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John S. "Diz" Hallman, 86
John S. Hallman, 86, Punxsutawney, died Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at home.
He was born June 28, 1926, in Punxsutawney, a son of the late George K. and Isabelle V. (Connelly) Hallman.
On Sept. 18, 1948, he married Nancy A. (Bennett) Hallman, who survives.
He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Punxsutawney where he was a layman, a Sunday School teacher and a member of the choir.
He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Southwest Pacific Operation with submarine forces on the submarine USS Jack.
He was retired from the United States Postal Service after 33 years of service, with 17 years as a supervisor in all capacities.
He was very proud of his efforts in getting the former Punxsutawney Post Office on the National Register of Historic Places, which is now the location of the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center, which he was active in helping to establish.
He was a former mayor of Punxsutawney, a recipient of the Man of the Year Award in 2001; a committee member for the Boy Scouts of America; board chairman for the Punxsutawney Historical Society; president of the Punxsutawney Philatelic Club; member of the Personal Committee for the
involvement in the Main Street Program; member of the Committee for Regional Development; member of the Jefferson County Planning Commission; member of the Route 119 Committee; member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Festival Committee; editorial research and cover designer for the Keystone Federation Stamp Club; an Eagle Scout with Three Leaf Clusters; past president of the Punxsutawney Lions Club; a member of the board of directors for Community Action; a recipient of the Kate Scott Award in 2012 in Jefferson County; Treasurer at the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center; and had June 28, 2006, proclaimed as John Hallman Day in Punxsutawney.
In addition to his wife, surviving relatives include five children; three sons, John Dennis Hallman, Garry Hallman and David Hallman, all of Punxsutawney; two daughters, Janett Geer and husband John and Marcia Botelho, all of Punxsutawney; eight grandchildren, Sarah Shockey, Corinne States, Rebecca Gross, Amanda Geer, Daniel Geer, Savanna Hallman, Julia Hallman and David Hallman, Jr.; four great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Diane Hallman; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Patrick Hallman; a sister, Evelyn Clark; and a brother, Kelly Hallman.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the Deeley Funeral Home, Punxsutawney.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at the First United Methodist Church of Punxsutawney, where friends will be received from 10 to 11 a.m. prior to the service.
Interment will be in Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney.
Memorial contributions may be made, in Mr. Hallman's memory, to the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center.
Online condolences may be made at www.deeleyfuneralhome.com.


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Am I the only one who is sick and tired of hearing the blame game, day in and day out by Obama and the Democrats? Al we hear is Bush did this, and Bush id that Bush, Bush Bush ENOUGH is ENOUGH! I can't sit back and be silent any more. I have never heard a Republican president blame his predecessor for he problems that they "inherited." It's called personal responsibility. Obama and Democrats need to take personal responsibility for everything that has happened on their watch and not complain about what they inherited."
Obama worked with a stacked House and Senate his first two years. What did he do? He passed a healthcare bill that will cost American taxpayers billions. He "Bailed out" businesses that went bankrupt anyway (ie: Solindra). He passed a "Stimulus" that hasn't worked and the cost of that will be felt for generations. He event let his Secretary of State take the blame for the tragedy in Libya.
Obama needs to put his big boy pants on and take responsibility for the last 4 years and stop blaming everyone else for his failed policies and disaster of a Presidency.
This is why I am voting for Mitt Romney. He knows how to take something that is failing and turn it into a success, and do it without blaming those who ran it before. Please join me in supporting Mitt Romney for President and lets get a real COMMNADER-IN-CHIEF in the White House.
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If you know in your gut that something isn't right or that the truth is not being revealed home or abroad you might want to read Dr. Blaylock: Japan Radiation Could Pose Threat to US.
Briefly he states the extent of damage and destruction by this potential cloud to lives and crops in the western USA would be huge to devastating.
But one would question if this invisible wind carried threat could reach and penetrate US airspace? History shows that balloons set aloft toting bombs from Japan in 1944-1945 reached the American Northwest including Alaska. Therefore, if these heavy 'packages' could make it… nuclear fallout would have absolutely no problem. Plain and simple logic.
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In pursuing LEED, Phipps targeted phase one of the master plan, which called for the replacement of a visitor entrance constructed in the 1960s with a beautiful new Welcome Center that would further enhance the guest experience and mesh better with the design of the 19th century glass house. The resulting 12,465-square-footfacility opened in March 2005 and, in 2006, achieved LEED Silver. This Welcome Center now houses a number of visitor amenities including an admissions area, a gift shop, a café, an art gallery, and restrooms.
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- A green roof that covers most of the building and incorporates a demonstration garden with sustainable plants that do not require pesticides or irrigation;
- No- or low-VOC paints, adhesives, carpet, and substrates;
- Locally-mined limestone, as well as recycled steel and glass; and
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Certifying the new Welcome Center inspired Phipps to not only make building enhancements that did not earn LEED points, but also to make major changes in operations and future construction plans. Operations adjustments included adding a snow melt system to the front walkway that uses waste heat; incorporating a geo-block parking system;and removing the irrigation system in the front lawn (even in areas outside of LEED boundaries),in addition to caring for it organically. Phipps was also prompted to develop state-of-the-art Production Greenhouses that have since received LEED for Existing Buildings Platinum certification; a Tropical Forest Conservatory that is among the most energy-efficient structures of its kind;and the Center for Sustainable Landscapes, which has been designed and built to meet or exceed the Living Building Challenge, LEED Platinum, and SITES certification for landscapes.
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:19 pm
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I just recently acquired a flash kit. I'm not sure what type of flash it is. It's not like any of the pictures that I've seen of Graflex flashes. It doesn't use incandescent bulbs, it appears to be a halogen bulb. I don't have any sync cords either, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I don't know what your knowledge level is, so I don't want to insult you by asking some common questions, but could this perhaps be a spiral type glass tube (bulb) that reminds you of a fluorescent (or perhaps halogen) type consumer bulb?
What you have could be an electronic flash apparatus with a xenon strobe glass tube in it, does this flash have any brand or model nomenclature on it?
If it is not a self contained unit with internal batteries, then it should have a socket for accepting a power cord that goes to an external battery pack (usually high voltage).
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I'm new to the whole Graflex scene, but not photography. I have a 4x5 Sinar. Anyway, what you described is dead on, unfortunatly, the flash does not have any nomenclature on it. I do have a battery booster, as it says, but am still clueless to the way the cords are attached and how the battery booster is charged, if even charged.
