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Community and calendar briefs for July 25, 2014.
School supplies needed for Head Start students
Childhood Development Services needs school supplies for children enrolled in the Head Start Program.
Among the items needed are tissues, hand sanitizer, construction paper, Band-Aids, sharpened pencils, wet wipes, zip lock bags, non-toxic water color paint, crayons, markers and glue.
School supplies can be dropped off at any CDS Head Start center. To find out the closest center, call Brandi Cooney at 629-0055, ext. 353.
A $100 cash donation can sponsor a Head Start child for one school year. Make monetary donations at www.discovercds.org.
Food drive benefits two Marion Co. aid agencies
Staff members from the Gentiva Home Health & Hospice offices will be distributing food collection bags and gathering donations for the Veterans Village of Ocala and Brother's Keeper as part of the company's 10th annual food drive.
Employees at the Gentiva Ocala offices and fellow employees around the country are placing the food collection bags at various health care facilities in their communities and will accept donations through August.
For more information, call Julie Mashia at 622-9331.
Friends of Dunnellon Library needs helpers
The Friends of the Dunnellon Public Library need additional volunteers to keep the bookstore open and to help in several other areas as well.
Volunteer committees include bookstore sales, online book sales, computer training classes, landscaping, memberships, programs, hospitality and more. For more information, call president Barbara Caban at 465-0705, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Furniture collections scheduled for August
Marion County Solid Waste's monthly furniture collection events will be held:
Aug. 2: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Newton Recycling Center, 1750 NW 100th St., Ocala
Aug. 9: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Martel Recycling Center, 296 SW 67th Ave. Road, Ocala
Aug. 16: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Orange Springs Recycling Center, 11095 E. Highway 318, Orange Springs
Aug. 23: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Davis Recycling Center, 11307 SE 128th Place Road, Ocklawaha
Electronics recycling events are:
Aug. 2: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Recycle All Electronics, 1500 SW 17th Ave., Ocala, Building 300
Aug. 16: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Davis Recycling Center, 11307 SE 128th Place Road, Ocklawaha
The events are open to residents of unincorporated Marion County and the city of Ocala. Residents who live outside the county or within other municipalities can use recycling centers with purchase of a permit.
For more information, visit www.marioncountyfl.org/solidwaste or call 671-8465.
BASKET BINGO: Christmas in July, 6 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 1510 SE Third Ave., Ocala. $20 for 20 cards. Dinner, $3. Proceeds will buy Christmas gifts for local children in foster care. (438-4039 or 867-1536)
40TH REUNION: Forest High School Class of 1974, 7 p.m., Hilton Ocala, 3600 SW 36th Ave., Ocala.(425-6009)
FAMILY FILM: "Frozen," 2 p.m., Marion County Public Library, 2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. (671-8551)
BASIC COMPUTER CLASSES: Learn about computers and databases, blogs and blogging, 10:30 a.m., Dunnellon Public Library, 20351 Robinson Road, Dunnellon. (438-2520)
OCALA FPRA: Florida Public Relations Association Ocala Chapter monthly professional development luncheon, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ocala Conference Center, Holiday Inn & Suites, 3600 SW 38th Ave., Ocala. $20 members, $25 guests. (www.fpraocala.org/events.html or firstname.lastname@example.com)
CHAIR YOGA: Free class, 9:30 a.m., Senior Wellness Community Center, 9850 SW 84th Court, Ocala. (237-2094)
VARIETY SHOW: Live music and comedy, 7:30 p.m., Orange Blossom Opry, 13939 SE County Road 25, Weirsdale. $10. (821-1201 or www.obopry.com)
LINE DANCING: Beginner and intermediate for adults and teens, 5 to 7 p.m., Forest Community Center, 777 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2840)
T.O.P.S.: Taking Off Pounds Sensibly, 9 a.m., Joy Lutheran Church, 7045 SW 83rd Place, Ocala. (854-0660)
MASTER GARDENERS: Invasive plants, 2 p.m., Marion County Public Library, 2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. (671-8551)
CONSTRUCTION ZONE: For ages 5 to 12, 2 p.m., Marion County Public Library, 2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. (671-8551)
BURLESQUE VAUDEVILLE SHOW: Burlesque, fire breathing, singing and acrobatics, doors 11:30 p.m., Historic Marion Theatre, 50 S. Magnolia Ave., Ocala. $10; must be 18 or older. (www.mariontheatre.org.)
TECH OLYMPICS: To test and celebrate the skills of Ocala Civic Theatre technical volunteers, cookout, 10 a.m., Ocala Civic Theatre, 4337 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. Free, $5 suggested donation. No experience necessary. (236-2274)
BLOODSTOCK 2014: Music festival featuring local artists and refreshments, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., American Legion Post 347, 699 West Lady Lake Blvd., Lady Lake. Free. (1-888-936-6283)
MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM: Ocala Model Railroaders open house, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 1247 NE Third St., Ocala. Free. (401-0747 or www.ocalamodelrailroaders.com)
AFRICAN VIOLET CLUB: Tips and techniques, 10:30 a.m., Marion County Sheriff's Office (Brian Litz Sheriff's Substation), 9048 SW State Road 200, Ocala. (www.africanvioletclubofocala.org)
ZUMBA: "Stuff the Bus," local instructors and vendors, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Student Union, Vanguard High School, 7 NW 28th St., Ocala. $15 includes T-shirt for those who pre-registered. Children $5. Tickets at Pulse Fitness, 7175 S. Pine Ave., Ocala. (671-6847)
SATURDAY CINEMA: Movies for adults and teens ages 13 and older, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," 2 p.m., Forest Public Library, 905 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2540)


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Lukaku keen on Arsenal
Belgian starlet Jordan Lukaku has admitted that his favourite club is Arsenal.
The Anderlecht defender, who is the younger brother of Chelsea forward Romelu Lukaku, is on the cusp of the first team at the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, having twice featured on the substitutes bench for the first team under manager Ariël Jacobs.
At 17-years-old, the left back appears to have a big future ahead of him, but would favour the Emirates Stadium over Stamford Bridge if given a choice in England.
"My favorite team is Arsenal," said the teenage defender.
"I hope soon to go to London to visit Romelu, but also to see Thierry Henry train."
Lukaku will have to move quickly to see the French legend, who is with the Gunners on a short-term loan deal after completing the paperwork with Arsenal on Friday.
He's already made an impact under Arsene Wenger during his second-spell with the club, scoring the only goal in a 1-0 win over Leeds in the FA Cup third round on Monday night.
As for Romelu Lukaku, he's yet to make a major impact at senior level for the Blues, with just three appearances to his name in the Barclays Premier League thus far for Andre Villas-Boas' side.
His form for the Chelsea reserves has been impressive though, with five goals in his last five matches suggesting the 18-year-old is on the verge of big things at Stamford Bridge.News Now - Sport News

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In the Pacific Northwest, some Roman Catholic churches in the Seattle area have declined to circulate a petition calling for a referendum on Washington state's new same-sex marriage law.
From Reuters to ABC News, the churches' decision to steer clear of the political battle has drawn national media attention.
The key news peg: Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, citing the "critically important" nature of the issue, encouraged — but did not demand — the gathering of signatures in parishes.
The Seattle Times produced the best report that I have seen on the controversy. However, its coverage failed to address a number of relevant questions.
The top of the Times' story:
Priests at a number of Roman Catholic parishes in the area have said no to the gathering of signatures for Referendum 74 at their churches — putting them at odds with their archbishop on a statewide ballot measure seeking repeal of Washington's same-sex marriage law.
The majority of parishes in Western Washington are expected to make the petitions available — some as soon as this Sunday, following Mass, according to a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Seattle.
But pastors of at least three prominent Catholic churches in Seattle — St. Mary's Church, St. Joseph Parish and St. James Cathedral — have notified members that the petitions will not be made available there.
In an item posted on St. James' website, the Very Rev. Michael G. Ryan said he decided not to permit the petitions after a discussion with the pastoral team. He said he believed allowing the petitions would "prove hurtful and seriously divisive in our community. In saying this, I do realize that there are some who will be disappointed with this decision."
The decisions by pastors come two weeks after the Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain, archbishop of Seattle, sent a lengthy letter to parishioners outlining his support for Ref. 74 and explaining why he believes defending traditional marriage is important.
