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Catch Them While You Can: Cuban Baseball Stars Play At Caribbean Series For First Time In Decades
The signs being carried by a couple of hundred people outside a hotel on Margarita Island on Sunday read variations on "Cuba, go home!" The sentiment was aimed at baseball players from the Villa Clara club who represent the country at this year's Caribbean Series, being held on this Venezuelan island.
It looks like critics' wishes may be granted, but not necessarily for the reasons they hoped.
The protesters are opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who is seen as a puppet of the Cuban communist regime. But the real marionettes may prove to be the players on the field, who have lost their first two games at the Series to Mexico's Hermosillo squad and the home country's Navegantes de Magallanes.
Even so, there has been a great deal of curiosity this year about the Caribbean Series (which is often referred to conversationally as the "Caribbean World Series"), much of it because a Cuban team is being represented for the first time since 1960.
Cuba hosted the first Series in 1949 and won of seven of the first 12 tournaments before withdrawing from the competition when former President Fidel Castro banned all professional sports. (The U.S. does not participate, although so many MLB players are involved through their winter league teams, that the league gets to approve the schedule and other details of the event.)
Whenever Cuban players are showcased in international events, there is buzz about how the Serie Nacional's talent will measure up — not least from MLB general managers and agents.
Here are some of the players drawing the most attention. It should be noted that not one of the following players plays for Villa Clara in the "Serie Nacional." After the team was selected to represent Cuba at the Caribbean Series, its manager and GM were allowed to cherry-pick a handful of other team's stars.
Alfredo Despaigne, RF: With a career .345 average, The right-handed slugger is a 27-year-old superstar in Cuba's Serie Nacional. Despite his short frame (5' 8", 215 lbs.), he led the league in home runs in 2011-12 with 36 in 87 games was named most valuable player in Cuba for the third time. Any MLB team would be thrilled to get their hands on him.
Yulieski Gourriel, 3B: A two-time Serie Nacional MVP, Gourriel is a power hitter (249 career homers) who is a tough out (.415 on-base percentage). When he first emerged into the international spotlight at the 2006 World Baseball Classic, many scouts thought he would be a first-round draft pick if eligible for the MLB draft. The 29-year-old has had injury-related down years since then, but still has consecutive most valuable player awards to his credit.
José Miguel Fernández, 2B/SS: A pesky batter who led the Serie Nacional with a .393 batting average in the first half of the 2012-13 split season, the 25-year-old lefty is sure-handed and lead-footed. In 2008-09, he led the Serie Nacional in double plays hit into (21) and turned in the field (85). He hit .545 during the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
Norge Luis Ruíz, P: The young righthander is in his sophomore season, and he's already struck out 144 batters in 223 innings. At last summer's "friendly" between the Cuban national team and a group of U.S. collegiate all-stars, the 19 year old introduced himself by striking out 11 in seven-plus innings.


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A New England-style commons in the center of Kalamazoo? Bronson Park has been just that since the 1850's. Over time, the park has provided a meeting place for entertainment and public gatherings, a setting for monuments significant to the community, and a shady retreat for downtown residents, workers, and visitors.
Bronson Park's history begins in 1831 with the man for whom it was named, Kalamazoo's founder Titus Bronson. As did many of Michigan's early settlers, Bronson hailed from New England, bringing his traditions with him. In an attempt to gain the county seat for his new village, Bronson and his partner, Stephen H. Richardson, donated a piece of land in the center of town to the county. The property was divided into four blocks designated for a courthouse, a church, a jail, and an academy. Bronson Park's 3.6 acres were originally Jail and Academy Squares, divided by Church Street. Each block served its intended purpose for a time. The county's first jail, constructed on Jail Square in 1836, was demolished in 1845 and replaced by a new structure located on Courthouse Square. A branch of the University of Michigan began classes in a building on Academy Square in 1838. It later became a Baptist academy and finally the first site of Kalamazoo College, before being removed in 1857.
Long before that occurred, however, Kalamazoo residents had begun using this space for a park. In 1847 Church Street was discontinued between Jail and Academy Squares. The park began to take shape in the early 1850's when the village encircled it with a fence, graveled the walkways, and landscaped the grounds with trees, roses and shrubs. Officials protected their new park with an ordinance prohibiting horses and cattle. Kalamazoo could truly boast possession of a park in its center when the village officially leased the land from the county in 1854, but it was not until February 1899 that the city passed Ordinance No. 172, officially naming it Bronson Park.
From its creation, Bronson Park has been the site of celebrations and public meetings. In 1856, Abraham Lincoln, then an attorney, spoke at a political rally in the park. In later years, Stephen A. Douglas, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, and both John and Robert Kennedy spoke to assembled crowds, as the Potawatomi Indians had, from the mound near the southwest corner of the park.
The mound itself has been a site of great interest for many Kalamazoo residents. It is believed to be a remnant of the mound-building Hopewell Indians, who lived in this area centuries ago. The mound was first excavated in 1832 by E. Lakin Brown and Cyrus Lovell, whose investigation revealed nothing. In the early 1850's, local businessman Alexander J. Sheldon took on the responsibility of restoring the mound, which had been damaged over the years. During the process, he buried a time capsule containing coins, information about his time, and issues of the Kalamazoo Telegraph, which he published. A century later, Alexis Praus, director of the Kalamazoo Public Museum and Nicholas Kik, superintendent of parks, re-excavated the mound. They recovered the time capsule and discovered the outlines of a grave presumably left by the Hopewells. A new time capsule took the place of the original with the intention that it remain until at least 2054.
The mound has the distinction of being the oldest man-made object in Bronson Park, but many fine additions have joined it over the years. Fountains have decorated the park since 1879. "The Fountain of the Pioneers," which replaced an earlier one, stood at the center of the eastern half of Bronson Park from 1940 until 2018. Alfonso Iannelli designed and supervised construction of the fountain, which was built using WPA funds. The reflecting pool, part of the original Ianelli design, was adorned with bronze sculptures of Kalamazoo children to commemorate the United States bicentennial in 1976. Local artist, Kirk Newman used the biblical verse "When justice and mercy prevail, children may safely play" as his inspiration for the sculptures.
In addition to fountains, many memorials grace the park. A cannon honors Civil War veterans. A bronze statue by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson entitled The Hiker represents foot soldiers of the Spanish American War. Park visitors are reminded of Vietnam veterans and those lost on the U. S. S. Maine by boulders set with plaques.
The largest addition to the park was the band shell, constructed in 1999. This however, was not the first such structure erected there. Exactly 100 years earlier a pavilion was built in the park at the request of residents of the village, only to be removed nine years later.
