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and it is mired in costly legal squabbles between the builder, Areva, and
the Finnish utility, Pohjolan Voima.
In the U.S., since 2003, 17 applications for 26 new reactors have been filed with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but not one is yet under construction.
Despite dozens of new nuclear plants ordered or built in Asia in recent years, "increased deployment of nuclear power has been slow both in the United States and globally," wrote the authors of a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology review of the state of nuclear power.
Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that "even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050."
One thousand gigawatts is the number the M.I.T. professors estimated would be needed to ensure that nuclear power provided 20% of global electricity needs as well as cut emissions of greenhouse gases from power plants. In the U.S., the number would be jumping from 100 to 300 gigawatts of nuclear-sourced electricity by 2050.
After all, once operating, nuclear power plants burn nothing and therefore emit no carbon dioxide as fossil fuel–burning power plants do. (There are, of course, significant greenhouse gas emissions associated with building and fueling nuclear facilities).
But the price of new nuclear power has "escalated dramatically," according to the report, jumping by 15% a year to reach as much as $4,000 per kilowatt compared with $2,300 for coal-fired generation and just $850 for natural gas. And the industry is asking for at least $100 billion in federal tax subsidies and loan guarantees for the 26 reactors currently planned.
The situation is no better in Europe, according to Steven Thomas, a professor of energy studies at the University of Greenwich in London: Finland cannot complete its new reactor; the U.K. has yet to get started on any projects; and a new nuclear reactor in France, after 18 months of construction, is 20% overbudget and requires complete subsidy by the French government.
"The nuclear power industry in Europe is in the midst of the same kind of regulatory and financial uncertainty that makes the future of the industry murky at best in this country," Thomas said during a conference call with reporters. "We've been waiting for the renaissance for 10 years."
Nor has there been a solution to the issue of nuclear waste. In the U.S., the plan to use Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert as a repository for spent nuclear fuel rods is in limbo, opposed by the Obama administration. Reprocessing nuclear fuel, currently underway only in France, has proved prohibitively expensive, and it raises concerns about the proliferation of plutonium for nuclear weapons.
"We do not believe a convincing case can be made on the basis of waste management considerations that the benefits of partitioning and transmutation [conversion of fuel into less radioactive form] will outweigh the attendant safety, environmental [and] security considerations, and economic costs," wrote the researchers, who included President Obama's now science advisor John Holdren, in 2003.
The update? "There is no basis to change that conclusion today," the professors, not including Holdren, wrote in the new report.
Ultimately, the M.I.T. authors warned, "if more is not done, nuclear power will diminish as a practical and timely option for deployment at a scale that would constitute a material contribution to climate change risk mitigation."
Adds Thomas: "It seems to me highly unlikely that [investing in nuclear power] is the most cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Put that money in other sources, such as energy efficiency and renewables, and get a much better return on your money."
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Feeling a little tired today, like you didn't get enough sleep last night? Maybe you have your job to blame. Sleepy's, the chain of mattress stores with an irritatingly memorable jingle, analyzed data from the National Health Interview Survey done by the CDC and determined the most and least sleep deprived occupations. The results may surprise and delight you.
The number one most sleep deprived workers are home health aides, who catch only six hours and fifty-seven minutes of z's on an average night. Lawyers trail in second by only three minutes. The top three and four spots hold some obvious ones: police officers and doctors/paramedics. Number five is economists, which is a bit odd. What are they doing up so late? Then the list is rounded out with social workers, computer programmers, financial analysts, plant operators, and, last but not least, secretaries. The funny thing is that secretaries only get an average of 11 minutes more sleep a night than home health aides.
On the other end of the spectrum, forest and logging workers were the most well-rested profession. They averaged seven hours 20 minutes a night—not really that much more in practical terms than those poor home health aides. Here's the rest of the well-rested list, in order of most to least: hairstylists, sales representatives, bartenders, construction workers, athletes, landscapers, engineers, aircraft pilots (thank God!), and teachers. Teachers only get three minutes a night more than secretaries. So really, the lesson from this data is that everyone, no matter their profession, is getting roughly seven hours of sleep a night—which is an hour less than doctors recommend. So maybe if we all protest at once that the workday should be one hour shorter so that we can get more sleep, every employer in the country will be forced to meet our demands? Yeah. Dream on.
10 Most Sleep-Deprived Careers [LiveScience]
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Chile: A Growing Destination Country in Search of a Coherent Approach to Migration
Cornered in the southeast extreme of the Americas, Chile developed as a socially and culturally insular country unaccustomed to the presence of large numbers of foreigners. Its geographic isolation between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean set up early European immigrants as arbiters of who could arrive next, engendering early discriminatory migration policies. The desire by established immigrants to encourage other white Europeans to populate the country and "improve the race" was evident in policies that resulted in the influx of European immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although the overall number of immigrants during this early period was relatively small compared to other countries in the Southern Cone, their presence transformed the country technologically, economically, and culturally.
Chile is mostly known as an immigrant-sending country, as throughout much of its history, the foreign born have remained a tiny share (1 percent to 2 percent) of the total population. Between 750,000 and 1 million Chileans live abroad (about 6 percent of the country's population), according to the latest governmental estimates in 2005.
Today, continuing economic growth and reconsolidated political stability have positioned Chile as an emerging country of destination. Over the past three decades, Chile has experienced a steady increase in its foreign-born population. But because of its isolation and history of emigration, Chile has few formally established migration policies, and the ones in force are outdated. With a large community abroad and the increase in intra- and extra-regional immigration during the past decade, the country has shown the need for a modernized and coherent migration policy. However, governmental efforts toward achieving comprehensive migration policy have been mostly piecemeal, making this goal elusive.
Immigration to Chile: From the Origins of the Republic to the 1973 Military Coup
The first admission of immigrants to Chile was selective. In 1824, the government enacted a law to encourage Europeans (primarily Swiss, Germans, and English) to establish factories in urban centers as well as to populate sparsely inhabited southern areas. By 1854, the census showed approximately 20,000 foreigners, most of them German colonists.
In 1882, this focus on European migrants was reinforced through the establishment of the Chile's General Immigration Agency in Europe, which offered Chilean land in uncultivated areas to settler families. Between 1883 and 1895, more than 31,000 northern Europeans settled in the southern colonies of Llanquihue and Valdivia. By the beginning of the 20th century, Croatians settled in isolated regions in the far north and far south.
Table 1. Chile (1865-2009 est.): Total and Foreign Born (FB) Populations
The selective policies achieved their aims. On average, more than 52.5 percent of the foreign-born population residing in Chile between 1865 and 1920 were Europeans. The exception was in the census of 1885, when Latin Americans accounted for 67.2 percent of the foreign born. This phenomenon was a result of the 1879-1893 War of the Pacific, when Chile's northern borders were redrawn. This period also saw the first immigration of Chinese immigrants to the northern part of the country.
World War I put an end to the selective encouragement of immigrants. Fears of an influx of refugees in the war's aftermath encouraged lawmakers to restrict the entry of foreigners in 1918. The advent of World War II strengthened this position, with the government requiring all foreigners entering the country to have proof of sufficient funds to sustain themselves for six months. In addition, immigration was largely limited to immediate relatives of foreigners who had a minimum of two years residence in the country.
Although there was a slight increase in European immigration at the end of World War II, in the late 1940s the foreign-born population began to decline. In the decades following the war, the number of immigrants decreased, both as a percentage of the total population and as an overall shrinking of the stock of migrants. For example, Spanish immigrants were the second-largest foreign-born group in the country in 1982, mostly due to refugee immigration from the Spanish Civil War. Their numbers have since fallen, as older migrants died and fewer migrated to Chile.
Between 1907 and 1940, populations of Arab immigrants increased from Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, as many fled turmoil in the unraveling Ottoman Empire. Enough Arab migrants settled in Chile that by 1930 this group accounted for more than 15 percent of the foreign-born population, and by 1952 more than 20 percent. Notwithstanding the small size of the Arab immigrant population (8,000 to 10,000 people came between 1885 and 1940), they have been active participants in the economic, political, and intellectual life of the country.