The Seattle newspaper story and other reports give the impression that the priests disagree with the archbishop on the issue of same-sex marriage. That may be true. But another possibility could be that they support the church's teachings on marriage but differ on the wisdom of inserting parishes into the political process, right?
A few simple journalistic questions would help much of the coverage I have read. Questions such as: Why did you decline to circulate the petition? What do you believe concerning same-sex marriage? Do you see your action as defiance of the archbishop?
In two paragraphs filled with potentially meaty information, the Times fell short in providing attribution (the "How do you know this?" details so important to quality journalism):
Sartain's position is in line with the teachings of the Catholic Church, which has traditionally opposed same-sex marriage, despite support from 56 percent of lay Catholics for such unions. In states from Maine to California, the church has advocated — to some degree or another — against such unions.
Yet in supporting the gathering of signatures in local parishes, Sartain went further than other bishops, some of whom more recently have backed off their opposition to same-sex marriage, or even come out in support of arrangements such as civil unions. Still, his recommendation was not a dictum, and he left it to the discretion of pastors to decide for themselves and their parishioners how best to handle the matter.
What's the source of the 56 percent figure? Why should I trust it?
Who says Sartain has gone further than other bishops? Who are the bishops who have backed off opposition to same-sex marriage? Which bishops have come out in support of civil unions? (A few examples are given later in the article, but the source appears to be a gay-rights advocate, not church leaders themselves.)
A reader sent GetReligion a link to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer item on a Catholic priest applauded for shunning the anti-gay marriage drive, as the online-only newspaper characterized it.
The congregation at Seattle's Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church gave the Rev. Tim Clark a standing ovation Sunday when he announced that the parish would not gather signatures for a referendum to repeal same-sex marriage.
The parish became the sixth in Seattle to opt out of the petition drive for Referendum 74 that has been endorsed and foisted on parishes by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain.
"I am happy to report that Our Lady of the Lake parishioners have been overwhelmingly and, thus far, unanimously supportive of the decision I made NOT to gather signatures in support of this Referendum," Clark wrote in response to an e-mail.
"The standing ovation experienced during one of the Masses says less about me and much more about the health of this parish. I only wished the archbishop could have experienced the sustained applause — the 'sensus fidelium' — of the people. He needs to listen to this 'voice.' That is my prayer."
"Smell the bias," wrote the reader who shared the link.
If indeed a standing ovation occurred, I don't think it's biased to say so. It's simply reporting (although the term "foisted" does nothing to counter the reader's perception). However, full reporting would require interviewing some of those who stood and asking why they did so. The Post-Intelligencer neglected to do that, much less seek comment from the archbishop on the priest's statement.
I'm not sure if that's bias or just bad journalism.
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Cisco® StyleMe™ Virtual Fashion Mirror Pilot a Success for John Lewis
This past spring, Cisco and John Lewis—the United Kingdom's leading department store retailer—successfully completed their pilot of the Cisco StyleMe virtual fashion mirror. The Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) ran the pilot, while partnering with C In-store and AITech.
During the six-week pilot (April and May), more than 1,000 customers tried StyleMe (an average of 40 a day)—far more than expected. In addition:
- A staggering 34,000-plus garments were viewed in the outfit builder, and almost 2,500 garments were tried on virtually.
- 67 percent of customers gave the mirror a positive assessment, and some great shopper stories emerged—including one from a delighted disabled lady, who was able to try on clothes for the first time in a store, thanks to Cisco StyleMe.
The John Lewis Partners (staff) also loved it. They found that StyleMe was a tool that created shop floor "theater" (crowds formed) while helping them provide great service sell even more effectively. They came up with lots of ideas on how to develop the experience even further.
We learned several key lessons.
- Shoppers are ready and willing to use this type of technology in public. They really liked being able to browse the range of fashions on a large screen in a shop. Customers liked the way that StyleMe made it easier to try on outfits, while also providing them with new ideas.
- The optimum experience and results require a combination of confident, skilled, and engaging staff plus an experience that can be used without help. Staff must lead the initial customer engagement every day; once customers are using it, then crowds form and others want to give it a try. The virtuous circle of shopper engagement kicks off.
- Good design "makes or breaks" the success of these kinds of solutions—the physical setup, the user interface, and the customer "takeaway." While lessons and insights can be taken from web and store design, only real experience proves which ones are valid. For retailers and consultants, this is a new area of expertise to be developed.
If you would like to read the full story, access the case study here.
I'll leave you with a quote from the John Lewis CIO Paul Coby:
"With StyleMe, we have taken the walls off the store and are beginning to create theater in the store. We have shown how we can create the foundation for our omnichannel vision in the store. It's fantastic. It equips our Partners to sell and it creates sales. We want people to enjoy shopping at John Lewis, and customers can really do that with Cisco StyleMe."
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BJD Photoshoot Virgin
I've always been fascinated by ball-jointed dolls (BJDs) and especially amazed at the beautiful photographs people took of them. Yes, I know a lot of people would think of them as creepy, ghostly or inhuman, even (They're dolls after all… No??). I do think many dolls give me the creeps but these BJDs captivated me in some ways that I don't know how to explain them.
A few days ago, I managed to find some courage to ask the NZ BJD Club on Facebook if any of them were keen to lend me their beautiful dolls for a short photo shoot (Under their supervision, of course!) Polina responded in a flash! We arranged to meet up two days later, and bam! I finally got my first feel on photographing BJDs! I was handling the dolls with such care and gentle-ness, they told me that I didn't have to be too careful because the dolls are pretty sturdy. And because I was so gentle… I wasted quite a bit of precious time. Sometimes, I couldn't stop looking at them and forgot to photograph them. Hah, jokes on me.
Anyway, I wanted a doll of my own since forever (Okay, maybe about 5 years) but I couldn't afford one and they are almost impossible to buy offline. Polina and Marly (her husband) were so awesome, they gave me one of their old dolls as a gift and a starter doll to get me going. I haven't photographed him yet, nor have I named him (Had no time, spent the weekend in Wellington for Extraordinary Tales) but I can't wait to get started!


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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – Chief Judge David R. Herndon of the Southern District of Illinois issued an order on January 22 denying the motion of the hardware store chain Menards for summary judgment in a sex / pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
In its lawsuit, filed September 22, 2008 (EEOC v. Menard, Inc., 08-0655-DRH, S.D. Ill.), EEOC alleges that Menard, Inc. discriminated against a female employee at its Effingham, Ill., store on the basis of her sex by demoting her from her department manager position because she underwent surgery to prepare her for in-vitro fertilization, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
On September 21, 2009, Menards filed a motion for summary judgment alleging that it was entitled to an immediate judgment in its favor and without trial because, it contended, there were no disputed issues of fact, and the employee was demoted for good cause. The EEOC argued that, to the contrary, the employee was meeting job expectations and had never been informed otherwise. According to the court's opinion, "EEOC presented sufficient evidence to create a genuine issue of material fact as to whether [she] was satisfying Menards' legitimate expectations at the time of her demotion." (Memorandum Opinion and Order, No. 08-0655-DRH, S.D. Illinois, J. Herndon, entered 1/22/2010.)
The court also indicated the timing of the employee's demotion and the selection of a male co-worker as her replacement might be considered "suspect." Menards, the EEOC alleged, notified her male successor the same day that she underwent surgery to assist her in becoming pregnant. The court denied Menards' motion for summary judgment in its entirety.
The EEOC's regional attorney in Chicago, John Hendrickson, said, "Whatever else one might say about this case, it has appeared from the start that Menards and the EEOC seriously disputed the facts surrounding what happened to this employee. Accordingly, one has to wonder what anyone thought might be gained by investing resources in a motion for summary judgment. But that's done now. The court has spoken. The woman involved is going to have her day in court, and the EEOC very much looks forward to getting her case in front a jury."
The EEOC litigation team is being led by Supervisory Trial Attorney Diane I. Smason and Trial Attorney June Wallace Calhoun of the Chicago District Office.
Calhoun said, "Employment discrimination cases such as this one are frequently highly fact-intensive and, therefore, often cannot be readily resolved on summary judgment. Finally resolving those issues of fact is what juries do. That's what is going to happen here, and we at the EEOC will be ready for it."
