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|Musikmesse Frankfurt
Horse Bar revisited
|Audio Days Paris
Vive la France
|AES New York
The return to NYC
|NAMM Moscow
Go East!
|Audio Days Paris
Encore une fois
|Musikmesse Frankfurt
Lucky Number Sevin ;-)
|NAMM Anaheim
Visiting Mickey
|Musikmesse Frankfurt
Old friends, new friends.
|Audio Days Paris
Meet the makers
|Fifth anniversary
Time to party!
|Musikmesse Frankfurt
Less trouble, more fun.
|Unicorn or time travel?
The Joel Hamilton interview
|AES New York
Welcome back.
|Question upon question : )~
The pan60 interview
|Musikmesse Frankfurt
Five already?
|Forward or backward
On compressor topologies
|AES San Francisco
Ghandi & the Giants
|Musikmesse Frankfurt
Meet the family
|High-End Gear Hamburg
Small yet Ooh-La-Laah
|AES New York
Jazz, Viruses & Liberty
|Musikmesse Frankfurt
One, two, three...
|Demotour London
London calling elysia!
|AES San Francisco
|Direct Metal Mastering
On visit at Stockfisch-Records
|Musikmesse Frankfurt
Second sighting, twice as good
|AES Vienna
Compressor Boys versus Kaiserschmarrn
|Chemical Brothers
The brothers gonna work it out!
|AES New York
We love New York!
|High-End Gear Cologne
Meeting of the pro audio freaks
|How everything started
The alpha compressor and how it entered ...
|Musikmesse Frankfurt
Premiere in Frankfurt/Main
|AES Paris
Baguette and class-A
|Emergency Compressor
First aid for dynamic disasters
|AES San Francisco
elysia tours the United States
Meet the family
Our forth round of Musikmesse! This time, the position of our booth right in the middle of the hall was much better than ever before! 5.1 C81 - it seems that this will also be the magic formula for next time. Let's start our report a little different for a change, and that with three very informative videos produced by the people of 96kHz.de | The Pro Audio Portal. There are English voice overs, and if your connection is good for it, make sure to watch the clips in HD quality!
Our fan base.
They are getting younger every day...
Denis Goekdag: got an mpressor -
museq coming soon, right?
André Inderfurth from SPL
and Ruben caught chatting.
Stefan Bahr and Anne Goerth
(United Minorities/Metric Halo).
Family business.
Well, almost...
I have never taken one single
normal picture of Tom VDH.
A little foretaste of Hamburg:
High End Beer!
Spanish high spirits:
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Our very charming
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Lady Mocs beat Lady Bisons 4-3 in Chattanooga
Feb. 26, 2006
The Lady Bisons travelled to UTC on February 26th, where they lost 4-3.
The Lady Mocs won the doubles point which proved to be the decisive point in the match. The Lady Bisons got singles victories from Olivia Ellis, Mary Beth Muncher, and Casey Hall.
The Lady Bisons match record is 4-7 now. Catch them in action vs. SEMO on March 4th at home here in Nashville.

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PBGC Policies
- Customer Service Pledge
- Privacy @ PBGC
- Website Policies
- Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Access Plan
- PBGC Anti-Harassment Policy Statement [PDF] - This statement provides PBGC's principles regarding prevention of workplace harassment.
- PBGC EEO Policy Statement [PDF] - This statement provides PBGC's principles of promoting equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace.
- Reasonable Accommodation [PDF] - These procedures are to educate job applicants and PBGC employees on the reasonable accommodation process at PBGC.
- Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan (FY 2016) [PDF]
- Small Business Non-Retaliation Policy


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Active Air Carbon Air Filter 25in x 5in 50 CFM (No Flange)
This carbon air filter helps to remove particles, odors and contaminants from air. It can be fitted onto ducts and provides clean air for houses and growing spaces.
Active Air Carbon Air Filter 25" x 5" 50 CFM (No Flange)
- Corrosion-resistant galvanized steel construction
- Long lasting virgin activated charcoal
- Charcoal is carefully packed to insure a consistent and even air flow throughout the carbon bed for a full usage of the filter and its durability
- Recommended airflow: 50 cubic feet per minute
- Helps to purify air by removing odors and contaminants
- Changeable Velcro pre-filter collects dust and airborne particles
- Shrink wrap to protect the charcoal and keep the filter clean
- High grade activated charcoal guarantees maximum odor control
- Large surface areas and 2.5" thick carbon bed results in optimum odor control and maximum efficiency
- No maintenance required
- Boxed in protective corrugated cardboard
This carbon air filter is designed to remove odors and airborne particles in a fast and efficient way. This filter is great for use with growing tents, growing rooms, greenhouses or houses in general. It can be fitted to duct work and a ventilation fan to move clean, fresh air into an area.
Fewer contaminants and particles in the air help to protect plants from mold and other airborne risks and provide plants, and people, cleaner and healthier air. The filter features a thick 2.5" charcoal bed that is uniformly situated around the filter. Having a uniform bed ensures maximum efficiency and won't allow untreated air to pass through.
This filter also features a changeable pre-filter with Velcro that helps to remove larger particles such as dust from air entering the carbon part of the filter. The pre-filter increases the lifespan of the carbon filter and can be replaced.
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Facebook Platform
The Facebook Platform is the set of services, tools, and products provided by the social networking service Facebook for third-party developers to create their own applications and services that access data in Facebook.[1]
The current Facebook Platform was launched in .[2] The platform offers a set of programming interfaces and tools which enable developers to integrate with the open "social graph" of personal relations and other things like songs, places, and Facebook pages. Applications on facebook.com, external websites, and devices are all allowed to access the graph.
Facebook launched the Facebook Platform on , providing a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features.[1][2] A markup language called Facebook Markup Language was introduced simultaneously; it is used to customize the "look and feel" of applications that developers create. Using the Platform, Facebook launched several new applications,[1][2] including Gifts, allowing users to send virtual gifts to each other, Marketplace, allowing users to post free classified ads, Facebook events, giving users a method of informing their friends about upcoming events, Video, letting users share homemade videos with one another,[3][4] and social network game, where users can use their connections to friends to help them advance in games they are playing. Many of the popular early social network games would combine capabilities. For instance, one of the early games to reach the top application spot, (Lil) Green Patch, combined virtual Gifts with Event notifications to friends and contributions to charities through Causes.
Third party companies provide application metrics, and several blogs arose in response to the clamor for Facebook applications. On , Altura Ventures announced the "Altura 1 Facebook Investment Fund," becoming the world's first Facebook-only venture capital firm.[5]
On , Facebook changed the way in which the popularity of applications is measured, to give attention to the more engaging applications, following criticism that ranking applications only by the number of people who had installed the application was giving an advantage to the highly viral, yet useless applications.[6] Tech blog Valleywag has criticized Facebook Applications, labeling them a "cornucopia of uselessness."[7] Others have called for limiting third-party applications so the Facebook user experience is not degraded.[8][9]
Applications that have been created on the Platform include chess, which both allow users to play games with their friends.[10] In such games, a user's moves are saved on the website, allowing the next move to be made at any time rather than immediately after the previous move.[11]
By , seven thousand applications had been developed on the Facebook Platform, with another hundred created every day.[12] By the second annual f8 developers conference on , the number of applications had grown to 33,000,[13] and the number of registered developers had exceeded 400,000.[14]
Within a few months of launching the Facebook Platform, issues arose regarding "application spam", which involves Facebook applications "spamming" users to request it be installed.[15]
Facebook integration was announced for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo DSi on at E3.[16] On , Sony announced an integration with Facebook to deliver the first phase of a variety of new features to further connect and enhance the online social experiences of PlayStation 3.[17] On , Facebook announced the release of HipHop for PHP as an opensource project.[18] Mark Zuckerberg said that his team from Facebook is developing a Facebook search engine.[19] "Facebook is pretty well placed to respond to people's questions. At some point, we will. We have a team that is working on it", said Mark Zuckerberg. For him, the traditional search engines return too many results that do not necessarily respond to questions. "The search engines really need to evolve a set of answers: 'I have a specific question, answer this question for me.'"
