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Tech & Media Finally Allowed To Marry In NYC (IFP To Officiate)/
It was with great pleasure that on Friday, I saw that it was announced that the IFP (of which I am on the board of) was awarded the RFP for a new digital media center in New York City. I, and many others, had been struggling with the lack of interaction between the two fields. The Mayor's Office stepped into do something about it. This is a truly great initiative and should be a model for cities throughout the country (Hey San Francisco: hint, hint).
This is the official press release:
Media Center Will Promote Collaboration between Entertainment, Advertising and New Media Industries and Offer Educational Programs to Support the Next Generation of Innovators
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Media & Entertainment Commissioner Katherine Oliver and New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky today announced that IFP, the Independent Filmmaker Project, will develop and operate the "Made in NY" Media Center, a centralized hub for the local media industry to collaborate and grow. The "Made in NY" Media Center will provide workspace, educational programs in partnership with General Assembly and networking events for content creators and entrepreneurs. The center will be housed in DUMBO, Brooklyn at an 18,000 square foot facility that will bring together professionals from the film, television, advertising, new media, gaming, marketing and branding industries for collaboration and new opportunities. It is expected to open in May 2013. Mayor Bloomberg was joined at the future site of the "Made in NY" Media Center by IFP executive director Joana Vicente, General Assembly founder Matt Brimer, Representative Nydia M. Velazquez, Assembly Member Joan Millman and Carlo A. Scissura, president & CEO of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.
"New York City is at the forefront of both the entertainment and tech industries, and our new 'Made in NY' Media Center will help creators, artists and entrepreneurs build on the success we've already seen," said Mayor Bloomberg. "By providing workspace for projects in development, professional workshops and innovative programs to welcome new ideas and start-ups, we will continue to attract talent and new ideas."
"One of the goals of the 'Made in NY' Media Center is to connect filmmakers, producers and storytellers to a rapidly changing world that is full of mobile apps, multi-platform distribution and social media," said Media & Entertainment Commissioner Oliver. "IFP's decades-long work in promoting and supporting independent filmmakers makes it the ideal choice to develop the 'Made in NY' Media Center into a thriving source of new content and collaboration in the City."
"The 'Made in NY' Media Center is an important investment in the future of an industry that has grown phenomenally under Mayor Bloomberg," said New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky. "With this investment, we will help ensure that the next generation of creative and business talent critical to the continued expansion of this industry is seeded and nurtured right here in New York, helping to cement our city's status as one of the world's great centers of innovation for generations to come."
"The 'Made in NY' Media Center bolsters the future of New York City's thriving media industry by supporting quality storytelling and innovation," said Rachel Haot, Chief Digital Officer. "Through powerful events, programs and resources, the 'Made in NY' Media Center will help prepare New Yorkers for jobs in the evolving media ecosystem and facilitate cross-sector collaboration."
"The 'Made in NY' Media Center will be an incubator for great stories and a showcase for new works whether they're told through film, digital, games or apps," said Joana Vicente, executive director, IFP. "Regardless of what tools are used, we'll be doing what we've done for 30 years: curating stories, supporting artists and connecting storytellers to investors, audiences and other artists. At IFP, we are thrilled."
"Since opening our original New York City campus in January 2011, General Assembly has helped more than 21,000 students globally create opportunities through educational programming in the areas of technology, entrepreneurship and design," said Adam Pritzker, co-founder and chairman, General Assembly. "We believe that New York is one of the most important centers for technology and media in the world, and we are excited to continue our support of this community through our collaboration with the IFP and the creation of the 'Made in NY' Media Center."
"The Made in NY Media Center will be an important hub of creative and innovative thinking," said Speaker Christine C. Quinn. "This collaborative workspace will bring together professionals from across various industries, and help inspire countless New Yorkers to realize their true potential. I want to thank and congratulate IFP, the Bloomberg administration, and my Council colleagues for working together to keep pace with the ever changing world of technology, and seeking new ways to prepare New Yorkers for new jobs."
"New York City has a rich history as the media capital of the world," said Representative Velazquez. "This new facility will build on that legacy, providing more opportunities for collaboration, creativity and the production of compelling new films, television and digital media."
"The TV shows and films made right here in New York prove that you don't need to go to Hollywood to make it big," said State Senator Daniel Squadron. "Now, countless New Yorkers who work in the industry will have a new place to call home thanks to IFP and 'Made in New York.' Just like the new Tech Triangle bus route we're building, this is yet another step toward the connectivity New York's media industry needs to continue to grow and create jobs and business for our communities."
"I am delighted the City has selected DUMBO for its 'Made in NY' Media Center," said Assembly Member Joan L. Millman. "This location will provide workspace as well as a community center in a neighborhood already home to digital and social media start-ups."
"Today's announcement reinforces the fact that the borough of Brooklyn, and the DUMBO neighborhood in particular, is quickly becoming the creative hub of the city," said Councilmember Stephen Levin. "This will provide much-needed affordable space for media entrepreneurs and start-up companies and allow for collaboration among individuals across a variety of fields. I would like to thank Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner Oliver and President Pinsky for their commitment to and investment in New York City's creative industries and I congratulate Joana Vicente and her team at the Independent Filmmaker Project on their exciting proposal."
"There is no better place than DUMBO to bring professionals from the film, advertising, new media, and gaming industries together in one central location," said Carlo A. Scissura, president & CEO, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. "Home to New York's ever-growing tech community, DUMBO is a hot spot for digital media and other start-ups. This new center is also wonderful for Brooklyn businesses as a whole because it ensures that the borough continues to attract the best and the brightest from around the world. I would like to extend my thanks to Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Oliver for all their work in this area and for ensuring that the city remains ahead of the curve when it comes to new technology."
"Downtown Brooklyn is fast becoming a center for creativity, anchored by 57,000 college students, a burgeoning tech sector and flourishing media and design presence, making the borough an ideal location for the 'Made in New York' digital media center," said Tucker Reed, President of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. "Brooklyn has long been home to most of the city's manufacturing industry, and will continue to be so by creating products and ideas that support New York's thriving innovation economy."
"The 'Made in NY' Media Center is going to be an incredible resource for the hundreds of creative and tech firms in DUMBO and thousands of creators setting up shop in the growing in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle," said Alexandria Sica, Executive Director of the DUMBO Improvement District. "We're thrilled to have this community space, led by IFP and world-class partners like General Assembly. DUMBO is the perfect spot for the center and we have no doubt the entrepreneurs will be inspired by not only our cinematic scenery but also the presence of so many innovators in media taking root along the Brooklyn Waterfront."
Looking to help solve the need for traditional media companies to adapt to new business
models or face becoming obsolete, the "Made in NY" Media Center aims to work with content creators, storytellers and technology companies to collaborate across platforms and industries and create new opportunities and business products. The "Made in NY" Media Center will launch with affordable short term rental work areas: community workspace intended for individual use and co-working workspace for small firms or start ups for extended rentals, in addition to post production suites and two to three anchor tenants who will be housed in offices at the center. The facility will also feature classrooms, a public café, media arts gallery, lounge, numerous conference rooms and a 98-seat state-of-the-art 'white box' screening/multimedia room. Flexible workstations can be reconfigured to allow for changing needs of the occupants.
The building at 20 Jay Street is a New York City Landmark designed by William Higginson for the Arbuckle Brothers in 1909 as America's largest coffee roaster and packager. IFP will work with New York real estate development firm Two Trees Management Co. to develop the facility; Brooklyn-based MESH Architectures will design the space.
At the "Made in NY" Media Center, a host of programs and workshops will be offered to foster the development of the next generation of content creators. General Assembly, a leading global education company headquartered in New York, will provide classes, workshops, and long-form educational programming covering technology, entrepreneurship, and design. The IFP will offer classes on creativity & craft, cross-media strategy, and career sustainability. This regularly scheduled and affordable curriculum will be offered to the public and will address the needs of all levels of professionals. The curricula will be designed to address the needs of would-be entrepreneurs seeking to transition to emerging career fields in media, individuals looking for specific skills and practical knowledge to fill gaps in their toolkit and those looking to stay current in their chosen career.
The media center will offer memberships to multimedia professionals at various levels. At the Partnership level, for example, aimed at mid-career professionals seeking new partners and strategic development, members would receive desk space in the center; twice annual use of the screening room; thrice annual use of the presentational space; access to one of the center's educational seminars each month; and invitations to screenings, networking events and IFP membership.
To encourage interaction and collaboration among the different participants in the "Made in NY" Media Center, several programs will be embedded into the agenda, including the Transmedia Incubator, the nation's first dedicated transmedia incubator to jump-start and support innovative projects from idea to conception and beyond. Networking events, workshops, training sessions and panels will also take place at center.
New York City is home to a vibrant media and entertainment industry. Each year approximately 200 films shoot on location throughout the five boroughs, and there are 25 primetime television and online series based in the city, as well as 140 news, reality, children's and other programs. An estimated 1,000 tech start ups that have been created in the city during the last five years. Between 2007 and 2010, the number of employees at city-based digital media companies grew by 74 percent. Across the country, mobile apps have become a $20 billion industry and created almost 500,000 American jobs.
IFP was selected as the developer and operator of the "Made in NY" Media Center after a request for proposals was issued by EDC in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment in March 2012. Since its inception in 1979 in New York City, IFP has pursued its mission of sustaining innovative content creation and community building through its support of the production of 8,000 films and 22,000 filmmakers. Each year IFP presents the Gotham Independent Film Awards and brings filmmakers and industry reps together at Independent Film Week. IFP also publishes FILMMAKER Magazine.
Proposed renderings of the design of the "Made in NY" Media Center are available on the NYC Mayor's Office's Flickr page.


