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Gov. Cuomo has veered sharply away from the reform and pro-business policies he followed during his first two years in office and is "adrift'' on a course of murky proposals, frequent indecision, and political obsessions focused on re-election next year and the presidency in 2016, insiders have told The Post.
The insiders, some of whom have known Cuomo for decades, said the governor has become so obsessed with maintaining what until recently were record-high job-approval ratings that he has refused, for fear of alienating politically potent liberal voting blocs, to make tough decisions to cut costs for fiscally troubled local governments, reduce regulations to attract businesses, and approve hydrofracking for natural gas.
"It's all about maintaining his numbers now, not about the best policies for the state,'' said a source who knows Cuomo well.
"If he makes the political tough decisions, his numbers will go down, so what he's trying to do is avoid anything controversial. That's why he's adrift,'' the source continued.
The insiders describe Cuomo as hypersensitive to criticism and prone to argue at great length with anyone who says his administration has, as one of its own members put it, "run off the tracks.''
"He's running around like a banshee, blaming his staff and everybody else for the problems of his own making,'' said a highly knowledgeable source, adding, "I'll be a dead man in Albany'' if his identity is disclosed.
Cuomo signaled his new direction in a State of the State Address last month that was so devoid of serious, game-changing initiatives that he had to rely on two catastrophes — the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut and the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy — for its principle news-generating proposals.
The third major substantive piece of his speech — the so-called Women's Equality Act — was a largely manufactured effort because the supposed "problems'' being addressed in the proposals are already largely covered by state law, the insiders agreed.
"It was put in the speech because there really wasn't much else there,'' said a second source close to the administration.
Democrat Cuomo's unfocused new direction is tied to the Republicans' loss of control of the state Senate, which the governor openly sought to prevent.
For Cuomo's first two years in office, Senate Republicans joined with him in forcing the Democratic-controlled Assembly to end years of irresponsible state spending, cap runaway local property taxes, and create a new pension system to reduce the cost of future public employees.
But with Republicans now forced into a "coalition'' government with a rump group of "independent'' liberal Democrats, that alliance is over.
And what support Cuomo still retained in Senate Republican ranks was badly damaged last month when he pressured Dean Skelos, the weakest GOP leader in modern times, to support a tough new anti-gun law that was so politically damaging that state GOP Chairman Ed Cox has publicly denounced it.
Last week, Senate Republicans exacted revenge as they embarrassed Cuomo by publicly questioning the fitness of the governor's controversial choice of CUNY law prof Jenny Rivera for a seat on the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals.
At the same time, Assembly Democrats, who deeply resented the Cuomo/Senate GOP alliance, embarrassed Cuomo at a budget hearing with hostile and insulting questioning of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens over the controversial hydrofracking issue.
The Democrats even allowed flash mobs of anti-hydrofracking activists to interrupt and mock Martens who, for his part, was tense and defensive and left lawmakers with the impression that he wished he worked for anybody but Cuomo.
Business leaders, meanwhile, see the long-delayed hydrofracking decision — which could come this week — as the definitive test of whether Cuomo is serious about changing New York's reputation as the least business-friendly state in the nation.
"The New York/Pennsylvania border is like the old Berlin Wall, with Pennsylvania being free West Berlin, with prosperity and good jobs thanks to gas drilling,'' said a top New York business official.
"The New York side is communist East Berlin — poor, humbled, and humiliated, with no high-paying jobs to speak of,'' the official continued.


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Chivas USA had it set up perfectly, the way it's always seemed to operate.
Give up a two-goal lead in the second half, await the inevitable onslaught from the opponent, kick themselves after leaving the field with another stinging defeat.
"We're not thinking about last year, we're not thinking about seven years ago, we're talking about this year," defender Bobby Burling said. "It's a new team."
No doubt. Even if they didn't want to talk about the past, no one would have denied that in the past two seasons, Sunday's MLS opener against Chicago would somehow ended up differently than the way it did.
Burling's header off a corner kick from Mauro Rosales in the 88th minute lifted Chivas to a 3-2 win over the Fire at StubHub Center, where the MLS-owned Goats began a new era and rewarded Wilmer Cabrera with his first victory as a head coach.
Erick "Cubo" Torres scored on a penalty kick and rookie forward Tom McNamara, starting in his MLS debut after being drafted No. 20 overall in January, also scored, and Rosales controlled the action in the middle with two assists.
"We kept going, we kept fighting, we showed this team has some fight," said defender Carlos Bocanegra, who was named team captain. "We took a few punches, but we stayed positive and got one at the end."
Burling's second career goal, and first since 2010, was also an emotional one. Underneath his game jersey he wore a shirt honoring his former Loyola Marymount classmate Tommy Phillips, who died Feb. 15 from kidney cancer.
The teams were scoreless at halftime, but about 10 minutes into the second half, Chivas began to click between Torres and McNamara. Torres worked his way into the box and was taken down by defender Gonzalo Segares for a penalty kick.
Torres lined a shot into the lower-right corner for a 1-0 lead in the 56th minute.
Three minutes later, Rosales pushed the ball upfield and sent it left to midfielder Leandro Barrera. At the same time, McNamara made a mad dash for the goal while avoiding Dilly Duka.
"I just tried to get myself into the box and when the ball went out wide, I knew I had to come in and make it to the near post," McNamara said. "Leandro played a perfect ball in and all I had to do was make sure it hit my body, because there was no way it wasn't going to go in if it hit me.
"It was a dream come true, especially getting the win too, as well in dramatic fashion. It was an awesome experience, something that I'll never forget."
Chivas won't forget the debut of Rosales, either. The former captain of the Seattle Sounders was spot on all day during the run of play and hitting free kicks and corners.
Some of the players were scratching their heads trying to remember if Chivas scored at all with a set play last season. Instantly, Rosales has changed the dynamics of the team.
"That late in the day, some tired legs, one more push for a goal and Mauro put the ball right on the money," Burling said. "I had the easy part, just run through it pretty much."
But everything turned quickly after McNamara's goal and the Fire, playing without league MVP Mike Magee (hamstring), wasted no time in getting back into it
In the 64th minute, Fire midfielder Alex got in behind the defense and fed Benji Joya for a tap-in, and six minutes later, Quincy Amarikwa got possession, turned and fired into the right corner of the goal and it was 2-2.
But Chivas survived. Now the Goats have to find a way to sustain for, oh, 33 more games.
"Our job as a staff is to keep the good mentality and to keep this team strong mentally," Cabrera said. "Why? Because they have suffered a lot, and when you have suffered a lot, you need to change that mentality. You have to be stronger mentally to deal with these details.
"Obviously, those 10 or 15 minutes we lost, we got comfortable. Those 10 minutes we have to fix. We don't relax when we're winning, especially 2-0 at home."


