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Covering only 2.62 square miles, Western Springs is small in size but has many things commuters want from a bedroom community. Streets canopied by old trees. A busy downtown within walking distance of every house. A diverse housing stock. Plenty of activities for the kids.
In short, Western Springs is a comfy, quiet retreat from a long day's work in the city.
While many less-affluent suburbs suffer visibly from the recession, with scores of foreclosure signs and boarded-up storefronts, this Cook County village is thriving. In fact, the teardown phenomenon continues here, albeit at a slower pace, as buyers leave city condos for single-family houses with backyards for their young families.
"I think I know 40 or 50 people here from my high school alone," said Chicago native Mike Hynes, who hired j2 Santi Custom Homes in Western Springs to build his house in 2010. "We're close to our parents' houses in the city but have a nice quiet community with low crime where we can raise the kids." Weekdays, Hynes walks to the Metra train station from his house. On weekends, his family heads to the parks for his children's T-ball, basketball and soccer games.
A community of about 13,000 residents, Western Springs is 16 miles west of the Loop. The atmosphere is laid-back, which is how folks like it. Violent crime is rare, robberies are few. The baddest guys in town are the emerald ash borers, whose gangs are closing in from La Grange and Hinsdale.
"Meet me at the tower" is Western Springs-speak for the 112-foot stone village landmark that anchors Spring Rock Park, where residents gather for community events. It oversees the village's small but bustling downtown, which includes a requisite Starbucks plus multigeneration merchants. Residents take numbers to buy smiley-faced cookies at Kirschbaum's Bakery and "grillmaster hamburgers" from Casey's Market.
"We know who is painting their bedroom, who is switching their bulbs to CFLs and who is power-washing their deck today," said Linda Johnson, who followed her dad's footsteps as owner of Western Springs Village Hardware. She makes popcorn for the Saturday-morning crowd that fills the store.
Like Hynes and many of his neighbors, village president William Rodeghier grew up in Chicago. But the same amenities that lured developer T.C. Hill's early buyers to the village brought him here too. "Shade trees and evergreens on all the streets," stated Hill's ads. "Trains almost hourly … store, post office, church, school." The mineral water touted in the ads is gone, but otherwise Western Springs is the bedroom that these commuters want in a bedroom community.
Originally labeled East Hinsdale, Western Springs became its own village in 1876. It was developed by a trio of men including Hill, who marketed its lots from their Chicago office.
The original land titles said "no intoxicating liquors shall be sold on said premises," reflecting the Quaker background of Hill and his colleagues. The village was dry until 2002.
The water tower is reminiscent of the mineral water that put Western Springs on the map and was sold as a "curative for diseases of the kidneys, bladder, Bright's disease, diabetes, dyspepsia, nervous debility of women" and a host of other ailments. The bottom of the tower once housed the police station and jail and now the historical society.
Things to do
Western Springs offers ample recreational and cultural opportunities for residents young and old.
The Western Springs Business Association hosts annual events including a fall festival, Christmas walk and Easter egg roll. The tower is the central spot for the annual Gathering on the Green and the 5K and 10K Tower Trot, which attracts more than 1,200 runners annually.
A farmers market dubbed French Market sets up shop on Thursdays through Oct. 27.
On the village's north side is Bemis Woods Forest Preserve. Bicyclists can pick up the Salt Creek Trail to ride to Brookfield Zoo.
For such a small town, Western Springs has a laudable lineup of arts associations: the Theatre of Western Springs, Tower Chorale and Western Springs Music Club. "Instead of going into the city to see a performance, we can walk," Rodeghier said.
The village has a small collection of white-tablecloth eateries including Vie and 800 West, plus restaurants for Sunday morning pancakes.
Count your pennies before buying a house here. Carol Rosentreter, of Re/Max Properties in Western Springs, reports that the typical sale in the last year was $589,000. Sales ranged from a $200,000 fixer-upper that sold as a teardown to a 2006 two-story that went for $2.1 million.
"It's mostly young professional couples who have had their fun living in the city and who want to settle down in the suburbs where there are top-rated schools," said Rosentreter. "We also see a lot of move-ups from within town."
Housing is a mix of new teardowns and an appealing architectural array of foursquares, Cape Cods, brick Colonials, plus a few storybook houses that defy style guidelines.
You can count on one hand the number of multifamily homes here; rentals are scarce.
Oak Brook has dibs on most of the sales tax revenue in this area, so Western Springs has hefty real estate taxes. That $2.1 million house has an annual tax bill of $33,700.
Pace's bus route 669 runs north-south from Indian Head Park to the village Metra rail station, which is within walking distance of many homes. Those who commute by car can jump on Interstate Highway 294, which lines the village's west side.
Two elementary school districts serve the community, 101 and 106. Most kids walk to grade schools. These schools feed into Lyons Township High School's south campus for grades 9 and 10 in Western Springs and north campus for grades 11 and 12 in La Grange.
Though some buyers say they move here for the public schools, and pay big-bucks real estate taxes to support them, Catholic schooling is their family tradition, so they send their children to St. John of the Cross Parish School in Western Springs for grades pre-K to 8.


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Basic question here: how can I tell when I'm over someone and ready to be with someone else?
– C.G., Boston, MA
That is a basic question, but not a simple one. I'm not sure I can even answer it.
Sometimes hearing someone else's experiences put things in perspective. Here is a situation concerning a person I dated, how I personally view it, and how I make it work for me. Maybe this example will help clear things up a little bit for you too.
In my life, I've seen a lot of relationships and been envious of very few. I see a lot of phoniness, relationships of convenience, and people together for all the wrong reasons.
But I knew that my relationship with her was something incredibly, incredibly special. I'd never felt anything like that; it was something totally different than all the rest I'd ever been in. It was comparing apples to oranges, as the saying goes.
In every way, I found her to be the most beautiful thing that I'd ever seen. We showed each other our best and our worst and remained together because we believed in each other as individuals and believed in us as a couple.
It's interesting to think of all the things we are taught and all we are not. People are taught a million things growing up: how to read, how to use a stove without burning their hands, how to fold a towel, how to drive, and so on.
But we're never taught some of the things that are imperative in relationships; we're somehow expected to learn them as we go and by trial and error. I, like many others, never learned how to trust someone to give them all of my feelings, so I'd always held something back, which isn't fair.
I also never learned how to forgive someone that I loved when they hurt me. And I certainly never learned what to do when you find someone who is perfect for you. It sounds like such a great thing, but it can be one of the most overwhelming feelings you ever experience because you want it to work out more than you want anything else in your life.
And sometimes, by the time you start to realize these things, it's too late to make everything right.
Making her cry was the worst thing I've ever done and just thinking about it hurts me more than anything I've ever lost, never achieved, failed at, or I could really explain here.
And now she's gone. We had talked about "forever" but this isn't the kind of "forever" I thought we meant.
Who we were at the time we made our memories, we'll always be – that man will always love that woman and that woman will always love him just as much. I still miss so many things about her, namely counting on – and believing in – us.
I still think about her every day and wonder, wonder, and wonder. I made her an enormous part of my life and now that she's gone, that life as I knew it is too.
The pain is normal. But don't think that because you feel pain you can't move on. What happened between the two of you obviously affected you, so the hurting is expected. Truthfully, and unfortunately, it may be felt for a long, long time.
If you think about it, you probably still don't feel great about the moment you found out you didn't get that job you really wanted or a pet that died when you were a kid. You may never feel perfectly fine about this situation either.
What I realized, and what you must too, is that you have to move on. They have. They have their own life going, and whether it's them being alone or them being with someone else – it's still them being without you.
There is no other option; you can't stay closed off and emotionally unavailable forever in hopes they will change their mind about you or that it will work out somehow. Knowing when to let go and move forward it is the hard part.
You don't want to do it when you're emotionally unavailable, angry at life, or will be anything but the best person you can be to whomever it is you end up with next. I don't know if you're there. Maybe you don't even know if you're there.


