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Azure Template for creating Key Vault with a secret in it and a VM with MSI enabled
This sample has one template which describes how to create a vault, create a service bus, put the service bus connection key as a secret in the vault and create a VM, which has MSI (Managed Service Identity) enabled. MSI makes authentication for developers much easier by abstracting away interaction with AAD (Azure Active Directory). The sample then shows how to call the Key Vault to retrieve the secret that you initially put in with authenicating using MSI. The code also shows how to put a message into the Service Bus queue that is created and get the message from the queue. The code is wrapped in a powerShell cmdlet.
Step 1) Create using ARM template a Service Bus and create Key Vault with a secret created in the vault, which is the connection key for the Service Bus. In addition, create a VM that is MSI enabled and has access to the key vault that was created. This is all done using one template.
Step 2) Store the debug folder of last built project in a fileshare on the storage account you created with the template and run the following commands to include the PowerShell command and run it. The Get-Secret command will accept as a parameter a url to the secret.
cd C:\Users\yourUserName\
mkdir repoAzureStorage
net use k: \\nameofstorage.file.core.windows.net\fileshareName /u:AZURE\nameofstorage somekey
copy Debug.zip C:\Users\yourUserName\repoAzureStorage(Please make sure the repoAzureStorage folder is already created before running copy)
Then in PowerShell run.
Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted
Import-Module C:\Users\yourUserName\repoAzureStorage\Debug\sampleSecretMSI.dll -Verbose
Step 3) For further details on MSI works please refer to the following tutorial and MSI feature overview on using a key vault from a VM that has MSI enabled.
In Visual Studio, go to Tools->Nuget Package Manager->Package Manager Console, and run these commands in the Package Manager Console. It is very important the necessary nuget packages be downloaded:
Install-Package Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication -Version 1.0.0-preview
Install-Package Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault
Explanation of Template Sections
In the parameters section of the template you can see descriptions which will be displayed when the user is going to be prompted for inputs like:
- adminUsername
- adminPassword
- windowsOSVersion
- keyVaultName
- tenantId - To get tenantId just run Get-AzureRmSubscription in PowerShell and right down the tenantId for the subscription you are using
- objectId - To get objectId go to Portal -> AAD -> Users-all users -> search for your name and click on it then objectId will be displayed in the top left of the pane
- keysPermissions
- secretsPermissions
- vaultSku
- enabledForDeployment
- enabledForTemplateDeployment
- enableVaultForVolumeEncryption
- serviceBusNamespaceName
- serviceBusQueueName
- serviceBusApiVersion
The variables section describes the names of important variables to be used for creating resources, the user is not prompted for these inputs:
- storageAccountName
- publicIPAddressName
- addressPrefix
- subnetName
- subnetPrefix
- publicIPAddressName
- vmName
- virtualNetworkName
- subnetRef
- vmIdentityResourceId
- sbVersion
- defaultSASKeyName
- authRuleResourceId
- secretName
- location
The resources section specifies dependancies and describes what resources to use, which in this case are Service Bus, Key Vault, MSI and Storage Accounts. In addition, each of these resources can be split into their own templates and use to only create their respective components for other uses, such as simply creating a Key Vault or Service Bus.
- Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults - This is the Key Vault where the ServiceBus Key will be placed as a secret note that in the "dependsOn" section serviceBusNamespaceName. Also notice how this first resource has a sub resource used for describing the type and location where the secret is to come from
- Microsoft.ServiceBus/Namespaces - This ServiceBus Namespace is given the serviceBusNamespaceName specified in the parameters section as user input
- Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts - storage accounts are necessary in a resource group, storageAccountName variable refers to an already created storage account in this resource group
- Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses
- Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks
- Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces
- Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines
- Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/accessPolicies
- Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions
There is one json which includes all components: creating Key Vault, creating a Service Bus Queue and creating a VM with MSI enabled and access to a Key Vault. These components are also seperated into 3 seperate files each for one of the 3 components, so that it is easier to use for individual use cases.
The final output should be the connection string followed by "message is sent to queue" and the next line would output the message id and message body that was received from the queue.


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Kathy O'Hern Fowler, who lost her 16-year-old son to suicide in 1995, spent years struggling with the loss and grief. However, the life-altering experience led her to advocate for other parents who tragically find themselves in the same position. The touching and insightful LOSING LAMBERT: A JOURNEY THROUGH SURVIVAL & HOPE explores the heart-rending questions left in the wake of suicide, interviews parents struggling to cope with the pain and stigma, and offers hope for the future of suicide prevention. At a survivors meeting, parents speak candidly about the loss of their children - their darkest hours - in an effort to raise awareness about teen suicide and to help others find compassion and support. The documentary also focuses on the promising medical research being conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University. Their preliminary findings show impulse-control problems in the brains of suicidal teens, an impressive discovery researchers hope may someday lead to better identification and treatment for at-risk teenagers.
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A question for all that test domestic lets.
Are you testing electric cookers connected by twin & earth cable? If so, what tests do you carry out and do you disconnect the twin & earth from the connection unit? This seems to be a grey area in the Code of Practise. All views welcome.


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NORTHFIELD, Vt.—Despite goals from Sarahanne Cavolo (Roxbury, N..H.) and Emily Howard (Terryville, Conn.), UMass Boston women's hockey fell just short Saturday afternoon, in a 5-2 loss to the Manhattanville College Valiants in the ECAC East Semifinals.
The Beacons saw their season end for the third straight season at the hands of the Valiants, as they end the year with a 9-14-4 mark.
Saturday's game marks the final games of seniors Emily LaRosa (Weymouth, Mass.), Alli Greenberg (Stoughton, Mass.) and Jami Cudmore (Balognie, Sask.). The trio helped lead UMB to four straight ECAC East Tournament appearances and three stints in the ECAC East semis.
On the other side, Manhattanville will get their third straight crack at Norwich University in the ECAC East Championship Game, when the two teams play Sunday at 3 p.m. The two teams have split the last two title games, with Norwich winning last year's championship by a 6-3 margin.
UMass Boston fell behind just under 16 minutes into the game and despite strong surges in the second half of the second and third periods, couldn't overcome Jessica Kehoe and the Valiants high-powered offense.
Kehoe finished with two goals including the game-winner, while Sydney Asselstine, Chelsea Boucher and Alla Traun each added a single tally.
ECAC East Goalie of the Year Mary Evans made 15 saves on 17 shots to help the Valiants move to 18-8-1 on the year.
In net, Casey Schaejbe (Arlington, Mass.) made 17 saves on 22 shots, to finish off her freshman season at 5-10-2. The ECAC East All-Rookie Team selection made 10 saves on 11 shots in the second period to keep the game close, but couldn't withstand the rapid ebb-and-flow of the third period.
After the first two periods in which only three goals were scored (2-1 Manhattanville), the two teams combined for four goals in under five minutes in the latter stages of the third.
UMass Boston held a slight edge through most of the first period thanks to a strong fore-check and sustained pressure. Despite the Beacons holding an edge in shots and puck possession, Asselstine put the Valiants up 1-0 at 15:21, when she sent a puck through traffic that caught Schaejbe's facemask and bounced into the back of the net.
Kehoe made it 2-0 54 seconds into the second, when she found a big rebound at the back post and rammed it home.
The Beacons would answer back at the 15:22 mark of the period, when Cavolo poked home a LaRosa rebound through Evans five-hole. Junior Katie Loiselle (Glocester, R.I.) picked up the second assist on the play.
