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Poor communication is one of the
biggest causes of
stress at work, school, and home. Being unable to talk about
your needs, concerns, and frustrations can create stress. Being assertive helps
you communicate without causing stress to yourself and others. Assertiveness is
a skill that you can learn and put into practice.
In most cases, being assertive works better than being passive
or aggressive. With
passive communication, you may not express your
opinions, feelings, and needs. With aggressive communication, you
honestly state your opinions, feelings, and needs, but you do it at the expense
of others.
To be more assertive, focus on what you say and how you say it. You can plan and practice how to be more assertive by following the steps and tips below.
To have a good experience carrying out an assertive discussion, it's helpful to do some preparation.
Body language is the
way you sit or stand, move, and use your eyes and hands when you speak.
Sometimes when you think you're speaking assertively, your body is sending a
different message. That message can get in the way of what you are trying to
say. Using the right body language helps you communicate more assertively. Try
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You'll be more comfortable if you practice these rules
in front of a mirror or with a trusted person. When you practice, you can also hear your tone of
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Elmore Leonard, the revered crime author who died Tuesday at age 87, was well known in Hollywood circles, either for his books that got adapted into films or for his own screenplays. But Leonard's most recent success had been on the small screen with the FX series "Justified."
The drama, adapted from Leonard's short story "Fire in the Hole," has aired for four seasons, with a fifth expected to air in January. It is, by far, the most popular and well received adaptation of Leonard's work for the small screen. Leonard himself served as one of the show's executive producers.
But though he'd had a long big-screen career, the very first adaptation of Leonard's work also appeared on the small screen. In 1956, "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars," a dramatic anthology series, aired an adaptation of Leonard's western short story "Moment of Vengeance," which was first published in the Saturday Evening Post.
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When Leonard returned to TV, it was with an original teleplay for the TV movie "Desperado." Alex McArthur starred as nomadic cowboy Duell McCall, who finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly feud in a frontier mining town. Though the script was originally intended to be the pilot of a weekly series, it ended up being successful enough to kick off a series of five TV movies that aired from 1987 to 1989.
Leonard's novel "Glitz" became the basis of a TV movie adaptation in 1988. Jimmy Smits, a rising star from his role on NBC's "L.A. Law," starred as a Miami cop working to take down a serial rapist. Markie Post, another star from NBC, was a costar. While Leonard had written a screenplay for director Sidney Lumet to do a big-screen adaptation, the TV version was rewritten and was not considered a success.
Another of Leonard's novels, "Split Images," was adapted as a TV movie in 1992. The story involved a wealthy and bored killer and his cop partner-in-crime, along with police officer and his reporter girlfriend who try to stop them. The TV movie recieved mediocre reviews, despite a teleplay by novelist and newspaperman Pete Hamill.
One of Leonard's earliest western novels, "Last Stand at Saber River," became a TV movie in 1997, with Tom Selleck starring as a Confederate Civil War veteran who teams with a former Union soldier to take on rebel pioneers who threaten his family. The film, which aired on TNT, received so-so reviews but did land a nomination at the YoungStar Awards for its then-unknown performer Haley Joel Osment.
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"Pronto," based on Leonard's 1993 novel, became a TV movie in 1997 with Peter Falk, Glenne Headly and James Le Gros. Le Gros played Leonard's U.S. marshal character Raylan Givens, the role that Timothy Olyphant would eventually play on the series "Justified." However, this version of the character never caught on with audiences or Leonard himself, who expressed his displeasure at Le Gros and the film in general to TV writer Alan Sepinwall.
Based on the success of director Barry Sonnenfeld's 1995 big-screen adaptation of Leonard's "Get Shorty," ABC brought Sonnenfeld and Leonard together again for the 1998 series "Maximum Bob." Beau Bridges starred as a cartoonish ultraconservative judge, and the series featured the cast of wacky Florida characters in his life. Despite a high-profile launch to the series, it did not do well in the ratings and was canceled after seven episodes.
Another attempt by ABC to bring Leonard's work to series, "Karen Sisco," fared only slightly better in 2003. It lasted 10 episodes before getting canceled. Carla Gugino played the role of Sisco, a U.S. marshal in Miami dedicated to bringing down bad guys. Jennifer Lopez had played the role in the big-screen version, "Out of Sight."
"Justified" has been Leonard's biggest TV success, earning multiple Emmy nominations and even winning one for supporting actress Margo Martindale. (Guest actor Jeremy Davies also won one.)
While it's too soon to know if Leonard's death with have an effect on the series, it's a sure bet that the fifth season premiere will be dedicated to the man who created their world.
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Thankfully the fashion pack has adopted a very realistic interpretation of spring's pastel trend that can be worn even in sub-zero temperatures. See how the likes of Harley Viera Newton and Danielle Bernstein of We Wore What incorporate pastel accessories into their ensembles. Then shop our favorite picks available now.
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Viera Newton looked cool, not girly, by pairing one of Chanel's S/S 14 bags (available in March - Chanel.com for stores) with tougher black lace-up boots and a minidress.
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MARTINEZ, Calif. — A twisted rapist telephoned the victim's dad and sadistically boasted about the sexual assault happening on his end of the line, according to shocking testimony heard in California.
Two men are on trial in Contra Costa County, accused in a horrific gang rape of a 16-year-old girl who was brutalized outside her high school homecoming dance.
The victim's dad – identified only as John Doe to protect his daughter's identity – told jurors yesterday that he was on his way to Richmond HS, about 18 miles northeast of San Francisco, to pick up his daughter when he received a call from her cell phone.
A male voice described, in vulgar terms, what was happening to his daughter. The dad said he wanted to believe the call was a sick prank.
"I'm envisioning it and it was a horror," the dad told jurors.
Jose Montano, 22, of Richmond and Marcelles Peter, 20, of Pinole are both charged with forcible rape, rape by foreign object and forced oral copulation. If convicted, they face life sentences.
The shocking gang rape could have involved up to 20 men who also punched, dragged, and urinated on the victim, Deputy DA John Cope said.
Montano and Peter are the first of six men initially charged to face trial. Two others are awaiting trial while two more took plea bargains.
When the victim's dad rolled up to the school, he saw police cars screaming past him before he spotted his badly injured daughter. The dad told jurors he could barely recognize his daughter on the paramedic's gurney.
"Her face was distorted, no longer round," he said. "Ashen, gray, pale, clammy. She seemed to me on Death Row."
Under cross examination, the emotional dad recounted how he told his little girl, "that we loved her and for her to hold on."
Prosecutor Cope has told jurors the cops were called to the school when they found the drunk, incoherent girl with her body scratched, bruised and almost completely nude.
The defense claims authorities don't have enough evidence to tie their clients to the disgusting assault.