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As the Titans add receivers, the speculation grows that soon-to-be-30-year-old Nate Washington isn't long for a job.
And yet he still has one.
To Washington's credit, he doesn't care. Which could be one of the reasons why he has been able to keep going.
"I am not worried about it, and never was worried about it, to tell you the truth," Washington recently said, via Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean. "At the end of the day, I am here, and I am here to do a job. I have no problem with who they brought in or didn't bring in. It doesn't matter to me.''
Still, Washington knows that, as he ages, he needs to find other ways to force the team to keep him around.
"If all these other guys are going to get younger, faster and bigger, then I have to get older, wiser, bigger and stronger," Washington said. "It is about me giving my all. If I do that, I know I can look myself in the mirror. At this point, I have nothing to prove. I just need to make sure the guys believe in me and know I am going to work and do everything I can to help us win."
His effort this year includes gaining five pounds of muscle. He now feels stronger and faster than ever, and he understands the game in ways young players don't.
Washington has been a solid, but not spectacular, performer during his eight-year career. He has one 1,000-yard season, in 2011. Last year, he caught 46 passes for 746 yards and four touchdowns.
That was still good enough to lead the team in receiving yards.
This year, he's dealing with a depth chart that includes two first-round picks (Kenny Britt and Kendall Wright) and a second-rounder (Justin Hunter). He's also dealing with guys like Britt calling him old.
While Washington seems to be taking the high road, we suggest that he consider taking a page out of the Cris Carter playbook, who had this to say when a young Bears defender called Carter "old man" in 1998: You should get on your knees and pray that you can play this game as long as me.
While there aren't many things of which I'm sure, I'm sure Britt won't play pro football as long as Washington.


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text: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Leif Nixon wrote: >> Nesting levels of 10+ are not unknown. > > Embarrassing. I'll pretend I didn't read that. Ah, yeah. Let me embarrass myself even further. My first foray into this territory was maybe 1978 or so when I was still a tender young first year graduate student and the computing world was punch cards and IBM 370's that were slower and stupider than my palm pilot is today. I spent one summer working for TUNL, our nuclear lab (that in those days had fond hopes of recruiting me into experimental nuclear by getting me to do some "theory" computations for them). So they hooked me up with a physicist who had at great length derived a theoretical reduction of the angular momentum group-theory coupled multichannel scattering equations for some reaction they were interested in. His result was a simple sum over some 9j symbols, if you know what they are. Well, 9j symbols have 9 different numbers to sum over right there. But the numbers aren't all independent and some of them are input or output (the channel indices you are interested in) while others sum over all possible internal states. So THIS sum wasn't too bad -- I can't remember the formula after close to thirty years but it was something like six nested sums (in Fortran -- this is where I >>learned<< fortran, just to perform this computation) not including those hidden by the routines generating the 9j symbols. Then came the "interesting" part. The ACTUAL expression he reduced involved a some over all the entering and exiting and target before and target after and intrinsic spin channels for all the particles -- something like 20 Clebsch-Gordan (CG) coefficients (aka 3j symbols). In order for angular momentum to be conserved, this nifty thing called the Wigner-Eckert theorem (that describes angular moementum coupling) and a bunch of both 3j and 6j symbols had to be summed over, where 6j's are themselves particular combinations of 3j's with particular (consistent!) phase conventions to handle the negative -m part of the indices, parity, and so on. I am having a hard time remembering what the actual level of nesting of the code was even WITHOUT the hiding of several levels inside the subroutines that e.g. computed 3j, 6j and 9j symbols. With 66 columns to work with, mind you. With code that ultimately filled about a box and a half of cards, each component of which had to be very expensively written (cards weren't cheap all by themselves in that quantity), tested, debugged, integrated with the next layer of code (6j's made of 3j's, 9j's made of 6j's and 3j's, phases and all). I recall having to stop and put things like: C******************** L1 M2 Loop Start *************************** C******************** L1 M2 Loop End *************************** in every two couple of levels in the main loop and renormalize the indentation just to keep the final expression on no more than 3 or 4 cards with continuations plus a handful on either side doing e.g. the phases and some precomputed parts. And at the end, many many CONTINUEs. Ultimately we discovered that the results differed by something like a single phase. A bit of experimentation (and some fairly serious work with Brink and Satchler in hand) and we determined that it was probably not in my code. My mentor/colleague for the summer reexamined his algebraic results and found the phase and fixed it (unless my aging memory has reconstructed events and they went the other way around:-). He published, with results I verified, and as far as I know all I got was an acknowledgement (certainly nothing like co-authorship or a separate paper). And so it goes. I came out of it with some money (not too much, really:-), a knowledge of Fortran IV and all sorts of things about running on IBMs that I eagerly forgot as soon as I could roughly a decade later after the IBM PC and minicomputers started to supplant its dominance, and a box full of cards that I kept for years as a sort of historical relic. I STILL have a bunch of that code in an archive directory -- all ready to compute CG coefficients, for example -- and even went into it from time to time over the years and snarfed e.g. the YLM code, the PLM code, the CG code, the 6j code -- to use for a few other fortran projects and ultimately port into C. Now even the C ports are pretty much dead -- the GSL has it all, has it better, has it well-tested and efficient. The point being that yes, there are real computations of real physics that involve such dastardly things as very deep loops. This is where I learned my appreciation of triangular arrays for storing l,m indexed values, as well. Memory was precious in those days, and fitting PRECOMPUTED results into matrices of coupling constants ate (and wasted) a lot of it. Too much of it, really -- we ended up having to directly compute a lot of things instead of building tables. To get at a compressed version of even parts of it, one had to do a lot of side computations using symmetry and phases to avoid recomputing numbers connected by trivial symmetries. > Interestingly, you didn't touch on the one actual disadvantage with > Python's indentation sensitivity; when you move blocks of code around, > you need to adjust the indentation level of the code when you paste it > in. But a Sufficiently Smart Editor like emacs makes that easy. (I don't > know what the vi guys do, but I can't be having with them, anyway.) Well, that was what I meant when I said that indentation is local, so you can have inconsistencies between how much you indent in any block relative to the same block depth in e.g. another program segment or just another page of the same segment. You can get there by block copying or by just forgetting your own indentation scheme. But yes, emacsoid editors doth save us all from our own indentation errors -- in C, in perl, in fortran, in python. And yeah, even in C mode I spend some time with on-the-fly macros re-indenting things to my own peculiar standards on some code rearrangements. It's a bit tricky to make jove/emacs stop using tabs in place of spaces when it autoindents a line longer than its current conception of a tab (something that drives me bananas -- I can't stand having tabs in source code as part of an indentation layout as that NEVER works when you move code around and doesn't print consistently in all editors, browsers, whatever) but generally they are marvelous tools. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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It is true to say that for most of the 20th century, and possibly even today, the name Charlie Chaplin was better known around the world than that of any other public figure. Even more tellingly, so was his appearance in the many films he made in the early years of the movies when he was known as the king of comedy. In fact, Sir Charlie was one of the first people in any walk of life to understand the importance of branding. He also knew the dangers of changing, upgrading or modernising the brand. Once he had finalised the elements of his "look", the Tramp was always the same recognisably hard done by, inadequate nonentity whose inability to cope with life and his bewilderment and sadness at getting everything wrong had people across the entire globe laughing and crying with every maladroit movement he made.
As with Mr Johnny Depp's unchanging costume in Pirates of the Caribbean, for Sir Charlie the uniform was as much a character as the actor inside it, which is why he took so much care to get it right. Take his grotesquely oversized shoes, which gave him his characteristic screen walk. The fact is that inside them he was wearing a pair of the correct size for his feet. Interestingly, for someone who as a boy lived in poverty in south London and was twice confined to the workhouse, shoes were one of his obsessions - not surprisingly, perhaps, as for much of his childhood they were a luxury way beyond the grasp of his impoverished mother. And the insecurity affected him throughout his life. He was known to be a compulsive buyer, especially of clothes. At the height of his Hollywood success, a friend recalled that when Sir Charlie's wardrobe was opened it revealed rows of shoes, all identical, with suede shoes on the top row and black ones below, all in immaculate condition. He would never go barefoot again.


