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International air passengers arriving in the United States are subject to an immigration inspection to ensure that they have legal entry and immigration documents. Immigration inspection activities are conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The immigration fee is set in statute at $7 per passenger. The collections are available to pay for all expenses incurred in providing inspection and pre-inspection services.[1] The statute also directed the agency to report to the Congress every 2 years on the status of the Immigration User Fee Account, including balances, and recommend fee adjustments that may be required to ensure that the collections equal, as closely as possible, the cost of providing these services. However, ICE has not yet analyzed air passenger immigration inspection fee data to identify what fee adjustments, if any, are necessary.
Passengers pay the immigration inspection fee when they purchase their airline tickets. Fee collectionswhich GAO estimates were about $600 million[2] in fiscal year 2010are available to ICE and CBP to pay for costs incurred in providing inspection and pre-inspection services, and are intended to be divided between ICE and CBP according to the costs of the immigration inspection activities for which each agency is responsible. Air passenger immigration inspection fee collections do not recover the total costs of these inspections. However, because immigration inspection costs and collections have not recently been comprehensively reviewed, it is unknown (1) whether collections are appropriately distributed between ICE and CBP and (2) the extent to which fee collections fail to cover air passenger immigration inspection costs, especially for ICEs inspection activities.
Air passenger immigration fee collections did not fully cover CBPs costs in fiscal years 2009 and 2010. According to ICE officials, although ICE does not track air passenger costs separately from sea passenger costs, ICEs portion of total air and sea passenger collections did not cover ICEs total air and sea passenger costs in fiscal years 2007 through 2009.[1] As a result, in recent years, CBP and ICE have relied on general fund appropriations (in fiscal year 2010 alone, this amounted to over $120 million for CBP and an unknown amount for ICE) to help fund activities for which these agencies have statutory authority to fund with user fees.
Air Passenger Immigration Inspection Fee Costs and Collections
Fiscal year 2008
Fiscal year 2009
Fiscal year 2010
Air passenger immigration inspection collections
$115,522,669 (GAO estimate)a
$98,917,337 (GAO estimate)a
$103,865,917(GAO estimate)a
Air passenger immigration inspection costs
Source: GAO analysis of ICE and CBP data.
aBecause ICE does not separately analyze air passenger collections data, GAO estimated ICEs collections using CBPs data and the user fee allocation rate between ICE and CBP. This estimate does not replace the actual data which would be found in a fee review.
bICE provided immigration inspection cost data for both air and sea passengers, but not specific data for air passengers.
The air passenger immigration inspection fee has not been recently comprehensively reviewed, and the rate, which is set in statute, has not been adjusted since fiscal year 2002. As GAO reported in May 2008, regular, comprehensive fee reviews could prevent misalignment between fees and the activities they support. Comparing ICE and CBP cost and collection information could help determine the extent to which collections cover costs and the appropriate share of collections for each agency. Further, GAO reported in its May 2008 User Fee Design Guide that regular reviews also help to increase awareness about program costsand therefore increase incentives to reduce costs where possible.
As GAO reported in September 2007, while CBP reviewed its share of air passenger inspection costs, ICE had not reviewed its share of these costs, and ICE and CBP do not have a process to determine how the immigration user fee would be split between them. In that report, GAO recommended that the Secretary of Homeland Security report on ICEs activity costs to ensure the immigration fee is divided between ICE and CBP according to their respective immigration inspection activity costs and to develop a legislative proposal to adjust the air passenger immigration inspection fee if it was found to not recover the costs of inspection activities. The Department of Homeland Security agreed with GAOs recommendations.
Since 2006, GAO has requested that ICE and CBP provide a comprehensive review showing the extent to which fee collections cover their air passenger immigration inspection costs. CBP provided GAO with this analysis for its share of the immigration inspection activities. ICE only provided aggregate costs for air and sea ports of entry. Agency officials said that ICE cannot provide this information because it does not separately analyze air passenger amounts. Absent such information, the extent to which total air passenger fee collections cover total air passenger costs, and whether these collections are appropriately distributed between ICE and CBP, is unknown.
[1]As of January 2012, ICE officials said they were evaluating fiscal year 2010 data and did not know whether collections covered costs for that year.
To determine the extent to which air passenger immigration inspection fees are aligned with the costs of inspection activities, which could enable fee adjustments to reduce reliance on general fund appropriations, Congress may wish to require the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to fully implement the recommendations from GAOs September 2007 report, including to:
Taking these four actions would allow ICE and CBP to better align air passenger immigration inspection fee revenue with the costs of providing these services and achieve cost savings by reducing the reliance on general fund appropriations.
[1]In September 2007, GAO recommended that, if air passenger immigration inspection activity costs exceed collections, the Secretary of Homeland Security should develop a legislative proposal in consultation with Congress to adjust the immigration fee to recover costs as closely as possible, per statute. As of November 2011, this recommendation remains open pending the completion of ICEs cost study.
[2]In September 2007, GAO recommended that the Secretary of Homeland Security complete development of and report on ICEs activity costs to ensure the air passenger immigration inspection fee is divided between ICE and CBP according to their respective proportion of air passenger immigration inspection activity costs. As of November 2011, this recommendation remains open pending the completion of ICEs cost study.
The information contained in this analysis is based on findings from the products listed in the related GAO products section as well as additional work GAO conducted. GAO reviewed documents from ICE and CBP. In addition, GAO requested fiscal year 2010 cost and collections data from ICE and CBP and used data from CBP.
GAO provided a draft of this report section for to the Department of Homeland Security for review and comment. The department agreed with the material facts as presented. ICE supplied GAO with its Immigration User Fee Account cost studies for fiscal years 2007, 2008, and 2009, which showed its combined immigration inspection fee costs for air and sea inspections. ICE said that it will update its methodology for determining Immigration User Fee Account air and sea costs and will conduct additional analysis to separate the air and sea immigration fee collections and costs. ICE estimates that the revised analysis for fiscal year 2010 will be completed by March 31, 2012. Further, ICE said that it will continue to work with GAO and CBP to close the remaining recommendations outlined in GAO reports concerning the Immigration User Fee Account.
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International air passengers arriving in the United States are subject to an inspection to ensure they possess legal entry and immigration documents and do not bring in contraband, such as illegal drugs, counterfeit goods, or harmful pests and prohibited agriculture products. With the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003, the customs, immigration, and agriculture inspectio...
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The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) have agreed to the framework for a new contract with the approximately 5,500 faculty at the 14 state-owned universities. More information will be made available as the ratification process continues.
PASSHE is the largest provider of higher education in the Commonwealth, with about 115,000 students. The 14 PASSHE universities offer degree and certificate programs in more than 120 areas of study. About 500,000 PASSHE alumni live and work in Pennsylvania.
The state-owned universities are Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester Universities of Pennsylvania. PASSHE also operates branch campuses in Clearfield, Freeport, Oil City and Punxsutawney and several regional centers including the Dixon University Center in Harrisburg and the Philadelphia Multi University Center in Philadelphia.

