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text: Speaking at a U.N. Security Council discussion about the protection of journalists, Associated Press Executive Editor and CPJ Vice Chair Kathleen Carroll remembered the 31 AP journalists who have died reporting the news and whose names grace the Wall of Honor that visitors pass as they enter the agency's New York headquarters. Most were killed covering war, from the Battle of the Little Big Horn to Vietnam to Iraq. But around the world, Carroll noted, "most journalists who die today are not caught in some wartime crossfire, they are murdered just because of what they do. And those murders are rarely ever solved; the killers rarely ever punished."

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***** PLEASE NOTE: The Restaurant will be closed FRI OCT 5 & 6th for a private event. Doc's Tavern will be open. *****
Welcome to the Huntington House Inn featuring Doc's Chop House & Tavern.
To stay or dine with us is to experience true Vermont hospitality at it's best.
Located in the very heart of Vermont, Rochester and The Huntington House Inn can be your headquarters for exploring Vermont in every season. Close enough to enjoy several of the areas finest ski resorts and tourist attractions yet far enough away to avoid the maddening crowds.
The Inn is one of many graceful period homes surrounding Rochester's four acre park, with panoramic views of the Green Mountains, including the adjacent Green Mountain National Forest and Moosalamoo National Recreation area.
Being nestled in the quaint village of Rochester,with all it's natural beauty and friendliness we invite you to come experience a way of life we take for granted. You might find this is The Vermont you're looking for.
The 1806 Cocoa Pub offers diners savory dinners & crepes, along with an extensive dessert menu including sweet crepes, waffles, chocolate fondues & so much more. Also available is a full bar with many specialty martinis & cocktails. Or diner's may choose Doc's Tavern with it's "Cheers" like conviviality. Opened in the newly renovated barn, adjacent to the Inn February 2012, the Tavern has quickly become a favorite of both locals and visitors alike. The Tavern feature's five large screen TV's, pool table, shuffleboard, music and plenty of conversation to keep anyone entertained. Or just sit back in one of it's many cozy booth's and enjoy a great meal in a relaxed setting. We invite you to come meet old friends or make new ones.
Home to five generations of Doctor's Huntington, The Huntington House Inn was exquisitely restored in 2003 and offers six beautifully appointed guest rooms. In the adjacent Top of the Park building, we have well appointed 1 & 2 bedroom suites.
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Downtown Sioux Falls Jazz Crawl
- Downtown Sioux Falls
- Various Locations, Sioux Falls, SD United States
Additional Information
Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) by hosting a number of special events, including the 7th Annual Downtown Jazz Crawl.
JAM was designated by the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in 2001 and the U.S. Congress passed legislation in 2003 that declared April as Jazz Appreciation Month.
JAM Sioux Falls signature event, the Downtown Jazz Crawl will feature many local jazz musicians at your favorite downtown bars and restaurants, starting at 5pm.
2013 Downtown Jazz Crawl
Various Locations Downtown
Saturday, April 13, starting at 5pm.
For More Information call: 605.335.6101
13 downtown venues and over 30 local jazz musicians!
Build your own progressive food and music menu as you travel to the various downtown hot spots to experience a wide array of jazz music!
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• Taste of the Big Apple, Dan Larsen 5pm
• Wild Sage Grille, Jim McKinney Trio 6pm
• Acoustic, Chris Borchardt 6pm
• Bros Brasserie, "Jazzed" with Bobby Gripp 6pm
• Crawford's, Hegg Brothers 6:30pm
• Grille 26, Sticks and Strings 7pm
• Icon Lounge, SDSU Faculty Jazz Combo, 7:30pm*
• Monks, Elisabeth Hunstad 8pm
• Paramount, Chris Champion 8pm
• Parker's Bistro, Ken Jacobs 8 pm
Old Skoolz, Telejazz 8pm
Touch of Europe, Rhythm Method 8:30pm
Latitude 44, Dakota Jazz Collective Featuring Allison Nash, 9pm
Icon Lounge, Davina and the Vagabonds 9:30pm* *Icon Lounge will have a cover charge - $10 in advance, $12 at the door- good for the entire night
For more information about Jazz Appreciation Month events, click here.


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Dec. 9, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Kate Thornton turned in a spectacular performance on Saturday afternoon in the Zesiger Center pool, as the senior was a part of three of MIT's four victories. The El Cajon, Calif. native also turned in a time of 17:47.99 in the 1650-yard freestyle, leaving her just three seconds off the NCAA "B" cut. Her efforts were enough to propel Tech past New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) rival Smith College, 228-72, but her heroics fell just short of earning the Cardinal and Gray a double victory, as the hosts fell to another NEWMAC foe, Wheaton College, 151-148.
Following the afternoon split, the Engineers now stand at 4-1 (3-1 NEWMAC), while Smith -which fell to Wheaton - drops to 1-4-1 (0-3 NEWMAC) and the Lyons improve to 7-2 (5-1 NEWMAC).
Entering the final event of the afternoon - the 200-yard freestyle relay - the Engineers needed a 1-2 finish to overcome their deficit against Wheaton. In a tactical move, head coach Dawn Gerken split up her "A" and "B" combos, and the shuffle nearly paid off. The "A" team of Stephanie Sidelko, Priya Parayanthal, Ashley Pinchinat and Thornton touched the wall with a first place time of 1:41.75, but the "B" team of Star Simpson, Sarah King, Jackee Nowicke and Jessica Harpole placed third, under two seconds off the second place time.
In addition to her victory in the 1650-yard freestyle, Thornton picked up maximum points in the 500-yard freestyle with a winning time of 5:11.93.
Sophomore Nicole O'Keeffe, who turned in a second-place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle, won the 200-yard individual medley with a college-best 2:16.71. She also clocked a great final 50 yards in the 200-yard breaststroke, nearly making up a two-second deficit.
Junior Annika Larsson swam to a college-best in the 100-yard fly, while Simpson and much of the 200-yard freestyle relay teams turned in season-bests.
Gerken had plenty of praise for her team, noting that "the women swam with a lot of heart but came up a few tenths short. After an intense academic week, I thought the team swam with intensity and desire. We are headed to Puerto Rico to train for nine days in January and you can bet on both our men's and women's teams being in the hunt for a NEWMAC Championship title and top 15 NCAA finishes," she added.
The Engineers now have over a month before returning to dual meet action. On Saturday, Jan. 13, Tech will travel to Waltham, Mass. to take on Brandeis University at 1:00 p.m. Smith will return to action that very same day, when it will host Wellesley College at 1:00 p.m., while the Lyons will host Coast Guard on Saturday, Jan. 6 at 1:00 p.m.


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Spanish Legislature Rejects Hollywood-Backed Copyright Law Changes
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But... it appears that with all this attention, some backlash has come about as well, and the Spanish legislative body surprised a lot of people and rejected the proposed changes(Google translation from the original Spanish). It was a narrow vote, but it sounds like this issue is dead until at least next year. Of course, in the interim, expect more ridiculous and unsubstantiated bellyaching about how entertainment in Spain is dying.


