $15 million a year.
"I love the Knicks even though they sent Jeremy Lin to Houston, but the Garden should be kicking in its fair share just like everyone else," Liu said.
Turetsky said what is particularly unusual about the property tax exemption on Madison Square Garden is that it is on privately owned land, unlike places like Citi Field, Yankee Stadium and the Barclays Center. "It's unusual for that kind of tax break to be done without an expiration date," he said.
Making education more affordable
Liu also proposed making tuition free for all students of the city's public colleges as he cited the Macaulay Honors College program — a highly-selective honors program throughout the city's public colleges offering free tuition and academic scholarships to students. Liu said the tuition for the city's public colleges should be free for the top 10 percent of students from public high schools bringing the City University of New York at the "level of a competitive prize" while also acting as a life-saver to working families.
Elvia Martinez, 17, a senior from the Abraham Lincoln high school in Coney Island, Brooklyn who is applying to two CUNY colleges said the proposal for free tuition for the best high school students was a good idea.
"More people would have the opportunity to go to college," said Martinez, who said she hopes to become an accountant like Liu someday, though her parents also have to pay college tuition for her two sisters and brother.
Councilman Rodriguez, who is also chair of the Council's committee on higher education, said he was happy to hear the comptroller's focus on "concrete initiatives" like building partnerships with high schools and public colleges and guaranteeing free tuition for the best students from public schools.
"I am very thankful to the comptroller for his position on everything but especially the college readiness piece. I believe the city will move in the fastest way if we prepare our men and women to be the new leaders."
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The other day I was working on designing an online course and needed a program that I could create a screencast in order to show participants how to complete a task. After searching the web, I found a neat little program called Jing.
Jing is an easy to use, always available program for creating screenshots and screencasts in any program. It simply sits quietly at the top of your computer screen as a gold colored half-circle. When you want to use it, you just scroll your pointer over the half-circle and options for using the program appear.
It worked great for making a video tutorial, with audio, outlining the process of what I wanted participants to accomplish. After using it for this purpose, I started thinking about how this could be used in a classroom. I could see this being used to capture that tough concept that you outline on the board for the students, and then post it on your website for the students to review later. Or, comment on student work that has been turned in electronically. Check it out for yourself at http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ and see if you can find other uses of Jing. Don't forget to check out the Overview Video on the site!
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I wasn't able to live blog last night's lecture by Marc Simmons from Front, but it's just as well, as he talks so articulately that it's better to watch the video yourself, at the GSD's YouTube channel.
It was a great presentation of Front's façade consultation and design/build work, integrating conversations about architectural intentions, competitions and client relations, material experimentation and technology, digital fabrication, financial and contractual aspects of each job, construction, and affect and experience.
Something for everyone!
Thanks for reading.
P.S. Here's a concept diagram for program that I made for studio today...
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Art history and children's education are the issues explored in my body of work. Love for art and interest in its development, along with my passion for development and education of children, led to my investigation. In the end, my body of work included paint media (paintings), photo media ('Mary') and graphic design (everything condensed as THE book). To make the book idea realistic, it was printed. The title of the book – This is modern art Mary's journey – was appropriated from an adult educational book on modern art entitled This is modern art.


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NEWS- Dwarfed: Coal tower to get 9-story neighbor
The land around Charlottesville's most industrial landmark has long been in the sights of developers– and even a notorious double slaying couldn't stop the inevitable in-fill in land-scarce Charlottesville.
Oliver Kuttner had dreams of putting up nine buildings with warehouse, studio, and office space when he bought the old CSX coal tower and 10.8 acres of land in 1995. But his efforts ran afoul of authorities when he started excavating without a permit, and the city issued a stop-work order. Things got worse.
In August 2001, an allegedly drug-addled young man who'd been living in the tower as a squatter, 20-year-old Craig Nordensen, shot and killed Katie Johnson, 16, and Marcus Griffin, 20 and proceeded to hold police at bay for several hours.
Two years later, Kuttner sold the property to Dave Matthews Band manager/land baron Coran Capshaw for $5.48 million, according to city records.
Now, Capshaw stands ready to develop via his Choco Cruz LLC. The coal tower will stay, but it'll be joined by four buildings, according to city planner Missy Creasy. Thanks to the city's 2003 overhaul of its zoning ordinance in 2003 which removed many height restrictions to encourage denser development, one building could rise nine stories.