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Anonymous supporters wearing Guy Fawkes masks hold a banner as they take part in a protest outside Britain's Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, November 5, 2012. The protest was held on November 5 to coincide with the failed 1605 gunpowder plot to blow up the House of Lords.
Two weeks ago today, a line was crossed. Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win—a twisted and distorted perversion of justice—a game where the only winning move was not to play.
That message greeted visitors to the United States Sentencing Commission website the evening of January 25. The words were part of a ten-minute video manifesto embedded on the homepage of the commission, responsible for writing the sentencing policies and guidelines for federal courts. The death of the Internet savant and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life due at least in part to the outsize charges he was facing at the hands of the U.S. justice system, was still an open wound for most tech-literate net dwellers. No group took the news of Swartz's passing more personally than Anonymous. The hactivist collective swore vengeance, citing the "highly disproportionate sentencing" of Swartz and others like him, and commenced the darkly named Operation Last Resort, hijacking numerous Department of Justice websites and sending "nuclear warheads" packed with stolen DOJ records hurtling across the Internet.
By Saturday night, the government reclaimed the USSC.gov domain, only to have another website come under siege hours later. This time, it was the U.S. Probation Office for the State of Michigan, and if you tapped out a certain combination on your keyboard, you got the vintage arcade game Asteroids, ready to play. Twice in one day, Anonymous had hacked government websites of the most technologically sophisticated nation on earth. Its first strike was a passionate, political call to arms—its second, shenanigans. This seeming contradiction, between crusading morality and adolescent hijinks, is at the heart of Anonymous.
What exactly is Anonymous?
The group's name can be traced back to a website, 4chan. If you're not familiar, 4chan was and is the Mos Eisley of the Internet, a lawless message board operating on the fringes of Internet society with a dedicated and passionate following. Officially billed as an "image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images," nearly every enduring meme of the post-millennial web found its roots in 4chan, from LOLCats to RickRolling. Anonymous emerged from deep within the site, inside a particular subheading known as "/b/."
Notorious even among 4chan's milieu, /b/ truly is the id of the Internet, a wild west of pornography, cat pictures, and staggering amounts of scatological humor. There, like all 4chan message boards, posting without an identity gets you labeled "Anonymous." Those early nameless users were the primordial ooze the movement crawled out of, anonymity serving to embolden and unite. During this formative period, the citizens of /b/ set about to collectively prank the Internet. Their capers, from organizing online flash mobs, to persecuting bullies, to being bullies themselves, broke ground for the sort of hive-mind hyper-democracy that followed.
It went like this: A user would suggest a worthy or amusing target on the message board, and it would either be echoed by the ever-growing voices of the site's chorus, like a game of cyber-telephone, or otherwise ignored into irrelevance. Early members picked their targets purely for "the lulz"—something like "laughs," but closer to schadenfreude. Calling Anonymous a group was to miss the point; it was defined by its participation at any given moment, and like any crowd, the range of interests varied wildly. An early refrain from those days was "none of us are as cruel as all of us," and one member likened the whole enterprise to being part of an epic inside joke. They hijacked the forum of the Epilepsy Foundation and replaced its content with brightly flashing gifs. All for the lulz.
All that DoJ stuff doesn't sound very funny. Are you sure we're talking about the same Anonymous?
In 2008, something changed. An unauthorized "orientation" video for the Church of Scientology featuring Tom Cruise was publicly leaked to Youtube. The video was bizarre enough to be Kubrickian parody—with the theme to Mission: Impossible looping endlessly in the background, Cruise, fresh from jumping on Oprah's couch, made his case: "Being a Scientologist, you look at someone and you know absolutely that you can help them." The video was first met with disbelief, then bemusement, then derision. Scientology was accused of brainwashing its followers, and millions of views later, the Church's army of litigants marched off to harass and pressure websites into removing the content—an effort that was largely successful. Gawker became embroiled in a public struggle to keep the video alive, and amidst the chaos, Anonymous struck.
The campaign kicked off with a threatening video titled "Message to Scientology," and quickly escalated to prank phone calls, faxing black pages to Scientology offices en masse, and the infamous Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). DDoS harnesses the might of thousands of would-be activists by pointing them all at a website at the exact same moment, overloading servers and rendering the site temporarily inoperable. Because DDoS attacks can be carried out by anyone—all that's required is a click of the mouse—and because the flood of users creates its own anonymity, the method has become an Anonymous calling card. The fight eventually jumped offline, with thousands picketing Scientology centers in Guy Fawkes masks, keeping their anonymity intact à la V for Vendetta. "For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind—and for our own enjoyment," droned the computerized voice from the Anonymous video, "we shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form."
It's impossible to say for certain why Anonymous crossed the threshold from merry pranksters to activists, but the movement could not have found a better target for its first political lambasting than Scientology. The organization's zealous litigating had made critical investigation difficult for a news media uneager to risk a court battle with the church's stacked coffers. Scientology represented what Anonymous despised: a group hiding behind the First Amendment to protect its questionable religious status, simultaneously trampling it to protect its reputation. The hypocrisy was too ripe—the lulz too great—to ignore.
So how do these crazy operations get planned? Sounds hard.
4chan will always play host to some part of Anonymous, but the gathering has long-since left its humble first home, and now operates across various websites and services. The meat of Anonymous activity—targeting and planning—happens over Internet Relay Chat. The details of IRC aren't important except that it's simple, lacks unique names, and allows for huge numbers of simultaneous users in the same conversation. While it's opaque to the majority of the Internet public, it provides a relatively open platform for discussion.
Anonymous is collaborative, with dozens or even hundreds or thousands of users on IRC, and while individual 'ops' might have prominent organizers, the gathering itself is leaderless. Issues are proposed, voted on, and developed into targets by the crowd. Those who seek a leadership mantle are quickly shamed, banned from IRC, and called things we wouldn't print. Users drop in and out, spectating, debating, organizing, and volunteering, from penning PR stunts to hacking the most secure servers of the U.S. government.
Hold up. There are thousand and thousands of people who know how to hack super-secure websites? Wait just a sec while I go cancel all my credit cards…
Not all 'anons' are capable of that sort of operation—only a handful of élites can muster the serious hacking, which brings us to the difference between the hackers and the geeks. Hackers are the heavy-lifters, the big guns, The Girl(s) with the Dragon Tattoo. Geeks are the rank-and-file—savvy, but far from experts. When the hackers write a tool to DDoS or deface a website, the geeks are the ones who put it to use.
So … what are they? Hackers? Criminals? Activists? Terrorists?
The U.S. government and the government of the U.K., along with almost every corporation and governing body ever targeted by Anonymous, have unsurprisingly treated the banner and its users as a criminal, terrorist group. Our government, as well as law enforcement across the pond, has charged dozens of anons, threatening decade-long prison terms—or worse.
Anonymous is neither a terrorist organization nor a criminal gang. Yes, its users have transgressed the law, but mostly in the interest of a political or cultural message, and rarely for personal gain. If the collective has any overarching goals, they are to safeguard the freedom of information, to bring low the haughty, and to amuse itself.
From Operation Titstorm's defense of uncensored porn in Australia, to the Hal Turner Raids' takedown of a proud white nationalist, virtually everything Anonymous has done to date can be traced to those three guiding lights. Anonymous's support for Wikileaks wasn't lent for the sheer joy of spreading state secrets—as the authorities have intimated—but in the interest of spreading all information, all the time, and especially when exposing perceived injustice. The gathering's biggest operations have been in support of the Arab Spring—users were "on the ground" early, getting the word out about Tunisia and arming residents there and in Egypt with the tools to circumvent government restrictions on communication and the Internet. Anonymous helped ferry stories and videos out of the region, and even mass-faxed relevant Wikileaks documents to machines all over Egypt, all the while hacking, defacing, and disabling government websites. And of course there is the movement's enduring role in the Occupy protests—Anonymous has been pivotal less in organizing than in getting the word out to its sympathetic and technologically savvy participants.
Anonymous tactics like DDoS have been met with harsh responses and harsher prison sentences by those governments tasked with policing our cyber frontiers, but anons—and an ever-increasing proportion of Internet users—see these acts more as 21st century sit-ins. Anonymous may shut down a business with a mass influx of "customers," but without any permanent damage done, how is that any different from the Greensboro lunch counter?
Where are they going with this? Is it still just for the lulz?
There will always be potential for opportunists to co-opt and exploit an amorphous idea. All that's required is someone to fly the flag, as was the case in the recent proclamation of war against Facebook, which was quickly disavowed by "official" Anonymous channels, if that makes any sense. Last year, when it was discovered that a former high-ranking member had turned FBI-informant, fingering many other top hackers, it was generally assumed the operation had been gutted, the party over. Then came the recent hacking of the DOJ, and it's clear that Anonymous is still alive and well.
The reality is that we live in a world of ever-increasing cyber threats. Stuxnet and Flame, the astonishingly complex computer viruses that wreaked havoc on Iranian nuclear centrifuges, were the work of U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies. It is estimated that China's industrial espionage costs U.S. businesses a trillion dollars a year, and it doesn't stop there: The New York Times reported that over a four-month period, its newsroom computers were infiltrated dozens of times by hackers, while reporters worked on an investigation into the business dealings of China's prime minister. Russian mobs steal thousands of credit card numbers a day. Anonymous supported Wikileaks, which may have put U.S. agents and service members at risk, but in doing so it exposed the injustices of wars that the mainstream media was remiss in covering, and arguably had a hand in bringing those wars to an end.
Anonymous' threat to detonate the "nuclear warheads" stolen from DOJ servers is a serious one, both for the government and for its own future legitimacy. The warheads would purportedly expose sensitive information about those unconnected with the prosecution of Aaron Swartz. As Anonymous stated on the DOJ's hacked website, "We have not taken this action lightly, nor without consideration of the possible consequences. Should we be forced to reveal the trigger-key to this warhead, we understand that there will be collateral damage. We appreciate that many who work within the justice system believe in those principles that it has lost, corrupted, or abandoned, that they do not bear the full responsibility for the damages caused by their occupation. It is our hope that this warhead need never be detonated."
Such an extreme act risks alienating those sympathetic to the cause, never mind the guarantee of government retaliation. But our legal system is broken when it comes to cases like Swartz's, and action must be taken to distinguish—both morally and legally—the types of cybercrime that are only bound to increase as we become ever more dependent on an economy of information. The morality of Anonymous may be ambiguous, its structure may lend itself to manipulation and abuse, and its members may not always agree to do the right thing, but hacktivism has been an effective tool in battling the Internet's injustices. Anonymous represents the future of activism—online and off.

