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Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies
This event finished on 10 May 2022.
trumps listening,
we are no good
at receiving.«
Michel Serres, The Five Senses (1985/2008), S. 139
Be it sound art-pieces, academic articles, blogposts or a PhD-treatment, an artistic research proposal: in this biweekly research colloquium we immerse ourselves in discussing new approaches to sound studies.
Part of the interdisciplinary Research Group Sound & Senses we invite all researchers, artists, students or listeners to take part and to propose topics and materials for our future meetings.
As a collaborative workshop this meeting provides an opportunity for researchers of all levels (experienced scholars as well as PhD-/MA-students or artistic researchers) to discuss their approaches from various interdisciplinary fields with a special sensibility concerning sound.
biweekly on Zoom
Sound Studies Lab
Department of Arts & Cultural Studies
Karin Blixens Vej 1
Cf. on website Sound in Media Culture
* Tuesday 1.2. kl.15:15-16:30CET:
Link: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/65488389742
Topic: New Concepts for Sonic Writing?
Presenter: Holger Schulze (University of Copenhagen)
Daphne Brooks, Liner Notes for a Revolution, Harvard University Press 2021
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674052819
Holger Schulze, Sonic Writing. Converting Analog Percepts to Digital Marks, in: Michael Bull & Marcel Cobussen (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies, Bloomsbury Press New York 2021, 659-669.
* Tuesday 15.2. kl.15:15-16:30CET:
Topic: Cosmism, Soviet Propaganda and Unofficial Art: Sonic Fictions and the First Raves in Leningrad
Presenter: Giada Dalla Bontà (PhD student, University of Copenhagen)
Material: [TBC]
Topic: Nanook, Frame Drums & Acoustemology: An Anthropological Listening to an Aspect of Greenlandic Sound Culture
Presenter: Ania Mauruschat (postdoc, University of Copenhagen)
Topic: Remapping Sound Studies in Latin-America: Live Coding as Sonic Fiction
Presenter: Aldo Mendoza (Toluca, Mexico)
Material: https://youtu.be/8qHPY-bnHZY & https://youtu.be/o83iSRom8Q8
Topic: Political Character of Poetic Voice: Listening Strategies to the Latest Poetry from The Perspective of Sound Studies
Presenter: Katarzyna Ciemiera (PhD, Jagellonian University In Kraków, Poland)
This research reviews the dominance of visual, over audial, perspective in perceiving literature in literary studies. For many literary scholars, it has been a popular view that reading is solely a visual activity. Even if poetry was analysed audially, it mainly concerned spoken poetry, sound, or written poetry exposing its sounding. Literary scholars have overlooked to ask what is listening to literature nowadays and how to listen to the latest poetry.
The point of departure for this research is recognising the fact that the changes in the twenty-first-century audio sphere and the ways of understanding sonic experience have an impact on the composition of the latest poetry. This study explores how you can listen to the latest poetry and how listening affects its reception. It focuses mainly on the latest political poetry, which appears to be symptomatic nowadays. The main goal is to devise strategies to listen to the latest poetry.
To devise these strategies, this study refers to a new approach to sound, represented by sound studies. These studies take a phenomenon of sound and aural experience as their baseline. In comparison to previous studies about sound, they offer to think jointly about sound and culture, problematising sound in its various political and social contexts. Hence, some terms from sound studies, such as voice, listening / hearing, soundscape, acousmatic sound are applied to this research.
In the light of sound studies' methodology, two strategies of listening to the latest poetry appear to be the most significant. The first one is looking for new sounds in poetry. This strategy suggests that the sounding of the latest poetry can reflect new sounds of today's world. It assumes that the new sounds of today's world have changed the sounding of the latest poetry and its composition. The second one is perceiving a poem fully audially – as a voice. This strategy suggests that a poem can reveal itself as voice when it deliberately resists the reader's semantic appropriation. This means that this poem is exposed as a voice by the accumulation of meanings and poetic figures. Their excess makes it impossible for the brain to process information, which, in turn, makes the act of reading impossible.
These strategies aim to reinterpret the meaning of political character and redefine the meaning of voice's metaphor in the latest poetry. To date, 'politics' and 'political voice' have been connected more with the content and the form of a poem than with the aural experience. The aural interpretation claims that it is not solely the political meaning of these texts but the sound that makes them a significant voice in social discourse.
Topic: Sonic Imagination: Visual Mental Imagery and Nomadism
Presenter: Luca Forcucci (independent sound artist & researcher, Berlin)
Material: Forcucci, L. 2021. Sonic Imagination: Visual Mental Imagery and Nomadism. In: From Within, Chagas, P., and Xiaoci, W., eds.
(Switzerland: Springer).
Topic: The Gendered Microphone
Presenter: Jo-Anne Velin (film maker & PhD student at the Technische Universität Berlin)


