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on the Steppe: Cultural History of the Evangelical-Lutheran Colonies
in the Region of Odessa, 1804 - 1945
By Joseph S. Height
Germans from Russia Heritage Society, Bismarck, North Dakota, 1975, 431 pages, hardcover.
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After Paradise on the Steppe had been out for awhile, many asked Dr. Height to gather similar information about some of the key protestant colonies. (Seventy-seven percent of the Germans living in South Russia were protestants of various kinds.) This book was the result, mostly but not entirely about the Lutheran colonies. Because conditions were similar for all the German people who went to Russia, a few portions of the first book were reprinted in the second. Height describes the journey down the Danube and the life of the villages, treating fashion, wedding customs, games and entertainment, songs, and the growth in quality of the agriculture. The names of the original settlers are great fun to pore through.
A striking inclusion is the report of a sophisticated German, J.G. Kohl--a sort of German Alexis de Tocqueville* -- who visited Lustdorf in 1838, just 30 years after its founding, and wrote a romanticized version of what he saw. Lustdorf was a special project of the Duc de Richelieu, the governor of Odessa, so was among the best developed of the colonies at this time. Kohl commented on the homes and food of the settlers, the geography of the area, the energy of the German women, relations with Russian neighbors--and the love life of his host's daughter Babele (not a very GR name). Dr. Height also found that State Councilor E. von Hahn, a president of the Colonists' Welfare Committee, had urged mayors and schoolmasters to write historical records of their villages. These first-hand accounts, six of which are included, are a real treasure.
Even in a general book like this, there may be things of great personal value to the person of German-Russian descent. On the town plat of Alexanderhilf, I found my mother's family name, Zweigle, several times. My foster grandmother Kathryn Eisemann Berg Fischer Keller, as she approached her one hundredth birthday, told me that she recalled running across the street to her grandparents' home in the village of Hoffnungstal (Cherson). I learned from this book that Hoffnungstal was a separatist village that was granted religious freedom by a special ukase or order of Czar Alexander II. In the lower left hand corner of the town plat, there are the homes of families named Eisemann, across the street from each other.
In the final chapters, Height tells of the dissolution of the colonies under communism.
* Alexis de Tocqueville was a French historian and political philosopher who visited the United States in 1831-1832. He is closely studied even today because of his incisive comments on political and social institutions.
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Boulder City Councilwoman KC Becker was selected Saturday to take the place of resigning Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, in the Colorado Legislature later this year.
Levy, who has represented House District 13 since 2006, announced last month that she had taken a job as the executive director of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy and would not be able to complete the final year of her term. Because of term limits, she would not have been able to run for the seat again in 2014. Her final day in office will be Oct. 31.
Becker, who is in the final year of a 4-year term on the Boulder City Council, was up against Levy's former campaign manager, Tad Kline, and George Clark, a retired consultant and engineer from Evergreen, for the position.
A 35-member vacancy committee composed of Democrats from across HD 13 was convened to select Levy's replacement. That committee met in Idaho Springs on Saturday where it interviewed candidates and eventually selected Becker.
"I feel very honored, more than anything. I'm looking forward to what's next," Becker said. "I think Claire has done an amazing job and I look forward to talking to her soon and trying to do the best job that I can as well. This district historically has very strong leadership and I hope I can repeat that."
Levy on Saturday evening congratulated Becker.
"I wish her every success in the upcoming (legislative) session," Levy said.
There was some controversy in the lead up to the vacancy committee's decision.
Gilpin County Coroner Zane Laubhan applied for the HD 13 vacancy but later dropped out because he felt that Democratic Party leadership was looking to name someone to the seat who would run for reelection in 2014, when he did not intend to do so. He claimed an incumbent will have an unfair advantage in next year's primary.
Kline held a position on the vacancy committee and had the opportunity to vote for himself to fill the seat, but any controversy around that situation was eliminated when he recused himself Saturday.
Celeste Landry served on the vacancy committee. She said Clark was eliminated in the first round of voting when he received the fewest votes of the three candidates. In the second round of voting, Becker won 17 votes to 12.
Four of the 35 committee members could not attend the meeting, Kline recused himself and one member abstained from voting in the final round, she said.
Vacancy committee chair Audy Leggere-Hickey said paperwork confirming Becker's naming to the HD 13 seat will be presented to the secretary of state's office on Nov. 1.
Under state law, Secretary of State Scott Gessler will have two days after receiving the paperwork to verify it, and Becker will be sworn into office no later than 30 days after that.
Becker said it was her time on the Boulder City Council that spurred her to pursue state office.
"More and more I was interested in and became passionate about issues that are being resolved at the state level," she said. "That includes things from education funding to poverty and climate change."
Prominent Colorado Democrats congratulated the 43-year-old Becker on her being named a state representative.
"KC has a great background and excellent reputation, having made a strong impression in her previous endeavors and Boulder County politics," Speaker Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, said in a news release. "I'm confident she'll be a great addition to our caucus, and look forward to serving with her in the statehouse."
"I've known KC for several years now, and I think very highly of her," House Majority Leader Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Boulder, said in the release. "It's terrific that House District 13 will continue to be represented by a strong woman."
House District 13 encompasses all of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Jackson and Grand counties, as well as western Boulder County, including the towns of Nederland, Ward and Jamestown.
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In her new film, "Savage Grace," which opened Friday in limited release, the mask doesn't crack so much as shatter. Moore plays Barbara Baekeland, a onetime actress who married the heir to the Bakelite plastic fortune. Her every gesture governed by calculation, Barbara is capable of playing the perfect high-society hostess. But when she feels threatened, the facade drops in an instant, revealing the raw and uncontrollable fury beneath.
Invented by Leo Baekeland in 1907, Bakelite was the first industrial plastic, used in a variety of products, including costume jewelry and land mines, and it made its inventor a wealthy man. But the idleness that came with inherited wealth took its toll on subsequent generations, including Baekeland's grandson, Brooks, Barbara's husband.
Set in Paris, London and Catalonia, "Savage Grace" basks in the perfume of postwar decadence, but underneath is the sour smell of moral rot. "For all of us, there are boundaries in the way we behave with each other," Moore said, chewing the ice from her diet soda a few blocks from the West Village apartment she shares with her husband, director Bart Freundlich, and their two children. "The thing that was so shocking to me was that they just didn't abide by any of them, ever." She laughs. "Ever!"