Menards, headquartered in Eau Claire, Wis., is a major home improvement retailer with hundreds of stores spread throughout the Midwest, including in Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing discrimination charges, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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If you haven't seen Lockout yet, you're missing out on some seriously cheeseball space action with Guy Pearce (who is basically the movie spawn of John McClane and Snake Plisken). And even thought this movie is full-scale ridiculous and over the top, there were still some scenes that were too ludicrous to include in the final cut.
We talked to Maggie Grace, the on screen love interest, and she revealed one insane moment that was filmed, but never made it to the big screen.
What was the president's daughter doing in a space prison?
Maggie Grace: It does seem like a strange place to find Emily, doesn't it. Emily is the President's daughter in the year 2079. She travels up to MSN-1 on a humanitarian mission. They're putting the prisoners into stasis, it's kind of a play on cryogenic freezing, and there's been rumors of side effects and encroachment on human rights. The stasis has been leading to insanity. It has a negative effect on their brain activity. They've been quite violent after they wake up. She's there to investigate if there's any truth to these rumors. And inadvertently causes a prison riot.
A lot of folks make quips about about the President, your father, in the movie. Was there more to that?
Yes I think there's some question as to their political track record. I think she's a woman with her own mind and she doesn't necessarily back up all of her father's policies.
If they made Lockout 2, would you be a part of it?
Yeah I had so much fun making it, so yeah.
When you read the script was this movie as self-aware then? Were you surprised that you guys jumped from space to Earth in the end?
I think there was a lot of that on the page, yeah. There were a lot of genre referential moments and very tongue-in-cheek moments. You have this character who is winking at the audience letting them know that it's OK to have a good time, because he certainly is, in the midst of all this chaos.
Was there anything that didn't make the screen?
There was quite a few action sequences that didn't make the final cut, believe it or not. That's how much action we shot. There was a whole fight sequence in space. In the space suits. I think for time they just had to pick and choose which fights made it.
What was your favorite one-liner from the movie?
I kept cracking up when we shot that scene, "Here's gun and an apple. Don't talk to strangers, shoot them." There was just something about him in that moment. Or maybe it was my lack of sleep. We were pretty slap happy it was hard to keep a straight face in this.
What do you think happens with your character and Snow next?
I hope that they have lots of sex and babies. No, I think that there was a fun chemistry there. But I don't know if they're going to ride off into the sunset. Or pick out curtains of anything like that.
You don't kiss!
We shot a few different takes of it. There was one version where we did [kiss]. We also improvised the last bit. I don't know if you can hear it over the music. It's kind of like that last Casablanca moment, "beginning of a beautiful friendship." As we're walking off into the horizon, we thought it would be funny if it was very clear that this wasn't going to work out. He said something like "I don't think this is really going to work out, do you? And I said, "Well that depends." "On what?" "On how good you are in bed." "Eh give it about ten minutes." We just improvised our way through the end of the movie... but I can see why they chose not to go that direction.


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Senate appears ready to move on guns
WASHINGTON — For the first time in years, gun-control advocates may have some legislative victories to celebrate over the next few days as the Senate appears to have cleared key hurdles to bring a broad package of new gun rules to the floor.
It is still a long way from becoming law.
Nearly four months after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary and two decades since President Clinton signed the last major gun-control law, the Senate is poised to take up a gun bill that would expand background checks, beef up a national criminal database and crack down on straw purchases of firearms.
The Senate first has to clear a 60-vote threshold to end a threatened filibuster by conservative Republicans, but that seemed more likely Wednesday after a bipartisan deal was announced to expand background checks for most commercial gun sales.
While he said he wished the Senate background check deal covered more transactions, President Obama said the deal brokered by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., represents "welcome and significant bipartisan progress."
The Manchin-Toomey amendment is more friendly to gun buyers than Obama's proposal, closing loopholes for gun shows and Internet purchases but exempting most private transactions. In some areas, it would expand gun rights, allowing for easier transport of guns across state lines and accepting a state concealed-carry permit in lieu of a background check.
"We strengthen rights of law-abiding gun owners," Manchin said, explaining that the background checks are designed "to keep people from having guns who shouldn't have them."
"I don't consider criminal background checks to be gun control. It's just common sense," Toomey said. "If you pass ... you get to buy a gun. It's the people who fail that we don't want having guns."
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence expressed measured enthusiasm. "There is still a long road ahead and this bipartisan bill gives us reason to be optimistic," Brady Campaign President Dan Gross said.
The National Rifle Association remains opposed to any expansion of background checks, saying they won't prevent another school shooting. But spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said the private sale exemption was a "positive development."
The NRA did offer support for a second agreement Wednesday, worked out by Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, to strengthen the penalties for firearm trafficking and for people who buy guns for those banned from owning them.
Even Manchin and Toomey said their own amendment didn't guarantee they would vote in favor of the bill, depending on what other language is included on issues like banning assault weapons or limiting the capacity of ammunition magazines — two issues currently not in the bill being offered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. — whom Manchin and Toomey touted as giving "invaluable" input — said he didn't see how any background-check provision could be effective. And Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said "expanding background checks is about the most false sense of security you could provide to anybody."
But the first debate Thursday will be the threatened filibuster led by Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah. Lee said a filibuster would allow "three more days to assess how the bill would impact the rights of law-abiding citizens."
"This debate is not just about magazine clips and pistol grips," he said on the Senate floor. "It's about the purpose of the Second Amendment." Such far-reaching legislation should be subjected to a 60-vote majority to ensure bipartisan consensus, he said.
It was not clear how many senators would vote to block the bill. Outside the Senate chamber Wednesday, senator after senator told reporters they were still reviewing the language. "Sounds very promising," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. "We'll see," said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. when asked whether he would vote to bring the bill to the floor for debate.
And even if Reid has the votes to overcome a filibuster, it is not clear what parts of the president's gun agenda have enough votes to pass the Senate — let alone the Republican-controlled House. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, declined to comment on the Senate compromise Wednesday, or whether it would get a vote in the House.
Boehner has said the House will not take up any gun legislation until the Senate passes a bill. "I want to wait and see what actually passes over in the Senate," he said. "I've made it clear: If the Senate passes a bill, the House will review it."
And the Senate bill will take time. Reid said Wednesday, "We're going to have amendments on this. Some of them are going to take a little bit of time. We're not going to finish the bill this week. I don't know if we'll finish it next week. But that doesn't really matter. Are we going to legislate?"
Still, supporters of gun control said they were as optimistic as they've been at any time since the Dec. 14 shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
With the families of Sandy Hook victims crying in the Senate gallery, Connecticut's two Democratic senators spent the day eulogizing the 6- and 7-year-old victims killed by a lone shooter with a .223-caliber rifle and a 30-shot magazine.
"How can you not stop assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that were integral to that tragedy in Newtown?" Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said. The Manchin-Toomey deal was "a promising and profoundly constructive turning point in this process" that makes a vote much more likely.


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My friend and fellow sketchnoter Sacha Chua had a great sketchnote and post in December last year that I think is a great reference — Tips for growing as a sketchnoter for anyone starting to sketchnote and wanting to grow in their practice.
Sacha writes:
New to sketchnoting? Aside from reading Mike Rohde's The Sketchnote Handbook (see my sketchnote of it!) and Dan Roam's Back of the Napkin, how else can you grow your skills? Here are some ideas from how I keep working on improving my sketchnoting. Hope you find them useful!
Thanks Sacha!


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acorez702 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Looking for professional and classy logo for an upcoming adult toy store we are having developed.
Desired Color Scheme:
Colors are in image linked in previous description
Desired Style:
classy, clean, and professional
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Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
-nothing offensive
-High resolution, photohop file preferred
-Prefer text to appear as: AdultToyBin but are open to options and opinions.
-Design elements to consider would are: toy chest, Silhouettes, background effects.
Will fit into site where curent placeholder is shown at this link: http://i8.tinypic.com/6urrdw4.png
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BBC America documentary looks at Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee
It's going to be a very British summer. Along with the Olympics in London, it is the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the celebration of her 60 years of monarchy.
Kicking off the celebration on Sunday, BBC America has a three-part documentary "The Diamond Queen," which probably will be repeated endlessly. Narrated by writer Andrew Marr, it looks at a hardworking royal whose real power lies in her immense dignity and human touch.