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|Posted: October 28, 2008
Novel optical fiber allows ultrashort light pulses with an unprecedented low degree of distortions
|(Nanowerk News) Researchers of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have developed a novel optical fiber that enables transmission of ultrashort light pulses with an unprecedented low degree of distortions. The researchers transmitted light pulses of 13 fs duration (1 fs = 1 millionth billionth of a second) over one meter distance, with the pulses only stretching to about double of the initial duration.
|Currently, no other fiber-based technique is capable of such little distortion, says Dr. Günter Steinmeyer. In comparison, using similar fibers of a more conventional make, pulse stretching to more than 50 times the original duration was observed. The novel fibers may be useful in medical applications, e.g., for guiding femtosecond pulses to the patient in a flexible manner. In their advance online section, Nature Photonics reports about this novel type of fiber.
|Chirped fiber (Image: Institut für Angewandte Photonik e.V.)
|The MBI fiber consists of many glass capillaries and guides the light on a diameter equal to about half the diameter of a human hair. In contrast to conventional hollow fibers, which consist of capillaries of equal diameter, the diameter changes in MBIs novel fiber (see figure). This can be understood as gluing straws side by side, yielding a tube of straws when the first and the final straw are also glued together. Repeating this procedure with straws of different diameter and fitting the resulting tubes into one another ultimately yields a structure similar to MBIs fiber.
|For manufacturing the fiber, the researchers have used 5 such tubes of straws. Referring to the systematic change in capillary diameter, the researchers call such a structure chirped. Launching ultrashort laser pulses into such a fiber, the chirped structure acts to distribute detrimental resonances over a wide wavelength range, which would otherwise add up at one wavelength if the capillaries had all the same diameter. The fiber was manufactured at Saratov State University in Russia.
|The researchers see one particularly interesting medical application of their fiber in photodynamic therapy. For this method, a photosensitizer is accumulated in cancerous cells. Exposing the photosensitizer to light, a substance is formed which causes fatal damage of the tumor cells. Using ultrashort laser pulses rather than continuous light, the selectivity of this therapeutic method could be significantly improved as the photoexcitation could be limited to the immediate vicinity of the focal area, whereas tissue layers immediately above or below the interaction zone would stay unharmed.
|So far, however, no fiber was available to guide the required short light pulses to the patient in a flexible way without severe distortions through an endoscope. The chirped fiber structure could also be beneficial for diagnostic applications in biology and medicine, such as in two-photon microscopy, a method that allows for three-dimensional resolution of smallest biological structures at effective suppress.
|Source: Forschungsverbund Berlin
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All too often this season, the Mets gave up the ground, confidence and groove they've had at home once they hit the road.
Only this time, the Mets aren't going to San Diego or Philadelphia, but Baltimore to face the horrible Orioles and then on to Cleveland.
The talk-shows have already given the Mets a 4-2 or 5-1 trip before heading into Yankee Stadium a week from today.
It doesn't work that way. You have to play the games first and the Orioles have beaten the Yankees twice and beat up the Red Sox in a series.
If what Jerry Manuel said is correct, that the Mets alter their offensive approach on the road because of some of the smaller stadiums, they have to be doubly careful this weekend, beginning tonight, at cozy Camden Yards.


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BPD officer Karr makes sergeant
The Beaumont Police Department Training Room was filled with officers, media reps and well-wishers as 25-year veteran Beaumont police officer Kenneth Karr accepted a promotion to sergeant during a ceremony held in his honor Feb. 23.A montage of photos from Karr's days on the force welcomed in guests, and the man of the hour regaled the group with stories of his years with the department and his lofty ambitions for this new post.
Karr said he got his start in law enforcement at the Beaumont Police Department in 1986 and hopes to continue his career in the station he has spent the last two-plus decades. During that time, he explained, he has had experience in all manners of policing practices."I think I've finally done about all there is to do in patrol," he said, jokingly adding, "and it only took me 25 years to do it."
According to BPD Officer Randy Stevens, Karr has been a great asset to the department over the years. Stevens said Karr most recently assisted city and county officials in clearing the blight from Beaumont neighborhoods by razing dilapidated structures, reducing the number of "safe houses" where illegal activity would run rampant. Karr also spent several years serving as a K-9 unit, taking drugs off the city's streets and patrolling through every shift the department had to offer.
Karr's work with razing structures will now stop, he said, an unfortunate side effect of shifting duties from a beat cop to ranked officer. However, his work on the streets of Beaumont is far from through. Karr said he anticipated working an array of shifts in his new post but will undoubtedly be back on patrol again, just in a supervisory role now. The veteran officer said he wouldn't want it any other way.
Karr's 25 years of service won't keep him from being the rookie sergeant, Stevens said, so now the seasoned officer will enter a new phase in his career starting from the beginning. Stevens added that all the ranked officers in BPD started as patrol officers and moved up the stations through time and hard work, Chief Frank Coffin included.
"We don't bring in officers from other departments in lateral transfers," Stevens said. "We only promote from within the department."Stevens gave many reasons for the protocol, saying BPD officers are familiar with other department heads and ranked personnel, knowledge that makes a crucial difference when investigating cases. Stevens added that Karr's experience and know-how will continue to make him an asset, and his work ethic and commitment to his community will make this promotion not only beneficial to the the department, but also the entire city of Beaumont.