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OK on the Sinar 4 x 5, nice view it is, and welcome also to the Graflex world, with all of the different pieces and parts that Graflex sold over the years, it is sometimes hard to find information about these items, which is why this forum (and it's many valuable members) is such a good resource in keeping these fine camera's alive, in the public eye, and still in use around the world, even today.
The battery booster you speak of rather sounds like the Graflex Model 2095 Booster that was used to boost (and extend the useful life) of the dry cell high voltage batteries that were used in the Graflex HV power packs (not the RG Ni-Cad battery packs) that powered the electronic flash lamp heads.
This Model 2095 Booster was used in conjunction with the Model 2096 Analyzer to test and analyze these dry cell high voltage batteries, these two instruments were in later years combined to form the Graflex Model 2294 Strob Booster/Analyzer for the same purpose.
Your flash is starting to sound like a Heiland (AKA James Millen) strob flashgun, so if you are interested I can send you several JPG/JPEG images of this flashgun.
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Ok, so upon further examination of the flash head it says KEMLITE CHGO. underneath the actual bulb. I still am not certain as to how it is powered. Is it powered on DC or AC?
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"KEMLITE CHGO" is the Kemlite Laboratories of Chicago, Illinois which made flash tubes for various electronic strobe flashes back in the 50's and 60's, including the Singer-Graflex 250 & 500 Globe Strob bare bulb flashes, this similar bulb can also be seen today on the Sunpak Auto 120J and the Hasselblad D-Flash 40 bare bulb (with reflector also) flashes.
Other companies that made (and may still make) similar flash tubes were GE (FT-120GC), Sylvania (R5 120 LV 049), Hershey (Sun Light 2T3) and of course Kemlite (772 DX).
It's been so long ago since I worked photo retail that I don't remember if Kemlite Laboratories made a strobe flashgun to go with the flash tubes that they made or not.
I'm almost certain that if this is the flash that I am thinking of, is that you are missing the battery pack and the power cords that connect from the flash to the battery pack, which is almost certainly a dry cell type (could possibly be Ni-Cads) of a design that would generate at least 300 VDC to charge up an Electrolytic Capacitor that would generate roughly 4,000 VDC to ionize the xenon gas inside the flash tube.
The most likely component to fail in a strobe flashgun is the energy storage capacitor (the Electrolytic Capacitor), and as it ages it becomes dried out and "leaks" power or may even short out resulting in a crackling noise heard by some people, sadly if the Electrolytic Capacitor cannot be "reformed" to a usable state then it needs to be replaced to be on the safe side.
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Thank You, Bonnie Goldman, for Giving Me My Life
By Thomas DeLorenzo
February 6, 2012
I didn't know Bonnie Goldman for a very long time, nor did I have many contacts with her in person. That being said, these few times we did interact, she was nothing short of a force of nature on my life. Sometimes we get lucky and meet that person who can push us beyond our comfort zones and encourage us to do things that we never thought we could before. Bonnie was one of those people in my life.
I had just started writing when I met Bonnie. In the beginning, I would pray that someone would read my posts. I always felt like Peter Brady, and no one would show up for my blog posts. Bonnie showed me I was wrong. Bonnie also told me that even if one person reads it and walks away with something then I have done my job, and done it well.
Bonnie shared with me over our second lunch that the driving force behind her advocacy was her brother. It was her brother's struggle and finally losing battle with AIDS that created this drive within her. It is a drive I am sure many of us that work with this blog, and many of you reading it, can relate to.
We all have that moment -- that one moment where time seemed to stand still for us -- and we saw what was going on with our community, how it was being annihilated by this powerful force that we could not see -- and the rest of the world just stood still. We all felt that rage inside of us when our loved ones were writhing in a pain that we could not comfort.
Bonnie's voice reminded the world that we still had something to be enraged over. Bonnie inspired dozens of us to keep that rage alive, for it is only with a passionate and focused voice are you heard.
Bonnie helped me develop my own voice. Bonnie saw talents in me that I didn't even see. By working with Bonnie, I knew that I was doing my part to help keep her brother alive, if not in a physical sense but at least in her heart.
And Bonnie did the same for me. For my driving voice was my partner, David. It was this very sweet and gentle reciprocal relationship we had going on -- I would help keep Bonnie's brother alive, and Bonnie would help me keep David alive. Bonnie and I were links in each other's chains that kept these people in our hearts and in our minds -- but more importantly -- in the hearts and minds of others, too.
Bonnie knew the power of the written word. Bonnie knew that by writing and publishing, especially on such a powerful force like the Web, we were all going to keep our loved ones alive -- and help others that were still dealing with the virus to not have the same fate.
Now Bonnie is gone -- and I feel that a link to the chain of all of those people I was helping to keep alive is gone. And I don't know who is going to take that place. And I worry that all of those people who we were keeping in the forefronts of other people's minds and hearts are not going to be there anymore. For if they go, then a part of us goes -- a part of our past. And when large chunks of your social circle just suddenly disappear from existence, you start to wonder if those experiences you shared together happened at all. You begin to doubt your own memory. At least when someone is alive from that time period, you can still talk to them and your history is validated. It existed, and more importantly, it exists within our hearts.
Bonnie did nothing less than keep a part of my own heart alive. And with her passing a part feels as if it has no reason to exist.
Bonnie's passing reminds me that many of us in the movement have either passed on, grown weary from the constant battle, or just are too sick to fight. Bonnie's passing also reminds me that we need to pass on the fight -- to bring in new recruits to our army against HIV, and ignite the passion within them.
So, if I had a last moment with Bonnie to say what I felt, I would simply say this: I am grateful for the little time we did have together, and you challenged me to become a better writer. But most importantly, I would say how much my heart can rejoice, still, because so many of my friends, both in my heart and on this planet, were kept alive because of your work.
Now it is our turn to do for you what you helped us achieve with so many of our loved ones that had left us far too early.
e.e. Cummings said it best: I carry your heart with me, I carry it in my heart.
Bonnie, you will always be in my heart.
I love you.
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Until just a few years ago, Thomas DeLorenzo never would have believed he could become an HIV/AIDS activist. Before he was "officially" diagnosed with HIV in 2001 -- with 60 T cells and a viral load of 300,000 -- DeLorenzo had been living in denial. And until 2006, he was too busy dealing with the many side effects of his own HIV meds to think about helping anyone else. Then he and his doctors finally figured out the perfect med combo -- and, finally, DeLorenzo felt that he actually had a future.