Manhattanville grabbed a two-goal lead back at 3-1, when Kehoe sent a centering-pass towards net-that deflected off of a Beacons defenseman and by Schaejbe.
The Valiants added on a fourth goal 32 seconds later, when Chelsea Boucher caught the Beacons pinching and lifted a shot over Schaejbe's shoulder to make it 4-1 Valiants at the 15:52 mark.
Howards gave the Beacons a lift at 16:24, when she grabbed a weak Valiants clearing pass at the Manhattanville blue line and skated in on Evans, before rocketing a shot just under the crossbar. The Beacons sophomore forward finishes the season with a career-high and team-high 11 goals.
Any momentum the Beacons mustered off the goal was quickly silenced at 17:54, when Alla Traun scored off her own rebound, after being left in front of the net all by herself.
Neither team had any luck on the power-play, as both squads finished 0-for-4.


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Our team had a little too much fun this Halloween! From our space cowboy, to little red riding hood and the big bad wolf, and superwoman, we were ready for trick-or-treaters at Sound. Have a safe and fun Halloween!
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Steven Teilhet, head security researcher for IBM Security AppScan Source Edition, explains how rules are developed for the IBM Security AppScan Source static analysis tool; he details how this process works with Objective-C/C languages and the iOS framework; and he exposes a new class of vulnerability type you'll run into with these languages, the predicate injection. 8:33
In the second video, Teilhet explains the three easy steps to follow to perform your first iOS app scan with IBM Security AppScan:
- Add the Objective-C scan rule set.
- Add delegate markup.
- Resolve lost sinks. (A sink is the desired output for data trace; a lost sink is a node in which the trace stops because it doesn't know what to do with node code.)
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Q: How do I get rid of those annoying bugs flying around my pantry? Where do they come from, anyway?
A: Those are called Indian meal moths, and they're the most common insect you're likely to find in your kitchen. These are not seasonal insects– you can find them any time of year.
Typically, what happens is a homeowner goes to the grocery store and buys a dry good that has been sitting on the shelf for a while. He uses half of it, rolls down the top of the bag, and puts it on the shelf in his cabinet.
After a while, the product gets old, and the eggs– which, despite being treated along the production chain, were in the product when he bought it– hatch, and the cycle begins.
(While this means that we're probably eating many products containing Indian meal moth eggs, it's a situation that's existed for thousands of years with no obvious ill effects. It's harmless to ingest the insects at any stage of their growth cycle.)
Fortunately, this is a problem that's easy to solve. We normally recommend that homeowners go through all of their dry goods to locate the source. "Dry goods" means everything you'd normally think of as harboring the moths– flour, grains, nuts, cereal. Look at things you might not think of at first, like ice cream cones, or even the pepper shaker. Sometimes people swear they've searched everywhere, only within a few days to see another one flit by. That means they haven't found the source. Then we suggest checking the bird seed and dog biscuits.
The bottom line is people should look everywhere– at all dry goods– and throw away any where they find the tiny larvae. Filmy webbing is also a clue. The insects move from product to product as larvae. The flying creature is the adult.
The homeowner's inspection is more important than anything an exterminator can do, and if they discard everything that might be contaminated and get in the habit of keeping grains in glass containers with lids, they should be fine. The bugs can bore through plastic bags and wax paper, but they can't penetrate a sealed glass container.
As a last resort, homeowners can clean out the pantry or storage cabinet completely and apply an over-the-counter pesticide, being careful to read the label thoroughly first. Everything edible has to go before spraying.
In desperate situations, they can call their local pest control company for advice.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit today against Signal International, LLC, charging that the Gulf of Mexico marine services company violated federal law by subjecting a class of approximately 500 Indian employees to human labor trafficking and a hostile work environment.
The EEOC charged in its lawsuit that Signal subjected the Indian employees as a class to abuse based on national origin (Indian) and/or race (Asian). The agency charged Signal with disparate, discriminatory treatment concerning the workers' terms and conditions of employment, as well as segregating them. Finally, the EEOC lawsuit alleges Signal retaliated against Sabulal Vijayan and Joseph Jacob Kadakkarappally because they opposed Signal's unlawful conduct.
Signal required the Indian employees to live in modular trailers called "man camps," enclosed by fences, built by Signal for the Indian employees. Signal charged the Indian employees more than $30 daily for housing and food. The EEOC said that the living facilities, food and overall living conditions were intolerable, demeaning and unsanitary. The agency's complaint also said that Signal assigned numbers to each Indian employee and used these numbers as a form of identification and reference rather than using the employee's name.
Signal had recruited the employees to work as welders, pipefitters, and ship fitters in Mississippi and Texas. Signal had recruited, tested and offered employment to each employee pursuant to the federal government's H-2B guest worker program.
On Jan. 19, 2011, the EEOC held public hearings on government-wide efforts to combat human trafficking and forced labor. The EEOC announced today that this case and others are being brought to combat discriminatory practices regarding foreign laborers.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits national origin and race discrimination and retaliation for opposing discriminatory practices. The EEOC filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Southern Division, in Gulfport (EEOC v. Signal International, LLC Civ. No. ___ after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC seeks compensatory and punitive damages for the class members and injunctive relief, including training for Signal on national origin and race discrimination and retaliation.
"The injustice here towards Indian workers solicited to come to the United States violated the mandates of federal law," said Delner Franklin-Thomas, district director for the Birmingham District Office. "Employers cannot avoid anti-discrimination laws by seeking to hire workers from other countries."
C. Emanuel Smith, regional attorney for the EEOC's Birmingham District Office, added, "Title VII clearly protects employees recruited to work in the United States from unlawful discriminatory practices. The EEOC is committed to ensuring a workplace free from unlawful discrimination for all workers in this country. This litigation is a step in that direction."
In a similar court filing, the Los Angeles Office of EEOC today filed suit against Global Horizons and related companies alleging labor trafficking, discrimination and harassment of Thai farm workers brought into the U.S.
According to company information, Signal is a leading Gulf of Mexico provider of marine and fabrication services, including new construction, heavy fabrication and offshore drilling rig and ship overhaul, repair, upgrade and conversion. The company employs more than 1,500 people. Signal's corporate offices are in Mobile, Ala., with production facilities in Pascagoula, Miss., and Orange, Texas.
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Hi WPF experts
I'm experienced in MFC and C++ and is not moving to C# and WPF.
I'll be building an application where the left side (separated by a splitter) has a tree control that functions as a navigation front-end. Whenever the user selects a new item in the tree control the entire content of the right side of the window is replaced.
In MFC I acomplished this by splitters and views and replacing the view in a splitter. If the new view also had to be split I created more sup splitters and inserted views (could get quite complicated in the limiting MFC model).
What is the best approach for a WPF application ? Create all 'views' in a single .xaml file and use the navigation tree to 'hide/unhide' 'views' based on the selection in the navigation tree or is there a way to define your 'views' in separate .xaml files and replace the 'views' dynamically based on the selection in the navigation tree?
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Pakistan, you say, is mounting a full-court press to defeat the home-grown extremist groups targeting regional governments – and even the US?
Not so fast.
Three months after US officials showered praise – and dollars – on Pakistan's government and military for unprecedented offensives against the Taliban and Al Qaeda-aligned subversives, evidence is strong that some official elements in Pakistan are still working with and protecting the extremist networks in its midst, says a new study by the RAND Corp.
Not only is the US failing to get the bang that it should for the billions of dollars in military and civilian development aid it has approved for battling Pakistan's Islamist extremists, the report says. But those groups are also extending their reach far beyond Pakistan, as the failed May Day car bombing in New York's Times Square suggests, the report adds.