Drawn from Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson's oral history of the Baekelands' downfall, the movie focuses on Barbara's convoluted and eventually grotesque relationship with her son, Tony, played from adolescence on by British actor Eddie Redmayne. As Barbara's marriage to Brooks Baekeland faltered, she came increasingly to rely on her son for emotional, and eventually physical, solace. In 1972, some time after their relationship had become incestuous, Tony drove a kitchen knife through his mother's heart in the kitchen of their London flat. He later killed himself in prison.
'Violence and elegance'
MOORE, 47, got her earliest recognition for her role as Frannie Hughes on the soap opera "As the World Turns," but it wasn't until her early 30s that she began to make a mark in film, most forcefully by playing a marital spat in Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" naked from the waist down.
Barbara Baekeland is the latest in a long line of elegantly tortured women of privilege portrayed by Moore, running from 1995's "Safe" through 2002's "The Hours" and "Far From Heaven," both of which garnered her Oscar nominations.
Although Moore points out that she has played her share of lighthearted characters, singling out the Viking helmet-wearing Fluxus artist from "The Big Lebowski," her signature roles are women stifled by social conventions.
As Barbara, Moore epitomizes what "Savage Grace" director Tom Kalin calls "the collision between violence and elegance." Barbara's every action is governed by propriety, but she is far more volatile than most of Moore's long-suffering housewives, her emotions whipsawing like power lines in a windstorm.
"I haven't played somebody who can self-destruct like that before," she said. "She was so emotional, all this need, this desire to be seen, and to be loved. It was a messy kind of emotion, and that intrigued me."
Obsessed with upward mobility, Barbara's life is a constant performance, ironically fulfilling her claim that she was "almost a movie star." But on rare occasions, Moore lets Barbara's self-awareness slip, so we see the actress behind the role. When she catches her husband at the airport with another woman, Barbara makes a scene of royal proportions, neatly cutting him down to size. Only once does Moore let her sorrow show, emotion flooding her face as she walks slowly toward the camera. For a movie that could have come off as a chilly technical exercise, Moore's ability to pack immense feeling into a few fleeting instances is critical. "In those little turnings, in those silent moments of performance, she has great empathy, great humanity," Kalin says.
Meaning in tiny gestures
LIKE "Savage Grace," which premiered at Cannes in 2007, Moore's recent "Blindness" polarized the crowds at this year's festival. The first wave of U.S. press was largely dismissive of Fernando Meirelles' dystopian allegory, set in a world where everyone except Moore's character has suddenly lost the power of sight, labeling it ponderous and heavy-handed (European critics were significantly more enthusiastic). But Moore says Meirelles is adept at leavening the film's weightier aspects with powerful flickers of human feeling. "The thing he does that I think is so spectacular is that he paints with this big brush," she says. "There's a lot of camera movement, and everything is very emotional, very universal, and then he'll key in on a moment where he'll play somebody's eyes, and that will be the action in the frame. One person touching another: That tiny gesture is meaningful to him. I find it very, very moving."
Moore prefers to work with "strong directors" who can give her a sense of how she stands in the frame, a group that includes Robert Altman, Louis Malle, Todd Haynes and Paul Thomas Anderson.
"I didn't grow up thinking I was a particularly visual person," she says. "I don't draw or anything. But the older I've gotten, the more visual I've realized that I am. I really need to know what the frame is. I want to see the picture so I know where to stand in the picture."
On set, Moore works closely with the cinematographer and camera operator, studying storyboards and sometimes asking for a sense of how the scene might be edited, all to get a sense of how her work fits into the grander scheme. Balancing technique and raw emotion is a process she finds more exhilarating than cumbersome.
"One of the most exciting things about filmmaking is the technical limitations," she says, "knowing that I have to come up with a performance within a technical box. It's not just about, 'Well I got it, now you should get it.' A performance in a vacuum is nothing. It only exists in a movie."


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OK. You've been hearing at all the winter meetings that you should apply a residual herbicide as part of a herbicide resistance management program for your Roundup Ready corn, soybeans or cotton.
In case you're still wavering as you finish up your corn or begin preparations to plant your early-season soybeans, Monsanto has upped the ante by announcing a new Start Clean, Stay Clean Assurance Plan for corn and soybeans as part of its Roundup Rewards program. (Delta and Southeast cotton growers are covered by Roundup Ready Cotton Performance Plus.)
The company is offering to pay from $5.50 to $13 per acre if you have to make a second application of Roundup PowerMax or Roundup WeatherMax to control escaped weeds following the use of a Monsanto-approved residual herbicide with either crop.
"We know the Roundup Ready system has proven to be very flexible and beneficial, but farmers have not always been satisfied with the yield results because of the early weed competition," says Curt Uebele, Roundup marketing manager for Monsanto. "The new assurance plan will be a way to help growers maximize yields and prevent the development of resistance."
Uebele said the assurance plans for corn and soybeans are the latest in a series of benefits offered through the Roundup Rewards loyalty program. (The company, which began offering the program 10 years ago, paid out $170 million in Roundup Rewards benefits in 2008.)
In the program, farmers have been eligible to receive trait refunds if their seed was lost before planting due to natural catastrophe, yield protection for using the proper rate of a residual herbicide and cost-share allowances for controlling volunteer Roundup Ready Corn 2.
"Weed resistance is becoming a bigger issue," says Dave Rhylander, D&PL marketing manager for Monsanto. "And it's an issue we've been trying to address as a company to help growers remain profitable."
Monsanto first offered its Roundup Ready Cotton Performance Plus rebates as a pilot program for growers in the Southeast after Extension specialists began to document glyphosate resistance in Palmer amaranth in Georgia and South Carolina. Last year, the company expanded the program to the Delta region.
"We've been hearing from farmers this winter that they didn't know whether they were planting corn or soybeans in 2009," said Rhylander. "But they were concerned about the impact of glyphosate-resistant weeds on their crops."
In the program, farmers are asked to "start clean" with a burndown herbicide or tillage before they plant. They're then asked to choose a residual herbicide from a list provided by Monsanto and apply it at the proper Roundup Ready rate.
For Roundup Ready corn, the herbicides include Degree at 3 pints per acre, Degree Xtra at 2 quarts per acre, Harness at 1.5 pints per acre, Harness Xtra at 1.2 quarts, Harness Xtra 5.6L at 1.5 quarts, Bullet at 2 quarts, Lariat at 2 quarts or Micro-Tech at 2 quarts.