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Google Will Donate Space in its New York Headquarters to CornellNYC Tech While Roosevelt Island Campus is Built
Initial Space of 22,000 Square Feet Can Expand to 58,000 as School Grows
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Google Inc. CEO Larry Page and Cornell President David J. Skorton today announced that Google will allocate 22,000 square feet of its New York headquarters to CornellNYC Tech, while the university completes its campus on Roosevelt Island. The space will allow Cornell to build its presence in New York in close proximity to the tech companies and entrepreneurs with whom it will collaborate. This arrangement represents Google, Cornell, Technion and the City of New York's commitment to educating and developing engineering and tech talent in New York City. Google will initially provide Cornell with 22,000 square feet of office space on July 1, 2012, free of charge for 5 years and 6 months or until the completion of Cornell's campus on Roosevelt Island—whichever occurs first. Additionally, Cornell will be able to expand to 58,000 square feet over five years as it builds its presence in New York City. The Mayor made the announcement at Google New York, where he was also joined by Technion's Director Craig Gotsman, Representative Carolyn Maloney, Representative Jerrold Nadler and Council Member Jessica Lappin.
"We're about to find out what happens when you marry one of the world's most innovative companies with one of the most innovative economic development strategies any city has undertaken," said Mayor Bloomberg. "When we first envisioned the Applied Sciences initiative, we hoped the winning school would establish strong relationships with the tech sector. But this kind of synergy is beyond anything we could have imagined. CornellNYC Tech is well on its way to being fully integrated into New York City's vibrant tech industry, and Google's support is another huge vote of confidence for that industry. Just a few years ago, our tech sector was barely on anyone's radar screen – now, it's creating jobs and becoming a major player in our diversified economy."
"I'm passionate about breaking ground in science and engineering because technology has driven many of the advances humankind has made," said Google CEO Larry Page. "But we still don't have enough people working in these areas. It's why I am tremendously pleased that Google is giving Cornell the office space to get their new engineering university up and running in New York City."
"We are proud to be launching CornellNYC Tech in what is becoming the center of the tech world," said Cornell President David J. Skorton. "The one missing ingredient has been a pipeline of top-level tech talent, and that is what the tech campus will provide. Building on Mayor Bloomberg's vision, we are creating a new academic model for this time, this place and this industry. The key is engagement between world class academics, companies and early-stage investors to catalyze innovation. That's what we'll be creating on Roosevelt Island, and thanks to Google it's what will be happening here starting this fall."
"We are delighted to launch our exciting programs with Cornell University in the Google building," said Technion President Peretz Lavie. "This space provides the optimal environment for the education and nurturing of technical talent. This is a major step towards the fulfillment of Mayor Bloomberg's vision to seed the city with entrepreneurs and start-ups. We at Technion are confident that our academic partnership with Cornell University will help build the city's tech ecosystem and boost this sector of the economy."
Though classes do not begin until the fall, CornellNYC Tech has already made enormous progress since being chosen as the winner of the City's Applied Sciences competition in December. Leadership of the new campus has been named, including Dean Dan Huttenlocher and Vice President Cathy Dove. Earlier this month, Cornell chose Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne to design the first academic building on the Roosevelt Island campus. A town hall forum was held on Roosevelt Island in April, just one of many opportunities for residents to get to know more about how the campus will benefit the entire Island.
"Mayor Bloomberg's Applied Sciences initiative centered around the idea of linking academic excellence with economic development and job creation, and the location of CornellNYC at Google during the construction of the Roosevelt Island campus will be a living testament to that idea," said Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel. "We appreciate Google's commitment to New York City through this generous donation of space in the heart of New York's tech renaissance."
"In December, the Bloomberg Administration, Cornell University, and the Technion created an historic public-private partnership to transform our economy for generations to come," said New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky. "With the addition of Google, one of the world's undisputed leaders in technology, this partnership has risen to even greater heights. The first wave of talented students to arrive in New York will immediately find themselves integrated within our City's growing tech sector, gaining first-hand knowledge of what is required to create cutting-edge technologies and new businesses. I would like to thank Google, as well as Cornell and the Technion, for their commitment to our City's future as the global hub of innovation."
"Google stepping up to the plate and providing CornellNYC Tech with start-up space, while its Roosevelt Campus is built, will make sure that when one googles 'tech hub,' New York City is the top hit," said U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer. "The already emerging partnership between New York's tech community and our new engineering school bodes well for creating a more robust technology cluster that will make the Big Apple the country's leading center for technology. The mayor's leadership in pushing for the establishment of this school and Google's willingness to play such a vital role in jump starting it should be commended."
"No other city is poised to lead in the high-tech economy of the future like New York City," said U.S. Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand. "Thanks to Google's helping hand and strong partnership with Cornell and Technion, we are one step closer to seeing CornellNYC Tech come to fruition, bringing world-class engineering talent right here in the heart of the Big Apple. I thank Mayor Bloomberg for his efforts in ensuring that we're growing innovative leaders to compete and win in the global economy."
"I look forward to the day when CornellNYC Tech opens its doors on Roosevelt Island, but in the meantime, Google's Manhattan offices will provide a wonderful home for the school during its incubation phase," said Representative Maloney. "It's yet another example of Cornell's determination and commitment to launching this exciting new academic venture – and its ability to make connections with the best of the best. And it's also a sign of the open arms with which New York's high-tech community is welcoming New York City's newest institution of higher education. Today's announcement signals a win-win for Cornell, Technion, Google – and New York!"
"Today's announcement is wonderful news," said Representative Jerrold Nadler. "With the generosity of Google providing space in its building, Cornell and the Technion will now be able to provide New York City with a world-class applied sciences campus. I thank everyone for working together and enabling New York City to become the high-tech capital of the world."
"Google and Cornell-Technion are a match made in heaven," said Council Member Lappin. "I want to thank Google for opening its doors while we get the school's permanent home ready on Roosevelt Island."
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PA Minister of Culture denies Jewish history: Nothing proves it, they have no connection to history
PA Minister of Culture Atef Abu Saif: "Our struggle is with this State [of Israel] that came out of nowhere, without a history and without geography, stole our land, and wants to put an end to our existence… There is a lying author who wrote a story about his false presence on this land, and then comes and wants to realize his tale. There is nothing in history that proves this presence. They have not found one stone... [Israel knows] that they have no connection to this city [Jerusalem], that they have no connection to this history, and that they have no connection to the geography, just as they have no connection to the future… If Israel celebrated the lie of '3,000 years [of Jewish history] in Jerusalem,' we have 7,000 years in Jerusalem – so what? We Canaanites are the first ones who built Jebus more than 6,000 years ago. And perhaps we need no celebrations because it is natural that we are here. Those who celebrate are foreigners."
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, Aug. 26, 2019]
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Ariz. teens rescued from tree after lake ice crack
SHOW LOW, Ariz. Two teenagers were rescued after spending two frigid hours hanging onto a dead tree after ice on an Arizona state park lake began to crack, authorities said Thursday.
Each of the teenagers lost a shoe that got stuck to the ice, and both were taken to a hospital for treatment of mild hypothermia after being rescued Wednesday, said Show Low Fire District Capt. Brent Mix.
A third teen stayed on the snow-covered bank of Fool Hollow Lake and called for help when the other two got stuck.
"Their hands and feet got pretty cold," Mix said. "It was dark by the time we got them to shore."
A firefighter in a protective suit crawled across the lake with a rope to reach the tree where other two teens were perched, and he then used the rope to pull over a boat carrying two other firefighters, Mix said.
The teens then got in the boat and it was pulled back to shore, Mix said.
"Every once in a while we have kids trying to see how far out they can go," Mix said. "That was pretty foolish. There was probably an inch of ice in the middle of the lake."
A total of 25 fire and other emergency personnel from several agencies responded.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investor formerly known as the "King of Biotech" has reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over a market manipulation scheme, according to court documents filed on Thursday.
David Blech, who earned the nickname as a founder of companies and a major investor in the biotechnology sector, agreed to pay $1.03 million in disgorgement and interest for the scheme.
In 2012 the SEC had accused Blech of buying and selling significant amounts of stock in two biopharmaceutical companies, Pluristem Therapeutics Inc and Intellect Neurosciences Inc through more than 50 brokerage accounts he established in the names of family and friends in order to create an artificial appearance of activity in the stocks.
The SEC complaint further accused Blech, who had already been convicted of securities fraud in 1998, of selling investments for biopharmaceutical companies despite being barred from acting as a broker-dealer. It also accused him and his wife, Margaret Chassman, of violating federal securities laws by making unregistered sales of securities and failing to disclose their transactions in brokerage accounts.
Chassman agreed to pay close to $550,000 in disgorgement, interest and a civil penalty, according to the settlement.
The settlement was approved by Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in Manhattan federal court.
"He's pleased to be putting this episode behind him," Roland Riopelle, a lawyer for Blech, said on Thursday.
A lawyer for Chassman declined to comment.
In May, Blech was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty in a related criminal case to stock manipulation stemming from his trades in Pluristem and Intellect.
The case is USA v David Blech, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-cr-00372.
(Reporting by Bernard Vaughan; Editing by Chris Gallagher)


