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NORRISTOWN — A change.org online petition against the proposed, 96-unit, mixed-income apartment building slated to go into a Montgomery County parking lot in Norristown has attracted more than 227 petition signatures. The developer, Pennrose Properties of Philadelphia, is waiting for a Tuesday evening decision by the Norristown Zoning Hearing Board on whether to grant requested variances for the project following a two-hour zoning hearing last month.
Under a headline, "Montgomery County Commissioners and Norristown Municipal Council: Stop the Subsidized Housing Project in Downtown Norristown," the petition alleges that "Norristown has over 53 percent of all of Montgomery County's subsidized housing units and it doesn't need any more."
"The project directly contradicts the 2009 Norristown Comprehensive Plan in three key ways. It adds additional subsidized rental units. It subtracts 204 critically-needed parking spaces from the Downtown Business District. It is not a true Mixed-Use project, but instead, is a self-contained residential community," the petition said. "It is our belief that, if built, the project will have a negative impact on the entire Municipality. It will cause the surrounding neighborhoods to suffer and hurt the Arts Hill and Downtown Business District. As Norristown is the County Seat, the impact will be felt by the entire County."
The petition concluded, "the third largest County in the Commonwealth and one of the wealthiest in the United States, can do better."
Norristown architect Doug Seiler, one of the creators of the petition, said the number of signatures gathered so far was "low compared to the amount of resistance to the project. We're pleased by the number of signatures. It has only been up since Friday evening."
The proposed, four-story building would have 89 parking spaces for residents. A 5,000-square-foot retail space would be located on the first floor along with 22 first-floor "loft" apartments. Sixty of the 96 apartments would have "affordable" rents subsidized by a tax credit equity investment purchased by a bank at three different levels of subsidy.
At a Norristown informational meeting March 18, several Norristown Council members spoke in favor of the Airy Street Apartments project. All the residents speaking at the meeting questioned the plans and criticized them.
"The municipality is not following the proper path for doing a major project. It contradicts their 2009 comprehensive plan," Seiler said. "If they are going to do this, they should revise the plan or explain why they are contradicting the plan and why that is in the best interests of the borough."
Seiler said the petition was started because "the principal vote will be the conditional use vote by council in the spring time. We are mobilizing to communicate with council that this will hurt downtown. We are not against new development in the downtown. This site at this time is the wrong project."
Mary Ellen DiGregorio signed the petition, she said, "because this type of business will cause a big decrease in my home value if it does not meet their vision."
Paula Robinson signed "because I live here and we have enough subsidized rental units already."
Frank Errington said, "Norristown does not need more subsidized housing."
Alan Apt, a Norristown resident for 43 years, is opposed to the project and signed the change.org petition.
"I sell and lease commercial real estate," Apt said. "The correct use of this property is commercial development. Norristown has a lousy tax base and the highest number of low-income units of any municipality in our county. It already has its share of low income housing."
Apt said the parking lot should be developed with commercial businesses because it is centrally located in Norristown.
"Norriston needs a supermarket," Apt said. "That is a prime intersection in town. That is the wrong project for Norristown."
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Cassius Clay, second from right, on the medal stand after winning gold in the light-heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
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LinkThe Louisville home today where Cassius Clay, later to be known as Muhammad Ali, grew up.
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LinkNow a pro, Cassius Clay with his trainer, Angelo Dundee, at City Parks Gym in New York on Feb. 8, 1962.
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LinkCassius Clay on Nov. 15, 1962, predicts that he will knock out Archie Moore in their upcoming fight in Los Angeles. Clay, who became known as the Louisville Lip for his brash talk, backed up his prediction, putting Moore away in the fourth round. Clay also predicted that he would be the next champ via a knockout of Sonny Liston in eight rounds. He did it in seven.
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LinkClay prepares to take his mother, Odessa Grady Clay, for a ride in a new Cadillac convertible on April 4, 1963.
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LinkClay with his first wife, Sonji, in 1964, the year he changed his name to Muhammad Ali after converting to the Muslim faith.
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LinkOn Feb. 18, 1964, the Beatles -- from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison -- take a break from conquering America to clown around with the future champ on a visit to his training camp.
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LinkAli and Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X leave a theater after viewing a screening of a film about Ali's title fight with Sonny Liston.
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LinkWearing the Nigerian brown and white striped Agbada costume, Ali is greeted by a crowd of youngsters on a trip to Nigeria, on June 1, 1964.
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LinkOn May 25, 1965, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw. Ali had upset Liston to win the title 15 months before.
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LinkMuhammad Ali blows out the candles on a cake baked for his 25th birthday in Houston on Jan. 17, 1967. The three-time former heavyweight champion is still a "big kid" who enjoys his birthday parties, his wife said.
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LinkMuhammad Ali with his attorney Hayden Covington, right, on June 19, 1967, at the federal courthouse in Houston, where Ali was tried for draft evasion after he refused to be inducted into the armed services. "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong," Ali famously said.
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LinkMuhammad Ali gets his gloves taped while training for a February 1967 title fight with Ernie Terrell.
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LinkMuhammad Ali attends a Nation of Islam meeting on Feb. 26, 1967. The initials FOI on his cap stand for Fruit of Islam, a male-only wing of the group.
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LinkOn March 8, 1971, Joe Frazier stands near the fallen Muhammad Ali as referee Art Mercante gestures during a boxing match at Madison Square Garden in New York. It was Frazier's heavyweight title that was on the line in the bout, but a lot of boxing fans still considered Ali the champion because he was stripped of the title and sent into boxing exile after refusing to be drafted.
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LinkJoe Frazier, right, appears to be smiling as challenger Muhammad Ali misses with a left in the heavyweight title fight in March 1971.
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LinkFormer world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali toys with the hair of sports commentator Howard Cosell before the start of Olympic boxing trials in West Point, N.Y., in this Aug. 7, 1972, file photo.
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LinkBoxer Muhammad Ali makes a face during a press luncheon in New York on Aug. 29, 1974, to promote ticket sales to Madison Square Garden, where the battle against George Foreman in Zaire in October would be shown on closed-circuit television.
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LinkOn Oct. 1, 1975, sweat flies from challenger Joe Frazier as heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali connects with a right in the ninth round of their heavyweight title fight in Manila, Philippines. Ali won the fight on a decision to retain the title.
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LinkMuhammad Ali, arms raised in victory, walks to his corner as referee Zack Clayton counts out George Foreman after Ali knocked him down in the eighth round of their title bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, on Oct. 29, 1974.
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LinkAt a dinner honoring the six "Outstanding Chicagoans of Today," boxing champ Muhammad Ali takes a playful poke at sportscaster Howard Cosell, as Ann Landers advises them to break it up on Nov. 11, 1977, in Chicago.
LinkMuhammad Ali shouts while someone holds a poster predicting his third coming after his workout in New Orleans on Sept. 14, 1978, as he prepared to try to claim the heavyweight title for a third time, against Leon Spinks.
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LinkOn Aug. 20, 1997, former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali kisses a Liberian orphan while residents cheer Ali's arrival at an orphanage for Liberian refugees at San Pedro, Ivory Coast. Ali and his entourage came on a goodwill visit to donate food, wheelchairs and medicine after receiving a letter asking for help from the mission's organizer, Sister M. Sponsa Beltran.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: David Guttenfelder / Associated Press
LinkMuhammad Ali lights the Olympic torch at Centennial Olympic Park in December 2001, kicking off the Olympic Torch Relay to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the 2002 Winter Games.