Bronson Park, once surrounded on three sides by the homes of some of Kalamazoo's most prominent citizens, now sits between churches, public buildings, and businesses. With the county courthouse to the north and city hall to the south, the park remains a "commons" in the center of the city. It is the place downtown where workers retreat for a picnic lunch, where summer festivals and art shows are held, and where thousands congregate to usher in each New Year. Bronson Park's important role in Kalamazoo's history is honored by its listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Hey! It's time for MxMo V: The One With the Whales, this month hosted by hosted by Jonathan at Jiggle the Handle. So grab a bowl of lemons, tart yourself up, and strap in: Look at the lemons/See how they juice for you/And everything you do/Yeah they were all yellow…
Having become an avid reader of the Fine Spirits and Cocktails forum on eGullet, I came across a thread recently about limoncello. Forum reg. Katie Loeb posted to the thread, describing the techniques involved, and I started jonesin' to make my own. But when I first saw the thread, Jen and I were in the midst of planning our cocktail party, coming up with the menu, and gathering the various spirits and other ingredients.
Finally, I came home with a dozen lemons and a bottle of high-proof Stoli. Coincidentally, the same day I brought home the stuff, I got the latest issue of Imbibe magazine, which had a photo essay (with text by Paul Clarke), showing how to make limoncello.
With two good sources in front of me, I broke out the Microplane, zested the hell outta a dozen lemons (and one lime), and soaked the gratings in the rocket-fuel voddy.
And, hooboy, did it ever smell like rocket fuel in those first few days! I steeped it for about 20 days before straining it, adding more vodka, and pouring in some simple syrup. I let that sit for another week–some of it in a nice bottle and some back in the original jar.
Sunday, I finally uncorked the bottle and had a taste. Strong vodka in the nose as I sniffed a snifter of warm limoncello, but not so much vodka on the tongue. When we had it chilled later that evening, we neither smelled nor tasted vodka.
I mixed two cocktails with the limoncello. The first was a Sidecar/sour variation, which I'm calling a Lemon Cart.
Lemon Cart
- 1½ oz. cognac
- 1 oz. limoncello
- ½ oz. lime juice
- Lemon twist, for garnish
Technique: Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Add garnish.
I think Jen liked this more than I did. I thought it was perhaps a bit sweet. I thought about adding a dash of Regan's orange bitters to spice it up a bit. Next time…
Despite the hot weather, I was also grilling Sunday, so we were outside and needed refreshment. So for my next trick, I tried a Lemon Cooler.
Lemon Cooler
- 2 oz. gin
- 2 oz. limoncello
- juice of half a lime
- Lime wedge, for garnish
Technique: Build in a tall glass. Stir, top off with tonic water, and add garnish.
Our final limoncello test was old-school: straight and chilled. Well, not quite straight. Our freezer is packed full of food and ice trays, so there's no real room, alas, to store a bottle of limoncello–not even a small bottle. I served it on the rocks, using the nice chunky ice cubes you can get with those silicone trays. I'd still love to try it straight from the freezer.


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v. i. - To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. 2
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v. i. - To make one's way slowly. 2
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During its May meeting, the Hope College Alumni Association Board of Directors elected its officers and appointed five new members.
Lisa Bos, a 1997 graduate from Washington, D.C., who previously served as vice president, has been elected president. Michael McCarthy, a 1985 graduate from Weston, Mass., has been elected vice president. Anita Bateman, a 1998 graduate from San Antonio, Texas, has been elected secretary.
The board's new members are: Victoria Brunn, a 1984 graduate from Santa Monica, Calif.; Holly DeYoung, a 1990 graduate from Beaver Dam, Wis.; Todd Houtman, a 1990 graduate from Indianapolis, Ind.; Sa'eed Husaini, a Hope junior from Jos, Nigeria; and Garry Kempker, a 1974 graduate from Kalamazoo.
Colton Wright, a 2011 graduate from Tecumseh who was formerly Senior Class Representative, was appointed representative of the most recent graduating class. Andrea Converse of Lowell, formerly Junior Class Representative, was appointed Senior Class Representative. Bob Bieri, a 1983 graduate from Holland who has concluded service as president, will continue to serve on the board as immediate past-president.
The board members who have concluded their service to the board are: Kat Campbell, a 1999 graduate from Greensboro, N.C.; David Daubenspeck, a 1974 graduate from Oceanside, Calif.; Gene Haulenbeek, a 1972 graduate from Kalamazoo; Colleen Laskowski, a 2010 graduate from Redmond, Wash.; and Mark VanGenderen, a 1990 graduate from Weston, Fla.
° Victoria Brunn has been senior counsel in the Contracting Operations Group of Amgen Inc. since 2007. She completed a Master of Science degree in child development at the University of California-Davis in 1988, and a juris doctor degree at Loyola Law School in 2004. Her career experience has also included serving as a senior child life specialist at UCI Medical Center in Orange, Calif., from 1986 to 1993; as coordinator of child life services at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., from 1994 to 2004; and as an attorney with K&R Law Group LLP from 2004 to 2006 and with Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP from 2006 to 2007. Among other community service and involvement, she provided public counsel as a pro-bono attorney during 2006-07 and is a past vice president and member of the board of directors of the Starlight Children's Foundation. She majored in psychology and minored in economics at Hope, where her activities included the Alpha Gamma Phi sorority, Nykerk Cup competition, "Anchor" and pep band.
° Holly DeYoung has worked in human resources at Beaver Dam Community Hospital for more than 10 years, following eight years in human resources or clerical positions with other employers. She is active in her church, and her community involvement has also included serving as co-president of the elementary PTO, organizing a committee for parents of gifted children and assisting with Girl Scouts. She completed a psychology/sociology composite major and minor in Spanish at Hope, where her activities included the Sigma Sigma sorority, Pull tug-of-war and Nykerk Cup competition. Her husband, Jim, is a 1988 Hope graduate. They have two children, Tessa and Becca.
° Todd Houtman is a brand marketing manager with Eli Lilly and Company. He has been with the company for 19 years, with his previous positions there having included serving as a business analyst and sales representative. He completed an MBA at Michigan State University in 1992. His community involvement includes serving as a member of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation volunteer staff for fundraising activities, and membership in Traders Point Christian Church. His involvement in the life of the college has included participating in the alumni outreach program, through which he has contacted students considering Hope, and working through the Office of Career Services to advise graduating seniors on careers within the pharmaceutical industry. He majored in political science and minored in physics at Hope, where his activities included the Arcadian Fraternity, serving on the InterFraternity Council and participating in the Washington Honors Semester.
° Sa'eed Husaini is interested in a career that involves international service and leadership. He is pursuing international studies composite and political science majors, and minoring in French. He participated in the Phelps Scholars Program as a freshman, and remained involved in the program as a resident assistant in its Scott Hall home this past year. His activities at the college have also included the International Relations Club, which he served this past year as publicity chair; the Pull tug-of-war; Black Student Union; WTHS; and the college's Nu Beta chapter of the Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity. He has also worked as a campaign intern with the Ottawa County Republicans.
