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Video: BDI Novia Furniture
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
BDI Novia™ furniture is designed from the ground up to accommodate audio/video gear. So in addition to its ultra-solid build, you'll see some smart features you don't get with regular furniture. For example, built-in ventilation keeps your gear from overheating, and wire management keeps your cables neat and hidden from view.
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Amanda: Hi. I'm Amanda.
Malcolm: And I'm Malcolm.
Amanda: And we're here in the Crutchfield studio today with BDI's Novia™ line of audio/video furniture.
Malcolm: That's right. We have the 8428, which we have here in cocoa and cherry. There's also the 8421, which is a corner placement version, which is not here today, but shares most of the same features.
Amanda: So this furniture is very durable, very sturdy. It's not going to kind of bow in the middle over time like some of the cheaper-quality furniture might do. And also one thing we noticed is taking it out of the box is that it smells like wood and it smells like polish, and the kind of smells that you associate with high quality furniture at the furniture store.
Malcolm: That's right, but unlike that furniture, BDI furniture is designed specifically for A/V gear.
Amanda: Yep.
Malcolm: You've got a lot more going on to complement your components. One example is this tempered glass top.
Amanda: Yeah, and that's really great because you're going to have your TV and your speakers sitting up there, but the tempered glass will really stand up to years of use.
Malcolm: Definitely. We've also got a smoked glass finish on the doors down here which hides your components when they're not in use but also allows full control with all of your normal remotes when you do want to use everything, which is really nice.
Amanda: Yeah, very convenient. And also on this compartment here you can see they've kind of used a mesh cloth covering here on the front like you might see on, say, a speaker grille. And that's because BDI knows that lots of people are going to want to hide their center channel speaker just right in here.
Malcolm: That's right. And if you don't want to put your center channel speaker down here, you could use this for media storage, or you can also lift out these backstops which would give you full space for full sized components as well.
Amanda: Yep. It's very flexible. And I have to say too one of the first things that jumped out at me when we first opened this up was just the quality of the hardware. These hinges are sturdy and just very durable.
Malcolm: Definitely. And check this out. I like this a lot as well.
Amanda: Yeah, that's really cool. And it's great because first of all it means the door's not going to clunk down and stress the hinges and it's also not going to clunk down and potentially scratch the doors on the bottom.
Malcolm: That's right. And also down here on the lower doors you notice that we have the same sort of thing going on with the really, really good sturdy hinges just like up above.
Amanda: It's very high quality. And what you also see here is this little stopper down here at the bottom, and again that just allows the doors to close softly and smoothly, no banging shut. And this over here is pretty cool too.
Malcolm: Right inside in the middle we have a vertical slot which is going to be able to hold your game console. It's very unique.
Amanda: Yeah, and also in these two cabinets now you can see that there is an adjustable shelf in each of them, and these shelves are, are serious. They are very sturdy. They can hold up to fifty pounds each, which is huge. And one of the reasons they're so sturdy is because they're resting on these metal pins, and the metal pins are in metal brackets that are actually embedded in the wood here. And the metal pins, as you can see too, also have these little rubber rings on them, and that just prevents the shelves from sliding out if you don't want them to. Like if you're going to swap out components, you're pulling something out, that shelf isn't going to come sliding into your lap.
Malcolm: Yep.
Amanda: Which is thoughtful.
Malcolm: Yeah, definitely, and you may have also noticed the ventilation that this furniture has. It's something that you don't find with normal, regular furniture. It's definitely more A/V oriented.
Amanda: And it's really crucial because the gear that's going to live in here will generate a lot of heat. It's really nice that BDI put that kind of attention into this cabinet.
Malcolm: Definitely. Now let's take a look at the back. There's lots of thought put into the back panel as well. You have ventilation up here. You also have these panels that are very easy to remove.
Amanda: Yep. They just pop right out, and there's also space built in here in the back so you can run your cables between components. For example, if your DVD player and your cable box are right here but your receiver is over there, you can just connect them up and not have cables junking up the outside of the cabinet.
Malcolm: You also have this hole in the base here. There's another one here and one over here that will let you run your power cable and your speaker wires right out the bottom and out the back, so you can route them to the appropriate locations they need to head to.
Amanda: Yep, it's very convenient. They also have hidden wheels underneath the legs so you can roll it out to get to the back panel and then roll it back in, even over carpet.
Malcolm: That's right. They even have levelers on the bottom, much like a fridge, so if you have an uneven floor you can really get everything balanced out. It's very nice.
Amanda: Yep. And one last thing I wanted to mention, these cabinets require very little assembly when you get them home. To get this one ready for this video, all we had to do was put on the glass top, attach the knobs, slide in the shelves, and pop on the back panel, and all in all, it took us about ten minutes, maybe.
Malcolm: Yeah. It actually took longer to unpack it. So, it ships, it's very carefully packed and you know, it ships out safely. It'll arrive to you in one piece, so everybody's happy.
Amanda: Yeah, no dings or scratches. Very good. So if you'd like to learn more or find out if the Novia furniture will fit your space and the gear that you have, just go to crutchfield.com/BDINovia.
Malcolm: Or as always, give us a call at 1-800-555-9408.

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Softball announces schedule change with Belmont game
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb softball team and Belmont will play this week at Rose Park, but there are a couple of changes in the schedule.
Originally billed as a doubleheader Wednesday, due to the possibility of extreme cold weather, it will now be played Thursday at 3:45 as a single game.
The other game will be made up later in the season.
Paige Neely and Brianne Welch are tied for first for the Lady Bisons. Both are hitting .417. Neely leads with 15 runs batted in and Kristen Sturdivant has 10.