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LinkFormer heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali gestures toward photographers in a hotel lobby in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28, 2006.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Michel Euler / Associated Press
LinkMuhammad Ali, left, welcomes his guests along with his wife, Lonnie, center, at a fundraiser for the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky., on Jan. 14, 2012.
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LinkMuhammad Ali, right, celebrates his 70th birthday next to his longtime trainer Angelo Dundee, at a fundraiser for the Muhammad Ali Center in his hometown of Louisville, Ky., in January 2012. Dundee died the next month at age 90.
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LinkMuhammad Ali, left, and NFL great Tom Jackson arrive for the coin toss before the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2, 2013.
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Serious question: do people still use Gentoo?
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Tighten it up! Sometimes items work loose during transport or whoever built it didn't tighten it enough!
The ones I have tested, they are all tight, the only thing you can feel is the detents.
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Michigan - Grayling
Nice history of Michigan grayling and their demise, which would be us, of course.
Well I can see I fished the rivers where they once swam. http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7...3612--,00.html |
fresh water sailfish, a friend of mine who has fished Alaska many times said the residents call them pests.
Go figure. |
Cool article...thanks. Always wanted to catch a Grayling. I don't know what is more sad. The fact that the Michigan Grayling is gone or that all of our beautiful white pine forests got plucked...dunked...and cutt up, only to be replaced with those jack pines.:rolleyes: If we only knew then........
Yes we can only imagine what it must of looked at but if you go to Northern Wisconsin North Woods you will see a lot of white pines. Its beautiful country up there and there are trout and of course the king of freshwater fishes (Esox) which is what I was there for a number of times.
However the Michigan jack pine country is still beautiful. PM Out |
Some of those hardwoods look pretty nice. Gotta like the look of Birch.
It never ceases to amaze me as to how man can come in and rape a resource. |
"We have seen the enemy and it is us"
PM Out P.S. Can't remember who said that though. |
Hopefully not some bloddy politician..
Pogo. |
I saw him dead laying in the middle of the road.
Michigan steelhead
Too bad the steelhead didn't come up into the Pere Marquette or Big River this Fall the way they normally do. Some shot into the Little River, though.
Guess all we can do is hope the Spring spawning run is "normal"--if there is such a thing when it comes to Michigan fishing! God only knows I've seen just about everything during the 27 years I've chased those buggers!!! Tight Loops' CapT |
Keep the faith they will come. Been a strange year, the summer runs were way off also Welcome to the forumn, quite a dichotomy florida to Manistee, ehh. Love that little river, took some good pictures there this spring. It was one of the first michigan rivers I fished in 1980 when I relocated from NJ to South Bend, IN. Really it has not changed much in the last 23 years as far as its surroundings, the steelhead runs though are not as large as they once were. True story, my first big steelhead trip was in the spring of 1980 went to the PM, LM, and PM for a week by myself. It was late april and I did not know that the runs were almost over. A rookie mistake, hey I did not have the internet then only magazine articles and hear say as to when to go. Was fishing the first pool I got to on LM below 6 mile and all of a sudden this silver 10-12 lb steelhead comes flying out of the water right in front of me. I can still visulaize that fish jumping now almost 23 years later. Have a good holiday PM Out |
Its those first few missed fish that burns in the minds eye.
The little M. is a great early chinook fishery. They are tough dogs to land in that small river. |
Your "Introduction to Steelhead 101" was much more pleasant than mine. I went "swimming" in the PM TWICE in the same frigid March day (below the Whirlpool and again below Doc Winery's)! Fortunately, our club outing (Red Cedar Fly Fishers of the FFF) was being held at Barothy's and they had industrial-strength dryers or I might STILL be soaking wet!!
Yes, going back and forth from the headwaters of the Manistee to the flats of the Gulf of Mexico takes a bit of adjusting (both ways). But, the fishing's fine, each in its own way. Where we live in MI the Manistee is a spring creek mostly populated with beautiful wild brookies. The browns don't "take over" until we go about five miles downstream, near Cameron Bridge. We live in the Deward Management Area--the last place that was logged out after the turn of the century. We have so many hundred-year old stumps that it looks like the graveyard that it is. Florida's a bit chilly, but the fishing's been pretty good all things considered. Tight Loops, CapT |
Yes the PM's flow can be very deceiving, I have seen many anglers go for a dunking. First steelhead I caught on a fly was at the first Clay Banks, just above Deer Lick. Best single steelheading day I ever had was just above the Birch Hole on St. Patricks day, in Shaptons,and yes I went for a dunking into that black michigan mud on the south side of the Birch Hole. Was fighting a steely trying to keep him from going further into the whirlpool, had him just about ready to be beached, leaned back on the 8 weight and 4 lb leader, the leader popped and I went almost face down into the black muck. It was in the thirties and snowing, but I kept fishing. Hooked 13-15 and landed three that St. Patties day morning all by myself with no one else around. I can only imagine what I looked like when I walked out that morning to the Clay Banks parking, a frozen, shivering mud caked, happy steelhead fly fisherman. Had to drive to Baldwin wash/dry my clothes in the laundry so I could get back to the river ASAP. Priceless !! PM Out |
Claybanks is a nice area, had my best day there upsream by Deer lick. That was one hell of a hole, I recall fish stacking up in there like cord wood.
Remember the trip down the bank prior to the stair installation? One wrong step and that slick clay would carry you to the bottom, the walk up after a good rain was also an adventure to remember. |
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The California Office of Traffic awarded $35,000 to the Redding Police Department to assist with an anti-DUI program. The $35,000 will mostly go to DUI Checkpoints to help prevent deaths and injuries caused by drivers under the influence.
The grant stems from the success of the 'Avoid the Six' campaign that Shasta County implemented over the holiday season. Multiple DUI/Driver's License Checkpoints were scheduled locally, county- and statewide, from December 14th through January 1st.
DUI arrests were down from 71 arrests in 2011, to 50 in 2012, during the campaign. The grant will help continue the program through the year.
The task force was composed of the Redding Police Department, Anderson Police Department, the Shasta County Sheriff's Office, Shasta County Probation Department, Shasta County Marshal's Office, and CHP. They called the task force 'Avoid the Six' because motorists could avoid being arrested by planning for a safe ride home.
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It's Not Too Late For Bush To Get `The Vision Thing'
byIn 1988, George Bush dismissed the importance of offering Americans a clear picture of where he aimed to take the nation. He lacked "the vision thing," he shrugged. Big mistake. The Bush Administration's general aimlessness is a big reason why voters' have lost faith in his Presidency. Now, as worried Republican delegates prepare to rendezvous in Houston, Bush finds himself under intense pressure to show the nation a newly focused agenda for a post-cold-war future.
Even as the White House frantically sifts policy options for Bush's Aug. 20 acceptance speech, the President, lapsing into a bit of vintage Bushspeak, still derides the need for bold action. It's "all part of the change thing," he says. Yet if there is to be a second term, he'll have to bring to domestic issues the sort of sustained leadership he displayed in organizing Operation Desert Storm. "The electorate is just waiting for someone to say, `I can transform the system if you want me to,' " says Bush campaign issues adviser James P. Pinkerton.
But will Bush rise to the challenge?
HYPERCAUTIOUS. Transforming the system is a tall order for a man whose watchwords have always been: "Don't mess things up." Just the same, there are ways that even the hypercautious Bush could help cure the nation's ills. He could take real steps toward slashing the deficit, boost growth through tax incentives, and get a grip on soaring health costs. He could restructure the crazily askew relationship between the federal government and the states and push Congress toward the internal reform it so desperately needs. With just a little imagination, Bush could still end up a successful two-term President.