Immigration during Chile's Dictatorship
Following decades of democracy, a military coup in 1973 installed General Augusto Pinochet as Chile's leader, marking a new period in migration. During the economic and political crisis that followed, Chile became a country of emigration as more than 500,000 Chileans voluntarily left or were forced to flee for countries such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, Venezuela, France, and Sweden. At the same time, the new social, political, and economic order discouraged new immigrants from entering.
The dictatorship, which remained in power until 1990, imposed stricter controls on foreigners as part of its political agenda, while engaging in a new policy of encouraging foreign investment. This facilitated the arrival of migrants with higher levels of education and more economic resources. Foreign currencies and technology were given privileged status in Chile's new neoliberal economy, and the immigration that accompanied them was seen as beneficial to the country as well. Intra-regional migrants replaced Europeans as the dominant migrant stock, but only in a relative sense, as European migration had dropped so sharply. At the same time, a large number of Korean immigrants, attracted by economic incentives offered by the military regime, began to overshadow Arab migrants in terms of economic power and numbers.
Despite the slight increase in educated and comparatively wealthy immigrants, the brutality and repression of the Pinochet regime discouraged most migrants from settling in Chile. As a result, in 1982 the number of foreign born in Chile reached a historic low of 84,000, just 0.75 percent of the country's population.
The most significant migration legislation that emerged from this period was the 1975 Immigration Act, which defined various immigrant categories, as well as the functions of the office that regulated the entrance, residence, control, and expulsion of foreigners. This law, which is still in effect today, was part of Pinochet's broader effort to control immigration. This policy viewed immigration through the lens of national security and sought principally to prevent the entry of "dangerous elements" or terrorists.
To remain in the country, foreigners need to procure one of three visas: tourist, resident, or permanent. Within the "resident" category, there are five separate visas: contract, student, temporary, official, and refugee or asylee. Contract visas are sponsored by a Chilean employer, while temporary visas are given to people considered beneficial for the development of the country, such as scientists, businessmen, and other professionals. Though the category of refugee and asylee exists, there have been relatively few refugees and asylum seekers since the return to democracy. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated refugees and asylum seekers in Chile at about 1,900 individuals in 2010. It's important to note that no category exists for "migrant" or "immigrant."
New Migration Flows: The 1990s Onward
While still not a principal destination country for migrants, Chile has gradually become a more popular option. The most recent census, in 2002, showed the foreign born comprising 1.22 percent of the population (about 184,400 migrants). By 2009, the Departamento de Extranjeria y Migración estimated the foreign-born population exceeded 2 percent of the population (about 352,300 migrants) for the first time since 1940 (see Table 1). This number is still low compared to the stock of migrants living in other countries in the region, such as the more than 1 million migrants from Latin America residing in Argentina.
Three factors heralded a change in immigration flows. First, the rejection of Pinochet's rule and transition to democracy in 1990 encouraged many exiled Chileans to return. Second, the increasing economic stability of the country, in conjunction with the deteriorating economic and political situation of other nations in the region, made Chile an attractive alternative for intra-regional immigrants. Third, tightening of border controls in the United States increased the physical risks and financial costs of migration. As a result, some migratory flows that might have otherwise headed north have been redirected.
Table 2. Chile (1882-2009 est): Foreign born population according to census and DEM* estimates and intercensus growth of foreing born population
This last point is underscored by the growth of the Latin American migrant population within the country. The numbers of Bolivians, Ecuadorans, and Colombians more than doubled during the inter-census years, with most of the growth coming from women, who now make up 54 percent, 55 percent, and 58 percent of those migrant populations, respectively. However, the most notable trend between 2002 and 2009 was the rapid growth of the Peruvian population. Peruvian migrants are now estimated to account for nearly 131,000 of the Chile's 352,000 migrants, a 245 percent increase since 2002. Nearly 57 percent are women.
Table 3. Chile (2009 est): Foreign born population by sex. Main receiving countries
These recent flows have changed the landscape of migration in Chile. Peruvians are now the largest migrant group and continue to grow at a steady rate. This is reinforced by the continued growth of a tight-knit Peruvian community — considered to be the only true immigrant enclave in the country — in Santiago, the nation's capital. Most female Peruvian migrants are employed as domestic workers in middle-class Chilean homes. Concentrated as they are geographically in certain sectors of Santiago, these immigrants have a higher visibility than other migrant populations, and as such, are the focus of most of the negative public and media attention about immigration to Chile — specifically, a perception that many of these immigrants are in the country illegally.
Though no official estimates are made on illegal entries, Chilean police reported in 2005 that more than 2,000 immigrants were caught between 2000 and 2005. The majority of unauthorized migrants are likely to be visa overstayers or those who have been fired or whose work contract has expired. Since a work visa is connected to a work contract, there is little room to change jobs without violating visa status.
Although the official discourse is one of openness, this attitude is not necessarily supported by its citizens. The 2007 Latinobarómetro study ranked Chile 15th out of 18 Latin American countries on openness to migration; only about one-third of those surveyed (35 percent) agreed that foreigners should have the same rights as natives. The study concluded that this unwelcoming attitude was not targeted at a particular type of immigrant, but in general any immigrants, regardless of their characteristics.
A Country of Emigrants
Despite its more recent draw for immigrants, Chile continues to have a negative net migration. Current governmental estimates show that for every one immigrant residing in the country, three Chileans are living abroad. The main receiving country has been historically Argentina, which has a strong demand for labor and offers highly industrialized urban centers. Argentina has more than 429,000 first- and second-generation Chileans, the largest Chilean community abroad. Since the return to democracy in 1990 Chile has also seen growth in emigration to the United States and Europe, with Spain in particular being a large draw for Chileans seeking postgraduate studies.
The military coup of 1973 produced the largest population movement in the history of the country, nearly doubling the Chilean population abroad with half a million new emigrants. These emigrants include exiles without legal right to return, political prisoners who were deported, and economic migrants and their families forced to flee the economic policies enacted by the military regime.
The most current estimates are that about 50 percent of those exiled returned as a result of the policy of selective return initiated by the dictatorship in 1983 and the 1990s. Between 1990 and 1993, the democratic government created a return program that attempted to attract former exiles and help with their reintegration. Although this program was used by about 56,000 people, it did establish contact with more than 100,000 Chileans living abroad.
Step By Step: Chile's Current Migration Approach
The recent increase in immigrant arrivals has tested Chile's ability to modernize its immigration laws and the official government policy toward migration (embodied in the 1970s legal framework) has remained effectively unchanged. In 1998, the government of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle developed a legalization program to permit immigrants to obtain a yearlong temporary visa. This process gave 16,764 Peruvians and 2,116 Bolivians temporary legal residency, but without any path toward permanent residency, most immigrants fell out of legal status at the end of this period.
The government of Ricardo Lagos (2000-06) focused resources on modernizing border security, while adopting a more open stance toward migrants. This led to integrated border facilities with Argentina and similar facilities in development with Peru and Bolivia. Although not directly connected with any formal migration policy, this process led to the creation of a "Borderlands Card," which allows people in border communities to easily travel to cities in the neighboring country for business, medical visits, and tourism. During this time, the country ratified an international convention on migrant worker rights and developed policies to assist in integration. Among those enacted was the right for immigrant children to attend school and be treated equally to native students regardless of migratory status. A second policy provided health access in public hospitals to immigrant children and pregnant women.
President Michelle Bachelet, who led Chile's government from 2006-10, determined to go further in positioning Chile as an open and receiving country. Her administration proposed policies that would improve the link with Chilean nationals in other countries and facilitate immigrant integration in Chilean society. Most significantly, Bachelet implemented a program legalizing 50,705 migrants between October 2007 and February 2008. As with the earlier legalization program, it provided temporary visas for a year, with the possibility of an additional year extension if the immigrant was able to find work.