On , Facebook announced Haxl, a Haskell library that simplified the access to remote data, such as databases or web-based services.[20]
Partnerships with device manufacturers[edit]
Starting in 2007, Facebook formed data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 handset manufacturers, including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung.[21] Those manufacturers were provided with Facebook user data without the users' consent.[21] Most of the partnerships remained in place as of 2018, when the partnerships were first publicly reported.[21]
High-level Platform components[edit]
Graph API[edit]
The Graph API is the core of Facebook Platform, enabling developers to read from and write data into Facebook. The Graph API presents a simple, consistent view of the Facebook social graph, uniformly representing objects in the graph (e.g., people, photos, events, and pages) and the connections between them (e.g., friend relationships, shared content, and photo tags).[22]
Facebook authentication enables developers' applications to interact with the Graph API on behalf of Facebook users, and it provides a single-sign on mechanism across web, mobile, and desktop apps.[23]
Social plugins[edit]
Social plugins – including the Like Button, Recommendations, and Activity Feed – enable developers to provide social experiences to their users with just a few lines of HTML. All social plugins are extensions of Facebook and are designed so that no user data is shared with the sites on which they appear.[24] On the other hand, the social plugins let Facebook track its users' browsing habits through any sites that feature the plugins. And the data collected from the browsing habits of the users helps marketers and advertisers on Facebook to target their audience.
Open Graph protocol[edit]
The Open Graph protocol enables developers to integrate their pages into Facebook's global mapping/tracking tool Social Graph. These pages gain the functionality of other graph objects including profile links and stream updates for connected users.[25] OpenGraph tags in HTML5 might look like this:
<meta property="og:title" content="Example title of article">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="example.com website">
<meta property="og:type" content="article">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://example.com/example-title-of-article">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/article_thumbnail.jpg">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/website_logo.png">
<meta property="og:description" content="This example article is an example of OpenGraph protocol.">
Facebook uses iframes to allow third-party developers to create applications that are hosted separately from Facebook, but operate within a Facebook session and are accessed through a user's profile. Since iframes essentially nest independent websites within a Facebook session, their content is distinct from Facebook formatting.
Facebook originally used 'Facebook Markup Language (FBML)' to allow Facebook Application developers to customize the "look and feel" of their applications, to a limited extent. FBML is a specification of how to encode content so that Facebook's servers can read and publish it, which is needed in the Facebook-specific feed so that Facebook's system can properly parse content and publish it as specified.[26] FBML set by any application is cached by Facebook until a subsequent API call replaces it. Facebook also offers a specialized Facebook JavaScript (FBJS) library.[27]
Facebook stopped accepting new FBML applications on ,[28] but continued to support existing FBML tabs and applications. Since FBML was no longer supported, and FBML no longer functioned as of .[citation needed]
Facebook Connect[edit]
Facebook Connect,[29] also called Log in with Facebook, like OpenID, is a set of authentication APIs from Facebook that developers can use to help their users connect and share with such users' Facebook friends (on and off Facebook) and increase engagement for their website or application. When so used, Facebook members can log on to third-party websites, applications, mobile devices and gaming systems with their Facebook identity and, while logged in, can connect with friends via these media and post information and updates to their Facebook profile.
Originally unveiled during Facebook's developer conference, F8, in , Log in with Facebook became generally available in . According to an article from The New York Times, "Some say the services are representative of surprising new thinking in Silicon Valley. Instead of trying to hoard information about their users, the Internet companies (including Facebook, Google, MySpace and Twitter) all share at least some of that data so people do not have to enter the same identifying information again and again on different sites."[30]
Log in with Facebook cannot be used by users in locations that cannot access Facebook, even if the third-party site is otherwise accessible from that location.[31]
According to Facebook, users who logged into The Huffington Post with Facebook spent more time on the site than the average user.[32]
In , Facebook began to use the hCalendar microformat to mark up events, and the hCard for the events' venues, enabling the extraction of details to users' own calendar or mapping applications.[33]
Mobile platform[edit]
The UI framework for the mobile website is based on Xhp, the Javelin Javascript library, and WURFL.[34] The mobile platform has grown dramatically in popularity since its launch. In , the number of users signing into the site from mobile devices exceeded web-based logins for the first time.[35]
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Many Facebook application developers have attempted to create viral applications. Stanford University even offered a class in the Fall of , entitled Computer Science (CS) 377W: "Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook". Numerous applications created by the class were highly successful, and ranked amongst the top Facebook applications, with some achieving over 3.5 million users in a month.[36]
In 2011, The Guardian expressed concerns that users publishing content through a third party provider are exposed to losing their web positioning if their service is removed; and the open graph could force connecting web presence to Facebook social services even for people using their own publishing channels.[37] In June 2018, The New York Times criticized Facebook's partnerships with device manufacturers, writing that the data available to these manufacturers "raise concerns about the company's privacy protections and compliance with a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission."[21]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Kirkpatrick, David (2007-05-29). "Facebook's plan to hook up the world". CNN. Archived from the original on 2008-02-26. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
- ^ a b c "How To: Get Started with the Open Graph". Facebook. 2011-09-23.
- ^ George-Cosh, David (2007-07-05). "Facebook users embracing the Marketplace". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
- ^ Schwankert, Steven (2007-05-25). "Facebook Launches Video System". PC World. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
- ^ "Altura Ventures news". Altura Ventures. 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
- ^ Morin, Dave (2007-08-29). "A shift to engagement". Facebook. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
- ^ "Can a Facebook app possibly be useful?". Valleywag.com. 2005-09-26. Archived from the original on 2013-06-23. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
- ^ Timmons, Zack (2007-12-03). "Useless applications plague Facebook". The Lantern. Archived from the original on 2008-03-09. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
- ^ Lee, Tim (2007-11-30). "Irritating Your Customers Is Almost Never A Good Business Strategy". Retrieved 2008-03-05.
- ^ "Chess". Facebook. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ Kim, Ryan (2007-11-20). "Mountain View startup Meebo aims to revolutionize instant messaging". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ Rampell, Catherine (2007-11-03). "Widgets Become Coins of the Social Realm". The Washington Post. p. D01. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ^ Ustinova, Anastasia (2008-07-23). "Developers compete at Facebook conference". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
- ^ "Facebook Expands Power of Platform Across the Web and Around the World". Facebook. 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
- ^ "Facebook cracks down on developer spam". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ "Microsoft E3 Announcement". Neelscompany.com. 2015-02-08. Archived from the original on 2015-02-08.
- ^ "Sony to Offer Richer Online Social Experience to PS3 Owners With Facebook Integration". ign.com. 2009-11-18. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- ^ Kincaid, Jason. "Live From Facebook's HipHop Technology Tasting". techcrunch.com. © 2010 TechCrunch. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
- ^ Facebook is developing its own Search Engine. Search for technology (2012-09-17). Retrieved on 2013-07-24.
- ^ "Open-sourcing Haxl, a library for Haskell". Facebook Code. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
- ^ a b c d Dance, Gabriel J.X.; Confessore, Nicholas; LaForgia, Michael (June 3, 2018). "Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
- ^ "Graph API".
- ^ "Authentication".
- ^ "Social Plugins". Archived from the original on 2010-06-21.
- ^ "Open Graph Protocol".
- ^ "Facebook Markup Language - A "Reverse API"" (Press release). Mashery. 2007-05-26.
- ^ "FBJS". Archived from the original on 2009-12-23.
- ^ Nikolay Valtchanov. "Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love". Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "Announcing Facebook Connect". Facebook.com. 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
- ^ NY Times
- ^ Chester, Ken (12 August 2013). "Censorship, external authentication, and other social media lessons from China's Great Firewall". Tech in Asia. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ Danny Sullivan (22 May 2011). "By The Numbers: How Facebook Says Likes & Social Plugins Help Websites". Search Engine Land.
- ^ linski, Emil (2011-02-18). "Facebook adds and micro-formats to Events". ZDNet. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
- ^ Ali, Khurram (May 21, 2011). "Facebook Mobile Website – Transition – Issues". techprolonged.com. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
Facebook has mention in the note that the new website is powered by a UI framework based on XHP, Javelin and WURFL.
- ^ Olanoff, Drew (Jan 30, 2013). "For The First Time, Facebook's 680M Mobile MAUs Surpassed Desktop DAUs — Zuck Says It's Now A "Mobile Company"". Techcrunch. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ^ Kamil Dada (2007-11-30). "Kamil Dada from Stanford University explains the success of Facebook applications developed in a class at Stanford University". Archived from the original on June 9, 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ^ Adrian Short (2011-09-27). "Why Facebook's new Open Graph makes us all part of the web underclass". London: The Guardian.


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Here's a sneak peek...
Cloning of P-77 v2.0.
More pics coming soon...So Stay Tuned!!!