The men are being tried together, but in front of two separate juries. They'll hear the same evidence but deliberate in two different rooms, each weighing the fate of one defendant.
Montano's DNA was found on a nearby condom wrapper and can of alcohol – but not on the victim, cops said.
The victim is expected to testify in this trial, but Cope said she doesn't remember the attack.


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Many commentators on President Bush's second-term appointments have linked the nominations of Secretary Rice to her position at State, Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank, and John Bolton to the United Nations as a troika making a particular statement. Tomorrow's Guardian, for example, publishes a column by Martin Jacques to this effect under the portentous heading "The neoconservative revolution."
Certain of the MSM outlets have suggested that by appointing officials who support his administration's policies, President Bush has demonstrated a troubling audacity. The Los Angeles Times thought it appopriate in this context to ask, in mulling over Wolfowitz's nomination, whether Wolfowitz can "display sufficient independence from the Bush administration?" I would guess that's a standard the Times would like to apply generally to Bush's cabinet officers as well.
Perhaps the most remarkable of President Bush's second-term appointments is one that has flown beneath the media's radar screen. We declared President Bush's appointment of our friend Rudy Boschwitz as America's ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva "A great appointment." Rudy's appointment turns the troika into something more like a grand slam.
After building a successful Minnesota-based business that is still going strong, Rudy represented Minnesota in the United States Senate for 12 years with great distinction. He was originally elected to the Senate in 1978 as part of "the Minnesota massacre" in which Republicans won the state's two Senate seats as well as the governor's office. When Rudy was defeated for reelection in 1990, he returned home and went back to work in his business.
Rudy was born in Berlin in 1930. He emigrated with his family to the United States in 1933 when Hitler became chancellor of Germany. In a story that he hasn't told for a while — I might be off slightly on the details — he recalled how while campaigning he was once asked by a born-again Christian who didn't know he was Jewish whether he had been saved. Sensing the discomfort on his behalf among the audience, Rudy answered that he had indeed been saved — when he reached America with his family in 1933.
The UNHRC is a cesspool of anti-Semitism focused on Israel. Rudy has been an ardent advocate of America's alliance with Israel before, during and after his tenure in the Senate. It's hard to believe that in a lifetime full of philanthropy and public service, Rudy's most important mission may lie before him now in Geneva. Two weeks ago Rudy's appointment was unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Given the fact that Ambassador Boschwitz's appointment and confirmation have passed unnoticed in the media, the full measure of President Bush's audacity has yet to be taken.
DEACON adds: Isn't it odd that critics of President Bush's appointments are expressing concern that people like Paul Wolfowitz won't be sufficiently independent of the administration. I thought the complaint against the big bad neo-conservatives was that they control the administration, not that the administration controls them. The answer, of course, is that this is about naked resentment, and little else.
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At Moore's Deli in Burbank, Homer Simpson can be found eating a burger while Dora the Explorer dreams up her next quest, "Adventure Time's" Lumpy Space Princess raves about the deli's tuna and "Futurama's" Bender smokes a cigar.
Restaurant owner Robert Moore harbors a hidden cultural gem in Media City — the four white walls of the deli's back dining room are covered with original artwork by cartoonists for powerhouse media companies with local headquarters or production offices, including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Warner Bros.
Some of the drawings are simple sketches, others are fully drawn and colored in. But they have one thing in common: they've all been seen on TV.
It all started two years ago, when Moore noticed a bunch of his customers doodling on napkins.
Many of them, he discovered, were animators for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon — studios that have offices within walking distance from the deli.
When Moore looked around and noticed the bare white walls of his deli's back room, he had an idea.
He hustled to a nearby office supply store and bought a bowl of colorful Sharpies.
"I placed the bowl on the table and said, 'You guys could start drawing, but you have to sign your name,'" Moore said.
"We were all like, really?" recalled Cartoon Network's Kent Osborne, a writer for "Adventure Time" who invited fans on Twitter to the show's viewing party at Moore's, where the Sharpies would be put to use.
At first, no one believed him.
"Saw the owner at lunch, he had a bag of sharpies! #MooresDeliDrawingOnWallRumorsAreTrue," Osborne tweeted that afternoon.
That night, the first drawing — of SpongeBob SquarePants — was etched onto the wall.
Days later, other local cartoonists came in for lunch and noticed the art. They, too, wanted a piece of empty white wall space.
"They said, 'Hey can I do our show?'" Moore recalled. So he supplied them with markers.
Moore's is now home to the work of roughly 50 cartoonists covering the walls with characters from the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "Mickey Mouse," "Kung Fu Panda," "Monsters, Inc." and "Family Guy."
"People just show up — they know where the pens are," Moore said. "Every time I come back here, there's something new."
The walls are symbolic of Burbank's cultural landscape, Moore said.
"When you open up a restaurant you want to become part of community — the community in this area happens to be cartoonists." Moore said. "This room just became a place for them to hang out and draw on the walls."
And for fans to drop by for a bite and a little inspiration.
Since discovering the cartoon wall, Elle Anderson — an aspiring stage or film director who loves "Adventure Time" — has become a Moore's regular. It's an ideal place for the 19-year-old to power through her third novel, which she plans to self-publish online.
"It's pretty organic," Osborne said. "I'd be excited if I was a kid to come check this out."
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In the past few months I have had the privilege of meeting with former Reagan arms control ambassador Kenneth Adelman and former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson, both of whom shared stories about Reagan that I had never heard before. As highly as I think of Reagan, these men persuaded me that we have not yet taken his measure. Andrew Sullivan contributes to this feeling through his own attempt to wrestle with his estimation of the man in a moving review of the new volume of Reagan letters: "How Reagan fooled us."
Sullivan writes: "[T]he tenor of a man is something letters do reliably reveal: and there's an old-world civility to Reagan that has been lost in contemporary American politics, a dignity and empathy with middle America that is as rare as it is touching. His diligence in hand-writing long letters to obscure pen-pals, even while holding down the most stressful and busy job on the planet, leaves me slack-jawed. And then there's the light way he wears his Christian faith and the winning way he had with words: 'During my first months in office,' he wrote an old friend, 'when day after day there were decisions that had to be made, I had an almost irresistible urge – really a physical urge – to look over my shoulder for someone I could pass the problem on to. Then without my quite knowing how it happened, I realized I was looking in the wrong direction. I started looking up instead and have been doing so for quite a while now.'
"Corny? If you must. Genuine? Absolutely. Clever and informed? Without a doubt. I wonder what, in a few decades' time, we'll be finding out about George W. Bush." (Courtesy of No Left Turns.)
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Barbra Streisand, an OG diva, is doing a remake of 'Gypsy,' and she is gunning for Lady Gaga to take the lead.