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Earth Revealed: Introductory Geology "Evolution Through Time" Chronicles the development of life on Earth.G
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Curious George "Curious George Gets All Keyed Up/Gutter Monkey" George volunteers to deliver Betsy's xylophone to her school while she goes to the beautician.G
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Flower Power/Snowman's Land" Flower Power - Sally's mom has a cold, so Sally wants to pick her some colorful flowers to make her feel better. The Cat in the Hat takes Nick and Sally to the forest of Flora-Fah-Zoom where they meet three different creatures that all depend on flowers to live. Sally decides to make her mother a picture of their adventure in Flora-Fah-Zoom instead of picking a flower that animals need in order to survive. D
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Super Why! "Aladdin" Princess Pea is wishing for a playhouse to appear but no matter how many times she waves her wand, nothing happens! The Super Readers fly into the story of Aladdin to catch up with a lucky lad who's about to have all his wishes come true - courtesy of an amazing magic lamp! With the help of their literacy powers, the Super Readers dive inside the lamp to meet the genie himself. But will the Super Readers succeed in helping Aladdin get his wish, or will his dreams go up in smoke? Educational Objectives: To learn about taking the initiative. The alphabet is explored and kids practice the magic of spelling and use the power to read to change the story. D
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Dinosaur Train "Great Big Stomping Dinosaur Feet!/Hornucopia" Great Big Stomping Dinosaur Feet! - Tiny is very worried after she loses Shiny's favorite shiny shell, and enlists Dad and Buddy to help find a new one. As Tiny becomes more frantic, she begins stomping with frustration. Then the kids meet Daphne, a Daspletosaurus kid who shows them how to make stomping a fun dance instead of a temper tantrum. D
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Sesame Street "Sesame Street-O-Saurus" Grover, Elmo, and Rosita are imaging that they are Paleontologists, scientists who dig through dirt and stones to find fossils. Chris explains that fossils are what are left of a plant or an animal that lived a long time ago. The first thing they find in the dirt is a colorful, metal soup ladle which Grover thinks is a bone from a dinosaur. D
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty/Daniel Goes To The Potty" Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty - Prince Wednesday is in the block corner at school building the "tallest tower in the world!" Even though he needs to go to the bathroom, he doesn't want to stop what he is doing. He learns how important it is to stop and go right away. Daniel Goes to the Potty - Dad's trumpet is broken, so he takes Daniel along to Music Man Stan's Shop to get it fixed. D
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Sid The Science Kid "All My Senses" Sid wants to know about all his different senses. At school, Sid and his friends embark on a quest to explore vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste!. D
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WordWorld "Boppin' with the Bug Band/Shuffleword" Boppin' with the Bug Band - Ant is having a band showcase on his radio show and while Bug, Fly and Bee have some really good music, they need a lot of help with their lyrics. Frog teaches the Bug Band all about rhyming and they eventually give a fantastic performance. Shuffleword - When Pig and Ant get into an argument while playing Shuffleword, Pig storms off with the consonants and Ant storms off with the vowels but they soon realize that not only do they need each other's letters to make words but they also need each other to have fun!. D
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Caillou "Caillou Gets Active" What's Ringette?: Caillou and Leo want to play hockey and are disappointed when they arrive at the rink to find Sarah and Clementine playing "ringette". Caillou has never heard of ringette before, and he doesn't want to play the game.until he learns that Mommy used to play! She teaches him a few moves, and when Caillou and Leo realize it's a lot like hockey, they're eager to join the girls' next game. D
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Barney & Friends "The Wind and the Sun and the Nature of Things" The Wind and the Sun: Baby Bop is excited to set up a lemonade stand on a beautiful, sunny day. Unfortunately, BJ thinks her spot is the perfect place to fly his kite. The two begin to argue about which is better, the sun or the wind. D
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Thomas & Friends "Learning Together" James to the Rescue - James is asked to be the Sodor Search and Rescue Engine but is upset when Toby is asked to help him. James says that Sodor Rescue Engines are Steam Engines, not Steam Trams like Toby! They chuff off to rescue Gordon whose wheels have come off the track. James wants to help by pulling him forward, but Toby thinks they should get Rocky since Gordon is too heavy. D
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Curious George "Curious George Gets All Keyed Up/Gutter Monkey" George volunteers to deliver Betsy's xylophone to her school while she goes to the beautician.G
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WordGirl "Theme Park Wham-Page/Chuck Makes A Buck" Theme Park Wham-Page - Becky and Bob are anxiously waiting in line for their chance to ride The Coaster-- the ultimate new roller coaster ride. The Whammer's enthusiasm for chocolate hot dogs and hi-striker machines at the park could ruin a totally fun day. Will WordGirl forfeit her chance to ride the coaster in order to stop the Whammer destroying the park? Vocabulary Words: Patience, Enthusiastic. D
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Wild Kratts "Attack of the Tree Eating Aliens" The Wild Kratts get an urgent call from a group of North American Wild Kratts kids telling them almost all of the trees in the forest are dying. It's a race against time to solve the mystery and help the forest and the creatures who live there. D
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Cyberchase "When Penguins Fly" Penguins can't fly - or can they? In Cyberspace, on one special night each year, the penguins of Penguia take flight to deliver gifts to young borgs across the virtual universe. For the first time ever, the CyberSquad's friend Fluff is participating, and invites his pals Matt, Jackie, Inez and Digit to join him in the impressive Penguin March. They head to the Ice Palace, where the gifts are made and where magic snowflakes are sprinkled on the penguins so they can fly. D
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Goggie ob teh Week: Tenacious Hound
"The Serbian Hound is a very kind breed of dog, forming bonds with its family and owners. It is a lively breed and loves to walk and play with loved ones. The Serbian Hound is a very good worker with a tenacious nature that will not let it give up until it finds its quarry."
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by John Colgan-Davis
"To a historian libraries are food, shelter and even muse…Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."— historian Barbara Tuchman
I am not working this summer, which means I have a lot of free time to go to different places and to do different things. It is one of the joys of vacation: to have time to go to places that you might not be able to visit much in your regular life and to spend more time there.
And so that is how the first three weeks of my summer break have been; I have spent some extra time in some special places. And some of my most enjoyable times this summer have been in branches of the Philadelphia public library.
I love libraries. They have been places of comfort, knowledge, wonder and discovery for me since I was a young kid and the Bookmobile brought a mini-library on wheels to Dunlap Elementary School. That is where I got my first library card, and I have had one ever since — for more than half a century.
It was in the library that I first listened to the LP, "The Best of Muddy Waters," that fueled my love of the blues. It was in the library that I discovered writers such as Kenneth Patchen, Ishmael Reed, Charles Dickens, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and many, many more.
I had people read stories to me in libraries, and to this day I love both being read to and reading to others. I spent many Saturdays there as a kid rather than being bored at home, and doing that kept me curious about the world and excited about learning.
It was in the library where, caught up in the excitement and tumult of 1960s' America, I learned about African and African-American history, studied music, folklore and mythology, and heard thinkers and writers of all types debate the state of the world. It was in libraries that I learned the importance of ideas and learned to think for myself.
When I had a research paper to do or wanted to dig into some interest of mine, there were always wonderful librarians there to help me. So being able to spend extended time in libraries this summer has been great. It has been a return to a place where a lot of my life was jump-started and propelled.
To me libraries are at the heart of well functioning communities. They do so much: bring people together, help people learn, give a forum to people, provide an area of calm and respite, bring folks of different generations together and much, much more.
I was in the children's section of the main branch a few weeks ago, and I eavesdropped on a cute puppet show and then witnessed a summer camp coming in for story time.
When I go to my neighborhood branch or to the Coleman Northwest Regional branch I often see chess clubs meeting, adults learning to use computers, literacy classes, and community meetings going on. I see parents who use the library as an after-school program for their kids, having them involved in library activities until they get off work.
If you go to the Free Library of Philadelphia website and look at the variety of programs and services the Free Library provides (http://www.freelibrary.org/libserv/index.htm), it becomes clear what an important role this institution plays in our lives. And if you click on any of the local branches, you will see that there is an impressive array of offerings available, from movie nights to summer reading clubs to quilting classes. And of course, this is true of libraries in the suburban areas as well. Libraries everywhere are important centers of our communities.
Unfortunately, libraries are not being funded at anywhere near the level they once were. Budgets in both suburbs and cities have been drastically cut, and libraries have borne a large share of these cuts in municipal services.
This saddens me; I now see libraries with shorter hours, fewer branches open at all times and less money to spend on adding to their collections. This is a crisis as far as I am concerned; it hurts us, our communities and our children. So if you can, I am asking that you make a contribution to your local library; to donate whatever you can.
I am in a very real way a product of the library system; so much of how I view and experience the world comes from the things I did and learned at the library. And that has helped me immensely. This is one of those unconscious debts that I picked up, and now I have an opportunity to repay it.
I grew up in a time of good schools. I had good schools to educate me and great libraries to take what I learned in school even further. At a time when our schools are no longer universally great, we definitely cannot afford to have libraries that are less than great as well. What chances do our kids have if that is the case?
As a Philadelphia resident I joined the Free Library Foundation, and you can also (http://www.freelibrary.org/donate/donate.htm). So please find a way to do that. Our libraries have helped us learn and develop; they have helped and continue to help educate generations of people and to make the world more accessible to them. That is definitely a legacy worth supporting. So please give.
John Colgan-Davis, a long-time resident of Mt. Airy, is one of the world's greatest harmonica players and a member of the Dukes of Destiny, a local blues/soul/rock band. Those who wish to do so could send donations to: Friends of the Chestnut Hill Library, 8711 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118


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Everything that is possible at all, is also impossible.
"Goofy is Pluto" is nonsense.
It is impossible to go wrong in logic unless human beings are involved.
Any sentence that makes sense is bound to be mis-heard.
Now that logic must take care of itself, can we trust it will be clothed, warmed and fed?
Can we identify the individual signs of idiocy in the midst of a blinding snowstorm?
If the signs can no longer be made out, why is it we must have signs?
If someone were to have torn down the signs in the night, would we know the difference?
If Pluto is Goofy, it may be Pluto who has torn down the signs.
Are those glimmerings we see through the blizzard the headlights of the logical snowplows?
The turnings in the road are dangerous in zero visibility.
Pluto would never be caught dead out on a night like this without the snowshoes of logic.
Were Pluto to be found dead in a snowdrift, would Goofy be more likely to lament or to celebrate?
Can logic be attributed to a system of thought that exists in defiance of logic?
When the drifts rise to cover the tops of the buildings, will the muffled cries of Pluto continue to be heard?
Samotnia Shelter, Karpacz, Karkonosze, Poland: photo by Klapi, 2006