"There is enormous danger for the region, for the Pakistanis themselves, and frankly for us if these links aren't cut and some of these militant leaders we know are operating with official protection aren't dealt with," says Seth Jones, a RAND expert on Afghanistan and Pakistan. "That's not going to happen unless there is much stronger pushing on this from the US."
A key recommendation of the report's authors, part of a group that advises the Pentagon on Pakistan policy, is that the US should hold back some of the billions in aid dollars promised to Pakistan until security and intelligence agencies make "discernible progress" in cutting ties to extremist groups.
"We're not advocating a break" with Pakistan, says Mr. Jones, who co-authored the report with Christine Fair of Georgetown University. "But something has to be done about these links that are not just unhelpful but that threaten US interests," he says.
As an example, Jones cites the US effort in next-door Afghanistan.
"The US simply can't be fully successful in stabilizing Afghanistan with these groups continuing to enjoy the protection and support they get from Pakistani intelligence," he says. One of the principal irritants the report cites is the Haqqani militant group, which the US military considers the source of numerous attacks on its forces in Afghanistan.
Alleged links between the suspected Times Square bomber and another Pakistani militant group also figure in the RAND report. The indictment of Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American charged with attempting to detonate a car bomb in New York, states that Mr. Shahzad received explosives training in Pakistan from the militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban in December 2009.
Shadowy links between Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency and extremist organizations have long been part of Pakistan's strategy toward its regional arch rival, India. Some US officials have claimed progress in convincing the Pakistanis that such ties must be cut not only for regional considerations but because the groups are becoming a threat to Pakistan's own stability.
When Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, visited Washington in March, both Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates praised Pakistan's offensives into several militant strongholds – and offered the military drives as evidence that Pakistan deserved to see US aid expedited.
But the RAND study claims the Pakistani military has had only limited success in its offensives aimed at breaking the militants' hold on areas such as the Swat Valley and south Waziristan.
The RAND report comes out just as another study, by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, concludes that Pakistani authorities are in danger of losing control over Punjab, Pakistan's most populous region.
The study, by AEI research assistant Ahmad Majidyar, says that while militant activity in Pakistan's remote tribal areas has been an "irritant" to the Pakistani government, extremist-based instability in Punjab "would rock the Pakistani state to its core."
The study finds evidence that the Pakistani Taliban and Al Qaeda are increasingly "teaming up" with Punjabi militant organizations in an attempt to destabilize the country's political and economic heart.


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The Jefferson High School wrestling team completed step one of its goal to continue dominating the sport by winning its 13th consecutive state title.
The Dragons won the Area 4-AA title and advanced wrestlers to the next post-season meet in all but one weight class, the heavyweight slot the team did not enter. The wrestlers next compete at the sectional meet in Dublin Friday and Saturday. The top four individual placers will advance to the state meet. which will be held at the Macon Centreplex Feb. 15-16. See the Feb. 6 edition of the Jackson Herald for the full story.
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www.BuildingChoice.org is an online toolkit of resources for public school choice, drawn from diverse school districts across the country.
The primary features of this website are:
Vignettes describing how existing public school districts have developed or operated aspects of their public school choice programs;
Samples of forms, brochures, meeting agendas and other materials that districts have created and used to support their public school choice programs;
Tools, including templates and procedures, developed specifically for this Web site for use in creating or managing a public school choice program;
Links to additional resources on public school choice, such as Web sites, articles, and organizations; and
Profiles of school districts from which materials for www.BuildingChoice.org have been collected.
The site also answers the following questions:
What Is Public School Choice?
Why Is Choice Important?
How Can I Make Choice Happen?
The www.BuildingChoice.org tools are organized around five action areas:
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Computer manufacturer Dell was given a big green thumbs up by news magazine Newsweek today, as the publication named the company the greenest large sized company in America. It moves up in 2010 from the number 2 position last year to top dog on a list of "America's 500 largest publicly-traded companies, as measured by revenue, market capitalization and number of employees" that are evaluated based upon "their environmental performance, policies and reputation as environmentally responsible companies."
Dell was, of course, proud about this, saying that "as a result of its environmental commitment and close collaboration with suppliers and customers" it had earned this position in Newsweek's rankings. The company said specifically it was recognized for its efforts to ensure sustainability is built into its supply chain and operations, as well as its work to make 'being green' easy and cost-effective for customers. Cited examples of this include its recycling programs, which have diverted more than 484 million pounds of equipment from landfills since 2006, and use of bamboo packaging as a renewable packaging alternative that can be composted.
Also cited were energy efficiency increases in its products, reportedly helping customers save more $5 billion in energy costs since 2006 using energy management features on its OptiPlex business computers. The other top company on Newsweek's list was IBM, which was named the best green large company on a global level.
The Newsweek green company rankings were complied based upon working with three independent organizations to achieve a green score for each company. These scores included focus upon more than 700 metrics, including greenhouse-gas emissions, water use and solid-waste disposal; an analytical assessment of a company's environmental policies and initiatives; and a survey of academics, environmental officers and CEOs.
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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe 15 (2011)
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All eyes were on Superstorm Sandy Monday night, as many affiliates in New York City pre-empted their normally scheduled prime-time programming to cover the storm. Although the worst of the storm seems to have passed, surveying the aftermath has just begun. As such, several networks will again preempt their programming to continue to cover Sandy. Here's the latest info on what is — and isn't — airing tonight:
VIDEO: David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon perform without studio audiences
8 p.m.
CBS: NCIS (new)
ABC: Dancing with the Stars (new)
Fox: Raising Hope (new)
NBC: The Voice (new)
CW: Hart of Dixie (new)
8:30 p.m.
Fox: Ben and Kate (new)
9 p.m.
CBS: NCIS: LA (new)
ABC: Happy Endings (new)
Fox: New Girl (new)
CW: Emily Owens, M.D. (new)
9:30 p.m.
ABC: Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23 (new)
Fox: The Mindy Project (new)
10 p.m.
CBS: Vegas (new)
ABC: Private Practice (preempted, to be replaced with the ABC News special 20/20: The Perfect Storm)
NBC: Go On (preempted, to be replaced with the NBC News special Sandy's Fury)
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Toronto youth organizations to benefit from Baseball Tomorrow Fund grant
Grant provided as part of National Youth Baseball Equipment Collection ProgramIn support of the ongoing commitment from Major League Baseball, its Clubs and the players to increase opportunities for youth participation in baseball and softball, the Baseball Tomorrow Fund is awarding a grant for $5,000 to Toronto Community Housing for Rookie League Baseball. The grant is being awarded in conjunction with the national baseball equipment collection program supported by the Baseball Tomorrow Fund. As part of the equipment collection program, the Toronto Blue Jays hosted an equipment drive on April 9 and 10 that collected gloves to benefit the Toronto-area Rookie League Baseball.
Vernon Wells, Toronto Blue Jays Centerfielder and Honorary Commissioner of Rookie League since 2002, will present a check for $5,000 to representatives from the Toronto Community Housing and Rookie League Baseball on behalf of the Baseball Tomorrow Fund during a pre-game ceremony at Rogers Centre Skydome on Wednesday, August 10th prior to the Blue Jays game against the Detroit Tigers at 7:07 pm (EDT).