He won't accomplish much without first tackling the deficit that has paralyzed his Administration for four years. Bush has spent his term trying to balance Ronald Reagan's view that the deficit doesn't matter with his own gut feeling that it's a major drag on the economy. This is the time for him to stop trying to pretend he's The Gipper's ideological heir. And that means no more "Read my lips--no new taxes" vows. No more avoiding tough spending choices with clever changes in the budget process. Balancing the budget means cutting spending and raising taxes--period.
Bush could put together a credible plan to cut the deficit in half by 1996. He ought to make certain that all Americans share the burden fairly. And unlike his earlier, halfhearted efforts, the plan must show results. The payoff: With the deficit on a downward track, Bush could lean on Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to keep interest rates low.
BITTER BATTLE. How to do it? For starters, Bush might adopt part of Ross Perot's game plan and tax Social Security benefits the same way private pensions are taxed. Then, he should tackle one of the biggest spending programs--medicare--by requiring middle-income retirees to pay a bit more. Together, those two programs soak up $400 billion of the $1.4 trillion annual federal budget. Bush also needs to dump such quaint relics as the Rural Electrification Administration and Radio Free Europe.
But Bush's second term needn't be all pain and misery. The purpose of any fiscal policy is to encourage economic expansion. And Bush needs to renew his focus on growth.
For four years, the President has been fighting a frustrating battle with Congress over capital-gains taxes. And he has majority support for a plan that would cut taxes on investment. But he sabotages his own initiative every time he insists the cut will add revenues to the budget. Instead, he should propose the tax cut along with the means of paying for it. That would satisfy the 1990 budget agreement's demand that tax cuts be offset by revenue increases. He should also include new incentives for business investment in capital equipment, perhaps with a temporary tax credit. And as a long-term project, Bush can plow the ground for proposals to end the double taxation of corporate dividends.
No bid to cut the deficit can be sustained without fixing the nation's health care system. But the President's own plan, built around health care vouchers and tax credits for low-income families is too, well, Bushian. It tinkers with the edges of the problem, won't expand coverage as much as he claims, and would do little to contain costs.
There is an alternative. Bush could embrace a proposal backed by conservative Democrats and many Republicans. The plan allows employers to deduct health-benefit expenses only if they buy coverage from lower-cost, managed-care networks. The deductions would be limited to basic coverage--employers would get no tax breaks for more extravagant benefits. The plan would also protect the poor and help those workers who otherwise couldn't afford insurance.
Bush would have to take on employers who worry about loss of their tax deductions and small insurers that couldn't compete in a managed-care world. But standing up and fighting is what second terms are supposed to be for.
The President also could back his "new federalism" rhetoric by giving the states real freedom to innovate. Bush talks of experimentation, but when Oregon came up with a radical new approach to medicaid built around medical rationing, he rejected it. "The confused relations between state and federal governments have only added to the sense of gridlock," says economist John F. Cogan of the conservative Hoover Institution. "Bush could rationally sort out government responsibility." That would require Washington to bear the full burden of some programs while turning over others completely to the states. For example, the feds could take charge of medicaid and let states assume control of aid to families with dependent children.
MILITARY SAVINGS. To complete his budget plan, Bush must come down hard on the Pentagon by setting national security objectives and figuring out what it will cost to achieve them. He should dump unnecessary weapons systems and end the duplication of roles among the services. To cushion the blow, Bush could spend at least some of the savings on programs aimed at retraining workers.
Overseas, Bush needs to refocus his attention. First and foremost, "we need a Japan policy," says Ellen L. Frost, senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics. Bush doesn't have a single Japan expert among his top cadre of foreign policy aides. A national security adviser with an economics background would be a good start. And on the trade front, instead of reacting to whichever domestic industry makes the most noise, the Administration should decide which industries and technologies will be key to U.S. competitiveness and focus its market-opening pressure in those areas. Picking winners and losers? No, that's setting priorities.
Bush could do the same with Congress. Although they usually resent outsiders' advice on how to run their affairs, lawmakers could use a hand in cleaning their Augean stables. Bush should embrace a bipartisan effort to streamline the complex web of committees and cut the Hill's $3 billion-a-year budget.
In New York last month, Democrat Bill Clinton compared Bush to ill-fated Civil War General George B. McClellan, who built a great army but refused to use it. Privately, a lot of Republicans now are making the same point. The Presidency is the most powerful office in the world. But in his first four years, the self-proclaimed "foreign policy" President was never willing to lead the charge on the domestic front. Unless he has a better battle plan for the next four years, even the glow of a stunning come-from-behind victory in November will fade in the cold light of a visionless second term.
NOTE ON A SECOND-TERM AGENDA George Bush may have trouble spelling out a bold vision. But tackling a few real-world projects could make the President's second term a success: CUT THE DEFICIT--Bush could cut the $330 billion annual federal budget deficit in half by leading a war on entitlement growth. And real action to narrow the gap would spur the anemic recovery HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM--Think bigger, Mr. President. Conservative Democrats have a plan to spur competition among health care providers and cover the uninsured. Best of all, Republicans like it A JAPAN POLICY--Trade talks alone won't make the U.S. more competitive with Japan. One big part of an updated policy: a National Security Council with fewer Kremlin-watchers and more advisers on Japan TRANSFORM CONGRESS--Instead of just bashing lawmakers, use the momentum generated by wholesale congressional turnover to break the bureaucratic stranglehold on the legislative process DATA: BW


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The Bianconeri had to pull off another Champions League comeback after a stern test throughout by the impressive Ukrainians, leaving the group wide open
Just like their 2-2 tie against Chelsea on the opening matchday, the Bianconeri saw themselves fall behind in the first half after Alex Teixeira gave the visiting side a deserved lead after 23 minuites.
But Juve would quickly hit back within three minutes, as Leonardo Bonucci drilled home an exquisite equaliser on a slick move from a corner.
Both sides had chances to win the match in the second half, but were forced to settle for a share of the spoils, giving Group E rivals Chelsea the lead at the top of the standings.
Massimo Carrera's only changes from the 4-1 victory over Roma over the weekend came at both wing-back spots, with Kwadwo Asamoah and Stephan Lichtsteiner stepping in for Martin Caceres and Paolo De Ceglie.
Shakhtar were expected to struggle after winning only one of their last eight matches on Italian soil, but the Ukrainians instead overwhelmed Juve from the start, pushing forward in great numbers.
Henrik Mkhitaryan fired the first warning shot, blasting a devilish cross from Razvan Rat inches over the bar after ghosting in at the far post.
There was an even bigger scare for the hosts in the 13th minute, when Willian would have surely scored but was hauled down by Lichtsteiner, who could have counted himself fortunate to escape without punishment.
Juve were able to forge a brief respite for themselves with a pair of openings, with Alessandro Matri coming within inches of turning in a dangerous Mirko Vucinic cross, before a sublime clip from Andrea Pirlo was volleyed over by Claudio Marchisio.
But Shakhtar continued to attack, and saw reward for their endeavour in the 23rd minute. Willian's shot was blocked following a flowing move, but the Brazilian had the presence of mind to slip the rebound to Teixeira on the left, who blasted into the roof of the net.
It was set to be a harsh lesson in Champions League football for the Bianconeri, but three minutes later, they found themselves level after a goal of the highest quality from an unlikely source.
Andrea Pirlo worked a corner low into the area, where Bonucci peeled away from his marker and on the turn, lashed a superb effort into the top corner from 15 yards out.
It was a move straight out of the training ground, and moments later, another slick passage of play nearly saw Juve pounce again, but Rat was on hand to block Arturo Vidal at close range, before Matri blasted the rebound straight into Andriy Pyatov's arms.