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I'm looking for suggestions on bee's feed during these winter months. I live in Central Maryland and the winter so far has had a fair share of warm days (60degrees) and cold days like today ( 30 degrees) I put fondant patties in the hives about mid November. Upon checking yesterday, one hive had failed on me- too small of a cluster, and they had spread themselves about the hive. They left most of the fondant untouched- had vast amounts of untouched pollen as well. Other hive's cluster looked as if it had grown in size (yahooo!) Fondant seems interesting to them. I removed pollen from failed hive and put into other hive. The bee's took to it right away. Any suggestions as another form of feed? Its my first year beekeeping, and I've had just about everything possible (short of a meteor falling on the hives) happen to me this year. I'd obviously like to see my one and only hive make it- Thanks preemptively for the help! Here are some pics of what I did yesterday in the nice weather.....
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A Strategy for Women Business Leaders for Overcoming Stress and Getting Things Done
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Sometimes it's hardest to focus just when you need your powers of concentration the most. As women business leaders, we have multiple tasks to complete and a seemingly endless supply of competing needs to balance.
The problem can be choosing where to begin.
Studies show that when faced with many choices, people tend to become paralyzed by indecision and make no choice at all.
Columbia University Business School researcher Sheena Iyengar demonstrated this principle by studying the decision-making capacity of 2 groups of people.
One group was given the opportunity to purchase one jar of jam from among 6 varieties. Another group was offered a choice of 24 jams. The study participants who chose from among 6 types of jam were 10 times more likely to make a purchase than those who chose from 24 varieties.
The more manageable choice led directly to significantly higher sales.
Harvard Business Review guest writer, Peter Bregman, offers the following strategy for breaking up long lists of tasks into more manageable categories:
- Take a few moments to write down the tasks you need to accomplish.
- Spend 15 minutes completing the easiest items – quick phone calls, short email responses, etc. Make sure you stop after 15 minutes, and cross out the completed tasks.
- When the initial 15 minutes are up, turn off your phone, close down all windows on your desktop and spend 35 minutes concentrating solely on tackling the most daunting item on your to-do list.
- After you've allotted 35 minutes to the hardest task, take a 10 minute break and start the cycle over again by spending 15 minutes taking care of quick-action items.
According to Bregman, you'll gain a sense of accomplishment by getting the smaller items completed. That will provide the momentum you need to tackle the larger items on your agenda.
Next time you feel overwhelmed by a mountain of work in your in-box, try breaking the tasks down into quick-action items and work that requires more focus, and then tackle the items in a systematic way.
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kwyatt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
The Street Dance Presented by the City of West Linn will once again be held in Historic Willamette. Future editions of the Annual Street Dance will be moved throughout the City, where venues allow for this highly attended event.
July 11th, 2009
Pre-event Social & Food Court 630- 8 pm
Live Music 8 - 11 pm
Willamette Falls Drive & 13th
With the great success of the Willamette Centennial Street Dance in 2008, the City and Willamette Centennial Committee have decided to have the Street Dance become an Annual Event.
2009 Street Dance Committee is proud to present: The Touchables. View The Touchables at their website:
We are seeking a unique logo for this special event which attracts hundreds of our neighbors each year (and is growing in popularity). A professional graphic identity will be used on posters, banners, etc. to promote this event - this year, and into the future.
- Event should be named "West Linn Street Dance"
- Subtitle should indicate the event is in the "Historic Willamette Neighborhood"
- Use of the City of West Linn logo colors (in RGB):- Green: 103,100,47
- Tan: 178,170,126
- Red: 104,50,31
- Light Green: 148,155,81
- The City typically uses font combinations of Optima, Calibri, and Cambria, but for this event, we are wide open to fonts that suggest a fun summer event. However, a classic or "timeless" look is preferred.
- We are striving to professionalize our community events so they look professionally managed and operated
- Hokey graphics or clip art are not preferred.
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It doesn't end well for the former pope! Excellent stuff from Richard!
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So it has - on March 2nd. But what about us newbies that are yet to trawl 5 weeks of postings?
Sorry if it offends you that it's been posted again... but I'm sure if we were to search the entire content of this forum there would be many duplicates...
Would you like me to delete it?
Excellent videos are always a pleasure watch a second time......or more. And some people may have missed it the first time around. Welcome to the site.
Thanks! I'll try and be a little more observant next time... but inevitably things are going to be repeated...
Highly articulate and well spoken. I don't listen as much to Dawkins as I used to listen to Hitchens - maybe I should.
Ratzinger was a disaster for the Catholic cabal. We should be happy for that - he led so many away. I would to see a survey giving numbers. Now he can fade away - or rot away - and die in a few months or years, and the new pope can work on salvaging the reputation of the church.
Which so far, he seems to be doing. More modest. No gold throne on display. Less ostentatious costuming. Doing the foot washing, even including women's feet to the chagrin of a few critics. We'll see what happens.
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Kid Fishing day set Saturday, Jan. 28
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Lake Bob Sandlin State Park and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have scheduled a "Kid's Fishing Day" from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 at Bob Sandlin State Park.
The event has been planned in conjunction with the annual winter stocking of rainbow trout by TPWD Fisheries Branch. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employees and volunteers will be present to assist young anglers. For more information, see the January 26 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Today we're excited to kick off audience voting for the Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) Aspire Awards, our annual competition inviting youth around the world to creatively express their vision for driving change in local communities.
Over the past 12 weeks, we've received more than 1,100 submissions from 51 countries – a record high! We've narrowed the field to 20 finalists in each of our content categories, including animation, documentary, music video, narrative, poetry, photography, collage, and collaboration.
Beginning today through June 8, finalist entries will be showcased on our Aspire Awards website. We encourage you – our community members and supporters – to get involved by helping to select our Audience Award winners. You can cast your vote by viewing, commenting on, sharing, "liking," tweeting, and retweeting your favorite entries.
During the audience voting period, an international panel of professionals working in art, film, and other creative fields will additionally select first- and second-place winners in each content category and a special category for this year - the UNICEF Challenge – which invites entrants to develop a youth-led project utilizing innovative digital tools and/or digital engagement to bring positive change to their communities.
