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To readers of a certain generation—we who were born under the Truman or Eisenhower administrations—mere utterance of the word motorcycle could invoke no other image but that of a young …
To readers of a certain generation—we who were born under the Truman or Eisenhower administrations—mere utterance of the word motorcycle could invoke no other image but that of a young Marlon Brando: shades, comb, black leather jacket ("The Wild One," 1953). Teen boys gazed admiringly. Young girls giggled nervously. Shopkeepers cringed and police officers scowled whenever a biker rolled into town…
Curiosity. Surprise. Nervousness. Admiration. Whatever your particular visceral reaction, almost everyone feels something when the earth rumbles and a herd of Harleys stampede into view.
Today, of course, most people probably know someone who rides, and understand, intellectually at least, that (to quote the ever-insightful George Carlin), today's riders are: "Dentists and bureaucrats and… software designers…."
Nevertheless, there's still some primal essence in us that recognizes that something about these people is different. And so there is.
Recently at an open house at Baer Sport Center in Honesdale, PA, a Harley-Davidson, Polaris, and Victory dealership, I had the privilege to meet numerous intriguing individuals, and hear many absorbing stories. Each conversation always included these two questions: "How many miles do you ride each year?" (most average about 5,000 miles annually—pretty impressive in a part of the country with such a limited riding season.) and "What are your favorite routes and/or destinations?" (More about that later.)
None of the interviews that sunny day encapsulated the biker spirit as succinctly as Chief Joseph Graywolf of Damascus, PA. Here is a man who has been riding motorcycles for as long as I've been alive (Truman administration, remember).
When I posed the first question to Chief Graywolf, he paused, almost as if perplexed that anyone would even ask so outlandish a thing. He thought a moment before replying: "Just as much as I please."
From anyone else I might have taken this as a wiseacre response, but somehow I knew that this was not a man who would waste my time or his own with frivolous evasions. I had a sense that his answer was more profound than superficial interpretation would suggest, and I filed it away for subsequent analysis.
Expecting a similarly vague and philosophical response, I nonetheless fired off my second question: Favorite destinations?
This time his companion, Melanie, provided an immediate, concrete, and very revealing answer: "Once, he woke up and said he wanted to go for breakfast at this great little diner we know about, so off we went—on a four hundred mile ride…."
That was the moment when I suddenly realized that these people, and others like them, were really on to something here, something the rest of us can only hope to find at some point on our journey through life.
Most of us are taught—indoctrinated, really—to plan, to analyze, to set concrete, measurable goals and engineer our way toward attaining each in turn. Study so you can get good grades. Get good grades so you'll be accepted into a prestigious college. Go to college so you can land a lucrative job. Work hard so you can acquire the things you desire. Acquire those things so you can… what?
Enjoy life?
So "the one who dies with the most stuff wins?"
We are conditioned to approach life as a series of milestones. "Keep your eye on the ball," we are incessantly enjoined.
"Plan your life and live your plan."
How easy it is, with our eyes so fixedly glued on some nebulous destination, to totally ignore the rich and varied scape along the way.
So, does this mean you have to sell that minivan, buy a Harley and set off on a cross-country jaunt like "Easy Rider" in order to be happy?
Of course not. What brings one person joy would bring another only discomfort. Viennese psychiatrist and author W. Béran Wolfe wrote: "If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator."
The mantra of "bigger," "better," "more," "flip this house"… is utterly inimical to the true biker mentality. While most of the bikers I interviewed clearly lavished great effort on maintaining and accessorizing their vehicles, almost none seemed at all inclined to "trade up" every couple of years. Rather than seeking fulfillment in that next acquisition, these people are completely focused on enjoying and appreciating what they already have.
Living in the here and now. What a concept!
As I pondered this avalanche of profundity on that sunny Sunday afternoon at the Baer Open House, I suddenly realized something: I wasn't sure at first, so I started looking around, and sure enough, I was
Nowhere in this gathering of several hundred people did I spy a single individual chatting on a cell phone, texting some far-away phantom, or surfing the web. I saw nobody videoing the event for future analysis. They were there, for goodness sake. Completely. Wholeheartedly. They were with the people they loved.
I have owned and ridden many motorcycles over the years, and thought I had a pretty good handle on what it means to be "a biker," but I discovered some valuable insights at this event—not only about bikers, but about life as well.
In her novel "Magic Bleeds," by bestselling author Ilona Andrews, she writes: "Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy."
If you have already found that thing, then may this article serve to remind you how very fortunate you really are. Otherwise, let it motivate you to find your unique, personal wellspring of fulfillment.


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We advertise Council and Housing Association homes which are available to let each week, and you "bid" for homes that you are interested in. New advertisements appear on Wednesday showing the week's available properties. You then have until midnight on the following Sunday to bid for a property. There is no advantage to bidding as soon as the adverts are available. A bid made on Wednesday is treated in the same way as one made on Sunday evening.
Bidding is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays so we can receive the lists of everyone who bid for a property during the previous week. We will make a shortlist of the top bidders for each property and invite them to view the property.
With effect from Monday 3 July 2017, everyone will be able to bid down for properties one bedroom smaller than their allowed property size if they want to. For instance, if you are currently bidding for 3-bed homes, you will be able to bid for both 3-bed and 2-bed homes. This will therefore give you more choice of what to bid for.
This applies to Lambeth Council, Hyde Southbank and WATMOS Housing Association properties. Other housing associations may not allow you to bid down.
Also with effect from this date, couples and single people with a single child under one year old will now only be able to bid for 1-bed properties. They will be able to bid for 2-bed homes when their child is one year old. The reason for this change is the shortage of 2-bed homes available relative to demand.