Plans call for a mixed-use project, with 64 townhouses (four above a parking structure), 118 condos, and a commercial segment that includes restaurants and retail on 2.77 acres of the site, Creasy says. And parking– lots of parking– 506 spaces, some of which are underground.
Juniee Oneiga lives across the tracks from the coal tower in Belmont Lofts. "It's one of the biggest developments in Charlottesville I've seen," he says. "In sheer size, there's nothing else like it."
He questions whether– in a town where hundreds of apartments have recently been converted and offered for sale– new condos are really needed, and he's concerned about that nine-story building.
"From a selfish point of view," says Oneiga. "I don't want it to block the view."
Oneiga is on the fence about the development. "Some say it's good because there will be more restaurants," he offers. "Some say it's a monstrosity."
Joan Schatzman has no such qualms. She lives down the street on Douglas Avenue, and while she cautions that she hasn't seen the plans, she says, "I'm excited when there's high-density development inside the city rather than suburban sprawl."
Her bigger concern is about the CSX tracks that split the city. 'We need an easy way to cross if this is going to be a world-class city," she says. "It's pretty inconvenient."
Aside from a steep slope waiver that will go to the Planning Commission, much of the project is "by right," says Creasy. City planners held a site plan conference April 5 after the Hook went to press.
Developer Dillon Baynes with Orinda Corporation in Atlanta is reluctant to say much about the project before the meeting, the public's first chance for comment. "I'll have more information in about 30 days," he says.
Perhaps then he'll unveil the name of the project, and just how the coal tower that once provided fuel to passing trains will fare amid gentrification.
Creasy agrees the plans are in preliminary stages. "We have a long way to go on this," she says.
Capshaw will incorporate the coal tower into his plans for a mixed use development.


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Before we got to the dramatic finish, QPR's Joey Barton provided some initial fireworks after getting sent off for an "off-the-ball incident involving Carlos Tevez."
After being shown the red card, he flipped out and kicked eventual hero Sergio Aguero. The red card comes with an automatic four-game ban but his post-game comments have upped the ante.
Barton is apparently claiming that the kick was a deliberate attempt to bait Man City into losing a player of its own, to level the playing field.
"The head was never gone at any stage, once I'd been sent off, one of our players suggested I should try to take one of theirs with me. It never worked but god loves a trier."
Friend of the program, Mario Balotelli almost indulged him, but not even Mario was that stupid.
Joey Barton facing lengthy ban after red card in QPR defeat [BBC]


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Painting After the Photograph: Painting in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Painters going back as far as the Renaissance have been using devices such as the camera obscura to produce a two-dimensional verisimilitude. With the invention of photography in 1839, artists were liberated from the demands of reproducing naturalistic appearances. This course will explore the relationship between the photograph and painting; the effect that the birth of photography has had on the history and current state of painting. A primary question to be considered will be: What are the strategies of painting in the age of mechanical reproduction? How has photography and mechanical reproduction influenced painting functions? We will look at artists as varied as Delacroix, Courbet, Warhol, Rosenquist, and Richter among others. Readings will include Walter Benjamin's "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Blood Queen has been very difficult for us. We weren't on our game on Wednesday, and put a halt to our attempts to give it a fresh go on Sunday, and our last attempt of the night was a sudden wipe with Blood Queen enraging and slaughtering us all at 0.8% health.
For us, as a ten-strict guild with limited gear upgrade access and fewer badges available (not to mention having to rotate players in a single instance limiting badges further per player), the enrage timer is our greatest foe. We can overcome and adapt to the mechanics, staying out of swarms and spreading out a bit while still staying in range of each other for aoe heals, but that enrage timer is killing us. What's further frustrating is that we (maybe) would've gotten the kill last night on that last attempt had a certain pair of players not been pacted (due to placement, melee and ranged), or they not decided to meet right on top of the resto druid (>.>) and kill her with the pact aura + damage splash, or that tree had decided to sacrifice her nourish cast (swiftmend/NS on cooldown) and moved away through the maze of other players, or the feral not decided to sacrifice that little bit of dps time to res her. And it still would've been close.
On the flip side, we get Festergut with a minute or more left on his enrage timer.