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LIMERICK - The Exelon nuclear plant has been given two more years to make a crucial upgrade to the reactor buildings intended to prevent explosions like those that occurred during the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
In March 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered the Limerick Generating Station to take a number of steps designed to prevent the build-up of explosive gas in the reactor containment building.
Hydrogen built up inside three reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi when the cooling water pumps failed as a result of the generators having been made inoperative by the tsunami that swamped the seaside plant in the wake of an underwater earthquake off-shore.
After an analysis of the events that unfolded in Japan, the NRC made a number of recommendations to plants across the country, particularly to those like Limerick, which use the same reactor design as the one that failed across the Pacific in 2011.
Among the changes the NRC required of Limerick was the installation of a 'hardened wetwell vent' system, the design of which would be 'used to remove combustible gases from the containment building before they could trigger an explosion following a severe accident,' NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan explained in an email to The Mercury.
'The installation of such vents is one of our post-Fukushima requirements,' Sheehan wrote.
On Feb. 26, Exelon wrote to the NRC and asked for a two-year extension on the deadlines for installing the new safeguards in each of its two reactors.
On April 14, the NRC informed Exelon that its request for an extension had been granted.
'Exelon will now have until the end of a refueling outage in spring 2018 to complete the work at Unit 1 and until the end of a refueling outage in spring 2017 to complete the work at Unit 2,' Sheehan wrote.
'The company had requested one additional refueling cycle to wrap up the vent design and installation work,' wrote Sheehan.
According to NRC's letter to Exelon, the staff agreed with the company's rationale for the delay.
The letter, from Eric J. Leeds, director of the office of nuclear reactor regulation, notes that other changes Exelon can make to the Limerick plant prior to the new vent system being installed will 'provide a portion of the desired increase in capability' to deal with the circumstances the vents are needed to prevent.
Leeds further noted that the NRC staff 'concluded that a sequence of events such as the Fukushima Daiichi accident is unlikely to occur in the United States based on the current regulatory requirements and existing plant capabilities.'
Sheehan confirmed that Limerick is not the only nuclear plant to seek, or to receive, an extension of this type.
Seven other reactors, including three others in Pennsylvania - Susquehanna 1 and 2 and Peach Bottom 3 - have been granted similar extensions. All but the two Susquehanna plants are owned and operated by Exelon.


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he gentle Hunting Creek water gap in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains has long drawn people to it. Although the Susquehannoughs, northern Iroquois, and Algonquins who lived in the area had battled one another for many years, these tribes agreed to preserve this bountiful place as neutral ground. Starting in the 1730s European Americans arrived in increasing numbers, as second-generation Americans and German immigrants pushing out from Philadelphia turned southwest at the Susquehanna River. Throughout the 18th century, Germans, Swiss, and Scots-Irish continued to appear. Some trudged on west in search of fertile lands, but many settled the mountainsides. One of the area's largest communities became known as Mechanics Town, a name reflecting its thriving manufacturing and service industries.
Crucial to successful settlement were trees. Originally regiments of them covered the mountainsides, but their ranks began to fall as European Americans moved in. Settlers cut them to build simple but sturdy log homes and to clear fields for farming. On creeks water-powered sawmills popped up, producing lumber for more elaborate houses or for distant markets. When an iron furnace was built near Mechanics Town, larger areas were clear-cut for the charcoal needed to feed its voracious appetite. By the beginning of the 20th century, most hills had been stripped of their guardians and bore only scars of erosion. Starting in the 1930s, however, people began to reclaim the land. The story of how the area near Hunting Creek regained its forest is the story of Camp Misty Mount.
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text: The Jetstream SC250 may look like a bad Chinese knock-off of a KTM X-Bow, but it actually sounds quite promising. Weighing in at just 1540 pounds, the little Brit gets plenty of grunt thanks to a 2.0-liter turbocharged General Motors four-banger channeled through a six-speed gearbox. The 250 HP and 236 lb-ft push the car from 0-60 in under four seconds, through the quarter-mile traps in just 11.8 seconds, and on to a top speed of about 165 MPH. But straight-line speed alone won't be enough to escape from the ugly. To make the SC250 handle, Jetstream has hired a company called Intrax as its suspension supplier. Intrax is run by a guy that used to work on the suspension for Michael Schumacher's Benetton F1 race cars, so we're going to assume that's a good thing. With a price of about $55,000 (£29,495), the SC250 needs all the pedigree it can get. But if you're still not convinced, you might want to wait for the 300 HP version coming next year — or you could just buy an Ariel Atom and have something that's actually good-looking. [via WorldCarFans]


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Five new national polls give two very different pictures of the presidential race. Three polls show an extremely close race; two show sizable Bush leads. While some members of the media have pointed out potential methodological reasons for this disparity, one clear explanation has gone largely unreported: both polls that show President George W. Bush with a strong lead oversampled Republicans.
Three polls, conducted by The Pew Research Center for People and the Press (September 11-14), Harris Interactive (September 9-13), and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (September 12-14) all found Senator John Kerry and Bush either within one point of each other or tied among likely voters. A Gallup poll conducted September 13-15 found Bush leading Kerry among likely voters by 13 points (55 percent to 42 percent) and by eight points among registered voters (52 percent to 44 percent). A CBS News/New York Times polls (pdf) conducted September 12-16 showed Bush with a nine-point lead among registered voters (50 percent to 41 percent).
The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Times have cited various differences in the polls' methodology that could account for the disparate results. These differences include: the specific time period during which a poll is conducted; the ways likely voters are identified; and the percentage of undecided voters in a sample.
But the media has largely ignored both Gallup's and the CBS News/New York Times polls' oversampling of Republicans. As author and joint fellow at the Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation Ruy Teixeira explained, these polls include more Republicans in their sample than is representative of the electorate. According to Teixeira, the CBS News/New York Times poll sample included 4 percent more Republicans than Democrats. And Gallup told TheLeftCoaster.com's Steve Soto that it surveyed 7 percent more Republicans than Democrats. Media Matters for America has previously noted that John Zogby, president and CEO of independent polling firm Zogby International, pointed out on September 7 that in the last two presidential elections, Democrats have represented 4 percent to 5 percent more of the electorate than have Republicans:
If we look at the three last Presidential elections, the spread was 34% Democrats, 34% Republicans and 33% Independents (in 1992 with Ross Perot in the race); 39% Democrats, 34% Republicans, and 27% Independents in 1996; and 39% Democrats, 35% Republicans and 26% Independents in 2000.
When, according to Teixeira, the data from the Gallup and the CBS News/New York Times polls are weighted "to conform to the 4 point Democratic party ID lead which we have good reason to believe is the underlying distribution in the voting electorate," the Gallup result is a tie (48 percent to 48 percent) -- and the CBS News/New York Times result is a one-point Bush lead (47 percent to 46 percent) among likely voters. Notably, the September 20 Wall Street Journal reported that the Gallup and CBS News/New York Times polls surveyed more Republicans than the Pew poll; the article mentioned Teixeira's criticism.
Nevertheless, FOX News Channel hosts Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson and contributor Newt Gingrich boosted the Gallup poll:
O'REILLY: Gallup is, you know, we keep very close track of these pollsters. Gallup is pretty reliable. [The O'Reilly Factor, September 17]
GIBSON: I would think the Gallup poll's a little worrying [for the Kerry campaign]. That is a very steady poll over the years; it's not given to wild fluctuations. And it's considered pretty reliable. [The Big Story with John Gibson, September 17]
GINGRICH: Gallup fits a pattern that we've seen now for two weeks, of a widening Bush gap over Kerry. ... On the other hand, Harris has been, I think, pretty notoriously unreliable. [Your World w/ Neil Cavuto, September 17]
And on CBS's Face the Nation on September 19, anchor Bob Schieffer cited only the CBS News/New York Times poll (pdf) to conclude: "George Bush has now opened a nine-point lead over John Kerry. You don't have to be an expert to figure that out. Voters may be less than enamored with President Bush but they are even more uneasy about John Kerry, whose plans for the country remain a mystery to them, according to this poll."


