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A new partnership has been launched to address the declining state of the world's fresh water supply and the lack of access to clean water services by the world's poorest people. The Global Water Initiative (GWI) brings together a group of seven leading international NGOs, including Action Against Hunger (ACF) – USA, CARE, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), The World Conservation Union (IUCN), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Oxfam America and SOS Sahel – UK.
The announcement of the GWI comes at a time when more than one billion people lack access to improved water sources, and more than 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation. Water resources are under increasing pressure from human use while communities are frequently affected by floods and droughts.
The GWI will work in 13 countries in Central America, West Africa and East Africa to address the challenges of providing long-term access to clean water and sanitation, access to water for rural production, as well as the protection and sustainable management of ecosystem services and watersheds. The partner organizations will focus on the needs of some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities including refugees and internally displaced persons.
Projects will deliver water and sanitation in rural communities. In addition, investments will be made to strengthen institutions, build capacity to enable organizations to initiate and sustain long-term projects, increase community participation, improve local governance, facilitate inter-governmental coordination and cooperation, raise awareness, emphasize innovation and support the development of responsible water policies. The projects at local and national levels will help catalyze change toward better integrated management of water resources.
Examples of early projects include training micro-watershed committees on risk management issues; constructing and improving the water and sanitation infrastructure in community schools; rehabilitating water harvesting ponds; raising awareness of the opportunities for multiple water use; and offering leadership training to women.
The coalition of seven international organizations is a unique partnership which will combine capacities to support services in water supply, sanitation, agriculture and environmental management. What makes the GWI distinctive from other development efforts is that all organizations have been involved from the outset of the initiative in collectively building the common vision and sharing the responsibility and accountability for implementing the GWI. The GWI will provide strategic environmental and water resource analysis in addition to policy development and raising awareness.
A specific highlight of this initiative is the opportunity to address transboundary issues and regional watersheds in a broad approach. Combining these strengths provides an unusual opportunity to support transformation of water management in selected countries in close cooperation with other local partners and agencies. Within the first two years, the GWI will demonstrate practical approaches to achieving integrated water resource management, supporting responsible water policy, addressing water conflict resolution and reducing water related risks. In its inaugural year, over US$15 million has been made available for implementing these activities in 2007. Similar levels of resources are anticipated for the following nine years.
Funding for the GWI is provided by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. "This initiative is designed to recognize and meet the needs of both domestic and productive water uses, while combining integrated watershed management with environmental accountability," stated Howard Buffett, President of the Foundation. "It is our objective to utilize and leverage the experience of our partners to create a flexible and spontaneous approach to providing poor communities access to safe drinking water. By building new constituencies, creating stronger alliances and engaging all stakeholders, it is our hope to create a new vision and an effective platform for change." The Howard G. Buffett Foundation funds water projects in 19 countries, but does not accept any unsolicited proposals.
*The Global Water Initiative works in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
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Lennon exhibition aims to draw fans, raise funds for local charity
John Lennon's observations about the world around him may be best known through his lyrics and music.
But given his education at the Liverpool College of Art, he also could be comfortable capturing the scenes of everyday life with pen-and-ink in loose and playful sketches.
"I like his style very much," Yoko Ono said of her late husband in a recent interview. "When you see it, you start to smile and start to laugh. In most museum shows, there is very serious art ... which is good, too ... but I like a little humor."
Those drawings, along with other pieces of Lennon's artwork created from the early 1960s to his death in 1980, are expected to be on display Friday, Nov. 30, to Sunday, Dec. 2, at the Stamford Hilton Hotel.
In 2009, a traveling exhibition of works went on display in Greenwich. This time around, there will be about 100 pieces, featuring drawings and limited prints of some of his handwritten lyrics, allowing a unique look into the musician's creative process.
Lennon attended the college, now called the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in the late 1950s.
"John started with visual art," said Ono, whose own art career has stretched more than 40 years and spans multiple media (conceptual art, music and filmmaking). "But, then, the thing is, as we know, he fell in love with rock 'n' roll.
"When I met him, he was stimulated by the fact that I was an artist," she said, adding that it spurred him to want to go back to the artwork he had done before he started concentrating on his music.
The pair, who married in 1969, collaborated on a number of visual, conceptual and musical projects.
"I miss that," she said. "We were both creative ... there was an incredible energy between us."
