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Opera Kadabra
Magician and baritone Patrick Bell performs a one-of-a-kind show at Newport Beach public libraries. The free show is at 11 a.m. Thursday at Balboa Branch Library, 100 E. Balboa Blvd., Balboa Island. For more information, visit http://www.newportkids.org or call (949) 717-3830.
Mayan Calendar Lecture
Martin Diedrich, of Diedrich Coffee repute and a Mayan archaeologist, will give a talk about the end of the Mayan Calendar in 2012 at the Environmental Nature Center, 1601 E. 16th St., Newport Beach. The event is from 7:30 to 9 p.m. For more information, call (949) 933-9164 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Anniversary at Skosh Monahan's
Skosh Monahan's, 2000 Newport Blvd., Costa Mesa, will mark its 12th anniversary with half-priced pitchers and $12 top sirloin dinners. The band Natural Heights will also perform at 9 p.m. For more information, call (949) 548-0099.
Free Corkage Thursdays
The Golden Truffle Restaurant, 1767 Newport Blvd., Costa Mesa, waives its corkage free for outside bottles of wine every Thursday night. Dinner is served from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays. For more information, call (949) 645-9970.
Industry Night Social
The Crow Bar and Kitchen, 2325 Pacific Coast Hwy., Corona del Mar, hosts Industry Night Social from 10 p.m. until closing Thursdays. Specials during the night include $5 burgers, $8 flatbreads, $4.50 select draft beers and $5 on select wines by the glass. For more information, visit http://www.thecrowbarcdm.com.
Cosmic Gate
Cosmic Gate performs with Emma Hewitt at Sutra, 1870 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa. The 21-and-older show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $25. For more information, visit http://www.sutraoc.com.
'The Taming of the Shrew'
The American Coast Theater Co. presents its production of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," at Vanguard University's Lyceum Theater, 55 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa. Performances will be given at 2 and 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets cost $15 to $20. To buy tickets, call (714) 619-6424 or visit http://www.AmericanCoastTheater.org.
'Jack Goldstein X 10,000'
The Orange County Museum of Art presents its "Jack Goldstein X 10,000" show. OCMA, at 850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. The museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. For more information, visit http://www.ocma.net.
Shabbat Service
Temple Bat Yahm, 1011 Camelback St., Newport Beach, holds its Friday night Shabbat Service at 6 p.m. The service will be led by Rabbi Mark S. Miller, Rabbi Gersh Zylberman and Cantor Jonathan Grant and will be followed by an Oneg Shabbat. Guests are welcome. For more information, call (949) 644-1999 or visit http://www.tby.org.
Great Park Exercise
The Great Park in Irvine hosts weekly exercise classes on the North Lawn. Admission and parking are free. The complete workout schedule includes health walking at 8 a.m., yoga at 9 a.m., Pilates at 10 a.m. and boot camp at 11 a.m. For more information, go to http://www.ocgp.org or call (866) 829-3829.
'Kung Fu Panda 2'
The Orange County Great Park will screen "Kung Fu Panda 2," rated PG, as the finale in its Movie on the Lawn series. Admission and parking are free. The movie will begin after sunset, weather permitting. For more information, visit http://www.ocgp.org.
Jonathan Richman
Singer/songwriter Jonathan Richman headlines the Detroit Bar, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa. The 21-and-older show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $10. For more information, visit http://www.detroitbar.com.
DJ Eddie Boy
DJ Eddie Boy performs at Ten Nightclub, 4647 MacArthur Blvd., Newport Beach. The 21-and-older show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $20. For more information, visit http://www.tenoc.com.
Small Business Legal
The nonprofit group SCORE will sponsor a legal workshops for small businesses. The workshop costs $30 if you pre-register, and is from 9 a.m. to noon at National University, 3390 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa. For more information, call (714) 550-7369 or visit http://www.SCORE114.org.


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I am happiest when dancing and drinking and eating fried food.
It has been a totally insane year, probably one of the most intense years I've had in the last couple years. But I survived. We all did. Kudos to us.
Work-wise it was kind of amazing. I assisted on lots of awesome jobs, from Elle to Self Service that took me out of the city and into Miami and Los Angeles and even "the shore" (although it wasn't really the Jersey shore, just like, a beach in New York). I did my own shoots for Oyster and Soma and Vogue.it (which was SO insane!) and worked with designers that I LOVE like Ann Yee and Sobotka. And of course I've been writing for Rookie which has been 10 kinds of awesome. I hope to keep that same hustle alive in the next year. It's not easy, but it's the way it's gotta be done.
But it WAS a crazy year, and though this blog has been running for 5 years, this is the year where I kinda really dropped the ball. I dunno, sometimes it just happens, I guess. My interest in dissecting every minutiae of the collections has kind of dwindled. My interest in the usual characters has grown stale. A reflection on the state of everything perhaps, everyone loves the same thing, criticism (if it exists at all) is buried in the pages of only some websites and rarely seems to be recognized. There are yearly compilations that come out about the best music writing, the best fiction writing, etc, could you even imagine a fashion compilation? You can't. And that's a bummer if you really think about it. As much as some of us want to believe that fashion is an art and yadda yadda yadda it won't ever be anything more than marketing unless there are real conversations about it, unless real opinions are allowed to exist, until we can embrace something other than advertising dollars as a guiding light. Some writers may have slammed a rapper's debut collection but still all editors were there, basked in the publicity and the clothes are showing up in editorials just the same. Once upon a time Vogue did a "best and worst" roundup of the year and they grilled the very same things that they lauded a couple months before. It was amazing. Can you even imagine any magazine doing anything like that anymore, saying hey, remember how we've been trying to make Charlotte Free happen? Yeah, we were wrong and we're sorry about that. The dream is dead. It's time to build a new one. 2012 is all about a change in consciousness, right? So let's start that change right now (with the man in the mirror, OH YEA!)
So things around here will change a bit. Maybe I'll write about fashion and maybe I'll write about books and maybe I'll write about music and maybe I'll write about the fleeting illusion of adulthood as seen through the eyes of a wolf. Probably not that last one. But I'll still write and hopefully you'll all still read.
Happy 2012!
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Massachusetts' art and craft galleries are as eclectic as the art itself. Boston's SOWA district (South of Washington Street) is packed with galleries, artist studios, restaurants, and cafes. Catch the buzz at SOWA's First Fridays when dozens of galleries swing open their doors. The Massachusetts College of Art & Design is the nation's first independent public art school. MassArt's seven gallery spaces showcase work by internationally acclaimed artists and designers as well as emerging artists. The galleries also routinely feature work by MassArt students, faculty, staff, and alumni. MCLA Gallery 51, run by the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, presents work from a wide range of emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Just down the street, of course, is the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Located on the campus of Phillips Academy, the Addison Gallery of American Art presents approximately twelve shows a year, both from its extensive collection of American art, and major traveling exhibitions.
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San Francisco Giants Pitcher Voluntarily Gives Back $500K of His Salary
After years of steroids allegations, it's nice to hear about a baseball player who doesn't cheat.
San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt returned $500,000 that was accidentally added to his contract when he signed an extension in 2010.
Affeldt was slated to rake in $4 million in 2010 when his new deal called for a two-year extension worth $10 million. However, whoever wrote the contract accidentally punched in $4.5 million. Both Affeldt and the Giants signed the contract without anyone realizing he was getting an extra half million dollars.