Although Chile has never been considered an important resettlement destination, in 2008 the Bachelet government began developing policy specific to refugees. The moral argument was the belief that Chile needed to repay a debt of solidarity to the rest of the world for having received the half million exiles of Pinochet's dictatorship. In 2010 the government consolidated all international treaties and agreements regarding refugees and asylees signed by the Chilean state into the Law of the Refugee. Currently, up to 95 percent of asylum seekers and refugees are from Colombia, but in the last decade Chile has received smaller numbers (see Table 4) from countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Somalia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Table 4. Chile (2005-2010): Refugees and Asylum seekers by year
In October 2008, Bachelet developed the Instructivo Presidencial No. 9 (Presidential Instructive No. 9), a nonbinding document that attempted to position Chile as a country open to immigration and sought to manage migration flows without discriminating against migrants. These directives have not been adopted in a coherent manner, however. A recent report by a coalition of NGOs in Chile found that not all schools allow unauthorized immigrant children to study. As the Chilean Constitution denies the right of nationality to transient foreigners, some officials consider unauthorized migrants as transients and thus Chilean-born children are denied nationality. As with previous administrations, the policies adopted during Bachelet's presidency fell short of comprehensive migration policy, and while hailed as an important step, were also criticized as reactionary and piecemeal.
In October 2010, the country's newly elected president, Sebastian Piñera, announced that his government was preparing a comprehensive migration policy. Not much progress has been made since. One of government's key migration focuses during the past 20 years has been an effort to reconnect with Chilean communities abroad. One of the diaspora's main requests, the right to vote in Chilean elections, is being debated by the Parliament and the current government has proposed electoral participation if and when migrants can prove permanent connections with Chile.
Awaiting a Comprehensive Migration Policy
Chile's existing migration policy was created at a time when foreigners, particularly from neighboring countries, were considered threats to national security and irrelevant to the economic and social development of the country. Immigrant advocates say the lack of an updated policy precludes the government from being proactive toward migration and societal integration. Although Chile has actively participated in conventions on non-discrimination, there are no immigrant integration policy initiatives at the government level. Since most open discrimination cases are not reported to police (and the ones that do seldom make it to trial), a false sense exists that there is no need for direct governmental involvement on integration policies.
Notably, any successful migration policy would need to address issues on how to separate the work visa from the employer, allowing for labor mobility without letting immigrants fall into unauthorized status; widen the educational opportunities of immigrant children; and develop programs that improve immigrants' access to political participation — beyond the right to vote after five years of residency; and that facilitate access to housing and social services in general. Such measures would provide critical momentum toward integrating immigrants meaningfully into the culturally conservative and closed Chilean society.
Most of the immigration issues that Chile does see arise from the lack of a proper legal framework to govern migration flows. Outdated laws do not comply with recommendations of human rights organizations, nor are they in accordance with the new realities of a democratic country immersed in a globalized world. While the development of a holistic migration policy would benefit both migrants and nationals alike, this process must take place in a context that considers the needs of both and educates Chileans on the benefits of moving toward a more inclusive and culturally rich society.
Amanda Levinson is founder and Principal of ThirdSpace Consulting.
Cristian Doña-Reveco is a doctoral candidate in sociology and history at Michigan State University. His research involves the intersection of history and biography in the migration process from the Southern Cone of America to the United States.
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Vargas del Campo, Alberto. 1997. "Hacia una Política de Inmigración. Los inmigrantes económicos: Criterios para su elegibilidad," en Revista Diplomacia, no. 73, September-December. Academia Diplomática de Chile, Santiago.
Vono de Vilhena, Daniela. 2006. Vinculación de los emigrados latinoamericanos y caribeños con su país de origen: transnacionalismo y políticas públicas. Santiago de Chile: CEPAL.


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Over the holidays I visited my 90-year-old grandmother in New York City. A widow for the last thirteen years, she lives alone in the apartment where she raised her two children. The apartment is mostly clean, but the back bedroom shows signs of hoarding, stocked as it is with enough cheap scotch and Campbell's soup to keep Grandma alive for several months after the apocalypse. She also keeps stacks of books back there, and every time I visit she encourages me to help myself. She prefers crime novels, and she has plenty of those, but I also sometimes find a few literary titles. This time around I picked up a novel called Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon -- a book I knew about, because it had won the 2010 National Book Award, but had not yet read. I asked Grandma what she thought of it. "Garbage," she said. "Couldn't get through the first ten pages."
Like most of the literary fiction in Grandma's back room, Lord of Misrule was given to Grandma by my mother. My mom reads mostly serious fiction, with recommendations culled from NPR, the New York Times, and her public-library book club. She reads crime, too, but refuses to include only crime novels in the literary care packages she sends my grandmother. My mom sees it as her filial duty to make sure Grandma reads something "substantial" along with her pot boilers. So she sends Grandma books like Lord of Misrule -- which Grandma promptly adds to the reject pile.
In microcosm, my mother and grandmother are acting out one of the longest-running dramas in the publishing world. The phenomenon of handing out major awards to obscure or unheralded books is not new. Recently the debate has centered on the National Book Award, an annual literary prize created sixty years ago as an alternative to the Pulitzer Prize. The Award's genesis story, perhaps apocryphal, is that a group of literary types in the 1950s were appalled that William Faulkner had never won a Pulitzer, even though by that point he was a Nobel laureate. Laura Miller's 2011 essay, "How the National Book Awards Made Themselves Irrelevant" is a good place to start if you're interested in the debate. Miller argues that the National Book Award for fiction "often comes across as a Hail Mary pass for 'writer's writers', authors respected within a small community of literary devotees but largely unknown outside." The books that tend to win, she suggests, are "the literary equivalent of spinach."
I like spinach, and without questionLord of Misrule is a spinach type of book. The characters are complex and not especially likeable. The plot moves slowly, giving the setting time to seep into your skin. Gordon's subject is somewhat obscure by today's standards: the world of low-stakes horse racing. Once upon a time horse racing was a major theme in American life. Like boxing, which was the most popular sport in America for many years, "the track" has fallen out of favor with sports fans, who now prefer to watch (and wager on) teams of humans playing ball games. Gordon's book takes place in the near past in and around a third-rate West Virginia track called Indian Mound Downs. This is the last stop on the thoroughbred circuit -- the next destination for the horses who run at Indian Mounds is the knacker's. The story follows five characters associated with the track -- a "colored" groom, a reclusive bookmaker, a mannish female trainer, and a young couple (also trainers) who are new at Indian Downs.
The novel is narrated in the third person, with the focus rotating by chapters among the five principal characters. Gordon employs a variant of what Flaubert called "free indirect discourse," that is, third-person narration that dips sometimes into the voice of the characters being described. Most contemporary third-person narration uses this technique to some extent, but Gordon takes it several steps further, narrating sometimes in full dialect (but still referring to the characters by their names, as you do in third-person). To my ear this sounds awkward, and I'm not totally convinced Gordon pulls it off. However as a fiction writer, I appreciate her willingness to stretch the limits of the free-indirect style, and I admire that she took risks with the narration. However I understand why my grandmother couldn't get through it. At times the narration-in-dialect functions as a barrier between the reader and the story, perhaps as a way of drawing our attention to the language used by these people. This is a classic postmodern move, but Grandma neither knew or cared to know -- she just wanted to read about horse racing. Indeed, my mother probably chose the book for her because she and my grandfather had once been fans of horse racing, but here's the problem: Lord of Misrule is only partially about horse racing; it's also about the style in which the author tells the story.
Grandma has no patience for stylistic experimentation, but the critics and writers who judge the National Book Award do. Last year I asked the Bay Area writer Yiyun Li, who served as a judge for the 2011 Awards, what it was like to be on the panel. She said it was gruelling; judges are asked to read something like three hundred books in a couple of months. You can imagine how, under those circumstances, a book with an innovative and compelling voice -- like Lord of Misrule or the 2011 winner, Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward -- might capture the judges' attention. Without question the pool of worthy candidates in any given year is large, and it's hard to argue that the judges choose bad books. I can't think of a National Book Award winner that wasn't exceptional in multiple ways. The issue, it seems, is whether the judges of these awards ought to select books that readers less sophisticated than themselves might want to read -- or even enjoy.


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Haochi Chen was reminded of that strange day from October 2006 when Google's Official Blog was hacked and somebody posted that "Google has decided not to continue with Google Click-to-call project". Apparently, he was right.
Another discontinued service is Related Links, that showed links to news, videos and searches related to the content of a page in a small box which looked similar to an AdSense unit. Many people were disappointed that they don't earn money for adding it to their sites and the links weren't very relevant, a problem that is also noticeable in the similar feature available in Gmail and Google Groups. A Google representative told Google Blogoscoped that "through our evaluation of the Labs product, we identified the most compelling functionalities of Related Links and integrated them into new and improved products, like the AJAX Search API and AdSense Link Units". Unfortunately, the most compelling functionality was to display dynamic content from the web that complements and enhances a page, but you don't get this using AdSense Link Units (ads) or AJAX Search API (you need to manually define the queries). Some alternatives for Related Links: Sphere widget, Findory's API.