Only the second English monarch to have reigned 60 years, Elizabeth Windsor was born April 21, 1926, the first daughter of a second son who was not expected to become king. With the abdication of her uncle, Edward VIII, in 1936, Elizabeth's father, George VI, became king, and she became the heir to the throne at age 10.
Digging deep into photo and film archives, Marr has unearthed black-and-white footage of a shy young Elizabeth as a toddler, and later of she and her sister, Margaret, playing at the Royal Lodge, Windsor. It was a privileged childhood amid a dangerous time, with the constant turmoil of lurking communism, anti-monarchy fever and, later, World War II.
On February 6, 1952, with the death of her father, she became queen at 25, handling the position with the rigid discipline installed by her parents, and a sense of duty to all the members of the British Commonwealth.
Part one of "The Diamond Queen" uses historical newsreels to show her history and then segues into a look at her daily grind — visits, receptions, talking with her many prime ministers through many decades, along with commentary from her family — Princes Harry and William, Princess Eugenie and others on how she handles it.
The second part addresses the continuity of the monarchy as well as the importance of modernization and staying current with the times. The wedding of Catherine Middleton and Prince William in 2011 was reminiscent of his great-great-grandmother, Queen Mary, in 1893 and his mother, Princess Diana, in 1981. Details might be different but the royal wedding traditions were familiar. Marr says of the queen and her husband, Prince Phillip, "when they were younger they began to invite actors, writers, scientists for regular lunches." It's summed up as "Tradition — with a twist."
Part three is "the nation's grandmother," a personal look at the queen from her coronation in 1953 to now. Despite being in the public eye, her grandson, Prince William, says "she doesn't care for celebrity." A look at her televised Christmas messages, which started in 1957, also shows how fashions change over time.
One of the delights of this documentary is the archival material. Marr found footage of the last Diamond Jubilee, that of Queen Victoria in 1897.
Marr brings a dry tone to his narration, respectful but not referential. He doesn't skip over the bad parts — the death of her uncle Lord Mountbatten by the Provisional IRA in 1979, the royal divorces, including the separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1992 during what the queen called her "annus horribilis" (horrible year), and their subsequent divorce in 1996.
Overall, the queen is loved in many parts of the Commonwealth partly because of her longevity. As British actress Helen Mirren comments, "she's the only other person who's been a total constant in my life ever since I came to consciousness. The queen was there."
BBC America: The Summer of London
'The Dead Witness' focuses on early Victorian mystery writers
PBS brings back modern 'Sherlock' for a second season "
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== Post-1.14 Features ==
== Post-1.14 Features ==
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- 1.0 Features (Done)
- 1.2 Features (Done)
- 1.4 Features (Done)
- 1.6 Features (Done)
- 1.8 Features (Done)
- Open Bugs
Post-1.14 Features
Easier tasks
- Easier use of pg_dump when upgrading PostgreSQL (or ideally, invisible use of this, is both PostgreSQL versions are installed).
- GUI for configuring a central postgres server.
- For instance, creating the initial user, after asking for the root password.
- This can be a completely separate program. It can be in any programming language (Python with pygtk might be appropriate).
- It should parse the postgres configuration files, and then change them where necessary.
- To ask for, and gain, root (or superuser) rights, do whatever synaptic or gnome-system-tools does. There is commented-out code to get root rights in this way already, in connectionpool.cc
- Warn when deleting used fields and relationships: If a field or relationship is on a layout or report, or a field is in a relationship, warn before deleting.
- Create a new warning dialog in the Glade file, and create a C++ class for it.
- Add methods to the Document_Glom class, such as bool get_field_used(). Extra output parameters could return a string describing the use, or specific information about the layout, relationship, report, etc, on which it is used.
- Whenever the UI allows someone to delete one of these things, call the method and show a dialog if necessary.
- Depending on the dialog response, continue or cancel the deletion.
- Quickly add Relationship/Field: For instance, when adding a field to a layout, quickly add a relationship so that you can add a field from it, without closing the layout window, opening the relationships window, and opening the layout window again. Or to quickly add a field to the current table when adding a field to the layout dialog. Or, when specifying a related choices lists (in a Field'a default formatting). (30 hours)
- Add buttons to the dialogs in Glade.
- Create signal handlers for those buttons in the dialog classes.
- In the button signal handlers, open the appropriate dialogs - see the code that does the same from the regular menu signal handlers. Then update the current dialog to show the new available choices.
- Ideally, think of a way to avoid this causing so many windows to be open at once, on top of each other.
Tasks requiring more experience
Some of these require you to have experience of, or learn about, the technologies marked in bold, such as Cairo, Avahi, or libgda.
- Custom Print Layout: For instance, a perfect-looking official invoice. Implement with Cairo and the GTK+ 2.10 printing API. Time: 80 hours. (Partly done in 1.8)
- Automatic Server Detection: Patch postgres to use Avahi for ZeroConf/Bonjour/Rendezvous service broadcast. Postgres already uses Bonjour on MacOS X.
- Scripting: Most common actions should be standard features without the awkwardness of scripting, but maybe we need some way via the custom buttons to, for instance, on Contacts details create a related Invoice and take you to the Invoice details. For this, we must just present a python API for some parts of the Glom structure in addition to the current record object. This requires knowledge of the Python C API, which is used already for calculated fields. Alternatively, you may use boost::python if you are already familiar with it.
- Non-Indexed Calculated Fields: Optionally don't store values - just recalc them when seen/used, and therefore don't allow their use in relationships, though that's awkwardly technical when seen in FileMaker. Time-to-complete: 60 hours.
- Locking: Don't let a second user edit the same record. (Delay unlock for 5 seconds after entry loses focus). Update the display when the second user changes the same record. Time: 50 hours.
- Multi-column relationships: Match on 2 key fields instead of just one. Time: 30 hours.
- Performance:: Keep connection alive, do less by-value copying, more caching and hashing. libgda 2.0 (when finished) should help with this.
- Web UI: Possible in principle, although it probably wouldn't be as responsive as a desktop application. All the needed information is in the .glom document. Something for a web developer, and there's no need to choose a favourite language/platform - just do it.
- Embedded Glom: Port to Maemo and add new features to help.
- Alien Tables: Allows some tables to get/set data in non-postgres sources, such as evolution-data-server, so people don't need to enter their contact information twice.
- Multimedia Fields:
- We currently have Image fields that can store images in almost any format, but the image is actually converted to PNG before saving in the database, so we always know what format the data has. To preserve original formats, and to support audio and video, we would need to store the mime type as well. We would need to define a binary format for the data, so we could store the mime type along with the data. An existing format would be best.
- Then we would need to implement video and audio playing widgets, and we should offer to open the appropriate external application where we can't "play" the data inline.
- Time: 80 hours.


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Reds chase Villa star
Liverpool face Newcastle at Anfield tonight, with Kenny Dalglish's side looking to get back to winning ways after two consecutive draws.
With Luis Suarez suspended, all eyes will be on striker Andy Carroll, who is almost certain to start in attack against his former club.
The £35m striker has struggled since moving to Merseyside, but was backed by his manager this week despite scoring just three goals this term.
Roberto Mancini has said today that he wants to delay Yaya Toure's departure for the African Cup of Nations for as long as possible.
Elsewhere today, Bolton manager Owen Coyle has revealed a fee for England central defender Gary Cahill has been agreed with Chelsea.
Transfer News
Arsene Wenger has confirmed that striker Thierry Henry has agreed to rejoin Arsenal on a two month loan deal. (The Guardian)
Chelsea are rumoured to be prepared to smash the world transfer record in order to land £84m Porto striker Hulk. (The Times)
Liverpool could reportedly make a sensational bid for Aston Villa and England striker Darren Bent, who would cost around £18m. (Metro)
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is said to be in talks with Barcelona for Arsenal and Chelsea target Isaac Cuenca. (Goal)
Manchester City are facing competition from big spending rivals PSG for the signature of AC Milan forward Alexandre Pato. (SkySports)
And finally, Tottenham are considering a January move for Freiburg and Senegal striker Papiss Cisse, valued at £14m. (Daily Mail)News Now - Sport News


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ETHER JUMPERS NEVER SLEEP (Nov, 1938)
By Emile C. Schnurmacher
THE man who stops time in its tracks, or turns it forward to tomorrow or backward into yesterday by simply pressing a button, sits quietly in front of the long panel in the master control room of the National Broadcasting Company at Radio City, watching the hands of a clock which point to twenty seconds less than twelve o'clock noon.