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19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Gay Flood
USF AND QUINTIN DAILEY
Sir:
What a banner year for SI! Your coverage of the seasonal sports has been fantastic, most notably this baseball season, and then there have been your blockbuster special reports—on Don Reese and cocaine in the NFL ("I'm Not Worth a Damn," June 14) and on the University of San Francisco and Quintin Dailey (Bringing Down the Curtain, Aug. 9)—your two best sports journalism pieces in recent memory. Please continue the high quality and fine writing you have brought us this year. It's nice to read the inside story, even if it hurts a little.
MATTHEW FASANG
Troy, Mich.
Applause! Applause! You've done a great job the past few months. First the cocaine article by Don Reese with John Underwood and now the probing story on the University of San Francisco and Quintin Dailey by Robert H. Boyle and Roger Jackson. You have proved to be the magazine that finds the major problems in athletics today and gives a true picture of the situation and of what needs to be done.
KRIS WALTERS
Boonville, Mo.
After reading the article about Quintin Dailey and the death of USF basketball, I'm convinced that the Rev. John Lo Schiavo, S.J., president of the university, was correct in "bringing down the curtain" on the program there. Sure, Dailey is responsible for his embarrassing behavior on Dec. 21. He alone knows the disgrace resulting from the events of that night. But it seems to me Dailey is merely the symbol of a diseased system. He is nothing but the scapegoat for those USF officials, past and present, who, in trying to guarantee the success of the basketball program at USF, instead created or perpetuated a rotten system that now lies dead.
JEFFERSON CRISWELL
Springfield, Va.
Congratulations to Father Lo Schiavo for having the courage to make such a tough decision. He put his foot down and set an example all schools should follow, namely, that education is more important than athletics. Athletes of all ages will benefit from this example.
BILL GANLEY
Salem, N.H.
While the facts of the early morning hours of Dec. 21 seem shadowed in doubt, the assault on the integrity of the University of San Francisco by arrogant alumni is clear. I hope Father Lo Schiavo's decision will stand as a precedent for other university presidents and as a warning to overenthusiastic, underhanded boosters.
BRUCE THOMAS
How a man with All-America status and popularity and with the world at his feet could stoop so low is beyond me. Quintin Dailey seems to destroy his claim to innocence in the article by contradicting himself. Just to cite one instance, Dailey says, on page 74, that he fell asleep at 2:30 a.m., while on the following page he says he fell asleep at 3:40. For someone who hadn't been drinking, that sure sounds like bad timing to me.
KENNETH W. LOWE
Salisbury, Md.
There is no charge easier to make, and none more difficult to disprove, than that of sexual assault. In the absence of any physical evidence, and based on the facts as stated in your story, I have a reasonable doubt as to Quintin Dailey's guilt, notwithstanding his pleading guilty to a reduced charge. The plea was plainly a tactical decision to put the matter behind him and assure his entry into the professional ranks. For the final verdict on Dailey, we must wait to see what kind of life he chooses to lead as a professional.
MARK T. DYKSTRA
Auburn, Ind.
With all the questions and issues raised in your account of the USF scandal, there are two subsidiary matters that I find very disconcerting: attorney Bob Woolf's cavalier, sexist statement, "Even if he was guilty of everything the lady said, it wasn't that bad"; and the ungrammatical, almost illiterate utterances of Quintin Dailey, who was reportedly a "good student" in high school and who has completed three years at a supposedly decent university.
VIRGINIA WOLFE MANUEL
Hinckley, N.Y.
I disapprove of the contents of your article covering the demise of the USF basketball program. To publish testimony of a sexual assault "in considerable detail" in such a popular sports magazine as yours is simply wrong. According to Robert H. Boyle and Roger Jackson, these alleged events were recorded to "delineate the terrible nature of [Quintin] Dailey's assault, a crime for which he might not have been punished." The quality and purpose of the story would have been upheld without these details. You have a moral responsibility to your readers, especially the young ones who do not yet have the maturity to properly deal with such things.
BOB CORD
Anderson, S.C.
Isn't All-America Quintin Dailey giving John Q. Public the "finger" in the opening picture? I, for one, don't hold magazines or books with my middle finger protruding in that direction.
BOB KUFFEL
Park Ridge, Ill.
•SI's photographer shot a large number of pictures of Dailey in his apartment, and in every pose in which he was holding a book, the position of his fingers was the same. SI concluded it was natural, not intentional.—ED.
TESTING FOR DRUGS
Some of the statements made in Douglas S. Looney's article (A Test with Nothing but Tough Questions, Aug. 9) on the possible use of urinalysis to determine drug usage in the NFL left me sick to my stomach! How dare Players Association President Gene Upshaw say that urinalysis "is an insult to [the players'] integrity"? The only insult is to the integrity of the game! Almost daily I pick up the newspaper and see that another player has admitted to a "chemical dependency."
In the U.S. Air Force, spot checks by urinalysis for drug usage are mandatory to insure the integrity of our national defense system. As a member of the Air Force it has never occurred to me that my "rights of privacy" have been violated. As Greg Pruitt so aptly put it, "If you've got nothing to hide, why worry about urinalysis?"
Rather than worry about the tests, the players should worry about the image they project to our young people.
DAVID C. GREY
Sergeant, USAF
George Rogers, last year's leading rusher in the NFL, reportedly admitted to having spent $10,000 last year on cocaine. Rogers claims he was a recreational user of the substance. Well, that figure comes so close to my total take-home pay for 1981 it's revolting! That is an insult to my integrity and the integrity of every other sports fan who works his tail off just to see his favorite team once or twice a season, only to be rewarded by less than 100% performance because one or more players on the field abuse this drug or another.
GREG P. ZACHARY
The vital question isn't so much who should do what about athletes who abuse drugs, but what constitutes abuse. Does urinalysis detect abusive levels as opposed to non-abusive? It appears that the article, indeed the entire controversy, assumes that the detection of a drug in an athlete's urine brands that athlete as an abuser. Perhaps the various leagues, players' associations and SI should address that question.
J. KURTIS WAHLBRINK
The Legal Action Center is a not-for-profit public interest law firm that specializes in areas of law concerning the employment rights of current and former substance abusers. From our experience, we wish to make two points. First, although the most sophisticated urine tests are quite accurate, mistakes can happen. Urine samples can be mislabeled or switched, and occasionally the test reports a "false positive" even though, the subject took no drugs. It is thus unwise to conclude that a person abused a drug solely on the basis of a urinalysis without examining other evidence.
Second, current medical evidence indicates that alcohol and drug abuse are diseases that need treatment, and that many abusers are unable to stop without professional help. The primary goal of any urine testing of athletes should thus be to identify those persons in need of treatment, with the test results and treatment kept confidential to protect the individual's privacy and to encourage others to come forward for help.
Abuse of drugs and alcohol is one of the gravest health problems in this country. We applaud your efforts to focus public attention on the seriousness of this issue and on the urgent need for providing treatment opportunities to those suffering from substance abuse.
PAUL N. SAMUELS
BRAVE WORDS
Your article about America's Team II (Not Home Free Yet, Aug. 9) perfectly expressed how I feel about the Atlanta Braves and Ted Turner's SuperStation WTBS. Before WTBS, the only time I could see a game was on weekends or on Monday night. Now I can watch almost every game the Braves play.
BILLY OSBORNE
Aiken, S.C.
I am an objective yet dedicated Dallas Cowboy fan. I also have a great deal of respect for the Atlanta Braves, but you do not become America's Team—I or II—without winning year in and year out. The Braves just lost 11 straight games! When was the last time the Cowboys did that?
CARL NAVE
Roanoke, Va.
You must be kidding! The Atlanta Braves as America's Team? I believe you owe the Dallas Cowboys an engraved apology.
WARREN BERRY
Seminole, Okla.
Everyone knows the Los Angeles Dodgers are America's Team.
JEROME H. WEYMOUTH
Downey, Calif.
GLASSIC WARFARE
Your article (He Blocked for Napoleon, Aug. 9) on Denver Guard Tom Glassic was terrific. I am one of the thousands of Napoleonic enthusiasts across the country, and it's nice to know that professional athletes are included in our ranks. I hope that all of the "weekend generals" across the country derive as much pleasure from their miniature war games as Glassic seems to. As I assume my role of Lieut. General Edler von Lecoq, commander of the two Saxon divisions of the French VII Corps in 1812, I send to Tom a hearty Vive l'Empereur!"
SCOTT SILVERS
Kansas City, Mo.
Occasionally I thumb through my husband's copy of SI looking for well-written articles that will appeal to my non-athletic interests. I was delighted when I found He Blocked for Napoleon. Bob Ottum did a superb job of describing Tom Glassic, a truly one-of-a-kind person. When the Broncos are next on television, even I will perk up to watch mind and brawn work together.
JANET H. GOING
Lewisville, N.C.
Rape is never a laughing matter. The boorish, sadistic reference by Tom Glassic to a mock attack on a convent by "General Peter Rapenunovich" not only lacks humor but also is insulting, if not blasphemous. And the fact that it appeared in the same issue as the detailed description of the horrendous, traumatic assault by Quintin Dailey dramatizes the un-funniness of such a crime. Let's not desensitize a single reader about its seriousness.
THE REV. HERB WELLMEIER
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
Thanks for your article on Dodo Cheney (A Dodo in Name Only, Aug. 9). I couldn't help but smile and remember fondly the hundreds of Saturdays I spent playing tennis as a member of the Santa Monica (Calif.) Teen Tennis Association. I'm glad to read that Dodo is still a vibrant part of the game.
MARTHA A-H FOX
Lexington, Va.
I grew up in La Jolla, Calif. and vividly recall Dodo Cheney's domination of the tennis championships there. She was, and always will be, one of the classiest individuals to grace the sport. Those who have been lucky enough to see her play and those fortunate enough to be honored by her acquaintance will never forget her. Thanks to Jill Lieber for a fine profile of a very special lady.
JOHN HERNANDEZ
La Palma, Calif.
SYNCING
I was thrilled to read the article That Syncing Feeling (Aug. 2) by Demmie Stathoplos on synchronized swimming. The sport has come a long way since 1967, when I was Michigan's AAU individual winner representing the Lansing Sea Sprites. I can only dream of what it would have been like to travel outside the U.S. for meets, get a full athletic scholarship to college, appear in SI and, ultimately, go to the Olympic Games. I'll be cheering for the U.S. duo—probably Candy Costie and Tracie Ruiz—in the '84 Games and for synchronized swimming itself. I feel the solo and team events should be included in the Olympics, too.
PAMELA M. MILLER
East Lansing, Mich.
I found the opening photo of Tracie Ruiz and Candy Costie offensive. There are so many more attractive phases of this beautiful water ballet, even in the inverted positions.
Also, publicity given to Ruiz and Costie in recent publications has shown neglect for the many hardworking and dedicated team members who have sacrificed to make this an event worthy of the Olympic Games.
1960 Olympic Walker (50 km.)
Colorado Springs, Colo.
I propose Tracie Ruiz for Sportswoman of the Year, based on her gold medal solo performance at the world championships in Ecuador, and for cover girl of your annual swim-suit issue. Only one word can describe my reaction to her photo in the Aug. 2 issue: Wow!
HENRY LEWIS
Tracie Ruiz and Candy Costie? I'm in love.
CARL R. WARNER
Letters should include the name, address and home telephone number of the writer and be addressed to The Editor, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y. 10020.

