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This posting is sparked by a conversation between Nigel Green and me. We were having a spirited discussion about choices in following people in Twitter. But the concept generally applies in almost all event based architectures.
The fundamental principle is that it has to be somehow worth it to sort through the whole mess of communication to get what you need or want. Thinking in interface architecture terms, a point to point interface has a very high signal with very little noise. However, tailoring the communication channel is very expensive - at least for the originator of a message. Similarly a total mind dump of everything you are thinking about at a particular moment can have a very poor signal to noise ratio when viewed from the perspective of someone trying to decode the message.
I have used the example of the Christmas Letter before - the letter that contains all the family news and is sent to every acquaintance. For the originator of the message, it is a very efficient way of communicating stuff. No thinking about what each individual subscriber cares about - let the subscribers figure it out. If there is enough signal in the letter, then filtering through the noise is worth it. If not, it goes quickly to the recycling bin.
Likewise in social media. As a twitterer and as a blogger I don't know what individual followers are going to want. As a blogger, I don't even know who the followers are. And I don't want to. If people find that the signal is rich enough they will follow, if they don't they won't. A very efficient way of information delivery - and a very handy simplification technique in event driven thinking. The basic question is, "Is the signal to noise ratio high enough so that it is worth me continuing to listen on this channel, or are there are other channels with better ratios?" As a subscriber I can often make that choice.
Twitter is such a great example, because the space is flat. When I tweet, it could be on any topic that I find interesting and relevant. To me, the twitterer, it is all signal. To you the follower it is probably mostly noise. If there are occasional useful signals you will continue to follow, if not you won't. Attempting to put some kind of ontology over twitter defeats the purpose because the publisher has no clue which permutations of tags are relevant to any given listener. I regualraly unfollow twitterers when the signal to noise ratio degrades too much.
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LOL! And one top of everything else, PIGmalion instead of Pyg-- truly they are casting their prose pearls before swine.
Ad copy in fragrances has a tendency to go overboard in its praise and sometimes a little too "imaginative" in its descriptions of the juice.
Please feel free to contribute your own, but I'll start off with my current favorite, Nez a Nez's description of their Marron Chic...
"The iris grows from a cocoa soil. The flower has a word to say.
The chocolate emperor accompanies her as a shadow.
He is her Pigmalion. Delicacy woos strength. A mixture of powders, a flower on the tip of a cannon. It is a white flag on the shoulders of a prestigious army.
The actors of this perfume admire one another. Iris moves freely and her roots enjoy the fresh soil.
No need to force the harmony, the wisdom is exquisite."
*puff* *rattle of bongos* Oh, man... That is DEEP.
LOL! And one top of everything else, PIGmalion instead of Pyg-- truly they are casting their prose pearls before swine.
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Ah, sublimely ridiculous. Love it.
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Petty small minded people have no place in my life.
I remember an old Lucy show, where the neighbour talked about Piggy-million. Just about as enlightened.
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J. Peterman started it all. Everyone rips him off. It is truly royal purple prose!
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@ Galamb_Borong: Thanks for making my morning! You might want to add a disclaimer: "Caution: Do not read while drinking hot beverages." You nearly got me.
Here's some authentic J Peterman:
The Small Island of Dominica. Columbus discovered it, named it, and left it alone. It's north of Martinique. And it is the home, since 1907, of a very good West Indian Bay Rum manufactured under the Dominica brand-name.
Bay Rum has a fairly quiet scent, less strong than anything called perfume, less strong than anything called aftershave, but not so quiet as to be boring. It is, in fact, quite sexy.
It is sexy the way skin begins to smell from strong sun, salt water, steel drums, breaking waves, moving palm branches and giggling coming from somewhere.
Men liked Bay Rum long before 1907, when the Dominica brand started. Men have liked Bay Rum since Spanish Main days. They like it for the least complicated reason in the world: it smells good.
A decent gift which often turns into a lifetime habit.
Alas, Nez a Nez wins this time.
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Kind of makes you wish that one of the houses (it'd probably have to be a niche house - the designer folk would never go for it) would just have something like "Smells like ass. But at least it's different."
You made my morning, Galamb. Nez a Nez looks like the undisputed purple prose champion, and their website is a treasure trove of goofy gems. "Armenia in accordion is consumed. . .The shyness becomes the Minotaur."
"the black sun slowly burns a sacrificed citrus fruit"
It's like they ran their ad department's submissions through a Markov chain generator.
"The captivating dampness of a vault, a stairway made of stone. Going down, entering. Boxes, canvases and books, all scribbled on. A Caribbean chest, already explored. Pencils and broken leads like a garrison. A paint brush in the shape of a star, another in a glass. An abandoned wedge of lemon. A suave scent, raspberry wine, and a leather couch. Drapes to paint on. A candle. The artist scrutinizes, he draws. Shadows waver. Glimmers sublime the peculiar mood.
The humility becomes a Minotaur on the wall. Armenia in accordion is consumed. The smoke embraces the incense to crawl along the stone and saltpeter. The muse gives away her colours and her spirit watches the flame.
A nervous blade submerges into the paint. Shyness unites with the Minotaur. "
For their Bouche Baie:
"..In this blend, generous and benevolent, our berries do the Indian swim and whisper marmalade stories in a bath of flowers."
heady stuff, this..worthy of a Percy Dovetonsils or a Leonard Pinth-Garnell
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One if by land...two if by sea...three if by air....
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This is hilarious!
Yes, ad copy can be incredibly funny.
"That lover which is like fragrance
Whose voice is as beautiful as Urdu.
She who hides in the flowers
you can only find her from her fragrance."
"Chaiyya Chaiyya," from the film, "Dil Se."
Where these originally in French or something? It's like some bad translation.
Expensive, cheap, mainstream, niche - it ALL sounds kind of like that, if less so. I don't know if I've ever read a frag blurb that was actually more informative and clever than not. Instead:
"Our world-class artisans have meditated to create this once-in-a-lifetime blend. Sexy. Fresh. Uniquely beautiful. Notes of translucent oudh, pink flowers, cashmere, and several different types of water make this a daring new take on the classic chypre. The highest mountain in Peru."


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Joe Straus of San Antonio survived a challenge of his House leadership Tuesday when colleagues overwhelming re-elected him speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Straus' two challengers dropped their opposition but critics insisted on a record vote, which resulted in a 132-15 margin for Straus. Three members did not vote.
Straus, a Republican, faced intense opposition from several extreme conservative groups who wanted House members to elect a more conservative leader of the 150-member chamber.
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After his election, Straus credited his colleagues for withstanding "threats, harassment and attempts at intimidation because of the fair and respectful way in which you want this House to operate."