In just twenty seconds the musical program being broadcast by a Philadelphia concert orchestra will leave the air. In twenty-one seconds, hundreds of thousands of listeners who are tuned in on the network will, through their sense of hearing, be transported half way round the world to Delhi, India, where a speaker is waiting to give a description of an amazing election, telling how 33,000,000 voters, most of them illiterates, went to the polls.
But the man at the control panel does more than carry the radio listeners in imagination to Delhi. He also bridges time for them. Although it is noon in New York, the program in Delhi is taking place at 10:30 p.m. Berlin is listening to it at 6 p.m., Rio de Janeiro at 2 p.m., Shanghai at 1 a.m. tomorrow morning, Tokio at 2 a.m. and far-off Wellington, New Zealand, at 4:30 a.m. The ether jumpers never sleep as their programs go around the globe. The rapid strides of radio during the past few years have made possible world-girdling hook-ups which, in the space of an hour, will take you into yesterday, today and tomorrow, from a celebration in Moscow to a Gaucho orchestra on the Argentine pampas, from a ceremonial fete in Tokio to a native dance in Suva.
Ether-jumping programs with their intricate hook-ups, engineered with split-second accuracy, have become so popular that John F. Royal, vice president of the National Broadcasting Company, points out that international broadcasts are vying with the most popular commercial programs.
"During the past thirteen years we have presented more than 2,000 of these broadcasts and these figures tell the story of radio's achievement in international broadcasting, also symbolizing the progress made in radio engineering and science," states Mr. Royal. "Consider the first ether-jumping broadcast back in 1924. The pickup point was Havana, but radio used a cumbersome technique. The program of music was carried to the mainland by submarine cable and then relayed to seven stations. This required weeks of preparation.
"With the development of short waves which could be re-broadcast, the 'cigar box' control panel for broadcasting from any point whether it be a manhole or a congressman's hat, and with other ingenious inventions and improvements by radio scientists, ether jumpers may now bring to radio audiences an address from Shanghai, a Papal ceremony from the Vatican, a concert from Berlin, the noises of a volcano in Italy and other interesting or important events in an uninterrupted program which goes smoothly on the network although those events originate at points thousands of miles apart. It is almost as easy to switch in Paris or London today as it is to pick up a dramatic sketch from Chicago or California, or a dance band from Boston." The development of the short wave and of the technique for re-broadcasting it on regular wave lengths proved one of the greatest assets to the ether jumpers. In 1918 a twenty-meter wave was looked upon as almost useless, but today, after many experiments and improvements in the vacuum tube, tremendous distances can be spanned with the super-power of that short wave. Even the most important sponsored network programs are interrupted by the ether jumpers when there is an event of world- wide interest taking place. The announcement, "We interrupt this program to bring you a special bulletin from London, Moscow, Manila, Rome" or wherever the event may be taking place, has become an integral part of radio broadcasting, although the scientific preparation behind such short announcements may require weeks, or even months of work to make them possible as they occur.
An outstanding example of this occurred when King George V became seriously ill. Here was an event of world-wide importance to be flashed around the globe. Immediately watchers of the NBC took up their twenty-four hour vigil. At the gate of the palace, in front, of the homes of attending physicians, in every strategic point where the official word of the king's passing might be given, they waited. Across the way from the palace gate, a man was stationed at a telephone connected with the British broadcasting station in London which in turn was connected with the master control room at Radio City, with a short wave "cue line" over which the engineers on both sides of the Atlantic could talk and get everything in readiness. When the king breathed his last, the watcher at the gate signaled the man at the telephone. "King George V died three minutes ago," the man at the phone told the control room in London. Immediately the British Broadcasting Company talked to Radio City over the short-wave cue line. The message came in over short waves to the receiving station at Bound Brook, N. J. From there it ran over telephone lines to the master control room at Radio City, where the master control engineer pressed the "hot switch" and re-broadcast the message on the network.
Although the ether jumpers scooped the world on the news of this event they were still not satisfied, for the commercial program which they had interrupted to do so was broadcasting a cheery song.
They decided that in the future when such solemn events took place even more preparation was necessary. Soon the occasion arose for such preparation, for over in Rome, the Pope became seriously ill.
Immediately the same elaborate preparations were made. But in addition to the arrangements for the ether-jumping broadcast from abroad, in Radio City another group of watchers took up their vigil. There were four organists, one announcer and one engineer on hand so there might be a short solemn program of organ music as a prelude to the announcement. In order, therefore, to scoop the world, even greater speed would be necessary than before. The ether jumpers, who measure time in split seconds, would have to beat by nearly forty seconds their previous speed in reporting King George's death so that there could be a thirty-second prelude of organ music before the announcement. For more than a month, until the Pope finally was pronounced out of danger, the studio vigil was kept, in addition to the one in Vatican City. The organists were divided into two-hour shifts and were on continuous duty, waiting for an event which did not occur.
"This demonstrates the great detailed attention which is being paid to every phase of ether jumping today," states Mr. Royal. "It is not only a game requiring the immediate adoption of every practical improvement or scientific radio device as it is originated, but requires also great patience and the willingness to take long chances to bring world events to the radio audience as they occur.
"An impressive example of this was the expedition made to a tiny spot in the South Seas. Four tons of NBC broadcasting equipment with a staff of engineers and announcers made a 7,000-mile journey to the Southern Pacific so that ether jumpers might hear an eye-witness description of the longest total eclipse of the sun in 1,200 years. The complete program was to last only fifteen minutes and yet we sent this expedition to the only point in the 5,000-mile path of the eclipse from which satisfactory observations could be made, knowing in advance that if the day should prove cloudy there might be nothing to put on the air."
In recent months there have been significant developments in ether jumping which students of world affairs as well as radio engineers and scientists believe soon may prove important in influencing the course of history. One was the formation' of the International Broadcasting Union for the exchange of foreign programs throughout the world. All the great broadcasting systems of the globe were fused into a single universal network at the start for a program from Buenos Aires by the Associacion de Broadcasters Argentinos.
"There is every indication that music programs such as this will become exceedingly popular with the ether jumpers, for music is a universal language which needs no translating." Mr. Royal explained. "It may well mark the beginning of a new era in which the radio engineer, the scientist and the musician have combined to promote international understanding of the various national cultures. To this end the principal broadcasting companies of each nation combine to present a program of music typical of their land, with radio systems of other nations throughout the world relaying the program to their respective peoples."
Another significant development is that of the powerful mobile station which attracted the attention of the ether jumpers in March, 1937, when radio listeners on the short-wave band at 4 p.m. were amazed to hear an anonymous foreign station come in as strongly as the most powerful local station.
"Here speaks an illegal broadcasting station in Germany of the German Communist Party" the announcer told the ether jumpers in English. "We will broadcast again tomorrow night punctually at ten despite the German Secret Police and if this station should be traced and ourselves captured, all arrangements have been made for a broadcast to be made from another station."
Despite efforts of German radio engineers to discover the source of this powerful station by means of directional finders, a method which generally can trace a transmitting radio station, they failed in this instance. As a result they concluded the programs were being broadcast from a fast-moving truck equipped with a powerful transmitter and telescoping antenna. The only way to interrupt its activities was to "jam" the air with a program sent out on the same wave length. This illustrates dramatically how the ether jumper today may get messages from distant points in spite of many obstacles.
During the same week another example of this sort surprised the ether jumpers when, as the Spanish rebel army was hammering at the very gates of Madrid and their planes were dropping bombs on the besieged city, the loyalist station broadcast a message to America on a wave length of 9.4 megacycles, also coming in strongly.
"This is EAQ, No. 2" the announcer said. "Hello, hello, English-speaking friends and listeners everywhere. Take a walk with us along the deserted streets of Madrid. Hear the dreadful hum of an approaching enemy plane. Listen. The bomb is exploding."
So the eye-witness description of an actual air raid was broadcast and ether jumpers heard the bomb actually explode. This was made possible not only by the most modern broadcasting apparatus but also by a new directional microphone which picks up sounds in a certain direction and excludes them from others, American radio engineers pointed out.