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Pregnancy Fatigue
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 17, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Pregnancy Fatigue
The good news of becoming a new mom brings with it some bad symptoms as well. The tremendous changes that the body goes through in terms of physical and hormonal upheavals bring discomfort and distress. One of the most common of such symptom is fatigue. It starts in early weeks of pregnancy and lasts for the entire tenure until birth and a little after that too. Because the extra weight and the physical sensitivity of the body, the pregnant women becomes frequently and easily tired. She feels exhausted after small errands or for standing or walking for small durations. The energy levels seem to take a downturn and the strain bearing capacity also decreases. Though these are perfectly normal but with proper care the symptoms can be minimized.
Changes in hormones level of the body during the first trimester cause nausea and vomiting. This in turn causes fatigue. The main hormone that undergoes considerable increment is progesterone.
Additional these changes also increase the frequency of urination. As a result night time sleep gets disrupted due to frequent bathroom visits. This lack of proper sleep causes tiredness and fatigue. Also the accompanying psychological and emotional changes cause mental tiredness too. Any signs of anemia, anxiety and depression should also be thoroughly analyzed as probable causes of fatigue.
In the third trimester due to increased body weight, aches, swellings and heartburn follow. These continuous symptoms also cause the body to become exhausted easily.
The labor and delivery of the baby is a tiring exercise in itself. The pre contractions and the strength needed for continue pushes for baby delivery makes the new mom considerably tired. If the symptoms of mood swings and anxiety continue for long periods after the birth of the baby, it may be postpartum depression.
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The Second Book of Maccabees gives us an account of what happens when a
faith is persecuted. We need not think that we Christians are the only
ones persecuted, even today. There are places in the world where Jews are
still persecuted, places where Muslims are persecuted, places where
Buddhists are persecuted and places where we Christians are persecuted.
The challenge for all of us is to remain faithful to the truth that we have
discovered in our lives and to listen to the truth of others without fear.
It is so often fear of others and a fear of another way of looking at life
that brings about persecution.
The Second Letter to the Thessalonians begins to speak about the
faithfulness of Christ, who is always present for us, watching over us with
love, seeking to help us. Our challenge is to respond to that love.
Especially if we are ever persecuted or misunderstood, we need to have
confidence that Christ knows us as we really are and is present with us in
every circumstance, helping us in His own divine way.
The Gospel of Saint Luke talks about heaven and what heaven will be like.
It also deals with a misinterpretation of heaven and the afterlife. It is
far too easy for us to think of heaven as simply another version of earth
and to think that all of the ways that things happen here will also happen
there in heaven. Jesus wants us to be clear that heaven is nothing like
earth and yet is not entirely different. There are clearly relationships
with one another, but not based on the same criteria that we have here on
earth. There is certainly a closeness to one another, but not with
marriage as we know it here on earth.
All of the teachings today are preparing us for the end of the world and
for our own death at the end of our life. Consistently in the Scriptures
we find an awareness that our own lives will end one day and we shall meet
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our relationship with Him every day. Knowing Him and living in Him makes
us wonderful friends and companions to others in this life as well as
preparing us for the heavenly banquet. Let us be faithful. Let us live
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Footage after Asiana crash brings S.F. police-fire tensions
San Francisco police investigating the death of an Asiana Airlines crash survivor who was run over and killed by Fire Department rigs concluded that one of the firefighter drivers was lying to them and challenged a high-ranking fire official who didn't inform them about key camera footage of the incident, according to Police Department documents.
Tensions between police and the Fire Department are evident in more than 200 pages of investigative documents compiled in connection with the death of 15-year-old Ye Meng Yuan, the Chinese girl who was run over by two fire rigs in the minutes after the July 6 crash at San Francisco International Airport. The Chronicle obtained some of the documents from police under a state Public Records Act request and others from sources close to the investigation.
The Police Department ultimately submitted the case to San Mateo County prosecutors, who have jurisdiction over the airport. The officer in charge of the probe, Sgt. Kevin Edison, wrote in his log that no criminal negligence charges "appear evident" against any firefighter in Ye's death, and county District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe agreed.
There were conflicts with the Fire Department throughout the police investigation, however, starting with the role of firefighter Elyse Duckett. She was at the wheel of the second rig to run over Ye as the girl lay on the ground near the burning airplane's left wing.
Rushing to scene
Duckett had been away from her airport fire station when the Boeing 777 came down short of the runway, crashed into a seawall and caught fire. She hurried back and drove one of the airport's foam-spraying rigs to the crash scene off the side of a runway, but soon ran out of water and headed off to get more.
Three days after the crash, Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White supplied police with footage from the helmet camera of Battalion Chief Mark Johnson. It showed Duckett driving directly over the spot where Ye's foam-obscured body was found moments later.
To police Officer Wesley Villaruel, a hit-and-run detail investigator who compiled the collision report, the video was clear evidence that Duckett's rig had run over the girl.
Story contradicted
Duckett, however, told police July 10 - the day after police investigators viewed the footage - that she couldn't have hit the girl, because she had seen the tarp-covered teenager on the ground. What's more, she said, Johnson had told her Ye was there, so she backed up and drove around the girl.
But Johnson's camera footage showed no such thing. Instead, after speaking with Johnson, Duckett drove in an arc forward and over where Ye was found a short time later.
The footage showed a firefighter placing a tarp on the girl after Duckett's rig had left.
"The video, which also had audio, contradicted Duckett's statement," police Sgt. Justin Erb wrote in a search warrant affidavit seeking news video of the scene.
The assistant deputy fire chief in charge of airport operations, Dale Carnes, was present during the interview and agreed that Duckett had "lied to the police," Erb said in his investigative log. Carnes also told investigators he had informed Hayes-White that Duckett lied.
