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Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
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The one area that students are the best authorities on is their own memories and experiences. In this lesson, students participate in read-alouds and discussions about memories and family. After this exploration, students brainstorm questions to ask family members in order to learn more about important and/or memorable family events. Once students determine a list of questions, they interview family members, taking notes on the events and giving each a positive or negative rating. Using their interview notes, students create a graphic family timeline which includes illustrations or photographs.
Graphic Map: This online tool allows students to graphically map the high and low points related to a particular item or group of items, such as family events.
In Chapter 2 of Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers, Kathy Short and Jerome Harste remind us that children "must begin any learning experience with what they currently know, perceive, and feel." Gathering information and writing about their families can create a meaningful bridge from students' personal, concrete experiences to the wider, historical experiences of their families. Diana Mitchell found just such a bridge during an end-of-year project involving families stories. She describes the project: "We need some kind of center to pull them in; some compelling reason for them to continue reading, writing, speaking, and reflecting. Focusing on projects and activities that relate to the family seems to meet this need because all students come to our classrooms with family histories and stories." By having students but those family stories on a timeline, this lesson also makes a meaningful connection of literacy to mathematics and history.
Further Reading
Short, Kathy G., and Harste, Jerome E. 1996. Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Mitchell, Diana. "Tapping into Family Stories and Themes to Heighten End-of-Year Engagement." English Journal 87.4 (April 1998): 65-69.


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Distance from Barneveld, WI to Soda Springs, ID
Driving distance between Barneveld, WI and Soda Springs, ID is 1,331.40 miles (or 2,142.69 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Barneveld, WI you would reach Soda Springs, ID in about 19 hours 43 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.


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(Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union has sued a Utah city in federal court over a "free-speech zone" ordinance, saying the Orwellian-named measure unconstitutionally requires a permit for almost any form of public expression.
The lawsuit was filed against Brigham City on Tuesday on behalf of the Main Street Church, a non-denominational faith barred under the municipal statute from distributing pamphlets on some sidewalks near a new Mormon temple in town.
Brigham City, a predominantly Mormon town of about 18,000 people, is about 60 miles north of Salt Lake City, the state capital.
The ordinance in question requires any individual or group wishing to stage a demonstration, hand out literature or engage in other forms of public expression to seek a municipal permit establishing an approved "free-speech" zone for that activity.
The permit, if granted, can include limits on the time, place and number of participants. Violations are punishable by civil fines of up to $750 or a misdemeanor criminal prosecution that carries a penalty of up to 90 days in jail.
"The overbreadth of Brigham City's 'Free Speech Zone' Ordinance is breathtaking," John Mejia, legal director of the ACLU of Utah, said in a written statement.
"Under this ordinance, you would arguably have to apply for a permit to engage in nearly any speech in the city," he said. "The ordinance could be used to silence anyone, from two friends debating politics on the sidewalk to a missionary handing out fliers."
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, asks a federal judge to declare the ordinance unconstitutional and seeks an injunction barring its enforcement.
Attorney Heather White, who represents Brigham City and its officers, declined to comment on Wednesday, saying she had only just begun to read the lawsuit's allegations.
The city said in a statement later in the day that the measure was not intended for "restricting freedom of speech, but for public and protester safety" and was based on other state and local laws believed to have been upheld by the courts.
The ordnance turns all of Brigham City "into a place where free speech, free assembly and free exercise of religion are prohibited until people are granted a special permit designating free speech zones where they are allowed to engage in those activities," the lawsuit alleges.
On August 18, Main Street Church Pastor Jim Catlin sought a permit to publicly distribute religious-themed literature on the sidewalks surrounding a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple during a month-long open house for the new building, according to the lawsuit.
Brigham City officials issued a permit limiting access for Catlin's group between August 21 and September 15 to three areas on lesser-trafficked sidewalks and capped the number of permitted pamphleteers at four, the lawsuit said.
A second application seeking unlimited access to city streets for literature distribution was denied outright by city officials, who cited general security and traffic concerns.
In a written explanation of the city's decision included as an exhibit in the court filing, the city said its initial permit had provided the church with "ample opportunity to communicate with your targeted audience and provides protection to protesters, vehicular traffic and pedestrians."
The letter also states that the city "supports and upholds the First Amendment's guarantee of the right of free expression as a fundamental element of our democratic system of government, and encourages the expression of such speech and discourse."
Reporting by Jennifer Dobner; Editing by Steve Gorman, Cynthia Johnston and Todd Eastham


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And to this from Lit Up:
"Once in a while you'll find the Sony SFR-M37V at Wal-Mart (Around 28-30ish), but for the most part it's usually bookshelf stereos and alarm clocks. Never seen the '59' model there."
I have the M37 and it is a pretty sweet little radio. The only downer is the headphones. They sound fine, but tend to fall off my head when doing stuff around the house. Gonna pick up a set of Portapros or Sennheiser PX100.
Interestingly, I tried a few other cheapy headphones I had around the house (Jenson, Coby), and the FM reception suffered terribly. The cord acts as an antenna, so I guess the Sonys are designed to work well in this regard.
I also have two other radios: The Sony ICF S10 (pretty nice for $10, but only has mono earphone out) and the Sony ICF-36 (a darn fine radio for <25).
Those Sangeans look great, as do the Grundigs...but I don't need to spend any more $$$!!!


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Harry Garst
posted on Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 4:42 am
Dear Linda and Bengt,
I'm preparing an article using growth curves. I did include the measurement model and I already demonstrated measurement invariance.
I interpret the variances of the random intercepts as individual differences at T1, the variances of the slopes as developmental variance and the residual variance as state variance. Using the difference chi-square test I can demonstrate that a linear growth curve model fits significantly better than a random intercept model. Now I want to demonstrate the relevance of this finding by providing an estimate of the effect size of developmental changes. How much do people systematically (and linearly) change over time, compared with how much people already varied at the beginning of the period? Do people change very much over time or are these changes relatively minor in comparison to the between variation?
It's is no problem to decompose the variance in a random intercept model. This will be the ICC and I guess it is the same as Cronbach's alpha. However, in the linear growth curve model the intercept factor typically covaries with the slope factor. This implies that in the calculation of the total variance for all the waves there appears a covariance term. I can calculate the part attributable to state variance by taken the ratio of the sum of the residual variances and the total variance. I can calculate the part attributable to individual differences at T1 by dividing the variance of the intercept factor by the total variance. Finally, I can estimate the part attributable to individual linear changes by dividing the variance of the slope factor by the total variance. However, this procedure must be wrong, because the parts don't add up to the total variance, due to the existence of the covariance term.
How can I decompose the variances of two factors in case these factors covary? Is there a way to show the readers how much linear change (developmental) there is relative to total variances of the latent factors aggregated over time? Is there any literature about this subject?
Thank you very much in advance.
Harry Garst
posted on Sunday, June 02, 2002 - 12:20 pm
As you indicate, there is no simple decomposition of the variance due to the growth factors when the growth factors covary. Off hand, I don't remember having seen this addressed in the literature. You can try to define the growth factors to be uncorrelated by changing the centering. The writings by David Rogosa, e.g. his Myths article, would seem to be relevant.
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Famine in Imperial and Modern China
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Famines have played an important role in China's history. Because the Confucian classics interpreted natural disasters as warnings from Heaven, in ancient and imperial China feeding the people in times of crisis was viewed as an essential part of retaining the mandate to rule. Formative famine-relief measures were codified in China's first imperial dynasty, the Qin (221–206
After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912, famines continued to be a test of state legitimacy. But Chinese modernizers largely rejected Confucian interpretations of famine in favor of the claim that modern science and technology would provide the best defense against disasters. By the 1940s, both the Chinese Nationalists and their Communist rivals called on people to sacrifice for the nation even during famine times. The Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949 promising that under Communist rule "not one person would starve to death," but within a decade it presided over the most lethal famine in Chinese and world history. The horrors of the Great Leap Famine of 1958–1962 forced Chinese Communist Party leaders to make changes that ultimately paved the way for the rural reforms of the 1980s.
Indonesia's Colonial Sugar Industry
Roger Knight
Colonial Indonesia's sugar industry, developed under Dutch and Sino-Indonesian auspices over a period of almost three centuries, beginning c. 1650, evolved into one which exhibited a unique configuration in which an industrialized sugar complex became embedded within much larger "peasant" economy of the farming of rice and "second" crops. It was on this agrarian and largely self-financed basis that Indonesia's colonial sugar industry, located exclusively in the island of Java, became one of the leading sectors of the international sugar economy of the late colonial era, eventually even rivaling Cuba—the nonpareil of such producers—as an exporter to world markets. During the interwar Depression of the 1930s and subsequent decade of war and revolution, it lost much (and eventually all) of its international standing—yet managed to survive into Indonesia's postcolonial era, albeit in an attenuated form. There were four main phases to the industry's colonial-era history. The first, foundational phase, which saw the establishment of modern industrialized manufacture extended from the 1830s through to the 1880s. The second phase, from the 1880s to 1930, was the period of sugar's peak expansion. The third phase, beginning in 1931 and ending in 1942, was one of retrenchment and (partial) recovery prior to the spread of the Second World War into Southeast Asia. The fourth phase, 1945–1958, was one of postwar reconstruction.