° Garry Kempker has been a vice president and trust relationship officer with Greenleaf Trust of Kalamazoo for 11 years. He has spent 33 years in the trust and investment industry, with expertise in personal trust administration and management, and estate planning and settlement. A Certified Trust and Financial Advisor, he has also attended the American Bankers Association National Graduate Trust School and the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking. He is a member and past president of the Kalamazoo Kiwanis Club, and a member of the Kalamazoo Civic Theater Board, the Constance Brown Hearing Center Board, the executive Board of St. Joseph's Krasl Concours on the Bluff and Hope Reformed Church in South Haven. His community service through the years has also included serving as president of the St. Joseph Kiwanis Club, a founding member of the South Haven Community Foundation and a member of the boards of MRC Industries, the Michigan Maritime Museum and the South Haven Harbor Commission. He majored in business administration and psychology at Hope, where his activities also included the Arcadian fraternity. Garry and his wife Gloria reside in Kalamazoo.


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USD Football Players Plead Not Guilty in Fraud Case
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Six people accused of stealing identities in South Dakota and using them to fraudulently collect tax refunds have pleaded not guilty in federal court in South Dakota.
Four of the six are former University of South Dakota football players. One of them - 21-year-old Alphonso Valdez - is accused by the Internal Revenue Service of being the leader of the fraud scheme.
Nine people from South Dakota and Florida are charged in the alleged plot. They were indicted last month. Authorities say the IRS paid fraudulent claims of about $500,000 before the scheme was uncovered.
Two others pleaded not guilty last month, including 21-year-old Christopher Lundy, who was still on the team this past fall, and former USD track athlete and student body president Terry Liggins.
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Contributing to an individual retirement account during retirement isn't a strategy many investors adopt, but it can make sense for those still earning income. That's because continuing to fund an IRA on a tax-deferred basis means more money will be available later in retirement.
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"If it doesn't harm the current lifestyle, having extra for the future is seldom a bad thing," says Ilene Davis, CFP professional, a financial adviser with Financial Independence Services in Cocoa, Fla.
For retirees with the necessary earned income who want to contribute to an IRA, the question then becomes how much to contribute and to which type of IRA. Earned income means money from a job; investment income doesn't count. However, if you are retired and your spouse has earned income, your spouse can contribute to his or her IRA as well as your IRA, which would be a spousal IRA contribution.
Keep in mind that once you begin to take required minimum distributions, or RMDs, from a traditional IRA at age 70 ½, you can no longer contribute to a traditional IRA, says Richard E. Reyes, CFP professional and a financial adviser with Wealth and Business Planning Group in Maitland, Fla. With Roth IRAs, there are no age restrictions for contributions.
Investors age 50 and older can contribute $5,500 for 2013 plus a "catch-up" contribution of $1,000 for a total maximum possible IRA contribution of $6,500. That doesn't mean that you have to invest the full amount; any contribution will help build savings for the future.
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Experts agree that it doesn't make sense to invest in an IRA in retirement if you can't afford it, and it takes away from other important priorities. But if you can afford it, it can be beneficial to stash more money away in tax-deferred accounts for retirement, especially with consumers living longer than ever before.
"It's always optimal to save more for retirement so that you have more savings as you spend money through retirement," says Ken Hevert, vice present and head of individual and small business retirement products at Fidelity Investments.
Many retirees underestimate how much money they will need to get through retirement, especially with health care costs increasing. Hevert sees contributing to an IRA in retirement as one way to fund those health care expenses, which are increasing at a faster rate than inflation. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, health care costs are expected to rise 7.5% in 2013.
If you're able to save the maximum amount between the ages of 65 and 70, you can accumulate a tidy sum. For example, if you save $6,500 a year for each of six years between 65 and 70 for a total outlay of $39,000, by the time you turn 80, you'd have $61,365, assuming a 4% average real return (meaning over and above the inflation rate).
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Whether to use a Roth or a traditional IRA for those contributions depends on your individual tax situation. Hevert favors the Roth because there is no RMD, so funds can continue to grow throughout retirement and can be tapped at a later date in retirement or left to heirs in an estate.
When contributing to an IRA on a pretax basis, you get the benefit of an upfront tax deduction. But some advisers don't see the point of this strategy since the benefit is temporary.
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In this week's installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, we take a look at a year-end fight between Masanori Kanehara and Yoshiro Maeda.
The fight took place at World Victory Road's "Sengoku: Soul of Fight" event in Japan.
And the featherweight scrap provided one of the year's most entertaining, back-and-forth slugfests.
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Kanehara (16-9-5 at the time), the former Sengoku featherweight champion, was coming off a loss to Marlon Sandro. With the 38-second knockout defeat, Kanehara lost both his belt and consciousness; he was strapped to a stretcher and wheeled out of the arena in a scary scene. But prior to the vicious knockout, the fighter won the Sengoku featherweight grand prix as a staggering 17-to-1 underdog.
Maeda (27-9-2), meanwhile, had been dealing with inconsistency following stints with the WEC and DREAM. A victory over Kanehara would've given him back-to-back wins and his fourth victory in six fights.
Would Kanehara rebound from his loss, or would Maeda continue his resurgence?
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Jerry Tarkanian, who has been battling serious health problems for years and had a pacemaker and stents inserted in his heart after being rushed to the hospital in July, is planning to attend his Hall of Fame enshrinement next month, his son said.
Whether the former UNLV, Long Beach State and Fresno State coach, who also had a 20-game stint with the Spurs in 1992-93, will be able to speak at the Sept. 8 ceremony in Springfield, Mass., has not been determined. But, Danny Tarkanian said, "unless something happens" his father will "absolutely" make the trip as one of the 12 members of the Class of 2013.
"We're hoping he's going to be able to speak on his own," Danny Tarkanian said Monday. "It's going to be a close call. Some days he's having a good day, other times he's not. It's hard to tell. He's made great progress the last five days…. We're hoping he will be strong enough to walk up there, with a walker, to give the speech."
If Tark is unable to speak at the ceremony, someone will accept on his behalf, as has been with the case in the past if an honoree was too ill or unable to attend.
"It means a lot to him," Danny Tarkanian said of his father's long road to Springfield, a wait so long that the 83-year-old former coach was removed from the ballot for lack of support before returning to consideration on the latest ballot and getting the necessary support. "I think he was very happy when it happened. I don't think he's as cognizant as he would have been a few years ago. But this has picked him up spiritually."
The choice for the presenter, who will accompany Tark to the stage but has no speaking role?
Bill Walton, in more than a little bit of irony.
"It is," Danny Tarkanian said. "And it's a nice irony, actually."
Though Jerry Tarkanian had the ultimate respect for John Wooden and Wooden held his up-and-coming rival at Long Beach in such high regard that Wooden recommended Tark for the Indiana job that went to Bob Knight, the Tarkanian camp always held UCLA responsible for turning the NCAA on Tarkanian. The blame went to powerful athletic director J.D. Morgan and not Wooden, and Walton had not yet started his varsity reign, but Tarkanian picking a Bruin for the honor is good stuff for the history books.