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Hillsborough MPO's $32 Billion Congestion Creation Plan
As we posted here and here, the Hillsborough Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) used a push poll marketing campaign to capture flawed data they wanted as input to the MPO's 20 year 2045 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). This long range plan is for years 2026-2045.
Not only was the data they captured in their push polls flawed, their proposed $32 BILLION 2045 LRTP is seriously flawed with inconsistent data, incomplete information, and false assumptions.
The MPO has scheduled a pubic hearing for tonight at 6pm on the 2045 LRTP. Their 2045 Public Hearing "Draft" document is a marketing brochure with few details and no back up information. We wonder if the MPO Board can decipher and understand this plan much less the general public.
In addition, it is required that the MPO provide the public with all the documentation to review 30 days prior to the public hearing. But the MPO kept making changes to their draft document without annotating the date of the change or why the change was made. The MPO also kept adding additional documentation for public review within that 30 day review period. The general public may not know about any of the new information or even what version they are commenting on at tonight's public hearing.
There is supposed to be consistency and baselines created from the MPO's previous LRTP (e.g 2035 and 2040 LRTP's) to create their latest version. However, the MPO totally changed their format this year for the 2045 LRTP and they made it impossible to determine consistency or trend lines from previous LRTP's or what, if any, baselines were used.
It appears the MPO created the 2045 LRTP as if there was never previous LRTP's. That allows the MPO to state anything they want without providing details or backup information. And they do.
The MPO added these 2026-2045 funding allocations by revenue source spread sheets about a week after their initial 2045 documentation was made available to the public on 10/4/2019. We believe the MPO added these spreadsheets after some citizens began questioning where this important information was that had always been available in previous LRTP's.
These two spreadsheets of funding allocations WITH and WITHOUT the All for Transportation transit tax are astounding. There is almost $600 million more road capacity funding WITHOUT the $16 Billion All for Transportation (AFT) transit tax than with the massive tax hike. Without the AFT tax, there is $3.635 Billion of road capacity funding for non-interstate roads. With the AFT transit tax, there is $3.058 Billion of road capacity funding.
The MPO is over allocating massive amounts of road funding dollars to "vulnerability reduction".
What is "vulnerability reduction"? According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), it is to improve the resiliency of transportation infrastructure from climate change, sea level rise and extreme weather.
In the 2045 LRTP WITH the AFT 1% transit tax, the MPO massively over allocates almost $3.8 BILLION to "vulnerability reduction" That is over 3 times what was allocated in the 2040 LRTP WITH a same 1% sales tax. Why?
In the 2045 LRTP WITH the AFT 1% transit tax, the Hillsborough MPO allocates over $700 MILLION MORE to funding the questionable impact of climate change than they allocate to funding new road capacity. The MPO uses worse case for climate change - why?
From the $10 BILLION of AFT transit tax proceeds received over 20 years, the MPO allocates:
$817 MILLION to Road Capacity (8.2%) The MPO states this amount is all that is available over 20 years for new roads
$1.7 BILLION to Rail (17%)
$2.5 BILLION to Bus Service and bus rapid transit (BRT) services (25%)
$1.42 BILLION to "Smart Cities" (MPO defines as intersection improvements and intelligent traffic signalization but is all often referred to as solutions using technology in congested urban areas and cities) (14.2%)
$1.93 BILLION to "Vision Zero" (costly complete streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, rightsizing roads aka road diets and narrowing of roads, traffic calming, speed reductions) (19.3%)
$652 MILLION to climate change "Vulnerability Reduction" (6.5%)
$335 MILLION to Road Maintenance (3.3%)
$103 MILLION to Bridge Maintenance (1%)
$407 MILLION to ParaTransit (4%)
$190 MILLION to Trails/Side Paths (sidewalks/bike paths) (1.9%)
The Hillsborough MPO allocates 46% of AFT $10 BILLION transit tax proceeds to fund TRANSIT and RAIL while 8.2% is allocated to new road capacity. They make their transit funding allocations without providing any estimation of ridership, total capital costs or operating costs for the costly rail and fixed guideway BRT projects.
What may be one of the most absurd assumptions made in the 2045 LRTP relates to the Community Investment Tax (CIT). The CIT tax is a one-half percent infrastructure sales surtax that can be used for many infrastructure capital projects such as roads, parks, fire stations, law enforcement needs, libraries, stormwater and of course sports stadiums. It expires in 2026, the year this plan begins.
The MPO assumes the CIT will be reauthorized for another 30 years with 25% again going to schools even though the schools got their own 10 year one-half percent sales tax last year. But then the MPO assumes that 100% of the remaining CIT tax, $3.8 BILLION will ALL be used ONLY for transportation projects. That is a false assumption because no local elected official will ever agree with that.
All for Transportation told voters last year that their 30 year $16 Billion transit tax was going to improve/fix roads, reduce traffic congestion and get you home earlier for dinner each day.
But the 2045 LRTP confirms the only way to properly fund local new road capacity is to pass more tax hikes, The AFT transit tax specifically prohibits and extremely limits any funding from the AFT $16 Billion transit tax used for new roads. Thus, the MPO assumes a new infrastructure tax hike would provide $3.8 Billion dollars of new revenues, of which a BILLION dollars would be allocated to fund new road capacity.
Somehow the MPO allocates the exact same mobility fee funding, $255.5 million, WITH and WITHOUT the AFT transit tax. That cannot be. The mobility fees paid by Developers are reduced WITH the AFT transit tax paid for by taxpayers. Who knows if this is correct or not?
The MPO does not include costly Rail transit projects in "Real Choices When Not Driving". They include bus service and the 7 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects, trails and Sidepaths (sidewalks, scooter paths and paths for who knows what). The BRT projects may also run in a fixed guideway as the MPO plans to leverage federal transit grants for capital funding but the funding for the BRT'sare not included where the funding is for the Rail fixed guideways.
The MPO put the costly Rail projects in "Major Investments for Economic Growth" - which confirms rail is not about mobility but is for redevelopment that subsidizes and benefits developers.
Reusing freight rail is the CSX lines for a commuter like SunRail which is a boondoggle and fiscal failure. The Streetcar is not "high-performing" and the plan is not to just extend it. The plan is to make it a street level light rail service which have average speeds of about 18 mph. The downtown to airport is to extend the people mover or light rail from the people mover to downtown. The Water transit is a tourist amenity and used by those going to Sporting events across the Bay. It does not spur "economic growth" and will have little to no impact on commuter traffic congestion, especially after the Howard Frankland Bridge is expanded and the Selmon Connector to the Gandy Bridge is completed.
The MPO considers those expensive transit projects to be "Major Investments for Economic Growth" without providing data to support such claims. And the Appendix C page titled "Major Investment Project Costs" is a blank page. When we questioned the MPO about that important cost information, they said the Appendix information would be updated tomorrow - after the public hearing.
Here is a comparison we received of the proposed 2045 LRTP vs 2040 LRTP.
While the MPO previously needed only $16 MILLION for their planning activities over 20 years, they will now be receiving 7.5 times that amount - $117 MILLION. The MPO's bloat will be a slush fund for Consultants, special interests and a bigger bureaucracy of Central Planners.
The real kicker is that spending $10 Billion more with the AFT transit tax, the performance levels are worse or the same as the 2040 LRTP.
2045 LRTP performance metrics
This 2045 LRTP is the Hillsborough County Long Range Congestion Creation Plan. The population in Hillsborough County is expected to grow 600-800K over the next 20 years, and most will be bringing their cars. This $32 Billion plan funds a piddly 15% growth of roadway lane miles.
With this flawed plan anyone who drives will be stuck in traffic longer. After spending $32 Billion with too little funding for new road capacity, the Vehicle Hours of Delay sitting in traffic congestion increases 300%.
The MPO's 2045 LRTP confirms that the All for Transportation tax hike is to fund transit and trains in Tampa - paid for by taxpayers in unincorporated - not add road capacity or fix traffic congestion. It is an attempt to get people out of their cars by making driving more miserable.
And apparently Hillsborough is not the only MPO planning fantasies instead of addressing realities. Randal O'Toole, CATO Institute, just posted an article about the Austin MPO "Planning for an Unattainable Fantasy. O'Toole stated:
Planners have developed two main approaches to transportation. One is to estimate how people will travel and then provide and maintain the infrastructure to allow them to do so as efficiently and safely as possible. The other is to imagine how you wish people would travel and then provide the infrastructure assuming that to happen. The latter method is likely to lead to misallocation of capital resources, increased congestion, and increased costs to travelers.
Austin needs to go back to the drawing board and develop a plan that is based on how people actually will travel in 2039 and not one based on how planners wish they would travel.
And the Hillsborough MPO needs to do the same because this plan is one big mess!
The public hearing about this flawed planning fantasy is tonight at 6pm at County Center. You can also watch it live or later on HTV.
Any comments about this plan can be sent to silval@plancom.org or use this MPO contact form. And make sure to request your comments be sent to every MPO Board member.
Posted by Sharon Calvert at 5:38 PM
Labels: AFT, All For Transportation, CIT, Hillsborough MPO, rail, streetcar, tax hikes, transportation
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Sooner or later it happens to us all. We DIE! No escape. No bargaining. Kaput. It's over.
I'm not going to get into a philosophical discussion about heaven and hell or gods which, for the record, I believe are all male bovine excrement. NO, I mean what happens after your carcass is cold and immobile…??
Burial never appealed to me. It's creepy when you consider cemeteries: all those people in boxes, six feet under, the dirt, all facing towards the rising sun. Nah, never wanted that.
When my mom died she did something that blew me away. My brothers Jimmy and Howard, both dying in infancy from viral pneumonia, were buried in my dad's family plot in Woburn, Massachusetts. Mom's family were planted in Westminster, Mass. She had herself cremated and part of her was laid to rest with the boys in Woburn and the rest in Westminster. How cool was that??? She was also ahead of her time. When Jimmy died, around 1945, despite her grief, she thought of others and donated his corneas so someone else might see! Because of this I've had "Organ Donor" on my driver's licenses, both here in the states and in the Republic of Panama for years.
My dad was also cremated. Some of the ashes were scattered off the Venice, Florida, Inlet. He and mom lived there for years and she LOVED to fish, so the inlet had special meaning. Most of his ashes were interred in Woburn with his family. My brothers, David, Mark, Jeff, and I were each given small Ziplock͢™ bag with some of his ashes. We drove out to Westminster and scattered them on our mother's grave so they were together again.
I've always wanted to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in the Gulf Stream off of Fort Lauderdale, FL. Symbolic in a way. I spent about 36 years of my life, off and on, in Lauderdale. I could envision my ashes drifting up the eastern seaboard that I'd traversed many times in a boat. Perhaps some tiny molecule would make it all the way over to England from whence both of my ancestral families came back in the 1630s.
I've read stories about people having their ashes put in bottles and thrown in the sea and the people who find them years later and miles away. Always thought that would be a cool way to go.
I'm makin' you click on 'em to find out what the messages are…and they ARE messages.
Planning for the future has never been one of my strong points. That's why I've ended up living on a small sailboat at anchor and depending totally on Social Security to survive. Like most people, I suppose, I never spent much time thinking about what would happen when my cold, lifeless corpse was discovered. I'd become someone else's problem. After all, I'D be dead, and the dead don't seem to care much about anything.
I've known about the Neptune Society for years. They do cremations and ocean scattering. But while they're less expensive than regular funerals they still cost a couple of grand. I don't have that much set aside and it's not right to lay that tab on my brothers.
Is there an answer? Well, yes. A little while back I came across a link to Medcure.org. It's a "whole body" donation program in which you donate your remains to medical science. ALL expenses are taken care of including cremation and, as they mention on their site, scattering ashes at sea.