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NFL.com's Albert Breer reported Wednesday morning that the contracts were not renewed for assistant general manager Scott Cohen and director of football administration Ari Nissim, according to a source. Cohen was former GM Mike Tannenbaum's right-hand man. Nissim handled many of the Jets' contracts. Several scouts also were let go.
Breer notes that the post-draft shakeup was expected. Idzik is clearing room for space in the front office for guys who share his vision for an organization. The logical next question: Will Idzik clear room to find a head coach after the season?
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Wow. What a Weekend the Great Canadian Wrestling Expo was! I have to send a big thank you to Dave and Leanne and everyone who worked hard to put on this huge undertaking.
For those of you not able to attend, the GCWE was a three-day wrestling show with booths of merch and various wrestling personalities wandering around the Oshawa Civic Centre. In total there were 50-plus workers throughout the weekend and over 100 matches, I believe. Insanity! This was a huge undertaking and really I thought the GCWE staff did an admirable job considering what and who they had to deal with.
I got in on the Thursday morning and already had ride problems, so I had a very bleak outlook on the weekend going in. But the ride to lunch and the hotel changed all that -- and I'll tell you why later in my biggest markout moment in a loooooong time.
In all though, I had a really great time and got to work with some great young talent like Cody Deener and Jake O'Reilly. There were some standout talent that I noticed in Shawn Spears and TJ Harley, who have really come along and look great.
Oh, and don't shoot with She Nay Nay. She bites!!! Hard!! Good thing she's hot or I'd have to really stretch her. The partying we did throughout the weekend though ... I think it could almost be called criminal if we didn't have such a great time. I love some Crazy Steve! That kid is the bee's knees.
Nattie Neidhart and her father Jim the Anvil were there reppin' the Hart family and the first father-daughter mixed tag team ever! Always fun to see Jim, and Nattie is truly one of, if not THE, Nicest People ever!! It was great to sit and talk with her about stuff. She's just gone back over to Japan and I wish her the best of luck and success.
But for me there were two big markout moments in the Expo, one a bit bigger than the other. The first, being the geek that I am, was the Star Wars versus Star Trek match on Sunday night. Upon hearing of this tremendous idea I heartily volunteered for the role of kick ass Jedi Johnny Devine. And was thankfully accepted in the role. My opponent for said momentous occasion was Ensign Jake (no last name redshirt) which was awesome!!!
The costumes and characters for both sides were fantastic! I made a very dashing Jedi, if I do say so myself. It was taped for The Space Network, I believe, and will air eventually. I will cross oceans of time to find a copy of this though, as it really was cool as all hell. Ensign Jake was the victor in the match -- damn cheating Trekkies!! But fun was had by all and money was raised for charity so everyone left happy.
But the highlight of the weekend for me (other than hanging with Ruffy Silverstein and Chris Sabin) was without a doubt hearing the Ugandan Giant Kamala sing!!!!!! That's right I said sing!!!! For the love of God, the man can barely string together coherent mumbling, but you have got to hear him sing!!! For anyone who is a fan of nostalgia -- and music in general -- check out www.thegiantkamala.com. You'll find all things Kamala and his five-song CD there. I HIGHLY recommend you listen to it. Hollywood has been my favorite song so far!
On that note I will take my leave. The AWE school is up and running here in Winnipeg and anyone in central Canada or the U.S. looking for a good place to train contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Anyone in the Manitoba area check out www.aweheat.com for show info on some great wrestling in your area.
And With TNA's Genesis PPV and the WWE's Survivor Series coming up its going to be a busy couple weeks for wrestling fans. Prediction: Petey Williams = new X Division champ. Petey's still the man.
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What's a tip for celebrating a holiday or milestone with your kids when your partner isn't able to be there?
Even though a spouse may not be able to be there for a special holiday, I think that using Skype or some other video chat feature to have him/her be "there" is one of the best ideas! We planned our Christmas around when Daddy could Skype with us so that he could still be a part of it too and watch my son open his presents.


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Ryan at the fore in England's brave new world
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It seems that the only thing faster than a game of Sevens is the sport's development off the field.
It's just under 12 months since the Rugby Football Union (RFU) broke new ground by offering central contracts to 10 Sevens prospects, paving the way for Ben Ryan to lead them to within touching distance of a maiden IRB Sevens World Series title.
This weekend's London Sevens at Twickenham is a must-win for Ryan's side, who trail Series leaders New Zealand by 13 points in the standings. They will be bolstered by former England flanker Steffon Armitage, drafted in at short-notice following an injury to Greg Barden.
"It's not the beginning of the season where in interviews you're being asked what your chances are," Ryan said. "There isn't a long way to go and this is a very important shot for us, in golfing terms. We've got to nail this and we haven't got much leeway. It's harder than any tournament we've had this year, as far as the external pressure to perform, but hopefully we've got a group of players that will rise to the occasion."
One of Ryan's aims for his contracted group is to ensure consistency in terms of selection and the former Newbury boss also believes that senior figures at the RFU are warming to the idea of investing in Sevens. While the central contracts are not lucrative, in some cases they offer second chances for players that have slipped under the radar for various reasons - broadening the country's player base and in some cases reminding clubs of what they are missing out in.
"Irrespective of what happens in the next two tournaments, one of our goals is to cap the least amount of players," Ryan said. "We currently have 15 capped over the series, which is a record. Even if we add another three or four it will still be a record. Consistency is such a key element in performing well in the series and that's something we've managed to achieve through the central contracts.
"Twelve months ago I was pretty much banned from saying 'central contracts' but now everyone seems happy to do it and are more comfortable with where we are and why we have to do it. It's made a really big difference. Now what we've got to is, it's that first step that has given us a big advantage, we've got to utilise it, keep moving forward and make sure our programme does not stop there. It should only be the beginning."
At last year's Commonwealth Games, where England finished a disappointing fourth, it was noticeable that their commitment to their Sevens squad remained intact. The winners, New Zealand, and beaten finalists, Australia, employed All Blacks and Wallabies to boost their claims and while Ryan was not offered access to England players, he feels an element of loyalty to his core players - some of whom are now set to move on to big things in the 15-a-side game.
"If I had the opportunity, if Johnno said, 'here's half a dozen England players' that might be slightly different," he said. "New Zealand, with World Cups and Commonwealths, have that chance. The dilemma isn't one that I've had to face recently because the options aren't there, there isn't an opportunity to use our EPS players.
"There are players that I feel loyal to, I feel loyal to all of them, but we've got players in our system that could quite easily play at Premiership level. Through a combination of bad luck, lack of opportunities, perhaps an injury at the wrong time, they're not there, they're with us.