Monday, May 25, 2009
Next-in-line production
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Phu! x Qee = Anvil
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Next-in-line project for PatchTogether
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Online Store
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Custom in Progress
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Next-in-line project
The name Phu in short is a self-created lingo. Entirely imaginative and not based upon adherence to actuality.
3D art is his pursuit, especially in vinyl customizing. Phu's Phuturistic concept is a manifestation through his artistic form of thought and personalized treatment in which he exercises the habit of recycling.
And it's with this Phuturistic niche, Phu's customed vinyls have been commissioned and showcased in various international exhibitions and shows worldwide.
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This morning FH drove himself to work so I enjoyed a bit of a sleep in until it was time to start work.
Coffee and a cookie to start the day…
The cookie is in honor of the Bake Sale for Haiti! :) have you bid on a baked treat yet? hmmmmm?
I kept breaky lighter than usual knowing today is an off day from the gym.
Plain yogurt, sliced banana, sprinkle of hemp seeds, and drizzle of real maple syrup…
At lunch time, I finally got to try out the Booty Camp Fitness DVD I received last week. It's tough to find alone time around here to test it out (and lord knows I'm not doing it in front of FH!). I mean, he's at work during the day but I've usually already gone to the gym and work through my lunch hour.
So first, I opted for my hot pink workout gear…in honor of the Booty Camp ladies. :)
And my new lululemon Tracker Tight Crops. Yes, I'm actually showing a photo of my butt on the blog. I have no shame apparently. But the back of the crops are cute, no? ;)
Anywho…for my first attempt I chose a short program…Booty Booster. The Intro to Iron program doesn't cover a lot of tushie workouts so I figured this was a good place to start. I mean…it IS "booty" camp afterall!
14 mins and my butt was screamin'!
Review #1 = A+ Hopefully I can walk tomorrow. :)
I made a quick lunch afterwards. Toast and a (no oil) fried egg.
With a side of cukes.
Conference call snacks included cantaloupe…
and peanut butter pretzels.
Our meeting ran long, I still have work to do, I am monitoring the bake sale and Twitter, need to eat dinner, and FH and I want to be out the door to a movie in 23 minutes. Gotta run!!


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Karina Smirnoff To Be On The View Monday, July 30th, 2012
According to a new ABC press release, Dancing With The Stars pro Karina Smirnoff will be a guest on The View Monday, July 30th. She's always been so good about explaining new things about Dancing With The Stars. Now let's just hope this isn't a repeat which they sometimes do in the summer time? Picture above is of Karina at the Lisa Blue Mercedes Benz Fashion Show courtesy of Zimbio Pictures. Also, our Miss Heidi will be LIVE blogging the Dancing With The Stars Cast Announcement today which will take place at 10:30a.m. Pacific time. So, STAY TUNED! 😉
Joan Rivers, Karina Smirnoff (ABC's "Dancing With the Stars"), Woody Harrelson ("Bullet for Adolf"), Cybill Shepherd ("The Best Man"), Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer") and Edward Norton ("The Bourne Legacy") will all be featured JULY 23 — AUGUST 3 on ABC's "The View" (live weekdays; 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, ET; broadcast live in stereo; CC; TV-14). Plus, don't miss Mario Cantone's hilarious recap of Season 15, and a special musical montage featuring some of the most hilarious, outrageous and most talked about moments.
Scheduled guests for the week of JULY 30 — AUGUST 3 are as follows (subject to change):
MONDAY, JULY 30 – Joan Rivers; Danielle Steel (author, Friends Forever); Karina Smirnoff (ABC's "Dancing with the Stars").
UPDATE: This is a "NEW" broadcast according to Zap2It. Thanks to Jimmbboe for doing some more digging on this. He's my Karina Smirnoff helper.


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By Karen Tei Yamashita
604 pages
Coffee House Press
May 2010
But use your imagination to what end? What's the point of this circus of Siamese twins fathered by a hapless outlaw? Come to America, and your children all come out hyphenated. Half this-half that. Nothing whole. Everything half-assed. And it's more complicated than that. One half trying to be the other half and vice versa. As they say, duking out the dialectics. Working through schizophrenia and assimilation. Poor man. These kids drive him nuts. He's taught them everything they know, but still they have no respect. They think they're supposed to be free in Asian America.
Karen Tei Yamashita, an instructor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, was born in California and has lived in Brazil and Japan. Her fifth novel, I Hotel, is an ambitious endeavor that brings to life the multifaceted creativity and activism of San Francisco's Asian-American communities during one of the most tumultuous decades in living American memory.
I Hotel is actually a compendium of ten novellas for each year between 1968 and 1977, all loosely connected to one another by the presence of the International Hotel. As Yamashita explains in her Afterward, the "I-Hotel," by the time of its demolition '77, was the crumbling home of elderly Chinese and Filipino men who had arrived in America decades earlier bursting with ambition, only to be thwarted by antimiscengenation laws, restrictive acts against Asian immigration, and the prevailing racism of the day. Perhaps due to its symbolic significance, the I-Hotel became the epicenter of the Yellow Power movement that took inspiration from the Black Panthers, global Marxism, and the period's explosion of civil rights movements. Yellow Power was diverse and decentralized, embracing political revolution, social justice, economic empowerment, and radical scholarship. Most activists did not know what their compatriots were doing, Yamashita found, and I Hotel is a suitably sprawling canvas nevertheless united by its characters' shared passion for change and the ever-present International Hotel.
I-Hotel is in many ways comparable to John Dos Passos's The 42nd Parallel, as a multi-media chronicle of various individual Americans as they negotiate their era's trends and dynamics. The stories of assorted Chinese-, Japanese-, and Filipino-Americans – from their respective positions as students, professors, artists, filmmakers, poets, musicians, laborers, and community organizers – are revealed through lists, comics, plays, free verse, interviews, photos, audiovisual transcripts, flights of magic realism, mythology, and fragments of real-life quotes and documents interspersed throughout several of the narratives. The result is a panoramic, ground-level tour-de-force that gradually coalesces into something greater than the sum of its parts.
When it's all said and done, you might have a compilation of events, and you might have a story with meaning. Someone says, don't worry about the details, just get the story. Someone else says, get the details and the hard facts, and then you can build a case for a story. Someone says a good story might help you remember, but someone else says that everyone remembers differently. Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time.The characters are different yet representative. The first novella focuses on a refined Chinese scholar, his youthful protégés, and their friend the Filipino cook, as well as the contradictions of Maoist China and its relationship to the Asian-American Left. The third, "'I' Hotel," centers on a conversation between a Black Panther and a member of the Red Guard Party in a Moscow hotel room. In "Int'l Hotel," three Japanese-American youths accompany a Modoc Indian to Alcatraz Island during the 1969 occupation, while a Chinese-American dancer dreams of uniting Peking Opera with avant-garde jazz to tell a story of life, identity, and history in "Aiiieeeee! Hotel."
For all their utopian hopes, however, the disparity between belief and reality seems to all but promise eventual disillusionment. Nevertheless, the legacy of Yellow Power is a broad one, says Yamashita, and includes Asian-American studies, law cooperatives, historians, educators, works of art and music, underground cooperatives, and drug rehabilitation programs. Furthermore, since many forms of oppression overlap (called "intersectionality" by sociologists), numerous activists also fought on other battlegrounds, such as feminism and disability rights.
Despite its size, I Hotel surges ahead quickly, its versatile storytelling preventing it from ever dragging or getting old. Part novel, part history text, Karen Tei Yamashita's brilliant, well-written, and well-researched achievement is the go-to book for anyone interested in Asian-American history, radical politics in America, the turbulent sixties, and grassroots activism. General readers, meanwhile, will have their eyes opened, a fact to which this reviewer can personally attest.
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Floor to Ceiling Problems Cause Product Recalls
Recent product recalls have pointed a liability-filled finger at problems with floors, drains, roofs and other physical pieces of the plant.
A lot of food-safety attention is paid to the equipment and the steps in the manufacturing process, but recent incidents remind plant managers and others to also look up … and down.
Water on the floor is common in many types of food & beverage plants, but it better not be dripping from the ceiling and be careful in cleaning out floor drains.
While numerous nasty conditions and missteps led to the 2008 recall by Peanut Corp. of America, one probable source of contamination was not discussed until after the more publicized infractions at the Blakely, Ga., plant. Citing court testimony and inspectors who checked the plant, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution implicated a leaky roof.