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Use a guide or the Internet to locate a blueprint of your disposal, or a troubleshooting manual. If you have a well at your home and notice pink or orange stains around the drains of your tub or sink, this is most likely caused by an excess of iron in your water. Using a water softener can help fix this problem. You can obtain a water softener at any home improvement store, or rent them from specialist companies. Look at the overflow holes to ensure they aren't clogged up. Overflows holes can be used in the event the sink overfills, which is a big problem if they are clogged. Clean overflow holes as part of your annual maintenance, and any other time you are handling general plumbing repairs. Save money by getting better shower heads. Most of your water bills comes from the water you use to shower. Installing the energy-efficient heads, you will be able to save in excess of $100 per year. If you have a shower head that needs replacing, be sure to get one that is good quality. Natural Gas Line Fix In some cases, water can actually cause garbage to become lodged in awkward places, and contribute to future problems.
If you have multiple plumbing problems, schedule all of them to be fixed together. , This demonstrates that you are concerned about keeping your plumbing updated and in good working condition through your own labors. People admire qualities like these. With plumbing you can be an expert and still learn new tricks; there is always something to be gained or improved on. Below are tips that can help. To prevent pipes from freezing, don't let temperatures drop under freezing in your home, and insulate external pipes. If the temperature surrounding the pipes is anywhere below freezing, this can cause the pipes to freeze.
Stay away from drain cleaners! There are some harsh, corrosive chemicals found in these drain cleaners. Plumbing Drain Service Buffalo Grove IL, You may even find a plumbing job or idea you like. Plumping Help And Tips That Anyone Can Use If you are having issues with your plumbing, you want to make sure that you are taking care of the problem in the best way possible. You should always seek out suggestions and advice when you need them. In the following paragraphs, you'll find plenty of tips that will be useful in the future. To deal with a frozen pipe, turn on the faucet closest to the pipe. This gives the water a place to exit as the pipe defrosts. Doing so provides pressure relief, and might spare you the damage of a burst pipe. Never pay for a plumbing job completely until they have finished the job. You may need to pay some money in the beginning, though you should not pay the full cost until you can be certain that the job was done correctly. You want to know the plumber has fulfilled all his requirements as promised in the agreement before he gets paid. Do not use harsh chemicals to clean or treat your toilet.
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If You're Making Fun of Melania Trump's Nude Photos, You're Part of the Problem
By EJ Dickson
On Sunday, the New York Post published a series of previously unseen images of Melania Trump, the wife of presidential candidate Donald Trump, nude alongside another woman. "Ménage à Trump," read the caption for the photos, followed by the equally witty and erudite headline: "The Ogle Office."
The photos, which were snapped by French photographer Jarl Ale de Basseville, were taken relatively early in Melania Trump's career, when she was 25 — three years before she'd met Donald Trump. A few of the snaps were published in Max, a now-defunct French men's magazine, in January 1996, yet many of the photographs are making their first appearance now.
Because Melania Trump is the would-be first lady, it makes sense that the images of her being embraced by a buxom Scandinavian model would cause quite a stir (which, presumably, was precisely the Post's impetus for publishing them, despite having endorsed Trump back in April).
Yet Twitter's pearl-clutching reactions to the photos are less indicative of Melania Trump's ability to hold the post of first lady, and more reflective of our instinct to shame any and all women who outwardly display their sexuality. That's doubly true if the woman is rallying for a position framed by a specific set of parameters by which she is allowed to express her sexuality — which, in the case of the first lady, is not at all.
Not everyone has rushed to plaster the scarlet "A" on Melania's exfoliated forehead. Some, like actor Octavia Spencer, have taken to Twitter to defend Melania Trump, excoriating the Post for launching such a "below-the-belt" attack. And shockingly, her husband Donald Trump also served as a voice of reason, issuing a statement defending his wife by saying that "in Europe, pictures like these are very fashionable and common."
Yet these cogent remarks have largely been overshadowed by those calling for Melania Trump's name to be written on the RNC men's bathroom wall.
These finger-wagging, tongue-clucking responses don't make sense for a few reasons, the most obvious being that the photos are from more than 20 years ago — long before she'd met The Donald and long before he considered holding any type of political office. Further, Melania Trump was a successful working model for years before hitting the campaign trail. As anyone who's ever seen an episode of America's Next Top Model knows, it's basically a prerequisite of the job to pose for sultry, pseudo-artistic nude photos such as the ones de Basseville took.
Yet the primary reason why we shouldn't care about Melania's nude photos isn't the argument that we shouldn't judge someone for the indiscretions of their youth, or that the photos themselves simply look like a second-rate version of the ones Yoanna and Shandi took during Cycle 2. It's that judging a woman for displaying her naked body is the ultimate form of slut shaming — and it's about time that we, as a country, regardless of political affiliation, started to move past that.
Melania's been slut shamed before. Whatever you think of Melania or her husband's politics, getting up in arms about a few awkwardly posed, Photography 201-level nude photos is the height of hypocrisy — not just for Republicans, but for Democrats as well.
It's no secret that both sides of the political spectrum have used sexist, demeaning language to describe Melania Trump. Back in March, the anti-Trump Mormon superPAC Make America Awesome released an ad painting her as a brain-dead slut, while on the opposite side of the spectrum, Jia Tolentino, a writer for the feminist website Jezebel, referred to Melania as so studiously proud, vapid and absent that she resists close analysis."
Following the Republican National Convention, after Trump was accused of plagiarizing First Lady Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC speech, Twitter attacked her for being a "whore," a "bimbo," a "plastic" "slut" and, in one moment of Oscar Wilde-esque wordplay, a "cock-juggling thunder cunt." Instead of keeping their criticism focused on the actual transgression at hand (i.e., that Trump clearly and methodically ripped off the first lady's speech), people instead opted for name-calling that would be better suited for a middle school bathroom wall, not a measured discussion about a presidential election.
Does showing your nips make you ineligible to be FLOTUS? Since the Post published Trump's nude photos, that particular brand of slut shaming has escalated. The assumption is that Melania Trump is somehow unfit to be first lady because she showed her nipples in a shitty French lad mag.
What critics fail to recognize, however, is that FLOTUS is not a publicly elected office to begin with. While first ladies like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama have used their platforms for good, campaigning for early childhood education and nutrition, they are not required to hold any strong political views whatsoever, nor do they have a ton of institutional power or pull. So questioning whether Melania is "fit" to be a role model as FLOTUS is ultimately moot — and even if that weren't the case, what, exactly, about posting nude photos renders you unfit to be a role model to begin with?
Regardless of the fact that the FLOTUS is ultimately a ceremonial post, the First Lady has nonetheless been held to rigorous, often sexist standards of behavior — arguably, even more so than the President himself. Indeed, there is a precedent for pearl-clutching over first ladies' "scandalous" behavior: 60 years ago, Jacqueline Kennedy was reprimanded for wearing expensive Parisian fashions, while former first lady Betty Ford was referred as "No Lady" by the press for speaking candidly about marijuana, her struggles with alcohol abuse and her sex life with her husband. Even as recently as 2008, first lady Michelle Obama (whose comportment has frequently been compared to that of Melania during this election year) was harshly upbraided for showing her arms.
So if you're tempted to tweet ménage à Trump puns or jokes about Melania Trump being the "first slut," do yourself (and American history) a favor: Don't. Focus instead on attacking her husband's immigration policy, or his attacks on the family of a deceased Muslim soldier, or any of the other myriad aspects of his platform that could easily lead to the dissolution of American values if he is elected. Don't focus on his wife's nipples, or the fact that she chose to bare them in a French photo shoot more than two decades ago. If you do, then you are just as much a part of the problem as Donald Trump is.