Eventually, the left-hander realized the snafu and even though he could legally take the money, he balked and told Giants assistant GM Bobby Evans he had to restructure the deal:
"I talked to Bobby the next day and said, 'I can't take that money. I won't sleep well at night knowing I took that money because every time I open my paycheck I'll know it's not right.'"
Affeldt didn't have to worry about losing any sleep. The contract was re-written for the proper amount.
Karma seems to have rewarded Affeldt. The Giants won the World Series in 2010 (and again last year). And his honesty literally seems to have paid off -- he signed a three-year contract for $18 million this past off-season.


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Global Real Estate Summit Coming to Hawaii
The Asian Real Estate Association of America Global Summit will be taking place April 21-23 at the Royal Hawaiian and Sheraton Waikiki. AREAA for short, the conference is geared towards brokers, real estate agents, investors, and really anyone who is interested in the global real estate market and wants to expand their education.
"We simply haven't had this type of innovative education offered here in Hawaii before, and we are so lucky to be hosting this conference here in Hawaii. The caliber of this summit is unsurpassed, with leaders such as Sherry Chris of Better Homes and Gardens and Bradley Inman of Vook. It is an incredible educational opportunity to learn about global markets and new trends to make your business better," said Kelly Mitchell of Agent Caffeine, one of the speakers at the conference.
The last AREAA conference was in New York City, and conference planners chose Hawaii for this conference as a centralized location for their global market.
What is unique about the AREAA conference is that while AREAA itself is celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Hawaii chapter is brand new. (Last month new, to be exact.) The new chapter has teamed up with the local organizations Hawaii Association of Realtors (HAR) and the Hawaii International Real Estate Council (HIREC) for this 2nd Global Summit. Speakers include Governor Neil Abercrombie and Roy Yamaguchi of Roy's Restaurants, as well as plenty of other big names. There will be multiple networking opportunities, with some aimed specifically at young professionals.
Tomorrow is the last day to register at the early bird rate of $399. You can purchase tickets at this price by visiting www.summit.areaa.org and entering "HAR399" in the registration code area. After Friday, the cost goes up to $649 for the conference or a one-day pass can be purchased for $149 on-site.
For more info on the program, visit summit.areaa.org/programs.
About AREAA: The Asian Real Estate Association of America was founded in 2003, and is a nonprofit professional trade organization dedicated to promoting sustainable homeownership opportunities in Asian American communities by creating a national voice for housing and real estate professionals who serve this dynamic market.


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Marty Biegel, who took over as Fairfax High School's head basketball coach in 1969 at a time of racial tension in Los Angeles and united players and students both in the classroom and on the court, died Tuesday. He was 90.
Biegel, who taught history in Los Angeles schools for more than 30 years, died at an assisted-living facility in Los Angeles. His death was confirmed by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
When the pint-size Biegel became the varsity basketball coach, Fairfax High was a mostly white, Jewish school near Hollywood that was strong in academics, not sports.
But his program benefited from a redrawing of boundaries in 1968 that allowed African American students living south of Pico Boulevard to attend the school at Melrose and Fairfax avenues.
Within four years, the number of African American students grew from 35 to 1,000. In the gym, the Orthodox Jewish coach would gaze heavenward as he celebrated his new African American athletes, players who could go to the basket with either hand and leap high above the rim.
"We're winners! We can take anybody!" he would crow, according to a 2008 Times article.
His Fairfax Lions won four straight East Valley championships, a school record. Fairfax was one of the few city schools to achieve racial balance on its own without a court order, and the team's on-court triumphs became a unifying symbol of change.
After the colorful Biegel berated a referee, he was replaced as the coach in 1975. He returned to coaching at Fairfax in 1979 for two more seasons and won another league championship.
Although his teams never won a city championship, he established a winning tradition.
"Give him credit," former UCLA coach John Wooden told The Times in 2008. "He knew you don't win games just with talent. You have to bring people together."
The youngest of four children, he was born Morris Julius Biegel on Feb. 11, 1922, in New York City. He attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship but left to join the Marine Corps during World War II.
"Marty always wanted to be different," his sister, Ruth Herman, told The Times four years ago. "So he took his own course in life. He rooted for the Chicago Cubs while he lived in New York City. Who does that?"
Biegel graduated from Hunter College in New York City in 1951 and, after marrying his high school sweetheart, moved to California and began teaching in 1955.
At Fairfax, he was a popular history teacher. "The work was demanding, and you didn't want to let him down," Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, a former student, said in 2008.
Biegel also coached basketball at the Westside Community Jewish Center and worked his way up from refereeing high school and college basketball games to the NBA.
He left teaching behind in 1983 and held a variety of part-time basketball coaching positions, including at Malibu High School and at Los Angeles' Shalhevet High. He also coached baseball at North Hollywood High before retiring in 1997.
Steve Miller, who succeeded Biegel as the coach at Fairfax in 1976, recalled meeting him. "He squeezed my cheek and said, 'Bubala,' like he knew me for 100 years," Miller said Wednesday. "He was a great man."
In 1990, Biegel was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
The front-page feature in The Times about his Fairfax years ran in 2008 beneath the headline, "On Court and Off, He Made Them Winners." At a reunion lunch at Canter's Deli with former players, the once-fiery basketball coach told them: "You gave me the very best years of my life."
His wife, Helen, died in 1985. Survivors include a son, Stuart; and a daughter, Elena Bazes.


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Shareholder Resolutions & Corporate Engagement
The Nathan Cummings Foundation works both independently and with other investors to file shareholder resolutions on issues with implications for both long term shareholder value and the Foundation's focus areas. Over the last twelve years, NCF has filed more than 180 shareholder resolutions on issues ranging from climate change to executive compensation.
A substantial number of the Foundation's resolutions have been withdrawn following successful negotiations with companies. Others have proceeded to a vote year after year with little to no interaction with the receiving company. Votes on NCF's shareholder resolutions range from a low of 2 percent at a company with dual classes of stock, to a high of 98.9 percent for a 2013 resolution requesting that BorgWarner Inc. declassify its board of directors.
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An American Classic: Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse and Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky
An American Classic: Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse and Custom House is a 16-minute film that highlights the history and architectural legacy of the Depression-era, Classical Revival style federal building. The building and city's fascinating pasts are woven together through archival and contemporary images along with stirring narrative including interviews with GSA associates, prominent tenants, and local historians.
The 1932 Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse and Custom House in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the more than 200 legacy properties under GSA's stewardship. The film is part of GSA's efforts to support the Executive Order 13287, "Preserve America", which encourages Americans to explore and enjoy our nation's heritage. It was produced for the Center for Historic Buildings, Office of the Chief Architect by the Video and Broadcasting Team, Office of Citizen Services and Communications. DVD copies are available by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Miss Annabelle – How to Make a Fun and Successful Dating Profile
There are plenty of fish in the sea - 7 billion of them, in fact! Why then does it seem like we are all too busy swimming upstream to find love?
Whatever the reason, it's a little tough for the average fish to swim out and find their soul mate, which can lead to a lot of missed opportunities!
Enter online dating. Websites like Match.com and EHarmony are two of the most successful online dating websites out there, but there are thousands of websites available to sign up for, and over 41 million people have!