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Roll20 -- Virtual tabletop gaming that tells a story
(Watch the trailer video in HD on our site: http://roll20.net, and follow us on Twitter @Roll20app for more frequent updates.)
Final Update
Thanks to everyone in the RPG community for your support! This has been a truly amazing experience for the entire Roll20 team, and we'll do our best to live up to the high expectations you've set for us and for this project. If you're finding this Kickstarter after it's over, you can always find the latest information on Roll20 at our website: http://roll20.net/
Less than 24 hours to go and 700% funded! The incredible outpouring of enthusiasm and support for this project has been overwhelming. Our thanks to everyone out there pledging and spreading the word for making this possible.
As exciting as it is to reach our original goal, it's still important to keep pledging. Every dollar that we raise goes to fund development. $5,000 is the bare minimum required to get this project done. If we raise more, we get to make Roll20 even better. Here are a few of the other things that we'd love to do if we have more time and resources:
- Add support for more dice systems, like FATE and Shadowrun, as well as more unique mechanics that some RPGs require like card decks. (In progress! Check out Update #4)
- Support for hex grids (In progress!)
- Give everyone more upload space at launch.
- Add additional storytelling-focused features, like special effects the DM can trigger.
- Finish sooner than we estimated!
In addition, pledging at the Hero level or above is the only way to ensure that your group will get to start playing in the closed beta, rather than waiting until we launch in a few months. It's also the best way to be able to provide feedback to help us make Roll20 the virtual tabletop you want to use.
So even though we've crossed the finish line, please keep pledging! Every dollar makes Roll20 better.
And to those of you who have already backed us, we are eternally grateful for your support, and we can't wait to let you start using Roll20!
Roll20 brings pen and paper role playing games online the right way, by focusing on storytelling and camaraderie rather than gameplay mechanics.
While looking through the current virtual tabletop offerings, we were struck with a realization: we don't want to turn our pen and paper gaming into a video game. Unfortunately, that's what all of the current alternatives offer, with features centered around scripting, automatic damage calculation, and detailed stats tracking. This focus requires that the game master spend far too much time preparing the adventure, and it removes all of the magic from the GM and instead tries to put it in the hands of a computer.
Roll20 takes a different approach. It aims to be lightweight and nimble, so that you can get up and running with your game as quickly as possible. There's nothing to download, install, or configure, for you or your players, so you don't need to be a computer guru just to get it working. It features powerful tools to help bring your gaming group together, including video chat, a graphical tabletop, text chat that persists between sessions, and a journal feature to let you share character information and handouts with specific players. It's also designed to allow the GM to improvise on the fly during your sessions, making it easy to quickly sketch out an encounter and add tokens. Finally, it's system agnostic, so it can work well with any RPG system, including indie RPGs.
Roll20 is about bringing what's great about in-person tabletop gaming -- the people -- and translating that experience online as faithfully as possible, without trying to do too much. We are asking for your help, both financially and through feedback, to enable us to make this vision a reality.
Demo Video
We've already begun working on creating Roll20 in our spare time, but we could use your help to make it available for all. Here's a quick overview of the current prototype of Roll20, showing off some of the features described below (best viewed in fullscreen 720p HD):
Update! A new video showing off some additional interface features including card decks and new dice rolls:
Quick Overview
What is ROLL20?
Roll20 is an online tabletop gaming platform with a focus on storytelling as opposed to game mechanics. This is NOT a video game, but instead a virtual "table" to gather around with friends in order to play any number of role playing games.
Why is it special?
Roll20 is social; you see your friends, you see the gaming table. The intent is to be as customizable and easy to use as any game you might otherwise play with friends gathered in your living room -- even though your party may be gathering from across the globe.
Why does this need funding?
So far Roll20 has been a side project for the involved creators -- created to fill a gap we saw in other similar programs when we tried to play tabletop games with each other online. As the platform developed, we've noticed that we're not alone in our desire for a better tabletop interface. While the program is CLOSE right now, we would like to be able to dedicate more time to eliminating bugs and expanding the system. This means dedicating more time and effort, which as professional freelancers comes at a cost. Your support will help us to speed up this process by focusing our efforts on Roll20.
Why should I pledge?
Because you love tabletop gaming. You enjoy the creativity and camaraderie displayed in these types of worlds, and want to provide yourself and others with a system to keep the spirit of this alive in our global / digital age. Specifically, we've tried to offer donation rewards that give you exclusive access to the final stages of assembling Roll20 -- ways to give input and feedback that will have a lasting impact on the program.
What will it cost?
Our hope is that Roll20 will be completely free (as in beer) to use for both players and GMs at launch. We want every RPG fan in the world to be able to use this new system. To pull that off, we need to raise enough money through Kickstarter to develop and host the site for a good long time. There will be limits on the amount of upload space you can use for art you upload from your computer (since that can be expensive for us); pledging at the Mentor level or above will grant you a considerably increased allocation.
We will continue to support the cost of running the site through a 3rd party marketplace of premium content (such as art packs, pre-made campaigns, etc.).
What's next for Roll20?
In addition to beta testing, we are trying to figure out the best way to implement a marketplace where people can share maps, and campaigns with each other.
Planned Features
Incredibly Easy to Use
You can create your first campaign as a GM in a matter of minutes, by utilizing helpful tools like the art library and built-in tile sets. Everything is drag-and-drop simple. And when you're ready to invite players to your game, you just send them a link. Since it runs in your browser, Roll20 will work on any platform that supports Firefox or Chrome, including Windows, Mac, and Linux. You'll be amazed at how quickly you can be up and running.
Video and Voice Chat
The core of playing tabletop games is the experience you share with the other players at the table. Don't settle for just hearing their voice! The built-in video chat feature lets you feel like you're all playing in the same room, even if you're hundreds of miles apart. And again, there's no difficult setup or configuration required.
The Largest Art Library Around
Virtual tabletops need great art. It's what helps immerse your players in the game. But, finding all the art you need can be a huge hassle. Roll20 features a wide array of built-in tokens and map tiles from great artists, making finding the art you need a breeze. And if it's not already there, you can quickly find it with the built-in web search. It seamlessly searches through thousands of assets to help you find just the right token or map tile. Then, just drag and drop.
The ease of use and breadth of scope make creating adventures a quick and painless process like never before.
Jukebox to play background music
A key component missing from many roleplaying sessions is sound. It's difficult to find a good place to get music, and even harder to make sure that everyone can hear it. Roll20 has integrated the entire library of SoundCloud music to give you quick access to tens of thousands of background music tracks. Adding them to your campaign is as easy as typing a keyword and clicking a button, seamlessly broadcasting to all of your players as well.
Control volume levels and play multiple tracks at once to create an immersive soundscape with ease.
Text chat & dice rolls
Of course, what online system would be complete without a text chat system? Speak out-of- or in-character, send whispers to communicate with other players or the GM in private, and use emotes to add additional depth to your characters. And rolling dice is as easy as typing a formula. There's also a powerful macros system to let you store frequently used rolls or emotes so you can cut down on your typing time.
And best of all, the text chat log is fully persistent between play sessions, so you can review anytime to find out exactly who said and rolled what.
Stay on the same page with Journal
The Journal lets you keep track of information on important characters and store notes like handouts and maps. You can also choose to share or withold entries from each individual player. It's the perfect way to keep track of information about your NPCs and make sure all of your players are on the same page.
Have a secret note that you need to slip to a specific character from forces unknown? Two clicks and you're done.
...and more!
Fog of war to hide and reveal areas of the map, a turn tracker to aid in encounters, drawing tools including text and freehand, token health bars and auras, grid snapping, a measurement tool, and a GM info layer to let you keep track of traps without tipping your hand. And even more in the future!
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The Buena Vista football team couldn't overcome four first-half turnovers, as #23 UW-Platteville built an early 28-0 and went on to top the Beavers in their season-opener on Saturday afternoon, 56-13.
The Pioneers struck first after recovering an onside-kick attempt by BVU on the game's opening kick-off. Four plays later, Pioneer quarterback Nick Anderson found Russell Martin for the first of his four touchdown strikes on the day.
BVU then fumbled on the first play of its ensuing possession which led to a UW-P two-yard touchdown run.
Following a Beaver punt, Anderson then added a rushing touchdown before adding his second through the air following BVU's third turnover of the game, and the Pioneers held onto a 28-0 advantage after just one quarter.
UW-P added three more scores in the second quarter to take a 49-0 halftime lead.
The Beavers got on the board early in the third quarter after a low snap on a punt attempt deep in UW-P forced the Pioneer punter to go low to scoop it up, but his need had touched the ground, giving BVU the ball on downs at the Pioneer eight yard-line.
Senior John Hill (Webster City, Iowa/Webster City) then scampered into the end-zone on the very next play and Bryce Bintner's (Indianola, Iowa/Indianola) PAT made it 49-7.
The defenses then combined for four punts and one turnover on downs throughout the remainder of the quarter before sophomore Dylan Barrett (Harlan, Iowa/Harlan) found an opening on the left side and tight-roped the side line to go 57 yards for the score.
The Pioneers added a late touchdown in the frame for the game's final score.
Anderson finished 15-of-17 through the air for 193 yards and the four scores for UW-P, while four different receivers tallied at least 40 yards receiving.
Sophomore Bobby Brown (Storm Lake, Iowa/Storm Lake) completed 12-of-30 attempts for 107 yards.
Barrett posted a game-high 61 yards rushing on just five carries, while Adam Cave (Harlan, Iowa/Harlan) caught four passes for 42 yards.
Defensively, Yoel Wonsey registered seven stops for the Pioneers, while Nick Plueger (Le Mars, Iowa/Le Mars) was in on 10 tackles, including one for a loss, for the Beavers.
Buena Vista (0-1) will begin a three-game road trip beginning next Saturday when the team travels to Concordia College-Moorhead for a 1:00pm kick-off.