For Roundup Ready soybeans, growers can choose between Monsanto's Intrro at 2 quarts per acre and Valent USA Corp.'s Gangster Herbicide at 2.4 ounces per acre, Valor Herbicide at 2 ounces or Valor XLT Soybean Herbicide at 3 ounces per acre. Those should not be applied when the seed is cracking or coming through the surface.
After the crops emerge, growers must apply Roundup PowerMax or Roundup WeatherMax at a minimum of 22 ounces per acre before the weeds exceed 4 inches in height in corn or 6 inches in height in soybeans.
"What we've seen and what our university scientists have observed is that using a residual herbicide allows Roundup Ready soybean growers the flexibility to go in with Roundup PowerMax or WeatherMax when the weeds are up to 6 inches tall," says Uebele.
If growers follow the recommendations and a second in-crop treatment is needed to control a late flush of annual weeds, growers should apply a minimum of 22 ounces of Roundup PowerMax or WeatherMax. They will receive up to $13 per acre for a second in-crop treatment of Roundup WeatherMax, if needed when Roundup WeatherMax has been used and $5.50 per acre if Roundup PowerMax was used initially.
"Whether the dealer is scouting the fields and sees the escaped weeds or the grower sees them, the dealer can verify the problem and contact Monsanto," says Uebele. "We don't want growers to have to wait on Monsanto to come out and see the weeds before they take care of a problem."
"If this program is as successful as our earlier programs, we think we will see a lot more residual herbicides," says Rhylander. "We want to be proactive in preventing resistance — and helping growers increase yields."


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Possible session today at 4pm at Alameda. I think we can ride until 5:30 when it will be too dark. Late
i hope
but not yet ,its 3.41 and it backed downsome.
well i see some very light movement out there (alameda)
iheer you got a 20m....so... you could go
all i got is a 16m with an TuDe, as in att a tude
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Argh!!!! I got stuck at work!!! The wind was goin off too! I got home about 5:30 and was considering a night session since the sky was so bright but I have never attempted that before. There is still plenty more storm to come. Feelin sick now that I missed it!!!
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Some VCs think they're getting cut out of their fair share.
Acqui-hires, if you aren't aware, are the acquisitions of startups by large companies (usually Facebook, Google and Twitter) that are made primarily for the teams, not the products.
Every few weeks there's a press report of an acquisition of some startup or another along with a rumored acquisition price that's quite low, sometimes less than the amount of venture capital invested in the company. Those deals usually, but not always, have equity grants to key founders and employees that are often a multiple of the acquision price. Example – a recent deal had a rumored acquisition price of around $2 million plus stock grants to a few key employees of $15 million.
I've been fascinated with acqui-hires for years now. The first one in recent history I know about was Parakey, acquired by Facebook in 2007 (I talked about that deal here). But they have proliferated fast since then. Google (GOOG), Twitter and Facebook all have dedicated "corporate development" executives who work closely with human resources and exclusively look for these deals.
Huffington Post has a summary of some of the acqui-hires over the years. Additional thoughts from me over the years here and here.
Lots of people (me included) think acqui-hires are just fine. It can be a last refuge of a dying startup with a star team, for example. And since these startups have few other options, investors are usually not in a worse position than they'd be if the company simply went out of business.
Other VCs aren't as thrilled. Their counter argument (from a previous post):
They haven't been thrilled for years now, but something's starting to change. There have been Bin 38-like whispers of some investors acting to fight back on these deals. A lawyer I spoke with says there are a variety of causes of action in an acqui-hire deal, all centered around the notion that there's a lot of money going to some shareholders (founders/employees) but not to others (investors). Specifically, the longstanding notion of equal treatment of shareholders codified in California, Delaware and most other state corporations codes.
If deals are specifically being architected to give key employees very large payouts and investors very little, there are probably fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and other causes of action available to shareholders.
The cause of action is relatively straightforward – the deal as a whole would be considered fraudulent based on the fact that the team's value is based largely on the fact that it has become a cohesive whole on the shareholder's dime, and is worth far more as a group than the aggregate of the individuals.
No investor in her right mind would bring such an action, of course, because of the reputational fallout from doing so. I have heard of a couple of threatened and settled lawsuits, though, that never became public.
What's really pissing off investors are the stories that get back to them. Statements made by high level executives like "f%$# the investors, there's nothing they can do" sound fine in a closed door meeting with an entrepreneur. It sounds less defensible in a deposition that becomes public.
I doubt we'll see much of that, though, given the reputational issues I brought up above, plus the fact that most investors honestly aren't angered by these deals.
But what I do believe we'll start to see are clauses being added to investment contracts that are designed to change these deals. Specifically these clauses would force all deal consideration around a deal – including stock options and stock grants to employees – to be pooled and distributed pro rata among all shareholders.
This would likely kill many of these acqui-hire deals, since the stock grant portion of the deal is a compensation expense to companies. That means the government is paying for a sizable chunk of these acquisitions. Any attempt to pool the consideration and distribute away from employees would not only suck for employees, it would no longer be a tax expense for companies. That would make these deals some 50% more expensive to the buyers. Obviously employees wouldn't be thrilled to lose most of that compensation to investors, either.
Ultimately the market will decide if these clauses stick, but when there's a downturn (and there's always a downturn around the corner) onerous clauses often find their way into deals, and can eventually become "standard."
We would never ask for a clause like this at CrunchFund, and would counsel our companies only to consider it as a last resort. Additionally we would often counsel companies we've invested to take these types of acqui-hire deals when offered, if it's in their best interest.
But, in the meantime, it would probably be a good idea for the buyers out there – specifically Facebook, Google and Twitter – to consider toning down the anti-investor rhetoric in these meetings. They're injecting a lot of emotion into a difficult issue, and that doesn't help anyone in the long run.
Michael Arrington (@arrington) is a partner with venture capital firm CrunchFund, and was the founder of TechCrunch. This post originally appeared on his blog.


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The US immigration system has emerged as the nation's largest law enforcement network since the Sept. 11 attacks, but its culture of secrecy prevents the public even from knowing the names of the record 429,247 immigrants detained last year. A year-long Globe investigation reveals an insensitive, sometimes capricious system that has released thousands of potentially dangerous criminals to US streets - sometimes with deadly results. Meanwhile, thousands of immigrants with no criminal record are held for months in detention centers that treat them like criminals, even when they're sick or elderly. It's a system that the Founding Fathers never envisioned when they wrote the US Constitution.