Shakhtar continued to look dangerous, but the home side had managed to work themselves onto more of an even footing in the game. Bonucci nearly came up with the goods again moments before half-time when attacking a corner, but his header was blocked on the line by Pyatov.
In complete contrast to the opening half, the visitors were starved of the ball for long spells after the restart. However, their counter-attacking threat still had to be respected, as shown when Willian slotted inches wide after a flowing more started in their own half.
Juve were straight back down the pitch though, and substitute Sebastian Giovinco, seconds after his introduction, raced free down the left and teed up Matri who, from point-blank range, botched his finish and bundled over the bar.
But Shakhtar still fancied their chances to win the game. Gianluigi Buffon was called into his first meaningful action of the match when parrying away Darijo Srna's free-kick, moments before Mkhitaryan side-footed agonisingly off target after latching onto Luiz Adriano's feed.
Willian then saw another effort go just off target with eight minutes to go, lashing a loose ball just the wrong side of the post from a good position on the edge of the area.
The Brazilian then had a glorious chance to win it at the death, but rattled the crossbar from 10 yards out as the sides ended the match knotted at a goal apiece, leaving them both with ground to make up on group leaders Chelsea.


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You know an ensemble film or television series is working when the character you care most about changes from scene to scene, from show to show.
You know it's not working when you don't care about any of them. Sadly, that's the case with "Answers to Nothing," Matthew Leutwyler's dud about a revolving cast of characters in Los Angeles. Even in the best ensembles, there's always a weak character, someone we're relieved to get away from so that we can get back to the people who interest us.
Here, we can't wait to get away from pretty much all of them. With the exception of Erik Palladino as a cop fresh out of the academy, this is a miserable bunch of people who commit the cinematic sin of not being miserable in interesting ways. And even Palladino's character gets thrown into a ridiculous turn of events by the time the film is over.
The story loosely centers on the disappearance of a young girl. Julie Benz plays the detective working the case, Greg Germann the neighbor under suspicion. Meanwhile, a teacher who plays interactive video games all night (Mark Kelly) takes an unusual interest in the proceedings, constantly watching TV for details.
Comedian Dane Cook tries out a dramatic role as a rich therapist cheating on his rich lawyer wife, played by Elizabeth Mitchell, with a rock singer (Aja Volkman, real-life singer for Nico Vega, which appears). Theirs is the central story; Mitchell does the best she can with weak material.
Then there's Miranda Bailey's character, a recovering alcoholic determined to push her brain-injured, wheelchair-bound brother (Vincent Ventresca) in a marathon.
Meanwhile, a successful TV writer (Kali Hawk) visits Cook's therapist to work out her issues -- she has complex feelings about being Black in a mostly White environment. Like many of the plot threads, this could be made into something interesting, but Leutwyler, who also co-wrote the script, isn't up to the task of making it so.
All of this is woven together in a couple of resolutions, one sappy, one ridiculously violent, both unsatisfying.
It is nice to see a lot of actors we mostly watch on television -- Mitchell, Palladino, Germann, as well as Zach Gifford from "Friday Night Lights" -- on the big screen, and none of them is bad. But they aren't well-served here. You're better off looking for them in reruns.
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'Red Dawn' Remake Trailer: America Is Under Attack in First Teaser
If it feels like we've been talking about the Red Dawn remake for forever, it's because we have. Dan Bradley's updating of the 1984 cult classic was announced in 2008 and scheduled for a 2010 release. When MGM got into serious financial trouble, it was taken off the calendar while the company sorted out its money woes. Then a 2011 release was delayed when the studio decided to reshoot parts of the film in order to change the villains from the Chinese Army to the North Koreans. With all that finally squared away, we're now on course for a November release. To help get you all in the Red Dawn mood, is a first look at the completed film from Entertainment Tonight.
Chris Hemsworth, Connor Cruise and Josh Hutcherson headline the remake, which finds the North Korean army somehow invading America. With part of the country under enemy control, this ragtag group of young adults decides to fight back and restore democracy.
The brief clip looks pretty similar to the original, only augmented with CGI (the plane crash looks a little dodgy…). The North Koreans as villains is also a bit of a tough sell, but movies are all about the willing suspension of disbelief, so maybe audiences will be okay with it. Even if they had kept the Chinese as the invading force, the film was unlikely to have the same resonance of the original, which played heavily on our Cold War concerns and fears of the Soviet Union.
All those points aside, we're still interested in finally seeing this updated version of the film. Catch Red Dawn in theaters on November 21.
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By BBC News Online internet reporter Mark Ward
Dressing smartly might soon mean wearing a jacket with a built-in phone.
Buckinghamshire-based Elektex has developed a technique that weaves wires into cloth to turn humble fabrics into something much smarter. The first cloth keyboards, phones and gadgets should be available next year. Gadgets galore While the number of gadgets is proliferating all the time, many can only be fully exploited with the use of a keyboard that makes entering or managing data much easier. Shrunken, detachable and fold-up keyboards can now be bought for all manner of gadgets to enable people to get the most out of their palmtop computer, MP3 player or mobile phone. But bulky human fingers often have a tough time typing using the tiny keys. Elektex claims its fabric keyboard could solve many of these problems. It said its full-size cloth keyboard would work on any hard surface and can be rolled up or stuffed in a pocket when not being used. Elektex showed off its technology at the IT Expo in Cannes earlier this week. A spokesman for the company said it had been almost "overwhelmed" by demand for the clever cloth keyboard. Weaving a web Elektex uses wires that are woven into the cloth as it is being produced. The woven wires form a grid covering the whole fabric. "The fabric could be velvet, denim or a nice chintz - whatever you want," said Bob Metcalfe, a spokesman for the company. "You can have your mobile phone keypad in the sleeve of your jacket." Pressing on the cloth deforms the wires changing their conductivity. This allows the electronics developed alongside the cloth to work out where the cloth has been pressed and what character this represents. Just like a computer screen, the fabric can have different resolutions by weaving more or less conductive wires into the cloth. The Elektex technology is likely to be used first to make keyboards for the popular Palm type computers. The first cloth keyboards should go on sale early next year said the spokesman. Future applications could be a fabric phone, smart car seats or computerised trousers. |
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Assange faces arrest if he leaves Ecuador embassy
LONDON — British police stood poised Wednesday to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should he step out of Ecuador's London embassy — but authorities conceded he is beyond their grasp as long as he stays inside.
Assange says he is seeking political asylum at the South American nation's diplomatic mission.
Police said that he had violated the terms of his bail, which include an overnight curfew, and "is now subject to arrest." Police officers were stationed outside the Edwardian apartment block in the tony Knightsbridge district that houses the embassy, along with small group of pro-Assange protesters waving "Free Assange" placards.
Officials at the embassy declined to give an update on the situation Wednesday. Assange supporter Gavin Macfadyen, of the Center for Investigative Journalism at London's City University, emerged from the embassy to say Assange was meeting with his lawyers and was "in very good humor."
The Foreign Office said as long as Assange remains inside, he is "beyond the reach of police."
"We will seek to work with the Ecuadorean authorities to resolve this situation as soon as possible," it said in a statement.
The 40-year-old Australian took refuge in the embassy a few doors down from the Harrods department store on Tuesday. He said he was seeking political asylum in Ecuador, whose leftist President Rafael Correa has previously offered words of support.
Ecuador said Assange would "remain at the embassy, under the protection of the Ecuadorean government" while authorities in the capital, Quito, considered his case.