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We short-list up to five people to view each property. If you are short-listed, then we will contact you by phone to arrange a viewing. Viewings are at short notice, so it is very important that we have your correct phone number so we can contact you. You may miss out on a viewing if we are unable to contact you in time. If you change your telephone number, please let the Lambeth Service Centre know by phoning them on 020 7926 4200..
You may be invited to view a property at the same time as other bidders. We will indicate to you which of you has first refusal, second refusal, and so on. Properties are advertised as soon as the property is vacated, so there may still be works being done to the property to make it ready for letting when you view it.
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Not to be confused with RAM Memory, as many people do, the hard drive in your computer is where all of your software and files are saved and stored. In a desktop computer your hard drive will be a 3.5" drive where as in a notebook it will be the smaller 2.5" size. These hard drives are typically mechanical, but new technology advancements are allowing them to be made very similar to your USB flash drives. Although there isn't a whole lot of information to know when buying a hard drive there are a few very vital terms that will make shopping for a drive a lot less troublesome for you. Let me outline the different drive styles and terms for you.
Hard Disk Drives:
Although almost all hard drives are referred to by the general term of "hard disk", the definition of a hard disk is actually a hard drive with a mechanically spinning storage platter – the disks. As mentioned in the introduction to this article, these are the kinds of hard drives that almost all computers have because they've been around since the early days of desktop computers. They are cheap to manufacturer and are available in a huge variety of capacities. First let me explain to you the different technologies and terms behind a mechanical hard disk drive.
Rotation Speed
With mechanical hard drives you will typically be presented with two different rotation speeds; 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM. Generally speaking, almost all notebook hard drives are 5400 RPM unless otherwise stated (and usually well advertised too). This is because the lower rotational speed will reduce the heat produced by the hard drive which is very beneficial in a tightly packed notebook. Some desktop drives are also available in 5400 RPM but these are usually marketed for reducing power usage or reducing overall drive acoustics. Although 5400 RPM drives do have the above mentioned pros, the major con is that they suffer from reduced performance. For this reason you will find 5400 RPM hard drives being used in less expensive and lower performance computers as well. This performance reduction is caused by the read/write heads not being able to access the data as fast as they can when the platters are spinning at 7200 RPM. Some manufactures are releasing "green" drives which will automatically adjust the rotation speed of the drive based on how much it's being used. This helps lower the power usage when the computer is in an idle state.
The capacity of the drive is pretty much straightforward because it simply means how much storage space it offers. Right now most notebook drives will max out at around 500 GigaByte, where as desktop hard drives are into the 1.5 TerraByte range (1,500 GigaByte) and climbing! As manufacturers are able to cram more storage space onto each platter in the drive we will only see the overall capacities continue to climb.
Hard drives in home computers will usually always be of two interface types; IDE or SATA. All new computers made after 2003 will typically use the faster SATA interface (unless you bought old stock, or a cheaper lower performance machine that still uses an IDE interface drive). Since SATA is a serial style of interface it offers greatly enhanced speed over the older parallel-style IDE (up to 300mbps (megabit per second) vs 133mbps). Remember that older computers or one's using slightly older technology can not use the newer SATA interface hard drives, so when upgrading an existing machine be sure to use the correct interface type.
The buffer is almost like RAM, but for your hard drive. By means of RAM memory on a hard drive the drive will have a buffer that is usually 8 Meg or more. By using this buffer to store frequently used data, the drive can access it faster than seeking to it's position on the storage platters. The larger the buffer size, the more data it can store and thus the better performance it will offer.
Solid State Drives (or SSDs)
Solid State Drives, commonly referred to in short as SSD's are the latest technology in hard drives. They share the same technology as your USB drives – flash memory chips. Not only are current SSD's much smaller than traditional 3.5" drives but they are also more shock proof and use far less power due to the lack of mechanical parts. The downside to current SSD offerings is that they are expensive and you pay much more per gig than you do on a traditional hard disk drive. Although they are currently maxing out at a little over 200gb, these drives will soon be able to compete with mechanical drives in terms of overall storage. As more and more manufacturers are starting to incorporate SSD's into their systems and more consumers start to jump on board this new revolution, the prices will start to considerably drop in the coming months and years (just look at how much flash drive prices drop every year!).
When you start shopping for hard drives you'll see that not very many spec's are given. Your budget will usually determine the storage capacity size of the drive you are shopping for, but as long as you check out the important items such as IDE or the faster SATA interface, 5400 RPM or the faster 7200 RPM, and finally the amount of buffer memory, then you will have most of the information you will need. See if the drive has any other unique features versus it's competitors and your decision will come pretty fast!


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Hey, you there on your iPad 2 with the nifty magnetic Smart Cover! Check out the Apollo 11 Lunar take off . Oh wait, you can't because you don't have Adobe Flash. Before you give up hope, double check in Apple App Store to be sure you can't access it. This matter has led marketers to an ongoing parley of whether to create an app or a mobile web browser.
Mobile App vs. Mobile Web
As soon as your company is ready to go mobile you are faced with the question: To App or not to App? This is a question that has stumped marketers for some time now considering that mobile browsers are just as useful. What makes one better than the other? Mobile Apps are great for using offline, can be developed for each platform, and extremely effective for a large, dedicated user base. Whereas, web browsers are cross-platform, can be discovered through any search engine and are always up to date but cannot be used offline. This debate is ongoing and circular but if you add HTML5 into the mix it becomes apparent that web browsing is quickly becoming the way to go.
HTML5, what are you?
HTML5 is a coding language developed to structure pages on the World Wide Web. In simpler terms, it is the backbone of the Internet. While still in the developmental phase, so far, it combines visual, audio, canvas and interactive elements into one without the addition of processor intensive proprietary plugins, such as Adobe Flash, and APIs. In the mobile world, providers, such as Apple with iPad and iPhone, aim to create the best user experience with maximum battery life. In doing so, they dropped the plugins and are in search of the solution (i.e. HTML5).