That it would be Walton the individual, though, is no surprise. Walton was an early supporter, saying in the 1970s that the NCAA was unfairly targeting Tarkanian during years of pursuit, and they grew closer when Tarkanian began to spend several months a year in San Diego, Walton's hometown, in addition to Las Vegas. When Tark had a serious health scare in San Diego and was hospitalized approximately six weeks, Walton kept in contact to see if he could help in any way.
"What we try to do now is we look back on all the positive things," Danny Tarkanian said. "And a guy like Bill Walton, what he's done, to have the chance that he would be the one to introduce him, is the best."


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Brought this from a shop a few miles South. It was one of those shops where everything was priced more for the middle class market and everything was cheaper in Home Depot, I had to struggle find something to buy and in the end brought this avacado tree.
The tree was planted in September 2010. When I went back in December much of it had died and the top was rotting. It wasnt happy. Its has survived a bad winter and is now active again but the leaves look a little wilted. It might be just a bad position. I have put down some avacado fertiliser so maybe thats helping but the soil and aspect could all be wrong. Im not a fantastic gardener, I just thought as ever, that a 30 foot avacado tree on the corner would look nice. I totally overlooked the fact that it would have to spend quite a few years getting there in which space of time it might die!!!.
Doing well, but im not sure about it splitting up like that. Id preffer it if it just went straight up.
Still hanging in there, looks quite healthy.
I have always liked Avacado, but I brought some in september and they gave me serious stomach cramps. I looked it up on Google and found out that they have enzymes that can do that in people. I think it might have been the fruit I was eating as its never happened before or the fact that I ate too many. Either way, it has taken the edge off of looking forward to my first avacados if they are going to make me ill.
The photo on the left is september 2010 which has leaves at the top of the plant and the photo on the right is whats left of it today, all the top has rotted away.
Still there. It definatly looks less tropical than the original one.
This one seems to be really going for it. It has a clear 6 inches of new growth at the top. Must be from a hardier crop. It was grown from seed.
Got a replacement at a garage sale!!! The story of the Avacado tree continues!!!
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Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit gets a proper defenestration. Today's topic: Dan Snyder is a self-defeatingly petulant shit.
Steinberg directs our attention to this analysis by the folks over at Tech Cocktail. The graph you see here is pretty self-explanatory: It plots the number of comments appended to McKenna's story week by week. That spike at the end represents the moment Dan Snyder became the Barbra Streisand for our times. I tend to roll my eyes whenever a media outfit kibitzes a public figure's PR — it's like the large intestine grading a fart — but, screw it, we'll do it anyway. When you're straightfacedly being paired with Hosni Mubarak as an object lesson in bad brand management, you have serious image problems. From Tech Cocktail:
The lesson that, hopefully, Hosni Mubarak and Dan Snyder are learning is that you have to acknowledge and engage with your audience, and social media not only allows for that, but invites you into the conversation — which is happening with or without you. You can't just turn it off as Mubarak tried when he shut down the Internet in Egypt last week. And you can't buy or sue every media outlet, attempting complete censorship. You can't hide the truth. But you can apologize for mistakes. You can ask for input. And you can and should engage in social media to shape the conversation — not control it. The world has become too transparent to pretend anything.
For more Snydery, read Miles Grant's "Conservationist's Guide to Hating Redskins Owner Daniel Snyder." If you'd like to help the City Paper defend itself, check out the weekly's legal defense fund.


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We got a look at Lara last night from publisher Square Enix's upcoming Tomb Raider, in which she gets quite the beating.
Now, thanks to Foxy Foxy, you can rewatch the special parts, broken down into looping seconds of her struggle for survival. It's just too bad they're so small.
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As part of a drive to increase awareness of the number of Commonwealth war casualties buried in cemeteries within the United Kingdom, the Commission has unveiled the first of a series of new signs.
The new signage, in the same style and colours as the Commission uses in places like France and Belgium, will be appearing at hundreds of cemeteries over the next few months and the first was unveiled at Sunderland's Bishopwearmouth Cemetery by Commissioner and local MP, Kevan Jones.
A video on the Commission's work in Scotland is also online at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-15719528.
Finally, the latest CWGC annual report is also now available at www.cwgc.org/admin/files/new%20complete%20AR%202011.pdf
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When is a lamp worth a fortune? When it's made by Tiffany Studios.
The design studio, started by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the 1880s, made colorful glass-leaded lamps until the 1930s, but it wasn't until the 1960s that the value of a Tiffany lamp increased tremendously as collectors bought up the fragile lamps that managed to survive in one piece.
If you're looking to start a collection or cash in on a family heirloom, experts say that those that feature a floral design are a solid investment, as they tend to be more popular among collectors. One lamp made to look like purple wisteria, for example, is expected to fetch $400,000-$600,000 at a Christie's auction Dec. 10.
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BME 695L Lecture 8: Surface Chemistry: attaching nanomedical structures to the core
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8.1 Introduction
8.1.1 attachment strategies typically depend on core composition
8.1.2 but the attachment strategy should not drive the core choice
8.1.3 the choice of core should still depend on the desired overall "multifunctional" nanomedical device
8.2 "Surface chemistry" strategies for attachment of biomolecules to the core material
8.2.1 hydrophobic versus hydrophilic core materials
8.2.2 addition of biomolecules for biocompatibility
8.2.3 monofunctional versus bifunctional surface chemistry strategies
8.2.4 PEGylation as "stealth strategy" to minimize opsonification and increase circulation time
8.2.5 pay attention to overall zeta potential during the surface chemistry process!
8.3 Two main attachment strategies
8.3.1 covalent bonding strategies
18.104.22.168 advantages
188.8.131.52.2 very stable
184.108.40.206.3 can control process of bond disruption for multilayering
22.214.171.124 Disadvantages
188.8.131.52.1 can be too stable and difficult to disassemble
184.108.40.206.2 must be careful to avoid or minimize use of strong organic solvents that can be cytotoxic even at trace concentrations
8.3.2 non-covalent (primarily electrostatic) Bonding Strategies
126.96.36.199 advantages
18.104.22.168.1 can use very gentle chemistries for biocompatibility
220.127.116.11.2 chemistry can be very simple layer-by-layer assemblies
184.108.40.206.3 easier to disassemble multilayered structures
22.214.171.124 disadvantages
188.8.131.52.1 instability - different pH and ionic strength environments can cause layers to spontaneously disassemble at undesired times
22.214.171.124.2 zeta potential can suddenly change as layers spontaneously strip off
8.4 Special considerations for the final attachment design
8.4.1 preparing the nanoparticle for addition of targeting and therapeutic molecules
8.4.2 what are the special requirements, if any, for these molecules?
18.104.22.168 how to attach without changing function of molecule
184.108.40.206 does this molecule need to stay attached, or not, to the nanoparticle in order to function
8.4.3 testing for targeting and therapeutic efficacy at the single cell level
8.5 Attaching different types of targeting molecules (some types and examples)
8.5.1 antibodies – which end to attach?
8.5.2 peptides – which end to attach, steric hindrance? Spacer arm needed?