In a rather glossed over part of Babs' interview with Time, the writer mentions that the singer wants to cast Gaga in the remake of the Broadway musical about a stripper and her showbiz mama. If conventional wisdom comes into play, Streisand would take the role of the mother, and Gaga, of course, would portray the, um, exotic dancer.
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The details are scarce, but generations of divadom would collide if the Mother Monster was to to work with Streisand, who has been singing her heart out for decades. She got our attention with that little tidbit of news. Maybe it'll work out. Maybe it won't. Maybe she was just thinking out loud. It's certainly exciting to think about.
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I'm wondering where to find the file? info for printing labels for the "T". I would think this would be a sticky.Cheers,Steve
Found the step by step instructions and info on the website. I cannot seem to upload a PDF or JPG to the logo area. If I click on this area, it does not prompt me to add a file. Could this be a platform issue (I have a Mac Book Pro--although I'm obviously not a pro).JF
Quote from: Steve R on August 18, 2012, 10:41 AMI'm wondering where to find the file? info for printing labels for the "T". I would think this would be a sticky.Cheers,SteveHere is the link: Go Here to Print Custom Labels for T-Loc'sPeter<<Edit: This topic is now a sticky - P.Halle>>This link takes me to the Festool USA main page. Where do I go from here?Thanks, Jim
Festool (not Festool USA) has made some changes to their website to direct viewers to the correct country. Unfortunately lots of links will no longer work for those in countries rying to go the the Festool website in another country.Here is a link to the T-Loc label printing program that will work: http://www.festool.co.uk/Service/T-LOC-custom-labels/Pages/Create-your-label.aspxPeter[/quoteThank you Peter, much appreciatred.Jim
I'm using preview to open the "blanko" file and trying to load a jpg. When I click on the logo area the space simply blinks. Drag and drop did not work. I also used "tab" to toggle between areas. Would love to solve this, maybe I need a preview update.Thanks for the input.JF
Hi!Do any of you have the sizes for a label on the t-loc lock? I want to make labels with the logo of my company.. Cheers
@Gregor @Cheese @dainfo I believe he was asking about labeling the actual T (the green lock).


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Sam is basically right, he's just cranky.
PALM: Oh face, come closer. I've needed your touch since I heard that fundamentalist Christians were being stupid again.FACE: Not again! Quickly Palm, come to me!
I really disagree with you on some of the things you said about the PSP. But other then that it was a good episode.Also, didn't they announced that Warhawk was gonna be playable this E3 at GDC?
Thanks for answering my question Steve. Funny thing is I had already ordered Ticket to Ride and it came in yesterday. I'll have to post my thoughts on the game later.
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text: Ellis Wilson wrote: > Currently I get these kind of numbers from tested > computers using the > same environment (gentoo, fortran in gcc, hpl, all > same compilation > options): > 1 x Core2Duo (2.1ghz/core, 2gigs ram) - 2.3Gflops > 1 x Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2ghz, 1gig ram) - 1.0Glops > 4 x Core2Duo (2.1ghz/core for a total of 8 cores, > 2gigs ram/node, > 100mbit Ethernet interconnect) - 6.7Gflops Sorry to double post all, however, I realized my issue involved running HPL on the reference library of BLAS that is generic for every architecture and didn't want to waste anyones time. Giving Portage the benefit of the doubt, I had failed to check that it's dependencies were best for HPL. Following an install of ATLAS and relinking to its libraries, I've gotten the following numbers: 1 x Athlon64 3500+ (2.2ghz, 1gig ram) - 3.6GFlops 1 x Phenom9600 Quadcore (2.3ghz/core, 2gigs ram) - 11.9GFlops I'll likely try MKL soon for the Intel processors I'm interested in. The phenom9600 had previously only gotten 4.5 GFlops, and when I tested it the second time I simply used the same environment I had compiled for the athlon64. Certainly compiling ATLAS native on the phenom will increase the result, hopefully about 350% like with the athlon64 (though I suspect things will be interesting due to bandwidth, etc for quadcores). Anyway, not to end the thread I still am wondering: Do those of you who have professional installations or even simply large setups that are unsure of the exact code which will be run upon your cluster utilize compilation options such as -O3, funroll-loops, -fomit-frame-pointer, etc? Thanks, Ellis ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com


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Workshop Information
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) held five joint public workshops to explore competition issues affecting the agricultural sector in the 21st century and the appropriate role for antitrust and regulatory enforcement in that industry.
May, 2012
Report: Competition and Agriculture: Voices from the Workshops on Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement in our 21st Century Economy and Thoughts on the Way Forward
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Overview of the Workshops
These were the first joint Department of Justice/USDA workshops ever to be held to discuss competition and regulatory issues in the agriculture industry. The goals of the workshops were to promote dialogue among interested parties and foster learning with respect to the appropriate legal and economic analyses of these issues as well as to listen to and learn from parties with real-world experience in the agricultural sector.
The workshops addressed the dynamics of competition in agriculture markets, including buyer power (monopsony) and vertical integration. They examined legal doctrines and jurisprudence, as well as current economic learning, and provided an opportunity for farmers, ranchers, consumer groups, processors, agribusiness, and other interested parties to provide examples of potentially anticompetitive conduct and to discuss any concerns about the application of the antitrust laws to the agricultural sectors. The workshops were transcribed and placed on the public record along with submissions and written comments received.
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Sometimes, true justice — as opposed to the courtroom kind — arrives so quickly that we are taken by surprise.
The presumed suicide of Ariel Castro, who imprisoned three women for about a decade in his Cleveland home, is a perfect example. His apparently self-inflicted death is the coda to a case that might have dragged on for years, but instead flowed swiftly through the system to this ultimately satisfying conclusion.
In May, Castro's horrendous crimes were discovered when one of his victims,
In July, Castro pleaded guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping, rape and murder (for inducing miscarriages in Knight by beating her).
On Aug. 1, he was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years. On Aug. 7, his home, which was in foreclosure, was demolished.
And on Tuesday, he hanged himself in his cell in a prison outside Columbus, said authorities, having twisted his bedsheet into a noose.
"I know most of greater Cleveland will be looking on this day as joyous," Castro's attorney Craig Weintraub told the Plain Dealer, "but for his family this is anything but. He's still a human being, this is still a civilized society. There's still an obligation to prevent our inmates from committing suicide."
Of course, he is correct, strictly speaking (though it's likely the joy extends far beyond greater Cleveland).
But it's hard to argue that society is diminished when a man as despicable as Ariel Castro takes his own life.
In some ways, Castro's timing was impeccable.
Though he had barely begun his interminable sentence, the criminal justice system had already afforded some measure of solace to his victims, who had the satisfaction of seeing him punished for enslaving them and worse.