'Improper' driving
Villaruel's report concluded that Duckett had been driving in an "improper manner," but that it was a "chaotic situation" and that Ye had been covered by "a significant layer of foam."
For her part, Duckett filed a claim against the city in January, saying she was being wrongly blamed for killing Ye when hers was actually the second rig to run over the girl.
John Hurley, her attorney, said Friday that the city has denied the claim and that Duckett is considering filing a lawsuit.
"Her account at the time was based on her recollection, without having seen any video, of what was a very chaotic event," Hurley said. "After having seen the video that has been released, what is clear is that the city and the Fire Department have misrepresented the facts."
Footage shot by a camera mounted in the first fire rig that ran over Ye was the subject of angry exchanges between police and Carnes, the police investigative documents show.
The camera was aboard a rig driven by firefighter Jimmy Yee, who was at the crash scene before Duckett arrived and before the teenage crash survivor had been covered with foam.
Footage from the rig's dashboard camera showed that another firefighter pointed out the girl to Yee as she lay on the ground and that Yee initially drove around her. A few minutes later, however, he returned to the spot and drove over her, the footage shows.
Police learned of the footage's existence from airport officials on July 11, five days after the crash.
Guidelines violated
Erb wrote that when he heard about the footage, he promptly headed to the airport maintenance shop. When he arrived, he found airport technicians downloading the footage from rig cameras to a portable hard-drive device - violating investigative guidelines that require police to maintain control of potential evidence from start to finish.
An airport maintenance supervisor said his boss had told him and other workers to download the footage and "keep it to themselves," Erb wrote in his investigative log.
Fire Department official Carnes, who showed up at the scene, told Erb that the footage was being downloaded for the National Transportation Safety Board, which was investigating the cause of the crash but had nothing to do with the criminal probe.
"He told me he believed the (police) investigation was closed," Erb wrote. When advised the probe was still active, Carnes said "he was told otherwise."
Uncomfortable with tone
Carnes added that he had just had "a three-way conversation with his chief (Hayes-White) and my chief (Police Chief Greg Suhr)," Erb wrote. Carnes denied trying to obstruct the investigation, but asserted that he was "not required to notify the police regarding the videos" and said he was "getting pissed off."
Carnes insisted he had learned about the footage from Yee's rig only the day before and that he had been helping with the police probe as much as he " f- could," Erb wrote.
"I ain't hiding jack s-," Carnes told Erb, the police investigator wrote.
At that point, Carnes ended the interview, saying he was concerned that the investigators were "going to make this official," according to Erb.
A fire battalion chief interviewed by Erb at the airport, Ed Dea, "stated he felt like they were being treated like criminals and they weren't hiding anything," according to the police sergeant's notes.
"Dea advised me that my tone was making people feel uncomfortable" and that he intended to complain to the deputy police chief at the airport "about my questioning," Erb wrote.
Carnes did not return calls seeking comment. He has long insisted that Ye was dead before the first fire rig ran over her, but San Mateo County's coroner concluded otherwise.
Police findings
Mindy Talmadge, a Fire Department representative speaking for the firefighters involved, said other police investigators had told Carnes that the probe was over. She said Carnes had told airport officials and federal safety board investigators about the existence of the rig's camera footage, and that they had told police.
Carnes, she said, wasn't "trying to hide anything."
The day after the airport confrontation, Suhr announced that the police investigation had found that one rig drove over the girl - Duckett's. It wasn't until later, when the footage from Yee's rig was given to police, that investigators realized that his was the first Fire Department vehicle to strike the teenager.
An analysis by Edison, the police sergeant in charge of the investigation, concluded that Yee actually ran over the girl twice - once when he approached the burning plane to spray foam on it, and again when he backed up. Edison said the rig appeared to roll over her lower body.
When Ye's body was finally found, her head had been crushed, according to the San Mateo County coroner. Duckett's rig is believed to be the one that struck her head.
Jaxon Van Derbeken is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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The world has not yet come out of the medieval suppression when people either got killed or get imprisoned for life if they are found guilty for exercising their freedom and criticize the monarchs but this time it has taken a leap and taken a new form of national security policies.
Secret agencies in the name of national security can suppress anyone's rights and freedom.
Civil society in USA should take a serious note of these events where innocent people like
Dr. Aafia and her children or old journalists like Nayyar Zaidi become easy targets of the
parallel governments in the for security agencies. The prime reasons are similar in these cases
either speaking for justice, belonging to particular race or religion or it can be the case
of just fitting in the profile.
Recent event is of an Indian blogger who was jailed for just making anti-bush remarks over the
Vikram with a highly educated background was pursuing PhD in cancer research and holds an
excellent academic record.
Civil society and human rights organizations of the world particularly of USA should
demand justice for these victims.
Student jailed indefinitely over alleged anti-Bush remark
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Source: http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-10-15/indian-student-jail-bush.html
Internet crime is rapidly becoming a major focus for authorities around the world, but the case of an Indian student, jailed in the US nearly three years ago, is being seen as a major test of human rights in the country.
He was locked up for allegedly threatening the American president George W. Bush via his internet blog.
Before ending up in prison in 2006, Vikram Buddhi was an award-winning student at Purdue University in the United States, pursuing a double PhD in cancer research. His parents in India have been trying to prove his innocence for over three years.
"On February 3, 2006, the Secret Service made a formal report saying Vikram Buddhi is not a threat to the US President or any Secret Service protectees," says the student's father Dr. Buddhi Kota Subbarao. "Suddenly, on April 14, they arrest him. There is no new development between these dates. So having said he's not a threat, how he could become a threat in April 2006?"
Dr. Subbarao is a retired Navy captain and nuclear scientist. His son was eventually found guilty formally, in 2007, of threatening the US President. However, the length of sentence has still not been announced and, without that, the family cannot appeal. Dr. Subbarao believes the entire trial was a miscarriage of justice.