This marks the first year the Baseball Tomorrow Fund has teamed with Major League Baseball Clubs to augment their existing equipment collection programs and to help facilitate the creation of new programs. As part of the program, participating Clubs collect new and used equipment at their ballparks prior to a selected home game(s) and donate the equipment to a local youth baseball or softball organization chosen by the Club. In support of the initiative, the Baseball Tomorrow Fund awards a total of $5,000 to youth baseball or softball organizations in each participating market. Baseball Tomorrow Fund grants will be used to purchase new equipment for the 2006 season.
Since the inception of Rookie League Baseball in 1989, the program has grown from eight to twenty teams and provided a positive experience to thousands of area kids. The boys and girls involved with Rookie League Baseball learn valuable life lessons about healthy living, teamwork and commitment through weekly baseball tournaments running during summers, annually.
The Baseball Tomorrow Fund donation of $5,000 to Toronto Community Housing will be used towards the purchase of new equipment that will benefit more than 400 Rookie League participants. Rookie League Baseball provides a summer of baseball fun to more than 400 children between the ages of 8 to 14 from Toronto Community Housing units across the city annually. The donated equipment and grant was arranged through Toronto Community Housing, the largest social housing provider in Canada.
The Baseball Tomorrow Fund, created to promote and enhance the growth of baseball throughout the world, provides funding for programs, field improvements and equipment purchases that encourage and maintain youth participation in baseball and softball. Since its inception in 1999, the Baseball Tomorrow Fund has awarded grants totaling more than $8.5 million. These grants have benefited more than 100,000 children participating in more than 170 youth baseball and softball programs across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, U.S. Virgin Islands and Europe.
For more information about Baseball Tomorrow Fund visit: www.baseballtomorrowfund.com.
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We've got questions, and you've (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we're lobbing queries left and right about shows including Game of Thrones, Bates Motel, Dallas and The Vampire Diaries!
1 | Anyone else getting an Alyssa Milano vibe from Orphan Black's soccer mom clone?
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2 | Did you Google "Meereenese knot" after Game of Thrones' Tyrion mentioned it was one of the prostitute's talents? And what, exactly, does Pod know about ladies that Tyrion doesn't?
3 | So many Mad Men questions: Is Joan moonlighting as a flight attendant? (If so, does she get to speak more in that other job?) Can someone explain to us why all these women want to shtup swarmy Pete? (And how much did you cheer when Trudy gave him the heave-ho?) Are Peggy and Stan quickly becoming your favorite couple? (That said, shouldn't Peggy have known that telling her boss about the Heinz ketchup account was going to make him want to go after it?!)
4 | Did The Good Wife — which is set in Chicago but shoots in New York City — make a massive continuity error, or did Fox News relocate their headquarters (trademark news ticker and all, see photo) to the Windy City?
5 | Could the director of the MTV Movie Awards have possibly done a worse job of establishing the Pitch Perfect cast reunion during the opening medley?
6 | Were you as shocked as we were that The Following's FBI team finally got a win in the form of rescuing Joey? (But wasn't their failure to immediately cuff the follower who "turned herself in" a huge, unforgivable mistake? Also, are they allergic to back-up?) And are you bummed that Roderick won't be around to antagonize both Joe and Emma?
7 | Was there any doubt that Bones' Brennan would catch the bouquet at the wedding of Booth's mom?
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8 | As wonderful as The Voice has been this season, wouldn't it be even better if there was a little less "here's what happened before the break" recapping and "here's what's coming up" previewing — especially since some of the Battle Rounds (including the terrific Grace Askew's) were edited back to mere snippets?
9 | Did Dallas taunt us as much as Christopher with the promise of seeing Pam again, played by… whomever? Was anyone expecting the very final scene to be a reveal that she is in fact alive, instead of an overreacting Elena impulsively aligning herself with some unseen Mexican warlord?
10 | Can the Bates Motel producers please slap name tags on Norma's older son Dylan and her cop boyfriend Zack? It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell them apart. And sure, she's bats–t crazy, but Norma's unflagging commitment to the lie that she had nothing to do with the murder of Keith Summers was truly impressive, no?
11 | Biggest shocker in Awkward's very packed premiere: Jenna's pregnancy scare or the death of Ricky Schwartz? And be honest: Aren't you a little thrilled to be rid of Ricky?
12 | Better season-finale "canine conversation": Bobby and Dog Travis' heart-to-heart on Cougar Town or George and the non-female stray on Suburgatory? Speaking of the latter series, how brilliant was Ana Gasteyer's vomit-take when Lisa revealed to her mom that she and Malik hadn't had sex but had indeed been "making love" — thereby disqualifying her from contention for Purity Ball queen?
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13 | How much do you hate The Americans' Keri Russell for being able to pull off all those crazy wigs? Not fair! And is there anything more entertaining than when Elizabeth talks smack to Granny aka "old lady"?
14 | Who's ready to set their DVR for Fox's new sitcom starring Nicki Minaj and her pink pill-shaped speaker? "A man cannot just be friends with a girl named Khadija!" Wait, what? That was just an ad for her new Beats speaker system? Ohhh.
15 | On Glee, did you melt a little during Rachel's pre-audition phone call to Finn? And on a scale of 1 to 10, how funny was Finn's observation about his fight with Brody that "his face has sharp edges"?
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16 | How did Vampire Diaries' Bonnie get named Prom Queen? Matt as King we "get," since he's the all-around good guy/jock. But Bonnie? Really?
17 | In a world where anyone out there cares about Community's Changnesia storyline: Any theories on who "Kevin" has been covertly communicating with? And does any couple on TV that's sleeping together act less like they're sleeping together than Britta/Troy?
18 | On an otherwise well-crafted show, where is Hannibal newshound Freddie Lounds currently ranking amongst TV's most annoying characters?
19 | With this week's terrible news out of Boston, didn't Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert nail the appropriate mix of humor, sympathy, anger and thirst for revenge with their episode-openers on the subject?
20 | Between the behind-the-scenes legal fireworks and the cheeseball-looking early trailers, anyone else sensing Prospect Park's All My Children/One Life to Live revivals will last about as long as one of Erica Kane's marriages?
Hit the comments with your answers — and any other questions you care to throw out there!


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For too long, we've thought of "hard skills" and "soft skills" as mutually exclusive. Hard skills are supposed to provide the value, and soft skills supposed to be subordinate, inferior, and all about feelings. Some frameworks of leadership reinforce this myth by encouraging positioning leaders as above the group and magically removed from doubt and anxiety.
In reality, there is nothing "soft" about the skills needed to relate to people well enough to lead them. True leadership involves both hard skills and harder skills…….


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With Thanksgiving just days away and donations down, local food pantries are scrambling to fill the shelves to feed thousands of needy families.
A protracted recession has forced some organizations that typically provide a bounty of holiday supplies to the local food pantries to cut back on their donations.
"We have less food than we have ever had this time of year," said Rick White, director of social services and volunteer coordinator for the Salvation Army Glendale. "I have never seen the food pantry this low."
Lora Young — coordinator for Loaves & Fishes in Glendale — said she juggled calls on Thursday hoping organizations had good news about additional food donations for Thanksgiving.
As of Friday, the food bank had received just three turkeys, stoking Young's fears that frozen turkey donations wouldn't pour in until Wednesday, likely leaving families without a bird for Thanksgiving.
With 1,000 clients and more than 400 households relying on the pantry — which is operated by Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc.— Young said there was an added urgency to replenish the food shelves.
"We are struggling to feed people," she said.
The nonprofit food banks, including Burbank Temporary Aid Center and Salvation Army of Burbank, also benefit from food drives organized by other groups during the holidays.