"Not wanting to show too much propaganda for the system, there are players this year that have been offered, and will take up, professional contracts at clubs that will be considered to be the top ones in Europe."
You can watch the England Sevens team in action and join the beach party on May 21 and 22 at Twickenham Stadium in the Emirates Airline London Sevens, the penultimate leg of the HSBC Sevens World Series. Tickets are available from £15 for adults and £5 for juniors by clicking here.
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Scott Guidry
Scott Guidry is Assistant Professor and Director of Bands at Bemidji State University. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, La., and a Master of Arts degree in Instrumental Conducting from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. His primary conducting teachers include Dr. Joseph Hebert and Prof. Anthony Maiello.
Prior to joining the BSU faculty, he served a 20-year Air Force career, and was most recently the Director of Operations for The United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C. Additionally, he was the officer in charge of the Ceremonial Brass and Airmen of Note. Before joining the Air Force, he was Director of Bands at Carencro High School and Lafayette High School in Louisiana, earning numerous superior ratings at the district and state levels. Additionally, he was co-conductor of the Lafayette Concert Band and named Director Emeritus in 1993.
A native of Carencro, La., Professor Guidry joined the Air Force in 1993. During his tenure in the Air Force, he performed with a broad range of talented guest artists, to include Kim Nazarian of New York Voices, Canadian Brass alumni Ronald Romm and Fred Mills, Keiko Matsui, Helen Reddy, Crystal Gayle, Wilford Brimley and The Platters. He led performances with the Air Force Strings featuring viola virtuosi Atar Arad, Marcus Thompson, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Robert Verebes, and Patricia McCarty. Professor Guidry has presented master classes, clinics and performances with high school ensembles representing the states of Louisiana, New York, Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee and Florida.
His military career highlights include performances throughout the United States, Europe and Western Asia, including Russia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Turkey, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania, Iraq, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Afghanistan. In 2010, he deployed to SW Asia and was leader of the US Air Forces Central Command Band, enhancing morale and supporting embassies throughout the theater.
He led ceremonies at the White House and Joint Base Andrews honoring the arrivals of heads of state of France, Canada, Germany, South Korea, China and the United Kingdom and has performed in notable venues such as the Neues Gewandhaus Leipzig. As leader of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band, Professor Guidry led a jazz band tour of Western Siberia, celebrating 10 years of the U.S. Consulate in Yekaterinburg, and led a ceremonial band in Sofia, Bulgaria commemorating 100 years of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Bulgaria.
His diplomatic efforts continued at The USAF Band in Washington, D.C., as he was the principal planner and host for international exchanges with military conductors representing the African Republics of Ghana and Benin. Additionally, he arranged a joint performance featuring The USAF Band and a visiting contingent of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band, vividly illustrating the benefits of allies working together for a common purpose.
Professor Guidry is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, Conductors Guild, National Association for Music Education, and the College Music Society.


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Campus Emergency at Central Conn. State University
One suspect is in custody and the all clear sounded at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain after the school was put on lockdown for a possible masked man seen walking on campus with a gun or knife according to NBC Connecticut that may have simply been someone wearing a Halloween costume.
4:16 p.m. - Police Chief Mike Cervani said one person had a sword and handgun. The incident happened on the 4th floor; it was not a hostage situation.
4:11 p.m. - The incident is characterized as being an isolated one. No shots fired. Campus Police Chief Mike Cervani would not say if they are students or what charges, if any, have been brought. Police say cameras and swipe cards helped locate suspects.
4:08 p.m. - Police say there are "three people of interest" in custody and said they are "of student age." There was no struggle upon their being taken into custody. They would not elaborate on whether or not it was simply someone wearing a Halloween costume. No threat prompted the lockdown but multiple phone calls to campus police.
4:04 p..m - At a press conference, CCSU President Jack Miller confirms that no students were injured in the incident.
3:17 p.m. - CCSU has sounded an alarm on campus and tweeted the all clear on campus. Students are free to leave buildings.
3:09 p.m. - Lockdown has ended for New Britain schools. CCSU is still in safe shelter mode.
3:05 p.m. - Police will hold a press conference at 4 p.m.
3:00 p.m. - New Britain Mayor Tim O'Neill confirms "the" suspect in custody but would not offer any answer questions about when the suspect was taken into custody.
2:55 p.m. : NBC Connecticut reports that the situation has been declared to be under control. The school says the campus is still in shelter mode.
2:46 p.m. - WFSB TV reports that three people are in police custody. NBC Connecticut has video of a second suspect with police.
2:45 p.m. - The CCSU website has returned to normal with message about sheltering-in-place. It had gone blank except for that message.
2:40 p.m. - A picture on Twitter claims to show police escorting a man dressed in camouflage and an orange shirt being escorted by police.
2:17 p.m. - A former student tells NBC Connecticut that entrants into James Hall must use a key card and check in at a desk in a lobby on the building's lower level. 450 students live in the dorm.
2:02 p.m. - University spokesman Mark McLaughlin told the Hartford Courant that the campus-wide alert was put in place when someone reported seeing an armed man on campus, outside James Hall shortly before noon. McLaughlin heard that the man had a gun and a sword, but that information is not confirmed, he said. There's been no report of an active
shooter, no reports of injuries and no report of any hostages according to McLaughlin.
1:51 p.m. - Students from James Hall are being allowed to leave the building.
1:42 p.m. - The Hartford Cournat reports State Police have a man "boxed" into a dorm room inside James Hall.
Mayor O'Brien reports there have been no injuries so far.
1:40 p.m. - A witness tells NBC Connecticut says that students have been told to put their phones on silence
1:36 p.m. - A new tweet from CCSU says a search is going on in the James Hall area of campus.
1:31 p.m. - New Britain Mayor Tim O'Brien did not offer much information except to say that police are handling the situation and instructing students to follow instructions. He would not answer specific questions about injuries, a possible hostage situation or any shots being fired.
1:14 p.m. - CCSU administrators continue to tweet out messages to students to stay in lockdown mode.
1:13 p.m. - Two nearby schools in New Britain are on lockdown as well.
Several students have told the station about seeing a man in black walking around campus wearing body armor, goggles, a backpack and sword near James Hall on the campus.
Campus Police, however, tell the station this is not an active shooter situation. No shots have been heard being fired. A state police tactical team is on the way.