Although an extremely complex and intricate code that you may not understand, chances are you have already been exposed to it. Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6 are supporting elements of HTML5. Or even in the smallest form like drag-and-drop in Gmail are created through the interactive element of HTML5. Want to dig a little deeper? Give it a try and join the HTML5 trial on YouTube.
Geolocation & Marketing Possibilities
With so much of the location-based attention on GPS-enabled mobile applications, we should all pause for a moment to reflect upon the promise of HTML5 in this area. Companies like Yellow Pages are already testing location-based ad delivery. An example of this can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJLn6XX8oCI
As most devices with web capabilities are already compatible with HTML5, this transition is relatively simple. Which can already be seen with New York Times, CNN and CBC who have made their sites "iPad Ready" and have pledged to be using HTML5 for videos in place of Flash. Furthermore, the cost for development is minimal compared to creating an App for BlackBerry, iPhone and Android. The web browsers are easily discoverable and can be kept up to date so users are always using the latest version. HTML5 is even showing signs of allowing some offline usage! Now if you need to decide between the mobile App and mobile web, just think HTML5.
If you are a Flash game junkie, do not fret because Flash isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Most games are unable to be developed in HTML5, although Mozilla is sure trying through their multiple demos. So, next time you hear HTML5 being tossed around in a conversation they are not referring to someone's BBM pin, they are discussing the future of the Internet. Don't miss the bandwagon. Is your company "iPad Ready"?


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Hi Ginny, sounds like you've been busy how are you enjoying your embroidery machine? I think I use mine more than my sewing machine! There are so many cute in the hoops projects they keep coming out with. I am looking to buy another machine for a larger hoop size so I can do some more of them. Check out OESD, I get my free standing lace/ applique designs from them. They have some really nice ones and stitch out beautifully.
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The Interface: Computers, 3-D Modeling and Women Sculptors
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Engelstein graduated with an M.F.A. in sculpture from Claremont Graduate
School in California. Now located in Houston, Engelstein has been the
recipient of a Mid-America Arts Alliance award and a National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship Award. In the past she has created works based
on her own body as well as nonspecific anthropomorphic forms. Her inspiration
often came from objects as diverse as medical instruments, sex toys, and
taxidermy forms. Engelstein uses 3-d modeling software as a way to prototype
her biomorphic abstractions into real world objects. " Two years ago,
I downloaded a free version of a 3-D modeling program from rhino3d.com
and found an ideal design process. I began to focus on what I love most--the
invention and interplay of bubbly, growing, wandering forms. I have long
been trying to achieve, in my work, a synthesis of organic and mechanical
form--a merging of nature and technology. I found this to be an intrinsic
quality of computer aided design. With this discovery and the mysterious
language of coded geometry I came to revisit my earliest artistic interests--pure
biomorphic abstraction. It was not long before I began searching for ways
to get these forms out of the computer and into real space. From the drawings
to the 3D prints, everything in my work comes out of this process of research
and discovery." Sharon Engelstein
"My primary concern is to create a hybrid form that
merges the mechanical with organic forms and thus, I find it ironic that
the process of computer aided design (a mechanical process of drawing)
is coming into play to design so many organic forms." ... Sharon
Born and raised in Belén, New Mexico, Paula
Castillo began sculpting with metal in 1990. She attended Yale University
focusing on literature, received a B.A. in science from the University
of New Mexico and her M..A. in sculpture from the College of Santa Fe.
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50-something's Darren and Amanda Lee Ross are creating their first electronica album. (:Isaac Egan)
The Atherton Tablelands couple have always been musically inclined but have recently moved into electronica music for something completely different.
Mr Lee Ross says the response from friends of their age group is mixed.
"You have got the more traditional ballad type rock and roll people and that is fine, I love ballads, I love rock and roll," he said.
"This is just a new avenue that we are exploring and some people like it and some people don't."
He says when he is composing he focuses on creating "energy, a pulsing beat and a good tune".
"We've got a couple of apple macs and we've got garage band, which is a fairly standard application and you can make music on that," he said.
"I do most of the writing and arranging and producing and Amanda takes care of the vocals and the lyrics."
Amanda Lee Ross says her husband Darren had been writing other genres for a long time, but never had any interest in electronica.
"Once he had heard some of the stuff, he realised he could do it and he actually writes, I think really well," she said.
"They don't sound similar, but there really are some basics and sometimes it is even just the fact that you know how to play a keyboard, which just makes it easy when you are looking at the instrumentation on the computer."
She says her time at university in the 1990's is where their love for electronica began.
"I didn't go to university until I was a little bit older, and when I went to university in the early nineties, trance and garage was the new thing," she said.
"So I got quite in to it then, but never thought we'd ever be playing that kind of stuff."
Darren and Amanda are putting together an album and already have some tracks on Triple J Unearthed under the name 'Little Elvis and the family mouse'.
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The UT Health Science Center Libraries respect the privacy rights of all customers regarding the use of library facilities. In general, the First Amendment, and the confidentiality of library records, takes precedence over everything except for national security, the threat of immediate injury or harm, and illegal activity.
Appendices 1-4 define the policies and codes that support the library's position on confidentiality of records. Upon receiving a request from a law enforcement agent, library staff should not turn over any user records but should immediately contact the Senior Director of Libraries or a division director and the Office of Legal Affairs.
Library user records will not be made available to any individual or to any agency of local, state or federal government, except under the following circumstances:
- The library may disclose personal records at its discretion if it is necessary to carry out library policy (i.e. borrower records may be turned over to University Police in the course of attempts to collect overdue library materials).