"Division, threats of retribution…attacks on people's religious beliefs and distortions of people's records have no place in this House," Straus said.
Many of his colleagues give him standing applause.
Straus credited his parents – Joe and Joci Straus – for instilling in him the fundamental values of faith, respect, responsibility and honesty. And he recognized his wife, Julie, as "The greatest blessing in my life." Noting that he met his future wife while she worked for James Baker in the Reagan administration, Straus noted that, "She outranked me then and she still outranks me now at our house where she is the powerful chairman of all of our committees."
A threatened floor fight for House speaker fizzled out quickly when Rep. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, dropped his challenge against Straus.
Paxton asked to address his colleagues soon after the 82nd legislative session opened.
"I lost. I will not be putting my name into nomination today," he told them. "Even though we lost this race, we have not lost the fight. Our conservative message is important. This is the beginning."
Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, blocked Straus' election by acclamation when he insisted on a record vote. The 15 votes against Straus came from the more conservative House members. Several conservative citizen groups wanted a record vote, warning members not to support Straus and declaring the speaker's vote would count for up to 50 percent of the groups' legislative scorecard on members.
Rep. Beverly Woolley, R-Houston, who helped nominate Tom Craddick, R-Midland, in 2005, offered one of the nominating speeches for Straus. Woolley, who was not an early supporter of Straus two years ago, said she believes in Straus' values.
"Joe is a lifelong Republican. He is a fiscal conservative," she said.
Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Alpine, told colleagues that Straus' principle and courage allowed him to handle "extreme pressure gracefully" in recent weeks.
Straus was "unfailingly poised" regardless of the circumstances," Gallego said.
"Joe Straus is nothing but considerate and fair," he said. "He brought the House back from the brink of self-destruction and history will judge him kindly for that. Joe Straus has empowered us all. Under his leadership, every vote counts. Joe Straus is not the conductor, but he allows us, the members, to choose our own music."
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Sustaining Northern Hardwood Forests--Are We Doing What We Think We're Doing?
By Jennifer Donovan | Published
Northern hardwood forests provide natural beauty, recreation, a source of lumber, wood pulp for paper products, raw material for biofuels. They also generate jobs and sustain rural economies.
There's a system in place for assuring the productivity of northern hardwood forests. It's called the selection silviculture system, a method of using partial harvests done to a strict formula to sustainably manage the trees. It's been around centuries, and it works.
There's only one problem.
A study by Michigan Technological University researchers found that the system generally isn't being used.
"This could be because nobody ever really used it, or because it isn't used anymore, or because it's too much trouble to use it strictly as it was designed," says Robert Froese, associate professor at Michigan Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science and author of a paper titled "Sustainability of the Selection System in Northern Hardwood Forests," published in the April 2014 issue of the journal Forest Science. "If that's true, then we should stop acting like the system is commonly used," Froese goes on to say. "Also, if true, we should consider what the implications are for the wide range of values that our forests provide. If harvests are too gentle, then it's likely that there isn't enough light reaching the forest floor to ensure regeneration. Over time, that will lead to forests that look quite different from the old-growth northern hardwood forests that are considered self-sustaining."
Nan Pond and Linda Nagel, both of Michigan Tech, were co-authors on the study. Nagel now works at the Cloquet Forestry Center at the University of Minnesota. Funding for the study was provided by Frontier Renewable Resources and a State of Michigan 21st Century Jobs Trust Fund grant.
Silviculture is the applied science of impacting how forests establish and grow, to meet diverse needs. This could be by planting seedlings in rows with fertilizer and thinning to grow trees valuable for lumber or veneer. It could also involve tending natural stands to accelerate the development of "old-growth" character, or to conserve biodiversity. What distinguishes silviculture from forest ecology is the idea of managing the forests to preserve or produce some value. And that value doesn't have to be timber. It can be producing the smaller "pole" trees that provide wood for the pulp and paper industry. It could be assuring that enough seedlings are taking root, or it could be preserving the forest as a natural recreation location.
The "selection silviculture system" is a particular method for tending forests where repeated partial harvests are used to manage the trees. Usually, a specific structure (amount of trees by size and arrangement) is desired, and trees are removed to produce this structure. One critical factor is that to be selection silviculture, one of the goals must be providing for the regeneration of new trees (i.e., to create conditions where new seedlings establish).
In 1957, a research forester named Carl Arbogast wrote a guide for the selection system for managing northern hardwoods. The guide has become the core of northern hardwood silviculture, particularly in the Great Lakes region.
Froese and his colleagues set out to discover whether Arbogast's selection system is widely applied in the Great Lakes northern hardwood forests.
They studied recent timber harvests on state forest lands, forests under corporate ownership and privately owned forests. They measured the trees in 10 randomly located circular plots under all three kinds of ownership, and measured stumps to reconstruct what the stands looked like before the harvest. Then they relocated and enlarged the plots, analyzing them in 2010 and 2011.
They expected to find that state forests were most compliant with the Arbogast guidelines and corporate forests were the least compliant.
What they actually found surprised them. Only 22 of 96 stands of trees studied were harvested in compliance with the guidelines that have been shown to create a balanced and sustainable structure that assures the future productive potential of the forests. The other 74 stands were being overcut or undercut.
Overcutting ultimately results in diminished yield and quality of the wood, but the effects of undercutting are subtler. Undercutting could mean that an opportunity was missed to harvest more wood without harming the forest. There could also be an ecological cost. For seedlings to survive and grow in northern hardwoods, there must be gaps big enough to allow light to reach the forest floor. Without enough light, seedlings might not establish and thrive.
Another surprise: The variation within forests owned by each type of landowner was much more substantial than the variation between kinds of landowners. "There are no significant differences among the three landowner types compared," Froese says in the journal article.
The researchers spoke with forest managers, almost all of whom claimed that production of high quality timber and revenue was their primary management objective. Yet the way they were managing their forests did not reflect the Arbogast guideline.
"Stated goals, objectives and management plans do not necessarily translate to activity in the woods," Froese notes. "This raises the question of whether the guideline, although widely promoted, has ever been widely and effectively applied."
What do the researchers recommend? "Improved education for private landowners and accountability for public managers would help ensure the future productivity of the northern hardwood resource," says Froese. "We need to understand why Arbogast isn't being followed even though people think it is, and we need to realize the economic, social and economic consequences of not following the selection silviculture system."