Is it the three-heals? I don't think it can be done currently with just two, especially with our lower health pools compared to those with 25-man gear. Is it the number of melee? Is it that we had no priest and had to use fortitude scrolls? Was it just poor luck on who got shadow swarm and lost dps time? Was it a hiccup in the bite rotations, or bite timers coinciding with (still unreliably timed) P2 phases? Is it bloodlust timing?
Was it all of these?
Either way, Blood Queen has earned Vortex's wrath, and to see the silver lining, it will be all the sweeter when we finally topple her (and I turn her into a stick figure).
On an unrelated note, I went on an insane leveling spree on my poor shaman alt (who is as old as the Turalyon server itself), taking her from 43 to 73 in the past weekend (Thurs - Sun, plus some time on Thursday of the previous week). The dust is blown off and poor Stardance has seen the light of day. I've slowed up her leveling to pull my husband's old pally along with her through the quests of Northrend :)
I'll also be buying the non-set badge chest tonight. Yay.
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- Niniel said...
Ouch! :(Hope you get her next time!
We got her down using 3 healers in 5 minutes and 19 seconds as a 25 man guild.
- January 25, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- virile said...
After doing this last night, I definitely would not feel comfortable trying to 2 heal this event.
- January 25, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- Aerivore said...
It IS twohealable, but, I think the reason we were able to 2heal it is the gear. With 10man gear, 3healing it has to be the best way to go, at least for the time being.
Were bites managed properly? The DPS boost that bites gives is such a huge part of this fight. Did people get back to her as soon as they could after clearing their debuff? Perhaps picking a better path for running off the Jaraxxus Flames might be a helpful thing to do, so that they don't have to move as far to get back to DPSing her?
Good luck Kae!
- January 25, 2010 at 2:28 PM
- Kae said...
Some early wipes were deaths to people standing in flames from the assumption that they didn't hurt much (about 600-1k damage per tick)... that was fixed when we commented on how quickly the ticks happened.
We had bites holding off for the last 5 seconds before they'd get MC'd. This caused problems with a sudden P2, as they'd have to either bite right as someone got damaged (thus killing them), or else they'd go insane, all around having fears shuffle people's positions... a number of our wipes were from this.
Is it recommended then to not wait on bites? Were we over-thinking the fight with too much micromanagement? heh.
- January 25, 2010 at 3:56 PM
- virile said...
I believe that we had our people bite as soon as they were able.
But since, I was never a vampire I didn't pay a ton of attention to it. :)
- January 25, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Aerivore said...
I wish I could give you a glimpse on the 25 page long thread on our forums we have about this very thing - micromanaging the bites. It's been pretty stupid intensive, trying to figure it all out. But I think it would be best to bite as soon as possible. Break out of the fear asap (tremor, fear ward, whatever you have) and be prepared to snipe up any damage that has laid out.
The first bite set isn't an issue, but we found that the second fear coincides with a bite needing to happen. I'm not sure how much it was offset by our DPS (having one extra sped things up a good bit). I have a video sitting on my harddrive waiting for a song, and I'll uploaded asap so you can take a look if you'd like.
- January 25, 2010 at 5:01 PM
- Mark said...
And I thought Huhuran was a heartbreaker. Lana'thel can bite me!
(See what I did there?)
- January 26, 2010 at 3:57 AM
To avoid the fear/air gib with the longer bite timer in the 10 man you only need to have the very first bite person wait about 10 seconds before biting. Everyone else after that can bite immediately! That should prevent you from having the bites line up during an air phase.
We held our bloodlust until all 5 of the DPS had been bitten, for what it's worth.
Also...if you aren't using it, the glyph of rapid rejuv is pretty ownage for the 10 man version of this fight!
Good Luck! =)
- January 26, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- Kae said...
Yeah, I am planning on bringing along a couple types of glyphs for that tonight, to swap in the rapid rejuv. I am undecided as to whether to let it replace nourish (I used nourish a lot while raid healing around the rejuvs/WGs/occasional LB, while Swiftmend/NS were on CD) or WG (usually only hit 4-5 players at a time in the blood queen fight)... thinking to replace the WG glyph for her, and then swap it back when it's over.
You hear me, Blood Queen? You're going DOWN!
- January 26, 2010 at 1:51 PM
- Kae said...
As an update, she was one-shot this past week.
- February 1, 2010 at 9:47 AM


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