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Picasso and portraiture.
New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by Abrams, ©1996
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|Pablo Picasso; Pablo Picasso; Reflections on Picasso and portraiture /
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Pablo Picasso; William Rubin; Anne Baldassari; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Musée Picasso (Paris, France)
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|"Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Musée Picasso, Paris"--Title page verso.
|495 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
|Reflections on Picasso and portraiture / William Rubin --
Picasso's self-portraits / Kirk Varnedoe --
Three portrait-manifestoes of poets : André Salmon, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Max Jacob / Hélène Seckel --
"Heads faces and bodies: : Picasso's uses of portrait photographs / Anne Baldassari --
To fall "like a fly into the trap of Picasso's stare" : portraiture in the early work / Marilyn McCully --
Portraiture in Picasso's primitivism and cubism / Pierre Daix --
The modernists' dilemma : neoclassicism and the portrayal of Olga Khokhlova / Michael C. FitzGerald --
Picasso's blond muse : the reign of Marie-Thérèse Walter / Robert Rosenblum --
"For charming Dora" : portraits of Dora Maar / Brigitte Léal --
A triangle of ambitions : art, politics, and family during the postwar years with Françoise Gilot / Michael C. FitzGerald --
The Jacqueline portraits in the pattern of Picasso's art / William Rubin.
|edited by William Rubin ; with essays by Anne Baldassari [and others].
"Portraiture has managed to flourish in modern painting in spite of the popularization of photography, the decline of traditional patronage, and modernism's increasing emphasis on abstraction. However problematic modern styles have been for representational art, painters have continued to discover new possibilities in the imaging of the human face. This book explores the challenge of the modernist portrait through the multiple solutions proposed by its foremost protagonist and, in so doing, becomes the first volume ever published on the subject of Picasso and portraiture. The hundreds of works reproduced here - most of them unfamiliar, some virtually unknown - demonstrate the remarkable range of Picasso's experimentation in all its stylistic and psychological diversity. The book opens with an authoritative, broad-ranging essay by William Rubin; the nine essays that follow - all by major contemporary scholars and critics - examine different periods and aspects of Picasso's career and clarify personal relationships between the artist and his subjects. It closes with an essay by Mr. Rubin on the late portraits. Numerous photographs, some never before published and many by outstanding photographers, present the portrait subjects as seen through the eye of the camera. This book, published to accompany a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, opening in April 1996, no doubt will long remain the definitive work on its subject."--Jacket.
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A Daily Camera reporter and a press advocacy group sued Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett on Wednesday seeking the release of the indictment that was secretly voted on by the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury in 1999 but never prosecuted.
The Camera reported earlier this year that the grand jury voted to indict the slain 6-year-old's parents on charges of child abuse resulting in death, but that then-District Attorney Alex Hunter refused to sign the document and prosecute the Ramseys.
Camera reporter Charlie Brennan and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed the lawsuit in Boulder District Court on Wednesday afternoon, citing the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act in an effort to compel Garnett to release the indictment.
"The plaintiffs believe... that the indictment is a criminal justice record that reflects official action by the grand jury, and accordingly that it is subject to mandatory disclosure upon request," attorney Thomas B. Kelley wrote in the complaint. "Alternatively, they argue the indictment should be disclosed to the public because such disclosure would serve the public interest in government transparency and not be contrary to the public interest nor cause undue adverse effect upon the privacy of the individual."
The Camera is not a plaintiff in the complaint.
Garnett previously has rejected two requests by the Camera and Brennan for the indictment under the Colorado Open Records Act.
"We will respond to the motion in a pleading in court," Garnett said Wednesday. "Protecting the integrity of the grand jury process is important to every district attorney."
On March 13, the Camera sent Garnett a request, under the open records act, for, "A true bill, or indictment, returned by the Boulder County grand jury in October 1999, pursuant to that body's investigations and deliberations into the December 1996 death of JonBenet Ramsey."
Deputy District Attorney Karen Lorenz on March 18 denied the request, saying the proceedings of the grand jury were secret and disclosing the documents would be contrary to Colorado law and public interest.
On June 27, Kelley, the attorney representing Brennan and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, sent another letter to Garnett's office asking him to reconsider releasing the indictment. On July 1, Sean Finn, Garnett's chief trial deputy and custodian of records, once again denied the request.
The Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act requires the court to conduct a hearing on such a lawsuit "at the earliest practical time."
Six-year-old JonBenet was found dead Dec. 26, 1996 in the basement of her family's home, 755 15th St., several hours after Patsy Ramsey called 911 to say her daughter was missing and there was a ransom note.
In October 1999, more than a year after the case went to a grand jury, then-D.A. Hunter announced that the grand jury investigation had come to an end and that no charges would be filed due to a lack of evidence.
But in January of this year, Brennan reported in the Camera that members of the grand jury confirmed they voted to indict both John and Patsy Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death and that Hunter refused to sign the indictment, believing he could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
When charged as "knowingly or recklessly," child abuse resulting in death is a Class II felony that carries a potential sentence of four to 48 years in prison. The statute of limitations on that charge in Colorado is three years from the date of the crime.
Hunter did not return calls for comment for this story on Wednesday.
The Ramseys and their now-adult son Burke were exonerated in the case in July 2008 by then-District Attorney Mary Lacy.
The Ramseys moved to Atlanta in 1997. Patsy Ramsey died in 2006 at the age of 49 after a battle with ovarian cancer.
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You are about to enter another delusion, a delusion not only of religion and guilt but of race. A journey into a wacky cult of deracination. Next stop, the Christcuck Zone!
Please take a seat, you'll find a vomit bag in the pocket in front of you. Trust us, you'll need it. You won't be able to un-see the contents of this video. It will haunt you for the rest of your life, like an evil clown nightmare. But your participation is necessary, to BEAR WITNESS to the abject degeneration of White Christianity.
Notice something besides the overarching virtue whoring evident in this Semen on the Mount? Our tawdry televangelist never asked for the black guy's name. Not once, in the whole time our divine dindu was up there on stage being used as a prop to fluff Preacher Pussyhat's sanctimonious ego. He said, "I need a young black man". Not, "What's your name?" Not even, "How are you today?" Just, "I need a young black man."