8.5.3 aptamers - which end to attach, steric hindrance? Spacer arm needed?
8.5.4 small molecule ligands - which end to attach, steric hindrance? Spacer arm needed?
8.6 Testing the nanoparticle-targeting complex
8.6.1 ways of detecting this complex
8.6.2 ways of assessing targeting/mistargeting efficiency and costs of mistargeting
8.6.3 is the nanoparticle still attached to the targeting molecule?
8.7 Attaching/tethering different types of therapeutic molecules
8.7.1 antibody therapeutics - need to interact with the immune system to activate
8.7.2 peptides (e.g. apoptosis-inducing peptides)
8.7.3 therapeutic aptamers
8.7.4 transcribable sequences
8.7.5 small drugs
8.8 Testing the nanoparticle-therapeutic molecule complex
8.8.1 direct and indirect ways of detecting the therapeutic molecules
8.8.2 ways of assessing the therapeutic efficacy at single cell level
8.8.3 is the nanoparticle still attached to the therapeutic molecule? Is that important?
8.9 Nanomedical pharmacodynamics – the great unknown
8.9.1 little is known about complex nanoparticle pharmacodynamics
8.9.2 obtaining quantitative biodistribution data is extremely difficult!
8.9.3 some possible new approaches
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How to Stop Debt Collector Harassment
November 22, 2009 by JS · Leave a Comment
How many people do you think get their rights violated daily by debt collectors? The number is probably quite astounding. As a college student, I've been on both sides of these conversations. I worked a medical billing company where we collected past due debts, and I have past due debts. So I know how tough both can be. However, I will almost never side with a debt collector because they almost always do something wrong.
For instance, debt collectors can't tell you that your wages will be garnished if they really have no intentions to garnish your wages or no means to do so. They also can't call you at work if you've asked them not to or call you during certain hours of the day (they are allowed to call between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 pm in your time zone, regardless of what time zone they are in), just to name a few.
So what do you do if you feel like your rights have been violated? You read up on the Fair Debt Collection Act (passed in 1977) to verify that they are actually breaking the law. If they are in fact breaking the law, there are several things you can do.
- File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against the collector.
- File a complaint with your state's Attorney General.
- File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.
- File a civil suit in your state or federal court for up to $1,000, including damages.
It's important to know that the most influential advocate in your situation is you. Always advocate for yourself and don't be afraid to ask questions. You can even keep a log of the number of times negative things have happened. In my opinion, this is the BEST way to safeguard yourself should you need to go to court. Keep a log of anything that the collector told you that you felt was wrong in any way. Make sure you date and timestamp your log. Make sure you do this every time the collector calls. This way, you have data that backs up your story.
Also, don't be afraid to ask to speak to a supervisor if an agent is being rude and threatening. If they get in trouble for that, then so be it. They should.
The point is, no one has the right to threaten you with false threats. No one has the right to make you feel like you did something wrong simply because you can't pay your bills. Always try to work out payment options with your collector, but if you can't and the threats continue, don't be afraid to file a complaint. It will only help you and someone else later down the road.
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When I was visiting my brother earlier this year, I found this CD in my sister-in-law's collection. Oy vey's mir! There's just something fundamentally wacked out about the whole idea. (Maybe that's why I liked it. Here's what other people think.)
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to Seattle
Coming to the Pacific Science Center in September 2006 the Dead Sea Scrolls, "considered by many experts to be the most significant archaeological find of the twentieth century". Tickets went on sale yesterday. Volunteer opportunities also available.
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Find out more about John Deere's parts distribution network, regional depot locations and how to place emergency parts orders.
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Message Queue's built-in administration tools include both command line and GUI tools:
All Message Queue utilities are accessible via a command line interface. Utility commands share common formats, syntax conventions, and options. These utilities allow you to perform various administrative tasks, as noted below, and therefore can require different administrative permissions:
The Broker utility (imqbrokerd) starts up brokers and specifies their configuration properties, including connecting them together into a cluster. Permissions: User account that initially started the broker.
The Command utility (imqcmd) controls brokers and their resources and manages physical destinations. Permissions: Message Queue admin user account.
The Object Manager utility (imqobjmgr) manages provider-independent administered objects in an object store accessible via the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI). Permissions: Object store (flat-file or LDAP server) access account.
The Database Manager utility (imqdbmgr) creates and manages databases for persistent storage that conform to the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) standard. Permissions: JDBC database manager account.
The User Manager utility (imqusermgr) populates a file-based user repository for user authentication and authorization. Permissions: user account that initially started the broker.
The Service Administrator utility ( imqsvcadmin) installs and manages a broker as a Windows service. Permissions: Administrator.
The Key Tool utility (imqkeytool) generates self-signed certificates for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) authentication. Permissions: root user (Solaris and Linux platforms) or Administrator (Windows platform).
The executable files for the above command line utilities are in the /bin directory shown in Appendix A, Platform-Specific Locations of Message Queue Data.
See Chapter 15, Command Line Reference for detailed information on the use of these utilities.
The Message Queue Administration Console combines some of the capabilities of the Command and Object Manager utilities. You can use it to perform the following tasks:
Connect to and control a broker remotely
Create and manage physical destinations
Create and manage administered objects in a JNDI object store
However, you cannot use the Administration Console to perform such tasks as starting up a broker, creating broker clusters, managing a JDBC database or a user repository, installing a broker as a Windows service, or generating SSL certificates. For these, you need the other command line utilities (Broker, Database Manager, User Manager, Service Administrator, and Key Tool), which cannot operate remotely and must be run on the same host as the broker they manage (see Figure 1–1).
See Chapter 2, Quick-Start Tutorial for a brief, hands-on introduction to the Administration Console. More detailed information on its use is available through its own help facility.


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Meet Nick and Amy Dunne whose marriage is their most obsessive and dangerous passion.
Their marital un-bliss is so destructive it could undo George and Martha who burned up the pages of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
How did things get so bad? That's the reason to read this book. Gillian Flynn — whose award-winning Dark Places and Sharp Objects also shone a dark light on weird and creepy, not to mention uber dysfunctional characters — delves this time into what happens when two people marry and one spouse has no idea who their beloved really is.
Life starts to unravel when Nick and Amy lose their jobs in New York and move to Hannibal, Mo., to care for Nick's ailing mom. One day, Amy disappears and, because they always do, the police take a close look at the seemingly distraught husband.
To peel away even one layer of what happens to Nick and Amy is giving too much away. Nick insists he had nothing to do with her disappearance even though he's a liar and a cheat. Someone may be setting him up, and as the investigation goes deeper, he's looking more and more like a murderer with a means and a motive.
Flynn tells this dark story by alternating first-person accounts from Amy and Nick. What you'll find within their sides of the story will astound readers who will roll over, look at their mate and wonder "Who are you, really?"


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The last few months of the year may have everyone thinking about holiday cheer and pumpkin pies, but it's also prime time for investors to put tax-planning strategies into place that can help reduce their liability for 2013.