For more than 20 years, Ono, along with Legacy Fine Art & Productions, has taken this traveling exhibit to places across the United States to continue the spirit of Lennon's efforts to promote peace and love. As she has in the past, she has teamed with a local organization to raise fund for charitable efforts.
Money raised will support the Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County. She is involved in other efforts to reduce global hunger, including the "Imagine There's No Hunger" campaign that was launched with WhyHunger and Hard Rock International earlier this month for the fifth consecutive year.
Ono, 79, said the cause is a personal one for her. During World War II, while her family was living in Tokyo, she said children were going hungry with lack of food.
"The kids were all starving," she said. "I remember what it meant to be starving. ... I don't want anyone else to have to go through that. I want to save them from such incredible suffering."
Ono said she is hopeful that the works in the "So This is Christmas" exhibition bring out fans, as well as those who may not have been in to Lennon's music, whether during his days with the Beatles, the Plastic Ono Band or his solo work. Though, she said, the artwork just might spur an interest in re-discovering the music.
"I just wanted to show something that I hope would touch people," she said.
A longtime peace activist, Ono was asked why she believed art is a way to bring a message of peace, love and possibility to the masses.
"It's easier for us to communicate conceptually," she said.
Still, for all the weighty topics that dominate her activism these days -- much of it a continuation of the work she and Lennon championed years ago -- she hopes visitors head to the art show with a light heart and a ready smile.
"Have fun," she said. "You will enjoy it."
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Fit 7, pg. 75/1 … raise high the snark beam, carpenters
What better way to celebrate Boxing Day than to ogle this salacious image of Karl Marx in blackface doing a disjointed, Nonsensical Carrollian bump and grind?
Lesser-minded readers will reach for their politically correct smelling salts or even their attorneys but well-oiled Carrollians will heave a self-satisfied sigh of relief at all of this, for they know that in this, Fit the Seventh of our GN version of the Hunting of the Snark, the Banker has been transmogrified twice! First by this artist, who has been depicting him throughout this Snark as Karl Marx and second, by his nemesis, the Bandersnatch, who has reversed his various Caucasian, upper-crust British Victorian polarities into those of a rupee-less, paan-chomping Hindustani rickshaw wallah slumming his way through the salad days of the British Raj.
All of this is per the instruction of the Admirable Carroll, naturally, so don't look askance. He wrote it all down in black and white anapaestics, in a coded message entitled The Hunting of the Snark which this artist then de-ciphered into anapaestic, Protosurrealist crosshatchings of the darkest, inkiest splendor.
It is horrible and senseless and rather confusing, this Carrollian Multiverse we call the Snark and as the observant reader can see below, its gravitational perturbations are rippling through the very fabric of time and space as we speak. Observe this oddly-shelved copy of our Snark which was spotted at a bookstore, endeavouring to say what its tongue could no longer express …
Thanks to the talented and keen-eyed poet Sommer Browning for alerting us to this curious incident and please, if the person responsible for this shelving is reading this, accept my heartfelt thanks. I salute your innate sense of Surrealist horror, your senseless grimace at the pigeon-holing, soul-crushing dictates of modern commerce.
Carroll rubbing shoulders with Sappho and Ovid, the mind boggles deliciously.
NB. Sommer wrote a good essay on Steve Martin (my favorite American comedian) at the Rumpus. What better way to waste your employer's time this busy week than by reading her perceptive take on America's only genuine Surrealist … plus Brother Theodore, of course …
Monday, December 19, 2011
A child's christmas in Snark Island
Alas, dear readers, but the press of deadlines this week forces me to be an utter cad and skip the usual Snark commentary … instead, I must offer you a re-run, an earlier episode from this GN version of the Snark in which the HMS Snark set sail for Snark Island in a billowy puff of surrealist steam.
I've worked up this panel into a screensaver, cunningly heightened to a level of chromatic gaudiness sufficient to blow out your optical gaskets, if that's your sort of thing.
What better way to enjoy your Saturnalia than by staring at this screensaver whilst idly turning the pages of your GN Snark purchased from any of the above on-line links, or even better, from your favorite bookstore? Well, there is another way but it involves a lot of illicit scurrying around with bottles and flasks and bunsen burners, so we'll leave it to the reader's imagination to sort out the lurid, delightful details.