One of the nine rules for innovation shared by Google's Marissa Mayer was "don't kill projects, morph them". Hopefully, they'll morph into something better.


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The other day I was walking out with an armload of books on CD, and Richard our audio book selector got all excited because he thought I was getting non-fiction (something he'd like to see checked out more). Shamefacedly I had to admit that it was all fiction, and that I had been slacking a bit on listening to anything factual. His enthusiasm for promoting our non-fiction audio books inspired me to put some of my selections back and browse the other shelves.
I've always been a big non-fiction reader, but for some reason this passion hasn't translated well to audio books. I have a long commute and like to pass the time listening to stories. I've found them to be easier to listen to in the little 35 minute drives I have to do throughout the week because I don't have to pay too close attention to make sure I'm not missing any important points. It's also easier to pick up where I left off if I haven't listened in a while because we've been using the other car; often with non-fiction audio books I have to rewind a bit to refresh my memory. The only things that combat these issues for me when listening to non-fiction books is to find ones that are written in a very narrative style and have great readers.
With that in mind, I've compiled a list of non-fiction audio books that I've listened to recently that have kept me enthralled from start to finish.
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson (read by Robin Miles). I guess if you need a place to start, choosing a Pulitzer Prize winning book generally isn't a bad idea. Wilkerson tells the story of the Great Migration by tracing the paths of four African-Americans who migrated north and west to escape the Jim Crow world of the South. Because the author interviewed all four individuals, the book is rich with dialogue and personal stories. Miles does an excellent job of reading Wilkerson's work, making each individual's personality shine through, and adding appropriate emphasis and emotion to some of the more difficult passages.
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, by Langdon Cook (read by Kevin R. Free). Foodie, traveler, hiker, lover of the Pacific Northwest – no matter what you consider yourself to be, you'll probably find something to enjoy about this title. Mushroom Hunters reads like investigative journalism mixed with Food Network programming (in the best way possible). Cook tells the story of his quest to learn about the secret not-always-legal world of commercial mushroom harvesting in the Pacific Northwest. I really enjoyed driving back and forth on Highway 2 as Free described the kinds of lush rainy mountains that surrounded me, and all the secret things that may be happening in them.
Detroit: an American Autopsy, by Charlie LeDuff (read by Eric Martin). This is a book that I would have loved even if Mickey Mouse was reading it, but Eric Martin's narration took it from good to perfection for me. Martin's gravelly no-nonsense delivery perfectly matches the tone of LeDuff's vignettes of the rough, hard-working, beautiful, disturbing, hopeful, and troubled City of Detroit. This book isn't another work of ruin porn aimed at exploiting what befell Detroit after the decline of its industrial might. It's the honest collected experiences of a journalist who has spent his entire career covering every side of a city that seems to be almost universally hated and feared by the rest of America. No predictions are made about the future. No excuses are made for the past. It's just the facts as he saw them happen, and it's dark, light, and magnificent.
Naked, by David Sedaris (read by the author and his sister, comedian/actress Amy Sedaris). Ending on a lighter note, I just have to say I'm a sucker for David Sedaris in any format, but I think experiencing his writing performed by himself is always the best. Whether it be appearances on This American Life, or full-length readings of one of his many titles, you'd be hard-pressed to not be entertained. Well, at least you would be if you and I share a similar sense of humor. In Naked, Sedaris tells stories about his upbringing; considering that his family spawned two comedians, you know things had to be unorthodox. Even though he may be describing something completely ridiculous, his sense of humor remains dry and ironic. This tone is amplified when you hear him perform his work. His readings are so well-timed and pitch perfect that it's almost impossible to later read something of his without hearing his voice in your head.
I hope some of these recommendations inspire you to treat yourself to some of the many excellent non-fiction audio titles we have in our collections. I know I'll continue exploring!
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And this time around, skating won't be a solitary sport. In Skate 3, gamers will be able to build teams, online and off, and take part in challenges and competitive battles against other skate squads.
"Since the very beginning of the Skate franchise, we have captured the true essence of skateboarding, be it from the feel of nailing that perfect trick, to the feeling of just hanging out and sessioning with your friends," Senior Producer Jason DeLong said in a statement.
For those of you not up to speed on the latest tricks, "My Name is Earl" star and former pro skater Jason Lee will appear as Coach Frank in the game's new Skate School. And once you learn the ropes from the Tracer, you can hit the streets of the newly designed city of Port Caverton, a place Black Box calls "a true skater's paradise."
If Port Caverton isn't quite your style, an in-game editor allows players to drop objects anywhere in the city or start from scratch and create their own plazas and ramp parks. User creations can then be uploaded and shared with friends via Xbox Live or PlayStation Network.
After its North American release on May 11, Skate 3 is slated to ship worldwide on May 14.
Sharkey says: The skating game genre is quickly becoming crowded. Skate, Tony Hawk, and Shaun White all have new titles coming out in 2010, and I don't think there is a market to support all three. Which game are you most interested in?


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- January 19, 2012
Sept. 29
11:45 a.m. — 1000 block of Boulevard of the Arts. Petit Theft. A vacationer from Boca Raton went to an art show at a hotel, where she mistakenly left her purse on the counter at a coffee bar. The vacationer returned 10 minutes later and spoke to an employee who handed over the purse. It was not until later that the vacationer discovered that the wallet inside her purse containing all her identification and cash had been taken. The vacationer spoke to the employee again, who told her that the purse was open when they found it.
Sept. 30
8:16 a.m. — 700 block of N. Tamiami Trail. Lodging Out-of-Doors. While patrolling the area, an officer observed a woman sleeping on the grass in front of the main entrance of a building. The woman had all of her belongings, three bags, with her. The woman told the officer she was homeless, and after a check, the officer found she did not have a warrant for her arrest. The officer transported the woman to the Salvation Army after issuing an out-of-door lodging warning.
10 p.m. — 400 block of Benjamin Franklin Drive. Trespass. An officer was called to the public pool after someone broke into the pool area by removing the cable lock on the gate. The cable lock was found at the bottom of the pool.
Oct. 1
3:00 p.m. — 2100 block of Sixth Street. Burglary of a Vehicle. A woman left her car unlocked, and when she returned she discovered that her purse was stolen. The woman told police she was only reporting the crime, which happened two days earlier, because her bank told her she should report it because her bank card was one of the items stolen. An officer told her that next time if something happens to report it immediately so police can canvass the area and check for fingerprints.
2:50 p.m. — 3400 N. Tamiami Trail. Dispute. Officers responded to a call about a dispute at a store. A homeless woman told police that she was cut off in line, and thus became upset. The woman started cursing at other customers and left to wait for police. A store manager said the woman was being disruptive and he wanted her to leave.
5:00 p.m. — 1400 block of First Street. Dispute. Officers were called to a grocery store for a disturbance. A man told officers he was sitting down, having a beer, when a second man sat down next to him. The second man started saying things to him and calling him a Mexican. The two men have had problems in the past. The second man was mumbling under his breath, and the first man confronted the second man and asked what his problem was. The second man said, "Come on. You want to see what I am made of? If you come back here I am going to slit your throat." The first man got up and walked away, to try to avoid a confrontation, but the second man followed him. At some point, it seems that both men threatened each other with a knife, but officers could not find a knife on either man.
Oct. 2
1:30 a.m. — 4600 block of N. Tamiami Trail. Possession of Marijuana. Officers encountered a woman who was walking along U.S. 41. The officers smelled a strong odor of burning marijuana coming from the woman. An officer found a small blunt, still burning, which had been thrown on the ground. The woman was placed under arrest.
11:00 a.m. — 2000 block of Eighth Street. Patrol Request. A property owner reported that she has been having a problem, for several weeks, with squatters on her property. The owner told police that she had cleaned the property and tried to secure it, but the squatters returned. The owner requested police patrols of the property.