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"The jury was not informed of the law, the defense attorney was told to shut up, and the jury's questions explaining their confusion – the judge didn't want to clear the confusion, so the jury got fed up and said guilty," goes on Dr. Subbarao, "So all these show the trial is unfair, a mistrial must be declared."
Vikram, 37, is accused of starting a web discussion, calling on Iraqis to take revenge on the US by attacking President George W. Bush. Vikram's supporters believe he is innocent, because the internet trail does not prove he posted the message.
"He's been accused of threatening to kill President Bush. How did he threaten – did he buy a weapon, did he write a letter 'I want to kill you', did he buy a ticket to Washington DC? What did he do?" demands the student's lawyer Somnath Bharti.
In fact, Vikram's family believes that he was targeted because a few months earlier he had publicly spoken out against possible racial discrimination at Indiana's Purdue University. Vikram defended the case of a black student who was expelled for cheating, by highlighting the fact that three white students, guilty of the same act, were not.
Lawyer Somnath Bharti is sure that "Vikram is an outstanding student who stood against injustice, somebody who speaks up, and such people are not liked."
Meanwhile, teachers and students of the elite Indian Institute of Technology are demanding the release of Vikram, a former student. They want the Indian government to put pressure on the American administration to look at the legality of the trial.
"The government has done nothing for this boy. Even the basic minimum that should have been done for an Indian citizen who is an alien abroad," points out student Vijaya M.J. "We're actually dealing with the US which is supposed to be a friendly country right now. When we have [Barack] Obama and Manmohan [Singh, Indian Prime Minister] shaking hands, and one of our students, completely in an unjust way being arrested and jailed in the US is completely unacceptable."
They argue web postings are protected by the First Amendment of the US constitution that defends the right to freedom of speech.
"Even though so much is written about the rule of law and freedom of speech, [Americans] in fact live in a great deal of fear. Not only from terrorists, but also from their own security departments. Now, anybody who says anything about the American [president] will face the same fate," Dr. Subbarao says.
What started out as two concerned parents demanding justice for their son is fast becoming an important precedent for the very nature of free speech in contemporary America. For a nation that prides itself on basic human rights and often lectures those who do not comply, it could soon face tough questions over its own laws of liberty.
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Swilkinson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
More thoughts on non-fiction
Shauna's recent post on why fiction writers should read non-fiction struck a real chord with me. That's probably because my editor and I are currently grappling with a science-fiction romance I wrote, oh, more than a year ago now.
In revisiting the novel, I'm struck by all the bits I managed to stick in there that were definitely non-fiction. Quantum physics had a look-in, with a dabble in relativistic computations, fusion experiments and stellar temperatures. Chemistry joined, with scouring of books (and the internet!) to find out what compound could form a message. I used group dynamics and basic human psychology to sketch how people would behave in particular situations. Human biochemistry led to a class of drugs that can tamper with memory. And that's not even including, you know, the actual story! And, of course, I have a background in a few sciences, so there are all my references -- my back-up brains -- sitting on the bookshelves as well. I'd love to grapple more with mathematics, but I fear my love affair with that particular branch of science is shared by few others. Then again, the world would be a boring place if we were all the same.
So, after noticing all the non-fiction bits, what I'm really worried about now is whether I put too much in. Are readers going to be put off? Even as one fear is allayed, you'll notice that the chronic writer finds another impending apocalypse to focus on. In case you were wondering, we're all like that.
I know, in going through the non-fiction bits of my novel, I haven't told you about the novel itself. Well, that might have to wait until the contract negotiations are concluded. As far as I'm concerned, nothing is a given until that contract has been signed, counter-signed and delivered to both parties. Actually, my sense of scepticism is such that I'm not really happy until the thing has been released, but I'm relaxed enough now to offset my paranoia to a certain extent.
Sooooooo, no finalised contract yet so no news, but still a kick-arse post from Shauna. Hopefully I'll have something for you within a month.(Have I told you how slowly publishing moves?)
5 comments:
- Liane Spicer said...
The paranoia comment hit a nerve, Kaz. You might recall I refrained from even mentioning my book by name on my blog for the better part of a year, even after I'd finally gotten that countersigned contract in my hands. I relaxed - sorta - when I saw the thing on a list of upcoming releases on a totally unrelated site.
I have no problem learning strange new things in novels once the info is integral to the story and not an 'info dump', as I've seen it referred to. I've even been known to pore over info dumps and run off to Google stuff I'd had no interest in minutes before. That's one of the fascinating things about books - getting to explore worlds you might not normally encounter. Even if said worlds involve, uh, mathematics and quantum physics.
- February 10, 2010 at 8:37 AM
- Kaz Augustin said...
Ah, you're just saying that to make me feel better, Liane. But it's still much appreciated. :) Now, if only I can stop these fingers from tripping over to Jewel's latest post (following mine) and making a comment about snow cones that would probably get me banned from this group .... control, control ....
- February 11, 2010 at 1:02 AM
- Liane Spicer said...
Kaz, now I'm curious about this snow cone comment of yours. Reminds me of a joke about Trinidadian migrants to Canada loving the snow the first time or two, then graduating to calling it, ah, a very bad word.
- February 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM
- Maria Zannini said...
I like a little techno in my fiction, as long the author doesn't get carried away. Tom Clancy is over the top for me. I feel like he pounds me over the head with more facts than I need to read the story.
I want to be delighted with new info, not lectured.
Having read your other sf books, you are just right. :o)
- February 12, 2010 at 8:50 AM
- Shauna Roberts said...
I don't know how common my tastes are, but I enjoy learning new things about the real world in a novel, even if it comes in the form of an info dump. I think in science fiction and historical fiction, one can get away with lots of facts mixed in because the audience is reading partly to get the tech or the history.