Online dating allows for a more refined, instant search on your own personal terms with a much wider pool to pull from, which is great. Except, those same reasons also make it much easier to get lost in a sea of CoolJane1986's and rows of faces.
So how do you put your best foot forward, and just a little bit ahead of all those other feet?
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First and foremost, you will need a nice (and recent) picture!
Nobody wants to wander your profile aimlessly, liking what they see except for your only photo, which is a picture of you at prom in the middle of your grunge phase. To get a click of interest every time you will want your photo to be well-lit, with little distraction, clear angles, and include a little bit of your body as well. Professional and glamour shots look great, but a lot of users blow these off as spam. Unpopular photo styles include bathroom 'selfies', making a 'duck' face, or partial/complete face obstruction. If you like these styles of pictures, more power to you! Save them for Facebook and Instagram. A clear, recent smiling photograph of you says you know how to handle whatever gets thrown at you, and will encourage people to message.
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Why, besides your gorgeous face and kicking body, should people notice you? People don't fall in love with your Bachelor's degree and manicure alone. Talk about things that make you who you are. Things such as volunteer work, quirky hobbies, sports and more. If you have children or other family that you care for, mention them. If you have pets, great! People enjoy passion, and if you seem passionate and vibrant, they will be sure to gravitate to you quickly!
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Even though you are definitely entitled to the love of your life that treats you well, you may not meet them if you say so immediately. Even Prince (or Princess) Charming would be off put by a laundry list of requirements for coupled bliss. Be humble, and funny. This makes you more likeable, and the language translates better in text where emotional and verbal cues are harder to read. Avoid sarcasm for the same reasons.
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You want your profile to read smoothly, so it can give people a clear idea of who you are. It can be hard to try and structure the building blocks of your life up to display to the world, but putting in the extra effort can be worth it. For example, you want to make topic transitions that make sense. If you are talking about your full time hair-dressing work in one sentence, then your love of gerbil dirt bike races the next it can give any potential suitor whiplash. It is also good to try and think of it as a pyramid. What topics are the biggest parts of my life (The bottom of the pyramid) and what are the smallest (the top of the pyramid)? Talk about it accordingly. Small, top parts might be things like your name, age, and general info. Middle parts might be things like pets, work, and/or hobbies. The big part might be accomplishments, milestones, travel, whatever you feel is relevant. Structuring your information makes it (and you) more memorable, and might earn you a date as a result!
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I know it's very tempting to say you have a Master's in psychic karate and you wrestled 6 bears nude when you were 19, but if you want a real connection you've got to give them real info. The biggest things people lie about in the online dating world are Age and Weight. However, if you lie about these things initially, you will have to keep lying or your potential mate might get upset that you lied in the first place. It can get very messy. Besides, you want somebody that loves you for you, all of you! So don't lie, and don't settle. If you feel like your identity isn't being respected, validated or appreciated, kick em' to the curb.


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The following activities will help students discover the history of a cemetery in their community and how it compares to Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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Students may conduct additional research for substantiating evidence at your local town hall, library, or historical society. They might share their findings by writing an essay or article that compares the founding of your local cemetery with the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery or making an exhibit comparing and contrasting the local cemetery with Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Annual Texas Plant Protection Conference in College Station in which a number of excellent presentations were made regarding emerging agricultural technologies that will help make farmers and ranchers even better at what they do, producing the safest, and cheapest food supply in the world. I will highlight only a few of the sessions that I attended that will have local implications in this column.
Herbicide resistant sorghum will present new opportunities to manage weeds in the future. Thanks to a project started back in 2003 at Kansas State and Purdue University, we are getting very close to having commercial grain sorghum that has tolerance to ALS - and ACC inhibiting herbicides.
This technology will allow for more effective postemergence grass control for sorghum producers and improve crop rotation and replant options. Tests conducted throughout the state have proven the value of this new system on a number of weed species. Moreover, this system could also be an effective weed resistance management tool when sorghum is part of a rotation where glyphosate resistance weeds are a problem. Most all sorghum seed companies have licensed this technology, and introduction into the marketplace will have a far-reaching implications.
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Herbicide resistant weeds were a major topic of discussion, as Stanley Culpepper, Extension agronomist from Tifton, Ga., shared major problems with weed resistance to herbicides like glyphosate in Georgia. Texas has not been immune to weed resistance issues either. Resistance to the sulfonylurea and triazine herbicides has been documented in croplands and utility rights of way. These issues have for the most part been managed by using alternative site-of-action herbicides and cultural practices. However, none of these issues equals the potential threat of glyphosate resistant weed species, now appearing on Texas crop lands. Common waterhemp has been the main focus of this problem, as resistance has been documented in one southeast Texas county and is highly suspected in four others, all cotton producing areas. Immediate resistance management must be employed by planting alternative herbicide resistant crops and the application of soil active herbicides prior to or at planting.
DuPont Crop Protection has a new herbicide, Aminocyclopyrachlor, that offers control of broadleaf weeds and brush in pasture and rangeland. This product has been tested since 2005 and has been shown to control annual and perennial weeds, including western ragweed, woolly croton, annual broomweed, and broom snakeweed, as well as numerous brush species, including honey mesquite and huisache. Control of these species has been achieved with both broadcast and individual plant treatments.
King Ranch (KR) bluestem, a grass that now dominates many roadsides and is becoming a problem in improved pastures and rangeland has up to this point has not had a selective herbicide available to help manage this very invasive plant. Dr. Larry Redmon, Extension forage specialist, established a trial in central Texas examining the efficacy of Pastora herbicide on KR bluestem. So far, it appears that a single application in the summer is ineffective in suppression of KR bluestem; however, when a follow-up application was made six weeks later, suppression had been noted. Additional evaluation of these treatments is needed before recommendations can be made.
More information about many of these new technologies will be shared at a local Crop Symposium on Jan. 21 at the AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Corpus Christi.


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William Henry Edwards, a native of the Kanawha County community of Coalburg, was a renowned entomologist, naturalist and explorer who led an important expedition into the Amazon in 1846. He was the author of Butterflies of North America and A Voyage Up the River Amazon. In April 1861, Edwards was in Richmond attending the Richmond Convention, which resulted in Virginia's secession from the Union. His recollections provide insight into this tumultuous event.
I went from New York to Richmond on Monday, April 8th, 1861, at the request of the Hon. Allen T. Caperton, who was there as a member of the Legislature. Soon after assembling, on January 14th, a convention of the people had been called, which accordingly met in February (13th), and was then in session. The Legislature had early passed resolutions adverse to the secession of Virginia to the Confederacy, and no doubt this represented the feeling of the State at that time. ____________ and Isaac N. Smith represented the county of Kanawha. I think there was a third member, but, if so, I forgot his name. In the convention, the Hon. George W. Summers and Dr. Spicer Patrick were members from Kanawha. It was a gathering of the ablest men of the State. Ex-President Tyler was one of them, and so was ex-Governor Wise. From one of the lower counties came Jeremiah Morton, whom I had known as a stockholder in one of the cannel coal-oil companies of Paint Creek, in Kanawha county, and also as one of the recently organized White Sulphur Springs Company.