"I suspect it was so bad that it was raining in there," said Ron Simon, attorney for some of the people suing the peanut company. Testimony indicated PCA spent $60,000 on roof repairs in August 2008.The leaky roof is suspect because there's one thing needed most for salmonella to grow, spread and thrive: water.
Some theorize that when it rained, water could have entered the plant and multiplied any existing salmonella or even introduced the salmonella into the plant, the newspaper reported.A leaky roof also is one suspected culprit behind the 2006-2007 ConAgra peanut butter recall.
"Allowing water to get into a dry [processing] environment would be like putting gas on a fire," Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety, said in the Journal-Constitution article.
Also, don't think you can just wash troubles down the drain. Recent research from Kansas State University, part of the Food Safety Consortium, found washing floors and particularly floor drains in food processing facilities could actually make it easier for listeria monocytogenes to travel from the drain to points on the processing line.
The researchers already knew the open floor drains in processing environments can harbor bacteria, which is why those drains are the targets of high-pressure washing and cleaning. But they discovered the aerosols generated by the washing can transfer the bacterial cells upward onto surfaces where food is being processed a few feet above the floor.
After a high-pressure wash-down of the floor, the research team found L. monocytogenes at heights of 1, 3 and 5 ft. above the drain level, with the highest concentration at the 1-ft. level closest to the drain. More bacterial cells were present on the contact surfaces after 48 hours than after eight hours, meaning they multiplied.
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Glasgow and Valley County are full of giving people. The community gives in times of need. The children's Christmas store has been an annual tradition for nearly two decades. It may have switched through hands of different organizations, but it has always somehow continued.
In the last few years, Milk River Inc. has taken on the torch. The store is all about the season of giving.
Children, ages 2 to 14, gathered at the Elks Lodge in Glasgow on Saturday, Dec. 21, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. They weren't there for their own needs; they were there to find gifts to give to others. Those gifts cost them $1 and under. Much of the time they left with a large box full of items for their families.
The circle of giving started with the community.
The director of Milk River Inc., Connie Wethern, said that so much of the community participated in donations this year. Businesses, individuals, families and other community members all pitched in several items for the Christmas store. Tables were lined with toys, household goods, Christmas decorations and almost any other gift wares you might think of. Even wrapping paper was donated so the Nashua 4-H group could keep gifts a secret from parents and family members that brought the children.
"Some of these items are still new, with the tags on them," Wethern said. "It's amazing to see the community support."
Wethern told a story that took place on that morning led to more giving to the children. A woman who went for breakfast that morning was surprised to find someone had paid for her.
It's a Christmas tradition spreading the nation over the past year. Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) occur to random strangers in hope the acts of kindness will continue. After this woman found her bill was paid, she decided to step forward and pay $10 for a few children who came into the Christmas store that morning. That $10 paid for two children. The children and parents were surprised by the act and by the amount of items that $5 could by.
"It's been fun with these kids, seeing them leaving with their smiles and their gifts," Wethern said. "The kids get so excited."
The idea is to provide children a way to give for Christmas when many of them don't have much for means to buy gifts. It gives them a sense of pride and teaches them about the joys of giving. Wethern explained that parents have come in and told about their kids in the previous years, just waiting with excited eyes and large grins to open the gifts they chose for their families.
After the store closes for the children in the afternoon, Milk River clients get a chance to buy gifts for their loved ones as well. Clients and adults with developmental disabilities also get to enjoy the gift of giving to those they care about this season.
As the volunteers that came to help run the store this year boxed up the remains of donations, they knew that next year the gifts from the community would have another chance to be Christmas gifts next year. Volunteers included Milk River staff, a few organizations, the board of directors, and others who showed up looking to volunteer.
Wethern said that in previous years Scotties Daycare provided the Christmas store, and before that the EMTs in the area provided it. As one organization finished the tradition, another one has picked up the torch to continue a local tradition.


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- A new study shows that energy drink consumption is strongly associated with increased risks for heavy drinking and alcohol dependence
- These results call for more scrutiny regarding the possible negative health effects of energy drinks and public education about the risks of consuming energy drinks with alcohol
A hallmark of college life is staying up late to study for an exam the following morning, and many students stay awake by consuming an energy drink. Also increasing in popularity is the practice of mixing alcohol with energy drinks. But these drinks are highly caffeinated and can lead to other problems, in addition to losing sleep. Unfortunately, the contents of energy drinks are not regulated.
New research indicates that individuals who have a high frequency of energy drink consumption (52 or more times within a year) were at a statistically significant higher risk for alcohol dependence and episodes of heavy drinking.
The results will be published in the February 2011 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are currently available at Early View.
Amelia M. Arria, the lead author of the study, Director of the Center on Young Adult Health and Development at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, and a Senior Scientist at the Treatment Research Institute, said that prior research has highlighted the dangers of combining energy drinks with alcohol.
"We were able to examine if energy drink use was still associated with alcohol dependence, after controlling for risk-taking characteristics. The relationship persisted and the use of energy drinks was found to be associated with an increase in the risk of alcohol dependence."
The study utilized data from more than 1,000 students enrolled at a public university who were asked about their consumption of energy drinks and their alcohol drinking behaviors within the past 12 months. The researchers found that individuals who consumed energy drinks at a high frequency were more likely to get drunk at an earlier age, drink more per drinking session, and were more likely to develop alcohol dependence compared to both non-users of energy drinks and the low-frequency users.
The results of this study confirm and extend earlier research about the risks of energy drink consumption. A major concern is that mixing energy drinks with alcohol can lead to "wide-awake drunkenness," where caffeine masks the feeling of drunkenness but does not decrease actual alcohol-related impairment. As a result, the individual feels less drunk than they really are, which could lead them to consume even more alcohol or engage in risky activities like drunk driving.
"Caffeine does not antagonize or cancel out the impairment associated with drunkenness—it merely disguises the more obvious markers of that impairment," says Kathleen Miller, a research scientist from the Research Institute on Addictions at the University at Buffalo. According to her, the next steps in this research include identifying links between energy drinks and other forms of substance abuse, as well assessing the overall prevalence of energy drink use by adolescents and young adults.
"Also needed is research that directly assesses students' reported reasons for mixing alcohol and energy drinks. Anecdotal reports suggest that part of this phenomenon may be driven by the perpetuation of myths (e.g., mixing alcohol and caffeine reduces drunkenness, prevents hangovers, or fools a breathalyzer test) that could be debunked through further education."
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Tom Bonner, the former KARK television weatherman, and Ken Turner, once an assistant with the Arkansas Razorbacks, are both former Blacktonians.
Not many people have heard of a town called Blackton in Monroe County. Although close to a ghost town now, it was booming in the early '50s thanks to farming, timber cutting and sawmilling. Homer Ridout, who later opened quite a few lumber stores, cut timber and ran a large sawmill there.
Tom Bonner, the former KARK television weatherman, and Ken Turner, once an assistant with the Arkansas Razorbacks, are both former Blacktonians. Also, B.J. Houser, who later became a problem solver with the Social Security Administration, was a former Blacktonian. I am also a former Blacktonian. Okay, that's another story.
In the late '40s and early '50s, there were as many as seven stores in Blackton with four of them selling beer. It wasn't too unusual to see someone flying through a window or door on a Saturday as a result of a fistfight.
However, as any former Blacktonian will tell you, Blackton was a friendly town where neighbors helped one another like no other town I have ever seen.
Donald Houser, my cousin, was also a former Blacktonian. Although his name doesn't ring a bell like the others, the ones who knew him will never forget him.
When Donald started to school in the '40s, we noticed that his back was beginning to sway, and he started falling a lot. His mother took him to several doctors, but couldn't find out what was wrong with him. Finally, she took him to a Dr. Walker in Brinkley who diagnosed Donald as having muscular dystrophy.
Although the disease progressed over the years, Donald and his parents knew how lucky they were to be living in a small town like Blackton. After he was confined to a wheelchair, the boys around town would push him to the woods to squirrel hunt or to a pond to fish, any place he wanted to go within pushing distance.
Donald watched a lot of television. His favorite show was "The Real McCoys," a show making fun of country hicks. Once when the family was driving to Little Rock just after the freeways were built, Donald's father got lost and became very agitated. After a few minutes and to his father's chagrin, Donald said, "Daddy, these freeways weren't made for the McCoys, were they?"
After a few more years, Donald's friends started pushing him to the local beer joint where Donald imbibed a little. A little later Donald started chewing tobacco.