- A library user may request his/her own records.
- The library may turn over library use records, if the library is served a valid process, subpoena or court order by a law enforcement agency or prosecutor, or a National Security Letter (NSL). The Office of Legal Affairs is the appropriate office on campus to receive the process and will direct the library in complying with the valid process, subpoena, etc. Whenever possible, library administration will consult with the Office of Legal Affairs before turning over personally identifiable information.
All library staff with access to library user records are responsible for implementation of this policy.
This policy applies to all library records, including but not limited to records relating to registration for use of Koha, Ovid or EZProxy, circulation transaction records, computer database searches, use of electronic full-text resources, online search requests, interlibrary loan requests, reference queries, requests for photocopies of library materials, electronic article delivery requests, title reserve requests, use of library computers, web browser history, software, servers and the Internet, and the use of audiovisual materials.
- If approached by a law enforcement officer or prosecutor wishing access to user records, library staff should not respond immediately, but should refer the officer or prosecutor to the person in charge of the library at that time. During normal business hours, the Senior Library Director, a Director or Associate Director should be contacted. If the records request should occur outside of UT Health Science Center business hours (Monday- Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.) staff should follow the Chain of Command using the library's emergency contact list located on the intranet:
Owen Ellard, Senior Director of Libraries
Jonquil Feldman, Associate Library Director
Herlinda Howard, Business Administrator
Depending on the situation before complying with the request, library administration should contact the Office of Legal Affairs for handling or further instructions, (210) 567-2020. Subpoenas and other documents issued by a court should be delivered by the server to the Office of Legal Affairs.
- The Senior Director of Libraries or the director's representative will speak with the officer or prosecutor, and explain policy as necessary. If the officer or prosecutor has a process, subpoena or court order, the Office of Legal Affairs will verify that the order is in proper form and has been issued with sufficient cause. If no valid papers are presented, the library may refuse to turn over requested records but this determination should be made in consultation with the Office of Legal Affairs. If the subpoena or court order is found to be valid, library staff will produce all records covered in the scope of that order. Staff should follow the subpoena strictly and should not provide any records that are not specifically requested in the legal document. It should be noted that because of the university's records retention policy, limited retention of circulation records and routine maintenance of equipment such as computer hard disks, requested records may no longer be available. Once a valid legal request for a library use record has been made, if the record or records still exist, then the record should be retained and not destroyed.
- Requests for library user records issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act, may contain a "gag" order: the request must be kept confidential and staff may not discuss the incident except with a supervisor, the Senior Director of Libraries or the director's representative, and the Office of Legal Affairs. No information about the request may be disclosed to any other party including the library user whose records are the subject of the search. A federal district court recently ruled this provision of FISA unconstitutional; however, the government is appealing the court's decision, and the lower court's decision is stayed while the government appeals. Therefore, the library must continue to follow the provisions of FISA.
- Library staff should contact University Police if they have reason to believe that illegal activity is taking place as result of a user's inappropriate use of the library's computer resources. Examples of illegal activities include accessing child pornography or terrorism related activities. In these circumstances, it is preferable that the illegal activity be directly observed by the law enforcement officer. Staff may not provide a web browser history to UT Police without consulting the Legal Office.
- Occasions may arise when a library patron is using a library computer in violation of the library's Computer Use Policy (https://library.uthscsa.edu/about/computeruse.cfm) which states that playing games or viewing pornographic material is unacceptable. If observed or if a library staff member receives a complaint, library staff is authorized to make the patron aware of the Computer Use Policy. If the patron persists with the unacceptable activity, then library staff are authorized to contact UT Police for further assistance.
Appendix 1: Texas Government Code, Section 552.124 (2000) Exception: Records of Library or Library System.
Appendix 2: The USA PATRIOT Act
Appendix 3: ALA Policy Manual (c2002) 52.4 Confidentiality of Library Records
Appendix 4: Library Bill of Rights
Approved by Virginia Bowden, Library Director 6/5/2003
Approved by Mary Moore, Director of Libraries 2/11/05
Revised and approved by Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries 10/17/2008
Revised and approved by Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries 8/26/2010
Revised and approved by Owen Ellard, Senior Library Director [date]
Appendix 1
Texas Government Code, Section 552.124 (2000) Exception: Records of Library or Library System.
- A record of a library or library system, supported in whole or in part by public funds that identifies or serves to identify a person who requested, obtained, or used a library material or service is excepted from the requirements of Section 552.021 unless the record is disclosed:
- because the library or library system determines that disclosure is reasonably necessary for the operation of the library or library system and the record is not confidential under other state or federal law;
- under Section 552.023 [Note: This refers to a person's right to see his/her own records]; or
- to a law enforcement agency or a prosecutor under a court order or subpoena obtained after showing a district court that:
- disclosure of the record is necessary to protect the public safety; or
- the record is evidence of an offense or constitutes evidence that a particular person committed an offense.
- A record of a library or library system that is excepted from required disclosure under this section is confidential.
Appendix 2
The USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) of 2001 became law on October 26, 2001. Details of this law can be found at the ALA web site.
Appendix 3
The following is from the ALA Policy Manual (c2002):
52.4 ALA Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records
The ethical responsibilities of librarians, as well as statues in most states and the District of Columbia, protect the privacy of library users. Confidentiality extends to "information sought or received, and materials consulted, borrowed, acquired," and includes database search records, interlibrary loan records, and other personally identifiable uses of library materials, facilities, or services.
The American Library Association recognizes that law enforcement agencies and officers may occasionally believe that library records contain information which may be helpful to the investigation of criminal activity. If there is a reasonable basis to believe such records are necessary to the progress of an investigation or prosecution, the American judicial system provides mechanism for seeking release of such confidential records: the issuance of a court order, following a showing of good cause based on specific facts, by a court of competent jurisdiction.