When I left New York public opinion throughout the North was unsettled. The people were astonished at the violent action of the most Southern States, and could not guess whither the currents were carrying the country. Many of the papers were outspoken against any attempt at coercion by the government, none of them more so than the influential New York Tribune, edited by Horace Greeley. He had gone so far as to utter the memorable words: "Erring sisters, go in peace." How many of the tens of thousands who read and swore by that paper thought as Greeley thought there was as yet no means of knowing. The Herald, owned and run by the Scotchman, James Gordon Bennett, was clamoring for the right of a State to secede. Fernando Wood, the Mayor, openly advocated the secession of New York city, and would have it join the Confederacy. It was supposed that the Democratic party, as a whole, would refuse to follow President Lincoln if he should attempt coercion. The Governor, Horatio Seymour, at a mass meeting held in the city on January 31st, had vigorously opposed coercion of any sort, and he was influential with the Democracy. Therefore the North held itself in suspense, and most of the friends of the Union had faith that the black clouds would blow away.
On the day I left there was no symptom of present disturbance, at any rate. So when I reached Washington, I saw nothing to indicate a coming storm. Passing through Alexandria, I noticed a pole from which flew a new style of flag, and someone remarked that this was the emblem of the Confederacy, but there was no talk about it. People were keeping their opinions to themselves. That was all to Richmond. I put up at Ballard's Exchange Hotel, where I found Mr. Caperton and several friends from the Western counties. Judge Summers was one of these. He, in connection with John Tyler, William C. Rives and others, had represented Virginia in a peace deputation that met in Washington late in February or early in March, but which had been unable to obtain assurances or promises from the incoming administration. The Judge was a Union man then and always, and he expressed to me his disquiet at the situation. Indeed he was very much dispirited. He spoke of desperate efforts that were being made to take Virginia over to the Confederacy, and what the result would be he could not conjecture. Dr. Patrick felt in the same way, as did others whom I knew. All agreed that the sooner this convention separated the better for Virginia. I was surprised at this feeling, as from what I had heard at home I had not believed that Virginia could be made the cat's paw of the cotton States.
On successive days I attended the meetings of the convention, and listened to no end of speeches, some few sensible, deprecating excitement and hasty action, but the most were fiery and breathed of war and blood. The Union men had already had their say, and had no wish now to protract the session, and the talking was mostly left to the other side. The extremists, on the other hand, were desirous of nothing so much as delay. If they could prolong the session a few weeks only, something might turn up to "fire the Southern heart," and force the State out. John Tyler was ardent for secession, and talked interminably. So did Wise and Morton, and all three made long speeches on nothing. It seemed to me that these men were acting on a preconcerted plan.
All this time Beauregard was planting his batteries against Sumter, and the signal to open fire was daily looked for. Frequent bulletins were posted about the hotels showing progress. This kept the excitement at fever-heat. But, while I saw evidence of satisfaction with the assault on the fort, I heard citizens at the bulletin boards curse the folly of the Carolinians. The papers from the South, and some not so far from Richmond, added fuel, with their bloodcurdling predictions of what was going to happen when the Louisiana Tigers and similar ferocious organizations let themselves loose on the cowardly scum of the North. A New Orleans paper just then was bragging that one buck from the South would chaw up three Yankees any day.
One morning Mr. Gooch, a member of one of the lower counties, who was as fond of the sound of his own voice as was Wise himself, announced that he had just read that 5,000 Tigers had set out for Washington, and shouted that he wished them god-speed and vowed he would join them when they reached Richmond. After this speaker subsided a member arose and spoke feelingly of his love for the Union and his reverance for the old flag, lamenting the indignities to which both were now subjected.
I was greatly impressed by the loyalty of his language, and by the feeling manifested, and on asking who the speaker was was told that it was Lieutenant or Captain Early, of Franklin county, a graduate of West Point, who had served with credit in Florida and Mexico. This tender-hearted Union man, who wept as he apostrophised the flag, was the same General Jubal Early, of Bull Run, Gettysburg, and the Shenandoah Valley, one of the bitterest enemies the Union had during the war, and who died unreconciled.
One of the most outspoken of the Union men was John S. Carlile, from Harrison county. I had made his acquaintance some years previous in the Western part of the State - a bright, able man. He fought Wise and Morton strenuously. Being a Democrat, he was very obnoxious to the secessionists.
Fort Sumter capitulated April 13th, to the delight of the majority of that convention. All the week Richmond had been filling up with long-haired, wild-eyed strangers, many of them said to be Knights of the Golden Circle, brought in for the purpose of influencing the convention and public opinion.
On Sunday I took a walk to the suburbs with Mr. Caperton, and he expressed himself as being greatly disturbed at the situation. He said that messengers were coming in from his county and from Greenbrier and the adjoining counties, and the country was reported as wild for secession. He did not believe that the contagion could be resisted. He thought that if Virginia cast her lot with the Southern States, it would make for peace. The government would not dare to attack the Confederacy, with the addition of Virginia, and in time, through the good officers of his State, the two sections. would be brought together again. I suggested that he use his great influence in his district, and that Mr. Price should do the same, and resist this ruinous action of the convention before the people, as Judge Summers and Colonel Ben. Smith and Lewis Ruffner would do in Kanawha; and I assured him that it was a great mistake to assume that the North would not fight for the Union.
A committee, or rather an embassy, had recently been sent to Washington to urge non-action. One of its members was the Honorable Ballard Preston, a particular friends of Mr. Caperton, and who had great influence with him. They returned while I was in the city, having failed to get the least concession. The depression of the Union men was deep and apparent. It seemed to them that every effort for peace was pre-destined to be a failure. They had hoped much from this embassy. Things were going to suit the other side, however. The ambassadors were to report to the public on Monday afternoon, at one of the churches, and I went thither, but was turned back at the door, as a stranger.
That day, 15th April, President Lincoln issued the call for 75,000 troops, of which Virginia was expected to furnish her quota. This added fresh fuel to the sufficiently hot fire. I went with a gentleman that evening to the Powhatan House, the headquarters of the extremists, to see what was going on. We found Mr. Morton enthroned in the lobby, haranguing, and evidently feeling extra good. Presently he addressed me personally: "Sir, if all my coal in Kanawha were diamonds, and the White Sulphur ran pearls, I would give the whole to have Virginia go out. Why, sir, in twenty years grass would be growing in the streets of New York, and Norfolk would be the bigger city." That was at the time a common hallucination, that war would ruin the North and build up the South, for "Cotton was King." In the summer of 1862, the story goes that General Early was leading his weary troops through Morton's plantation, when he encountered his fellow member of the convention: "Well, Uncle Jerry, what do you think now of the compromises of the Constitution?" that having been a pet expression of his. The year after the war, I met Mr. Morton in Kanawha, and he remarked that he was broken "as fine as powder." I was sorry, for he was really a fine old gentleman, who was born for a better fate. .
I had gone to bed that night when Mr. Caperton came to my room and advised me to leave town in the morning, else there was no telling when I might be able to get away. He said that some fellows had just been through the house carrying a rope, in search of Carlile. That gentleman probably had notice, for he had already left. He walked a few miles up the Fredericksburg road and boarded the train in the morning.
On Monday, April 17th, the convention passed the ordinance of secession, big with disaster to Virginia. It was to be submitted to the voters a month later, but the managers proceeded as if the State were already out, as in fact it was.