Really, that says it all about Christcuckery. These fawning phaggots don't actually give a shit about blacks. They merely want to use them as quickly discarded tokens to morally preen before their audience of equally empty-headed sanctimony signalers who for some godforsaken reason nurse a weird shame about living a decent life in their 98% White earthly utopias.
"I need a young black man"
….to make me feel good about myself
….to manufacture a glowing self-perception of my GoodWhiteness
….to guilt-trip other Whites into coughing up bennies for the MegaChurch coffers
….to masturbate furiously while watching my wife and her buck fucker
….to alleviate the searing humiliation of raising my wife's son
….to pick my cult followers clean
….to sit still on stage for ten minutes to prove all those Very Bad, No Good, Awful BadThinking BadWhites wrong about race differences
The charade gets even more ridiculous. Pastor PutItInMyAss tells Saint Souvenir that he is valuable and "society hasn't told you that". Color me shocked that a self-abasing White cuck uses the same vapid platitudes as dumbfuck feminists.
8:53 — "We bros!"
Hilariously nauseating. If "I NEED A YOUNG BLACK MAN" is the Christcuck petition, "WE BROS!" is the Christcuck atonement. Redemption is achieved by adopting a few Africans until your biological kids need twenty years of therapy.
If this is the future of White America, they deserve their overrun by barbarian hordes. Nothing worth saving here, move along.


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Sweet Treats for Valentine's Day: Chocolate Puffs
Just like last year, this year my Valentine is out of town for work. I dropped him at the airport on Monday morning, and even though we'll have to wait until the weekend to celebrate, I prepared a special sweet treat for my husband Lulu that he can enjoy during his business trip. I packed a bag of these chocolate puffs in his suitcase, and once he landed, I sent him a message to tell him his favorite chocolate treats were waiting for him.
The secret to making these soft, fluffy French cookies is to use finely ground steel cut oats, which was provided by Bob's Red Mill. I met their reps during the Fancy Food Show at their booth in San Francisco. The dough is flavored with cocoa powder and I added chocolate chips to reinforce the chocolate flavor.
Give this sweet treat to your sweetheart; I guarantee it will be a hit!
Yields: 68 cookies2 whole eggs, at room temperature
2½ cups steel cut oats
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
15 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
1 cup light brown sugar
1½ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup granulated sugar
½ teaspoon sea salt
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preparing the dry ingredients:
In a food processor (I used the dry container of the Vitamix blender), combine the all-purpose flour, ½ cup granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt, cocoa powder and the steel cut oats. Blend until it becomes a fine mill.
For the wet ingredients:
Using an electric hand-held mixer, whisk the eggs with ½ cup granulated sugar until you get a pale yellow color. Add vanilla extract and set aside.
Cream the softened butter with ½ cup brown sugar.
Pour in the sweetened butter into the egg mixture. Add the dry ingredients. Mix with a spatula until the batter is smooth, then add the chocolate chips and the remaining ½ cup brown sugar. Mix until evenly distributed. Chill in the refrigerator (up to 1 week).
Assembly time:
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
When you're ready to bake the chocolate puffs, place them on several (I used 4) parchment paper (or silicone mat)-lined baking sheets. Make sure they're spaced out so they won't touch each other as they expand while baking. Using the bottom of a cup, lightly flatten the balls.
Bake for 9-10 minutes. Remove the chocolate puffs from the oven and let them cool a little.
Serve with a nice hot tea.
Bon appétit!
Sifting dry ingredients helps get rid of lumps of flour and aerates the mixture when liquid is added. It's an important step for all your baking so you get a fluffy result.
You can store the baked cookies in an airtight metal tin for up to 3-4 days to keep them fresh. Our cookies never last that long!


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To commemorate reaching the 1 billion user milestone, Facebook released its first ever ad – an uncharacteristic move for the social network – that showcases the many ways and reasons people are using Facebook.
The minute and a half branded clip, titled "The Things That Connect Us," illustrates how Facebook is a platform for connecting with people using some heavy-handed metaphors involving chairs, doorbells, bridges, and even airplanes. "These are things people use to get together so they can open up and connect about ideas, and music, and other things that people share," the video says.
To explain his vision for the video,CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Facebook, "We believe that the need to open up and connect is what makes us human. It's what brings us together. It's what brings meaning to our lives. Facebook isn't the first thing people have made to help us connect. We belong to a rich tradition of people making things that bring us together."
The "chairs" allusion tries to explain how we're grounded when we sit and the situations in which this leads to interactions, whether you're sitting on a bench, at a table, or in a classroom. As apt as Facebook might find this metaphor to be, the Internet is collectively giving the ad a big blank stare — thanks in part to the fact that it begins with the chair reference and somehow makes it way to comparing Facebook with the universe. We're all for hyped, overkill promos like this, but Facebook may have overshot just a bit.
Despite any criticism, the company is busy celebrating its new user numbers. As we reported earlier, Zuckerberg has gone on media tour today with appearances on NBC News and a Q&A with Businessweek. A hackathon will also be held to mark the network's 1 billion users.
With the inevitable billion finally reached (and just to put this figure into perspective, this means that approximately one in seven people in the world are now on Facebook), there will likely be some changes coming to the platform. Zuckerberg has already hinted at his vision for the company during an interview with Businessweek."I think there's about to be a big push in commerce," Zuckerberg explained, which has already started with the launch of Facebook Gifts.
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The founder of the security-centric UNIX-inspired OpenBSD operating system Theo De Raadt has said that there may have been efforts made to plant backdoors in the open-source operating system. Suggesting that OpenBSD may have been compromised by a former "government contractor," the operating system is normally held in high regard by developers who themselves typically audit the source code and perform necessary debugging steps as a matter of course.
In a letter that De Raadt has made public here Gregory Perry, who is now CEO of GoVirtual Education, wrote: "My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors and side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OCF, for the express purpose of monitoring the site to site VPN encryption system implemented by EOUSA, the parent organization to the FBI. Jason Wright and several other developers were responsible for those backdoors, and you would be well advised to review any and all code commits by Wright as well as the other developers he worked with originating from NETSEC."
De Raadt has subsequently been quoted here as saying that, "I believe that NETSEC was probably contracted to write backdoors as alleged. If those [backdoors] were written, I don't believe they made it into our tree. They might have been deployed as their own product." The OpenBSD founder also said the developers associated with NETSEC worked on drivers for the operating system and wrote security code that used these drivers.