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A message to the CITES Secretariat: The World is watching you and how you handle our endangered species. The tide is turning against trade of the iconic animals of the world including elephant; rhino and lion. No more one-off sales in Ivory. No to rhino horn trade. No canned trophy hunting of lions. The burden of responsibility is yours!"
Ingrid Ser
This petition closed over 5 years ago
It will bring awareness to the problem and hopefully encourage the CITES Secretariat to tighten control of trade in these species.


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California Dreaming
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California," John Steinbeck once said. This summer at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, your knowledge will be put to the test in California Dreaming, a conference wide scavenger hunt.
California has always been steeped in myths, from the verdant valleys of Steinbeck to the sun-soaked beaches of the Beach Boys to the rain-drenched noir of Chandler. Each artist has created their own unique dream of the Golden State. Can you separate the fiction from the reality and discover the real California? As attendees explore the conference they will encounter cryptic quotes and brain-teasing puzzles taken from books, movies and music about California.
A little friendly competition quickens the pulse. With so many information professionals on the case the competition will be quick and stiff. See how your problem-solving and information-gathering skills match up against your peers.
- Play alone or work in teams to solve the puzzles and sort the dreams from the reality.
- Turn in answers at the game headquarters and score points for yourself and your team.
- Use your points to help your team capture famous areas of California from the Salinas Valley to Haight-Ashbury.
- Keep an eye out as you attend sessions and visit the exhibit floor for new puzzles and questions.
- Identify team members to work and share information with by team badges.
- Learn the history of California and have fun doing it.
Are you California Dreaming?
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Win Prizes Playing the Big Game at Annual We're always looking for new ways to help attendees connect with friends, friendsters, colleagues, and future friends at our conferences, and this year we're experimenting with a new concept that we hope will also expose librarians to the concept of "big games."
What's a "big game?"
We're all familiar with games - usually we play boardgames on tables, and more people than ever are playing videogames on screens. Both can be very social experiences, depending on the game and the players, but "big games" force you to interact with your surroundings and usually with other people. These are games that take place out in the physical world, and the everyday objects we take for granted are the playing pieces.
They use city blocks as grids for the playing field, and the game is usually a variant of capture the flag, tag, a scavenger hunt, or hide and seek. They often involve using cell phones to send or receive information, but not always. Some examples of big games include:
You can learn more about big games here, and especially why they may be a good fit for some libraries, by listening to Greg Trefry's talk at the 2007 ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium. In his slides, he notes that libraries are ideal venues for this type of activity because we have things like tools (photocopiers, computers), secret codes (think Dewey Decimal System), a building for the game's headquarters (sometimes multiple buildings if there are branches), and referees (librarians).
What does this have to do with Annual Conference?
Just as some libraries may want to use big games to interact more with their communities, ALA is experimenting with using a big game to help conference attendees interact more with us and with each other during our biggest deal of the year - Annual Conference. We'll be in California next month, and there's so much history around the state's books, authors, and popular culture that it seemed like a natural fit to try a big game around that theme.
The style will be an information scavenger hunt, and the game is called California Dreaming. It's being designed by Come Out & Play Productions, a company that specializes in these types of events. Anyone attending Annual can play for free, and though you could play on your own, you probably want to sign up for a team because the clues will be spread out across the entire convention center campus. Plus, the game will be played over two days (Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29), and you can't be everywhere at once. You'll find clues in conference materials, in sessions, on the exhibit floor, and elsewhere. You'll be looking for questions about the history of California pop culture, and you can bring your answers to the Game HQ in the new Gaming Pavilion on the exhibit floor or you can text them to us.
Watch for more information here soon!
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Turner's TBS Just Wild About Exclusive Broadcast Of MLB's New Playoff Games
By Barry Janoff
May 17, 2012: Major League Baseball and Turner Broadcasting System said today that TBS would be the exclusive broadcast home of the new American League and National League wild card games in 2012 and 2013.
The new single-game elimination is the first change MLB has made to its post-season since initiating the six-division, eight-team playoff structure in 1995.
Beginning this season, MLB's playoff format will start with two wild card teams — which would be non-division winners with the two best records — in the AL and two in the NL playing a single-elimination game. Each winner then advances to compete with the three respective division champions in the Division Series.
MLB also said that two Division Series games in each of the 2012 and 2013 playoffs would move from TBS to MLB Network.
TBS will also continue to televise any needed regular season tie-breaker games. TBS and Fox rotate exclusive coverage of league championship series, with TBS this season broadcasting the ALCS.
"We are delighted that Turner has extended its partnership with Major League Baseball," Tim Brosnan, evp-business for MLB, said during a media conference call regarding baseball's 35-year alliance with the media company. "They have been nothing but brilliant in this partnership, especially in the last round of television [contracts], where they have been a post-season partner. I can't tell you how pleased we are, how pleased ownership is and the commissioner is that Turner has decided to expand the partnership."
"I can't tell you how pleased we are, how pleased ownership is and the commissioner is that Turner has decided to expand the partnership."
In addition to the MLB post-season, TBS televises a 26-game Sunday MLB on TBS regular season schedule and is the exclusive home of the 2012 MLB All-Star Selection Show airing July 1.
According to David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner, "This is an exciting time for baseball, the fans, our advertisers and Turner. We believe the additional single-elimination wild card spots will build upon the popularity of the sport and will serve as a great launching pad for our Division Series and ALCS coverage on TBS."
Added Brosnan, "We are expecting nothing less than more great baseball broadcasting."