Terry Sharik, dean of Michigan Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, called the study important. "I think this work is significant because it suggests that large expanses of forests managed by the graduates of our forestry programs in the US are not being managed to their optimum with respect to long-term sustainability of goods and services. This in turn begs the question of why this is the case. The answer is undoubtedly complex, given the host of ecological, social and economic factors that come into play. This would make an interesting study in its own right."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Temple of the Reclining Buddha ANYUE eight Ziyang City , Sichuan Province Anyue eight Miaoxiang Reclining ditch. 39 km from the county seat Anyue eight Miaoxiang town 5 kilometers , is located in Anyue , housing junction. Buddha statues and carved by the hospital 's Cliff Tang Kaiyuan began eleven years ( 723 ) before the massive statues carved by Tang Kaiyuan, starting from the Song dynasty gradually decline. From the Tang Dynasty monk Xuan should jointly create and later monks and laymen . Is a set of cultural and natural stone as one of the ecological landscape leisure tourism.
Reclining on a high hospital about one kilometer ditch about 20 meters on both sides of the Reclining Buddha cliff , retained a large number engraved made in the Tang Dynasty , Five Dynasties , Song Dynasty stone statues and carvings Cliff Buddhist scriptures, its statues area up to 865 meters , 142 cave shrine . There are 1613 stone statues , stone sutra 15 caves, inscriptions, inscription , Jing Zhuang , dozens of animals images . Cliff Zen Buddhism mainly between Tantric statues , as many as 57 kinds of subjects . Statues of the characters , objects , animals and other vivid, Vivid , thousands modality , natural look , is the heyday of Chinese works of art of the mid- stone in the crowd. Attractions include: Buddha preaching , Nirvana Sutra ( of lying ) , three Shenfo , Maitreya, terra , Avalokitesvara , Jing Zhuang , stone Buddhist scriptures and so on.
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Sichuan Province, the "River"or "Shu", the provincial capital of Chengdu, located in southwest China, the Yangtze River, in longitude 97 ° 21 '~ 108 ° 31', latitude 26 ° 03 '~ 34 ° 19' between. To benefits, benefit, Azusa, Kui four named, the province of the total area of 48.5 square kilometers. Brief plateau phase the west, east of the Three Gorges Xianfeng overlap, north of Qinling Bashan barriers surround the south Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the formation of a famous Sichuan Basin. Sichuan Province, vast land and has a long history since ancient times to enjoy the "Land of Abundance"reputation.


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The XFX AMD Radeon HD 6400 graphics card delivers discrete graphics performance that's perfect for every day computing.Multitask with AMD's EyeSpeed technology and accelerate applications. Eyefinity technology lets you spread work across up to three displays so you can watch movies in vivid HD and multitask with impressive speed. With DirectX 11, the XFX AMD Radeon HD 6400 graphics card gets a performance boost, delivering advance technologies with superb DirectX 11 support.
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f you've recently bought or built an Intel Sandy Bridge or AMD Fusion PC and found even their enhanced integrated graphics wanting, then you probably know you want a discrete video card. If you're seriously constrained by budget, or if you're not too keen on 3D games, the AMD Radeon HD 6450 provides one of the least-expensive ways to get basic discrete video: for only $59. But if you think there's even a chance you may need your card to do anything else, stop and think if you can scrounge up a few more pennies elsewhere before buying this card.
As befits its price, this card—the starting point for AMD's entire 6000-series lineup, the current-generation replacement for last year's ATI Radeon HD 5450—is lean in every way. It packs a mere 160 stream processors, 8 texture units, and 4 ROPs, along with an engine clock ranging in frequency from 625 to 750 MHz and a memory clock that can be tuned to 533–800 MHz if the card is loaded with DDR3 memory and 800–900 MHz if GDDR5 memory is installed.
AMD's reference version of the 6450 has three output ports: for VGA, for DisplayPort, and for DVI. As is the case with all of AMD's newer cards, the 6450 supports Microsoft's DirectX 11 (DX11) API for the most advanced visual effects, Eyefinity for easy multimonitor setups, and AMD APP for GPU-based compute acceleration.
Given the 6450's meager specs, the last is probably the only one you'll want to actually pursue. Though most consumers buy video cards with the intent of doing some kind of gaming, it can't be stated often enough that that's simply not the 6450's strong point. We ran through our usual suite of tests, and got almost exclusively unplayable results. Except for the routinely "easy" H.A.W.X. 2, in none of our games did the 6450 ever get even as high as 13 frames per second (fps) even at 1,024 by 768—and H.A.W.X. 2 just slipped in there with 38 fps (and, to be fair, an even 30 fps at 1,280 by 1,024).
Under what circumstances might you genuinely want a 6450? If you're building a small, simple system, such as a nettop or a home theater PC, or if power draw is a major concern, then this card will do the trick. It uses a maximum of 27 watts of power under load, and as little as 9 watts while idle; in our power tests, a system built with the 6450 used a mere 155 watts of power when under load.
If you don't want to limit yourself, you can drop several more dollars (about $5, as of this writing) on a 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5570. This card may be from the 5000 series, but it delivers markedly better frame rates across our spectrum of tests (20.4 fps versus 10.2 fps in Aliens vs. Predator at 1,024 by 768, for example; 55 fps and 44 fps in H.A.W.X. 2; 22.91 fps versus 12.98 in Just Cause 2 (also at 1,024 by 768); and so on. Or Nvidia's GeForce GT 430: It costs the same as the 6450, but turns in marginally better gaming performance, with sample scores of 1,869 in 3DMark 11 (versus the 6450's 1,213), 15.4 fps in Aliens vs. Predator (the 6450 did 10.2 fps), and 16.25 fps in Just Cause 2 (compared with 12.98). And though the 6450 did okay with H.A.W.X. 2, the GT 430 did better still—44 fps and 33 fps at 1,024 by 768 and 1,280 by 1,024 respectively.
The budget video card market has been a weird place for a while now, and has not been made more hospitable by the appearance of improved integrated graphics in Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD's Fusion platforms. Even a bargain-basement discrete card will up the performance ante of machines based on these, so the AMD Radeon HD 6450 will suffice. But for most ordinary, everyday uses, either AMD's own 5570 or Nvidia's GT 430 will be a superior choice to the 6450—and not cost noticeably more.