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- None – this is a fun, and affordable motorcycle to learn how to ride on.
Honda's line of junior-sized dirt bikes has nurtured young riders for decades. And Big Red is poised to carry the newbie torch for years to come with its freshly released Honda CRF125F (starting at $2799). Available in standard and Big Wheel variations, Honda's latest trail bike replaces the CRF80F and 100F models and offers owners more bang for their buck than ever before.
Pictured is the big wheel-equipped CRF125F ($3199) that rolls on 19/16-inch wheel combo compared to the 17/14-inchers on the standard machine.
A fun ride and easy operation were the main goals for Honda's latest trail bike. To achieve these, engineers fitted a larger displacement engine. Still air-cooled for simplicity sake, the 125cc four-stroke Single employs a longer piston stroke compared to the 80 and 100 CRFs boosting torque and making it more adept at tackling inclines or hills. The engine is still fueled through a carburetor and 1.1-gallon gas tank. Additionally, the motor can run on regular 87-octane gasoline instead of the more expensive premium blend.
The CRF125F big wheel features the identical seat height of the outgoing CRF100F at 30.9 inches.
Electric start was added and the engine lights with a simple push of the button. A kickstart lever remains as a backup in case the battery runs out of juice. Either method performed flawlessly and we were especially pleased by how little muscle the kickstart lever demanded.
(Top) Honda's venerable air-cooled four-stroke Single gets a longer stroke engine boosting displacement to 125cc. (Center) Suspension was cozy for our 110-pound tester. This made it easy for her to get a feel for it on the dirt. (Bottom) The cockpit of the CRF125F is neutral-feeling and functions well for tall and short riders alike. We also love that the CRF now offers the push-button convenience of electric start.
"It's smooth," says our lady tester and novice-level rider, Mayra Tinajero, when asked to describe the CRF's motor performance. "When you go to give it throttle, the way it takes off is so easy. It's never jerky and I always felt in control."
Power is transferred to the back knobby tire through a four-speed transmission and manual, cable-actuated clutch. Lever pull is light yet has a positive and responsive actuation akin to a premium, full-sized motorcycle. Paired with the engine's low-end grunt this CRF is easy to get moving forward from a standstill. Although the gearbox no longer offers fifth gear you won't miss it due to the 125's broader powerband.
The Honda is styled after its top-of-the-line CRF450R and CRF250R motocross bikes.
"It's really easy to shift," shares Tinajero. "So for anybody new to riding that is stressed about controlling the throttle, the brake, your feet, just know that it's really easy with the 125. That's something that definitely alleviates the mind when you're starting out."
As she points out it is an easy-shifting bike that delivers precise feel at the shift lever along with an audible and reassuring thud when the next gear is engaged. Finding neutral position (between first and second gears) at a stop was equally simple.
The standard CRF125F rolls on 17-inch front and 14-inch rear spoked wheels with a seat height at 28.9 inches (identical to the outgoing CRF80F). Taller riders will appreciate the $400 more expensive Big Wheel which makes use of a larger 19/16-inch combo boosting saddle height by two inches and ground clearance by 2.1 inches (the same seat measurement as the '13 CRF100F). It also uses a larger 49-tooth rear sprocket compared to the standard model's 46-tooth piece (due to the larger diameter of the wheel).
Suspension and brakes are the same on both options, with a non-adjustable fork soaking up bumps at the front and a spring preload-adjustable shock providing rear damping. Front suspension travel is rated at 5.5 inches with the back measurement coming in at 4.5 inches for the standard model. The Big Wheel CRF gets added travel with nearly six inches fore and aft.
"The suspension was awesome," said 110-pound Tinajero who spent most of the afternoon riding the standard model. "Going over any rough spots or jumps, and around turns it was great. It was smooth riding all the time."
(Top) Honda's all-new CRF125F makes use of a larger engine that produces more torque. This not only makes it easier to ride but more fun, too. (Center) Both CRF125F models get a 220mm cross-drilled hydraulic disc brake up front. (Bottom) Big smiles are what the CRF125F is all about. It's a great learning tool for beginners and plenty fun to play around for seasoned riders, too.
Braking components consist of a 220mm front cross-drilled disc clamped by a twin-piston caliper actuated hydraulically with a simple and more cost-oriented lever-operated drum brake keeping rear wheel speed in check. Both brakes provided effective stopping power and were easy to operate. Another plus is how grippy the OE tires are even on silty hard-pack.
While our 5'5" tester got along with the smaller wheeled version, she still felt the larger wheeled version would be the right one for someone her size.
"I felt a little big on the small one," she said. "It was still comfortable and really fun to ride, but I think I would outgrow it kind of fast. If I had to choose, I'd probably go with the bigger one."
Much to my surprise the larger wheeled CRF was adequate for my six-foot tall frame, too. Obviously I was a little cramped but not enough to keep me from blasting across berms all the while grinning like a Slurpee-drunk schoolboy beneath my helmet.
And that in essence is the coolest thing about the CRF125F—it's friendly and non-intimidating for a novice yet still delivers adequate performance for more seasoned riders.
"I would completely recommend this bike for someone that is looking to start out riding and hasn't necessarily had a whole lot of experience," sums up Tinajero. "It's definitely an excellent bike to start out on."