And Knight was able to address him directly in court: "I spent 11 years in hell, now your hell is just beginning. I will overcome all this that has happened, but you will face hell for eternity. I will live on, you will die a little every day as you think of the 11 years of atrocities that you inflicted on us.... I can forgive you, but I will never forget."
Did Castro kill himself because his conscience got the better of him?
In court, when he had the opportunity to come clean, he took virtually no responsiblity for his grotesque crimes. "I'm not a monster," he said. "I'm sick."
He had been victimized as a child, he said. He had become an unwilling sex and pornography addict. He had only beat his first wife "because she wouldn't quiet down."
Contrary to accounts of rape in the journals kept by his three victims, he maintained that sex with them was consensual, that there was "harmony" in the home, and that he never beat or tortured anyone.
"I feel like the
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said Wednesday that it would investigate Castro's death. That's appropriate and right, given the circumstances.
But we already know one important thing. Ariel Castro didn't kill himself out of remorse. He overdosed on self-pity.
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Tyler Police, Tyler Fire and HAZMAT responded to the scene of a wreck involving a tanker truck that ran off the roadway on Commerce and Loop 323.
According to Tyler Fire PIO Paul Findley, about 700 gallons of jet fuel were released onto the ground, from the truck that can hold up to 7,500 gallons. There is some fuel out on the ground still, but it has been stopped from going further into the woods.
The environmental impact is unclear at this time. A third party is coming to clean up the fuel that did leak out of the tanker.
The truck was en route to Delek Refinery. Findley says there will be an investigation.
It is believed the wreck was caused by a distraction. The driver will be cited for failure to maintain a single lane. Part of the truck hit the guardrail initiating the leak.
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Who Said It First?
Journalism is the "first rough draft of history."
Many journalists give former Washington Post President and Publisher Philip L. Graham credit for being the first to describe journalism as "the first rough draft of history."
In "many," I include myself. In late 2009 and early 2006, I attributed the remark to Graham and implied that he was the first to say or write it.
But others have said or written similar things. Former Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee gave credit to Graham in an interview with American Heritage in 1982. The Newseum, the Washington Post (1997 and 2005), the Encyclopedia of American Journalism, Jon Meacham in Newsweek (2009 and 2010), David Halberstam in The Powers That Be, and Kit Rachlis in Los Angeles magazine—to give just a few examples—all attribute it to Graham.
Even the New York Timesattributed the comment to Graham in 2007. But that piece wasn't written by a Times reporter. It was me again, in a review of Robert D. Novak's memoir.
Katharine Graham, Philip Graham's widow, sources the immortal words to him in her 1997 autobiography Personal History. She sets the scene: The year was 1963, the location was London, and Phil Graham's audience was Newsweek's overseas correspondents. Graham doesn't explicitly state that her husband was the first to unspool the phrase, but, like me, she implies it, writing accurately that the words are "quoted to this day."
She reproduces three paragraphs from Phil Graham's speech, the last paragraph being:
So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never be completed about a world we can never really understand. … [Ellipsis in Katharine Graham's original.]
But my belief that Graham had coined the phrase was broken this weekend. I was pruning my Gmail inbox and came across a November 2009 e-mail from Barry Popik I had never read before. In it, he had traced the phrase to an earlier source—a 1943 book review in the New Republic. In the review, journalist Alan Barth wrote, "News is only the first rough draft of history."
Popik's finding encouraged me to load a few databases of my own, leading to my discovery that Philip Graham used the phrase prior to 1963. On March 8, 1953, he addressed the American Society for Public Administration on the subject of the press. In his remarks—reprinted in the spring 1953 edition of Public Administration Review(paid)—he states:
The inescapable hurry of the press inevitably means a certain degree of superficiality. It is neither within our power nor our province to be ultimately profound. We write 365 days a year the first rough draft of history, and that is a very great task.
I consulted with Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, in which educator-author Douglass Cater is credited with this tamer version of the phrase: "The reporter [is] one who each twenty-four hours dictates a first draft of history." Shapiro alerted me to a use of the full phrase earlier than the Graham speech in the June 13, 1948, Washington Post. On a full page, Publisher Philip L. Graham wrote to promise Post readers the newspaper's "continued independence." Beneath his promise was a nonbylined article titled "Platform of the Washington Post." In it, this sentence appears:
News is a first rough-draft of history.
Did Graham write the sentence? Or did one of the Post's editorial writers? Their pictures, along with those of Graham and other Post executives and managers, ring the page. It's entirely likely that the Post "platform" was team-written by the editorial board, as many editorials are.
The lesser version of Graham's phrase (sans the word rough) appears almost routinely on Post editorial pages in the 1940s, both before Graham became publisher in 1946 and after. Shapiro points me to the paper's Oct. 16, 1944, editorial page, in which an unsigned "Editor's Note" states, "Newspapers, after all, are the first drafts of history, or pretend they are." A Dec. 2, 1948, editorial about the death of the Washington Star's Frank B. Noyes refers to "the first draft of history which newspapers profess to furnish." And a May 4, 1949, editorial about Pulitzer Prize winners asserts, "The real function of newspapers is to provide the kind of first draft of history." (In his research, Popik has trapped an even earlier publication of "first draft of history.")
These passages indicate that the notion of journalism as a "first history" had real velocity in 1940s Washington.
Who gave it its boost? Maybe it was Alan Barth, who wrote the New Republicarticle cited above and was a Washington Post editorial writer from 1943 to 1972. (His picture appears on the 1948 "Platform of the Washington Post" page.) My guess is that Barth introduced his fellow editorialists to the concept and Graham adopted it for insertion in his speeches. Such insertion would be totally legit, by the way. I am in no way implying that adoption of a five-word phrase would constitute plagiarism.
Washington Post Co. Chairman and CEO Donald Graham—son of Philip and Katharine—says he was unaware of any earlier-than-1963 uses of the phrase, and adds, "I am pretty sure Katharine Graham was, too."
What makes "first rough draft of history" so tuneful, at least to the ears of journalists? Well, it flatters them. Journalists hope that one day a historian will uncover their dusty work and celebrate their genius. But that almost never happens. Historians tend to view journalism as unreliable and tend to be dismissive of our work. They'd rather work from primary sources—official documents, photographs, interviews, and the like—rather than from our clips.
But that's only part of the phrase's appeal. Its artful redundancy makes it resonate. First, rough, and draft all have separate and distinct meanings, yet they all point to a morning greenness, a raw beginning where truth originates. Rhetoricians call the stacking of several synonyms in a row "synonymia," and one claims that the trick "adds emotional force or intellectual clarity" to writing.
Although "first rough draft of history" isn't a perfect example of synonymia, it reaches me both emotionally and intellectually. Grouped together as they are in Graham's famous sentence, these single-syllable words fall like hammer blows driving a nail. The formulation is so perfect, I'll bet that 100 other writers drafted it before Alan Barth.