A few years later I visited Donald and he told me he had gotten religion. He said he had quit drinking beer and had started reading the Bible. When he asked me if he should quit chewing tobacco, I told him he would have to decide himself.
On my next visit, he told me he had the answer. He said he had been reading the book of Revelation about how beautiful heaven was, about the city of gold and precious stones. Then he said, "Because heaven is so beautiful, I don't think God would want me up there spitting that nasty tobacco juice around."
What was so wonderful about Donald is that he was always positive. He never complained and he had a great sense of humor.
Donald had wonderful parents who would do just about anything for him. His mother became strong from lifting Donald over the years, and his father would take him anywhere he wanted to go. He also had two loving and caring sisters.
Donald died in his mother's arms at the age of 36. As he was dying, he said, "Mama, I see Jesus."
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The cookbook not only has great pictures and recipes to go with them, but there are great technique tips to sift through, too. But the best part about the book is that it is all about making your desserts art. And if you know me well, you know there's a little artist trying to peak through the science nerd that I am.
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A long time ago I had some crazy idea I'd have time to work on a single sign on distributed identity system. Never happened. But I did register openid.net and openlogin.net around June 2001. They are near to expiration and have had a note offering them to anyone for a long time.
As luck would have it, Brad Fitzpatrick, of LiveJournal fame, started up a similar interesting looking project. They were looking for a name and managed to email me about openid.net right before I was going to offer it to them. So I gave it to them for the new and improved OpenID project.
There are lots of similar projects out there with lots of good ideas. None of them have taken hold on more than a few test sites if even that. Maybe the momentum behind LiveJournal will be enough that this system can grow and be actually used by various sites on the net. Hopefully their traditional OpenSource policies keep this stuff as open as possible.
I'll just chalk up giving away the domain as my community service act for the day.
Speaking of distributed id services... it has become seriously difficult to pick user ids on popular sites. It's really just a namespace problem where the entire world has to pick a short, cute, memorable nick at one central spot. See AIM, gmail, Yahoo!, /., IRC, and of course weblogging sites like LiveJournal. Just about any short nick related to your name, initials, or id you use elsewhere is bound to be taken along with 20 variations thereof. Would be so much easier to use email ids everwhere. Then at least the namespace bottleneck is limited to the current domain name namespace issues. Sigh.
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Glenny @glennygs 7mSpotted Amazing Race Canada contestants. Jess wanted to help them. #RaceCDA #amazingracecda @ Gastown http://instagram.com/p/Y-21vsNemI/
And I'm at school when this all happens.
Yay to Toronto being visited!Amazing Race Canada will likely rappel from Toronto City Hall rooftopA proposal moving through Toronto City Hall right now could be giving away a future challenge for contestants on The Amazing Race Canada.The agenda item has been deemed urgent and asks the city to give permission to Insight Productions to allow three people on a television show to rappel down the side of Torontos city hall.The Facilities and Management Division has received an application from Insight Productions to film an episode of a television show at City Hall on Friday, May 24, 2013, the document reads.One of the main activities consists of three participants rappelling over the west tower roof onto the podium green roof of City Hall.Insight Productions is the production company responsible for The Amazing Race Canada, Big Brother Canada, Battle of the Blades, the Juno Awards and the upcoming series Never Do This At Home.But the document is marked urgent and notes that filming will occur at the end of the month, pending completion of the appropriate paperwork. This narrows down the list of possibilities considerably, pointing squarely at The Amazing Race Canada, which is currently filming in Western Canada.The motion currently before Toronto City Council recommends adoption the recommendations from the Chief Corporate Officer, who approves of the license. That document is here:Source and document:http://o.canada.com/2013/05/08/amazing-race-canada-will-likely-rappel-from-toronto-city-hall-rooftop/Also Insight Productions will provide the City of Toronto with $10,000,000.00 liability insurance and WSIB coverage.
Are potentially looking at a double leg in Alberta? Considering they might be in Regina on Monday?
Looks like they were on Air Canada flight 202 - Vancouver to CalgaryScheduled Departure YVR: Scheduled Arrival YYC:07:00 - Wed May-8-2013 09:25 - Wed May-8-2013
Well, that was yesterday morning. Surely somebody in Calgary saw something?
I may have missed this, but have we figured out who the host is?
Speculation...What would The Amazing Race Canada be without a trip to Canada's arctic?I'm thinking Yellowknife or Whitehorse - both Air Canada destinations. Or would they make them drive and show off the impressive rough road capabilities of the 2013 Chevrolet Suburban or Avalanche?The Mackenzie Hwy is spectacular... as is the driving to Whitehorse in the Yukon.
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Ideas move the world but only if people act upon them. And that's exactly what happened at midday on 20 June 1922, when a remarkable group of people from different countries met in London at the private home of the UK Minister of Finance. United by their passion for birds they concluded that the only effective answer to the growing trade of wild bird feathers or the threats to migratory birds across the continents had to be through coordinated international action.
"BirdLife International's 90th anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on what we've achieved together and help us focus on the future we want," said Dr Marco Lambertini, BirdLife's Chief Executive.
"Much has changed in ninety years but the fundamentals have not. The rationale for international collaboration has only grown stronger and so the crucial need to empower local conservation capacity around the world. It all seems so logical today but it was truly visionary then", commented Dr Lambertini.
BirdLife Partners around the world will be marking the anniversary with a series of feature articles in their magazines and other materials over the coming months, including marking the occasion together at the BirdLife Partner World Congress next June 2013 in Ontario, Canada.
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Samurai reportedly left a great impression on WWE officials at their try-outs and resoundingly passed all his medical examinations for the promotion. He is going to be moving to Florida to join WWE NXT in the coming months."
Argh, and here I was hoping Samuray could help fill the void left by Generico leaving, that guy we can cheer for, he had an easy chant, he's got great moves and incredible athleticism... true, he could be the next Mysterio, but dammit I was hoping to see him around PWG for a while first!
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Ambler resident Jim Holton, 52, didn't have much of a choice about becoming a musician. His mother is a singer and pianist. His father is a clarinetist and saxophonist. His grandfather was a violinist, pianist and music teacher. He spent most of his summers as a youth at the New England Music Camp in Maine, where his parents were part of the faculty; two summers were spent as a counselor.
"It wasn't so much 'Are you going to play music?'" Holton laughed. "It was more 'What instrument are you going to play?'"
He studied cello as a child and sang in the Cathedral Boys Choir of St. John the Divine in Harlem, where he would practice almost five hours every day. It paid off when in seventh grade he won "Outstanding Choruser of the Year" and went to England to sing with the Royal School of Church Music at the Canterbury Cathedral. Unfortunately, as he became a teenager his voice changed from soprano to bass, and he lost his desire to sing. So he concentrated on his cello.
His father was a jazz musician, and Holton would listen to his albums and accompany him to Manhattan's West Village to hear shows at clubs that included luminaries like Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis. Holton wanted to play jazz cello, but his teacher didn't know any jazz cellists in the city. However, she did know Chris Cherney, a jazz pianist. Holton saw him play one evening and took up jazz piano.
"What drew me," Holton explained, "was the interaction, the team aspect of playing with other players and making art with musicians. I love that spontaneity, that sense of being. I liken it to basketball: the dynamics can change depending on who you're playing with and what you're playing at any given moment. Sometimes you're supporting, and sometimes you have to step up."
Holton's move to the Philadelphia area came by accident. He was attending the School of Performing Arts in New York for cello when he broke his leg the summer before his sophomore year. Jim couldn't carry his cello up and down staircases, so the school arranged for a tutor to visit him. But the tutor wasn't showing up, and his father was preparing to leave to take the position of superintendent at Radnor High School. So Holton moved with his father to the Main Line.
After graduating from Radnor High School, he attended Mansfield University of Pennsylvania as a cello major for one year, then transferred to the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts [now known as the University of the Arts]. He transferred again in his third year to Temple University, where he switched his major to jazz piano performance with a cello minor.
It was at this time that he started getting gigs playing with bands in Atlantic City and Philadelphia seven days a week. "So it was around 1984 when I decided I didn't need a degree in jazz piano performance since I was already performing so much," Holton explained. He quit school and became a full-time musician.
This might sound like a dream come true, but things didn't stay that way. By the early 1990s, Holton had gotten divorced and "off track. I call them my dark days. I stopped playing cello for about 10 years there. I was not spiritually centered. My life started to head toward the tubes. Someone suggested I pray and ask God for some help."