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ITHACA, N.Y. – Ithaca College quarterback Phil Neumann found receiver Joseph Ingrao on a post route down the middle of the field for a 58-yard touchdown with 32 seconds remaining, as the Bombers shocked the No. 8 Salisbury University football team, 21-14, on Saturday at Butterfield Stadium.
Salisbury (6-2, 4-1 Empire 8), which trailed the until senior quarterback Dan Griffin hooked up with sophomore slot Isaiah Taylor on a 7-yard touchdown pass with 1:41 left in the game, saw its 12-game Empire 8 Athletic Conference winning streak come to an end.
On the winning touchdown, Ingrao, the E8's leading receiver, caught the Neumann pass and outraced safety Michael Landry to the goal line for the lead.
Salisbury took the ensuing kickoff to its 35-yard line, but Griffin's desperation heave from the SU 46 fell incomplete.
Trailing, 14-0, on a 7-yard touchdown run by Clay Ardoin with 4:26 to go in the third, Salisbury's offense got on track. Joe Benedetti started things with a 13-yard run on second-and-five. Griffin and Benedetti followed with 11 yards on the next two plays for another first down to midfield. Another first down on a 10-yard run from Griffin, coupled with a personal-foul penalty, moved the ball to the Ithaca 22.
Two plays later, a facemask put the ball on the Bombers 8, prior to a 4-yard run by Griffin set up Benedetti's eighth TD of the season with 15 seconds left in the quarter.
The Sea Gulls got the ball back with 11:45 left in the game and drove to the Ithaca 33-yard line on the strength of three first downs, but defensive end Skylar Schlenker stopped Benedetti on fourth down.
The Gulls' defense forced a three and out and SU marched 63 yards in seven plays for the tying touchdown. The key play came when Griffin hit Taylor on a 28-yard pass completion to the Ithaca 24.
Ithaca (5-3, 3-3) opened the scoring in the first quarter as Sam Carney returned a Kyle Hamby punt 60 yards to the SU 2-yard line. The Sea Gulls looked as if they would limit the Bombers to a field-goal try, but a roughing-the-kicker call gave IC another shot and Neumann found Jared Prugar, who made a diving grab in the right side of the end zone, for 7-0 lead with 1:07 to go in the quarter.
Salisbury was held to just 185 yards rushing on 48 attempts and 263 overall, while Ithaca kept the ball for 31:32 on the day.
Benedetti finished with 132 yards and one TD on 22 carries. Griffin was 7-for-16 with 78 yards and a score passing and had 36 yards rushing on 18 carries.
Taylor caught five passes for 73 yards and a touchdown.
Neumann threw for 215 yards on 20-for-30 passing with two TDs. Ingrao had a game-high six catches for 110 yards.
Landry and Matt McMurdo each totaled a team-high nine tackles. Landry had three for loss, McMurdo two and one sack.
Skylar Griffenberg finished with a game-best 14 tackles for the Bombers, including 10 solo and half a tackle for loss.
SU returns home to host Utica College next Saturday at noon on Senior Day. A Sea Gulls' win would give them at least a share of the conference title.


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It looks like the Indianapolis Colts' "mystery wide receiver" has been uncovered.
More than one week after owner Jim Irsay said the Colts were close to acquiring an unnamed free-agent receiver, Darrius Heyward-Bey will visit the team as early as Monday, according to ESPN.
Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, was more productive with the Raiders than many fans realize. He gained 975 yards in 2011 before dropping down to 606 yards after coach Dennis Allen took over in 2012. Heyward-Bey is a sensible vertical replacement for Donnie Avery, who left the Colts in free agency.
The Colts have a lot of weapons for Andrew Luck, with Reggie Wayne, T.Y. Hilton and two young pass-catching tight ends, but the team lacks a potential No. 1 receiver for after Wayne retires. Heyward-Bey won't fill that role, so we wouldn't rule out the Colts taking a receiver high in the draft. Heyward-Bey would fill a role more designed for veteran depth than anything.
UPDATE: The Colts announced Heyward-Bey's visit on their official website, saying he will be in town Monday night and Tuesday.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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In the winter of 1981, Margaret Thatcher is in Downing Street, IRA bombs are exploding, the cold war still rages… and Britain's spy surveillance is on constant alert.
But deep in the heart of a dimly lit 'listening' room in central London, one lonely, middle-class state snooper is nurturing a dangerous obsession that risks national security and will change the course of his life forever.
In her third remarkable novel, award-winning author Francesca Kay focuses her eagle eye and analytic brain on the gripping story of a weak, insular state agent who falls for the wife of one of his targets… with disastrous results.
Extraordinarily detailed and unforgettably powerful in its exploration of a mind manipulated by its own wishful imaginings and increasingly removed from reality, The Long Room is both a brilliant page-turner and a psychological tour-de-force.
Stephen Donaldson is regarded as the 'outsider' in the long room where eight 'listeners' sit at their desks, headphones clamped to their ears, 'entombed in hermetic silence.' Their job is to transcribe the phone-taped conversations of ageing revolutionaries and superannuated communists who might – or might not – be a threat.
Despite their belligerent coded case names, Vulcan, Odin and Oberon, his targets are 'creaking dragons who might once have breathed fire' but now seldom offer the possibilities of drama.
Their lives are generally sad and lonely, much the same as Stephen's. An only child and classic mummy's boy, he lives alone in a cold, cheerless flat in East Acton and travels to Didcot every weekend to stay with his widowed Catholic mother Coralie whose endless shopping lists are the 'rosary beads' of her week.
But then Stephen is assigned a new case… tracking the ultra-secret Phoenix. Is Phoenix a mole and is he working for a foreign power? Problem is that by now Stephen hardly cares because he has fallen madly love in with Helen, the wife of one of his targets. Helen's voice stirs in him a yearning that is new for a man isolated from the social humdrum of everyday life… 'a hunger of the heart.'
Mesmerised by a woman he has never seen or met, and convinced that her 'story' is a story in which he himself physically belongs, Stephen makes a series of catastrophic misjudgements and deliberate falsifications that will imperil both himself and his country.
The Long Room turns the traditional espionage thriller on its head as the author explores how far one man's vulnerability and isolation can feed his imagination and impact on his powers of rational thinking.
Always one step ahead of Stephen, readers are allowed to get under his skin as Kay uses both the man and his mother as a means of exposing the insecurities, frailties and disconnections that have turned a promising Oxford graduate into a misguided, dangerous fantasist.
This is a story written with a gentle hand, an unexpected beauty and an enhanced sensitivity as it moves inexorably and inevitably to a conclusion that is as heartbreaking as it is calamitous.
A dazzling novel from a talented writer…
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The Ravens worked quickly to fill the void left at the tight end position.
A day after Dennis Pitta's potentially season-ending hip injury, the Ravens agreed to a deal with former Morgan State standout Visanthe Shiancoe.
Shiancoe, 33, has played parts of 10 NFL seasons, last appearing in four games with the New England Patriots during the 2012 season. Shiancoe signed a one-year standard deal for the veteran minimum of $940,000
For his career, Shiancoe (6 feet 4, 250 pounds) has 243 career catches for 2,677 yards and 27 touchdowns. His best seasons in the NFL were with the Minnesota Vikings. From 2007 to 2011, Shiancoe played 80 games for the Vikings and had 207 catches for 24 touchdowns.
The Ravens were considering signing Shiancoe even before Pitta went down with a dislocated and fractured hip in yesterday's practice. Shiancoe worked out for the Ravens on Friday and then watched practice later that day with Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome.
Shiancoe also worked out for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers earlier in the week.
With the Ravens, he joins a tight end group that includes starter Ed Dickson, Billy Bajema, Alex Silvestro and Matt Furstenburg (Maryland).