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Explore Exoplanets with Emily Rice at October 30th Event main content.
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Over the last few years, the search for planets that revolve around stars other than our Sun—known as exoplanets—has accelerated and yielded amazing results. Will scientists find one whose conditions closely resemble Earth's? Find out what lies ahead in the Tuesday, October 30, Astronomy Live! program with Emily Rice, an astrophysicist and Museum research associate who will guide visitors on a "ride" through space in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater.
Q: So, Emily, what are exoplanets, and why are they interesting?
Emily Rice: Exoplanets are the new black holes! They're just so fascinating—humans have wondered for hundreds of years if there are planets around other stars, and within the last two decades we've progressed very rapidly from finding the first handful to confirming thousands of them.
Q: How are you and your team able to show visual renderings of exoplanets in the dome of the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater here at the Museum?
ER: In the dome we'll focus on visualizing the sheer numbers of exoplanets that have been discovered and confirmed. I'll also explain the methods we use to detect exoplanets, what each method tells us about the planetary system, and what it really means to look for "Earth-like" planets.
Q: How many exoplanets have been identified so far?
ER: There are about 800, though the number can vary depending on how reliable the evidence is—most exoplanets are detected indirectly, and even the direct detections can be uncertain. Right now there are also thousands of exoplanet candidates that have been discovered by the Kepler mission—2,321 to be exact. They are still candidates because the science team insists on painstaking follow-up observations to confirm each discovery, but they estimate that at least 80 to 90 percent of the candidates are real.
Q: Can you explain what the Kepler mission is?
ER: The Kepler mission is a spacecraft in orbit around the Sun with a 1-meter telescope and 95-megapixel camera. It monitors the brightness of over 150,000 stars in one region of the sky for transiting exoplanets, which show up as periodic dips in the brightness of a star.
Q: How many exoplanets do astronomers estimate there might be in the Milky Way galaxy?
ER: One of the great things about the Kepler mission is that the results can answer a question like that! With the current data, scientists estimate that there are at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way galaxy and at least 500 million planets are in the habitable zone around their stars. That doesn't mean the planets are necessarily habitable, or that they will have life or advanced civilizations, but it's a start.
Q: Do you think there might be life on one, or some, or most of those?
ER: I'll talk about those details in the presentation on October 30th!
Click here to purchase tickets for the Emily Rice event, in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater.
Please note: This program is a rescheduled session of the October 30 program, which was canceled due to the impact of Hurricane Sandy. Visitors who had purchased a ticket for the October 30 program cancontact Central Reservations at 212-496-4234 to exchange their ticket or receive a refund.


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Presidential papers on display
RIT Archives
In anticipation of the presidential election this fall, the RIT Museum will be featuring one of the university's historic collections—The Frederick Wiedman Jr. Collection of Presidential Papers. This collection of documents, with the signatures of 43 former U.S. presidents, provides a glimpse into the lives of the individuals who have held the most important office in the nation. Through these relics, we feel the presence of the men who touched these documents that occupied a moment in their lives.
Ranging from personal to official, the papers touch on a variety of topics. There are many letters as well as shipping and customs receipts. One official document signed by President James Buchanan gives authority to the Secretary of the State to ratify the convention between the U.S. and Belgium by affixing the seal of the United States. In another document, President Andrew Johnson's signature appears on a military commission appointment to the Veteran Reserve Corps for disabled soldiers in 1865.
One intriguing personal letter from then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, begins, "My dear Clarkson, [Grosvenor B. Clarkson, publicist, worked for the Council of National Defense during World War I]: Do not have any hesitation on my account in having a strong go at Mr. Cushy's article— somebody ought to and you are the ideal man. I have not seen anything of late with as many wrong conclusions, misstatements and assumptions of fact."
There is also a gracious letter from Richard Nixon to a schoolgirl dating from his tenure as a senator from California. He thanks her and expresses pleasure at receiving the letter with comments on "these critical problems that face our country today."
Audible are the echoes of the times as Nixon writes: "I believe that your suggestion about telling Russia and other communistic countries about this great America of ours is a very good one, as I feel that we should try to bring the results of a free democracy to the attention of peace-loving people everywhere."
The collection, on display until spring on the first and third floors of the Wallace Center, was assembled by Frederick Wiedman Jr., a long-time Rochester attorney and RIT supporter. He established the Frederick and Anna B. Wiedman Professorship in Imaging Science in 1985 in recognition of his parents and joined the RIT Board of Trustees in 1986. He was named trustee emeritus in 1993. Upon his death in 1995, he bequeathed a major portion of his assets to the university to support the educational programs that he believed in. His portrait and a commemorative plaque hang in the lobby of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.
Also on exhibit: Eisenhower campaign buttons and images of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton, taken by former White House photographer Bernie Boston '57 (photography).


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Holiday Home in Peloponnese
This huge 200 square meters holiday house in the Peloponnese is located in a small village called Mikros Valtos. The area is full of green with vineyards all the way to reach the house. GPE270 holiday villa in the Peloponnese has a private swimming pool 45 sqm with a covered veranda with garden furniture and a big landscape fenced area of 500 square meters where the children can play all day long.Pets are mostly welcome. In the house you will find 6 bedrooms with total capacity for 14 persons, while 4 of them have en suite bathroom. In front of the living room there is a very large covered veranda with breathtaking view of the mountains with a bbq and a stone oven where you can bake bread and try a lot of Greek traditional recipes.This would be a great area for you and your family to have lunch or dinner enjoying a glass of wine. This beautiful holiday villa in Peloponnese is in a great location, perfect for really quiet holidays while the beach is only 10 km away.Having this house as a starting point you can visit Ancient Korinthos, Epidaurus and the town of Nafplion.


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Bill Maher's Jokes Aren't for Black Children
He said he was only joking. OK. So I guess Bill Maher thinks that if it's only a "joke," then it's OK to stereotype one particular race and slander every black person in America with his racist views. On HBO's Real Time, he recently said, "If you're thinking about voting for Mitt Romney, I would like to make this one plea. Black people know who you are and they will come after you." But then he laughed and said he was kidding.
Let's see....racist comment....laughter...."I was kidding." Is that how it works? Just because he is a liberal doesn't mean he is entitled to say something so bigoted.
I wonder how many black people Bill Maher actually knows. The vast majority of black people do not teach their children to riot in the streets and hurt white people if a black candidate loses an election. Bill needs to get out of his ivory tower and go to Sacramento and meet Dr. Philip Goudeaux....or at least listen to why this black man votes his values rather than simply voting according to race.
Black parents want their children to be law-abiding citizens....not thugs as Bill Maher suggests. This is why black children should be spared from hearing Bill Maher's racist ideas. It will only plant seeds in their heart and mind which could get them into trouble down the road. If Bill would visit with Dr. Goudeaux, he could learn a lot about what to say and what not say when trying to be funny at the expense of black people.
Why does Bill have to single out one race anyway? We are all Americans. It is wrong for anyone to suggest that all people of a particular race are interested in causing harm to others. So he got a laugh out of it? Big deal. It only reinforces the racist ideas which people like Bill Maher have of black people and white people. What stereotypes does he hold concerning other races? I suppose he will espouse those racist views in future "jokes."
To suggest that all white people think a certain way....or all black people think a certain way....well, that is racist. But I guess if we put it in a joke, then it's OK. That's the problem with liberals like Maher....too many things are a joke to them....and they don't know how to appreciate the conservative values held by so many black people and white people and brown people.
Take gay marriage for example. Many in the black community do not see eye-to-eye with Bill Maher on this issue. Black people think through the issues just like people of all races. So why would he single out the black race and "jokingly" refer to them as hoodlums? That's simple....he doesn't care if it sounds offensive, as long as he can get as many black people as possible to laugh at his "joke" and embrace his message.
That in itself shows a total lack of respect for black people. It's as if Maher believes that black people can't or won't think through his logic....and realize how racist it is. But I am guessing he sure thinks of himself as a supporter of black people. If he really cared about black people....and black children who might hear his racism, then he would have a change of heart and think before he speaks. Just because something is funny to him does not mean that it is respectful to an entire race.
Are there white people and black people who are extremists? Of course. Are there white people and black people who are just looking for a reason to inflict pain on people of another race? Of course. There are a significant number of haters like that in America. But why fan the flames of those who are prone to riot and act in lawless and violent ways? Why spew that venom even if it's just in a "joke." It's no joke when white extremists or black extremists injure people. To joke about it only adds to the problem.
When Maher is this irresponsible on television, it calls into question whether or not it is time for him to move on to something that won't allow him to "joke about" these harmful ideas to vulnerable children. I know, I know....Maher would laugh at the thought that it is time for him to move on....but I am sure that many black parents who heard his racist comment are not laughing. Perhaps at first....as a instant reaction....but when you stop and think about Maher's ideology, it is pretty scary. "If the liberal candidate (who happens to be black) gets defeated, then black people will come after white people to hurt them." Boy that's a responsible and helpful perspective....and one that will promote healing in America after the election.
Black children in America deserve to grow up in a country where white people and black people are not encouraging them to harm others when the vote goes a certain way. This is America. We need to all get along in the best possible way. Maher's "jokes" do nothing to help black children. It only sets them up for failure....and violence....and jail....if they embrace and carry out Maher's "joke" and his "funny" ideas about hurting people of a different race.
Maher knows he can't say this sort of thing in a serious way and get away with it....and so he puts it in a "joke" to soften the impact. But the impact is real, however soft it may appear. I know....Maher says he was just kidding. So maybe everyone should be able to say anything....and then add, "I was kidding." I guess that is supposed to make it all better. Well....black parents can decide for themselves whether or not their children will be exposed to comments like this from Bill Maher and those who share his ideology.
Thankfully, there are plenty of people with conservative values among all races in our country. And in America, we are free to choose who we elect and whose values we are going to embrace, whatever their race may be. The vast majority of liberal and conservative Americans are not interested in "coming after" people of a different race in an attempt to harm them. We already have plenty of pain being inflicted over the airwaves by "comedians" like Bill Maher.