Assange was arrested in London in December 2010 at Sweden's request. Since then he has been fighting extradition to the Scandinavian country, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sexual assaults on two women in August 2010.
He denies the allegations and says the case against him is politically motivated. He also claims extradition could be a first step in efforts to remove him to the United States, where he claims to have been secretly indicted over his website's disclosure of 250,000 State Department cables. The leaks of the secret diplomatic exchanges deeply angered the U.S. government.
Asked about the case at a Geneva press conference, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe said Assange was not being victimized.
"I don't think he's being persecuted because of his use of the Internet at all," she said.
She said that "getting too enamored with the idea that Julian Assange is a whistleblower missed the reality that confidentiality on the part of governments is not all bad."
"In many cases it is used to protect people and that must be balanced along with the preference for free flow of information," she said.
Assange had all but run out of legal options in Britain, where the Supreme Court last week affirmed an earlier decision that he should be sent to Sweden. He could still apply to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, a move his lawyers have said they are considering.
Senior British lawyer Alex Carlile said Assange's asylum bid smacked of desperation, and would likely fail.
"This is actually in law a very simple situation," he said. "Once the Ecuadorians have considered and rejected his application for asylum — as they will — he will be going to Sweden."
The move took many Assange supporters by surprise — including some of those who put up a total of 200,000 pounds ($315,000) to guarantee his bail.
Vaughan Smith, the former journalist who let Assange stay at his rural English home for more than a year as part of his bail terms, said the news "came as surprise to me."
Smith said he stood to lose his 20,000 pound surety, but defended Assange nonetheless.
"This is money my family needs," Smith said. "But my family don't believe they are facing life imprisonment or death.
"I am convinced (Assange) genuinely believes he will be sent to America and will face something terrible there."
Some legal experts said they were mystified by the reasoning behind Assange's dramatic asylum bid. But human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy, a former member of Assange's legal team, said he could be planning to bargain with Sweden for assurances that he would not be handed over to the U.S.
She said if granted such assurances, Assange might be willing to go to Sweden voluntarily.
Associated Press Writer Frank Jordans in Geneva contributed to this report. Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
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Cheese bread.
Just hearing those two words together – "cheese," and "bread" – makes your mouth start to water, doesn't it?
Who doesn't savor cheese? Who doesn't love bread?
Who among us didn't grow up enjoying multiple incarnations of each of these Comfort Food All-Stars?
Think mac 'n' cheese. Peanut butter sandwiches. Cinnamon toast. Cheese and crackers.
And, of course, that magical place where the two join hands and sing in perfect harmony: the grilled cheese sandwich.
Cheese bread – bread with the cheese baked right into it – evinces thoughts of melting pockets of cheddar or mozzarella, tantalizingly oozing with each new cut of knife into loaf.
But some cheese breads – like this Crescia al Formaggio, a.k.a. Italian Easter Cheese Bread – are more refined. More European, if you will.
We Americans can be prone to excess with our favorite foods. Imagine a 5-scoop banana split: rivers of hot fudge, generous dollops of strawberry and pineapple sauce, dripping marshmallow, neon-red cherry on top.
Now imagine not at Dairy Queen, but in… Paris.
I don't think so.
Thus this particular cheese bread might not be exactly what you're used to.
It's packed with Parmesan, true; but it's there for flavor, not its ooze quotient.
And, rather than being moist and soft, the bread is dry; almost austere. Which makes it the perfect vehicle for toast: drizzled with olive oil, spread with sweet cream butter… or topped with fig and walnut spread, for a truly adult treat.
Are you ready to bake cheese bread, Continental-style?
This Crescia is a great place to start.
The classic Italian Crescia is baked in a pandoro (star) pan; a brioche pan is a good stand-in.
However, since I know most of you don't have either of those pans, I'll make one version in a brioche pan (above), and the other in a regular American loaf pan.
Place the following in a bowl; a stand mixer is very helpful here, since you're going to beat the dough for 10 minutes.
2 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1 large egg yolk, white reserved
1/4 cup lukewarm water
1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) softened butter
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground pepper (black if you don't mind the specks, white if you do)
Beat on medium speed for 10 minutes, until the dough becomes shiny and satiny. It'll be very sticky; stop the mixer to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl a couple of times during the mixing process.
Add 1 1/4 cups freshly grated Parmesan, Romano, or Asiago cheese, or a combination. Beat until well combined.
Scrape the dough into a lightly greased bowl, cover the bowl, and set it aside to rest/rise for 1 hour; it won't do much, as you can see from the bottom two pictures in the grid above.
Gently deflate the dough, turn it over, return it to the bowl, and allow it to rest/rise for an additional hour; again, it may not seem to rise much — again, that's OK.
Divide the dough into three pieces; roll each piece into a 12″ log, and braid the logs.
I'm doing a "center first" braid here; it helps prevent your braid from looking like a slithering snake, or from being fat at one end, skinny at the other.
So, start in the center, and braid out to one end. Flip the entire loaf over, so the top is now the bottom, and the bottom the top; and braid out to the other end.
I have to say I didn't do THAT great a job, but I do like this method; it usually creates a nicely shaped braid.
Nestle the braid into a lightly greased 9″ x 5″ loaf pan.
Cover the loaf lightly, and allow it to rise for 2 hours (or longer, depending on the warmth of your kitchen); the dough should have become noticeably puffy, though it won't have doubled in size.
While the loaf is rising, put your oven rack in a lower position, just below the middle, and preheat the oven to 425°F.
Whisk the reserved egg white with 2 teaspoons cold water, and brush the top of the loaf.
Place the bread in the oven and bake it for 15 minutes.
Reduce the oven temperature to 350°F, tent the bread lightly with aluminum foil, and bake for an additional 30 minutes, until it's a deep, golden brown and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center registers 190°F.
Remove the bread from the oven, and let it cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Use a knife to loosen the edges, if necessary, and turn the loaf out onto a rack to cool completely before slicing.
Really – you'll be happier if you let the loaf cool completely before slicing.
Store airtight, at room temperature, for several days. Freeze, tightly wrapped, for longer storage.
Now, how about a traditional round loaf?
Form the dough into a ball, and place it in a greased pandoro (star) or panettone pan; a large souffle dish; or another round, deep pan. The pan should be about 6″ to 7″ wide, and 3″ to 4″ deep.
Let rise and bake as directed, increasing the final 30 minutes to 35 minutes.
Pretty, eh?
Slice, toast, and enjoy!
I find the American-style loaf handier; its slices fit nicely in a typical toaster.
However, there's something to be said for tradition; and a toaster oven can easily handle the larger brioche-style slices of a classic loaf.
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Czechoslovakian Art Deco Tulip Ceamic Sugar Bowl Bottom Ca. 1930's NO LID
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Sugar bowl bottom with Tulip decal, orange luster and Art Deco trim. Circa 1930's. Partial red circle mark from Czechoslovakia. Measures 2.75"h x 5.25 handle-to-handle. Minor rough spot inside rim appears to be glaze excess; missing lid. Sold as is. Inglenook Antiques...Established 1989.
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Whenever possible I avoid debating people about their religious beliefs. If their faith is genuine, then by definition its immune to reasoned critique. Besides I have no desire to deprive anyone of a source of hope and comfort in life, whether its rational or not. Religious people dont always share this scruple. Many of them consider it their duty to impose their beliefs on others in the form of publicly supported symbols and ceremonies, enforced religious instruction, or even faith-based laws. Some pursue their ideological goals openly; others are surreptitious like the Discovery Institute.