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IRS shouldn't ban clergy endorsements, panel says
The chairman of the commission said the current IRS rules are ambiguous and not enforceable.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The federal government has no business punishing pastors for what they preach, says a high-profile commission that is calling for the IRS to dump a 1954 policy barring clergy from endorsing political candidates.
The current rules for churches don't work, and the IRS isn't enforcing them anyway, the group of church and nonprofit leaders and legal experts said.
The IRS ban hasn't kept preachers like the Rev. Tex Thomas from speaking their minds about politics and candidates. He says that's part of a preacher's job.
"The IRS isn't going to stop me," said Thomas, pastor of Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville.
But critics say all nonprofits — not just faith groups — are banned from endorsing candidates. It's part of the price those nonprofits pay for the privilege of being tax-exempt.
The Commission on Accountability and Policy for Religious Organizations gave its report to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, this week. Grassley had set up the commission after a series of hearings into how the IRS regulates churches and other charities. He is currently reviewing the proposal, said a spokeswoman for his office.
Michael Batts, chairman of the commission, said the current rules are not enforceable. There's too much ambiguity, he said, and many pastors ignore them without consequence.
"We believe that there are some serious dysfunctions and problems associated with the current law," he said.
Investigations by the IRS into churches have slowed recently due to a legal technicality. In 2008, a federal judge ruled that an IRS audit of a Minnesota megachurch was invalid because the wrong government official had signed off on it. IRS rules require a regional commissioner to approve church audits, but the IRS had eliminated that position and has yet to update its rules.
At the same time, activists have tried to pick a court fight over the rules. Last year, more than 1,600 pastors preached sermons aimed at challenging the IRS during "Pulpit Freedom," organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom of Scottsdale, Ariz. Freedom From Religion Foundation of Madison, Wis., sued the federal agency in an attempt to get it to enforce the clergy endorsement ban.
"We can't continue to ignore the problem," Batts said.
Talking about politics and endorsing candidates should be allowed, he said. Giving money to political campaigns should remain banned.
"Make that change and virtually all the dilemmas go away," Batts said.
Critics like Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State have a simple solution as well: Enforce the current law.
He says the IRS should have changed its rules on investigating churches years ago.
"Two monkeys with a typewriter could have taken care of this in a few minutes," he said.
Lynn said churches who want to endorse candidates should give up their tax-exempt status. If they don't want to pay taxes, then they — just like other charities — have to steer clear of campaigns, he said.
He also said clergy endorsements can be better than cash. That's especially true of megachurch pastors, who have thousands of parishioners and often preach on the television or radio.
"A pastor's endorsement is worth much more than writing a $100 check," he said.
The commission of religious leaders isn't the only group trying to revise the IRS restrictions. There's also the Bright Line Project, organized by Washington, D.C.-based Public Citizen, with the help of lawyers and leaders from nonprofits.
Craig Holman, Capital Hill lobbyist for Public Citizen, agrees that the current system is broken. He says the commission went too far.
Holman said clergy should be able to express their own views about candidates. But they have to be careful not to turn the sermon into a "get out the vote" rally, paid for with church donations.
"As long as they don't say, 'Vote for this person,' that should be allowed," he said. "That seems to cross a line."
Thomas said he welcomes the proposed changes. His political endorsements have cost him in the past. In the 1980s, he said, the IRS investigated him after he hosted a presidential campaign for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
He said the IRS didn't fine him for hosting Jackson. But the agency audited his personal finances and fined him for owing back taxes.
Thomas said the IRS should not be telling preachers what they can and can't say.
"We have to worry about freedom of religion," he said.
The Rev. Maury Davis of Cornerstone Church in Madison agrees. Davis' church was investigated by the IRS after Americans United complained that he'd endorsed a candidate for school board during services.
"I knew I had come close to the lines, but didn't think I'd broken the law," said the megachurch pastor.
Davis said the church was eventually cleared, with help of its lawyer and accountant. But being investigated by the IRS is intimidating, he said.
Davis said he agrees with the commission's recommendations.
"We should be able to preach what we believe," he said.
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Registration Now Open for Largest Northeast Manufacturing Exposition and Conference
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Registration is now open for EASTEC, the largest manufacturing exposition and conference in the Northeast, according to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
"Demand has been building for two years and, judging by the quality of exhibitors applying for space, EASTEC is definitely your best option for keeping operations current with the latest technologies and management strategies," said Kim Farrugia, SME senior show manager.
More than 10,000 manufacturing professionals are expected to attend the event, which alternated years with Mfg4 - Manufacturing for the Future, in 2012. EASTEC features resource centers, keynote speakers, panels and exhibits on growth industries including aerospace, defense, medical, automotive, commerical machinery, electronics, fabricating and plastics. Nearly 500 exhibitors are expected at the 2013 event, including industry leaders Brooks Associates, Compumachine Inc., Delcam, FANUC FA America, FARO Technologies, Mitsubishi and Pratt & Whitney. Attendee registration for the exposition is now open.
New features for 2013 include a panel discussion on workforce development the first day of the event, competitive student manufacturing event for regional high schools, new networking opportunities and area plant tours.
EASTEC 2013 takes place May 14-16 at Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Mass. The event layout is organized in five exhibit categories to help attendees navigate the grounds: Design, Engineering, and Rapid Technologies; Tooling, Workholding and Machining Accessories; Automation, Quality and Process Improvement; Plant, Energy, and Environmental Efficiency; and Precision Manufacturing Equipment and Systems.
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"Be Alert for Foul Balls!"
Sunday, September 16, Cubs versus Pirates at Wrigley Field, bottom of the 7th inning. Chris Leroux pitching, Luis Valbuena at the plate. On a 2-1 count, Valbuena hit a screaming foul ball down the right field line and into the stands just beyond the visiting team's dugout. WGN briefly showed a woman sitting in her seat, shocked, surprised, quite still, surrounded by people all looking her way with concerned looks on their faces. Then the television cut away, and Len Kasper made the usual-yet-earnest comment about "we hope that fan is all right."
Umpire crew chief Joe West, stationed at first base, called "time"—and for a few minutes Kasper, Bob Brenly, and "guest conductor" Lee Smith vamped about the wisdom of suspending play momentarily while the fan could be checked out, and more importantly while everyone around her was distracted by the activity. It was a smart decision by West, whose 34-year tenure makes him the most veteran of active umpires in the majors. After all, no one wants to be the umpire that called "play ball" only to have another fan get hit by a ball because they were watching the stadium crew help someone else. Meanwhile WGN, like most sports broadcasters, took the courteous and privacy-respecting route and did not show the (possibly injured) fan again.
Of course there is no mention of the incident in any coverage of the game, no way of finding out what happened or if she's all right.