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Strengthening skills and knowledge of local actors in the border region between Mexico and Guatemala is crucial, to ensure effective participation for better water management in the region.
Building local capacity helps give communities voice to influence local to national decision makers, and policy agendas to help solve water problems. In particular, the vulnerability of local communities to climate change impacts on water resources in an area where agriculture and a growing population are competing for the same resource.
The IUCN Water Management Unit for Mesoamerica and the IUCN Environmental Law Centre based in Bonn, brought together 40 key actors working on both sides of the Guatemala-Mexico border. The workshop allowed participants to discuss negotiation principles and attend training on negotiating bi-national agreements using principles from the guide 'Governance of Shared Water: Practical Exercises'. This guide contains hypothetical water-sharing cases which pose situations that require a detailed analysis of the causes and effects of water conflicts, and the need for negotiation.
The training exercises allowed participants to learn about the different political, social, economic, technical, environmental and legal aspects which must be taken into consideration in order to achieve bi-national agreements on integrated water resources management. International law needs to be taken into account and political will is a deciding factor to ensure the success of cooperative transboundary processes.
As part of the Water and Nature Initiative, IUCN organized the training workshop in Tapachula, Mexico, with the participation of academia, members of watershed committees, students and scientific experts on the theme of shared water governance. The workshop is part of IUCN's strategy in transboundary regions: to raise awareness, train and facilitate processes of reflection, and support joint efforts towards cooperative agreements.
The workshop allowed an exchange of knowledge between water experts, communities and academia, who agreed on the need to promote dialogue spaces for negotiation and cooperation. These fora ensure all water related understanding and benefits are shared equitably between the riparian countries in order to raise awareness of good governance of integrated water resource management. Given that most water resources in Mesoamerica are located in transboundary areas, the need to undertake effective cooperative and bi-national processes is vital.
For more information, please contact:
Tania Rodríguez, Water Management Caribbean Initiative: [email protected]
Carlos Rosal, Water Management Unit IUCN Mesoamerica: [email protected]


text: Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> writes: >> By the way, if you really can't afford for things to "go away" for >> 1/250th of a second very often, I have horrible news for you: NO >> COMPUTER WILL WORK FOR YOU. > > You haven't done much HPC, have you? Why do you think we build > interconnects with latencies on order 1 microsecond? Insult me all you like. If you have any stock Intel architecture based machine, the machine will vanish into System Management Mode for long periods. SMM operates below the level of the operating system. The SM interrupt, which the OS cannot control, comes in, the processor goes into the protected SM BIOS with its own protected memory and stays there as long as it likes to do its job and returns. The OS is totally out of the loop on this. If you aren't aware of that, well, fine, but it is true. You can call me ignorant all day and it will still be true. I've had to build systems that synchronize their clocks to very very high precisions and it is a big issue in that situation. You can easily watch the effect on a machine where you're doing high precision timings. It is very, very difficult to do hard realtime on PCs because of this. So, if you claim that postfix will somehow do something unacceptable to your latencies and cause our mesh to desynchronize but you dont know about SM Mode, well, fine, but Postfix won't prevent your machine from processing interrupts, or prevent your OS from properly switching to a high priority process following an interrupt, but SMM will and you can't get rid of it. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com


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I've written quite often about how surprising the blog world has been for me. Through blogging I've learned that I can make authentic connections with people around the world that I never would have known any other way. I'm so thankful for that. I'm thankful for so many of you that have taken the time to get to know me, to care about my family, and to allow me to get to know you.
We read about one another's greatest accomplishments, we celebrate the highest highs and we grieve the lowest lows.
I've mentioned Anissa Mayhew in a previous post, and many of you know her. For those of you who don't, recently Anissa, a witty blogger, wife and mother of three, collapsed after suffering a massive stroke. Her family and friends are devastated.
One minute her husband was talking to her about which hotel they could stay in over Thanksgiving and the next moment she was unresponsive in a hospital bed. Everyone is praying for Anissa to pull through and little by little it seems they are starting to see bits of progress, but Anissa and her family have a long way to go on the road to recovery.
Another blogger that has made his mark on my heart is Matt Logelin. Matt is no stranger to the devastating turns our lives can take. He started blogging as a way to update friends and family across the globe as his wife Liz was pregnant and about to have their first baby.
He proudly posted the excitement of the birth of his baby girl Madeline one day and the tragic loss of his beautiful wife due to a pulmonary embolism just 27 hours later.
The Liz Logelin Foundation was established by Matt to assist families suffering similar losses. The goal is to "financially assist these families as they deal with the loss of their loved ones, and struggle to move forward."
Matt also challenges his readers...and everyone...to "skip the latte" and donate 7 dollars on the 7th of every month. It can be such a small number for us, but if EVERYONE donated $7 on the 7th, we could help SO many.
This week, I will be working with a group of bloggers (Buried with Children, Mayhem & Moxie, 7 Clown Circus, Scary Mommy, Adventures in Babywearing, & Mama's Losin' It) to promote a three day auction called, Blog, Bid, Hope to raise money on behalf of The Liz Logelin Foundation and Anissa Mayhew.
Thanks to Laurie from Tip Junkie we were able to connect with wonderful mom-preneurs who have generously agreed to donate their goods, including blog designs, toys, art, accessories, baby gear, and SO much more.
You'll be sure to please anyone on your holiday list with any number of the packages that will be available! Not to mention ALL of the proceeds will be going to help people during extremely difficult times in their lives.
The auction will officially begin on Wednesday, December 9th. All items will listed on any one of the Blog, Bid, Hope hosting sites and will begin at $10. We're asking for bids to increase at $2 increments. If you see an item you'd like to bid on, just leave a comment on that item's post stating your price.
In addition to our own auction we want to encourage everyone to swing by Anissa Mayhew's Aiming Low site on December 10th. Her friends and fellow Aiming Low writers have organized a Shop 4 Anissa day, where they will link to specific vendors who have agreed to donate a portion of all proceeds to the Hope 4 Anissa fund specifically for that day.
You can help while you get a little Christmas shopping done! We all can. Together.
(If you'd like to donate directly to Anissa Mayhew, you can via PayPal to: firstname.lastname@example.com , and to give to the Liz Logelin foundation, you can via the button in my sidebar.)
Thank you!
P.S. This same post is cross-posted by all the bloggers involved in the auction. I did not write most of it, but definitely agree with all of it.