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text: Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science and also a Fellow in the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, spent a week in Toronto during spring semester 2019 for the International Studies Association annual meeting. Mike is the chair of the Committee on the Status or Representation and Diversity, and was the lead organizer of the special program series "Structuring Inclusion – Challenging Oppression." He served as chair and discussant on panels related to global LGBT rights. Other news for Mike: Late in February, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell announced a new initiative pushing the global decriminalization of homosexuality, and Mike, an expert in state homophobia and LGBTQI+ rights, was contacted by the Paris-based news and information service for the Francophone LGBTQI+ community, Komitid, to write an analysis of the contradiction between the Ambassador's initiative and the current administration's hostility to LGBT rights and refugees. In late April Mike was a guest on The Dave Gram Show, an issues-oriented news and talk program daily on WDEV radio in Waterbury, featuring extended interviews by the veteran Vermont newsman and longtime wire service reporter, to speak about the same issue. (posted June 2019) Michael Bosia, professor of political science, was featured in the Colchester Sun newspaper in March, talking his new groundbreaking class offering next academic year of the first LGBTQ-named course in Saint Michael's history. Global LGBTQI+ Politics and Culture will debut this fall. Mike also wrote an essay earlier in March that was posted on the Blog called "The Duck of Minerva" that "focuses on world politics from an academic perspective" according to the website -- about a new French film on group Act Up Paris, His essay is titled "BPM (Beats Per Minute), AIDS Politics in France, and the Lessons for Resistance Today." The film he references is titled "120 Battements par Minute" which translates to "BPM (Beats per Minute)" in English. (posted June 2018) Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science, this week presented on a panel at the United Nations in New York City as part of the U.N. Academic Impact program, in conjunction with the International Studies Association. The panel Mike joined was called "Unlearning Intolerance: Perspectives from 2017" and was organized by the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) as part of a series of discussions entitled "Prevention Forum", intended to explore means of preventing manifestations of intolerance and violent extremism. The week before Mike was in New York City for an International Relations/International Studies educator workshop at the Council on Foreign Relations. Attendance at that event is by nomination. (posted June 2017) Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science, was invited by Canada's nationally prominent Globe and Mail newspaper to write an essay in response to the June 12, 2016 attack in Orlando, Florida. Michael's piece for the June 13 edition was titled, "Attacking a gay bar – our refuge, our church – is latest in continuum of hatred." (posted June 2016) Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science, presented his research on global LGBT Human Rights and state homophobia," at a panel he worked with Common Ground in organizing. The panel, on Local and Global LGBT Struggles and Human Rights, featured Cai Wilkinson from Deakin University in Australia presenting her research on LGBT politics in post-Soviet republics, Cornel Grey from University of Toronto focusing on gay men and masculinity in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora, and Jenna Lee from the Vermont Pride Center talking about LGBT politics and policy in the US. The panel was chaired by Dean of the College and Professor of International Relations Professor Jeffrey Ayres. In recent travels, Michael also presented two papers from his research on LGBT politics and state homophobia in France, Uganda, and Egypt at the International Studies Association annual meeting in Atlanta, GA, in March. One was on a Presidential Theme Panel he was invited to organize by the conference executive, which focused on "States, Sexualities, and Desires: Queering the Politics of Peace and Conflict." He also co-facilitated a table on Sexuality Studies at the Methods Café that assists scholars with the development of their research. At the meeting, he was elected secretary-treasurer of the LGBTQA Caucus. In April, Michael visited The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, where he serves as a fellow, to mentor graduate students focusing on research related to sexuality and gender identity. Additionally, he published reviews of two recent volumes on global sexuality and gender identity studies: He was invited to review Sexual Diversity in Africa, Marc Epprecht and SN Nyeck, eds.in Perspectives on Politics 14:1 (March 2016), and his review of Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity, by Momin Rahman, was published in the journal Sexualities 19:4 (June 2016). He also presented "The Price of Exile: Ugandan Refugees, Sexual Minority Rights, and the Politics of Identity," at Refugee Lives at Risk/Citizen Rights Denied, a conference sponsored by The Centre for Human Rights & Peace Studies and the Department of Anthropology at Lehman College, CUNY, November 2015. (posted June 2016) Michael J. Bosia, associate professor of political science, presented his research from his co-edited volume, Global Homophobia, at a symposium hosted by the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto where he has an appointment as a fellow. Also, his book State Homophobia and LGBT Activism, is under contract at Cambridge University. In mid-December 2015 returned to University of Toronto to serve as the external examiner for a PhD dissertation in the Political Science Department on LGBT politics in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (posted January 2016) Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science, presented research on state homophobia in Uganda at the European Conference on African Studies, and participated in a roundtable on debates over marriage at the meeting of the Council for European Studies, both in Paris in July. He is also the program chair for the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association for the 2015 annual meeting in San Francisco in September. Finally, he is author of a chapter called "To love or to loathe: modernity, homophobia and LGBT rights," in an edited volume called Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ Claims Shape International Relations, from Routledge, edited by Markus Thiel and Manuela Picq. (posted September 2015) Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science, and his co-author and co-editor Meredith Weiss, were awarded the 2015 Scholars Award from the International Studies Association LGBTQA Caucus at the annual meeting of the ISA this past February in New Orleans. The award is in recognition of their volume, Global Homophobia: States, Movements, and the Politics of Oppression, which has received several favorable scholarly reviews. Also, Michael has a chapter coming out in the edited volume Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ Claims Shape International Relations, entitled "To Love or to Loathe: Modernity, Homophobia and LGBT rights." (posted April 2015) Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science, recently was named a Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. The appointment does not require residency, but does mean Michael will be working with other fellows on programming at the Centre. Michael also has been informed that he and his co-editor Meredith Weiss at SUNY Albany have been named the 2015 recipients of the Scholars Award by the LGBTQA Caucus of the International Studies Association, for their book, Global Homophobia. The award will be presented at the annual meeting in New Orleans in February. (posted December 2014) Michael Bosia, Saint Michael's associate professor of political science, in July attended a conference jointly sponsored by the International Studies Association and FLACSO Argentina in Buenos Aires, where he presented two papers: "To Love or to Loath: Modernity, Homophobia, and LGBT Rights," and, co-authored with Jeff Ayres, dean of the college and professor of political science, "Gendered Knowledge in the Local Food Movement: the Emancipation of Expertise or the Localization of Profit?" Michael also was interviewed recently as a guest on the Pacifica Radio KPFA public affairs program Against the Grain, featuring a conversation with David Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare. Johnson discusses the interplay of anti-Communism and homophobia in the 1950s and previews his chapter in the book Global Homophobia, which Michael co-edited with a SUNY Albany colleague, focusing on the export of the Lavender Scare to US allies. At the conclusion of that on-air discussion is an interview with Michael about Global Homophobia, which documents the spread of "a modular, pragmatic and innovative homophobia." (posted August 2014) Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science, attended the "QP5" (Fifth International Conference Queering Paradigms), titled "Queering Narratives of Modernity," which was held in Quito, Ecuador, February 20-22, and he co-organized a panel. This is a major academic conference on queer and sexuality issues globally. Michael's panel was called: "Queer Provocations, Western Privileges, and the Decolonization of LGBTIQ Struggle"; the panel consisted of contributors working on an edited volume. Michael presented a paper called "States as Exceptional: Rethinking Rights beyond Political and Sexual Modernization," focusing on France, Uganda, and Egypt. This paper is also part of his manuscript, State Homophobia and the Globalization of LGBT Rights, for which he received VPAA funding, a small research grant from the American Political Science Association, and honorable mention in the Martin Duberman Fellowship competition at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY – all last year. Michael also chaired a panel that including presentations on Russia's anti-gay law, families in Poland, and European Union Policy, called: International Politics of Sexuality / Políticas internacionales alrededor de la(s) sexualidad(es) (March 2014) Michael Bosia, associate professor of political science, has been awarded an external research grant through the Small Research Grant Program of the American Political Science Association, which supports research conducted by faculty at non-Ph.D.-granting institutions that have funding sources available for faculty research. The funding is to support research he has been conducting, starting during his sabbatical, in France, Uganda, and Egypt. The title of his study is "State Homophobia and the Diffusion of LGBT Human Rights." LGBT is an acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. Michael's study focuses "on the diffusion of state homophobia as a responsible player in shaping emerging identities." Data collection for the project includes participant observation, interviews, and archival research, to examine the influence of homophobia on self-conceptualization and agenda-setting. Key cases include those where authorities invoke similarly foreign LGBT threats during times of political and economic stress across institutional contexts, including France, Uganda, and Egypt. To advance his work, Michael also has received an internal expense defrayment grant from the Faculty Development Committee and the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. The project also received honorable mention for a Martin Duberman Fellowship from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at City University of New York.