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Kilroy Secures North American Title on Stunning Final Day of Racing
6 October 2014
San Francisco, Calif. - Continuing with the trend of making bold, accurate calls throughout the weekend, PRO Bruce Golison sent the Audi Melges 20 fleet out for a noon start with two races scheduled to determine the 2014 North American Champion, along with the top ten that was anything but settled. As if on cue, once to the starting area in the Berkeley Circle, the breeze built from 270 degrees and allowed for another perfect day of sailing with 9-14 knots of wind. Audi Melges 20s really come into their own in this condition with settled upwind sailing, and easy, fast planing downwind. It is tough to put into words how perfect the conditions were, and with the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz and Angel Island as the backdrop it made for some truly memorable racing.
With only Cesar Gomes Neto's Portobello and Michael Kiss' Bacio having a shot to displace John Kilroy's Samba Pa Ti from winning the event, it did not take long for Kilroy and his team to squash any hopes of last day drama as they went out and finished second in the first race, sealing the win with a race to spare. Finishing second overall never felt so good as the bullet went to the younger Kilroy, Liam on Wildman who won his first ever Audi Melges 20 race and had a shot to get fourth in the event.
Kilroy was able to sail a victory lap in the last race, but there was still plenty of drama in the middle of the fleet as essentially every finishing spot was still up for grabs in the final standings. Jim Wilson's Oleander team needed to have a solid last race to fend off a push from the Liam Kilroy and Richard Davies' Section 16, while both Kiss and Gomes Neto had to avoid tough races to hang onto their podium finishes. In the end, the two would tie and have their places determined by a count back, while Wilson was able to take a second in the last race and solidify his fourth place overall finish. Taking second place on the day and sliding into fifth overall was Liam Kilroy and a very excited Wildman team.
Hailing from San Francisco, Doug Wilhem and his Wilco team improved a ton over the weekend and took home the Corinthian honors and will be a team to watch as the Corinthian World Championship title will be decided on these same waters in October of 2015. From here, the Audi Melges 20 fleet takes a small break from its World Tour to regroup and set the stage for what will be a heated winter series in Biscayne Bay. With years of experience of hosting the winter series, the Coconut Grove Yacht Club is teed up again for another successful season of winter sailing.
The International Audi Melges 20 Class Association (IAM20CA) wishes to extend appreciation to all the teams that raced this past weekend, the continued worldwide support of Melges USA, to our host club The San Francisco Yacht Club and all their volunteers, especially Angie Lackey and Forrest Gay as well as the many others that made this event spectacular. It truly was a tell tale regatta of the amazing World Championship yet to come in 2015. As always, the spectacular Race Management team of Bruce Golison and Co. made eight races the very best ever!
TOP TEN RESULTS (FINAL - After Eight Races, One Discard)
1.) John Kilroy/Paul Goodison/Jeff Reynolds, Samba Pa Ti; 1-1-2-2-1-[4]-2-1 = 10
2.) Michael Kiss/Michael Buckley/Wille McBride, Bacio; 8-2-3-1-[10]-1-7-3 = 25
3.) Cesar Gomes Neto/Scott Nixon/John Bowden, Portobello; 7-4-1-3-[7]-3-3-4 = 25
4.) James Wilson/Jeremy Wilmot/Sam Rogers, Oleander; 5-5-[8]-8-2-5-5-2 = 32
5.) Liam Kilroy/Steve Hunt/Erik Shampain/Stephanie Roble, Wildman; 6-[15]-12-6-6-2-1-5 = 38
6.) Richard Davies/Charlie McKee/Matt Pistay, Section 16; 4-[13]-9-4-3-7-8-6 = 41
7.) Alexis Michas/Mark Mendleblatt/Brian Ledbetter, Midnight Blue; 2-3-5-[15]-5-14-10-7 = 46
8.) Marc Hollerbach/Jonathan McKee/Ben Allen, Fu; 9-6-[11]-5-9-10-4-10 = 53
9.) Andrea Pozzi/Lorenzo Bressani, Bombarda Racing; 10-9-4-12-8-[22/DNF]-6-12 = 61
10.) Rob Wilber/Anthony Kotoun/Dave Hughes, Cinghiale; 3-10-10-9-[12]-9-15-13 = 66
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
you make lovin' fun
31 comments:
- jessie said...
i absolutely love your dress! so cute- great find!
- February 15, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- Allison Bellomy said...
LOVE this dress on you! super cute!
- February 15, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- rainbows & fairydust said...
you look stunning in that dress!! and OH MY DAYS I NEED that underwear set!! it is just darling! soo glad you had a lovely valentines! ... me too!! :-)
- February 15, 2011 at 10:38 AM
I love your dress! it's so cute. I've been eyeing that little lingerie set! lucky you ^,^
- February 15, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- The Ettatorials said...
Your dress is adorable and how lovely is that new lingerie?!
- February 15, 2011 at 11:01 AM
- archives said...
that is an AWESOME dress. and i SO love the goods from the loved one! :)
- February 15, 2011 at 11:05 AM
- Julie said...
cute dress! food that doesn't require utensils always tastes better. proven fact!
- February 15, 2011 at 11:31 AM
- hannah said...
I kid you not, my belly is rumbling at this post! That spread looks amazing!
I'm so glad to hear that you spent the night with the loved one O_O!
- February 15, 2011 at 11:37 AM
- Nicole said...
I'm eating lunch with my hands as I read this... carrots & pita to dip into babaganoush & tzatziki :)
- February 15, 2011 at 11:45 AM
- Between Laundry Days said...
Your Valentines stuff is so damn cute! And I love the indoor photos; they look perfect with that adorable new dress!
- February 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- veronika, tick tock vintage. said...
i've been wanting something from the loved one, just haven't had the chance to splurge on it yet. and that dress - SO cute. it reminds me of the one that is very similar from zara that was making it's way around the blogosphere in the fall. truth be told, i like yours better.
- February 15, 2011 at 12:54 PM
- beaucoup vintage said...
You in that dress + the dresser and suitcase remind me of an anthropologie ad, ya know? Everything works!
And it looks like you guys had a perfecto Valentine's day! :)
- February 15, 2011 at 12:54 PM
sooo cute, what a great find!!
- February 15, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Carys said...
I love the indoor pictures, and your dress is so nice! This is definitely my favourite post of yours to date, I just love it!
From Carys of La Ville Inconnue
- February 15, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- Ana - Better in Sepia said...
That dress is perfect! I've been wishing for a dress just like that, but haven't found one yet.
I saw that lingerie on Calivintage and thought about buying it, but I'm so afraid of buying stuff like that without seeing it first. Were you happy with it?
- February 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM
- Victoria / Justice Pirate said...
what a wonderful dress and these photos are quite lovely indeed. I'm sorry your other ones didn't turn out the way you had hoped at all though. Looks like such a creative and lovely Valentine's Day!!!! yey! love the lingerie too! I have a weakness for nice underwear because I own a lot!
- February 15, 2011 at 2:55 PM
- devorelebeaumonstre. said...
love your dress. I need it! x
- February 15, 2011 at 7:48 PM
that dress is marvelous. it seriously looks like it was made for you. i really like the lighting and your "ambiance" in these photos... and the title of the post is obviously pretty rad :)
- February 15, 2011 at 9:24 PM
I'm in love with that dress, don't think I've ever seen something like it, is beautiful - awesome find!
- February 15, 2011 at 10:01 PM
- Melanie said...
Great find in the dress. And it sounds like a wonderful day! :)
- February 15, 2011 at 10:15 PM
- surfvintage said...
Absolutely gorgeous dress!
Amazing lingerie!!!!!
- February 16, 2011 at 7:25 AM
- Flashes of Style said...
Hi! Oh this dress is so sweet I love that peterpan collar. That's crazy that you live in Siloam Springs!! Is that your boutique a few posts down? If so it is soo adorable! I would love to stop by :)
- February 16, 2011 at 8:11 AM
- alexandra grecco said...
such a cute dress ; )
- February 16, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- CAITLIN said...
sounds like you had an amazing valentine's day!! i also love eating with my hands--your spread actually made me really crave cheesy fondue! might have to make some...
ps that dress is absolute perfection.
- February 16, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- the other emily said...
Sounds like you guys had such a super-sweet Valentine's Day :)
I absolutely love this dress too, especially with those navy tights. Short dresses with long sleeves always make me feel like an ice skater, and the effect is even better with that adorable collar. Sometimes an etsy splurge can really pay off!
the other emily
- February 16, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- tara-lynn said...
i got my lingerie too!
enid ate all my candy.
amazing dress.
& thanks for your words of encouragement sweetie, it was really kind of you.
- February 16, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- myedit said...
I want your house and I want to be your valentine. Too much?
- February 16, 2011 at 4:03 PM
- Emily said...
wow! that dress really is the cutest! and i got a TLO piece too! "the bed and how to make it" was my choice.
- February 17, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Oh my god, are these outfit pictures or are you secretly a model and you scanned these from a magazine?
I don't know what vibe I'm getting here... almost anthropology(ie?)
I donno but it all fits so well together.
And this dress IS pretty damn amazing. you are too freaking cute. This really makes me want to go dress hunting in thrift stores ASAP.
Oh man. a couple more days.
- February 19, 2011 at 9:12 AM
- Kimberellie said...
great post. love that you showed us pics of your underthings! You are the greatest Amanda!
- February 20, 2011 at 1:08 AM
- Libby, Vintage Aplomb said...
I found your blog via The Upside of Wonder, and I'm so glad I did! That dress is adorable!!!
- February 20, 2011 at 3:16 PM