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Today HP officially opened its own cloud. HP is very late to the cloud game, years behind the likes of Amazon, Rackspace, IBM, Verizon, AT&T and others.
So how is HP going to make people want to use its cloud above all others? We caught up with Biri Singh, SVP and GM for HP Cloud Services and asked.
Here's the upshot:
- HP is going to try and become a premium brand, not competing with AWS on price and calling itself a business-class alternative.
- HP believes that startups -- particularly those that sell services to enterprises -- will want to move off Amazon as they grow but won't want to build their own data centers. Singh name dropped Zynga and Workday as two examples.
- HP is banking on a method of building its cloud called OpenStack. As more OpenStack clouds come online, businesses can easily move their applications between these cloud providers so they won't be stuck with HP if they want to move. So HP will be calling itself more "open" than AWS. HP isn't the only cloud claiming to be open: Citrix and VMware are building a network of clouds that do the same.
- Singh admits HP is late to the public cloud game. But he says that HP has a lot of experience in helping enterprises use the same technologies that public clouds use (called private clouds). He also says that HP will help companies run both private and public clouds in a so-called "hybrid" model.
Cloud is a very important area for HP. Companies want to buy less servers and networking equipment and rent what they need from the cloud. Even though most startups today are already using the cloud (and Amazon's cloud at that), most big companies are only getting started. 80% of big companies have less than half of their applications on the cloud, according to a survey released this week by Cisco. [PDF]
Here is an edited transcript of the conversation.
Why are you calling your cloud's next step a "public beta"?
Singh: On May 10 we go to public beta. We're still in beta but we're going to be charging for the service. We're going to keep the service "in beta" until we see how it scales. Although HP runs a lot of services at scale, running a distributed compute and storage effort is non-trivial and we just want to be smart about it.
When will this service not be a "beta" service anymore?
Singh: We'll go into general availability when we're ready.
HP's pretty far behind when it comes to all things cloud. What's your plans to catch up and compete?
Singh: HP has actually been in the cloud business for several years. We sell massive amounts of gear to hyper-scale and Web 2.0 companies. We have been in the private cloud business for about three years selling a private cloud called CloudSystem, which is essentially selling enterprises a 'cloud in a box' if you will. That's billions of dollars of business for us.
As to your point about us being 'late' yeah, we're getting to public cloud today and a few players like Rackspace and Amazon have been in this space for roughly 5-6 years. I have tremendous respect for them and they have pioneered this space which is fantastic, but being late is also relative. You have to look at the rest of the market and collectively Amazon's revenue and Rackspace's revenue is still an interesting indicator of where the maturity of the space is.
And I would argue that standing up virtual machines (VM's) and storage is kind of done. It was so sort of 2010. The world is actually looking for a bunch of different cloud services on top of basic infrastructure. That's where our attention and focus has been. Things like database as a service, analytics as a service, and an [application] marketplace.
All the startups I talk to these days are using Amazon and planning on growing there for years. So who will your customers be?
Singh: Remember the Silicon Valley phenomena in 2008 when the markets fell apart and the partners at Sequoia Capital said they'll never fund a startup that's looking for CAPEX? They said go to Amazon and build your stuff there. Hooray for Amazon but if you talk to the startups that have matured since 2008, especially the ones trying to sell to enterprise or service providers on a global footprint, a lot of them are actually not closing business because their enterprise customers turn around and tell them, "When are you going to host your services on something other than AWS because I don't trust you just running singularly on AWS?"
That's not a knock on AWS. But serious customers are like, 'Look, if I'm going to bet on you as a startup I better know that you're going to be around. I better know that you're running my applications on secure clouds.' You can look at Zynga as a fantastic example of figuring out it can control its own destiny. So Zynga came to us. They said 'We're not going to bet our eggs and our chickens on AWS. We're going to build our own cloud but we're also going to ask people like HP and others that the minute you can flex large nodes at scale we'll actually use your service.'
We've had Workday's Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield (their company is no longer a startup), come to us and say listen, 'I have no interest in hosting my own. If you guys can provide for me an elastic cloud with multi-tenancy and you can give me security and an SLA, and the HP brand on a global basis, I'll run my workloads on your cloud. I'm not going to do it on AWS.'
A lot of startups are going to continue with AWS and other options. But, as you'll see when we come out of public beta, we're hosting a bunch of 'startups' ourselves.
Having said that, I sort of agree with your point of view. We're not necessarily the first place a startup is going to look for in getting going. But I can assure you we've also got the type global footprint and an SLA and a business-grade point of view that understands the enterprise. That's what we're betting on.
Are you guys going to be competing on cost or are you going to be a premium cloud?
Singh: We're not going to compete on price. We're happy to have AWS lead the way there if that's what they want to do.
You use OpenStack. Will companies be able to move from HP to other clouds?
The HP architecture is exactly against lock in. If you look at our partners and you look at this architecture in OpenStack and our API's and how we're approaching the market, we're all about everything against lock-in right? There are other vendors and you basically have to commit to them and then ultimately, it becomes very expensive. So the HP cloud is absolutely the reverse.
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Savusavu has a range of home-stay and backpacker accommodation – great for anyone travelling on a budget. Many resorts outside Savusavu are set on spectacular beaches with access to the region's famed dive spots. From beach cottages to dive resorts and luxury retreats, accommodation on Vanua Levu covers all the bases.All accommodation in Vanua Levu
On Vanua Levu, cross an item off your bucket list by getting up close with a pod of local dolphins. In Natewa Bay, both Spinner and Bottle-Nose dolphins are common sights. Even if the dolphins don't make an appearance, fantastic diving and snorkelling will make the trip worthwhile.
If you're keen to stay on dry land, you can meet the locals at Vuadomo Village, discover hidden waterfalls and tropical flora in the rainforest, or explore the bustling Savusavu Farmers' Market.
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There is a daily flight to Savusavu from Nadi, while flights depart from Suva every Tuesday and Thursday. You can also fly into Labasa airport from Nadi or Suva and take a scenic bus or taxi ride to Savusavu.
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AVARNTI necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
AVARNTI is an established specialist in home automation and a highly visible leader in Australia.
Our market is evolving RAPIDLY. Moving from smart wiring, security and background music to now encompassing all aspects of how we live in our homes from health, power generation, communication, climate, environment, music, lighting etc....
We love this image - just because of the colour and the way the 'speakers evolve' into an organism...
We're investing in home health technologies, self powered technologies for sustainable homes, smart grid and metering, plus the fun of all the theatre and gadgets that our clients love!
We'd love to continue to hire the winner for ONGOING ARTWORK.
People who love technology & lifestyle! Our clients have both, and the desire to have the newest and latest in all area of the home.
How our clients use our services is changing dramatically with globalisation and smaller & portable technologies. i.e. a biometric finger scanner/touchscreen may be used to access the house, disarm security, turn on lights and air-con etc... OR NOW the iPhone/Nokia/Apple Tablet! Simple, quick and fits in the palm of your hand.
Our challenge make this interface intuitive for the home owner.
*AVARNTI logo to work with existing AVARNTI logotype face, that we can increasingly replace the logotype with on the smaller interfaces.
** A series of coloured icons; simple buttons/icons that are easily and globally recognised on touchscreens/phones to access services. Each representing the following:
RED: Security (image of a lock, NOT a key)
ORANGE: CEDIA logo (see http://www.cedia.com.au, just as is)
YELLOW: Structured Cabling
LIME: Eco Management (environment, climate)
DARK GREEN: Multi-Room Entertainment (Audio Visual)
LIGHT BLUE: Ducted Vacuum/Accessories
BLUE: Home Healthcare
PURPLE: Future Technologies
PINK: Building Automation (Home Automation)
look at old http://www.avarnti.com
We don't want that! It was a great place to build a brand, but it's not the new AVARNTI!
***A banner that uses the logo, logotype, new tag & icons for display on print media, e-news, top of website. We're dropping the old tag:
" > designing and integrating smarter lifestyles" for the new:
design . create . evolve
Increasing focus is given to how to provide tech services in an environmentally conscious and sustainable way.
We've built the integrity of our brand; therefore using the existing logotype for AVARNTI (as seen in our old website 'splashpage') but now all in chocolate (dropping the more conservative camel/beige colours) we need to give an entirely FRESH and new look in keeping with the evolution of our market.
The new colours tie into our autoCad icons for building design. Prefer full colour with white simple graphic in each, rounded squares. May use with flash in future.
Our new test site http://www.testsspace.squarespace.com
is just us playing with the elements of a fresher look for communicating with our clients in Australia and overseas.
WILL NEED FURTHER ICONS FOR SERVICE LINES AND TOUCHSCREENS, FUTURE ARTWORK (i.e. welcome, away, home....)
The files we will require are:
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(This question was posted on MSE here but didn't get any answers.)
The strict topology on the multiplier algebra M(A) of a C*-algebra A is that generated by the seminorms
$$ x\mapsto \|ax\|\quad x\mapsto \|xa\| \qquad (a\in A, x\in M(A)) $$
Whereas a ∗-homomorphism $\phi : M(A)\to M(B)$ between two multiplier algebras is necessarily norm-continuous, if I understand things correctly it will not always be continuous with respect to the strict topologies on either side. Where is there a good reference for this?
On the other hand an easily-proven theorem states that $\phi$ is strictly continuous if the image of $\phi$ contains B. This is not necessary, however; take $\phi : \mathcal{B}(\ell^2)\to\mathcal{B}(\ell^2)$ to be the map $x\mapsto sxs^*$ where $s$ is the unilateral shift. This is strictly continuous even though its image doesn't contain $\mathcal{K}(\ell^2)$. Are there other conditions which guarantee $\phi$ to be strictly continuous?
I'm particularly interested in the case where $\phi$ maps A into B, and both are nonunital. Is this enough to show that $\phi$ is strictly continuous?