A message on the school's website, which has been cleared of all pictures and other text, urges all on campus to get inside buildings and stay away from windows. The message says police are on the scene. A similar message is posted on the college's Facebook page.
University spokesman Mark McLaughlin confirmed an emergency on campus to CBS New York but would not elaborate on its nature.
10,000 students attend classes at the campus located just to the southwest of Hartford along Interstate 84.
- CCSU Issues Campus Alert to Seek Shelter / NBC Connecticut
- 'Campus emergency' reported at CCSU in New Britain / WFSB TV, Hartford
- Campus Emergency At Central Connecticut State University / Hartford Courant
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Governor Price Daniel campaign files, 1950, 1956-1962, bulk 1956-1962,
Texas Governor Price Daniel:
An Inventory of Governor Price Daniel Campaign Files at the Texas State Archives, 1950, 1956-1962, bulk 1956-1962
Agency History
The governor of Texas is the chief executive officer of the state, elected by the citizens every four years. The duties and responsibilities of the governor include serving as commander-in-chief of the state's military forces; convening special sessions of the legislature for specific purposes; delivering to the legislature at the beginning of each regular session a report on the condition of the state, an accounting of all public money under the governor's control, a recommended biennial budget, an estimate of the amounts of money required to be raised by taxation, and any recommendations he deems necessary; signing or vetoing bills passed by the legislature; and executing the laws of the state. The governor can grant reprieves and commutations of punishment and pardons, upon the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and revoke conditional pardons. He appoints numerous state officials (with the consent of the Senate), fills vacancies in state and district offices (except vacancies in the legislature), calls special elections to fill vacancies in the legislature, fills vacancies in the United States Senate until an election can be held, and serves as ex officio member of several state boards.
The office of governor was first established by the Constitution of 1845 and superseded the office of president of the Republic of Texas. The position now exists under authority of Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution of 1876 and Texas Government Code, Chapter 401. To be elected governor, a person must be at least thirty years old, a United States citizen, and a resident of Texas for at least five years preceding the election. In 1972, the term of office was extended from two to four years, effective in 1975. Since 1856 the governor has had the use of the Governor's Mansion.
In 1957 the Office of the Governor had 30 full-time equivalent employees including an executive secretary, a director of the Budget Division, and the state coordinator of civil defense and disaster relief.
Price Daniel Biographical Sketch
Price Daniel's political career spanned more than four decades and included all three branches of state government. Born in 1910 at Dayton, Texas, he was reared in Liberty and Fort Worth. After graduating from high school in Fort Worth, he attended Baylor University where he earned a degree in journalism. The following year, 1932, he received a law degree and returned to Liberty where he opened a law office.
During the next seven years, Price Daniel practiced law and assisted with publishing two local newspapers that he co-owned. In 1939 he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives and became a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee. The following year he married Jean Houston Baldwin and they had four children. After serving three terms in the legislature, he was chosen Speaker of the House in 1943. However, he resigned to enlist in the army as a private, though he soon completed officer candidate school. Stationed in Japan and the Pacific, he attained the rank of captain when he was discharged in May 1946.
Upon his return to Texas, he entered the race for attorney general and won the election. Running unopposed, he was reelected twice. His five years as Attorney General were noted for efforts against organized gambling and for Texas' rights to the Tidelands, the hallmark of his career. Daniel was elected U.S. Senator in 1952, serving as chairman of the senate's judiciary subcommittee and continuing to argue for Texas' rights to three million acres of submerged lands. He sponsored a bill that would return the Tidelands to Texas. His efforts resulted in passage and it became a law with President Eisenhower's signature. After four years as senator Price Daniel was elected governor, an office he held for three consecutive terms, from 1957 to 1963. Attempting to run for an unprecedented fourth term, he was defeated by John Connally in the gubernatorial primaries.
Although he established law offices in Austin and Liberty, Price Daniel returned to politics after a brief respite. He served as director in the office of Emergency Preparedness during the presidential administration of Lyndon Johnson. Soon thereafter, he was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court, remaining an associate justice from 1971 until his retirement in 1979. Daniel served as a special assistant to the Texas Attorney General for the Texas v. Louisiana boundary case. Maintaining memberships in many legal professional organizations, he was also active in a variety of civic and church activities until his death on August 25, 1988.
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Price Daniel was governor of Texas from January 15, 1957 to January 15, 1963. The governor of Texas is the chief executive officer of the state. The majority of the files document Daniel's three campaigns for Texas governor. These records are some of the campaign files consisting of correspondence, press releases, advertising, and files relating to state and national Democratic conventions. The dates of the records are 1950, 1956-1962, bulk 1956-1962.
These records have not been processed. This folder inventory is a transcription of the original box and folder titles as they were received. Rough, non-exclusive groupings by title and date were formed to comply with the TARO project's file size restrictions. Researchers are advised to review all the finding aids for subjects of interest. Inconsistent titles and dates are evident. Misidentifications and misfilings are possible.
This finding aid describes the one series of Governor Price Daniel records. See Texas Governor Price Daniel records, Texas Attorney General Price Daniel records, and U.S. Senator Price Daniel papers for more records and papers.
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Restrictions on Use
Most records created by Texas state agencies are not copyrighted. State records also include materials received by, not created by, state agencies. Copyright remains with the creator. The researcher is responsible for complying with U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.).
Under the Copyright Act of 1976 as amended in 1998, unpublished manuscripts are protected at a minimum through December 31, 2002 or 70 years after the author's death. The term of copyright for published material varies. Reseachers are responsible for complying with the Copyright Law.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Texas Governor Price Daniel campaign files. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession Information
Accession numbers: 1989/250, 1989/251, 1989/260
Price Daniel transferred his records as Governor of Texas to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission at the close of his administration as Governor of Texas in 1963. Included with the gubernatorial records were the majority of Daniel's records as Texas Attorney General and a large quantity of his papers as the United States Senator from Texas.
The Texas State Library transferred these documents to the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center in 1977. In 1989 Mrs. Price Daniel donated the private papers of Price Daniel as attorney general and governor in addition to his papers as U.S. Senator from Texas.
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Last month I entered the Princess Dress that I made for my daughter in the So You Think You Can Sew Contest. Not really expecting anything to come out of it, I was competely surprised when I read this post that announced the 12 finalists in the contest and I was one of them!
The contest starts next Wednesday and there will be different themes that each of us have to sew something for, without any patterns. Voting will be open for 1 day! So I will let you all know so you can head on over there and vote.
I am really nervous about this contest. There are some seriously talented ladies that I am competing against. And the day the contest starts is the day my classes start at ASU. Talk about one busy month!