And remember, 42% of all the profits that this artist makes from this Snark will go towards the assistance of any idly-gyrating Assamese nautch girls he happens to find flitting about his ink-soaked charpoy! All aboard for Saturnalia!
Monday, December 12, 2011
Fit 7, pg. 74/2 … black and white and snark all over
In an earlier stanzel we subjected The Banker/Karl Marx to the indignities of vamping as a perfumed houri in the lascivious environs of a Turkish harem but that is nothing to his current employment in a Carrollian minstrel show.
Yes, the Bandersnatch has worked its magic at last, the hypnotic spell of the Orient has done its hypno thing and both reader and Snarquista stand amazed at this climactic thing-um-a-bob at the heart of Fit the Seventh.
Reflexive readers will grasp that there is a bit of artistic commentary going on here, most of it focussed upon Victorian British attitudes towards their Indian subjects but lighter-hearted readers can just go ahead and giggle up their mulligatawny soup whilst sitting in their bungalow, pajama clad and taking a good dekko at this latest instalment of The Hunting of the Snark.
And why not? It's all Nonsense and has hardly any bearing on anything at all except whatever I've surreptitiously meant it to have, ie. it's a wonderful thing to be seen!
Clear as rain, I should think.
NB. My memory is its usual swiss cheese holey thing but I remember reading somewhere of a minstrel show version of the Snark performed in the USA shortly after its publication … perhaps one of Doug Howick's more startling discoveries?
Monday, December 5, 2011
Fit 7, pg. 74/1 … the snarkhood of nivasio dolcemare
A sudden outbreak of paranoid Orientalism has overwhelmed every drop of precious ink spilled upon this stanzel. Where once we saw pleasantly buffoonish Snark Hunters disporting themselves against a backdrop of English garden parties and nursery room labyrinths, we are now confronted with the raw animal passions of … well, animals.
The role of animals in Marxism is only lightly touched upon in academia but thanks to our cunning stratagem of employing Karl Marx to play the role of the Banker in this GN version of the Snark, it's about time we put an end to all that sort of thing.
As always, it was the Italian supra-surrealist Alberto Savinio who first grasped the essence of the animal-proletariat's dilemma:
Totemism is a sign of the dignity animals once enjoyed, a testimony that the earth was once a paradise. But the memory of this paradise grows more and more dim.
Paradise is precisely what both capitalism (the Banker) and Marxism (Karl Marx) promise all humans foolish enough to check in their brains at the door whenever invited to warm themselves beside any sort of comfy, warm mental fire.
And what was Orientalism for the Victorians but just more of the same? A paradise peopled by commodified humans regarded as monkey-like primitives (the worst sort of totems) until they clapped you inside a Bandersnatch's basket.
Go ahead and threaten them with your mass-produced, rationalist's forks and hope and smiles and soap but it's just as you feared: ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee, just as you feared …
Next week: nonlinear thinking + linear inking = 100% snark


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There seems to be some confusion over which incoming Colorado State freshman will take a greyshirt _ the process of enrolling fulltime in January and counting as a true freshman a year from now.
Greyshirting gives football staffs some flexibility to sign extra players in February as well as insure against any academic casualties or other unforeseen issues preventing immediate eligibility.
Sometimes greyshirt designees enroll for a limited number of classes in the fall on their own (or parents') dime. Otherwise, they miss one of the most fun times of the college experience, the fall first semester.
With one exception, there will be no decision until at least Thursday on greyshirts. Much depends on who is eligible. Already two February signees, wide receiver Jay James of Orlando, FL, and linebacker Vance Green of Gilmer, TX, are enrolled in junior colleges.
The player who will definitely redshirt is quarterback Garrett Grayson, only to put some eligibility space between himself and true freshman Pete Thomas and redshirt freshman Nico Ranieri.
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The war of words between the Hungarian Film Fund and Bela Tarr, president of the Hungarian Filmmakers' Association, is continuing following the cancellation of Hungarian Film Week for the first time since 1965.
Tarr has released a statement confirming that the 44th Hungarian Film Week will not take place this year.
Instead, the Hungarian Filmmakers' Association is holding an extraordinary and public General Assembly Meeting on Saturday [Feb 2] in the Urania Cinema.
The meeting promises to be akin to a wake.
"Believe me, we would rather organise the traditional February film week, we would rather screen films, we would rather talk about them and we would rather appreciate and honour quality achievements," Tarr's statement reads.