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Nut dish, c. 1869
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Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Kathleen and A. Lorne Campbell
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This whimsical nut dish—the presence of the squirrel providing a clue to its function—is a wonderful example of majolica, a type of art pottery initially developed at the Minton factory around 1850, and first displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. The term majolica is derived from maiolica, used to describe a specific tin-glazed earthenware that originated in Italy in the fourteenth century. Majolica, however, employs lead glazes and is identifable by rather vivid colours of deep intensities and, usually, molded surfaces, both of which are notable in this example. Although Minton was the first factory to produce such wares, they became quite popular and widespread in Victorian England and further afield in Continental Europe and North America.
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Starting an Online Business For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Starting a business online is all about cutting overhead; getting your products and services in front of the public quickly and marketing yourself in new, cost-effective ways. For the investment of a little sweat equity, you potentially reap big results. A new set of tools is available to online entrepreneurs these days, including mobile websites, shopping cart services and other hosts, viral marketing, social networking, and search engine optimization.
Attract Customers by Triangulating Your Online Business
An online business needs to know how to triangulate its customers (that is, to connect with customers from multiple entry points on the Internet). Doing so will help broaden its customer base, boost its search engine optimization (SEO) results, and make more money.
Triangulate your online business by maximizing your blog, your website, your Twitter and Facebook pages, and the storefronts you have on specialty marketplaces. These components drive traffic to one another and drive customers to your products and services. Each performs a function and helps you achieve a core business goal.
By writing down goals, such as the ones in this table , you can decide what to tackle first and how to do it:
|Type of Online Presence
|What to Do
|Have a home base from which you can promote all your
storefronts and your products
|Create a business name and logo and find a host for your
website, then talk about your background and expertise.
|Keep up with customers and build loyalty with giveaways and
other promotions
|Social Media
|Start a business Facebook page (separate from your personal
Facebook page) on which you announce sales and other
|Keep up a blog
|Resolve to post on your own blog on a regular basis and respond
to all of the customer comments or inquiries you receive.
|Reach niche customers who are passionate about specialty
|Find marketplaces that specialize in the types of items you
sell or that sell general merchandise and are likely to bring you
|Give customers a way to talk back to you and to one
|Social media, a blog
|Create a WordPress blog and allow comments, or interact with
your customers or followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Finding a Host for Your Website and Storefront
While your online business is in the planning stages, finding a host for your website, your blog, and any storefronts you set up to sell your products is an essential requirement. You can set up shop with a variety of hosting services, from an auction site to an online mall to your own Internet Service Provider.
Here are some suggestions based on the type of merchandise you want to sell:
|I Want To . . .
|What to Do
|Sell mugs, bags, and other merchandise printed with my original
designs and artwork.
|Create a store on CafePress, which lets anyone
put their original designs on products and sell them through the
CafePress website.
|Sell vintage clothing.
|Sign up with a specialty marketplace such as Babylon Mall, which enables
vintage clothing sellers to set up their own storefronts.
|Find a site that offers predesigned templates that make my
store look like a well-established and professional operation that
has been around for years.
|Lots of hosts offer website templates. If you are willing to
make the investment and purchase a template, check out PrestaShop, which offers a
large variety of predesigned store templates you can customize to
fit your own needs.
|Set up a website that is also a store and have access to
full-featured storefront software.
|Find a hosting service that offers ShopSite or Miva Merchant, software
packages that let you run a store as part of your website.
|Be a part of an online shopping mall where lots of other stores
are hosted.
|Sign up with AOL Shopping
or Access Market Square.
|Sell individual products such as books and CDs that are already
sold through Amazon.com
|Add your items to the Amazon.com marketplace.
|Sell a wide variety of collectible and one-of-a-kind items as
well as popular consumer goods.
|Start selling on eBay or set
up an eBay Store.
|Keep it simple and, rather than shopping around for a web
hosting service, pay a single bill for Internet access and a
|Use your Internet Service Provider (ISP) as your website
|Find a host that specializes in e-commerce and provides you
with a way to list items for sale, have customers make selections,
and have those customers pay you with a credit card.
|Sign up with a shopping cart service that will host your online
|Put everything you can into a website that has all the bells
and whistles — video, blogs, e-commerce, and more.
|Sign up with a company that does website hosting full-time.
These are businesses whose primary function is hosting e-commerce
Web sites and providing their clients with associated software,
such as Web page building tools, shopping carts, catalog builders,
and the like.
An SEO and Viral Marketing Checklist for Online Businesses
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and viral marketing are two cost-effective and highly popular ways to get the word out about your online business. After you create your website, follow this checklist to make sure you aren't forgetting anything when it comes to optimizing your web pages for indexing by Google and other search engines, and spreading the word about your products and services.
Put your keywords in the title. Choose the keywords that your customers are likely to enter when they are searching for sites like yours, and make sure one or two (or more) appear in the titles of your web pages.
Sprinkle around those keywords. Make an effort to include your keywords in the headings on your pages, and in the text as well.
Add meta tags. Meta tags are keywords added in the Head section of a web page, between the <meta> and </meta> tags.
Register your site with Google. Don't wait for Google to find you. Add your site to Google's database — and after that, to Bing's and Yahoo!'s sites as well.
Get on Facebook. Create a "fan page" for your business on Facebook.
Start Twittering. Promote your current sales and create special deals for those who find or follow you on Twitter.
The history of the web page is important. This includes the date the page was first discovered by a search engine.
Keep your web page updated. The frequency with which the content of the web page changes is also important to SEO. This includes an average time between the changes, a number of changes in a time period, and a comparison of a rate of change in a current time period with a rate of change in a previous time period.
Keep your site growing. The number of new pages associated with the document matters as well.
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How to Schedule Your Online Sales and Shipping
If you own an online business, stay on track by developing a schedule for your sales and shipping. Selling online, whether it's by yourself, with a partner, or with a team of employees, is full of tedious and time-consuming activities. You have to take and retake photos, edit those photos, get sales descriptions online, and do the packing and shipping that's required at the end of a sale.
The only way to come up with a sufficient number of online sales every week is to come up with a system. And a big part of coming up with a system is developing a weekly schedule.
The following schedule spells out when you need to do all your eBay activities if you plan to get your sales online on a Sunday. But you can adapt it to any number of online businesses and schedules.
|Day of Week
|First Activity
|Second Activity (optional)
|Get 7-day sales online
|Send end-of-sale notices
|Plan garage sales
|Take photos
|Go to garage sales
|Prepare descriptions
|More sales
|Prepare descriptions
|Respond to buyer inquiries
|Get some sales online