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The Pentagon has created a new medal for drone pilots and cyber warfare specialists that will rank higher in the order of precedence for military decorations than the Bronze Star with Combat "V," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday.
Called the Distinguished Warfare Medal, the new medal "recognizes the changing character of warfare" in the post-9/11 era in which servicemembers sitting at consoles in the U.S. can directly impact the outcome of engagements with an enemy overseas, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a statement.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said as the CIA director and then the Pentagon chief, he had "seen first-hand how modern tools like remotely-piloted platforms and cyber systems have changed the way wars can be fought, changed the course of battle even from afar."
But there had been no way previously to honor the efforts of the technicians with a military decoration.
"For that reason, I formally approved establishing the Distinguished Warfare Medal," Panetta said.
Unlike awards for courage in the face of the enemy, the medal will be given for actions "that do not involve valor or physical risks that combat entails," Panetta said of the new medal that will rank directly below the Distinguished Flying Cross.
In explaining the decision to create the medal, Defense Department officials said in a statement that "modern technology enables service members with special training and capabilities to more directly and precisely impact military operations at times far from the battlefield."
"The Distinguished Warfare Medal will be awarded in the name of the secretary of defense to servicemembers whose extraordinary achievements, regardless of their distance to the traditional combat theater, deserve distinct department-wide recognition," the statement read.
A Pentagon memorandum makes sure to emphasize that the medal "may not be awarded for valor in combat under any circumstances."
The [Distinguished Warfare Medal] provides an avenue to recognize appropriately extraordinary direct impacts on combat operations warranting recognition above the Bronze Star Medal," the Pentagon memo reads.
The medal is only to be awarded to those serving after Sept. 11, 2001.


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"Peneira collection" is a new collection of baskets designed by the Campana brothers. A hallmark throughout the Brazilian duo's work, these products are made of simple, basic materials that attain their level of sophistication by skilfully and cleverly combining them. <
Humberto Campana, lawyer and Fernando Campana, architect, have been working together in San Paolo since 1983 in the field of artistic design. They came into the limelight in 1989 with the furniture exhibition provocatively entitled "Gli inconfortabili" (The Inconsolable), a political manifesto rather than functional objects. Their radical point of view is strengthened by the use of poor materials and industrial rubbish. Hand-made products represent the possibility of social redemption in a poor country. Their intention is, however, to find a way for Brazilian design, avoiding European colonisation. In Italy, they participated in the "Viaggio in Italia" exhibition at Abitare il Tempo in Verona in 1994 and in 1995 at the exhibition organised at the Brazilian Consulate in Milan "Il Brasile fa anche design". In 1997 they designed lights for O Luce. Some of their pieces appear in the International Design Year Book of 1997, edited by Philippe Starck. In 1998 the Moma in New York dedicated the "Progetto 66" exhibition to them, coupled with Ingo Maurer.


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"Six years ago, my sister went to South Africa and invited me to join her on safari, but I said no. She brought back a wooden giraffe, along with amazing stories and photos, and I've regretted my decision ever since. Now I'm finally getting to go!" —Anne O'Brien, Woodside, N.Y.
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The GoDaddy commercial that just aired during the Super Bowl was extremely effective advertising.
It did a great job of showing off their products and services in a compelling way. It did not leave anyone wondering what GoDaddy even is.
It was not degrading to women, just like the last dozen or so GoDaddy Super Bowl ads, which were incredibly classy and stressed that women should be respected, treated as equals, and not objectified.
It was not gross. I was not compelled to throw acid in my own eyes to prevent myself from seeing it again.
It will not add to the increasing criticism of Danica Patrick, that she's less of a professional race car driver and more of a spokesmodel.
It was not terrible. Not at all. Just like there was no sarcasm in this post whatsoever.