Thanks for your kind words about my previous post, Kaz.
- February 19, 2010 at 10:36 PM


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After two African villages started using mosquito nets to fight malaria, the local mosquitoes seemed to change their biting habits to avoid the barriers, according to a French study.
Insecticide-treated bed nets are considered a key weapon in the global fight against malaria, which is transmitted by parasite-carrying mosquitoes and kills more than 650,000 people a year, according to the World Health Organization.
In the study, which appeared in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, French researchers examined mosquito behavior before and after all households in two villages in Benin were given insecticide-treated nets.
They found that mosquitoes seemed to change their hours of "peak aggression" from 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. to around 5 a.m. three years after nets were put up. And in one village, the proportion of mosquito bites inflicted outdoors rose.
West Nile outbreak stresses lab testing limits, delays diagnosis
Outdoor bites accounted for 45 percent of all bites at the outset but rose to 68 percent one year later and 61 percent after three years.
The finding is "worrying since villagers usually wake up before dawn to work in crops, and as such they are not protected by mosquito nets," senior researcher Vincent Corbel, of the Montpellier, France-based Institute of Research for Development, said in an email.
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Still, the results come from just two villages in one country. "We cannot extrapolate to a wider geographical area and/or a different entomological context," Corbel warned.
Malaria rates climbing again
Mosquito nets have been credited with spurring big drops in malaria deaths, and a report for the Cochrane Collaboration, an international group that publishes rigorous reviews, estimated that for every 1,000 children protected by an insecticide-treated net, five to six lives would be saved every year.
But in recent years, malaria cases have started to climb again in certain African countries, Corbel said. Experts have mainly been concerned about mosquitoes' growing resistance to the insecticides used in bed nets and for indoor spraying.
In Key West, there's talk of releasing genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness. WFLA's Brooks Garner reports.
A malaria researcher not involved in Corbel's study said the results of the study should be interpreted with caution.
One reason is the difficulty in getting reliable measures of mosquito "biting behavior" over time, according to Thomas Eisele, from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.
In this study, Corbel's team used the standard way of gauging mosquito activity -- the "human landing catch" -- which, as the name implies, means that a mosquito collector lets the pest land on his skin, then catches it.
Best ways to avoid West Nile virus as outbreak grows
The researchers had mosquito collectors do three different rounds, indoors and outdoors, at each village: Once before the nets were given to all households, then again one year and three years afterwards.
Eisele said measuring biting behavior can be "fraught with error" and added: "This study was conducted over only a couple of years, which would likely be insufficient to detect evolutionary changes in biting behaviors within the same species."
Corbel said the study challenges the "dogma" that malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in Africa bite exclusively at night.
"Long-lasting insecticidal nets were developed to protect people at night when they are sleeping," he said, noting that if mosquitoes shift to early morning and outdoor biting, the nets might not be enough to keep malaria under control.


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[March 04, 2014]
After careful consultation and prayerful consideration, the
Trustee Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Don
Green as Transitional President of Lincoln Christian University (LCU).
Dr. Green's appointment is effective March 1, 2014 so that he can
work closely with President Keith H. Ray, DMin, until Ray's
retirement from higher education becomes effective on June 1.
LCU Board Chair Gene Harker, MD, PhD, said in his
announcement, "Dr. Green brings a pastor's heart, a scholar's mind,
and a seasoned-leader's wisdom to his new role. He is a trusted
member of our community. We simply cannot imagine a better
transitional president for such a time as this. We ask for your
continued prayers and partnership during this time of transition."
As transitional president, Dr. Green will have the full authority
and responsibility of the president's office as he engages the LCU
campus community, alumni, and friends in fulfilling the University
mission and meeting institutional goals.
"During his 16-year tenure, President Ray has established a solid
foundation on which LCU can build for the future," said Dr. Green. "I look forward to serving the LCU
community as we seek to maintain continuity with the past while embracing
appropriate change for the future."
Dr. Green has been an integral part of the Lincoln Christian
community for 47 years. He has served LCU with distinction in the
roles of Trustee, Administrative Assistant to the President,
Director of Development, Executive Vice President, and Vice
President of Church Development. Dr. Green currently serves as
Professor of Leadership and Director of two growing academic
programs: the online MA in Organizational Leadership and the
Seminary's Doctor of Ministry, Master of Arts and Master of Divinity
Leadership specializations. As one of LCU's highest rated
professors, he teaches many of the core leadership courses.
President Ray expressed his support with, "Dr. Green is a uniquely
gifted leader. He has an extraordinary capacity for teaching, preaching,
leading, and engaging organizational culture in an effective and catalytic way.
We are thankful he is willing to serve in this capacity at this crucial juncture
in the university's history."
Dr. Green graduated from Lincoln Christian
University (BA, 1970 and MDiv 1973) and went on to earn his
doctorate (DMin) from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School of
Trinity International University.
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Not only is Dr. Green a proven leader and scholar, he served in
full-time preaching ministry for 10 years at Attica Christian Church
in Attica, Indiana, and Jefferson Street Christian Church in
Lincoln, Illinois, before joining the LCU administrative team in
1982. He continues to be in demand as a speaker and church
consultant. He and his wife Margaret have been married for 44 years
and have a daughter, Lara, who lives in Springfield, Illinois, with
her husband Jon Morrissette who serves as Lead Minister with the
Lakeside Christian Church.
Dr. Harker was encouraging in his announcement to faculty and staff
on Thursday afternoon, "Great things are happening at LCU, and we
are excited about what God will do in the coming year. We ask for
your continued prayers and partnership during this time of
Dr. Green will serve as Transitional President until a permanent
president is in place—a process that Dr. Harker anticipates will be
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The 'X Factor' ratings slide has continued, with Sunday's final pulling in two million fewer UK viewers than last year.