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"Hoshikage: The Buried Truth" (星影 葬り去られた真実, Hoshikage Hōmurisarareta Shinjutsu) is episode 181 of the original Naruto anime.
Akahoshi says that the mission for the Konoha shinobi is over, but Neji says that as the star has not been recovered, the mission will go on. Neji, Lee and Tenten reveal the truth about Akahoshi to the trainees. Naruto awakens and hears about Natsuhi and her husband seeing the horrors of the star training, and trying to steal the star. After they were caught, the Third Hoshikage agreed to end the star training if they left the village and watched from afar to prevent it from resuming. Natsuhi and her husband accepted, asking the Hoshikage to tell Sumaru that they had died. Akahoshi tracks down the star, and reveals that he assassinated the Hoshikage in order to resume the star training. He fights Natsuhi and absorbs his subordinates' chakra to grow stronger, but Naruto's team-mates and the star trainees arrive.


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Personal Shoppers: No Longer Just for the Privileged
Personal shoppers are no longer just a privilege enjoyed by ladies with envy-inducing retail budgets. Jenni Avins put four services to the test, and shares her impressions on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
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Over the years I have had many clients who, in addition to shares of stock or mutual funds, also owned "units" of a limited partnership venture. If you own stock or mutual funds you report on your Form 1040 any dividends received. While investors in a limited partnership may receive distributions similar to dividends, they do not report what they have received from the partnership but instead their "distributive share" of the entity's individual sources of income, losses, deductions and credits. A limited partner receives a Form K-1 to report his/her distributive share of the income, losses, deductions and credits.
The first problem with K-1s from the point of view of a tax preparer is that they always arrive late. Unlike other tax information reporting forms, like 1099s and 1098s which are required to be sent to taxpayers by January 31st, investors do not receive their Form K-1s until the middle or end of March. Some do not come until April. The due date of the federal partnership tax return, Form 1065, is generally the same as the due date for the Form 1040. Because I do not want to work on 1040s in "installments" I cannot begin the tax return of a client with limited partnership investments until late in the season, when I am usually already backed up.
The second problem is that because limited partnerships invest in real estate, oil and gas, timber, commodities and futures, and the like they often generate unique deductions and credits that must be reported on any number of obscure supplemental tax forms and schedules. Each form and schedule takes time to complete. In most cases it seems to me that I am spending an hour or more to complete all the required supplemental forms and schedules to provide the client with a minimum effective tax savings. It costs more to prepare the multitude of forms and schedules than any ultimate tax benefits provided!
The third is that because of the nature of limited partnership investments you cannot simply take the individual items of income, deduction and credit reported on the many lines of the Form K-1 and directly transfer them to the 1040 as is – not that that is a simple process. Limited partnerships fall under the rules of a "passive investment" and as a result are limited in the amount of losses, deductions or credits that can be claimed.
An investor in a limited partnership is a "limited" partner. A "general partner" manages the business and is personally liable for the debts of the partnership. A "limited partner" is liable only to the extent of his/her dollar investment in the partnership. If a person invests $1,000.00 as a limited partner the most he can lose is the $1,000.00. The deduction of losses from a limited partnership is first limited to the investor's "at risk" basis. Generally a limited partner with an investment of $1,000.00 can only deduct up to $1,000.00 in losses from the entity.
Limited partnership losses are also subject to the passive loss limitation rules. As a general rule passive losses are only deductible to the extent of passive income. In the acronyms of the tax world, a PAL (passive activity loss) needs a PIG (passive income generator). Losses that cannot be deducted on the current year Form 1040 are "suspended" until the investment is disposed of (you sell your units or the partnership terminates) or passive income is generated. And who do you think is going to be the one to keep track of all these suspended losses – certainly not the client!
Generally losses from one limited partnership can be deducted against income from another limited partnership. However, there is a special type of limited partnership called a Publicly Traded Partnership (PTP). You can offset losses from a PTP only against income or gain from the same PTP. You cannot apply losses from a PTP against excess gain from another limited partnership. Income and losses from a PTP are not reported on Form 8582 (Passive Activity Loss Limitations). Any net income from current year activity less prior year unallowed losses is reported as "nonpassive income" directly on Schedule E. So PTPs require even more detailed recordkeeping.
Why do individuals invest in limited partnerships? I doubt any of my clients that have owned a limited partnership investment over the years actually called up his/her broker and said, "I want to buy some units of XYZ Timber LP." Individuals invest in limited partnerships because their brokers tell them to!
While I cannot say this with certainty, it is my belief that brokers receive a higher commission from selling limited partnership units than from selling traditional shares of stock. Similar to the fact that a broker will receive a higher commission from selling an annuity. In many cases the brokerage house will "encourage" their brokers to push a certain limited partnership in which the house has some kind of vested interest. I remember years ago when almost all my clients with accounts at Shearson (a name that has disappeared due to multiple subsequent mergers) owned a Balcor limited partnership.
As I do not own any limited partnership units myself (the only time I was tempted was when I received an offering from Broadway produced Alexander Cohen to invest in a Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore review back in the 1970s – instead I invested in my own local production of Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY which did not show a profit, unlike the Cooke and Moore show) and I do not follow the market, I cannot say whether a limited partnership investment has the potential to return a greater profit than a stock or bond investment. I do know that several limited partnerships offer the pas through to investors of specialized tax credits – although often these credits must eventually be "recaptured", which causes more tax preparation nightmares.
As a point of information - for a great while the IRS was not able to properly match K-1 information to 1040s, as it has been able to do with 1099 information returns for just about all of my years in "the business". However that appears to no longer be true. Already this year I have seen IRS notices regarding income from 2006 K-1s not reported on the corresponding Form 1040.
I would certainly welcome hearing from brokers on the merits of investing in a limited partnership, and would also be interested in knowing if brokers do indeed receive a greater commission or incentive to sell such investments (you can make your comments anonymously). I want to know if the necessary additional tax preparation fees charged to clients for all the extra work and agita that comes with limited partnership Form K-1s is worth it. I also welcome comments from taxpayers who have invested in a limited partnership and from fellow tax preparers.


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Classical suite for Piano and Cello. The musical key is changing with every turnaround what gives this tune very cinematic feel.
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Feb 11, 2009
Feb. 11, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior Laurent Charpentier added to an awards-filled regular season after being named the Division III Counsilman Hunsaker National Collegiate Swimmer of the Week.
Charpentier, who hails from Aigues-Montes, France, had two wins at the non-scoring MIT Invitational. The senior star won the 100 butterfly (52.08), the 200 individual medley (1:58.16) and swam to a second place finish in the 50 freestyle (21.65). Charpentier also assisted on the second place 400 medley relay (3:34.51) and the second place 200 medley relay.