"Because the Hungarian Film Week has always been the celebration of the Hungarian cinema. This is the very first year when we are not able to organise it.
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Hungarian Film Commissioner Andy Vajna has reacted with dismay to Tarr's statement.
While acknowledging his respect for Tarr's work as a filmmaker, Vajna told Screen Daily that he was "getting really tired of his bellowing empty words and thoughts with regards to the Hungarian film industry."
Vajna said that Tarr "no longer participates" in that industry because he has been away teaching at a film school in Split.
"He (Tarr) hasn't been in Hungary. He doesn't know what is going on and frankly he doesn't care. All he wants to hear is his own voice."
Tarr's statement claims that the Hungarian industry "has been crushed" and that film production has been in a standstill for two years, leaving many technicians unemployed and "practically on the brink of starvation."
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Vajna countered that there is plenty of activity with five films backed by the Fund nearing completion and another six ready to start.
"The industry is very busy and very active with the foreign movies coming to shoot in Hungary one after the other," he said, citing examples such as Paramount's Hercules, The Borgias and a new version of Dracula.
"We are talking about many millions of dollars and hundreds of people being employed," Vajna said. "As far as I am concerned, he (Tarr) is empty hot air and I am sorry to say that about him because I respect his work."
The Film Fund boss insisted that the Hungarian industry was in good health.
"It (the industry) is well," Vajna stated. "It is starting to do things that we will all be very surprised (by) in the next couple of years to come. Unfortunately, what he (Tarr) and his cronies have destroyed I have the responsibility in rebuilding – and we are doing really well."


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Brentford goalkeeper Simon Moore's late penalty save maintained his side's five-game unbeaten run in a 2-1 success over Carlisle.
The Bees goalkeeper denied Joe Garner from the spot after centre-back Tony Craig had been penalised for a hotly-contested aerial clash with the visitors' David Symington.
The Londoners broke the deadlock in the 20th minute, Jonathan Douglas hammering home a far post volley from Harry Forrester's deep corner, but the Cumbrians were level minutes later when Garner cleverly made space for himself after Harlee Dean had slipped to fire past Moore.
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NEW YORK — Knicks forward Rasheed Wallace retired again from the NBA on Wednesday after he was unable to recover from a left foot injury.
NEW YORK — Knicks forward Rasheed Wallace retired again from the NBA on Wednesday after he was unable to recover from a left foot injury.
Wallace tried to make it back for the playoffs, but knew after a brief stint Monday against Charlotte that it was over.
"We all wish we can play forever but that's just not the case," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. "Some play longer than the others and in this case he had a long career, man, and he tried to come back and it just didn't work and he's going to move on with his life."
The Knicks made the announcement in a release after their morning shootaround. Woodson said after the workout only that Wallace was struggling with soreness and his status for the playoffs wasn't known.
It's a damaging blow for the Knicks, who loaded up on veteran big men this season but have now lost two of them for good in Kurt Thomas and Wallace, and have gotten almost nothing from Marcus Camby.
Also, Amare Stoudemire's status for the postseason is unclear as he recovers from right knee surgery.
The Knicks added another big man Wednesday by signing Earl Barron.
Wallace, 38, ended a two-year retirement this season to join the Knicks. The 6-foot-11 forward was a key player off the bench during the Knicks' strong start, but hadn't played since December before returning Monday against Charlotte.
Wallace, who had surgery to repair a broken left foot on Feb. 28, lasted only 4 minutes before exiting because of continued soreness.
Woodson said Wednesday morning that Wallace always had a high tolerance for pain but the foot was obviously bothering him. Still, he said he was "a little shocked" when Wallace decided he was done.
"But again, I think when you've played a number of years in this league, you know," Woodson said. "There comes a time when you know that you just can't answer the bell anymore and that's the hard part about playing professional sports, because it's tough to walk away when you know you can't do it anymore."
The Knicks expect Tyson Chandler (bulging disk) and Kenyon Martin (sprained left ankle) to be ready for the playoff opener.


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As newborns, we were given car-shaped teething toys. By the time we were 3, we were pushing around an armada of hazard-yellow plastic trucks, and by 5 we had a collection of die-cast models that would rival any real car collection. But we're older now, and our automotive entertainments have to offer more than just four tiny rubber tires.