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See also: History of WeBWorK version control
WeBWorK uses the Subversion version control system. To use it, you have to download the official command line Subversion client. Most Linux distributions will have this available in their package repositories, and many install it by default. For example,
- to install Subversion in Ubuntu do
sudo apt-get install subversion
- to install Subversion in Fedora become root and do
yum install subversion
You can also use alternative clients, such as the graphical TortoiseSVN for Windows.
Subversion's command-line interface is similar to CVS. This is a basic and partial guide of the most useful commands. For a complete guide, use the book Version Control with Subversion. If you have a write access to the server, it's strongly recommended that you read it and know about the advanced features of Subversion, because you might use them sooner or later.
The repositories
There are two main WeBWorK repositories, all hosted at http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/. The two repositories are
These two repositories contain all of the necessary WeBWorK software and the National Problem Library. There may be a few other problem library repositories (Such as rochester, but those will soon be folded into the NPL.
Each repository uses a more or less standard hierarchy:
- branches
- tags
- trunk
Pre-production work is made in the trunk tree. Since many WeBWorK servers run the code in this tree for production usage, patches made in this tree must not break the code. You should also avoid rewriting extensive portions of the trunk as well. WeBWorK itself is in the webwork2 subdirectory of the trunk, and the PG code is in the pg subdirectory of the trunk. The trunk of the system repository has many other subdirectories, but these contain special sub-projects used for development and testing.
branches is used for major coding work, testing huge patches, and testing unstable patches. Some developers may have their own branch of the code here. It is also used to prepare new stable releases (through the well-known beta → release candidate → security & maintenance fix cycle). Each major stable series gets its own directory as rel-<major_version>-<minor_version> or rel-<major_version>-<minor_version>-patches. For example, the current stable release of the WeBWorK code is rel-2-4-patches.
tags is a special hierarchy used to save the state of the software at a given point in the time. You should NEVER make any change to it as this is only useful when releasing new versions. That task is handled solely by the WeBWorK release managers.
Anonymous use
The WeBWorK repositories are configured so that anonymous users may perform any read operation (such as checkout, update, etc.) Developers who have commit access, should see the section below on Developer use for basic information on how to commit changes to the WeBWorK repositories.
Check out
First, you have to check out the WeBWorK code. To do so use the following syntax:
svn checkout http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/folders_to_download some_target_directory
You can browse the code structure using the web interface (ViewVC). Under system the three folders there are used for different purposes:
- The trunk is the main development branch.
- The branches are used for stable versions of the core WeBWorK and PG code; and for the development of complex features.
- The tags are used to track the released versions.
The URL structure is:
- transport
- http://wwrk.maa.org
- repositories
- /svn/system or /svn/npl/ (or /svn/rochester/)
- branch/tag
- /trunk, or /branches/rel-2-4-patches, or /tags/rel-2-4-7
- files
- /webwork2 or /pg
Unlike the old CVS, the URL is used to specify the branch or the tag.
To check out the WeBWorK 2 development trunk into the folder "webwork":
svn checkout http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/system/trunk/webwork2 webwork
To check out the PG development trunk into the folder "webwork":
svn checkout http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/system/trunk/pg webwork
To check out the National Problem Library development trunk into the folder "webwork":
svn checkout http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/npl/trunk/NationalProblemLibrary webwork
To check out the latest bits in some particular release branch:
svn checkout http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/system/branches/rel-2-4-patches/webwork2 some_target_directory svn checkout http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/system/branches/rel-2-4-patches/pg some_target_directory
To check out a specific version of the software:
svn checkout http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/tags/rel-2-4-7/webwork2 some_target_directory svn checkout http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/tags/rel-2-4-7/pg some_target_directory
Each time a commit is made to a repository, Subversion increments the revision number of the repository. To check out a specific revision of the webwork2 code, say revision 6000, do
svn checkout http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/system/trunk/webwork2@6000 some_target_directory or svn checkout -r 6000 http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/system/trunk/webwork2@6000 some_target_directory
or, if you want to switch to that revision, use the update command:
svn update -r <number>
Don't leave off the "trunk" or branch part! If you leave that off you check out every revision of every file in the repo, which is pretty silly.
Updating the working copy
To update your working copy and get the latest files, use the following command:
svn update (or just: "svn up")
Note that SVN, unlike CVS, doesn't need to be told to prune removed files or create new directories. This is automagic.
For a simple way to keep abreast of changes, one could use e.g.,
cp RELEASE-NOTES /tmp && svn up && diff /tmp RELEASE-NOTES
- What happens if I change some file, then do "svn up" and it was changed upstream too?
- Don't worry. You will see
Conflict discovered in 'lib/WeBWorK/WeBWorK.pm'. Select: (p) postpone, (df) diff-full, (e) edit, (h) help for more options:
Making a diff
Diffs, or patches, are text files which include all the changes done in the working copy. If you suggest a new feature in Bugzilla and would like to suggest a change which fixes it, upload a patch.
To create a diff from the current repository, use the following command:
svn diff
Normally, unlike CVS, you don't have to tell SVN which files you changed; however, you may like to diff only a part of the repository. To do that, specify the files to diff:
svn diff webwork2/lib/WeBWorK/MyAwesomeWorK.pm
Note that SVN defaults to the "unified" diff format, so the "-u" option doesn't have to be passed.
Applying a diff
Subversion does not contain a built in command to apply diffs to the current working copy (for example, to review or commit diffs published in Bugzilla); instead, you can use the regular patch unix utility:
patch -p0 < patch_file
Changing file structure
You can add files or folders to the working copy, to be included in the next diff or commit, using the command:
svn add file.name
If you add a folder, it will add all the files included in the folder, except for files in the ignored list.
You can delete files or folders from the working copy, to be deleted in the next commit or marked as such in the next diff, using the command (which will automatically delete the files from the working copy, but won't delete folders in such way):
svn delete file.name
Make sure the file or folder do not have local modifications, else they won't be deleted unless you force the deletion.
Reverting your changes
If your changes in the working copy are not useful in your opinion, you can revert them using the following command:
svn revert
You must use parameters for this command. To revert all your changes in the working copy, use:
svn revert -R .
To revert the changes in a specific file, use:
svn revert file.name
Reverting can also remove added files (they won't be deleted, just removed and considered "unknown files", just like you didn't use
svn add at first), and restore deleted files (both deleted by hand and deleted by
svn delete).
Checking the status of the working copy
You can check the status of your working copy using the following command:
svn status
These are several important letters in the first column of the item, which show the status:
- M = the item was modified by you
- A = the item was added by you (using
svn add)
- D = the item was deleted by you (using
svn delete)
- ? = the item is not under the version control, but exists
- ! = the item is missing (under the version control, but does not exist - probably deleted without using
svn delete) or incomplete
Developer use
Auto properties
See Subversion/auto-props for how to enable automatic line-ending conversion for files you add. Every developer should use it.
Commits, or check ins, are the action of applying your changes from the working copy to the web repository. Assuming you have commit access with username <user_name> and password <password>, then you may use either of the following commands to do that:
svn commit --username <user_name> --password <password> --message="This is the log comment." svn commit --username <user_name> --password <password> --file=file_with_log_comment
You may also abbreviate commit as ci.
Please note that Subversion requires you to enter a log message for every commit. Also note that in your log message, if you refer to variables using Perl's '$' notation, remember to escape them from the shell.
Converting a CVS checkout to SVN
Assuming you don't want to keep any local changes to files in the repository, it's easy to just overwrite everything with a fresh checkout. This will keep your local files, such as global.conf.
svn co http://wwrk.maa.org/svn/system/trunk/webwork2 temp-checkout
rsync -a temp-checkout/ /path/to/webwork2 directory/
rm -rf temp-checkout
Repeat this for the pg and NationalProblemLibrary directories and you will have converted your WeBWorK CVS installation to a Subversion installation. You may now update your installation using Subversion as described above.
Also, if you want to get rid of the old CVS dirs:
find . -type d -name CVS -print0 | xargs -0r rm -rf
This should be done from the top level directory containing your WeBWorK installation (typically /opt/webwork). Be careful with that one because if that command is executed from any higher directory, it may delete CVS directories from other projects which you did not intend. ;)
See also
- Commit access requests
- Development policy
- Download from SVN
- Making Subversion faster - Includes instructions for checking out with svnsync and SVK
External links
- Subversion Web access
- Version Control with Subversion book (SVN version 1.4)


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale men's swimming and diving team is the nation's top academic squad according to the CSCAA Scholar All-American team rankings. The team posted an outstanding 3.59 GPA - at one of the nation's most challenging academic institutions - just ahead of Villanova (3.58) and Dartmouth (3.41). Six of the eight Ivy League teams made the Scholar All-America rankings, which requires a minimun 3.0 cumulative team GPA. Yale and Dartmouth top the list, followed by Harvard (3.4), Penn (3.19), Princeton (3.01) and Cornell (3.0).
The Bulldogs catapulted to the upper echelon of Ivy League swimming this year, posting a 6-2 regular season record after a tough 2-8 season the previous year. Yale's lone losses came to Harvard and Princeton, the perennial conference powers; the Bulldogs get another shot at the Crimson and Tigers next weekend at the Ivy League Championship meet.
Yale's academic achievement and increased success in the pool is even more exciting when you consider the Bulldogs are an extremely young team: 16 of the 22 swimmers on the roster are underclassmen, including a corps of nine newcomers (eight freshmen, one transfer). Under the guidance of a strong group of upperclassmen led by Captain Christopher Luu '12, those freshmen adjusted quickly to the rigors of Yale both in the pool and in the classroom. That bodes well for the future of Yale swimming, which, if the CSCAA rankings and Ivy League record are any indication, looks poised for plenty of all-around success in the years to come.
See the full CSCAA Scholar All-American Team Rankings Here: http://cscaa.org/downloads/ScholarAA2011FallDivIMen.pdf
Report filed by Chelsea Janes '12, Yale Sports Publicity


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My background as a performer has taken me around the world, from coast to coast in the United States as well as to Europe and Asia. I have performed in many settings ~ as soloist, chamber musician, theater harpist, choral accompanist, and in symphony, ballet, and opera orchestras. Distinguished patrons include Princess Caroline of Monaco, Elizabeth Taylor, Gian Carlo Menotti, Mimi Allen, and the Governors of Illinois, South Carolina, Indiana and Ohio. I have had the great privilege of playing back-up to such extraordinary talents as Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Hamlisch, Manhattan Transfer, Peter Nero, Moody Blues, Al Jarreau, and The King's Singers. I currently reside in Cincinnati, performing and teaching in the area, including southern Indiana and northern Kentucky regions.
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JGR wrote: I would say the clip and wire you are using may benefit from a slight extension of about 15-20m, height above ground is the key factor to better reception.
Not on a portable radio. They overload very quickly.
If you look at sites such as the BDXC, a SWL club & maybe even THE only remaining British SWL club. Then you will see many successful SWL's only use a small portable & a short wire.