The American Library Association strongly recommends that the responsible officers in each library, cooperative system, and consortium in the United States:
- Formally adopt a policy which specifically recognizes its circulation records and other records identifying the names of library users with specific materials to be confidential.
- Advise all librarians and library employees that such records shall not be made available to any agency of state, federal, or local government except pursuant to such process, order, or subpoena as may be authorized under the authority of, and pursuant to, federal, state, or local law relating to civil, criminal, or administrative discovery procedures or legislative investigatory power.
- Resist the issuance or enforcement of such process, order, or subpoena until such time as a proper showing of good cause has been made in a court of competent jurisdiction.
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Library Bill of Rights
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.
- Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
- Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
- Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
- Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
- A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
- Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.
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LAREDO, Texas (AP) — Thirty-four young migrants are in U.S. custody after trying to enter the United States without documents in the latest round of what is becoming a new tactic in confronting what they consider unjust U.S. immigration policies.
U.S. immigration officials interviewed the group dressed in a colorful graduation caps and gowns late into the night Monday after they marched across one of the bridges connecting Mexico to Laredo while chanting "Undocumented and unafraid!"
The young people all spent long stretches of their childhoods in U.S. cities like Los Angeles and Phoenix and want to return.
Edna Flores, 22, of Hermosillo in Sonora state, was taken by her family illegally to the U.S. when she was 6. But she voluntarily left Phoenix in January 2012 after deciding her options for finding work or continuing her education were limited after graduating from high school. In Mexico, she found work in a call center and obtained a tourist visa to visit the U.S.
Flores took a 26-hour bus ride last week to Nuevo Laredo to join the group at a migrant shelter as it prepared for Monday's protest march. "I just want to be back with my family," she said.
The risks borne by their parents' generation involved dangerous journeys through darkness across desert and river. The teenagers and 20-somethings who crossed Monday face what could be weeks in detention and possible deportation.
They are following the path of the "Dream Nine," a smaller group that attempted to enter the U.S. at Nogales, Ariz., in July. They requested asylum and were released after about two weeks in detention to await their turn before a judge. Monday's contingent expects something similar.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, whose officers determine who is admitted at the border, said privacy laws prohibited it from discussing any individual cases.
At the heart of both groups' protest was a change to U.S. immigration regulations made in June 2012 giving something called deferred action to immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children. Those who were in the U.S. at that time and met a list of criteria could apply for a renewable two-year deferment and work authorization.
But the young people crossing Monday had left the U.S., either voluntarily or through deportation, months, weeks or even just days before the deferred action announcement, commonly known as DACA.
"We look at this action today and the Dream Nine as a type of extension of DACA," said David Bennion, an immigration lawyer traveling with the group. "What we would like to see is the people who left, like these 30 who otherwise would have qualified for DACA, to have that be taken into consideration."
There were several minors in the group, including 17-year-old Luis Enrique Rivera Lopez. He came to the border from Guasave in Sinaloa, a Mexican state that he had known only by its reputation for drugs and violence before going there from Los Angeles early last year.
"I wanted to have a sense of my roots," Rivera said of his decision to return to Mexico, where he hadn't been since he was 1. "I wanted to know where I was from."
The experience was rewarding in some ways. He got to know both sets of grandparents. But after 19 months away he missed his parents and three siblings who remained in Los Angeles. He also found he didn't fit in after having grown up in Los Angeles.
"When I got to Sinaloa I didn't dress like anyone. My haircut was different. My style of walking was different. My Spanish was like way off," he said.
David Leopold, an immigration lawyer and past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said the tactic concerned him.
"The focus now should be on getting the House of Representatives to do its job and fix the immigration system," Leopold said. "I don't know that these actions move that issue forward."


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Dutch Kills, a small community and part of Long Island City, happens to be the site of the first European community in Queens. It's a quiet and safe neighborhood with small two and three-story homes, and is two stops from Bloomingdale's.
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As expected, Gov. Corbett, Republican of Pennsylvania, has endorsed expanding Medicaid. This makes his state the 26th to do so. Now more than half of the states are committed to Medicaid expansion.
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Gov. Corbett proposes incentives for people to use doctors' offices rather than emergency rooms. His plan explicitly recognizes that preventive care improves health and saves money.
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Healthy Pennsylvania encourages individuals to visit their family doctor rather than using the Emergency Room (ER) through elimination of co-payments, with the exception of a $10 dollar co-payment for inappropriate use of ER services. Encouraging the use of primary care practitioners and prevention services will lead to healthier lives.
Pennsylvanians on Medicaid will be required to pay a premium, with the cost varying on a sliding scale. And this policy element incorporates a provision incentivizing particular behaviors.
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US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, 40, who pleaded guilty in June in a deal to avoid the death penalty, showed no emotion as the jury announced verdict on Friday after deliberating for less than two hours.
An interpreter flashed a thumbs-up sign to a row of Afghan villagers who were either wounded or lost family members in the March 11 attacks last year.
"We wanted this murderer to be executed," said Hajji Mohammad Wazir, who lost 11 family members in the attack. "We were brought all the way from Afghanistan to see if justice would be served. Not our way — justice was served the American way."
Bales' mother, sitting in the front row of the court, bowed her head, rocked in her seat and wept as the sentence was read.
"I saw his mother trying to cry, but at least she can go visit him," Hajji Mohammad Naim, who was shot in the neck, said after the sentencing. "What about us? Our family members are actually 6 feet under."
The villagers, who traveled nearly more than 11,000km to testify against Bales, spoke with reporters through an interpreter and asked what it would be like for someone to break into US homes and slaughter their families. A boy of about 13 displayed a scar from a bullet wound to his leg.