Fortunately for us, something new and spectacular has been afoot in a large tent on Reseda Boulevard in Northridge, California. Each week, the lights go dim, smoke billows from state-of-the-art paint booths, and red and blue lights glisten off of chromed-out stroker engines.
It might sound like a car guy's (or gal's) dream, but this is reality.
This is Car Warriors, SPEED's new one-hour weekly series. The show features a hand-picked, eight-person team taking on a real-life shop in a pressure-packed, 72-hour restoration project. Once complete, the resulting creations undergo performance testing and are awarded points for their handling and driveability. If the challenging team wins, it gets to keep both cars.
One of the show's early matchups will feature a pair of automatic C3 Corvettes—one a '76 and the other a '77. Despite the truncated build schedule, the cars represented complete rebuild projects: The brakes didn't work, the engines smoked, the weatherstripping had deteriorated to slivers, the seats were cracked in a million pieces, and the headlights hadn't opened under their own vacuum for years. They didn't just need restorations; they needed resurrections.
We were given complete access to follow the build-ups in real time, talk to the builders, and get the inside track on how they planned to create their own visions of the ultimate C3.
The Challengers
The Challengers for the Corvette episode came from Sacramento's Gearhead Garage and were led by Jason Walroth. The rest of the team comprised Dave Fonts (fabricator), Merton Perkins (mechanic), Jonathan Lucich (mechanic), Derek Carlson (painter), Mike Sparman (fabricator), Shawn Katt (interior), and Brandon Boarman (paint).
The All-Stars
The All-Star team consisted of a "who's who" in the car industry, each member with his or her own specialty. Nominal team leader Rich Evans owns his own shop and has built rides for SEMA and various celebrities. Ian Roussel, often referred to as the "Mad Scientist," was the team's metal mastermind. The exterior paint was handled by Ryno, whose name may ring a bell from his many seasons on Trick My Truck. The fourth team member, who went by the nom de auto Itchy, won the 2009 Von Dutch Pinstriping Award. Nicole Lyons has a history with car building and racing in both the NHRA and NASCAR circuits. Tina Sharp was the backbone of the interior team, while Scott Owens was the sound man, holding the world record for the car stereo system with the highest decibel reading. The eighth member was Joel Hoffman of JandH restorations, who has also built cars for SEMA and for a number of pro athletes.
The Judges
Once the clock hit 72 hours, the build stopped and the judges took over. Leading the lineup was none other than self-proclaimed "King of Kustomizers" George Barris, known for his wild show-circuit creations of the '70s, as well as for such legendary movie and TV cars as the original Batmobile and the Munster Koach. Next up was Jimmy Shine, lead builder at the world famous SO-CAL Speed Shop. Rounding out the lineup was Mad Mike, known as a wiring magician at Galpin Auto Sports and from the TV series Pimp My Ride.
The points breakdown was pretty simple, with a maximum allowable score of 100. The exterior and paint were graded on a total of 25 points, the engine bay and the integration of performance parts a total of 25 points, the interior a total of 25 points, and handling and road performance a total of 25 points.
Lights, Camera, Action!
The Corvette builds started out with a test to determine which team could remove its car's engine first. The winning team would be given the chance to pick which new engine would power its build.
As quickly as the challenge started, the All-Stars had removed their Vette's motor and won. Without hesitation, they picked a Hawaii Racing–built, tunnel-rammed 383 with 483 hp over the milder, 425hp version.
A mad race to the parts cage then ensued, with each team grabbing whatever parts it wanted. Zip Corvette's array of fiberglass body panels and a set of Hooker side pipes were the first things to be grabbed. A gentleman's discussion ensued over the wheels, as each team grabbed a portion of a matched set of 20-inch Helos. But as it soon became clear, there was much more planned than the addition of simple bolt-on parts.
As the hours proceeded, the cars began to take on lives of their own. Neither Corvette was looking anything like a standard restoration. Rather, both were becoming completely custom rides. Two-part foam was used by the gallons on the All-Stars' side, to give America's Sports Car a wild stance and an all-new front-end appearance.
The challenging team, Gearhead Garage, opted for a unique approach by removing the rear tail panel of its car to give it a more "vintage" line. Additionally, the team decided to use the previously removed taillight buckets as headlight housings.