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To the shock of the boxing world the purse bid to stage the fight between Alexander Povetkin and Wladimir Klitschko was won at the staggering sum of $23m.
This is a huge amount with a vast majority going to Klitschko. The fight is to be held in Moscow providing the current issue regarding disagreements on drug testing are resolved. This issue seems to be a fairly major one currently so hopefully it can be sorted out and the fight can go ahead.
On paper Povetkin should provide a test for Wladimir as he boasts an impressive record: 26-0, 18 KOs. At 6ft 2in he is shorter than Klitschko and therefore going to find it difficult to get past the career defining left jab.
Povetkin has fought some decent opponents in the past including Ruslan Chagaev but never anyone of the standard of the dominant Wladimir Klitschko.
Povetkin also had a distinguished amateur career showing that he is a good technical boxer and not just one of the big, lazy, clumsy heavyweights that are unfortunately common-place in this era. So Povetkin is clearly better than the average Klitschko opponent and therefore interesting in itself!
Looking at the fight I see only one winner. Yes, Povetkin is a good fighter, but Wladimir is on another level. With a record of 60 wins and three losses Wladimir's record cannot be argued with.
Wladimir is is not the most exciting fighter but my goodness is he effective and knows how to win. He is very robotic and stiff but peppers opponents with the jab and then finishes them with the right hand.
Wladimir has adopted this technique through the mentoring of the legendary and sadly now not with us trainer Emanuel Steward. Steward is one of the greats and taught Klitschko how to solidify his defensive technique and dominate the division.
Dr Steelhammer seems to still be in top gear and I predict that Povetkin will find it difficult to get past the jab which until recent years has been very underrated.
Wladimir's jab is quick and strong and wears opponents down as well as keeping the other boxer busy. This means that his suspect chin is rarely tested and I expect this fight to pass with his chin not being tested as is now a common-factor.
Nevertheless this fight will be of interest unlike so many of the Klitschko's fights. The problem is that they are good champions in what for a few years now has been a very poor division so they don't receive the credit that they deserve.
The brothers do little to help themselves reputation-wise with boring, robotic boxing styles. They also fight former sparring partners (in terms of Francesco Pianeta) or people who just simply aren't good enough to be fighting for a world title.
This is a big-money fight and will draw major attention as a result, but I see yet another win for the machine that is Wladimir Klitschko.
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Heat, Pacers tip off Game 1 of East Finals
The Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers will meet in the postseason for the second consecutive year, but this time, it's in the Eastern Conference Finals, beginning Wednesday night in Miami.
Last year, the Pacers actually held a 2-1 series lead in their semifinal matchup, but ultimately fell in six games. The Heat, of course, went on to win the NBA Championship.
This time around, it's for a spot in the NBA Finals and the stage has been set for a tense battle.
Pacers coach Frank Vogel downplayed any revenge factor, and in doing so, started a controversy.
"This is not about getting back at Miami," Vogel said Saturday after the Pacers eliminated the New York Knicks. "You're in the final four, you're competing for a championship. And they're just the next team that's in our way. And that's how we're approaching it."
LeBron James, the reigning NBA MVP, took offense to the description of the Heat as "the next team."
"We're not just another team," James said. "I don't understand what he's saying. But we're not just another team. It's not true.
"We're a great team. We're very confident. We'll be ready for them."
The rhetoric is out in full force. (To be fair, Vogel never said the Heat were "just another team.") On the court, this should be a true battle between two of the best defensive units in the NBA. During the regular season, the Pacers finished second to the Memphis Grizzlies in opponents' scoring, while Miami was fifth.
During the postseason, both teams have improved on their regular-season numbers. The Heat are first in opponents' scoring and Indiana is fourth.
The Heat swept the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the playoffs, then knocked off the Chicago Bulls in five games in the semifinals. The Bulls took Game 1 and the series turned into a brutally physical quest for survival, but Miami is four wins away from a chance to defend its title.
The Heat have won their playoff games by an average of 13.9 ppg.
Indiana had a much tougher route getting here.
The Pacers needed six games to best the Atlanta Hawks in the first round, then knocked off the Knicks in six to set up this meeting with the Heat.
The Heat have been off for a week since dispatching the Bulls. They needed the time to get Dwyane Wade healthy. The guard has endured knee problems and his scoring is down almost 8.0 ppg from the regular season.
"I'm ready to go Wednesday, ready to play Wednesday," Wade said Monday, somewhat deflecting the question of his health. "As long as it doesn't get worse, I have to learn how to adjust to it."
The Pacers could have some matchup advantages on their huge front line. Roy Hibbert and David West are much bigger and stronger than James, Udonis Haslem and Chris Bosh.
"We're just going to have to do what we have to do on the floor to make sure the outcome is in our favor," said West.
But Bosh could be huge. He's as good a perimeter shooter at the center spot in the league, so he could draw Hibbert away from the basket. However, Bosh will have an awfully difficult time matching up physically with Hibbert.
"If he were the lone ranger, he could be an MVP candidate," Vogel said of Bosh. "He's one of the best big men in game, one of the best skilled big man in the game."