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BOSTON, Mass. – For the first time in program history the women's ice hockey team will be packing their bags and traveling to Vermont to face the Spartans of Castleton State College in the quarterfinal round of the 2013 ECAC East tournament. The No. 5 Beacons will face the No. 4 Spartans on Saturday, February 23 at 1 p.m. at Spartan Arena.
The Beacons, who carry a record of 6-3 in the quarterfinal round of the ECAC East tournament are looking to avenge a loss to the Spartans from earlier this season. UMass Boston will be making their 10th appearance in the conference tournament this weekend. It will also mark the third time that UMB has played a postseason game in the state of Vermont since the program's founding.
UMass Boston is looking to earn their first conference victory since defeating Salve Regina University by the final of 3-2 in overtime in 2011. That year the Beacons dropped a heartbreaker to Manhattanville College by the final of 2-1 in the semi's. Overall the Beacons carry a 6-9 record in the ECAC East tournament and are looking to make their first-ever trip to the championship game this season.
Against the Spartans, women's hockey leads the all-time series having won 14 of the 16 times they have shared the ice. The loss earlier this year marked the first win by the Spartans, while last year the two skated to a 1-1 draw in the regular-season finale in the Clark Ice Arena.
For head coach Colleen Harris, she is looking to make a serious push in this year's tournament after a year that was plagued by injury. Harris' Beacons have had to overcome numerous season ending injuries on both sides of the red-line, but she has seen strong play from her two netminders Casey Schaejbe (Arlington, Mass.) and Kailyn Burke (Franklin, Mass.).
On the year, the two have combined for 618 stops respectively, with both players each recording four wins on the year. Schaejbe leads the duo in minutes played with 916, having played in 16 games in her rookie season. Burke stepped onto the ice around the midway point of the season and picked-up some key wins for the Beacons including a 4-0 win over New England College. For Schaejbe her season-best performance was without a doubt when the Beacons upset nationally ranked Manhattanville College after she made 30 stops.
Offensively, UMB goes into this weekend with six players who have recorded 10 or more points. Sophomore Emily Howard (Terryville, Conn.) became the first player since the 2010-11 season to record 10 goals in a single season, as she ranks fourth on the team with 11 points. She is also the Beacons top power-play scorer having netted three of UMB's nine power-play tallies. Seniors Alli Greenberg (Stoughton, Mass.) and Emily LaRosa (Weymouth, Mass.) are tied for first in points with 14 each and are in a four-way tie for second in goals scored with six and are the two top playmakers with their eight assists each.
Defensively, UMass has seen some tremendous play from newcomers Kelsey MacIsaac (Durham, N.H.) and Samantha Fallon (Pembroke, Mass.). The duo has not only played a major part in limiting the opposition's offense, but they have also shown that they are not afraid to pull the trigger when the opportunity presents itself. In the win over Manhattanville, Fallon netted a pair of goals, with MacIsaac also picking-up three assists in the huge conference victory.
With a win on Saturday the Beacons will advance to the semi-final round of the tournament, which will be played on Saturday, March 2 at a site to be determined. This year's championship will be played on March 3 with this year's winner earning the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament.


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text: Friday, April 22, 2011 Iowa Passes Landmark Concussion Legislation A new groundbreaking law permits student athletes in Iowa to be evaluated by physical therapists to determine when it is safe to 'return to play' following a hit, fall, or other incident in order to reduce the risk of a concussion or other brain injuries. Signed April 7 by Gov Terry Branstad, SF 367 requires that a student be immediately removed from participation in an activity when a concussion is suspected, and must be evaluated by a physical therapist or other licensed health care provider trained in the evaluation and management of concussions and other brain injuries. The health care provider must provide written clearance for the student to return to activity. The Iowa law is the first to specifically allow student athletes to receive clearance to return to activity from a licensed physical therapist. The Iowa Chapter's grassroots lobbying efforts helped ensure that student athletes with head injuries will continue to have access to physical therapists. Legislation in Vermont also includes physical therapists as health care providers who can make similar decisions, but the bill is awaiting passage. Read about this important legislation at this link. In June, APTA's House of Delegates will consider a motion to address the role of the physical therapist in the management of concussions. This recommendation is the result of APTA's Consultant Workgroup on Concussions, which also developed model language for APTA chapters to use in advocating for the involvement of physical therapists as part of the health care team responsible for the management of athletes and in making return-to-play decisions. Comments The state of Maryland also just passed similar legislation, spearheaded by the Brain Injury Association of Maryland of which I am a Board member. Our bill doesn't specify physical therapists but includes health care providers who are qualified to evaluate concussions. Kathy Specht, PT, M.A. Assessment Team Coordinator Montgomery County Public Schools Posted by Kathy Specht on 4/24/2011 5:38 PM