But this year, donations at the food drives have dropped because most people are just trying to stay afloat during the recession, said Barbara Howell, executive director of Burbank Temporary Aid Center.
"We still have a great need," she said. "It's just an unfortunate situation."
To offset fewer donations, Howell said more groups have been organizing food drives to feed the center's 1,000 to 2,000 client households.
But even if last-minute donations come through for the holidays, many local pantries typically depend on those returns to last into the next year, which means supplies could be scarce for the rest of the year.
The Salvation Army Glendale food pantry has about 66% less than it should for this time of year, which White said means the organization may not have enough goods to last through Christmas.
"We understand things are tough for everyone, but the need is high," he said.
Salvation Army Glendale feeds about 1,200 people per month, while its counterpart in Burbank supplies food to 400 families.
While meal donations have been low at the Salvation Army in Burbank, the quality of food is better than past years, Lt. Kari Rudd said.
The organization, she said, mostly supplies food to seniors, immigrant families and clients who recently became homeless or saw their household income drop because they lost jobs.
"We are doing the best we can," Rudd said.
The following local food pantries are accepting food donations, including items for a Thanksgiving meal, canned vegetables, pastas, cereals and tuna.
—Salvation Army Glendale: 801 S. Central Ave. To donate, call (818) 246-5586.
—Salvation Army Burbank: 300 E. Angeleno Ave. To help, call (818) 845-7214.
—Catholic Charities Loaves & Fishes: 4322 San Fernando Road in Glendale. They can be reached at (818) 409-3080.
—Burbank Temporary Aid Center: 1304 W. Burbank Blvd. To donate, call (818) 848-2822.


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Stormy encourages healthy choices
SARGENT - - The campaign to encourage kids to enjoy a healthier lifestyle has been catching a lot of steam, especially since Michelle Obama has been in the White House. One area athletic team has climbed aboard the healthy awareness train, taking their healthy message to school children across the state. The Tri-City Storm hockey team has just kicked off their fourth year of promoting healthy choices for kids, with their G.O.A.L. (Get Out And Live) Program. Storm players and Stormy the Mascot, along with team staff members, visit area schools to present the program. Stormy and two players, along with Director of marketing & Game Operations Kyle Means, visited Sargent Public School Monday afternoon, making their first appearance of the year. The team plans to visit nearly 20 schools across central Nebraska this year, educating students on the important issues of eating right, exercising and making healthy decisions. The team gave a 30-minute presentation to students in kindergarten through 6th grade. The program began with Means challenging the students with three things. Those are: 1) Be forward thinking - Eat healthy now, for the future. 2) Be opportunistic - Take advantage of good opportunities when they are presented to you. 3) Be self-disciplined - Take responsibility for yourself and make your own healthy choices. "Your parent or teacher is not with you every minute. You are in control of your own actions." Following the presentation by Means, several students were selected to participate in a couple of challenging games. One of those was carrying a hockey puck on the end of a hockey stick, run around Stormy and back to the start line without losing the puck. The other was a fun game of "Stormy says" - which, of course, Stormy won. The students cheered loudly, though it was hard to tell if they were rooting for their classmates or just cheering on Stormy! Either way, everyone seemed to be having a good time - and it got the kids up and moving. Following the presentation, each student was given a "challenge card," designed to help kids set a goal for themselves and strive to accomplish it. The challenge card required the students to take action in each of the three areas mentioned earlier. For example, the "be forward thinking" challenge requires the students to plan their meals for an entire day, then write down what they actually ate. The thought behind this process is to get kids pro-actively thinking about healthy foods and working to avoid unhealthy foods. A parent or teacher must sign off on each challenge on the student's card. Once the student has successfully completed his/her challenge card, they are mailed in to the Storm office. A successful challenge card earns the student two free tickets to the Tri-City Storm hockey game Friday, Dec. 28, versus the Lincoln Stars.There will also be free ice skating following this game. Last year, more than 1,500 students completed the challenge and earned free hockey tickets, which are made possible through partnership with Affiliated Foods Midwest "We are continuing our effort to create healthier and happier kids in central Nebraska," says Means.


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Learn traditional wooden joinery and build a stool to take home in this 8 week course! This is an exciting way to make something beautiful while getting familiar with the hand and power tools at The Shop. In the first four weeks, we'll introduce you to bridal joints, mitres, hand-cut dovetails, and mortise and tenon joints. Then we'll help you build an elegant stool in cherry, walnut, or maple.
All materials included.
No previous woodworking experience necessary.
Class size limited to 8 students.
*Please note: all workshops are non-refundable. Please make sure the date works with your schedule.*
About the teachers:
Julia Campbell-Such came to woodworking from history and religious studies. She's interested in restoration and traditional approaches to craftsmanship. She recently worked with the Brothers Dressler and is currently studying Chemistry towards a degree in Furniture and Object Conservation.
Carey Jernigan is an installation artist and assistant furniture maker with Heidi Earnshaw Design. She's interested in old infrastructure and architecture. Recent projects include Ghost Barn, a collaborative sculpture with John Haney, and Just Call Me Jack, an informal art space in residential Toronto. (www.careyjernigan.com)
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Anybody who was around when the US and China established diplomatic relations in 1979 would know that the term "no timetable" is essentially all obfuscation and deceit. Two weeks before then-US president Jimmy Carter announced the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Washington was insisting that there were neither fixed plans nor any timetable for establishing relations with Beijing.
When politicians say there is no timetable for such-and-such an action, they actually mean that the situation is ongoing, that nothing has yet been finalized and that they have nothing further to announce on the matter.
Two weeks after this rather evasive language was employed, then-US ambassador Leonard Unger woke then-president president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) in the middle of the night to tell him that the very thing for which there had been no timetable had just occurred.
By saying that the government has "no timetable" for unification, Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) has only succeeded in making the public even more suspicious about the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and its behind-closed-doors style of government.
The fact of the matter is, there is no practical or legal reason for "unification" being an issue at all. The entire problem is caused by Beijing's despotic bent.
In 1971, during a discussion between then-Taipei City councilor Kang Ning-hsiang (康寧祥) and a political counselor from the US embassy, the talk was of whether Taiwan and China might "merge."
The Ma administration tells the country that it will not make any moves toward unification, and yet it has this "one China" understanding with Beijing.
It is a ridiculous situation, just like telling your partner that you want to get engaged, but that marriage is out of the question. If you present your partner with an engagement ring, they have every right to expect church bells somewhere down the line.
It comes as a surprise to nobody that China's Taiwan Affairs Office is pushing hard for "political talks," and any assurances to the effect that there is "no timetable" is no assurance at all.
Chiang's "one China" policy was totally impractical, but at least he kept his distance from Beijing, which the public found reassuring.
Speaking to then-US ambassador Walter McConaughy, Chiang vigorously denied any suggestion that there could be peace talks between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), and insisted that any government in Taiwan that attempted to hold peace talks with China would collapse. Chiang's position on the issue was crystal clear.
It is a shame that he only determined to commit to Taiwan late in his life, after the window of opportunity for the US to recognize China and Taiwan as two separate countries had closed.
When then-US president Richard Nixon replaced McConaughy with Unger in 1974, the latter's credentials identified him as "ambassador to the Republic of China," instead of "ambassador to China" as used in McConaughy's credentials in 1966, leaving open the potential for recognizing the two countries as separate and independent entities.
Ma's ambiguity — his acceptance of a "one China" framework and claims that he will not address the idea of unification while saying there is "no timetable" for unification — is not reassuring anyone.