Taking the opportunity to detail his own direct response, De Raadt said, "The mail came in privately from a person I have not talked to for nearly 10 years. I refuse to become part of such a conspiracy and will not be talking to Gregory Perry about this. Therefore I am making it public so that: (a) those who use the code can audit it for these problems; (b) those that are angry at the story can take other actions; (c) if it is not true, those who are being accused can defend themselves."
To close the lid on this story, OpenBSD is undertaking a comprehensive audit of the crypto code and its developers have discovered and repaired several bugs saying that there were in fact no signs of backdoor code.


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Each year, thousands of patients are diagnosed with a disease that might have to be treated with a hematopoietic or blood stem cell transplant. Traditionally, these stem cells have come from bone marrow donation, from either a relative or from an unrelated volunteer donor. Most patients, however, have no relative that matches their HLA tissue type. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 patients cannot find a donor that is a sufficiently close match among the millions of volunteer donors listed by registries around the world. Other patients don't have enough time to find an unrelated bone marrow donor due to the rapid progression of their disease. Cord blood is now another option.
In October 2002, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) published an extensive report on the government-funded National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), a registry of people throughout the U.S. who are willing to donate their bone marrow, if it is a match, for anyone who may need it. The report addressed concerns regarding "...the extent to which the Registry provides equality of opportunity for patients of all racial and ethnic groups to find compatible (matched) unrelated donors, the extent to which it is utilized by those in need of stem cell transplantation, and the effectiveness of the management of the donor centers." The complete report may be viewed in the link below.
2002 GAO Report: Possible Underutilization of National Bone Marrow Donor Registry (PDF)
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Public cord blood banking increases the chances that patients who might benefit from a stem cell transplant can get one and get it quickly. Currently, with more than 50,000 cord blood donations, the New York Blood Center's National Cord Blood Program can, on average, find an HLA-matched (4/6 or better) cord blood graft for approximately 85 percent of patients who request a search. The actual percentage of HLA matches varies with the ethnic group of the patient and suitability of the unit as a graft varies with the patient's weight. The NCBP now collects cord blood in eight affiliated hospitals: six in the New York metropolitan area, one in Fairfax County, Virginia and one in Cleveland, Ohio [See About Us and Collection Sites] and will add one or two more over the coming year. We have a goal to reach 100,000 cord blood units over the next five years.
If most patients can find a cord blood unit already, why do we need so many more units?
At present, some patients must still make do with a cord blood unit that is not optimal, either because of a low cell dose and/or a low HLA match grade. Much larger inventories are needed so that all patients, including ethnic minority patients, can find a cord blood unit that will be optimal for them. This is why we are expanding our own Program and why we have worked to encourage federal funding to help all qualified public cord blood banks in the U.S. build a large national inventory of cord blood units. Federal funding, passed into law in December 2005 and available since 2006 will help build a national inventory (NCBI) totaling 150,000 of high quality, ethnically diverse cord blood units.
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Officials identify 2 prison employees killed during inmate escape attempt
Two prison employees were killed and several others injured during an attempted inmate escape at the Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety says inmates started a fire in the prison's specialty sewing plant around 3 p.m. Thursday.
Several inmates then tried to escape but were unsuccessful. The fire was extinguished.
All inmates were accounted for Thursday night and the prison was locked down.
Officials have identified the two employees killed as 35-year-old Correctional Officer Justin Smith and 50-year-old Correction Enterprises Manager Veronica Darden.
Smith provided security in the Correction Enterprises Specialty Sewing Plant. He had worked as a correctional officer since 2012. Darden supervised inmates working in the Specialty Sewing Plant. She had been a Correction Enterprises employee since 2007 and previously worked as a correctional officer.
Elizabeth City is about 50 miles south of Norfolk, Virginia, and near North Carolina's Outer Banks.
The prison houses nearly 900 adult, male felons in both high-security and minimum-custody buildings. Minimum-security prisoners work outside the walls on road gangs for the county recycling department and performing other community labor.


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Two unidentified assailants attacked Rogozhin, 38, as he was leaving an elevator at his apartment building around 6 p.m. Thursday, repeatedly striking him in the head with heavy objects, Vzglyad said. The assailants left the journalist barely conscious by his door, but did not rob him. After crawling into his apartment and calling an ambulance, Rogozhin was hospitalized with a fractured skull and multiple head lacerations, the business daily Kommersant said. The journalist has been unconscious since undergoing several operations over the weekend, the independent news Web site Newsru said.
appalled by this vicious attack on our colleague Vadim Rogozhin, who is known
for critical reporting," said CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator
Over the past several years, Rogozhin worked as a journalist for a number of local and national media outlets. Prior to his promotion in January to managing director of Vzglyad--a Saratov company that includes the newspaper Saratovsky Vzglyad, the information agency Vzglyad-Info, and the Internet television channel TV Saratov-Videonovosti--Rogozhin edited and reported for Saratovsky Vzglyad on corruption in the regional government, police, judiciary, and security services, Kommersant said. After Rogozhin assumed his managerial position two months ago, he continued to influence Vzglyad's editorial content, his colleagues told CPJ. "It is obvious that this attack was related to his professional activity," Vzglyad-Info Editor-in-Chief Nikolai Lykov told Kommersant.


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Tonight, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa speaks to Professor Ali Ahmida, who teaches political science at the University of New England, about Lybia's first truly democratic election in almost 60 years, which happened this weekend, and whose results are still being counted.
This is followed by a conversation with popular Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi. She came to prominence in Tunisia during the revolution and was here a few weeks ago.


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Angie Watson Morenz was the first female athlete in Blackburn College history to be awarded 12 athletic letters. A member of the 1993-94 St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference basketball champions, Morenz also played on the 1996-97 conference tournament championship team at Blackburn that qualified for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament.
Morenz's love for sports turned into a career. Blackburn recently announced that its former star athlete will be the next athletic director for the college beginning July 1.
Morenz is a 1997 graduate of Blackburn with a major in physical education management. She completed her master's degree in athletic training at Indiana State University the following year.
In 1999, Morenz returned to her Illinois college town and began working as an athletic trainer for Sportscare and Carlinville Hospital. She then served as the head athletic trainer at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., from 2000-04. Following that, Morenz was the Equipment Manager for the Bearcats at State University of New York at Binghamton.