I left Richmond early, and heard afterwards that I had taken the last train that left for the North for many a day. When I reached Washington I found quite another city from that I had passed through a week before. Flags were out everywhere, soldiers were everywhere, and the lobby at Willard's was thronged with people eager to hear the latest news. In the morning, on taking the train for Philadelphia, I found Augustus Schell, collector of the port of New York under Buchanan, and who was, or had been, Sachem of Tammany. From him I learned of the vast change which that shot at Sumter had brought about through the whole North. A fine-looking young officer sat in the seat next in front, and Mr. Schell spoke of him as Colonel Ellsworth, from Chicago, who had been much talked of. During the preceding year, in anticipation of the coming troubles, he had organized and drilled a band of young athletes. Ellsworth was the first man killed in McClellan's advance at Alexandria.
After we had passed through Maryland the Stars and Stripes began to show. Philadelphia was gay with them. At that day it was necessary to cross the city in omnibuses, and this gave opportunity to see the display. So it was to Trenton, and through New Jersey. At Trenton the Governor of New Jersey got in, returning to his home in Newark. He, with his staff, had been engaged at the Capital on matters connected with the draft. A man came in and sat by me, and soon opened on the all-absorbing topic. He said he would not have believed a week ago that he would ever feel as he did today. That he was a Democrat, in Southern business, and had money due him from. all over the South; and that he considered the money gone. "Damn them," said he; "I don't care now if I never see a cent of it. We'll fight it out."
New York, which had outwardly been quiet, now threw out a flag on every house and place of business. The Herald at first refused to show its loyalty in that way, and was very soon visited by a gathering of citizens who meant business unless a flag was run up in short order. Bennett found a flag mighty quick. The war feeling became intensified as the days passed, and as soldiers from the interior and the upper States, began to arrive, on their way to Washington. There was trouble at Baltimore and Washington was in danger of finding itself isolated. Troops were hurried forward, and even the Seventh Regiment, the crack regiment of the State, and whose special duty it is to keep order in New York city, was sent on.
The larger part of the Democratic party, when it came to the cross-roads, went with the administration, and so upset many calculations both at the North and South. War Democrats, these allies were called, and they fought for and upheld the government to the end of the war.
Patriotic meetings were held in the city squares by day and by night. Buchanan had left the Treasury empty, and there was neither coin, nor credit to the Government. Citizens came to the rescue and contributed according to their means to help the Treasury tide over the difficulty, A. T. Stewart heading the list with fifty thousand dollars. In these days of multi-millionaires, who can draw their checks for millions, such a subscription from the greatest merchant of New York, seems trivial, but that was the day of small things in all but the love of country. The rivulets from all over the North made a sizeable stream, and helped at Washington amazingly. The banks had suspended payment, and silver had passed out of sight. To relieve the consequent pressure, diminutive bills called "shin-plasters" were issued by banks, corporations, firms and individuals, and passed every where without question. Even postage stamps for a while passed as currency. Congress was in session presently, and it was not long before ways and means were devised, and the country, that is, what was left of the country, went on as of old. Very few persons supposed that the war, if there should he a war, would last long; it might be six months - possibly a little longer; but the good sense of the people, north and south, might be trusted to make for peace and re-union. Little the north then knew of the bitterness of the South, and still less the South knew of the grim determination of the North.


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The best of Bollywood came to celebrate the legendary legacy of filmmaker Yash Chopra at the premiere of his film 'Jab Tak hai Jaan' Monday at Yash Raj Films studios.
The cast of the film, Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma greeted the guests along with Yash Chopra's son Uday Chopra and wife Pamela.
"We are missing him every moment. I hope everyone enjoys the film. His legacy has been wonderfully celebrated," Shah Rukh said. Memories of the late filmmaker filled the red carpet with posters from his pictures placed along the carpet.
Guests included Amitabh Bachchan with wife Jaya Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Aamir Khan with wife, Karan Johar, Imran Khan, Hritik Roshan, Randhir Kapoor, Rajiv Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor.
"This is a celebration of Yash Chopra's life. He is still alive for me through his films, work, music. I am really looking forward to his film," Anil Kapoor said.
"He was the king of romance. This is a beautiful way to celebrate his life with love, happiness and remembrance. His films show romance for every age. Wish he was around to see this," actor Madhuri Dixit said.
Sridevi, who had been the leading lady for Yash Chopra's 'Chandni' said: "There are so many memories with him that it is endless of say. It is difficult to express. We will miss him."
Along with Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, other veteran actors included Vinod Khanna, Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu and Jeetendra. "We are excited to see the film. We thank the family for this premiere. Yash ji would have liked this," Amitabh Bachchan said.
Yash Chopra passed away Oct 21 after being diagnosed with dengue. 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' was supposed to be his last film.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- U.S. prices for medium and long grain rice "have run up about as high as they're going to go for now," according to Carl Brothers, senior vice president, Riceland Foods, Stuttgart, Ark.
Speaking at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show in Memphis, Brothers said where prices go from here will depend on how much rice is planted in the United States in 2006.
Acreage estimates for 2006 are still sketchy, although Brothers agrees there will be less rice planted this year than last.
"I have 550,000 acres to 575,000 acres for California, and unless we see a tremendous rise in soybean prices, I see about a 5 percent to 10 reduction in Arkansas acreage in 2006. If we get more than a 10 percent reduction in Arkansas, we could de-couple from the world and see higher prices. If we're less than 10 percent, we have to stay in a relationship with Asian prices."
Early estimates were that California would drop its plantings to 510,000 acres while Arkansas plantings would decline by 6 percent.
However, Brothers believes Louisiana rice acres could be down significantly, as much as 15 percent, with Mississippi down 8 percent. Texas rice acres could drop a lot more, maybe 25 percent, to around 150,000 acres. "They have water problems, they're not as competitive and they're struggling to stay in the rice business. Missouri is a very competitive area for rice production although acres could drop by about 7 percent."
There is still significant divergence between long grain and medium grain prices, Brothers points out. "USDA has a projection of a $3.51 cash price per bushel for rice but high prices for medium grain rice in California are pushing up that price. If you took out the price of medium grain, USDA would be showing a lower number for long grain rice."
Brothers noted that a 26 percent reduction in medium grain production in 2005 is behind higher medium grain prices. "We came off a year (2004) where California planted about 600,000 acres, going fence row to fence row because of higher prices. That effectively destroyed the market for the Californians. Prices declined and we dropped back to roughly 540,000 acres in 2005.
"At the same time that happened, Australia was going through its third year of drought. All these factors have made medium grain quite bullish. Carryout in medium grain rice is down 61 percent from the previous year."
If you're thinking about increasing medium grain acres in response to higher prices, beware, says Brothers. "Australia is expected to have a normal crop in 2006, and they will place more medium grain on the market. This will put more pressure on California and the South.
While we need to grow medium grain in the United States, "if we overdo it, we have a problem. We have a limited number of markets and we can get in trouble quickly."
If you do produce medium grain, consider what variety you need to plant. "We got a call from a major cereal account that it would no longer buy Medark rice. So if you plant Medark, you need to be thinking about selling it to something other than the cereal industry."
Meanwhile, the United States "is off to a great start in exports, up 16 percent over last year." Total U.S. rice export sales are up in both milled and rough rice categories. But the milled rice side is up 54 percent, according to Brothers.