Located in Seattle, the Discovery Institute was founded in 1996 by Republican activists Bruce Chapman and George Gilder with funding from conservative philanthropist Howard Ahmanson, Jr. and the Christian MacLellan Foundation. According to its mission statement (1) the Discovery Institute aims to make a positive vision of the future practical by promoting ideas in the common sense tradition of representative government, the free market and individual liberty.
The statement reeks of conservative ideology. Sure enough, many of the Institutes policy positions come straight from the radical right, including support for George Bushs contrived War on Terror and reflexive hostility to progressive social programs. However, even a cursory inspection of the Institutes website reveals a focus on the promotion of Creationism and Christian theology.
Having witnessed previous defeats of Creationism, especially in the courts, the founders of the Discovery Institute decided to project a different image by suppressing overt religious references in their public statements and by posing as a center for scientific research. Substituting the term Intelligent Design for Creationism was a Discovery Institute innovation.
Unfortunately for the success of their masquerade, in 1999 an internal memorandum from the Institute was leaked to the Internet, where its remained a source of embarrassment ever since. (Dont you just love the Internet?) Known as the Wedge Document (2) because of a key phrase it contains, the memorandum reveals the true goals of the Institute in unambiguous language.
Calling the proposition that humans are created in Gods image a bedrock principle of Western Civilization, the document laments the materialistic philosophy that has infected society. Accordingly the Discovery Institute seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies and the establishment of a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions. What they mean by this, of course, is the refutation of Darwins theory of evolution by natural selection and its replacement with standard Christian dogma of divine creation. Toward this end the Wedge Document lays out a detailed five year plan culminating in a grand public debate.
After initially denying the authenticity of the Wedge Document the Discovery Institute confessed that it was genuine and then adopted a strategy of rigid silence on the subject, presumably in the hope that it would eventually fade from public attention. (One of my goals in writing this article is to help ensure that this doesnt happen!) Meanwhile theyve pursued a program of ersatz scientific research designed to advance Creationist beliefs in both public and scientific circles.
Theyve had little success in either realm. Current polling suggests that around half of American adults agree with some form of Creationist doctrine. This might be taken as evidence that the Discovery Institute and similar organizations have influenced public opinion, but longitudinal studies by Gallup (3) over the past twenty-five years reveal remarkably little change in any demographic: around 45% of people believe that God created man in Her image; 10-15% think God had nothing to do with it; and the remainder adopt an intermediate position that God guided mans development through natural processes. If theres any trend at all, its a slight downward drift in Creationist sympathy and a matching upward shift in the percentage of doubters, but the changes are small and may be statistically insignificant.
Among working scientists the consensus is virtually unanimous that Creationism is nonsense. In 1987 Newsweek (4) reported a survey in which 700 out of 480,000 scientists with respectableacademic credentials (or about 0.14%) expressed any confidence in so-called creation-science." In a recent e-mail poll (5) of biology department chairmen at major research universities only 1 out of 73 responded that there was any scientific controversy among the biology faculty regarding evolution. The single affirmative response came from a theological medical school.
As one might expect the disparity between scientists and the general population in their views about evolution reflects in part the dismal state of education in the United States, particularly science education; but its also a consequence of the successful alliance of Creationists with right wing politics. A recent Gallup poll (6) shows suggestive parallels between conservative political belief, frequent church attendance, low educational level, and agreement with Creationism.
What about the oft-repeated claims that, unlike Creationism, Intelligent Design is a bona fide scientific theory and that the scholars at the Discovery Institute do genuine scientific research. In plain language those claims are bunk and the research is crap. Although the Institutes website features impressively titled reports filled with technical jargon and references to the scientific literature, behind the window-dressing theres little substance. Instead of presenting original observations the vast majority of Creationist publications simply rehash data that has already been published, trying to find inconsistencies and loopholes into which they can insert their own conclusions.
A recent article on the Discovery Institute website addresses the evolution (or rather non-evolution) of giraffes. Much of the article is devoted to the creation and then triumphant destruction of "straw man" arguments based on discarded evolutionary theory. Data about the feeding patterns of giraffes are cited as evidence for conclusions that they dont actually support.* In another article, entitled Evolution's Thermodynamic Failure, I was stunned to see a reference to the Second Law of Thermodynamics as an obstacle to evolution, an idea with as much scientific validity as alien abduction! The author, a professor of mathematics forsooth, wriggles around and eventually manages to conflate the Second Law with other issues in order to disguise his error, but his ignorance of biology and physics is painfully obvious. Pared to its essentials, his position is, "I can't imagine how evolution could happen, so obviously it did not." This kind of intellectual farce is routinely passed off as genuine science at the Discovery Institute.
The Atheist/Agnostic website isnt a proper forum for debating the manifold flaws of Creationism.** The point of this article is that a prominent, well-funded, and religiously motivated organization disguising itself as a scientific research institution is engaged in a program of public deception designed to introduce sectarian dogma into our public life. The United States isnt alone in being targeted. In Turkey (7) Islamic fundamentalists have mounted an anti-evolution campaign so extreme that it makes their American counterpart seem tame, but the war on empirical science and its teaching - is a world wide phenomenon. (8) The particular religious sects involved may differ; but in every case, the goals are the same: suppression of ideas that they consider impious and imposition of their own brand of truth on the rest us. And on our children!
* To show how subtle - that is, sneaky - some of this stuff can be, the paper quoted research from a respectable scientific journal regarding the feeding behavior of male and female giraffes (whose necks are of different lengths.) Since these giraffes fed without apparent competition, the author concluded that there was no evolutionary pressure - no natural selection - for longer necks. As any freshman biology student knows, competition and natural selection occur almost exclusively during periods of environmental stress, such as drought or disease outbreak, when the food supply becomes limited. The observations that this author cited were made with reference to an entirely different question and were inappropriate for the use he made of them.
** If you have questions about Creationism or its claims, or if you need help deciphering the garbage on the Discovery Institute website, send me an e-mail and Ill help you find the answers.
(1) http://www.discovery.org/about.php
(2) http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/wedge.html
(3) http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/Evolution-Creationism-Intelligent-Design.aspx
(4) Newsweek magazine, 1987-JUN-29, Page 23, quoted from http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm
(5) Turn out the Lights, the Teach the Controversy Partys Over, Creation and Intelligent Design Watch, Robert Camp,
(6) http://www.gallup.com/video/27838/Evolution-Beliefs.aspx
(7) Turkish Scientists Confront Creationists Theory, The
Independent, 14 July 2007, Nicholas Birch
(8) The Threat from Creationism to the Rational Teaching of
Biology, Biological Research, v40(2): 113-122, Athel Cornish-Bowden & Maria
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From building green to monitoring carbon footprints, sustainability has become part of doing business for many corporations. These companies no longer look at the growing green trend as an obstacle but as an opportunity to supplement their legacy. The effect on the corporate world is evident, but less obvious is the fact that corporate culture, with its inherent focus on performance, also has begun to influence the sustainability movement in a positive way.
The shift is especially pronounced in the context of green-building rating systems, which in the past have been more prescriptive than performance based. As an example, some rating systems give credit for materials produced within 500 miles (805 km) of the structure being built. This makes sense on an intuitive level because less energy is required to transport the materials. But there are a tremendous number of factors that influence whether a locally produced material actually is better for the environment. These factors include the source of the material's components, type of manufacturing process and mode of transportation. Using locally produced materials could add to or detract from a building's sustainability.