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All without us ever feeling in any way deprived or worse off than others.
Helen Marie Andresen Holz 1914 - 1998
As I struggle with our chaotic, overscheduled household and the teetering economy, I wonder how my mother did it. I find myself striving to follow her examples of balance, frugality and stewardship. Did she possess these traits because she experienced the austerity of the Depression or because she absorbed the German values of thrift and resourcefulness?
I know that she embraced rationing during the war years, for I found her books and leftover stamps in the attic and I've tasted the awful oleomargarine. I'm sure she drew lines down the back of her legs to make it look like she wore nylons, an item unavailable during the War.
That was, until she won a pair of genuine nylons during a drawing at the local Elks Club. The photograph in the newspaper says it all as she holds the long pair in the air, a big smile on her face.
When she joined my father to raise a family, she had none of the household skills needed. She often told us she didn't know how to boil an egg when she married in 1938. And certainly she didn't learn to strip and reapply varnish, make all her and her five daughters' clothes, tailor our suits and coats, or knit our sweaters and dad's argyle socks until much later. Eventually she became the capable manager of our home in all its realms. She so skillfully managed our budget, our purchases, and our 'making do' that we never suspected we were often about to sink rather than swim.
My mother was born the sixth child in a family of nine…three sons and six daughters. She delighted in telling people that her mother had three and a 'half dozen' children. She was favored by her father and being one of the youngest, probably wasn't responsible for many chores. The fact that she became the rock and foundation of our family was due to her determination to learn her generation's new ways of being a wife and mother, which meant hands-on parenting and running a seamless household with only her own efforts and 'elbow grease.' No live-in help like her mother was priveleged to enjoy. Nor did my father's meager salary allow such luxuries.
My mother probably didn't realize that the lessons of frugality learned as a child were set into motion long before she was born when her mother chose a life with more hardship than was planned for her by her successful, Catholic parents. Both had immigrated from Luxembourg during the 1850s, her father secure in the legacy of his aristocratic family. My mother never knew these grandparents and perhaps that is a good thing, since her mother did not marry the man they had encouraged her to choose (said to be a dentist) and was cut off from the family.
Instead my grandmother chose my grandfather, the son of northern German Lutheran emigrants who opened a hotel and saloon soon after they arrived in 1866. My grandfather's father spent time in jail for serving beer in defiance of Iowa's early prohibition laws. Grandpa was orphaned at age 15 and learned the skills of a barber from his uncle. To supplement his income, he ran a card room in the back of his shop. Wrong religion, wrong class, wrong parents, a tradesman who consorted with gamblers, and an orphan to boot…definitely not the husband for their well educated, sophisticated, talented daughter, a young woman who spoke four languages, taught school and piano lessons, and was later a published author.
My mother, then, grew up in a home that watched her mother's siblings succeed financially and in their professions, while her family struggled. My grandmother did have support from some of her family. Her brother, the doctor, visited her daily for a shared glass of sherry and conversation. Perhaps he slipped my grandmother some cash to help pay for the hired farm girls, Sophie and later, Frances, or the twice-a-year visiting seamstresses. I also suspect that he may have provided funds to send my mother's younger and gifted brother to college and if he, her brother, had not died suddenly before he could graduate, to medical school.
By the time it was my mother's turn, going on for more education (she longed to be a nurse like her older sister) or taking piano lessons were out of the question. Instead, she encouraged me to apply to nursing school and saw to it that all five of us took piano lessons for ten years or more, arranging for us to dust the pianos in exchange for lessons.
My mother never used credit, kept a record of every penny spent, borrowed only when there was a medical emergency, saved for major purchases or did without, and paid all year on the no-interest Christmas Club for Santa's generous gifts under the tree. She made all her and our clothes, sometimes tailoring our wool coats from our neighbor's old ones. She learned to knit, to garden and then to can the abundant produce, to render lard, to forage in the fall for berries, watercress, and nuts, and to bake bread and coffecake every Saturday, using the left over potato water.
By the time her five girls came along, she was a good cook and baker, serving three multi-course meals a day, each one a favorite of one of us. She put the remnants of bar soap in a strainer to make the suds to wash dishes. Our toothpowder was a mixture of baking soda and salt. Our juice glasses were once jelly glasses. She arranged for us to babysit, to get jobs to pay for our private girls' school tuition, and to borrow our cousins' prom dresses and their Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames books.
We had an old fashioned ice box until the year my mother entered a contest and won a Shelve-a-Door refrigerator. She broke her neck after diving in shallow water on the 4th of July that year and was paralyzed for six months in a body cast, unable to care for her three daughters, one just four months old. She must have thought this certainly qualified for a twenty-five word or less winning sob story but it also spoke to her resourcefulness in the face of adversity.
My mother saved and found a new use for everything. The day my sister and I helped her pack up her belongings and move with us to Seattle, I found (and keep to this day), her bundle of used twisty ties, all secure in a rubber band. I've inherited this German trait and for a long time, felt it was a curse not to be able to throw anything out. But in the current climate of cutting back and doing without, perhaps making do and using again is the best way to honor my mother's stewardship and to be a good citizen.


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Original Rubettes members Alan Williams, John Richardson and Mick Clarke at the start of the millennium reformed together as the 'Rubettes featuring Alan Williams' a necessary distinction for a virtually all Original band.
In 1974 Glam Rock group the Rubettes had a World wide No.1 hit with their now hugely famous pop classic 'Sugar Baby Love' followed in quick succession by a further 15 International Hit records including 'Tonight' 'Juke Box Jive' 'I Can Do It' and 'Baby I Know' to name but a few.
The Rubettes remained at the top throughout the seventies where with 8 albums they achieved record sales in excess of 30 million placing them amongst the most prolific chart toppers of the seventies having more hit records in the shortest amount of time than any other band.
The Rubettes were a very 'live' band and toured extensively thrilling audiences wherever they went. Their performances on TV, Radio and in Concert left all in no doubt of the talent and musical abilities that has never left them or those who will always have a place in their hearts for the Rubettes now firmly established in History as Icons of Rock n'Roll.
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Believe it or not, this cake is supposed to look like this:
That deer is staring straight into my soul, and it's totally creeping me out. The smoke column on the side is kind of odd, too, although I like the idea of using sprinkles for ash.
And what could be better than a cake with a demonic deer staring out from the fiery depths? How about one that was sold in California when all the wild fires were raging? Yep. Niiice.
Or, to Wreck it up further, you could always have a dial-a-wreck inscription on it:
That's supposed to say, "Happy Birthday you old bastard". So obviously the wonky heart was the decorator's idea. "Let's see, demonic deer, unintelligible greeting, hmm...it still needs something...."
Oh, wait, that smoke column was supposed to be a tree? Huh. Well, I guess if all the leaves were burned off...
Jenna Z. and Rya M., these cakes are smokin'.


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Auckland Art & Craft Fair. Saturday 8 December, 11am - 4pm. Aotea Centre
Celebrating creativity and craftiness the Auckland Art & Craft Fair is a one of a kind, special event that happens only twice a year. This market is designed to showcase a selection of New Zealand's best independent and contemporary Designers, Artists & Crafters selling their products direct to the public for one day only. With 6 months between each event, you can be sure this is the best of the best. Entry is by gold coin.
Christmas Markets. 14 – 16 December. Friday 5pm - 10pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 5pm.
Aotea Square
If you need a stocking stuffer or a special gift, this market by Auckland's crafty folk and local artisans could just be the place to add something unique to your Christmas shopping with local boutique designers, artists, vintage sellers and food outlets. A market full of handmade delights and Christmassy treats for the whole family. Each maker has been hand chosen for their unique products, careful execution and what we think a Christmas market should be all about. With a bright range of home wares, jewellery, clothing, prints and more, there will be something for everyone. Nestled amongst the market stalls will be some of Auckland's most delicious gourmet street food vendors; be sure to bring your pocket money and an empty tummy!


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4 Reasons Marriages Are Failing, Part One
As I survey the landscape of the world today it seems like so many marriages are falling apart…and what is so sad is that it doesn't have to be that way. Here are four reasons I believe marriages fail…
#1 – People Refuse to Ask for Help!
For some reason is has become taboo (especially in the church) to ask for help in your marriage; after all, if you do THAT then people may think you are weak. So, instead of dealing with the problem you deny it because everyone knows that if you deny something long enough that it will eventually go away, right?
WRONG…refusing to ask for help is nothing more than pride–period!
SO many marriages could be saved if people would simply swallow their pride in the early stages of conflict and ask for help by either calling the church or finding another godly couple in the church who have been together for a long time.
#2 – Refusing to Address Their Part of the Problem!
It really does take two people to mess up a marriage.
Even if one person is 95% at fault the other person still had to own their 5%.
All too often couples walk into a counseling situation convinced if the other person would just change into the person that they want them to be the marriage would be amazing. (Read that sentence again…because this attitude basically tells the other person, "If you will simply make me your god and worship me then all will be wonderful!")
Lucretia and I have a great marriage; however, it has been far from perfect these past almost 11 years. BUT…what I have personally discovered is that it isn't my job to point out her imperfections and shortcomings but to ask the Lord to reveal my own so that I can work on my issues…and then trust the Lord that if there is something that He wants to work out in her that He will do so in His time.
Please understand that I am NOT saying that there are not times when we haven't had to sit down and have hard conversations with one another about some things…but this is always done with the thought in mind that we are fighting FOR our marriage and not IN our marriage…and that fight begins NOT with who we perceive the other person to be but rather who Christ is actually shaping us into.