They also criticized the US' involvement in Afghanistan, saying the soldiers who came to build their country have done no such thing.
Bales, a father of two, never offered an explanation as to why he armed himself with a 9mm pistol and an M-4 rifle and left his post on the killing mission, but he apologized on the witness stand on Thursday and described the slaughter as an "act of cowardice."
The villagers said they had not read or listened to the apology. One, Mullah Baran, called it a "fraud."
The six-member jury weighing whether he should be eligible for parole after 20 years took less than 90 minutes to decide the case in favor of prosecutors who described him as a "man of no moral compass."
"In just a few short hours, Sergeant Bales wiped out generations," US Lieutenant Colonel Jay Morse told the jury in his closing argument. "Sergeant Bales dares to ask you for mercy when he has shown none."
A commanding general overseeing the court-martial has the option of reducing the sentence to life with the possibility of parole.
Defense attorney Emma Scanlan begged the jurors in her closing to consider her client's prior life and years of good military service, and suggested he snapped under the weight of his fourth deployment.
She read from a letter Bales sent to his children 10 weeks before the killing: "The children here are a lot like you. They like to eat candy and play soccer. They all know me because I juggle rocks for them."
"These aren't the words of a cold-blooded murderer," Scanlan said.
She also read from a letter sent by a captain who said that Bales seemed to have trouble handling a decade of war and death, and had written: "The darkness that had been tugging at him for the last 10 years swallowed him whole."
Prosecutors laying out the case for a life term, argued that Bales' own "stomach-churning" words demonstrated that he knew exactly what he was doing when he walked to the two nearby villages and shot 22 people — 17 of them women and children.


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Simplify equipment lease accounting and accelerate compliance efforts
SAP Lease Administration by Nakisa
Optimise global equipment leases and support compliance by simplifying lease administration and accounting standards. With SAP Lease Administration, you gain a single point of entry to collect, validate, and process equipment leases.
- On-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployment
- Centralised portfolio of equipment leases
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- Identified risks such as debt-covenant violations
Key Benefits
Control your portfolio of equipment leases
Gain full visibility of equipment installation, usage, and casualties throughout the lease lifecycle, while leveraging your existing SAP software investments.
Handle the entire equipment lifecycle
Optimise equipment lease management – from inception to termination – with built-in workflows and consolidated views into lease operations and accounting.
Reduce your total cost of equipment ownership
Identify unnecessary equipment lease payments while streamlining compliance efforts with mandated lease accounting standards ASC 842 and IFRS 16.
Key Capabilities
End-to-end equipment lease accounting
- Unify your equipment leases into a single source-of-truth to support compliance with ASC 842 and IFRS 16
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Equipment lease portfolio creation and management
- Centralise contract information with greater ease
- Gain visibility into the portfolio to understand your portfolio's size and scope
- Address the full equipment lease lifecycle – from approvals and procurement to asset retirement
Compliance with equipment leasing standards
- Support various adoption strategies and the critical steps needed to meet lease accounting standards
- Produce disclosure reports that help you comply with ASC 842 and IFRS 16 mandates
- Gain insight into the contract lifecycle and analyse financial implications
Flexible deployment options
- Structure your global equipment lease portfolio to meet deadlines
- Choose deployment options ranging from an on-premise IT infrastructure to a private cloud
- Run the application as a standalone or benefit from deep integration with the SAP ERP application
Customer Successes
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A $25 million bill has been introduced in the California Assembly designed to help save state parks.
Assembly Bill 1589 would require the parks and recreation department to create and implement a plan to increase park revenue and collection of used fees. Three California lawmakers introduced the bill, which they titled "State parks: sustainability and protection."
The bill would also allow taxpayers to transfer tax returns to the California State Parks Protection Fund – which would be created by the bill. Also, special environmental license plates sold by the DMV would help to generate funds with an additional fee.
Lawmakers are trying to pass AB 1589 quickly – calling it an "urgency statute."
Why? Well, nearly 70 parks could close by July 2012, including a San Diego's own Palomar State Mountain Park.
A group has resorted to raising funds for Palomar State Mountain Park on its own in order to run the park for three years.
Legislation is currently in its early stages, but Assembly Members Jared Huffman, Wesley Chesbro and Roger Dickinson are making the push to get it passed swiftly.
The clock is ticking – July 1 is a little more than three months away.
Bill Introduced to Save State Parks
Legislation could increase state park revenue
A $25 million bill has been introduced in the California Assembly designed to help save state parks.


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What a week it has been. It is officially now one full week since the R-Phils opened FirstEnergy Stadium on April 14, 2011. The night was one for the ages. Fans flocked to the ballpark to see the AWESOME offseason stadium renovations, as well as the opportunity to win a Life-Size Ryan Howard Garden Gnome.
One lucky fan won the life-sized collectible, and earlier today, that fan received the Reading Phillies giveaway– the 550 pound Ryan Howard Garden Gnome — what a masterpiece!
Amy Vandehei of Rosemont, PA, waited patiently at her house today for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The giveaway, which was sponsored by Fromm Electric, made it to Amy's house at 2:00 PM on Thursday in front of family and friends. It was well-receieved by all today!
As Amy waited for the Fromm Electric truck, as well as some Reading Phillies employees to deliver the gnome, she prepared a spot in her yard for the "Gnome's Home". The spot, which also had two other Ryan Howard Graden Gnomes (last year's version and this year's version #2), looked perfect for any Phillies fan. "Gnome Sweet Gnome".
Amy received some media attention from all of this as well. WFMZ was on-hand to talk to Amy about her new collectible. WFMZ's Melissa Fullerton talked to Amy, and that interview aired earlier tonight on both the 5:30 and 6:00 news. Video of that can be found here.