Those who want to know for sure, including many of those involved in the development and evolution of green-building rating systems, are placing an increasing emphasis on life-cycle assessment, or LCA. LCA is important to sustainable design because it facilitates impartial comparisons of materials, assemblies and entire buildings. It considers materials during the course of their entire lives, from resource extraction through recycling, reuse or disposal. LCA also takes into account a range of environmental impact indicators, such as embodied energy and global-warming potential.
Instead of rewarding materials or products for specific attributes that are assumed to have environmental benefits, rating systems that incorporate LCA put the emphasis where it should be—on building performance. This gives designers the flexibility to choose how to achieve their environmental goals.
Although LCA is widely recognized as one of the best ways to assess building sustainability, the challenge has been the perception that LCA is too complex and time consuming to be used by the mainstream design community.
To help make it more accessible, the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute, Merrickville, Ontario, Canada, recently released a new spreadsheet tool, the Athena EcoCalculator for Assemblies. It is available free of charge to architects, engineers and others who want to evaluate building designs based on a more complete understanding of total environmental impact.
Developed by the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute in partnership with the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Morrison Hershfield Consulting Engineers, Toronto, the EcoCalculator originally was commissioned by the Portland, Ore.-based Green Building Initiative for use with its Green Globes environmental assessment and rating system for commercial buildings. However, because of its value as an indicator of potential climate change impact, GBI also supported the creation of a generic version that could be used by the entire sustainable-design community.
The EcoCalculator provides instant LCA results for hundreds of common building assemblies, including exterior walls, roofs, intermediate floors, interior walls, windows, and columns and beams. The information embedded in the tool is based on detailed assessments completed with its parent software, the Athena Impact Estimator for Buildings, which in turn uses Athena Sustainable Materials Institute's own datasets along with data from the U.S. Life Cycle Inventory Database established by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colo.
Assemblies are evaluated in terms of a range of performance measures, including globalwarming potential, primary energy, fossil-fuel depletion, air and water pollution, and weighted resource use. Results show real-time changes as the inputs are adjusted—a function that allows different assembly options to be considered in light of their environmental impacts.
Because GBI has initiated the process to establish Green Globes as an official standard under the Washington, D.C.-based American National Standards Institute, the LCA tool has been reviewed by the ANSI technical committee in preparation for its integration into the system. To a limited degree, the Green Globes system already incorporates LCA by rewarding its use in material selection.
The hope is that governments, green-building organizations and others will leverage the EcoCalculator for use in their own green-rating systems, programs and policies and that it will help achieve goals related to the reduction of carbondioxide emissions, which are widely accepted as major contributors to global climate change.
While the green-building community has long recognized the value of LCA and encouraged its use, technology is at last making it possible for mainstream design professionals to have streamlined access to crucial data about building assemblies. This technology gives the public and private sectors the information they need to choose materials based not on their perceived effects but on their true performance.
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Time to get ready and enjoy the lights and sounds because the Laser Light shows at the Casper Planetarium are back!
August 21st – 23, and then again on August 26th – 30th:
- 11:00am – Laser Perseus and Andromeda – fun for all ages
- 4:00pm – Laser Beatles fun for all ages
- 7:00pm – Laser Vinyl – for all those that love to rock
- 8:00pm – Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon – The legendary Pink Floyd classic
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The board (of education) rejected the stipulations made by S. J . Papas of Chicago for the sale of approximately nine acres of land bounded by Wright avenue, Ohio street, Sixteenth street and Perry avenue.
Papas, who also owns the adjacent outdoor theater property, said he would sell providing that the school system would never object to the use of his other property to the north as a theater or other commercial purposes, make no attempt to have the theater property annexed to the city and that the land would be resold to him if no school is built on the site by Dec. 31, 1963. Papas offered the property for $27,500. The school board is seeking to enlarge its present 9.3 acre future junior high school site at Ohio and Sixteenth streets.
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All Ya Needs That Negrocity
Now entering our second decade, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber continues an obsessive drive to bring Frankenstein back to musical hybridity–brutally grafting and re-charging funkystanknasty older tribal forms with present-day post-soul energies while leaving all manner of wires, lesions, sutures, scars and microsurgical filigree loose, open and lubricious in the bloody bargain.
Learn More →Making Love to the Dark Ages
Burnt Sugar's first studio recording in 5 years in celebration of the band's 10 year anniversary. A tasty mix of history and contemporary. A spicy blend of jazz, improv, innovation and composition.
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Remixes, rarities, out-takes and conductions – including tracks from the score for Greg Tate's film "Black Body Radiation"
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Our version of what R and B might sound like today if live bands hadn't been derailed by sampling technology in the Black community somewhere around 1977.
We've got all the freeform raging horns and guitars of our previous albums only compositionally compressed into these groovevicious post-everythang song forms.
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Burnt Sugar live on stage: Bordeax, San Sebastion & New York City. (double disc)
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One of Burnt Sugar's most diverse and opulent recordings. This collection features key contributions from Vernon Reid, Vijay Iyer, Butch Morris, Pete Cosey, Tamar Kali, DJ Mutamassik, Omega Moon and Kirk Douglas of the Roots.
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Back in the summer of 1999 Greg Tate gathered a crew of eight musicians to flesh out an idea he had for a new type of band, to perform a new type of music. Those sessions and the following jams at Shariff Simmon's throwdowns in the basement of CBGBs led to this recording.
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I don't really have anything to compare this to, since this is my first non-board soundcard (some might say I took quite a leap) To be honest, I wasn't even expecting that much of a difference on the price, since I'm used to seeing components paying way more, but the quality of the STX really blows me away! The headphone amp is something that could be better, my only other amp is a measly Pro-Ject headbox S, which performs pretty close to the xonar, although being slightly warmer and not as detailed, also I don't really like how it sounds on your general every day 32 ohm gaming headsets, or my 55 ohm akg k121's. The Xonar is a great sound processor though, in fact it's so detailed that it made me realize that I need a better speaker amplifier to keep up with it :P
TL;DR Great (value) DAC, decent head amp for 250ohm or above headphones


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text: Cyberpunk 2077 Will Be the First Multiplayer Game from the Makers of The WitcherEvan Narcisse3/13/13 9:40amFiled to: Cyberpunk 2077The WitcherCD Projekt RedPCPS4114EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink What do we know about Cyberpunk 2077 so far? There's going be fancy new software making it run. You might learn a new language while playing. And parts of it are going to be very pretty. But a few more details are coming to light about the upcoming sci-fi title from CD Projekt Red. A new interview at Eurogamer reveals that Cyberpunk is going to be an open-world title and will feature multiplayer as well. Here's the dev studio's managing director Adam Badowski: Advertisement Advertisement "It will be a story-based RPG experience with amazing single-player playthroughs, but we're going to add multiplayer features.""The first and most important environment for Cyberpunk is the city, obviously. But not only the city: you can expect some more environments in the Cyberpunk game. We want to start in the Night City, which is cool. And yes it will be an open world game as well."An RPG structure doesn't come as much as a surprise to anyone familiar with The Witcher games. But it's going to be extremely interesting to see what multiplayer ideas CD Projekt Red comes up with for their next-gen game. Let's hope some sort of co-op makes it into the mix.CD Projekt Red says Cyberpunk 2077 will have multiplayer [Eurogamer]Reply114 repliesLeave a reply


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Accord 25 co-editors Achim Wennmann and Alexander Ramsbotham draw together insights and observations on peace processes and legitimacy, and distil lessons for peacebuilding policy and practice. They suggest the importance of applying a "legitimacy lens" to designing and implementing peace processes by paying attention to three priorities in approach.
Bipin Adhikari explains how peace and constitution-making processes in Nepal are at a pivotal point. The dissolution of the first Constituent Assembly in 2012, after four years' deliberation and with no constitution agreed, reflected the scale of the challenge of post-war transition in Nepal.