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Welcome parents, friends, prospective students, and FIT fans! We are the FIT in Florence Study Abroad Blog here to give you a bit of insight into life in Italy as an FIT student. Over the course of the year our bloggers post about day to day life, events, and their own personal perspective as to what Study Abroad is to them.
Ciao da Firenze! A month into the semester and we are getting ready to start sharing our Florentine memories and inspirations through the FIT blog platform!
Within these first few weeks of getting settled in and into a schedule, I have gotten a taste of Florence and am looking forward to expanding on my experiences so far. The city's energy is rich with history, art, and culture, which I am trying to take in and appreciate as much as possible. One of my professors said "in Florence, always look up," the architecture is beautiful and filled with details, such as on the roofs, the buildings, and around the windows, etc. and it's the little things like this which I have been appreciating so far about the city.
The sound of coffee cups clinking against saucers as you walk by cafes, the smell of warm pastries, bread, and focaccia floating through the air with the sound of Italian rolling off the tongues of people enjoying the late summer/early fall days….. These are a few of my favorite things and I look forward to seeing what else this semester has to offer with FIT in Florence. 🙂
Ciao! It's Miyah! It's almost Week 7 that I've been living in Florence, Italy! It has truly been great and challenging at the same time, these past few weeks. Although I am still adjusting and getting used to this new life, I wouldn't trade this chapter of my life for ANYTHING else. I am also super excited for the FIT blog to start!
I wanted to approach my point of view on studying abroad in Florence in a different way for this first introduction post, by sharing my Top 3 Moments/Highlights (for the sake of time)!
- Siena and San Gimignano
A hot summer day spent in the steep streets of Siena and San Gimignano, is a day well spent! I loved the family-oriented vibes, mini parades, cool vintage vendors and of course, gelato!
- Scandicci Design Lab
I am a fashion design major and a lot of my time is spent in sewing studios and labs. I have three out of seven classes, (Design Studio I, Materials and Construction and Textiles for the Fashion Designer), that are held at the Polimoda Scandicci Design Lab every week. I can say I spend about 20-23 hours a week at the Design Lab. I mean who wouldn't? It's beautiful, calm, clean (most of the time) and very sleek.
- Academic Trip to Paris – Christian Dior Exhibition Yes, I know this is NOT in Florence, but had I not been studying abroad in Florence, I would've never been to Paris to see this magical exhibition. Words do not do justice for how amazing and perfectly curated the Christian Dior Exhibition was. I will never forget this experience.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
— Mary Oliver
3 Things I Plan To Accomplish
1) Become fluent in Italian
2) Develop the next level of craftsmanship with sewing and draping
3) Successfully ending my first and second semester with greater knowledge on fashion,
art, history and design
That is all for now folks! Ciao e grazie!
The days of dreaming of living in Italy have finally come true. Not just any city in Italy but the one filled with the most history, art, and culture – Florence. And it still doesn't seem real when I walk down the streets and I see the Vespas running with full speed, the cheese man outside of his shop gossiping with the neighbor, the fruit and vegetable stand selling the sweetest figs and juiciest grapes. It's something about the way of life here that makes it seem as if you have stepped into another world – one where the clock does not exist and everyone lives in perfect harmony. It's true what they say about studying abroad – it changes you completely, forever almost. And I can already feel myself becoming a whole new person.
I've taken up an apartment on the other side of the river, the Oltrarno, where locals frequent the delicious artisanal restaurants, and there is an abundance of small specialized shops. The best part of living on this side, though, is crossing the Ponte Carraia every single morning on the way to class, when the sun is coming into full glory and I can spot the Ponte Vecchio just one bridge down. Although I said the dream of living in Italy has come true – it still feels like I'm dreaming.


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Israel's Education Ministry is locked in a row with a liberal high school over its use of a history textbook that gives both the Israeli and Palestinian versions of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The ministry has summoned the principal of Shaar Hanegev high school in southern Israel for "consultations" over the decision to continue using the textbook, which has been banned from the national school curriculum.
Critics denounced the move as a regressive step by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-leaning government to assert the Israeli narrative over the Palestinian one.
The row drives at the heart of Israeli identity, shaped by tales of Jewish heroism in the War of Independence that gloss over the fate of the Palestinians. The Israeli narrative asserts that Palestinians left their homes in what is now Israel of their own volition. The Palestinians contend that they were driven out, and they refer to the creation of Israel as the nakba, or the catastrophe.
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"We have a problem with the Palestinian nakba," says Tom Segev, a prominent Israeli historian. "Instead of just teaching it and telling kids what happened, we keep trying to ignore it, distort it. It reflects our guilt. We don't know how to deal with it."
Under current education minister Gideon Saar, Israel has also struck the word nakba from a textbook for Israeli Arab children, arguing that the government should not promote a term that questions the legitimacy of the state.
Textbook prompts students to write their own conclusions
The textbook being used at Shaar Hanegev, aimed at 11th graders, is the product of a decade-long collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian teachers. Each page is split into three columns, with the Israeli narrative down one side, and the Palestinian down the other, with an empty column in the middle for students to write their own conclusions.
It is being used as part of a wider experimental history course aimed at tackling, among other things, the events surrounding what Israel calls its War of Independence, the 1948-49 conflict that prompted hundreds of thousands Palestinians to leave their homes.
The ministry reportedly instructed the school in early September to stop teaching with the book because it was not approved. The principal was subsequently called in, but he is not expected to meet with officials until after the 10-day Sukkot holiday is over, a ministry spokeswoman said. She added that parts of the school's history program were "problematic," but would not elaborate further.
"This was a knee-jerk response, almost Pavlovian, to any attempt by the educational system to tackle the Palestinian side," one teacher at the school said, in comments quoted by Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. "This is a response that attests primarily to narrow-mindedness and an unwillingness to explore new modes of thinking."
The school could not be reached for comment due to the Sukkot holiday.
Why Israelis fear alternate versions of history
In recent years, Israel's so-called new historians have helped ignite a public discourse on the events of 1948, challenging the official Israel version of events that Palestinians brought about their own misfortune.
But the breakdown of the Oslo peace process and the outbreak of the second Intifada in 2000 led to a backlash against those who opposed the conventional Zionist view.
Only now, say observers, are the dissenters again being heard.
"The whole thing was swept under the carpet for decades," says Uri Avnery, a prominent Israeli peace activist who fought in the 1948 war. "Israel is now getting mature enough to face it, and the cultural and educational establishment is scared."
Israel's fear is understandable, say some observers, when taken in the context of the peace process, which has dragged on now for 17 years. If Israel recognized that it had driven out some Arabs "with intent," says Avnery, "this would have huge implications for a future peace agreement and the refugee problem."
Denial in education reflects broader societal denial
A critical sticking point is the right of return for the Palestinian refugees, made homeless in 1948 and who now live in overcrowded refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Israel has long rejected anything more than a symbolic right of return, fearing a threat to the state's Jewish character if thousands of refugees were to return.
Jafar Farrah, director of an Israeli-Arab advocacy group Mossawa (Equality), says that he believes a majority of Palestinians now recognize the Jewish right to self-determination, but argues that the recognition will never be mutual as long as Israel does not accept its part in creating the conflict.
"There is denial in the public discourse, there is denial in the educational discourse," he says. "That is why there is no reconciliation process."