The Pacers went 2-1 against the Heat during the regular season with both victories in Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Miami has taken six of the last seven against Indiana at home.


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Senior reporter John Flowers makes a weekly Tuesday radio appearance on Morning News Service, a program on Waterbury-based WDEV, 96.1 FM. He wraps up recent Addison County news for listeners across Vermont.
This week he chats about the Vermont Supreme Court's trip to Middlebury today, a new Middlebury solar farm that got the go-ahead from the town last week, and a property assessment grievance that stands to change Middlebury tax rates.
October 18, 2011
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While I saw this in our Fresh New Spaces Group, I had already seen it in sfgirlbybay earlier this week. Victoria has painted her room "Gravel Gray" by Benjamin Moore (BTW, she says it's not quite as dark or as blue as it is appearing in her photographs). She's also sleeping on DwellStudio's Chinoiserie bedding. Finally, she's looking for some input on which artwork to buy for this room. Check it out and chime in on her post!
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A judge denied a request Monday by lawyers for the doctor convicted of causing Michael Jackson's death to have an independent laboratory test the contents of a key vial of evidence.
Just days before the scheduled sentencing of Dr. Conrad Murray, Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said defence attorneys could have sought the testing months ago or even during the doctor's six-week trial but chose not to.
"You're not involved in fishing, you're involved in foraging," Pastor said.
Murray's attorneys wanted a lab to test a small amount of liquid found in a vial of the anesthetic propofol that authorities contend was used to help Jackson sleep on the day he died.
Defence lawyer J. Michael Flanagan argued the results would reveal the accuracy of a theory by a prosecution expert who testified that Murray left Jackson's bedside while the singer was on an IV drip of propofol and the painkiller lidocaine.
Murray had been giving Jackson nightly doses of propofol to help the singer sleep as he prepared for a series of comeback concerts.
Deputy District Attorney David Walgren contended there was no legal basis for the testing and said Murray received a fair trial.
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Pastor examined the propofol vial, which was found in the closet of Jackson's bedroom, before issuing his ruling.
Flanagan said it didn't occur to him that the contents of the vial should be tested until after the conclusion of Murray's trial, which ended Nov. 7 with the conviction of the cardiologist on an involuntary manslaughter charge.
Flanagan said if prosecution expert Dr. Steven Shafer's theory is correct, the small amount of liquid that remained in the vial should contain lidocaine. In that case, "that's the ballgame" and would prove Murray did leave the singer alone on an IV drip, Flanagan said.
Flanagan also argued that Shafer didn't tell jurors that he believed Murray injected lidocaine into the propofol vial until Shafer was called as a rebuttal witness in the final moments of testimony.
Walgren said Shafer and other witnesses acknowledged that they didn't know exactly what happened in Jackson's bedroom before the singer's death on June 25, 2009. Shafer was one of several experts who told jurors that he could only theorize on events based on toxicology results, Murray's statements to police and evidence found at the scene.
"Whether there was lidocaine in that bottle or not is completely irrelevant," Walgren said.
Murray is set to be sentenced on Nov. 29. Walgren said he is finalizing work on a sentencing memorandum and several people may speak during the hearing. He did not say whether members of Jackson's family, several of whom attended the trial daily, would offer statements.
Murray remains jailed and faces a possible sentence ranging from probation to up to four years.
Anthony McCartney can be reached at 杭州桑拿按摩论坛twitter杭州龙凤/mccartneyAP


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Report from the yearly gathering of bug geeks…
I recently got back from the annual "Bugs in Bondage" conference held in southern Arizona. The actual name is the more politically correct "Invertebrates in Education and Conservation," recently updated from the original "Invertebrates in Captivity" – thus the humorous nickname. But for those of us who have attended for many years (this was the conference's 15th consecutive year), the nickname will always come first to mind.
This is a great conference. Who goes? It's a fairly small group, about 125-150 people, including representatives from most of the US facilities that display live insects and/or butterflies, as well as those who supply insects and butterflies to our facilities. Several international attendees often participate as well – especially from Canada and Mexico but also from as far away as Scotland, Costa Rica, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Hosted by the Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute (SASI), it's a week of workshops, collecting field trips, formal and informal presentations and roundtable discussions – with a strong social aspect as well. The "Insect Trivia" contest is one of my favorite rituals; the photography contest is always fun, too; and of course, nothing can beat the final banquet. Outside the meeting room, several vendors set up their wares – whether live arthropods, insect books, toys, and jewelry or collecting equipment. As an example, BioQuip has a large display and also helps to sponsor the conference.
It may seem crazy to meet in southern Arizona in the middle of the summer, but the time (late July/early August) was chosen for a reason. Although it's hot and sunny during the day, this is "monsoon season" in the Sonoran desert, a time when – most days – clouds build up late in the afternoon, followed by dramatic lightning storms that are accompanied by brief but torrential rains.
Shortly after nightfall, it is usually clear again (the stars are great there in the desert skies). Because of all the rain at this season, the desert is teeming with plant and insect life. It's a great time to find cactus longhorn beetles, giant centipedes, vinegaroons, sunburst diving beetles, jewel beetles, and much more. Some participants go blacklighting almost every night, choosing a spot off the beaten path and setting up a white sheet with UV and mercury vapor lamps to draw in flying insects. I've seen sheets completely covered with moths, including some large and spectacular ones, along with tons of beetles, adult ant lions and owl flies, and much more.
This year, a former colleague and I led a workshop on "plant identification for entomologists." One of my favorite workshops in the past was one on "cooking with bugs" – we made a number of dishes using different insects and then served them at the icebreaker that night! The talks I most enjoyed this year included one on leaf cutter ants, another on a monitoring program for the endangered burying beetle, and one on how to keep and display bumblebees.
The other attendees are fun, unique people brimming with knowledge and experience – along with some "newbies" who are there to learn the ropes. We all come away from the conference full of new ideas for displays, new arthropod possibilities, and a sense of community. It's not often you can be in a room of over 100 people where every one is a major insect enthusiast (aka bug geek)!
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GPS watches generally appeal to those who put navigation capabilities first, and aesthetics a distant second. But with its new fēnix, Garmin has managed to squeeze a backpack full of functionality into a subtle watch design.
In fact, Garmin claims the fēnix is its first watch to include similar GPS navigation functionality as its handheld units, letting users create and follow pre-planned routes, bookmark up to 1,000 unique waypoints, and store up to 10,000 tracking points. So if you head out on a random hike into the wilderness, you can easily retrace your steps and find your way back to camp.