"Originally, we planned to change the factory-style headlights out for a more modern setup, then incorporate clear Plexiglas covers similar to the new ZR1," said Mike Sparman. "As the project took on a life of its own, we realized that 72 hours was not a lot of time! After considering a GT-40–style light setup, Jason and I came up with the idea to fab the rear taillights and bumper into the front fascia—no small task." It took a bit of fit and finish, and to a non-Corvette enthusiast, the subtle touch could easily be overlooked.
The All-Stars went a different route with a totally custom front end, with the result—essentially an elongated cylinder with four light holes in it—resembling an oversized phone dial or a missile launcher.
Because of the Corvette's leaf-spring rear suspension, no one truly believed that either of the builders would opt to use the available Universal Air Suspension air-ride system. But the All-Stars did, removing a few of the leaves and "bagging" their C3.
"Ian and I had never seen [airbags] done before, and figured that there had to be a way to do it," said Joel Hoffman. "So we came up with the idea to just start taking the suspension apart and using trial and error. After the first go around, we had to make some plates to hold the rear airbags in place. Up front, as is the case with A-arm suspension, we had to cut the pockets a little bigger to hold the airbags correctly."
As the cars entered the paint phase, it was anyone's guess what schemes would be utilized. Ryno, the All-Stars' painter, opted to attack the finish in a very flamboyant fashion, using House of Kolors silver to paint tribal-style patterns across the black-cherry exterior. If the points had been tallied at this point, it seemed, the All-Stars had taken the lead.
The Challengers' paint theme went along with the team's previously mentioned styling cues. They used a simple red, gray, and black color scheme, along with their version of a painted "stinger."
"Our theme was heavily based on our build style," explained Sparman. "Our goal was to integrate all aspects of the Corvette—new and old—inside and out. The car was a blend of a '69, a new ZR1, a mid-'70s classic, and what we thought a Corvette designer would have envisioned. We knew the All-Stars had a wild build style. With a focus on styling, performance, and overall integration, our goal was to beat them at our game, not theirs."
As the clock neared zero, both teams were scrambling to complete their last-minute touches. At the 00:00 mark, the workers stepped away from their cars to face the jury.
Both cars smoked their tires easily and handled the slalom course well, but it was clear that a few final details of the All-Stars car were giving the judges pause. The telescopic steering column hadn't been repaired, so it kept moving in and out as they drove. The seat mechanism was also broken, so the seat slid forward and back in rhythm with the car's braking and acceleration.
It was going to be interesting to see if the exterior "wow" factor and fabrication work of the All-Stars' car would tip the balance, or if the design flow of the Challengers' car would give it the upper hand.
In George Barris' words, "The All-Stars' car was a wild design; however it was out of proportion with the character of what a Corvette should look like." In reference to the Challengers' car, he added, "Although not wild in design, it was unique and enjoyable, and the workmanship was...very nice."
Hours later, the judges' votes were tallied.
In true warrior fashion, someone had to win, and someone had to lose. Both teams built the best C3 Corvette they could in only 72 hours, working in a shop that was not their own, and on a car model that might not have been their specialty. As the cameras rolled and the envelope was opened, every team member stood at attention. Slowly the words were spoken: "And the winner is Gearhead Garage." The Challengers had prevailed, knocking off their heavily favored opponents and netting themselves a pair of cool custom Vettes in the process.


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My younger son - who is sick today, leaving me time to update my weblog as more serious work is almost impossible, what with the frequent, if exquisitely polite, requests for drinks and snacks and the imparting of a constant flow of diverting factoids from the pages of Science et Vie Junior (the world's largest bicep is 74cm in diameter! Once a Lego tower is taller than 30 metres in height it is impossible to keep stable!) - has just bought himself this:
I especially like the glimpse of one ear as he quietly reads his Astrapi magazine in his ostrich. Respect. "It's his fortress of solitude" someone commented. If you should ever wish for your own fortress of solitude I can tell you that it is extremely comfortable and that the ostrich manufacturer's customer service was absolutely excellent. I have neither been paid, nor given a discount to say this: younger son paid full price for his FoS. What with this and the shark sleeping bag, he and his brother are at least keeping struggling artisan designers in moustache wax and rare vinyl, I suppose. M spent a significant proportion of yesterday trying to persuade me to get into the shark whilst wearing the ostrich on my head, but obviously I cannot do so until I have the house to myself and even if I did I would never tell anyone, ever, but I can't pretend the idea doesn't have a certain appeal. Would I ever be able to get out again, is the real question? What possible appeal can real life hold compared with becoming half ostrich, half shark?