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Read: Revelations
By Elaine Pagels (Viking Press, 2012)
Seven-headed dragons, locusts with human faces, and armies of monsters could all be elements in popular fantasy novels. Instead, they have a much older origin: the Book of Revelation. In Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation, Elaine Pagels explains how these battle scenes and beasts developed from John's vision into a book of the Bible.
Weeding through centuries of interpretation, Pagels argues that John likely had a specific message in mind when he penned Revelation in the late first century. Despite violent and disturbing images, John's writings gave Jesus' followers hope, ultimately foretelling the destruction of early Christianity's greatest enemy—the Roman empire. At the time of John's writing, the empire seemed indestructible, as it was not only persecuting Jesus' followers but dominating the entire world.
Surprisingly the end of Roman persecutions and the establishment of Christianity as the empire's official religion did not dim Revelation's appeal. The threat of Rome was gone, but Christianity remained in danger from internal disputes over what constituted orthodox Christian belief. When Athanasius of Alexandria added Revelation to the first canonical list of New Testament writings, he interpreted the book as a foretelling of battles between Christians who accepted the Nicene Creed and those who did not. Martin Luther famously complained that Revelation had "no Christ in it," but recognized its value in bolstering his arguments against the Catholic Church.
Thanks to Pagels, readers learn that interpreting Revelation dates to the earliest days of Christianity. John wrote a book to cheer a small community of believers. That two millennia later his images of terror would be used by activists, artists, religious leaders, and politicians to interpret their own times is an idea that likely would shock even John's capacious imagination.
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Find a Toronto Sun article on Liam McMorrow, the seven-foot Canadian center who has recently transferred to Marquette.
Instead, McMorrow, who had never even played an officiated, five-on-five basketball game a year ago, is packing his bags, preparing to leave his Scarborough home for Milwaukee, where he has landed a full basketball scholarship to Marquette University.
Most people are done growing by the time they are 18 or 19, but nobody told that to McMorrow. The 21-year-old McMorrow went from 6-foot-8 two years ago to his current size.
Now McMorrow, who only shot baskets the rare times he wasn't playing lacrosse, ice or ball hockey, has dreams of playing professionally and for team Canada.
McMorrow averaged 8.4 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks for the Durham College Lords in the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association. He'll sit out for a season and then have three years of eligibility left for the Golden Eagles.
McMorrow's size is welcomed on a Marquette program that can't be accused of being particularly tall. Besides the current 6'10" freshman Chris Otule, the tallest returning players in 2009 will be 6'7″ (Trevor Mbakwe, Patrick Hazel and Joseph Fulce).