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About Wayne Andersen
I have been a computer professional since 1980. I have written software for a fortune 500 corporation, and many other smaller companies. I was an early adopter for internet communications, first hosting BBS systems at home and then Compuserve before the real internet got flowing.
If she never dealt with clasified email on her private server then which account/server did she use for secure communication and where are those emails?
Unless of course she never sent or received any classified email, which I guess is the safe way to prepare for a presidential run.
I have purchased a Roku box to provide channels to a new TV at my home. I did not have anyway to get my satellite cables to the TV in a clean manner.
Since all I have on the TV is content available via he Roku, specifically Netflix and Amazon Prime. I have spent more time exploring the existing content that I never had a chance to view previously.
I have found and become hooked on a number of shows that I sometimes faintly remember seeing ads for and others that I completely missed.
Some examples are White Collar and The Defenders. I have since watched all of the episodes of both and am anxiously waiting for the new episodes of White Collar to arrive via this distribution channel.
I was very excited to see the new season available via my DirecTV subscription but discovered that with my schedule and the complexity of some of the story lines, it just does not interest me to watch them as they come out, and I will be waiting till next year when I will be able to sit with my wife and watch the full episodes in our own time.
Unfortunately the advertisers for these shows will not get any of my attention, I regularly find myself going out of my way to support the creators of these shows. So that I can continue to get content I like.
So even though some producers are so bent about a certain percentage of piracy that they refuse to have their content appear on these alternative distribution methods, they will never have my attention, just the smaller portion of those that are willing to pirate the content since they have no other reasonable or convenient alternative.
While box-office revenues have benefited from rising ticket prices, movie attendance has been steadily declining.
I cannot be the only one to look at this sentence and wonder why fewer people might be going to take in the latest Hollywood remake?
Same theater, same recycled content, same high priced food, the exact same experience year after year but at a higher price.
Don't need to be an economist to see a problem there.
Well since you asked, I can give you one very good reason, and many other general reasons.
As a system admin and security researcher, I frequently have the need to trace back and or investigate certain pieces of malware.
I do not want to alert my target to my identity or even the subnet that I am coming from as this could provide valuable information about which of their attacks was recognized.
A second point you may want to consider is why should I have to have a specific reason to be anonymous. Why should I have to reveal my identity to check the weather, read news, engage in political commentary, or exchange naughty messages with my wife?
I appreciate your comments here frankly I did not expect a single coherent answer.
I think I understand what you are saying here. Basically, it is just easier to get illegal stuff now than legal stuff. And SOPA will change that equation.
I decided to try a little experiment to see if it was actually easier to get a legal copy of the movie Cars 2 than a legal one that I would be able to watch today or tomorrow.
I have a number of TVs and video devices at home, my kids (I have 6 and 2 grandchildren at home) computers do not have DVD drives only CD.
The video system setup in my car works off of a hard drive and also does not have a DVD drive.
I would like to have something that any person in my family can enjoy wherever in the house or car they are, So I am really interested in a digital copy.
I went to google and entered cars 2, all of the links on the front page were to legitimate content, but none of them led me to a site or location where I could pay for and download the movie.
I choose Disney's site.
I can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray, and the main page says Movie Download but after looking for the Download for 20 minutes, I gave up.
If I buy the 5 disc premium copy I can get a digital copy, but there again I have to order it and wait for shipping or drive across town to pick it up, even then I end up with a single digital copy and have to choose which disc less device I want to use it on. And in my experience all of these digital copies have to be used on a computer so I can't put it on the Hard Drive in the car.
I can't view it on Netflix or Amazon Prime, nor is it available to pay-per-view on my dish.
I went to thepiratebay and in about 10 seconds found a number of downloads that I could have in less than one hour with no restrictions on my use.
Then I did a number of searches through a variety of search engines, (assuming that SOPA was already in place and the folks at tpb had folded, although I don't see that as a realistic scenario ) and found quick easy downloads all over the place.
So, given this brief and limited experiment, My conclusion has to be that SOPA would have to make an absolutely huge difference primarily by inconveniencing the people on the fence, and shutdown literary hundreds of sites along with all the in-intended collateral damage, or Disney could just let me pay for a download from the original site, or let Netflix or Amazon do the same, and save themselves a lot of bandwidth cost.
Seems to me that the issue is not the ease of getting illegal content it is the difficulty in getting useful legal content.
I would like to see a test Disney, could easily pick one of their movies and do a pay to download test, just to see if it did lead to less piracy vs. more.
I have to tell you I am not all that surprised, I tried to watch a pay-per-view movie on my satellite dish last year and kept getting an error, I was told by the support staff of the company that my tv was not compatible with the copy protection scheme on the movie, and that I might be able to watch it by going and buying a super cheap HDMI cable from Walmart as that would circumvent the issue.
Main line content producers have a major problem with the way they treat potential customers like me and SOPA is just going to make it worse. Since it will embolden them to continue down this same path of excessive control.
I also have an issue with the "probably 40% of the marketplace quote". Is that just your gut feeling or do you have any statistics to back that number up.
I am amazed that everyone is so concerned about the parody, the real sign bothers me more. I have to agree with the AC that linked to http://www.met.police.uk/so/at_hotline.htm.
Any time I travel with my van, I display pretty much all of the suspicious activities listed on the site except for the mask and goggles. Although if it is cold and I will be riding my bicycle I would have those with me as well.
I have multiple passports in my dresser at home.
My credit card has charges to companies like stalker.com, clearly someone should be worried.
I also rent a commercial property and do not go out of my way to display all of the items I store there, some might even consider my behavior secretive.
So the only thing on the list which is not part of my daily life are the suspicious use of chemicals.
And then there is the anti-copyright, anti-social web site (I am sure the MPAA would not have to stretch to characterise techdirt as a terrorist website ) that I knot only read but comment on.
His initial comment is framed in a small vs. large context.
The second comment notes that Allen is not suing Microsoft.
Maybe it is ok to patent troll if you are a little guy fighting a large company (social consciousness), but not just for the sake of suing for money.
I read all of the time, I love books and stories and also spend quite a bit of time learning about the Authors of the works I enjoy.
I would suggest that a very high percentage of Authors write because something within them drives them to it.
I have read hundreds of descriptions from Authors about how they got started.
Although some portion of them intended to get rich by doing so, most don't and those that do soon come to a realization that this was an extremely poor way to make any money at all, and in the face of that realization continued to write anyway. They just could not stop themselves.
There will always be great content and great stories, people will continue to create all types of literary works even if as suggested in Mr. Adams ramblings that there will be no profit involved.
And frankly there will always be people like me that will gladly pay for those works, but in my case only for content that does not have artificial limitations on when where and how I can enjoy it. Just like the paper back book I just set down.


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Rockies moves: Sanchez goes on DL, Nelson close to returning, Helton hits 3rd
The shuffling continues at 20th and Blake.
As The Denver Post reported Saturday, right-hander Tyler Chatwood was called up from Double-A Tulsa and starts Sunday afternoon against the Giants. To make room on the roster, the club informed struggling left-hander Jonathan Sanchez that he has left biceps tendinitis and they were putting him on the 15-day disabled list.
Sanchez is 0-3 with a 9.53 ERA in three starts since coming to the Rockies in the trade that sent Jeremy Guthrie to the Royals. Sanchez spent 35 days on the DL earlier this season with Kansas City, also with left biceps tendinitis.
Infielder Chris Nelson, on the DL after suffering an irregular heartbeat, has completed his rehab stint at Triple-A. Nelson will travel with the Rockies to Los Angeles and likely will be activated Monday. At that point, the Rockies will have to make a corresponding roster move.
As for Sunday's game, Todd Helton is batting third, his spot in the order during his glory years. Helton's hitting just .237, so why third? Because he has a solid history against Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum — .351 average in 37 at-bats. Helton also has drawn eight walks off Lincecum.
Manager Jim Tracy figures Helton can get on base, setting the table for Carlos Gonzalez at cleanup.
"If Timmy doesn't throw the ball over the plate, Todd's not going to swing," Tracy said.