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Fibroids & Ovarian Cysts Specialist
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At Loudoun Women's Healthcare Associates' state-of-the-art office in Lansdowne, Virginia, co-founders Dr. Chauncey Stokes and Dr. Roopa Duggal, and certified women's health nurse practitioner Jessica Braun, have helped many women who suffered from fibroids and ovarian cysts. As specialists in women's health issues who serve Lansdowne and Leesburg, Virginia, they're familiar with the latest developments in fibroid and ovarian cyst diagnosis and treatment.
Fibroids & Ovarian Cysts Q & A
What is the Difference Between Fibroids and Ovarian Cysts?
Fibroids and ovarian cysts are similar. They're both growths on the uterine wall, and they can both develop in either the interior or exterior of the uterine wall. The types of growth that they are and the health risks they pose, however, are different.
Fibroids are benign, or non-cancerous, tumors. As benign tumors, they don't pose many health risks unless they physically block a passageway or put pressure on a nearby organ. Fibroids can become large and displace other organs or cause fertility problems, but these are relatively rare. In many cases, doctors recommend just monitoring fibroids unless they're posing a specific health risk. Sometimes, they'll even go away on their own.
Cysts are fluid-filled sacs that grow on the uterine wall, and they pose two specific health risks besides blocking a passageway or displacing a nearby organ. First, if cysts break, their fluid will leak. Depending on the size and location of the cyst, this can lead to blood poisoning. Second, cysts aren't themselves cancerous, but they can develop into cancer. For these reasons, doctors treat cysts differently, and often more aggressively, than fibroids.
What is the Difference Between Fibroids and Endometriosis?
While fibroids are tumors that grow on the uterine wall, endometriosis is abnormal growth of the cells that line the uterine wall. In endometriosis, the cells that grow on the inside of the uterus grow outside of the uterus, on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and other nearby organs. This can interfere with menstrual cycles, make periods painful, and, sometimes, cause infertility. Endometriosis is often managed with medication, although a doctor may recommend other treatment as well.
Who Treats Endometriosis, Fibroids, and Ovarian Cysts?
Gynecologists and OB/GYNs focus their medical practice in treating women's reproductive system. They're able to diagnose endometriosis, fibroids, and ovarian cysts, and to treat the three conditions.
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David, Tamar, and Maya will be able to showcase their love for Israel through song. "This is a terrific opportunity for us to celebrate the founding of the State of Israel as a strong and vibrant community," said Michele and Harvey Sass, Concert Co-Chairs.
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When did the US Supreme Court end the Montgomery bus boycott by declaring segregation on public buses unconstitutional?
The case Browder v. Gayle, (1956) challenged the state of Alabama and city of Montgomery's segregation policy on intrastate bus travel that resulted in the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott. Although Rosa Parks was not a party to the case, her December 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to allow a white man to take her seat was the catalyst for both the boycott and the Browder case.
The US Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in the case of Browder v. Gayle, on November 13, 1956, and declared segregation on buses unconstitutional. On December 20, 1956, the city of Montgomery received a court order mandating integration.
Case Citation:
Browder v. Gayle, 352 US 903 (1956)
What ended the Montgomery bus boycott?
A US Supreme Court mandate declaring bus segregation unconstitutional.
What did the supreme court declare to be unconstitutional in 1956?
November 13, 1956 the Supreme Court affirmed the ruling in Browder v. Gayle that the bus segregation laws in Montgomery Alabama were unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment.
Which of the followeing did the most to expand civil rights in the 1950's?
The Supreme Court decision declaring state mandate schools segregation to be unconstitutional.
What did the US Supreme Court say about segregation in Brown v. Board of Education?
Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote, "separate but equal is inherently unequal," when declaring segregation unconstitutional.
Who has the duty of declaring a law unconstitutional?
The judicial branch. Or the supreme court.
When did buses in Montgomery Alabama become integrated?
The Montgomery, Alabama, city buses became integrated on December 20, 1956, as a result of a successful year-long boycott by the African-American community, the US Supreme Court decision declaring segregation in public transportation to be unconstitutional, and a US District Court order telling the company to integrate.
How do you use unconstitutional in a sentence?
In 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional, because such segregation is inconsistent with the 14th Amendment.
What is a law called when the US Supreme Court declares it unconstitutional?
When law is said to be unconstitutional, it is nullified, or rendered unenforceable. The act of declaring a law unconstitutional is nullification.
Who was the US President when the Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office when the US Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).
How did President Franklin Roosevelt respond to the Supreme Court declaring some of his programs as unconstitutional?
they put it in his but
Which US Supreme Court decision established that school segregation is unconstitutional?
Brown vs the Board of Education established that school segregation is unconstitutional. The case was heard in 1954 in the United States Supreme Court, overturning the Fergueson case of the 1800's.
What did the supreme court decided in 1954?
schools needed to desegregate (apex)
Why did the US Supreme Court find that segregation was unconstitutional?
The US Supreme Court determined segregation is unconstitutional because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause. The act of separating the population by race implies one race is inferior to the other and, in fact, African-Americans were treated as inferior under segregation.
What did the Supreme Court declare to be unconstitutional in 1956 because of Martin Luther King?
The US Supreme Court declared segregation on intrastate buses unconstitutional in Browder v. Gayle, 352 US 903 (1956). This ruling ended the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott lead by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where did the boycott take place?
Which boycott? The most famous civil rights boycott was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, in Montgomery, Alabama, but African-Americans in Atlanta and a number of other cities also held boycotts of public transportation after the US Supreme Court overturned Montgomery bus segregation statutes as unconstitutional in 1956.
What happened as a result of brown vs board of education?
The Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to have segregation in education.
What was the important decision made by the supreme court in the case of brown v board of education?
The supreme court ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
Can you get a sentence for the word momentous?
A momentous decision by the Supreme Court in 1954 declared public school segregation unconstitutional.
What was the year of Rosa Park and Montgomery Bus incident?
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white man on December 1, 1955. As a consequence, the African-American community of Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted the Montgomery City Bus Lines from December 5, 1955 until December 20, 1956. The boycott ended when the District Court ordered the buses integrated on the basis of the US Supreme Court's decision in Browder v. Gayle, (1956) declaring segregation in public transportation unconstitutional.
What US Supreme Court case outlawed segregation?
There were quite a few US Supreme Court cases outlawing segregation. The two people are most familiar with are Brown v. Board of Education, (1954), which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, and Browder v. Gayle,(1956), which declared segregation on buses unconstitutional, and ended the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott.Unfortunately, African-Americans did not gain civil rights protection as the result of a single case, but through a long, continuing battle in the courts and legislature.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
What us supreme court decision established segregation was unconstitutional?
Plessy v Ferguson ruled that seperate but equal was allowedBrown v Board of Ed would later make seperate but equal unconstitutionalseperate but equal=segregation
What was the ultimate result of Rosa Parks not giving up her seat?
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation on city buses is unconstitutional.
What was the landmark decision made by the supreme court in the case brown v board of education?
segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
What was the landmark decision made by the Supreme Court in the Brown vs Board of Education case?
Segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
Chief Justice John Marshall declaring part of the Judiciary Act unconstitutional This was the first time the Supreme Court exercised what?
In the case of Marbury vs. Madison, this was the first time the U.S. Supreme court declared an act of Congress to be unconstitutional.
Montgomery Bus BoycottUS Supreme CourtDecade - 1950sBrown v. Board of EducationUS ConstitutionAfrican-American HistoryExample SentencesRosa ParksHistory of the United States


Building up my bigger and better crabitat!
Hey! Has anyone tried ordering from nuts.com for your crabbies?? I was checking out the site for a bit this morning and they have tons of things I think would be safe for crabbies. They have many different raw organic nuts and page after page of dried fruits. They list all their ingredients too so you can make sure you order ones with no sweetener or preservatives added. They have a dried watermelon on there that I am dying to try!! They are maybe a bit higher on their pricing but for something that will last month's and month's it really wouldn't be bad.
They're great & actually a few of the things in my store I bought in bulk from them (shhhhh ).
Ok, how do you dry watermelon?
I used my dehydrator to mine crablet.


A new data sheet from Bee Valve Inc., of Elyria, Ohio, presents the company's latest offering—a 4″ full port bolted ball valve and high capacity y-strainers. The bolted ball valve and y-strainers are manufactured from high strength fiberglass reinforced polypropylene. The data sheet lists a number of features of the 4″ full port ball valve including precision, molded glass reinforced polypropylene for stability, strength and toughness, 8-bolt assembly for greater strength and a self-aligning ball for full flow.