11:30 a.m. — 2200 block of Hillview Street. Suspicious Person. A jogger was running around her block on her daily run when she observed two males who appeared to be following her. The jogger kept jogging, until she saw the two men approach her home. The jogger went to confront the men, and the first one turned and ran in the other direction. The second man tried to run away, but was unable to because of an object he was carrying in his pants. The officer requested additional patrols in the area.
6:45 p.m. — 1900 block of Main Street. Petit Theft. A man left his bike chained to a bike stand while he saw a movie. After the movie, he went to eat dinner, and when he returned, the bike was missing. The man told police he spoke to someone who saw a white male with blonde hair and dirty jeans ride off on the bike. The officer checked the area with negative results.


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Debian-Installer: FAQ
Please add your own questions here. It's a Wiki. Just Click the EDIT button.
Question: Why does DebianInstaller always use DHCP? I want a static address!
Answer*: Boot the installer in expert mode ("boot: expert"), and you will be able to configure a static address, and many other things besides.
Question: But, I'm not an expert, I only want to use static IP addresses.
Answer: If you see anything you don't understand in expert mode, just take the default. DebianInstaller is targeting a larger base of users than have historically installed Debian, including users who don't know what DHCP or static IP addresses are. We understand that the default behavior is annoying if you're a sysadmin installing a server on a network with DHCP, but need to use a static IP, but you're in a fairly small category of users, and really, expert mode was designed just for you.
Question: Why are you doing this? Why not use Anaconda/PGI/whatever? Why reinvent the wheel?
Answer: We're doing this because it's time. Debian has been burdened with a sub-par installer for a full decade, and it's time to change all that. Debian's installer needs to work on more platforms and more types of install media than any other. We need to support installs to S/390 mainframes that have only a teletype console. We need to support installs to m68k boxes that boot from floppies, as well as to netbooting Sun hardware. And yes, we want to support flashy easy installs on Intel clones booting from CD (and USB sticks). And many more; all the possibilities listed in http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status . PGI can't do this. Anaconda can't do this. Only a system designed from the ground up to be completly modular and highly flexible can do so. DebianInstaller is that installer.
Question: Is the DebianInstaller going to be graphical in nature?
Answer: The DebianInstaller will not be graphical by nature, but modularity is a key in its design. It would allow the use of different kinds of frontends, including those of a graphical nature.
Question: Is there any prebuilt/downloadable graphical DebianInstaller?
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Question: Will the DebianInstaller support creating and installing to software RAID devices?
Answer: Paul Fleischer implemented a test image, whose support will be soon merged. Take a look at his [http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200404/msg01003.html list posting] from debian-boot.
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Yes, as of beta 3 this is fairly straightforward to do, using the menu item in the partitioner titled "Configure the Logical Volume Manager".
-- Question: Is there any more information about using the LVM installer - it doesn't seem to work/make much sense to me!
Question: Is anyone working on making DebianInstaller recognize and install on SATA-only drives? How soon before we should be able to try this?
Answer: This is supported as of beta 3 of the installer, at least as well as the Linux 2.4.25 kernel supports them.
Question: DebianInstaller does not include a driver for my xyz network card, but I have (tarball) driver sources. What are the steps for building that driver? Do the steps include the phrase, "Assume you have kernel-headers?" Do you think you'll be able to include kernel-headers for the installer's kernel image(s) in the CD image, so we don't have to sneaker-net them around?
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Question: Will there be support for Linux 2.6 kernels?
Answer: It seems that [ http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/blog/ Joey Hess] is working on that support. At the moment DebianInstaller is based on 2.4.25 linux kernels. But you can already install and boot into a kernel-image-2.6.x for your shiny new debian installation.
Question: How to install with boot floppies + netinst.iso mounted as a loop device in the ramdisk from a ext2 partition?
Answer: ??
Question: How can I create boot iso with my own set of packages?
Answer: see ?DebianInstallerModify
Question: How can I build the DebianInstaller?
Answer; see ?DebianInstallerBuild
Question: What's the difference between dhcp-client and dhcpcd ?
Context: I'm testing beta 3 of the Debian-Installer http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ .
When I install debian on a fresh machine and select "testing" and, inside tasksel, choose only
[*] Broadband internet connection
, then it removes "dhcp-client" and installs "dhcpcd".
Why ? "dhcp-client" was working fine during the previous net-install.
Answer: Well dhcpcd conflicts with dhcp-client .. you might want to fill a wishlist bug for tasksel to better include already provided dhcp-client: [http://bugs.debian.org bug tracking system]
Question: Why after installer tells me its finished and reboot it ejects the cdrom and then after the machine start up, it enters the welcome debian screen, but then it keep rebooting ???
Question: Why does the installer ask for the ide-scsi module to install the system, when it clearly can use the normal ide-cd module to do this? Why is the ide-scsi module not included on the cd install, and where can we get it (I have tried the cd drivers boot floppy, no good)?
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) doesn't offer providers an exact prescription on how to comply with much of HIPAA. Certain parts of the legislation are optional, others mandatory, and some need to be addressed.
Encryption falls under this grayer addressable realm. HIPAA doesn't require providers to encrypt devices or electronic information, but one could say it is strongly encouraged.
If you determine it isn't "reasonable and appropriate," you have to first document why you reached that decision and then either implement an alternative solution or document why your electronic protected health information (PHI) is safe without encryption or an alternative.
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Encryption, however, acts as a safe harbor. If you lose PHI, send it to the wrong person, or have it stolen, it isn't considered a breach if it is encrypted. For this reason, many experts highly recommend encryption, including Jim Sheldon-Dean, founder and director of compliance services at Lewis Creek Systems, LLC in Charlotte, Vermont.
"Don't be afraid of encryption," he said. "It used to be people were scared it would fry their computers or wouldn't work. There are all kinds of options for encryption that they can take advantage of. It works well."
Where to start
If you are wondering what needs to be encrypted in your office, Derrick Wlodarz, president of FireLogic, Inc., in Park Ridge, Illinois, has some advice: "What is every single potential place where PHI is flowing or taking place? Encrypt that," he recommends.
Track the places where information is being passed. You may be using a cloud-based, protected electronic medical record, but do you send information via e-mail? Do you text or send things in the office on desktops or laptops? If so, you need to consider how all of these processes and devices can be encrypted.
This is the one that is most easily overlooked, Wlodarz said. The good news is it's also easily remedied. A number of vendors now offer end-to-end email encryption services.
Wlodarz said his organization considers Office 365 the "gold standard" in this space. With just a few tweaks, emails are encrypted to HIPAA compliance.
A drawback to e-mail encryption is cost, but prices are coming down as more options hit the market, Sheldon-Dean said. And, after paying an upfront cost, it is self-running and simple to use.
Many offices now use digital faxing. Most services that provide this, Wlodarz said, aren't HIPAA compliant and have no encryption in place. If in doubt, ask your provider if they meet HIPAA guidelines and if they say it doesn't apply to them, they are wrong, Wlodarz stated. He recommends using a vendor like Sfax. If that isn't an option, a workaround here is to quit faxing information – move your electronic PHI communication to another venue like encrypted e-mail.
A free option Sheldon-Dean likes is texting. Vendors like WhatsApp not only have a catchy name, but work well for office or professional communication, he said. Most major vendors selling texting apps now have free encrypted versions. There is a caveat, though: this isn't a great form of communication to use with patients. It doesn't give the paper trail you might need for documentation.
When it comes to devices, Wlodarz recommends being safe rather than sorry. If there is data being passed through or sitting on phones, servers, laptops or other devices, it is best to encrypt them in a way that can be validated in case of a breach.
Price tag
If you decide to move beyond free encryption options, the cost can be high. Wlodarz said to expect to spend $800 to $1,000 per staff member for a tech-heavy office needing a technical overhaul. Achieving compliance for offices that aren't as tech-heavy can cost less than $600 per staffer.
Many offices can get by with vendors setting up encryption services and staff managing it moving forward. Having a vendor provide ongoing support can cost $95 to $120 per member per month.
But Wlodarz said there is nothing wrong with encrypting on a piecemeal basis. Most of his clients implement it in phases, starting with mobile or email, then moving to servers, then desktops and laptops, and so on.
As with much of HIPAA, showing you have a game plan and are moving toward compliance goes far with HHS.