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I just had a birthday and decided to take a look at my Social Security statement.
But I'll be honest about how I came to even remember I should check it. I was looking around the Social Security Administration's website trying to help my husband find some payment information for his elderly father when I realized I hadn't signed up to get my statement online.
In the past, I would have gotten the statement in the mail about three months before my birthday. But in a cost-cutting move, the SSA decided last year to stop the automatic mailing of statements except in a few situations. The agency decided to mail paper statements to workers in the year they reach age 25. It's a one-time mailing and has started with people who turn 25 in October, a spokesperson for SSA said. Additionally, people 60 and older also get a mailed statement if they haven't already begun receiving Social Security benefits. Everyone else has to get his or her statement online.
In planning for your retirement, it's important to check the statement at least once a year because it lists your lifetime earnings according to Social Security's records. And a question I received from a reader is a good reminder why you need to keep checking the statement. She wrote: "I got some sort of yearly statement from the SSA listing the number of years of my employment and estimated benefit amounts I'd be eligible for. I never thought about retirement until recently. But I never really paid attention to the statement. Upon examination, I notice that I'm only being credited with about a third of the years I actually worked. Is it possible to get this corrected with Social Security?"
Your benefits are based on your average lifetime earnings. If your earnings record is inaccurate, you may not get all the benefits you are entitled to receive.
And your earnings information could be incorrect for a number of reasons. Your employer may have reported wrong earnings information or used an incorrect name or Social Security number. Or perhaps you got married or divorced but didn't report the change to Social Security.
If you discover income information that is incorrect, you'll need to find some proof of what you earned. This could be a W-2 form, an old tax return or a pay stub. After you have gathered your proof, contact Social Security. If you can't find proof, you may still be able to get the record corrected by providing Social Security with the dates you worked and your employer's name.
You can get your statement by going online to www.socialsecurity.gov. Please be careful about typing in the Web address. You don't want to end up on some scam site. Once on the official SSA site, look under "Top Services" for the new link to get your statement.
You have to be 18 or older and you have to answer questions that match information already on file with Social Security. The agency also uses information from the Experian credit bureau to verify your identity. When I registered, some of my security questions pertained to past loans I had received.
Once verified, you need to create an account with a user name and password. It took me less than 15 minutes to go through the verification process and set up my account. I could then view my report, download it or print it. You can view your Social Security statement at any time. In addition to retirement and disability benefits you may receive, you'll see estimates of benefits your family may get when you receive Social Security and information about qualifying and signing up for Medicare.
Now, you know technology doesn't always work the way you like. So you may have trouble getting your statement because you didn't answer the security questions correctly or your answers don't match the information Social Security has on file about you. Or the information in your credit report is wrong, so it doesn't match your answers. If you stumble in getting your online statement, you still have the option of requesting that it be mailed. You can also visit a local Social Security office and present an identity document in order to create an account and gain access to the online version of the statement.
You might be annoyed about having to add yet another thing to the long list of financial things you have to do. Nonetheless, your birthday is a good time to remember to get your Social Security statement each year.
Readers can write to Michelle Singletary c/o The Washington Post, 1150 15th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20071. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Comments and questions are welcome, but due to the volume of mail, personal responses may not be possible. Please also note comments or questions may be used in a future column, with the writer's name, unless a specific request to do otherwise is indicated.


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"The Chadwicks of Chadwick in Rochdale parish are a very old and distinguished family dating back from the present to the 14th century; the hamlet of Chadwick has been in their possession since the family was founded: Healey Hall has been for many centuries a seat of the family. [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
Another source notes an alternate spelling of the hamlet: "Chadwyke, a hamlet in the parish of Rochdale, the property of the family in the XIV. cent." [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
"The Chadwicks belong to one of the most ancient and eminent of Staffordshire families, known as the Chadwicks of Ridware in this county." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print. But the earliest record in rolls of the family lies in the aforementioned Lancashire where Nicholas de Chadwyke, was listed temp. Edward III (during the reign of King Edward III.) Later the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 listed Elena Chadwyk. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Chadwick is also "a hamlet and manor, in the parish and union of Bromsgrove, Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, Droitwich and E. divisions of the county of Worcester." [5]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print. However, we can find no relationship with the locale and the surname.
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J. C. Aaberg
Minister in the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Aaberg emigrated to America in 1901 and went to the small, close-knit Danish-American community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to join his brother, who was then studying for the ministry at Augsburg College and Seminary. After attending St. Ansgar's College, and Grand View College and Seminary in Des Moines, Iowa (1904-1908), he was ordained in the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He pastored in Marinette, Wisconsin; St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Dwight, Illinois (1912-1926); and St. Peder's Lutheran Church, Minneapolis. Until retiring in 1946, Aaberg continued to serve as pastor of St. Peder's. Over the years he held various offices throughout the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and for years after his retirement served a series of congregations around the country as an interim pastor. In 1947 he was honored with the Knight Cross of Denmark from King Frederick for service to Danish-Americans.
Aaberg translated some 80 hymns and songs from Danish to English, and served on committees which compiled several Lutheran hymnals. He began translating hymns in earnest after an incident that occurred while he was in Marinette. A Lutheran bishop from Denmark attended church there one Sunday on a trip to America. In honor of his visit, the Marinette congregation held a special festival worship service. After the service, Aaberg asked the bishop what he thought of the service this little congregation had just held. The bishop replied, "It was so wonderful. It reminded me of the way church services were in Denmark 50 years ago." That comment, meant as a compliment, stirred Aaberg. He concluded that to be vital and living Christian congregations, the Danish-American Lutheran Church must begin to use the language of America, English. Staying strictly with Danish, he believed, the church would become an ever more isolated backwater of nostalgia for the past. He began the work of creating and publishing translations. A hymn translation committee was formed, consisting of Aaberg and three other like-minded pastors. They met some opposition and unhappiness toward their translating work. Some within the church felt that by translating these hymns to English, the translators were hastening the day when the Danish Lutheran traditions would be lost. But the work went forward, through the years between the World Wars, until most of the treasured hymns had been translated to English.-- hymntime.com/tch
Works by J. C. Aaberg
At the turn of the 20th century, many Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians immigrated to America's Midwest, founding Scandinavian Lutheran churches in their communities. J.C. Aaberg emigrated from Denmark in 1901 to attend a seminary in Minneapolis along with his brother. After his ordination in the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, he spent decades serving Danish-Americans in Minnesota. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark contains translations of over eighty Danish hymns into English. Additionally, Aaberg includes short histories of Denmark's greatest hymn writers such as Thomas Kingo, N.F.S. Grundvig, and H.A. Brorson.
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Sara Reiss DeSantis and John Matheson (Matt) Moody were married on Saturday, August 21, 2010 in the Chapel of the Nativity at Camp Monserate in Lake Placid. Rev. Edward Durkin, S.J. of Buffalo, NY officiated.
Sara is the daughter of Jeff and Julia DeSantis of Westfield, NJ and Lake Placid, the granddaughter of Paul and Rosemary Reiss of Lake Placid and the great-granddaughter of the late Julian and Daisy Margaret (Peg) Reiss of Lake Placid. Matt is the son of Richard and Susan Moody of Chapel Hill, NC.
The reception was held in an old barn transformed for the occasion and the couple departed for the evening in the bride's grandparent's 1966 VW Beetle which has been a part of the Lake Placid 4th of July Parade for many years.
Julie Maness of Chapel Hill was Maid of Honor and bridesmaids were Elizabeth Reiss, cousin of the bride, of Williston, VT, Anne Daisy DeSantis, sister of the bride, of Westfield, NJ, Jaclyn D'Amore of South Plainfield, NJ and Stephanie Underwood of Trade, TN. Richard Moody served as his son's Best Man and the groomsmen were Jeff Crittenden of Wilmington, NC, Andres Crowley of Sacramento, CA, Jeremy Elliott and Mark Graves of Chapel Hill and Luke Sharp of Raleigh, NC.
Sara is a 1998 graduate of Vernon Township High School, Vernon, NJ and is employed with NetApp in Research Triangle Park, NC. Matt, who was raised in Chapel Hill, is a 2004 graduate of Appalachian State University with a BS in Economics and is employed with BulkTV in Raleigh, NC. After a honeymoon trip to Peter Island in the British Virgin Islands the couple will reside in Raleigh, NC.