There's nothing unusual about any of this, but what set me to thinking about it was a moment an inning or two earlier. As a left-handed batter approached the batter's box the television showed, in the background, a family in the front couple of rows just to the home-plate side of the visitors' dugout. Mere feet from the short brick wall—and beyond the protection of the backstop safety netting—were two little kids. Each about three years old, goofing around, having a blast at the ballpark, their elders amused by their antics, just a little scene of pure, "take me out to the ball game" joy.
And yet—both of those children had their backs to the field. They had not the slightest clue of what was happening there. If the foul ball blast that hit the woman an inning or two later would have gone toward one of those kids, no one would have been close enough or have had time enough to react. That ball at that velocity hits a kid in the back of the head, that kid is dead. Period.
It raises a question that has been raised by many before me: how prevalent are spectator injuries in baseball? Among the big-league sports I suspect that baseball and hockey are the two most dangerous with respect to spectator safety, and I'll wager that baseball is more dangerous than hockey due to my anecdotal impression that more balls than pucks leave the field of play.
How dangerous? Hard to say. Major League Baseball has never undertaken a study of this—or at least never made one public—and for good reason. For MLB to pay close attention to the phenomenon it might give the impression that the league thinks there's something of an epidemic, and that could cast a harsh light upon MLB's "assumption of risk" defense.
You see, MLB ballclubs (and minor-league and independent ballclubs too) engage in what's generally considered to be a reasonable level of spectator safe-keeping: backstop netting; plexiglas shields atop low, close-in walls; signs and public address messages warning about the risk of foul balls, etc. But beyond that the assumption of risk all lies upon the fans. It's even printed on the back of every ticket, in boldface albeit extraordinarily tiny letters: "Holder assumes all risk incidental to the game of baseball… including (but not exclusively) the danger of being injured by or in connection with any broken or released bat or any thrown or batted ball. Holder agrees [ballclub, et al.] are not liable for any resulting injuries." In other words you enter the ballpark at your own risk, and your use of this ticket constitutes agreement to those terms.
Personally, I think that's fair. I know the risk, yet consider the entertainment value of attending a live game to be worth that risk. On those (rare) occasions I get seats close to the field, I am acutely aware of the danger and make sure to maintain a high level of attention to the game. If I wanted to go to the game more for the social aspects, to hobnob with friends and shoot the breeze and enjoy Wrigley's vaunted "huge beer garden" atmosphere, I'd prefer seats much farther from the action so I don't have to worry about high-velocity foul balls (and broken bats, another issue altogether).
But back to the question: How dangerous? Well, one frequently cited study—which everyone cites but I cannot find online—"gives the incidence of injuries to MLB fans from foul balls as 35.1 injuries per every million spectator visits." One site that mentions it equates this to 350 injuries in one season for a ballpark with 10 million total visitors, but I think this figure is—aside from dumbfoundingly obvious math—as disingenuous and obfuscating as the original. No ballpark, not even Yankee Stadium, comes close to even half of that 10-million total.
How about this, instead: at Wrigley Field, with a typical near-sold-out attendance on the order of 40,000 fans, there would be an average of 1.4 injuries PER GAME.
In other words, every game that's played at Wrigley results in an injury to a fan. On average, that is; and assuming that study is accurate.
But who knows? Because MLB isn't saying, and the broadcasters are keeping mum, purportedly out of politeness to the injured. (A cynic might point out that the broadcasters undoubtedly want to play nice with their teams with which they have such lucrative contracts, and I would not be surprised if there was some kind of gentleman's agreement there, however tacit, like the good old days when newspapers refrained from printing photographs of FDR in his wheelchair.)
Which is not to accuse anyone of some sort of evil collusion. Like I said, in my opinion the ballclubs are doing what's appropriate with regard to fan safety, and it's encumbent upon us as fans to take some personal responsibility for our own well-being.
That said, I would most definitely subscribe to a weekly newsletter that published a run-down of all the fan injuries in Major League Baseball. Something simple, not too detailed or privacy-invading… "Sunday, 9/16, Pirates v. Cubs at Wrigley Field, bottom 7th, Luis Valbuena batting; woman struck in arm, refused treatment." Or (and this is for real), "Friday, 7/6, Reds v. Padres at Petco Park, bottom 2nd, Will Venable batting; man struck in shoulder WHILE UPDATING FACEBOOK STATUS, nothing broken." (That guy's lucky not to be in the hospital or worse, and he knows it.) Heck, even just a stats line would be interesting: "This week: 95 games played, 3028 foul balls, 6 minor injuries, 1 injury requiring treatment, 0 deaths."
This is not something meant to call out MLB for a possible epidemic it's ignoring—serious injuries are, it seems, relatively uncommon, and deaths are exceedingly rare. Instead it would be meant to raise public awareness of the need for alertness while at the ballpark. Best of all, maybe it would save us all from the day when we find ourselves watching and enjoying a game, only to see some family's day turn instantly from joy to tragedy as their little towheaded lad's skull is crushed by a ball that would otherwise, under better and more attentive circumstances, be merely a "line drive out of play," and a game-day souvenir.


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Badger's Dozen
Badger's Dozen is a quarterly humour zine being published in Melbourne, Australia, by Tim Train.
Nine issues have been published so far. The first was published just after Christmas 2009, and the most recent just before Christmas 2011.
Each issue begins with a 'Badgertorial' written by 'Badger', who is a gruff, tweed-wearing, pipe-smoking European badger. Badger is presented as the editor of the zine. Many covers feature an image of Badger in various poses. The zine publishes poetry, opinion columns, cartoons, parodic news stories, parodic advertisements, artwork, and fiction. It draws on material from Melbourne's live poetry scene and blogs.
Each issue contains a cast of contributors; some names are pseudonyms. They include Tim Train, St. John Nottlesby, Baron von Harlot, Emily Manger, Eddy Burger, Bronwen Manger, Elizabeth Tan, Robert Conlon, Komninos Zervos, Tim Howard, Bilby Bramble, Gavin Sanderson, Mel Pearce, Michael Reynolds, and Ben Pobjie.
Form and history
Issues are made from folded, stapled sheets of A4 paper. All but one of them have been A5 sized.
Notable issues include:
Published late December, 2009, this issue included many aspects that were later to become regular features of the zine.
- The 'Badgertorial', written in third person by Badger.
- Poems by Baron von Harlot and Tim Train, including a piece parodying T S Eliot: 'The Love Song of J Alfred Badger'.
- A back-page column by Badger listing 'Rhymes without poems'.
- A picture of Badger, holding his pipe, appeared on the third page, but was visible through a picture frame on the front page. This picture was later used to trace out the figure of a 'newsprint' Badger for the cover of issue #2.