A higher power did enter his life, and he began to turn things around. "I'm a reformed atheist. I found myself being lifted out of places I was in and realized that things were going beyond coincidence," Holton said. Then in 1995, he met fellow musician Cindy LeBlanc at a jazz club, and they've been together ever since.
Today, they both live in the church parsonage at St. John's Lutheran Church in Ambler. Together with Christine Djalleta, they serve as the "music ministers" for the church, playing every Sunday. Every third Sunday they include Tyrone Brown for a jazz and gospel-flavored service.
Holton first came to the church around 2002 to play piano for gospel singer Barbara Jackson. He and LeBlanc had been looking around for a church to attend, investigating Quaker meeting houses and Unitarian Universalist congregations. "We wanted to find a church that was accepting of all people, not an exclusive country club. We wanted a church that was diverse."
They heard the answers they wanted to hear from Rev. Dr. Sandra Ellis-Killian of St. John's, and they began attending regularly, which culminated in their being asked to become music ministers.
Playing music at the church lets Holton share his love and passion for music. "I'm showing folks what I love. I teach people from 7 to 75 years old. I will talk about improvisation, working on harmony or theory, but my main focus is piano and cello."
On top of playing at the church, teaching students and playing gigs, he has gone back to Temple University full-time to finish his jazz piano performance degree. "I'm going to be a student for the rest of my life," Holton said, "and keep trying to improve until I die."
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BP Mailbag: 3-3-14
The BP Mailbag returns after its own Olympic break (the Games aren't going to watch themselves and multi-tasking is a challenge when hockey is on).
The questions, please…
@BoltProspects Would you part with Namestnikov for a Dmen like Alex Edler #BPMailbag
The Canucks' Alex Edler, a 27-year-old defenseman, is rumored to be on the trading block. With the trade deadline on Wednesday, speculation is picking up steam.
Edler fits a lot of criteria for what I think the Lightning should be looking for: 300-plus games played, puckmover, second-pair capable, and power play contributor.
He also has good size (6-3), which Yzerman likes in a defenseman. There are a lot of things to like.
I wish he was right-handed and was having a better year (15 points in 44 games after 49 in 82 two years ago; plus a minus-24 rating so far this year), but if he were, he wouldn't be available. The Lightning desperately need a righty to play the center point and feed Stamkos one-timers without the pivot delay lefties have to make. Core players Carle and Hedman are lefties; Gudas a righty. Ideally you want another righty there.
As for Vladdy, we've seen center depth take a hit this year and there isn't much behind him ready to step in unless you move Brett Connolly to center full-time. Namestnikov was Yzerman and Murray's first true draft choice and embodies the philosophies of the Yzerman/Cooper Lightning: fast, skilled, smart, and competitive. He also projects as a fine 2-3 center as soon as maybe next season.
That's a lot to give up, but you do have to give to get.
In my opinion, if I'm going to give up a piece like Vladdy, it'd have to be for a perfect fit coming back. The clincher for me is Edler's contract, which has a cap hit of 5 million for four years beyond this season. I can't see Yzerman taking that on with a hoard of young players needing contract extensions in the coming years.
Barlow01 via BP Messageboard:
Should Tampa Bay trade Kristers Gudlevskis while he has some hot value?
This is a good question, especially when you think back to a year ago and Yzerman capitalized on Cory Conacher's peaking value to land Ben Bishop. It's true, Gudlevskis' value may never be higher, and as Barlow01 mentioned around his question, Buffalo's Ted Nolan may want him as Nolan coached Gudlevskis for Latvia.
With super-prospect Andrey Vasilevskiy coming over next year (presumably), is there a NEED for Gudlevskis? Some may think not, but I don't believe Yzerman works that way. In response to a run on injuries to defenseman during Yzerman's second year in charge, he spent the offseason stocking up to guard against that again. It took Yzerman three tries to get a dependable goaltender in Bishop, so I think the last thing he ever wants to do again is be in a position where he's begging for goaltender help. I think he hangs onto Gudlevskis unless he needs an extra piece for something big that is a slam-dunk decision.
#BPMailbag Tavares is out, do you think the Lightning try to get Vanek? Even though Yzerman is loathe to rent?
Adding Vanek would mean you're adding an impact offensive player to the Lightning lineup. Yzerman will get more of an impact by adding Steven Stamkos back into the lineup, however, and Stamkos is free. The cost of Vanek will be far too rich for the Lightning's blood, and there really isn't much room anyway. The Lightning's biggest need is on D. Add in the rental loathing and it's a minimal chance at best.
Do you expect Stamkos to be moved to wing in the coming years? With guys like Namestnikov, Johnson, Filppula (better faceoffs). #BPMailbag
I really don't, to tell you the truth. Filppula has played wing before so he can move when Vladdy is ready for full-time duty in the top-9. You might consider it if you didn't have a playmaker on the wing to feed him, instead having a playmaking center (as is typical). Both Drouin and Kucherov are potentially elite level passers, so there really isn't a need for Stamkos to move. Drouin's move to center this year at camp and Halifax may play into this somehow down the line, but right now I don't see a need for him to move. Maybe toward the end of his career.
RSchmitz via BP Messageboard:
What is the main explanation for Koekkoek's astronomical plus/minus improvement? I've gathered that he's healthy, on a good team, and more physically mature, but is there something more technical behind the numbers that Joe Shmoe reading about him in Florida should know about?
Lightning defensive prospect Slater Koekkoek entered this year coming off minus-26 and minus-29 seasons with Peterborough. The Lightning were excited by the fact Koekkoek would be working under former NHL defenseman Bob Boughner in Windsor and Koekkoek told me he couldn't wait for the opportunity. Aside from playing on a much better team, I think Boughner and mental maturity are the main reasons for Koekkoek's turnaround. I was impressed with Koekkoek at camp. He was courteous, professional, and honest. Reports out of Ontario last year said the opposite – whether those were true or not. He's been outstanding this year for the Spits and has even entered league MVP talk. It's almost a running joke in Windsor to try to track Koekkoek's ice time. Although no official TOI stats are kept, he's up over 30 minutes a night per all reports. He's one of the prospects I'm most excited about.
DannyBolt via BP Messageboard:
What happened to Jimmy Mullin? I recall reading that he was on the "Killorn track", but it seems that he has derailed after a promising Freshman year. Any insight?
He was progressing nicely then started to get buried his sophomore year by younger players and depth. This year he's been in and out of the lineup, but out a lot lately. He was a healthy scratch for a while, but I don't know if his latest streak of being out of the lineup is due to a coach's decision or injury. I haven't seen anything mentioned about an injury. He's got another year to turn things around to be a candidate for a contract. It's not looking good at the moment.
Speaking of Miami-Ohio, keep an eye on Austin Czarnik. He's a free agent and was at the Lightning's camp a couple years ago. He's an undersized, smart, point producer. He may be worth at least an AHL contract if there are no NHL offers.
@BoltProspects do you see Tampa claiming a guy like Philip Larsen? Righty shooting & watched a games, seemed to work the PP well #BPMailbag
If they wanted him they'd probably have to give Kostka back to the Blackhawks. He'd be a depth defenseman right now, though I do like the potential there from the 24-year-old. He'd be a player to stash away until next season, then compete with Sustr and Koekkoek for NHL time. They'd have to really believe he has something worth holding on to, because he doesn't fill an immediate need. Keep in mind Cooper's tie to Kostka. I don't see it happening, but I wouldn't object to it.
I've been thinking about who could get dealt this week from the Lightning. Here are my thoughts:
I think the player most likely to move is Brett Connolly. I like Connolly as a player and as a person. He's come a long way since he was perceived to be arrogantly chewing gum in his TSN interview after being drafted. Connolly's entry-level contract is up at the end of the year and the former No. 6 overall pick isn't banging down the door to the NHL. He's still a gifted prospect with second line upside. Do the Lightning want to give him a standard raise to around a million? It's hard to see how he fits in next year with Richard Panik and Jonathan Drouin due spots (Drouin all but a lock). Whose spot is he going to take? His value isn't as high as it could be, but it might be time to move on and use him as part of a bigger trade, or get a decent pick. A fresh start may be the best thing for him as a player. We hope for good things.
Keith Aulie was rumored to be on the block awhile ago, but he obviously hasn't moved anywhere but up and down the elevator as a healthy scratch. He may be a candidate to be waived and go back to Syracuse before the year is out. He still projects as a serviceable third pair defenseman who can kill penalties and play physical, but he has to get into the lineup first.