All of these important happenings in international broadcasting have proved that while ether jumping is still in its infancy, and one of the newest of sciences, it is making tremendous strides forward. "It is already a factor in world affairs today," Mr. Royal points out, "and tomorrow its far reaching effects may be well nigh incalculable."


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July 18, 2012
Zebra Mussels Found in Lake Ray Roberts
Boaters urged to continue to clean, drain and dry
AUSTIN – Three years after the discovery that zebra mussels had established themselves in Lake Texoma, the destructive invasive species has been confirmed in Lake Ray Roberts north of Denton. This is only the second lake in Texas found to have zebra mussels, and the first in the Trinity River basin.
"Unfortunately, from an environmental and economic standpoint, this is very bad news," says Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Executive Director Carter Smith. "For a host of reasons the implications of this discovery are substantial to Texas waters and their future use and management. We intend to continue working with our partners to do everything reasonably possible to try and prevent the further spread of this harmful invasive species."
Smith emphasized that the discovery underscores the importance of boaters helping to prevent the spread of zebra mussels, which can be unknowingly spread when boats and trailers are moved from lake to lake. TPWD and a coalition of partners has a public education campaign underway in North Texas encouraging lake users to clean, drain and dry their boats, trailers and gear. An instructional video and other tips on how to prevent the spread are available at http://www.texasinvasives.org
Originally from the Balkans, Poland and the former Soviet Union, zebra mussels found their way to the Americas in the 1980s via ballast water of a ship. The small invaders were first found in 1988 in Lake St. Clair, Mich., and are currently known to have infested 29 states and more than 600 lakes or reservoirs in the United States.
Zebra mussels can have economic and recreational impacts in Texas reservoirs. They can clog public-water intake pipes, harm boats and motors left in infested waters by covering boat hulls and clogging water-cooling systems, annoy boat-dock owners by completely covering anything left under water and can make water recreation hazardous because of their razor-sharp edges.
From the environmental perspective, zebra mussels are filter feeders, which mean they compete with baitfish such as shad for available forage. Any impact on baitfish in turn can affect their predators — game fish such as bass, striped bass and catfish. Zebra mussels are also very harmful to native mussel populations because they will colonize on their shells and essentially suffocate them.
The latest discovery came following the DNA analysis of water samples collected from 14 North Texas reservoirs. While 12 of the samples proved negative, zebra mussel DNA was confirmed in the Lake Ray Roberts and Lake Texoma samples. The Texoma results were expected, but the Ray Roberts results were very concerning.
Following receipt of those results, TPWD fisheries biologists conducted a survey of the lake and confirmed the presence of small zebra mussels in several different locations on the lake and immediately below the dam.
"This is the first confirmed reservoir on the Trinity River Basin to have an established population of zebra mussels," explained Brian VanZee, TPWD's regional Inland Fisheries director. "The ones that have been found are only 1/8 to ¼ of an inch in size, so that means they were likely spawned earlier this year."
TPWD does not know exactly when or how the zebra mussels managed to reach Lake Ray Roberts, a 29,350-acre impoundment that sees heavy recreational use.
"More than likely, it was a boat that operated in Lake Texoma or some other lake infested with zebra mussels and then was used in Lake Ray Roberts without first being cleaned, drained and dried," says Gary Saul, TPWD Inland Fisheries Division Director. "In reality, we'll probably never know."
In the late summer of 2010 TPWD tried without success to chemically eradicate zebra mussels in a creek which feeds into the Trinity River system in North Texas. Unfortunately, no magic bullet has been found that will eliminate the bivalves once they have established themselves in a body of water.
However, the spread of zebra mussels can be slowed by making sure that boats that operate in zebra mussel-infested waters are not used in any other body of water until they have been cleaned, drained and dried. In addition, TPWD has recently adopted rules regarding the transfer of zebra mussel larvae in water from Lake Texoma and Lavon. To comply with those rules, boaters and anglers need to drain all water from their boats (including live wells) before leaving those lakes.
For two years, TPWD and a coalition of partners have been reaching out to boaters in North Texas to help educate them about the importance of taking action to slow the spread of zebra mussels. These partners include: North Texas Municipal Water District, Tarrant Regional Water District, Trinity River Authority, City of Dallas Water Utilities Department, Sabine River Authority, Canadian River Municipal Water Authority, San Jacinto River Authority, Angelina and Neches River Authority, Brazos River Authority and Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Saul said TPWD will be looking at expanding current regulations dealing with clean, drain and dry rules to prevent the transfer of zebra mussel larvae to other lakes.
"With this somber news, I hope Texas boaters will always remember to "Clean, Drain, Dry" their boats, trailers and gear because all it takes is one instance of not properly cleaning to introduce this highly invasive and unwelcome species to a water body in Texas," Smith said.
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Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been waiting all offseason to get a long-term contract done, and he's getting sick of waiting.
Brees said in an interview with WWL radio that he's growing increasingly frustrated with what he sees as the Saints dragging their feet in getting a new agreement worked out.
"This is a big time for our team, especially when you look at what's happened in this offseason, missing our head coach, Sean Payton," Brees said. "There should be a sense of urgency and yet it seems like there's not."
In any deal it takes two sides to negotiate, and Brees says he feels like he and his agent are trying harder to get the deal completed than the Saints are.
"We've reached out on a number of occasions and at times I've been frustrated by the lack of response," Brees said.
From the Saints' perspective, they know that they have him as their exclusive franchise player and therefore don't have to worry about him signing with another team. The Saints may figure that they can just hold the line and eventually Brees will give in and accept the one-year franchise tender, or accept a long-term deal worth less money than Brees thinks he deserves.
But Brees says that, contrary to the claims of Saints owner Tom Benson about the sides being close, the Saints haven't offered him anything in the ballpark of the kind of contract he'd be willing to sign.
"Maybe not as close as people would be led to believe," Brees said. "I would say that the numbers that have been thrown around by ESPN and some of these other places, at times, have been pretty heavily inflated."
Brees says he has always done everything asked of him by the Saints, and now it's time for the Saints to reward his loyalty with a "reasonable" and "appropriate" contract, which he says the Saints so far haven't offered him.
"It's been extremely frustrating for me," Brees said. "The negotiation shouldn't have been this difficult."


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Hi! This is Kim with Lily Patch Quilts. I am sew happy to be back with another quick and fun tutorial just in time for holiday gift giving.
2 coordinating fat quarters
1/8 yard heavy weight fusible interfacing
2 – 1/2″-5/8″sets of heavy duty snaps
Snap setting tools
Marking tool
Medium size spool of thread (rounding corners)
Cut 2 – 4 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ from each fat quarter (2 lining, 2 outer wallet)
Cut – 4 – 4 1/2″x 7 1/2″ heavy weight interfacing
Step 1
Iron interfacings to the wrong sides of all fabric pieces. Take the spool of thread and place at the corner where your flap will be. Mark around one side of the spool and cut on the marked line to create a rounded corner.
Here are the lining and outer pieces with the flap trimmed.
Step 2
Take the outer wallet piece with the straight side, use the socket and place a mark 1″ from the straight edge. Punch or cut out the hole. Assemble the socket and cap post according to the manufacturer's instructions. Hammer until the stud and post is in place. I used the tools that came with the snap plus a craft hammer. Make sure to place the snaps on a really hard surface like hardwood or tile.
Step 3
Place the lining and outer piece right sides together.
Sew all the way around, leaving an opening large enough to turn. Clip corners.
Step 4
Turn right side out. Press to remove wrinkles. Make sure the opening is pressed even with the side seams.
Step 5
Mark a line 2 1/2″ from the straight edge.
Fold the straight edge up to form a pocket. Pin and sew around 3 sides, starting at the bottom corner and sewing around the flap to the opposite corner.
Step 6
Fold the flap down and press to make an indention on the flap. Mark a hole in the center of the indentation, cut or punch out the hole.
Insert the socket and cap into the flap. Following the manufacturer's instructions. Hammer the socket and cap until it's in place. Press the flap area avoiding the snap to help the flap to lay flat.
Your business card/mini wallet is finished.
This will make 2 business card or mini wallet. I called this a business card/mini wallet because it's so versatile. It will hold money, business cards or gift cards. This will make a great stocking stuffer.
I would love to have you post your business card/mini wallet in the MBS' flickr group and Lily Patch Quilts flickr group.