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(INDIANAPOLIS) - The lawsuit filed by the parents of a missing Indiana University student against three men who were with her the night she was last seen is on hold until a judge decides whether to dismiss it.
Lawyers for both sides met Thursday with a federal magistrate in Indianapolis, after which the magistrate suspended any evidence-gathering while Judge Tanya Walton Pratt considers dismissal motions.
Lawyers for Corey Rossman, Michael Beth and Jason Rosenbaum maintain Lauren Spierer's parents have no evidence that their daughter has died or that the men were involved in her death.
The lawsuit claims the three men, IU students at the time, gave 20-year-old Spierer alcohol and then failed to make sure the intoxicated and incapacitated woman made it back to her apartment safely after a night of partying in downtown Bloomington. The Greenburgh, N.Y., native vanished early on June 3, 2011.
Spierer's parents have long maintained that the men haven't fully cooperated with investigators and hope the lawsuit will force them to answer questions under oath. But Magistrate Tim Baker decided action in the case should wait for a decision on the lawsuit's fate.
"In light of the issues raised in the pending motions to dismiss, as well as defendants' expected assertion of their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, the court grants the defendants' request to stay all discovery pending rulings on those motions," Baker's order said.
No criminal charges have been filed in Spierer's disappearance and there's been no sign of her despite numerous searches around Bloomington and the surrounding wooded countryside that's dotted with lakes and water-filled old limestone quarries about 40 miles south of Indianapolis.
Rossman's lawyer said his client had drinks with Spierer at a bar near campus and they later went to his apartment, where he went to bed, The Herald-Times reported.
Rosenbaum's lawyer wrote a response that his client had no obligation to care for Spierer in her intoxicated state, and that she left his apartment of her own free will. Beth's lawyer said the last time his client saw Spierer, she was intoxicated but "awake and coherent."
All three men now live outside of Indiana.
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And that's where I've been for the last 24 hours. My brain is spinning with what if's, if only I knew, and more questions than I had when I awoke yesterday morning.
The culprit.
Now I've seen several personalized post cards in my grandmother's collection so can only assume this is another one. I know that Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Gunzendorfer were my great grandparents and they did, in fact, live in Monterey, California in 1905 after spending about 8 years in San Francisco. I also know that Abe's brother was Adolph, also known as A.G., and that he was in Los Angeles between about 1901 and 1907. So it would make sense that he would write a card to his brother, sister-in-law, and their two children, one of whom was my grandmother, Mildred Loraine Gunzendorfer.
What I can't be sure of is if the man looking silly on the card was, indeed, Adolph Gunzendorfer. I have only run across one other photo of Adolph when he posed for a family photo in about 1896.
Back row – Abraham, Gustave, Minnie Dauterman ?, Adolph ?, Jacob?
Center row – Bertha Schwartz (holding Loraine), Ferdinand, Fannie Goldstein, Inez Steinberger (holding Mervyn)
Front row – Irene Gunzendorfer
I've made some assumptions on this photo but I'm about 99% sure I'm accurate. I'm positive that is Abraham on the left, nearly certain next is Gustave, assume it is Gustave's wife Minnie standing next to him, and then I know the next two are either Adolph and Jacob…..or Jacob and Adolph. But since Adolph wasn't married at the time and Jacob was, I can assume the woman sitting in front of whom I think is Jacob is his wife, Inez, holding their young son, Mervyn. And I know that is Bertha on the left (I'd know her ANYWHERE) holding my grandmother, Ferdinand and Fannie in the center, and then little Irene in the front. And since my grandmother was born in January, 1896 and Mervyn was born just 3 months later, I can be certain this photo was taken some time in 1896. And then came the goofy photo from Adolph above which makes me really think Adolph is second from the right in the family photo.
So then what? Let's see what I know about Adolph.
He was born in February, 1866 in California. I don't know the exact date or city but hope to be able to figure that out. I have found a marriage record from 23 Mar 1887 showing his marriage to Emma Schoen in Monterey. I have found NO other reference to Emma so I hope to be able to figure out what happened to her – did she die, did they divorce, or what? From 1888 to 1896, I know Adolph was in Monterey working in the family business, The White House. And that's where things started to get a little more interesting.
By 1901 Adolph was a "manager" in Los Angeles. And by 1904, the city directory shows that he is a Manager in billiards. Huh? Each year thereafter his occupation remains unchanged and finally he is linked to the Casino Billiard Parlor at 344 S. Spring in Los Angeles. And during that time he decided to send a goofy post card to his brother back home in Monterey.
It must have taken some time to get the Casino Billiard Parlor up and running as the Grand Opening was held on 15 Dec 1903.
Los Angeles Herald
Volume XXXI, Number 76
15 Dec 1903
There were lots of other 'amusements' in Los Angeles at that time but I can imagine this grand opening was quite an attraction.
In 1904, Adolph was a "backer" in a group of well known gold mines In Kern County operated by E.W. Doss. $10,000 was a lot of money in 1904! (Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXXII, Number 56, 26 Nov 1904)
But by 1908 things didn't seem to be going so well for the parlor.
Los Angeles Herald
Volume XXXV, Number 274
City Hall Notes
2 Jul 1908
Now that's interesting. And even more interesting that by 1910 Adolph was back in San Francisco with his wife, Charlotte White. What happened in Los Angeles to cause him to come back to the northern part of the state? I know that from 1910 until the end of his life in 1932, Adolph was a fixture in San Francisco where it looked like he worked in an international specialty company.
A few other interesting tidbits about Adolph will show up soon – stay tuned for more of the story!


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Inspiring Young Environmentalists
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We are so grateful to God, because there are still three environmental young leaders in Indonesia which dare to help conserve the environment in a sustainable way. They are Achmad Solikhin, Haqqy Rerian Erlangga and Anggita Putri Chaerani.
Achmad Solikhin is a student at the Bogor Agricultural
University, majoring from the Forestry Faculty. He is highly
passionate about the environment and forestry. Haqqy Rerian
Erlangga is a student at the University of Riau, majoring from
the Fishery Faculty. He is also actively involved in
international platforms of relevant to his interests. The last is
Anggita Putri Chaerani, a student at Gadjah Mada University,
majoring from the Faculty of Law. She is actually interested to
the international law, but it is not an obstacle to her love of
the environment.
We have reviewed their active involvements towards the
environment in the form of a short interview.
What your role in relation to the
As the active members of UNESCO Youth Peace Ambassador, we have
established an environmental networking forum for children and
youth. The forum is well known in Indonesia as IGaF – Indonesian
Greenaction Forum. We actively campaign for the protection of the
environment by executing real actions. For further information
kindly open this link : www.i-gaf.org. On the other hand, we have
collaborated with United Nations agencies such as the UNESCO
Office in Jakarta, UNEP TUNZA SEAYEN, and TUNZA Eco-generation on
expanding the environmental network.
Why have you established IGaF, and involved children and youth?
We wanted to establish IGaF because of environmental problems in Indonesia. We realized that the environmental degradation should be tackled by an initiative which creates a positive impact for the environment. IGaF has been established to embody sustainable environment and the culture of peace. In accordance with the goal of IGaF, A Green Pathway for Sustainable Environment, the engagement of children and youth are major focuses because they have the potential to be easily persuaded and profoundly convinced to conserve the environment. That is why we want to implement early ecoeducation for them. So far, we have engaged more than 750 children and youth from different provinces of Indonesia.
Why do you prefer to execute eco-projects as environmental
We still remember that real action is more impactful than to just
keep on babbling. So from the above, we are aware that by
executing action plans made by us, we can help achieve
environmental sustainability. On the other hand, an eco-project
will be a bridge to engage a local community so that the role of
a local community is to demand environment conservation. We still
remember that many successful environmental projects tend to
strongly involve local communities.
Looking at the IGaF founders'
different backgrounds, what is the greatest challenge in
maintaining the platform?
We confront many challenges, especially related to our variety of
different backgrounds. Apparently, we all agree about raising
environmental awareness among children and youth. To maintain the
IGaF platform, we constantly have to discuss with each other
occurring problems and their solution. A good and clear
communication is the most crucial element to sustain the
What are the next steps for the IGaF?
Our expectation is the sustainability of the eco-project of IGaF. The sustainability of eco-projects could be achieved by continual execution of project. Although it is a small project, we are looking for impact. In addition, the networks of IGaF should be extended by our community internally and externally. The network could be linked with national and international agencies to help us provide financial assistance and support.
The above is a short introduction of three inspiring
environmental young leaders from Indonesia. Hopefully, they will
inspire you to become …..