Figures from ITV show that last night's two-hour programme, which was won by James Arthur, had an average audience of 11.1 million compared with the 13.1 million who watched Little Mix win in 2011.
It is only two years since 17.2 million tuned in to see Matt Cardle triumph in the 2010 competition.
The figures are more bad news for the show, which again failed to beat BBC1 rival 'Strictly Come Dancing' on Saturday night – trailing by 1.3 million viewers.
The singing show has trailed the BBC's ballroom programme throughout the year - at one stage by up to two million viewers.
It has seen its fortunes wane since supremo Simon Cowell left the judging panel after the 2010 series.
The failure to produce a significant rise as the series reached its climax will be a huge concern for ITV bosses.
'The X Factor' has for many years been one of their bankers in terms of audiences and advertising.
Changes to the show's structures are expected to be brought in next year in a bid to boost audiences, but Cowell has agreed to do a third series of his US version of the X Factor which all but rules him out for a return to rescue the UK viewing figures.
There have been reports that some judges, including Gary Barlow, could face the chop with rumours of a return for former stalwarts Sharon Osbourne and Cheryl Cole.


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The aftermath: Beslan tragedy still hurts
One year after the horrifying carnage at Beslan Middle School Number One, the Russian community's wounds are still gaping.
"The school is frozen in time," reports Lisa Aronson, a trauma expert who recently returned from training 24 mental health professionals who are working to put their community back together. The work will not be simple.
Parents who lost children in the three-day siege that began September 1, 2004, remain paralyzed with grief. One woman, Aronson reports, could not accept that her eight-year-old daughter was gone. For eight months, she went to the school each day, calling, "I am here for you."
The heart-rending reports include stories of soldiers who have patrolled the decimated school site and claimed to hear the haunting cries of children still calling out to their mothers.
The community is so devastated that no one-year commemoration has been planned. Many of the children who survived the siege remain crippled with fear, refusing to leave their homes and return to school.
Although the scope of the devastation– 350 dead and 700 injured– is nearly impossible to imagine, Aronson says there is hope for children who survive traumatic incidents. She says mental health workers must analyze not only the trauma the child experienced, but also "secondary adversities."
Consider the case of a group of 11th graders who managed to flee on the first day of the siege. Instead of being embraced for escaping from hell, Aronson reports that they have been ostracized by the community for failing to help the younger students. Their alienation from friends and family grew so intense that the Beslan government eventually sent them to school in St. Petersburg, hours away.
Teachers who were eventually safely released by the terrorists faced similar treatment by their angry neighbors. In a community that values loyalty and responsibility above all. many parents refuse to send their children back to school. Why? Because of their distrust of teachers who somehow failed to protect their students from the Chechen attackers.
"The vanity of the terrorists was such that they wanted their kidnapping, killing, and suicides filmed," says UVA psychiatrist James A. Thomson, a colleague of Aronson, who, he says, has the seen the film.
The director of UVA's Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, Aronson was invited by a Russian non-government organization called "Women of the Don Region." At the time of her visit, in late July, the area was still considered too unstable for Americans to travel without an armed escort, so Aronson did her work 400 miles north, in the Russian city of Novocherkassk.
Despite the bleak situation in Beslan, Aronson says there is hope for the children recovering from the attack. "It's going to affect their character and their development," she says. "But if you intervene and help, you can see tremendous progress."
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Lunar Robotics Challenge: A successful cooperation within ESA
ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge for university students was held at the Minas de San José in the National Park of Teide on the island of Tenerife. The location was chosen early in 2008 by a joint team of ESA experts.
The location was selected by representatives from the Directorate of Human Spaceflight, the Directorate of Science and Robotics Exploration, the Education Office and the Directorate of Technical and Quality Management, whose Automation and Robotics section organised the Challenge.
The Directorate of Human Spaceflight is responsible for human exploration and is currently preparing a proposal for human exploration of the Moon to be presented at the next ESA Council at ministerial level in November this year. The Lunar Robotics Challenge presented an excellent opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the challenges astronauts will face when operating robots on the lunar surface. Additionally, it also helped to fine-tune the operation of the Erasmus Recording Binocular (ERB), which is planned for launch to the International Space Station in 2009.
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The Directorate of Human Spaceflight was therefore present in Tenerife with one of its experts, Richard Fisackerly, who is currently involved in studies that focus on the MoonNext and MarsNext missions. Rovers play an essential role not only for many future robotic exploration missions, but also as assistants to astronauts in planetary missions. Actually seeing the challenges faced by those operating the rovers in the field was of major interest to Fisackerly.
The control stations that allowed the interaction of the student teams with their rovers are similar to the terminals that will allow astronauts to interact with their robot assistants. While ESA has already prototyped a number of these stations, the experience with the Lunar Robotics Challenge stations will make it easier to evaluate some of the imaginative solutions implemented by the students for possible use.
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The location was particularly attractive for its crater-like depressions covered with an unusual soil (pumice pebbles and dust), which makes locomotion for a rover as difficult as it is expected to be in a real lunar crater. The location's resemblance to a lunar landscape was also a driving factor in its selection.
Massimo Sabbatini, from the Erasmus Centre within the Directorate of Human Spaceflight, found the location an excellent place to exercise the capabilities of the Erasmus Recording Binocular, or ERB, an innovative high-resolution stereo-video recorder which one day may become part of the standard toolset of astronauts when surveying remote areas. The ERB is a device that not only produces high-definition stereo-video clips, but also makes it possible to reconstruct the geometry of the captured scene.
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In Conversation about Queneau's "Exercises in Style"
One of the coolest releases of the winter has to be the new version of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style—the classic Oulipian text in which Queneau tells and retells the same story of two men who get on a bus and have a minor row, ending with one telling the other to replace a button on his overcoat. The original version had 99 of these variations told in styles ranging from "Notation" to "Word game" to "Cockney" to "Awkward." It's a testament to Queneau's ability as a writer, and just as interestingly, it sort of blows apart the idea of how many ways a story can be told—and how style can be more important than content.