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As the commissioner of health for Erie County, Dr. Gale Burstein oversees 250 employees and heads a department that offers a slew of services. She met her husband at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine, and they have two sons. Burstein, 48, is a pediatrician by specialty and her field of expertise is adolescent sexual health. A good word to describe her?
>People Talk: Are you healthy?
Gale Burstein: Yes, I feel well, and I try to do what I can to maximize my health. I eat well. I don't smoke. I love to swim. I'm mentally healthy, too. I feel safe. I'm with people I love. I'm happy. My mood is good. I admit I have a lot of energy.
>PT: How did you discover medicine as a career?
GB: I always wanted to care for children, and when I was very young I wanted to be a nurse, because I didn't know women could be physicians. I was fortunate to get into medical school right after I graduated Union College in Schenectady.
>PT: What's the first thing you did after your appointment?
GB: I had the luxury of spending a week with Dr. [Anthony] Billittier to pick his brain and get some insight on his perception on the big health issues.
>PT: During your first 100 days, what was your goal?
GB: To go home. It was very overwhelming. It's a great job, the best I've had. The learning curve was very steep.
>PT: What have you learned recently?
GB: Eight percent of people who have West Nile Virus don't even know they're infected. Recently we've had the West Nile Virus in our community. We've had a particularly bad year, which is surprising because we've had a relatively dry summer. Mosquitoes like to reproduce in standing water, which is not being flushed out by rain – so they are prospering.
>PT: Do you expect a bad flu season?
GB: Yes. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we copy what occurred in the Southern Hemisphere. They had a bad flu season with two new strains, both in this year's vaccine. We do a lot of surveillance in Australia.
>PT: When it comes to addiction, what is the current battleground?
GB: Abuse of prescription narcotics by young people is a huge problem. Our community doesn't really want to embrace it. We [at the Health Department] believe it's happening in all the schools. There's good data to show it's starting in middle school. It's a matter of education for not only the kids, but the parents who should not leave their prescription narcotic products out there. We have great services for addiction health; the problem is getting the kids there.
>PT: What is the simplest act a parent can do to ensure healthy children?
GB: Population-based studies have shown that kids are less likely to engage in risky behaviors if they feel connected to their parents. So talk to your kids about anything. Keep the doors open to conversation. Let them know they can tell you anything and you won't kill them or kick them out of the house. You can start talking to them about sex at a very young age by teaching what the correct language is for genital anatomy.
>PT: What could you do better?
GB: Sleep more. I'm chronically sleep-deprived. There's just so much to do. I'm on the board of directors for the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Since 1998, I've run the professional development group and each year we talk about different aspects on being a parenting professional. Last year we talked about taking care of ourselves. It took 10 years for that topic to come up.
>PT: In your job as county health commissioner, how do you make up for the lack of patient contact?
GB: I'm still practicing medicine, just not at the same level. I work ?at a primary care clinic at Women ?& Children's Hospital two ?evenings a month. It helps me stay connected, and it's fun. I love seeing the kids.
>PT: Were you healthy as a child?
GB: I had allergies and asthma. Actually, I had a couple of anaphylactic reactions to bee stings. I've been desensitized.
>PT: Were you ever bullied?
GB: Yes, if I wasn't in the popular crowd. Kids picked on me and made fun of my name. Burstein became burp stink. Yeah, I was bullied, and I wouldn't want to see that happen to my kids.
>PT: How do you pamper yourself?
GB: I am so lucky. My husband is a great cook. He makes dinner almost every night. Either he makes dinner or we order out. In college, he was a cook at Commander's Palace in New Orleans. He went to Tulane and transferred to UB. He's also a gastroenterologist.
>PT: What do you see yourself doing 10 years from now?
GB: You know, I just gave up trying to predict where I'm going to be.
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Note: This is unfinished, but I'm falling asleep so will finish it in the morning
Sometimes it is nice to know that you are wearing the most suitable fragrance for serious occasions such as peeling potatoes; boarding a plane at terminal 1-B at Malpensa Airport or maybe something like your wedding.
Well, don't fear as over the years Basenotes Readers have recommended all sorts of fragrances for almost every* situation possible:
Please note: Basenoters are generally more than happy to suggest fragrances for you. If you are making a recommend me a fragrance thread it is useful to list some fragrances you like (or don't like) as well as a bit of background about yourself. If you are new to fragrances, then check out the Just Starting Out board.
Male Recs
Air travel
AP calculus test
Birthday [2] [3]
College party
Company Party
First date [2]
Formal occasion [2]
Funeral (your own) / someone elses funeral
Graduation [2] [3]
High School
High School dance [2]
Job interview
Meeting Clinton
Party [2]
Summer (and Summer nights)
To the "best male exotic dancer" contest
To see the Foo Fighters
Tropical Country
Wedding Day (yours) [2] / (best friend's) (Jewish)
When meeting congress
When wearing a leather Jacket
Working at Ace Hardware
Female Recs
Lots of recs: dinner? / movies? / a concert / a café / a holiday in the sun? a trip to London, Paris or any other major city of your choice?
Around people who hate perfume
ER Party
To go to a steakhouse
To see Bruce Springsteen
To see the movie "Perfume"?
When wearing purple and red
Oh, and what if you awoke one day, and all of a sudden you were Sweeney Todd or something**, what fragrance would you wear then? Here's a big old list, in no particular order:
What Fragrance Would Paul Lynde Wear?
What would Heath Ledger's Joker Wear?
What scents would the Sex and the City girls wear?
What Would Comic Book Characters/Superheros/Villain Wear?
What would the Phantom of the Opera wear?
What would tech CEOs wear (Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, etc.)?
What would Pete Doherty wear?
What fragrance would Count Dracula wear?
What frag would Eliot Spitzer wear?
What would Chuck Norris wear?
What kind of cologne does or would Taye Diggs wear?
What would Sweeney Todd wear?
"Scent of a woman" - Which fragrance would Al Pacino wear?
What would Michel Foucault wear?
Is it possible to ascertain what Heisenberg would wear?
What did the Addams Family wear ?
What Did The Beverly Hillbillies wear?
What fragrance would a Bond villian wear?
Just for fun... and for metal fans... What would LUCA TURILLI (Rhapsody) wear?
What cologne does josh harnett wear?
What would Ari Gold wear?
What would TCBL wear?
What fragrance would Robert Smith (The Cure) wear?
What would Harry Truman wear?
What would Frank Zappa wear?
What kind of cologne would/does John Mayer wear?
What kind of cologne does Jack Nicholson wear?
What would Werther (from Goethe's work) wear?
What would Serge Gainsbourg wear today? / What fragrance would Serge Gainsbourg wear?
What would Archimedes wear in modern times?
Fictional heroines - what scent would they wear?
If Andy Warhol were alive today, what fragrance would you expect him to wear?
What would Amy Winehouse wear?
What would Jay and Silent Bob wear?
What would John Huston wear?
what would Keith Richards wear?
What would birthday boy Karlheinz Stockhausen wear?
What would Hannibal Lecter wear?
What would Lex Luthor wear?
What Would Leonidas wear?
What does Bryan Ferry wear?
What does David Letterman wear?
What scent does Colin Farrell wear?
What fragrance would Haruki Murakami wear?
What would Winston Smith wear? (1984)
What fragrance would Vicky Pollard wear?
what perfume would a royal wear?
What would Steve Jobs wear?
What would Christian Bale wear?
What kind of cologne does Leonardo Dicaprio wear
What would Brian Boitano wear?
What perfume would Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights) wear?
What would Robert Plant wear? (1970)
What would Steve McQueen wear?
"Scent of a villian"- what would the Joker wear? =)
What would Batman wear?
What would Philip Marlow wear?
Fragrances that Killers from movies might wear....
What would James Joyce wear? Opoponax.
What would Björk wear in a concert?
What would Spike from Cowboy Bebop wear?
* well not every, more like 23%
** Unlikely. Unless you're Sam Beckett after stepping into the Quantum Leap Accelerator***. But don't worry - Ziggy says there is a 89% chance you'll be wearing Kouros by the end of the episode. And who knows -- maybe that next leap, will be the leap home?
*** Still unlikely, being fictional
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Winner thread.
Sale/sample thread. http://community.basenotes.net/showthread.php?t=218207
What would one wear when going to meet Grant?
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Grant, I love your gratuitous Quantum Leap references . And you really should sticky this awesome thread!
"Wait...is David Bowie really God?" - Penelope Garcia
Laughing so hard, I'm shrieking on the inhale...
The proper fragrance for this thread is either Nitrous Oxide or Cannabis Whatever.
Say Grant, was I reading it too fast or did you forget "What would The Count of Monte Cristo wear? "
Personaly I believe it would be an Oriental as he did travel to the Middle East after he escaped and found the hidden treasure. On the other hand, Pino Sylvestre would flame his vengeance, as it would remind him of the years he spent in a dungeon. Then again, on the other hand, Eau de Cologne Impériale by Guerlian would fit his alleged Napoleonic sympathies but on the other hand since he wasn't a die hard Napoleonist and was merely delivering a letter it would bring back painful memories, on the other hand it's quintessentially French and made in 1853, a true classic. On the other hand Napoleon kicked the bucket in 1821, but does this really matter? Then again, having been a sea captain, I think Acqua Bulgari would do fine, on the other hand . . .
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A step in the right direction Grant .... but it won't prevent some newb on asking
"What Barak Obama wears ? ... reason I mention it is
It has been asked before but i can't see it on your list .
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If you read the red note on the top of the post, you will see it is not finished. It got to 4.30am and thought I should be allowed some sleep. I will continue at my next available opportunity !
Where is my "What would Vicky Pollard wear?".
Current Top 5
1. Creed Aventus
2. A*Men Pure Malt
3. L'instant Extreme
4. Nasomatto Duro
5. CDG - Kyoto
I've been thinking about one thing for a long time, now I feel it's high time to ask:
What would you wear in a spacesuit? Though there's no danger of people around you smelling you and making offensive remarks, however you are closed in a very narrow space with your scent for a long time.
One of the biggest question in the age of long-haul space missions waiting for us.
First, thank you for the much needed laugh and levity, Grant.
Second, having this as a sticky may not be a bad idea.
Third, sometimes au naturel is the best scent for the occasion (preceded by a thorough scrubbing in the shower/tub).
The only thing I want to know:
What scent should I wear to go shopping on public transit for Creed while wearing a lycra spandex bodysuit when the temperature is 105°F after having a dinner of lima beans, broccoli, and garlic-crusted cod the night before?
Catherine Deneuve: "You should put scent where you like to be kissed."
Just reading Grant's list I'm in a kind of floaty, nirvana-like state of Basenotes near-enlightenment. Wheeeeee!
But wait. What should I wear now?
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Here's also a suggestion:
I wish Basenotes had a Category (male & female) List of fragrances characterized as predominantly florals, fruits, fougeres, aquas or blues, grasses or greens, chypre or woods. orientals or spices, tobaccos, etc...or however best (professionally) they could/should be categorized...I know there is a certain amount of cross-over of elements...if Basenotes does have such a category page I have not as yet been able to find it...
Here might be a starting point from - http://www.janmoran.com/perfume_101.html#Overwhelmed
Popular fragrance categories:
Floral single flowers or classic floral blends, fresh, fruity, or powdery
Citrus Fruity lemon, orange, bergamot, apple, berries
Aquatic rain-fresh or ocean aromas
Nature Greens fresh-mown grass and spring leaves
Oriental vanilla-ambery or spicy-woody, floral Oriental blends
Chypre citrus, patchouli, moss
Fougère (meaning fern) well-balanced citrus, lavender, woods (popular masculine fragrances)
Woody pine, cedar, sandalwood, patchouli
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We're a third party representing community interests in a nationally priority listed superfund cleanup of a river complete with dam removals. I was wearing Patchouli Patch and I bet others were wondering where the hell were my birkenstocks!
Next time I'll go with something classic and standard like Guerlain Vetiver or maybe something from Bond.
Currently looking for Ava Luxe Midnight Violet
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Can we get a subforum for "what to wear" recommendations? Fragrantica has a board like that and imo it's a great idea. There are a LOT of threads regarding what to wear for <whatever>, and having them all segregated off in their own forum would really give a chance for the more serious threads on the male fragrance board to blossom.
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haha awesome
Now all you need is a random generator so one could get a response such as:
" For a first date . . .While meeting congress . . .Lex Luthor would wear . . ."
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My Antaeus can beat up your Armani.
Damn! I missed this Thread when Grant first posted and up to this AM.
No more guesswork! No more embarrassment over wearing the 'wrong' frag for the occasion! No more blindfolded frag picking! Gracias socialwoman, for the tweak.
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Saturday, October 6, 2007
Why Is Werewolf So Popular?
There's basically three explanations: it's a silly ice-breaker, it's a fad, or it means something. The first two explanations are the most likely, but the third is more interesting to think about. What could this game mean?
It could be that, since the game is entirely about human factors like eye contact, facial expressions, and body language, Werewolf provides an important counterpoint to the largely faceless nature of distributed programming. There are projects where you never work together in the same physical room, or even the same physical timezone. I've had projects where I never met my colleagues until the project was underway, projects where I didn't meet them until the project was over, and projects where I never met them in person at all. I think this isn't unusual, and lots of other programmers have had the same experience.
But we still remain human. We still have entire sections of our brains which can only process facial expressions, and which can at any time override the focus and attention of other parts of our brains. So the idea would be that Werewolf basically brings us back down to earth. However, although I think that's a good thing about the game, I don't think that really explains its appeal. The appeal of Werewolf is that it's addictive and you think you're getting better every time you play. In its aspect as self-reinforcing behavior, Werewolf is basically poker, plus rationalization, minus cards and betting.
Anyway, like many, I'm hooked. I haven't been able to find any really good resources on Werewolf strategy yet, but I did find a great short presentation with a few slides on strategy:
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Not to sound corny but, after discovering the game, for me, it's a great way to meet and get to know new people.ReplyDelete
I don't know just how much you travel, Giles, but I know you a whole hell of a lot better after eviscerating you a few times in Werewolf. ;)
No, seriously.
As software developers, we spend a lot of time in front of computers. Some of us, or at least myself, don't socialize as much as we'd like. For me, in part, that is because of career. Whereas other developers who play Werewolf may rarely socialize at all.
Chad Fowler remarked at some point, during my first time playing Werewolf, that he feels a sense fo connectedness to people with whom he has played. I don't believe that phenomenon is limited to Chad.
For instance, I dragged a colleague of mine along to Ruby East. We've worked together on two separate projects now for a total span of perhaps going on a year now. Yet, after Werewolf, I feel as though I know my colleague far better than I had before.
With playing a game such as Werewolf, where the only "pieces" are the other players and the only "scoring" mechanism is who is alive, who is dead, what people say, how they say it, and how they move, every player who is trying to playing worth a damn is forced to intensely focus on every other.
Color me an idealist but, for me, it's not "social proof and authority" but just a great way to connect with new people, who have some interests in common, in a world where connection is all too rare.
And it's damn fun eviscerating and lynching friends (old and new) repeatedly. ;)
Evan - if you're at RubyConf, you're going to see something pretty cool. I'm printing up a custom set of Werewolf cards.ReplyDelete
Anyway, I think your comment lends a lot of credence to the "brings techies down to earth" argument.
I'll be at RubyConf and agreed WRT bringing techies down to Earth (or back to humanity, if you will).ReplyDelete
Doh. Should have proofread my first comment. That's what I get for replying late at night. Evan reads like Borat.ReplyDelete