I was also there today to represent the R-Phils. I'm glad I was there. It was truly a great day, seeing how happy Amy was when we delivered it. It's great to be able to do something like this. Only at the Reading Phillies!
Here are a few photos of Amy and her new best friend. Once again congratulations to Amy. We here at the Reading Phillies are happy that Amy, along with her family, will get to enjoy this great giveaway!
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What a great idea for a giveaway.I never would have thought of anything like that.
What we need now is a gnome of the Phillie Phanatic,white beard and all.
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Since 1999 ESI has sought to establish itself as a respected and influential voice on South Eastern Europe. Here is what policy makers say about our analysis …
"I appreciate ESI's outstanding analysis of the Balkans and Turkey, finding it timely, relevant and consistently challenging." (November 2008)
"Thank you for your very good work in the region. I read most of your papers and I can say that you are an important initiator of ideas – according to your name, European Stability Initiative." (October 2009)
Olli Rehn, European Commissioner for Enlargement
"The ESI is the nucleus of what Europe really needs in order to be able to develop a true foreign policy, crisis prevention and peace building capability - painstakingly independent and thorough analysis of truly difficult issues. Others might have been better than ESI in capturing the headlines, but no one has been better than the ESI in engaging the brains."
Carl Bildt, former Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the UN to the Balkans, 2003
"'Lessons Learned' has become a bit of a buzzword. That doesn't mean everyone understands how to do it effectively. The Lessons Learned Unit in the EU pillar of UNMIK offers an effective model. Being attached to the mission gives it access to information it needs. Being based on an NGO, the European Stability Initiative, gives it a critical degree of independence."
Michael Steiner, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General in Kosovo, January 2003
"I am also supporting a proposal put forward by the European Stability Initiative to prevent the countries from the Western Balkans from being left out on the margins of the new and integrated Europe. ESI argues that the existing policy instruments for the Balkans should be reformed to promote social and economic cohesion. […] I am therefore supporting their call to make cohesion an explicit objective in the Western Balkans and to sustain assistance levels at such levels that the gap between the present EU candidate countries, such as Bulgaria and Romania, and the countries of the Western Balkans, does not widen further."
George Soros to OSCE ambassadors, April 2003
"The study (Assistance, Cohesion And The New Boundaries Of Europe) appears to have hit a nerve and has been the subject of several high-level meetings, including with the EU's high representative for foreign policy, Javier Solana. […] The ESI report represents in many ways a departure from the conventional approach. It provides a critique of the existing mode of external involvement in the Balkans – a model that is highly intrusive, crusading, non-economist."
The Economist Intelligence Unit 2003, Country Forecast March 2003
"Among the people whom I have so far met on the Balkans circuit they have the clearest view of what needs to be done… their approach is to spend enough time thoroughly researching and analysing their topics to be able to present recommendations that they feel they can stand behind also in the longer term."
Martti Ahtisaari, former Finnish president and Kosovo mediator, 2000
ESI, through its excellent analytical work, over the past three years has on several occasions facilitated our understanding of the country and helped us in the preparation of our own assistance strategy. Its staff has also participated in several national conferences co-organised by the World Bank and BIH's government authorities, enriching the debate and deepening our understanding of the country's problems.
Joseph K. Ingram, Director, Country office Bosnia and Herzegovina, The World Bank Group, May 29th 2003
"In the short period since it has been established, ESI has quickly proven itself to be at the vanguard of providing much needed analysis for policy makers on South Eastern Europe and Bosnia Herzegovina in particular."
Wolfgang Petritsch, former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Die Mission des ESI: Die internationalen Organisationen auf dem Balkan aus ihrer bürokratischen Trägheit zu rütteln, dem bisweilen karitativen Übereifer der Wiederaufbauhilfe pragmatische Analysen der politischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Situation des Landes entgegenzusetzen. Analysen, nicht geschrieben im Elfenbeinturm, sondern aus der Lebenswirklichkeit der von Krieg und Nationalismus verwüsteten Region.
Katja Ridderbusch, Die Welt, June 26th 2000
"In der internationalen Diskussion über Bosnien-Hercegovina mehren sich indessen die Rufe nach einer grundsätzlichen Änderung der Hilfsstrategie. Eine Zukunftsperspektive gebe es nur, wenn die EU die wirtschaftliche und soziale Kohäsion in den Mittelpunkt ihrer Hilfe stelle und Bosnien in ihr sogenanntes "Vorbeitrittsprogramm" aufnehme, schreibt beispielsweise die Berliner "European Stability Initiative" (ESI). Nur wenn solch brennende Probleme wie Beschäftigung, regionale und lokale Selbstverwaltung, regionale Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklungspartnerschaften sowie der Ausbau der Infrastruktur in einer kohärenten Form angesprochen würden, komme man in Bosnien-Hercegovina weiter, sagt ESI-Direktor Gerald Knaus."
Carola Kaps, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 22th 2003
"Tutti questi Paesi hanno un problema fondamentale, che un Recente rapporto dell'European Stability Institute di Berlino definisce così: «Oggi questi Paesi stanno confrontandosi con una realtà che l'instabilità dell'ultima decade aveva oscurato: la profondità del loro declino economico». Gli esperti puntano pertanto su un programma vigoroso di stimolo alla crescita, considerando conclusa l'epoca dei grandi aiuti alla ricostruzione dati nella prima fase della transizione post comunista."