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UPDATE: Man found on Orange County side of Neches identified
The man whose body was discovered on the Orange County side of the Neches River on May 5 has been identified as Desmond Gerard O'Hara of Beaumont, according to a news release from the Orange County Sheriff's Department. O'Hara, 35-year-old black male, was reported missing by his family to Beaumont Police Department on Feb. 16, 2013.
Sunday, May 5, at 6 p.m., the Orange County Sheriff's Office received a call in reference to a human body found in the Neches River near the Purple Heart Bridge. Orange County Sheriff's Office, Port of Beaumont Police Department, and officers from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office responded to the call.
Orange County Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Judge Dunn is conducting the death inquiry and ordered an autopsy. The body was transferred to the Jefferson County Forensic Medical Facility where an autopsy was performed. According to the forensic pathologist, the cause and manner of death were not able to be determined at the time of the autopsy due to the decomposed condition of the victim. The forensic pathologist advised that toxicology and other further testing is going to be done to try to determine cause and manner of death. Identification of the body was sought by releasing images of the distinctive bracelet the man had been wearing.
If anyone has any information on the victim, contact the Orange County Sheriff's Office at (409) 883-2612.


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Brother Tad R. Callister
Tad R. Callister was serving in the Presidency of the Seventy and as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy when he was called as Sunday School general president. He has served in a number of Church callings including full-time missionary in the Eastern Atlantic States Mission, bishop, stake president, regional representative, mission president, and Area Seventy.
Brother Callister received a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Brigham Young University, a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California–Los Angeles, and a master's degree in tax law from New York University Law School. He spent most of his professional career practicing tax law. He and his wife Kathryn Louise Saporiti are the parents of six children.
General conference talks
God's Compelling Witness: The Book of Mormon
Parents: The Prime Gospel Teachers of Their Children
The Power of the Priesthood in the Boy
The Book of Mormon—a Book from God
Joseph Smith—Prophet of the Restoration
Full Name Tad R. Callister
December 17, 1945
Place of Birth Glendale, California, United States


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Good Afternoon All
I was doing some testing this morning and tested the 1st IEC lead since i got my Europa back from being Serviced last month
Using the default 230v Lead (3m) sequence
The lead passed the earth test,
Passed the insulation test
then failed on the Polarity test reporting an open circuit.
I plugged in the short test iec lead that came with the Europa and had the same problem
I grabbed another IEC from a box of spares and another, same issue
I aborted the test and ran the custom test for a multi-way extension cable, again same result.
I connected the 1st lead to a PC monitor the monitor powers up and passes a class 1 it Equipment test.
ive put the IEC leads aside and will check the polarity with an IEC > 13A socket adapter and a socket tester.
But I wanted to check before i contact Service on Monday if this is an issue with the tester or if im doing something dumb


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Country star Billy Ray Cyrus and his estranged wife Tish have reunited after undergoing couples therapy, according to a family friend.
Miley Cyrus' mother filed divorce papers to end her 19-year marriage to the "Achy Breaky Heart" hitmaker in June, citing irreconcilable differences.
However, the couple sparked rumors of a reconciliation earlier this month as they strolled hand-in-hand along Malibu Beach Pier in California – and now family friend Ken Baker, who works as a journalist for E! News, has claimed the pair is back together after taking steps to repair the relationship.
Baker explains, "I spoke to Tish and she told me they both woke up and realized they love each other and decided they want to stay together. They recently went into couples therapy, something they hadn't done in 22 years of marriage, and it's brought them closer together and really opened up their communication in amazing ways.
"She also said marriage can be really hard, especially after 22 years of being in the entertainment business, and admitted they've had rough times. But they both realized they didn't want to be another statistic and want to make it work.
"They went into the therapy with the goal of divorcing in a way that was healthy for the children, but ended up coming out of it with the realization that they in fact want to stay together. Tish sounds happy and energized about having this fresh start."
Baker's comments come less than a day after Tish posted a picture of herself cuddling up to the singer on her Instagram.com page and declaring, "Date night".
The couple, who also split three years ago before swiftly reconciling, shares five children together.


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1. Rules for interpretation of an insurance policy are stated and applied.
2. In an action for damages under a homeowner's insurance policy for the negligent misrepresentations of sellers as to the condition of their insured property, it is held there was no coverage because the damages were caused by termites, not the insureds' negligent misrepresentations.
3. Damages resulting from negligent misrepresentation are economic rather than property damages.
Appeal from Lyon District Court; JOHN O. SANDERSON, judge. Opinion filed May 28, 1999. Affirmed.
Harold S. Youngentob and Penny R. Moylan, of Goodell, Stratton, Edmonds & Palmer, L.L.P., of Topeka, for appellants Kevin D. Bush and Mary B. Bush.
Gilbert L. Guthrie and Terry L. Unruh, of Grace, Unruh & Pratt, L.C., of Wichita, for appellee.
Before ROYSE, P.J., GERNON and KNUDSON, JJ.
KNUDSON, J.: Kevin D. and Mary B. Bush (collectively "Bush") purchased a residence with undisclosed termite damage from Roberta J. Shoemaker-Beal and James B. Beal (collectively "Beal"). After obtaining a $100,000 default judgment based upon negligent misrepresentations by Beal, garnishment proceedings were commenced against State Farm Fire & Casualty Company under a rental dwelling policy previously issued to Beal. Bush appeals from the district court's determination that certain policy exclusions precluded coverage.
We affirm because the economic losses sustained by Bush from Beal's negligent misrepresentations are not "property damage" caused by an "occurrence" as those words are defined or used within the policy issued by State Farm.
The State Farm policy consists of three distinct sections: general definitions; Section I, which provides property insurance coverage for loss or damage to the insured dwelling and related property; and Section II, which provides specified liability coverage to the insured for "a claim . . . for damages because of . . . property damage to which this coverage applies, caused by an occurrence."
In the definition section of the policy, "occurrence" and "property damage" are defined. "'[O]ccurrence,' when used in Section II of this policy, means an accident, including exposure to conditions, which results in: . . . property damage"; "'property damage' means physical damage to or destruction of tangible property, including loss of use of this property."
The above definitions unambiguously require a cause and effect analysis; that is, what was the occurrence that resulted in damage to the insured property?
State Farm maintains that its insured's negligent misrepresentations, if any, were not the cause of any property damage; simply put, the termites, not the Beal's misrepresentations, caused the property damage, and Bush's claim is to recover economic damages.
The interpretation and construction of an insurance policy is a question of law over which we may exercise unlimited review. First Financial Ins. Co. v. Bugg, 265 Kan. 690, 694, 962 P.2d 515 (1998). Insurance policies must be construed according to the sense and meaning of the terms used, and if the language is clear and unambiguous, it must be taken in its plain, ordinary, and popular sense. The test to determine whether an insurance policy is ambiguous is what a reasonably prudent insured would understand the language to mean. 265 Kan. at 694. An insurance policy is not ambiguous unless there is a genuine uncertainty as to which of two or more possible meanings is proper. 265 Kan. at 698.
The above-stated provisions of the State Farm policy are not ambiguous. We have been unable to find any reported Kansas cases addressing the issue now raised. However, numerous other jurisdictions have considered this issue and decided that a homeowner's policy with similar language does not afford coverage for an insured's negligent misrepresentations as to the condition of the property. See State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Brewer, 914 F. Supp. 140, 142 (S.D. Miss. 1996), and the cases cited therein.
We agree with the reasoning in Brewer and hold that there is no coverage under the State Farm policy because the damage to the conveyed property was not caused by the negligent misrepresentations of Beal. The damage was caused by termites. We further hold there is no coverage because Bush seeks economic damages, not property damages.
Bush also argues State Farm should be estopped from contesting the reasonableness of the default judgment. Our decision renders this issue moot.