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The Jerusalem suburb of Shuafat was this month the scene of some of the worst street violence the city has experienced in decades. And wouldn't you know it, the situation exploded just 24 hours after the neighborhood's only significant Christian presence was forced to leave.
The situation in Shuafat became violent two weeks ago after Jewish extremists kidnapped and murdered a young local Arab boy in retaliation for the earlier abduction and killing of three Israeli youths.
Arab youth in Shuafat and many other neighborhoods took to the streets in a spirit of vengeance.
This war-like scenario erupted less than a day after Calvary Church was forced to relocate from Shuafat, Pastor Steven Khoury told Israel Today. "It hasn't been the same since then," he added.
Calvary Church is the local congregation of Khoury's Holy Land Missions, a ministry dedicated to bringing Palestinian Arabs to genuine faith in Yeshua.
We reported last year that in addition to facing regular arson attacks, Calvary Church was operating out of temporary facilities, and landlords were becoming increasingly hesitant to rent to these Christians.
Earlier this month, these pressures came to a head, and, as Khoury explains in the following video, his congregants had to remove everything from the premises and move elsewhere.
The timing couldn't have been worse.
In the following video, Khoury is explaining the move and the sudden eruption of violence when he is approached by a young Arab who demands to know who he is. Khoury cautiously and compassionately feels the boy out, informing him that Khoury is a Christian and "comes with a message of forgiveness."
The Arab youth is having none of it. "There is no forgiveness [for the Jews]," he insists.
It is clear that Shuafat, even more so than most places in this land, is in desperate need of a strong Christian presence. Khoury remains hopeful that his congregation will be able to return in the future.
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Author Notes: This is an earth tasting salad which can be made with either white mushrooms or fresh Porcini.
The key to success in this salad is to peel and cut the mushrooms paper thin. Yup, you read it, peel the mushrooms. I learned this technique from a French friend – you peel them from the base to the top of the cap, resulting in super clean and smooth mushroom. No need to brush and damage your mushrooms and they get to be very white, even if they had some minor damages.
As for cutting them super thin, I set my mandolin to the minimum, I hold the mushroom with my fingers and then just go for it. You need to be careful but that's what you have to do in the kitchen.
—Maria Teresa Jorge
Serves: 4
medium mushrooms
celery stalks
Grana Padano in block
medium fresh figs
Bresaola slices
Arugula for finish
salt and freshly ground pepper
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Lemon juice
- Wash celery sticks and cut the across very thinly.
- Clean figs and slice them.
- Slice the Grana on a mandoline to have very thin shavings.
- Prepare the mushrooms: cut the stalks and then turn the mushroom up-side down. With a sharp knife, make a very small incision on the skin and pull down like peeling a banana. Go around the mushroom until it's all peeled. Turn it back up and see if you need trimming any skin left on top. With a mandolin set to a minimum height, cut the mushrooms sideways to paper thin height. (Watch fingers)
- Prepare your plate: Set the Bresaola slices on the bottom, then the sliced mushrooms and sprinkle with celery. Add some salt, pepper, drizzle with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and some lemon juice (watch the salt, the Grana and the Bresaola are quite savoury by themselves).
- Add the sliced figs on top, Grana shavings, and decorate with some arugula. Drizzle a tid more Extra Virgin Olive Oil, sea salt, pepper and serve.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Dish in the Raw
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AT&T bars mid-October employee vacations ahead of iPhone 5 launch
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Like Apple and Sprint before it, AT&T has reportedly blocked its employees from taking vacation days in mid-October as the carrier gears up for the launch of Apple's fifth-generation iPhone.
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Water drop 1 – Observe rainy world
December 10, 2012 20 Comments
Version : 1.2 – Living blog – First version was 10 December 2012
This post is the first of a series about simulating dynamic rain and its effect on the world. All in the context of games:
Water drop 1 – Observe rainy world
Water drop 2a – Dynamic rain and its effects
Water drop 2b – Dynamic rain and its effects
Water drop 3a – Physically based wet surfaces
Water drop 3b – Physically based wet surfaces
Water drop 4a – Reflecting wet world
Water drop 4b – Reflecting wet world
In several games today there are dynamic weather effects. The most popular weather effect is rain. Rain has sadly often no effect on the gameplay but it has on the visual. Rain in real life has a lot of impact on the appearance of the world. The goal of this series is to describe technique, both technical and artistic, to be able to render a world rainy mood. By wet world, I mean not only world under rain, but also world after it stop raining. Let's begin this series by an observation of the real-life wet world. As always, any feedbacks or comments are welcome.
Real wet world
The first thing I have done when I started to study this topic for my game "Remember Me" is to make a lot of references. All pictures are programmer's photography with low camera :). I should advice that's I focus on moderate rain in urban environment not rain forest or other heavy rain. Let's share some result (click for high res version).
The first thing everybody notice when it's raining in the night is the long stretched highlight reflection of the bright light sources:
But this is not restricted to the night (and even not restricted to wet surface, it is only more visible with wet surfaces):
Highlight reflection vary with the roughness of the underlying surface:
The highlights get dimmer when the surface is rougher (This is energy conservation):
Highlights size depends on view angle. The anisotropic reflection seems to follow a Blinn-Phong behavior (Also Blinn-Phong model don't allow to strech so much):


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I was particularly intrigued by what he said about Heston Blumenthal - specifically Russell had attended an industry Q&A where Blumenthal was asked whether he thought food or service was more important in a restaurant.
'Without missing a beat, he replied, "Service. Every time." He explained that you can mess up the food in a restaurant but still turn the situation around with gracious service, by compensating the customer, offering alternatives, bringing treats and bending over backwards to make them happy. But no matter how brilliant the food is, if you give poor, rude, forgetful, amateur or arrogant service, you will lose that customer forever. They will never come back. I have to agree.'
Now the Fat Duck is considered by many as the Holy Grail of restaurants (although Noma has arguably stolen its crown). Unsurprisingly therefore, my husband and I have tried to visit for a meal, but thus far we have been unsuccessful - and not for the reasons you might think.
The first time I got through (trying for my 30th birthday), the reservations manager laughed at my presumption that there'd be any space, and then said she recognised my name and accused me of not honouring a previous booking**.
The second time we got through (trying for my 31st birthday), we actually got a table - under my husband's name I hasten to add. I was over the moon - I told everyone and anyone that we'd taken the day off especially, as we were going to the mother-loving Fat Duck for my birthday.