Returning to her alma mater in 2006, Morenz worked in the development office and focused on alumni relations at Blackburn. In 2008, she became a professor of physical education and sports management at Blackburn.
In the meantime, Morenz stared working on her doctorate in sports management from the United States Sports Academy, with hopes of finding her dream job in sports in the future. Morenz tells the Alumni Network that she thought she would become a tenured college professor for the next 30 years. Little did she know, the athletic director position at Blackburn would come open and she would be chosen for the job.
Alumni Network: What are your long-term career goals?
Angie Watson Morenz: My intent is to stay at Blackburn for a while. It is my alma mater, and I believe strongly in the institutional mission. I want to provide stability to the athletic director position. Right now that is my only goal; my focus has to be on the work that is directly ahead of me.
Further into the future, who knows what might transpire. I thought I was going to be a tenured college professor for the next 30 years until the athletic director's position opened. Life has a funny way of twisting and turning.
Alumni Network: If you could tell women something encouraging about working to become an athletic director, what would it be?
Angie Watson Morenz: I would tell women that taking every opportunity to network, working at different levels of governance and seeking education is imperative to becoming an athletic director. The opportunities exist for women, but you must be diligent in the process of learning. Be willing to lend a helping hand, it shows initiative and allows people to see how you work. Women still have a proving ground to navigate when it comes to leadership, so take on extra responsibilities and demonstrate your capabilities.
Alumni Network: What do you hope to see in the future of women athletic directors?
Angie Watson Morenz: My hope is that women are strong and consistent leaders for the programs they represent. Women need to create relationships with their staff and students that allow access to leadership and decision making. Women should continue to make efforts to build support networks and act as role models for everyone, not just for women. Also, I hope to be supportive of women actively pursuing leadership roles in athletics. Alumni Network: Do you feel that your doctorate from the Academy will help to better your skill set while working at your new position as athletic director? What do you like about the Academy's program?
Angie Watson Morenz: The Academy helped me to better my skill set by merging theory to my practical experiences. My previous work experience, coupled with the variety of academic classes and my mentorship, allowed me to see how theory can be applied to practical situations. I was literally taking the information from the courses and exercising the information on a daily basis. Now, I will be applying the concepts to a professional setting.
The thing I really like about the Academy's program is the Mentorship. My mentorship was with the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC), working directly with the commissioner. This happens to be the conference Blackburn competes in, so I had a direct link to the governance structure at the conference level. Without knowing it at the time, it prepared me well for stepping into the athletic director role.
Alumni Network: What made you choose the Academy?
Angie Watson Morenz: The Academy offered some attractive features that I couldn't get from a more traditional setting. The most important aspect for me was the ability to work full-time while pursuing my degree. Being able to continue my education through distance learning was helpful given where Blackburn is in relation to institutions that offer doctoral programs.
The second feature that attracted me was the accredited sports management program, having accreditation gave the program more "value" to those around me that questioned online learning programs. The Academy's reputation played a role in my decision as well.


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It is no simple task to cast a magic spell over a social event.
On Sept. 19 in the garden of Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles, the executive team of Costa Mesa's South Coast Plaza welcomed 100 guests for a 45th anniversary celebration dinner. The operative word was "magic."
The plaza's talented Debra Gunn Downing, exquisitely attired in a floor-length, summer, sleeveless satin gown by Lanvin and escorted by beau attorney Charles Kanter, introduced the evening's host, Henry Segerstrom, South Coast Plaza founder and managing partner of one of America's legendary fashion empires.
Segerstrom joined his very chic wife, Elizabeth, and dedicated son Anton Segerstrom and his bright and beautiful bride, Jennifer. The Segerstrom contingent proudly greeted the arriving crush, many of whom had dealt with the journey on the San Diego (405) Freeway from Orange County to be a part of the special occasion.
The night sky enveloped the stately sycamore trees in the hotel garden bringing down the daytime temperature from the triple digit mark to an intoxicating 75 degrees by 8 p.m. A light dew dusted the thick green grass as is the norm in Bel Air's Stone Canyon, even on the hottest of days.
Designers set up one long banquet table seating all 100 guests down the center of the garden lawn. Fifty-foot strands of twinkling white lights hung from the tallest limbs of the craggy sycamores. The sounds of an orchestra of crickets clicked and ticked away, punctuating cocktail conversation as guests moved from an upper terrace where hors d' oeuvres were offered, down to the garden for dinner. O.C.'s Sunny Ravanbach of the Black Iris created a centerpiece of magnificent roses and orchids interspersed with white magnolia flowers from one end of the table to the other.
The anniversary evening was created to coincide with the unveiling of South Coast Plaza's fall 2012 portfolio, which had been shot in California's Big Sur.
The enormous trees of Stone Canyon seemed to be an ideal fit for such a party, and also an opportunity for fashionistas to explore the newly renovated and redecorated hotel, which had been shuttered for two-plus years while undergoing a new look. The legendary hotel remains a romantic hideaway but no longer exudes old world understated class. Its décor now follows the modernistic trend: angular, simplistic and monochromatic. Definitely more youthful, attracting the Hollywood 30-something crowd and those who would like to be in that milieu.
In a way the setting was a perfect choice to showcase the 45-year triumph of an O.C. landmark. Hotel Bel-Air felt it needed to be reinvented for 21st century patrons much in the same manner as Henry Segerstrom and his staff have continuously sought to reinvent and to reach beyond the norm in the world of fashion retail, always looking ahead of the current style to find the next trend, the newest ideas, pushing the artistic envelope.
In 1966, Henry Segerstrom, then 43, a World War II wounded veteran, Stanford University graduate, father of three and business man, turned a longtime, family-run agrarian business into a new 20th century model. He
shared with the dinner table stories of those early days, recounting challenges from the doubters and giving a glimpse into the motivation of the man that made South Coast Plaza what it is.
"There was a French designer, Courreges, just coming on scene," Henry Segerstrom said as the crowd responded with, "Oh, yes."
They recalled the pure white A-line dresses with the orange Courreges logo and the mini white patent leather boots that were the height of French fashion.
"I was able to speak with the designer and convince him that South Coast Plaza would be an ideal location for a store," he continued, adding, "After some negotiation, he agreed and Courreges came to South Coast Plaza. This was the beginning."