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Vietnam War Vet to Get New Purple Heart Medal
RAPID CITY - A Vietnam War veteran living in South Dakota is set to get a replacement military medal after someone broke into his home recently and stole his.
The Rapid City Journal reports that 66-year-old Charlie Running Hawk, of Rapid City, has been offered a replacement medal by members of South Dakota's Congressional delegation.
Running Hawk says he and his wife were away recently when their home was broken into. He says the suspect took his Purple Heart medal, $80 in change and some prescription pills.
A representative from U.S. Tim Johnson's office says veterans can usually get lost or stolen medals replaced at least once. He says he expects a replacement to arrive in three to six weeks.
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Why this course
During the last decade, results-based management (RBM) has gained much influence in planning programmes for social impact. Still many organisations struggle to plan for real, impactful results with the accompanying processes and tools. RBM has consequences for the entire organisation: for project planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning. Learning how to design a solid RBM framework - in various forms – is a good first step to integrate RBM in your organisation and programmes.
Course objectives
By the end of this course, you will:
- Learn RBM in a changing context (e.g. SDGs, private sector involvement, conflict situations)
- Learn various methods for designing results (for example: Theory of Change, Stakeholder Analysis, Appreciative Inquiry, Outcome Mapping)
- Get insights in different RBM frameworks (e.g. Results Framework, Outcome Strategy Map)
- Learn how to design a results-based monitoring & evaluation plan, including KPI's (key performance indicators) and progress markers
Course agenda (Thuy, the below has a different font and font size than the above. Deliberate?)
Day 1:
- MDGs/SDGs and Results-Based Management
- Introduction Project Cycle & Results-Based Management
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- Theory of Change analysis
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- Appreciative Inquiry: another technique to plan for results
- Results Framework formulation and the Results-Chain
- Identifying risks and assumptions: defining KPI's
- Risk analysis and risk mitigation strategies
Day 3:
- Introduction to Outcome Mapping
- Formulating an Outcome Strategy Map
- Introduction to Results-Based monitoring
- Data collection methods and tools, and monitoring system format
Day 4:
- Most Significant Change (MSC) technique: planning for the unknown
- Evaluation: prepare for an independent evaluation and design evaluation criteria
- Certificates, end-of-training evaluation, closure.
Registrations end:14 Oct 2019
Date: 22-25 Oct 2019
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Course fee: €870 (excl tax)
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Population, Family Planning, and the Future of Africa
Population, Family Planning, and the Future of Africa
In most African countries, over half the population is under the age of 15. Even if all of those countries were to shift to having just two children, beginning tonight, their total populations would continue to grow for another two decades. Nevertheless, there is hopeful evidence of progress.
Africa's colonial legacy-exploitation, artificial borders, too many small and unviable countries after independence-is the chief source of a catalog of misfortunes that is by now familiar: civil and regional conflict, famine and hunger, land degradation, corruption and ill health. Economically, sub-Saharan Africa lags pitifully behind all other developing regions. Its GDP per-capita growth rate during the 1990s was actually negative. In 2002, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, with 688 million people, managed a collective gross domestic product of $319 billion-a per-capita average of well under $2 per day. With 11 percent of the world's population, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for only 2 percent of world trade.
Food production has fallen since independence. Although a net food exporter before 1960, Africa has become more dependent on food imports and food aid over the last three decades. From 1974 through 1990, food imports in sub-Saharan Africa rose by 185 percent and food aid by 295 percent. In 1995, food imports accounted for 17 percent of total food needs.
The human condition in Africa remains as daunting as ever. Of the 34 countries on the UN list of Low Human Development indicators, all but four are in Africa. This inevitably means that illiteracy rates are high, infrastructure is inadequate, and health services are rudimentary. The debt burden has certainly been a major constraint: in 2002 Africa's total debt stood at $204 billion, 64 percent of GDP.
Some progress has been made in reducing political instability and civil unrest, but much more needs to be done to sustain economic growth, durable peace, and equitable income distribution. At this writing (July 2004), hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea have ended, but the peace is uneasy. Civil wars in Angola and Sierra Leone have also ended. In Sudan a peace agreement is pending, but widespread violence in Darfur continues. The outside armies that were fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have withdrawn, but instability and ethnic conflict persist. Resettlement and reconstruction are still slow in such countries as Burundi, Rwanda, Liberia, and Somalia. The flows of refugees from these conflicts have caused major disruption to neighboring countries.
Two Steps Forward...
These are all difficult problems, but one factor-rapid population growth-has certainly made a lot of them more difficult to solve. It has often been said that the one thing Africa has is plenty of land and that consequently population growth is not a bad thing. It is true that Africa's population density, 249 people per 1,000 hectares, is low compared with the world average of 443. But this simplistic view does not take into account that the natural carrying capacity of much of the land in Africa is low and subject to the vagaries of a capricious climate. It also conveniently ignores the fact that it is the rapidity of population growth which causes so much stress and suffering. Growth rates of over 2.5 percent per year are far higher than those experienced in the past by the now-developed world, and by most other developing regions today. These are occurring largely because death rates have fallen due to immunization and improvements in health care.
But fertility has remained high. In recent decades, urbanization and the breakdown of traditional values have led to more frequent childbearing outside socially accepted norms. African women have suffered most, and the high rate of unsafe abortion-every day, some 10,000 African women resort to this practice-is one evidence of their frustrated desire to control their fertility. Family planning services have been woefully inadequate.
There are encouraging signs that things are beginning to change, but these signs are only sporadic and the tempo is still slow. In recent years, most African governments, nudged by global advocacy efforts and their family planning associations, have come to accept that fewer, better-spaced births lead to healthier children and lower maternal mortality and morbidity. All but a fanatical few have dropped their earlier opposition to family planning as a Western imposition or a neo-colonialist plot to decimate African populations. By the time of the Third African Population Conference, held in Dakar in December 1992 as part of the preparations for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994, delegates were speaking almost unanimously about the importance of family planning, both as a human right and as a development issue.
But there is still a long way to go. In sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, only 17 percent of married women are using contraceptives, as against 50 per cent in North Africa and the Middle East, 39 per cent in South Asia, 76 per cent in East Asia and the Pacific and 68 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Only in a few countries, such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Kenya, have family planning programs been successful enough to increase contraceptive use to much higher levels.
Kenya provides the most dramatic example. Kenya's fertility fell 22 percent during the 1980s, from 8.3 children per woman in 1978 to 6.5 in 1989. Desired family size fell 35 percent during the same period, from 7.2 to 4.7 children, and contraceptive use rose more than threefold. Although traditional Kenyan values favored large families, they have become less advantageous as rapid population has put pressure on farming land in many areas. Higher female literacy has helped promote new attitudes about family size. Increasingly, parents want to send their children to school, and rising school costs have made it much more expensive to educate large families. By 1998, fertility had fallen further to 4.4 children per woman, and it remained at that level in 2003.
But African governments are now also worrying more specifically about the implications of high population growth rates: in fact, three-quarters of Africans now live in the 24 countries with governments that view their population growth rates as too high. In most African countries, over half the population is under the age of 15, which means there is a vast pent-up demographic momentum throughout the continent. Even if Kenya, for example, were to attain the two-child family overnight, its population would continue to grow for another two generations and would eventually double.
Shrinking Cornucopia
Some reasons for governments' concerns about rapid population growth are social and economic: how will they provide the schools, hospitals, and jobs for the next generation? There is also the question of food supply: in many regions, particularly the Sahel, population growth has exceeded carrying capacity and thus denied the development and security which would encourage a fall in childbearing.
Rapid population growth is also having a serious effect on the natural environment in Africa. Some 500 million hectares of land have been affected by soil degradation during the last half century, including as much as 65 percent of agricultural land. This has been a major factor in constraining food production in Africa to only a 2 percent annual increase, well below the rate of population increase. The number of undernourished people in Africa has more than doubled from 100 million in the late 1960s to roughly 230 million today; perhaps another 150 million are subject to acute food deficits, and possibly as many as 50 million are actually starving. Projections indicate that the region will be able to feed only 40 per cent of its population by 2025.