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Esther Morgensztern
Born: 1927
Kaluszyn, Poland
The fourth of five children, Esther was born to Jewish parents living 35 miles east of Warsaw in the small predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn. Esther's mother and grandmother ran a newspaper kiosk in the town, and her father worked as a clerk at the town hall.
1933-39: Next year would have been my last year at school, but I won't be able to graduate. War has broken out between Poland and Germany, so the schools have closed. A big battle took place here in Kaluszyn. The town was heavily shelled and many houses, including our building, were destroyed. My parents have decided to move to Minsk Mazowiecki, 10 miles away, where my father has relatives. We'll have to live with them for a while.
1940-44: When we first moved in with my relatives, it wasn't so bad. But now the rooms are so crowded that my grandmother, who came with us, has decided to return to Kaluszyn to live with my Aunt Raizel. The Nazis have forced more than 5,000 Jews in Minsk Mazowiecki to live in one small area of the town. There aren't enough houses for everyone, so families are doubling up. Typhus, carried by lice, has started to spread, and my mother is always worrying that we'll come down with the fever.
In 1942, 15-year-old Esther and her family fled to Kaluszyn to escape deportation. Soon after, however, the Jews in Kaluszyn were deported to the Treblinka killing center.


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Photographic License to Discriminate?
The loosening of restrictions on same-sex marriage over the last decade has been accompanied by the refusal of persons opposed to such unions to participate in them in any way. Naturally, the law requires no one to show up and cheer at a same-sex wedding or commitment ceremony, but what if a county clerk did not want to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or a health care worker refused to perform the necessary blood tests? Obviously, some objections to marriage will intrude on a couple's ability to marry more than others.
The key to understanding which objections are legal and which are not does not only lie in guarantees of religious freedom. Everyone is free to harbor religious or philosophical opposition to same-gender couples and to shout that message from the rooftops, as long as they do not create a nuisance in doing so. It is in jurisdictions that have enacted prohibitions on sexual orientation discrimination in public accommodations where those who peddle their wares in the public marketplace are not allowed to reject customers for being gay. In such jurisdictions, religious opponents to same-sex unions have every right to voice their objections in church and to teach their children that it is wrong to be gay. If these opponents open up shop in the local marketplace, however, they are required to leave their biases at home.
New Mexico has such a law. Elaine Huguenin is a talented photographer who makes a good living recording important moments in the lives of the people of Albuquerque. In 2006 she decided to refuse the request of a lesbian couple that she be the photographer at their commitment ceremony. When sued, Huguenin, obviously aware that her religious freedom argument would have no traction under decades-old Supreme Court precedent, came up with the novel argument that if she were required to photograph the ceremony, she would be forced to celebrate it and to express that she is accepting of same-sex marriage. This is a story that Huguenin did not want to tell.
Huguenin's argument sounds as if it was lifted from the Supreme Court's Boy Scouts of America v. Dale decision. But since her "expressive policy" is merely to make money with her camera, she gave the argument a twist. She insisted that artists, since they create protected speech, must be free to choose what customers they will serve and will not.
While I have no reason to doubt that Huguenin is an artist of the highest caliber with a special flair for photographic storytelling, I fail to see how her status elevates her above someone who merely hires herself out to record an event. I am certain there have been many occasions when the contract between Huguenin and her customers has constrained her to adhere to provisions about how and when, to what degree and in what format they want their stories told. But the question here is not whether Huguenin can refuse to sign a contract whose provisions offend her artistic sensibilities. The question is whether she can refuse her services because the customers are gay. In Huguenin's case, at least, an argument for carving out an exception in the law for artists is not likely to carry the day.
Furthermore, the law in this case simply does not force Huguenin to make art in a way not of her choosing or to utter a statement that is against her religion. First, it is a given that Huguenin will tell the story of an event in her own way. She is, after all, the one behind the camera. Second, as someone hired to take pictures at the event, she participates primarily as an observer who has some interaction with the major players when she stages certain photographs. More important than the fact that she is not truly there to celebrate is the fact that her hired presence in no way implies an expression that she believes in the goodness of the proceedings.
If Huguenin wants to turn a profit in the economic environment the State of New Mexico provides her, the citizens of that state have declared that there are certain business decisions she may not make. The good news for those who want to discriminate nonetheless is that relatively few jurisdictions in this country have public accommodations laws that forbid sexual orientation discrimination. Right next door to New Mexico, Arizona has such laws only at the local level in Tucson and Phoenix. There is also a paucity of public accommodations protections in neighboring Texas and Oklahoma. It should thus be relatively easy for Huguenin to find her way to a place where she is truly free to marry her business practices with her religious convictions.