Then Fate dealt us a blow as volcanic ash from Iceland meant that a work trip to the US turned into a sort of purgatory for my husband, as he became stranded out there with no idea of when he would be able to get back - a member of the UK's "temporary exiles".
Now the Fat Duck has a stringent cancellation policy which says that parties of two must:
"give at least 72 'hours' notice' [sic]. In the event this is not honoured we will charge a fee of £150 per person".
So if I didn't inform them at least three days in advance, we would forfeit £300.
I didn't know what to do - we couldn't afford to throw away £300, but there was a slim chance my husband would get back in time, and securing the booking had meant a solid hour of pressing redial, so I canvassed the people of Twitter to ask them their opinion.
I said to the lady, "I wouldn't ask normally, but these are fairly exceptional circumstances, so is there any chance at all you could please give me an extra day's grace before I have to cancel ie till Wednesday - my husband's trying to get on the next available flight, but I won't know if he will actually make it before then".
She said to me, "Madam, there are no exceptions. We still have to fill our tables".
I responded slightly desperately, "No, please - could you ask your manager if there's any chance at all?". She put me on mute for a few minutes and then came back to me and said, "You can have four more hours".
Four more hours was pointless, as I'd only know if my husband was going to make it if he was able to get on a flight that evening.
So I asked if they would please postpone my booking to the next available date, thinking to myself that as I already had a reservation, they wouldn't mind doing this. I was told that this was out of the question and that if I cancelled I would go to "the back of the queue" and have to rebook in the same manner - ie by ringing exactly two months in advance of the day I wished to dine.
Frustrated and saddened, I asked for some advice from a friend, who told me I ought to contact Heston Blumenthal's PR directly. I emailed her and explained the situation and asked her if there was any chance she could either extend the grace period for me or postpone our reservation, given the unusual circumstances.
She didn't reply, and so the next day, with a heavy heart and 72 hours before my birthday lunch (after another hour of redialling), I cancelled our booking - I wasn't going without my husband and I was damned if I was going to hand over so much money for nothing.
Of course, then my husband was able to get on a flight that evening and was back home with me on the Wednesday night. We went to Launceston Place instead. They fit us in at the last minute. Now that's customer service.
Heston Blumenthal's PR never replied to my email, but a friend of mine was so indignant when she saw how crestfallen I was that she wrote to the Fat Duck (on paper and everything) to explain exactly what had happened, to express her disappointment as a previous diner herself and to ask them if they might offer to book me in again. Note that I didn't put her up to this, but she did show me a copy of the letter after she sent it.
Astonishingly they didn't bother replying to her, but they did email me (she'd included my details). This was what they said:
"I hope this email finds you well and you don't mind me contacting you.
We have recently received a letter from your friend [X] who explains that you have found our reservations policy somewhat frustrating. [X] has asked us to contact you to make a reservation for you.
Firstly, please accept our apologies for any frustration and inconvenience caused. Our telephone lines are extremely busy at times and as we are only a very small restaurant with just 14 tables, we do become fully booked quite quickly.
I'm afraid that we cannot make any exceptions to our Reservations Policy. All bookings are taken by telephone only on 01628 580333. Reservations are taken two calendar months in advance.
We feel it would be unfair to our other guests if we were to make an exception to the policy.
We hope to see you at The Fat Duck in the future."
That was me told then. Bend over backwards, Heston? More like make me feel like a shyster nuisance.
So anyway, that experience of customer service before I even got through the door has completely put me off ever going to the Fat Duck.
I know ultimately I was asking them to do me a favour and they were within their rights to say no, but there are ways of letting people down gently, and saying "no can do" in a nice way.
The whole thing left me feeling shabbier than the time my husband tried to book the Ivy for my 25th birthday and they told him that they "didn't do lunch" (which was a lie, by the way).
"...if you give poor, rude, forgetful, amateur or arrogant service, you will lose that customer forever..."
Though, I have just booked Dinner by Heston, so clearly I'm a glutton for punishment. And it was dead easy to book, you know.
If I'm lucky, maybe the maitre d' will give me a wedgie.
** Edited to add: This accusation was wrong - read the last paragraph here
12/01/2011 - Looking forward to new TV series "Service" with Michel Roux Junior and Fred Sirieix starting tonight - see further "Why is service still so bad in the UK?" (BBC News)


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All the speeches and videos we watched when we arrived had me pumped up and eager to face what we had in store for the day. But before we even got outside to get started, we had pushups. That's when I knew we were in trouble. My arms were shaking before we even did one. We all got down in pushup position and then he started in on a monologue that wouldn't end. No knees allowed…back has to stay straight…and finally we had to start…then stop…then start…then start from the beginning because we weren't in unison…and finally, "recover". Now we can get started. The sad part was my arms already felt like jello.
We started on the obstacle course. Walls to climb over, barbed wire to climb under, ropes to climb up, swing on, and shimmy across. The works. It was so upper body intensive that I felt like I wouldn't be able to grasp a pencil half way through. But no one cared. At one point I went to swing on a rope and land on top of a beam and I was so out of it I smacked into the beam and ended up on my back on the ground. That's when I knew I needed to focus. Mind over matter. Because nobody cared that my forearms were the size of Popeye's or that I'd just created the bruise the size of Texas on my shin. At the end of it though, after you've finished and can "Hoo-rah O course", you feel a great sense of accomplishment. You're happy that there was no way over the wall except for over it and no girl rope to climb.
After that though, things got ugly. They got ugly, and wet, and dirty, and miserable. It was about 60 degrees out yesterday, which is still a little chilly when you're dry. But where is the fun in that? After it was all said and done I think we jumped in the ocean about six times. You had to be wet from head to toe. I tried to dodge this and at first just went shoulder to toe because…you know…my hair, but I quickly got sent back in the ocean. After we emerged from the ocean, we rolled in the sand, bear clawed back to the ocean, then slithered in the sand some more. My fatigues were heavy and wet and falling off me, but it didn't matter. I was shivering and miserable, but nobody cared. In fact, they kept yelling that in your ear. "Nobody cares that you're uncomfortable! Who gives a s#it that you're wet and covered in sand! We could care less about your feelings! How you feel doesn't matter!" And sooner or later, you got it…sort of. You were going to be totally out of your comfort zone and you had to find a way to be okay with it. How you felt had nothing to do with whether or not you were going to accomplish something and you had to disassociate the two really quick.