Luigi Passamonti, Corriere della Sera, May 5th 2003
"For some Balkan experts, the Commission has not gone far enough. "It is all very well saying these countries will at some stage be able to join", said Gerald Knaus, director of the independent European Stability Initiative. "The Commission is still being conservative in its attitude. It has refuses to introduce a pre-accession strategy that would precisely help these countries meet the Copenhagen criteria and the acquis communautaire." [The report, drawn up by Romano Prodi, Commission President, and Chris Patten, the external affairs commissioner] also falls short of what Greece wants as president of the EU's rotating presidency. Athens has put the Balkans at the top of its foreign policy agenda […]."
Judy Dempsey, Financial Times, March 26th 2003
"A timely warning against this cutback has come from a Berlin-based organisation, the European Stability Initiative (ESI), headed by former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari. It has submitted a report, "Western Balkans 2004", to EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Javier Solana, saying that the Western Balkans is facing a looming crisis of social and economic dislocation which puts at risk some of the EU's most important interests in this strategic region. It should not be allowed to fall further behind the economic development of the new member states, the report argues, and should be included in the cohesion policies practised within the EU. […] There should be an institutionalised partnership between the Commission and national and sub-national authorities, the ESI argues, and effective multi-annual programming of development efforts. In the period between 2004 and 2006, the programmes could be financed - to the extent of some EUR400m per annum - from funds left over from pre-accession aid to the ten new members."
Dick Leonhard, European Voice, January 9th 2003
"It is no exaggeration to say that ESI is now regarded as the most effective group thinking in depth about the issues here, which none of us actually working in Bosnia have the time - perhaps also the skills - to analyse fully."
Graham Hand, British Ambassador to Bosnia, 2001
"The ESI, through its activities and excellent publications, has positioned itself as one of the most significant think tanks contributing to the international efforts in implementing the Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Robert Barry, OSCE Head of Mission, Bosnia
"With many years of collective experience in observing the region, ESI provides a uniquely useful and readable analysis of the contemporary situation with broad implications for policy-makers, activists and scholars of the region."
Robert Donia, author of "Bosnia - a tradition betrayed"


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It's been 28 years since KITT had a successful show. In that time his position in popular culture has slipped from hero to laughing stock, making increasingly minor appearances to fuel his hamburger habit. Evidently, he misses Michael too.
This ad casts the original voice of KITT, William Daniels, and is intended to promote Kwik Fit, sort of the English equivalent of a Jiffy Lube or a Meineke. Evidently, in a survey of 2,000 Britishers, KITT came tops as the car that most reminded them they needed a brake job. [via CopyRanter]


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This week's blog post was not working out for me. After several false starts, I realized my problem. I was trying to be deep and clever…again. I'm quite capable of both of those things, (from time to time), but when I try to force it, it comes out, well, not like me at all. So I stopped and instead, began to think about other people, who write about, and practice, leadership every day. With that in mind, I'm going to highlight some of these really talented, experienced people and share with you their perspectives about leadership by offering a variety of blog posts that will both inform and challenge you to stretch your thinking. At least that's what it did for me.
Joe Gerstandt (@joegerstandt) works to help us truly understand the meaning and import of diversity, inclusion and culture. Joe 's post entitled, Dancing in the Intersection asks us to think about the tension that results when our differing viewpoints come together and to consider the notion that this place of tension is where our greatest opportunities lie, if we choose to embrace, rather than avoid it.
Anne Perschel, (@bizshrink) is one of my favourite people. And, she is a staunch advocate for women in leadership. She has compelling and global reasons for placing her considerable energies here. In her post, Bigger is Not Better any more ~ Paradigm Shift and the Paradox of Power, Anne explains the problems created by the Bigger mentality and describes a world where women play a larger role in leadership, not by replacing men but by partnering with them to, as she puts it, "Make the World a more sustainable, socially conscious, emotionally connected, livable place".
Wally Bock (@wallybock), author of the Three Star Leadership Blog has a wonderful way of cutting to the chase when it comes to writing about being a good boss. Here he shares his Thoughts on Exceptional Leaders.It is short and to the point and makes great sense.
Many organizations spend inordinate amounts of money on Leadership Development. Dan McCarthy (@greatleadership) author of the blog, Great Leadership and a highly skilled leadership development practitioner generously shares a leadership development program that, if faithfully followed, provides great opportunity for learning and growth in his post entitled: Free Leadership Development Program: Becoming a Great Leader
Taking a little time to reflect on our own performance is always a good thing and Jane Perdue(@thehrgoddess), Founder and President of the Braithwaite Innovation Group provides a useful template to follow in her post: The 7 C's ~ a Mid Year Leadership Check up/
It is often tempting, when we first consider an issue to look at what's wrong or what's not there, first. In her post: Is There a Shortage of Good Leaders? Mary Jo Asmus (@mjasmus) suggests that perhaps we are looking through the wrong lens and in the wrong places when it comes to finding good leaders.
Some of us like to believe that we don't play politics at work. In fact, I expect that we all see the destructive side of organizational politics. But, I also believe that politics in organizational life will always be present. In his post: 4 Ideas for navigating organizational politics, Art Petty, (@artpetty) shares some wisdom about politics in the work place that makes a great deal of sense and can serve as a tool for anyone navigating his or her way through the political labyrinth.
If you're a boss, there is no question but that you will be busy. Sometimes you might think that you are too busy to take a holiday… that your time would be better spent if you remained at the office and worked. But, Tanveer Naseer, (@tanveernaseer) in his post: Why Summer Vacations are Important to Being Effective explains why you might want to re-think that strategy.
Delegation is a big deal in leadership. Often it is such a big deal that it can be quite daunting. In her post: How to Delegate with Confidence, Jesse Lyn Stoner (@jesselynstoner)provides seven guidelines for achieving effectiveness in this area.
And finally, while we are on the topic of delegation, I'm going to throw in something I wrote some time back called: Taking Charge~ When Not to Delegate.
That's it for now. What do you think? What would you add to the reading list?