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In 2006, Philip E. Tetlock published a landmark book called "Expert Political Judgment." While his findings obviously don't apply to me, Tetlock demonstrated that pundits and experts are terrible at making predictions.
But Tetlock is also interested in how people can get better at making forecasts. His subsequent work helped prompt people at one of the government's most creative agencies, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, to hold a forecasting tournament to see if competition could spur better predictions.
In the fall of 2011, the agency asked a series of short-term questions about foreign affairs, such as whether certain countries will leave the euro, whether North Korea will re-enter arms talks, or whether Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev would switch jobs. They hired a consulting firm to run an experimental control group against which the competitors could be benchmarked.
Five teams entered the tournament, from places like M.I.T., Michigan and Maryland. Tetlock and his wife, the decision scientist Barbara Mellers, helped form a Penn/Berkeley team, which bested the competition and surpassed the benchmarks by 60 percent in Year 1.
How did they make such accurate predictions? In the first place, they identified better forecasters. It turns out you can give people tests that usefully measure how open-minded they are.
For example, if you spent $1.10 on a baseball glove and a ball, and the glove cost $1 more than the ball, how much did the ball cost? Most people want to say that the glove cost $1 and the ball 10 cents. But some people doubt their original answer and realize the ball actually costs 5 cents.
Tetlock and company gathered 3,000 participants. Some got put into teams with training, some got put into teams without. Some worked alone. Some worked in prediction markets. Some did probabilistic thinking and some did more narrative thinking. The teams with training that engaged in probabilistic thinking performed best. The training involved learning some of the lessons included in Daniel Kahneman's great work, "Thinking, Fast and Slow." For example, they were taught to alternate between taking the inside view and the outside view.
Suppose you're asked to predict whether the government of Egypt will fall. You can try to learn everything you can about Egypt. That's the inside view. Or you can ask about the category. Of all Middle Eastern authoritarian governments, what percentage fall in a given year? That outside view is essential.
Most important, participants were taught to turn hunches into probabilities. Then they had online discussions with members of their team adjusting the probabilities, as often as every day. People in the discussions wanted to avoid the embarrassment of being proved wrong.
In these discussions, hedgehogs disappeared and foxes prospered. That is, having grand theories about, say, the nature of modern China was not useful. Being able to look at a narrow question from many vantage points and quickly readjust the probabilities was tremendously useful. The Penn/Berkeley team also came up with an algorithm to weigh the best performers. Let's say the top three forecasters all believe that the chances that Italy will stay in the euro zone are 0.7 (with 1 being a certainty it will and 0 being a certainty it won't). If those three forecasters arrive at their judgments using different information and analysis, then the algorithm synthesizes their combined judgment into a 0.9. It makes the collective judgment more extreme.
This algorithm has been extremely good at predicting results. Tetlock has tried to use his own intuition to beat the algorithm but hasn't succeeded.
In the second year of the tournament, Tetlock and collaborators skimmed off the top 2 percent of forecasters across experimental conditions, identifying 60 top performers and randomly assigning them into five teams of 12 each. These "super forecasters" also delivered a far-above-average performance in Year 2. Apparently, forecasting skill cannot only be taught, it can be replicated.
Tetlock is now recruiting for Year 3. (You can match wits against the world by visiting www.goodjudgmentproject.com.) He believes that this kind of process may help depolarize politics. If you take Republicans and Democrats and ask them to make a series of narrow predictions, they'll have to put aside their grand notions and think clearly about the imminently falsifiable.
If I were President Obama or John Kerry, I'd want the Penn/Berkeley predictions on my desk. The intelligence communities may hate it. High-status old vets have nothing to gain and much to lose by having their analysis measured against a bunch of outsiders. But this sort of work could probably help policy makers better anticipate what's around the corner. It might induce them to think more probabilistically. It might make them better foxes.


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|Santa Barbara > Activity Guide > Beaches > Butterfly Beach
Across from the Four Seasons Biltmore, this beach is deceptive in its
simplicity. Since it is a Montecito Beach, and Montecito and the Biltmore
have more than their share of celebrities, you have a good chance of
seeing somebody famous here.
Of course, if you do see somebody famous, you'll want to act cool, like it happens everyday because - well - here it does.
This is also one of the few west-facing beaches so you can see a sunset over the water! It's a bit revolutionary.Cons: Bring your lunch and water and sunscreen because there are no public facilities at this beach. It's a real locals kind of place.
Directions: Take the 101 to Olive Mill Road in Montecito (a few minutes south of Santa Barbara). At the stop sign, turn towards the ocean (away from the mountains) and follow it a quarter of a mile along the coast. Butterfly Beach is on your left. Parking is limited and will be packed with cars on most weekends. Park on either side of the street along the beach or drive up Butterfly Rd and park in the nearby neighborhoods.