Then we were put in teams and there were logs to carry on your shoulder and boats to carry on your head. And run with. And lunge with. And squat with. And do sit ups with. And of course pushups. There was always pushups. That whole process was trying because I'm not used to teamwork. But it made you rely on people and you knew that they were relying on you. When you are part of a team you can't quit and let other people down because it gets hard for you. It's just as hard for them. They're over there with snot running out of their nose, grunting and trying to keep the log from slipping, how can I slack because I feel uncomfortable?
I'd love to explain in detail the entire day, but it's hard for words to do it justice. I'm hoping that next week I can share a video so you can get a better idea of the experience. But as crappy as my body feels today and all the new bruises and scrapes I acquired, the pounds of sand I had to try and wash out of my hair, and the hypothermia I'm sure I experienced (okay, so I'm dramatic), I'm glad I did it.


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Today In Dishonest Fox Charts: Government Aid Edition
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Fox News is again highlighting a misleading chart to distort the debate over welfare reform and to amplify Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's inaccurate message that President Obama is "dismantling" welfare reform. In fact, Obama simply gave states the flexibility they asked for in overseeing the welfare program.
Hemmer stated: "If you take a look at the chart, the number has been rising steadily since 2009."
But the chart's scale is deceptively skewed. The chart's y-axis is 94,000,000, not 0 -- as graphs are conventionally delineated. Here's what a more realistic chart would look like when drawn to scale:
Since Fox's chart provides no actual numbers, the increase can only be roughly approximated, but an increase of 96 million to 108 million is an increase of less than 12 percent.
The Weekly Standard posted a blog highlighting a similar chart from Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, showing that in the middle of 2011, more than 100 million Americans were "residing in a household in which at least once person received" some form of government aid, which the chart called "some form of federal welfare."
But what Fox did not bother to explain is that more people received government aid between 2009 and 2011 because of the recession. As has been pointed out before, increased enrollment in federal aid programs such as food stamps came about because millions of people lost their jobs or saw their incomes shrink during the recession. And these programs have kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
This is simply the latest in a long line of dishonest charts aired by Fox News. Fox recently aired a badly distorted chart to exaggerate the increase of the expiring Bush tax cuts for the rich. Fox has also in the past aired misleading graphics on gas taxes and statistics about unemployment, among other subjects.
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The Federal Government faces daunting challenges: agencies are required by law to serve an ever-growing body of constituents, and agencies are deploying IT globally. In addition, mandates require the adoption of new applications and infrastructure, which IT leaders need to integrate with current systems. The entire system needs to be secure, as cyber-attacks become more common and sophisticated. Finally, departments have to complete their mission while staying within budget.
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Boost in Home Sales and Prices Seen in Illinois
Home sales were up across Illinois by 17.3 percent in August compared with a year earlier, and the median price increased by 13.6 percent.
The Illinois Association of Realtors released the numbers in a report Thursday. Nearly 16,000 homes sold in August statewide. The state median price was $167,000.
In Chicago, there was a 22 percent climb in home sales for August compared to the previous year with 2,797 sales. The median price of a home in the city was $245,000, up more than 22 percent.
Year-over-year growth in home sales was reported in 52 of 102 Illinois counties.
Michael Oldenettel of the real estate group says the state's spring and summer selling season was "quite strong."


text: There are obvious drawbacks to a smartphone that utilizes a display based on E Ink technology, but there are also some clear advantages. While the phone's user interface and video playback both take a hit, the panels in eReaders like the Kindle and Nook are visible in any light and they required just a fraction of the power needed to fuel modern LCD and AMOLED displays. E Ink, the company behind the paper-like display technology, debuted a prototype of an Android-powered smartphone at the Mobile World Congress trade show this week, and Laptop reports that the unit can run for a week on a single charge. Another image of the prototype E Ink phone follows below, and Laptop's full impressions can be found through the source link.


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Emlyn needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 720 designs submitted by 195 freelance designers.
Exceet (http://www.exceet.com) is a site that combines a social network (community), auction and market research (survey) into one site. It is a fusion site. I am looking for a simple yet striking logo that combines the exceet name with the logo, not seperately. So the name is the logo. The likes of Google, Yahoo and Ebay are examples of this. Something unique and instantly identifiable.
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Nuclear waste: Commission welcomes adoption of radioactive waste directive
Brussels, 19 July 2011 - Will the EU have binding standards for managing radioactive waste in the EU? Including final repositories for nuclear waste from nuclear power plants? Will Member States have to notify detailed programmes on when and how they will build these repositories? The answer to all these questions is: Yes. Today, the Council has adopted the "radioactive waste and spent fuel management directive", proposed by the Commission on 3rd November 2010. With this adoption, the Directive will enter into force at the latest in September this year, and Member States have to submit the first national programmes in 2015.
"This is a major achievement for nuclear safety in the EU" said Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger. "After years of inaction, the EU for the very first time commits itself to a final disposal of nuclear waste. With this directive, the EU becomes the most advanced region for the safe management of radioactive waste and spent fuel."
All EU Member States produce radioactive waste, generated by numerous activities, such as electricity production, medicine, research, industry and agriculture. 14 out of 27 Member States have nuclear reactors which generate also spent fuel.
While reaffirming the ultimate responsibility of Member States for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste, the Directive adopted today creates a strong EU framework with important obligations imposed on Member States.
In particular:
Moreover, Member States are required to invite periodically international peer reviews to exchange experience and ensure the application of the highest standards. This shall be done at least every 10 years.
Finally, two or more Member States can agree to use a disposal facility in one of them.
Exports to countries outside the EU is allowed under very strict and binding conditions: The third country needs to have a final repository in operation, when the waste is being shipped. Such a repository for highly radioactive waste is internationally defined to be a deep geological repository. At present, such deep geological repositories do not exist anywhere in the world nor is a repository in construction outside of the EU. It takes currently a minimum of 40 years to develop and build one.
According to already existing EU Directives on the shipment of spent fuels and radioactive waste, the export to African, Pacific and Caribbean Countries as well to Antarctica is already explicitly ruled out.
In its initial directive proposal, the Commission's had advocated a complete export ban in the new directive. On 23 June 2011, the European Parliament in its plenary session voted in favour of a complete export ban as proposed by the Commission. As the legal basis for this directive is the Euratom Treaty, the European Parliament is only consulted, the opinion is therefore not binding. The final decision is taken only by the Council.
The Commission will closely and carefully monitor the implementation of the new Directive, in particular progress made in building disposal facilities for radioactive waste and spent fuel and, if they occur at a later stage, possible exports of radioactive material.
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