"If you have an overhaul plan of attack in place which can be shown as evidence in any type of audit, your chances of being fined are heavily reduced," Wlodarz said. "Being able to prove that a genuine effort is being made is far better than being seen as upholding the status quo."


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The deadly twin explosions that shattered the Boston Marathon initially look more like the work of domestic terrorists than an international terrorist network, researchers and analysts who study terrorism said on Monday.
Early reports suggest that the devices were crudely made — otherwise, they probably would have killed many more people — making it unlikely that they were the work of a foreign government or global terrorist group, such as Al Qaeda, the experts said.
But the Boston Marathon is an unusually public event, giving hundreds of thousands of people easy access to the 26-mile route, and the bombs could have been set off by radical Islamists from the United States influenced by events or clerics in the Middle East, local extremists on either the left or right, or deranged killers with no ideological agenda.
Radical Muslims "will be everyone's favorite suspect, but there are many other possibilities," said Brian Michael Jenkins, a terrorism specialist at the Rand Corp.
A State Police report in 2003 warned that the Marathon could be a "possible prime terrorist target" because it involves such a large number of runners and spectators, draws a live worldwide television audience, coincides with the Patriots Day holiday in Boston, and is shortly before the anniversaries of two other terrorist attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19 and the Columbine High School shooting on April 20.
"Terrorists around the world have traditionally sought large, symbolic, high visibility targets to attack," the report said.
Violent Muslim radicals have been blamed for dozens of attempted strikes on the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, including the attempted car bombing in Times Square three years ago and the Fort Hood shooting in 2009 that killed 13 people.
Some media outlets reported a Middle Eastern connection in the Marathon bombing, too, saying that authorities were questioning a Saudi national being treated for burns at an area hospital.
But Boston police said they have made no arrests, and the FBI issued a statement Monday saying it "remains too early to establish the cause and motivation" of the attack, though the FBI agent overseeing the Boston office, Richard DesLauriers, called it a "potential terrorist investigation."
Terrorism experts point out that domestic terrorists have been behind other attacks on US soil, including the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people in 1995, the deadly Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996, and the Unabomber, who killed three people in more than a dozen attacks from 1978 to 1995.
Like most large public events, the Boston Marathon has long included a significant law enforcement presence with hundreds of officers. The efforts were strengthened after the Sept. 11 attacks to include additional air patrols, officers, and agencies. Even nonuniformed officers running the race were recruited to provide an extra set of eyes and ears.
State Police spokesman David Procopio said Monday that the event includes extensive security, including sweeps for explosives by bomb-sniffing dogs before and during the race.
But the Marathon may be impossible to completely secure, because it is held on public streets open to tens of thousands of pedestrians and spectators, in addition to the roughly 25,000 people who run the race every year. Over the weekend, the finish line was open to anyone strolling down Boylston Street in front of the Boston Public Library, including many who posed for pictures on the course in front of the spectator grandstands.
"There are an infinite number of targets in a developed society like the United States," said Joseph Wippl, a professor of international relations at Boston University and a former CIA operations officer for 30 years. "No matter how much the government expends in the way of security, there will always be a chance that something like this happens."
Juliette N. Kayyem, a Globe columnist and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who has spent years working on counterterrorism and homeland security, said she thought the bombing was probably the work of a terrorist in the Boston area who would appreciate the race's importance to the local culture.
"It is probably home-grown, someone with a political cause from the right or the left," said Kayyem, "someone who knows how appealing the Boston Marathon is to citizens here."
"Even though it's an international event, it is still a local event," she said.
But Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at Tuft University's Fletcher School, cautioned that there is too little information to know who might be to blame. Some reports linked the Oklahoma City bombing to foreign terrorists, but it turned out to be the work of Timothy James McVeigh, an American seeking revenge against the government for its siege in Waco.
"Trying to speculate would be foolhardy," Drezner said. "If anyone should learn anything from the past, it is that you shouldn't speculate without more information."
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NPN's Look Back at the Stories of 2013
Another year gone by, and another year older! 2013 was a good one for park and ride fans, filled with plenty of new attractions, developments and other fun. There were some surprises along the way, too - let's take a look back at some of the highlights as we head into 2014, shall we?
January brought us news that Knott's was refurbishing the Timber Mountain Log Ride - an important sign in the changes we're seeing from Cedar Fair - good changes that is. Among other new ride announcements, we found out that Kentucky Kingdom had received a new lease on life, something that we will see play out in 2014.
reached the high point on Gold Striker in February, and while freezing in my neck of the woods the park raced onward with construction after that. The park's new wooden coaster was an important sign of the future of that park. Other projects that we didn't seen open in 2013 made large announcements, too, including a moved Miracle Strip and proposed changes for Rye Playland.
update, and a retiring General Manager at Six Flags Over Georgia was honored. A newly rebranded water park, Aquatica San Diego, also showed off what guests could expect when visiting the tropically themed park. Outlaw Run at Silver Dollar City opened to the public for the first time, though we would see that ride in depth the next month.
Full Throttle at Six Flags Magic Mountain, Iron Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Boomerang at Six Flags St. Louis, and the Texas SkyScreamer at Six Flags Over Texas reached new heights. NPN converged on Silver Dollar City to experience Outlaw Run (and what an experience it was!) and Kings Island started a mystery project.
GateKeeper at Cedar Point was huge news, but we can't forget others like Hades 360 at Mt. Olympus, Antarctica at SeaWorld Orlando, the Texas SkyScreamer, and backwards Batman at Six Flags Great America. A development that spans multiple years, Universal Studios Florida also announced a second Wizarding World of Harry Potter. We also went exploring and checked out a new park to moi, Worlds of Fun.
Smiler opened in June. Scott and Carol also continued checking out new attractions, including Boomerang at Six Flags St. Louis and igNight at Six Flags Great America. Full Throttle opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and the official reopening date of Kentucky Kingdom was announced for 2014.
Summer Celebration was all about. The ever changing plans for Rye Playland hit the news again this month, this time calling for rides to be a bigger part of the park's future, and one monster of a water slide was topped out at Schlitterbahn Kansas City. The month closed with rumors that Knoebels' Flying Turns may open this year... something we all had been anticipating for what seemed like ages (and quite literally was!).
was held, an important nod to a struggling park and its past. We also got to take a look at the hard work that goes into building the Haunt at Dorney Park and the early work underway at Kentucky Kingdom. And then, BOOM, mega-announcements for 2014: Dollywood's new coaster and future hotel, Kings Island's giant Banshee coaster, family rides for Cedar Point, a water slide tower for Dorney Park, Six Flags Great America's Goliath, Zumanjaro at Six Flags Great Adventure, Medusa Steel Coaster at Six Flags Mexico, Guardian at Canada's Wonderland, and, phew, SteelHawk at Worlds of Fun - and that's among tons of others, too!
plans, as well as those of Valleyfair - both represent a large change of pace by their operator, Cedar Fair. Halloween festivities also got underway for the 2013 season with an early look at Great Adventure's Fright Fest, and Kings Island quickly topped out their new for 2014 coaster!
details of Dollywood's FireChaser Express in October, a ride we're all looking forward to. On the scary-front Scott got turned into a zombie at Cedar Point's Halloweekends, and Dorney Park's Haunt VI creeped us out as well. The biggest story of the month though had to the end of the 7 year wait for Flying Turns at Knoebels to open! Really, it wasn't your imagination, it honestly did open!
Thunderbolt coaster opening next year at Coney Island, and we also got up close and personal with El Loco at the Adventuredome in Las Vegas. Kentucky Kingdom did a full reveal of what's new when the park reopens in 2014, including a cool new coaster, Lightning Run - a first of its kind. Scott and Carol attended the annual IAAPA expo in Orlando and reported back plenty of awesome updates of all the exciting news!
Busch Gardens Tampa and Cliff's Amusement Park were some who celebrated the season. A fan favorite, Hersheypark announced some new family rides for 2014, Falcon's Fury started to head toward the sky in Tampa, and Cedar Fair gave an interesting update to investors which was filled with goodies for park fans. Our From the Vault series continued to look back at the past of various parks, including this relic from Dorney Park's history.
That's just a snippit, of course, since there was a lot more in the 579 posts we drafted during the course of 2013. Now as we move forward into 2014 there are plenty of new projects to keep up with, and plenty more history to explore. Thank you to all of our readers for stopping by this past year, and we wish you a happy and healthy 2014 - we'll see you then!