To put this in perspective, Orange County in 1967 was not the sophisticated international market it is today. Major anchor stores included the likes of Sears, which remains today surrounded by the ultra trendy design houses. And that is why Henry Segerstrom is often called "visionary."
Guests enjoying a three-course dinner beginning with a gourmet roasted heirloom beet salad and an entrée of loup de mer followed by a summer fruit tart for dessert included O.C.'s best dressed Betty Huang and husband L.S. Huang, Eric Spitz, the new president of Freedom Communications leading the O.C. Register, the glamorous Dee Higby and husband Larry Higby, debonair Michael Moser representing Harry Winston, Jean-Paul Nataf, international fashion stylist Nicole Pollard, from Hermes Yuki Ozawa, and the ever elegant Caroline Graham.
THE CROWD runs Thursdays and Saturdays. B.W. Cook is editor of the Bay Window, the official publication of the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.


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Police were called to a Vermillion, SD home in the early morning hours of Christmas day for a domestic dispute that escalated to a hostage situation and stand off.
Police arrived at about 1am Tuesday morning and quickly determined that the man inside was armed and had two children hostage.
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Negotiators tried to keep the lines of communication open before entering the home at about 1:30 this afternoon to find the man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.


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Steampunk needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 90 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Steampunk Chronicle is an on-line newspaper geared toward providing the latest news and happening in the Science Fiction genre of Steampunk. As a newspaper it will have several departments (Fashion, Movies, Music, Events, Mods, Life-Style etc.) and will publish articles regularly to bring the latest news to this community. We are looking for a graphics designer that understands this art style and will be able to work with us on our other future needs.
Steampunk community of authors, artist, gamers, film buffs, fashion maidens, moders and fans. Core elements are Gears, Time, Victorian age, contraptions, reto-tech.
http://photobucket.com/images/steampunk/ There are some good examples at this link. These images have colors that are dark steel, brown and copper. Note the use of copper tubing, gears, goggles from early industrial age. All evoking images of steam power rather than electricity.
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The general site structure, layout and colors are already set and visible at http://www.SteampunkChronicle.com. These will not change. We just need the logo and background image to go on top of this layout. If you don't know what Steampunk is google it before you ask.
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Photographs, formatting, and caption by George P. Landow. With thanks to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral. You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
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STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. – General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a three-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with an estimated potential value of $9.5 million by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to provide spare parts in support of the Abrams main battle tank.
"The Defense Logistics Agency has a strategic goal of reducing costs by $10 billion in five years and General Dynamics Land Systems is committed to helping them achieve it," said Graz Graziano, vice president of Combat Support and Sustainment for General Dynamics Land Systems. "By aligning our approach to support their objective, we presented DLA with new ideas for significant material-cost reduction over the life of this contract. We look forward to additional opportunities to continue this partnership in the future."
Through this contract General Dynamics Land Systems will provide DLA with spares for the M1A2 system enhancement package (SEP) version 1 and version 2 series of tanks. This contract leverages the best practices of multiple General Dynamics Land Systems organizations: program management will be performed by employees at General Dynamics Land Systems-Force Protection in Ladson, S.C., while the parts will be manufactured at General Dynamics Land Systems' Scranton, Penn., manufacturing facility. Work will begin immediately and will be performed through April 2016.
The M1A2 SEP fully digitized platform is one of the most technologically advanced tanks in the world. The Abrams SEP v1 and v2 tanks feature sophisticated command and control systems, second-generation thermal sights, improved armor and many other state-of-the-art capabilities.
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March 1948
Vol. 4 No. 10
"With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience. But when its plans concern the welfare of neighboring groups also, those groups ought to be consulted. And no group, regional committee, or individual should ever take any action that might greatly affect A.A. as a whole without conferring with the trustees of The Alcoholic Foundation. On such issues our common welfare is paramount."
This Tradition, Number 4, is a specific application of general principles already outlined in Traditions 1 and 2. Tradition 1 states, "Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward." Tradition 2 states, "For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority--a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience."
With these concepts in mind, let us look more closely at Tradition 4. The first sentence of Tradition 4 guarantees each A.A. group local autonomy. With respect to its own affairs, the group may make any decisions, adopt any attitudes that it likes. No over-all or intergroup authority should challenge this primary privilege. We feel this ought to be so, even though the group might sometimes act with complete indifference to our tradition. For example, an A.A. group could, if it wished, hire a paid preacher and support him out of the proceeds of a group night club. Though such an absurd procedure would be miles outside our tradition, the group's "right to be wrong" would be held inviolate. We are sure that each group can be granted, and safely granted, these most extreme privileges. We know that our familiar process of trial and error would summarily eliminate both the preacher and the night club. Those severe growing pains which invariably follow any radical departure from A.A. tradition can be absolutely relied upon to bring an erring group back into line. An A.A. group need not be coerced by any human government over and above its own members. Their own experience, plus A.A. opinion in surrounding groups, plus God's prompting in their group conscience would be sufficient. Much travail has already taught us this. Hence we may confidently say to each group, "You should be responsible to no other authority than your own conscience."
Yet please note one important qualification. It will be seen that such extreme liberty of thought and action applies only to the group's own affairs. Rightly enough, this Tradition goes on to say, "But when its plans concern the welfare of neighboring groups also, these groups ought to be consulted." Obviously, if any individual, group or regional committee could take an action which might seriously affect the welfare of Alcoholics Anonymous as a whole, or seriously disturb surrounding groups, that would not be liberty at all. It would be sheer license; it would be anarchy, not democracy.
Therefore, we A.A.s have universally adopted the principle of consultation. This means that if a single A.A. group wishes to take any action which might affect surrounding groups, it consults them. Or, if there be one, it confers with the intergroup committee for the area. Likewise, if a group or regional committee wishes to take any action that might affect A.A. as a whole, it consults the trustees of The Alcoholic Foundation, who are, in effect, our over-all General Service Committee. For instance, no group or intergroup could feel free to initiate, without consultation, any publicity that might affect A.A. as a whole. Nor could it assume to represent the whole of Alcoholics Anonymous by printing and distributing anything purporting to be A.A. standard literature. This same principle would naturally apply to all similar situations. Though there is no formal compulsion to do so, all undertakings of this general character are customarily checked with our A.A. General Headquarters.
This idea is clearly summarized in the last sentence of Tradition 4, which observes, "On such issues our common welfare is paramount."
Bill W.