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Laptop Containing Personal Data Of All 64,000 Ohio State Employees Stolen
A laptop containing the personal information of all 64,000 Ohio state employees and their dependents has been stolen from an employee's car. Ironically, the laptop was taken home by the employee "as part of a security procedure." Governor Ted Strickland is not taking the matter lightly. He has already issued Executive Order 013S, giving Ohio's Chief Privacy Officer 75 days to develop an impressive-sounding "privacy impact assessment protocol."
"As we are continuing an ongoing review of the data contained in the stolen device, we have determined that information pertaining to participants in the state's pharmacy benefits management program, including information such as names, social security numbers, addresses and phone numbers of the employees and the names and social security numbers of their dependents, may be contained in the device," Strickland said.
Strickland's office has set up a site for Ohioans concerned about their data. The state will provide affected employees free credit monitoring for one year. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER
State Employees' Personal Data Stolen [WDSU.com]
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Volcanic LandslidesVolcanoes appear to be permanent fixtures on the landscape, but in fact are inherently unstable structures composed of both strong (thick lava flows) and weak (fragmental and hydrothermally altered) materials. Large-scale collapse of volcanic edifices, first witnessed and documented at the start of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption, is now known to be a common volcanic process. Large volcanic landslides can occur with volumes exceeding a cubic kilometer at continental volcanoes and several orders of magnitude larger at oceanic shield volcanoes. These collapses can produce extremely mobile debris avalanches that can travel at high velocities in some cases for tens of kilometers beyond the base of a volcano. This process, once thought to be extremely rare, has been documented at hundreds of volcanoes worldwide. Repeated episodes of growth and collapse have occurred at many volcanoes, and large-volume volcanic landslides have been found to be the most common catastrophic destructive process at volcanoes.
RaungA quarry displays a cross section of a debris-avalanche hummock, showing bedded layers of tephra on the right and a segment of a lava flow on the left. Both the the massive lava and the unconsolidated tephra layers were transported relatively intact for about 30 km within a massive debris avalanche from Raung volcano in eastern Java. The preservation of original stratigraphy from within the volcano is a common feature of debris-avalanche deposits.
Photo by Lee Siebert, 1995 (Smithsonian Institution).
UnzendakeThis 18th century water-color map of Unzen volcano on the Shimabara Peninsula shows the extent of the catastrophic landslide from Mayu-yama (lower center) in 1792 that swept into the Ariake Sea at the bottom of the map. The irregular, orange-colored area along the coast delineates the extent of runup of the tsunami that was created when the avalanche entered the sea. The tsunami swept a 77-km length of the peninsula and caused nearly 15,000 fatalities here and along coastlines across the Ariake Sea.
Map from Shimabara City Honko temple (published in Miyachi et al., 1987).
HakusanThis outcrop along the Oshira-kawa river east of Haku-san volcano in Japan shows textures that are common at debris-avalanche deposits. Large fractured clasts are carried in a finer matrix that shows variations in color. This results from the transport of small discrete segments of the volcano for long distances without being totally disaggregated and mixed together. This debris avalanche was produced by a volcanic landslide from the summit and eastern flank of Haku-san about 4200 years ago.
Photo by S. Shimuzu (courtesy of Toshio Higashino, Haku-san Nature Conservation Center).
BezymiannyThe small hills in this photo were produced during a 1956 eruption of Bezymianny volcano that closely resembled the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The hummocky terrain is reminiscent of the debris-avalanche deposit filling the Toutle River at Mount St. Helens, and likewise was produced by a massive volcanic landslide when Bezymianny collapsed on March 30, 1956. The hummocks consist of material formerly composing the Bezymianny edifice that swept up to 18 km to the east in a highly mobile debris avalanche.
Photo by Dan Miller (U.S. Geological Survey).
AugustineCollapse of the summit and flank of a volcano can produce massive volcanic landslides. The resulting highly mobile debris avalanches rapidly sweep down the volcano and far beyond its flanks. These small hills in the foreground of Alaska's Augustine volcano show a morphology common to debris-avalanche deposits. The hummocks consist of relatively intact segments of the volcanic edifice that were transported long distances without disaggregating. This debris avalanche traveled roughly 11 km from the summit about 450 years ago.
Photo by Lee Siebert, 1987 (Smithsonian Institution).
AugustineThis wave-cut section exposes the interior of the Burr Point debris-avalanche deposit from the 1883 eruption of Augustine volcano. The color mottling, which results from the transport of discrete segments of the volcano that are not thoroughly mixed, is a characteristic texture of debris-avalanche deposits. The scale bar is 2-m high.
Photo by Lee Siebert, 1986 (Smithsonian Institution).
St. HelensThe hill in the background is one of many hummocks forming the surface of the massive debris-avalanche deposit produced by collapse of the summit of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. The different-colored rocks represent portions of the former volcano that were transported relatively intact far from the volcano. The avalanche traveled 25 km, filling the upper North Fork Toutle River to a maximum depth of nearly 200 m. The lighter-colored rocks in the foreground are pyroclastic-flow deposits.
Photo by Lee Siebert, 1982 (Smithsonian Institution).
St. HelensThe shear headwall of the landslide scarp created by collapse of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, towers 550 m above the crater floor. The white areas on the crater rim are glaciers that were truncated by the collapse. Steam rises at the right from the new crater of St. Helens in this August 1980 view. Mount Hood is visible in the distance to the south across the Columbia River.
Photo by Lee Siebert, 1980 (Smithsonian Institution).
ColimaCollapse of México's Colima volcanic complex during the late Pleistocene produced a major debris avalanche and debris flow that traveled 120 km from Nevado de Colima volcano to the Pacific Ocean. The quarried hummock in the foreground and the two brown hills in the middle distance are formed both of debris transported more than 100 km from Colima volcano (seen in the far distance above the lefthand hummock) and material from valley floors incorporated during transport.
Photo by Lee Siebert, 1997 (Smithsonian Institution).
ColimaTextures associated with volcanic landslides are preserved in this quarry wall more than 100 km from the source of a major avalanche from México's Colima volcano. Large fractured blocks appear at the top of the exposure, and a color mottling is produced by adjacent segments of the volcano or valley floor material incorporated during transport that are fractured, but not thoroughly mixed. A 2-m-high measuring rule provides scale.
Photo by Lee Siebert, 1997 (Smithsonian Institution).
AcatenangoThe hummocky surface in the foreground in front of the twin volcanoes of Fuego and Acatenango in Guatemala is a massive Escuintla debris-avalanche deposit produced by collapse of the volcanic complex sometime during the late-Pleistocene to early Holocene. The avalanche, the largest known in Guatemala, has an estimated volume of about 15 cu km and traveled about 50 km. The avalanche traveled for its last 30 km over flat Pacific coastal plain slopes of less than 1 degree, illustrating the extremely high mobility of volcanic debris avalanches.
Photo by Jim Vallance, 1989 (Michigan Technological University).
FuegoThe hummocky surface in the foreground in front of the twin volcanoes of Fuego and Acatenango in Guatemala is a massive Escuintla debris-avalanche deposit produced by collapse of the volcanic complex sometime during the late-Pleistocene to early Holocene. The avalanche, the largest known in Guatemala, has an estimated volume of about 15 cu km and traveled about 50 km. The avalanche traveled for its last 30 km over flat Pacific coastal plain slopes of less than 1 degree, illustrating the extremely high mobility of volcanic debris avalanches.
Photo by Jim Vallance, 1989 (Michigan Technological University).
FuegoThis roadcut provides a spectacular section through a debris-avalanche deposit hummock of the Fuego-Acatenango complex in Guatemala. The pronounced color mottling is a common texture of debris-avalanche deposits and distinguishes them from deposits produced by other volcanic processes such as mudflows or pyroclastic flows. This texture results from the transport of coherent segments of the volcano over long distances with only partial disaggregation. Individual lava flow segments and pyroclastic units can be traced across small offsetting faults.
Photo by Lee Siebert, 1988 (Smithsonian Institution).
PacayaMacKenney cone, the historically active vent of Pacaya volcano in Guatemala, was constructed within a horseshoe-shaped caldera produced by collapse of the summit of an ancestral volcano about 1100 years ago. The SW caldera rim forms the steep-sided scarp at the right, and the small knob halfway down the left-hand skyline is a remnant of the partially buried opposite rim. The blocky hill in the foreground is a hummock from the debris avalanche produced by the collapse. The avalanche traveled 25 km down to the Pacific coastal plain.
Photo by Lee Siebert, 1988 (Smithsonian Institution).
MombachoLas Isletas, a group of islands NE of Mombacho volcano, were created by a large Holocene debris avalanche from Mombacho that swept into Lake Nicaragua. The avalanche traveled at least 12 km from Mombacho. The hummocky debris from the avalanche created an arcuate peninsula that extends into the lake as well as hundreds of small islands. This morphology is common where debris avalanches enter shallow bodies of water.
Photo by Jaime Incer, 1972.