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Today, many TV viewers are using a mobile device while watching content, be it live, streamed, or otherwise. They're breaking Twitter records during awards shows and hammering hashtags during shows like "Glee", "Gossip Girl", and "The Big Bang Theory".
Going beyond Facebook and Twitter, a number of applications have sprung up that not only tie real-world actions to online communities, but that allow for an experience that goes beyond the TV screen and into the palm of viewers' hands.
Fast-Paced Growth
While social media and TV have come close together over the past few years, applications that let users check in to TV shows, movies, music, and more have really been making their way to the forefront in the past year or so.
Capping a year where social entertainment applications saw great rise, GetGlue announced at CES 2012 that they received $12 million in financing in their last round.
While numbers of users aren't Facebook-like (GetGlue is nearing two million and Miso is more in the 100,000 to 200,000 range), investors like Time Warner, Google Ventures, Heart Interactive, and more are jumping into the fray, eager to put their money behind the next "Foursquare of TV."
Must-Have Applications
While new applications focusing on the space are popping up every day, there are a few applications that we see as category leaders.
When people started using mobile check-ins more and more, eventually people wanted to not only say where they were, but what they were doing. Enter GetGlue, the community that asks people what they"re doing – whether it's watching a TV show, watching a movie, watching sports, listening to music, playing a video game, reading a book, thinking about a celebrity, or thinking about a topic.
Users check in and receive stickers for their efforts. GetGlue goes beyond the online realm, because users can actually order real-life version of their stickers directly from GetGlue. Hello, laptop decoration!
One of the first real check in aps for television, Miso has gone through some great iterations to get where it is today. With the inclusion of new "SideShows" into their application, Miso has put content that is synched with shows right into the TV watching experience on the second screen.
Miso has some exciting partnerships and a wealth of apps actually built on top of their API. Look for Miso to do some great things in 2012.
Similar to GetGlue, IntoNow lets users check into the TV channels they're currently watching, but this application actually goes a step further and uses "listening" technology to figure out which exact show users are watching.
The tool is quickly gaining users who can see which shows their friends are watching and comment on those check-ins. The technology behind IntoNow is called SoundPrint, and it uses between 4-12 seconds of a show's audio to make a match against hundreds of shows show across 130 channels of live television, as well as 266 years of video in its index.
The maker of the weird bridge between your smartphone and your TV (that looks like an oddly-shaped fruit) also have an app that allows users to check out what's on TV and check in with friends. They call it, Peel 2.0.
Their free app can be paired with the Peel Smart Remote Device in order to help configure recommendations and viewing experiences. In all honesty, the experience without the actual device seems pretty limited.
Social interactions are thanks to Facebook Connect and allow users to view favorite shows from their friends. Actions aren't shared with Facebook or Twitter unless users specifically take the "Recommend" action, so users don't have to worry about sharing their bad taste in television accidentally with friends.
Yap.TV seems to be the application that clearly was thinking about marketing and brand participation since launch – their community just isn't as large at this point in time. With Steve Wozniak as an advisor, you can tell this company is going places.
Yap.TV's focus on content curation and branded experiences are enticing. Their connections to Twitter and Facebook make for easy sharing and they've even got an in-house polling feature that allows brands and users to ask questions about different programs.
Born in the bowels of Comcast Interactive Media as a skunk-works project, Tunerfish spun out (kind of) and headed to Silicon Valley to mature. The service bills itself as a social discovery engine for TV, movies, and online video. They even have the "lovingly hand-crafted in Mountain View, California" tagline going for them.
Compared to the other products, it's still in its infancy, but you can bet Tunerfish won't be going away anytime soon – especially with Comcast backing.
Viggle is one of the newest apps on the block, but don't let the newness fool you – Viggle is all business and their business is good. Viggle not only lets users check in to television shows, it rewards them for checking in to those shows (and for watching in-app video ads) with points.
Users who rack up 7,500 points win a $5 gift card from retailers that joined Viggle at launch. These aren't small brands; we're talking Burger King, iTunes, Best Buy, CVS, and Starbucks.
Viggle's app is like IntoNow in that it listens to what you're watching to verify the program rather than relying simply on user-entered information.
Social Entertainment in 2012 and Beyond
This will be the year when social and entertainment start to blend so much that telling the difference between TV-run and online content and interactions will become hard. As production companies and networks team up with technology providers, we will see TVs start to move to the front of the pack in terms of in-program social interactions.
Already manufacturers like Sony, Samsung, LG, and Vizio are providing a connected viewing experience, and it's only a matter of time until applications like Miso, GetGlue, and others are incorporated as apps into the TV interface. As prices of these connected TVs fall, adoption will increase.
Smart technologies like those used by IntoNow to listen and detect content will become the norm, reducing the legwork of finding which content a viewer is watching before interacting with social communities around those programs.
Look for branded experiences to ride along with social content generated around TV and movie programming (much in the same way as Miso's "slideshows"). Brands already paying for product placement will be able to offer experiences which lead to purchase by incorporating content into mobile device TV applications and connected TV functions.
Further down the road, we'll see content where users can vote in near real-time to decide the plot of a show. This is already being done in some movie theaters with text-based voting, but as devices and entertainment become closer thanks to new technologies, the transitions can be near-seamless. This will also become useful in real-time voting for shows like "American Idol".
The Super Bowl is also coming up. Expect to see these social entertainment apps taking advantage of the big game. In fact, perennial Super Bowl advertising juggernaut Chevrolet has even built their own check in app for the event and will be giving away 20 Chevys during the broadcast thought the app.
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In 2002 the foundation budgeted an operating deficit of $27.1 million, which reflected pressures on ticket sales and hotel occupancy resulting from the slowing economy and travel concerns, increased expenses from new buildings coming on-line, and costs related to compensation and staffing. The actual deficit for the year was $35.5 million.
Although the foundation achieved almost $9 million in savings, primarily as a result of reduced staffing and lower interest costs, operating revenues were almost $17 million less than budget. Ticket sales were approximately $5.4 million short of budget. Lower visitation also affected hotel occupancy and retail sales.
In the aggregate, revenue from hospitality and products operations was more than $10 million short of budget. (Total revenues were close to budget during the first half of 2002; however, immediately after the Fourth of July holiday, visitation and occupancy levels declined significantly from a year earlier. Economic pressures, unusually high summer temperatures in Virginia and other states in the East, and the October sniper incident in metropolitan Washington contributed to the decline.)
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The level of deficit clearly is unacceptable. The foundation's goal is to reach a balanced budget in 2006, with operating deficits of no more than $25 million in 2003 and $15 million in 2004. There has been substantial progress in financial results in 2003, despite the pressures of the economy, inclement weather, and the war with Iraq. Through April, operating expense reductions of more than $7 million had been identified for calendar year 2003. The value of the endowment as of December 31, 2002, was $568.3 million, a decline of $105.5 million compared with the December 31, 2001, value. The foundation withdrew $52.8 million during the year to fund the annual draw for operations ($34.8 million) and a supplemental draw to fund educational activities ($18.0 million). A total of $10.7 million in gifts was transferred to the endowment during the year. Market value declines, principally in the domestic equity asset class, totaled $63.8 million. The endowment, including the foundation's holdings of Reader's Digest stock, generated a total return of negative 9.7 percent for the year. The total returns produced by the Standard & Poor's 500 and the SB Broad Investment Grade Bond Index were negative 22.1 percent and positive 10.1 percent, respectively.


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It may seem hard to believe, but nat gas may have what it takes to make a major move higher.