The beautiful valley of Kashmir is nestled in between the inner Himalayan Range to the east, comprising of the Nanga Parbat and the outer Himalayan range to the west and south called the Pir Panjal. This valley is bounded on the north by the Karakoram Range, on the northeast by Ladakh and on the south by Jammu. Srinagar, the summer capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, stands by the river Jhelum that forms the lifeline of the Kashmir Valley.
The Himalayan valley of Kashmir is also renowned all over the world for its delicious juicy fruits such as apples, cherries, plums, peaches, strawberries and various other fruits. The dry fruits of Kashmir like Walnuts, Almonds, Pine nuts and Apricots are also well known for their excellent quality. The skilful artisans of Kashmir are renowned for a variety of items the world over. Embroidery with intricate designs and on exquisite materials like Pashmina silk and Shatoosh are very popular and in high demand among the tourists. Shawls, Namdar (Woven Carpets), Puttoo (Handloom tweed) etc, are exported. Woodcarving on the wood of walnut tree is a speciality. The silk industry of Kashmir is one of the largest in the country. Another exquisite art is that of paper machie, and decorative items like Lampshades, Jewelry boxes etc are highly appreciated.
For her exquisite beauty and mesmerizing surroundings, Kashmir has always attracted lot of attention from the Europeans who view this place through the glamour of 'Lala Rookh'. This famous Sufi saint immortalized this fairyland through her poetry and songs…..
In the phase of the massive ecological problems that beset our State: shrinking forests, disappearing wetlands, eroding soil, extinction of wild species of flora and fauna, pollution of air and water, one can either despair, or act to halt and reverse them. KGECL has chosen to act. With a view to strengthen the efforts for conserving our natural ecosystems and habitats, the KGECL undertakes several field projects as well. These field projects emphasize on mobilizing community involvement and support along with the conservation of the natural resource base.
Solar energy is the most readily available source of energy. It does not belong to anybody and is, therefore, free.
Save Me I Am Dying!
Hangul, a sub-specie of Red Deer, is found only in Kashmir and a recent census put its number at around 127. The government of Jammu and Kashmir had failed to save this endangered specie.


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Малый Перелаз — название нескольких населённых пунктов:
 Малый Перелаз — деревня в Кирово-Чепецком районе Кировской области.
 Малый Перелаз — село в Ершовском районе Саратовской области.

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Lady Vols volleyball leave Tuscaloosa with strong win
November 17, 2019 Sam Burton
The University of Tennessee Lady Vols volleyball team swept Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Nov. 10.
Tennessee Volleyball vs. Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Nov. 10, 2019. Photo/ Tennessee Athletics
The Lady Vols (11-12, 5-8 SEC) traveled to Tuscaloosa to take on the Lady Crimson Tide (12-11, 4-8 SEC) and managed to leave with a dominant win on Nov. 10.
The Lady Vols managed to defeat the Lady Crimson Tide 3-0, with each set ending with a score of 25-18. Five Lady Vols had eight or more kills in the game, while the team produced an SEC season-best .419 hitting percentage according to Tennessee Athletics.
The three-set sweep would be the Lady Vols' first over Alabama since the 2016 season according to Tennessee Athletics.
Senior Tessa Grubbs led the team in kills with eleven, four of which came in the first set. The fourth kill from Grubbs put her top 10 in kills in Lady Vols program history according to Tennessee Athletics.
Senior Sedona Hansen leads all players in assists with 37, having more than double the amount of the next player. Hansen finished with 11 digs to record another double-double performance, leading the team in both digs and assists.
The Lady Vols managed to hold the Crimson Tide to a .206 hitting percentage and 32 kills in the match.
The .419 hitting percentage is Tennessee's second-highest of the season, just shy of the .427 against North Dakota State University according to Tennessee Athletics.
Grubbs praised her teammates saying she owes a lot to her them.
"It's really exciting. I've had ups and downs and the team around me has really allowed me to get to this point. I owe a lot of credit to the setters and to everyone who's played around me," Grubbs said about entering the top ten in kills.
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Lady Vols volleyball ends win streak, falls to Missouri
Tennessee unable to avoid the sweep at South Carolina
Lady Vols secure 3-2 win vs. Texas A&M
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MRI has potential to be a superior medical imaging modality for guiding and monitoring prostatic interventions. MRI can provide high-quality 3D visualization of prostate and surrounding tissue. However, the benefits can not be readily harnessed for interventional procedures due to difficulties that surround the use of highfield (1.5T or greater). The strong magnetic field prevents the use of conventional mechatronics and the confined physical space makes it extremely challenging to access the patient. We have designed a robotic assistant system that overcomes these difficulties and promises safe and reliable intra-prostatic needle placement inside closed high-field MRI scanners.
We are now developing a piezoelectrically driven version of this system in the AIM Lab in collboration with BWH and JHU.
Eslami S, Fischer GS, Tokuda J, Iordachita I, Clinically Optimal Design and Development of an MRI-compatible Surgical Manipulator for the Prostate Percutaneous Intervention, 9th InterventionalMRI Symposium (iMRI), Boston, MA, USA, Sept. 2012.
Song S, Cho NB, Iordachita I, Fischer GS, Hata N, Fichtinger G, Tempany C, Development of a Pneumatic Robot for MRI-guided Transperineal Prostate Intervention, 18th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine - ISMRM 2010, May 2010.
Fischer GS, DiMaio SP, Iordachita I, Fichtinger G, Robotic Assistant for MR-guided Prostate Biopsy, 6th Interventional MRI Symposium, Leipzig, Germany, September 2006.