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That's right, according to Edmunds.com the next-generation S550 Mustang is poised to get a 4 cylinder after all. Love it or hate it, it looks like a leaner, more fuel-conscious Mustang is something we may have to get used to in the very near future.
Industry sources are reporting to Edmunds that both Chevy and Ford are planning 4 cylinder power plants in their 2015 generational redesigns, citing gas-related regulations and a growing concerns over fuel efficiency. If their sources hold up, this will be the first time since 1993 that Ford plans to put a four cylinder in its flagship pony car, a change many blue oval die-hards are not so eager to see. If the rumors combine with the fact that Ford has declared it is planning for a global minded redesign, and takes many of the new S550 Mustang's anticipated changes from its Evos concept, it's a safe bet that some variation of the new EcoBoost motors will find their way under a Mustang hood, like it or not.
Will it be 2014.5 or 2015?
While the original, 1964.5 Mustangs came out earlier than other Ford offerings for 1965, they were still considered a 1965 model year automobile. The distinction was made not only due to this early release, but also to differences in motor offerings and other small details that distinguished them from other, later 1965 Mustangs. However, all 1964.5 and 1965 Mustangs were identified as 1965 in their VINs.
So what does this all have to do with the new release?
If Ford follows the current logic of releasing a new model every 10 years, then expect a 2015 model year debut with the slight possibility of an early order date. I wouldn't bet on an early release date this time around, though. Ford would be smart not to cannibalize 2014 sales prematurely and it should be safe to bank on a normal, 2015 release for the redesigned Mustang.
A 2015 Four Cylinder Mustang? Show me the Evidence
Back in 2011 Bill Ford Jr., when asked by an audience member at Princeton, confirmed a turbo'd future for the Mustang. Combine this with the heated rumors, reporting by Edmunds and statements by Ford's Chief Product Official at the 2012 Detriot Auto Show regarding a 4 cylinder, EcoBoosted Mustang and you get dreams of a new SVO; the one thing that might gain the backing of performance enthusiasts. Upon closer inspection, it's likely Ford puts out a base model 4 cylinder with the turbo 2.0 EcoBoost from the new Focus ST – a motor rated at 48HP less than the current V6 Mustangs. For those still unconvinced of a 4 cylinder option for 2015, read Jalopnik's well documented following of the new Mustang and reporting by two AllFordMustangs members who claim to have actually viewed a new 2015 test mule and the listing of a V8, EcoBoost and, more curiously, an unsupported 4 cylinder option. They also provided some background on which 2015 spy photos might be accurate and whether they saw an IRS in the new Mustang or not.
What does a 4 Cylinder Mean to the Future of the Mustang?
For one, it means a more fuel efficient option and hopefully more bang for your buck for purchasers of the base model Stangs. Many would agree replacing the current V6 with a equally or more powerful 4 cylinder motor – or better yet, joining the V6 as an available option – while gaining a substantial MPG boost is a good thing for the car's future sales. The cause for concern lies in this same mentality being applied to the V8, something that would hit performance enthusiasts and long-time Mustang faithfuls as something similar to a slap across the face. To this, you can rest easy as, unless serious government-related changes or plunging sales numbers come into play, all indications point to the V8 staying an option for the US marketplace. Also keep in mind, all next-generation Mustangs are expected to go on a diet, utilizing lighter parts to trim a least a few hundred pounds off the current models and should be another welcomed change.
What's the verdict: A new 4 cylinder Mustang for 2015: Love it or hate it?


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Jim Cramer believes that breaking up is one of the best ways a company can unlock value.
Because shares typically pop on the announcement, pros often speculate on companies likely to break apart and then buy those stocks before anything is announced.
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Even though the big announcement is in the rear view mirror, He thinks they could all still make you money. Here's why:


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Editor's Summary
A library pioneer of the mid-20th century, Suzanne Briet was a driving force in expanding and modernizing library service and early information science in France. She is most well known for insightful writings on the concepts of bibliography and of documents and documentation. Despite international connections, Briets writings, almost exclusively in French, received little recognition in the United States during her lifetime. One influential commentators review suggested misunderstanding of her key ideas. But historical interest in information science, largely from within ASIS&T, and translation and online distribution of her seminal writings have renewed scholarly interest in Briets work and established a place for her among notable information scientists.
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Bulletin, April/May 2013
The Reception of Suzanne Briet in the United States
by Michael K. Buckland
Editors Note: A shortened version of this article in French appeared as a panel in Fayet-Scribe, S. (2012). Connaissez-vous Suzanne Briet? Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France 57(1), p. 40-44. http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2012-01-0040-007
Suzanne Briet (1894-1989) was one of a small group of women who did much to transform library service in France in the mid-20th century [1] [2]. Her principal professional achievements were to establish reference service at the French National Library and to be director of studies for an early iSchool, the National Institute for Documentation Techniques in Paris. She also contributed substantially through multiple professional organizations before she retired in 1960 and turned to historical and literary studies [3, pp. 1-7, 65-69] [4] [5].
When she died 30 years later, she and her contributions to library and information science had been thoroughly forgotten. Yet now, after another 30 years, she is widely known for her forceful manifesto Quest-ce que la documentation? (What is documentation?), with its argument that bibliography is really about access to evidence and that what constitutes evidence (documents) can take many forms, even an antelope [6] [3].
Briet was known personally to individual Americans active in international organizations (FID, IFLA, UNESCO) or to those she met during her tour of the United States in 1951-52. She wrote extensively in French, but apart from English translations of UNESCO documents, only one, about bibliographies in the Bibliothèque Nationale, appeared in English in the United States [7], although when Briet visited the Library of Congress, a sympathetic review of her manifesto Quest ce que la documentation appeared in the LC Information Bulletin [8].
Documents, for Briet, are things that document (verb!), regardless of their material form. Unfortunately, when the influential Jesse H. Shera summarized Briets ideas he wrote that her theory was materialistic rather than functional [9, p. 194]. This statement and his other dismissive comments indicate he had misunderstood Briets argument. Briets extensive writings on professional education and other topics were presumably known to specialists capable of reading French, but no evidence of any impact by Briet is evident.
Later Briet became known in the United States, primarily through Mary Maack [1] [10] and also Buckland [4], as a leader in the modernization of librarianship in France and as a rare woman pioneer of information science. The editors of a special issue on women pioneers requested an article on her [2].
A new interest in the history and theory of information science developed during the 1990s, mainly through the activities of the Special Interest Group/History and Foundations of Information Science of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Two related articles of mine from the 1990s that included Briets ideas, one more analytical (Information as Thing) [11] and one more historical (What Is a Document?) [12], were widely read by students in schools of library and information science. The idea that an antelope placed in a zoo (and in a taxonomy) could become a document stimulated students imaginations. T-shirts showing Briets antelope even became popular at three universities.
The extreme scarcity of copies of Quest ce que la documentation and the lack of an English translation impeded recognition of Briet. Fortunately, a careful English translation by Ron Day and Laurent Martinet now exists with commentary and bio-bibliographical material [3]. Both the French original and the English translation are now available online. The inclusion, now, of Briets ideas in the writings of Ron Day (for example, [13]) and others suggest that she is now established in the English-language discourse on information science.
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Maack, M. N. (1983). Women librarians in France: The first generation. Journal of Library History, 18, 407-449.
[2] Fayet-Scribe, S. (2009). Women professionals in France during the 1930s. Libraries and the Cultural Record, 44(2) (2009): 201-219.
[3] Briet, S. (2006). What is documentation? Transl. & ed. by R. E. Day & L. Martinet. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. With bio-bibliography material and commentary. See http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~roday/briet.htm
[4] Buckland, M. (1995). The centenary of Madame Documentation: Suzanne Briet, 1894-1989. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46(3), 235-237.
[5] Buckland, M. (N.d.) Suzanne Briet, 1894-1989: "Madame Documentation." [Website] Retrieved February 27, 2013, from http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/briet.html
[6] Briet, S. (1951). Quest ce que la documentation? Paris: EDIT. Also at http://martinetl.free.fr/suzannebriet/questcequeladocumentation
[7] Briet, S. (1950). Bibliography in the basement. Special Libraries, 41, 52-55.
[8] Clapp, V. W. (January 28, 1952). [Review of Quest ce que la documentation?] Library of Congress Information Bulletin, 11(5), 1-3.
[9] Shera, J. H. (October 1952). Special librarianship and documentation. Library Trends, 1(2), 189-199. Retrieved February 27, 2013 from www.ideals.uiuc.edu/bitstream/2142/5464/1/librarytrendsv1i2D_opt.pdf
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Michael Buckland is professor pmeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He can be reached at buckland<at>ischool.berkeley.edu.
Articles in this Issue
The Power of Altmetrics on a CV
Open Access and Altmetrics: Distinct but Complementary
Ask Not What Altmetrics Can Do for You, But What Altmetrics Can Do for Developing Countries
New Opportunities for Repositories in the Age of Altmetrics
The Many Faces of Article-Level Metrics
Five Challenges in Altmetrics: A Toolmakers Perspective
Are Alternative Metrics Still Alternative?
The Reception of Suzanne Briet in the United States
IA: Enabling Action: Digging Deeper into Strategies for Learning
RDAP Review: Collaborative Annotation for Scientific Data Discovery and Reuse