Brothers noted that one important market, Iraq, "really wants to buy rice from us, but our prices are starting to be a problem. But I do think we'll have a chance to do some business with them."
The biggest problem for U.S. rice exports to Haiti is the country's civil unrest, according to Brothers. "We worry every day that something is going to happen and disrupt shipments there.
The Bush administration continues to thwart sales to Cuba, "with the latest being changing payment terms, which offended the Cubans and has slowed business. We will continue to see business going to Cuba. But there could be more."
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There are numerous facilities astronauts use in preparation for a space mission. Critical tasks are planned and rehearsed ahead of time using both mock-ups and simulators. For example, all phases of a mission including launch, docking to the space station, releasing satellites, space walks, landing and even emergency bailout procedures are thoroughly practiced. This ensures each astronaut is prepared for every event that occurs during a mission.
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Earlier this month the Government Accountability Institute report cited chapter and verse showing how the Obama campaign was set up to facilitate illegal foreign contributions (among other kinds of illegal contributions). We wrote about the case study provided by the New York Post a few days ago.
Over at PJ Media, Mike McNally goes the whole nine yards to show how the Obama campaign accepts illegal foreign contributions. McNally is a citizen of the United Kingdom; he provides the details demonstrating the ease with which he was able to make three illegal contributions to the Obama campaign. (His attempted contribution to the Romney campaign was promptly rejected.)
We posted the Obama campaign's response to the GAI report here. The Obama campaign denies that it is doing what the GAI report, the New York Post, and McNally all show them to be doing.
Today we learn that President Obama calls Governor Romney "a bullshitter" (and does so for publication). This is about as pure a case of projection as one can find.
I asked GAI president Peter Schweizer for a comment on McNally's post. Peter writes:
Foreign money getting into presidential campaigns continues to create enormous concerns about the presidential electoral process. We need immediate transparency.
What Team Obama has given us is transparent BS.


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Saving brown bears in Russia
Around the world, safe wild places for bears are disappearing. Mankind is destroying bear habitat at an alarming rate and bears are being hunted all over the world.
IFAW's Bear Rescue Center in Russia has successfully returned more than 200 bears to the wild.
Working out of Bubonitsy, Russia, this groundbreaking project has become a world leader in bear rehabilitation, and we have shared its successful techniques with bear rehabilitation projects around the world.
Hunting brown bears
For years in Russia, wealthy trophy hunters would pay US$2,000 each to participate in a 'winter den hunt' of brown bears. Dogs would rouse bears from hibernation and hunters would shoot them as they emerged from their dens.
If the bear was female, then newborn cubs often faced an sad fate. Some of the cubs would would be left behind to freeze or starve to death and others were given to local villagers as pets or to mobile zoos and circuses. There is also a demand for bear meat in hunting restaurants.
Since 1997, IFAW has supported efforts to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned cubs. We have also been an active campaigner to end the winter den hunt and in 2011, thanks to our efforts, Russia finally passed new 'Rules of the Hunt' legislation, which significantly reduces the hunting season for bears and specifically excludes the winter season when bears are hibernating in their dens.
Saving orphaned bear cubs
Our rehabilitation center rescues cubs, some of which are only days old. At IFAW's Bear Rescue Center, located 350 km northwest of Moscow, bears are bottle-fed and cared for. When they are old enough, they are released into a large natural enclosure where they are able to learn about the forest in a safe environment. And then when bears are old enough and acclimatized, they are released to the wild in proximity to where they were found.
We helped build a new shelter next to the forest for the bears with a separate observation room. In addition, we funded the drilling of a well for drinking water, built a den house for the bear cubs and purchased fodder, medicine and other supplies.


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Secrets from The Biggest Loser
Secret #1: You deserve to be in great shape.
One year ago Olivia Ward (far left), 35, weighed 261 pounds and couldn't walk a block without stopping for a breather. Her sister, Hannah Curlee, 32, tipped the scale at 248 pounds and was too embarrassed to go out with friends at night. "The first step in dropping the weight was realizing that I actually loathed myself and what I'd become," Hannah says. "On the show I gradually came to understand that I deserved so much more of a life than I'd given myself. I deserved to be happy. When I reached my goal of losing 120 pounds, I was proud of myself for the first time in 15 years. I now feel confident, not just about my stronger body but also about who I am inside."
Olivia had a similar aha moment, thanks to long talks with Biggest Loser trainer Bob Harper. "I used to put everyone else's needs ahead of mine," she says. "Now my health is the priority. Exercising is my me-time, and I've learned that that's not selfish at all."
Secret #2: Stop being so hard on yourself.
"I like to be perfect, and when I can't, I get frustrated," Olivia says. "Past diets never worked for me, because I'd always become overwhelmed thinking how far I still had to go. This time around I realized it's all about the small goals. The very first day on The Biggest Loser we had to push Jillian's truck while she had her foot on the brake, and it really felt impossible. But I kept telling myself, Just five more minutes. I learned from Jillian the power of setting small, manageable goals. When things get tough during a Spinning class, I think, Just get through this song and you'll be okay. Believing that you can do something will make you actually do it."
Secret #3: You don't have to spend hours in the gym.
"Real life doesn't allow me to exercise six hours a day, like we did on the show," Olivia says. "That's why I took up Spinning at SoulCycle, and I love it! The classes are intense enough to keep me in shape, and they fit into my schedule. I try to work out 90 minutes a day, six days a week. Half my workout is cardio: If I'm not Spinning, I'm running on the treadmill, sprinting on the stairclimber or using the Arc Trainer at home. I strength-train for the rest of the time, doing mini circuits in the gym. I split up my workouts and do 45 minutes in the morning to rev up my metabolism and 45 minutes after work so that food isn't just sitting in my stomach all night."
Don't have 90 minutes to spare? Fit in a good workout before work. "I get up at 5 a.m. and go to a boot camp class," Hannah says. "I enjoy it because it's different every day. We do things like run across a football field holding a weighted bar. I love the social aspect of it, too. The buddy system really works for me — obviously!"
Secret #4: Eat more, not less.
Start each day with a proper breakfast. "I used to get bacon, egg, and cheese on a bagel and think that it was just a bagel," Olivia admits. "But in reality it was more than an entire day's worth of calories. By lunchtime I'd be starving because I wasn't getting enough nutrients from that kind of food. Now I love an egg white omelet made with vegetables, like asparagus and mushrooms, left over from the previous night's dinner. I pair it with Fage Total 0% Greek yogurt with some berries and stevia. You can eat healthy and still love what you're putting in your mouth."
And ditch the deprivation diet. Never let yourself get to the point where you're famished with no healthy food around, the sisters say. Hannah carries apples and almonds with her for on-the-go snacks. "When I'm hungry, I get mean," she admits. "So I eat as much fiber as I can to stay full and satisfied. That stops me from grabbing pizza or a candy bar."
Secret #5: Ask for what you want.
"When I'm eating out I've become that person who asks the chef to hold the cheese, hold the dressing, and please cook my meal without any butter, but I'm totally okay with doing that," Olivia says. "Most restaurants are very accommodating. I'm not going to throw away all the hard work I've done just because I'm afraid to ask the waitress to skip the blue cheese. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy myself when I'm dining out. There has to be flexibility in both your diet and your exercise routine or you'll never be able to sustain them for the rest of your life. If I splurge, I make up for it the next day by pushing myself a little longer during my workout."