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Jon Sutz's letter in your March 10 edition ["Don't blame 'No Child"], in which he laments the "anti-American, anti-freedom" notion that all Americans deserve protection from starvation, exposure, or suffering from easily treated medical ailments reminds me of Patrick Henry's words on the floor of our own Virginia General Assembly (then the House of Burgesses) in 1765: "If this be treason, make the most of it."
Sutz asserts that only a Communist would believe that all people living in the nearly limitless bounty of 21st-century America should have reasonable rights to basic health care, food and housing, which I think calls into serious question Sutz's own understanding of government, not to mention his ethical standing– and his grip on reality.
Like so many conservatives who gloat about how much they love America and then doggedly pursue policies that hurt actual Americans, Sutz should reconsider whether citizens' "rights" should really be restricted to the 10 things James Madison and his fellow wealthy, landowning elites in the 18th century cared to put down on paper.
America in the 21st century is the wealthiest, most prosperous nation on earth– but what does that prosperity mean if we still allow the least fortunate in our society to live (and die) in squalor?
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Sylvia Montero says her journey from a plantation shack in Puerto Rico to the position of highest ranking Latina at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer couldn't have happened without two forces: Her parents and her time at Barnard. So when she had the opportunity to create a scholarship at her alma mater, she jumped at it: "I want to help another 'Sylvia,'" she says. "Barnard changed my life."
Montero, now 63, was born in Puerto Rico. Her parents, Eligia and Cruz, had elementary-level educations. Montero remembers a rural shack, big backyard garden, and lots of love in the home. But her parents wanted their children to have more opportunities than they did, so they moved to Nueva York, where relatives said there was more work available. Her father got a job in a factory and her mother stayed home to care for the children.
Neither parent spoke English, so they were unable to help the children with their homework, but both stressed the importance of education. Montero excelled at school and knew she wanted to attend college, but she never dreamed of Barnard. "The circumference of my life was defined by the surrounding blocks and the subway line to the Bronx that took us to see relatives," she says. She applied to Barnard at the insistence of a high school guidance counselor. To her surprise, she received a full scholarship.
The trip meant taking three subway lines from her family's apartment on the Lower East Side; it felt like a world away. "In school, my mind could get out of my neighborhood," she says. She fondly recalls discussing politics and news between classes. "We talked about the dictatorships in Latin America, the Vietnam war," she says. "They were discussions that were beyond my day-to-day experience." Inside the classroom, she felt encouraged to speak up. As a result, she blossomed. "My sense of being a woman, my sense of self-esteem as a minority, grew immensely," she says.
But Montero's college experience was different than that of most of her peers in a few key ways: Instead of living on campus, she stayed on the Lower East Side. After her first year, she got married. The following year, she had a baby. She took spring term and the summer off to care for her son, then returned to Barnard. She remembers feeling anxious on her first trip back to campus, wondering if her grades would suffer because she'd been away. But an academic adviser put Montero's mind at ease and ensured that she could pick up her studies right where she left off. Montero resolved to graduate from Barnard on time, taking extra classes and attending summer school to achieve her goal. A Spanish literature major, she found professors Margarita Ucelay and Mirella d'Ambrosio Servodidio '55 to be inspiring role models during those challenging undergraduate years.
Her parents also continued to support her education. "My mom was amazing," she says. "In the morning, I'd pack up my son, my school bag, and dirty clothes. I'd take those three bundles on the bus, and leave my son and the dirty clothes with my mom," she says. When she returned from a long day on campus, her son was well cared for and her clothes were clean and pressed. "There's no doubt in my siblings' or my mind that my parents lived for their children, and they sacrificed a lot of potential pleasure for us," affirms Montero.
Montero continued her education at Queens College, where she taught undergraduate courses. A year later, she got her first full-time job as a teacher. But just as things were looking up, her marriage fell apart and her parents moved back to Puerto Rico. Then she received a pink slip. Without a job or spouse—and with her son devastated over losing his grandparents—she made a quick decision: She and her son would move to Puerto Rico, too.
There, she quickly found a job teaching Spanish literature and language to non-native speakers. One of her students worked at a small pharmaceutical company, and helped Montero get work translating personnel manuals from English to Spanish. She didn't know it at the time, but that side job started her down a path to a career in human resources. Landing at Pfizer in 1978, she transferred to the firm's New York office in 1982, and eventually rose through the ranks to become senior vice president of human resources.
When Montero retired from Pfizer in 2007, friends and colleagues encouraged her to write down her life story. The result is a book about the lessons she learned throughout her career and life: Make it Your Business: Dare to Climb the Ladder to Leadership was published last year by Front Row Press. Montero now spends her time volunteering, speaking about the book to various audiences, and playing with her grandchildren every weekend.
In Montero's experience, a Barnard degree "continues to open doors." She adds, "In a corporate environment, having Barnard on a résumé says that you were able to compete successfully in a very challenging environment, and those are qualities that senior executives are looking for."
When approached about the scholarship, she didn't hesitate. And she knew exactly what she'd name it: The Eligia and Cruz Montero Scholarship is Montero's homage to her hard-working parents, who pushed her to succeed and supported her along the way. "You should have seen their eyes gleam when I told them," she says. "They were so proud. My father was alive then and it was just wonderful to see his reaction."
Montero says creating the scholarship was a win-win: She gets to honor her parents, who gave her and her siblings a love for education, and she helps another young woman blossom into a "Barnard girl"—a term she uses intentionally. Says Montero, "The only time I refer to myself as a girl anymore is to say I'm a Barnard girl."