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Make Your Mark On Austin's Music Map
Make Your Mark On Austin's Music Map
If you've ever been to Austin, you know that the Lone Star State's capital city has a lively music scene. Residents like to think of it as the "Live Music Capital of the World." Whether that is just Texas talk or rooted in truth, a new website aims to put all of Austin's musical goodness on the map.
Delaney Hall is a producer at NPR member station KUT in Austin, and her idea was to make an interactive map that gives music lovers around the world a chance to experience some of the city's official and unofficial music venues.
Hall tells NPR's Michel Martin, "We're looking for stories about the ways music brings people together, the way it's used to celebrate and commemorate, the way it carries important cultural traditions forward through time."
Take, for example, Austin's annual Juneteenth Parade. Historically, the day celebrates the announcement of the abolition of slavery. Click on the parade's spot on the map, and the sound of a marching band takes you to an Austin city street, where residents line up to catch candy being thrown from parade floats.
Community members like Ruthless Lala feel that it's an opportunity for the community to come together. "It's kind of hard for people always to come together," she says, "so for something like this ... to bring everybody together, it means a whole lot."
Delaney Hall says that's the point of the Austin Music Map. "A lot of the stories are about music, yes. But they also get into questions about community, belonging, heritage, history, all of those very deep feelings and ideas that music often taps into."
The Esquina Tango Cultural Society of Austin knows a thing or two about the deep feelings of connection music can inspire. Its dot on the map might make some listeners think they've traveled to a dance hall in Buenos Aires. As dancers twist and turn on the dance floor, musicians and tango dancers talk about the vibrant tango community in Austin. The society's co-founder, Gustavo Simplis, says, "I cannot live without tango. ... For me it's a passion."
Makers of the Austin Music Map hope others will share their passion for their own Austin music experiences. In this way, the website is also a platform where people can share photos, videos, sounds, all kinds of media from those experiences.
The Austin Music Map is produced in collaboration with member station KUT in Austin, Texas; Localore, a national initiative of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR); and Zeega. Austin Music Map is one of several interactive public media stories that NPR's Tell Me More will be highlighting in the coming months.


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(CNN) — Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who is overseeing the federal response to the BP oil spill, said Sunday that he is "satisfied" with the amount of dispersants that have been used to clean up the disaster, saying crews have used them only when needed.
Allen's comments were in response to new documents released by a congressional subcommittee that indicate Coast Guard officials allowed BP to use excessive amounts of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP used the chemicals to break up oil after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion sent millions of gallons of crude gushing into the Gulf.
Allen noted that the decision to use the dispersants does not rest with BP; rather, "it's a decision by the federal on-scene coordinator," he said in describing a "very disciplined process."
Despite a federal directive restricting the use of dispersants, the Coast Guard routinely granted exemptions, said Rep. Edward J. Markey, chairman of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee.
In May, the Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Coast Guard, ordered the oil giant to stop surface application of the chemicals during the oil spill except in rare occasions, according to a House subcommittee on energy and environment.
In rare cases, exemptions had to be requested, documents show.
"BP carpet bombed the ocean with these chemicals, and the Coast Guard allowed them to do it," Markey said in a statement Saturday. "After we discovered how toxic these chemicals really are, they had no business being spread across the Gulf in this manner."
Allen dismissed Markey's allegations during a conference call with reporters Sunday.
"I'm satisfied that we only use them [dispersants] when they're needed," he said.
Allen said field commanders on a case-by-case basis have decided to use dispersants when oil has been spotted by surveillance aircraft and no other method of cleaning it up is available in the area.
"We're going to accept some impact on the water column" rather than having the oil reach the beach, he said.
The Coast Guard approved more than 74 exemptions in 48 days, Markey said. In one instance, Coast Guard officials allowed the oil giant to use a larger volume of dispersants than it had applied for, he said.
Dispersants are "a toxic stew of chemicals, oil and gas, with impacts that are not well understood," Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said in the letter to Allen.
BP issued a statement Sunday saying it has worked closely with the EPA and the Coast Guard over the use of dispersants "since the very beginning" of the disaster.
"Furthermore, we've complied with EPA requests regarding dispersants which are an EPA-approved and recognized tool in fighting oil spills," the statement said.
Markey said the findings are based on an analysis by the Energy and Environment Subcommittee.
"The use of dispersant is always a difficult decision, with environmental trade-offs that must be taken seriously into consideration," EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan said Sunday. "As a result, its use in response to the BP spill was subject to numerous strict conditions once it quickly became apparent that BP wanted to use it in unprecedented quantities and in novel ways."
BP's use of disperants peaked at 70,000 gallons on May 24, the EPA said. It was after that the EPA ordered the halt on its use, except for rare occasions. From the time that directive was issued, dispersant use dropped 72 percent, Gilfillan said.
Initially, the EPA was not involved in the day-to-day decisions about which exceptions were granted, but that changed in late June.
"While EPA may not have concurred with every individual waiver granted by the federal on-scene coordinator, the agency believes dispersant use has been an essential tool in mitigating this spill's impact, preventing millions of gallons of oil from doing even more damage to sensitive marshes, wetlands and beaches and the economy of the Gulf coast," Gilfillan said.
Allen said Sunday that he and EPA administrator Lisa Jackson talk daily about dispersant use, saying "we haven't ignored EPA's guidelines."
Markey said the subcommittee also found contradictions on how much chemical dispersant was being used. On other occasions, BP used more than the amount approved by the Coast Guard, Markey said in his letter.
The report brings into question the total amount of dispersants used in the Gulf. BP says it has used 1.8 million gallons to break up oil flowing from the Deepwater Horizon's ruptured well.
"The validity of those numbers are now in question," Markey said.
Meanwhile Sunday, Allen announced that the first of two efforts to seal the ruptured well once and for all could begin as early as Monday night.
The "static kill" — when mud and cement are poured into the well from above — had been previously delayed while debris that collected during Tropical Storm Bonnie can be cleared out.
That will be followed by a final "bottom kill" after a relief well intercepts the crippled well — a step that Allen estimated Sunday to begin a minimum of five to seven days after the static kill is complete.


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The Mechanic
An aging assassin (Bronson) contemplates retirement and takes a young apprentice (Vincent) under his wing, getting much more than he bargained for.
Lewis John Carlino's screenplay is sparse, but strong. Unlike newer action films, the script takes its time to give you a sense of the isolation and loneliness that comes with being a professional killer. The story provides two strong characters of vastly different backgrounds that share a similar sensibility. The result is an exciting and dangerous game of cat-and-mouse.Continue Reading
The Sentinel
Philosophy, justice, and Catholic theology are blended to a pulp in this breathtaking example of 1970s horror. By the time the '80s rolled around, cinematic exploration with special effects was at its peak in terms of prosthetics and make-up. Several masters - mainly in Italy, America, and Japan - had reached new heights and dug up several techniques from the past that were introduced as early as the silent era. The Sentinel impressed me with both its story and its remarkable efforts to pull off a complicated film. It is an adaptation of Jeffrey Konvitz's novel, and during a Q&A he expressed some issues with it, as I'm sure is natural for a writer in his position. He did have a lot to do with the production and even co-wrote the script. Aside from certain things being changed for the film, it's safe to say that the other large issue he had was with the film's production, claiming that he would have wanted a different director and a slightly different cast. I'll get to why I disagree shortly.
I'm going to attempt to play down all the action in the plot because there is so much of it and to explain it all would be to give away the best parts. In the film we find Alison (Cristina Raines), a model who wants some space from her boyfriend Michael (Chris Sarandon) and seeks an apartment of her own. She finds a number of places and eventually settles on a well-furnished and roomy place in an old building. The landlady (Ava Gardner) seems more than eager to get her to move in, dropping the price from $600 to $400 in order to seal the deal. On top of the fact that she is not willing to settle, she has other troubles on her mind when she hears the news of her father's death. Her feelings for him are cold due to a shocking revelation about his character that caused her to practically denounce her Catholic faith as a teenager and led to her first attempt to commit suicide. In her building she finds two people who sort of symbolize other father figures. Seen facing from the highest window of the complex is Father Halliran (John Carradine), a blind, reclusive priest. The other is Charles Chazen (Burgess Meredith), an overbearing old man who invites himself in on occasion and talks to his animals as if they were people.Continue Reading


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New Horizons: June 2000
Christian Education in the Church
Also in this issue
The Responsibilities of an Army Chaplain
by Jonathan C. Gibbs III
A Thumbnail Sketch of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church
by Thomas E. Tyson
by S. Scott Willet
Christian Education in the Local Church
by Calvin R. Malcor
God has blessed my wife and me with four children, and, like most parents, we have learned that it is not always easy to influence children to change inappropriate behavior. But when you consider how slowly and usually reluctantly all of us who are God's children correct our behavior, it should come as no surprise to us that our children follow suit. Even though our children resist obeying us at times, it is encouraging to see them giving us a good, honest effort to do what we want.