- A liftout of six accountancy swapcards, containing pictures of fictional accountants on them.
Published mid-September, this issue is taller and thinner than other issues. It was made out of A4 paper folded lengthways. It featured a picture of a giraffe, standing sideways on the page, with its neck stretching out onto the back cover. Notable works in this issue included
- A poem by Ben Pobjie.
- The first issue of the cartoon 'The Amazing Adventures of Chester Drawers', featuring a chest of drawers as the main character. This would become a regular feature of the magazine.
- A cartoon by regular contributor Emily Manger.
- A column about language by Felicia Ferret, 'Felicia Ferret's Grammar Nook'.
This was the Christmas 2010 issue and featured a colour cover. A small, unstapled extra zine entitled 'Badger's Amazing Christmas Supplement' (subtitled 'Issue 5a'), featuring very short stories and poems, was fixed in Christmas wrapping on the cover. Articles included:
- The inaugural column by St. John Nottlesby, describing his encounter with an eccentric member of the clergy. This was to become a regular feature of the zine.
- The first cooking column, featuring a recipe for Christmas pudding from 19th century cook Isabella Beeton.
- A Christmas carol (a parody of 'Oh Christmas Tree'), with a written music score for piano and voice.
This issue, displaying a pirate Badger on the cover, was launched at the Dan O'Connell hotel in September, as part of the Overload Poetry Festival. It featured:
- A parody newspaper article about the world's first flatulence transplant.
- The first in a two-part story by Nottlesby, 'Nottlesby and the Great Boat Race'. The final part of the story would be featured in issue #9, the Christmas 2011 issue.
- A cartoon by Elizabeth Tan, part of an ongoing series entitled 'The sombre case histories of Dr Ogpin'.
- A love poem about an office laminator, by Bilby Bramble.
- An interview with a 'pirate', which was performed as part of the launch at the Dan O'Connell.
Train has performed several interviews about Badger's Dozen on North West FM community radio. Issue #8 was reviewed in the October 2011 edition of the Sticky Institute's newsletter, 'Sporadic Electronic Correspondence from the Institute'.


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text: Kamran, Well before you get too involved in Linpack itself, can I suggest that you build software from a normal username and not as-it-seems as the superuser 'root' Ps. to build Linpack you also need: a) a Maths library to provide dgemm, dtrsm, etc. Typically this is MKL on Intel platforms, ACML on AMD, or there are generic ones like the excellent libgoto or ATLAS. b) an MPI library such as lam, mpich or similar If you tell us the locations of these two, many people on this list would be able to mail you a suitable Make.<arch> file Daniel Dr. Daniel Kidger, Technical Consultant, ClearSpeed Technology plc, Bristol, UK E: daniel.kidger at clearspeed.com T: +44 117 317 2030 M: +44 7738 458742 "Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." - Anonymous. -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Kamran Mustafa Sent: 22 August 2006 08:23 To: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: [Beowulf] Need Help about HPL...! Hi all, I am trying to install HPL on my Cluster having Redhat LinuxAS 4.0. Can anyone please tell me how to create make.arch file for my specific architecture? There is a make.i686 file. When I use the command make arch=i686, lots of messages appear and the last couple of lines that give error are as follows: make -f Make.top build_src arch=i686 make[1]: Entering directory `/root/hpl' ( cd src/auxil/i686; make ) make[2]: Entering directory `/root/hpl/src/auxil/i686' /usr/bin/gcc -o HPL_dlacpy.o -c -DHPL_CALL_CBLAS -I/root/hpl/include -I/root/hpl/include/i686 /usr/include -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -funroll-loops ../HPL_dlacpy.c gcc: /usr/include: linker input file unused because linking not done cc1: /usr/include: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [HPL_dlacpy.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/hpl/src/auxil/i686' make[1]: *** [build_src] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/hpl' make: *** [build] Error 2 Please help me out as I have no way out from here. Regards, Kamran _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Each summer, our Medical Education Development (MED) program provides an opportunity for students from underrepresented backgrounds to experience the rigors of the medical school curriculum while shadowing physicians, developing clinical skills through patient simulation, and participating in professional development seminars designed to enhance the student's appreciation for and deepen their understanding of the medical professions.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Marine biologists have begun testing a smartphone application that would allow boaters and conservationists to identify whales outside San Francisco Bay so ships can avoid striking the endangered mammals.
Whale Spotter, the app developed by Conserve.IO, will be used to map the feeding grounds of the enormous creatures, which large ships too frequently strike as they migrate along the California coast.
Among the areas of greatest concern for marine biologists and environmentalists are five California marine sanctuaries, two that shippers must pass through when they navigate into San Francisco Bay.
"This app is an opportunity for citizen scientists - people who love these waters - to contribute to protecting whales in the sanctuaries, giving us extra eyes on the water," Jackie Dragon, a Greenpeace campaigner, told Reuters.
Trained observers with an interest in whales will use the application to report their whale sightings, along with the animals' behaviors, to a global database. Biologists will use information from the app to map the whales' locations.
In June, new information about migratory patterns led to the rerouting of three shipping lanes into the San Francisco Bay, but scientists say they need more information on the location of whales along the California coast.
Large vessels struck whales at least 100 times in California between 1988 and 2012, said Monica DeAngelis, a National Marine Fisheries Service marine mammal biologist.
She estimates the true number could be 10 times higher given that whale injuries tend to go unreported. Once struck, the creatures often sink to the ocean's bottom.
Commercial shippers use another, similar app called Whale Alert along the U.S. Atlantic Coast to try to steer clear of critically endangered right whales, only 400 of which remain in the East Coast, said Brad Winney, co-founder of mobile technology company Conserve.IO, developer of both apps.
Winney expects to ultimately merge the two applications that would become available to shippers on global seas.
"The vision of Whale Alert and Spotter is to support the worldwide collection of data to help shippers avoid whale habitats and avoid striking and killing whales," he said.
In Boston Harbor, the app includes a sonic-sensing system that listens for the sound of the call of the right whale, although that capability is not currently envisioned beyond Boston because of the expense, Winney said.
California biologists are most concerned about protecting endangered blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. About 2,000 blue whales remain along the West Coast, and biologists believe ships are striking them as well, DeAngelis said.
The 3,500 or so large vessels that travel through the Golden Gate must pass through one or two marine sanctuaries, said John Berge, vice president of Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, which represents shipping companies.
Biologists are hopeful that boaters who use the app along the California coast will be better able to prevent collisions with the animals.
"I don't think it's the ultimate solution, but I think it's one tool to provide a better picture of where the whales are and hopefully to develop management strategies to avoid striking," Berge said.
A whale spotted in San Francisco Bay last week nearly caused the postponement of a race for the prized America's Cup.