That's what Cramer is hearing from his RealMoney.com colleague, Carley Garner, the co-founder of DeCarley Trading and author of A Trader's First Book on Commodities.
Garner is a technical analyst and she likes what she sees in the charts. Looking at the Relative Strength Index or RSI, and the Williams %R Oscillator, she says both of these indicators are in oversold territory.
Typically, that signals a move higher. And if a rally comes, it could come hard and fast.
As of last week, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, large speculators, were holding a net short position in natural gas of about 125,000 contracts, an extremely bearish bet. Therefore, Garner thinks that if prices rally, it could generate a short squeeze as bears run for cover.
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Amin Ghaziani is an associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. His areas of study include sexualities, culture, urban life, and social movements. He is the author of The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington, which was a 2009 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award's Best Book in LGBT Studies in 2009. In 2010, he was awarded the Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence by the British Sociological Association.
Dr. Ghaziani received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Northwestern University. His new book, There Goes the Gayborhood? examines the future of gay neighborhoods in major American cities. Gayborhoods, from New York City's Greenwich Village to Chicago's Boystown, have provided gay and lesbians with safe places to live for decades, but could they become a thing of the past in today's "post-gay" world of shifting cultural attitudes and civil rights milestones? Dr. Ghaziani takes up the question in large measure, drawing on census data, newspaper articles, opinion polls, and over a hundred interviews conducted with Chicago residents and argues that these urban communities will survive, even in the wake of radical social change.
Now, on to the questions!
What inspired you to become a sociologist?
The summer after my junior year in college, I signed up for a "San Francisco Field Studies" program at Northwestern. This was an internship-based practicum that taught undergraduate students how to conduct ethnographic research of an organization, and then connect their findings with a theoretically informed policy directive. I was placed at Positive Resource Center (PRC), which, at the time, was the first organization in the country dedicated to helping people living with HIV/AIDS return to work after having left on AIDS disability. Although many people once were getting sick, leaving work, and preparing themselves to die, medical advances in highly active antiretroviral therapies in the mid- to late-1990s gave them a chance to renew their lease on life. Many of these people wanted to go back to work, but they encountered numerous challenges along the way.
That summer changed my life. I was rabble rouser during my undergraduate days, deeply committed to issues of social justice. I learned that sociological research offered unique opportunities to create change. I often cite that course, that summer, and those poignant experiences in San Francisco as the reasons why I found my way to graduate school.
What was the best piece of advice you ever received?
I have benefited from so much sage advice over the years that I simply cannot offer just one piece. Here we go:
- For those who are finishing grad school: "The best dissertation is a done dissertation." And besides, why limit what we can learn?
- For those who fear submitting their manuscripts for peer review: "It's not the best draft, it's the last draft."
- For those who venture into the precarious realm of public sociology: "Don't read the comments!"
- If you decide to risk it anyway, then let me console you with some words from Winston Churchill: "Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult." Keep your chin up!
- And finally, for those who choose to pursue a life of scholarship: Love what you do. The world appears and feels so much more effervescent when passion and pleasure accompany the pursuit of your craft.
Why did you write this book?
Sociologists have for a long time been captivated by questions of residential choice (where we choose to live) and urban forms (why neighborhoods look and feel the way they do). Although we know much about these matters in general, we still know surprisingly little about the everyday lives, social interactions, and spaces in which LGBTQ people live. This oversight, as far as I'm concerned, is part of a heterosexist project—one that sees the city through a myopic lens that erases the experiences of gender and sexual minorities. This book represents one of the ways in which I am trying to correct this scholarly bias.
"There are now more places in cities, suburbs, and rural areas that have distinct associations with same-sex sexuality than ever before."
I also think that queer spatial patterns are worthy of study in their own right, rather than for what they can teach us about other groups and enclaves, such racial/ethnic areas or class-based stratification in the city. Sexuality scholars are accustomed to translating their findings for "broader" audiences as a way to convince them that they, too, should in fact care. I try hard in this book to invert the power dynamics. Let us think about gayborhoods on their own terms—and unapologetically—rather than see them as supporting characters, districts whose intellectual value lies principally in what they can teach us about other kinds of urban spaces.
What was the most interesting thing you learned from writing this book?
There are two sets of surprising findings. Each is startling on its own—but even more so when we position one next to the other.
First, demographers express the extent to which groups of people like gays and straights are segregated in the city through what they call an "index of dissimilarity." This is a statistic that represents the proportion of a minority group within a census tract that would need to be replaced by a member of the majority in order to reflect the composition of the city overall in terms of sexual orientation.
When we run the numbers, we see that zip codes associated with traditional gay neighborhoods are "de-concentrating." When we compare the one hundred most populous places in the US during the 2000 census with how those same places looked in the 2010 collection, we realize that average segregation scores for male same-sex partner households decreased by 8.1 percent and a whopping 13.6 percent for female same-sex partners. If we zoom out even further, we see that same-sex partner households in general reside in 93 percent of all counties in the country.
If we just look at the most visible gayborhoods, places like the Castro in San Francisco or West Hollywood or Boystown in Chicago, then we might be tempted to conclude that these areas are diluting and de-gaying. But I also found evidence that new settlements are emerging. To see them, we have to ask follow-up questions: where are they going next and why?
"…it's a mistake to see the urban landscape as a binary between gayborhoods and all other, undifferentiated straight spaces."
The answers point to something quite counter-intuitive. Gayborhoods are not passé and thus disappearing—on the contrary, queer spaces are becoming more diverse and thus plural. There are now more places in cities, suburbs, and rural areas that have distinct associations with same-sex sexuality than ever before.
For me, the bottom line is that it's a mistake to see the urban landscape as a binary between gayborhoods and all other, undifferentiated straight spaces. Or to reduce the spatial expressions of sexuality to those most visible gay districts that capture our popular imagination.
How did you come up with the book jacket?
I had a vision for the cover that, unfortunately, did not materialize. Some years ago, the RedEye, a free daily paper in Chicago, ran a cover story about changes in the local gayborhood. The image on the cover of the paper haunts me to this day: it was an artistic rendering of one of the rainbow-colored pylons that adorn North Halsted Street and mark it as the city's main queer artery. The colors, however, were bleeding off the pylon. I thought it was the perfect visual representation for a book about the de-gaying of gayborhoods.
Although I was not able to obtain copyright clearance to reproduce the image, what the design team at Princeton came up with is no less brilliant. I love the concept. Notice two aspects of it. First, the title resembles spray paint, and the colors of the paint are bleeding. This design aesthetic, with its gorgeous urban motif, is consistent with what drew me to the RedEye. You might also notice that there are no images or photographs. The cover of my book plays off negative space. From an artistic perspective, we can imagine that the title and my name embody the generative potential of negative space. This is unexpected—and that surprise itself animates the themes of the book. Fears about the negating of queer space interact in subtle and sometimes surprising ways with new areas that are emerging.
What is your next project?
I began this book at Princeton University during my days as a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows, and I completed it during my assistant professor years at the University of British Columbia. This major move in my life inspired new types of questions. How do gay neighborhoods in the United States compare with those in Canada? More generally, how does national context affect the spatial expressions of sexuality? I would like to move my work to a cross-national, comparative perspective.
In the meantime, however, I am writing my first textbook. This short volume (200 printed and bound pages) will review research on sexualities from a uniquely cultural perspective.
Never a dull moment!
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The 2012 London summer Olympic games are now in the books. I'm sure that a lot of you watched as many events as you could. As thousands of world-class Olympians met and competed, they left us with not only their brilliant performances but also many inspirational stories.