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Rod Roddenberry Reflects on His Father's "Star Trek" Legacy for Centennial Year
By Kelle Long
Star Trek has beamed audiences to strange and mysterious worlds for more than half a century. The franchise is adventurous, exciting, and explores the promise of an unlimited future. The idea, however, was born in the heart of a man who looked to outer space for truths about the depths of the human soul. Through the eyes of aliens, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hoped to gain greater insight into the potential of humankind. For who can see things as they truly are better than an outsider?
Born in 1921, this year marks the centennial celebration of the late Gene Roddenberry. He passed away in 1991, halfway through the acclaimed run of Star Trek: The Next Generation. However, the spirit and ideals of the man who first dreamed of launching Star Fleet lovingly live on with guidance from his son, Eugene Roddenberry, or "Rod" as he likes to be called. "He took more of a humanistic or a realistic approach," Roddenberry said reflecting on his father's vision for the sci-fi series. "What could it be like one day? How did he see us 200, 300 years in the future? Who would we be?"
Patrick Stewart and Hanelle Culpepper. Photo Cr: Justin LubinCBS ©2018 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The younger Roddenberry did not follow his father into a career in entertainment, but he acts as a consultant to creatives translating the soul of Star Trek into modern projects. He carries the title of executive producer on new series like Star Trek: Picard, Discovery, and Lower Decks.
Gene sculpted the brand in ways large and small and even left behind copious notes, but there's one guiding principle that supersedes everything. "The backbone of Star Trek is really the IDIC philosophy," Roddenberry explained. "For those that don't know, it means 'infinite diversity in infinite combinations.' My father took the approach that we're sort of a juvenile, child race-species right now, but we grow like any species – any life form does – and we mature. In that future, we realize it's the diversity in idea, not just form. The fact that we are fighting over the fact that we look different now is childish. We need to be embracing the uniqueness between us because that's how you grow."
"The Hope That is You, Part 2" — Ep#313 — Pictured: Doug Jones as Saru of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Photo Cr: Michael Gibson/CBS ©2020 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Once you begin looking for Gene's IDIC (pronounced ih-dihk) philosophy in Star Trek, you'll begin to see it everywhere. It's a better vision of ourselves. Thoughtful, generous, and much more conscientious. A perfect example is the rock monster from the classic episode "Devil in the Dark." "Not to give anything away, but it's been 55 years, so I feel a spoiler alert is okay," Roddenberry laughed.
Captain Kirk saved the day when he realized the rock monster that Star Fleet is dispatched to neutralize is actually a mother protecting her eggs from destructive mining. "I love that Star Trek can – doesn't always – but can take an idea, turn it on its head, and make us look at ourselves and go, 'Wow. Look at that stupid misunderstanding. We were trying to kill this thing, but we were the ones killing it's young,'" Roddenberry reflected. "I want Star Trek to always be doing that and never just be about entertainment."
Think you're watching something worlds away? Think closer to home. Star Trek is less like a telescope fixed on space than a mirror reflecting our troubles here on Earth. Roddenberry sites the episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" as an early example of tackling social issues on the series. Aliens locked in a conflict over their physical differences, which are actually a mirror image of each other with black and white on opposite sides of their faces, destroy their own planet in their hatred.
"Star Trek wasn't necessarily about the aliens or the starships. It was about humanity," Roddenberry said. "What he couldn't get away with on the diverse crew, he would put the social situations that we were dealing with at the time onto the aliens on the planet and allow this outside view in and say, 'When you're looking at it that way, isn't it kind of absurd?'"
Since the beginning, Star Trek has harnessed the hope of an inclusive and equal future where the crew of the Enterprise rises above conflicts over race, species, and gender. On set, Nichelle Nichols changed the landscape of television as Lt. Uhura, a Black, female officer alongside Japanese American George Takei as Sulu. Today, the Enterprise is even more expansive in representation. Sonequa Martin-Green leads the cast of Star Trek: Discovery and director Hanelle Culpepper won an NAACP award for launching Star Trek: Picard.
Handle Culpepper and Patrick Stewart. Photo Cr: Trae Patton/CBS ©2018 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"I think a diverse cast, absolutely, was part of my father's original vision," Roddenberry reflected. "I can tell you that everyone who has worked on these new shows, there 100% always has been a thirst, quest, desire to make sure there is diversity because they understand that to represent humans in space, you need to represent all of us. No matter what your ethnic, gender, socio-economic, religious, political background is, it should all be represented at some level on Star Trek. That's what humanity is and needs to be. That's what Star Trek is."
"Terra Firma, Part 2" — Ep#310 — Pictured: Sonequa Martin-Green as Commander Burnham and Michelle Yeoh as Georgiou of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Photo Cr: Michael Gibson/CBS ©2020 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Rod was born after the initial run of Star Trek had been canceled on CBS. His mother, Majel Barrett, played several roles over her life including Nurse Christine Chapel on the original series and Lwaxana Troi on The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. The son of sci-fi royalty, Rod has embarked on his own hero's journey to understand the impact of his parents' creation chronicled in the emotional documentary Trek Nation.
As a young teen, Roddenberry delivered coffee and scripts in the summers on the set of Star Trek: Next Generation. "I wasn't interested in the industry," he admitted. "It was a summer job and my father was trying to teach me a little bit about what it was like to work for a living. My friends were all out playing in the summer and I would say, 'I don't want to be here.' And he would say, 'Do you know how many people would kill for this job?' I said, 'They don't have to. They can have it!' Not to sound so spoiled, but I didn't really appreciate it at the time."
He lost his father at 17, a difficult age for anyone to reconcile, but he was left with a world full of people who felt close to a father he didn't always understand. Guides to his father's galaxy endure in the characters Gene created. "There's Spock, there's Data, there's the hologram Doctor, there's Seven of Nine. I refer to these as the 'Roddenberry characters,' because it's the aliens who always show us our humanity," he said. "These are the ones that – the things that we take for granted every day that show either how foolish we are or how fortunate we are to be able to do something or have free will. Those are the things that I love when the characters point that out."
"Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" — Episode #110 — Pictured (l-r): Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard; Brent Spiner as Spiner of the the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: PICARD. Photo Cr: Trae Patton/CBS ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Another ingenious trademark of Gene Roddenberry's work is the imaginative technology featured on the show. The result is an unimaginable future that has actually, in several cases, become real. Gene Roddenberry would consult the Jet Propulsion Lab and Cal Tech scientists to understand what's on the horizon. "My father would correspond with scientists, people on the forefront of technology and basically extrapolate," Roddenberry revealed. "He would say, 'What do we have now and what's coming?' So that's why I think a lot of these things where we see life imitating art and art imitating life, that's why we see that. My father did not want anything to be hocus pocus."
Star Trek has looked both optimistically and skeptically toward the future of technology. Episodes like "The Ultimate Computer" caution against the dangers of artificial intelligence and science spinning out too soon. "One of the questions I often get is which technology is my favorite. It is the replicator," Rod revealed. "When we are mature enough to control the atom – not just technologically advanced enough, but mature enough to control the atom – it's going to be incredible for us. That is the Star Trek that future portrays."
"Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1" — Episode #109 — Pictured: Isa Briones as Sutra of the the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: PICARD. Photo Cr: Aaron Epstein/CBS ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Gene Roddenberry posthumously made it to outer space when a series of missions flew with his ashes, but Rod recognizes that isn't in the cards for most people living today. To scratch that itch for exploration, he's become an avid scuba diver, "Very few of us are going to get to go into space," Roddenberry recognized. "Even with Elon Musk and Virgin Galactic, what these guys are all doing is fantastic. But still, in my generation, very few of us are going to get to do that. But exploring the ocean, going into a habitat that is not our habitat, having to rely on equipment, and then look around and look at alien life – which I consider most ocean life pretty darn alien – is really the closest thing to going into space and exploring strange new worlds. It's really exhilarating."
Rather than shape the landscape of television like his father, Rod is focused on making the future of Star Trek a reality through the Roddenberry Foundation. The initiative partners with organizations like the Gladstone Institute, doing advanced medical research on pluripotent stem cells – adult human cells that scientists hope can one day be grown to make new organs. "The idea behind it is to take that Star Trek idea where we all work together for a greater good and find the organizations, institutions, and individuals that are working toward that future," Roddenberry explained. "A lot of methodologies and technologies aren't things we're going to see in the next ten years. They're ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, one hundred years in the future."
As for the future of Star Trek, Roddenberry sees the franchise hitting warp speed for years to come. Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard have been wowing audiences, and Captain Pike (Anson Mount) is scheduled to lead a new team in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds soon. "I'm confident that Star Trek will never die," Roddenberry predicted. "It may have hiatuses. The idea is too wonderful. A future where we all work together for the greater good."
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Why We're Being Too Pessimistic About Coronavirus Pandemic
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Author's note: I don't want anyone to take this piece to suggest that things are not very bad, and will not remain very bad for a substantial period. This outbreak is not yet under control and won't be fully under control until new medical therapies are available. Many people's outlook on this outbreak remains too optimistic. My main point in this piece is that the suite of social measures we use to control this outbreak — which will be central to controlling the spread and limiting the death toll — can be expected to evolve over time as circumstances change and our institutions develop new competencies. Extreme social-distancing measures — including mass closures of workplaces and cessation of most social contacts outside families — may not be sustainable for as long as it takes to develop a vaccine. But they nonetheless are necessary now, will remain so for a significant period, and are likely to require periodic reimposition even after the acute outbreak recedes to the point they can be relaxed where you live.
The epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, the lead author of the Imperial College study that appears to have shifted U.S. and U.K. policy responses to treat the outbreak with much greater urgency, writes on Twitter: "I would comment that this is the time for innovative thinking about how we can practically maintain long-term suppression of transmission of this virus at a lower societal and economic cost than the world faces for the next few months. We still don't know how successful measures adopted by China and Korea will be long term, but what happens in those countries will undoubtedly inform strategy elsewhere. Large scale readily available testing, combined with case isolation and contact tracing — perhaps assisted by technological solutions — may be key. But the first priority is to get case numbers down (R
The idea is setting in this week: We're not going to be done with this coronavirus thing in a month or two. If you lock down society to beat the epidemic, and succeed in drastically slowing new infections, but then go back to what you were doing before, the epidemic can just come raging back. In that scenario, society would remain full of people without antibodies who remain vulnerable to COVID-19, and they would be engaging in the social contacts that allowed the virus to spread so rapidly in the first place. That beating this epidemic will not be a one-and-done thing is an important realization; it's good that the president leveled with people on Monday in saying he expected disruptions to persist into July or August. People should be prepared to deal with a lot of change to their lives for a long time, with significant economic and social costs.
But, for the first time in a while, I think part of the coronavirus conventional wisdom has become too pessimistic. Yes, the fight to stop the spread of the virus is going to have to be ongoing unless, and until, we develop a vaccine or highly effective medical treatments, which is to say for at least several months. But the nature of the disruption does not have to stay constant. It is necessary now to close schools and businesses, and tell people to drastically reduce social contacts in a way that is economically devastating to many businesses and workers. But there is a trade-off: The better we get at interventions to identify and isolate specific people with the virus, the less we should need to rely on interventions that isolate the entire population. That's a reason the ramp-up of widely available testing remains such an important goal for the U.S.: More testing should, in time, allow for more normal living.
We are seeing this already in other countries: South Korea and Singapore have been successfully addressing their coronavirus epidemics with less extensive social-distancing measures than are currently seen in Italy, France, and parts of the U.S., in part because of their effective testing and surveillance regimes. The Financial Times reports today on the town of Vò, Italy, which successfully stopped its local outbreak though a strategy that involved widespread testing of the population and isolation of those who tested positive, even as the rest of Northern Italy did not fare so well.
If an outbreak becomes widespread enough, it becomes impractical to conduct effective surveillance and isolation of an infected population that is simply too large to track. So my suggestion is not that if you dropped a massive testing capability into New York City today, it would be fine to reopen the Broadway theaters. But at some point, the massive shutdowns we are undertaking in much of the U.S. (and ought to be undertaking in more of it) should make it possible to sharply reduce the rate of new infections to a point where widespread testing and monitoring can become a cornerstone of a strategy to prevent uncontrolled outbreaks — if we actually have the capability to do such testing and monitoring. This would not mean a complete end to the need for social distancing measures, but it could allow for a reduction in their intensity.
It is also possible that effective antiviral treatments to treat the sick will be available much sooner than a vaccine that protects the healthy. This is partly because ongoing trials are testing whether already existing antiviral drugs, approved and on the market to fight other viruses, can reduce the severity of COVID-19 and save lives. Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, one of the public-health experts I spoke with for my story in our current print magazine, told me he thought widespread availability of effective antiviral drugs could come as early as late spring or early summer. This would be another important tool to save lives and reduce the burden on our hospitals, giving us additional space to rely less on societywide behavior changes.
The economic, social, and psychological effects of extended, societywide isolation measures are going to be severe, and I worry about the public's long-run willingness to comply with them. Extensive testing, monitoring, and isolation related to specific coronavirus cases would not be a trivial imposition either, but it would be much less painful and disruptive. There is a reason the World Health Organization is pushing a mantra of "test, test, test." Ramping up a more effective testing capability is likely to help us avoid the worst-case scenarios for the length and severity of coronavirus-related social disruptions, on the way to defeating the virus more soundly.
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When we look back at our homeschool why, it's sobering to see how close we are to finishing our pursuit of it. Whatever our reason for starting out in the homeschool journey, time is nearly up. In just a few short months, God will say, "Pencils down. Pass the papers in. The homeschool test is finished." How will we do? Will God weigh us and find us wanting? Or will we hear, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant?" Sometimes it's hard to tell. And sometimes, we may wish for a do-over. But all the time, if we stay focused on our true homeschool priorities, this day of reckoning can be a joyous anticipation. This post is an excerpt from my new book Homeschool High School Made Easy, available on Amazon. Get your copy today! And don't miss the prequel, Homeschool Made Easy.
Besides creating a transcript, navigating college entrance exams is the next scariest issue for homeschooling high school. Parents and teens are understandably nervous because a lot of money is riding on the results of these tests.
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Q: TamperMonkey namespacing will not scope to top level domain I would like to run this TamperMonkey script on all YouTube.com sites exclusively:
// ==UserScript==
// @name         YouTubeFakeScriptName
// @version      0.3
// @require      http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
// @grant        GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==