Teddy Purcell could be on the move as he's the only really moveable player in the normal top-9 (others project in future lineups). He's got a difficult contract to move, as the team acquiring him would have to pay him 4.5 million next year. If Pittsburgh could afford him he might be a good acquisition as he's played himself into a playmaker's role instead of a shooter. The Lightning have young playmaking wingers who specialize in puck possession. There isn't a long-term future in Tampa Bay for Purcell in my opinion.
Speaking of Purcell, he was re-signed as a scorer after his 24-goal, 65-point season in 2012. He was well on his way to flirting with 30-goal seasons, right? He's scored 31 goals since signing that contract – a span of 170 games (106 points). I just don't think Yzerman thought that's what he was paying for. At any rate, when Stamkos went down on November 11, Purcell was expected to pick up a large portion of the goal-scoring. Since November 11 Purcell has scored five goals (44 games). It's amazing the Lightning are still in playoff contention.
Ryan Malone could be on the move, but if reports were true that Yzerman offered teams a draft pick to take him in the summer and all refused, it will be difficult. Perhaps the Lightning can work him into a deal, but Malone holds the cards in the form of a limited no-movement clause. He's a buyout candidate in the summer.
Draft picks are always on the move, and looking ahead to the 2014 draft, the Lightning have picks in the first, second, third, fifth (2), sixth, and seventh rounds. The fourth/fifth swap from the BJ Crombeen trade is coming into play. The Lightning have one second round pick, which is the most-frequently traded pick at the deadline it seems.
Prospects are always part of the trade deadline. Last year Yzerman traded Kirill Gotovets to Chicago for Syracuse help (Paradis). It was fairly obvious Gotovets didn't have much of a future. Prospects that could be on the move include Jimmy Mullin, Brendan O'Donnell, Nikita Nesterov, Dmitri Korobov, and graduate prospect Dana Tyrell.
I don't think Martin St. Louis gets traded, but the door doesn't seem to be shut. If he is going to the Rangers, one would think immediate defensive help would be coming back, but there isn't much that's available unless they want to let go of McDonagh (yes, please) or Staal. As prospect inclusions with a bigger piece, Brady Skjei or Dylan McIlrath (limited mobility) could be included, especially Skjei. Again, I really don't think anything happens now, if ever.
Targets: Tyler Myers would be an intriguing target if it wasn't for his $5.5 million contract. That's the type of player who could/should be a target, however. Other considerations (may or may not be available): Cody Franson (Leafs), Jason Demers (SJ), Justin Faulk (Canes, injured), Adam Larsson (NJD), Andrew MacDonald (NYI, rental).
I really think that the trade deadline press conference includes Yzerman saying Stamkos is Tampa's biggest acquisition. Yzerman likes his prospects too much unless he has a choice to make (Connolly).
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|Evoking Emotions and Achieving Success by Breaking All the Rules
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|Independent Games Summit
When creating Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a series of unconventional design choices were made. The game is recognized as being incredibly tense and immersive, yet it breaks many traditional rules of game design. We ended up removing fail-states and much of the challenge, all traditionally key devices in a horror title. This talk will explore these seemingly strange choices, how they came about and how they resulted in a far better experience. It will also discuss how this kind of thinking extends beyond horror development to other genres as well.


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Chris Wells
Chris Wells '92 took over the reins of the St. Lawrence University women's hockey team for the 2008-09 season. In his opening campaign, Wells continued the program's tradition of winning, as he guided the team to the 2009 NCAA Tournament and a 24-11-3 record.
Wells returned to his alma mater as assistant hockey coach for the men's team in the 1999-2000 season after a stint behind the bench at Western Michigan University in the CCHA. He was named associate head coach of the men's hockey team in January of 2003.
A 1992 graduate of St. Lawrence and one of the heroes of that ECAC championship team, he earned the Brian P. Doyle Memorial Trophy as a senior. He scored the overtime game winner in a come-from-behind semifinal win over RPI in the 1992 ECAC tourney.
Wells began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Colgate University following a European professional career. He has also served the University as director of St. Lawrence summer sport programs and a co-director of the Saint Summer Hockey School.
"The SSES minor is a great way to get a hands on experience in the field of athletics. It allows the students to see first hand how coaches interact with the St. Lawrence community, most importantly the students. The classes provide a great opportunity for the students to open their minds to new ideas and to thoroughly study many different aspects of sport."
Chris and his wife, Kate, are the parents of two daughters, Laura (9) and Sarah (6), and a son, Bobby (8).


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I don't like to call my decision to follow Jesus or my baptism as an act of conversion or changing religion, because that is not what baptism or giving your life to Jesus really is. When God created Man (Gen1:27), He did not divide mankind into any religion or caste or any denomination. The first man on earth "Adam" was created by God in His own image (Gen1:26) out of His love. God gave him the rights and privileges on earth (Gen1:28-30) , but Adam lost that authority and also his relationship with God his Father because of his sin. (Gen3:1-6). I was in the same state of sin and I did not know my Father in Heaven and my Creator (Is 6:9-10, Mt 13:13-15) until I received Jesus into my life.
As a teenager, I found myself attending a youth festival that was different from other youth festivals in that it was a prayer gathering. I already had everything I wished for – friends, family, education and seemingly heading in the right direction - what could God offer that I would even be remotely interested in? Yet, I found myself drawn to the Bible being preached especially when a speaker quoted this verse from John 10:10, Jesus speaks to the people "Behold I have come to give you life and life in all His fullness".
GOD IS OUR FATHER and He created us that we may love Him, have a relationship with Him and enjoy our lives to the full. True joy and happiness come by being connected with God the right way. But instead, we are SEPARATED and CUT OFF from Him because WE HAVE SINNED - we do not give God the first place in our lives, dishonor our parents, lie, cheat, steal, lust with our eyes, use bad language, curse, hate certain people and have unforgiveness towards certain others…… and so much more. Many times because of this we go through a lot of pain, suffering, sickness, and cannot really enjoy this life and will be surely separated from God forever in hell.
Real life does not consist in the abundance of our wealth and possessions. It is not about how rich we are, how many friends we have, our social status, what car we own, the good clothes we wear, how famous we are or anything of that sort. All of this will pass away once we die. These all may be needed for this life but there is something more important – something that lasts for eternity: A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
Is that the question you are asking yourself?
After achieving all that you wanted to achieve, after reaching the place and position in your life that you wanted to reach, after having the money you always wanted to have, after having a name and a fair amount of fame in your life, after having tried all that you wanted to try to make your life happier – are you still unsatisfied? Or maybe you have achieved nothing in life and feel you are a 'nobody' in this life and so are unsatisfied. In pursuit of satisfaction you may have tried everything possible - being with family, hanging out for endless hours with friends, movies, drinking, smoking, drugs, pornography and maybe even sex! But you still feel an emptiness that nothing can fill, a longing no one can satisfy. You feel you are still missing something.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? (Rom 8:31-32)
He (JESUS) was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed'. (Isaiah 53:5)
Jesus loves you, wants to bless you abundantly and wants to make you a blessing!
Your life on the earth is not a mere accident, a mistake or by chance. God has a plan and purpose for your life on the earth and He desires to have a personal relationship with you! When you come to know God personally and experience His love, when you start focusing on eternal truths and seek His plan and go about fulfilling the purpose for which He created you, then you will have a peace, joy and satisfaction that you would never have otherwise and enjoy His abundant blessings in your everyday life… you will find meaning and purpose in life and start experiencing the FULLNESS of LIFE that Jesus promised.
El Shaddai Tabernacle is our Church based in Bangalore, India, where we focus on glorifying Jesus Christ through our lives, making ready a people prepared for the Lord and help each one receive the life in fullness that the bible promises by growing in Christ Jesus. So, as you go through the material on this website may God give you a deeper knowledge of Himself and the meaning and purpose He has for your life; may you be encouraged and may your faith in Him grow stronger; may you understand eternal realities causing you to trust in Jesus and moving you to become holy like Him… that as a bride is prepared in every way to meet her bridegroom, you also may be prepared to meet Jesus when He comes again.
Some Bible verses that will always help you:
Romans 8:28 : 'And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose'
Ephesians 3:20 : 'Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think'.
To know more on the meaning of El Shaddai please read the article EL SHADDAI.


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Another weekend with some visits to a far away land. Well, at least another state. We get around! Colorado, Idaho, and Utah all in the last few weeks. In the upcoming weeks, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia. We are looking forward to it. It should all be an adventure.