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LIPS: Mac 'Creme d'nude', 'Creme Cup' and 'Costa Chic' lipstick, Dior addict lip polish 004 and Benefit 'Didn't hear it from me' lipgloss.
ESSENTIALS: YSL touche eclat, Nars e/s primer, Clinique high impact mascara, Mac 'Lord it up' eyeliner, Benefit 'eye bright', Urban decay 24/7 liner 'Lucky', Mac 'Oak' lipliner, Rimmel eyebrow pencil 'Hazel', Mac studio finish concealer and Shu Uemera painting liner in black.
I also took along a mish mash of my favourite brushes from different brands, I used my brush roll and tucked it into my makeup bag. Nice 'n' neat!
On the plane I decided to purchase the Bare Minerals 'Get Started' kit, it contains the foundation, mineral veil, warmth, concealer and 3 brushes. It cost me £38! I got the shade 'medium beige' which seems to be fine.
So far I have used the foundation to set my Mac 'face and body' (C3) and I LOVE the finish it gives me, it's extremely prominent in photos (see photo below), I can't believe how smooth my skin looks. The concealer is nice too, and I can't wait to try the other products. I tried bare minerals a few years ago and I thought I had an allergic reaction to the bismuth oxychloride within hours, but this time round it seems to be fine, maybe it was something else I was allergic to in the past, who knows.
The brushes are also great, they don't shed which is something that has been driving me up the wall lately.
On my way out of duty free in Gatwick yesterday, I also picked up the Clinique toner in no 3 along with the dramatically different moisturising gel that has a pump. I have been using the whole line whilst on holiday and have been loving it so decided to stock up. :)


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Hybrids in Art. Theoretical perspectives on art in the age of genetics :The Transgenic art of Eduardo Kac (The University of Bergen, 2011-05-15)This thesis explores the art form of "transgenic art", a term coined by artist Eduardo Kac at the turn of the millennium. Transgenic art is a strand of bio art specifically seeking to cross (often extremely different) ...Master thesis


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Chaz Williams steals, seals opening win for UMass
NEW YORK — The new Barclays Center is smack dab in Chaz Williams's home territory. So clearly, no one had more incentive to do big things Thursday night than the UMass guard, who was reared in Brooklyn's Bushwick section and schooled at nearby Bishop Ford High.
Williams, the smallest man on the court at 5 feet 9 inches, delivered 16 points (on 7-for-19 shooting), 8 assists, 4 rebounds, and 3 steals in 40 tireless minutes of action as sixth-seeded UMass ousted 11th-seeded George Washington, 77-72, in the first round of the Atlantic 10 tournament.
Thanks to Williams and Trey Davis (14 points in 17 minutes off the bench), Terrell Vinson (14 points and four assists), and Raphiael Putney (12 points and five rebounds), UMass (20-10) advanced to a quarterfinal date with third-seeded Temple (23-8) Friday night.
Williams's layup with 1:18 left put UMass up to stay at 73-72. He also drove for the clincher with 32 seconds left, and two free throws by Davis with five seconds left ended it.
"My daughter was here, my grandmother was here, I just wanted to come through for them, as well as my teammates,'' said Williams. ''I had a tough first half, maybe my head wasn't in it. That wasn't close to my best basketball. But things came together for all of us in the second half. They had to. No one wants to go home after the first game.''
To coach Derek Kellogg, his team's play down the stretch — the Minutemen trailed by 5 with 3:53 to go — was "UMass basketball at its finest. We had a lot of energy left and started making our shots.
"We played a very physical and tough George Washington team [which had the decided size advantage] and were able to pull this one out. You never want to lose the first night.''
George Washington forwards Isaiah Armwood (16 points, 13 rebounds) and Kevin Larsen (17 points, seven rebounds) were forces inside, giving the Colonials a 50-32 advantage on the boards.
But UMass's relentless defense hounded the Colonials (13-17) into 26-of-67 shooting, and 0 for 8 from 3-point land.
The Minutemen went 28 of 62 overall, 7 of 20 from beyond the arc.
UMass took a 34-31 lead into the break but was never in control.
This nail-biter featured 19 lead changes and 14 ties. Neither team led by more than 5 points.
UMass overcame serious foul trouble, too — with Cady Lalanne and Vinson eventually fouling out.
Now, it's on to Temple, which edged UMass, 83-82, Feb. 16 in Amherst, Mass. Then again, UMass stunned then-top-seeded Temple, 77-71, in the 2012 A-10 quarterfinals.
Saint Joseph's 58, Xavier 57 — Langston Galloway (14 points) hit two free throws with 1.4 seconds left to lead the Hawks (18-12), who face No. 25 Virginia Commonwealth in Friday's quarterfinals. The Rams had a bye after finishing second in the regular season.
Butler 73, Dayton 67 — Rotnei Clarke scored 21 points as the Bulldogs advanced. Clarke shot 6 of 12 from behind the 3-point arc and added five assists for Butler (25-7). Butler was 10 for 24 on 3-point tries. Josh Benson had 18 points to lead Dayton (17-14). The Bulldogs (25-7, 11-5) will face fourth-seeded La Salle in the quarterfinals.
Charlotte 68, Richmond 63 — Pierria Henry hit eight free throws in the final five seconds of a wild start to the tournament for the 49ers (21-10). The Spiders (18-14), who led, 63-60, with 4.7 seconds to go, were called for three technical fouls as the 49ers took the lead from the foul line with the clock stopped. Charlotte will play Saint Louis in the quarterfinals.