Anyway, this new version, which celebrates the book's 65th Anniversary, New Directions added in twenty-five exercises left out of the original, AND included new exercises written by Jesse Ball, Blake Butler, Amelia Gray, Shane Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Ben Marcus, Harry Mathews, Lynne Tillman, Frederic Tuten, and Enrique Vila-Matas.
Anyway, anyway, to mark the release of this, ND posted a two-part conversation between Daniel Levin Becker and Chris Clarke about Queneau, Exercises in Style, and the Oulipo in general. You can read part one here, and click here for part two. And below are a few interesting bits:
Daniel Levin Becker: Maybe we should start with the book a little bit, if only to make it topical, and then go more general from there? For the sake of doing what I just suggested, here's a question: what do you think is the particular relevance of Exercises in Style today?
Chris Clarke: I don't know if I can speak so much to a "particular" relevance, it might be more appropriate in my mind to speak of a "continued" relevance. For me, Exercises in Style is the great reminder that there is no such thing as ideology-free writing. Even the simplest text, the most banal or inconsequential piece of writing, carries marks of style that affect the reader in one way or another. I don't know if it's fair to say that this is more important to understand now than it was in 1947, but it seems that way sometimes. Could just be a bias of time and place. But that was always the way Exercises affected me, by making me conscious of all the different ways it could affect me, and by reminding me that in its case, like in most, the whole process is intentional. Beyond that, well, I can't not mention it, the other continued relevance of Exercises to me is simply that it's a window into how much fun language can be, even when used to describe something as banal as a story of bus rides and button-shifting. Even the dullest crosstown trip on the S-bus can be utterly and infinitely fascinating.
DLB: I like your point about ideology. I guess what I had in the back of my mind when I asked that was something about the fragmentation of writing these days, literary or otherwise, such that fluency (so to speak) in a number of registers maybe counts a little more than it used to, because you don't want to tweet in the same voice as you write an essay, a blog post, an email, etc. In any case, I don't (maybe Tao Lin does). It feels a little overserious to claim that there's all that much of a difference between an email and a blog post, but then maybe that's where the ideology part of it comes in. [. . .]
Michael Barron: Chris, you say that there is no such thing as ideology-free writing, that everything has a semblance of style. I am curious to know how a style in the French, say "Promotional," actually changes when rendered in English. I am also curious to know from both of you which exercises from the contributions by contemporary writers struck you as the most true to Queneau's vision? And from there, I am wondering if you think that Queneau had a certain umbrella style that pervades all of his exercises?
CC: I thought the new contributions were a lot of fun. To me, closest to Queneau's method might be Frederic Tuten's "Beat." I thought Shane Jones' "Assistance" added a neat bit of insight into the narrator, in the same way that Queneau's "There were oodles . . ." does. As far as style crossing over from language to language . . . well, it's one of the goals of the translator to find the closest equivalent (s)he can. Of course, no two languages operate the same way, so it's perhaps never a perfect transaction, but it's something translators are very conscious of. Something like "Promotional" and its French counterpart "Publicitaire" are always going to have some little differences to them, some of them because of differences in the language and the way style works in those given languages, some because of cultural differences. In this case, a radio ad is going to have a different ring to it in a North American (or British) context than it would in a French context, just as much as it will be read differently now compared to how it would have come across 65 years ago. Also, in this case, the very last line in the French text is a riff on the slogan of a French battery called Wonder, which was so popular that it spawned a variety of parodies, including the slogan of a newspaper. The English reader isn't going to see that in the English text, as the reference is no longer physically there, and even if it were, he likely wouldn't react the same way because he doesn't necessarily have the same cultural references at his disposal. In cases like this, the intertextuality can't quite be the same. [. . .]
CC: Okay, here's something I've always wanted to ask an Oulipian. If I were to tell you I was translating a piece of your writing that involved a particular constraint, my question (depending of course on the particular piece) would be, would you tell me that I should be more concerned about translating the finished piece of writing, or about reproducing the constraint used in creating the piece? For an easy example, a "faithful" literary translation of a lipogram with no "e" that attempted to stay close to the text would almost certainly contain "e"'s.
DLB: [Trying to ignore the well-of-course-this-changes-everything implications of it being my writing,] I'd say it's absolutely more important to reproduce the constraint or procedure than to reproduce the meaning. That is assuming, of course, that the constraint was instrumental in engendering the text, which almost has to be the case for the text to be like, good (in this admittedly peculiar entre-nous kind of way). If you were to translate La disparition for the story alone, you'd have a novel that's not ultimately all that good; if you were to translate it without using the most common letter in the target language, you might not succeed in making the narrative/details "faithful" enough for it to be considered the same work, but I'd argue you'd have come much closer to preserving what's essential about the book. (Fun aside: I recently translated Perec's dream journal, which contains a few references to La disparition, and had an almost visceral aversion to the idea of rendering it in English as A Void, just because to me those are such manifestly different books. (The publisher has probably overridden my call on that; only time will tell.)) Anyway, an unofficial thought-test tells me this holds true for most constraint-based (or shall we say structure-forward) works that come to mind—imagine translating Abish's Alphabetical Africa for content alone. Pointless! The pointlessness of the exercise would be rivaled only by the creepy colonialist overtones that rose to the surface.
MB: Hey now, we publish Alphabetical Africa . . .
So fun. And all this Oulipo talk makes me more excited to get to Scott and Lauren's The End of Oulipo? (which I didn't get to last weekend, since I had to read Merchants of Culture for class and am finishing up Böll's The Safety Net. Oh, and I read Hilda Hilst's fascinating The Obscene Madame D, but I'll talk about that more in a Friday post . . .)