The fēnix also boasts built-in ABC capabilities—which is short for altimeter, barometer, and compass. Combined with the GPS they'll not only help keep you on the right path, but will also give you a rough idea of what the weather will be like in the coming hours so you can plan accordingly. You'll also find Bluetooth and ANT wireless connectivity for communicating with a PC, other navigation devices, or an optional external temperature sensor. It's of course completely waterproof to a depth of 50 meters, has enough battery life to provide GPS functionally for up to 50 hours, and can be yours this fall for $400.


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Lipscomb associate director of athletics for spiritual formation Brent High checks in with an update from day two of the trip to Mission Lazarus in Honduras
This morning seems like two days ago. That's how full today has been.
We began our day with ham, eggs, toast and assorted breakfast cereals at Mission Lazarus. The people in Honduras take resting on the Sabbath very seriously. There would be no work today. Today we did what most groups that come to Mission Lazarus do on their last day before going back home.
After breakfast we made an hour-long drive to Limon for church service. The congregation in Limon is in the middle of a slum that began as temporary housing for victims of Hurricane Mitch in 1998. From what I understand the residents were originally supposed to be there for just six months. 14 years later they're still there. The poverty is extreme. We saw several extremely young children, maybe 2 or 3 years old, walking the streets around the church building completely naked and terribly dirty. Kids are begging everywhere. Some hold long strings across the road to try and get the vehicles to stop and listen to their pleas for lempiras.
We arrived at the church building early. It's an open-air building with a tile floor and tin roof that has multiple holes in it. Everyone sits in old folding chairs. I noticed one of them had a stamp under the seat that said "Southern Hills Church of Christ." That congregation is in Franklin, Tennessee. Our group came close to doubling the adult attendance at the congregation. For every adult there were probably three kids. After an initial period of shyness, most of them began to interact with our students. Their little smiles were infectious.
The singing was extremely joyful. For a group of people in the middle of such a desperate picture everyone seemed very happy and glad to be there. Samuel Montoya served as an interpreter during the service. T.J. McCloud led a couple of songs in English. Blanton Farmer and Matt Johnson served the Lord's Supper.
There were a couple of twists to the service that none of us had ever experienced anywhere else. After the weekly contribution was collected (the church collected a little over 1,000 lempiras from the entire congregation – or $50 in American dollars) they called three members to the front who were celebrating birthdays. Each one of them put one lempira back into the collection basket for each year they have lived. One little boy put two lempiras in the basket. A women put 33 lempiras in the basket. A man put 34 lempiras in the basket. Everyone celebrated.
Then the collection baskets were passed around to the congregation again. Any monies collected the second time were to be given to the three people celebrating birthdays. Lacey Hartselle, Alexander McMeen and I were invited to the front to hand the wads of lempiras to the three people.
The preacher for the Limon congregation focused on the parable of the talents. He then invited all of our team to the front of the congregation and prayed over us. He thanked us over and over for leaving our families this time of year and coming to Honduras and spending time with his congregation. This reinforced something I had read in David Platt's book Radical a couple of years ago. David made the point that so many times we get caught up in the fact that the money we use to travel to the mission field could be used for other purposes. He said the real impact is made when people in places like Honduras see that you were willing to leave the comforts of your home, spend time with them and build relationships. God doesn't need our money. He does need us to be His hands and feet.
One of the most touching moments of the day came at the end of the service in Limon. Kaela Pennington came to me asking if we had a first-aid kit. My first question was, "What's wrong?!"
Kaela told me about a young lady who she had met during the service that had a badly burned finger. It had become terribly infected. I fetched the first-aid kit from our truck and Kaela went to work. She cleaned the wound, treated it with Neosporin, gauze and tape and got Samuel to tell her what she needed to do going forward to help it heal. The young lady hugged Kaela tightly and was so appreciative of her kindness.
From Limon we drove another couple of hours to Amapala. We loaded into two boats and traveled to an island a short distance from shore. From the dock we took these little three wheel motorized vehicles to the beach, a place called Playa Grande. The scenery was breathtaking. We enjoyed a late lunch that consisted of gigantic shrimp, fish and plantains. The shrimp and fish had been caught just offshore earlier in the day. We threw baseball on the beach and the girls showed off their best gymnastics moves.
We headed back to the dock and were on the boat as the sun set behind the mountains in the distance. It was one of those moments you know there is a God and He is mighty.
It took us about two and a half hours to drive home in the dark. Thankfully there were no issues. I continue to be amazed at how many people including small children walk, bike and sit – yes sit – in the middle of the road here. You are on them so fast especially at night when you're driving. It was such a relief to get back to the refuge.
The guys in my truck have actually figured out how to play an iPod on the old sound system. On the way back they played several worship songs and sang at the top of their lungs. It was such a meaningful experience for me personally. They did that on their own with no prompting from me whatsoever. I am learning very quickly that this group of students is very spiritually mature. In many instances already they have been the teacher and I have been blessed to learn from them.
We had another amazing dinner at Mission Lazarus. This one consisted of beef stew, rice and vegetables.
We turned the lights out at the pavilion and sang around the fire. Mighty to Save, Ten Thousand Reasons and Blessed Be The Name were just a few. Kyle Erickson and Ryan Terry talked about the lessons they've learned over the last three weeks of being here in Honduras. They challenged the rest of the group to make sure they use the talents and opportunities God has given them to share Jesus with the world. They continued to reinforce the idea that we're not here to necessarily "do" anything. We're here first and foremost to further relationships in the name of Jesus.
After Kyle and Ryan spoke, many of the team members shared things that were meaningful to them today. It was the kind of session you usually experience on the final night of church camp. For them to already be at this level of sharing and transparency so early in the trip is extremely encouraging and a foreshadowing of what I believe will continue to be a week that leaves all of us changed for the better, forever.
Special thanks to all of you who have prayed for us or have supported the trip financially. God is using you in a mighty way to encourage us. Thank you.
Tomorrow morning we expect to begin an intense week of work building a brick house.
Almost there,


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2nd December 2005, 03:36 PM
Afternoon, thought I better actually say hello to everyone, I posted my dogs up but didn't introduce myself, I am Claire, and live in Surrey with my husband Darren, Busta my tri-colour and Woody my Blenheim, and soon to be Ruby boy... Just wanted to say that it is such a great place to read info, meet new puppies, etc. (and glad my boss is away as I am not getting much work done). We have Cav's as Darren had one when he was growing up, and then I dog sat for my boss, after that was smitten... we are trying to get the whole company owning Cav's, one of our guys in Romania was the first one to breed over there.... his website is: http://cavalier.doit.ro/eng.htm


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Lot for Sale,
Adirondack Park, Saranac Lake, New York, 2011
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Website - KyleFordPhotography.com
Kyle Ford is an artist educator currently based out of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate, New York. His work investigates ideas of perception, representation, and interaction surrounding the natural world. Kyle is an internationally published and exhibited artist. His photographs have been featured in magazines, galleries, museums, and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad including POP Photo, Newsweek Japan, Elle Men China, O Magazine, Magenta's Flash Forward, Conner Contemporary in DC, Dina Mitrani Gallery in Miami, Museum of Fine Arts at FSU, and the RISD Museum of Art in the online group exhibition Looking at the Land — 21st Century American Views. His work sponsored by Kodak and represented online by Photoeye and Gallery Stock.