Virisila Buadromo describes the constitutional process in Fiji in 2012, and in particular the experiences of the women's movement and civil society in engaging with it. The women's movement had initially feared that involvement in a weak constitutional process risked legitimising a flawed outcome.
Abdihakim Ainte examines the complexities of constitutional processes in Somalia, explaining how the allocation of decision-making responsibilities at key moments has undermined the legitimacy of the 2012 Provisional Constitution for many Somalis. The Provisional Constitution has a core peacebuilding function to define an acceptable social contract.


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Here's a trick question: how many animals do you depend on every day to stay alive? How many plants? And what about other living things?
You might eat bacon for breakfast so that's pigs. You might have it with eggs on toast, so that's chooks and wheat and yeast. You've got to digest it, which means all those micro-organisms in your gut. Of course pigs eat plants and other stuff, and so do chooks. The plants grow in soil, so that's worms and funguses and nematodes and bacteria and insects and microcrustaceans and all the other soil critters.
You haven't even finished breakfast yet, and you're already in the thousands, maybe even the tens of thousands. Now take a breath: where do you think all that oxygen came from?
The answer to the trick question well, maybe it wasn't that tricky is that you depend in one way or another on millions of fellow species every minute of every day just to stay alive. And they depend on you too. You're tangled in the Earth's food web as surely as if you were a yabby or an apple tree.
It's an easy thing to forget. Humans live a world of plastic and concrete; we don't think of ourselves as being part of all that messy eat-and-be-eaten stuff but even your own backyard is a miniature jungle.
Four years ago a researcher at Macquarie University, Andrew Beattie, tried to count how many species lived in an average Sydney backyard all the animals, birds, plants, insects, worms, spiders, micro-organisms and so on.
Professor Beattie counted at least 4,620 different species living in just one suburban backyard. Almost certainly, he says, there were many thousands more species which he missed.
So here's another question. How many of those millions of species which we depend on every day could we actually do without? Surely we don't need them all.
Well. Maybe we could get by without one or two species of beetle. And if all the pigs were gone we could eat mutton. Probably we could manage without bread. Or at least we could get by on just one variety of wheat surely we don't need all those endless different strains?
That is precisely what humans are now doing to the world. We are rapidly weeding out animals and plants we don't want and sending them to extinction. We are whittling away at the diversity of life probably faster than has ever happened before.
Some estimates say 10,000 species are vanishing each year. The truth is no-one really knows.
Imagine you are about to board an aeroplane. As you climb on you see a work crew pulling out rivets from the wings. No problem, they explain, the 'plane doesn't depend on any single rivet for its strength.
How many rivets would you let them take out before you refused to board the 'plane? That's what biodiversity (or biological diversity) is all about conserving the variety of life on Earth for future generations.
Who knows what species might come in handy one day? Who knows, for example, what strain of wild grass might one day be crossed with wheat to make it resistant to a new pest maybe a pest which doesn't even exist yet? Who knows what life-saving drugs might one day be extracted from Australia's native plants and animals? Biodiversity is the Earth's insurance policy.
Thousands of organisms which at first appear to have nothing to do with humans grubs in the ground, floating plankton way out at sea, trees growing in distant forests all actually help clean and recycle the air, water and soil that we depend on for our survival.
Never before has biodiversity been so much under threat. All over the planet, including in Australia, humans are changing the environment to make way for houses, farms, roads and other developments. The species which lived there before usually don't survive.
You can't conserve biodiversity in a zoo all you could hope to save would be a few big animals. Conserving biodiversity has to be everyone's responsibility. The CSIRO is now mounting a major research effort to learn more about Australia's unique biological heritage, and how best to preserve it.
Last year, all around the world, the global Convention on Biological Diversity came into force. It is an international agreement, negotiated under the umbrella of the United Nations, to conserve biodiversity. Australia has joined it, so have more than 50 other countries. In line with the Convention, Australia's Federal, State and Territory Governments are expected to launch a joint national strategy to conserve Australia's biodiversity later this year.
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Barring an agreement between Congress and the President, the unthinkable happens on Friday. Automatic cuts in most government programs take effect. It's an incredibly stupid move, especially given that the economy is still suffering 8 percent unemployment. The cuts affect defense and nondefense spending. They apply equally to programs that are highly effective and to those that might not be worth continuing. (Dylan Matthews of the Washington Post wrote an excellent overview of the sequester.) According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, it's a 7.5% cut in all defense programs and 8.4% cut in non-defense discretionary programs that are subject to sequester. (Some spending is exempt, including military pay, but not benefits, and some anti-poverty programs like food stamps.)
Basically, every affected function of government will have significantly less resources than needed to actually do the job. Agencies can't prioritize high value operations. They will just have to do a crummy job, across the board.
And, because government workers will be furloughed and contractors will be laying people off, the sequester will raise unemployment and depress the economy while it is still very weak. Mark Zandi forecasts that the sequester would knock about 0.5% off of GDP in 2013. Macroeconomic Advisers warns, "The sequestration would cost roughly 700,000 jobs (including reductions in armed forces)... The higher unemployment would linger for several years." Coming on top of an even larger hit to the economy from the 2 point payroll tax rise that took effect in January, this is insane macroeconomic policy.
No sensible person of either party thinks sequestration is a smart way to run a government. But if you read the newspapers, you might well conclude that our policymakers' main objective is to prove that it's not their fault, rather than ensure that it doesn't happen. This might be because politicians really are more interested in finger-pointing than legislating. Or it might be because reporters would rather write about the human drama of assessing and deflecting blame--something with which everyone can relate--than the mind-numbing details of the sequester, it's likely effects, and the options to avert it.
The fact is that the sequester was an act of desperation. The conventional wisdom in Washington is that no procedural process can force Congress to do something that it doesn't want to do. Cutting popular spending programs and raising taxes are certainly in that category. The sequester was supposed to present an alternative to action that was so dire--indiscriminate cuts in programs that every member of Congress cares about--that lawmakers would be forced to act. Finally, a procedural measure that just had to work!
Members of both parties supported the idea, and the Republican House, the Democratic Senate, and the Democratic President all signed off on it.
The New York Times's John Harwood suggested that pundits label the conversation with the Twitter hashtag #consentingadults.
If the sequester weren't bad enough, other self-inflicted crises are looming. Government funding expires at the end of March and the debt limit will be reached again around mid-May.
From a policy perspective, the best option would be to simply cancel the sequester and extend the payroll tax cut for at least another year. This is a really bad time to be cutting spending. With interest rates low and unemployment high, now would be a great time to fix failing roads, bridges, and dams. We did some of this as part of the recovery act, but the nation's infrastructure is still in bad shape and the economy is still weak.
Meanwhile, the Administration should be instructed to put forward a concrete plan to slow the growth of federal health care spending and extend the solvency of Social Security (that is, cut entitlements). The Treasury Department should be instructed to produce a plan to reform the federal tax system. Or maybe two plans: one revenue neutral, as the Republicans prefer, and one that raises revenues. The tax system desperately needs reform and the last major tax reform, in 1986, started with a Treasury blueprint.
The fact that, if enacted, these plans would likely have the biggest effect on deficits in the medium- to long-term would be a plus. That is when the retired baby boomers will be putting dangerous strains on the budget, and hopefully it will be after we have recovered from the last recession.
Or we could point fingers while the economy slides back toward recession and the government can't fulfill its basic responsibilities.
Len Burman is coauthor with Joel Slemrod of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know.
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