Although most Africans depend on the land for their livelihood, the land's capacity to produce is ebbing away under the pressure of growing numbers of people who do not have the wherewithal to put back into the land what they are forced to take from it. Trees are being cut down 30 times as fast as they are being replaced, and some 80 million Africans have serious difficulty finding fuelwood. Deforestation and overgrazing leads to declines in soil fertility. In countries like Ethiopia, topsoil losses of as much as 290 tons per hectare have been reported.
As the land's vegetative cover shrinks, its already fragile soils lose the capacity to nourish crops and retain moisture. Agricultural yields fall and the land becomes steadily more vulnerable to variable rainfall, turning dry spells into drought and periods of food shortage into famines. In most parts of Africa you can hear farmers say that it is more difficult to make ends meet, that plots are much smaller and farther away, fallow periods shorter. All these trends impose extra strains on women, who are usually responsible for growing the family vegetables, fetching water, and gathering fuelwood.
Another serious problem is water. About one-third of the world's population already lives in countries with moderate to high water stress, where water consumption is more than 10 per cent of the renewable freshwater supply. Fourteen of these countries are in Africa, and another 11 countries will join them in the next 25 years. Major rivers, like the Limpopo and the Save/Sabi, which flows through Zimbabwe and Mozambique to the Indian Ocean, have dried up and now only flow seasonally. There are signs that flows of other major rivers, including the Chari-Logona, Nile, and Zambezi, are decreasing.
In Africa generally, agriculture supports 66 percent of the population and provides essential exports. Its healthy development is a key to slowing rural-urban migration. But it is totally dependent on a regular supply of fresh water. Water shortages will increasingly become a constraint on economic and social development, especially in countries with limited water supplies, rapid population growth, and/or fast-expanding industry and agriculture.
Maternal Diseases and Deaths
Pregnancy and unsafe abortion are the leading causes of death among women of reproductive age in most African countries. A maternal death may result from direct pregnancy complications, from problems arising at delivery, from abortion or its consequences, from post-delivery complications, or indirectly from pre-existing conditions aggravated by pregnancy.
The maternal mortality rate, which measures the death rate of women due to pregnancy and childbirth, is higher in Africa than on any other continent: 830 deaths per 100,000 live births for the continent as a whole in 2000, and an average of 920 for sub-Saharan Africa. This amounts to almost 700 deaths every day in Sub-Saharan Africa. The high mortality rate masks an even higher morbidity rate: the same afflictions that kill hundreds of thousands of women maim and render sterile many millions more of their sisters. For every woman who dies, 50 to 100 others suffer short-, medium-, or long-term debilities from their pregnancies and deliveries.
At the root of this high maternal mortality and morbidity is a multitude of health and socio-economic problems. Many girls are born prematurely or at low birth weight because their own mothers were malnourished, ill, or overworked. If she survives infancy, an African girl will most likely grow up on a diet that does not meet her minimum nutritional requirements. As a child, she will have a heavy burden of household chores and may receive little or no schooling; almost all African girls receive less education than their brothers, although the literacy gap is beginning to narrow, at least in Botswana, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. She is likely to be married off young, especially if a good bride price is available, and taught that her main role in life is to bear and rear as many children "as God brings." During pregnancy, her needs for adequate rest, good nutrition, and health care are too often ignored.
For these reasons, as well as to reduce the vast number of unsafe abortions, better reproductive health services are badly needed throughout Africa. Such services are also needed to combat sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. According to the World Health Organization, STIs have become the most common group of notifiable diseases in most countries worldwide, but prevalence rates are particularly high in developing countries. WHO estimates that in 1999 there were 340 million new cases globally in women and men aged 15-49, including 12 million new cases of syphilis, 62 million of gonorrhea, 92 million of chlamydia, and 174 million of trichomoniasis. Among the world's regions, sub-Saharan Africa showed the highest rate of new cases.
In pregnancy and childbirth, these diseases can cause blinding eye infections or pneumonia in babies, chronic abdominal pain, ectopic pregnancies, and infertility. Women are more likely to catch STIs than men. As one medical writer puts it, "Both the transmission and the serious consequences of STIs show a biological sexism. The risk of acquiring gonorrhea from a single coital event in which one partner is infectious is approximately 25 per cent for men and 50 per cent for women.... Moreover, women suffer more serious long-term consequences from all STIs except AIDS, including pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, chronic pelvic pain, infertility and even cervical cancer." Some STIs, as well as causing pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility-a major tragedy for a young woman in Africa-make more likely transmission of the worst (and incurable) STI, HIV/AIDS.
Here again, Africa is more seriously affected than any other region. Deaths due to HIV/AIDS in Africa will soon surpass the 20 million Europeans killed by the plague epidemic of 1347-1351. Three million people in sub-Saharan Africa were newly infected with the virus in 2003. For the continent as a whole, the prevalence rate has reached 8 percent among adults aged 15-49.
Like other STIs, AIDS affects more women than men; about 13 African women are currently infected for every 10 African men. The incubation period for HIV infection to develop into AIDS, which is up to 10 years in men, is believed to be shorter in women. Factors such as inferior health and social status, polygamy, other STIs, malnutrition, access to care, ear piercing, genital mutilation, and menstruation all lead to easier transmission of HIV. When women are sick with AIDS or die, their children suffer, even if they were not infected themselves at birth.
Although AIDS will have a devastating demographic impact on some African countries, its long-term effect on African population growth will be relatively limited. Even in the 29 most affected African countries, the projected total population of nearly 1.2 billion in 2050 will only be some 10 per cent less than it would have been without AIDS. Other impacts on development are arguably far more important.
The most important factor in containing the spread of HIV is political commitment. Increasingly, African leaders are speaking out loudly, clearly, and repeatedly about AIDS, are seeking to demystify it, and are encouraging discussion about safe sex everywhere from the classroom to the boardroom.
Some Good News
Despite the ongoing conflicts and disheartening statistics on AIDS, the outlook for Africa is improving. In 2001 the members of Africa Unity (AU) met in Abuja, Nigeria, and issued a declaration agreeing to give more emphasis to HIV/AIDS and recommending the allocation of 15 percent of national budgets to health and the integration of HIV programs with programs for sexual and reproductive health. In most African countries, programs are being advocated with greater courage and conviction. NGOs are increasingly accepted as legitimate partners of governments in the field of sexual and reproductive health. The participation of communities is either being actively promoted or tentatively examined. Gender equity and equality are increasingly being promoted; the AU has amended its charter to acknowledge the importance of gender equity. Political commitment, openness, and determination have even proved that AIDS can be reversed.
There might even be said to be a thin silver lining to the HIV epidemic. It has been a much needed wake-up call to many African leaders to address the many problems of the poor, and the result, encouraged as well by pressures from outside, has been more support for poverty alleviation and HIV efforts. And there is a genuine effort to push for more responsive and democratic governance, a truly basic requirement of people-oriented development.
Because family planning and reproductive health programs are so important for both health and demographic reasons, it is essential that more, not fewer, resources be invested in this area. Many programs are new and will need substantial funding as they expand. The numbers of women in the reproductive age groups are increasing, as are the proportions of those women who want to use contraception: today there are nearly 1 billion women of reproductive age in the Third World (projected to rise to over 1.2 billion by 2010). The developing countries generally are meeting or even increasing their budgets for sexual and reproductive health. Unfortunately, with the laudable exception of a few (mainly Scandinavian) countries, most donor contributions have stagnated or even decreased. Surely, Africa's recent successes and new commitments show that it deserves better.
Frederick T. Sai is a physician, long-time public health activist in Africa, and advisor to the president of Ghana on HIV/AIDS. This article is adapted and updated from one that appeared in The Future of Africa: Essays in Honor of David Morse, published in 2003 by the New York Society for International Affairs.
References and readings for each article are available at www.worldwatch.org/pubs/mag/.


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Union Institute and University is closing its Montpelier operations and consolidating its Vermont footprint in Brattleboro.
The move, to be completed by June, comes as the four-year liberal arts school reduces its weekend residency programs and relies more on online classes.
The Cincinnati-based school has two campuses in California, one in Florida and will go from two to one in Vermont.
The school sold its Montpelier property – on the campus of the former Vermont College – to the Vermont College of Fine Arts several years ago and had been renting space there since then.
Union spokeswoman Carolyn Krause says students currently enrolled in the Montpelier-based programs will be asked to transfer to Brattleboro or complete their course work online.


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