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A naked man who fled the custody of mental health workers at Ukiah Valley Medical Center Monday was Tased by officers attempting to subdue him, the Ukiah Police Department reported.
According to the UPD, an officer responded to Perkins Street and Hospital Drive around 6:50 p.m. March 18 after UVMC staff reported that a 39-year-old patient, who had been detained by the Mendocino County Sheriff"s Office as a potential threat to others, had pulled out an I.V. and ran away.
The responding officer located the patient, who was described as naked and bleeding profusely from his groin area, on Perkins Street and determined that the man had actually removed a catheter from his body, causing severe injury to himself. The officer commanded the patient to stop, but he reportedly ignored the commands and "continued walking toward the sergeant with a blank stare."
The officer deployed his Taser at the patient, who briefly fell, but began to remove the Taser probes and stand up. When the officer deployed his Taser a second time, the man removed the probe and began running away.
A second officer arrived and also deployed his Taser, and the suspect was taken into custody after a third officer and MCSO deputies arrived and were able to handcuff the man after further struggle.
The patient was returned to UVMC and another case worker from the Mendocino County Health Department was called to respond as the first case worker had left. Charges of resisting a peace officer are being sought by the Mendocino County District Attorney"s Office.
According to the UPD, the patient had been detained after reportedly threatening to kill someone, and was being accompanied by the first mental health worker while being medically cleared by UVMC staff. The patient had been restrained earlier, but apparently the restraints were removed because "patients are required to remain unrestrained for a certain period of time before being transported to a separate facility for treatment."


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Two suspects held in connection with the shooting in the city of Oak Park that killed one person and injured three others on Saturday have been charged with several crimes, according to court records.
Prosecutors charged one of the two suspects, 26-year-old Christopher Carter, with second-degree murder and several counts of gun-related charges. A conviction for second-degree murder can carry a prison term of up to life.
The other suspect, 19-year-old James Hodo, is charged with assault with intent to murder and two counts of felony firearms.
Police arrested both men on the day of the shooting at the Village Green Condos on Rensselaer, near 10 Mile and Coolidge roads in Oak Park.
Oak Park police say the shooting is not gang-related, and there have been few details on the investigation released.
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Last night's loss to the Heat hurt for a Pacers team that hit two late shots to tie in regulation and take what looked like a winner at the charity stripe in overtime, but it was especially painful for David West—mostly because of Norris Cole's blast to the 'nads.
Cole earned a player control foul for the act, one that set up the Pacers to eventually tie the game on Paul George's desperation heave. Amazingly, it wasn't even the only low blow in last night's contest.
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Science can save lives, but only if society lets it
Society faces lots of problems that science can't yet fix, from the troubling rise in asthma to the lack of a cheap energy source that doesn't harm the environment. But there are also plenty of cases in which scientists know enough to avert tragedy. Whether society acts on that knowledge is a separate issue.
The resurgence of whooping cough offers one example. A new type of pertussis vaccine was introduced in the 1990s that avoided many of the worrisome, but ultimately harmless, side effects of its predecessor. As biomedical writer Nathan Seppa reports, it is now clear that the new vaccine is much weaker than the old one. And a disease that was all but eradicated in the United States 40 years ago is causing outbreaks with tens of thousands of cases, a handful of them lethal. But the obvious solution — return to the old vaccine — is considered a nonstarter in this age of