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In her Commentary and her Critique of the Transition Initiative/Network, Lorna Salzman questions the role of government and Transition. Ms. Salzman asserts that the Transition approach omits government. As I will attempt to explain below, our approach is far from that.
Rather, the difference between our approaches is one of whether we believe that government is the answer. Do we trust that government will solve peak oil + climate change + economic contraction? Do we believe that government will prepare the citizenry in time? In a word: No.
Ms. Salzman, on the other hand, seems to trust quite solidly in our government's ability to handle these issues. Her belief in government -- and its power to create change -- goes so far that at two points in the past she personally ran for major public offices.
Within the Transition movement we assert that, at a minimum, preparing for the effects of peak oil + climate change + economic contraction will be a top-down-plus-bottom-up process. Taking that a step further, we aren't planning to sit around and wait for government to do it for us. We don't believe that they will take the lead in this matter (for a variety of reasons, some of which Ms. Salzman has already named). In fact, we operate with the understanding that in most cases, our government will likely be a latecomer to the action. It's up to concerned citizens to get the ball rolling.
The difference in our approaches -- the Transition approach versus Ms. Salzman's approach -- boils down to "Who is going to lead?" Who is going to get this process started? Who is going to light a fire under the behinds of the American public to start getting local communities ready to weather these changes? Who is going to get people physically and emotionally prepared, and increase their resilience so that they stand a hope of surviving the worst of what this combination crisis threatens to bring?
We in the Transition movement have stepped up to the plate.
The End of Suburbia moment
Perhaps this radical (root-level) difference in our approaches is because of what Rob Hopkins has called "the End of Suburbia moment." Transition movement leadership has, for the most part, hit that emotional wall already. We've each gone through it. Ms. Salzman clearly has not.
In her Commentary, Ms. Salzman asserts that "This emergency has two parts: the climate change emergency, and the emergency that is being imposed upon us by ... congress at the behest of the fossil fuel industry [i.e. political issues]." Throughout both her commentary and her Critique, Ms. Salzman continues to focus primarily on one single issue: climate change. She does fold in a few other assorted societal ills, such as the fate of the poor, and governmental and corporate excesses, and pollution. But she completely overlooks the elephant in the middle of the room: Peak Oil.
This March, Richard Heinberg pointed out that the U.S. Department of Energy has finally admitted that we're at peak. A diagram from the EIA (they provide statistics to the Department of Energy) has surfaced. For years, we've all been staring at ASPO diagrams -- the 2004 scenario, the 2005 base case -- the very real physical limitations, the fact that demand for and consumption of oil has completely outstripped new discoveries, and would soon outstrip supply. Each of these documents the oil age from about 1930 to 2050. The new EIA diagram is a detail of the very peak. Today.
When I saw it, my heart stopped. And then when my heart resumed beating, it didn't beat quite the same way for the next couple of days; I walked around in a daze. I had thought that I had already experienced my "End of Suburbia moment" -- that precise time before which realization my life felt one way, and after which realization nothing would ever be the same again. Seeing the EIA diagram was my second such moment.
It's really here folks. Peak oil is not just a future-possible-maybe idea. It's not some quack theory by a bunch of weirdoes making computer graphics. Peak oil is really happening. And since our government is finally 'fessing up to it (and we all know our government is unquestionably the laggard in this regard), then things are now really, really serious.
So, Ms. Salzman, when you talk about time being of the essence, believe me, we in the Transition movement are very much aware that we've got far less than "very short." We haven't even got until your next election. We can't wait for the slow, endlessly-debated pace of government. No way, no how.
"The time frame is ... very short"
Within the Transition movement, we know that our "crude awakening" is about much more than a few thousand barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf. We understand that it is far too late to expect to gear up solar and wind -- to have been effective, the time for planning and funding A Solar Grand Plan would have been 10 or 20 years ago, with construction and gear-up and implementation pretty much completed by now. We understand -- far better than you give us credit -- the mythology within the energy trading credits, which is precisely why you see so little commentary devoted to them in Transition materials. We understand -- far better than you do Ms. Salzman -- why nuclear power won't be our savior. The answer is peak oil. Nuclear is an oil-intensive process. Peak uranium aside, we simply won't have the cheap oil necessary to gear up nuclear to the capacity that would be needed. And all of the above are similar in one regard: they're desperate last-ditch attempts to continue, at least for a little bit longer, a level of First World consumption that is completely out of line with the bounds of the planet.
In short, within the Transition movement, we understand powerdown -- what, why, and how.
We understand that it is far too late to go through all the hoops and hurdles that are our governmental processes to create grand sweeping plans at the national level. Actually, we're not shying away from governmental processes. We ARE navigating those governmental hoops and hurdles -- we're doing it to install community gardens and get permits for city chickens to secure the food supply; to gain cistern approvals and to overturn greywater bans to secure water supplies; to gain approval for composting toilets so that we can maintain soil fertility. We're actively doing the gear-up and implementation of community-level survival.
And oh do we understand the importance of "confronting ... the overconsuming consumer society"! Rather than your rather detached intellectual understanding, we get this very deeply, because we are on the front lines. Daily, we're challenging our neighbors, challenging our peers. We're showing eye-opening movies to the general public and holding community discussions. We're holding reskilling classes to educate people in the new ways. We're challenging each other, in a race toward deeper satisfaction, more contentment, more connection, sufficiency, and a sense of Enough. And we're witnessing the lights coming on behind the dull eyes. We're seeing the Aha moments when people really "get it." We're seeing the changes start to happen.
Peak Everything
Peak oil changes the playing field. Radically. Ms. Salzman, when you worry about confronting "those forces that are responsible for ... the magnitude and imminence of the global ecological crisis," that is history, that is fault-finding after the fact. The Transition movement is worrying about the future: next week, next year, the next 3 years. It is setting in place the things we need to survive.
Ms. Salzman, you worry the "policies and funding decisions ... [that are being made] in congress, corporate boardrooms, Wall St. and the headquarters of institutions like the IMF and World Bank." Yet the End of Cheap Oil means that each of these organizations is on COMPLETELY different footing than a mere decade ago.
The rules of the old playing field said that globalized corporate powers had lots of clout. But today within those corporate board rooms, there is now a very subtle panic. They know the game is changing. You can see it in the mergers and the restructuring and the panics about financing. You can see it as they move premises to consolidate operations, leaving massive pieces of real estate with fading For Lease signs. And corporate employees feel it in increased tensions within the internal organizations. The corporate boardrooms know the game is changing, but most of them don't know why.
The why is "peak everything." I explained it in "How to get to 350ppm," but you seem to have missed that part in your reading. In addition to peak oil, peak arable land, and the coming peak natural gas, "peak everything" also refers to the intangibles of our society. We have now crossed peak government, peak corporation, and peak globalization. And each of these organizations is experiencing an initial post-peak panic.
Excuse me here – I've been accused of having "a resistance to hard intellectual work" (and don't throw that one at Transition movement founder Rob Hopkins who is working on his PhD). But in my own personal view, when our city of Los Angeles has staggering debts, our state of California has staggering debts, and our national government has staggering debts, I think that too changes the playing field. Radically. Peak oil people tend to look to Cuba as an example of what is to come with the End of Oil. We should also be looking to Greece as an example of what happens as we come to grips with the reality of our government's past spending habits. Peak government is certainly upon us.
Far from OMITTING considerations of government from our calculations, the Transition movement is much more realistic about the limits that government will be facing through peak oil + climate change + economic contraction. They can't do it for us. It really is up to us.
Looking for leadership
We know, from our own internal experience within the movement, that government is desperately looking for answers. In many cases, THEY are seeking US out. We don't need to pursue them. Here in my local Los Angeles, government agencies are asking us to come in and speak, particularly the ones in lower income neighborhoods. We're working WITH local governments as they turn to us to create citizen momentum so that they can create food gardens on public lands; they comprehend the need but require citizen demand in order to act. In the UK (who are a bit deeper into the Transition process than us U.S. latecomers), local governments have embraced the EDAPs.
In the UK, Members of Parliament have been invited to (and have attended) Transition Conferences. Not as keynote speakers, but as Keynote Listeners! A brilliant concept, fraught with that unique British humor, but something we have explored here in my local area and will continue to do so.
Government in our country is supposed to be democratic. Well, here in the Transition movement, we're working with the demos part of that equation.
"Immediate actions that need to be taken"
In both pieces, Ms. Salzman, you assert that the Transition movement hasn't told you what to do. I can't quite understand how you don't get that, unless it is that (1) we haven't told federal GOVERNMENT what to do, and (2) the list of immediate actions required doesn't fit neatly into a "10 things ya gotta do" list.
The answer to "What to do NOW" appears throughout all the Transition materials: Gather your community. Explain what is happening, tell it like it is. Start getting ready. Start building resilience. Do the physical stuff, like installing food gardens and water devices. Do the intangible stuff, like recouping much-needed hands-on skills and rebuilding a local economy. Do the inner work, like coping with emotions and disappointments and broken dreams. Reconnect spiritually. Reform society. Get ready. It's here.
No, it doesn't fit into a nice little to-do list to fly on a glossy blog. The general list looks – well, pretty "broad, general and abstract" -- just like you said. The detailed list is, in fact, fully customized for every single community. Here in Los Angeles we laugh that the UK folks never seem to include water on their lists; for us it's pretty much the top. I don't know how one would cope with the weather in Wisconsin; here in L.A. we worry how to maintain perpetual soil fertility through a year-round growing season. We need to cope with pest control (without petrochemicals) when all the East Coast-authored garden books presume you'll get a hard freeze to kill the bugs. We need to consider earthquake supplies; they don't do that in Kansas.
As for intentionally creating higher energy prices – which you cite as "the single most important first step that needs to be taken" – that isn't even on our to-do list (nor should it be on yours if you really care about the urban poor). In the interim, we'll USE those currently-low energy prices while we have them -- to further post-petroleum preparations, hauling the materials for cisterns or breaking up urbanite in the inner city.
"What NOT to do"? Don't wait for someone to do it for you. Don't wait for someone else to get things started in your hometown; get the ball rolling now, yourself. Don't dismiss it as a solo survivalist journey; we're all in this together, even people who don't look like you in skin color and culture of origin. And there's no point in resisting: You will have to change your petroleum-dependent lifestyle anyway, very dramatically and very soon, so you might as well jump on board with the leaders and get to participate in all the fun.
As I've said numerous places, including on this blog, climate change and the End of Cheap Oil will affect every aspect of human endeavor. For this I like to refer to David Holmgren's Permaculture Flower. Tools and technology are changing – that's an obvious one. But so must economics and finance; thus we're helping to empower one of Los Angeles' poorest Spanish-speaking neighborhoods by setting up a local economic system. Health and spiritual well-being must change; we're working with alternative healers toward sustainable, petroleum-free care, and working with interfaith networks to get powerdown ideas into faith communities. Culture and education must change; we're making an effort to bring powerdown ideas and post-petroleum education to all citizens, including low income and marginalized populations. Transition initiatives work with all these changes, networking local organizations which may already be active in the issues, and helping them see how they fit into the overall picture.
The lists of immediate actions are voluminous, and they are being created by each individual Transition Initiative. As for worrying about carbon taxes ... well, it's about priorities. Let's just say there are a few other things we're worrying about quite a bit more!
Ms. Salzman, what I see here is, you're trying to change government. All power to you, and I sure hope you succeed in your endeavor. It would be handy. Meanwhile, I'll go back to my trenches in my little corner of the world (and my fellow Transition leaders will go back to their trenches in their various little corners of the world). I'll pick up my shovel, and we'll get back to it. We have a society to transform, neighbors to prepare, and communities to rebuild.
p.s. My teenage son comments that in the photo above, the lady's shovel is much too clean.
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Is Your Boss an Innovation Killer?
By Rich Wellins
THE BOSS IS AN INNOVATION KILLER - NOT AN INNOVATION LEADER. New research from DDI paints a picture of leaders overconfident in their skills at promoting innovation; less than half of employees think their boss is open to unique ideas and opinions; 1 in 3 say their ideas will be killed by organizational bureaucracy.
Employees are pointing fingers at their leaders for squashing innovation, according to new research from Development Dimensions International (DDI). Unfortunately, leaders think they're doing much better than their employees do when it comes to leading innovation.
In "Creating the Conditions for Sustainable Innovation: The Leadership Imperative", DDI surveyed 513 leaders and 514 employees (with no direct reports) from organizations in a variety of sizes and industries to understand how leaders and employees view innovation in their organization. Among the major findings was a significant gap between how leaders see themselves - and how employees see them as nurturers of innovation. The findings of the study include:
Think differently.
Or not. Using a 20 item leadership innovation index, DDI measured how successful leaders are at promoting innovation in four major challenges (inspire curiosity, challenge current perspectives, create freedom and drive discipline) and found that there was a gap between leaders inflated of how they are doing and what employees were actually observing. The greatest gap between where leaders thought they were successful and where employees agreed was 29% in challenging current perspectives. The research also showed that leaders are lacking in behaviors including an openness to unique ideas and opinions (35% gap) championing the merits of employee-generated ideas to senior management (33%) and guiding employees to pursue ideas autonomously (32% gap). "Leaders were far more confident in their skills across the board - but employees really felt that there really wasn't room to challenge the status quo," Rich Wellins, Senior Vice President of DDI, said.
Is talk of innovation just lip service?
When asked where their organization was on an innovation continuum, 40% of employees said that innovation is a long shot for their company. However, leaders' perception is that it is an important priority and that everyone is being encouraged to be more innovative."This perception gap is dangerous because the organization's attitude toward innovation is a crucial factor, and if employees aren't seeing it, there probably is an alignment issue within the organization's strategy," Wellins said. When organizational commitment is rated high, both leaders and employees rate the leader behaviors as far higher, almost eliminating the gap in their views of how leaders are doing.
Big ideas, no action.
When asked what would generate more breakthrough ideas, leaders first choice was to urge employees to expand their understanding of business trends and emerging issues. While employees agreed, they also reported that they would have more breakthrough ideas if their leaders created abundant opportunities to take action on their big ideas.
Idea killers.
While half of employees feel their boss is supportive of making their ideas happen, almost 1 in 3 still feel their creative ideas will be killed by organizational bureaucracy.
When you ask leaders, 38% feel that the greatest barrier to innovation is their employees don't have enough information about the business to offer ideas of value. On the other hand, employees' top responses is that new ideas aren't welcome and the organization is stuck on how things get done (28%), tied with the perception that they believe their boss wants to be the person who generates all great ideas (28%). "Leaders need to be 'idea welcomers' not 'door shutters'," Wellins said. "A culture of innovation will support ideas coming from any individual, any level and sometimes from unusual places in the organization."
Throw stereotypes out the window. When we look at generational and gender labels, some of the common beliefs are that young leaders will take more risks, younger employees will have higher expectations of their leaders when it comes to innovation and that female leaders are more risk - averse than their male peers. However, none of these stereotypes played out in the results of the research.
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You should back up your system before installation; you can use Time Machine.
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Darien Lake Announces New Concert Parking Rules
Concert-goers attending shows at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center will soon be required to park in Darien Lake's free on-site lots, the venue announced today (Thursday, July 26) in a press release. The park's management organization is taking this step to ensure the safety of its guests.
"Pedestrian access to the Performing Arts Center will be restricted to passenger drop-off at a designated area near the main gate," the press release says. The change will take effect on August 17, affecting five shows before the end of the 2012 concert season, including Def Leppard and KISS/Motley Crue.
"We offer more than enough parking to accommodate park visitors, overnight guests, and a sell-out crowd at the Performing Arts Center," Darien Lake General Manager Bob Montgomery said in the press release. "In our work with Live Nation, the Genesee County Sheriff's Department, and New York State Police, we've determined that allowing pedestrian access to concerts increases risk to those walking along the roadway, increases traffic jams before and after concerts, and increases the incidence of excessive pre- and post-show alcohol consumption."
Earlier this summer, a concert-goer died after being struck by a minivan while walking to a non-affiliated parking lot.
The venue will build a fence along Sumner Road (County Road 21) to help enforce the new policy, according to the press release. When the change takes effect on August 17, all concert attendees will be require to enter by vehicle at Darien Lake's main entrance. The park will continue its free parking policy for concert-goers.
"Darien Lake was built to handle an influx and outflow of traffic," Montgomery said in the press release. "With less traffic coming onto side roads from offsite parking, we believe this new policy may ultimately result in smoother traffic flow."