2. 50% whippet, 50% kangaroo, 100% trouble
Meanwhile this video throws new light on the dog's counter jumping, Toblerone stealing proclivities.
You might conclude that we have only ourselves to blame for any opportunistic food theft, and you would be entirely right.
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I have also found myself a fancy dress costume (not that I have any particular need to wear fancy dress that I can think of, but if I did, imagine!):
It is only available in child sizes which seems to me a massive oversight on the part of the manufacturers. Adults want to dress as chips too, indeed I would argue our need is far greater. F is wholly decided on his outfit for Carnaval: he is planning to dress up as "Verdi"; which I am sure will go down a storm with the tough eggs in 6ème. Actually, I quite fancy trying to crowbar myself into a ten year old's poke of chips. How hard can it be? There must be some give in there. It would look lurid and alarming and faintly sexual, with the point of the cone between one's legs and really, what more can you ask for in a dressing up outfit? NOTHING. Well, a tail would be nice, I suppose. There are people who just sell tails, aren't there? The world is an increasingly puzzling place.
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A propos the villain in the York pantomime (who was a no-show this season):
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A propos flooding:
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Then today:
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This week I have learnt:
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- "The dog's face is brown and white and black and grey and pink" in Chinese. I am the boss of Chinese colours, well, apart from my pronunciation which is apparently atrocious. But at least I know which word I am supposed to be mangling.
- "the watch is 5000 yen" in Japanese.
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This is all I have for you. Well, I am working on something long and involved and horse related, but given I currently write as if English is my fourth or fifth language and at the speed of an arthritic sea cucumber (I believe my earnings in the last ten days total approximately £100 gross), breath should not be held. I feel a bit like the tortoises in January, all my critical faculties and get up and go packed away in a box stuffed with newspaper until the sun comes out. Given that this is likely to be around mid May, there is some cause for concern. But NEVER MIND. That is precisely what the ostrich is for, surely?


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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Family Tree to replace New FamilySearch by year's end?
There are several online programs that could and may have been used as basic models for the Family Tree program, such as WeRelate.org, WikiTree.com and a few others. But the main interface for the Family Tree program appears to be pedigree chart based after the Family Tree view in New FamilySearch. It is apparent to me that the Family Tree program is more than a simple update or revision of the existing New.FamilySearch.org program, but is an almost completely new program. One of the many significant things said by Ron Tanner in the introduction, which may have passed by most or the attendees, was his statement that the input for Family Tree will initially be the information that is now found in the Summary View of the New FamilySearch. There is therefore a degree of incentive to clean up the Summaries in New FamilySearch.
This need to clean up the data came home, once again, to me as I saw that Ron Tanner used much of the information I had contributed to New.FamilySearch.org as a basis for his examples in using the new Family Tree program. (I think we will have to stop using the term "new" or we will become hopelessly confused).
At the same time, I attended a large conference of members of the Church today and there was a request made that the members direct their attention at "doing their genealogy work." It was apparent that the message concerning the coming introduction of an entirely new program is not at all well known to Church members. I see the introduction of Family Tree to be a wake-up call to genealogists in and out of the Church to clean up their own databases and get ready to add sources and qualifications to the Family Tree program when they are able to do so.
There was some initial criticism of the form of the fields used for sources in the Family Tree program. I think that dwelling on the formalities of citation forms may severely discourage new genealogists from contributing their own valuable information. If anyone thinks they have a better citation form, it appears that the Family Tree program will allow the "authority" to modify the entries to conform with some outside citation standard.
Ron Tanner spent some considerable time in his presentation talking about the issue of "ownership" of genealogical information. The comments from the audience showed that there was a significant sense of ownership by the attendees. Ron called this phenomena "My-Tree-itis." From my own personal experience, I believe this may be one of the most serious obstacles to ever achieving a universally acceptable method of recording genealogical data.
If the Family Tree program works as demonstrated, it will eliminate a very large number of the problems with the existing New.FamilySearch.org program. In my opinion, what I saw is very close to getting it right.