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Andy Diggle and Jock, the superstar creative team behind Green Arrow Year One and The Losers (which is a thousand times better than the film, by the way), lend their talents to a new creator owned series from Image Comics this Wednesday. Blending political thrillers, Clerks, and gritty noir storytelling, Snapshot is a four issue miniseries bound to thrill you more than once. When an lifelong nerd employee of a comic store (this is sounding familiar…) finds a cellphone full of grisly images of someone's murder, he has no other option than to run as fast and as far as he can. But it's never that easy is it? If you've been enjoying the sketchy, moody artwork of Jock in the Batman back-up stories or in Scott Snyder's previous Detective Comics run, The Black Mirror, then Snapshot is your cup of tea.
Sorcery receives a modern update in Top Cow's Son of Merlin miniseries.
Building off of the classic Arthurian figures of myth, Son of Merlin picks up when a respected professor of science finds out he's actually the descendant of the famous wizard, Merlin. And, I don't know if you've heard, but science and magic don't exactly see eye-to-eye. However, before the good doctor can think through his new predicament, he's being hounded by the immortal Morgan le Fay. But there's a whole secret underground society of ancient magic users that might just be willing to come to his aid. Drawn in the gorgeous, expressive tradition of the famous Top Cow books to come before it like Fathom, Charismagic, and Witchblade, Son of Merlin will cast its spell over you.
I say, my dear Watson, the zombie is a foot!
Though not strictly a Sherlock Holmes versus zombies story, The New Deadwardians is about the closest to it you'll ever get. Written by cult favorite author and comic legend Dan Abnett, this post-Victorian England horror/mystery yarn takes places in an alternate reality where, after a zombie infection spread throughout the population, the majority of the remaining English citizens had to submit to becoming vampires in order to fight them off. Now, it's the vampires who've becoming the upper-class aristocracy while the zombie population are cordoned off on the outskirts of town. Chief Inspector Suttle, a forever young himself, is tasked with solving a grisly crime, the first in nearly a decade, during a growing zombie uprising. It's all elementary from there.
Love is in air for the DC Universe this Wednesday.
To celebrate Valentine's Day a week early, DC releases its most romantic anthology yet, the Young Romance DC New 52 Special. Containing six unique stories of famous DC couples like Aquaman and Mera, Midnighter and Apollo, and Catwoman and Batman spending their special day together in the only way superpowered crime fighters can, as well as stories of Wonder Woman, Dick Grayson, and others coming to terms with the relationships they've entered into. Each of the stories is written and drawn by a talented creator, like Andy Diggle, Gene Ha, Ann Nocenti, Kyle Higgins, Becky Cloonan, and Peter Milligan. And for those old school romantics, the issue comes with usable Valentine's Day cards. Oh, amore!


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I just wanted to post a very quick update to let you have a look at what I've been up to over the past couple of weeks rather than write about it.
Two attempts at inserting a PICC line failed; my veins are too small, but I still managed to start Gem/Carbo chemo on Tuesday. The nurse found a vein at the second attempt so not bad at all. I'm mostly feeling tired so if it continues like this I can't complain – it's the nausea I hate, but so far the drugs have kept that in check.
I've posted a link so you can see all the pictures of the charity head shave and a link to a video that Miffy's boyfriend put together for us.
There are also a couple of pictures of Tom and I in Spain. We had a fantastic time, and I hope all of these links and photos go some way to explaining why I won't be giving up easily in the fight for my life. They are a reminder to me that although there have been some very dark times of late, light can still shine through. It is possible to recover from the blows, to get out of that hospital bed, to gain strength and to laugh again. That's what I'll be trying to remember if the effects of the chemo take a turn for the worst. Enjoy….


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Don't do it, Carol!
Yahoo's plans for a huge new office complex in Santa Clara -- revealed in images and video on SAI this morning -- look really neat. Underground parking? A tiny carbon footprint? Cool!
But let's make one thing crystal clear. There is no way CEO Carol Bartz can put these plans into action and expect to keep her job for long.
The very last thing Yahoo (YHOO) needs right now is more office space.
Yahoo laid off 2,000 people in the spring. In July, it agreed to off-load search R&D to Microsoft.
Google (GOOG), which has 7,000 more employees and $15 billion more of revenue, makes do with a complex smaller than the one Yahoo is planning for Santa Clara.
Yahoo should have cubicles to spare, but if we're missing something, and Yahoo really needs office space, it can find plenty already constructed.
Silicon Valley is flooded with empty offices right now. At 20.5%, Valley vacancy rates are the highest they've been since 2003. In Sunnyvale, where Yahoo's current headquarters is located, office space vacancy is above 53%.
We know Yahoo is aware of this trend, because it's actually trying to sublease its Mission College Campus offices right now and can't find any takers.
Finally, let's all remember that building a new corporate headquaters is almost always a terrible idea. Just ask Bear Stearns, the New York Times, or Excite@Home -- companies which suffered immensely after moving into new HQs.
To Yahoo's credit, a spokesperson tells us new construction plans are not set in stone. "We continue to evaluate our real estate portfolio on a worldwide basis to ensure it best supports our business."
Get the latest Yahoo stock price here.


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Teaching Doctors to be Teachers Focus of Special UH Master's ProgramHealth professionals from Texas Medical Center applaud course on its fifth anniversary
For several hours a week, though, they also are students learning how to become teachers through a specialized master of education program offered through the University of Houston College of Education. "Doctors can go through years of school and have little formal training in how to teach students," said Bernard Robin, UH professor and program coordinator. "The curriculum is specifically tailored for healthcare professionals who want to become better teachers, since they are often asked to pass on what they know to the next generation of healthcare workers."
The program—officially titled Master of Education in Teaching with an Emphasis in the Health Sciences—began six years ago when Nancy Searle, a UH doctoral graduate hired by Baylor College of Medicine, collaborated with the college's Wilford Weber to begin offering graduate courses in the Texas Medical Center. She said doctors spent so much of their life learning their specialty, but would benefit from instruction on how to teach it to others. Classes are held at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jesse Jones Library, and occasionally on the UH main campus. To date, about 50 physicians, researchers and others working in healthcare-related jobs have enrolled in courses and about half have received a master's degree.
"They really like the technology courses I teach because they can use the skills right away," Robin said. "They're eager to learn how to improve their lectures with PowerPoint, how to create better instructional graphics and how to add video or audio to a Web site. There's an immediate benefit on the technical side." The 12-course program includes classes on curriculum development, models of teaching and instructional design. The health professionals who participate also learn about educational and psychological measurement and how to design, administer and evaluate research studies.
"My ability not only to teach, but also quote the literature, has made me a better educator. I have done things I never thought I could accomplish, such as be a co-investigator on a National Institutes of Health grant, and I now feel comfortable doing the majority of my own statistics," said Dr. Teri Turner, associate director of House Staff Education for the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. "I also can say that the training I received aided my promotion to associate professor of pediatrics and to being selected to the American Academy of Pediatrics' editorial board. This program provided me with the springboard to succeed."
Robin hopes to expand the program to include more students from other Texas Medical Center institutions, as well as offer more courses that match students' needs. He'd like to add advisory groups and mentor programs for graduates, and is hopeful the curriculum will appeal to even more students who want their skills as teachers to match their skills as healthcare professionals.
"These students are just terrific. They're accomplished, extremely bright and motivated to succeed—the kind of students every professor hopes to have," Robin said.
Graduation for the College of Education, which includes a number of students who are completing the Masters Program, is set for 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 15 at Hofheinz Pavilion.
For more information on the UH College of Education, visit www.coe.uh.edu/.