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The Clipper Cocktail/
Sometimes I get sooo sick of myself. Me and my "ooh, me likey bourbon cocktails, egg white, Licor 43, bourbon meow meow." (You have to imagine Miss Piggy saying it to get the full effect.)
A good remedy for a cocktail rut is How's Your Drink? Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well, by Eric Felten, an impresario equal parts food/drink/culture critic and jazz trombonist/crooner/bandleader. The book is a sort of loosely chaptered collection of drinking vignettes throughout history, with recipes here and there. It's a great read to keep on the shelf and just flip through. Today, I flipped to the Clipper Cocktail.
This drink called for "golden rum," which, on a slushy
Monday Tuesday, sounded exactly like what I needed. Off I trudged to the liquor store, where I found a plethora of anejo rums but only one labeled "gold."
My understanding of rums is that white ones are fermented in steel and unaged, goldens are aged in oak and darks are aged in charred oak; anejo (which literally means "aged") falls somewhere between the latter two. For rhetorical purposes alone, I was really looking forward to a golden rum, but the only one in stock was Bacardi Gold. I've made tons of mojitos with Bacardi (white, not gold) and always found it up to the task; when you're bombing that base liquor with so much mint, lime and sugar, a high-quality rum (like 10 Cane, my old upsell) would probably just go to waste, anyawy. But in the Clipper, the rum's got less to hide behind.
So when I saw a sale on Pampero rum ($6.99 for a fifth!), I figured I'd grab that too. Thank goodness I did. The Bacardi Gold was noxious, sweaty-tasting and harsh as all get out. The Pampero, on the other hand, had a little of that shoe-polish taste that reminds me of Fernet Branca, but please trust me when I tell you that it is eminently better, and suits this drink quite nicely.
The Clipper Cocktail
(Adapted from How's Your Drink?)
1 1/2 ounces Pampero Ron Anejo Especial
1/2 ounce Cinzano extra dry vermouth
1/2 teaspoon Giroux grenadine syrup
Pour all ingredients into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Cap and shake vigorously; strain into cocktail glass.
Tasting Notes:
Quantitatively, the only tweak I made on Felten's recipe was to cut the grenadine down from one teaspoon to half a teaspoon. Whether it's merited or not, I tend to regard my Giroux grenadine syrup as thicker than average.
For some reason, I really felt like drinking this on the rocks out of a highball glass; I wanted to wrap my paw around it rather than pinch it by a stem. My compromise was to enjoy it out of my martini bowl.


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Fall 2013 Digital Library Brown Bag Series
October 9, 2013
Herman B Wells Library, Room 043
The New IUCAT: Powered by Blacklight
Courtney Greene, Head, Discovery and Research Services
Discovery and Research Services
Mark your calendars for the Fall 2013 Digital Library Brown Bag Series. The brown bags will be held most Wednesdays, beginning September 4 and ending December 11. The complete schedule including abstracts is available on the following web site: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/. Presentations and accompanying materials will be linked to this web page as talks occur.
To receive a reminder and an abstract for each presentation, send an email to email@example.com with the message body: sub dl-brownbag-l Your Full Name
All presentations are in the Herman B Wells Library rooms E174 or 043 from 12:00-1:00 pm EST.
Presentations will also be broadcast via Adobe Connect. Go to http://breeze.iu.edu/diglib to view and listen to the presentation. If you are not a registered user for Connect Meeting/Breeze, select the "Enter as a Guest" option. Recordings will also be posted to the schedule web page a day or two following the talks.
You can also follow and contribute to the presentations and discussions on twitter: #dlbb.
The Digital Library Brown Bag Series is part of the Digital Initiatives track of the Scholars' Commons Series. As research initiatives increasingly rely on technology as a significant mode for inquiry, the Digital Initiatives track will address cutting-edge and emerging topics that shape this new scholarly endeavor. This semester the inaugural Scholars' Commons Series features a full schedule of events ranging from basic introductions to core research tools, to workshops for dissertation writers, to talks by cutting edge digital scholars. For more information, please visit www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops.


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Humm, now that I'm all updated, the c50 still reminding me to update?
I read the very early versions needed a firmware update to fix this but I've never had this issue till now?
ME thinks too many versions etc to maintain... These lifetime updates are no good if someone spends the money and no more left to continue maintenance support.
Must rob Peter to pay Paul!


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A deliciously palatable biography of the iconic writer whose life was "as full of plot and character as any [she] invented."
Inspired by research from her documentary of Alcott (1832–1888) for the PBS series American Masters, Reisen delivers an in-depth portrait of the spirited, sentimental, imaginative, realistic woman whose childhood vow was to "be rich, famous, and happy." Reisen draws extensively from Alcott's prodigious output of literary works, travel sketches, articles, journals and letters, as well as the recollections of her contemporaries. Born to bohemian intellectuals, the young Alcott grew into a moody, passionate girl much like her famous character, Jo March. Her parents kept the company of transcendental luminaries like Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Hawthorne, but experienced material poverty. The utopian nightmare of her father's experiment in communal living, her youngest sister's death and her older sister's engagement became defining events in Alcott's life, leaving her determined to shoulder family financial and household burdens. Under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, Alcott churned out pulp-fiction thrillers, generating income and sating her thirst for adventure. She followed the phenomenal success of Little Women in 1868 with six other popular children's novels, but was tormented by a culture of celebrity and ill health until her death. Reisen deftly weaves the story of Alcott's life into the rich social, cultural and historical fabric of mid-19th-century New England. The author's insightful examination reveals Alcott as a compulsive writer who peppered her stories with external details and internal currents of her life; an ardent abolitionist who served as a Civil War army nurse; a self-espoused spinster who cherished her independence but harbored a schoolgirl romantic attachment to Thoreau and a midlife crush on a young Polish pianist; a thoroughly modern feminist who wrote about the power struggle between the sexes and championed women's suffrage; and a middle-aged woman who relied on opiates to cope with her failing health.
An absorbing portrait of the protean author whose "life was no children's book."