Indeed, Dec. 31 marks the cutoff date for delaying income, accelerating deductions, gifting appreciated assets and dumping investment dogs for the current filing year.
Such moves, however, require careful consideration of an investor's current and projected financial picture, said Melissa Labant, the director of tax advocacy for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Labant, a CPA, is also a certified financial planner.
"Anywhere from September through November, taxpayers should be thinking about year-end (tax) planning," she said. "To be able to plan ahead, you have to know where you are."
(Read more: Year-end financial checklist)
The advice is even more crucial this year for high-income earners, said Labant, who pointed out that the Bush-era tax cuts expired this year for those in the highest tax brackets.
For 2013, married couples filing jointly with taxable income greater than $450,000 will face a new 39.6 percent top marginal income tax rate, plus a bump to 20 percent, up from 15 percent, on qualified dividend and long-term capital gains.
Joint filers earning more than $250,000 will also be subject to a new 3.8 percent Medicare surtax on net investment income.
"Taxpayers tend to look at their liability for prior years and assume that it will be the same for the current year, but when you have a year with significant tax law changes you can't assume your tax bill will stay the same," Labant said.
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text: Robert G. Brown wrote: > Are you > suggesting that e.g. a long-running program with fully unrolled loops > cannot exceed 4 GB in size and still be "simple"? Unrolled loops probably add only a few percent to the text size of a program. I admittedly don't have any data to prove this but try to imagine a case in which a standard compiler would do enough loop unrolling to add significant size to a program. As I understand it, loop unrolling is only used in certain cases, and the size of the unrolled loops themselves can't be too large, otherwise any benefits from the unrolling evaporate. > Are you suggesting > that compilers will never try to unroll code at that level, even when > enormous memory systems are commonplace? Again, the enormous memory systems you mention consist mostly of enormous amounts of data, not text. > Are you suggesting that even > when concatenated, the space of all possibly functional operational > phonemes in computational semantics cannot fill a 4 GB dictionary? I'm not sure what you mean by "functional operational phonemes" but to me that means some sort of data, which again, is not what I'm talking about. > Another such program is "the operating system" especially a multitasking > operating system. There is no real bound on the number of threads an > operating system can run, True, but somebody still has to write the threads. > and "the program" being run on a multitasking > operating system is the union of all "sub" programs being run on the > system, with or without shared libraries (sharing is expensive in > performance, remember -- we do it to save memory because it is a scarce > resource). Why is sharing expensive in performance? It might take a little overhead to setup and manage, but why is having multiple virtual addresses map to the same physical memory expensive? > Clearly that can and does exceed 4 GB, even routinely on a > heavily loaded server and we'd do it a lot more often without shared > libraries. Really? Show me one case where this is true. Again, remember, I'm only talking about program text. > And there MAY be new compilers that are a lot more > generous in their usage of space than they are now. There may be > new-gen RISC-y processors that use far more instructions to do things > that are currently done with fewer ones. Is your observation > Intel-arch-only? I did my test for both Alpha OSF/1 a while back, and modern Intel x86. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforrest at berkeley.edu


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About a year ago, while I was looking for an upgrade for my dSLR, Cathy of Gastronomyblog told me to wait until I had posted 100 reviews on my blog. Why 100 you ask? Since I was a slacker (and still is one) with my blogging, she figured setting a goal would get me to post more. Well....here it is, number 100. There's not a better place for number 100 than to revisit one of my favorite meals in 2010, Michael Chiarello's Bottega in Yountville.
Since my friends and I had a day of wine tasting, we decided to change it up a bit have start the meal with some cocktails. It's not the best I've had (Milk and Honey in NYC is my favorite), but these were still some refreshing concoctions.
|Shaved Brussel Sprout Salad - marcona almonds, sieved egg, pecorino and whole citrus vinaigrette
For fans of the Top Chef series, this was one of the dishes Chef Chiarello made on Top Chef Masters Season 1. As a fan of brussel sprouts, I natually had to order this dish. I enjoyed the texture of this salad with the brussel sprouts and the marcona almonds, it provided a nice crunch. The egg and the citrus vinaigrette provided a nice creamy and acidic touches needed to complete the salad. Very nice.
|Polenta Under Glass - caramelized wild mushrooms, balsamic game sauce
A favorite from the last visit, and as I said from the last post, I'd order it again. Nothing new to report other than I think I enjoyed it better this time as it was not as salty as I had remembered. Polenta and mushroom? Yes please!
|"Bacon and Eggs" - Pork Belly and Crispy Fried Soft Boiled Egg (Photo courtesy of loreleyheart)
Next up was the dish I saw on Food Network's "The Best Thing I Ever Ate," Chiarello's "Bacon and Eggs." But honestly, how could anyone pass up pork belly with a sugar brûléed top and a soft boiled egg that's battered in panko and deep fried to perfection? Was it good? Ya, it's was pretty damn good. The only thing missing were the roasted peppers from the dish I saw on the show, but really, I wasn't missing it. If you see this on the menu, order it. On the previous visit, we had a similar dish called "Green Eggs and Ham." That was a tasty dish, but this one was much, much better!
|Truffled Fries (Photo courtesy of loreleyheart)
Another item we had from the last visit, the truffled fries. For those that love truffle flavor things, order it. For those that just like fries, order it. Hell, just order the damn thing. That is all.
|Risotto del Giorno (Risotto of the Day)
This was probably the one dish of the night we weren't too crazy about. I really enjoyed the risotto from Bottega from the last visit and knew I had to order the daily risotto special. Originally we were told it was going to be a seafood risotto, then was informed they ran out of the fish and had to switch it to a ham (I believe?) version. While the texture of the rice was fine, I found the dish to be too salty and the ham version wasn't all that exciting. While I'll still order the risotto of the day here, I might be a bit more mindful of the ingredient used on that particular day.
|Hand-cut egg linguine with Manilla clams, Calabrese sausage, garlic, basil, parsley, and white wine (Photo courtesy of loreleyheart)
Since the pasta dishes were the hit of the table last time, we had to get some this time around. We started with the hand cut linguine with clams and Calabrese sausage. Now this was a beautiful bowl of pasta. I loved the flavors of the clams and sausages together. This was truly delicious. I gotta give thanks to my buddy Benny for taking some of those shots as his food pics are much more kick ass than mine.
|House-made egg pappardelle with veal, pork, porcini mushroom Bolognese, Sweet 100 tomatoes, rosemary and parmigiano
This was another delicious plate of pasta. I loved the meat ragu made from veal and pork. The pappardelle was just perfect. You can't really ask for anything better than found on this plate.
|Confit of Half Duck - mostarda di frutta, Forni Brown greens, pomegranate salad, red wine duck jus
I tell everyone that goes to Bottega to order their duck confit. Why do I do it? Well, for one, I love duck, it's a truly remarkable animal. However, the duck confit here is, pardon my French, fucking delicious! Go order it! See, she did, umm, and I think she'll do it next time. Trust the Panda on this one. If you don't like it, I'll pay for it (BTW, I'm joking).
|Twice Cooked Natural Pork Chop - bacon wrapped tomatoes
This was a nicely cooked pork chop and I especially like the bacon wrapped product on top, though you can't go wrong with bacon, ever. However, the duck was better. Hey, I'm just honest.
|Smoked and Braised Natural Short Ribs - preserved Meyer-lemon spinach, smokey jus
It's true short ribs is a bit played out in the past few years, but I do enjoy eating it. This particular short rib was quite nice and juicy. I especially enjoyed the side of spinach with preserved meyer lemon. All in all, a fantastic ending to the meal.