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Why GP surgeries need crowd control
Getting a same-day appointment with a GP can be a challenge.
In this week's Scrubbing Up, Steve Martin and Dr Rupert Dunbar-Rees of the BDO Alliance, which advises on ways of changing behaviour, looks at how things could be improved.
It's 7.45am and at first glance you could be forgiven for thinking that the steadily growing crowd are waiting in line to get their hands on the latest iPad or smartphone.
But this queue isn't outside a high street store or a shopping centre. It's outside a GP surgery and the goal is simple.
It is to be one of the lucky few who secure a same day appointment with their GP when the doors open at 8.30am.
Others will be calling for an appointment, knowing they'll more likely hear the engaged tone than a cheery receptionist each time they press the redial button.
Demand 'outstrips capacity'
When they eventually get through some will get an appointment.
Others however will be less fortunate, stress levels rising when told, by the equally stressed receptionist, "Sorry but all the appointments are gone for today. I might be able to get the locum to see you tomorrow."
The situation we are describing here is an extreme one and perhaps not the norm in every GP practice.
However for a growing number, the ability to offer patients a same or next day appointment with their GP is becoming increasingly difficult for one simple reason. Primary care is full up.
When demand starts to outstrip capacity something needs to be done.
Some practices place embargoes on appointments allowing only urgent cases to be seen on the same day.
Others will provide telephone consultations first in order to filter those patients who need to be seen from those who don't.
Patients requiring routine appointments or test results are asked to wait a few days or call back at less busy times.
Some practices adopt all of these approaches and more besides, resulting in an appointments system that even the doctors find hard to fathom.
No single answer
On the face of it the answer seems obvious. Employ more GPs and open longer hours to increase capacity - but this would be a mistake.
Sure, it would have a short-term effect, but demand would quickly fill the increased capacity. Within a few months the system would be back where it started.
Introducing embargoes and increasingly complex barriers for patients to jump through is also a mistake.
Human psychology tells us that if something is less available we want it more, often leading people to invest additional effort, ingenuity, even deception, in order to get what they want.
The morning queues and engaged telephone lines are evidence of this, as are patients who will book appointments weeks in advance 'just in case'.
Some may even claim an emergency in order to secure an appointment, when the reality may be somewhat different.
This leads not only to frustration amongst doctors and patients, but also calls into question how much extra and unnecessary demand appointments systems themselves generate, over and above genuine 'need'.
There is no single answer to this complex problem yet everyone has a role to play.
Persuading patients to take a greater responsibility for their health, to use the system appropriately, to attend booked appointments and to realise that a trip to the chemist will often suffice, can all help to free up valuable GP time for those who really do have a genuine need.
Longer term we need to support GPs in managing patient expectations and anxieties.
Reducing dependency, encouraging self-care and having adequate ways of dealing with those that abuse the system will be vital. These things will take time but there are some basic things that need to be done now.
GP practices need to better understand when demand for services is highest and shape capacity around those demands.
They also need to assess whether the appointment system they employ is too complex, inadvertently making the problem worse.
Finally they need to question whether some of the embargoes that have been put in place to fix the problem are actually creating a perception of appointment scarcity.
Unless we address some of these much more straightforward changes which can be put in place right now, efforts to improve appointment availability by dealing with the more complex issues will always struggle to get off the ground.


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Sony could be set to launch another game changer of a camera in the shape of the Sony RX1 – which looks to be a compact camera with a full-frame image sensor.
While the company as a whole may not have been as profitable as it would have liked in recent years, you can't fault Sony's photographic division for effort or ambition. The NEX range has proved a huge success by squeezing a large APS-C image sensor into a series of relatively compact mirrorless cameras.
Meanwhile the fabulous Sony RX100 brought a decent-sized 1-inch CMOS sensor to an even more compact design, complete with a high quality fixed zoom lens.
You'd think Sony might stop there and consolidate its position with a bunch of iterations on these devices (indeed, the NEX series appears to be growing all the time), but this latest leak from the company has surprised everyone once again.
The Sony RX1 takes the whole compact camera concept to the next level, bringing a professional-standard full-frame sensor to a relatively small package. According to pictures shown on Photoprice.ca (via Engadget) the RX1 appears to pack a 35mm f/2.0 fixed lens. It also features a host of manual controls for things like aperture and exposure settings. There's also a nifty RX100-style pop-up flash as well as a regular hot shoe for additional accessories.
Of course, as with all full-frame cameras you can expect to pay a pretty penny for the Sony RX1 when it launches. This is not one for those casual holiday snaps or for traipsing through the mud at Glastonbury with – unless you're being paid for it.
It's being reported that Sony will launch the Sony RX1 – alongside a new addition to the NEX series, the NEX-6, among others – at a special event on September 12.