How should we look at the larger issue of trying to obey God? Believe it or not, the idea of trying to obey God is becoming almost heretical in some Christian circles today. There are even seminars and conferences being offered today that deliberately minimize the importance of obeying God's law.
There are two critical questions that all Christians should ask themselves regarding these matters:
(1) Should we try with all our being to obey God's law, defined as all of his commandments harmoniously revealed to us in the Scriptures, with the goal of doing good works and pleasing God?
(2) What should we expect to happen if we ignore God's moral prescriptions and our responsibility to obey them?
Before I address these questions more fully, it is important to point out the vast difference between trying to obey God's commandments in order to become right with him (that is, to gain his love and approval) and doing so because we are already right with him (through faith) and we want to express our gratitude to him. We should be exerting ourselves diligently to conform our thoughts and feelingsour very beingto the likeness of our Savior. Consistent Christians do this because of who they are, not because of who they want to be. I'd even go so far as to say that frequently we succeed in doing good and pleasing God. Paul says as much in Romans 7:25: "I myself with my mind am serving the law of God."
My point is that we should try to obey God's law as an outgrowth of our faith in Christ. I know some have gone so far as to say that any attempt to obey God's law is legalistic and counterproductive to a vibrant and joyful Christian life. They say that such attempts lead to unhealthy guilt, self-righteousness, and self-justification (that is, trying to become right with God through our works). However, there is a world of difference between trying to obey God so that you may become his child and avoid eternal punishment, and trying to obey him from the heart because you are his child and love to please him and want to avoid the temporal discipline that disobedience can bring. The desire and ability to obey God come from our new nature. It is natural for Christians to obey God.
Let me begin to answer the questions I posed earlier. Should we endeavor to obey God's law, as revealed in the Scriptures, with the goal of doing good works and pleasing God, or is such an effort spiritually unhealthy? Does God command his people not only to try to obey his law, but to succeed in doing so? No one in this life will ever become sanctified to the point where he is always obeying the law. But we as Christians should expect to gain victories over sin and progress in personal righteousness as we live out our lives. The Bible has much to say about this.
First of all, we must be attentive to God's law. This is not optional! "But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night" (Ps. 1:2; see also Deut. 6:5-7).
In Matthew 5:16-20, Jesus says not only that we are to be attentive to the law, but also that we are to succeed in both keeping and teaching it. We who have been regenerated by the Spirit of God are to obey both inwardly and outwardly, unlike the scribes and Pharisees. In John's gospel, the Lord repeatedly emphasizes the importance of obeying his law as evidence of our relationship with him: "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments" (John 14:15; see also 14:21, 23-24a; 15:10).
Similarly, the apostle James tells us to put aside "all that remains of wickedness" and to be "doers of the word" (James 1:21-22; see also 2:24-26).
Paul, the apostle who says so much about God's grace, also points out what our responsibility is, in and by that grace: "Work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Phil. 2:12-13; see also 1 Thess. 4:1-3a).
The apostle John agrees: "And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, 'I have come to know Him,' and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected" (1 John 2:3-5; see also 3:6-10).
A thorough reading of Psalm 119 and the books of James and John, along with many other passages, can help us to have a fuller and balanced understanding of our responsibility to obey God's law. We must not so overemphasize God's grace that we exclude or negate our responsibility in and by that grace to obey him. But as we seek to obey God's law, we must never begin to trust in our righteousness for salvation. We should lay any guilt that we have, after repenting of our sin, on Christ alone. A proper balance of law and gospel is essential for healthy Christian living.
The implications of the answer to my second question are equally important. What should we expect to happen if we ignore God's moral law? If we are Christians, we should expect God's corrective discipline. The quality of our fellowship with God is closely linked to our obedience to him. The level of our intimacy with our heavenly Father is conditional. Ancient Israel's peace and prosperity was constantly linked to their obedience to God's law. The same pattern continues in the New Testament. For example, Jesus said, "If you do not forgive men, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions" (Matt. 6:15). Husbands who mistreat their wives will find that their prayers are hindered (1 Pet. 3:7). Those who misuse the Lord's Supper "are disciplined by the Lord" (1 Cor. 11:28-32; see also 5:1-5).
Our heavenly Father will never forsake his chosen people. But just as a godly human father must at times severely discipline his children whom he dearly loves, so our heavenly Father must administer some very painful measures at times to teach and correct his children (Heb. 12:4-14). We should not be alarmed or surprised by God's discipline, but embrace it. When we feel far away from God, he may be disciplining us, so that we will repent and draw closer to him, our only hope.
An increasingly popular excuse for not taking sin seriously today is that everything a Christian does is sinful anyway. The problem, some say, is that Christians give too much attention to overcoming their sins. We can find joy, they say, only if we ignore our sin and just rest completely on God's grace. But Paul addresses this kind of thinking in Romans 6:1: "Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase?" His answer was an emphatic no (verse 2). Not to resist sin is to embrace it. Christians cannot be morally neutral. We have no license to sin.
Romans 1:18-25 describes what happens to one's conscience as one ignores God and his revealed will for mankind. This has been popularly described as a seared conscience. A professing Christian who has a seared conscience caused by continually ignoring God's law is in a very precarious position. He risks either death from God's discipline, or damnation because he isn't truly a believing Christian.
I do not doubt that true Christians sometimes get caught up in the sin of trying to work their way to heaven. However, Scripture does not support any downplaying of God's law or of our responsibility to obey it, as the solution to this problem. Instead, such approaches will ultimately become the source of even greater problems.
The solution for a Christian who is lacking faith and joy in his life is not to ignore his sins or to stop trying to overcome them, but to do just the opposite. We must look to Christ again and again, making diligent use of the means of grace, continually repenting of our sins and embracing God's lawloving it as much as God himself, and deeply and diligently desiring, praying for, and seeking its fulfillment in our life. We should persevere in our faith in Jesus Christ, once and for all delivered to us, no matter how gloomy things may look from this world's perspective.
So what should be our attitude about recurring sin in our lives and the sadness it brings? What if we seem to be gaining no victory over a sin and are therefore deeply saddened because of this? Do we give up and conclude that we've tried too hard to please God? Do we focus more on trusting in Christ, as though trusting in him were separate from obeying him? Do we focus on not being concerned about our reputation? The Lord Jesus in Matthew 5 commands us to be concerned that others see that we are following him, obeying his revealed will, and bringing glory to God. Do we focus on some vague goal such as walking in union with Christ, as though that were any different from trusting and obeying him?
Should we run to other teachings that do no more than salve our conscience and plant the seeds of antinomian philosophy? Are the teachers of such things offering anything from the Bible that we cannot obtain from gathering with God's people and attending to the faithful preaching of his word? God has primarily established the visible organization called the church, in its many forms, to teach his people.
Let all who belong to Christ continue to pray for and grow in their desire, ability, and efforts to trust and obey him through his grace alone. Let's not leave the teachings once and for all time delivered to us. There is nothing new under the sun. God's law and his good news should be preached perpetually until the Lord Jesus returns. Let's turn away from any other kind of teaching.
The author is an elder at Grace Fellowship OPC in Philadelphia, Pa. He quotes the NASB. Reprinted from New Horizons, June 2000.
New Horizons: June 2000
Christian Education in the Church
Also in this issue
The Responsibilities of an Army Chaplain
by Jonathan C. Gibbs III
A Thumbnail Sketch of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church
by Thomas E. Tyson
by S. Scott Willet
Christian Education in the Local Church
by Calvin R. Malcor
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