End of the meal? Where's the dessert you ask. Well, even though the popular theory states: there's always room for dessert. After 4 appetizers, 3 pastas, 3 main courses for a group of three, we simply could not taken in another bite of food.
Overall, the return visit to Bottega was successful. While I enjoyed the first visit more, the second visit was still wonderful. Chef Michael Chiarello still patrolled the dining room and kitchen like the last visit and the meal as whole was terrific. I'd recommend Bottega wholeheartedly to anyone that's planning to visit the Napa Valley area. Again, order the damn duck. Thanks!
Oh, and back to the camera story. I'm still using my original Canon (Go Canon!) XSi, but since I have the green light to upgrade, it's time to start looking again. Thanks again for all the inspiration and keeping my blog alive and kicking Cathy!
Bottega Ristorante
6525 Washington Street
Yountville, CA 94599-1300
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Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), Microsoft's antipiracy feature in Windows, has undergone many changes and has caused many headaches over the years. Once again, the software giant has announced that it will be tweaking WGA. With the release of Service Pack 1, the company will disable the two most common exploits to the product activation technology, the OEM BIOS and Grace Timer exploits.
In SP1, the "Reduced Functionality Mode" has been replaced with a notifications-based mode. This means that systems that are not activated during their grace periods (initial activations as well as those due to hardware changes) or that fail validation, remain functional. After the activation grace period is exceeded, the next logon presents the user with a message that directs the customer to activate that copy of Windows. The dialog includes a 15-second delay before "Activate Later" can be clicked and the user can access their desktop, which now has a black background.
Each hour after being logged in, the system will reset the desktop background to black (if it has been changed) and a system tray balloon notification will advise the customer to activate their copy of Windows. Users of SP1 who previously had bypassed activation with the two aforementioned exploits should expect to find those exploits disabled by Windows and will then begin to receive "Activate Your Copy of Windows" prompts. When the message first appears will vary depending on what exploit is running on the system.
Users who do not install SP1 are not being disregarded. Later this month Microsoft will release an update to Windows Vista through Windows Update that will enable Gold and SP1-installed systems to detect the presence of the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS exploits. A separate removal tool will also be available for download. The dialog box (above) will provide customers with guidance about what they can do to fix the problem and will provide a link for more details, so that customers can learn about the particular exploit and learn how to disable and remove it. If an affected user is a victim of software piracy, the linked Web pages will provide information on how to get genuine software. The update in itself will not disable the exploits it finds, but the team does plan to integrate the removal of exploits in the next release.
Further reading
- Windows Genuine Advantage Blog, Taking the next step with Windows Vista SP1


text: how about support for machine that us intel pxe. we are planning to use in our new cluster setup. does an installation from the beowulf CD work with this kind of setup? On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Donald Becker wrote: > > A question about our new distribution revealed that I missed a feature of > our new distribution CD-ROM: > > The CD-ROM is both an install disk, and a compute node boot disk! > > If you using the CD to install the Scyld Beowulf on the front-end machine, > you must type either "graphics" or "text" within 20 seconds(1). > > You can use the same CD to boot the compute nodes. After the 20 second > timeout, it takes five to ten seconds for the node to join the cluster -- no > additional installation is needed.(2) > > Although you can use just one CD-ROM, our supported packages ship with a CD > for every node. > > If you are ordering the unsupported version from LinuxCentral > http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=L000-089 > you should just order a $2 CD for each node. You can order up to 20 disks > without the shipping charge increasing, and the shipping for a 100 disks is > still under $10 in the U.S. > > The node boot kernel is replaced with the final kernel using Two Kernel > Monte, so the only reason the node boot CDs will become obsolete is if you > buy new hardware (e.g. network adapters) that requires an updated driver > or kernel. > > Notes: > 1. It has already been reported that 20 seconds isn't enough time to absorb > all of the info on initial screen. The next edition will have simplified > instruction, only the common options, and new aliases of "install" and "gui". > > 2. Booting off of the CD is far faster and more reliable than using a > floppy. It takes about a minute to read a boot floppy. And ask people who > have tried to use floppy booted PCs as routers. Dust accumulates around the > open shutter, and the head dents and slowly erases the disk. > > > Donald Becker becker at scyld.com > Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com > 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters > Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list > Beowulf at beowulf.org > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > --------------------- william.s.yu at ieee.org (1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes.


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At least since whoever wrote "The Arabian Nights" invented postmodernism, we have been visited by metafiction — literature folding in on itself to address its own fictionality. At its best we get "Don Quixote," "Tristram Shandy," Jorge Luis Borges' stories, Chuck Jones' "Duck Amuck." At its worst we get Paul Auster. Ali Smith's new collection, "Artful" &8212; the text of her Weidenfeld lectures, delivered at Oxford last February — isn't bad, but it's no "Duck Amuck."
The lectures turn out to be "discursive stories," as the jacket copy has it, narrated by a character who discovers her (or his; it's unclear) dead lover's notes for a series of lectures. The unnamed narrator is literally haunted by the dead lover, who says things like "What is it, again, time?" If this sort of recursive cleverness is your bag, your bag is this sort of recursive cleverness. If you're like me and wish that people would go back to giving lectures that resemble, like, lectures, you might find it all a bit stale.
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To judge from descriptions of her novels "Hotel World" (2001) and "The Accidental" (2005), which I haven't read, Smith has a thing for ghosts. The ghost in "Artful" first appears after the narrator has begun to reread "Oliver Twist," and the rambling excurses that follow artfully dodge the question of what sort of book it is we are reading. Story, essay, lecture, memoir — these days, with the advent of the "lyric essay," it's all a mush. There are authors who excel at this: Susan Mitchell's "Notes toward a History of Scaffolding" is a delightfully diced blend of genres, and Susan Howe and Anne Carson have been blurring the boundaries of essay, history and poem for years.
But as much as I admire Smith's voice and the lightness with which she wears her learning, "Artful" too often recalls the old beginning-poetry-workshop standby, the poem about not being able to write a poem. Smith hints as much when the narrator recalls her dead partner's "writing the last couple of those talks — well, when you were trying to, but were, you said, stuck, blocked."