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University of Phoenix Announces Timothy P. Slottow as New University PresidentBy : UOPX News | April 1, 2014
PHOENIX, April 1, 2014 (4pmEDT)– University of Phoenix today announced that the institution's board of trustees has named Timothy P. Slottow as the new president of the University.
Slottow's distinguished career spans 30 years at public and private organizations throughout the U.S. He currently serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer at the University of Michigan, where he is responsible for operations and finance. Since 1998, Slottow's work at the University of Michigan—one of the nation's largest public universities—has helped the institution fulfill its academic mission and strategy on behalf of 61,000 students and 44,000 faculty and staff. He will assume office at University of Phoenix on June 20, 2014.
"Tim Slottow's leadership at the University of Michigan amplifies what he has done throughout his accomplished career: delivering measurable results to public and private organizations as they embrace the principle of continuous advancement and transition to reach ambitious goals," said Merrilee Lewis Engel, Ph.D., Chair of the University of Phoenix board of trustees.
"After a comprehensive national search, we are honored to have Tim Slottow join us from one of the world's most respected higher education institutions," said Gregory W. Cappelli, member of the University of Phoenix board of trustees, and CEO of Apollo Education Group, Inc. "Tim shares our commitment to the mission of University of Phoenix, and to delivering a quality education that helps students achieve academic and personal success to meet their individual and professional goals. I am confident that his focus on connecting students' talents, skills, and educational achievement to employers' ever-increasing human capital needs will help differentiate University of Phoenix and deliver genuine value to its students."
"For decades, University of Phoenix has pioneered change throughout U.S. higher education, and I am honored to lead this groundbreaking and innovative university through its latest and most significant transformation," said Slottow. "I am committed to furthering the University's important work to deliver high quality, career-relevant educational programs that help all students achieve—and exceed—their professional goals."
In his current position at the University of Michigan, Slottow supervises and is responsible for the university's $6.3 billion annual operating revenues and more than $16 billion in financial and physical assets.
"Tim Slottow has played an integral role in the University's growth and financial stability throughout the recession, ensuring the University of Michigan's academic excellence as he worked in partnership with our academic and university leaders," said University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman.
Prior to his work at the University of Michigan, Slottow oversaw strategic business planning and finance at Amtrak in Washington, D.C.; served as director of policy and planning for the City of Seattle; and was a manager at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). He earned a master's degree in business administration from University of Washington and a bachelor's degree from University of California, Berkeley.
As the seventh University of Phoenix president, Slottow succeeds Bill Pepicello, Ph.D., who began his tenure at the University in 1995 and announced his intention to retire in September 2013.
University of Phoenix is constantly innovating to help working adults move more efficiently and effectively from education to careers in a rapidly changing world. Flexible schedules, relevant and engaging courses, and interactive learning utilizing advanced technology can help students more effectively pursue career and personal aspirations while balancing their busy lives. As a subsidiary of Apollo Education Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: APOL), University of Phoenix serves a truly diverse student population, offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs from campuses and learning centers across the U.S. as well as online throughout the world. For more information, visit www.phoenix.edu.
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Whether you are a prospective or longtime TDA member, knowing the Benefits of Membership is vital. Listed below are some of the products and services available at no or reduced cost to TDA members. For additional information, contact the TDA Executive Office at (615) 628-0208 or via e-mail. TDA Members can use the 1-800 number.
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TDA members are eligible for a wide variety of insurance coverage at very attractive rates. CLICK HERE for more information on the TDA Insurance Agency, Inc. The following types of insurance coverage are:
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The Agency's phone number is 1-800-347-1109.
The Tennessee Dental Association has its Executive Office in Franklin, TN. The staff is constantly working on behalf of the members and is available:
Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (central time)
Summer Hours: (June, July and August) 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The TDA, ADA and Tennessee's Component Societies are all committed to the needs and concerns of new dentists. Committees of new professionals have been formed at each level to make sure that organized dentistry's policies and goals continue to be relevant. The TDA also has a New Dentist Representative participate during each Board of Trustees meeting.
Through attendance at local dental society, TDA and ADA meetings, a wide variety of affordable continuing education programs are available to members. Also, the TDA sponsors a continuing education registry program known as ACE.
In addition to recording continuing education hours and proof of current CPR training, ACE honors TDA member dentists who participate in 80 or more hours of continuing education during each two-year period.
At the annual meetings of both the TDA and ADA, members are able to participate in a wide variety of affordable continuing education seminars; view the latest in equipment, supplies and services; take an active role in the business of the Association; meet with colleagues; and attend a wide variety of gatherings.
The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association and the TDA Newsletter keep members abreast of the latest news of concern to the dental profession in Tennessee. TDA and Component Society activities, scientific advancements, government regulations, legislation, and other news which influences Tennessee dentistry are all included.
The TDA has always advocated good dental health for all of Tennessee's citizens. Members can contribute to this ongoing effort by educating their patients, donating their time to appear before various groups, as well as by taking part in Children's Dental Health Month each February and National Senior Smile Week held each year during May.
Each Fall, the TDA conducts a Relief Fund Drive. At that time members voluntarily contribute to a fund designed to help dentists and their families during times of unusual financial need. In addition, an ADA Disaster Relief Fund provides interest-free loans to dentists for the purpose of restoring a practice facility or personal dwelling damaged by a natural disaster.
The Association continuously monitors prepaid dental benefit plans in Tennessee, and answers members' questions concerning new developments. The TDA Council on Dental Benefit Programs assists purchasers and employee groups in selecting a dental plan. An analysis of dentist participation contracts for in dental benefit programs is also available from the ADA, at no charge to members when requested through the TDA. In addition, TDA members can obtain
materials for educating patients, local employers and community groups about the importance of freedom-of-choice of provider in any dental benefit plan. Information regarding Direct Reimbursement dental benefits is also available to employee groups and employers through the TDA Insurance Agency, Inc.
Spouses of members who desire to become involved with dentistry contribute a great deal to the promotion of good dental health through membership in the Alliance of the TDA. The Alliance has local and national chapters as well.
The TDA is the voice of the membership in Nashville, not only during the legislative session but all year long. Government plays a major role in the professional life of Tennessee's dentists. Only through the collective voice of the more than 2,300 Tennessee Dental Association members will those elected to public office, or employed by state government, listen. Each Component Society has a representative on the TDA Council on Governmental Affairs and individual members are encouraged to become a liaison to one or more state legislators. Member input regarding legislation and/or governmental regulations is always welcomed.
After joining the TDA, members can enhance their political involvement by making a voluntary contribution to Tenn-D-Pac, the TDA's political action committee, and ADPAC, the ADA's counterpart. The funds contributed, when paying annual membership dues, are used to elect or re-elect candidates who will work with dentistry on the issues affecting the profession. The Tenn-D-Pac Capital Club recognizes TDA members who contribute more than $150 per year to the PAC.
Nearly every dentist at some time has a problem with a dental benefits company that cannot be remedied merely by corresponding with or by calling that company. The TDA offers its assistance in resolving such problems and has an excellent track record in settling disputes which have arisen.
Even though members do their very best to eliminate the dental problems of each of their patients, there will come a time when a patient believes he/she has not received quality dental care. If this situation arises, members are encouraged to first try to come to some resolution with the patient. Should that effort fail, the TDA and its Component Dental Societies offer Peer Review. The Peer Review mechanism has been in effect for several years and has been very
effective in eliminating the necessity for legal proceedings to settle disputes regarding dental care. Peer Review is not a one-way street. It can be initiated by a patient or a dentist. Peer Review is a no-charge service to TDA members but requires that a $500 fee be paid in advance by non-member dentists desiring to utilize this valuable service.
The Tennessee Dental Association has developed an excellent working relationship with the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA). The TDA staff as well as the Committee on Environment and Infection Control are always available to members who have concerns about infectious diseases, hazardous chemicals, employee safety and training and waste management. The TDA provides members with a TOSHA Checklist at no cost.
Many dental patients are unable to pay a full cash payment for dental services at the time such services are delivered. For this reason, the TDA endorses CareCredit. This program enables member dentists to offer their patients a dentistry-only credit card with interest charged much like a VISA or MasterCard. While the dentist pays a small percentage when patients participate, this non-recourse program never puts the member dentist at risk should the patient fail to pay the balance owed.
The 1994 TDA House of Delegates voted to establish a foundation, known as the Tennessee Dental Association Foundation (TDAF). The TDAF's mission is to promote dental health programs and dental education, educate the public about dentistry, establish and fund dental scholarships, support dental research and support other organizations with similar goals.


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Toy Story: The Gun!
Guess what Europe is getting as an add-on for Disney Wii games?
Yes, they are getting an official Toy Story gun for the upcoming Wii game, Toy Story Mania.
So, you remember the classic shootout scene from Toy Story when Woody and Buzz were caught in the claw game and had to shoot and kill their way through an endless horde of three-eyed aliens, right? Or, better yet, the awe-inspiring homage to Saving Private Ryan when all the Buzz Lightyears woke up in the toy aisle and there was that Normandy-esque massacre? It went something like this:
Oh, you don't remember that? It's almost as if guns have never been in a Toy Story movie before, and would make almost no sense in a game for 5 year old kids. Well, there is going to be a Toy Story 3, so there's a possibly that the gang moves to a rougher neighborhood and Buzz has to trade in his red flashing light bulb for a gat to up his street cred.
Anyway, the gun is being made by (I kid you not) Thrustmaster.
"We are pleased to partner with Thrustmaster to develop a range of fun and innovative gaming accessories for Disney in Europe. Thrustmaster's expertise and innovation track record in the gaming industry will bring a new dimension to the way kids play video games, and will deliver more fun and interactivity around Toy Story Mania!,"
Says Stephane Hareau, senior category manager, new business development at Disney Consumer Products Europe.
So, yeah, a Toy Story FPS. Something tells me Disney didn't read my last article.
May God have mercy on our souls.
(Source: Games Press)Tags: Disney, gun, Thrustmaster, Toy Story, Toy Story Mania!, Wii
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