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Regarding citations, I thought, perhaps erroneously, that programs like RootsMagic would upload citations to databases like nFS or the newer Family Tree. Am I wrong?ReplyDeleteReplies
New FamilySearch has no provisions for attaching sources to individual events, so genealogy programs cannot upload their source citations.Delete
- Marian JohnsonFebruary 6, 2012 at 11:41 AM
I have sources in my PAF file for individual events, and in the early days of nFS, I uploaded my files via GEDCOM, and found that the sources went with them; however, the separate fields for the address of the repository had to be re-entered, since the original field in PAF includes the entire address. I have continued to add typed-in sourcesDelete
for new events as I located the information. The Family Tree has not carried over any of this information. I find it distressing to realize that my efforts will go away with the change to Family Tree in FamilySearch.org. Thus far, the source fields in Family Tree apply to the person in general, not to specific events in the person's life.
It is no wonder people don't add sources to their information. I have progressed through the early versions of PAF with sources in the notes, to later versions with actual source fields connected to events, to nFS...and here we go again. How many times is the method of sourcing our genealogy going to change???? This is getting ridiculous!
Interesting and a good thing, I agree.ReplyDelete
However, I would disagree with Ron's dismissal as 'my-tree-itis'. There is so much garbage out there that until quality is a focus rather than quantity (which familysearch is guilty of in being more interested in throwing data up and not indexing, etc.) I will shy away from universal forums for tree information. Just my 2 cents plain.
- G. Wayne NesmithFebruary 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM
The easiest way to understand the current DIFFERENCE between http://FamilySearch.org and http://New.FamilySearch.org is this:ReplyDelete
FamilySearch = SEARCH records.
New.FamilySearch = Build TREEs (FGRs-family group records, PCs-Pedigree Charts) --Wayne
I have been doing genealogy research since before the internet was available. All these new sources on line are wonderful and I use them happily. However, it is very easy for people with great enthusiasm and little or no training to roar off in the wrong direction.ReplyDelete
My darling young niece has done this many times. The real answer is not only a better computer program, but for people to take things one step at a time and REALLY think about the information they have found. Really good genealogy research is like a forensic investigation. One must cross check one's information with as many sources as are available. It is not enough to include a suspected ancestor. One must also do the work to EXCLUDE a suspected ancestor.
Some answers can be found in 20 minutes, other take 20 years. That is simply the nature of genealogy research if you sincerely want to know the truth.Replies
I agree....I learned genealogy at my mother's knee and spent years readying information for the roll out of the family search program in our temple years ago. I go in to find so much additions and non-merging that it is very frustrated. People don't accept info with the names that are already there...have to "ADD IT AGAIN". Very frustrating. At this for almost 50 years and still going....at least trying to...Delete
- AnonymousAugust 5, 2012 at 4:04 PM
POR FAVOR BRINDEN LA INFORMACION EN ESPAÑOL TAMBIEN. GRACIAS.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2012 at 6:47 PM
What are the limitations with the New Family Search that are being addressed? That is, what are the 'missing requirements' being added? I've been using New Family Search for 2 years and am rather pleased with it. I know that some data is not always 'correct', but am willing to accept it... Thanks for clarifying the drivers here.ReplyDelete


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Window Cleaner: Add 3 cups of water, plus ¼ cup of white vinegar and 1½ tablespoons of lemon juice. Try wiping this mixture off of windows with crumpled newspaper instead of paper towels to avoid leaving lint on the surface. If the glass appears streaky or has residue on it afterwards, it's probably buildup left from those synthetic blue window cleaners you've been using for years. Try washing with vinegar a few more times and the residue should come right off.
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HOUSTON – After coming out of their SuperLiga group on top with two wins and a tie, the Houston Dynamo are hoping they can carry some of that momentum into their game this weekend against the Columbus Crew.
"The team's feeling better about our performances and that leads to confidence which always helps," said midfielder Brad Davis. "We were in a bit of a rut in MLS and we stuck together and I think we put together some good performances. … Hopefully we can take that to Columbus and put together a good result."
Houston have shockingly failed to defeat an MLS opponent since May 22. However, the their performances in league play prior to SuperLiga were dramatic improvements compared to their showing in three consecutive league defeats earlier in the year.
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"We control our own destiny and we get to decide our future based on our performance," said Boswell. "It is an important game for us since Columbus is a great team, especially at home."
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