This is unfair to the comic exuberance and insight of these whatever-they-are — the narrator's conversations with her therapist are a small triumph — but "Artful" would be easier to enjoy if it were less slapdash. Every lecture in the humanities is liberally sprinkled with quotations from literary and critical heavyweights, but here they seem less buttresses of thought or even displays of erudition than means of filling up blank paper. In the space of five early pages, Smith (or her dead proxy, in her notes) quotes José Saramago, Katherine Mansfield, Michelangelo, Eugenio Montale, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," Czesaw Miosz, Edwin Morgan, Matthew Reynolds and Rainer Maria Rilke. And she throws in Damien Hirst for good measure. She has some smart things to say about some of these quotations, but the main impression is that of a canonical pile-up. The lecture is ostensibly "On Time," so Smith (or her proxy) spews forth a free-associational stream of cool stuff that people have said about time:
And when I think of Forster's tapeworm, I can't help thinking of the Nicola Barker short story … as one of Mansfield's characters in her story … The wanderings of time in Mrs. Dalloway … Forster says … Saramago points out … Juan Pablo Villalobos's 2010 novel … the Roman historian Sallust could write … what J.G. Ballard suggests … when Forster writes about how Gertrude Stein … with Proust making the act of remembrance … with Joyce making an epic forever …
I suppose part of my frustration with "Artful" stems from my admiration of the work it most resembles, J.M. Coetzee's novel "Elizabeth Costello," which began as the Tanner Lectures given at Princeton. Coetzee reworked his original lectures in "Costello," while Smith tells us her lectures are published in "Artful" "pretty much as they were delivered." Still, Coetzee's lectures also take the form of stories in which a fictional proxy is delivering a lecture. The meta-lectures in "Costello" invited the charge that Coetzee was trying to evade responsibility for his character's extreme formulations. But in the novel, Coetzee demonstrates that the conventions of metafiction can be turned to explosive moral purpose in the production of rigorous, high-stakes art. "Costello" forces the reader to think about who and what she is.
"Artful" doesn't force the reader to do anything, although you wouldn't know it from the breathless reception the book has received. Booklist discerns "the thrill of perilous border crossings." The reviewer for The Independent on Sunday seems to have been inspired to go off his meds: "I think I am in love with Ali Smith." Maybe I'm missing something. These stories and notes are by turns plodding and jaunty, engaged and auto-piloted, amusing and harrowing — but they never feel necessary. Unlike Coetzee's novel, "Artful" never gives the impression that it had to be written, that it would have clawed its way out of Smith's brain even if she hadn't been invited to deliver the Weidenfeld lectures.
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MSRTC - Maharashtra State Road Transport CorporationMSRTC is the public bus transport service of Maharastra State Government, which runs different types of 16,000 buses on 17,000 routes and provide facility to 70 lakhs passangers daily. In India MSRTC is the third largest bus service, first and second are APSRTC and TNSTC. The corporation is the biggest fleet owner in India and provice online bus booking/reservation on all its 17000 bus routes. Apart form Maharastra, it also run buses in Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Goa.
Below are the popular long routs of MSRTC-
Mumbai – Ahmedabad
Mumbai – Surat
Mumbai – Bangalore
Mumbai – Hyderabad
Mumbai – Udaipur
Mumbai – Goa
Mumbai – Indore
In 1920s bus service was started in Maharastra with no regulatory laws. Initally this bus service runs on ad-hoc manner. After the Motar Vechicle Act comes in force in 1939; standardzation of routes, schedule of buses, bus stops and regularization of fares took place.
In 1948 Bombay State Government started it's a public bus transport service, sponsored by State Government known as State Transport of Bpmbay. In same year first silver and blue topped bus raned between Pune and Ahmednagar. In 1950 Central Government passed an Act for Road Transport Corporation, which allows State Government to establish their own Road Transport Corporation. After this act, Bompay State Transport Corporation (BSRTC) formed which later renamed as Maharastra State Road Transport Corporation, after re-organization of States.
Bus fleet and workshops
MSRTC is the lasgest bus fleet owner in India which operates 16000 buses daily. MSRTC have its own workshop for manufacturing of buses at Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad on TATA and Ashok Lleyland. In these workshop oedinary, city buses and Asiad buses are manufactured. The yearly manufacturing capacty of these three workshops is of 2000 buses. Apart form these three workshops MSRTC have 32 divisonal workshops for maintainance of buses and 9 tyre rereeading plants.


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Study Shows High-Deductible Health Plans Discourage Needed Health Care
People who choose high-deductible health plans are not necessarily young and healthy. In fact, many earn low incomes, have poor-to-fair health and likely choose high-deductible plans for their lower premiums without understanding the high out-of-pocket expenses they could incur.
As a result, high deductible health plans go beyond cutting down use of unnecessary medical care. They discourage low-income people from getting needed preventive, primary care and subspecialty care.
Those are among the findings of Robert Graham Center researchers who looked at the impact of different types of high deductible plans on use of primary, preventive health care. The study, "Privately insured adults in HDHP with higher deductibles reduce rates of primary care and preventive services," was published in the June issue of Translational Behavioral Medicine.
Researcher Anuradha Jetty, MPH, and her colleagues investigated the impact of different high deductible plans on the use of primary and subspecialty services. The high-deductible plans they studied comprised those with no deductible costs, those with low deductibles, those associated with health savings accounts, and those that did not have health savings accounts.
Among their findings: people with high-deductible plans and no health savings accounts were least likely to use primary care, receive preventive care or seek subspecialty services. This group also were most likely to have low income and be in poor-to-fair health.
"We found that rates of breast cancer and hypertension screening, and flu vaccination were lower among respondents in high-deductible without health savings accounts compared with those enrolled in no-deductible insurance plans," Jetty writes. "...High-deductible-No-HSA enrollees reported slightly worse health status than other insured groups. Importantly, they visited primary care physicians less often and used fewer prevention services than the individuals in no-deductible plans.... These high-deductible-no-HSA enrollees defer needed medical care and are at greater risk of chronic diseases and their complications so could most benefit from lower cost, more prevention counseling, and disease screening visits of primary care providers."
Insurance companies should ensure their subscribers understand their high-deductible policies offer preventive care services that have no out-of-pocket expenses, Jetty and her colleagues write.
They also call for insurance regulation that required companies to establish deductibles on a graduated, income-related scale. Changes to the Affordable Care Act should preserve cost-free prevention coverage and low-cost primary care services "to assure that those of lower socioeconomic status can access primary care for prevention, early detection of chronic disease, and avoidable progression of chronic disease."


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#159 Ultimate Chunky Cables and Ribs Scarf
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21 sts = approx 3 ¾" 9.5 cm and 32 rows = approx 4.6" 11.7 cm in Cable Rib patt, blocked.
Even though my winters are not white here in Southern California, I love having a chunky winter white scarf to knit and wear!
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Knit in a very soft merino wool in winter white, this scarf is this season's modern take on a winter classic!
The easy-to-learn stitch pattern knits up fast, creating a nice, thick, and luxuriously textured scarf that can be worn looped with the ends pulled through, wrapped once around your neck, or with the ends tucked in like a cowl. The alternating cables and ribs also creates nicely waved finished edges.
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