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3/21/2004 7:57pm, #1
The Worst Techniques I've Ever Been Taught
(a continual growing list as more and more memories from my karate days come flooding back)
- Knee to the groin defense: Drop both hands and palm strike the incoming knee. Especially helpful considering the human body is physiologically incapable of punching and kneeing at the same time.
- Knife Disarm: Assume the person has approached you and is statically holding a knife in the air, pointed somewhere in your general direction. Slap the back of his hand as you foreknuckle strike just below his wrist. This technique worked about one out of four times, and each time the knife would go sailing out of the assailant's hand in a completely unpredictable way including, at one point, my throat.
- Crane beak to the jaw; wrist strike to the chest or thigh.
- Asked sensei for some effective ways to attack the legs/feet. At the time, I was having a big "efficiency" kick and wanted to learn the most practical way to hurt a person from a distance. Sensei advised me to kneel down and punch him in the foot.
- We were taught that all fights occur at "streetfighting range" which is, no exaggeration, about one-inch from the opponent.
- Haymaker defense: Karate chop the collar bone, breaking it. Grab the offending arm, straighten it out, and jerk it back and forth "into" their shoulder. The idea was that once you broke the collarbone, you could use the arm to stab them in the throat with their own clavicle.
- When a person commits to a punch, we were taught, they can do nothing else until they hit something. This principle was exploited in depth as we discovered fascinating things about how people have no control over their fist once they launch it and anything else is goddamned witchcraft.
- My school placed an absurd amount of emphasis on effeciency, even when it made no sense. I'm sure pretty much anyone here who's had experience with a TMA knows about the idea of blocks being strikes, right? Well, I was taught that every single motion of the block was a strike. EVERY SINGLE MOTION. This eventually wound up with surreal contests where the teacher would throw a middle block in slow-motion and count how many potential strikes there were in it, then backtrack and go for the high score as the class watched with utmost respect.
- Toe gouge to the femoral artery. Toe gouge to the femoral artery. Intended as a killing blow.
- "Sometimes, the best defense against (grappling) is a pinch." That was actually said by the sensei's wife/girlfriend, but she was a complete ***** who, even at black belt level, could not throw a proper punch nor make the correct Isshin-Ryu fist.
- Nukite strikes. Some people readily admitted that striking with your fingertips was utter madness and that they should be interpreted as palm strikes. Others told me to jam my fingers into milk jugs full of sand to properly condition myself for the upcoming Finger Wars of 2027.
- At one point the sensei went off on a tangent about what he'd do to terrorists if they hijacked his plane. One of them involved reaching his hands out into space, twisting quickly, and saying "that would've broken their neck".
- When you're pulling on someone's arm, it's better to pull using only your middle finger, ring finger, and thumb, instead of your whole hand. I mean that's just silly.
- Actual quote: "It's been proven time and time again: The guy who has his hands down by his waist will punch faster than the guy who has his hands up by his head."
- How to throw a hook: The arms are to remain completely straight, up until a second before impact, at which point you suddenly bend your arm. I have no idea what the rationale is behind this
- From the kata Seisan (which I understand a lot of the karate folk should be familair with), there's a series of "hand-off" motions. These motions created bunkai for an incredibly elaborate defense against a straightforward punch that ended with you and your opponent back-to-back, his head resting on your shoulder, and you leading him around with your middle finger latched onto his upper lip.
Double lapel grab defense: Lightly grab both elbows and lift up; double karate chop to the exposed ribcage. This, I was told, is a zero-effort move.
Reverse vertical punch defense: Strike with the webbing of the hand into the "front" of the bicep. Be careful with this move; you could "move" the muscle up towards the shoulder blade.
Drop down to one knee, punch to the balls. The important thing to remember here is to tripod your legs for extra stability; that is, your rear leg should be off at a 45 pointing towards your front leg. This way, your opponent can't just push you over since, if you're kneeling down in a fight, your worst fear is falling to your side.
More kneeling attacks: Drop down to a lung right in front of your opponent's legs, like you're doing a basic shot. Then throw two hooks to his thights. On a personal note, I fucking hated this technique. Being a compliant uke is one thing, but just standing there and letting the fucker s-l-o-w-l-y hammer away at your inner thight with his fists and elbows, trying to see how many potential hits he can get off you (there's that efficiency again!) made me realize what Christ must've felt like
This was a weird one. If a guy is rising in a chair and you want him to sit down, you basically rub their back. Apparently you go rub, harder rub, power rub, and on the third rub they sit down.
I was taught this one novelty strike where you vertical punch with your thumb sticking straight out. That was from his lethal bag of "chi" tricks.
Defense against a bear hug: Point your fingers to the floor. I repeat, the proper way to defeat a bearhug is to point your fingers at the floor and do absolutely nothing because we're at a stalemate or something God I wasted my life.
Fun fact for all the boxers out there: "Chi flows through the fist like a tornado." Found that in my old Sensei's notebook, thought it may be helpful to you guys. Accompanying it was a drawing of a fist with a bunch of little swirly lines in it.
We were taught that when a person cocks their arm back low, as in an Isshin-Ryu reverse punch, a nerve is exposed on the shoulder that hurts really, really bad. The only problem is, the nerve is covered up when a person raises their hands for any reason. So basically, we were taught to strike an obscure nerve on the anterior deltoid, but only when their face was a viable target.
I saw an old isshin-ryu seminar tape not too long ago. The instructor showed some anti-grappling, although unlike most antigrapplers, he chose to demonstrate a defense against O-goshi instead of the standard double-leg. Now guys, I know we all like to bag on karateka trying to do shots and whatnot, but you haven't seen comedy until you've seen a totally random man get pulled from a crowd and be told to "put me in an O-goshi". He was struck in the groin for his efforts.
Grab your opponent's belt, step back into a cross stance, yank them back, punch to the ribs.
Standing arm bar defense: Apparently, there's a very small pressure point on your back that, when pressed, makes you immune to armbars. I'm not shitting you. We were taught to use our free hand to activate this point and simply rise out of it like the time Christ rose from the murky depths to deliver Excalibur to King Arthur.
Hook defense: Throw a smaller, tighter hook inside of their hook. The idea was their bicep would push into your elbow, powering your punch with virtually no effort on your part. No consideration was given to the fact that he's still gonna hit you.
If your opponent gets fancy and tries to "corkscrew" his punch like a "straight person" , step back into a cat stance, backfist the top of his hand. But what if he fakes you out, goes for the vertical punch?? Lest you believe karate is just a rigid, inflexible series of choreographed techniques, there's a built in counter, for you can also strike his radial nerve or bicep!
The guy tries to sweep you. No, not that kind. Mortal Kombat sweep. You kick your heel up, towards your opposite hip bone, so your foot is basically at a 90 with the ground. Now throw a kick! No you fool! Don't rechamber your leg! There's no time! Kick with your leg parallel to the ground, striking with the ball of your foot! GOOD WORK CADET
From Wansu kata: High block to deflect the ubiquitous telegraphed punch that exists as the heartbeat of the karate world. Step in, grab his belt, AND LIFT THAT ************ OVER YOUR HEAD AND THROW HIM LIKE ANDRE THE GIANT. If that's too cryptic, imagine doing a firemen's carry without sinking your hips at all. Some schools, mine included, acknowledged how silly this was, and noted instead that "you're really taking him over more to the side". I have no idea what this meant, but then, neither did they. For all I know they wanted me to grab his wrist and his belt and spin him around like Genki Sudo.
90% of all Isshin Ryu techniques involve some usage of the crescent step, which is hilarious as far as classically antiquitated footwork goes. But as I advanced, there came a time when I was taught to lift my foot high as I crescent-stepped towards my prey. Why?, I asked. "Imagine something's in your way. Like a log."
Dropping your hands to your sides. No, I don't mean to chamber punches or because you got sloppy. We were taught to drop our hands to our sides WITH AUTHORITY to counter a strike to your flank.
Your opponent is chasing you. Kick your arm out to the side, bent at a 90, fist pointing down like someone's kimura'ing you. Step back into a T-stance, straighten your arm like doing a tricep kickback, backfist to the jaw.
Double palm strike to hip bone and shoulder. Double punch (one fist over the other) to solar plexus.
We learned a generic karate takedown that ended with your opponent on their back with your head and one arm between their legs. "This is such agreat position!" gushed the blackbelt I was training with. "There's nothing he can do from here!"Captain's Log: Just a little update for all my TRUE and HONEST friends out there:
1) I am STRAIGHT! I am STRAIGHT! Get it through your thick skulls, numbskulls!
2) My name is not Ian Brandon Something.
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3/21/2004 8:06pm, #2
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Defense against jab = Ushiro Mawashi geri (spinning kick...that's the day I left Shotokan)
When someone grabs you with one arms, you grab him with both hands, leaving him with one free to pump you...
Defense against takedown = Kiai scream (no, really. It seems that it should give you a different density, so you'll weight more...sometimes, I think some people gets their MA theory straight from a 50's issue of Batman)
1 fingered Nukite strike (using the index). The "idea" was to have maximun penetration of the hit...Boyd, in the upcoming war, I've got WMP ready....Canuckyokushin:
These women can do back flips right over my head and still land on there feet .GRrrrrrrr!
3/21/2004 8:10pm, #3
two finger poke to one eye
Index and pointer, but you have to put the pointer on top of the index finger, otherwise you won't have the stability you need.
3/21/2004 8:14pm, #4
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and turn your hips, or you won't have kime...
Another one: Chi waves from a palm strike...Canuckyokushin:
These women can do back flips right over my head and still land on there feet .GRrrrrrrr!
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Someone punches, you do teh big forearm block back, leap back, adn then throw a roundhouse with the distance you created - all while they stand like a statue untill you move their hand with the block, and stand there while you kick.
Oddly, in this odd Juju class I had a while ago we learned some pressure points that DO work.Katana, on 540 kicks: "Hang from a ceiling fan with both hands. Flail your feet out and ask people to walk into you as you hit their face."
3/21/2004 8:28pm, #6
Crescent kick the gun out of the assailant's hand. *groan*
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Crescent kick the /knife/ out of the assailant's hand.
3/21/2004 9:00pm, #8
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Block the low kick aimed at your legs with your forearm. No, really.
Damn, I hate that Praying Mantis dojo.That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,
Quiet the dog, tether the pony
To a distant post;
Our master Caesar is in the tent
Where the maps are spread,
His eyes fixed upon nothing,
A hand under his head.
- W.B. Yeats
3/21/2004 9:02pm, #9
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- Jul 2002
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- JacksonFAILLE Flor-i-duh
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- Style
Crescent kicks period.
Last time I connected my ankle hurt like a bitch and it didn't even DO anything..
And after like a MINUTe of Muay thai I realized how fucking easy it is to block the bitches... or **** up the person's leg. UGH.Katana, on 540 kicks: "Hang from a ceiling fan with both hands. Flail your feet out and ask people to walk into you as you hit their face."
3/21/2004 9:15pm, #10
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- Dec 2003
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- Canada
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- Karate, BJJ
"Asked sensei for some effective ways to attack the legs/feet. At the time, I was having a big "efficiency" kick and wanted to learn the most practical way to hurt a person from a distance. Sensei advised me to kneel down and punch him in the foot."