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Guilty plea in killing of BPD Officer Bryan Hebert
After almost two years, the family of murdered Beaumont police officer Bryan Hebert has found justice after John Wesley Nero pleaded no contest Thursday, March 14, to the 2011 capital murder that took Hebert's life.
By taking the plea deal, Nero has avoided the death penalty and will be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
According to police, on July 8, 2011, Nero became embroiled in a family disturbance when a family member found child pornography on his computer. Enraged, Nero assaulted family members before leading police on a high-speed chase through Beaumont. The chase ended in Beaumont's West End on Dowlen Road near Daisy Street when police say Nero intentionally ran his 2008 Dodge Nitro into Hebert's police cruiser as the officer was attempting to lay tire spikes.
Thursday, Nero entered the courtroom shackled and wearing a red prison garb. He sat mostly quiet in Judge John Stevens' court, head down and still.
Nero's only statement to the court was "I'm sorry."
Moments after his apology, Hebert's sister, mother and father gave emotional statements, forcing Nero to come face to face with the grieving family.
"This is a picture of our family I'd like for you to look at," said Hebert's sister, Holly Hebert.
Holly choked back tears as she spoke of her brother's kind heart and contagious laugh, saying she had weekend plans with her brother and was waiting for his shift to end.
"I was less than two miles away from the crime scene you created," she said to Nero.
Holly said her brother was a Dallas Cowboys and UT football fan who didn't deserve what Nero wrought. Nero shook his head as Holly repeated the word "coward" and "murderer" at least three times.
"You decided to run like a coward and murder him," she said, to which Nero suddenly stomped his shackled feet loudly in disgust, head down and shaking with disapproval.
Bailiffs quickly surrounded Nero and the courtroom was brought back to order.
"Please compose yourself, Mr. Nero," Judge John Stevens told the accused killer.
Bryan's mother, Cindy Hebert gave emotional testimony as well.
"You robbed him of his life and me of my son," she said to Nero.
With no written statement, Bryan's father, Glenn Hebert, took to the stand and spoke from his heart.
"I would trade places with Brian if I could," Glenn said. "I hate you."
Hebert's father paused, overcome with emotion before he was able to continue.
"I hope one day I can forgive you," he said.
When Hebert's family exited the courtroom, they were met with at least 50 Beaumont police officers. The family hugged each officer in an emotional display, Hebert's mother weeping openly in the arms of officer Jeffery Eastepp.
Beaumont Police Chief Jimmy Singletary said BPD was rocked by Hebert's death, but his officers are happy justice has been served.
"He's a police officer. He's like a brother. He's like family," he said of Hebert. "This part is over with, but that doesn't bring Bryan back."


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MANCHESTER CITY BOSS Roberto Mancini has responded to speculation over his future by declaring himself the best manager in England.
City have mustered a disappointing defence of their Premier League crown this term, and find themselves 12 points adrift of rivals Manchester United at the summit.
But after his side sealed passage to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup with a 4-0 win over Leeds yesterday, the Italian insisted his recent managerial record is unmatched.
"In the last 15 months I am the best manager in England," he said. "Someone says for six months that Manchester City would change manager, (Pep) Guardiola would come in, and after Guardiola went to Bayern Munich, now another manager.
"I won one Premier League, one FA Cup, one Charity Shield, there is not another manager that's won like me in the last 15 months. I can do nothing but it is the reality."
City overturned an eight-point deficit to pip United to the title last season, and Mancini thinks a repeat is possible if Sergio Aguero stays on form.
"I hope Sergio will be like this until the end of the season," Mancini added. "If Sergio is like this and our strikers continue to score a lot of goals from now until the end, the championship is not finished."
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