// Insert any JavaScript here.

Here's the problem, it's not scoped to YouTube only.
I have tried many alternatives:
// @namespace    http://youtube.com
// @namespace    https://youtube.com
// @namespace    https://youtube.com/
// @namespace    https://youtube.com/*
// @namespace    youtube.com
// @namespace    *
// @namespace    */youtube.com/*

Similarly with @include, here is what it said on http://tampermonkey.net/documentation.php
The pages on that a script should run. Multiple tag instances are allowed.
Please note that @include doesn't support the URL hash parameter. Please visit this forum thread for more information: click.
Code:
// @include http://tampermonkey.net/*
// @include http://*
// @include https://*
// @include *

Along with many other possibilities, but I cannot seem to make scope only apply to YouTube, I can either:

*

*apply all TamperMonkey code to all websites

*apply no TamperMonkey code to all websites

*Have TamperMonkey script appear when extension is pressed

*

*And be Green

*And be Red

*Have TamperMonkey script not appear when extension is pressed

This last option is even odder, using match has strange behavior; I cannot even get my script to even appear when clicking the extension button if I use either:
// @match        https://youtube.com/*
// @match        *

But the script does appear if I don't use @match at all or use:
// @match        */*

Additional: I can confirm that using the following produces no script in the extension upon clicking Tampermonkey:
// ==UserScript==
// @name         YouTubeRandomAppHere
// @match        https://youtube.com/*
// @version      0.3
// @require      http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
// @grant        GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==

The solution required a few steps which are added to the original post at the bottom, so that others may learn as well. Thank you for your help.
remove @namespace
add both:
// @match       *://*.youtube.com/*
// @noframes

A: Change
// @namespace    https://youtube.com

to
// @match        https://youtube.com/*

A: Note:

*

*The best way to specify sites in Tampermonkey is with the @match directive. (Or use @include for more options but less performance and "safety".)

*YouTube almost always uses the www. subdomain, so directives like
// @match https://youtube.com/*
will almost never match.

*Occasionally, http:// still works.

*From your description, you probably don't want the script to work on iframed or embedded content.
So you want directive(s) that match the following URL patterns and exclude everything else:
https://www.youtube.com/*
http://www.youtube.com/*
https://youtube.com/*
http://youtube.com/*

See the Match Patterns documentation.  The pattern that does all that is:
// @match  *://*.youtube.com/*

Putting it all together:
// ==UserScript==
// @name        YouTubeRandomAppHere
// @match       *://*.youtube.com/*
// @version     0.3
// @require     http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
// @grant       GM_addStyle
// @noframes
// ==/UserScript==

alert ("Hello World!");

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Exclusive Music Video Premiere: "American Smile" – Spellbinding Music From Anana Kaye
Randy Radic, Contributor
Left Coast author, writer and editor.
11/02/2017 09:58 am ET Updated Nov 02, 2017
Painting/Cover Art by Esartia
"American Smile," the new music video from Anana Kaye, releases today. A native of the Republic of Georgia, where she performed live on national television, Anana Kaye moved to New York in 2013. She hooked up with Irakli Gabriel, aka "Dr. Duende," a guitarist-songwriter has collaborated with Freddie Stevenson, Julia Haltigan, Jacque Ryal, Emily Zuzik, Deni Bonet and Diana, a band based in Los Angeles, as well Mike Scott of the Waterboys. "American Smile" was co-written by Iralki Gabriel and Freddie Stevenson.
The duo dropped Sentient, their debut EP in 2016. At the present juncture, the duo is working on new album, slated to drop at the beginning of 2018. Kaye and Gabriel direct, film and edit their videos. Anana Kaye provides vocals and keyboards, while Iralki Gabriel handles guitar and songwriting. The duo's sound blends elements of blues, alternative country, pop-rock and ambient into stylish melodies with profound lyrics.
"American Smile" starts off with delicate guitars and a subdued bass that's immediately appealing. The country pop melody is measured and mellow, yet flowing with sonic colors and a wistful mood. The soft background vocal harmonies imbue the tune with hushed prismatic hues of opalescence. And I particularly love the twinkling piano adding bright tones. It's a beautiful song flowing with lilting tenderness.
Kaye's voice is a gorgeous instrument of expression, exuding a delicious country-folk-pop flavor that's charming. It's rich and strong, yet tender and translucent; dynamic and proximate, yet warm and elegant in texture and tone.
Photo Credit: Anana Kaye
The lyrics of "American Smile" reveal a poetic magnetism that's alluring and enchanting, as they tell the tale of a man searching for the American smile. And the video is beguiling, full of marvelous original paintings by Esartia.
"A man went on a journey / And a stranger came to town / The sky was in a fury / And people gathered 'round / He said I'm in a hurry / No time to stick around / I'm looking for the American smile / He tore up all the sidewalks / And cut down all the trees / He kicked in all the doors / He didn't have the key / Went up to every stranger / Who was walking down the street / Have you seen the American smile / Hello, hello / Can you hear me calling / The night, the night / The night is falling / The stars, the stars / The stars are as cold as ice."
"American Smile" is a wonderfully gorgeous tune with a polished elegant melody and leisurely rhythm that's sublimely attractive. And the luminous vibrancy of Kaye's voice simply embraces the listener, enfolding you into sumptuousness. "American Smile," without a doubt, is one of the loveliest songs of the year. Don't miss it or you're doing yourself a disservice.
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The Northern Idaho ground squirrel (Urocitellus brunneus) was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in April 2000. Populations of this subspecies can only be found in Adams and Valley Counties of western Idaho. It is estimated the population of squirrels has declined by 80% from initial surveys in 1985.
In September 2003, a final Recovery Plan was released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with state of Idaho input. The full version of the Recovery Plan can be read here Northern Idaho Ground Squirrel Recovery Plan.
The Southern Idaho ground squirrel (Urocitellus endemicus) can be found in the Weiser River Basin and is native to four counties in southwest Idaho: Adams, Gem, Payette, and Washington County. The subspecies has been at a peak in their population cycle for several years and is well distributed throughout its' range. The Southern Idaho ground squirrel was removed from the ESA candidate species list in October 2015.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the Southern Idaho ground squirrel was a candidate species in 2001. As the majority of squirrel sites reside on private lands, a Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances (CCAA) was developed with landowners to conserve the species without the need for listing. For more information read the Southern Idaho Ground Squirrel CCAA.
Landowners who participate in the CCAA agree to implement conservation practices on their lands to remove or reduce threats to the squirrels. In return, the FWS assures the landowners that no additional regulatory restrictions will be placed on their land management practices in the future should the species be listed under the ESA. Efforts are underway to develop other CCAAs in the area, as well as habitat conservation plans for other species.