Almost everyone is familiar with South Africa's double amputee "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius. There's also Bryshon Nellum, the American track and field athlete, who brought us another amazing story. In 2008, he was shot three times with major damage to his legs and hamstrings. Against all odds, he trained through the pain and recovered his speed. In London, he ran the first leg of the US men's 4×400 relay team and they won the silver medal.
The stories of Oscar Pistorius, Bryshon Nellum and others have demonstrated that it's not just the gold medals that inspire us. It's also the hard work, perseverance and determination of these athletes to achieve their ultimate best even if the journey is, at times, difficult.
In the same spirit, many of our customers are making outstanding efforts as they respond to their unique challenges.
St. Joseph Health (SJH) is an integrated healthcare provider with a mission to deliver quality of life and perfect care for their patients. With new mobile radiology and EKG systems, increasing medical staff needs, and an aging network, SJH is challenged to meet its stakeholders' "perfect care" requirements. As you can imagine, mission critical network performance and high employee productivity are at the top of their priority list. They are racing against time, pressure and technical hurdles which are their own Olympic challenges.
The SJH team has realized that they need the most reliable switching equipment and state-of-the-art lifecycle management tools to help them meet the challenges and win. After a thorough evaluation process, they selected Cisco Catalyst 3750-X Series Switches and Cisco Prime Infrastructure which are key components of the Cisco Unified Access solution. By deploying a Cisco Unified Access solution, they're able to achieve full architecture and management benefits enabled by the Cisco StackWise technology (combining multiple switches into a single control unit), best-in-class security, five-nines availability, and strong scalability to accommodate future growth needs. Cisco Prime, especially, gives them powerful management capabilities that provide not only network tracking, auto-configuration and report, but also a controlled change management process for compliance.
"The Cisco Catalyst 3750-X, along with Prime Infrastructure, have given us the visibility and foundation to project port growth and equipment purchase. With Cisco Prime management, we're moving towards a more structured LAN environment, where switch installation and change policies are validated against organizational standards and industry regulations." says Michael Shandraw, director of infrastructure services, SJH.
SJH is well on its way to simplifying operations and meeting their multi-year operational and management goals. They are winning a gold medal for their efforts and success.
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Too few fish in the sea?February 23rd, 2012
Fish feces seem an unlikely tool to help preserve the world's much-stressed coral reefs. John W. Turner Jr. in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology knows better; he and his team of researchers have been using fecal material from parrotfish in the Virgin Islands to link their stress with that of the reefs.
The project, funded in large part by conservation groups, centers on cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal gland in response to stress. The hormone serves as an excellent biomarker and stress monitor for both mammals and fish, and is detectable in their waste matter.
For a fish, stress goes beyond the presence of hungry predators. Nitrite — present in water due to fertilizer runoff — creates the condition as well, eventually impacting their numbers. That in turn affects the reefs. "One of the biggest threats facing coral reefs today is that we're seeing much lower diversity in fish populations, lower reproductive success and slower growth rates in those who do reproduce" says Turner. "The bottom line is fewer fish."
It's a fraught line because fish play a critical role in reef ecology. Take parrotfish: Grazing on the coral's surface, the colorful fish eat away algae that unchecked would block sunlight from the coral and prevent vital photosynthesis.
"Parrotfish are part of most coral reef systems worldwide, so if you can find a reliable biomarker for the parrotfish family, you can apply it to almost any coral reef system," Turner explains.
Cortisol was the first stress biomarker the researchers identified by analyzing parrotfish fecal matter. Taking a further step, they began looking at gene expression associated with stress response, and with the fish's reproductive success. "We'd like now to know what genes are being turned on and off by stress. If we know, we have a template to tell us what type of stressor is affecting that area," Turner says.
Recently the team was able to isolate RNA from four specific genes. The discovery encouraged them to begin developing a hierarchical biomarker system to detect and isolate individual stressors in an environment.
That would create a powerful tool for everyone interested in conservation, Turner notes. "It's to the advantage of resort builders, for example, to know what the conditions are before they begin to build near a pristine coral reef area, then what they are as they build, open and operate.
"The relationship between developers and biologists used to be antagonistic, but that's counterproductive. Everybody, including the public, benefits from knowing about the environment before and after. It makes constant monitoring possible."
Far from spurning fish poop's Ew! factor, Turner is excited: "Coral reefs are in bad enough shape as it is, and we'd all like to stem their degradation. We think this is the path to do it."
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Yasuo the Unforgiven is League of Legends' Next Champion
Yasuo, the Unforgiven, is the newest League of Legends Champion to be revealed. A brief preview gives us a look at his background and abilities.
The League of Legends site features the preview for Yasuo, who is described as "a man of resolve, an agile swordsman who wields the wind itself to cut down his foes." He is a disgraced warrior who wants nothing more than to mete out justice and regain his honor.
His abilities use the power of the wind mixed with his sword skills. Yasuo is supposed to be a "sustained damage fighter with high mobility, strong utility and damage output that ramps up the longer he survives in combat." The only caveat is that he'll start games relatively weaker with low damage output.
Check out the link above to see more on Yasuo and which lane will maximize his potential, as well as how he'll fare in teamfights.


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Sure, we could focus on the Fall Classic, but seeing as how we've already established that every victory or success for the Rays is like a dagger in our heart, we figured we'd divert our attention to the developmental Fall Leagues for a bit of solace.
Say "hi" to Thomas Magnum if you see him
While many of the higher-level prospects are congregating under the Arizona sun to play before a crowd of mid-western retirees, Jays prospect Bradley Emaus (picture above) got the call to play for the Honolulu Sharks of the Hawaii Winter Baseball League. (We guess that isn't a Fall League per se...) Major League Bastian has the write up on the 22 year-old infielder who played with Single-A Dunedin last year. Bastian also catches up with some of the other Jays in the Fall Leagues.
Emaus is currently hitting .342 (with a .960 OPS) in 13 games so far this year with a double, a triple and a homer to go with his 9 RsBI.
A cool thing about the Hawaii League: it combines North American minor leaguers with players from Japan and Korea. In fact, a quick look at the league's Japanese alumni shows just how many current MLBers made a name for themselves in this circuit. Ichiro, Tadahito Iguchi, Kaz Matsui, and So Taguchi all suited up at one point or another.
And how can you not love a league with a team named the Waikiki Beach Boys.
The other J.P. puts on a show for the high-waisted shuffleboard sharks
Once again, the tireless Major League Bastian reports that after a slow start, the Jays' other great minor league hope J.P. Arencibia has started to hit for the Pheonix Desert Dogs. Over a six game hitting streak this past week, the other J.P. has a homer and eight driven in.
Another relevant prospect in Phoenix is Scott Campbell, who is getting on base at a .500 clip through 10 games thus far. Perhaps more interesting is the fact that New Zealand's finest baseball product has been playing some games at third base. Does this mean that the Jays may be looking at him to replace Scott Rolen in 2010?
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3 comments:
- The Southpaw said...
I wouldn't read too much into the Campbell 3b thing. That Tollerson kid just seems to be getting most of the 2b playing time for the Desert Dogs and they need to work the Kiwi in somewhere.
- October 24, 2008 at 3:41 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
But it's way more fun to read too much into stuff.
- October 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM
- Torgen said...
Why couldn't they put Campbell at short? He's way more valuable if it turns out he can play short. (Since he wouldn't be blocked by Hill.)
- October 24, 2008 at 9:18 PM
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