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I'll be taking some time off from the blogging world while we prepare and get adjusted to being a family of four, but I'm sure I'll be back as a member of the community as a fellow Finer Things commenter soon. Until then, Adios, mi amigos!
- Serve strawberry margarita cupcakes served in a colorful margarita glass -- FGS Catering
- Set a fruit cup full of mangoes and other tropical fruit at each place setting -- Martha Stewart
- Learn how to make these beautiful paper flowers and use them to decorate your space -- Poca Cosas blog
- What would a Cinco de Mayo party be without frozen margaritas? -- Cooking Tip of the Day
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- Decorate your table with bright colors and paper flowers -- Southern Living
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Scrape and prep the ceiling, then texture
Hopper gun
Buy a hopper gun like this and connect it to any 2.5-cfm or larger air compressor.
Photo 1: Mask the ceiling
Speed up and simplify your masking job by applying the tape along the ceiling first. Leave the lower edge of the tape loose. Then roll out a length of lightweight poly along the floor, pull one edge up to the ceiling, and stick it to the tape.
Photo 2: Scrape the ceiling
Suit up with goggles, a dust mask and a hat before you start the messy job of scraping texture. Popcorn spray texture comes off easily if it hasn't been painted.
Photo 3: Prime
Paint the ceiling with a fast-drying primer/sealer. Let it dry before applying the spray texture.
Photo 4: Mix the texture
Mix the powdered spray texture and water thoroughly. Lumps will clog the spray tip and could mess up your spray job. Let it rest 15 minutes and remix, adding water if necessary.
Correct texture
Mix slowly, adding water as needed. The mix should be like thick paint.
Photo 5: Practice first
Practice on cardboard or a piece of drywall to get a feel for spraying. Adjust the gun's tip and trigger until you get a consistent spray pattern that's easy to control.
Photo 6: Start at the edges
Start by spraying the perimeter, then fill in the middle. Avoid heavy buildup—you can always add more.
If your spray-textured ceiling is just dingy or stained, you can renew it with a coat each of sealer and paint. But if the texture is falling off or missing in spots, you'll have to reapply texture to fix the problem. For small areas, say less than a foot in diameter, you could try using an aerosol can of repair texture. But the patch is bound to stick out like a sore thumb. For the best results, you're better off respraying the entire ceiling. It's a messy job, but it's not hard to do. In fact, after you spray one room, you'll probably want to keep going. You can spray-texture unsightly plaster or smooth drywall ceilings too. As with most jobs, the key is in the prep work, which is the time-consuming part too. Once the room is masked off, the ceiling prepped and the texture mixed, it'll only take you about 15 minutes to spray the ceiling.
If any of the paper drywall tape is loose or the drywall is soft or damaged, you'll have to repair and sand these areas first. In addition to the putty knives and drywall joint compound for the repairs, you'll need a wide putty or taping knife for scraping, a roll of 1-1/2-in. or wider masking tape, enough painter's plastic to cover the walls, a gallon or two of primer/sealer, a bag of spray texture (enough to cover 300 to 400 sq. ft.), and a compressor and hopper gun. You can buy coarse, medium or fine texture. If you're matching existing ceilings, take a sample of the material with you when you buy the texture and ask for help matching it. Medium is usually the best choice and will match most ceilings. You can rent a compressor and hopper gun for a half day or buy a hopper gun and connect it to any average-size or larger compressor. If you use a small compressor, you may occasionally have to stop spraying to let the pressure build up. Minimize rental costs by getting all the prep work done before you pick up the compressor and hopper gun.
Start by removing everything you can from the room. If you must leave large furniture in the room, stack it in the center and cover it with plastic. Cover the floor with sheets or a canvas drop cloth. Then cover the walls with thin (1-mil or less) poly sheeting (Photo 1). Painter's plastic is very thin and works great. Leave an opening with overlapping poly at the doorway so you can get in and out. Turn off the power to the lights and remove any ceiling fixtures. Don't forget to cap the bare wires with wire connectors. Stuff newspaper into the electrical box to keep out the spray texture.
The next step is to scrape off the old texture (Photo 2), but not before you've had it tested for asbestos. If it hasn't been painted, it'll usually come off easily. So try just scraping it first. If that doesn't work (you'll know right away), try wetting the texture with a pump-up garden sprayer. That might make it easier to scrape, but it'll leave a sticky mess on the floor. If you use this method, cover your drop cloths with 4-mil plastic so you can wad it up and dispose of the wet texture and not track it all over the house. Texture that's been painted over can be a lot harder to remove. Just do the best you can. Try to knock off the high spots and flatten it as much as possible. The ceiling doesn't have to be smooth, but it's easier to get a nice-looking job if most of the old texture has been removed.
When you're done scraping, paint the ceiling with stain-sealing primer (Photo 3). BIN and KILZ are two popular brands. Use an aerosol can of solvent-based sealer such as BIN white shellac to spot-prime severe stains. Then paint the entire ceiling with a water-based primer/sealer.
The key to a successful spray-texture job is mixing the texture to the right consistency. Don't mix it too thick. Use the amount of water recommended on the bag as a starting point. Then adjust the thickness by adding more water or powder. Mix slowly using a mixing paddle mounted in a 1/2-in. drill (Photo 4). Mix thoroughly, adding water until the material reaches the consistency of runny yogurt—or thick paint—with tiny lumps in it. Let the texture sit for 15 minutes, then remix, adding more water if necessary.
There are a few different versions of hopper guns, but they all have a mechanism at the nose that controls the diameter of the pattern, and a trigger control that helps govern the volume of spray. Start by setting both controls to the middle position. Then load the hopper about half full with texture material and practice on a piece of cardboard or drywall scrap (Photo 5). Adjust the spray pattern and trigger until you can get a nice, even pattern without runs or excess buildup. When you're comfortable with the spraying technique, start on the ceiling.
Start by spraying the perimeter (Photo 6). Hold the gun about 18 to 24 in. from the ceiling and aim so that about two-thirds of the spray hits the ceiling and the rest hits the wall. Move quickly around the room, paying special attention to the inside corners where walls meet. Remember, you can make another pass if it's too light. The goal is to cover the ceiling with an even layer of texture. Don't worry if it looks too smooth. The texture will become more pronounced as it dries. Be careful to avoid puddles. If you mess up and get a puddle or just a thick buildup, stop and scrape off all the texture with a wide putty knife. Then try again. Move the gun back and forth while backing up across the room. After you've covered the ceiling, turn 90 degrees and apply another light coat at a right angle to the first. Concentrate on filling in light spots to create an even texture.
When you're satisfied with the consistency of the texture, you can clean up the gun, hopper and hose with water and pull down the poly. If your masking job was a little off and there's texture on the wall or flooring, wait for it to dry. Then carefully scrape it off and remove the white residue with a wet sponge.
If you have ceiling texture applied before 1980, it may contain asbestos. Before you remove any ceiling texture, contact your state's department of environmental protection, department of health or a regional asbestos coordinator for information on asbestos testing and removal. For a list of contacts, go to www.epa.gov/asbestos/pubs/ regioncontact2.html#reg5 For general information on asbestos, go to epa.gov/aspestos.
Required Tools for this Project
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
- Air compressor
- Air hose
- Bucket
- Corded drill
- Dust mask
- Paint roller
- Paint scraper
- Paint tray
- Paintbrush
- Painters tape
- Putty knife
- Roller sleeve
- Safety glasses
- Shop vacuum
- Stepladder
- Taping knife
- Utility knife
Required Materials for this Project
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.
- 4 mil poly
- Cardboard
- Painter's plastic
- Primer
- Spray texture
- Stain-blocking sealer


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When asked to sum up the final season for her "One Tree Hill" character in one word last fall at a farewell event in Wilmington, Daphne Zuniga smiled and simply said, "Sex."
The actress, who plays Victoria, the icy mother of fashion designer Brooke Davis (Sophia Bush) on the locally filmed show, didn't elaborate at the time. But I couldn't help but wonder if the recent arrival of Victoria's ex-husband, played by Richard Burgi ("Desperate Housewives"), might be the reason for Zuniga's word choice. Is it safe to assume that Brooke's mom and dad will be hopping into the sack?
"You can if you like," a coy Zuniga told me recently at a charity event in Los Angeles. "I'd go that way if I were you, but I'm not going to be a spoiler."
If the two do get together, they need to work fast. There are only three episodes left in the show's ninth and final season. And Victoria won't appear again until the March 28 episode.
Zuniga joined back in season five, expecting to stick around for only a few weeks on a show that was nearing its endpoint. Turns out, it was only the middle of the show's journey, and Zuniga spent five years visiting Wilmington off and on to play the deliciously wicked Victoria.
Speaking a few months after the show wrapped for good last November, Zuniga already was missing some of her favorite spots in Southeastern North Carolina.
"I miss Mayfaire and downtown and Lovey's," she said. "I miss the beach and Tower 7 and, I miss everything – the gym! I don't miss gyms, but I miss those, too. You know, L.A.'s such a big city – and I loved working (in Wilmington) so much because it got me to unravel a little bit and let go, be a little stress free."
Of course, she'll also miss the CW show's young, crazy-loyal fans. "'One Tree Hill' fans – they're in it with their HEART!" Zuniga said. "And they're at that age where it means so much to them."
Zuniga spoke to me at a fund-raiser for Team True Beauty, an organization that promotes positive body image and self esteem – issues that resonate with the "One Tree Hill" core audience. In fact, Zuniga's "One Tree Hill" co-star Shantel VanSanten is one of the group's strongest supporters, and several other actors with ties to the show attended the event in January to support the cause.
"We're all barraged with such unhealthy and negative imprints in the media," Zuniga said, "and so (it's great) to have an actual support group where there's a place where they can go online."
"I think girls and women (are) so self-critical we tend to feel alone," she continued. "We're just so hard on ourselves because of the media, this culture. "
Zuniga, who has been acting since the early '80s with roles in "Spaceballs," "The Sure Thing," "Melrose Place" and "American Dreams," said she's learned to not be obsessed with body image.
"If a girl doesn't know what she wants to do when she grows up, she focuses on her body," Zuniga said. "But if she has something she loves to do, that day is past and she hasn't even thought about her body. That's what I want to encourage people to do. To do what they love to do."
Read more about One Tree Hill's final season in Wilmington here.
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A commercial landlord in Cohasset has been ordered by a superior court judge to stay away from his tenant, an Arab store owner, and his family and employees, due to alleged bias-motivated verbal harassment and threats.
COHASSET – A commercial landlord in Cohasset has been ordered by a superior court judge to stay away from his tenant, an Arab store owner and his family and employees, due to alleged bias-motivated verbal harassment and threats.
A Norfolk Superior Court judge on Friday ordered a preliminary injunction against Roger Q. Hill, prohibiting him from entering the business without notice in non-emergencies and approaching within 20 feet of the tenant, his family or employees for reasons unrelated to his role as a landlord. The injunction also prohibits any other civil rights violations.
The injunction came after the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley on March 10 filed a complaint against Hill alleging a pattern of threatening, intimidating and coercive behavior toward his tenant.
"We allege this man engaged in a pattern of bias-motivated harassment and unfair business practices that interfered with the victim's rights and ability to run his family-owned business," Coakley said in a statement. "No one should fear for his or her own safety because of who they are or how they are perceived."
The complaint says that Hill began harassing his tenant in 2008, shortly after the family opened a pizza restaurant on Hill's commercial property in Cohasset, and that it escalated dramatically during the past year.
The alleged harassment includes repeated interruptions of business activities without permission, unfounded complaints to the police and the repeated use of racial slurs towards the tenant, his family and employees. Hill also allegedly threatened the tenant's life, and compared one of his employees to the terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade Center.
The complaint seeks civil penalties and monetary damages for the violations, along with a court order for Hill to stop the harassment on a permanent basis.
The attorney general's office pursued the complaint following a referral from the Cohasset Police Department, which filed a criminal complaint against Hill in August.