We went up to Idaho for Father's Day. In typical Ross household fashion, they forgot we were coming. A couple of grandchildren gave up their bed so we could have a bed to sleep in. Jan had just returned from the hospital in the previous day from having a kidney infection. I hope she improves quickly.
The next morning with nobody home, I left Amanda sleeping and went to a field out at Ridgeway. I met Ted there and we ended up chatting for several hours. The pump on his 4-wheeler died, so we ran to Murtaugh for parts. They had what we needed, but we were hungry, so we ran to Kimberly. The Maverick for some reason or another was not serving breakfast, so we ran to Eden for food. They did not have anything desirable, so we headed to Burley. We ended up settling for a breakfast at Burger King. We enjoyed the time to chat. He counseled me on my marriage, and I counseled him on his being Bishop. It really weighs on him at the moment for a variety of reasons. Some of which I hope no Bishop ever has to endure. Our several hours were finally up with Amanda calling me. She was finishing the laundry. Ted really has some heavy burdens. I hope I never am called to such a position. He was curious what my ideas were on what he should do in a couple of scenarios. The only thing I had to call on was mission experience, and they did not really seem to apply.
I went home, got ready for the day, and Amanda and I headed out. We ran to visit some people, none of which it seemed were home. Steve and Abby Whitesides, Dennis and Joan Isaak, Paul and Kathy Duncan, Warren and Sara Crane. It was a good day. We stopped for burgers at Burgers Ect. Then we had to drive to Burley to pick up Jan's granddaughter, Shyanne (spelling). We picked her up and headed home. We stopped at Andra's and dropped off her wedding photo. At home, I crashed for a couple of hours. I had been fighting a cold since Friday afternoon. The nap was great, and I think it was the breaking point. I awoke and we met Kevin and Megan Orton for dinner at Perkins. Dustin and Maren McClellan were to meet us, but I suppose they had more important things going on. It was great to visit with Kevin and Megan again. They seem like they are doing really well in their lives. I am happy for them. Ryan and Kegan were there, and they seem like good kids. I hope they grow up to be good, faithful, diligent boys.
Sunday arrived and I slept in I think due to the cold. We got ready and went to church. I really enjoyed Elder's Quorum, Sunday School, and Sacrament. Sunday School was about David and how one little innocent thought can lead to a whole host of things. A look, glance led to sin. Not only that, the desire to hide sin led to greater iniquity. It even cost someone their life. They made the comment that the first sin was forgiven, but the second is what cost David his exaltation. I had never heard this before and I have no idea where Brother Dibb got this from. I e-mailed his Sister-in-Law and hope to find out.
After church, we ran to Andra's house and picked up May and Andra. It was great to see May for the first time in years. She has matured and looks like a responsible young woman. In visiting with her, it sounds like she truly has put her life on the right track. I hope that is truly the case.
We drove to Darrel and Cindy Schmidt's for Sunday Dinner. There was quite the host there. Cindy's sister, Mary Lou, and brother, Lanny, were both there. Lanny brought his son Jeremy, who seems to have pulled his life around as well. I am glad to hear the family is progressing. I hope many others will put there life in order.
Dinner was absolutely amazing. I loved it. I ate two full plates. It was good to visit with the family and to see Cindy again. Tia was there, but did not seem too interested in visiting. I was told that she thinks the only time I call is when I want something. Which is partially true. She seems to have become so cynical and pessimistic, that it is hard to visit with her too often. So I use my coming into town as an excuse to call, which means I also would like to get my car in for a service or something like that. They go hand in hand.
Andra left with a friend and we headed back with May. I forgot to go visit Armina Jonas Farnes in Kimberly. We did visit Tuck and Kathy Taylor though. That was fun. I also got a bunch of temple cards back, most of which I will send to St. George to have the sealings to parents done.
We crashed and went to bed. Monday morning dawned and again we were alone in the house. I got to see Dad for a whole 15 minutes on Sunday. We did give him his card and Father's Day present, which was three photos from the reception. He said he really liked them, especially the family portrait. We got ready and headed out. We met Brock for lunch at Perkins at 11:00. We had a good visit with him. He had to run off for an art teaching appointment. It was good to visit with him. I am glad he is doing good things with his life.
Afterward, we stopped to visit Ted and Becca Tateoka one last time. We visited for probably about an hour. Then went to pay a visit to Paul and Kathy Duncan. We were there for about 2 hours. We visited with Kathy and she updated on all the family and everything that was going on.
I was sad to realize that I was saying good bye to many of these people for the last time for several years. Some of them possibly ever. On the way back down, we stopped to see Grandpa. He had left to go pick up his army buddy, Polke at the Greyhound Station. We left him his two photos in a frame from the wedding. I hope he appreciates them. They were for Father's Day as well. We stopped to visit the Hemsley family, and they were happy and about the usual. Jill has flown to Pennsylvania for a week of meetings.
Anyhow, that was the weekend. Things are well here. I worked yesterday and today. People seems surprised that we are now in single digits for the amount of days I have left at work. I am going to miss the painting and maintenance.


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Canada - Nova Scotia supports industry with wind maps and approval guidelines
By Jennifer Delony
The Nova Scotia Department of Energy (NSDOE), in conjunction with researchers from Universite de Moncton and the Applied Geomatics Research Group at Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), has released maps illustrating provincial wind resources that, if developed for wind power generation, could help the province meet a 20% renewables mandate. As the province gears up for new generation development, the government is working quickly to provide the municipal entities in charge of approving new wind farm proposals with recommended siting and approvals best practices.
The new wind resource maps, which are available online to the general public for download in portable document format at no charge, show wind speeds at 30 meters (m), 50 m and 80 m and include data for up to 10 kilometers offshore. The NSCC group soon will update the wind map Web site to include interactive geographic information system options.
"The interactive portion of the Web site will allow users to gain access to the wind resource modeling that was done and view that information with a number of other layers, such as roads, lakes, rivers, transmission lines and provincial national parks," says David Colville, NSCC lead researcher on the project. "Users can browse any portion of the province to locate areas by way of the various features and get a sense of the wind potential with respect to other features that one needs to take into account when looking at developing a project."
The wind maps will allow developers to identify potential project sites for development to help the province meet a target of obtaining 20% of Nova Scotia's electricity from renewable resources by 2013 that was set by the government in January. Moving the province closer to reaching that target, Halifax-based Nova Scotia Power (NS Power) issued a request for proposals (RFP) for 130 MW of renewable energy in March. Proposals were due to NS Power by Aug. 31, and the utility plans to announce the winning bidders by the end of the year or as soon as power purchase agreements have been secured for the proposed projects, according to a spokesperson for NS Power.
Projects under the RFP must be in service by November 2009 – a fast approaching due date that is putting pressure on the municipal authorities charged with reviewing new generation development applications from the RFP's winning bidders. The Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities (UNSM), in cooperation with the NSDOE and Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations, released an RFP for consulting services to develop model wind turbine zoning by-laws and best practices for Nova Scotia's municipalities.
According to the UNSM RFP document, the task of defining how new wind power projects will fit into Nova Scotia's communities falls to municipalities. The RFP document also notes that "very few municipalities in the province are prepared if wind turbine sites are identified for location in their areas."
A draft model and guidelines are due under the RFP by Nov. 23, with a final report due before the end of the year. There is "some urgency" to this initiative, says Peggy Crawford, municipal sustainability coordinator for UNSM. "We want to coordinate the guidelines for the municipalities to have as the NS Power proposals are being considered," she adds.
Shear Wind, a Halifax, Nova Scotia-headquartered renewable energy developer, submitted a bid to NS Power's RFP at the end of August for a 50 MW to 150 MW wind farm at the company's north central Nova Scotia project site, called Glen Dhu. The company has since purchased the Merland Wind Project from Barrington Wind Energy Ltd. The Merland, Nova Scotia-based project, which has 50 MW of generation potential, complements Shear Wind's Glen Dhu site and provides strategic options for future expansion of Glen Dhu or for developing a stand-alone project, according to Shear Wind's President and CEO Michael Magnus.
While the NSDOE's wind maps reveal the province's extensive wind resource, Shear Wind does not plan to explore sites beyond Glen Dhu in the near future. The Glen Dhu project, in addition to having an excellent resource that Magnus happily notes is validated by the new wind maps, provides up to 220 MW of grid interconnection, says Magnus. A lack of transmission availability, he adds, is a significant deterrent to exploring other locations with viable wind resources in Nova Scotia.
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