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Bill Kauffman writes prose—history, novels, journalism—but he is a poet and a prophet. His task in Ain't My America is to remind us of who we are: a Republic, not an empire, a nation of families and towns, not barracks and bases. Kauffman writes to restore conservatives to their senses. No more war, please. Remember your ancestors. Remember Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, Russell Kirk and Robert Nisbet. What has passed for the Right since the Cold War isn't right in any sense, and Kauffman sets out to prove it.
Antiwar, "Little America" conservatism was present at the creation of the Republic. Revolutionaries like Patrick Henry, having thrown off the yoke of British empire, were not about to set up a centralized fiscal-military state in the former colonies. "I abominate and detest the idea of government, where there is a standing army," George Mason told Virginia's ratifying convention.
Unfortunately, Anti-Federalists like Mason and Henry set the practical as well as philosophical precedent for future conservatives—they failed. A stronger central government with heightened war-making powers, sufficient to put down Whiskey rebels—tax rebels, actually—and Daniel Shays, took root. Even so, the victorious Federalists were no imperialists. On the contrary, they opposed Thomas Jefferson's designs to build an inland "Empire of Liberty" with the Louisiana Purchase. "As you extend your limits you increase the difficulties arising from a want of that similarity of customs, habits, and manners so essential for its support," warned Connecticut Federalist Roger Griswold. Neighbors might be friends; strangers had to be unified by laws.
Neither Federalists nor Jeffersonian Republicans were consistently antiwar. The former raised a navy, and taxes, under John Adams to fight a Quasi-War with France. Republicans invaded Canada and kicked off the War of 1812. The most implacable opponent of that conflict—a foe of almost all militarism and expansion, in fact—was John Randolph of Roanoke, a Republican himself, as well as "a habitual opium user, a bachelor who seems to have nurtured a crush on Andrew Jackson," Kauffman tells us, and an exemplary American conservative. The history of Randolph and his fellow dissident Republicans, the Tertium Quids, is samizdat in George Bush's America. "Today, most of those old battles are forgotten," neocon Robert Kagan assures us, "No one recalls that John Randolph of Roanoke and John Taylor of Caroline—more Jeffersonian than Jefferson himself—railed against the War of 1812." Not so, Bob. Bill Kauffman remembers, and he won't let America forget.
Partisans of peace in the Old Republic included poets as well as statesmen. Kauffman not only writes with literary flair of his own, he quotes generously from antiwar poets and songwriters. "Once upon a time in America," he says, "poets engaged in public discourse and sought consulates instead of endowed chairs." William Cullen Bryant abominated the War of 1812; Emerson and John Greenleaf Whittier took their stands against the Mexican War.
The Little America tradition remained strong, if at all turns unsuccessful, through the Spanish-American War, the opposition to which, most notably the Anti-Imperialist League, was filled with classical liberals like Yale sociologist William Graham Sumner and was funded by (mostly) small businessmen—a conservative coalition. "They spoke for … a land of creeks, not oceans; shops, not factories; modesty and sly humor, not bluster and brass," Kauffman writes. And this was no mere protest movement: prominent politicians like Democratic ex-president Grover Cleveland and such stalwart Republicans as Senators Justin Morrill of Vermont—a founder of the Grand Old Party, no less—and George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts supported the cause.
Resistance to U.S. entry into World War I arose from many of the same segments of society that had stood against the Spanish-American War. "The opposition to the war came mostly from farmers, old-school classical liberals, pacifists, Main Street Republican isolationists, and socialists," Kauffman relates. But this time, "The balance tilted leftward":
The Left distinguished itself in 1917, while the Right, as it would in future conflicts, threw in with a liberal war president. That it took Socialists to circulate a pamphlet with the libertarian title No Conscription, No Involuntary Servitude, No Slavery is an indictment of the individualistic Right.
The ranks of old-guard Republicans like Morrill and Hoar had thinned by 1917, leaving right-wing antiwar sentiment to be expressed by such unsavory figures as Mississippi arch-segregationist Sen. James Vardaman. He damned Wilson's interventionism and denounced "the un-American principle of compulsory military training." That cost him his Senate seat—an equally segregationist hawk replaced him.
After Woodrow Wilson's misadventure, opposition to further bleeding America for Europe multiplied. The anti-interventionists of the interwar years had a sense of humor: satirical Veterans of Future Wars chapters sprang up on 584 college campuses, along with local variations such as the Future Profiteers and Future Golddiggers. These young doves were also budget hawks; according to Kauffman, they believed "a policy of preemptive fiscal conservatism would stop war before it started."
As World War II approached, the America First Committee assembled. It was the largest antiwar organization in U.S. history—and is perhaps the most maligned. Drawing on the work of historians Wayne Cole and Justus Doenecke, Kauffman sets the record straight: America First was not anti-Semitic or pro-German. A single unvetted speech by Charles Lindbergh asserted that "the three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration." Lindbergh had his defenders, a young Kurt Vonnegut among them, but leaders of America First like John T. Flynn, the anti-New Deal journalist who was head of the New York chapter, were aghast. Kauffman argues that this anomalous speech should not besmirch the organization: Lindbergh "was one man in the last broad peace movement in American history, almost a million strong."
Even during the Cold War, when an interventionist anti-Communism largely defined the Right, antiwar conservatives persevered. Felix Morley, co-founder of Human Events, was one of them. Others included traditionalist conservatives Russell Kirk and Robert Nisbet, who made little attempt to conceal their thoughts about what militarism meant for the nation's social order. "Nothing has proved more destructive of kinship, religion, and local patriotism," wrote Nisbet, "than has war and the accompanying military mind."
In Congress, there was Sen. Robert A. Taft—known as "Mr. Republican," though he narrowly lost the party's presidential nomination in 1952—and Taft's even more anti-interventionist '52 campaign manager, Nebraska Congressman Howard Buffett, father of Warren and an uncompromising foe of war and government growth (or do I repeat myself?). There was also Congressman H.R. Gross (R-Ind.), noted in his New York Times obituary for his "tight-fisted approach to fiscal matters and his strong isolationist views on foreign policy." Gross "railed against the space program, foreign aid, congressional junkets abroad, and every post office and bridge he could find," says Kauffman. And Kentucky Republican Eugene Siler, a devout Baptist, cast the sole "no" vote in the House against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. (Gross voted "present.")
Taft died in 1953, Buffet in 1964. Siler retired in '65, and Gross stepped down a decade later. A new crop of antiwar Republicans succeeded them—Oregon Sen. Mark Hatfield, Illinois Sen. Charles Percy, Kentucky Sens. John Sherman Cooper and Thruston B. Morton. But the real spiritual successors to the Old Right, Kauffman argues, were on the other side of the political spectrum: "The words of Buffett, of Morley, of Taft, could be discerned in the tunes of the New Left." Not coincidentally, the only antiwar candidate to win the nomination of either major party during the Cold War was a man of the Left, South Dakota Sen. George McGovern.
Then again, Kauffman suggests, this "soft-spoken man of the prairies" may have been "the most conservative of the serious presidential aspirants" of the era, "after Bob Taft and Eugene McCarthy." Kauffman is a persuasive McGovern revisionist, and old George's recent Wall Street Journal op-ed "Freedom Means Responsibility" certainly struck a libertarian chord: "under the guise of protecting us from ourselves," he wrote, "the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior." Acid, amnesty, and abortion? Or antiwar, anti-centralist, and authentically American?
The end of the Cold War should have been the end of the imperial Right. But it wasn't. Instead things got worse instead of better under two Bushes and two terms of Clinton. Today, writes Kauffman,
The Republicans in the age of George W. Bush have become a war party, nothing less and certainly nothing more. Dissident GOP voices are rare and unwelcome echoes. Among the Democrats, it is the most culturally conservative national figures (Senators Robert Byrd of West Virginia and James Webb of Virginia) who have the guts and convictions to take on the Bush policy of hyperinterventionism.
Eleven House Republicans voted against Gulf War 2: The Phantom Menace. Only two of them are still in office—though, thankfully, they are the two most conservative: Ron Paul of Texas and Jimmy Duncan of Tennessee. They have since been joined in dissent by North Carolina's Walter Jones, who has owned up to making a mistake in voting for the war. These three almost seem the last of their breed. "Together, the Christian Right and the neoconservatives dedicated the GOP—exiled from Main Street—to war and empire" Kauffman laments. "Iraq II was only the beginning—or so they prayed."
The antiwar Right is used to losing: we have about 200 years' experience in that line. The marvel is that we have survived at all against the most efficient killing machine ever invented—the modern state. Failure has had a steep price, but the cost of not resisting would have been even greater. Kauffman's last chapter shows what war has done to our families, our towns, our culture—even our night skies, as war-perverts dream of planting missiles on the moon. "The social costs, in forms ranging from the nationalization of child care to booming divorce rates are monuments to the hypocrisy of conservatives," Kauffman writes. That some of the most trenchant conservative critics of militarism have been sociologists—William Graham Sumner, Robert Nisbet, Allan Carlson—is no accident. Taxes, divorce, juvenile delinquency, anomie, and rootlessness are just a few of the wages of war. "No agency of the government has done as much to destroy the traditional American family as has the Department of Defense," Kauffman concludes.
Like our once-federated Republic, we've been folded, spindled, and mutilated, but the antiwar Right is not giving up. The cause of Little America—of Batavia, New York and Sedalia, Missouri, and everywhere dear to a native son's heart—is too great to surrender. Ain't My America is a book every conservative, and certainly every TAC reader, should own—and give to friends. For Bill Kauffman reminds us that we have a long and joyous tradition to live up to.


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HOPE, B.C. - A motorcyclist appeared to be too busy pointing a helmet camera at his speedometer as he rocketed down a B.C. highway and didn't notice a bear run across the road right into his path.
"There's no reason to expect the bear to come out and yet the bear came out and the motorcyclist almost killed himself," said RCMP Cpl. Robert McDonald.
Footage of the accident captured on the helmet cam has been posted online by the RCMP in an effort to warn distracted drivers.
"He's going from zero to 140 in less than 20 seconds," McDonald said, describing the images. "You can see that he is focusing on the speedometer when the bear is already into the roadway so he's distracted by filming. When he finally looks up to see the bear at 140 kilometres, there's not a lot of time to (react)."
McDonald said the man, who has not been identified, suffered a concussion and several broken bones. He said it is unclear whether the bear was injured or even hit by the motorcycle.
"There are no signs of impact on the front end of the motorcycle. The mirror was broken from falling over and (there are) scratches on the motorcycle from skidding down the road, but we couldn't see any signs of impact."
McDonald said officers tried to find the bear but were unsuccessful.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball team (15-9) smashed their way a 14-2 victory over the visiting North Greenville University Crusaders (9-16) Tuesday afternoon at John Kurtz Field.
Taylor Hinshaw (Winder, Ga.) started the scoring off in the bottom of the first as he knocked in Ryan Sabalasky (Carol Stream, Ill.).
The Bobcats blew the game open in the bottom of the fourth inning when they sent nine batters to the batter's box, scoring six of them. Steve Hazel (Kentwood, Mich.) capped the inning with a grand slam, his second of the year.
Georgia College pushed five more runs across the plate in the fifth inning, while sending 11 Bobcats to the batter's box. Daniel Bick (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Jeremy Donaldson (Winder, Ga.) each had two RBI in the inning.
The Crusaders got on the board in the top of the sixth, scoring their only runs of the game on three hits.
The Bobcats used eight pitchers on the evening, with Patrick Olvaney (Alpharetta, Ga.) getting the win for his 3 ⅓ innings of relief work for starter Christian Wonders (Stuart, Fla.). Olvaney improved his record to 2-2 on the year. Wonders appeared in his first game as a Bobcat, as the Brevard Community College transfer missed the start of the year with an injury.
Joe Scott (Warner Robbins, Ga.) made his second appearance on the mound for the Bobcats, as the backup catcher recorded the final out in the eighth inning. Scott would stay on in the top of the ninth and finish the game catching, replacing Hazel behind the plate.
Sabalasky finished the day 3-for-3 with two walks. He scored three time and also knocked in a run. Bick continued his impressive year, as the junior shortstop went 3-for-4 at the plate while making multiple highlight plays in the field.
As a team, the Bobcats tallied 12 walks, with Sabalasky, Hazel, Rob Hogenkamp (St. Louis, Mo.) and Clay Ardeeser (Loganville, Ga.) all with multiple base-on-balls.
The Bobcats return to John Kurtz Field Saturday, March 23 at 1 p.m. as they'll take on Augusta State University (10-17, 3-9 PBC).
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.