Secret #6: Do the write thing.
"I found that keeping a journal of everything that's going on while you're losing weight is a great way to stay focused," Hannah says. "Even if you just jot down stuff like 'I finally did a pull-up,' you can go back to those accomplishments to push yourself forward and remind yourself of how far you've come. On the ranch another contestant said that Olivia and I would never make it past the first couple of weeks. That lit a fire under me! I'd write those comments down and reread them for motivation. Today when I look back over the entries from when I was in a real funk about life, I can see what a bad place I was in and realize why I don't want to go back there."
Olivia and Hannah's Fitness Favorites
Best Workout Song
Hannah: "Florence + the Machine's 'Dog Days Are Over' is a great song for intervals. And this is embarrassing, but Kanye West's 'Gold Digger' always makes me want to run."
Top Exercise Gear
Olivia: "An iPod, kettlebells, and a Bosu ball. You can do so many different exercises with those three things. When I travel, I bring resistance bands with me; they're easy to pack and really effective."
Motivational Mantra
Olivia: "'Always be yourself, because everyone else is taken.' Jillian would tell me that."
Hannah: "'Just do it,' from Nike. When I see the swoosh sign I always think, Yeah, Hannah, you can just do it."
Next Big Goal
Olivia: "To do a sprint triathlon and start training for a half-marathon. My husband loves to run, and I'd like to do races with him."
Hannah: "To finally live my life! Date, go on vacation, have a great career — I want to do everything I never thought I could do."
Originally published in FITNESS magazine, September 2011.


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by Sue Ann Rybak
Bailey O'Neill, 12, who was an honor student at Darby Township School in Upper Darby, died March 4 after an alleged bullying incident at his school. According to numerous news reports, on Jan. 10, Bailey was jumped by two classmates, one of whom hit him in the face numerous times, fracturing his nose. His father, Rob O'Neill, said that after the vicious beating Bailey began having seizures that got worse and worse. Finally he wound up in a medically-induced coma and then died. The horrific incident is being investigated by authorities, although no one has been arrested as of this writing.
Tragedies like this one are the reason about 100 parents, students, alumni and faculty gathered in Yarnell Auditorium at Germantown Friends School (GFS), 31 W. Coulter St., on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 24, to hear GFS alum Emily Bazelon discuss the pain of bullying in her new book "Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy."
Bazelon graduated from GFS in 1989 and grew up in East Falls, where her parents still live. One of her sister's children now attends GFS. She is an accomplished journalist — senior editor at Slate, regular contributor to the New York Times magazine and a Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. Her 2010 Slate coverage of the aftermath of the suicide of bullying victim Phoebe Prince was the basis for "Sticks and Stones."
According to stopbullying.gov, bullying is "repeated, unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally and excluding someone from a group on purpose."
Almost everyone has had some experience with bullying; we have either been bullies, victims of bullying or bystanders to bullying. Bazelon recalled getting "fired" from her friends in eighth grade at GFS. "I had a group of close friends, and as girls that age often do, they turned on me," said the author. "I think this is a way in which girls have a tendency to use friendships against people. It was a pretty painful moment, and I spent a lot of time crying. One of the things my parents did that was really helpful is that they really listened to me about it. It helped me feel like I wouldn't be hated forever."
Her parents also encouraged her to find new friends, an idea she opposed at the time. "It was a good lesson because the new friend I made that year is someone I have stayed friends with for life," Bazelon said.
Contrary to what many of us might think, Bazelon insists that bullying is not on the rise, although it is not receding either. "When you look at studies in several countries in the last 25 years," she said, "it's pretty steadily held that between 20 percent to 25 percent of kids are involved in bullying as victims, bullies or bystanders."
She believes, however, that the media often reports these cases only from one point of view. Bazelon used the example of Phoebe Prince, a Massachusetts high school student whose suicide by hanging was linked to bullying. The local district attorney eventually brought charges against nine teenagers in the case. Two boys, 17 and 18, were charged with statutory rape. Several girls were charged with a range of crimes including criminal harassment, assault, stalking and civil rights violations.
"In reporting the story (in her new book) my goal was not to blame Phoebe or her family in any way for what had happened. It was just to understand the whole dynamic … No one seemed to be thinking about what was happening to them (the bullies) as a result of all this.
"To me the story sort of stands with the narrative which implies that a few kids essentially killed another child. And as bad as bullying can be and while I do think it was a trigger for what happened that day, it's also a dangerous oversimplification. And all the attention on bullying meant there was never a real conversation about what mental health services should had been available, suicide prevention or whether adults had missed warning signs…
"On social media sites, they (bullies) are in a position to do a lot of damage thoughtlessly. There are a lot of kids who are lashing out without understanding what they are doing. They are not in a face-to-face situation where they might be more likely to moderate what they are doing based on someone's reaction. They may have a real sense of anonymity depending on what site they're on."
Bazelon said schools should create a culture where it is not acceptable to bully. "It doesn't mean you eliminate it forever, but there are some schools where you clearly advance by being really mean … Some of the kids may have even regretted it. but they also wanted to be 'powerful people.'"
It is also crucial to form relationships between adults and students; in one recent survey kids were asked if they had ever told an adult when they were bullied. Most said no. "It's hard," Bazelon said. "My 13-year-old son does not want me looking over his shoulder, but I feel like when he first gets on these sites I want to walk him through it. This is a new mode of communication, and I don't want to just set him loose in the same way that I would not open the door at midnight and tell him to go for a walk."
Bazelon has been very disappointed with social media companies like Facebook and their failure to monitor kids' behavior. "Companies like Facebook set the default settings for kids, which means that you share everything you write not only with your friends but also with their friends, and for teenagers that can easily be a few thousand people … Kids are really being encouraged to habituate themselves to this widespread sharing and loss of privacy. That has a link to how bullying plays out and how easily a moment of cruelty can go viral."
Studies show that kids intervene by standing up to the bullies only about 20 percent of the time, but when they do step up, they stop the bullying half the time. "You can also go up to the victim afterwards or send them a text message," Bazelon said. "You don't have to decide to be their best friend to make a huge difference for them."
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According a blog post, the folks at Netflix announced a redesign for the iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users discover more titles, emulating the look and feel of the tablet version of Netflix that got a major update sometime last year. The meat and potatoes of this update includes a top row on the home screen that gives users quick access to previously watched TV shows, and allows instant playback right where they left off. The rest of of the rows on the home screen lets users scroll through recommendations.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Hacking a Knitting Machine's Keypad
in collaboration with Fabienne Serriere and Arjan Scherpenisse,
at Mediamatic's RFID Devcamp 2010, Amsterdam,
for Multithreaded Banjo Dinosaur Knitting Adventure 2D Extreme,
with kind thanks to David Carne.
Thanks to some extra-neighborly blackmail by Fabienne, I spent last week hacking up a storm in Amsterdam. By extending the work of Steven Conklin, Limor Fried, and Becky Stern, we were able to hack a Brother KH930 knitting machine to print high score panes from a custom video game in yarn. This game was then displayed at Mediamatic for SensorFest, leading all sorts of neighbors to learn that RFID, socializing, and beer can lead to a neighborly time. Never in my life did I expect to get such an adrenaline rush from knitting, much less from from this newfangled social networking nonsense.