Five dead blue whales, one a pregnant female, washed ashore in Southern California in 2007, raising awareness about the problem, Greenpeace's Dragon said.
"We're hopeful the public will see this as a great opportunity to help steward these waters and help us protect whales," she said. "Instead of having one or two eyes on the Bay, this is a chance to bring many eyes to the water."
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Woman charged with vandalizing DC's National Cathedral to return to court for status hearing
WASHINGTON – A woman charged with defacing the Washington National Cathedral and suspected of committing similar vandalism at other sites including the Lincoln Memorial is expected back in court for a status hearing.
Jiamei Tian is accused of splashing green paint in two different chapels of the cathedral. She is expected back in D.C. Superior Court in Washington on Thursday.
After her arrest at the cathedral in late July, a judge ordered Tian released to a halfway house. The judge ordered she wear an ankle monitoring bracelet and barred her from leaving the halfway house or having visitors.
Police and prosecutors also believe Tian is connected to recent vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial, a church and two different statues in the city. Green or white paint was found at each location.


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Our eighteenth podcast is now available! Download it here.
In this month's "discussion" segment we focus on the turbulent relationship between video game publishers and the video game media. Are publishers putting too much pressure on reviewers to give them positive reviews? Or, are video game reviewers writing at a maturity level that isn't consistent with the audience that is buying the publisher's games?
Our "Gaming Moments" this episode include Super Mario Galaxy (Wii), Call of Duty 4 (360), Burnout Paradise (360), Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS), and Magic the Gathering (PC).
In the "Retro Respect" segment we focus on the classic video game, "The Seven Cities of Gold". During the segment we discuss what we thought of the game when it was first released as well as how we believe it holds up today. In addition, we present short histories of the game's creator, Dani Bunten Berry, the game's development company, Ozark Software, and the game's publisher, Electronic Arts.
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After a very long hiatus we return with our first episode in a new series of podcasts from Twitch Asylum. Download it here.
Our "Retro Respect" section is broken into two parts focusing on the recent releases of several classic gaming documentaries. The first part consists of a brief synopsis and discussion of the documentary, "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters", in which Steve Weibe attempts to set a Donkey Kong world record. During the second half of the segment, we conduct our first in-studio interview with William Carlton. William stars in the classic gaming documentary, "High Score", in which he attempts to set the Missile Command world record.
Our "Gaming Moments" this episode include Eye of Judgment (PS3), Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3), Burnout: Paradise (360/PS3), The Orange Box (360/PS3), Assassin's Creed (360), Mass Effect (360), and Crysis (PC).
We also reflect on some of our favorite games from 2007 during the "Discussion" segment.
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Our sixteenth podcast is now available! Download it here.
We forgo "the discussion" segment this month so we can devote more time to our "Gaming Moments". The games discussed include Def Jam: Icon (360), Crackdown (360), Battlestations Midway (360), Rainbow Six Vegas (360), Tony Hawk's Project 8 (360), Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters (PSP), Under Defeat (Dreamcast), and many other retro computing and classic arcade titles. In addition, we discuss hacking retro computers to connect to BBSes via Telnet. What is a BBS? You have to listen to the segment to find out.
Our "Retro Respect" segment this time is a discussion of the excellent video game history book, "The Ultimate History of Video Games" by Steven L. Kent. During the segment we cover only a few of the numerous interesting topics in the book including: "a leather company that makes a video game console" and "an exercise that launches the video game craze in motion".
"News" items this time include the January NPD sales numbers, the Wii being the next Hula Hoop, AOL telling people not to buy PS3s, a new Xbox 360 model, and a potential Xbox 360 price drop.
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Our fifteenth podcast is now available! Download it here.
In this month's "discussion" segment, we review the insanity that was the PlayStation 3 launch. During the segment, we also give our hands-on impressions of the system.
Our "Retro Respect" segment this time is the first part of a two part series on the history of "Nintendo". During the segment we discuss the early days of Nintendo when they were producing playing cards through the introduction of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
"News" items this time include the Spike gaming awards results, the Xbox becoming an ex-console, why Japan is lining up for 360s, and how to stream audio/video formats to the 360.
Our "Gaming Moments" this episode include Eragon (360), Elite Beat Agents (DS), Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii), Wii Sports (Wii), Madden (Wii), and the HD-DVD player for the 360.
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Our fourteenth podcast is now available! Download it here.
In this month's "discussion" segment, we discuss the limited life-span of recent console generations. While many early consoles still work great today, it appears that a large percentage of the latest console versions are dying at an early age due to disk-related issues, overheating, etc.
Our "Retro Respect" segment this time focuses on the game company Epyx. During the segment we discuss their transformation from a company that was purely focused on strategy and dungeon crawlers to a company that is primarily known for their stellar action games.
Our "News" items this time include an EA executive stating that Gears of War has zero innovation, pre-order glitches at Best Buy, the PSP being used for bomb assembly, the 10 worst games of all time, and much more.
Our "Gaming Moments" this episode include Gears of War (360), F.E.A.R. (360), Rainbow Six: Vegas (360), Bully (PS2), Okami (PS2), and Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony (PSP).


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Beards and greasy hair are taking over the downtown scene…
Just last night while having dinner in SoHo, I counted seven men in deliberate need of a trim and, perhaps, a bottle of shampoo.
The Hairy Hipster-cum-Geek-cum-Poet-cum-Anarchist look is on a fast rise from Williamsburg to NoLita to clear out of downtown New York.
I admittedly have a cringe thing for extraneous ungroomed hair in any area, but come on guys, can you at least not look like you joined the army of the great unwashed???
How about an occasional beard trim to tidy up the edges, some hair wax to make your hair look piecey but not filthy, and a perfectly worn T-shirt– without the stains?? Huh, just asking. No begging.
Here, we have actor Adrien Brody dressed exquisitely in a faded windowpane black two-button wool suit by Versace. Adrien was gussied up for "The Brothers Bloom" screening and film festival opening award ceremonies in Dallas, Texas where he also picked up the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival "Star Award."
The contrast of Adrien's undone grooming in combination with a perfectly tailored suit works in just the right modern way. However, in this case I thankfully bet that a stylist was involved and his beard is not that long and is ever-so-slightly groomed!
Hairy Hipsters please note: Style is in the mix so please mix in a bar of soap and some scissors to your repertoire. One good article of clothing will not hurt either.


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Current index includes: almost 150 websites written and published by some of the 133 members of the Genea-Bloggers Group on Facebook.
My Children's Ancestors
Monday, September 1, 2008
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- A rootdigger said...
sorry, but I see no advance with this link. dud. go to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180240772010024
on face book
and the one group
- January 21, 2011 at 7:02 AM
- A rootdigger said...
whoops i saw the small index link and it works. sorry.
- January 21, 2011 at 7:03 AM
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