Conklin's technique for loading new patterns into the machine involves using an FTDI chip to simulate a Tandy PDD1 floppy disk drive, then typing "CE 5 5 1 STEP 1 STEP CE STEP STEP CE 9 0 3 STEP STEP" to load a new pattern set from disk and print pattern 3 of the set. (551 is the command to read from disk, and patterns held in RAM begin at 900.) For our exhibit, this sequence was far too complicated to type for every half meter of output, so we hacked the device's keypad for scripting.
This article describes how a matrix keypad works, how we reverse engineered the specific keypad of the Brother KH930, and how to use an Arduino with a handful of transistors to automate the typing of commands necessary for loading a new pattern from an emulated floppy disk. It should be applicable to all sorts of keyboards, but for those with serial protocols there might be a simpler method.
Unfortunately, there won't be room here to describe the first emergency knitting machine purchase in history, our A-Team trip to the far side of Holland in a borrowed van, or the case of Club Mate that we begged from a squatter bar in order to finish the project in the five days allotted.
A keypad matrix is most often built with switches that connect a row wire to a column wire. By keeping every column in a high-impedance state with pull-up resistors, then dropping each row low in sequence, the column inputs can be sensed to determine when a button is pressed. Dave's Hacks' first article on IM ME Hacking describes in detail how the keypad of the GirlTech IMME works, and all other implementations seem to function similarly.
The connections between rows and columns are just switches.
While in a perfect world, rows and columns would be arranged exactly as they appear visually, this is rarely efficient to route in copper for more than twelve buttons. We produced the diagram below by scanning the keyboard membrane, then pushing a button while using the continuity tester to see which row and column wire were connected. The table at the bottom converts from wire signal names to the Arduino signal names used within the client library.
In order to connect rows and columns to a center rail, I used BC547 NPN transistors prototyped on an Arduino shield. Each has a 1K resistor on the base. Row transistors have the collector coming from the row signal and the emitter going to the common rail; column transistors are the same, except that the collector and emitter are swapped in order to fit the direction of current.
As each transistor conducts when only when its base is high, the Arduino can press a key by first dropping all outputs low, then raising a row control line (RCx) and a column control line (CCx) high. Because of debouncing and a limited scan rate, this must be held for a short amount of time before releasing the key.
Such a design fits perfectly well on a prototyping shield, although the transistors are a tight fit. I recommend first prototyping a single row and column to ensure that the transistors are properly aligned, as current direction might be different on your keypad.
For those who prefer to have a board fabbed, here's a proper schematic and layout. Gerbers and Eagle CAD source files are available in the project's subversion repository.
A more sophisticated software implementation would involve using the Arduino's serial port to communicate with the host, accepting strings in ASCII and translating them to keypresses. We decided against such a complication because we feared relying on a second long USB cable. Further, we thought it handy when necessary to be able to run the device stand-alone with a single (reset) button press from the operator signaling that the next pattern should be loaded.
Full keyboard emulator code is available either by pastebin or from SVN. You'll find it in banjo/code/arduino.
svn checkout svn://svn.mediamatic.nl/devcamps/camp10/banjo
The code works by using simple methods to press a row and column by raising those pin voltages. Higher level methods allow for such functions as loading a pattern from disk or printing a pattern, each by performing multiple key presses and occasionally inserting a delay. By placing this within the Arduino code's setup() function, the pattern is loaded whenever the device is reset.
New patterns are loaded from the Banjo Dinosaur Knitting Adventure 2D Extreme game by first starting a floppy disk emulator--as per Steve Conklin's technique--then pulsing the DTR line of the arduino in order to cause a reset. The Perl for that is just a single line,
The end result, with a machine typing by itself, looks a little like this,
That's all there is to it. With fourteen transistors and just as many resistors, you can script your knitting machine--or any other keypad device--from a microcontroller without modifying the underlying firmware.
As a final note, I will give a cookie to the first neighbor who uses this technique to dump all of the power codes from a universal infrared remote control, or to program something long and sophisticated into a graphing calculator that lacks a link port.
17 comments:
- James said...
This is one of those things where I'm slapping my forehead and saying "Why didn't I think of that?" I've been wanting to mod a scanner for computer control for awhile now. I never thought about taking advantage of the row & column addressing like this before. I was trying to come up with a way to clock a uC with the keycode scan and have it pull the appropriate row or column down. This is much easier. Thanks!
- December 6, 2010 at 9:37 PM
- humblebumble said...
That is proper good mate. as a textile student and amateur hacker i totally appreciate it.
there's nothing like upgrading old technology. sadly, my knitting machine uses punchcards, heyho
- December 12, 2010 at 1:39 PM
- CarolinaKisslinger said...
this is awesome! I love video games, and as a knitwear design student this a sweet combination.
I'm trying to use Becki's tutorial to make my knitting machine do my own images but I havent got a clue what I'm doing really. i want to design fairisle Christmas style jumpers using old Nintendo characters and graphics
- March 9, 2011 at 3:50 AM
- nedkonz said...
I just wrote and posted code for doing keypad monitoring and control from an Arduino or other AVR to http://github.com/bikeNomad/RemoteKeyboard .
My approach doesn't need transistors.
- May 22, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- Shay said...
I did this way back in the NES era. Some games had ridiculously long passwords for resuming game play where you left off, so I hooked a computer to a controller. This allowed me to just type the password into the computer when stopping game play, then have the computer enter it on the password screen later when resuming.
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OfficeMax (NYSE:OMX) and Office Depot (NYSE:ODP) are in advanced talks to merge in a stock-for-stock deal, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Citing sources familiar with the matter, the report indicated that talks between the two office supply retailers are fluid and could still fall apart, but an announcement may come as early as this week.
Spokespeople for OfficeMax and Office Depot each told FOX Business that their companies do not comment on rumors or speculation.
Competition from rival Staples (NASDAQ:SPLS) and online retail giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) have weighed on both OfficeMax and Office Depot.
In 1997, Staples and Office Depot attempted to merge but were blocked by the Federal Trade Commission, which cited diminished competition and the threat of higher prices.
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"I know the market will have a love affair with this. On paper, it will look great. Time will tell if it makes sense."
While shares of OfficeMax are up nearly 91.6% over the last 52 weeks, as of Friday's market close, its market value is just $932.5 million. Office Depot's stock has risen about 46.6% in the last year, and its market value is $1.3 billion.
OfficeMax has around 900 stores in the U.S. and Mexico and records approximately $7 billion in annual sales. The Illinois-based company is scheduled to release its fourth-quarter and annual results Thursday.
Florida-based Office Depot has 1,675 stores world-wide, posting about $11.5 billion in annual sales. The company said in November that it expects sales declines to ease over the next couple years.
Office Depot's largest shareholder, activist hedge fund Starboard Value, has pushed the company to slim down. Office Depot adopted a "poison pill" that is meant to deter hostile takeovers and kicks in when a shareholder that holds at least a 15% stake tries to buy the company. Starboard disclosed a 14.8% stake in September.
Strasser said Staples, which is valued at more than $8.7 billion, would benefit from a merger of its two rivals and the subsequent closure of Office Depot or OfficeMax locations.
"Staples is the winner," he said.